/api/astro/traditional/dignities/1 creditEssential dignities
Domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term and face for every planet, with Lilly's score. The backbone of traditional Western astrology and the thing that decides whether a planet is in a position to act at all. For each planet: which of the five dignities it holds where it stands, which debilities, and the weighted total — domicile +5, exaltation +4, triplicity +3, term +2, face +1, against detriment -5, fall -4 and peregrine -5. TROPICAL, necessarily. Essential dignity is defined against the tropical zodiac. Every other chart endpoint here is sidereal, and reading these tables off sidereal longitudes would move nearly every planet back a sign and report a planet in its own domicile as peregrine. Triplicity depends on SECT, so the sect is computed first from the Sun's actual altitude and returned alongside: the day and night rulers of an element are different planets, and a table applied with the wrong one is wrong in a way nothing in the output would reveal. Bounds are the Egyptian set and faces the Chaldean order. Sources disagree — Ptolemy's bounds differ from the Egyptian — so the choice is named in `tables_used` rather than left to be inferred from numbers that will not match your book. Peregrine is applied only when a planet holds no dignity and is neither in detriment nor fall, so one placement is never penalised twice. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto rule nothing in this doctrine and are returned with a null score rather than a zero that would read like a measurement.
https://yogataraapi.prahlad.app/api/astro/traditional/dignities/Authentication
Send your key in the X-API-Key header. Keys are server-side credentials — never put one in browser JavaScript or a mobile app.
X-API-Key: yt_live_a1b2c3d4_…
Content-Type: application/jsonRequest fields
| Field | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| date_time | string (date-time) | required | The moment to calculate for, ISO 8601. ALWAYS include an offset or a trailing Z - a value with no zone is read as Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30), not UTC, and can return the previous day's result with a 200. '2026-09-01T06:00:00Z' and '2026-09-01 06:00:00' are different instants and give different answers. |
| latitude | number (double) | required | Latitude of the place, in decimal degrees. Positive is north, negative is south. Example: 26.9124 for Jaipur, 40.7128 for New York. Minutes and seconds are not accepted - convert first. min -89.9 · max 89.9 |
| longitude | number (double) | required | Longitude of the place, in decimal degrees. Positive is east, negative is west. Example: 75.7873 for Jaipur, -74.0060 for New York. Note the sign: a missing minus puts New York in China. min -180 · max 180 |
| timezone_as_float | number (double) | required | UTC offset of the place, in hours, as a decimal. Example: 5.5 for India (UTC+05:30), -5 for New York in winter, 5.75 for Nepal. This is NOT validated against date_time - if the two disagree you get a successful response for the wrong moment, so derive both from the same source. Use the offset in force on that date, not today's: a summer birth in a country with daylight saving needs the summer offset. min -12 · max 14 |
| keys | array | optional | Which calculations to return, as a list of names. See the key table for this endpoint; an unrecognised name rejects the whole request. One call costs one credit however many keys you ask for, so request everything you need at once rather than making several calls. |
Example request
curl -X POST https://yogataraapi.prahlad.app/api/astro/traditional/dignities/ \
-H "X-API-Key: $OCCULT_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"date_time":"1990-08-15T10:30:00+05:30","latitude":26.9124,"longitude":75.7873,"timezone_as_float":5.5}'Response
{
"_truncated": true,
"_note": "Response shortened for the catalogue.",
