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(Latin Track Volume IV)
Table of Contents
Introduction by Robert Hand .....................................................................................................
ii
About Johannes Schoener ................................................................................................
ii
General Note on the Translation ......................................................................................
iv
Accidens: .................................................................................................................
v
Dominus and Dominator: ........................................................................................
vi
Dedicatory Epistle.........................................................................................................................1
The First Part Contains Instruction on the Use of the Ephemeris ...............................................
3
Canon I. Examining the Sequence and Disposition
of the Ephemeris for the first time ..... 3
Canon II. Inquiring Concerning the Golden Number,
Dominical Letter, the Indication
and the Six Moveables ............................................................................................
3
Canon III. Making Known the Characters of the Planets,
Signs and Aspects ................... 3
Canon IV. Discovering the True Motion of the Sun,
Moon, and the Five Planets,
the Head and Tail of the Dragon at Noon
of Any Day............................................... 5
Canon V. Finding the True Place of the Sun and Moon and the Five Planets and
the Head and Tail of the Dragon at Any
Hour and Minute of the Day....................... 5
Canon VI. Getting the Hourly Motion of Any Planet
Skillfully .............................................. 5
Canon VII. Investigating in a Different Way What
the Preceding Has Taught ................... 6
Canon VIII. Finding the True and Average Argument
of the Latitude of the Moon ............ 6
Canon IX. Showing the Latitude of the Moon at Any
Moment ........................................... 6
Canon X. Determining the Latitudes of the Five
Planets for Certain Days and Hours ....... 6
Canon XI. Discovering the Aspects of the Planets to the Moon and of the
Other Planets Among Themselves ..........................................................................
6
Canon XII. Determining the True Time of Any Conjunction, Opposition
or Quadrature of the Luminaries at Any
Meridian ................................................... 6
Canon XIII. Prognosticating the Eclipses of the
Luminaries, if Any Happen in the Year..... 7
Canon XIV. Inquiring Whether the Eclipse Happens
around the Head or the Tail
of the Dragon, and Whether it is Total
or Partial, and if Partial, Whether
the Northern or Southern Part is Eclipsed
.............................................................. 7
Canon XV. Reckoning the Three Times, Namely the
Beginning, the Middle and
the End, and the Entire Duration of Any
Eclipse ..................................................... 7
Canon XVI. Determining the Length of Time of the
Whole Lunar Body Hiding
under the Shadow ..................................................................................................
7
Canon XVII. Enumerating the Length of the Day or Night, Likewise the Time
of the Rising or Setting of the Sun at
Any Time of Year............................................ 7
Canon XVIII Converting Astronomical Hours Begun
at Noon into Hours
Taking Their Beginning from Sunrise,
Sunset or Midnight ....................................... 7
Canon XIX. Setting Up a Figure of Heaven for Any Moment According to the
Rules of the Art .......................................................................................................
7
Canon XX. Inserting the Places of the Planets and of the Fixed Stars of
the
Figure Skillfully ........................................................................................................
8
Canon XXI Introducing the Conjunctions and Aspects
of the Luminaries and
Planets According to the Condition of
the Fixed Stars Which Nearly
Touch Them, and Other Effects ...............................................................................
8
Canon XXII. Forecasting the Changing of the Air
............................................................ 11
The Second Part of the Introduction Treats Compendiously of Astrology
.................................. 16
Canon I. Manifesting the Natures and Properties
of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac ...... 16
Canon 11. Recognizing the Qualities and Conditions
of the Seven Planets .................... 23
Canon III. Determining the Illnesses of the Planets
in the Twelve Signs
According to the Parts of the Body of
Man ............................................................ 31
Canon IV. Collecting the Fortitudes and Debilities
of the Planets ................................... 31
Canon V. Making the Significations of the Twelve
Houses of Heaven Known in Brief ...... 35
Canon VI. Grasping the Twelve Houses, their Sex,
Constitutions, Mundane
Division,Fortitudes, Colors, and the
Joys of the Planets within Them
with a Single Look .................................................................................................
