Who
Add up to six people with their birth dates, like registering Miis in the channel.
Your list is saved on this device and the fortunes update whenever you come back.
When
Edition
The channel chose its planetary table from the console's country and used UTC+2 for any country it doesn't list. The Korean and Japanese builds always use UTC+9.
How it works, and how it compares with real astrology
- The channel stores where seven bodies stood on every day from 1881 to 2036, in whole degrees. Those are real positions.
- For each topic it adds a planet from your birth date (Venus for love, Saturn for work, Mercury for study, the Moon for communications, Jupiter for money) to the Moon of the day, giving a position from 1 to 360 around the zodiac.
- That position selects a fixed score and one of 360 hand-written messages for the topic. A hash of the date then softens weak scores on most days and boosts strong totals on some.
- The five scores add up to the day's total. Lucky colours, hints and compatibility use the same positions.
Real astrology compares the angles between planets and uses birth time and place. This channel only needs a date, and its score table shows no aspect pattern at all: it is an authored lookup, not geometry. The full write-up, with every table, is in the documentation gist; the code is in today-fortune.