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A48494	Anima astrologiae: or, A guide for astrologers. Being the considerations of the famous Guido Bonatus, faithfully rendred into English. As also the choicest aphorisms of Cardans seaven segments, translated and methodically digested under their proper heads. With a new table of the fixed stars, rectified for several years to come, and divers other necessary illustrations ... / by William Lilly ...	Lilly, William, 1602-1681.; Bonatti, Guido, 13th cent.; Cardano, Girolamo, 1501-1576.	1676 (1676)	Wing L2208; ESTC R25481	51,474	126

if they be take the Significator of the Querent and thing enquired after and substract the lesser from the greater and add to the reminder the degrees of the Sign ascending and project what they amount unto from the Ascendant and observe where it happens for the Lord of that Sign signifies what was enquired of and according to his condition shalt thou give judgment as thou findest him fortunate and strong or infortunate and weak For if the business concern a mans estate and he be placed in the second as he is so shall the Querents estate prove if in the third the Brethren will be disposed accordingly in the fourth those of greatest Relations in the fifth the Children in the sixth Servants in the seventh Wives in the eighth Wives portions in the ninth long Journeys in the tenth his Preferments in the eleventh his Friends in the twelfth his Enemies The 141st Is to consider in Nativities the gifts and properties bestowed on men by the fixed Stars and how long they continue together with the reason why they prove not lasting as those which proceed from the Planets since it seems a little probable that they should continus longer than those of which I do not remember to have met with any thing in the Ancients save only that Ptolomy in his Centiloquium says The fixed Stars sometimes confer exceeding great benefits but often times they end ill And Almansa in his Treatise to the great King of the Sarazous That the fixed Stars bestow notable gifts and raise from poverty to happiness and high degree more than any of the seven Planets Now the reason that the gifts of the fixed Stars to men abide less with them than those given by the Phanets is because the fixed Stars being the Agenes and Men the Patients the subject on which they are to operate are not agreeable to them nor are born to be able to receive their impression for it is requisite that there should be some conformity and likeness or agreeableness between the Agent and the Patient but the fixed Stars a●e most slow in motion and consequently in mutation whence it comes to pass that their impressions require subjects and patients of the same nature that is to say such as are the most lasting and carry a conformity with them to perfect or accomplish their effects For the revolution of the fixed Stars is finisht but in six and thirty thousand years but the Viventhipolis or life of man generally exceeds not three revolutions of Saturn that is to say the space of ninety years very few exceed that age though possibly some may by the addition of the years of some Planets to the years of the Alcocoden in their Nativities which bears no conformity or proportion with 36000 years to compleat the effects of their influences And therefore as an Eagle cannot exercise the complement of her flight or power on a Fly nor a Stone coming forth à sunda Trabathi do any great execution in Musciovem no more can the fixed Stars compleat the effects of their impression and therefore their gifts or the good promised by them continues no longer with men because men are of so small a duration and subject to a swift mutability in respect of their motion And upon this is that Aphorism grounded that advises to make use of fixed Stars in the To nation of Cities but of Planets in the erection of Houses because Cities are generally of the longest continuance amongst corruptible things and far more durable than particular Houses for these in respect of their individuals do not endure always whereas Cities remain by a successive building and rebuilding of Houses and therefore though Castles are very lafting yet are they not equal in the respect to Cities so that although we may use the superior Planets in elections for building of Castles it is better to take fixed Stars yet still because Cities are of longer continuance than Castles they are more appropriated to the fixed Stars whose Subjects they are For the impressions which a solid thing makes in a more solid thing continues much longer than that which it makes on a less solid thing and far less in a thing not solid than a thing somewhat solid and yet less in a very slippery transient thing than in a thing less lubricous or changeable Hence the impressions which the fixed Stars make on Cities continue longer than those on Castles because Cities are more correlative to them in lenght of time and accordingly those of Castles more durable than those of Houses for the same reason proportionably But bodies of men are more remote from those fixed Stars than houses themselves