Anafora Astrology
[COMPLEX ASPECTS]
We have told enough, my dear Mavortius, of the charts of famous men. Now we must return to the order of the work we have started.
1. If Saturn is in Libra in the terms or exaltation of Jupiter, and the ascendant is found in that same degree, but Venus on the descendant in Aries is in opposition; Mars and the Moon are in conjunction on the MC; the Sun and Mercury are in Gemini in the ninth house; and Jupiter is in Aquarius holding the fifth house and making his station (turning retrograde or direct); this indicates the most powerful kingly rule or high office and power.
2. If the Moon is in the twelfth house, that is, the Cacodaemon, and is in a sign which is said to be the triplicity of Saturn, that is, in Aquarius, Gemini, or Libra, with the Sun in the sixth house in opposition to the Moon with a like number of degrees; but Jupiter is in the eighth house; from this chart come toilsome poverty and wretched beggary.
3. If the Moon and Mars are in the seventh house, that is, on the descendant, and in the sign said to be the triplicity of Mars, that is, in Cancer, Scorpio, or Pisces; but Jupiter is exactly on the MC and the Sun in trine; this will make athletes who carry off the prizes in sacred contests.
4. If Venus is in a feminine sign, on the descendant; and Mars, the Sun, and the Moon are also in a feminine sign, the native will be a male prostitute.
5. If Saturn and Mars are in conjunction on the ascendant which is in a feminine sign; and Venus and Mercury are on the descendant, also in a feminine sign; or Mars and Saturn are on the MC in a feminine sign, or Mercury and Venus are on the IMC in a feminine sign; this chart will make male prostitutes or castrated eunuchs. If it is a woman’s chart she will be a public prostitute.
6. If the Moon and Mars are in conjunction in the eighth house and Mercury is in opposition to them, this will produce bandits of immoderate cruelty. We discover the nature of their crimes from the variety of the planets. For if Mars and the Moon are in earth signs, the attacker will stain his hands with blood in deserted regions. If they are in water signs, they will be sheep stealers, threatening their pursuers with the sword. In fixed signs the natives will be famous house-breakers who, armed with swords, threaten sleeping victims with loss of possessions and danger to life. But all these are caught in their crimes and suffer severe punishment. If Mars and Mercury are in conjunction on the IMC and the full Moon is in square aspect or opposition to them, this indicates the same in a similar way.
7. If Saturn and Venus are on the descendant and Mars is in the eighth house, and Mercury is with Mars, or with Saturn and Venus; and if Jupiter is not in favorable aspect to any of these; this will produce either slaves or castrates, but the type who display all kinds of impure vices.
8. If Mars is on the ascendant and Venus on the descendant, Saturn on the MC and the Moon on the IMC, this will make an unchaste man.
9. If Mars is on the MC in a feminine sign; Saturn and Venus in the eleventh house, but the ascendant with Jupiter, the Moon, and Mercury in the sign of Venus; the natives will corrupt with incestuous desire either their mothers, stepmothers, or mothers’ sisters.
10. Venus with Saturn on the ascendant in any sign or degree allots wives who are either public prostitutes or advanced in age, especially if Jupiter is not in aspect.
11. Jupiter and Mars in conjunction on the MC makes natives marked by unusual goodness who always attain good fortune, especially if this combination is found in the house or terms of Jupiter.
12. If Mars is on the MC or in the house of the Moon, and Jupiter is in that house in conjunction with Venus and Mars, and if the full Moon is moving toward Jupiter, this indicates the greatest good fortune.
13. If Mercury, Saturn, Mars, Venus, and the Moon are in conjunction on the MC, they indicate miserable poverty; they make the natives doorkeepers driven to this service through poverty; death of children is also often indicated.
14. If Mars and Venus are in conjunction in the fifth house and the Moon is exactly on the ascendant, fame and high position are predicted and faithful affection from a king. Honors include consular rank, gold robes, and gold crowns. But these natives are allotted adulterous wives.
