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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

Question of an Astrologer where we must take notice of Three motions the First of the mind when a man is stirred up in his thoughts and hath an intent to inquire a Second of the Superior and Celestial Bodies so that they at that time imprint on the things inquired after what shall bécome of it the Third of the free-will which disposes him to the very Act of Inquiring for although the mind be moved to Inquire 't is not enough unless the Superior Bodies sympathize therewith nor is such motion of the Stars enough unless by the Election of his will the person does actually Inquire The Second Considerable is what we hinted at before the method or manner every one ought to observe that inquires of an Astrologer which is that when he intends to take an Artist's Judgment of things past present or to come he should first with a devour Spirit pray unto the Lord from whom proceeds the success of every lawful enterprize that he would grant him the knowledge of those things of the Truth of which he would be resolv'd And then let him apply himself to the Astrologer with a serious intent of being satisfied in some certain and particular doubt and this not on trifling occasions or light sudden motions much less in matters bafe or unlawful as many ignorant people use to do but in matters of honest importance and such as have possest and disturbed his mind for the space of a day and night or longer unless in sudden accidents which admit not of delay Those that take this sober Course shall find the Truth in what they inquire after but whosoever do otherwise deceive both themselves and the Artist for a foolish Querent may cause a wise Respondent to erre which brings a scandal upon Art amongst inconsiderate people when as the Astrologer is not blameable but the ignoran silly Querent The Third Is to consider how many waies Planets operate upon Inferior Bodies according to the divers Qualities of their Motions there being Sixteen different wayes of such their Operations and Effects in all things that are either wholly or in part perfected or destroyed The Fourth Is to consider particularly these several Sixteen wayes and what are the assisting causes that help forwards things to perfection and what those are that destroy things after they are perfected Now of these the first is Profection or an Advance of or in things which the Philosophers call Alchecohol 2. Detriment which they call Aliber 3. Conjunction or Reversion which they call Alitisall 4. Seperation which they call Alnichirat 5. Translation of light which they call Annecad 6. Collection which they call Algemei 7. Prohibition which they call Almana 8. Reception called Alcohol 9. Being void of course called Gastalcobol 10. Permission called Galaalocir 11. The restoring or giving of Vertue or Disposition called Alteat 12. The with-drawing of Vertue called Dalpha Alchoa 13. The with-drawer or driver away of Disposition called Daff aredbit 14. Fortitude Alcoevah 15. Debisity Adirof The 16th Is the state of the Moon called Gnaymel or the Moon ill-affected which the Ancients generally hold to be of ill signification The fifth Is to consider How many wayes the Moon comes to be so ill affected which are generally reckoned to be Ten but in my opinion Seven more may be added whereby hindrances and damage happen in all Questions Nativities Elections and Actions whatsoever The First is When the Moon is Combust that is to say under the Suns Beams which is counted from 15 degrees of the Body of the Sun as she applies to him to 12 degrees distance from him as she is seperating from him and the Impediment is greater when she is going to the Sun than when she is going from him because as she goes off when she is got five degrees distant she is said to be escaped though not wholly freed As when a Feavor hath left a Man he is said to be recovered although he be Weake and Faint because he is secure now that he shall obtaine his health again The 2d Is when she is in the degrees of her Descensions that is in the 3d. degree of Scorpio or in any part of Scorpio or Capricorn or injoyned with any Planet that is in her or its own Decensions as if she be joyned with the Sun who is in Scorpio or Capricorn or in his proper Descension viz. in Aquary or Libra viz. in its 19th degree or in any part of Libra or should be joyned with Mars and he be in Libra or Taurus or in the 28th degree or in any part of Cancer and so with any other Planet or Planets respectively The 3d. Is when she is posited in any of the Combust degrees of which the worst are those 12. degrees which are before the degree which is directly opposite to the degree in which the Sun is wherever she shall happen to be The 4th Is when she is in Conjunction Opposition or Square to either of the Infortunes Saturn or Mars without a perfect reception for with one it hinders but little