you must regard the Sun the Planet that is Almuten of the tenth the Planet placed within five degrees of the cusp thereof if any such be or the Lord of Part of Government the which if you finde first beginning with the Sun and then considering the rest as they are set down in order placed and dignifyed essentially or free from affliction as you have heard he shall be Significator of the King otherwise not The Rules of the Ancients in this particular are not to be grounded on So that then by these their Rules omitting many such like Instructions for brevities sake there shall no Revolution whatsoever though never so bad or mischievous in the least have any relation or extend unto the King or Chief Rulers of any place as if they were excusable from misfortunes or the Heavens afraid to molest or afflict them which must needs be if these Documents of the Ancients must be admitted authentick who will have no Significator for them but such as is free from all impediment from which consequently we must conclude they shall never be molested or disturbed by Wars Commotions Insurrections Losses or Crosses whatsoever which I could wish were true but we can wofully testifie to the contrary besides to affirm it were both ridiculous and preposterous The greatest Potentate in the World is not free from the influence of the Heavens and stars For the Grandees of the Earth although never so great and proud yet they must know with us they are but men and such too as are not excused from the harmonious configurations of the Celestial Planets and Heavens But the Ancients although they have deserved by their writings infinite applause from all ingenious and judicious souls as also high esteem for both their care and learning yet in this particular they have come short for the generality of them I mean and therefore if in this I dissent from them as also in some other of their Rules I desire to be excused since I know no Reason why in every Age and in every study there may not some one or other not only finde out some failings of ancient Authors but also correct them nay far exceed them though perhaps in every particular they may again come short for we see even the best Divines the best Philosophers and Physitians have been corrected and in some things amended and so also the Astrological Philosopher may come short of another that stands upon his shoulders The true significators of Kings and Rulers after the opinion of the Author Wherefore then know that the true significator of the King or chief Rulers is the tenth house of Heaven at the time of the Suns ingress into Aries the Lord thereof and the Planets therein posited but more especially the cusp of the tenth and its Lord whether well or ill disposed 〈◊〉 mattereth not These in any Revolution to the end of the World shall still be Significators of the King or Rulers particularly and the Sun and Saturn in general but more especially the Sun The true significators of the People of any Nation in any Revolution of the years of the World In like manner look what ever sign ascends at the time aforesaid viz. the Suns ingress into Aries in any year and that sign together with its Lord shall particularly denote the common People of that Kingdom or Nation for which your Scheam is erected and shall be their significators and the Moon generally as the Sun is the general Significator of the Rulers In declaring unto you the sign ficators of the Enemies of both King and People in any Revolution I might also shew you the defects of some of the Ancients but I should rather choose though I had not a desire to be as brief as may be to pass them over in silence they meriting so much at our hands otherways wherefore let us to our business Of the enemies of King and people in any Revolution See that in every Revolution of the World you have regard to the opposite house signifying your Significators as the seventh house denotes the open Enemies of the Common People and King in a hostile way the twelfth house their private and the ninth house the secret Enemies of the King or Rulers because as you have heard in the 42. Chapter of the Second Book it is the twelfth from the tenth Of their assistance c. Even so as the second house signifies the wealth and assistance of the people so doth also the eleventh the Kings ayd wealth and assistance the eighth the assistance ayd and wealth of their open enemies c. as you have been fully instructed before in the same 42. chapter CHAP. IV. Of the Significators of Rich and Noblemen the Kings Standard or Armour-Bearer also Clergy-men and of Students Merchants Lawyers and Women in general also Fryers and Monks and these according to the significations of the Planets I Shall here only give you the general Significators of these according to the Antients as brief as may be that I may proceed to the second Section having at large spoken of them already in the second Book Wherefore know that Rich and Noblemen are signified by Jupiter and the Lord of the sign in which he is located in the Sun his ingress into Aries Souldiers Armour or Standard-Bearers Generals of Armies and the like are understood by Mars The ninth house and the Lord thereof denotes Clergy-men particularly and generally they are signified by Jupiter Also Judges and the graver sort of men Students Merchants and Lawyers and Scribes Clerks and all Pen-men Picture-drawers and ingenious wits also youth and young men in general are signified by Mercury Venus generally denotes women and all females see chap. 5. Book the 2. and the Moon the vulgar and rural sort of People as the Sun you have heard doth Emperours and Kings And lastly all such as live obscurely and devoutly to the service of God as Monks Abbots Fryers and the like amongst the Papists as in the 1. chap. of the second Book and amongst us such as slight all things in the World in comparison of Gods Service and Divine Mediation are signified by Saturn As touching Cities and Countries subject both to the signs and Planets you have also fully heard them declared in the Second Book where we treat of them Now to know the state and condition of any of these in a general way in any Annual Revolution you have no more to do but this look to your significator from which judgement is to be required and see if he be essentially or accidentally strong or assisted and judge according to his strength or debility good or bad to the parties signified for if well dignified and located good may be expected if afflicted and impedited the contrary c. SECTION II. Shewing the state and condition of the King or Rulers and their continuation and durability in any Revolution as also the condition of the People from the
refuse to answer me who wrote unto him in so indifferent a maâ—â—â—r for had I known it had been him which at last I found it was I should have saved that pains I put my self to and had never expected other then I found at his hand For what can one have of a beggar but a louse but thinking it might be some other of his name was the cause of this my oversight but to return again to our business I told the Chamberlain after he had promised me I say to acquaint him with my further desire I would call again the next day at two of the clock in the afternoon and if he were the man I should be very glad to converse with him if his occasions could permit but when I came at the aforesaid hour his answer was he acquainted him to the full with all my desire but could not perswade him to stay within to speak with me but bid him tell me he scorned to deny any thing he owned whereupon I answered I did no wise question that if he were a man that had any spark of honour dwelling in his brest and this was all I could understand The which rugged preposterous and uncivil answer caused me presently to believe him to be whom I found him at the last for I knew one of that name and no other but could never imagine it was he that should shew himself to be Author of such a Discourse though for the simplicity thereof he might very fitly have served so then I inquired of the Chamberlain what manner of a man he was and upon his ill-favoured description I immediately resolved my selfe of my former question and then I was very urgent to know when I might meet with him he told me about noon any day but he knew he was resolved not to speak with me and so indeed I perceived by a friend of mine as soon as I was parted from thence whom I met and in some discourse I acquainting him with what I had been about he told me that the other day he was chid by this â—ral Rufus Rolandus or Orlando Furioso Perswading him that he and none other had acquainted me with his lodging and then also I was assured and confirmed that it was him of that name which I knew that was the Author or at least so in pretence of that Pamphlet After this being very desirous to meet with him that I might shew him some of his absurdities and abuses towards me whom for matter of acquaintance he was a stranger to I went twice or thrice about noon thinking I might meet with him but could not till the 22 day of January 1651. I accidentally rancountred him it were here both superfluous and too tedious to relate what discourse we had he not being able to speak one word without anger and choler as if his heart were also on fire as well as his head but amongst other passages I fell into a very great laughter the which he not seeming to take notice of I asked him if he wondred not at this my suddain passion who answered yes I told him then I could not possibly forbear laughing to see so young a man as he was pretend to be the Author of that Book wherein I am termed but a boy and he not above three or four yeers at the most older then my self and therefore I told him I rather expected to see some grave fellow whose Beard was at least as long as his waste and not one whose Beard was hardly so long as his teeth But both he and the Antient Doctor his Master and Author of that wise word who confessed