The Anthology Book I-II-III-IV
Vettius Valens
Table of Contents The Anthology of Vettius Valens of Antioch , Book I 1. Concerning the Nature of the Stars 2. Concerning the Nature of the Twelve Zoidia 3. Concerning the Sixty Boundaries 4. Concerning the Horoskopos 5. Concerning the Midheaven 6. Concerning the Ascension of the Zoidia 7. Concerning the Zoidia that See and Hear 8. Synodic Conjunctions and Whole Moons, Roughly 9. Concerning the Seven-Zoned Sphere or Sabbatical Day, Roughly 10. Concerning the Ruler of the Year 11. Concerning Masculine and Feminine Degrees 12. Concerning the Lights of the Moon 13. Concerning the Concealment of the Moon 14. Concerning the 3rd, 7th, and 40th day of the Moon 15. To Roughly Find the Ascending Node 16. Concerning the Finding of Steps and Winds of the Moon 17. After Hipparchus, Concerning the Calculation of the Zoidion of the Moon 18. Concerning the Calculation of the Other Planets 19. Concerning the Commixtures of the Stars 20. Commixture of Three Stars 21. Concerning Conception 22. Concerning Children Born in the Seventh-Month Second Book of the Anthology of Vettius Valens of Antioch I. On Trigons 2. The Differences of the Trigons, and Rulers, and Co-workers, and the Sects of the Sun and Moon by Day and by Night 3. Concerning the Lot of Fortune and the Ruler 4. Concerning the Star Allotted the Hour or the Lot 5. The Place of the Evil Spirit--Many Figures 6. The Place of the Good Spirit-Many Figures 7. The Midheaven 8. The Place of the God of the Sun, the Pre-Midheaven, 9th from the Horoskopos – It Has Many Figures 9. The Eighth Place Of Death - All Sorts of Regards 10. The Setting Place 11. The Sixth Place of Ares 12. The Fifth Place – Many Regards 13. The Fourth, the Subterraneous Place 14. The Third Place of the Goddess of the Moon 15. The Second Place - Called the Gate of Hades 16. Names of the Places 17. Triangular Judgments of the Stars in Relation to Happiness or Misfortune - Triangular and Hexagonal and Diametrical Figures
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18. Concerning Hour-Markers of the Lot of Fortune 19. Concerning the Exaltation of the Sun and Moon in Relation to Happiness 20. Concerning the Lot of Fortune and of Spirit in Relation to Happiness and the Prevention of Actions 21. Concerning the Place of Fortune in Relation to Happiness 22. Illustrations of the Chapters Above 23. Concerning Estimable and Notable Nativities, and, with the Same Considerations, Concerning Disreputable Nativities and Those That Come to Naught 24. Concerning the Lot of Debt 25. The Lot of Theft 26. The Lot of Treachery 27. Illustrations of the Above Places 28. Concerning the Propitious and Unpropitious Times of Life from the Pivot Points and the Post-Ascensions 29. On Being Away from Home, from the [Writings] of Hermippus 30. Concerning Being Away From Home 31. Concerning the Predeceasing of the Parents, with Illustrations 32. ConcerninL Parents from the [Writings] of Timaeus 33. Concerning the Bereavement of Fathers 34. Concerning the Separation of the Parents 35. Conerning Births Which Are Suitable to Freedmen and Slaves 36. The 11 Figures of the Moon in relation to the Power of their Effects 37. Concerning Injury and Ailment, with Illustrations for Each Zodion - for example, Aries Causes a Certain Injury or ailment and so forth 38. Concerning Marriage, Wedlock, and Bliss - A Variety of Considerations and Figures 39. Concerning Having Children or Childlessness 40. Concerning Siblings 41. Concerning Violent Deaths, with Illustrations Book Three of the Anthology of Vettius Valens 1. Concerning Predomination 2. Concerning the Notable Degrees of the Pivot Points 3. On Aphesis 4. Concerning Winds of the Stars and their Exaltations and Steps 5. Concerning the Sect of the Stars 6. Concerning Winds and Changes Bounds According to Vettius Valens, Diurnal Charts 7. From the Anthology of Valens concerning a Numerical Lot and Length of Life. The Same also in Regard to the Propitious Times, with Illustrations 8. Concerning the Teaching of the Crisis of the Seventh and the Ninth 9. Teachings Pertaining to Conjunctions and Whole Moons and Conception in Relation to the Ascending Node that Concern Length of Life 10. How to Find Precisely the Sun, the Moon, and the Horoskopos in a Conception 11. Concerning the Lot of Fortune in Regard to the Matter of Length of Life with Illustrations, in which are also the Least Years of the Stars 12. Concerning Crisis Times 13. Mean Years of the Stars
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Book Four of the Anthology of Vettius Valens 1. The Divisions of Periods 2. Concerning Releasing 3. Concerning the Further Division of Days 4. Concerning the Division of the Times from the Lot of Fortune and Spirit 5. Concerning the Loosing of the Bond and the Reciprocal Handing Over of the Stars 6. How Many Years Each Zoidion Divides; and the Final Years of the Stars 7. Concerning the Divisions of the Times for the Lot of Fortune and Spirit, and the Ingresses of the Stars, and Rulers, and Conjunction and Whole Moon, with an Illustration and Reciprocal Handing Over 8. A Compelling Illustration 9. Concerning the Cosmic Year and the Year Relative to Division, How Many Days Each Has and How They Should Be Reckoned 10. Concerning the Distribution of More and Fewer Years, Months, Days, and Hours of Each Star; and the Uses of These for Nativities 11 Concerning the Prospering Year and a Special Teaching 12. Concerning the Naming of the 12 Places and Concerning the Twelve-Turning 13. Concerning Giving Over from Exaltation to Exaltation 14. Concerning Phases of the Stars and Ingresses 15. Concerning the 3rd and 9th Place from the Horoskopos 16. Concerning Irregularities of Nativities 17. Concerning the Giving Over of the Stars and Lots and Horoskopos 18. Distributions of the Moon 19. Distributions of the Horoskopos 20. Distributions of Kronos 21. Distributions of Zeus 22. Distributions of Ares 23. Distributions of Aphrodite 24. Distributions of Hermes 25. Divisions of the Four Lots 26. The 4th Manner of Division of the Times, in Accordance with the Seven-Zoned Sphere Upwards, in the Manner of Critodemos 27. Otherwise Concerning the Years from the Sothic [Material]; A Lecture from the Hermetic [Material] Making the Releasing from the Sun or Moon or Horoskopos or Lot of Fortune 28. Concerning Where the Month Will Be 29. Concerning the Prospering Day 30. Concerning the Propitious and Impropitious Times in Relation to 1/4 of the Period
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VETTIUS VALENS (1-4) 1. Concerning
the Nature of the Stars
The all seeing Sun, then, being truly fire-like and the light of the mind, the organ of perception of the soul, is significant at a birth for kingly office, hegemony, mind, practical wisdom, outward form, motion, height of fortune, public, registration, action, popular, leadership, judgement, father, mastership, friendship, person of high repute, the honors of images, statues, and crowns of office, arch-priests of the fatherland ... of places. Of the part of the body, it has authority over the head, sense-organs, righteye, ribs, heart, respiratory or sensory motion, tendons. It also has authority over the essence of gold, of fruits of wheat and barley. It is of the diurnal sect, lemon-yellow, and sharp as for taste. The Moon, being truly generated by reflection of the solar light and possessing a counterfeit light, is significant at a birth for man's life, body, mother, conception, . . ., one's person, goddess, living together or legal marriage, nurse, older brother, house-keeping, queen, mistress of the house, property, fortune, city, gathering of crowds, receipts, expenditures, home, ships, living abroad, wanderings (for, it does not maintain a straight line through Cancer). Of the parts of the body, it has authority over the left eye, stomach, breasts, bladder, spleen, membranes, marrow (whence it also produces dropsies). It has authority over the essence of silver and glass. It is of the nocturnal sect, leek-green as for color, and salty as for taste. The star of Kronos makes those horn under it concerned about trifles, slanderers, those who bring themselves into disrepute, solitary, deceitful, those who conceal (heir deceit, austere, downcast, those who have a feigned appearance, squalid, black-clad, importunate, of sorrowful countenance, miserable, given, to sailing, those who work at waterside trades. And it causes depressions, torpors, inactions, interferences with ,what is being done, long-lasting punishments, dismantlings of things, concealments, constrictions, bonds, griefs, accusations, tears, cases of orphanhood, captivities, exposures. It also makes laborers and farmers because it has authority over the earth. It produces tax and customs collectors, and forced activities. It procures great reputation and notable rank, guardianships and the administration of the affairs of others, and fathers of the children of others. It has authority over lead, trees, and stones. Of the parts of the body, it has authority over the legs, knees, tendons, blood-serum, phlegm, bladder, kidneys, and the inner private parts. It is indicative of whatever hurts are formed from cold and moisture; for example, it is indicative of those who suffer from dropsy, pain in the tendons, gout, cough, dysentery, tumors, spasms, demoniac possession, unnatural lust, depravity. It makes those who do not marry, and widowhood, orphanhood, and childlessness. It produces violent deaths in the water or through strangling or bonds or dysentery. It also causes falls upon one's face.
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It is the star of Nemesis and of the diurnal sect, castor-like as for color, astringent as for taste. The star of Zeus is significant for begetting children, child-birth, desire, erotic love, alliances, knowledge, friendships with great men, abundance, stipends, great gifts, plenty of fruits, justice, sovereignty, governments, opinions, mediations of disputes, preferments of priests, fidelities, inheritances, brotherhood, community, benefaction, confirmation of goods, deliverance from evils, loosing of bonds, freedom, trusts, possessions, households. Of the outer parts of the body, It has authority over the thighs, feet (whence it also pertains to running in athletic contests); of the inner parts it has authority over the seed, womb, liver, the parts on the right side. It has authority over the essence of tin. It is of the diurnal sect, grey and rather white as for color, sweet as for taste. The star of Ares is significant for violence, wars, rapine, screams, insolence, adulteries, taking away of belongings, losses, banishment, estrangement of parents, captivities, ruination of women, abortion, sexual intercourse, weddings, taking away of good things, lies, situations void of hope, violent thefts, piracy, plunderings, breaches of friends, anger, combat, reproaches, enemies, lawsuits. It brings on violent murders and cuts and bloodshed, attacks of fever, ulcerations, pustules, inflammations, imprisonment, tortures, manliness, perjury, wandering, excelling at villainy, those who gain their ends through fire or iron, handicraftsmen, workers in hard materials. It makes leaders and military campaigns and generals, warriors, supremacy, the hunt, the chase, falls from heights or from quadrupeds, weak vision, apoplexy. Of the parts of the body, it has authority over the head, rump, genitals; of the inner parts, it has authority over the blood, spennatic ducts, bile, excretion of feces, the hind-parts, walking backward, falling on one's back; it also has that which is hard and severe. It has authority over iron and honor, clothes because of Aries, and wine and pulse. It is of the nocturnal sect, red as for color, pungent as for taste. Aphrodite is desire and erotic love, and is significant for the mother and nurse. It makes for priestly rites, die office of gymnasiarch, the wearing of gold ornaments, the wearing of crowns, merriment, friendships, companionships, further acquisition of belongings, purchases of ornament, reconciliations for the good, weddings, purification arts, euphonies, making music, sweetness of melody, beauty of form, paintings, combinations and variety of colors, purple-dying and aromatic arts, both the founders and the authors of these things, the arts or commercial workshops of emeralds and precious stones, ivory-working. As for those who spin gold thread and those who adorn with gold, haircutters, those who love cleanliness and those who are fond of play, it produces them when it is in zodiacal boundaries and degrees pertaining to it. It also bestows (he office of market-overseer, measures, weights, businesses, workshops, gifts, receipts, laughter, festive rejoicing, ornament, waterchases. Also, it bestows advantages from royal women or relatives, and, when it thwarts such matters, it procures an outstanding reputation.
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Of the parts of the body, it has authority over the neck, face, lips, the organ of smell and the fore-parts of the body from foot to head, intercourse of the genitals; of the inner parts, it has authority over the lungs. It is also indicative of the nurturing of another, and of pleasure. It has authority over precious stones and many-colored ornament and the oils of fruits. It is of the nocturnal sect, white as for color, very greasy as for taste. The star of Hermes is significant for the education of children, letters, disputation, speech, having brothers, interpretation, the herald's office, number, counters, geometry, commerce, youth, playthings, theft, community, announcement, service, profit, discoveries, following, contest, wrestling, declamation, sealing, sending messages, setting up, being suspended, scrutinizing, hearing, versatility. It is the bestower of intellect and practical wisdom, the lord of brothers and younger children, and the fashioner of every mercantile and banking ait. Properly speaking, it makes temple-builders, brick-makers, sculptors, physicians, writers, lawyers, orators, philosophers, architects, musicians, mantles, sacrificers, augurs, interpreters of dreams, braiders, weavers, those who are methodical, and those who are in the fore-front in wars and military actions, and those who try their hand at paradoxes and methodics with calculations and fallacious reasoning, those who an- strong performers or sing mimes, those who make their living through display, and furthermore through deception and wandering and confusion, those who come to know the heavens or even batum- searchers of the sky with pleasure and contentment, those who covet fame for a wondrous deed for the sake of profit. For, since this star is capable of many pursuits, it furnishes activities in accordance with the variation in the zoidia or its variously configured interweavings with the stars. For some of these zoidia, it furnishes knowing; for others, a negotiator; for some, service; for the [stars] in turn, it secures trafficking or instruction; and for some, [the activities] of agriculture or temple-keeping or public magistracy, for which stars in turn it secures the exercise of authority or leasing or contracting or wellordered display or being set at the head of public service or even guardianship, or it puts on the pomp of linen-wearing of the gods or rulers. It will cause all the irregul 븋 ities in our fortunes and frequently sidetrack us from our goals. What is more, for those having this star upon malefic zoidia or their decrees, it will even give a turn for the worse. Of the parts of the body, it has authority over the hands, shoulders, fingers, joints, belly, ears, windpipe, guts, tongue. And it has authority over copper and every coinage, of giving and receiving; for, the god is common. When the benefics are well and suitably situated, they produce their special effects in accordance with their own nature and the nature of the zoidion, with the additional admixture of the testimony or co-presence of each star; but when they fall amiss, they are indicative of the opposite effects. Similarly, if the malefics have dealings when they are suitably placed and in sect, even they are dispensers of good things, and they are indicative of higher positions and advancements; but if they are unprofitably placed, they produce dismissals and accusations.
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Each star is the ruler of its own essence for its sympathies and antipathies and mutual feelings in relation to the cosmos, and they have the authority for their commixtures with one another in accordance with application, separation, superiority, containment, spear-bearing, hurling of rays, and approaching of the masters. The Moon is set down as ruler of foresight, the Sun of light, Kronos of ignorance and necessity, Zeus of opinion and crowns of office and will, the star of Ares of action and troubles, the star of Aphrodite of love and desire and beauty, and the star of Hermes of law and custom and fidelity. Which very stars, [if they are dispensers] of their own effects ...
2. Concerning the Nature of the Twelve Zoidia With these tilings drawn up in such a way, we must also discuss the nature of the 12 zoidia. Aries is the house of Ares, a masculine zoidion, tropical, terrestrial, authoritative, fiery, free, ascending, semi-vocal, good, changeable, administrative, public, civic, unprolific, servile, Midheaven of the cosmos and cause of repute, two-colored (since the Sun and the Moon make leprosies), skin-eruptions; it is also unconnected, a place for eclipses. Those who are born in this zoidion in accordance with the rulership relation, then, will be bright, notable, commanding, just, with a hatred of knaves, free, authoritative, bold in purpose, braggarts, great-souled, inconstant, irregular, haughty, up-in-the-air, threatening, quickly changing, well-off. When the rulers are well situated and testified to by benefics, the natives become kingly, powerful, and have the power of life and death. Aries is watery in nature, full of thunder, hail. More particularly, the first parts up to the equipartite [place] are full of thunderstorms, hail, wind, and destruction; the middle parts up to the 15th degree are temperate, [while the following parts are scorching and especially pestilential] for quadrupeds. This zoidion has 19 bright stars. And it has 13 bright stars through the belt, 27 shadowy ones, 28 underbright bright ones, and 48 faint ones. The first part of Perseus from the northern regions co-rises with it, as does the remaining parts and the left part of Auriga, and from the south the back fin and tail of the Sea Monster. From the north, the [feet] of Bootes set. From the south, the remainder of Lupus. These zones are subject to Aries: the front, Babylonia;'the head, Elymais; the right, Persia; the left, the vale of Syria and the contiguous places; for the curve of the face, Babylonia; for the breast, Armenia; under the shoulders, Thrace; for the bcliy, Cappadocia and Susa and the Red Sea and Rhypara; the hind parts, Egypt and the Persian Ocean. Taurus is feminine, solid, lying in the spring tropic, bony, rising from the hind-parts, setting upright, of which the greatest part lies in the invisible cosmos. It is the wealth-bringing zoidion of the cosmos, earthy, rural, pertaining to freedmen, descending, unprolific, semi-vocal and mute, good, unchangeable, industrious, incomplete, significant for foundations, acquisitions. The ecliptic circle lies in the north, rising at some distance. Those born in this zoidion will be good, versed in a handicraft, hard-working, good at preserving things, pleasure loving, music loving, generous, while
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some of them will be husbandmen, planters, builders. And if the bencfics should somehow incline toward this place, or also, if the ruler should be well-situated, they will become archpriests, and gymnasiarchs, those who are deemed worthy of crowns and purple, of images and siatues, those who stand in the forefronl of priests, notable, bright. It is a calm zoidion. By parts: From the 1st degree up to the 5th degree, the place round the Pleiades, it is undistinguished, destructive, pestilential, thunder-causing, productive of earthquakes and thunderbolts rind generative of lightning. The next 2 degrees are fiery, and full of log; the parts on the right near Auriga are temperate, cooling; the parts on the left are undistinguished and excite motion, and are sometimes chilling, other times scorching; the head up to the 23rd degree has temperate aii, but pestilential and destructive of living beings; the [following] axe destructive, undistinguished, full of pestilence. It has 27 stars, the remaining part of Auriga co-rising from the north, the_ remainder of the Sea Monster and the first part of Eridanus co-rising from the south. It is of Aphrodite, Selene, Demeter, Ares, Hermes. Bootes as far as (he belt and [the shoulders] of Ophiuchus as far as the knees set from the north. Orion, who has a sword set up in his right hand, [co-rises] from the south. On the left dwells the so-called Herald, who is sitting in the middle of the body. The zones subject to it are: for the head, Media and the contiguous places; with respect to the breast, Babylonia; the part near Auriga, the right side of Scythia; the Pleiades, Cyprus; the left side, Arabia and the nearby places; for the shoulders, Persia and the Caucasian mountains; under the hump, [Sarmatia]; under the loins, Ethiopia; under the horns, Carthage; with respect to the middle parts, Armenia, India, Germania. Gemini is masculine, bicorporeal, euphonious, the house of Hermes, ascending, airy, effeminate, pertaining to freedmen, barren, public. Those so born, then, become fond of discourse, those who work with letters and education, poetic, lovers of music, teachers of the use of the voice, capable in matters of household management, those who receive trust. They also become interpreters, those with an aptitude for commerce, critics of good and bad, prudent, curious, initiates in occult matters. And all the things that the ruler is at times accustomed to produce by its own nature, whether good or base, or lesser or greater, each one of the zoidia will also produce according to whether the figure-description of its ruler is operative or unprofitable, in order that we should not to seem to be writing the same matters. It is a calm zoidion. By parts: The 3 degrees are undistinguished, destructive. From the 3rd to the 7th, mildly wet. It is temperate from the 7th to the 15th. The south is mildly wet. The last degrees are mixed. It has 21 stars. It lies in the west wind. In accordance with the doctrine of spherics, the tail of the Sea Monster, which touches at some part of the southern pans, lies next to it. From the parts mat occur toward the south within the line to the south is Satyr, touching [the club], the skin of which is actually seen from behind from its southern parts. Lyra lies toward the northern part, Gemini has stepped upon the southern line, being the middle of the north and south. Under its feet upon the southern line is the so-called Dog in front of the right foot, and it is cut by the southern pole from its hind parts up to its head, mounting up vertically with the pole. The remainder of Eridanus and Orion co-rise from the south. The gods Apollo, Heracles. Hephaistos, Hera, and Kronos associate with them. Bootes sets from the north, as does Ophiuchus except for the head, and half of Corona as well.
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These zones are subject to Gemini: the front, India and the contiguous places, and Celtica; the breast, Sicily, Galatia, Thrace, and Boeotia; the middle, Egypt, Libya, the Roman region, Arabia, Syria. Cancer is the house of the Moon, feminine, tropical, Horoskopos of the cosmos, slavish, descending, mute, watery, good, changeable, public, popular, civil, prolific, amphibious. Those so born, then, will be fond of repute, popular, changeable, theatrical, cheerful, fond of pleasure and entertaining, public, inconstant in knowledge, saying one thing but thinking another, those who do not remain with one activity or two for long, who end up wandering and sojourning abroad. Cancer is a calm zoidion. By parts: For the first two south-easterly stars it is undistinguished, destructive, stifling, and productive of earthquakes. From these up to the 10th degree it makes the air very wet, scorching, having a downpour of water and continuous thunder-storms. The parts on the right are undistinguished and destructive. The Hare and the foreparts of the Dog and Procyon co-rise from the south. It has 4 stars. It is a zoidion of Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Pan, Aphrodite. The head of Bootes sets from the north, as weil as the star in the knees, and Aquila and half of Corona. These are subject to Cancer: the front, Bactria; the left, Zacynthus, Acarnania; the hind parts, Ethiopia, Schine; for the head, the Sea of Azof and the nations dwelling around it, the Red Sea, the Hyrcanian Sea, the Hellespont, the Libyan Sea, Brittanica, and the island of Thoule; for the feet, Armenia, Cappadocia, Rhodes, Cos; for the last parts of Cancer upon the belly; Troglodytia, Ionia, Hellespont. Leo is masculine, the house of the Sun, free, fiery, well-tempered, noetic, kingly, sedentary, good, ascending, changeable, solid, authorita- tive, civil, originative, irascible. Those so born are notable, good, unchangeable, just, hating work, insubordinate, despising flatten', beneficent, puffed up with intentions. If the ruler should happen to be upon a pivot point or should be with benefics, they will become bright, esteemed, tyrannical, kingly. It is scorching. The bright star in the breast is fiery and stifling. It is, by parts, up to the 10th degree, stifling, pestilential for quadrupeds in the underlying zones and places. The parts on the right excite motion and are fiery. The parts in the south are mildly wet. The lower parts are deadly for all. The parts in the middle and on the left are temperate. Leo has ... stars. According to the doctrine of spherics, the left arm of Bootes co-rises from the north. The stern of Argo and the remainder of the Dog co-rise from the south, as does the remainder of Hydra, whose tail ties alongside as far as the claw of Scorpio, but the head as far as claw of Cancer. Above it stands the Lesser Bear, and the head of Serpens, which Ophiuchos holds, stretches down along the line. Dolphin, Lyra, and Zeugma, Cygnus, except for the bright star on its rump, and the head of Pegasus set from the north. These zones are subject to Leo: in the head, Celtica and the contiguous places; the foreparts, Bithynia; the right side, Macedonia and the contiguous places; the left side, Proponds; the feet, Galatia; for the belly, Celtica; to the shoulders, Thrace; to the flanks, Phoenicia, the Adriatic, Libya; in the middle, Phrygia, Syria; lo the tail, Pisinous.
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Virgo is the house of Hermes, feminine, winged, human in form, fastidious, set in the shape of Justice, bicorporeal, barren, pertaining to freedman, unfruitful, descending, earthy, common, semi-vocal and mute, corporeal, incomplete, changeable, pertaining to those who practice a handicraft, dualnatured. Those who are so born are good, modest, involved with the mysteries, full of care, those who lead a diverse life, managers of the property of others, faithful, good at domestic affairs, writers, those who are supported by speeches and calculations, hypocritical, curious, initiates into occult matters, those who spend their initial resources but prosper in middle age. Libra is the house of Aphrodite, masculine, tropical, human in form, ascending, airy, effeminate, vocal, good, changeable, diminishing of one's belongings, the subterraneous zoidion of the cosmos, public, a place for eclipses, productive of fruits, wines, olives, unguents, of balances, measures, pertaining to those who practice handicrafts. Those so born are good and just, though malicious, desirous of the goods of others, moderate, those who lose what they have first acquired and those who have their ups and downs, those who live irregularly, those who oversee measures and weights or supplies. Scorpio is the house of Ares, feminine, solid, watery, prolific, destructive, descending, mute, slavish, unchangeable, cause of foul smells. subtractive of one's belongings, a place for eclipses, diverse. Those so born are treacherous, knavish, rapacious, murderous: traitors, unchangeable, those who arc liable to have their belongings taken away, secretive plotters, thieves, perjured, desirous of die things of others, privy to murders or sorcery or malicious doings, haters of their own families. Sagittarius is the house of Zeus, masculine, fiery, ascending, vocal, very watery because of Argo, good, winged, changeable, bicorporeal, dual- natured, enigmatical, barren, semi-complete, authoritative, kingly. Those so born are good, just, great-souled, critical, generous, fond of brothers and friends, those who diminish what they first acquired but acquire them again, those who prevail over enemies, lovers of reputation, versatile, notable, those who weave matters in a riddling fashion Capricorn is the house of Kronos, feminine, tropical, earthy, destructive. unfruitful, descending, chilled, rnute, cause of evils, licentious, servile. enigmatical, dual-natured, very watery, semi-complete, a zoidion for hunchbacks and cripples, the setting of the cosmos, indicator of toil and trouble, a zoidion for stone-cutters and farmers. Those so born will be bad, of different sorts, good and simple at exposition, hardworking, full of care, sleepless, fond of laughter planners of great works, those who make bad mistakes, fickle, mischievous, liars, culpable, shameful. It is temperate toward both sides. By parts, the first parts are destructive; the second very wet, having to do with thunder-storms, exciting motion; the middle parts are fiery; the last parts are destructive. It has ... stars. According to the doctrine of spherics, Cassiopia and the right side of Pegasus rise from the north. The rear of Centaurus and the
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claws of Hydra as far as the Cup set from the south. The gods are Aphrodite, Selene, Demeter, Hermes. There is nothing from the north. These zones are subject to Capricorn: the West and all the South, for the ribs, the Aegean Sea and the nations dwelling around it and Corinth; for the belt, Sicyon; for the back, the Great Sea; for the tail, Iberia; for the head, the Tyrrhenic Sea; for the belly, the middle ol Egypt, Syria. Aquarius is a masculine zoidion in the heavens, solid, human in shape, pertaining to waterside trades, one of a kind; it is mute, very cold, free, ascending, effeminate, unchangeable, bad, barren, cause of troubles tlirough struggle, or of burdens and working in hard materials, pertaining to those who practice handicrafts, public. Those so born are malicious and haters of their own families, unchangeable, single-minded, deceitful, treacherous, those who conceal everything, misanthropists, impious, accusers, betrayers of opinion and truth, begrudging, concerned with trifles, at times generous through the efflux of water, incontinent. It is entirely wet. The first parts are very wet, the upper parts fiery, the lower parts undistinguished and unserviceable. It has ... stars. According to the doctrine of spherics, some of the middle part of the right side of Andromeda co-rises from the north, as well as the remainder of Pegasus. The southern fish of Pisces except for the head corises from the south. It is of Hera, Heracles, Hephaistos, Kronos. Nothing sets from the north, but the remainder of Centaurus and the remainder of Hydra as far as Corvus set from the south. According to the doctrine of spherics, the river down to the south pole, the so-called Eridanus, lies near it; also the great Fish which touches the tail of Capricorn. The so-called Cygnus is in the northern places within the north pole, beyond which stretches Sagitta, where the so-called Bear is looking closely at the Dog's Tail toward the north, [These zones lie near to it:) The zoidion lies in the west wind. It lies near the zone of Egypt and the nearby cities. From its southern parts as far as Pselcheus and Dodekaschonos and Sycammon, from the parts toward the west as far as the Ammoniac region and the nearby cities, from the parts to the east as far as the Red Sea which it touches, from the parts to the north of it as far as the places of Sebennytus and the mouth of Heraclea. [These zones are subject to Aquarius:] the front, Syria; the middle, Euphrates and Tigris, Egypt and Libya and the contiguous rivers of Egypt and the Indus river; for the middle of the pitcher, Tanais and the remaining rivers from the Hyperborei flowing to the southwest. Pisces is a feminine zoidion in the heavens, very wet, pertaining to waterside trades, bicorporeal, prolific, full of eruptions, scaly, sinewy, humped, leprous, of twin form, mute, restless, rough, opposed to itself because of being both in the south and in the north. It is also very wet, descending, slavish, changeable, prolific, bicorporeal, sociable, mutilated, a cause of wandering, complicated. Those so born are inconstant, of two minds, those who change from bad to good, erotic, servile, licentious, prolific, popular. It is entirely cooling, full of breezes. By parts, the first are temperate; the middle, very wet; the last, destructive and undistinguished.
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It has ... stars. The remaining parts of Andromeda and the remainder of Perseus on the right side and the Triangle beyond Aries co-rise from the north, while the head of the southern fish of Pisces co-rises from the south. It is of Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Aphrodite, Zeus. Ara and the remaining parts of Hydra set from the south, white nothing sets from the north. It lies near the north wind. It iies near the zone of the Red Sea, which has not a few islands along it, beyond which India and the so-called Indian Ocean He. In its eastern parts it touches Parthia and the Indian region and the Eastern Ocean. From its northern parts it touches the Scythian region. From the parts toward the West it touches the Mouse harbor and the harbor of Orthos and the nearby cities. In accordance with the doctrine of spherics, there lies near to the northern part of Pisces Aquila which is cut by the north pole and for a certain part Sagitta, but within the north pole not much is divided. The so-called Pegasus is within the arctic pole. The arctic pole, lying in the middle of everything, is far from the whole sections, having in itself the Bear that carries the so-called Dog's Tail from the north to the east, at times also from the south, and the other so-called Great Bear which rises in the middle of the night. The so-called Bootes holds them fast while carrying a peritasis for the two Bears. It is invisible for the issuing forth of the two Bears; for, the one looks directly at the north, the other at tie south. These am the zones the middle, Syria, contiguous places; Borysthenes'river; Sardinia.
subject to it by part; the front, Euphrates and Tigris; Red Sea, the Indian Sea, the middle of Persia and the [under the back], the Arabian Sea and the for the knot, in the north Thrace, in the south, Asia and
3. Concerning the Sixty Boundaries The first 6 degrees of Aries, those of Zeus, are temperate, robust, abundant in seed, benefic. The 6 degrees of Aphrodite are cheerful, skillful, radiant, even, pure, well-colored. The 8 degrees possessed by Hermes are anbiguous, changeable and well-grown, immovable, windy, full of hail ard thunder, hurling thunderbolts. The 5 degrees of Ares are bearers of destruction, intensely hot, unstable due to the mischief of men, or rash and ... The next 5 degrees of Kronos are very cold, [barren], malcious, injurious. The first 8 degrees of Taurus, those of Aphrodite, are abundant in seed, prolific, wet, prone to vice, allowing of conviction, hating strife. The next 6 degrees of Hermes are sagacious, prudent, mischievous, deficient in seed, shortsighted, death-bringing. The next 8 degrees of Zeus are high minded, manly, fortunate, pertaining to rulers and benefactors, great souled, temperated, modesty-loving. The fourth group of degrees, the 5 of Knnos, are very barren, sterile, pertaining to eunuchs, vagabond, blameworthy, theatrical, joyless, toilsome. The final 3 degrees, those of Ares, are masculine, tyrannical, fiery, harsh, murderous, sacrilegious, thoroughly depraved, but not unnotablc, except that they are destructive and not long lived. The first 6 degrees of Gemini, those of Hermes, are temperate, mild, sagacious, skillful, knowledgeable, practical, sung about, abundant in seed. The next 6 degrees of Zeus are contentious, temperate, mild, abundant in seed, well-fed, beneficent. The 3rd group of degrees, the 5 of Aphrodite, are flowery, musical, acroamatic, poetic, crown-wearing, popular, merry, abundant in seed. The 4th group of degrees, those 7 of Ares, are toilsome, brotherless,
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with few children, staying at home, resourceful destructive, raw, meddlesome. Finally, the next group of degrees, the 6 of Kronos, are temperate, administrative, acquisitive, noetic, erudite, notable, distinguished in sagacity, able to succeed at great things, highly esteemed. The first 7 degrees of Cancer, those of Arcs, have to do with the hurling of thunderbolts, and are distracted, irregular, of contrary purpose, full of madness, abundant in seed, lacking, destructive, bad for completion. The next 6 degrees of Aphrodite are abundant in seed, blameworthy, pure, changeable, artistic, popular and mixed .of many types. The following 6 degrees are precisely those of Hermes, thievish, leading in public matters, pertaining lo tax-fanning, popular, resourceful, bring surplus. The fourth group of degrees, the 7 of Zeus, are kingly, autonomous, esteemed, litigious, high-minded, temperate, pertaining to rulers and the good of the whole. The final degrees, the 4 of Kronos - since the whole is water - are very wet and lacking in properties and deficient for accomplishment. The first 6 degrees of Leo, those of Zeus, are experienced, masculine, autonomous, always domineering, practical, eminent, having no depression. The next 5 degrees, those of Aphrodite, are rather temperate, consecrated, very wise, devoted to enjoyment. The third group of degrees, the 7 of Kronos, are much experienced, timid, natural, well-grown, narrow, secret, with many children, inquisitive about occult matters, but [barren} and unsown. The next degrees, the 6 of Hermes, are acroamatic, popular, professional, [educative], legal, sagacious - these are also unsown, but of long-lived men. The final degrees, the 6 of Ares, are most base, monstrous, destructive, injurious, slothful, blameworthy and unfortunate. The first 7 degrees of Virgo, those of Hermes, are most-exalted, administrative, very orderly, quite wise, fitting, ordaining great things, most sagacious, noble and eminent in all things, unfortunate only in regard to matters of love - in general the whole of Virgo, but especially these degrees and those of Aphrodite; for, these degrees are open to accusation, while those of Aphrodite go astray in all things. They especially yield eminence in education. The next 10 degrees of Aphrodite are blameworthy, erring in matters of marriage, encountering bad things because of these, fortunate in theatrical matters, most shameful in relation to the passions, especially when Kronos is co-testifying, and they pertain to adulterers when Hermes is co-testifying, and to a multitude of errors combined when Zeus is co-testifying, and furthermore condemnations and clandestine actions when the Sun is, deterrents and political oppositions when the Moon is, and if it should be seen by the malefics, it causes prostitution. The third degrees, the 4 of Zeus, are fond of farming, fitting, of those who have withdrawn, not uneducated; they are also protective and abundant in seed and preservative. The fourth degrees, the 7 of Ares, are male, harsh, popular, crowd-pleasing and wandering about at night, secretive, counterfeiting, adventitious. These degrees themselves commit outrages on men and lead them into bondage and mutilation and tortures and custody. The remaining 2 degrees of Kronos are monstrous, very cold, destructive, short-lived, of men who are defrauded. The first 6 degrees of Libra, those of Kronos, are kingly, exalted, practical, and especially so by day, but overly exacting by night; they are sterile, very wet, destructive. The next 5 degrees of Hermes are mercantile, pertaining to handicrafts, commercial, able to draw up contracts and to total up numbers; in general, legally correct, sagacious. The third gro'ip of degrees, the 8 of Zeus, are productive of wealth, but at least when Zeus is upon them, they are degrees of ill-faring, joyless, degrees of things being hoarded, of insignificant and sordid life, with no love of beauty, of the
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censorious, nor even blest with children. The 4th group, the 7 degrees of Aphrodite, are those of the love of beauty, love of the arts, or even those of artistry (for example, plastering, painting, relief carving; in general, they arc degrees of those who are rhythmical, religious, mild, who gradually have good foitune, who advance by their own efforts, and those who are greatly fortunate in the area of marriage, being blest in every regard. The remaining 4 degrees, those of Ares, are of those who are dominant, of squadron commanders, of those who are fortunate in such matters and in every art of Ares, and of the easy-going and the steadfast and those who hold fast and of the high-minded, but not of those who are favored in their brothers or those with many brothers. The first 7 degrees of Scorpio, those of Ares, are uproarious, fickle, inconstant, irascible, free of speech, high-minded, with few children, many brothers, irregular in fortune, extremely fiery, fit for births related to military service and going away from home. The next 4, those of Aphrodite, are degrees of those fortunate in marriage, of the religious, of those loved by all, of those who love of the arts, of those well-provided, of those chosen by all, of sweet life, The third degrees, the 8 of Hermes, are those pertaining to arms, contentious, degrees of those who bear crowns and of those who are sharp of speech, of matters pertaining to contest, of those who are not to be despised; these are also abundant in seed, and in general, degrees of those who are busy with thoughts of mischief, especially in respect of those who seek to tempt or those who perpetrate wickednesses. The 4th group, the 5 of Zeus, are degrees of the resourceful, the fortunate, of archpriests, of those being distinguished with gold, with purple, with offices in accordance with the specific magnitude of the births, of the beneficent; in general, of those who love man and the gods. Finally, the 6 of Kronos are degrees of the punitive, of those with few children, with few brothers, of those who hate their own families, of poisoners, of the melancholic, of misogynists, of those having hidden injuries; in general, of the most punitive, of the most querulous; they are also hated by gods and by men, they offer resistance to those in authority, and they are despised by those of low estate. The first 12 degrees of Sagittarius, those of Zeus, are degrees of practical men; they are wet along with being temperate, quite versatile in every art and activity, abundant in seed and with many children and many brothers, but poor. The next 5 degrees of Aphrodite are temperate, esteemed, conducive to victory, crown-bearing, religious, degrees of those who are honored by men in crowds and by rulers, graced with children and brothers, used to being more around women. The third group, the 4 of Hermes, are degrees of lovers of discourse, of the eccentric, of the practical, of those born with a title for life, of philosophers - in general, of those who are preeminent in knowledge and wisdom, of those fond of learning when Hermes should incline [toward it], fond of weapons and tactics when Ares should so incline. The next 5 of Kronos inflict, are sterile and injurious, very cold, hurtful, degrees of base men and those who are unfortunate in everything. The next 4 of Ares are fervid, foolhardy, haughty, shameless, destructive, except that they are those who are restless in everything; all the degrees in Sagittarius are diverse in all things. The first 7 degrees of Capricorn, those of Hermes, are theatrical, satyr-like, imitative, mendacious, pertaining to prostitutes, given to pandering, desirous of the things of others, and disreputable, though well-disposed for everything and agreeable and successful, yet not proud. The next 7 degrees of Zeus are those that make for ups and downs of reputation and disrepute, of wealth and poverty, of charitable contributions and theatrical displays,
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sterile degrees, with a tendency to female or monstrous offspring, petty, private. The next 8 degrees of Aphrodite are those of the hopeless, of the lecherous and vice-prone, without judgment, culpable, changeable in relation to goals, neither dying well nor sound in the area of marriage. The fourth group of degrees, the 4 of Kronos, are severe, cheerless, eccentric, unfortunate in children, and in brothers, crude, destructive, exceeding cold, incompatible, malicious, inclined to procrastination, treacherous. The final group of degrees, the 4 of Ares, are exalted, authoritative, tyrannical, degrees that confer hegemony over everything, poor in relatives and homicidal, fond of travelling, fond of solitude, contentious to the end. The first 7 degrees of Aquarius, those of Hermes, are for the wealthy, the lovers of treasure, those who contentedly save up against the mediocrity of birth, degrees of the intelligent, the legalistic, those who give an exact accounting of everything, those who are commanding, small-souled, care-laden, those who love children and are highly skilled in every art, degrees of the administrative, the economical, the philanthropist. The next six degrees of Aphrodite are of those who are wel! loved, of the religious, of those who are successful without trouble, degrees of those who have strokes of good luck, of the successful, of those given to seafaring; these are the prolific degrees, but it happens that he who is born in them copulates with old or diseased women or eunuchs, while be is advanced by those without seed or those who have succeeded. The next 7 degrees, those of Zeus, are fortunate, concerned with trifles, stay-at-home, not caring about reputation, without ostenta- tion, blest with children, not fond of one's brothers. The next 5 of Ares are injurious (especially in the middle), are occupied with lawsuits, degrees of worthless men, of the feeble, of those who fail, except that they are degrees of those who quickly set their hand to villainy. The remaining 5 of Kronos are sterile, very wet, difficult of conception, injurious (and especially for membranes and the forms inside and dropsy and convulsions) lacking, with few brothers, few children, envious, not fortunate up to the end. The first degrees of Pisces, the 12 of Aphrodite, are cheerful, abundant in seed, prone to vice, dedicated to enjoyment, living pleasantly, hilarious, lovable, agreeable, seeing to one's own advancement, dear to the gods. The next 4 of Zeus are those of the lover of discourse, of the scientific, of those who are conspicuous in a crowd and those who prevail over all in arguments, the degrees for having many brothers, degrees which are prolific, with many children, with extra limbs, with a huge number of brothers. The next 3 of Hermes are abundant in seed, the first of those held in honor, bounteous, fond of nurture, merciful, god-loving, temperate. The next 10 of Ares are practical, for sea battles, guides, and pleasantly cool, poetic concerning the things that cannot be said, rapacious and yet generous, diverse, not dying a natural death. The final degrees, the 2 of Kronos, are injurious, very wet, convulsive, unfortunate in every regard. Having set out in an instructive manner, then, what it produces for each single degree, when its ruler lies upon it, it eill produce its base or good property. And now we will do an exposition of the Horoscokopos.
19. Concerning the Commixtures of the Stars
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We will also subjoin the co-presences and commixtures of each star. So when Kronos and Zeus are present together, then, they arc sympathetic to each other, producing benefits from legacies, adoptions, lords of real estate, trustees, administrators of the property of others, heads of the household, tax-collectors. Kronos and Ares, then, are hostile, productive of deterrents and demolition. For, they introduce seditions at home and malevolences and enmities, slaves and plots and malefactions and accusations (except that if they fall in their own ididia or in profitable zoidia,3 and they are witnessed by benefics, they furnish notable and bright nativities), unreliability in prosperity, and unexpected dangers or betrayals. Kronos and Hermes, then, are harmonious and practical, except they inlroduce slanders concerning private matters, accusations and debts, disturbances because of legal documents or monies paid, those who are neither helpless nor witless, those who are highly experienced and erudite or prescient, fond of learning, curios, initiates of the misteries, those who are pious toward the divine, those who have a bad conscience. Kronos and Aphrodite, then, are harmonious for occupations, shrewd at weaving and fitting things together, sympathetic and beneficial not to all die way to the end, but only for a certain length of time, whereupon they produce censures and separations and instabilities or death, and often times they produce those who cause the lack of issue or even entanglements in public matters, and those who encounter harm or accusations. Kronos and the Moon, then, arc beneficial, able to procure possessions and foundations, productive of benefit from voyages and from fatality, especially when the Moon should happen to be making its course from rising' and should be witnessed by benefics. For, it produces alliances with superiors and gifts and the lessening of enmities, except that it produces unreliability in getting things, and instabilities in the area concerning the wife, and those who are dispirited through certain separations and hatreds and sorrows. It also introduces bodily suffering and sudden seizures and painful sensations of the predominant places or the sinews, and the deaths of necessary persons. Kronos and the Sun, then, are disharmonious, furnishing jealousies over possessions and deprivation of friends, whence, those who are born under such a position, harboring secret enmities and threats toward superior persons, and being designed against by some, go through their lives invidiously up to the very end; and, gaining advantage by pretence,3 they prevail over most, except that they are with resources; and they are easily disturbed and longsuffering, self-controlied when adversity is inflicted upon them. When Zeus and the Sun, then, are together, they produce those who are brilliant, esteemed, sovereign, dominant, tyrannical, capable, honored and well spoken of by the crowd, but successful and wealthy and those who arrange things with the most ostentation, except that, for certain periods, when the star reverses opinion with irregularities and jealousies and (especially it should also be found to have just set) greater ostentations, it causes truths. Zeus and the Moon, then, are good, acquisitive, producing masters of ornament and of bodies, and furnishing notable leaders and those who are helped by women and notable persons, those who have kindnesses done to them by relatives or children, and those who are deemed worthy of gifts or honors, those entrusted with the guarding of money or those who are loaned large sums, and the finders of treasures, those good at business.
