Astrological aspects

Use in the book

The frontispiece verses make the system visible: Saturn's aspects signify the sufferer's condition and are pictured above him. In the prose self-portrait, Burton makes Mars the principal indicator of his manners and places it in partile conjunction with his ascendant. Saturn is separately the ruler of his geniture and is culminating. The conjunction therefore joins Mars and the ascendant, not Mars and Saturn; “both fortunate” then describes the two planets. The compressed configuration is part of the learned self-description following Burton's delight in maps and cosmography.

The opening account of infirmity gives the vocabulary a theological frame. The stars belong among instrumental causes, the means through which affliction operates after the Fall. Conjunctions, oppositions and quartiles then join other threatening celestial phenomena in a catalogue. The passage's grouping does not make every item an aspect of the same technical kind: comets and eclipses are also mentioned. A subsequent exceptional-health example cites freedom from Saturn's and Mars's hostile aspects as Leovitius's alleged confirmation of his art, before Burton returns to ordinary human vulnerability. These are rhetorical and reported uses, not a rule that every aspect is harmful.

The chequerboard of human happiness turns aspect language into a comparison. People, households and cities have trines and sextiles, then quartiles and oppositions: favourable relations give way to adverse ones just as the board alternates black and white. The later consolation repeats the analogy through the planets' changing positions, strengths and weaknesses. It is the likeness between variable fortunes and variable celestial conditions that carries the argument, rather than a calculation proving the cause of each misfortune.

The causal subsection supplies more technical rules. Pontano connects Mercury's position and square rays from Saturn or Mars with madness or melancholy. A further rule says recovery follows if Mercury “behold” the relevant planets: behold here means to be in aspect. The adjacent Latin margin and English body do not always agree. The margin specifies Mercury occupying the ascendant “partiliter,” by exact degree, and prints Virgo “et” Pisces, and, where the body gives the alternative Virgo or Pisces. The marginal symbols differ from the body’s conjunctions; the body prints “Saturne or Mars” although its “the one … the other” and the margin require the pair. The supplied modern rendering makes that second relation explicit. The original differences remain evidence to be recorded, not silently harmonized. These rules also follow Burton's statement that stars incline without compelling.

Weather supplies another application. Burton asks who is not weather-wise at particular planetary conjunctions, then says air acts on everyone more or less and especially on melancholy people. The adjoining Lemnius margin and Burton's next paragraph also invoke demonic action during storms. Elsewhere aspects are invoked to explain the timing of intermittent melancholy, canvassed among possible weather causes, and disputed as guides to bloodletting. The medical timing passage reports some affirming their relevance, others denying it, and others accepting it in acute but not chronic disease. In the climatic inquiry, apparently similar aspects accompany different local conditions, leaving a problem rather than a successful universal explanation. The form of each passage matters: recurrent pattern, open question and controversy are distinct uses of the same technical noun.

In accounts of affection, astrologers appeal to relations between people's ascendants and ruling planets, alongside physicians' temperamental explanation and Cicogna's appeal to spirits. The source says most instead attribute the attraction to outward graces. In erotic melancholy, Ficino supplies a Moon–Venus relation and a Venus placement among the remote causes. The body and margin differ in construction: the body says “when” the Moon and Venus are mutually aspected, while the quoted Latin has an alternative, “vel,” and says that the Moon strongly aspects Venus. The latter adverb belongs to the Latin report; it is not the meaning of mutual in the English body. Later, great conjunctions and planetary aspects recur in the historical-cycle theory that Burton reports and criticizes as overreaching.

Ordinary sights can please or disturb. The “aspects” of a waterside landscape are the lovely summer views that, Burton argues, compensate for offensive smells after floods. “monstrous and prodigious aspects” are instead frightening sights, among the occasions he urges a fearful person to avoid. The continuation qualifies the practical instruction: people should be accustomed gradually to company and sights they formerly could not bear, rather than changed abruptly; if such habituation is not possible, he generally recommends avoidance. The same bodily force of seeing appears in the anecdote of a man whom the sight and even the memory of an unpleasant medicine supposedly purge. Its Latin margin specifies “solo aspectu medicinæ,” by the sight of medicine alone. These are different objects and responses, not calculations of celestial position.

