ΟΥΕΤΤΙΟΣ ΟΥΑΛΗΣ, ΑΝΘΟΛΟΓΙΑ Α′, μέρος α′

1. Περὶ τῆς τῶν ἀστέρων φύσεως

     Ὁ μὲν οὖν παντεπόπτης Ἥλιος, πυρώδης ὑπάρχων καὶ φῶς νοερόν, ψυχικῆς αἰσθήσεως ὄργανον, σημαίνει μὲν ἐπὶ γενέσεως βασιλείαν, ἡγεμονίαν, νοῦν, φρόνησιν, μορφήν, κίνησιν, ὕψος τύχης, θεῶν χρηματισμόν, κρίσιν, δημοσίωσιν, πρᾶξιν, προστασίαν ὀχλικήν, πατέρα, δεσπότην, φιλίαν, ἔνδοξα πρόσωπα, τιμὰς εἰκόνων ἀνδριάντων στεμμάτων, ἀρχιερατείας πατρίδος, ** τόπων· τῶν δὲ τοῦ σώματος μερῶν κυριεύει κεφαλῆς αἰσθητηρίων, ὀφθαλμοῦ δεξιοῦ, πλευρῶν καρδίας, πνευματικῆς ἤτοι αἰσθητικῆς κινήσεως, νεύρων· οὐσίας δὲ χρυσοῦ, καρπῶν δὲ σίτου καὶ κριθῶν· ἐστὶ δὲ τῆς ἡμερινῆς αἱρέσεως, τῇ μὲν χρόᾳ κίτρινος, τῇ δὲ γεύσει δριμύς.

     Ἡ δὲ Σελήνη γενομένη μὲν ἐκ τῆς ἀντανακλάσεως τοῦ ἡλιακοῦ φωτὸς καὶ νόθον φῶς κεκτημένη σημαίνει μὲν κατὰ γένεσιν ἀνθρώποις ζωήν, σῶμα, μητέρα, σύλληψιν, μορφήν, πρόσωπον, θέαν, συμβίωσιν ἤτοι γάμον νομικόν, τροφόν, ἀδελφὸν μείζονα, οἰκουρίαν, βασίλισσαν, δέσποιναν, χρήματα, τύχην, πόλιν, ὄχλων συστροφήν, λήμματα, ἀναλώματα, οἰκίαν, πλοῖα, ξενιτείας, πλάνας· οὐ γὰρ εὐθείας παρέχει διὰ τὸν Καρκίνον. Τῶν δὲ τοῦ σώματος μερῶν κυριεύει ὀφθαλμοῦ ἀριστεροῦ, στομάχου, μαζῶν, φύσης, σπληνῶν, μηνίγγων, μυελοῦ, ἔνθεν καὶ ὑδρωπικοὺς ἀποτελεῖ· οὐσίας δὲ ἀσήμου καὶ ὑέλου. Ἐστὶ δὲ τῆς νυκτερινῆς αἱρέσεως, τῇ μὲν χρόᾳ πράσινος, τῇ δὲ γεύσει ἁλμυρά.

     Ὁ δὲ τοῦ Κρόνου ποιεῖ μὲν τοὺς ὑπ’ αὐτὸν γεννωμένους μικρολόγους, βασκάνους, πολυμερίμνους, ἑαυτοὺς καταρρίπτοντας, μονοτρόπους, τυφώδεις, ἀποκρύπτοντας τὴν δολιότητα, αὐστηρούς, κατανενευκότας, ὑποκρινομένην τὴν ὅρασιν ἔχοντας, αὐχμηρούς, μελανοείμονας, προσαιτητικούς, καταστύγνους, κακοπαθεῖς, πλαστικούς, πάρυγρα πράσσοντας. Ποιεῖ δὲ καὶ ταπεινότητας, νωχελίας, ἀπραξίας, ἐγκοπὰς τῶν πρασσομένων, πολυχρονίους δίκας, ἀνασκευὰς πραγμάτων, κρυβάς, συνοχάς, δεσμά, πένθη, καταιτιασμούς, δάκρυα, ὀρφανίας αἰχμαλωσίας, ἐκθέσεις· γεηπόνους δὲ καὶ γεωργοὺς ποιεῖ διὰ τὸ τῆς γῆς αὐτὸν κυριεύειν, μισθωτάς τε κτημάτων καὶ τελώνας καὶ βιαίους πράξεις ἀποτελεῖ, δόξας περιποιεῖ μεγάλας καὶ τάξεις ἐπισήμους καὶ ἐπιτροπείας καὶ ἀλλοτρίων διοικητὰς καὶ ἀλλοτρίων τέκνων πατέρας. Οὐσίας δὲ κυριεύει μολύβδου, ξύλων καὶ λίθων· τῶν δὲ τοῦ σώματος μελῶν κυριεύει σκελῶν, γονάτων, νεύρων, ἰχώρων, φλέγματος, κύστεως, νεφρῶν καὶ τῶν ἐντὸς ἀποκρύφων. Σινῶν δὲ δηλωτικὸς ὅσα συνίσταται ἐκ ψύξεως καὶ ὑγρότητος, οἷον ὑδρωπικῶν, νεύρων ἀλγηδόνων, ποδάγρας, βηχός, δυσεντερίας, κηλῶν, σπασμῶν, παθῶν δὲ δαιμονισμοῦ, κιναιδίας, ἀκαθαρσίας. Ποιεῖ δὲ καὶ ἀγάμους καὶ χηρείας, ὀρφανίας, ἀτεκνίας. Τοὺς δὲ θανάτους ἀποτελεῖ βιαίους ἐν ὕδατι ἢ δι’ ἀγχόνης ἢ δεσμῶν ἢ δυσεντερίας. Ποιεῖ δὲ καὶ πτώσεις ἐπὶ στόμα. Ἐστὶ δὲ Νεμέσεως ἀστὴρ καὶ τῆς ἡμερινῆς αἱρέσεως, τῇ μὲν χρόᾳ καστορίζων, τῇ δὲ γεύσει στυφός.

     Ὁ δὲ τοῦ Διὸς σημαίνει τέκνωσιν, γονήν, ἐπιθυμίαν, ἔρωτας, συστάσεις, γνώσεις, φιλίας μεγάλων ἀνδρῶν, εὐπορίας, ὀψώνια, δωρεὰς μεγάλας, καρπῶν εὐφορίας, δικαιοσύνην, ἀρχάς, πολιτείας, δόξας, προστασίας ἱερῶν, μεσιτείας κρίσεων, πίστεις, κληρονομίας, ἀδελφότητα, κοινωνίαν, εἰσποίησιν, ἀγαθῶν βεβαίωσιν, κακῶν ἀπαλλαγήν, δεσμῶν λύσιν, ἐλευθερίαν, παρακαταθήκην, χρήματα, οἰκονομίας. Τῶν δὲ τοῦ σώματος μελῶν κυριεύει τῶν μὲν ἐκτὸς μηρῶν, ποδῶν, ὅθεν καὶ δρόμον ἐν ταῖς ἀθλήσεσι παρέχεται, τῶν δὲ ἐντὸς σπορᾶς, μήτρας, ἥπατος, δεξιῶν μερῶν. Οὐσίας δὲ κυριεύει κασσιτέρου. Ἐστὶ δὲ τῆς ἡμερινῆς αἱρέσεως, τῇ μὲν χρόᾳ φαιὸς καὶ μᾶλλον λευκός, τῇ δὲ γεύσει γλυκύς.

     Ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεος σημαίνει βίας, πολέμους, ἁρπαγάς, κραυγάς, ὕβρεις, μοιχείας, ἀφαιρέσεις ὑπαρχόντων, ἐκπτώσεις, φυγαδείας, γονέων ἀπαλλοτριώσεις, αἰχμαλωσίας, φθορὰς γυναικῶν, ἐμβρυοτομίας, συνηθείας, γάμους, ἀγαθῶν ἀφαιρέσεις, ψεύσματα, κενὰς ἐλπίδας, βιαίους κλοπάς, λῃστείας, συλήσεις, διακοπὰς φίλων, ὀργήν, μάχην, λοιδορίαν, ἔχθρας, δίκας· ἐπάγει δὲ καὶ φόνους βιαίους καὶ τομὰς καὶ αἱμαγμούς, πυρετῶν ἐπιφοράς, ἑλκώσεις, ἐξανθήματα, ἐμπρησμούς, δεσμά, βασάνους, ἀρρενότητα, ἐπιορκίαν, πλάνην, πρεσβείας ἐπὶ κακοῖς, καὶ διὰ πυρὸς ἢ διὰ σιδήρου πράσσοντας, χειροτέχνας, σκληρουργούς. Ποιεῖ δὲ καὶ ἀρχὰς στρατείας καὶ πολεμάρχας, ὁπλιστάς, ἡγεμονείας, κυνηγεσίας, θήρας, πτώσεις ἀπὸ ὕψους ἢ τετραπόδων, ἐπισκιασμούς, ἀποπληξίας. Τῶν δὲ τοῦ σώματος μερῶν κυριεύει κεφαλῆς, ἕδρας, μορίου, τῶν δὲ ἐντὸς αἵματος, σπερματικῶν πόρων, χολῆς, σκυβάλων ἐκκρίσεως, ὀπισθίων μερῶν, ἀναποδισμοῦ, ὑπτιασμοῦ. Ἔχει δὲ καὶ τὸ σκληρὸν καὶ ἀπότομον. Οὐσίας δὲ κυριεύει σιδήρου καὶ κόσμου ἱματίων διὰ τὸν Κριὸν καὶ οἴνου καὶ ὀσπρίων. Ἐστὶ δὲ τῆς νυκτερινῆς αἱρέσεως, τῇ μὲν χρόᾳ ἐρυθρός, τῇ δὲ γεύσει πικρός.

     Ἡ δὲ Ἀφροδίτη ἐστὶ μὲν ἐπιθυμία καὶ ἔρως, σημαίνει δὲ μητέρα καὶ τροφόν· ποιεῖ δὲ ἱερωσύνας, γυμνασιαρχίας, χρυσοφορίας, στεμματοφορίας, εὐφροσύνας, φιλίας, ὁμιλίας, ἐπικτήσεις ὑπαρχόντων, ἀγορασμοὺς κόσμου, συναλλαγὰς ἐπὶ τὸ ἀγαθόν, γάμους, τέχνας καθαρίους, εὐφωνίας, μουσουργίας, ἡδυμελείας, εὐμορφίας, ζωγραφίας, χρωμάτων κράσεις καὶ ποικιλτικήν, πορφυροβαφίαν καὶ μυρεψικήν, τούς τε τούτων προπάτορας ἢ καὶ κυρίους, τέχνας ἢ ἐμπορίας ἐργασίας σμαράγδου τε καὶ λιθείας, ἐλεφαντουργίας· οὓς δὲ χρυσονήτας, χρυσοκοσμήτας, κουρεῖς, φιλοκαθαρίους καὶ φιλοπαιγνίους αὐτοὺς ἀποτελεῖ παρὰ τὰ τῶν ζῳδίων αὐτῆς ὅρια καὶ τὰς μοίρας. Δίδωσι δὲ καὶ ἀγορανομίας, μέτρα, σταθμούς, ἐμπορίας, ἐργαστήρια, δόσεις, λήψεις, γέλωτα, ἱλαρίαν, κόσμον, θήρας ἐξ ὑγρῶν. Δίδωσι δὲ καὶ ἐκ βασιλικῶν γυναικῶν ἢ οἰκείων ὠφελίας καὶ δόξας περιποιεῖ περιττάς, συνεργήσασα ἀπὸ τοιούτων πραγμάτων. Τῶν δὲ τοῦ σώματος μελῶν κυριεύει τραχήλου, προσώπου, χειλέων, ὀσφρήσεως καὶ τῶν ἐμπροσθίων μερῶν ἀπὸ ποδὸς ἕως κεφαλῆς, συνουσίας μορίων, τῶν δὲ ἐντὸς πνεύμονος. Ἐστὶ δὲ καὶ ἑτέρας τροφῆς δεκτικὴ καὶ ἡδονῆς. Οὐσίας δὲ κυριεύει λίθων πολυτίμων καὶ ποικίλου καὶ κόσμου, καρπῶν δὲ ἐλαίας. Ἐστὶ δὲ τῆς νυκτερινῆς αἱρέσεως, τῇ μὲν χρόᾳ λευκή, τῇ δὲ γεύσει ἐλλιπωτάτη.

     Ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ σημαίνει παιδείαν, γράμματα, ἔλεγχον, λόγον, ἀδελφότητα, ἑρμηνείαν, κηρυκείαν, ἀριθμόν, ψῆφον, γεωμετρίαν, ἐμπορίαν, νεότητα, παίγνια, κλοπήν, κοινότητα, ἀγγελίαν, ὑπηρεσίαν, κέρδος, εὑρέματα, ἀκολουθίαν, ἄθλησιν, πάλην, φωνασκίαν, σφραγίζεσθαι, ἐπιστέλλειν, ἱστάναι, κρέμασθαι, δοκιμάζειν, ἀκούειν, ποικιλεύεσθαι. Ἐστὶ δὲ δοτὴρ καὶ διανοίας καὶ φρονήσεως, κύριος ἀδελφῶν καὶ τέκνων νεωτέρων καὶ πάσης ἀγοραίου καὶ τραπεζιτικῆς ποιητής· κυρίως δὲ ποιεῖ ἱεροτεύκτας, πλάστας, ἀγαλματογλύφους, ἰατρούς, γραμματικούς, νομικούς, ῥήτορας, φιλοσόφους, ἀρχιτέκτονας, μουσικούς, μάντεις, θύτας, ὀρνεοσκόπους, ὀνειροκρίτας, πλοκεῖς, ὑφάντας, μεθοδικοὺς καὶ τοὺς ἐπὶ πολεμικῶν ἢ στρατηγικῶν ἔργων προεστῶτας καὶ ἐπιχειροῦντας τὰ παράδοξα καὶ μεθοδικὰ διὰ ψήφων ἢ παραλογισμῶν, ἰσχυροπαίκτας ἢ μιμῳδούς, ἀπὸ ἐπιδείξεως τὸν βίον ποριζομένους, ἔτι δὲ πλάνης καὶ ἀλητείας καὶ ἀκαταστασίας. Οὓς δὲ τῶν οὐρανίων ἴδριας ἢ καὶ ἐρευνητὰς γινομένους, διὰ τέρψεως καὶ εὐθυμίας τὸ θαυμαστὸν ἔργον ἐνδοξοκοποῦντας τῆς ὠφελείας χάριν.

     Οὗτος γὰρ ὁ ἀστὴρ πολλῆς μεθόδου δύναμιν ἔχων κατὰ τὰς τῶν ζῳδίων ἐναλλαγὰς ἢ καὶ τὰς τῶν ἀστέρων συμπλοκὰς ἑτεροσχήμονας παρέχει πράξεις, οἷς μὲν εἴδησιν, οἷς δὲ προπωλήν, τισὶ δὲ ὑπηρεσίαν, τοῖς δ’ αὖ ἐμπορίαν ἢ διδασκαλίαν περιποιῶν, τισὶ δὲ καὶ γεωργίας ἢ νεωκορίας ἢ δημοσίας ἀρχάς, οἷς δ’ αὖ αὐθέντησιν ἢ προμίσθωσιν ἢ ἐργολαβίαν ἢ ἐπίδειξιν ἢ ῥυθμικὴν ἢ προεστάναι λειτουργίας ἢ καὶ δορυφορίας ἢ λινοστολίας θεῶν ἢ δυναστῶν τῦφον περιτιθείς. Πάντας ἀνωμάλους ταῖς τύχαις καὶ πολυπερισπάστους πρὸς τὰ τέλη ποιήσει, πλέον δὲ τοὺς ἐπὶ κακοποιῶν ζῳδίων ἢ μοίρας αὐτῶν ἔχοντας τὸν ἀστέρα τοῦτον περιτρέπεσθαι πρὸς τὸ χεῖρον ἔτι ποιήσει. Τῶν δὲ τοῦ σώματος μερῶν κυριεύει χειρῶν, ὤμων, δακτύλων, ἄρθρων, κοιλίας, ἀκοῆς, ἀρτηρίας, ἐντέρων, γλώσσης. Οὐσίας δὲ κυριεύει χαλκοῦ καὶ νομίσματος παντός, δόσεως λήψεως· κοινὸς γὰρ ὁ θεός.

     Οἱ μὲν οὖν ἀγαθοποιοὶ ἐπιτόπως καὶ καλῶς κείμενοι τὰ ἴδια ἀποτελοῦσι κατά τε τὴν ἰδίαν καὶ τὴν τοῦ ζῳδίου φύσιν, συνεπικιρναμένης τῆς ἑκάστου ἀστέρος μαρτυρίας ἢ συμπαρουσίας. Παραπεπτωκότες δὲ ἐναντιωμάτων εἰσὶ δηλωτικοί· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ οἱ κακοποιοὶ χρηματίζοντες ἐπιτόπως καὶ τῆς αἱρέσεως ἀγαθῶν δοτῆρες καὶ μειζόνων τάξεων καὶ προκοπῶν δηλωτικοί, ἀχρημάτιστοι δὲ ἐκπτώσεις καὶ καταιτιασμοὺς ἀποτελοῦσι.

     Ἕκαστος δὲ ἀστὴρ ἰδίας ἐστὶ κύριος πρὸς τὸν κόσμον οὐσίας πρός τε συμπάθειαν καὶ ἀντιπάθειαν καὶ ἀλληλοπάθειαν ταῖς τε συγκρατικαῖς ἀλλήλων ὅτε κατὰ συναφὴν καὶ ἀπόρροιαν καὶ καθυπερτέρησιν ἢ καὶ ἐμπερίσχεσιν καὶ δορυφορίαν καὶ ἀκτινοβολίαν καὶ προσφορίαν τῶν δεσποτῶν, Σελήνη μὲν προνοίας, Ἥλιος δὲ αὐγῆς, ἀγνοίας δὲ καὶ ἀνάγκης Κρόνος, δόξης δὲ καὶ στεμμάτων καὶ προθυμίας Ζεὺς κύριος καθέστηκε, πράξεως δὲ καὶ μόχθου ὁ τοῦ Ἄρεως, ἔρωτος δὲ καὶ ἐπιθυμίας καὶ κάλλους ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης, νόμου δὲ καὶ συνηθείας καὶ πίστεως ὁ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ. Οἵτινες ἀστέρες τῶν ἰδίων εἰσὶν ἀποτελεσμάτων. Τούτων δὲ οὕτως διατεταγμένων λεκτέον καὶ περὶ τῆς τῶν ιβ′ ζῳδίων φύσεως.

1. Of the Nature of the Planets

     The all-seeing sun, nature’s fire and intellectual light, the organ of mental perception, indicates in the geniture kingship, leadership by authority, intellect, prudence, beauty, motion, loftiness of fortune, the ordinance of the gods, judgement, public reputation, action, authority over the masses, the father, the master, friendship, noble personages, honours consisting of icons, statues, and wreaths, high priesthood, ruling over one’s country and over other places. Of the parts of the body, the sun rules the head; of the sense organs, the right eye; of the trunk, the heart; of the spiritual (i. e. the perceptive) faculties, the nerves. Of materials, gold; of fruits, wheat and barley. It is of the day sect, yellow in colour, and bitter in taste.

     The moon, lit by the reflection of the sun’s light and possessing a borrowed light, indicates in the geniture men’s life, body, the mother, conception, beauty, face, sight, living together (i. e. legitimate marriage), nurture, the older brother, housekeeping, the queen, the mistress of the house, possessions, fortune, the city, the assembly of the people, gains, expenses, the household, voyages, foreign travel, and wanderings (it does not provide straight pathways because of Cancer). Of the parts of the body, the moon rules the left eye, the stomach, the breasts, the breath, the spleen, the dura mater, the marrow (as a result it causes dropsy/moist syndromes). Of materials, silver and glass. It is of the night sect, green in colour, and salty in taste.

     Saturn makes those born under him petty, malignant, care-worn, self-depreciating, solitary, deceitful, secretive in their trickery, strict, downcast, with a hypocritical air, squalid, black-clad, importunate, sad-looking, miserable, with a nautical bent, plying waterside trades. Saturn also causes abasement, sluggishness, unemployment, obstacles in business, interminable lawsuits, subversion of business, secrets, imprisonment, chains, griefs, accusations, tears, bereavement, capture, exposures of children. Saturn makes those who till the earth and farmers because of its rule over the land, and it causes men to be renters of property, tax farmers, and violent in action. It puts into one’s hands great ranks and distinguished positions, supervisions, management of others’ property, and the fathership of others’ children. Of materials, it rules lead, wood, and stone. Of the limbs of the body, it rules the legs, the knees, the tendons, the lymph, the phlegm, the bladder, the kidneys, and the internal, hidden organs. Saturn is indicative of injuries arising from cold and moisture, such as dropsy, neuralgia, gout, cough, dysentery, hernia, spasms. It is indicative of these diseases: possession , homosexuality , and depravity. Saturn makes bachelors and widows, bereavements, and childlessness. It causes violent deaths by water, strangulation, imprisonment, or dysentery, and also causes falling on the face. It is the star of Nemesis and of the day sect, like castor in colour, and astringent in taste.