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Zeus, Ares - those who are esteemed, full of ostentation, friends of their superiors or of kings, those who are military, notable, and recipients of stipends, those who make a life in civic or military affairs, and those deemed worthy of honor and repute, buf who have irregularities in their life and habits and throw away what they have acquired. Zeus and Aphrodite are good, harmonious, procurative of repute and benefits, promoting further acquisitions, gifts, ornaments, mastery of bodies, begetting of children, archpriestships, position at the head of the crowd, the wearing of crowns and of gold, those being deemed worthy of statues and images, but they produce irregularities concerning marriage and children. Zeus and Hermes are good, harmonious, administrative; they produce managers of things, those who become trustees or financial managers, those who are fit to be guardians, those who make their living from arguments and calculations, and those who are distinguished in education, but dear to many and easy to befriend, those who are deemed worthy of reward and stipend. And if they should be found in profitable zoidia, they also produce finders of treasures and those who are helped in loans [by deposits]. Aphrodite and the Sun are harmonious and likely [to occur] and bestowers of good things, bringing about unions of male and female, gifts and enrollments, and those who are successful in their plans; at times [they produce] those who accept popular preferments or assume trusteeships, ind (hose who stand in the forefront in other areas, and those who are deemed worthy of stipends, but who are also not without sorrow in the area concerning wife and children, and especially if the star should happen to be have just set. Aphrodite and the Moon are good for reputation and acquisitions and for the instigation of matters, but unstable for cohabitations and friendships and wedlock, bringing in rivalries and enmities and the malefactions of relatives or the upheavals of friends, and similarly also it is not good for the area concerning children or the body, making one's acquisitions transitory and introducing mental distress. Aphrodite and Ares are disharmonious; for, they produce those who are inconstam and impotent in their resolves, those who are jealous and murderous, but dear to all or culpable, shameful, fickle and indifferent to the couplings of male and female, those who are acquainted with villainy or sorcery, those who abide neither the good or the base, those who are reproached and reviled for their friendships, liberal in expense, those who just scratch the surface of their occupations and lust after many things, those who are wronged by females or those who suffer from accusations and upheavals and indebtedness on their account. Aphrodite and Hermes are harmonious; for, they make those who are sociable, fond of their friends and fond of pleasure, those who have their mind on education and temperance, and those who receive honors and gifts, while for those who have come into a little luck, they produce receipts and purchases and commercial dealings and impart a shameful mode of living, and in the area that concerns the wife, it produces those who are unstable and indifferent and fickle about the marriage. Hermes and the Sun make those who are dear to ail and those who are have a good verbal delivery, those who have diverse and even sovereign concerns in civil areas, those who are cleanly, very wise, critical, admirerers of fine things, erudite, initiates of divine matters, beneficent, fond of one's own associates, self-reliant, braggarts, those who bear the accidents of fortune nobly, those who are ineffective at achieving fame and irregular in their
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mode of living, with ups and downs, not helpless, but climbing up in accordance with the support of their birth. Hermes and the Moon are good for the unions and reputations of males and females, and for the power of speech and education, and for the other such undertakings and commercial dealings; they produce those who are social and mechanical and highly experienced and curious, and those who are led on by greater goals, those who are restless and do not stick long with activities or resolves for the future, those who are noble in relation to things base, but irregular in their mode of living. Hermes and Ares are not good, producing enmities, accusations, oppositions, maligning, betrayals, and those who are wronged by their betters or their own underlings, and some who are athletic, militant or leaders, those who are beneficent, curious, those who go about their lives in diverse fashion; but, falling into scandals with pledges and loans, they engage in forgeries for the sake of stealing, raping, and plundering, or they resort to screaming. But if the figure should somehow be afflicted, those who are held responsible or in complicity experience the loss or reduction of what they have acquired. The Sun and the Moon are good; for, they procure alliances with superiors and reputations, the acquisition of foundations and possessions and money and ornament, and the things that are opportune and useful for the application of things. And if the support should be great, those who are fit for the rule of cities will be born, those who are set over things, those who stand at the head of the crowd, those with great imagination, those who are munificent, dominant, tyrannical, insubordinate, those who possess the kingly estate and mind or those who climb up from a modest fortune and upon becoming prosperous are pronounced truly happy, unless the good fortune does not belong lastingly to such people because of the waning figure of the Moon. [The combinations of Ares and the Sun, and Ares and the Moon are lacking in the text.]
Commixture of Three Stars [The combinations missing from this chapter are Kronos/Sun/Moon, Kronos/Hermes/Sun, Kronos/Hermes/Moon.] Kronus, Zeus, and the Sun - are irregular and unreliable for acquisitions and friendships and the remaining applications of things (for, they cause the throwing away of what has been acquired and those who encounter invidious allegations), and they point to benefits from unexpected sources or from mortalities, enhancing purity of reputation or perfecting the reasons for it, while they point to unexpected dangers and plots; and they produce leaderships and executorships, tributes or rents from the things of others, on whose account they furnish disturbances or judgments, and support which is irregular and timid. Kronos, Zeus, the Moon - are harmonious, procuring reputation and benefits and alliances with superiors and gifts, but they come to live abroad and they make a success of their activities (not only their own but those of others) upon foreign soil or with the help of foreigners; and they are shown kindness from females and, coming into possession of foundations, they are masters of regions; some, then, getting into the shipping trade, increase their livelihood, or manage their livelihood by pursuing all the trades that are united by water.
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Kronos, Zeus, Ares produce commixtures of good things, some who are esteemed, fit to be arcbpriests, dominant, fit to be guardians, those who stand at the forefront of crowds and regions or military affairs, those who exhort and those who are heard, not so much those who do honor to the fantasy of life, but those who are tossed and turned by impediments and accusations and violent matters, and those who pass their lives in fear, yet they do produce some who have conferred honor upon the reality of life, and those who are masters of possessions and foundations, and those who have benefited from deaths, but those who are inferior in reputation - whence, the matters will be judged from the setting in the places - and the energies of the zoidia. Kronos, Zeus, Aphrodite are good and beneficial for occupations, acquisitive, producing unions of male and female and friendships and promotions, as well as kindnesses from the dead, and in the matter of intercourse producing those who are malicious and jealous and irregular about wedlock, those who experience difficulties for a time and enmities and judgments, except they are fond of society and easy to live with, those who take delight in novelty and many friendships, but in the matter concerning children and the body they are not those who are steadfast through ail, nor do they endure without distress. When Kronos, Zeus, Hermes are configured, they produce those who are practical, economical, trusty, those who stand at the forefront of crowds, those who exhort and those who are heard, managers of money and those who set things right; and such people arc those possessing a frank and polished manner, who, at times appearing villainous and knavish, will become desirous of the things of others and recommend themselves and claim more than is their due, on which account they experience disturbances and judgments and indebtedness and popular scandals; at other times comporting themselves with a healthy enthusiasm for their work, and being held in trust, they receive benefits, and having been deemed worthy of gifts and honors by their superiors, and if they should possess a figure that is generous, they will be a benefactor to their own superiors and those of others, and they will participate in the mysteries and the secrets of others, and though curious about the remainder, those who display this area will have their minds aimed at simplicity. Kronos and Ares and the Sun are indicative of violent and alien and dangerous matters; for, they produce those who are rash and ambitious in their occupations, who are villainous, impious, traitors, insubordinate, those who hate their own families, those who are parted from them, those who dwell with another tribe, those who engage in insults and hazardous activity, those who undergo falls from heights or from quadrupeds or have fears about burning, those who are laborious in their undertakings, not looking out for what they have acquired, those who are desirous of the things of others, those who profit by villainous means, unless the figure should happen to be military or athletic, and then it is full of toil, but not ineffective. Kronos, and Ares and the Moon produce those who arc reckless about throwing themselves into their work, and those who are high- minded but ineffective in their occupations and those diverted by impediments and by violent matters. For, they become violent, solitary, villainous, rapacious, those who have a piratical manner, those who encounter apologies or judgments, those who make a proof of constant accusations unless the native should somehow happen to be fond of the gymnasium or fond of weapons in order that the figure of the oppres- sion may be placated and kept at bay in this manner. Some, then, if they are also subject to injury, or emotional, will have a violent end. Kronos, Ares, Aphrodite are serviceable for occupations and friendships or reconciliations on behalf of rulers, producing benefits, reputation and
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alliances, while they later become easily disturbed and subject to legal proceedings because of certain rivalries and betrayals, on account of which they make accusations and harbor enmities toward male and female persons and are diverted into shameful and adulterous behavior, and they are subject to scandals and exposures. Some, then, pay no heed to illegal and indiscriminate unions, while, becoming accomplices or being involved in plots of villainy and sorcery, they experience no ordinary fear. Kronos, Ares, Hermes produce villainies and slaves, judgments and disturbances; they are those who, after having been upset with securities and loans on account of legal documents or mystical matters, experience struggles which do not go right and reductions; otherwise, they produce those who are sharp and quite sagacious about occupations, those whose lives are complex, and those who are reviled by some because of certain violent or illegal actions; so there are times, then, when they are also engaged in laborious or dangerous activities, and when they encounter poverty, they blame their own luck, and they blaspheme the gods or they become forsworn and impious. And if the stars should fall improperly, they make for accusations and oppressions, but if they are in profitable places or should happen to be in their own places, then those who undergo a struggle beyond all others will prevail over most, or those who have also been helped by arguments or calculations or military service will add to their livelihood. Kronos, Aphrodite, the Sun are indicative of alliances with superiors and of honors and of occupations, and they are the causes of distinction and popular preeminence; but they are actually transitory in relation to possession and other such items; they divert things into irregularity, and the dissolve friendships, and they make for the reduclion of livelihood and exposures or fines on account of female personages, betrayals of secret matters, while they make those who are unreliable and indiscriminate in the matters of wedlock and intercourse. Kronos, Aphrodite, the Moon bring in irregularities and instabilities in one's life, and especially in the area concerning wife and mother and children; for, they inflict a bad disposition and lack of grace, and furthermore rivalries and factions, separations, faults, exposures, lawless unions, and concerning occupations they make those who are not helpless, but who have acumen and engage in acquisition, those who are helped by mortalities, except that they do not take care, but are plotted against by many, or who are even accomplices to villainy or sorcery, seducers of women. Kronos, Aphrodite, Hermes produce those who are sagacious, intellectual, naturally clever at instigating activity, and shrewd, but those whose initial enthusiasm for their work does not last, but who quickly become desirous of other employment, those who are very learned, curious, diverse, medical, those who lake delight in novelty and change and the exotic. If the figure should be afflicted when these planets are so situated, or Ares should regard it, they will encounter disturbances and judgments on account of sorcery or females or allegations about deaths, or even, undergoing injustice at the hands of women, they submit to a reduction of their livelihood and noxious accusations; in general, they will become unreliable and distressed in areas concerning wife and children and body. Zeus, the Sun, the Moon produce those who are esteemed, brilliant, erudite, who stand at the forefront of public, political, and royal affairs, those who are dominant, fit for command, insubordinate, tyrannical, but those who are also regarded with jealousy and reviled and betrayed by some, those who hate their own families, who are fickle, diverse and inconstant in. their resolves, those who are haughty, conceited and who have their ups and downs, but who
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confer honor upon the fantasy of life; yet they are not those who continue in prosperity up to the end, but those who trip up on something, or even have a painful ending. Zeus, Ares, the Sun indicate those who arc liable to be alarmed and those who are in danger, and those who are hot-headed and successfully apply themselves to their work, and those who share in reputation, those who are militant, dominant, those who stand at the forefront of public affairs, those who are prone to fall through the jealousies, threats, betrayals, domestic plots, and accusations that pursue their superiors; for indeed, after some have climbed up from a low estate in life along with the promotion of their superiors, they are pulled baek down. Zeus, Ares, the Moon produce those who are on-target, rash, public, dear to many, those who come into advancement and those who are exalted from a low estate and those deemed worthy of trust, those who aie martial, aihietic, esteemed, dominant, those standing in the forefront uf crowds ani local affairs, those who partake of honors and stipends or the priesthood, but those who encounter impediments and accusa- tions, and these who are betrayed by their own people or by females, and those who suffer a reduction of what they have acquired, and those who acquire later from mystical and unexpected sources. Zeus, Ares, Hermes produce those who are practical, hot-headed, those who are agitated, those who work for wages in public areas or hold a rank in the military, or those who manage royal or political affairs, but those who are irregular in their mode of living and those who waste what they acquire, those who are intelligent and trustworthy, those who are stewards, those who readily correct errors and who attribute the responsibility for them to others, those who are reviled and those who encounter impediments; they produce some, then, who are athletic, crown-wearers, or even body trainers, who arc very learned, fond of traveling, or those who profit upon foreign soil but fail in their own. Zeus, Ares, Aphrodite produce those who are dear to many and fond of society, those who are deemed worthy of alliances with superiors and benefits, those who come into promotion, those who are advanced by women; they produce some, then, who are of the line of archpriests, who are crown-wearers, athletic or those who stand in the forefront of tlie priests or those who are crowdpleasers, and those who for a time pass their lives unstably and irregularly, and who are blameworthy and indiscriminate toward the marriage union, those who endure betrayals and being put to shame, and those who are distressed in the area of children and the body, those who take their pleasure in newer intercourse, and those who undergo separations from women. Zeus, Hermes, the Sun produce those who set things right in their application to their work, and those who are loved by many, those who are deemed worthy of trusts, honors, and public revenues, as well as alliances with superiors and promotions, and those who climb up from a lowly estale, and those who have become ornaments, but as for acquisitions vhich are transitory and easily obtained, they produce those who come into want of Iliem for a time and those gain much for themselves mystically, though they are never without a living but are helped from unexpected sources and from superiors. Zeus, Hermes, the Moon are produce those who are good, acquisitive, and those who are shrewd in regard to occupations, those who tend to bring things together, those who have a share in gifts and trusts, those who are mystical, sagacious, logical, guardians of money and deposits, those who make a living by speeches and calculations, those who are concerned with loans, tax-
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collectors, tax-farmers, those who are loved by many, those who are erudite, fit for guardianship, administrators of things, generous; they produce some, then, who are athletic, crown-wearers, those deemed worthy of honors, images, statues. And if these planets should somehow happen to be in profitable places, they make those who are finders of treasures, and those who stand over priests and temples; they rebuild and transplant, and by conferring honor upon a places, they have prepared a lasting name for themselves. Zeus, Hermes, Aphrodite, are good, producing the acquisition of a livelihood and success at one's occupation; and they become sagacious, frank, generous, sweet, fond of cohabiting, cheerful, participants in education and music, cleanly, comely, those who are deemed worthy of honor and reputation, those who go about with their superiors and who have a share in trusts and public revenue, those who are an ornament in their mode of living, and, being fond of manners and exercise, they are masters of the body and they raise some who are child-like, and they arc beneficent, and from the gods they know the future ahead of time, being truly pious, but they will become unstable or depressed about the area that concerns wife and children. Zeus, Aphrodite, the Sun make those who are highly imaginative and those who are esteemed, but who are obsessed with details and irregular in their resolves, those who are haughty, sometimes those who are liberal and generous but fickle, other times those who are exalted in the opinions of others and in acquisitions and those who climb up from a lowly fate; and they also become archpriests, crown-wearers, sovereign, dominant, those who stand in the forefront of public affairs and who precede the crowd, those who are deemed worthy of honors and gifts and who are ornaments in their mode of living, but those who will become lawless or culpable in relation to sexual union. But if these planets should somehow happen to be rising or in profitable places, the natives will be gladdened with wife and children. Zeus, Aphrodite, the Moon produce those who are practical and esteemed, those who are archpriests. crown-wearers, those who stand at the forefront of priests and temples, Ihose who are munificent, fame-loving, those who are crowd-pleasers, those who receive the trust of cities and regions, and who are deemed worthy of honors, and who are well spoken of and emulated by relatives and friendly personages, those who endure enmities and confrontations, but those who are unstable and contentious in the area concerning wife and intimacy, those who pass life with rivalries and separations and subject to necessity, who are distracted; so then, at times they also join together with their relatives and do not see to it that the co-habitation is thus undisturbed; at other times they engage in partnerships; nevertheless, they will become highly imaginative in the realities concerning life, being not so much filled with the truth as with illusion. Aphrodite, the Sun, the Moon produce those who are esteemed and practical, those who engage in ostentation, but those with bad and culpable habits, those who are calumniated by most and envied by superior and friendly personages, those who come into promotion and acquisition and those who are exalted in their fortunes, but those who are irregular in the matter concerning wife and children; otherwise, they are fond of their friends, being those who come to live abroad, and those who are fortunate upon foreign soil. Aphrodite, Ares, the Moon make those who are neither helpless nor impractical, but diverse and unstable in their resolves, those who are great-soulcd, those who spend indiscriminately and those who [do not] put an end to matters, who are ambitious, tiespisers, wanderers, those who are rash, public servants, military, those indifferent to the intimacy of male and female, but those who
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are reviled and engage in insults and criticisms, and those who turn friendships into enmities instigated by villainies, those who are tripped up in their mode of life. Hermes, the Sun, the Moon produce those who are august, pure, who play their part well, who are economical, those who partake of trust and rank, who arc beneficent, participants in the mysteries, those who set things right, those who have the most ostentatious display of property; but they also become bodyguards, ushers, those who are set over money, writings, calculations; and the relationship of such planets is also strong for counsel or teaching. Hermes, the Sun, Aphrodite produce those who are very learned, much experienced, good, those who take the lead in arts and sciences and those who are deemed worthy of trust and rank, those who are fickle in regard to what gets done, having their ups and downs at the time, and (hose who are restless or take delight in the complete change of occupation, those who are much loved, erudite, those who come into promotions from their superiors and those who are an ornament in their mode of living and in their reputation, even though blameworthy. Hermes, the Moon, Aphrodite produce those who are good, those who co-habit well, those who are simple, generous, fond of laughter, political, participants in education or training,' mechanical, much experienced, decorous, cleanly, well-grown, those who are privy to secret matters, those who are subordinate, those who are emulated and envied, but those who are irregular in their mode of living and indifferent toward the intercourse of women and men, but those who are successful and able to bring things together. When Hermes, Ares, and Aphrodite are configured, they produce benefits and reputation and occupations, those who are shrewd and economical with giving and receiving and the remaining undertakings, but cunning and much experienced, those who make a living from writings or exercises, who are culpable, prodigal, and give freely, those who are involved in securities and loans, and Ihose who are wronged, those who steal the money of others, seducers, those who charmingly deceive, but those who are successful and malicious, fickle about what gets done. Ares, the Sun, the Moon produce those who are rash, manly, courageous, practical; for, they become athletic and martial, sovereign, dominant, those who earn their living from violent and hostile matters and from menial crafts or workiiig in hard materials, but they are those who are diverted by impediments and dangerous matters, and who encounter enmities and charges from their superiors, unless the benefics, figuring them in some way, should keep the support from being weakened. Ares, the Sun, Aphrodite produce those who are loved by many and who are erudite, those deemed worthy or alliances and honors, successful, fond of society, but culpable and notorious, those who do not last iong in friendships and who are unstable in their occupations, those who are desirous of much, extravagant, those who mistreat women, those with a tendency to vandalism, those who are diverted by impediments and enmities due to the dubious reasons in their arguments. Ares, the Sun, Hermes produce those who are much experienced, who are inventive at ways of instigating activity, those who are full of care and ineffective in what they desire to argue, but who prevail unexpectedly, whence such become irregular in their resolves, courageous, practical, quick to anger, and sometimes those who adopt a vile and contemptible manner, who hold fast and play a part and make themselves less in relation to matters in which it is not necessary Co do so, but those who live their iife irregularly
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for the most part, and who, by coming under someone's thumb, lessen their own fortunes. Ares, the Moon, Hermes produce those who are skillful, mechanical, those who are easily stirred into activity and those.who are restless, those who wish to act with dispatch, those who are liable to omit things, curious, initiates in the mysteries and those who are privy 10 secret matters, maltreaters, those who are violent, insubordinate, covetous, those who encounter accusations and injuries as well as judgments and dangerous matters, those who experience disturbances owing to legal documents or taxes, except that they produce those who succeed and those who are extravagant, but those who are off-target in their mode of living. Our exposition of these matters aimed at distinguishing them into unique and universal types, but when a different commixture is also added in. either in accordance with presence or co-testimony, the power of these things will be altered in accordance with the nature of the star. For, I did not want to compile the commixtures at great length and with many subdivisions, since the ancients have already made their arrangements concerning them. The synoptic manner, then, which is easily taken in at a glance from the natural activity of each star and zoidion, will be preferred by those who can see. And there is found in this treatise the grounds upon which the placement of each star - that is, the manner in which it was figured - must be determined (either upon a pivot point or rising, lord of a lot, of the Horoskopos, or of a trigon). Similarly also, the zoidia in which they occur (either their house, or their own sect while being witnessed by other stars). And in such manner the effects are revealed to be steady. But if the planets should fall amiss in unprofitable places, the effects of their activity and the effects of fortune will become less.
21. Concerning Conception With these things being so, we must also speak of conception, for those who repudiate complicity and those who harbor jealousy. There being three terms-a least, a middle, and a greatest-the excess of each is [15] days. If we should add or subtract these from any one term, one of the other terms5 will be taken. And the least term is 258, which will be assigned after the setting degree (that is, when the Moon is in the post-descensiorsal place). The middle term is 273, which is preestablished when the Moon is in the Horoskopos. The greatest is 289, which is preestablished when the Moon is in the setting place. For, if we should measure the 15 days of excess in relation to the hemisphere from Horoskopos to setting, we will find 2'/2 days applying to each zoidion. Let it be the case, then, that Cancer is marking the birth hour while Capricorn is setting. If the Moon should be found above the setting pivot point, the conception will be 258 days; if in Aquarius, 260 1/2 days; if in Pisces, 263; if in Aries, 265 1/2; if in Taurus, 268; if in Gemini, 270 1/2; if in Cancer (the Horoskopos), 273; if in Leo, 275 1/2; if in Virgo, 278; if in Libra, 280 1/2; if in Scorpio, 283; if in Sagittarius, 285 1/2; if in Capricorn, 289. For an illustration, let it be the 8th year of Nero, the 11th hour of the 6th to the 7th of Mesori. The Moon is in Libra, the Horoskopos in Cancer. Then, since the Moon is found on the pivot point, the birth was brought about after 280 days and 12 hours. Then, it will be necessary to subtract th;se from the 365 days of the year. The remainder will be 84 days, 12 hours. If, then, we should add 84 to the 6th of Mesori, it will be the 27th of Phaophi at the
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23rd hour, which will be the conception day. And again, if we take the time from the 27lh of Phaophi to the 6th of Mesori. there will be 280 days. We can also illustrate with many strategics, which all involve one straight path. Assuming the birth ahead of time, we come to know how after how many days it was brought about. If the Moon should be found in the hemisphere above the earth, by reckoning the degrees from the setting degree up to the lunar degree, and taking 2 1/2 days for each thirty degrees, you add these to the least term (258 days), and you will find the conception at so many days. By going back with these from the natal day to the day in which they leave off, you will find the conception day. If you want an alternative, by reckoning from the lunar degree up to the Horoskopos and taking 2 1/2 days for each thirty degrees, subtract these from the middle term (273 days), and the conception will be so many days back. And similarly, if the Moon should be found in the hemisphere under the earth, by reckoning from the degree marking the birth hour up to the lunar degree and casting out 2 1/2 days for each 30 degrees and summing them up, you will add them to the middle tern., to the 273 days. And the conception will be so many days back. And by taking the interval from the lunar degree up to the setting degree, and knowing how many days are assembled from the quantity of the days cast out at 2 1/2 days per thirty degrees, you will subtract them from 289, and the conception will be just so many days back. Let there be yet another illustration, in order that those who have intercourse may understand ihis matter more clearly, Let it be the 4th year of Hadrian, the 1st nocturnal hour of the 13th to the 14th of Mechir; the Moon is at the 7th degree of Scorpio, the Horoskopos at the 7th degree of Virgo. Since the Moon is found in the hemisphere under the eaoh, I take the degrees from the degree marking the birth hour up to the lunar degree. They come to 60. I reckon at 2 1/2 days for each 30 degrees. They come to 5 days. And I add these to the middle term, the 273 days. They come to 278 days. The conception was so many days back. I go back, then, with the 278 days from the nata! day. The conception day leaves off at the 11th of Pachon. Or again, 1 subtract the 5 days of the interval from 92. 87 remain (for, since the middle term is 273, the remainder of these from 365 is 92). If, then, we should add the 87 days to the 14th of Mechir, and we should depart from the natal day, it will leave off at the 11th of Pachon. But if you should reckon from the lunar degree up to the setting degree (which is 7th degree of Pisces), 120 are assembled. By taking these at 2 1/2 days per thirty degrees, 10 days result. If I should subtract these from the greatest term (289 days), the remainder will be 279 days. Run these back from the natal day; after calculating, you will find the Moon upon the Horoskopos at birth. And if the Moon should be found in the hemisphere above the earth, by taking the degree interval from it up to the degree which marks the birth hour, and casting out at 2 1/2 days per thirty degrees, and knowing how many days are assembled, if you should want to add to the 120 days and to depart from the natat day in accordance with the succession of days, you will find the conception day at the place where it leaves off. And again, by reckoning from the same day found up to the natal day in accordance with the succession of days, you will find the number of the days. And if the Moon should be found in the hemisphere under the earth, you will reckon from the degree that marks the birth hour up to the lunar degree; and knowing the degrees of the interval, you will portion out 2 /2 days per thirty degrees. Subtract these from the 120 days, and add the remaining days
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to the natal day, and depart from it in the sequence of days; and there will be the conception day. Having added this to the term (273 days), run back from the natal day. For another illustration, let it be the 17th year of Trajan, the 2nd of Mesori, the 11 1/2th nocturnal hour; the Sun at the 5th degree of Leo, the Moon at the 27th degree of Libra, the Horoskopos at the 24th degree of Capricorn. Then, since the Moon is found in the hemisphere above the earth, I take the interval from ils degree up to the degree marking the birth hour; they come to 90 days approximately. I take 2 1/2 days from each thirty degrees, and 7 1/2 days result. I add these to the 92 days; they come to 99 1/2 days. I depart with these from the natal day in accordance with the succession of days. It leaves off at the 6th degree of Athyr. Again, from the 6th degree of Athyr up to the degree of the birth in the succession of days, 266 days are assembled. The conception was so many degrees back. But if I do not want to add the 7 days to the 92, I subtract them from273; and the remainder will be 266. By going back with these from the natal day, and by calculating, I found the Moon to be in the Horoskopos of Capricorn. The Moon at birth will indicate the hour of conception in respect of the zoion in which it took place, while the horoskopos of conception will have as many degrees as the Moon has at birth. Others calculate by doubling the degrees of the Moon of the natal hour, Laid ajiain, by taking 1/4 of the degrees of the Sun at birth, believing the antecedent triangle of each to be the Horoskopos of the conception. Those who investigate the selection in front of us and the remaining ones with this procedure will not go astray.
22. Concerning Children Born in the Seventh-Month We will also append, in a different manner, whether someone spent the full time in the womb or less, and in what manner there come to be destructions and abortions and painful deliveries and deaths, or offspring born in the seventh month. This will be found as follows. I always take the year prior to birth and the natal month and day, and 1 calculate the Moon. And knowing in what zoidion it is found, I read the signs. And similarly also after the birth - namely, for two years - also taking the month and the day, 1 again calculate the Moon. And finding it, I compare it with the first year. And if I find the Moon in a triangle with the natal Moon in both years, I declare that the conception is complete. And if the Moons in the two years should be found in a square with the natal Moon, the offspring will spend the time of the least conception, that is, 258 days. And if the Moon of the first year should be found to be in a triangle, while the second is in a square, the offspring have a duration in the womb within 269 days. And if the Moon of the first year is in a square, while that of the second in a triangle, the offspring will have the same time within 269 days. And if the Moon of the first year is in square, while that of the second is in aversion, the offspring will have its conception eight months earlier and will be dead. And similarly, if the Moon of the first year should be found in a triangle, while that of the second in aversion, the offspring will not be reared. And if the Moons in the two times should be found to be unconnected in any way to the Moon of the birth, the offspring will be dead in the womb or will be cut up in the womb and will put the mother in jeopardy. And if the Moons of the two years should be found to be harmonious due to a diametrical opposition, the offspring will be seven months old. And if the Moon of the first year should be diametrically opposed, while that of the second should be in a
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triangle with either the Horoskopos or it, the offspring will be seven months old. It wilt also be the same if it should be in a square. And if the Moon of the first year should be in a square, while that of the second should be diametrically opposed, the offspring will be seven months old. The Sun will also produce similar things when it diametrically opposes the zoidion in which the conjunction took place. The ancients outlined this area mysteriously and obscurely, but we more clearly. End of Book I
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Second Book of the Anthology of Vettius Valens of Antioch In the first collection, then, we have explained the hortatory and didactic arguments, and the effect-description for commixture, borne along not so much in a poor imitation of argument as with the actuality of experience. Now it is m keeping that we subjoin material about universal supports and the difference of places. 1. On Trigons When we have ordered the zodiacal circle by difference and by property, we find two sects - a diurnal and a nocturnal sect of the Sun and of the Moon respectively. The Sun, being truly fiery, was associated with Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, which was named its diurnal trigon and is also fiery by nature. The Sun attached to himself Zeus and Kronos as coworkers in his own sect and as guardians of what is accomplished by him - Zeus as the imitator and proxy of the king himself, the chooser of good things, the bestower of reputation and life; Kronos as the promoter of ills and oppositions and as the depriver of time. Of the trigon in question, then, the Sun is master by day, the star of Zeus is master by proxy by night, while Kronos cooperates with both. Next, the Moon, as she is near the earth, took as her lot the rulership of the following trigon - Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn - which is truly earlhy. She has Aphrodite and Ares as co-sectarians - Aphrodite, suitably enough, for benefaction and to distribute reputation and time; Ares for looking askance at nativities. Whence, at night the Moon stands in the forefront, Aphrodite in second place, and Ares in third. But in diurnal nativities, Aphrodite is advanced, the Moon cooperates in second place, Ares in third. Next, Kronos will be master of the airy trigon, Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, by day, while Hermes will cooperate in the second place, and Zeus in third. But by night the star of Hermes is advanced, and the star of Kronos is in second place, the star of Zeus in third. Next, the star of Ares will maintain the rulership of the watery trigon Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces by night, with Aphrodite in second place, and the Moon in third. But by day the star of Aphrodite is advanced, after which is the star of Ares, and third the Moon. Yet the star of Hermes, since it is truly common, does its utmost to assist the two sects in relation to the good or the base and in relation to the property and figure-description of each star.
2. The Differences of the Trigons, and Rulers, and Co-workers, and the Sects of the Sun and Moon by Day and by Night This will be clear by exarnining the difference of tlie trigons in question and the happjness or middling condition in relation to the nativity of each [person]. Now, for those who are born by day, it will be necessary to consider in what trigon the Sun is found, and the ruler of this trigon by preeminence, and the co-worker of this trigon, whether they are upon a pivot point at that time, or post-ascensional or declining, rising or setting or in their own zoidia, and whether they are witnessed by benefics or malefics, and to make the declaration accordingly. For if they should be marking the hour or culminating or should be found upon another of the advantageous zoidia, they will show beforehand nativities that are fortunate and bright. Atid if they should be found in the pust-ascensions, they will show them to be
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middling. But if in the declines, depressed and unfortunate. We also need to look at how the Sun is situated and by what stars it is witnessed. And for those born at night, it will be necessary to consider the Moon in a similar fashion, and the ruler by preeminence of its trigon, and the common ruler of this trigon, with regard to how they have been figurated, just as we have set out above. For if the ruler by preeminence by day or by night should fall amiss upon the badly situated zoidia, while the ruler by proxy should be found upon a pivot point and well figured, then after thc native has had his ups and downs in his early years until the ascension of the zoidion or until the return of the circular period, he will later be active, except that he will spend his life without stability and in fear. But if the principal ruler should fall well, while the following ruler should fail amiss, then after having been carried forth well in his early years, he will later be reduced from the time of the ascension of the zoidion in which the following ruler has fallen amiss. We will explain how to judge the times more precisely at the proper moment. And if both should fail well, the circumstances of good fortune will persist and he will become estimable (unless a malefic should have opposed it or should have a superior position), nor will the circumstances of the nativity reverse. But every star, when it has the rulership and is actually in decline, will become an impediment and a despoiler. For, it makes those who are subordinate to others, those who have ups and downs or those who are reduced in reputation, those who encounter injury and suffering and accusations or want of livelihood. If, then, for those born in the day, the Sun should be found in Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, it is better for it to be upon a pivot point. If its cosectarians should likewise be found upon the post-ascensional places, while Ares is not opposing or squaring, it will be judged indicative of good fortune. If they should be the reverse, impediments will result. And if the Sun should be found by day in Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn, it will be necessary to seek for the star of Aphrodite in the first place, and for the Moon in the second, and for Ares in the third, how they are figured and what they are witnessed by. Similarly also, when the Sun is found by day in the following trigon - Gemini, Libra, Aquarius - it will be necessary to consider the star of Kronos and that of Hermes and that of Zeus. In the same way also, when the Sun is by day upon Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces, it will be necessary to consider whether the star of Aphrodite and that of Ares and the Moon are upon pivot points, and in this way 10 show the decisive one. Also, in the same account it behooves us io consider the Moon by night. It is better, then, for the diurnal planets to be found upon pivot points in their own Lrigons or in profitable places, and similarly for the nocturnal planets. But if they should be found to be in another's trigon or out of sect, the circumstances of happiness will become less and he will be subject to fears. When the rulers and co-workers fall amiss, it will be necessary to investigate the Lot of Fortune and its ruler. For if they should be found to be upon pivot points and post-ascending while being witnessed by benefics, the native will partake of good fortune and reputation, and though at times he will undergo irregularities and impediments, he will not be met with impasse. But if these should fall badly, mediocre and most austere circumstances will be adjudged; for such will be ineffectual with regard to plots, needy, in debt, those who blaspheme in divine matters. And if the Lot of Fortune and its ruler should be witnessed by malefics, such will be full of troubles, vagabonds, prisoners, subordinates, living a hard life, liable to injury, insecure. But if while the Lot and its ruler have fallen badly, beneilcs should somehow bear witness, they will live through the pity of
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others, or at a certain time they decentty cease being taken in by others after obtaining a share in work or trusts or gifts, except that they do not go through life free of confusion or reproach. It will be necessary, then, to consider the testimonies of every ruler and the disposition of the figurations, whether they should actually be congenial or opposed. For if the star of Kronos should be found in a diametrical or square position for those who are born at night, it produces impediments and reductions, dangers and sufferings, and those who are slothful about intrigues. But when the star of Ares is so found for those born by day, it produces those who are rash, deceitful, unstable in their affairs and livelihood; for they encounter constraint, trials, insults, cuts, burns, bloodshed, falls. But when they are congenially figured and in their own sect, they happen to be effectual. Whence they are not adjudged malefics, but rather even the beslowers of goods, and especially whenever Kronos should happen to be well witnessed by Zeus and the Sun by day while having a relationship to the rulership, it produces those who are very rich, estimable, those who are beneficiaries from deaths, lords of foundations, of bodies, stewards, those who are set over the affairs of others. But when it is well figured by night and has the relationship of rulership, it will become an agent of the above, but the throwing away of what has been acquired and the reduction of reputation or disenfranchisement will result. Let the same be supposed for Ares. For by night it entrusts leadership and generalship and popular rank in public affairs. But when it is still in profitable places by day, itrdues produce the above, though it also involves them in oppositions and controversies and fears, and makes the leadership factious and frightened; for it opens the channels for hostilities and brings on insurrections of the crowds and multitudes, pestilence and famine due to war, violence, conflagrations, dangerous opportunities. Similarly also, the benefics will have the manner of malefics whenever those that rule fall badly. And if they should be upon pivot points while the ruler is declining, they will be too weak to furnish any good thing in it. For every kind it will be necessary to investigate the ruler of the ruler, how it should happen to be and what it is witnessed by. For if the universal ruler should fall amiss, while its ruler should be well figured, the native will have help and support for life and reputation in accordance with the place-positioning of the star.
3. Concerning the Lot of Fortune and the Ruler For him who wishes to ascertain the matter of happiness more exactly, I will return to the Lot of Fortune, which is the most necessary and sovereign place, as the king mysteriously explained beginning in the 13th book, saying, "or for those who are born in the day, it will next be necessary to count distinctly from the Sun to the Moon and back from the Horoskopos to prescribe an equality/ and for the resulting place to see whatever star it meets with, and what or which arc in relation to it - the squares or triangles, all in all, as it was placed among the stars. For from this consciousness of places you can make a clear judgment beforehand of the circumstances of those who are brought forth." Petosiris also explained the matter similarly in the Boundaries, though others have treated it differently, which we wilt also set out in the appropriate place along with other guidance for clarifying the argument concerning happiness. But for now we must discuss the method in question.
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4. Concerning the Star Allotted the Hour or the Lot When Kronos is allotted the Hour or the Lot, if it marks the hour but is not opposed by Ares, such a one will be accounted happy in the activity apportioned by Kronos. And if it should be witnessed by Zeus, [the happiness] will be double. If by Aphrodite, it will be through a woman or one without progeny. But if the star of Ares should be with it or should be opposed to it - such a one will have troubles and oppositions. If the star of Hermes should mark the hour along with it - such a one will be hampered in his ears. When Zeus is allotted the Hour or the Lot, if it marks the hour, it produces complete happiness from youth. If Ares should be present or upon the same pivot point or if it should be trine, such a one will advance in magnificent military campaigns, and he will acquire a living. If Kronos should be there too, they will come into preeminence. If Aphrodite is also there, still more. If Hermes is also there, they will engage in receipts and disbursements. When Ares is allotted the Hour or the Lot, if it marks the hour, it causes an impulse toward the military. If Zeus should bear witness also, such a one will advance in rank. If Aphrodite also, they come into no ordinary rank. If Hermes alone should be present, he will decline to accept a trust. If Kronos also, he will acquire many things from many sources, and after his death it will be dispersed for the royal interests. When Aphrodite is allotted the Hour or the Lot, it signifies great goods and causes great reputations. If Hermes is present too, it makes for those who are musical. With these being so, while Kronos opposed them or was superior to the ones present, it deprived such ones of their possessions. When Hermes is allotted the Hour or the Lot, if it marks the hour, it causes good fortune. If the star of Zeus should be present as well or should make a square, they will have the rulership of tribunals and wars. If the star of Kronos should also be present with these, they will have twice the rulership and honor and goods and advancement. When the Sun obtains the Hour or the Fortune as his lot while he marks the hour, if the star of Zeus should be present as well or should bear witness as a square, he who is brought forth will be fortunate. If the star of Hermes should also be present with it such a one will advance by means of discourse. If the star of Ares should also be present or should make a square with the star of Zeus, he will be great and will have authority over life and death. And if, while these are so, Kronos should make a square or a diameter, they will meet with accidents and losses. When the Moon obtains the Hour or the Lot of Fortune as her lot, she will make those who are great, especially in her own trigon. And if the star of Aphrodite should be present or should happen to be in a square, such a one will be considered worthy of great honor. If the star of Ares should happen to be with the Moon, he will have authority over life and death. If the star of Kronos should also, he will lead many countries. If the star of Zeus should also be present or should make a square, they will become great kings. And if, while these are absent, the star of Hermes should be configured with the Moon, the advancements will be from discourse and skills. If the star of Ares should be present with the sovereigns or should make a square with them, it makes great men. If Ares should make a diameter with the
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Moon apart from the benefics, it makes those who are exposed; but if a bencfic should be present with Ares, he will be reared even though exposed. Likewise, even if Ares should appear in a square or if it should be found to be superior, it will involve [him] in wanderings or captivities or else ups and downs. If the star of Aphrodite should make a square at a pivot point, they will be wronged by women. If Kronos should be present as well in a licentious zoidion, they will waste their substance in brothels. If the star of Ares should also bear witness to them, they will prostitute their women to others. If the star of Kronos should square the Moon or should make a diameter at a line equal to it, the native will have claim to nurture [even though] he will be unallotted parents. If the star of Hermes should make a square or a diameter with the Moon, such come to be at cross purposes and of two minds, and they become subject to slanders and accusations from their superiors. And if a malefic should also bear witness with Hermes or should be configured with it, it will make for disfigurement and condemnations. And if the star of Zeus should lie opposite the side of the Moon, it will cause a deprivation of children and oppositions from those who are superiors. In general, when the malefics look upon the lights and the Horoskopos apart from the benefics, they make for short lives. When the ruler of the Horoskopos is suitably situated or in his own sect, he becomes the distributor of the years of life. And if it should be somehow configured with the master of the Lot, such a one becomes very old and fortunate. But if it should be found subject to the setting place, he will be short lived, And if a malefic should be present with it as well or should be superior to the Moon, the foetuses will come to nothing.
5. The Place of the Evil Spirit - Many Figures If the malefics should happen to be in this place, they will produce great injuries and calamities, especially if they are in their own faces. And if the Lot of Fortune should be there, and some [malefic] should have authority over it, there will never be anything beneficial in the transits; for they were enemies from the outset, from the moment of birth. And similarly, when the benefics happen to be in this place, they do not distribute their goods. And whenever the three stars should fall in this zoidion - the lord of the Horoskopos, of the Lot, and of the Spirit - they make those who are unfortunate and disfigured and in need of daily subsistence, and many will have their hands held out.
6. The Place of the Good Spirit - Many Figures If the benefics should be suitably situated upon the zoidion occupying the Good Spirit or should be in their own faces, they make those who are notable and wealthy from youth, and more when they regard the Lot of Fortune in a triangular division and the Horoskopos by a hexagon. They furnish the most and the greatest goods in a hearing or seeing ididion. And if one of the benefics should appear on a diameter to the Good Spirit while the ruler is present there, they will produce great goods and greater advancements. But if the malefics should be present with the Good Spirit, they will not have the power to do anything evil. And this is all the more necessary if the ruler of the Lot and of the Horoskopos and of the Spirit should happen to be
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at rising, or most of the stars are present with them as well or bear witness to them in advantageous zoidia; for they produce those who are esteemed and wealthy above measure.
7. The Midheaven In this place both the benefics and the malefics rejoice, especially when obtaining the Lot of Fortune or the Horoskopos or the Spirit as their lot. And if each of the [benefic] stars should fall in this place when it is rising or when it has an application of the Moon, sovereigns or kings are made, those who arc leaders of countries, or they will be renowned in many places. When the ruler of this place is well situated, it makes those who are effective; but when it is poorly situated, those who are unsuccessful. If it happens to be upon the setting place and a malefic should be present with it or should make a diameter, it makes evil-doers or those who arc barren or childless.
8. The Place of the God of the Sun, the Pre-Midheaven, 9th fromthe Horoskopos - It Has Many Figures If the benefics should occur upon this place, and they obtain as lot the Horoskopos or the Fortune, the child will be blessed, pious, a prophet of the great god, and he will be listened to as god. But when these are absent, and Hermes alone bears witness, they become subject to oracular warnings, and they interpret their experience to the crowds, and they become royal scribes from the time of their middle years. But when the malefics are present and have authority over the places in question - of the Horoskopos and the Fortune - or when they regard the Lot, the child will be tyrannical. He will found cities, destroy others, and impiously disenfranchise many of many things. And if the Spirit or the Fortune should occur in the zoidion which is the Evil Spirit, and the planets ruling the Lot or the Horoskopos should be found in this place, he will undergo the greatest afflictions and exiles, and he will squander all that he acquires. Or they become recluses engaged in sacred rites for the sake of suffering and pleasure.
9. The Eighth Place, Of Death - All Sorts of Regards When the benefics are present in this place, they are ineffective, weak, and unable to impart their own goods. If they should also have authority over the Horoskopos and the Lot. they are found to be even more ineffective and irregular. If the malefics are present there, having authority over the Lot, the natives will be wanderers; and if they should acquire something, they will squander it. If the Lot shouid fall in this place while the malefics are present and rule the Lot, the native will be needy, unable to clothe himself. If they should also have authority over the Horoskopos, he will be a disgrace for his whole life. And if the ruler of the Lot or the Hour should also happen to be under the beams, the native will be one to hold out his hand and beg. If the star of Hermes alone should be present upon the zoidion and should have authority of thought over what is called Spirit, it makes those who are dull and unintelligent, and those who are tongue tied and illiterate. And if
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the Lot of Fortune is also, along with being unintelligent, he will be out of his senses and a beggar, especially when it happens to be under the beams. And if these things being so, the nialefics should be present as well, he will be out of his senses and mute. The Moon alone, in the increase of her light, seems to rejoice in this zoidion. And if the star of Zeus should occupy the Good Spirit/ such a one will be fortunate and successful and versatile. And if it should also be lord of the Lot of Fortune, he will be wealthy and happy. And if Che star of Hermes should be present with it, he will be an administrator for kings and will be gladdened with children.
10. The Setting Place When the benefics and those ruling the Horoskopos or the Lot of Fortune are present here, they signify good things for the natives, for example inheritances and the unforeseen acquisition of other belongings, and they signify something good from a death. If they might be in the places of others, such will be less successful, yet they will not be totally at a loss. If Hermes alone should be present here while being in its own face, he will have profits in old age and will be trusted with cities and the affairs of kings. And if malefics should be present in this place and have authority over the Horoskopos or the Lot while being in their own face, he will have an irregular livelihood, especially in old age, yet he will not be totally at a loss; for he will squander what he obtains with calumnies and evil words. But if the malefics, while being both in another's face and out of sect, should rule the Lot, the native will spend his old age poorly, and a few will even land in prison for a while and experience sickness and disease. But if the star of Zeus should regard it, they practice priestly rites on account of sickness, and they are also troubled with hemorrhoids and experience suffering in their private parts or finger. And if the star of Hermes should happen to be with Ares upon the setting zoidion he will consort with robbers and murderers, on which account they are later cleansed with an evil death. When the malefics are setting in another's zoidion, they cause violent deaths; but when the benefics are so setting, they [produce] those who have much experience and have good fortune in old age.
11. The Sixth Place of Ares If the benefics should happen to be in this place, whatever the native shouid acquire he will waste, and property will not remain with him. After advancing in youth, he will be reduced by fines in old age. When the Sun is present upon this place and has authority over the Lot of Fortune or of the Hour, he causes the native to be condemned by a great power. If the star of Kronos is so situated, he will be a wanderer and ready to take offense, and he will flee his own fatherland in distress to procure a living. And if the star of Zeus should have authority over the Lot or the Horoskopos, he will waste his life in public affairs. And if the star of Aphrodite does, they will levy fines on account of disputes with a woman, and they will also become those unlucky in love, those not possessing grace. And if the star of Ares, it produces injury and suffering corresponding to the member of the zoidion, but it makes foot soldiers, beggars, those who have their lives
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turned around for ill. And when the star of Hermes has authority over the Lot or the Hour, it makes those who are iill intentioned, thieves, maledictors, and those who are reviled among the crowds. And if the Moon should also be present, he will be a slave and powerless, if indeed the remaining stars should also be present along with the Moon. For if the other stars are well situated while the Moon chances to be ill situated, they are capable of becoming freedmen and gentlemen.
