The Book of Akbar 35: Judgments of the Third House.

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As the lord of the Ascendant (the Sun) is in the Third House, this signifies perfect mildness, sedateness, constancy and reverence and the succouring of kinsmen. But this tribe, out of shortsightedness, will not be single-minded. However as that centre (markaz) where the lord of the Ascendant (Scorpio) is, is the House of Mars and also his triplicity, term, decanate, ddarjdn and darijdn, and as he himself is in the Fifth House which is his House of exaltation and his gaudium (farah) and is the triplicity and face of Jupiter, and the ddarjdn of the lord of the Ascendant, the improper thoughts of this faction will become a cause of increased glory and enhanced dominion to the Native. And as the beginnings of the Third House which have to do with brethren, are a station of the Sun’s majesty, this signifies that brethren will be of no account alongside the glory of the holy being (Akbar) and that they will quaff the cup of anguish to the dregs. The middle and last portions of the Third House, which signify allies and helpers are, according to Ptolemy, the Part of Fortune and they are also the face of the Sun and he is co-partner with the kadkhuda (Saturn). This signifies that friends and loyalists will be on the carpet of union (lit: one colour) and devotion, and be steadfast in respect, and will be advanced by the Native to prosperity and wealth. And as this place of the Third House has connection with Mars who is in his exaltation, and that House is the gaudium and House of Saturn who is a foremost kadkhuda and who is also in his exaltation,—friends will always be in honour and glory. And as Saturn who is a kadkhuda and is in exaltation, is paramount in the House, this is a convincing proof of these things. And the lord (Mars) of the Third House being in the Fifth, is a proof of the establishment of noble children, and also signifies that there will be travelling and short excursions which will be provocative of joy.
One of the wonderful things is that the part of the other world, according to all, and the Part of Fortune, according to Ptolemy and Muhyiu-d-din Maghribi, are in one place; to wit, 18° Scorpio in the Third House. This rarely occurs in horoscopes, and forcibly indicates that good fortune upon good fortune will come in succession from the other world, and is also strong evidence for information about hidden matters, so that the enlightened mind of the Native will be a rendezvous of mysteries.