but in all other places 't is a grand Impediment both in the said Aspects and also in Corporal Conjunction save only where the Infortune shall have Two of his smaller Dignities as with Saturn in the 4. last degrees of Aries or Gemini in each of which he has a Term and a Triplicity or with Mars in the last 10. degrees of Pisces where he has a Face and a Triplicity and so in any other Sign or place The 5th Is when she is with the Dragons Head or with the Dragons Tail that is within Twelve degrees of either of them because that is the place where she is eclipsed The 6th Is when she is in Gemini which is the Twelfth from her own House The 7th Is when she is in the ends of Signs which are all Terms of the Infortunes except the last 6. degrees of Leo which belong to Jupiter but in the first eight she is weakened because they are Terms of Saturn If it be objected by the same reason she must be impedited likewise in the first 6. degrees of Cancer since they are Terms of Mars I answer no because Cancer is her own House and greatest Fortitude The 8th Is when she is in the 6th 8th 9th or 12th Houses not in reception with the Ascendent or joyned to any Planet that is in any of them or posited in the Third House because it is Cadent from Augies yet because the same is said to be her joy or that she delights therein she is not afflicted there so much as in other Cadent Houses The 9th Is when she is between the 15. degree of Libra and the 15. degree of Scorpio which 30. degrees are called the Combust way The 10th When she is void of course that is not joyned to any Planet by Body or Aspect or in that condition when they call her Ferall or Desart that is in a place where she has not any Dignity The

In Sagittarius two one in 10 degrees and 15 minutes the other in 7 degrees and 55 minutes both of the nature of Jupiter In Capricorn three one 2 degrees and 3 minutes another 7 degrees and 55 minutes the other 7 degrees and 55 minutes all of Jupiter's nature In Pisces two one in 7 degrees and 11 minutes of the nature of Venus the other 14 degrees and 59 minutes of the nature of Jupiter Wherefore always when thou findest the Significator in a Corporal Conjunction with any of these thou mayst pronounce happiness and a good end The 101st Cosideration is To mark in Nativities or Questions which Planet is the cutter off of life or years or hinderer of a thing from being done for he it is who destroys the life of the Native c. who is strongest in testimonies of dignities or power Yet Messahala concealed this and discovered the same and another useful secret onely to a certain Scholar of his who out of pride appropriated the same to himself Now after thou hast found who is this destroyer c. then see to whom the Lord of the Ascendant or the Moon is joyned who participates in signification of every thing as we have said before or the Lord of the thing enquired after and Lord of the House of the Moon or one or more of them for if it be joyned to a Planet Retrograde or Combust or Cadent from the Ascendant or any other Angle or to any of the Infortunes who doth not receive him or is afflicted by an Infortune which cuts off the light of the Significator the thing is destroyed and so the years of the Native are diminished and he lives not long Further if the Lord of the Ascendant or the Moon or the Lord of thing enquired after be joyned to a Planet who is free from the Conjunction of the Infortunes and so is sase as to himself but is joyned to another Planet afflicted some of the aforesaid ways the matter shall be brought to naught even after it seems accomplish'd and the Natives life shall be suddenly cut off when there is all the probability that may be of the contrary And this will also happen though there be no Conjunction with the killing Planet if only the Significator or Moon be afflicted in manner aforesaid The 102d Consideration is Of things signified how they shall be found or known and from what Significator they are to be taken which must be from the Significators of the Querent and of the thing questioned or enquired after which two Significators if they shall be joyned together with the Moon it signifies wholly and absolutely the effect of the thing if not joyned then the contrary And from the Conjunction of the Significators we ought to know why or by what the question is made And by the Lord of the House in which such Conjunction happens we know of what the question will be or the end thereof for if that be a Fortune it will be good according to the condition and signification of such Fortune and the House wherein he is and signification of the Lord of that House and of the place in which the Lord is posited of that House wherein its self is But if it be an Infortune it will be bad according to the signification of the Infortune and such other positions as aforesaid If the Lord of the House or Exaltation or of any two smaller Dignities casts an Aspect or there be a