Apotelesmatika

petosiris

Banned
Apotelesmatika​

1. Powers
Sun is heating and moderately drying
Moon is moistening and moderately cooling
Saturn is cooling and moderately drying
Jupiter is heating and moderately moistening
Mars is drying and burning
Venus is moistening and moderately heating
Mercury is alternating between drying and moistening

2. Qualities
Jupiter and Venus are beneficent
Saturn and Mars are maleficent
Sun, Moon and Mercury are common

3. Natures
Sun, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are masculine
Moon and Venus are feminine
Mercury is common

Morning planets are masculine
Evening planets are feminine

Eastern planets are masculine
Western planets are feminine

4. Sects
Sun, Saturn and Jupiter are diurnal
Moon, Mars and Venus are nocturnal
Mercury is diurnal as morning planet and nocturnal as evening planet

5. Phases
Moon is more moistening and moderately heating in first quarter
Moon is more heating and moderately drying in second quarter
Moon is more drying and moderately cooling in third quarter
Moon is more cooling and moderately moistening in fourth quarter

Morning additive planets are more moistening and moderately heating
Morning subtractive planets are more heating and moderately drying
Evening subtractive planets are more drying and moderately cooling
Evening additive planets are more cooling and moderately moistening

6. Rays
Black rays are cooling and moderately drying
White rays are heating and moderately moistening
Red rays are drying and burning
Yellow rays are moistening and moderately heating
Varied rays are alternating between drying and moistening

7. Places
Aries, Taurus and Gemini are moistening and moderately heating
Cancer, Leo and Virgo are heating and moderately drying
Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius are drying and moderately cooling
Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces are cooling and moderately moistening

8. Qualities
Aries and Libra are equinoctial
Cancer and Capricorn are solstitial
Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius are solid
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces are dual

9. Natures
Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius are masculine
Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces are feminine

10. Sects
Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius are diurnal
Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces are nocturnal

11. Ages
First age is moistening and moderately heating
Second age is heating and moderately drying
Third age is drying and moderately cooling
Fourth age is cooling and moderately moistening

12. Angles
Hour-Marker is drying and moderately cooling
Midheaven is heating and moderately drying
Setting is moistening and moderately heating
Anti-Midheaven is cooling and moderately moistening

13. Configurations
Assemblies are common
Hexagons and trigons are harmonious
Tetragons and diameters are disharmonious

Configurations within 1° are complete
Configurations within 3° are powerful
Configurations within 7° are operative
Configurations within 15° are moderate

14. Stars
Non-wandering stars present within 1° cooperate with their powers, qualities, natures and sects

15. Houses
Leo is summery house of Sun
Cancer is northern house of Moon
Capricorn and Aquarius are wintry houses of Saturn
Sagittarius and Pisces are windy houses of Jupiter
Aries and Scorpio are stormy houses of Mars
Taurus and Libra are temperate houses of Venus
Gemini and Virgo are changeable houses of Mercury

16. Elevations
Aries is heating elevation of Sun
Taurus is vernal elevation of Moon
Libra is cooling elevation of Saturn
Cancer is northern elevation of Jupiter
Capricorn is southern elevation of Mars
Pisces is moistening elevation of Venus
Virgo is drying elevation of Mercury

17. Depressions
Libra is cooling depression of Sun
Scorpio is autumnal depression of Moon
Aries is heating depression of Saturn
Capricorn is southern depression of Jupiter
Cancer is northern depression of Mars
Virgo is drying depression of Venus
Pisces is moistening depression of Mercury

18. Trigons
Aries, Leo and Sagittarius are southern wind trigon of Sun by day and Jupiter by night
Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn are western wind trigon of Venus by day and Moon by night
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius are northern wind trigon of Saturn by day and Mercury by night
Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces are eastern wind trigon of Mars

19. Bounds
Aries, Leo and Sagittarius by day give Sun 7.5°, Venus 7.5°, Saturn 7.5° and Mars 7.5°
Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn by day give Venus 7.5°, Saturn 7.5°, Mars 7.5° and Sun 7.5°
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius by day give Saturn 7.5°, Mars 7.5°, Sun 7.5° and Venus 7.5°
Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces by day give Mars 7.5°, Sun 7.5°, Venus 7.5° and Saturn 7.5°

Aries, Leo and Sagittarius by night give Jupiter 7.5°, Moon 7.5°, Mercury 7.5° and Mars 7.5°
Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn by night give Moon 7.5°, Mercury 7.5°, Mars 7.5° and Jupiter 7.5°
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius by night give Mercury 7.5°, Mars 7.5°, Jupiter 7.5° and Moon 7.5°
Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces by night give Mars 7.5°, Jupiter 7.5°, Moon 7.5° and Mercury 7.5°

20. Universe
Planets in their houses, elevations, trigons and bounds are powerful
Planets in houses, elevations, trigons and bounds of planets with the same sect are operative
Planets in houses, elevations, trigons and bounds of planets with the opposite sect are inoperative
Planets in their depressions are inoperative

Morning additive planets are powerful
Morning subtractive planets are operative
Evening additive planets are operative
Evening subtractive planets are inoperative

21. Nativity
Midheaven is powerful
Hour-Marker is powerful
Post-ascension of Midheaven is powerful
Post-ascension of Hour-Marker is powerful

Setting is operative
Anti-Midheaven is operative
Post-ascension of Setting is operative
Post-ascension of Anti-Midheaven is operative

Pre-ascension of Midheaven is inoperative
Pre-ascension of Hour-Marker is inoperative
Pre-ascension of Setting is inoperative
Pre-ascension of Anti-Midheaven is inoperative

22. Nations
Make universal investigations with the biology of nations

23. Regions
Make universal investigations with the geography of regions

24. Eclipses
Solar eclipses by day and lunar eclipses by night are the most powerful causes of events

25. Times
Equinoctial hours of solar eclipses indicate the years of events
Equinoctial hours of lunar eclipses indicate the months of events

Hour-Marker indicates beginning within two months and early powerful intensification
Midheaven indicates beginning within eight months and middle powerful intensification
Setting indicates beginning within twelve months and late powerful intensification
New moons and full moons indicate particular intensifications and relaxations

26. Classes
Places and angles of eclipses, predominators of eclipses and their angles with houses, elevations, trigons, bounds and configurations, and non-wandering stars present within 1° indicate events

Hour-Marker indicates foundations, crops and adolescence
Midheaven indicates kingship, worship and adulthood
Setting indicates transitions, diseases and elderhood

Aries, Taurus and Gemini indicate airy domains
Cancer, Leo and Virgo indicate fiery domains
Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius indicate earthy domains
Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces indicate watery domains

Aries and Libra indicate weather and worship
Cancer and Capricorn indicate weather and politics
Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius indicate foundations and buildings
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces indicate kingship and multitudes

Powerful predominators indicate major parts of classes
Operative predominators indicate some parts of classes
Inoperative predominators indicate minor parts of classes

27. Qualities
Saturn predominating indicates destruction by cold, with long illnesses, consumptions, withering, disturbances caused by fluids, rheumatisms, quartan fevers, falling, exile, poverty, imprisonment, mourning, fears, and deaths, especially among those advanced in age, scarcity and destruction of useful animals by disease, fearful cold, freezing, misty and pestilential corruption of air, clouds, gloom, multitude of destructive snowstorms, abundance of harmful reptiles, storms, the wreck of fleets, disastrous voyages, scarcity and death of fish, high and ebb tides of the seas, the excessive floods of rivers and pollution of their waters, want, scarcity and loss of crops, especially of those grown for necessary uses, through worms or locusts or floods or cloud-burst or hail, and the like

Jupiter predominating indicates increase, fame, prosperity, abundance, peaceful existence, bodily and mental health, happiness, benefits and gifts from rulers, greatness and magnanimity of kings, multitude and abundance of useful animals, destruction of the opposite kind, temperate, healthy, windy and moistening air, favourable for the growth of what the earth bears, the fortunate sailing of fleets, the moderate rising of rivers, abundance of crops, and the like

Mars predominating indicates destruction through dryness, wars, civil faction, uprisings, capture, enslavement, the wrath of leaders, sudden deaths arising from such causes, fevers, tertian agues, raising of blood, swift and violent deaths, especially among those in the prime of life, violence, assaults, lawlessness, arson and murder, robbery and piracy, hot weather, warm, pestilential and withering winds, lightning, hurricanes, drought, sudden shipwreck of fleets through changeable winds, the failure of the water of rivers, drying up of springs, tainting of potable waters, scarcity of useful animals and things that grow from the earth, the loss of crops by drying as the result of hot weather, or by locusts, or by beating of winds, or by burning in places of storage, and the like

Venus predominating indicates increase, fame, honour, happiness, abundance, happy marriages, many children, satisfaction in every mutual relationship, the increase of property, neat and well conducted manner of life, paying honour to those things which are to be revered, bodily health, alliances with the leaders, the elegance of rulers, temperate air, moist and very nourishing winds, good and clear weather, generous showers of fertilizing waters, the fortunate sailing of fleets, full rising of rivers, abundance of useful animals, good yields of fruits, successes, profits, and the like

Mercury predominating indicates transitions, stimulating event, cleverness, events which concern the priestly code, worship, royal revenues, changes in customs and laws, robbery, theft, piracy, assault, unsuccessful voyaging when predominating with maleficent planets, occasional diseases of dryness, quotidian agues, coughs, raising, consumption, irregular, fierce and changeable winds depending on dryness, lightning, thunder, hurricanes, earthquakes, destruction of useful animals and plants, diminishment of waters when drying, filling of waters when moistening, and the like

28. Comets
Comets cause wars, hot weather, drought or winds, disturbed conditions and the accompaniments of these, the time which they last indicate the time of the events, their position relative to the Sun indicate the time of the beginning, morning comets indicate rapidly approaching events, evening comets indicate events which approach more slowly, and the formations of the heads indicate the class of the events, the greater the number of parts and the greater their size, the greater the effect

29. Climates
Make universal investigations with the climate of the region, tropical, dry, temperate, continental or polar, the rainforest regions have high rainfall and temperature, monsoon regions have rainfall season, tropical savanna regions have moderate temperature and humidity, the humid continental regions have variable weather pattern and large seasonal variance, oceanic regions have plentiful precipitation, Mediterranean regions have airy spring, fiery summer, earthy autumn and watery winter, while steppe regions have high variation of temperature, subarctic regions have very cold weather and little precipitation, tundra regions have permafrost, the polar regions have covering with ice, and desert regions have little precipitation, extremely low humidity and high variation between diurnal and nocturnal temperature, for equatorial regions, places must be disregarded in favour of angles, configurations and non-wandering stars, likewise proportionally therefrom with the reversal of places and winds for the southern hemisphere, and for polar regions, angles must be disregarded in favour of places, configurations and non-wandering stars, according to latitude

30. Seasons
Make seasonal investigations from the new moons and the full moons which most nearly precede the equinoctial and solstitial places, from their angles, and from their predominators that indicate intensification or relaxation of the seasonal powers according to the weather that they produce in their current places and winds, and from the non-wandering stars that are present within 1° of the Moon and the angle that indicate moistening, heating, drying, cooling, temperate, windy, stormy, snowy, misty, destructive, pestilential and tectonic effects, according to their brightness and rays

31. Months
Make monthly investigations from following new moons or full moons

32. Weeks
Make weekly investigations from new moons, half moons and full moons

33. Days
Make daily investigations from the Moon present with the Lot of Fortune

34. Hours
Make hourly investigations from the Moon present with the angles

35. Signs
When the Sun rises or sets clear, unobscured, steady, and unclouded, it signifies fine weather, but if its disk is varied, or reddish, or it sends out reddish rays either outwardly or circling back upon itself, or parheliac clouds on one side, or yellowish cloud formations while emitting long rays, it signifies heavy winds, and if it is dark or livid, being accompanied by clouds, or if it has halos at one side, or parheliac clouds on both sides while emitting dark rays, it signifies storms and rain

When the Moon three days before and three days after the quarters appears thin and clear and has nothing around it, it signifies clear weather, but if it is thin and reddish, and the whole disk of the unilluminated part is distinct and somewhat shaky, it signifies winds, in that direction in which it is particularly inclined, and if it is dark, or pale, and thick, it signifies storms and rain

When there is one single halo around the Moon that is clear and gradually fading, it signifies fine weather, but if there are two or three, they signify storms, if they are yellowish and broken, they signify storms and heavy winds, if they are thick and misty, they signify snowstorms, and if they are pale, dark, and broken, they signify storms with both winds and snow, and the more of them there are, the more severe the storms, and the halos that gather about planets and non-wandering stars signify what is appropriate to their colours, and the powers of the stars which they surround

When non-wandering stars which are close together in some number appear brighter and larger beyond their customary appearance, they signify the winds that blow from their region, when the star clusters appear dim, invisible, or thickened, they signify rain, if they are clear and constantly twinkle, they signify heavy winds, when shooting stars are coming from one angle, they denote the wind from their direction, if they are coming from diametrical angles, they signify confusion of winds, if they are coming from all four angles, they signify storms of all kinds with lightning, thunder and the like, when the clouds resemble tufts of wool, they signify storms, when rainbows appear, they signify storms after clear weather and clear weather after storms, and generally, all atmospheric phenomena signify effects according to their formations, magnitudes and colours

36. Nativities
When the moment of nativity is known, it can be examined instead of the moment of conception, the hours must be determined with knowledge of accidental qualities, and with one of the planets in perfect configuration with the Hour-Marker or the Midheaven at every conception and nativity

37. Parents
Sun, Moon, Jupiter and Venus predominate parents, Saturn predominates elders
Sun and Jupiter powerful and predominated by powerful planets indicate distinguished father
Sun and Jupiter operative and predominated by operative planets indicate moderate position
Sun and Jupiter inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets indicate low position

Sun, Jupiter and predominators in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Lot give inheritance
Sun, Jupiter and predominators without configuration with the Lot give useless inheritance
Sun, Jupiter and predominators in tetragon or diameter with the Lot give harmful inheritance

Sun and Jupiter powerful and configured with each other and Venus cause excellent longevity
Sun and Jupiter operative and configured with each other and Venus cause fortunate longevity
Sun and Jupiter inoperative and configured with each other and Venus cause average longevity

Saturn and Mars powerful in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause short longevity
Saturn and Mars operative in assembly tetragon or diameter with them cause injuries or diseases
Saturn and Mars inoperative in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause bodily weakness

Saturn makes death or injuries and diseases by cold and moderate dryness
Mars makes sudden death or injuries and diseases by dryness and burning
Saturn and Mars make conspicuous death or injuries and diseases by burning, cutting and the like

Sun is Hour-Marker of the father by day
Jupiter is Hour-Marker of the father by night

Moon and Venus powerful and predominated by powerful planets indicate distinguished mother
Moon and Venus operative and predominated by operative planets indicate moderate position
Moon and Venus inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets indicate low position

Moon, Venus and predominators in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Lot give inheritance
Moon, Venus and predominators without configuration with the Lot give useless inheritance
Moon, Venus and predominators in tetragon or diameter with the Lot give harmful inheritance

Moon and Venus powerful and configured with each other and Jupiter cause excellent longevity
Moon and Venus operative and configured with each other and Jupiter cause fortunate longevity
Moon and Venus inoperative and configured with each other and Jupiter cause average longevity

Saturn and Mars powerful in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause short longevity
Saturn and Mars operative in assembly tetragon or diameter with them cause injuries or diseases
Saturn and Mars inoperative in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause bodily weakness

Saturn makes death or injuries and diseases by cold and moderate dryness
Mars makes sudden death or injuries and diseases by dryness and burning
Saturn and Mars make conspicuous death or injuries and diseases by burning, cutting and the like

Venus is Hour-Marker of the mother by day
Moon is Hour-Marker of the mother by night

Saturn powerful and predominated by powerful planets indicate distinguished elders
Saturn operative and predominated by operative planets indicate moderate positions
Saturn inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets indicate low positions

38. Siblings
The Midheaven relative to the Hour-Marker of the mother predominates siblings
Moon, Jupiter and Venus configured indicate abundance of siblings
Mercury as morning planet configured indicates abundance of siblings
Sun, Saturn and Mars in assembly, tetragon or diameter indicate lack of siblings
Mercury as evening planet in assembly, tetragon or diameter indicates lack of siblings
Donative planets in dual places and predominating the Midheaven indicate even more siblings

Midheaven and donative planets in dual places and predominated by planets in dual places cause multiple births, the number is indicated by the number of the planets, and the sex by their natures

Masculine donative planets give male siblings
Feminine donative planets give female siblings
Morning and eastern donative planets give first-born siblings
Evening and western donative planets give later-born siblings

Donative planets powerful and predominated by powerful planets indicate distinguished siblings
Donative planets operative and predominated by operative planets indicate moderate positions
Donative planets inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets indicate low positions

Donative planets powerful and configured with Jupiter and Venus cause excellent longevity
Donative planets operative and configured with Jupiter and Venus cause fortunate longevity
Donative planets inoperative and configured with Jupiter and Venus cause average longevity

Saturn and Mars powerful in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause short longevity
Saturn and Mars operative in assembly tetragon or diameter with them cause injuries or diseases
Saturn and Mars inoperative in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause bodily weakness

Saturn makes death or injuries and diseases by cold and moderate dryness
Mars makes sudden death or injuries and diseases by dryness and burning
Saturn and Mars make conspicuous death or injuries and diseases by burning, cutting and the like

Donative planets in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Hour-Marker indicate friendly siblings
Donative planets without configuration with the Hour-Marker indicate unsympathetic siblings
Donative planets in tetragon or diameter with the Hour-Marker indicate quarrelsome siblings

Donative planets in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Lot indicate friendly siblings
Donative planets without configuration with the Lot indicate unsympathetic siblings
Donative planets in tetragon or diameter with the Lot indicate quarrelsome siblings

Donative planets are Hour-Markers of the siblings

39. Life
Hour-Marker, Sun and Moon predominate life
Hour-Marker, Sun and Moon masculine and predominated by masculine planets indicate males
Hour-Marker, Sun and Moon feminine and predominated by feminine planets indicate females

Hour-Marker, Sun and Moon predominated by powerful and operative maleficent planets while Sun and Moon are not configured with the Hour-Marker indicate teratogens, when the maleficent planets are powerful, they indicate irrational nativities, but when they are operative, while Jupiter and Venus are configured with Sun and Moon, they indicate rational and honourable nativities

