《Solar and Lunar Returns -MORIN - ASTROLOGIA GALLICA - BOOK 23 - CAPs. 18 E 19》.doc

Solar and Lunar Returns Rules for interpretation of Solar and Lunar Returns as set forth by Morin de Villefranche From Chapters 18 and 19 of Book XXIII on his exposition on Astrology entitled Astrologia Gallica. Chapter 18 The Universal Laws of Judgments on Solar and Lunar Revolutions of Nativities Although from what was said in all of Book 21 about the determinations of the celestial bodies and then especially what was said in Chapters 6 and 7 of the present book, it should be plain enough how revolutions should be judged, at least in a general way; nevertheless, because the universal laws of judgments are common to genitures and revolutions, the doctrine of revolutions also possesses some laws of its own, both universal and particular; therefore, it seems to us that the universal laws ought to be given here, lest anything should be lacking in a theoretical doctrine of such importance; and we shall give the particular laws in our [book] Astrological Prediction, if God grants us the time to compose it. Therefore, the principal ones of the universal laws follow, from which the lesser principal laws can easily be discovered by a skillful astrologer. 1. In a revolution, nothing should be predicted - at least nothing significant - unless it is signified by the radix or by its directions at the time of the revolution. For if the Sun in the 10th of the radix is directed to the trine of Jupiter well disposed (which is a distinguished and fortunate direction per se), but in the revolution of the year indicated by the direction, the Sun is in the 12th square Saturn or Mars without any fortunate aspect of Jupiter, which is also badly afflicted, the direction will produce nothing, and only ineffective attempts for honors will occur along with impediments, and perhaps also misfortune in connection with honors; and so with the rest. But generally one ought to look in every revolution, both of the Sun and of the Moon, how the planets on that day are related to the places of the