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THE EGYPT DOORWAY
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THE EGYPT DOORWAY · THE HALL OF MA’AT

EGYPT

Egyptian cosmology turns on the opposition of Ma'at (cosmic order, balance, truth) and Isfet (chaos, disorder, the unmaking of the world). The ten planetary bodies read here, the seven the priests named and the three the modern age received, do not stand outside this scheme. They are participants in the daily voyage of Ra's solar barque across the sky and through the underworld, and their movements were read as moments in that voyage rather than as a separate technical apparatus.

Of all the ancient astronomical traditions, the Egyptian record is exceptionally well-preserved. Funerary texts, decanal star clocks, and the painted ceilings of New Kingdom tombs (the Senenmut chart, the astronomical ceiling of Seti I) give us a denser corpus than survives from most contemporary cultures. The planetary names used in this app are drawn from these sources, with the caveat that Egyptian planetary nomenclature shifted over the New Kingdom, Late Period, and Greco-Roman strata.

THE ANKH · U+2625
THE BALANCE · GARDINER U38, U+1335D
THE PANTHEON SEATED
SUNRaThe Creator and King
MOONKhonsuThe Traveller
MERCURYSebeguAspect of Set
VENUSIsisThe One Who Crosses
MARSHorus the RedGod of the Horizon
JUPITERAmunHe Who Limits the Two Lands
SATURNGebFather of the Earth
BELOW THE RULE: THE THREE RECEIVED
URANUSNutthe vault of stars, whose five stolen days stand outside the year
NEPTUNENunthe water before the world, still standing beneath every river
PLUTOOsiristhe murdered king enthroned below, green with returning grain
The roll carries three names that no scribe of Memphis ever wrote. A late name weighs no less than an old one. THE OUTER PLANETS ARE AN EXTENSION MADE IN THE ANCIENT WAY; THE METHOD PAGE STATES IT PLAINLY → METHOD
HOW EGYPT RULES THE ASPECTS
☌ 0°CONJUNCTIONTwo gods ride in one barque. Where the river carries it, it carries them both.
⚹ 60°SEXTILEA fair wind stands on the river. It moves only the boat that raises a sail.
□ 90°SQUAREIsfet crossed the threshold of the hall. The pans come level again through labor, and the labor is yours.
△ 120°TRINEHeart and feather agree and no hand touches the scale. Go on with the day; the hall asks you nothing.
☍ 180°OPPOSITIONThe two pans hang level, and neither falls. The scribe writes no verdict until one side descends.
TODAY, IN THIS VOICE
NOVEMBER 5, 2026

Set the first loaf on the altar, and make the gift small.

Your beloved and your patrons lighten each other's load, and Thoth records it to the hair.