法达星限由波斯人发明,其用法与印度占星Dashas大限类似,法达(Firdaria)一词其实就是「期间」(Period)的意思,它是一种藉著值限 星排列的推运方式(Time Ruler System),而其排列法则延续著迦勒底星序的传统(Chaldaean Order of Planets)。法达星限运用了日月五星以及南北交点共九个星体与虚点。
其中太阳掌管10年,太阴掌管9年,土星为11年,木星12年,火星7年,金星8年,水星13年,北交点3年,南交点2年,加起来总共75年。其用法分日生与夜生盘两种不同顺序,

日生盘的顺序为:

•  太阳(10)
•  金星(8)
•  水星(13)
•  太阴(9)
•  土星(11)
•  木星(12)
•  火星(7)
•  北交(3)
•  南交(2)
夜生盘顺序为:
•  太阴(9)
•  土星(11)
•  木星(12)
•  火星(7)
•  北交(3)
•  南交(2)
•  太阳(10)
•  金星(8)
•  水星(13)

Now that Birchfield has identified the original source, the controversy appears to be settled. The Moon's North Node rules ages 70-73 and South Node, ages 73-75 for all of us, whether we have day or night births.
也有人认为:对所有的人来说,不管日生或者夜生,月北交都掌管着70-73岁,月南交为73-75岁

Every individual's life then, has a period that is in the larger context ruled by Mars. How that period plays out depended on the factors Abu Ma'shar lists in the previous quote and I can recap simply as follows:

每个人的生命中,都有很大一部分由火星掌管,而那一段时间是如何演绎的,则可以根据以下ABU MA'SHAR大师列出的要点来分析:

Look at the age ruler in the nativity;
1. Its zodiacal condition
2. The house it is posited in
3. The house(s) it rules
4. The testimonies of the other planets to it (aspects)
首先看大限守护星在本命盘的情况:
1. 所落入星座
2. 所落入宫位
3. 所主管的宫位(可以是多个宫位)
4. 与其他行星所行程的相位

Look at the Age Ruler in the SR of the year it assumes its lordship:
1. Its zodiacal condition
2. The house it is posited in
3. The house(s) it rules
4. The testimonies of the other planets to it (aspects)
然后看年份主管行星的情况:
1. 所落入星座
2. 所落入宫位
3. 所主管的宫位(可以是多个宫位)
4. 与其他行星所行程的相位

Compare the two testimonies:
1. If both are good, it indicates great advantage and profit
2. If both are bad, it indicates great disadvantage and upset
3. If they do not agree in testimony, the ruler indicates only mediocre advantage and disadvantage; many ‘ups and downs’.
然后比较两个象征星的状况:
1. 如果两个象征性都良好,则喻示着优势和获利
2. 如果两个象征星都不良,则喻示着不利和动荡
3. 如果两个象征星表现情况不一直,则不好不坏,大部分情况会比较起伏不定

 

每个星限中又分副限,每个副限先从本限星依序轮值,每一副限掌管1/7的时间。例如,太阳限的第一副限由太阳开始轮值1.428571429年(10/7=1.428571429),第二副限为金星轮值1.428571429年,第三副限由水星轮值1.428571429年,依此类推,但南北交不再分副限。
法达星限看流年的用法很间单,看该年由何星轮值主限与副限,再看该星在本命盘中所掌管的宫位,以及受剋与得吉程度,来断定该年的吉凶。法达星限不会单用,通常需要配合小限法,才能准确判断该年的吉凶以及吉于何事、凶于何事。用法详见其他案例。
需要特别注意的是,法达星限的用法依照目前残留下来的典籍,只有阿拉伯占星家阿布马夏(Abu Ma’shar)介绍的最为完整,以后的占星家大都依循他的用法,但用法上皆有若干不同。例如Bonatti就使用上述的用法,但若干占星家例如11世纪的Al-Biruni以及16世纪的Antonio de Montulmo就认为夜生盘的南北交点应该排列到最后。某些占星家例如16世纪的Joachim Camerarius甚至认为南北交点的限运应该去除。
其实这些推论都合理,因为阿拉伯占星家经常会窜改希蜡占星的理论,我个人认为阿布马夏似乎过度偏好使用南北交点,例如他就认为北交点擢昇于双子座,南交点擢昇于人马座,但事实上希蜡占星并没有这麽过度诠释南北交。因此我目前的用法採与Camerarius一致,也就是全部去除南北交的限运。
目前美国的古典占星家也开始质疑法达副限的用法,例如Benjamin Dykes(Liber Astronomiae的译者)就质疑古典用法的正确性,他认为每个主限不应该平均七等分作为副限,而是应该要按照每颗轮值星所掌管的时程做不同的区分,例如太阳主限管十年,金星主限管8年,所以太阳主限下的太阳副限应该只能管10个月,接著就由金星轮值8个月,水星轮值13个月,依此类推,但南北交 不再分副限。

