Burmese Mahabote
The eight-day week, planetary houses and period rulers.
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Level 1Units: 4
Level 1 · Unit 1
The eight-day week
Meet Burmese Mahabote astrology, where the weekday of birth matters most and Wednesday is split in two to make an eight-day week.
- Born on a weekday
- Eight days, eight planets
- The eight directions
- Animals and planetary posts
- Checkpoint: the eight-day week
Level 1 · Unit 2
How a Mahabote chart is built
See, in outline, how the Myanmar calendar year and a remainder after dividing by 7 set up a Mahabote chart, and meet its seven named houses.
- The Myanmar year
- Dividing by seven
- The seven houses
- Reading the houses
- Checkpoint: building the chart
Level 1 · Unit 3
Finding your birth day
Find a Mahabote birth day with confidence: fixed weekdays and drifting birthdays, Wednesday births, full birth-day profiles and facing pairs.
- Birth weekday and birthday
- Wednesday births
- Your birth-day profile
- Opposite corners
- Checkpoint: finding your birth day
Level 1 · Unit 4
Working with the Myanmar year
Convert dates to Myanmar era years, handle births before the April new year, and practise the divide-by-7 remainder and its seven-year cycle.
- From Common Era to Myanmar era
- Before the new year
- Remainders in practice
- A seven-year cycle
- Checkpoint: working with the Myanmar year
Level 2Units: 4
Level 2 · Unit 1
Houses and period rulers
Explore the often-cited themes of the seven Mahabote houses and the idea of period rulers, with the commonly cited lengths that total 108 years.
- Houses of rank and plenty
- Change, challenge and the everyday
- Period rulers
- Working with period lengths
- Checkpoint: houses and period rulers
Level 2 · Unit 2
Mahabote in daily life today
See how Mahabote lives on in Myanmar today: birth-day posts at pagodas, names chosen by letter, astrologers and good days, and learning with respect.
- Visiting the planetary posts
- Names from the birth day
- Astrologers and good days
- Learning with respect
- Checkpoint: Mahabote today
Level 2 · Unit 3
Period rulers in practice
Practise period-ruler arithmetic with a clearly labelled practice sequence: running totals, the ruler at a given age, and why real tables differ.
- A practice sequence
- Counting the ages
- Which ruler at which age?
- Reading periods with care
- Checkpoint: period rulers in practice
Level 2 · Unit 4
Mahabote case studies
Bring the course together in invented case studies: birth-day profiles, Myanmar years, given house themes, practice periods, names, good days and careful wording.
- Case study: a Thursday birth
- Case study: a Wednesday-evening birth
- Case study: a family plans a date
- Talking about a reading
- Checkpoint: Mahabote case studies