Planetary Speed, Station, and Condition
Signed daily motion, stations, and accidental condition. This guide gives a reproducible rule, worked example, illustrative near miss, and explicit limits.
Overview
Traditional planetary condition compares signed daily motion with a declared mean, station threshold, visibility, phase, and accidental context. The page separates calculation from interpretation and keeps this worked result conditional: signed motion is +1°12′ per day; direct/fast/slow still depends on the published comparison table. Verification follows this declared method: Sample longitude at two reproducible times, unwrap the zodiac crossing, calculate signed degrees per day, and label direct, retrograde, or stationary by a published threshold.
At a glance
- Topic
- Planetary Speed, Station, and Condition
- Method family
- Planetary Speed, Station, and Condition · traditional and specialist methods
- Case inputs
- ☿ longitude 12°10′ at t0 and 13°22′ at t0+24h
- Measured finding
- signed motion is +1°12′ per day; direct/fast/slow still depends on the published comparison table
- School frame
- Planetary Speed, Station, and Condition · traditional procedural method
- OpenFate tools
- Planetary Speed, Station, and Condition · birth chart
Definition and exact scope
traditional planetary condition compares signed daily motion with a declared mean, station threshold, visibility, phase, and accidental context
Calculation or decision rule
sample longitude at two reproducible times, unwrap the zodiac crossing, calculate signed degrees per day, and label direct, retrograde, or stationary by a published threshold
Worked case and illustrative near miss
☿ longitude 12°10′ at t0 and 13°22′ at t0+24h. signed motion is +1°12′ per day; direct/fast/slow still depends on the published comparison table.
Illustrative near miss: A move from 359° to 1° is +2° after unwrapping, not −358° retrograde motion.
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 Planetary Speed, Station, and Condition, 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. Planetary Speed, Station, and Condition 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.
- William Lilly: Christian Astrology, Books I and IIBook I, pp. 113–115, direct/retrograde, swift/slow, station, and accidental-condition table.A public scan of a seventeenth-century primary text used to verify Lilly-era terminology, tables, and worked rules without presenting that historical system as universal.