John Gadbury, The Doctrine of Nativities and Horary Questions
Definition
John Gadbury, The Doctrine of Nativities and Horary Questions is an astrological source represented here through cited material on significators, domicile, essential dignity, exaltation, and face.
What this work covers
The cited material covers significators, domicile, essential dignity, exaltation, and face.
Chapters 25-31 define significators and promissors and tabulate directions of the ascendant, midheaven, Sun, Moon, and Fortune to planets, aspects, houses, and fixed stars, followed by competing time measures. The repeated outcomes are bounded historical prediction material.
Gadbury's essential-dignity table assigns descending testimony weights to a planet in domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term, and face: five, four, three, two, and one respectively.
Gadbury's profession procedure first considers Mercury, Venus, and Mars when they occupy the tenth or configure with its lord; otherwise it shifts priority to the lord and occupants of the tenth and blends each planet's nature with the nature of its sign.
Scope and limitations
This overview is limited to the cited portions. It does not stand in for the complete work, reproduce source passages, or make every documented technique a universal chart interpretation.