{"collection":"astro","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/astro/aia/aia26.htm","path":"astro/aia/aia26.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/astro/aia/aia26.htm","text":"THE ascendant and its lord are for the querent, the 7th and its lord for him you would speak with; but if it be with any relation, take the house signifying that relation and its lord; as, for the father the 4th, for a child the 5th, and for an intimate friend the 11th; if the lord of the 7th, or quesited's significator, be in any of the four angles, the party is at home; but if he be in a succeedent house, he is not far from home; but if in a cadent house, then he is far from home.\nIf you find the lord of the ascendant apply to the quesited's perfect aspect the same day you intend to visit him, you may be assured either to meet him going to his house, or hear of him by the way; or, if any planet separate from the lord of the quesited's house, and transfer his light to the lord of the ascendant, you will learn where he is by a person signified by\nthat planet. Describe the planet, and it personates the individual; and the nature of the planet, sign, and quarter of heaven it is in will, by the plurality of testimonies, shear whether it be male or female.\nOf a thing suddenly happening, whether it signifies Good or Evil?\nErect your figure of heaven at the exact time of any event happening, or when you first heard of it: then consider who is lord of the ascendant, and which planet disposes of \u2609 and \u263d and see if either of these be in the ascendant, and, if more than one, take the most powerful; and let his position be well considered. If he be in good aspect with \u2609, \u2643, or \u2640, there will no evil arise from the accident, rumour, or whatever the event may be; but if you find that planet weak in the scheme, combust, or in evil aspect to \u2645, \u2644, \u2642, or \u2640, there will be some evil occur. If you consider the afflicting planet and his nature and position, you may learn the nature of the misfortune. If it be the lord of the 3d, it will come through some kinsman or neighbour, or by some short journey; if the lord of the 2d cast the ray, or the evil planet be in the 2d, it denotes loss of money; 1 if the lord of the 4th. trouble about houses, &c., or by means of a father or wife's mother; if the 5th, by intemperance, or by children, &c., and so of the rest. 2\nQUERY.--What Mark, Mole, or Scar has the Querent on any Part of his Body? This is useful to prove that a question is radical, and to satisfy sceptics of the truth of the science.\nWhen you have, upon any demand, erected the querent's figure, observe what member of man's body the ascending sign represents; for upon that part of his body will the querent have a mole, mark, or scar; as, if the ascendant be \u2648, the same will be on the head; if \u2649, it will be on the neck; if \u264a, on the arms or shoulders, &c. 1 And also in the part ruled by the sign in which the lord of the ascendant is, will there be another mark.\nThe signs on the cusp of the 6th house, and that in which the lord of the 6th is, will give other marks on the parts they rule. Also the sign in which \u263d is found will give a mark in that part it governs.\nIf \u2644 give the mark, it is dark, obscure, or black; \u2642 usually gives a red mole; but if he be in a fiery sign, it is generally a cut or scar.\nIf the sign or planet signifying the mark or mole be much afflicted, the mark, &c. will be more obvious and eminent.\nIf the sign or planet be masculine, the mark is on the right side of the body; but if they be feminine, on the left side. And if the significator of the mole, &c. be above the horizon, the mark or mole will be on the fore part, or visible to the eye, or on the outside of the member, &c.; but if the planet be below the earth, it will be found on the inside, of\nhinder part, or not visible. If few degrees are on the cusp of the house, or the planet signifying the mole, &c. be in few degrees of the sign, the mark, mole, &c., will be in the upper part of the member. If they be in the middle of the sign, it will be in the middle of the member or part ruled by the sign. But if the latter degrees ascend, or are on the 6th, or their lords, or \u263d be in the latter degrees of a sign, then will the mark, mole, or scar be near the lower part of the member. If your question be radical, and the time rightly taken, the above rules will always exactly hold good. And so will they (mutatis mutandis) upon the body of the quesited; for if a person inquire concerning his wife, then the sign on the 7th and its lord will shew the woman's marks; and the sign on the 12th, (the 6th from the 7th), and its lord will shew two other marks.