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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section III – Chapter IX
weather is altered. Observe also, to what planet he is joined, either by body or
aspect in the «opening of the gates 1
»; for if it is Saturn, he causes fierce blasts,
darkness of the air and rain; if Venus, clouds and showers in convenient times
and places; and so the rest.
It is also an approved rule that when Saturn goes out of one sign of the zodiac
into another, the air and weather does immediately alter, no matter what time of
the year it will be; and sometimes causes thunder, lightning and very
tempestuous stormy weather. Also when the Moon, after any conjunction,
square or opposition of the Sun, applies to the chief significator or to the
ascending degree at the time of the same conjunction, square or opposition,
the weather will be disposed according to the nature of the significator
in the figure.
[What «opening of the gates» is]
Opening of the gates is when a planet applies to another that rules the
sign opposite to his 2 house; or when another planet separates from any and
applies immediately to another that has dominion by house in the signs opposite
to those ruled by the planet from whom he last separated. 3 As for example, if
the Sun applies by any aspect or conjunction to Saturn, it is an opening of the
Gates 4 because Aquarius, which is the domicile or sign under the dominion of
Saturn, is opposite Leo, which is the domicile of the Sun. So likewise, if any
other planet should separate from the Sun and immediately apply next to
Saturn, or separate from Saturn and apply to the Sun, it is also an
«opener of the Gates», because that planet transfers the light and nature of the
planet with whom it was last joined, either by body or aspect, to the planet it
next applies to and so causes an alteration of the air; as rain ever follows upon
«opening of the Gates». 5
1 This is a conceptual term that I have come across in earlier writers such as Al Biruni. Ramesey
explains at the end of this chapter what «opening of the gate» is.
2 I.e. the applying planet
3 That is to say, if some lighter planet [C] transfers the light of one planet [A] to the ruler of the
domicile [B] opposing the domicile of the first planet [A].
4 NOTE BY RAMESEY: or windows as it is termed by Moses in the 7 th chapter of Genesis, verse 11.
«In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the
same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were
opened.»
5 This is an interesting concept. But I also would tend to think that this is true only if the planet being
applied to «receives» the disposition (matters) of the planet applying or whose light is transferred!
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