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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Appendix II
or Mars, for each sign a year. If he is saved from that, let be
added to him in this way, 1
and the cutting off occurs at that .
[11] One may find the knowledge of that by another method, i.e. by looking at
the year in which the acceder accedes or the time of their accession, 2
and one counts from the stronger of the two planets or the eastern
of the two, i.e. Saturn and Jupiter, to the greater luminary, and from the greater
luminary to the weaker of them and the western, for each
sign a year. Then the numbers are added and the result is the period of the
acceder, and the truest for that is when the greater luminary is in
sextile or trine aspect to the two planets. According to this , the
judgement will prove to be true, and he will complete both numbers that we have
described.
Their life spans may become longer because of conjunctions in some of the
signs of the triplicities, that is to say, if it is possible that the measure of the
period of the life span is 40 years or more than that, especially in the fardārs 3
of
the superior planets; for when the Sun indicates life spans by dawrs of the
planets which have partnership with it (the Sun) in the matter of kings, it
lengthens the period and it exceeds its small years to its middle or
great ones.
[12] As for the dawrs of Venus, Mercury, and the Moon, they do not indicate
more than its 4
smallest years in their dawrs, and sometimes it adds a third or a
quarter until a malefic meets it (the Sun); for if a malefic meets it or applies to it,
at that moment the cutting off occurs. For the inferior planets have no
partnership with it in the matter of kings like its partnership with the superior
planets in its great years, and each planet which aspects it, increases them
according to its small years, and the life span becomes longer in this way.
As for the fardärs of the inferior planets, they do not indicate this, because of
what we have mentioned above.
[13] If Saturn is in the houses of the superior planets and received,
whether the planet aspects it or not, this is an indication of the lengthiness of the
life span of the acceder. If it is in the houses of the inferior planets, and
they aspect it, and it is received, it indicates the lengthiness of their life spans. If
1 The parallel passage in Māshā´allāh makes it clear that the method is to count to the next malefic.
2 Latin version V has, ”by looking at the time of their accession in the year in which the acceder
accedes.” This particular consideration appears to take the chart of the moment (time) that the ruler
accedes rather than the ingress chart of the year in which the ruler accedes.
3 The fardārs mentioned here must be the smallest ones.
4 The parallels between sections [12]-[13] (on the inferior planets) and sections [10]-[11] (on the
superior planets) suggest that the years mentioned here are those of the Sun, and that it is also the
Sun which the malefic is meeting. The Latin Glossator indicates that most of the singular pronouns
here refer to the Sun, and this is confirmed by the parallel text of Māshā´allāh. Cf. also Kūšyār ibn
Labbān, 11, 12 [16].
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