\nMany times if the \u263d be in \u260c or \u260d \u2609, the querent has some blemish in or near his eyes: and this is ever true, if the \u260c or \u260d be in angles, and \u263d or \u2609 be afflicted by Mars. 1\nWhether one absent be dead or alive?\nIf the quesited have no relation to the querent, then the\nascendant, its lord, and \u263d shall signify the absent person. 1 But if the party inquired after be a relation, then take the house and its lord which signifies that relation; as the 3d for a brother or sister, The 4th for a father, the 6th for a paternal uncle or aunt, the 10th for a mother, &c.\nIn judging this question, see whether the quesited's lord of the 1st and 8th be joined corporally together in the 8th, or be in \u260d from the 6th or 8th. These are tokens of his being sick or near to death. See if there be any translation of light between the lord of his ascendant and the 8th, or if the lord of the 8th being in his ascendant, the lord of his ascendant be also in the 8th; or the lord of the 8th in the 4th, and the lord of the 4th in the 8th; these are all tokens that the party is dead; especially if his significator be much afflicted by ill aspects, and the evil planets be angular, and the good ones cadent.\nIf the lord of his ascendant be separating from ill aspect of the lord of the 6th, the absent party has been lately sick; if from the lord of the 8th, he has been near death, but is not dead, without other striking testimonies, as above, concur. If from the lord of the 12th, he has been troubled with anxiety about arrests or fear of imprisonment; and if his significator be in the 12th, he is in much trouble by means of a private enemy; and if in a fixed sign, and other testimonies of trouble agree, he is in prison. If he separate from the lord of the 2d by ill aspect, he is now suffering by want of money If from the lord of the 7th, he has had some quarrel or contention. If the 9th, trouble on journeys or by law, &c. and so of the other houses. I have ever found that if the lord of his ascendant be in the 9th, 10th, or 11th, though reported\ndead, he was alive. If you find him alive, and would know when you will hear from or see him, observe in the Ephemeris when the lord of the querent's 11th and the quesited's ascendant come to \u2736 or \u25b3 aspect: about that time news of him will arrive. If the \u263d apply to \u2736 or \u25b3 of his significator, then allow a day, week, or month, for each degree she be distant, according as the significators may be placed in angles, succeedent or cadent houses, and the signs be moveable, common, or fixed. 1\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 3.\nTHE ABOVE FIGURE WAS FOR RESOLUTION OF THE FOLLOWING QUERIES.\n1st. If a Party might be found at Home?\n2d. A Thing suddenly happening, whether Good or Ill is about to follow?\n3d. What Moles or Marks the Querent has?\n4th. If one absent be dead or alive?\n1st QUERY.---A Woman demanded whether her Son was with his Master at her own House?\nIn this figure, \u2640 lady of the ascendant denotes the querent. The 5th house is that of children, and describes the matter inquired of. I found \u2643, lord of the 5th, youth's significator, in the east angle; one argument that the party was at home at his mother's house. The \u263d was applying to \u2736 of \u2644 lord of the 4th, the significator of the querent's dwelling: I judged that she would find him there at her coming home: which she did. Now, had I found \u2643, lord of the 5th, in the 10th, which house signifies the master; or had \u263d separated from \u2643, the youth's significator, and then applied to \u2609, the \u263d being in an angle, I would have judged him at his master's house. I considered further, that the 25th of July following at 2 P.M., the significators of the mother and son (\u2643 and \u2640) came to \u25b3 aspect; and therefore I judged that she should see him at that time: which she did. For usually about that day when the significators come to \u2736 or \u25b3 aspect (which may be seen in the Ephemeris), it is very probable that news of, or a letter from, the quesited will arrive, if the distance will permit. But if the querent and quesited be not far asunder, without question they meet on that very day.