Prognostication

Chapter two: Concerning the lord of the year and its significations in general, and the lords of the quarters.

Although several planets may seem to contend among themselves for the lordship of the year, we, following the opinion of the divine Hermes, say that Mars will be the lord of the year, with some participation of Saturn. Rightly, therefore, Mars claims the lordship of the year for himself, because in the figure of the revolution he alone runs through the angle of the seventh house, while the other planets occupy cadent or succedent places, and his northern latitude allows him to set more slowly, so that he does not lose the lordship of the year. Furthermore, Mars himself, in the conjunctive figure preceding the entry, runs in the angle of the orient, having no small strength in the place of the conjunction through the lordship of the term and the face, especially since it also aspects the place of the conjunction itself. Truly, we place Saturn as a participant, because he holds no small lordship in the ascendant of the revolution, running in the same figure, rejoicing in the place of his joy. But since the ascendant of the year is a mobile sign, we are forced to constitute the lords of the entry of the others by the command of Hali.
Therefore, Venus will rule the second quarter of the year, that is, summer, because she, as the mistress of the ascendant of the figure of the entry, possesses the tenth in Cancer. Jupiter will participate in the lordship of the summer with her, because he runs in the seventh in dignity, possessing the ascendant and irradiating the ascendant of the preceding conjunction with a trine aspect.
If we say that the Moon rules the third quarter, that is, autumn, with some participation of Jupiter, we will not err, because in the figure of the opposition preceding the figures of the Sun's entry into Libra, she approaches closer to the angle of the tenth, having many strengths in the ascendant of the same figure. In the figure of the entry, remaining in her own exaltation, she does not illuminate, with the other planets possessing places inept for the lordship of that quarter. Jupiter, however, has a participation in the lordship, because he occupies the tenth in the preventive figure, having many dignities in the place of the opposition and its ascendant. In the figure of the entry, he illuminates the ninth, casting his antiscia a reflected position in astrology partilely into the degree of the ascendant of the revolution.