iPhone – screenshot

Dignities and Sect iPhone

SF or SFG = Solar Fire Gold ver 9, MS Windows program.

EDD = Essential Dignities/Debilities

MR = Mutual Reception

Example of the Essential Dignities Table as shown in AC

Currently AC does not calculate Essential Dignities/Debilities or display them in the same way as SFG does. Nor does AC have a Planetary Sect module. AC’s EDD is not essentially different though. It’s just missing some features, such as mutual receptions.

AC is preparing to rectify this. Planetary Sect, house Almutens and options to match Solar Fire Essential Dignities calculations and tables are planned. This is quite an extensive undertaking so it might take some weeks. In this post I’ll be chronicling the progress with screenshots and comparisons with SFG. Note that House Almutens requires Sect calculations .

Hopefully The Almutin Figuris or Chart Ruler can be included.

Solar Fire And AC EDD – Ted Turner nataL chart

Doro trip Chart no MR Ted Turner SF

Ted Turner EDD

Notes:

Solar Fire: Saturn and Mars have -5 added to their scores because they are peregrine – see editor screenshot below. Venus in Trip is not scored – out of sect.

AC: If a planet has no essential dignities nor debilities it is marked as peregrine, with a “p” and given a score of -5. Venus trip is scored +3. Planetary Sect will be taken into account very soon.

Solar Fire EDD editor settings for AC

Default SF EDD Editor

Note the In Triplicity (in Sect)

Essential dig editor #1 Solar Fire

Planetary Sect for Ted Turner SF Chart

Venus in her triplicity (out of sect) would not be taken into account using the default SF EDD, if SF’s default settings were used. Similarly EDD with Dorotheus Trip would not score Venus in her trip, by default.

Doro trip Ptolemy terms Chart no MR Ted Turner SF

Triplicity is strongly associated with sect.

AC Planetary Sect Ted Turner

(available for the iPhone/iPad/Mac)

Planetary Sect Ted Turner

In Triplicity – in Sect. To Do

In Triplicity – in sect

Horary Aspect table settings

Show only applying major aspects with traditional planets in the Aspect Table (bottom left) – a preferred traditional astrology setting.

Traditional Planetary Orbs (moiety)

Planetary Hours

Day and hour Lords

Antiscia charts and aspects

Essential Dignities and Debilities table

Terms: Ptolemy, Egyptian Chaldean

Triplicity: Dorotheus, Lilly

Planetary Sect, Almutens

Terms and Triplicities shown around proportional chart wheel

Traditional chart wheel

Nudge Chart in real-time to see when any or next aspect perfects

Traditional Chart overview

Traditional overview

iPhone

iPhone XR Trad aspect grid

Historical Charts

Planetary Sect is now included for iPhone/iPad/Mac

Dignities and Sect iPhone

AstroConnexions scores the essential dignities and debilities table as follows

A planet in its:

• Domicile/Ruler: +5
• Exaltation: +4
• Triplicity: +3
• Term: +2
• Face: +1
• Detriment: -5
• Fall: -4

Notes:

If a planet has no essential dignities nor debilities it is marked as peregrine, with a “p” and given a score of -5

Mutual reception is not included in the calculations for dignity or debility, but see:

dt_gap height=”15″ /]

See the Skyscript forum for interesting posts on this subject:

Skyscript article

Example of the Essential Dignities Table as shown in AC

Essential dignities table

Note the black star/asterisk next to a planet. This indicates that it has a value and is used to calculate the eventual score in the Score column. Eg Venus is in the Terms of Venus so is given a score of 2, but Venus is also in her detriment so she gets a score of -5. So the overall score is -3.

Solar Fire difference

You may notice a difference between the triplicity values in the Essential Dignities table shown by Solar Fire, Astro Gold and AstroConnexions.

There are three settings available according to the SF help.

• Ptolemy – As defined in his book “Tetrabiblos”
• Lilly – As defined in his book “Christian Astrology”
• Dorothean – According to Dorotheus of Sidon.

Apropos Reporting for AC

Reporting uses the Terms and Triplicities of planets for scoring.

Displayed Terms and Triplicities

terms trip annoted

Settings for Terms and Triplicities in the Essential Dignities Table

Terms trip setting

Notes on the Settings

Triplicites:

• Dorotheus: Day/night values are used.
• Lilly: Day/night values are used.
• Ptolemy: Day/night values are used.

Triplicities

D = Day N = Night P = Participatory

Terms

• Ptolemy: as defined in Christian Astrology.
• Egyptian/Chaldean: see various websites.

Here’s an explanation about the use of triplicity by Lilly.

Essential Dignities and Debilities View #9. Not for iPhone.

For all charts, single and bi-wheel, excluding Gauquelin. For Your Charts and Provided charts.

This is very useful when viewing bi-wheels, eg secondary progressed charts. Why? Bi-wheels do not show the terms and triplicities on the displayed chart. To see what term, for example the progressed sun is in check the dignities table. Alternatively view the progressed chart as a single-wheel.

Essential dignities View #9

Long-press over the Essential Dignities and Debilities table view #9

Dismiss the Dignities Settings to see the results reflected in the dignities table. To dismiss the Dignities Settings tap anywhere away from the Dignities Settings.

Single Wheel/Bi-wheel – Essential Dignities table display

When a single wheel chart is displayed the Essential Dignities table shows the calculations for the that display of planets.

When a Bi-wheel chart is displayed the Essential Dignities table shows the calculations for the outside wheel planets/points, ie the applying planets.

Note that a single chart can be natal, secondary progression, solar return. Same for bi-wheel charts.

Example Essential Dignities table showing Egyptian Terms

Egyptian Terms

Single Tap over a planets position on the displayed chart

Note that tapping a planet’s position shows the correct Terms for that planet and Triplicity as selected by the Terms/Triplicities settings. This has always been the case, except the Lilly triplicity was never shown.

Single Tap Planet position showing details

iPhone

Single Tap – iPhone

Abbreviations (for iPhone):

Terms/Trip Settings

ASC/MC/POF values cannot be shown in the Essential Dignities table or the Essential Dignities View #9 for bi-wheel charts unless the ASC and MC and POF are shown on the displayed chart.

Note that the plain chart does not show Terms or Triplicities as it would be impractical to do so.

Bi-wheels do not show the Terms or Triplicities on the chart display wheel.