From: s0jrej@exnet.co.uk (James Ellis-Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: Re: Seeking definitions of terms
Keywords: afflicted elevated
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:39:33 GMT
Organization: ExNet Systems Ltd Public Access News, London, UK

In article <76269@apple.apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
>
>What does "afflicted" mean in connection to a planet? What makes a
>planet afflicted, and what's the result?

A planet can be afflicted in a wide variety of ways.  Essentially,
affliction:-

 - weakens the effect of the planet
 - delays the effect of the planet
 - makes the planet show its bad side, and act in a more 'anti-social'
   manner

A planet can be afflicted:-

 - by a square or opposition aspect to another planet

   The affliction is only weak if this aspect is to a benefic planet
   (i.e. Jupiter or Venus), middling if the aspect is to a neutral
   planet (i.e. Moon or Mercury), fairly bad if to an outer planet
   (i.e. Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) or the Sun, and awful if to a malefic
   (i.e. Mars or Saturn).

 - by conjunction with a malefic or outer planet (and somewhat by the
   Sun, but this is controversial)

 - by conjunction with a malefic fixed star (you may not want to bother
   with this as its hard to find out where the fixed stars are and what
   they mean)

 - by conjunction with the South node

   Again this is rather dubious - you probably won't want to bother with
   this until you make up your mind what the moon's nodes mean. 
   Different authorities assign them widely different meanings.  I like
   the idea that any planet in the same degree as the nodes (in any sign,
   but particularly those conjunct one of the nodes or square to them)
   is 'damaged' - meaning in a very bad state.  The things or people
   represented by the planet are either completely missing, very ill,
   dead, broken or whatever.

Planets can also be 'debilitated', which is much the same as being
afflicted, but is caused by the planet's position on its own, rather
than its relationship to other planets.  I think the difference between
debility and affliction comes from the fact that affliction is caused by
another planet, and debility isn't.  For instance, if someone's Moon is
opposed by Mars, I would look to see who Mars signified (say, Mars rules
the 7th house) and then say that this person/people gave the native a
hard time and were always hurting them (so the partner especially and
other people in general in the case of the 7th house).  However, someone
with Moon in detriment in Capricorn or fall in Scorpio, I would say that
the native had problems because his/her needs were ultimately
self-destructive.

The debilities are as follows:-

  - A planet is in fall where it is in the sign opposite its exaltation.

  - A planet is in detriment where it is in the sign opposite its
    rulership.

  - A planet is peregrine where it is not in rulership, exaltation,
    term, face, triplicity, fall, detriment or any kind of mutual
    reception with another planet

    This is traditional astrology - I've included it just for interest -
    I'll define all these terms if you really want.  The idea here is
    that the planet is in some sense 'lost' or outside everything.

>Similarly, define "elevated".
>

A planet is elevated where it is high in the sky.  You can check this
from the chart by looking at how close it is to the MC in comparison to
other planets, as the MC is the position of the highest point in the
sky.  The elevation of a planet indicates how easily what it represents
is seen by the world at large.  If a planet signifies your mother and is
very elevated (e.g. conjunct the MC), it means your mother will be
somewhere where everyone can see her - maybe famous, maybe she will deal
with many members of the public, maybe simply a model citizen in a quiet
way.  Maybe she will be 'at the top' of some organisation.  With this,
as with all other aspects of astrology, you have to think of what it
looks like in the sky and generalise symbolically.

Hope this helps,

James
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