以下句例引自戴克博士《選擇與開始》中所節錄,伊朗尼(al-‘Imrānī)的《抉擇之書》The Book of Choices,討論主管事項的星座應如何適當置放,受到圍攻的行星又該如何被解救。
Also, the fitness of a sign (when it will not be said to be bad, and that it is far from every impediment) is that the sign be free of the bad ones and their aspects (the square and the opposition), nor is it besieged between the two bad ones (and this is that there would be a fortune or its trine or sextile ray in it): it will be increasing the good. And by how many more those for-tunes were, its good will be that much greater (and if, in addition to this, the sign were cadent from the angles, or besieged between the two bad ones, it will harm not at all or [only] a little bit).