Hour-Marker, Sun and Moon predominated by powerful and operative maleficent planets while in complete, powerful and operative assemblies, tetragons and diameters with them indicate that the children are born dead or half-dead unless beneficent planets have predomination over one of the places and are in moderate configurations with it, for then they live months, weeks, days, and hours, depending on the predomination and configurations of maleficent planets, and the method of temporal intervals with the corresponding times, but when the beneficent planets predominate while in complete, powerful and operative configurations with one of the places, they live years, and the method of temporal intervals with years indicates the length of life

Sun is releaser when powerful by day
Sun is releaser when operative by day while the Moon is operative or inoperative
Moon is releaser when powerful by day while the Sun is operative or inoperative
Moon is releaser when operative by day while the Sun is inoperative
Hour-Marker is releaser when Sun and Moon are inoperative

Moon is releaser when powerful by night
Moon is releaser when operative by night while the Sun is operative or inoperative
Sun is releaser when powerful by night while the Moon is operative or inoperative
Sun is releaser when operative by night while the Moon is inoperative
Hour-Marker is releaser when Sun and Moon are inoperative

Saturn and Mars destroy with assembly, tetragon and diameter
Jupiter and Venus prevent destruction with configuration

The number and the power of the planets indicate which group prevails in the particular ages, the predominators of the destructive places indicate the causes of death, when maleficent planets are predominating and are in assembly, tetragon or diameter with the Sun and the Moon, they cause unnatural deaths, when the destructive places are pre-ascending, deaths occur in foreign regions

40. Body
Hour-Marker and Moon predominate body
Saturn predominating as morning planet makes those who are dark-skinned, robust, black-haired, curly-haired, hairy-chested, with eyes of moderate size, of middling stature, with temperament of cold and moisture, and Saturn as evening planet makes them dark, slender, small, straight-haired, with little hair on their bodies, rather graceful, black-eyed, with temperament of cold and dryness

Jupiter as morning planet makes them light of skin, but in such way as to have good colour, with moderately curling hair and large eyes, tall, commanding respect, with temperament of heat and moisture, and Jupiter as evening planet makes them light, but without good colour, with lank hair or even bald in front and on the crown, of average stature, with temperament of moisture

Mars as morning planet makes them red and white of complexion, tall and robust, gray-eyed, and with thick and somewhat curly hair, with temperament of heat and dryness, and Mars as evening planet makes them simply ruddy, of middle height, with small eyes, with not much hair on their bodies, with straight yellow hair, with temperament of dryness

Venus has temperament similar to that of Jupiter, but is apt to make them more shapely, graceful, womanish, effeminate in figure, plump, luxurious, with eyes bright as well as beautiful

Mercury as morning planet makes them sallow, of middle height, graceful, with small eyes and moderately curling hair, with temperament of heat, and Mercury as evening planet makes them light, but without good colour, with straight hair and olive complexion, lean and spare, and with glancing brilliant eyes, somewhat ruddy, with temperament of dryness

Predominators configured with the Sun make more impressive and more robust bodies
Predominators configured with the Moon make better proportion and greater slenderness

Moon in first quarter and morning additive predominators make large bodies
Moon in second quarter and morning subtractive predominators make robust bodies
Moon in third quarter and evening subtractive predominators make small bodies
Moon in fourth quarter and evening additive predominators make weak bodies

Aries, Taurus and Gemini make them well-favoured in complexion, stature, robustness and eyes, with the temperament of moisture and heat, Cancer, Leo and Virgo make them with moderately good complexion and moderate height, robust, with large eyes and thick and curly hair, with the temperament of heat and dryness, Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius make them sallow, spare, sickly, slender, with good eyes and moderately curling hair, with the temperament of dryness and cold, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces make them with dark complexion, moderate height, straight hair, with little hair on their bodies, somewhat graceful, with the temperament of cold and moisture

Saturn and Mars in assembly, tetragon and diameter with the Hour-Marker and the Moon or with their predominators cause bodily injuries and diseases, for the most part, injuries as morning and eastern planets, and diseases as evening and western planets, while the affected parts of the body are indicated by the powers of the planets and predominators of the Hour-Marker and the Moon

Sun predominates circulatory system, nervous system and visual system
Moon predominates female reproductive system, upper gastrointestinal tract and exocrine system
Saturn predominates skeletal system, immune system and lymphatic system
Jupiter predominates male reproductive system, respiratory system and integumentary system
Mars predominates muscular system, lower gastrointestinal tract and renal system
Venus predominates endocrine system, olfactory system and secondary sex characteristics
Mercury predominates vestibular system, auditory system and gustatory system

Hour-Marker and its predominators, or the Moon and its predominators, in assembly, tetragon or diameter with Saturn and Mars, and not configured with Jupiter and Venus, indicate that injuries and diseases are incurable and painful, particularly when the maleficent planets are powerful, but when they are in assembly, tetragon or diameter with the Hour-Marker or its predominators, with the Moon or its predominators, and Jupiter and Venus are configured with the same, then injuries are not disfiguring and do not entail reproach, and diseases are moderate and yield to treatment, and they are easily cured when the beneficent planets are powerful, Jupiter and Venus cause the injuries to be concealed, and the diseases to be mitigated, and when Mercury is configured with the places under consideration, they bring this about by medicine and the aid of good physicians
 

petosiris

Banned
41. Mind
Moon and Mercury predominate mind
Saturn powerful makes them lovers of the body, strong-minded, deep thinkers, austere, of single purpose, laborious, dictatorial, ready to punish, lovers of property, avaricious, violent, amassing treasure, and jealous, Saturn inoperative makes them sordid, ignorant, indifferent, mean-minded, malignant, cowardly, diffident, evil-speakers, solitary, tearful, shameless, superstitious, fond of toil, unfeeling, devisers of plots against their friends, gloomy, and taking no care of the body

Saturn and Jupiter powerful make them good, respectful to elders, sedate, noble-minded, helpful, critical, fond of possessions, magnanimous, generous, of good intentions, lovers of their friends, gentle, patient, and wise, Saturn and Jupiter inoperative make them uncultured, easily frightened, mad, superstitious, suspicious, hating their own children, friendless, hiding within doors, without judgement, knavishly foolish, venomous, hypocritical, ineffective, unambitious, prone to change their minds, faithless, stern, solitary, cautious, but nevertheless foolish, and submissive to abuse

Saturn and Mars powerful make them neither good nor bad, industrious, outspoken, nuisances, cowardly braggarts, harsh in conduct, pitiless, contemptuous, rough, contentious, rash, deceitful, tenacious of anger, unmoved by pleading, tyrannical, grasping, fond of strife, malignant, active, impatient, blustering, boastful, injurious, unjust, not to be despised, inflexible, busy-bodies, but at the same time adroit and practical, not to be overborne by rivals, and generally successful with achieving their ends, Saturn and Mars inoperative make them robbers, pirates, adulterous, takers of base profits, submissive to disgraceful treatment, godless, without affection, insulting, crafty, thieves, perjurers, murderers, evildoers, homicides, poisoners, impious, and utterly depraved

Saturn and Venus powerful make them haters of women, lovers of antiquity, solitary, unpleasant to meet, unambitious, hating the beautiful, envious, stern in social relations, not companionable, of fixed opinions, prophetic, given to the practice of religious rites, mystics, religious addicts, but dignified and reverent, modest, philosophical, faithful in marriage, self-controlled, calculating, cautious, quick to take offence, and easily led by jealousy to be suspicious of their wives, Saturn and Venus inoperative make them loose, lascivious, the doers of base acts, undiscriminating and unclean in sexual relations, impure, deceivers of women and particularly their own kin, unsound, censorious, depraved, hating the beautiful, fault-finders, evil-speakers, drunken, servile, lawless in sexual relations both active and passive, both natural and unnatural, and willing to seek them with those barred by age, position, or law, or with animals, impious, faithless, deriding mysteries and sacred rites, slanderous, poisoners, and rogues who will stop at nothing

Saturn and Mercury powerful make them meddlers, inquisitive, inquirers into matters of law and custom, fond of the art of medicine, mystics, partakers in secret rites, miracle-workers, cheaters, living only for the day, facile, able to direct business, shrewd and bitter, accurate, sober, friendly, fond of practical affairs, and capable of gaining their ends, Saturn and Mercury inoperative make them frivolous talkers, malignant, given to toil, hating their own kin, harsh and fond of torment, gloomy, night-prowlers, layers of ambushes, traitors, unsympathetic, thieves, forgers, magicians, poisoners, unscrupulous, unfortunate, and usually unsuccessful

Jupiter powerful makes them magnanimous, generous, god-fearing, honourable, pleasure-loving, kind, magnificent, liberal, just, high-minded, dignified, minding their own business, affectionate, compassionate, fond of discussion, helpful, and with qualities of leadership, Jupiter inoperative makes them similar, but with difference in the direction of greater humility, less conspicuousness and poorer judgement, for instead of magnanimity, they are endowed with prodigality, instead of reverence, with superstition, instead of modesty, with cowardice, instead of dignity, with conceit, instead of kindness, with foolish simplicity, instead of the love of beauty, with love of pleasure, instead of high-mindedness, with stupidity, instead of liberality, with indifference, and the like

Jupiter and Mars powerful make them rough, pugnacious, military, managerial, restless, unruly, ardent, reckless, practical, outspoken, critical, effective, contentious, commanding, respectable, given to plotting, virile, fond of victory, and magnanimous, ambitious, passionate, judicious, and successful, Jupiter and Mars inoperative make them insolent, undiscriminating, savage, seditious, contentious, implacable, stubborn, slanderous, conceited, avaricious, rapacious, light and quickly changeable, readily changing their minds, unstable, untrustworthy, of poor judgement, unfeeling, active, querulous, prodigal, gossipy, and those who are in all ways uneven and easily excited

Jupiter and Venus powerful make them pure, pleasure-loving, lovers of the beautiful, of children, of spectacles, and of the arts, singers, fond of those who reared them, of good character, fond of learning, beneficent, compassionate, guileless, religious, wise, prone to athletic training, fond of competition, affectionate, charming in dignified way, and magnanimous, fair, charitable, of good judgement, moderate and decorous in matters of love, fond of their kinsfolk, pious, just, seekers after glory, and generally gentlemanly, Jupiter and Venus inoperative make them luxurious, fond of the dance, soft-livers, effeminate, lavish in expenditure, evil in relations with women, erotic, lascivious, lecherous, slanderous, and adulterous, lovers of ornament, rather soft, lazy, profligate, given to fault-finding, passionate, the adorners of their persons, womanly minded, infatuated by religious rites, panderers, frequenters of the mysteries, trustworthy however and not rascally, but gracious, easy of approach, and cheerful, and those who are inclined to liberality in misfortune

Jupiter and Mercury powerful make them learned, geometricians, mathematicians, poets, orators, fond of discussion, gifted, sober, intelligent, good in counsel, statesmen, benefactors, managers, good-natured, generous, lovers of the mob, shrewd, successful, leaders, reverent, religious, well brought up, affectionate, lovers of their own kin, philosophical, skilful in business, and dignified, Jupiter and Mercury make them simple, garrulous, prone to make mistakes, contemptible, those who are fanatical and religious enthusiasts, speakers of folly, inclined to bitterness, pretenders to wisdom, fools, boasters, students, magicians, somewhat deranged, but well informed and of good memory, teachers, and those who are pure in their desires

Mars powerful makes them noble, commanding, military, versatile, powerful, venturesome, rash, unruly, indifferent, keen, headstrong, contemptuous, tyrannical, active, spirited, easily angered, and with qualities of leadership, Mars inoperative makes them savage, insolent, bloodthirsty, the makers of disturbances, spendthrifts, loud-mouthed, quick-fisted, impetuous, drunken, rapacious, evil-doers, pitiless, unsettled, mad, haters of their own kin, and impious

Mars and Venus powerful make them pleasing, cheerful, friendly, soft-living, happy, playful, and graceful, fond of the dance, erotic, artistic, imitative, pleasure-loving, able to secure themselves property, masculine, given to misconduct in matters of love, but still successful, circumspect, and sensible, difficult to convict and discreet, passionate for both young men and young women, and spendthrifts, quick-tempered, and jealous, Mars and Venus inoperative make them leering, liars, lascivious, profligate, indifferent, slanderous, adulterous, insolent, deceivers, seducers of those both in their own families and in those of others, at the same time keen and insatiate of pleasure, the corrupters of women and maidens, venturesome, ardent, unruly, treacherous, perjurers, easily influenced and of unsound mind, fond of adornment, disposed to base practices, and shameless

Mars and Mercury powerful make them the leaders of armies, skilful, vigorous, active, not to be despised, resourceful and inventive, sophistic, painstaking, rascally, talkative, pugnacious, tricky, unstable, systematic workers, practising evil arts, keen-witted, deceitful, hypocritical, insidious, of bad character, meddlers, but nevertheless successful and capable of keeping contract and faith with persons like themselves and generally injurious to their enemies and helpful to their friends, Mars and Mercury inoperative make them spendthrifts, avaricious, savage, venturesome, daring, prone to change their minds, excitable, easily aroused, liars, thieves, impious, perjurers, ready to take the offensive, seditious, kindlers of fires, creators of disturbances, insolent, pirates, burglars, murderers, forgers, villains, wizards, magicians, sorcerers, and homicides

Venus powerful makes them pleasant, good, luxurious, eloquent, neat, cheerful, fond of dancing, eager for beauty, haters of evil, lovers of the arts, fond of spectacles, decorous, healthy, dreamers of pleasant dreams, affectionate, beneficent, compassionate, kind, fastidious, easily conciliated, successful, and charming, Venus inoperative makes them careless, erotic, effeminate, womanish, timid, indifferent, depraved, censorious, insignificant, and meriting reproach

Venus and Mercury powerful make them artistic, philosophical, gifted with understanding, poets, lovers of the arts, lovers of beauty, talented, of worthy character, seekers after enjoyment, those who are luxurious, happy, fond of friends, pious, sagacious, resourceful, intelligent, successful, quick to learn, self-taught, seekers after the best, the imitators of beauty, eloquent and pleasing in speech, commanding affection, of well-ordered character, earnest, fond of athletics, upright, of good judgement, magnanimous, restrained in their relations with women, but more passionate for boys, and jealous, Venus and Mercury inoperative make them pugnacious, resourceful, unstable, evil-speakers, of bad intentions, deceivers, agitators, liars, slanderers, perjurers, thorough rascals, plotters, faithless, unreliable, adulterous, the corrupters of women and children, adorners of their persons, rather effeminate, malicious in censure and in gossip, garrulous, villains, those who are sometimes feigning such acts, sometimes performing them in earnest, lending themselves to base acts and performing them, and subjected to all sorts of base treatment

Mercury powerful makes them wise, shrewd, thoughtful, learned, inventive, experienced, good calculators, inquirers into nature, speculative, gifted, emulous, beneficent, prudent, those who are good at conjecture, mathematicians, partakers in mysteries, and successful in attaining their ends, Mercury inoperative makes them utter rascals, precipitate, forgetful, impetuous, fickle, prone to change their minds, foolish rogues, undiscriminating, unstable, undependable, avaricious, unjust, witless, sinful, and generally unsteady in judgement and inclined to evil deeds

Sun powerful and configured with the predominators makes them more successful, honourable, distinguished, just, and religious, when inoperative and not configured with the predominators, it makes them less successful, more toilsome, more savage, more obstinate, and with harder lives

Moon increasing gives greater natural endowments, renown, firmness, and frankness, when it is decreasing, it gives greater sluggishness and dullness, less fixity of purpose, greater cautiousness, and less renown, within 15° of the nodes, it gives greater keenness, activity, and excitability, and within 15° of the bendings, it gives greater versatility, resourcefulness, and capacity for change

Moon and Mercury powerful and configured with their predominators make the nativities open, unimpeded, spontaneous, and effective, when they are inoperative and not configured with their predominators, they render them obscure, indistinct, imperfect, and ineffective in action

Moon in first quarter and morning additive planets make them liberal, simple, self-willed, strong, noble, keen, and open, Moon in second quarter and morning subtractive planets make them firm, calculating, patient, of good memory, intelligent, magnanimous, accomplishing what they desire, inflexible, robust, rough, not readily deceived, critical, practical, prone to inflict punishment, and those who are gifted with understanding, Moon in third quarter and evening subtractive planets make them easily changed, unstable, weak, unable to bear labour, emotional, humble, cowardly, deceitful, bullying, dull and slow-witted, and hard to arouse, Moon in fourth quarter and evening additive planets make them noble and wise, but with mediocre memory, not painstaking nor fond of labour, but investigators of hidden things and seekers after the unknown, magicians, adepts in the mysteries, the makers of instruments and machines, astrologers, philosophers, and the like

Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn make minds that are fitted for dealing with the people, fond of turbulence and political activity, glory-seeking, religious, noble, mobile, inquisitive, inventive, good at conjecture, and fitted for astrology, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius make them hard, just, unaffected by flattery, persistent, firm, intelligent, patient, industrious, stern, self-controlled, tenacious of grudges, and extortionate, contentious, ambitious, factious, grasping, and inflexible, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces make them complex, changeable, hard to apprehend, light, unstable, fickle, amorous, versatile, fond of music, lazy, and those who are easily acquisitive

Mars predominates the affairs of males, Venus predominates the affairs of females, Saturn makes cautiousness, hesitancy and frigidity, Jupiter makes decorum, restraint and modesty, Mars makes promiscuity, unrestraint and disgrace, Venus makes elegance, desire and beauty, Mercury makes notoriety, versatility and foresight, Saturn with Mars and Venus make impurity and abuse, when the predominators are powerful, they indicate distinguished individuals, when they are operative, they indicate moderate positions, and when they are inoperative, they indicate low positions

Predominators of the mind without configuration with each other and the Hour-Marker while in assembly, tetragon and diameter with maleficent planets cause diseases of the mind, particularly when the maleficent planets are powerful or in complete configurations, when beneficent planets are not configured with predominators, they cause incurable and conspicuous insanity, but when Jupiter and Venus are configured, diseases are latent, obscure, and mitigated, particularly when they are powerful or in complete configurations, they bring about treatment by medicine and the aid of good physicians, predominators of Moon and Mercury indicate diseases, Saturn and Mars cause early onset as morning and eastern planets, and later onset as evening and western planets

