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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Appendix II
they do not aspect it, and it is not received, it is an indicator of the shortness of
their life spans.
[14] One may find the knowledge of the amount of their life spans also from the
lot of the life span, which is taken from Jupiter to Saturn by day, and by night the
opposite; it is cast out from the Ascendant of the revolution of the year in which
the acceder accedes, and where it arrives is the lot. If Jupiter is in a
corporeal while the revolution is in the daytime, and it is cadent from
the cardines, it should be measured from Saturn to it and one should add one
sign to the calculation; it is cast out from the Ascendant, and where it arrives is
the lot. If the calculation is at night, and Jupiter is in a cardine, it should be
measured from it to Saturn; it is cast out from the Ascendant, and where it
arrives is the lot. If Saturn and Jupiter are opposite to each other and both are
cadent [from the Ascendant], one should halve what results from between the
two, and it is cast out from the Ascendant. If Jupiter is in its exaltation and the
revolution is at night, one should count from it to Saturn, and it is cast out from
the Ascendant. Then one should look at the time when the terminal point of the
Sun arrives at the position of the lot. What is between the Sun and the lot may
be taken in terms of signs, and each sign is taken for a year, up to the time of
the misfortune. If Saturn and Jupiter are opposite the position of the lot, one
should look at the luminaries. For when the greater luminary is corrupted by
Saturn, and the smaller luminary by Mars, it is the time of the disaster.
One should also look at the entry of the Sun into the terminal sign. If this is more
indicative of disaster than the lot is, if the Sun at a time when he also dreads the
year in whose Ascendant or midheaven the Moon is rotating at the time of the
Sun’s arrival at the second sign from the Ascendant, unless the Moon, in a
house of Saturn in a fortunate location with respect to the Ascendant, and its
lord are free from burning and harm, then the disaster lasts for longer than six
months, and the disaster is at the arrival of the Sun at the second from
the Ascendant. In addition, the lot and the harm of the degree of the conjunction
are used also with their rising times, and the pronouncement is made according
to this.
[15] The measure of the quantity of their life spans may also be found from the
location of the two lots at the revolution of the year in which they accede. The
method of knowing their operation is to look at the sign at which the year arrives
from the Ascendant of the religion, and at the sign at which the year arrives from
the smaller conjunction. Then are taken from the eastern planet
among Saturn and Jupiter to the position of the terminal degree of the religion
from its Ascendant, and the degrees of the Ascendant of the
revolution are added to them, and are cast out from it; 1
where it arrives is the first lot. Then are taken from the western
planet of the two to the terminal degree from the Ascendant of the
smaller conjunction, and the degrees of the Ascendant of the revolution are
1 I.e. from the beginning of the sign of the ascendant, cf. Abbreviation, 6.3 and Great Introduction,
VIII, 6.
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