法达星限看流年的用法很简单,看该年由何星轮值主限与副限,再看该星在本命盘中所掌管的宫位,以及受剋与得吉程度,来断定该年的吉凶。法达星限不会单用,通常需要配合小限法,才能准确判断该年的吉凶以及吉于何事、凶于何事。用法详见其他案例。

要额外说明一点的是,主运与副运是一样重要的。   例如:火星大运里的火金运, 并不会因为主运为火星副运为金星,就特别强调火星的影响。在火金运下,金星跟火星是同等重要的。但主要大运仍有其指标性意义,如水火大运,在水星运下的火 星副运,该运期间的相关事件与事务,多少会带有水星主运相关的主题性影响。再者,若主运星与副运星之间有相位关系时,也会强化主运星与副运星在该大运期间 的影响力。       大运的好坏,顺畅与否取决于星体在命盘里的状态与状况,亦即星体在命盘里所呈现出的质——主要由:星体的天性与座落星座度数的交感,与其它星体的相位,以及其定位星这三者所共同构成。       而星体质的好坏与否,是个体间走相同大运却有高低差异的关键之一,因为同样是日生盘的人,会同样在十八岁生日的时候交水星大运,也同样会在三十一岁生日的时候交月亮大运,   然而每个人的金星运、水星运都会有个体差异产生,毕竟每个人金星座落的星座度数、与其它星体的相位,定位星等等多少都不尽相同。当然,星体座落的宫位以及与其它星体的相位也会是造成差异的原因之一。       关于星体质的表现,有其它因素也需要被考虑的,例如,逆行,燃烧,在阳光下,运行速度快慢,被凶星伤到否,是否靠近MC,HAYZ,等等。

南交的年限,对一个中年人来说是非常关键的

关于星体质的表现,有其他因素也需要被考虑的,
例如,逆行,燃烧,在阳光下,咝兴俣瓤炻
被凶星伤到否,是否靠近MC,HAYZ,等等。

例:
Firdar: Sun – Saturn
法达:日-土
Profected House: 7th
掌管宫位:7宫

Kahlo was in the Firdar period ruled by the Sun and sub-period ruled by Saturn. The Sun is the Ruler and Almuten of the 1st house, (this house is associated with the life and the physical body of the native ‘Anatole’) and it makes an opposition to Mars, Almuten of the 6th house (this house is associated with diseases and defects of the body ‘Cace Tyche’). Saturn, the great malefic, is the Ruler and Almuten of the 7th house, active by Profection, and Ruler of the sub-period of Firdar, it is posited in the 8th house (this house is associated with death, fears and losses ‘Epicataphora’).
法达星限处于主限太阳,次限土星的期间。太阳是1宫的主星,也是一宫最强旺的行星(此宫与活力,外表,身体有关),并与6宫主火星形成冲相位(6宫主管身体疾病)。土星这颗大凶星是7宫主,主限中行至8宫(象征死亡,恐惧,通往地狱之门)

