RULES_AND_AMBIGUITIES

Candidate rules and ambiguity register

This register belongs to the 2026-10-22 research packet. R01-R30 identify candidate rule families; they are not thirty admitted runtime predicates. A01-A25 identify decisions or defects that prevent unqualified promotion. Primary pages are linked through the source inventory and individual records in packet.json.

Evidence contract

Keep these stages separate: source located, passage visually checked, operationally specified, independently fixture-checked, implemented, validated, admitted. This packet reaches the first two stages for selected passages. The existing v1 admission is a separate historical contract.

Every future atomic rule needs author/edition and exact passage, proposition, required inputs, context, preconditions, exceptions, evaluation epoch, dependencies, precedence, missing-input behavior and independent fixtures. Every conclusion must cite its supporting and opposing witnesses. No numeric confidence or universal affirmative/negative score follows from this register.

An epoch is one of: question, last separation, intermediate contact, final contact, or explicitly unspecified by the source. A source that leaves an epoch unspecified does not license quietly choosing the initial chart.

Candidate rule families

ID	Original pages	Compact source proposition	Required evidence and limit
R01	35, 39-42, 47	Erection depends on the stated date, clock and local ephemeris procedure. P.41 explicitly converts a morning to hours after the preceding noon.	Literal date/time; calendar, year start, clock origin, locality, conversion receipt. Never treat printed P.M. automatically as modern civil PM.
R02	47-56	Houses have distinct topics, angular/succedent/cadent condition and source-specific strength.	Caller-confirmed question facts, actual cusp/placement geometry and topic passage; a house label is not a complete judgement.
R03	127-128	A related person's house becomes their first; other houses are counted from it. Who asks can change the perspective.	Explicit entity/relationship path and inclusive count, with the radical anchor retained.
R04	49, 123-124	The querent is represented by the Ascendant/lord; the thing demanded by its appropriate house/lord. Other planets can contribute.	Question context, cusp-sign rulers, descriptive/co-significator evidence; do not silently replace a collided principal.
R05	124	Moon is co-significator of the querent; Lilly rejects making its last separated planet co-significator by that fact alone.	Moon's roles and sequence independent of the principal pair. The following next-applying/co-quesited discussion needs contextual resolution.
R06	104, 112, 115	Dignity and peregrinity depend on specific essential dignities at a place; reception also enters the fortitude table.	Versioned Lilly table, sect and degree bounds; do not substitute a generic term/triplicity table or turn fortitude into probability.
R07	107, 110	Planetary full orbs have two printed alternatives; contact range uses the sum of their halves.	Named selected table and exact boundary policy. Current fixed values are not the sole table allowed by this source.
R08	107-109	Application has direct/direct, retrograde/retrograde and mixed-motion forms; partile, dexter/sinister and sign-beholding are distinct notions.	Directed separation, relative motion, aspect branch, orb and sign relation. Planetary weight is not automatically instantaneous speed.
R09	110	Separation begins at six arcminutes in the description, but complete separation is beyond the combined moieties.	Distinguish exact root, partile status, initial separation and full departure from an orb.
R10	112	Reception is described through mutual dignity, with examples in several bases, and can assist without an aspect or through adverse aspects.	Directed dignity relations, mutuality, basis, context and epoch; mechanism-specific reception requirements must remain distinct.
R11	112, 122	VOC concerns separation followed by no further application during the sign; p.122 qualifies the consequence by principal strength and signs.	Source definition of application, lunar sequence/sign boundary, and separately encoded exceptions; no automatic universal denial.
R12	113-114	Combustion is described as corporal proximity in the same sign within 8 degrees 30 minutes; beams and cazimi have distinct thresholds.	Sun/planet longitudes and signs, direction if relevant, endpoint policy; record the apparent inconsistent numerical example.
