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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section II – Chapter XIX
Chapter XIX
Of the things signified by Venus when she is Lady of the Year and in any of the
twelve signs
Little will it avail you to observe the latitudes of the three inferior planets in this
manner of judgement, as you have heard of the superiors, as say most of the
ancients. And truly, in this I do agree with them 1
for oftentimes we shall find
the rules in the inferior planets vary and prove false by reason of their swift
motion and frequent variations but in the superior seldom or never. This I
thought good to prefix before our discourse of the inferior planets that it might
not seem strange to the diligent enquirer we follow not the same method in
these as in the former.
[Venus Lady of the Year in Aries]
When Venus then is Lady of the year and in Aries in any annual Revolution,
well aspected and in configuration of none of the malevolents, neither
retrograde nor combust, the air shall be temperate, the earth fruitful, men in
general successful, shall thrive, be merry and delight in all pleasant recreations;
it shall also be well with great and noble men, and with the smaller sort of
cattle, men shall be peaceably given, and many pleasant moderate showers of
rain shall fall, and generally there shall be plenty of provisions, and these shall
chiefly be in the eastern parts, and those cities, regions and countries subject
unto Aries.
[Note]
But to speak the truth, I see no reason at all why Venus should occasion so
much good in Aries, it being a sign wherein she suffers detriment and affliction,
although no wise aspected by the malevolents, and although she is naturally of
herself fortunate and good; yet it will not follow, I conceive, that she is of the
same power to effect good when she is weak and impotent as when she is
strong; for she can promise no more than this you have heard, when she is well
dignified and in Taurus or Libra which are her own houses, and wherein she is
1 NOTE BY RAMESEY: though not in many other of their tenets, especially in their rules in the last
Chapter, where they would teach the significations of the Sun in the 12 signs in Annual Revolutions,
when it is impossible for him at such a time to be in any other sign then Aries; and if the judgement
be half yearly, or quarterly in Libra, Cancer, or Capricorn, he must needs be but in no other.
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