     Jupiter indicates attaining children, the family lineage, desire, loves, political meetings or ties , acquaintances, friendships with great men, prosperity, salaries, great gifts, an abundance of crops, justice, offices, officeholding, ranks, authority over temples, arbitrations, trusts, inheritances, brotherhood, fellowship, beneficence, the secure possession of goods, relief from troubles, release from bonds, freedom, deposits in trust, money, stewardships, Of the external body parts it rules the thighs and the feet (consequently in the games Jupiter governs the race). Of the internal parts it rules the sperm, the uterus, the liver, the parts of the right side. Of materials, it rules tin. It is of the day sect, grey verging on white in colour, and sweet in taste.

     Mars indicates force, wars, plunderings, screams, violence, adulteries, the loss of property, banishment, exile, alienation from parents, capture, the deaths of wives, abortions, love affairs, marriages, the loss of goods, lies, vain hopes, strong-armed robbery, banditry, looting, quarrels among friends, anger, fighting, reviling, enmities, lawsuits. Mars brings violent killings, slashings and bloodshed, attacks of fever, ulceration, boils, setting on fire, chains, torture, masculinity, false oaths, wandering, envoys under difficult circumstances, actions involving fire or iron, craftwork, masonry. In addition Mars causes commandings of armies, campaigns and leadership, infantrymen, governorships, hunting, wild game, falls from heights or from four-legged animals, weak vision, strokes. Of the body parts, Mars rules the head, the seat, the genitals; of the internal parts, the blood, the sperm ducts, the bile, the elimination of excrement, the parts in the rear, the back, and the underside. It controls the hard and the abrupt. Of materials, it rules iron, decoration of clothing (because of Aries), as well as wine and beans. It is of the night sect, red in colour, and acid (bitter) in taste.

     Venus is desire and love. It indicates the mother and the nursemaid . It makes priesthoods, school superintendencies, high offices with the right to wear a gold ring or a crown, cheerfulness, friendship, companionship, the acquisition of property, the purchase of ornaments, agreements on favorable terms, marriages, pure trades, fine voices, a taste for music, sweet singing, beauty, painting, mixing of colors both in embroidery, dyeing, and unguent making. Venus makes the inventors and masters of these crafts, as well as craftsmanship or trade, and work in emeralds, precious stones, and ivory. Within its terms and degrees in the zodiac, Venus causes men to be gold-spinners, gold workers, barbers, and people fond of cleanliness and toys. It bestows the office of market clerk , the supervision of weights and measures, markets, factories, the giving and receiving of gifts, laughter, good cheer, ornamentation, and hunting in moist places. Venus gives benefits from royal women or from one’s own, and it brings very high rank when it operates in such affairs, Of the parts of the body, it rules the neck, the face, the lips, the sense of smell, the front parts from the feet to the head, the parts of intercourse; of the inner parts it rules the lungs. It is a recipient of nourishment or support from others and of pleasure. Of materials it rules precious stones and fancy jewelry. Of fruits it rules the olive. It is of the night sect, white in colour, and very greasy in taste.

     Mercury indicates education, letters, disputation, reasoning, brotherhood, interpretation, the office or mission of heralds, number, accounts, geometry, markets, youth, games, theft, association, communication and bearing of messages, service, gain, discoveries and unexpected findings, obedience, sport, wrestling, declamation, certification, supervision, weighing and measuring, the testing of coinage, hearing, versatility. It is the bestower of forethought and prudence, the lord of brothers and of younger children, and the creator of all marketing and banking. In its own character, it makes temple builders, modelers, sculptors, doctors, secretaries, legal advisors, orators, philosophers, architects, musicians, diviners, sacrificers, augurs, dream interpreters, braiders, weavers, systematic physicians, those in charge of war and strategy, and those undertaking any unusual, systematic work in accounting or in cheating by false reasoning. Mercury makes weight lifters and mimes, those making their livelihood with displays of skill, and also with wandering, vagabondage, unsettledness. It also rules those skilled interpreters of the heavens, those who by using pleasure or winning charm, earn fame for their amazing feats – all for the sake of gain.

     Because this planet’s power goes in many directions, depending on the changes among the zodiacal signs and the connections of the planets, and yields quite varied results: knowledge for some, selling for others, service for others, trade or teaching for others, farming or temple service or public office for still others. To some it grants authority, rentals, labour contracting, rhythmical performance, the display of public service, the acquisition of personal guards, or the right of wearing temple-linen, robed in the luxury appropriate to gods or rulers. As for the end result – Mercury will make everything capricious in outcome and quite disturbed. Even more, it causes those having this planet in malefic signs or degrees to become even worse. Of the parts of the body, it rules the hands, the shoulders, the fingers, the joints, the abdomen, the sense of hearing, the arteries, the intestines, the tongue. Of materials, it rules copper and all coins used in buying and selling – for the god makes exchanges. It is blue in colour, and sharp in taste.

     The beneficent planets which are appropriately and favorably situated bring about their proper effects according to their own nature and the nature of their sign, with the aspects and conjunctions of each planet being blended. If however they are unfavorably situated, they are indicative of reversals. In the same way even the maleficent planets, when they are operative in appropriate places in their own sect, are bestowers of good and indicative of the greatest positions and success; when they are inoperative, they bring about disasters and accusations.

     Each planet is the ruler of its own substance in the universe with reference to the other planets’s sympathy or antipathy or mutual influence. Their aspects are tempered according to their applications or separations, their overcomings or enclosings, their attendance, their casting rays, or the approach of their lords. The moon becomes the ruler of foresight, the sun the ruler of light, Saturn the ruler of ignorance and necessity, Jupiter the ruler of rank, crowns and zeal. Mars becomes the ruler of action and effort, Venus the ruler of love, desire, and beauty, Mercury the ruler of law, friendship, and trust. These planets have their own effects. Now that these matters have been settled, the nature of the twelve signs will be discussed.

2. Περὶ τῆς τῶν ιβ′ ζῳδίων φύσεως

-Κριός

     Κριός ἐστιν οἶκος Ἄρεως, ζῴδιον ἀρρενικόν, τροπικόν, χερσαῖον, ἡγεμονικόν, πυρῶδες, ἐλεύθερον, ἀνωφερές, ἡμίφωνον, ἀγαθόν, εὐμετάβολον, διοικικόν, δημόσιον, πολιτικόν, ὀλιγόγονον, λατρῶδες, κόσμου μεσουράνημα καὶ δόξης αἴτιον, δίχρωμον, ἐπεὶ ὁ Ἥλιος καὶ ἡ Σελήνη ποιοῦσιν ἀλφοὺς λιχῆνες· ἐστὶ δὲ καὶ ἀσύνδετον, ἐκλειπτικόν. Ἔσονται οὖν οἱ γεννώμενοι ἐν τούτῳ κατὰ τὸν οἰκοδεσποτικὸν λόγον λαμπροί, ἐπίσημοι, ἐπιτακτικοί, δίκαιοι, μισοπόνηροι, ἐλεύθεροι, ἡγεμονικοί, θρασεῖς τῇ γνώμῃ, ἀλαζόνες, μεγαλόψυχοι, ἄστατοι, ἀνώμαλοι, ὑψαύχενες, μετέωροι, ἀπειλητικοί, ταχέως μεταβαλλόμενοι, εὔποροι· τῶν δὲ οἰκοδεσποτῶν καλῶς πεπτωκότων καὶ ὑπὸ ἀγαθοποιοῦ μαρτυρουμένων γίνονται βασιλικοί, ἐξουσιαστικοί, ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου παρρησίαν ἔχοντες.

     Κριός ἐστι τῇ φύσει ὑδατώδης, βροντώδης, χαλαζώδης· κατὰ μέρος δὲ τὰ πρῶτα μέχρι τοῦ ἰσημερινοῦ ὀμβρώδη, χαλαζώδη, ἀνεμώδη, φθαρτικά· τὰ δὲ μέσα μέχρι ιε′ μοίρας εὔκρατα καὶ πολύσπορα, τὰ δὲ ἑπόμενα καυσώδη καὶ λοιμικὰ μάλιστα τετραπόδων· ἔχει δὲ λαμπροὺς ἀστέρας τὸ ζῴδιον ιθ′, καὶ κατὰ τῆς ζώνης λαμπροὺς ιγ′, λαμπροὺς δὲ κδ′, σκιεροὺς δὲ κζ′, καὶ ὑπολάμπρους κη′, ἀμαυροὺς δὲ μη′· συναναφέρεται δὲ αὐτῷ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρκτῴων τὰ πρῶτα Περσέως, τὰ λειπόμενα καὶ τὰ ἀριστερὰ τοῦ Ἡνιόχου, νοτόθεν δὲ τοῦ Κήτους ἡ λοφιὰ καὶ ἡ οὐρά, βορρόθεν δὲ δύνουσιν Ἀρκτοφύλακος πόδες, νοτόθεν δὲ τοῦ Θηρίου τὸ λειπόμενον.

     Ἐστὶ δὲ Κριῷ ὑποτεταγμένα κλίματα τάδε· ἐμπρόσθια, Βαβυλωνία· κεφαλή, Ἐλυμαΐς· δεξιά, Περσίς· ἀριστερά, Συρία κοίλη καὶ οἱ συνεχεῖς τόποι· κατὰ τὴν ἐπιστροφὴν τοῦ προσώπου, Βαβυλωνία· κατὰ τὸ στῆθος Ἀρμενία· ὑπὸ τοὺς ὤμους Θρᾴκη· κατὰ τὴν κοιλίαν Καππαδοκία καὶ Σουσία καὶ Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα καὶ ἡ Ῥυπαρά· ὀπίσθια, Αἴγυπτος καὶ ὁ Περσικὸς ὠκεανός.

2. Of the Nature of the Twelve Zodiacal Signs

-Aries

     Aries is the house of Mars, a masculine sign, tropical , terrestrial, governing, fiery, free, upward-trending, semi-vocal, noble, changeable, procuratorial, public, civic, with few offspring, servile, the Midheaven of the universe and the cause of rank, two-coloured (since the sun and the moon make white lichen). It is also unaspected and ecliptic. Depending on its relationship with the houselord, men born under this sign will be brilliant, distinguished, authoritarian, just, hating the wicked, free, governing, bold in thought, boastful, great-hearted, restless, unstable, haughty, inflated, intimidating, quickly changing, wealthy. When the houselords are favourably situated and in aspect with beneficents, kings and powerful men are born, those having the say over life and death.

     Aries is by nature watery, with thunder and hail. From its first degree to the equinox , it is stormy, full of hail, windy, destructive. The middle degrees up to 15° are mild and fruitful; the following degrees are hot and cause plagues of animals. This sign has 19 bright stars. On the belt are 14 bright stars, 27 dim, 28 somewhat bright, and 48 faint. The constellations that rise at the same time as Aries are (in the north) the first part of Perseus, and the rear and the left parts of Auriga, and (in the south) the fin and tail of Cetus. When Aries is rising, the feet of Bootes in the north and the hind parts of Lupus in the south are setting.

     The following zones are subject to Aries: to the front parts, Babylon; to the head, Elymais; to the right side, Persis; to the left, Palestine and the neighboring areas; to the turn of its head, abylonia; to its breast, Armenia; to its shoulders, Thrace; to its belly, Cappadocia, Susa, the Red Sea and the Dead Sea; to its hind parts, Egypt and the Indian Ocean.

-Ταῦρος

     Ταῦρός ἐστι θηλυκόν, στερεόν, κείμενον ἐν τῇ ἐαρινῇ τροπῇ, ὀστῶδες, μελοκοπούμενον, ἀνατέλλον ἐκ τῶν ὀπισθίων, δῦνον δὲ ὀρθόν· οὗτος πλεῖστον μέρος ἐν τῷ ἀφανεῖ κόσμῳ κεῖται. Ἐστὶ δὲ τὸ ζῴδιον κόσμου περιποιητικόν, γεῶδες, χωρικόν, γεωργικόν, δουλελεύθερον, κατωφερές, ὀλιγόγονον, ἡμίφωνον καὶ ἄφωνον, ἀγαθόν, ἀμετάβολον, ἐργαστικόν, ἀτελές, σημαῖνον περὶ θεμελίων, κτημάτων. Κεῖται δὲ ὁ ἐκλειπτικὸς τόπος ἐν τῷ βορρᾷ κατὰ τὸ ὕψος ἀνατέλλων. Οἱ δὲ γεννώμενοι ἔσονται ἀγαθοί, ἐργαστηριακοί, πονικοί, συντηρητικοί, φιλήδονοι, φιλόμουσοι, εὐμετάδοτοι, τινὲς δὲ γεηπόνοι, καταφυτεύοντες, κτίζοντες· ἐὰν δέ πως καὶ ἀγαθοποιοὶ προσνεύσωσι τῷ τόπῳ ἢ καὶ ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης καλῶς πέσῃ, γίνονται ἀρχιερεῖς, γυμνασίαρχοι, στεμμάτων καὶ πορφύρας καταξιούμενοι εἰκόνων τε καὶ ἀνδριάντων, ἱερῶν προεστῶτες, ἐπίσημοι, λαμπροί.

     Ἐστὶ δὲ εὐδιεινόν. Τὰ δὲ κατὰ μέρος ἀπὸ μοίρας α′ ἕως ε′ τὸν περὶ τὰς Πλειάδας τόπον ἐπέχει εὐτελῆ καὶ φθαρτικόν, λοιμικόν, βροντοποιόν, σεισμώδη, κεραυνοποιόν, ἀστραπὰς γεννῶντα· αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς β′ μοῖραι πυρώδεις, ὁμιχλώδεις. Τὰ δὲ δεξιὰ πρὸς τῷ Ἡνιόχῳ εὔκρατα, ψυχικά. Τὰ δὲ ἀριστερὰ εὐτελῆ, κινητικά, ποτὲ δὲ καὶ ψυχοποιά, ποτὲ δὲ καυματώδη. Ἡ δὲ κεφαλὴ μέχρι μοίρας κγ′ ἐν ἀέρι εὐκράτῳ, λοιμοποιὸς δὲ καὶ φθαρτικὴ ζῴων· τὰ δὲ ἐχόμενα φθαρτικά, εὐτελῆ, λοιμώδη. Ἀστέρας δὲ ἔχει κζ′, βορρόθεν συνανατέλλοντα τὰ λειπόμενα τοῦ Ἡνιόχου, τὰ λοιπὰ νοτόθεν τοῦ Κήτους καὶ τὰ πρῶτα τοῦ Ποταμοῦ. Ἀφροδίτης, Σελήνης, Δήμητρος, ἔτι Ἄρεως, Ἑρμοῦ. Βορρόθεν δύνει Ἀρκτοφύλαξ ἄχρι τῆς ζώνης καὶ αἱ κνῆμαι τοῦ Ὀφιούχου ἄχρι τῶν γονάτων, νοτόθεν δὲ συνανατέλλει ὁ Ὠρίων ξίφος ἔχων ἐν τῇ δεξιᾷ χειρὶ ἀνατετακώς, τῇ εὐωνύμῳ κατέχει τὸ λεγόμενον Κηρύκειον, ἐζωσμένος κατὰ μέσον τοῦ σώματος.

     Ἐστὶ δὲ τὰ ὑποτεταγμένα κλίματα· κατὰ τὴν κεφαλὴν Μηδία καὶ οἱ συνεχεῖς τόποι· τῷ δὲ στήθει Βαβυλωνία· τὰ πρὸς τῷ Ἡνιόχῳ δεξιά, Σκυθία· ἡ Πλειάς, ἡ Κύπρος· τὰ ἀριστερά, Ἀραβία καὶ οἱ πέριξ τόποι· κατὰ τοὺς ὤμους Περσὶς καὶ τὰ Καυκάσια ὄρη, ὑπὸ τὸ κύρτωμα ἄρχονται· ὑπὸ τὴν ὀσφὺν Αἰθιοπία· ὑπὸ τὸ μέτωπον Ἐλυμαΐς· ὑπὸ τὰ κέρατα Καρχηδονία· μέσοις μέρεσιν Ἀρμενία, Ἰνδική, Γερμανία.

-Taurus

     Taurus is feminine, solid, lying in the sun’s spring tropic, full of bones, with some limbs missing, rising backwards, setting straight down. This sign lies for the most part in the invisible sky. This sign is productive of order, earthy, rustic, related to farming, a freedman, downward-trending, with few offspring, semi-vocal and mute, noble, invariable, energetic, unfinished, indicative of estates and possessions. The ecliptic lies to the north, rising in line with its Taurus’ highest point. Men born under this sign are noble, energetic, toilsome, good at keeping things, pleasure-loving, music-loving, generous. Some are laborers, propagators, planters. If benefics incline toward this place or if the houseruler is favorably situated, men become priests and school superintendants, as well as those judged worthy of crowns and of the purple, of monuments and statues; also supervisors of temples and distinguished and brilliant individuals.

     It is calm. From its first degree to 6° (the section of the Pleiades) it is worthless, even destructive, disease-producing, thundering, causing earthquakes and lightning flashes. The next two degrees are fiery and smokey. The right part (toward Auriga) is temperate and cool. The left parts are worthless and changeable, sometimes chilling, at other times heating. The head (to 23°) is in a temperate atmosphere, but it causes disease and death for living things. The rest is destructive, worthless, disease-ridden. It has 27 stars. The constellations that rise with it are (in the north) the rear of Auriga and (in the south) the rear of Cetus and the first section of Eridanus. The gods Venus, Selene, Ceres, Vesta, Mars, and Mercury (are associated with it). The constellations that set when Taurus is rising are in the north Bootes up to the belt and the leg of Ophiouchus up to the knees. In the south Orion rises with Taurus; he is belted around the waist, extends his sword in his right hand, and holds in his left hand the so-called caduceus.

     The following zones are subject to Taurus: to its head, Media and the adjoining areas; to its breast, Babylon; to the right side toward Auriga, Scythia; to the Pleiades, Cyprus; to the left side, Arabia and the surrounding areas; to its shoulders, Persis and the Caucasus mountains; to its truncated portion, Sarmatia; to its loin, Africa; to its torso, Elymais; to its horns, Carthage; to its midparts, Armenia, India, Germany.

-Δίδυμοι

     Δίδυμοί εἰσιν ἀρσενικοί, δίσωμοι, εὔφωνοι, οἶκος Ἑρμοῦ, ἀνωφερεῖς, ἀερώδεις, θηλυνόμενοι, δουλελεύθεροι, στειρώδεις, δημόσιοι. Οἱ οὖν γεννώμενοι γίνονται φιλόλογοι, γράμματα καὶ παιδείαν ἀσκοῦντες, ποιητικοί, φιλόμουσοι, φώνασκοι, οἰκονομικοί, πίστεις ἀναδεχόμενοι· γίνονται δὲ καὶ ἑρμηνεῖς, ἐμπορικοί, κριτικοὶ κακῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν, φρόνιμοι, περίεργοι, ἀποκρύφων μύσται. Καὶ ὅσα ποτὲ ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης εἴωθεν ἀποτελεῖν κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν φύσιν ἤτοι ἀγαθὰ ἢ φαῦλα ἢ ἥττονα ἢ μείζονα, ταῦτα καὶ ἓν ἕκαστον τῶν ζῳδίων ἀποτελέσει κατὰ τὴν τοῦ οἰκοδεσπότου σχηματογραφίαν χρηματιστικὴν ἢ ἀχρημάτιστον, ἵνα μὴ δοκῶμεν τὰ αὐτὰ γράφειν.

     Εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ εὐδιεινοί· κατὰ μέρος δὲ αἱ γ′ μοῖραι εὐτελεῖς, φθαρτικαί· ἀπὸ γ′ ἕως ζ′, εὔυγρα· εὐκρασία δέ ἐστιν ἀπὸ μοίρας ζ′ ἕως ιε′· τὰ νότια εὔυγρα· τὰ δὲ ἔσχατα μεμιγμένα· ἀστέρας δὲ ἔχει κα′. Κεῖται δὲ ἐν ἀνέμῳ λιβί. Πρόσκειται δὲ αὐτῷ κατὰ τὰ Σφαιρικὰ κατά τι μέρος τῶν νοτίων ψαύουσα οὐρὰ Κήτους, ἐκ δὲ τῶν κατὰ τὸν νότιον τυγχανόντων μερῶν ἔσω τῆς νοτίου γραμμῆς ἐστι Σάτυρος ψαύων τῷ ῥοπάλῳ, ἐκ δὲ τῶν βορείων αὐτοῦ μερῶν ὀπισθοφανὴς ὑπάρχει, οὗ ἡ δορά. Εἰς τὸ νότιον μέρος ἡ Λύρα κεῖται. Ἐπιβέβηκε δὲ αὐτὸς τῇ νοτίῳ γραμμῇ, μέσος ὢν βορρᾶ τε καὶ νότου. Ὑπὸ δὲ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς νοτίου γραμμῆς κατὰ τὸν ἡμῖν ἐμφανῆ κόσμον ἐστὶν ὁ λεγόμενος Κύων πρὸ τοῦ δεξιοῦ ποδός, τέμνεται δὲ ἀπὸ νοτίου πόλου ἀπὸ τῶν ὀπισθίων ἄχρι τῆς κεφαλῆς, συναναβαίνων τῷ πόλῳ ὀρθῶς. Παρανατέλλει δὲ νοτόθεν καὶ τοῦ Ποταμοῦ τὸ λοιπὸν καὶ Ὠρίων. Σύνεισι δὲ αὐτοῖς θεοὶ Ἀπόλλων, Ἡρακλῆς, Ἥφαιστος, Ἥρα, Κρόνος· βορρόθεν δὲ δύνει Ἀρκτοφύλαξ, Ὀφιοῦχος πλὴν τῆς κεφαλῆς καὶ τοῦ Στεφάνου τὸ ἥμισυ.