to a friend of mine nothing vexed him but that he was answered by so young a man must know that neither wisdom learning knowledge nor grace is to be measured by the Beard or age and therefore but a most weak evasion in his Arguments of the validity and verity of Astrology neither is it any extraordinary witty quibble since he cannot as yet confute with all his manhood what a boy hath affirmed and if he thought I would take acceptions at this with the rest of his silly jeers and affronts railings and abuses wherewith his Pamphlet is fraught and therefore thought it fit to make it proceed from one so neer my own age he must needs think it worthy of much more notice to procure laughter onely but no otherwise perhaps out of a tender respect to my health he did it knowing me to be a melancholy man for I know he is also a Doctor of Physick testis Bredstreet nihil amplius dico for the which good receit before the closure of this Book if I forget not I shall requite him with a double Fee for I abhor to be in his debt but therein he did very ill to send me this medicine by so unworthy an Apothecaries boy or man I crave your pardon if he intended I should ever have taken notice of it otherwise he had been repayed long ere now I must confess I am not able to compare Beards with the Doctor for mine is not by at least two inches so long as a Goats yet it was full as long as his though not so hoary the Sunday after the Eclipse of the Sun in March last when he beat down Astrology which Phreneticus and such like Phrensies and therefore in this he shall haâ—e the prehemiency for senex bis puer and so being now in his dotage I will give him â—eave to reckon up as many Boys of 26 yeers of age as he pleases and make himself more ridiculous then already if possible it being no unusual thing with him to speak repugnancies to both Reason and Sense as will appeare to any that shall peruse his Book and therefore I shall not need here further to inlarge CHAP. XIII Containing the fourth Reason and a Vindication from some of their abuses and untruths HAving thus entred let us proceed to a fourth Reason Fourthly for that it is a discourse patcht up with nothing but evasions as not disputing ad idem and scurrillous railing language and abuses towards me amongst hundreds of which I shall here-onely trouble thee with these three First that a godly scholler reported unto him I was assisted in the penning of my defence of Astrology Page 33 of his discourse the which he heathenishly simply and ignorantly I will not say foolishly termeth unchristianlike I would he had not been thus hypocritical but had named his godly schollars name if any such there were and not have left his Reader and indifferent men thus in doubt nor so diabolically wicked as thus to invent untruths rather then he will not disgrace and disparage me which I shall prove and also that he is as I here term him and so consequently not worthy the taking notice of crediting and that first affirmatively and then negatively That he is most diabolically wicked and inventer of untruths First affirmatively that since it is granted that no godly
Astrologia Restaurata OR Astrologie Restored BEING AN INTRODVCTION TO THE General and Chief part of the Language of the STARS In Four BOOKS THE FIRST Proving the Legality of ASTROLOGIE both by Scripture Reason and the testimony of the Ancients and learned in former Ages wherein is cleared to every Rational and Impartial man the Authors Lux Veritatis in Answer to Doctor Homes to remain unshaken notwithstanding the Doctors unowned Reply THE SECOND By a plain Method teaching the Names and Characters of the Planets and Signs as also the Reasons thereof and of their Dignities Terms Faces Houses Exaltations and Triplicities with the Reasons why the Signs are reckoned from Aries and in number just twelve and â—â—â—ither more nor less with the number of the Sphears their Order and Motions being a most necessary Introduction to the whole ART and very usefull to all wel willers thereunto for inabling them to give Reasons for any part thereof c. THE THIRD Fully comprehending Instructions and Rules for electing any manner of Work never before made publique in our Mother Tongue the which both for the Administration of Physick Letting of Blood Husbandry and other necessary Works is both usefull and profitable THE FOURTH By a most easie Introduction teacheth by Revolutions of the Years of the World Eclipses great Conjunctions Comets and Blazing-stars how to Judge by the ordinary course and order of Nature of the general Accidents of Countreys Kingdoms Provinces and Cities Alterations of Kingdoms and Empires Laws and Customs Cause of Plenty Dearth Wars Peace Health Sickness Alteration of the Ayr and to be short of all things appertaining to the life of man in a Natural Way wherein is the infinite Wisdom of GOD seen manifestly in the Government of the World by the Influence and constant Harmony of the Celestial Planets and Stars the Innocency Legality and Purity of the Art demonstrated and proved by demonstration of the inevitable events of the Heavens so long as GOD upholdeth the Order and Course of Nature unperverted and the Students thereof consequently proved rather Divines then Conjurers or Practisers of what is unlawfull By VVILLIAM RAMESEY Gent. Student in Astrologie Physick and the most Heavenly and Sublime Sciences Astra regunt homines sed regit astra Deus Published by Authority LONDON Printed for Robert White 1653. SERENISSIMO ILLVSTRISSIMOQVE PRINCIPI AC DOMINO DOMINO HONORATISSIMO IACOBO STVARTO DVCI DE RICHMOND ET LENOX COMITI DE MARCH DOMINO IN AVBVGNY DARNLY TARBOLTON ET METHVEN BARONI DE LEIGHTON BROMSWOLD ET S. ANDREWS c. ET PERISCELIDIS INSIGNIS MILITI DOMINO SUO CLEMENTISSIMO Salutem Felicitatem Perpetuam HANC SUAM ASTROLOGIAM RESTAVRATAM SUBMISSE CONSECRAT Wilhelmus Rameseus TO THE Illustrious and High-born PRINCE IAMES STVART Duke of Richmond and Lenox Earl of March Lord Aubugny Darnly Tarbolton and Methven Baron of Leighton Bromswold and St. Andrews and Knight of the most Noble Order of the GARTER May it please your Highness IF Nobility of Birth Antiquity of House Magnanimity of Spirit Multiplicity of Vertues and the most excellent Endowments that a Mortal Man can attain unto may justly as their due challenge the patronage of these my Labours there will be none found to anticipate your Highness and though my misfortune is such that I never had the Honour in the least to kiss your Highness hand or to appear in your presence but remain as yet a Stranger to your Highness yet by reason the Work is of that sublime Worth and Excellency I mean the Science of Astrology as appeareth by the first Book of this Volumn it being the chief of the Liberal Sciences together with Astronomy Physicks and Natural Philosophy which are all but part of one intire Science and that wherewith none is able to compare have I humbly presumed to cast it at the feet of your illustrious Self whose incomparable worth and indowments are unparalleld so that if your Highnesse's Munificence doth favourably accept of this small Token of my wel-wishes to true Nobility â—â—d in a particular manner to your Highness I must necessarily be constrained to acknowledge my self arrived to the highest pitch of Honour that for the present I am capable to expect The subject of this my unworthy Work for so I may call it in reference to your Highnesses unparalleld excellency to whom it is presented is that part of Natural Philosophy vulgarly termed ASTROLOGY which teacheth by the Natural Motions Configurations Aspects and Inclinations of the Coelestial Stars and Planets to Iudge of the Natural Accidents Mutations and Alterations of Laws Customs Kingdoms States and Empires and the general casualties of the whole World in the Natural way of its Government by the Coelestial and Superiour Bodies which next under GOD are the efficient Causes of all corruption generation production and nutrition in this Elementary World the knowledge whereof is to know NATURE the great Hand-maid of the Almighty and the temper and quality of all things and although through the mercenary practises of some by setting of Nativities and answering of Horary Questions thus abusing the Art the validity of this Science hath been brought into question reproach and contempt yet I question not but your Highnesses innate magnanimity is such that it will not condescend to give any censure on what hath not first been summoned to the Bar or Tribunal of your Highnesses piercing Judgement for because a thing is calumniated and questioned is no proof of its illegality neither doth the abuse take away the use thereof for were this admitted even the best of Sciences and chief of Studies Divinity it self could not be exempt from prohibition and condemnation wherefore since the first BOOK of this Volumn tendeth wholly to the Vindication thereof from the aspersions of the Antagonists and the abuses of the seeming Friends thereunto I shall not further inlarge on this point since it is well known unto the Learned that among the Ancients and graver sort of people in all Ages this Science being unpolluted and unsophisticated hath been still had in most high esteem nay it is of that profundity and excellency that it was first taught to our first Father ADAM by GOD himself as testifyeth Iosephus Lib. 1. Cap. 2. of hâ—â— Antiquities of the Iews who taught it to his Posterity for he further recordeth that Seth was so excellent therein that foreseeing the Flood and the destruction of the World thereby ingraved this Art for the benefit of after-Ages in two Pillars the one of stone and the other of brick and that he saw himself that of stone to remain in Syria in his own time and in the 3. chap. of his aforesaid book he further witnesseth and affirmeth that man lived so long before the Flood to learn Arts and Sciences especially naming Astrology and Geometry and in his 8. chap. of that same 1. Book of the Antiquities he doth yet further testifie that Abraham having learned Astrology in Chaldea being the place of
