Jean-Baptiste Morin


 

Astrologia Gallica

Book Twenty-Two

Directions

 

 

 

Translated from the Latin by

James Herschel Holden, M.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Translator’s Preface                                                                                      vi

 

Section I.

Ch.

 

Pg.

1

What an Astrological Direction is; and what its Termini are; and how many kinds of it there are………………………………………………………………...

1

2

The Kinds of Future Events, both Universal and in the Human Species, arising from Celestial Causes; and what Future Events the Astrologer should Announce……………………………………………………………………………

4

3

The Significators of Things that will take place for a Man, and their General Definition and Number……………………………………………………………..

6

4

The Promittors of Future Things from the Stars for a Man; their Definition and Number……………………………………………………………………………...

12

5

The Formal Difference between a Significator and a Promittor, and their other Differences………………………………………………………………………….

13

6

Which Significator Ought to be Directed for Which Things………………………

15

7

How many Kinds of Directions there are; whether Planets and the Cusps of Houses ought to be Directed against the Succession of the Signs then, which of the Termini of a Direction is said to be the Significator and which the Promittor, and why……………………………………………………………………………...

18

8

In which the Various Methods of Artificial Directions Used by Astrologers are Set Forth, and the False ones Rejected……………………………………………

27

9

That the Way of Directing by Ascensions given by Ptolemy is Natural and True, but Hitherto Understood by Few…………………………………………………..

29

 

Section II.

1

Whether it is Right to use the Latitude as well as the Longitude of Significators and Promittors in Directions……………………………………………………….

37

2

How the Aspects of the Planets may be Corrected for Directions both with Longitude and with Latitude………………………………………………………..

38

3

In which a Table of Correction of Aspects of the Planets for Directions that we have Constructed is Set Forth and Explained……………………………………..

39

4

Whether the Aspects of the Planets ought to be Considered in the Equator as well as in the Ecliptic……………………………………………………………….

54

5

Whether Directions to the Antiscions of the Planets and to the Nodes of the Moon are Efficacious………………………………………………………………

57

6

Whether the Directions of the Fixed Stars and the Part of Fortune are Efficacious…………………………………………………………………………..

57

7

That Judgment should not he Rendered on a Given Nativity without having Considered the Directions………………………………………………………….

59

 

Section III.

1

Whether a Direction and its Effect are made by any Physical Motion of one Terminus to the Other……………………………………………………………...

61

2

How by means of Termini that are Quiescent or Fixed in the Caelum their Effects may be Produced on Earth through their Concourse in Directions………

64

3

The Various Opinions of the Old and Modern Astrologers on Converting the Measure of the Arc of Direction into Time………………………………………..

71

4

In which the Tables of Naibod and Magini are set forth for the Conversion of Time into Arc of the Equator and vice versa………………………………………

74

5

Whether the Arcs of Direction of all Significators or Promittors Should have the Same Common Measure; and what the Logic of that Measure is………………..

78

6

Whether the Effects of Directions are Brought Forth at the Precise Time when the Arc of Direction Corresponds Precisely to their own Measure………………

81

 

 

Section IV.

1

How Difficult it is for a Man to Predict the Kind of Effect Signified by any Direction…………………………………………………………………………….

85

2

How it may be Known Whether a Given Direction is Going to Produce any Effect, and what Kind it is Going to be…………………………………………….

88

3

By what Means an Astrologer can Arrive at an Understanding of the Type of Effect from the Direction Producing it……………………………………………..

94

4

From what Sources the Certitude and Intensity of Effects may be Chosen through the Directions of the Significators………………………………………...

100

5

Some things Universal as well as Particular that must be Noted in Connection with Directions……………………………………………………………………...

104

6

The Extraction of Figures from the Figure of the Native for other Persons Related to Him……………………………………………………………………...

109

7

Whether at the Native’s Death there is a Cessation of the Celestial Influx from his Natal Figure upon his Parents, Brothers, Spouse, Children, and other Persons Belonging to him and Surviving him……………………………………...

126

 

Section V.

1

Pico Mirandola’s Objections to Astrologlcal Directions and the Refutation of those Objections……………………………………………………………………

128

2

In which Alessandro de Angelis’s Reasons against Directions are Proposed and Refuted……………………………………………………………………………...

134

3

In which Sinus ab Hemminga’s Reasons against Astrology, and especially against Directions are Refuted…………………………………………………….

137

4

In which the Truth of the Doctrine of Directions is Demonstrated in the Chan of Sixtus ab Hemminga………………………………………………………………..

