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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section III – Chapter VIII
Chapter VIII
Teaching how to know the price of anything in any year
A Tabarim, 1
amongst other ancients has been herein most large. What is most
expedient to be known, I shall here set down and as near as I can, omit that
which may be superfluous.
In this manner of judgement, you are to have regard to the ingress of the Sun
into Aries, from where you are to require judgment, as also the position of the
heavens at every conjunction and opposition of the luminaries every month, and
from the conjunction preceding every ingress, as well quarterly and half-yearly
as yearly; for all things happening in the world in a natural way, are occasioned
by the stars and may be known by the position of the heavens, stars and planets
at the time of the conjunction and opposition of the luminaries if rightly
understood, so that by the conjunction the generation and beginning of things
are judged; by the opposition the destruction and decay thereof. For the Moon
being nearest of all planets to the globe of the earth and the swiftest, does
immediately convey unto it and men thereon the virtue and signification of all
the other planets. 2
Therefore, we see by reason of this, her great power and
influence, all things as well vegetative and mineral as animals, increase and
decrease in vigour, strength and growth in some sense according to her motion;
and that the corruption and generation of all things are appropriate unto her and
the Sun. Therefore, by their conjunction and opposition these things may
perfectly be known unto us if we are but searchers and contemplators of nature
and its causes.
1 I do not know to what ancient author Ramesey is referring. One possibility however could be that
this name is a Latinised corruption of Avraham; i.e. Avraham Ibn Ezra.
2 «First. Know that the significator, i.e. the Moon, whose circle is nearer the earth than the circles of
all the other planets, is, before all the other planets, the one most like the things of the earth. Do you
not see that a man begins by being small and then increases until he attains full growth? The Moon
does the same thing. Therefore, take it to have the signification of all things, because its good state is
the good state of everything, and its bad state is the bad state of everything. And it strikes, 2 that is it
commits, its disposition to that one on which it casts its rays, and to that one of the planets to which it
is joined, and it sends its light to that same planet, and that planet is termed the receiver of the
disposition because it receives that which was committed to it. Therefore, the Moon itself is the
informer of these planets; and she pacifies them, and carries [influence] from some of them to
others.» Cf The Introduction to the Science of the Judgments of the Stars – by Sahl Ibn Bishr
translated from the Twelfth Century Latin Version by JAMES HERSCHEL HOLDEN, M.A.
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