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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section II – Chapter IV
planet found in any of the angles, see what planet is in the eleventh or fifth
houses, and that planet which is found in either of them shall be Lord of the
Year. If there is more than one, see that you investigate the business in every
particular as you have heard of the planets in angles.
And yet, if you find none in the eleventh or fifth, see which of them are
in the ninth or third, and say the planet in either of them is Lord of the Year,
and so judge accordingly as you have heard; but if there are no planets either in
these houses, see which of all the planets 1
first goes out of the sign where it is,
for he shall be Lord of the Year, especially if he behold the Lord of the term he
is in, or the Sun if the Revolution is by day; or the Moon if it is by night.
But if it happens that the Sun in a diurnal Revolution is in any of the angles, or
the Moon in a nocturnal , he or she shall then be Lord or Lady (as
I may say) of the Year. Haly also says, that when in any Revolution it should
happen that the Lord of the Ascendant is also Lord of the house that
either of the Luminaries are in, especially that of the time, 2
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he shall without
doubt or controversy be Lord of the Year, and also significator of the
people.
These are the rules of some of the ancients for finding the Lord of the Year in
any Annual Revolution. Others have taught us consider the Lord of the
Ascendant, who, if it is direct, free from combustion, and in the Ascendant, i.e.
within three degrees within the house or four without, or outside of the cusp, 3
he shall without any more ado be concluded Lord of the Year, and you need not
trouble yourself further to seek any other; but if he is either combust or
retrograde, he cannot be admitted Lord of the Year. Wherefore then, you are to
consider the conditions of the planet that has exaltation in the Ascendant; if it is
a sign where any of the planets have exaltation, and see whether he is
free from combustion and direct, and placed in the Ascendant, as you have
heard; for if so, he shall be Lord of the Year; but if he is retrograde or combust,
he shall not have that honour.
that is so, then, you are to inquire whether the Sun or Moon is not worthier
of this rule; for if the Revolution is by day, and the Sun has any dominion in the
Ascendant he shall have it; 4
if by night, and the Moon so dignified,
1
NOTE BY RAMESEY: except the Moon.
2
I.e. lord of the chart sect, the Sun in a diurnal chart and the Moon in a nocturnal chart
3
I.e. the four degrees preceding the cusp of the house
4
I.e. rulership as Lord of the Year