I've just been reading more about the predominator, Oikodespotes and Kurios.
I read that a planet can gain some ability to conduct it's business with certain mitigations such as being the sign or exaltation sign of one of its trigon associates. Can that mitigate retrograde - walking backwards? Also can it help being under the Sun's beams?
I don't know the answer about some of the mitigations, but I don't <think> it's necessarily a bad thing to have the sect malefic retrograde in your chart. Limits the amount of harm it can do...
My scenario:
Day chart
Saturn in 6th whole sign of Sagg, retrograde, out of sect, ruled by Jupiter
POF in 6th whole sign of Sagg, ruled by Jupiter
Jupiter in 10th whole sign of Aries, in sect, within 15 degrees of Sun, ruled by Mars
Sun in 10th whole sign of Aries, in sect, ruled by Mars (Mars joys because Sun is exalted, Mars in 12th whole sign in Gemini)
Does the strength of the Sun save his trigon friends? Both Saturn and Jupiter have afflictions - out of sect Saturn and retrograde, Jupiter under the Sun's beams, but both are in their trigon associates sign.
Just to check that you are using Dorothean triplicities? Also, I'm not sure if it's Hellenistic or just traditional (I tend to think the 1st, but I'd have to check the reference again) that some planets do "ok" when they are combust or under the beams...ah, it was the Persian astrologer Abu Ma'shar that said that Jupiter under the beams "is like a man who loves justice, is honest and got free from his bonds, and so is mild, well-disposed toward everything, kind and merciful."
I cannot figure out the Kurios either.
Ascendant sign. Planets in the Ascendant sign and bounds of the ascending degree. My ascending degree is 27, Mercury is at 27 degrees.
Domicile Lord of Ascendant. That's the Moon, joy in house 3 Virgo.
Moon and its Domicile Lord. As above, it's lord is Mercury in Pisces, benefiting from the company of exalted Venus.
Tenth sign from ascendant and its Domicile Lord. Aries, ruler Mars, Mars in 12th of Gemini in joy because Sun exalted.
Lot of Fortune and its Domicile Lord. In Sagg, Jupiter in sect in 10th but under Sun's beams.
Any planets that make phasis* in the chart. Should also include planets that make a first or second station 7 days before or after nativity. Who, what and where?
The bound lord of the pre-natal lunation. Huh?
The prenatal lunation is the syzygy..you look at the chart to see which occured most closely prior to the birth, a full moon, or a new moon. That is the "lunation."
As for trigon lords, if the Sun is the predominator of my chart, then Mars ruled the 1st third of my life, followed by the Sun then Jupiter - things were fantastic until early 20s, much trickier now, yet the Sun is perhaps the best placed in my chart.