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
to be of a better and quicker wit and more ingenious and apter to learning especially the study of the Stars Propter circuli signorum stellarum erraticarum loco Zenith eorum capitum propinquitatem because their vertigal point is neer the Zodiack in which the signs are and under which the Planets move He also farther teacheth Of the Inhabitants of the North. that those that live further North are of stronger body but of ruder manners and conditions because their vertigal point being far removed from the Suns course they more abound in cold and moisture which for that it yieldeth plenty of nourishment is not by the heat of those places at all exhausted or but very little from whence it followeth that they are of complexion fair long and smooth hair their stature tall and manners fierce and rude Object Answ But it may be some cavillers and envious carpers at the truth will object and say That custom and good discipline we see doth alter this general inclination But I answer That though oftentimes through the force of good discipline and custom which is according to the opinion of Philosophers secunda Natura a second Nature I must confess this is or may be much altered yet we see it hardly so removed but that some and those most evident marks thereof will still remain in force and this is evident in most or all Nations under the Sun which might but for brevities sake be at large proved and cleared but we shall here content our selves with the testimony of Bodin who in his 5. Book of his Method of Histories chap. 5. though I might shew you what Galen Hippocrates Tacitus Aristâ—tle and others hereon say saith and reporteth of the Germans An example in the Germaâ—s that in Religion they might equal or compare with the Hebrews in Astrologie to match the Chaldeans in Philosophy to strive with the Grecians in Geometry to equal the Egyptians and in Arithmetick to exceed the very Phoenitians themselves and yet there is no Historiographer worth a pins-head but knows they formerly were a most savage and rude people without either civility or humanity as a man may say so that they did far in savage and rude behaviour pass our wilde Irish and if we farther look to their ingenuity and sharpness of wit what Nation is there under the Sun to be found able to match them in Handicraft and Mechanick Arts Yet I say notwithstanding all this we shall finde that neither time custom nor education hath been able to extinguish their old and ancient fashions which is by the genius and nature of their Country hereditary unto them if we but look into their form and stature of body their immoderate inclination to tipling and homely diet their continency simplicity severity exercises and aptness to War for notwithstanding all their other excellent indowments we shall still finde in them a smack of these which is unto them Natural There is no man that ever dived into the cause of mens inclinations and dispositions especially of the several customs and manners of Nations which is the main scope of Philosophers labours who are never contented to know this thing is of such and such an inclination temper and nature but the reason thereof but knows the truth of this point wherefore I shall render my self most weak longer hereon to insist since not only the Learned but also every ordinary Reader of Histories if with diligence he hath observed what he hath read can testifie the same I might also here shew you what the same Ptolomie saith of the Inhabitants of the East and West but then I fear I should too much transgress my bounds as also how the whole earth is divided into parts and how governed by the fiëry earthy aiëry and watry triplicities and the reasons of the several inclinations customs laws manners and tempers of all Nations Kingdoms Countreys and Provinces but I shall here for brevities sake refer thee to the aforesaid second and third chapter of his second Book of his Quadripartite Of the Inhabitants of Europe or those under the fiery Trigon For there he doth not only shew thee under what sign of the Zodiack every Nation and Countrey is but also that those who are under the fiery triplicity viz. Europe are by reason of the triplicity they are under being in the North-west part of the earth and by reason of the Planets ruling the triplicity of magnanimous spirits given to exploits and feats of War and truly no disparagement to other Nations this our Iland of Britany may compare with the greatest Conquerors if not far transcend them Anglia Ariete Marte assimulantur ideoque bellicosi England is under Aries and Mars and therefore are the Inhabitants and Natives thereof addicted to be expert in War or feats of Arms. I omit here to insist on every particular Region in this part of the world as he there declareth it particularly naming every Region under each sign of the Zodiack but refer you thereunto only in this place we desire but to satisfie our Reader with some particulars that he may be assured of the verity of the strong influences and manifest operations of the Celestial Signs Stars and Planets over all Kingdoms Nations c. Of the inhabitants of Asia the greater and the reason of their several inclinations Again in the second part of the World viz. Southern which he nominates to be Asia the greater being under the earthy triplicity he sheweth that among the rest of the Regions and places subject to that triplicity those who are governed by Taurus being the house of Venus are generally effeminate and delicate given to their pleasure especially to the games and sports of Venus wherefore they go still open breasted likewise those under the sign Virgo being the house exaltation and joy of Mercury are exquisite in all kinds of good learning and observers of the motions of the Stars and those ruled by Capricorn being the proper house of Saturn are of form and shape commonly deformed of condition sordid and of inclination fierce but this I conceive by reason it is the exaltation of Mars And if we have regard to the third part of the World viz. Northern or betwixt the North and East assigned to the Aiery Triplicity as also to that part under the watry we shall abundantly be satisfied of the undeniable truth of the influence of the Coelestial Planets and Constellations in the signs wherefore in this place because as I have often said I desire not to be too tedious I shall refer thee to that learned Ptolomie himself and now proceed CHAP. IX Shewing that the Influences of the Heavens and predominancy of the stars in every Climate is the cause of the several Laws and Customs of the People therein Object VAin and weak then are they who object and imagine since it is clear that the stars have influence and that as well general as particular that Countreys
they remain as yet by them unshaken and that they have no other refuge but barely to face it down with a bold and impudent forehead especially being in the former so shamefully bafled Wherefore now it resteth I snew you the full power and subject of Astrology and how far I maintain or allow of the Art and here desist referring you for further satisfaction to that discourse of mine which is able to justifie these my words since for all that the Replyers thereunto can say the Art remains still unshaken and it unanswered wherefore they had but small reason to title that weak piece Judicial Astrology Judicially condemned when alas there is hardly a judicious sentence to be found between the beginning and end thereof unless borrowed of some other Author neither are they or it able to shew their faces before the judicious and impartial Judges of the matter without suffering condign condemnation themselves CHAP. XX. Containing the power and subject of Astrology and how far the Author vindicateth it YOu are now to receive The power and subject of Astrology which by all what you have heard How the Author sets down the power and subject of Astrology dealeth with such things as are performed by Art and Nature with the will of man indirectly and accidentally and his inclinations temperature and dispositions as also with his affections and body and with natural and secondary causes and general accidents and contingencies But not with rare contingencies or such as have an indifferent respect to the opposites as depending upon unknown and indeterminate causes which may happen one way or other neither with mans will doth Astrology meddle but accidentally so far as the Soul with the faculties thereof follows the temperature of the body neither with the Providence of God or shew a cause of miracles or with the secrets of God for they are saith the Scripture past finding out Ergo Astrologers that are men that contemplate but natural causes are falsly and most scandalously abused when thus impeached neither hath the influence of the stars any fatality as inevitable except some contigency be mixed therewith for this were to deny the Providence of God How far the Author maintaineth or justifieth Astrology Now as touching the parts of Astrology I shall here according to Ptolomy in the beginning of his second Book of his Quadripartite chap. 1. divide into two the first and chief part being general as having relation to Countries Kingdoms Provinces and Cities alterations of Kingdoms Laws Customs death plenty wars peace health sickness and mutations in the Air c. The second particular viz. To mens Nativities as to know the particular constitution temperature and natural inclination of any man or woman but not other accidents as whether a man shall live long the time when he shall die and what manner of death whether he shall be rich and how attain it c. which are as also Horary questions depending thereon not certain The first is judged by the position of the Heavens and the Planets and their Natures and significations at the time of any Revolution of the yeers of the world the appearance of Eclipses Comets Blazing-stars or great Conjunctions The latter at the time of the parties birth and so far and no farther do I any wise allow of the Art for what is called Astrology more then this is not ASTROLOGY but the meer abuse of the Art I meand Charactery-Astrology and other superstitions of the Arabians and Chaldeans also horary questions and elections if not depending or grounded on the Radix of the parties Nativitie or rather on that part which teacheth of the general accidents of the world are neither countenanced or vidicated by me in the least for I have studied and know sufficiently the experience thereof neither do I wholly relie on the setting of any mans Nativity though it hath been approved of by some of the learned The Authors opinion touchiug Nativities fer since the stars have no power on such as are ruled either by Reason or Grace as you have heard where I say Astra agunt not cogunt are sapiens dominabitur astris to what end then is it for a man to busie his head about such uncertainties when except the native be a man meerly natural no Prediction shall fall out true as to accidents and disposition sure is worse then madness then to spend time on this part of the Art Touching Horary questions and Elections Wherefore it must needs follow then that the resolutions of questions and elections thereon depending are more uncertain yet I must confess the Astrologer may undertake in some sense to answer the demands of the Querent by his Art without regard to the Radix or ought else since he may be confidently assured that such inquirers are nowise either rational or religious and so consequently are easily carried on to the temptations and delusions of the devil or according to the natural inclination and influence of the Heavens Yet know that Elections touching the administration of Physicke Phlebotomy using of Husbandry and Navigation I do allow of as also all other elections if they depend on this matter but what is more then this doth in my opinion subject mans will to the power of the stars and all his voluntary actions which to affirm were most ridiculous Needs must he be most impious and ignorant that traduceth Astrology And thus far is the glory of God made cleerly manifest in his creatures and to deny this which is indeed the pure Art of Astrology is to deny the most heavenly and chiefest study next to Divinity under the Sun and also that which of all studies else most conduceth to the praise and glory of the omnipotent and omniscient creator for which they and all things else were first created and then consequently must the treducers thereof be most impious and ignorant Reader I shall here for conclusion say no more then this that thou first seek thy Creator and serve him before thou apply thy minde unto this subsequent or any other study for that so thou shalt be made the more excellent and perfect therein yet particularly as for this heavenly contemplation let me tell thee wert thou an Heathen before thou wert seen therein yet wilt thou cleerly be made thereby when thou art acquainted therewith to see thy Creator and his unspeakable wisdom therein * Ergo far from making men Athiests as some have affirmed except they believe a fatality which in this study is to be wholly denyed and by me ever was wherefore in all thy study give him the whole praise and glory who hath disposed and ordered all things according to his divine will and inevitable decree and that thou mayest be the better inabled thereunto thou shalt never want my prayers nor service Die ♄ 31. Januarii 1651. FINIS AN INTRODVCTION TO THE Iudgement of the Stars WHEREIN The whole ART of ASTROLOGY Is plainly Taught and
all my days in and about this City of London save only the time I was in Scotland I am not familiarly acquainted with three people in all England for such is my disposition that I had rather be a stranger in the Land of my Nativity in this perverse and rebellious Age and to the generality of men living therein then to my self and my own conscience the which so long as I may freely enjoy I shall never repine but be ever content with what condition loss or change soever God hath farther in his Wisdom and Providence decreed for me to whom for eternal protection I shall here commend thee and remain Die ☿ 19. Januarii 1652. Thy Loving Friend William Ramesey On his Ever Honoured and most Ingenious Friend the unparalleld AUTHOR WHy wert not thou produced in those Days In which Philosophers did wear the Bays Learning and Art in this Age are beat down Learning of old was had in great renown In Syria Greece and Babylonia A rabia Persia Lacedemonia ' Mongst the Caldeans also and Assyrians REnown'd Egyptians and Sydonians And Indians with our Neighbours of France Much honoured it and still did it advance Each then in vertue striving to exceed So vertuous were they Now in our need Even when it was almost forgotten quite You were brought forth to bring it unto light W. D. Iatromathematicus On this incomparable Work and my worthy Friend the Ingenious AUTHOR VVHat shall I of these learned Labours write Or of the Author what shall I indite Come all ye Gods assist this pen of mine Come all ye Sisters come ye Muses Nine Lend here your help and let now all men know If they in Mysteries desire to grow Here they the Treasure of the East may finde And Natural hidden causes to their minde How by the vertue of the glorious Stars Health Sickness Plenty Scarcity Peace Wars Are brought to pass in their due time and all Things that are done in this World great and small And that God worketh not prepostrously As some men strangely have maintaind but by Order and Nature he brings all to pass Which we may clearly see as in a glass Could we but read the volumes of the Skie As here the Author clears it to the eye Of every notion whose elaborate pains Be recompensed with immortal gains And when he shall be taken from this place Let him be fixt amongst the Stars to grace Those Heavenly bodies and those Lamps of Light For he hath made them glorious in our sight I. W. Vpon the Authors Elaborate Pains in these his Labours VVHO in his Writings seeks all men to please Is not unlike the Merchant on the Seas Meeting with rocks winds pyrates shelves and sands Yet boldly ventures ere at home he lands His Ship full fraught returned safe and sound Discharg'd of Wealth wherewith she did abound He sits him still and lives at quiet