Preface
The first book of Dorotheus: On the upbringing and condition of the native
1. The knowledge of the seven in longitude and latitude, and the
triplicities of the signs and their lords;
2. The exaltation of the planets;
3. Judgment about the case of the native or his difficulty to his mother;
4. Judgment concerning the matter of the upbringing of the native;
5. On the superiority of the places;
6. The power of the seven planets;
7. The upbringing of natives, and for whom there will be an upbringing
or for whom an upbringing will not be known;
8. Knowledge of the masculine and feminine “hours” of the nativity;
9. The matter of bringing up again;
10. Knowledge of what indicates whether the native and his mother
are slaves or free;
11. The knowledge of how many will own the native if he is a slave;
12. Consideration concerning the upbringing of the native,
his condition, and his livelihood;
13. Knowledge of the lot of the father;
14. The lot of the mother;
15. Knowledge of the death of the parents of the native, one of the
two before his companion;
16. Knowledge of whether the native will inherit his parents’ property or not;
17. Knowledge of how many will be born to the mother of the native;
18. On the matter of brothers;
19. The lot of brothers;
20. Knowledge of the love of the brothers;
21. Knowledge of the number of brothers and sisters;
22. Knowledge of the matter of the fortune of the native and [his]
property and his illness;
23. Knowledge of the division of the planets with regard to good and evil;
24. In it are judgments concerning the matter of fortune
and property in nativities;
25. On the knowledge of the excellence of fortune;
26. The magnitude of fortune and property;
27. The decline of status and disaster;
28. Knowledge of masculine and feminine signs, eastern and
western, and diurnal and nocturnal.
The second book of Dorotheus:
On marriage and children
1. “The beginning of its beginning is from marriage";
2. Knowledge of the lot of wedding;
3. Knowledge of the lot [in] the nativity of a woman;
4. The lot of marriage;
5. Knowledge of how many wives he will marry;
6. Knowledge of the lot of wedding by day and by night;
7. Knowledge of sodomy;
8. Exposition of the matter of children;
9. Knowledge of the number of children;
10. Knowledge of the lot of children;
11. Lot of transit with respect to children;
12. Knowledge of females and males;
13. Knowledge of whether females or males are more numerous;
14. Aspect of trines, if one of the planets aspects another from trine;
15. Quartile [aspect];
16. On the planets’ aspect from opposition;
17. Aspect of the planets from sextile;
18. If Saturn is with one of the seven;
19. If Jupiter is with one of the seven;
20. Knowledge of the places of the planets;
21. Arrival of the Moon in the places;
22. Arrival of the Sun in the places;
23. Arrival of Saturn in the places;
24. Arrival of Jupiter in the places;
25. Arrival of Mars in the places;
26. Arrival of Venus in the places;
27. Arrival of Mercury in the places;
28. Arrival of Saturn in another’s house;
29. Arrival of Jupiter in another’s house;
30. Arrival of Mars in another’s house;
31. Arrival of Venus in another’s house;
32. Arrival of Mercury in another’s house;
33. On the arrival of the planets, one of them in the house of another.
THE THIRD BOOK OF DOROTHEUS WHICH HE WROTE WITH RESPECT TO THE HAYLAJ AND THE KADHKHUDAH, WHICH ARE THE GOVERNOR AND THE INDICATOR OF THE TIME OF THE YEARS OF LIFE.
1. Governors and indicators of the years of life;
2. The haylaj.
THE FOURTH BOOK OF DOROTHEUS ON THE TRANSFER OF YEARS.
1. The transfer of years.
THE FIFTH BOOK OF DOROTHEUS, ON INTERROGATIONS.
1. “Introduction";
2. Judgement according to the crooked and the straight;
3. Judgement according to the tropical [signs];
4. Judgement according to the twin [signs];
5. The corruption of the Moon;
6. One who wishes to build a building;
7. If you wish to demolish a building;
8. “Hiring and letting out";
9. Buying and selling;
10. The buying of land;
11. The buying of slaves;
12. The buying of animals;
13. If you want to free a slave;
14. If you want to ask from a ruler or from a man for a request
or a gift or other than this;
15. If you want to write to a man or you want to teach
a man a science or writing;
16. Marriage and matrimony;
17. The courtship of a woman, and what occurs between a
wife and her husband when she quarrels and scolds and
departs from her house publicly;
18. A pregnant woman, if her child will die in her belly;
19. Partnership;
20. Debt and the payment for it;
21. The journey;
22. Departure from a journey;
23. Buying a ship or building it;
24. Commencing to build a ship;
25. Commencing to row the ship in the water;
26. “If a book or a message or a letter";
27. Bondage and chains;
28. Judgement about what may not be afterwards of a matter
which one hopes for, or according to this of things;
29. Query about the sick;
30. The commencement of all things;
31. “To know the condition of a sick [man]";
32. “To know when the property of the native will increase or decrease";
33. Clarification of the matter of two adversaries, if they argue
and plead before a judge, which of the two will be successful
and which of the two will be defeated;
34. “Concerning whether whether a man will depart from his land";
35. If you want to know the matter of a theft that has been committed
or something that has been lost, whether he will possess it [again] or not;
36. The runaway;
37. The treatment of spirits;
38. Someone wishes to retain [his food] or to drink a medicine
for diarrhoea, and the rest of what is a remedy, with which
he is cured from vomiting and diarrhoea;
39. Someone wishes to cut something from his body with a knife
or scalpel, or to bleed a vein;
40. If there is an infection in the eye or a covering over it or
something of what is treated with iron;
41. Illness as Qitrinus the Sadwali says;
42. The will;
43. On clarifying the phases [fasis] of the Moon and the head of
the dragon and its tail, which indicate selling and buying
and cheapness and expensiveness.
Appendix 1: Charts in modern format;
Appendix 2: Table of dignities;
Appendix 3: Dodecatemoria;
Index
The first book is on the judgement of nativities. Book two concerns marriage and children. Book three is on the length of life. Book four is on the transfer of years, i.e., forecasting. Book five is on interrogations, i.e., electional astrology.
In this book are the earliest known astrological charts. Dorotheus bases much of his interpretative methods on the triplicity rulers, by day and by night. All fire signs have the same rulers. All earth signs have their rulers, as do air and water signs. He uses Egyptian terms. He, like the Greeks of his day, also uses the Dodecatemoria, which are the twelfths of a sign. And many, many lots, all defined.
For the first time in this edition: Pingree's Preface newly translated. An appendix with charts in modern format. A complete table of terms and triplicity rulers. A table to calculate Dodecatemoria. Newly reset to match Pingree's original 1976 edition.
Written a century before Ptolemy, here is the mainstream of Greek astrology. It will handsomely repay study. Click here for a pdf extract, which happens to include seven of the nine charts in the book.
Astrology Classics, 192 pages.
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