Propitiatory abstinences were recommended when the natal asterism was menaced by unfavourable planetary conjunctions.
Certain astronomical conjunctions determined the selection of the fast-days, which in their total number amounted to nearly a quarter of the year.
She declared that in politics a capable ruler must be guided by "circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."
The conjunction was by hypothesis not given, and is a new result by no_ means to be reached, apart from direct perception save by use of at least two given conjunctions.
It also contains an appendix with detailed tables of conjunctions.
