Mutable Signs:. 4 17 5 .............4
...............17 8 30 ............17
Fragmentary interpretations of the Lunar Mansions have come down to us from Arabia, India and China. The precise
manner in which they were employed has been lost, but it is known that great importance was attached to them.
Sepharial considers that the entrance of the progressed Moon into a Mansion presaged important changes involving
affairs pertaining to that Mansion; but it is probable that they had more to do with the transits of the planets, and with
the Mansion in which fell the current Lunation and Full Moon. Particular attention was paid to the Mansion in which
fell the Lunar Day - the day of the Full Moon
In a later period the cusps were known as Crucial or Critical Degrees, with particular reference to the prognosis of a
crisis in the progress of an acute disease; also the days on which the Moon forms inharmonious aspects - the 7th, 14th,
21st and 28th days - are said to be Critical Days. These coincide with the cusps of the First, Eighth, Fifteenth and
Twenty-second Mansions.
Except in Horary questions the Hindu system uses only 27 of these asterisms - omitting the 22nd. Each of these groups
of 9 representing the following period in years, are ruled in this sequence:
..South Node...Venus...Sun...Moon...Mars...North Node...Jupiter...Saturn...
Mercury
.......7.........20.....6.....10......7........18..........16.......19........17
The periods total 120y, the Hindu idea of normal life span. 120/9 gives 13 1/3 years, or the same number of degrees,
showing the 1° per year unit of progression, and the probability that the Mansions were largely a device for use in
computing progressed influences. Nevertheless the Hindu would state your birth date in terms of the asterism much as
we give it in terms of your Sun Sign.
Another Series of Mansions from an Ancient Chinese source indicates that it was chiefly to determine the requests
which one propitiates the gods to grant.
Map. v. Figure.
Marduk, or Asaru. The Chaldean equivalent to Jupiter: said to "restore man to happiness." In the Babylonian
religion, the god of magicians.
Mark, Noon or Midnight. A term used by Llewellyn George for the equivalent of noon or midnight at Greenwich in
the local mean time of the place for which a Figure is cast. By this means the ephemeral places of the planets are
corrected by the amount of time the birth moment precedes or follows the noon or midnight Mark - depending on
whether the Ephemeris is for noon or midnight.
Martian. One under the influence of, or ruled by, a strongly placed Mars.