Aphoristic Astrology of Ptolemy, Hermes, and Others

...concerning Mars [♂] and Venus [♀], for those that are morning stars rising before the Sun take on masculine qualities, while those that are evening stars setting after the Sun take on feminine qualities.

72. Take matters of upbringing from the Lords of the ascending triplicity triplicity: a group of three zodiac signs belonging to the same element—fire, earth, air, or water. Take matters of life from the Lords of the triplicity of the ruling Light the Sun in a daytime birth, or the Moon in a nighttime birth.

73. Where the Sun [☉] is found with the Head of the Gorgon the star Algol, traditionally considered the most malevolent star in the sky, if it is neither aspected by a benefic Star Jupiter or Venus, nor does a benefic rule the eighth house the house of death, and if the Lord of the ruling Light is opposed to Mars [♂] or strikes it from a square an aspect of 90 degrees, the native’s head will be cut off. But if the Light culminates is at the highest point of the chart, the Midheaven, his body will be swathed in bandages. If the conjunction is in Gemini [♊] or Pisces [♓], his hands and feet will be amputated.

74. Whoever has Mars [♂] in the Ascendant the sign rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth will certainly have a scar on his face.

75. When the Sun [☉] is joined with the Lord of the Ascendant in Leo [♌], and Mars [♂] holds no special dignity in the Ascendant, and no benefic is in the eighth house, the person born will be burned.

76. When Saturn [♄] holds the Midheaven Medium Coeli: the highest point of the chart, representing career, status, and public life, and the ruling Light is opposed to it, and an earthy sign is at the bottom the Imum Coeli or Fourth House, representing the home and the end of life, the person so born will perish in the collapse of buildings. If it is a watery sign, he will be drowned. If it is a human sign such as Gemini, Virgo, or Aquarius, he will be strangled by men,

or perish by the noose or by whips. But if a benefic is in the eighth house, he will come close to these dangers, yet he will not die.

77. Calculate the profection profection: a technique of "advancing" a point in the chart by one zodiac sign for every year of life to time events of the Ascendant for matters of the body. Use the Part of Fortune a calculated point representing material prosperity and fate for external matters, the Moon [☾] for the connection of body and soul, and the Midheaven for one's actions.

78. A Star often exerts its power in a place where it otherwise holds no formal dignity, bringing unexpected profit to the native.

79. When Mars [♂] is in the eleventh house, the person who has this configuration does not master his own master original: "Domino suo non dominatur"; implying the native remains subservient to his superiors.

80. When Venus [♀] is joined to Saturn [♄] and has some host the planet ruling the sign in which she is placed in the seventh house, the person born will engage in sordid sexual unions.

81. The timing of events is discerned in seven ways: by the distance between two rulers; by the distance of configurations aspects between them; by the approach of one to another; by the distance between one of them and the place signifying the matter in question; by the setting of a Star, with addition or subtraction; by the change of the ruler; and by the entry of a planet into its own place.

82. When the charts of the New Moon or Full Moon are equal, inspect the Horoscope the Ascendant; if it is also equal,