     Ἐστὶ δὲ Διδύμοις ὑποτεταγμένα κλίματα τάδε· ἐμπρόσθια, Ἰνδικὴ καὶ οἱ συνεχεῖς τόποι καὶ Κελτική· στῆθος, Κιλικία, Γαλατία, Θρᾴκη καὶ ἡ Βοιωτία. Μέσα, Αἴγυπτος, Λιβύη, Ῥωμαῖοι, Ἀραβία, Συρία.

-Gemini

     Gemini is male, bicorporeal, articulate, the house of Mercury, upward-trending, celestial (airy), feminizing, a freedman, sterile, public. Under it are born scholars, those working in education and letters, poets, music lovers, declaimers, stewards, those who receive trusts; also translators, merchants, judges of good and evil, sensible people, practitioners of curious (inquisitive or sacred) arts, initiates (mysts) of hidden knowledge. In general, whatever the houseruler usually produces according to its own nature, whether good or bad, greater or lesser, this it produces in each of the signs according to the operative or inoperative configuration of the houseruler. (I mention this so that we will not seem to be constantly writing the same thing.)

     This sign is calm, Its first 3° are worthless and destructive; from 3° to 7° it is well-watered; good weather from 7° to 15°. The southern parts are well-watered. The last degrees are a combination of traits. It has 21 stars. It lies toward the west wind. According to the Sphaerica, the tail of Cetus lies touching Gemini at one of its southern points; also at its southern point, on the due-south line, is the Satyr touching it with its club, and it rises after the north part of Satyr, where the pelt is. Lyra lies to the south; it lies on the due-south line, being midway between north and south. Under Gemini’s feet on the due-south line in the hemisphere visible to us) is the so-called Canis in front of its right foot; Canis is cut by a line running from the south pole through Gemini’s head straight to the north pole. Gemini rises with the rest of Eridanus and Orion in the south. The gods Apollo, Hercules, Vulcan, Juno, Saturn (are associated with it. To the north, Bootes, Ophiouchus (except the head), and half of the Crown set (when Gemini rises).

     The following zones are subject to Gemini: to the front part, India and the adjoining areas and Celtica; to the breast, Cilicia, Galatia, Thrace, and Boeotia; to the midparts, Egypt, Libya, Rome, Arabia, Syria.

-Καρκίνος

     Καρκίνος ἐστὶ οἶκος Σελήνης, θηλυκόν, τροπικόν, ὡροσκόπος κόσμου, δοῦλον, κατωφερές, ἄφωνον, ὑδατῶδες, ἀγαθόν, εὐμετάβολον, δημόσιον, ὀχλικόν, πολιτικόν, πολύγονον, ἀμφίβιον. Οἱ οὖν γεννώμενοι ἔσονται φιλόδοξοι, ὀχλικοί, πολυμετάβολοι, θεατρικοί, εὐφραντικοί, εὐφθαρτικοί, φιλήδονοι, φιλοσυνέστιοι, δημόσιοι. Τῇ δὲ γνώμῃ ἄστατοι, ἄλλα λέγοντες ἄλλα φρονοῦντες, ἐπὶ μιᾶς πράξεως ἢ τὸ πολὺ δύο μὴ μένοντες, ἐν πλάναις καὶ ξενιτείαις γινόμενοι.

     Ἐστὶ δὲ εὐδιεινός· κατὰ μέρος δὲ ἐπὶ τοὺς δύο ἀστέρας τοὺς πρώτους νοταπηλιωτικοὺς εὐτελής, φθαρτικός, πνιγώδης, σεισμοποιός· ἀπὸ δὲ τούτων μέχρι μοίρας ι′ ποιεῖ τὸν ἀέρα κάθυγρον, καυματώδη, ἔχοντα καταφορὰν ὑδάτων καὶ συνεχεῖς ὄμβρους· τὰ δεξιὰ εὐτελῆ καὶ φθαρτικά. Νοτόθεν συνανατέλλει Λαγωὸς καὶ τοῦ Κυνὸς τὰ ἐμπρόσθια καὶ ὁ Προκύων. Ἀστέρας δὲ ἔχει δ′, Ἄρεως, Ἑρμοῦ, Διός, Πανός, Ἀφροδίτης. Βορρόθεν δύνει Ἀρκτοφύλακος κεφαλὴ καὶ ὁ Ἐνγόνασι καὶ Ἀετὸς καὶ Στεφάνου τὸ ἥμισυ.

     Ἐστὶ τῷ Καρκίνῳ ὑποτεταγμένα τάδε· ἐμπρόσθια, Βακτριανή· ἀριστερά, Ζάκυνθος, Ἀκαρνανία· ὀπίσθια, Αἰθιοπία, Σχίνη.Κατὰ τὴν κεφαλὴν Μαιῶτις λίμνη καὶ τὰ περιοικοῦντα ἔθνη καὶ τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ καὶ Ὑρκανίᾳ θαλάσσῃ καὶ Ἑλλήσποντος καὶ Λιβυκὸν πέλαγος καὶ Βρετανικὴ καὶ ἡ Θούλη νῆσος· κατὰ τοὺς πόδας Ἀρμενία, Καππαδοκία, Ῥόδος, Κῶς· κατὰ δὲ τὰ ἔσχατά ἐστι τοῦ Καρκίνου ἐπὶ τοῦ στόματος Τρωγλοδυτία, Ἰωνία, Ἑλλήσποντος.

-Cancer

     Cancer is the house of the moon, feminine, solstitial, the Ascendant to the universe, a servant, downward-trending, mute, watery, noble, changeable, public, popular, civic, prolific, amphibious. Men born under this sign are ambitious, popular, constantly changing, theatrical, cheerful, easily downcast, pleasure-loving, liking dinner gatherings, public. Unsteady of mind, they say one thing but think another, and not sticking to one activity or at the most two, they become wanderers and travelers.

     It is calm. The parts are as follows: under the two initial stars to the southeast, it is worthless, destructive, stifling, productive of earthquakes. From that point to 10° it makes the air damp and hot, having heavy rains and constant thunderstorms. The right parts are worthless and destructive. In the north the Hare, the front part of Canis Major, and Procyon rise with Cancer. It has 4 stars. The gods Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Pan, Venus (are associated with it). To the north, the head of Bootes sets as Cancer rises, as well as Hercules, Aquila, and half of the Crown.

     The following zones are subject to Cancer: to the front, Bactria; to the left, Zakynthus and Acarnania; to the back, Ethiopia and Schina; under the head are the Gulf of Tauris and the tribes surrounding it, the Red Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Hellespont, the Libyan Sea, Britain, and the island of Thule. Under the feet are Armenia, Cappadocia, Rhodes, Kos. Under the tip of Cancer (i. e. at the mouth) are Troglodytia, Ionia, and the Hellespont.

-Λέων

     Λέων ἐστὶν ἀρρενικόν, οἶκος Ἡλίου, ἐλεύθερον, πυρῶδες, εὔκρατον, νοερόν, βασιλικόν, ἑδραῖον, ἀγαθόν, ἀνωφερές, εὐμετάβολον, στερεόν, ἡγεμονικόν, πολιτικόν, ἀρκτικόν, ὀργίλον. Οἱ οὖν γεννώμενοι ἐπίσημοι, ἀγαθοί, ἀμετάβλητοι, δίκαιοι, μισοπόνηροι, ἀνυπότακτοι, κολακείας μισοῦντες, εὐεργετικοί, παρεπηρμένοι ταῖς διανοίαις. Ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης ἐπίκεντρος τύχῃ ἢ καὶ σὺν ἀγαθοποιοῖς, γίνονται λαμπροί, ἔνδοξοι, τυραννικοί, βασιλικοί.

     Ἐστὶ δὲ καυματώδης, ὁ δὲ ἐν τῷ στήθει λαμπρὸς πυρώδης καὶ πνιγώδης, ἔχει δὲ τὰ κατὰ μέρος μέχρι μοίρας κ′ πνιγώδη, λοιμικὰ τετραπόδων τοῖς ὑποκειμένοις κλίμασι καὶ τόποις, τὰ δεξιὰ κινητικά, πυρώδη, τὰ δὲ νότια εὔυγρα, πυρώδη, τὰ δὲ κατωτέρω ὀλέθρια πρὸς πάντα, τὰ δὲ μέσα καὶ ἀριστερὰ εὔκρατα. Ἀστέρας δὲ ἔχει ὁ Λέων **. Κατὰ δὲ τὰ Σφαιρικὰ βορρόθεν συνανατέλλει ὁ ἀριστερὸς βραχίων τοῦ Ἀρκτοφύλακος, νοτόθεν πρύμνα Ἀργοῦς καὶ τοῦ Κυνὸς τὸ λοιπὸν καὶ τῆς Ὕδρας, ἧς ἡ μὲν οὐρὰ παράκειται ἄχρι τῆς χηλῆς τοῦ Σκορπίου, ἡ δὲ κεφαλὴ ἄχρι τῆς χηλῆς τοῦ Καρκίνου. Ἐπάνω δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐφέστηκεν Ἄρκτος ἡ μικρά, κατὰ δὲ τὴν γραμμὴν παρατείνει κεφαλὴ τοῦ Δράκοντος, ἣν βαστάζει Ὀφιοῦχος μέχρι τοῦ Κρατῆρος. Βορρόθεν δέ ἐστι Δελφίν, Λύρα, τὸ Ζεῦγμα, Ὄρνις πλὴν τοῦ λαμπροῦ ἀστέρος κατὰ τὸ ὀρθοπύγιον αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἵππου ἡ κεφαλή.

     Ἔστι δὲ τῷ Λέοντι ὑποτεταγμένα κλίματα· ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ μὲν Κελτικὴ καὶ οἱ συνεχεῖς τόποι· ἐμπρόσθια, Βιθυνία· δεξιά, Μακεδονία καὶ οἱ συνεχεῖς τόποι· ἀριστερά, Προποντίς· πόδες, Γαλατία· κατὰ τὴν κοιλίαν Κελτική· ὤμοις Θρᾴκη· λαγόσι Φοινίκη, Ἀδρίας, Λιβύη· ἐν τοῖς μέσοις Φρυγία, Συρία· οὐρᾷ Πισινοῦς.

-Leo

     Leo is masculine, the house of the sun, free, fiery, temperate, intellectual, kingly, stable, noble, upward-trending, changeable, solid, governing, civic, imperious, irascible. Men born under this sign are distinguished, noble, steady, just, hating the wicked, independent, hating flattery, beneficent, inflated with their lofty thoughts. If the houselord is at an angle or in aspect with benefics, then brilliant, glorious individuals are born, tyrants and kings.

     Leo is hot: the bright star in its breast is fiery and stifling. The parts are as follows: to 20° it is stifling, causing diseases of animals in the zones and places subject to it. The right side is moveable, fiery; the south part is wet [fiery]; the lower parts are destructive to everything; the middle and the left are temperate. Leo has … stars. According to the Sphaerica, in the north the left arm of Bootes rises with Leo; In the south the prow of Argo, the rest of the Canis Major, and Hydra, whose tail stretches to the Claws of Scorpio and its head to the claws of Cancer as far as the Crater. Above Leo lies the Little Bear, and on line with it lies the head of Draco, which Ophiouchus touches. On the north are the Dolphin, Lyra, Zeugma, Cygnus (except for the bright star in its tail) and the head of Pegasus.

     The following zones are subject to Leo: to the head, Gaul and the adjoining areas; to the fore parts, Bithynia; to the right side, Macedonia and the neighboring areas; to the left side, Propontus; to the feet, Galatia; to the belly, Gaul; to the shoulders, Thrace; to the flanks, Phoenicia, the Adriatic, and Lybia; To the midparts, Phrygia and Syria; to the tail, Pessinus.

-Παρθένος

     Παρθένος οἶκος Ἑρμοῦ, θηλυκόν, πτερωτόν, ἀνθρωποειδές, τρυφῆρες· σχήματι Δίκης ἑστώς, δίσωμον, στειρῶδες, δουλελεύθερον, ἄγονον, κατωφερές, γεῶδες, κοινόν, ἡμίφωνον καὶ ἄφωνον, σωματικόν, ἀτελές, εὐμετάβολον, ἐργαστηριακόν, διφυές· οἱ δὲ γεννώμενοι ἀγαθοί, αἰδήμονες, μυστικοί, πολυμέριμνοι, ποικίλως τὸν βίον διάγοντες, ἀλλοτρίων χειρισταί, πιστικοί, ἀγαθοὶ οἰκονόμοι, γραμματεῖς ἀπὸ λόγων ἢ ψήφων ἀναγόμενοι, ὑποκριτικοί, περίεργοι, ἀποκρύφων μύσται, τὰ πρῶτα ἀναλίσκοντες, ἐν δὲ τοῖς μέσοις εὐποροῦντες.

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-Virgo

     Virgo is the house of Mercury, feminine, winged, anthropomorphic, luxurious, standing like the figure of Justice, bicorporeal, barren, a freedman, with no offspring, downward-trending, earthy, common, semi-vocal or mute, concerned with the body, incomplete, changeable, industrious, two-natured. Men born under this sign are noble, modest, religious, burdened with care, leading a quite varied life, administrators of others’ goods, trusted, good stewards, secretaries, accountants, actors, practitioners of curious (inquisitive or sacred) arts, initiates (mysts) of hidden knowledge, spendthrifts in their early years but prosperous later in life.

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     [As a whole Virgo is soaking wet and stormy. By part it is as follows: its first decan is hot and destructive, the second temperate, the third rainy. Its northern parts are windy, the southern temperate. The following regions are subject to it: Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Greece, Achaea, Crete, the Cyclades, the Peloponnesus, Arcadia, Cyrene, Doris, Sicily, Persis. Of the parts of the body it rules the belly and all the internal and hidden parts.]

-Ζυγός

     Ζυγὸς οἶκος Ἀφροδίτης, ἀρρενικόν, τροπικόν, ἀνθρωποειδές, ἀνωφερές, ἀερῶδες, θηλυνόμενον, φωνῆεν, ἀγαθόν, εὐμετάβολον, ὑπαρχόντων μειωτικόν, ὑπόγειον κόσμου, δημόσιον, ἐκλειπτικόν, προεστὸς καρπῶν, οἰνικῶν, ἐλαϊκῶν, μυρεψικῶν, σταθμῶν, μέτρων, ἐργαστηριακῶν. Οἱ γεννώμενοι ἀγαθοὶ μὲν καὶ δίκαιοι ἀλλὰ βάσκανοι, ἀλλοτρίων ἀγαθῶν ἐπιθυμηταί, μέτριοι, τὰ πρῶτα κτηθέντα ἀπολλύντες καὶ ἐν ὑψοταπεινώματι γινόμενοι, ἀνωμάλως βιοῦντες, προϊστάμενοι δὲ ἐπὶ μέτρων ἢ σταθμῶν ἢ εὐθηνίας.

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-Libra

     Libra is the house of Venus, masculine, equinoctial, anthropomorphic, upward-trending, airy, feminizing, vocal, noble, changeable, a diminisher of estates, the Lower Midheaven of the universe, public, ecliptic, the supervisor of crops, vineyards, olive groves, aromatics, homesteads, measures, and artisans. Men born under this sign are noble and just, but malignant, covetous of others’ goods, average in fortune, losing their original possessions and falling into vicissitudes, living through ups and downs of fortune, being in charge of measures, posts, and the grain supply.

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     [As mentioned, as a whole Libra is tropical and changeable. By part it is as follows: its first and second decans are temperate, the third rainy. Its northern parts are windy, the southern moist / dry (text corrupt) and disease-ridden. The following regions are subject to it: Bactria, China, the Caspian area, Thebais, the Oasis, Troglodytia, Italy, Libya, Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Carthage, Smyrna, the Taurus mountains, Cilicia, Sinope (text corrupt). Of the parts of the body, it rules the hips and buttocks, the groin and intestines, the hind parts and rump.]

-Σκορπίος

     Σκορπίος οἶκος Ἄρεως, θηλυκόν, στερεόν, ὑδατῶδες, πολύσπερμον, φθοροποιόν, κατωφερές, ἄφωνον, δουλικόν, ἀμετάβλητον, δυσωδίας αἴτιον, ὑπαρχόντων ἀφαιρετικόν, ἐκλειπτικόν, πολύχουν. Οἱ δὲ γεννώμενοι δόλιοι, πονηροί, ἅρπαγες, φονικοί, προδόται, ἀμετάβλητοι, ὑπαρχόντων ἀφαιρετικοί, λαθρεπίβουλοι, κλῶπες, ἐπίορκοι, ἀλλοτρίων ἐπιθυμηταί, συνίστορες φόνων ἢ φαρμακειῶν ἢ κακούργων πραγμάτων, μισοΐδιοι.

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-Scorpio

     Scorpio is the house of Mars, feminine, solid, rainy, fecund, destructive, downward-trending, mute, servile, unchangeable, the cause of stenches, a destroyer of property, ecliptic, having many feet. Men born under this sign are tricky, base, thieves, murderers, traitors, incorrigible, destroyers of property, connivers, burglars, perjurers, covetous of others’ property, accomplices in murder, poisonings, and other crimes, haters of their own family.

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     [As a whole, Scorpio is stormy and fiery. By part it is as follows: its first decan is cloudy, the second temperate, the third indicative of earthquakes. Its northern parts are burning hot, the southern dry / moist (text corrupt). The following regions are subject to it: Metagonitis, Mauretania, Gaetulia, Syria, Commagene, Cappadocia, Italy, Carthage, Libya, Ammon, Sicily, Spain, Rome. Of the parts of the body, it rules the unmentionable parts and the rump, the groin and seat. Because of its sting, it causes blindness, dimming of vision, attacks of the stone, strangury, ruptures and strangulated hernias, unmentionable vices and promiscuity, fistulas, cancers, and hemorrages.]

-Τοξότης

     Τοξότης οἶκος Διός, ἀρρενικόν, πυρῶδες, ἀνωφερές, φωνῆεν, κάθυγρον διὰ τὴν Ἀργώ, ἀγαθόν, πτερωτόν, εὐμετάβολον, δίσωμον, διφυές, αἰνιγματῶδες, ὀλιγόγονον, ἡμιτελές, ἡγεμονικόν, βασιλικόν· οἱ δὲ γεννώμενοι ἀγαθοί, δίκαιοι, μεγαλόψυχοι, κριτικοί, εὐμετάδοτοι, φιλάδελφοι, φιλόφιλοι· τὰ δὲ πρῶτα κτηθέντα μειοῦντες, πάλιν κτώμενοι, ἐχθρῶν καθυπερτεροῦντες, φιλόδοξοι, εὐεργετικοί, ἐπίσημοι, αἰνιγματωδῶς διαπλέκοντες τὰ πράγματα.

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-Sagittarius

     Sagittarius is the house of Jupiter, masculine, fiery, upward-trending, vocal, moist because of the constellation Argo, noble, winged, changeable, bicorporeal, two-natured, mysterious, with few offspring, half-finished, governing, kingly. Men born under this sign are noble, just, great-hearted, judges, generous, loving their brothers and their friends. They lose much of their original possessions but gain them back. They are superior to their enemies, seek a noble reputation, are benefactors, prominent, and act mysteriously complicating things.

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     [As a whole, it is windy. By part, it is as follows: its first decan is quite wet, the second temperate, the third fiery. Its northern parts are windy, the southern moist and variable. The following regions are subject to it: Etruria, Gaul, Spain, Arabia Felix, Cilicia, Crete, Sicily, Gaul, Italy, Spain, Cyprus, the Red Sea, Casperia and the nations along the Euphrates, Mesopotamia, Carthage, the Libyan Sea, the Adriatic, the Atlantic, the Triballi, Bactria, Egypt and the nearby places. It is masculine and autumn. Of the parts of the body, it rules the thighs and groin. Because of its point, it often causes births with extra limbs, baldness, epilepsy, troubles of the eyes, or blindness. It always causes danger from animals, the loss of limbs, or dangers from wild beasts.]

