Written after the game began: a commentary on the chart, not a prediction of record.
Regiomontanus houses, cast for the realistic actual kickoff: Sunday 18 October 2026, 1:27 PM PDT (20:27 UTC), Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas (36.09°N, 115.18°W). Day chart, with the Sun in the 9th. Ascendant 20°21' Capricorn, so Saturn is Lord 1. Descendant 20°21' Cancer, so the Moon is Lord 7. The favourite-first convention is followed: the Buffalo Bills, the favourite, hold the 1st house, and the Las Vegas Raiders hold the 7th. The Raiders are the home side, so home-first would reverse the houses. Several testimonies below turn on that choice, and the reception turns on it entirely. Lilly's dignity table, with Ptolemaic terms and Chaldean faces. Fortune is taken by the day formula, which is the one that applies in a day chart.
| Position | House | Condition | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asc / Dsc | 20°21' Capricorn / Cancer | Lord 1 = Saturn (Bills), Lord 7 = Moon (Raiders) | |
| MC / IC | 11°29' Scorpio / Taurus | Lord 10 = Mars (Bills' success), Lord 4 = Venus (Raiders' success) | |
| Saturn | 10°12' Aries | 3 (strictly 2) | fall, peregrine (−9); retrograde; house flips within ten minutes |
| Moon | 27°25' Capricorn | 1 | detriment, peregrine (−10); void of course; 7.06° past the Ascendant; leaves the sign within 0.2 day |
| Mars | 11°45' Leo | 7 | peregrine (−5); direct; square MC and IC within 0.26°; trine Saturn, separating |
| Venus | 3°53' Scorpio | 9 | detriment, peregrine (−10); retrograde; combust |
| Fortune | 22°17' Aries | 3 | day formula; no aspect or reception to a significator |
| Jupiter | 22°32' Leo | 7 | term (+2); no role as significator; house flips within ten minutes |
For Buffalo Bills
Reception. The Moon, Lord 7, sits in Capricorn, the domicile of Saturn, Lord 1. The Raiders' significator is in the Bills' power, and nothing is returned, so the reception is one-way. This is the strongest testimony in the chart. It depends wholly on the favourite-first assignment: under home-first the same reception would favour the Raiders.
Essential dignity. The two significators are nearly level: Saturn at −9 (fall, peregrine), the Moon at −10 (detriment, peregrine). That gives the Bills a point and nothing more. The houses of success separate more clearly. Mars, Lord 10, is peregrine at −5. Venus, Lord 4, is in detriment at −10.
Combustion and motion of Lord 4. Venus, the Raiders' success, is combust, retrograde and in detriment, applying to the Sun in the 9th, a cadent house. It is as badly placed as a planet can be and still stand in the chart. The Bills' success significator is direct and uncombust.
Moon void of course. The Moon's last aspect was a square to the Sun, 4.2 hours before the chart. Its only applying aspect, a square to Venus, falls out of sign and cannot perfect before the Moon leaves Capricorn. The Raiders' significator is void, carries no light, and is flagged slow. Its angularity does not help: it stands 7.06° past the Ascendant, beyond the 5° orb of strength, and in the Bills' house.
For Las Vegas Raiders
Saturn's condition. Lord 1 is in fall, peregrine and retrograde, and not in an angle. By the 5° rule it counts in the 3rd, a cadent house. Strictly it is in the 2nd, and the sweep shows it changing house within ten minutes, so the placement itself is unreliable. The Bills' own significator is as weak as the Raiders'.
Mars in the 7th. Mars, the Bills' success, sits in the Raiders' house. It is peregrine and squares the MC and IC within 0.26°. The 10th is afflicted by its own lord. The same square falls on the IC, the Raiders' house of success, so the affliction cuts both ways and gives the Raiders little. The trine from Mars to Saturn is separating, so any help it offered has already passed.
Jupiter. Jupiter, the only dignified planet in the chart (term, +2), stands in the 7th. It is not a significator, and the sweep shows its house changing between the 8th and 7th within ten minutes. It carries no weight.
Judgment. The chart leans to the Buffalo Bills. The one-way reception, the healthier success significator and the Raiders' void Moon and combust Venus outweigh Saturn's weakness and Mars's square to the meridian. The lean rests on the favourite-first assignment, and under home-first the reception would turn to the Raiders.
Written in the horary tradition; this read was generated by a language model from the chart's positions and is not betting advice.