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(Greek Track Volume IV)
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Anthology of Vettius Valens, Book I by Robert Hand .................................... i
The Dodekatemorion ....................................................................................................... vii
Translator's Preface by Robert Schmidt .................................................................................... xv
General Note ................................................................................................................. xvi
The Anthology of Vettius Valens of Antioch , Book I ................................................................... 1
1. Concerning the Nature of the Stars ............................................................................. 1
2. Concerning the Nature of the Twelve Zoidia ................................................................. 7
3. Concerning the Sixty Boundaries ............................................................................... 18
4. Concerning the Horoskopos ........................................................................................ 25
5. Concerning the Midheaven ........................................................................................ 30
6. Concerning the Ascension of the Zoidia ..................................................................... 31
7. Concerning the Zoidia that See and Hear .................................................................. 33
8. Synodic Conjunctions and Whole Moons, Roughly ..................................................... 34
9. Concerning the Seven-Zoned Sphere or Sabbatical Day, Roughly ............................. 35
10. Concerning the Ruler of the Year ............................................................................. 36
11. Concerning Masculine and Feminine Degrees .......................................................... 37
12. Concerning the Lights of the Moon .......................................................................... 37
13. Concerning the Concealment of the Moon ............................................................... 38
14. Concerning the 3rd, 7th, and 40th day of the Moon ................................................ 38
15. To Roughly Find the Ascending Node ....................................................................... 39
16. Concerning the Finding of Steps and Winds of the Moon ......................................... 40
17. After Hipparchus, Concerning the Calculation of the Zoidion of the Moon ................ 41
18. Concerning the Calculation of the Other Planets ..................................................... 43
19. Concerning the Commixtures of the Stars ............................................................... 47
20. Commixture of Three Stars ...................................................................................... 52
21. Concerning Conception ............................................................................................ 61
22. Concerning Children Born in the Seventh-Month ..................................................... 64
Appendix I - Translation Conventions ...................................................................................... 66
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Table of Contents
Introduction to Vettius Valens' Anthology, Book I by Robert Hand ............................................. i
Whole-Sign Houses .......................................................................................................... i
The Use of the Lots .......................................................................................................... ii
Predictive Periods in Vettius Valens ................................................................................. v
Ascensional Times ............................................................................................................ v
Planetary Periods .............................................................................................................. v
The Use of these Periods ............................................................................................... vii
Translator's Preface ................................................................................................................... x
General Note ................................................................................................................... xi
Genesis ................................................................................................................. xi
Daimon ................................................................................................................. xii
Second Book of the Anthology of Vettius Valens of Antioch ........................................................ 1
I. On Trigons .................................................................................................................... 1
2. The Differences of the Trigons, and Rulers, and Co-workers, and the Sects
of the Sun and Moon by Day and by Night ............................................................. 2
3. Concerning the Lot of Fortune and the Ruler ............................................................... 6
4. Concerning the Star Allotted the Hour or the Lot ........................................................ 7
5. The Place of the Evil Spirit--Many Figures ................................................................... 10
6. The Place of the Good Spirit-Many Figures ................................................................. 10
7. The Midheaven ........................................................................................................... 11
8. The Place of the God of the Sun, the Pre-Midheaven, 9th from
the Horoskopos – It Has Many Figures .................................................................. 11
9. The Eighth Place Of Death - All Sorts of Regards ........................................................ 12
10. The Setting Place ..................................................................................................... 13
11. The Sixth Place of Ares ............................................................................................. 14
12. The Fifth Place – Many Regards ................................................................................ 15
13. The Fourth, the Subterraneous Place ....................................................................... 15
14. The Third Place of the Goddess of the Moon ............................................................. 16
15. The Second Place - Called the Gate of Hades ........................................................... 17
16. Names of the Places ................................................................................................. 18
17. Triangular Judgments of the Stars in Relation to Happiness or
Misfortune - Triangular and Hexagonal and Diametrical Figures ........................... 18
18. Concerning Hour-Markers of the Lot of Fortune ....................................................... 28