translation of Light you may know by that the question shall be brought to pass but if there be none of these it cannot be precisely known but it will be by or from a cause not yet discovered and by the Aspects of the Fortunes or Infortunes may be known what will be the effects The 103d Consideration is To mind in Nativities and general Questions in what House the part of Fortune happens for from the things signified by that House will the fortune or gain of the Native or Querent arise if the same be well disposed otherwise the same will be cause of his misfortune and loss The 104th Consideration is To observe in Nativities and general Questions whether the Significator of the Native or Querent be posited in the seventh from his own House or in Opposition to the Lord of the Ascendant for he will not in such case signifie gain from the things signified by that House but rather expence and loss The 105th Consideration is To observe in Nativities or general Questions whether that an Infortune unfortunate be in the seventh for that signifies that the Native or Querent shall not live in peace or any delight with his wives sweet-hearts or companions but will perpetually have brawls and quarrels with them it seldom happens otherwise from such a position The 106th Is to consider in Nativities and general Questions if a Fortune fortunate and no way afflicted be in the seventh for then the Native or Querent shall be happy in good wives and associates yet shall have many rivals and persons that hate him but rather out of envy than cause so that he shall seldom bring his enterprizes and designs to pass without much labour and trouble The 107th Is to consider in Nativities and general Questions whether Mars be in the second or in the tenth and well disposed for it denotes that the Native or Querent shall gain a Fortune or Estate by those persons that deal or work in Iron and Fire as Smiths Furnace men Glass-men c. or in Victualling or keeping Innes Taverns c. But if Mars be weak or afflicted loss and damage from all those The 108th Is to consider If either of the Planets beholds two Houses for his vertue and fortitude shall be in that wherein he hath most dignities and which is most proper for him and the thing he signifies The 109th Is to consider Whether the Lord of the fifth be in the seventh afflicted for then the Native will never be happy at Feasts or Banquets either be averse from or sleighted at such meetings or some affronts put upon him nor will he ever go neat in his clothes nor get any credit by them The 110th Is to consider in Nativities c. whether Scorpio ascend for such a Native is never like to get any great preferment in the Roman Church because Cancer the Exaltation of Jupiter natural Significator of Clerks will then be in the ninth House which signifies the Church and Jupiter is an enemy to Mars who is Lord of the Ascendant The 111th Is to consider in Nativities and Questions especially of Law-suits and Controversies whether the Dragons tail be in the seventh for that signifies damage or overthrow to the Natives enemies and prosperity to the Native or Querent because the head will then be in the Ascendant If it be in the eight it denotes the decay and loss of their estate or substance and increase of the Natives In the third prejudice to the Natives Brethren

Mars or the Lord of the eighth behold the Lord of the Ascendant they that take it from him shall kill him But if Mars and Saturn shall be in the place of Jupiter and Venus the business will be only Brass or Copper or Lead And if the Lord of the Ascendant be with them the discoverer is wearied with it whatever it be whether vile or precious The 123th Consideration is to observe in Nativities or Questions Whether the Sun and Moon are in Conjunction in one and the same minute both according to longitude and latitude and any of the Fortunes in the Ascendant that is within 15 minutes above the Cusp thereof or 24 minutes below it for that signifies that the Native shall be happy in getting a great estate and heaping up of money but if they be only in exact Conjunction to longitude and not according to latitude and their distance one from the other be within 15 minutes he will still be fortunate in acquiring substance but so much the less by how much the further such distance is and so proportionably If they happen to be above 15 minutes distance the same thou mayst conclude if the Moon shall be ill the very minute of Opposition to the Sun and a Fortune be in the seventh which signifies the estate of the Querent or Native in respect of his wives companions or enemies And if at that time of birth Taurus ascend and the Moon be there or the very minute ascending or Leo ascending and the Sun in the minute ascending not afflicted by either of the Infortunes it signifies that the Native shall get much money and come to great preferment and honour but if either of the Infortunes be in the said places instead of