Jean-Baptiste Morin - Astrologia Gallica - Book 24
Jean-Baptiste Morin - Astrologia Gallica - Book 24
Astrologia Gallica
Book Twenty-Four
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Translator's Preface vn
Book Twenty-Four
Section I. Progressions
Chapter 1. Why the Old Astrologers Introduced Progressions 1
Chapter 2. How Many Modes of Progressions have
been Invented 5
Chapter 3. The Annual, Monthly, and Daily Progressions of
the Old [Astrologers] are Mere Figments of the Imagination 8
v
Directions and Revolutions are Necessary, and at what Time 41
Chapter 9. For a Given Direction Presaging a Significant
Event, which Planet's Transit is more Necessary for the
Production of the Effect, and through which Place, so that
the Transit may be Said to be Concordant 43
Chapter 10. In which by many Examples and Observations
the Virtue of Transits and their Actual Efficacy are
Confirmed 48
Chapter 11. [Determining] the Exact time of Events by a
Transit, and Whether their Latitude should be Observed.
The Doctrine Confirmed by Celestial Charts 57
Chapter 12. Whether the Planets act upon the Native
through their own Syzygies Outside of the Places of the
Nativity through which their Transits are Customarily
Made. And How and When 46
Chapter 13. The Aphorisms or Principal Laws of Transits 72
Chapter 14. How from What has been Explained so far,
Events of the Future can be Predicted by the Stars with
Regard to the Kind [of Event], the Year, the Day, and
the Hour 78
Chapter 15. Some Principal Rules of Prudence to be
[Observed] by an Astrologer in Bringing Forth a Useful
Opinion from the Stars 89
Appendix 1. The Equation of Time 103
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Translator's Preface
1
The Morinus System of Astrological Interpretation...Astrologia Gallica/Book
Twenty One (Washington, D.C.: A.F.A., Inc. 1974). Still available.
2
Astrologia Gallica/Book Twenty-Two/Directions (Tempe, Az.: A.F.A., Inc.,
1994).
3
Astrologia Gallica/Book Twenty-Three/Revolutions (Tempe, Az.: A.F.A., Inc.,
2002).
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radix system4 and the so-called solar arc5. Aside from these, there
is a little-used system of symbolic progressions called tertiary pro-
gressions.
4
A "degree for a year" method (actually employing the Naibod measure of
0o59'08" per year), admirably set forth in the book by Vivian Robson, The Radix
System (London: The Stallex Publishing Co., 1930). It also expounds "tertiary di-
rections."
5
Those who use the "solar arc" might assert that it does actually represent the tone
motion of the Sun. And that is true, but applying it to the motion of everything else
in the natal chart is not valid from Morin's point of view, because it is only "true
motion" for the Sun, not for anything else in the chart.
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possible by a concordant primary direction, which establishes the
time within plus or minus a year when an event of that type can
happen. But without a concordant solar revolution in one of those
years, the event still cannot happen (or at least only in a very minor
way). More strength is given to the manifestation of the event by
primary directions of the annual revolution and by a concordant lu-
nar revolution. But the final impetus is from a concordant transit.
By analogy then, the general nature of the event is one that could
result from a gun of a certain type and caliber, the possibility of the
occurrence of the event is the loading of a particular type of shell
into the gun, and the actual manifestation of the event is accom-
plished by pulling the trigger.
But this is enough to give the Reader the basic idea of Morin's
doctrine. To understand it fully, he must read the text attentively
and think about what he has read. Morin illustrates the procedure
with actual example charts set for the time of significant events in
the lives of several persons. These deserve close scrutiny.
ix
I should mention that Book 24, Section II, Chapters 12-14
were translated previously and published in the Addenda to my
translation of Book 22. But I have revised the earlier translation for
the present work.
x
I might also mention that in my translation of Book 22 I trans-
lated the word morbits as "sickness," but in my translation of Book
23 and also here I have translated it as "illness." In American Eng-
lish "sickness" and "illness" are more or less interchangeable, al-
though "illness" is perhaps more formal and consequently less of-
ten used. But in British English "sickness" more often refers to in-
digestion, while "illness" is the generic term.
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is made to the natal horoscope and to solar or lunar revolutions (re-
turns), but those charts are not given, since Morin had included
them in earlier books of the Astrologia Gallica. Most of them are
shown in my translation of Book 23, so I did not think it necessary
to repeat them here.
James H. Holden
September 2002
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ASTROLOGIA GALLICA
BOOK TWENTY-FOUR
PROGRESSIONS & TRANSITS
PREFACE
1
SECTION I.
Progressions.
Chapter 1.
Why the Old Astrologers Introduced Progressions.
1
Reading H 9 5 instead of H and 5.
2
See Book 15, Chapter 13, on the various subdivisions of the signs (translated on
pp. 237-240 of the Addenda to my translation of AG Book 22).
3
In Robbins's ed. (Locb Classical Library, 1940), Tetrabiblos iv. 10 "Of the Di-
2
to determine the days of the effects. Therefore, this is the scheme
of the introduction of progressions or processes.4 Moreover,
Cardan in his Commentary5 has only two schemes, with which he
commends Ptolemy's doctrine in this part. The first is "that it
should be judged that he had accepted this opinion from the
Egyptians, and the outstanding prophecies of Thrasybulus about
Tiberius, of Sulla, his son, about Nero and Caligula, of
6
Ascletarion about Domitian and himself. Since Ptolemy himself
was a very diligent and reliable man; and if [those things] were
noted, it is hardly to be doubted that he had followed their path and
handed them down."7
vision of Times," in which Ptolemy first defines the planetary rulerships of the
ages of man (called by the Arabs alfridaries), giving in order; age 1-4 to the
Moon, 5-14 to Mercury, 15-22 to Venus, 23-37 to Mars, 38-56 to the Sun, 57-68
to Jupiter, and 69 until the end of life to Saturn. Next he applies what amounts to
zodiacal primary directions to the ASC degree, the Part of Fortune, the Moon, the
Sun, and the MC; and he calls these "general chronocrators." Then he mentions
the "annual chronocrators," which are formed by allowing one year to a sign, the
"monthly chronocrators," allowing one sign to each space of 28 days, and the di-
urnal chronocrators allowing 21/3 days to a sign. And finally, he speaks of the
transits of the planets.
4
I take the Latin word processus 'advances' to be what are properly called
'profections', but which nowadays arc usually called 'symbolic progressions'.
3
Jerome Cardan, Claudii Ptolemaei Pelusiensis Libri quatuor De Astrorum
ludiciis cum expos it ione Hieronymi Card an i, Opera omnia (Lyons: Hugnetan &
Ravaud, 1663.10 vols.), vol. 5, pp. 93-368.
6
The astrologers mentioned by Cardan were in fact Tiberius Claudius Thrasyllus
(d. 36), his son Tiberius Claudius Balbillus (d.c.81), Sulla (mentioned by
Suetonius in his life of Caligula but quite possibly a mistake for Balbillus), and
Asclation (rather than Ascletarion), who was ordered by Domitian to be executed
the day before the latter's predicted murder on 18 September 96. See Frederick H.
Cramer, Astrology in Roman Law and Politics (Philadelphia: The American
Philosophical Society, 1954).
7
Jerome Cardan, loc. cit, p.363, col. 2. Morin cuts short the last sentence, which
reads in full "...it is hardly to be doubted that it was necessary that he follow their
path, which had been confirmed by evident predictions," (Words omitted by
Morin in italics.)
3
jected the doctrine of the Egyptians concerning the terms and had
embraced the Chaldean [doctrine], even though both arc worth-
less, as we have shown in its own place. And at the end of the chap-
ter, he also rejects many other divisions of the signs handed down
by those oriental peoples because they were lacking any physical
reason (he says, but) devised for pretence- therefore, we also are
permitted to reject the doctrine of progressions, if they do not re-
pose upon a physical reason, and since Ptolemy has no reason for
it, he was equally able to reject that as well as the doctrine of those
same Egyptians about the terms, and their other figments, but
which one looks at for those prophecies of the ancients, then
[those] of the more recent men, Francesco Maria of Ferrara9 and
Paris Ceresara10 of Mantua; Cardan proves that they had predicted
the days of the events by equal progressions alone," and that no
other way of predicting was known to those astrologers, since they
handed down their own methods of predicting to their successors
8
Not true! Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos i. 20 & 21, does complain that the Terms Ac-
cording to the Egyptians lack any obvious rationale, and he says that the sche-
matic version of the Terms According to the Chaldeans is simpler, but he also
says ate that, "Now of these terms, those which are constituted by the Egyptian
method are, as we said, more worthy of credence, both because in the form in
which they have been collected by the Egyptian writers they have for their utility
been deemed worthy of record, and because for the most part the degrees of these
terms are consistent with the nativities which have been recorded by them as ex-
amples." (Robbins's translation)
9
Francesco Maria was said by Count Henry von Rantzau (1526-1598) to have
predicted the year, day, and hour of his death to Jacopo Piccinino [1420-1465]
(see Lynn Thomdikc History of Magic and Experimental Science (New York:
Columbia University Press 1923-1958. 8 vols.), vol. 6,136. Hereinafter cited as
HMES.
10
Paris Ceresara (c. 1466-1532), a juriscon ult and astrologer of Mantua, who
was said by both Stadius (c. 1550-1593) and Tucci to have predicted Cardinal
Alessandro Famese's accession to the papal throne (he became Paul III); and
Pontus de Tyard (1521-1605) relates that Ceresara had made the prediction 12
years before the event, also that he would be in peril of drowning in seven years,
and that he would die after twenty-seven years [which in fact happened, since he
acceded to the throne in 1534 and died in 1559] (sec Thomdike, HMES 5 256).
11
Jerome Cardan, De Revolutions Annorum. Mensium, et dierum... Chapter 12,
loc. cit, p. 572, col. 2.
4
and did not illustrate it with examples.
Chapter 2.
Flow many Mode, of Progressions
have been Invented.
5
of a threefold sort have been devised—that is, annual, monthly,
and diurnal—some faster than others, lest of course, the day of the
occurrence eluding one sort, might not evade another; moreover,
there are some progressions (as they will have it) [that are] peram-
bulations of the houses of the nativity, by which significators are
conceived to be brought under the Zodiac according to the succes-
sion of the signs. For in fact the Caelum with respect to the natal
scheme must be looked at in a threefold mode. First indeed, that it
is disposed in the natal scheme itself; and so it should remain im-
mobile. Second, that it is indeed also disposed in that same mode;
but afterwards it is moved by directions and those progressions
above the immobile natal scheme. And finally, third according as
both the Caelum and the planets, by their ordinary motion, are in
fact naturally carried by their own and their common [motion],
they pass through the Caelum observed in the first and second
mode. Furthermore, by direction, they are made [to move] in the
first motion about the poles of the Equator, which is a real motion,
and a true one, as we have said in Book 22. Progressions, however,
are conceived to be made by equal motion about the poles of the
Ecliptic, but they are not made by any true or real motion certainly,
because no Caelum and no Planet moves by such a motion, as will
be made plain below.
6
into 13 equal parts, which they call profectional months, each of
which contains 28 days 2 hours 17 minutes; and they say that the
significator of the first of these months runs through the first sign
of the profection of the year, the second goes through the next sign,
and so on, consequently running through 13 signs during the solar
year; and hence it comes about that the significators produced by
the annual and monthly progression, begin and end individual
years with the same point of the Caelum in both progressions.
Moreover, the significator runs through 1 "WCM" per day by this
motion, and there is also a table available for this use, as mentioned
above.
Next, we would have put here tables of the motion and the use
of them, so that it might be known on what day any particular
significator would come to any promissor by the annual, diurnal,
or monthly progression; or vice versa, it might be deduced to
which promissor any particular significator would come on an en-
tered day. But this is available here and there in [the works of]
Regiomontanus, Schoener, Junctinus, Origanus, and other astrolo-
gers. Besides, moreover, we have undertaken to show that those
progressions are a vain figment [of the imagination], from which it
seems to me that the Student of Astrology should be diverted,
rather than being instructed in that with a major loss of my time.
7
Chapter 3.
The Annual, Monthly, and Daily Progressions
of the Old [Astrologers/ are Mere Figments
of the Imagination.
