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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section II – Chapter XX
of rain; also that men shall be molested with pleurisies and pustules or eruptions
in the skin, especially in the thighs; and this shall chiefly be occasioned through
corruption of the air, and several changes thereof; and if he is then in a corporal
conjunction of Venus, there will be earthquakes in that Revolution, especially if
the Sun do then behold them or be joined unto them; 1
[Mercury Lord of the Year in Pisces]
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and if Mars also, or
Saturn behold them with a square or opposition, you may be confident thereof,
and that there will be pestilential diseases, and many thefts and robberies; and if
Saturn is corporally joined to Mercury, there shall be an increase of waters and
rain.
Lastly, Mercury in Pisces in any annual Revolution when he is Lord of the year
or Quarter, denotes very much wind and rain in the northern parts, also death;
fish shall abound, and want of provisions and fruits of the earth; detriment also
to the sea and those that converse therein, many shipwrecks, etc.
Now although Mercury at time of the Sun his ingress into Aries cannot possibly
be in some of these signs 2
yet may not any one conclude these rules
superfluous, and the ancients therein ridiculous, since as you have heard in the
first Chapter of the first Section of this very Treatise, it often falls out that there
are four schemes to be erected, and sometimes two, for the judging of annual
affairs in the world; and therefore it was requisite that his significations should
also be known in any sign of the heavens; for in these we shall otherwise be to
seek, etc.
1 The Sun can only be conjunct Mercury and Venus! He can never behold them with an aspect since
Mercury is never more than 28° and Venus 48° distant from the Sun!
2 NOTE BY RAMESEY: By reason, he is never distant from the Sun above 28 degrees, as you have
heard in the sixth Chapter of the second Treatise of this Work.