The Magus/Book 1/Part 2/Chapter 30

NOW we shall have the planets powerful when they are ruling in a houfe, or in exaltation, or triplicity, or term, or face, without combuftion of what is direct in the figure of the heavens, viz. when they are in angles, efpecially of the rifing, or tenth, or in houfes prefently fucceeding, or in their delights; but we must take heed that they are not in the bounds or under the dominion of Saturn or Mars, left they be in dark degrees, in pits, or vacuities. You fhall obferve that the angles of the afcendant, and tenth, and feventh, he fortunate; as alfo the lord of the afcendant, and place of the Sun and Moon, and place of the part of fortune, and the lord thereof, the lord of the foregoing conjunction and prevention. But that they of the malignant planet fall unfortunate; unless happily they be fignificators of thy work, or can be of any advantage to thee, or in thy revolution or birth they had the predominance, for then they are not at all to be depreffed. Now we shall have the Moon powerful if fhe be in her houſe, or exaltation, or triplicity, or face, or in degree convenient for the defired work; and if it hath a manfion of thefe twenty-eight, fuitable to itfelf and the work, let her not in the way be burnt up,^[1] nor flow in courfe---let her not be in the eclipfe, or burnt by the Sun, unlefs fhe be in unity with the Sun---let her not defcend in the fouthern latitude, when the goeth out of the burning---neither let her be oppofite to the Sun, nor deprived of light---let her not be hindered by Mars or Saturn.