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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Appendix II
[10] Another procedure may be used, i.e. to look at Saturn. 1 If it is in the tenth or
eleventh from the Sun, this indicates that the quantity of their life spans
is according to the small years of the Sun. If there are 35 2 degrees between
Saturn and it, this indicates a quarter of those years and whenever it decreases
by a degree the amount of arc between it and Saturn, a year is reduced up to
the completion of 30 degrees. If there are 66 3
degrees between it (the Sun) and
it (Saturn), this indicates a quarter of its (the Sun’s) years, and whenever a
degree is reduced from that, a year is reduced down to 60 degrees. If it exceeds
that , this procedure is not used for the quantity of their life
spans.
If Saturn is in the tenth or eleventh from the Sun, this is an indicator that
sometimes their life spans are extended until the two superior conjoin
in one degree. If Saturn is in a cardine of the revolution of the year in which the
acceder accedes, and is in its [?] 4 house, and wants to change or is not firmly
fixed in it, that is, it is at the beginning of it (the sign/house), i.e. less than 5
degrees , and at its end, i.e. has passed 25 degrees, this is an indicator
that the acceder’s remaining time is according to what remains to Saturn in its
sign in the way that we have mentioned, 5
for each degree a year,
especially if it is Capricorn or Aquarius. If it passes that, let the degrees of
Saturn be cast out from 30 , and what remains after that is the
measure of the period of the life span. If Saturn is in the seventh from
the Sun and in the first decan of the sign, this is an indicator that the measure of
the quantity of their life spans is half the years of the Sun. If Saturn is in its (the
Sun’s) right trine and Jupiter is in the eleventh from it, it indicates three
fifths of its (the Sun’s) years. If Saturn is in the sixth from it (the Sun)
and Mars is with it, it indicates its (the Sun’s) small years. If it is in the left trine of
it (the Sun), this indicates that the measure of the quantity of their life spans is
like that of half of its (the Sun’s) years. If the Sun is applying to Jupiter, and it
(Jupiter) is in the tenth or eleventh from it (the Sun) and is received, this
indicates the amount of the years of Jupiter or the measure of the number of
what is between the Sun and the malefic.
For every acceder for whom the positions of the planets as we described them
are not found at the revolution of the year of the accession, let the time of his
disaster be appointed according to the between the Sun and Saturn
1 This is the procedure described by Māshā´allāh.
2 The text of Māshā´allāh gives ‘15’ probably wrongly
3 Māshā´allāh MSS EN and the Latin text of The Book of Religions and Dynasties give 65 degrees.
4 The statement ’especially if it is in Capricorn or Aquarius’ (the houses of Saturn) at the end of the
sentence would seem to make it unlikely that ‘its’ is ‘Saturn’s’.
5 5 [3] – [4], lines 336 – 40 above
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