The Abbreviation of the Introduction to Astrology - Muḫtaṣar al-mudḫal
Written by Abū Maʿšar (Albumasar),
Together with the Medieval Latin Translation of Adelard of Bath, ed. Charles Burnett, Keiji Yamamoto and Michio Yano (Leiden/New York/Cologne, 1994).
YSAGOGA MINOR OF JA‘FAR THE MATHEMATICIAN INTO ASTRONOMY,
taken from Arabic by Adelard of Bath, begins.
|2| Whoever, with steadfast zeal seeking the higher science of philosophy, investigates the wondrous effects of the heavenly things within the whole sensible universe since likenesses of the forms of the higher things appear, by a certain natural motion, upon this lower world, and foretell a foreknowledge of future things |3| will nevertheless not attain this without knowledge of the degrees of the circles and of the signs; moreover, one must know which planet is the lord of which sign, and what parts they occupy in them; likewise also the nature of the same planets, and no less that of the signs; and it is fitting also to know beforehand which things are shemeli and which are genubi.
|4| Each of these matters has been set forth more fully in the Greater Ysagoga; but now (it is given) briefly, for those being introduced more closely.
|1|* Therefore it will be said, first of all, concerning the nature of the signs their properties and effects; secondly, concerning the properties of the stars in themselves and their quantities, and what affections they have from the Sun; thirdly, concerning the twenty-five “habitudes” (configurations/conditions) of the planets; fourthly, concerning the happiness and power of the stars also their misfortune and weakness and also the feebleness of the Moon, and the knowledge of their duodecatemorion; fifthly, concerning the nature of the planets and what each signifies upon this lower world, and which one presides over which day or hour; sixthly, concerning the names cehem, that is, “parts”; seventhly, concerning the knowledge of afraadet and the limits of the stars according to the philosophers of the Medes, and also the differences of degrees.
First Discourse
|5| The circle, therefore, is divided into 360 degrees, and likewise into twelve signs. And the first of the signs is Aries; the second Taurus; the third Gemini; the fourth Cancer; the fifth Leo; the sixth Virgo; the seventh Libra; the eighth Scorpio; the ninth Sagittarius; the tenth Capricorn; the eleventh Aquarius; the twelfth Pisces.
|6| Moreover, each one of these is divided into thirty degrees; a degree into sixty dakaicas; and likewise a dakaica into seconds, and a second into thirds, and a third into fourths, in an infinite manner it can be divided.
|7| And the seven planets are these: the first Saturn; the second Jupiter; the third Mars; the fourth the Sun; the fifth Venus; the sixth Mercury; the seventh the Moon.
|8| And each of these holds its dignities in the signs, and also its exaltation and its dragon.
Aries
|9| Therefore Aries is the domicile of Mars; but the kingship of the Sun is in the nineteenth degree of the same; and the servitude of Saturn in the twenty-first.
|10| It has three faces, each holding ten degrees; the first face is of Mars, the second of the Sun, the third of Venus.
|11| Its nature is hot and dry, fiery, choleric; its taste bitter; its sex male; rejoicing by day; convertible toward new sproutings; increasing the day beyond the equality of hours; its rising is less by thirty degrees, and likewise indirect.
|12| Its figure is imperfect; wrathful; two-colored; two-formed; lustful; of few children, sometimes of none; royal; four-footed; horn-footed; of imperfect voice.
|13| Its part in a man is the head and face.
|14| In lands: Babil, Feriz, Philistia, and Derebigen.
Taurus
|15| Taurus is the domicile of Venus; the kingship of the Moon in its third degree; but the servitude of no one is in it.
|16| It has three faces: the first of Mercury, the second of the Moon, the third of Saturn.
|17| Its nature cold and dry, earthy, melancholic; its taste vinegary/sour; its sex female; nocturnal; firm for sprouting; increasing the days; imperfect in figure, diminished in limb; lustful; of few children, mostly of none; of imperfect voice; four-footed; horn-footed.
|18| Every plant, and whatever is rooted in the earth, is its own.
|19| In man: the neck and throat.
|20| In lands: Eshewed and Henden, and Cities, and Elhewez.
Gemini
|21| Gemini is the domicile of Mercury; the kingship of the Dragon’s Head in their third degree; and the servitude of the Dragon’s Tail likewise in the same.
|22| Its faces are three: the first of Jupiter, the second of Mars, the third of the Sun.
|23| Its nature hot and moist, airy, sanguine; its taste sweet; its sex male; diurnal; two-formed; vernal; its extremity is solstitial; many-formed, of all flying things.
|24| A great part of it is in tall trees; its figure human; eloquent; lacking children; sparing of words; handsome; generous; well-disposed.
|25| In man it has the chest and arms.
|26| In lands: Harran, Armenia, Derebigen, Mezr, and Varkan.
Cancer
|27| Cancer is the domicile of the Moon; the kingship of Jupiter in its fifteenth degree; the servitude of Mars in the twenty-eighth.
|28| Its faces are three: the first of Venus, the second of Mercury, the third of the Moon.
|29| Its nature cold and moist, watery, phlegmatic; its taste salty; its sex female; nocturnal; turning from spring to summer; its beginning diminishes the days; of many children; voiceless.
|30| Its portion is over creeping things and swimming things, and middle-sized trees, and running waters and rain-waters.
|31| In man it has the breasts and heart, the stomach, the sides, the spleen, and the lung.
|32| In lands: Lesser Armenia and Escin; and it shares in the land of Balk and Helewez and some parts of Africa.
Leo
|33| Leo is the domicile of the Sun; no kingship or servitude is in it.
|34| Its faces: the first of Saturn, the second of Jupiter, the third of Mars.
|35| Its nature hot and dry, fiery, choleric; its taste bitter; male; diurnal; firm according to summer; four-footed; having molars and claws in wolves; sharing in tall trees.
|36| Imperfect; wrathful; lustful; lacking children; of imperfect voice; crafty; deceitful; malevolent; anxious; sad.
|37| In man it has the upper stomach and the heart, and the nerves, the sides, and the ribs.
|38| In lands: Islands, and Atork as far as the end of habitations, and Nicabor, and royal places, and elmefewiz and elkila.
Virgo
|39| Virgo is the domicile of Mercury; its kingship also in its fifteenth degree; and the servitude of Venus in its twenty-seventh.
|40| Its faces: the first of the Sun, the second of Venus, the third of Mercury.
|41| Its nature cold and dry, earthy, melancholic; taste acid; female; nocturnal; double; weak; its extremity equinoctial; three-formed, each of them winged; somewhat dark.
|42| Human figure; sterile; of loud voice; handsome; generous; well-disposed.
|43| In man: the buttocks and intestines.
|44| In lands: Cities, Africa, Shem, and Arabia, and every grain-bearing land; places of feasts and of musicians.