"preview": "{\"data\": {\"zodiac\": \"tropical\", \"sect\": {\"sect\": \"diurnal\", \"is_day_chart\": true, \"sun_altitude\": 58.950403, \"light\": \"sun\", \"benefic\": \"jupiter\", \"malefic\": \"saturn\", \"contrary_malefic\": \"mars\", \"contrary_benefic\": \"venus\"}, \"planets\": [{\"name\": \"sun\", \"longitude\": 142.125, \"retrograde\": false, \"speed\": 0.960934, \"sign\": \"Leo\", \"sign_index\": 5, \"degree_in_sign\": 22.125, \"formatted\": \"22°07' Leo\", \"sign_rulers\": {\"domicile\": \"sun\", \"detriment\": \"saturn\", \"triplicity\": \"sun\", \"triplicity_participating\": \"saturn\", \"term\": \"mercury\", \"face\": \"mars\", \"exaltation\": null, \"fall\": null}, \"dignities\": [\"domicile\", \"triplicity\"], \"debilities\": [], \"peregrine\": false, \"score\": 8, \"score_breakdown\": {\"domicile\": 5, \"triplicity\": 3}, \"exaltation_degree\": null}, {\"name\": \"moon\", \"longitude\": 72.66, \"retrograde\": false, \"speed\": 14.262958, \"sign\": \"Gemini\", \"sign_index\": 3, \"degree_in_sign\": 12.66, \"formatted\": \"12°39' Gemini\", \"sign_rulers\": {\"domicile\": \"mercury\", \"detriment\": \"jupiter\", \"triplicity\": \"saturn\", \"triplicity_participating\": \"jupiter\", \"term\": \"venus\", \"face\": \"mars\", \"exaltation\": \"north_node\", \"fall\": null}, \"dignities\": [], \"debilities\": [\"peregrine\"], \"peregrine\": true, \"score\": -5, \"score_breakdown\": {\"peregrine\": -5}, \"exaltation_degree\": null}, {\"name\": \"mercury\", \"longitude\": 169.176, \"retrograde\": false, \"speed\": 0.776615, \"sign\": \"Virgo\", \"sign_index\": 6, \"degree_in_sign\": 19.176, \"formatted\": \"19°10' Virgo\", \"sign_rulers\": {\"domicile\": \"mercury\", \"detriment\": \"jupiter\", \"triplicity\": \"venus\", \"triplicity_participating\": \"mars\", \"term\": \"jupiter\", \"face\": \"venus\", \"exaltation\": \"mercury\", \"fall\": \"venus\"}, \"dignities\": [\"domicile\", \"exaltation\"], \"debilities\": [], \"peregrine\": false, \"score\": 9, \"score_breakdown\": {\"domicile\": 5, \"exaltation\": 4}, \"exaltation_degree\": 15.0}, {\"name\": \"venus\", \"longitude\": 121.573, \"retrograde\": false, \"speed\": 1.22118, \"sign\": \"Leo\", \"sign_index\": 5, \"degree_in_sign\": 1.573, \"formatted\": \"1°34' Leo\", \"sign_rulers\": {\"domicile\": \"sun\", \"detriment\": \"saturn\", \"triplicity\": \"sun\", \"triplicity_participating\": \"saturn\", \"term\": \"jupiter\", \"face\": \"saturn\", \"exaltation\": null, \"fall\": null}, \"dignities\": [], \"debilities\": [\"peregrine\"], \"peregrine\": true, \"score\": -5, \"score_breakdown\": {\"peregrine\": -5}, \"exaltation_degree\": null}, {\"name\": \"mars\", \"longitude\": 51.217, \"retrograde\": false, \"speed\": 0.576982, \"sign\": \"Taurus\", \"sign_index\": 2, \"degree_in_sign\": 21.217, \"formatted\": \"21°13' Taurus\", \"sign_rulers\": {\"domicile\": \"venus\", \"detriment\": \"mars\", \"triplicity\": \"venus\", \"triplicity_participating\": \"mars\", \"term\": \"jupiter\", \"face\": \"saturn\", \"exaltation\": \"moon\", \"fall\": null}, \"dignities\": [], \"debilities\": [\"detriment\"], \"peregrine\": false, \"score\": -5, \"score_breakdown\": {\"detriment\": -5}, \"exaltation_degree\": null}, {\"name\": \"jupiter\", \"longitude\": 119.337, \"retrograde\": false, \"speed\": 0.214649, \"sign\": \"Cancer\", \"sign_index\": 4, \"degree_in_sign\": 29.337, \"formatted\": \"29°20' Cancer\", \"sign_rulers\": {\"domicile\": \"moon\", \"detriment\": \"saturn\", \"triplicity\": \"venus\", \"triplicity_participating\": \"moon\", \"term\": \"saturn\", \"face\": \"moon\", \"exaltation\": \"jupiter\", \"fall\": \"mars\"}, \"dignities\": [\"exaltation\"], \"debilities\": [], \"peregrine\": false, \"score\": 4, \"score_breakdown\": {\"exaltation\": 4}, \"exaltation_degree\": 15.0}, {\"name\": \"saturn\", \"longitude\": 289.878, \"retrograde\": true, \"speed\": -0.056381, \"sign\": \"Capricorn\", \"sign_index\": 10, \"degree_in_sign\": 19.878, \"formatted\": \"19°52' Capricorn\", \"sign_rulers\": {\"domicile\": \"saturn\", \"detriment\": \"moon\", \"triplicity\": \"venus\", \"triplicity_participating\": \"mars\", \"term\": \"venus\", \"face\": \"mars\", \"exaltation\": \"mars\", \"fall\": \"jupiter\"}, \"dignities\": [\"domicile\"], \"debilities\": [], \"peregrine\": false, \"score\": 5, \"score_breakdown\": {\"domicile\": 5}, \"exaltation_degree\": null}, {\"name\": \"uranus\", \"longitude\": 275.978, \"retrograde\": true, \"speed\": -0.023775, \"sign\": \"Capricorn\", \"sign_index\": 10, \"degree_in_sign\": 5.978, \"formatted\":"
}Captured from a real call using the exact request above. Results sit under data.
Errors
Metering errors return { "error": "…", "message": "<code>", "is_error": true }. Show error to people and branch on message. See the error reference.