Minderwiz
Dorotheus on Elections
Dorotheus' advice is:
1. Check the rising sign at the time you commence an action and:
if it is a straight sign (that is Cancer through to Sagittarius, the the action will be slow and with difficulty, accompanied by misery, trouble and misfortune but if it is a crooked sign (Capricorn through to Gemini) it will help bring the matter to a succesful conclusion
The reasoning here is that the 'crooked' signs are signs of short ascension and so are associated with swift movement.
2. Check which planets aspect the Ascendant:
Benefics in aspect to the Ascendant will tend to speed things up and give a successful conclusion, whereas malefics will bring difficulties and delays. If both malefics and benefics aspect the Ascendant then the result will be 'middling' with a mixture of good and bad.
3. Tropical (Cardinal) signs on the Ascendant
A Cardinal sign on the Ascendant indicates that there will be a a break from activity and the action will have to be started a second time.
4. Twin (Mutable) signs on the Ascendant
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces indicates that even though you start the action straight away, a prior action already in progress, will have to be finished first before this new matter can itself be finished.
5. Corruption of the Moon (Eclipses)
This was the matter that you raised earlier. The Moon is 'corrupted' during the period of it's eclipse by the Sun (between last crescent and first crescent (the first sighting of the New Moon used for calendrical purposes). It is even worse if the New Moon occurs in the same sign that it was in at birth.
The Moon in this condition is good only for one kind of action, that is in actions which you do not want to become public - secret hidden activities such as theft or treachery.
If the Moon is in the Dodecatemoria of Saturn or Mars and if the Moon is in the middle of the equator heading south and if the Moon is in opposition to the Sun then it is bad
The Dodecatemoria or twelfth parts were used a lot by Hellenisitic Astrologers but do not seem to have lasted beyond that period. The Moon crosses the equator at the North (heading North) and South (heading South) Nodes. Thus the warning here is of the Moon which is near the South Node. It's not clear whether all these requirements have to be in place at the same time or any one of them presages bad results.
Also bad is if the Moon is slow (less than 12 degrees in a day), the waning Moon approaching the Sun, the Moon in aspect to a malefic, the Moon in the Via Combusta, the Moon in the last degrees of a sign (i.e.in the Bounds of Saturn or Mars).
There's also more from Valens if you want it but you will notice that much of the above begins to resemble rules for horary.
Finally it's worth pointing out that this is the dawn of what we now call 'Electional Astrology' and the branch became more sophisticated and complex under the Arabs and indeed in the late Medieval period and the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Dorotheus' advice is:
1. Check the rising sign at the time you commence an action and:
if it is a straight sign (that is Cancer through to Sagittarius, the the action will be slow and with difficulty, accompanied by misery, trouble and misfortune but if it is a crooked sign (Capricorn through to Gemini) it will help bring the matter to a succesful conclusion
The reasoning here is that the 'crooked' signs are signs of short ascension and so are associated with swift movement.
2. Check which planets aspect the Ascendant:
Benefics in aspect to the Ascendant will tend to speed things up and give a successful conclusion, whereas malefics will bring difficulties and delays. If both malefics and benefics aspect the Ascendant then the result will be 'middling' with a mixture of good and bad.
3. Tropical (Cardinal) signs on the Ascendant
A Cardinal sign on the Ascendant indicates that there will be a a break from activity and the action will have to be started a second time.
4. Twin (Mutable) signs on the Ascendant
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces indicates that even though you start the action straight away, a prior action already in progress, will have to be finished first before this new matter can itself be finished.
5. Corruption of the Moon (Eclipses)
This was the matter that you raised earlier. The Moon is 'corrupted' during the period of it's eclipse by the Sun (between last crescent and first crescent (the first sighting of the New Moon used for calendrical purposes). It is even worse if the New Moon occurs in the same sign that it was in at birth.
The Moon in this condition is good only for one kind of action, that is in actions which you do not want to become public - secret hidden activities such as theft or treachery.
If the Moon is in the Dodecatemoria of Saturn or Mars and if the Moon is in the middle of the equator heading south and if the Moon is in opposition to the Sun then it is bad
The Dodecatemoria or twelfth parts were used a lot by Hellenisitic Astrologers but do not seem to have lasted beyond that period. The Moon crosses the equator at the North (heading North) and South (heading South) Nodes. Thus the warning here is of the Moon which is near the South Node. It's not clear whether all these requirements have to be in place at the same time or any one of them presages bad results.
Also bad is if the Moon is slow (less than 12 degrees in a day), the waning Moon approaching the Sun, the Moon in aspect to a malefic, the Moon in the Via Combusta, the Moon in the last degrees of a sign (i.e.in the Bounds of Saturn or Mars).
There's also more from Valens if you want it but you will notice that much of the above begins to resemble rules for horary.
Finally it's worth pointing out that this is the dawn of what we now call 'Electional Astrology' and the branch became more sophisticated and complex under the Arabs and indeed in the late Medieval period and the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.