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What it computes
Not a modern rewrite of the tradition, but the procedures the Hellenistic astrologers actually practised — sect and the Lots, the rulers of the places, and the time-lords that move the reading through the life. Each is computed for your chart and shown with its result.
The Hellenistic standard. Each sign is one place, counted whole from the rising sign.
Read the doctrine →Day chart or night chart, the first judgement, setting which planets ease the life and which press on it.
Read the doctrine →Worksheet ↓Domicile, exaltation, the sect-based triplicity lords, bound and decan, scored for every planet.
Read the doctrine → IVThe Egyptian term rulers, degree by degree, for the finer grade of judgement.
Read the doctrine →The body and the daimon, computed by sect, with Eros and the rest, read like a second Ascendant.
Read the doctrine →Worksheet ↓The lord of the year, found by counting places from the Ascendant, the simplest of the time-lords.
Read the doctrine →Worksheet ↓Releasing the times from Fortune and Spirit, the peak periods and the loosing of the bond, from Valens.
Read the doctrine →Worksheet ↓The apheta and the anareta, directed by the daily turning, one equatorial degree to the year, the oldest timing measure.
Read the doctrine → IXConjunction, sextile, square, trine and opposition, by whole sign, weighed as the tradition weighs them.
Read the doctrine → ✦ The methodThe nine techniques above are the parts. This is how they combine into one timing reading: what your chart promises, which time-lords activate it, and when a promised thing ripens.
Learn how to use the Timelord's Toolkit →The nine doctrine pages above, each worked in full on a real chart. Or read the whole tradition as a three-part survey at Learn classical astrology, taught from the sources.
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