Libra
|45| The sign Libra is the domicile of Venus; the kingship of Saturn in its twenty-first degree; the servitude of the Sun in its nineteenth.
|46| Its faces: the first of the Moon, the second of Saturn, the third of Jupiter.
|47| Its nature hot and moist, airy, sanguine; of male sex; diurnal; turning; autumnal; diminishing the day; its rising is beyond thirty degrees, likewise indirect; two-colored; two-formed; somewhat obscure.
|48| Its portion is in tall trees; human figure; moderate in pleasures and lust; of few children, mostly none; of lively voice; handsome; benevolent to all.
|49| In man it has the lower belly and the groin.
|50| In lands: Romania as far as Africa, and Shahid of Media as far as Ethiopia, and Karmen and Segesten and Kebil, and places of hunting and fowling and mountain-tops.
Scorpio
|51| The sign Scorpio is the domicile of Mars; the servitude of the Moon in its third degree.
|52| Its faces: the first of Mars, the second of the Sun, the third of Venus.
|53| Its nature cold and moist, watery, phlegmatic; female; nocturnal; firm; autumnal.
|54| Its portion is in wolves and in everything that swims, and in rivers and in shrubs; of many children; wrathful; lying; anxious in evil; handsome; generous; mute.
|55| In man it has the genitals and the seed.
|56| In lands: Elhegez, and the countryside of Arabia as far as Elieman, and Tangen and Feruz and all foul places and prisons and the habitations of scorpions.
Sagittarius
|57| The sign Sagittarius is the domicile of Jupiter; the kingship of the Dragon’s Tail in its third degree; the servitude of the Dragon’s Head likewise in the same.
|58| Its faces: the first of Mercury, the second of the Moon, the third of Saturn.
|59| Its nature hot and dry, fiery, choleric; its taste acid; male; diurnal; two-colored; autumnal; its extremity is the winter solstitial; imperfect; rising indirectly; of twin figure, divided into two halves: the first half of human figure, royal, ruling; the second half four-footed, with an unbroken hoof.
|60| Its portion is in wolves; of few children; of small voice; serviceable; gainful.
|61| In man: the legs.
|62| In lands: having mountains and fiery places.
Capricorn
|63| The sign Capricorn is the domicile of Saturn; the kingship of Mars in its twenty-eighth degree; but the servitude of Jupiter in the fifteenth.
|64| Its faces: the first of Jupiter, the second of Mars, the third of the Sun.
|65| Its nature cold and dry, earthy, melancholic; its taste vinegary/sour; female; nocturnal; turning; wintry; its beginning increases the day; of round figure; jealous.
|66| Of two wills and natures: for the first part is earthy and dry, sometimes powerful over beasts and sterile things; the second part watery, flowing; of many children; foul.
|67| Having grassy earth and things like herbs; of good life; of middling voice; wrathful; cautious; fearful; sad; lustful.
|68| In man: the knees.
|69| In lands: Ethiopia, and the banks of Elden, and Scind and Hind as far as Hegez; in regions: flowery places and meadows, places of dogs and wild asses, of wolves, and lands of Arabs.
Aquarius
|70| The sign Aquarius is Saturn’s domicile; the alienation of the Sun.
|71| Its faces: the first of Venus, the second of Mercury, the third of the Moon.
|72| Its nature hot and moist, airy, sanguine; its taste sweet; male; diurnal; firm; wintry.
|73| Its portion is in tall trees, flowing waters; of human figure; of few children, sometimes none; of small voice.
|74| In man: the shins down to the feet.
|75| In lands: wild places, and Kufan as far as Africa and Media; in regions: having watery and meadowy places.
Pisces
|76| Pisces is the domicile of Jupiter; the kingship of Venus in its twenty-seventh degree; the servitude of Mercury in its fifteenth degree.
|77| Its faces: the first of Saturn, the second of Jupiter, the third of Mars.
|78| Its nature cold and moist, watery, phlegmatic; its taste salty; female; nocturnal; two-bodied; wintry; its extremity equinoctial. Its first part marshy; the other upon middle-sized trees.
|79| Its own are wolves and all watery creatures and pools. Indifferent toward women; of many children; imperfect; mute.
|80| In man: the feet.
|81| In lands: Tarasten, and parts of Gaul and of the Romans, and Soliman, and the Island, and Alexandria, and having the sea of Elieman; and in regions: shores and oratories and places of angels.
|82| And these indeed are the natures and properties of the signs.
Alienations, servitudes, triplicities
|83| Moreover, in the aforesaid signs there are also alienations and servitudes of the stars.
|84| And the alienation of a domicile, and the servitude of a kingship, are in the same degree the opposite.
|85| It must also be known that the signs in threes are of the same nature.
|86| Aries, Leo, Sagittarius: trigonal (of a trine), fiery, eastern, gathering and filling; their daytime judge is the Sun and Jupiter; their nighttime judge Jupiter and the Sun; Saturn shares with them by day and night.
|87| Then Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn: wealth/assessment and bountiful power, trigonal, earthy, southern; their daytime judge Venus and the Moon; their nighttime judge the Moon and Venus; Mars shares with them by day and night; Mercury has a share in Virgo.
|88| Next Gemini, Libra, Aquarius: giving and emptying, trigonal, airy, western; their daytime judge Saturn and Mercury; their nighttime judge Mercury and Saturn; Jupiter shares with them by day and night.
|89| Lastly Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces: receiving and filling, trigonal, watery, northern; their daytime judge Venus and Mars; their nighttime judge Mars and Venus; the Moon shares with them by day and night.
