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Astrological Excerpt:
The Book of Instruction in the Art of Astrology
By Abu'l-Rayhan Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Al Biruni; Ghaznah, 1028 A.D.
Translated by R. Ramsay Wright, M.A. (formerly an Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Toronto).
The excerpts (numbered paragraphs) are typeset from the 1934 printing: Luzac & Co., London. This book is available from Ballantrae in spiralbound reprint. Online @ http://www.abe.com/
A great scholar of the Middle East, Al Biruni was kind enough to leave us instruction on Astrology according to the best knowledge of his period. He was a philosopher, scientist and practising Astrologer.
"347. [...] And first we shall deal with the relation of the signs to the characteristics of the four elements, separately and in combination.
"As to the nature and temperment of the signs, if they are written down in two rows, upper and lower, the first sign above and the second below it, and so on to the last, all those of the upper row are hot and those of the lower cold, while the pairs so arranged are alternately dry and moist.
| Moist | Dry | Moist | Dry | Moist | Dry | |
| Hot | Aries | Gemini | Leo | Libra | Sagittarius | Aquarius |
| Dry | Taurus | Cancer | Virgo | Scorpio | Capricorn | Pisces |
"When therefore you know the active virtues of a sign whether heat or cold, and the passive virtues, whether dryness or moisture, it will not be concealed from what particular element of the world and what particular particular humour of the body each sign resembles. Each sign that is hot and dry is related to fire and yellow bile, each that is cold and dry, to earth and black bile, each that is hot and moist to air and blood and each that is cold and moist to water and phlegm. [...]"
"348. [...] All the hot signs are male and the cold female. The planets are powerful in those signs which resemble them in nature and sex, but they partake of the nature of the signs in which they are situated so that a planet obviously male shows a tendency to femaleness by being in a female sign. [...]"
"349. [...] There is a general agreement that all male signs are diurnal and the female nocturnal. The diurnal planets are powerful in the day signs and the nocturnal in the night ones. [...]"
"352. [...] The following signs are represented as human: Gemini, Virgo, Libra and [the first] half of Sagittarius and [all of] Aquarius. Such is the case in the figures shown above with the exception of Libra, bur when Libra is represented in the act of weighing, a human or bird figures suspends the balance or simply a human hand. The four-footed figures are Aries, Taurus, and Leo, while the hinder half of Sagittarius, sometimes the front half (of Capricorn on the analogy of Taurus) are also reckoned. Then of the Aries and Taurus have cloven feet, Leo claws and Sagittarius hoofs. Again the people generally from youth up entertain certain ideas about the signs, such as Leo, Scorpius, Sagittarius and Capricorn (Pisces) suggest beasts of prey; Gemini, Virgo, Pisces and the hinder two thirds of Capricorn, birds; Cancer, Sagittarius, Scorpius and Capricorn. reptiles; and Cancer, Scorpius and Pisces, aquatic animals."
"353. [...] Gemini, Virgo and Libra are loud-voiced, of these Gemini is capable of speech; Aries, Taurus and Leo are half-voiced, while Cancer, Scorpius and Pisces are voiceless. Knowledge as to voice and speech is essential as to whether in a difficulty indications in these signs are harmful or the reverse."
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