potestas

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning rulership
Literal translation power
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potestas
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rulership astrological concept

Est itaque Solis Leo et in hoc signo habet domicilium et potestatem; Lunae Cancer.

‘The house of the Sun is Leo, and in this sign he has his home and his power; and that of the Moon is Cancer.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.2.3

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. 1.42

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). potestas (Lemma #922). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/922/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). potestas (Lemma #922). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/922/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). potestas (Lemma #922). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/922/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) potestas (Lemma #922), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/922/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac922,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {potestas ({Lemma} #922)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/922/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/922/},
}