The Goal of the Wise

Concerning the Face and Color of the Native

In the ascendant the degree of the zodiac rising over the eastern horizon at the moment of birth at the beginning of the degrees, the body and flank of the native are determined by the degrees and the lord the planet that rules a specific sign of the nocturnal house, as well as the aspect the geometric angle between planets of his planets, the lord of his house, the Sun, the Moon, and the lord of the Part of Fortune. The aspects of fortune from the Sun and Moon in the zodiac are judged by their mutual presence in a good location; therefore, they are judged by a certain greater likeness by which the natives are likened to the aspect of the Sun. The Sun and other planets, the degree of the ascendant, Mercury, and the Moon—you shall take the planets, the Sun, the Moon, the degree of the ascendant, and Mercury to find the degrees of the zodiac for the Part of Fortune. In Mercury and the Moon, the form is seen mutually rather through the aspects of all the planets, the Sun, and the Moon in the signs in which they are separated from one another, and the aspects of the lords of those signs in which the planets, Sun, and Moon reside. One does not appear without the other; the Sun and Moon are separated from the aspect, and the lord of his house and the aspect of the planet, Sun, and Moon shall be more significant. The aspect which tends from the Sun and Moon toward an angle the four critical points of a chart: Ascendant, Midheaven, Descendant, and Imum Coeli, and the aspect of the Moon and Sun and the lord toward which they tend, and in the sign in which he lives—the aspect of the planet with which they are added from the angles and separated from them by degrees. The aspects of the Sun and Moon are in their own house or their substance, and in the triplicity a group of three zodiac signs belonging to the same element of the aspect in the zodiac from the Sun and Moon on either side; these are the beauties of his manner and the recognition in them from the highest and the planets.

Since in the face of the native, Saturn and the wise men likely referring to ancient authorities like Ptolemy or Hermes Trismegistus speak of those manners of the human face and their color, about which there was doubt in Apollo the Sun and Mars. If there was an aspect in that, then through them he says that they are born and others are likened to them; they have verified this for that reason, as for the most part the planets agree through the signs they speak of. Now you see Mars of the native: if he were beautiful and withdraws in his countenance, his face and teeth and spots will be all in himself of his own color; it signifies him to be white and red, or he has white eyes in the manner of mallow or French style. The planets of wisdom in this position in the signs of Scorpio receive firmness in the head, and they healed from the mixed things; they are therefore in their place because their manners say so. The planets have nobility then, lest the prohibition of those things come to them; the signification of the mixed boxes possibly referring to the "caskets" or divisions of planetary influence was looking at the face, and they condemned those born in Scorpio for their harvest, and they descended into a bad complexion the balance of bodily humors. Through the wisdom of Mars and Saturn, by nature the children are wrapped in the nature of Saturn, and their colors are according to his nature: toward whiteness, blackness, and bitterness. The Sun in earthy and humid signs received through some influence will have more of a certain color and signs.

Whiteness in the native, or with blackness in the native, according to their whiteness or blackness; you find them black and blacker, red and redder, according to the mutations of color according to all the aspects of colors. The mixed face is an aspect to the countenance through you, and Ambrose likely a reference to a specific astrological commentator says through the omission of colors in the signs themselves and explains it; you find some who are explained according to the manner. And Pons Mabro original: "pons mabro", possibly a corrupted name of an Arabic or Latin authority said to the great planet through the mixed hour of the ascendant that it contains 20,000 rays, the world of one ray through 10,000 moments, and each moment has a color and a taste. The end of the native is in his sign, the Moon, the Sun, and the planets through their signs, since to understand this was for no one but God alone. Therefore, when you wish to know the manner of the native, look at the aspect and the aspect; if you find the lord of the angle in the lord of his exaltation the sign where a planet's influence is most powerful or triplicity, then judge the manner of the native to be of the same. If they were in aspect in that part, that which was in the sign of the aspect, judge according to that manner and mix that with the lords of the sign of the aspect through you to which the lord of the sign of the planet was driven. If he were in the lordship of exaltation, then the consideration is from the aspect of the planet. The lord of the sign appears first since he is not in the aspect of the planet, and the lord of the face appears from the aspect. If he were in the rays from the aspect, take the planet closer to the aspect and that which appears to him in a better aspect of the lords of aspect, or exaltation, or term a specific division of a zodiac sign. The kind of colors of the planet is in the color of the signs and the term in which the planet is in the sign of colors, or the form of the color of the sign. If it were by pulsing in the zodiac and the degree and substance—the dimness or brightness is through the aspect and the temperament of the Sun, Moon, and planets in the forms of the signs. These planets, the lord of fortune, gather beautiful and merciful times of days, and beauty from substance, and he finds it easily; and the nights in the case of tension gather in their obstinacy; then those are the manner of the stars in the zodiac.

Concerning the Metals by which one was Born

Saturn is pale, of a coarse color and coarse in all things, with one eye at the end and one larger than the other, with curly hair and more so, and in his countenance his jaws appear then; his body is bruised and evil, with a biting aspect and teeth, and he has an antidote.