12. The Fifth Places - Many Regards If the benefics should happen to be allotted the Horoskopos or the Lot of Fortune, the native will be great and will be a leader of die crowds and will institute laws. Aphrodite gives the greatest favor when it has authority over the Horoskopos or the Lot, especially when it is in its own face or in its own place - it produces those who are wealthy, honored. The same also for all the stars; for if they have sway over the Hour or the Fortune, they will cause good things in accordance with the application of the nature of each and the specific property of the Good Fortune. And if the star of Ares should happen to be at the place in question, they will rule over regions in every direction; for they will either be commanders or sovereigns and have authority over life and death, not only of the least but also of noteworthy men. And if Kronos should additionally be present upon the place, [it produces] those exceedingly rich in land and masters of quadrupeds, those who build villages and locations. And if the Sun should be present additionally, friends of the great, those near to kings, leaders of priests. And if the star of Hermes, advancements by means of discourse and those deemed worthy of the most money. And if, when the Moon is well Figured, it should be allotted the Lot or the Horoskopos while it happens to be upon the zoidion with its ruler, they become long lived and grow old with another in happiness. The benefics, then, assist a great deal during transits; the malefics do not have the power lo hinder.
13. The Fourth, Subterraneous Place If the benefics should have authority over the Horoskopos or the Fortune and should be present, such will have their living in priestly matters. And if those which are ruling should also be allotted the archetypal Lot while being; in the subterraneous place, they will receive messages from divine visitations and phantoms of the imagination. And if the star of Ares should be co-present wiith them when it is allotted the Fortune or the Horoskopos, he will have a life full of ills by his unseemly behavior, and after acting villainously together with others, he will suddenly change his circumstances, and he will die a violent death. One must observe closely that this place causes praises after death and legacies for one's family. When malefics happen to be in this place, the natives bequeath their property to whom they wish.
14. The Third Hace of the Goddess of the Moon In this zoidion, if the Moon should happen to be allotted the Horoskopos or the Lot while being in her own face, the native will be great and will have authority over many good things. He will rule over cities, and
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he will command many, and he will be followed and have the authority over treasuries. And if the Sun should be present along with it and should be making its rising, the native will be a priest or priestess of the greatest goddess and will have a life that lacks nothing. And if the star of Kronos should be present along with the Moon, he will be subject to god's wrath, likely to experience loss, one who often goes to judges, and he blaspheme the gods much on account of the matters that happen to him. And if the star of Zeus should be present along with her, he will be a prophet, fortunate, wealthy, estimable, and he will have authority over many goods. And if the star of Ares should be present along with the Moon, the native will be effective but impious, and he will steal what is entrusted to him; whence he will make his living from the things of others and from murders and thefts, and he will travel abroad a lot. And if it should appropriately happen to be in its own faces, in keeping with the sect of the nativity, he will be a governor of countries and cities, unjust, perjured, desirous of the things of others, and he will be suddenly ruined by the wrath of the authorities. And if Aphrodite should hold sway over the place of the Goddess and the Lot of Fortune in her own places, especially in a nocturnal nativity, the native will be wealthy and will be well regarded by a woman. And some will be kingly, those who rule over cities, administrators through having been allotted the Fortune in addition to the Goddess in the house of the Goddess. And if the star of Hermes should be present together with the Moon in the zoidion of the Goddess and should have authority over the Fortune or the Horoskopos, the native will tell the future for everyone and will participate in the mysteries of the gods.
15. The Second Place - Called the Gate of Hades The post-ascension of the Horoskopos - in this zoidion the benefics are of no avail, while the malefics produce those who are sluggish, diseased, those unable to continue life up to the end. And if the Lot should be present upon this zoidion, while malefics rule the Lot or the Horoskopos, the natives become guardians of the dead, living their lives outside the gate. When the star of Cronos, then, has authority over the Lot of Fortune, being additionally present upon this zoidion, it makes those who are spiritless, those who are sickly, and those who have the experience of bonds for a time sufficient to complete the period of the star. When the star of Zeus is additionally present upon the place, it makes a waste of one's belongings all the way to the end so thai nothing is left to him, yet it grants him children albeit not fortunately. When the star of Ares is present in this place, if it should rule the Lot or the Horoskopos, It makes those who are ready to take offense, those likely to experience loss, those who are impeded; and some are taken captive, and later returned. And if it should be allotted the Lot of Fortune while being present in this zoidion, while being in its own degrees or zoidia, they become jailers who make their living in prison or those who spend their lives in prisons. And if the Sun should be additionally present upon this zoidion while ruling the Lot or the Horoskopos in its own house or in the places of Kronos, the native will ruin his sight in the times of Ares, and will be deprived of his patrimony, and he will be beggar. And if the star of Aphrodite should be additionally present upon the zoidion and should rule the Lot or the Horoskopos, it will produce public and disgraceful work, if indeed it should happen to be rising in the morning. And when the star of Hermes should be additionally present upon the zoidion, if it should be under the beams of ihe Sun, it produces those who are stupid and illiterate; but if
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it should become lord of the second lot (which is called Spirit), it makes those who are dull or mute; and if it should be oriental, the natives become meddlesome, those who try to do what they have not learned, but able to succeed with mathematics. And if the Moon should be additionally present upon the zoidion while Kronos is marking the hour, alternations [of fortune] will happen; they will suffer from a cataract or from glaucoma.
16. Names of the Places God gives signs for the father; Goddess for the mother; Good Spirit for children; Good Fortune for marriage; Evil Spirit for suffering; Evil Fortune for injuries; Lot of Fortune and Horoskopos for life and living; Spirit for mind; Midheaven for action; Love for desire; Necessity for enemies.
17. Triangular Judgments of the Stars in Relation to Happiness or Misfortune - Triangular and Hexagonal and Diametrical Figures Zeus trine the Sun signifies those who are great and estimable, whether the Sun should be marking the hour both in the father and in the nativity, or whether the Sun should be upon a pivot point in the father; for, it signifies one who is estimable, hut less if, contrary to the first case, there is nothing noteworthy in relation to the birth - that is, unless some other cause should be corrective. If Kronos is made trine the Sun on the left while the Sun is marking the hour, the [trappings] of fame will be much greater; for such will have many possessions and will farm much land and will become rich. If the star of Ares should be further added in along with Zeus, the figure indicates a tyrant; especially when the Sun is marking the hour, they rule over many lands and armies. And if the star of Kronos shouid also be added, the father will be great among the soldiers and military leaders, though, if the remaining planets should also cooperate toward the greatness, neither tyrannical nor warlike nor terrible. If Ares should oppose the Sun, while Zeus and Kronos trine it on the right, the child will come into greatness and fame among the multitude. If the star of Kronos should oppose the Sun in accordance with what was said above, he will be opposed by his kin and his friends, but he will prevail and make them subject. If the star of Kronos and the star of Ares should be trine the Sun while Zeus opposes it in its own degrees or zoidia, this makes one who is commanding and noble. But if such a figure should happen to be upon a hexagon, he is less so. Aphrodite sextile the Sun when she is the father and child are charming and made upon the Good Spirit or the Good worthy by a woman of wearing gold and
rising in the morning signifies that notable. And if the figure should be Fortune, such a one will be deemed purple.
Kronos square the Sun on the left impedes the paternal income even while the lather is alive, especially in feminine zoidia or contrary degrees. Kit is opposite [the Sun], much worse; it also involves him in injuries and sufferings, and he will be betrayed by his relatives and parasites. If it is square on the right, it becomes less. If this should come about in the Horosknpos or in the Midheaven, the impediments will be less. Ares square the Sun, there wiil he evil for both the father and the offspring; for, it produces injury and suffering. If it should be opposite in afflicted zoidia or degrees, it also produces injuries in the joints. If Ares should be upon the right square (which is the tenth zoidion), it will become worse, for
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besides these, they lose their minds. Zeus trine'the Sun in the obscure degrees' or zoidia makes them odious; for, it purges the good of the star and diverts it into its opposite. But upon the notable zoidia or degrees, especially when upon a pivot point, it makes them estimable, able to acquire possessions. But when it happens to be opposed the Sun, most odious; for not only are its goods quenched by it, but such men have the anger of their superiors and the opposition of the crowd. The placements at the same degrees as squares and diameters, then, are difficult. Ares trine the Sun for a nocturnal birth, especially in feminine zoidia, when it is on the right, signifies those who are great, estimable, those who have the power of life and death, if indeed the remaining figures agree in the nativity. If in addition to these, Zeus is in a right trine, it produces great sovereigns, those in the front ranks in wars, and those who are leaders of the crowds. If the nativity should be female and Aphrodite should be present, she will be queen and have authority over many lands, and such will become beneficent, insubordinate. If the one star should happen to be in its own place and the other in its own triangle in both masculine and feminine births, there is no obstacle; for, kings arise from kings if indeed the one should rule, the other co-rule or have mastery over the birth, and they should have authority over the Lot of Fortune or the Hour. But if they should be in masculine zoidia, the effects will become less and much worse. Hexagons arc slacker in relation to good and its opposite. If, for a diurnal birth, Ares should become square the Moon on the left side in degrees or zoidia belonging to others, it will be the cause of many impediments, and it will produce oppression and depression for the mother, and some will be subordinates in the foreign service; and some become soldierly, laborious, and insolent. These result if indeed the nativity is not also depressed with respect to its remaining [conditions] - the master or co-worker or co-sectarian of the star being present in zoidia unconnected to the Horoskopos. But if these remaining [conditions] should indeed happen to obtain, the natives become captives and die at the hands of the public executioner. And if it should become diametrical indeed with the same condition, the difficulties will be more flexible and hard to escape. But if it should appear in a right hand square instead, they will ruin everything suddenly. And the [particular] square and the diameter makes a big difference; for if Ares should come to be in Aries and the Moon in Cancer, the effects will be turned around, and similar things pertain to the effects in relation to the triangle. And similarly, even if Ares in Scorpio and the Moon in Taurus should be diametrical, not only does it not set impediments to fortune, but they become causes of advancement and reputation. Aphrodite trine the Moon in a nocturnal birth and in feminine zoidia makes those who are charming, happy; and some also lead the crowds and are deemed worthy of purple and gold in accordance with the grandeur of their birth; for they also become philosophers and musicians and lovers of discourse and those who are within the sphere of royal friendship. And if the birth is also indicated as kingly with respect to the being of both planets - on the one hand the star that rules, and on the other hand the master of the birth - the figure becomes one liable to sovereignty; for, kings are made from kings, estimable and kindly. And hexagons to each other become more moderate in power; yet upon the Good Spirit and the Good Fortune they are not far from the triangle fin power], especially if a tropical or equipartite zoidion should happen to be in the middle; and much more [in power] if the figure should be contemplated in Pisces and Taurus.
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Aphrodite square the Moon [makes] those who are prosperous and wealthy and furnishes everything just as for the triangle, especially if it should be present in its own zoidion or degree, but it does this with irregularity; for what they furnish becomes mutable. And if they are present in others' zoidia or out of sect or in contrary degrees, they are set down as causes of outrages and instability and exposures by women, and shameful actions. And when they are set thus diametrically, even worse. The Moon trine Hermes for a diurnal birth, when it rising in the morning, makes those who are inventive, practical, well-formed, excited. And if the nativity should be more esteemed, it makes scribes of kings, or those who rule over cities and countries, those fond of discourse, orators, geometers. If it should be rising in the evening, especially when the birth is nocturnal, it makes those who are erudite, philosophers, and those sharing in the mysteries. And if the nativity should be exalted by the remaining stars, it produces those who are well-shaped and those who are honored by the crowds and those who are known to great persons and kings. When the star co-ruling the star that makes the effect come about causes these things, but happens to be unprofitably placed, it does not have the power to actualize any of its own effects. And generally, for every birth it is recognized that everything that each of the slars actualizes for the trines they also produce by being together in the same zoidion. And when Hermes exists in a hexagon to the Moon, it establishes the aforementioned, but more faintly and weakly. And if it should happen to be square, it makes those who are keen, ready of wit (their keenness is brought round to that which is base). For they become those with bad habits, slanderers, those who effect by cunning and attacks, those who take to heart nothing healthy. And if it is diametrical, they become those whose intentions are contrary to what they say, those who show themselves ungrateful in what they do. Whence they are harmed by what accompanies their actions. Hermes trine Kronos, especially when they should happen to be in their own trigons, makes stewards of kings, or their viceroys or those who are set over their fleets or economic matters or things like these. And they become ready of wit, sagacious, willful. And squares to each other make everything more blunted and sluggish and contentious and willful, tardy in actions, those who raise themselves up by reproaches and ambushes and cunning and attacks. And they become those who are dumb and those who are hampered in their hearing. And if the star of Ares should bear witness to Kronos or Hermes, it frees the aforementioned impediment of the voice, unless it should happen to be the case that they are in their own houses or boundaries or have made an exchange and that they regard the Moon or have its application, or that they always rule or co-rule; for slight distinctions in this manner are potent. And if they become diametrical to one another, ihey separate sisters by death. Yet when Hermes is marking the hour or culminating, it makes youths erudite and sagacious and polymaths, but they do not take the fruits of their pursuits. For that which is accomplished by them will be inactivated by the opposition of the planet. And if they should be diametrical in accordance with an equal arc position to each other, the effects endure much more, and it impedes both the hearing and the voice. Also, they become those who are possessed when chanting in the priestly rites, or those who go astray in their minds. Hermes trining Zeus is indicative of great deeds, especially when it is morning rising. For they become scribes or administrators of kings or cities or the populace. If the star of Hermes should happen to be altogether active and should provide the effectuation, it will cause reputation and the acquisition of a livelihood, especially in the profitable zoidia. And if they are hexagons, they produce the same things, but less. And if they should be
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squares well-figured, they produce as many things for acquisition and reputation, but with envy. But when they are poorly situated, together with envy also friction and oppositions of superiors. And if they should be diametrical, they make the slanders greater, and those who an- malic and at cross purposes are made. And if they should happen to be diana-trica! in the Evil Spirit, they will be oppressed by a dire extremity and will have the insurrections of the crowds, but they will have few brothers, and they will have hatred for their brothers or children or relatives. Hermes trine Ares or making a hexagon on the right is indicative of diverse kinds of work: sometimes scribes, other times merchants, interpreters, geometers, lawyers, philosophers, but all are malignant, cunning, clever, false. And it also makes arms instructors or those who juggle with weapons. And if the star of Zeus should also be configured, especially in profitable zoidia, it makes those who arc soldierly, and often augerers, sacrificers, those who foresee the future, those who perceive the odder things about men. And the square will make a greater diversity of the aforementioned; for, it makes wizards, impostors, sacrificers, astrologers, those who court the mob, money-changers, counterfeiters, forgers, those who conduct their business by villainy and attacks and cunning. And they also become thieves and perjurers and those who are impious and plotters of similar things, those who are covetous, defrauders, those having simply no freedom, whence they are turned around by many evils and they have the experience of being led away or flight or confinement And especially when they happen in the unprofitable zoidia or degrees, they produce worse things, and if both should happen to be in the subterraneous zoidion or Descendant or if the one should be setting while the other should be subterraneous, they wil] bring about murders or they will be accomplices and make their living by robbery. And some will be fratricides, and their final end will be violent, especially if they also help the Moon. For they become those who die violent deaths and are unburied. If, then, they are born in a four-footed zoidion, they will be conquered by animals; in human zoidion, by robbers; and in solid zoidia, by heights or collapsing; in fiery zoidia, by fire; in very wet zoidia, by shipwreck; by fighting in single-combat in tropical zoidia. And they also cause these things when they exchange and come to the same spot. And if the one should rule, the other have mastery, Hermes in a hexagon with Aphrodite or together with it make those who are born be sagacious, charming, lovers of music, fond of play, jesters; at other times poets, song-writers, singing instructors, actors in mimes, in comedies; and sometimes also athletes and physicians. Furthermore, they are productive of diverse kinds of work. And if the nativity should be feminine, they become musicians, promiscuous, those who spend their lives as consorts, lovers of discourse, singing instructors. ............................................................................. ................... Aphrodite trine Kronos produces those who are austere, gloomy, supercilious, and severe and promiscuous in matters of love; nevertheless they have intercourse with inferiors or those who are bought or those who are older, and some even with the women of their brothers and overseers, or of their fathers, or even their own mothers. The women among them are adulterers, having intercourse with the slaves or friends of their men. Yet it is also necessary to see that some differentiation frequently comes about from the variations of the zoidion and degrees. For, the figure itself, if it should be together with something, produces those who are more filthy, or those who are at one time negligent and at another promiscuous, but often those who act not out of love but rather out of pleasure only. The squares are much worse; for, the collection discussed for the trine turns for the worse, although they are also diverted from whores; and they become those who are lacking in
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refinement and licentious. It becomes worse if the figure should occur upon the setting or subterraneous zoidion. For, the aforesaid are intensified for the worse, especially when Ares is also present with them, or should be squaring or diametrical. Also, they are taken captive and calumniated by the crowds, and often times for scandals connected with these matters, or when they happen to be caught in the act, they meet with an evil death. And if they should be born in servile zoidia, they will indulge in impure sufferings and unnatural pleasures. Hexagons have the same effect-description to each other as the trines, but also faint and weak. When they are morning [rising] and in the east, they masculinize the women, not only in their actions, but also they complete the process by sleeping with the women of their men. But in the evening they feminize the men; for then the complete the process by sleeping together with the men of the women. And often times they are deprived of their generative [organs].
Kronos trine Zeus indicates that the figure is good. It produces those who are rich in lands, lords of grainlands and vineyards, grainfarrners and those who lay the foundations of houses, of villages and cities, those are grave and supercilious. If the figure is more exalted and Ares should be regarding, they make the commanders of expeditions, those who are the leaders of campaigns at land and at sea; and they also lead some to kingship or sovereignty. And if the figure should happen to be in the trigon of Kronos, especially when Zeus is in Aquarius, Ares in aversion, [they produce] those who are humble-spirited, those who are afraid, those who do not shine in anything or share in any leadership, but who are retiring and choose an idle life. From the differences of the zoidia and the places the variations in the activities also comes about. And they produce the same things and at the same place in the profitable zoidia. Kronos square Zeus blunts the good of the star, especially if the star of Kronos is also more to the right and more oriental. For they become those who advance with difficulty, who are penalized, those who maintain themselves with toil and work. And they are also harmed in the area of children; for, some become childless, others behold the death of their children. The place concerning siblings is also more harmful for them; for they separate with death those who are more kindly and those who are more affectionate, while they cause enmities and injuries for the remainder- And especially when they are outside of pivot points, and when they are diametrical to one another, they are more difficult with hardships and oppositions. Kronos trine Ares signifies those who are unstable in their mode of living and those unable to work, and it produces those who are sluggish in actions and those who are violent, or those with few children or those who destroy their offspring; furthermore, they are taken prisoner or are injured. And the square is much worse; for, their children are destroyed, likewise those of their siblings, or they are separated from each other through enmity, or they become hard to reform, or they are injured. And they are ready to take offense at every action, meeting with reversals and being intrigued against by the enmities of great men. And this figure encounters great dangers. For they die violent deaths by falling in with robbers or encountering the raids of hostile enemies or meeting with shipwreck. And some meet with captivity, while many are endangered by fire and iron. And when they are diametrical to one another, they produce the aforesaid even more strongly: in addition to these, they become day-laborers, those who toil, unfortunate; and some are used as beast of burden and do laborious and shameful work. And there are also many differences in these figures not only from the properties of the zoidia and degrees, but also from the greatness of the nativities. For if the
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figure should go uncontemplated by Zeus, the Moon and the Sun, they will make the nativity be of no repute. But if they should regard it, and one of them should happen to be the ruler while the other is the co-ruler, then the aforesaid results, with more difficulty upon the God and the Goddess, and more dully and as though in shadow upon the God Spirit and the Good Fortune, and worse and indissolubly upon the Evil Spirit and the Evil Fortune, the idle and shadowed place. But when the nativity is estimable and sovereign ... Zeus trine Ares, while one of them has rulership and the other has mastery, signifies men who are great and commanding and sovereign, especially in their own zoidia or trigons or degrees and upon the profitable zoidia, or when they have exchanged dwelling places or boundaries, especially when they have authority or ruiership over the Lot, For they cause great actions, making either kings or those who advance in campaigns at sea or on land, those who are restorers and break the ground for cities. And hexagons have less power just as for the previous figures, except that when they are upon pivot points, they signify that the aforesaid evils do not become visible in the natives, but rather in others. For they become improvisers at wars on the land and naval battles, and they also become robber chiefs and leaders, violent ones, those given to torture, those who punish without scruple, drinkers of blood. And if the birth should be of the mercantile sort (for example, an of an assessor or an advocate) they become informers. And if it should also adjoin the star of Hermes while the Moon is applying to the star of Ares, the figure will be more difficult. For, such natives are worse than animals. Zeus square Ares - If the one should mark the hour while the other is culminating or occupying the Good Spirit, will be powerful. For, this figure becomes more powerful than the square, especially if a tropical [zoidion] should be in between. And when they are present in the same zoidion, they have a greater strength. For, the squares also produce..the same things as the triangle, but with dangers and oppositions. And the diameters become more difficult in unprofitable zoidia. For if the remaining matters of the birth should lead the native to a certain leadership, he will encounter great dangers and will be betrayed by his own kind and by enemies. And if neither of the stars should rule or have mastery or be a co-ruler, the state of the triangles will be middling. For they become soidieriy. And if greatness of dignity should be glimpsed also from the other stars having the power to work with them or counteract them, the [natives] will be augmented in reputation. For they make those who are leaders of cities and these who sit in the court. And if the disposition should also be soldierly from the Sun, Moon, and Kronos, it will make commanders of ten or a hundred men of some small campaign and city. But if the disposition should be depressed by the Sun, Moon, and remaining stars, or the trines of these (those of Ares and Zeus), it will produce natives who are depressed, slaves of those who serve as soldiers or subordinates of those who are the leaders, but often times huntsman, gladiators, or armorers. And it signifies these things by the alternations of the zoidia. For upon the pivot points, they produce those who are great from youth, and upon the post-ascensions those who are raised up from their middle years, but upon the declines those who are low and depressed.
18. Concerning Hour-Markers of the Lot of Fortune Having made an exposition of the triangular arrangement, I will again pass on to the Lot of Fortune. Before all, it is necessary to place the Lot of Fortune precisely and see in which part of the cosmos it [fell out], whether upon the pivot points or upon the post-ascensions or upon the declines;
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likewise, seek its ruler. For if it should mark the hour by day or should happen to be upon one of the other profitable zoidia while being witnessed by the Sun and Moon and the benefics, it will make the offspring brilliant, notable, fortunate. And if it should happen to be upon the remaining pivot points or upon the post-ascensions, more toward the average. But if upon the declines, let him be considered abandoned, unreared. In another manner, when you have come to know the place allotted for Fortune, also consider the squares to it and the remaining figures to be, as it were, upon the genethlialogical pivot points. That is, the Lot itself will possess the power of the Horoskopos, that of life; the tenth zoidion from this, the power of the Midheaven, that of reputation; the 7th, the power of the Descendant; the 4th, of the subterraneous zoidiont and the remaining places will possess the power of the 12 regions. For some have mystically established the universal Horoskopos and its squares to be the cosmic pivot points, but the Lot and its squares to be the genelhlialogical pivot points. They a!so make prognostications on these grounds in their writings, saying, "since the Lot obtains the sovereignty [possessed by] the pivot points in various Figures, indeed neither the tropical zoidia nor the solid nor the bicorporeal will possess the same power throughout. It is necessary, then, to consider the testimonies of the stars or their copresences in relation to the Lot in order that, if a benefic should be upon it or should testify to it, it will be prophetic of good things and a bestower of belongings; but if a destructive planet, then it will become a cause of the squandering of belongings and the wasting of the body."
19. Concerning the Exaltation of the Sun and Moon in Relation to Happiness We have found a certain place to be mystical, and byu experience we take by day from the Sun at birth to Aries (which is its exaltation) and by night from the Moon to Taurus, and equal amounts from the Horoskopos. And wherever it should leave off, consider this place and its ruler for if it should be found to be marking the hour or culminating, especially upon a pivot point of the Lot, this figure foretells one who is royal, with the remaining stars and sects showing the support of the nativity to be great. In another manner, when the nativity is of good reputation and the exaltation or the ruler is well situated, the offspring will be exalted by command or by political or royal rulership or by some other reputable trust. But if, when the support is mediocre, the ruler of the exaltation or the place should happen to be ill situated, the offspring will be happy in that area in which he is just then engaged in doing, either his craft or his science or his business. And the ruler itself and the zoidion will foretell the kind of success from its own nature or from the nature of the zoidion it is set upon. For often times those who are in a plight or fail at doing something in their early years will be successful in other natters in later years.
20. Concerning the Lot of Fortune and of Spirit in Relation to Happiness and the Prevention of Actions Whence the Lot of Fortune and the Spirit will have much power over (he imposing and turning back of actions. For, the one shows matters concerning the body and handicrafts, the Spirit and its ruler matters concerning the soul and the intellect, and actions through discourse and through giving and
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receiving. It will be necessary, then, to consider in what kind of ididia the places and their rulers are, and to combine the natures of these ididia for the determination of action and fortune, and for the kind of action. Nativities from the Sun and Moon, then, while the benefics are either upon or are inclining to the places or to the rulers, will be considered to be brilliant and estimable and effective. Those resulting from Kronos and Ares will be mediocre, obscure, reduced, and contrary. It is better, then, to find the ruler of the Spirit upon the Lot of Fortune or the tenth zoidion from this, which is the Midheaven; for in this way the nativities become brilliant and notable. And if it should happen to be in its own place or else upon a pivot point instead, they will become effective, estimable to a certain extent. But if [the ruler of the Spirit] should happen to be somehow in aversion to its own place or declining instead, while being witnessed by malefics, it signifies fugitives or those who disgrace themselves in a foreign land. And if a benefic is co-present with it, or if it should be witnessed by benefics, they will spend much time in a foreign land living a varied and irregular life; but if a malefic is co-present with it, they will become those who live poorly and in want, having the experience of accusation and constraint. Similarly, if [the ruler of the Spirit] should be opposite to the place, it foretells those who dwell in a foreign land and undergo troubles. Often times such do not inherit from their kin, but they do inherit from someone else.
21. Concerning the Place of Fortune in Relation to Happiness We have also found the llth place from Fortune to be an acquisitive place, a bestower of belongings and goods, and especially when benefies are upon it or are testifying. For, the Sun and Zeus and Aphrodite furnish gold, silver, and ornament, and greater property, and gifts from superiors and kings, and they appoint [them] to virtuous missions for the multitude and make them benefactors of many. The Moon and Hermes cause waxing and waning and irregularity of one's life, and sometimes those who are liberal and generous to others, other times those who are upset with poverty and loans, because the Moon has the waxing and waning of its light, while Hermes is common equally to good and bad [planets]. Ares takes away the things which are given or additional acquisitions by producing diminishment, robberies, fires, trials, those who are wasteful in regard to the public or royal affairs, or those who are dismissed and accused in regard to them. This is so unless the nalivity should happen to be military or estimable; for then from such a starting point of violent and dangerous actions and of theft, they will come into acquisition, if indeed the star should happen to be properly [situated], except iluit it will also effect something terrible and bring diininishment. Kronos, when it is suiiably figured, appoints the lords of foundations, possessions; but when unsuitably or out of sect, it produces losses, seizures, shipwrecks, poverties, debts. Kronos with Hermes and Ares produces those who are threatened abusively with the infliction of legal action on account of villainies or secret and violent affairs. Kronos, Hermes, Ares, and Aphrodite produce those who are wronged by drugs or by female personages and those who encounter accusations. Kronos, Ares, Hermes, Aphrodite, Zeus, and the Moon produce those who are benefited by legacies and those who acquire money from maritime and foreign or nautical [ventures].
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Generally, then, Kronos and Ares, when they are culminating or post-ascending the Midheaven of the Lot, and when they have authority over [the place] of Acquisition, are indicative of loss. It is necessary, then, to preview the natures of each star and, for each individual commixture and property, to reveal the [nature] which it has in relation to every other. And it is not alone the stars upon the acquisitive place that indicate the matters in question, but also the zoidion itself will act both in relation to the nature of the star and in relation to its own nature,
22. Illustrations of the Chapters Above We will make use of illustrations for the diagnosis of the above matters, setting a notable nativity at the beginning. Let the Sun be in Scorpio, the Moon in Cancer, Kronos in Aquarius, Zeus in Sagittarius, Ares in Scorpio, Aphrodite in Libra, Hermes in Scorpio, the Horoskopos in Libra. Since, then, the nativity is nocturnal, I seek the Moon. This happens to be in Cancer in the trigon of Ares. We found the star of Ares to be post-ascending in its own house and trigon and in its own sect; then we find the star sharing with this, Aphrodite, to be marking the hour in its own house; third, the Moon to be culminating in her own house. It is clear beforehand, then, that the nativity is an estimable one, since the rulers are suitably figured. By seeking, I find the Lot to be in Aquarius. Its lord is upon this zoidion, occupying the Good Fortune in its own house and trigon. Similarly also I found for the 11th zoidion of the Lot of Fortune, which is the zoidion for acquisition, Zeus, I also took the Exaltation of the Nativity, which becomes 11 [zoidia] from the Moon to Taurus and an equal amount from the Homskopos, Libra, It left off in Leo in the Good Spirit. The Sun, the lord of this zoidion, was found to be culminating with respect to the Lot of Fortune. It made the nativity even more brilliant and estimable. (Neugebauer: 4 A.M. of October 25, 50 C.E.) Another (Neugebauer: 10 A.M. May 18, 95 C.E.). The Sun, Hermes in Taurus; the Moon in Aries; Kronos, Ares, Aphrodite, the Horoskopos in Cancer; Zeus in Capricorn; the Lot of Fortune and the Exaltation of the Nativity in Gemini. The nativity was elevated from mediocrity and became authoritative and commanding- For, the nativity being diurnal, I found the Sun to be in the trigon of the Moon, the Moon and her companions Aphrodite and Ares upon the pivot points, the Lot of Fortune and the Exaltation to be in Gemini in decline (whence his first years were mediocre), the lord3 to occupy the Good Spirit. Another (Neugebauer: shortly before sunset on Feb. 5, 85 C.E.). The Sun, Ares, Aphrodite, Hermes in Aquarius; the Moon, Zeus in Scorpio; Kronos in Aries; the Horoskopos in Leo. The nativity itself results in a commanding and powerful fortune from a depressed and mediocre fortune. For, the nativity being diurnal, we found the Sun to be in the trigon of Kronos, while Kronos is in decline (whence the first years are mediocre), its companion Hermes upon a pivot point. And we also found the Lot of Fortune to be in Taurus and the Exaltation in Libra and the lady to be culminating with respect to the Lot, and elsewise upon a pivot point. Another (Neugebauer: ahout Noon on April 28, 83 C.E.). The Sun, Hermes in Taurus; the Moon in Aquarius; Kronos, Aphrodite in Aries; Zeus in Virgo; Ares in Pisces; the Horoskopos in Leo. We found, then, the Sun to be in the trigon of Aphrodite and the Moon, while Aphrodite is in decline. The first years, then, were made full of care and lowly. Since the Moon was found to be upon a
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pivot point, he later engaged in military affairs and experienced advances in rank. Similarly, the Lot of Fortune also was found in Taurus, the Exaltation in Cancer. The Moon, the lady of [Taurus],1 was found to be culminating with respect to the Lot. Whence he also came into the greatest and most commanding fortune. Ares was found to be in the place of Acquisition. He furnished property from rapine and robbery and violence, which was evilly plundered after his death. Another (Neugebauer: about 2 AM. of Nov. 26, 74 C.E.). The Sun, Hermes, Kronos, Zeus in Sagittarius; the Moon in Cancer; Ares in Virgo; Aphrodite, the fforo-skopos in Libra. The nativity being nocturnal, we found the Moon to be in the trigon of Ares while Ares himself was in decline, as well as the Lot and its lord. Whence, he spent the early years humbly and poorly, experienced captivities and servitudes, and was upset with many dangers. Since the co-sectarians happened to be in profitable places, he took up the royal trust as one engaged in friendships and alliances. Then, since the Exaltation was found in Leo, and the Sun, its lord, was culminating with respect to the Lot, he was deemed worthy of command and authoritative rank. Another (Neugebauer: about 2 P.M. of Jan, 6, 72 CE.). The Sun, Hermes in Capricorn; the Moon, Aphrodite in Sagittarius; Kronos in Scorpio; Zeus in Libra; Ares in Aquarius; Fortune in Aries; the Horoskopos in Taurus. And the nativity itself was spent erratically and in mediocrity at the beginning, but later was elevated and partook of crowns and the archpriestship. For, the lords of the trigon were found to be upon the post-ascension; and the third lord of the trigon and the lord of the Lot were found to be culminating; and similarly the lord of the Exaltation was found to be culminating according to the Lot, the lord of Spirit also, Another (Neugebauer: about Noon July 9, 82 CE). The Sun, Hermes in Cancer; the Moon in Taurus; Kronos in Pisces; Zeus, Ares in Leo; Aphrodite in Virgo; the Horoskopos in Libra. And the nativity itself became brilliant and notable. That is, he was acquainted with kings and deemed worthy of the archpriestship. For, the lord of the trigon together with the lord of Spirit were found to occupy the Good Spirit, along with the Lot of Fortune, And the Sun, which gets Fortune as his portion, was found to be culminating; the lady of the Exaltation, the Moan, was found to be culminating according to the Lot. The acquisition was irregular and inconstant, sometimes superabundant, other times wanting, for Kronos and Aphrodite witnessed the place. Another (Neugebauer: about Midnight on Nov. 6, 97 CE). The Sun, Zeus, Ares and Aphrodite in Scorpio; Kronos in Libra; the Moon in Aries; Hermes in Sagittarius; the Horoskopos in Leo. The lord, of the Exaltation, Hermes in Sagittarius, was found to be culminating with respect to the Lot; and it exalted the nativity in respect of its mode of living. And similarly, the lords of the trigon and of the Lot, since they were found to be subterraneous, made a treasurer, free from ambition but also niggardly. Another (Neugebauer: about 8 P.M. May 14, 95 CE). The Sun, Hermes in Taurus; the Moon in Aquarius; Kronus in Leo; Ares, Aphrodite in Cancer; Zeus in Virgo; the Horoskopos in Sagittarius, The nativity being nocturnal, the lords of the trigon, Kronos and Hermes, are declining. Whence for the first years [the native] was irregular in many things, and he lived in debt, though the support in the area of parents was good. Then, after later gaining an inheritance and augmenting his mode of living by means of advancements and resources, he became ambitious and fit to rule ami munificent, acceptable to the crowds, a friend of kings and leaders, and one who furnishes provisions for temples and works, and he gained lasting memory. For, the Lot of Fortune
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and of Exaltation were found in Pisces, and Zeus the lord of this was culminating. Another (Neugebauer: about 8 AM, Oct. 31, 65 C.E.). The Sun, Hermes in Scorpio; the Moon in Aries; Kronos in Virgo; Zeus in Pisces; Ares in Leo; Aphrodite, the Horoskopos in Sagittarius. When the nativity2 was stil! young, he inherited great property. For, the acquisitive place was found in Pisces, while Zeus was in his own place; and Aphrodite, the lady sharing the trigon in common and the lady of the Lot and of the Exaltation, was found to be marking the hour by degree. Another (Neugebauer: about midnight, Jan. 1, 105 CE, at the latitude of Babylon and Syria.). The Sun, Hermes in Capricorn; the Moon, Kronos in Sagittarius; Zeus in Cancer; Ares in Virgo; Aphrodite in Aquarius; the Horoskopos in Libra. The lords of the trigon were found to be upon pivot points, but opposed. Whence, the nativity, having acted well, and having been well provided for in the beginning years, was fountl to be abject and in want in later years as the result of conflagrations and robbery. For, the lord of the Lot, Ares, was found to be declining in the acquisitive place and was witnessed by Kronos. Another (Neugebauer: May 1, 61 CE at about sunrise). The Sun, Aphrodite, the Horoskopos in Taurus; the Moon in Aquarius; Kronos in Cancer; Zeus in Libra; Ares, Hermes in Gemini. In the first years he has great display and works and political trust; for, the lords of the trigon happened to be upon pivot points. Later he became a wanderer after a reduction in his living; for, Ares and Hermes were opposed to Acquisition, and the lords of the Lot and the Acquisitive place were declining. Another (Neugebauer: June 2, 109 CE at about 8 A.M). The Sun, Hermes in Gemini; the Moon in Capricorn; Kronos, Ares in Aquarius; Aphrodite, the H5roskopos in Cancer; Zeus in Scorpio. After such a one had been born a slave and had entered into a clan, he took up political leadership and was ambitious. For, the lords of the trigon and of the Lot and of the Exaltation were found to be properly situated and witnessed by Zeus. But Ares and Kronos and Hermes fell amiss, whereby they also diminished his living and brought him into debt. Another (Neugebauer: Jan. 22, 62 C.E, about 10 AM). The Sun in Aquarius; the Moon, Zeus in Scorpio; Kronos in Cancer; Ares, Aphrodite, Hermes in Capricorn; the Horoskopos in Pisces. Such a one became a eunuch, a priest of a goddess, notable. For, the lord of the Lot obtained Scorpio, the place of God, while the lords of the sect, Kronos and Hermes, were found to occupy the Good Spirit, but in opposition. Whence, he fell into much trouble, diminishment, and defenses pertaining to governmental and kingly matters.
23. Concerning Estimable and Notable Nativities, and, with the Same Considerations, Concerning Disreputable Nativities and Those That Come to Naught And they appended the following places as being necessarily powerful in relation to the determination concerning estimable and notable nativities. If, when the Sun and the Moon are in profitable places, they should have mostly oriental planets as their spear bearers while none of the malefics opposes, they make the nativities fortunate and estimable, commanding and kingly; likewise also, if the lords of these should happen to be upon pivot points.
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If the zoidion of the conjuncition or Whole Moon, or the lords of these, should happen to be marking the hour or culminating, the offspring will be fortunate. And if the Sun or the Moon or most of the stars should be found in the subterraneous place, they will become notable and wealthy, but they will ruin their lives or they will be upset with jealousies and accusations and scandals. Wishing to decide the matter of happiness more clearly, we will make it more explicit by means of many and fully examined choices. For, each kind of figure-description is powerful individually, but judging the one together with the other, either it exalted the reputation if it was benefited, or else it ruined it even further if it was afflicted. Whence, we will append them not as refuting the former powers, but as further confirming them. So just as we spoke early about the Lor, it will be necessary to treat both the Lot of Spirit (which is found by day from the Moon to the Sun, by night from the Sun to the Moon, and an equal amount from the Horoskopos} and consider together both its lord and the place where it happens to be; and similarly the Lot of Basis (which is found from Fortune to Spirit and from Spirit to Fortune/and an equal amount from the Horoskopos - though the seventh number does not carry over to the other side for both day and night nativities, but it will be necessary to reckon from the nearer lot to the other) and judge together both the place and the ruler. If, then, the rulers exchange places - for example, if the lord of the Lot of Fortune should be in the place of the Basis, while the lord of the Basis should be in the place of Spirit, and the lord of Spirit in the place of the Fortune - such a one will be fortunate, royal, notable. And if the lord of the Basis should be in the place of Spirit, while the lord of Spirit should be co-present, he will be fortunate, high minded. And if the lords of Spirit and Fortune and Basis should be in their own places, the offspring will also be fortunate. And if the Spirit should be found with the Sun and its lord should be oriental, such a one will be fortunate. Likewise also, if Aphrodite should have authority over Fortune or Spirit or Basis, and should be found to occupy the orient and be in her own place, such a one will be fortunate. If the lord should be set in the Basis, and the Moon should be co-present with it, such a one will be fortunate and notable. And if the lord should be set upon the Spirit, and the Sun should be co-present with it, he will be fortunate, notable, and sovereign. If, when Ares is upon the Spirit, it should be found in the places of the Moon with il being co-present, the nativity will be fit for rule, commanding, estimable. And if, when the star of Hermes should be upon the Spirit, it should be found to be oriental while being witnessed by benefics in places of the Moon, such a one will have his good fortune from writing and teaching, will be dear to many, one vvho is truly erudite, and be will bc deemed worthy of honors and gifts and reputation, and he will be pronounced happy by many. If Zeus should have authority over the Spirit while Ares has a superior posilion over it, such a one will not be unfortunate, but effective and estimabie; but having been upset by oppositions, he will be ruined or he will have the experience of legal processes and banishment. And if the lord of the Spirit should be co-present with the Moon whilc being oriental, such a one will be.fortunate and wealthy and generous. And if the Sun should be upon the Spirit while being truly of his proper sect, the ruler being in his own place, he wil! be estimable, graceful, dear to many; but if in the sect of the other, he will be fortunate later after tinies of adversity. If the lords of the Spirit and of the Fortune should be found in the place of the Basis, while the rulers are co-present, the nativity will be brilliant
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and estimable. Similarly also, if the lord of the Basis and thc lord of the Fortune should be found in the Spirit wbile the rulers are copresent, the nativity will be great and fortunate. All those who have the lord of the Fortune and of the Spirit oriental and in their own places and vvitnessed by the Sun and Moon will become estimable and notabie and ones who dweli close to kings or priests, and they will be deemed worthy of gifts and reputation. If, when Aphrodite has authority over the Lot or the Spirit, she should be found together with the Sun and Moon, and one of the remaining stars bas authority ovcr these while not being in its own place, but ralher falls amiss, such a one will have hard luck and be ineffectual at what he turns his hands to. But if some of the stars should be in their own places, such will dvvell with great men or will be trusted in the royal courtyard, though in the matter concerning a wife they will come into grief and will be childless. If the lord of the Fortune or thc lord of Acquisition should not happen to be in their own houses or exaltations or trigons or degrces while being upon a pivot point or direct, they will reduce the nativity - especially wben malefics bappen to be witnessing the places or oppo.sing them; but if benefics bappen to be upon a pivot point, oriental, and direct, they make the offspring brilliant and estimable; and if upon the post-ascensions, they rise up ihrough their own efforts. If, when the Lot of Fortune and Spirit and Basis are ill situated, the Acquisition is afflicted, they diminish property with the advance of years. And if the Fortune should.fall amiss and should be afflicted, wbile the Acquisition should fall well, they become more advantaged from their early years. If the lord of the Fortune or of the Acquisition should happen to be upon the lower pivot point or should be post-ascending, it beslows prosperity and reputation with the advance of years. When the malefics are placed upon the Acquisition or are opposing it while the place is not upon a pivot point [in other's zoidia of the nativity and another's degree], they cause destruction of property, even if the Lot of Fortune and its lord should be well situated. Whenever the lord of the Fortune and the lord of the Acquisition should fall opposite one another, if they should be beneflcs, they cause the property to be ostentatious and flawed and uncertain; if they should be malefics, they cause losses. If the Acquisition should be opposite lo the Spirit, they provide loss of work and diminishments and damages, if they should not have benefics lying upon them. When the lord of the Acquisition is opposed to the Acquisition, it makes the property void. If, then, it should happen to be malefic, still worse; the benefics produce the same thing by taking it away, and they cause losses even upon these [places]. If the Acquisition should fall opposite to the rulers, especially when they are malefics and are not in sect, they bring losses straight-away. If Ares should be placed upon the Acquisition or diametrical to H, the things acquircd will be wasted on pleasures and drink. Similarly also, if the lord ofthe Acquisition shouid be opposite to the Acquisition itself, [it produces] those with an extravagant style of living. Similarly also if the lord of the Acquisition himself should be subtracting in numbers or not upon a pivot point or of another's degree, or [not] having a house
24. Concerning the Lot of Debt If the Lot concerning Debt should fall amiss, or its lord should fall on squares or diameters with it, while the malefics are looking ahead at it or opposing it or are superior to it, it makes the nativities debt-ridden. The Lot that concerns Debt is counted from Hermes to Kronos and an equal amounl
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from the Horoskopos? From the lots, then, falling in the Acquisition or the stars placed upon or opposing or squaring in relation to the Lot itself, the matter of the property of the offspring will be clear ahead of time. And similarly also from the stars placed upon the Fortune or Spirit or from the Lots falling together with them and from their lords, especially when they are looking at the Lot concerning treachery and the Lot of theft, if they should have some relationship to the Acquisition or the Fortune or the Spirit or the Lite, or to the lords of these lots. It is possible not to have [such a relationship] and such]'1 will not safely make acquisitions. For if the places in question should not have a relationship to the Acquisition or the Fortune or the Life or the Spirit, it reduces the means of livelihood of the offspring or his property. But if they should have some relationship to them, you will determine the circumstances of the property from villainy and treachery and plots of someone and violence and theft and attack.
25. The Lot of Theft The Lot concerning Theft is counted, in a diurnal nativity, from Hermes to Ares and an equal amount from Kronos; in a nocturnal nativity from Ares to Hermes and an equal amount from Kronos.
