On the Sun and Light

...proceeding meanwhile toward the north or the south, they are thought to change their condition everywhere. The Moon, the mistress of generation The process of coming into being or birth, has no manifest light except from the Sun. And from a perfect aspect A specific geometric alignment between celestial bodies with the Sun, she receives the powers of all the heavenly bodies. As Proclus A 5th-century Neoplatonist philosopher who wrote extensively on the divine nature of the cosmos says: it is as if all powers are in the Sun, and she sends down similar powers to our world.

The Power of the Sun in Generations and Seasons.

In Birth and in All Things. Chapter V.

Finally, in the birth of every human being, the position of the Moon itself declares the lord of the birth and the moment of conception. The conjunction or opposition Conjunction occurs when the Sun and Moon are together (New Moon); opposition occurs when they are on opposite sides of the Earth (Full Moon) of the Moon with the Sun occurring before a person's birth reveals the truth and the fortune of that birth. And in the present figure Referring to an astrological chart or diagram, that portion of the sky into which the Part of Fortune A specific mathematical point in a horoscope calculated from the positions of the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant falls is called the Daemon original: "Dæmon"; here meaning a guiding spirit or presiding genius of the nativity of the birth by the ancients; it portends or leads (as the Egyptians prefer) the course of one's entire life.

Furthermore, the Part of Fortune designates the space first observed between the Sun and the Moon, then projected from the degree of the Ascendant. Accordingly, Astronomers find and measure the movements of the planets through the already discovered movement of the Sun. The Sun, by its own motion, distinguishes nights and days, hours, months, and years. Likewise, by its light and heat, it generates, quickens, moves, regenerates all things, cheers them, and warms them; and those things which had been hidden, at its first arrival...