The complete algorithm. Nothing hidden.
Version: 2.0.1
Date: March 17, 2026
Author: Charles Paul Jones / FairWitnessAI, LLC
Patent Status: Patent Pending
The Oracle predicts which 3 photographs from a 197-image archive will resonate most with you, based on your birth chart's harmonic relationship to the exact moment each photograph was captured.
Then it asks: *"Come and see all the images, and tell us and the world the Oracle was right, or there was a different image that was not included that was your actual favorite."*
The results are tabulated publicly. The Oracle is testable. The math is transparent. This document explains every step.
197 photographs were taken across two days at three locations in the San Francisco Bay Area on September 2-3, 2007, using two cameras (Leica M8 and Leaf Aptus 75S). The Summer of Love concert was at Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park (37.7692 N, 122.4839 W). The NRPS and Marshall Tucker Band performances were at the Sausalito Art Festival waterfront (37.8664 N, 122.4995 W). The Record Plant interview was at 2200 Bridgeway, Sausalito (37.8636 N, 122.4964 W). Each gallery's image charts are calculated using its actual shooting location.
The planetary positions barely changed in that window. The Sun moved 1.3 degrees. Mercury moved 2.2 degrees. Mars moved 0.8 degrees. Even the Moon, the fastest-moving body, traveled only 19.4 degrees.Standard harmonic matching (planet-to-planet aspects) produces nearly identical fingerprints for all 197 images. Everyone gets the same three photographs. That is not an Oracle. That is a screensaver.
The Ascendant moves 1 degree every 4 minutes.
The Ascendant (ASC) is the degree of the zodiac rising over the eastern horizon at a specific moment and location. Unlike planets, which orbit the Sun, the Ascendant is driven by Earth's rotation. It completes a full 360-degree circuit every 24 hours. Over 33 hours of shooting, the Ascendant at Sausalito traversed 495 degrees (1.375 full rotations).
The Midheaven (MC), the degree of the zodiac at the top of the sky, moves at a similar rate.
The Part of Fortune (PoF), an ancient Arabic calculated point defined as ASC + Moon - Sun, combines the Ascendant's speed with the Moon's slower drift, creating a third high-velocity variable with its own unique trajectory.
These three fast-movers (ASC, MC, PoF) provide the "seconds hand" that the planets cannot. Every image taken even 4 minutes apart has a measurably different Ascendant. In the third harmonic (H3), the Ascendant moves 45 arc-minutes per minute of clock time. Two images shot 2 minutes apart have H3 Ascendants that differ by 1.5 degrees. That is enough to change which natal planet is being aspected.
The harmonic number determines what KIND of resonance is being measured.
• H1 (Conjunction): Identity, raw force, direct connection
• H2 (Opposition): Tension, awareness, confrontation
• H3 (Trine): Flow, ease, aesthetic pleasure, beauty
• H5 (Quintile): Creative intelligence, stylistic innovation
• H7 (Septile): Mystical reception, sacred imagery
H3 is the harmonic of the trine aspect (120 degrees). It measures what feels beautiful without effort. What you are drawn to before you can explain why. For predicting which photograph someone will love, H3 is the natural primary channel.
The quote Oracle uses H5 (creative), H7 (mystical), and H10 (mastery) because quotes operate in the domain of ideas. Photographs operate in the domain of aesthetic feeling. Different domain, different harmonic.
1. Querent's birth data: Date, time (noon if unknown), and location. This produces a natal chart with planetary positions plus natal ASC and MC.
2. Image charts: Pre-calculated for all 197 images. Each chart contains the positions of 10 planets plus ASC, MC, and Part of Fortune at the exact EXIF timestamp of the photograph, calculated for the actual shooting location of each gallery using the Placidus house system.
Using the Swiss Ephemeris (pyswisseph), calculate ecliptic longitudes for Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto at the querent's birth moment. Also calculate the natal Ascendant and Midheaven using the birth location and Placidus houses.
For each of the 197 image charts, calculate the H3 (trine) proximity between:
• Transit ASC and every natal point (12 pairs)
• Transit MC and every natal point (12 pairs)
• Transit PoF and every natal point (12 pairs)
• Transit Moon and every natal point (12 pairs)
Total: 48 aspect pairs per image.
For each pair, calculate the Gaussian proximity to the nearest exact H3 aspect:
harmonic_angle = 360 / 3 = 120 degrees remainder = angular_separation mod 120 deviation = min(remainder, 120 - remainder) amplitude = exp(-(deviation^2) / (2 * orb^2))
The orb is set to 2.0 degrees (tight). This creates steep falloff:
The Gaussian function is continuous and never returns zero. This is critical. Every image has a measurable relationship to every natal point. There are no dead zones.
Sort the 48 contacts by deviation (tightest first). Sum the amplitudes of the top 5 tightest contacts. This is the image's base H3 score for this querent.
Why top 5 and not all 48? Because summing all pairs drowns the signal in noise. The resonance is carried by the few contacts that are genuinely tight. An image where the transit PoF is making an exact trine to natal Venus (deviation 0.11 degrees) should not be diluted by 47 contacts at 5+ degrees.
Venus weighting (v2.0): Any H3 contact where the natal target is Venus receives a 2.0x weight multiplier. Venus is the planet of aesthetic attraction. In a system predicting which photograph someone will find beautiful, Venus contacts are the domain-specific significator. This is a theoretical weighting based on astrological tradition, not a data-driven fit. The multiplier was set before testing, not tuned to match results.
