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Anima Astrologiae or A Guide for
Astrologers by William Lilly 1676
The 5th, is
to consider, how many ways the Moon comes to be so ill-affected, which
are generally reckoned to be Ten, but in my opinion Seven more may be
added, whereby hindrances and damage happen in all Questions,
Nativities, Elections, and actions whatsoever; the First is, where the
Moon is combust, that is to say under the Sun’s Beams, which is counted from 15 degrees of
the body of the Sun as she applies to him to 12 degrees distance from him as she is
separating from him; and the impediment is greater when she is going to the Sun than when she is
going from him; because as she goes off, when she is got five degrees distant, she is said to be escaped, though not wholly freed.
As when a fever hath left a man, he is said to be recovered, although he
be weak and faint, because he is secure now that he shall obtain his
health again. The 2nd is when she is in the degrees of her descensions, that is in the 3rd
degree of the Scorpio, or in any part of Scorpio or Capricorn or injoined with any planet that is
in her or its own descensions, as if she be joined with the Sun, who is in Scorpio or Capricorn or in any part of Scorpio or
Capricorn or injoined with any planet that is in her or its own
descensions, as if she be joined with the Sun, who is in Scorpio or
Capricorn or in his proper descension, viz., in Aquary or Libra, viz.,
in its 19th degree or in any part of Libra; or should be joined with the
Mars, and he be in Libra or Taurus, or in the 28th degree, or in any
part of Cancer; and so with any other Planet or Planets respectively. The 3rd is when
she is posited in any of the combust degrees, of which the worst are: those 12 degrees which are before the degree which is
directly opposite to the
degree in which the Sun is, wherever she shall happen to be, The 4th is
when she is in conjunction, opposition, or square to either of the
Infortunes, Saturn or Mars, without a perfect reception; for with one it
hinders but little, but in all other places ‘tis a grand impediment,
both in the said aspect and also in corporal conjunction save only where
the Infortune shall have two of his smaller dignities, as with Saturn in
the 4 last degrees of Aries or Gemini, in each of which he has a Term
and a Triplicity; or with Mars in the last 10 degrees of Pisces, where he has a
Face and a Triplicity; and so in any other sign or place. The 5th is when she is with the Dragon’s Head or with the Dragon’s Tail,
that is, within twelve
degrees of either of them, because that is the place where she is
eclipsed. The 6th is when she
is in Gemini, which is the twelfth from her own House. The 7th is when
she is in the end of the Signs, which are all Terms of the Infortunes, except the
last 6 degrees of Leo, which
belong to Jupiter; but in the first eight she is weakened because they
are in the Terms of Saturn. If
it be objected by the same reason she must be impedited likewise in the
first 6 degrees of Cancer, since they are terms of Mars, I answer no,
because Cancer is her own
House and greatest Fortitude. The 8th is when she is in the 6th, 8th 9th
or 12th Houses (not in reception with the Ascendant), or joined to any Planet that is in any
of them or posited in the Third House, because it is cadent from angles;
yet because the same is said to be her joy (or that she delights therein), she
is not afflicted there so much as in other Cadent Houses. The 9th is
when she is between the degree of Libra and the 5” degree of Scorpio,
which 30 degrees are called
Combust Way. The 10th when she is voyd of course, that is, not joined to any planet by body or aspect,
or in that condition when they call her Feral or Desart, that is, in a place where she has not any dignity. The 11th when she is slow of
course, because then she may
be compared to a Planet Retrograde. The 12th when she is in want of
light, so that no part or very
little of her is seen, which happens about the end of the lunar month.
The 13th when she is besieged by the two Infortunes impediting her. The
14th if she be in Azimene degrees. The 15th if in Pitted degrees. The
16th if in Smoky Degrees. The 17th and last is when she is posited in
those degrees which are called Dark. To know and distinguish all which you have
Tables commonly in most Books of Astrologie.
6.Another way of the Planets being debilitated
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