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    Hellenistic astrologers use several rulers to analyze a natal chart, including the predominator, oikodespotes, and kurios. The predominator is the sun or moon depending on if it is a day or night chart. The oikodespotes is the ruler of the predominator's sign and represents the agenda for the person's life. The kurios executes the agenda and is determined based on a hierarchy of candidates including the ascendant, its ruler, and the ruler of the tenth sign from the ascendant. Together these rulers form a nautical metaphor with the predominator as the ship, oikodespotes as the ship owner setting the agenda, and

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    Hellenistic astrologers use several rulers to analyze a natal chart, including the predominator, oikodespotes, and kurios. The predominator is the sun or moon depending on if it is a day or night chart. The oikodespotes is the ruler of the predominator's sign and represents the agenda for the person's life. The kurios executes the agenda and is determined based on a hierarchy of candidates including the ascendant, its ruler, and the ruler of the tenth sign from the ascendant. Together these rulers form a nautical metaphor with the predominator as the ship, oikodespotes as the ship owner setting the agenda, and

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    Determination of The Predominator of A Chart

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    Hellenistic astrologers have a number of primary rulers, all of which have different functions.

    The first (and probably most important) that we are going to look into is the predominatorof a chart. 

    Determination of the Predominator of a chart: 


    The predominator of a chart is the luminary of time (sun by day or moon by night) provided it is not cadent. 

    If in a day chart the sun is cadent, we take then moon as predominator. 


    If in a night chart the moon is cadent, we take the sun as predominator. 

    If both luminaries are cadent, the ascendant becomes the predominator. 


    Some astrologers also said that if the domicile ruler of the ascendant is also cadent, then we should use the Lot of
    Fortune. 

    [My own twist: The cadent luminary can still be predominator if it is in his/her own house of Joy i.e. sun in 9th or moon in
    3rd. Sun in 9th is in his own house of Joy and also in his own sun-god house. Moon in 3rd is in her own house of Joy and
    also in her own moon-goddess house] 

    The predominator is the planet that represents the life of the native. The trigon (triplicity) lords of the predominator tell
    use the thirds life of the native i.e. the first trigon lord = first part of life, second trigon lord = second part of life and third
    trigon lord = third part of life. 

    Once the predominator has been determined, we can then proceed to the oikodespotes of the natal chart. 

    Determination of the Oikodespotes 

    The term oikodespotes [domicile master] is used in domicile master/ruler of signs e.g. Mars is oikodespotes of Aries and
    Venus is oikodespotes of Taurus. 

    We say that Mars (or Venus) is the domicile master or oikodespotes of Aries (or Taurus) because it claims that sign as his
    dwelling place. 

    Following the same argument, we also have oikodespotes (domicile master) of the whole chart itself. To determine this, we
    must determine the predominator first in a nativity. 

    The domicile ruler of the predominator's sign is the domicile master (oikodespotes) of the chart (the planet that claims the
    whole chart as his dwelling place). 
    The domicile master is the one who sets the agenda/policy in native’s life. 

    The bound (term) ruler of the predominator is the oversight  i.e. the one who sets the restriction over the domicile master
    (oikodespotes) of the chart. 

    In chart delieneation, you would want the domicile master of the predominator (oikodespotes) to aspect the predominator 
    and 
    the bound ruler of the predominator to aspect or configured to the domicile master (oikodespotes) of the chart. You also
    want to see whether these planets are “favorable” to the native. 

    The next planet that is equally important in the overall rulership of a nativity (besides Oikodespotes or domicile master of
    the chart) is called Kurios [Lord of the nativity]. Kurios is the executor of the agenda that Oikodespotes (domicile master)
    holds. 

    Determination of Kurios 
    Kurios of a chart is determined from the following candidates:- 

    1. Ascendant sign. We look to the planet(s) in the Ascendant sign AND bounds of the ascending degree. 

    2. Domicile Lord of Ascendant. 

    3. Moon and its Domicile Lord 

    4. Tenth sign from ascendant and its Domicile Lord 

    5. Lot of Fortune and its Domicile Lord. 

    6. Any planets that make phasis* in the chart. Should also include planets that make a first or second station 7 days
    before or after nativity. 

