Who Else Stood Here

What arrives: a PDF written by hand for your birth date and place, and sent by email within two to three days.

Six people. The six whose Movers stood closest to where yours stood — one each for the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Not the same figure, which is a wide box. The same actual point in the sky, usually within a degree, sometimes within a few minutes of arc.

Two hundred and eighty-one people are in the pool. Every birth date checked against primary sources — parish registers, notary books, newspaper announcements. Seven were removed because nobody could produce a document. Leonardo's date was nine days out in most systems until somebody read his grandfather's ledger.

Then each of your six is written out. Not a résumé. What they came from and what they did with it — the mother who destroyed the drawings, the dormitory that wouldn't house him, the year in the safe houses with the manuscript in the bag. The well they drew from, which is the same well you were handed.

Not generated. Written.

Written for one chart. Six people, and no two readings alike.