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Of the Conjunctions of the Superiors
Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section IV – Chapter XII
Chapter XII
Every planet in some measure or other contributes to the government of this
world for which they were ordained, but some more forcibly than others, as
being fore-runners of greater and stranger accidents and mutations.
[Of the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Aries]
For, the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the first point of Aries, or the
first term thereof, is the greatest and most notable conjunction of all the others,
for that they are the highest and so consequently, as to us, the slowest of the
planets, and therefore have more power to act what they denote than any of the
others have, and for that Aries is the first of the signs of the zodiac, and the first
sign of the triplicities, also first of the fiery trigon.
And therefore, it is that when these two highest planets are in conjunction in the
fiery trigon, 1
many commotions, wars, seditions, troubles, subversion of
Monarchies, kingdoms, States, alteration of laws, customs, privileges and
rights, plagues, famine, desolation, anxiety and trouble, treasons, treacheries,
and the death of kings, nobles, princes, emperors and powers follow.
[Of the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in any trigon]
So likewise when they are in conjunction in the first term of any trigon, whether
it is fiery, earthy, airy or watery; but not so forcible is their then effect, nor so
terrible as the former, yet though in a less degree the fore-runners
and occasion (?) of grievous mutations and accidents according to the nature of
that planet which has the most power of the two in the sign wherein they are
joined. For if, Saturn is stronger than Jupiter, it will be terrible. But if
Jupiter is stronger than he 2
is, it will be somewhat abated. In fiery, earthy and
airy signs, they cause drought and a scarcity of provisions and barrenness of the
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NOTE BY RAMESEY: especially in the first term or degree of Aries the Ascendant of the world, and
the place wherein the chief luminary, i.e. the Sun, was at the creation.
[As a point of interest, Aries is not the ascendant of the world from the standpoint of traditional
teaching. That chart is represented by the Thema Mundi or Nativity of the Cosmos as it was also
called. In that chart, Cancer is the sign ascending, Aries is the Midheaven, and the Sun was not in
Aries, it was in the 15th degree of Leo! So Ramesey is wrong on all counts with this note! – editor]
2
Saturn
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