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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Appendix IV
In Abu Ma’shār’s text, we find important elements that are missing from
Ramesey’s text. One very important element is that Abu Ma’shār is pointing the
reader to another «beginning» chart. One chart Abu Ma’shār uses extensively is
the chart of the annual Ingress of the Great Conjunctions when they changed
from one triplicity to another. His reference to «ascendant of the religion» is a
specific reference to the chart he uses throughout his book; i.e. the chart of the
annual Revolution for the year the Great Conjunction shifted to the water
triplicity indicating the rise of the Islamic Religion. The «terminal point of the
year» is the profected ascendant of that chart! More important though, and for
this reason one has to read his entire book and not take things out of context, is
that Abu Ma’shār is only referring the reader to use the profected ascendant of
some «beginning chart». In his case, he was specifically using the chart of the
rise of the Islamic Dynasty in his discussions. A beginning chart of some
Dynasty, however, is not always the chart of the shift of the Great Conjunction
to another triplicity. A «beginning chart» was any chart of the annual
Revolution (or Aries Ingress) of the particular year some new Dynasty began!
In the context of the above discussion then, Abu Ma’shār says that in the
Revolution of the Year of some particular nation or dynasty, if the profected
ascendant degree (where 30º = 1 year) of the «beginning» chart of that nation
was conjunct either Venus or Jupiter in the chart of the Yearly Revolution, by
aspect or conjunct (by ray), then it was an indication the year would be fruitful
and fertile!
A practical example of this is let us suppose you were examining the Yearly
Revolution for Israel (2006). One would need to look to the «Beginning chart»
for the nation of Israel. That chart, let us also suppose, is the yearly Ingress
chart for 1948. The beginning chart has 14º X 43’ as the cusp of the
Ascendant. The terminal point (profected Ascendant) in 2006 would then be 14º
b 43’. If Jupiter or Venus in the 2006 Ingress was conjunct that degree (or
within their orbs or rays) or their aspect was to that degree, then we would say
it indicates a fruitful, profitable and fertile year. If on the other hand it should
fall within the rays of a malefic, then we would say the contrary! It just so
happens that a malefic does aspect by degree, the degree of the terminal point in
the 2006 annual Ingress; i.e. the Ingress Mercury (dispositor of Mars in the 8 th )
is 14º M 20’ in its detriment, fall, and Rx casting its aspect to the profected
degree at 14 º b 41’. At the moment, I am writing this, (July 21, 2006), Israel
is engaged in a war with Hezbollah in Lebanon which is taking a toll on both
sides. In stead of fertility, war is making barren both nations!
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