History & development
Hellenistic astrology is represented by surviving Greek-language authors including Ptolemy and Vettius Valens. Their disagreements matter: a modern reconstruction should identify its textual basis. Current traditional revival practice often emphasizes seven visible planets, sect, sign rulers, lots and time-lord techniques.
Mythology & symbolic world
Fortune and Spirit express different relationships among the Sun, Moon and Ascendant. They are calculated points, not additional celestial bodies. Ancient explanations could treat planets as signs of events or as causes, rather than sharing one philosophy.
Provenance: where the rules come from
Distinguish the historical author, the translator's choices and a contemporary teacher's reconstruction. Whole-sign places and quadrant angularity can serve different functions in a reading.
How it is calculated
Choices that change the result: No complete dignity, bound-ruler, time-lord or judgement engine.
Inspect your calculated data →Uses & use cases
- Read historical chart examples with their original terminology.
- Explore how sect and rulership organize a chart beyond isolated sign descriptions.
Interpretation methods
Condition before synthesis
Establish day or night, identify the relevant house and its ruler, then inspect that ruler's condition and connections before offering a topic-based reading.
Calculate Fortune using both the sect-reversing and Ptolemaic conventions to show where a textual decision changes a night chart.
Explore these reading approaches
Concepts in this tradition
Follow a term for its definition, word origin, evidence and connected ideas.
Disagreements & limits
- Traditional does not mean every ancient author agreed.
- This engine's lots and sect do not constitute complete dignity, bounds or judgement tables.
Sources & evidence
Practitioner sources describe their own systems. Historical and astronomical sources support different kinds of claims. Reading exercises are editorial teaching examples.
- Annual Profections, Lots, and Zodiacal Releasing ↗original practitioner exposition of historical techniques
- Finding Fortuna ↗practitioner historical argument with textual references