35
Canon VII. Investigating Concerning the Accidents
which Befall the Planets in
Themselves. and the Progressions or Directions
to Each Other, and
the Retrogradations and Stations of the
Planets .................................................. 36
Canon VIII. Heeding the Swiftness of Slowness of
the Motion of a Planet ..................... 36
Canon IX. Whether a Planet is Increased or Decreased
in Light or Number ................... 36
Canon X. Knowing Whether a Planet is Oriental or
Occidental ....................................... 37
Canon XI. Concluding Whether a Planet May be in
a Good Configuration
or an Evil One .......................................................................................................
38
Canon XII. Finding Whether a Planet is Ascending
toward the Angle, or
Descending from the Angles .................................................................................
39
Canon XIII. Defining Conjunctions and Aspects of
the Planets ...................................... 40
Canon XIV. Recognizing Separation from Aspect or
Conjunction .................................... 40
Canon XV. Comprehending Prohibition from Aspect
or Conjunction ............................... 40
Canon XVI. Learning whether a Planet is United
with the Sun or Not, or is in Cazimi .... 41
Canon XVII. Investigating whether a Planet is Combust
or Oppressed, or
under the Rays .....................................................................................................
41
Canon XVIII. Learning to Whether a Planet is Visible
or Not .......................................... 42
Canon XIX. Whether or not a Planet is in Its Similitude,
Which they Call Hayz ............... 42
Canon XX. To Recognize Ductoria and That Which
is Called Security .............................. 43
Canon XXI. To Find Almugeas or the Regarding of
Planets toward the Sun and Moon ... 44
Canon XXII Whether a Planet Is Besieged or Not
.......................................................... 44
Canon XXIII. Learning whether Any of the Planets
Are Void in Course .......................... 45
Canon XXIV. Whether Any Planet is Peregrine or
Feral................................................... 45
Canon XXV. Watching for the Ascension and Descension
of a Planet in
the Eccentric Circle, and also in the
Epicycle ......................................................... 45
Canon XXVI. Demonstrating the Reception of a Planet,
which is Called
Pushing, Commission, or the Donation
of Virtue, or Disposition ........................... 46
Canon XXVII. Inquiring about the Translation of
Light or Nature, Which
They Call Giving Power to Another Planet
............................................................. 48
Canon XXVIII. Comprehending in a SkiIled Manner
the Contrariety or
Destruction of Conjunctions of the Planets
........................................................... 48
Canon XXIX. Discerning the Abscission of the Light
or Nature of One
Planet by Another .................................................................................................
49
Canon XXX. Comprehending the Collection of Light
or Nature ........................................ 49
Canon XXXI. Inquiring After the Denunciation of
Light, which is Called
the Return of Virtue ..............................................................................................
49
Canon XXXII. Seeing Refrenation from Conjunction
or Aspect ........................................ 50
Canon XXXIII. Understanding the Frustration of
a Planet from Conjunction or Aspect.... 50
Canon XXXIV. Seeing the Elevation of a Planet over
A Planet ........................................ 50
Canon XXXV. Exploring Which Planets are Friends
or Enemies of Each Other................. 52
Canon XXXVI. Noticing that a Planet is in Light
or Not .................................................... 53
Canon XXXVII. Promptly Understanding the Decans
of the Signs, the Degrees
Masculine and Feminine, Degrees Dark,
Smokey, Lucid and Void,
Likewise Degrees Deep, Azimene and Fortunate
.................................................. 53
Canon XXXVIII. Collecting the Antiscia in Signs,
Degrees and Minutes ........................... 55
Canon XXXIX. To Determine the Fortitudes and Debilities
of the Planets ....................... 57
Canon XL. Determining Skillfully the Fortunes
and Infortunes of the Cusps
of the Houses or Heaven, Likewise of
the Places of the Planets and
of the Parts of the Significators ............................................................................
63
Canon XLI. Finding the Lords, the Rulers or Governors
and the Leaders
of the Theme ........................................................................................................
