St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 756

...with speed. ¶ The seventh figure original: "vijª fig̃a"; referring to the Seventh House signifies the autumn season; regarding the age of man, it signifies youth, from the twenty-fifth year up to the fiftieth; regarding the effect of a work, it signifies slowness and laziness. ¶ The fourth figure the Fourth House signifies the winter season; regarding the age of man, it signifies old age; regarding the effect of deeds, it signifies slowness, unless harmony or discord among the figures completes it. It must be stated whether it is good or bad. ¶ It should be known that the houses are the first, seventh, tenth, and fourth; these are called angles angles original: "anguli"; also known as Cardinal houses, these are the most powerful positions in a chart, representing the pillars of the situation, signifying all actions that have ever been. ¶ And note that the first place is naturally stronger than all the others, and after that the tenth; the seventh and fourth are weaker than the first and tenth. ¶ Figures in the first, fifth likely a scribal error for the fourth, as the text immediately clarifies these are angles, tenth, and fourth, which are the angles, are the cardinal points and the strongest places; they signify all things that are in the public eye or are public matters. The second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh figures are succedent succedent original: "succedẽtes"; houses that "follow" the angles; they represent resources and stability, and these places are less strong; they signify public things and secret matters. The sixth, third, ninth, and twelfth figures are cadent cadent original: "cadent̃"; houses that "fall away" from the angles; usually considered the weakest or most problematic positions and are weak places for good, but very strong for evil; they signify all hidden matters original: "secta".

I say that every first figure, in its nature, is like a man newly born into the world who is young and wishes to act as much as he can; he is like a man fighting from the start, who thinks of fighting with every man who wishes to contradict him, and wants to see if he finds anyone resisting him or wanting to prove whether he is good and powerful. Therefore, this is the first cause, and for that reason it is called the Ascendant original: "ascēdēs"; the starting point of the chart representing the person asking the question, corresponding to the natural figure of the world, for all that is like a man who is ready for battle with another and can exert all his strength against him; hence the stronger is seen over the weak.

Note that every figure is, by its element, a natural friend to its own kind, like a brother or sister of the same blood. Therefore, where there is similarity in the figures, there is friendship and harmony, but where there is dissimilarity, there is enmity. A sufficient example of this is seen in the harmony of figures: those that follow one another are like two brothers in blood in their love for each other. Two identical geomantic figures side-by-side in red ink. Each consists of four rows of dots: 2 dots, 2 dots, 1 dot, 1 dot (Fortuna Major, "Greater Fortune"). These figures that follow one another are as two primary enemies hating each other in all things: Two identical geomantic figures side-by-side in black ink. Each consists of four rows of dots: 2 dots, 1 dot, 1 dot, 2 dots (Albus, "White"). Albus Repeat of the two previous black geomantic figures (Albus). These that follow are as two men who love each other from the start, such as: Two identical geomantic figures side-by-side in red ink. Each consists of four rows of dots: 1 dot, 2 dots, 2 dots, 1 dot (Puella, "The Girl"). Thus is the friendship of the aspects: the first figure sees and loves that which is before it, up to the fourth and fifth; it also loves and delights in seeing the seventh, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth. For the first figure is like a sister to the eleventh, not merely as a friend but as a sister. The other figures, however, the first neither sees nor loves, namely the sixth, seventh, eighth, and twelfth The text repeats some numbers; this refers to "blind" houses that do not form a traditional geometric "aspect" to the first house. The reason is that they all hold each other in hatred and harm and contradict one another... the fifth and eighth are the seekers; the sixth and seventh are the matters.