The direction of looking matters too. A lover's “inconnivo aspectu” is an unblinking gaze directed towards the beloved, while her gracious or bad aspect is the look that affects him. In the theological discussion, the Osorius margin moves within one sentence from “divini aspectus,” of the divine countenance, to “ab ejus aspectu,” from the sight of him: appearance and beholding are connected but distinguishable. Its claim is that pleasure and that sight cannot be separated from one another. Earlier, “Cantharum aspiciunt, non quid in eo” says that readers look at the cup, not its contents, applying the ordinary verb for seeing to their preference for reputation over substance.

Conjunction and opposition also retain ordinary relational senses. The marriage praise calls the bond a “conjunctio,” union, while qualifying the promised happiness by the couple's peaceful conduct. The wedding conclusion calls it a happy conjunction. Conversely, the consolation's “hindrances, oppositions” are obstacles to human efforts, contrasted with the heavenly bodies' unimpeded revolutions. The nearby analogy of changing planetary fortunes uses the technical vocabulary again, without converting every human obstacle into an angular relation.

Related entries

Astrology; Astrological significators; Geniture; Jovial and martial; Election; Sympathy and antipathy

Places to read

1. Preliminary scan label 8pictured Saturnian aspects in the frontispiece poem
2. · paragraph 2–4Mars and the ascendant in Burton's natal self-description
3. · paragraph 12–14looking at the cup rather than its contents as a comparison for judging authors
4. · paragraph 27–29threatening aspects and an exceptional-health report
5. · paragraph 9–11favourable and adverse aspects in the chequerboard comparison
6. · paragraph 1–24non-compulsion and medical rules, including body/margin differences, exact-degree placement and the surrounding claimed proofs
7. · paragraph 9–13planetary conjunctions, weather susceptibility and the adjoining claims about demonic action
8. · paragraph 21–24a reported bodily response to the sight and memory of medicine
9. · paragraph 10–12aspects among reported timings of intermittent symptoms
10. · paragraph 1–8climatic questions and limits of the proposed explanation
11. and following unnumbered p. [261]pleasant summer views in the defence of waterside dwellings
12. with 296 misprinted 292frightening sights, gradual habituation and conditional avoidance
13. · paragraph 7–15ordinary obstacles to human aims and celestial variability as an image for changing fortunes
14. · paragraph 3–5disagreement about observing aspects in medical timing
15. · paragraph 7–9rival explanations of attraction
16. · paragraph 4–8conjunctio as marital union, with peaceful conduct qualifying married happiness
17. · paragraph 1–11mutual aspects, strong aspect in the margin, and remote erotic causes
18. · paragraph 17–21the lover's unblinking gaze and its reciprocal continuation
19. · paragraph 10–12the beloved's aspect as her look
20. · paragraph 45–55the pleasing sight of a wife and conjunction as marital union
21. · paragraph 41–45divine countenance and the vision of God in the Osorius margin and its expanded English body
22. historical cycles, reported positions, the quoted disclaimer and the objection to universal stellar necessity

In this edition

“partile conjunction” becomes “exact conjunction,” supported by the note's specification exact by degree. “Oppositions, Quartiles” remains “oppositions, quartiles” in the opening catalogue, but “quartiles and oppositions” becomes “squares and oppositions” in the chequerboard passage. The terms quartile and square identify the same angular relation in these contexts.

“if Mercury behold them” becomes “if Mercury is in aspect with them.” “mutually aspected” becomes “in mutual aspect,” whereas the marginal “Luna venerem vehementer aspexerit” becomes “the Moon strongly aspected Venus.” The latter clause preserves Moon as grammatical subject and Venus as object; strongly translates the separate “vehementer,” while the article the is supplied before Moon. “aspexerit” is a form of the verb aspicio, look at or behold; subject, object and adverb remain separate parts of the clause. Finally, “a gracious or bad aspect” becomes “a kindly or unfriendly look,” and “an happy conjunction” becomes “a happy union.” The supplied rendering discriminates technical relation, ordinary look and union rather than imposing one equivalent everywhere.