8
Truly, he is dreaming and confused. For the time of the annual
progression, that is a year, he assimilates to the period of the mo-
tion of the Sun or to the time in which Jupiter stays in a single sign.
And yet, neither does Jupiter run precisely through one sign in a
solar year, nor is it put in charge by nature of measuring a year, nor
does the Sun run through a single sign during its period. And be-
sides, while the annual period is for this reason assimilated to the
whole period of the Sun, but thence to the twelfth part of Jupiter's
period (which is no small confusion), it is left uncertain whether
such a progression takes its powers of acting from the Sun or from
Jupiter15 or from both; therefore, the reasons in this part of
Cardan's [book] are groundless.
Someone may say that amongst these progressions and the ac-
tual times of the motions of the planets mentioned above, there is
no very great difference; and consequently they can be admitted.
But truly, which motion is more like the true motion of the Sun ei-
ther in its place or its time than its mean motion that is given in all
the tables and is plainly fictitious? And yet no one has said that the
actual effects of the Sun are from its mean motion, which has no
other force aside from an intellectual one, but only for calculation,
15
Reading a love 'from Jupiter' rather than a vigesima quinta 'from the
twenty-fifth'.
9
for finding the true motion of the Sun from which are the actual ef-
fects. Finally, the question is not whether the progressions have an
affinity with the times of the motion of the Sun, Jupiter, or the
Moon, but whether any significators, that is the Primum Caelum
and the Planets are truly and actually moved by these even motions
of the progressions above the poles of the ecliptic, because no one
of sound mind has said so. Therefore, one may say that it is neces-
sary that such motions should only be fictitiously attributed to
those significators; and consequently, from such a fictitious mo-
tion, only fictitious effects and not any real effects can arise. They
are, therefore, only games of subtle imagination [played] in num-
bers without any logical reason for [the purpose of] show, as Ptol-
emy was saying above about those figments of the Egyptians and
the Chaldeans; accordingly, it must be cast out from true Astrol-
ogy. And the subtlety in it is that they provided so ingeniously that
in each year from the beginning of the annual revolution, they have
made the annual progression, the monthly and the daily progres-
sion, begin from the same point in the zodiac. I hesitate to say how
ridiculous it is to suppose that any significator of the natal chart
progresses by a fourfold motion in that chart, namely, by the mo-
tion of a radical direction, and then by an annual, monthly, and
daily progression!
10
with truly arduous labor to discover the true and natural causes,
which would not only depend upon real fundamentals, but would
also correspond to experience. Which we have proved how truly it
was prescribed by us by numerous examples and calculations in
Book 23; and all posterity will experience it with a grateful mind.
Moreover, that it is shown in Book 23 Chapter 15, that the annual
and monthly directions that have been adopted by us as real mo-
tions are none other than radical, and in truth a measure of time dis-
covered by reason, is proved by experience in the aforesaid exam-
ple ; and all this is confirmed by the uniformity of action of the ce-
lestial bodies through the figures and the directions subordinate to
them, by which from universals to particulars, both the kind of ef-
fects as well as their time is arrived at.
16
Rather, in Rule 4 of Chapter 11 (loc. cit, p. 570, col. 1), which reads "from this
it may be inferred that only the Sun never forgets his entire disposition, similarly
the Moon, where her return is made from the nativity. Moreover, this i especially
done when the Sun or the Moon have returned to the same place in which they
were in the nativity, for here in the lights it is the return to their own place, if the
Moon is considered, in this manner."
11
their virtue, he says "where the monthly returns are made from the
nativity," and a little later "if the Moon is considered in this man-
ner," then because in Chapter 13 he sets forth and approves other
revolutions of the Moon, which we have rejected from right causes
in Book 23, Chapter 15. Add [the fact] that no one before us has
propounded directions in the monthly revolution nor the measure
of time for those same directions; whence, their truth has until now
remained hidden and neglected; and we have not done this so that
we might take pride in it, but so that we might serve the truth and
give back the glory to God.
17
Chapter 6 "The Things signified by Revolutions and the Method of Judging
them According to our own Opinion," loc. cit, pp. 440-443 (1662 ed.)
18
1 have not found these charts in vol. 5 of the 1662 edition.
18
ure of the revolution because elsewhere he forbade it—so badly is
he inconsistent, and so groundless and ridiculous does he render
Astrology, when he professes to be using it so indifferently. Then,
in the second nativity at the end of the Quadripartite,19 he even
wants to refer these annual progressions only to the places of the
nativity; and yet he confesses that he is uncertain about the
monthly and daily ones, whether they should be referred to the
places of the radix or to [those of] the annual revolution. Because
Cardan argues doubtfully on their use, he only observed a coinci-
dental truth. But since at the end of the judgment of his own nativ-
ity, he puts down that there happened to himself an accident in-
volving an unexpected and painful illness in the year 1553 on the
20th of November at 2 :30 PM, for which moment he erects a fig-
ure; and [since] he does not prescribe the day of anything else of
this sort, it seems good to subject his judgment about that accident
to an examination here.
19
1 suppose that he is referring to the remark Cardan made about the nativity of
Alexander I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, who was bom 7 Feb 1512 according to
Luca Gaurico, Tractatus astrologicus (Venice 1552), the 190lh chart (see NN
527) and was murdered on 5/6 Jan 1537. He was a bastard son of Pope Clement
VII (1478-1534).
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22
In Cardan's horoscope, the Moon was located in 11 H 42 in the 1 llh house.
15
But because he is looking at those progressions, I am espe-
cially looking for the reason why he wanted the day of the effect
to be indicated by the monthly progressions rather than by the an-
nual ones, since the annual ones are prior and more powerful for
the particulars and also for defining the times, as Cardan himself
will have it in his Book of Revolutions, Chapter 8, just as the
monthly ones prevail over the daily ones? Besides, since in that
same Book, Chapter 13, he investigates the days of the events
from the directions of the revolutions that he thought up and were
rejected by me in Book 22, Chapter 15. If those directions were
seen to be true in themselves, what need was there for the pro-
gressions? Or if the latter were true, what need was there for those
directions? The superfluousness of one or the other of the meth-
ods is evident, and consequently confusion in judgments must
arise. Besides, in Cardan's example the ASC in its annual pro-
gression was then in 10 degrees 46 minutes of Virgo, still distant
from the opposition of the radical Moon by more than 10 days;
but the Moon was in 16 degrees and 18 minutes of Cancer, where
nothing was found, and consequently not with annual progres-
sions coinciding with the time; Cardan assumed the monthly ones
to be much swifter, which by chance coincided. And this egre-
gious coincidence (the sort of thing that often happens) can de-
ceive those who do not know that these progressions do not rest
upon any real foundation and are of three sorts, some swifter than
the others; moreover, they still ignore the other real causes,
namely, the directions of the solar and lunar revolutions that we
have explained, which designate the very particular times of the
effects, if not exactly to the day and hour, at least closely, as will
now be plain in this illness of Cardan's, since in fact in the figure
of the annual revolution Mercury and the Moon, are from what
was said above, the significators of illnesses and death and do
therefore act with regard to illnesses, like the promissors in the
annual direction meeting them. Moreover, Mercury according to
the Rudolphine Tables was in the 6th degree of Scorpio with 3 de-
grees and 8 minutes of South latitude, and the altitude of the pole
above its circle of position was 44o30,; therefore, its oblique as-
16
cension was 22823 which subtracted from the oblique ascen-
sion of the opposition to Saturn in the radix, which is according to
the Rudolphine Tables 20o20, of Gemini with latitude South
(which ascension in the above said altitude is 282^S')24 leaves 54
degrees for the arc of direction, which from the Table of annual di-
rections equals 55 days; moreover, from the beginning of the revo-
lution to the illness was 57 days.25
23
Actually, according to the Rudolphine Tables, Mercury was at about
Scorpio 3S12, and its OA for an altitude of 44w30' was 228051
24
Reading the Gemini symbol rather than the square symbol in the Latin text The
position of Satum according to the Rudolphine Tables was actually about IS^b'
Gemini 1S35, and the OA of its opposition was 280o26'.
25
1 calculate for altitude 44o30, Mercury OA 22805r and for the opposition to
Satum OA 280c26'; hence, their difference is 5\035' (as compared with the
54o00, obtained by Morin).
26
Here, for the stated coordinates of the Moon, the recalculated OA of the Moon
is 230o03/ for an altitude of 44o00,; and its difference firom the recalculated OA
of the opposition to Satum (280o26/) is 50<,23' (as compared to Morin's 50o12').
When converted into days, the previous calculation and this differ from Morin's
figures by 3 and 2 days respectively, but the recalculated figures are still not far
from the actual 57 days to the accident.
17
tent seeds of it; and they disposed Cardan himself very close to the
threatening effect; but finally, from the above said transits coming
on top [of these], the illness was reduced from potentiality to actu-
ality; it broke out violently and suddenly as it were because of the
strength and malignity of the transits, especially from the concor-
dant situation of the Planets in the figure for the breaking out of the
illness; for the transits are only actual causes, and therefore activat-
ing ones, or ones inducing the forms of the effects; and so it is in all
other things, for nature has a universal method of operating to
which all things are subject.
27
This lunar revolution occurred a few minutes after 1:00 LMT on 13 November
1553. The Moon and Saturn were rising in Pisces square Mars in Sagittarius in
the MC, and Mars was ruler of the 8th house.
28
Petrus Pitatns, Almanach novum... (Tubingen: Ulrich Morhard, 1544), an
ephemeris for the years 1551-1556. See Thomdike, HMES 5, pp. 264-265.
18
consequently, since only by chance is there a concourse of the pro-
gressions at the times of the effects, and since they are not based
upon any real foundation, we are of the opinion that they by rights
ought to be eliminated from Astrology.
And it is not because someone may pretend that the annual di-
rection, whose daily motion is 59', almost equal to the monthly
profection, whose daily motion is 64'04", and similarly the
monthly direction, whose daily motion is 13o10'35", are almost
equivalent to the daily progression, whose daily motion is
and consequently, there is no great difference between
our directions and the progressions of the Old [Astrologers]. For
first, the significator in the annual direction runs completely
through the Zodiac in a solar year; but in the monthly progressions
it runs completely through 13 signs without any reason other than
that it was pleasing to their author. The annual and monthly pro-
gressions for individual years begins from the same point of the
Zodiac; similarly, the significator in the monthly direction in its
monthly period runs through the whole Zodiac completely; but in
the daily progression it runs through 13 signs in a profectional
month - this only from the cause, that in the beginnings of the indi-
vidual profectional months the point of the Caelum of each
significator is the same for the monthly and diurnal profcctions be-
cause it was pleasing to the inventor of these to play with so many
numbers. Second, the directions are by a natural mode related to
the circles of position, but the progressions only to a fictitious and
equal [mode] in the ecliptic; and because these progressions are
only a twelfth part swifter than our directions, and because the lat-
ter proceed unequally, but the former equally, it is no wonder that
sometimes they imitate the true causes, especially in the begin-
nings of years and months. Add [to this] that the same places of the
Sun and the Moon in the ecliptic are directed in revolutions of the
Sun and Moon as those which are advanced monthly and daily by
the progressions, namely the radical places of the Sun and the
Moon. Third [and] finally, because for the annual and monthly di-
rections the significators for directing are chosen only in figures of
19
the revolutions of the Sun and the Moon. But for progressions the
significators are only taken from the figure of the nativity; there-
fore, the directions that have been adopted by us differ greatly
from the progressions of the Old [Astrologers], concerning which
what has been said so far is sufficient.
20
SECTION II.
The Transits and the Syzygies of the Planets.
Chapter 1.
How Should the Doctrine of Transits be Made.
21
mentary Cardan also wants it to be understood that a diurnal pro-
gression was propounded by that same Ptolemy. But because we
have rejected those progressions as worthless, and seeing that we
were only mentioning those annual and monthly directions that we
have introduced, as we have said in Section 1, Chapter 3; conse-
quently, they must be preferred to those others by the best judg-
ment. For in fact it is absurd to think that any significator in the na-
tal figure is progressed by a fourfold motion in that chart, namely
by the motion of a radical direction, then by an annual, monthly
and daily progression. But enough about this already! Here we
only intend to show that Ptolemy himself discovered a significant
force in transits when they were made through concordant or dis-
cordant places in the nativity, and thus to conclude that the doc-
trine of transits should be manifold, and that there is a significant
force in the transits by body or by aspect of the seven Planets, but
especially of the Sun and the Moon.
