Minderwiz
How about my question from the previous thread? Will I start a desired job/career by the end of this year? Job would be the 6th house, career the 10th, do I look at both rulers to determine what will be my employment status?
Of course and apologies for failing to pick it up before. The full question posted was:
Minderwiz, are you going to continue wuth the horary readings this year? If so, can I ask about a new job in the new year? That means: will I start a well paying desired by me job/career by the end of 2012?
The significators would be you - first house, as normal.
Now you use job/career as though the are the same and indeed that's the way that I would treat them here. The only meaningful distinctions that I can think of between 'career; and 'joib' is that a career is chosen deliberately and is something that you enjoy doing (or at least when you started it) and possibly but not always pays better. 'Career' also has connotations of professional status of some sort. A 'job' on the other hand is something you do to pay the bills but may not enjoy. In this question you deliberately used the phrase 'desired by me' as well as 'well paid'. Either way both 'job' and 'career' would be tenth house. The tenth says something about your social status and whether you have a 'job' or 'career' you gain a large part of your social status from it. I know that some modern writers treat the sixth as covering work colleagues or 'the job' but I think that misses the original meaning which was 'slaves and servants'. Now I know few of us these days have slaves and servants but may of us do have subordinates at work - people who answer to us. And also we all from time to time hire others to do work for us - plumbers, electricians, real estate agents, caterers, etc. These are sixth house people (though as John Frawley points out you might end up crawling to the plumber to come out and fix the leaking tap). Lee in the post above is in a sixth house relationship to the Agency and if the principal of the agency had asked the question about Lee, then I'd have used the sixth house for him.
So for your question the significators are the first and tenth houses rulers.
Ronia said:Also, it's not possible for me to install any new programs on my computer, how do I calculate these essential dignities? I don't understand the lists on Skyscript... They require calculation which I don't know how to do.
For Rulership, Exaltation,
all you need to do is check the sign of your significator and then use the table on Skyscript to check if the planet is in one of these two dignities using the firstthree columns of the table. The first column gives the sign (in which the planet concerned is located) and is used for all the essential dignities. The second column giver the planet ruling the sign (you can ignore the D or N for Day and Night). The third column gives the planet exalted in that sign. So if your planet appears in the second column it's the sign ruler, if it appears in the third column it's in it's exaltation and if it appears in the first two columns then it's Mercury in Virgo. Again you can ignore the degree quoted, these did indeed use to be important but even in the Medieval period they were not really made any use of.
The fourth column is the Triplictiy ruler for the three signs of the same element. Now here you will find two planets listed, one for D(ay) and one for N(ight). Which of these you take depends on the time that you cast the chart. If the Sun is above the horizon take the one in the D column, if it's below the horizon then take the one in the N column. If it's a Water sign always use Mars as the Triplicity ruler whether it's Day or Night. All these three dignities require you only to know what sign the planet is in. There's no calculation of any sort.
Terms and Face
There is now a block of five columns all under the heading 'The Terms of the Planets'. To use this block you need to know what degree of the sign your planet is in. You can get this from scrutinising the chart, or looking at the list of the positions given by astro.com.
Each sign has five Terms, and the planets ruling each term are given in order plust the degree at which their Term rulership ends. Thus for Aries, the first Term has Jupiter listed followed by the number 6. This means Jupiter rules the terms from the start of Aries (0 degrees) up to but not including 6 degrees exactly , i.e. up to 5 degrees 59 minutes 59 seconds (and any fraction of a second you care to suggest). From 6 degrees exactly up to but not including 14 degrees exactly, Venus rules the second Term. From 14 degrees exactly up to 21 degrees Mercury rules, from 21 exactly up to 26 Mars rules and from 26 exactly up to the end of Aries, Saturn rules.
Terms are the only difficult set because the Terms are not equal and I certainly can't remember each individual one. So I use the table or software.
The next three columns come under the common heading 'The Faces of The Planets' . Each sign is divided into three equal segments of 10 degrees (sometimes referred to as the Decans). Again yu need the degree of the sign the planet is in, but you should already have determined that for finding it's Terms. The degrees quoted in the column should be read in the same way as for Terms. That is the first Face runs from 0 degrees exactly up to but not including 10 degrees, in Aries this will be ruled by Mars. The second Face runs from 10 degrees exactly and is ruled by The Sun and the final Face runs fron 20 degrees exactly and is ruled by Venus. Again using Aries as the example.
For both Terms and Face, if the planet you are looking for is listed in one of the columns for the sign it is placed in and is in one of the degrees that fall into that Term or Face then it has dignity. However you need to take a little care that the planet is in it's own Terms. So if Jupiter is at 6 degrees exact of Aries, it is actually in the Terms of Venus and has no dignity by Terms (though it might be the Triplicity ruler if the chart was cast at night)
Debilities
The Final two columns of the table give you the planet in Detriment or Fall in that sign. So if your planet is in one of those two columns it's got a debility.
None of the dignities require any mathematical calculation but they do require you to know the planet's sign placement at least, for Triplicity you will need to know whether it is night or day and for Terms and Face what degree of the sign it is in.