five pillars of fate: fortune and destiny in astrology

8/14/2019 Five Pillars of Fate: Fortune and Destiny in Astrology

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must always be used in conjunction. By observing the intersection of these two pillars we can get a very clear picture of why Judy Garland'sactions in relation to her career were led by self destruction and Mae West's by self preservation.

How long can fortune hold?

Many a millionaire made by the lottery have also lost their fortunes and returned to or worsened their previous situation. Bonatti describedThe Place of Basis as "the fiduciae ascendantae," meaning roughly "the faith in or confidence of the ascendant."By naming it so, it begs theimportant question: How much faith can one have in fortune? Any gambler will tell you, "None." How solid is the (emotional, physical or financial) vehicle? Does anything threaten the well-being of the Vehicle from within or without? On what BASIS shall the native choose apath of action to success? The Place of Basis may be illusive, establishing whether or not the native can hold up under the full weight of his fate.

In the chart of Elizabeth II, the lot of Basis is in Gemini in the 6th place of servants and servitude. The ruler, Mercury is in the 4th house of ancestral bearing. Her ancestral heritage being the Basis of her position in life makes Elizabeth II a servant to the Crown and to her ancestral obligation. (see p. 10)

Mae West had a long, circuitous journey to "American Icon" status. She experienced equivocal success as a Vaudevillian of the "low andraunchy" type and in Broadway during the 1910s. In the '20s West's fortune started changing for the better shortly after she began writingand starring in her own material, which led to scandal, notoriety and fame on the Broadway stage. (chart on p. 8)

The Lot of Basis occupies the sign of Virgo in the 5th place of "Good Fortune" with Mercury present. Mercury rules the tongue andMercury is with Saturn a cold, dry planet in Virgo a cold dry sign, indicative of her dry, understated delivery and deliberate languor in her movement, in contrast to the other players.

Paulus Alexandrinas says of the Place of Basis, "It is like Breath. It is a contributing cause to one's ALL, it has governance over the Entirety."

Note that Paulus Alexandrinus uses the word "governance." Using this logic it becomes clear that Basis contributes to and governs all thatmotivates decision,speech and action.

The Five Places of Destiny: 2. Place of EXALTATIONThe exaltation indicates the level at which the native operates in society. This place and the position of its ruler are the primary indicatorsof fame and exalted status in the chart. When auspiciously placed it indicates an important life, an historic figure or a household name.

The effectiveness of the place of Exaltation relies on the position of its ruler. The place of Exaltation can describe the area of life that willexalt the native, but the ruler of the Exaltation must be well placed to reap the full benefits of notability and high status. If the ruler is notwell positioned, the full potency indicated by the place of Exaltation is prevented.

Since it is used specifically to delineate status, the Exaltation will not be used as extensively as the other 4 pillars within this system. Whenthe ruler of the exaltation is placed in such a way to indicate prominence, then the qualities and signs of that planet apply and can beincorporated into the delineation of the chart, When the ruler does not indicate prominence, the place of exaltation and any planets on itwill indicate the area of life that exalts the native as per the status determined by the ruler.

The Place of Exaltation is also an indicator of the native's inherent talents.

The Five Places of Destiny: 3. Place of ACQUISITIONThis place, the 11th whole sign from the lot of Fortune, represents financial and material acquisition. It indicates what we gain through our actions and the measure of it. Planets in this place can indicate the nature of the substance acquired. Thus, an exalted Venus in the placeof acquisition could indicate fine jewels, a world class art collection and the most expensive haute-couture, Saturn in Capricorn couldrepresent vast land-holdings, Mercury in Virgo, rare and expensive documents and books. Planets in the Acquisition can also indicate howwe acquire our booty: Mars through robbery or sports, Saturn through government, farming or the corporate culture, Jupiter through lawor by nature of one's spiritual gifts, such as indian gurus who are supported by their disciples.

In Vedic Astrology, the 11th house has been the indicator of gain for the last three millennia, showing an important linkage of housemeaning between the Vedic Tradition and the early Hellenistic tradition. The 11th house is called Upachaya (Sanskrit -meaning "growing").Upachaya houses grow and improve with time.

The natal 11th has historically been considered one of the most fortunate houses of the chart. Some in the Hellenistic era even consideredit better than the tenth house, as planets inhabiting this pinnacle represented by the midheaven can only progress in one direction viadiurnal motion: Down.The Vedic tradition makes a distinction between the 2nd house, representing our "moveable assets" and belongings, or that which we own(excepting land or homes, which are immoveable assets). The 11th house represents "how we gain what we have and how much of it willbe gained."

The place of Acquisition is specifically related to this concept of gain whereas the radical 11th is called "Good Spirit", confirming thehighly positive nature of this house. Valens makes a very specific distinction between the "accumulating pile of goods" represented by the


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Acquisition and "the spirit of beneficial patronage" that is represented by the "Good Spirit". Of course, the role played by a benevolentpatron or "guardian angel" can be a contributing factor to personal and material gain.

Just think of Cinderella and her Fairy GodMother.

The Five Places of Destiny: 4. LOT of FORTUNEThe Lot of Fortune is the gateway to this system of delineation. Fortune operates as an ascendant, becoming the "new east" and providingan invisible second chart, placed upon the first, having all the houses related to it, as if it were a new chart. All of the angular, succedentand cadent houses from the Lot of Fortune have the same potency and meaning as their radical counterparts.

From Valens: "In another manner, when you have come to know the place allotted for Fortune, also consider the squares to it and theremaining figures to be, as it were, upon the genethlialogical pivot points. That is, the Lot itself will possess the power of the Horoskopos(Ascendant), that of life; the tenth zoidion(zodiac sign) from this, the power of the Midheaven, that of reputation; the 7th, the power of theDescendant; the 4th, of the subterraneous zoidion, and the remaining places will possess the power of the 12 regions. For some havemystically established the universal Horoskopos and its squares to be the cosmic pivot points, but the Lot and its squares to be thegenethlialogical pivot points."

Genethlialogy is defined by Nicholas Devore in his Encyclopedia of Astrology as "that department of Astrology which deals with the birth of individuals whereby one forms a judgment of the characteristics of a person from a map of the heavens cast for his given birth moment."

Valens clearly believed that delineation derived from the Lot of Fortune (as the ascendant) more relevant than the radical ascendant tojudge the characteristics of a person. Fortune, like the Horoskopos (ascendant), represents our physical body, health and inclination. Italso points to the kind of work we do.

The Five Places of Destiny: 5. LOT of SPIRITSpirit is the animating and directive force behind existence. If the Lot of Fortune, by virtue of its correspondence with the ascendant, can beused to represent the body, then the Lot of Spirit would represent the directive and animating force inhabiting that body. Since Fortunealso connotes unforeseen accidents (events) that affect our well-being, whether for ill or good, then Spirit can be seen as the actor of thecosmic drama who must adjust to the circumstances thrown at him by the fates.

The Lot of Spirit and its ruler represents the vitality and passion (or lack thereof) with which the native acts upon the world.

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LOTS & PLACES SIGN RULER

Lot of Fortune

M Lot of Spirit

& Place of Basis

) Place of Acquisition

, Place of Exaltation

Place of previousnew or full moon


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UAC Lecture: Antoine Garth

This line of thinking originates from Robert Schmidts article, Facets of Fate , which along withthe work by Vettius Valens, informs my work.

I came to astrology in 1992, having held a long interest in oracles. I have been reading tarotsince 1989, and have studied with an author of tarot books (Eileen Connoly).

In 1996 out of a conversation with a fellow astrologer also fascinated by classical astrology, Icame to discover the work of second century astrologer Vettius Valens, entitled The Anthology.

Ive always been attracted to Vedic astrology, where you are introduced to whole sign systems.This second century signs-based view has sharpened my own: It was with the whole-sign systemthat some unusual hidden patterns emerged, and I discovered that these concepts really worked,having applied them to many charts. This forgotten style of astrology produced a far morevisceral connection between the symbol and the narrative of every client: It is written.

The second century world view of the ancient Greek practitioner was based upon the concept offate. In this study, we hone the tools used at that time to find the indicators of fate andfortune. The ancient astrologer was interested in gleaning out a fate, a path upon which apersons life narrative would unfold. He was paid by kings to discover what had the three Moiraehad allotted to their little prince, therefore making this practice balance on a concept ofallotment .

We also deal with the Five Pillars, locations or places that have great importance in discussingfate and fortune. Armed with the Lots and Pillars of the ancients we also enter a challengingshift in the view of houses, one which places even our precious own charts into a jeopardy untilwe locate the fate lines of our own narrative and there discover: It is written.

