Book The Second. Chapter Vi. The Regions : CHAPTER VI THE REGIONS OR COUNTRIES TO BE CONSIDERED AS LIABLE TO BE COMPREHENDED IN THE EVENT THE first of the several branches of consideration just enumerated relates to locality, and is to be exercised in the following manner:-- In all eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and especially in such as are...
Book The Third. Chapter V. The Parents : CHAPTER V THE PARENTS UNDER each head of inquiry, the proposed investigation must be entered upon in the manner mentioned in the preceding chapter: and, to proceed in due order, the circumstances relating to the parents require to be first disposed of. In conformity with nature, the Sun and Saturn...
Book The Second. Chapter Ix. The Quality : p. 58 CHAPTER IX THE QUALITY AND NATURE OF THE EFFECT THE discrimination of the peculiar properties and character of the effect about to be produced, and of its good or evil nature, occupies the fourth and last division of this part of the subject. These properties must be gathered from the power...
Book The Fourth. Chapter Iii. The Fortune Of Rank : CHAPTER III THE FORTUNE OF RANK THE disposition of the luminaries and the respective familiarities, exercised by the stars attending them, are to be considered as indicative of the degree of rank or dignity. 3 For example, should the two luminaries be found in masculine signs and in angles, or even...
Book The Third. Chapter Xi. The Duration Of Life : CHAPTER XI THE DURATION OF LIFE OF all events whatsoever, which take place after birth, the most essential is the continuance of life: and as it is, of course, useless to consider, in cases wherein the life of a child does not extend to the period of one year, what other events contingent on its...
Book The Third. Chapter Xix. The Diseases : p. 114 CHAPTER XIX THE DISEASES OF THE MIND IN connection with the foregoing discussion on the properties of the mind, the circumstances relating to eminent mental disorders, such as madness, epilepsy; 1 and others of the like formidable nature, duly claim attention. Now, with reference to these...
Book The Fourth. Chapter X. The Periodical : CHAPTER X THE PERIODICAL DIVISIONS OF TIME IN addition to the foregoing brief observations, applicable to the various forms of death, further attention is demanded with respect to the division of time, which requires to be contemplated in its natural order and succession. Now as, in all...
Book The First. Chapter Xviii. Signs Beholding : CHAPTER XVIII SIGNS BEHOLDING EACH OTHER, AND OF EQUAL POWER ANY two signs, equally distant from either tropical sign, are equal to each other in power; because the Sun, when present in one, makes day and night, and the divisions of time, respectively equal in duration to those which he produces...
Book The Second. Chapter Xiii. Mode Of Considerati : CHAPTER XIII MODE OF CONSIDERATION FOR PARTICULAR CONSTITUTIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERE THE first part of the consideration, requisite to form an estimate of the various constitutions liable to take effect in the atmosphere, applies to the general qualities pervading the several quarters of the year...
Book The First. Chapter Xxi. The Triplicities : CHAPTER XXI THE TRIPLICITIES THE familiarity existing by triplicity arises in the following mode: The triplicity preserves accordance with an equilateral triangle, and the whole zodiacal orbit is defined by three circles, viz. that of the equinox, and those of the two tropics; the twelve signs are...
Book The Second. Chapter X. Colours In Eclipses : p. 62 CHAPTER X COLOURS IN ECLIPSES; COMETS, AND SIMILAR PHENOMENA IN investigating general events, it is necessary further to observe the colours or hues displayed during an eclipse, either in the luminaries, or around them; in the shape of rods or rays, or in other similar forms. For, if these...
Book The Third. Chapter Iii. The Degree Ascending : CHAPTER III THE DEGREE ASCENDING THERE frequently arises some uncertainty as to the precise time of birth, and some apprehensions lest it should not be accurately noted. In most cases, the actual minute of the hour, at which the birth happens, can only be ascertained by making a scientific...
Book The Second. Chapter V. Mode Of Particular : CHAPTER V MODE OF PARTICULAR PREDICTION IN ECLIPSES AFTER having gone through the necessary preliminary topics, it is now proper to speak of the manner in which predictions are to be formed and considered; beginning with those which relate to general events, affecting either certain cities...