64
Canon XLII. Disclosing through which Mansion of
the Zodiac the Moon Travels.............. 64
The Third Part Concerning Common Elections ..........................................................................
67
Canon I. Putting Forth Those Matters Which Must be
Considered Generally
in Any Election ......................................................................................................
67
Canon II. Explaining What Must be Elected or Avoided
under Any Aspect of
the Moon to the Planets .......................................................................................
68
Canon III. Electing Times Suitable for Bloodletting
and Cupping .................................... 69
Canon IV. Ejecting Healthful Times for the Taking
of a Drug ........................................... 70
Canon V. Scrutinizing Times Suitable for Baths
............................................................... 72
Canon VI. Observing the Time Suitable for Cutting
Hair .................................................. 72
Canon VII. Instructing the Proper Time for the
Cutting of an Unguent ........................... 72
Canon VIII. Strengthening the Divers Parts of the
Body, Virtues and Operations
under a Fortunate Constellation with
the Appropriate Medicines ......................... 73
Canon IX. Examining Planting and Sowing .....................................................................
73
Canon X Seeking a Suitable Time for Weaning an
Infant ................................................ 74
Canon XL Marrying and Creating Offspring .....................................................................
74
Canon XII. Choosing a Suitahle Time for Handing
over Boys to Teachers ...................... 75
Canon XIII. Discerning when Servants Can Be Hired
or Beasts Bought ......................... 75
Canon XIV. Investigating What Time is Suitable
for Preparing and Putting
on Clothing ...........................................................................................................
76
Canon XV. Taking Hereditary Possessions, the Investiture
of High Office, or
Official Position upon One's Self. or Conveying
One's Self from One
House into Another ...............................................................................................
77
Canon XVI. Laying the Foundation for Constructing
a Building ....................................... 78
Canon XVII. Comprehending when It Is Best to Buy
and Sell, or to Make
and Receive a Loan ..............................................................................................
79
Canon XVIII. Selecting a Suitable Time for Traveling
and for Sending Legations ............ 80
Canon XIX. Finding out when It Is Best to Hunt
............................................................. 81
Canon XX. Perfecting the Works of Metals in Fire,
or To Work at the Alchemical Art ....... 81
The Fourth Part Concerning Nativities ......................................................................................
83
Canon I. Disclosing Those Matters Which Must Be
Considered before the
Judgment of a Human Nativity ..............................................................................
83
Canon II. Making Known Whether the Native Is To
Be Reared or Not and
Concerning the Choice of the Hyleg According
to the Thinking of Ptolemy ............ 84
Canon III. Determining Whether the Native's Life
Will Be Long or Short ........................ 85
Canon IV. Predicting the Complexion of the Body
and the Health and
Illness of the Native .............................................................................................
86
Canon V. Judging the Substance and Wealth of the
Native ........................................... 87
Canon VI. Declaring the Rank and Honor of the
Native .................................................. 87
Canon VII. Instructing Concerning the Death of
the Native, Whether it Happens by
Sword, Fire, Water, a FalL Hanging, the
Attack of Wild Beasts or Illness ............. 88
Canon VIII. Showing Whether the Native Will Have
Brothers and Whether They Will
Live, and Be Fortunate, and Whether There
Will be Love among Them ............... 89
Canon IX. Determining the Times of the Accidents
......................................................... 90
Canon X. Knowing the Duration of an Accident Coming
Forth from a Direction ............... 91
Canon XL. Again Concerning the Time ............................................................................
92
Canon XII. Determining the Observation of the
Times of Future Accidents of
the Nativity from Directions, Divisions,
and Profections ........................................ 93
Canon XIII. An Experience Concerning the Transit
of the Lord of the Ascendant
over the Degree of an Infortune in the
Radix of the Nativity ................................ 94
Canon XIV. Another Experience Concerning the Part
of Fortune..................................... 95
Appendix - Schoener's Fixed Star Table
From Canon XXI, Book 1 .................................................................................................
96