Tom. 2. Pigmei gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident Dwarfs or Pigmies standing upon the shoulders of Giants may see farther then those Giants I would have none therefore wonder to see me frequently dissent from the Ancients and relate my own conceptions in divers places yet in most I follow my Authors at least in sense though not verbatim And in some places I have trod the very ignorant and irrational paths of the Ancients that so the ingenious and wel-willer to this Science may have matter wherewith to exercise himself and not wholly to give himself over to traditional precepts for my own part I abhor implicite Faith or erroneous tradition without sound and sufficient reason given for it and therefore you will find I have often in these my labours dissented from my Predecessors By some perhaps I shall be discommended and again by others applauded for it it is an hard matter to please all parties and therefore I have I say let slip some places on purpose to convince thee that former Ages had not all the knowledge in the World that so thou mayst be weaned from thy confidence in the writings of the Ancients when neither reason nor experience are on their side I shall not need to turn you to any of those places in this Book I hope your ingenuity will be a sufficient index thereunto yet least some Momus should convert this my silence to ignorance and indeavour to wound me with my own weapon by imputing that as a fault in me which I did wilfully neglect I shall here mention one place being so remarkable and so palpable an absurdity See Bonatus de Revolutionibus cap. 95. Lib. 4. Sect. 2. Chap. 18. of this volumn you will finde the significations of the Sun when he is Lord of the year in any of the twelve signs Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer and Leo being expressed and the rest by varying the former Rules implyed which of all absurdities is the greatest it being impossible for the Sun to be in Taurus Gemini Leo Virgo Scorpio Sagittary Aquaries or Pisces in any yearly half-yearly or quarterly ingress which is ever made at his entrance into the first point of the Equinoctials Aries and Libra or Tropicks Cancer and Capricorn and therefore I must needs conclude the Antients have herein been very weak and as worthy reprehension as applause in other matters Yet I would not have thee expect any new thing for I must conclude with Wecker in his Praef. ad Syntax med Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius there is nothing said or to be said that hath not been said before or if you will not believe him take the testimony of the most wise Solomon Eccles 1.9 The thing that hath been it is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done and there is no new thing under the Sun and if this were so in his days so long since how can we in the least expect novelties in this Age or in these latter days wherein though the world aboundeth in Books so that D. King sometime B. of London very well noted they are in number without number yet we shall finde the most of them one and the same expressed in several and divers terms and phrases according to the strain and fansie of the Penner and for the most part we see him that comes last to exceed his Predecessors It had been too intricate a thing for me to have noted where I have in any place inlarged of my own since it is so general throughout all the four Books yet my phrase and stile will lead thee I believe unto most of it it is wholly my own method and no translation but rather a collection so that I may well say with Macrobius Omne meum nihil meum mine is none of mine yet this I can assure thee that I do not remember any point or place where I have willingly been dark or desired to detain any thing from thy understanding It is as I may say even hewed out of the Rocks and therefore I expect some places may be rougher and more unpolished then I could wish it is the first draught and therefore I hope that may a little plead for me wherefore be pleased Courteous Reader to accept of my wel-wishes and out of thine own goodness and gratefull disposition pardon my defects which I cannot but fear are many having not had time to correct it or alter the stile or phrase which at the best is but homely and sometimes very harsh according to the present condition and fancy of my genius at times not at all studying to frame or place my words but quicquid in buccam venit served turn and to tell you the truth it being once brought forth I could not endure to think of correcting it it being a work both so painfull and troublesom so that I had rather write another Book as big again and could as soon accomplish it as correct what I have here written besides should I have gone about it as oft as I should have read it so often should I have altered it in one kind or other according to that of Ter. Adelph Nunquam ita quicquam bene subduct a ratione ad vitam fuit Quinres aetas usus semper aliquid apportant Novi The which you may English thus Naught ever was at first contrived so fit But Use or Age or something altered it Wherefore in this regard I was the more negligent thereof but left it unto thee and thy courtesie knowing that when I had done my utmost therein I should never be able to please all parties if by some I were accepted by others I should be rejected I must look for as well frowns slights and derisions from some as applause or countenance from others Quot homines tot sententiae so many men so many minds wherefore gentle Reader let this consideration plead for me and be thou so favourable as to pass by my failings and remember that the best of the Antients had their faults and defects the which I could here recite might I justly vindicate my self by the condemnation of others Besides I would have thee also know I have not dwelt wholly on this subject neither do I wholly devote my self to any one study or Science whatsoever or limit my Spirit to so strait a prison or narrow confines I was ever of a roving humour for matter of knowledge and could never perswade my self I should ever know enough of any thing and although I am not of capacity to attain ought but the froth or superficies of any study yet have I endeavoured to be aliquis in omnibus though being brought to the proof I should be found Nemo in singulis wherefore let this with the preceding prevail with thee so as that my most absurd faults may seem little or nothing in thy eye since indeed these my Labours were penned at spare hours and on purpose
men for that they and they only were the first that made them any wise reputed several shall beneath appear for since it comes here so opportunely in my way I will give you for the farther clearing of this point the testimony of some former and authentick Writers though were I not confined to somewhat a narrow bounds I might insert most or all Writers that were any ways Judicious but since Verbum Sapienti sat est and the case so clear and unquestioned amongst rational men I shall as brief as may be give thee some and then proceed that I may hasten as hath been said to say somewhat of one that hath put forth a patcht pretended Reply to my Lux Veritatis in answer to Doctor Nathaniel Homes CHAP. II. That Astrology and Astronomy are one and the same Science and that they were ever so received by the Ancients I Have already declared the testimony of Aristotle on this point and if we peruse the works of Ptolomie we shall finde also Ptolomy maketh no difference between Astrologie and Astronomie that he maketh no difference between the one and the other and more particularly not to insist long hereon Lib. 1. cap. de Quadr. cap. 3. de Quadr. he calleth there the Art of Astrology Astronomy and the Predictions Astronomical so confounding the distinction of the parts with the essential name of the Science Wherefore though Ptolomie hath by some brain-sick men been brought to condemn Astrologie The apparent folly of these men that produce Ptolomy against Astrology we see thereby the folly of such envious and ignorant gain-sayers of what they are altogether unknown in for it is very strange that he should be produced to condemn what he hath taught to the world in four Books in Folio but such is the stupidity and perversness of the Antagonists thereof that when Astrologers declare and shew manifestly the power and efficacy of the influence of the Stars there they accuse them with impiety and illegal practices and when they sincerely teach not to ascribe so much to the Stars as to neglect these inferiour causes but to joyn the consideration of the one with the other here not considering nor indeed understanding the scope and intentions of their Writings they pick out certain particular places of their works which they think makes for their idle conceits and cavils to the condemnation of Astrology What the Antients deserve at our hands for their care pains of us for ingratitude is abominable and the labours of those that herein have spent their whole lives for the benefit of these after Ages who have by us small requital of their care and pains thus to traduce them when they ought rather by us to be eternized with Statues of Gold and whole volumes of praises in perpetuum Hermes Trismegistus also in his Centiloquium calleth the Art no other then Astrology Hermes and the Students Astrologers And Tully also in all his Works calleth the Art no other then Astrologie Tully never so much as once mentioning Astronomy for in Lib. 2. de Divinitat he maketh predictions a part of Astrology and not an Art of it self when he testifieth of Cassander and Archelaus that they were excellent in other parts of Astrology yet never used Predictions And Plinie lib. 7. cap. 37. witnesseth that Berosus And Plinie for his Divine Predictions in Astrology had his Statue erected him with a golden tongue The Septuagints in the 47. of Isa also make no difference of Astrology and Astronomy nor Astrologers and Astronomers The Septuagints also comprehending them both under the name Astrologers and the Art under the word Astrology Galen also lib 3. cap. 6. 