⚸ Free Black Moon Lilith Calculator: Seven Lilith Points

Umbriel shows seven Lilith points on your birth chart, the far point of the Moon’s orbit measured every honest way, with houses, retrograde marks and aspects.

Black Moon Lilith is not a body. It is the far point of the Moon’s orbit, the place where the Moon is as far from the Earth as it gets, and there is more than one honest way to measure it. That is why a chart from one program can put Lilith in a different sign from a chart from another, and neither is wrong. Umbriel shows the ways astrology measures it, plus the near points they are measured against.

The far point comes in three versions. Lilith (Mean) is the smoothed, average apogee, the one most software means by “Lilith”: it moves evenly and never turns retrograde. Lilith (True) is the apogee of the orbit the Moon is on right now, so it wanders either side of the mean by up to about 30° and does turn retrograde. Lilith (Natural) is a smoothed version of the True one, keeping its character without its sharpest swings.

The near point is the opposite end. Priapus is the near point measured the same smoothed way, and Selena (True) is the perigee of the same instantaneous orbit as Lilith (True), sitting exactly opposite it. Two more points are hypothetical: Selena (White Moon), a second moon of obscure origin used mainly in Russian astrology that circles once every seven years and never turns retrograde, and Waldemath, from the dark second moon of the Earth announced in 1898. There is no such moon, but the orbit published for it is still calculated, and this is where it would put him.

Each point is given with its sign, degree, house and retrograde mark, and with the plain note above, so you can tell which is which. Aspects are listed in three tables, against your planets, your chart points and each other. With seven points the full grid is short enough to read, so it opens with every aspect, and one tap narrows it to conjunctions.

One practical caution: if you have read your Lilith somewhere and it does not match, check which version it used. The Mean and the True can be a sign apart, and that is the method, not an error. Which one you give weight to is your choice, and Umbriel shows them side by side so you can see the difference for yourself.

The Mean point is the Moon’s average apogee, a smooth curve computed from the lunar theory. The True point is the apogee of the orbit the Moon is on at that instant, so it wobbles either side of the mean and turns retrograde. The Natural point is a smoothed version of the True one, Priapus is the near point measured the same smoothed way, and Selena (True) is the perigee of the same instantaneous orbit as Lilith (True), exactly opposite it. The White Moon and Waldemath are hypothetical bodies on published orbits, calculated as their authors described them. All seven are computed on your device for your date, and daily motion is measured over half a day so the retrograde mark is real rather than assumed.