CAN WE USE THIS TECHNIQUE TO FIND FAME?Modern astrological practice has been based complex techniques but with Valens we find instead asimpler, perhaps more rude (for their dramatic departure from complexity) tools or techniquesthat do reveal such narratives as if they were written.

There an actual and palpable connect when seeking a young womans question, When will I marry?we can make a postulate or draw a relationship, even arrive at certain timing of such a matterin her life; and it can be given quickly. So much so, that we can take it to the bank and awedding date can be set far into the future where the bride finally appears in the chart. We cangive hope to our clients.

Early astrologers were powerful and made history. They had the status ofseconds to powerful people. What was their secret? The later astrologers,

Lilly, Al Kindi, Nostradamus? *Dropped the infallible aphorisms of earliertimes, forgetting how to find fate and fortune in a persons chart. Thank thegods But Vettius Valens wrote it down.. The first and second centuryastrologers had the secret of the fates, how to find fortune, and how tounderstand lesser fortune and even the evil mess we make of life sometimes.Vettius Valens, like others of his era, confidently predicted fame, fortune andriches. Now, a modern astrologer may attempt and succeed using his technique.Indeed, It is written.

THE FATES: The Three MoiraeHellenistic astrology is ruled by a concept of fate, Moira is the term for thegoddess that was originally one goddess of fate and which later became thethree Moirae, the three fates. We can define fate as a cosmic principle ofbinding apportionment.

Moira and fate are the cosmic principles of binding apportionment.

Within the word apportionment theres portion, and binding is the concept of

bound, or committed by, as you are bound to it: it is something you have tocarry with you, a portion you must carry, like a contractual agreement thatcarry in a particular amount. There seemed to be two types of charts: charts that have a destinyand charts that pursue a fortune. The presidents chart has a destiny, his chart is not that ofa fortune pursuer.

You and I pursue fortunes. We all have a destiny as well, but destiny is not what defines ourlives. Certainly in the public realm, or over large amounts of people. I dont know about therest of you, but certainly not me. Thats not what defines our lives, whereas this is one ofthose charts that does that. And its maybe to our detriment or not, but its been given. Whoare we to judge who gets to be rich or not? Obviously something else is deciding who gets what.The three Moirae are in charge of who gets the allotments. Because its not always people whodeserve to be allotted, that are getting it. And thats something that, if weve lived long


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As a waiter, I have been around lots of wealthy people. In another similar experience I workedin a gym. This particular gym was upscale, like a $1200 monthly membership--high class. All themembers received an evaluation and were set up with a special trainer. It was theirquestionnaire that was memorable. One of the questions was: How would you rate your supportsystem? Would you say you have a strong support system?

I thought for myself, Absolutely yes, Ive got a fantastic support system. I couldnt evenbelieve that it was a question. And then I asked the resident expert, Does anyone ever say,No?

She responded by explaining that a majority of the people declared for themselves a sorrysupport system.

So then followed the question again: Who is fortunate?

Was it me, the poor guy working for eleven dollars an hour at the front desk, handing outtowels, being available at these peoples disposal, then going home to a fabulous supportsystem? Or, was it the really wealthy people who may use their fortune at their whim anddisposal but for whom, they themselves feel no fortune in the way that I do?

Im clearly the more fortunate. They seem more fortunate than I amin the money way, but I am more fortunate than they in the goodwill towards (or from) men department of life. That was aninstructive moment.

It can be instructive for us therefore to partition life intoregions of fortune: good health is yet another type of fortune.

I lived in Thailand for several years where one of my best friendswas a woman whose husband had died of cancer. They were wealthy,lived well in Los Angeles, but he had contracted cancer, suffereda long and difficult battle, moved to Thailand so that their moneycould stretch further. Six years later she was a widow with nothing. She had no money. She had avery fortunate, loving, wonderful marriage and then all of a sudden, she was left with nothing.So, here we have these twists of fate, the turns of the Wheel of Fortune. You know from all suchstories how the wheel of fortune can turn on us: It turns and bring us harvest, it turns againand abandons us to deserted barrenness. This is the crucial concept, with this technique we canpick apart some of these FATES, the story lines which are governed by the Moirae. With theexamination of the fates from the deterministic point of view, we can readily say, Oh yes, herewe can see that the person is going to be very famous but have no money. As astrologers we canpoint to the destiny to say This person is going to have lots and lots of money but never getahead.

So, what is good fortune? Who is a person that is fortunate, and can astrology predict it? Theanswer: Yes, it can .

Ive been scratching out this thing a little bit at a time and have never really become involvedwith any of the Hellenistic groups conferring to the teacher Robert Schmidt the leader andtrail-blazer in this area of thought. My work has resulted from isolation, and Ive come intothis material from study alone, motivated by my fascination for the discovery of how thesethings work.

THE CHART ITSELFAs I was reading a Vedic astrology book, I realized for the first time that there were threeVedic astrology chart types. I knew about the North and South Indian chart types, theyre verydifferent from each other, but I didnt know there was such a thing as the East Indian chart.All this time, in the past eight or ten years Ive been using an East Indian chart withoutknowing it.

The East Indian chart looks like a tic-tac-toe board, with lines cut through the corners tocreate the twelve houses. With Vedic astrology, there are certain charts where the Ascendant

doesnt move, and there are certain charts where the Ascendant does move. Theres beendiscussions about whether Vedic astrology originated from the Greek, and in talking to a goodfriend who lives in India, I learned that there were Greeks who lived in India during theAlexandrian time period which of course would be right around the time that were talking about,the second century, and there was a way that these astrological traditions might blend.

Im not going to say that western astrology is the father of its Hindu counterpart, but I willsay that they were historically blended. The East Indian chart is one of those charts where thesigns dont change. And in the originating chart, a world chart, the Ascendant position is inthe sign of the Summer Solstice: Cancer. Cancer was also considered by the Greeks to be theworlds Ascendant (Mother Earth?). This is a small bit of understanding about the connectionbetween the Greeks and the Indians. Using an East Indian Chart we will be using whole signhouses.


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A MODERN ASTROLOGERS ANXIETYTheres all the anxiety that goes around with working with cusps and which cusps we use and whyI dont use that one, etc etc. You will never see a Western astrologer dissemble more quicklythan if you asked them to refer to whole signs in their practice. For reasons of habit, theyjust cant handle it. But we are taking the whole sign concept as our first underpinning. Itwill mean that our preferred and most wonderful angular planet may now be newly positioned inplaces of lesser strengths, cadent. Example: Lets say youve got this fabulous Venus in Piscesin the Eleventh House. However, we may have an Aries rising chart. By respecting the whole signconcept, this would mean your Venus in Pisces is actually in the Twelfth place.

Ive seen a lot of Internet discussion posts and questions where people have said, you know, Imworking with this whole sign thing and I really cant see how it applies to me. And its becausetheyre missing this ingredient.

We must accept a certain tough love on two points:1) this is a deterministic system: (deal with it).2) Were using whole sign charts: (again, deal with it).

OUR LOT IN LIFEThese calculated degrees are not Arabic parts, The Greeks called all the degrees lots, notparts. They were notches in the circle, but were named parts during the Middle Ages when theArabs and the Persians had the helm of astrology. These astrologers mathematicized astrology,systematized it, and changed these around. So technically a part, is derived as a part of thispart.*

The Greeks didnt call them parts, deriving as they were from imaginary or calculated notches(on the circle) from taking the distance between two planets or two points, two existing placeson the wheel, but called them lots. As we are adopting the values and methods of the secondcentury for the purposes of this discussion, we too shall call them lots.

What is Fate? Fate is the lot to which you are bound. We commonly hear, Its my lot in life.or,

You know how it is, its just my lot in life to be a mother. or,

My lot in life is to wash dishes. Many variations arise with a sigh for ones Lot in Life.But, this is an actual derivative from Astrology.

What is a lot? The noun form of lot holds that a lot is space that can contain something. Putit over in this empty lot. The lot is empty? Not for long. It will hold something soon. Letslook at these positions as lots, not as parts.* These are not mere mathematical summations, butsensitive places that may have an empty lot that reveals that container which will carry or holdsomething.

THE FIVE INSTRUMENTS of FATE: The LOTSAstrologers have long known about the Part of Fortune. However, somemay or may not be aware that the Part of Fortune, historically, wasalways calculated in reverse for night time births. This is commonlyknown to those who practice Horary.

Thats our first Lot: the Fortune. The second is the Lot of Spirit.The third lot is not technically a lot.* This one might really be apart, because it is created by counting and is called Acquisition.

The fourth has a similar background, called Exaltation. The fifthis called the Lot of Basis and I actually call it The Basis.There is a sixth one we can use, but infrequently. Actually if weever explore the subject of death and on finding death in a chart, we would use it more: thatsixth Lot is the location of the previous new or full moon (previous to the chart or birth).