Direct and indirect rising; friendships
|90| Of these signs, six indeed rise directly, and the others indirectly.
|91| Indirectly: from the first of Capricorn to the last of Gemini; directly: from the first of Cancer to the last of Sagittarius.
|92| Those that rise indirectly, in a certain way love those that rise directly, whose days are equal to their days, giving themselves to them for prosperous actions; for example: Gemini and Cancer, Taurus and Leo, Aries and Virgo, Pisces and Libra, Aquarius and Scorpio, Sagittarius and Capricorn.
|93| These therefore, whose days are equal, are friendly to one another, and agree in good effects, and coincide in power.
|94| They also say further that those that rise indirectly follow those that rise directly, in another respect; for Gemini loves Leo, Taurus Cancer, Capricorn Virgo, Pisces Scorpio; and also Capricorn [loves] Scorpio, and Aquarius Sagittarius.
|95| But Aries and Libra, Capricorn and Cancer, indeed love one another, but not toward a good effect, for they are opposites.
|96| Likewise all whose degrees are equal are friendly to one another: Aries and Pisces, Taurus and Aquarius, Capricorn and Gemini, and the rest similarly.
|97| Likewise, whatever two are domiciles of one [planet]: Capricorn and Aquarius of Saturn; Sagittarius and Pisces of Jupiter; and similar cases.
The four quarters; right/left; ascending/descending
|98| The circle is divided in every hour into four parts.
|99| The first, from rising to midheaven, is called eastern, male, advancing.
|100| The second, from midheaven to the west, is called female, southern, receding.
|101| The third, from the west to the middle of the lower hemisphere, western, male, advancing.
|102| The fourth, from the lower middle to the east, northern, female, receding.
|103| Further, whatever part of the circle is above the earth is called the right; the lower part the left.
|104| According to some also, the two upper parts are called male and right and advancing; the two lower parts female and left and receding.
|105| Likewise, from the lower middle up to the upper middle through the east is called ascending; but from the upper middle through the west down to the lower middle is called descending.
The twelve houses and their meanings
|106| These four aforesaid parts are also divided over the twelve signs, and they call each of them a house.
|107| And of each aforesaid quarter, they call the first house firm, the next following firm, and the third “removed from firmness.”
|108| And they distinguish each of these by its own proper name. And these houses are signifying of all things below. Therefore the significations of the twelve houses must be stated.
|109| Therefore the house occupying the rising is called the horoscopic (ascendant). Its effect is upon the man’s very body and life and all his beginnings.
|110| The second house concerns possession and use.
|111| The third concerns brothers and blood-relations, and the wife’s relatives, and also reading and knowledge and local movement (travel).
|112| The fourth concerns parents namely father and mother and their forebears, and what part of land he is going to occupy; treasures and all hidden things.
|113| The fifth concerns his pleasure/lust and children.
|114| The sixth concerns sickness, and his servants and beasts.
|115| The seventh concerns wives and marriages.
|116| The eighth concerns fear and death.
|117| The ninth concerns journeying and pilgrimage, laws and divine contemplation, philosophy and arts, writings and visions.
|118| The tenth concerns kingship and power, fortune, appearance, silence, offices and labors.
|119| The eleventh concerns hope, fortune, riches, fame, companions.
|120| The twelfth concerns suffering, enemies, prisons, pains, poverty.
|121| Mercury rejoices in the horoscopic house; the Moon in the third; Venus in the fifth; Mars in the sixth; the Sun in the ninth; Jupiter in the eleventh; Saturn in the twelfth.
Second Discourse
|2| Now the individual planets, in themselves, are of diverse properties.
|3| For each one is exalted in the circle of the signs; therefore, when it is exalted, it appears to us less bright and smaller, and it advances less, when less than ninety degrees on the fore (preceding) or hind (following) side lie between it and the head of its exaltation.
|4| But when ninety degrees are on either side, its light and size and motion will be “examined” (i.e., at the standard measure).
|5| But when it has passed this place, its light and size and motion will increase.
|6| There are certain “hours” in which the number increases; others in which it decreases; and others also in which it neither increases nor decreases. For when the argument is less than 180 degrees, it increases; but when it is more, it decreases; but if it is 180, then neither the one nor the other.
|7| It must also be known that there is a time when the computation is increased; a time when it is diminished; and a time when it is neither increased nor diminished. It is increased whenever the “examination” is added to the mean; it is diminished when that same is subtracted from the mean. But when it is neither added nor diminished, it is found on the circle of obliquity, in the path of the Sun.
|8| And also this: when the superior planets exceed their mean motion, their motion is called increased; but when they subtract from the mean, their motion is diminished. But when they neither add nor subtract, the motion is called examined.
|9| But the motions of Venus and Mercury are named with reference to the motion of the Sun. For if they exceed the Sun’s mean motion, their motion is increased; but if they advance less than the mean, it is diminished; but if they neither add nor subtract, it is called mean.
|10| And also this: shemeli and genubi are spoken of with respect to the path of the Sun. For from their Dragon’s Head as far as the Tail they are called shemeli; but from the Tail back as far as the Head they are said to be genubi.
|11| Nor must this be passed over: each star has determined degrees of its power before and behind.
|12| Thus the Sun has 15 degrees of its power before it and as many behind. The Moon, 12 before and as many behind. Saturn and Jupiter, 9 before and as many behind. Mars, 8 before and as many behind. Venus and Mercury, 7 before and as many behind.
|13| It must also be said what properties they receive from the Sun more fully in the Greater Ysagoga, but here those that are necessary.
|14| Therefore, whichever of the three superior planets Saturn, I mean, or Jupiter, or also Mars when it has departed from conjunction, with respect to the Sun is called right-handed until the Sun has come to the opposite degree. But when the Sun has passed the opposite, the planet is called left-handed with respect to it.
|15| But Venus and Mercury, departing from the Sun toward the east, until they return back to it, are called left-handed. But departing from it, until they return to that first aforesaid place, they are called right-handed.
|16| The Moon also, departing from the Sun until it comes to the opposite, is called left; but if it has passed the opposite, it will be called right.
The eight “properties” (conditions) from the Sun
|17| Likewise Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars receive eight properties from the Sun. The first is when they meet the Sun in the same place (conjunction).
|18| The second: when the Sun has withdrawn 15 degrees from Saturn, and as many from Jupiter, and 18 degrees from Mars.
|19| The third: when there are 90 degrees between the Sun and each of those three. The fourth: when, being in the first station, it begins retrograde. The fifth: when the Sun is in its opposition.
|20| The sixth: when they, being in the second station, begin to go forward. The seventh: when they again stand 90 degrees from the Sun.
|21| The eighth: when they have been removed from the Sun by 15 degrees or fewer, and now are hidden from it (i.e., lost in its rays).
|22| Venus and Mercury also have eight properties from the Sun: the first is when they meet the Sun.
|23| The second: when they have withdrawn from the Sun seven degrees toward the east. The third: when, in the first station, they now enter upon the retrograde course.
|24| The fourth: when, being now seven degrees from the Sun, they approach it from the opposite side. The fifth: when they meet the Sun again.
|25| The sixth: when they stand seven degrees from the Sun’s opposition, and then first appear at night.
|26| The seventh: when, in the second station, they direct their course (turn direct). The eighth: when likewise, in approaching the Sun, they have been removed by seven degrees.
|27| Elkamar (the Moon) likewise has eight properties from the Sun. The first, when it is joined to it (conjunction).
|28| The second, when it has withdrawn 12 degrees from it.
|29| The third, when it has stood 90 degrees from it and appears half.
|29| The fourth, when it stands 12 degrees from the Sun’s opposition. The fifth, when it is opposed to it (full moon).
|30| The sixth, when it adds 12 degrees beyond the opposition. The seventh, whenever it stands at 90 degrees distance from it and appears half.
|31| The eighth, when likewise it has stood 12 degrees from the Sun.
