Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune

Bonifying testimony is read as support only when its contributing ingredients stay visible in the condition balance.

A body is debilitated when the score and tier show weakness or affliction from visible component testimony, not from an opaque condition label.

Maltreating testimony is preserved as pressure when visible components lower the condition balance or mark severe impairment.

Besiegement means restrictive exposure to malefic contacts on both sides; Sahl's branch requires departure from one and connection to the other without intervening rays. Only surrounding geometry is established here. Motion, intervening rays and source-specific relief are unavailable, so a complete besiegement judgment is not admitted.

When speed data shows the source body moving toward the exact ecliptic aspect point, the relation is read as applying.

Two bodies in signs joined by conjunction, sextile, square, trine, or opposition are read as witnessing by whole-sign ray.

Two bodies occupying the same sign are read as co-present, distinguishing same-place relation from rays or exact aspects.

A target body is read as enclosed only when it is uninterrupted between its immediate classical guards and both guards reach it by co-presence or whole-sign ray, without promoting the narrower medieval besiegement rule.

Overcoming identifies the planet on the right-hand, superior side of a sextile, square or trine. That planet has directional precedence in interpreting the contact. Sign order is circular: Capricorn is superior to Pisces, Aries and Taurus in these figures. Conjunction, opposition and aversion receive no unilateral direction from this geometry alone, and the relation does not establish an overall outcome.

When speed data shows the source body moving away from the exact ecliptic aspect point, the relation is read as separating.

Reception is exposed as one supporting component in the planetary-condition balance rather than as automatic rescue.

A body is strongly conditioned only when the composite condition tier and score are backed by visible dignity, sect, place, motion, visibility, reception, and joy ingredients.

Solar visibility problems are preserved as an impairing condition component even when other ingredients are favorable.