Book The Second. Chapter Xii. The Particular : CHAPTER XII THE PARTICULAR NATURES OF THE SIGNS BY WHICH THE DIFFERENT CONSTITUTIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERE ARE PRODUCED 3 THE sign of Aries has a general tendency, arising from the presence of the Equinox, to promote thunder and hail. Certain of its parts, however, operate in a greater or less degree...
Untitled : PTOLEMY'S TETRABIBLOS TR. J.M. ASHMAND [1822] The Tetrabiblos, or 'four-part book' of Ptolemy is one of the most important surviving ancient texts on Astrology. Claudius Ptolemy, the second century C.E. author of this book, is best known as the originator of the Ptolemaic system. The Earth stood...
Book The Fourth. Chapter V. Marriage : CHAPTER V MARRIAGE THE consideration of circumstances relating to marriage, or the cohabitation of husband and wife, as sanctioned by law, succeeds to the foregoing details, and must be pursued in the following method. With regard to men, it is to be observed in what manner the Moon may be...
Book The First. Chapter I. Proem : p. 1 PTOLEMY'S TETRABIBLOS OR FOUR BOOKS OF THE "INFLUENCE OF THE STARS" BOOK THE FIRST CHAPTER I PROEM The studies preliminary to astronomical prognostication, O Syrus! are two: the one, first alike in order and in power, leads to the knowledge of the figurations of the Sun, the Mo...
Book The Second. Chapter Ii. Peculiarities : CHAPTER II PECULIARITIES OBSERVABLE THROUGHOUT EVERY ENTIRE CLIMATE THE peculiarities of all nations are distinguished according to entire parallels and entire angles, and by their situation with regard to the Sun and the Ecliptic. The climate which we inhabit is situated in one of the Northern...
Book The First. Chapter Ii. Knowledge May : CHAPTER II KNOWLEDGE MAY BE ACQUIRED BY ASTRONOMY TO A CERTAIN EXTENT THAT a certain power, derived from the thereal nature, is diffused over and pervades the whole atmosphere of the earth, is clearly evident to all men. Fire and air, the first of the sublunary elements, are encompassed and altered...
Book The Third. Chapter Vi. Brothers And Sisters : CHAPTER VI BROTHERS AND SISTERS UNDER this head of inquiry, a general and cursory investigation, only, can be performed; and an attempt to dive into minute particulars would be fruitless, and would prove to be merely a vain search after things not open to discovery. 2 The place, whence inferences...
Book The Second. Chapter Xiv. The Significati : CHAPTER XIV THE SIGNIFICATION OF METEORS IN order to facilitate prognostication in minor and more limited instances, it is important to make further observation of all remarkable appearances occasionally visible around or near the Sun, Moon, and stars. And, for the diurnal state of the atmosphere...
Book The First. Chapter Viii. The Influence : p. 16 CHAPTER VIII THE INFLUENCE OF POSITION WITH REGARD TO THE SUN THE respective powers of the Moon and of the three superior planets are either augmented or diminished by their several positions with regard to the Sun. The Moon, during her increase, from her first emerging to her first quarter...
Book The First. Chapter Ix. The Influence : CHAPTER IX THE INFLUENCE OF THE FIXED STARS NEXT in succession, it is necessary to detail the natures and properties of the fixed stars; all of which have their respective influences, analogous to the influences of the planets: and those stars which form the constellations of the zodiac require...
Book The First. Chapter Xxv. The Places : CHAPTER XXV THE PLACES AND DEGREES OF EVERY PLANET THE signs have been subdivided by some persons into parts still more minute, which have been named places and degrees of dominion. Thus the twelfth part of a sign, or two degrees and a half, has been called a place, and the dominion of it given...
Book The Fourth. Chapter I. Proem : p. 117 BOOK THE FOURTH CHAPTER I PROEM ALL those circumstances have now been set forth, which occur previously to the birth, as well as at the actual birth, and after it, and which it seemed necessary to mention, as conducing to a knowledge of the general quality of the contemperament produced...
Appendix. No. I. Almagest. Book Viii, Chap. Iv : p. 144 APPENDIX NO. I ALMAGEST; BOOK VIII, CHAP. IV THE various constellations of the fixed stars having now been duly described, their aspects remain to be investigated. Independently of the steadfast and immutable aspects which the said stars preserve among themselves, either rectilinearly...