Those are our instruments, and these Lots are going to tell us how the story of life works out,

they are going to excavate this concept of Fate and Fortune. Theyre going to throw the light onit, and define for us the nature of Fortune.

To calculate the Part of Fortune we must proceed from the planet that were dealing with to theother planet that were dealing with and figure out their differences in degrees.

In Napoleons chart theres a thirteen-degree Leo sun and the Moon at twenty nine degreeCapricorn. To find the Lot of Fortune in this chart, we would go from The Sun to the moon byday, that means we would begin a formula from the 13 th degree of Leo and count to the twentyninth degree in Capricorn, a number that would take us a hundred and fifty degrees plus six.Then we would add that amount of a hundred and fifty-six degrees to the Ascendant. Well do thecorrect chart. From eight degrees of Scorpio, we would go 150 degrees from that which is 8degrees of Aries and then six which would bring us to Aries fourteenth degree.


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So that is the Part of Fortune in this mans chart. Napoleons is a good chart for the exampleswe want to use. By night time you would go from the moon to The Sun.

Napoleons chart is a day chart, but in this particular*** case were going to pretend its not.By nighttime it would be from the moon to The Sun. The Part of Spirit is taken in the oppositefashion compared to the Part of Fortune. From the moon to The Sun, and by night time, from The

Sun to the moon. So, the exact opposite from the Partof Fortune. Part of Fortune is from The Sun to themoon by day and from the moon to The Sun by night.Part of Spirit is moon to The Sun by day and sun tothe moon by night. So if we want to find the Part ofSpirit in Napoleons chart here, if he were anighttime chart. Here, Maywest, a nighttime chart.Weve got The Sun at 26 degrees of Leo and the moonat 2 degrees of Cancer. Were looking for the Spirit,its a night time chart, so were going to go fromThe Sun to the moon. Which takes us backwards 30 plusanother 23, we do the same thing from 20 degreeTaurus, which takes us back 30, which is Aries, andanother three, which sums up to be 20 degrees ofAries. *no thats not right. Theres got to besomething missing, because if you are on a list, oryouve dealt with the Part of Fortune yourself, you

think, Okay so theres this Part of Fortune thing, but its never really shown up in my life. Icant really detect why, or how it really works.Thats because theres a piece missing. And the piece thats missing is what Valens teaches inhis manuscript*(we must give credit to author/publisher).

In another manner, if you have come to know the place allotted for fortune, also consider thesquares to it, and the remaining figures to be, as it were, upon the geneth lyological* pinnaclepoints (?), and were going to come back to that word: geneth lyological. (This word is adetour, not a point. Can we get there without this word?)

That is that the lot itself will possess the power of the Ascendant, that is what symbolizesthe life itself. The tenth zoidia from this (they call them zoidias, not signs) the power of themidheaven, that of reputation, the seventh, the power of the descendant, the fourth of thesubterranean zoidia, and the remaining places will possess the power of the twelve regions.

For some have mystically established the universal Ascendant and its squares to be the cosmicpivot points. But the lot, and its squares to be the geneth lyological* pivot points.

Now thats a very important statement, because what he says is that the natal chart as yourelooking at it is not specific to you. What he is saying is that the universal Ascendant*, which

for me would be Sagittarius, shows to what extent the hermetic adage, As above, so below, istrue. It shows it to a certain extent. But if you want to get geneth lyological, which basicallymeans specific to the birth, specific to the genesis, to the beginning, specific to that person,than you want to look at the chart from the Part of Fortune as an Ascendant.

ALL CHARTS NOW HAVE TWO AscendantsThe noteworthy implications here constitutes the reason that so little isknown on how to use the Part of Fortune. Our second century predecessorsprovide that The Part of Fortune is an alternate Ascendant. Moreaccurately. they would think of it as the primary Ascendant.

Vedic astrology and this Hellenistic system are obviously related to eachother because Vedic astrology has been using derivative houses since timeimmemorial, and we now follow this lead. The next step on how we want toreally understand and to find out whats going on with the persons fate,we must become comfortable with the concept of derivative houses. As amedieval or renaissance-style astrologer, if one wanted to know about theirbrother or their sister, and you were looking at their natal chart, you

would look at the third house, and that would become the Ascendant of thebrother. So thats one aspect of derivative houses. But here we usederivative houses with your own chart.

Not only do you look at your Ascendant, but also interpret your Part ofFortune as an Ascendant and read the chart from that direction. Hinduastrologers have long been practicing this technique. When you look at aVedic chart, you look at the Ascendant. You may also inquire of three different takes on thesame the chart: 1) looking from the Ascendant as the first house, 2) looking from The Sun as thefirst house, and 3) looking from the moon as the first house. As a Vedic Astrologer, you mustalways look at the chart in those three ways. Really the two ways, from the Ascendant and themoon. Using the moons sign and house as the first house, and the Ascendant as the first house.All three reveal different new hints and provide accurate predictions.


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For instance, I have Sagittarius rising with the moon in the fifth. For the lunar chart, we use(in my case) the fifth house as the first house. We would read the chart with Sagittarius risingwith the moon in the fifth, and then we would read the chart with the moon in the first (Moon inthis case is in Aries) and by turning the chart, we read a new Ascendant from the location ofthe Moon. Thats basically a derivative-style house readings with our own charts, witnessing ourown lives. So at the moment we are not using derivative houses to find out about someone else,as usual, or taking in only some part of my life.

**We usually go, okay, well, I want to know about my husband. And then we go to the seventhhouse. And we deal with what my marriage life is going to look like, with the Seventh house, ortell me about my husband and we can look at the Ascendant for that. Were not doing that. Weredoing it for just you right now. What Im basically saying is that there is a whole other layerof reading that this provides us and that tells us specifically what the nature of that personis going to be. So thats the Part of Fortune. **

The next is the Lot of Spirit. With the fortune I got it down, but the Lot of Spirit was moreelusive, and of course it should be, right?

A PERSONIFYING AND ENLIVENING FORCEWhat I realized is that if the Part of Fortune stands for yet another Ascendant, and representsthe body or vessel, then the lot of the daimon, The Spirit, represents something symbolizing anew entity, something we have not considered in modern astrology: We have something in the chartthat represents a personifying and enlivening force.

We take the body and vehicle and know that it has its own possible inclinations. Bit then wealso have The Spirit which enlivens this body and creates a personification, one which we couldprobably call behavior or intention. The intention which defines the Part of Spiritformulates a guiding image of ourselves. The Part of Spirit provides the human reaction to thegods, describes it by sign and house. The Part of Spirit defines our style of being movedtowards our decisions and choices, our actions. Valens said, Whence the Lot of Fortune and theSpirit, will have much power over the imposing and turning back of actions. For one showsmatters concerning the body and handicrafts, The Spirit and its ruler (govern) mattersconcerning the soul, intellect and actions through discourse and through giving and receiving.It it through the contact of our Fellow Man that we understand the Animal that we are. Whatstyle of contact will that be? How will a person choose or decide? These factors may playagainst the fates as the human cudgel against the gods, but the fates must never be forgottenor underestimated: The human narrative derives its action, style and social magnitude from theLots.

Each Lot provides a kind of script, a lens through which an important feature of Fate will beperceived. The Lots are a place, much like the word implies, and each launches a discussion ofa peculiarity about Fate. How do we gain wealth? Fame? Happiness? Love and devotion? These arethe questions of Fate, and each horoscope details its inexorable inner workings, providing a

summary of Fate if we could only but read what is written.

ASTROLOGICALLY SPEAKINGOne of the things thats known about the Lots of Spirit and Fortune is that the Lot of Fortuneis the Lot of the Moon, and considered the Part of the Moon, while the Lot of the Spirit isconsidered the Part of The Sun, or the Lot of The Sun. To the Sun is attributed the cause ofaction and motion; he, according to Valens, Arouses the souls of men for undertaking.The distinction of difference between Fortune and Spirit is that Fortune, being that it is likean Ascendant, is going to show us precisely where we *put our life and if thats (The Sun, asruler of this part?*) well-placed, we can readily say, Yes, this fortune may be pretty good.

Take Spirit, which represents That vivifying force that arouses man towards action. Here wemust note that inherent thing within us the Spirit which cannot be seen. The soul is alsocalled, Anima. Note that the word animate is contained in anima. We make the distinctionhere that the Spirit is that which animates the body and creates a sense of personification andidentification. So, we can identify the person by their Part of Spirit by noting the nature ofthis person, how they will be.

