Not appreciating the natural direction of motion of the Primum Mobile (read Zodiac) or what Morin calls "the motion common to all bodies" by which they are carried from East to West raises two serious problems.

First, it creates a confusion by an inability to have a commonly agreed upon definition among astrologers of what is meant by a direct vs. converse method to direction.

Secondly, and a much more serious problem is that by not appreciating the natural direction of motion of the Primum Mobile we cannot define in a given direction which terminus is the Significator and which one is the Promittor. Or which of the two represents the affected subject and which the efficient cause? Here as Morin says, "we have a most difficult thing as there will be no reason to favor one terminus over the other".

Morin goes on to say that "the same terminus of a direction cannot and does not assume at the same time the function of a significator and the promittor with respect to the same other terminus following or preceding. This he says is not allowed both by reason and by experience".

The whole issue of the so-called "two-fold Significator and the two-fold Promittor in the same direction of the two termini" is obviated if we note the natural direction of motion of Primum Mobile.

Therefore Morin concludes very nicely in Book 22, Chapter 7, page 22 that this "two-fold problem" is resolved by stating again that there is only a single way of directing and that is, that the following terminus is carried by the (natural direction of) motion of the Primum Mobile to the preceding terminus and the one that is moved can properly be said to be "directed".

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