144

5

In which We Propose and Resolve Objections of no small Import……………….

150

 

Appendix 1

Jerome Cardan XE "Jerome Cardan"  on the Latitude of Aspects.

7

How Aspects and Conjunctions ought to be Taken………………….................

154

Appendix 2

J. B. Morin on the Mundane Position of Aspects.

9

In what Great Circle the Real Aspects of the Planets should be Conceived according to the Truth of the Matter……………………………………………...

158

Appendix 3

 

The Solar Eclipse of 8 April 1652…………………………………………………

173

Appendix 4

 

Some Horoscopes Mentioned in the Text………………………………………...

176

Appendix 5

 

Regiomontanus Primary Direction Formulae……………………………………..

186

ADDENDA

Book 2

3

How Many Years Passed between the Creation of the World and the Incarnation of Christ and from then to this Year 1648 according to the Method of Numeration used by the Church………………………………………………..

190

 

BOOK THIRTEEN

 

 

TABLE OF THE UNIVERSAL RULERSHIPS OF THE PLANETS…………..

192

BOOK FIFTEEN

6

The Triplicites of the Planets, or the Trigons and the Trigon Rulers According to the Opinions of the Old [Astrologers]………………………………………….

208

7

Trigons and Trigonocrators According to Our Opinion…………………………..

210

8

To Which Regions of the World the Trigons Pertain; and Consequently Which Regions of the World the Trigonocrators Principally Rule………………………

213

9

Some Things about these Trigons that should be Especially Noted……………..

215

10

The Faces or Persons or Almugea of the Planets………………………………...

217

11

The Thrones, Seats, or Chariots of the Planets…………………………………..

218

12

The Joys of the Planets……………………………………………………………

219

13

The Terms, Novenas, Decans, Duodecatemories, etc. of the Planets in the Several Signs of the Zodiac.  Then, the Light, Smoky, Pitted, and Empty Degrees of the Signs, their Monomoiriai, etc…………………………………….

219

BOOK SEVENTEEN

SECTION 1………………………………………………………………………………

223

3

The Special Division of the whole Caelum into Twelve Astrological Houses with respect to the Person being Born…………………………………………….

223

6

Things to be Particularly Noted about the Significations of the Houses………...

224

7

The Extrinsic Strength of the Planets arising from their Reception in the Signs of the Zodiac………………………………………………………………………..

226

BOOK TWENTY

SECTION 3

The Various Universal Modes by which the Celestial Bodies act on Sub-lunar Things

7

The Action of the Constellations and of the Fixed [Stars] on these Inferior Things; and the Dependence in Action of some of these on the Twelfths and the Planets……………………………………………………………………………...

230

BOOK TWENTY-THREE

18

The Universal Laws of Judgments on Solar and Lunar Revolutions of Nativities…………………………………………………………………………...

237

19

Compendiously Embracing General Things that must be Looked at in Revolutions, with a Directory of Judgment……………………………………….

246

20

A Caution of no Small Importance that Must be Observed in Judging Revolutions…………………………………………………………………………

247

BOOK TWENTY-FOUR

12

Whether the Planets act upon the Native through their Syzygies outside of the Places of the Geniture through which their Transits are Customarily Made; and How and When……………………………………………………………………..

251

13

Aphorisms or the Principal Laws of Transits……………………………………...

251

14

How, from What has been Explained so far, Future Events can be Predicted from the Stars with Regard to the Type, the Year, Day, and Hour………………

256

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Figure 1. Aspect Latitude………………………………………………………………...

45

Figure 2. The Horoscope of Marie Louise of  Gonzaga, Queen of Poland…………….

49

Figure 3. The Nativity of Louis XIV, Most Christian King of France and Navane……

51

Figure 4. The Combinations of Tenrnni………………………………………………….

86

Figure 5. The Horoscope of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola……………………………

132

Figure 6. The Horoscope of Sixtus ab Hemminga………………………………………

146

LIST OF TABLES

TABLE I.

82

TABLE II.

83

TABLE III.

 

TABLE IV.

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

My friend, Robert C. Donat, Ph.D., Editor of Research Publications of the A.F.A., very kindly offered to convert my word processor files for this book into a printed format.  The typesetting of this book is the result of his labors.  I am sure the reader will join me in thanking him for the considerable effort he expended in making the text easier to read.

……… J.H.H. 11 September 1991

 

 

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

 

Bibliography