...of the fixed stars, and also the rising images original: simulacra; likely referring to the constellations or specific degrees of the zodiac associated with certain forms, and pronounce your judgment according to these.

97. The matter about which the inquiry is made is completed quickly when the lord the planet ruling the sign of the New Moon or Full Moon is in a cardinal house the 1st, 4th, 7th, or 10th houses, which represent action and immediacy.

98. Meteors original: Traiectiones and Comets original: Crinitae hold a secondary place in judgments.

99. Meteors indicate dryness of the air; if they are carried toward one direction, they indicate wind coming from that quarter. But if they are carried in various directions, they indicate a lessening of waters, disturbances of the air, and incursions of armies.

100. The conjunction [☌] of Saturn [♄], Jupiter [♃], and the Sun [☉] in humid signs causes rains and snows.

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THE BOOK

OF THE HUNDRED

APHORISMS

OF HERMES.

1. The Sun [☉] and Moon [☽], after God, are the life of all living things. The births original: natiuitates; refers to the birth chart or horoscope of an individual of many indeed do not have a hyleg hyleg: the "Giver of Life," a specific planet or point in a chart used to calculate a person's lifespan, but because the Sun and Moon behold their Ascendant the sign rising on the eastern horizon with love, and the same being free from affliction by "bad" planets, their life is prolonged further.

2. All daytime births are strengthened by the Sun [☉], when it is well-configured with the benefics the "good" planets, Jupiter and Venus. Nighttime births, however, [are strengthened] by the Moon [☽], when she is beheld by the benefics; and if this is not the case, yet if there be good planets in the angles the most powerful positions in a chart: the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th houses, then the birth is fortunate.

3. Mars [♂], when he is the lord of the Ascendant in the tenth house the house of career and public standing, grants dignity and power to the person born, which they will use with injury and cruelty; and this is called a misfortune rather than good fortune.

4. Jupiter [♃], when configured with the malefics the "harmful" planets, Saturn and Mars, changes their malice into good. Venus [♀]...