ease Thinks the Land better then the boystrous Seas Even so our Friend in these ungratefull times Hath brought home learning bred in Forraign Clymes Is sure to meet with Find-Faults for his pains When he seeks nought but profit to their brains And pleasure all men Dolts do ever pine When they see Learning live and Vertue shine All Ages Sorts of men and Learned Schools Have honour'd this rare Science save some Fools Who neither know nay will not understand Unto what purpose God hath given command To the great Lights of Heaven Planets and Stars To shew their power on these Inferiours I envy none yet hee 's no Friend of mine Who having Pearl's will cast them unto Swine The Commonwealth of Learning cannot flourish If she instead of True-born Bastards nourish Some say those things are best which are in common But in these speculations there is no man Will so adjudge For an illiterate head But only taught to spell perhaps to read His mother Tongue high Secrets to expound Mis-leading others runs himself on ground But as our Merchant in some Forraign soyl Hath got a precious Jewel by his toyl And industry hoping thereby to raise His Fortunes brings it home which he doth praise Unto his Friends It they much magnifie And some choice person doth his Jewel Buy And much esteem it So this Far-fetcht piece Of Heavenly Science will the Golden Fleece Even much resemble Th' Author honoured be As Jason was to all Posterity I. B. The Contents of the First BOOK CHAP. I. PRoving Astrology to be one of the Liberal Sciences Fol. 1. CHAP. II. That Astrology and Astronomie are one and the same Science and that they were ever so received by the Ancients Fol. 3. CHAP. III. Shewing the excellency and nobility of the Science of Astrology as also its antiquity and the admirable power and vertues of the Heavens Fol. 4. CHAP. IV. That the Stars and Heavens have influence on inferiour and elementary bodies proved by Scripture or the Word of God and acknowledged by the Philosophers and the learned in former Ages Fol. 5. CHAP. V. Shewing that observation may be made of the motions of the Stars in answer to those that hold it impossible for any man in his days to observe the particular configurations of every Planet with the fixed stars and with one another as also that thereby we may discern their Influences if we have any capacity Fol. 7. CHAP. VI. That the variation of the Heavens from their places wherein they were in Ptolomies time or at the first Creation causeth no Errour in Astrological judgements Fol. 8. CHAP. VII Shewing the powerfull influence of the Stars and Planets and how far we are to have regard to the fixed stars Fol. 10. CHAP. VIII Shewing further the influence of the Heavens on inferiour and elementary bodies Fol. 14. CHAP. IX Shewing that the influences of the Heavens and predominancy of the stars in every climate is the cause of the several Laws and Customs of the people therein Fol. 16. CHAP. X. Containing the resolution of the main objections against this Divine Science Fol. 18. CHAP. XI Containing an Introduction to the vindication of my Lux Veritatis from the aspersions of Dr. Homes and his second with the first reason why I accounted him not worthy of my notice Fol. 23. CHAP. XII Comprehending three reasons more why that rabble of theirs was not worthy answering as to every quirk Fol. 24. CHAP. XIII Containing the Authors fourth reason and a vindication of both him and his Lux Veritatis from some of their abuses and untruths and their juglings and evasions manifested Fol. 26. CHAP. XIV Containing the Authors fifth Reason and the Scripture proofs alledged for Astrology in his Lux Veritatis proved to remain unshaken Fol. 30. CHAP. XV. Shewing that the Text in the 19. Psal ver 3. alledged by the Author to prove the Stars have influence is no wise refelled Fol. 32. CHAP. XVI Proving their Reply to Job 38.31 shewing the Stars to have influence to be frivilous and of no effect Fol. 33. CHAP. XVII Proving
it apparent where the whole influence of the Heavens and the increase of all Vegetatives are attributed to the Sun and Moon viz. For the precious fruits brought forth by the Sun Nota. and for the precious things put or thrust forth by the Moon Again we see cleerly in many places of Scripture the stars are called the Hoasts of Heaven Further that the stars have influence which certainly would never have been thus named were they of no force and efficacy the word hosts intimating their power and strength see 2 King chap. 17. ver 16. and chap. 21. ver 3.5 and chap. 23. ver 4 5 c. So likewise God himselfe expressing his omnipotent and irresistible power and force he is called the Lord of Hosts Isa 24. v. 23. Is 23.9 and chap. 22. v. 5.12.14 15 25 and many several other places which are worth the while to peruse But further to put this matter quite out of doubt viz. That the stars have their influence on Elementary bodies see Deut 4.19 where you see cleerly they are for the use of man divided or imparted unto all Nations under the Sun by which if any man shall conclude and affirm is meant their light Object or that distinction which they cause between day and night Answ and of seasons I must needs tell him his conclusion is very weak since we have so small use of their light either in the day or night that it may very well be counted none at all and as touching that distinction of days and seasons the Sun and Moon would be sufficient for that matter without those innumerable Hoasts of Heaven the starres Nota. therefore the use of the stars must in this place have a further constrution The influence of the stars extends to the temperature of men as we see in Lunatick To the success of mens affairs also though denyed by some The influence of the stars acknowledged by Philosophers Moreover that their influences have power and extend to the temperature of men appeareth Matth. 17.14 where the lunatick is offered unto Christ to be healed whose distemper as experience and common example sheweth followeth the course of the Moon and to the success of mens affairs doth yet further appeare by Judg. 5.20 where it is recorded that the stars in their courses fought against Sisera of the which more anon as also that passage in the 38 of Job and the 19 Psal as touching the Pleiades and Orion and that the Heavens declare the glory of God their voice or language of the stars being gone through the whole earth c. Thus have we cleerly seen the influence of the stars proved by the Word of God how they were esteemed in former ages by all Philosophers Emperours Kings and the nobler spirited people you may see if you will have regard to the 4 Sec. chap. 1. of my Lux Veritatis where you may see not onely the great esteem the Art was in amongst all wise and learned men in former ages but also the names of the chiefest Patriarchs Fathers Philosophers Emperours and Kings that were students herein which notwithstanding the pretended arguments of the envious against it stands unshaken as will appeare to any that shall peruse it comparing it with the pretended Replyers discourse therefore here I shall refer thee thereunto being desirous to be as short as possibly I can CHAP. V. Shewing that observation may be made of the Stars motions in answer to those that hold it impossible for any man in his days to observe the particular configurations of every Planet with the fixed Stars and with one another as also that thereby we may discern their influence if we have any capacity Observation teacheth us the stars influence I Shall here therefore now shew that observation will clearly evince us that the Stars have admirable influence on these inferiour and elementary things for though it be most certain that the Heavens make not their Revolution under 36000. years yet is its variation so slow as that it dependeth upon the motion of the fixed Stars so that before there can be any great difference worth speaking of the same constellations may be often observed in particular though not in the whole for the fixed Stars according to the neerest account of our late Writers or the sphear in which they are move not above one degree which is 60. minutes in 72. years in which time there is none but who are altogether ignorant that cannot make sufficient observation of every constellation worth noting for the confirmation of their influence for though they move from East to West once in 24. hours so making this Diurne Revolution 366. times in a year yet since in respect of the motion of this Sphear from West to East these 366. Revolutions causeth not a minutes difference it must needs follow that the very same fixed stars do rise culminate set That the true nature of the Stars may be known and how and lie in the same Circle of position and also may be in configuration of the Sun and any of the other Planets and that so exactly in one and the same place or part of Heaven that it is impossible with any instrument to discern any variation either in the longitude latitude declination right or oblique ascention thereof so that hereby it is clear the nature of any star may be found out and be exactly known The power of the Planets But now as touching the Planets first we attribute as is clear to every vulgar notion most power and efficacy to the Sun next to the Moon then to Venus and so to Mercury and next to Jupiter and Saturn and lastly to Mars this I mean in relation to their motion with the Sun for by how much the light of the Planets to us is greater and their motion swifter by so much are their operations necessarily the more apparent and manifest to us or our sense we prefer Venus before Mercury for that though he be swifter yet is she the greater and so consequently of more efficacy and the reason why Mars is of least note or most obscure unto us is for that he is lesse then Saturn and Jupiter who are preferred before him and moveth in so large and great an Epicycle that he seldomest rancounters with the Sun The significations of the influence of the Stars are soon found out in relation to their configurations with the Moon with the Sun Venus and Mercury In relation to the configurations of Saturn Jupiter and Mars with them And we know that the Moon as I have said in chap 4. of my Lux Veritatis sect 2. finisheth her course through the Zodiack every 28. days and some odd hours viz. twelve times in a year by which we may and do plainly perceive her configurations viz. Conjunction Sextile Trine Square and Opposition with every Star in the whole Heavens both fixed and errant and thereby their nature and mixture often to be known
known by observation wherefore to descend to particulars That the Sun hath influence If we have regard first to the Sun we shall finde that the power of the Sun and the quality of the Heavens cause the inhabitants of the Torrid Zone to be black such are they which we call vulgarly Blackmoors or Negroes and causeth them also to be of constitution Cholerick their hair curled of mean stature by reason of the temperature of their bodies which is hot and dry Look Ptol. lib. 2. cap. 2. de quadripar We further know the Sun doth also tan even us in this our climate and is the cause also of Spring Summer Autumn and Winter day and night and the chief cause of the generation of all living creatures but more especially those which proceed from putrefaction c. every one knows bringeth also to maturity all the fruits of the earth and extimulateth all creatures to the act of generation for the procreation of their several kinds But to be short that 33. of Deut. ver 14. before mentioned and the testimony of Moses Gen. 1.14 of which anon that the Sun and the Moon were constituted for signs and seasons as well as other stars is cleer We know also he is of a drying and attractive Nature That Chronick diseases follow his course as acute and sharp the course of the Moon cum multis aliis but here I shall pass them by since there is no Peasant but can acquaint us with some one effect or other of this clearly by experience known unto him And who is so ignorant but knoweth that the Moon hath a great influence on the ebbing and flowing of the Sea which every waterman on the Thames can justifie The Moon Object Answ Why there is no Tides or such as can hardly be discerned in the Atlantick seas Why there is no Tides in fresh waters and why in some places there are no Tides but if some urge that in the Atlantick sea there is no Tides and so think by this their ignorance to make ought against this most heavenly Art they are mistaken for as touching this their idle and vain conceit I shall not need for the answering thereof use many words but let them know that by reason of the profundity and vast wideness of those seas I must confess little or no Tide can be discerned yet is it most probable there is an increase and decrease of that current as I shall appeal to all the learned in Navigation for by reason of the indisposition of the subject the influence I must confess of the Moon is not so much discerned as in other things as all moist and watery bodies that she wholly rules as in fresh waters by reason of the rarity and subtilty thereof she not having that fit subject to work on which is requisite causeth no Tide there also expert Navigators can testifie that in some places of the Ocean Tides are letted by the strength of a contrary Current c. But there is no female of twenty one yeers of age though some at sixteen nay sooner but can testifie its effects on their bodies by causing their menstrues once a moneth this they finde by experience though perhaps all know not the cause or reason thereof you have already heard her influence on lunaticks causing their fits sometimes to be more grievous then again at other times wherefore then if we further look to shell-fish we shall see cleerly that they are made by her divers illuminations of or with the Sun both to increase and decrease this there is no Oyster-wench but knows the same effect she hath in the humours of all bodies sublunary And there is none so ignorant but knoweth also that those who sleep in the open fields in Moon-light-nights she filleth them with dulness and heavy drowsiness and their heads with moisture moreover flesh newly slain being hung forth in moon-light-nights doth soon putrifie and Pease sown in the increase of the Moon never leave blooming and blossoming and that she is the cause of critical days and also judicial you have had shewn you in my Lux Veritatis wherefore here I shall not insist thereon but refer you thereunto and to Galen de diebus decretoriis and you shall there finde what admirable vertue and power he assigns her over all alterations of ayr and other inferiour Elementary things as well as over diseases especially acute c. And not only shell-fish and the humours in men and women do increase and decrease according to her increase and wane but also the Brain of man and other living creatures Again there is no Sow-gelder but can justifie he observes the age and configurations of the Moon with the Sun for gelding of Cattle and every husband-man or Peasant knoweth that it is very useful for him to observe a time of the Moon to put his cattle to ingender and as it is reported by Gesner in his 300 page of beasts Democritus affirmeth that if a Horse cover a Mare the third day before the full Moon the Mare shall conceive a male foal if the third day after the Full a female If a Horse cover a Mare the third day before the Full Moon a male Foal will be conceived and also in his 207 page testifieth that Pliny knowing the strange secret operation of the Moon in Elephants doth as it were ascribe a kinde of Religion in this creature for from the Change of the Moon till the prime and appearance thereof they take boughs from off the Trees and first look or lift them up to Heaven and then look upon or towards the Moon which they many times together do as it were in a supplication or adoration thereof He further relateth of the Baboon who by the influence of the Sun and Moon on him in the equinoctial times of the yeer barks every hour once viz. twelve times a day The third day after the Full Moon a female and as often pisseth and at the Change of the Moon the male Baboon will neither look up or eat but in a forlorn condition through the sence of that conjunction of the Luminaries goes up and down and the female purging her self of abundance of blood But this is further handled in the fourth chapter of the second Book of this Volumn viz. That which we call the Introduction wherefore here I shall hasten to proceed Those born at the time of an Eclipse or Change of the Moon live not long and why Again we see that those that are born at the time of an Eclipse of either of the Luminaries or at the Change of the Moon cannot live long for the Sun or Moon being eclipsed he being fons vitae and she the mother as it were of moisture the native then by this defect must be deprived in the eclipse of the Sun of natural heat and nourishment he being deprived of his light and in the defect of the Moon of convenient moisture to mitigate and to