15. The ascendant in the twelfth house in the sign of a malefic planet will have the native cjestroyed by dogs. But if that malefic planet who rules the twelfth house is himself in the seventh house, that is, on the descendant, this indicates danger of death unless there is the protection of Jupiter and Venus.
16. If the Sun and Moon are in the triplicity of Mars, that is, in Cancer, Scorpio, or Pisces, and Mars himself is found on the MC or the descendant, difficulties and constant traveling are indicated; the natives will end their days in strange regions or on journeys.
17. If Mars and the ascendant are found in this triplicity, that is, in Cancer, Scorpio, or Pisces, with the Moon on the ascendant, and Venus with Mercury on the descendant in the same number of degrees, the natives will become murderers of their wives.
18. If Venus is on the ascendant and the ascendant is in the sign of Venus, but Mars and the Moon are on the descendant in the sign or terms of Mars, the mother of the native will be struck with a sword.
19. If the Moon is on the MC, and Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter are together on the IMC, the native will be dragged from his own country and sold into slavery.
20. If the Moon, Mars, and Saturn are in conjunction on the MC, they will make the natives either leaders or followers of base and lustful pursuits who gain a livelihood from these activities.
21. If Saturn is found in the sixth house and Venus and Mercury in the twelfth and if all of these, in opposition, hold an equal number of degrees, the natives will have intercourse with their daughters. The same is indicated by Venus, Mercury, and Jupiter in each other’s houses.
22. If Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn are all in conjunction in the eleventh house, they allot as wives women who have been the slaves of most powerful men.
23. When Saturn and Venus are exactly on the MC with Jupiter in no kind of aspect, if this is a woman’s chart, she couples with eunuchs and sterile men in unsuccessful passion.
24. Venus and Jupiter in conjunction in the fifth or eleventh house with no benefic planet in aspect indicate marital difficulties and serious accidents from marriage; the couples are always involved in fierce quarrels and malevolent fights.
25. If Mars is in the same degree as the ascendant in the house of Jupiter, Saturn in trine to Mars and the ascendant, and the Moon in the last degrees of the ascendant, the natives have intercourse with their mothers or their stepmothers. If it is a woman’s chart, she sleeps with her father or stepfather. She will have the vicious desires of a prostitute. If Saturn is in the fifth house and Mercury with Venus in the eleventh, marriage with a stepdaughter is indicated.
26. Saturn on an angle with Mercury in opposition denies all children.
27. The Sun on the ascendant with Mars and Saturn on the anafora of the ascendant indicates some kind of affliction of the right eye. If the Moon is on the ascendant with Mars and Saturn on the anafora, the affliction is in the left eye. Both of these must be in a nocturnal chart.
28. Blindness and weakness of body together with wretched beggary are indicated by the Moon on the IMC, with Saturn, the Sun, and Mars in the eighth house aspecting the Moon in trine. Blindness is also indicated by this combination if Saturn is in the twelfth house in trine to the Sun, Moon, and Mars.
29. The Sun and Mars in the eighth house with the Moon in opposition in a human sign, together with Saturn, also indicate blindness and weakness of body. And if Saturn is on the descendant and Mars on the ascendant, the Sun on the anafora of the ascendant and the Moon in the sixth house, in the course of time the blindness grows worse and is accompanied with hemorrhage. Also if the Moon is on the ascendant and the Sun on the descendant in the seventh house, great affliction of the eyes is indicated.
30. If Mars is on the MC, Saturn in the eleventh house, the Sun on the anafora of the ascendant in opposition to the Moon in the eighth house, one eye will be extinguished but the other preserved.
31. If Mercury and the Moon are in conjunction and have Mars and Venus on the left side of a square, they either deform the body with a pointed head, disfigure the sight of the eyes, or make one shoulder twisted.
32. Dangerous blindness is also indicated by the Sun on the ascendant, Saturn on the IMC, and the Moon holding a right trine from the ascendant. If Saturn and the Moon are in tropical signs, or the Sun and Mars are in opposition to them, this combination always means danger to the eyes. But if Jupiter is on the MC in this combination, all difficulties of poverty are relaxed.
