Astrology
Peregrine Planet
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Peregrine Planet is a planet with no major essential dignity in its sign.
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Peregrine Planet means a planet with no major essential dignity in its sign.
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The peregrine planet in the traditional sources
A peregrine planet is one with no dignity in the place it stands: not domicile, exaltation, triplicity, bound or face. Abu Ma'shar's picture of it is a man out of his homeland, and he adds that malefics in this state increase their evil.
The condition is not rare. Counted on the dignities the old books give, every one of the seven planets is peregrine in a large share of the zodiac.
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How often each planet is peregrine
Take the 360 degrees of the zodiac and ask, for a day chart and for a night chart, at how many of them each planet has none of the five dignities. The count uses the exaltation sign, the Dorothean triplicity lord for the hour, the Egyptian bounds and the Chaldean decans.
- The Sun: peregrine at 230 of 360 degrees in a day chart and 260 in a night chart
- The Moon: peregrine at 270 of 360 degrees in a day chart and 210 in a night chart
- Mercury: peregrine at 205 of 360 degrees in a day chart and 170 in a night chart
- Venus: peregrine at 106 of 360 degrees in a day chart and 178 in a night chart
- Mars: peregrine at 207 of 360 degrees in a day chart and 165 in a night chart
- Jupiter: peregrine at 182 of 360 degrees in a day chart and 144 in a night chart
- Saturn: peregrine at 174 of 360 degrees in a day chart and 198 in a night chart
The Sun and Moon come out peregrine more often than the five planets, since the bounds belong only to the five.
Why Peregrine Planet matters
Peregrine Planet matters because it names a wandering or unanchored condition in traditional astrology.
Where readings of Peregrine Planet go wrong
It is a mistake to use peregrine as a verdict that a planet cannot function.
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Sources and editorial method
This entry summarizes the tradition in the Almanac's own words; where no source is listed, it is an editorial summary rather than a primary text, and symbolic readings are named as the tradition's, not as fact.
- Source
- The Great Almanac Dictionary
- Category
- Astrology
- Last updated
- 2026-09-26
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Common questions
What is Peregrine Planet?
Peregrine Planet is a planet with no major essential dignity in its sign.
What does Peregrine Planet look like in a birth chart?
Peregrine Planet names a wandering or unanchored condition in traditional astrology.
What do people get wrong about Peregrine Planet?
It is a mistake to use peregrine as a verdict that a planet cannot function.