Third Discourse
|2| Next, we must speak about the habitudes (configurations/relations) of the planets. They are twenty-five, whose names are these: competence, approach, recession, council, regard, application, neglect, solitude, abolition, translation, conjunction, transmutation, prohibition, gift of nature, gift of power, gift of two natures, gift of counsel, rendering-back, recall, interruption, flight, hindrance, patronage, exchange, reception.
Competence / Approach / Recession / Council
|3| Competence is when a male planet by day is above the earth, but by night below the earth, and in a male sign; and a female planet by day is below the earth, but by night above the earth Mars alone excepted, who, although he is male, is nevertheless feminine.
|4| Approach is when a planet is in a firm sign, that is, in the first house of a quarter, or in the one that is second from it.
|5| Recession is when a planet is in the third house, which is called “removed.”
|6| Council is when planets come together in one sign, especially when less than fifteen degrees lie between them; and the less, the better.
|7| But whichever of them is stronger in that place, its effect will be greater.
|8| And if one of them or several occupies certain degrees of the power of another and mixes with it, then they will be most effective in their effects.
|9| But when they are in different signs, even if one is not far from another, they will not be said to be “in council.”
Aspects (Respectus)
|10| Regards (aspects) are seven; the eighth is when they meet in one [sign]: two sextile (hexagonal) aspects, one preceding, one following; two trine (trigonal), one preceding, one following; two square (tetragonal), one preceding, one following; and finally one opposition.
|11| The sextile aspect generates half friendship; the square, hatred; the trine, greatest friendship; the opposition, malevolence.
|12| The third, fourth, and fifth sign to the left are regarded; and the ninth, tenth, and eleventh to the right.
Application (in longitude and latitude)
|13| Application is one thing in longitude, another in latitude.
|14| Application in longitude is either in the same sign or in a different one. And of those in different signs, some are without aspect, others with aspect, whether sextile, square, or trine. But whichever of these it is, when the planet that is applying catches the one it is pressing toward, then the application is ended.
|15| Application in latitude likewise happens either in the same sign or in different signs.
|16| But when it happens in different [signs/places], it is either when one ascends in shemeli and the other descends in shemeli; or when one ascends in genubi and the other descends in the same region;
|17| or when one ascends in shemeli and the other descends in genubi, or the reverse.
|18| And this application happens when the one that is farther from the Sun’s path applies its motion toward the one that is nearer.
|19| Therefore, when it catches it, the application is ended.
Neglect / Solitude / Abolition
|20| Neglect is when, after application of longitude or latitude has ended, the swifter planet passes the slower and neglects it.
|21| Solitude is when, a little after neglect, no star applies to it by any of the aforesaid modes; but neither, while it is in that sign, is it regarded by any [other].
|22| Abolition is when it has already been fully neglected and has gone through solitude; and this especially pertains to the Moon.
Translation / Conjunction / Transmutation
|23| Translation is in two ways: one, when a star, separating from one star and pressing toward another, transfers the nature of the first to the other;
|24| the other, when a star, with another star applying to it, applies itself (to a third) and transfers into it the nature of the first.
|25| Conjunction is when, to some star situated in its place, two or three or however many apply themselves; whence it joins their natures.
|26| Transmutation likewise is in two ways: one, when two stars belonging to our theme (chart) apply neither to one another, but apply to others whereby the intention of the theme is overturned;
|27| the other, when, no application having been made between the lord of the ascendant and the lord of the theme-sign, the lord of the theme-sign applies to another star which also applies to the lord of the ascendant, and offers the nature of the lord of the theme to the lord of the ascendant.
Prohibition
|28| Prohibition is also made in two ways: one, whenever two planets fit for application are prohibited by a third intervening;
|29| the other, whenever two planets are together in the same sign, and one of them is fit to apply to some other, its application is prohibited by the one conjoined with it locally unless the one outside the sign is distant by fewer degrees; for thus it does not prohibit.
Gifts (nature, power, two natures, counsel)
|30| The gift of nature is if any planet, occupying another’s domicile, applies itself to it; whence, from that host, its nature is given to its guest. Likewise it also happens in the place of kingship, and of face, and of the other dignities.
|31| The gift of power is whenever one star bestows its power upon another that occupies either its domicile or other dignities.
|32| The gift of two natures happens in two ways: one, if any planet situated in a place of dignity applies itself to another having dignity in that same place;
|33| the other, whenever a star applies itself to a star and both are in their own happiness.
|34| The gift of counsel is when, with planets in some place not applying, one of them gives counsel to another. Indeed, if they are in trines or sextiles or together, it is good; but if in squares or oppositions, the contrary.
Rendering-back / Recall / Interruption / Flight / Hindrance
|35| Rendering-back is when some star placed under the Sun has another applying to it; but because it is oppressed by the Sun, it renders to the other what it cannot retain.
|36| Secondly, when any retrograde planet applies itself to another, but, burdened by the necessity of retrogradation, it renders back what it had drawn from it.
|37| This rendering-back is sometimes useful, sometimes not. The usefulness is threefold:
|38| First, when it receives the rendering-back.
|39| Second, when the receiver runs direct and is in a firm sign or in the second from it.
|40| Third, because if it had retained it while burdened, the intention of the present theme would be burdened; but when it is received by another, it is consoled.
|41| But the unusefulness is twofold. First, when a burdened star applies to a free star, and the free one renders back the application whence the intention of the present theme is frustrated.
|42| Second, whenever both are burdened, the rendering-back falls into burden whence the present theme is deprived both at the beginning and at the end.
|43| Recall is whenever, with planets prepared for application, one of them, becoming retrograde, does not attend to the application.
|44| Interruption is whenever, with three planets ordered, and the first being the swiftest, and the last seeking to apply to the middle, one becomes retrograde and, running between them, breaks the application.
|45| Flight is when a star placed in some place has another following that applies to it, but the one preceding hastens away from the place so that the follower, before it catches it, applies itself to another.
|46| Hindrance happens in three ways. First, when the follower seeks the middle, but the one preceding becomes retrograde and applies itself to the middle, hindering the follower’s application. When that happens, an unexpected man will hinder the querent’s intention.
|47| Second, whenever, with three planets ordered, and the middle seeking the first, the latter one passes it and by its own application hinders the application of the middle. When that happens, the querent’s intention, near its end, will be turned by a spontaneous change of will.