Saturn causes depressive disorders, anxiety disorders and sleep disorders
Jupiter causes dissociative disorders, addictive disorders and personality disorders
Mars causes disruptive disorders, impulse-control disorders and conduct disorders
Venus causes somatic disorders, sexual disorders and paraphilic disorders
Mercury causes neurodevelopmental disorders, psychotic disorders and neurocognitive disorders

Sun and Moon made masculine cause males to exceed in the natural qualities, and females in the unnatural qualities, when Mars and Venus are made masculine, males become addicted to natural intercourse, insatiate, adulterous, and ready on every occasion for base and lawless acts of sexual passion, while females become lustful for unnatural congresses and cast inviting glances of the eye, when one planet is made masculine, they do these things secretly and not openly, but when the two planets are made masculine, without reserve, so that sometimes they marry their women

Sun and Moon made feminine cause females to exceed in the natural qualities, and males in the unnatural qualities, when Mars and Venus are made feminine, females become depraved, lustful, and adulterous, with the result that they may be dealt with in the natural manner on any occasion and by any one soever, and so that they refuse no sexual act, though it be base or unlawful, while males become effeminate and unsound with respect to unnatural congresses, when one planet is made feminine, they do these things secretly and not openly, but when the two planets are made feminine, their shamelessness is outright and frank, so that they submit to general abuse and to every baseness until they are stamped with the reproach and insult that attend such usages

42. Livelihood
Lot of Fortune predominates livelihood
Lot of Fortune powerful and predominated by powerful planets make distinguished livelihood
Lot of Fortune operative and predominated by operative planets make moderate livelihood
Lot of Fortune inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets make low livelihood

Saturn predominating makes wealth from property, agriculture and shipping ventures
Jupiter predominating makes wealth from guardianships, banking and priesthoods
Mars predominating makes wealth from strength, command and military operations
Venus predominating makes wealth from grace, friendship and women
Mercury predominating makes wealth from intelligence, eloquence and trade
Saturn and Jupiter predominating make wealth from inheritances

Predominators configured with Jupiter and Venus indicate possessions without losses
Predominators in assembly, tetragon or diameter with Saturn and Mars indicate losses

43. Dignity
Sun and Moon predominate dignity
Sun and Moon masculine, powerful and predominated by powerful planets, and configured with Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury make kings, when planets are powerful and operative, they continue to be great, powerful, and world-rulers, and they will be most distinguished when all planets are powerful, when Sun is masculine, and Moon is feminine, and only one of the two is powerful or predominated by powerful planets, they will be merely generals, with power over life and death, when configured planets are operative and inoperative, they will be merely great and enjoy partial dignities, high priesthood, superintendence, and military command, not those of first rank, when Sun and Moon are not powerful or predominated by powerful planets, they will not attain the more conspicuous honours, but rather civil leadership or moderate advancement in their careers, when the configured planets are inoperative, they are rendered obscure and without preferment, and they will be entirely humble and insignificant when Sun and Moon are feminine, inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets, and not configured with beneficent planets

Sun, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury as morning planet give more independence and security
Moon, Saturn, Mars and Mercury as evening planet give more dependency and less security

Saturn gives wealth, property and shipping ventures
Jupiter gives governorship, honours and gifts from others
Mars gives governorship, command and fears of subordinates
Venus gives beauty, honours and gifts from others
Mercury gives intelligence, eloquence and trade

Predominators configured with Jupiter and Venus indicate dignity without downfall
Predominators in assembly, tetragon or diameter with Saturn and Mars indicate downfall

44. Action
Sun and Midheaven predominate action
Satun indicates property, agriculture, subordination, mining and seamanship
Saturn and Jupiter indicate property, agriculture, administration, management and philosophy
Saturn and Mars indicate seamanship, cooking, subordination, criminality and funerals
Saturn and Venus indicate merchandise, accommodation, weaving, religion and pharmacy
Saturn and Mercury indicate property, agriculture, measuring, religion and travel
Jupiter indicates magnanimity, governorship, administration, management and law
Jupiter and Mars indicate command, governorship, supervision, military operations and athletics
Jupiter and Venus indicate leadership, honours, banking, advancement from others and athletics
Jupiter and Mercury indicate eloquence, teaching, counseling, philosophy and law
Mars indicates strength, agriculture, construction, military operations and athletics
Mars and Venus indicate grace, cooking, winemaking, dancing and pharmacy
Mars and Mercury indicate command, medicine, surgery, criminality and athletics
Venus indicates grace, music, clothing, ornaments and beauty
Venus and Mercury indicate grace, music, poetry, theatre and beauty
Mercury indicates eloquence, teaching, science, interpretation and trade
Moon and Mercury indicate prophecy, magic, astrology, divination and sorcery

Powerful predominators configured with Jupiter and Venus make dignified, glorious, profitable, unerring and gracious action, inoperative predominators in assembly, tetragon and diameter with Saturn and Mars make humble, inglorious, profitless, fallible and toilsome action

Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn indicate agriculture, interpretation, trade and exchange
Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius indicate foundations, property, command and stability
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces indicate grace, music, cooking and versatility

45. Marriage
Moon predominates marriage for men, Sun predominates marriage for women
Moon in first or third quarter makes men who marry young or marry younger women, in second or fourth quarter, it makes men who marry late or marry older women, when it is in solid places and predominated by planets in solid places, it makes them men of one marriage, but when it is in dual places and predominated by planets in dual places, it makes them marry more than once, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury in configuration cause good marriage, Saturn and Mars in assembly, tetragon and diameter cause the opposite, Saturn makes the wives hardworking and stern, Jupiter makes them dignified and good managers, Mars makes them bold and unruly, Venus make them cheerful, beautiful and charming, Mercury makes them intelligent and keen, Venus with Saturn, Jupiter or Mercury make them thrifty and affectionate to their husbands and children, Venus with Mars make them easily roused to wrath, unstable and unfeeling, predominators indicate position

Sun as eastern planet makes women who marry young or marry younger men, as western planet, it makes women who marry late or marry older men, when it is in solid places and predominated by planets in solid places, it makes them women of one marriage, but when it is in dual places and predominated by planets in dual places, it makes them marry more than once, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury in configuration cause good marriage, Saturn and Mars in assembly, tetragon and diameter cause the opposite, Saturn makes the husbands sedate, useful and hardworking, Jupiter makes them dignified and magnanimous, Mars makes them men of action, lacking in affection, and unruly, Venus makes them elegant and handsome, Mercury makes them thrifty and practical, Venus with Saturn make them sluggish and weak in sexual relations, and Venus with Mars make them ardent, impetuous and adulterous, Venus with Mercury make them infatuated with boys

Sun and Moon of both nativities in assemblies, hexagons and trigons indicate lasting marriages, particularly when the Moon of the husband is in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Sun of the wife, divorces on slight pretexts and complete alienations occur when they are in disharmonious configurations or without configuration, when Jupiter and Venus are configured with the Sun and the Moon in favourable configuration, they keep the marriage pleasant, agreeable, and profitable, when Saturn and Mars are in assembly, tetragon and diameter with Sun and Moon in favourable configuration, the marriage will be quarrelsome, unpleasant, and unprofitable, when Jupiter and Venus are configured with Sun and Moon in unfavourable configuration, they do not completely terminate the marriage, but bring about renewals and recollections which preserve kindness and affection, but when Saturn and Mars are in assembly, tetragon or diameter with Sun and Moon in unfavourable configuration, they cause divorce with abuse and violence, Saturn and Venus cause incestuous marriage when predominating all predominators, Mercury adds notoriety to the above

46. Children
Midheaven predominates children
Moon, Jupiter and Venus configured indicate abundance of children
Mercury as morning planet configured indicates abundance of children
Sun, Saturn and Mars in assembly, tetragon or diameter indicate lack of children
Mercury as evening planet in assembly, tetragon or diameter indicates lack of children
Donative planets in dual places and predominating the Midheaven indicate even more children

Midheaven and donative planets in dual places and predominated by planets in dual places cause multiple births, the number is indicated by the number of the planets, and the sex by their natures

Masculine donative planets give male children
Feminine donative planets give female children
Morning and eastern donative planets give first-born children
Evening and western donative planets give later-born children

Donative planets powerful and predominated by powerful planets indicate distinguished children
Donative planets operative and predominated by operative planets indicate moderate positions
Donative planets inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets indicate low positions

Donative planets powerful and configured with Jupiter and Venus cause excellent longevity
Donative planets operative and configured with Jupiter and Venus cause fortunate longevity
Donative planets inoperative and configured with Jupiter and Venus cause average longevity

Saturn and Mars powerful in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause short longevity
Saturn and Mars operative in assembly tetragon or diameter with them cause injuries or diseases
Saturn and Mars inoperative in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause bodily weakness

Saturn makes death or injuries and diseases by cold and moderate dryness
Mars makes sudden death or injuries and diseases by dryness and burning
Saturn and Mars make conspicuous death or injuries and diseases by burning, cutting and the like

Donative planets in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Hour-Marker indicate friendly children
Donative planets without configuration with the Hour-Marker indicate unsympathetic children
Donative planets in tetragon or diameter with the Hour-Marker indicate quarrelsome children

Donative planets in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Lot indicate friendly children
Donative planets without configuration with the Lot indicate unsympathetic children
Donative planets in tetragon or diameter with the Lot indicate quarrelsome children

Donative planets in assembly, hexagon or trigon with each other indicate friendly siblings
Donative planets without configuration with each other indicate unsympathetic siblings
Donative planets in tetragon or diameter with each other indicate quarrelsome siblings

Donative planets are Hour-Markers of the children

47. Friendship
Hour-Marker, Sun, Moon and Lot of Fortune of two nativities in assemblies, hexagons or trigons with each other bring about secure and indissoluble sympathy unbroken by any quarrel, but when they are in tetragons or diameters, they produce the deepest enmities and lasting contentions, and there is greater benefit from friendship and greater success in the enmity in that nativity in which the authoritative placements are more powerful and have the configurations of Jupiter and Venus

Hour-Marker indicates friendship from pleasure
Sun and Moon indicate friendship from choice
Lot of Fortune indicates friendship from need

Saturn, Mars and Mercury as evening planet produce occasional spells of silence and disparaging talk in friendship when passing with assembly, tetragon or diameter, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury as morning planet produce truces and reconciliations in enmity when passing with configurations

Lot of Fortune predominates servants in nativities of masters and masters in nativities of servants
Lot of Fortune in assembly, hexagon or trigon with predominators indicate favourable sympathy
Lot of Fortune without configuration with predominators indicate unsympathetic relationship
Lot of Fortune in tetragon or diameter with predominators indicate unfavourable hostility

48. Travel
Hour-Marker predominates travel
Sun, Moon and Lot of Fortune pre-ascending cause travel
Pre-ascension of the Hour-Marker indicates travel to the eastern regions
Pre-ascension of the Midheaven indicates travel to the southern regions
Pre-ascension of the Setting indicates travel to the western regions
Pre-ascension of the Anti-Midheaven indicates travel to the northern regions
Solid places indicate occasional travel, dual places indicate continuous travel

Jupiter and Venus in configuration cause honourable and profitable travel, quick and unimpeded return, particularly when they are powerful, Saturn and Mars in assembly, tetragon and diameter cause laborious and dangerous travel, and difficult return, particularly when they are powerful

Jupiter and Venus make the journeys not only safe, but also pleasant, for the subjects will be sent on their way by the chief men of the country or by the resources of their friends, and favourable conditions of the weather and abundance of supplies will also aid them, with Mercury configured they indicate profits, gifts, and honours, particularly when they are powerful and predominating

Saturn and Mars make the results useless and will involve the subjects in great dangers, through lack of provisions and unhealthy conditions with equinoctial and solstitial places, through falling from heights and the assaults of winds with solid places, through piracy, plots and robberies with dual places, through hard going with airy places, through desert region with fiery places, through attacks of beasts and earthquakes with earthy places, through unfortunate voyages and shipwreck with watery places, with Mercury in assembly, tetragon and diameter they cause dangers through the weather, dangerous accusations, and with the bites of reptiles and other poisonous creatures

49. Times
Moon predominates infancy
Mercury predominates childhood
Venus predominates adolescence
Sun predominates early adulthood
Mars predominates middle adulthood
Jupiter predominates late adulthood
Saturn predominates elderhood

Hour-Marker predominates body and travel
Sun predominates dignity and marriage for women
Moon predominates mind and marriage for men
Lot of Fortune predominates wealth and property
Midheaven predominates action, children and friendship

Planets become general chronocrators with configurations in the temporal intervals
Planets become annual chronocrators with predomination in the solar revolutions
Planets become monthly chronocrators with predomination in the lunar revolutions

Hour-Marker favourably placed causes physical wellbeing and profitable travel
Sun favourably placed causes social wellbeing and happiness in marriage for women
Moon favourably placed causes mental wellbeing and happiness in marriage for men
Lot of Fortune favourably placed causes financial gain, prosperity and gifts from others
Midheaven favourably placed causes action, happiness from children and friendship

Hour-Marker unfavourably placed causes physical suffering and dangerous travel
Sun unfavourably placed causes social suffering and misfortune in marriage for women
Moon unfavourably placed causes mental suffering and misfortune in marriage for men
Lot of Fortune unfavourably placed causes financial loss, hardship and debts to others
Midheaven unfavourably placed causes inaction, misfortune from children and enmity

Beneficent chronocrators cause good effects, particularly when they are powerful
Maleficent chronocrators cause bad effects, particularly when they are powerful
Common chronocrators cooperate, particularly when they are powerful

Morning and eastern chronocrators cause quick effects
Evening and western chronocrators cause late effects

Saturn cooperates with general chronocrators
Jupiter cooperates with annual chronocrators
Mars cooperates with monthly chronocrators
Sun cooperates with monthly chronocrators
Venus cooperates with monthly chronocrators
Mercury cooperates with monthly chronocrators
Moon cooperates with intensifications and relaxations

Beneficent planets help with configuration
Maleficent planets harm with assembly, tetragon and diameter
Common planets help with configuration during beneficent chronocratorship
Common planets harm with assembly, tetragon and diameter during maleficent chronocratorship

Sun, together with the ambient, is always in some way affecting everything on the earth, not only by the changes that accompany the seasons to bring about generation of animals, productiveness of plants, flowing of rivers, and change of bodies, but also daily furnishing heat, moisture, cold and dryness in regular order and in correspondence with its current position relative to the zenith

Moon, too, as the heavenly body nearest to the earth, bestows its effluence most abundantly upon mundane things, for most of them, animate and inanimate, are sympathetic with it, and change in company with it, the rivers increase and diminish their streams with its light, seas turn their own tides with its rising and setting, and plants and animals in some part increase or decrease with it

Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury often cause hot, windy and snowy conditions of the air and mundane matters are affected accordingly, all configurations bring about many complicated changes, for though the power of the Sun prevails in the general ordering of the quality, the other heavenly bodies cooperate or deter in particular details, if these matters be so regarded, all would judge it to follow that not only must things already compounded be affected in some way by the motion of the heavenly bodies, but likewise the germination and the fruition of the seed must be moulded and conformed to the biological forces that are proper to the physical forces at the time, and such biological determinism dependent upon physical reductionism is easily comprehended

The following considerations might lead one to observe that criticism of the science on the score of impossibility is specious, but undeserved, in the first place, the mistakes of those who are not accurately instructed in its practice, and they are many, as one would expect in this important and many-sided subject, they have brought about the belief that even its true predictions depend upon chance, which is incorrect, for this is ineffectiveness not of the science, but of those who practice it, in the second place, most for the sake of gain, claim credence for another art with the name of this, and they deceive the vulgar, because they are reputed to foretell many things even those that cannot naturally be known beforehand, while to the more thoughtful they have thereby given the occasion to pass equally unfavourable judgement upon the natural science, nor is this deservedly done, it is the same with other sciences, there is no need to abolish them because there are some evident rascals among those that pretend to them, nevertheless, the most inquiring and legitimate astrologers may sometimes err, not for any of the reasons stated, but because of their weakness in comparison to the magnitude of the profession, however, just as people do not find fault with the physicians when they examine someone, for speaking both about the sickness itself and about the patient, so too they should not object to the astrologers using foundation for investigation, nation, region or any other already existing accidental qualities, particularly those concerning the origins

Unexpected good often grieves men as bad, and unexpected bad causes the greatest grief to those who have not trained their minds in advance, that foreknowledge is possible and that precautions can be taken in most instances is obvious from the fact that people warm themselves against cold in winter, and cool themselves against heat in summer, similar measures can prove effective with disproportionate amounts of moisture, heat, dryness and cold in the different matters of nativities
 
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Apotelesmatika

The ''Effects'' of astronomy.

1. Powers
Sun is heating and moderately drying
Moon is moistening and moderately cooling
Saturn is cooling and moderately drying
Jupiter is heating and moderately moistening
Mars is drying and burning
Venus is moistening and moderately heating
Mercury is alternating between drying and moistening

Sun is heating and moderately drying, this is made more easily perceptible with its size and the obviousness of its seasonal changes, for the closer it approaches the zenith, the more it affects us in this way.

Moon is moistening and moderately cooling, this is made more easily perceptible with its phases, for it has most obvious influence over the seas at the syzygies, however, because it reflects heat from the Sun, it is more moistening than cold.

Saturn is cooling and moderately drying, because it is furthest removed from the heat of the Sun and the moisture of the Earth.

Jupiter is heating and moderately moistening, with temperate active force because its orbit takes place between the cooling influence of Saturn and the burning influence of Mars.

Mars is drying and burning, in conformity with its position and rays, it has extreme heat not in quantity (the Sun produces more heat in quantity), but in quality especially due to its great dryness.

Venus is moistening and moderately heating, similar in nature to the Earth, but more heating, because it is closer to the heating influence of the Sun.

Mercury is alternating between drying and moistening, because it is in between the drying influence of the Sun and the moistening influence of Venus, it is rarely perceptibly hot or cold, because of its varied light relative to its size and distance from the Earth.

2. Qualities
Jupiter and Venus are beneficent
Saturn and Mars are maleficent
Sun, Moon and Mercury are common

Moisture and heat are beneficent, fertile and active, dryness and cold are maleficent, destructive and passive.

The extreme heat of Mars is similar in maleficent quality to moderate amounts of cold and dryness. Common planets join their influences with the other planets, with whichever of them they are associated, although the Sun and the Moon have slight essential predisposition towards beneficence.

