One billion charts · ten thousand years · one sweep
Every five-minute sky from 3001 BCE to 7000 CE, scored by the Rising Seer rarity engine. These are the ones the numbers say should not exist — rendered exactly as the engine sees them.
The crown
May 9, 1977 · ~09:00 UT — one five-minute mark carrying seven distinct pattern types at once. It is not just first: all 25 top slots on the leaderboard are this same event, sampled every five minutes as it held for roughly two hours. It sits within living memory — you can look up who was born that morning.
| T-Squares | 7 |
| Grand Trines | 3 |
| Grand Crosses | 2 |
| Yods | 2 |
| Kites | 10 |
| Mystic Rectangles | 5 |
| Grand Sextiles | 2 |
How “weirdest” is scored: the incidences of all eight pattern counts are multiplied together; the lowest product wins. The patterns are correlated, so the raw product (~1 in 1018) is a weirdness index, not a probability — but as a ranking of “which sky has the most going on,” it is exactly right.
The record holders
The single most extreme sky for each pattern across all 1.05 billion charts. Pick a view to isolate each figure — every instance gets its own color.
Grand Trines record
Dec 10, 2682 CE · 01:15 UT · JD 2700983.5520833335
1 in 4,534,498 charts carries this count
Nine of ten planets stacked into the three fire signs, 120 degrees apart. Grand trines multiply as the product of the cluster sizes, so nine planets in three tight same-element groups detonate into dozens of overlapping triangles. A sky of almost cartoonish flow.
T-Squares record
Dec 24, 3539 CE · 23:10 UT · JD 3014010.465277778
1 in 4,329,233 charts carries this count
The highest raw pattern count of any figure across the whole sweep. A T-square only needs three planets in a loose right-angle arrangement, so when the wheel locks into the right grid, the combinations explode.
Grand Crosses record
May 26, 4435 CE · 13:30 UT · JD 3341056.0625
1 in 993,393 charts carries this count
Four planets boxed in mutual tension, sixteen ways over. Every arm squared, every axis opposed.
Kites record
Feb 15, 974 CE · 13:05 UT · JD 2076852.045138889
1 in 263,000,880 charts carries this count
The rarest single feat on the board. A kite is a grand trine that grew a spine — an opposition through one vertex, tethered by two sextiles. Nine at once is an order of magnitude rarer than anything else here.
The sweep credited 9; the runtime engine finds 13 today. See the data-integrity note below.
Grand Sextiles record
Oct 5, 2010 BCE · 18:05 UT · JD 987565.2534722222
1 in 2,522,790 charts carries this count
The Star of David — two interlocking grand trines braided by six sextiles. The rarest classical figure of them all, and this sky held four of them before the pyramids at Giza were a thousand years old.
Yods record
Aug 11, 5008 CE · 02:15 UT · JD 3550416.59375
1 in 3,925,386 charts carries this count
Fifteen fingers of fate at once. A yod aims two quincunxes at a single apex planet like a compass needle — this sky pointed fifteen of them.
Mystic Rectangles record
Jan 16, 452 CE · 03:20 UT · JD 1886164.638888889
1 in 5,033,510 charts carries this count
Opposition and harmony locked in one figure: two oppositions crossing as diagonals, framed by trines and sextiles. Eight of them, five centuries after Rome fell.
Grand Quintiles record
Dec 15, 3093 CE · 17:50 UT · JD 2851104.2430555555
1 in 3,784,185 charts carries this count
The golden-ratio pentagon — five planets spaced 72 degrees apart, the figure astrologers associate with pattern-genius. Four at once, seven centuries per corner.
The leaderboard
The top of the weirdness index after collapsing the 1977 monopoly to one entry per calendar year. Lower score = weirder sky.
