The Goal of the Wise

If the birth will be in a clean place Know that if Jupiter original: ♃ is in his own house and it is clean, then the newborn will be from clean places, places of observance without laziness. And if Jupiter is the lord of the one looking upon the eastern horizon in the morning, the newborn will be in places both clean and corrupt in all things. And if Jupiter is in a foreign house and is visible, the newborn will be in shifting clean places or spring-like places; and if he is in the ground or in Aries original: ♈ or Leo original: ♌ or Sagittarius original: ♐ and there appear Sun original: ☉, Mars original: ♂, Jupiter, or the lord of their houses, or the lord Concerning a lazy and deceitful newborn gaid Likely a transliteration of an Arabic astrological term referring to a specific planetary knot or affliction., the newborn will be in domestic, corrupt, and shifting places in all matters. Know that if Saturn original: ♄ is in the middle of the sky with the Sun, the newborn will be lazy by nature, without joy, and sad. And if Saturn is in the second house, the newborn will be lazy and without joy; and if Saturn prolongs matters and if Mars is empty, then he will be, and if the misfortune appears, the newborn will be without joy, lazy, a liar, and weak in work. And if Jupiter and Venus original: ♀ join in their company, the newborn will be lazy and without joy regarding the dignity of work and things. And if the Dragon's Head original: ☊ and Tail original: ☋ and Mars and Saturn are both eastern Concerning a newborn who eats greedily in the morning, the newborn is lazy, without joy, and miserable.

Know that if Jupiter with Mars eats by day, the newborn eats greedily and follows that which a lover's lie suggests. And if Jupiter is in [that] place, the newborn will be a greedy eater. And if the Sun is in Aries, the newborn will be without joy in the second [house], and in a fiery sign the newborn will be a greedy eater; and if Venus Concerning a newborn who sows discord and the grace of discord and Mars are in battle in a misfortune in a bad place, the newborn will be a great eater.

Know that if the Sun with Mars is in the 10th [house], the same from the 20th and Venus, the newborn will be a sower of discord and the "grace" of discord; and if they are separated in the mastery of the battle and some from the battle in the 1st and with those in the 2nd Concerning a newborn who is confused and thinks people speak ill of him, the newborn will be a sower of discord.

Know that if Saturn and the Sun are in one sign, the newborn will be a confused son. And if Saturn is in the 6th or 10th, the newborn always thinks that people speak ill of him. Concerning a corrupt newborn of beautiful stature Know that if Saturn and Jupiter appear 3rd from Saturn, the newborn will be brisk and corrupt; as the newborn lies, if Jupiter, Saturn, and the Dragon's Head appear, the newborn will be corrupt in all things but of beautiful stature. And if Saturn is in the 10th to the right or left, the newborn will be a corrupter and would give himself by hand from the mind Concerning a quiet and heavy newborn in one and the same way.

When these same positions occur, the newborn will be quiet and in his own weakness. And if Saturn is in the 1st in the ascendant in the middle of the sky and Jupiter appears, the newborn will be quiet. And if Saturn is in the 2nd and mastered, and if Saturn and the Sun appear falling from the ascendant and its lord Concerning a newborn who is a deceived person having nothing better, he will be heavy and quiet. And if Saturn and Jupiter are in a fixed sign and Mars does not appear, he will blame himself for this; the newborn will be heavy and quiet.

Know that if the Sun is the master without the aspect of Jupiter, the newborn will be a deceived person having nothing in darkness Concerning a fast newborn or any judgment; but quickly Saturn and Mars in fiery signs, and if Jupiter and the Dragon's Head appear, the newborn will be of fast perception. And if the Sun and Mars are in the 1st of their house and Jupiter does not appear, the newborn will be deceived and treacherous, and the end of the matter will not appear. And if the Sun is from the 1st in the 10th and Jupiter does not appear, the newborn will have little weight at the end of the matter. And if Saturn is in the 3rd, the lord of the ascendant in the middle of the sky, and the Sun appears, the newborn will be of treacherous perception and brings lawsuits and wars upon himself. Therefore the aspect of Saturn with [the Sun] and appearing in that and in vanity Concerning the limbs of the newborn and the parts and brothers in hesitation if God wills.

Know that the Lord who made the world and destroys it, who prepared the world in proportion to the greater [macrocosm]. He placed all his limbs and every judgment of the sons of the great heaven from these parts and brothers, the Lord in that same way; and he placed the heavy and powerful things where this begins, and in the substance of the sons of my heaven by presidency and clergy; and he placed the eyes in that same fire for the daughter of the Sun and Moon, and from the image and brightness and from the nostrils similar to Jupiter from the humidity of his heavens and the portions of his stars, the fat and the binding of the lower battles with them and the brothers of the mother; in the hearing of Mercury original: ☿ according to the measure of far and near love, and they themselves are present both far and near; and he placed in the tongue the daughter of Mercury according to measure and breadth, both vomiting and curing, and in retrograde motion according to the water-pits and omissions according to righteousness and commendation, and the breath of the soul of the tongue according to the limbs and the breastplates and in the obstruction of water and the disposition that they might be able.