{"collection":"Astrology","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_astro_ptb_ptb53_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_astro_ptb_ptb53_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_astro_ptb_ptb53_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/astro/ptb/ptb53.htm","summary":"THE same places, as those pointed out in the two chapters last preceding, are again to be considered, in inquiring into the probability of a monstrous or defective birth. For it will be found that, at a birth of this description, the luminaries are either cadent from the ascendant, or else not in any manner configurated with it; while, at the same time, the angles 1 are occupied by the malefics. It therefore becomes necessary, when such a position of the heavens may occur at the time of birth\u2026","tags":["Classical Astrology","Ptolemaic Cosmology","Ptolemy","Tetrabiblos"],"text":null,"title":"Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos: Book the Third: Chapter IX. Monstrous or Defective Births","tradition":"Astrology","translated_text":null,"word_count":615}