an Eclipse of the lesser Luminary being grown to some bigness fullfilled the effects and significations of the eclipse by their several deaths one of them being torn in pieces with Hounds the second first by a fall from an high place broke his Thighes and then the second time his Neck and the third was burnt A third kinde of cavillers we are now to speak of who not observing and warily searching into the order of causes in Nature nor the government thereof are dazled and puzled with the contemplation of the marvellous and admirable works of God and so by reason of the diversity and dissimilitude of events and effects in divers matters and subjects rashly and most inconsiderately deny the powers and vertues of the causes themselves Object Their cavil is that we see many born at one and the same time and in one and the same latitude and the one perhaps is a King and the other a beggar the third a Gentleman and the like But this were I disposed to vindicate Nativities I might say is the gross mistake and ignorance of these Carpers at what they know not Answ that causeth them thus to render themselves ridiculous for there is no Astrologer but doth especially regard in any mans Nativity the time place Parents and the seed for the better inabling him in his judgement therein for he is most shallow and weak that thinketh it not material to consider whether the Native be born the child of a King The quality of the Native constitution of the Climate Laws Customs and other causes necessary to be observed in every mans Nativity or of a poor and mean parentage or that it importeth not whether all the causes the presence of whose help is necessary to the constitution of an effect do concur or that some onely be present or that knoweth not that the force of the general doth prevail over the particular and of those that are universal that the first cause doth excel the rest which it sustaineth I say he that thinketh not these things to be most material and worthy the consideration is not onely shallow and weak but most ignorant in the Art or at least willfully obstinate For there is nothing more certain then that Astrologers which are true Artists indeed do warily consider these inferiour causes according as their Rules in Art do prescribe and admonish to have respect as I have but now said to the situation of the Climate or Place Parents Laws and Customs c. Nota. The instance of a Kings son and a Beggars both born at one very minute if such were known of no validity against Astrologie For it were a vain thing for any man to pronounce that such a constellation as giveth beauty here in England should have the same effect in Ethiopia or that he that is the son of a beggar should because born at the same time the son of the King was be a a King or the like but he the beggars son shall as far transcend the degree of his Parents at that time the Kings Son doth come to the Crown of his Fathers or inlarge his Territories which is the only way a King can be honoured or raised to dignity as the Kings son doth his they being both born under one and the same fortunate constellation and thus is the beggars son extolled and raised in comparison of his degree as much as the Kings son in relation to his he being perhaps made some Tradesman or one in good repute and well to live among his Neighbours which his Predecessors were not able to do For you must know that the general fate doth over-rule the particular for it is neither agreeable to reason or policy that two Kings or more should be in one Countrey c. This I say were I disposed to vindicate the practise of some men in judging of Nativities I might speak in their behalf and to the silence of the Objectors who know not how in the least to reply Moreover others I have heard also question nay affirm positively and those too which seemed to be of some judgement in other matters but truly in this rendred themselves the most void thereof that can be imagined that a figure of Heaven which Astrologers do use to set for the goundwork of their business is Conjuration and illegal nay Diabolical What a figure of heaven is When at the worst it is but thus The form and shape of the Heavens or rather the picture thereof by which the Astrologer is made acquainted with the positions and several situations of the Pianets and Stars in every sign in the Heavens as we see in a Map the several situations of Countreys Provinces and Cities and if it be illegal diabolical and a Magical trick to set or make such a figure of the Heavens in a piece of Paper I know not what is lawfull but this may suffice for the silencing of such simpletons for let them be demanded what a figure is they thus condemn and you shall soon finde they have not a word to answer nor cannot tell how to give any definition thereof which is sufficient then to satisfie any rational man of their stupidity who thus rashly and ignorantly go about to condemn that as illegal and Diabolical That there is no harm in setting of a Figure of heaven is manifest which they are ignorant of and is no more hurt then to draw a mans figure or picture for knew they what it were they would never thus falsely conclude having no ground for their words but ridiculous tradition for indeed it was a most rare and fine invention and of great use for I can shew any man thereby the whole use of the Globe and the rising setting and culminating of every Star and Planet in the whole Heavens So then you clearly see the harmlesness of setting a Figure of Heaven and the envy of the Antagonists as also their extream ignorance thus to traduce so noble so worthy so excellent so delectable so satisfying so lawfull so true so transcendent and so incomparable and innocent an Art I but say they again or others though the Art in it self be lawfull being a contemplation only and study of Nature and its causes and though the setting of a Figure of Heaven be so far from any illegal or diabolical practise as that nothing can be more innocent yet is the study unlawfull Object by reason the Devil oft times brings things to pass in a secret way according to the prognostications of the Astrologer on purpose to cause the heart to be assured of the inevitable truth thereof and so bringeth by degrees the Student into the labyrinth of believing a fatality and so consequently to deny or distrust the Providence of God Answer in part It is confessed by all but Atheists that God the first and chief cause of all causes can alter and frustrate the power of the stars But as touching this confidence there is none
enough to have convinced him of great wickedness in denying the Scripture doth anywhere allow of Astrologie c. To all which they reply thus To that of Psal 19.1 they say those words shew only that the Heavens were framed by the Word and power of God the Creator which if no other meaning were in these words to be understood the Prophet might as well have said a Dog Cat or any other Creature declares the wonderfull works and glory of the Almighty but the meaning thereof is that he effecteth thereby and worketh and herein are his wonderfull works the more manifest and to be admired I thought the Doctor and the other now of late pretending to be a * But some of his other old Trades do better become him for neither his humour nor natural inclination do anywise suit with it Minister of the word had been better versed in the sense and meaning of that Scripture but this by the way And as touching Psal 19.3 in their 22. page where they should have proved it no ways available to my Argument or purpose disputants like alas they tell their Reader my interpretation must give place to the Apostles Rom. 10.18 viz. preaching of the Gospel not of Astrologie and for the Pleiades in Job say they they are answered after and for the fighting of the stars against Sisera compare Josh 10.11 Exod 9.23 but name the words of none of these places for that would discover their wickedness in wresting the Scripture by affirming what is not as also their ignorance and weakness in not knowing how otherwise to answer the business but by quoting the like number of Texts and pretending to their Reader therein he shall receive clear satisfaction never regarding whether they were any thing or not to the purpose But since ye are so cunning I will be as cunning as you and since the point is so considerable as that the legality of the Art and the warrant thereof from Divine Scripture dependeth thereon I shall shew you because you have thus played the Sophisters with your Reader in this as in all other what those passages you quote speak and then let any that hath but half an eye to discern between light and darkness good and bad truth and falshood judge of the business But first let me shew you what they have unawares confessed touching that of Judges thinking it will confirm that ridiculous assertion of theirs That the meaning of that Text is the storms Tempests winde and rain fought against Sisera Ha ha he I never knew in my life nor I am confident the antientest and wisest Philosopher that ever was any star that had the name of storm tempest wind rain or hail the Divine Writ expresly telleth us that the stars in their courses fought c. and yet these what shall I call them render it storms tempests wind c. and therein themselves both envious and ridiculous having no better a come off if all their learning cannot distinguish betwixt stars and storms they are not so fit to hold or maintain an Argument as to go to school to learn to spell better for although they are so antient nunquam sera est c. for no disparagement to them I have known wiser nay and far more solid and discreet at 18. yeers of age but perhaps this their errour proceeded not from any defect of Judgement but of old Age and wanting their spectacles mistook read storms for stars as their quondam brother read green-bay-horse for bay-tree wherefore since they are in their dotage or at least since these and such like mistakes are usual with them I shall not farther take notice of such animals but return to shew you what a rod they have given me to whip themselves which they had very well deserved had they been thus tardy at School That the stars have influence is clear from their own Arguments and words In the same 22. page of their Pamphlet they confess but certainly unawares as I said before that those storms tempests winds c. were accounted by Junius to be caused by the Influence of the stars and heavenly bodies whereby you may clearly see how much they know what they write against when the influence of the stars is confessed by them to be the cause of those storms tempests c. that discomfited Siseras Army this is as much as I desire and yet in their very next words they deny that that passage of Scripture maketh any thing for Astrologie wherefore since you have at large already heard and now here again by their own Arguments and words I have fully proved and warranted that the stars have influence on elementary things I need not here spend time to shew you farther what might be understood and is indeed to be collected affirmatively out of that text for this our purpose but hasten to shew that notwithstanding what they have said the stars are by the same testimony viz. the word of God proved to be both signs and causes yet first let me shew you their impudence wresting of Scriptures and concealedness touching whom the wisest of men Solomon Prov. 26 12. testifyeth CHAP. XV. Shewing that the Text in Psal 19. v. 3. alledged by the Author to prove the stars have influence is no wise refelled Their reply to Psal 19.3 proved insufficient and weak for their purpose AS touching the first viz. Rom. 10.18 which they say is rather to be taken then my interpretation meerly hereby to deceive their Reader not being indeed able otherwise to give any solid answer thereunto as hath been said The words are the Apostle having before spoken of the difference of that righteousness which cometh of the Law and that of Faith in the foregoing verse Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God and then he saith but have they not heard meaning the People or Nations yes verily their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the end of the world being about to shew that both Iews and Gentiles shall hear the word preached unto them but hereby they prove not to any rational man that because these Texts agree and come neer to one another in words therefore they are one and the same in sense for that were to render themselves both void of sense and reason for we see clearly the Apostle here promiseth in a Prophetick way the Universal preaching of the word or at least that it should shine in the dark corners of the Gentiles who were then unbelievers but not one word or mention either in this Text or to be gathered out of all the Chapter of the stars or their influence but in that 19. Psalm and the third verse we see clearly there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard meaning the voice of the stars viz. their influence having as you have heard in the preceding words said The Heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work and
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