-Αἰγόκερως

     Αἰγόκερως οἶκος Κρόνου, θηλυκόν, τροπικόν, γεῶδες, φθοροποιόν, ἄγονον, κατωφερές, κατεψυγμένον, ἄφωνον, δουλικόν, κακῶν αἴτιον, ἀσελγές, λατρευτικόν, αἰνιγματῶδες, διφυές, κάθυγρον, ἡμιτελές, κυρτοειδές, χωλόν, δύσις κόσμου, μόχθων καὶ πόνων δηλωτικόν, λαοξοϊκόν, γεωργικόν. Οἱ γεννώμενοι κακοί, ἑτερότροποι, ὑποκρίσει ἀγαθοὶ καὶ ἁπλοῖ, πονικοί, πολυμέριμνοι, ἐπάγρυπνοι, φιλογέλωτες, μεγάλων ἔργων ἐπίβουλοι, δυσαμάρτητοι, εὐμετανόητοι, κακοῦργοι, ψεῦσται, ἐπίψογοι, ἔπαισχροι.

     Ἐστὶ δὲ καὶ εὔκρατος ἐπ’ ἀμφότερον· κατὰ μέρος ἔχει δὲ τὰ πρῶτα φθαρτικά, τὰ δὲ δεύτερα κάθυγρα, ὀμβρικά, κινητικά, τὰ δὲ μέσα πυρώδη, τὰ δὲ ἔσχατα φθαρτικά. Ἀστέρας δὲ ἔχει ***. Κατὰ τὰ Σφαιρικὰ βορρόθεν ἀνατέλλει Κασσιέπεια καὶ τὰ δεξιὰ μέρη τοῦ Ἵππου· νοτόθεν δύνει τὰ ὀπίσθια τοῦ Κενταύρου καὶ τὰ σκέλη τῆς Ὕδρας ἄχρι τοῦ Κρατῆρος. Εἰσὶ δὲ θεοί· Ἀφροδίτη, Σελήνη, Δημήτηρ, Ἑρμῆς. Βορρόθεν οὐδέν ἐστιν.

     Ἔστι δὲ τῷ Αἰγόκερῳ ὑποτεταγμένα κλίματα τάδε, πρὸς ἑσπέραν καὶ μεσημβρίαν πάντα. Κατὰ τὰς πλευρὰς Αἰγαῖον πέλαγος καὶ οἱ περιοικοῦντες καὶ Κόρινθος· κατὰ τὴν ζώνην Σικυών· κατὰ τὸν νῶτον θάλασσα Μεγάλη· κατὰ τὴν οὐρὰν Ἰβηρία· κατὰ τὴν κεφαλὴν Τυρρηνικὸν πέλαγος, κατὰ δὲ τὴν κοιλίαν τὰ *** ἐνοικοῦντα ἔθνη, μέση Αἴγυπτος, Συρία, Καρία.

-Capricorn

     Capricorn is the house of Saturn, feminine, tropic, earthy, destructive, barren, downward-trending, chilling, mute, servile, the cause of troubles, brutal, lurking, mysterious, two-natured, moist, half-finished, a hunchback, lame, the Descendant of the universe, indicative of misfortune and toil, a sculptor, a farmer. Men born under this sign are bad, warped. They pretend goodness and sincerity. They are toilsome, burdened with care, insomniac, fond of jokes, plotters of great deeds, prone to make unfortunate mistakes, fickle, criminal, lying, always criticizing, shameful.

     Capricorn is temperate on both sides. By parts it is as follows: the first parts are destructive, the second moist, stormy, changeable; the middle parts are fiery; the last destructive. It has … stars. According to the Sphaerica, Casseiopeia and the right part of Pegasus rise with it in the north. In the south the rear of Centaurus and the legs of Hydra up to the Crater set while Capricorn is rising. The gods Venus, the moon, Ceres, Mercury (are associated with it). On the north there is nothing.

     The following zones are subject to Capricorn, all of them to the West and South: To the flanks, the Aegean Sea, the inhabitants of its coastline, and Corinth; to its waist, Sicyon; to its back, the Mediterranean; to its tail, Spain; to its head, the Tyrrhenian Sea; to its belly …, mid-Egypt, Syria, and Caria.

-Ὑδροχόος

     Ύδροχόος ἐστὶν ἐν οὐρανῷ ζῴδιον ἀρρενικόν, στερεόν, ἀνθρωπόμορφον, πάρυγρον, μονογενές· ἐστὶ δὲ ἄφωνον, κατάψυχρον, ἐλεύθερον, ἀνωφερές, θηλυνόμενον, ἀμετάβλητον, κακόν, ὀλιγόγονον, αἴτιον μόχθων τῶν δι’ ἀθλήσεως ἢ βασταγμάτων καὶ σκληρουργίας, ἐργαστικόν, δημόσιον· οἱ δὲ γεννώμενοι βάσκανοι καὶ μισοΐδιοι, ἀμετάβλητοι, μονογνώμονες, τυφώδεις, δόλιοι, ἀποκρυπτόμενοι πάντα, μισάνθρωποι, ἄθεοι, κατήγοροι, προδόται δόξης καὶ ἀληθείας, ἐπίφθονοι, μικρολόγοι, ὅτε δὲ εὐμετάδοτοι διὰ τὴν ἔκρυσιν τοῦ ὕδατος, ἀκόλαστοι.

     Ἐστὶ δὲ ὁλοσχερῶς κάθυγρος, καὶ τὰ μὲν μέρη τὰ πρῶτα κάθυγρα, τὰ δὲ ἀνωτέρω πυρώδη, τὰ δὲ κατωτέρω εὐτελῆ καὶ ἀχρεῖα. Ἀστέρας ἔχει **. Κατὰ δὲ τὰ Σφαιρικὰ βορρόθεν ἀνατέλλει Ἀνδρομέδας μέρη τινὰ τῶν δεξιῶν καὶ τοῦ Ἵππου τὰ λοιπά. Νοτόθεν ὁ νότιος τῶν Ἰχθύων πλὴν τῆς κεφαλῆς. Ἥρας, Ἡρακλέους, Ἡφαίστου, Κρόνου. Βορρόθεν δύνει οὐδέν. Νοτόθεν δὲ τοῦ Κενταύρου τὰ λοιπὰ καὶ τῆς Ὕδρας ἄχρι τοῦ Κόρακος.

     Κεῖται δὲ τὸ ζῴδιον ἐν ἀνέμῳ λιβί, πρόσκειται δὲ τῷ κλίματι τῷ τῆς Αἰγύπτου καὶ ταῖς πέριξ πόλεσιν, ἐκ μὲν τῶν νοτίων αὐτοῦ μερῶν ἄχρι Ψελχέως καὶ Δωδεκασχοίνου καὶ Συκαμίνου, ἐκ δὲ τῶν πρὸς λίβα μερῶν ἄχρι τῆς Ἀμμωνιακῆς χώρας καὶ τῶν πέριξ πόλεων, ἐκ δὲ τῶν πρὸς ἀπηλιώτην μερῶν ἄχρι τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης κατὰ θίξιν, ἐκ δὲ τῶν βορείων αὐτοῦ ἄχρι Σεβεννύτου τόπων καὶ στόματος Ἡρακλεωτικοῦ. Πρόσκειται δὲ αὐτῷ κατὰ τὰ Σφαιρικὰ κατὰ τὸν νότιον πόλον ποταμὸς ὁ καλούμενος Ἠριδανὸς καὶ Ἰχθὺς ὁ μέγας, ψαύων τῆς οὐρᾶς τοῦ Ἰχθύος. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς βορεινοῖς τόποις ἔσω τοῦ βορείου πόλου ἐστὶν ὁ λεγόμενος Ὄρνις, ὑπὲρ ὃν Ὀϊστὸς παρατείνει, ὅπου ἡ Ἄρκτος ἡ λεγομένη Κυνόσουρα ἀποβλέπουσα εἰς βορρᾶν.

     Εἰσὶ δὲ τῷ Ὑδροχόῳ ὑποτεταγμένα κλίματα τάδε· ἐμπρόσθια, Συρία· μέσα, Εὐφράτης καὶ Τίγρις, Αἴγυπτος καὶ Λιβύη καὶ οἱ συνεχεῖς Αἰγυπτίων ποταμοὶ καὶ Ἰνδὸς ποταμός· κατὰ δὲ τὸ μέσον τῆς Κάλπης Τάναϊς καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ ποταμοὶ ἐκ τοῦ … ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας ῥέοντες πρὸς νότον καὶ ζέφυρον.

-Aquarius

     Aquarius is the celestial sign which is masculine, solid, anthropomorphic, somewhat damp, single. It is mute, quite cold, free, upward-trending, feminizing, unchanging, base, with few offspring, the cause of troubles arising from athletic training, carrying burdens, or work in hard materials, an artisan, public. Men born under this sign are malignant, haters of their own families, incorrigible, self-willed, deceitful, tricky, concealing everything, misanthropic, godless, accusers, betrayers of reputations and the truth, envious, petty, occasionally generous because of this sign’s flow of water, uncontrollable.

     As a whole this sign is wet. By part it is as follows: the first parts are wet, the upper parts fiery, the lower worthless and useless. It has … stars. According to the Sphaerica the right parts of Andromeda rise in the north with Aquarius, as well as the rest of Pegasus; in the south, the southern one of the two Fish, except for the head. The gods Juno, Hercules, Vulcan, Saturn (are associated with it). In the north nothing sets. In the south the rest of Centaurus and of Hydra (up to Corvus) set (when Aquarius rises).

     This sign lies toward the west wind. In addition it faces toward the zone of Egypt and the surrounding cities, i.e. from Egypt’s southern parts up to Pselchos, Dodecaschoinos, and Sykaminos; from its western parts to the oasis of Ammon and the surrounding cities; from its eastern part to the Red Sea which touches Egypt; and from its northern parts to Sebennytos and the Heracleotic mouth of the Nile. According to the Sphaerica, Eridanus and Pisces Austrinus lie next to Aquarius in the south, touching the tail of Capricorn. In the north, around the north pole, is the so-called Cygnus, above which is Sagitta, where the Bear called Cynosura looks to the north.

     The following zones are subject to Aquarius: to the front parts, Syria; to the middle, the Euphrates and Tigris, Egypt, Libya, the interconnected Egyptian rivers, and the Indus. Under the middle of the Water Jug are the Tanais and the rest of the rivers which flow (from the Hyperboreans) to the south and west.

-Ἰχθύες

     Ἰχθύες εἰσὶν ἐν οὐρανῷ θῆλυ, κάθυγρον, πάρυγρον, δίσωμον, πολύγονον, λιχηνῶδες, λεπιδωτόν, νευρῶδες, κυρτωτόν, ἀλφῶδες, δίμορφον, ἄφωνον, πολυκίνητον, λεπρῶδες, ἀντικείμενον ἑαυτῷ διὰ τὸ τὸν μὲν νότιον εἶναι, τὸν δὲ βόρειον· ἐστὶ δὲ καὶ κάθυγρον, κατωφερές, δουλικόν, εὐμετάβολον, πολύγονον, δίσωμον, συνουσιαστικόν, μελοκοπούμενον, πλάνης αἴτιον, ποικίλον· οἱ οὖν γεννώμενοι ἄστατοι, ἀμφίβολοι, ἐκ κακῶν εἰς ἀγαθὰ μεταβάλλοντες, ἐρωτικοί, λατρευτικοί, ἀσελγεῖς, πολύγονοι, ὀχλικοί.

     Εἰσὶ δὲ ὁλοσχερῶς ψυχεινοί, πνευματώδεις· κατὰ μέρος δ’ ἔχουσι τὰ πρῶτα εὔκρατα, μέσα κάθυγρα, ἔσχατα φθαρτικὰ καὶ εὐτελῆ. Ἀστέρας δὲ ἔχει **. Βορρόθεν συνανατέλλει τὰ λειπόμενα τῆς Ἀνδρομέδας καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τοῦ Περσέως, τὰ δὲ ἐν δεξιῷ καὶ τὸ ὑπὸ τὸν Κριὸν Τρίγωνον, νοτόθεν τοῦ νοτίου Ἰχθύος ἡ κεφαλή. Ποσειδῶνος, Ἄρεως, Ἑρμοῦ, Ἀφροδίτης, Διός. Νοτόθεν δύνει Θυμιατήριον καὶ τὰ λειπόμενα τῆς Ὕδρας, βορρόθεν οὐδέν. Πρόσκειται δὲ ἀνέμῳ βορρᾷ.

     Πρόσκειται δὲ κλίματι τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης, ἔχον νήσους οὐκ ὀλίγας παρ’ ἑαυτό, ἃς ὑπέρκειται ἡ Ἰνδία καὶ ὁ λεγόμενος Ἰνδικὸς ὠκεανός· ἐν δὲ τοῖς ἀπηλιωτικοῖς αὐτοῦ μέρεσι τὴν Παρθίαν ἔχει καὶ τὴν Ἰνδικὴν χώραν κατὰ θίξιν καὶ τὸν Ἀπηλιωτικὸν ὠκεανόν, ἐκ τῶν βορείων αὐτοῦ μερῶν τὴν Σκυθικὴν χώραν· ἐκ δὲ τῶν πρὸς λίβα αὐτοῦ μερῶν ψαύει προσκλύζον Μυοσόρμου, Ὀρθοῦ ὅρμου καὶ τῶν πέριξ πόλεων.

     Πρόσκειται δὲ αὐτοῖς κατὰ τὰ Σφαιρικὰ πρὸς μὲν τὰ βόρεια μέρη τεμνόμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ βορείου πόλου Ἀετὸς καὶ κατά τι μέρος Ὀϊστός, ἔσω δὲ τοῦ βορείου πόλου, οὐ πολὺ διεστώς, ἔστι ὁ καλούμενος Πήγασος ἔσω τοῦ ἀρκτικοῦ πόλου. Ἀφέστηκε δὲ τῶν ἄλλων τμημάτων ὁ ἀρκτικὸς πόλος ἐν μέσῳ τῶν πάντων κείμενος, ἔχων ἐν ἑαυτῷ τὴν Ἄρκτον τὴν λεγομένην Κυνόσουραν, φερομένην ἀπὸ τῶν βορείων ἐπὶ τὰ ἀπηλιωτικά, ποτὲ δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν νοτίων, τὴν δὲ ἑτέραν, τὴν καλουμένην μικρὰν Ἄρκτον, ἥτις μεσαζούσης τῆς νυκτὸς ἀνατέλλει, ἃς κατέχει ὁ καλούμενος Ἀρκτοφύλαξ περίτασιν φέρων κατὰ τοῖν δυεῖν ἄρκτοιν· ὅς ἐστιν ἀφανὴς κατὰ τὴν ἀνάδοσιν τῶν δύο Ἄρκτων· ἡ μὲν γὰρ εἰς τὰ βόρεια ἀποβλέπει, ὁ δὲ εἰς τὰ νότια.

     Εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ κατὰ μέρος ὑποτεταγμένα κλίματα τάδε. Ἐμπρόσθια, Εὐφράτης καὶ Τίγρις. Μέσα, Συρία, Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα· τὰ ἐμπρόσθια Ἰνδικὴ μέση, Περσὶς καὶ οἱ συνεχεῖς τόποι, Ἀραβικὴ θάλασσα καὶ Ἐρυθρὰ καὶ Βορυσθένης ποταμός. † οὐρά, … … ὁ δὲ σύνδεσμος πρὸς ἀνατολὴν καὶ ἀπηλιώτου βορείου ἀστέρος· ὁ νότιος, Θρᾴκη, μέσον πέλαγος Βορυσθένης καὶ Ἀσία καὶ Σαρδώ.

-Pisces

     Pisces is the celestial sign which is feminine, moist, quite wet, bicorporeal, with many offspring, mossy, scaley, sinewy, humpbacked, leprous, two-formed, mute, motile, with rough skin, in conflict with itself because one Fish is northern, the other southern. It is moist, downward-trending, servile, changeable, with many offspring, bicorporeal, sociable/lewd, with some limbs missing, the cause of wandering, varied. Men born under this sign are unsteady, unreliable, changing from bad fortune to good, sexy, theivish, shameless, prolific, popular.

     As a whole, Pisces is cool and breezy. By parts it is as follows: the first parts are temperate, the middle moist, the last destructive and worthless. It has … stars. In the north the rest of Andromeda rises with Pisces, as well as the rest of Perseus – the parts on the right – and Triangulum in Aries. In the south the head of Pisces Austrinus rises. The dods Neptune, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter (are associated with it). In the south Ara and the rest of Hydra set when Pisces is rising; in the north, nothing. Pisces lies toward the north wind.

     It also lies toward the zone of the Red Sea, having not a few islands under its control, above which lie India and the so-called Indian Ocean. In its eastern parts Pisces touches Parthia, the land of the Indies, and the Eastern Ocean; in its northern parts, Scythia. In its western parts it washes with its waves Myosormos, Orthosormos, and the surrounding cities.

     According to the Sphaerica, Aquila, cut off by the north pole, and part of Sagitta lie to the north of Pisces, not far away from the north pole. The so-called Pegasus is within the Arctic pole. The Arctic Circle, lying in the middle of the universe, stands apart from the other divisions of the sky. It has in it the Bear called Cynosura stretching from the north toward the east, and from the south the other Bear, called the Greater, which rises at midnight, and which the so-called Arctophylax controls, having a rein on both Bears. He is invisible depending on the elevation of the two Bears. One looks north, the other south.

     The following zones are subject to Pisces: to the front, the Euphrates and the Tigris; to the middle, Syria and the Red Sea, India, mid-Persis and the neighboring lands; to the tail, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, and the Borysthenes river; to the tie of the Northern Fish, Thrace; to that of the Southern Fish, Asia, Sardinia.

3. Περὶ ὁρίων

     † Κριὸς καὶ μοῖραι πρῶται Διός εἰσίν, εὔκρατοι, εὔρωστοι, πολύσπερμοι, ἀγαθοποιοί· αἱ δὲ ϛ′ Ἀφροδίτης, ἱλαραί, εὔτεχνοι, διαυγεῖς, ἄρτιοι, καθαροί, εὔχροοι. Αἱ δὲ η′ ἐχόμεναι Ἑρμοῦ ἐπαμφοτερίζουσαι, μεταβολικαὶ καὶ εὐφυεῖς, ἀκίνητοι, ἀνεμώδεις χαλαζώδεις βροντώδεις κεραυνοβόλοι. Αἱ δὲ ε′ Ἄρεος φθοροποιοί, διάπυροι, ἄστατοι, ἀνθρώπων κακούργων προπετῶν καὶ ** αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ε′ Κρόνου κατάψυχροι, στειρώδεις, βάσκανοι, ἐπισινεῖς.

     Ταύρου δὲ αἱ μὲν πρῶται η′ Ἀφροδίτης πολύσπερμοι, πολύγονοι, ὑγραί, καταφερεῖς † ἔλεγχοι μεσωνικώτεραι. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ϛ′ Ἑρμοῦ συνεταί, φρόνιμοι, κακοῦργοι, ὀλιγόσποροι, κακόψιδες, θανατοποιαί. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς η′ Διὸς μεγαλόφρονες, ἔπανδροι, εὐερμεῖς, ἀρχοντικαί καὶ εὐεργετικαί, μεγαλόψυχοι, εὔκρατοι, φιλαιδεῖς. Αἱ δὲ τέταρται ε′ Κρόνου κατάστειροι, ἄγονοι, εὐνουχικαί, ἀγυρτικαί, ἐπίψογοι, θεατρώδεις, ἀνεύφραντοι, ἐπίμοχθοι. Αἱ δὲ ἐπὶ πᾶσι γ′ Ἄρεως ἀρρενικαί, τυραννικαί, πυρώδεις, χαλεπαί, φονικαί, ἱερόσυλοι, παμπόνηροι, οὐκ ἄσημοι δέ, πλὴν φθοροποιοὶ καὶ οὐ πολυχρόνιοι.

     Τῶν δὲ Διδύμων αἱ μὲν πρῶται ϛ′ Ἑρμοῦ εὔκρατοι, εὔδιοι, συνετοί, πολύτεχνοι, ἐπιστημονικαί, πρακτικαί, ἀοίδιμοι, πολύσπερμοι. Αἱ δ’ ἑξῆς ϛ′ Διὸς ἀγωνιστικοί, εὔκρατοι, εὔδιοι, πολύσπερμοι, εὐτραφεῖς, εὐεργετικαί. Αἱ δὲ τρίται ε′ Ἀφροδίτης ἀνθηραί, μουσικαί, ἀκροαματικαί, ποιητικαί, στεφανηφόροι, ὀχλικαί, εὐφρόσυναι, πολύσπερμοι. Αἱ δὲ τέταρται ζ′ Ἄρεως πολύμοχθοι, ἀνάδελφοι, σπανότεκνοι, ἐπιδημητικαί, εὔποροι, φθαρτικαί, ὠμαί, πολυπράγμονες. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ϛ′ ἐπὶ πᾶσι Κρόνου εὔκρατοι, διοικητικαί, κτητικαί, νοητικαί, πολύγνωστοι, ἐπίσημοι, συνέσει διάφοροι, μεγάλων κατορθωτικαί, εὐδοξότατοι.