3. Natures
Sun, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are masculine
Moon and Venus are feminine
Mercury is common

Heat, dryness and cold are masculine, moisture is feminine.

Morning planets are masculine
Evening planets are feminine

Eastern planets relative to the Sun are masculine because they have the first place in the cycle and they welcome the day, western planets relative to the Sun are feminine because they have the second place in the cycle and welcome the night. An additional reason is the increase and decrease of light in the two semicircles.

Eastern planets are masculine
Western planets are feminine

The quadrants from the Hour-Marker to the Midheaven and from the Setting to the Anti-Midheaven are masculine, because they are eastern relative to the horizon and occupy the first halves of day and night. The quadrants from the Midheaven to the Setting and from the Anti-Midheaven to the Hour-Marker are feminine, because they are western relative to the horizon and occupy the second halves of day and night.

4. Sects
Sun, Saturn and Jupiter are diurnal
Moon, Mars and Venus are nocturnal
Mercury is diurnal as morning planet and nocturnal as evening planet

Masculine planets are diurnal, feminine planets are nocturnal. Mars, however, because it is drying and excessively heating, is constituted nocturnal, and it produces much more temperate admixture with the Moon and Venus than with the Sun, Saturn and Jupiter.

5. Phases
Moon is more moistening and moderately heating in first quarter
Moon is more heating and moderately drying in second quarter
Moon is more drying and moderately cooling in third quarter
Moon is more cooling and moderately moistening in fourth quarter

Morning additive planets are more moistening and moderately heating
Morning subtractive planets are more heating and moderately drying
Evening subtractive planets are more drying and moderately cooling
Evening additive planets are more cooling and moderately moistening

The heating and moderately drying powers of the second phases are obvious, in that they are most abundant and increasing in light, from this we can understand that the opposite phases are cooling and moderately moistening. Likewise, the additive planets are perceptibly stronger, so they must receive the airy powers, and the opposite phases, the earthy powers.

Moon, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars have air -> fire -> earth -> water cycle (similar to the seasons).
Venus and Mercury have air -> water -> earth -> fire cycle (similar to the angles).

6. Rays
Black rays are cooling and moderately drying
White rays are heating and moderately moistening
Red rays are drying and burning
Yellow rays are moistening and moderately heating
Varied rays are alternating between drying and moistening

If a fixed star such as Aldebaran continuously emits red rays, it has the power, quality, nature and sect of Mars - drying and burning, maleficent, masculine and nocturnal.

If a fixed star such as Sirius continuously emits white rays with slight shades of red, it has the power, quality, nature and sect of Jupiter and moderately Mars - heat, but without moisture, beneficent, masculine and diurnal.

If fixed stars such as those in the mouth of Capricorn continuously emit faint rays with slight shade of yellow, they have the power, quality, nature and sect of Saturn and moderately Venus - cold and moderate moisture, common, masculine and diurnal.

If a solar eclipse is surrounded by red halos or the Sun emits red rays at the time, it is a sign of events predominated by Mars - hot weather, drought, loss of crops, wars etc.

7. Places
Aries, Taurus and Gemini are moistening and moderately heating
Cancer, Leo and Virgo are heating and moderately drying
Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius are drying and moderately cooling
Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces are cooling and moderately moistening

The four seasons and their powers require no explanation.
 
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8. Qualities
Aries and Libra are equinoctial
Cancer and Capricorn are solstitial
Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius are solid
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces are dual

These qualities are named after what happens to the seasonal powers in these places. They change at the equinoxes and solstices, become solid in the solid places, and prepare for change in the dual places.

9. Natures
Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius are masculine
Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces are feminine

The equinoctial places and the trigonal places are masculine.
The solstitial places and the trigonal places are feminine.

10. Sects
Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius are diurnal
Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces are nocturnal

The masculine places are diurnal.
The feminine places are nocturnal.

11. Ages
First age is moistening and moderately heating
Second age is heating and moderately drying
Third age is drying and moderately cooling
Fourth age is cooling and moderately moistening

The circle has no beginning, but since all living creatures have four ages with these powers corresponding to the seasons, it is so-held to begin with Aries. Planets experience increase or decrease of their powers in the different ages, as when events in adolescence are generally predominated by Venus, but those of early adulthood, by the Sun.

12. Angles
Hour-Marker is drying and moderately cooling
Midheaven is heating and moderately drying
Setting is moistening and moderately heating
Anti-Midheaven is cooling and moderately moistening

The four directions, their winds and powers require no explanation.

13. Configurations
Assemblies are common
Hexagons and trigons are harmonious
Tetragons and diameters are disharmonious

Assemblies and diameters make planets meet on one straight line and form powerful syzygies. The 1/3, 1/2 and 2/3 of the diameter are important configurations. Of these, the tetragon and the diameter are disharmonious, because their contrary qualities are responsible for the turning of seasons and lunar phases. The hexagon and the trigon are harmonious, because their winds are of the same nature and sect, which also tempers the assembly to common nature and the diameter to the nature of the tetragon. The hexagon is tempered to the nature of the trigon, because even though it doesn't have the same direction, it has the same nature and sect and takes less seasonal space (lesser difference). The 1/6 and 5/6 of the diameter are not configurations, because they are neither turning, nor do they belong to winds of the same nature and sect, so that even if they had relationship, this would be general and imperceptible.

Configurations within 1° are complete
Configurations within 3° are powerful
Configurations within 7° are operative
Configurations within 15° are moderate

15° is the boundary before the beginning of the next configuration or the lack thereof, an additional reason is that it is the half of a place. Each interval is doubled in distance from the previous as 1 + 2 = 3 + 4 = 7 + 8 = 15, an additional reason is that these approximate one day, three days, one week and two weeks of the lunar months.

There are very few natural reasons for the usage of configurations by signs, ascensions and the so-called planetary orbs. Such we shall omit, likewise the usage of applications and separations is superfluous as we prefer current placements configurations at a given moment, and not motions in the future, otherwise the powers of the angles would be superfluous.

14. Stars
Non-wandering stars present within 1° cooperate with their powers, qualities, natures and sects

Non-wandering stars cooperate only in complete assemblies with angles, planets and the Lot, and they have neither phases nor other configurations, by reason of their constant position relative to each other.
 
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15. Houses
Leo is summery house of Sun
Cancer is northern house of Moon
Capricorn and Aquarius are wintry houses of Saturn
Sagittarius and Pisces are windy houses of Jupiter
Aries and Scorpio are stormy houses of Mars
Taurus and Libra are temperate houses of Venus
Gemini and Virgo are changeable houses of Mercury

Leo is heating and moderately drying just like the Sun.
Cancer, by reason of being the most northern place receives an admixture of extreme northern winds which are cold and moist, so it is constituted the house of the Moon.
Capricorn and Aquarius are wintry houses of Saturn. Capricorn contrariwise receives an admixture of extreme southern winds, which we shall explain in a moment.
Sagittarius and Pisces are windy houses of Jupiter that anticipate seasons with greater moisture (winter and spring) and heat (spring).
Aries and Scorpio are productive of storms, Aries produces great heat, while Scorpio produces the most dryness, so they are related to Mars.
Taurus and Libra are temperate (in weather and temperature) so they are related to Venus.
Gemini and Virgo are changeable houses of Mercury that anticipate seasons with greater dryness (summer and autumn) from seasons with good weather.

16. Elevations
Aries is heating elevation of Sun
Taurus is vernal elevation of Moon
Libra is cooling elevation of Saturn
Cancer is northern elevation of Jupiter
Capricorn is southern elevation of Mars
Pisces is moistening elevation of Venus
Virgo is drying elevation of Mercury

Aries is heating elevation, not in quantity (which is the place of Leo), but in quality, as this is the place of the vernal equinox which causes the greatest increase of heat.
Taurus is the most moistening of all places so it is predominated by both moistening planets.
Libra is cooling elevation, not in quantity (which is the place of Aquarius), but in quality, as this is the place of the autumnal equinox which causes the greatest increase of cold.
Cancer is northern elevation of Jupiter, because this place is summery and at the same time receives an admixture of extreme northern winds which are moist and fecund.
Capricorn is southern elevation of Mars, because this place receives an admixture of extreme southern winds which are burning, drying and destructive, by reason of being the most southern place.
Pisces is moistening elevation of Venus, again, not in quantity, but in quality, this place precedes the moistening spring.
Virgo is drying elevation of Mercury, again, not in quantity, but in quality, this place precedes the drying autumn. Virgo is related twice to Mercury.

17. Depressions
Libra is cooling depression of Sun
Scorpio is autumnal depression of Moon
Aries is heating depression of Saturn
Capricorn is southern depression of Jupiter
Cancer is northern depression of Mars
Virgo is drying depression of Venus
Pisces is moistening depression of Mercury

Libra is cooling depression, not in quantity (which is the place of Aquarius), but in quality, as this is the place of the autumnal equinox which causes the greatest increase of cold.
Scorpio is the most drying of all places and it is predominated twice by Mars.
Aries is heating depression, not in quantity (which is the place of Leo), but in quality, as this is the place of the vernal equinox which causes the greatest increase of heat.
Capricorn is southern depression of Jupiter, because this place is wintry and at the same time receives an admixture of extreme southern winds which are burning, drying and destructive.
Cancer is northern depression of Mars, because this place receives an admixture of extreme northern winds which are moist and fecund.
Virgo is drying depression of Venus, again, not in quantity, but in quality, this place precedes the drying autumn.
Pisces is moistening depression of Mercury, again, not in quantity, but in quality, this place precedes the moistening spring.

18. Trigons
Aries, Leo and Sagittarius are southern wind trigon of Sun by day and Jupiter by night
Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn are western wind trigon of Venus by day and Moon by night
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius are northern wind trigon of Saturn by day and Mercury by night
Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces are eastern wind trigon of Mars

Because winds always predominate an exact direction, and because there are four possible general directions of winds, the twelve places are sharply pointed in groups of three separated by four places, that is by the figure of the trigon.

Aries + Leo + Sagittarius = 1 Moisture + 1/2 Heat + 1 Heat + 1/2 Dryness + 1 Dryness + 1/2 Cold = 1 Heat + 1/2 Dryness (South or Fire)
Taurus + Virgo + Capricorn = 1 Moisture + 1/2 Heat + 1 Heat + 1/2 Dryness + 1 Cold + 1/2 Moisture = 1 Moisture + 1/2 Heat (West or Air)
Gemini + Libra + Aquarius = 1 Moisture + 1/2 Heat + 1 Dryness + 1/2 Cold + 1 Cold + 1/2 Moisture = 1 Cold + 1/2 Moisture (North or Water)
Cancer + Scorpio + Pisces = 1 Heat + 1/2 Dryness + 1 Dryness + 1/2 Cold + 1 Cold + 1/2 Moisture = 1 Dryness + 1/2 Cold (East or Earth)

Thus, Aries, Leo and Sagittarius are southern wind trigon of Sun by day and Jupiter by night, more moistening by night due to the moisture of the night.
Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn are western wind trigon of Venus by day and Moon by night, more cooling by night due to the cold of the night.
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius are northern wind trigon of Saturn by day and Mercury by night, more moistening by night due to the moisture of the night, this wind is predominated by Mercury by night to account for the moderate moisture, occasional fecundity and beneficence, note that half of the time by night, this wind becomes feminine and nocturnal.
Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces are eastern wind trigon of Mars both by day and by night, as only Mars produces such drying and maleficent winds. To account for the moderate cold of the winds, some of the old astrologers put Venus as cooperating lord by day, and Moon as cooperating lord by night, however this does not seem right to me, as they are moistening planets.
The winds seem point at the seasonal powers of the solid places.

Of course, for the Southern Hemisphere, the equatorial winds of Sun and Jupiter become northern, and the polar winds of Saturn and Mercury become southern, as the direction of their two angles are reversed, likewise this differentiation of winds applies only to the general winds within the fronts, and not to every single locality at all times.

19. Bounds
Aries, Leo and Sagittarius by day give Sun 7.5°, Venus 7.5°, Saturn 7.5° and Mars 7.5°
Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn by day give Venus 7.5°, Saturn 7.5°, Mars 7.5° and Sun 7.5°
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius by day give Saturn 7.5°, Mars 7.5°, Sun 7.5° and Venus 7.5°
Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces by day give Mars 7.5°, Sun 7.5°, Venus 7.5° and Saturn 7.5°

Aries, Leo and Sagittarius by night give Jupiter 7.5°, Moon 7.5°, Mercury 7.5° and Mars 7.5°
Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn by night give Moon 7.5°, Mercury 7.5°, Mars 7.5° and Jupiter 7.5°
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius by night give Mercury 7.5°, Mars 7.5°, Jupiter 7.5° and Moon 7.5°
Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces by night give Mars 7.5°, Jupiter 7.5°, Moon 7.5° and Mercury 7.5°

And because the beginning of the place obviously does not have the exact same temperament as the end of the place, the old astrologers have invented various divisional systems to explain for such differences, such as the Egyptian terms, the Chaldean terms, the Ptolemaic terms, the decans according to the heptazone, the dodekatemoria, the monomoiria by trigon, the monomoiria according to the heptazone, the monomoiria according to the Chaldean terms and many more similar fanciful systems that are built around contrived orders of symmetry, but with completely unfounded arguments in nature.

This natural division, however, is based on the four winds and the four elements, can be felt in the air, and explains for all differences within the places. Because the winds often experience increase of power through predomination, or stillness through predomination of the contrary wind, or admixture through predomination of neighbouring winds, the places are divided into four equal bounds of 7.5° - so that the first bound is the wind blowing with twice the power, the second bound is the wind receiving an admixture from the wind of the following angle, the third bound is the wind receiving an admixture of the wind from the opposite angle that produces stillness, and the fourth bound is the wind receiving an admixture from the wind of the preceding angle. One can observe this change from the powers of the planets.

20. Universe
Planets in their houses, elevations, trigons and bounds are powerful
Planets in houses, elevations, trigons and bounds of planets with the same sect are operative
Planets in houses, elevations, trigons and bounds of planets with the opposite sect are inoperative
Planets in their depressions are inoperative

Morning additive planets are powerful
Morning subtractive planets are operative
Evening additive planets are operative
Evening subtractive planets are inoperative

When planets receive both powerful and inoperative influence, we must count it as operative admixture. In general, morning subtractive planets are slightly more operative than evening additive planets, and predominations of the opposite sect paralyze less than depressions, thus these are given in this order.

21. Nativity
Midheaven is powerful
Hour-Marker is powerful
Post-ascension of Midheaven is powerful
Post-ascension of Hour-Marker is powerful

Setting is operative
Anti-Midheaven is operative
Post-ascension of Setting is operative
Post-ascension of Anti-Midheaven is operative

Pre-ascension of Midheaven is inoperative
Pre-ascension of Hour-Marker is inoperative
Pre-ascension of Setting is inoperative
Pre-ascension of Anti-Midheaven is inoperative

Rising and culminating planets are more powerful than setting and anti-culminating planets, but declining planets are always inoperative relative to the nativity. The places are ordered by power from most powerful to most inoperative, the ascensions are of course more powerful than the post-ascensions. The combined power relative to the universe is added to the power relative to the nativity.
 
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22. Nations
Make universal investigations with the biology of nations

We must use universal factors such as general bodily form of the nation, culture and religion in both universal and genethlialogical inquiries. These factors are hiddenly astrological in nature, for they are formed from the interaction of genetics with the environment, which is of course formed by the planets, especially due to the amount of rays of the Sun that fall at each latitude. These were thought out before the creation of the world to accord with the ways and fate of each nation and individual.

23. Regions
Make universal investigations with the geography of regions

We must use universal factors such as climate, natural resources, situation, height, lowness, or adjacency in both universal and genethlialogical inquiries. These factors are hiddenly astrological in nature, for they were created less than six thousand years ago in harmony with the planets, and again transformed through the flood.

24. Eclipses
Solar eclipses by day and lunar eclipses by night are the most powerful causes of events

The perfect syzygy of the eclipse must occur above the horizon.

25. Times
Equinoctial hours of solar eclipses indicate the years of events
Equinoctial hours of lunar eclipses indicate the months of events

We observe the duration of the totality above the horizon. Equinoctial hours are equal hours, not local. Solar eclipses can cause events that last up to a month and two weeks, lunar eclipses can cause events that last up to three months and three weeks.

Hour-Marker indicates beginning within two months and early powerful intensification
Midheaven indicates beginning within eight months and middle powerful intensification
Setting indicates beginning within twelve months and late powerful intensification

We mark at what local hour the syzygy occurs. If it falls exactly after the Hour-Marker, the events begin immediately and their intensification is immediate, if it falls exactly at the Midheaven, the events begin after six months and their intensification is in the middle part of the time, if it falls exactly before the Setting, the events begin after twelve months and their intensification is in the last part of the time, etc.

New moons and full moons indicate particular intensifications and relaxations

New moons and full moons (and their angles) produce intensifications or relaxations when the qualities of their predominators are in accord or discord with the qualities of those of the eclipse (and its angle).

26. Classes
Places and angles of eclipses, predominators of eclipses and their angles with houses, elevations, trigons, bounds and configurations, and non-wandering stars present within 1° indicate events

We observe at what angle the syzygy falls, if it falls at the pre-ascension of the Hour-Marker, we observe the Hour-Marker, if it falls at the post-ascension of the Midheaven, at the Midheaven or the pre-ascension of the Midheaven, we observe the Midheaven, if it falls at the the post-ascension of the Setting or the Setting, we observe the Setting.

Hour-Marker indicates foundations, crops and adolescence
Midheaven indicates kingship, worship and adulthood
Setting indicates transitions, diseases and elderhood

Aries, Taurus and Gemini indicate airy domains
Cancer, Leo and Virgo indicate fiery domains
Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius indicate earthy domains
Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces indicate watery domains

Aries and Libra indicate weather and worship
Cancer and Capricorn indicate weather and politics
Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius indicate foundations and buildings
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces indicate kingship and multitudes

Powerful predominators indicate major parts of classes
Operative predominators indicate some parts of classes
Inoperative predominators indicate minor parts of classes

We note the domains of the angle, the elements of the places, their qualities, and the powers of the predominators to affect these classes.