Book The Third. Chapter Xvi. The Form : CHAPTER XVI THE FORM AND TEMPERAMENT OF THE BODY THE matters affecting and regulating the duration of life have now been disposed of; and it becomes proper to enter into further particulars, commencing, in due order, with the figure and conformation of the body; because Nature forms and moulds...
Book The First. Chapter Xx. Houses Of The Planets : p. 28 CHAPTER XX HOUSES OF THE PLANETS THOSE stars which are denominated planetary orbs have particular familiarity with certain places in the zodiac, by means of parts designated as their houses, and also by their triplicities, exaltations, terms, and so forth. The nature of their familiarity by...
Preface : p. xi PREFACE OF all sciences, whether true or false, which have at any time engaged the attention of the world, there is not one of which the real or assumed principles are less generally known, in the present age, than those of Astrology. The whole doctrine of this science is commonly understood...
Book The Third. Chapter Xiii. The Number : CHAPTER XIII THE NUMBER OF PROROGATORS, AND ALSO THE PART OF FORTUNE AFTER due attention has been given to the instructions in the preceding chapter, the Sun, the Moon, the Ascendant, and the part of Fortune, are to be considered as the four principally liable to be elected to the office...
Appendix. No. Ii. Almagest. Book Ii. Extract : NO. II ALMAGEST; BOOK II. EXTRACT FROM CHAP. IX "Of Circumstances regulated by Ascensions" IN any climate whatever, the magnitude of a given day or night is to be computed by the number of ascensional times proper to that particular climate. For example, the magnitude of the day will be ascertained...
Book The First. Chapter V. Benefics And Malefics : CHAPTER V BENEFICS AND MALEFICS OF the four temperaments or qualities above mentioned, two are nutritive and prolific, viz. heat and moisture; by these all matter coalesces and is nourished: the other two are noxious and destructive, viz. dryness and cold; by these all matter is decayed...
Book The First. Chapter Xi. Constellations : p. 20 CHAPTER XI CONSTELLATIONS SOUTH OF THE ZODIAC THE influences of the constellations south of the zodiac, existing in a similar mode, are as follows:-- "Piscis Australis". The bright star in the mouth is of the same influence as Venus and Mercury. "Cetus" is like Saturn. "Orion". The stars...
Book The First. Chapter Xii. The Annual Seasons : p. 21 CHAPTER XII THE ANNUAL SEASONS THE year comprises four seasons; spring, summer, autumn, and winter; of these, the spring partakes chiefly of moisture, for on the dissipation of cold and recommencement of warmth, an expansion of the fluids takes place: the summer is principally hot, owing...
Book The Second. Chapter Iii. The Familiarity : p. 43 CHAPTER III THE FAMILIARITY OF THE REGIONS OF THE EARTH WITH THE TRIPLICITIES AND THE PLANETS IT has been already stated that there are four triplicities distinguishable in the zodiac. The first, composed of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, is the north-west triplicity; and Jupiter has chief...
Book The Second. Chapter Iv. The Familiarity : CHAPTER IV THE FAMILIARITY OF THE REGIONS OF THE EARTH WITH THE FIXED STARS IN addition to the rules which have been already given, respecting the familiarity of the regions of the earth with the signs and planets, it must be observed, that all fixed stars which may be posited on any line, drawn...
Book The Fourth. Chapter Ii. The Fortune Of Wealth : CHAPTER II THE FORTUNE OF WEALTH THE circumstances regulating the fortune of wealth are to be judged of from that part alone, which is expressly denominated the Part of Fortune; the position of which is, in all cases, whether arising in the day or in the night, always as far removed...
Book The Fourth. Chapter Vii. Friends And Enemies : CHAPTER VII FRIENDS AND ENEMIES WITH respect to friendship and enmity, it may be observed that great and lasting familiarities, or disagreements, are respectively called sympathies and enmities; while the smaller, such as arise occasionally, and subsist for a short time only, are denominated casual...
Book The First. Chapter Xiii. The Influence : CHAPTER XIII THE INFLUENCE OF THE FOUR ANGLES THE angles are the four cardinal points of the horizon, whence are derived the general names of the winds. With respect to their qualities, it is to be observed that the eastern point, or angle of the ascendant, p. 22 is chiefly dry in its nature;...
