Almuten
Almuten explains the highest declared dignity score over selected chart factors. Sun receives exaltation, day-triplicity, and face points; every candidate.
Overview
An almuten is the planet receiving the highest declared dignity score over a degree or selected chart factors, and it is not automatically the sign ruler or chart ruler. The page separates calculation from interpretation and keeps this worked result conditional: Sun receives exaltation, day-triplicity, and face points; every candidate total and any tie are published. Verification follows this declared method: Publish the scoring table, calculate each candidate’s domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term, and face points, then show ties and omitted factors.
At a glance
- Topic
- Almuten
- Method family
- Almuten · traditional and specialist methods
- Case inputs
- 15°♈ in a day chart; Lilly-style scores 5/4/3/2/1; Egyptian bounds and Chaldean faces
- Measured finding
- Sun receives exaltation, day-triplicity, and face points; every candidate total and any tie are published
- School frame
- Almuten · traditional procedural method
- OpenFate tools
- Almuten · knowledge reference only
Definition and exact scope
an almuten is the planet receiving the highest declared dignity score over a degree or selected chart factors, and it is not automatically the sign ruler or chart ruler
Calculation or decision rule
publish the scoring table, calculate each candidate’s domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term, and face points, then show ties and omitted factors
Worked case and illustrative near miss
15°♈ in a day chart; Lilly-style scores 5/4/3/2/1; Egyptian bounds and Chaldean faces. Sun receives exaltation, day-triplicity, and face points; every candidate total and any tie are published.
Illustrative near miss: Choosing Mars only because it rules Aries ignores the selected degree’s other dignity testimonies.
School and variant boundary
Tables and procedures differ by author, era, translation, and sect; the selected authority must remain visible.
Product, safety, and verification boundary
OpenFate presents Almuten as a sourced knowledge method and does not claim a dedicated calculator or generated reading for it. Verification retains failed measurements and uncertainty, then revises interpretation rather than the receipt. Almuten cannot diagnose a person, remove consent, or guarantee an event.
Sources and editorial basis
- NCGR-PAA Level II CurriculumPDF pp. 4–5, lines 104–119, “Classical Astrology — Beyond the Basics”.A professional curriculum naming sign classifications, five levels of rulership, reception, dispositors, sect, minor aspects, declination, antiscia, fixed stars, lots, and time-lord systems.
- Astrodienst Astrowiki: Essential DignitiesImage caption beginning “Lilly’s Table of Fortitudes” and adjacent explanatory prose comparing domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term, and face.A referenced practitioner overview distinguishing domicile, exaltation, triplicity, terms, and face, including differences between Hellenistic, medieval, and modern use.