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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section II – Chapter II
Wherefore let it suffice to know by the inclinations of those glorious bodies the
alterations and durabilities of sublunary things, without enquiring how or when
it will be performed; if you find at the beginning of any government or state the
angles of heaven fixed, the Lords thereof well disposed, especially of the
Ascendant and mid-heaven, and free from the malevolent presence and
configurations of the infortunes, and essentially dignified and aspected by the
adjuvant planets, you may from hence conclude the firmness and permanency
of the rule or government then set up; but if you find these places and
significators contrariwise afflicted, moveable and weak, judge the contrary
thereunto. 1
If Saturn is then Lord of the Ascendant, and essentially well dignified and
altogether free from the affliction of the malevolents and angular, say that the
kingdom, state, rule or government then began shall flourish and continue
unchangeable 465 years, being the greatest years of Saturn, and if he is not
altogether so well placed, but free from all impediment and in a succedent
house, the government or rule then settled shall continue firm and unaltered 57
years, being his greater years. If he is significator and essentially dignified, and
free from all impediment aforesaid, and in a cadent house, say it shall continue
in the condition it first was in, 43 years and a half, being his mean years; but if
he is but thus meanly placed and but moderately dignified, judge the
continuance thereof to be but 30 years, which are his least years; and so
accordingly judge of all the other planets when they are significators, and well
placed and dignified, as you have heard of Saturn, their greatest, greater, mean
and least years being all recorded in our Introduction to the Judgement of the
Stars, where the nature and significations of the planets are delivered, etc.
1 Ramesey appears to be mixing his peas and carrots here. There were some very big differences
when considering the length of a kingdom or dynasty and the length of a particular ruler’s period of
rule! Cf Part II, chapter 3 of Abu Ma’shār’s “On Historical Astrology” [On the Great Conjunctions].
Ramesey wants to apply the same rules of the ancients for considering a rulers period of rule to the
length of a kingdom or dynasty which was not the same considerations.
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