Advertisement : p. vii ADVERTISEMENT THE use recently made of Astrology in the poetical machinery of certain works of genius (which are of the highest popularity, and above all praise), seems to have excited in the world at large a desire to learn something of the mysteries of that science which has, in all...
Book The Third. Chapter Ii. The Concepti : CHAPTER II THE CONCEPTION AND THE PARTURITION, OR BIRTH; BY WHICH LATTER EVENT THE ANIMAL QUITS THE WOMB, AND ASSUMES ANOTHER STATE OF EXISTENCE THE actual moment, in which human generation commences, is, in fact, by nature, the moment of the conception itself; but, in efficacy with regard...
Book The Third. Chapter Xii. The Prorogatory : CHAPTER XII THE PROROGATORY PLACES FIRSTLY, those places, only, are to be deemed prorogatory, to which the future assumption of the dominion of prorogation exclusively belongs. These several places are the sign on the angle of the ascendant, from the fifth degree above the horiz...
Book The First. Chapter Xxvii. Applicati : CHAPTER XXVII APPLICATION, SEPARATION, AND OTHER FACULTIES IN all cases when the distances between planets or luminaries are but trifling, 1 the planet which precedes is said to apply to that which follows; and that which follows to be separating from that which precedes. 2 The same rule obtains...
Title Page : p. iii PTOLEMY'S TETRABIBLOS OR QUADRIPARTITE BEING FOUR BOOKS OF THE "INFLUENCE OF THE STARS" NEWLY TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK PARAPHRASE OF PROCLUS WITH A PREFACE, EXPLANATORY NOTES AND "AN APPENDIX" CONTAINING EXTRACTS FROM THE ALMAGEST OF PTOLEMY AND THE WHOLE OF HIS CENTILOQUY TOGETHER WITH "...
Book The Fourth. Chapter Vi. Children : CHAPTER VI CHILDREN THE next point to be investigated is that concerning children: and, to accomplish this, observation must be made of the planets posited in, or configurated with the place on the zenith, 2 or its succedent house, which latter is called the place of the good dmon. And should it...
Book The Third. Chapter Viii. Twins : CHAPTER VIII TWINS WITH respect to the probability of the birth of twins, or a greater number at once, the same places must be observed, as those mentioned in the preceding chapter; that is to say, the places of both luminaries and the ascendant. When two, or all three, of the said places may be...
Book The Third. Chapter Vii. Male Or Female : CHAPTER VII MALE OR FEMALE AFTER the indications which regard brothers and sisters have been investigated by the foregoing rules, consonant with nature and reason, the actual native, or the person to whom the scheme of nativity is specially appropriated, demands attention; and the first and most...
Book The Second. Chapter Xi. The New Mo : CHAPTER XI THE NEW MOON OF THE YEAR IN every annual revolution made by the Sun, the first new Moon of the year is to be considered as the point of the commencement of his circuit; this is evident not only from its denomination, but from its virtue also. 1 The case stands thus: In the ecliptic...
Book The First. Chapter Xxii. Exaltations : p. 31 CHAPTER XXII EXALTATIONS THAT which is termed the exaltation of the planets is considered by the following rules: The Sun on his entrance into Aries is then passing into the higher and more northern semicircle; but, on his entrance into Libra, into the more southern and lower one: his...
Book The First. Chapter Xv. Masculine : CHAPTER XV MASCULINE AND FEMININE SIGNS AGAIN, among the twelve signs, six are called masculine and diurnal, and six feminine and nocturnal. They are arranged in alternate order, one after the other, as the day is followed by the night, and as the male is coupled with the female. The commencement...
Book The Second. Chapter I. General Divisi : p. 40 BOOK THE SECOND CHAPTER I GENERAL DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT THE great and leading points, requiring to be attended to as a necessary means of introduction to the consideration of particular predictions, having been succinctly defined, the further parts of the subject, comprehending everything...
Book The Fourth. Chapter Viii. Travelling : CHAPTER VIII TRAVELLING THE circumstances indicative of travel are to be considered by means of the situation held by both the luminaries, in respect to the angles, and especially, by means of that held by the Moon. For, should she be descending, or cadent from the angles, she will cause journeys...
