Part of Eros
Part of Eros
Modern
The lot of eros is a sensitive point derived from the chart (by day, The zodiac degree rising on the eastern horizon at your birth, also called the rising sign. It sets the whole house framework of the chart and colors how you meet the world. + Venus - Spirit), not a body but a calculated spot that signifies what you most desire and love, the longings that move you. Read it by its sign and house and by the planet that rules it: that placement describes how this theme tends to go for you. The lots are an old and subtle technique that pinpoints specific topics the planets alone do not isolate. The gift is a precise focus on this theme; the work is reading the lot together with its ruler. At your best you use the lot to locate exactly where this part of life lives.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
The lot of eros is one of the seven Hermetic lots, calculated by day as Ascendant + Venus - Spirit (and reversed for a Belonging to the nighttime team in a chart. A nocturnal planet works more smoothly when the chart is born after sunset. chart). It is built from Venus and the The mirror of the Part of Fortune, tied to the mind, will, and the action you set in motion. It shows where you make things happen by choice., marking what one most desires and loves; distinct from the asteroid Eros, it shows the object of longing and the friendships and appetites that move the soul. As a derived point, the lot is read by the sign it falls in, the condition and placement of its ruler, and the planets that aspect it; its house shows where in life its matters play out. The lots add a layer of The planet or point that stands in for a particular person, thing, or topic in a chart. In a money question, for instance, the ruler of the second house is its significator. beyond the planets themselves.
- lot
- point
- significator
Sources
- Paulus, Introduction to AstrologyGives the seven Hermetic lots, their day and night formulas, and significations.
- Valens, AnthologiesTreats the Lots of Fortune and Spirit as central significators of body and mind.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Gives the modern reading of a lot as a calculated sensitive point for its theme.