magnitudes are Officers and Commanders under these I mean those especially of the first second and third magnitude the other are only subjects as it were to the above-named or equivalent to common people Wherefore then upon the meetings of these Superiors are concluded the rise subversion confirmation alteration prosperity scarcity plenty poverty beginning and subversion of States Kingdoms Empires Common-wealths and what not nay and the whole government of the Elements and this Elementary World and all things and causes external and internal in them as in a Councel or Senate c. The nature and complexion of ☉ The Sun is so vulgarly known that here to insist on his colour complexion or light were but vain he is masculine Diurnal the fountain of life c. Globe of ☉ He exceeds the earth in bigness according to Tycho 140 times Ptolomie saith 166. times and Copernicus 162. Distant from the earth He is by the estimation of Tycho distant from the earth 1150. Semidiameters of the earth Ptolomie saith 1165. semidiameters and Copernicus saith 1142. semidiameters of the earth Mean motion His mean motion is 59. m. 8. sec Diurnal His Diurnal motion is sometimes 57. m. 16. s never exceeding 59. m. 8 sec He finisheth his course through the 12. signs of the Zodiack in 365. days Revolution and six hours or neer upon c. When well placed and strong When he is well dignified the King and Nobles shall exceed and increase in glory and renown Corn Beasts and Birds shall be plentifull the people generally prosperous and successfull and all things in a good condition whereof the Sun hath any signification All this is meant if he be Lord of the year in any annual Revolution but if he be weak judge the contrary Quality of men when well placed Emperours Kings Monarchs Princes Dukes Marquesses and indeed all Noble and High-born people and in general all Gentlemen and those that are in office or command of superiority in City Town or Countrey Coyners Masters of the Mint Goldsmiths Spinners of Gold and Silver and all such neat Trades Silver and Gold-wyer-drawers and the like When ill placed or weak Tyrants Usurpers Constables Head-boroughs and all such as bear any petty or usurped authority Nature He is Author of magnanimity state and majesty heat c. Corporature or shape of body One of no tall stature but about the middle size strong and portly having a stately majestical gate of a saffron-coloured complexion or Sun-burnt flaxonish or light fair hair somewhat crisping or curling a large full hazle eye a broad forehead a very decent hansom body throughout Oriental and Occidental The Sun is not nor cannot be said to be Oriental or Occidental otherwise then as he is in any Figure located near the East angle or verging towards the West for all other Planets are said to be Oriental or Occidental as in relation to the Sun in that they rise before him or set after him The Sun hath never any Latitude Latitude for he ever moves forward in the Eccliptick Savours Sowre and sharp savours Colours Yellow In man In man he ruleth the heart brain and right eye in women the left eye Herbs and spice Saffron Pyony Mary-gold Balm Ginger Dittany Sallendine Vervine which being gathered under its proper constellation driveth away evil Spirits and it is also used in prophesying Pomcitron Ambre Rosemary St. Johns-wort Musk Herb-grace Rosa-Solis Cinamon Eye-bright Cinquefoil lignum Aloes Barley Lavender Sweet Marjoram Pepper Frankinsense Honey Aromaticus c. Trees The Bay-tree the Ash Cedar Ivie the Vine the Orange and Lemmon-tree Birds The Phoenix Swan Cock Hawk Nightingal Lark the Buzzard c. Aetites the stone called the eye of the Sun Stones because it is like the apple of the eye in form the Carbuncle the Chrysolite the stone called Iris the stone Heliotropion the Hyacinth the stone Pyroyphylus the stone Pantauras Pantherus or Pantochras in the Scripture it is called Evanthum the Topaz Rubie Diamond The learned and most famous Cornelius Agrippa Lib. 1. Chap. 23. of his Occulta Philosophia saith that Albertus Magnus and William of Paris gave to these stones these vertues as followeth The vertue of Aetites Aetites or the stone that is found in the Eagles Nest cureth the Falling-sickness and poysons Of the Eye of the Sun The eye of the Sun is singular good for comforting the brain and strengthening the eye-sight Of the Carbuncle The Carbuncle is of great vertue against Aëry and vapourous poyson The Chrysolite is of marvellous operation in preserving the Lungs and helpeth much those that are Asthmatical Of the Chrysolite and if it be bored through and filled with the Mane of an Asse and bound to the left arm it driveth away idle imaginations melancholy fears and foolishness Of the Iris. The Iris it is like the Chrystal in colour it commonly having six Corners it being part held in the shadow and part in the rays or beams of the Sun it gathereth the rays of the Sun into it self and reflecteth them again in the form of a Rainbow Of the Heliotropion The Heliotropion is in colour green like a Jasper speckled with red this causeth the bearer to be constant renowned famous and conduceth to long life it is said to turn the beams of the Sun into the colour of blood viz. when it is joyned to the juice of the herb of the same name and put into water it dazleth the sight so much that the bearer can hardly see it by the help of the aforesaid herb Of the Hyacinth The Hyacinth is good against poyson and pestiferous vapours it keepeth the bearer safe and acceptable it conduceth also to riches and wit it strengthens the heart being held in the mouth and wonderfully cheereth the minde Of the Pyrophilus The Pyrophilus as Aesculapius maketh mention There is a certain poison so very cold which preserves the heart of man being taken out from burning so that if for any time it be put into the fire it is turned into a stone whence it is called Pyrophilus from the fire It is marvellously efficacious against poyson and it makes the bearer renowed and dreadfull to his enemies Of the Pantâ—â—â—a The Pantaura is of that sympathetical vertue that it draweth other stones to it as a load-stone doth iron admirable against Poysons I know there are many good wits in this Nation that have not the least faith in these matters concerning the vertues of stones and indeed of the whole scope of these my writings yet they must pardon me if I will not conclude as the vulgar and illiterate in such mysteries do for I have learned this modest lesson which I could wish were also imprinted in their brests Not to condemn what I am ignorant of for of all things in my opinion there can be none so
Ascendent how to take part of substance or any other part you shall have hereafter as I have leisure CHAP. III. Of buying to profit again by the sale thereof DOst not thou know there are many men make a Trade of buying Commodities and selling them again to their best advantage yet there are many again confess they have often sold their Wares at disadvantage the reason was they bought them at hap-hazard without respect to any peculiar or particular time as our ignorant Physitians prescribe Vomits Purges and Phlebotomie at any time A great error in the generality of our Physitians procuring thereby much mischief to their Patients as I have by several known so that they had need again the remedy being or proving by the ignorance of the prescriber worse then the disease to take Physick to expel that Physick they have already taken and this sometimes cannot but indanger the Patients life for that nature being far spent before must needs by this rash act of the unskilfull Physitian who is rather as Galen and Hippocrates say to be termed a Fool then to be honoured with that noble term of Physitian in prescribing their remedies at such improper times that they work contrary effects as Purges vomet Ignorance the author of mischief and Vomets purge be more weakened and prejudiced nay and it doth often fall out so that nature together with the life is wholly extinguished wherefore anon in its due place more shall be said hereon and the true real times for administring of physick be cordially delivered unto you but to the busines in hand wherefore let them observe what followeth Of buying to profit again by the sale thereof In buying therefore any thing to make advantage or gain of the sail thereof fortifie the Moon especially for that she hath most power of any of the Planets in the ordinary course of the life of man Fortifie also Mercury who hath also much influence in such matters also the Lord of the second and if possible the Lord of the Ascendent let the Moon also be joyned to Mercury by body or a benevolent aspect free from impediment either accidental or essential as also from the affliction of Mars as much as you can But if you cannot fortifie Mercury fortifie the Moon the eleventh house and the Lord thereof but yet let Mercury be free from the body or Aspect of Mars and if you can by any means let him be in Conjunction or good aspect of Venus or the Lord of the eleventh or both Now be sure you observe these rules well for by how much the more you fortifie Mercury next to the Moon being to be regarded by so much the more may you be confident and assured of benefit and profit for Mercury the Moon the second and the eleventh are chief significators herein and they still cause gain if well dignified or disposed but then be sure they be free from the body or aspect good or bad of Mars CHAP. IV. Of selling to advantage Of selling to advantage EVen thus must you do if you would Elect a time to sell thy commodity at any high rate Let the Moon be in Taurus Cancer Virgo or Pisces free from misfortune and separating from the Conjunction or aspect of the fortunes and applying to the aspect not Conjunction of the infortunes for this is good for the Seller but the clean contrary for the Buyer CHAP. V. Father concerning Buying and Selling in the ordinary course of the World Advantage to the buyer THus in the daily and ordinary way of trade must you do fortifie ⊗ and place it in one of the houses of Iupiter and let Iupiter or some other of the fortunes behold it with a good aspect for this will be advantagious to the Buyer but not to the Seller Also if the Moon be in signs of short or oblique ascentions decreasing in light it is good for the Buyer But if she be in signs of right or long ascentions increasing in light number or motion and joyned with the fortunes it shall be more advantagious for the Seller and it shall seldom be but at such a time the Buyer shall lose by the bargain But note that in all this the Moon and Mercury be free from the body or aspect of Mars for that he ever hinders buying and selling and causes discord and wrangling also see they be free from the presence of ☋ for he is little worse then it To know the significators of buyer and seller the thing to be bought and the price Some of the Ancients have delivered these Rules for buying and selling but others have taught that the Ascendent and its Lord are for the Seller the seventh and the Lord thereof for the Buyer and the Moon for the thing to be bought and sold Althabarus from whom I cannot descent herein saith that when the Buyer is the first propounder or mover of the business or doth first speak to the Seller concerning the thing he would buy the Ascendent and its Lord is for the Seller the seventh and the Lord thereof for the Buyer And if the Seller be the first mover of the business to the Buyer the contrary is to be understood The mid-heaven and its Lord is to signifie the price of the thing the fourth and its Lord the thing to be sold and also the Planet from whom the Moon last separated is given to signifie the Seller the Planet to whom she next applies the Buyer and the ג the thing to be bought and sold Some hold that the Moon in the Ascendent either in buying or selling is good yet in a * Note journey is very bad But note that in selling it will not be amiss for thee to place the Moon in her exaltation or triplicity separated from the Fortunes and beholding the Infortunes but not joyned to them by body CHAP. VI. Of buying clothing or putting on of Apparel HEar now what is observable in putting on or buying of Apparel fortifie the Ascendent and its Lord and the Moon and let the Ascendent and the sign wherein the Lord of the ascendent is be movable and if possible let the Moon be in Aries except the seventh degree or in Cancer excepting the first six degrees or in Libra or the first eighteen degrees of Virgo or in the first nineteen degrees of Sagittary or the twenty first degrees of Pisces and by all means avoid fixed signs except the first twenty degrees of Taurus for that there it being the house of Venus and exaltation of the Moon it signifyeth great joy and delight but by all means let her not be in Leo or Scorpio Leo especially c. And if possible let the Moon be in Sextile or Trine of the Sun for it will be then so much the better but if in thy Election thou canst not observe all this place the Moon out of Leo Scorpio and Capricorn and Via Combusta and look that she be no wise
ground The fourth house its Lord and Planets therein placed and the Moon are significators of the house land or heritage to be bought and sold The price of the land or house The tenth the Lord thereof and Planets therein located signifie the price viz. whether it will be cheap or dear it signifyeth also the wood or timber on the ground Having thus rightly understood the ground of your Work you will be the better able to go through with the same wherefore then in buying or purchasing houses land and heritages fortifie chiefly the fourth House and Lord thereof also the Moon and its Dispositor and Part of Fortune and its Lord and those Planets therein placed let them be no wise impedited or Retrograde in Fall or Detriment or in any Aspect of the Malevolents especially of Mars for these cause the house or land so purchased to be soon lost and of no continuance with your Posterity That the Land may be purchased by the Buyer and that at a good rate or to his advantage But in making your Bargain or that your Bargain may be good and to your advantage also that you may assuredly have the Land or thing to be purchased if you please fortifie the Ascendent its Lord the Planet from whom the Moon last separated also the Moon her self and her Dispositor the fourth its Lord and Planets therein and Part of Fortune and its Dispositor also place the Moon in Cancer or Taurus if possible and let her behold the Lord of the Ascendent or sign ascending with a Sextile or Trine and be in good houses of Heaven and the Lord of the seventh applying to the Lord of the Ascendent or disposed of by the Lord of the Ascendent or in reception therewith let the fourth house also be in Taurus Leo or Aquaries and the Lord of the Angles Oriental and free from combustion Let also the Fortunes in purchasing Lands or Heritages have chief power in the Angles if not in all the Angles yet in the first and fourth and in the other two place the Luminaries beholding the Ascendent and fourth or one of them especially the Ascendent with a Sextile or Trine and see that the Lords of the Angles be not Retrograde nor a Retrograde Planet placed in any of them nor in the eleventh or ninth nor the Lord of the fourth of a fiery nature nor any of that nature therein placed especially if they are not beheld by the Benevolent Aspects of the Fortunes And note that if the Lord of the fourth be of a watry nature or of a cold and moist temper let not Saturn behold him or it and let not the Lord of the tenth be unfortunate The Land is good and pleasant Fortunes or Planets essentially dignified in the fourth or the Lord of the fourth and the sign of the fourth fortunate denote the goodness and pleasantness of the Land House or Heritage also that it is a fertile and good soil and the seeds already sown or to be sown therein shall be fruitfull c. The Plants are good and fruitfull Such in the seventh and the sign and the Lord thereof so disposed shew the Herbs Sets and Plants and the culture thereon are pleasant good and fruitfull The Timber is good and high or tall In the tenth the Trees are tall sound fruitfull and good that there is much timber or what is there is excellent good and commodious Know also that the Infortunes or weak Planets in these places cause mischief and impediment according to the nature of the Planets and the places in which they are therefore look that these Angles be free from them and especially the seventh house for the Malevolents there cause mischief malice and deceit of the Husband-men or Tenents of the ground or houses Saturn therein placed shews their cozening and lying Mars denotes them lyars unconstant and thieves CHAP. VII Of Buying of Land or ground for Husbandry and not to build on IN buying of Land then not to build on but for to manure and husband for thy profit and advantage fortifie the Ascendent and its Lord the Moon and its dispositor Part of Fortune also and its Lord also Saturn and if it be possible put him in Libra or if the Land be to be bought in the day time place him in Capricorn or Aquaries but if in the night put him in Aries Leo or Sagittary or Libra let him also be in a Trine of Jupiter or in a Sextile with him or the fourth house but by all means see that Mars behold them not by any Aspect and let the Moon be in the increase of her light viz. in the first Square or Quarter beholding Saturn with a Sextile or Trine or that Planet that beholds him Many labourers in the land it shall be fruitfull c. And if the Moon behold Jupiter it signifieth that the land shall have labourers enough that there shall be many fruitfull Trees and Plants and that the land shall be very fertile the same understand if he be in configuration with Saturn c. But if Saturn cannot be made to be beheld of Jupiter yet let Venus behold him and fortifie the watry signs for the Fortunes shall be stronger in them then in the aëry let the Moon be in the tenth in Taurus beholding the lord of the Ascendent with a benevolent Aspect and let the Moon and the sign ascending be free from all manner of misfortune CHAP. VIII Of bringing of Water to a house either by Conduit Pipe or Pump and of digging of Wells AS in the foregoing Elections so in this it is necessary you fortifie the Ascendent and let it be one of the watry signs as also its Lord and let him be oriental and free from all manner of Impediment and in an Angle in his own dignities essential Let Saturn also be oriental and free from misfortune and in the eleventh house but look that the Moon be not in Conjunction with them Fortify also Iupiter and let there be no Infortune or malevolent planet in the tenth house for that it will cause rather discension then ascension of the water Let the Moon also and its dispositor be well dignified and in the third or fifth houses of Heaven in an Earthy sign but if she will needs be above the earth place her in the ninth tenth or eleventh Alkindus adviseth to place the Moon Ascendent or any other Angle free from all manner of misfortune or impedition and let her be in her first Quarter or from her Conjunction to the first Square of the Sun increasing in light and motion But know that if the Moon be in any house under the earth you must fortifie her well and place her in configuration of a benovolent Planet in the tenth if possible or however of one above the earth and if she be above the earth let her by no means behold any Planet below the earth except with reception by house or exaltation and in
