Happy Wimbledon Men's Final Day!

©2025 J. Lee Lehman

 

Here's a quick illustration of Lilly's temperament calculation method. And no, I don't have data on the Wimbledon finalists, but a great shout-out to Novak Djokovic as one of the best tennis players of this era.

 

So in honor of today at Wimbledon, I present Novak Djokovic. With Capricorn rising, his Ascendant ruler is Saturn, which has dignity by Term. If you use Dorothean Triplicities, it also has participating Triplicity. Mercury opposes Ascendant (so Hot and Wet for Mercury), and Jupiter trines (Hot and Dry)

For the Moon, being in Aries, she's Hot and Dry. Her phase is final quarter, Cold and Wet. Mars squares her from Cancer, Cold and Wet. Novak was born in Spring, so Hot and Wet. For the Ruler of the Geniture, it's got to be either Mercury or Venus as most dignified, since both are cadent, I'd say they are co-Rulers of the Gentiture, so take another Hot and Wet for Mercury and Cold and Dry for Venus. Adding everything up, you get H-5, C-4, D-4 and W-5. By the way, as a calculation check to total Hot+Cold = total Wet+Dry. Novak is balanced or none-of-the above.

Fage would give Melancholic - Sanguine - Phlegmatic in a ratio of 14 : 30 : 2.

References:

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Fage, John. Speculum Aegrotorum. The Sick-Mens Glasse or, A Plaine Introduction Whereby One May Give a True, and Infallible Iudgement, of the Life or Death of a Sicke Body, the Originall Cause of the Griefe, How Hee Is Tormented and Afflicted, What Things Are Medicinable to the Diseased Person: And the Day and Houre in Which Hee Shall Recover, or Surrender His Vitall Breath. Whereunto Is Annexed a Treatise of the Foure Humours, and How They Are Ingendred and Distributed in Our Humane Bodies: With Certaine and Manifest Signes to Discerne of What Complexion Any Man Is: And the Operation That Eating, Drinking, Rest and Exercise, Worketh in Every Person: With Certaine Speciall Preservatives for the Eye-Sight. London: Printed by B. Alsop and T. F[awcet] for William Lugger, and are to be sold at his shop on Tower-Hill neere the Posterne-gate, 1638.

 

Lilly, William. 1647.  Christian Astrology Modestly Treated of in Three Books : The First Containing the Use of an Ephemeris, the Erecting of a Scheam of Heaven, Nature of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiack, of the Planets, with a Most Easie Introduction to the Whole Art of Astrology : The Second, by a Most Methodicall Way, Instructeth the Student How to Judge or Resolve All Manner of Questions Contingent unto Man, Viz., of Health, Sicknesse, Riches, Marriage ... : The Third Containes an Exact Method Whereby to Judge upon Nativities.