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In astrology, the Arabian/Arabic parts or lots are constructed points based on mathematical calculations of three horoscopic entities such as planets or angles. The distance between two of the points is added to the position of the third (very often the ascendant) to derive the location of the lot. Hand-coloured version of the anonymous Flammarion woodcut (1888). ...
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A horoscope calculated for January 1, 2000 at 12:01:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time in New York City, New York, USA (Longitude: 074W0023 - Latitude: 40N4251). In astrology, a horoscope is a chart or diagram representing the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, the astrological aspects, and...
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The angles are the four Cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli. ...
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History
The lots are a very ancient astrological technique which can be traced back to pre-Hellenistic sources. Their origin is obscure; they could originally be Babylonian, Ancient Egyptian, Magian, Persian or Hermetic, but by the time of Dorotheus of Sidon in the first century A.D. (and probably earlier) they had become an established tenet of Hellenistic astrological practice. The term Hellenistic (established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen) in the history of the ancient world is used to refer to the shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks, however scattered geographically, to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of whatever ethnicity, and from the political dominance...
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Dorotheus of Sidon was a first-century Hellenistic astrologer, whose Carmen Astrologicum, a textbook of judicial (or horary) astrology, has come down to us mainly from an Arabic translation dating from around 800 AD (itself a translation of a third-century Persian translation from the original Greek, which has been...
One of the best informational sources for the lots is the Introduction to astrology by fourth-century astrologer Paulus Alexandrinus and the Commentary on this work by sixth-century philosopher Olympiodorus the Younger. Paulus used a dozen or so major lots for almost every aspect of his analysis. The most important of these were the Lot of Fortune (or Part of Fortune) and its complement, the Lot of Spirit. Paulus Alexandrinus was an astrological author from the late Roman Empire. ...
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After the fall of the Roman Empire, all of the classical legacy, including astrology, fell to the Abbasid Arabs and Persians. Islamic astrologers translated sources from Greek and produced many of their own astrologers who wrote a considerable amount in Arabic on astrology. Although it is not clear whether the number of lots began to proliferate in late Antiquity or whether it was purely the product of the fascination the Arabs had for them, Arabic manuscripts show an explosion in the number of lots that were used over the next several centuries. The inordinate increase is noted by the Arab commentators themselves. In The Abbreviation of the Introduction to Astrology, Persian astrologer Abu Ma'Shar (787-886) describes no less than 55 lots, although it's clear that these are only the ones he considers significant. This count does not even include all of the lots of Paulus. For other uses, see Roman Empire (disambiguation). ...
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Jafar ibn Muhammad Abu Mashar al-Balkhi (787 - 886) was a Persian astronomer and mathematician from Balkh, in todays Afghanistan. ...
Paulus Alexandrinus was an astrological author from the late Roman Empire. ...
Beginning in the tenth century, many Arab manuscripts were translated into Latin, becoming the means by which Classical astrology found its way back to Europe. Medieval astrologers, most notably the major 13th-century Italian, Guido Bonatti, a contemporary of Dante, assumed it was the Arabs who originated the concept of the lots, and hence they came eventually to be called the "Arabic parts". For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ...
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By the time of William Lilly, only the Lot of Fortune continued to be used by astrologers, although in a manner that would be considered strange by ancient practitioners. Lilly's methods with what he called "Fortuna" have continued in modern astrology, although rarely used and usually misunderstood. The Lot of Fortune mainly appears today in horary practice. William Lilly William Lilly (May 1 (O.S.)/May 11 (N.S.), 1602 - June 9, 1681), was a famed English astrologer and occultist during his time. ...
Horary astrology is a very old branch of astrology by which an astrologer will try to answer a question by drawing up an astrological chart or horoscope for the exact time and place at which that question came to mind or when it was put to them. ...
Calculating the Lot of Fortune Lilly's Part of Fortune (or Pars Fortunae) is calculated as Ascendant + Moon - Sun. That is, the degrees of distance (going in the direction of the signs) between the Sun and the Moon is calculated and then that same distance is measured from the point of the ascendant. In astrology, the Lots or Arabian Parts (or Arabic parts) are based on a mathematical calculation of three points in the horoscope. ...
