Lots Introducing the Four Principal Lots. The operative and effective signs are the Ascendant, MC, lt the XI Place of the Good Daimon, lt the V Place of Good Fortune, the Lot of Fortune, Daimon, Love, Necessity. Signs of moderate activity are lt the IX Place of the God, lt the III Place of the Goddess, and the other two angles. The rest of the signs are mediocre or bad. Vettius Valens, Anthologies, Book IV, Ch. Riley trans., 2. 01. It is also necessary to count from the Lot of Fortune, from Daimon, from Love, and from Necessity, for it is from these points that the critical illnesses, benefactions, and dangers are apprehended. Vettius Valens, Anthologies, Book IV, Ch. Food Safety Sanitary Design Strategies for Preventing Cross Contamination Features Feature. Riley trans., 2. 01. Topics from Lots. The Hellenistic Lots are, much like the houses, an ancient technique of attributing special topical significance to signs, places, of the astrological chart. Today they are often called Arabic Parts because there were misunderstandings in late traditional astrology in which it was assumed that all of the lots, aside from Fortune, did not exist in the Hellenistic period but were invented by the Arabs. Houses are based upon the accident of the Ascendant, numbering the signs beginning with the Ascending sign and attributing special topics to each ordinal place. The lots also tend to rely upon the Ascendant as an anchor i. Ascendant. The lots are not used instead of the houses but rather in addition to them, tying a place to additional topical significations. To illustrate, the most famous lot, the Lot of the Moon, also called Fortune, has special significance for chance circumstances that relate to the body and things of a physical or substantial nature in general. To find the place with this significance in someones chart you take the distance from the sect light to the non sect light and project it from the Ascendant, noting the degree and place where it lands. I show this below with Fortune in the 1. An online ebook edition of The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece, by Three Initiates, along with links that explore the. Help keep this library open and free th is is a readersupported project. THE+SEVEN+HERMETIC+PRINCIPLES.jpg' alt='The Seven Hermetic Principles/ Pdf' title='The Seven Hermetic Principles/ Pdf' />Dalai Lamas chart. Fortune is typically pictured as a circle with an X inside it, a treasure map reference, though Fortunes connection with wealth is somewhat over stated in astrology today, due to the central meaning evoked by its name Ill address Fortunes meaning at more length below. We find the distance from the sect light to the non sect light, and then project the same distance, in the same direction, from the Ascendant, placing our marker of the lot at that point. In this case, Fortune falls in Taurus, the 1. Taurus, ruled by Venus and in the bound of Mercury. Dalai Lamas Lot of the Moon CTRLClick to EnlargeFour Principal Lots There are four lots that are particularly important beyond all others for signifying general and very important topics in the life. They mark out 4 places in the chart that Vettius Valens, a critically important prolific second century astrologer, considered active and important simply by virtue of having one of these lots in them. In Chapter 1. 6 of Book II of The Anthology, Valens gives 9 special topical names to certain places of the chart. These places are largely identified by houses, but 4 lots are used as well, showing that Valens assigned a particularly special significance to these 4 lots in the chart. Of many lots used by Valens, only these 4 lots seem to be used by Valens to identify places on a par with the primary 1. In Book IV of The Anthology, Valens discussed profections. In that discussion there are only 4 lots which he profects around the chart see introductory quote. In fact, Valens sets aside an entire chapter of Book IV, Chapter 2. The Distributions of the Four Lots, to provide more details about the significance of the annual profections of these four lots. These lots present the poles of two significant topical polarities in life. First, there is a polarity between that which befalls us on a physical level, from body to accidents to children, and that which befalls us on a more abstract level, from mind to social relations to spirituality. Secondly, there is that inimitable polarity so dear to Heraclitus, of Love and Strife harmonious constructive alliance pushing things together versus dissonant destructive divisiveness pulling things apart. These four lots are derived from the locations of the Lights, the most powerful planets the Sun and Moon of the chart. The most important lots, Fortune and Spirit, are projections of the distance between the Lights, while the other two, Love and Necessity, are projections of the distance between Fortune and Spirit. This is something of a testimony to the power and general importance attributed to the Lights in Hellenistic astrology. Formulas and Rationale. Chris Brennan 2. The Theoretical Rationale Underlying the Seven Hermetic Lots, has, with great clarity, discussed the evidence of a rationale underlying the way the lots are constructed. John Zorn S on this page. Fourth century astrologer Paulus Alexandrinus named seven lots which corresponded to planets, known as the Seven Hermetic Lots of the Planets, which included Fortune and Spirit for the Lights Note The Lot of Venus is called Love by Paulus and that of Mercury is called Necessity but Paulus refers to different lots with different formulae than the Lots of Love and Necessity discussed by Valens which are explored here. Brennan 2. Hellenistic astrology, not just the planetary lots. Lets briefly discuss the construction of the Seven Hermetic Lots, referencing Brennans paper please take a look at that paper before proceeding. All seven of the Lots of the Planets include the planet of the correspondence in the calculation. However, the planets placement in the formula depends upon sect and beneficmalefic status. For instance, the Lot of the Sun is the lot commonly called Spirit or Daimon. It is calculated from the non sect Light to the sect Light, i. Light to the more active and influential Light with this distance then projected from the Ascendant. This is the opposite of the Lot of the Moon, commonly known as Fortune, which is calculated from the sect Light to the non sect Light, i. Light. The lots of the other 5 planets also display an interesting rationale. Brennan 2. Lot of the Sun, while those of the malefic planets and Mercury involve the distance between the corresponding planet and the Lot of the Moon. If the birth sect is the same as that of the lot of the Light involved in the formula, then the formula goes from the lot to the planet, but if of the opposite sect then it is from the planet to the lot. For instance, the Lot of Venus by day would be the distance from the Lot of the Sun Spirit to Venus, projected from the Ascendant, while the Lot of Saturn, which involves the nocturnal Lot of the Moon Fortune because Saturn is a malefic, would by day be the distance from Saturn to the Lot of the Moon projected from the Ascendant, and by night be the distance from Fortune to Saturn projected from the Ascendant. If I am interpreting his conclusions rightly, Brennan 2. Light more active and that of the other Light more passive in interpretation, i. Spirit might show more passive intellectual and social chance circumstances, but Fortune more active chance physical circumstances. In contrast, by day, Spirit would show more active intellectual and social chance circumstances and Fortune more passive physical circumstances.