Chapter 2.
What Path Previous Astrologers Followed in
Taking Notice of the Virtue of the Stars.
29
John Isaac Hollandus, a writer on alchemy in the first half of the 17lh century.
22
turc accidents, such as heat, cold, flood, sterility, pestilence, war,
and similar things, are not made by some particular concourse and
position of the stars, with experience as a witness, but only by
[something] certain and determined, which, since in essence it de-
pends upon the motion of those stars at a definitely determined
time, it then follows that from a particular constitution of the
Caelum it can be conjectured at what time any particular accident
may occur, if we can estimate at what time there will be a con-
course of the stars suitable to producing that [accident].
23
themselves, even though the Planets that held those places at the
moment of that constitution were far away from them at the very
time of the transits. For these reasons, they admired the force of the
transits very much.
24
discovered to be done. However, they have held it as a thing very
certain that the signified accidents cannot be produced except by
an actually concurring concordant influx of its own efficient
cause; wherefore, they wisely supposed that concordant transits
of the Planets are indeed absolutely necessary [to serve] as ac-
tual influxes for the production of signified events; these, how-
ever, can scarcely produce [those events] unless there is a con-
current cause at a certain time, which however, is determined by
the distance of the significator of the event from one of its
promissors; for they do not doubt that the kind of event depends
on the natures of those [planets] and on both their celestial and
terrestrial state [and] likewise its time determined by the dis-
tance between them.
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The so-called Naibod Measure of Time.
31
The "daily [motions] intercepted m that distance" is an elegant way of saying
"the arc of direction."
32
The "years of the world" are what we would call "Aries ingresses" today.
25
Astrologers do not seem to have erected annual revolutions, since
Ptolemy makes no mention of them;33 therefore, such was the
progress of the Old [Astrologers] in the recognition of the virtue of
the stars with regard to general and particular effects.
Chapter 3.
Whether the Transits of All the Planets
Through the Individual Places of the
Nativity should be Observed.
The places of nativities are of two kind , for some arc the
places of significators, namely the places of the 7 Planets, the 12
[house] cusps, and the Part of Fortune, but others arc the places of
promissors, namely the places of the 7 Planets, their aspects, and
antiscions. For each planet in a nativity is simultaneously a
significator and a promissor, looked at diversely, namely a
signifkator of those things to which it was determined by its
bodily position and its rulcrship, but a promissor of those things to
which it was potentially determined by its directions to preceding
significators.
33
This is true. It was apparently one of the 8th century Arabian astrologers who
invented the solar revolution (solar return).
26
them through the individual places of the nativity must also be
looked at, not only transits by body but also by aspect.
27
20, Section 3, Chapters 2 and 4, so the places of the Caelum in the
radix that were particularly determined by the Planets act on the
Native during the [entire] course of his life depending on the state
of the Planets determining; consequently, the transit of Jupiter
through the ASC of the radix at which time Venus, ruler of the
ASC, is in exile and retrograde, and impedited by the rays of the
malefics, Saturn or Mars, will bring forth very little or even noth-
ing.
Chapter 4.
Whether in an Individual House of the Nativity
any Force Exceeds j that of the j Natal Chart
for Future Accidents of Life.
34
The Equal House system had been used by Cardan; and it had al o been adopted
by Morin's contemporary, Nicolas de Bourdin, the Marquess of Villennes (d.
1670). The other "false" systems according to Morin's opinion were the
Alchabitius system and the Campanus system He had denounced all of these in
earlier books of the AG and also in his separate work, Re marques Astrologiques
(Paris: Pierre Menard, 1657), which, like the AG, was published after Morin's
death in 1656.
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the hour of the nativity, acts according to the signification of that
same house or to the particular signification of the Planet in the ra-
dix; even though at the very moment of that transit, the other Planet
that occupied that place is absent, and moreover, the consideration
of this effect is the principal foundation of the doctrine of transits,
consequently then, lest anything concerning it be lacking, we may
put here that which will seem to be sufficient for a clearer under-
standing of the virtue of those transits; for we promised [to do] this
in Books 20 and 21.
Therefore, such an effect does not arise from those things be-
cause there remains in that very Caelum the virtue of a previously
located Planet impressed according to its form, either universal
and common to all the world from its own form, or particular, from
the particular situation of the Planet in the figure with respect to the
man who is being bom. Not universal, for through the whole zo-
diac which that Planet traverses, it remains in the same mode; con-
sequently, the observation of those places for transits would be
useless, for it would take on equally the same effect in one and an-
other point of the zodiac, of course because the individual points of
the zodiac would be equal in that sort of virtue; but this disagrees
with experience. But not so the particular mentioned above; for
since all the inhabitants of the earth have the same planet at the
same moment of time in the same point of the Caelum, and yet the
Planet does not effect the same thing in [all] the individual men
then being bom; but in this one it acts on his life, in that one on his
finances, etc.; [and] it would follow all the virtues, or all the partic-
ular modes, of that same Planet impressed according to its form
upon that same point of the Caelum that it can exercise with re-
spect to a [particular] man. Therefore, that virtue that is impressed
is not particular but universal, because in fact all the particulars are
equivalent to the universal. Wherefore, if a transit operates accord-
ing to this virtue impressed according to its form, there will be no
reason why from a transit there would follow in this [particular]
man an effect on his life rather than on his finances, or his honors,
etc., but [the answer] would have to be sought from somewhere
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else—see Book 20, Section 3, chapter 5, where it is shown in detail
that the Caelum receives nothing from the Planets according to
their form. But the matter is as follows.
The Primum Mobile is the first and the most universal cause
of all natural effects. But these are not from the Caelum alone, be-
cause of itsel f it is determined to no type of effect; but they are also
from the Planets, by which the Caelum itself was determined uni-
versally to the signs at the beginning of the world, and it is deter-
mined particularly on each day, both by its own motion around the
earth and by the Planets' own motions, as we have said in Book 21,
Chapter 4. And [these effects] are not also from the Planets alone;
for Mars has one effect in Aries, or with Aries, and another in
Taurus; they are, therefore, effects from the mutual concourse of
the Caelum and the Planets. And yet the primacy of efficiency is
due to the Caelum, as the prime cause in physics of all things,
shown by us in Book 14, Section 1, Chapter 1; for as GOD effec-
tively concurred with every created agent, as the first cause of
causes, without which nothing can be done, so the Primum Mobile
(the noblest image of God) concurs with every natural agent, as the
prime physical cause, without which, even with the Sun itself re-
maining along with the other Planets, universal nature would lan-
guish, on account of the formal virtue of the Caelum itself, [which
is] like the mind or the spirit, penetrating, vivifying, and preserv-
ing the whole corporeal world.
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grees. Therefore, the diversity of the situation of the Caelum itself
with respect to individual men at the moment of birth will be a
cause on the part of the Primum Mobile of the diversity of effects
in those same men—namely, one of whom has Aries in the ASC,
another Taurus, etc.
The same thing must be said about any Planet, which in the
same moment of time is the same for individual sublunar subjects
in nature and in universal virtue, but diverse for them in its situa-
tion; whence, its universal nature determined variously by its situ-
ation with respect to individuals that are being bom, does also in
the same instant of time produce different effects in individuals.
And in addition, it determines the part of the Primum Caelum un-
der which it is seen from the earth to its own nature and virtue, both
[what is] essential from its own nature and accidental from its situ-
ation with respect to the Native, with such great efficacy that that
part of the Caelum itself under which the Sun is seen, is to that very
Native during his whole life like another Sun, and one similarly de-
termined by reason of the house of the figure, as was the Sun itself
in the nativity; whence, it can be said not undeservedly that in that
impression of the celestial constitution, which the Native receives
at birth, the Planet is like a certain mean proportion between the
Caelum and the Native, connecting both of them.
Therefore, since the Primum Mobile and those stars that arc
moving under it, in accordance with the diversity of their own de-
termination with respect to the individual Natives, produce diverse
effects in the individuals; to be sure it follows that of whatever sort
each of them is in body, talents, habits, and luck, such a sort
emerged from the virtue and determination of the celestial bodies
with respect to the moment of his own birth; and having received
the impression of this celestial constitution, the Native incurs sym-
pathy and antipathy with the Caelum, and consequently with uni-
versal nature, so that just as the production of the Native himself
depends upon that constitution, so does his preservation, since it
consists of such a situation of the celestial bodies with respect to
the Native; and it is well affected in turn by the characteristic and
31
common motion of the Planets. And from this it follows that the al-
teration and corruption of the Native himself will be from a con-
trary constitution or situation of the celestial bodies.
35
The Latin has in medio decem siluum 'in the middle of ten sites', but since he
seems to be referring to the twelve houses, perhap we should emend the text to
read in medio duodecim siluum 'in the middle of twelve sites'.
36
By dodecatemorion he means simply a twelfth part of the Caelum, i.e. one of
the twelve houses.
32
that however often any change happens in it, that many times also
does a change happen for the Native in the thing or kind of accident
signified by that house; if at least the change of constitution was
concordant with the directions and revolutions, which was men-
tioned above. Moreover, a change happens in the houses of that
constitution in two ways. First, from the motion of the Primum
Mobile, which carries those houses around daily through the indi-
vidual sites. Second, from the motion of the Planets, by which the
Moon once in each month; Mercury, Venus, and the Sun once in
each year; Mars once in two years; Jupiter once in twelve; and Sat-
urn once in 30 years transits those individual places. Moreover, a
change alone of a site with respect to the earth or from the Primum
Mobile is of no efficacy for sublunar changes because it does not
alter the universal nature's force of acting. For, always posited in
the same site among themselves, the universal nature of the stars,
notwithstanding the diumal motion of the Caelum that would
change the force of acting; and consequently remaining the same,
it would always effect the same thing. But by the variation of the
situation of the Planets with respect to the Caelum by their own in-
dividual motions, there happens [to be] in universal nature a diver-
sity of the virtue of acting; for from that variation of situation the
syzygies of the Planets occur among themselves and with the fixed
[stars]—some of them translations from one sign into another,
through which the celestial bodies act in various ways on all these
sublunar things [but] only universally; with the Planets continu-
ously determining with respect to the individuals who are being
bom, the points of the Primum Mobile under which they are seen
from the earth.
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if, with any one of the 7 Planets removed, another one of a different
nature made up anew were substituted in place of it, especially if
there is a great contrariety either in their natures or in the significa-
tions of the Planet transiting the radical and of the one through
whose radical place it is transiting. For every Planet, led around in
the zodiac by its own motion, retains with respect to the Native so
long as he lives its radical or accidental virtue from its radical de-
termination, and with that it continually acts upon the Native—im-
perceptibly to be sure when it transits through the empty places of
the nativity, that is, those which are not cusps or the places of the
Planets, or the places of aspects in the radical constitution; but per-
ceptibly when it transits through those places or cusps, especially
if the transit is noteworthy and there is a concordant direction and
revolution, as will be stated more fully below. For then from such a
transit an effect signified by a direction of the nativity and [also] by
a revolution is reduced from a potentiality to an actuality—there
having been set in motion the active or the passive causes of that
effect intrinsic to the Native, but extrinsic in the universal nature,
that is in the Caelum or in sublunar things, so that something hap-
pens to the Native of the kind of signification pertaining to the
place through which the transit is [made]. But when some Planet
transits through its own radical location, in that way the effect that
is radically signified by it bursts forth.
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with a malefic Planet transiting through a good place, evil rushes
into the good; but with a benefic transiting through an evil [place],
good falls upon the evil.
