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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section III – Chapter I
For after the same manner must you judge etc. And truly, I see no reason why
we may not after this rule judge of Venus and the Moon also. 1
[Of the conjunction or aspect of Saturn with any planet in exaltation, in any
Revolution]
In every Revolution see, what planet is in his exaltation, and how aspected by
either Saturn or Mars; for if it is Saturn, he shall cause much damage and
detriment and trouble to those regions and places subject to the planet with
whom he is in configuration. And if Saturn is in a fixed sign, and the planet also
in a fixed sign, the evil shall continue so many years as there wanted between
the perfect conjunction or aspect; if in common signs, so many months; if
movable, so many weeks or days. But if one is in a fixed sign and the other in a
common one, you are, according to discretion, to make a commixture of months
and years; one in a common sign and the other in a movable, make commixture
of months and weeks, or weeks and days as you see reason. If by other
testimonies, you find that the evil shall not continue after that year wherein
your Revolution was made although the conjunction or aspect is in or from
fixed signs, yet shall you give but months then for every degree the want of the
perfect conjunction or aspect. Note also that if the conjunction or aspect is by
common signs, and you thereby judge months, and the evil still continues
longer than your time prefixed, then you shall convert them into years. So
likewise if you judged days or weeks with your significators being in moveable
signs and the evil still continue after those weeks or days expired, then you are
to say the continuation thereof will be so many months or years, etc. For as
Ptolemy in his Centilo says, A te (?) à scientia; for though you have the art to
help you, yet you are not wholly to lay aside discretion and reason.
But if any planet by his body or aspect does frustrate the conjunction or aspect
of Saturn, then shall the evil not happen in the places subject to the planet in
exaltation, but to those places ruled by the planet so frustrating. If there is no
frustration by either the interposition of the body or aspect of any planet, that
Saturn does come by his beams to touch the beams of the planet so in
exaltation, the evil by him threatened shall assuredly happen in those regions
and places subject to his dominion, etc.
1 I do not know from where Bonatti is citing Abu Ma’shār. There is no such judgement concerning the
exaltations of the planets in either “Flores” or “On the Great Conjunctions” by Abu Ma’shār. He
cannot be citing from “On Solar Revolutions” because it was not translated in Bonatti’s time! If this
is a quote from Bonatti, it could be a citation of The Greater Introduction by Abu Ma’shār or another
work by him as unyet translated.
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