Book The Fourth. Chapter Iv. The Quality : CHAPTER IV THE QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT THE dominion of the employment, or profession, is claimed in two quarters; viz. by the Sun, and by the sign on the mid-heaven. It is, therefore, necessary to observe whether any planet may be making its oriental appearance nearest to the Sun, 1 and whether any...
Book The First. Chapter Vi. Masculine And Feminine : CHAPTER VI MASCULINE AND FEMININE THERE are two primary sexes, male and female; and the female sex partakes chiefly of moisture. The Moon and Venus are therefore said to be feminine, since their qualities are principally moist. The Sun, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars are called masculine. Mercury is p...
Book The First. Chapter Xxiv. The Terms According : p. 35 CHAPTER XXIV THE TERMS ACCORDING TO PTOLEMY IN arranging the order in which the planets take their terms in each sign, their exaltations, triplicities, and houses, are taken into consideration; and whatever planet, whether benefic or malefic, may possess two rights of dominion in one...
Book The Third. Chapter Xvii. The Hurts : CHAPTER XVII THE HURTS, INJURIES, AND DISEASES OF THE BODY NEXT in succession to the foregoing chapter, the circumstances relating to bodily hurts, injuries, and diseases, claim to be discussed; and they require to be considered in the following mode. For the investigation of these circumstances...
Book The First. Chapter Xxiii. The Dispositi : CHAPTER XXIII THE DISPOSITION OF THE TERMS 1 THERE are two methods of disposing the terms of the planets, in reference to the dominion of the triplicities; one is gyptian, the other Chaldaic. But the gyptian method preserves no regular distribution, neither in point of successive order nor in point...
Book The Second. Chapter Vii. The Time : p. 54 CHAPTER VII THE TIME AND PERIOD OF THE EVENT THE second point requiring attention relates to time, and indicates the date when the event will take place, and the period during which its effect will continue: these are to be ascertained in the following manner. It must however be premised...
Book The First. Chapter Xiv. Tropical, Equinoctial : p. 23 CHAPTER XIV TROPICAL, EQUINOCTIAL, FIXED, AND BICORPOREAL SIGNS AMONG the twelve signs, some are termed tropical, others equinoctial, others fixed, and others bicorporeal. The tropical signs are two: viz. the first thirty degrees after the summer solstice, which compose the sign of Cancer;...
Book The Second. Chapter Viii. The Genus : CHAPTER VIII THE GENUS, CLASS, OR KIND, LIABLE TO BE AFFECTED THE third division of these observations relates to the mode of distinguishing the genus, or species, of animals or things about to sustain the expected effect. This distinction is made by means of the conformation and peculiar...
Book The First. Chapter Iii. That Prescience : p. 8 CHAPTER III THAT PRESCIENCE IS USEFUL IT appears, then, that prescience by astronomy is possible under certain adaptation; and that alone it will afford premonition, as far as symptoms in the Ambient enable it to do so, of all such events as happen to men by the influence of the Ambient...
Book The First. Chapter Xxvi. Faces, Chariots : CHAPTER XXVI FACES, CHARIOTS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ATTRIBUTES OF THE PLANETS THE familiarities existing between the planets and the signs are such as have been already particularised. There are also, however, further peculiarities ascribed to the planets. Each is said to be in its proper face, when...
Book The First. Chapter Xvii. Signs Commanding : CHAPTER XVII SIGNS COMMANDING AND OBEYING ANY two signs configurated with each other at an equal distance from the same, or from either equinoctial point, are termed commanding and obeying, because the ascensional and descensional times of the one are equal to those of the other, and both describe...
Book The Third. Chapter Xiv. Number : CHAPTER XIV NUMBER OF THE MODES OF PROROGATION WHEN the prorogator has been determined as above directed, it is also necessary to take into consideration the two modes of prorogation; one into succeeding signs, under the projection of rays, as it is called; and, when the prorogator may be...
Book The Third. Chapter X. Children Not Reared : CHAPTER X CHILDREN NOT REARED THE question which now remains to be considered, in order to complete the investigation of circumstances taking place simultaneously with the nativity, or immediately consequent thereon, is, whether the child, then born, will or will not be reared. This inquiry is...
