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Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

Traditional technique · Intermediate

Essential dignity

Also called dignities, essential dignities

How “at home” a planet is in its sign by the traditional scheme of domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term and face.

Traditional astrology scored a planet's strength by where it is: best in its own sign (domicile), well in its exaltation, and so on down; worst in detriment and fall. The site's v1 chart names domicile, exaltation, detriment and fall only.

  • Kind: Technique, History
  • Tradition: Traditional Western astrology, Hellenistic astrology
  • In this site’s birth chart: used

Related: Domicile, Exaltation, Detriment, Fall, Triplicity, Term, Face, Peregrine, Accidental dignity

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