Marriage: Asc plus cusp of Seventh House minus Venus.
Divorce: Asc plus Venus minus cusp of Seventh.
Most Perilous Year: Asc plus Lord of Eighth minus Saturn.
Honorable and Illustrious Acquaintances: In a day-birth: Asc plus Sun minus Fortuna. In a
night-birth: Asc plus Fortuna minus Sun.
Sudden Advancement: Asc plus Sun minus Saturn. Or if Saturn be combust, use Jupiter.
There are other points or parts, both of ancient and modern origin, many of them seemingly
based on the idea that should you have a good horse there need be no fear of riding him to
death. For example, there is the Point of Honor: In a day-birth: Asc plus Aries 19° minus Sun.
In a night-birth: Asc minus Taurus 3° minus Moon. To make clear the calculations incidental
to the application of these formulae the following illustration is given:
Presume an Ascendant-degree of 15° Pisces, a Sun-degree of 28° Taurus, and a Moon-degree
of 23° Gemini. Reduce these to signs and degrees as follows: The Ascendant degree is eleven
Signs plus 15°; the Sun is is plus 28°; the Moon is 2s plus 23°. Then
To Ascendant......................... 11s 15°
Add Moon's position.................. 2s 23°
13s 38º
And subtract Sun's position................1s 28°
12s 10°
Subtract the circle...............12s
Fortune's degree is.................... 0s 10° or 10° Aries.
To verify, note that the Moon is 25° distant from the Sun, and that Fortuna at 10° Aries is also
distant from the Ascendant at 15° Pisces, by 25°. Similarly, by substituting any planet's
position for that of the Moon.
Without any of this calculation it is possible at a glance to note that this Moon-position would
fall in the First Solar House; therefore Fortuna will tenant the First House of the Geocentric
or Birth Figure. The directing of the Ascendant to Fortuna will coincide with the directing of