    7. The bound lord of the pre-natal lunation. 

    The Kurios (The Lord of the nativity) is determined using the above hierarchy AND is also fit to conduct its business*. 

    * see my previous post on Hellenistic astrology - Preliminary Natal Analysis. 

    Example: 
    Whole sign house, Dorotheus Triplicity and Egptian Bound (Term) rulers. 

    Chart of Hitler [Diurnal chart, Sun in Tau in 8th house, Moon in Cap in 3rd house, Asc in Lib]. 
    Diurnal chart: 

    Predominator: 
    We first look to Sun and Sun is not cadent - hence Sun is the predominator. Trigon lords of predominator are Venus,
    Moon and Mars. 

    Oikodespotes 
    Domicile master (oikodespotes) of the chart is then the domicile master of predominator's sign i.e. Venus (which
    happens to be in 8th house in Taurus). The bound (or term) ruler of predominator (sun) is also Venus. 

    Kurios 

    Candidates: 
    1. No planets in the bounds of the ascending degree. 
    2. Asc is in Libra, domicile lord of ascendant is Venus 
    3. Moon is in Capricorn, domicile lord is Saturn 
    4. MC in Sagittarius, domicile lord is Jupiter 
    5. Lot of Fortune is in Cancer, domicile lord is moon 
    6. Planets making phasis in the chart: Venus and Mars 
    7. Prenatal lunation is Full Moon in 26 Libra. Bound/Term lord is Venus 

    Kurios is then Venus 

    Hence, 
    Predominator is Sun. 
    1st part of life = Venus, 2nd part of life = Moon and 3rd part of life = Mars 

    Oikodespotes (domicile master) is Venus. 


    Bound (term ruler) of predominator is also Venus. 

    Kurios is Venus. 

    Nautical Metaphor 
    It seems that Hellenistic astrologers use the nautical metaphor to describe a natal chart. 

    The ship itself = the native’s life = predominator. 


    The first and second Trigon (triplicity) lords of the predominator = the winds that carry the ship to its destiny. The third
    trigon (triplicity) lord is the oars that move the ship. 

    Oikodespotes (Domicile Master) of the chart = ship owner = the one who sets the agenda or destiny for the native under
    the restriction set by the bound ruler of the pre-dominator. 

    Kurios (Lord of the nativity) = Captain of the ship = Executor = the one who is responsible to bring the ship to the
    destination set by Oikodespotes (Domicile Master). 

    Ascendant sign = “helm” of the ship = physical life. 


    Domicile Lord of the Ascendant = Helmsman = the First Officer of the ship. 

    Lot of Fortune = everything that befalls the native through not of his own doing. 
    Domicile Lord of the Lot of Fortune = man on the prow of the ship = Second Officer who is on the look out for the
    things/events that are going to befall the native. 

    It is important that the Lord of Lot of Fortune be able to communicate with the Domicile Master or Ascendant (Helmsman)
    or Lord of the nativity (Kurios)
    @@
    Item 4. I heard Schmidt's lecture (Baltimore, NCGR 2007), and he explained that at step 4 we should consider the domicile
    lord of the 10th sign from Ascendent, which is not necessarily the domicile lord of MC in the whole-sign system. And this is
    true for this case, in Hitler's chart: the domicile lord of 10th house is Moon. That is, of coure, unless Schmidt changed his
    mind since last year :) At least Hindsight software (Delphi Oracle) still calculates item 4 by this method. 
    @@
    Yes, it is the tenth sign from the ascendant and not MC calculated as via the modern way... but I suggest looking both
    ways [just in case]. I rarely use Kurios in my own practice so I can't really comment on the difference between tenth sign
    and MC sign in practice... though I suspect it should give a significant difference. For example, in determining the
    profession signifier (more medieval than hellenistic), I look to both tenth sign and MC but thank you for pointing out the
    differences.

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