![]() Each of the planets known to antiquity, including sun and moon, ruled a day of the week hence the names still used to designate the various days. The sun, moon, and Mercury have a mixed character. Jupiter ( fortuna major) and Venus ( fortuna minor) are good planets Saturn ( infortuna major) and Mars ( infortuna minor) are malignant planets. The sun, Jupiter, and Mars are masculine the moon and Venus are feminine, Mercury belonging again to both classes. The sun, Jupiter, and Mars are masculine the moon and Venus are feminine, Mercury belongs both to day and night. They are divided into day-stars (Saturn, Jupiter, and also the sun) and night-stars (the moon, Mars, and Venus) Mercury belongs both to day and night. The position of the planets and the sun and moon in the twelve houses at the moment of birth is decisive. Uxor, mors, sapiens, regnans benefactaque, daemon. Vita, lucrum, fratres, genitor, nati, valetudo, A Latin hexameter thus sums up the meaning of the twelve houses: In the horoscope all these symbolic meanings are considered in their relation to the newly born. The houses symbolize respectively: life, personal property, consanguinity, riches, children and jewels, health, marriage and course of life, manner of death and inheritance, intellect and disposition (also long journeys), position in life and dignities, friends and success, enemies and misfortune. The twelve houses are divided into cardinal houses, also called anguli, succeeding houses ( succedentes, anaphora) and declining or cadent houses ( cadentes, cataphora). The first house ( horoscopus) begins with the point of the ecliptic that is just rising ( ascendens). Thus the heavens were divided into twelve houses. Starting with the point that was rising just at the moment of birth, the celestial equator was divided into twelve equal parts, six above, and six below the horizon, and circles were drawn through these points and the intersecting points of the horizon and the meridian. The calculations necessary to settle these positions were casting the horoscope or the diagram of the heavens (thema coeli) at the nativity. Judicial astrology-more important branch of this occult art-depended for its predictions upon the position of the planets in the "twelve houses" at the moment of the birth of a human being. The supposed science which determines the influence of the stars, especially of the five older planets, on the fate of man ( astrologia judiciaria mundane, or judicial astrology) or on the changes of the weather ( astrologia naturalis natural astrology) according to certain fixed rules dependent upon the controlling position of stars (constallations aspects) at the time under consideration. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download.
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