Anthology

Across sources, the Ascendant ruler has a supportive or mixed condition balance; house placement and house strength are shown separately.

Across sources, the Ascendant ruler is angular, foregrounding its ability to express chart-level topics.

Across sources, the Ascendant ruler is operating in sect, which strengthens its ability to express chart-level topics.

Across sources, the Ascendant ruler is supported by benefic testimony.

Across sources, the Ascendant ruler is under malefic pressure.

Across sources, Courage's ruler is modified by benefic testimony.

Across sources, Courage's ruler is under malefic pressure.

Across sources, Fortune's ruler is in sect, strengthening its ability to express bodily, material, and reputational topics.

Across sources, Fortune's ruler is supported by benefic testimony.

Across sources, Fortune's ruler is under malefic pressure.

Across sources, the Lot of Eros' ruler is supported by benefic testimony.

Across sources, the Lot of Eros' ruler is under malefic pressure.

Across sources, Necessity's ruler is modified by benefic testimony.

Across sources, Necessity's ruler is under malefic pressure.

Across sources, Nemesis' ruler is modified by benefic testimony.

Across sources, Nemesis' ruler is under malefic pressure.

Two bodies whose signs do not join by the classical ray families are read as in aversion at the whole-sign relation layer.

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

Across sources, Spirit's ruler is in sect, strengthening its ability to express mental, active, and intentional topics.

Across sources, Spirit's ruler is supported by benefic testimony.

Across sources, Spirit's ruler is under malefic pressure.

If Accomplishment is afflicted while Fortune, Daimon, and Basis remain favorably supported in this reading, the chart receives a youth-property-loss indication.

If Accomplishment opposes Daimon and neither side has benefic conjunction in this reading, the chart receives a failures-and-loss indication.

If Accomplishment opposes the houserulers, especially when they are malefic and out of sect in this reading, the chart receives a near-disaster warning.

If the ruler of Accomplishment opposes Accomplishment, the chart receives a wealth-uselessness indication.

If the ruler of Accomplishment opposes Mars, the chart receives an extravagance indication.

If the angles are empty, Valens falls back first to stars just following the angles, then to those just preceding them.

If the Ascendant ruler is in its own sect or strongly foregrounded and is configured with Fortune's ruler, the chart receives a longevity-and-luck support indication.

Fortune and the key rulers converging in the Bad Daimon are read as a severe loss-of-support warning.

If the rulers of Basis, Fortune, and Daimon are in their proper places in this reading, the chart receives a fortunate indication.

If the rulers of Basis and Fortune converge in Daimon with Daimon's ruler, the chart receives a great-and-fortunate agreement indication.

If benefics are angular, rising, and proceeding with proper motion in this reading, the chart receives an illustrious-and-famous indication.

If Daimon opposes Exaltation in this whole-sign reading, the chart receives a ruin-of-standing warning.

If Daimon's ruler is in Basis with the Moon, the chart receives a fortunate-and-distinguished indication.

If Daimon's ruler is in Daimon with the Sun, the chart receives a fortunate-distinguished-dictatorial indication.

If Daimon's ruler is in Daimon and at morning rising with the Moon, the chart receives a fortunate-rich-generous indication.

If Daimon is with the Sun and its ruler is at morning rising, the chart receives a fortunate indication.

If the opposite Exaltation/malefic placement obtains in this reading, the chart receives an ill-fortune-early/later-renown reversal indication.

If Exaltation is at MC and a malefic is at IC in this reading, the chart receives an early-success/later-ruin reversal indication.

If Exaltation and its ruler are strongly afflicted in this reading, the chart receives an ill-fortune-from-youth indication; if benefics witness the Exaltation place, the chart receives the opposite good-portent indication.

If Fortune is in an unpropitious place and afflicted while Accomplishment remains favorably supported in this reading, the chart receives a youth-power indication.

If the rulers of Fortune and Accomplishment oppose one another, the chart receives a property-risk indication.

If the rulers of Fortune and Accomplishment appear active by place and motion but fail the stronger support tests in this reading, especially under malefic testimony, the chart receives a ruin indication.

Fortune and its ruler can still surface rank and support when they are strong by place and receive benefic testimony.

If the ruler of Fortune or Accomplishment is at the lower angles or just following them in this reading, the chart receives a youth-prosperity indication.