Patronage / Exchange / Reception; and “friendship” of signs
|49| Patronage and exchange occur whenever a star situated in its pit or in its depression is sought by a star sharing in its property or in that place by domicile, kingship, or some other mode of dignity and the planet that seeks is in the domicile of the depressed planet or in some dignity of it; whence it lifts it up from the pit or depression.
|50| And the one that is lifted up will be under that one’s patronage until it repays it by exchange.
|52| Reception is whenever a star situated in its own domicile, with another pressing toward it, receives (what is placed by the one pressing) what it brings and offers.
|53| For other occupations of dignities are not so effective unless two come together into one, as trigonality and term, or term and face, or the like.
|54| And there is another kind of reception when one planet occupies the trine of another, or its sextile, together with it.
|55| Likewise also when one rises by as many degrees as another; or if the days of one sign are equal to those of another; or again if two signs are of one lord.
|56| And all the aforesaid signs that are either of one lord or of one nature are friendly to one another.
|57| All prosperous stars are also mutually bountiful among themselves, because their natures are similar; and the unprosperous likewise are mutually bountiful among themselves.
|58| But in bountifulness some are found stronger, some weaker, some intermediate. The greatest bountifulness is between the Sun and the Moon.
|59| For the Moon in whatever sign (except the opposite, which is harmful) receives from the Sun. Therefore when the Moon comes into a sign in which the Sun uses some dignity, its benefit is doubled: for one gift is from the sign, the other from the nature.
|60| Mercury, when another planet is in Virgo, bestows two benefits upon it.
|61| But a moderate benefit is what each receives from another, either from domicile, or kingship, or face, or trine, or term. If two of these are given, it will be greater.
|62| But whatever is other than those aforesaid will be weak.
Fourth Discourse
|1| Thus far these matters. Now the fourth promise must be fulfilled.
|2| Therefore, the felicity of the stars will be as follows: if a benefic looks upon a benefic either by sextile, square, trine, or conjunction, and they are not looked upon by malefics; likewise if a benefic tends toward a benefic, being well placed between two felicities; also if benefics are in the same degree or dakaica; likewise if they look upon the Sun by sextile or trine;
|3| and also if there is swift motion and increase of light; likewise if they are in a place where they enjoy some dignity or joy; likewise if they are in bright degrees or in places suited to their sex.
|4| The power of the stars is this: to rise or be placed shemeli; to move toward exaltation; also to be in the second station; to emerge from the Sun’s ray; to be in a firm sign or near it.
|5| Likewise, for the three superior planets, to appear at dawn; also to be irradiated by a stronger star; and to be in male quadrants.
|6| For when the Sun is in male quadrants and male signs, it will be strong Libra excepted, which, although it is male, the Sun is nevertheless least strong in it.
|7| But the power of the inferior planets is to appear in the west or in female quadrants.
Impotence
|8| The impotence of the planets is slow motion; being in the first station or being retrograde.
|9| But the worst retrogradation is that of Venus and Mercury, especially when they are hidden by the Sun or are found in dark degrees.
|10| Likewise, to be in female signs or degrees, by day below the earth, by night above;
|11| to be in a sign of servitude; to descend genubi; not to be in either a firm sign or one near it; to be in a burnt place, that is, in Libra or Scorpio; also to be in alienation; likewise to be looked upon by a retrograde star.
|12| Likewise, for the three superior planets, to appear in the west or to be in female quadrants.
|13| And the impotence of the Sun is to be in a female quadrant or in female signs.
Misfortune (Infortunium)
|15| The misfortune of the stars is to be associated with malefics; to be in the opposition of malefics; also for a malefic to have risen strongly in the hour of the theme (chart).
|16| But the greatest misfortune is when malefics apply to a star and are not received by it.
|17| Also, to be in their Dragon’s Head or Tail, especially if twelve degrees or fewer lie between them and the Dragon; but worst of all if the Moon is in these places.
|19| The nature of the Dragon’s Head, according to the most ancient philosophers, is augmentative: if it is benefic, it adds to good; but if a malefic star is there, it adds to evil. The Tail, however, diminishes what it finds: the Head with good gives good, with evil gives evil.
|20| The Tail, however, with good gives evil, and with evil gives good.
Inopportunity (Inportunitas)
|21| There is also another kind of misfortune, which is called inopportunity. This is twofold.
|22| First, when some star is between two malefics, or between two rays of malefics, or when it tends from a malefic toward a malefic and likewise concerning their rays.
|23| The second kind of inopportunity is if it is joined in the same sign with a malefic or with its light; or if it finds a malefic in the twelfth sign from it; or, even if no malefic is found there, the sign itself suffices for inopportunity.
|24| If, however, in this place the Sun or another benefic looks upon it, it is freed from the evil. And if it occupies the seventh degree from the Sun,
|25| or if benefic stars are before it and after it, it is most excellently released.
The Moon’s Infortunes
|26| The Moon’s misfortunes are eleven:
Eclipse, especially when it is in the horoscope, or trine or square to it.
When it is hidden by the Sun.
When it is opposed to the Sun, or is twelve degrees before or after the opposition, or when it is in the fourth from the Sun.
If it is joined to malefics or looked upon by them.
When it is in the duodecatemorion of Saturn or Mars.
In the Dragon’s Head or Tail.
In genubi, especially if it is in a descending quadrant.
In the burnt way (via combusta).
At the end of a sign, for there the end of misfortune lies.
In slowness of motion.
In the ninth sign from the horoscope.
Duodecatemorion
|32| The duodecatemorion of the stars must also be known. Thus, when a star is in any degree, the number of that degree is multiplied by twelve, and what is produced is distributed through the following signs; the last part received is called the star’s duodecatemorion.
|33| Therefore, if the star is benefic, its duodecatemorion will be good; but if it is malefic, evil.
