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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section III – Chapter VIII
Now if you would know what shall happen generally touching the price of
anything in any year, have regard to the position of the heavens at the Suns
ingress into Aries if there is but one figure to be erected; 1 but if two look to
their positions at his ingress into Aries and Libra; if four, or for every quarter, at
his ingress into Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. If you would more
particularly make monthly observations thereon, have regard to the conjunction
of the luminaries every month; 2
and remember that the Ascendant thereof, or
the sign ascending at that instant for which you desire to erect the figure of the
heavens, its lord and the planet or planets therein located are significators of the
condition and state man and the air; and you may join also in signification with
them the dispositor of the Lord of the Ascendant. If the planets or planet therein
located is peregrine and afflicted, judge mischief and detriment in these
according to his nature, signification and strength; and so judge the contrary if
he is then strong and essentially dignified.
If there is any planet in an angle that has dignity and power in the Ascendant,
especially exaltation, he shall be the significator of the price of things, or any
planet in an angle essentially dignified and strong. And if the Lord of the
Ascendant is remote from this house 3 and the planet in the angle
peregrine, yet he is the significator as long as he is in that angle. But when the
Lord of the Ascendant is in any of the angles, or in the eleventh or fifth houses,
he shall show his significations more manifestly than any other shall, especially
if he is oriental and going from under the sunbeams. 4
[Note]
Ever take this for a general and true rule, that whatever planet you find
fortunate in any sign, he shall signify and denote the dearness of such things as
are under the signification of that planet, and the sign wherein he is; so also the
contrary if he is weak and impedited, judge they will be of little or no esteem or
1 Remember when the ascendant of the Aries ingress is a fixed sign, only that chart was needed for
the year; if the ascendant was a mutable sign, then two charts were needed, the Aries ingress and
the ingress of the Sun into Libra; if the ascendant of the Aries ingress was a cardinal sign, then four
charts were used as explained by Ramesey.
2 Not just every month, but the chart of the New or Full Moon was cast and compared to the chart of
the Sun’s ingress into each sign for these particulars.
3 I think what Ramesey means by «remote from this house» is that the Lord is inconjunct to the
Ascendant; i.e. falls in the 2 nd , 6 th , 8 th or 12 th sign from the Ascendant.
4 That is to say, the planet is heliacal rising. If one of the superior planets, this is when it is 15º
oriental of the Sun. If one of the inferior planets, this is at two times; when they are both Rx and direct
and 15º (occidental or oriental) of the Sun. However, that heliacal rising that emulates the superiors is
when the inferiors are direct and heliacal rising when they are occidental.
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