If Fortune itself or its ruler holds strong place testimony, the chart receives a prosperity and elevation support indication.

If Fortune's ruler opposes Exaltation or Exaltation's ruler in this reading, the chart receives a precarious-standing warning.

If the rulers of Fortune and Daimon converge in Basis with the Basis ruler, the chart receives an illustrious-and-fortunate agreement indication.

If the rulers of Fortune and Daimon are at morning rising in their proper places, with the luminaries in aspect, the chart receives a fame-and-distinction indication.

If Jupiter rules Daimon and Mars aspects it from the superior side in this whole-sign reading, the chart receives a mixed distinguished-but-reversal-prone indication.

If Jupiter is in conjunction with Exaltation and angular, or itself rules an angle in this reading, the chart receives a renown indication.

If the Jupiter-with-Exaltation renown configuration occurs while Jupiter is in a Mars sign or one of its own signs in this reading, the chart receives the stronger master-of-life-and-death indication.

If a luminary opposes Exaltation or Exaltation's ruler while afflicted and out of sect in this reading, the chart receives an infamy-and-ruin warning.

If the ruler of Accomplishment opposes Accomplishment and that ruler is malefic, the chart receives a stronger worsening indication.

A malefic period ruler can still be read in mitigated form when benefic support is also active in its condition.

If the rulers of Fortune and Accomplishment oppose one another and both rulers are malefics in this reading, the chart receives a stronger disaster indication.

Valens explicitly says some malefic squares and oppositions do no harm and can even help when supported by benefic testimony or the right sect/distribution conditions.

Malefics witnessing the luminaries and Ascendant without benefic rescue are read as a strong pressure or danger testimony.

If malefics conjoin or oppose Accomplishment while it is not angular in this reading, the chart receives a property-destruction warning.

If Mars conjoins or opposes Accomplishment, the chart receives a pleasures-and-drink waste indication.

If Mars is in Daimon, in the Moon's place in this reading, and with the Moon, the chart receives a ruling-and-distinguished indication.

If Mercury is in Daimon, at morning rising, and receives benefic witness from the Moon's place in this reading, the chart receives a letters-and-honors indication.

When benefic and malefic testimonies are simultaneously active, the period should be read as mixed rather than flattened into one polarity.

If Exaltation and its ruler are both in moderately active signs in this reading, the chart receives a noble-and-famous take-control indication.

If Exaltation and its ruler are both in operative signs in this reading, the chart receives a glorious-governing-royal indication.

If Exaltation and its ruler are both in signs just preceding an angle in this reading, the chart receives a wealthy-vigorous-stewardship indication.

Benefic or malefic testimony to the operative property lot is read as a support-or-loss indicator for property outcomes.

If benefics are retrograde in the same Accomplishment-opposition context in this reading, the chart receives a disaster indication.

If the ruler of Accomplishment is retrograde and not angular in this reading, the chart receives the same extravagance indication.

Operative benefics witnessing a luminary and the Ascendant from the right are read as a support, rank, and livelihood testimony.

If benefics just follow an angle in this limited reading, the chart receives an own-revenues indication.

If the Sun is in Daimon, in sect, and the Daimon ruler is strongly placed there, the chart receives a distinction-and-friendship indication.

If the Sun is in Daimon but the stronger Daimon-placement condition is not met in this reading, the chart receives a deferred-fortune indication.

If Venus rules Fortune or Daimon with both luminaries configured, but is not in its proper place and is unfavorably situated in this reading, the chart receives a hard-luck indication.

If Venus rules Fortune or Daimon with both luminaries configured and some of that complex is in proper place in this reading, the chart receives a court-and-trust indication with a relational grief caveat.

If Venus rules Fortune, Daimon, or Basis and is at morning rising in its proper place in this reading, the chart receives a fortunate indication.

When the active ruler of a period is angular, that period lord is better positioned to take the foreground.

A period ruler supported by benefic conditions tends to express the period more constructively.

An empty place can still become active through the condition and distribution of its ruler.

A period ruler burdened by malefic conditions tends to express the period with greater strain or obstruction.

Across sources, Victory's ruler is supported by benefic testimony.

Across sources, Victory's ruler is under malefic pressure.