Besides, it was said above that the Native draws together the
sympathy and antipathy with the Caelum from the impression of
the celestial constitution received at the moment of his nativity,
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and then with nature combined, which I want to be extended all the
way, so that it can also be understood with the individual natal con-
stitutions of the Natives, and through them with the Natives them-
selves, or rather with all the sublunar things subordinate to the rul-
ership of the celestial bodies. For it is frequently observed that in
any particular accident signified especially by external causes,
very many causes, among them [those of] various kinds, come to-
gether at the same time—generally very different in motions and
modes—of which not a single one is superfluous for the effect. But
all of them are necessary, so that, with any one of them lacking, it
would seem that the effect could not be produced, as is plain in the
death of Julius Caesar, Henry IV King of France, Gustavus
Adolphus King of Sweden, and in innumerable other cases, which
do not occur by chance (as the ignorant suppose) but by fatal provi-
dence, and they seize men by surprise. But by a single direction,
also with a revolution and a concordant transit in the nativity of an
individual man, so many causes agreeing mutually to be moved to-
ward the effect and to come together at the same time, or through
the Native's own constitution, the wonderful sympathy or antipa-
thy with universal nature, as explained above, and in many nativi-
ties of other men, seem to be naturally impossible, since there does
not appear to be any other natural reason.
Chapter 5.
Whether all the Transits Through the Places of the
Nativity are Effective, or Whether they Alone and in
some Way Motivate our own Nature to the Effects.
That all the transits through the places of the nativity are not
efficacious is proved most evidently by the primary planets, the
Sun and the Moon, [and they are] primary among the other [plan-
ets], for the Sun transits all the houses of the nativity every year
and the Moon every month; and yet effects do not happen to the na-
tive in every year, much less in every month, at least not conspicu-
ous ones with individual significations in his own nativity. There-
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fore, there is required a concourse of that later cause, which was
mentioned in Chapter 2, certainly of a direction and a revolution
concordant with a transit; for the effects result from a mutual con-
cord of causes, just as a dissension or contrariety of causes im-
pedes them, so that nothing that is notable and complete is pro-
duced. Therefore, even though the Planets are transiting the places
of the nativity by their own motion, they always do with those
same places whatever they can both by reason of their own nature
and by reason of their own radical determination; consequently,
Venus transiting through the ASC by her own nature alone excites
[the Native] to pleasures and jokes, but more effectively if she was
the ruler of habits or of the fifth [house]; and yet without any direc-
tion and concordant revolution, or at least by one of these concor-
dant with the nativity, it will not cause any notable change in the
Native; but this is only done by transits when concordant direc-
tions and revolutions concur with them.
37
The Latin text has non efficienter. sed duntaxat objective, lit. 'not efficiently,
but only objectively', but here I think Kepler meant 'not actually...but only appar-
ently', as I have rendered it.
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Chapter 2, to which places we refer the Reader.
On the other hand, we say that all living things make use of a
twofold physical food, that is they feed on what is material, and
they are ruled by what is spiritual; but the spiritual is none other
than Air, since it is impregnated with celestial influences, which
men take in copiously by breathing along with the rest of the ani-
mals. But the celestial influences are noticeably varied with re-
spect to each man, according as the Planets in individual nativities
transit through the principal places of the natal chart, with a con-
current and especially a concordant direction and revolution.
Whence, it is true that the air which, impregnated by those influ-
ences, is drawn in, may move the natural desire of man toward
those things, or to doing those things, or enduring them. For thus at
birth you will come to the first breathing in of the influx of the ce-
lestial configuration [that] is imprinted on the Native, and by
which he is generally endowed, both for the accidents present at
that instant and for future ones during the course of his life.
You will object: It will follow that all those who breathe in
the same air at the time of such a transit are similarly moved to act-
ing or experiencing. But since this is repugnant to experience, not
only in the same region or city, but also in the same dwelling, this
doctrine is therefore absurd.
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versal influx affects all of them. And from this it is plain that those
breathing the same air can be affected through sympathy with the
celestial bodies perpetually acting upon that same air, sometimes
in the same way, and at other times in different ways, or even in a
harmful way.
Chapter 6.
Whether the Transiting Planets Determine the
Place of their own Transits, or Whether They are
Determined by Them, and in what Way.
The planets moved by their own proper motion under the Pri-
mum Mobile actively determine its parts to their own nature with
respect to sublunar things; and in turn, they are determined by the
Caelum, or by its parts, and they act as associates just as was said in
Book 21, Section 1, Chapter 5. Again, therefore, in [the case of]
transits, the transiting Planet and the place through which it transits
determine each other mutually with respect to the native; not indeed
in a simple manner, but with regard to their own prior determina-
tions in the nativity; e.g., Mars ruler of the 8th, transiting through the
places of the ASC and its ruler, determines these not only to the
Martian nature (which is a simple determination), but it also deter-
mines them to death, or to [some] danger to life, namely because
Mars by its own determination in the radix produced the force of
death for the native. Moreover, it cannot exert that force more effec-
tively on the Native than by transiting by body, or by a hostile as-
pect, through the places of the radical figure that are determined to
life, such as the ASC and its ruler are; for the radical places, when
they are determined by a transit to significations contrary to their
radical ones, then a change in the radical signification must be
feared for the Native; and because when Mars acts through a transit,
then by that act its force pours in upon the Native, and consequently,
that transit is rightly judged to be dangerous in which the ASC, the
significator of life, is determined to death by Mars, and in turn Mars,
the anaereta, is determined by the ASC to life.
39
Similarly, because Mars constantly carries with it not only its
own and essential virtue, but also that which it received from its
radical determination, and it is indifferent to exercising the above
said lethal force in the one or the other mode and in this or that kind
of accident, such as actions, lawsuits, pleasures, etc. Conse-
quently, when it transits through these significators by body or by
harmful aspect, it is determined by individual things according to
its mode or general signification, by which either death or danger
to life can happen. And therefore when it transits through the ASC,
it is determined to exerting lethal or sickening force, involving
temperament, habits, or intelligence; [but] when it transits through
the MC, involving actions, undertakings, or dignity, as happens to
centurions leading their own soldiers to battle [as required] by
duty, and thus with other [cases].
Chapter 7.
Whether the Transits of the Planets through the
Places of the Revolutions should be Looked at.
40
principal places of the revolutions, but particularly in the revolu-
tion of the Sun. And especially on those days on which any direc-
tions of the revolutions are completed; but the transits through the
places of the nativity are more effective.
Chapter 8.
Whether for the Production of all the Effects
Happening to Men, the Transits Agreeing with
the Planets, with their Directions and
Revolutions are Necessarg. and at what Time.
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tary action, especially [if it is] the ruler of the profession. More-
over, moderate changes also require at least the agreement of a rev-
olution; but great changes require in addition the concourse of a
concordant direction. Besides, of the effects happening to a man,
some are momentary, such as a fall, a wound, something unex-
pected, a dignity unhoped-for and unexpectedly conferred; others
are daily, such as a daily [attack of] fever, but [still] others lasting
many days or months, such as an illness leading to death, a quarrel
leading to a duel, a theft leading to the pillory, [or] love to marriage
within days or after some months. Moreover, in these and in all
other effects arising from the Caelum, concordant transits usually
are present, as experience proves; therefore it follows that they are
necessary as a part of the celestial causes, just as the actual causes,
without which also those potential causes of future effects in the
radix and in a revolution are not reduced to an action.
38
The Latin text has si non partiles. saltern apartilitateparum di/ferentes 'if not
partile, at least differing little from partility', which seem awkward at best. Per-
haps we should simply delete non to yield the translation 'if partile [or] at least
nearly partile'.
42
on the day of death resulting from a long illness. And this often de-
ceives Astrologers with regard to the force of transits, when on the
very day of death they sec that no concordant transit is made, at
least no notable one, for they are paying special attention to the day
on which the effect is completed, when instead attention should be
paid to the day on which it began; for that reason, you should not
neglect the subsequent concordant transits for finding the day on
which the effect will be finished or completed.39
Chapter 9.
For a given Direction Presaging a Significant Event,
which Planet's Transit is more Necessary for the
Production of the Effect, and through which Place,
so that the Transit may be Said to be Concordant.
3g
Morin seems to be saying that although sometimes only the beginning of a
drawn-out event is indicated by a concordant transit, still the astrologer should
look to see if there i a subsequent concordant transit that might indicate its end.
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what place? Should it be the place of a significator, or apromissor,
or in fact some other?
For which it should be noted: First. That any Planet in its own
motion in the zodiac carries around both of its own virtues, namely
an essential one from its own nature and an accidental one from its
own determination with respect to the Native in the figure of his
nativity—that is to say, a perpetually essential one, but an acciden-
tal one that it retains and maintains as long as that Native lives. In-
deed, why not, because every Planet is determined to something
with regard to individual men living in the whole world; it carries
with it with respect to individuals that force to which it was deter-
mined with respect to each one in his radix, so long as that one
lives, without any confusion of so many accidental virtues. More-
over, the bond of connection of each man with the celestial bodies
through his natal constitution is dissolved by his death. And all of
this is remarkable, if there is anything at all in universal nature that
is remarkable, and very similar to God's method of working with
regard to particulars.
Second. There are four principal places in the figure of the na-
tivity in which there is the force to produce the effect of a direction,
that is the places of the significator and the promissor of that direc-
tion, then the places of the rulers of both of those; but the
significator is very often not a Planet, but a cusp, such as the ASC
or the MC, to which it is not suitable to go, but to its ruler.
Third. Planets carrying their own force from their radical de-
termination, almost always act according to that with respect to the
Native, when an opportunity has been given in their own motion
through a transit in concordant places of the figure. But sometimes
they also act only in accordance with their own essential force;
nevertheless, determined to the radical signification of the place
through which the Planet itself is transiting, such as Venus through
the MC, especially being free from the malefics, makes actions
and undertakings fortunate, even if in the radix she had no particu-
lar signification of those things. And given that, any transiting
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Planet becomes subordinate to the denotation of the promissor,
namely because it is actively determined to the radical significa-
tion of the place through which it is transiting, and it acts in that re-
gard because that is the denotation of the promissor.
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subject, radical namely, and due to the transit, the virtue of the
significator with respect to that same subject will be doubled as will
its disposition to the effect, which will burst forth from some inter-
nal cause of the subject, such as from the Native's own virtue, or de-
bility, or temperament, etc.; whence, it is no wonder if in that year
there is any notable direction of the Sun, either lucky or unlucky, on
the very day of the revolution of the Sun, on which day the Sun tran-
sits through its own radical place, that a great good will happen for
some, but for others a great evil, especially when the Sun is in an an-
gle in that revolution and in a concordant site of the Caelum, just as
is read about Emperor Charles V, for whom many notable instances
of good luck happened on the days of his own revolutions.
46
the place of the significator, the active cause applies itself to the
subject, and it occasionally does that unexpectedly.
47
rected to Venus ruler of the second; but Jupiter, ruler of the ninth,
has transited through the place of the Sun, honors and riches from
an ecclesiastical dignity or from an ambassadorship are signified;
for, the significations of riches, splendor, ecclesiastical dignity and
ambassadorship are all related among themselves.
Chapter 10.
In which by many Examples and Observations
the Virtue of Transits and their Actual Efficacy
are Confirmed.
40 Unfortunately, this did not happen, for Morin died only a few years after writ-
ing these words {Astrologiae nostrae practicae, which I take to be the title of a
book that he had in mind). He had also mentioned in one of the earlier books of
the Astrologia Gallica that he had in mind to write a book on prediction.
48
And so, Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, succumbed in
the Battle of Liitzen on 16 November 1632 at around 9 in the morn-
ing. and there was a direction of the radical MC to the 25 th degree
of Scorpio square Saturn from the eighth and to the body of Mars
in the twelfth, then to the square of Jupiter ruler of the ASC from
the second. Moreover, the direction of the MC in the solar revolu-
tion was at 29o40, of Leo, the place of Mars in that same revolu-
tion, and square Saturn. And finally, the direction of the MC in the
lunar revolution was again at 28 degrees of Leo in the eighth
partilcly square Saturn in that revolution. Therefore, there were
those three directions in the worst houses of the figure and abso-
lutely concordant for a violent death.
41
Antares or a Centauri, which was in 4038' Sagittarius—close, but not partile.
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directions, were very lethal; but the worst of all was the transit of the
Sun, the apheta. And here, not only do the transits of the significator
occur, namely Venus ruler of the MC, and Saturn with Mars, in their
own squares and the body of the promissors, but others in agree-
ment, as the Sun [being] the apheta, and Jupiter ruler of the ASC.
