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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section II – Chapter V
be well apprehended by you, I thought good, notwithstanding what had been
said, to spend one quarter of a sheet more for your better understanding; and
that the rather because thereby the subsequent discourse, I hope, will be the
better understood.
[Of the aspects of any planet to the Lord of the Year in any Revolution]
Now we are to speak of the aspects of the planets to the Lord of the Year, that
we may know how to judge of future events thereby. The ancients, as in some
other things, so in this have not been so plain and full as I could wish they had
been for the instructing of such as are but young students therein. Wherefore I
shall endeavour to be as plain therein as shall be requisite for the instructing
even the weakest capacity, if he observes what is beneath expressed, which is
not much, yet ad rem it is more then has been delivered by any author that even
I met with for all their tediousness. At the beginning of the first Chapter of this
second Section, I have in few words fully delivered sufficient rules for the
judging of any aspect of any planet to any significator, speaking of the
significator of the King, and how to judge there of, by which rules, I say you
may judge of the condition of any person or thing to be considered in any
Annual Revolution, 1
and the natural inclination, and accidental signification of
the planet in aspect therewith, whether it be by sextile, trine, square, opposition,
or corporal conjunction, together with the signification of the signs and places
of heaven they are located in at the time of the Revolution.
As for example, 2
I shall give you one or two by which you may easily judge of
all the rest.
If Saturn is Lord of the Year, and in configuration of the Sun, suppose by a
sextile, upon which the ancients say the King shall be poor, and be forced to
require aid of the people; this because the Sun is a general significator of the
King; but I see no reason at all it should therefore follow we should thus
conclude, unless the Sun were at the time of the Revolution, Lord of the tenth;
but rather thus, if Saturn be also Lord of the Ascendant, the Sun then being
Lord of the seventh, 3
is particularly and chiefly significator of the enemies of
the people, as you have heard, and therefore being thus in sextile with Saturn,
unless by reception, I should say the enemies of the people shall desire peace,
1
NOTE BY RAMESEY: having regard still to your significator.
2
NOTE BY RAMESEY: because I desire you should be well and perfectly seen in this particular; for
then have you attained to the accomplishment of the whole art, if you canst exactly vary your rules.
3
NOTE BY RAMESEY: if the cusp is Aquarius.
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