LEO X

LEO X

(Jean de Medici), pope, born in Florence in 1475, died in 1521. He was the son of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent. He is one of the most famous popes, and the name of the century of Leo X has been given to the brilliant period in which he lived. Named cardinal at the age of thirteen, he was forced to leave Florence, following the invasion of Charles VIII in Italy (1488), and came to settle in Rome, where he attached himself to Julius II, who gave him the command of Perugia. He lost the battle of Ravenna (1512) against the French, was taken prisoner, and did not recover his freedom until a year later. He was elected pope in 1513, and his reign is remarkable among all for the political or religious events which took place and for the progress of the arts. He made peace with Louis XII, later declared himself against Francis I, but negotiated with him after the battle of Marignano (1515). It is true that in 1521 he again showed himself to be his enemy by allying himself with Charles V. He had barely finished re establishing his family in Florence when the great heresy of Luther broke out. We know that the sale of indulgences was the occasion (1517); neither the anathemas of the Holy See nor his excommunications could stop its progress, and Leo X died, having been able to sense that what he had at first considered a dispute between monks was a powerful religious revolution. This pope has been criticised for his ostentation, his passion for the table, and even his habits of debauchery. Posterity, however, takes into account his taste for literature, science and the arts, and the protection he granted to the scholars and artists who illustrated his century and his reign. It is enough to mention Raphael, Michelangelo, Correggio, Ariosto, etc., the magnificent works which were carried out at Saint Peter's and the Vatican, and the foundation of the Laurentian library. [[Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe, Pierre Larousse, tome 10, p. 370, 1873]

Gauricus, Leo X genitura

theme sources:
- Lucae Gaurici... Tractatus astrologicus, Venitiis, 1552, f. 18r
- Junctinus, Speculum Astrologiae, 1583, Lugduni, p.120 a
- Alan Leo, 1001 Notable Nativitas, n°474, art Pope, p. 35, 1917
- astrodatabank: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Pope_Leo_X

comments
- Alan Leo gives ASC 20°♐
- Gaurici quotes 11 December, 14 h 37 Horol. and 10 December 19 h PM

14h 37 Horol in italic hour is equivalent to 6h 58 (with sunset at 4h36) with the French system. When it is 14h 37 in the italic system (Florence), it is 7h00 at morning, the 11th of December.

So the date to retain is December 11, 1475 at 7:0 a.m. LMT (Julian calendar)

The radix aspects (between planets) are computed in mundo and aspects to the axes are computed in AR (MC, cardo rectus) or OA (ASC, cardo obliquus). So, that we find :

EQU	OA-P/ASC	Δ OAP OA ASC	RA-P/MC	Δ AR P RA MC
SU	9,25		74,65
MO	128,81		123,68	123,68
ME	25,28		88,41	88,41
VE	0,21	0,21	65,74
MA	121,39	121,39	24,13
JU	49,13		120,89	120,89
SA	173,25		63,75	63,75

On the left, the columns between planets and ASC (radix distancia oblica) or the MC (radix distancia recta). On the right, the results at ± 2° of orb. [cf. THE ASTROLOGICAL DOCTRINE OF PROJECTING THE RAYS, E.S. Kennedy and Haiganoush Krikorian-Preisler, Al-Abath, XXV, 3-15, 1972]

aspect points
MUNDANE	SU	MO	ME	VE	MA	JU	SA
SU
MO
ME
VE
MA	-4,5 Occ ∆
JU		-1,56 Occ ∆				-3,12 Or ☍
SA		-3,68 Or*

The radix aspects are evaluated by a method borrowed from Georges Muchery [l'Astrologie judiciaire - le thème natal, Editions du Chariot, 1971, pp. 19-20] and leads to results which can be negative even for aspects considered "favorable" and this because the radix points are "failing".
We see that all planets, except SA, are peregrine. Sa is Detrimental. MO, VE and SA, have specially a bad celestial value because of their house position.

	SU	MO	ME	VE	MA	JU	SA
strength planet	-5	-9	-3	-8	-9	-1	-14
house	1	6	1	12	9	2	8
score planet/house	5	-5	5	-5	2	3	-2
score house
Σ	0	-14	2	-13	-7	2	-16

After scoring we see that VE (XII), MO (VI) and SA (VIII) are bad, if we refer at least to the somatic aspect that this side of their symbolism can take on here.

Note that the radix 'conventional' ray ASC square MA is not found and replaced by ASC TRI MA (OA) in the OA system of casting rays.

THEME

SU is P with a [-2] score - house rgo 1
MO is P with a [-18] score - house rgo 6
ME is P with a [-7] score - house rgo 1
VE is P  with a [-18] score - house rgo 12
JU is P with a [-8] score - house rgo 9
MA is P with a [-15] score - house rgo 2
SA is D with a [-25] score - house rgo 8
points to specially watch for the duration of life: MO  in house VI ; VE  in house XII
no point
we see below the list of  aspects :
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      SU[-4,5 Occ 120]MA       MO[-1,56 Occ 120]JU  MO[-3,68 Or 60]SA            JU[-3,12 Or  180]SA
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The best aspect is  [best :su 120° (0,9) ma]  and the worst aspect is  [worst :ju 180° (-0,24) sa]