Book The First. Chapter Iv. The Influences : CHAPTER IV THE INFLUENCES OF THE PLANETARY ORBS THE Sun 2 is found to produce heat and moderate dryness. His magnitude, and the changes which he so evidently makes in the seasons, render his power more plainly perceptible than that of the other heavenly bodies; since his approach to the zenith...
Book The First. Chapter Xvi. Mutual Configurations : CHAPTER XVI MUTUAL CONFIGURATIONS OF THE SIGNS THERE are certain familiarities or connections between different parts of the zodiac; and the chief of these is that which exists between such parts as are configurated with each other. This mutual configuration attaches to all parts diametrically...
Book The Third. Chapter Xv. Exemplification : CHAPTER XV EXEMPLIFICATION IN order to exemplify the foregoing instructions, let the first point of Aries be supposed as the preceding place, and the first point in Gemini the succeeding; and let the latitude of the country, to which the operation relates, be such as will cause the longest day...
Book The First. Chapter Vii. Diurnal And Nocturnal : CHAPTER VII DIURNAL AND NOCTURNAL THE day and the night are the visible divisions of time. The day, in its heat and its aptitude for action, is masculine:--the night, in its moisture and its appropriation to rest, feminine. Hence, again, the Moon and Venus are esteemed to be nocturnal; the Sun...
Book The Third. Chapter I. Proem : p. 71 BOOK THE THIRD CHAPTER I PROEM IN the preceding pages, such events as effect the world generally I have been discussed in priority; because they are operated by certain principal and paramount causes,.which are, at the same time, predominant over particular and minor events applicable only...
Appendix. No. Iii. The Centiloquy, Or Hundred : p. 153 NO. III. THE CENTILOQUY, OR HUNDRED APHORISMS OF CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY 1; OTHERWISE CALLED, THE FRUIT OF HIS FOUR BOOKS I. JUDGMENT must be regulated by thyself, as well as by the science; for it is not possible that particular forms of events should be declared by any person, however...
Book The Fourth. Chapter Ix. The Kind Of Death : CHAPTER IX THE KIND OF DEATH IT now remains to treat of the kind and species of death. It is, however, first to be determined, by the rules already delivered regarding the duration of life, 2 whether death will ensue from an oriental or occidental position of the predominating influence. And, if...
Book The First. Chapter Xix. Signs Inconjunct : p. 27 CHAPTER XIX SIGNS INCONJUNCT ALL signs, between which there does not exist any familiarity in any of the modes above specified, are inconjunct and separated. For instance, all signs are inconjunct which are neither commanding nor obeying, and not beholding each other nor of equal power...
Book The Third. Chapter Xviii. The Quality : CHAPTER XVIII THE QUALITY OF THE MIND THE consideration of circumstances applicable to the body is practised under the foregoing rules. Of the spiritual qualities, however, all those which are national and intellectual are contemplated by the situation of Mercury; while all others, which regard...
Book The First. Chapter X. Constellations : p. 19 CHAPTER X CONSTELLATIONS NORTH OF THE ZODIAC THE constellations north of the zodiac have their respective influences, analogous to those of the planets, existing in the mode described in the following list. "Ursa Minor". The bright stars in this constellation are like Saturn, and in some...
Book The Third. Chapter Ix. Monstrous : p. 85 CHAPTER IX MONSTROUS OR DEFECTIVE BIRTHS THE same places, as those pointed out in the two chapters last preceding, are again to be considered, in inquiring into the probability of a monstrous or defective birth. For it will be found that, at a birth of this description, the luminaries are...
Appendix. No. Iv. The Zodiacal Planisphere : NO. IV THE ZODIACAL PLANISPHERE THE Reader is desired to refer to the Plate at end of book containing diagrams of the Zodiacal Planisphere, which has been spoken of in the Note in p. 99. Fig. 1 is the Planisphere adjusted for the northern latitude of 30 22' (where the longest day consists...
Book The Third. Chapter Iv. Distributi : CHAPTER IV DISTRIBUTION OF THE DOCTRINE OF NATIVITIES AFTER due attention to the preceding instructions, the doctrine of genethliacal prognostication should be separately and distinctly considered, for the sake of order and perspicuity, in its first, second and successive divisions or heads...
