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Origin 75 to 378 CE

A lot of Jupiter, built on the Lot of Spirit, signifying success, confidence, faith and favourable outcome. Paired against Nemesis in the Hermetic set as Jupiter is paired against Saturn, and read for where a person expects and finds a good result.

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Origins
Origin Period
75 to 378 CE 1Tradition: Hellenistic astrology in Greco-Roman Egypt
Origin PeriodSourced to the subject's own account
800 to 1300 CE 2Tradition: Arabic and Latin medieval astrology
Place of Origin
Greco-Roman Egypt 3
Origin of the Name
"Arabic Parts" is a misnomer. These are the Hellenistic lots, Greek kleroi, already in use by Dorotheus, Vettius Valens and Paulus Alexandrinus centuries before any Arabic author. What the Arabic tradition did was multiply them and transmit them to Latin Europe 3
Language
Ancient Greek 3
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The Lot of Victory

The Lot of Victory, kleros nikes, is the lot of Jupiter in the Hermetic set, built on the Lot of Spirit, and it is read for success, confidence, favourable outcome, trust and the achievement of what is attempted. Paulus Alexandrinus places it among the seven and pairs it against Nemesis, the lot of Saturn built on Fortune, so that the two form a second axis in the set: what succeeds against what fails or is exacted. Victory being built on Spirit and Nemesis on Fortune preserves the same structural logic as the Eros and Necessity pair, the willed against the given. The Greek nike is the ordinary word for victory in war and in games and was personified as a goddess, and the lot carries that competitive sense rather than a general good fortune, which belongs to Fortune itself.

The day formula is Ascendant plus Jupiter minus Spirit; by night the terms reverse, Ascendant plus Spirit minus Jupiter. Its construction from Spirit rather than Fortune places Victory, like Eros, among the volitional lots, so that classical authors read it not as luck falling to a person but as success following from deliberate pursuit, ambition realised through the exercise of will, which is the same distinction that separates Eros from Necessity and Courage from a merely fortunate outcome elsewhere in the set.

The Arithmetic of Victory: Jupiter, Moon and Sun

The day formula stored for this lot is Ascendant plus Jupiter minus the Lot of Spirit. Spirit by day is Ascendant plus Sun minus Moon, so the expansion gives Ascendant plus Jupiter minus Ascendant minus Sun plus Moon, and the Ascendant cancels. What remains is Jupiter plus Moon minus Sun.

By day the Lot of Victory has no Ascendant in it. Like Eros and Necessity, the two other lots in this set built on Fortune or Spirit with the Ascendant on the outside, it reduces to a purely planetary quantity.

Jupiter contributes almost nothing to its motion, moving about five minutes of arc a day. The Moon and Sun do the work: about 13 degrees 11 minutes forward and 59 minutes back, so the lot advances roughly twelve degrees a day, or one degree every one hour and fifty seven minutes. A birth time in error by two hours moves it about a degree.

There is a second consequence of Jupiter's slowness. Because the only slow term barely moves, two people born on the same day in different places and at different hours share very nearly the same Lot of Victory in a day chart. It is close to a generational point rather than a personal one, which is a fact about the formula rather than about the doctrine, and it is worth weighing before reading anything individual into it.

The reduction holds for day births only.

Cross-Tradition Connections

Originates in Language

Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Sources
1. Introduction to Astrology (Eisagogika)
Paulus Alexandrinus, 378the Lot of Victory
2. Liber Astronomiae
Guido Bonatti, The Golden Hind Press, 1277on the parts, of which Bonatti lists some hundred and forty-fiveView the Source
3. A History of Western Astrology
Nicholas Campion, Continuum, 2009vol. 1, on the formation of horoscopic astrology in Greco-Roman EgyptView the Source
Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune
Chris Brennan, Amor Fati Publications, 2017On the lots, the Hermetic seven, and sect
Quote, On the lots, the Hermetic seven, and sect
Modern secondary treatment of the Greek lot doctrine and of the argument over reversal.
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