1925: 18 and 19 years old
1925年 18岁与19岁
Firdar: Mercury – Mercury
法达:水星-水星
Profected Houses: 7th and 8th
主管宫位:7宫和8宫
Kahlo was seriously wounded on September 17, 1925, in a collision between a streetcar and a bus in which she was travelling from school to her home in Coyoacán. The multiple traumatisms that Kahlo suffered were so serious that even her own doctors doubted that she would survive.
KAHLO在1925年9月17日,被车辆严重撞伤,医生当时几乎判定无法生还

Firdar period and sub-period is ruled by Mercury. Considering Mercury as the Ruler and Almuten of the 2nd house and 11th house in her nativity, it would not point out this tragic episode in Kahlo's life. However, for being posited in the 12th house (this house is associated with serious diseases, hospitalizations, imprisonments and adversities ‘Cacos Daemon’) it shows the events very clearly. The Profected House by the time of the accident is the 7th house. The Ruler of the 7th house is Saturn, a planet that indicates limitations, which is posited in the 8th house (this house is associated with death, fears and losses) and it also is co-Almuten of the 6th house (this house is associated with diseases and defects of the body). When she was sick and using several plaster casts, the Profected House was the 8th house. The Ruler of the 8th house is Jupiter, conjunct to the cusp of the 12th house, mentioned above. Jupiter is a benefic planet by nature, but in the case of Kahlo's nativity in spite of being in Exaltation and Term, it is Cadent, Combust, and afflicted by an opposition from Mars and it is the Ruler of a bad house ‘Epicataphora’. Saturn, the co-Almuten of the 6th house, is posited in the 8th house.
法达主限期间以及次限期间都由水星主管。水星是2宫和11宫的宫主星,但是水星位于12宫弱宫。主限法中,事故期间大限走到7宫,土星为7宫主,落入8宫。而8宫主为木星落入12宫宫头。虽然木星天性不算凶星,但是在KAHLO本命中,虽然木星旺相,但是落入弱宫,被焦伤,也被8宫主火星冲到,而6宫主土星则落于8宫之中。

1930: 22 years old
Firdar: Mercury – Saturn
Profected House: 11th
法达: 水星-土星
主管宫位:11宫

In the beginning of the year, Kahlo interrupted her pregnancy due to the incorrect position of the fetus.
年初,KAHLO因为胎位不正而流产。

Firdar period ruled by Mercury and sub-period ruled by Saturn, both planets and their positions are mentioned above. The Profected House is the 11th, whose Ruler and Almuten is Mercury, posited in the 12th house, also as mentioned above.
法达期间为水星-土星,两个行星根据上述情况,主导宫位为11宫,而其宫主星为水星,落于12宫。同样也是凶相。

1932: 24 years old
Firdar: Mercury – Jupiter
Profected House: 1st

On July 4, 1932 Kahlo’s second pregnancy was interrupted with an abortion in the Henry Ford Hospital. This event affected Kahlo immensely, which one can see in her works, especially in the "Henry Ford Hospital" or "The Flying Bed".

The Firdar period is ruled by Mercury and the sub-period by Jupiter. Mercury as indicated previously is posited in the 12th house (this house is associated with serious diseases, hospitalizations, imprisonments and adversities). Jupiter, the Ruler of the 8th house (this house is associated with death, fears and losses), is posited in the cusp of the 12th house and it is also Ruler and Almuten of the 5th house (this house is associated with the pregnancy and with children ‘Agathe Tyche’). The opposition from Mars, posited in the 5th house, to Jupiter, is a strong indication of Kahlo's difficulties in having children and confers to this issue a very violent character, pertaining to the nature of Mars. The Profected House is the 1st, the Sun is the Ruler and the Almuten of the 1st house, (this house is associated with life and with the physical body of the native) and it receives an opposition from Mars, Almuten of the 6th house (this house is associated with diseases and defects of the body) and as mentioned above, posited in the 5th house. If the opposition from Mars to Jupiter already indicates Kahlo's difficulties in having children and the violence that Mars confers to the circumstances, the opposition to the Ruler and Almuten of the 1st, increases the difficulty of Kahlo to accomplish her desire of having children, since the 1st house is by nature the house associated with life.

