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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section I – Chapter II
For you must know a planet in his own house is strong and advantageous,
according to the old proverb, The Devil is good to his own Children; and so
contrariwise, Jupiter in my figure at the ingress is in detriment and afflicted,
and significator or planet from where I am to inquire of fertility, and in square
or opposition of other significators, which also concur to the same signification;
must I from hence, because Jupiter who for the most part is good, and in his
own natural inclination free from mischief, affirm or conclude the year to be
fruitful and free from any want or penury? No, but because he is the significator
this year of this matter, and in detriment, retrograde, in his fall, afflicted,
impotent and weak, I judge the clean contrary.
For I am to judge according to his signification and ability at that time, not
according to his natural signification; for otherwise we should make most
manifest contradictions, and confound our selves both in judgement and reason,
to make Saturn and Mars the only workers of iniquity; for we see clearly all the
evils in the world are not of the nature of these two, which would of necessity
follow, were this admitted, but some are Jovial, some Venusian, and a third sort
Mercurial, others participating of the nature of the Sun and again of the Moon.
But to clear this point yet more fully, 1
admit Jupiter or Venus bear chief rule of
the eighth house, which you know has signification of death and mortality; and
I find by several consequences and reasons in nature the heavens do incline to
such mischief: shall I barely because one of these rules that house conclude
contrary to all sound reason and manifest testimonies, the year will be rather
healthful? Believe it, I shall refuse thus to do, for every planet must perform
that whereunto it is ordained: Venus is now to denote death, as being lady of
the eighth, and therefore in such years I ought thus to judge.
Yet this much I shall follow her nature, as to say there shall be much mortality
or death amongst the people by reason of voluptuousness, or venery and such
like; because she has naturally such signification: In like manner if Jupiter be
lord of the eighth, and mortality that year denoted, I shall 2
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thus judge as has
been said, i.e. death and mortality, but the nature thereof I shall take from his
natural signification, as by corruption of blood, fevers and the like, I shall say is
this mortality to be occasioned, etc.
1 NOTE BY RAMESEY: For I would not have, the ingenious thus misled in so gross an error.
2 NOTE BY RAMESEY: notwithstanding he bears rule in that part of the heavens.