12. Likewise Galen De diebus decret contrariwise calleth the Egyptian Astrologers Astronomers And the same doth Cassiodorus Plato and Philo. And again Cassiodorus comprehendeth the works and effects of the Stars under the word Astronomy where he defines Astrology so also Plato Philo and indeed all learned Writers which since to the Judicious this is so well known I shall not need here longer to insist only shall also add this that Bonatus in his 11. ch De confirm Astrol Scientiae maketh Astrology as did Aristotle as you have already heard a part of Astronomy in these words Astronomia est Sciencia per quam non solum praesentium Bonatus consenteth to the same verum etiam praeteritorum ac futurorum habetur cognitio See also his 14 chap. where under the word Astronomy as you may see in the Contents of the chapter he proveth Astrology to be one of the Liberal Sciences Astronomie is a Science by which not onely present things but what is past and to come may be known Here you see by these words he comprehendeth Astrology under the name and word Astronomie And then as I have said in the following words shews it is a part of the same Art definitur etiam alio modo viz. In duas partes sive species ipsius breviter contemplativam scilicet activam quae sunt Astrologia Astronomia It is defined also another way viz divided into two parts or kinds to wit contemplative and active which are Astrologie and Astronomie Thus you see here what difference the Antients have made betwixt the one part and the other and he in that same chapter further sheweth how they differ where he saith In quo differunt istae duae partes dicam tibi in what these two parts differ I shall shew thee and so forward wherefore then this being apparently manifest I shall not here spend more time or trouble thee referring thee for further satisfaction to his twelfe chapter where he sheweth cleerly both the parts and species of Astronomie and I believe an artificer is best able to deliver a definition of his own Art and rather to be believed then one altogether ignorant therein which that man must needs be that will be so peremptorily base and impudent or rather imprudent as to deny what is thus confessed by all Antient and Authentick writers of this heavenly and most delectable and admired Science neither upon due consideration will any man finde the knowledge of the motions Astronomy of no great use or validity without Astrology which is one part of the Science to be of much use or validity without the true understanding of their effects c. And here also I may add one word to that fourth Section of my first chapter I have referred thee to that he also in his next chapter viz the thirteenth witnesseth that Abraham taught the Egyptians his Art and that Atlas who was afterwards so excellent therein that it was thought of him he was a God and therefore was supposed through his excellency in his knowledge therein to support thr Heavens on his shoulders CHAP. III. Containing the Excellency and Nobility of the Science of Astrology as also its Antiquity and the admirable power and vertue of the
elementary bodies and things The Authors appeal to what he himself hath delivered in his Vox Stellarum for the justification of the validity and certainty of Astrology and for the proving the Stars and Planets to have influence over sublunary bodies and that by our monthly and yeerly prognostication made apparent to every vulgar notion and capacity so that for the further justification and confirmation thereof I shall not need to desire any better testimony then my Vox Stellarum and the writings of some of those seen in this heavenly Art published for the last yeer and the two ensuing yeers viz. till the latter end of 1654 provided they are guided by the rules of Art For instance since as touching my Vox Stellarum now I have so fit an opportunity First from page 19 to 21 and from page 105 to 107 you may see I positively concluded we should have war the yeer 1652 and yet by all judicious men it seemed very improbable both at the time of my penning and publishing that book it being wrote in August 1651 and Printed in October following at which time we were in a very seeming setled condition yet we can all now experimentally testifie that by the time the Summer quarter was well began we were at slashing and pelting with the Hollanders and they with us and at swords drawing in the Spring quarter Secondly in the thirty third page though I durst not speak plain English then yet I hope it will be no offence now it is past to mention it I declared in Latin that those signified by the sign wherein Saturn was should have the better Saturn was then in Cancer under which sign is Holland and Scotland and I need not ask either our Army in the one and Fleet against the other of the verity thereof and it is further to be noted that both these were acted about one and the same time Thirdly in the 134 page I shewed the inclination of those in Authority to Taxations and what man is there that looks into his purse but can aver that in that very Winter-quarter the Tax was raised 30000. l per mensem above what it was before Fourthly in the 103 page you may see I mentioned mischief to men by Thunder and Lightning and how fatal this proved even to the astonishment of us all is well known to all England especially to those in Leiton in Cheshire in which Town on the 20 of June 1652 being Sunday there was in the Sermon time eleven slain in the Church by Thunder and Lightning and many hurt To be short let the Merchants and such as make long Voyages hinted at in the 16. and 17. pages and other places of my Book testifie whether they have not received many crosses losses and miseries and the people in general and whether many have not sustained losses by thieves and hurts or wounds the year 1652. Also whether there was not an unusual dryness in the Summer a scarcity of Fruits insolency in the Commons fraud and deceit amongst most men treachery and such like evils abundantly mentioned in many places of that Treatise and many more which at this time I forbear to particularize Only for a farther testimony of the verity and admirable excellency of this Science let me intreat thee to make particular observation of what I have predicted by the Eclipse of the 29. of March 1652. treated of also in that same Vox Stellarum and Lux Veritatis whose effects will operate till towards the latter end of the year 1654. and tell me then what you think thereof when you shall see what is here mentioned come so punctually true as also excess of heat in Summer and divers maladies and infirmities afflicting men in general Wherefore let the weakest capacity judge then what reason or sense there is in such men as shall traduce so worthy and incomparable an Art as this which they never broke sleep to understand but content themselves being altogether ignorant with a bold facing down the unspeakable validity worth and excellency thereof which of all Arts and Sciences is both the most noble and so deserving the study of the more refined and heavenly Spirits and also the chief and most delectable of all the liberal Sciences Wherefore what hath been said shall suffice at this time for the confirmation of the influence of Jupiter and the rest since I desire not to be more tedious then I needs must and since this will be cleared more fully anon when we come to treat of Eclipses Comets Great Conjunctions and Blazing-stars where we shall shew and teach their nature and influence over all earthly things whatsoever I shall for this consideration as also for that we are here in this place still to treat of the influence of the Heavens and then to speak a word or two of that Discourse late published in pretence of a Reply to my Lux Veritatis least this Treatise grow too big crave your pardon till anon CHAP. VIII Shewing the Influence of the Heavens on Inferiour and Elementary Bodies All general accidents whatsoever are and may be known by revolutions of the World Eclipses Comets great Conjunctions and Blazing-Stars in a natural way IN this place then we are to treat of the Influence of the Heavens you have already heard how for matter of plenty or scarcity they are the immediate causes next under God and that proved and warranted both by Scripture and the Learned in former Ages for then that Eclipses Revolutions of the World Comets Blazing-stars and great Conjunctions treate of the Accidents general of all Nations Kingdoms and Languages there is nothing more true viz. plenty scarcity health plague wars peace alteration of ayr and mutations in the Laws Customs Rights and Priviledges of Nations and to be short of things appertaining to the life of man in a Natural way c. And if we have regard to Ptolomy lib. 2. cap. 2. 3. de Quadr. we shall finde that he doth not only refer the Nature and Custom of Nations unto the general Inclination and Nature of the Triplicity they are under but the inclinations of their minde particularly as well as the shape and form of their bodies as also their manners and kinde of life as those who are inhabitants of the Torrid Zone as hath been said are black Of those that live in the Torrid Zone having also black and crisped hair of a mean stature and of a hot constitution and of a fierce and cruel spirit propter longam assiduam solis moram in eorum regionibus by reason of the long and constant stay of the Sun in that Region or Climate nigra sunt corpora eorum quia Sol per Zenith suorum capitum currit eosque comburit they are black over all their body by reason the Sun constantly transites their Zenith and so scorcheth them that they are of that hue Of the inhabitants of the South And these Inhabitants of the South
