The essential dignities are a traditional technique that have survived in modern practice as the terms rulership, exaltation, detriment, and fall. Each planet has a sign or signs that it rules. In the opposite sign, you will find that same planet's detriment; similarly for exaltation and (in the opposite sign) for fall.
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