Jean-Baptiste Morin


 

Astrologia Gallica

Book Seventeen

The Astrological Houses

 

 

 

Translated from the Latin by

James Herschel Holden, M.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Translator’s Preface                                                                                           vii

 

Section I. The Cabala of the Astrological Houses and its

Natural Foundation that We have Revealed.

Ch.

 

Pg.

1

The Whole Natural Effect from the Whole  Caecum and its Parts Depend upon the Position Within and the Direction of its Parts……………………………………………………….

3

2

The General Division of the Natural Effects with Respect to the Whole Caelum…………….

5

3

The Special Division of the Whole Caelum into Twelve Astrological Houses with Respect to the Man being Born……………………………………………………………………….

6

4

The Fundamentals of that Division…………………………………………………………  

10

5

The Explanation of that Division, and its Marvelous and Greatly Reasonable Application to all those things that Occur During the Life of that man……………………………………...

12

6

Things that Must be Particularly Noted about the Significations of the Houses……………...

18

7

Questions raised by Pico Mirandoia, Alexander de Angelis Marsilio Ficino in his Plotinus, and by Other Haters of Astrology, in Opposition to the astrological Houses with Refuting Answers…………………………………………………………………………………...

20

8

Whether if Man had not Sinned, the Superior Division of the Caelum and the things Signified by the Individual Houses Would have had a Place and Force in the Nature of things with Respect to Man……………………………………………………………………………

24

 

Section II. The Erection of celestial Figures for Astrology.

1

Six of the Astrological Houses are Above the Earth and Six Below…………………………

37

2

In which the Equal Method of Dividing the  Caelum into the Astrological Houses is Subjected to a Particular Examination and Rejected…………………………………………………..

42

3

Some Other Erroneous Methods of Dividing the Caelum by the Ecliptic or by the Use of the Degree of the Ecliptic that Occupies the Horizon…………………………………………...

69

4

In which the Campanus System for the Division of the Caelum into Astrological Houses is Particularly Examined by Reason and by Experience; and it is Compared to the Rational System; and which of these is Declared to be Legitimate……………………………………

72

5

In which the Rational System of Dividing is Set Forth as the More Accurate Method; and a Notable Difficulty about that System is Resolved, Along with a New Division of the Houses by that Same Rational System……………………………………………………………...

83

 

Section III. In which the Essence or the

Formal Reason for the Astrological Houses is stated.

1

The Essence of an Astrological House Consists of the Relation of its Site to a Birth that Takes Place Beyond the Axis of the Pole…………………………………………………..

100

2

Whether the Division of the Houses is Made for the Center of the Earth or whether it is Made for the Place of Birth' and What is the Material Cause of These…………………………….

101

3

How Many Astrological Houses there Are' and How Each of Them should be Defined……..

104

4

In which the Differences and the Harmony of Each Astrological House, Namely the Primary and the Secondary Houses is More Fully explained………………………………………...

110

5

Containing two Necessary Problems Relating to the Figure of the Caelum that has Been Erected……………………………………………………………………………………

113

      Problem I. To Find by what Perpendicular Arc any  Planet is Distant from any Circle of

                       Position of the Houses……………………………………………………………

113

      Problem II. Having Been given the Longitude and Latitude  of a Planet Posited in the

                        Twelfth House, Along with its Arc of Direction to the Degree of the Ecliptic

                        Ascending, to Find that Degree or its Oblique Ascension…………………………

115

6

Some Divisions of the Houses or the Celestial Figure……………………………………….

117

 

 

 

Index of Persons………………………………………………………………………………

119

Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………

121