The traditional almuten (Omar, Ibn Ezra) is VE
we see below the list of dignities for VE :
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[ term 2 tri 3 rul 0 exn 0 fac 2 ]
[ su 0 mo 1 asc 0 syg 2 pof 1 ]
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Note 1 : the ‘almuten figuris’ is the lord of the chart, but its determination obeys somewhat different rules according to the schools. The tradition is based above all on the zodiacal dignities. (see p,e,  Alcabitius, Introduction, 59-61, 117 and Avenezra, Nativites, 101) – almuten = al-mu’tazz (arabic term)
[7] As for the governor which is the <planet> predominating (al-mubtazz) over the birth from which one indicates the conditions of the native after the haylāğ and the kadhudāh,n it is the planet having the most leadership in the ascendant, the position<s> of the two luminaries, the position of the Lot of Fortune and the position of the degree of the conjunction or opposition which precedes the birth. When a planet has mastery over two, three or four positions by the abundance of its shares in them, it is the governor and the predominant <planet> (al-mubtazz) and the indicator after the haylāğ and the kadhudāh. From it one indicates the conditions of the native. Some people use it instead of the kadhudāh in giving life.  [Al-Qabisi , Charles Burnett, Keji Yamamoto, Michio Yano, The Introduction to Astrology, IV, 7, p, 117, Warburg, 2004]
Note 2 : There are at least 4 systems for determining the almuten depending on whether the combinations of triplicities and terms are used: the Ptolemaic almuten (followed by Lilly) with Ptolemaic terms ; the same with Egyptian terms; the almuten of Dorotheus with Ptolemaic terms ; the same with Egyptian terms, knowing that one can embellish the whole thing with different weighting system (like Lilly or not using weights like Montanus) [cf. Temperament: Astrology's Forgotten Key, p. 79, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum 2005]

The Lilly (Ptolemaïc) almuten is JU

In our experience, it seems that Ptolemy's almuten allows one to first appreciate the static side of the natal chart and that the Lilly-type elaboration allows one to deepen the more ‘temporary’ or ‘dynamic ‘ relationships (cf, Shlomo Sela, Ibn Ezra, on Nativities and Continuous Horoscopy, appendix 6, quot 2  ; Horary astrology p, 458, Brill, 2014)
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Ω  166,45 / conj unfortune with caput draconis  but fortunate with cauda draconis  if alchocoden is SA or MA

Primary directions

1) papacy election 9 MARCH 1513
 

direction : [C] ☌☉ ∆☽  (directio conversa)

We notice that the direction is close to the JU-TRI MO group: it is one of the most powerful directions of the theme.

speculum	Lat	Dec	AR	MD	SA	HA
SU	-	-23,49 S	267,96	105,36 N	114,6 N	9,24 W
∆MO	3,37 N	-22,78 S	311,98	61,33 N	113,72 N	52,39 W

– MD = meridian distance (from MC if SA f [SU]  is diurnal or IC if Sa f  is nocturnal)
– SA = semi-arc (if f is diurnal, SA f [SU] is D and all MD’s and SA’s are D, otherwise N
– HA = horizontal distance (from the nearest horizon W or E for f [SU] and m ∆MO)
under bracket [] the fixed point, (here SU)
- Lat ∆MO 3,37 N and lat MO : -4° 41' 25" - Aequatio is -0.17°

DP REGIOMONTANUS (5)			DP REGIO-CAMPA C		DP REGIO-CAMPA D
DIRECTIO CONVERSA	A2 ∆MO	A1 SU	A1 SU	A2 ∆MO	A2 ∆MO	A1 SU
Tan A	tan dec/cos dm		-121,37		-35,69
B (1)	+LG-A or -LG+A		77,60		8,08
Tan C	cot DM.cos B/cos A		-173,53		-32,23
Sin pole (2)	Cos C.sin LG		-43,42		35,82
Sin DA (3)	Tan pole A1.Tan Dec A2 Tan pole A2. Tan Dec A1	DAP (*)	24,29	18,19	-13,77	-18,28
AO (4)	AR ± DA		292,24	328,86	324,44	286,23
arc	AO1 – AO2			-36,62		38,21
				CONVERS		DIRECT

(1) B must be treated as positive number
(2) sign of pole has the same sens of LG for DA Here, DA = DA/pole A
(3) sign [-] if pole and Dec have the opposite sign – sign [+] if planet located in western half, sign [-] if planet located in eastern half ; Signs [+] and [-] must be reversed for births in the southern hemisphere
(4) to find AO of a star A2 under the pole of A1, we calculate the  DA of A2 under the pole A1 ex: tan pôleA1.tan DecA2=sin DA A2/poleA1
(5) algorithm from Gouchon (‘Dictionnaire astrologique’, Dervy, 1946, 1975, p, 276, attributed to H. Selva) ; Martin Gansten (‘Primary directions’, pp, 155-157, 2009, Wessex Astrologer) - instructions for use only appear in Gansten – Astrologia gallica, Morin de Villefranche, trad Holden (appendix 5, pp, 151-153)  - (*) ascensional difference under own pole

ARC CONVERSE

Y 36,62 Δ = 0,09

BRAHE : 1° 1' 10"

key convert 0,981

DP PLACIDUS	Plac direct	Plac conv
sa1/dm1	1,73	1,09
sa2	114,60	108,42
x	66,22	99,68
dm²	105,36	62,65
sign	-1	-1
arc	39,14	-37,03

FOMALHAUT-CHOISNARD
X = sa2.dm1/sa1 = and the angle x = SAm x DM f/SA f, so : SA m [ 114,6°] x DM f [ 62,65°]/SA f [ 108,42°]
sign : if the two points are on either side of the meridian, take +1 ; otherwise -1
Arc = dm2 ± sign.x We find the direction by DMm - x, so : DM m [ 62,65°] ± x [66,22]

precision	direct	convers
	Regio 1,68	-0,09
	Plac 2,61	0,50

2) death : 1st DECEMBER 1521

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