The moment of no shadow
Solar true noon is never the clock's twelve. An essay on the meridian hour, the equation of time, and what it means to read a chart at the instant the gnomon's shadow disappears.
— Ekaterina Volkova
§ chapter v · the library
Essays onthe method.
Editorial writing from the True Noon almanack — on astronomy, numerology, the history of the printed horoscope.
Essays on astronomy, numerology, and the history of the printed horoscope — from the almanack shelf. New entries monthly, at the meridian hour.
§ featured · vol. i
How horoscopes came to be set in type
From Regiomontanus's Ephemerides (1474) to R. H. Naylor's Sunday Express column of 1930 — the unbroken typographic lineage between the astronomer's table and the tabloid column.
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Four lenses, one instrument
Why four ancient systems hold each other accountable — and why the synthesis is stronger than any one reading alone. A polemic against astrology as a single voice.
— E. V. & staff
The author, not the algorithm
On writing horoscopes as editorial, not as content. A plea for voice. Why an almanack that respects its reader is a rarer artefact than it should be.
— Ekaterina Volkova
Quintessentia · the fifth element
Alchemy named it. Philosophy abandoned it. We have rebuilt it — and this time it is made of language. On the synthesising intelligence that reads four charts as one.
— Studio Meridian
On the almanack shelf
Poor Richard, Old Farmer, Zadkiel, Raphael — four almanacks that teach us how to print a year. A short history of the domestic forecast, before it was a column.
— Ekaterina Volkova
Why the mark is a key
The logo of True Noon — a library bit-key with a quatrefoil bow and a bilateral pyramid of teeth — is an argument. A short note on the decisions behind the mark.
— Studio Meridian
The equation of time
Across the year, the sun's crossing of the meridian drifts by up to ±16 minutes from the clock. An accessible explanation of the elliptical orbit and axial tilt that make true noon a moving target.
— Ekaterina Volkova