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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section III – Chapter IX
Chapter IX
Containing instructions touching the alteration of the air and change of weather in
any year
Much pains and diligent observation is required for the delivering rules
infallible in this matter; I mean for these regions and parts of the earth wherein
we live being islands. 1
But doubtless, the ancients did sufficiently treat hereof;
neither is the validity and certainty of their rules which they have left to
posterity to be questioned; for such is the reason they carry with them, that
question they were most authentic and seldom or never admitted of
correction in those parts of the continent wherein they lived. And perhaps in
these parts also, with a little amendment, they may be made infallible;
wherefore I shall here, my utmost endeavour to deliver them unto you;
and perhaps hereafter according as I shall have life, liberty and leisure afforded
me, I may give you them more short, compendious and efficacious. For I must
confess the present philosophers of this our age, are more to seek in their
judgments of weather than in any one thing whatsoever and do oftenest therein
deviate from the truth.
[How to judge of the alteration of the air and change of the weather]
In the judging then of these matters have regard unto the whole figure of the
Sun’s ingress in Aries, for the general judgment thereof for the whole year, if
no more figures are to be erected; but if two, or four (as you have heard in the
1 st chapter of this treatise) you are to have respect unto them; to know the state
of the weather quarterly and half-yearly. But you are also to remember
you join them in judgement with the figures at the time of the preventional
conjunction and opposition of the luminaries. And if you would judge of the
alteration of the air for every month, you may consider the figure of heaven at
the time of every conjunction of the luminaries, as also every square and
opposition if you would predict for every week.
[Of the chief and general significator of the weather]
When you would judge of any of these times, consider the ascending degree of
the figure, whether it is for the year, half-year or quarter, and see in what
mansion of the Moon these places fall, i.e. whether dry, moist, cold, or
1 Ramesey of course living on the British Isles
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