Essential Dignities
Domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term, and face tables. This guide gives a reproducible rule, worked example, illustrative near miss, and explicit limits.
Overview
Essential dignity evaluates a traditional planet’s zodiacal condition through domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term, and face tables rather than measuring empirical strength. The page separates calculation from interpretation and keeps this worked result conditional: Mars receives exaltation points in Capricorn; other dignity columns are evaluated separately. Verification follows this declared method: Select one historical table, look up every dignity by sign and degree, keep accidental condition separate, and show each point or rank without treating it as destiny.
At a glance
- Topic
- Essential Dignities
- Method family
- Essential Dignities · traditional and specialist methods
- Case inputs
- ♂ 15°♑; scoring table assigns domicile 5, exaltation 4, triplicity 3, term 2, face 1
- Measured finding
- Mars receives exaltation points in Capricorn; other dignity columns are evaluated separately
- School frame
- Essential Dignities · traditional procedural method
- OpenFate tools
- Essential Dignities · birth chart
Definition and exact scope
essential dignity evaluates a traditional planet’s zodiacal condition through domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term, and face tables rather than measuring empirical strength
Calculation or decision rule
select one historical table, look up every dignity by sign and degree, keep accidental condition separate, and show each point or rank without treating it as destiny
Worked case and illustrative near miss
♂ 15°♑; scoring table assigns domicile 5, exaltation 4, triplicity 3, term 2, face 1. Mars receives exaltation points in Capricorn; other dignity columns are evaluated separately.
Illustrative near miss: Adding all five maximum scores to Mars without checking the actual triplicity, bound, and face at 15° Capricorn.
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 can expose the chart inputs needed for Essential Dignities, but it does not claim a dedicated automated interpretation for this technique. Verification retains failed measurements and uncertainty, then revises interpretation rather than the receipt. Essential Dignities 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 DignitiesOpening prose “Traditionally the five essential dignities are:” and table “Table of the most commonly used of the traditional essential dignities”.A referenced practitioner overview distinguishing domicile, exaltation, triplicity, terms, and face, including differences between Hellenistic, medieval, and modern use.