42
The Latin text has his name as Disdiguieres, but it should be Lesdiguieres, so I
have changed it. He was Francois de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres (1543-1626),
who was Constable of France from 1609.
43
All the aspects in this sentence refer to primary directions in the natal chart.
50
Cardinal Richelieu, from an acute fever coming on top of a
lengthy illness, from which he was not yet perfectly cured, at
length died on the 4th of December 1642, when his radical ASC
was directed to Jupiter in the eighth. And on that day, Venus, ruler
of the twelfth, the ASC, and the eighth of the radix, was transiting
through the 29th degree of Capricorn square the ASC itself, and
also Jupiter was transiting through the 11th degree of Pisces square
its own radical [place]; and these [were the aspects] of the
significator and the promissor. And in addition in the solar revolu-
tion, the Moon, Saturn, and Jupiter were conjoined in the seventh
opposite the Sun; but in the revolution of the Moon, Saturn, Jupi-
ter, and the Moon were conjoined in the eighth in square to the Sun
and Mercury, rulers of the eighth of the radix; and Saturn was
partilely conjunct the Moon, which is very bad for the life in revo-
lutions of the Moon, but it was even worse than that because that
kind of conjunction was in the eighth, with the Moon being ruler of
the twelfth. Besides, Mars, ruler of the first of the radix was on the
very day of his death in 2 Taurus, his own radical opposition; and
Mercury, ruler of the eighth of the radix, had returned to its own
radical place partilely; and Saturn was in the place of the radical
Moon partilely. Therefore, by so many cruelly conspiring celestial
causes he was overwhelmed, who thought that he could succumb
to nothing terrestrial. But here, not only do the transits concordant
with the significator and the promissor concur, which are Venus
and Jupiter, but also the transits concordant with the other
Planets—namely those which were the significators of life and
death, by nature or by determination or by both.
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preceded his illness, it was square to the Moon, and Saturn was op-
posed to the Sun, [both of] which were very bad; moreover, he died
on the 8th of December, on which day Venus in the 2nd degree of
Aquarius and Mars in the 2nd degree of Taurus were partilely
square, which must be particularly noted; and again, the Moon was
applying to the opposition of the radical Mars; and the Sun was in
the 17th degree of Sagittarius applying to the radical place of Sat-
urn; and then its square was debilitated; all of which things were
very bad and threatening death.
52
In the year 1617 on the 17th of June, he applied to enter into
the Congregation of the Oratory of Jesus, in which year Mars in the
tenth of the radix was directed to Venus, its ruler; and on that very
day it was in the 15th degree of Virgo in the radical place of Jupi-
ter, and the Sun was in the 26th degree of Gemini in its own radical
square.
In the year 1642 on the 6th of January, the holy man died ven-
erably around 6 AM, in which year the Sun, the apheta in the first
house, was directed to the sinister square of the Moon who was in
the twelfth afflicted by the opposition to Saturn. Moreover, he be-
gan to become ill on the 29th of December 1641, on which day the
Moon herself was transiting through the ASC, and Mars [was
transiting] partilely through the place of the radical Moon, and Sat-
urn in the eighth degree of Pisces was square the radical ASC.
Moreover, on the day of his death, Saturn was in partile square to
the radical ASC. And Mars, ruler of the Moon, was in the 6th de-
gree of Sagittarius nearly on that radical ASC; and finally, the
Moon was in opposition to the radical Jupiter, ruler of the ASC; all
of which were portending his demise on that very day, as we had
foretold.
In the year 1605 on the 9th of July at about eight in the eve-
ning I was wounded on account of a woman. Then in fact the radi-
cal ASC was directed to the sinister square of Venus, followed by a
square to the Sun, ruler of the fifth, and Jupiter, ruler of the eighth,
with which Venus herself was conjoined. And on that day, Mars,
ruler of the radical ASC; Venus, ruler of the first; the Sun, ruler of
the fifth; and Mercury, ruler of the sixth, were conjoined in the rad-
ical place of Mars, and trine the radical Saturn, ruler of the MC in
the twelfth; but Saturn itself was transiting through the eighth
house of the radix [and] square the radical Moon, by which every-
thing was agreeing with the effect and its circumstances and with
the sublunar causes.
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versely to the Moon and Jupiter, significators of illnesses and
death; but directly, they were directed to the 9th degree of Gemini,
not far from the square to Saturn. Moreover, on that same day there
was a great eclipse of the Sun in that very degree, and the Sun and
the Moon were significators of illnesses in the nativity, and Saturn,
also a principal significator of illnesses, was in the radical place of
the Moon, to which it was also partilely conjoined in the preceding
revolution of the Moon; and this was very bad and lethal or at least
very dangerous, as has already been remarked many times above.
But Mars, ruler of the radical ASC, was in the 6th degree of Aries
in the twelfth square his own radical place; and Jupiter, ruler of the
eighth, was partilely in his own place in the revolution of the Sun
in the fifth. By these, therefore, there was excited an illness [that
was] severe, lengthy, and one in which hope for life had been given
up by the physicians.
In the year 1615 on the 7th of July, I fell into the danger of a
violent death from a missile thrown at me from [a distance of]
three paces in the Rhine, in which I was swimming for pleasure; in
which year, the radical ASC was directed directly to the square of
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Saturn in the ecliptic and conversely to Venus. Moreover, on the
evening of that same day. Mars, ruler of the ASC, was in the 10th
degree of Virgo almost opposite Saturn, and Satum was in the 27th
degree of Aries [conjunct] the radical ASC. Venus, moreover, was
in the 17th degree of Leo quincunx the Moon [being placed] in the
5th house where the quincunxes of Venus, the Sun, Jupiter, Satum,
and the Moon fell. From these things, and because the Sun, ruler of
the fifth is in the twelfth with Satum and Jupiter, ruler of the
eighth, pleasures were almost always dangerous for me with re-
spect to my life or my health. And finally, the Moon was on the
cusp of the eighth with [the fixed star] Cor Scorpii;44 the transits
were therefore very bad.
In that same year 1616 on the 16th of April, 1 fell into a severe
and malign illness, at which time the ASC was directed to the
square of Satum with latitude.45 Moreover, on that very day, the
Sun, Moon, and Satum were transiting through the ASC itself.
Mars, ruler of the ASC, was in the 6th degree of Aries square its
own radical place, as [it was] on the 30th of May 1612, on which
day I fell into another very malign illness that was mentioned
above. Moreover, Venus was in the 16th degree of Pisces, the
place of the radical Moon and Satum.
44
The fixed tar Antares or a Scorpii, which was at 4024' Sagittarius.
45
That is, a mundane square or a square in mundo as it is usually said.
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reeled to Mercury, ruler of the second, in the eleventh. I took up the
post on the 30th of June, on which [dayj Saturn, ruler of the MC,
was in its own antiscion and exaltation with Spica Virginis;46
Mars, ruler of the radical ASC, was in the 10th degree of Taurus,
the place of the Part of Fortune; the Sun was in the 9th degree of
Cancer, the place of the radical Mars; Venus, ruler of the first and
of the Part of Fortune, was in the 4th degree of Cancer trine her
own radical [place] and the Sun and Jupiter, [and] near the place of
Mars. Moreover, the Moon was in the 12th degree of Scorpio in the
seventh trine the radical Saturn and Moon; and the undertaking
turned out very fortunately. Moreover, I received letters [authoriz-
ing] my dignity stamped with the royal seal on the following 3rd of
August, on which [day] Saturn was as above; Mars, ruler of the
MC in the revolution of the Sun, was in the 4th degree of Gemini
square the radical Sun and Jupiter; and Mercury was in opposition
to the radical Sun and Jupiter.
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in the ecliptic.47 And on that day began a revolution of my Moon,
in the figure of which the opposition of the radical Mars was as-
cending; and Saturn, ruler of the ASC, was almost partilely con-
joined to the Moon in the second house, for the Moon is applying
to Saturn, whom she overtook within two hours, at which time the
illness was beginning, even though imperceptibly, for it was only
at about 3 PM that it broke out perceptibly by a rigor. But the Moon
in the figure of her own revolution conjoined or opposed to Saturn
we have already very often said to be very unlucky—how much
more so then with an illness beginning? Here, unless I am mis-
taken, it was caused by that conjunction.
Chapter 11.
I Determining ] the Exact Time of Events by a Transit,
and Whether their Latitude should be Observed. The
Doctrine Confirmed by Celestial Charts.
47
That is a conjunction in zodiaco as it is usually said.
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pending upon that sort of transit of theirs; for then the force of their
radical determination and its virtue are doubled. Indeed, all the
planets, when they transits their own opposition or square in the ra-
dix, excite their own radical signification to actuality, on account
of the force of that cross in the sky, which Johannes Francus
Offusius writing Against Astrology4* was unable not to admire and
acknowledge.
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and revolution that same planet transits through the ASC of the ra-
dix, or the place of the ruler of the ASC well disposed and very
well configured with that ruler, then some good fortune will come
to the Native in his undertakings or in dignities; for to these [acci-
dents] the MC as well as the ASC arc determined together in the
act, or rather the Native is determined by the ASC and the MC.
And the same logic applies to other things.
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malefic by nature; as on the contrary, Jupiter and Venus deter-
mined to good things, also help by square or opposition although
not without some difficulty. And the [very] days of the events of
the aforesaid things and others like them can be foreseen.
And from this the reason can be found why the transits of the
Moon, even though they are the most frequent, are nevertheless
rarely effective; namely because on account of the swift motion of
the Moon it can rarely happen that when it transits through the
place of Saturn, the Primum Caelum is at the Native's horizon,49 as
at the hour of his nativity.
49
The text has ad Horizontem vel Natum 'at the horizon or the Native', which
doesn't make sense. I suppose it should read adHortzontem Nati 'at the Native's
horizon' or something of the sort.
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And because this mode is one of the principal ones for discov-
ering the hour of the effect, from those50 observations which we
can offer for the common good, it is pleasing to add here some ex-
amples of it with respect to the natal figures, the revolutions of
which are given in Book 23. And the times of those effects were
known to us down to the hour. For thus, with regard to these same
figures displayed by virtue of the directions, revolutions, and tran-
sits, the truth of the doctrine established by us will be shown more
evidently than it is permitted to anyone to be experienced in [the
writings of] others here and there.
50
There is an illegible word {local) in the Latin text. I have assumed that it should
read ill is 'those'.
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In fact, the Caelum is disposed as it is in the nativity, the revo-
lution of the Sun, and nearly as in the revolution of the Moon,
which is most worthy of note. Venus, ruler of the MC, the
significator in a lethal direction, was in the ASC, the primary
significator of life, with a violent fixed star,51 besieged by Saturn
and Mars, the anaeretas in this direction, which three planets were
rising in that very hour, with Mars applying to the radical place of
the Sun ruler of the eighth, being partilely in the place of the radi-
cal Mars and square the radical Saturn in the twelfth house, op-
posed to Jupiter, ruler of the ASC, Saturn, Venus, and Mars; more-
over, the Moon, ruler of the eighth, was in exile in partilc trine to
Jupiter and opposite the eighth. Therefore, such an hour was very
bad, and it was portending a lethal warlike action or undertaking,
on the day on which lethal transits were being made.
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Antares or a Scorpii, which was at 4038' Sagittarius.
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In which the ASC is opposite the ASC of the revolution of the
Moon; and the radical ASC, the significator in a lethal direction,
was in the eighth in square to Venus, its own ruler, from the
twelfth, which in this figure was ruler of the eighth along with
Mars,52 to whose square she was applying; moreover, Jupiter, the
promissor and anaereta by its own opposition, was in the first in its
own radical square, and conjunct Saturn, ruler of the twelfth and
the ASC, in square to the Sun and Mercury, rulers of the eighth of
the radix, which was then with the Sun in his own radical square;
but Mars, significator of life in the nativity,53 was transiting
through its own opposition, in exile and along with the Moon op-
posed to the eighth, [both of] which [planets] Venus ruled from the
twelfth; therefore, all the planets agreed on the death of this person
at that hour.
52
Because parts of both Libra and Scorpio are included in the eighth house.
53
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first house consists mainly of Scorpio, whence Morin considers Mars to be the
ruler of the first house.