It is the closest attribute to something psychological that we can find in this system. Spiritis kind of a summation, the lot itself and that planet, and whatever its constellated with,tells you what that person is going to be like. So, you might have a Part of Fortune thats inLibra, and maybe Venus is the same sign. So we could say, Okay, this person is artistic ormusical. And then the Part of Spirit might be in Gemini (ruled by Mercury) and we find Mercuryis there (in Libra) with Venus too. So we know that the persons internal nature is working withwhat the inclination of the chart might say about artistic inclination (Venus) and the animating

principle, Mercury to go in the same direction (they share the same sign).

Adolph Hitler and Charlie Chaplin both born close to each others dates make a fascinatingcomparison: One has Part of Fortune in Aries with The Sun conjoined it. Part of Fortune has anexalted sun on it: This suggests a really famous person. The ruler of the fortune is with theSpirit in Taurus. So we know that the lifes internal nature is going to have something which is


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artistic, or Venus-like. Weve got The Sun on the exalted Part of Fortune, thats fame, acclaim,recognition and knowledge. And then Mars itself is also with Venus in Taurus who is, in turn,the ruler of the Spirit. So we can say that this person is an artisan. Their artisticcontribution is what brings them fame. Thats Charlie Chaplins Ascendant. Thats CharlieChaplins Spirit/Fortune thing.

With Hitler, who was born just a few days later, Hitlers Sun is located at the *end of Taurusand beginning of Taurus, Chaplins at the end of Aries. With Hitler his Part of Fortune is in *considered himself an artist, he was a vagrant in his later years. He may have had delusions ofgrandeur regarding his skills as an artist. But really it looks like this person Hitler has moreto do than just be an artist, because Cancer contains the Lot of Fortune, so we must look to theruler of Cancer. Here, the moon is with Jupiter, by which cause brings the lunar qualities tothe forefront or enlarges them. The ruler of the Lot of Spirit is in Aquarius, and its rulerSaturn is in Leo is opposing the Moon. So we get two very different destinies, even though theircharts dont look so different from each other. The nature of astrology changes when we get intothis Fortune and Spirit stuff. Saturns motivations and behaviors as Spirit is not at all likeVenus or Taurus. The ruler of the Spirit in Charlie Chaplins chart is Venus in Taurus. And theruler of the Spirit in Hitlers chart is Saturn in Leo. Different ethics. Different expressionsright? Night and day. Most of the similarities stop when you look at their natal charts, ifexamined correctly, but when we really get down to this * geneth lyological position then we seethat we are really dealing with different people.

Lets move on the Acquisition which is always found 11 houses away from the Fortune. Here isanother way in which Vedic astrology and this second century Hellenistic astrology are similar:the Eleventh House in Vedic astrology is called the House of Gain. The 11 th is also known asimprovement over time. Its always been called the House of Gain. CHANGING BATTERY***what doesthe change of battery mean?

(Belongs at intro:)I was introducing you to the points that are going to be of interest to us as we enter thistechnique. We previously had spoken about speaking about them as Lots as opposed to Parts andthere are five basic places that were looking at. The Lot of Fortune , the Lot of Spirit, the

Acquisition (which is technically not a lot), the Exaltation (also nottechnically a lot), and the Lot of Basis which is technically a Lot.These are our tools. *We ended with my summation of the Part of Fortuneand the Part of Spirit in the (***we need to have this tapetranscribed) last mp3 that we just made.

Now were going to move on to the Acquisition. The Acquisition can befound by counting 11 houses from the Part of Fortune. So if your Partof Fortune is in Virgo your Acquisition will be in Cancer, countingforward in the zodiac by 11 houses. (Or you can count backwards in thezodiac by two houses.) With the Acquisition we see yet anothersimilarity between this Hellenistic style and Vedic astrology which is

to view the Eleventh House as a House of Gain. There is definiteevidence that we can see that same thing going into the medieval orrenaissance era of western astrology with the Eleventh House and Gain .Indeed the Eleventh House represents the receiving of our wishes ourgoals as they come to fruition. It was also called the House of Hopesand Wishes. I think another person calls it the house of Dreams ComeTrue. We have this concept of gaining something from it that we wanted,and so sure enough here we have kind of specifically that the EleventhHouse is a House of Gain. This is coming from Vettius Valens in theAnthology.

We have also found the 11 th place from Fortune to be an acquisitive place, a bestower ofbelongings and goods and especially when the benefics are upon it or testifying. So it is ahouse of belongings or goods, of gain of material gain as well. Here is one way we can discernthe difference between a persons fate whether they have an exalted fate and a personsfinancial status, or material status. The Acquisition and the lord of the Acquisition are goingto give us that assessment and fill out the picture a little more. And so when we look at somecharts that are coming up and we see charts that show exalted fortune, but show bad money or

difficult financial situations, we will see that the Acquisition might not be in such a goodposition even while the other tools (our pillars)* are in good position. Thats something towhich we will return. The Acquisition deals with belongings and goods and the kind of thingsthat the person acquires and may show the status in life to which the person attains.

Called the Exaltation, the fourth tool is perhaps more useful for figuring the future status ofthe person and whether it is going to be particularly high, or not. Here we are considering theexaltations of the Sun or the Moon. For the Sun, Aries exalts, and for the Moon, Taurus exalts.The day chart uses the Sun for the calculation, and night charts conversely use the Moon, as itis one of those daytime/nighttime change the formula type of things. Two steps to calculate: tofind the Exaltation by day count forward the number of signs separating the Sun from the sign ofits Exaltation. Example: Count from the Sun in Virgo to the sign of Aries. We want to count thenumber of signs differ from Aries. It is six signs away from Aries. Thus we count backward the


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six signs: Virgo, Leo, Cancer, Gemini, Taurus, Aries . That would take us six signs backwards.Thats step one. Step two: repeat for the Ascendant. Lets say our Ascendant is Leo. Once againthe first step is by day . The first step is to figure out how many signs lay between The Sun andthe sign of Aries, Exaltation of The Sun. It could be going forwards. If its in Capricorn itsgoing forwards. If its in Virgo youre going backwards. Once it passes Libra you start goingforwards until you get to Libra you go backwards. Lets use The Sun in Capricorn. If The Sun isin Capricorn you would count four away from Capricorn to get to Aries. Aquarius, Pisces, aries.And that would give us four signs. You would do the same thing to your Leo rising. Leo, Virgo,Libra, Scorpio. It would go to the fourth house. The exact same thing that you do to The Sun iswhat you would do to the Ascendant. By night its also two signs, its how many signs is themoon to Taurus. Im a night chart, and my moon is in Aries, so I would have to go forward onesign to get to Taurus. my Ascendant is Sagittarius, take it one sign forward to Capricorn. MyExaltation is in Capricorn. That would be the way to do that.

Once again, by night we count all the signs from the moon to Taurus. By day we count the signsto the Sun in Aries. And whatever number we would count from moon to the sign of Taurus, is thesame number and the same directions as we would count from the Ascendant. The Exaltation isprobably the one most telling of all of the tools, or pillars that well use.

The Exaltation, basically, is what it sounds like. It distinguishes how exalted is the statusof the person. There are a set of rules that describe fame and fortune, based on all thesetools. Example: If you have the ruler of the Exaltation ten houses away from the Part of Fortunethat usually denotes fame. If you have the rule Exaltation in his own sign, that often denotessome kind of important life. So if the ruler of the Exaltation were Saturn and it were Aquarius,in the case of Mozart, and the Exaltation is Aquarius and Saturn is is his own territory.

If you find Exaltation at ten houses from the Part of Fortune, it can denote fame. If you findit in its own house, or Exaltation, it usually denotes an important life, a life that makes animportant contribution.

The fifth tool is the Lot of Basis. That one is found by taking the shortest arc between thePart of Fortune and the Part of Spirit. That means that if your Part of Spirit is in Virgo andyour Part of Fortune is in Aries. You wouldnt start counting from Fortune to Spirit, which is210 degrees, you would count from Spirit to Fortune which totals around . You would go fromAries to Virgo, not the opposite, by taking the smallest arc.

The Lot of Basis is the most elusive of the five. The lot of Basis establishes whether or notthe person, or the native, can produce or sustain the apportionment of fortune that has beenallotted. These words apportionment, allotted, these are words weve worked with. We should havea good understanding of apportionment, that fate is a concept of apportionment. Its a cosmicprinciple of binding apportionment. You can see that there are very clear examples of people whohave exalted Fortunes but weak Basis.Judy Garland is a great example of that, our current president, George W. Bush is another greatexample of that. Both of these people have classic indicators in the charts for high, exalted

status and fame, and both of them have indicators of a difficult Basis. The Basis is emotional,physical, financial and material. Its like a cornerstone of the entire person, to distinguishhow stable they are, the level of care they bring to what it is they do and names the decisionsthey likely make. Its a very interesting Lot.

