Carmen Astrologicum

Dorotheus of Sidon

The earliest surviving Hellenistic textbook. Foundational for medieval Arabic astrology — the source for trigon lords, planetary periods, and elections doctrine.

Front matter
Chapter 1. The knowledge of the seven in longitude and latitude, and the
Chapter 2. The exaltation of the planets.
Chapter 3. Judgment about the case of the native or his difficulty to his
Chapter 4. Judgment concerning the matter of the upbringing of the native.
Chapter 5. On the superiority of the places.
Chapter 6. The power of the seven planets.
Chapter 7. The upbringing of natives, and for whom there will be an
Chapter 8. Knowledge of the masculine and feminine "hours" of the nativity.
Chapter 9. The matter of bringing up.
Chapter 10. Knowledge of what indicates whether the native and his mother
Chapter 11. The knowledge of how many will own the native if he is a slave.
Chapter 12. Consideration concerning the upbringing of the native, his
Chapter 13. Knowledge of the lot of the father.
Chapter 14. The lot of the mother.
Chapter 16. Knowledge of whether the native will inherit his parents'
Chapter 17. Knowledge of how many will be born to the mother of the native.
Chapter 18. On the matter of brothers.
Chapter 19. The lot of brothers.
Chapter 20. Knowledge of the love of the brothers.
Chapter 21. Knowledge of the number of brothers and sisters.
Chapter 22. Knowledge of the matter of the fortune of the native and [his]
Chapter 23. Knowledge of the division of the planets with regard to good and
Chapter 24. In it are judgments concerning the matter of fortune and
Chapter 25. On the knowledge of the excellence of fortune.
Chapter 26. The magnitude of fortune and property.
Chapter 27. The decline of status and disaster.
Chapter 28. Knowledge of masculine and feminine signs, eastern and western,
Chapter 2. Knowledge of the lot of wedding
Chapter 3. Knowledge of the Lot [in] the nativity of a woman.
Chapter 4. The lot of marriage.
Chapter 5. Knowledge of how many wives he will marry.
Chapter 6. Knowledge of the lot of wedding by day and by night.
Chapter 7. Knowledge of sodomy.
Chapter 8. Exposition of the matter of children.
Chapter 9. Knowledge of the number of children.
Chapter 10. Knowledge of the lot of children.
Chapter 11. Lot of transit with respect to children.
Chapter 12. Knowledge of females and males.
Chapter 13. Knowledge of whether females or males are more numerous.
Chapter 14. Aspect of trines, if one of the planets aspects another from trine.
Chapter 15. Quartile [aspect]. This is aspect in quartile.
Chapter 16. On the planets' aspect from opposition.
Chapter 18. If Saturn is with one of the seven.
Chapter 19. If Jupiter is with one of the seven.
Chapter 21. Arrival of the Moon in the places.
Chapter 22. Arrival of the Sun in the places.
Chapter 23. Arrival of Saturn in the places.
Chapter 24. Arrival of Jupiter in the places.
Chapter 25. Arrival of Mars in the places.
Chapter 26. Arrival of Venus in the places.
Chapter 27. Arrival of Mercury in the places.
Chapter 28. Arrival of Saturn in another's house.
Chapter 29. Arrival of Jupiter in another's house.
Chapter 30. Arrival of Mars in another's house.
Chapter 31. Arrival of Venus in another's house.
Chapter 32. Arrival of Mercury in another's house.
Chapter 33. On the arrival of the planets, one of them in the house of another.
Chapter 2. The haylaj.
Chapter 2.Judgment according to the crooked and the straight.
Chapter 4.Judgment according to the twin [signs].
Chapter 5. The corruption of the Moon.
Chapter 6. One who wishes to build a building.
Chapter 7. If you wish to demolish a building.
Chapter 8. "Hiring and letting out"
Chapter 9. Buying and selling.
Chapter 10. the buying oF land.
Chapter 11. the buying oF SlaveS.
Chapter 12. The buying of animals.
Chapter 13. If you want to free a slave.
Chapter 14. If you want to ask from a ruler or from a man for a request or
Chapter 15. If you want to write to a man or you want to teach a man a
Chapter 16. Marriage and matrimony.
Chapter 17. The courtship of a woman, and what occurs between a wife and
Chapter 18. A pregnant woman, if her child will die in her belly.
Chapter 19. Partnership.
Chapter 20. Debt and the payment for it.
Chapter 21. The journey.
Chapter 22. Departure from a journey.
Chapter 23. Buying a ship or building it.
Chapter 24. Commencing to build a ship.
Chapter 25. Commencing to row the ship in the water.
Chapter 26.“If a book or a message or a letter”
Chapter 27. Bondage and chains.
Chapter 28. Judgment about what may not be afterwards of a matter which
Chapter 29. Query about the sick.
Chapter 30. The commencement of all things.
Chapter 31. "To know the condition of a sick [man]"
Chapter 32. "To know when the property of the native will increase or
Chapter 33. In plead before a judge, which of the two will be adversaries, and
Chapter 34. "Concerning whether a man will depart from his land"
Chapter 35. If you want to know the matter of a theft that has been committed
Chapter 36. The runaway.
Chapter 37. The treatment of spirits.
Chapter 38. Someone wishes to retain [his food] or to drink a medicine for
Chapter 39. Someone wishes to out something from his body with knife or
Chapter 40. If there is an infection in the eye or a covering over it or
Chapter 41. Illness as Qitrinus [Cedrenus?] Sadwali [?], benefics
Chapter 42. The will.
Chapter 43. On clarifying the phases [fasil] of the Moon and the head of the

Chart conventions and source methods matter. A source reference does not by itself establish a personal interpretation. Missing context can make a method unavailable. Documented lives are examples, not proof of predictive accuracy.