     Τοῦ δὲ Καρκίνου αἱ πρῶται ζ′ Ἄρεως κεραυνοβόλοι, ἄλλεσι κεκινημένοι, ἀνώμαλοι, ἐναντιόβουλοι, μανιώδεις, πολύσπερμοι, σπανιστικαί, φθαρτικαί, ἐπὶ τέλους φαῦλαι. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ϛ′ Ἀφροδίτης πολύσπερμοι, ἐπίψογοι, κάθυγροι, μεταβολικαί, τεχνικαί, ὀχλικαὶ καὶ πάμμικτοι. Αἱ δὲ ἑπόμεναι ϛ′ Ἑρμοῦ ἀκριβεῖς, ἁρπακτικαί, δημοσίων ἡγητικαὶ, τελωνικαί, δημώδεις, εὔποροι, περιουσιαστικαί. Αἱ δὲ τέταρται ζ′ Διὸς βασιλικαί, αὐτοκρατορικαί, ἔνδοξοι, πολύδικοι, μεγαλόφρονες, εὔκρατοι, ἀρχικαί, καὶ τῷ ὅλῳ καλαί. Αἱ δ’ ἐπὶ πᾶσι δ′ Κρόνου, καθ’ ὃ τὸ πᾶν ἐστιν ὕδωρ, κάθυγροι καὶ σπανιστικαὶ τῶν ἰδίων καὶ περὶ τὸ τέλος ἐνδεητικαί.

     Τοῦ δὲ Λέοντος αἱ πρῶται ϛ′ εἰσὶ Διός, ἔμπειροι, ἀρρενικαί, αὐτοκρατορικαὶ πάντως τε ἡγεμονικαί, πρακτικαί, ἔξοχοι, οὐδὲν ταπεινὸν ἔχουσαι. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ε′ Ἀφροδίτης εὐκρατότεραι, ἀνειμέναι, πολύσοφοι, ἀπολαυστικαί. Αἱ δὲ τρίται ζ′ Κρόνου πολύπειροι, φοβητικαί, φυσικαί, εὐφυεῖς, στεναί, μυστικαί, πολύτεκνοι, ζητητικαί τῶν ἀποκεκρυμμένων, στειρώδεις δὲ καὶ ἄσποροι. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ϛ′ Ἑρμοῦ ἀκροαματικαί, ὀχλικαί, σχολαρχικαί, ἀφηγητικαί, νομικαί, συνεταί. Kαὶ αὗται ἄσποροι, πολυχρονίων δὲ ἀνθρώπων. Αἱ δὲ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ϛ′ Ἄρεως φαυλόταται, τερατώδεις, φθαρτικαί, ἐπισινεῖς, νωθραί, ἐπίψογοι καὶ ἀτυχεῖς.

     Τῆς δὲ Παρθένου αἱ πρῶται μοῖραι ζ′ Ἑρμοῦ ὑψηλόταται διοικητικαὶ πολύσοφοι ἐπιεικεῖς, ἐπὶ πραγμάτων τάσσουσαι μεγάλων, συνετώταται καὶ πάντα γενναῖαι καὶ ἔξοχοι· μόνον πρὸς τὰ ἀφροδίσια οὐκ εὐτυχεῖς, καθόλου μὲν ὅλης τῆς Παρθένου, μάλιστα δὲ αὗται αἱ μοῖραι καὶ αἱ Ἀφροδίτης· αὗται μὲν γὰρ εὐκατηγορήτων εἰσίν, αἱ δὲ Ἀφροδίτης ἁμαρτανόντων· ἐν παντὶ δὲ τὸ ἔξοχον μάλιστα προδώσουσιν ἐν τῷ παιδευτικῷ. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ι′ Ἀφροδίτης ἐπίψογοι, ἁμαρτωλοὶ περὶ γάμους, περιπίπτουσαι διὰ ταῦτα, περὶ δὲ τὰ θεατρικὰ εὐτυχεῖς· περὶ δὲ πάθη αἴσχιστοι, μάλιστα δὲ Κρόνου συμμαρτυροῦντος· Ἑρμοῦ δὲ μοιχείας, Διὸς δὲ πλήθη ἁμαρτιῶν ὡς συγχωρουμένων, ἔτι δὲ κατακρίσεις· Ἡλίου δὲ λαθρίδιοι πράξεις, Σελήνης ἐναντιώματα ἀντιπολιτεῖαι· ἐὰν δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν κακοποιῶν ὁραθῇ, προΐστασθαι ποιεῖ. Αἱ δὲ τρίται δ′ Διὸς φιλογεωργὼν ἐπιεικῶν ἀνακεχωρηκότων οὐκ ἀπαιδεύτων· εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἐπιτροπικαὶ καὶ πολύσπερμοι καὶ εὐκατόρθωτοι. Αἱ δὲ τέταρται ζ′ Ἄρεως εἰσὶν ἄρρενες χαλεπαὶ δημοτικῶν ὀχλαγωγῶν καὶ νυκτιρέμβων † μυσταιτῶν πλαστογράφων ἐπιθετῶν· αὗται αἱ μοῖραι ὑβρίζουσι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, εἰς δεσμοὺς καὶ μελοκοπίας καὶ βασάνους καὶ φυλακὰς ἄγουσιν. Αἱ δὲ λοιπαὶ β′ Κρόνου τερατώδεις κατάψυχροι φθαρτικαὶ ὀλιγοχρόνιοι ἐμπαιζομένων ἀνθρώπων.

     Τοῦ δὲ Ζυγοῦ αἱ πρῶται ϛ′ Κρόνου βασιλικαὶ ὑψηλαὶ πρακτικαὶ μάλιστα ἡμέρας, νυκτὸς δὲ † ἐπιπρασσόντων· εἰσὶ δὲ στειρώδεις κάθυγροι φθαρτικαί. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ε′ Ἑρμοῦ ἀγοραῖοι ἐργαστηριακαὶ ἐμπορικαὶ γραμμάτων συναλλακτικῶν καὶ ἀριθμῶν συνακτικαί, καθόλου δίκαιοι συνεταί. Αἱ δὲ τρίται η′ Διὸς πλουτοποιοί, ἀλλὰ ἐφ’ ὧν γε δυσπραγῶν, ἀνεύφραντοι ἀποθησαυριζομένων ἀνεπιφάντων ῥυπαροβίων ἀφιλοκάλων μωμητικῶν· οὐ μὴν εὔπαιδες. Αἱ δὲ τέταρται Ἀφροδίτης ζ′ φιλοκάλων φιλοτέχνων ἢ καὶ τεχνιτῶν, οἷον ἐπιπλαστῶν ζωγράφων τορευτῶν, καθόλου δὲ ῥυθμικῶν θεοσεβῶν πραέων βραδέως εὐτυχούντων προβιβαζομένων αὐτομάτως, περὶ δὲ γάμους εὐτυχοῦντας μεγάλως, ἐπὶ πᾶσιν εὐδαιμόνων. Αἱ δὲ λοιπαὶ δ′ Ἄρεως ἡγεμονικῶν ταξιάρχων εὐτυχῶν περὶ πᾶσαν Ἄρεως τέχνην καὶ † διαθυμῶν τε καὶ ἀσφαλῶν καὶ ἐγκρατῶν καὶ μεγαλοφρόνων, οὐκ εὐαδέλφων δὲ οὐδὲ πολυαδέλφων.

     Τοῦ δὲ Σκορπίου αἱ πρῶται ζ′ μοῖραι εἰσὶν Ἄρεως τεθορυβημέναι εὐκίνητοι ἄστατοι ὀργίλοι ἐλευθερόγλωσσοι μεγαλόφρονες σπανότεκνοι πολυάδελφοι, ἀνώμαλοι ταῖς τύχαις, διάπυροι, εὔθετοι ταῖς εἰς στρατιὰν καὶ ἐκδημίαν γενέσεσιν. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς δ′ Ἀφροδίτης εὐτυχῶν ἐπὶ γάμοις, θεοσεβῶν, φιλουμένων ὑπὸ πάντων, φιλοτέκνων, εὐπόρων, περὶ πάντας ἐκλελεγμένων, ἡδυβίων. Αἱ δὲ τρίται η′ Ἑρμοῦ ὁπλικαὶ ἀγωνιστικαὶ στεφανηφόρων καὶ περὶ λόγων πικρῶν ἀγωνιστικῶν ἀκαταφρονήτων· εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ αὗται πολύσποροι· καθόλου δὲ κακεντρεχῶν τῇ διανοίᾳ, μάλιστα κατὰ τῶν πειραζόντων ἢ τῶν πονηρὰ δρώντων. Αἱ δὲ τέταρται ε′ Διὸς πολυτέχνων εὐτυχῶν ἀρχιερέων, δοξαζομένων χρυσῷ πορφύραις ἀρχαῖς κατὰ τὰ ἴδια μεγέθη τῶν γενέσεων, εὐεργετικῶν, καθόλου φιλανθρώπων φιλοθέων. Αἱ δ’ ἐπὶ πάσαις ϛ′ Κρόνου κολαστικῶν σπανοτέκνων σπαναδέλφων μισοϊδίων φαρμακευτῶν μελαγχολικῶν μισογυναίων κρυπτὰ σίνη ἐχόντων καθόλου κολαστικωτάτων μεμψιμοιροτάτων· μισοῦνται δὲ καὶ ὑπὸ θεῶν καὶ ὑπὸ ἀνθρώπων· οὗτοι δὲ πρὸς τοὺς ὑπερέχοντας ἀντερείδονται, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν ταπεινῶν καταφρονοῦνται.

     Τοῦ δὲ Τοξότου αἱ πρῶται ιβ′ Διὸς εἰσὶν ἀνθρώπων πρακτικῶν· εἰσὶ δὲ ὑγραὶ σὺν τῷ εὐκράτῳ, ὅλως δὲ παμποίκιλοι περὶ πᾶσαν τέχνην καὶ πρᾶξιν, πολύσπερμοι μὲν καὶ πολύτεκνοι πολυάδελφοι, σπανιστικοὶ δέ. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ε′ εἰσὶν Ἀφροδίτης, εὔκρατοι ἔνδοξοι νικητικαὶ στεφανηφόροι θεοσεβεῖς, τιμωμένων ἀνδρῶν ἐν ὄχλοις καὶ παρ’ ἡγεμόσιν, εὔτεκνοί τε καὶ εὐάδελφοι περί τε γυναῖκας πλείονας γενέσθαι **. Αἱ δὲ τρίται μοῖραι δ′ Ἑρμοῦ φιλολόγων περισσοφρόνων πραγματικῶν αἰώνια γεννώντων φιλοσόφων, καθόλου ἐξοχὰς ἐχόντων περὶ ἐπιστήμην καὶ φρόνησιν, φιλιστόρων, ἐπὰν ὁ Ἑρμῆς προσνεύσῃ· ἐπὰν δὲ ὁ Ἄρης, φιλόπλων τακτικῶν. Αἱ δὲ ε′ ἑξῆς Κρόνῳ ἐπιβάλλουσι, στειρωτικαὶ καὶ σινωτικαὶ κατάψυχροι βλαπτικαὶ φαύλων ἀνθρώπων καὶ περὶ πάντα δυστυχούντων. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς δ′ Ἄρεώς εἰσιν, ἔνθερμοι ῥιψοκίνδυνοι ὑβριστικαὶ ἀναιδεῖς φθαρτικαί, πλὴν τὸ πολυκίνητον ἔχουσαι ἐν παντί. Πᾶσαι δὲ ἐν τῷ Τοξότῃ ποικίλαι περὶ πάντα τὰ πράγματα. .

     Τοῦ δὲ Αἰγόκερω αἱ πρῶται ζ′ Ἑρμοῦ εἰσί, θεατρικαὶ σατυρικαὶ μιμητικαὶ ψευστικαὶ πορνικαὶ προαγωγοί, τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἐπιθυμηταὶ καὶ ἄδοξοι, ἀφυεῖς δὲ περὶ πάντα καὶ εὐχάριστοι καὶ εὔποροι, οὐχ ὑψηλαὶ δέ. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ζ′ Διὸς ἐν ὑψηλοταπεινώματι ποιοῦσαι δόξης τε καὶ ἀδοξίας, πλούτου καὶ πενίας, ἐπιδόσεων καὶ θεατρισμῶν, στειρώδεις θηλυγόνοι ἢ τερατογόνοι μικροπρεπεῖς ἰδιωτικαί. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς η′ Ἀφροδίτης ἀσώτων λάγνων καὶ κατωφερῶν ἀκρίτων ἐπιψόγων, εὐμεταβόλων περὶ τὰ τέλη, οὐκ εὐθανατούντων οὐδὲ περὶ τοὺς γάμους εὐσταθῶν. Αἱ δὲ τέταρται δ′ Κρόνου αὐστηραὶ ἀνεύφραντοι ἀλλοιώδεις δύστεκνοι δυσάδελφοι ὠμαὶ φθαρτικαὶ κατάψυχροι ἀσύγκλωστοι βάσκανοι μελλητικαὶ καὶ δόλιοι. Αἱ δ’ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν δ′ Ἄρεως ὑψηλαὶ ἐξουσιαστικαὶ τυραννικαί, ἐπὶ παντὶ τὸ ἡγεμονικὸν περιτιθεῖσαι, σπανιστικαὶ τῶν ἰδίων συγγενῶν καὶ ἀναιρετικαὶ ἀνθρώπων, ἀποδημητικαὶ φίλεροι ἕως τέλους ἐρισταί.

     Ὑδροχόου αἱ πρῶται ζ′ μοῖραι Ἑρμοῦ πλουσίων φιλοθησαύρων, ἡδέως ἀποθησαυριζόντων πρὸς τὰ μέτρα τῶν γενέσεων, συνετῶν νομικῶν συνακριβούντων πάντα, ἐπιτακτικῶν μικροψύχων πολυμερίμνων, φιλούντων παιδείαν καὶ πᾶσαν πολυτεχνίαν, διοικητικῶν οἰκονομικῶν φιλανθρώπων. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ἓξ Ἀφροδίτης καλῶς φιλουμένων θεοσεβῶν χωρὶς πόνου εὐπορούντων αἰφνιδιοτυχῶν εὐπόρων πλευστικῶν· εἰσὶ δὲ αὗται πολύσποροι μοῖραι, συμβαίνει δὲ τὸν κατ’ αὐτὰς γενόμενον γραυσὶ συνέρχεσθαι ἢ ἐπισινέσιν ἢ εὐνούχοις συνέρχεσθαι, προβιβάζεσθαι δὲ ὑπὸ ἀσπέρμων ἢ προβεβηκότων. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ζ′ Διὸς εὐτυχεῖς μικρολόγοι ἐνδόμυχοι ἀφιλόδοξοι ἀνεπίφαντοι εὔπαιδες ἀφιλάδελφοι. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς ε′ Ἄρεως ἐπισινεῖς μάλιστα περὶ τὰ ἐντός, δικασχολούμενοι, πονηρῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀδρανῶν καὶ ἐκλελυμένων, πλὴν ταχέως ἐπιχειρούντων τοῖς κακοῖς. Αἱ δὲ λοιπαὶ ε′ Κρόνου στειρώδεις κάθυγροι δύσγονοι σινωτικαί, καὶ μάλιστα περὶ μήνιγγας καὶ τὰ ἐντὸς εἴδη καὶ ὕδρωπας καὶ σπασμούς, σπανιστικαὶ σπανάδελφοι σπανότεκνοι φθονεραί, ἐπὶ τῷ τέλει οὐκ εὐτυχεῖς.

     Τῶν δὲ Ἰχθύων αἱ πρῶται ιβ′ Ἀφροδίτης, ἱλαραὶ πολύσπερμοι καταφερεῖς ἀπολαυστικαὶ καὶ ἡδύβιοι χαιρητικοὶ ἐπιχάριτοι ἐπέραστοι, αὐτομάτως προβιβάζουσαι, προσφιλεῖς θεοῖς. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς δ′ Διὸς φιλολόγων ἐπιστημονικῶν, ἐν ὄχλοις διαπρεπόντων καὶ λόγοις πάντων περιγινομένων, πολυάδελφοι πολύγονοι πολύτεκνοι περισσομελεῖς περισσάδελφοι. Αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς γ′ Ἑρμοῦ πολύσπερμοι ἀρχικαὶ ἐντίμων πολύφιλοι χαριστικαὶ φιλότροφοι ἐλεήμονες φιλόθεοι εὔκρατοι. Αἱ δὲ θ′ Ἄρεως εἰσὶ πρακτικαὶ θαλασσομάχοι ἀφηγηταὶ καὶ εὐψυχεῖς, περὶ τὰ ἄρρητα ποιητικαί, ἁρπακτικαὶ καὶ πάλιν μεταδοτικαί, ποικίλαι οὐκ ἰδιοθάνατοι. Αἱ δ’ ἐπὶ πᾶσι β′ Κρόνου σινωτικαὶ κάθυγροι σπασματώδεις, περὶ πάντα ἀτυχεῖς.

     Ἐκθέμενοι οὖν διδασκαλικῶς περὶ ἑκάστης μόνης μοίρας τί ἀποτελεῖ, τοῦ οἰκοδεσπότου αὐτοῖς ἐπικειμένου ἀποτελέσει τὸ ἴδιον ἤτοι φαῦλον ἢ ἀγαθόν. Νυνὶ δὲ περὶ ὡροσκόπου ἐκθήσομαι.

3. Of The Terms

     The first 6° of Aries belong to Jupiter: temperate, robust, prolific, beneficent. The next 6° belong to Venus: cheerful, clever, radiant, even, pure, handsome. The following 8° fall under the ambiguous influence of Mercury: changeable, clever, idle, windy, stormy, full of thunder and lightning. The next 5° belong to Mars: baneful, fiery, unsteady, characteristic of rash, wicked men. The next 5° belong to Saturn: cold, barren, malignant, injured.

     The first 8° of Taurus belong to Venus: prolific, with many children, moist, downward-trending, clinging, hating quarrels . The next 6° belong to Mercury: intelligent, sensible, criminal, with few offspring, sinister, fatal. The next 8° belong to Jupiter: great-hearted, bold, lucky, ruling and beneficent, magnanimous, temperate, loving modesty. The fourth term, the next 5°, belong to Saturn: sterile, barren, a eunuch, a vagabond, censorious, theatrical, gloomy, toilsome. The final 3° belong to Mars: masculine, tyrannical, fiery, harsh, murderous, a looter of temples and a criminal – not an unknown one, rather destructive and short-lived.

     The first 6° of Gemini belong to Mercury: temperate, with fine weather, intelligent, versatile, skilled, active, poetic, prolific. The next 6° belong to Jupiter: competitive, temperate, with fine weather, prolific, luxuriant, beneficent. The third term, 5°, belongs to Venus: blossoming, artistic, addicted to plays and mimes, poetic, a contest winner, popular, cheerful, prolific. The fourth term, 7° belong to Mars: much-burdened, with no brothers, rarely having children, a wanderer, with a good income, destructive, bloody, inquisitive. The last 6° belong to Saturn: temperate, a procurator, having possessions, intellectual, with a wide knowledge, distinguished, noted for intelligence, an arranger of great matters, most famous.

     The first 7° of Cancer belong to Mars: hurling thunderbolts, moved in different directions, uneven, contradictory in his wishes, manic, prolific, lacking, destructive, and in the end, base. The next 6° belong to Venus: prolific, censorius, moist, changeable, skilled, popular, promiscuous. The following 6° belong to Mercury: precise, a robber, a leader in public matters, a tax gatherer, in the public eye, rich, wealthproducing. The fourth term, 7°, belongs to Jupiter: kingly, imperious, glorious, judging, great-hearted, temperate, ruling, entirely noble. The final 4° belong to Saturn. In this term everything is water, moist, lacking in personal property, and in the end quite needy.

     The first 6° of Leo belong to Jupiter: experienced, masculine, imperious and in general having leadership qualities, active, eminent, with no mean traits. The next 5° belong to Venus: very temperate, yielding, talented, luxurious. The third term, 7°, belongs to Saturn: having much experience, fearful, scientific, naturally clever, narrow, religious, with many children, searching out secret knowledge, barren, without offspring. The next 6° belong to Mercury: addicted to plays and mimes, popular, scholastic, guiding, prescribing, intelligent. This term is barren and characteristic of long-lived men. The final 6° belong to Mars: very base and monstrous, destructive, injured, torpid, censured, unlucky.

     The first 7° of Virgo belong to Mercury: lofty, procuratorial, an arranger, handsome, organizing great affairs, most intelligent, entirely noble and eminent. This term is not, however, lucky in love. This misfortune is generally true of Virgo, especially in this term and in that of Venus. This term causes men who are open to criticism; the term of Venus causes those who err constantly. They fall conspicuously short in regard to education. The next 10° belong to Venus: censured, wronging their marriage and falling into difficulty because of this, lucky in theatrical matters. They are most shameful in their passions, especially when Saturn is in aspect; when Mercury is in aspect, they commit adultery; When Jupiter is in aspect, they commit a great number of mistakes which are forgivable – but still there are condemnations. When the sun is in aspect, they commit hidden actions; when the moon is in aspect, they meet with reverses and political opposition. If this term is beheld by malefics, it causes prostitution. The third term, 4°, belongs to Jupiter: agricultural, proper, reclusive but not ignorant. Men born under this term are trustees, fruitful, easily effected. The fourth term, 7°, belongs to Mars: masculine, harsh, public, demagogues, night prowlers, hired men , counterfeiters, imposters. These degrees assault men and lead them to chains, mutilation, tortures, and imprisonment. The last 2° belong to Saturn: monstrous, chilled, destructive, short-lived, the term of deluded men.