thou canst not so place him let him be in the third fifth or ninth House but these are not so powerful or so good as the aforesaid places In going or sending to Kings or great men Nota. let not the Moon be in Gemini or Pisces To Church-men Also if you send or go to Popes Cardinals Bishops Deans Prebends or any belonging to the Church let the Moon be in Sextile or Trine of Iupiter out of the aforesaid places and if possible with reception or in reception with the Lord of the Ascendent To Souldiers If your business be with Warriers as Generals or any Souldiers whatsoever understand the same by Mars and let him be accordingly placed but let not the aspect of the Moon be from Angles but succedent Houses To ancient men and husbandmen To Women To Scholars Secretaries Scriveners or young men If to Husband-men or ancient men understand the same of Saturn To Women let her apply to Venus To Mercury let the Moon be joyned or have aspect if you send to young men of no alliance or relation to you or to Scriveners Secretaries or Scholars c. but let Mercury be free from misfortune and impediment and understand the same of the foregoing Planets if your business be with such as are signified by them And thus much for the Elections appertaining to the fifth House SECTION VII Of Elections appertaining to the sixth House CHAP. I. Of the true Knowledge of the Crisis or Critical and Judicial Days very useful for those that study Physick The errour of most Physicians LIke as we read in the holy Writ The Physician is honorable so indeed he is but being ignorant in his Art he rendereth himself despicable and ridiculous and the way to make him perfect is to know NATURE and her secret operations and that by the influence of the Superiors and Rulers of all Inferiors viz. The Stars It is not his looking in an Urinal of water or feeling the pulse of the party or questioning with him how he feeleth himself and in what places of his body he is most afflicted that can give a through understanding of his malady the water is Meretrix the pulse is Fallax the patient himself is Ignorans These I say are not sufficient grounds for him to work on and without a good foundation the fabrick is not likely to be well built or at least to stand long they are indigent and insufficient and the patient perhaps so overcome with torment or desire of relief that he cannot well define his own misery The cause of a disease is to be first known before a cure be undertaken And since it is so a Physician or rather a Pretender thereunto I may justly call him for as Galen and Hippocrates say They are rather to be termed fools then Physicians must be better versed in his Art before he can do any thing for as he is he can do nothing with certainty A blinde man may catch a hare but it is very unlikely The cause of a disease must first be known before it be endeavored to be removed and the cause being taken away the effect will soon cease but they are ignorant of the cause ergo not able to perform what they undertake And again the nature and temper of the Patient is to be regarded and this can never be certainly and throughly discerned by looking in his Urine nor by feeling of his pulse That which causeth his Constitution to be either Sanguine The nature and temper of the patient is to be regarded or known also Flegmatick Cholerick or Melancholy is to be regarded it is not any inferiour thing that causeth it it is the influence of the superiours ergo Physicians ignorant therein are not able to perform with certainty any Cure whatsoever For what will cure a Flegmatick man of a Feaver will not a Cholerick and then the pretended Physician seeing his Medicine doth not work the like operation as formerly supposes the malady to be somewhat else and himself mistaken and falls another way to work and so kills the patient with a great many Thanks and Gratuities both of Money and Gifts for as the ignorant about him suppose doing his endeavour to save the sick The simplicity of the vulgar especially if he can but talk of this rare cure and that excellent remedy he hath formerly given and preach himself up and others a thousand times more knowing then himself down and now and then use some Latin in his Discourse and flourish it over with hard words to the ignorant I say he carries it then whether he save or kill and that with a great deal of credit but of all murtherers these we see seldomest hang'd yet none more deserving it The nature of the Medicine ought to be known before physick is to be administred The nature of medicinal things found out known by the stars Again the nature and quality of every medicinal thing ought especially to be known as Herbs Drugs or Minerals otherwise the pretending Physician doth what he doth not understand and if we will believe GALEN he telleth us They are onely to be known and judged by the stars So also Fernelius and Ficinus two learned Physicians confess also HIPPOCRATES PARACELSUS and CORNELIUS AGRIPPA who was Physician to the Emperor Charles the fifth and not onely these but all the more rational of the Ancient Physicians and Studiers of Nature which were onely Physicians indeed have acknowledged the same whose names if I should here record it would be be too tedious both for my self and thee and in a manner superfluous or needless in so clear a case since it is most certain that Hippocrates and Galen the two pillars of the Art of Physick found out the use of Vegetables and their natures as also of all their Physical things by the Stars who are the Governors and Disposers of them all and causes of their several vertues according to the several Constellations they are under A Physician ignorant in Astrologic can not safely administer physick Hippocrates and Galen further say that a Physician cannot safely give physick that is ignorant in the knowledge of the Stars and Superior bodies not knowing indeed when to give purges or vomits or let blood without much mischief doing nor in what quantity which ignorance often times indangers the life of the Patient when as these that know not the influence of the heavenly bodies give vomits at such times as cause a purge and purges when they become vomits which in laxative diseases or fluxes prove very dangerous if not deadly or totally destructive and at other times when the physick never worketh at all The cunning of the ignorant physicians to colour their ignorance yet you shall never finde the ignorant without an excuse for their rashness as when they administer a purge if it cause vomiting then say they the party is of a weak constitution and cannot retain the
and be Significators as you have been already shewn in the first Chapter of the first Section of our Introduction to Elections The vanity of the opinion that ♄ and ♂ are always bad and ♃ and ♀ good As for example in the Suns ingress into Aries I have Libra ascending or Aquaries or Capricorn and Saturn located therein I must not hereby because Saturn is Naturally evil judge the condition and state of the People signified by the Ascendent to be evil and unfortunate this year but contrarywise other testimonies concurring they will be in a most prosperous and gallant condition For you must know a Planet in his own house is strong and advantagious according to the old Proverb The Devil is good to his own Children and so contrarywise Jupiter in my Figure at the ingress is in detriment and afflicted and Significator or Planet from whence I am to inquire of fertility and in Square or Opposition of other Significators which also concur to the same signification must I from hence because Jupiter who for the most part is good and in his own natural inclination free from mischief affirm or conclude the year to be fruitfull and free from any want or penury No but because he is the Significator this year of this matter and in detriment retrograde in his fall afflicted impotent and weak I judge the clean contrary For I am to judge according to his signification and ability at that time not according to his natural signification for otherwise we should make most manifest contradictions and confound our selves both in judgement and reason to make Saturn and Mars the only Workers of iniquity for we see clearly all the evils in the World are not of the Nature of these two which would of necessity follow were this admitted but some are Jovial some Venereal and a third fort Mercurial others participating of the Nature of the Sun and again of the Moon But to clear this point yet more fully for I would not have the ingenious thus misled in so gross an errour admit Jupiter or Venus bear chief Rule of the eighth house which you know hath signification of death and mortality and I finde by several consequences and reasons in nature the Heavens do incline to such mischief shall I barely because one of these rules that House conclude contrary to all found reason and manifest testimonies the year will be rather healthfull Believe it I shall refuse thus to do for every Planet must perform that whereunto it is ordained Venus is now to denote death as being Lady of the eighth and therefore in such years I ought thus to judge Yet thus much I shall follow her nature as to say there shall be much mortality or death amongst the People by reason of voluptousness or Venery and such like because she hath naturally such signification In like manner if Jupiter be Lord of the eighth and mortality that year denoted I shall notwithstanding he bears rule in that part of the Heavens thus judge as hath been said viz. death and mortality but the nature thereof I shall take from his natural signification as by corruption of Blood Feavers and the like I shall say is this mortality to be occasioned c. In the next place you are to have a special care to be well instructed in the nature of every Planet and House wherefore be thou sure to have the exact knowledge of the second Treatise it being Introductory before thou adventurest thus far least thou be discouraged from ever attaining to the perfection of this study which I am certain thou wilt never do if thou beest not therein very perfect wherefore let the first eight Chapters thereof be perused over and over and then proceed Judge not upon every light testimony but according to Reason and Art do thou order thy matter for the more assurances and testimonies you have on any matter and concurrences in causes the more affirmatively may you deliver your ' conclusions Fear God study Nature follow the Rules of Art be knowing therein and be ignorant in the vanities of the course of the World and thou shalt come nearest unto Truth and infinitely augment thy knowledge In your judgement of the Suns ingress joyn also in consideration with it the significations of Eclipses great Conjunctions Comets and Blazing-stars if there be any either preceding or coming after it for be assured these things never happen but before some notable change and alteration in the World Remember that according to the Debility and strength of your Significator you are to judge of the condition of any person the people or thing whatsoever thereby signified and you have attained to a great help but now least you should be still to seek in the true understanding of the Significators necessary in this manner of Judgement I shall notwithstanding what hath been delivered in the Introduction or Second Book of these our labours here beneath clearly demonstrate them unto thee CHAP. III. Shewing which are the Significators of the King People their Enemies and Assistants in any Revolution of the years of the World LArgely have the Antients treated of these matters yet some therein have come very short and to little or no purpose troubled their heads leaving still the Student both in doubts and errors wherefore according to the sincerity of my first undertakings I shall here indeavour to undeceive my Readers touching these particulars and impart unto them the truth and surest rules for the judging thereof I shall first give you some of their Instructions and then my own or such as I in my judgement hold to be most rational that so thou mayst be the better able to distinguish truth from falshood Note that those in Authority are understood by the tenth house when there is no King We shall begin with the Significator of Kings but you are to note that in any Nation where no such are the Grandees or chief Rulers of the times are to be understood the which say they is thus to be known or found Look to the Lord of the tenth house in your Figure at time of the Revolution of the Sun into the first point of Aries who if he be free from Combustion Retrogradation Impedition and such like and within five degrees of the cusp of the tenth either before or after viz. within or without the house he shall without doubt be the Kings Significator or chief Rulers without any farther inquiry but if he be any ways impedited as in Detriment Fall Combust Peregrine Retrograde or besieged c. he shall not be significator of the King or Chief Rulers Have recourse then to that Planet who hath Exaltation in the Sign of the tenth and if he be within five degrees of the cusp as you have heard and in no sort impedited or afflicted thou shalt conclude him to be Significator of the King but if he be impedited or afflicted as abovesaid he shall not be Significator But now
