Free Lot of Hope Calculator

The Lot of Hope, also called the Part of Hope, is a calculated point in the Hellenistic and Arabic tradition that reads hopes, wishes, and expectation: the character of what you long for and reach toward. It is built from Venus and Saturn, projected from the Ascendant, and it belongs to the eleventh house, the place of the Good Spirit, friends, benefactors, and the anticipated future. Its sign shows how you hope and what you tend to want, and the house it lands in shows the area of life where your hopes concentrate. Read it as a lens on your relationship to hope, not a forecast that a wish will or will not come true.

The calculator measures the arc from Saturn to Venus and projects it from the Ascendant. By day the formula is Ascendant + Venus − Saturn, and by night it reverses to Ascendant + Saturn − Venus. The significators are fitting: Venus is desire and what you find worth wanting, and Saturn is time, limit, and the long wait that any real hope has to survive. An exact birth time is required, because the calculation begins from the Ascendant. This follows Abu Ma'shar's Great Introduction as surveyed in Eric Lusby's study of the lots, and the computation runs in the same of-date frame and whole-sign houses as the rest of your chart.

Yes. Abu Ma'shar's Great Introduction reverses the Lot of Hope by night, so it is Ascendant + Venus − Saturn for a day chart and Ascendant + Saturn − Venus for a night chart. Abu Ma'shar specifically notes that the authorities who keep it the same by night, the way the Lot of Men's Marriage is kept, are mistaken on this point. Some later calculators drop the reversal anyway, which is the error Lusby flags, so this tool follows the sect-reversed form.

Some online calculators list the Lot of Hope as Ascendant + Jupiter − Sun. That formula is the one this site and many others use for the modern Lot of Fame, and it does not match the historically attested Lot of Hope. The lot recorded in the Arabic sources is built from Venus and Saturn, and even within those sources there are mistranslations: Wright's edition reads Jupiter to Mercury, and the Latin Abbreviation reads Saturn to Mars, both of which Lusby identifies as errors corrected against the critical edition. This calculator uses the corrected Venus and Saturn arc from Abu Ma'shar.

The eleventh house. In the Hellenistic scheme the eleventh place is called the Good Spirit, and it governs hopes, wishes, friends, allies, benefactors, and the gains and good fortune that arrive through other people. The Lot of Hope is grouped among the eleventh-house lots, so it reads the future you anticipate and the support you reach for. When the lot itself falls in your eleventh house it is doubly emphasized; in other houses it shows the area of life where your hopes gather.

They share the same two significators, Venus and Saturn, so by day they land on the same degree, since the formula is identical. They part ways at night: the Lot of Hope reverses by sect to Ascendant + Saturn − Venus, while the Dorothean Lot of Men's Marriage keeps the same Ascendant + Venus − Saturn formula by day and night. They also read different topics, hopes and expectation for one, marriage and partnership for the other, so the tradition treats them as distinct lots that happen to be built from the same pair of planets.

Yes. Lot and part are interchangeable terms for the same kind of calculated point: lot translates the Greek kleros, and part translates the Latin pars used by the medieval Arabic and Renaissance writers. The Lot of Hope and the Part of Hope are the same thing. This calculator computes it in the Rust engine alongside the rest of your lots, so it stays consistent with your Lot of Fortune, Lot of Spirit, and the other parts in your chart.