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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section III – Chapter III
misfortune is so much the more increased, as is the nature and signification of
the afflicting or impediting planet. But if the Moon is separating from the
conjunction or aspect of any afflicting and unfortunate planet, and is increasing
in light and motion, the evil will be so much more lessened and
diminished, etc.
[The nature of any affliction and from where it shall arise]
If you would know the nature of the affliction threatened or portended by any
planet afflicting or impediting your significator, you need do no more than this;
see to the natural signification of the afflicting planet and also accidental
as he is placed in your scheme; the nature of the house and sign he is
placed in, and so judge accordingly. Judge the evil shall proceed from
the signification of the house wherein the afflicting planet is located; the nature
and quality thereof from the natural and accidental signification of the planet
and sign wherein he is located.
As for example, we shall suppose your significator to be the Lord of the Year or
Ascendant. The planet afflicting to be Mars and him Lord of
the seventh and located in the second . From this you shall conclude
that the people of the nation for which the Revolution is made, signified by the
Lord of the Year or Ascendant, shall be afflicted and damnified in their estates
and riches, being afflicted in or from the second house (which you know
denotes the wealth and riches of the people) therefore from there [the second
house] shall the evil or mischief threatened proceed. Now as touching the
nature thereof, or manner how it shall come to pass, you shall say it shall
be by the sword, thefts, wars, murders and the like, which are the natural
significations of Mars; or else by power or treacherous plots of their enemies,
which is his accidental signification as being Lord of the seventh, which you
have heard is the house of enemies, etc. or if the sign of the second is Libra, and
Mars therein, look to his significations in Libra, as you have been taught in the
seventeenth chapter of the second section of this same Treatise and say it shall
be occasioned so and so as have it expressed. In like manner, if it is of any other
sign or any other planet, judge according as you shall see most requisite and
agreeing to art and nature. If the afflicting planet is in the third, the evil shall
proceed from short journeys, neighbours, kindred, or brothers and sisters or
not be a reception there;» Cf. The Introduction to the Science of the Judgments of the Stars – by
Sahl Ibn Bishr (Zael) – Translated from the Twelfth Century Latin Version by James Herschel Holden,
M.A. The American Federation of Astrologers, Inc. ©2003
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