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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section III – Chapter VIII
value and may be purchased at a small rate. Wherefore it is very necessary you
are thoroughly versed in the nature of every planet and sign which you are
sufficiently taught in the second book. And this rule without any more words
may suffice for sufficient instruction in these matters, yet we may apply it thus:
Look if the Lord of your Ascendant is received or disposed of by any planet 1
and the receiving or disposing planet is strong in an angle it signifies that corn
and such things as are most necessary for the use of man shall be at a high rate
that month; the dispositor of the Lord of the Ascendant in opposition of the
luminaries or that of the time promises the same; also if the Lord of the
Ascendant is received or disposed of, and he together with the receiving and
disposing planet is ascending. 2
But if the Lord of the Ascendant and the planet
in an angle apply to any planet cadent, slow in motion, or afflicted, the
price shall fall. So likewise, if the Lord of the Ascendant, its receptor or
dispositor is cadent, weak and afflicted it signifies the same according to their
affliction. If are much weakened and afflicted, they will be very cheap;
if a little afflicted their price will fall but not altogether so much etc. And if the
Lord of the Ascendant, its dispositor and receptor do then also apply to any
planet weak, cadent and afflicted, this will be the more certain.
See also what planet you find in the Ascendant, for he shall have signification
with the Lord of the Ascendant and shall denote the cheapness or expensiveness
of provisions according to his strength or weakness. But if the Lord of the
Ascendant is not received by any planet, he shall not have signification with
him, but the planet therein placed shall be significator only. If your significator,
or Lord of the Ascendant if he participates with him, and the luminaries are in
1 That is to say, if the Lord of the Ascendant applies to a planet (committing its disposition) and that
planet receives the Lord of the Ascendant’s disposition (or matters) then it will be the significator of
these matters.
2 What Ramesey means by «ascending» is not likely to mean ascending at the horizon of the chart. It
probably means ascending in the deferent, or as it was technically called, «ascending in the circle of
its auge». The terms «ascending in the circle of its auge» and «descending in the circle of its auge»
referred to the movement of the centre of the planet’s epicycle around the deferent. The auge (awj in
Arabic) was the highest point on the deferent, i.e. the highest point at the top of the deferent. There
were two definitions concerned with these two expressions. One (according to Al Biruni) was when a
planet was less than 180º from the auge in a counter clockwise direction, then that planet was
«descending in the circle of its auge». If it was more than 180º from its auge, it was called
«ascending in the circle of its auge». The other definition, according to Abu Ma’shār was, «One of the
conditions of each one of them [the planets] is ascending in the orb of the auge and decreasing in
light, size and motion. This is if between it [the planet] and its auge there are less than 90 degrees on
the right or left. If it is at ninety of it precisely, it is balanced in light, size, and motion. If it is
exceeding this [90º either left or right], it is descending and increasing in all these elements.»
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