19. Concerning the Exaltation of the Sun and Moon in Relation to Happiness ............... 29
20. Concerning the Lot of Fortune and of Spirit in Relation to Happiness
and the Prevention of Actions .............................................................................. 30
21. Concerning the Place of Fortune in Relation to Happiness ....................................... 31
22. Illustrations of the Chapters Above ......................................................................... 33
23. Concerning Estimable and Notable Nativities, and, with the Same Considerations,
Concerning Disreputable Nativities and Those That Come to Naught .................. 42
24. Concerning the Lot of Debt ...................................................................................... 46
25. The Lot of Theft ........................................................................................................ 46
26. The Lot of Treachery ................................................................................................ 47
27. Illustrations of the Above Places .............................................................................. 50
28. Concerning the Propitious and Unpropitious Times of Life from
the Pivot Points and the Post-Ascensions ............................................................ 53
29. On Being Away from Home, from the [Writings] of Hermippus ................................. 54
30. Concerning Being Away From Home ......................................................................... 55
31. Concerning the Predeceasing of the Parents, with Illustrations .............................. 62
32. ConcerninL Parents from the [Writings] of Timaeus ................................................. 65
33. Concerning the Bereavement of Fathers .................................................................. 66
34. Concerning the Separation of the Parents ............................................................... 68
35. Conerning Births Which Are Suitable to Freedmen and Slaves ................................ 70
36. The 11 Figures of the Moon in relation to the Power of their Effects ....................... 71
37. Concerning Injury and Ailment, with Illustrations for Each Zodion - for example,
Aries Causes a Certain Injury or ailment and so forth ......................................... 74
Appendix I -- Translation Conventions ..................................................................................... 87
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Introduction by Robert Hand ....................................................................................................... i
Translator's Preface by Robert Schmidt ..................................................................................... vii
Book Two of the Anthology of Vettius Valens (Concluded) ......................................................... 1
38. Concerning Marriage, Wedlock, and Bliss - A Variety of Considerations
and Figures ............................................................................................................ 1
39. Concerning Having Children or Childlessness .......................................................... 10
40. Concerning Siblings .................................................................................................. 11
41. Concerning Violent Deaths, with Illustrations .......................................................... 11
Book Three of the Anthology of Vettius Valens ........................................................................ 27
1. Concerning Predomination ......................................................................................... 27
2. Concerning the Notable Degrees of the Pivot Points ................................................. 33
3. On Aphesis ................................................................................................................. 35
4. Concerning Winds of the Stars and their Exaltations and Steps ................................ 42
5. Concerning the Sect of the Stars ............................................................................... 45
6. Concerning Winds and Changes ................................................................................ 49
Bounds According to Vettius Valens, Diurnal Charts ............................................ 52
7. From the Anthology of Valens concerning a Numerical Lot and Length of Life.
The Same also in Regard to the Propitious Times, with Illustrations .................... 53
8. Concerning the Teaching of the Crisis of the Seventh and the Ninth ......................... 58
9. Teachings Pertaining to Conjunctions and Whole Moons and Conception in
Relation to the Ascending Node that Concern Length of Life ............................... 60
10. How to Find Precisely the Sun, the Moon, and the Horoskopos in a Conception ....... 63
11. Concerning the Lot of Fortune in Regard to the Matter of Length of Life with
Illustrations, in which are also the Least Years of the Stars ................................ 67
12. Concerning Crisis Times ........................................................................................... 70
13. Mean Years of the Stars ........................................................................................... 71
Appendix I
Translation Conventions ................................................................................................ 74
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Table of Contents
Introduction to the Anthology of Vettius Valens, Book IV by Robert Hand ................................. i
Planetary Periods East and West - Some Differences .................................................... iv
The Relationship Betveen Periods and Directions .......................................................... vi
The Delineations of the Profections .............................................................................. viii
Translator's Preface by Robert Schmidt ................................................................................... xii
General Note ................................................................................................................ xiii
Greek Astrological Terminology .......................................................................... xiii
Aphesis ..................................................................................................... xiii
Update on chrematistikos ......................................................................... xvi
Parodosis kai paraiepsis ............................................................................ xvii
Praxis ...................................................................................................... xviii
Greek Philosophical Terminology & Concepts ............................................................... xix
Time (chronos) .................................................................................................... xix