Beyond the primary H3 channel, Venus contacts across higher harmonics (H5 through H10) add a bonus score. For each image, the algorithm calculates the proximity of transit ASC, MC, and PoF to the querent's natal Venus in harmonics 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. The three strongest Venus contacts across all these harmonics are summed to produce the Venus bonus.
This captures multi-harmonic breadth. An image where Venus is contacted through H5 (creative), H7 (mystical), AND H9 (spiritual completion) shows a richer resonance pattern than one contacted through a single harmonic, even if that single contact is very tight.
The final score for each image is: H3 score + Venus bonus.
Images shot within 2 minutes of each other are treated as effectively the same moment. After scoring, if two images in the top 3 were captured less than 2 minutes apart, the lower-ranked duplicate is replaced by the next highest-scoring image outside that time window.
This prevents the Oracle from returning two nearly identical photographs taken seconds apart. The 2-minute threshold was tested at 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10 minutes. At 2 minutes, known duplicate pairs (8 seconds apart) are eliminated while confirmed distinct images (3:48 apart) are preserved.
The confidence score measures the spread between the top-ranked and third-ranked image. A high spread means the algorithm strongly prefers specific images for this querent. A low spread means the top images scored similarly, and small changes could shuffle the ranking.
When confidence is low (the top 3 are a flat cluster), the algorithm expands its search to find images with stronger differentiation, ensuring the Oracle's picks feel distinct rather than arbitrary.
Sort all 197 images by final score (H3 + Venus bonus) descending, apply deduplication, and select the top 3. These are the Oracle's prediction: "These three prints were made for your sky."
The Ascendant at Sausalito at 2:24 PM on September 2, 2007 was at 4.9 degrees Sagittarius. The H3 trine lands at 124.9 degrees (4.9 Leo) and 244.9 degrees (4.9 Sagittarius).
If your natal Venus is at 18.4 degrees Aries, the nearest H3 contact to 18.4 Aries from 4.9 Sagittarius is 18.4 - 4.9 = 13.5 degrees from exact trine. Not close.
But the PoF at 2:24 PM was at 137.7 degrees (17.7 Leo). The H3 trine from 137.7 to 18.4 Aries: 137.7 - 18.4 = 119.3, and 120 - 119.3 = 0.7 degrees. Very close. But wait: by 2:45 PM the PoF has moved to 138.5, making the trine 0.1 degrees. Almost exact.
Someone else, born with natal Venus at 5.5 degrees Pisces, would find THEIR PoF trine peaking at a completely different time, selecting completely different images.
The fast-movers sweep through 360 degrees, hitting each querent's natal points at different moments. Different birth charts light up different minutes of the day. Different minutes mean different photographs.
Six test querents with birth charts spanning 1950 to 2000, covering Gemini, Capricorn, Pisces, Sagittarius, Scorpio, and Aries Sun signs:
• 6 out of 6 unique #1 images. No two querents share a top pick.
• 6 out of 6 unique top-3 sets. No two querents share ANY image in their top 3.
• Zero overlap across all 15 possible querent pairs.
• 25x spread between highest and lowest Resonance Index scores.
• Validation: The photographer confirmed that his personal favorite image from the archive (L_000453.jpg) was ranked #1 or #2 by the algorithm.
The Oracle matches birth charts to timestamps. It does not see the content of the photographs. It cannot know that the woman in image #38 is a cultural icon, or that the two men in image #52 are old friends. It predicts which MOMENT resonated with your chart, and whatever was in front of the camera at that moment is what you get.
Within a narrow time window (images shot minutes apart), the Oracle may rank several images similarly. The feedback loop (thumbs up/down) provides the data to refine the weighting over time.
Every Oracle reading is recorded. Every thumbs-up and thumbs-down is tabulated. The results are published publicly in real time.
• Total readings given
• Images confirmed as favorites (thumbs up on any of the 3)
• Accuracy rate: Percentage of readings where at least one of the 3 predicted images was confirmed
• Most-confirmed images (which images get the most thumbs-up across all querents)
• Gallery distribution (do certain galleries resonate more than others)
• Best H3 contacts (which natal planet connections produce the most confirmations)
The Oracle is not asking you to believe. It is asking you to test. The board tells the world whether the math works.
• Ephemeris: Swiss Ephemeris via pyswisseph
• House system: Placidus
• Locations: Per-gallery (Speedway Meadows SF 37.7692/-122.4839, Sausalito waterfront 37.8664/-122.4995, Record Plant 37.8636/-122.4964)
• Proximity function: Gaussian (continuous, never zero)
• H3 orb: 2.0 degrees
• Scoring: Sum of top 5 tightest H3 contacts + Venus multi-harmonic bonus (top 3 across H5-H10)
• Venus weight: 2.0x on H3 contacts involving natal Venus
• Adjacent-frame dedup: 2-minute minimum time separation between picks
• Transit factors: ASC, MC, Part of Fortune, Moon
• Natal targets: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, ASC, MC
• Image timestamps: EXIF DateTimeOriginal from R2, timezone-corrected to PDT
• Part of Fortune formula: ASC + Moon - Sun (day formula)
• 197 photographs across 4 galleries (Summer of Love 102, NRPS 25, Marshall Tucker 44, Record Plant 26)
• All EXIF verified: DateTimeOriginal, Artist, Copyright present on every image
• Camera timezone corrections: Leica M8 on CDT (UTC-5), subtract 2h for PDT. Leaf Aptus on CET (UTC+1), subtract 8h for PDT.
• Corrected time span: September 2, 2007 11:42 AM to September 3, 2007 8:30 PM PDT
• Lots of Trippy Hippie Thinkin' Time to come up with this one!