and bear dominion either by essential dignity or bodily presence in the sixth or else some other misfortune will befal him according to the nature of Saturn and the place and sign of Heaven wherein he is located If the Combustion fall out so as to be in the seventh or fourth Houses of Heaven Judge the mischief to be according to the signification of these Houses as you have heard of the Ascendent for if it be in the seventh you shall say because it hath signification of the Enemies of the People that the disaster shall be occasioned by them in the fourth being the seventh from the tenth from his own proper Antagonists c. if in the tenth it self this combustion be it shall proceed from his own unruliness or wilfulness c. this is clear Wherefore now also have regard to the condition and state of the People but first let us consider the durability of Kings and Rulers CHAP. II. Teaching how to judge of the permanency or durability of Kings or such as are in Authority by any Revolution MUch time and paper might I here consume in delivering unto you all the ways the Learned in former ages have set down for the judging of this matter but lest I then deviate from both my intentions at this time and natural inclination to short discourses and trouble both thee and my self to no purpose since it may as well be delivered in fewer words I shall satisfie my self with these following rules From whence Judgement is to be required for the predicting the durability of any Kingdom or Government First Erect your figure of the Heavens which for the judging of these matters must be according to that punctum of time the King was first Elected or Crowned if you are to judge of a Senate take the time of their first sitting or assembling together or wherein they were first created or made a Free State or assumed power to act according to what their own counsels shall produce Then having exactly placed the Planets therein according to their then several places and reduced them to the just hour and minute of the day especially the Moon you are to see what Planet is Hylech or Alchochoden or Giver of Life in your Figure and Almuten or Chief Ruler of the Ascendent to know the state of his body or person what of the mid-heaven to judge of the state and condition of his Kingdom or Regal power and having thus done thou mayst easily judge of either of these in this manner Observe what sign degree and minute ascends and culminates what sign degree and minute the Sua and â—â—oon possesses and where to a very minute also is your Almuten and Hylech of each House then see in every Revolution Eclipse or great Conjunction how these places and significators are disposed and how aspected by the Malevolents and judge the continuation or subversion of their Government according as you see occasion If your Hylech or Giver of Life be afflicted judge the evil according to the strength of the afflicting Planet to fall on the person or persons of the Rulers or touching their lives if the Almuten of the mid-heaven upon their Regal power and so contrariwise if they be assisted and fortunately beheld or come to the places of the Fortunes or the Fortunes fall in any of their places in any Revolution Eclipse or great Conjunction judge the contrary still remember the good or evil doth depend on the power of the Benevolent or Malevolent Planets for if much afflicted much evil is to be expected and so on the contrary as you have already been taught If any of the aforesaid places or significators fall in the place of any Eclipse or great Conjunction judge the mischief threatned to happen according to the signification of the Eclipse or Planets so in Conjunction warily judging according to the nature of the Houses wherein they are in the Scheme of the Eclipse or Conjunction and the signification of their own nature and the nature of the Houses which they rule and are located in at the time of the Kings Coronation or Election This you shall more fully understand in the delivering the rules of this Art touching the Judgement of Eclipses and great Conjunctions at the latter end of this Treatise I utterly for my own part Refuse to follow the rules of the Ancients touching their giving a year to every sign betwixt the Planet afflicting and afflicted for the judging the time of the alteration of any Government and the like for that they stand not with much reason or are they built on any strong foundation so as to stand unquestionable a little experience and observation will soon manifest unto thee the truth hereof for touching the just time when any such accident shall happen I conceive ought rather and that with a great deal of more reason to be left to the good pleasure and will of the Most High who is the great orderer and disposer of all the Causes in Nature and will according to his own good time effect what is most agreeable unto his Divine will Wherefore let it suffice to know by the iuclinations of those Glorious Bodies the alterations and durabilities of sublunary things without enquiring how or when it will be performed if thou findest at the beginning of any Government or State the Angles of Heaven fixed the Lords thereof well disposed especially of the Ascendent and mid-heaven and free from the malevolent presence and Configurations of the Infortunes and essentially dignified and aspected by the adjuvant Planets thou mayst from hence conclude the firmness and permanency of the Rule or Government then set up but if thou findest these places and significators contrariwise afflicted moveable and weak judge the contrary thereunto If Saturn be then Lord of the Ascendent and essentially well dignified and altogether free from the affliction of the Malevolents and Angular say that the Kingdom State Rule or Government then began shall flourish and continue unchangeable 465 years being the greatest years of Saturn and if he be not altogether so well placed but free from all impediment and in a succedent House the Government or Rule then setled shall continue firm and unaltered 57 years being his greater years if he be significator and essentially dignified and free from all impediment aforesaid and in a Cadent House say it shall continue in the condition it first was in 43 years and a half being his mean years but if he be but thus meanly placed and but moderately dignified judge the continuance thereof to be but 30 years which are his least years and so accordingly judge of all the other Planets when they are significators and well placed and dignified as you have heard of Saturn their greatest greater mean and least years being all recorded in our Introduction to the Judgement of the STARS where the nature and significations of the Planets are delivered c. CHAP. III. Shewing the state and condition
Occidental high windes Oriental more temperate In Scorpio Combust moisture Occidental storms Oriental gales of winde In Sagittary Combust drought Occidental the same but Oriental it will not be so very dry In Capricorn Combust clowdy Occidental some heat Oriental more temperate In Aquaries Combust drought Occidental and Oriental plenty of windes In Pisces Combust and Occidental drought Oriental thunder and lightning The Sun now should follow in order The Sun but he as you have heard before can never be either Combust Oriental or Occidental the Planets being thus termed in respect of him besides you have been also shewn that neither the Sun nor Moon are to be admitted chief Rulers in any Scheme because they are general significators of times and seasons therefore let us now have regard unto the significations of Venus when she is either Combust Occidental or Oriental in any of the signs of the Zodiac Venus in Aries Combust and Occidental causeth moisture and great windes Venus Oriental thunders and rains In Taurus Combust thunders Occidental fair Oriental pleasant weather In Gemini Combust and Occidental winde Oriental a calmer ayr In Cancer Combust Occidental or Oriental a quiet calm time In Leo Combust Occidental or Oriental drought In Virgo Combust and Occidental drought Oriental the contrary In Libra Combust moist ayr Occidentall rain Oriental fair In Scorpio Combust Occidental or Oriental rain In Sagittary Combust rain Occidental winde and cold Oriental not so bad In Capricorn Combust cold ayr Occidental and Oriental rain In Aquaries Combust clowdy Occidental hot Oriental rain In Pisces Combust cold Occidental and Oriental disposed to snow Mercury in Aries Combust promiseth tempests Occidental and Oriental Mercury fair windy weather In Taurus thunder and storms being Combust Occidental and Oriental a clowdy dark muddy ayr In Gemini Combust and Occidental winde Oriental temperate ayr and small gusts of winde In Cancer Combust and Occidental tempestuous stormy weather Oriental calmer In Leo combust Occidental and Oriental winde In Virgo Combust drought and often tempests so also when Occidental but when Oriental the contrary In Libra Combust Occidental or Oriental windes In Scorpro Combust and Occidental raging weather chiefly Oriental In Sagitary Combust and Occidental rain Oriental clear ayr In Capricorn Combust Occidental and Oriental rain In Aquaries Combust snow Occidental more cold Oriental rain In Pisces Combust Occidental or Oriental moist ayr CHAP. XII Containing further Instructions touching the alteration of the Ayr from the application of the Moon to the other Planets having separated from the Conjunction or Opposition of the Sun ENdeavour thou but to understand this Chapter well and thou shalt be sufficiently furnished with ability to judge of the weather for every moneth In the ninth Chapter of this Book you have heard that the Planet the Moon next applyes unto after her Conjunction and Opposition with the Sun is especially to be regarded for the exact judging of the state of the weather wherefore I thought good for thy better Instruction to insert this Chapter which teacheth largely how to judge by her application unto any other Planet after her aforesaid Configurations with the Sun of the mutation or alteration of the ayr Because Saturn is the higest of all the Planets as you have heard and therefore we have still began with him in all the progress of this our labour we shall here also follow the same method and shew what is to be expected when she separates from the Conjunction or Opposition of the Sun and applyes next unto Saturn and then to Jupiter and so in order of the rest Having erected your figure then for the Conjunction if that be your time or for the Opposition of the Luminaries if you are to consider that have regard to the place of the Conjunction or Opposition the nature of the signs and Mansions they are in and the Square Aspects of the Malevolents unto these places and accordingly judge judge the time when the effect will be manifested from the number of degrees they want of the Partil Aspect and the nature of the signs fixed common or moveable and so according to reason judge dayes or houres but if your Significators or the Moon be swift of motion it will be the sooner if slow the contrary c. The Moon separating from the Conjunction or Opposition of the Sun and applying to Saturn If the Moon after her bodily Conjunction or Opposite Aspect with the Sun do immediately next apply unto Saturn in moist signs and mansions let it be by what Aspect it will rain shall follow in some measure more abundantly if she apply by Conjunction Square or Opposition not so much if by Sextile and if by Trine yet there will be mislings and dark clowdy obscure ayr c. Remember according to the nature of the signs aspects and mansions to pronounce judgement But if Saturn be then in a fiery sign and a dry Mansion and the Moon also so posited there shall rather be a turbulent dark obscure ayr then rain To Jupiter On the contrary if she then apply next unto Jupiter although she and he both be in moist signes and mansions yet shall they denote onely sweet showers and moderate dews and the like but in other signes and mansions hardly any rain at all how ever it will be but very moderate seasonable and pleasant if there be any which sometimes as other causes may concur perhaps may be But if either Venus or Mercury or both do then cast their beams unto either the Moon or Jupiter or both there will happen rain in some measure judge the quality from the natuâ—e of the mansions and nature of the signs they are in as if moist then it will be the more wet if dry the less if in signs aiery windes and showers by fits but seldome is any rain or weather produced or occasioned by Jupiter that is destructive or unseasonable but it is still moderate temperate and wholsome Again if the Moon apply next unto Mars after her Conjunction or Opposition with the Sun and Saturn be then also in any Aspect with her or Mars To Mars or with the Sun rain is threatned and that immoderate if they are in moist signs and mansions and if in temperate and yet the Moon be in a moist sign and mansion it shall denote rain though not so much but if she be in a moist sign and mansion and they in a dry there shall be but very little wet but if Venus do then Aspect Mars also you shall judge the contrary that there shall be much rain and if it be in summer thunder and lightning with all To the Sun Also if at the time of the Conjunction or Opposition of the Luminaries you finde them in Aspect with none of the Planets nor any with them judge it will be fair weather and little or no rain but if Saturn or Mars especially Saturn behold either of them or any other
aiery sign and in any Aspect of Mercury and no wise assisted by the Fortunes it signifieth detriment in the ayr and much hurtful rain and that for some continuance but if he be in the fourth House as hath been said in an earthy sign and in any Configuration with Mercury and no wise beheld by the Fortunes there shall happen Earth-quakes and there shall be much black water upon the Earth and the like but if he be in a watry sign in the fourth posited as aforesaid and not at all helped by the Fortunes there shall be a scarcity of waters and all things abiding therein whither living creatures or other things shall suffer detriment also if he be in 〈◊〉 earthy sign placed in the same manner he signifies damage to the Earth and the things thereon and growing out of it But if Mercury do not behold him by any Configuration neither be joined bodily to him the aforesaid Significations shall not be so grievous but more tolerable and if he be beheld of the Fortunes the mischief will be yet less and less and if by a Sextile or Trine and they strong essentially it will be totally taken away Note that every Planet hath its own peculiar property Note for the superiour are as Spirits the inferiour as bodies of which all the corruption and generation in the World hath participation by their Configurations and Commixtions one with another according to the preordination and will of God Moreover the radix from which you are to judge of the alteration of the ayr is the Ascendent of the Conjunction or prevention of the Luminaries before the Ingress of the Sun into every sign and have regard to the Lord also of the Ascendent and the Lord of the place of the Conjunction or Prevention for if these places and their Lords be in moist signs and mansions it signifieth wet weather shall follow also if the Significator in chief be Occidental Retrograde or slow in motion it signifies rain and so also if he be Combust unless Mars hinder it for he being Combust hindereth and prohibiteth rain Also note that if the chief Significator be descending in Latitude or in his Epicycle he signifieth rain and so on the contrary if he be ascending Moreover note that when rain is occasioned by the Signification of the Infortunes it is still hurtful if it be Saturn he causeth eruptions and over-flowings of water if Mars he causeth for the most part extraordinary heat When rain is to be expected Now if thou wouldst know when it is most probable and likely to rain according to Haly have regard unto the chief Significator of rain for if he be in an Angle from the Ascendent or entring therein judge rain at that time as also to the Ingress of the Sun into the twentieth degree and one minute of Scorpio and see what Planets signifying rain that year are received of him and especially of the Moon and which he is in Conjunction Square or Opposition with for upon those days wherein these Configurations happen rain is to be expected but if these Aspects be without reception the rain will not be of long continuance nor very much Moreover if the Significator be in an Angle as hath been said and in Conjunction with the Moon it signifies Rain Thunder Lightning Earth-quakes and such like but if you would know what rain is to be expected for all the year Of the state of the weather for the whole year have regard unto Venus Mercury and the Moon and if you finde them all in Conjunction in Pisces at the time of the Revolution of the year it signifieth rain moisture and many clouds that year but if they be so joined in Aries or Taurus the year shall be dry and shall want rain Also if Venus apply to Mercury in any of his Houses it signifieth much rain and that of continuance that year so likewise if the Moon be in Opposition to either the Sun Saturn or Venus it signifieth much rain and dark clouds that year also when Mercury and Venus are in one and the same term there shall be great rain and if it be in a moist sign and the Moon in a Sextile or Trine of them there will be tempestuous storms and rain until one of them go out of the aforesaid term also at the time of the Sun his Ingress into Aries if Saturn be in Square or Opposition of him or of the Moon or Jupiter and Mercury or Venus and Mars so posited much rain is to be expected in that year especially if the Aspect be by Opposition and they be in Reception by House for this is Opening of Gates or Windows as you have heard Also if Venus be before the Sun it signifieth there will be many clouds that year dews and moisture of ayr but little rain And if Venus be retrograde whilest the Sun is in Aries or Taurus there shall be much rain that year especially in the Spring but if she be Retrograde in Capricorn Aquaries or Pisces there shall not be so much rain in the Spring but very much in the Winter Moreover when Mercury is stationary in what ever sign it be he denotes a moist ayr rain and clouds according to the season also many storms and tempestuous showers follow when Openers of Gates and the Significators of rain are placed in moist and watry signs also if Venus be so posited judge the same also if Mercury be in a fiery dry sign and the Moon and Venus in watry and moist signs there shall be temperate and moderate rain and if Saturn behold them and he being in a cold sign there will be rain and snow and much cold with an obscure and dark ayr And thus much shall suffice to be said touching the judgement of the weather and alteration of the ayr by the Positions and Configurations of the Planets and Stars the secondary causes of all sublunary accidents if these rules in every particular hold not endeavour thou the more to finde out the truth and let my failings be rather an incouragement to thee to search further into the secrets of Nature wherefore I shall say no more on this point in this Nature but conclude our last Chapter touching the alteration of the ayr with some particular observations from the aforesaid causes whâ—ch are common and may be observed even by the most illiterate and rural Pesant that is CHAP. XV. Shewing how to judge of Weather from common Observation of the rising and setting of the Sun colour of the Moon appearance of the Rain-bow Comets Clowds Brightness of the fixed Stars also by the prime day and from the time of the day wherein Thunder happeneth IT doth no wise seem unto me unnecessary to deliver this Chapter unto the world although it be not altogether so Astrological as the preceding Chapters are yet by reason it containeth Observations deduced from the Stars and other Superiour things it cannot be absolutely rejected as not agreeing with