and so more corruptible and for that cause their significations apply less to them or if they happen abide but little the significations of the fixed Stars being so great and noble so high and free from corruption and mutability that they cannot easily take upon them a variable commixture with things quickly corruptible and suddenly changeable unless it be as oyl on water for though it may enter into it yet such impression will not long continue for the fixed Lights operate with so much nobleness that by reason of their long distance from those vile corruptible changeable bodies and neighbourhood to the supream Light their effects cannot remain in or with them when they are lightly or suddenly changed and corrupted especially in base people and mean spirits for they seldom transcend his person to whom they happen and often times leaves him whilst he lives and that to his damage so great that God alone can prevent as I affirm for the most part though 't is possible they may sometimes terminate in good and continue long As it hath sometimes happened that some have lived to the greatest years of the Alcocoden of whom I never saw but one in my time who was named Richard who affirmed himself to have been a Courtier under Charles the Great King of France and that he had lived five hundred years At what time there was a report of one that had continued alive ever since our Saviour's days called Johan Buttadeus because he had impulissed the Lord as he was led to be crucified Who said to him Thou shalt expect or wait for me till I come The aforesaid Richard I saw at Revenna in the year 1223 and the said John is said to have passed through Florilivium in his journey to St. James's at Compostella in the year 1267. Nor could the significations of the fixed Stars be applied or adhere to men nor sensibly remain in them unless there were some Medium by which they might act upon them which are the Planets which are secondary Agents as the first are principal for wherever there are diverse actions in order attributed to several Agents the principal act ought to be referred to the principal Agent which in respect of the effects or corruptible things was the primary cause and the Planets as secondary for that corruption which

11th When she is slow of course because then she may be compared to a Planet Retrograde The 12th When she is in want of light so that no part or very little of her is seen which happens about the end of the Lunar Month. The 13th When she is besieged by the two Infortunes impediting her The 14th If she be in Azimene degrees The 15th If in Pitted degrees The 16th If in Smoaky degrees The 17th and last Is when she is posited in those degrees which are called dark To know and distinguish all which you have Tables commonly in most Books of Astrology The Sixth Consideration Is to regard another manner whereby Planets are dibilitated or weakened and afflicted not much different from the former which comes to pass Ten wayes The 1. When a Planet is Candent from Angles or from the Ascendant so that he doth not behold the same The 2. When a Planet is Retrograd The 3. If they be Combust that is within 15 degrees before or after the Sun the lower Planets are more debilitated being behind the Sun and less before him when they are direct but when retrograde the contrary 4. When any of them is in Opposition Corporal Conjunction or Square of either or both the Infortunes without Reception 5. When they are besieged by the Infortunes so as to separate from one and be joyned to another without perfect Reception of House Exaltation or two of the smaller Dignities which are Term Triplicity and Face 6. When a Planet is joyned to another in his Declension or Fall that is in Opposition to its own House or Exaltation 7. When it is joyned to a Planet Cadent from the Ascendent or separates from a Planet that did receive him and is joyned to one that doth not 8. When a Planet is Perigrine that is In a place where he hath not any Dignity or being one of the Superiours is followed by the Sun or being of the Inferiors when it follows the Sun 9. When a Planet is with the Head or Tail of the Dragon without Latitude 10. When a Planet weakens it self that is when it is in the Seventh House from its own Feral or not in Reception These are the Impediments of the Planets that cause Hinderances Delays and Mischiefs in Nativities Questions Elections c. All which thou oughtest to be well acquainted with There are some more that seem necessary to be known but to avoid tediousness and confusion I shall at present omit them The Seventh Consideration Is to beware of those Cases wherein the Astrologer is subject to err and mistake of which the Learned have named Four 1. When the Querent is so silly that he knows not how to ask nor what he would have 2. When the time for which the Figure is erected is mistaken 3. When the Artist knows not whether the Sun be gone off the line of the Mid-heaven or be still upon it or be behind or before it 4. When the Fortunes and Infortunes shall be of equal strength at which time thou therefore oughtest not to receive any