man rather a fool then a Physitian that is not an Astrologer and he farther saith that Physick given at unseasonable times doth not only little avail or help but oftentimes prove very hurtfull even to the indangering of the life of the Patient and that these times are only to be known and judged by the stars CHAP. XI Containing an Introduction to the Vindication of my Lux Veritatis from the aspersions of Doctor Homes and his second with the first Reason why I account neither of them worthy of my notice EVen amongst us notwithstanding all this there are some that labour all they can to eclipse the radiant splendor of this most heavenly Science being blinded with ignorance and malice as hath been said for Ars non habet inimicum praeter ignorantem Art hath no enemy but an ignorant man Ignorance converteth all the desires and inclinations of a man to wretchedness The wretched estate of an ignorant man and taketh away the sight of the minde and intellect that he is herein as blinde as a man is externally that hath lost his eyes of which the former is a great deal the greater curse for knowledge doth distinguish us from bruit beasts and by how much we excell in knowledge and understanding by so much we transcend the inferiour Creatures What distinguisheth us from bruit beasts for it is in my opinion better not to live then to live in ignorance for an ignorant man is not indeed worthy to live or the earth to bear him the consideration of which caused the Antients to say That every ignorant man was evil c. Wherefore then since it is so of necessity there must much inconveniency and mischief come thereby both to the ignorant themselves and others I forbear here for brevitie sake to shew you the prodigious and wofull effects of ignorance in some of former ages as well as in this wherein we live this is already clear to all judicious and ingenious souls wherefore to our purpose I say there are in this perverse age many sticklers or so in pretence against this Liberal and most divine Science one whereof for the undeceiving of my Reader having published a pretended Reply to my Answer to Doctor Homes I shall craving pardon for my tediousness here take notice of although he be not worthy of the same as you your self shall judge when you have perused what follows for both his quality and * For I am informed he is an Hay-maker Plaster maker Chyrurgion Quack-salver and Tub Preacher or at least after he hath been all these he ayms at the Preaching of the Gospel but I will advise him first to get a good and true tongue in in his head variety of professions as also rural behaviour and disposition in whose name it is published speaketh him not worthy the naming or answering as I would have done had it been otherwise and better fathered that the errours and absurdities of that railing Pamphlet might have been divulged to the world This may be the first reason why the Author holds not the pretended Reply to his defence of Astrology worthy the answering CHAP. XII Comprehending three Reasons more why that Rabble of theirs was not worthy the answering THus have you one reason whereby I am induced to slight it yet have I these five more for my further inducement thereunto first for that there is nothing in it but what hath been long since answered by Bellantius Goclenius Marasealertes Pirovanus and Sir Christopher Heyden though in the Title page there be sophistically promised an answer thereunto which the penner thereof is as much able to do as to remove St. Pauls Church The second reason The third reason Secondly for that by the Author himself it was not thought worthy of his name in the Frontispiece thereof or else his name was not worth the inserting Thirdly for that it was not worthy of the Authors owning or else he was ashamed of it or he had never sent it abroad in another mans name for let whose name will be at the end of the Epistle to the Reader it is well known by Mr Daniel the Printer in Pater-noster-row and the then Composers and Presse-men that Doctor Homes was the Author of it and not onely payed for the printing but also Corrected every day at the Press and let him deny if he can his peevishness with the Presse-men when they were angry he came not to Correct and made them all that afternoon stand idle For it is not likely that a Hay-maker as it is very well known the owner thereof or he under whose name it was published was but two or three yeers since should be able to hold an Argument against one of the Liberal Sciences although his ignorance might condemn it But truly I cannot but commend the policy of the Doctor herein who knowing the insufficiency of his brat to refell the Arguments in my Answer to his first discourse being loth to be seen bafled the second time in Print for a piece of mony knew how to make another father it and truly therein he also did a very charitable deed for of all sneaks that ever I saw in my life that pretended to any thing was this poor fellow he got to be the father of this Rable for hearing he lay at the Bell in Carter-lane I went purposely to confer with him touching some passages of that book which went under his name but could not meet with him whereupon I left a note desiring him to do me the favour if it were he that owned such a book for I was unacquainted with him to let me know or whether it might be some other of his name and he should oblige me therein and for an answer thereunto I would be there again the next day at eleven of the clock c. To this purpose I say I writ a note and left it with the Chamberlain of the aforesaid Inn and desired that he would importune him for an answer he promised me he would and so for that time I departed came the next day according to promise inquired for the Chamberlain demanded an answer who had no more for me then this that he had delivered my note and importuned an answer but could receive none then I acquainted the Chamberlain with the business that there was a Book published in the name of such a one and being informed it was him that lay there that owned it and therefore I desired him in my note to let me receive that favour from him to know whether he was the man or some other of his name and so wished him to acquaint him again with my being there at the time appointed and wondred he would refuse to do so small a favour as to resolve me in such a question I or no which he again promised me he would But what courtesie could I expect from so mean a spirit which was never either acquainted with courtersie civility or manners who would
in the subsequent words viz. vers 4 5 6. their line is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world in them hath he set a Tabernacle for the Sun which as a Bridegroom cometh out of his chamber and rejoyceth as a strong man to run a race his going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof By which you may plainly see that David there speaketh of all the Heavens in general the heavens declare c. and stars therein when he mentions their voice and particularly the Zodiack which he calls a Tabernacle for the Sun moreover you are quite put out of doubt that he before spake of all these and the influence of the stars by his mentioning this more particularly the Sun Qui est Rex astrorum and his heat and so comprehending all under him being the chief of them intimating also that his influence is universal throughout the whole earth from the East unto the West the which course he rejoyceth to run as a strong man to run a race so that from hence here can nothing in the least be gathered for the uniting those two Texts in sense being as different as the North is from the South or as Heaven is from Earth and altogether as impossible to be united as it is to joyn the East with the West or the Pole Artick with the Antartick for it was meerly the marginal notes in some of our Bibles which led these two learned Teachers of the Word of God out of the way and into this weak business serving no whit at all to their purpose which they knew well enough and therefore it was they delivered not the words of the Text they quoted perswading themselves that their telling the Reader it was St. Pauls interpretation of the Psalm agreeing somewhat in words would be sufficient and truly so it is for the making them ridiculous but for nothing else for sure I am St. Paul never made either an interpretation or exposition of the Psalms or the marginal Notes in our Bibles but me thinks they should have taken the 4 5 and 6. verses before mentioned with them and have made all concur they depending so unanimously one upon the other but this is clear let us now to their answer to that in Iob by me alledged and so proceed CHAP. XVI Proving their Reply to Job 38.31 shewing the stars to have influence to be frivolous and of no effect MArk how as touching this point they tell their Reader it is answered after Their Reply to Iob. 38.31 but they tell him not in what manner for if they had they had been unwise for all the answer that I could find in all their Galimaufry was only this that what I said was false according to the old saying in a word thou lyest a pure way to confute an Argument and very easie But whoso shall peruse St. Augustine upon Iob which here would be too tedious to discuss and in a manner being so clear and that by the testimony of so good an Author superfluous I say no more on this matter only desiring thee also to peruse but the preceding and subsequent words of that passage of St. Augustine which they bring seeming to make for them and thou shalt finde therein also their jugling tricks to deceive their Reader just as they brought Ptolomie to condemn Astrologie which I hinted at in the beginning of this Book for it is very strange that Ptolomie should speak against that which he taught to the World in four Books in Folio but if the sense and meaning of the Author be not regarded it is an easie matter even in the best of Writings to finde out some seeming contradictions But I dare