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 is the corresponding condition where Mars or Saturn place pressure on a planet through a tracked configuration: conjunction, configured aspect, enclosure, overcoming, same-sign predominating, or lack of direct benefic witness. It is stricter than the loose modern word "afflicted," but the exact list and thresholds vary by author and practice.

This tool weights Mars more heavily in a day chart and Saturn more heavily in a night chart, while still counting the in-sect malefic at a lower weight. A planet can also receive maltreatment testimony without a hard aspect, for example through enclosure by malefics or aversion from the benefics.

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.

This calculator scores seven local bonification triggers. The list is designed as a transparent product scorecard, not as a claim that one surviving author used these exact weights or thresholds:

1. Conjunction with a benefic. A conjunction with Jupiter or Venus. The sect benefic counts more strongly in the local score.
2. Configured aspect from a benefic. Trine, sextile, square, and opposition from Jupiter or Venus are counted with different weights.
3. Adherence to a benefic. A conjunction within 3° receives an added local score because the contact is especially close.
4. Enclosure by benefics. When the nearest tracked body forward and backward in longitude are both benefics within 15°, the planet receives an enclosure bonus.
5. Spear-bearing (doryphory). This tool uses a simple whole-sign version: a benefic in the immediately following sign gives support.
6. Same-sign predominating over a malefic. When the planet is in a same-sign conjunction with a malefic and has the lower degree, the local score treats it as setting more of the terms for that conjunction.
7. Sect benefic itself. Jupiter in a day chart or Venus in a night chart receives a modest self-bonification score.

The page lists the specific triggers your chart hit so you can see why the score landed where it did. None of these conditions is a guarantee, and several mild testimonies can outweigh one stronger testimony in the numeric score.

The corresponding maltreatment list uses the same transparent scorecard approach. Mars and Saturn are the malefics, with the contrary-to-sect malefic weighted more heavily:

1. Conjunction with a malefic. A conjunction with Mars or Saturn. The contrary-to-sect malefic counts more strongly, but the in-sect malefic still counts.
2. Aspect from a malefic. Squares and oppositions weigh more than trines and sextiles, and the sect status of Mars or Saturn changes the local weight.
3. Adherence to a malefic. A conjunction within 3° receives an added local score because the malefic contact is especially close.
4. Besiegement / enclosure by malefics. Hemmed in on both sides by Mars and Saturn within the local 15° longitude window.
5. Overcoming by a malefic from the tenth sign. A malefic on the planet's tenth sign by whole-sign square receives extra weight, especially when it is contrary to sect.
6. Predominated by a malefic. A same-sign conjunction where the malefic has the lower degree. The local score treats the malefic as setting more of the terms for that conjunction.
7. Aversion to the chart's benefics. A planet with no whole-sign aspect to Jupiter or Venus receives a local maltreatment score. The score is lower when only the sect benefic is averse.

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 trine Mercury. 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.

Counteraction is this tool's label for a planet that crosses both the bonification and maltreatment thresholds. It does not mean the testimonies cleanly cancel. It means the planet needs a mixed reading.

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 trines your Mercury, 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 forces score above 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 three numbers per planet plus a one-line interpretation.

Bonification 0 to 100. Anything above 65 is "strongly bonified." 30 to 65 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. Above 65 is "strongly maltreated" and worth taking seriously in delineation. 30 to 65 is "pressured." Under 30 means this scorecard did not find concentrated malefic testimony.

Counteraction. When both scores are over 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 tool implements a local weighted scorecard inspired by traditional bonification and maltreatment discussions. It uses the natal chart service's sect value, the seven traditional planets, whole-sign aversion checks, configured natal aspects, and ecliptic-longitude enclosure checks.

The scoring is weighted, not boolean. A conjunction with the sect benefic counts more than a sextile from the out-of-sect benefic. The weights are local product choices designed to make the triggering testimony visible. Reception, dignity, and angularity are intentionally not modeled here; they live in 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.