26. The Lot of Treachery For the Lot concerning Treachery, by day from the Sun to Ares and an equal amount from the Horoskopos by night the reverse. And if the lord of the Lot of Fortune or of Acquisition or of Spirit should happen to be on the Lot concerning Treachery or Theft, they will make Their living from violence or villainy or booty. And if the lords of all of the above should fall together, they cause the same things. And if the lord of Treachery or of Theft should be upon the Lot of Fortune or Spirit or Livelihood or Acquisition, the circumstances of the living will be found from these. If benefics should witness these places, and especially when they are in their own places or when they are in sect, they become virtuous. But if malefics should witness diametrically or in square, the manner must be considered. We will illustrate nativities that are reduced or come to naught after good fortune. If the place that concerns honor and exaltation should have malefics opposing which are not befitting the nativity, or its lord should not be witnessed by Zeus, especially when the lights are declining or when the Moon is afflicted, the circumstances of reputation and distinction will be reduced. When the Lot of Fortune is opposed to the Exaltation or to the lord of the Exaltation, it makes the reputation and distinction precarious. Similarly also, [when] the Lot of Spirit and the lords are disagreeable to them, they also happen to be destructive of reputation. And if the place of the Lot of Exaltation and that concerning Enfranchisement should fall opposite one another, and their lords or the lots should been seen by malefics, they afflict them, and the offspring will come into disenfranchisement and reduced circumstances and suffer certain outrages. And if the lord of the Lot of Fortune or of Spirit or of Exaltation should fall opposite to the [place] concerning Enfranchisement or to the Lot or to its lord, or if it should be predominated or witnessed by malefics, the offspring will come into reduced circumstances and suffer outrages. Similarly also, when a malefic should bear witness to the Lot--especially that concerning Enfranchisement - it will cause reductions of livelihood and worth for the offspring. And this is especially so when it is upon a pivot point, for in this way the ills of the offspring become conspicuous and manifest. The lights are malefic when they
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are opposed to the exaltations or to the lord of the Exaltation, especially when they are afflicted and are not in sect or even when one or the other of them is [in such a condition]; for they supply disenfranchisements and reduced circumstances for the nativities. If the Exaltation should happen to be in the Midheaven, or if a malefic should be in the subterraneous hemisphere, then after being advanced and honored by many in their early years - especially if a benefic is regarding them - they will later be reduced. If they should be interchanged, after having misfortune in their early years, they will later be distinguished. If the places should be altogether afflicted, they signify misfortune for the native from his youth, just as benefics witnessing the places will become presages of good things according to the place-positioning' of the zoidia and the stars. And if, again, the Spirit should be opposed to the Exaltation, it makes the nativities come into reduced circumstances. Whenever most of the places at the nativity or their lords should be afflicted, and the conjunctions or Whole Moons or the Lot concerning Enfranchisement should have the Lot concerning Justice or Enemies or Necessity falling together with it or diametrically opposed to it or in square, they encounter strong factions and are hindered in regard to enfranchisement. If the afflicted places or their lords should be few, or the [Lot] concerning Exaltation or its lord alone should be afflicted, the natives will go through life without advancement and without brilliance and held in low opinion. When rnalefics are opposed to the place concerning Dignity or when they hold a superior position, they bring reduced circumstances to the nativities. If the lord of the Exaltation and the lord of the Dignity should fall opposite one another, as well as the lots or their masters, the natives will come to be held in low opinion. If Zeus should be lying upon the Exaltation while being upon a pivot point, or if it should become lord of a pivot point, it makes men distinguished. If it should happen to be in a zoidion or in degrees of Ares, or should be present with it in its own zoidia, the natives will have the power of life and death. Whence, when the places and stars in question are found in profitable zoidia, they make the nativities brilliant, commanding, kingly; when they are upon the middle zoidia, they make them graceful, estimable, fit for rule; upon the declines, successful, effective, subordinate to the power of others, those who are deemed worthy of trusts and rank.
27. Illustrations of the Above Places As an illustration, let the Sun, Moon, Zeus, Hermes be in Leo; Kronos, the Horoskopos in Libra; Ares in Gemini; Aphrodite in Cancer. Such a one will be fortunate, commanding, sovereign, one who possesses a royal fate and one who is installed in great abundance. For, the Lot of Fortune and the Spirit and the Basis ended up in the same zoidion; while Aphrodite, the lady of these, was culminating in Cancer; and the lord of the trigon and the lord of the Exaltation were found to occupy the Good Spirit in the Acquisition (Neugebauer: Aug. 10, 188 C.E. at about 10 A.M.) Another (Neugebauer: Aug. 11, 86 C.E., or Aug. 2, at about sunrise). The Sun, Hermes, Aphrodite, the Horoskopos in Leo; Kronos in Taurus; Zeus in Sagittarius; Ares in Libra; the Moon in Capricorn. Such a one will be commanding, a lord of life and death, for the stars are found to be properly situated. Another (Neugebauer: April 1, 78 C.E. at about sunrise). The Sun, the Moon, Zeus, the Horoskopos in Aries; Kronos, Aphrodite in Aquarius; Ares in Gemini; Hermes in Pisces. Such a one will be commanding, sovereign, for the lords of the trigon were found to be upon pivot points and marking the hour,
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and the Lot and the Spirit and the Basis and the Exaltation ended up on the same zoidion. Ares, the lord of these, falling amiss and [unwitnessed in its place], caused impediments and banishment and violent death, for he was also lord of the conjunction. Another (Neugebauer: March 5, 101 C.E. at about 4 P.M). The Sun, Zeus, Aphrodite in Pisces; the Moon in Libra; Ares in Cancer; Hermes in Aquarius; Kronos in Scorpio; the Horoskopos in Leo, Such a one will be estimable, powerful, for the Sun had benefics as its spear bearers and was found to be lying upon the Lot of Fortune along with the ruler. And since the Exalt cosectarians of the trigon fell amiss and the lord of the Spirit was in aversion, he was banished and willingly departed. Ares was also opposed to the Acquisition, and the lord of the Exaltation did not occupy a suitable place, but rather it was afflicted by Kronos, it being in a superior position. Whence, we spoke well earlier. If most of the figures or their lords should be found suitably situated, they will come into reputation and make a display of their style of living; but if the former should fal! amiss while the latter fall property, the circumstances of reputation and of fortune will not last long.
28. Concerning the Propitious and Unpropitious Times of l,ilr from the Pivot Points and the Post-Ascensions The times of good or bad fortune are to be comprehended from the ascension of each zoidion or from the circular period of the star. That is, for those who wish to inquire about the times of iife, it is necessary to attend to the Horoskopos and the Moon or to the zoidion upon which the lords are present; and for the action or reputation, to the Lot of Fortune and Spirit and the Sun or to the conjunction or whoie Moon, as well as to the Exaltation and its lord. Those upon the Horoskopos in the first determination will begin to rule over the first period of time, then those in the Midheaven or in the Descendant or in the subterraneous place. And if these places should be empty, those upon the post-ascensions. But if these should happen to be empty, then those in the declines, even if they are not potent for such; they will however administer these matters. Whether those planets which have gone past the Horoskopos and the Midheaven will apportion, and then those in the remaining declines, nevertheless they will not apportion the complete ascensions or periods; but rather, as much a part of the zoidion as they can occupy, [they will apportion] a proportionate amount both of the period and of the ascension. For, those planets which are properly figured upon the pivot points or post-ascensions and are found to be oriental, especially those having a relationship lo the matters of the nativity, whichever they are, when they should be masters of the places in question, they will apportion the ascension of the zoidion and [the lords'] own periods, or the ascension and period of the zoidia upon which the lords are present. Similarly also, it is necessary for those seeking the times to compare the remaining places and masters (for example, concerning one's living, siblings, parents, children, etc.), the stars that damage or benefit, and what each of them is able to produce, in order that we should not have to write about these things several tlmes. For, their natures are set out above, but we will also give reminders in (he upcoming chapters. Whether, then, it behooves us to distribute the least period of the lord and that of that star lying upon it, then likewise the ascension of the zoidion or that of ihat zoidion upon which the lord is, it behooves us in another manner (just as we said above) to consider the stars ruling the trigon. For if both shouid be well situated, the periods of time will become estimable and helpful. If partly so, then
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[the periods will become] similarly so. But if they should fall amiss, the nativity will be irregular from beginning to end, or it will be upset with griefs and dangers unless the Lot of Fortune or its properly figured lord settles the nativity in prosperity and reputation according to its own support. And if two or more stars should happen to be in one zoidion, the period of each will act alone as it is being completed, and (he commixture of two or three stars will indicate the effect. Similarly also, the ascension of the zoidion, after it has been completed, will again act alone and together with the period of the star lying upon it or its lord. And if such times from the ascensions and the periods either of benefic or malefic stars or zoidia should coincide, both base and good things will result for each period of tlrne,
29. On Being Away from Home, from the [Writings] of Hermippus Neither Petosiris nor the well-known king have spoken out on the subjcct of being away from home, which is hard to grasp - or they have only said the following about this subject: "With regard to the times, if some one of the malefics should make a phase, it will make the nativity take place while away from home and in troubles." Which is true, but beyond these things they have nothing else on the subject of foreign lands. The most amazing Abraham in his books on this subject has given us the explanations of others as well as his own, by discovering and examining other [conditions] for nativities conducive to being away from home which have the following theorems: While the lights are setting, when Ares looks toward the decline of the Midbeaven at the Lot of Fortune, or toward the subterraneous hemisphere at the Moon or most of the stars; or if the loid of the Fortune may be found toward the Lot or the place that concerns Foreign Lands, or diametrical to them; or else the Fortune itself should fall wherever the Lot concerning Being-Away-from-Home does, while Ares should also be lying upon the Lot or should be looking at the place - it makes nativities conducive to being away from home. Similarly also, when [looking at] the Fortune or the Spirit.
30. Concerning Bcing Away From Home The Lot concerning a Foreign Land is counted from Kronos to Ares and an equal amount from the Horoskopos. And the following theorems cause the nativities to be readily moved, while the figures stated by Abraham will also indicate in what seasons and times the stays away from home will take place in such nativities. We will additionally append some of my own observations on this subject. Let none of those encountering [them] blame us if we should not appropriate the labors and observations of olhers as some do, but we do bear witness for those men. We arrived at the forthcoming [theorems]. For the distinguishing, according to Abraham, of the propitious times of those matters which are distributed from the Spirit (for this distributes), werever the Lot concerning Spirit should fall in a nativity, see, for the lord of the zoidion where the Lot will be found, how many years its small circle happens to be, and distribute these among the 12 zoidia beginning from the Spirit itself in accordance with the order of the zoidia. Then again, whenever its circle should be filled, see, for the lord of the zoidion next from the Spirit, how many years its circle happens to be, and likewise distribute these. And again for the succeeding zoidion if the nativity has years of life left remaining.
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If then the zoidion - wherever its times should happen to be - has a place indicative of being away from home or the Lot concerning Being-Away-From-Home or its diameter or square, or the stars subsequent to the foundation should fall upon the zoidia taken from its distribution, especiaily if the malefics are not on pivot points, they provide stays away from home. The lord of the zoidion of the distribution, if it should not be on a pivot point or should be in aversion to the zoidion while being malefic, causes stays away from home. Even if it should be upon a pivot point, it will cause them. Even if the malefics again have the distributions while falling in the zoidia themselves or square them, they provide stays away from home. And if a benefic should take on the distdbution itself. and it should be found upon a diameter of the nativity, it causes stays away from bome and removals for the native. When, again, the lords of the zoidia having the times or (he division should happen to be in aversion to the zoidia or opposed to (hem or predominated by them or not upon pivot points, the zoidia provide stays away from home. Especialiy when opposed malefics regard the lights in the lunar or solar [zoidia], it causes being away from home. If the lord of the zoidion where the times are should not be on a pivot point or should be opposed to it, it causes either moves or being away from home, if [indeed] the Lot concerning Being-Away-From-Home should fall on [this zoidion] or on its diameter or square. But if [the lord should be in its own place or should be found in the squares, they do not give being away from home. Hermes and Aphrodite, then, do not give long stays away from home, but rather grant that the returns are quick. If the two lots, that of Fortune and the Spirit, should fall in one zoidion, while the Lot concerning Being-Away-From-Home should be opposed to the zoidion or should square it, and soine rnalefic should be upon this place, the natives will experience being away from home. Similarly also, when the Lot concerning Being-Away-From-Home is opposite, the star having the times or (he one set over the Lot of Fortune, even if the two places (that of Fortune and that of Spirit) should fall opposite, it happens to be the cause of removals or makes the nativities be away from home, especially in the zoidia outside of pivot points. But even if they should be upon pivot points, or again if the zoidia where the distributions are should have the places concerning Foreign Lands and the Lot opposite or square, they cause the nativity to be in the condition of being away from home. Similarly also, if they should be subterraneous, they make those who are much away from home. If again the Lot concerning Being-Away-From-Home should fall on the Horoskopos or the Midheaven or the post-ascension of the Midheaven, the nativity not being by nature conducive to being away from home, or not having the figures in question, it does not make those who are much away from home, but the natives are rarely away from home, especially if they do not have malefics opposite. And if the superterraneous zoidia should have the times or the subdivision of the limes apart from the twelfth or ninth zoidia, they do not give stays away from home, as long as the Lot does not give [them], or a malefic is not opposed or does not stand upon the zoidion apart from benefics. When the subterraneous zoidia have the times, they do give stays away from home, especially when the Lot concerning Being-Away-From-Home falls on the subterraneous zoidia.
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Again, if the Lots (that of Fortunc and that conceming Being-Away-From-Home) should have malefics standing upon them or opposite, they provide frequent stays away from home. If the planet which is lord of the Lot concerning Foreign Lands should happen to be opposite to the zoidion having the times, it will put the nativity in the condition of being away from bome. And if the lord of the Lot concerning Being-Away-From-Home should also fall together with the Lot of Fortune on the subterraneous pivot point, it will make those who are much away from home, especiaily when contemplated or controlled by malefics or by the lights. If it should fall upon one of those zoidia gaining as its lot the possession of the distributions of the times or monthly [intervals], it provides removals, especially if it should have a malefic star opposite, or similarly a!so the lights should stand upon the subterraneous declining places. If the distribution should happen to be less or opposite, the nativity will be away from home by transit. But the superior stars, especially in the very wet subterraneous zoidia having the distributions, cause stays away from home, especially if the zoidia should have the lights or malefics lying upon them. But exceptionally, the underlying figures will be more active if the year being spun out has movement for the nalive in the place of being away from home, or those having nativities especialiy conducive to being away from home from the above foundational origin. And wherever the distribution of the general times or their subdivisions should fall out, whether the !ord of that zoidion is upon a pivot point or not, whether it should not have one of the malefics opposite, or whether it should be lying upon one of the zoidia of the lights, expeditions will result. And when they should be either upon pivot points or declining, they give expeditions away from home. And the malefics standing upon the declining zoidia or upon those zoidia having the times or the subdivisions give stays away from home, especially for those having movement in the year. Whenever ihe planet having the times should be foimd standing upon Ihe placc concerning Foreign Latids or the Lot, or the lord of the place concerning Foreign Lands should be so found, it provides stays away from horne, especially if a malefic should be square or diamctrical to adark [degreej.1 Similarly, evenif ih&zoidion having the distriburion of the limcs should be opposite to the Lot concerning Being-Away-From-Home, they confer expeditions, espccially in the declines. Again, if the distributions of Ihe times should fall on the declines, whiie zuidia are not opposcd or predominating, thcy do not provide stays away from home, but some cxpcrience delays about going away from homc and an aborted departure. Whenever a benefic should fall opposite to (he malefics having the times or the distribution, or should predominate, or, while it is co-present in subterraneous zoidia, a year conducive to being away from hotne should occur, they cause delays and hindrances of expeditions. If the Fortune should fall on Ihe piace conccrning Foreign Lands, or the lots should fall opposite onc another while a maleiic stands upon them or is opposite, it makes those who are liab!e to be away from home, as long as a benefic is not mixed up with them or set upon one of them. Also. if the lord of the Foreign Lands should happen to be opposite to it (or them) apart from benefics, while Ares again falls opposite the Lol of Fortune or the Lot concerning Foreign Lands or stands upon one of them, it causes the native to have considerable slays away from home. If again Ares should be lord of both lots, and it should falt in aversion to the zoidia and to those that provide the stays away from home, or it should fall upon very wet zoidia, it causes the nativities to be conducive lo being away from home.
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Ares falling in aversion to the Lot or falling on the one concerning Foreign Lands, while being the lord of none of them, does not provide stays away from home, but rather those who spend most of their lives in the fatherland, or those who suffer delays in going away from home. Similarly also, if the lots should have benefics standing upon them, they make those who are not fond of being away from home except rarely. It is necessary to find the figures for a nativity which do not readily provide for being away from home because most nativities are conducive to being away from home, some to constant and diverse stays away from home, others to infrequent and few such stays, since the figures causing stays away from home are plentiful in some, but not in others; whence some natives become much travelled, others are subject to moderate and not constant travelling. As regards those who at birth have only a few figures concerning being away from home, if the Lots conceming Being-Away-From-Home and conceming Fortune at the birth and at the recasting of the nativity should fall on good [places], they do not confer expeditions, especially when the year does not have a movement of being away from home; but if it does have the said figures, they do cause stays away frorn home. Again, if the Lot concerning Being-Away-From-Home is unconnected to the Fortune, especially when one lot has a benefic, it will not make those who are fond of being away from home, but rather those who spend their lives mostly in their fatherland. Ares in aversion to the Lot concerning Foreign Lands causes short moves. When the Lot of Fortune has benefic stars lying upon it, it does not give stays away from home, especially when they do not fall subterraneously. The Lot of Fortune falling upon the Midheaven while being in aversion to the Lot concerning Being-Away-From-Home, not having a malcftc or light opposite, does not cause nativities conducive to being away from home, but rather those who spend their lives in their fatherland. If the two lots should fall logether apart from [Ares] upon the decline of the Midheaven, having no malefic standing upon the zoidion opposite it, the natives do not readily undergo being away from home. But when the lots have the two malefics lying upon them or opposite, they make those who are much away from home, especially when the zoidia where the lots lie are very wet. When the Lot concernirig Fortune falls welt, having no malefic or planet that predominates either the lights or the Lot concerning Being-Away-From-Home especially when Ares is in aversion to the two lots - they do not give stays away from home, but rather one who wishes to go away frorn home does depart. For if Zeus should come to be upon these zoidia by transit, it prevents the expedition. But he is away from home as an exception if the year should happen to be one that falis out from the Horoskopos on a decline in very wet zoidia. This is especially so if a benefic does not stand upon it by transit or at birth; also when the lord of the times gives over the year to the Lord of the Lot concerning Being-Away-From-Home, especialiy when a malefic is looking on, or the reverse, the lord of the Lot to the lord having the times.
31. Concerning the Predeceasing of the Parents, with Illustrations Many have given various explanations about the predeceasing of the parents, but after exatnining them, we ourselves find as follows: Since the Sun and secondly Kronos signify the father, the one more preciscly associated with
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the Moon by day and by night (that is. the one being regarded by the Moon and the one co-present with it by existing in [its] house or trigon) - that is the one assuming the palernal place. Similarly also, Aphrodite and the Moon assume the maternal place. For each nativity, then, it wil! be necessary to consider which one is more contemplated by malefics, or which one has fallen more amiss, whether the Sun or the Moon or Apbrodite or Kronos, although [Kronos] is itself the destroyer of the father, for if the Sun in assuming the paternal place is scrutinized by Ares or Kronos while the benefics are absent, the predeceasing concerns the father; but if the Moon or Aphrodite are so, it concerns the mother. And if both the lights or Aphrodite should be scrutinized by malefics, the one that has fallen amiss or is found out of sect signifies the predeceasing. Otherwise. If the paternal lot should fali in a masculine zoidion or its lord is being witnessed by a malefic, it signifies the predeceasing of the father. Similarly also, the same will result for the maternal lot, especially if someone knows if the father is quite safe from danger. Otherwise. Take [days] from the arising of Sirius until the natal day, and subtract by twelves from the conjoined number. And with what is left over less than 12, depart from the Moon at one [count per zoidion]. If then it leaves off at a masculine zoidion, the father will predecease; if at a feminine zoidion, the mother. For example, for upcoming birth of the 13th of Mechir: From the 25th of Epiphi to the 13th comes to 203. Sublract 16 twelves. The remainder is 11. [Departing] with these from the Moon in Scorpio, it leaves off in Virgo, a feminine zoidion. Ares was also there. The predeceasing took place with the mother. Otherwise (Neugebauer: Feb. 8, 120 CE, 7 pm ). As an illustration, let the nativity be the Sun, Hermes in Aquarius; the Moon in Scorpio; Kronos in Cancer; Zeus in Libra; Aphrodite in Capricorn; Ares, the Horoskopos in Virgo. Kronos, then, having been closely associated with thc Moon by being found in Cancer at night and being the ruler of the Sun, assumed the paternal place. And it was looked at by Zeus and Aphrodite while occupying the Good Spirit. But the Moon and Aphrodite, having been scrutinized by the two malefics, signified the predeceasing of the mother. Otherwise. When the Sun should scrutinize the Moon, the mother predeceases; but if the Moon the Sun, the father. And if neither one should scrutinize the other and should occur unfigured, I take Kronos and Aphrodite. If these should not, Kronos and the Moon. If, then, the Sun should scrulinize and Aphrodite comes in between, it will intervene in the predomination. Know, then, that Kronos will never be predominated by [Aphrodite]. And the earlier passing away will either concern the father, or the reverse from Kronos and Aphrodite. And if the planet intervening in between those which are predominating each olher should not be one possessing a power that is predominative, the intercepted planets will be suitably tensed to accomplihb the specific effect. And predominations [do] come about in the same zoidion and diameter; in general the star approaching another also predominates it, or else the one among the pair that has a power which is predominative.
32. Concerning Parents from the [Writings] of Timaeus The matters concerning the father, then, are taken thusly: by day, the Sun will be consulted and the zoidion upon which the Sun stands; [by night] the lord of the zoidion upon which Zeus stands and the zoidion welcoming Zeus. The matters concerning the mother are taken thusly: by night from the lunar zoidion upon which the Moon stands and from the house steward of the Moon; by
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day from Aphrodile and the zoidion upon which Aphrodite stands. Whenever, then, the ones being consulted in accordance with their own sect should be found in their own house or their own exaltations, having a benefic over them in the tenth place or else being witnessed by one in any way at all, and should not be declining and should be in a place in wbich they take delight while not being afflicted by one of the malefics, they show the matters concerning the parents to be estimable and notable and bright. But if the one that has to signify the matters concerning the parents should be witnessed by one of the destroyers vvith the presence of the hurling of rays or being in the tenth place, or should be found in a place in wbich it does not take delight, It will indicate that the parents witl be obscure and disrepulable, And the hosts to the indicative one will also co-indicate the matters concerning the parents by position and the witnessing of the other stars, whether good or bad. If, then, the star indicative of the matters concerning the parents should fall amiss as to place and should be afflicted by one of the destroyers, and its host should either be found to have set under the beams of the Sun, or else neither it nor the indicative maltreated one should have dealings in the place concerning the parent, but it should rather be in aversion, it will indicate that the parent will be depressed and obscure and ignoble. And if in addition to not having dealings, they should also be afflicted by destroyers while they regard [them] or by co-presence, they indicate that the parents will be slaves and subordinates. If, however, while the one indicating the matters concerning the parent's should decline or be otherwise aftlicted, the host, being well situated, should have dealings in the place concerning parents, having the indicative star as one having dealings in a place not afflicted by one of the destroyers, they indlcate the harm or penalty or ruin or exile of the parents. When Kronos is culminaling, Zeus subterraneous, it signifies that the father is a slave or a subordinate or an exile, especially if the Sun is afflicted. The Lot of the Father is taken thusly: For a diurnal nativity, from the Sun to Kronos and an equal amout from the Horoskopos (some take it from the Sun to Zeus and an equal amount from the Horoskopos); by night from Kronos to the Sun. Thc Lot of the Mother is taken by night from the Moon to Aphrodite,] by day from Aphrodite to the Moon, and an equal amount from the Horoskopos. The Lot of Parents, then, is found . . .[Lacuna in (ext.J One must take the adoption of the father from the diameter dropped down from the Lot. If the lord of the Lot of the Falher should happen to be upon the diameter, or the lord of the diameter upon the Lot, it indicates that the father is adopted. Similarly also, if the lord of the Lot of the Mother should be found in the diameter, and the lord of the diameter of the Lot of the Mother should be found in the Lot of the Mother, it will indicate the something similar.
33. Concerning the Bereavement of Fathers Ares with the Sun square Kronos causes bereavement. Kronos and Ares similarly configured with Hermes while Zeus is not regarding them make for the bereavement of parents. Kronos with Zeus while setting causes bereavement. The Moon in a bicorporeal zoidion and witnessed by Zeus makes for two fathers. And if Aphrodite should mark the hour, and the Moon should be subterraneous in the house of Ares, and Zeus should witness from its own house, it will make for two fathers. One must take the characters of the parents from the stars that are configured. Kronos will show those who are sullen, jealous, deeply depraved,
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suspicious, foul, secretive, those who are surrounded by sufiering, indecent, those who squander, concerning divine matters ... [Lacuna in text] those who are dear to the great. Zeus will show those who love goodness, who are brilliant, munificent, possessing leisure, cheerful. Ares those who are audacious, trascibte, precipitate, insolent, rcckless, restless, dangerous, drunks, taborious. For the mother, when Ares prevails over the Moon or rules over Aphrodite, it indicates that thc mother is rough and an adulteress and one who is burdcned by acute suffering from blood or decay if no bcnefic should alleviate it by looking on. But when Aphrodite bears witness to ibe lights, it shows the parents to be are merry, fond of music and good cheer, affectionate, and religious. Hermes shows the parents to be social and economical, those who take part in conversation or science, but those who also lie about many things or those who behave badly toward more necdy persons. It also behooves us to take the places into account. The Sun lying in a masculine ididion and witnessed by a masculine star indicates that the father will be well-born; but in a feminine zoidion witnessed by the Moon, it shows hlm to be idle and effeminate. The Sun in a feminine zoidion witnessed by Kronos and Aphrodite indicates that the father will be neither secure nor unknown. The Moon in a feminine zoidion witnessed by a feminine star shows the mother to be domineering and irascible; but in a masculine zoidion and witnessed by a masculine star, it shows her to be irascible and unconquerable. In feminine zoidia and witnessed by Zeus, it shows the mother to be gentle and kind.
34. Concerning the Separation of the Parents When Ares and Kronos intervene hetween the lights or fall as intermediates, either with respect to the planets welcorning them or with respect to their rays, they separate the parents. Whenever the one of the lights in sect shouid fall amiss, while the light out of sect should be copresent with the other as a destroyer, it separates the parents. If the lord of the Horoskopos should have dealings, and the Horoskopos should be afflicted, and its coruler should have fallen amiss, the parents of such a one will be separated, and he will be unsettled in many things and have misfortune, and the property of his parents will be diminished. The parents live harmoniously whenever the lights and their rulers are harmoniously related to each other. Whenever the host of the Sun should be harmoniously related lo the Moon, and that of the Moon to the Sun, the parents will live harmoniously. Whichever one of the lights should be lying out of sect, or else should be cancelled by a destroyer or have one in the tenth place from it and be linked to it, or be diametrical to one, if [this light] should be carried first to the Descendant, or if its place should have the worst disposition, [that parent] will die earlier. If the Moon should be waxing as well as if the birth should be at a conjunction, and one of the destroyers should look upon the first Whole Moon, when it takes place in a feminine zoidion, it will indicate the predeceasing of the mother; but in a masculine zoidion, of the father. If the birth is at a Whole Moon, one must consider the upcoming conjunction: in a feminine zoidion while a malefic is giving [the Moon) over the mother will die earlier; in a masculine zoidion, the father. And if the Sun should happen to be in the subterraneous hemisphere, for the most part the father will die in a foreign land. And if the star of Zeus should be witnessed by a malefic, and should be delining while a malefic is post-ascending, it indicates that the father will
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die in a foreign land. When Kronos is separating from a pivot point, if it should apply to Ares and one of them should bear witness to Zeus or the Sun, the father will die in a foreign land. If in a diurnal birth the Moon should be afflicted under the earth, or while the Moon is declining a destroyer is applying, or the same afflictions arise for Aphrodite, the mother will die earlier. If the ruler of the Sun and the Sun should not look at the Horoskopos, the father will die in a foreign land. When the Sun is afflicted by a destroyer and Zeus is being predominated, the father will die a violent death. When Kronos alone, then, afflicts the aforementioned star, the cause of death becomes choking, dropsy, fluxions, chills, poisonings, shipwrecks, or old troubles. But when it is Ares alone that afflicts, the cause of death becomes a cut from iron, a bite, fullness of blood, abortion, premature childbirth, inflammation, a fall, or the violence of both hands from the combination of bending while also throwing.
35. Concerning Births Which Are Suitable to Freedmen and Slaves Differences concerning family and subordinate or well-born births are taken from the phases of the birth. For if the zoidion of the phase or the lord of the zoidion should fall amiss or should be scrutinized by malefics, the nativities will be more ignoble, or else those which are put down after acquiring reputation and trust. And if the phase should be found to be upon a pivot point, and the lord should be witnessed by good planets, they will be well-born and estimable. And if the place should happen to be in profitable zoidia while the lord should fall amiss or be scrutinized by malefics, then after being born freedmen or having been raised well, they are upset with oppositions and submissions and insufficiencies. And if the lord should be found in profitable zoidia while the place should fall amiss, then after having been in a plight over submissions in their early years and having been carried along in an erratic fashion, they will be successful and will be held in esteem, especially if benefics should be inclining. And if the place and the lord should also fall amiss and both should be scrutinized by malefics, then after having been taken captive, they will have the experience of submission. But if, while these things are so, benefics should be co-present or should give their testimony as well, then having been released from submission after the times of the malefics, they will come into superiority. And if the place should be watched over by malefics while the lord is watched over by benefics, then after having been born subordinate, they will be turned into freedmen, or they will advance by the substitution and the production of children. But conversely, if the place is watched over by benefics wbile the ruler is watched over by malefics, then after baving been born freedmen, they will revert to slavery, or else after having come to the end of their prime they will voluntarily give themselves up to submission, either on account of lack of subsistence or on account of credit and commercial transaction.
36. The 11 Figures of the Moon in relation to the Power of their Effects The figures of the Moon are 7 by a natural reckoning, but we have found 11 just as in others. First is Conjunction; second, Rising; then when it is 45 degrees away from the Sun it makes its a phase which is Crescent; then until 90 degrees, Half; then until 135 degrees, Double-Convex; then until 180 degrees, Whole Moon; then when it is 45 degrees away from Whole Moon (which is 225) it makes its second Double-Convex phase; then until 270 degrees, the second Half; then until 315 degrees, the second Crescent; then until 360
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degrees the Setting phase. There is also another figure of it when it first begins to wane. What Each Phase Signifies and What Kinds of Effects It Has - We will append how the figures in question are also taken in relation to their effectdescription and how they and are fitting far a certain god. The Conjunction, then, gives indications for reputation and power and kingly and sovereign dispositions, and for all of the public activities connected with cities, and for parents and marriages and mysteries, and for all general and cosmic matters. Similarly also, the lord of the Conjunction both of latitude and of the course. The Rising of the Moon (which is called Light) and the lord of this gives indications for the determination concerning length of life and what one does and concerning the support for what is about to be, and confirms the actions of the Conjunction. And just as the monthly and cosmic movements are considered from the first visibility, so the lord of the light shows the general effects. Hermes also joins in assisting until the 4th day of the Moon. The Crescent formation signifies the upset and the expectations in life, and what concerns women and mother. And Hermes assists until the 8th. The Half formation gives indications concerning injuries and ailments and whatever happens violently; and furthermore, concerning children and worth and future goods. And Aphrodite is configured until the 12th comes about. The Double-Convex phase gives indications concerning happiness and future advancement and being away from home and the sympathy of kin. And the Sun is also similar until the 14th comes about. The Whole Moon gives indications concerning good and ill repute and being away from home, also concerning things that happen violently, and concerning things that issue forth from excess and things that wax from the least, and concerning sympathies and ailments and political opposition and sympathies of parents. And it also has the color of the setting zoidion. The first lord of the waning of the ligbt gives indications concerning the diminishment of belongings and difficulties and things that go toward depression, and concerning sudden falls. And Ares is equipotent to the postdescension and is lord until the 21st day of the Moon. The second Double-Convex gjves signs for being abroad and greater actions and for happiness. And Zeus is equipotent to the god and lord until the 25th day of the Moon. The second Half gives signs for old matters and ailments of long duration and for children. For, Kronos is equipotent until the 30th comes about. The lord of the Crescent gives signs concerning the death of the wife and inactivity and plundering. Finally, the setting gives signs for bonds and constrictions and hidden matters, for accusations and disenfranchisements. And the order of the figures of the Moon is thus, but the commixtures with the 5 gods and the Sun are [are in agreement] with the pivot points. Wanting, then, to set out more concise demonstrations of the [treatments] of the schools, since I deprecate loquacities and juggling with fables, I have attached the summaries themselves for those especially eager for such things and for those who try their hand at many kinds of training, and for those able to bring forward equal [details] through the specific notions. For I intend to persuade them, through what bas already been written and through what is about to be said, to lay aside what is not trustworthy and what is easily misrepresented in science, and I intend lo demonstrate
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that immortal prognostication is in danger with regard to the ignorance and nonsense of those who oppose the calculators. Whence those lovers of learning already practiced in the arithmetical and didactic disciplines will obtain a supremacy of opinion through this treatise, as long as they are not also uninitiated in the construction of the canons and introductory matters, which I did not wish to prefix and repeat. And if we also seem to compile and interpret the dogmas of the ancients by means of that which is secure and unbiased and suitably didactic in the treatments of the schools, by this we will obtain a virtuous commendation from those encountering it. For, others who make use of loquacity and diverse methods and make a show of interpretation have in addition overthrown the pre-existent opinion of prognostication, and they have declared a belief to be Hellenic by decking out a barbaric opinion with arguments. One should regard these people as making a display in the manner of Sirens, who, inviting sailors with a seductive and plaintive sound made by musical instruments and destructive song, annihilate them on the sea rocks. Some are affected the same way, and those who encounter the schools of those [Sirens] have suffered. Those who have been charmed with a display and adducing of arguments in favor of commencements, and those who have fallen into a limitless wood and have not found a way out, are annihilated not only in the deep but in the labyrinth, while those who seem to have escaped the danger, by having encountered a grievous and manifold torture, have a wreiched end. If, then, someone having the wisdom of Odysseus should sail by these, he leaves behind in his life this august knowledge; having been associated or conversant with it, he will always finish his time by taking pleasure in extirpating the malignant opinions of those who contravene the rigbteous custom of the mysteries. Whence if we let them alone, we will end up returning to their view.
37. Concerning Injury and Ailment, with Illustrations for Each Zoidion - for example, Aries Causes a Certain Injury or Ailment, and so forth. Since the ancients wrote obscurely about the matter of injury, we will give a clearer explanation. Some, then, in giving their attention to the underlying corporeal and psychical places, making a start for the objects of concern in the birth of every native from the Lot of Fortune and Spirit, make known the matter of injuries and ailments with reference to the presence of the malefics. For example, the Lot of Fortune, the breast; the 2nd, the rib; the 3rd, the belly; the 4th, the haunches; the 5th, the small part; the 6th, the thighs; the 7th, the knees; the 8th, the shins; the 9th, the feet; the 10th, the head; the 11th, the face, neck; the 12th, the arms, the shoulders. And the illnesses from the Spirit, for the Spirit itself is the heart; the 2nd zoidion, the inner cavity; the 3rd, that through which the sperm is carried and the place of the kidneys; the 4th, the colon; the 5th, the liver; the 6th; the second cavity; the 7th, the bladder; the 8th, the bowels; the 9th, the place of membranes and teeth and ears; the 10th, the gullet; the 11th, the tongue; the 12th, the stomach. These have been indicated for Leo for the latter, and Cancer for the former, since the Moon is the Fortune of the cosmos, while the Sun is mind and spirit. And those before us [had] these. But by experience the [assignments] seemed to us to be more precisely as follows. For let it be the case that Ares generally signifies the matters concerning the bead and the sense-organs and eyes. This place, then, as for the alleviation that we care about, causes headaches, weak sight, apoplexy, poor hearing, dulling of vision, leprosy, skin eruptions, runny sores, mange, baldness, insensitivity, putrefaction,
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attacks of flatulence, callouses, overgrown flesh, and whatever usually accompanies the sense-organs and hearing and the teeth. Taurus signifies the neck, face, gullet, the sense of smell, the nose, bulging due to a ring and lameness due to bending of ihe foot, pain in the eyes, and dangerous causes or maiming due to thc Pleiades. this zoidion is servile and foul-doing. And it causes spasms, excision of the uvula, malignant ulcers, glandular swellings in the neck, or choking, injuries, ailments, or pains to the nostrils, falls from heights or from quadrupeds, fractures of limbs, throat tumors, mutilation, hip-disease, abscesses. Gemini is the shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, joints, tendons, strength manly spirit, change, generation of females, speech, mouth, wind-pipe, voice. When it is afflicted, it produces injuries in these areas, and it brings them into the paths of robbers and hostile soldiery, and they are upset with traumas and cuts and excisions of the limbs, or it produces those prone to jaundice or falls from heights. Cancer is the breast, stomach, jaws, spleen, mouth, private places, darkening of vision and maiming due to the nebulae. And in this place are made leprosies [in general], dull-white leprosies [in particular], skin eruptions, apoplexies, those prone to dropsy (the cause being the spleen), those who walk obliquely or somewhat lamely, those who are mutilated, those prone to jaundice, those who are variously colored, protrusions of the teeth or the eyes, those who squint a little, those who lose their eyelashes or have swollen eyelids, those who are crooked, those who are harmed by wild animals of the water, and those who have moles around their eyes and spots in the corner of their eyes, those who are prone to cough, bringing up phlegm, dropsy, pleurisy, pneumonia. Leo is the ribs, the loins, the heart, manhood, vision, tendons. They become, then, maniacs, those who are god-inspired, and those who are drawn in by violence and depravity, those who undergo dislocations of the limbs or mutilation through many contests or training of the body, and those who are harmed their eyes. And it is a cause of bad breath; whence it also makes those who are shameful or castrated, liable to fractures, those who fall from heigbts or quadrupeds, and those who are bitten by wild animals, and those who sustain injury by the collapsing [of buildings] or conflagrations; furthermore, those who experience melancholy, cankers, and unnatural lust. Virgo is the intestines, entrails, and the inner private parts. Whence it also produces both causes of ailments, and those persons who are weaker, or restrained and bashful in regard to sexual intercourse. (In order that we should not seem prolix, the injury and ailment are clear according to nature of the zoidion and the star.) Libra is the hips, buttocks, colon, the member, and hind parts. And this place causes paralysis, lesions, hernias, dysentery, dropsy, and stones. Scorpio is the private parts, and the fundament. And it also causes the darkening of vision due to its sting, maiming, weak-vision, stones, stranguries, foot diseases, those with much gut, fistulas. Sagittarius is the thighs, and the groin. And they become those who are variously colored, those having birth marks, those who are bald, those who are weak-sighted or with eye troubles or maiming, those with bad breath, gout; and it causes falls from quadrupeds, dislocations of limbs, harm from beasts, extra limbs. Capricorn is the knees, the tendons, and internal as well as external ailments due to its being an enigmatical zoidion. And it causes the darkening
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of vision, disabling due to the spike, and maniacs; those who are harmed by moisture; furthermore, it causes phrenitis; and Caunian women (who indulge in illicit love), tribades, licentious ones; those who are servile, foul-doers. Aquarius is the buttocks, shoulders, tendons, and joints. And it makes those who suffer from elephantiasis, those prone to jaundice, who are sallow, maimed, prone to dropsy, maniacs, those who are castrated, those liable to fractures, and stranguries for some. Pisces is the feet, tendons, and extremities. And they become arthritic, those who have white skin, skin eruptions, leprosy, those who are prone to vice, blameworthy, much injured, with extra limbs, faltering of speech; hard of hearing, mangy, those who are harmed by beasts of the waters, or those who are troubled with ailments connected with moisture. With these things being so, it will be necessary to examine more precisely for every birth the Lot of Fortune, with reference to what kind of zoidion it falls in (and the nature of the zoidion signifies the injury), and especially the lord of the Lot of Fortune with reference to whatever kind of zoidion it should be. Similarly also, it will be necessary to consider the Spirit and its lord, with reference to what kind of zoidion it falls in (and these will indicate the ailment). And they will be likewise known to you with reference to the place concerning what one does. The injuries and the ailments, then, will become more active when malefics should be upon the places or the rulers, or should witness them. The lack of injuries and ailments result whenever the places should happen to be well situated and the rulers unafflicted. Each star, then, will cause its specific effect from the nature it obtained as its lot. For if by way of hypothesis the Lot should fall in Aries, and Ares its lord should be there and it has authority over both Aries and Scorpio, [we should] foretell injury to the head or parts or fundament. The star will produce what it is accustomed to producing by its own nature; for sometimes, when both places are afflicted, both the injuries and the ailments occur, and especially whenever malefics should have the authority or should bear witness. As a illustration (Neugebauer: Jan. 9, 87 CE, about 8 pm) (in order that we may not seem to have spoken cryptically), let the Sun, Zeus, Ares be in Capricorn; the Moon, the Horoskopos in Leo; Kronos, in Taurus; Aphrodite, Hermes in Aquarius. The Lot of Fortune is [in Capricorn]; the lord of the Fortune in Taurus. He came to be maimed because of the Pleiades and the malefic Kronos. And he did unspeakable things because of both zoidia; for Zeus also, the lord of the Spirit in Pisces, was found in Capricorn. And from these things gout was indicated. Of course, the ailment and the injury was sufficiently found from the Lot and the Lord. Another (Neugebauer: Nov. 26, 118 CE, about 8 am). The Sun, Aphrodite, Ares in Sagittarius; the Moon in Libra; Kronos in Cancer [Gemini]; Zeus in Virgo; Hermes in Scorpio; the Horoskopos in Capricorn. The Lot is in Scorpio. His parts were injured. The lord of Scorpio was in Sagittarius. He was baldheaded and maimed by an arrow. And since Zeus, the lord of Ares and of the Spirit, was found in the place concerning God, he was made to recover his sight through God; and he also became a soothsayer. Whence also, when the benefics fall poorly, they cause upset with injuries and ailments; and when the malefics fall well, they are not injurious, introducing only the causes and the temporal considerations. And if the planets having authority over the Lot or Spirit should happen to be somehow intercepted or witnessed in the God or Goddess by malefics, they produce chanters or maniacs or those who are prescient. Indeed, the compiler has said "If the one showing the injury should be scrutinized by a malefic while
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happening to be upon a powerful place, the fortuitous ailments will become hard to wipe ouL and incurable. But if a benefic should be upon the place for feeling pain or should bear witness to it, [the ailments] will be removed by physicians or with the help of God." He says, then, that the pivot points and the two post-ascensions of the Lots are powerful places, and especially whenever the malefics should be upon them while being allotted them. It is needful, then, to examine the lots more precisely and to the degree. For often times, the lot falls out in a certain zoidion by the platic consideration, but by the consideration of degree in another zoidion. This results from the degrees of the lights and the Horoskopos, when [they] are found either at the end or beginning of the zoidia. In general, then, the Sun, the Moon, Kronos, and Hermes, when they are diametrical or post-ascending, introduce injuries that concern vision and the causes of other ailments or mania or apoplexy. When the Sun is post-ascending or when it exists in the same zoidion as Ares, it produces those who bring up phlegm, those who spit up blood, those with heart problems, and it produces injuries to the eyes. When Kronos and Ares are in the subterraneous hemisphere either together or alone, they produce those with weak vision or those liable to fits, or seers of gods or the dead and initiates of the mysteries or the unspeakable. They produce similar things even if they should predominate ur oppose the Conjunction or Whole Moon or the Moon by itself. Or if they should scrutinize while the Moon is putting an end to a certain phase, they produce maniacs, ecstatics, epileptics, those who chant. As an illustration (Neugebauer: Jan. 16, 106 CE, about 10 pm), let the Sun [and] Kronos be in Capricorn; the Moon in Scorpio; Zeus in Leo; Ares in Pisces; Aphrodite, Hermes in Aquarius; the Horoskopos in Virgo. The Lot of Fortune is in Scorpio; the Spirit in Cancer. Kronos, then, was opposed to the Spirit, the lot producing [ailments] pertaining to the intellect and soul, and it also scrutinized the Whole Moon and the phase coming forth, while the lord of the Lot was opposed to the Horoskopos. The injury, then also had lo do with the necessary p]aces and sensation in the feet, and be was exceptionally moonstruck. Another (Neugebauer: Nov. 24, 85 CE, about 10 am). The Sun in Sagitiarius; the Moon in Cancer; Kronos in Taurus; Zeus, Hermes in Scorpio; Ares in Leo; Aphrodile in Capricorn; the Horoskopos in Aquarius. The Lot of Fortune is in Leo; Ares was lying upon this, with Kronos in superior position. Since the Sun was found in the places of Zeus, signifying matters concerning the groin, thighs, and feet, it caused injury in these and gout; for this also has authority over the tendons. And since Kronos was found in the subterraneous hemisphere, he had images of gods and the dead in his mind. Another (Neugebauer: Jan. 21, 116 CE, about 2 pm). The Sun in Aquarius; the Moon in Virgo; Kronos in Taurus; Zeus, the Horoskopos in Gemini; Ares in Cancer; Aphrodite in Pisces; Hermes in Capricorn. The Lot of Fortune is in Capricorn; the Spirit in Scorpio. The malefics were opposed to these lots. He became soft, a doer of the unspeakable; for, Capricorn is also licentious, and the lord of this is in Taurus, a zoidion subject to feeling. And Scorpio indicates the place of licentiousness. Another (Neugebauer: Nov. 30, 117 CE, about 8 am). The Sun, Aphrodite in Sagittarius; the Moon in Cancer; Kronos in Gemini; Zeus, Ares in Leo; Hermes in Scorpio; the Horoskopos in Capricorn. The Lot of Fortune is in Leo; the Spirit in Gemini. Kronos lying upon this Lot caused castration; for, the lord, Hermes, was also in Scorpio signifying the private parts, and the Sun in Sagittarius the places of the groin. Whence, when the malefics additionally
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come into the Spirit [or] when they are opposed to it, they make maniacs or ecstatics. Another (Neugebauer: Nov. 17, 92 CE, sunrise). The Sun, MOON, Hermes, the Horoskopos in Scorpio; Kronos in Leo; Zeus in Cancer; Ares in Capricorn; Aphrodite in Libra, The Lots are in Scorpio. He was maimed by means of a barb. Otherwise, Kronos also had the superior position over the Conjunction and the lights; and the lord, Ares, fell amiss. Another. (Neugebauer: Apr. 28, 83 CE, about noon) The Sun, Hermes in Taurus; the Moon in Aquarius; Kronos, Aphrodite in Aries: Zeus in Virgo; Ares in Pisces; the Horoskopos in Leo. The Lot of Fortune is in Taurus. The lady, Aphrodite, is in Aries with Kronos. Such a one had mange on his head, and white leprosy and skin eruptions; for, the lord of Spirit was in Pisces. Another (Neugebauer: Apr. 23 104 CE, about 4 am). the Moon in Virgo; Kronos in Sagittarius; Zeus in the Horoskopos in Aries. The Lot of Fortune is in Gemini. Similarly also, the Spirit is in Leo; the became short-armed.