positively affirm and maintain that St. Augustine doth in no place of all his works condemn and positively dis-allow of Christian Iudicial Astrologie in its purity and not abused and this may sufficiently be manifested by those five opinions I have set down in my Lux Veritatis chap. 2. sect 3. which he recordeth in libro de Civitate Dei lib. 5. cap. 1. for though the superstitious abuses thereof be by him condemned it argueth not therefore the natural uses are to be abolished and therefore though before his conversion he followed the Heresies of the Manichees Lib. 5. cap. 4. and lib. 20. cap. 6. contra Faustum Manicheum who maintained the stars to be adored and prayed unto and afterwards wrote against them yet can it not be made apparent that he utterly condemned this liberal Science as will appear by these words of his in libro 5. cap. 6. de Civitate Dei Non usque quaque absurde dici possit ad solas corporum differentias afflatus quosdam valere sidereos sient in solaribus accessibus recessibus videmus etiam ipsius anni tempera variari lunaribus incrementis decrementis angeri minni quaedam genera rerum sicut echinos conchas mirabiles aestus oceani non autem animi voluntates positionibus syderum subdi whereby we see nothing exempted from subjection to the stars that is bodily but only our spiritual part neither doth he ascribe this power to the stars in general as that their specifical vertues are not possible to be known by man for in his Book De gen lib. 2. cap 5. he agreeth with Astrologers that Saturn is cold Again shall we admit that St. Augustine and with him all the Fathers unanimously are against Astrologie yet may we not hence make our selves so ridiculous as to conclude Astrologie of no validity or efficacy they being but men and therefore subject to error and since it is nowise condemned by the word of God which should be the touchstone of all mens writings further then that men should not give the power of the Creator to the creature nor impose a fatal necessity and trust therein and therefore St. Augustine in the aforesaid fifth Book and first chap. of his City of God delivering five opinions as I said concerning destiny in his first sheweth that by destiny is understood The providence will and power of God and therefore he warneth Astrologers that they continue their opinions but correct their tongues for that through custom of speech the vulgar commonly understood nothing by the word fate or destiny but the inevitable power of the stars and so becomes a means to draw them from a true trust and confidence in God and his word And truly were it not for fear of making this Treatise too great I could shew you that every part of Astrologie nay even monethly Prognostications which some men think are condemned by the word of God being grounded upon observation deduced from causes in nature have ever been permitted and suffered in all well ordered and Christian Common-wealths and that not only the Fathers and latter Divines but even Mr. Calvin himself
c. CHAP. I. Showing the Ground-work on which Astrological Iudgements for the judging of Revolutions are to be built and how many Schemes or Figures of Heaven ought to be erected for this Work IN this matter the Ancients in those days wherein the Art remained obscure in some points have had divers opinions some grounding their judgments in these businesses on the Ascendent of the Law Nation Commonwealth or Kingdom concerning which they have undertaken to write and others on Eclipses and great Conjunctions the which although considerable in some matters and to be taken also into consideration in every annual Judgement yet the true time from whence Judgement is to be raised for the exact knowledge and predicting of future natural events in the Elements for any year The Ground-works from whence Astrologers raise or derive their judgements of future accidents and events in the elementary world is when the Sun enters the first point or minute of Aries which as you have heard is the first sign of the Zodiack and in the 24. Chapter of our Second Book Of the Judgement of the Stars that the Sun was in this very sign and in this very punctum at the first Creation and therefore I say it is all the reason in the World his return thereunto every year ought to be the chiefest ground on which Astrologers are to build their judgements touching the Natural events of all sublunaries especially since he is as you have been shewn in the first Book Fons Vitae the Fountain of life and Anima mundi the soul of the World by which all things as well Vegetatives as Sensitives have their subsistence and vivifying nourishment Besides we see that when the Sun enters this Equinoctial all things increse and flourish the Trees and Earth grow green and blossom and also fructifie by degrees afterwards which may also prove unto us the manifest certainty of that opinion or rather affirmation of the Antients that the Sun was in this first sign at the Creation of them and truly if we will be regulated by reason it will be sufficiently proved by the very Word of God which although not expresly in terminis testifying so much unto us in plain words yet will the Text delivered in the first of Genesis verse 11. be sufficient together with the sequel verse 12. shewing the effect be enough in all reason to evince the Carpers at both this Art and Artists tenets which for the most part are guided by passion errour and tradition in all their discourses they publish against them See more of this in the first Book So likewise on the contrary we see when he enters Libra which is the sign opposite to Aries and the other Equinoctial all things decay and diminish in their vegetative vigour the earth becomes as it were barren the leaves fall from the Trees c. How to erect the Scheme Thus have you heard the time of erecting your Scheme for your Work now you are further to note thus much that your Figure of Heaven be exactly set for the Region or place on which you would give Judgement having first punctually taken the Elevation of the Pole How to place the Planets therein And then having also reduced the Planets and Dragons-head to the instant of time the Sun enters the aforsaied point and erected your figure according to Art and placed them therin you may proceed to Judgement Yet first take this for a Rule Note if your ascendent at this time be a moveable sign then must you not content your self with that Scheme alone but for every quarter of the year must you erect another this induring no longer then till the Sun enter the first point of Cancer and from thence as of the former you do judge of the Spring Quarter comprehending March April and May under the signs Aries Taurus and Gemini may you know the events of the Summer Quarter being June July and August under Cancer Leo and Virgo the third figure for the third Quarter and that which is termed Autumnal being September October and November under Libra Scorpio and Sagittary is to be erected for the Sun his entrance into Libra and then the last for the Winter Quarter when he enters Capricorn which together with Aquaries and Pisces doth rule December January and February If it be a common sign two are necessary to be framed If your Ascendent at the Suns ingress into the first point of Aries be a common sign you have already in the Second Book Chap. 24. been shewn which signs are common also which are movable and which fixed wherefore we shall not here make any repetition then must you erect two Figures that of the ingress into Aries continuing in force but the first half year viz. but till the Sun enters the first Punctum of Libra for which time you must erect a Scheme for the other half year and for the knowing of the effects portended thereby If it be fixed that alone is sufficient But if your sign ascending be fixed then will that figure serve for all that Revolution or to the end of the year viz. you may thereby undertake to predict or acquaint your self with all matters signified thereby even till the next ingress without erecting any figure of the Suns ingress into the other points Thus much for your foundation and Platform viz. the Schemes but first now before thou layest one stone let me advise thee to acquaint thy self well with these following necessary considerations and then mayst thou safely and with more judgement go through with thy work CHAP. II. Containing some necessary considerations before Iudgement LOok that you can readily and exactly distinguish of your true significators as which House and Planet denotes the King which the People which their Assistants and which their Enemies c. and from whence you are to inquire of the fertility and sterility of the Earth Wars or Peace or any other Accident otherwayes you shall never be able to come to any perfection in this most Divine Science Ever be sure you weigh well the Fortitudes and Debilities of your Significators as how they are essentially and accidentally dignified which you are sufficiently taught in the eight Chapter of the Second Treatise how located in the Figure of the Heavens and how Aspected benevolently or malevolently by the Fortunes or Infortunes and so judge according to the Nature of the Planet afflicting or assisting your Significator good or bad as the signification and nature of the Aspect Planet Sign and House wherein he is denotes and the signification of the Planet to which he transfers his light saturn and ♂ not always evil neither ♃ and ♀ ever good Do not conclude Saturn and Mars alwayes Malevolents and Infortunes and Jupiter and Venus ever Fortunes and Denoters of good for as it may happen they may be contrary to this general and simple opinion Fortunes and Infortunes as they may be posited in Houses