33. Saturn and the Moon on the MC with the Sun and Mars in the eighth house also indicate blindness. But if the Sun is found on the ascendant, Saturn on the anafora of the ascendant, the Moon on the MC, and Mars in the eleventh house, blindness is indicated. The same is true when the Sun is found on the ascendant, Saturn on the anafora of the ascendant, the Moon on the MC, and Mars in the eleventh house.
34. If the Sun, Moon, and Mercury are in conjunction in a tropical sign and the Moon is deprived of all light, they indicate the greatest wisdom, unusual intelligence, and knowledge of many things; but also with blindness and weakness of the body.
35. The Moon, Saturn, and Mars in conjunction in equinoctial signs make the whole body spotted with certain marks or make it blotched and white; on the other hand, either creeping impetigo will possess the whole body, or the native will suffer long-lasting scabies, or the disgraceful disfigurement of leprosy.
36. If Mercury, Saturn, and the Sun are in conjunction in the seventh house, that is, the descendant, and the Moon is in conjunction with Mars in the eighth house, they either amputate the hands or produce cripples or madmen who suffer from mental affliction.
37. Now, my dear Mavortius, I shall show you an amusing forecast. From this example you will be able to assess similar cases. That deformed and feeble Greek76 whose misshapen body Homer described to us in his divine songs, whom the laughter of all wise men punished —he had a chart of this kind. The ascendant was in Aquarius, the Sun and Saturn in Capricorn (that is, the twelfth house), but Jupiter on the ascendant or on the anafora of the ascendant, and Mars with the Moon in the eleventh house in Libra; Mercury and Venus were on the ascendant (that is, in Aquarius). This forecast shows us the chart of Thersites. He was unwar-like, feeble, silly, always impatient, displaying garrulous wordiness. All these traits the chart shows us.
38. Venus in Capricorn with Saturn in opposition makes natives hated by their wives in every way. Their bodies in heavy sweat give off an unpleasant goat-like odor. They will be despised in sexual relations and always be objects of scandal for their vicious desires. Jupiter lessens these difficulties to a certain extent if he is in trine to Venus, and he somewhat cleanses the odor.
39. The Moon, Saturn, and Venus in the seventh house, that is, on the descendant, make perverts with effeminate softness of body who dance on the stage and act in ancient fables, especially if Mars is in square aspect. For then he makes them addicted to all kinds of base vices; they also practice immoral kinds of intercourse with their wives. If to all these Jupiter is in square aspect from the IMC, together with all these vices he makes them lovers of boys.
40. If Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus are in conjunction on the MC, and Mars is in opposition on the IMC, this will make lovers of boys who pay for this vice with use of their own bodies.
41. If Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn are in conjunction in the seventh house, that is, the descendant, inheritance is acquired from the death of a wife. But the natives themselves suffer severe illnesses and get children only with difficulty. Mercury, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter together on the MC indicate wives who are foreigners but extremely wealthy.
42. Saturn on the ascendant with Mercury and Jupiter in the seventh house denies offspring. But if the order of that combination is reversed so that Jupiter and Mercury are on the ascendant and Saturn is in opposition on the descendant, the prediction is the same.
43. If Mercury and Venus are on the IMC and Saturn is in square aspect to them on the MC, this indicates an old wife. Also the native will have impure sex relations with his wife. If Venus and Saturn are in conjunction on the MC and the Moon is in opposition to them on the IMC, either old or sterile wives are indicated, so that from that marriage children are never possible.
44. Mercury and Mars in conjunction in the fifth house indicate sisters for wives.
45. Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars together on the MC indicate every kind of grief from wives so that a happy marriage is never possible with this combination.
46. Venus on the descendant, that is, the seventh house, in an evening rising with Saturn on the MC will make men sluggish in love; it also makes women frigid, with no sexual desires.
47. If Mars, the Moon, and Venus are in conjunction on the MC and Mercury is in opposition to them, this will make public eunuchs in a man’s chart, but women it turns into public prostitutes lost to all modesty.
