Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the Astrology Podcast.

Today is Friday, July 24, 2020, starting at 4.11 PM in Denver, Colorado, and I believe this is going to be

the 264th episode of the show. In this episode, I'm going to be the 264th episode of the show. In this episode I'm going to be talking with

Dr. Benjamin Dykes about the origins of the concept of detriment in the Hellenistic

and medieval astrological of months ago, two or three months ago, was on the origins of the concept of exultation.

So it's actually kind of fitting that we're doing what is accidentally a follow-up to that

with the origins of the concept of detriment.

Yeah, it makes sense.

Soon we'll hopefully have the occasion to do an episode on Abu-Mshar's great introduction,

which is almost ready too.

Yeah, so that's what you're finishing right now.

That's your next big translation?

Mm-hmm.

Excellent.

All right.

So in order to frame, framing this episode is a little tricky because it's tied into this mysterious issue that I noticed years ago and I spent a number of years working on, which is that in the later astrological tradition,

like in the late medieval and early Renaissance traditions, there was the concept of a planet

being in its domicile, and then the concept of a planet being in its exultation,

and then there were the signs opposing that, which are the signs known as a planet's fall which is opposite to its

exultation and a planet's detriment which in the Renaissance tradition was said to be

the sign opposite to a planet's domicile, and these were seen as either positions that were somehow

positive or auspicious if a planet was in its domicile or exultation or somehow inauspicious

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