The Sun, Ares in Taurus; Gemini; Hermes, Aphrodite, Sagittarius; the lord in lord in Taurus. Such a one
Another (Neugebauer: March 28, 108, about 8 pm). The Sun, Hermes in Aries; the Moon in Pisces; Kronos, the Horoskopos in Aquarius; Ares, Aphrodite in Taurus; Zeus in Libra. The Lot of Fortune is in Pisces; the Lot of Spirit in Capricorn. Such a one became possessed, a maniac. The lord of the Lot, Zeus, was in the place of God, Libra. The lord of the Spirit, Kronos, was in the Horoskopos. And Aphrodlte was also found in the subterraneous hemisphere. Another (Neugebauer: Aug. 17, 112 CE, about 10 pm). The Sun, Hermes in Leo; the Moon in Scorpio; Kronos, the Horoskopos in Aries; Zeus in Pisces; Ares, Aphrodite in Virgo, The Lot of Fortune is in Capricorn; the Spirit in Cancer. Such a one is a hunchback.
38. Concerning Marriage, Wedlock, and Bliss-A Variety of Considerations and Figures I advanced, then, all the teachings that seemed to me to be true by experience, along with explanations. Now, since the matter of marriage is very diverse, I will clarify it in an easily graspable manner for those who pay attention. The matter of marriage is grasped naturally from the 7th zoidion of the Horoskopos. It is necessary to consider how Aphrodite is situated, with what planets and by what planet or planets it is witnessed or mastered. For when it is in tropical zoidia or has dealings in bicorporeal zoidia, especially at night, it makes those who are polygamous and promiscuous, and especially if Hermes should happen to be together with it, or much more so if Ares should also happen to bear witness to it. That is, they come lo have intercourse with male children. And if the zoidion should also happen to be more virile, they become more successful with regard to intercourse. If Aphrodite should have dealings, while her ford should have set or should occupy the Evil Spirit-or a destructive planet should afflict it-or it should be foully situated, it makes the marriage and the union unfortunate. And if a destructive planet should render Aphrodite herself ineffectual by testifying to her or especially to her ruler, it causes the death of the wife or injury or upset. And if they should be well situated in with regard to the nativity, it causes
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inheritances from women; but if they should be poorly situated, it causes ailments and pain. If Kronos should look ahead at Aphrodite while she is setting, it makes those who are unmarried and hard to deal with. If Aphrodite should chance to be in the zoidion of Kronos, or in its bounds, or if it should be opposed by Kronos in accordance with an isosceles line,1 and neither Ares nor Zeus should bear witness to her, and Hermes should not be co-present with her, then they will be widows and virgins. But every time that Kronos opposes Aphrodite, it bestows a wife who has been injured or who is barren. Similarly also, the man for a women. And if Kronos should be culminating, but it should be opposing Aphrodite, it bestows a woman who is a slave. If Aphrodite should be witnessed by Zeus while being in the house of Kronos, or should apply to Kronos while separating from Zeus, or should come into contact with it, and if it should be seen by Ares, they have intercourse with their nurses or with the wives of their teachers, or with their stepmothers, or with the sisters or brothers of their fathers or mothers. And when the Sun is also bearing witness to them, or to the Moon, it will involve them even more in sin,1 especially when the Moon is witnessing them or being witnessed by them. Aphrodite in a setting zoidion with Kronos in the subterraneous pivot point will mix them in lowborn marriages and will cause them grief. In general, as often as they have Aphrodite with Kronos or as its ruler or superior to it, with Zeus also witnessing, they will have intercourse with their elders or else their superiors. And if it should be a women, the same. When the Moon and Aphrodite are upon the same pivot point, they have intercourse with sisters or brothers, especially when Zeus and Ares bear witness. When the Moon and Aphrodite arc square or diametrical, they make jealous natives. And when Ares is bearing witness, the tension is greater. The Moon and Aphrodite trine in [its] own house, especially when upon a pivot point, bestow a marriage with kin, and especially when Ares and Zeus are testifying. The Sun in its own house or exaltation with Zeus and Aphrodite joins them in a marriage with kin on the father's side. Aphrodite in her own house or exaltation in the bounds of Zeus, with Hermes and the Moon, joins them in a marriage with kin on the mother's side. When Aphrodite should chance to be in the subterraneous pivot with the Moon, or if they should oppose each other, or if they should be anti-culminating, they join them with fraternal or kindred persons. Every time that Kronos should be upon the tenth place from Aphrodite, or if it opposes, or if it should chance to be with it or should be the ruler of it, it will cool or defile the marriage, and more when Hermes is testifying. Kronos and Aphrodite, when he witnesses her in a post-ascension or in a pivot point, makes those who are shameful and lecherous, those who are given to innovation, and those who have intercourse with the unworthy or with slaves, on account of which they will be tempest-tossed unless some planet should cut down the affliction by intervening. And if the star of Zeus should testify, much of the irregularity will be concealed and it will not be shameful. That is, they will have intercourse with superior women and with the women of their acquaintances; and they will not have many children as those that.' consort with them will be barren, or else they will be slow to conceive, and the ones that do conceive will abort. Let similar things be supposed for female nativities. If Kronos should testify to Aphrodite or should be in her bounds, while Aphrodite should herself be figured by Zeus and Ares, there will be advance by means of a child or a female personage, and such a one will see good fortune, but will fail utterly in the end, unless they should be having dealings while in their own houses or exaltations. If the Moon should have rays hurled at her by Zeus or should be configured with it, and
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Kronos along with Zeus should witness her, the native will cohabit with an unworthy or bought woman; for, Kronos harms the worth. And if Aphrodite should be in exaltation in this figure while being witnessed by Zeus, the native will come into advancement and property, because of this, and he will be known by great men. And if Hermes should also be figured in this disposition, they will be effective and on target and prudent and charming, but promiscuous and for the most part inconstant with regard to marriage. And in general, Zeus regarding Aphrodite or being congenial to her or agreeing with her to the degree makes those who are well wed or those who are benefited by women; and women from men. And even if she should be afflicted, he serves as an ally so that everything should not be entirely overturned. When Aphrodite is upon a pivot point, especially in the Horoskopos or Midheaven, and she should not be afflicted by Kronos, she makes good marriages; and when she is being witnessed by Zeus, she holds out against afflictions so that things do not get overturned, causing sympathy and marriage. When Aphrodite occupies the Good Spirit in her own house or exaltation while having the tenth place from her occupied by Zeus or being contemplated in a trine, she bestows a good marriage, but she will cause pain with the death of a good woman. If Aphrodite and Kronos should occupy the Evil Spirit while Zeus is not looking on, the natives will be ill wed or widowers, being upset with abandonment and death. If for this figure (that is, when Aphrodite occupies the Evil Spirit without the testimonial of Zeus) a destructive planet such as Ares should bear witness, they will become adulterers or liable to penalties for adultery, loveless, sordid, and those who undergo reversals due to these. And those co-present with Aphrodite or diametrical to her will always cause the separation or death of the companion, or sad companions, and much more so if they should also afflict the Moon. When the Moon has set under the beams, it is not good for marriage. Ares lying with Hermes makes adultery and prostitution and lasciviousness. And if the zoidion is tropical or bicorporeal, still more so. For they will sin more frequently, and they will have a wandering eye and not be successful, though at times they have intercourse with those of like manners and they will experience dreadful treatment from them as often as they administer it; and much more if Hermes should witness these. The same things result for female nativities. And if Kronos should also bear witness, even more still. For in doing well by them they are treated ungratefully, so that they also plot in order to be ungraciously treated; or the women the men. If Ares and Aphrodite should have set under the beams, the natives wiil engage in clandestine adulteries and secret sins. And if they should also happen to be oriental or upon pivot points, it will be more apparent. And if oriental Hermes should also be present with them, the adultery and calumny will be more dangerous. Also, if Zeus should bear witness, the native will saved. But if not, he will be oppressed or done away with if he should have this manner of death; if not, he will keep his life by spending a lot. And as often as it should result that Aphrodite is poorly situated and Ares occupies the Evil Spirit, and they should have dealings while out of sect, or they should chance to be in the setting zoidion, or else in the house of a sectmate, the ruination will be worse and the adulteries dangerous, and there will also be jealous condemnations. Similarly also, when they are diametrical to each other, they cause what has been written above, but more intensely in relation to separations and unpleasantness and jealousies and angers, and they take up more plots and dangers. On account of Herrnes witnessing them, the native pursues innovative sins, and furthermore such are involved with
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servile personages and children. They are promiscuous and adulterous and notorious, and meet with seductions and factionalism and poisonings by friends and slaves and enemies. Zeus co-present with Aphrodite or witnessing her accomplishes what has been written above imperceptibly, and such are improved with greater property, especially if it should be oriental or upon pivot point. Whenever Ares should bear witness to Aphrodite in a manner agreeable to her, they are brought together as a result of adultery. Whenever Herrnes should bear witness to an oriental Aphrodite while Kronos does not commune with her or with the ruler, they are joined to virgins and maidens. And if Ares should look on, more so. And if Zeus, more honorably. And in general, always when Hermes bears witness to it, such a one gets involved and entwined with maidens and subordinates. And men and women do similar things in the same nativity. And if Ares should chance to be together with her, and if in a square as well, he makes adulterers, lechers, rolling about with the unworthy, faults, separations, deaths of companions. It is worse if Kronos is diametrical; such a one conjoins with older or sterile persons. But if Zeus, more dignified persons. And if the star of Kronos should also be figured with the star of Zeus as it lies together with Aphrodite, such will mix with superior or powerful women. And similarly for women. And in addition to these, delayed marriages and late marriages become strong and harmonious whenever the star of Ares and the star of Hermes should exchange with Aphrodite. And if Kronos and Zeus should be co-present or should testify to her in trine, it will be more steady. As often as they should have Aphrodite rising in the morning for a masculine nativity, they become dominant over women, but as often as she is under the beams, they become subordinate. The reverse for female nativities. You calculate the Marital Lot as follows: For a diurnal nativity, from Zeus to Aphrodite and an equal amount from the Horoskopos, but nocturnally the reverse, The place diametrical to the Lot, then, will be indicative of adultery. And if the lord of the Marital Lot should be found upon the diameter, and the lord of the Lot of Adultery in the Marital Lot, they will first commit adultery and later enter into a contract, and those who have contracted will separate and again be brought together by adultery. If the lord of the Marital Lot should have a morning rising, they will be combine in marriages from their early years. But if it should be an evening riser, they will marry late. And if it should be setting while it has dealings, they will be entangled in marriage jealously and in an irregular manner. The lord of the Marriage bestows the first marriage, while benefics harmonious with the marriage indicator or its lord will themselves also bestow marriages, and more if the zoidia of the witnesses or the marriage indicator itself should be dual-natured. Concerning Marriage, in a Different Manner For men, from the Sun to Aphrodite and an equal amount from the Horoskopos; for women, from the Moon to Ares. For, Aphrodite and Ares are destroyers of both the lights because though the Sun is exalted in Aries it perishes in Libra and causes the days to lessen, and though the Moon is exalted in Taurus it is depressed in Scorpio and causes a subtraction of its light cosmically. Aphrodite, then, will be the marriage indicator for men, while Mars will in general be the indicator for women. Who, for men it is necessary for the place of marriage to agree with the Spirit, but for women with the Lot of Fortune because of the conjugation and union of the Sun and the Moon. For in this way the sympathy and illegality of the marriage will be judged. If, then, many stars should be present together upon the place of the marriage indicator, or should witness it, there will be polygamy. And if the
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stars should be entwined with the Moon while Zeus is testifying, they will be legally brought together. And if Kronos, they will be separated by death. And if Hermes should be apart from Zeus, he will be at fault with slaves. And if Zeus should witness Kronos, the marriage will be consecrated legally, or they will produce noble offspring. And if [it] should be somehow entangled with Aphrodite, or should have a relationship to her, the marriage will be from habituation. And if Zeus should testify, the marriage will be lawful and advantageous and sympathetic. But if Hermes and Ares should testify to Kronos while Zeus is absent, they will be brought together with common or sterile [women], or those who are ugly or mutilated. If the Moon should additionally be with Aphrodite, he will pursue that which is companionable and lascivious, and jealousies and factions will come about, and the companionship will be cooperative. And if the Sun should hold sway over the marriage indicator and should be well figured, while the star of Zeus should intertwine with the Moon, they will be brought together legally, and the marriage will be steady or reputable. And if the Moon should somehow be contemplated by Kronos, the marriage will be as a result of orphanhood or from guardians. And if the star of Aphrodite and the star of Ares should chance to be together or should be entangled with the Moon, they will be brought together either with women who have a past or by habituation. And if the Moon or Aphrodite should somehow be configured with Zeus or the Sun while the remaining planets are absent, they will become monogamous. Now, for both men and women it will be necessary to examine the Lot of Fortune and the Spirit, and their squares and diameters, as well as their rulers and the lord, and whether they are benefic or malefic. And if they are configured while being in sect, the marriage will be fine and sympathetic. But if the places or the lords should be diametrical to one another or should be scrutinized by malefics, there will arise oppositions, factions, jealousies, hatreds, accusations concerning the companionship. At times, then, they will also be chastised for submitting to necessity. But if, with these planets being figured, the star of Kronos should congenially bear witness, there will be separation in death. And if Hermes should happen to be lord of the Spirit, and the Moon of the marriage indicator, and they should also be co-present or witness one another, such a one is brought together with ladies or women who are superior either in their manner of living or in their breeding. If the star of Zeus should somehow co-witness, the union will be advantageous and sympathetic. And if Kronos or Ares, confusions or jealousies or separations will arise and hurtful accusations will follow. And if Zeus should somehow be the ruler and should be configured with the Moon, and Kronos should testify, such a one will be brought together with a mother or a step-mother. But if the Moon should not have a relationship to the Lot of the Mother, he will be brought together with older women. And if the star of Zeus should be the ruler of the Spirit, while Aphrodite should be the ruler of the marriage indicator, such will be brought together with siblings or kin. And if Kronos should bear witness, it will happen clandestinely; but if Hermes or Ares should, separations and exposures will occur. And if, while Kronos is absent, the Sun should testify, the marriage will take place legally and with friendship and will be sympathetic and advantageous, And if the Sun should be the ruler while the Moon should hold sway over the marriage indicator and should be configured with the Sun, with Zeus also testifying, the marriage will be sympathetic and equally privileged and lawful, as well as reputable and brilliant. If, while the Sun rules. Aphrodite should hold sway over the marriage indicator, with Kronos testifying, he will be at fault with a daughter. And if the marriage indicator should come to have a relation to Kronos, and it should hold sway over the Spirit or Ares, they will remain unmarried. And if Kronos should ruler over the Spirit while Aphrodite should obtain the place of marriage as her lot and should be found with Hermes while
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being witnessed by Ares, such a one will be brought together with a barren or blameworthy woman. And they are brought together with foreign women or those of another race or they undertake the marriage in a foreign land when the marriage indicator should happen to not be upon a pivot point or should be in aversion to the Spirit. And the nature of the zoidia and stars will indicate from what country the women are. Similarly also, for women it will be necessary to examine the Lot of Fortune and the marriage indicator from the Moon to Ares, and to compare these. For if the Moon should somehow hold sway over the Lot, while Hermes holds sway over the marriage indicator and should be co-present with the Moon or should bear witness to it, she will be brought together with a slave or freedman. And if Zeus should somehow bear witness, the marriage will be lawful. But if, while these things are so, the star of Zeus should occupy the place concerning children and Kronos should additionally bear witness, she will be brought together with a child or one having the position of a younger child. But if the place concerning children should conic lo be [that of] Kronos, and the Moon herself should come together with Kronos, they will remain unmarried. And if the Moon should be the ruler while Kronos should be the marriage indicator and should be co-present with the Moon or should witness it, they will be brought together with a man but will hate him and will spend will lead an unstable life. And if the Moon should hold sway over the Lot while Ares does over the marriage indicator, and they should witness each other, the marriage will be unsteady or the result of rape or war and captivity. And if Zeus should bear witness, it will later become lawful. If Ares should happen to be diametrical to the Sun while being witnessed by Kronos and the Sun, he will be one accused of being soft. And if for females Aphrodite should somehow hold sway over the Lot while the Sun should be present with her, having been allotted the marriage indicator and the paternal lot, with Kronos witnessing, she is brought together with fathers. And if the Sun should hold sway over the paternal place, she will be brought together with an older man having the role of a father. And if Aphrodite should be the ruler, while Hermes should occupy the place concerning marriage, and Kronos should bear witness to these, they will become promiscuous or will be placed in a brothel. But if the star of Zeus should bear witness, they will gain and will become affectionate; while if Zeus should be absent, they will spend their lives shamefully and suffering ills. And if Aphrodite should be found in Pisces or in Capricorn with the figure being such, they will also perform shameful acts. And if Ares should be allotted the Spirit while the Moon is allotted the marriage indicator, the marriage will be booty. And if it should be found diametrical while being witnessed by Kronos or the Sun, the one accused will be captured. If Aphrodite should be the lady of the marriage indicator, while Ares should be the lord of the Lot of Fortune, the marriage will be a result of habituation. And if Kronos and Hermes should also testify while Zeus is absent, she will be accused of adultery. And as for the remaining figures, as many as are said for men it will also be necessary to watch for in women. For if it seems to have been ordered in a diverse manner, it will nevertheless become quite clear in those [marriages] that are met with.
39. Concerning Having Children or Childlessness The place concerning children, which is taken from Hermes and Aphrodite, must be examined. When, then, they are afflicted by Kronos and Ares, they are the causes of childlessness or the destruction of children, but when they are assisted by Zeus, they are the causes of fruitfulness. Now, one must also examine the ruler of the Lot of Children, which is found thus: For male
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children, from Zeus to Hermes; and for females, from Zeus to Aphrodite, and an equal amount from the Horoskopos. Accordingly, when the lord of the Lot is witnessed by a destroyer, it destroys children, but by one of the child bestowers, it is an itidication of fruitfulness. And Petosiris: Whenever Zeus and Aphrodite and Henries should not be afflicted, it is indicative of fruitfulness. Whenever the reverse, they cause laments and deaths for children. As often as they testify to the child bestowers from bicorporeal zoidia, or as often as the [child bestowers] themselves may be in bicorporeal zoidia, their number is doubled. When the feminine stars witness the child bestower, they give female children; the masculine stars, males. If for a masculine nativity the star of Zeus chances to be with Ares while ruling or being ruled by Ares, and the star of Kronos should witness Aphrodite or should be in her house, the figure is inclined to give childlessness, and they will miscarry their children. And if for a feminine nativity the Moon chances to be in the places of Hermes, while Aphrodite should be witnessed by Kronos in a masculine zoidion or should be ruled by him, such will become childless, or they will destroy their children. If Zeus should look at the Moon or Aphrodite, while the Moon is in the places of Hermes, but Kronos should oppose or be culminating, and Arcs should bear witness to Kronos, they will have a single child or be barren. When Aphrodite has Zeus bearing witness to her, but is afflicted by Kronos, it gives difficulty in the making of even one child. And if the Moon should be coafflicted, they always become childless. When Kronos and Ares are culminating or anti-culminating, they cause childlessness unless they should somehow be witnessed by a benefic.
40. Concerning Siblings When the Sun is marking the hour it makes for few or sparse siblings. When Kronos is setting, it makes for sparse or few siblings. Zeus and Hermes and Aphrodite upon pivot points are the bestowers of siblings. And when Kronos is opposed, it destroys the older sibling. When Kronos happens to be with Ares, it slays siblings or makes them weak. When Aphrodite and the Moon are congenial to the third place from the Horoskopos (which is the place concerning siblings), they will give sisters, and especially if the zoidion should be feminine. And if the Sun, Zeus, and Hermes should happen to be in a masculine zoidion [in the third place], they give brothers. And when the destroyers are witnessing the place concerning siblings, if they should be poorly situated, they destroy the siblings who are born or they make those who are without siblings, or those who have few siblings, When the benefics should witness the place concerning siblings, they not only give siblings, they also make for a good one. When the star of Ares is having dealings with the place concerning siblings and should be well situated - especially when it is being witnessed by a benefic and especially when looking at the Moon - he becomes a bestower of siblings. Some take the place concerning siblings as a lot, by day from Kronos to Zeus, by night the reverse, and an equal amount from the Horoskopos.
41. Concerning Violent Deaths, with Illustrations The diametrical opposition of the Sun and the Moon is not always difficult. But when a malefic should be looking on following the phase, or else should have rays hurled at it while maintaining a relationship, then it is
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established as difficult. Whence, the all-blessed nativities are not allotted good fortune all the way to the end; but rather, when the ruler of a star for a certain matter should fall amiss or else should be opposed, it will furnish misfortune. Petosiris, then, seemed to have fully articulated this matter, though he has then obscured it by saying mysteriously, "beginning, end, dominion over entire areas of scrutiny - the ruling star for each nativity, which star makes clear ahead of time for the offspring which offspring will exist and have what particular sort of support for life, and what sort they will be as to their habits, the type of bodily form, which all become consequences of this [star]. And without it there is nothing additional for anyone, neither work nor reputation." Now, how is it possible for one star, even though it is the ruler, to give good fortune to the nativity in all respects, or oppositely give bad fortune? Rather, in general, the [lord] of the original support of notable, middling, and depressed births will be found to be different; or else, it will supply power for the remaining [supports] but will be different than the remaining [rulers]. And we have found some who are fortunate in their life and reputation and are honored with pomp when the ruler seems to be congenially figured, but unfortunate in their children and wives, as well as becoming licentious and shameful and defiling their life and being talked about as unworthy of such support, and later reduced or having a violent death. The native, then, has not become fortunate, or whatever is consistent with the ruler, in everything, but a different rulership, by being afflicted, diminished the reputation through the introduction of many accusations. We have also comprehended others who have gone from a depressed and disreputable fortune to an unsurpassable and unhoped for support; and some who are fortunate in their children and wives, but wanting in their livelihood; and others who are happy in the area of property, but disreputable and even diseased; and others who are long-lived, but full of toil and mutilated; and some who have much property, but are short-lived or consumptive, not being able to partake of what is present. The life-giver, then, was one planet, and the lord of existence and of death another. But someone will say that when the ruler falls amiss, it causes a short life; for that very reason, when it falls amiss it is nut bound to measure out a happy life; nor, when the ruler has engendered a subordinate and depressed life, was it obliged to furnish a bright and notable life later; nor, when the ruler is welt figured, is it obliged to furnish for the well born native who mixes in no mischief a violent or condemned death. But rather, the ruler falling amiss engenders a lesser [life], while when the lord of reputation and life is found upon a pivot point and is giving over the times, it will furnish a brilliant one. Thus also, the planet engendering happiness, when it is also found upon a pivot point or in profitable places, will be a careful guardian until its own times, but if it should have the planet that imparts suffering or injury or some other cause of affliction in a superior position to it, or if it should be opposed, and after it has yielded in its turn, it will be exhausted of its own power. And there are other special matters in the life of men which are used to happening, which are not established through one rulership or treatment, but through many. If, then, someone should investigate the places and the rulers in an precise manner, it will be easy to grasp the part in which the nativity will be fortunate, and the part in which it will be unfortunate. If, then, as many stars as have a determination [pertinent to] livelihood should be afflicted, or to life or injury or ailments or what one does or the remaining areas, they will harm the nativity in accordance with each class. More often, then,
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we have found the compiler to make use of not a single power of rulership [alone], for he says, "For the one has possession of what one does, another the substance of the times, another the remaining or changing, another perishing." And, "By making a prior scrutiny of the place-description of the Conjunction3 or of the separation of the Whole Moon, upon which very thing-in relation both to the pivot points and to their post-ascensions-one's all depends." And, "for reckoning the initial birthday, it is necessary to make an examination of the Descendant, Pre-Descendant, Post-Descendant. For, the final passing away will be found in these." And many others. It is necessary, then, to take one place for what one does and reputation, and another for life, and another for injury and ailments and death. Everything, then, will not become a consequence of one ruler. We will more reasonably, then, make our demonstrations by means of many powers. But we will also clarify these matters at a later time, and especially with regard to the divisions of the times, but now we will push on to the determination of violent death. When the lord of the Conjunction or Whole Moon of the nativity should happen to be in aversion to the zotdion or should fall amiss while being witnessed by a malefic, it indicates violent deaths. Similarly also, if Hermes should be opposed lo the Whole Moon while being witnessed by a malefic, it produces an bad cause of death. And if Kronos or Ares or Hermes should be present upon zoidion of the fortieth day, it indicates violent death. Similarly also, when malefics happen to be upon the Descendant or Pre-Descendant, they also produce violent death and the causes of ailments and bad deaths. And the 8th place from the Horoskopos also possesses the same power in relation to the causes of death, and similarly with the 8th place from the Lot of Fortune, It is necessary, then, to examine upon what zoidia the Lot and its lord happen to be. For in these zoidia the causes of death are shown ahead of time, since when the Moon (which is fortune) is conjoined cosmically with the Sun in Aries, it caused an eclipse and subtraction of light in the 8th zoidion, in Scorpio, whereby it has been called its depression. We will show the pattern ahead of time by means of the zodiacal circle for the easy comprehension of what we are talking about. Aries is destroyed by Scorpio, and both are the dwelling places of Ares. Since, then, Ares is the destroyer of itself, it is from this that it makes suicides and those who throw themselves from heights and those who are ready for death or those who conspire with evil men, piratical, homicidal, those who bring the death onto themselves, and those who are destroyed by animals or fire or and an attack; furthermore, those who are destroyed by quadrupeds and blood and seduction. Taurus is destroyed by Sagittarius, which is Aphrodite by Zeus. These die well from wantonness or satiety or wine or intercourse, or arc those who die an easy death of apoplexy, those who are feeble, with no one afflictive cause creeping in except that when a malefic should be upon it or testifying, introducing an end from its own nature, it will indicate the cause of death. Gemini is destroyed by Capricorn, that is, Hermes by Kronos. Some, then, become those who suffer violent death, those who are troubled by black bile, or those who are undone with sensations in the tendons or in wet areas, by the ill-treatment of wild animals or reptiles or those who are condemned, those who are confined, those who choke, those who are undone by the assaults of robbers or hostile enemies, or by the use of drugs, on account of that which is highly watery.
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Cancer is destroyed by Aquarius, which is the Moon by Kronos. They are destroyed by means of water or internal annoyances, or they those who are undone by pain of the spleen or stomach, with the bringing up of water, in the sea, in rivers, in dampness, with the attacks of reptiles and wild animals, with elephantiasis, jaundice, epilepsy, with drugs, with a long anguished life; but for females, with pain of the breasts, cancers, with disturbances in the hidden parts or the womb, or with choking, or the abortion of children. Leo is destroyed by Pisces, the Sun by Zeus. Whence they die as ones with heart or liver conditions, or they are in danger in very wet [places], or because of water and falls, and through agues or female slaves. Virgo is destroyed by Aries, Hermes by Ares, And they die by betrayal and mischief; they are those who are upset by wars and robberies, conflagrations, attacks, weak vision, captivities, wrath of sovereigns, or by being led away, or by falls from quadrupeds or heights, broken limbs, attacks of animals; and furthermore, for female persons by the falling of the bowels, abortions of children, hemorrhaging, ruination. Libra is destroyed by Taurus, Aphrodite by itself. Whence they become suicides through the drinking of poison, those who are bitten by an asp, those who die by starving themselves, by intercourse, by having the uvula excised, by choking, by being mutilated or becoming maimed or paralytic, or those who are undone by charges from female personages, or those who fall from heights or from quadrupeds. Scorpio is destroyed by Gemini, Ares by Hermes. They become those who die by iron, by cutting of the private parts, of the buttocks, or of strangury, by putrefaction, strangling, violence, battle, with the assaults of robbers or the attacks of pirates, or through the authorities, fire, impaling, reptiles, by reason of wild animals. Sagittarius is destroyed by Cancer, Zeus by the Moon. They die, then, as those who are splenetic, or suffering in the liver, with disorders of the stomach, those who bring up phlegm, spit up blood, those who die in a fall from quadrupeds or by reason of the bites or attacks of wild animals, shipwrecks, watery areas, epilepsy, maiming, feebleness. Capricorn is destroyed by Leo, Kronos by the Sun. They die as those with heart conditions, fracturing, in baths or feverish, by the wrath of the king or sovereigns, or through impaling, the affliction of animals, or falls from quadrupeds or heights. Aquarius is destroyed by Virgo, Kronos by Hermes. And they die by reason of a wasting of the insides, by an disease involving dropsy, elephantiasis, jaundice, by eating iron, dysentery, betrayal of a woman. Pisces is destroyed by Libra, Zeus by Aphrodite. They die by means of waters or poisoning, discharges or a sensation of the tendons, or the private parts, liver troubles, hips, reptiles, by reason of wild animals. And these pertain to the determination concerning violent deaths. But in a different manner, it will be necessary to employ as well the causes of injury and ailments for each zoidion in order for the quality of death to be easily surveyed. And the co-presence or witnessing of each one of the stars joins in introducing a cause for death out of its own nature, it is necessary, then, to consider how the places and the lords are situated and by what stars they are witnessed, either by congenial ones or opposing, and to make a judgment accordingly. For when the malefics are present upon the places or are witnesses for the rulers, they produce violent deaths. But when benefics are,
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they produce deaths through allegations' or toil or injury or ailments or the onset of fevers. For example, Gemini is destroyed by Capricorn and Aquarius by Virgo, which is Hermes by Kronos and Kronos by Hermes. If, then, these should chance to be related diametrically or as squares, they also make those who suffer bad deaths or are short-lived, since the life- bestower was opposed to the lord of death. And if they are otherwise unrelated while scrutinizing each other in an uncongenial manner, they introduce oppositions and judgments and complaints, other transitory accusations. Let the same figure be similarly understood for Aries and Hermes. Now, the ancient one wanted them to he diametrical, saying, "At any rate, let every state of diametrical opposition - a state of the rising and setting of whichever of the stars or else of the Sun and Moon - end in dispute. But I say that the causality of those stars that are related to destruction or to some other rulership pertain to reputation and livelihood and death. As an illustration, let the Sun, Ares, Aphrodite be in Cancer; Kronos, Hermes in Leo; Zeus in Aquarius; the Moon in Pisces; the Horoskopos in Scorpio, The Lot of Fortune is in Leo, the deadly place in Pisces. In that place is the Moon, and Kronos is upon the Lot. The Sun, the lord, is with Ares in Cancer, in a wet zoidion. He died, then, in a bath, being drowned in the water. Ares was also opposed to the Whole Moon; and Kronos, the lord, was in aversion. Whence also, he died a violent death. (Neugebauer: 3 PM, July 2, 123 CE). Another (Neugebauer: 4 PM, February 23, 97 CE ). The Sun, Hermes, Aphrodite in Pisces; Kronos in Virgo; Zeus in Scorpio. Ares in Taurus; the Moon in Sagittarius; the Horoskopos in Leo. The Lot of Fortune was in Taurus. Ares, holding sway over the Spirit, was upon Taurus, and opposed, The deadly place was in Sagittarius. The Moon, lying upon it, has Kronos in superior position to it, while Kronos is in the zoidion of the Whole Moon. Similarly also, Hermes, the lord of the Whole Moon was opposed. Such a one had his throat cut. Another (Neugebauer: noon, July 9, 87). The Sun in Cancer; the Moon in Pisces; Kronos, Ares, Hermes in Gemini; Zeus in Capricorn; Aphrodite in Leo; the Horoskopos in Libra. The Lot of Fortune was in Gemini. Kronos, Hermes, Ares, being kept under guard in it, while being the destroyers of each other, are witnessed by the moon; and similarly also, the lord of the Whole Moon is in aversion. And since Zeus is upon the deadly place and has become acronycal, it did not have the power to help. Such a one had his throat cut. Another (Neugebauer: noon, Dec. 27, 86 CE). The Sun, Hermes, Ares, Zeus, Aphrodite in Capricorn; the moon in Aquarius; Kronos in Taurus; the Horoskopos in Aries. He also had his throat cut. Another ((Neugebauer: 4 am Jan. 28, 101 CE). The Sun in Aquarius, the Moon in Gemini, Kronos in Scorpio, Zeus in Pisces, Ares in Cancer; Hermes, the Horoskopos in Capricorn. The Lot of Fortune was in Virgo, the deadly place of Aries. Their lords were opposed to each other in a wet zoidion, and otherwise Ares also chanced to be upon Descendant. Such a one was boiled in his bath after fainting. Another. (Neugebauer: 8 am, Jan 10, 103 CE ). The Sun, Aphrodite In Capricorn; the Moon in Cancer; Kronos, Hermes in Sagittarius; Zeus in Taurus; Ares in Leo; the Horoskopos in Aquarius. The Lot of Fortune was in Leo, Ares was upon it in a fiery and solar zoidion, being opposed to the Horoskopos. And Kronos and Hermes had a superior position over the deadly place. Such a one was burned alive.
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Another (Neugebauer: sunset, Dec. 26, 116 CE). The Sun in Capricorn; (he Moon in Libra; Kronos in Taurus; Zeus in Gemini; Ares, the Horoskopos in Cancer; Aphrodite in Aquarius; Hermes in Sagittarius, The Lot of Fortune was in Libra. The Moon was present upon it, with Ares in superior position to her while being in opposition to the Sun. The deadly place was in Taurus; Kronos was present there, such a one fought with wild beasts. Another (Neugebauer: 8 pm, May 25, 65 CE). The Sun, the Moon, Hermes in Gemini; Kronos in Leo; Zeus in Pisces; Ares in Cancer; Aphrodite in Taurus; the Horoskopos in Capricorn, where the Lots also left off. Kronos, the lord, was in the deadly place being contemplated by Aphrodite. Ares was opposed to the Horoskopos. Such a one died by poison. Another (Neugebauer: sunrise, May 5, 88 CE). The Sun, Hermes, the Horoskopos in Taurus; the Moon in Pisces; Kronos in Gemini; Zeus in Aquarius; Ares in Virgo; Aphrodite in Aries. The Lot of Fortune was in Pisces. There the Moon is being contemplated by Kronos and Ares, The lord of Spirit and of the Whole Moon [were] opposed. Such a one died in a flood. Another (Neugebauer: 4 am, July 29, 89 CE). The Sun in Leo; the Moon, Hermes in Virgo; Kronos in Gemini; Zeus in Aries; Ares, the Horoskopos, Aphrodite in Cancer. The Lot of Fortune was in Gemini. There Kronos was the lord of the death and had a superior position over Hermes, the lord of the Lot and the Moon. And otherwise, Ares was also opposed to the deadly place. Such a one hanged himself. Another (Neugebauer: 8 pm, April 4, 91 CE). The Sun, Hermes in Aries; the Moon, Aphrodite in Pisces; Kronos in Cancer; Zeus, Ares in Taurus; the Horoskopos in Scorpio. The Lot of Fortune was in Sagittarius. The lord was with Ares in the Descendant. The deadly place was in Cancer. Kronos, the lord of the Whole Moon was aversion. And Ares was also opposed to its own house. Such a one fought with wild animals. But we did not comprehend the malefics in a diametrical positioning to be harmful in every way for every nativity, but there are times when they are even benefic (and especially for notable nativities), unless they are also confounded with many afflictions. For, since they become violent when constrained, such natives pervert themselves with unholy and unlawful practices, and they do wrong or plunder, and rapacity and desire for other people's things are established while they are showing off and raving in the good spirits of a reputation which is temporary; for they instill their own faults in others. However, they are also contemptuous of god and death, for these natives rule over life and death. Whence good fortune does not stand by them forever, but through the positioning of the opposition, some are reduced from reputation to a dishonorable and depressed fortune, others die a violent death, and some get as much suffering themselves as they have shown to others, being visited with vengeance and being chastised and censured for the previous useless display of reputation. For, with regard to what they eventually accumulated with trouble, anxiety and violence, when they have been deprived of the slightest bit of these goods, or when they have given it up unwillingly to others, they are in grief over it. For, a bridling Nemesis, jealousy, intrigue, betrayal, troubles, anxieties, wasting of the body, pursue these men with an unstable fate, since even those who wish to be released from a frivolous contentment are unable to change their fate to a moderate one, but suffer as much as the appointed fate forced upon the unwilling.
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And the diametrical positionings will be judged in accordance with both stars, one positioning whenever a star should be diametrical to a star while marking the hour, another whenever it should be diametrical in its own house or trigon or exaltation. And when the lords of the trigons or of the sects are opposing themselves, the natives will became most afflicted and unstable in their livelihood.
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Book Three of the Anthology of Vettius Valens
1. Concerning Predomination Concerning the support for duration of life, then, different writers have handed down the tradition in different ways. And since this area seems to be diverse and to consist of many parts, we ourselves will give further clarifications by examining the schools of thought. Let our first determination be that which concerns predomination and hurling of rays and rulership. And before all, let the predomination for the Sun and the Moon be sought. Some, then, gave it to the Sun by day and the Moon by night, but I say that the Sun also predominates by night and the Moon by day if they should happen to be figured opportunely. And if this should be the case for both, then I say to assign the predomination to the one that is more properly figured and to the one that is found in sect or trigon. Also, the ruler is found from the bounds of the one predominating. And if both should fall amiss, then the bound of the degree marking the hour or the bound of the degree of the Midheaven engenders the rulership, and of that one whose lord possesses the proper figuration with the Horoskopos to the greatest extent. Let the predominations examined by us be these. Primary predomination: With the Sun in Leo, the Moon in Cancer, the one opportunely figured with the Horoskopos or the Midheaven will predominate, while the lord of the bound will possess the rulership. And if both should occupy the bound of one star, that will indisputably be judged the ruler. Secondary: If the Sun should mark the hour while the Moon occupies the Evil Spirit, the Sun will predominate. If the Sun should occupy the Good Spirit while the Moon culminates, the Sun will predominate. If the Sun should be setting while the Moon is in the post-descending place, the Sun will predominate. If the Moon should be setting while the Sun is in the postdescending place, the Sun will predominate. If the Sun should fall in the decline of the Midheaven while the Moon is marking the hour, the Moon will predominate. If the Sun should likewise fail in the decline of the Midheaven while the Moon is post-ascending the Horoskopos, the Moon will predominate. Again, if the Sun should fall in the decline of the Midheaven while the Moon is culminating, the Moon will predominate. If the Sun should fall in the decline of the Midheaven while the Moon is post-ascending the Midheaven, the Moon will predominate. If the Moon should chance to fall in the decline of the Midheaven while the Sun is in the subterraneous pivot point, the Sun will predominate. If the Moon should be declining from the Midheaven, while the Sun should happen to be in the post-ascension of the subterraneous pivot point, the Sun will predominate. If the Sun should be declining from the pivot at the summit while the Moon should be post-ascending the subterraneous pivot point, the Moon will predominate. When both of the lights should be declining from the Midheaven, the Horoskopos will predominate, and the lord of its bounds will be judged the ruler. If the Moon should post-ascend the Midheaven whiie the Sun chances to be in God, the first one to bring its ray to bear upon the degree of the Horoskopos will predominate. When the Moon and the Sun are in the 12th place declining from the Horoskopos, the Midheaven will predominate, and the lord of its bounds will be the ruler. Whence if the lights should be not to speak with authority diurnally in the subterraneous hemisphere, the Horoskopos will predominate, and the lord of its bounds will be the ruier. But if they should be declining from the subterraneous pivot point nocturnally, the Midheaven will predominate. If the Sun should be in the post-ascension of the subterraneous pivot point while the Moon is in the
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decline of the Midheaven, the first one to bring its ray to bear on the Horoskopos will predominate. If the Sun and the Moon should happen to be in the setting zoidion, the bound of the Conjunction will predominate, and the lord of the bounds will be the ruler. Similarly also, if both should happen to be in the Horoskopos or in the Midheaven or in the subterraneous pivot point, the bound of the Conjunction will predominate, and the lord of the bounds will be the ruler. For if they should occupy the bound of one star in the same zoidion or in different ones, that bound will infallibly be the ruler. If the Sun should somehow be found in its own depression, it will not be the apheta unless it should happen to be marking the hour to the degree. Similarly also for the Moon in Scorpio. When the Moon has been found to be conjunct and has fallen under the beams of the Sun, it does not become the apheta unless it also marks the hour to the degree. And when it is being brought, to a Whole Moon, if it dissolves its phase within the bound of the Horoskopos, it is the apheta, and it is the destroyer if it dissolves the Whole Moon in the same day. It will be necessary, then, to consider how many degrees there are between it and the Whole Moon in order to learn how to declare the number of years. For example, the Horoskopos and the Moon in the 22nd degree of Aries. It dissolves the Whole moon in the same day at about the 27th degree of the same zoidion. The interval between it and the degree of the Whole Moon is 5 degrees, which conjoin together as 4 years. The native lived so many years. And especially if a malefic should bring its ray to bear and if it should witness or oppose the zoidion, there will be a death. But if a benefic should likewise regard it, there will not be a death, but injury or suffering. Also, the remaining phases of the Moon up until the dissolving of the bonds arc destructive. It is also necessary to judge that the predomination is then certain if the Sun or the Moon should indeed testify to the lord of the bounds and should happen to be upon pivot points or in profitable degrees. But if it should be found to be in aversion, the nativity will be judged to be without a predominant planet. And if the lord of the solar or lunar zoidion and the lord of the bounds should exchange bounds, in this way the rulership will also be without a predominator. And it is necessary to make sure that the apparent ruler should never chance to be setting; for thus again the nativity will be without a dominant planet.
2. Concerning the Notable Degrees of the Pivot Points Before all, then, after one has established the degree marking the hour and the degree culminating and the degrees of the remaining pivot points, it behooves him to take the interval from the degree marking the hour up to the degree anti-culminating, and to suppose that 1/3 part of the conjoined multitude in the pivotal figure consists of profitable degrees, and that either benefic or malefic stars are powerful in these degrees. But one must also suppose that the remaining degrees [from the next degrees] up to the subterraneous pivot point are unprofitable and the stars upon them profitless and ineffectual; and that the diameters of the Horoskopos and the remaining pivot points possess the same power in relation to the profitable and unprofitable degrees, the stars upon them being likewise vigorous. Now, it is clear that there are not always 30 degrees upon a pivot point, but sometimes more and sometimes fewer. And if the powerful degrees in zoidia marking the hour and setting should be fewer than 30, then there will be more than 30
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degrees in the Midheaven and the subterraneous pivot point. And if there should be more than 30 degrees in the pivot point marking the hour and the one opposite this, then there will be fewer than 30 degrees in the Midheaven and the subterraneous pivot point. For example, let Pisces be marking the hour at 13 degrees, the 22nd degree of Sagittarius culminating, the same degree of Gemini being under the earth, and the 13th degree of Virgo setting. I took the interval from the Horoskopos to the subterraneous pivot point; it comes to 99 degrees. The 1/3 part of these is 33. I departed with these from the Horoskopos. It left off at the 16th degree of Aries. These degrees and the stars upon them will be powerful, but the remaining degrees from the 17th degree up to the subterraneous place will be unprofitable. And their diameters will hold sway in the same manner. Again, I took the interval from the culminating degree up to the degree marking the hour. The result is 81 degrees. Of these 1/3 part becomes 27. I departed with these from the culminating degree. It left off at the 19th degree of Capricorn. These degrees, then, and their diameters will be profitable, while the remaining degrees will be unprofitable. It is necessary to do something similar for the remaining nativities in order to know whether the stars are in profitable or unprofitable degrees. However, it seems to me more natural for it to hold as follows: After taking the interval from the degree marking the hour up to the subterraneous pivot point and reckoning 1/3 of these just as above, and after departing in order from the degree marking the hour, to judge these degrees and their diameters to be powerful, and to judge another 1/3 part of the degrees as middling neither more good nor more base - on account of the post-ascension of the Horoskopos and the Goddess and the diameter of God. The first 1/3 part, then, of the degrees from the Horoskopos are profitable and powerful; another 1/3 part is middling; and another 1/3 part noxious and base. And the stars are also active after the same fashion. It is also necessary to [suppose the first 1/3 part] from the degree of the Midheaven and in the pivotal order [to be profitable]; another 1/3, that of the post-ascension [to be middling (as it was also named Good Spirit by the ancients)]; and the remaining 1/3 up to the Horoskopos - the declining degrees - to be afflictive and unprofitable. The diameters of these give their support in a similar fashion. Orion gave an exposition of all this in his book.
