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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section II – Chapter II
Chapter II
Teaching how to judge of the permanency or durability of kings, or such
as are in authority by any Revolution
Much time and paper might I here consume in delivering unto you all the ways
the learned in former ages have set down for the judging of this matter; but lest
I then deviate from both my intentions at this time, and natural inclination to
short discourses, and trouble both you and myself to no purpose, since it may as
well be delivered in fewer words, I shall satisfy myself with these following
rules.
[From where judgement is to be required for predicting the durability of any
kingdom or government]
First, erect your figure of the heavens, which for the judging of these matters
must be according to that point of time the king was first elected or crowned; 1
if
you are to judge the Senate, take the time of their first sitting or assembling
together, or wherein they were first created or made a free state, or assumed
power to act according to what their own counsels shall produce.
Then having exactly placed the planets therein according to their then several
places, and reduced them to the right hour and minute of the day, especially the
Moon, you are to see what planet is Hyleg or Alchocoden or Giver of
Life in your Figure, 2 and Almuten or chief ruler of the Ascendant, to know the
state of his body or person; what of the mid-heaven, to judge of the state and
condition of his kingdom or regal power; and having thus done you may easily
judge of either of these in this manner. 3
Observe what sign, degree and minute ascends and culminates, what sign,
degree and minute the Sun and Moon possesses, and where to a very minute
1
The major difference between the ancients, like Abu Ma’shār, and Ramesey is that the ancients
assert two methods to determine this consideration. The first was using the Revolution of the World
Year when the ruler acceded or the Great Conjunction in which this occurs; or one must use, as
Ramesey does, the chart time in which the ruler accedes, i.e. the actual coronation or swearing in
etc. Cf Abu Ma’shār: On Historical Astrology – Part II, chapter 5
2
The Hyleg alone was called «the giver of life». The Alchocoden was called «the giver of years of
life».
3
I will refer the reader to Appendix II and the excerpt from Abu Ma’shār’s,”On the Great
Conjunctions”, with his techniques for finding the durability and length of rule
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