R13	121-122	Hour agreement can concern lord identity, triplicity or nature; the question and erection context matter.	Bound question-time/location receipt, day/night hour, sign lord/triplicity/nature and the source examples.
R14	122	Early/late Ascendant cautions include descriptive/age exceptions; the late caution also distinguishes known-event figures.	Degree, caller-supplied age/description and figure purpose; lack of context is not proof that an exception fails.
R15	122	Late Moon and Via Combusta are cautions with source qualifications. VOC is mitigated in named signs and by strong principals.	Moon sign/degree, strength evidence and source hedge; avoid treating all cautions as strict prohibitions.
R16	122-123	Saturn and seventh-house/lord warnings concern different risks; the artist/seventh caution depends on question context.	Actual placements/condition and whether the matter concerns the seventh. Keep judgement reliability and matter difficulty separate.
R17	123	Balanced fortunate and unfortunate testimonies counsel deferral; combust Ascendant lord and other conditions add cautions.	Source-defined testimony types, not a count of arbitrary votes or a fabricated confidence threshold.
R18	125	Conjunction can perfect under conditions of placement, strength/motion and no interruption; house class modifies the account.	Exact contact plus role-specific condition and intervening events. Contact alone is not the complete proposition.
R19	125	Sextile/trine perfection is qualified by good houses, dignity and absence of intervening malefic testimony.	Qualifiers and their epochs; distinguish the astronomical aspect from the source judgement.
R20	125	Square perfection is possible with dignity and suitable houses.	Explicit source-conditioned route; neither unconditional success nor unconditional failure follows from square alone.
R21	125	Opposition requires additional reception/house/Moon conditions in this discussion and can lead to regret or expense.	Mutual domicile reception, house and Moon sequence evidence; completion and desirability are separate propositions.
R22	111, 126	Translation joins significators through a lighter intermediary; the fuller perfection passage adds reception and contact/history conditions.	Two directed legs, source receiving translator in house/triplicity/term, no intervening contact, principal relationship history and epochs.
R23	126	Collection concerns principals that do not behold one another, both contacting a heavier collector which each receives.	Both principal-to-collector applications, directed reception by each principal, heaviness, chronology and beholding definition.
R24	110-111	Prohibition is an intervening action preventing the intended completion; the source distinguishes bodily and aspectual forms.	Intended application and relevant third-party sequence; do not assume every intervening contact is prohibition.
R25	111	Refranation interrupts an intended application by reversal before completion.	Application, station/reversal and failure to complete; an actual later exact aspect is not a necessary historical premise.
R26	112-113	Frustration describes an intended bodily conjunction defeated when the heavier significator first joins another.	Conjunction-specific intended and intervening relationships; do not generalize automatically to every aspect.
R27	126-127	Dwelling in the relevant house is attributed to earlier authorities, but Lilly declines to rely on it without the Moon carrying the virtue.	Preserve the author's rejection/qualification; do not add an unconditional seventh success mechanism.
R28	125	Angular/succedent/cadent contexts modify speed/ease of accomplishment in the general perfection discussion.	Qualitative timing only here. An exact aspect timestamp does not determine symbolic weeks, months or years.
R29	48, 113-115	House strength, Hayz, oriental/occidental condition, besiegement and the fortitude table supply distinct condition evidence.	Separate definitions, sect, body group and table entries. Table scores and ordered comparisons are not one interchangeable judgement scale.
R30	491	Book III recommends exact Regiomontanus construction for nativities and describes it as more scrupulous than ordinary questions need.	Auxiliary scope evidence; it does not impose one universal horary house-method default.

