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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section IV – Chapter II
Chapter II
Showing the time when the effects of any eclipse shall begin and how long continue
Many men I know wonder why astrologers have taught that eclipses operate not
until such a time after their appearance; but they have but small reason to move
them to this their admiration. For the effects of an eclipse operate from the first
appearance thereof, though not so apparently; as a child from its first
conception is in being, yet cannot properly be termed ought other than some
living creature until it be produced to light.
And therefore, I conceive the ancients, without any respect at all to the former,
have still given rules for judging of the latter or the time when their effects will
be in force or begin to be apparent.
[When an eclipse first manifests its effects and when more forcibly]
Wherefore Ptolemy teaches us that if an eclipse falls in the east part of the
horizon, 1
the events thereof shall first manifest themselves from the fourth
month after; but it will more strongly operate in the first third part of its whole
duration.
If in the Midheaven, the effects thereof will first begin to
appear after the second four months 2
but more apparent will it be in the second
or middlemost third part of the whole time it continues.
But in the west part of the horizon, 3
in the third or last
fourth month the effects shall be made manifest; but more forcibly in the third
and last part of the whole time of its continuance.
But the particular remissions and intentions we must judge from the
conjunctions and preventions which in the mean time shall happen in that place,
or any other places of the figure that has relation thereunto, from the places of
the motion of the planets by which future events are foreknown; i.e. such as are
1 NOTE BY RAMESEY: or more plainly in the Ascendant or east angle.
2 NOTE BY RAMESEY: or more plainly, about eight months after the defect of the luminary.
3 NOTE BY RAMESEY: i.e. in the seventh house of heaven or the angle of the west.
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