Exaltation, debility (fall), and their cancellation

Prāṇa relevance

Sources

• txt-frawley-astrology-seersExaltation and Debility (book p.125–127)Traditional✓ verifiedexaltation/debility signs and degrees for all planets incl. the disputed node values; cancellation rules

Other attributes

Rule Class

doctrine

Statement

Each planet has one sign of EXALTATION (functioning at optimum) with a specific peak DEGREE, and the opposite sign/degree is its DEBILITY ('fall'). Degrees: Sun 10° Aries, Moon 3° Taurus, Mars 28° Capricorn, Mercury 15° Virgo, Jupiter 5° Cancer, Venus 27° Pisces, Saturn 20° Libra; Rahu/Ketu sometimes 20° Taurus / 20° Scorpio (when one exalts so does the other), or by other astrologers both in Gemini/Virgo (Mercury's signs). Debility can be CANCELLED (e.g. debilitated planet in an angle from Ascendant/Moon; or the dispositor of the debility-sign is itself exalted; or the debilitated planet has a planet exalted in a sign it rules) — generally needing two cancellations to be effective; a cancelled debility can give results even better than exaltation. Exaltation can likewise be cancelled (malefic aspect, difficult houses, dispositing malefics, retrogression).

Tag

MODERN

School Positions

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Conditions

exaltation degree marks the peak; a planet AT its exaltation degree is 'preeminently strong'; the dispositor/ruling planet 'usually has more weight' than the exaltation/debility of the planet it hosts