The influence of the stars : a book of old world lore / by Rosa Baughan.

  • Baughan, Rosa.
Date:
1891
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Credit: The influence of the stars : a book of old world lore / by Rosa Baughan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    moving from their positions; but Ptolemy seems to have been aware of this motion of the signs, and has met this objection by what he says in the twenty-fifth chapter of the first book of the “ Tetra-biblos,” where he makes it clear that, the respective influences he ascribes to the twelve signs were considered by him to belong rather to the 'places they occupied in the ambient than to the stars of which they are composed; and he especially speaks of the ambient as producing the effects attributed to the respective signs of the zodiac when in the ascendant in a nativity ; thus his astrology is just as applicable to modern astronomy as it was to his own. The signs have been divided into four triplicities, thus: fiery, nr, SI, t ; earthy, 8, nji, Y? ; airy, n, ^ zz \ and ivatery, ®, tq, X • The bicorporal, or double-bodied, signs are n, X, and the first half of /. The fruitful signs are °b, n^, X ; the barren signs are n, SI, and nft. The tropical signs are Cancer and Capricorn us. The signs of long-ascension are aT3 wjf, —, wi, The signs of short-ascension are yf, xr, X, <v, 8, n. The last- named are so-called because they ascend in a shorter period of time (owing to the diurnal motion of the earth being, when they ascend, nearly parallel with its orbit) than the others. Signs of voice are n, jtr, zz, and the first half of because, it is said, when any one of these signs ascends at a birth, and Mercury is strong, the native will be a good orator. Ptolemy tells us that the signs Aries, Gfemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius were denominated masculine, and the remainder feminine, in alternate order, “ as the da}r is followed by the night, and as the male is coupled with the female.” He also says that any two signs configurated with each otlier at an equal distance from the same, or from either equinoctial point, are termed commanding or obey*-