Planetary Change
|34| The change of the planets must also be understood, which is fivefold:
When it is in the second or first station.
When it is hidden by the Sun or emerges from concealment.
Whenever a benefic applies to an evil or neglects it.
When it tends toward a degree of servitude or kingship.
When it is in the last degree of a sign.
Fifth Discourse
|2| When these things have been considered, this also must be attended to with no less diligence: since the circles of the planets are placed one above another, Saturn is found to be the highest of all.
|3| The second circle is that of Jupiter; the third of Mars; the fourth of the Sun; the fifth of Venus; the sixth of Mercury; the seventh of the Moon.
Saturn
|4| The nature of Saturn is malignant: for he is cold and dry, melancholic, dark, foul-smelling, voracious; yet of good companionship.
|5| He is industrious in soft things, and in waters and riverbanks and ploughed lands and plants and works of the hands; and when he grants wealth, he grants much, and when he takes away, he takes away much; avaricious; a wanderer in distant and cold places; having one thing on the lips and another in the heart; anxious in evil; a traitor; solitary; a coercer; a robber; a torturer; an imprisoner.
|6| Yet he is truthful; intelligent; ancient; deadly; hereditary; clinging to old things.
|7| He signifies grandfathers and great-grandfathers and fathers, and brothers born before, and captives; anxious in learning; taciturn.
Jupiter
|8| Jupiter is benefic; of a hot and moist nature; airy; temperate.
|9| Life-giving; powerful over children, philosophy, and teachers; a solver of dreams; truthful.
|10| A giver of laws; a physician; steadfast; a lover of women and pleasing to them; a solver of questions; victorious; generous; royal; powerful; rich; a patron; vigilant; merciful; joyful; playful; refined.
Mars
|11| Mars is malefic; hot and dry, fiery, choleric; bitter; handsome; strong. His part in man is the gall, kidneys, nerves, and testicles.
|12| In regions, he rules fiery and unexpected places; a commander; a robber; anxious in strife and wars and hangings.
|13| A torturer; a proscriber; deceitful; of little lust; a destroyer of seed in women, expelling premature birth; occupying diverse lands; a wanderer; an ambusher of travelers.
|14| He signifies middle brothers; the keeper of horses; a searcher of tombs; one who hangs the dead, and the like.
The Sun
|15| The Sun is benefic; hot and dry, choleric.
|16| Life-giving; shining; diurnal; perceptive; wise; intelligent; a dreamer; a ruler.
|17| A reconciler; rich; worthy; eloquent; forethinking; a philosopher; a giver of laws; religious.
|18| He signifies middle brothers; an associate.
|19| A hastener of good and a giver of evil; sustaining and depressing.
Venus
|20| Venus is benefic; cold and moist, phlegmatic; temperate.
|21| She has power over waters and riverbanks and younger brothers; clean; providing jewelry and gold and silver and musical instruments and pleasures and joys.
|22| She is idle; given to drink; lustful with women; generous; sociable; a captor of forms (beauty).
|23| She does not destroy the law.
Mercury
|24| Mercury is of a mixed nature with all planets and signs: male with males, female with females, nocturnal with nocturnals, diurnal with diurnals, hot with hots, cold with colds.
|25| He rules over youths and younger brothers; loving and gathering the children of the poor; seeking friends.
|26| Shrewd; an interpreter; excelling in all arts; a calculator; a geometer; an astrologer; an augur; a true expounder; an inventor of music and a scribe; a historian.
|27| Of small joy; a waster of wealth, yet also a giver and receiver; malicious; deceptive; unstable; obedient; patient; possessing a share.
The Moon
|28| The Moon is benefic; cold and moist, phlegmatic; temperate; somewhat warm, because her light is from the Sun.
|29| Powerful over joy; pure; consulted; ruling over the beginnings of all offices; royal; increasing life; a leader.
|30| A counsellor over fields and waters and their courses; matrimonial; ruling over sisters; creating births; preserving mothers and likewise their sisters and those of fathers.
|31| Also ambassadors and embassies, true words, and prosperities of fortune; not concealing secrets; abundant in earthly seeds.
Lords of the Days and Hours
|32| Now it must be said who presides over the day and who over the night.
|33| Thus the first day of the week is of the Sun; the second of the Moon; the third of Mars; the fourth of Mercury; the fifth of Jupiter; the sixth of Venus; the seventh of Saturn.
|34| Also, the first hour of each day belongs to the lord of that day. The remaining hours are assigned according to the order of the planets,
|35| namely in such a way that after the Moon, Saturn is given, and then the others in sequence.
Sixth Discourse
|2| The order of the treatise now invites us to name the cehem (parts).
The Parts (Cehem)
|3| First, therefore, is spoken the Part of Fortune and Prosperity, which is found in this way:
by day, the degrees are counted from the Sun to the Moon; by night, from the Moon to the Sun. To these are added the degrees of the ascendant sign, from the first degree of the sign up to the horoscope itself. This sum is then distributed through the remaining signs, beginning from the horoscope. The last receiving place signifies the Part of Fortune. But if the Sun and Moon are in one degree, the Part of Prosperity will be in the horoscope itself.
|4| The Part of Absence is found thus: by day, from the Moon to the Sun; by night, from the Sun to the Moon; and after the addition, as stated above, the last receiving place will show the sought position.
|6| The Part of Desire and Association is found in this way:
by day, the degrees are taken from the Part of Fortune to the Part of Non-appearance, and to these are added the degrees from the first degree of the rising sign up to the horoscope; the sum is then distributed as stated, and the last receiving place marks the Part of Desire and Association.
By night, it is counted from the Part of Non-appearance to the Part of Fortune. The rest is done as above.
|7| The Part of Form and Perfection follows the Part of Venus.
|8| The Part of Ineffective Anxiety is found thus: by day, from the Part of Non-appearance to the Part of Fortune; by night, the reverse. The rest as above.
|9| The Part of Litigation and Discord is found thus: by day, from Mars to the degree of the Part of Fortune; by night, the reverse. The rest as above.
|13| The Part of the Observation of Life is found thus: the degrees are counted from the degree of the conjunction of the Sun and Moon to the place of the Moon, and this number is added to the number of the horoscope. The rest as above.
This applies from the new Moon to the full Moon. From the time of the full Moon, the computation begins from the degree of the full Moon itself. The rest as above.
|14| The Part of Ability (Resources) is found thus: by day, it is computed from the place of the lord of the domicile of ability to the Sun. The rest as above.
