Morin discusses the 1646 Aries Ingress in Paris

Recently I read a post on Facebook regarding Book 25 of Astrologia Gallica in which Morinus discusses the Aries Ingress in Paris in 1646. Unfortunately, given the ephemeris of his time, Morinus has the incorrect Angles and house cusps of the ingress chart for Paris, as compared with an ingress chart cast by modern computer. Here is Morin’s original diagram:

Aries Ingress at Paris, France, in 1646, as calculated by Morinus

Morinus cast his chart for mid-morning in Paris, but Solar Fire gives the Aries ingress as occurring about 1 PM. To recreate a close approximation to Morin’s chart, I relocated the Solar Fire chart for the 1646 Ingress to a geographic longitude about 50 degrees to the west of Paris. Here is the Solar Fire relocated chart:

Morin reviews this chart with an aim to demonstrating which planets play a prominent role in the ingress. He concludes that the year 1646 will be dominated by Mars (reinforced by the fixed star, the Eye of the Bull), but that Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn (in that order) will also play an important, those less significant than Mars in governing the year. Here is his original Latin text, followed by my translation of Morin’s Latin.

Morin’s discussion of the 1646 Aries Ingress from Book 25 of Astrologia Gallica.

Now to my translation of Morin’s text (my comments are in brackets [ ] ):

“Thus, in the above figure of the annual revolution of the World (Mundi), or the ingress of the Sun into the beginning of Aries, the Sun of fiery nature enters into a fiery sign & his own exultation and triplicity in the 11th house of the figure. Mars, verily, is the lord of the primary point [0 Aries] or the Sun, and is in his triplicity and is oriental to the Sun [rises before the Sun] and angular in the 10th [house].”

“Mercury, however, is lord of the next cardine [Angle], of course the Horoskopos [Ascendant] and [a ruler of] of the triplicity at the MC [Aquarius, of the airy triplicity] [and] also oriental [of the Sun] and angular in the 10th:”

“and they [Mars and Mercury] are both conjunct in Pisces, a water sign, and their lord [dispositor] Jupiter is in the next Angle and house, in mutual reception with Mercury [that is, Jupiter lies in Gemini in the 1st, ruled by Mercury, which occupies Pisces, ruled by Jupiter]”

“[and Jupiter] applies to the square of the Sun [at 0 Cancer] and to the trines of Mars and Mercury [at 3 and 7 of Cancer, in Morin’s figure — note here that Morin views transiting Jupiter as advancing toward the points in the zodiac where the square of the Sun and the trines of Mars and Mercury fall in this ingress chart]”

“Therefore, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter are powerful in this chart, but Mars claims primary [of power in the chart] for itself, and Mercury trumps Jupiter on account of its [Mercury’s] conjunction with Mars [which is the most powerful planet in the ingress chart]

“For sure, just as Mercury in Pisces is under the dominion of Jupiter [the ruler of Pisces] and depends on Jupiter to act, so too is Jupiter [in Gemini] subject to the lordship of Mercury. [Here Morin is referring to his principle that the behavior of planets is influenced by their dispositors. Thus, because Mercury and Jupiter are in mutual reception, the behavior of each is dependent on the other, but Mercury is in a stronger position because is it conjunct the very powerful Mars in this chart.]”

“Since it is true that Mars applies immediately and partilely [within the same degree] to the sextile of Saturn [which in Morin’s chart lies at 3 Pisces in the 10th], [which is] powerful at the MC and Asc, each of which is in its [Saturn’s] triplicity, thus Saturn also exerts some power in this chart.”

“Finally, the bright fixed star, the Eye of the Bull, of the nature of Mars, lies partilely at the Ascendant, on account of its latitude, and it alone among the fixed stars will exert influence there.”

For the sake of completeness, here is the chart of the Aries Ingress in Paris in 1646, calculated by modern software (Regulus Platinum) with Regiomontanus Houses, Morin’s favorite system: