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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Appendix VIII
return to that place; this is a period of 959 years…The second is the shift from triplicity to
triplicity…The third [‘am] indicates less than these two indications…Its indication is for kings and
twenty-year happenings…» 2
Perhaps himself at a loss as to what he should teach, it appears Ramesey
combines what Māshā´allāh, Omar and Abu Ma’shār all wrote on the matter,
«The first and greatest of all the rest, is the conjunction of the two superior planets, Saturn and
Jupiter, in the first term or degree of Aries, which happens but once in nine hundred and
threescore years.
The second is the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the first term or degree of every triplicity,
and this is accomplished once in two hundred and forty years. Yet once in twenty years they come
in conjunction in one part or other of the zodiac.
The third is the conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the first term or degree of Cancer, and this is
once in thirty years.
The fourth is the conjunction of the three superiors, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, in one term or face
of any sign.
The fifth is the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars, which is a mean and the least conjunction of the
superiors, and therefore is not the fore-runner of such great mischief as the other, as you shall by
and by understand.
The sixth is the conjunction of the Sun with any of the rest of the planets at the time of his
entrance into the first point of Aries.
The seventh and last is the conjunction of the Sun and Moon, which happens once every month.»
Following is the same list as recorded in Part I, Chapter 1 by Abu Ma’shār in
his Book of Religions and Dynasties: on the Great Conjunctions.
«[12] Since the things from which to deduce advanced knowledge of the occurrences of general
and their particular instances in future times are gained from six elements,
The first is from the celestial bodies’ positions in the horoscopes of the
1 Omar is actually quite correct in saying that the conjunction returns to Leo. This conjunction never
began in Aries as asserted by Māshā´allāh and Abu Ma’shār. In 7000 years of conjunctions, the
conjunctions always returned to Leo except in 1544 when it started in Sagittarius.
2 Kitab al-Qirânât wa-tahwil as-sinin, MS Istanbul, University Library 315
297