Time-lords
Time-lord systems answer a different question from the natal chart. The natal chart says what is true; the time-lords say when each part of it is foregrounded. Three systems dominate the classical sources: annual profections (Hellenistic), firdaria (Persian), and zodiacal releasing (Vettius Valens). Each names a planet (or a chain of planets) responsible for a defined chapter of the life.
Annual profections
Profections advance the Ascendant by one whole sign per year of life. Year 0 is the natal Ascendant; year 1 is the second sign; year 12 returns to the Ascendant; and so on. The lord of the profected sign is the lord of the year. That planet's natal condition, transits, and solar return placement together carry extra weight for that twelve-month period. Lilly tabulates the system; Vettius Valens uses it as a primary timing tool.
Firdaria
Firdaria is a Persian system that allots a fixed number of years to each of the seven planets, in a sect-conditional order, with sub-periods. Day chart: Sun 10, Venus 8, Mercury 13, Moon 9, Saturn 11, Jupiter 12, Mars 7 (total 70). Night chart: Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury (same year-counts in different order). After year 70 the cycle repeats with the lights swapped. Each major period subdivides into seven sub-periods, each ruled by a different planet — a coarse and a fine timing layer at once.
Zodiacal releasing
Vettius Valens's zodiacal releasing technique, in Anthology Book IV, releases time from the Lot of Fortune (or the Lot of Spirit) through periods of fixed length per sign. A 'loosing of the bond' marks a major life turn when the unrolling reaches an angular pivot from its starting sign. The technique is detailed and richly conditional; Netra implements the standard release from Spirit and Fortune with the loosing-of-the-bond markers shown.
How Netra uses it
The Time-lords view runs all three systems simultaneously and aligns them on a single timeline. The lord of each chapter is shown alongside the natal condition that lord carries; transit overlays show what is hot in the periods presently active.
Illustrative natal chart — the technique above applies to any chart you compute in Netra.
Sources
- Vettius Valens, Anthology, Book IV
- Abu Ma'shar, On the Great Conjunctions (public-domain Latin transmissions)
- William Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), Book III
See Sources for the full corpus and the public-domain policy.
Related
- Sect — The diurnal–nocturnal split that determines which planets are in their preferred environment.
- Arabic parts (lots) — Derived points formed from the geometry between three chart positions — the Lot of Fortune is the canonical example.
- Essential dignities — The five-fold table of planetary strength by zodiacal placement — domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term, and face.
- Almuten — The planet with the most aggregate dignity at a given degree — the synthesis of essential dignity into a single ruler.