Frequently asked questions

You enter your birth details once. Cicatriz computes your natal chart — the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets at the moment of your birth — then calculates when transiting planets will form significant aspects to those positions over the next 12 months. The result is a standard iCal calendar you can subscribe to in any calendar app.

12 months from the date of each request. Because the calendar is recomputed on every fetch, it stays current automatically.

Any app that supports iCal URL subscriptions: Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, Fantastical, and most others. On mobile, Apple Calendar supports one-tap subscription via the webcal:// link. Google Calendar on mobile does not support URL subscriptions — use a desktop browser for Google Calendar.

Outer planet transits — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto forming conjunctions, squares, trines, and oppositions to your natal planets. These are slow-moving and tend to mark significant periods.

Personal transits — Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars aspecting your natal chart. These repeat frequently and mark shorter cycles.

Lunar phases — New Moon, Full Moon, First Quarter, Last Quarter.

Sign ingresses — Planets entering a new zodiac sign.

Retrograde stations — Planets stationing retrograde and direct, shown as a spanning period.

The five checkboxes on the form control which event categories appear in your calendar. Your choices are encoded in the subscribe URL — the calendar only includes what you selected. To change your filters, generate a new calendar and replace the subscription URL in your app.

Each transit appears twice: a begins event on the day it enters orb, and an exact event on the day the aspect peaks. This replaces what used to be a long multi-day block in the calendar view.

Nothing. Your birth data is encoded directly into the subscribe URL — it never touches a database, a log file, or any storage on our side. Every time your calendar app fetches the calendar, the data is decoded from the URL, the calendar is computed fresh, and everything is discarded. There is no server state.

Anyone you share it with. The URL encodes your name, birth date, time, and location. Treat it like any personal document — don't share it publicly if you'd prefer to keep that information private.

Yes. Remove the calendar subscription from your app and discard the result page URL. Since nothing is stored on our end, there is nothing to request deletion of — it's gone when the URL is gone.

No. If you don't know your birth time, check the Unknown box. Moon transits will be estimated using solar noon at your birth location — they'll appear in the calendar but their timing is approximate.

Yes. Cicatriz is open source under the GPL v3 license — you can read and audit the full codebase on GitHub. github.com/alexandrequinto/cicatriz.digital

The events are personalized — which transits appear and when depends entirely on your natal chart. The descriptions are not. Each transit type (e.g. Saturn square natal Venus) has a fixed interpretation written in advance. The same text appears for everyone with that transit active.

They were written as a static set of interpretations, one per planet-aspect-planet combination. No AI generates text at request time — the interpretations are embedded in the app and served instantly at zero cost.

Each description names the transit type, the mechanic (which planet, which aspect, which natal point, and when it peaks), and an interpretive note for context. The interpretation is a starting point — not a prediction. Use it as a lens, not a verdict.

The subscribe URL is a live endpoint. When you add it to your calendar app, the app periodically fetches it and updates its local copy. Each fetch recomputes the calendar from the birth data encoded in the URL — no caching, no stored state on our side.

Generate a new calendar with the updated data and replace the subscription URL in your calendar app. Your old calendar will stop updating once you remove it.

Calendar apps control their own refresh schedule. Google Calendar typically syncs once every 24 hours regardless of what the server advertises. Apple Calendar is more responsive and usually syncs within a few hours.