in the Revolution of the year quarter or moneth decreasing in light and motion or applying to a Retrograde or weak Planet she signifieth the same But as touching the cheapness and dearness of any thing have regard to the Ingress of the Sun into Aries or any other quarter if it be so that so many figures are to be made and therein diligently consider the state and condition of the Planet and Sign signifying that concerning which you would require judgement and according to his strength and debility judge for if strong the things will be deer and of an high price or value and if weak judge the contrary Some of the Antients have also taught that for monethly observations in this matter we have regard to the Conjunction of the Luminaries and Haly saith that we ought in every year to have regard whither Saturn or Jupiter enter the sign of the Kingdom Nation or Countrey for which you erect your Figure and from their then places strengths and debilities we are to judge for that if the Planets are unfortunate in these places it signifies things shall be cheap but if they be there fortunated and strong judge the contrary Moreover you are to take notice that every Planet in his Exaltation or elevated in his Epicycle whether he have dignity in the Ascendent or no signifieth things shall be deer that are of the nature of that Planet and the Sign wherein he is and therefore I say again it is most requisite you be throughly acquainted with the significations of the Planets and Signs taught you in the second Book CHAP. IX Containing some Instructions touching the alteration of the Ayr and change of weather in any Year MUch pains and diligent observation is required for the delivering rules infallible in this matter I mean for these Regions and parts of the Earth wherein we live being Islands but doubtless the Antients did sufficiently treat hereof neither is the validity and certainty of their rules which they have left to posterity to be questioned for such is the reason they carry with them that questionless they were most authentick and seldom or never admitted of correction in those parts of the Continent wherein they lived and perhaps in these parts also with a little amendment they may be made infallible wherefore I shall here do my utmost endevour to deliver them unto thee and perhaps hereafter according as I shall have life liberty and leisure afforded me I may give you them more short compendious and efficacious For I must confess the present Philosophers of this our age are more to seek in their judgements of weather then in any one thing whatsoever and do oftenest therein deviate from truth How to judge of the alteration of the ayr and change of the weather In the judging then of these matters have regard unto the figure of the Sun his ingress into Aries for the general judgement thereof for the whole year if no more Figures are to be erected but if two or four as you have heard in the 1. Chapter of this Treatise you are to have respect unto them to know the state of the weather quarterly and half-yearly but you are also to remember you join in judgement with them the figures at the time of the Preventional Conjunction and Opposition of the Luminaries and if you would judge of the alteration of the ayr for every moneth you may have regard to the figure of Heaven at the time of every Conjunction of the Luminaries as also to every Square and Opposition if you would predict of every week Of the chief and general signicator of the weather When you would judge of any of these times have regard unto the degree ascending of the figure whither it be for the year half year or quarter and the places of the Conjunction and Opposition preceding and see in what mansion of the Moon these places fall viz. whether in a dry moist cold or temperate mansion the which you are taught in the 1. Sect. and 3. Chapter of the third Book of this Volume being our Introduction to Elections and whither the Lord of the Mansion have any Aspect to the Conjunction Opposition Ascendent of the Revolution or Lords thereof and of what nature temper and quality he is and the mansion he is in and accordingly judge of the state of the weather he being the general and chief Significator especially if he be Almuten of the Ascendent for he shall as saith Ptolomy be Significator though he doth not behold their Conjunction or Opposition but if any other doth you must join him in judgement with him Have regard also to the fixed stars of the first second third and fourth Magnitudes rising culminating and setting and see how they are aspected by the Significator and see whither any of them be in Conjunction with him consider their nature and mansion they are in also have regard to the nature and quality of the Lord of the place of any great Conjunction or Eclipse of any of the Luminaries and to what Planets or fixed Stars they apply as also the Moon after her Conjunction and Opposition with the Sun and as you finde it requisite having regard to the major testimonies judge of the nature quality and temper of the weather If your Significator be free from impediment strong no wise beheld by any of the Planets nor he in Conjunction nor applying by Aspect to any of them nor to any notable fixed star you shall judge the quality and nature of the weather from his bare signification but if any Planet be in Configuration with him or he with any Planet or fixed star you are to judge according to the nature of your Significator and the nature of the Planet or fixed star in Conjunction or other Configuraâ—ion with him by making a rational and judicious commixture and this shall happen at that time and on those dayes wherein you finde them in Conjunction or Aspect As if Saturn be chief Significator of weather in an Angle no wise impedited nor applying to any other Planet nor any to him he shews temperate showers and seasons dark clowds over-spreading the sky especially if he be in a temperate Mansion but if it be a cold Mansion the weather will incline to cold if a moist to moisture But if he be impedited or ill aspected he shall signifie storms tempests hail rain winde thunder and dark clowds especially if he be then malevolently aspected of Venus or Mercury out of an Angle and in a moist Mansion of Jupiter windes rain and thick clowds of Mars yellow clowds lightning thunder and rain in places and time convenient of the Sun red clowds winde and great rain also in Summer thunder and lightning according to the nature of the Signs Mansions and Places of the Heavens their Conjunction or Aspects are But you must know the Sun or Moon are never assigned chief Dominion in any Figure concerning weather because they are general Significators
in two hundred and forty years yet once in twenty years they come in Conjunction in one part or other of the Zodiack The third is the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the first term or degree of Cancer and this is once in thirty years The fourth is the Conjunction of the three superiours Saturn Jupiter and Mars in one term or face of any sign The fifth is the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars which is a mean and the least Conjunction of the superiours and therefore is not the fore-runner of such great n foreefs as the other as you shall by and by understand â—â—mâ—re sixth is the Conjunction of the Sun with any of the rest of the Planets at the time of his entrance into the first point of Aries The seventh and last is the Conjunction of the Sun and Moon which happeneth once every moneth Considerations before iudgement Of which we are now in order to treat but first you must know that the time for the erecting of your figure is when the Planets are in Partil Conjunction viz. in the very same signe degree and minute of the Zodiack You may see what a Partial Aspect is the 27 Chapter of the second Book of this Volume Having then erected the Figure of the Heavens at your punctual time and placed the Planets therein being reduced to the time of the day have regard unto the fortitudes and debilities of the Planets especially those in Conjunction for if they be strong and fortunate they presage good if weak and impedited the contrary And this good or evill shall be according to the nature of the Planets in Conjunction and the nature of the sign in which they are as if the Sign be aiery and the Planets evill impediment in the Ayr corruption and much damage thereby both to men and the fruits of the Earth is denoted and so judge of the rest of the signs in like manner judge the contrary if the Planets in Conjunction be Fortunes and well dignified Again if the Malevolents be in Conjunction in feminine Signs they denote Pestilence and evill infirmities to women and the Female sex of things in general chiefly in like manner to the Masculine sex if the Sign be Masculine and health prosperity and good success if they are benevolent Planets Moreover in fixed signs what they portend whether they are Benevolents or Malevolents is of continuance in moveable of little or no continuance in common signs a mean between these viz. they are neither of long or short continuance CHAP. XII Of the Conjunctions of the Superiours EVery Planet in some measure or other contributeth to the Government of this World for the which they were ordained but some more forcibly then others as being fore-runners of greater and stranger accidents and mutations Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Aries For the great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the first point of Aries or the first term thereof is the greatest and most notable Conjunction of all the other for that they are the highest and so consequently as to us the slowest of the Planets and therefore have more power to act what they denote then any of the other hâ—â—â— and for that Aries is the first of the signs of the Zodiack and the first sign of the Triplicities also the first of the fiery Trygon And therefore it is that when these two highest Planets are in Conjunction in the fiery Trygon especially in the first term or degree of Aries the Ascendent of the world and the place wherein the chief Luminary viz. the Sun was at the Creation