“aspects” becomes “views” in the landscape and “sights” in the fearful patient's surroundings. The Latin “aspectu” can become “by the sight” or occur in “with an unblinking gaze”: the preposition expresses its grammatical construction, and alone or unblinking comes from the accompanying adjective. In the Osorius margin, genitive “aspectus” belongs to “of the divine countenance,” while “aspectu” belongs to “from the sight of him.” Those translations are editorial English within a Burton-labelled note, separate from the original Latin and the modern body. The clause “Cantharum aspiciunt, non quid in eo” becomes “They look at the cup, not at what is in it”; they, the, the repeated at and the second clause's is make the compact Latin explicit. “conjunctio” remains union in the marriage comparison; its relative comparison with marriage is absorbed into the contextual “No union is, or ever was, more sacred.”

aspect · aspects · local use 1

Printed “aspects” (English; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Angular relations between celestial positions in astrological reckoning; here Saturn’s relations represented above the pictured sufferer.

Context: Frontispiece verse addresses the picture; it says signify, rather than specifying an independent causal mechanism.

Source: original body

Locator qualification: Source record identifies these leaves as unnumbered; plain numerical passage labels are scan numbers.

Source wording, Original wording: This Saturn’s aspects signifie

Modern rendering: Saturn’s aspects signify this

Word and construction: The fronted object This is moved after signify; Saturn’s aspects remains the subject, not the sufferer.

Alignment convention

aspect

Printed “aspect” (English; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

A person’s look expressing favour or disfavour.

Context: The beloved’s look affects the lover; this local occurrence is not a calculated angle.

Source: original body

Source wording: a gracious or bad aspect turns him up or down

aspect · aspects · local use 2

Printed “aspects” (English; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Views or sights presented by a landscape; here pleasant summer scenery around water.

Context: Burton distinguishes water itself from offensive slime and smells after floods, which he says are compensated by summer pleasures. The claim belongs to his local defence of these sites, not a finding that every waterside place is healthy.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: sweet smels and aspects in Summer

Modern rendering: sweet smells and lovely views in summer

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: Lovely explicitly extends the shared favourable quality of sweet to the views, rather than being a separate printed adjective.

aspect · aspects · local use 3

Printed “aspects” (English; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Things seen or sights; here frightening, abnormal or portentous appearances.

Context: Burton’s instruction to remove terrifying occasions follows Trallianus. Later he urges skilful, gradual habituation rather than abrupt change, and generally recommends avoidance if habituation is not possible; the initial avoidance must be read with these qualifications.

Source: original body

Source wording: monstrous and prodigious aspects

aspect of planets

Printed “aspect of Planets” (English; phrase).

Citation convention

Angular relations between planetary positions in astrological reckoning; their relevance to the timing of bloodletting is disputed here.

Context: Some affirm, some deny, some distinguish acute from chronic diseases.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: whether the Moons motion or aspect of Planets be to be observed

Modern rendering: whether the moon’s motion or the planets’ aspects should be observed

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: The singular aspect of Planets becomes plural the planets’ aspects, with the of-phrase recast as a possessive; should makes the prescribed observation explicit.

aspects of planets · aspects of Planets

Printed “aspects of Planets” (English; phrase).

Citation convention

Angular celestial relations canvassed among possible climatic causes.

Context: Interrogative alternatives, not a settled meteorological conclusion.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: such aspects of Planets

Modern rendering: particular aspects of the planets

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: The supplies an English definite article; such is rendered particular within a question listing possible causes.

aspects of planets · Aspects of Planets

Printed “Aspects of Planets” (English; phrase).

Citation convention

Planetary angular relations in a reported theory of historical cycles.

