Hellenistic Time-Lord Techniques
14 modules on ancient timing. Planetary periods, ascensional times, circumambulation through the bounds, zodiacal releasing from Fortune and Spirit, and profections.
The techniques that answer when. Best taken after Advanced Planetary Condition, since a time-lord is only as good as its condition.
Study track built in the lineage of Demetra George's Hellenistic teaching, following the classical syllabus of Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice and the Valens time-lord material. Lessons are Astrolearn originals, not course recordings.
Syllabus
The number-magic under every Hellenistic timing method. Lesser, greater and mean years of the planets, and why the same figures reappear in every technique.
How long each sign takes to rise at a given latitude, why that number is not thirty degrees, and how ascensional times convert chart space into lived years.
From the Greek peripatos, to walk about. The primary direction of a significator through the bounds, and how the ancients let a planet stroll through a life.
Reading the bound lord a significator arrives at, the planets that testify to it, and how to turn a sequence of bound lords into a narrative of chapters.
Where these methods come from: Valens, Ptolemy, the Anthology and its transmission. Which procedural choices are ancient and which are modern reconstructions.
A full worked example. Choosing the significator, running the direction, and cross-checking the resulting periods against the events of a real biography.
The great chapter technique of Vettius Valens. Building the four levels of periods from a starting lot, and what the level-one and level-two divisions each describe.
Two different lives in one chart. Fortune for body, circumstance and health; Spirit for career, action and reputation. When to release from which.
Peak periods, the angular triad from Fortune, loosing of the bond, and the tricky judgement calls: retrograde starting points and periods that overshoot a lifetime.
Reading a real life through its releasing periods. Spotting the turn of a chapter, and the difference between a loud peak period and a quiet productive one.
One sign per year from the Ascendant. Finding the lord of the year, and why this single cheap calculation reorganises the whole of a year's transits.
Profections below the year: monthly and daily levels, the handing-over of rulership between time-lords, and the Hellenistic use of the solar return chart.
Layering the three. How the profected lord filters which transits matter, and how the solar return chart colours the year the profection has already framed.
Running circumambulation, releasing, and profections over the same life at once. Where the methods agree, what to do when they disagree, and how to write it up.