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Rhetorius of Egypt on the places - Translation by Laura Michetti.

The Results of the Tablet of the Twelve-place of Hermes Trismegistus Concerning the Names and Powers of the Twelve Places.

The Twelfth Place:

The twelfth place is called ‘Bad Spirit’ and ‘Pre-Ascension’ and ‘Between Worlds’. It signifies things concerning enemies, and slaves, and four footed creatures and everything that comes about before the hour that is favorable for giving birth and to the mother and to the child who will be born since this sign has risen before the separation of the infant. The place is called that of Saturn in so far as the fetus is being separated through the pouring out of the waters and because the birthing mother stands between life and death when she is being observed by Saturn and Mars according to the opposition.

And so when the malefics happen to be in this place they produce unhappiness and bodily misfortunes, and cuts and injuries around the feet, mouth, and fingers, the death of slaves and enemies. And if the Lot of Fortune is in this place and if the malefics are aspecting the lot they will inflict the greatest evil always causing harm in their own time. And even when the benefics are in the 12th house they do not distribute good things. For on the one hand, when the Sun is present in this place it speaks to the enslavement of the father, and his banishment, and the fatherless and the loss of the patrimony, and hurt or injury to the father. And on the other hand, the Moon exhibits the same to the mother. And Jupiter occupying this place... Continue reading Rhetorius of Egypt on the places

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