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

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Triplicity

Also called triplicity rulers

The planets that rule each element by day and by night: a minor essential dignity.

Ptolemy gave the fire signs the Sun by day and Jupiter by night, the earth signs Venus and the Moon, the air signs Saturn and Mercury, the water signs Mars (and, in Dorothean schemes, Venus and the Moon). The schemes differ in detail.

Where sources differ
Ptolemy's and Dorotheus's triplicity rulers differ, especially for water.
  • Kind: Technique, History
  • Tradition: Hellenistic astrology, Traditional Western astrology
  • In this site’s birth chart: not used

Related: Element, Essential dignity, Sect

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