many commotions wars seditions troubles subversion of Monarchies Kingdoms States alteration of Laws Customs Priviledges and Rights Plagues Famine Desolation Anxiety and trouble Treasons Treacheries and the death of Kings Nobles Princes Emperours and Powers follow Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in any Trygon So likewise when they are in Conjunction in the first term of any Trygon whether it be fiery earthy aiery or watry but not so forcible is their then Eâ—â—â—â— nor so terrible as the former yet though in a less degree the fore-runners an â—â—casioners of grievous mutations and accidents according to the nature of that Planet which hath most power of the two in the Sign wherein they are joined for if Saturn be stronger then Jupiter it will be very terrible but if Jupiter be stronger then him somewhat will be abated in fiery earthy and aiery Signs they cause drought and a scarcity of Provisions and barrenness of the ground Pestilence and Famine in watry detriment by the too much abundance thereof Also when these two first Conjunctions are in any of the Angles especially the tenth it denotes the arise of some new King or Prophet from the quarter signified by the sign wherein they are joined and if the Sign and Lord thereof be fortunate it denotes their continuance establishment and glory but if it be weak or afflicted and its Lord they shall be slain and put down for the whole world is governed by these Trygons as Ptolomy teacheth in his second Book and the whole Macrocosm compounded of the four Elements which answereth to the four Triplicities and therefore it is that the Conjunction of the Superiours in them are occasioners of such great mutations Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Cancer In like manner the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the first degree or term of Cancer is the forerunner of much evill yet are the two former preferred before it viz. terrible wars slaughters depopulations and alterations of Government and destruction of Kingdoms fire and sword famine and pestilence c. and if it be Oriental its Effects will soon operate if Occidentall not so soon the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in any other sign and place is not so terrible And truly this is a terrible Conjunction if rightly considered and dictateth unto us upon the first consideration no less then horrible troubles and alterations in the World if we but consider it it is a Conjunction of the Malevolents two enemies must needs be stronger then one and here they are both together and in a sign wherein Jupiter our best friend is exalted and the Moon the mother of moisture pitcheth her Tent so that by their Conjunction therein both the assistance of the one and the nature of the other is much damnified and afflicted again Saturn is therein in detriment it being the sign opposite to his House Capricorn and Mars is therein in his fall Capricorn being the House of his exaltation and therefore it is these things being considered that they are so mischievous when joined in this sign the which of all their Conjunctions is the worst c. Of the Conjunction of Saturn Jupiter and Mars Also the Conjunction of Saturn Jupiter and Mars in any term or face and beheld by the Sun they being the three superiour Planets and most effectual for strength and height
of their several inclinations 16 Aspects names nature characters why so named and charactered partile and platick 92 dexter and sinister 93 Aspects of the Planets to the Lord of the year 235 Assistance from whence to be expected and from what kind of men 282 to obtain it of great men 197 Astrologie the definition of the word * 1 its scope or definition * 3 agreeth with Divinity * 5.4 c. one of the Liberal Sciences together with Astronomy and Physicks 2 how they became separated or so accounted ibid. how brought into contempt * 1 * 3 the best of studies and lawful 4 18 23 revealed first to Adam by God not diabolical as some weakly have endeavoured to perswade the world but a great mean rather to acquaint us with a Diety 4 38 medleth not with the secrets of God 21 most useful for Physicians 23 28 its definition 29 Legality 38 Excellency 4 warranted by Councels 37 not impugned by Divine Scripture from 30 to 36 useful for all the parts of Physick 153 Athazer what 111 Atlas fained to be the supporter of the Heavens and why 4 The Author divided by the Author * 20 his exhortation to this mad world * 22 how far he holdeth of casual Events 22 his practice or way of living 28 denieth a fatality in the Stars Influencies ibid. yet proveth they have admirable Influence in all sublunaries 4 and that they are cause of fertility and sterility 5 how far he vindicateth it 37 38 alloweth not of the resolution of Questions whereby many now-a-days enrich themselves and cheat the world and bring a scandal on the purity of Astrologie but condemneth it with the setting of Nativities as toys trifles vanities cheats and abuses of the purity of the Science of the Stars * 3 * 36 38 the cause of his putting pen to paper in any of his works * 4 * 6 what books he hath hitherto wrote 4 his manner of writing in these his Labours * 25 c. the occasion thereof and his end therein * 6 his birth breeding and life hitherto declared * 28 * 29 Author of the pretended Reply to my Lux veritatis discovered and that it is not his under whose name the Epistle thereof passeth 24 B Barreness a curse * 13 A time for Bathing 169 Beasts a time to purchase 173 Beauty real defined as vulgarly received rejected * 9 A time for Begetting Boys and Girls 152 Benevolents not alwayes Jupiter and Venus 124 Besieging what 111 Birds a time to buy 174 Blackmores why black 14 Blood-letting when convenient 170 Book the first second third of this Volumn their scope * 2 the fourth * 3 Books published by the Author * 4 A time for Borrowing of money 135 A time to purge the Brain 168 A Bridle for Youth * 9 Of buying and selling 137 to profit thereby 136 C Cancer its nature and quality corporature diseases Angel colours places 87 Regions Cities part in man under its Rule 88 why ruled by the Moon 68 why the exaltation of Jupiter and fall of Mars 69 the number names nature magnitude latitude and longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 97 Capricorn its nature and quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part in man under its rule 90 why ruled by Saturn 68 why the fall of Jupiter and exaltation of Mars 69 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 103 Captives a time for freeing of them 201 Carbunkle its nature 57 Castles a time to build them 143 Casualties of Cities how to judge of them 144 Cattel small and great a time to buy them 173 to tame them 174 Cautions in administring Physick laxative 166 168 Cazimi what 111 Characters used in Astrological books explained 49 77 81 91 Charactery Astrologie questioned * 3 Childhood the vanity thereof * 7 * 8 Child dead to bring forth 153 Children born at the time of an Eclipse or at the Partile Conjunction of the Luminaries live not long and why 12 A time to purge Choler 168 A time to draw cholerick blood 171 Of Christening 154 Chronick diseases how ruled 11 Chrysolite its vertue 57 Churches a time to build 145 Chyrurgery a time to use 169 Circles of Heaven their number order and motion 79 Of Circumcision 154 A time to bathe for cleanliness 169 Clergymen their significators general in Annual judgments 220 more particularly 141 Cause of Climacterical years 12 Cloathing a time to buy 137 Clysters a time for administring them 164 Why it is Colder in January when the days increase in length then in December when they are at the shortest 13 Combustion what 111 Comet why so called the many sorts thereof 318 the definition thereof 304 318 the appearance thereof an evident token of Astrologies Legality and that it is allowed of by GOD 36 in what part of the Heaven they appear Continuance Portencies how to judge thereof the birth of our Saviour foretold thereby 319 Physical reasons of their portencies 320 why seldom seen and but in one part of heaven at what time of the year the reasons of their various shapes and colours distinct significations 321 Saturnian Jovial Martial Solar and Venerial their portencies 323 Mercurial Lunar 324 significations and portencies in any of the 12 Signs from 324 to 327 when chiefly they manifest their effects 326 Conception when hindred 152 when farthered 153 Vt mulier Conciplat ut non Concipiat 178 Great Conjunctions their Number Considerations before judgement 327 of the superiours and their effects 328 Lesser their portencies 329 Hermes of Conjunctions from 330 to 333 Conjunction its nature 92 How to order the matter of Conquest in any war 179 Considerations to be had in Phlebotomie 170 Constellations hindering and farthering Phlebotomie Ibid. To know the the Contents of any writing unseen 185 Contrantiscians of the Planets how to know them their force 77 Corns a time for the cutting of them 134 Coronations a time for them 197 Covetousness most detestable * 12 What sign the Sun was in at the first Creation 214 Critical-days whence caused 11 the true knowledge of them 162 may often be hindered by Saturn 13 Custome reproved* 16 a second nature 170 cannot wholly alter the Natural Constitution of any Place or People 15 The Customs and Laws of all Nations different and why 16 D. Dead childe to deliver 153 Debility of any Planet in any Sign to know 66 Decrepit age prohibited Physick 166 Degrees how many in a sign of Heaven 79 Delectatione cum muliere jacere 178 Devil ignorant of the issue of future accidents 21 Dexter aspect what its nature 93 Direction what 110 A time for any work in the Art of Distillation 139 Dog-days why not a like contagious every year 9 A time for buying of Dogs 173 of bringing them up 174 Dragons Head and Tayl what they are their nature 76 significations in the twelve Houses in the Revolutions of the years of the world 247 in