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The same procedure was used by the Arabs and by Hellenistic astrologers to calculate the Lot of Fortune but there were two major differences:
- The location of the lot varied considerably in charts where the Sun was above the horizon (that is, a daytime chart, or one of diurnal sect) or below the horizon (a nighttime chart, or one of nocturnal sect). The day charts follow Lilly's procedure; nighttime charts reverse the direction in which the measurement is taken between the Sun and Moon, so that the astrologer measures from the Moon to the Sun (again, going in the direction of the signs) to get this arc. As with day charts, the arc is then measured from the ascendant to get the lot. The two formulas are, therefore:
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- Day chart: Ascendant + Moon - Sun
- Night chart: Ascendant - Moon + Sun
- Interpretatively, the Lot of Fortune was used to represent the body, fortune, and health. It was also used in place of the ascendant thereby changing the house-numbering, to find out more about these factors. Lilly and his contemporaries used the Lot of Fortune as a simple indicator of material well-being and, in horary charts, a marker of success.
Sect is an ancient astrological concept in which the seven traditional planets (including the Sun, the Moon and the five starry planets) are assigned to two different categories: diurnal or nocturnal sect. ...
The Lot of Spirit If the Lot of Fortune deals with material well-being, the body, fortune and health. The Lot of Spirit represents the initiative taken by that person, or what use is made of what is given.
The Lot of Spirit is the reverse of the Lot of Fortune, giving the following formulas:
- Day chart: Ascendant - Moon + Sun
- Night chart: Ascendant + Moon - Sun
The Hermetic lots The Hermetic lots are the lots that were used by Hellenistic astrologers such as Vettius Valens and Paulus Alexandrinus. These formulas can be found in Paulus (see reference below). Vettius Valens (ca. ...
Paulus Alexandrinus was an astrological author from the late Roman Empire. ...
References - Paulus Alexandrinus. Introductory Matters. Translated by Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum from the Greek in: Late Classical Astrology: Paulus Alexandrinus and Olympiodorus, with the Scholia from Later Commentators. ARHAT (Archive for the Retrieval of Historical Astrological Texts [1]) (Reston, VA, 2001.) Paulus is also available in a translation for Project Hindsight by Robert Schmidt (without the Commentary by Olympiodorus.) The Golden Hind Press (Berkeley Springs, WV, 1996[?].)
- Robert Zoller. The Arabic Parts in Astrology. (Inner Traditions International, Rochester Vermont, 1980, 1989.) ISBN 0-89281-250-8
- Abu Ma'shar. The Abbreviation of the Introduction to Astrology. [Edited and Translated by Charles Burnett] (ARHAT [Archive for the Retrieval of Historical Astrological Texts] Publications, 1994) ISBN 0-9662266-3-1
- Joseph Crane (author of A Practical Guide to Traditional Astrology [ARHAT, 1997]) in lecture and private conversation.
- William Lilly. Christian Astrology. (London, 1647) (in Ascella Publications edition, London, 1999) ISBN 1-898503-99-0
- Dorotheus of Sidon. Carmen Astrologicum. (Translated by David Pingree) (Astrology Classics edition, Bel Air Maryland, 2005) ISBN 1-933303-14-X
Paulus Alexandrinus was an astrological author from the late Roman Empire. ...
Project Hindsight is a translation project that was originally founded in in 1993 in order to translate and interpret the surviving texts of the Western astrological tradition. ...
Robert Schmidt (15 May 1864 - 16 September 1943) was a German politician, and member of the SPD party. ...
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Inner Traditions - Bear & Company (or just Inner Traditions) is a book publisher founded in 1975 and based in Rochester, Vermont in the United States. ...
Jafar ibn Muhammad Abu Mashar al-Balkhi (787 - 886), also known as Albumasar, Abu Mashar, and Balkhi, was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer from Balkh, in todays Afghanistan. ...
Joseph Halsey Crane (August 31, 1782 – November 13, 1851) was an attorney, soldier, jurist, and legislator. ...
William Lilly William Lilly (May 1 (O.S.)/May 11 (N.S.), 1602 - June 9, 1681), was a famed English astrologer and occultist during his time. ...
Dorotheus of Sidon was a first-century Hellenistic astrologer, whose Carmen Astrologicum, a textbook of judicial (or horary) astrology, has come down to us mainly from an Arabic translation dating from around 800 AD (itself a translation of a third-century Persian translation from the original Greek, which has been...
David Edwin Pingree (1933-2005), late University Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics and Classics at Brown University, was one of Americas foremost historians of the exact sciences in antiquity. ...
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