Lot of Fortune , which is your other Ascendant, thats the first one. We always reverse it atnight. The Lot of Spirit which animates the vehicle which arouses men to undertakings. TheAcquisition the goods and belongings that are acquired. The Exaltation, which tracks out thelevel of the persons status. The Basis, tells you whether the person can actually sustain thelevel of status that they have been given. Those are our five pillars, our five tools. These arethe tools of this trade. Those are our excavating tools, because really it is kind of what weredoing, because were digging into this, creating a whole separate chart and a whole separatechart association based on what astrologers were doing in the second century. One person mayhave Venus in the Ascendant and we may say something about that. But lets say the person hasVenus in the Ascendant with Saturn and Venus is the ruler of their Basis. All of a sudden thatsgoing to bring up different things, thats going to give us different inferences. We come tothis conclusion by taking the different names for the houses, or the different houseassociations. Once again, for the resistances in modern astrological thinking, I am going to

bring up anxieties and change around the certain meanings that moderns have attached to thehouses.

A NEW HOUSE SYSTEM FROM THE 2 ND CENTURYWe all may have beautiful charts, charts to which we may have become accustomed: take care toavoid nursing a conceit! The usual point of view becomes altered once you turn them into thiswhole sign standpoint; it may not be so beautiful as before. It actually may be more powerfuland strong. It makes life interesting at least!

The word place, is the more correct term for the location of the planets in the chart. Thesame word used by the ancients was topos, which is the origin of the word topic. It representsplace as opposed to house. Our forebears would restrict the use of the term house to aplanet which was actually in its own sign. In domicile, or house. But otherwise, the houses


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are considered places , as they are topoi .

The good houses, the auspicious houses, the productive houses are: First house, the EleventhHouse, the 10 th house, the Fourth house, the Seventh house obviously all of the angles and the 9 th

house. So 1, 11, 10, 7, 4, and 9. Those are your best houses. The 9th is iffy because eventhough it gives high status it doesnt always have the power to give it on its own. Status hasto be bestowed. Those are the houses you want to see the planets occupying.

The neutral-to-fair-middling ones are the 2 nd . The 5 th is also a decent house up with 1, , 10, 7,4 and 9. House 2 is okay, so is 3.

Your bad houses are 6, 8 and 12. These are our malefic houses. When the rulers are malefic theycreate malefic affects. Is this starting to sound like a Vedic astrology class? Because thatsexactly what they say in Vedic astrology. In Vedic astrology what they would say is that theruler, specifically of the 8 th house creates a smear in whatever house theyre in. The rulers ofthose houses smear whatever houses theyre in with the energy and identity of the house theyrule. Its the same thing obviously when the ruler of the 10 th is in the First, but thats whatyou want to have smeared all over. Thats like have your favorite model and a bottle of whippedcream in front of you smear away, right? But when its the ruler of the 6 th and it is in yourFirst, watch again, what substance (6 th house) are you smearing? It will be medicinal herbs, orVics Vapo-Rub! Youll smear on the rubbing alcohol, not the skin of a lover. You smearingmedicated creams because you have sustained some injury, or have caught flu. Its the smear ofthe th , 8 th or Twelfth that we have to caution against. If we get boon-swaggled and take forgranted because Venus is with Jupiter without also seeing that Jupiter is the ruler of theTwelfth, we will miss the Bad Spirit , missing the message altogether.(Insert chart)*

These house meanings are being explored as they come to us from the second century (see thechart). The first house remains the same: the body corpus *venius venganium (??) the bodyinclination. Second house we will call livelihood. Third house we will call Goddess, and it willbe the house that we will look to the mother for, as well as siblings, but also primarily theplace of The Mother.

The fourth house would be the usual things without the father, so that would be homes, cities,lands, buildings, things underneath the ground, mysteries, secrets, detentions, death, the endof life, and most importantly, how we are remembered after death.

The fifth house is good fortune but will drop the pleasure and romance-oriented aspects thatbegan to be associated with the fifth house much later in the medieval era. Good Fortune is asgood as walking down the street and finding a ten-dollar bill thats a fifth house goodfortune.

The sixth house will be called bad fortune. Heres another thing I want to be unequivocal about:there are good houses, and there are houses that suck, and this distinction will hold even amongthe positive-thinking, for when life throws lemons they are indeed yellow . Astrologers

equivocate with these houses at their own professional peril.

If Venus is in the first house, that might seem beautiful, that is until you realize Venus isthe ruler of the 6 th or the ruler of the Twelfth, or the ruler of the 8 th , and now theoverstatement about the value of Venus angularity will show in the relative tired luck storythat will follow from what the client will have to say about their own life. We must acceptthere are good houses and then there are bad ones .

The sixth house is called bad fortune. Its not called work, although it does involve work inthe Hellenistic system, because it trines the midheaven. Such work however is more likeservitude. The sixth house is also associated with illness, as this tradition also carries thatbad health is specific to the sixth, along with tribulations, trials, difficulties and bad fortune .

The seventh house is the house of marriage, but in this second century point of view, we mustalso place sexual relations in that house, including even sexual dalliances. We will notassociate war as belonging to the Seventh house, but instead will discuss death with the Seventh.

The eight house is of course the house of death, but for our purposes, we will call it The IdlePlace . This is a picture of no can do, a rubber stamp helplessness, perhaps lackingdecision-making capacity.***

With the ninth house we find God, and will look to that house also as the house of The Father.The ninth house also is a place of broadcast, higher education, teachings.

The tenth house is Praxis , (Latin) meaning action, and holds or represents the nature of theaction the person makes in the world, that conversation on which a person stands or makes hisfortune, and which brings reputation to him as described by the cusp ruler.

The Eleventh House will be called Good Spirit and the Twelfth House will be called Bad Spirit .


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(*Houses Chart)Lets break it down by type of house we have angular houses, we have fixed houses, we havecadent houses, and we know that angular houses are strongest, or most public, in view of others.And certainly little has changed that concept since the Hellenistic time period. When planetsare in angles, they are they are at their strongest. They are able to produce completely. Whenthey are in fixed signs, they are middling strong and they are able to make you comfortable. Ifthe planet is exalted it may confer longevity or prosperity as well.

Cadent planets, the Greek word that they used is apoclama, or falling amiss . Thats a term weregoing to use: to fall amiss .

So when a planet is in a cadent house, aside from the ninth and the third, which are consideredcadent but even the third is not necessarily strong, but its just not malefic but asidefrom the ninth, when a planet is in a cadent position, it falls amiss . Theres not a lot of roomfor sentimentality. This brings up our favorite conceits again, regarding the issues surroundingthe disturbance of favorite notions: We are moving into a whole sign picture.

That 10 th house Venus in Taurus may really be a 9 th house Venus in Taurus. So what are theimplications of that? How do we bring them together? Do we reject it out of hand, No, thatdoesnt really fit me, that doesnt suit me at all, without looking at the new view? We mustbrave the Egos own traps to try out these second century tools.

Most rulers have two houses. If rulers have two houses and one of them is a negative house this shows my Vedic rootsboth narratives will be presented.

So if you have somebody that rules the 8 th and the 3d, theyre going to show you stuff about thebrothers and theyre going to show you stuff about the nature of your death, or stuff about thenature of what youll inherit. But also, whatever sign is the sign in that the planet likes more because every planet has a sign that they prefer if its one of those signs that they preferthey will show the significations of that house more. As per the Western system, Venus prefersTaurus. That particular sign is going to be stronger. Saturn prefers Aquarius, so that would bethe house that you would look to see where he might really make his mark. And of course Saturnsigns are next to each other. Jupiter prefers Sagittarius. Mercury prefers Virgo. Mars prefersScorpio. The moon and The Sun only have one sign. They will give you the significations of bothhouses. And whichever house has the sign that they show preference for will show up stronger.Thats my speculation. Well see if that shows itself. We can research to see if thats true. Wecould research some of these charts looking at that issue.

THE SECOND CENTURY TAKES US DEEPERThe meanings of the houses is probably the most jarring and difficult thing to work with in thissystem, because of the different house meanings from the second century. Its going to bedifferent than using modern astrology. Its even different for those of us more well-versed inthe classical and the medieval traditions. Essentially Ive been a medievalist for most of mycareer as an astrologer and these are even different for me.

every house had its particular title. The First house was called the helm, or the breath oflife, its the house of life. The 2 nd house is called livelihood. The Third house is calledGoddess. The Fourth house is called the Subterranean angle, or the subterranean place. The 5 th

house is called good fortune. The 6 th house is called the bad fortune. The Seventh house is calledthe descendant, or the descending place. The 8 th house is called the idle place and the house ofdeath. The 9 th house is called God. The 10 th house is called Praxis or action. The Eleventh Houseis called the good Spirit. The Twelfth House is called the bad Spirit. Were going to adoptthose meanings, titles, and their implications.

