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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section II – Chapter I
person, persons or things signified by the nature and signification of the planet,
sign and house he is lord of, posited in, and is significator of, etc. but if the
aforesaid conjunction, square or opposition be in an angle, then judge the evil
portended to happen when your significator becomes combust of the Sun.
[How to judge by the nature of the aspects of the nature of the persons
signified by the planet afflicting your significator]
Further note, that if your significator is afflicted by sextile, judge the evil
proceeds from such as pretend to be friends to the king, people or any which
your significator denotes; or from such as are not thought or suspected to be
enemies: if it is by a square aspect, judge the signified mischief to arise from
such as are clandestine and secretly enemies; if by a trine, from real friends and
confederates; and lastly, if by opposition, by open and professed enemies.
Consider also the planet afflicting, and how dignified; as if a planet in his own
house is afflicting the significator of the king or chief rulers, then judge the evil
to arise from their own domestic friends and alliances; if he is in his exaltation,
say it will proceed from some of the nobles, princes, dukes or such as are in
high power and authority, or near unto the crown; if but in its triplicity, from
such as have their dependency on the aforesaid nobility, or are allied unto them;
if in term, from such as are inferior unto these, as are Marquesses, Earls,
Lords, and the like; if in face only, then say they are but knights or
gentlemen; but if the planet afflicting is peregrine and in no essential dignity, it
shall proceed from such as are altogether vile and base, or those of neither
reputation nor quality, having no honourable rank or dignity; after the same
manner may you judge (as you have heard) of the significator of any other, as
well as the chief rulers by varying your rules according to art and discretion;
but I believe you will never have much need of these curious rules of the
ancients.
[What is signified by the retrogradation of any planet in the Revolution]
If your significator is retrograde in any annual Revolution, judge much trouble,
impediment and anxiety to the persons or things signified by it. 1
1 “The retrogradation of the significator of the king signifies the weakness of the king, and the
retrogradation of the Lord of the Year signifies the weakness of his rulership.” – Revolutions of the
Years of the World - by Māshā´allāh and translated by Ben Dykes in Works of Sahl and Māshā´allāh
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