Hellenistic Astrology

From a birth, works out essential dignities (domicile, exaltation, triplicity, Egyptian terms, faces) with scores, sect, the seven Hermetic lots, annual profections and zodiacal releasing from Spirit or Fortune. Ptolemy sets out the dignities (Tetrabiblos I.17–23) and the annual profection (IV.10); Vettius Valens releases the periods of a life from the Lots, sign by sign, in years of 360 days (Anthologies IV).

• Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, tr. F. E. Robbins (Loeb Classical Library, 1940), LacusCurtius
• Paulus Alexandrinus, Introduction, tr. Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum, in Late Classical Astrology: Paulus Alexandrinus and Olympiodorus (ARHAT, 2001)
• Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune (Amor Fati Publications, 2017)
• Vettius Valens, Anthologies IV, trans. Mark T. Riley, pp. 70–77