'Almutem Figuris, a powerful planet in the natal figure whose spirit or angel acts as the native's special link to the Divine. Zoller about the Almutem Figuris says that it is equally as powerful as all the other planets taken together.'īenjamin Dykes (great student of Zoller) says about Almutem Figuris: Whatever the conclusions we may arrive at by inference and reasoning he himself imparts to us the principles.' He likewise directs the the private life of the soul and

As soon as the soul chooses him for leader the immediately comes into charge of completing of its vital endowments and when it descends into the body it unites with the body and becomes the guardian of it common living principle. This therefore is present as an exemplar before the souls descend into the realm of generated existence. Here's what Iambichus says in his Theurgy: Iambichus speaks (through the name of Porphyry) about the Peculiar Daimon, that is some kind of an Guardian Angel and it is conected to the personal soul but its not the same Because of that line Zoller thinks that the Lord of the Geniture of which Iambichus speaks in his writings is in fact the Almutem Figuris of the Ibn Ezra.

Zoller, tracing back the Ibn Ezra's ancestry, through the Sabaeans and his teachers (Mashallah and other) all the way to the first centuries where this doctrine was thought. He speaks that he can do that through Theurgy and through personal relationship with the Lord of the Geniture of which he (Iambichus) only says that can be known through Astrology, but he didn't explained the method.

Iambicus in his work 'Theurgy or on the mysteries of Egypt' speaks about the thing how one can change his fate. 325) who was Syrian neo-platonic philosopher who wrote also about Astrology in his writings. In his writings Zoller trace the beginnings of this Almutem Figuris and he found it in the writings of Iambichus (c.

The method which we'll use here I call Ezra/Zoller method.Īrabian Astrologer Ibn Ezra (1089 - 1164) was the first (as far as we at this moment are aware) to explicitely wrote about calculating the Almutem Figuris. Or the places which are most sensible and important in the natal figure. The word Almutes is an Arabian word which means 'Winner'.īecause, the planet is the Winner of all the 'life giving' places. Robert Zoler had applied the therm AlmuteM instead of AlmuteN in order to differentiate the Lord of the Chart from the Lord of certain house or place in the natal chart such as Almuten Domus (Ruler of a House). I was asked in private message to explain the method of calculating the Almutem Figuris of the chart, so I thought that since this is new forum (traditional astrology) it would be better to open a thread here and explain the method publicly where we can all discuss it.Īlmutem Figuris is an old doctrine where one planet according to certain calculations applied, receives the honors to be the Ruler or Lord of the Chart.

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