- Reading a birth chart: a geniture according traditional astrology

n order to locate the ruler of the birth chart we will search the planet with more rights on the aphetical places - called rex - and the planet with the most essential and accidental dignity which is called miles following Vitali. variant: anyway the traditional astrologers will easily recognize them under the more known names of almuten of the chart and of the lord of geniture.

Here we have the definition of an original triad, of which the third member in Arabic astrology sounds like al-mubtazz, the almuten of western mediaeval astrologers. The almuten is that which conquers a dominion, taking it from the others by force [39]. Consequently, in the arabic word there is a meaning that is not present in the greek one. For the Arabs it is a master that has taken possession, for the Greeks it is a lord exercising his power. The text of the pseudo-Porphyry ends with the following observation :
«When the lord is the same planet that rules the apheta, then it will govern great events». This is the astrological foundation of the conception of the guardian angel, whose strength is inversely proportional to the laws of human democracy. When master and lord are identified with each other in earthly affairs they change the conditions of man, who is subject to them, and his free will is weakened.