27. Qualities
Saturn predominating indicates destruction by cold, with long illnesses, consumptions, withering, disturbances caused by fluids, rheumatisms, quartan fevers, falling, exile, poverty, imprisonment, mourning, fears, and deaths, especially among those advanced in age, scarcity and destruction of useful animals by disease, fearful cold, freezing, misty and pestilential corruption of air, clouds, gloom, multitude of destructive snowstorms, abundance of harmful reptiles, storms, the wreck of fleets, disastrous voyages, scarcity and death of fish, high and ebb tides of the seas, the excessive floods of rivers and pollution of their waters, want, scarcity and loss of crops, especially of those grown for necessary uses, through worms or locusts or floods or cloud-burst or hail, and the like

Jupiter predominating indicates increase, fame, prosperity, abundance, peaceful existence, bodily and mental health, happiness, benefits and gifts from rulers, greatness and magnanimity of kings, multitude and abundance of useful animals, destruction of the opposite kind, temperate, healthy, windy and moistening air, favourable for the growth of what the earth bears, the fortunate sailing of fleets, the moderate rising of rivers, abundance of crops, and the like

Mars predominating indicates destruction through dryness, wars, civil faction, uprisings, capture, enslavement, the wrath of leaders, sudden deaths arising from such causes, fevers, tertian agues, raising of blood, swift and violent deaths, especially among those in the prime of life, violence, assaults, lawlessness, arson and murder, robbery and piracy, hot weather, warm, pestilential and withering winds, lightning, hurricanes, drought, sudden shipwreck of fleets through changeable winds, the failure of the water of rivers, drying up of springs, tainting of potable waters, scarcity of useful animals and things that grow from the earth, the loss of crops by drying as the result of hot weather, or by locusts, or by beating of winds, or by burning in places of storage, and the like

Venus predominating indicates increase, fame, honour, happiness, abundance, happy marriages, many children, satisfaction in every mutual relationship, the increase of property, neat and well conducted manner of life, paying honour to those things which are to be revered, bodily health, alliances with the leaders, the elegance of rulers, temperate air, moist and very nourishing winds, good and clear weather, generous showers of fertilizing waters, the fortunate sailing of fleets, full rising of rivers, abundance of useful animals, good yields of fruits, successes, profits, and the like

Mercury predominating indicates transitions, stimulating event, cleverness, events which concern the priestly code, worship, royal revenues, changes in customs and laws, robbery, theft, piracy, assault, unsuccessful voyaging when predominating with maleficent planets, occasional diseases of dryness, quotidian agues, coughs, raising, consumption, irregular, fierce and changeable winds depending on dryness, lightning, thunder, hurricanes, earthquakes, destruction of useful animals and plants, diminishment of waters when drying, filling of waters when moistening, and the like

Whenever we speak of any temperament of the five planets one must understand that whatever produces the like nature is also meant, not only their configurations, but also their houses, elevations, trigons, and bounds, and furthermore the non-wandering stars of the same nature. With this principle, the Sun contributes somewhat to events of Jupiter such as greatness and magnanimity of kings, but not to the rising of rivers and peacefulness, as it moderately dries and contributes somewhat to hot weather, drought and wars of Mars, likewise the Moon contributes somewhat to events of Venus such as the rising of rivers and raining, but not to the elegance of rulers, as it moderately cools and contributes to Saturn. In general, the Sun, the Moon, Mercury and non-wandering stars of mixed nature cooperate in different ways and to different degree with all planets. The effects of such mixtures and all admixtures of the planets with each other, which are nigh infinite, would be reasonably left to the enterprise and ingenuity of the mathematician.

The same qualities of events are to be used in seasonal, monthly, weekly, daily and hourly investigations, although with proportionally lesser effects.

28. Comets
Comets cause wars, hot weather, drought or winds, disturbed conditions and the accompaniments of these, the time which they last indicate the time of the events, their position relative to the Sun indicate the time of the beginning, morning comets indicate rapidly approaching events, evening comets indicate events which approach more slowly, and the formations of the heads indicate the class of the events, the greater the number of parts and the greater their size, the greater the effect

Comets have effects of Mars and Mercury as they are burning.
 
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29. Climates
Make universal investigations with the climate of the region, tropical, dry, temperate, continental or polar, the rainforest regions have high rainfall and temperature, monsoon regions have rainfall season, tropical savanna regions have moderate temperature and humidity, the humid continental regions have variable weather pattern and large seasonal variance, oceanic regions have plentiful precipitation, Mediterranean regions have airy spring, fiery summer, earthy autumn and watery winter, while steppe regions have high variation of temperature, subarctic regions have very cold weather and little precipitation, tundra regions have permafrost, the polar regions have covering with ice, and desert regions have little precipitation, extremely low humidity and high variation between diurnal and nocturnal temperature, for equatorial regions, places must be disregarded in favour of angles, configurations and non-wandering stars, likewise proportionally therefrom with the reversal of places and winds for the southern hemisphere, and for polar regions, angles must be disregarded in favour of places, configurations and non-wandering stars, according to latitude

We must note the particular geographical peculiarities of regions to obtain accurate prognostication of the weather and the winds.

Likewise, for universal and genethlialogical investigations exactly at the equator, different system of predomination is to be used, based on complete and powerful configurations having twice the power of operative and moderate configurations, and predomination based on the qualities of angles (Hour-Marker - Mars, Midheaven - Sun by day and Jupiter by night, Setting - Venus by day and Moon by night, Anti-Midheaven - Saturn by day and Mercury by night) because the predominations of houses, elevations, trigons and bounds are useless. Planets become powerful, operative and inoperative only based on their angularity and phases in case of the five planets. For investigations in between the equator and the tropics, both equatorial and temperate systems are to be used proportionally.

Likewise, for universal and genethlialogical investigations exactly at the pole, angles and the Lot of Fortune are not to be used. Universal judgement is to be made from eclipses, new moons, half moons and full moons alone, for nativities, the Moon alone predominates the body, the Sun alone predominates action, Venus by day and Moon by night predominate siblings, Jupiter for men and Venus for women predominate children and friendship, Mercury predominates livelihood. Planets become powerful, operative and inoperative only with respect to the universe. The method of temporal intervals is not to be used, instead the method of solar intervals, moving the planets 1° forward in the ecliptic every year. For investigations in between the pole and the arctic circles, the temperate system is to be used whenever possible (because there is no circumpolarity of the ecliptic) and the polar system otherwise (because there is circumpolarity of the ecliptic).

30. Seasons
Make seasonal investigations from the new moons and the full moons which most nearly precede the equinoctial and solstitial places, from their angles, and from their predominators that indicate intensification or relaxation of the seasonal powers according to the weather that they produce in their current places and winds, and from the non-wandering stars that are present within 1° of the Moon and the angle that indicate moistening, heating, drying, cooling, temperate, windy, stormy, snowy, misty, destructive, pestilential and tectonic effects, according to their brightness and rays

The same judgement is to be made as with eclipses, but obviously with less magnitude. We must always take into account the movement of the Sun through the places, and apply the qualities of the planets to it, through the Moon in important configuration with the Sun.

31. Months
Make monthly investigations from following new moons or full moons

The same judgement is to be made as with seasons, but obviously with less magnitude.

32. Weeks
Make weekly investigations from new moons, half moons and full moons

The same judgement is to be made as with months, but obviously with less magnitude.

33. Days
Make daily investigations from the Moon present with the Lot of Fortune

The same judgement is to be made as with weeks, but obviously with less magnitude. Take the Lot of Fortune from the Sun to the Moon, and the same distance from the Hour-Marker both by day and by night, in order that, whatever configuration and relation the Sun bears to the Hour-Marker, the Moon may bear to the Lot, so that it is the Hour-Marker of the Moon.

34. Hours
Make hourly investigations from the Moon present with the angles

The same judgement is to be made as with days, but obviously with less magnitude.

35. Signs
When the Sun rises or sets clear, unobscured, steady, and unclouded, it signifies fine weather, but if its disk is varied, or reddish, or it sends out reddish rays either outwardly or circling back upon itself, or parheliac clouds on one side, or yellowish cloud formations while emitting long rays, it signifies heavy winds, and if it is dark or livid, being accompanied by clouds, or if it has halos at one side, or parheliac clouds on both sides while emitting dark rays, it signifies storms and rain

When the Moon three days before and three days after the quarters appears thin and clear and has nothing around it, it signifies clear weather, but if it is thin and reddish, and the whole disk of the unilluminated part is distinct and somewhat shaky, it signifies winds, in that direction in which it is particularly inclined, and if it is dark, or pale, and thick, it signifies storms and rain

When there is one single halo around the Moon that is clear and gradually fading, it signifies fine weather, but if there are two or three, they signify storms, if they are yellowish and broken, they signify storms and heavy winds, if they are thick and misty, they signify snowstorms, and if they are pale, dark, and broken, they signify storms with both winds and snow, and the more of them there are, the more severe the storms, and the halos that gather about planets and non-wandering stars signify what is appropriate to their colours, and the powers of the stars which they surround

When non-wandering stars which are close together in some number appear brighter and larger beyond their customary appearance, they signify the winds that blow from their region, when the star clusters appear dim, invisible, or thickened, they signify rain, if they are clear and constantly twinkle, they signify heavy winds, when shooting stars are coming from one angle, they denote the wind from their direction, if they are coming from diametrical angles, they signify confusion of winds, if they are coming from all four angles, they signify storms of all kinds with lightning, thunder and the like, when the clouds resemble tufts of wool, they signify storms, when rainbows appear, they signify storms after clear weather and clear weather after storms, and generally, all atmospheric phenomena signify effects according to their formations, magnitudes and colours

It is always useful to have more meteorological information and observation to help prognostication.
 
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36. Nativities
When the moment of nativity is known, it can be examined instead of the moment of conception, the hours must be determined with knowledge of accidental qualities, and with one of the planets in perfect configuration with the Hour-Marker or the Midheaven at every conception and nativity

The general characteristics of temperament are determined from the first starting-point, while by means of others we predict events that will come about at specific times. Since the chronological starting-point of humans is the time of conception, in cases in which the very time of conception is known either by chance or by observation, it is fitting that we should follow it to determine the temperament of individuals, examining the configuration of the planets at the time. For to the seed is given once and for all such and such qualities by the endowment of the genetic mixture of the parents, which is in turn controlled by the ambient, and such biological determinism dependent upon physical reductionism is easily comprehended. But when people do not know the time of conception, which is usually the case, we must follow the starting-point furnished by the moment of birth, for it too is of great importance and falls short of the former only in this respect, that by the former it is possible to have foreknowledge of events preceding birth. For nature, after the child is perfectly formed, gives impulse to birth under configuration of very similar type to that which governed the formation of the child in detail in the first place. Thus, the positions of planets at the time of birth are significant, not for the reason that they are causative, but because they have causal powers to confirm the moment of birth in accordance with the causal powers at the moment of conception, furthermore, they have causal powers to confirm their influences regarding ancestors, parents, siblings and children, through the mechanism of particulate heredity, the seemingly random results of which are as we said, controlled by the ambient.

Hours must be determined with accidental qualities, either with knowledge of the hour itself by observation, or with knowledge of bodily form and matters regarding the nativity that are in agreement only with specific hours.

Since conceptions and births are very powerful events in nature, they naturally require the perfect configuration of some planet with one of the powerful angles to give the impulse to life (it is always configured with the opposite angle as well). This is useful and reliable method for establishing the precise fraction of the hour of birth.

We shall investigate the topics of the nativity in this order - parents -> siblings -> life -> body -> mind -> livelihood -> dignity -> action -> marriage -> children -> friendship -> travel, so that each chronological inquiry may guide the next inquiry, such as the length of life and the mind preceding dignity, mind and dignity preceding action, marriage preceding children etc.

37. Parents
Sun, Moon, Jupiter and Venus predominate parents, Saturn predominates elders

These are essential predominators who have the most influence over individuals and events because their elements are most related to the subject matter.

Sun and Jupiter predominate the father because heat is the masculine generative power. Moon and Venus predominate the mother because moisture is the feminine generative power. Saturn predominates elders because older individuals and matters are colder, passing away and usually less impactful for nativities, unless they themselves are powerful and related to important subjects of the nativity such as property.

Sun and Jupiter powerful and predominated by powerful planets indicate distinguished father
Sun and Jupiter operative and predominated by operative planets indicate moderate position
Sun and Jupiter inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets indicate low position

Powerful essential and less so accidental predominators have stronger effects contributing to dignity.

Sun, Jupiter and predominators in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Lot give inheritance
Sun, Jupiter and predominators without configuration with the Lot give useless inheritance
Sun, Jupiter and predominators in tetragon or diameter with the Lot give harmful inheritance

Essential and less so accidental predominators in harmony with the Lot of Fortune are the cause of paternal inheritance, the size of which is in accordance with the powers of the planets.

Sun and Jupiter powerful and configured with each other and Venus cause excellent longevity
Sun and Jupiter operative and configured with each other and Venus cause fortunate longevity
Sun and Jupiter inoperative and configured with each other and Venus cause average longevity

Saturn and Mars powerful in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause short longevity
Saturn and Mars operative in assembly tetragon or diameter with them cause injuries or diseases
Saturn and Mars inoperative in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause bodily weakness

The configurations of the essential predominators with beneficent and maleficent planets are most important for judgement of longevity for each parent, the reason for this is that essential predominators are potential Hour-Markers, while configurations are responsible for the length of life when they are carried by primary motion. Nevertheless, the powers of the predominators also lend some contribution.

Saturn makes death or injuries and diseases by cold and moderate dryness
Mars makes sudden death or injuries and diseases by dryness and burning
Saturn and Mars make conspicuous death or injuries and diseases by burning, cutting and the like

They indicate bodily injuries and diseases or deaths from such as are indicated by the predominators of the Hour-Markers, the judgement of which we shall explain later.

Sun is Hour-Marker of the father by day
Jupiter is Hour-Marker of the father by night

The reason for this is the same as for the southern wind, Sun is more diurnal because of dryness, Jupiter is more nocturnal because of moisture.

Thus for any particular inquiries regarding the father, we shall investigate the same planetary positions in whatever places with respect to the nativity they may fall, and also livelihood from the Lot of Fortune calculated from this Hour-Marker, action from the Midheaven calculated from this Hour-Marker, dignity calculated from the powers of the planets calculated from this Hour-Marker, travel from pre-ascensions calculated from this Hour-Marker, and so on for all matters, the natural investigation of which we shall set forward.

Moon and Venus powerful and predominated by powerful planets indicate distinguished mother
Moon and Venus operative and predominated by operative planets indicate moderate position
Moon and Venus inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets indicate low position

Moon, Venus and predominators in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Lot give inheritance
Moon, Venus and predominators without configuration with the Lot give useless inheritance
Moon, Venus and predominators in tetragon or diameter with the Lot give harmful inheritance

Moon and Venus powerful and configured with each other and Jupiter cause excellent longevity
Moon and Venus operative and configured with each other and Jupiter cause fortunate longevity
Moon and Venus inoperative and configured with each other and Jupiter cause average longevity

Saturn and Mars powerful in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause short longevity
Saturn and Mars operative in assembly tetragon or diameter with them cause injuries or diseases
Saturn and Mars inoperative in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause bodily weakness

Saturn makes death or injuries and diseases by cold and moderate dryness
Mars makes sudden death or injuries and diseases by dryness and burning
Saturn and Mars make conspicuous death or injuries and diseases by burning, cutting and the like

Venus is Hour-Marker of the mother by day
Moon is Hour-Marker of the mother by night

The reason for this is the same as for the western wind, Venus is more diurnal because of heat, Moon is more nocturnal because of cold. The same general judgement is to be used for the mother, only noting this, that distinction is to be made based on what is appropriate for women in the given nation and region.

Saturn powerful and predominated by powerful planets indicate distinguished elders
Saturn operative and predominated by operative planets indicate moderate positions
Saturn inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets indicate low positions

Powerful essential and less so accidental predominators have stronger effects contributing to dignity. Saturn powerful gives great legacy from ancestors, in physical, social, mental, and financial areas, particularly when it is related to the Hour-Marker, the Sun, the Moon and the Lot of Fortune respectively.

38. Siblings
The Midheaven relative to the Hour-Marker of the mother predominates siblings

It would be ridiculous to think that personal planets and places are essential predominators of blood-brethren, since they are formed in the same womb by similar causes. Instead the predominator of children relative to the child-bearer is to be used, because this parent bears and has greater natural investment in children, this place confirms the state of siblings.

Moon, Jupiter and Venus configured indicate abundance of siblings
Mercury as morning planet configured indicates abundance of siblings
Sun, Saturn and Mars in assembly, tetragon or diameter indicate lack of siblings
Mercury as evening planet in assembly, tetragon or diameter indicates lack of siblings
Donative planets in dual places and predominating the Midheaven indicate even more siblings

The configurations of fertile planets and infertile planets are most important for judgement of the number of children, as they tend to give children with configurations when they are carried by primary motion. The most powerful angle gives children as it is very hot and active, but because it is moderately drying, it needs more temperate admixture to produce children, such as the influence of Moon, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury as morning planet, disharmonious configurations of Sun, Saturn, Mars and Mercury as evening planet cause lack of children and infertility, the Sun not because it is more maleficent, but because it produces intemperate admixture in this situation.

Midheaven and donative planets in dual places and predominated by planets in dual places cause multiple births, the number is indicated by the number of the planets, and the sex by their natures

If the Midheaven and one donative planet with its predominators are in dual places, they give identical twins, if there are two donative planets in different places, but of the same nature in similar situation, they give fraternal twins of the same sex, if the two donative planets are with different natures, they give fraternal twins with opposite sexes. If the Midheaven and three or more donative planets with their predominators are in dual places, they give multiple births of three or even more children.

Masculine donative planets give male siblings
Feminine donative planets give female siblings
Morning and eastern donative planets give first-born siblings
Evening and western donative planets give later-born siblings

This is useful for establishing the Hour-Marker of one sibling or each sibling when the number of siblings is two, three or four. It is not useful in establishing gender and order when the number is greater than five, in general, the predominations over the Midheaven aid in such situations, although the astrologer is now in danger of overstepping the natural boundaries and capabilities of the profession by trying to judge particulars (as trying to predict an exact number like 5, 8 or 15) rather than universals (as trying to predict none, one or two, few or many siblings).

