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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Appendix II
[4] Knowing that time is found from the amount of its movement in its sign and
the remaining amount, each degree being taken for a year, each 5 minutes for a
month, and each 12 seconds for a day. One also makes use of the terminal
point of the dawr from the year of the conjunction to the cardines of the malefics,
each sign a year. One should look, and if Saturn is situated in the
houses of the superior planets, and it and the lord of its house are in one of the
cardines, one should count from the lord of its house to it in degrees of right
ascension, for each 30 degrees a year, each 2 ½ degrees a month,
and each 5 minutes a day: the total derived from that is the measure of a life
span.
If Saturn and its lord are in succedents, one should measure from the lord of its
house to it, and the procedure is like the first one. If one of them is in a cardine
or a succedent to a cardine, and the other is cadent, one should count from the
one in the cardine or succedent to the cardine to the one cadent from the
cardine, and this is established according to what we mentioned above. If
between Saturn and its lord there are less than 300 degrees, one should give a
month to each degree, and a day to each two minutes, and the measure of the
duration of the period is according to that. If between the two there are more
than 300 and up to 360 degrees, one should subtract from 360
, and what remains after the subtraction should be given, a month to
each degree and a day to each two minutes. The result is the measure of the
duration of the period.
If Saturn is situated in one of the houses of the inferior planets or of the Moon,
and they [inferior planet ruling the house] are aspecting it [Saturn], let the
procedure be like the first one; that is, one measures from that planet which is in
the cardine to the planet in the succedent to the cardine, or from the planet in
the succedent to the cardine to the planet cadent from the cardine, and one
gives a year to every 30 degrees according to what we have mentioned in the
first case. If they do not aspect Saturn, one casts out half of the degrees
between the two, and one should take a year for every 30 degrees of the
half; and let us begin the numbering from the weaker of the two in
position to the stronger in position. If both are equal in power of position, one
should count to the one, which is in its ornament 1
and if its lord receives it, it
does not cut off, and the duration of the period is up to the time of the
conjunction. It has another period: that is, one takes a month for each degree
between the two, and the procedure is like the first one; after that, it is cast from
that half, if it does not aspect it.
If Saturn is in the domain of the greater luminary, 2
and the revolution is in the daytime, one should measure what is between the greater
luminary and Saturn, and the procedure is like the first one. It has another
period: that is, to take a month for each degree between the two if there are less
1
I.e. in a sign or degrees in which it has some dignity
2
I.e. one of the 6 signs from 0º Leo to 30º Capricorn
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