The houses using Fortune and Spirit in their title (5 th and 6 th , 11 th and Twelfth) oppose eachother on the house axis. There is a force for good and a force for not-so-good. Interestinglyenough, the Greeks would use, instead of good and bad, they would use the terms of either good or common. I guess good was something rarified, and something that was common would be said tobe common to all elements; The alchemists would have said, Could easily be corrupted. Eventhough were using the word bad as related to Spirit and Fortune, we need to incorporate theidea of that which is common and which is easily mixed.

Mercury is also called common, and its got a negative inclination . It literally declines , orgoes south.

In the difference between Fortune and Spirit the Sixth house is Bad Fortune . Fortune is seen inthis instance as accidental, a happenstance. It was something that happened to me.

For instance in the bad fortune of the Sixth house could be, without my knowing it, cancer cellsmetastasizing inside some organ and I take ill. All of a sudden I find out I have cancer and Ihave a certain amount of time to live and I have to go through all these different treatments inorder to deal with this illness, etc. Thats a happening. Thats something that has happened toyou. Or you go out for a loaf of bread and into a car accident; suddenly you get a whiplash.Thats an accident. Those are happenings. If we want to show a good thing that could happen with


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the fifth house we hear the stories, how we go out walking down the street and find ten dollars.Thats something thats really good.

Or we hit the lottery. Or we go gambling. So heres this issue with gaming in the 5 th house. Wego gambling and we hit it big. Thats 5 th house good fortune. We go gambling and we loseeverything. That might actually be the bad Spirit at work and well talk a little bit aboutthat. Lets go to the opposite side of the axis here and look at the Spirit.

Fortune represents, and is itself another Ascendant, symbolizing the body. Life is always goingto be ruled by the Ascendant. Fortune as Ascendant defines, but also gives you the vessel. Itdescribes the outward appearance of the physical vessel just like the Ascendant.

Weve talked about how Spirit animates how Spirit personifies that vessel and arouses it toaction. Which is why the Lot of Spirit has to do with actions and The Works of Man.

The Eleventh House represents the good Spirit and is now known as the House of Groups. It wasthe House of Friends for a really long time. It is known now as the house of groups becauseAquarius tends to represent groups, although I don not also equate Aries to the First house,making the error of mixing the sign significance with the house significance.

Ultimately theres a much more mystical kind of approach to this. The word that they used wasdaimon. The good daimon resided in the Eleventh House, and the bad daimon resided in theTwelfth. Along with this concept of friends, also is this possibility of the realization ofones hopes and wishes, a concept lost within the last hundred or maybe two hundred years.

The Eleventh House was called the House of Hope in Medieval time. The Eleventh House had thiswhole sense of the wish fulfilled . Which is why in the Hellenistic time period or in this systemthe Eleventh House is seen almost as better than the 10 th because its rising towards the thingdesired. Its got momentum, it is still approaching that desired thing.

The Spirit or personification aspect comes with the patronage thats represented by the EleventhHouse. The patronage and the friendship thats offered by people who can patronize, who can beyour patrons. As a result, the Eleventh House can give you patronage towards your goal.

BRAD PITTSomeone who is very famous right now. Brad Pitt, if we want to talk about a chart that is notparticularly blatant. We wouldnt really be able to check that out. In the radical charts,theres a sign that this might be kind of big. The fact that The Sun is in the Ascendant thatusually is something. The ruler of the Ascendant is in the 5th, in this chart its in theFourth. The information for Brad Pitt is: December 18, 1963, 6:31 am in Shauny, Oklahoma. TheAscendant is Sagittarius and The Sun is there. Lets see what our points are. The Lot of Fortuneis in Scorpio. The Lot of Spirit is in Capricorn, which is the 2nd house, Scorpio is the 12th.The Basis is in the Third house: Aquarius. The Acquisition is in Virgo, eleven houses away from

the Lot of Fortune and ten houses away from the Ascendant. The Exaltation is Aries, the 5thhouse. There are a few things in this chart: this chart doesnt have any of the culminations. Ilook at fortune and I dont see anything culminating. The very first thing we see is the Lot ofFortune in the Twelfth House. So, technically, we would not be taking note, would we. I told youthe houses in which you would take note, and this is not one of them. Basically, no matter whathouse you see the Lot of Fortune in, take note. Where is the ruler of the Lot of Fortune ? InCapricorn, and its Mars. Already, we have a rule come up, which is, if some of the rulers ofthese places are in their own signs, or exalted, that says something. Secondly, Capricorn iswhere the Lot of Spirit is, which then puts the ruler of the Lot of Fortune on the Spirit. Tworules are brought up. We see that the Basis is Aquarius, and Saturn is in Aquarius. For all ofyou who may not know, Saturn is the ruler of Aquarius. That means that the ruler of the Basis ison the Basis. That also means that there is an exalted planet on the Spirit. And that also meansthat the ruler of the fortune is on the Spirit. Jupiter is on the Exaltation. Thats not one ofthe rules, that if a benefic is on the Exaltation than that will be good, but, naturally, itwill be. If I were to make any statement about this person, looking at this chart, Id say itsall business, all about the bottom line and money with this person. This is probably one of thetoughest business people in Hollywood. This is probably one of the shrewdest, toughest,ruthless, roughest business people in Hollywood.

Theres actually a large stellium on Capricorn, and we also have Saturn, the ruler of the Basison the Basis. I would think this person is a very shrewd business person, a very wealthybusinessman. If I didnt know who this was, and I saw the Venus/Mercury, I would say thatssinging and dancing and acting too, but its all business. Its not just for the pure joy, itsfor the money.

The G.W bush chart is a very interesting chart in that the Eleventh House respect well look alittle bit at that later the Eleventh House is not just friends, its friends in high places .It is allies who can offer patronage. From a Medieval perspective, its the second from thetenth, which is the kings second. (Someone to hold your side, your weapon, in a duel, toperform in your stead, should you fall.) It would be ministers and people in high positions. It


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would represent people in higher positions, they patronize, offer patronage and take on protgs .

The Eleventh House could offer a Cinderella meets-her-godmother narrative. The fairy god motherwas an Eleventh House experience. Cinderella was the cinder (ash, hearth-tender) girl,probably herself tied (enslaved?) or belonging to the Fourth up that moment. And then she meetsher god mother and she gets her wish, at least she seemed pretty happy at the end. So thats theEleventh House. It can come in that form, and certainly many people have stories about thishelpful, holy or loving person who came to them out of nowhere. Theres the good daimon. Theresthe good Spirit. Also some people get more patronage. Shes been a protg of so and sos, shesgot the fast track and I had do it the hard way. Thats the Eleventh House talking.The house of friends who are outside chosen family goes, in my opinion, to the third house. Andactually, within this system it goes into the Third house of those who are like brothers andsisters. The Third house has a subtext of hospitality, those who you would offer hospitality to asthough they were in their own home. People that would open their home to you as though it wereyours. That type of friend I actually put into the Third house. All friends came to be

G O O D S P I R I T

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BUILDINGS, SECRETS, ENDOF LIFE, HOW WE ARE

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associated with the 11th at a much later period, but we can see here, and in my speculation of,the Hellenistic system that both the Third and the th are the house of friends. The house offriends is our chosen family , the Third, the house of friends in high places , the 11 th . Thatshow this Spirit aspect personifies itself in the good Spirit.

In the bad Spirit if youve ever been in a feud with another family and you live in certainparts of the country where feuds continue, The Johnsons hate the Andersons and they havehated each other for 150 years thats a personification of bad Spirit . Where you experienceyour nemesis, thats bad Spirit . Or youre in the work place and youre trying to get ahead andsomeone stabs you in the back and keeps you down from going where you need to go . . . bad Spirit . Or youre walking down the street and you get mugged. It describes the fact of enemiesarising out of bad fortune, thus belonging to the Sixth house in this system.

Uprisings of slaves were represented by the Twelfth. In-your-face was the negative daimon , nothidden from you. I think it was a little later with the medieval time that it turned into hiddenenemies, hospitals, Rapunzels Tower and prisons. Nevertheless, the Twelfth House has never beengood and is not beneficial in general.

The bad Spirit of gambling arises when someone is losing with its strong narrative of selfundoing that with this technique I have been successful in being able to help people connect towhat some of their bad Spirit . issues arise from self-undoing. Thats about as psychologicalas I go, and as maybe even classical astrology goes. If we look at it as the house of self undoing , then we would see that maybe what makes the person gamble and lose more often might bethe aspect of the self undoing. It might be a Twelfth House thing that is behavioral. It couldbe making the gambling a problem. Thats basically why I opened up that a little bit more than Ishould have.

