Every other wing of this encyclopedia reads skies that simply happen — the chart you were born with, the transit passing overhead. This wing is about the skies you choose. Electional astrology is the old, practical craft of beginning things on purpose: picking the day the sky most agrees with a wedding, a launch, a signature, a journey. It was the working astrology of royal courts and merchant fleets, and it survives everywhere someone checks the calendar twice before beginning something that matters.
It is also, quietly, the astrology of money. The financiers who kept astrologers — and Wall Street has never been without them — were practicing election at scale: not asking the stars what to want, but when to move. These pages hold both traditions, the craft and its most famous clients.