Free Bonification & Maltreatment Calculator

Bonification is a traditional condition where the benefics, Jupiter and Venus, provide helpful testimony to a planet by conjunction, configured aspect, enclosure, or related conditions. This calculator turns those testimonies into a visible score so you can see which support was counted.

A bonified planet is not automatically good, easy, or fully protected. The reliable claim is narrower: benefic testimony is present in a form this tool tracks. Sect changes the local weight: Jupiter is treated as the sect benefic in day charts, Venus in night charts, and the other benefic is still counted with lower weight.

Maltreatment names specific configurations involving Mars or Saturn. This calculator admits applying adherence and engagement, whole-sign opposition or superior square, enclosure, and a poorly situated malefic domicile ruler.

Mars receives the greater maltreatment weight by day, Saturn by night. Malefic sextiles and trines carry no maltreatment score here. Aversion from benefics also carries no maltreatment score.

The reading you get from this calculator scores both directions per planet. The labels "clean," "pressured," and "strongly maltreated" are scorecard labels, not fate verdicts.

The shared engine supplies the conditions. These groups follow Brennan's reconstruction in chapter 14; numeric weights are product choices.

1. Adherence: the target applies to a benefic conjunction within 3°, or within 13° for the Moon.
2. Engagement: the target applies to a benefic trine, square, or sextile within the same interval. Brennan treats the sextile extension as less certain.
3. Whole-sign testimony: a benefic overcomes the target by a superior square or trine. These sign relationships remain eligible without degree application.
4. Enclosure: benefic bodies or rays are the nearest contacts on both sides within the engine's 7° interval. An intervening traditional planet or ray breaks the enclosure.
5. Ruler condition: a benefic domicile ruler passes the shared engine's supportive-condition test.

The corresponding malefic conditions use the same shared motion judgment.

1. Adherence: the target applies to a malefic conjunction within 3°, or within 13° for the Moon.
2. Engagement: the target applies to a malefic square or opposition within that interval.
3. Whole-sign testimony: a malefic superior square or opposition. These remain eligible independently of degree application.
4. Enclosure: malefic bodies or rays are the nearest contacts on both sides within 7°, with no closer intervening traditional planet or ray.
5. Ruler condition: a malefic domicile ruler passes the shared engine's difficult-condition test.

Sect runs through the calculation because it changes the local weight assigned to Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and Saturn. Two charts with identical aspects but opposite sect classifications can produce different scores. A few examples:

• Day chart, Jupiter overcomes Mercury by trine. Jupiter is the sect benefic, so the trine receives the stronger local bonification weight.
• Night chart, same trine. Jupiter is now out of sect. The trine still counts, but with a lower local weight.
• Day chart, Mars square Mercury. Mars is contrary to sect. The square receives the stronger local maltreatment weight.
• Night chart, same square. Mars is the in-sect malefic. The square still counts, but with a lower local weight than it would have by day.

Use the sect label as context for the scorecard rather than as a standalone verdict. It changes the weights, but it does not replace dignity, house placement, reception, or the planet's broader condition.

Mixed testimony means both scores cross the tool's threshold. These numerical comparisons are product choices. Traditional counteraction concerns a planet's ruler and is a separate judgment.

Mitigated maltreatment. Mars is squaring your Venus, but Jupiter is also trining her. Venus still has malefic testimony, but the benefic testimony is stronger in the local score. The calculator flags this as "mitigated maltreatment" when the bonification score outweighs the maltreatment score by more than ten points.

Compromised bonification. Jupiter overcomes your Mercury by trine, but Mars also squares it and Saturn besieges it. The benefic testimony is present, but the malefic testimony is stronger in the local score. The calculator flags this when maltreatment leads bonification by more than ten points.

Balanced. Both directions score at least thirty and within ten points of each other. Read the planet as mixed: both support and pressure are active enough to matter.

The page outputs two scores per planet plus a one-line interpretation.

Bonification 0 to 100. A score of 65 or more is "strongly bonified." 30 through 64 is "supported." Under 30 is "clean," meaning this scorecard did not find much direct benefic testimony. Don't read low bonification as bad. Plenty of effective planets are clean rather than supported.

Maltreatment 0 to 100. A score of 65 or more is "strongly maltreated" and worth taking seriously in delineation. 30 through 64 is "pressured." Under 30 means this scorecard did not find concentrated malefic testimony.

Mixed testimony. When both scores are at least 30, the page surfaces whether one side outweighs the other or whether the result is balanced.

The right way to use the scorecard is to read it after the rest of your delineation, not before. Sect, dignity, house topic, and aspect doctrine come first. Bonification and maltreatment tell you where this tool sees extra benefic or malefic testimony.

The natal service applies its shared Hellenistic analyzer to the seven traditional planets. Actual longitudinal speeds determine application within three degrees, or thirteen degrees for the Moon. Whole-sign conditions remain independent of that interval. The page filters ordinary testimony out of the named conditions and applies its displayed score weights.

An applying conjunction to the sect benefic receives more weight than an applying sextile from the other benefic. The weights are product choices. The shared ruler-condition test also considers the ruler's dignity and whole-sign angularity. For a fuller condition reading, see the essential dignity calculator and the chart-ruler tool. Combine the readings yourself; the chart condition is not a single number.

Pair this with the overcoming aspects calculator (a related directional aspect layer) and the sect calculator (a useful companion for the weight changes on this page).

One scope note on planetary classification. This calculator treats Mercury as neutral: neither benefic nor malefic. Some traditional treatments let Mercury vary with its condition and company, but that is not part of this scorecard.

Source note: traditional authors and modern teachers do not all present these conditions with identical thresholds. The result panel names each condition this implementation counted.