     The first 6° of Libra belong to Saturn: kingly, lofty, active – especially for day births, and compelling (exacting) for night births. These degrees are also barren, moist, destructive. The next 5° belong to Μercury: market-like, craftworking, trading, the term of instruments of exchange and numbers, collecting; in general, just and intelligent. The third term, 8°, belongs to Jupiter: wealth-producing, but despite that, this term is characteristic of unlucky men, cheerlessly hoarding their possessions, living without ostentation, with a sordid lifestyle, with no appreciation of beauty, censorious – and not, of course, blessed with children. The fourth term, 7°, belongs to Venus: loving beauty, loving crafts, craftsmen themselves, e. g. sculptors, painters, engravers. In general this term is rhythmic, pious, mild and slow, fortunate, making progress without effort, exceedingly fortunate in marriage, and lucky in everything. The remaining 4° belong to Mars: ruling, leading, lucky in all martial affairs, optimistic-spirited, steady, successful, great-hearted; not, however, with many siblings or lucky with those he has.

     The first 7° of Scorpio belong to Mars: easily upset and disturbed, unsteady, irascible, frank-speaking, arrogant, rarely with children but with many siblings, uneven in fortune, inflamed, very appropriate for nativities which promise campaigns and travel abroad. The next 4° belong to Venus: lucky in marriage, pious, loved by everyone, loving children, wealthy, selected for every office, living graciously. The third term, 8°, belongs to Mercury: military, competitive, prizewinning, and, where words are concerned, bitter, contentious, not to be despised. These degrees are also prolific and fecund. In general they plan mischief, especially against those who attempt evil or do it. The fourth term, 5°, belongs to Jupiter: talented, lucky, high-priestly, glorified in gold, purple, and the high offices appropriate to the inherent greatness of the nativity. This term is beneficent and as a whole loves men and gods. The last 6° belong to Saturn: punitive, rarely with children or siblings, haters of their own relatives, poisoners, melancholic, and misogynists, having secret wounds, and in general very punitive and cursing fate. They are hated by both gods and men; they resist their superiors and are despised by their inferiors.

     The first 12° of Sagittarius belong to Jupiter: active men. These degrees are damp but temperate, dabbling in all crafts and skills, prolific, with many children and siblinhs, yet lacking in personal property. The next 5° belong to Venus: temperate, prominent, victorious, prizewinning, pious, honoured both by the masses and by the rulers, blessed with children and siblings, living with many women. The third term, 4°, belongs to Mercury: verbal, subtle, active, producing eternal verities, philosophical, and in general prominent in knowledge and wisdom; fond of learning if Mercury inclines, but if Mars inclines, loving weapons and tactics. The next 5° fall to Saturn: sterile and baneful, cold, harmful, characteristic of base and completely unlucky men. The next 4° belong to Mars: hot, rash, violent, shameless, destructive – except that this term is restless in all things. All the terms in Sagittarius indicate varied possibilities in all matters.

     The first 7° in Capricorn belong to Mercury: theatrical, comic, on the stage, lying, whoring, seducing, covetous of others’ things, of no reputation, dull (witless) in everything, blessed, wealthy, but not of high rank. The next 7° belong to Jupiter: it brings vicissitudes of glory and infamy, wealth and poverty, largess and public ridicule. This term is barren, having female or deformed children, of low rank, vulgar. The next 8° belong to Venus: profligate, lecherous, downward-trending, thoughtless, censured, having their ends very much in doubt, not dying well, nor steady in marriage. The fourth term, 4°, belongs to Saturn: severe, cheerless, alien, unlucky with their children and brothers, bloody and destructive, cold, pitiless/stand-offish, malignant, slow to act, but tricky. The last 4° belong to Mars: lofty, prosperous, dictatorial, aiming at rule in everything, rarely having own relatives and killing other men, wandering, loving solitude, quarrelsome to the end.

     The first 7° of Aquarius belong to Mercury: rich, miserly, gladly hoarding wealth up to the measure of the nativity, intelligent, learned in the law, precisely defining everything, imperious, petty, careworn, loving education and all disciplines, supervisory, overseeing, philanthropic. The next 6° belong to Venus: loving well, pious, wealthy without effort, profiting by sudden and unexpected good fortune, prosperous, seafaring. These are prolific degrees. It is beneficial for anyone born under these degrees to unite with old women, the feeble, or with eunuchs, and to gain advantage from the barren or the aged. The next 7° belong to Jupiter: lucky, petty, lurking at home, careless of his reputation, living in obscurity, fortunate in his children, misanthropic. The next 5° belong to Mars: diseased (particularly in the internal organs), troubled by lawsuits; this term is characteristic of wicked, intractable, and incapable men – except that these men readily attempt evil deeds. The remaining degrees, 5°, belong to Saturn: barren, moist, conceiving with difficulty, enfeebled, especially in the dura mater and the internal organs, afflicted with dropsy and fits, poor, rarely with siblings or children, envious, unlucky in their ends.

     The first 12° of Pisces belong to Venus: cheery, fecund, downward-trending, luxurious, living graciously, with a friendly greeting, celebrating, loving, making progress without effort, dear to the gods. The next 4° belong to Jupiter: literary, learned, preeminent among the masses and victorious over everyone because of his words, with many siblings, prolific, with many children, having too many associates and siblings. The next 3° belong to Mercury: fecund, ruling, those of high rank, with many friends, bounteous, loving their parents, charitable, pious, temperate. The next 9° belong to Mars: active, naval warriors, bold guides, attaining success in mystic things, plundering but then restoring, varied, not dying a natural death. The last 2° belong to Saturn: enfeebled, moist, subject to fits, entirely unlucky.

     We have given instruction about what effect each degree produces. We add that if the houseruler is located in a given term, the houseruler will produce its proper effect as well, whether good or bad. Now I will explain the Ascendant.

4. Περὶ ὡροσκόπου

     Μαθὼν ἀκριβῶς πόσων μοιρῶν ἐστιν ὁ Ἥλιος ἐπὶ γενέσεως ἴδε, ποῦ τὸ δωδεκατημόριον ἐκπίπτει, καὶ οὗ ἂν ἐκπέσῃ, τούτου τὸ εὐώνυμον τρίγωνον ὡροσκοπήσει ἢ τὰ ὁμοιόπτωτα ζῴδια οἷον ἀρρενικὰ ἢ θηλυκά, νοοῦντός σου τὴν διαφορὰν νυκτὸς ἢ ἡμέρας. Οἷον ἔστω Ἥλιος Ὑδροχόου μοίρᾳ κβ′· τούτου τὸ δωδεκατημόριον κατέληξε Σκορπίῳ· τούτου τὸ εὐώνυμον τρίγωνόν εἰσιν Ἰχθύες. Εἰ οὖν ἡμερινὴ ἦν ἡ γένεσις, ἔδει τοὺς Ἰχθύας ὡροσκοπεῖν ἢ Ταῦρον ἢ Καρκίνον· εἰ δὲ νυκτερινή, τὰ τούτων διάμετρα· Αἰγόκερως ὡροσκοπήσει κατὰ τὴν πρώτην ὥραν.

     Ὅσων ἂν ᾖ μοιρῶν ὁ Ἥλιος, ἐπιγνοὺς ἀκριβῶς ἡμέρας ταύταις πρόσθες τὴν ἀναφορὰν τοῦ ζῳδίου, ἐν ᾧ ὁ Ἥλιος τυγχάνει, καὶ ἀπόλυε ἀπὸ τῆς κατὰ γένεσιν Σελήνης, ἑκάστῳ ζῳδίῳ ἀνὰ μίαν μοῖραν διδούς· ὅπου ἐὰν καταλήξῃ, ἐκεῖ ὁ ὡροσκόπος, ἢ καθὼς πρόκειται εἰς τὰ ὁμοιόπτωτα. Νυκτὸς δὲ ἐπιθεὶς τὴν ἀναφορὰν τοῦ σεληνιακοῦ ζῳδίου ἀπόλυε ἀπὸ τοῦ κατὰ γένεσιν Ἡλίου. Οἷον ἐπὶ τοῦ προκειμένου παραδείγματος Ἥλιος Ὑδροχόῳ, Σελήνη Σκορπίῳ· ταύταις προσέθηκα τὴν ἀναφορὰν τοῦ ζῳδίου λζ′· γίνονται νθ′. Ταύτας ἀπέλυσα ἀπὸ Ἡλίου, κατέληξεν Αἰγόκερῳ· ἐκεῖ ὁ ὡροσκόπος.

     Ἀπὸ Θὼθ ἕως τῆς γενεσιακῆς ἡμέρας τὸ πλῆθος ἀναλαβὼν καὶ τὰς ὥρας πολυπλασιάσας ἐπὶ τὸν πεντεκαίδεκα καὶ προσθεὶς τῷ πρώτῳ ἀριθμῷ ἀπόλυε ἡμέρας μὲν ἀπὸ Αἰγόκερω ἀνὰ λ′, νυκτὸς δὲ ἀπὸ Ἰχθύων. Ἢ πάλιν τὰς ὥρας πολυπλασιάσας ἐπὶ τὸν ιε′ καὶ προσθεὶς τὰς τοῦ Ἡλίου μοίρας ἀπόλυε ἡμέρας μὲν ἀπὸ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Ἡλίου πρὸς ἀναφορὰν κατὰ τὸ γεννητικὸν κλίμα, νυκτὸς δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὡροσκόπου πρὸς ἀναφοράν. Μυστικὸς δὲ καὶ ἀναγκαστικὸς ὡροσκόπος οὕτως εὑρίσκεται· ἐπὶ μὲν ἡμερινῆς γενέσεως ὡροσκοπήσει τὸ σπόριμον τρίγωνον τοῦ Ἡλίου ἢ τὰ τούτου ἑξάγωνα, ἐπὶ δὲ νυκτερινῆς τὰ τούτων διάμετρα. Ὥστε καὶ ἄτερ ὥρας ἐὰν ἐπιγνῷς, πότερον νὺξ ἢ ἡμέρα, εὑρήσεις τὸ ὡροσκοποῦν ζῴδιον.

     Πρὸς δὲ λεπτομερῆ καὶ μοιρικὴν εὕρεσιν ὡροσκόπου οὕτως. Τὰς γεννητικὰς ὥρας ἐπὶ τὸ τῆς Σελήνης δρόμημα πολυπλασιάσας ἀπόλυε ἡμέρας μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ Ἡλίου μοίρας, νυκτὸς δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ διαμέτρου, καὶ ὅπου δἂν καταλήξῃ, τοσούτων μοιρῶν ὁ ὡροσκόπος κριθήσεται. Ἔστω δὲ ἐπὶ ὑποδείγματος Ἀδριανοῦ δ′ Μεχὶρ ιγ′ ὥρα νυκτὸς α′· Ἥλιος Ὑδροχόου μοίρᾳ κβ′, Σελήνη Σκορπίου μοίρᾳ ζ′, τὸ δρόμημα τῆς Σελήνης ἐν τῇ ιδ′ ἡμέρᾳ ἀπὸ ἐποχῆς ιγ′ νβ′· εἰσῆλθον εἰς τὸ προκείμενον ὄργανον εἰς τὰς ιδ′ μοίρας τὰς ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ στίχῳ καὶ εὗρον ὑποκάτω κατὰ τὴν πρώτην ὥρας ιϛ′. Ταῦτας ἀπέλυσα καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς διαμετρούσης τὸν Ἥλιον μοίρας Λέοντος κβ′· κατέληξεν ἐν τῷ Αἰγόκερῳ περὶ μοῖραν η′. Ἐὰν δέ πως ἐκ τοῦ ἀναφορικοῦ πλειόνων ἢ ἡττόνων μοιρῶν εὑρεθῇ, ἐκ τῆς προκειμένης ἐφόδου γνωσθήσεται, πότερον πρόσθεσιν ἢ ἀφαίρεσιν ἡ ὥρα ἔχει.

     Ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν ἡμέρας τὰς λοιπὰς τοῦ Ἡλίου μοίρας καὶ ὅσας ἐπέχει ἡ Σελήνη ἐπισυνθεὶς ἔκκρουε τριακοντάδας, καὶ αἱ λοιπαὶ ὡροσκοπήσουσιν· ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν νυκτὸς τὰς λοιπὰς τῆς Σελήνης καὶ ὅσας ἐπέχει ὁ Ἥλιος. Ἐὰν μέντοι ὑπὲρ τὴν λογιζομένην ὥραν πλεονάσῃ ὁ ἀριθμός, ὅσαι ἂν ὑστερῶσιν εἰς τὰς λ′ ἢ εἰς τὸ μέγεθος τῆς ὥρας, τοσαῦται ὡροσκοπήσουσιν. Ἀπὸ τῆς κε′ τοῦ Ἐπιφὶ ἕως τῆς γεννητικῆς ἡμέρας ψήφισον τὰς ἡμέρας σὺν ταῖς ἐπαγομέναις καὶ πρόσβαλλε τῷ ἀριθμῷ μόνα κβ′ καὶ ἀπόλυε τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἀνὰ λ′, ἡμέρας μὲν ἀπὸ Καρκίνου, νυκτὸς δὲ ἀπὸ Αἰγοκέρωτος· ὅπου δ’ ἂν καταλήξῃ ὁ ἀριθμός, ἐκεῖ ἔσται ὁ ὡροσκόπος, καὶ ὧν μοιρῶν, τοσαῦται ὡροσκοπήσουσιν.

4. Of the Ascendant

     Having determined accurately the sun’s degree-position at the nativity, note where the dodekatemorion falls. The sign in trine to the left of this position will be the Ascendant, or the equivalent sign (i. e. either masculine or feminine), providing you take into account the distinction between night and day births. For example: let the sun be in Aquarius 22°. The dodekatemorion of this point is in Scorpio; the sign in trine to the left is Pisces. If the birth was in the day, either Pisces or Taurus or Cancer must be the Ascendant.

     If the birth was at night, one of the diametrically opposite signs must be. Virgo would be in the Ascendant in the first hour of the night. Having determined accurately the degree-position of the sun, for day births add to this position the rising time of the sign in which the sun is; then begin to count from the moon’s position at the nativity, giving each sign one degree. The Ascendant will be in the sign where the count stops, or (as mentioned above) in the equivalent sign. For night births add the rising time of the moon’s sign and count from the sun’s position at the nativity. Using the previous example again: the sun in Aquarius (22°), the moon in Scorpio. I add the rising time of Scorpio, 37, to 22° (the sun’s position), for a result of 59. I count this off from the sun and stop at Virgo. The Ascendant is there.

     Find the number of days from Thoth to the day of birth; multiply the hour/time of birth by 15 and add the result to the first number. For day births count from Virgo, giving 30 to each sign. For night births, count from Pisces. Alternatively, multiply the hour/time of birth by 15 [and add the degree-position of the sun]. Then for day births, count from the sun with reference to the rising time of the sign in the klima of birth; for night births, count from the the point opposite the sun with reference to the rising time. In this way, the mystical, compelling Ascendant will be found. For day births the point of conception will be trine or sextile to the sun and in the Ascendant; for night births the signs in opposition to these places will be the point of conception. As a result, for whatever hour you observe, night or day, you will find the Ascending sign.

     To find the Ascendant precisely to the degree, do this: multiply the hour/time of birth by the motion of the moon. For day births count from the sun’s degree-position; for night births count from the point in opposition to the sun. The degree where the count stops will be considered the Ascendant. For example: Hadrian year 4, Mechir 13, the first hour of the night. The sun was in Aquarius 22°, the moon is Scorpio 7°, the motion of the moon in its 204^th day from epoch was 13:52°. I consulted the appended table under 14 in the first row and I found below in the first column of hours, 16. I then counted from the degree in opposition to the sun, Leo 22°. I stopped in Virgo 8°. If more or fewer degrees are found in the table of rising times, it can be ascertained from the aforementioned procedure whether the hour requires an added or a subtracted factor.

     For those born during the day, add the remaining degrees in the sun’s sign to the moon’s degree-position and divide by 30. The remainder will be the degree in the Ascendant. For those born at night: add the remaining degrees in the moon’s sign to the sun’s degree-position. If the resulting number is greater than the calculated hour / time of birth, the amount by which it exceeds either 30 or the number of the hour will be the Ascendant. Count the days (including the intercalary days) from Epiphi 25 to the day of birth, and add 22 to this number. Count the result off by 30’s, starting at Cancer for day births, at Capricorn for night births. The Ascendant will be where the count stops, and the degree thus determined will be the degree in the Ascendant.

5. Ὡροσκοπικὸς γνώμων

     Λαβὼν τὰς τοῦ Ἡλίου μοίρας ἐπὶ ὡροσκόπου χρηματιζούσας ἐπὶ ἡμέρας, ἐπὶ δὲ νυκτὸς τῆς διαμέτρου, δεκαπλασίασον αὐτὰς καὶ τὸ γενόμενον ποσὸν πάλιν πολλαπλασίασον ἐπὶ τὰς ἀναδοθείσας ὥρας ἤτοι ἡμερινὰς ἢ νυκτερινὰς ἤτοι ὅλας ἢ καὶ μετὰ μοιρῶν, καὶ ἐκκρούσας ὅλους κύκλους τὰ λοιπὰ ἡγοῦ ὡροσκοπικὸν γνώμονα. Κλίμα ** ὥρα ἡμέρας β′· Ἥλιος Καρκίνου ζ′, Σελήνη Κριοῦ κβ′. Ἡμερινοὶ ὡροσκόποι τῆς τοῦ Ἡλίου μοίρας † κη′ μβ′ δεκάκις, γίνονται σκδ′· ταῦτα δίς, γίνονται μετὰ κύκλων πη′· οὗτος ὁ ὡροσκοπικὸς γνώμων.

     Οἷον ἔστω Ἥλιος Αἰγόκερω μοίρᾳ ιθ′· ἐγενήθη δέ τις ὥρᾳ νυκτερινῇ τρίτῃ. Τὸ δὲ δρόμημα τῆς Σελήνης ἐστὶ μοιρῶν ιβ′ C ¹ ιε′. Εἰσέρχομαι εἰς τὸ σελίδιον τῆς τρίτης ὥρας, ἔνθα παράκειται ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν ιβ′ μοιρῶν τοῦ δρομήματος μοῖραι μα′ C, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ιε′ C [τοῦ δρομήματος] μοῖραι μδ′ C. Ἡ ὑπεροχὴ τῶν μδ′ C πρὸς τὰς μα′ C γίνεται μοῖραι γ′, τούτων τὸ C ιε′ γίνεται α′ C ε′. Ταύτας προστίθημι ταῖς μα′ C διὰ τὸ εἶναι τὸ τῆς Σελήνης δρόμημα μοιρῶν ιβ′ C ιε′. Γίνονται οὖν ὁμοῦ μοῖραι μγ′ ε′. Ταύταις πρόσθες τὰς τοῦ Ἡλίου μοίρας ιθ′· ὁμοῦ γίνονται μοῖραι ξβ′ ε′· ἃς ἀπέλυσα ἀπὸ τοῦ Καρκίνου διὰ τὸ νυκτερινὴν εἶναι τὴν γένεσιν, καὶ κατέληξεν ὁ ὡροσκόπος μοίρᾳ β′ Παρθένου λεπτοῖς ιβ′· ἦν δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ κανόνος ὁ ὡροσκόπος Αἰγόκερω μοίρᾳ γ′.

     Σκοπεῖν δεήσει ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν συνοδικῶν τὸ ὅριον τῆς συνόδου καὶ τὸν κύριον τοῦ ζῳδίου, καὶ ὃς ἂν τούτων συνεγγιζούσας μοίρας τῇ ὥρᾳ ἔχῃ, ἐκεῖναι ὡροσκοπήσουσιν. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν πανσεληνιακῶν τὸ ὅριον τῆς πανσελήνου καὶ τὸν κύριον τοῦ ζῳδίου συγκρίνειν. Ἡμέρας τὰς τοῦ Ἡλίου δεῖ λαμβάνειν καὶ τὰς λοιπὰς τὰς τῆς Σελήνης καὶ ἐκκρούειν τριακοντάδας, τὰς δὲ περιλειπομένας εἰσενέγκαντας εἰς τὸν ἀναφορικὸν λόγον τὸ παρακείμενον μέγεθος τῷ ἡλιακῷ ζῳδίῳ ποιεῖν ἐπὶ τὰς μοίρας τοῦ ζῳδίου, καὶ ἐπιπροσθέντας τὰς ἡλιακὰς μοίρας ἀπολύειν τριακοντάδας· ὅσαι δ’ ἂν λείψωσιν, ἔσονται ἡλιακὸς γνώμων, ὃν καὶ σημειωσάμενοι ποιήσομεν καὶ τὸν τῆς Σελήνης γνώμονα οὕτως.

