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About The Hyleg as Itself or as the Pars Hyleg (Part of the Hyleg)

Definitions

Hyleg. "A Persian term for the prorogator that governs the life of the Native. See Chapt. 2, note 12.
Chapt. 2, note 12. "The Latin spelling here is hylech -- from the Arabic hilaj from the Middle Pers. hilak 'let loose' which is a literal translation of the Grk. aphetes. This is a planet or point in the ecliptic that is "set free" to move by the diurnal motion until it encounters another planet or point that is considered to be fatal. Thus, the "Hyleg" is the prorogator that governs the life of the native."

Abu 'Ali Al-Khayyat: The Judgements of the Nativities. Translated with notes by James H. Holden from the Latin version of John of Seville. Tempe, Arizona: American Federation of Astrologers, 1988, p. 96, p. 4.

Hyleg. "[F]rom a Persian term for the physical body, it is a traditional term for a planet used to determine an individual's life span. It has also been called the giver of life, the apheta, and the prorogator. The various rules for determining which planet should be regarded as the hyleg are highly complex. This complexity, combined with the dubious ethics of predicting the length of another person's life, has caused this practice, as well as this set of terms, to be dropped from modern astrological practice."

Lewis, James R. The Astrology Encyclopedia Detroit: Visible Ink, 1994, p. 300.

Definitions and Related Terms from the Oxford English Dictionary.

hileg variant of hyleg, Obs.

hyleg hi.leg. Astrol. Also 7 hilege, hylech. [Of obscure origin. In Pers. (and Turkish) hailaj, `a calculation of astrologers by which they obtain evidence of the length of an infant's life', `a nativity'; said by the Persian lexicographers to be a Greek word, meaning originally `fountain of life'. The Pers. equivalent is given as kadbanu, lit. `mistress of the house'. In OFr. yleg, ilech (Oresme, 14th c.). ]
Ruling planet of a nativity; apheta (cf. quot. 1706).

1625 Beaumont & Fl; Bloody Brother iv. ii, Mars out of the self sam house..Looks at the Hilege with a quartile ruling.
1647 Lilly Chr. Astrol. civ. 527 Of the Prorogator of Life, called Hylech, or Hyleg, or Apheta.
1668 Dryden Even. Love ii. i, What think you, sir, of the taking Hyleg? or of the best way of the rectification for a nativity?
1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hyleg, or Hylech..a Planet or part of Heaven, which in a Man's Nativity becomes the Moderator and Significator of his Life.
1819 Wilson Dict. Astrol. s.v. Apheta, If by day the Sun be in an Aphetic place, he becomes Hyleg in preference to all others.
1881 Shorthouse J. Inglesant (1882) I. xv. 281 The significator being combust..and the hyleg afflicted by evil planets.

hylegiacal. hyle'giacal, a. (sb.) Obs. [f. prec. ]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the hyleg.

1647 Lilly Chr. Astrol. xliv. 255 When the five Hylegiacall places at the hour of Birth..are oppressed, judge death immediatly to follow.
1674 Moxon Tutor Astron. iv. Prob. viii. (ed. 3) 134 Turn about the Globe till the Promittor come to the Hylegiacal point.
1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hylegiacal Places are..reckon'd to be five in number, viz. the Ascendant, the Mid-Heaven, the 7th House, the 9th and the 11th.

B. sb. = Hylegiacal place.

1668 Dryden Even. Love iii. i, The five Hylegiacalls; the Ascendant, Medium Cli, Sun, Moon and Stars.

hylegial hy'legial, a. Obs. [see -ial. ] = prec.

1652 Gaule Magastrom. 141 They have..found all the hylegiall places strong and well constituted.
1727-41 Chambers Cycl., Hylegial Places..are those wherein a planet being found, is qualified to have the government of life attributed to it.

promittor promi.to. Astrol. Also 7 -er. [f. promit v. + -or. Cf. promissor. ]
A planet which `promises' or prognosticates that some event will take place on its arriving at some particular aspect with another planet, star, or point of the heaven (the significator); also applied to such an aspect.

1647 Lilly Chr. Astrol. clxvii. 719 Consider the Profections of Significators and Promittors.
1671 Salmon Syn. Med. i. xxxiv. 71 The Quality of the Disease shall be discerned from the Promittor or afflicting Planet.
1696 Promitters [see promissor 1].
1819 J. Wilson Dict. Astrol. s.v., and are anaretic promittors, and promise to destroy the life of the native when the hyleg is directed to them. &386; and are promittors of good when directions to them are fulfilled.

promissor promi.so. [a. L. promissor a promiser, agent-n. f. promitt-ere: see promit v. ]
1. Astrol. = promittor. Obs.

1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. i. iv, If by his revolution, or transitus, shall offend any of those radicall promissors in the geniture.
1621 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iii. i. ii. (1651) 596 By direction of the significators to their several promissors.
1696 Phillips (ed. 5), Promitters or Promissors, a Term in the Genethliack part of Astrology, so called because they promise in the Radix something to be accomplished, when the Time of direction is fulfilled.

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Pars Hyleg. "This part is the root of the others and is taken by day or night from the degree of the conjunction or prevention which preceded the nativity or the question or the revolution, to the degree of the Moon, and this is then projected from the ascendant."

Guido Bonatti's Treatise on the Parts, as it appears in: Zoller, Robert. The Arabic Parts in Astrology: A Lost Key to Prediction. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, (c) 1980, 1989, p. 94.

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