Oriental
A planet is oriental when it rises before the Sun — a morning star, standing behind the Sun in zodiacal order. Whether that counts as a strength depends entirely on which planet it is, and the posture is also read as a statement about timing.
The fuller picture
The geometry is simple and the same for every planet. Take the difference between the planet's longitude and the Sun's in zodiacal order; a planet sitting behind the Sun comes up over the horizon ahead of him and is visible before dawn. That is oriental. A planet ahead of the Sun sets after him and is occidental. Five bodies get a posture in this app — the Sun cannot have one, and the Moon has a phase rule of her own instead.
Whether being oriental is good news depends on the planet, and this is the part that makes the word useless as a strength label on its own. The three planets outside the Earth's orbit — Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — are fortified when oriental. The two inside it, Venus and Mercury, are fortified when occidental. So the same posture is a small credit for three planets and nothing at all for the other two, and our engine pays the accidental bonus only where it belongs. Reading "oriental" as a compliment without checking the planet gets it wrong two times in five.
The second reading is independent of the first, and it is about pace rather than power. Lilly's twenty-seventh aphorism sets it out: where the significator is Saturn, Jupiter or Mars and oriental, the matter is performed sooner; occidental, later; and the reverse for Venus and Mercury. Our engine emits that as a timing testimony rather than a strength one, and it stands down for any planet inside seventeen degrees of the Sun — a planet lost in the beams is not visible as a morning star at all, so there is nothing to read.
The practice this glossary follows carries the term in three places, all of them topical rather than general. In a journey question, significators that are swift, oriental and in moveable signs argue for a short quick voyage — printed as a three-term condition joined by "and/or", which is not something a program can read as it stands. In a sickness question, the sick person's significators oriental point to a new complaint and occidental to a chronic one. And the two malefics are graded partly by posture, with Mars in a masculine sign, oriental and above the horizon named as one of the configurations in which he does more harm. None of those is a rule about strength, which is consistent with the timing reading rather than the dignity one.
In your chart
Each planet's dossier names its posture — Oriental or Occidental — on the same Accidental row as its house strength and its condition relative to the Sun, for every body except the Sun and the Moon. The accidental score behind that row credits the posture only where it is the fortified one for that planet, so an oriental Venus is labelled without being rewarded. Where a significator carries the fortified posture, the engine also writes it up as a timing testimony rather than a strength one.
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