48. A severe burden of grief from accidents to children is predicted by Saturn and Jupiter in conjunction on the IMC or in the seventh house.
But if Mercury and also Venus are with them, they make women sterile and men lose all sexual appetites. But if all these are in tropical signs, they make the woman’s vagina closed to normal entry. But if Mars is also found with all these, they will make castrated eunuchs serving sacred rites.
49. If Mars and the Moon are in conjunction on the ascendant, Mercury on the MC, and Saturn on the descendant, this makes the children perish while still in tender years and crying in their nurses’ arms.
50. If Mercury, Mars, Saturn, and Venus are in conjunction on the IMC, children will die a miserable death before being recognized by their fathers.
51. If Mars is on the IMC, Saturn on the descendant, and the Moon on the ascendant in square aspect to Mars and in opposition to Saturn, an early death is predicted for the wife.
52. If Jupiter is in the seventh house, that is, the descendant, and Mars and Mercury are in conjunction on the ascendant, offspring are denied. But if Mercury and Jupiter are on angles and in opposition to each other (one on the ascendant and one on the descendant, or one on the MC and one on the IMC), masculine children will perish in a horrible death.
53. If the ascendant is in tropical or mutable signs and Mars and Mercury are in conjunction on the ascendant but Jupiter is in opposition to the ascendant, this will produce epileptics or madmen.
54. Venus on the ascendant and Saturn in square aspect on the IMC produce servants in temples. These men are possessed by a divine instinct, though their minds are deranged, and they predict the future and from this gain a livelihood.
55. If Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and Venus are located together on the ascendant, which is in Virgo, and Saturn is in Pisces in opposition to them, the Sun is on the anafora of the ascendant but the Moon is in Aquarius; and if all these are located in their own terms; this shows the chart of a most powerful emperor.
56. If Mars is on the ascendant and the Moon is moving toward him or away from him, the indication is for a humble life, afflictions of illness, serious dangers, and calamities. If Mars is on the descendant and the Moon is moving away from him, the prediction is the same.
57. If the Sun is in conjunction with the ascendant in Aries or Scorpio and Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter in favorable houses are in trine aspect, this makes tyrants—cruel, fearsome, but successful, who make their way with ferocious cruelty through deaths and wretched punishments of their victims.
58. If the Moon is found on the ascendant, and Saturn and Jupiter on the descendant (the seventh house) in opposition to her, the natives will be stained with knowledge of hidden homicide. But if the Sun, Mars, and Mercury are in conjunction on the descendant, that is, in the seventh house, in tropical signs, the native will be a bandit drenched with human blood, armed for every kind of cruelty. If Saturn is found with the other planets, he shows us the kind of death. The native will be apprehended in his crimes, sentenced by the court, and raised on the cross.
59. If Jupiter is in the degrees of Pisces in which Andromeda is found, and the Moon, approaching Saturn, comes into conjunction with him, this indicates the greatest misfortune. If Mars is in opposition to the Moon thus located, this evil makes the natives apprehended in crime and crucified.
60. If Venus is in those degrees of Taurus in which the Pleiades are located, and Mercury and Mars are either in conjunction with the full Moon or in square aspect to her, the native will be captured by bandits and killed, struck by a sword.
61. If Venus is found in Taurus, on the ascendant in square aspect to the full Moon on the MC, this indicates the same as the above. If the ascendant is in Taurus and Mars is in Leo on the IMC in threatening aspect to the ascendant, the native will die by the sword. But if the ascendant is in Libra and Mars in Capricorn on the IMC in square aspect, the native will also be killed by the sword.
62. It must be noted that if the ascendant is in Aries or in Scorpio, and Mars is on the descendant, the MC, or the IMC, with little influence of the benefic planets, nothing bad is predicted, especially if it is a nocturnal chart. For Mars looks after his own house and when on the descendant never attacks it.
