#decanate

Many "modern" astrologers still use the Lot/Part of Fortune, but the reason why they no longer use the other Hermetic Lots is unsettling. Above all, we can only stress the importance of the Lot of Daimon (or Lot of Spirit), as significant as the Lot of Fortune:

" The Hermetic Lot of the sun is simply known as “Daimon.” This is probably confusing considering we just discussed daimons being lesser spirits. There are countless numbers of daimons residing in every aspect of creation since they were basically the Greek form of animism. So, what the hell is this talking about? The daimon indicated by the Lot of Spirit isn’t just A daimon, it’s YOUR daimon. The idea is that this guardian spirit is merged with your soul before you’re born and is meant to guide you. You can think of this as your “higher self,” your “intuition,” your “guides,” whatever you want to call it basically amounts to the same thing. " [source: Jake Green - The Spirits of the Hermetic Lots]

The calculation of the Lot of Daimon is: ASC + Sun - Moon (Day Charts) ASC + Moon - Sun (Night Charts).

Then you'll have to examine its position in sign, house, the position of its ruler/dispositor and the potential conjunctions with planets and fixed stars to get a clear image of your "Daimon".

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❦ remember this is decanates not decans.

❦ so we know that each sign has 30 degrees, right? each sign is divided into 10 degrees sections which are called decanates, so obviously 30 divided by 10 is 3.

❦ the first ten decanates of a sign is ruled by that sign, then the second ten degrees is ruled by the next sign of the "same element" and the third ten degrees is ruled by the third sign of the same element.

SIGNS

❦ for example, let's focus on our sun sign, my sun sign is aquarius but i'm going to use the sun sign, gemini first. so someone has their sun sign in gemini, the first decanate of gemini is gemini, the second decanate is libra and the third decanate is aquarius, representing the three air signs.

❦ if someone had their sun sign in libra that means the first decanate is libra, the second decanate is aquarius and the third decanate is gemini.

❦ if someone had their sun sign in aquarius that means the first decanate is aquarius, the second decanate is gemini and the third decanate is libra.

❦ are you getting the pattern?

❦ a first decanate gemini, is someone who is born with their sun sign between 0 - 10 degrees, and this would be gemini in it's truest form, someone who's filled with curiousity, witty and dual. i call this the gemini-gemini decanate.

❦ a second decanate gemini, is someone who is born with their sun sign between 11 - 20 degrees, and this would bring this gemini sun person to have some libra traits, they'll become more justifying when it comes to thought, more indecisive and vain. i call this the gemini-libra decanate.

❦ a third decanate gemini, is someone who is born with their sun sign between 21 - 30 degrees, and this would bring this gemini sun to have some aquarius traits, they'll become more aloof and eccentric. i call this the gemini-aquarius decanate.

❦ are you getting the pattern?

❦ my sun sign is aquarius in 23 degrees, so that makes be an aquarius-libra decanate.

PLANETS

❦ the same thing is applied with planets, look at the degree of your sun sign again and find out which planet decanate you have. let me use another example, using my sign.

❦ a first planet decanate aquarius, someone who has their sun sign (this can be applied to other planets too) between 0 - 10 degrees, will be an aquarius-uranus decanate, the sign in its uttermost truest form, eccentric, random and intelligent.

❦ if an aquarius has their sun sign between 11 - 20 degrees, they would be an aquarius-mercury decanate, this will make them more talkative, energetic and curious than the usual aquarius.

❦ if another aquarius had their sun sign between 21 - 30 degrees, they would be an aquarius-venus decanate, this will make them someone who is more charming, materialistic and vain than the usual aquarius.

❦ do you get the pattern?

❦ so like i said i have 23 degrees so it'll make me an aquarius-venus decanate, now i put the sign decanate, what i talked before the planets and the planets decanate, what i'm talking about now together and it'll make me someone who is an aquarius-libra-venus decanate.

i hope this post intrigued you ❦

Air Signs – [Gemini, Libra, Aquarius] the triplicity that represents the function of thinking, and the communicative process

Angles – the term used to identify the two most “important” axes of a natal chart, and thus four most “important” points. The Horizon (Ascendant-Descendant) and the Meridian (Medium Coeli-Imum Coeli)

