Traditional Astrology, Magic, and Sundry Matters
As the Aries Ingress for the year for the USA had a movable sign rising, we consider the Cancer Ingress to describe the influences and events in the next quarter. As before, we will examine the Ingress through the William Ramesey’s rules as described in his book Astrologia Munda published in 1653. In addition, we will consider the influences of the outer planets if they form tight and significant aspects with the other planets.
If you are unfamiliar with Mundane astrology and the Aries Ingress chart, please see this earlier post for a brief description.
A cardinal sign is rising so we will need to consider three further charts for the Sun’s ingress into the other cardinal signs. As such, this chart holds for a quarter.
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This is a follow on post to the Mars Saturn Conjunction that was discussed here. You may wish to read that post first for some important background on Aries Ingress charts.
There are several distinct traditions of Mundane astrology, that branch of astrology that deals with events which take part in the world. In this instance, we’ll be using the 17th century English astrologer William Ramesey’s method as he describes it in his Astrologia Munda. I find the text exceedingly clear and rational, but I hope to consider some other earlier methods in future, particularly alternative methods of identifying the Lord of the Year and the significator of the ruler, as well as timing methods.
The Aries Ingress is one of the fundamental tools of mundane astrology, the branch of traditional astrology which aims to determine the influence of the planets on the earth in general, such as weather, disease, famine, war, and the affairs of a country in particular. A chart is drawn up for a particular location for the moment the Sun enters 0′ Aries and this chart is interpreted according to the rules of mundane astrology.
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Naturally, if you are trading on a somewhat regular basis, you may not have the good fortune to be able to wait a prolonged period of time for the perfect election to come along to buy or sell your wares. Perhaps you only have a brief window to negotiate a price for the local Afghan warlord’s opium crop before exfil. For just such instances, Ramesey provides some more basic electional rules for trade (some are designed to benefit the buyer and others the seller, so bear this in mind).
For those times when you want some more information about the sale, Ramesey describes a house based method using angles of the chart to denote the buyer, seller and the goods. These can either be used to elect a time to buy or sell, but also as event charts.
We’ll assume that you’re a CIA spook who wants to purchase the wares of the local Afghan warlord for your own nefarious, probably illegal, and likely domestic, uses. Ramesey gives us two methods to ensure the opium we buy is topnotch and procured without too much difficulty.
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This is another election from William Ramesey magnum opus Astrology Restored first published in 1653. Ramesey advises the following conditions be present when one seeks to buy something for the purpose of profiting from its sale:
For this election we need the following:
1. Moon in Taurus, Cancer, Virgo or Pisces
2. Moon free from misfortune
3. Moon separating from a conjunction or aspect of one or both of the fortunes and applying to aspect (but not a conjunction) to one or both of the infortunes
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