\nHad the party inquired for been a stranger, he would have been denoted by \u2642 lord of the 7th; and being in the 2d, a succeedent house, I should have said he is not at home, but yet not far from home. And as the sign \u2650 is eastern, and the 2d house is north east, I should judge him in that direction; and as \u2650 governs fields, hills, or high grounds, 1 should direct a messenger, if sent for him, to go in that direction, and look for him in such places; hut if it were in a town, as \u2650 governs stables, fire-places, &c., I should cause him to be sought near a stable, smith's or butcher's shop, &c., as \u2642 delights in such places.\n2d QUERY.--A Thing suddenly happening, whether Good or Ill is about to follow?\nThe \u2609 is here lord of the sign he is in; \u2643 is lord of \u2653, where \u263d is; \u2640 is lady of the ascendant, and is casting a \u25b3 to the ascendant, and is in \u25b3 to \u2643, and he in the ascendant; from all which we might safely have judged, had this been the time of a sudden accident, or thing done, that it could not have redounded to the querent's injury. But had \u2640 been nearer to \u260d of \u2642, he being in the 2d, I should have of judged that the querent would have received some loss of money shortly, and so of the rest. 1\n3d QUERY.--What Moles or Marks the Querent has?\nI find 25\u00b0 of \u264e ascending and \u2643 in the ascendant, which signifies the face. This querent had a wart or mole on the right side of her face, near her mouth; for \u2643 and \u264e are masculine. And as the latter degrees of \u264e ascend, so the querent confessed a mole on the lower part of her reins towards the haunches. \u2648 being the sign of the 6th, shewed she had one on the forehead, near the hair, for the cusp of the house is but 4 degrees. \u2642 lord of the 6th, being in \u2650 a masculine sign and under the earth, shewed a mole on the right thigh, towards the middle of it, on the back part, or\nthat part which is not visible. The \u263d in 27th degree of \u2653, a feminine sign, under the earth, I told her she had one mole under and towards the extremity of her left foot.\nThe quesited being her son, had \u2653 for his ascendant, which denoted a mole on the left side of his cheek; and as \u2653 signifies the foot, so he had one on the left foot a little below the ancle, as few degrees ascend. The 6th from the 5th is the 10th in the figure, which having 4\u00b0 \u264c, shewed that near his right side, below his breast, he had some scar, mole, or mark.\nIn this way follow the directions of the rule.\n4th QUERY.--Whether one absent be dead or alive?\nIn the aforesaid figure, the ascendant \u2643 therein and \u2640 its ruler, as also \u263d, are the significators of the party absent. The ascending sign and \u2643 therein describe his person; 1 and \u263d and \u2640 shew his condition.\nThe \u263d and \u2640 are free from any evil aspect of the lord of the 8th, and a benefit is in the ascendant, and \u2640 in the 9th; I should therefore pronounce the absent in health. But \u2640 having been recently in \u260d to \u2642, lord of the 2d and 6th, he had been lately in trouble about money, and also inclined to a feverish state. But by \u2643 in the ascendant, and in \u25b3 to \u2640, I should say that medicine, or such a person as is described by \u2643, had relieved him. And as \u263f lord of the 11th applies to a \u2610 of \u2643, (both of them in signs of long ascension, which is equivalent to a \u25b3) 2 I should judge the querent to have news of the absent about ten weeks from the time of the\nquestion, because \u263f wants ten degrees of the \u2610 of \u2643. If the absent be known to be at a short distance from the quesited, I should have judged that in ten days they should hear of him, because the signs are moveable. 1\n96:1 the same if \u2295 receive evil rays approaching.\n96:2 The nature of the planet casting the ray, also may be expected to shew the nature of the evil; \u2642 shews robbers, &c., \u2644 elderly persons, \u263f young persons and lawyers, \u2645 unlooked-for and uncommon events, \u2640 females, \u2609 men in power, \u2643 clergymen and magistrates, \u263d sailors, low people, mobs, &c. But note, that unless the benefit planets be lords of evil houses, their ill aspects do not import much evil. And if they be lords of good houses, or placed in good houses and strong, their good aspects denote benefits in the same manner; and in all cases \u2295 shews gain or loss, as it may be aspected; and \u260a, with the chief significator, imports benefits, and \u260b the reverse.