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In which Venus, ruler of the ASC and the eighth of the radix,
and consequently the significator of a lethal direction, is found in
the first afflicted by a square of Mars. But the Sun, the promissor,
and in this figure ruler of the eighth, is found in the twelfth with
Mercury, ruler of the eighth of the radix, which is transiting
through the radical place of Saturn; and both of them are afflicted
by the square of Saturn, ruler of the ASC, which is in the second
with Jupiter, ruler of the twelfth, the Sun, and Mercury; therefore,
there were such transits and situations of the Planets hostile to life,
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In which the ASC of the radix, significator of the direction, is
opposite the eighth,54 and the opposition of the fifth cusp is ascend-
ing;55 moreover, Venus, the promissor square her own [position],
is in the sixth applying to the Sun, ruler of the fifth of the radix and
conjunct Mars and Mercury above the place of the radical Mars,
opposite the MC, and Mercury, ruler of the second and the sixth of
the radix, opposed to the fifth of the radix. But here, Mercury is
ruler of the fifth and the eighth applying to Mars, ruler of the MC;
and there are Mercury conjunct Venus and the Sun in opposition to
Jupiter, rulers of the eight of the radix, cadent and retrograde in the
twelfth, and finally, Saturn is in the eighth of the radix, here op-
posed to the fifth. Therefore, the transits and the situation of the
Planets were threatening death from the things signified by the
fifth because of a woman. But God took pity upon me; and to Him
go my eternal rendering of thanks.
54
Morin's ASC degree was in 28 Aries; in the chart dawn above Libra is inter-
cepted in the 8th house; consequently the opposition of hi ASC degree does fall
in the 8th.
55
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is in fact rising in the chart shown.
56
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fifth of the radix and the sixth of this figure in square to Jupiter,
ruler of the eighth of the radix in the eighth of this figure; therefore,
everything was very bad by situation and determination. Praise be
to God! Amen.
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the radix; and the Moon and Satum were significators of illnesses
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The revolution of the Moon had only preceded [this time] by about
two hours. And in fact Mars, ruler of the first, was in exile on the
cusp of the second and opposite the Sun in the eighth, whom Mars
himself ruled. And the Sun and Jupiter were in trine aspect but
harmful on account of their determination to illnesses and death.
Therefore, these circumstances and the situation of the Planets was
unlucky and consistent with illness.
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from transits is sufficient; for from these, all the rest of the things
pertaining to this subject can be easily understood and deduced.
Chapter 12.
Whether the Planets act upon the Native through
their own Syzygies Outside of the Places of the
Nativity through which their Transits are
Customarily Made. And How and When.
59
Here Morin is applying orbs to distance in latitude.
60
That is, through their conjunctions.
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conjoined or are in trine aspect, some good fortune will happen
for the Native in his undertakings, actions, or honors.
61
The Latin text has & faustepro hono 'and favorably for good', but the & must
be a typographical error for aul 'or'.
71
Chapter 13.
The Aphorisms or Principal Laws of Transits.
First. The transits of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars are more effi-
cacious than the transits of the other planets. For these, being
slower than the others, stay longer in the places through which they
transit, especially if they are stationary; and consequently from
these places they make a more efficacious actual impression on the
Native. And hence it follows that the transits of the Moon (at least
the solitary ones) are of the least virtue of all; for otherwise their
effects would be the most frequent, contrary to experience, but
[those] of Saturn are the greatest of all, especially the stationary or
retrograde ones.
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5. In every transit, the celestial state of the transiting Planet
must be noted at the time in which it is transiting—namely,
whether it agrees with or is contrary to the effect signified by the
Planet. For the energy of the transiting Planet is increased or di-
minished by that. And its radical latitude and that of the transit
must be noted.
62
This is the title of a book that Morin intended to write, but which unfortunately
he did not live to write.
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neither to life nor to death, but to some other thing, such as digni-
ties; therefore, in directions and in transits, a promissor Planet de-
termined to life and a benefic and well disposed coming to the
significators of life, but especially the ASC, strengthens the life;
[but] determined to the contrary, it harms the life, or it destroys it;
but, determined to neither of these, it neither helps nor harms, or it
does nothing (at least, nothing significant) affecting the life. Simi-
larly, a Planet transiting through the MC suited to honors by its na-
ture and radical determination, will confer honors; but determined
to the contrary, such as to prisons, exile, [or] death, especially
when it is malefic by nature and badly disposed or inimical to the
MC, will destroy those same things, or it will harm them very
much, or it will impede their occurrence; but when it is determined
to neither of these, it will cause nothing (or at least nothing signifi-
cant) regarding honors, actions, or undertakings, although it can
occasion some accident lightly affecting them in accordance with
its own nature or its radical determination—indeed, to confer or
destroy a dignity is a greater effect than to introduce some trivial
good or evil accident to [an existing] dignity. But major effects re-
sult from greater causes, and minor effects from minor causes,
which are those not determined to any particular thing. And that
same reasoning applies to other things.
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transit, with a fortunate state. But on the contrary, the more ways
that a Planet transiting the MC is determined against honors, the
more efficaciously will it bring bad fortune to the Native in con-
nection with honors and undertakings; as for example, Saturn in
the twelfth of the radix, inimical to the MC because it occupies the
sign Leo, coming by direction and transit to that same MC, badly
disposed in the radix and at the time of the direction and the transit.
And the same reasoning applies to the other things signified.
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places of good or evil aspects.
14. One should take note of the status of the radical places
through which there are transits in revolutions. For if the radical
place of Satum is in the eighth, and Satum is in the twelfth of a rev-
olution, especially [when it is] badly disposed and badly config-
ured in its own radical place, on the day on which the ruler of the
ASC will transit through that same radical place, either an illness
or a danger to the life will occur; but especially, if at the time of the
transit, Mars or Satum or either of the lights should badly aspect
that place. And not only should one pay attention to the state of the
place through which the transit is made, but also [that] of the
transiting Planet itself. For if Mars, transiting through the ASC of
63
Reading successio 'succession' rather than successus 'success' or 'result'.
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the radix, is in the eighth or twelfth of the revolution and also badly
disposed, its transit through the ASC will be very bad.
15. The transit of planets that are conjoined through the de-
gree of a direction of the radix, even an empty [degree]—that is,
one that is not the place of a radical Planet or cusp—is not without
an effect, indeed there will be a notable effect if that transit is of the
conjunction of the lights, and especially with an eclipse.
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disposed and powerfully configured with the ruler of the ASC by
syzygy, then good fortune will occur for the Native in dignities or
undertakings.
Chapter 14.
How, from What has been Explained so far,
Events of the Future can be Predicted by the
Stars with Regard to the Kind [of Event],
the Year, the Day, and the Hour.
4. From [the instructions in] Book 23, Chapters 4 & 5, the fig-
ure of the revolution of the Sun may be erected for the year found
above. Then, from Chapter 12, there may be determined from the
agreement or disagreement of the radical figure, the direction, and
the annual revolution of the Sun, whether or not from those three
any effect may be expected in that year, especially one of the kind
discovered above.
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concordant with the signified effect; and from these it will be plain
on which days of the year that effect may probably be expected.
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and hour, as the statement was made above.
You will object: this procedure for discovering the state of the
whole year and the true time of events is not only very drawn out,
but also overrun with confusion. For besides the radical directions,
there are also directions of the revolutions that have to be deter-
mined, both of the annual and also the monthly revolutions, and of
the angles as well as of the individual Planets—not only through the
individual places of the radix, but also through the places of the rev-
olution, scattered through the whole zodiac. Moreover, since there
are 10 significators—the ASC, the MC, the Part of Fortune, and the
7 Planets, and among these there are 4 principal aspects, the opposi-
tion, trine, square, [and] sextile, of which the trine, square, and
sextile are duplicated on the right (dexter) and the left (sinister).
Therefore, every signiflcator in a revolution can be directed to 56
places [counting] only the aspects of the Planets in a single figure;
consequently, for the 10 significators in it there are 560 directions
made, just to the aspects of the Planets; to which, if there are added
the 63 directions of those 10 significators to the bodies of the
Planets, [their number] rises up to 623 directions to be determined in
a single figure, such as a revolution of the Sun. And since the direc-
tions of a revolution of the Sun should be determined for those same
significators both for the places of the radix as well as for [those of]
the revolution of the Sun, the 623 must therefore be doubled, mak-
ing 1246 directions to be calculated for a [single] revolution of the
Sun. Therefore, in each revolution of the Moon, both because of it-
self and because of the revolution of the Sun and [the consideration
of] the radical figure, 1869 directions are generated; and conse-
quently, for 12 revolutions of the Moon in a year 22,428 directions64
are generated; to which 1246 [more] must be added for the Sun,
making for the whole year at least 23,67465 directions for the revo-
lutions of the Sun and the Moon, to be determined down to the day,
and also to be judged, so that, with the associated transits that are
also very numerous, the state of the whole year may become
64
The text has 22,028 by mistake.
65
The text has 23,2[7]4 by mistake.
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known. But if from so great and so confusing a task some Demon
might be able to extricate himself correctly and scientifically, there
is no human who could do it. And consequently, this doctrine is ei-
ther not true, or it must be confessed that judicial Astrology is in-
comprehensible by a human, and therefore he ought to abandon it.
1 reply third. In the case of the revolutions of the Sun and the
Moon, not [all of) those aforesaid 10 significators should be di-
rected, but only the principal ones, namely the ASC, the MC, the
Sun in the revolutions of the Sun, and the Moon in the revolutions
of the Moon. And [even] this is not always necessary, but [only]
after it has been perceived from a radical direction falling in some
particular year and with a concordant revolution of the Sun, that
some new effect that is especially noteworthy for good or evil is to
be expected. If the significator of the direction is a cusp, such as the
ASC, [then] the ASC of the revolution will also have to be di-
rected. If it is a Planet, that same Planet will have to be directed in
^ T aking the terms into account would at least double the amount of work, for not
only would the condition of the ruler of a significator's sign have to be consid-
ered, but also the condition of the ruler of the significator's term. Thus Cardan's
procedure would also be more tedious than Morin's, since the latter ignores the
terms.
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the revolution. But it will always make known much in both the
revolutions of the Sun and the Moon to direct the 4 above said
significators—the ASC, the MC, the Sun, and the Moon—on ac-
count of the Native's great dependence upon them in existing, act-
ing, and experiencing, whether a new direction of the radical
[chart] is completed in that year or not. For a year without a new
radical direction, is not also one without an action or an experience
for the Native. Add [to this] that the previously completed direc-
tion of a radical significator to some promissor lasts [in time] until
its meeting with another promissor, unless the latter differs from
the former by more degrees. Moreover, it will also make known
the Planet to direct either in a revolution of the Sun or of the Moon;
for indeed it is the one that in that revolution is allotted a determi-
nation concordant with what was signified by the radical direction.
So that, if an illness or dignity is signified, it will make it known to
direct a Planet that is found in the revolution in the 12th house or
the 1 Oth, especially if it was also in the 12th or the 10th of the radix,
or if it was the ruler of that house. Besides, the significator that will
be directed in revolutions for an accident only signified by the na-
tivity, or even by a new or recently elapsed radical direction,
should not be directed to all the places of the nativity or the revolu-
tion, but only to those, that is to those promissors, which, from
their own nature and determination in the nativity or in the revolu-
tion, will be more powerful and more concordant to produce that
same accident, whether good or evil. And provided that on those
days that are indicated by those same directions in the years and
months, concordant transits occur, the effects will burst forth on
those very days. An astrologer skilled in the concordance of causes
and effects, will only need a few directions to [know] the state of
the whole year, that is to recognize the Native's principal changes
emanating from the stars in that year.
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the cphcmcrides the transits of the Planets through the places of the
nativity—those [transits] that are more concordant with the acci-
dent signified, whether good or evil. Then to consider whether any
concordant direction of the revolution of the Sun may fall upon
one of the days indicated by the transits; and this without conjec-
turing, from the comparison of the distance of the promissor from
the significator, with the distance of the indicated day from the first
day of the revolution, before the matter is defined by calculation;
and by not taking in a revolution of the Sun a significator and a
promissor distant by 300 degrees67 for a transit that is made on the
60th day from the beginning of the revolution of the Sun. Having
assumed this, if also in a revolution of the Moon, closely preced-
ing the same day as the transit, any concordant direction falls at
that same time, then there will be no doubt about [the occurrence
of] the effect. And this is a secret of the science, evident neverthe-
less in the figures shown in this book and in Book 23, by means of
which a confident and sagacious Astrologer can advance by the
right path through the densest forest of directions surrounding the
object [of interest].
