Astrologica Gallica, Book Twenty-Two, Directions, Jean-Baptiste Morin, trans James Holden, American Federation of Astrologers, 6535 S. Rural Road, PO Box 22040, Tempe, Arizona 85285-2040, 1994, ISBN 0-86690-425-5, paperback, 290 pp.

Morin was the last court astrologer in France, having been appointed Royal Mathematician by Louis XIII. He was present at the birth of the future Louis XIV, whose horoscope he discusses in this book. Book 22 of his magnus opus, the Astrologica Gallica, deals with primary directions, or predictions reckoned from the movement of degrees of right ascension over the meridian immediately following birth. Appendices cover Morin’s theories on the mundane position of planetary aspects, Cardan’s work on planetary latitude, the solar eclipse of 8 April 1652 and the horoscopes mentioned in the text, including five of the Medici family, Ottavio Farnese and Henry II of France.