About Primbon Jawa

Primbon Jawa

According to Javanese traditions, most Indonesians will consult a Javanese Primbon expert before undertaking important decisions in their life. Javanese Primbon, or Javanese Horoscope, originates from ancient philosophy based on dates calculations from 35 star orbits: thus days, months and years are equated to distinct values. The present-day Primbon compilation is based on the work of ten books written over the years by Indonesian astrologists.

Like most scientific fields, horoscopes must be taken for what it is: a pleasant journey into the unknown. So please don't take its bad side too seriously - only the good one counts.

The factors involved in the calculation of Primbon are:

* The Pranata Mangsa is the condition of the entire world and of humans born
* The Pawukon Weton, which is the day you were born
* The Pasaran or Javanese name for each day of the week and finally
* The Wuku Palintangan is the representation of the constellation influencing the zodiaks in their orbits

There are 30 Wukus and 35 Wetons.

In Bahasa Indonesia the weekday names are Minggu/Sunday, Senin/Monday, Selasa/Tuesday, Rabu/Wednesday, Kamis/Thursday, Jumat/Friday and Sabtu/Saturday.

Hari Pasaran

The five Javanese Pasaran days are Kliwon, Legi, Paing, Pon and Wage. From this we can find good and bad days before any undertaking on a day-to-day basis.

The magic number is calculated from the HARI which comes from the conventional seven-day week and from the PASARAN, taken from the five-day Javanese week. The combination of these two number-related days is called the NEPTU. A Neptu example is Minggu Legi: Sunday Legi.

Primbon can guide you in making career-related decisions, in finding the right life companion and also, for instance, help you determining when you should start building a house. The calculations take leap years into account. Leap years are years that can be divided by 4 and 400 except for years divisibled by 100.

When the Neptu refers to one's birthday, we call it the WETON.

There are two different methods used in calculating the Neptu. The first one is called Neptu Jangkep and involves more complicated calculations in determining the good and bad days for undertaking major life changes.

The calculations are based on four elements:

* Masehi: Solar day in a seven-day week
* The Pasaran: the Javanese five-day week
* The Sasi: the Javanese month and
* The Tahun: the Javanese year

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