3. On Aphesis Since some, out of possessiveness or inexperience, treat aphesis in a onesided and obscure fashion (for, they make it known by always using the multitude of ascensional degrees from the aphetic degree up to the side of a square), it is necessary for us to clarify the distinctions. For we have found nativities which step across the side of a square, especially in the zoidia of short ascension, although the ancients specifically said that this was impossible. And again, we have found nativities that do not pass through a square even though there is no hurling of rays by the malefics. When a nativity is posited then, it is necessary to consider if it has a ruler or if it will be lacking in one, and whether the Sun or the Moon or the Horoskopos will be the apheta. And if the Sun or the Moon should obtain the aphetic place as lot, it is necessary to reckon how- many times are conjoined from the aphetic degree up to the side of a square for the zone where he has been born, and it is necessary that those who make such inferences make known that he lived just so many years. And this results if the ruler, being present in its own boundaries and being properly configured, should indeed
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apply to the apheta or should testify to it, and none of the destroyers should allow the multitude of years to remain in arrears after bringing its ray to bear. And if the ruler should chance to be unwitnessed in relation to the predominator, but should otherwise be found to be well figured (for example, if it should mark the hour or culminate [while being] oriental), it imparts its complete years. But when [it is not] upon (he pivot points, if it allows the reduction of the interval to remain in arrears due to a determination [of the presence] of communion, it will impart the remaining years. It is always necessary, then, to reckon the quantity of years from the predominator and to compare with the years of the ruler. And however many should be found, [the native] will live for just so many years. If the years of the ruler should be fewer than those of the apheta, the native will live for those of the ruler. For, the ruler does the imparting if the nativity should indeed happen to be one that has a ruler, with the pivotal intervals being left in arrears. But if the years of the apheta should happen to be fewer than those of the ruler, he will live for those of the apheta, and [the nativity] will be judged one without a ruler. And if the predomination should happen properly, [the apheta] and the ruler will each impart its own years. Some again, then, reckon the pivotal interval of the rulers from the degree marking the hour and the degree setting. And if they should be 5 or 6 zoidia apart, they make a subtraction of just so many years. I say that we reckon the interval of the ruler from the 4 pivot points and subtract if the nativity should indeed be found to be one with a ruler. For in the reckoning, if [the ruler] should be found to be culminating or occupying the Good Spirit or upon some profitable place, it imparts its complete years. Therefore, one should not subtract this additional amount" from the interval that pertains to marking the hour or to setting. But if neither the Sun nor the Moon should obtain the aphetic place as its lot, but the Horoskopos or Midheaven should instead, we must not yet reckon the multitude of years from the aphetic degree up to the square, but display the years by co-reckoning up lo the pivotal interval, if none of the destructive planets should cut down the [debt] of years by bringing its rays to bear. For the sake of an illustration, let someone in the second zone have his hour marked by the 8th degree of Gemini and his Midheaven culminated by the 22nd degree of Aquarius. And since the aphesis is from the degree marking the hour, the cessation of the years is not always up to the side of a square (the 8th degree of Virgo), but rather up to the subterraneous pivot point (at the 22nd degree of Leo), and the conjoined number of years must be produced, if indeed no destroyer should bring its rays to bear. For if a destroyer should be present or should hurl its rays upon the 20th degree of Gemini or whatever degree of Cancer, the native will live just as many years as are conjoined from the aphetic degree up to the destructive degree. Similarly also, if we should perform the aphesis from the Midheaven (at the 22nd degree of Aquarius), he will not yet have the conclusion of his years at the side of a square (at the 22nd degree of Taurus) but rather at the 8th degree of Gemini. It is clear, then, that aphesis has passed over the square side zodiacally, but not according to pivot points. There are times, then, when this procedure is suitable for the Sun and the Moon. Such a time is when they should be assisted in the passing over by the rulers - that is, whenever they should be witnessed by them when they are well situated and able to impart their complete years. And if we should perform the aphesis from the Descendant (that is, from the 8th degree of Sagittarius) up to the 22nd degree of Aquarius, we will find the completion in a similar fashion. For those finding the aphetic degree, then, it will
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always be necessary to examine where the pivotal interval comes beforehand, and to make the aphesis up to that degree if no destroyer should cut in. Let this rather cryptic account be tested and filled out by us, reckoning that the aphetic degree to be the degree culminating. When this is culminating, it will also be necessary for us to examine for the zone at which someone lives which degree is able to mark the birth hour, and upon knowing this, to perform the aphesis up to that degree. For example, let the aphetic degree be at the 12th degree of Scorpio for the 2nd zone. If then we were to consider it to be marking the hour, the aphesis would be up to the 13th degree of Aquarius, where it leaves off at the subterraneous pivot point. But if, as we stated above, we should consider the degree to be culminating, we will find the Horoskopos to be in the ascending zoidion at the 28th degree of Capricorn, and the aphesis will be from the 12th degree of Scorpio up to the 28th degree of Capricorn. And we will find out by also doing the same for the remaining nativities. Similarly also for the destructive degree when reckoning that the aphetic degree is the degree marking the hour. When this is so, it will be necessary to examine whatsoever degree of the zoidion is able to culminate, and to perform the aphesis up to that degree or to the degree diametrical to it. And in treating the determination pertaining to rulership, it will be necessary for us to examine (as we said before) the pivotal distance and the figuredescription, and make a comparison with the apheta. Let the Horoskopos be at the 18th degree of Sagittarius, the Midheaven at the 4th degree of Libra, and let Hermes be the ruler at the 13th degree of Scorpio. We calculate the interval from it up to the degree marking the hour. It comes to 35 degrees, which are 2 1/3 hours. Since then Hermes distributes its 76 complete years, divide these by 12. Therefore, 6 years, 4 months fall to each hour. Since there are two hours, then, they come to 12 years, 8 months; and of the 1/3 hour, there are 2 years, 1 month, 30 days. Together they come to 14 years, 9 months, 10 days. Subtract these from 76. There are 61 years, 2 months, 20 days remaining. It is necessary to reckon in the same fashion even if you should do the separation from any other pivot points. With these things being so, let the Moon be the apheta in Libra about the 8th degree. I took 29 years, 4 months of the remaining 22 degrees, and the 36 years of Scorpio, and the 18 years, 1 month, 18 days of the 17 degrees of Sagittarius. Altogether, 83 years, 5 months, 18 days come from the aphesis. Since, then, the years of the apheta were found to be more than the years of the ruler, the nativity will live for just as many years as the ruler Hermes imparted: 61 years, 2 months, 20 days. But if the years of the apheta left in arrears by the ray of a destroyer were fewer than those of the ruler - 53 years, for example - the result is that in the nativity in question only 53 years would be lived. If, however, the ruler should be found to be upon a pivot point and oriental, or else should happen to be upon the profitable degrees when fulfilling the aphesis, it indeed imparts its complete years. For when the ruler happens to be well situated, the destroyers that are present or hurling their rays will not yet become diminishes of the times. But if the nativity should somehow be found to be laking a ruler when there is an aphesis, then it will be necessary to examine the co-presences of the destroyers or else the witnessing by hexagon triangle, square, or diameter. The destroyers are Kronos, Ares, the Sun, the Moon while it is being brought to appearance. And there are also destructive places for each zoidion, the aphetic bounds and the bounds of the malefics. And the 3 degrees on either side of the aphesis will be judged destructive degrees, because every threedegree interval that precedes and follows has the power of co-presence or else of equivalence of degree. This interval itself also [exists] vertically,
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for all of 7 degrees. When the malefics hurl their rays within these, they become destroyers; but benefics become preventers of destruction. For example, let someone have his hour marked by the 12th degre of Aries. This same three-degree interval, then, will be between the 9th and the 15th degrees of Aries. If, then, a malefic should hurl a ray from the 9th to the 15th degree, it causes destruction not only at the underlying degree for the same zoidion as the aphesis, bul also in the other zoidia up to the side of a square. If, for example, with Aries, marking the hour, Kronos or Ares should be found in Taurus or Gemini around the 15th degree, when the aphetic degree comes to the 12th or 13th Agree of Taurus or Gemini in accordance with the sequence of times, there will be destruction. When the destroyers, then, are upon pivot points or post-ascending, they are made more vigorous, but when they are outside of the pivot points, they become weak. Let this determination be sovereign in relation to the planets upon pivot points. If, for example, while Aries is marking the hour as was postulated above, Kronos should happen to be at the 13th or 12th or 20th degree of Sagittarius, it is declining by Zoidion and since it hurled its ray triangularly at Aries onto degrees that are upon a pivot point and profitable, it will be judged a destroyer. But if it should be found at the 3rd or 7th degree of Sagittarius, it will be declining in both ways-to the degree and by zoidion - and it will not be a destroyer. And it also happens that the destroyers hurl their rays from places upon pivot points onto unprofitable and declining degrees, and do not destroy. Let something similar be supposed for the benefics.
4. Concerning Winds of the Stars and their Exaltations and Steps With these things being so, it is necessary to also record the winds. But beforehand it is necessary to examine in what degree each star is exalted, for the determination is known from them. Now, the Sun is exalted around the 19th degree of Aries, the Moon around the 3rd degree of Taurus, Zeus around the 15th degree of Cancer, Ares around the 28th degree of Capricorn, Kronos around the 21st degree of Libra, Hermes around the 15th degree of Virgo, Aphrodite around the 27th degree of Pisces. And in the diametrical degrees they are depressed. The square preceding each exaltation, then, will be called 'northern' and the square following 'southern'. For example, since the Sun is exalted around the 19th degree of Aries, the square preceding it will be from the 19th degree of Capricorn. If, then, it should be found in this [square], we say that it is going up to the North and is exalted in height; but from the 19th degree of Aries to the 19th degree of Cancer it is coming down from the North. And from the 19th degree of Cancer to the 19th degree of Libra it is coming down to the South; but from the 19th degree of Libra to the 19th degree of Capricorn it is going up from the South. If we are also seeking the step of the wind, we will discover it as follows. Since each step is of 15 degrees, we will get to know it by taking the interval of the star from each degree and discarding in accordance with a 15 degree interval. For example, let the Sun be at the 22nd degree of Aquarius. I take the degrees from the 19th degree of Capricorn to the 22nd degree of Aquarius; they come to 33. We subtract twice 15 degrees, or 30, which are two steps. 3 degrees are remaining, so that the Sun is upon the 3rd step of ascending to the north. We set this out for the sake of an example. And for
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the winds of the remaining stars, it behooves us to treat of both the wind and the step by likewise calculating the northern and southern semicircles. For every nativity, then, it is necessary to recognize whether the Sun or Moon or Horoskopos is the apheta, and with what kind of wind it is running, and to observe the remaining stars in this manner. For if some stars should be running with the same wind as the apheta, they will be congenial and sympathetic, arid especially in their own times. And they will be stronger and helpful if they should happen to be rising or upon a pivot point or adding in numbers and of the same sect. But if one of the stars should happen to be running with a wind opposite to the apheta, the opposite will take place, and it will be malefic, and especially for the giving over of the times. And if it should be setting and subtracting in numbers, it will be harmful and dangerous; not even if it should be, upon a pivot point in this part will it be judged continually benefic. But if it should have certaiin congenial figures to the apheta, and certain uncongenial ones as well, it will be irregular and neither always helpful nor always harmful. And if the Horoskopos should be found to be the apheta, it will be necessary to examine the lord of the bounds at that time, and to recognize the kind of wind it runs with, or if it is upon a pivot point or rising or additive, and to compare with the remaining ones. Some, then, will have the opinion that this finding is worthless, but I say instead that it is quite natural and effective. For in the canonical compilations no one has discussed this detail differently when treating of this matter.
5. Concerning the Sect of the Stars It is also necessary to consider the sect of the stars, for the Sun, Zeus, and Kronos rejoice when they are above the earth during the day, below the earth at night. But the Moon, Ares, and Aphrodite rejoice when they are above the earth at night, and below the earth during the day. Hermes goes with die sects of the ruler in whose bounds it lies. Whence, for those who are born by day, if someone should be found to have Zeus, the Sun, and Kronos wellfigured above the earth, it will be better than having them beneath the earth. Similarly also for the nocturnal planets, if someone should have them above the earth [at night], it will be expedient. Aphrodite rejoices more when it is marking the hour or culminating, and the remaining stars rejoice when marking the hour or setting. Illustrations of the Headings Above For an illustration, let the Sun be at the 29th degree, 30th minute of Cancer; the Moon at the 12th degree of Pisces; Kronos at the 27th degree, 8th minute of Sagittarius; Zeus at the 22nd degree, 13th minute of Capricorn; Ares at the 7th degree, 23rd minute of Scorpio; Aphrodite at the 28th degree, 13th minute of Cancer; Hermes at the 11th degree, 25th minute of Leo; the Horoskopos at the 17th degree of Pisces; the Midheaven at the 25th degree of Sagittarius. The nativity is without a ruler since Aphrodite, the lady of the hounds of the Moon, fell under the Descendant. The apheta is the Horoskopos. Hermes, the lord of the bounds, was also itself found to have been declining under the Descendant. The aphesis, then, is from the Horoskopos up to the side of a square and from the hurling of rays with regard to Kronos from a diameter onto the bound of a destroyer. For, Ares deviated its rays from the diameter because Zeus, being found on the same degree, prevented the destruction. He died then at 69 years. However, if Zeus had not prevented by trining, he would have lived only 60 years. (Neugebauer: 10 pm, July 19, 75 CE).
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Another (Neugebauer: 7 pm, March 15, 110 CE). The Sun at the 25th degree, 8th minute of Pisces; the Moon at the 16th degree, 53rd minute of Gemini; Kronos at the 1st degree, 25th minute of Pisces; Zeus at the 24th degree, 18th minute of Sagittarius; Ares at the 21st degree, 8th minute of Taurus; Aphrodite at the 9th degree of Aquarius; Hermes at the 12th degree of Aries; the Horoskopos at the 15th degree of Libra; the Midheaven at the 16th degree of Cancer. The lights were declining. The Horoskopos is the apheta in the bounds of Zeus, and Zeus was falling amiss. The nativity is without a ruler. The aphesis is up to the diameter of Ares at the 21st degree of Scorpio. That is, the planet standing upon the aphetic bounds destroyed when hurling its ray upon the same bounds. He died in his 51st year. The aphetic bounds, then, and those of the malefics are destructive not only for those degrees upon which the destroyers lie or hurl their rays, but also whenever the aphesis comes about in the beginning of the bound. And otherwise, it is not only necessary to reckon the time of the zoidion that has rays hurled at it, but also the time of the one that hurls the rays, upon which the destroyer happens to be. But whenever the Moon should be found to be the apheta, it behooves us to watch closely its preventions, and the hexagonal, square, and diametrical sides to the Horoskopos by ascension. For, these will be judged efficacious, and especially in the zoidia equally- rising or those of equal ascension or of equal power, or those hearing and seeing [each other], or in the degrees that pertain to antiscia. Likewise, if the Horoskopos should be found as the apheta, it is necessary to examine its distances from the Moon by ascension. But it seemed better to me from experience to judge the culminating degrees to be the fatal and powerful ones, both of the Horoskopos and the Moon in relation to each other, and those diametrical to them. For when these are upon pivot points, they have acquired no ordinary power. The apheta, then, will be judged from the Sun, Moon, and Horoskopos. Or the star that is found after the Horoskopos and the others next in the order they happen to be found in the nativity will be judged by zoidion and by degree at 10 years, 9 months apiece.
6. Concerning Winds and Changes It did not seem good to me that some had postulated the bounds for the sevenzoned sphere as 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 (and there is no harmony in this way), but it seemed better to postulate them from the houses and exaltations and trigons. For example, the house of the Sun is Leo, its exaltation Aries, its trigon Sagittarius; these come to 3. The Sun, then, has 3 bounds for each zoidion. The bouse of the Moon is Cancer, its exaltation Taurus, its trigon Virgo, Capricorn; these come to 4. Likewise, then, the Moon has 4 bounds for each zoidion. The houses of Kronos are Capricorn, Aquarius, its exaltation Libra, its trigon Gemini; these come to 4. Kronos likewise has 4 bounds for each zoidion. The houses of Zeus are Sagittarius, Pisces, its exaltation Cancer, its trigon Aries, Leo. It has then 5 bounds for each zoidion. The houses of Ares are Aries, Scorpio, its exaltation Capricorn, its trigon Pisces, Cancer. It has then 5 bounds for each zoidion. The houses of Aphrodite are Taurus, Libra, its exaltation Pisces, its trigon Virgo, Capricorn. It has then 5 bounds for each zoidion. The house of Hermes is Gemini, its exaltation Virgo, its trigon Aquarius, Libra; it comes to 4. Similarly, there will be 4 bounds for each zoidion. In Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, then, by day the Sun as the first will take 3 bounds, men Zeus as second 5, then Aphrodite 5, and the Moon 4, Kronos
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likewise 4, Hermes 4, and next Arcs 5; together they come to 30. But inversely by night: Zeus 5, the Sun 3, the Moon 4, Aphrodite 5, Hermes 4, Kronos 4, Ares 5; together they come to 30. Similarly, in Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn by day: Aphrodite, the Moon, Kronos, Hermes, Ares, the Sun, Zeus. But by night: the Moon, Aphrodite, Hermes, Kronos, Ares, Zeus, the Sun. Next, for Gemini, Libra, Aquarius by day: Kronos, Hermes, Ares, the Sun, Zeus, Aphrodite, [the Moon]. But by night: Hermes, Kronos, Ares, Zeus, the Sun, the Moon, Aphrodite. Similarly, in Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces by day: Ares, the Sun Zeus, Aphrodite, the Moon, Kronos, Hermes. But by night: Ares, Zeus, the Sun, the Moon, Aphrodite, Hermes, Kronos. In order, then, that you show see that these are truly the bounds, know them also from the nature of the winds. If the Sun should happen to be traversing its own bounds while the Moon or the master of the Sun's bounds testifies to it, the wind that is natural to the star will blow. For example, if the Sun is passing through its own bounds while the Moon testifies, an east wind will blow. And if Ares should testify, there will be a south wind and lack of dew. And if Kronos, a west wind, the cause of moisture. And if Zeus, a north wind resulting in dew. And if the Moon, a northeast wind. If Aphrodite, a southeast wind, inconstancy of wind, and storm clouds arise. If Hermes, a west and north wind, constancy of wind and heavy rain, a cause of thunder and lightening. If some of the stars should testify to the Sun and the Moon, for the nature of each it is always necessary to observe from which phase the Moon is being carried-either from a Conjunction or Whole Moon-and on what bound the phase is. And you make known the lord of the bounds and the stars present or testifying.
7. From the Anthology of Valens concerning a Numerical Lot and Length of Life. The Same also is Regard to the propitious Times, with Illustrations. There is also another numerical procedure that joins together with the matter concerning length of life and that matter which concerns propitious and unpropitius times, which the king also explicated in a mysterious fashion. Whence, if we should suitably find the predomination or the rulership, we will make use of the preceding instruction; but if not, of the instruction lying below. It will be necessary to examine whether the nativity is one of a Conjunction or of a Whole Moon. And if it should be found to be of a Conjunction, it will be necessary to count the degrees from the Conjunction to the Moon at birth, and to depart with an equal amount from the Horoskopos in accordance with the next in succession. And wherever the number should leave off, the lord of the bound will be the ruler of the life and the aphesis. And if the nativity should be found to be of a Whole Moon, it will be necessary to count from the lunar degree at birth to the upcoming Conjunction, and to depart with an equal-amount from the degree of the Horoskopos, not in accordance with the next zoidion, but upwards as to the Midheaven. And wherever it should leave off, the lord of the bound will be judged the ruler. It will also be necessary to survey the zoidion where the number left off, with which it is more associated, whether with the Sun (if in a masculine zoidion) or with the Moon (if in a feminine zoidion}. For if, when the Sun has the predomination, the zoidion where the number leaves off should also happen to be associated, and likewise also the lord of the bound should be harmonious with the Sun, and if it should happen to be well figured in relation to the Sun, it will impart the greatest of its years. But if the zoidion should be found congenial (that is, masculine for the Sun), and the
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lord of the bound should be found opposite to the Sun or in the decline of the Horoskopos or in the places that pertain to eclipses, it will become subtracter of time, or it will impart its least years. Whence, it will be necessary to examine how the lord of the bound is figured in relation to the predominator and in relation to the lord of the zoidion. For if it should be found in congenial and profitable zoidia, the term of life will also be complete. And if it should be congenially figured in relation to the one, but unsympathetically in relation to the other, it will impart its mean years. But if the ruler of the zoidion where the number leaves off should happen to be unsympathetic in relation to the predominate and to the profitable zoidion, or in aversion, or occupying the Evil Spirit, the nativity will be without a ruler. And then it again behooves us to examine the predomination of the Sun and the Moon. And if the lord of the bound and of the zoidion should be somehow well and harmoniously configured, the aphesis will be judged from the degree of the bound. Generally, then, for this teaching too it will be necessary to examine (he ruler for its separation from the pivot points, just as was illustrated in the case of the horimaia, and if it should be rising or setting, or outside or upon a pivot point, or has made an exchange in relation to the lord of the zoidion and is unharmomous to it, it will also be necessary to judge of it accordingly. And similarly also, it will be necessary to consider the rays of the destructive planets and if the aphesis falls out in the beginning of the bounds or at the end. For thence it behooves us to reckon the nativities of short or long duration, and those of twins, ihat is, often times, when a malefic had authority over the bound of the aphesis for the first born, or when the ruler fell amiss, the native lived a short time. But if in the case of the other native the bound or the ruler have exchanged, he lived a long time and support for his livelihood accompanied [him]. Whence an interchange1 of a degree with a second one often displays the greatest power. As an illustration, let the Sun be at the 25th degree, 18th minute of Taurus; the Moon at the 7th degree, 10th minute of Aquarius; Kronos at the 24th degree of Aries; Zeus at the 4th degree, 25th minute of Taurus; -Ares at the 22nd degree, 53rd minute of Cancer; Aphrodite at the 28th degree, 16th minute of Gemini; Hermes at the 6th degree of Gemini; the Horoskopos at the 27th degree of Capricorn. Since the nativity is of a Whole Moon, I took the interval from the lunar degree up to the Conjunction about to occur, which happened at the 2nd degree, 25th minute of Gemini. These come to 115 degrees. 1 walk back with these from the degree of the Horoskopos. It leaves off at the 2nd degree of Libra. The aphesis is from thence up to the hurling of rays of the malefics. For, Kronos caused the destruction by hurling from a diameter. Ares from a square at about the same degrees. And Zeus was in aversion while Aphrodile had fallen amiss, which did not have the power to assist. The nativity lasted for 28 years, 9 months. (Neugebauer: 10 pm, May 13, 114 CE). Another (Neugebauer: 3 am, Nov. 23, 127 CE). The Sun at the12th degree, l6th minute of Sagittarius; the Moon at the 17th degree, 24th minute of Sagittarius; Kronos at the 11th degree, 33rd minute of Libra; Zeus at the 19th degree, 11th minute of Gemini; Ares at the 4th degree, 20th minute of Scorpio; Aphrodite at the 26th degree of Libra; Hermes at the 27th degree of Scorpio; the Horoskopos at the 20th degree of Libra. I took, then, the interval from the degree of the Conjunction up until the lunar degree. These come to 5 degrees. I depart with these from the Horoskopos. It leaves off at the 25th degree of Libra. The aphesis is from there up until the 5th degree
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of Ares in Scorpio. He died in the 12th year. If this encounter had not itself happened, he would have lived for the 84 years of Aphrodite.
8. Concerning the Teaching of the Crisis of the Seventh and the Ninth And we will give an illustration, just as the king indicated, of taking the interval from the rising of Seth' to the birthday for a crisis, and discarding much as possible of the conjoined number of days at 52 1/7 a time, and multiplying the left over days as many times as there were discardings, and examine whether the conjoined number from the multiplication should have the specific number of a crisis, with a defect. For example, as a hypothesis let the conjoined numbers be 220 days. Discard four times at 52 days and 1/7 a time. They come to 208 days and 4/7, and there are 11 and 3/7 left over. [Multiply this by 4 and the result is 45 5/7.] We say that this is the crisis of the seventh. And he says similarly to examine whether the crisis of the number of years should not coincide [with something], with a defect. For example, if the underlying support for some illustration should be 47 years, and the crisis of 45 years should coincide [with it], the resulting [number] will be diminished since the crisis of the years of the support has coincided, with a defect. And he said that if the crisis of the seventh should fall upon, that of the ninth, the matter will be unharrnonious. For example, the crisis of the seventh had [4]5 degrees. These are analyzed in regard to 9; for 5 laid out nine times becomes 45. The crisis of the seventh, then, coincides with the crisis of the ninth. If, now, the crisis of the number from the years should coincide by defect, and the aforesaid should come about, it will not have the power to cut down the underlying support, but the years apportioned are lived. But if it should be harmonious, the determination that pertains to the crisis will curtail it in the aforesaid fashion. And to summarize, we said to multiply by 5 1/4, and to employ it in the same fashion as with the 52, and to inquire of the first crisis found for the ninth if the crisis of the seventh coincides with it. It does not please some that the beginning has been made from the rising of Seth. It is possible, then, that this has been done in a special way for the purpose of illustration since we have found some who make the beginning of the year differently depending on the zone. Let a more natural reckoning, then, be to depart from the Conjunction before the Dog Star up to the birthday. For, most have affirmed this to be the beginning of the year. Let this, now. be quite briefly the procedure for the days of the seventh and ninth. To some it seems better to seek the days of the seventh for nocturnal nativities, and the days of the ninth for diurnal nativities, with similar procedures for both, And the reckonings pertaining to sevenths will be related to Ares, those pertaining to ninths to Kronos. And these also possess an exchange of crises in both cases. That is, for the Sun and the Moon Kronos will be the [planet] of the seventh, Ares the [planet] of the ninth. This is because Capricorn and Aquarius (which are the dwelling places of Kronos) are opposed to Cancer and Leo from the seventh place, while Aries is the ninth from Leo and Cancer the ninth from Scorpio. But it is more naturally taken from the exaltation of the Moon, Taurus, Ares being the [planet] of the seventh because of Scorpio, and Kronos that of the ninth because of Capricorn. As an illustration, let it be the 3rd year of Hadrian, the 27th of Athyr at Alexandria, and seek for the 17th of Antoninus, the 11th of Phamenoth after
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this. I took the full 35 years, with 3 [days] remaining for the birth month, and from Choiak to Mechir at two for each month, and with the five sevens being divided out, 9 are left over. And [adding] the 11 days of Phamenoth., and they all come to 20, And there are 8 intercalary days. The days all come to 28. Let the 11th of Phamenoth, then, be a climacterical day of the seventh. Consider, then, what regards the zoidion and the Moon. The day of the ninth is found as follows: 1 multiply the full years by 5!/4 since each year has 40 nines with 5'/4 left over, with each of the full months being multiplied by 3 since each month has three nines with 3 days left over, and collecting together the remainders up to the day in question, I subtract as far as possible at 9 per time. I consider if the remaining days fill up nine. And thus it will be a climacterical day just as for the sevenths. And it will be necessary to make use of the same argument for the month and the year. The climacterical zoidia of the seventh are Aries, Libra, Cancer, Capricorn; of the ninth, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius; and the common ones are Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo, Pisces.
9. Teachings Pertaining to Conjunctions and Whole Moons and Conception in Relation to the Ascending Node that Concern Length of Life Since I keep mentioning my lack of malice when making a cross- examination for each heading, in order that I will not seem to do this out of conceit, understand that when I revert back to the books of the ancient compilers, their account is full of display and affectation in order to be able to astound the souls of dunce persons and the unlearned, but of a truth, to those in the know, it is unattainable and hostile. For, by wasting most men's time and beguiling them, it draws a circle of life around them and keeps them completely within its bounds. Let someone encounter the so-called Vision of Critodemus, how it has a beginning which is fantastic and the remainder full of marvels for the ignorant: "One who sailed on the open sea," he says, "and traveled many paths in solitary was thought worthy by, the gods of meeting with a safe harbor and the most secure of resting places." Then he gives an exposition of the sects and transfers with the most terrible oaths, and after deifying certain procedures for other chance persons, and showing himself off to advantage throughout this book, he symbolized how one's all is encompassed by the powers of others, encasing the truth of the teachings in indeterminate material. Now, it is fitting to exhort and astonish a man who has had much experience and who has become the leader of those who seek for themselves. For, by imparting these things in a mysterious and colorful manner, he won over many admirers to the canonical tabulations and argumentative compositions in prose. Some of these admirers, by dismissing the random talk and carefully following out the apparent headings with much effort, got commendation and excellence bestowed upon the man; others, in taking it up with a disposition incapable of labor obtained censure for the theory. But my account is bridled and didactic, I believe, and will also be without remorse for chance persons, in order that hostile dispositions should again embrace it through the actuality of what has been argued and what will be said. In having made the above disposition of the ruler and the destructive hurling of rays, and in having tested [the method] of the numerical lot and the destructive and powerful places, I did not wish to conceal but rather to share. Before all, then, for every nativity it will be
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necessary to examine whether it has predomination or rulership. If it should be found thus, it behooves us to make use of the terms mentioned earlier. However, if the nativity should be found to be without a ruler or without a predominator, since it is destroyed by no malefic ray, when we know the prenatal Conjunction or Whole Moon to the degree for both nocturnal and diurnal natives, it behooves us to take the interval from the degree of the Conjunction or Whole Moon up to the Horoskopos or other pivot point, but more powerfully upwardly to the Ascending or Descending Node, just as it moves according to the cosmos. Then, when we know the multitude of the number, it is necessary to depart with the same degrees from the degree of the Horoskopos upwards to the Midheaven. And wherever the leaving off should occur, it is necessary to reckon how many years are joined together from the aphesis in regard to the ascension for the zone at which someone is born, and to produce these. But if when the nativity is diurnal the number should be superabundant, it is necessary for us to subtract the pivotal interval (that is, from the Horoskopos up to the Midheaven) from the interval from the Conjunction or Whole Moon up to the Ascending or Descending Node, again dealing with the remainder in the same fashion upwards from the Horoskopos to the Midheaven. For the nocturnal nativity, after taking the interval from the Conjunction or Whole Moon up until the Ascending or Descending Node or else pivot point, it behooves us to depart with the same degrees from the degree of the Horoskopos in the order of the zoidia, and to show forth the years by reckoning them in accordance with the ascensions of the place where the number leaves off. And if the number should be superabundant, after subtracting the pivotal distance (that from the Horoskopos to the subterraneous pivot), it behooves us to depart with the remainder from the descending degree in the order of the zoidia up to the Midheaven, and the conjoined number in relation to the ascension will be the longevity. For the most part, wherever the Ascending or Descending Node or the Conjunction or Whole Moon should incline - that is, whether the hemisphere under the earth or above it - it is necessary to also perform the aphesis in it from the Horoskopos or Descendant. And if (he Horoskopos or Ascending or Descending Node should be found upon the zoidia of the Conjunction or Whole Moon, or on the diameters or squares to them, it is necessary to depart with the conjoined number of the interval in the order of the zoidia from the Horoskopos by day, but from the Descendant by night. And the square of the Ascending Node also has destructive power, but above all an aphesis to the degree from the Sun and Moon to the Ascending Node and its diameter or square. There are also times when there is a predomination or rulership, and (he sect itself1 concurs with the aphesis or rulership and has power for destruction. If, then, the predomination should be found to be congenial2 and the apparent ruler imparts the times, then the aphesis of this upward or downward treatment m relation to the excessive part of the ascensions will be judged for those who die immediately or for those who die in the womb. And let the same procedure be supposed for the conception. But one should preferably make use of the Horoskopos of the birth. And the conception also destroys alone if one should indeed make use of the Conjunction or Whole Moon in relation to the Ascending or Descending Node, and in relation to the pivot points. And if the same years from the birth and from the conception should be found to be quite close, the death will have been incontrovertibly discovered.
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We will explain the approximate finding quite briefly. For every nativity the square of the Sun is the conception zoidion. Now, sometimes it is indeed the triangle whenever (he Sun should happen to be of many degrees, and especially in the zoidia of short ascension. But in the zoidia of long ascension, it is with regard to the hexagon. And wherever the Horoskopos of the birth should fall out, from there infer the Moon at conception. And in this way recognize whether the conception happened to pertain to a Conjunction or a Whole Moon. For example: the Sun in Aquarius; the Moon in Scorpio; the Horoskopos in Virgo. The Sun at conception was in Taurus, the Moon in Virgo. It is clear that the conception is conjunctive. For, the Moon (that is, the Horoskopos} has not yet gone past the diameter of the Sun at conception. And if the Horoskopos (that of the birth) should be found beyond the diameter of the Sun at conception, the conception will be that of a Whole Moon. It is also necessary to make the same selections for the conception as have been explained for the birth. For the most part, those having a conjunctive conception are those who die in a Whole Moon, and those having a conception at Whole Moon die when the Moon is conjunctive. Otherwise, For those who know in what zoidion the Conjunction or Whole Moon occurred, count from the same degree in order up to the Ascending Node, and if the nativity is diurnal depart with the conjoined multitude from the Horoskopos downward; but if the nativity is nocturnal, backward to the Midheaven. And if the Ascending Node should fall upon the Midheaven, it is necessary to depart with the conjoined number from the Midheaven; if the nativity should be diurnal, downward to the Horoskopos, but if it should be nocturnal, upward to the Descendant. And if the Ascending Node should somehow happen to fall upon the Descendant, when the nativity is diurnal, depart with the number from the Descendant to the Midheaven; but if it is nocturnal, to the subterraneous pivot point. And if the Ascending Node should happen to be in the subterraneous pivot point, and the nativity should be found to be diurnal, depart with the multitude of the number upward from the subterraneous pivot point; but if it should be nocturnal, toward the Descendant from the subterraneous pivot point. As an illustration, let the Ascending Node be at the 23rd degree of Gemini, the Conjunction in Pisces at about 8 degrees, the Horoskopos at the 4th degree of Pisces, the Midheaven at the 13th degree of Sagittarius. I took the [degrees] from the Conjunction up to the Ascending Node; these come to 105, I depart with these from the Horoskopos since the nativity is diurnal. It leaves off at the 19th degree of Gemini. For the 2nd zone, 79 years, [4] months most nearly. He lived just so many years. I arranged these selections, which I myself have used. For in a nativity by means of the aforementioned terms. I also examined whether two or three or more should concur in the same way, and thus I infallibly made my affirmations concerning death. Whence I explained that it is neither without purpose nor at random that every teaching is harmonious by itself or when compared to another. If someone should foster every teaching, he will possess the truth of the matters in question, one that is easily captured. Now, we have indeed described certain teachings3 in a mysterious way as far as the distinguishing and comparing4 [abilities] of chance persons arc concerned, though not because we jealously keep them for ourselves or keep ourselves aloof, but rather because we wish to promote a certain additional zeal and steadfastness for the study.3 For, everyone in possession of an undisciplined mentality believed the gift to be ungracious, but he who [is disciplined] with work and inquiry cited not only pleasure but also success in the treatment.
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As an illustration (Neugebauer: April 19, 74 CE, about 7 am), let the Sun be at the 1st degree of Taurus, the Moon at the 16th degree of Gemini, the Horoskopos at the 14th degree of Taurus, the Conjunction about 27 degrees of Aries, the Ascending Node at the 25th degree of Capricorn. I took the [degrees] from the Conjunction upwards to the Ascending Node; these come to 92. I departed with these upwards from the degree of the Horoskopos. It left off at the [1]2th degree of Aquarius. Now, at the zone of Alexandria the 92 degrees assemble together as 70 years. He died in the 70th year and the 1st month. And from the conception thus: Since the Whole Moon of the conception took place at the 21 st degree of Capricorn ... which approximate the years found." Another (Neugebauer: 4 am, Feb. 15, 115 CE). The Sun at the 29th degree of Aquarius, the Moon at the beginning degrees of Aries, the Horoskopos at the 18th degree of Capricorn, the Conjunction at the 26th degree of Aquarius, the Ascending Node at the 16th degree of Scorpio. I took [the degrees] from the Conjunction upwards to the degree of the Horoskopos; they came to 38. I departed with these from the degree of the Horoskopos downwards. Approximately 33 years are assembled in the first zone. He lived for 32 years, 5 months. The place of the conception did not have the aphesis. For, the Whole Moon of the conception and the Ascending Node happened to be at the same degrees. Whence he had a precarious birth and a violent end.
11. Concerning the Lot of Fortune m Regard to the Matter of Length of Life with Illustrations, in which are also the Least Years of the Stars I have also found this choice for length of life to have been entwined in a variety of ways by the ancients, but I have made my own judgment after conducting an investigation based on experience, and I believe that it is more satisfactory than most. For in the 13th book, after the prooemium and the disposition of the zoidia, the king attacks the Lot of Fortune from the Sun, the Moon, and the Horoskopos, which he mostly works with and makes mention of throughout the whole book, and which he judges to be a supreme place. Concerning the Lot of Fortune, he has indeed presented the inversion and reversal as a riddle. "And the Sun, beginning for all eternity from the morning, hands over the vault when it completes the circle in the evening, during which time it is visible, but when night is coming on, the Moon does not always happen to be bringing light, but sometimes in the evening it is setting while being visible, sometimes it remains [visible] up to some part of the night, and sometimes it makes its passages through the completion of the night, wherefore it has entirely entrusted the circle to the Sun." Different [writers] have said different things about this thought, but it seems to me that for a diurnal nativity one should lake degrees from the Sun to the Moon and an equal amount from the Horoskopos. However, for a nocturnal nativity, as often as the Moon is above the earth (that is, up to the point where it sets), one should take from it to the Sun and an equal amount from the Horoskopos; but after the Moon's setting, from the Sun to it. For to say "on which account it has entirely entrusted the circle to the Sun" seems to mean this. And it will be necessary to examine in what sort of place the Lot fell out and to surmise the lord for this place. Then, it will be necessary to survey in what kind of zoidion the lord of this zoidion happened to be; third, the ruler of this [zoidion]. For from these three places and their
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rulers, the longevity will be found in accordance with the three terms. For example, each of the stars has mastery over its own period - Kronos, then, 30 years, Zeus 12, Ares 15, the Sun 19, Aphrodite 8, Hermes 20, the Moon 25. Similarly also, each [of the zoidia] has mastery over its own ascensions by zone. It will be necessary to compare [with them] by zone, then, whether the Lot is upon a pivot point and having dealings, or post-ascensional, or declining, and [to compare] the rulers of the zoidia, just as the ancient one mentioned when he said: "Every star that is upon a pivot point gives the totality of its own times, but when not on a pivot point it imparts as much as remains in arrears from its own numbers." And they will also impart their complete periods and ascensions whenever they should happen to be well situated. But also sect-mates that are co-present, or should be witnessing, or should happen to be in their own zoidia impart [their times] together, unless both sects should be doing the imparting. And he [said] similarly. First it is necessary to reckon the numbers, hours, days, months, then years, and make use of the three terms - least, mean, complete - additionally setting together the first with the second, or the second with the third. For often this procedure imparted days, that one months, that one years [depending on] the differences of the profitable zoidia and the rulers, or the differences in the causes of affliction and opposition. And beyond the years they additionally impart months equal to the numbers. The Spirit and the horoskopic place have the same role as the Lot in the distribution whenever the places that pertain to the lots or their lords should fall amiss, especially whenever the Lot should yield up the distribution to the Spirit. For, the stars also yield to each other in turn. And we will clarify in regard to distributions in the forthcoming account. As an illustration, let the Sun, Aphrodite be in Cancer; the Moon, the Horoskopos in Pisces; Kronos in Sagittarius; Zeus in Capricorn; Ares in Scorpio; Hermes in Leo; the Lot of Fortune in Cancer occupying the Good Spirit. The lady of the Lot was found upon a pivot point. It established the 25 least years of the Moon, and the ascension of Cancer in the second zone, 32 years, and with Zeus being the ruler of the Moon, 12 years; these come to the same 69 years. He died at just so many years. Another (Neugebauer: 8 pm, Jan. 20, 135 CE).. The Sun in Aquarius; the Moon, the Horoskopos in Virgo, and likewise Ares; Kronos, Zeus, Hermes all in Capricorn; Aphrodite in Pisces; the Lot of Fortune declining in Aquarius. Since the lord occupied the Good Fortune, it imparted its own 30 years and same number of months since it was in its own zoidion. Zeus, being present along with it, imparted a year. He died in his 34th year. For every nativity, then, one must observe the precepts written above in the beginning, and the phases and the degrees, so that we should not be found guilty of mentioning and writing the same things for each type, as I was indeed under the necessity of attaching nativities by way of illustration.
12. Concerning Crisis Times There are also crisis times according to lots, and especially when malefics are co-present or witnessing the Fortune: in a diameter, every seven years;3 in a triangle on the right, every 9 years; in a triangle on the left, every 5 years; in a square on the right, every 10 years; in the square on the left, every 4 years; when they are causing harm in a hexagon on the right, every 31 years; in a hexagon on the left, every 3 years; when preceding the Fortune, every 12 years; and when in contact with it, every 2 years.
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If the planet allotted the Fortune should be present upon Aries, [a crisis] will obtain every 19 years, upon Taurus every 25 years, upon Gemini every 20 years, upon Cancer every 25 years, upon Leo every 12 years, upon Virgo every 8 years, upon Libra every 30 years, upon Scorpio every 15 years, upon Sagittarius every 12 years, upon Capricorn every 8 years, upon Aquarius every 30 years, and upon Pisces every 15 years.
13. Mean Years of the Stars The mean years of the stars are these: Kronos, 45; Zeus, 49; Ares, 42; Aphrodite, 46; Hermes, 48; Sun, 64; [Moon, 67]. They impart these years, then, along with the periods and ascensions of the zoidia, whenever they happen to be having dealings. The mean years in a different manner: By setting together the great period and the least period of each star you will find the mean years. For example, the complete years of Kronos are 57 and the least 30; they come to 87, half of which is 43 1/2. The complete years of Zeus are 79 and the least 12; they come to 91, half of which is 45 1/2. And similarly for the remaining stars. Since the ascensions of the zoidia according to Hypsiscle's Ascensional fail if the time should amount to a year or two, [. . .]. For, the king explicated the ascensions of the 1st zone only. For example (Neugebauer: about noon, July 9, 82), let the Sun, Aphrodite, Hermes be in Cancer; the Moon in Taurus; Kronos in Pisces; Zeus, Ares in Leo; the Horoskopos in Virgo. The ascension of Virgo in the 1st zone is 38 1/3. And since the lord, Hermes, occupies the Good Spirit in Cancer, it gave an ascension of 31 2/3. These come to 70. He lived for just so many years. Another (Neugebauer: about 8 am, April 30, 102). The Sun, Hermes in Taurus; the Moon in Pisces; Kronos in Scorpio; Zeus, Ares, Aphrodite in Aries; the Horoskopos in Gemini. The ascension of the 2nd zone is 28. Hermes gave 24, the ascension of Taurus; also Ares, Aphrodite of Aries gave 15. He died in his 67th year. Another (Neugebauer: about 10 pm, April 30, 102). The same position of the stars only at a different nativity, except that the Horoskopos was in Capricorn, the Lot of Fortune in Pisces, The ascension of the 2nd zone is 20, and the period of Zeus being 12, and since it is in Aries with an ascension of 20, and the period of Ares being 15, these come to 67. He lived for just so many years. Though I would have preferred that the books compiled by me were more specific, since they have been addressed to my young pupils so that they might have an easily grasped introduction, I did not have the time to rearrange them more clearly because of having strained my vision and having had rny intellect weakened by much suffering with the loss of my most esteemed pup il. Whence one must make allowances. The 3rd book of the Anthology of Vettius Valens has been completed.
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Book Four of the Anthology of Vettius Valens 1. The Divisions of Periods I believe, then, that I have acquitted myself of the aforelying feasts in a fitting and pedagogical manner. [Now] we will clarify a matter which has been sought and remained hidden in many [authors], which is the matter of the divisions of the propitious and impropitious times. As many divisions, then, as have been tested by experience, these it is now necessary to set down. The first is the period in relation to a fourth of the least periods. For example, a fourth of the 30 years of Kronos is 7'/2; and 85 days fall to it by year.2 [A fourth of the 12 years of Zeus is 3; and by year] 34 days. A fourth of the 15 years of Ares is 3 years, nine months; and 42 1/2 days by year. A fourth of the 8 years of Aphrodite is 2 years; and 22 2/3 days yearly. A fourth of the 20 years of Hermes is 5 years; and 56 2/3 days yearly. A fourth of the 19 years of the Sun is 4 years, 9 months; and 53 5/6, days yearly. A fourth of the 25 years of the Moon is 6 years, 3 months; and 70 5/6 days yearly. Together, they come to 32 years, three months.
2. Concerning Releasing Of synodic births, the first star after the conjunction possesses the beginning of the releasing, then the next one as they are ordered. For those births pertaining to whole moons, the first star after the whole moon, and similarly. And it is necessary to judge how the star is figured and by what stars it is witnessed; and for the remaining stars that take over, whether they are upon a pivot or declining, oriental or occidental, and the ingresses by transit and the sympathies and contrarieties. After filling up 32 years and three months, one must again make the second cycle from the fourth releasing star.
