Western Extras

What it includes

A compact panel of seven sensitive points and small bodies that modern Western astrologers use but are not standard in Vedic practice:

Body	What it represents (briefly)
Chiron	The wounded healer — the irreducible wound and its gift
Black Moon Lilith (mean)	The smoothed lunar apogee — the wild / unsubmitted feminine
Black Moon Lilith (true)	The osculating lunar apogee — same theme, day-precise
Part of Fortune	The body / livelihood / circumstance Lot
Vertex	The "fated encounter" point on the eastern Prime Vertical
Ceres	Nurture, food, attachment loss, motherhood
Pallas	Pattern-recognition, strategic intelligence, craft
Juno	Marriage / partnership covenant
Vesta	The hearth, devotion, focused attention

All longitudes are tropical (Western convention). The view is a clean longitude/sign/degree table; no chart wheel is rendered for these.

How to find it

Features menu → ♆ Western Extras.

How to read each

Chiron

Chiron's natal sign and house point to the wound that won't fully heal but yields healing wisdom when you turn toward it. Chiron in the 4th: family-of-origin wounds become the family-healer gift. Chiron in the 7th: relationship wounds become relational- mediator capacity.

Discovered in 1977 by astronomer Charles Kowal and immediately adopted by astrologers; orbit between Saturn and Uranus (31-50 years).

Black Moon Lilith

The mean position smoothes lunar wobbles; the true (osculating) position is more precise but moves erratically. Most astrologers use the mean.

Lilith represents what is unsubmitted, feral, refused in the psyche — particularly (but not only) in feminine experience. Her sign and house mark the area where you don't bend to convention.

Part of Fortune

The Hellenistic Lot of Fortune. Sect-correct formulas:

Diurnal: Asc + Moon − Sun
Nocturnal: Asc + Sun − Moon

Where Fortune sits is read as the area where embodied luck / livelihood / health-of-circumstance plays out. Transits to Fortune trigger material-fortune events.

Vertex

The crossing-point of the ecliptic with the Prime Vertical (a secondary great circle through the east-west horizon and the zenith). Modern Western practice reads it as the "fated encounter" point — when transits cross it or when synastry has a planet conjunct another's Vertex, life-changing meetings occur.

Ceres / Pallas / Juno / Vesta

The four largest asteroids (Ceres has been re-classified as a dwarf planet but is still the largest body in the asteroid belt).

Ceres (Demeter) — nurture, food, the cycle of attachment and loss
Pallas (Athena) — strategic intelligence, pattern, craft, the capacity for impersonal reasoning
Juno (Hera) — marriage, the covenant of partnership, jealousy
Vesta (Hestia) — focused devotion, sacred fire, the priestess archetype

Each one's sign and house add a layer of nuance to the chart's expression. Asteroid astrology is a niche but established practice (Demetra George, Asteroid Goddesses).

Limitations

All positions are computed in the tropical zodiac, regardless of your natal-chart ayanamsha setting. This is the convention Western astrologers use. If you want sidereal positions, subtract the ayanamsha for that date.
We don't render a chart wheel for these — they're shown as a longitude table. For a full Western wheel including these points, use the existing Western Aspectarian feature.
Asteroid ephemeris precision: KarmaWheel uses the Swiss Ephemeris built-in tables, which are accurate to within seconds-of-arc for the four major asteroids over the last few centuries.

Sources

Demetra George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986, expanded 2003)
Melanie Reinhart, Chiron and the Healing Journey (1989)
Robert Hand, Horoscope Symbols — for Vertex
Demetra George & Douglas Bloch, Astrology for Yourself — for Lilith