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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section IV – Chapter XI
The fifth is the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars, which is a mean and the least
conjunction of the superiors, and therefore is not the fore-runner of such great
mischief as the other, as you shall by and by understand.
The sixth is the conjunction of the Sun with any of the rest of the planets at the
time of his entrance into the first point of Aries.
The seventh and last is the conjunction of the Sun and Moon, which happens
once every month. 1
[Considerations before judgement]
Of which we are now in order to treat; but first you must know that the time for
the erecting of your figure is when the planets are in partile conjunction, 2
i.e. in
the very same sign, degree and minute of the zodiac, You may see what a
partile aspect is in the 27 th Chapter of the second Book of this volume.
Having then erected the figure of Heavens at your punctual time, and placed the
planets therein being reduced to the time of day, have regard unto the fortitudes
and debilities of the planets, especially those in the conjunction, for if they be
strong and fortunate, they presage good; but if weak and impeded, the contrary.
And this good or evil shall be according to the nature of the planets in
conjunction, and the nature of the sign in which they are; as if the sign be airy
and the planets evil, impediment in the air, corruption and much damage
thereby both to men and the fruits of the earth is denoted; and so judge the rest
of the signs; in like manner judge the contrary if the planets in conjunction be
fortunes and well dignified. 3
Again, if the malevolents are in conjunction in feminine signs, they denote
pestilence and evil infirmities to women; and the female sex of things in general
chiefly, in like manner to the masculine sex if the sign be masculine; and
health, prosperity and good success, if they are benevolent planets.
1 Please refer to Appendix VII for a more detailed account of the conjunctions.
2 This is certainly not the teaching of the ancients. From Māshā´allāh and throughout the Arabic era
and its astrologers, the chart was cast for the entrance of the Sun into Aries for the year the
conjunction would occur and not the actual conjunction. This is an essential difference between
Ramesey’s teaching and the ancients!
3 First, this is a rather redundant remark. The planets in the majority of these conjunctions are Jupiter,
Saturn, Mars and the Sun. Of these, only one is a benefic! Saturn and Mars are malefics and a
conjunction with the Sun is always malefic!
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