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