| Date (UT) | Score | Patterns at that instant |
|---|---|---|
| May 9, 1977 CE 09:00 UT | -41.49 | 3 grand trine · 7 T-square · 2 yod · 2 grand cross · 2 kite · 2 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Aug 24, 2107 BCE 00:50 UT | -39.25 | 3 grand trine · 7 T-square · 4 yod · 2 grand cross · 1 kite · 1 mystic rectangle · 1 grand sextile |
| Jun 11, 2479 CE 02:25 UT | -38.73 | 3 grand trine · 4 T-square · 1 yod · 1 grand cross · 1 kite · 3 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Nov 20, 2199 CE 03:10 UT | -37.38 | 4 grand trine · 8 T-square · 2 kite · 3 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Jul 29, 2013 CE 10:50 UT | -37.24 | 3 grand trine · 4 T-square · 1 yod · 2 kite · 4 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Oct 5, 2010 BCE 18:05 UT | -35.99 | 4 grand trine · 2 kite · 3 mystic rectangle · 4 grand sextile |
| Jan 31, 4651 CE 09:25 UT | -33.86 | 5 grand trine · 3 kite · 2 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Jun 14, 2251 CE 11:05 UT | -33.59 | 4 grand trine · 1 T-square · 1 yod · 3 kite · 2 mystic rectangle · 1 grand sextile |
| May 7, 6426 CE 10:45 UT | -33.56 | 4 grand trine · 2 T-square · 2 kite · 3 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Dec 1, 3852 CE 01:25 UT | -33.17 | 2 grand trine · 6 T-square · 1 yod · 1 grand cross · 1 kite · 1 mystic rectangle · 1 grand sextile |
| Dec 16, 6622 CE 00:30 UT | -32.92 | 3 grand trine · 2 T-square · 2 kite · 3 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Jan 3, 2512 BCE 23:25 UT | -32.72 | 4 grand trine · 3 T-square · 1 yod · 1 kite · 2 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Jul 11, 1611 BCE 06:45 UT | -32.63 | 4 grand trine · 5 mystic rectangle · 3 grand sextile |
| Mar 24, 2693 BCE 23:05 UT | -32.56 | 5 grand trine · 2 T-square · 4 kite · 3 grand sextile |
| Nov 2, 5321 CE 07:00 UT | -32.32 | 3 grand trine · 4 T-square · 1 grand cross · 1 kite · 1 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Aug 18, 2603 BCE 03:20 UT | -32.29 | 6 grand trine · 6 kite · 5 mystic rectangle |
| Dec 24, 3539 CE 17:55 UT | -32.11 | 33 T-square · 14 grand cross |
| Dec 7, 5881 CE 11:00 UT | -31.55 | 4 grand trine · 2 T-square · 3 kite · 1 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Jan 31, 551 BCE 12:50 UT | -31.37 | 3 grand trine · 6 T-square · 3 yod · 1 grand cross · 2 kite · 2 mystic rectangle |
| May 16, 4333 CE 17:00 UT | -31.27 | 5 grand trine · 2 T-square · 2 yod · 1 kite · 1 mystic rectangle · 1 grand sextile |
| Jan 20, 3297 CE 01:25 UT | -31.10 | 4 grand trine · 2 T-square · 2 kite · 2 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Aug 9, 369 CE 13:20 UT | -30.98 | 5 grand trine · 1 kite · 3 mystic rectangle · 1 grand sextile |
| Jul 16, 4697 CE 10:05 UT | -30.92 | 34 T-square · 13 grand cross |
| Jul 6, 2748 CE 03:00 UT | -30.92 | 3 grand trine · 2 T-square · 1 yod · 2 kite · 1 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Dec 29, 1002 BCE 06:25 UT | -30.76 | 3 grand trine · 1 T-square · 1 yod · 2 kite · 2 mystic rectangle · 1 grand sextile |
| Jun 25, 6101 CE 10:00 UT | -30.56 | 3 grand trine · 1 T-square · 1 yod · 2 kite · 1 mystic rectangle · 2 grand sextile |
| Nov 27, 1407 BCE 10:10 UT | -30.53 | 3 grand trine · 3 T-square · 1 yod · 1 kite · 2 mystic rectangle · 1 grand sextile |
| Oct 2, 5291 CE 10:00 UT | -30.41 | 1 grand trine · 8 T-square · 6 yod · 2 grand cross · 1 kite · 1 mystic rectangle |
| Mar 22, 1316 BCE 18:10 UT | -30.29 | 2 grand trine · 5 T-square · 1 grand cross · 1 kite · 1 mystic rectangle · 1 grand sextile |
| Oct 26, 2505 BCE 14:10 UT | -30.24 | 29 T-square · 11 grand cross |
Positions from the full Swiss Ephemeris (Moshier-free, verified to ~0.01″ at J2000), swept at 5-minute steps across 3001 BCE – 7000 CE. Aspects and patterns use the production engine’s locked B-lumonly orb policy — the same code path every Rising Seer chart runs. These skies have no birth location, so charts are rendered angle-free: no houses, no Ascendant, Aries anchored at nine o’clock. Wheels are drawn by the production chart renderer — what you see is exactly what the app draws.
Data integrity: the sweep’s kite and mystic-rectangle counters check one fixed planet-role assignment per subset and undercount both figures. Exhaustive re-matching over the same engine aspects shows the May 1977 sky truly holds 10 kites and 5 mystic rectangles (sweep credited 2 of each), and the 974 CE “9-kite” sky truly holds 13 — the 2010 BCE hexagram even reaches 16, so the corrected kite record may belong to a different sky entirely. The fix is tracked as SEER-1075 and moves counts only upward: every sky in this hall is at least as impossible as stated.
Dates are UT, proleptic Gregorian. Julian Day numbers are the unambiguous anchor.