Donative planets powerful and predominated by powerful planets indicate distinguished siblings
Donative planets operative and predominated by operative planets indicate moderate positions
Donative planets inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets indicate low positions

Donative planets powerful and configured with Jupiter and Venus cause excellent longevity
Donative planets operative and configured with Jupiter and Venus cause fortunate longevity
Donative planets inoperative and configured with Jupiter and Venus cause average longevity

Saturn and Mars powerful in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause short longevity
Saturn and Mars operative in assembly tetragon or diameter with them cause injuries or diseases
Saturn and Mars inoperative in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause bodily weakness

Saturn makes death or injuries and diseases by cold and moderate dryness
Mars makes sudden death or injuries and diseases by dryness and burning
Saturn and Mars make conspicuous death or injuries and diseases by burning, cutting and the like

The same general judgement of parents is to be used with siblings.

Donative planets in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Hour-Marker indicate friendly siblings
Donative planets without configuration with the Hour-Marker indicate unsympathetic siblings
Donative planets in tetragon or diameter with the Hour-Marker indicate quarrelsome siblings

Donative planets in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Lot indicate friendly siblings
Donative planets without configuration with the Lot indicate unsympathetic siblings
Donative planets in tetragon or diameter with the Lot indicate quarrelsome siblings

We must observe that disharmonious configurations of the beneficent donative planets are nevertheless helpful in all situations except in the case where they function as Hour-Markers, the reason for this is not in the qualities of the planets, but in their function as Hour-Markers, in that case, they are also helpful, but the Hour-Markers cause discord, as they are common.

Donative planets are Hour-Markers of the siblings

If there are two donative planets and one or two maleficent configurations causing lack of siblings, we must use only the donative planet that gives first-born siblings.

39. Life
Hour-Marker, Sun and Moon predominate life

Sun and Moon predominate life because they are the rulers of the universe and the entire reason of its powers. Hour-Marker predominates life with similar power, which although is lesser than the Midheaven, is nevertheless earthy and most related to the body and the individual, and as it were, it brings life to all matters with planets rising above the horizon.

Hour-Marker, Sun and Moon masculine and predominated by masculine planets indicate males
Hour-Marker, Sun and Moon feminine and predominated by feminine planets indicate females

When either all or most of them.

Hour-Marker, Sun and Moon become masculine in masculine places and feminine in feminine places, Sun and Moon also become masculine in eastern quadrants, and feminine in western quadrants, accidental predominators contribute with their essential and accidental natures, in the case of the five planets we must take into account their phases, quadrants and places. By means of all criteria one must conjecture which group exercises preponderating control over the sex. The natural sex ratio for humans is 1.06 in favour of males, accounted by the nature of Saturn, and they are slightly more prone to death in infancy on account of this temperament.

Hour-Marker, Sun and Moon predominated by powerful and operative maleficent planets while Sun and Moon are not configured with the Hour-Marker indicate teratogens, when the maleficent planets are powerful, they indicate irrational nativities, but when they are operative, while Jupiter and Venus are configured with Sun and Moon, they indicate rational and honourable nativities

When the maleficent planets are less powerful and the beneficent planets are configured with both luminaries, the nativities will either be rational and their congenital disorders inconspicuous, or they will be honoured for their congenital disorders.

Hour-Marker, Sun and Moon predominated by powerful and operative maleficent planets while in complete, powerful and operative assemblies, tetragons and diameters with them indicate that the children are born dead or half-dead unless beneficent planets have predomination over one of the places and are in moderate configurations with it, for then they live months, weeks, days, and hours, depending on the predomination and configurations of maleficent planets, and the method of temporal intervals with the corresponding times, but when the beneficent planets predominate while in complete, powerful and operative configurations with one of the places, they live years, and the method of temporal intervals with years indicates the length of life

There are five differentia with the so-called primary directions, years, months, weeks, days, or hours.

Sun is releaser when powerful by day
Sun is releaser when operative by day while the Moon is operative or inoperative
Moon is releaser when powerful by day while the Sun is operative or inoperative
Moon is releaser when operative by day while the Sun is inoperative
Hour-Marker is releaser when Sun and Moon are inoperative

Moon is releaser when powerful by night
Moon is releaser when operative by night while the Sun is operative or inoperative
Sun is releaser when powerful by night while the Moon is operative or inoperative
Sun is releaser when operative by night while the Moon is inoperative
Hour-Marker is releaser when Sun and Moon are inoperative

Saturn and Mars destroy with assembly, tetragon and diameter
Jupiter and Venus prevent destruction with configuration

Hour-Marker is preferred to luminaries with combined power with respect to the universe and the nativity that is less than operative.

The number and the power of the planets indicate which group prevails in the particular ages, the predominators of the destructive places indicate the causes of death, when maleficent planets are predominating and are in assembly, tetragon or diameter with the Sun and the Moon, they cause unnatural deaths, when the destructive places are pre-ascending, deaths occur in foreign regions

That is at the moment of the destructive ray, we investigate three things, first whether there are beneficent planets in configuration or the other maleficent planet also in assembly, tetragon or diameter, in which case death will occur only if the maleficent planets predominate by number, second whether the beneficent planets or the maleficent planets are powerful, operative or inoperative, in which case death will occur when the maleficent planet(s) is more powerful than the beneficent planet(s), and third the age of the individual, as maleficent planets become stronger in the third and the especially the fourth age, thus eventually always causing death. Deaths come from diseases of those regions as are indicated by the predominators of the destructive places. When Saturn and Mars are afflicting the luminaries at the nativity and the destructive places at the same time, unnatural deaths occur, in general, accidental from Saturn, and violent from Mars, by burning in fiery places, by attacks of beasts or collapse of buildings in earthy places, by drowning in watery places, by starvation in equinoctial and solstitial places, by falling from height in solid places, by robbers and pirates in dual places etc. Pre-ascensions indicate foreign regions, because they are declining from the angles.

40. Body
Hour-Marker and Moon predominate body

Hour-Marker predominates the body because of its earthy element, and the Moon also cooperates with abundance of moisture.

Saturn predominating as morning planet makes those who are dark-skinned, robust, black-haired, curly-haired, hairy-chested, with eyes of moderate size, of middling stature, with temperament of cold and moisture, and Saturn as evening planet makes them dark, slender, small, straight-haired, with little hair on their bodies, rather graceful, black-eyed, with temperament of cold and dryness

Jupiter as morning planet makes them light of skin, but in such way as to have good colour, with moderately curling hair and large eyes, tall, commanding respect, with temperament of heat and moisture, and Jupiter as evening planet makes them light, but without good colour, with lank hair or even bald in front and on the crown, of average stature, with temperament of moisture

Mars as morning planet makes them red and white of complexion, tall and robust, gray-eyed, and with thick and somewhat curly hair, with temperament of heat and dryness, and Mars as evening planet makes them simply ruddy, of middle height, with small eyes, with not much hair on their bodies, with straight yellow hair, with temperament of dryness

Venus has temperament similar to that of Jupiter, but is apt to make them more shapely, graceful, womanish, effeminate in figure, plump, luxurious, with eyes bright as well as beautiful

Mercury as morning planet makes them sallow, of middle height, graceful, with small eyes and moderately curling hair, with temperament of heat, and Mercury as evening planet makes them light, but without good colour, with straight hair and olive complexion, lean and spare, and with glancing brilliant eyes, somewhat ruddy, with temperament of dryness

Bodies have this temperament through the admixture of moderate cold from the essential predominators with the powers of the accidental predominators.

Predominators configured with the Sun make more impressive and more robust bodies
Predominators configured with the Moon make better proportion and greater slenderness

Essential and less so accidental.

Moon in first quarter and morning additive predominators make large bodies
Moon in second quarter and morning subtractive predominators make robust bodies
Moon in third quarter and evening subtractive predominators make small bodies
Moon in fourth quarter and evening additive predominators make weak bodies

The effects of predominators must be combined with the effects of phases and places.

Aries, Taurus and Gemini make them well-favoured in complexion, stature, robustness and eyes, with the temperament of moisture and heat, Cancer, Leo and Virgo make them with moderately good complexion and moderate height, robust, with large eyes and thick and curly hair, with the temperament of heat and dryness, Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius make them sallow, spare, sickly, slender, with good eyes and moderately curling hair, with the temperament of dryness and cold, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces make them with dark complexion, moderate height, straight hair, with little hair on their bodies, somewhat graceful, with the temperament of cold and moisture

This division is based on the seasons.

Saturn and Mars in assembly, tetragon and diameter with the Hour-Marker and the Moon or with their predominators cause bodily injuries and diseases, for the most part, injuries as morning and eastern planets, and diseases as evening and western planets, while the affected parts of the body are indicated by the powers of the planets and predominators of the Hour-Marker and the Moon

''For the most part'' i.e. the more conspicuous of injuries and diseases, as it is impossible not to suffer to some degree from both. In general, the nativity indicates the more conspicuous of injuries and diseases which affect the subject, while the chronocratorship indicates their time, and also the time of occasional injuries and diseases that are common to everyone.

Sun predominates circulatory system, nervous system and visual system
Moon predominates female reproductive system, upper gastrointestinal tract and exocrine system
Saturn predominates skeletal system, immune system and lymphatic system
Jupiter predominates male reproductive system, respiratory system and integumentary system
Mars predominates muscular system, lower gastrointestinal tract and renal system
Venus predominates endocrine system, olfactory system and secondary sex characteristics
Mercury predominates vestibular system, auditory system and gustatory system

They indicate diseases of these regions when they are accidental predominators of the afflicted regions, or afflicted predominators themselves.

Hour-Marker and its predominators, or the Moon and its predominators, in assembly, tetragon or diameter with Saturn and Mars, and not configured with Jupiter and Venus, indicate that injuries and diseases are incurable and painful, particularly when the maleficent planets are powerful, but when they are in assembly, tetragon or diameter with the Hour-Marker or its predominators, with the Moon or its predominators, and Jupiter and Venus are configured with the same, then injuries are not disfiguring and do not entail reproach, and diseases are moderate and yield to treatment, and they are easily cured when the beneficent planets are powerful, Jupiter and Venus cause the injuries to be concealed, and the diseases to be mitigated, and when Mercury is configured with the places under consideration, they bring this about by medicine and the aid of good physicians

It is more dangerous when the maleficent planets afflict both the essential predominators and the accidental predominators.

41. Mind
Moon and Mercury predominate mind

Moon predominates the mind through its control of irrational parts with moisture, Mercury predominates the mind through its control of rational parts with alternating dryness and moisture. Saturn and Mars as powerful accidental predominators make unjust and evil men who find their impulse to injure one another easy, unimpeded, secure, and honourable, but when they are inoperative, they make men lethargic, ineffective, and easily punished. Jupiter and Venus as powerful accidental predominators make good and just men, happy and bearing good repute for their kindness to others, injured by none, those who continue to benefit from their justice, but when they are inoperative, they make men who because of their gentleness, kindness and compassion, suffer contempt and reproach, and those who may easily be wronged by most people.

Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn make minds that are fitted for dealing with the people, fond of turbulence and political activity, glory-seeking, religious, noble, mobile, inquisitive, inventive, good at conjecture, and fitted for astrology, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius make them hard, just, unaffected by flattery, persistent, firm, intelligent, patient, industrious, stern, self-controlled, tenacious of grudges, and extortionate, contentious, ambitious, factious, grasping, and inflexible, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces make them complex, changeable, hard to apprehend, light, unstable, fickle, amorous, versatile, fond of music, lazy, and those who are easily acquisitive

This division is based on the qualities of places.

Mars predominates the affairs of males, Venus predominates the affairs of females, Saturn makes cautiousness, hesitancy and frigidity, Jupiter makes decorum, restraint and modesty, Mars makes promiscuity, unrestraint and disgrace, Venus makes elegance, desire and beauty, Mercury makes notoriety, versatility and foresight, Saturn with Mars and Venus make impurity and abuse, when the predominators are powerful, they indicate distinguished individuals, when they are operative, they indicate moderate positions, and when they are inoperative, they indicate low positions

Mars predominates affairs for men because of its dryness, excessive heat and masculinity, Venus predominates the affairs of women because of its moisture, moderate heat and femininity. Powerful predominating planets indicate distinction through the disposition of the attraction, and not through themselves as in the case of parents, elders and siblings, for reasons we have already given.

Predominators of the mind without configuration with each other and the Hour-Marker while in assembly, tetragon and diameter with maleficent planets cause diseases of the mind, particularly when the maleficent planets are powerful or in complete configurations, when beneficent planets are not configured with predominators, they cause incurable and conspicuous insanity, but when Jupiter and Venus are configured, diseases are latent, obscure, and mitigated, particularly when they are powerful or in complete configurations, they bring about treatment by medicine and the aid of good physicians, predominators of Moon and Mercury indicate diseases, Saturn and Mars cause early onset as morning and eastern planets, and later onset as evening and western planets

The treatment of diseases of the mind is much more difficult compared to diseases of the body, and in some cases impossible without the hand of the Lord, so the given configurations are tighter.

Saturn causes depressive disorders, anxiety disorders and sleep disorders
Jupiter causes dissociative disorders, addictive disorders and personality disorders
Mars causes disruptive disorders, impulse-control disorders and conduct disorders
Venus causes somatic disorders, sexual disorders and paraphilic disorders
Mercury causes neurodevelopmental disorders, psychotic disorders and neurocognitive disorders

They indicate diseases of these regions when they are accidental predominators of the afflicted Moon or Mercury and especially when they are at the same time afflicted themselves.

Sun and Moon made masculine cause males to exceed in the natural qualities, and females in the unnatural qualities, when Mars and Venus are made masculine, males become addicted to natural intercourse, insatiate, adulterous, and ready on every occasion for base and lawless acts of sexual passion, while females become lustful for unnatural congresses and cast inviting glances of the eye, when one planet is made masculine, they do these things secretly and not openly, but when the two planets are made masculine, without reserve, so that sometimes they marry their women

Sun and Moon made feminine cause females to exceed in the natural qualities, and males in the unnatural qualities, when Mars and Venus are made feminine, females become depraved, lustful, and adulterous, with the result that they may be dealt with in the natural manner on any occasion and by any one soever, and so that they refuse no sexual act, though it be base or unlawful, while males become effeminate and unsound with respect to unnatural congresses, when one planet is made feminine, they do these things secretly and not openly, but when the two planets are made feminine, their shamelessness is outright and frank, so that they submit to general abuse and to every baseness until they are stamped with the reproach and insult that attend such usages

In the cases of extreme femininity in men, and extreme masculinity in women, we should be wary of predicting children, or dignity in nations and regions where such dispositions and approaches are frowned upon. Likewise in the cases of extreme masculinity in men, and extreme femininity in women, if the nation or region is vindictive of adulterers, it contributes to disgrace.

42. Livelihood
Lot of Fortune predominates livelihood

The Hour-Marker of the Moon is essential predominator of wealth and property because it provides the necessary subsistence to the body predominated by the Hour-Marker.

Lot of Fortune powerful and predominated by powerful planets make distinguished livelihood
Lot of Fortune operative and predominated by operative planets make moderate livelihood
Lot of Fortune inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets make low livelihood

Lot of Fortune changes its power with respect to the nativity.

Saturn predominating makes wealth from property, agriculture and shipping ventures
Jupiter predominating makes wealth from guardianships, banking and priesthoods
Mars predominating makes wealth from strength, command and military operations
Venus predominating makes wealth from grace, friendship and women
Mercury predominating makes wealth from intelligence, eloquence and trade
Saturn and Jupiter predominating make wealth from inheritances

Saturn predominates matters related to earth, but also to water because the element is most abundant in cold
Jupiter predominates matters related to governorship, management and priesthood, through temperate air mixed with fire
Mars, Venus and Mercury predominate matters of strength, grace and intelligence respectively, both here and elsewhere
Saturn and Jupiter predominate inheritances because people receive great heat and support from great cold and loss

Predominators configured with Jupiter and Venus indicate possessions without losses
Predominators in assembly, tetragon or diameter with Saturn and Mars indicate losses

Essential and accidental
 
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43. Dignity
Sun and Moon predominate dignity

Sun predominates dignity with the masculine generative power, that one that is more external and social.
Moon cooperates with the feminine generative power, that one that is more internal and mental.

Sun and Moon masculine, powerful and predominated by powerful planets, and configured with Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury make kings, when planets are powerful and operative, they continue to be great, powerful, and world-rulers, and they will be most distinguished when all planets are powerful, when Sun is masculine, and Moon is feminine, and only one of the two is powerful or predominated by powerful planets, they will be merely generals, with power over life and death, when configured planets are operative and inoperative, they will be merely great and enjoy partial dignities, high priesthood, superintendence, and military command, not those of first rank, when Sun and Moon are not powerful or predominated by powerful planets, they will not attain the more conspicuous honours, but rather civil leadership or moderate advancement in their careers, when the configured planets are inoperative, they are rendered obscure and without preferment, and they will be entirely humble and insignificant when Sun and Moon are feminine, inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets, and not configured with beneficent planets

Masculine and powerful rulers of the universe give greater dignity, the accidental predominators cooperate, especially with configurations, for the same reason as before, that perfect configurations are carried out by primary motion. Since there are very many conditions intermediate between these grades, one must estimate them from the specific qualities of the luminaries themselves and the variation in the manner of cooperation of accidental predominators, by configuration or otherwise.

Sun, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury as morning planet give more independence and security
Moon, Saturn, Mars and Mercury as evening planet give more dependency and less security

Beneficent and masculine common planets give more independence and security.
Maleficent and feminine common planets give more dependency and less security.

Saturn gives wealth, property and shipping ventures
Jupiter gives governorship, honours and gifts from others
Mars gives governorship, command and fears of subordinates
Venus gives beauty, honours and gifts from others
Mercury gives intelligence, eloquence and trade

Saturn, again, is related to earth and water, Jupiter to air and fire, Mars to fire and earth, Venus to air, and Mercury to the mental qualities produced by the alternation of earth and air.

Predominators configured with Jupiter and Venus indicate dignity without downfall
Predominators in assembly, tetragon or diameter with Saturn and Mars indicate downfall

Essential and less so accidental.

