In traditional Western astrology, a planet's power depends on where it stands in the zodiac. The essential dignities are the five classical ways a planet can be strong in a sign: domicile (its own sign, +5), exaltation (+4), triplicity (rulership of the sign's element, +3), term or bound (a specific span of degrees, +2) and face or decan (a 10° slice, +1). The debilities are the opposite: detriment (the sign opposite its domicile, −5), fall (opposite its exaltation, −4), and peregrine (holding no dignity at all at its degree, −5) — a planet adrift, taking its colour from whatever rules it.

This scorecard uses the oldest and most widely attested tables: the Egyptian terms (the bounds preferred by Dorotheus, Vettius Valens and most Hellenistic astrologers) and the Dorothean triplicity rulers, which assign each element a day ruler, a night ruler and a participating ruler — your chart's sect (day or night birth) decides which one counts. Faces follow the Chaldean order.

What the scorecard shows

• Each traditional planet's tropical position and every dignity and debility it holds there
• A classical point score per planet, with a verdict from exceptionally dignified to seriously debilitated
• Your strongest planet — a natural talent and reliable ally in the chart — and your weakest, which asks for conscious work
• Whether yours is a day or night chart, and the term, face and triplicity rulers of each planet's degree

Essential dignity measures a planet's own inner strength; astrologers read it alongside house placement, aspects and sect (accidental dignity) for the complete judgement. Enter your exact birth time and pick your city from the dropdown — the sect and the Ascendant both depend on it — and explore the result with a qualified astrologer.