     Διπλώσαντες ἃς ἔχει μοίρας ἡ Σελήνη ἀφαιροῦμεν τριακοντάδας, τὰς δὲ περιλειπομένας δωδεκαπλασιάσαντες καὶ ἐπιπροσθέντες τὰς τῆς Σελήνης ἢ μοίρας ἀφαιροῦμεν τριακοντάδας, καὶ αἱ λοιπαὶ ἔσονται τῆς Σελήνης γνώμων. Νυκτὸς δὲ τὰς λοιπὰς τῆς Σελήνης μοίρας καὶ ἃς ἔχει ὁ Ἥλιος ἐπισυνθέντες καὶ ἐκκρούσαντες εἰς τὸν ἀναφορικὸν τριακοντάδας τὰς λοιπὰς εἰσφέρομεν ἐπὶ τὸ ἡλιακὸν ζῴδιον καὶ ἐπιγνόντες τὸ ὡριαῖον μέγεθος πολλαπλασιάζομεν τὰς τοῦ Ἡλίου μοίρας καὶ ἐπιπροσθέντες, ὅσας ἔχει μοίρας ὁ Ἥλιος, ἀφαιροῦμεν τριακοντάδας· καὶ αἱ περιλειπόμεναι ἔσονται ἡλιακὸς γνώμων. Ἐὰν οὖν ὑπερέχῃ ὁ τοῦ Ἡλίου γνώμων τὸν τῆς Σελήνης, ἡ ὥρα ἀφαίρεσιν ἔχει· ἐὰν δὲ ὁ τῆς Σελήνης, πρόσθεσιν, ὅση ἡ ὑπεροχή· ἐὰν δὲ ἴση, οὔτε πρόσθεσιν οὔτε ἀφαίρεσιν ἔχει. Ὁμοίως καὶ ἐὰν ὑπὲρ τὰς ιε′ ἢ ἐντὸς αἱ περιλειπόμεναι πρόσθεσιν ἢ ἀφαίρεσιν ἔχωσι.

     Ζῳδιακῶς ἐπιγνόντες τὸ ὡροσκοποῦν ζῴδιον τὴν μοῖραν οὕτως εὑρήσομεν. Μαθόντες τὸ ἔτος τῆς τετραετηρίδος ὡς ὑπόκειται τὰς παρακειμένας ὥρας τῇ γεννητικῇ ὥρᾳ ἐπιπροσθέντες καὶ ψηφίσαντες τὴν Σελήνην, πόση ἐστί, τοσοῦτον ἡγησόμεθα τὸν ὡροσκόπον.

     Ἔχει δὲ τὸ πρῶτον ἔτος ὥρας ια′,
     τὸ δεύτερον ὥρας ϛ′,
     τὸ τρίτον ὥρας ιβ′,
     τὸ τέταρτον ὥρας ϛ′.

     Προσῳκείωται δὲ καὶ τὸ ἔτος τῆς τετραετηρίδος πρὸς τὴν τοῦ Κυνὸς ἄστρου ἐπιτολήν.

     Ἔτος πρῶτον τῆς τετραετηρίδος· ἀνατέλλει Καρκίνῳ ὥρᾳ πρώτῃ νυκτερινῇ.
     Τὸ δεύτερον ἔτος, ἀνατέλλει Ζυγῷ ὥρᾳ ἡμερινῇ ϛ′.
     Τὸ τρίτον ἔτος, ἀνατέλλει Αἰγόκερῳ ὥρᾳ ἡμερινῇ ιβ′.
     Τὸ τέταρτον ἀνατέλλει ὥρᾳ ϛ′ καὶ νυκτὸς ἐν Κριῷ.

     Οὕτως καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀντιγενέσεων χρησιμεύει ὁ ὡροσκόπος, προστιθεμένων τῶν τῆς τετραετηρίδος ὡρῶν κατὰ τὸ ζητούμενον ἔτος καὶ ἀπολυομένων ἀπὸ τῆς γενεσιακῆς ὥρας· εἰς ποῖον ἂν ἐκπέσῃ ἡμικύκλιον ἤτοι νυκτερινὸν ἢ ἡμερινόν, ἐκεῖ ἡγεῖσθαι τὸν ὡροσκόπον καὶ τοὺς κατ’ ἐκεῖνο καιροῦ ἀστέρας ἐπικέντρους συγκρίνειν πρὸς τὴν γένεσιν.

5. The Gnomon of the Ascendant

     Take the degree-position of the sun with reference to its “Ascending time,” and multiply it by ten. Do this for day births; for night births take the point in opposition to the sun. Then multiply the result by the given hour/time of birth, whether day or night, whether given in whole hours or including fractions. Then divide by 360, and treat the remainder as the “gnomon of the Ascendant.” For example: klima (2), second hour of the day; sun in Cancer 21°, moon in Aries 22°. The “Ascending time” of the sun’s degree-position is 22:24. Multiply this by ten for a result of 224. This figure multiplied by two, then divided by 360°, gives 88. This is the gnomon of the Ascendant.

     Another example: the sun in Capricorn 19°. The birth was in the third hour of the night. The moon’s motion was 12° ¹⁷⁄₃₀. I enter the column of the table under the third hour, where I find at 12 of motion, 41° ¹⁄₂, and at 13 of motion 44° ¹⁄₂. The difference between 44° ¹⁄₂ and 41° ¹⁄₂ is 3, and ¹⁷⁄₃₀ times 3 equals 1° ⁷⁄₁₀. I add this figure to 41° ¹⁄₂ because the moon’s motion was 12° ¹⁷⁄₃₀. All together the degrees total 43° ¹⁄₅. Now add to this figure the sun’s degree-position, 19°. The total is 62° ¹⁄₅. I count this off from Cancer, since the birth was at night, and the Ascendant is in Virgo 2° 12′. According to the table, the Ascendant was Virgo 3°.

     For new-moon births, it will be necessary to look carefully at the term of the new moon and the ruler of the sign. Whichever of them controls the degree which just precedes the hour, that degree will be the Ascendant. For full–moon births, it will be necessary to determine the term of the full moon and the ruler of its sign. For day births, it is necessary to take the sun’s degree-position and the remaining degrees of the moon and to divide by 30. Find the remainder in the table of rising times and multiply the figure entered there at the sun’s sign by the degrees of the sign. Then, having added the sun’s degree-position, divide by 30. Whatever is left will be the solar gnomon. We note this figure carefully and make it the lunar gnomon as follows.

     Double the moon’s degree-position; divide by 30; multiply the remainder by 12 and add the moon’s degree-position. Then divide by 30 and the remainder will be the lunar gnomon. For night births, add the remaining degrees of the moon to the sun’s degree-position, divide by 30 in the table of rising times. We add the remainder to the sun’s sign and note the “horary magnitude.” We multiply the sun’s degree-position. We add the sun’s degree-position and divide by 30. The remainder will be the solar gnomon. If the solar gnomon is greater than the lunar, then subtract from the Ascendant. If the lunar is greater, then add whatever the excess is. If they are equal, do not add or subtract. Likewise if the remainder is 15 or less, there will be addition or subtraction.

     Having determined by sign the sign in the Ascendant, we will find the degree in this way: note the year of the quadrennium as it is given below. Add the hours entered there to the hour/time of birth. Calculate the moon’s degree-position for the new time. We will consider the Ascendant to have that position.

The first year has 11 hours,
the second 6 hours,
the third 12 hours,
the fourth 6 hours.

     The year of the quadrennium is associated with the rising of the Dog Star (Sirius):

The first year of the Quadrennium, Sirius rises with Cancer in the first day hour,
the second year, it rises with Libra in the sixth day hour,
the third year it rises with Capricorn in the twelfth day hour,
the fourth year it rises with Aries in the sixth night hour.

     Calculated in this way, the Ascendant is useful in casting horoscopes in later years (after birth), the hours from the quadrennium table being added (depending on the year in question), then counted from the hour of birth. Put the Ascendant in whichever hemisphere of the sky – day or night – the count ends, and interpret the nativity with respect the the stars which are occupying an angle at that time.

6. Περὶ μεσουρανήματος

     Μεσουράνημα δὲ ἀπὸ χειρὸς εὑρεῖν οὕτως. Ἀπὸ τῆς δυνούσης μοίρας λαβὼν κατὰ τὰς ἀναφορὰς τοῦ κλίματος ἕως τοῦ διαμέτρου τούτων τὴν ἡμίσειαν ἀπόλυε ἀπὸ τῆς δυτικῆς μοίρας· ὅπου δ’ ἂν ἐκπέσῃ, τοσοῦτον ἔσται τὸ μεσουράνημα. Οἷον ἔστω ὡροσκόπος Αἰγόκερῳ μοίρᾳ ιε′ κατὰ τὸ δεύτερον κλίμα, ἔλαβον ἀπὸ τῆς δυνούσης μοίρας Καρκίνου ιε′ ἕως τῆς τοῦ Αἰγόκερω ιε′· συνάγονται ἀναφοραὶ σιδ′· τούτων τὸ ἥμισυ ρζ′. Ταύταις προσθεὶς τὰς ιε′ τοῦ Καρκίνου ἀπέλυσα ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ· κατέληξεν ἐν Σκορπίῳ μοίρᾳ β′, ἔνθα τὸ μεσουράνημα· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν λοιπῶν.

     Ἐὰν δὲ καὶ τὸ μέγεθος τῶν ὡρῶν τῆς ἡμέρας ἐπιγνῶναι θέλῃς, πάντοτε ἀπὸ τῆς ἡλιακῆς μοίρας ἕως τῆς διαμετρούσης τὰς ἀναφορὰς ἐπισυνθεὶς καὶ τούτων τὸ ιε′ λαβὼν ἐπιγνώσῃ τὸ μέγεθος. Οἷον τὴν προκειμένην δύνουσαν Καρκίνου μοῖραν ιε′ ὑπόθου εἶναι ἡλιακήν· ἕως οὖν τοῦ διαμέτρου γίνονται ἀναφοραὶ σιδ′. Τούτων τὸ ιε′ ιδ′ δ′· λοιπά εἰσιν ε′ ιε′ μέρος ὥρας. Ἔστω οὖν ἡ ἡμέρα Ἡλίου ὄντος ἐν Καρκίνῳ περὶ μοίρας ιε′ κατὰ τὸ κλίμα τῆς Συρίας ὡρῶν ιδ′ ε′ ιε′. Εἰ δὲ καὶ τὸ τῆς νυκτὸς μέγεθος ἐπιγνῶναι θέλεις, ἀπὸ τῆς διαμετρούσης μοίρας τὸν Ἥλιον ἐπισυνθεὶς τὰς ἀναφορὰς ἕως ἧς ἐπέχει πραγματεύου· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ζῳδίων.

6. Of the Midheaven

     Midheaven can be handily found in this way: using the rising times for the appropriate klima, add the rising times from the Descendant to the point in opposition, then take half of the sum. Count this off from the Descendant. MC will be where the count stops. For example: the Ascendant is Capricorn 15° in the second klima. I take the rising times from the Descendant, Cancer 15°, to Capricorn 15°; the total is 214. Half of this is 107. Adding to this the 15° of Cancer, I count from that same point. The count stops at Scorpio 2°, which is MC. Similarly for the other degree-positions.

     If you wish to know the length of the hours of the day, in all cases add the rising times from the sun’s degree-position to the point in opposition. Take ¹⁄₁₅ of that and you will know the length of the hour. For example: assume the previous Descendant, Cancer 15°, is the sun’s position. The rising times from there to the point in opposition total 214; ¹⁄₁₅ of 214 equals 14 [remainder 4] with ⁴⁄₁₅ parts of an hour left over. Therefore the day in the klima of Syria, with the sun in Cancer 15°, will be 14 ⁴⁄₁₅ hours. If you want to know the length of the night, work out the calculation by adding the rising times from the point opposite the sun to the sun’s position. Similarly with the rest of the signs.

7. Περὶ ἀναφορᾶς τῶν ζῳδίων

     Πόσων δὲ ὡρῶν ἕκαστον ζῴδιον ἀναφέρεται, ἐκ τῆς ἑκάστου ἀναφορᾶς γνωστέον. Οἷον ἐπεὶ ὁ Κριὸς ἀναφέρεται ἐν κ′, ἡ δὲ ὥρα ἔχει χρόνους ἰσημερινοὺς ιε′, ἐὰν ἀφέλῃς ἐκ τῶν κ′ τὰς ιε′, λοιπὰ ε′, ἅ ἐστι τρίτον μέρος τῶν ιε′. Ἀνενεχθήσεται οὖν ὁ Κριὸς ὥρᾳ α′ καὶ τρίτῳ. Πόσον δὲ χρόνον ἑκάστη μοῖρα ἰσχύει, γνώσῃ οὕτως. Δίπλωσον τὴν ἀναφορὰν ἑκάστου ζῳδίου καὶ ταῦτα ἑξάκις· γίνονται σμ′· ἡ μοῖρα μῆνες η′. Ἕκαστον δὲ ζῴδιον πόσην πρόσθεσιν ἢ ἀφαίρεσιν ἀναφορᾶς ἔχει, οὕτως γνωστέον. Ἐπεὶ ὁ Κριὸς ἀναφέρεται ἐν κ′, ὁ Ζυγὸς ἐν μ′ εἰς συμπλήρωσιν τῶν ξ′.

     Ὅσων γὰρ ἕκαστον ἀναφέρεται ζῴδιον, εἰς συμπλήρωσιν τῶν ξ′ τὸ κατὰ διάμετρον ζῴδιον ἐφέξει· καὶ ὅσων ὡρῶν ἕκαστον, εἰς συμπλήρωσιν τῶν δ′ ὡρῶν τὸ κατὰ διάμετρον· καὶ ὅσων ἡμερῶν καὶ μηνῶν, δυοῖν ἐτῶν τὸ κατὰ διάμετρον ἐφέξει. ᾧ γὰρ πλεονάζει ἕκαστον, τὸ κατὰ διάμετρον λείπεται· ᾧ δὲ λείπεται, τούτῳ πλεονάζει τὸ κατ’ εὐθύ. Ἀφεῖλον οὖν ἀπὸ τοῦ προκειμένου μεγίστου τὸ ἐλάχιστον, τοῦτ’ ἔστιν ἀπὸ τῶν μ′ τὰ κ′· λοιπὰ κ′. Τούτων τὸ πέμπτον γίνεται δ′· ἡ προσθαφαίρεσις ἑκάστου ζῳδίου τέτταρα. Ταῖς οὖν κ′ τοῦ Κριοῦ ἐὰν προσθῶμεν δ′, γίνονται κδ′· ἐν τούτοις ὁ Ταῦρος ἀνενεχθήσεται· οἱ δὲ Δίδυμοι ἐν κη′, ὁ Καρκίνος ἐν λβ′, ὁ Λέων ἐν λϛ′, ἡ Παρθένος ἐν μ′, ὁ Ζυγὸς μ′. Εἶτα ἀπὸ Σκορπίου ὁμοίως ἀφαιρήσεις δ’ ἕως Ἰχθύων. Οὕτως καὶ καθ’ ἕκαστον κλίμα ζητῶν ἐπιγνώσῃ.

     Ἄλλως. Ἔστω τὸν Λέοντα ἀναφέρεσθαι ἐν λς′, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ Σκορπίον, τὸν δὲ Ταῦρον καὶ τὸν Ὑδροχόον ἐν κδ′· λοιπὰ ιβ′, ὧν τὸ τρίτον δ′· αὕτη προσθαφαίρεσις. Οὕτως καὶ καθ’ ἕκαστον κλίμα ζητῶν ἐπιγνώσεις. Ἡ δὲ διαφορὰ τῶν κλιμάτων καὶ παραύξησις οὕτω γιγνώσκεται. Ἐπεὶ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ κλίματι ἀπὸ Καρκίνου ἕως Τοξότου συνάγονται ἀναφοραὶ σι′, τὸ ἕκτον γίνεται λε′· ἐν τούτοις ὁ Λέων ἀνενεχθήσεται. Καὶ ὁμοίως κατὰ τὴν προκειμένην ἔφοδον, ἐὰν ἀφέλῃς τὰς κε′ τοῦ Ὑδροχόου καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν τὸ τρίτον λάβῃς, ἐπιγνώσεις τῶν ζῳδίων τὰς ἀναφοράς. Ἐπεὶ οὖν ἑπτὰ κλίματα τυγχάνει, ἐν δὲ τῷ ἑβδόμῳ ἀπὸ Καρκίνου συνάγονται ἀναφοραὶ σλδ′, ἀφ’ ὧν ἐὰν τὰ σι′ τοῦ πρώτου κλίματος ἀφέλωμεν, περιλειφθήσονται κδ′ ὑπεροχαί· ὧν τὸ ϛ′, ἐπεὶ μεταξὺ ϛ′ κλίματα τυγχάνει, γίνονται δ′. Αὕτη αὔξησις ἑκάστου κλίματος πρὸς τὴν πῆξιν τοῦ ἀναφορικοῦ· ὡς εἶναι ἐν μὲν τῷ πρώτῳ κλίματι ἀπὸ Καρκίνου ἕως Τοξότου ἀναφορὰς σι′, ἐν δὲ τῷ β′ κλίματι σιδ′, ἐν δὲ τῷ γ′ σιη′, ἐν δὲ τῷ τετάρτῳ σκβ′, ἐν δὲ τῷ πέμπτῳ σκϛ′, ἐν δὲ τῷ ϛ′ σλ′, ἐν δὲ τῷ ζ′ σλδ′.

7. Of the Ascensions (Rising Times) of the Signs

     How many hours each sign takes to rise can be figured from the rising times of each sign. For example: Aries rises in 20 equinoctial times ; now an hour has 15 equinoctial times. If you take 15 from 20, the result is 5, which is ¹⁄₃ of 15. Therefore Aries will rise in 1 ¹⁄₃ hour. You can discover how long each degree takes to rise thus: double the rising time of each sign; multiply this by six – the result for Aries is 240. The degree is 8 “months”. For each sign the amount its rising time is more or less than another sign’s can be found as follows: Aries rises in 20; Libra in 40, for a total of 60.

     The rising time of a sign plus the rising time of the sign in opposition will total 60. The hours of a sign plus the hours of the sign in opposition will total 4 hours. The “days” and “months” of each sign plus those of the sign in opposition will total two “years.” By however much one sign exceeds the half, by so much the sign in opposition will fall short, and vice-versa. So – in the previous example – subtract the lesser from the greater, 20 from 40; the remainder is 20. One-fifth of this is 4, so the addition/subtraction factor for each sign is 4. If to the 20 of Aries we add 4, the result is 24. In this time Taurus will rise. Then Gemini in 28, Cancer in 32, Leo in 36, Virgo in 40, Libra in 40. From Scorpio to Pisces subtract in the same manner. By investigating in this way, you will find the rising times for each klima.

     Another method: assume Leo rises in 36; the same for Scorpio, but Taurus and Aquarius in 24. When subtracted the result is 12, of which the third part is 4. This is the addition/subtraction factor. And so by investigating in this way, you will find the rising times for each klima. The difference between klimata and the progressive increase of the rising times are calculated as follows: in the first klima the rising times from Cancer to Sagittarius total 210; ¹⁄₆ of this is 35. In this amount Leo rises. Continuing with the procedure at hand, if you subtract the 25 of Aquarius and take onethird of the remainder, you will know the rising times of the signs. Given that there are 7 klimata, in the seventh, from Cancer to Sagittarius, the rising times total 234. If you subtract the 210 of the first klima from 234, 24 are left. One-sixth (since there are 6 klimata between) of this is 4. Thus 4 is the increase needed for each klima in the construction of the table of rising times. So in the first klima the rising time from Cancer to Sagittarius is 210. In the second klima, 214; in the third, 218; in the fourth, 222; in the fifth, 226; in the sixth, 230; in the seventh, 234.

8. Περὶ ἀκουόντων καὶ βλεπόντων ζῳδίων

     Ὁμοίως καὶ περὶ ἀκουόντων καὶ βλεπόντων ἑξαγώνων ζῳδίων ἐκ τῶν ἀναφορῶν γνωστέον, οἷον οὕτως. Οἱ Ἰχθύες βλέπουσι τὸν Ταῦρον· ἀπὸ Ἰχθύων ἓξ ζῳδίων ἀναφοραὶ κατὰ τὸ δεύτερον κλίμα γίνονται ρξ′ καὶ ἀπὸ Ταύρου ἕως Ζυγοῦ σ′· γεγόνασιν οἱ Ἰχθύες ἥττονες τοῦ Ταύρου καὶ ἀκούουσιν αὐτοῦ· καὶ τῶν β′ αἱ ἀναφοραὶ πληροῦσι τὰς τξ′. Ὁμοίως ἀπὸ Διδύμων ἕως Σκορπίου σιβ′ καὶ ἀπὸ Λέοντος ἕως Αἰγόκερω σιβ′· Δίδυμοι οὖν καὶ Λέων ἰσανάφοροι καὶ ἀκούουσιν ἀλλήλων. Πάλιν ἀπὸ Παρθένου ἕως Ὑδροχόου σ′ καὶ ἀπὸ Σκορπίου ἕως Κριοῦ ρξ′· βλέπουσιν. Ἀπὸ Ζυγοῦ ἕως Ἰχθύων ρπ′, ἀπὸ Τοξότου ἕως Ταύρου ρμη′, ἀπὸ Ὑδροχόου ἕως Καρκίνου ρμη′· ἀκούουσι καὶ ἰσανάφοροι. Οὕτως καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν λοιπῶν.