44. Action
Sun and Midheaven predominate action
Satun indicates property, agriculture, subordination, mining and seamanship
Saturn and Jupiter indicate property, agriculture, administration, management and philosophy
Saturn and Mars indicate seamanship, cooking, subordination, criminality and funerals
Saturn and Venus indicate merchandise, accommodation, weaving, religion and pharmacy
Saturn and Mercury indicate property, agriculture, measuring, religion and travel
Jupiter indicates magnanimity, governorship, administration, management and law
Jupiter and Mars indicate command, governorship, supervision, military operations and athletics
Jupiter and Venus indicate leadership, honours, banking, advancement from others and athletics
Jupiter and Mercury indicate eloquence, teaching, counseling, philosophy and law
Mars indicates strength, agriculture, construction, military operations and athletics
Mars and Venus indicate grace, cooking, winemaking, dancing and pharmacy
Mars and Mercury indicate command, medicine, surgery, criminality and athletics
Venus indicates grace, music, clothing, ornaments and beauty
Venus and Mercury indicate grace, music, poetry, theatre and beauty
Mercury indicates eloquence, teaching, science, interpretation and trade
Moon and Mercury indicate prophecy, magic, astrology, divination and sorcery

Accidental predominators indicate the more conspicuous of actions for the nativity, and not all occasional or common actions.

Powerful predominators configured with Jupiter and Venus make dignified, glorious, profitable, unerring and gracious action, inoperative predominators in assembly, tetragon and diameter with Saturn and Mars make humble, inglorious, profitless, fallible and toilsome action

Powerful essential and accidental predominators produce independent action, the inoperative ones produce subordinate action, the configurations of beneficent or maleficent planets cooperate with dignity or disgrace.

Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn indicate agriculture, interpretation, trade and exchange
Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius indicate foundations, property, command and stability
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces indicate grace, music, cooking and versatility

This division is based on the qualities of places.

45. Marriage
Moon predominates marriage for men, Sun predominates marriage for women

The rulers of the universe predominate marriage, the feminine one for wives, the masculine one for husbands. Additional reasons are the natural differences in sexual selection, the one more related to dignity and social status, the other to mind and fertility.

Moon in first or third quarter makes men who marry young or marry younger women, in second or fourth quarter, it makes men who marry late or marry older women, when it is in solid places and predominated by planets in solid places, it makes them men of one marriage, but when it is in dual places and predominated by planets in dual places, it makes them marry more than once, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury in configuration cause good marriage, Saturn and Mars in assembly, tetragon and diameter cause the opposite, Saturn makes the wives hardworking and stern, Jupiter makes them dignified and good managers, Mars makes them bold and unruly, Venus make them cheerful, beautiful and charming, Mercury makes them intelligent and keen, Venus with Saturn, Jupiter or Mercury make them thrifty and affectionate to their husbands and children, Venus with Mars make them easily roused to wrath, unstable and unfeeling, predominators indicate position

The first and third quarter of the Moon are eastern, as they occupy the first halves of the semicircles, the second and fourth quarter are western, as they occupy the second halves of the semicircles. Predominators indicate position in the same way as for affairs, not through the planets themselves as for relatives, but through the disposition of the subject which they influence. The configurations of planets have the most influence in this matter.

Sun as eastern planet makes women who marry young or marry younger men, as western planet, it makes women who marry late or marry older men, when it is in solid places and predominated by planets in solid places, it makes them women of one marriage, but when it is in dual places and predominated by planets in dual places, it makes them marry more than once, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury in configuration cause good marriage, Saturn and Mars in assembly, tetragon and diameter cause the opposite, Saturn makes the husbands sedate, useful and hardworking, Jupiter makes them dignified and magnanimous, Mars makes them men of action, lacking in affection, and unruly, Venus makes them elegant and handsome, Mercury makes them thrifty and practical, Venus with Saturn make them sluggish and weak in sexual relations, and Venus with Mars make them ardent, impetuous and adulterous, Venus with Mercury make them infatuated with boys

Distinctions are made based on what are more proper qualities for men and women.

Sun and Moon of both nativities in assemblies, hexagons and trigons indicate lasting marriages, particularly when the Moon of the husband is in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Sun of the wife, divorces on slight pretexts and complete alienations occur when they are in disharmonious configurations or without configuration, when Jupiter and Venus are configured with the Sun and the Moon in favourable configuration, they keep the marriage pleasant, agreeable, and profitable, when Saturn and Mars are in assembly, tetragon and diameter with Sun and Moon in favourable configuration, the marriage will be quarrelsome, unpleasant, and unprofitable, when Jupiter and Venus are configured with Sun and Moon in unfavourable configuration, they do not completely terminate the marriage, but bring about renewals and recollections which preserve kindness and affection, but when Saturn and Mars are in assembly, tetragon or diameter with Sun and Moon in unfavourable configuration, they cause divorce with abuse and violence, Saturn and Venus cause incestuous marriage when predominating all predominators, Mercury adds notoriety to the above

Mercury adds notoriety, especially through making effects more taut, Saturn and Venus (cold and moisture) together predominating essential and accidental predominators (as in common places like Libra and Capricorn and with configurations) make incestuous marriages between relatives that depend on the customs of the nation and region, if they do not allow for such relations, this will not occur.

46. Children
Midheaven predominates children
Moon, Jupiter and Venus configured indicate abundance of children
Mercury as morning planet configured indicates abundance of children
Sun, Saturn and Mars in assembly, tetragon or diameter indicate lack of children
Mercury as evening planet in assembly, tetragon or diameter indicates lack of children
Donative planets in dual places and predominating the Midheaven indicate even more children

Midheaven and donative planets in dual places and predominated by planets in dual places cause multiple births, the number is indicated by the number of the planets, and the sex by their natures

Masculine donative planets give male children
Feminine donative planets give female children
Morning and eastern donative planets give first-born children
Evening and western donative planets give later-born children

Donative planets powerful and predominated by powerful planets indicate distinguished children
Donative planets operative and predominated by operative planets indicate moderate positions
Donative planets inoperative and predominated by inoperative planets indicate low positions

Donative planets powerful and configured with Jupiter and Venus cause excellent longevity
Donative planets operative and configured with Jupiter and Venus cause fortunate longevity
Donative planets inoperative and configured with Jupiter and Venus cause average longevity

Saturn and Mars powerful in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause short longevity
Saturn and Mars operative in assembly tetragon or diameter with them cause injuries or diseases
Saturn and Mars inoperative in assembly, tetragon or diameter with them cause bodily weakness

Saturn makes death or injuries and diseases by cold and moderate dryness
Mars makes sudden death or injuries and diseases by dryness and burning
Saturn and Mars make conspicuous death or injuries and diseases by burning, cutting and the like

Donative planets in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Hour-Marker indicate friendly children
Donative planets without configuration with the Hour-Marker indicate unsympathetic children
Donative planets in tetragon or diameter with the Hour-Marker indicate quarrelsome children

Donative planets in assembly, hexagon or trigon with the Lot indicate friendly children
Donative planets without configuration with the Lot indicate unsympathetic children
Donative planets in tetragon or diameter with the Lot indicate quarrelsome children

Donative planets in assembly, hexagon or trigon with each other indicate friendly siblings
Donative planets without configuration with each other indicate unsympathetic siblings
Donative planets in tetragon or diameter with each other indicate quarrelsome siblings

Donative planets are Hour-Markers of the children

The same natural judgement is made as with siblings, except also noting the disposition of the children to each other.

47. Friendship
Hour-Marker, Sun, Moon and Lot of Fortune of two nativities in assemblies, hexagons or trigons with each other bring about secure and indissoluble sympathy unbroken by any quarrel, but when they are in tetragons or diameters, they produce the deepest enmities and lasting contentions, and there is greater benefit from friendship and greater success in the enmity in that nativity in which the authoritative placements are more powerful and have the configurations of Jupiter and Venus

Hour-Marker indicates friendship from pleasure
Sun and Moon indicate friendship from choice
Lot of Fortune indicates friendship from need

Now, the Midheaven itself predominates friendship and its predominators may indicate some general characteristics of friends or enemies (Saturn - elders and avaricious or ignoble men, Jupiter - superiors and dignified or religious people, Mars - soldiers and men of action, Sun - kings and governors, Venus - distinguished women and graceful individuals, Mercury - eloquent individuals and men of business, Moon - women of common rank etc. with their positions indicating distinction and their places and predominations indicating number), but since people have countless and different possible meetings and associations throughout their lives, the main focus in this inquiry is on the configurations or lack of, between the four authoritative places, whereas particulars are best judged from the chronocrators of the Midheaven.

Saturn, Mars and Mercury as evening planet produce occasional spells of silence and disparaging talk in friendship when passing with assembly, tetragon or diameter, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury as morning planet produce truces and reconciliations in enmity when passing with configurations

This applies to these planets when present both at the nativity and in transit.

Lot of Fortune predominates servants in nativities of masters and masters in nativities of servants
Lot of Fortune in assembly, hexagon or trigon with predominators indicate favourable sympathy
Lot of Fortune without configuration with predominators indicate unsympathetic relationship
Lot of Fortune in tetragon or diameter with predominators indicate unfavourable hostility

Servants are related to the livelihood of masters, and masters are related to the livelihood of servants.

48. Travel
Hour-Marker predominates travel
Sun, Moon and Lot of Fortune pre-ascending cause travel
Pre-ascension of the Hour-Marker indicates travel to the eastern regions
Pre-ascension of the Midheaven indicates travel to the southern regions
Pre-ascension of the Setting indicates travel to the western regions
Pre-ascension of the Anti-Midheaven indicates travel to the northern regions
Solid places indicate occasional travel, dual places indicate continuous travel

Hour-Marker predominates travel because it predominates the body.

Pre-ascensions and their directions indicate the more conspicuous of travels, as for occasional or common travel, it is best judged from the chronocrators of the Hour-Marker with the times.

Jupiter and Venus in configuration cause honourable and profitable travel, quick and unimpeded return, particularly when they are powerful, Saturn and Mars in assembly, tetragon and diameter cause laborious and dangerous travel, and difficult return, particularly when they are powerful

Jupiter and Venus make the journeys not only safe, but also pleasant, for the subjects will be sent on their way by the chief men of the country or by the resources of their friends, and favourable conditions of the weather and abundance of supplies will also aid them, with Mercury configured they indicate profits, gifts, and honours, particularly when they are powerful and predominating

Saturn and Mars make the results useless and will involve the subjects in great dangers, through lack of provisions and unhealthy conditions with equinoctial and solstitial places, through falling from heights and the assaults of winds with solid places, through piracy, plots and robberies with dual places, through hard going with airy places, through desert region with fiery places, through attacks of beasts and earthquakes with earthy places, through unfortunate voyages and shipwreck with watery places, with Mercury in assembly, tetragon and diameter they cause dangers through the weather, dangerous accusations, and with the bites of reptiles and other poisonous creatures

The configurations have the most influence in this matter, next the qualities of the places that cause travel, third the powers of the planets and their predomination that cooperate with the preceding.

49. Times
Moon predominates infancy
Mercury predominates childhood
Venus predominates adolescence
Sun predominates early adulthood
Mars predominates middle adulthood
Jupiter predominates late adulthood
Saturn predominates elderhood

Common sense distinction in prediction of dignity, marriage, begetting of children etc. is to be made with infants, adults and elders.

Hour-Marker predominates body and travel
Sun predominates dignity and marriage for women
Moon predominates mind and marriage for men
Lot of Fortune predominates wealth and property
Midheaven predominates action, children and friendship

The reasons for these distinctions have already been given.

Planets become general chronocrators with configurations in the temporal intervals
Planets become annual chronocrators with predomination in the solar revolutions
Planets become monthly chronocrators with predomination in the lunar revolutions

They become general chronocrators with any perfect configuration whatsoever until the next perfect configuration. They become annual and monthly chronocrators when predominating the authoritative places (through the five methods - house, elevation, trigon, bound and configuration) at the revolutions.

Hour-Marker favourably placed causes physical wellbeing and profitable travel
Sun favourably placed causes social wellbeing and happiness in marriage for women
Moon favourably placed causes mental wellbeing and happiness in marriage for men
Lot of Fortune favourably placed causes financial gain, prosperity and gifts from others
Midheaven favourably placed causes action, happiness from children and friendship

Hour-Marker unfavourably placed causes physical suffering and dangerous travel
Sun unfavourably placed causes social suffering and misfortune in marriage for women
Moon unfavourably placed causes mental suffering and misfortune in marriage for men
Lot of Fortune unfavourably placed causes financial loss, hardship and debts to others
Midheaven unfavourably placed causes inaction, misfortune from children and enmity

Distinction is to be made in the case of the Sun and the Moon, for they become powerful, operative or inoperative at revolutions with respect to the universe and the nativity, in the case of the Lot, with respect to the nativity, and with all places when they are in assembly, tetragon or diameter with maleficent planets, or in configuration with beneficent planets. All other judgement is to be made from the beneficence or maleficence of chronocrators.

Beneficent chronocrators cause good effects, particularly when they are powerful
Maleficent chronocrators cause bad effects, particularly when they are powerful
Common chronocrators cooperate, particularly when they are powerful

Common chronocrators increase the effects of other beneficent or maleficent chronocrators.

Morning and eastern chronocrators cause quick effects
Evening and western chronocrators cause late effects

When they are morning and eastern, their intensification lies within the first three months of the solar revolution, and within the first week of the lunar revolution, when they are evening and western, within the last three months of the solar revolution, and within the last week of the lunar revolution. If they are morning and western, or evening and eastern, their intensification lies within the middle six months of the solar revolution, and within the middle two weeks of the lunar revolution.

Saturn cooperates with general chronocrators
Jupiter cooperates with annual chronocrators
Mars cooperates with monthly chronocrators
Sun cooperates with monthly chronocrators
Venus cooperates with monthly chronocrators
Mercury cooperates with monthly chronocrators
Moon cooperates with intensifications and relaxations

Distinction is made according to their speed in transit.

Beneficent planets help with configuration
Maleficent planets harm with assembly, tetragon and diameter
Common planets help with configuration during beneficent chronocratorship
Common planets harm with assembly, tetragon and diameter during maleficent chronocratorship

The reasons for this have already been given.

Sun, together with the ambient, is always in some way affecting everything on the earth, not only by the changes that accompany the seasons to bring about generation of animals, productiveness of plants, flowing of rivers, and change of bodies, but also daily furnishing heat, moisture, cold and dryness in regular order and in correspondence with its current position relative to the zenith

Moon, too, as the heavenly body nearest to the earth, bestows its effluence most abundantly upon mundane things, for most of them, animate and inanimate, are sympathetic with it, and change in company with it, the rivers increase and diminish their streams with its light, seas turn their own tides with its rising and setting, and plants and animals in some part increase or decrease with it

Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury often cause hot, windy and snowy conditions of the air and mundane matters are affected accordingly, all configurations bring about many complicated changes, for though the power of the Sun prevails in the general ordering of the quality, the other heavenly bodies cooperate or deter in particular details, if these matters be so regarded, all would judge it to follow that not only must things already compounded be affected in some way by the motion of the heavenly bodies, but likewise the germination and the fruition of the seed must be moulded and conformed to the biological forces that are proper to the physical forces at the time, and such biological determinism dependent upon physical reductionism is easily comprehended

The following considerations might lead one to observe that criticism of the science on the score of impossibility is specious, but undeserved, in the first place, the mistakes of those who are not accurately instructed in its practice, and they are many, as one would expect in this important and many-sided subject, they have brought about the belief that even its true predictions depend upon chance, which is incorrect, for this is ineffectiveness not of the science, but of those who practice it, in the second place, most for the sake of gain, claim credence for another art with the name of this, and they deceive the vulgar, because they are reputed to foretell many things even those that cannot naturally be known beforehand, while to the more thoughtful they have thereby given the occasion to pass equally unfavourable judgement upon the natural science, nor is this deservedly done, it is the same with other sciences, there is no need to abolish them because there are some evident rascals among those that pretend to them, nevertheless, the most inquiring and legitimate astrologers may sometimes err, not for any of the reasons stated, but because of their weakness in comparison to the magnitude of the profession, however, just as people do not find fault with the physicians when they examine someone, for speaking both about the sickness itself and about the patient, so too they should not object to the astrologers using foundation for investigation, nation, region or any other already existing accidental qualities, particularly those concerning the origins

Distinction is made between natural astrology and divination. The qualities of origins are important, as we do not know whether the given time concerns the nativity of a man or the nativity of a horse.

Unexpected good often grieves men as bad, and unexpected bad causes the greatest grief to those who have not trained their minds in advance, that foreknowledge is possible and that precautions can be taken in most instances is obvious from the fact that people warm themselves against cold in winter, and cool themselves against heat in summer, similar measures can prove effective with disproportionate amounts of moisture, heat, dryness and cold in the different matters of nativities

Prognostication is only useful when people can make mental preparations or changes to avert certain events.
 
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petosiris

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21. Nativity
Midheaven is powerful
Hour-Marker is powerful
Post-ascension of Midheaven is powerful
Post-ascension of Hour-Marker is powerful

Setting is operative
Anti-Midheaven is operative
Post-ascension of Setting is operative
Post-ascension of Anti-Midheaven is operative

Pre-ascension of Midheaven is inoperative
Pre-ascension of Hour-Marker is inoperative
Pre-ascension of Setting is inoperative
Pre-ascension of Anti-Midheaven is inoperative

I recommend the physical method of hourly trisections - the so-called Placidus house system with no offsets or blendings. Cusps are not important, but rather the local time it takes for the planetary and lot placements to rise, culminate, set and anti-culminate.
 
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petosiris

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Sun, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are masculine
Moon and Venus are feminine
Mercury is common

Heat, dryness and cold are masculine, moisture is feminine

Moisture and dryness clearly oppose each other, but why would moisture oppose both heat and cold, which oppose each other as contrary powers? Why isn't Saturn and cold also feminine lending to perfect symmetry?

The reasoning is physical. Dry air heats and cools extremely fast, which leads to high variation between diurnal and nocturnal temperature in deserts compared to little variation in humid regions as moisture slows both heat and cold. As in eastern, morning and equinoctial planets, the male takes the first place that is faster, and as in western, evening and solstitial planets, the female takes the second place that is slower. I hope that the ladies don't get offended, since the two maleficent planets are the ones that are masculine.
 

petosiris

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Aries, Leo and Sagittarius by day give Sun 7.5°, Venus 7.5°, Saturn 7.5° and Mars 7.5°
Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn by day give Venus 7.5°, Saturn 7.5°, Mars 7.5° and Sun 7.5°
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius by day give Saturn 7.5°, Mars 7.5°, Sun 7.5° and Venus 7.5°
Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces by day give Mars 7.5°, Sun 7.5°, Venus 7.5° and Saturn 7.5°

Aries, Leo and Sagittarius by night give Jupiter 7.5°, Moon 7.5°, Mercury 7.5° and Mars 7.5°
Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn by night give Moon 7.5°, Mercury 7.5°, Mars 7.5° and Jupiter 7.5°
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius by night give Mercury 7.5°, Mars 7.5°, Jupiter 7.5° and Moon 7.5°
Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces by night give Mars 7.5°, Jupiter 7.5°, Moon 7.5° and Mercury 7.5°

And because the beginning of the place obviously does not have the exact same temperament as the end of the place, the old astrologers have invented various divisional systems to explain for such differences, such as the Egyptian terms, the Chaldean terms, the Ptolemaic terms, the decans according to the heptazone, the dodekatemoria, the monomoiria by trigon, the monomoiria according to the heptazone, the monomoiria according to the Chaldean terms and many more similar fanciful systems that are built around contrived orders of symmetry, but with completely unfounded arguments in nature.

