Decumbiture is a specialist form of medical astrology which flowered in the 17th century. Its most famous exponents include Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54) and cheiromancer Richard Saunders (1613-75).
Decumbiture - A lying down due to illness. A chart cast for the time a person first becomes ill or takes to the sickbed. Horary rules are used to interpret a decumbiture chart. The Ascendant signifies the sick person.
Decumbiture. Literally, a "lying down." A horary figure erected for the moment when a person is taken ill, wherefrom to judge as to the possible nature, prognosis and duration of the illness.
The Decumbiture Chart in Medical Astrology
This is a special kind of chart that is erected based upon the location and time of the onset of illness or injury.
Astrological Judgement & Practice of Physick, deducted from the position of the Heavens at the decumbiture of the sick person - Richard Saunders, Astrology Classics ...
(Be prepared to encounter such terms as the decumbiture chart, related to horary, but used specifically to note the time a person takes to his bed with an illness, and used for prognosis.) Midpoints are used extensively in some types of medical ...
Naturally the nativity must be viewed as a whole and these factors seen in context, especially with regard to the Decumbiture chart, the horary tool for astrological diagnosis.
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