3. Concerning the Further Division of Days The matter concerning the division of the days is to be made as follows. If Kronos should be found as the general releaser, it divides 7 1/2 years. But since it is necessary to take the distribution for all the stars from these, we will do as follows. Multiplying the 85 days of Kronos by 7 1/2, we will find 637 1/2 days. Kronos distributes these first to himself from his own 7 1/2 years. Then, let the distribution of Zeus be found. Since, then, it has mastery over 34 days, multiply these by 7 1/2 because the releaser is Kronos; 255 days are made. Zeus will have these from the years of Kronos. Then it is next necessary to take over the distribution of Aphrodite. Since, then, it has authority over 22 2/3 days, multiplying these by 7 1/2, we will find 170 days. Aphrodite will have these from the years of Kronos. And similarly, if we multiply the days of each star by 7 1/2, we will find the distribution. And if the Moon should have authority over the releasing at all, we will find the days of each star by multiplying by 6!A. Likewise also for the remaining stars. To find the days of each star. The days of each star are found in this way: We will find it by doubling the period and adding one half and one third,5 Since the period of Kronos is of 30 years, I doubled these days, and 60 days were made. And halving 30 days, 15 are made. I have added these to 60 days; 75 are made. And again, lh of 30 days becomes 10. 1 have likewise added these to 75 days; 85 days are made. Kronos will have these days. Similarly also for the remaining stars.
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4. Concerning the Division of the Times from the Lot of Fortune and Spirit And I will set down this [division], which is a potent one, making the beginning of the releasing from the Lot of Fortune and Spirit, which signify the Sun and the Moon. For, the Moon, being cosmically fate and body and breath (since it is near the earth and sends its effluence to us) produces something of a like kind as it is the lady of our body. The Sun, being cosmically mind and spirit through its own activity and pleasant nature, since it arouses the souls of men for undertakings, is established as a cause of action and motion. When, then, we seek times for bodily matters, such as crises or weaknesses or bloodshed, falls, injuries, sufferings, and whatever appertains to the body, for strength, enjoyment, pleasure, beauty, and loveliness, then it is necessary to project zodiacally from the Lot of Fortune. And [for the year] at which the time should leave off, we will reckon the zoidion and how the stars present or witnessing are figured in relation to the general ruler of the times of releasing, and whether the lords of the lots are upon pivots or not. If we are inquiring about action or reputation, then we will make the beginning of the releasing zodiacally from the Lot of Spirit, and we will find the judgment in accordance with the benefics or malefics present or witnessing. Often, then, when the Lot of Fortune or its lord falls amiss, the Lot of Spirit divides both bodily matters and those that pertain to action. Similarly also, Fortune will divide both when the Lot of Spirit or its lord falls amiss, just as for predominations and rulerships. Whenever Spirit or Fortune should be found in one zoidion, we will take the bodily matters from this very zoidion, but the matters pertaining to action from its postascension. In another manner also, for conjunctive or whole-moon nativities, we will make use of" the same releasing when, that is, both the Lot and Spirit fall out upon one zoidion. However, whenever we seek times for bodily matters for such nativities, we will make the releasing from the very zoidion, and for matters pertaining to action, from the post-ascension of the Lot, and especially for nocturnal nativities or those which have a conjunction in the subterraneous pivot in order that the squares of each lot may prosper like pivots. Yet, the conjunctive choice is stronger than that of the whole-moon. For, the conjunctive nativity has the lots upon the Horoskopos, while the whole-moon nativity has them upon the Descendant. And when the lights are in square, it also follows that the Lots are opposite to each other. For this kind [of nativity] as well some [persons] divide the times pertaining to action from the post-ascending zoidia. But it does not seem fitting to me; for, a different place is found for the Lot of Fortune and the Lot of Spirit, but for conjunctive and whole-moon nativities they are the same [place]. And in a different manner, the complete releasings for masculine nativities are found from the Spirit because they handle actions through speech, and giving and receiving, and trusts. But for feminine nativities, from the Lot of Fortune because of the occupation with the body. But it also happens that men bring in bodily actions, such as by means of the hands or contests and bodily motion, and women [bring in actions] such as through buying and selling. Similarly also for infant nativities we must make the releasing of the times from the Lot of Fortune until they come to question the fitting
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time or an action. For bodily excellences attend them such as fine figure, loveliness, stature, prettiness, what usually happens otherwise, injuries, sufferings, birth-marks, moles, slackness. The matters pertaining come about later.
after they are born, gracefulness; or else eczema, scabs, pustules, to action and thinking
As an illustration, let the Lot of Fortune or the Lot of Spirit have fallen in Aries. And the general ruler is Ares, while those taking over from it should be judged as to whether they are configured in a familiar or foreign manner. First, it divides 15 years, from which it distributes 15 months to itself; then, 8 months to Aphrodite because of Taurus; next, 20 months to Hermes because of Gemini; then, 25 months to the Moon because of Cancer; then, 19 months to the Sun because of Leo; then next, 20 months to Hermes; then, 8 months to Aphrodite; then, 15 months to itself because of Scorpio; then, 12 months to Zeus; then, 2 years, 6 months3 to Kronos because of Capricorn; then the remaining 8 months of the 15 years to Kronos because of Aquarius. After Ares, Aphrodite will take over the general years for 8 years, and likewise it distributes from these years to each zoidion as they lie. Then, after the distribution of Aphrodite, Hermes will take over for 20 years because of Gemini, and it will distribute to each zoidion; then, the Moon for 25 years, after which the Sun for 19 years. And so forth, for as long as the nativity lasts. Since, then, the circle of 12 zoidia assembles together 17 years, 7 months, we will distribute the remaining time from the diameter, For example, since Gemini distributes 20 years, when the releasing has been made in order and 17 years 7 months have been filled up, we will distribute the remaining 2 years and 5 months from Sagittarius, giving a year to Sagittarius itself, then to Capricorn the time left over for the filling up of 20 years. Similarly also if we should make the releasing from Cancer or Leo or Virgo or Capricorn or even Aquarius, after 17 years and 7 months, [which would be] shy of the years being supplied, we will divide the remaining times in order beginning from the diameter. Some, then, divide the remaining times from the triangles, but this does not seem natural to me. But rather, just as the four elements possess a sympathy for each other upon the cosmic [circle], and each is engendered and fostered by another, it is in the same fashion that the handing over for the division is made in accordance with the harmony of the zoidia. For example, since fire and air have an intermingling with each other as they are actually rising up, and fire, being inherently very dry, is turned by the mild mixture of the air mass, and the fire itself does not allow the air to advance to ice-cold and opaque, but brings about the mild mixture by thoroughly warming it up, therefore it is reasonable that after the cycle, Leo, which is inherently fiery, should hand over the remaining time to Aquarius (which is air), which is sympathetic; and again, Aquarius to Leo. Similarly also, earth, being very dry and being turned by the essence of water, generates all things; and the water itself, being contained by the earth, also sustains what is born from it with its sympathy. Therefore, it is reasonable that Cancer, being inherently very wet, and Capricorn, being inherently earthy, should hand over to each other reciprocally; and Virgo, being inherently earthy, with Pisces, And the remaining zoidia possess the same power in relation to their diameters. So also are the concomitants of the division zodiacally are given an elemental description. For example, Aries is fiery, Taurus earthy, Gemini airy, Cancer watery; and similarly for their trigons. If, then, we loose the bond in the trigons, we will find that there is one nature for the zoidion handing over and the same nature for the one taking over; and no commixture
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will be found, but rather the [other] elements will have less than their share because of them. And in a different manner we find the Sun to be making a beginning of its turn and equinox from Aries, and increasing the magnitude of the day in accordance with the semicircle; but we find it to be loosing the bond in the diameter Libra and preceding to a diminished magnitude. And since it also stops2 its augmentative figure of the day in Cancer, it grants this to the night when it comes to be in Capricorn by making the change in the diameter. Similarly also, though the Moon makes a conjunction even as it completes the circle, it looses the bond in the diameter. For this reason it seems better to make use of the aforelying teaching in regard to the loosing of the bond.
5. Concerning the Loosing of the Bond and the Reciprocal Handing Over of the Stars The loosing of the bond will come about in different ways because of the natures of the stars, When the Sun and Moon, then, hand over to Kronos, they are indicative of impediments and fears, bringing in enmities of superiors and threats on account of mystical and ancient matters, subversion, judgments and confrontations, putting life and worth in suspicion, reductions, bodily distresses and dangers, or shipwrecks, unforeseen downfalls, and gravest accusations unless benefics present or testifying should make the way out of the accusations not unclear. Hermes handing over the time to Zeus from Virgo or Gemini produces a change in things and innovations in activities. And if the places should be afflicted in a nativity or even Hermes himself, with the general time opposing, die loosing of the bond will produce a change for the better, and will be indicative of actions. If the places are being guarded by benefics, they will produce a time which is good; after the cycle the loosing of the bond will be easily disturbed and full of loss. Kronos loosing the bond from Capricorn and Aquarius onto Leo and Cancer indicates a time that is effective; for it leads from shadow into light, and it is established as most active when it hands over the division of the times to zoidia which are powerful in accor- dance with the support of the nativity, and offers reputation and help in accordance with the stars that are present.
6. How Many Years Each Zoidion Divides; and the Final Years of the Stars Aquarius divides 30 years, Capricorn 27. Since the Sun is master of 120 final years, of which half is 60, it will impart half of these to the diametrical zoidion Aquarius, which is 30 years. But the Moon is master of 108 final years, of which half is 54. It imparts half of these to the diametrical zoidion Capricorn, which is 27 years. 57 years, then, are assembled from the two zoidia, which are the final years of Kronos. And the remaining stars also had their final distribution of years from the Sun and Moon. That is, the Sun imparted half of its 120 years and its 19 least years to Zeus, which is a cosectarian and possesses a sympathy of a trigon because of Sagittarius; they become 79 years. Similarly also, the Moon distributed to Zeus half of its 108 years, or 54, and its least years 25, because of the beneficence and the cosmic sympathy of a trigon, that in regard to Pisces; they become 79 years. The Moon distributed the 54 years to Ares which is of the same sect. But because of an essence adversely mimicking a fiery one2 and a destructive tendency, the Sun declined the distribution, but Zeus, the master of the trigon by succession, yielded up for distribution 12 years, which are the least years; they become 66 years.
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Similarly also, the Moon imparted the 54 years to Aphrodite because of the sympathy of the trigon and nocturnal sect; and Kronos imparted 30 years because of the opposite condition of the exaltation (that is, Libra); they become 84 years. Hermes, because of the co-rulership in relation to Kronos, took the 57 final years from him and the 19 least years from the Sun; they become 76.
7. Concerning the Divisions of the Times for the Lot of Fortune and Spirit, and the Ingresses of the Stars, and Rulers, and Conjunction and Whole Moon, with an Illustration and Reciprocal Handing Over With these things being so, it will be necessary to examine whether the star handing over and the one taking over for a division happen to be upon pivots or declining, whether they are like-minded or not.4 For if the division comes to places upon pivots from places upon pivots, and similarly also the rulers of these happen to be upon pivots witnessed by benefics and of proper sect, they will produce a good and notable time-lordship. If the places are upon pivots while the lords are declining or witnessed by malefics, they indicate that the time will be irregular and subject to disturbance. If every figure should be found in decline, the time is the worst, bringing in accusations and losses, and at these times [the native] comes to live abroad and undergoes changes in what he does. If [the lords] should happen to be benefics or witnessed by benefics, [the natives] will spend time usefully rectifying situations in a foreign land. But if [the lords] are malefics, [the natives] will be upset with disturbances and losses in a foreign land and will be betrayed by foreigners and slaves. Whence the declines are indicative of a foreign land. If the lords2 should in any way be found to be upon pivots or occupying their own places, they signify detention in some regions and or delays. Hermes and Aphrodite, then, provide stays away from home that are neither long nor frequent since they are never distant from the Sun. However, Kronos and Ares signify those who come to be beyond the borders, and those who encounter dangers upon land and sea, and those who come to wander or be in barbarian regions. The Sun signifies those who are esteemed and honored and easily befriended, Zeus those who are helpful and dear to many and, and those who spend time agreeably in a foreign land. If, then, some [star] should derive the bodily times in a zoidion not on a pivot, or the ruler does not happen to be on a pivot while being witnessed by malefics, the native will experience weakness and bloodshed or dangers. If in accordance with Spirit some star should derive the times in a zoidion not on a pivot, and a malefic should be present or testify to the ruler of the zoidion, he will be idle and spend the time hi misfortune, and he will be unsettled in his soul, living in affliction over what to do and over imposts. Also, if the star should be found to be deriving the time in a fiery zoidion while malefics are present or testifying, he will have a very great slackness of soul and will achieve something contrary to his purpose by being unsteady in his resolve. If in an airy zoidion and the zoidion or the lord should be afflicted, he will spend his time in suspense and sadly, and while he is obtaining certain things, he will expect others. If in an earthy zoidion, he will bear what befalls him nobly, and he will be mentally above most things because of his own self-control. If in a watery zoidion, since he possesses a soul that is easily consoled, though he is irregular in some matters, he will rectify many of them and will be on target in what he sets his hands to. Actions, then, are always taken specially from Spirit and its ruler. For there are some who have bodily actions such as working with their hands and bodily afflictions as a result of bearing burdens or exercise, and others
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[who have actions] from speech and knowledge and actualizations of the soul. Wherever more stars should incline, whether to the Lot or to Spirit, thence will be indicated the matter of action. It is necessary, then, to compare the actions and the general support, whether the nativity is notable or mediocre, or else happy or poor, or in dispute or irregular, so that the effects in the distributions should also become clear ahead of time. The stars productive of actions, then, are the stars of Ares and Aphrodite and Hermes, while the star of Kronos produces pursuits and whatever comes about at that time through water or distress and as an allotment of land. Depressed [nativities] and those of ill repute, then, are taken from Kronos and Ares, with Zeus being absent, but those of good repute and those which are successful from the Sun and Moon, with benefics being co-present or testifying in addition. If, then, the division should come from Spirit to the Midheaven of the Lot of Fortune, or even to the Lot itself, while the lord is co-present and is witnessed by benefics or else the Sun or Moon, with the support being quite brilliant, the child will come into leadership and great reputation, and will be notable and fit for rule and highly visible for those times, one who is deemed happy by many on account of the happiness around him. And when the division takes place upon the Horoskopos and upon the Midheaven and upon the remaining pivots, it will produce reputation, but not in the same way; for, the places square to the lots are more energetic. But if while these things are so, the support is found be mediocre, he will be in a state of activity or in the midst of assistance, and he will [meet] with greater friends, and he will be deemed worthy of gifts and honors, and he will spend the day cheerfully, and he will make progress in regard to the actualization of his business, especially if benefics should be present there or bear witness. But if malefics, what is foreseen in those places will come about as above but on account of the testimony of malefics; [the natives] will be upset with impediments and losses, experiencing a beneficent incitement which is transitory. And just as each of the stars is written upon the circle zodiacally in accordance with its domiciles, when it is figured in like manner in a nativity, it will also become sympathetic to another.
8. A Compelling Illustration As an illustration (Neugebauer: 10 pm, July 19, 75 CE), let there be a nativity having the following: the Sun, Aphrodite in Cancer; the Moon, Horoskopos in Pisces, [Kronos] in Sagittarius; Whole Moon, Zeus [in Capricorn]; Ares in Scorpio; Hermes in Leo; the Lot of Fortune in Leo; Spirit in Scorpio. I seek the 70th year. I released3 the bodily times from Leo, giving first to Leo itself 19 years, then to Virgo 20 years, then to Libra 8 years, then to Scorpio 15 years; 62 years are made. In these he had many crises and falls from heights and the breaking of limbs. And next, the remaining 8 years from Sagittarius. With Kronos lying upon it out of sect, in these years he submitted to both shipwrecks and bodily disturbances. And we take the cause of the ailment from the zoidion where the lord of the Lot is found to be passing through. For example, [in this case] the Lot being in Leo, the lord of Leo, the Sun, was found in Cancer; and Cancer signifies the breast and throat. We say, then, that the cause of the ailment has come about from Cancer. [It] takes the distribution of years, and makes the days at 360. For, counting the 5 1/4 days specially, add them to the years. Then, it gave a year to Sagittarius; 2 years, 6 months to Capricorn; 2 years, 6 months to Aquarius; a year to Pisces; then, what remains for the filling up of 8 years
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to Aries. Ares, then, having authority over the bodily times, taking over from Sagittarius with Kronos lying upon Sagittarius, brought the end. He died of a cough, after having been injured before in the throat as has been proved before. For, the place pertaining to death was Pisces, with the Moon lying upon it and with Kronos being superior to it, from which there is dysentery. Otherwise, the lord of the whole moon, Kronos, being in aversion, brought in the form of violent death. The injury was of the throat and of a cough since the lord of the Lot, the Sun, was found in Cancer; and Cancer indicates breast and throat. I made the times pertaining to action from Scorpio, giving 15 years to it, with Ares lying upon it; then, 12 years to Sagittarius, with Kronos lying upon it. Until 27 years [the time] was irregular, he became a vagabond. A livelihood that was adequate was squandered by his trustees; for, the place of acquisition4 was in Gemini, and none of the benefics were regarding, but Kronos alone was opposed. Then next, Capricorn took over for 30 years, with Zeus being upon it and occupying the Good Spirit, and being contemplated acronycally by the Sun and Aphrodite. And it drew out the whole time-lordship in a propitious manner; he was entrusted with both public and royal activities, and he became a friend of leaders and kings and accordingly acquired much, but enduring at times impediments and irregularities in accordance with the taking over or witnessing of malefics, and acquisition that did not last because of Zeus being subtractive and in its own depression. After Capricorn, when Aquarius takes over the times, with Ares and Hermes testifying, benefics being in aversion, he ceased his activities and lost much by innocent trust. And he handled trusts for relatives and slaves, over which he fell into debt because of lack of care and scarcity and was found abject since the general support had this bearing. Then Aquarius itself took 2 years and 6 months, then Zeus 1 year, then Ares 1 year and 3 months, then Aphrodite 8 months. then Hermes 1 year and 8 months. At that time, his affairs were on the wane. Then the Moon next took over 2 years and 1 month. In these times, it seemed that someone had the trusts paid and he met with the help of friends. Then similarly, the Sun took 1 year and 7 months in Leo, and Hermes 1 year and 8 months in Virgo. With malefics testifying to Hermes, then, he was brought down during these times; for, the Lot was found in decline and the lord of the trigon of the Moon was Ares. After the time of Hermes, Aphrodite took 8 months, next Ares 1 year and 3 months, Sagittarius 1 year. And the end came about.
9. Concerning the Cosmic Year and the Year Relative to Division, How Many Days Each Has and How They Should Be Reckoned Since the cosmic year has 365 1/4 days while the year relative to division has 360 days, after subtracting 5 per each year and 1/4 of the years and totalling up the years, we will then make the division. Thus we made our calculation for the above nativity. For example, let it be the case that someone winds down to 33 years from his nativity, and was born on the 15th of Tybi, and it is necessary to seek the 20th of Mesori of the 33rd year. I took 30 of the years at 5 per year; they come to 150. And 10 from the two full years; and 1/4 of 32 years comes to 8. Altogether they come to 168. Then I took days from the 15th of Tybi up to the day we are seeking, the 20th of Mesori they come to 215. I added these to 168 days; they came to 383, I subtract 360 from these; 23 remain. For the purpose of division, then, the nativity that is winding down its years will be a full 33 years and 23 days. I will make these the years and days in the releasing of the times.
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10. Concerning the Distribution of More and Fewer Years, Months, Days, and Hours of Each Star; and the Uses of These for Nativities Just as when we take 1/12 of the years of each period, we will get to know how many days each star distributes. For example, since Aries distributes 15 years, 1/12 of these are 15 months. Likewise, 1/12 of these months are 37 1/2 days; and again, 1/12 of these days are 3 days, 3 hours. It distributes these for the time added on. And the further distribution of the other stars will be found similarly, such as when someone in a division should be intent upon both yearly and monthly times in addition to the general ones, and should find hours in addition to the days. We will append in a more detailed fashion, then, what is added on to each star so that chance encounterers do not get themselves twisted around. Thus, the Sun: 19 years, 19 months, 47 1/2 days, 3 days and 23 hours. The Moon: 25 years, 25 months, 62 1/2 days, 5 days and 5 hours. Kronos: 30 years, 30 months, 75 days, 6 days and 6 hours. Capricorn: 27 years, 27 months, 67 1/2 days, 5 days and 15 hours. Zeus: 12 years, 12 months, 30 days, 2 days and 12 hours. Ares: 15 years, 15 months, 37 1/2 days, 3 days and 3 hours. Aphrodite: 8 years, 8 months, 20 days, 1 day and 16 hours. Hermes: 20 years, 20 months, 50 days, 4 days and 4 hours. Whenever, then, we should find a nativity of 50 or 60 years, we will make the releasing of years from the Lot of Fortune or Spirit in a zodiacal [order], giving to each star its period of years as long as it is possible to comply; then we will give months, then days and hours. If the nativity of an infant should be found, we will distribute first from the releasing of hours, then days, then months. As, for example, if the Sun, Hermes are in Capricorn; Kronos, Zeus in Leo; Ares, Aphrodite in Aquarius; the Moon in Gemini; the Horoskopos in Leo; the Lot of Fortune in Pisces; the Lot of Spirit in Capricorn. Thence, let the releasing of Fortune also be from Pisces. To seek the 16th of Mesore of the 4th year with the days at 5 for each year. Since, then, the 12 years were not yet distributed to Pisces, I have given the first year to it; then 1 year, 3 months to Aries; 8 months to Taurus. They come to 2 years, 11 months. Then next it will give 1 year, 8 months to Hermes until the filling up of 4 years, 7 months. But the nativity has not yet filled this time. Let it be the case, then, the time-lord Hermes already has 8 months, 15 days; they come to 255 days. One must distribute these according to the succession, from which Hermes gave first to itself (that is, to Gemini) 50 days, then 62 1/2 days to Cancer, then 47 1/2 days to Leo, then 50 days to Virgo, then 20 days to Libra; they come to 230 days. There are 25 days remaining. Ares will have these in Scorpio from the days of Aphrodite and till the filling up of 37 1/2 days. Ares, then, will further distribute the 25 days to the next ones. And first it distributes 3 days and 3 hours to itself, then 2 1/2 days to Sagittarius, then 5 days and 15 hours to Capricorn, then 6 days and 6 hours to Aquarius, then 2 1/2 days to Pisces, 3 days and 3 hours to Aries, the remainder to Taurus for the filling up of 25 days. The general chronocrator, then, is Zeus; the second, Hermes, taking over from Zeus; the third, Ares, taking over from Hermes; the fourth Aphrodite taking over from Ares. It will be necessary, then, to examine how they are lying at the nativity and how they are figured in relation to each other, and to declare oneself accordingly. Some then, also further distribute the days in accordance with the trigon; whence, in certain nativities, when a general time-lord was found to be benefic [or else the Sun or Moon), [the native] acquired reputation and
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leadership, (or else notable beginnings and assistance and alliances with those who are greater). During these times, when a malefic took over the furtlier division in accordance with the further distribution, it caused bodily weakness or else dangers; or when another [malefic] took over the days, being opposed to the general time-lord or figured uncongenially by nativity and by transit, it provided disturbances and fears and losses. And if the general time-lord chances to be ill-situated in a nativity or is scrutinized by malefics, in the days of these times by further division [the natives] will be reduced or in danger, or will encounter impediments. But if, when these days are taken over, the general time-lord should be found in prospering zoidia while being witnessed by benefics during transit, they will stand firm without stumbling while being distressed in livelihood and reputation. And for the daily divisions, it will be necessary for the loosing of the bond to be done in the diameter of the releasing in succession, after the cycle has been filled up with 528 remaining days; and likewise also, for the finer divisions of the days and hours, after the cycle has been filled up with 44 remaining days it is necessary to undo [the bond] from the diameter in accordance with the succession.
11. Concerning the Prospering Year and a Special Teaching Having thus classified the general and temporal divisions in a proper manner, we must now also speak of the prospering year and of the things that go along with these. But first it is necessary to say a few words about those who have written such things. Although the majority have set out the division of the times in a diverse and invidious manner, they have not handed down any plan of truth; and even when they limited the topic to satisfactory teachings, they bequeathed to the chance encounterer the greatest error and endless inquiry. Some, that is, in being carried to infinity by the subject matter of the accounts, have beguiled many; others, seeing the power of the treatment and setting out the principles, did not make explanations owing to possessiveness. And when we covered much territory and traversed Egypt, even though we encountered avaricious teachers, we made gifts of money out of a desire for the work; but not meeting with the truth, we occupied ourselves with other things, having chosen a more self-controlled and self-sufficient life. But since the problem of most [men] of mathematics1 and the division of the general times pulled against us and supplied the greater2 desire, we of necessity had to persist. And since in the quarrel over the general teachings of the divisions, some made use of them in relation to the concomitants of the bounds, others in relation to the minor periods, others in relation to the twelfth-parts which are assembled from 10 years and 9 months, others in relation to the exaltations, while the subdivisions of these signified events which were false; [as a consequence of the subdivisions not signifying correctly] it indeed seemed to us to be most disgraceful that the effects are delimited by 2, 10 or 7 years, but more seemly to seek particular and yearly times. And so then, we spent much time wretchedly, and while distressfully making changes of place, mixing with those who are zealous about such matters, we took proof, until the wished-for heavenly visitation brought about through a kind of providence the transmission in a certain place through a certain lover of learning. By accepting a starting point, then, and applying much effort, we were seized upon by the goal which we ourselves also came to possess after we had further rendered much service of our powers. For, from the daily practice and the encounter with many men and seeing with one's own eyes what is suffered, we have judged this study to be sacred and immortal,
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and we will pass it on unbegrudgingly, since it seems to be a most essential heading for the remaining matters. For without this, nothing either is or will be; for, that which is foreknown has a beginning and an end. I adjure you, my most valued brother, and those being initiated by this composition to the starry bowl of heaven and the twelve-zodiac circle, the Sun, Moon, and 5 wandering stars by means of which one's whole life is driven, and foreknowledge itself and divine necessity - I adjure you to keep these matters in secret and not to pass them over to those who are uneducated except those who are worthy and capable of guarding carefully and justly repaying; and to remember me, Valens, one who has been so initiated, with an everlasting and good report; and especially, though you know my lack of possessiveness and part of the truth of how I myself cast light on something unopened by any man, neither to introduce others who disregarded my name to this composition, nor speak despitefully about any of those who have written before or those who are about to be called upon for the purpose of putting off chance encounterers, and lay this blame upon me. And all the aforesaid gods watch closely over these [teachings] that they may be favorable and life well-based and the consummation of reckonings satisfactory, but they foreswear themselves by the opposite [teachings]neither is the earth passable nor the seas navigable nor is the seed of children; and when there is a blind and fettered mind, it may introduce a shameful life missing in good things. If then there is also some recompense after death for evil and good, even there the mind would partake of something similar. Whence if after coming to know the teaching herein, someone should mysteriously discover the above discovery in another treatise, it is not necessary to extol him, but to agree for our sake that [it is necessary] not only [to assign it] to the ones making the predictions, but also to those who are the discoverers of much and those who bestow honor on the teaching; for many who take over something unbegrudgingly have written their compositions in a begrudging manner. Therefore I exhort those especially who encounter this composition by chance and those who are entering upon certain times and dances of the gods and those who examine mysteries to gain a godlike repute, to lay aside the many teachings of sects and books, and after having practiced themselves in the tabular and natural study of the stars and zoidia and of the canons related to the phenomena, to pay heed to these teachings and those which were arranged earlier, and to observe the stars to the degree for judgments that pertain to degrees, and likewise [zodiacally] for those that pertain to zoidia, in order that that which is stated may be stated with truth. For often I myself took stars to be in certain zoidia according to the timedescription of the events, and in others according to the appearances, and especially whenever they should be in the beginning or end of zoidia; similarly also because one fails both in stations and at nightfall. To make a judgment, then, it is necessary to know exactly in what zoidia and degrees they are, and especially the Horoskopos. Let the beginning of the exegesis be from here. After examining the current year of the nativity, we knock out as many twelves as we can; and after delivering over the remainder from a star that is capable [of doing so] to one that is capable of taking over, we will come to know the year which it hands over to a certain star. That which has been said is concise in apprehension, but diverse in judgment. All the stars, then, and the Horoskopos and Sun and Moon hand over to each other and reciprocally take over from each other.
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In order that we may make the introduction clearer, let it be the case, as an illustration, that the Sun, Hermes are in Aquarius; the Moon in Scorpio; Kronos in Cancer; Zeus in Libra; Aphrodite in Capricorn; Ares, the Horoskopos in Virgo. We seek the 35th year. Take away two twelves, which are 24. 11 are remaining. We reckon, then, from what sort of star to what sort of star coming first there are 11 years. We find them: 11 years from the Horoskopos and Ares to Kronos in Cancer, and again from the Moon to Ares, and from Aphrodite to the Moon. All thase handings over are active in the 35th year. And according to the power of effect which each of the stars has, it will produce good or foul in the handings over, which we will indicate in a forthcoming account (Neugebauer: 7 pm, Feb. 8, 120 CE; natal chart of Vettius Valens after David Pingree). Whensoever many handings over are made, then, it is necessary to also compare whether those of the benefics or those of the malefics are in excess, and to assign the prize to those. But if they are equal, the year will be judged irregular and diverse. In general, then, for every nativity it will be necessary to project the years from the Sun and Moon and Horoskopos. And if they should fall out at empty places, they will have handed over to the lords of the zoidia. These three calculations themselves will have much power, whether the handing over is made to benefics or malefics, or else to those stars on pivotal or prospering places, or those not on pivots. And if so, it is necessary to consider the handing over of other stars. For if malefics should rule over the year while the three releasings should have the power of beneficence, the year is effective and notable after some dispute and fears and vexations. And if none of the stars should hand over to a star but the division is carried onto empty places, it is also necessary to pay attention to the empty places. And especially if some stars should be present upon them by ingress, they will take over. Also, it is necessary to extend from the Lot of Fortune and from Spirit and Eros and Necessity; for the ailments and the well-doings and dangers that pertain to the times will be taken over from these. Quite naturally, it is also necessary to extend from the pivots; for just as [the pivots] are found for general and cosmic matters, they are also found for men. For from the rising of Sirius the year and the four pivots make a circuit through a period of four years, except that the years become different from the figure-description of the stars and the phases and the ingresses that pertain to the times. Similarly also, the Sun has 4 motionsgreatest, least, and two means-and sets the circle aright through its four turnings. The Moon also has 4 natural figures - conjunction, half, whole moon, 2nd half. And the cosmic condition is also established upon the earth from the 4 elements and 4 winds. If then these things be so. it is also necessary to use the 4 pivots for nativities and release the years from them and compare the stars at the nativity and the special properties of the pivots and zoidia. It is also necessary to know ahead of time the cosmic conjunction and the rising of Sirius and the hour and the lord of the rising of Sirius; for, this master of the year is judged to be universal while the lords of the places are cyclical. Similarly also, for each nativity and renewed nativity the lord of the year is universal, but the lord of the conjunction or whole moon is cyclical. It is necessary, then, to compare if the general and cosmic lord is associated with the general lord of the nativity, or is the same; and similarly also, if the cosmic [and the] cyclical lords of the nativity are harmonious or the same. In addition to these, one must also observe in what places of the nativity eclipses have happened, whether prospering or not prospering; and furthermore, the risings and phases of the stars. For notable
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and commanding and royal nativities have their judgment from these, as well any change of action or else of reputation; and they are accustomed to signify great and wondrous effects, some being exalted to an unsurpassable fortune, others withdrawing to a depressed and easily reduced fortune. Whence, someone must not teach us to be prolix or embroider the plan, but to make these effects themselves with assurance in order that the division may be less apt to falter in regard to brilliant and middling nativities. Otherwise, when we inquire concerning life or bodily or mental activity, we should project from the Horoskopos; when concerning reputation and privilege and ostentation and father and greater persons, and whatever then the nature of the Sun is accustomed to produce, we will make the releasing of the years from him; whenever concerning bodily dangers and ailments or bloodshedding, from the Moon; whenever concerning action and livelihood and disciplines, from the Midheaven; whenever concerning good fortune and acquisition of livelihood, from the Lot of Fortune; whenever concerning matters of death or change or vexations, from the Descendant; whenever concer- ning foundations or buildings or hidden matters or matters pertaining to death, from the subterraneous pivot; whenever concerning wife or intercourse or society or types of things pertaining to women, from Aphrodite; whenever concerning military or public matters, from Ares; whenever concerning dismantling of things or acquisition or hidden ailments or paternal inheritance, from Kronos; whenever concerning reputation and friendship and alliances and acquisition, from Zeus; whenever concerning community or servile or bodily matters or gifts or receipts or writings, from Hermes. And these are the handings over and takings up that are of one form. But when there happens to be two or three or more planets handing over or taking up, it is necessary to compare the power of each star in relation to those present; for, the benefics and malefics will become effectual in accordance with the original support of each nativity. And whatever general figure each should have in relation to those witnessing or being configured, it will produce the like when taking over the times from it or else when it has itself handed over. In order mat handing over should be seen more precisely and more clearly, we will set out certain decrees and rules, by observing which we will have a plan which is more readily grasped. First, then, we must examine if the handing over is made from places upon pivots to places upon pivots, or from the Good Spirit to the Lot or prospering place, in order that what is signified should be effective or probable; and then also if from declines to pivots or from the Evil Spirit to the Good Spirit. Prospering and effective zoidia, then, are the Horoskopos, Midheaven, Good Spirit, Good Fortune, Lot of Fortune, Spirit, Eros, Necessity.1 Middling are God, Goddess, and the remaining two pivots. Also ordinary and afflictive are the remainder; the power of these places is utterly exhausted or else is established to be active from the benefics or malefics present or witnessing. Indeed, the Evil Fortune seems to be better than the Evil Spirit according as it possesses a triangular figure in relation to the Midheaven. And if in some manner a single handing over should be found for a nativity, with all the stars having chanced to be in one zoidion, they themselves hand over zodiacally. And if the commixture indicates something generally for the nativity, that something will partake of every [star]. If 3 or 4 stars should be found in one zoidion and one or two in another, the first one which is superior by degree is prior and distributes the times first (that is, the one having the least degrees takes over firstly) and then the next, and similarly the ones taking over.
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Though the divisions are diverse, if one pays attention he will not go wrong. For when the same handings over are signified in a twelve year period, they will not [always] possess the same operation of the effects, but different. Whenever we will find a handing over after one or more [years] in a certain cycle, we will examine the renewed nativity for that year and whether the ingresses of the stars have any kind of similar figure both for the nativity and for the stars handing and taking over, and if they have the same phases relative to the Sun. For if we find them to be so, we say that the effect is constant, but if we find them to be other and dissimilar, we say mat it is not uniform. For some effects are made generally, while others are partial. For example, if one of the stars Kronos and Zeus should derive the general times while they are well situated, and it should happen that the other derives the [particular] times in this cycle, one will inherit or will be benefited by matters pertaining to death. But if Kronos and Zeus have domination over the 2nd or 3rd year in the cycle but are not well situated, there will be no inheritance, but there will indeed be a legacy and benefits from death or such expectations, or else the purchasing of property, foundations and other possessions. Similarly also, other effects in the general times for the cycle of twelve years will be constant, but not at all constant later or earlier, unless the stars [so] indicate the intent of the effects. For example, let someone have been married in the 1st cycle, with the 34th year of the nativity [now] being current (for it is necessary to judge in accordance with the solar [releasings] and their effects). In another cycle he will have concerns with society or another marriage or whatever is appropriate to women. In another he will serve in the military. When the same handing over is again the same, he will be at work for advancement or change or military doings. If then the general support also happens to be favorable for advancement, he will advance at that time, especially if benefics should have authority throughout. And if the nativity is great, he will also lead or command or share in a powerful rank. It is necessary to harmonize the effects in accordance with the concomitants of the nativity. Suppose someone should beget children during a certain time. When the same handing over occurs and the acme (presumably the releasing from the midheaven) or the solar [releasing] governs, they will again beget or make purchases of slaves or will bring up someone in the role of a child, or will be concerned with the children of others. Suppose someone else came into office and stands at the forefront of the crowd. When the same time-lord description occurs and the nativity has good support, he will take on great and notable offices; but if the support is middling, he will retire with such or have the pomp and privileges of office. Similarly, suppose someone had a judgment against him or came into narrow straits. When the same handing over occurs, if benefics are testifying, he will be released from the constraint or acquitted of the charge; but if malefics are testifying, he will continue to be held responsible due to some even more malicious treatment or invidious accusation, or else he will spend his time for the worse. Also, all of the remaining matters that happen to be concluded in life at a certain time will occur in accordance with the handings over, but they will be different through the general time-descriptions and the renewed nativities and the ingresses and phases of the stars, as well as the dissimilar figuredescription in relation to each. For when the stars of that time make natal ingresses to the ones handing or taking over, or onto the pivots, they also contribute from their own nature and themselves either make the effect good or foul or else more active or preventative. We judge it to be constant whenever the ingressing star should have a harmonious figure with the one handing over, or when the stars handing over should have with those taking
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over a figure like to that in the nativity. But if the figures pertaining to the times should signify one thing while (he ingress another, there will he a mean between the things effected. In general, every star in the handing or taking over is established as ineffective and preventative when it is setting; and if a benefic should be found, it provides the appearances alone. And if the 3 releasings of Sun, Moon and Horoskopos should to a certain extent signify dissimilar things, the year will be diverse. Yet often, when the handing over was not according to the same plan, the general times revealed great and notable effects; wherefore it is necessary for one starting from there to accommodate the yearly times. Since some of the compilers have hinted at the above plan, those who will encounter this composition of mine will be reminded at the outset that, since no teaching has worked out anything, it is necessary to reveal the keys through which the handing over produces an astonishing period when it becomes quite manifest in accordance with the form of the effect. If then someone soberly pays attention to the matters about to be addressed in the handings over through the combinatory study of the activity of the star and the zoidion, he will be less apt to stumble.
12. Concerning the Naming of the 12 Places and Concerning the Twelve-Turning Let the beginning be from the Horoskopos, which is life, helm, body, breath. The 2nd: manner of living, Gates of Hades, shaded place, giving, receiving, community. The 3rd: siblings, being abroad, kingdom, authority, friends, relatives, heart, slaves. The 4th: reputation, father, children, one's own woman and older persons, what one does, city, household, possessions, abidings, retribution, changes of place, dangers, death, constraints, mystical matters. The 5th: place of children, friendship, community, putting out of emancipated slaves, a kind of good or well-doing. The 6th: the place of slaves, injuries, enemies, ailments, weaknesses. The 7th: the place of marriage, luck, intercourse with a woman, friendship, being abroad. The 8th: death, benefits from fatality, idle place, lawsuits, weaknesses. The 9th: the place of friendship, being away from home, benefits from foreigners, the place of god, king, sovereignty, astrology, oracular consultations, manifesta- tion of gods, prophesying, place of mystical or secret matters, communi- ty. The 10th: place of what one does, reputation, advancement, children, wife, change, renewal of things. The llth: place of friends, hopes, gifts, children, of emancipated slaves, the 12th: place of foreign countries, enmities, slaves, injuries, dangers, courts of judgment, ailments, death, weakness. Each place, then, properly produces what it signifies, but also the nature of the place of the diametrical zoidion cooperates. When, then, a handing over of a year should be found, we examine upon what kind of place the star handing over chances to be and upon what kind of place the star taking over chances to be in accordance with the above twelve-turning; and in accordance with the property of the zoidion and the place we disclose the effect, although the handing over of stars has its own power of producing effects, which we will put in order at the end of the divisions. For example, if when Kronos or Ares are upon the Horoskopos they perform a handing or taking over, in accordance with that we will say the year to be bodily trouble or danger or bloodshed. If in the 7th place from the Horoskopos, diverted by the wife or danger for the wife or upsetting faults through marriage. If in the 8th from the Horoskopos, precarious travel abroad and vexation in a foreign country or betrayals from foreigners. And if in the 12th, trouble due to
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slaves or insurrections of enemies. Or the star will be active for as many things as each place produces concerning those matters. If benefics should be present upon the places, they signify something good, such as reputation, benefits, satisfactory purchases, being abroad. And the judgment will indeed be in accordance with stars taking over and bearing witness to the places, except that the form of the effect and the completion of the matter will be judged from the star handing over and the one taking over and the places. It is also necessary to look at what kind of zoidion the lord of the star handing over or taking over happens to be in. And this star will be at work in relation to the form and its effect will be [in relation to the form]. The 2nd zoidion from the Horoskopos and the 8th are judged to be idle and pertaining to death.3 Whenever handing or taking over occurs in these places, the natives will be benefited on the occasion of fatality. And especially whenever benefics should be present or witnessing, great benefits will come about; but if there are malefic judgments, there will be contentions on account of legacies and the year will be full of danger and calamitous or impropitious. At times when malefics alone are present, then, or with the Sun or Moon or Hermes, the natives take upon themselves accusations of murder and contrive something dangerous for themselves. But if the star of Aphrodite should be present or testifying, they will be in trouble due to poisons or they will be arrested as plotters, unless the places of Kronos are indicative of death and legacy, which produce inheritances and benefits from fatality in accordance with a handing over to Zeus. If, then, the handing over should itself concur with the primary time-description,1 there will be a permanent inheritance and great benefits in accordance with the support of the nativity. And if, while the division is in the Gates of Hades, this same handing over should take place from Kronos to the domicile of Zeus, there will be an inheritance. And if the handing over should come alone, there will also be benefits from fatality. Similarly even if Kronos and Zeus should make their handing and taking over when they are in the same zoidion. If the handing over should take place from the Good Spirit or Good Fortune or Lot of Fortune while benefics are present, there will be inheritance or gifts or occasion for some good. But if the fatal places should make a handing over to the declines, or the declines to the fatal places, the natives will hear of death from someone upon or from a foreign land; for, the declines signify the place of foreign lands and slaves. Similarly also, Gemini and Sagittarius generally signify the place of slaves for every nativity through the cosmic [figure]; for when Cancer is rising, the place concerning slaves leaves off in these places.2 If, then, someone should have the place concerning slaves in another zoidion, but malefics should be found in these, such natives will undergo troubles and injustices from slaves; furthermore, losses and deaths and flights, and especially if Kronos occurs at these places. But if benefics should be present, the natives will be kindly treated [by them], and they will derive benefit from such, and they themselves will become benefactors to them or will raise some of them in the portion of children. Let the same be also supposed for the remaining declines.
13. Concerning Giving Over from Exaltation to Exaltation When the giving over happens from exaltation to exaltation, with benefics being either upon them or testifying, it pertains to good opinion and is very beneficial, and especially if the lords should be in [their] own places. Similarly also, when the giving over is from their own domiciles to exaltations or from exaltations to domiciles, with the lords being upon them, they indicate that the effects are most active and glorious. But when giving over from depression to depression, the effects become middling and irregular.
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When Kronos or Ares is properly figured, and they are handing over and taking over from their own domiciles or exaltations or even prospering places, they produce great activity and reputation. The star of Kronos, then, is able to cause in its administrative function inheritances, the possession of land, foundations, revenue, and is able to set aright the handling of magical matters and ancient affairs. The star of Ares pertains to leadership. When the benefics are observing the Sun and Moon are properly figured in relation to them, they produce great eminence and assistance. But when the good stars are absent and the lights are opposed and improperly figured, while Hermes is blended in, they introduce accusations and impediments and great dangers and plots and confusions and destructions. However, if they should improperly do their giving or taking over upon other's exaltations or other's own domiciles, they throw down from heights or from quadrupeds, and they overturn with wounds and bloodshed or dangerous diseases, and also by conflagrations or shipwrecks. But when the nativity is being helped and has the support of the times, they cause a reduction in livelihood or reputation. One must observe, then, if when the stars are of the diurnal or nocturnal sect, they are figured to the remaining stars; for these are also more effective for good than the remaining stars, and the causes of great good are established in accordance with the proper giving over or ingress. But if not, they are preventatives and hindrances for reputation and benefit. And malefics have been named in accordance with this since they are the diminishers of life, but beneficent in relation to the remaining [matters]. Since even the star of Zeus or that of Aphrodite in givings-over or ingresses, when they are taken to be occidental or improperly [situated] or falling amiss, produce times that are liable to disturbance and impracticable and dilatory, and they become diminishers of good or beneficial expectations; in addition to these, they introduce penalties and mental torments and afflictions in the things being accomplished.
14. Concerning Phases of the Stars and Ingresses One must make an examination in a general manner, then, for all of the stars. For when those which are giving or taking over and which have authority for the year or the general times are found to be oriental, and they come into being or make their rising in accordance with the ingress into the prospering places, they make the actions conspicuous; for their power is awakened at that time. And each produces the property in accordance with its own nature; for whatever sort of power or effect it has authority over at the nativity, or what the year indicates for the zoidion upon which it is, the effect of that one will activate. And if they should occupy the first station and should be found to be retro- grade, they cause the expectations and affairs and benefits and treatments to be in postponement. Similarly also, in the acronycal phases they will become weaker and liable to hindrance, foretelling only imaginings and hopes. And if in some cases it makes a second station, it removes the hindrances and restores and leads to the stability and rectification of life. And if it should be carried under a setting [phase],1 it introduces interruptions and troubles in what is being accomplished. Furthermore, it also introduces bodily dangers and weaknesses and difficulties with the secret places; and often, though they foretell reputation and great expectations, these take a turn for the worse. If, then, when a malefic is producing something according to the nativity and it possesses the year, while a malefic should enter in by ingress, it will
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cause the intensification4 of the evil. But if a benefic, it will cause an assuagement and assistance. Let similar things be supposed for the benefics. For every nativity, if the star of Zeus above all comes to the years by transit, or to their squares or diameters when the times are good, or is in prospering places, it produces beneficence and reputation; and especially when it is oriental, it will become strong to the greatest extent for ruling over the times of those matters that seem good. And if the times are bad when it comes to ingress, it will become weaker, and in postponing the beneficence and reputation it will become wavering.