\nPARTS of MAN'S BODY ruled by the TWELVE SIGNS.\n| \u2648 Head and face. \u2649 Neck and throat. \u264a Arms and shoulders. \u264b Breast and stomach. \u264c Heart and back. \u264d Bowels and belly. | \u264e Reins and loins. \u264f Secret members. \u2650 Hips and thighs. \u2651 Knees and hams. \u2652 Legs and ancles. \u2653 Feet and toes. | \n98:1 If \u2643 give the mark, it will be bluish or purple; \u2640 gives it yellow; \u263f a pale lead colour; \u2609 olive or chesnut; and \u263d a whitish hue, or partly of the colour of the planets she aspects. The infortunes \u2644 and \u2642, especially when together, or in exact aspect, mark according to their position. If they be in the ascendant, a mole, &c. will be in the face; if in the 2d, on the neck; in the 3d, on the arms, &c.\nAnd all these rules apply to the figure of birth, as well as horary figures; but defects, such as protrusion of the breast bone, or a humped back, &c. (to persons born with \u264b or \u264c rising), may sometimes be found in lieu of moles or scars. For example, her present majesty, having \u2644 in \u2653, which rules the feet, and situated near the cusp of the 12th house, at her birth, she has a weakness in her feet. Had one testimony only existed, and \u2644 been in \u2653 elsewhere, she would have merely had a mole on her foot.\n90:1 We should always take the ascendant, &c. for the querent, and the 7th and its lord for the quesited. But if the figure be erected by an artist at his own suggestion, let the ascendant, &c. shew the absent person.\n100:1 The most difficult thing in all questions is to judge of time with accuracy. I should advise the young student to be cautious of giving any judgment on this head, unless where it is the chief point desired to be known. In this case, and if the figure be very radical, and if the planet which is applying to the other be taken, the following rule will hold good:\nEach Degree gives\n| IN MOVEABLE SIGNS AND ANGLES | DAYS | \n| IN COMMON SIGNS AND ANGLES | WEEKS. | \n| IN FIXED SIGNS AND ANGLES | MONTHS. | \nSucceedent houses give weeks, months, and years, as the sign is moveable, common, or fixed; and cadent houses give months in moveable signs, years in common, and an indefinite time in fixed signs.---ZAD.\n103:1 We consider that our author has been rather brief on this point, for numerous occasions occur where the mind is desirous of knowing the result when events happen. If \u2640 had been within orbs of \u2642 opposition, that is, half the distance of their united orbs, or 7\u00b0; we should have judged loss of money by a party shewn by \u2640, and her situation considered with the houses she governs. As, for example, \u2640 ruling the 12th, some private female enemy, among the relations of the wife or husband. because \u2640 is in the 3d from the 7th house. And as \u2642 is \u260d to \u2295, we should predict a loss by a servant (since \u2642 rules the 6th); and as \u2295 is in the 8th, it might be by one who comes to char or go messages; if \u2295 had been in a watery sign, a washerwoman. But the general testimonies being good, we should say the evil will be but trifling. Experience will teach the student these points.\n104:1 If no planet be in the ascendant of the party, look to the lord of the ascendant for a description of his person, according to the sign it is in, and judge by that and the sign ascending; but if the lord of the ascendant be much afflicted, the \u263d, according to the sign she is in, must be taken.\n104:2 This doctrine of the signs of long ascension, causing a \u2736 to be equal to a \u2610, and a \u2610 to a \u25b3, and the reverse in signs of short ascension, can only be received in horary and mundane astrology; and not in nativities.\n105:1 We should, in this latter case, prefer looking to the Ephemeris for a day when \u263f formed a \u25b3 of \u2643 for hearing news, and when \u2640 and ### came to \u260c for his return.","title":"Introduction to Astrology: The Resolution of all Manner of Questions and Demands: Chapter XXIII. If One Shall Find the Party at Home he Would Speak with?","type":"page"}