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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section II – Chapter II
also is your Almuten and Hyleg 1
of each House; then see in every Revolution,
eclipse or Great Conjunction, how these places and significators are disposed,
and how aspected by the malevolents, and judge the continuation or subversion
of their government according as you see occasion.
If your Hyleg or Giver of Life be afflicted, judge the evil 2
to fall on the person
or persons of the rulers, or touching their lives: if the Almuten of the midheaven,
upon their Regal power, and so contrariwise if they are assisted and
fortunately behold, or come to the places of the fortunes, or the fortunes fall in
any of their places in any Revolution, eclipse or Great Conjunction, judge the
contrary; still remember the good or evil does depend on the power of the
benevolent or malevolent planets; for if much afflicted, much evil is to be
expected, and so on the contrary as you have already been taught.
If any of the aforesaid places or significators fall in the place of any eclipse or
Great Conjunction, judge the mischief threatened to happen according to the
signification of the eclipse or planets so in conjunction; warily judging
according to the nature of the houses wherein they are in the scheme of the
eclipse or Conjunction and the signification of their own nature, and the nature
of the houses which they rule and are located in at the time of the kings
coronation or election; this you shall more fully understand in the delivering the
rules of this art touching the judgement of eclipses and Great Conjunctions at
the latter end of this Treatise.
I utterly, for my own part, refuse to follow the rules of the ancients touching
their giving a year to every sign between the planet afflicting and afflicted, for
the judging the time of the alteration of any government and the like; for that
they stand not with much reason, or are they built on any strong foundation, so
as to stand unquestionable; a little experience and observation will soon
manifest unto you the truth hereof; for touching the just time when any such
accident shall happen, I conceive ought rather 3
to be left to the good pleasure
and will of the Most High, who is the great orderer and disposer of all the
causes in nature, and will according to His own good time effect what is most
agreeable unto His Divine Will.
1 This is the first time I have heard a reference to the «Hyleg» of a house. Perhaps Ramesey meant
to say, «...and where to a minute also is your Hyleg and Almuten of each House:»
2 NOTE BY RAMESEY: according to the strength of the afflicting planet.
3 NOTE BY RAMESEY: and that with a great deal of more reason.
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