Angular Houses – the houses corresponding to the Cardinal Signs

Aquarius – the eleventh sign, an air sign of the fixed modality

Aries – the first sign, a fire sign of the cardinal modality

Ascendant – the degree of the zodiac that is rising on the horizon at the moment of birth, also known as the Rising (usually the cusp of the First House)

Aspects – specific geometrical relations between two bodies in a chart

Cadent Houses – the houses corresponding to the Mutable Signs

Cancer – the fourth sign, a water sign of the cardinal modality

Capricorn – the tenth sign, an earth sign of the cardinal modality

Cardinal Signs – [Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn] the quadruplicity existing at the initiation of a season (equinoxes and solstices). These signs serve to initiate change and begin the cycle of creation

Composite Chart – a type of relationship chart created by calculating the mid-points of two different charts, in an attempt to describe the energetic quality of the relationship

Conjunction – a major aspect, in which the two bodies are overlapping

Cusp – the dividing line between two consecutive signs or houses

Decan or Decanate – a further division of each sign by three, each subsection totaling ten degrees

Degree – one 30th part of a sign, or one 360th part of a circle

Descendant – the degree of the zodiac that is setting on the horizon at the moment of birth (usually the cusp of the Seventh House)

Detriment – the placement of a planet in a sign or house opposite to the one that it rules

Dignity//Domicile – the placement of a planet in the sign or house that it rules

Duplicated Signs – signs that rule two houses in a natal chart, accompanied by Intercepted Signs

Earth Signs – [Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn] the triplicity that represents the function of the senses, and the need for practicality in our lives

Ecliptic – the apparent motion of the sun through our sky as the Earth orbits around. Divided into 360 degrees and then twelve sub sections of thirty degrees called Signs

Exaltation – the placement of a planet in the sign or house in which it best expresses its energy

Fall – the placement of a planet in the sign or house opposite to its Exaltation

Feminine Signs – the three earth signs and the three water signs that represent the perceptive-emotional functions. The signs of negative polarity

Fire Signs – [Aries, Leo, Sagittarius] the triplicity that represents the function of feeling, and our passions and drives

Fixed Signs – [Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius] the quadruplicity that exists as the proliferation of a season. They serve to maintain and develop the change of the Cardinal Signs

Gemini – the third sign, an air sign of the mutable modality

Houses – the twelve sections of a chart that correspond to various spheres of activity in our lives (see here)

Imum Coeli – the degree of the zodiac that is directly below the earth at the moment of birth, also known as the Nadir (usually the cusp of the Fourth House)

Inconjunct – a minor aspect, in which two bodies are separated by 150 degrees

Intercepted Signs – signs completely encased within a house and who thus rule no houses in the chart, accompanied by Duplicated Signs

Leo – the fifth sign, a fire sign of the fixed modality

Libra – the seventh sign, an air sign of the cardinal modality

Lord – the ruler of a sign or house

Masculine Signs – the three fire signs and the three air signs that represent the rational-communicative functions. The signs of positive polarity

Medium Coeli – the degree of the zodiac that is directly overhead at the moment of birth, also known as the Midheaven (usually the cusp of the Tenth House)

Midpoint – the ecliptic degree halfway between two bodies or points

Modality – [Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable] the mode of operation of a sign, and the way in which it directs its energies

Mutable Signs – [Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces] the quadruplicity the exists as the end of a season. They serve to transform the developments of the fixed signs to pave the way for cardinal creation.

Nodes – the Lunar Nodes: the points in the Moon’s orbit that cross the ecliptic, also known as the North and South Nodes, the Dragon’s Head and Dragon’s Tail, or Rahu and Ketu

Opposition – a major aspect, in which two bodies are separated by 180 degrees

Orb – variation of degrees from an aspect

Pisces – the twelfth sign, a water sign of the mutable modality

Planets – the ten heavenly bodies that correspond to various drives and energies in our lives (see here)

Quadruplicity – a set of four signs with the same modality

Retrograde – the apparent backwards motion of a planet in our sky due to their relative motion

Sagittarius – the ninth sign, a fire sign of the mutable modality

Scorpio – the eighth sign, a water sign of the fixed modality

Sextile – a minor aspect, in which two bodies are separated by 60 degrees

Signs – 30 degree sections of the Ecliptic beginning at the Vernal Equinox

Square – a major aspect, in which two bodies are separated by 90 degrees

Stellium – a grouping of 3 or more planets in a sign or house (potentially 4 or more depending on the planets involved and the astrologer)

