Planet Condition Lab
Two planets in the same aspect can live very different lives: one in its own sign, in sect, well placed; the other in detriment, out of sect, out of bounds. Condition is the dimension that separates them. This lab audits all ten planets the way a traditional astrologer would before reading a single aspect.
Load a chart to audit every planet's working condition: essential dignity, sect standing, declination, and the hidden parallel aspects.
How to use the Condition Lab
›Why condition comes first
Traditional astrology reads a planet's condition before its aspects: a well-dignified Saturn keeps promises that a debilitated one breaks. Domicile means home equipment, exaltation means elevated performance, detriment and fall mean working against the grain, peregrine means the planet borrows its standing from its ruler and house.
›Sect, the day and night teams
Charts are diurnal or nocturnal by whether the Sun stood above the horizon. Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn behave more constructively in day charts; Moon, Venus, and Mars in night charts. An out-of-sect malefic (Mars by day, Saturn by night) is the classical marker for where life plays roughest; an in-sect benefic is where help arrives reliably.
›Declination, the hidden axis
The wheel flattens the sky onto the ecliptic; declination restores the north-south dimension. Parallels act like hidden conjunctions and contraparallels like quiet oppositions, both at a strict 1 degree orb. Out-of-bounds planets, past the Sun's 23.44 degree ceiling, run on their own authority: less socialized, often exceptional.
›Honest limits
Dignity tables are the traditional Ptolemaic and Dorothean set; terms and faces (the minor dignities) are deliberately omitted as too granular for a first condition pass. Modern outer-planet rulerships are shown as separate badges so neither school is shortchanged. Sect requires a birth time.