Question But in my opinion there may well be added yet three wayes more wherein the Astrologer will be subject to err 1. When the Querent comes onely to try him or put a trick upon him as many do saying Let us go to such an Astrologer and ask him such a thing and see if he can tell us the truth or not Just as the Jews propounded Questions to our Lord Jesus Christ not so much to be resolved as to tempt and ensnare him 2. Wherein the Artist will be liable to err in is when the Querent does not ask out of a serious or settled intention as some do when they meet an Astrologer by chance or go to him on other business on a sudden they think of something and so ask as it were by the by wherein 't is a thousand to one but mistakes happen But thou may'st be ready to say How shall I know whether the Querent come out of a solid intention or onely to try me To which I answer That it seems a very abstruse and difficult point perfectly to find out but this I have often experienced and found true viz. I observed the hour of the Question and if the Ascendent then happened very near the end of one Sign and beginning of another so that it seemed as between both I said they did not ask seriously or that they came to try me and I have had many that have thereupon confest what I said to be true and began to think that I knew more than before they believed For in such Cases I use to say Pray Friend do not trouble me unless you ask seriously for I suspect that you would put a trick upon me by not proposing this Question as you ought however if you will give me trouble for your pleasure be pleased to give me likewise satisfaction for my pains and immediately if there were any deceit intended away they went Another viz. a third way whereby an Astrologer may erre Is when the Lord of the Asendant and Lord of the Hour are not the same nor of the same Triplicity or be not of the same Complection with the Ascendant for then the Question is not Radical as I have frequently found by experience And this I have recited that thou may'st know for what persons thou should'st undertake to give Judgment for as one says The issue of the thing is according to the solicitude of the Querent and as he comes in necessity as sad thoughtful and hoping that thou art able and knowest how to satisfie him the truth of the matter and in such case thou may'st securely venture upon the Question The Eighth Consideration is To mind how many of the aforesaid manners or points necessary to be used and heeded in giving Judgments thou hast to consider and they are thirty that is to say sixteen impediments of the Moon ten of the other Planets as hath been said and besides all those the Planets several Joys which are four of which the first is the House which each Planet does delight in as Mercury in the Ascendant the Moon in the third Venus in the fifth Mars in the sixth the Sun in the ninth Jupiter in the eleventh Saturn in the twelfth The second is When a Planet is in a Sign he delights in as Saturn in Aquarius Jupiter in Sagittary Mars in Scorpio Sol in Leo Venus in Taurus Mercury in Virgo and the Moon in Cancer The third is When Diurnal Planets as Saturn Jupiter Sol and Mercury are in Diurnal Houses in the East and Oriental of the Sun near the Horoscope and Nocturnal Planets as Mars Venus Luna and Mercury are in Nocturnal Houses in the West and Occidental of the Sun especially near the Cusp of the Seventh The fourth is When the three Superiors Saturn Jupiter or Mars are in Masculine Quarters which are counted from the Cusp of the tenth House to the Cusp of the Ascendant

those in inferiors suffer happens by reason of their too great distance from the incorruptible superiors yet their effects sometimes continue long in Grandees and persons very rich who are apt for Empire magnanimous and of brave and excellent spirits such as in my time was the Emperor Frederick the Second who when he was indigent and in great necessity was arrived to the Imperial Dignity and brought under his obedience all Apulia the Kingdom of Sicily Jerusalem Cracovia Italian and the whole Roman Empire except of Lombardy subduing all Enemies Traitors and Rebels and remained in that illustrious flourishing condition yet at last died miserably being poysoned by his Domesticks and all his Family extirpated so that scarce any of them remained Such another was Ecilinus de Romano who when he was but mean was far exalted above all other Italians for he ruled and as it were tyrannized over the Marquisate of Treves even to Almaine and Trent and within four or five miles of Venice and his Tyranny continued twenty six years but at last all these glories were overcast with calamity for when it seemed impossible to suppress him he fell into the hands of his Enemies at a Battel in the Country of Mediolanensi apud Cassianum and died wretched and all his posterity was destroy'd not one of them remaining In the same manner there was one in the Kingdom of Apulias of base descent called Peter de Vinea who when he was a Schollar at Bononia was forced to beg for his living and had not bread to eat yet made Notary and after that