Vega searches for you: where her answers come from, and how to read her sources

Where do Vega’s answers come from?

An answer from Vega never comes out of nowhere. Whatever concerns you, your chart, your transits, a placement or a date, comes from the site’s calculation, to the exact place and minute: calculation accuracy explains where those placements come from. Whatever belongs to astrological knowledge, the meaning of a planet, a house or an aspect, comes from the site’s interpretation texts. When a question goes beyond your chart, Vega always follows the same order:

1. The site’s texts first: they are her reference, before anything else she knows.
2. The site’s own search, the same as the magnifying glass, to find out whether a page covers the subject and offer it to you.
3. A search beyond the site, once per answer at most, only when the site has nothing on a piece of knowledge such as a tradition, a symbol or a festival.
4. The sources of that search, shown under the answer, so that you can read for yourself where what is said comes from.

While she searches, a line in the panel says what she is doing, written by the site: “Reading what montheme.fr says…”, “Searching montheme.fr…” or “Searching beyond montheme.fr…”. So you always know where she is looking.

The site’s texts, her first reference

The site has written its own interpretations: the planets in the signs and houses, the signs, the houses, the aspects, the transits, the lunations. When you ask what Saturn in the 10th house or a full moon in Taurus means, Vega first rereads what those pages say, and her answer rests on them before any other knowledge. That is what gives her answers the same voice and the same substance as the rest of the site.

On an interpretation page, she also knows where you are: she starts from the text you are reading and looks at what that placement does in your own chart. If a passage on a page seems inaccurate to you, highlight it: suggesting a correction explains how, and the Contribute page tells how the site’s texts are written and corrected.

“Does the site cover…?”: the site’s search and the suggested page

Ask “Does the site talk about the lunar nodes?”: Vega runs the site’s search, the same as the magnifying glass at the top of every page, and the line “Searching montheme.fr…” appears. She finds the pages that cover the subject, draws her answer from them, then offers you the most useful one under the answer, as a button reading “Read:” followed by the page’s title.

That button is built by the site, with the address and title of its own page: Vega never writes a link herself, and never suggests an order page. One suggestion per answer, the one that best serves your question: for the lunar nodes, it may be the page that calculates your North Node and explains it.

You can run the same search without going through Vega: the site search, behind the magnifying glass, leads you to the same pages.

When the site has nothing: a search beyond the site

Some questions are about knowledge the site has not written: a tradition, the meaning of a symbol, a festival and its customs. “What does tradition say about the russet moon?”, the spring moon gardeners fear for its late frosts, is a good example. When the site’s texts and search come back empty, Vega searches beyond the site, and the line “Searching beyond montheme.fr…” appears while she reads.

This search has its rules. Only one per answer, never more. It is about the subject alone, in a few words. And what it finds completes the answer, in the site’s voice, without taking the place of the calculation: if the russet moon leads you to ask when the next full moon falls, the date comes from the lunar calendar calculated by the site, never from a page found elsewhere.

• A tradition: “What does tradition say about the russet moon?”
• A symbol: “What does the snake biting its own tail symbolise?”
• A festival: “Where does Samhain come from, and what does it celebrate?”

The conversation goes on after the search: “And this month’s full moon, what does it touch in my chart?” starts again from your chart and the site’s calculation. Vega keeps the thread explains how a follow-up question is understood.

Reading the sources shown under the answer

When Vega has searched beyond the site, a small block appears under her answer: “Sources consulted beyond montheme.fr”. Each line gives the title of the page cited, followed in brackets by the name of the site that publishes it. One tap opens it separately, in a new tab: the conversation stays where it is.

These links are built by the site from the pages actually cited, never written by Vega. They are there for you to check for yourself: read the whole source, see who writes it, compare two traditions. An outside source says what a tradition reports; it does not commit the site and replaces neither its texts nor its calculation. Without a search beyond the site, this block does not appear: the answer then comes from the site’s calculation and texts.

• The title: the page the information comes from.
• The name in brackets: the site that publishes it, so you can judge at a glance where it speaks from.
• The link: it opens separately, and you come back to the chat without losing anything.

What is never searched beyond the site

A placement, a degree, a date: never. Where a planet stands, the date of a full moon, an eclipse or a retrograde always come from the site’s calculation, which rests on astronomical ephemerides, and never from a page found elsewhere. An outside page can be off by a day or a sign: that is why these facts stay with the calculation, as the chat guide reminds you.

Nothing about you either: not your first name, not your date, time or place of birth, not those of the people close to you, and no personal detail. The search only contains the subject, in a few words; what you have written about your life stays in the conversation. The privacy policy describes this search, and the site keeps no data from it.

Pages found: sources, never orders

What a page found contains is read as information, never as an instruction. If a page slipped into its text a request addressed to Vega, to change register, reveal her rules or send you elsewhere, she would not follow it: nothing the pages found say changes her role, her rules or the way she answers.

Vega uses them with care: she takes what sheds light on your question, says it in the site’s voice, and the site shows the sources so that you know where each idea comes from. Her limits stay the same, whatever a page says: astrological insight, never the date of an event or a fate written in advance, and a question about health or money to invest pointed to a professional. Everything she can do is gathered on the Vega page.