     Τινὲς δὲ τὴν συμπάθειαν τῶν ἑξαγώνων οὕτως ἡγοῦνται· τῶν δύο ζῳδίων τὰς ἀναφορὰς ἐπισυνθέντες καὶ τούτων τὴν ἡμίσειαν ἀναλαβόντες σκοποῦσιν, εἰ τὸ μεταξὺ ζῴδιον οὕτως ἀναφέρεται. Οἷον Κριὸς κ′ οἱ Δίδυμοι κη′, γίνονται μη′, ὧν τὸ ἥμισυ κδ′· ἐν τούτοις ὁ Ταῦρος ἀναφέρεται. Διὰ τοῦτο ὁ Κριὸς πρὸς τοὺς Διδύμους ἕξει συμπάθειαν· ὁμοίως ὁ Ταῦρος πρὸς τὸν Καρκίνον, ἐπεὶ τῶν δύο αἱ ἀναφοραὶ γίνονται νϛ′, ὧν τὸ ἥμισυ κη′· ἐν τούτοις οἱ Δίδυμοι ἀναφέρονται, καὶ ὁμοίως οἱ Δίδυμοι πρὸς τὸν Λέοντα καὶ ὁ Καρκίνος πρὸς τὴν Παρθένον. Ὁ δὲ Λέων πρὸς τὸν Ζυγὸν οὐκ ἔχει διὰ τὸ συνάγεσθαι οη′, ὧν τὸ ἥμισυ λθ′, ἡ δὲ Παρθένος ἐν μ′ ἀναφέρεται. Ὁμοίως καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν λοιπῶν.

8. Listening and Beholding Signs

     Similarly the listening and the beholding signs (the sextile signs) must be calculated from their rising times as follows: Pisces beholds Taurus; in the second klima the rising times of the six signs from Pisces (to Leo) total 160 and from Taurus to Libra total 200. Pisces is less than Taurus and therefore listens to it. The rising times of the two groups total 360. Likewise from Gemini to Scorpio there are 212 and from Leo to Capricorn 212; therefore Gemini and Leo are of equal rising time and listen to each other. Again from Virgo to Aquarius is 200, from Scorpio to Aries 160. They behold each other and Scorpio listens to Virgo. From Leo to Capricorn is 212, and from Libra to Pisces is 180… From Sagittarius to Taurus is 148, and from Aquarius to Cancer is 148. They listen to each other and are of equal rising times. Similarly for the rest of the signs.

     Some astrologers consider the sympathy of the sextile signs to be as follows: they add the rising times of the two (sextile) signs and divide the sum in half. Then they see if the intervening sign actually rises in that time. For example: Aries 20 plus Gemini 28 totals 48, half of which is 24. Taurus actually does rise in that time. Therefore Aries will have sympathy with Gemini. Likewise Taurus with Cancer, since their rising times total 56, half of which is 28. In this time Gemini actually does rise. Likewise Gemini with Leo and Cancer with Virgo. Leo however does not have sympathy with Libra because their rising times total 78, half of which is 39 – but Virgo actually rises in 40. Likewise for the rest of the signs.

9. Σύνοδοι καὶ πανσέληνοι ἀπὸ χειρός

     Σύνοδον καὶ πανσέληνον ἀπὸ χειρὸς εὑρεῖν. Λαβὼν ἀπὸ τῆς ἡλιακῆς μοίρας ἐπὶ τὴν σεληνιακὴν καὶ ἐπιγνοὺς πόσα ἐστὶ δωδεκατημόρια ἀνάδραμε ἀπὸ τῆς ἡλιακῆς μοίρας κἀκεῖ εὑρήσεις τὴν σύνοδον. Καὶ ἡ Σελήνη δὲ τοσαύτας ἀπὸ συνόδου ἐφέξει μοίρας, ὅσα ἐὰν εὑρεθῇ δωδεκατημόρια. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν πανσελήνων γενέσεων ἀπὸ τῆς διαμετρούσης τὸν Ἥλιον μοίρας λάμβανε ὡς ἐπὶ τὴν Σελήνην καὶ ἐπιγνούς, πόσα ἐστὶ δωδεκατημόρια, ἀφαίρει ἀπὸ τῆς διαμετρούσης τὸν Ἥλιον μοίρας· κἀκεῖ ἔσται ἡ πανσέληνος. Ἐὰν δὲ τῇ πανσεληνιακῇ μοίρᾳ προσθῇς ιε′, εὑρήσεις τὴν μέλλουσαν σύνοδον. Ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τῇ συνοδικῇ μοίρᾳ ἐὰν προσθῇς ιε′, εὑρήσεις τὴν μέλλουσαν πανσέληνον.

     Οἷον Μεσωρὶ β′ Ἥλιος Λέοντι μοίρᾳ ε′, Σελήνη Ζυγῷ μοίρᾳ κϛ′· τὸ διάστημα ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἡλίου ἐπὶ τὴν Σελήνην γίνεται πα′, ἅ ἐστι δωδεκατημόρια ζ′ ἔγγιστα. Ἔσται οὖν ἑβδόμη ἡ Σελήνη ἀπὸ συνόδου. Πάλιν τὰ ἑπτὰ ἀνεπόδισα ἀπὸ ἡλιακῆς μοίρας· κατέληξεν εἰς τὴν τοῦ Καρκίνου μοῖραν κη′· ἐκεῖ ἡ σύνοδος ἐγένετο. Καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς δευτέρας τοῦ Μεσωρὶ ἀνεπόδισα τὰς ζ′· γίνεται Ἐπιφὶ κε′· ταῖς οὖν κη′ τοῦ Καρκίνου ἐὰν προσθῶμεν ιε′, γίγνεται Λέοντι ιγ′. Ἔσται οὖν ἡ πανσέληνος Λέοντι μοίρᾳ ιγ′.

     Τὴν δὲ πανσέληνον οὕτως· ἔστω Μεχὶρ ιγ′ Ἥλιος Ὑδροχόῳ μοίρᾳ κβ′, Σελήνη Σκορπίῳ μοίρᾳ ζ′. Ἔλαβον ἀπὸ τῆς διαμετρούσης τὸν Ἥλιον μοίρας Λέοντος κβ′ ἕως τῆς σεληνιακῆς· γίνονται οε′. Εἰσὶν οὖν δωδεκατημόρια ϛ′, ἅτινα ἀφαιρῶ ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ Λέοντος μοίρας κβ′· λοιπαὶ ιϛ′, ἐν αἷς γέγονεν ἡ πανσέληνος. Πάλιν τὰς ϛ′ ἀφεῖλον ἀπὸ τῆς ιγ′ τοῦ Μεχίρ· γέγονε τοῦ Μεχὶρ ζ′. Ὁμοίως ἐπεὶ ἀπὸ συνόδου ἕως πανσελήνου εἰσὶν ἡμέραι ιε′, ταύταις προσέθηκα τὰς η′· γίνονται κα′. Τοσαύτας ἡμέρας ἡ Σελήνη ἀπὸ τῆς συνόδου ἀφέξει.

9. A Handy Method for New and Full Moons

     To find new and full moons handily: take the distance from the sun’s degree-position to the moon’s, and determine how many dodekatemoria there are between. Count this amount off from the sun’s degreeposition and you will find the new moon there. The moon will be as many degrees from conjunction as there are dodekatemoria which have been determined. For full-moon nativities, take the distance from the point opposite the sun to the moon, and determine how many dodekatemoria there are in this distance. Subtract that amount from the position of the point opposite the sun. The full moon will be there. Also, if you add 15° to the degree-position of the full moon, you will find the position of the next new moon. If you add 15° to the position of the new moon, you will find the next full moon.

     For example: Mesore 2, the sun in Leo 5°, the moon in Libra 26°. The distance from the sun to the moon is 81°, which is very nearly 7 dodekatemoria. Therefore the moon is seven days past the conjunction. Next I deduct the 7 from the sun’s position and arrive at Cancer 28°. The previous new moon occurred there. From Mesore 2 I subtract 7; the result is Epiphi 25. If we add 15 to Cancer 28° the result is Leo 13°. The full moon will be at Leo 13°.

     Calculate the full moon as follows: assume Mechir 13, the sun in Aquarius 22°, the moon in Scorpio 7°. I take the distance from the point opposite the sun, Leo 22°, to the moon’s position; this is 75°, which equals 6 dodekatemoria. I subtract this from Leo 22°. The result is Leo 16°, where the full moon occurred. Again I subtract the 6 dodekatemoria from Mechir 13, for a result of Mechir 7. Since from the conjunction to the full moon there are 15 days, I add the 8 (days from Mechir 7 to Mechir 13) to this 13, and get 21. Therefore the moon is that many days (21) from new.

10. Περὶ ἑπταζώνου ἤτοι σαββατικῆς ἡμέρας ἀπὸ χειρός

     Περὶ δὲ τῆς ἑβδομάδος καὶ σαββατικῆς ἡμέρας οὕτως. Τὰ ἀπὸ Αὐγούστου ἔτη πλήρη καὶ τὰς ἐμβολίμους ἀναλαβὼν πρόσθες καὶ τὰς ἀπὸ Θὼθ ἕως τῆς γενεθλιακῆς ἡμέρας καὶ ἐκ τούτων ἀφαίρει ὁσάκις δύνῃ ἑπτά, τὰς δὲ λοιπὰς ἀπὸ Ἡλίου· εἰς οἷον δ’ ἂν καταλήξῃς ἀστέρα, ἐκείνου ἔσται ἡ ἡμέρα. Ἡ δὲ τάξις τῶν ἀστέρων πρὸς τὰς ἡμέρας οὕτως ἔχει· Ἥλιος Σελήνη Ἄρης Ἑρμῆς Ζεὺς Ἀφροδίτη Κρόνος. Ἡ δὲ τῶν ζωνῶν διάθεσις οὕτως· Κρόνος Ζεὺς Ἄρης Ἥλιος Ἀφροδίτη Ἑρμῆς Σελήνη· ἐκ ταύτης δὲ τῆς διαθέσεως αἱ ὧραι σημαίνονται, ἐκ δὲ τῶν ὡρῶν ἡ ἡμέρα τοῦ ἑξῆς ἀστέρος.

     Οἷον ἔτος δ′ Ἀδριανοῦ Μεχὶρ κατὰ Ἀλεξανδρεῖς ιγ′ νυκτὸς ὥρα α′· τὰ ἀπὸ Αὐγούστου ἔτη πλήρη ρμη′ καὶ ἐμβόλιμοι λϛ′ καὶ ἀπὸ Θὼθ ἕως ιγ′ Μεχὶρ ἡμέραι ρξγ′· γίγνεται τμζ′. Ἀφαιρῶ ἑβδομάδας μθ′, λοιπαὶ δ′· ἀπὸ Ἡλίου καταλήγει εἰς Ἑρμοῦ ἡμέραν, καὶ ἡ α′ ὥρα νυκτὸς Ἑρμοῦ, ἡ δευτέρα Σελήνης, ἡ τρίτη Κρόνου, ἡ τετάρτη Διός, ἡ πέμπτη Ἄρεως, ἡ ἕκτη Ἡλίου, ἡ ἑβδόμη Ἀφροδίτης, ἡ ὀγδόη Ἑρμοῦ, ἡ ἐνάτη Σελήνης, ἡ δεκάτη Κρόνου, ἡ ἑνδεκάτη Διός, ἡ δωδεκάτη Ἄρεως·

     ἡμέρας α′ Ἡλίου, β′ Ἀφροδίτης, τρίτη Ἑρμοῦ, τετάρτη Σελήνης, πέμπτη Κρόνου, ἕκτη Διός, ἑβδόμη Ἄρεως, ὀγδόη Ἡλίου, ἐνάτη Ἀφροδίτης, δεκάτη Ἑρμοῦ, ἑνδεκάτη Σελήνης, δωδεκάτη Κρόνου. Εἶτα ἑξῆς γίγνεται ἡ ἐπιοῦσα ἡμέρα τουτέστι Μεχὶρ ιδ′· ἔσται Διὸς καὶ ἡ α′ ὥρα.

10. A Handy Method for the Seven-Zone System [or the Sabbatical Day]

     For the week [and the Sabbatical day] proceed as follows: take the full years of the Augustan era and the leap years, and add to that sum the days from Thoth 1 to the birth date. Then subtract as many 7’s as possible ( = divide by 7). Count the result off from the sun’s day, and the birth date will belong to the star at which the count stops. The order of the stars with respect to the days is Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. The arrangement of their spheres is Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon. It is from this latter arrangement that the hours are named, and from the hours, the day of the next star in sequence.

     For example: Hadrian year 4, Mechir 13 (in the Alexandrian calendar), the first hour of the night. The full years of the Augustan era are 148, the leap years are 36, and from Thoth 1 to Mechir 13 are 163 days. The total is 347. I divide by 7 for a result of 49, remainder 4. Starting from the sun’s day, (the count 4) comes to Mercury’s day. The first hour of that night belongs to Mercury, the second to moon, the third to Saturn, the fourth to Jupiter, the fifth to Mars, the sixth to sun, the seventh to Venus, the eighth to Mercury, the ninth to moon, the tenth to Saturn, the eleventh to Jupiter, the twelfth to Mars.

     Of the day the first hour belongs to Sun, the second to Venus, the third to Mercury, the fourth to moon, the fifth to Saturn, the sixth to Jupiter, the seventh to Mars, the eighth to sun, the ninth to Venus, the tenth to Mercury, the eleventh to moon, the twelfth to Saturn. The next day, Mechir 14, continues in this pattern: the first hour belongs to Jupiter.

11. Περὶ οἰκοδεσπότου ἔτους

     Εἰ δὲ καὶ τὸν οἰκοδεσπότην τοῦ ἔτους θέλεις ἐπιγνῶναι τῷ αὐτῷ τρόπῳ, οἷον ἐπὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ὑποδείγματος τὰ πλήρη Αὐγούστου ἔτη ρμη′ καὶ ἐμβόλιμοι λϛ′ καὶ τοῦ Θὼθ α′· γίγνονται ρπε′· ἐκ τούτων ἀφαιρῶ ἑβδομάδας κϛ′· λοιπαὶ γ′. Ταύτας ἀπὸ Ἡλίου· καταλήγει τὸ ἔτος Ἄρει. Ἐπὰν οὖν ἐπιγνῷς τὸν κύριον τοῦ ἔτους, εὑρήσεις καὶ τὸν κύριον τοῦ μηνὸς οὕτως, τῇ τῶν ζωνῶν διαθέσει ἀνωφερῶς χρώμενος. Οἷον ὁ Θὼθ ἔσται Ἄρεως· ἐπεὶ οὖν ἡ κθ′ τοῦ Θὼθ πάλιν εἰς τὸν Ἄρεα καταλήγει, ἡ λ′ Ἑρμοῦ, ἡ πρώτη τοῦ Φαωφὶ ἔσται Διός, ἡ λ′ Ἀφροδίτης· ἡ α′ τοῦ Ἀθὺρ Κρόνου, ἡ τοῦ Χοιὰκ α′ Σελήνης, ἡ τοῦ Τυβὶ Ἑρμοῦ, ἡ τοῦ Μεχὶρ Ἀφροδίτης. Ἐπεὶ οὖν τοῦ μὲν ἔτους κύριος Ἄρης, τοῦ δὲ μηνὸς Ἀφροδίτη, τῆς δὲ ἡμέρας Ἑρμῆς, τῆς δὲ ὥρας Ἥλιος, τούτους σκοπεῖν δεήσει ἐπὶ τῆς γενέσεως πῶς εἰσι κείμενοι. Ἐπιτόπως μὲν γὰρ καὶ τῆς αἱρέσεως πράξεως δηλωτικοί, καὶ μάλιστα ὅταν ὁ κύριος τοῦ ἔτους διαπορευόμενος τύχῃ τὸν καταγόμενον ἐνιαυτόν, ὁ δὲ τοῦ μηνὸς τὸν μῆνα καὶ ὁ τῆς ἡμέρας τὴν ἡμέραν. Ἐὰν δέ πως παραπέσωσιν ἢ ὑπὸ κακοποιῶν μαρτυρηθῶσιν, ἐναντιωμάτων καὶ ταραχῶν εἰσιν δηλωτικοί.

     Ἐμοὶ δὲ μᾶλλον φυσικώτερον ἔδοξε τὰ πλήρη [τὰ] ἀπὸ Αὐγούστου ἔτη καὶ τὰς ἐμβολίμους λαβόντα, καθὼς πρόκειται, καὶ τὰς ἀπὸ Θὼθ ἕως τῆς γενεσιακῆς ἡμέρας καὶ ἐκκρούσαντα ἑβδομάδας καὶ τὰς λοιπὰς ἀπολύσαντα ἀπὸ Ἡλίου ἐκεῖνον κρίνειν τοῦ ἔτους κύριον, εἰς ὃν κατέληξεν ὁ ἀριθμός· ἑκάστης γὰρ γενέσεως ἡ νουμηνία τὴν γεννητικὴν ἡμέραν ἐφέξει. Ἐν δὲ τῷ αὐτῷ ἔτει τοὺς γεννωμένους ὑπὸ μίαν οἰκοδεσποτίαν τετευχέναι οὐ δοκεῖ λόγον ἔχειν. Καθολικῶς οὖν τοῦ ἔτους τὸν κύριον καὶ κοσμικῶν κινήσεων οἱ παλαιοὶ ἐκ τῆς νουμηνίας τοῦ Θὼθ κατελάβοντο (ἔνθεν γὰρ τὴν ἀρχὴν τοῦ ἔτους ἐποιήσαντο), φυσικώτερον δὲ ἐκ κυνὸς ἐπιτολῆς.

11. Of the Houselord of the Year

     If you want to know the houseruler of the year, calculate in the same way. To continue with the previous example: the full years of the Augustan era are 148, the leap years are 36, plus the one day of Thoth 1, for a total of 185. I divide by 7 for a result of 26, remainder 3. Count this (3) from the sun’s day. The year goes to Mars. Now that you have found the ruler of the year, you can find the ruler of the month as follows, applying the arrangement of the spheres in ascending order: Thoth (1) is Mars’. Since Thoth 29 goes to Mars again, the 30th is Mercury’s. Phaophi 1 is Jupiter’s, Phaophi 30 is Venus’, Athyr 1 is Saturn’s, Choiak 1 is the moon’s, Tybi (1) is Mercury’s, and Mechir (1) is Venus’. Since the ruler of the year is Mars, of the month, Venus, of the day, Mercury, and of the hour, the sun, it will be necessary to examine how these stars are situated at the nativity. If they are in their proper places and proper sect, they indicate activity/occupation, especially when the ruler of the year happens to be transiting the current year, the ruler of the month transiting the current month, and the ruler of the day transiting the current day. If however they are unfavorably situated and have malefics in aspect, they indicate reversals and upsets.

     To me it seems more scientific to take the full years of the Augustan era plus the leap years (as was just stated), plus the days from Thoth 1 to the birth date, then to divide by 7 and count the remainder from the sun’s day. Then consider that day’s star, where the count stops, the ruler of the year. The first day of the month of each nativity will control the birth day. It does not seem reasonable for everyone born in the same year to have the same houseruler ( = ruler of the year). In general, the old astrologers took the ruler of the year and of the universal rotation from the first day of Thoth (where they put the start of the new year), but it is more scientific to take it from the rising of Sirius.

12. Περὶ ἀρρενικῶν καὶ θηλυκῶν μοιρῶν

     Περὶ δὲ ἀρρενικῶν καὶ θηλυκῶν μοιρῶν οὕτως. Τῶν μὲν ἀρρενικῶν ζῳδίων αἱ πρῶται β′ ἥμισυ μοῖραι ἔσονται ἀρρενικαί, αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς β′ ἥμισυ θηλυκαί· τῶν δὲ θηλυκῶν ζῳδίων αἱ πρῶται β′ ἥμισυ θηλυκαί, αἱ ἑξῆς ἀρρενικαί, αἱ δὲ ἑξῆς θηλυκαί. Τοῖς οὖν συνοδικοῖς ἡ μοῖρα τῆς συνόδου δηλώσει, τοῖς δὲ πανσεληνιακοῖς ἡ μοῖρα τῆς πανσελήνου· οἱ δέ, ἐν ᾗ μοίρᾳ ὁ ὡροσκόπος ἢ ἡ Σελήνη.

12. Of Masculine and Feminine Degrees

     The masculine and feminine degrees are as follows: the first 2 ¹⁄₂ degrees of the masculine signs are masculine, the next 2 ¹⁄₂ degrees are feminine. The first 2 ¹⁄₂ degrees of feminine signs are feminine, the next (2 ¹⁄₂ degrees) are masculine, the next (2 ¹⁄₂) are feminine. The degree of the new moon will be indicative for new-moon births; the degree of the full moon will be indicative for full-moon births. Others say that the degree in which the Ascendant or the moon falls.