«Henry Ford Hospital» or «The Flying Bed», 1932

1938: 31 years old

Firdar: Moon – Moon

Profected House: 8th

In October/November Kahlo made her first individual exhibition in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, with which reached a great success and received several orders for her works.

Firdar period and sub-period is ruled by the Moon. In Kahlo's nativity the Moon is the ruler of the Midheaven by Exaltation and it is practically conjunct to it, in Exaltation and Triplicity. The Moon is disposed by Venus, in the cusp of the 11th house (this house is associated with hopes, groups, organizations and friends ‘Agathos Daemon’). This configuration points out the success of the exhibition and also Kahlo's prestige among the social circle of the time, Venus in the 11th house dispositor of the Moon.

In January of 1939, during the same Firdar period, Kahlo embarked to Paris to carry out an exhibition, which did not go so well as the previous, due to several factors.

Kahlo was in the Profected 8th house (31 years old), ruled by Jupiter (delineated above), but with the malefic Saturn posited in the same house. Furthermore, Venus, the dispositor of the Moon, receives a square from Saturn, justifying in this manner the limitations and delays of the exhibition in Paris.

1950: 42-43 years old

Firdar: Saturn – Jupiter and Saturn – Mars

Profected Houses: 7th and 8th

Kahlo spent nine months in the ABC Hospital, in Mexico City, where she was submitted to a total of 7 operations to the column. “I was sick during a year … I still am in a wheel chair and I don't know when I will be able to walk again. I have a plaster cast that, instead of being horribly boring, it helps me to better support my column. I don't feel pain, only a great weariness …, and, as it is natural, sometimes despair. An indescribable despair. However I want to live …”.

When Kahlo was submitted to the operations, she was in the Firdar of Saturn – Jupiter which had begun in 30-01-1949, entering the Firdar of Saturn – Mars in 26-08-1950. Saturn is the Ruler and co-Almuten of the 6th house (this house is associated with diseases and defects of the body), posited in the 8th house (this house is associated with death, fears and losses) and Jupiter, Ruler of the 8th house, posited in the cusp of the 12th house (this house is associated with serious diseases, hospitalizations, imprisonments and adversities). Mars, Ruler of the Firdar sub-period (26-08-1950), Almuten of the 6th house, makes an opposition with the Sun, Ruler and Almuten of the 1st house (this house is associated with life and with the physical body of the native). The Profected Houses during this disturbed period of Kahlo's life are the 7th and 8th houses. The 7th house is ruled by Saturn posited in the 8th house. The 8th house is ruled by Jupiter posited in the cusp of the 12th house, all these configurations were already delineated above.

1954: 47 years old

Firdar: Saturn – Venus

Profected House: 12th

Seriously sick with pneumonia, Kahlo died during the night of 12 to 13 of July, 1954, seven days after her 47th birthday.

Kahlo was in the Firdar period of Saturn and sub-period of Venus. Venus is the Almuten of the 8th house, house associated with death, and it makes a square to Saturn, Ruler and co-Almuten of the 6th house (this house is associated with diseases and defects of the body), posited in the 8th house, which reiterates the meaning of the 8th house, death. In spite of a Mutual Reception by Triplicity that exists between Venus and Saturn, both are Peregrines, not mitigating this configuration. Besides the afflictions mentioned above and in spite of Venus being a benefic planet by nature, it is also afflicted for being Succedent, in Triplicity and in the Terms of the great malefic, Saturn. Jupiter, Ruler of the 8th house, the house associated with death, is conjunct to the Profected House, the 12th house (this house is associated with serious diseases, hospitalizations, imprisonments and adversities). As it was said previously, Jupiter is a benefic planet by nature, but in the case of Kahlo's nativity, in spite of finding it in Exaltation and Term, it is Cadent, Combust and afflicted by an opposition from Mars and it is the Ruler of a bad house ‘Epicataphora’. Notice that the Ruler of the Profected House, the Moon, is Void of Course.

