Hello!
Glad you guys are interested.
I'm in the process of finishing the article, and making sure I'm doing everything right before proceeding further, and reading "The Anthology", which is the source of this information. There will be about five parts to the article.
starlink said:
Hello Ra! Very interesting and something new to me which is always welcome.
My question is:
Once we have established the new Ascendant with the lot of Fortune in it (which is calculated with our own natal Ascendant in my case via the Placidus method), how do we calculate the other 4 Lots?
I would calculate based on the whole sign version of your natal chart, which is how the ancient astrologers would have done, not on the placidus version. I will put the equations there too, if there's people who actually know how to figure it out by that.
Do we go back to our own natal chart (not the equal signs chart but one of the others) and calculate them from there? Then place them in the new "fortune" chart? How do we go about placing the other 4 into the chart with Lot of Fortune in 1st house?
Look at them as they would be in the whole sign version of your natal. I think though, that they will most likely be the same rulers.
The different lots will fall into signs. Say basis is at 1°53' Aries. Then the place of Basis is aries, and the lot ruler is Mars.
Would you know another word for Basis maybe? Another word for Acquisition which I also did not find in the list could maybe be replaced by Abundance?
Starlink
These are the proper names.
ConfusedPisces said:
What is that program you use and what are the steps?
I've used the program Janus 4.
Heres the equations for the four lots besides fortune:
Spirit - Ascendant + Sun - Moon
Basis - Ascendant + Fortuna - Lot of Spirit
Acquisition - This is easy to find out, it's going to be the 11th whole sign from the part of fortune. So, if the part of fortune is in cancer, then the place of Acquisition is Taurus. Another simple way: it is the eleventh house of the fortune chart, and it operates just like one too.
Exaltation -- Depends on whether the chart is diurnal, or nocturnal. If by day, this is the amount of whole signs away from the sun's position to aries, if by night, the amount of whole signs away the moon is from taurus (always counting the sign you start at). Then, the amount of whole signs away from the ascendant (wherever the asc is, not the fortune first house) is the native's place of exaltation.
For example if the sun is in Scorpio, the place of its exaltation is six signs away.
So the exaltation is six signs away from the sign of the ascendant. If the ASC was in Libra, the place of exaltation would be Pisces.