Exaltations and falls
I’ve been researching Hellenistic astrology techniques for a few months now and I understand detriment and domicile, but my problem is is that people tend to pass over exaltations and falls, and I am a bit confused on how to interpret them and how to put them to use
So for example someone has a Saturn in fall , does this mean more hardship for them or less hardship then if they had it normally,
Exaltations are described as being a special guest so does that make it easier or harder
It gets especially confusing for malefic of benefics I understand it with mercury and the luminaries but for example
1st house mars exalted but it’s a day chart and mars is poorly aspected
Does this denote confidence with appearance and confidence to act or does this mean there is an extra strong blockage against acting on desires
Or venus in fall in the 6th house positively aspected if Venus is struggling to benefit the topics of the 6th house does that mean 6th house topics struggle to manifest overall leading to a more positive health?
Any help or books would be nice!!