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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section IV
Wherefore in any year if either, or both, the luminaries are eclipsed, or in any
quarterly Revolution, see if the Lord of the sign wherein the eclipse is to fall is
strong or weak, or in conjunction or any configuration with the Lord of the
Ascendant at the time of the middle of the eclipse 1
or with the Lord of the Year
or Quarter, or whether the fortunes behold these or the infortunes; for if the
fortunes, you are to judge good; if the infortunes, the contrary. The nature and
quality thereof judge from the nature of the significators, as you have heard
before; likewise, whether much evil or good is to be expected by considering
the strength of your significators and their receptions and nature of their
aspects.
[What things or places are signified good or evil in any eclipse]
And judge this evil or good to those signified by the planet in configuration
with these Lords or the fortunes or infortunes, whether men or things. As if the
Ascendant or its Lord is beheld by the fortunes, then you may safely say the
people of that nation or kingdom wherein the Revolution is shall be safe, of
good health and prosperous, etc. And so judge of all the rest of the houses
according to their several significations as you have been taught before; and so
contrary evil, if by the infortunes. This shall be more increased if the Lord of
the Ascendant or Lord of the Year is the Lord of the sign wherein the eclipse is
to happen. In like manner, pronounce evil and damage to the persons and things
signified by any other house of whom you find the Lord of the sign of the
eclipse ruler, etc. Judge the time it shall be most grievous unto them to be when
the Sun comes to the same house in the eclipse 2
whereby they are signified, or
to the degree and minute of the zodiac their chief significator was then in. For
example if it is the common people, then when the Sun comes to the degree and
minute of the Ascendant at the time of the middle of the eclipse. If it is the
rulers or king, then it will be most grievous when the Sun comes to the degree
and minute of the tenth house at that time; and so the rest.
Detriment and mischief also is to be expected to all things signified by the
house wherein any eclipse is. If for example it is in the tenth, then to kings,
grandees and chief rulers; if in the ninth, to church men; in the eighth, the death
of old men, etc. and it shall be chiefly incident unto men if any eclipse is in
human signs; if in airy, to birds; if in earthy, to the fruits of the earth and
1 NOTE BY RAMESEY: which you are to know is the time wherein you are to erect your scheme or
figure of the heavens for the judging of the effects of the eclipse.
2 NOTE BY RAMESEY: I mean the degree and minute of the cusp.
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