Last page of Kahlo's diary, "I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return."

In 1958 the Frida Kahlo Museum was opened, in the "Blue House" where Kahlo was born and died, the Museum was presented to the Mexican nation, in agreement with Diego Rivera's whishes, who died in 1957.

Conclusion

The purpose of this study is not to be a deepened delineation but an approach of some important events in Frida Kahlo's life, using Medieval predictive techniques like Firdar and Profection. It is necessary to have in consideration that these techniques are not enough for an exhaustive delineation of a nativity, however, these two techniques are tools of an immense predictive value. For a complete study it would be necessary to apply other types of techniques, such as transits, solar returns and primary directions, which would complement the predictive techniques of Firdar and Profection.

As one could verify by the delineation above, the techniques used in this study provides a clear and objective analysis of some key-points in the artist's life.

Let's say we have a chart with Jupiter in the Midheaven and rules the ascendant and the fourth. In its firdar then the events will be those pertaining to the life and livelihood of the native (ascendant) as well as those that concern the natives parents, heritage, and lands and secret things etc, (the fourth). It will also signify events concerning profession and magistries and his destiny. Now let's say the Sun is participating for its time in Jupiter's firdar. It is a diurnal chart and let's say the Sun is in the 11th. How will the Sun manage what Jupiter dispenses? Well first we can say that in a diurnal chart Jupiter is the proxy and benefactor of good things of the Sun – they are of the same sect and the Sun is its sect Lord. Therefore we might say that the Sun will do well to distribute what Jupiter dispenses because of their kinship and friendship and the affections of those times (how the sun reacts) is going to be in its typical solar and life giving fashion. It might be a period of exceptionally good health and wealth from the native’s livelihood. If the Sun ruled the 9th then it might indicate the native’s knowledge in providing a livelihood etc. Now if it were Mars participating and Mars was in say the 7th and in a superior square to Jupiter we might say Mars is the mortal enemy of Jupiter and given to destruction and enmities and its passions with regard to Jupiter’s matters are going to be destructive and overwhelming, so we might find events concerning livelihood are full of contention and disagreement or his health is threatened by accidents which separate him from his profession etc.

It would be necessary to know what relationship the participating planet has to the ruler and whether those houses for which the ruler dispenses are benefited or detrimental by the participating planet and whether or not that planet has any testimony in those matters etc.

This is all very simplistic and does not include such considerations as where the participator falls in the solar revolution and whether or not it has a signification to year and how it is configured to the ruler in the solar return etc.

The tapestry that Abu Ma'shar weaves between all the elements of prediction is a masterpiece in my opinion although at times difficult to fathom <g>.

OK so I'll stop here because I never intended to write an essay here, but it’s difficult to discuss some things without really understanding something of their original meanings.

在2005年4月之前,firdaria走到水-月时期,月亮天蝎到命盘9宫,月亮虽入弱,却得到10宫火星入庙的帮助, 月亮为群众,火星在10宫为尊荣,这就是所谓镁光灯下焦点的写照。

    到了2005年4月之后,firdaria走到水-土时期,土星天蝎到命盘9宫,虽然也得到火星入庙定位, 但由于土星本身主压抑,状态又属外来的(peregrine),主孤单,也是盘中12宫主(cadent)主闭藏,再加上最近流咬M鲩_土星, 所以容易有无依、自闭、不悦的情形。

      近 期流吣就习合,木星会稍缓土星之危, 而今年小限(profection)命度在11宫,宫内见木星,原局水星也入庙,心态上如果能稍加调整就会好一点的。但水-土时期会持续到2008年2 月,2008年2月后,会进入直到水-木时期,届时整体邉莶艜稍稍增强。

      附带一提,两个时期月、土分别刑日,在人际关系上有点互相较劲的味道,走水-土时期建议低调一点,以避免不必要的人事纷争。」