Protonotary of the Court of the Emperor Frederick the Second he became a Judge and climed to such a grandeur that he was happy that could obtain the least of his favor for whatever he did the Emperor would confirm but himself would often set aside what had been established by the Emperor who made him Lord of Apulia whereby he grew so rich that he had ten thousand pounds of Gold Augustanensium besides other Treasures almost inestimable yet in the end he fell and was reduced to such misery that the Emperor ordered his eyes to be put out inraged at which out of meer indignation he struck out his own brains against a wall as it was then commonly reported Another was at Pysa called Smerolus one of the dregs of the Vulgar who came to be as it is said Lord of that Province nor durst any of the Nobility for a while contend with him yet at last he came to nothing After whom one Oddo Gualduzins a mean fellow tapered up so high that he did as it were sway the whole City and none would contradict him till Galyver a Judge caused him to be chopp'd all to pieces The same happened at Florylycium one called Simon Mustaguere the Son of obscure Parents who mounted so high that all the People adored him nor durst any oppose him save only my self who knew him throughly and what mischief he could he did at his pleasure for three years space but at last down he came being banisht the City which happened for the od●ousness of his person and cowardise Another being a Frier of the Preaching Order by name John by Nation Vicentinus was admired as a Saint by all the Italians that acknowledged the Roman Chruch but I ever thought him an Hypocrite he grew so high that he was reported to have raised eighteen from the dead though never one of them could be seen and to cure all Dieases fright Devils c. yet could I not perceive any body freed by him though I made much enquiry into his Miracles however the whole World seemed to run after him and thought himself happy that could get a Thread of his Cap which they esteemed equal with the Reliques of the Saints and in his Preaching he would publickly boast That he had converse with Jesus Christ the Virgin Mary and Angels when he list By which Tricks the Friers of his Order at Bononia got more than Twenty thousand Marks And his power was so great that by his own will he released a Souldier as he was going to Execution for murther Nor durst the Magistretes deny him nor any speak ill of him but my self who knew all his whe●dles and cozsnages for which the Rabble meerly out of fear of him reported me an Heretick In which esteem and pomp he continued above a year but at last want out like a snuff of a Candle with a stink his Devices and Hypocrisie being discovered so that he became as generally and every body was ashamed to be seen in his company The 142d Consideration is To observe in Nativities and general Questions the gifts and good advantages bestow'd on men by the Planets because those are applied more easily to them and continue longer extended to their successors according as they are disposed in the Radixes of their Nativities but they are seldom exceeding great unless when applied by fortunate fixed Stars because being of a more swift mutability they have a closer affinity with them especially if proceeding from the inferior Planets for their conformity with men their correlative subjects Those of the Superiors last not so long with men but in building of houses they are much better than the other Of the good given by Saturn and the other planets Saturn Oriental and well disposed that is strong and in Reception gives great Fortune in Building Planting Trees requiring a long growth in Manuring Ground Water-works and the like Jupiter gives good luck in Scientiis such as the Law and in Dignities being made a Bishop a Judge or the like Mars in leading forth of Armies c. Sol in Lay Preferments as Kingdoms Governments c. But the Lower Planets bestow their gifts inherent to men and more durable as Venus in the Attempts of Women their Ornaments Courting them c. Mercury in Trading Writing c. The Moon in Navigation Planting Vines Vsing Drinks Selling Wine c. All these I say are excellently well bestowed by the Planets advantageously posited and endure longer that is to say The Prosperities given by the Moon may continue to the seventh year or generation because she is the Seventh Planet reckoning downwards and if they pass the Seventh Age or Generation they cannot exceed the Eighth as suppose from the 42d year to the 45th year including both those of Mercury may endure to the sixth Age being the sixth from Saturn but will scarce hold out the seventh Those of Venus to the fifth Age she being the fifth Planet from Saturn but will not exceed the sixth Those of the Sun to the fourth Age. Those of Mars to the third Age. Those of Jupiter to the second Age. Those of Saturn onely for one Age and cannot transcend nay seldom reach the third And though I say that they may continue so long yet do I not say that they shall not be finished before For as Aristotle says There are terms that cannot be past over yet he does not