The Part of Poverty
November 4, 2007
Venus rules your resources, the second house shows how you make your money, your eight house shows other peoples resources to which you have access, Jupiter, your luck. So with all this going for you, how is it that you have hard times?
Astrology is rich is with many traditions. One of these is called the Arabic Parts, mathematical calculations that indicate sensitive areas of your chart between planets. This is not to be confused with midpoints, which are the exact middle of one planet and another. How are they used? Astrology.com explains it like this:
Experience shows that the directions and transits to the parts (especially Pars Fortunae) have a definite effect with regard to the matters ruled by the house occupied by the part.
One such Arabic part is the Part of Poverty. The Part of Poverty:
The Part of Poverty and Ordinary Intellect is the Part of Mercury, signifying negotiation, buying and selling, ordinary mental activity, meanness of intelligence and intellect, writings, science, contention and enmity.
If you look at the aspects of natal chart to your Part of Poverty, you might shed some light on how and why you suffer some hard times. In my chart, the Part of Poverty sits just inside the doorway of my twelfth house, (never a good sign) and squares by an orb of 4 degrees my Venus in Capricorn and is inconjunct my Jupiter in the fifth. My Venus in Capricorn is trine my Jupiter, but there is no lottery winnings for me or a substantial stock portfolio. There lurking in the shadows of my twelfth house is that Part of Poverty, mucking up my chances at the lotto.
My Pluto however, sits in my fourth house and trines that Part of Poverty, so no matter what, either by strength of will or voodoo, I won’t be destitute or without a home. Whew!
Ordinarily, calculating an Arabic part involves some math, but I found one Arabic Parts Generator that is quite good designed by Paul Vachier. Check this one out.
To find the Part of Poverty, first you must find the Part of Things To Come and the Part of Fortune, and then plug those points into the Arabic Parts Calculator. And before you do any of that you need a copy of your chart. And if all that’s a bit much for you, then get thee to your local astrologer.
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