Persian Nativities IV: On the Revolutions of the Years of Nativities

Abū Ma'shar's book on natal predictive techniques was the product of his old age, and this massive achievement has now been translated from the complete, original Arabic for the first time.

This volume contains lengthy instructions and special advice on profections, distributions through the bounds, fardārs, transits, solar revolutions, monthly revolutions and profections, the lord of the orb, the Ages of Man, the Indian methods of "ninth-parts," finding favorable and difficult years, and lo...