Book Four of the Anthology of Vettius Valens ............................................................................ 1
1. The Divisions of Periods ............................................................................................... 1
2. Concerning Releasing .................................................................................................. 1
3. Concerning the Further Division of Days ...................................................................... 2
4. Concerning the Division of the Times from the Lot of Fortune and Spirit ...................... 3
5. Concerning the Loosing of the Bond and the Reciprocal Handing Over of the Stars .... 9
6. How Many Years Each Zoidion Divides; and the Final Years of the Stars .................... 10
7. Concerning the Divisions of the Times for the Lot of Fortune and Spirit,
and the Ingresses of the Stars, and Rulers, and Conjunction and Whole Moon,
with an Illustration and Reciprocal Handing Over ................................................. 11
8. A Compelling Illustration ............................................................................................ 14
9. Concerning the Cosmic Year and the Year Relative to Division, How Many Days
Each Has and How They Should Be Reckoned ...................................................... 17
10. Concerning the Distribution of More and Fewer Years, Months, Days, and
Hours of Each Star; and the Uses of These for Nativities ..................................... 18
11 Concerning the Prospering Year and a Special Teaching ........................................... 21
12. Concerning the Naming of the 12 Places and Concerning the Twelve-Turning ......... 32
13. Concerning Giving Over from Exaltation to Exaltation .............................................. 36
14. Concerning Phases of the Stars and Ingresses ....................................................... 37
15. Concerning the 3rd and 9th Place from the Horoskopos ........................................... 38
16. Concerning Irregularities of Nativities ...................................................................... 39
17. Concerning the Giving Over of the Stars and Lots and Horoskopos .......................... 45
18. Distributions of the Moon ......................................................................................... 47
19. Distributions of the Horoskopos ................................................................................ 49
20. Distributions of Kronos ............................................................................................. 50
21. Distributions of Zeus ................................................................................................ 52
22. Distributions of Ares ................................................................................................. 54
23. Distributions of Aphrodite ......................................................................................... 56
24. Distributions of Hermes ............................................................................................ 58
25. Divisions of the Four Lots ......................................................................................... 60
26. The 4th Manner of Division of the Times, in Accordance with the Seven-Zoned
Sphere Upwards, in the Manner of Critodemos .................................................... 62
27. Otherwise Concerning the Years from the Sothic [Material]; A Lecture from
the Hermetic [Material] Making the Releasing from the Sun or Moon or
Horoskopos or Lot of Fortune ................................................................................ 63
28. Concerning Where the Month Will Be ....................................................................... 65
29. Concerning the Prospering Day ................................................................................ 65
30. Concerning the Propitious and Impropitious Times in Relation to 1/4 of
the Period ............................................................................................................ 67
Glossary ................................................................................................................................... 70
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Preface by Robert Schmidt .......................................................................................................... i
Book V of the Anthology of Vettius Valens .................................................................................. 1
1. Concerning the Place Pertaining to Accusation ............................................................ 1
2. Concerning the Climacteric' Year and the Places of Eclipse and Inceptions ................. 6
3. Concerning Climacteric Zoidia ....................................................................................... 9
4. Concerning the Prospering Month and Day from the Transiting Sun to the
Moon at Birth and an Equal Amount from the Horoskopos .................................... 11
5. Concerning the Noddings of the Moon at the New Moons in the Zoidia from
Leo and in Succession .......................................................................................... 14
6. What is the Reason that the Same Effects Do not Occur during a Twelve Year
Period, but sometimes Foul Things Happen when Good Ones Are Expected,
or the Opposite, Good Things when Foul Are Expected? And also, when the
Division Falls on Void Zoidia, why Great Goods or Evils sometimes Occur? ........... 18
7. Concerning Releasing ................................................................................................. 46
8. Otherwise in the Matter of Climacteric [Times], accordingly as Critodemus
Makes the Releasing from the Moon .................................................................... 53
Book VI of the Anthology of Vettius Valens ............................................................................... 62
1. Prooemium ................................................................................................................. 62
2. Concerning the Propitious and Impropitious Times according to the
Partile Interval of the Times, and Application ....................................................... 65
3. The Reason Why the Ancients Typified the 5 Planets and the Sun and
Moon with Such Colors ......................................................................................... 72
4. Why the Malefics Seem To Be More Active than the Benefics ..................................... 73
5. Concerning Ingresses ................................................................................................ 75
6. Concerning the Division of Propitious and Impropitious Times with
regard to 10 Years and 9 Months ......................................................................... 77
7. To Learn to Which Star the Current Years Belong in the Foregoing Teaching ............ 82
8. Concerning Length of Life from the Rule of the Whole Moon and Horoskopos ............ 84
9. The Finding of the Moon and Horoskopos of Conception ............................................. 87