But lest tyros be deterred in this new doctrine from the search
for the so much desired truth, we shall set forth here for their bene-
fit two of the above said procedures in a systematic method.
67
Reading 300 for :00 in the Latin text.
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to the beginning of each month. And having put the names of the
months with that many days and hours cross from the above said
arcs with the approximate same number [of days], as the number
[of days] for each month, in the second column of that same T able;
and so it will then be plain which directions of the year fall in the
individual months.
Third. Having erected the revolutions for the whole year, ar-
range their times similarly in the third column of the above said
Table, that is the month, day, and hour of the beginning of the rev-
olution; and thus it will similarly be plain which directions of the
year fall in the individual revolutions of the Moon.
Fifth. From the time found, subtract the nearest time of the be-
*o
These tables are on p. 653 of the Astrologia Gallica and are constructed by set-
ting 360 degrees of arc equal to 365.25 days. The reader with a pocket calculator
can turn arc into days by multiplying arc by 1.014583, and days into arc by divid-
ing days by that same constant (or by multiplying days by 0.9856263). (The
fiindameatal equation should be 360 degrees = 365.2422 days, but the difference
is slight.)
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ginning oa a revolution of the Moon [as given] in the third column
and there will remain the difference of the two times which, from
the Second and Third Table for the revolutions of the Moon,69 will
give the arc of the equator, which, added to the right or oblique as-
cension of the MC or the ASC, or to the Sun or Moon in the figure
of the revolution of the Moon, will show in the "Tables of Ascen-
sions" of Regiomontanus where the monthly direction of either
one of those significators extends to. If, therefore, a direction con-
cordant with the annual direction is then completed, and then there
is also made a concordant transit of the Planets, the effect signified
by the radical direction will happen at that time or [on that very]
day; which, however, can also happen from a transit concordant
with a single direction of a concordant annual or monthly
revolution—indeed, [it can happen] from a transit alone with a rad-
ical direction and a concordant revolution of the Sun or the Moon,
especially if the transit is a noteworthy and strong. But the more
causes concur, the more certainly and efficaciously the effect is
produced. The same thing may be done, if you like, for the individ-
ual annual directions, whether a new radical direction is completed
in the same year or not. And so the state of the year will be made
perfectly plain if the right judgment is made about the individual
[directions].
69
These tables are on p. 657 of the Astrologia Gallica and are constructed by set-
ting 360 degrees of arc equal to 27.325 days. The reader with a pocket calculator
can turn this arc into days by multiplying the arc by 0.0759028, and days into arc
by dividing the days by that same constant (or by multiplying the days by
13.17475.) (The fundamental equation should be 360 degrees = 27.32158 days,
but the difference is slight.)
70
These tables were included in Regiomontanus's Tabulae directionum
profectionumque... [Tables of Directions and Prefect ions... Very Useful in Nativ-
ities] (Augsburg; Erhard Ratdolt, 1490). Often reprinted.
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the beginning of the annual revolution to that same day, and turn
that into degrees of the equator by means of the Second and Third
Table of Directions for revolutions of the Sun, and add that arc to
the right or oblique ascension of the concordant significator, cho-
sen in the figure of the revolution of the Sun, and find the sum in
the tables of right or oblique ascension, and it will then be plain
whether that significator extends to a concordant promissor in the
nativity or in the revolution of the Sun. For if that is the case, there
is a great probablity of a future effect on that very day. But for
greater certainty, reckon the time similarly from the beginning of
the monthly revolution most nearly preceding the day found above
down to that same day, and turn that into degrees of the equator
with the Second and Third Tables of directions for the revolutions
of the Moon. And add that arc to the right or oblique ascension of
the concordant significator, chosen in the figure of the revolution
of the Moon, and find the sum in the Tables of Ascensions as be-
fore, and it will then also be plain whether that significator extends
to a concordant promissor in the nativity or in the revolution of the
Moon. And if this is the case, there is the greatest probablity of a
future effect on that very day.
But if there are many days on which transits take place thus, the
judgment will have to be for the stronger one. For even though an ef-
fect strongly signified by a radical direction may happen on a single
day, not on several days; nevertheless, to hit the goal with the first
arrow in this most difficult science is very difficult for the human in-
tellect, but not impossible; and continual exercise in this procedure
is required to achieve this, along with an uncommon shrewdness of
intellect that is able to discern which of the whole year's transits is
more appropriate and powerful to actuate the potential of a radical
direction, so that [needless] labor may be reduced.
71
The right side of the chart.
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spoke] above will have to be added to the oblique descensions of
those significators for their directions; or (which is easier) the
place diametrically opposite the significator will have to be di-
rected by its ascensions, and the place diametrically opposite the
direction will be obtained; for we suppose that that is sufficiently
known from the doctrine of directions.
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I reply first. The objection is only applicable to those Natives
who travel at a distance, not to those who remain in their native
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place, which are especially women, " or who remain near that
place.
I reply third. Some journeys are long and some are short.
Those that do not exceed 50 French leagues from the natal place
scarcely make any perceptible change in the influx of revolutions
erected for the natal place, unless from that a difference of ASC's
is produced that exceeds 2 degrees.74 But for revolutions begin-
ning with the Native further distant, especially [with the ASC] in a
different sign, they must be erected for the place where he is; and
thus the future accidents in that year may be known in advance for
him. And it must be noted that a revolution of the Sun, erected for
the place where the Native is, is valid for that whole year, however
far distant he may travel during it, for he carries along with him the
influx newly impressed at the beginning of that revolution, no dif-
ferently than that he carries with him throughout his whole life the
influx received at birth just as it was impressed on him. But the
72
In Morin's time, women generally stayed at home and did not travel nearly so
much as men
7?
About 125 statute miles, which would be equivalent to some 2.5 degrees of lon-
gitude at 45° N.
74
A French league was about 25 statute miles; hence. 50 leagues would be 125
miles. In the latitude of Paris, a degree of longitude is equal to about 49.6 miles, so
in the worst case—when the Native was due east or west of his birthplace at the
time of the revolution—the RAMC would be increased or decreased by 2o30' or
so. Again in the worst cas with 0 Capricorn on the Midheaven—such a change
in the RAMC would alter the longitude of the Ascendant by 5.4°. To keep it down
to the 2-degree maximum that Morin mentions, the maximum E or W distance
from the birthplace would have to be restricted to 46 mile or IS'/i French
leagues. But in an average case, this distance would be increased to about 100
miles or 40 French leagues.
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revolutions of the Moon will [also] be erected for the place in
which the Native will then be. For just as the revolutions of the Sun
are related to the nativity that they actuate, so the revolutions of the
Moon are related to the revolution of the Sun that they actuate sim-
ilarly. And hence, Astrology cannot be said to be unusable or unre-
liable. Especially because the Native can conjecture for individual
years, and all the more for individual months, where in fact he will
be at the time of the next following revolution of the Sun or of the
Moon. But whoever does otherwise and gives an opinion about the
Native's individual acts throughout the whole course of his life
just from his nativity and its directions, or even with the addition of
revolutions erected only for the place of birth, with that Native
then far away, will certainly be deceived in many things, and more
or less on account of the discrepancy in the revolutional figures
[erected] in different places. For the stars do not influence the Na-
tive except where he is. But let what has already been said about
this suffice.
Chapter 15.
Some Principal Rules of Prudence to be [Observed]
by an Astrologer in Bringing Forth a Useful
Opinion from the Stars.
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Therefore, it was not without justice that Cardan said after Book I,
Aphorism 25,75 "It is difficult to judge by those things that have
been written, still more difficult to hand down the art itself, and
most difficult of all to discover that same art," [and] he rightly con-
cludes, "Therefore, Astrology, as it is the most beautiful [art], is
also the most laborious and difficult."
75
Jerome Cardan, Aphorismorum astronomicorum segmenta septem, Opera
Omnia, p. 30.
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given the true time of the nativity, it is proper to pronounce with
certainty about the Native's body, his inclinations and intelligence,
but only probably and conjccturally about his actions and the
events of his fortune.
2. When you have been asked to erect and judge the figure of a
nativity for any person, inquire in connection with this about the
place of his nativity, his sex his race, whether he has both parents
or neither, or of what quality, whether he has brothers or sisters,
whether they are prior [to him] by birth or later, whether he has
married or has devoted himself to an ecclesiastical life, whether he
has children, what is his profession; then, what was his previous
status, and what is his present status. For, when you have been
made more certain about these things, you may know your subject
more perfectly and his disposition with regard to the Celestial in-
fluxes and forces for future accidents. For even though you can76
divine many of those things from the figure alone, nevertheless be-
cause so much will be inquired of the astrologer in the future, it is
preferable to avoid the labor to seek out the past and present things,
for the knowledge of these things is of no small use in [gaining] an
idea of future things. And in this conjectural science, bases of cer-
titude must be procured from every source. Add to these that,
given the time of a nativity, it must be rectified by past accidents.
3. Accidents [affecting] the body and the mind are much more
subject to Celestial causes than are accidents of chance. For this
depends both on the Native's own will and on the will and power
of another, then on laws and on other arrangements of inferior fate.
And consequently, in an accident of chance strongly signified also
by the radix, by a direction, and by a revolution, see what the Na-
tive's status is; for if he was free and a law unto himself, he will be
extrinsically capable [of experiencing] any kind of accident of
chance, cither good, or evil, but if indeed he was an exile, in prison,
cloistered, a servant, sick, [or] powerless, then the accidents of
chance that are incompatible with such a status are impeded, for so
76
Reading possis rather than pessis.
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long as that status or its cause lasts. But, with this taken away, also
without a direction, a change of fortune may occur. And so, those
who were oppressed by the tyrannical power of Cardinal Richelieu
and were sent into exile or into prison, by his death alone obtained
the end of his oppression, and they recovered their former honors.
But the servants of that same Cardinal lost their own honors in his
court. Wherefore, in predicting, the reason for the cause of the
good luck or bad luck for individuals must be taken into account,
otherwise an error can occur if the prognosis is only made from the
figure [made for] the Native.
4. Love and hate disturb the mind and the judgment of the As-
trologer in [making] his predictions, lest he should look at [sev-
eral] individual things and judge [them] impartially to be equal;
[when in fact] they act to lessen the maximum [effect] and some-
what augment the minimum [effect]. And so, the Astrologer
should concern himself solely with the love of truth, for then his
mind is more perfectly disposed to receiving and expounding that
divine motion and light that is required in [making] prophecies.
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same kind of death and at that same time? But perhaps if not all the
causes are present, there are some, a chart for this [person], a direc-
tion for that one, a revolution for another, and a transit for still an-
other, and that is a sufficient [cause] in a common or public danger;
which consequently he ought much more to guard against—
[namely] which one of the many causes occurring at the same time
will be the one harmful to himself; but it scarcely seems likely that
of the 100 men perishing by shipwreck at the same time in the
same ship, no one by his own chart is immune to submersion at that
very hour. Therefore, they are perishing from the malign fate of
sailors or of the army of the commander to whom they are subject;
but these are universal causes [inherent in] sailing and battle.
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looked at the celestial and terrestrial state of the Planets as well as
the Native's social status and his profession.
12. The Sun in the 1st, 10th, and 9th customarily confers great
glory and exceptional honors unless there is a great contrariety
elsewhere [in the chart]. When, therefore, you have seen it in those
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houses, do not rush to judgment, but pay attention to its Celestial
state and that of the ruler of the ASC, and if nothing opposes, pre-
dict outstanding things.
13. If you see three Planets in the fiery Triplicity and espe-
cially [if one of them is] the Sun, along with any of the superior
Planets, you can predict great glory and power for the Native if
their determination is in agreement, especially if his lineage is suit-
able [for such things]. But if you have found Mercury in the airy
Triplicity with three other Planets, you can safely promise sublim-
ity of talent.
