RohanMenon
Overview of Book 3.
A "table of contents" and overall impresson
Sections
1. The Control
2. The significant degrees of the angles
3. The Vital Sector
4. The Winds of the Stars, their Exaltations and Steps
5. The Sects of the Stars
6. Examples illustrating the previous chapters
7. Another method from Critodemus about hostile places and vital sectors: From the Moon and the Ascendant
8. Hostile Stars and Critical Places - The First Table of Critodemus
9. Winds and Turns
10. The Order of the Terms
11. From the Books of Valens concerning the Numerical Lot and the Length of Life. The same author on the topic of propitious times, with examples
12. The 7 day and 9 day methods for the critical period
13. The Method of New and Full Moons. Conception with Reference to the Ascending Node. Length of Life, with examples
14. How the position of the Sun, the Moon and the Ascendant at the time of conception can be accurately found
15. The Lot of Fortune and its relationship with the topic "Length of Life" with examples. Included are the Minimum Periods of the stars.
16. Critical Years
17. The Mean Years of the Stars
Quick impressions from skimming the book. This is a short book, with lots of calculations related to calculating the length of life. I am personally somewhat skeptical about such procedures actually resulting in a reliable length of life calculation, but I'll learn and try as much of these as possible. In my experience, looking *back* from a known death time, it is always possible to point at some transit or progression or profection or whatever as the cause of death. But the key technique to winnow the astrological wheat from th chaff is *prediction*, which is my touchstone for effective technique.
That said, learning these techniques are not wasted time. If nothing else, a good education in how ancient astrologers thought. They had a sysem, which is more than one can say for modern 'psychological' astrologers.
A "table of contents" and overall impresson
Sections
1. The Control
2. The significant degrees of the angles
3. The Vital Sector
4. The Winds of the Stars, their Exaltations and Steps
5. The Sects of the Stars
6. Examples illustrating the previous chapters
7. Another method from Critodemus about hostile places and vital sectors: From the Moon and the Ascendant
8. Hostile Stars and Critical Places - The First Table of Critodemus
9. Winds and Turns
10. The Order of the Terms
11. From the Books of Valens concerning the Numerical Lot and the Length of Life. The same author on the topic of propitious times, with examples
12. The 7 day and 9 day methods for the critical period
13. The Method of New and Full Moons. Conception with Reference to the Ascending Node. Length of Life, with examples
14. How the position of the Sun, the Moon and the Ascendant at the time of conception can be accurately found
15. The Lot of Fortune and its relationship with the topic "Length of Life" with examples. Included are the Minimum Periods of the stars.
16. Critical Years
17. The Mean Years of the Stars
Quick impressions from skimming the book. This is a short book, with lots of calculations related to calculating the length of life. I am personally somewhat skeptical about such procedures actually resulting in a reliable length of life calculation, but I'll learn and try as much of these as possible. In my experience, looking *back* from a known death time, it is always possible to point at some transit or progression or profection or whatever as the cause of death. But the key technique to winnow the astrological wheat from th chaff is *prediction*, which is my touchstone for effective technique.
That said, learning these techniques are not wasted time. If nothing else, a good education in how ancient astrologers thought. They had a sysem, which is more than one can say for modern 'psychological' astrologers.