But if the Sun is in its own domicile or in the domicile of Saturn, then by day it is computed from the Sun to Saturn, and by night from Saturn to the Sun, wherever Saturn may be.
|20| The Part of Fields and Groves is found thus: it is counted from Saturn to the Moon, by day or by night. The rest as above.
|22| The Part of Children is found thus: by day, from the Sun to Saturn; by night, from Saturn to the Sun. The rest as above.
|23| And this Part is similar to the Part of Life.
|24| The Part of the Time of Children is shown thus: by day and by night it is counted from Mars to the Sun. The rest as above.
|25| The Part for knowing the characteristics of male children is found thus: by day and by night it is counted from the Moon to Saturn. The rest as above.
|26| The Part of the condition of daughters is found thus: by day and by night it is counted from the Moon to Venus. The rest as above.
|27| The Part for discerning the sex of the child before birth, namely whether male or female, is found thus: by day, from the lord of the domicile in which the Moon is to the Moon; by night, the reverse. The rest as above.
|28| The Part of Illness, Old Age, and Death is found thus: by day, from Saturn to Mars; by night, the reverse. The rest as above.
|29| The Part of Servants is found thus: by day or by night, from Mercury to the Moon. The rest as above.
|31| The Part of Marriage for men is found thus: by day or by night, from the Sun to Venus. The rest as above.
|30| But according to Hermes, from Venus to the Sun.
|32| The Part of Marriage for women, according to Hermes, is found thus: by day and by night, from Venus to Saturn. The rest as above.
|34| The Part for knowing when a daughter is to be given by her parents is found thus: by day and by night, from the Moon to Mars.
|36| The Part of Death is found thus: by day and by night, from the Moon to the eighth sign from the horoscope, with the number of degrees of Saturn added wherever Saturn may be. This sum is then distributed beginning from the first degree of the sign in which Saturn is; the last receiving place shows the Part.
|37| The Part of the Star of Killing is found thus: by day, from the degree in which the lord of the ascendant sign is to the Moon; by night, the reverse. The rest as above.
|38| The Part of the Year suspected of death or illness is found thus: by day and by night, from Saturn to the lord of the sign of the conjunction of the Sun and Moon, if the Moon is seen increasing. But if it is seen decreasing, from Saturn to the lord of the sign of the full Moon. The rest as above.
|39| And this Part is similar to the Part of Finishing Affairs.
|40| The Part of the gravest illness and of bodily affliction is found thus: by day, from Saturn to Mars; by night, the reverse.
|16| The Part of the Death of Brothers is found thus: by day, from the Sun to the midheaven degree; by night, the reverse. The rest as above.
|17| The Part of Fathers is found thus: by day, from the Sun to Saturn; by night, the reverse. The rest as above. But if Saturn is with the Sun, Jupiter is put in its place.
|19| The Part of Grandfathers is found thus: by day, from the lord of the sign in which the Sun is to Saturn; by night, the reverse; and the rest as above.
|42| The Part of Travel is found thus: by day and by night, from the lord of the ninth sign to the degree of the ninth, and the rest as above.
|43| The Part of Navigation is found thus: by day, from Saturn to the fifteenth degree of Cancer; by night, the reverse. But if Saturn is in the fifteenth degree of Cancer, the rulers of this Part will be Saturn and the Horoscope.
|44| The Part of Sense and Providence is found thus: by day, from Saturn to the Moon; by night, the reverse, from the Moon to Saturn; and the rest as above. This Part is similar to that of Offices.
|45| The Part of the Truth or Falsehood of Messages is found thus: by day, from Mercury to the Moon, and so on.
|46| And this is similar to the Part of Servants.
|47| The Part of the Nobility or Ignobility of Birth is found thus: by day, from the Sun to its place of kingship; by night, from the Moon to its place of kingship. But if it is in its own kingship, the Part will be in the horoscope itself.
|48| The Part of Kingship and Dominion is found thus: by day, from Mars to the Moon; by night, the reverse.
|49| The Part of the Royal Office of a Boy is found thus: by day or by night, from Saturn to the Moon.
|51| The Part of Pride is found thus: by day, from Venus to the Moon; by night, the reverse.
|53| The Part of Companions is found thus: by day and by night, from the Moon to Mercury.
|55| The Part of Enemies is found thus: by day and by night, from the degree of the domicile of enemies to the lord of that domicile.
|52| The Part of Hope is found thus: by day or by night, from Saturn to Mars, and so on, as has been determined above.
Seventh Discourse
|1| When these things have thus far been determined, next we must treat of the gifts of the times, and also of the terms (bounds) according to the philosophers of the Medes, and likewise of the novenaries, and of dark, shadowy, bright, and empty degrees, and finally of male and female [degrees], and of the differences of degrees.
Planetary years and their donations
|2| The planets, therefore, assign fixed years.
|3| For the years of the Sun are ten; the years of Venus eight; of Mercury thirteen; of the Moon nine; of Saturn eleven; of Jupiter twelve; of Mars seven; but of the Dragon’s Head three, and of the Tail two. And all the years together make seventy-seven.
|4| These years are divided into three donations: the greatest, the middle, and the least.
|5| Thus the greatest years are: Sun 120; Venus 82; Mercury 76; Moon 108; Saturn 57; Jupiter 79; Mars 66.
|6| The middle years are: Sun 39½; Venus 45; Mercury 48; Moon 39½; Saturn 43½; Jupiter 45½; Mars 40½.
|7| The least years are: Sun 19; Venus 8; Mercury 20; Moon 25; Saturn 30; Jupiter 22; Mars 15.
|8| These years were given to the planets: the greater years chiefly according to the terms which they hold in the signs; the lesser according to the smaller circle; and the middle partly according to this, partly according to that.
|9| Thus the years of the Sun and Moon are greater according to the greater circle, fewer according to the smaller, and the middle according to the middle.