Ambiguities and dispositions

All records remain open for the new executable tranche unless a disposition below is expressly limited to catalogue/source handling. None changes v1.

ID / type	Issue and alternatives	Packet disposition / closure evidence
A01 / historical input	Noon-origin hours, AM/PM wording, Julian/Gregorian calendar and year-start style are separate axes.	Preserve raw strings. Per-case conversion must explain date rollover, year and locality before a JD/UT value is allowed; use E03 as an independent clock fixture.
A02 / computational policy	Source houses, current house API policy and boundary/placement rules need a named contract. P.491 does not settle all ordinary-question defaults.	Preserve supplied house policy; no silent method substitution. Document planet/cusp boundary and turning behavior separately.
A03 / role model	Two entities can have one planetary lord; Moon and other source roles can overlap.	Preserve collisions and candidate roles. Require a source-specific alternative rule rather than inventing a replacement significator.
A04 / table identity	Labels such as Ptolemaic, Egyptian or traditional can conceal different cells, sect handling or endpoint conventions.	Bind the actual p.104 table and double-enter every cell needed by fixtures. Current policy already names Lilly; old validation prose is stale.
A05 / genuine source alternatives	P.107 prints two orb sets; p.110's Saturn/Jupiter example uses the second. The current fixed table mixes values from these alternatives.	Preserve all three tables below as separately identified data. Selecting a future table needs an explicit profile decision and paired boundary fixtures.
A06 / definition versus numerical tolerance	Six-arcminute separation, partile equality, orbital contact and a solver's root tolerance answer different questions.	Specify separate fields and endpoint tests; never use a historical arc threshold as a root-finding error tolerance.
A07 / terminology	Lighter/heavier can mean traditional planetary order; the implementation uses absolute instantaneous speed. Stations can change their relation.	Collate mechanism examples and practice; specify which notion each mechanism requires, including direct/retrograde motion.
A08 / reception semantics	Mutual reception, directed reception and mechanism-specific bases differ; current generic and perfection APIs use incompatible receiver vocabulary.	Define host as dignity ruler and guest as occupant in plain terms. Explicit adapters and same-/mixed-basis tests precede reuse.
A09 / doctrine scope	P.112 permits reception to assist even without an aspect; the broad statement does not fully operationalize every outcome.	Keep a reception-without-aspect candidate route, unadmitted until context and counterexamples are collated. Do not infer universal success.
A10 / lunar definition	P.112's application during a sign can be read through orb/application or exact-completion criteria; these differ near an ingress.	Preserve alternatives; specify event universe, bounds and what counts as application. The generic VOC helper is not automatically Lilly's definition.
A11 / qualitative exception	P.122's strong principals and sign exceptions do not supply a universal numeric strength threshold.	Encode named qualitative evidence and unknown context. A threshold needs source/practice support, not an arbitrary score.
A12 / solar policy	Same-sign combustion differs from a distance-only band, especially across a sign boundary; threshold inclusivity is not fully formalized.	Test equal distance in same/different signs; maintain source and geometric evidence separately. Cazimi/beams need their own endpoint decisions.
A13 / apparent printed inconsistency	P.113 defines 8 degrees 30 minutes but appears to call Jupiter 28 Aries with Sun 18 Aries combust.	Retain literal readings; collate alternate photograph before proposing an erratum. Do not silently change 28 to 26 or widen the threshold.
A14 / context and force	Early/late exceptions, artist/seventh warnings and Via Combusta's qualified attribution resist universal boolean denial.	Require context inputs and distinguish caution, exception, unknown and not applicable. Preserve the source hedge.
A15 / authorial stance	P.124 rejects the Moon's last-separated planet as co-querent; the ensuing next-applying/co-quesited passage needs contextual reading.	Record those as different propositions. Check worked practice before admitting an automatic new role.
A16 / judgement conditions	Good/friendly houses, strong planets, malefic intervention and opposition regret need definitions and scope.	Separate R18-R21; give every qualifier a predicate or typed unresolved state. An exact contact cannot stand in for all of them.
A17 / translation scope and epoch	P.111 gives a structural definition; p.126 adds principal-history and reception conditions. When must reception/strength hold?	Keep both source contexts. Test history, allowed bases, direction, intervening contacts and initial versus event-time changes.
A18 / collection scope and epoch	Not beholding may concern sign relation rather than present orb; reception of the collector and heavier status need explicit epochs.	Preserve the source's reception direction. Compare sign/aspect alternatives and changing dignity before the last contact.
A19 / implementation admission gap	Current blockers require an eligible actual future pair contact. A reversal can prevent the contact altogether.	Specify intended application independently from completed event search. Add blocked/no-exact fixtures before expanding admission. No repair is made here.
A20 / implementation admission gap	Current prior-event filters exclude events within the advertised one-second tie band before the tie predicate examines them.	Add independent exact/near-simultaneous station, ingress and third-contact fixtures. Treat this as a code gap, not a historical ambiguity.
A21 / completeness and coverage	Current witnesses retain the first translation/collection candidate; a 31-day boundary is a safety limit, not doctrine.	Future output must preserve all candidates, dependencies and unresolved frontier. Do not chain windows while discarding cross-boundary state.
A22 / attribution	A catalogue that lists the dwelling shortcut without Lilly's rejection would misattribute earlier doctrine to him.	Source handling resolved: record as rejected/qualified in Lilly. Any positive mechanism still requires Moon evidence under the admitted rule.
A23 / timing	Event time, qualitative speed, symbolic units and a reported historical duration have different evidence.	No universal degree-to-unit conversion in the core. Later timing admission must state context, alternatives and uncertainty.
A24 / historical corpus	Printed coordinates, modern reconstructions, author-reported outcomes and independent outcomes are different records. Fish years differ; some epochs are absent.	Null normalized fields, record variants and source qualification; separate reused/hypothetical/event cases and exclude leakage from predictive sets.
A25 / condition aggregation	P.48 orders house strength; p.115 gives grouped point values and extra conditions. Their granularity and purpose differ.	Keep ordered comparison and tabulated fortitude separate. Double-enter the table before any computation; never turn its sum into a universal verdict.

Orb-table receipt (A05)

All entries are full orbs in degrees, not already halved moieties.

