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The word « δαίμων » appears in the technical language of Hellenistic astrology in two contexts. On the one hand, two of the 12 topical places (τόποι), houses in modern astrological parlance, of the horoscope bear the traditional names 'Good Daimon' and 'Bad Daimon'; on the other, there is a calculated horoscopic point of the genre called lots (κλῆροι: parts) that is labeled the 'Lot of Daimon'. In both cases, this daimon is paired with fortune (τύχη). Daimons are, of course, far more familiar from Greek mythology, theology, philosophy, and magic, especially in the form of a personal daimon, a supernatural entity acting as a guardian of an individual. These entities, it seems, often influenced astrology in its stricter or broader, more or less technical form, when it was used to classify or describe daimons in order to communicate with them effectively or to find the personal daimon in an individual's nativity (birth-horoscope).

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