Context: The Vanini report continues through a quoted repudiation; Burton objects to universal inevitability.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: these great Conjunctions, Aspects of Planets

Modern rendering: these great conjunctions and planetary aspects

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: And explicitly coordinates the printed comma; of Planets becomes the adjective planetary.

aspectus · local use 1

Printed “aspectus” (Latin; Latin noun lemma; nominative plural form). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Sights or things presented to vision; nominative plural, the subject of the obligation to avoid monstrous sights.

Context: The original Latin marginal instruction is translated separately from the modern English body. Its stated avoidance is followed in the wider body discussion by gradual habituation and conditional avoidance.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: Evitandi monstrifici aspectus

Modern rendering: Monstrous sights must be avoided

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Edition note: checked against the supplied translation within the Burton-labelled note, not the modern body

Supply or redistribution: Must be unfolds the predicative gerundive Evitandi; the Latin construction does not print an independent finite verb.

aspectus · aspectu · local use 1

Printed “aspectu” (Latin; Latin noun lemma; ablative singular form). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Sight or the act of seeing; ablative singular, here the sight of medicine alone.

Context: An anecdote repeated by Agrippa from William of Paris: a previously unpleasant purge is said to make sight and even subsequent memory enough to provoke evacuation. The response is explicitly linked to seeing and remembering after an earlier purge.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: solo aspectu medicinæ

Modern rendering: by the sight of medicine alone

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Edition note: checked against the supplied translation within the Burton-labelled note, not the modern body

Supply or redistribution: By expresses the ablative construction and the supplies the English article; alone translates solo.

aspectus · aspectu · local use 2

Printed “aspectu” (Latin; Latin noun lemma; ablative singular form). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

A gaze or act of looking; here the lover’s sustained, unblinking gaze.

Context: Burton collects literary examples and what many lovers confess about looking at a mistress. In the next continuation the woman can gaze back just as intensely; the example is not restricted to male perception throughout.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: inconnivo aspectu

Modern rendering: with an unblinking gaze

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: With expresses the ablative manner and an supplies the article; unblinking belongs to inconnivo.

aspectus · local use 2

Printed “aspectus” (Latin; Latin noun lemma; genitive singular form). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Countenance or appearance; genitive singular, here the divine countenance whose vision and beauty are described.

Context: The original margin attributes the formulation to Osorius. Wherever there is this vision and beauty, pleasure and blessedness are said to follow; the English body develops the relation in its own wording.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: divini aspectus

Modern rendering: of the divine countenance

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Edition note: checked against the supplied translation within the Burton-labelled note, not the modern body

Supply or redistribution: Of expresses the genitive and the supplies an English article; divine belongs to divini.

aspectus · aspectu · local use 3

Printed “aspectu” (Latin; Latin noun lemma; ablative singular form). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Sight or beholding; here the sight of God, from which pleasure is said to be inseparable.

Context: The Osorius marginal quotation joins sight and pleasure reciprocally: pleasure cannot be separated from the sight of him, nor that sight from pleasure. This second use denotes beholding rather than the divine countenance viewed.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: ab ejus aspectu

Modern rendering: from the sight of him

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Edition note: checked against the supplied translation within the Burton-labelled note, not the modern body

Supply or redistribution: The supplies an English article; of him renders ejus in its contextual objective relation to sight.

aspicio · aspexerit

Printed “aspexerit” (Latin; Latin verb lemma; third-person singular finite form). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Look at or behold; in this astrological use, cast an aspect upon. The finite verb aspexerit takes the Moon as subject and Venus as object.

Context: The Ficino quotation says the Moon strongly aspects Venus as an alternative marked vel, or, to Venus being in Leo. Its result is quickly ensnared. The English body instead uses when and mutually aspected, within its own most-prone formulation.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: Luna venerem vehementer aspexerit

Modern rendering: the Moon strongly aspected Venus

Word and construction: The indexed verb is aspexerit; the full aligned clause includes its explicit Moon subject, Venus object and the separate adverb vehementer, strongly. The modern article the is supplied before Moon.