our discourse and subject besides since it may very well be an help both for the plainness and certainty thereof to such as perhaps are not of sufficient capacity to attain to the perfection of what we have set down before I have adventured to give them to understand thus much How to judge of weather by the rising and setting of the Sun That when the Sun riseth clear and bright in our Horizon it denotes a pleasant day but fowl weather if then he be overcast with a thin cloud if he set being free from clouds a fair night followeth also being then divers coloured his beams long and red denotes windes the next day from that part or quarter of heaven his beams spotted green black or pale promiseth rain that night if at his setting there be one or more circles about him you are to observe whether they are red and here and there broken for then he denotes vehement windes that night if obscured thick and black circles it signifies cold windes and snow in Winter many circles denote winde of what colour soever they are but the more if they be red if but one circle be about him and and that clear and of no continuance fair weather is to be expected understand the same of the Moon which you have heard of the Sun when there is circles about her blackness in the Sun and Moon denotes rain redness winde The element red in the morning shews winde and rain to ensue that day the same in the Evening declares the contrary for the day following is for the most part then fair and in this manner of Prognostication we finde the Pharisees very expert as appears in the 16. of Matthew By the colour of the Moon Also if the Moon in the third day after the change and the third day before the full or in the midst of the quarter be found of a red colour causeth windes pale and inclining to blackness and a muddy obscurity brings rain but being bright and clear the end direct upright and free from circles promiseth fair weather By the Rain-bow Look also to the the time when a Rain-bow appears and by it judge of weather thus if it appear in fair weather judge fowl will follow if in fowl fair will follow this is the opinion of some and it stands with very much reason to be true if we look to the first Ordination thereof in the 9 of Gen. again if it appear in the morning rain and moisture is thereby portended if in the evening fair weather By Comets From Comets if we require judgment touching these matters we are to know that they never appear but they bring as well great and terrible alteration in the ayr as on the earth but of this we shall have more occasion to treat anon in the next Section wherefore here only note that they cause dry weather and ayr great and high windes especially if they appear obscure and cloudy And their power and efficacy judge by their greatness smalness length and shortness they cause also sickness by corruption of ayr if they appear in Aiery or Earthy signs By clouds When you see thick clouds and resembling flocks gathered together in many places they denote rain and so do dark obscure thick clouds over the North part of Heaven declining to the West if they appear like hils and somewhat above the Earth it shews weather over-passed black clouds promise rain white clouds appearing in Winter two or three days together in the East part of Heaven shews cold and snow By Stars When the Stars seem to fall which we vulgarly term shooting of the Stars it prenotes winde in that part but if they shoot in many places or perhaps all over the Heavens Inordinate windes thunder lightnings and very tempestuous weather and when they seem to run along out of one place into another it denotes winde and that the weather shall alter from the temper wherein it is if but few appear and those obscure and cloudy also if they at any time seem greater and brighter then usual it denotes winde and rain in these parts where you see such Stars appear and in Winter they presage frosts snow and cold weather but herein unless thou art well acquainted with their Natural magnitudes thou mayest be deceived and canst never be perfect By the Prime day Again you may judge of the weather by the prime day thus if it be Monday judge moist weather Tuesday windy and cold Wednesday very cold Thursday fair and clear Friday mixt weather Saturday moist and Sunday dry By Thunder Thunder in the Morning also denotes winde about Noon in the Evening rain and tempest Thunder also in the Winter shews terrible accidents and alterations the Summer following whence the old Proverb A Winters Thunder is a Summers wonder also when in any Summer you finde no Thunder the Winter following will be very unhealthful and obnoxious to all creatures And thus much of the alteration of the ayr and change of weather Come we now to shew some natural reasons for such things as are commonly incident amongst us and yet their cause by many unknown and so hasten to conclude this Section CHAP. XVI Demonstrating the Natural cause of many Suns of the Rain-bow Rain Hail Frost Snow Dew Winde Earth-quakes Comets Thunders Lightnings and the cause of the Sun and the Moons Eclipse LEaving now our Astrological Discourse I shall here a little step out of the way and shew my Reader who hath not waded far into the Ocean of Nature what Hail Snow Dew Winde and the Rain-bow is and how it comes to pass we have many Suns sometimes visible and Moons also what Thunder and Lightning is and how we come to haue such strange and new Stars as are Comets and the like and how the Sun and the Moon become sometimes eclipsed or darkned that so he may not be to seek in these ordinary and small matters which I believe may stumble some more then greater and higher things The reason of many Suns and Moon We shall then in order handle each of these as they are set down in the contents and first then we are to take this for an approved rule that there never appeareth any Parelii or mock Suns nor mock Moons above or beneath the Sun or Moon but on each side and that neither but at the Sun-rising or setting and they are thus occasioned when a thick cloud is gathered together toward the side of the Sun or the Moon in which the broken beams of the Sun or Moon being gathered the very form or fashion of the Sun or Moon is represented unto us therein The cause of the Rain bow As touching the Rain-bow it is no more then the reflection of the Sun-beams in a cloud that turns to the contrary vapour What rain is Rain is a cold vapour drawn up or exhaled by the attractive faculty of the Sun to the nether part of
the middle Region of the Ayr where being thickened through cold it falleth again to the Earth What hail and snow Hail and Snow are the same only are drawn up higher Snow into the middle Region and Hail into the upper and there condensed and congealed into the body of a cloud and being disposed by the Configurations of fit Significators descendeth What frost and dew In like manner hoar frost and dew is also the same vapour and of the same nature as is rain and the rest only not drawn so high by the Sun as to keep up but when he with draws himself from our Hemisphere falleth down again and is by the coldness of the Earth congealed or resolved into water which we call dew in Summer but in Winter by the sharpness of the ayr it is congealed into frost and by reason of the hoaryness of it is called Hoare frost What winde and the occasion of Earth-quakes Winde also is but a dry exhalation drawn up from the Earth by the heat of the Sun also and dispersed here and there and this is the reason of Earth-quakes for through the gathering together of abundance of these vapours in the Concaves of the Earth and from thence violently breaking out and the Earth closing again is the Earth caused to shake or as it were tremble and this is the fore-runner of wars for the most part in those parts of the Earth What a Comet Moreover a Comet is a flame caused of a dry hot slimy exhalation drawn up by the Sun to the uppermost part of the ayr the which being dispersed and broken causeth high windes but more of this in the last Section What thunder and lightning Again Thunder is a quenching of fire in a cloud or an exhalation hot and dry mixt with moisture carryed up to the middle Region and there thickened and wraped into a cloud where meeting with moisture being of a contrary quality it breaketh out the sides of the cloud and by this its eruption causeth a thundering noyse in the ayr and this flying out of the fire the vulgar call Lightning the which Aristotle saith comes after Thunder but I am of opinion they come both together though the sense of seeing is more suddenly apprehensive of the light then the hearing is of the sound because what is conveyed to the Eye is by a direct line but to the Ear by an oblique for at a distance we may discern a blow before we hear it yet being hard by we shall hear it as soon as it is given or can be seen c. Lightning as say some Authours is of marvailous efficacy and they have made mention of three sorts Dry Moist and Clear the Dry doth not burn but cleaveth trees through and also houses and the like the Moist doth not burn neither but altereth colour the Clear both burneth and destroyeth and is indeed the most dangerous of all for it breaketh the bones and sword and bruiseth not theskin nor breaketh the scabbard and melteth moneyin the purse and yet melteth not wax c. Signs of Earth-quakes to come We are now to give the reason of the Eclipsing of both the Luminaries but first I think it very requisite to set down some tokens of Earth-quakes to come which are briefly six the first is when the Sun is obscured and darkened without the presence of clouds or the body of the Moon the second token that an Earth-quake is at hand is when the Sun is as it were bloudy and coloured in such a strange manner the third is when a fiery Pillar or cloud like a pillar of fire appears in the Heavens the fourth is when the ayr is very quiet both at Land and Sea for a long continuance and winde absent the fifth when waters are salt and troubled and of another taste then usually and naturally they are the sixth and last is when strange unaccustomed and unusual noises of exclamations of men howlings lamentations and clatterings of armour are heard and such sights seen in the Ayr. The cause of the Sun his Eclipse And now as touching the Eclipse of either of the Luminaries you are to know it is only a privation of their light that of the Sun is occasioned at the conjunction of the Luminaries or more plainly at the change of the Moon by the interposition of the body of the Moon betwixt the Sun and the Earth averting or turning his beams from us and so the Sun becomes obscured or darkened for that time The cause of the Moons Eclipse That of the Moon by the Diametrical interposition of the body of the Earth between the Sun and the Moon thereby depriving her of the borrowed light she receiveth of the Sun and this is ever upon the Opposition of the Luminaries or vulgarly at the Full Moon and truly this desect of the Luminaries would happen every change and full Why there are not 2 Eclipses every moneth did not the Moon sometime deviate from the Ecliptick line five degrees Northward as also sometimes again as far South-ward and therefore cannot so directly meet with the Conjunction and Opposition of the Sun who ever moveth in the Ecliptick line or just under it CHAP. XVII Of the Signification of the most notable fixed Stars both fortunate and unfortunate in any of the twelve Houses in Revolutions of the Years of the World LOok into the second Book of this Volume and there you shall have the Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of the most notable fixed Stars what are less and more obscure are not so needful and requisite to be recorded since they are of the same nature as are the rest in their constellation wherefore what are there expressed may sufficiently serve as touching thy judgment in the Stars I shall not therefore here at all rehearse either the names or natures of any Star there expressed onely I shall desire thee to be very expert in the several Natures thereof and so according to their several Positions Conjunctions and Configurations with the Planets judge either good or bad according to the nature of those Stars Planets and Houses of Heaven they are in The signification of the Malevolent fixed Stars in the first House As if malevolent mischievous and unfortunate Stars viz. such as are of the nature of Saturn or Mars or both be upon the Cuspe of the Ascendent or within five degrees thereof or with the Lord of the Ascendent in Conjunction Partil or within five degrees thereof judge mischief and damage to the people of that Nation for which your Revolution is set in one kinde or other compare and weigh exactly the nature of your Significators viz. the Stars afflicting your Ascendent or its Lord and you will soon discover the nature of the evill threatned and this your own Genius must teach you for all the writings in the World without it will be of little or no effect it signifies also diseases in the
