Lot of Necessity
constraint, obligation, enemies, subordination, and what cannot be avoided.
The Lot of Necessity is measured from the Lot of Fortune, so Fortune must be computed first. The formula is Paulus's; the direction of the subtraction is stated the other way in some translations and some authors, which moves the lot by twice the Fortune–Mercury arc, and Vettius Valens and the Arabic writers give related but not identical formulas. The meaning is equally unsettled: Paulus reads it for constraint, enmity, subordination and downfall, while later practice reads a milder 'duty'. The lot is a set of significations, not a judgement, and the tradition itself disagrees about which.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- AnankePart of Necessity
Practice
- Magical Uses
- BindingObligationOath workConstraint workDuty
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- constraint, obligation, enemies, subordination, and what cannot be avoided
Details
- Formula
- Ascendant + Fortune - Mercury by day; Ascendant + Mercury - Fortune by night
- Keywords
- NecessityAnankeConstraintObligationEnemiesMercury
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