Alignment convention

Edition note: checked against editorial translation within the Burton-labelled note; translation is not original evidence

Supply or redistribution: The supplies the English article before Moon; strongly belongs to vehementer, not to the verb or to mutual in the English body.

aspicio · aspiciunt

Printed “aspiciunt” (Latin; Latin verb lemma; third-person plural present form). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Look at or behold; here direct attention to the cup rather than its contents, a comparison for valuing an author’s reputation over the writing.

Context: Burton criticizes readers’ concern with who writes rather than what is written. The grammatical subject is the implied plural they; the negative applies to the contents, not to the act of looking at the cup.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: Cantharum aspiciunt, non quid in eo

Modern rendering: They look at the cup, not at what is in it

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: They is explicit for the plural verb; the supplies the article before cup.; The second at and is unfold the elliptical non quid in eo; the cup is the antecedent of it.

behold

Printed “behold” (English; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Stand in an astrological aspect to.

Context: Conditional recovery in a reported rule; Mercury relates to the named planets.

Source: original body

Source wording: if Mercury behold them

conjunctio

Printed “conjunctio” (Latin; Latin noun lemma; nominative singular form). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

A joining or union; here marriage, called the most sacred union in an appeal to Daphnaeus.

Context: Burton attributes the defence to Daphnaeus in Plutarch and qualifies his ensuing praise of married happiness by the couple living lovingly, without quarrelling. Immortality in the continuation means human generational continuity.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: qua nulla est aut fuit unquam sanctior conjunctio

Modern rendering: No union is, or ever was, more sacred

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: The relative comparison qua, than which, is absorbed into the contextual comparison with marriage rather than independently rendered.; No union moves the noun conjunctio beside its negative nulla; is and was preserve the two times, and ever renders unquam.

conjunction

Printed “conjunction” (English; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Union of the newly married pair.

Context: Wedding blessing; the conjunction is the marriage.

Source: original body

Source wording: an happy conjunction, a fortunate match

conjunction · conjunctions

Printed “conjunctions” (English; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Meetings of planets in zodiacal longitude; here recurring configurations associated with approaching weather.

Context: Burton asks who is not weather-wise, then says air affects everyone more or less, especially those melancholy or inclined to it. Lemnius supplies the susceptibility claim; the margin and next paragraph also invoke demonic action, so this is not presented as an exclusively physical mechanism.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: such and such conjunctions of Planets

Modern rendering: one conjunction of the planets or another

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: The repeated such and such is reorganized as one … or another, with a plural noun becoming singular in the distributive construction.; The supplies an English article before planets.

mutually aspected

Printed “mutually aspected” (English; phrase).

Citation convention

Related to one another by an astrological aspect.

Context: English body of the reported Ficino rule; the marginal Latin has vel and vehementer instead.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: when the Moon and Venus be mutually aspected

Modern rendering: when the Moon and Venus are in mutual aspect

Word and construction: The passive verbal phrase be mutually aspected is recast as are in mutual aspect. Mutual qualifies the relation between the Moon and Venus; it does not supply the marginal adverb vehementer, strongly.

Alignment convention

opposition

Printed “oppositions” (English; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Resistance or obstacles to one’s efforts; here interruptions of human endeavours and desires.

Context: The passage contrasts uninterrupted celestial revolutions with difficulties no mortal escapes. These oppositions obstruct people’s aims; the later planetary analogy does not make them all calculated half-circle aspects.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: hindrances, oppositions

Modern rendering: obstacles and opposition

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: And explicitly coordinates the comma; plural oppositions becomes the mass noun opposition.

opposition and quartile

Printed “Oppositions, Quartiles” (English; phrase).

Citation convention

Astrological angular relations of a half-circle, 180 degrees, and a quarter-circle or square, 90 degrees, respectively.

Context: Burton’s catalogue of threatening instruments; the complete list also contains non-aspect phenomena.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: Oppositions, Quartiles, and such unfriendly Aspects

Modern rendering: oppositions, quartiles and other hostile aspects

Word and construction: The comma-separated pair remains a pair; such unfriendly Aspects becomes other hostile aspects in the wider catalogue, retaining the grouping without treating comets or eclipses as the same kind of relation.

Alignment convention

partile conjunction

Printed “partile conjunction” (English; phrase).

