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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section IV – Chapter XI
Chapter XI
Of Great Conjunctions, their number, and how to judge of their effects
Most of the ancients have been short in their judgments on this subject, 1
yet
some more copious than others, but none so effectual as I could wish for your
instruction, since by the conjunction of the planets all the accidents and
mutations of this elementary world are known, especially by the conjunction of
the superiors. However, such as they are I shall here deliver unto you with my
best assistance. Time and opportunity may happily produce more hereafter. In
their interim, understand thus much, that there are seven sorts of conjunctions
considerable.
The first and greatest of all the rest, is the conjunction of the two superior
planets, Saturn and Jupiter, in the first term or degree of Aries, which happens
but once in nine hundred and threescore years. 2
The second is the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the first term or degree of
every triplicity, and this is accomplished once in two hundred and forty years.
Yet once in twenty years they come in conjunction in one part or other of the
zodiac.
The third is the conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the first term or degree of
Cancer, 3
and this is once in thirty years.
The fourth is the conjunction of the three superiors, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, in
one term or face of any sign. 4
1 It is possible Ramesey says this because his main source is Abu Ma’shār’s Flores or Māshā´allāh’s
short On the Eclipses of Luminaries, of Conjunctions of the Planets, and on the Revolutions of
the Years or the writings of the ancients embedded within medieval accounts. For had he read Abu
Ma’shār’s, On the Great Conjunctions or Al Kindī’s or Māshā’allāh’s full works, then it would be
apparent that they wrote a great deal! Yet according to his following account, of which conjunctions
are important, he partly echoes these same ancient teachers.
2 I.e. once every 960 years
3 This does not happen once every thirty years! They do not conjoin in the first term or degree every
thirty years. They do occur in some part of Cancer approximately every thirty years.
4 This is not a consideration from the ancients that they considered the conjunction of all three of
these at once since it has never occurred! Mars may conjoin with Jupiter or Saturn, but it has never
happened that all three have conjoined in one degree or term in the same sign.
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