locus matris

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning lot of the mother
Literal translation place of the mother
Variants
locus matris
matris locus
Edited by
lot of the mother astrological lot

Si matris locum partili volueris ratione colligere, et sit diurna genitura, a parte Veneris inchoans et per sequentia signa pergens, omnes partes usque ad Lunae conputes partem

‘If you want to exactly calculate the lot of the mother in a day-chart, count the degrees beginning with the degree of Venus going through the following signs up until the degree of the Moon’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.21

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 2.180

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus matris (Lemma #1369). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1369/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus matris (Lemma #1369). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1369/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus matris (Lemma #1369). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1369/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus matris (Lemma #1369), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1369/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1369,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus matris ({Lemma} #1369)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1369/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1369/},
}