The Book of Akbar 309.1

309.1

Various delightful points arise from the consideration of this auspicious horoscope. The first is that in the tenth Angle, which is the house of sovereignty, the sun is showing increase of light. Now the main point for consideration with regard to the hour of an Accession is the propitiousness of the tenth house, viz., that there should be a propitiousness befitting the approach of a world-adorner. Imam-Abū-l-Muhammad of Ghazni, who was one of the great masters of astronomical prognostication, has laid it down that it is good to have the Ascendant in Scorpio so that the tenth Angle may be Leo, the house of the sun. God be praised! Here we have the sun come of his own accord into the tenth house and diffusing the rays of auspiciousness and fortune! Verse. A Shah who was the fulfiller of hope, His heart shone with eternal light, How can his ray not brighten the world Who has the sun for a guardian? The second house which is that of property, is Cancer, and the Moon, which is the Regent of the house, has attained in the eleventh house, which is that of hope, the position of fauq-al-arz (ascension above the earth). This is a proof that the keys of earth’s treasures will without difficulty or effort come into the hands of the treasurers of his fortune. The third house, which is that of kinsmen and connexions, is Leo, and its dominant, the Sun, is in the tenth angle. All the relatives will be obedient to orders and submissive to the commands of the Shahinshah.