The
Lot or Part of Fortune
Part 4
We now come to some of the other lots. As of
this writing we have found over two dozen lots which come from Egyptian sources.
This should dispel once and for all the notion that lots are Arabic. Most of
them in fact are from a book called the Panaretos which was attributed to Hermes
Tresmegistes. He is no doubt a legendary figure with no historical basis, but
anything attributed to him before the Middle Ages can be safely ascribed to
Hellenistic Egyptian sources or earlier. The Lot of Fortune was attributed to
the also legendary Nechepso and Petosiris, a legendary pharaoh and his priest.
First of all several lots were assigned to the planets. Of these the Lot of
Fortune, as I have mentioned, was assigned to the Moon, the Lot of Spirit to the
Sun. The Lot of Spirit is the second most important of the lots. Its formula is
very simple. It is the same as the Lot of Fortune, but with the Sun and Moon
positions in the formula reversed. Thus the formula for the Lot of Spirit by day
is the same as the Lot of Fortune by night, and vice versa. The following
formulas should make this clear.
Lot of Fortune
Day Births: Fortune = Ascendant + Moon - Sun
Night Births: Fortune = Ascendant + Sun - Moon
Lot of Spirit
Day Births: Fortune = Ascendant + Sun - Moon
Night Births: Fortune = Ascendant + Moon - Sun
People who have been born at night and have been using the Lot of Fortune as
computed by most software and computer services have actually been using the Lot
of Spirit! The Lot of Spirit is a point which has strong psychological and
spiritual overtones, unlike the very physical-plane based Lot of Fortune. The
Lot of Spirit has to do with the nature of the will, what you intend (as opposed
to what merely happens to you), and also has much to do with career, but
apparently more your career as a statement that you make about what you are in
the world. It also has to do with illness, like the Lot of Fortune, but it would
seem that with the Lot of Spirit we are talking about the spiritual bases of
illness as opposed to the physical bases. Unlike the Lot of Fortune, the Lot of
Spirit does not often seem to have been use as a first house marker. Paulus
Alexandrinus says the following about the Lot of Spirit. "Spirit happens to be
lord of soul, temper, mindfulness, and every power; and sometimes it also
cooperates in the determination concerning what one does." This is about all we
can say about the Lot of Spirit at this point.
The other planets also have lots most of which are partly composed out of the
Lots of Fortune and Spirit.
In the following PF = Lot of Fortune, PS = Lot of Spirit
Mercury, Lot of Necessity
Day: Lot = Asc. + PF - Me
Night: Lot = Asc. + Me - PF
"Necessity signifies constraints,
submissions, struggles, and wars, and makes enmities, hatreds,
condemnations, all the other restrictive things befalling men as a result of
their birth." -- Paulus Alexandrinus
Venus, Lot of Eros
Day Lot = Asc. + Ve - PS
Night Lot = Asc. + PS - Ve
"Eros signifies the appetites and the
voluntative desires. It becomes a contributing cause of friendship and
mutual favor."-- Paulus Alexandrinus
Mars, Lot of Courage
Day Lot = Asc. + PF - Ma
Night Lot = Asc. + Ma - PF
"Courage becomes a contributing cause of
boldness, treachery, might, and every villainy." -- Paulus Alexandrinus
Jupiter, Lot of Victory
Day Lot = Asc. + Ju - PS
Night Lot = Asc. + PS - JU
"Victory becomes a contributing cause of
trust, good expectation, contest, and every association; but sometimes it
contributes to penalties and rewards." -- Paulus Alexandrinus
Saturn, Lot of Nemesis
Day Lot = Asc. + PF - Sa
Night Lot = Asc. + Sa - PF
"Nemesis becomes a contributing cause of
subterranean fates and of everything which is ice-cold, of demonstration,
impotence, exile, destruction, grief, and quality of death." -- Paulus
Alexandrinus
These quotes from Paulus are about all we know about these lots. None of these
appear to have been used as house markers.
The next group of lots are related to family issues:
Lot of the Father
Day Lot = Asc. + Sa - Su
Night Lot = Asc. + Su - Sa
If Saturn is within 17 degrees of the Sun use this formula according to the
Greek sources.
Day or Night Lot = Asc. + Ju - Ma
When Saturn is within 17 degrees of the Sun, Arabic sources used a different
formula.
Day Lot = Asc. + Ju - Su
Night Lot = Asc. + Su - Ju
I don't know what happens if both Jupiter and Saturn are within 17 degrees of
the Sun, but otherwise I prefer the Arabic formula when Saturn is close to the
Sun.
Lot of the Mother
Day Lot = Asc. + Mo - Ve
Night Lot = Asc. + Ve - Mo
Lot of Siblings
Day Lot = Asc. + Ju - Sa
Night Lot = Asc. + Sa - Ju
Not all sources reverse the formula for Siblings at night, and I am inclined to
agree with those sources that do not. I suggest that one start with the day
formula used for both day and night charts. This may seem inconsistent of me but
there is a principle underlying my position. In any case only experiment will
tell.
Lot of Children
Day Lot = Asc. + Sa - Ju
Night Lot = Asc. + Ju - Sa
Notice that this is the reverse of the Lot of Siblings. Here again some sources
do not reverse the formula at night, and here again I agree tentatively with
those that do not. Obviously persons born in the daytime have no problem here,
but persons born at night will have to experiment. This lot is for both male and
female children.
In the next installment I will give some more of these lots and some instruction
on how they were supposed to be used.
Robert Hand 3/11/96
Copyright 1996 © by Robert Hand.
Our thanks to tees.reitsma@astronet.idn.nl (Tees Reitsma) for initiating contact
with Mr. Hand and securing his permission to post this material to the Oracle-a
list. And our thanks to Mr. Hand for giving us permission to post his material
here.
Mr. Hand has been doing translations of ancient and medieval astrology texts now
for almost three years with Project Hindsight and that effort has published over
2000 pages of translations and commentary. If anyone is interested in further
information on Project Hindsight, they have a web page at
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