14. Many Planets in the same house, especially with the Sun
or the Moon or with both, always presages something extraordi-
nary in excess according to the essential significations of that
house, as has happened to me.77
15. The more distinguished and heroic nativities are not just
from the influx of the benefics, but they are also mingled with the
strong influxes of the malefics, whence occur lawsuits, wars, then
victories, by which the nativities are rendered more illustrious.
77
Morin had four planets in the twelfth house.
78
He means a conjunction of Jupiter and Satum.
79
Reading domino 'ruler' father than dominio 'rulership'.
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France where commerce is the foulest of all dignities, the Nobles
are accustomed to destine their children to arms and also some-
times to the Church, only rarely to the Senate because of the im-
mense cost of those dignities. But the Senators commonly destine
their children to the Senate on account of bribes and hereditary
succession, frequently to the Church on account of licit dealings,
more rarely to arms. But the middle class and men of the lowest
rank are not content with their own lot, except for the more sim-
ple-minded ones, but the stronger they are in mind or talent, or the
more powerful in wealth, the more they court for success in arms,
in the Senate, in the Church, in the treasury, according to what tal-
ent is preponderant in each one. And so, the profession should not
always be declared from Planets in the 10th or from its rulers, but
the scheme of the significators of talent and customs must also be
especially considered, that is the Planets in the first or its rulers, es-
pecially if they were with the lights or the ruler of the 10th, for they
often determine natives to a [particular] profession like unto their
own nature. And not only do they select a profession for the Native
concordant with their own talent, but those parents are also careful
to observe very closely the talent of the children, so that they may
make them fortunate with a suitable profession. Therefore, in pre-
dicting the profession, there must be no little consideration of the
[Native's] talent, about which the Old [Astrologers] have said
nothing at all. And since the bodily constitution and the facial ap-
pearance are also due to the impression of the stars, something in-
deed little will come forth from that character to make known a
conjecture of the profession with greater certainty, for military
men and ecclesiastics, but especially monks and nuns, as very of-
ten they are distinguished by an appearance concordant with their
own profession.
18. When the Native and those around him are disposed con-
cordantly in inferior fate to some future effect, more can be pro-
duced from a weak celestial cause than from a strong cause, when
the Native is not disposed as above or is striving against it. And so,
in an intemperate youth, addicted to violent activities, in summer,
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and in war, a weak direction causing illness, can stir up a great and
dangerous illness, which a stronger direction will not stir up in an
intemperate elder person and one prudently taken precaution for
himself. But in an intemperate elder person and one exposed to
death, if any sort of direction causing illness occurs with a similar
revolution, do not promise [a continuation of] life or escape [from
illness], especially if he may be be treated by unskilled physicians.
For they emulate all the arts of Mercury before the rest, and they
deliver to Charon the souls of men expelled from their bodies by
[the physicians'] ignorance of medicine.80
80
Morin disagreed with some of the common practices of his fellow physicians,
such as the bleeding of patients.
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to matrimony or military dignity (even though in my own time I
have seen Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, and Abbots—for
shame!—also distinguished in military dignities in wars against
[fellow] Catholics), or by castration with respect to the begetting
of offspring, and such like. But to predict only doubtfully about
things that are signified obscurely, weakly, or with notably contra-
riety, or with a meager difference of contrarieties, and to explain
the contrarieties, probably nevertheless by concluding for the
stronger part because of its prominence.
22. When the causes are mutually contradictory for any acci-
dent, such as for death, whether it is for a future natural death or for
a violent one; for a dignity, whether it is for a future military or ec-
clesiastical one, and such like, pay attention to the strength of the
contrary causes; and do not base your conclusion on only one if the
causes are equally strong, as if they were in equilibrium. But con-
clude for both of them in succession, or for a mixture of them. Just
as in the death of Cardinal Richelieu, which was partly a violent
one because of the iron that was often applied, and partly natural,
from an unexpected fever, by which he was finally killed; the con-
trariety of which [arose] from Jupiter in the eighth, but in exile and
with a violent fixed star in square with the lights. And thus many
persons are moved forward in childhood to ecclesiastical dignities
by their parents who arc magnates, [but] who then, excited by the
stimulus of their own nature, having dismissed those dignities,
marry, and strive for judicial or military [dignities]. But where one
part is very weak, conclude only for the other.
81
This is a reference to the surgery that was performed on the Cardinal.
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own virtue. But whoever has done otherwise, will without doubt
be deceived many times.
24. Take care that you do not ever determine the precise time
of an accident from the radix, to be signified [solely] by a radical
direction and an annual revolution, without first considering the
annual and monthly directions, for it is from these [that you can]
determine the precise time; and without considering these, the
transits of the Planets, even concordant ones, often fail, but very
seldom with these.
25. For acquiring notable fame, and for raising on high the
glory of Astrology, you should have many selected nativities [in
your collection]; not only [those] of middle-class and work-
ing-class men, but especially of kings, princes, and magnates of
both sexes exactly erected and rectified. Then, when from a radical
figure, a radical direction, and a revolution of the Sun, you per-
ceive an important good or evil to be strongly signified, according
to the doctrine that we have set forth, without any contrariety that
is of any importance, that very good or evil may boldly be pre-
dicted for that year; either for one person only, whose figure is
available, or also for many others, especially courtiers, if the dan-
ger is absent. Indeed, why not [find] the very day of the accident,
investigated and determined from [the instructions in] Chapter 14,
for the greater glory. And you should not overlook such opportuni-
ties but rather you should diligently watch for them. I was able to
do this very often and very easily, and yet [sometimes] I didn't do
it, because, busied with other tasks, I did not take advantage of
those opportunities; and then, the opportunity having gone away, I
was often sorry, not so much because profit would come from it,
but because glory and praise of Astrology would come from it.
But, having considered it more carefully, it seemed to me that this
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The Latin has sipericulum absit 'if the danger is absent (or distant)', or 'ifthere
is no danger'. I am uncertain what Morin meant by these words. We could read
adsit instead of absit, and then it could be translated 'if the danger is there (or
present)'.
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had not happened without divine providence. For if I had been
present, and it was unquestionably as I had predicted, especially
about magnates of the court; not only would a more illustrious
fame have resulted, but over and above that I would have been
overwhelmed at Paris by commands and entreaties for erecting and
judging figures, so that I would never have been able to bring this
work to completion, which, so that I might finally complete it and
make it known to the public for the glory of GOD, I have very of-
ten declined any particular gain from the practice of Astrology,
even from many magnates of both sexes, on account of the lack of
time. But from the science already plainly set forth, a learned as-
trologer who follows my counsel in this part will frequently expe-
rience its outstanding utility with joy.
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not judged solely in accordance with one part.
27. Last and first, and therefore the greatest prudence of all, is
for an Astrologer to have remembered [that] prediction is a work
of future things, than which nothing in Nature is more divine, and
to search with his mind united to God and open with prayers that
He illuminate his mind for distinguishing [the facts] with truth. For
a mind sunk in passions and sins is blind, [and] so unsuited for this
wisdom, so that even a learned Astrologer may be deceived in the
easier judgments, and may often be made ridiculous; what, there-
fore, will he do in more difficult and obscure ones, in which many
[mutually-] contradictory things are signified to him?
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APPENDIX 1
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Scorpio. This is equivalent to 233° 19' or 233.3° to the nearest tenth
of a degree. Looking in the table, we find for 230° that the Equa-
tion of Time has the value -15.4, and for 235° the value is -14.5.
The difference is 0.9 and it is decreasing. We want 3.3/5 or 0.67 of
that difference; it will be 0.67 X 0.9 or 0.6., so we subtract that
amount from the figure for 230°, and we have -15.4 reduced by 0.6
or -14.8. That is the value in minutes and tenths of a minute. We
can round it off, and we will say that the approximate value of the
Equation of Time is 15 minutes. Then, if the stated time was 6:05
AM LAT, the equivalent LMT will be 6:05 AM -0:15 or 5:50 AM
LMT.
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Index of Persons
Abbots, 98
Alchabitius, astrologer, 28 n.34
Alexander I, Duke of Florence, 13 n.19
Arabian Astrologers, vii,26 n.33
Archbishops, 98
Asclation, astrologer, 3 n.6
Ascletarion, {see Asclation)
Astronomers, 36
Balbillus, Tiberius Claudius, astrologer, 3 n.6
Bishops, 98
Caesar, Gaius Julius, general and dictator, 36
Caligula, Emperor, 3
Campanus of Novara, mathematician, 28 n.34
Cardan, Jerome, 1-18,4 n.l 1,5 n.12,8 n.14,13 n.19,14 n,21,15
n.22, 28 n.34,81 n.66,90
Cardinals, 98
Catholics, 98
Ceresara, Paris, astrologer, 4
Chaldeans, 4 n.8,10
Charles V, Emperor, 46
Charon, mythological figure, 97
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, orator, statesman, and literatus, xi
Clement VII, Pope, 13 n.l9
Commissioners, 56
Conde, Louis II of Bourbon, Prince of, general, 100
Condrcn, Charles dc, theologian, 52,63,64
Courtiers, 99
Cramer, Frederick H., scholar, 3 n.6
Deacons, 52
Demon, 81
Devil, 41
Domitian, Emperor, 3
105
Ecclesiastics, 96
Egyptians, 4,10
Elder persons, 97
Famese, Alessandro, Cardinal (see Paul III)
Fortune-teller, unidentified, 68
Francesco Maria of Ferrara, astrologer, 4
Gaurico, Luca, Bishop, astrologer, 13 n.19
Giuntini, Francesco, astrologer, 1
God, 12,30,44,48,66,68,73,100,101
Good Angel, 68
Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, 36,49,61
Henry IV, King of France, 36
Hollandus, John Isaac, alchemist, 22
Huguetan, Jean Antoine, publisher, 3 n.5
Junctinus (see Giuntini, Francesco)
Kepler, John, astronomer, 37
Kings, 41,99
Lesdiguieres, Francois de Bonne, Duke of, Constable of France, 50
Lower-class men, 96
Magnates, 99
Menard, Pierre, publisher, 28 n.34
Middle-classmen, 41,96,99
Military men, 96
Modem Astrologers, vii,48
Monks, 96
Morhard, Ulrich, publisher, 18n.28
Morin, Jean Baptiste, viii-xi,5 n. 12,14 n.21,28 n.34,43 n.39,48
n.40,63 n.52,65, 66 n.54,55,67,69,73,95 n.77, 97 n.80
Naibod, Valentine, viii n.4,25 n.30
Nero, Emperor, 3
Nobles, 96
Nuns, 96
Offusius, Johannes Francus, physician, 58
Old Astrologers, 1,2,8,11,20,23,26,48,57,96
Old Chemists, 22
106
Origanus, David, mathematician, 7
Paul III, Pope, 4 n.10
Physicians, 97
Piccinino, Jacopo, condottiere, 4 n.9
Pitatus, Petrus, mathematician, 18
Placidus di Titus, astrologer, vm
Princes, 99
Priests, 52
Ptolemy, Claudius, 1-4,8-12
Rantzau, Henry von, Count, 4 n.9
Ratdolt, Er\\dir&,publisher, 85 n.70
Ravaud, Mzyc knXome, publisher, 3 n.5
Regiomontanus, astronomer, 7,85
Richelieu, Armand du Plessis dc. Cardinal, 51,56,62,63,92,98
Robson, Vivian, astrologer, viii n.4
Robbins, F.E., editor and translator, 2 n.3, 4 n.8,8 n.14
Schoner, Johann, astrologer, 1
Senators, 96
Simple-minded persons, 96
Stadius, Johann, mathematician, 4 n.10
Sub-Deacons, 52
Sulla {see Balbillus, Tiberius Claudius)
Superior Astrologers, 1
Thomdike, Lynn, historian, 4 n.9-10,18 n.28,58 n.48
Thrasybulus {see Thrasyllus, Tiberius Claudius)
Thrasyllus, Tiberius Claudius, astrologer, 3 n.6
Tiberius, Emperor, 3
Tronson, Louis, royal official, 51,64
Tucci, Tucci, astrologer, 4 n.10
Tyard, Pontus de, poet, 4 n. 10
Villennes, Nicolas de Bourdin, Marquess of, 28 n.34
Woman, unidentified acquaintance ofMorin, 53,66
Working-class men, 99
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