a Fortune it denotes loss and destruction of estate to the Native or Querent by or on the occasions aforesaid The 124th Consideration is To regard in Nativities and Questions the Significators of the Querents and Natives estate and also of his preferment calling or profession which thou mayst take to be the Lord of the tenth or of the Ascendant if the other shall not be fit to signifie the same for if the Lord or Almuten of the tonth be with the Light of the Tyne or erect and tall from it and distant 60 degrees or upwards even to 90 degrees if it be one of the Superiors or 30 degrees if it be one of the Inferiors and in the Angle of the tenth or in the Ascendant within 30 minutes above the Cusp or a degree and a half below it and not afflicted it signifies that the Native shall attain to the dignity and profession of his Ancestors and not exceed it yet shall be more skilful excellent and perfect therein than any of them but if there be in either of the said Angles any of the aforesaid helping and fortunate fixt Stars with the Planet of Fortune or any of the Planets he will far surpass all his fore-fathers in dignity And if such fixed Stars shall be of the first magnitude and sole Significators the Native or Querent shall be raised to vast honours and riches almost inestimable which if beheld by the Lord of the Ascendant then his fame and honour lies in his own person if by the Lord of the second in his riches if by the Lord of the tenth in his Offices Command or Empire and this though in never so poor and vile people the meaner their condition was to so much the greater height shall they arrive But this shall not endure long for they seldom go beyond twenty seven or thirty years And look how much the more sublime was their fortune by so much the more grievous miserable and calamitous shall be their fall for they shall die an ignoble filthy death or if they escape it the same shall happen to their next Successor The 125th Consideration Is to observe in Nativities or Questions what Sign ascends if it be the Sign of a Planet that hath two Houses the exercise or troubles of the Native or Querent shall be chiefly in those things signified by the other house of the said Planet which shall lightly happen to him and for the most part through his own means As if the Ascendant be Aries he shall be exercised in such things as shall be the cause of his own death or fall because Scorpio the other House of Mars will be then in the eighth House but if Mars be well disposed and part of Fortune happen in the 8th he shall be very fortunate in all things signified by that House If Taurus ascend he shall be exercised in such things as shall cause his own weakness because Libra which is the other House of Mercury will be then the sixt House But if Venus be well disposed and part of Fortune in the sixth he shall be most lucky in things appertaining to the sixth House If the Ascendant be in Gemini he shall be exercised in such things as shall occasion his being taken because Virgo Mercuries other House will be on the fourth but if Mercury be well disposed and part of Fortune in the fourth he will be prosperous in things belonging to the fourth House If Virgo ascend he will be excrcised in things that will gain him honour and power because Gemini Mercuries other House is the tenth if Mercury be then in Conjunction with part of Fortune and in the Ascendant he shall acquire as it were a Kings revenue But if Mercury be in the the tenth with the part of Empire fortunate and strong he shall undoubtedly obtain a Kingdom or supream Command And if with this part of Fortune and the Moon be also in the tenth he will be a mighty Prince infallibly If Libra ascend he shall be exercised in things that shall hasten his own death because Taurus the other House of Venus will be then in the eighth But if Venus be well disposed and part of Fortune in the eighth he will be lucky in things represented by the eigth House and so of any other Sign Scorpio ascending the Native or Querent shall bring diseases on himself because Aries is on the sixth Sagittarius ascending he shall fool himself into captivity because Pisces is on the fourth Capricorn ascending he shall gain much by his industry for Aquarius is then on the second House But if Saturn be ill disposed he shall squander away and waste his own substance idlely If Aquarius ascend he shall procure himself many secret enemies because Capricorn will be then in the twelsth House If Pisces ascend he shall raise himself to honour c. The 126th Consideration is To take notice in Nativities or Questions whether Mercury be Significator wholly or in part fortunate and strong and in Capricorn or Aquarius for then the Native shall be of a profound and piercing wit and great understanding one that shall dive into the bottom of things and see from the beginning what the issue will be and so much the more

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