63. If the Sun is on the ascendant and Saturn is on the’MC and the house of Saturn is on the descendant, the natives will die of dropsy. But if Mercury is on the MC they will die of poison. If Jupiter is on the MC, death will come suddenly among happy friends at a banquet from too much food or too much drinking. But if Mars and the Sun are on the MC, they will die by the sword or be burned in a fire. If the Moon is on the MC they will die of the sacred illness (epilepsy). But if Venus is on the MC they will finish their life from malignant humors or be drowned in waves of the sea.
64. Mars and Mercury in conjunction in the eighth house make wicked thieves, who with vicious avarice desire the goods of others.
65. If the Sun is on the ascendant, and the Moon on the descendant, and Saturn and Mars are either with the Sun or with the Moon, or one is with one of these while the other holds one of the angles, the native will be exposed.
66. If Mars is on the ascendant and Mercury on the MC in square aspect, this will make malevolent informers. But if Mercury is on the descendant and Mars, on the MC, this will produce bandits often stained with human blood.
67. If Mars is on the ascendant, and Saturn is on any angle, and the Moon and Jupiter are together in a dejected house, the natives will live only as long as it takes for the Moon to cross Jupiter’s course. If the Moon is in firm aspect with Jupiter, they will live only as long as it takes Saturn to cross the first angle which he meets. But if the rays of the Moon are unstable, they will live as many days as the Moon is found with Jupiter. But if Mars and Saturn are located as we said, and Jupiter is in a dejected house with the Moon on one of the angles, especially the ascendant, the natives will be short-lived and have an evil death.
68. If Saturn is on the MC and the Moon is in opposition on the IMC, but Mars is on the descendant or the MC in threatening aspect to the Moon, possessing equal degrees with the Moon, the native will meet death the minute he bursts from the uterus. But if the Sun is on the ascendant, the Moon on the descendant in opposition to Mars, and Saturn in conjunction with the Sun or with the Moon, or one is in conjunction and the other holding one of the angles, the native will be exposed.
69. If the Sun is found in the sixth house and Saturn in the twelfth house in opposition to him, but both the Moon and Mars are in conjunction with Saturn in the twelfth house and in opposition to the Sun, they make enfeebled paralytics whose whole body is deformed with dislocated muscles and broken strength.
70. If Saturn, Mars, and the Moon are in conjunction in the eleventh house and Jupiter is in trine aspect to them or in the third house or on the descendant with the Sun on the ascendant, this chart indicates a tyrant.
71. If Mercury, Venus, Saturn, and Mars are in conjunction in the eleventh house, they make the natives immoderately extravagant, reveling in sumptuous profusion and lascivious desires.
72. Mercury and Mars in conjunction in the fifth house with Saturn in square aspect to them from above, or in conjunction with them, will produce forgers who imitate legal tender with adulterating skills. If the Moon is in aspect they will later become bandits or murderers. But if Mars and Mercury are in the fifth house and the waning Moon is in opposition to Saturn, or the Moon is full, in opposition to Mars and Mercury, the forgers will be executed for their crimes or punished by a severe sentence.
73. If the Sun and Mercury are on the ascendant and Saturn and Mars are in opposition on the descendant, the forgers will be apprehended and crucified. The favorable influence of Jupiter is not able to soften this punishment; his helpful protection is despised and the threatening rays of the malefic planets indicate certain death.
74. If Saturn and Mars are in conjunction on the ascendant, and the Sun and Mercury are in opposition to them on the descendant, a hand or a foot will be amputated. After these lacerations the natives will suffer a wretched death.
75. If the degree of the ascendant is found in the same sign between Saturn and Mars, this shows a mournful case of dire misfortune. For the foetus of the native is impeded in birth and torn apart so that all its parts must be brought out with cruel artifice.
76. Epilepsy is predicted by the Moon on the MC in mutable signs with Saturn on the descendant and Mars on the IMC. But if the Moon is synodic with the Sun and Mars is in conjunction with her, all of them on the MC; if Mars is in a morning rising and Saturn is on the descendant; this also produces epileptics who are changed in character by insane fury and lose the right path of life. But if with Mars, the Moon, and the Sun located as we have said, Saturn is on the IMC in opposition, the native goes mad and throws himself over a precipice. In general, Mars and Saturn in conjunction in double signs on the descendant produce this same effect. The same is true if the Moon is on the ascendant with Saturn and Mars in this situation.