This natural division, however, is based on the four winds and the four elements, can be felt in the air, and explains for all differences within the places. Because the winds often experience increase of power through predomination, or stillness through predomination of the contrary wind, or admixture through predomination of neighbouring winds, the places are divided into four equal bounds of 7.5° - so that the first bound is the wind blowing with twice the power, the second bound is the wind receiving an admixture from the wind of the following angle, the third bound is the wind receiving an admixture of the wind from the opposite angle that produces stillness, and the fourth bound is the wind receiving an admixture from the wind of the preceding angle. One can observe this change from the powers of the planets.

The Chaldaean method involves a sequence, simple, to be sure, and more plausible, though not so self-sufficient with respect to the government of the triangles and the disposition of quantity, so that, nevertheless, one could easily understand them even without a diagram. For in the first triplicity, Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, which has with them the same division by signs as with the Egyptians, the lord of the triplicity, Jupiter, is the first to receive terms, then the lord of the next triangle, Venus, next the lord of the triangle of Gemini, Saturn, and Mercury, and finally the lord of the remaining triplicity, Mars. In the second triplicity, Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, which again has the same division by signs, Venus is first, then Saturn, and again Mercury, after these Mars, and finally Jupiter. this arrangement in general is observed also in the remaining two triplicities. Of the two lords of the same triplicity, however, Saturn and Mercury, by day Saturn takes the first place in the order of ownership, by night Mercury. The number assigned to each is also a simple matter. For in order that the number of terms of each planet may be less by one degree than the preceding, to correspond with the descending order in which first place is assigned, they always assign 8° to the first, 7° to the second, 6° to the third, 5° to the fourth, and 4° to the last; thus the 30° of a sign is made up. The sum of the number of degrees thus assigned to Saturn is 78 by day and 66 by night, to Jupiter 72, to Mars 69, to Venus 75, to Mercury 66 by day and 78 by night; the total is 360 degrees. - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/1B*.html#21

9K;6P. Winds and Turns.
The arrangement some have made of the terms using the seven-zone system, i.e. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 (and they are not in agreement even as to that) does not seem correct to me. I prefer the arrangement derived from houses, exaltations, and triangles, to wit:

Leo is the house of the sun, Aries is its exaltation, Sagittarius is the <other member if its> triangle. The total is 3, and so in each sign the sun has 3 terms.
Cancer is the house of the moon, Taurus is its exaltation, Virgo and Capricorn are the <other members if its> triangle. The total is 4, and so in the same way the moon has 4 terms in each sign.
Capricorn and Aquarius are houses of Saturn, Libra is its exaltation, Gemini is the <other member if its> triangle. The total is 4, and so Saturn has 4 terms in each sign.
Sagittarius and Pisces are houses of Jupiter, Cancer is its exaltation, Aries and Leo are the <other members if its> triangle. So Jupiter has 5 terms in each sign.
Aries and Scorpio are houses of Mars, Capricorn is its exaltation, Pisces and Cancer are the <other members if its> triangle. So Mars has 5 terms in each sign.
Taurus and Libra are houses of Venus, Pisces is its exaltation, Virgo and Capricorn are the <other members if its> triangle. So Venus has 5 terms in each sign.
Gemini is a house of Mercury, Virgo is its exaltation, Aquarius and Libra are the <other members if its> triangle. The total is 4, so its terms in each sign will be 4.

<The Order of the Terms.>
Aries Leo Sagittarius
by day: sun-3, Jupiter-5, Venus-5, moon-4, Saturn-4, Mercury-4, Mars-5. Total 30
by night: Jupiter-5, sun-3, moon-4, Venus-5, Mercury-4, Saturn-4, Mars-5. Total 30.

Taurus Virgo Capricorn
by day: Venus moon Saturn Mercury Mars sun Jupiter
by night: moon Venus Mercury Saturn Mars Jupiter sun

Gemini Libra Aquarius
by day: Saturn Mercury Mars sun Jupiter Venus moon
by night: Mercury Saturn Mars Jupiter sun moon Venus

Cancer Scorpio Pisces
by day: Mars sun Jupiter Venus moon Saturn Mercury
by night: Mars Jupiter sun moon Venus Mercury Saturn

So that you will see the accuracy of this arrangement of terms—you can also recognize it in the nature of the winds. If the sun is transiting its own terms, with the moon or the ruler of the moon’s terms in aspect, the physical nature of the star will manifest itself in the wind. For instance: if the sun traverses its own terms with the moon in aspect, it will blow westerly. If Venus traverses its own terms, it will blow southerly and dry. If Saturn, it will blow westerly and bring moisture. If Jupiter, it will be northerly and wet. If the moon, it will be northeasterly. If Venus, southeasterly and there will be shifting winds and storm clouds. If Mercury, there will be westerly and northerly winds, shifting and bringing heavy rains, thunder, and lightning. If any of the stars are in aspect with the sun and the moon, it is necessary to watch closely—in addition to the nature of each luminary—which phase the moon is passing through, i.e. full or new, and in whose terms the phase is located. Then make your forecast with reference to the ruler of the terms and of the stars in those terms or in aspect. - https://www.csus.edu/indiv/r/rileymt/Vettius Valens entire.pdf

These are two Hellenistic systems of terms based on the triplicities/winds. The first system called Chaldean by Ptolemy appears also in a fragment in the Anthology of Valens that is attributed to Hermes. Valens (or the person the scribe has copied), however, brings a natural argument against the system, that it ignores the luminaries, which are not ignored in the triplicities. (Valens here seems to use the triplicity rulers in Ptolemy with Mars as sole ruler of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces, not the ''Dorothean'' three he uses elsewhere, the Chaldean terms are also based on these triplicities, which I favour myself). However, the disposition of quantity is not even in agreement with the winds in my opinion, because the Gemini Libra Aquarius wind takes two terms without natural explanation in the Chaldean terms, and the Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces takes one term in the terms given by Valens, again without natural explanation, but rather contrived symmetry of arranging the five stars or rulers. The reasons given by Valens for the disposition of seven terms by quantity are more numerological than natural. I prefer we use only the planets that have actual rulership by day or by night, leading us to 4 instead of 5, 6 (as in Critodemus) or 7 terms, and that we use simple equal disposition in accordance with the equal disposition of places.

The Egyptian terms defy tropical explanation.
The Critodemus terms are divisible by 5, which is probably the reason for the construction of the system.
The Ptolemaic terms are just another contrived order of symmetry following the numerological planetary years, which are suspicious by themselves.

Objection: The terms must be based on all three rulerships - houses, elevations and trigons, and not on just one of them.
Answer: The terms must be based only on the more changeable consideration of winds, and because our explanation of the winds is unrelated to the predominating heat and moisture of individual places, but rather to the combined heat and moisture of three places, for reasons we have elucidated earlier. The terms are in perfect trigons with each other just like the winds are carried by the trigon figure. This is also true for the two systems above.
 
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petosiris

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Assemblies are common
Hexagons and trigons are harmonious
Tetragons and diameters are disharmonious

Assemblies and diameters make planets meet on one straight line and form powerful syzygies. The 1/3, 1/2 and 2/3 of the diameter are important configurations. Of these, the tetragon and the diameter are disharmonious, because their contrary qualities are responsible for the turning of seasons and lunar phases. The hexagon and the trigon are harmonious, because their winds are of the same nature and sect, which also tempers the assembly to common nature and the diameter to the nature of the tetragon. The hexagon is tempered to the nature of the trigon, because even though it doesn't have the same direction, it has the same nature and sect and takes less seasonal space (lesser difference). The 1/6 and 5/6 of the diameter are not configurations, because they are neither turning, nor do they belong to winds of the same nature and sect, so that even if they had relationship, this would be general and imperceptible.

Configurations within 1° are complete
Configurations within 3° are powerful
Configurations within 7° are operative
Configurations within 15° are moderate

15° is the boundary before the beginning of the next configuration or the lack thereof, an additional reason is that it is the half of a place. Each interval is doubled in distance from the previous as 1 + 2 = 3 + 4 = 7 + 8 = 15, an additional reason is that these approximate one day, three days, one week and two weeks of the lunar months.

There are very few natural reasons for the usage of configurations by signs, ascensions and the so-called planetary orbs. Such we shall omit, likewise the usage of applications and separations is superfluous as we prefer current placements configurations at a given moment, and not motions in the future, otherwise the powers of the angles would be superfluous.

Let us expound on the obscure doctrine of physical aspects. Most astrologers have posited occult visual rays as an explanation, but actually one needs neither the obsolete emission theory of vision, nor the musical theory of the ancients, nor numerology to give an explanation for these schemata.

It will suffice to give some physical examples with the four seasons, which change at assembly, tetragon and diameter with the equinoxes and solstices, and the four phases of the Moon, which causes the highest tides in assembly and diameter with the Sun, and the lowest tides in tetragon with the Sun, though with more constant tidal range.

Of these configurations, the diameter appears more disharmonious than the assembly, because of the contrary seasons, while the assembly appears more disharmonious than the tetragon because it shares the line of the diameter, but the natures of the first two are tempered by the winds of the same nature and sect carried by the triangular figures (for reasons we have given above), so that the assembly becomes common, while the diameter becomes similar to the tetragon.

Thus I posit that the seven planets have the same effect within any of these configurations - Jupiter and Venus help, Saturn and Mars harm, Sun, Moon and Mercury join their effects with either group. I posit that the winds of the same nature and sect also carry out configurations by themselves, which are harmonious - Jupiter and Venus help in the same way, Saturn and Mars do not harm for the most part, because their effects have been tempered, Sun, Moon and Mercury join their effects with either group. Finally I posit that all configurations carry out the effects and most common predominations of planets, because they carry out physical causes, as has been shown, and which agrees with the experience and the traditions of the ancients.

At the equator, the same configurations occur, but not because of the zodiac, but because of the angles. But notice how superfluous is the objection of those who want the boundaries of the places to prevent configurations - is the Moon at 1 Aries moving away from the Sun at 30 Pisces, not in conjunction, and doesn't it have the same effect on the tides, as if it were at 30 Pisces? The predomination by place is surely different, but this does not affect the configurations, which are almost the same in daylight anyways, even though that one is moving over the half, which has an effect on the Moon, but not on the configuration, for the planet is in the middle of its influence, while the place is around the middle of its influence, which is the 15th degree, and which does not spill over the other places. Finally, if the configurations were hinged on the zodiac, rather than the other way around, there will be no aspects at the equator, which is contrary to reason - there are phases and differentiation of the angles. Besides, some hexagons occur within same seasons, while others within neighbouring seasons, some trigons occur within neighbouring seasons, while others within contrary seasons, yet no one changes his interpretation due to hard boundaries of the seasons, but rather because of the distance of signs.

Objection: You showed that the four winds and their rulers are based on the powers of the twelve signs, but this shows that harmonious sextile and trine figures need to be carried only within signs which are in such configurations, thus favouring the hard boundaries of signs over aspects.

Answer: I showed that each wind and its predominator is based on the powers of three places, which influence spreads 90 degrees which individually are in perfect configurations, and always in moderate configuration with their middles. But if we take a planet to have an influence over a place in the exact same way, and which is rarely in the middle of its place, but rather in constant motion through all twelve places with all different winds, this would lead us to the opposite conclusion, that there are no hard boundaries over configurations. The same logic applies to the other configurations.

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The 1/6 and 5/6 of the diameter are not configurations, because they are neither turning, nor do they belong to winds of the same nature and sect, so that even if they had relationship, this would be general and imperceptible.

''This would be general and imperceptible'' e.g. the Sun's obvious effect is strongest, but so constant and so general that it is practically imperceptible compared to the dynamic minor effects of the planets. So Manilius would have all signs in configurations with the dodecagon in this way. Saying that everything is configured with everything does not help us in any way, so I would rather call them not configured or disjunct, rather than configured with the weakest dodecagon.
 
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petosiris

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The Greeks called their methods ''physical'', not in the sense that they are ''materialistic'', but in the sense of ''natural'' or ''scientific'' - Robbins usually favours the first translation (though he uses physical and scientific at times), Riley usually favours the second translation as ''scientific'' (though he uses physical and natural a few times). The terms are used by Ptolemy and Valens to separate their astrology from mythology, divination, numerology and magic, and to base them firmly on astronomy.
 

Bunraku

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Thank you for posting this.
It makes astrology more rational and 'scientific' in the sense that it is logical and has reason.
 

petosiris

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Here is a list of some disagreements with Ptolemy - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/home.html

1.4 - Moon should be moderately cooling instead of moderately heating
1.5 - Moon should therefore be common
1.7 - sects are the same, but I think the contrariety of natures applies only to the excessively heating and drying Mars, and not to the masculine Saturn
1.8 and 1.10 - I mention the additional moderate powers which I don't think that Ptolemy didn't consider (cf. the powers of the seasons in 1.10 and 3.11)
1.12 - I don't consider the shapes of the constellations either here or elsewhere such as quadrupedal, creeping, winged and watery in 2.7, quadrupedal and cutting in 3.8 and 4.9, large, small and graceful in 3.11, injurious and humpbacked in 3.12, terrestrial, aquatic and human in 4.4 etc.
1.13 - changed, see above
1.14 and 1.15 - I omit these schemes
1.17 - the climatological explanation is exhaustive and the geometrical - unnecessary
1.18 - I change the directions of the winds in accordance with 1.10, and I omit the moistening cooperating rulers of the eastern wind
1.19 - no change here, just noting that the explanation for the elevation of Jupiter in Cancer is useful for the explanation of the house of the Moon in Cancer
1.20 and 1.21 - I give another list with better reasoning, see above
1.23 - I omit proper faces because of my approach to 1.13 and 1.17, I don't mention thrones, rejoicing and paralysis but the end result is the same with my terminology of powerful, operative and inoperative
1.24 - omitted
2.2 - added instructions for equatorial, temperate and polar zones
2.3 - omitted, no need to explain why
2.4 and 2.5 - omitted stations and zodiacal familiarities because of 2.3
2.6 - changed the last sentence with the usage of 2.10-12
2.7 - omitted shapes and included elements, using the proximate angle instead of the preceding one (Asc or Mc in eclipses), using the combined zodiacal/phase/topical power instead of only the phase
2.8 - omitted the last paragraph because of 2.3 and universals
2.11 - omitted the combination of tropical signs with sidereal decans
2.12 - changed the last two parapegmatic paragraphs
2.13 - comets are not atmospheric signs
3.1 - the conception is superior to the nativity, not helpful to it
3.2 - https://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126636
3.3 - changed the order a bit - 3.9, 3.10 and 4.9 should precede the rest, I omit angular and succedent for timing
3.4 - I use Jupiter instead of Saturn and predominators instead of attendance
3.5 - changed to aspects to the derivative MC instead of aspects to the derivative 10th and 11th (???)
3.7 - changed because of 3.5 and counter-examples
3.8 - changed, omitted shapes, syzygies and sacred beasts
3.9 - the given configurations do not work very well - https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Category:Personal_:_Birth_:_Infant_mortality
3.10 - Placidus instead of equal, different places in accord with 3.3 and other chapters, considering the zodiacal placement (cf. Valens' Anthology 3.1), omitted the Lot and predominators, omitted latitude and antiscia, Sun destroying the Moon with conjunction, and directions in the order of the leading signs
3.11 - omitted the last paragraph with constellations
3.12 - using Asc, Moon and predominators instead of 1st, 6th, 7th and ''certain configurations''
3.13 - I don't make difference between the phases of the inner and outer planets
3.14 - I give a list of conventional psychiatric disorders instead of epilepsy and water on the brain
4.3 - configurations and predomination instead of attendance, more focus on the Sun in accordance with 4.10
4.4 - reworked with predomination instead of placement in the MC > morning phase > predomination, using also Saturn and Jupiter instead of the three
4.5 - I omitted the last three paragraphs or rather changed them under a different abridged form in 3.13 / 41.
4.6 - using aspects to the MC instead of to the 10th and 11th (???)
4.7 - omitted primary directions for meetings, changed the 12th with the Lot
4.8 - using the Ascendant more in accordance with 4.10, using the four elements and qualities of the seasons instead of the constellations
4.10 - omitted the recurrence years and terms in primary directions, using predominations at the revolutions instead of profections
 

Bunraku

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How do you treat the sect of Mercury?
Some authors vary, such as bounds, or last aspect. Ptolemy cares if it's a morning or evening planet.

The stars, however, are also said to be masculine and feminine, by their positions with regard to the Sun. While they are matutine and preceding the Sun, they are masculine; when vespertine and following the Sun, they become feminine 1.


Hence, again, the Moon and Venus are esteemed to be nocturnal; the Sun and Jupiter, diurnal; and Mercury, common; since in his matutine position he is diurnal, but nocturnal when vespertine.

Ashmand's Proclus' paraphrase
 

petosiris

Banned
I agree with Ptolemy, but for another reason.

4. Sects
Sun, Saturn and Jupiter are diurnal
Moon, Mars and Venus are nocturnal
Mercury is diurnal as morning planet and nocturnal as evening planet

''Masculine planets are diurnal, feminine planets are nocturnal. Mars, however, because it is drying and excessively heating, is constituted nocturnal, and it produces much more temperate admixture with the Moon and Venus than with the Sun, Saturn and Jupiter.''

Ptolemy's explanation with natures and powers is different to accommodate Saturn, but I don't think that logic holds well with Saturn as masculine and drying planet and diurnal ruler of Gemini, Libra and Aquarius as well as it does for Mars, also it is traditionally ''cooling'', not traditionally ''freezing'' - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/1B*.html#7

Ptolemy, Paulus and others sometimes were in habit of using all morning planets as more diurnal and all evening planets as more nocturnal - Ptolemy does it for example in 4.3. I don't use this.
 
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