Documents, tables and articles

Everything below is free to download and free to use in teaching. The tables are the ones a traditional practitioner reaches for constantly; the articles work through real charts, which is the only honest way to show a method.

A complete, always current list of every document on this site — including those no page links to any more — is kept on the documents index.

Reference tables

• Astrological glyphs — the signs, planets and aspects, with the variants found in older manuscripts.
• Essential dignities and debilities, medieval — the standard table: domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term and face, with the debilities.
• Essential dignities after William Lilly — the same scheme in the form English practice inherited, which differs in the terms.
• Planetary attributes — nature, sect, humour, and the significations each planet carries by default.
• Fixed stars and their nature — the stars used in practice, their positions and their planetary natures.
• Planetary hours — the division of the day and night, and how to calculate it for any date and latitude.
• Firdaria, or planetary periods — the diurnal and nocturnal orders, with the sub-periods.
• The Alchabitius table of houses — the division that most medieval judgements assume.

The dignities table is also available in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

The table is read by hand. The same five dignities and two debilities, degree by degree and with the day and night variants, are set out in an online table of essential dignities.

Articles

These study single techniques in the setting where they matter. They are listed on the articles page.

• The burning question: how combustion works in a natal chart
• Facing royalty: almugea, or proper face
• Jupiter in Sagittarius
• Saturn in Leo
• Searching for the horoscope of Portugal

Shorter pieces and notes appear on the blog rather than here.