15. Concerning the 3rd and 9th Place from the Horoskopos When the 3rd or the 9th place from the Horoskopos is giving or taking over with benefics present, it produces stays away from home for some good purpose or in a foreign land, or they produce business or alliances with foreigners. And should the place chance to be bicorporeal, they will be helped most of the time or they will live abroad a lot. In these places some receive revelations from a god, and they prognosticate the future, and they prepare sacrifices or prayers or votive offerings. Others also are favored by a god while recovering from weakness or escaping constraints or being acquitted of a charge, or recovering from an ailment or escaping danger. If the support is great and the general times assist, they receive gifts from a king and trusts for a leader or authority, or they become famous while causing the unravelling of affairs, or charges through royal luck. Others also gain an everlasting fame by outfitting temples or holy places or statues of kings. When malefics are upon these places or testify to them, [the natives] are threatened in a foreign land and fall into loss or poverty and they do not set things aright in a foreign land, but they are undone by wanderings and dangers, and they continue to have the wrath of the gods, as it were, while blaming their peculiar fate. At those times some also deny die gods and worship others and eat unlawful meats. Others also engage in prognostication and giving oracles or prophesying or are taken for mad. Others also, after standing in great good fortune and reputation, receive trouble from a foreign land or from foreigners, and scandals and insurrections of the crowd or of cities, on account of which they undergo no ordinary danger because of the trust accorded them, and also enmities and betrayals. There are also times when, falling foul of accusations and royal fears, they are brought to a destruction of reputation and livelihood.
16. Concerning Irregularities of Nativities Before all, then, after one knows the support and rank of every nativity, it is necessary thus to harmonize the natures of the stars and zoidia so that the same effect should not be stated for mediocre and notable nativities, but rather a different one; for each star and each zoidion has both a medium nature of beneficence or affliction and possesses a notable nature or greater affliction as well, whence the occasions for great goods are established, but sometimes for great ills. When, then, we should find a notable and brilliant support in the temporal handings over being watched over by the testimony of good [stars] even though malefics possess the times or else have arrived by transit to the pivots or prospering places, we state that it is not out of place to trust the nativity, but [the native] will administer to the affairs of the household in an altogether disorganized manner and will endure scandals and censures, and he will be in a state of confusion and fear. But if by some means the Sun or the
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conjunction or whole moon1 should be afflicted, by bringing down upon themselves something unlawful and violent, the natives will undergo troubles and notoriety and insurrections of cities or enemies, on account of which they will spend their lives in great confusion. For such nativities, then, it will be necessary to compare the co-presence or testimony of the benefics in order that these causes should outstrip [the others] - or else predict destruction and dishonor. If the Moon or the Horoskopos alone should be afflicted, his original eminence will become unmanifest through bodily vexations and dangerous diseases, grievous and painful for the ones possessing them. If in some fashion the support of the nativity should be found to be impotent, the natives will lead a private life minding their own business, and one is obliged to state that neither in the handings over of the times nor in the figure-description of the ingressing stars is there a diversity or any matters contrary to expectation, or innovations of activities or changes. And when the malefics are ingressing onto the prospering places, they do not damage happiness much, nor are the benefics of advantage to those of middling birth, because of the prior assessment being universal, which the particular [effects] are not able to change. There are, then, many nativities of great fortune and reputation that get brought down to depression, others of common fortune and ignoble birth that meet with happiness and become conspicuous. When, then, the nativity is found to be carried to a height by means of the general plan, brilliant indications and benefits and advancements will follow closely in the particular timedescription when benefics have the times. But if malefics have the times, suspense and troubles and bodily annoyances will follow, though the support will remain unweakened. And if the nativity should be carried to depression from the universal support, when the benefics take the yearly times or those which are ingressing, they will become weaker with regard to good service, and they will yield to malefics for damaging the nativity. Every time it is so, then, the benefics never occupy a beneficial place, nor indeed do the malefics occupy a malevolent one, but rather when the situation is changed around with regard to the particular time-description because of the universal support, they do indeed become benefic [or malefic]. And otherwise, it is necessary to examine the action of each nativity, whether it has its operation from Hermes or Ares or Aphrodite or Kronos, or from the Sun or Moon or Zeus, in order that the support may be found to be notable. For in this manner, when each of the stars in the handing over is well situated or has arrived by ingress, the year will become beneficial and full of ideas for the business of what one does. For example, if Kronos should come to the place of the Sun or Moon, it will [not] cause great damage for that which the Sun or Moon or their places indicate from their own nature. Similarly also, even if the year should be upon it or should fall out upon it, either wherever it lay at the nativity or wherever by ingress, we will declare their effects for them. And even though the remainder of the stars and the Sun and Moon should be in the idle place, when they are also ruling over the times, they are made quite operative; and when opposing, highly upsetting. If the year from the Sun and Moon and Horoskopos should reveal something for any nativity, it is unchangingly either good or foul. For example, if it should fall out on Aphrodite or Zeus or onto the prospering places, it is good; but if on Kronos or Ares or the afflicted places, foul. If the handing over should be made on both, that which the stars or the places indicate in the year will happen. And if the three calculations
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indicate dissimilar things, the year will become diverse and irregular. It is better, then, for the malefics to hand over to the benefics than for the benefics hand over to the malefics. And if a star should hand over to a star which is in its own zoidion (that is, when the domicile steward is in the prospering places), it will produce a propitious time. This account also seems to be natural, where the releasing of the years should be made from each place in accordance with its signifying something. For example, from the Midheaven whenever we inquire as to doing; and from the place for marriage when concerning a wife; and from the place for slave when concerning such bodies; and similarly from the place concerning children. If then we should find benefics present on the place leaving off, or if they are testifying, or else the zoidion is prospering, we will declare rectifications or benefits or satisfactory outcomes of a course of action. For every kind, it will be necessary to consider the ruler of the ruler, in what kind of zoidion it is and how it is figured. For if the ruler of the zoidion falls poorly, it signifies some accusation, but if the ruler of this one falls well, counter-resolution of the evil will occur and there will be benefits from considerations of rank or the setting aright of expectations. Some also receive trusts or gifts from superior or royal persons when the general times are ruled throughout by the Sun and Moon or benefics and the distribution occurs well. In general, especially if Zeus in a nativity should have a superior position over Kronos or else should be square or hexagonal or trigonal or diametrical, or should be present with it, and similarly if Ares should be found to be trigonal or square or in the zoidion post-descending while Zeus is in the subterraneous pivot, the gifts and benefits will be greater. And for those supplying gifts to others or seeking fame in regard to the public or lavishing [money] on the multitude, if for a nativity Hermes should not be testified against1 by Kronos and Ares but witnessed by Zeus and Aphrodite, they will be lovers of glory and will share in the greatest fame and honour. But if it should be regarded by Ares, they will have a change of purpose and incur censure and have trouble and notorious scandals, and they will instantly be brought before the judgment seat for expenditures. And if it should be regarded by Kronos, they will continue cautiously and censoriously and dangerously. And if it should also be regarded by benefics, both will ensue. Every testimony of a star, then, is powerful, but chiefly that by square or diameter. And that in the equi-ascensional zoidia will also be taken into the judgment. When the handing over takes place in Taurus and Virgo, it indicates that the effects from these are inconstant and dilatory or disputed or utterly destroyed. In Sagittarius and Capricorn they are enigmatical and liable to end in loss because the zoidia are incomplete. Since the division is so natural, it will be necessary to examine the handings over not only for a nativity, but also, if one knows the hour and stellar arrangements, to make use of it in inceptions and flights in the same manner as in nativities. Whenever Kronos and Ares have a relationship to the Sun and Moon or Horoskopos either by opposition or superior position or another power of affliction, if there should be given the nativity of a child who cannot possibly submit to the effect, such as the beginning of an activity, yet the handings over of the stars are found, the effects will obtain for the father and mother, at times also for the master, but until the one who was born should himself take on the signified effects by attaining the time of the acme (midheaven), only assign to him those effects that it is possible for him to submit to, such as a gift, legacy or double name, slackening, and pimples and the remainder. There are times, then, when certain paradoxical effects are accustomed to happen, which are made clear
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ahead of time from the general judgment of the stars. It is necessary, then, to also harmonize both the rules and the effects for the solar [releasing] and for the customary character of the place in accordance with the times when they are signified. For in this way the treatment will be judged to be not deceitful. For two nativities, either of siblings or of a man and wife or of relatives or of other friendly persons, it is necessary to reveal the effect for the one who is associated at the nativity in accordance with the applicable time and to say whether it will ensue before or after; but I assign the change of circumstance to the other when it is his turn. For example, if it is conducive to the one to be benefited on the occasion of fatality, and it is conducive to the other [to receive] the inheritance from which the aforementioned expects the benefit, the benefit will not happen in these times, but rather in the times of the one expecting the benefit. For, the effect also comes from the Midheaven, or often the effect happens quickly for one, but the same thing happens for the other after a time or through being away from home or judgments or accusations or some other cause. And let the same be conceived for reputation and gifts and purchases and sales and community and wedlock or traveling abroad and the remainder of the things brought about in life. Whence, at times it is customary to take the effects beforehand, at times to retard them through the sympathies of the nativity or else impediments. And as with a musical instrument, nature opened up the power of the effects from the circuit of the stars, at times attacking suddenly and unexpectedly, at times enduring and holding fast with necessity, until the [time] possessing the harmonious occasion of the matter overtakes the stars. It is also necessary for one to learn to compare such examples from the cosmic situation, how the Sun does not always cause the same changes of the air from the tropical degrees, but at times it brings the cosmic condition to mildness beforehand, and at other times it later furnished much storminess and a fearful churning of winds after coming through the wintry tropic with fine weather. Nor yet does the Moon bring about an abundance of rain in accordance with the phases that seem good or open up the air after the bonds, but sometimes it causes storms prematurely and anticipates the natural cause, as contrary to expectation there comes about no ordinary confusion of the seasons; and at other times it puts the mild air into a stormy state during a phase when it is not at all indicated; and at other times when it had passed beyond the loosing of the bond, it was submitting to a stormy change. Similarly also, the remaining indications of the stars and the settings do not come about in accordance with the same circumstances, but at times they anticipate, and at times they make their phases later, and at times they do not show at all. These matters happen to be altered by the risings of the year and conjunctions and whole moons and eclipses and the four year cycle and the universal and cyclical rulers, and in relation to the changes of the current ingresses.
17. Concerning the Giving Over of the Stars and Lots and Horoskopos In keeping with this, we will append the giving over of the stars. The Sun giving over to Kronos, then, produces a grievous year. For, it signifies inaction and hindrances, and enmities or controversies and afflictions from superiors or elders, and insurrections against ordinances; and it signifies diseases or opthalmia, irregularities in life and frightful
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changes, attacks by subordinates, the death of the father or one who is like a father; when falling amiss, it produces accusations and con- straints. The Sun giving over to Zeus indicates a brilliant year and fame for the father of him who has it, and alliances with superiors, good times, gifts, and notable actions or offices or the conception of children; and it makes marriage for the unmarried. And in things that are being accomplished it is effective and effectual, foretelling good expectations. The Sun giving over to Ares indicates an unhealthy and precarious year, and danger for the father or the one having such a character; and it indicates unpropitious times for him and the rectification of matters after much preparation, exile, inopportune losses and enmities from superiors or the father, afflictions from subordinates, cuts and bloodshed or the bursting forth of blood, trouble in the principal places and cloudy vision, jealousies and charges and abuse. The Sun giving over to Aphrodite indicates a good and pleasing time, for it brings about alliances and friendships and gifts and delights, society and marriage and child-bearing or purchases of ornament or slaves; and for those who are preeminent, it produces offices, conspicuous reputation and those on the look-out for greater expectations; and it is able to get rid of concerns and every accusation. The Sun giving over to Hermes is good, effectual, prospering, sociable, beneficent to subordinate persons, effective in matters of giving and receiving. But if in some manner it should be contemplated by malefics, it introduces lawsuits and confusion, fears on account of money or written matters, condemnations of slaves and friends, and inopportune expenditures and losses. The Sun giving over to the Moon is practical and philanthropic, producing acquisitions and benefits from males and females, and alliances with them, and marriages and unions and notable parents, and good times and gifts from foreigners or from foreign countries. The Sun distributing to itself and well figured produces brilliant acclamations and actions, alliances with superiors and those who are greater, and unexpected benefits. And if it should also happen to be with benefics or should be witnessed by them, it introduces greater reputation and benefits. But lesser ones by night, or [the time] will become full of troubles, producing enmities and judgments or dreadful accusations. But if a malefic should also fall with it or testify, it brings on a diminishment of livelihood or reduction of reputation, and precarious travel abroad and enmity of the father, or danger and troubles with things. First, then, we must examine the natures of the stars and their figuredescription; for if each happens to be of its proper sect and well figured according to the support of the nativity, it will show the power of the effects to break down or intensify still further what is harmful when the testimony and ingress of the remaining stars are quite powerful, or to benefit and appear good. It is better, then, for them to be found in prospering zoidia and oriental, but if they should chance to be setting or should fall amiss in an improper fashion while afflicted, they will be turned toward the opposite.
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When the Moon has distributed to itself, it is unpleasant; for, it brings on enmities and lawsuits from greater persons, and fluctuations of livelihood, and confrontations of relatives and wife. And if a malefic should be regarding, it produces bodily weakness and sudden dangers. In this time it is necessary to examine the toidion itself in which the Moon is, lest when a malefic is ingressing it should produce something worse. And if a benefic [is ingressing], it brings on the dismissal of accusations, although travel abroad and changes of place. Also, if it should be so, it brings on the accomplishment of matters at an impasse; and it is remedial for what is foul. When the Moon has distributed to the Sun, it empties one's livelihood and produces the greatest expenditures, and especially if it should be contemplated by malefics, it shows ahead of time hindrances to actions and empty hopes and factions and troubles, and unsettlement of family and the intercourse or marriage of females. But for those who have reputation and stability of life, they begin [to make] journeys for purchases or the accomplishment and furtherance of matters, or for certain gifts and kindnesses. When the Moon has distributed to Kronos, it produces a year that is diverse and in suspense, and weakness or death of the mother if she is still alive, enmities and unsettlernents of matters, and changes of place and the cooling down of activities, and bodily dangers and trouble with the private places or the sense organs, and especially when it is waning; but when it is rising, the evil is less except the time is harmful and painful. When the Moon has distributed to Zeus, it indicates a time that is good and effectual in acquisition and alliance with superiors, and indicates reputation and rulership, benefits and gifts from females, marriage for the unmarried, children for those who are married, and affectionate companionship, or increase of livelihood for the mother or increase of reputation for those who have it, and the accomplishment of matters and expectations, and the fulfillment of hopes. The Moon handing over to Ares - the year is difficult, and especially if [the Moon] should be borne along from rising by day; for it produces dangers and weaknesses, bloodshed and falls or onset of fire, losses and the unsettlement of family, deaths of females or separations, enmities and judgments, confinements and insurrections of die masses. And if the Moon should happen to be subtractive or (especially by night) borne along just after setting, when the times are at hand for foulness and additional burdens, it effects what is easily accomplished with fears and hardships. The Moon handing over to Aphrodite indicates a year that is on target and conducive to accomplishment, and [it indicates] reputation and alliances, sympathies and marriages by both males and females. But if by any means they should happen to be uncongenially situated or are being contemplated by malefics, it indicates unpleasantness and enviousness, and expenditures and breaches of faith with regard to female persons. Generally, then, the handing over itself always brings in jealousies and factions and unsettlement, and enmities in relation to kin or family and those who are friends. The Moon handing over to Hermes indicates a time that is effectual and easily made right in relation to female persons and alliances, and especially if it should be configured with good stars; but if with malefics, the natives will undergo lawsuits and troubles on account of money or writings or matters of calculation. And they will undergo a great struggle, and if Hermes should be
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found to be lying suitably, they will survive; but if it is lying out of place, they will be condemned and they will make the greatest expenditures.
19. Distributions of the Horoskopos If the Horoskopos should give over to a malefic, it produces the worst time, especially to Kronos by night and Ares by day; for it brings on bodily dangers and irregularities of life, fears and very troublesome accusations, and falls or injuries. The Horoskopos giving over to Zeus indicates a time brilliant and full of acquisition, and reputation and outstanding rank; some are benefited and brought forward by superiors, and some are content with being delivered from dangers or accusations, and some make an attempt at freedom. The Horoskopos giving over to Aphrodite indicates a time good and amorous, alliances and intercourse of females, purchases and merriment and deliverance from evils. The Horoskopos giving over to the Sun indicates a year very sympathetic for greater and superior [persons], a year good for acquisition; and for those with reputation a greater rank and advancement. The Horoskopos giving over to the Moon [indicates a year] that is unchanged and effectual, benefits and alliances from females, innova- tions, activities and travels abroad that are easily made right. And especially if benefics should testify, prosperity in a foreign land; but if malefics, the opposite, and troubles in addition to these. The Horoskopos giving over to Hermes indicates a year that is effectual and full of profit and easily made right; but if it should be looked at by malefics, one that is full of dispute and penalties. Similarly also, when the stars give over to the Horoskopos, they produce the same things; but in accordance with the congenial place-positioning of each or as contrariwise, the effect will also be judged either beneficent or foul.
20. Distributions of Kronos When Kronos has distributed to itself, it signifies vexations and inactivity, and enmities and disgraces from superiors or elders, and the native will become subject to hindrances in his applications; or else, if he should do something, it will be unsteady. And if it should also be contemplated by Hermes and Ares, he will suffer vexatious prosecution on account of writings, and judgments and subversion or chicanery concerned with old affairs or those pertaining to death, and treachery, and whatever he will persevere in has the wrath of god; he will become gentler and effective at things by means of slowness. Kronos having distributed to the Sun signifies danger or death of the father if weakness is already present in him, and it produces a suspenss- ful year, and enmities and penalties and judgments, trouble with the sense organs and a recurrence of ailments, and mean-spiritedness in relation to friends and relatives. And if it should happen to be well figured by day, the natives will do for themselves with hindrances and payments, or they will be benefited by a death.
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Kronos having distributed to the Moon signifies danger to the mother for those who have one; but if not, of female persons. And it signifies enmities and separations, harm and chicanery and troubles with things, and precarious movements and bodily weakness and occasional ailments, and internal distress and tenderness in the tendons, and feebleness and darkening and unexpected ailments. Kronos having distributed to Ares indicates the worst and most dangerous year; for it produces weakness and treachery and distress, deaths and troubles from one's own; or it makes those who experience judgments, ungraciousness of friends, unsettlements of family, defenses and fears and enmities toward superiors, and the death of the father for those who have one, or else of older persons, and precarious or unproductive stays away from home. And if by any means they should fall poorly, they produces shipwrecks and destructions, ailments and injuries. But if they should be well figured in prospering zoidia or witnessed by benefics, most of the occasions will be dispersed. Kronos having distributed to Zeus indicates a time good and effectual; for, the natives will receive inheritances or legacies, and they will be benefited by elders or matters pertaining to death, and they will have authority over foundations and buildings; some also make acquisitions from waterside business or they are shipowners or they make purchases of ships, and they will rebuild or demolish, and by setting old matters aright they will have honor conferred upon them for their life. And if by any means the star of Ares or that of Hermes should co-testify, as a result of undergoing judgments and lawsuits, they will make untimely expenditures. Kronos having distributed to Aphrodite indicates separations of wives or injustices from females. Some also behold deaths, and they are inconstant in matters of cohabitation and intercourse; others also have plots formed against them, or they make trial of drugs and experience internal distress, and they meet with weakness and ague and attacks of rheum, and impediments and judgments and complete changes of their affairs. If the nativity is found to be of a woman, she will spend the time in pain, and especially if she should conceive; and she will be uncomfortable with the friends of her husband. Kronos having distributed to Hermes indicates disputes over ancient or mystical matters, and matters of money and calculation, and giving and receiving, and hindrances and losses in matters being accomplished, and betrayals and enmities. The natives also behold deaths of their relatives, and become very learned and inquisitive during these times, and they meet with pledges and gifts, and they are troubled by documents according as the figure-description of [these stars] in the theme1 is familiar or alien.
21. Distributions of Zeus Zeus having distributed to itself produces a time which is good and effectual, and benefits and gifts from friends, and the accomplishment of matters, trusts and thrift and alliances with superiors and the conception of children. If by any means it should be contemplated by Ares, it foretells irregularities and untimely expeditions. Zeus having distributed to the Sun indicates a time which is brilliant and good for acquisition for superior persons, and it brings on good times with the populace, offices and advancements, and the natives are deemed worthy of
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honors and garlands; and it foretells leadership and generalship and sovereign fate in accordance with the rank and place-positioning of the chart. And for those of middling estate, it indicates activities and deliverance from evils, and freedom, helpful alliances, changes and sympathetic friendships, the begetting of children, acquisition of slaves, and especially when it is well figured by day. Zeus having distributed to Kronos causes moves and expeditions and the disobedience of family, the deaths of some, and changes of place and affairs, and unstable partnerships and enmities of friends; and in things being accomplished it makes the natives unsuccessful at finishing them, or they do so with postponements, and they have conversations and make petitions and encounter disturbances. Zeus to Ares-the year is harmful and full of trouble, having enmities and slanders in relation to superiors, condemnations and betrayals, dangers and travel abroad and precarious illnesses, crises or deaths of one's own, irregularities of livelihood and expenditures.1 If the nativity should be found to be public or military and the figure is welt, it produces alliances and advancements with expeditions, gifts and promises; but they are those who spend the time in great fear or suspicion. Zeus having distributed to Aphrodite is beneficial and suitable for acquisition, bringing on loveliness, alliances and gifts; and it [makes] [the natives] gain benefits from women or through women, and be upset by intimacies and intercourse and friendships. And it brings on marriage for the unmarried, conception or begetting for those who are married. For notable nativities, it decks out [the natives! with garlands and produces conspicuous rank, public offices and gifts to the masses, and greater advancements and standing in the forefront, and the acquisition of slaves and adornment. Zeus having distributed to Hermes is effectual, profitable, bringing on commercial intercourse, and it stands as highly beneficial for matters concerned with speaking or calculation or writing, and it brings on partnerships and friendships with superiors, and gifts or inscriptions, and [the natives] are benefited from deposits or discoveries; whence they also make purchases of slaves and stand as lovers of finery. Some are also exalted, and especially if [the stars] should be well situated; but in general they are calumniated and they are much troubled or endure scandals. And especially when they are poorly figured or diametrically opposed by malefics, or present with them, or squared by them, the natives endure no ordinary struggles and spend their time full of fear. Zeus having distributed to the Moon indicates a time conducive to accomplishment and acquisition, and alliances and benefits from females and superior persons, and reputation and offices and standing in the forefront, deliverance from dangers, and the acquisition of adornment or slaves, conception or begetting of children and the intercourse of women, and gifts and inscriptions and kindness of the mother for those who have one. And if the figure should chance to be well, they will have authority over deposits, and it will produce the discoverers of treasure, those good at business and those who are well-favored by god, and the deliverance from affliction or slavery.
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Ares distributing to itself by day is unpleasant and full of trouble; for, it brings on enmities and harm and abuse of public matters, or those who squander public [funds]. Some, then, are insulted or constrained by military or powerful persons. But by night it is not bad, but rather suitable for accomplishment and benefit, and especially if it stands in prospering zoidia, and especially for those attending to masculine activities, or public and military ones. Ares giving over to the Sun is danger of the father for those having one, but if not, of one like a father; and it produces enmities of superiors and separations of friends, and it brings on precarious diseases and trouble with the senses, and danger from fire or falls or quadrupeds, bloodshed and blows and collapse, jealousies and contention and dreadful travel abroad. If by any means they should chance to be upon prospering zoidia or witnessed by benefics, it brings on activities and benefits and reputation and alliances with superiors [though] with tears and upsets and plots, and [it brings on] those who are subject to jealousies and hindrance in their activities. Ares giving over to the Moon is perilous and full of danger, possessing unsettlements and constraints and lawsuits and fears, and precarious travel abroad or attacks and insults from a foreign land, and danger for the mother or female persons, battles and separations, and it is full of disturbance for the people or the city; and it also brings on weakness and bloodshed or falls, recurrence of ailments or danger from fire and shipwreck; and especially if the nativity should be by day and the Moon should be waxing in light and should fall poorly, the aforesaid will turn out even worse. And furthermore, [it brings on] weak sight, trauma, breaking of limbs, trouble and injuries to the eyes. But if it should chance to be in prospering zoidia while witnessed by benefics, they will produce activities and advancements with fears; furthermore, it brings on bodily dangers of women, bloodshed and destruction and abortion, and trouble with the natural [places]. Ares giving over to Kronos indicates a year that is the worst and given to disturbance; for, the natives encounter lawsuits and insults, losses and rejections, and they see dangers and deaths and destruction of their own, and [the stars] surround [the native] with violent and highly disturbing affairs, hurtful and distressful travel abroad or raids of robbers, weakness and sudden dangers. And [it indicates] the insurrections of enemies and wrongs or distress from slaves; and since they are near to constraint and fears and defenses, the natives will be treated wretchedly unless chancing to be in familiar zoidia or being witnessed by benefics, [the natives] submit to charges hardly touching the surface. Ares giving over to Zeus indicates a year fine and effectual, bringing on accomplishment or assistance from superiors and alliances and good hopes and the fulfillment of expectations; and if the native should have a relationship to the military, he will be a soldier or he will advance. Those who possess a greater fate will come into leadership and conspicuous reputation, and they will make changes of place for some good, and they will be an ornament to the substance around them prior to coming into irregularities and expenditures. And if it chances to be diametrical, it is indicative of impediments and losses. Ares giving over to Aphrodite [indicates] enmities and separations of females and unsettlement of family, and the death of the mother for those having one, or else of females; and [it indicates] intimacies and adulteries, transitory friendships, and exposures. But if they should have some sympathy, the natives endure embarrassments, and in their actions they will borne along in
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an unsteady manner; and women, after experiencing bloodshed or miscarriage, will spend their time in much danger. Ares giving over to Hermes indicates a year full of disturbance; for it is one possessing dangers and losses on account of writings or money or calculations, contentions, chicanery over the mysteries, sureties and debts, attacks and defenses. And if they chance to be in bicorporeal zoidia, the natives will themselves show the same [treatment] to others, or they will act recklessly. And if the three releasings are kept well,1 the natives will encounter the aforesaid. But if they should chance to be poor, the natives will be unsteady in what they are accomplishing, and even if they should be right, they will yield; and even while enduring the greatest diminishment, they will be upset with no ordinary accusations.
23. Distributions of Aphrodite Aphrodite distributing to herself while being well situated brings on friendships and alliances, sympathy for men and women, and gifts and delightful intimacy and marriage, good will of family and pleasures and benefits. But if it should be found with Kronos or Ares, or should be contemplated by these, or should chance to be in non-prospering zoidia, it brings on censures and exposures and adulteries, losses, and rejections and treacheries of women, judgments and unsettlements; likewise also for women from men. Aphrodite distributing to the Sun produces a time suitable for reputation and acquisition, one suitable for alliances for male and female persons, and benefits, intimacies and marriages and conception, purchases and gifts of adornments and slaves, and reputation of the father for those having one, and sympathy from such, and benefits, especially if they should chance to be well figured. For those who are preeminent, it decks out the native with garlands and brings on high-priesthoods and advancements and offices; and it produces gifts to the masses, oracular responses and those who are privy to mystical and divine matters, and loveliness and merriment. Aphrodite distributing to the Moon, while well situated and figured upon opportune places, indicates a time suitable for acquisition and benefit, and it adorns the life with pomp and supplies outstanding reputation, except with jealousies and rivalry and factions and the secret envy of some; and it is wont to bring on acquisitions and benefits which are incomplete or partial. But if it should be poorly figured, it makes injustices and enmities from male and female persons, suspense and unsettlements in relation to related and dear persons; for in general their handing over is controversial and contentious. Aphrodite distributing to Kronos indicates a time suspenseful and harmful, and it brings on separations, fights, outrages, exposures, injustices because of the mother or women, and enmities of relatives or dishonors and disputes in relation to older persons or partners. And it surrounds [the native] with censures and shameful ailments and unstable friendships and intimacies; and the natives incur judgments in relation to women and they undergo confrontations, and they have difficulties of their circumstances and affairs. They also encounter weakness and trouble with the private places or sense organs; and they are threatened with attacks and poisons and occasional ailments, especially when Ares and Hermes co-testify.
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Aphrodite distributing to Zeus indicates a year good and suitable for acquisition, and it brings on alliances with superiors and gifts, and offices, and political and popular ostentation, and reputation and advancements, marriages and deliberations with women, and friendships, conception and begetting and loveliness for those who make the attempt. But if someone should be of middling estate, he will prosper and will have a release from foul matters or subjection, and he will be deemed worthy of trust and honor, and will be an ornament to the substance1 around him. Aphrodite distributing to Ares-the year is suspenseful: fights with women, separations, bloodshed, ruin, death of women or mother; some make charges on account of women, experiencing controversies and enmities and exposures, and censures or adulteries, and they are wronged or betrayed, and by acting or replying contrary to policy2 they incur chastisement. There are times, then, when even believing a separation of co-habitation to be invoked by prayer, they keep notorious scandals alive because of certain hopes that they harbor. Aphrodite distributing to Hermes indicates a year effectual and on target for giving and receiving and commerce; and it compasses friendships for those making a start in speaking or education, and purchases of adornment and slaves, and the society and wedlock of men and women, reputation and honors, the rectification of matters; and those who are privy to the mysteries, and trusts of deposits and sympathies of relatives.
24. Distributions of Hermes Hermes having distributed to itself is effectual and beneficial, and makes [the natives] shrewd concerning dialectical reasoning and persuasion and more excellent than their opponents when they are accomplishing something with good verbal delivery and in a mysterious fashion, and it produces rectifiers of matters and those who derive their health and happiness from speeches or calculations. And especially if it should chance to be rising or in prospering zoidia or should be regarded by Zeus or Aphrodite, it indicates greater trusts and benefits; but if by malefics, it is indicative of fears and impediments. Hermes giving over the year to the Sun is shrewd, social, effectual, one that brings about alliances with superiors and requests and gifts though with postponement and impediments, and administration and standing in the forefront and accounts of mystical matters, and it pertains to reputation and benefit from speech and education. And the natives excel at most matters by finishing them in a mysterious manner and with good verbal delivery. Hermes giving over to the Moon indicates an effectual year, especially if the Moon also chances to be well figured and rising, and they should chance to be in prospering places, brings about alliances of males and females, and assistance and rectification for matters, and trusts, and success in the things being accomplished, and sympathy for greater persons. But if it should chance to be uncongenially situated or contemplated by malefics, it brings about judgments and payments or insults and threats of superiors, constraints or fears, and betrayals of the mysteries. Hermes giving over to Kronos indicates a year full of trouble and danger, bringing about dismantlings, insults, losses and judgments, and on account of writings or loans. And the natives come into a state of weakness or wasting and disease, and they are swept away by anger, or they make a trial of drugs, and they behold the deaths of their own siblings and children; they go to
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trial over matters pertaining to deaths or they are involved in contention. And if they should also be diametri- cal or square, or should be contemplated by Ares while being poorly situated, they will also contrive something dangerous all by themselves; and they will meet with shipwreck and turnabouts, and they live their life precariously. But if they should be figured congenially, they bring on reputation with expenditures and postponement, and the rectification of matters, and they will meet with moderate reversals in regard to accusations. Hermes giving over to Zeus is effectual and successful, bringing about alliances and friendships, rectifications of matters and administration and prophesying and health and happiness for speeches and calculations, except that generally the native are greatly troubled among the crowds, and they experience both scandals and fears, and they are upset by untimely expenditures, and they are unsettled in relation to their family or friends or kin; and they experience bodily agony, even if not their own, at least on behalf of others. Hermes giving over to Ares is not good. It brings on enmities and judgments, losses and villainy, counterfeiting and pledges and loans, attacks and plundering, instabilities and betrayals, and unsettlement of family. Then there are times when the natives themselves also show the same [treatment] to others, except they become rash and effectual in regard to the attacks; and by getting themseives penalized, they settle accounts in various ways; and by expecting accusations and destructions, they spend their time as those who are suspicious, Jn much fear and turmoil. Hermes giving over to Aphrodite indicates a time good and effectual for giving and receiving, and for purchases and amorous intercourse, and a time beneficial for those things that are through speech or education or administration. Also, the natives gain additional new alliances and friendships and intimacies; and they are upset by intercourse with men and women. But for those already installed in a greater fortune, it brings on the acquisition of slaves and adornment; and it produces those who are successful in regard to requests and friendships and advancement, and those who are beneficent toward their own.
25. Divisions of the Four Lots The Lot of Fortune giving or taking over in prospering places, with benefics present or testifying, indicates good fortune and advancement, actions and reputation and setting matters aright and the fulfillment of expectations, and benefits arising from deaths. But when it is declining or witnessed by malefics, it makes the actions and reputation less and transitory, or it makes whatever the natives might accomplish be with impediments and dangers and judgments and insults. Spirit giving or taking over in prospering places, with benefics present, produces resolutions pertaining to what is on one's mind, discerning and easily effected reckonings, helpful counsels of friends, alliances with superiors, gifts and reputation; and it produces those who are successful in regard to attacks, and those who are puffed up in intellect, having very many beliefs. But when it fallen amiss or is witnessed by malefics, it introduces suspense and mental tortures, insensibilities and contrary purposes; it produces those who consider their own errors to be successes and those who bring charges against others, and those who miss the mark in most things; whence such persons loose heart at times and contrive something dangerous for
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themselves by themselves, and they are regarded as mad and come into a state of mental distraction. Eros handing or taking over in prospering places, and with benefics present or witnessing, furnishes desires suitable to a good purpose and lovers of fine things. For, some are turned toward education and bodily or musical exercises, and taking pleasure in flattery about future expectations, they hold to an untiring purpose; others think it good to produce spells for the love and intimacy of women and men. When Ares and Hermes, then, are witnessing or present upon this place, and especially in their own zoidia, they make pederasts or the natives are blamed for both [ways], or they make those who are fond of sailing and the chase and wrestling; but if Aphrodite [should be so], they cause intimacy with women. There are times, then, when having been satisfied, they are again satisfied. Similarly also, when each of the stars has been allotted the place or when it is witnessing or taking over the time, it will furnish the form of the desire in accordance with its own nature. Generally, then, when malefics are present or testifying, the [objects] of desire will fall under torture or loss or danger. And if by any means the star of Kronos should be co-present with the star of Aphrodite and the Moon, or should bear witness, the natives will be in love with shameful and licentious deeds. They are censured for both men and women, and they experience scandals; or when they are overcome with suffering, they pay no heed by changing their thoughts. And if by any means the star of Zeus should co-testify, that which results will happen in a trustworthy or powerful or mystical fashion. When Ares and Hermes are present or bearing witness or taking over the time, the natives will be in love with villainous or piratical matters; that is, they become forgers, plunderers, burglars, gamblers, those who have made their intellects like wild beasts. And if the star of Aphrodite should also testify, they become poisoners, adulterers, murderers; whence since they are rolling themselves around in villainies during the times that apply to securities and trusts, they will spend their time in much danger while experiencing constraints and judgment. That is, this place is actually powerful for many matters; whence one must pay attention to it. [The Lot of] Necessity handing or taking over in prospering places, with benefics present or witnessing, brings on familiarities and alliances with superiors, and the destructions or deaths of enemies. When malefics are present, in brings on lawsuits and judgments and expenditure; whence those who are bringing their plans to conclusion spend their time wretchedly. If by any means the figure should be afflicted, some are condemned or destroyed. These, then, are defined for masculine nativities and times. In like manner it will be fitting to also make room for female nativities in regard to the congenial and possible figures of the handings over.
26. The 4th Manner of Division of the Times, in Accordance with the Seven-Zoned Sphere Upwards, in the Manner of Critodemos 1st the Moon, 1 year; 2nd Hermes, 2 years; 3rd Aphrodite, 3 years; 4th the Sun, 4 years; 5th Ares, 5 years; 6th Zeus, 6 years; 7th Kronos, 7 years. They come to 28 years. Monomoiria is done as follows: for the zoidion in which the Moon is, the lord of the zoidion itself becomes the first and is taken; then the others according to their zone. As, for example, if the Moon is in the 6th degree of Libra, Aphrodite takes the 1st, Hermes the 2nd, the Moon the 3rd, Kronos the 4th, Zeus the 5th, Ares the 6th; the monomoiria is of Ares. Ares, then, takes 5 years first as the lord of the monomoiria of the Moon; then those lying next after Ares in the
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nativity. After the filling up of 28 years, begin again from the star lying after Ares. He also does the 10 years and 9 months, from the Sun by day, and the Moon by night. But if the Sun should not be well situated, begin from the Moon. Similarly also from the Sun by night. And if the Sun and the Moon should be incorrectly placed, begin from ruler or some other star well situated.
27. Otherwise Concerning the Years from the Sothic [Material]; A Lecture from the Hermetic [Material] Making the Releasing from the Sun or Moon or Horoskopos or Lot of Fortune There are 4 places from which the beginning of the year is taken, such as the Sun, Moon, Horoskopos, or Lot of Fortune. The determination is this: When the Sun is upon a pivot, it is necessary to reckon from it; and at night, similarly from the Moon when it is upon a pivot to the degree. But when these fall short, from the Horoskopos. And if the Lot of Fortune is upon a pivot while the lights fall short, make the beginning of the year from it. And similarly, for those [nativities] which have the lights coming after the angles, it is unnatural to begin from the light which is out of its own sect; for in accordance with our teaching [one] may quite potently decide upon what sort of zoidia the year coming after the nativity will prosper. By day, from the Sun if it chances to be marking the hour or culminating; but if not even so, extend from the zoidion marking the hour, and for the zoidion at which the number leaves off, pass the year through from the [star] that was the lord of the place at the nativity. And by night from the Moon if it chances to be as we said before for the Sun, especially if it should be oriental and additive in numbers. But for the two lights which are inclining, if it should not also happen to be full (and if it should be subtractive in numbers), from the bond4 if it5 is lying upon the greatest pivot only. But if it not as described above, from the lord of the place that leaves off from the Horoskopos, For if you should find the zoidia to be upon pivots or undergoing benefic testimony or even culpable from stars present upon them or looking on in accordance with the first arrangement and at the transit, it indicates that the effects of the years will be good. But when the places are bad, the opposite will ensue, as when oriental stars as overseers also provide activity whereas occidental ones provide thefts, curtailments of what is being performed if the matters should not happen to be secret.
28. Concerning Where the Month Will Be The month may be taken as follows. From the transiting Sun to the Sun at the nativity and an equal amount from the zoidion allotted the year; but by night from the transiting Moon to the Moon at the nativity and an equal amount from the zoidion allotted the year. It is necessary to also observe the zoidion in which the conjunction took place if the nativity pertains to a conjunction; and likewise also the zoidion in which the whole moon will be if it pertains to a whole moon. For in these zoidia the months prosper and have their beginning. Whatever sort of day-interval the Moon chances to have at the nativity from either a conjunction or a whole moon, the beginning of the month will fill up to a similar day-interval. For example, if it is three days or five days old, either from a conjunction or whole moon, the beginning of the month will be a day thereafter.
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You will find the days thus: Multiply the full current years of the nativity by 5, and take in addition the days from the birthday up to the time you are seeking with the multiplied number. And if should be in accordance with the Alexandrian years, add the intercalary days (that is, 1/4 of the full years). And throw out as many days of the multitude as possible at 12 apiece. Throw out the remainder from the zoidion allotted the month by giving one counter to a zoidion. And wherever the number should meet, examine the lord of that zoidion, and explain the quality of the day in relation to the stars looking on. The hours thus: From the zoidion allotted the day throw out hours at about the beginning of the day from the birth hour at 2 apiece. And one may know the good and effective hours (useful both for the attacking of every matter and for inception), and you may especially know the weak times and those for taking to one's bed from the horoskopic syntheses with the lights and the remaining pivots of the stars. Everything that was important for the immediate examination in these matters has been said, and to what extent [one] will derive much benefit for himself from this concise explanation if he should be equipped with a clever soul, and what reasoning power he may attain to even if he is well-endowed by nature. If you wish to perform a circumambulation, I make use of the seasonal times, such as either the solar year, or the month from the transiting Sun to the natal Moon and an equal amount from the Horoskopos of the year, or so I have observed the Hermetic [teachings]. And it is necessary to make the circumambulations from every star to every star, in accordance with the ascensions of the zoidia and the zones. For example, if it is about a woman or daughters or females, from Aphrodite; whenever it is about what one does and the things connected with it, from Hermes; whenever it is about dangers or death or illness or bloodshed, from the malefics to the Horoskopos or the Sun or Moon; and from the others in a similar fashion. It is necessary to heed in which bounds the circumambulations are, and which of the stars are hurling rays, and which are in transit in the zoidion of the circumambulation; similarly also, how they possess the handing over and taking over in relation to the nativity, and how they rose, and how they were in the nativity. Otherwise concerning the year. You may take the years thus: From the Sun (which indicates matters of the soul), from the Moon (which indicates matters of the body and the mother), [and] from the Lot of Fortune. One must examine how these are related to each other. For if they should be benefic and make harmonious phases, they signify that the year is good; if they are malefic, the opposite; if they are benefic and malefic, they also produce a year that is mixed. And one must make use of the so-called canine year.
30. Concerning the Propitious and Impropitious Times in Relation to 1/4 of the Period The division of propitious times in relation to l/4. For example, Kronos is 30 years; 1/4 is 7 1/2. Zeus is 12 years; 1/4 is 3 years. Ares is 15 years; 1/4 is 3 years, 9 months. The Sun is 19 years; 1/4 is 4 years, 9 months. Aphrodite is 8 years; 1/4 is 2 years. Hermes is 20 years; 1/4 is 4 years, 5 months. The Moon is 25 years; 1/4 is 6 years, 3 months. These are their minor cyclical periods, but their major periods are: of the Sun 120, of the Moon 108, of Kronos 57, of Zeus 79, of Ares 66, of Aphrodite 82, of Hermes 76. They distribute the days as follows: The days of Kronos are 637; of Zeus 255; of Ares 318; of the Sun 403; of Aphrodite 169, 18; of Hermes 424, 18; of the Moon 531.
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Zeus distributes from its 3 years 102 days to itself; 127 days, 12 hours to Ares; 161 days, 6 hours to the Sun; 67 days, 12 hours to Aphrodite; 170 days to Hermes; 212 days, 6 hours to the Moon; 255 days to Kronos. Ares distributes from its 3 years and 9 months, 159 days and 5 hours to itself; 318 days to Kronos; 127 1/2 days to Zeus; 212 days, 19 hours to the Sun; 84 days, 18 hours to Aphrodite; 212 days, 21 hours to Hermes; 265 2/3 days to the Moon. The Sun distributes from its 4 years and 9 months, 403 days to Kronos; 161 days, 12 hours to Zeus; 201 days, 20 hours to Ares; 255 days, 18 hours to the Sun; 107 days, 21 hours to Aphrodite; 269 days, 4 hours to Hermes; 336 days, 2 hours to the Moon. Aphrodite distributes 2 years: 170 days to Kronos; 68 days to Zeus; 85 days to Ares; 107 days, 12 hours to the Sun; 45 days to itself; 113 days 12 hours to Hermes; 141 days, 12 hours to the Moon. Hermes distributes 5 years: 425 days to Kronos; 170 days to Zeus; 212 days to Ares; 269 days to the Sun; J13 days to Aphrodite; 283 days, 12 hours to itself; 354 days to the Moon. The Moon distributes from its 6 years and 3 months, 531 days to Kronos; 212 days to Zeus; 265 days, 15 hours to Ares; 336 days to the Sun; 141 days, 16 hours to Aphrodite; [354 days to Hermes]; 442 days to the Moon. Wherever the year should leave off, the lord of the zoidion gives first, such as Kronos 85 days; then the Sun 53 days, 20 hours; Hermes 56 days, 16 hours; Aphrodite 22 days, 16 hours; Zeus 34 days; the Moon 70 days, 20 hours; Ares 42 days, 12 hours. Another teaching. However many bounds one of the stars has in the 12 zoidia, it gives just so many years. For example, the Horoskopos in Libra; 28 years are current. Capricorn gives the first 57 days to Kronos, then 76 days to Hermes, then 82 days to Aphrodite, then 79 days to Zeus, then 66 days to Ares, then 70 to the Moon, then 6 hours to the Sun. Another division. Multiply the least years of the star by 4, and give 25 to the Moon, and 6 hours to the Sun. The star of Kronos, then, has 120 days because of Capricorn, Hermes has 80, then Aphrodite 32, then Zeus 48, then Ares 60, then the Moon 25, then the Sun 6 hours. The year by night and by day is from the Ascendant. Someone is winding down 28 years, [which is the year] of Capricorn from Libra; and Kronos is in Libra. The 28 years leave off at Leo. Kronos in Libra, then, gives over to the Sun, and the Sun has the year. This pleases the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Greeks. They compare the trigons for 28 years as follows: Aphrodite is lady of her trigon. From Aphrodite in Cancer, then, it leaves off at Libra. The lord of (he trigon by day is Kronos in Libra. Kronos takes over the year from Aphrodite. The division is contentious.
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