TECHNIQUEThe first technique is called The Light in Charge. or the Leading Light Technique , used tofind whether your chart is diurnal (day birth) or nocturnal (night birth), with the second goalof noting the sign it is in. For diurnal we will use the Sun, for the nocturnal birth time, weuse the moon. The third goal also requires we note the element of that sign.

Were going to use a different word for element or in conjunction with that, which elementtriplicity are we dealing with? Im going to go into this in just a minute. The fourth goal isto extract each triplicity ruler and assign to it approximately twenty-eight years of the lifeto determine which areas of life it represents. Thats basically what this technique entails.

We also need the triplicities. There are four triplicities, two diurnal, two nocturnal. Thediurnal triplicities are fire and air while the nocturnal triplicities are the water and earthelements. The tradition is based in long ancient observations, which assign to Sun, Jupiter andSaturn the qualities of Day, and the nocturnal planets, the Moon, Venus and Mars are assigned

the qualities of Night.

(Enter the chart)*Jupiter, Saturn and The Sun are thefirst triplicity is the fire triplicity.By day we begin with The Sun. By night webegin with Jupiter and Saturnparticipates. Thats important, becausenow we know which 28 years of life isgoing first, second and last. If its adaytime chart were going to start withthe Sun, thus the Sun is going to rulethe first 28 years. If its a nighttimechart were going to start with Jupiterand Jupiter will rule the first 28 years.Logically, the third triplicity ruleralways rules the last third of life.

Our second diurnal triplicity is air.That is Saturn by day, Mercury by night

and Jupiter, who participates. Did you notice I didnt actually mention Mercury in ournocturnal/diurnal list of planets? That is because Mercury is a neuter; he is known as common.He is common to good and bad. He is common to all elements. He is mutable and convertible innature, and neutral. So he takes on the characteristics of whoever he is with. So if he is witha diurnal planet, he becomes diurnal. If he is with a nocturnal planet, he becomes nocturnal. Ifhe is with a feminine planet, he becomes feminine. If he is with a masculine planet, he becomesmasculine. Mercury is our neuter. As a result he can be moved in and out of any kind of shape.When hes with the diurnal planets, he thus becomes another diurnal planet. Thats why Mercuryis involved, and thats why we didnt bring him up earlier.

The nocturnal triplicities are watery, which begin with Venus by day and Mars by night, and themoon as the participator. No surprises there. The earth triplicity begins with Venus by day, the

Triplicity rulersThis Earth andWater triplicty

planet

rules thesesigns

NeutralMercury rules

Gemini & Virgo

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Moon by night, and Mars participating. We are determining whether the chart is diurnal ornocturnal and to do so we must see whether the Sun is placed above or below the horizon,represented by the line between First and the Seventh house, the ascendant and descendant fallon a horizon line.. If a planet is placed above the Seventh house, its also above the First house,making it a daytime placement, but only if the Sun is above that horizon also. If the Sun isbelow the horizon line, nighttime rules prevail.

For daytime want to examine the Sun. Were going to look at what sign hes in, his element andthen take our triplicity rulers accordingly.

Lets say its daytime and our sun is in the sign Cancer. That gives us the watery triplicitymeaning that means we would give the first (third of life) 28 years to Venus, the second 28years to the Mars, and the last third to the Moon. If it were nighttime and the moon were inCancer, we would give the first 28 years to Mars. We would give the 2 nd years to Venus and theThird 28 years to the moon. Thats how this technique works.

Determine whether the planets are in an angle, because, as with most systems, there is where theplanets are most strong. It if a planet is in a fixed sign, its a good period in life, but notas good usually**. Or, if theyre in a cadent house is it angular, is it fixed, or does itfall amiss ?

If the triplicity ruler is angular, the chart might suggest a good time of year, a good season,or a good 28 years. If its in the fixed signs, that third of life should be good, not rise tothe absolute top, but pretty good. If it falls amiss , the period maybe not so good. All of thishas innumerable subtleties that can negate the previously set rules. For instance, if itsMercury in Pisces in the Seventh the periods good fortune is not as strong as the moon in Taurusin the 11th. A planet that its in its fall, or in detriment , or in an angle , are not going towork as well as a planet that is either exalted or in its own sign and in a fixed house.Especially not in the Seventh or the Fourth.

Interestingly enough these angles, the 1st and the 10th are basically good good good good . Ifyou see them in the 1st or the 10th, you think, hey, thats going to be fantastic. But theSeventh and the Fourthhave the ability to thebring things down. TheFourth tends torepresent things thatcome later thingsthat are seeded butwhich come to fruitionmuch later or periodsthat go up and thencome down.

Similarly with theSeventh things thatare coming down *depneuma ? numa fallingaction. Itsinteresting whichangles were talkingabout. Once again, theEleventh House is oneof the best houses inthe entire circle ofhouses. So, if we seean exalted planetthere, and thats oneof the three triplicityrulers, whoopee, thatsgoing to be a good

time.

(Enter chart of Hiter)*So, lets try this withthe chart of AdolphHitler. Hitlersinformation is: April20, , 6:20 pm inBrownall, Austria.Libra rises. Is itdaytime or nighttime?Libra rises and The Sunis in Taurus, so it is


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daytime. Taurus is in the 8th house remember Im using whole signs and that menas hes in theSeventh in the Cuspal chart, but hes in the th house in mine. So, hes above the horizon. Hesin Taurus which is of the Earth triplicity, so were going to start by day with Venus. Venushere is in Taurus which is very good for her. Shes also in the 8th house. If I were justlooking at this, I didnt know who this was and I was looking at it I would say, Hm, thatsgood but not so good. Thats good but idle. Theres a sense of idleness to this person. I callthe Eighth House, The Idle Place . Venus is with two really choleric planets hot, dry planets The Sun and Mars giving her a kind of difficult to deal with report. An idle time where thisperson is difficult to deal with. Then I have to think about what I know about this chart.Unfortunately I started with Hitler, because usually I dont take into account actual aspects.But the Hitler chart is very interesting because this Venus is what is called besieged, whichmeans shes sandwiched between two malefics. Venus travel will taker her (in her orbit) fromone malefic to the next, in a tag team maneuver. The planets are doing it by square in thisparticular chart, by square and conjunction. Looking at that, that gives us more of anunderstanding of the character of this person. Mark Edmund Jones says, Character is destiny.With these two hot, dry planets in the same sign with it and Saturn squaring, we can imaginethis is not an easy person to get along with. This person doesnt really care to show himself inthe best aspects of his nature. Also, note that Libra rises. Venus rules the First House andshes in Taurus. As a result this means that there might be an artistic ability with the person,or they may perceive themselves in an artistic way. And certainly, within this time period, upto the 28th year - this is way before any historic Beer-Hall Putsches or anything like that asHitler was perceiving himself an artist. Certainly as a young person he loved music and wantedto be an artist, teaching himself piano. In Vienna he tried to enter one of the Art Institutes intending to be an architect, but his enrollment was denied. This is the time period of hisBohemian vagrancy where he went from flop house to flop house and practically lived on thestreets and where he sold paintings for a living. We can see that this Venus was definitelydenied, difficult and demanding, Venus is in this Eighth house which is idle , which is death ,which is rarely a house of good things unless youre profiting from death , because the 8th iscalled Those Who Profit From Death . This is definitely a war profiteers chart.

The second triplicity ruler covers the next 28 years of life. This would be the important time he lived to age 56. This era includes the mantle of chancellor and then later, Der Furer. Moonis our second traplicity ruler and this leads to one of the rules: Whenever the ruler of thePart of Fortune is with Jupiter, it gives a big fortune it expands that persons fortune. Moonis with Jupiter and she is also the ruler of the Part of Fortune. Whenever the ruler of the Lotof Fortune is on one of our traplicity rulers, thats going to bring that persons fate to thefore.

The lot of the Ascendant or the lot of the Part of Fortune is also an Ascendant. So that planetthat owns the Lot of Fortune has the same power as the ruler of the Ascendant.

What that life narrative suggests is that is the time of its fulfilment usually. So, eitherruler of the Lot of Fortune , or ruler of the Ascendant. Here weve come to the ruler of the Lotof Fortune , in the Fourth house, things that go up and go down. Because the Moon and Jupiter

are together in Capricorn, Fortune may go up, but its not going to mean that this person willshow themselves in the best light, or show the best of themselves.

Jupiter is further corrupted by Capricorn (in a sign of detriment or weakness), where the Moonalso is corrupted by being in Capricorn.

