The Part Of Fortune

About this episode

Steven Forrest explores the Part of Fortune, a traditional astrological technique, and its modern interpretations.

A reader named Clarissa invited me to write about a subject I’ve not explored here before – the Part of Fortune. Let me start off by saying that it’s a technique that’s fallen out of my arsenal over the years. That’s not because I found it ineffective – with some modern tweaks, I think it’s a useful astrological tool. In essence, I stopped using it because I found I was getting to pretty much the same bottom line through other methods, so it became redundant. First, a bow in the direction of the astrologers who have led the renaissance of traditional astrological techniques over the past three decades. They revealed something I didn’t know: traditionally, there were two ways of calculating the Part of Fortune, one if you were born at night and another if you were born during the day. The day-version of the Part of Fortune is what I grew up with, even though I was born at night myself. Back then, that version was all we knew about. One more point before we get rolling. While traditionally the Part of Fortune was viewed as a lucky point connected with pathways to material success and health, my approach to it is less predictive and more evolutionary. To anyone familiar with my…

People in this episode

Host: Steven Forrest

Guest: Clarissa

Topics covered

• Part of Fortune
• astrology
• traditional techniques
• material success
• evolutionary astrology

Keywords

• Part of Fortune
• astrological tool
• traditional astrology
• evolutionary astrology
• material success

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