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Our engine aligns 81.9% of top-30 dasha windows across 3,445 permitted event records from 570 charts; a separate 793-event chart-disjoint blind test scores 81.8%. Exact-day and year-placeholder results are reported separately.

What is ayanāmśa and which should I use?

Ayanāmśa corrects for precession. Lahiri is India's government standard. KP practitioners should select KP.

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Famous life · assessment

Pope Benedict XVI 3

Apr 16, 1927 · 04:15 · 48.00°, 12.57° · Rodden AA

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How to read this assessment

The page begins with a one-minute plain-language assessment, followed by defining patterns, chart evidence, documented-life alignment, and cited sources.

Documented-life evidence

1981-11-25 — Made Cardinal Prefect

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