LXXVIII. A star often dispenses influence in a place in which it has no prerogative, thus bringing unexpected advantage to the native. LXXIX. Whoever has Mars in the eleventh house, does not govern his master. LXXX. If Venus be in conjunction with Saturn, and have any lord of house in the seventh house, the native will be of spurious origin. LXXXI. Times are reckoned in seven ways; viz. by the space between two significators; by the space between their mutual aspects; by the approach of one to the other; by the space between either of them and the place appropriated to the proposed event; by the descension of a star, with its addition or diminution; by the changing of a significator; and by the approach of a planet to its place. LXXXII. When a figure may be equipoised, observe the horoscope (or figure) at the new or full moon, and, if that also be equipoised, be not hasty in giving judgment. LXXXIII. The time of obtaining a grant indicates the affection between the applicant and his prince; but the seat[299] shows the nature of the office;— [299] Or part of heaven indicating the grant. LXXXIV. And if Mars be lord of the ascendant at the time of entering on possession, and posited in the second house, or coupled with the lord of the second, he brings much mischief. LXXXV. Should the lord of the ascendant be configurated with the lord of the second house, the prince will spontaneously create many charges. LXXXVI. The Sun is the source of the vital power; the Moon, of the natural power. LXXXVII. Monthly revolutions are made in twenty-eight days, two hours and about eighteen minutes. Judgment is also made by some persons by means of the Sun’s progress; that is to say, by his partial equations to that degree and minute which he might hold at the beginning. LXXXVIII. In making profection of the part of Fortune for a whole annual revolution, a space equal to that between the Sun and Moon is to be reckoned from the ascendant. LXXXIX. Consider the grandfather’s affairs from the seventh house and the uncle’s from the sixth. XC. Should the significator be in aspect to the ascendant, the hidden event or object will correspond in its nature with the ascendant; but if the ascendant be not so aspected, the nature of the event will accord with that of the place in which the significator is posited. The lord of the hour shows its colour; the place of the Moon its time; and, if above the earth, it will be a novel thing; if below, old. The part of Fortune indicates its quantity, whether long or short. The lords of the terms, and of the lower heaven and mid-heaven, and of the Moon, shows its substance or value. XCI. Should the ruler of a sick person be combust, it is an evil portent; and especially if the part of Fortune be afflicted. XCII. Saturn, if oriental, is not so highly noxious to a sick person; nor Mars, if occidental.