Jean-Baptiste Morin


 

Astrologia Gallica

Book Twenty-Four

Progressions and Transits

 

 

 

Translated from the Latin by

James Herschel Holden, M.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Translator’s Preface                                                                                  vi

 

Section I.  Progressions

1

Why the Old Astrologers Introduced Progressions……………………………....

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2

How Many Modes of Progressions have been Invented…………………...........

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3

The Annual, Monthly, and Daily Progressions of the Old [Astrologers] are Mere Figments of the Imagination………………………………………..............

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Section II. The Transits and Syzygies of the Planets

 

1

How Should the Doctrine of Transits be Made…………………………………...

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2

What Path Previous Astrologers Followed in Taking Notice of the Virtue of the Stars .........................................................................................................................

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3

Whether the Transits of All the Planets Through the Individual Places of the Nativity Should be Observed …………………………………………………………

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4

Whether in an Individual House of the Nativity any Force Exceeds [that of] the Natal Chart for Future Accidents of Life ……………………………………………

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5

Whether all the Transits Through the Places of the Nativity are Effective, or Whether They Alone and in Some Way Motivate our own Nature to the Effects

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6

Whether the Transiting Planets Determine the Places of their own Transits, or Whether They are Determined by Them, and in what Way ………………………

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7

Whether the Transits of the Planets through the Places of the Revolutions should be Looked at ………………………………………………………………...…

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8

Whether for the Production of all the Effects Happening to Men, the Transits Agreeing with their Directions and Revolutions are Necessary, and at what Time...........................................................................................................................

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9

For a Given Direction Presaging a Significant Event, which Planet's Transit is more Necessary for the Production of the Effect, and through which Place, so that the Transit may be Said to be Concordant ………………………………….…

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10

In which by many examples and Observations the Virtue of Transits and their Actual Efficacy are Confirmed  ………………………………………………………

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11

[Determining] the Exact time of Events by a Transit, and Whether their Latitude should be Observed. The Doctrine Confirmed by Celestial Charts …...

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12

Whether the Planets act upon the Native through their own Syzygies Outside of the Places of the Nativity through which their Transits are Customarily Made. And How and When ……………………………………………………………………

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13

The Aphorisms or Principal Laws of Transits ………………………………………

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14

How from What has been Explained so far, Events of the Future can be Predicted by the Stars with Regard to the Kind [of Event], the Year, the Day, and the Hour  ……………………………………………………….………………….

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15

Some Principal Rules of Prudence to be [Observed] by an Astrologer in Bringing Forth a Useful Opinion from the Stars  ………………………...….……

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Appendix 1.  The Equation of Time……………………………………...............................

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

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

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