Succedent Houses – the houses corresponding to the Fixed Signs

Synastry – the study of relationships in astrology utilizing inter-chart overlays and the creation of a composite chart

Taurus – the second sign, an earth sign of the fixed modality

Transit – the current movement of the planets, and the interaction between them as well as their interaction with a natal chart

Trine – a major aspect, in which two bodies are separated by 120 degrees

Triplicity – a set of three signs with the same element

Virgo – the sixth sign, an earth sign of the mutable modality

Water Signs – [Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces] the triplicity that represents the function of emotion, and our intuitive abilities

Karma Card: Queen of Clubs

#decanate 

He divided the disciples into two classes, and called these Esoterics and those Exoterics. To the first-named he entrusted the more complete teaching, to the others the more restricted. He applied himself[32] to magic[33] also, as they say, and himself invented a philosophy of the origin of Nature,[34] based upon certain numbers and measures, saying that the origin of the arithmetical philosophy comprised this method by synthesis. The first number became a principle which is one, illimitable, incomprehensible, and contains within itself all the numbers that can come to infinity by multiplication.[35] But the first unit was by hypothesis the origin of numbers, the which is a male monad begetting like a father all the other numbers. In the second place is the dyad, a female number, and the same is called even by p. 10.the arithmeticians. In the third place is the triad, a male number, and it has been called odd by the arithmeticians’ decree. After all these is the tetrad, a female number, and this is also called even, because it is female. Therefore all the numbers derived from the genus[36] (now the illimitable genus is “number”) are four, from which was constructed, according to them, the perfect number, the decad. For the 1, 2, 3, 4 become 10 if for each number its appropriate name be substantially kept.[37] This decad[38] Pythagoras said was a sacred Tetractys, a source of everlasting Nature containing roots within itself, and that from the same number all the numbers have their beginning. For the 11 and the 12 and the rest share the beginning of their being from the 10. The four divisions of the same decad, the perfect number, are called number, monad,[38] square[39] and cube. The conjunctions and minglings of p. 11.which make for the birth of increase and complete naturally the fruitful number. For when the square is multiplied[40] by itself, it becomes a square squared; when into the cube, the square cubed; when the cube is multiplied by the cube, it becomes a cube cubed. So that all the numbers from which comes the birth of things which are, are seven; to wit: number, monad, square, cube, square of square, cube of square and cube of cube.   [37-8] 

Source:   Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume I by Antipope Hippolytus

FIST DECANATE: MARCH 21 THROUGH MARCH 31

Keyword: Inspiration

Constellation: Andromeda, the Chained Woman. She was freed of her chains by Perseus, the Rescuer. The constellation symbolizes the power of love. 

Planetary subruler: Mars

Mars is both your ruler and subruler, giving your personality extra force and impact.You are a dominant person and can some- times be too aggressive.In an argument or clash of wills, you ride right over the opposition.You are impetuous and energetic and tend to throw yourself into activities with all your heart.A person of conviction, you will never take an action that you think is wrong.You are a clear, incisive thinker and can carry a plan to conclusion.Your best quality is your ability to inspire confidence in others.At times you tire yourself out because you don’t know when to stop.You also tend to monopolize conversations.

SECOND DECANATE: APRIL 1 THROUGH APRIL 10

Keyword: Innovation

Constellation: Cetus, the Whale or Sea Monster, tied to two fishes and led by a lamb.Cetus symbolizes energy harnessed to imagination and love. 

Planetary subruler: Sun

The Sun in this decanate adds to the power of Aries’s Mars, which gives your character dignity, pride, and vitality.You have an ardent and excitable love nature, and your sexual energy is high.The Sun here indicates a great fondness for change.You are never content to take things as they come.Because you are ambitious, you go out and try to put your mark on the world.Others tend to cluster around you, for you have joie de vivre and a magnetic personality. More than the other two decanates of Aries, you seek pleasure out of life.You have a taste for the expensive and can be quite imperious if you don’t get what you want. A liking for too much good food is one of your downfalls.

THIRD DECANATE: APRIL 11 THROUGH APRIL 19 

Keyword: Foresight

Constellation: Cassiopeia, a beautiful queen seated on her throne who symbolizes good judgment.Down through the ages she has been a celestial guide to travelers. 

Planetary subruler: Jupiter