Jupiters beneficence is corrupted first by being fallen, and the Moon, her fecundity iscorrupted by being in Capricorn. The moon represents emotions and Jupiter represents compassionand beneficence, so it looks like this persons life might go quite high, but it appears theymight be also weakened by the emotions and less than compassionate in this life. The Moon andJupiter together should be essence of that. If the Moon represents the tit of milk, with Jupiterthat tit is really full, overflowing, gigantic. Also we can confirm that by looking at Saturnslocation in Leo. Hes in the 11th which is a fantastic position to be in, and that means hesgot help along the way. But Saturn is in Leo, a choleric sign, so even with the planets inCapricorn in his detriment, weve got a lot of choleric temperament in this chart that can makeit very unpleasant. If this person attains to the heights, they will have good opportunity todisplay great unpleasantness. Since also its in the Fourth, its probably something that goesup.

The moon, which is in the Lot of Fortune , is know to be interchangeable, I would say itssomething maybe that goes up and then goes down a tropical or moveable sign of Capricorn.Sudden changes for the good and then changes back down within that 28 year period.

Hitler had just started the Third triplicity, and theres the most violent planet in the houseof death. I would pretty much say that person is going to die early within that last third oflife as hes all of a sudden with the ruler which is in the house of death.

Thats a first example of how to work with this technique. The first thing that I did, I lookedto see whether it was daytime or nighttime its a daytime chart, so I looked to see what signit was in, and what element that sign was, and then I used the triplicity rulers of that sign to


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represent each 28 year period. So thats the first example.

Well use a nocturnal chart now: Mae West, (August 17, 1892, 10:30 pm, Brooklyn, NY) who hasTaurus rising and The Sun is in Leo.

The Sun is below the horizon, its in the Fourth house as per my whole sign chart, and thatmeans that its below the horizon line, indicating a nocturnal birth. The nocturnal chart isnaturally ruled by the Moon, so were going to look to the moon: the moon is in Cancer, andwere in a watery triplicity as a result.

The first triplicity ruler of water is Mars. The second triplicity ruler of water would beVenus, and the third, is the Moon. First is Mars: Hes in happily in the 10th house. Thatappears to be great, going by my usual, most spare and superficial cookbook-style of what tolook for, I would say, Mars in the 10th house is pretty good.

However, I would like to confirm that by identifying the house is he in: Mars rules** theSeventh and 12th. Mars is rules the 12th -- not so good.

Also, Mars is a malefic and hes peregrine in this chart we still use all theseperegrinations. Mars is peregrine hes doesnt have an active arm either way but at the sametime Mars thrives on the battlefield. Mar is action, he thrives on opposition. So what I wouldsay about this is that it looks like rising action it looks like this person put a lot ofaction into making a rise, into trying to rise through the ranks, specifically in their worklife and that more than likely it was met with opposition. It might have been met with enemies,with people that would take offence at them.

Since were talking about the bad Spirit, it could also be the thing that shows their selfundoing. But lets stick with the 12th as kind of a manifestation of bad Spirit, or of gettingbad will from fellow man. What we know about this time period is that Mae West was a vanvilleperformer for a long time, she became famous in her 30s, when she was about 38 or 39. Up untilthat time she worked in Vaudeville.

Mae West had this thing for the raciest type of material always. From the very beginning shewould sing racy songs back in the teens. She was one of the first shimmy dancers in the earlytwenties. As a result she created a moral uproar in artistic critics around becoming known onthe circuit as one of the low characters common.

And she was common as hell, known for being one of the low morals characters in this particularmilieu. As a result, many plotted against her. She got a lot of very bad, uncomplimentaryreviews. She wasnt the best singer in the world, but she used, obviously, her assets so tospeak. She had a big audience, but the critics were against her and she experienced a lot ofproblems. Mae West spent a lot of time in and out of jail because the plays she wrote weredeemed obscene and shut down while she was thrown into jail.

Even though theres not necessarily a prison / Twelfth House correlation in the Hellenistic

system, we can still see the tenth house has the ruler of the 12th contained in it we couldconjecture something about imprisonment which enters her reputation. And there is.XXXMars was the archetype the ancient would assign as most responsible for creating the greatestcontroversy to Mars. From a Medieval standpoint, we would say that before the advent of themodern planet, Uranus, Mars held the title of disruptor. In the 10th Mars will symbolize anongoing contention in the persons career. And certainly in that first years it created bad willfrom others for Ms. West.

Maybe this person didnt get quite so far because the ruler of the 12th tarnishes whatever itsinand it is in the 10 th of Praxis .

The rulers of the 6th, 8th and 12th are said to tarnish the houses that they are in theycreate a smear. There was a lot of push for her rise during that 28 years, but I dont think shequite made it completely.

The second 28 years of Wests life would be ruled by Venus: the 2nd triplicity ruler of thewatery triplicity. Venus is the ruler of the sign, which is very nice, and so we find my little

rule: If it comes to the ruler of the Ascendant, pay attention. But its in the Third. Thatdoesnt make sense if the first 28 years of life the planet is in an angle and then all of asudden the 2nd triplicity ruler is where she became famous: it has fallen amiss.

Venus is on the Part of Fortune. The Part of Fortune is in Cancer. Wherever the Part of Fortuneis, take that sign for the first angle, as an ascendant . From this point of view, Venus isangular. Shes in the other 1st house . Because we have two Ascendants. We have the ascendantAscendant for our birth time, and then we also have the ascendant given us by the Lot of Fortune. Venus is with Fortune, putting her in the 1st house with the with the ruler of the Ascendant.Both Venus and Moon have major dignity in the sign of Taurus.***(not Cancer?)

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triplicity: around, The Moon. The second triplicity phase, timed between the ages of and 56, iswhen people are making their most important accomplishments. Despite the fact that (what isgoing?)**its going to the ruler of the Lot of Fortune between fifty six and the end of theirlife, more than likely that second period is going to be the best, really something else. Sureenough, thats when she became an icon as a film goddess and as a goddess of American culture.

The Third House is called Goddess. And the Lot of Fortune is there with the moon, who is in herjoy in the Third. Both Goddesses (the Moons Lot and also the Moon) are in the house of Goddessalong with the Lot of Fortune .

Why doncha come up and see me sometime, big boy? Mae West is one of Americas great goddesses.Even the little kids that I get to know giggle when I mimic her line because even they have seenit on Bugs Bunny. She is an Icon: Deified, and there we have Goddess. Thats our secondtriplicity ruler. The moon is our Third triplicity ruler, representing her from age 56 to therest of a good long life. She lived to be 89, I think. If anything, it was during that rest ofthe period where her deification became complete and fully integrated into the Americanconsciousness. I was born in the late 60s and I knew all about Mae West by the time I was 8 or 9I could recognize Mae West on any cartoon. I had seen My Little Chickadee.

Mae West was a major part of American Culture at the time I was growing up. And that wasapproximately 40 years after she had made her gigantic splash. This is a very interesting chart.She also died as one of the Americas richest women. We can see that as well, because of coursefortune means fortune and it comes to the moon as a part of ***fourth.

It seems that when she was in California during her second triplicity time period, she bought uplarge tracts of land, and later on sold them for greater fortunes.

Now we can see that we had a nocturnal chart to work with. What we did is we looked at The Sun,he was in Leo, below the horizon in the Fourth, which meant that we had to use the moon and useher triplicity, which was water. And so we used those three planets that represented the watertriplicity.

GEORGE W. BUSHOur beloved president, George W. Bush is not a notable personage, but a charge that receivesnotable position without being a notable personage. (July 1946, 7:26 AM EST, North Haven,Connecticut)

Leo rises, and Sun isin Cancer above thehorizon, diurnal, andin the watertriplicity. Weve seensample narratives fromthe nocturnal

triplicity with threepeople which isinteresting. The firsttriplicity ruler inthis chart is going tobe Venus because itsdaytime, unlike theMae West chart wherewe started with Marsbecause we startedwith nighttime. Venusis in the Ascendant,one of the triplicityrulers in the 1st or10th house --thats aclear signal of a verygood life narrative.

I like the look ofthis more than I likedthe look of Mae WestsMars in the 10th. Ilook the look of thismore because Venus isthe third in the10th** and becauseVenus is a benefic.However, HitlersVenus was a benefictoo, but she wasnt


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acting very beneficial because of who she was associating with and where she was. But GWs Venusis a benefit. This benefit dominates the first third of life up to age 28 suggesting heprobably came from a notable family. That is the lovely benefic in the Ascendant. It could havebeen in the 12th, it could have been in the 6th, it could have been in the Third or Fourth, butits in the Ascendant. So, okay, its a benefic in the Ascendant, that is pretty good stuff.Theres going to be something good going on for this person in the first 28 years.

Venus as a benefic also produces benefit through pleasure, adventures, mirth. That means Venusdoesnt produce benefit only through art study, tenacity or work ethic she produces benefitthrough pleasure. The bedroom and the realm of pleasure is Venus milieu: Libations,intoxications, enjoyments, amusements, entertainments. An

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