The Terms (Bounds) according to the Medes
|10| The terms according to the Medes are distinguished thus:
Aries: Jupiter 6°, Venus 6°, Mercury 8°, Mars 5°, Saturn 5°.
|11| Taurus: Venus 8°, Mercury 6°, Jupiter 8°, Saturn 5°, Mars 3°.
|12| Gemini: Mercury 6°, Jupiter 6°, Venus 5°, Mars 7°, Saturn 6°.
|13| Cancer: Mars 7°, Venus 6°, Mercury 6°, Jupiter 7°, Saturn 4°.
|14| Leo: Jupiter 6°, Venus 5°, Saturn 7°, Mercury 6°, Mars 6°.
|15| Virgo: Mercury 7°, Venus 10°, Jupiter 4°, Mars 7°, Saturn 2°.
|16| Libra: Saturn 6°, Mercury 8°, Jupiter 7°, Venus 7°, Mars 2°.
|17| Scorpio: Mars 7°, Venus 4°, Mercury 8°, Jupiter 5°, Saturn 6°.
|18| Sagittarius: Jupiter 12°, Venus 5°, Mercury 4°, Saturn 5°, Mars 4°.
|19| Capricorn: Mercury 7°, Venus 8°, Jupiter 7°, Saturn 4°, Mars 4°.
|20| Aquarius: Mercury 7°, Venus 6°, Jupiter 7°, Mars 5°, Saturn 5°.
|21| Pisces: Venus 12°, Jupiter 4°, Mercury 3°, Mars 9°, Saturn 2°.
Novenaries (Novena)
|22| A novenary is so called when each sign is divided according to nine, and to each division three degrees and a third belong.
|23| Beginning therefore from Aries, the first novenary will be given to Mars, the second to the lord of Taurus, that is Venus, the third to the lord of Gemini, that is Mercury; and in the rest the same order, according to the arrangement of signs and lords and elnowarat.
|24| But according to others it is otherwise: the signs being divided by nine, the first novenary is for Mars, the second for the Sun, and so likewise the rest will be distributed so that after the Moon Saturn is placed.
Bright, dark, shadowy, and empty degrees
|25| Next we must speak of the degrees.
|26| In Aries: the first three degrees are shadowy; five are dark; eight shadowy; four bright; four dark; five bright; one dark.
|27| In Taurus: four shadowy; seven dark; three shadowy; three empty; three bright; five empty; three bright; two empty.
|28| In Gemini: seven bright; three shadowy; five bright; two empty; six bright; seven shadowy.
|29| In Cancer: twelve bright; two dark; four shadowy; two indifferent [bright]; eight bright; two shadowy.
|30| Leo has: the first ten dark; ten empty; five shadowy; five bright.
|31| Virgo: six dark; three empty; two shadowy; six bright; six indifferent; five empty; two black.
|32| Libra: five bright; five empty; eight bright; three dark; six bright; three empty.
|33| Scorpio: three dark; five bright; six empty; six bright; two indifferent; five empty; three dark.
|34| Sagittarius: nine bright; three dark; seven bright; four indifferent; seven bright.
|35| Capricorn: seven dark; three bright; five indifferent; four bright; three dark; three empty; five dark.
|36| Aquarius: four dark; five bright; four shadowy; eight bright; four empty; five bright.
|37| Pisces: six shadowy; six bright; six shadowy; four bright; three empty; three bright; two shadowy.
|38| It must be known, therefore, that in bright degrees a planet’s power for good is increased; in dark it harms and takes away; in empty it does neither; in shadowy only a little harm falls upon it.
Male and female degrees
|39| It remains finally to set forth which degrees are called male and which female.
Aries: first 7 male; 2 female; 6 male; 7 female; 8 male.
|40| Taurus: 7 male; 8 female; 15 male.
|41| Gemini: 6 female; 11 male; 6 female; 4 male; 3 female.
|42| Cancer: 2 male; 5 female; 3 male; 2 female; 11 male; 4 female; 3 male.
|43| Leo: 5 male; 2 female; 6 male; 10 female; 7 male.
|44| Virgo: 7 female; 5 male; 8 female; 10 male.
|45| Libra: 5 male; 5 female; 11 male; 7 female; 2 male.
|46| Scorpio: 4 male; 6 female; 4 male; 5 female; 8 male; 3 female.
|47| Sagittarius: 2 male; 3 female; 7 male; 12 female; 6 male.
|48| Capricorn: 11 male; 8 female; 11 male.
|49| Aquarius: 5 male; 7 female; 6 male; 7 female; 5 male.
|50| Pisces: 10 male; 10 female; 3 male; 5 female; 2 male.
|51| We have set these out for this reason: because if a man’s chart falls in male degrees, and a woman’s in female degrees, they turn out prosperously.
|52| But if the reverse, the contrary.
|53| Although they make these partitions in diverse ways, we have followed this as the most authoritative teaching.
Pits (Putei) and Excesses
|54| Near the end of the instruction it seems fitting to speak of pits and excesses.
|55| In the signs there are certain degrees called pits, because if benefic stars fall into them, they wholly lose their virtue.
|56| Malefics also are changed, so that, since they cannot harm, they do good.
|57| Yet in certain hours their malice there is increased.
|58| The pits of Aries are the 6th, 11th, 17th, 28th, and 29th degrees.
|59| Of Taurus: the 5th, 13th, 18th, 24th, 25th, and 26th.
|60| Of Gemini: the 8th, 13th, 17th, 26th, and 30th.
|61| Of Cancer: the 12th, 17th, 23rd, 26th, and 30th.
|62| Of Leo: the 6th, 13th, 15th, 22nd, 23rd, and 28th.
|63| Of Virgo: the 8th, 13th, 16th, 21st, and 25th.
|64| Of Libra: the 1st, 27th, and 30th.
|65| Of Scorpio: the 19th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd, and 27th. (order as in text)
|66| Of Sagittarius: the 7th, 12th, 15th, 24th, 27th, and 30th.
|67| Of Capricorn: the 2nd, 7th, 17th, 22nd, and 29th.
|68| Of Aquarius: the 1st, 12th, 17th, 23rd, and 29th.
|69| Of Pisces: the 4th, 9th, 24th, 27th, and 28th.
|70| The places of excess are these: in Taurus the 15th, 27th, and 30th; in Leo the 3rd and 5th; in Scorpio the 7th; in Aquarius the 20th.
|71| These degrees if the lord-planet of any theme, or the horoscope itself, falls into them exceed into unexpected good fortune.
|72| But the personal excesses, whence even the ignoble are advanced to kingdoms, are these: Aries 19th; Taurus 8th; Gemini 11th; Cancer 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 14th, 15th; Leo 5th, 7th, 17th, 20th; Virgo 2nd, 13th, 20th; Libra 3rd, 5th, 21st; Scorpio 2nd, 5th, 20th; Sagittarius 13th, 20th; Capricorn 12th, 13th, 14th, 20th; Aquarius 7th, 17th, 27th; Pisces 12th, 20th.
|73| These are the places of excess, with which we shall make an end of the instruction.
|74| HERE ENDS THE YSAGOGA MINOR, TAKEN FROM ARABIC BY ADELARD OF BATH.