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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section III – Chapter IX
angle and in a moist Mansion; of Jupiter, winds, rain and thick clouds; of Mars,
yellow clouds, lightning, thunder and rain in places and time convenient; of the
Sun, red clouds, wind and great rain, also in summer thunder and lightning;
according to the nature of the signs, Mansions, and places of the heavens
their conjunction or aspects are. But you must know the Sun or
Moon are never assigned chief dominion in any figure concerning the weather
because they are general significators of times and seasons; as the Sun of the
Year and its parts, i.e. spring, summer, autumn and winter by his ingress into
the equinoctials and tropics; the Moon of the months and weeks by her
conjunction, square and opposition to the Sun etc.
Your chief significator, being oriental, will work his effects chiefly towards the
latter end of the year; if occidental, towards the beginning.
Moreover, you are to consider that you may be the better enabled to your work
the nature of the sign ascending at any lunation, time, or
quarter of the year; the planetary Lord thereof and the nature of those planets
located in the Ascendant or in any configuration with it and in what Mansions
these are , as also the planets in conjunction or aspect to the Moon. See
also from what house she is beheld or in what house she is corporally joined to
any, and according to the major testimonies judge; if wet, wet; if dry,
dry etc. And if the testimonies are equal, judge unconcern.
Consider also the angle the Moon is next to enter into; for if most planets are
therein located or cast their aspects to the cusp thereof, or are therein
accompanied with the most notable fixed stars, it is a sure testimony of
rain; and that generally throughout the whole region, especially if the Lord of
the Ascendant is in that angle and the chief significator. Also, if the sign
ascending belongs to the dominion of Saturn, Venus or the Moon, or they are in
the Ascendant or behold it with any aspect, it indicates rain also and a
moist air and weather; also if a retrograde planet, especially one of the
superiors, is with the «opener of gates»; also when Venus is in any
configuration of the Sun, especially square, opposition or conjunction in convenient seasons. 1
See also you especially consider Mercury; for as soon as he changes his
habitude, either in the zodiac or in his orb though ever so little, the air and
1 Of course, it is quite impossible for Venus to be in either the square or opposition to the Sun! The
only configuration Venus has with the Sun is conjunction! However, it is possible for Venus to behold
the Sun from a sextile by sign, but never joined to the Sun by aspect!
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