Body	First printed set, p.107	Second printed set, p.107	Current fixed constant
Saturn	10	9	10
Jupiter	12	9	12
Mars	7.5	7	7
Sun	17	15	15
Venus	8	7	7
Mercury	7	7	7
Moon	12.5	12	12

Combined contact range is (full_orb_A + full_orb_B) / 2. P.110's Saturn/Jupiter example halves nine and nine, giving nine degrees; the current constants give eleven. The current table remains a fixed existing policy. This packet does not rename it, change it or imply that the source requires one unqualified replacement.

Current implementation seams (read-only audit)

Inspected at the baseline in README. These are code findings, not tests rerun in this documentation task.

Owner	Current behavior	New admission consequence
moira/horary.py: time adapter, house resolution, significators	Explicit time receipts and radical/turned assignments; stable v1 evidence-only scope	Retain contract; broader roles/context need additive admission
moira/horary.py: _considerations	Six bounded considerations; Moon assigned but no independent Moon completion route	R05/R11/R14-R17 require separately specified additions
moira/classical_perfection.py: _current_relation, eligible_direct	In-moiety application plus exact trace; all five aspect kinds share this geometric eligibility	Add source-conditioned R18-R21 above the event layer, without claiming current output is a yes/no judgement
Same: _reception_bases	Host/guest helper recognizes five Lilly bases; translation restricts to house/triplicity/term; collection tests each principal receiving collector	Preserve direction, expose basis/epoch; generic reception requires an adapter
Same: _prior_interruptions, third_aspects, tie	Strictly-before filtering precedes tie detection	A20 needs focused regression evidence; no fix in this packet
Same: eligible_direct gates blocker witnesses	A missing later exact pair event suppresses a blocker witness even for intended application	A19 requires no-exact refranation/blocked application cases
Same: translations[0], collections[0]	Only the first successful candidate becomes its kind's witness	A21 requires all-path evidence for a broader reasoning product
Same: fixed LillyPerfectionPolicy	31-day cap, initial-chart condition checks, ingress indeterminate, named Lilly table identity	State epochs and bounded coverage explicitly; these are operational policies
moira/dignities_types.py and dignity reception service	Generic reception covers domicile/exaltation; receiver vocabulary differs	Do not reuse as a five-basis directed graph without semantic conversion
moira/void_of_course.py	Generic lunar connection/window machinery exists	Useful event substrate; not source admission of one Lilly VOC interpretation
Solar proximity truth and horary solar receipt	Geometric distance-band evidence feeds the caution; no same-sign condition in that check	R12 needs a source-qualified condition layer

Existing tests/unit/test_classical_perfection.py and tests/unit/test_horary.py verify the bounded implementation, including orientation/search regressions. They do not by themselves validate every new source proposition in this packet. The source-owned pp.442-445 fixture is assignment evidence; it is not a full numerical or outcome golden.

Independent fixture specification

Proposed family	Positive fixture	Negative/control	Boundary/adversarial fixture
Time/roles	E03 noon conversion; explicit turned relationship	Missing locality/clock; inappropriate role substitution	Date/year rollover, shared ruler, uncertain cusp
Orbs/separation	P.110's printed Jupiter/Saturn example under its named set	Same geometry outside selected summed moiety	Each printed table, six arcminutes, exact contact, wraparound
Reception	Explicit host/guest placements with a named table/sect	Reverse direction or disallowed translation basis	Mixed mutuality, dignity endpoint, dignity change before contact
Moon/VOC	Precisely selected R11 interpretation and exception	A further qualifying application under that interpretation	Aspect before/after ingress; orb entry without in-sign exactitude
Solar condition	Same-sign 8-degree separation	Same separation across sign boundary	8 degrees 30 minutes, 17 minutes, 17 degrees, applying/separating
Aspect judgement	Source-qualified square/opposition completion	Remove one required qualifier without changing exact event	Completion with regret; unknown strength/friendly-house meaning
Translation/collection	P.111 numerical teaching structure; p.126 full conditions	Wrong receiver, intervening contact, missing history	Multiple simultaneous routes, state change between legs
Blocking	Intended application reversed before contact	Irrelevant third contact; faster/slower alternative	No later exact pair event; tie within/equal/outside tolerance
Search	Complete declared interval with all candidates	Incomplete input trace labelled unresolved	Event at each edge, station/ingress at contact, cross-window route

These are proposed fixture designs, not fabricated historical readings or passing tests. Historical case promotion follows the catalogue contract. Numerical, doctrinal, compatibility and predictive validation must keep separate receipts.