Citation convention

A meeting in zodiacal longitude exact by degree; here Mars and the ascendant are the related positions, not two bodies occupying one physical place.

Context: Mars is the planet related to the ascendant; Saturn is separately the culminating natal ruler.

Source: original body

Source wording: in partile conjunction with mine Ascendent

partiliter

Printed “partiliter” (Latin; Latin adverb). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

By exact zodiacal degree; the adverb qualifies Mercury’s occupying the ascendant in the marginal rule.

Context: Pontano’s reported conditional rule, with Mercury as subject. The same margin prints Virgo and Pisces, et, while the English body gives Virgo or Pisces. The adverb supplies the exact-degree qualification.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: horoscopum partiliter tenuerit

Modern rendering: occupies the ascendant by exact degree

Word and construction: Horoscopum is the ascendant, partiliter the exact-degree qualification, and tenuerit the verb of occupation; their combined construction is aligned.

Alignment convention

Edition note: checked against the supplied translation within the Burton-labelled note, not the modern body

Supply or redistribution: The supplies the English article before ascendant; by exact degree unfolds the adverb.

quartile

Printed “quartiles” (English; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Quarter-circle or square aspects of 90 degrees; here adverse relations in the changing-fortune analogy.

Context: Paired with oppositions after the favourable trines/sextiles.

Source: original body

Source wording: quartiles and oppositions

quartile aspect

Printed “quartile aspects” (English; phrase).

Citation convention

Square angular relations, conventionally 90 degrees.

Context: Mercury is the recipient in Pontano’s reported conditional rule.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: irradiated by those quartile aspects of Saturne or Mars

Modern rendering: receiving the rays of Saturn or Mars in a square aspect

Word and construction: The plural noun phrase those quartile aspects is recast as singular a square aspect, and irradiated becomes receiving the rays. The whole construction carries the correspondence, not quartile aspects alone.

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: Rays unfolds the irradiation verb; the demonstrative plural those is replaced by indefinite singular a in the reconstructed prepositional phrase.

trine and sextile

Printed “trines, sextiles” (English; phrase).

Citation convention

Astrological angular relations of one-third of a circle, 120 degrees, and one-sixth, 60 degrees, respectively; here favourable phases contrasted with quartiles and oppositions.

Context: Analogy for alternation in human fortunes; now/then retains its contrast.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: now trines, sextiles, then quartiles and oppositions

Modern rendering: now trines and sextiles, then squares and oppositions

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: And makes the printed comma between trines and sextiles an explicit coordination; now and then retain the alternating phases.

trine and sextile aspects

Printed “trine and sextile Aspects” (English; phrase).

Citation convention

Angular relations of 120 degrees and 60 degrees, respectively; here relations between people’s ascendants offered by astrologers as an explanation of affection.

Context: Alternative attributed explanation; the following clause says most appeal to outward graces.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: Astrologers to trine and sextile Aspects, or opposite of their severall Ascendents

Modern rendering: astrologers to trine, sextile or opposing aspects of their respective ascendants

Word and construction: The printed trine and sextile … or opposite is recast as trine, sextile or opposing aspects. Both original coordinators remain visible; the governing attribution verb is inherited from the preceding physicians clause in both versions.

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: Opposite is made adjectival opposing and gathered under the explicit plural aspects; the and/or structure is reorganized into the modern three-item list.

unfortunate aspects

Printed “unfortunate aspects” (English; phrase).

Citation convention

Unfavourable angular relations in an astrological chart; here among the reported times at which one person’s symptoms recur.

Context: One example in a varied catalogue, distinct from those with continuous symptoms or different intervals. The lunar conjunction and unfortunate aspects remain alternatives.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: at the conjunction of the Moon alone, or some unfortunate aspects

Modern rendering: only at the conjunction of the Moon, or at certain unfavourable planetary aspects

Alignment convention

Alignment convention

Supply or redistribution: Planetary supplies the astrological reference of aspects.; At is repeated for the second alternative; alone is relocated as only before the first timing phrase.