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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Appendix II
added to them, and are cast out from it (the Ascendant); where it arrives is the
second lot. If Saturn and Jupiter are both either eastern or western, one should
begin from Saturn for the first lot and from Jupiter for the second. Then one
counts the degrees and minutes between the eastern planet and the Sun, and
one multiplies that by 12, and divides by degrees and minutes
that the eastern planet has passed through in its sign, and the result is the
measure of the period of the acceder, a year for each 30 degrees. If one wants
knowledge of this from the second lot, one should multiply the degrees and
minutes between the Sun and the western planet by 12, and divide by the
degrees and minutes that the western planet has passed through in its sign, and
the degrees of the Ascendant are added to it, and it is cast out from the Ascendant ; wherever it arrives, one should count from
that degree to the degree of the eastern planet of the two, and the result is the
life span of the acceder, a year being equal to the amount of each 30 degrees.
[16] One may take these two lots according to another method, which is closer
to matters indicating the conditions of kings because of the partnership of the
two lots in . It is taken from the degree of the greater luminary to
the degree of Saturn, and the degree of the conjunction of the two at their shift
from one triplicity to another is added to it; it is cast out from
that sign, 1
and where it arrives is the first lot. As for the second lot, it is taken
from the degree of Jupiter to the degree of Saturn, and the degrees of the two at
that moment are added to it; it is cast out from that sign, and
where it arrives is the second lot. Then one sees how far it is from each of the
two lots to its lord, or from its lord to it or from each one of them to Mars, or from
Mars to them, and one takes each 30 degrees of these for a
year.
[17] As for how to know precisely the amount which the two lots indicate, it is
found in the Book of Two Lots, 2
whose repetition in this place is a kind of
redundancy, since our aim here is to sum up.
[18] As for what astrologers 3 think in the matter of the two lots and they
apply judgement on it to the lives of kings, they think that the first lot is Saturn
and the second is Jupiter, and they proceed in their judgement by them in the
same way as one proceeds in the two lots whose description we have
mentioned. 4
[19] As for knowing the quantity of their life spans from the second division, 5
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i.e. from the time of their accession – one looks for it from the Ascendant and
1
I.e. the sign in which the conjunction occurred.
2
For Abu Ma’shār’s k. As-Sahmayn (which has not been identified in a manuscript), see pp. 593-4.
3
Arabic MSS BNT and the Latin Glossator substitute «the Moderns»; cf. «the Ancients» in II, 8 [4]
below.
4
Cf. Tafhim, ch. 480, Astrological History, p.49
5
The reference is to the two kinds of method mentioned in [2] above.
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