77. Epileptics are also indicated by the Sun on the ascendant in Gemini, the Moon on the MCin Pisces, and Mars on the IMC in Virgo, so that all of these are in double signs.
78. If Jupiter is on the MC in a double sign, and Saturn and the Moon are in conjunction on the IMC, in opposition, the natives will be adopted by strangers who have no children of their own and will become their legal sons and heirs.
79. If Mars, Saturn, and Venus are in conjunction on the MC, and Mercury is in square aspect to them, this will produce prostitutes who sell their bodies for a living. If it is a man’s chart, the natives will be involved in feminine vices with effeminate passion.
80. If the Sun and Mars are together on the ascendant, Saturn is on the IMC in square aspect to them, and the Moon is on the IMC in opposition to Saturn and in square aspect to the Sun and Mars, this always arouses murderous hatred of parents toward their sons.
81. If Mars is on the ascendant and Jupiter in the sixth house, but the Moon, Mercury, and Venus are in conjunction on the MC, this combination indicates fame and high position.
82. If Mars, Saturn, and Venus are in conjunction on the ascendant in Aries, and the Sun is in the same sign, the wife will be a slave, an old woman, or of low class. If Mercury is also present, the natives take prostitutes to the nuptial couch. But if with all these as we said the Moon is found on the MC, the natives are driven with mad fury and base desires to a daughter’s bed.
83. Mars and the Sun in tropical signs on the descendant with Mercury in the same house make bandits who carry on their activities in foreign regions and are stained with human blood. They are detected in their crimes and suffer severe punishment.
84. If Mercury, the Moon, and Venus are in conjunction in the eleventh house in a feminine sign, and Mars is in trine aspect to them, they make musicians who sweetly play the cithara or the lyre.
85. Mercury, Mars, Venus, and the Moon together on the ascendant or the MC will produce dancers or pantomimers noted for grace and charm. If Jupiter is in favorable aspect, they will be famous and popular, especially if Saturn is also in favorable aspect.
86. If the Moon is synodic with the Sun in the eleventh house and
Jupiter in conjunction with them, and Mars and Saturn in diverse ways aspect the ascendant, one in square and the other in opposition, with one of these latter in an equinoctial sign, the prediction is for the disease of elephantiasis continued until the day of death.
87. If Saturn, the Moon, or Mars is located on a lower degree of Aquarius aspected in opposition by Saturn, children will be separated from parents.
88. The native will be blind if the Moon is found in the feet of Taurus, the nebula of Cancer, the mane of Leo, the forehead of Scorpio, from the eighth to the tenth degree of Sagittarius, in the horns of Capricorn, in the line of Pisces, or the head of Aries; and if either Saturn or Mars are in aspect. If she is on any angle in the signs and houses mentioned above, all use of the eyes is destroyed and wretched blindness ensues. But if the Moon is full or waxing she will not cause blindness but disfigures the face in an ugly way with an affliction, sickness, scar, or mark.
89. If Jupiter and Mars are found exactly on the MC, Mercury and Venus in conjunction in the third house, Saturn in the eighth, the Sun in Gemini, and the Moon either in her own house or her exaltation, this will produce brave, heroic, and murderous men who with their own right hand pile up heaps of dead.
90. If the ascendant is in one of the tropical signs, the Moon in the twelfth house, Jupiter and Mars in conjunction on the IMC, and Mercury and Venus in conjunction on the MC, this is the chart of a malicious prostitute who invites many to her bed for lovemaking. But she is forced to travel through many foreign places and is involved in frequent law suits and accusations. She will be in prison and will abort twin sons.
91. She will also sell her body to two brothers and will invite her father and son to her bed. These she will do both for passion and for gain. But when middle age arrives she will return to her own country and marry a young, unworthy, impoverished foreigner and will arrive at the last day of life chained to marriage with him and in dire need.
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