the rule or Dominion before the other yet shalt thou joyn him in judgement therewith but if there be several Planets that have Dominion in these places you shall prefer that which is nearest an Angle and most strong in the degree of the Eclipse and make him Lord of the Eclipse Fixed Stars to be considered And you are also to observe those fixed Stars which are of most note and placed nere the place of the Eclipse and the Cuspe of the Angle preceding the Eclipse as also the Cusps of the Ascendent and mid-Heaven at the time of the Eclipse The forms and figures of the signs Having thus seriously considered the fixed Stars as you ought the forms and figures of the signs are to be considered in which an Eclipse fals and in which the predominant Planets are for the quality of the Events cannot be well known but by the nature thereof For humane signs of such as are of that form have signification unto mankinde and if they be ferall signs or such as bear the form of wild Beasts or four-footed Creatures it shall be to such Beasts and Creatures which are found in shape and Nature agreeable thereunto whether the sign signifie Snakes Beasts of the field domestick tame Creatures c. Northern signs Nota. signifie sudden Earth-quakes which have the figure of Beasts of the field when an Eclipse is therein in Southern alteration of the ayr in such Signs and Constellations as have wings such as are Virgo Sagittary the Hen the Vulture c. it denotes detriment to birds and flying fowl chiefly such as are usually eaten by man If in Cancer Pisces or the Dolphin to Creatures living in the water if in the Constellation of the Ship to Ships and such as Navigate in Aquaries to Rivers and the like c. The portence of an Eclipse in Tropical or Equinoctial signs Also if an Eclipse of either I uminary be in any of the Tropical or Equinoctial signs it denotes change of ayr in every of these times if in the vernal Equinox dammage to Trees when they begin to bud and shout forth as the Vine Fig-tree and others then springing if in the Summer Solstice the events will be on fruits when they are gathered but in Egypt it signifies the over-flowing of Nilus If in the Autumnall Equinox they will be manifest on Hearbs and the Seeds of the Earth when they are sown and detriment in harvest in the Winter Solstice on Pot-Hearbs Birds of the season and Fish Also if an Eclipse be in Equinoctial signs it shews its Effects in Religious things and Church affairs in the Tropicks in the ayr laws and manners of men In fixed signs in foundations and edifices in common signs in mankinde and Kings In the quarters of Heaven Moreover Eclipses nere the East signifie their Effects will be apparent in fruits youth and foundations in the mid-Heaven in the Church State great ones and such as are of middle age but if in the West in the Laws and Customs of the People the alteration thereof and in those of elder years it hath signification also of Murthers To know the greatness of the Events of any Eclipse The quantity or the greatness of their Effects are known from the greatness of the Eclipse and from those Stars which in the place of the Eclipse are caused of the future events For when an Eclipse of the Sun is vespertine the evill portended thereby is lessened but when Matutine increased so likewise on the contrary an Eclipse of the Moon Vespertine increaseth the evill Matutine impareth it the one half The reason thereof is because the Sun is the proper Governour of the Day and the Moon Governess of the Night Gen. 1.16 and therefore when they are thus afflicted in their own season the Effects must needs be much more effectual then when on the contrary CHAP. IV. Of the quality of the Events of any Eclipse whether Good or Evill How to know the nature and quality of the Events of any Eclipse whether good or evill UNder the verge of this Chapter will the quality of the events whether good or evill fall and the nature of them both the which is known from the nature of the Planets having most fortitudes in the place of the Eclipse and the Communication and commixtion of one with another and the places in which they are in the Figure of Heaven For the Sun and Moon bear rule over the other Planets and are main causes of future accidents as also the power and efficacy of the other Stars are by them augmented or diminished but the commixture of those Stars who are of most power shew the quality of the events But let us declare the works and properties of each Planet and their natures but that our relation thereof may be the more effectual you are to take notice that when I nominate or declare the nature generally of the five Planets you are to understand their temper power and force whether that Planet doth of himself in his own nature predominate or no or whether any other Star which is not errant or other place of the Zodiack of the same nature and temper or influence of that Star wherefore if possible we are to know the nature and quality of every fixed Star worthy the noting for the making a right commixtion when they are joined in Configuration with the Errant Stars or Planets because this is as considerable as their commixtion one with another according to their familiarity before mentioned Of Saturn when he is chief Ruler and his significations in general So that if Saturn be only chief Lord or Ruler he shall be generally the occasion of destruction and mischief caused by cold and particularly when his influence relateth unto men he causeth long and tedious Infirmities Tissicks and obnoxious Diseases occasioned from Humors Flegm and Defluxions quartane Feavers Banishment Want Tribulation Anxiety Fears sadness and Death and these chiefly to those that are stricken in years But when it relateth to Beasts and Creatures belonging to the use of Man he bringeth destruction and causeth a scarcity of them and sickness and rottenness to those that remain death also and infirmity in the same nature to those men that use or eat them In the ayr he shall cause frost and snow and such as shall produce bitter cold weather cloudy and obscure also pernicious pestiferous and tempestuous Snow and inconvenient wind and moisture producing by corruption pernicious and offensive creatures to mankinde But in the Sea and Rivers tempests and shipwracks also difficult and dangerous Navigating a destruction and scarcity of fishes increase and decrease of waters in the Sea by fits the over-flowing of Rivers and eruptions of the Sea-banks and mischief by water In the Earth a diminution and destruction of fruits and chiefly to such as are more particularly for the use of Man they shall suffer by Worms very much detriment and Caterpillars Locusts and
middle but about the edges more rare those resembling beards have their extreams more rare and dispersed and those that are much extended in length are more rare and subtil The distinct significations of every Comet or Blazing Star The Antients have delivered moreover these nine following several Comets or Blazing-Stars and their virtues or Portences which I could no wise omit being so necessary to Instruction The first then is callâ—â— Veru for that it resembleth a spit or dart and appeareth in the day time very terrible to the beholders It denotes a scarcity of fruit both of the Earth and trees mutations in Church and State grievous slaughters and the death of Kings Nobles and such as are of their adherence The second Tenaculum of the colour of Mars and hath raies under it like the flames of burning coals it signifieth there shall not be such plenty as formerly yet not famine wars also are thereby stirred up to the great prejudice of the godlier sort of people who shall be very forward therein The third Pertica which sometimes emitts obscure raies and again at other times bright this denotes a drought both of the Earth and Waters and a scarcity of Provisions the which if corporally joined to any Planet signifyeth events according to the nature of that Planet the nature of every Planet you have been taught before as if it be joined to Saturn there shall be mortalities troubles to old men and those of the religious Orders to Jupiter it extends its effects to Kings and Grandees whether good or bad according to their fortitudes to Mars many wars tumults slaughters and effusion of bloud to the Sun it will not appear by reason of the Suns splendour yet it portends the death of Kings and many tribulations plagues and sicknesses to Venus it signifies drought and a diminution of great waters to Mercury it denotes the death of young men wits and ingenuous souls to the Moon it signifies death and grievous mortality to men especially common people The fourth Miles consecrated to Venus and hath an hairy tail or main emitting Moon-like beams or rayes it signifieth mischief to Kings Nobles and Great men and that men shall rise that will endeavour to alter the Laws and antient Customs and set up new but the greatest evil portended thereby will be incident to those places towards which it extends its tail or rayes it denotes also wars The fifth Ceruleus of a blew or azure colour appropriated to Mercury it denotes the death of Kings and Grandees Nobles such as are chief Rulers and chiefly towards the part towards which it extends its rayes also wars The sixth Aurora five Matutina assigned to Mars it hath a tale and is of a fiery complexion when it appeareth towards the East bending its head downwards it signifies war combustions fire and sword pestilence and famine in Arabia and Egypt drought and a scarcity of waters and this shall extend also to the Western Regions The seventh Argentum sive Argenteus and this is the brightest and clearest of all Comets it hath pure bright beams when it appears Jupiter being then in Cancer or Pisces it promiseth abundance of corn and fruit in those parts where it appeared but if Jupiter be then in Scorpio it will not be altogether so good The eighth Rosa this is a great round Comet and is of the form and similitude of of a man it causeth the death of Kings Great Noble and Rich men and the alteration of things The ninth and last Niger appropriated to Saturn being in colour like unto him it denotes mortality both natural and also by the sword beheadings and the like If a Comet appear in the Ascendent of any Town Note Kingdom City Family or in the Ascendent of the Revolution of the World it signifieth destruction of the things signified by the Ascendent and the sign thereof and if it appear in the sign of the mid-Heaven at the time of any of these it bringeth danger to such as are promoted to honour The signification of Comets in Earthy signs watry aiery and fiery Comets appearing in earthy signs denote sterility through drought in watry through abundance of rain and floods and causeth also Pestilence in aiery they promise Winds Seditions and Pestilence yet not alwayes Plagues in fiery Wars slaughters and commotions CHAP. IX Of the signification of Comets and Blazing-Stars appropriated to the seven Planets REceive these Rule following as from the Chaldeans Arabians and such as were very expert in these matters in former Ages The Portences of such Comets as belong to Saturn Wherefore know that if any Comet of the nature and complexion of Saturn appear in the Ascendent of the Revolution of the World it denotes many evils Famine Pestilence Banishment Want Anxiety terrour and trouble Chronick diseases and Melancholy distempers Catarrs Quartane Agues Falling Sickness Leprosies Palsies Cancers and those diseases which are of continuance lingring Consumptions and the like destruction to Beasts appertaining to the use of man excessive cold weather in winter Note but you are still to remember the Nature of the Climate for this inordinate cold in Aethiopia will cause but a temperate Ayr c. and therefore this is to be understood of these Northern parts clouds frost and snow strong and high winds tempests shipwracks destruction of Fish as also of Fruit by Caterpillers Locusts and such like Vermine great Inundations and storms to the anoyance of Cattel and all things Men and Kingdoms under the Dominion of Saturn shall suffer detriment and be in danger of destruction Comets of the nature of Jupiter and their portences Such as are of a silver colour bright and of great splendor and of the nature of Jupiter cause a plentiful year when they appear in the Ascendent as you have heard wholsome blasts of Ayr with many seasonable showers especially if it be a watry sign it denotes also such infirmities as are of the nature of Jupiter which you have heard in the second Book of this Volume and many alterations and changes in such Kingdoms Regions and Places subject unto him the which I have there also at large set down Comets of the nature of Mars and their significations Those Comets which you have heard we have understood by the names of Veru and Pertica are of the nature of Mars wherefore they denote horrible winds storms and tempests a drought of Fountains and a destruction of Fruit by corruption and all the diseases portended by Mars c. frequent Thundering and Lightnings to the destruction of many Ship at Sea wrath quarrels heart-burnings slaughters and blood-shed amongst men tumults seditions and wars alterations of Kingdoms Laws Government and Customs and such like evils appropriated to the nature of Mars and the shall chiefly be incident to such men as are under his Dominion Towns Cities Kingdoms and Places as also to those parts towards which the Comet extendeth its tayl as you have heard
the twelve signs of Heaven 267 268 A time for Dwelling 179 E. A time for husbanding the Earth 148 Earthquakes how occasioned signes thereof 304 Earths Semidiamiter 50 Cause of the Ebbing and flowing of the sea 11 Eclipse of the Sun the cause thereof 304 of the Moon why they happen not twice every Moneth 305 how to judge of the mutations and accidents in this Elementary world thereby from 308 to 318 that alterations do follow in the world upon the Eclipse of either Luminary and wherefore 308 an Introduction from 308 to 310 what is to be considered 310 when their effects manifest themselves Ibid. how long continue 311 to know the Lord of any Eclipse ibid. the kinds of the Events 312 quality whether good or evil from 313 to 315 of the Sun in any decanate of the 12 Signs 316 of the Moon 317 Ecliptick Circle what it is why so called 79 Education not of force sufficient to alter the natural constitution of a People or Nation 15 Egypt how watred 290 A time for Electing Kings and Governours 196 Elections ordinary slighted * 3 Elections by the Aspects of the Moon to the other Planets 129 Electuaries a time to administer 168 A time for sending Embassadors 159 Enemies a time to suppress 182 Enoch an Astrologer vid. Postscript A time for Enstaulings 197 Equator or the Equinoctial circle what it is why so called 79 To know when a Planet is Essentially dignified 65 To know the event of any war 181 Events portended by the Lord of the year 231 c. where they shall be manifested 232 of Comets 319 of Eclipses from 308 to 318 To know the Evil threatned in any year to any place 278 the cause of any evil to happen 223 Europians why of magnaminous spirits and given to wars and exploits 16 To Expel a dead child 153 Eye of the Sun a Stone so called its vertue 57 A time for administring remedies to the Eyes 163 F. Faces of the Planets their use why so called 73 their significations 74 A time for Feasting 156 To know if any Land be fertile 147 Fertility and sterility on what they depend 10 How to judge of the fertility of any year 284 Figure of Heaven what it is 20 how to frame it 112 Firmament why so called 78 First Book its Subject * 2 First-mover why so called 78 A time to fish 187 Fixed Stars no cause of plenty or scarcity 10 Tables demonstrating the Names Nature Number Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of the chiefest of them in every of the 12 signs from 94 to 106 why called fixed 94 their significations in any of the 12 houses of Heaven in Revolutions of the years of the World from 305 to 308 Flegm a time to purge it 168 Flegmatick-blood a time to extract it 171 A time for flitting or removing 138 Fluxes a time to stop them 164 Fourth Book its subject * 3 Fortunate Planets 127 A time to fowl 187 Fresh-waters why not so subject to ebb and flow 11 Friendship between Brethren a time to make 140 between any two 141 a time to obtain it of any 199 Friends how to choose them * 22 prove them and keep them * 24 Frost what it is 304 Frustration what 111 Fryers their significators general in Annual judgements 220 Fugitives a time to seek 184 Furlongs how many in a sign of Heaven 79 Future accidents to know 223 G. Galen his admonition to the Vulgar 161 Gall a time to purge 168 How to win at any game 186 A time for administring Gargarisms 165 Opening of Gates what it is 299 a cause of the change of weather 290 Gemini its nature and quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and part in man under its Rule 87 why ruled by Mercury 68 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 96 General accidents how to judge of them by the falling of Newyears day 333 General Rules will not hold in particular affairs 128 Gentlemen their vanity in general * 20 A time for getting of Girls 152 A time for giving of Gifts 155 God worketh by causes * 4 is the God of order ibid. clearly to be seen in the order of Nature * 5 10 seldom or never perverteth its order * 5 A time for the beginning of Governments 197 A time for Graffing 150 A time for buying of great Cattel 173 Groundwork of Elections 122 H. Hail what it is how condensed 304 Hair a time for cutting of it 133 a time for applying medicines to remove what is superfluous 163 when to bathe for the same purpose 169 Haiz what 111 An Harmony between the Coelestial and Terrestrial bodies 122 bodies 122 A time for administring remedies to the Head 163 A time to bathe for Health 169 How to judge of the Health of any year 280 A time to purge the Heart 168 Heavens power and vertue admirable 5 Gods book in which all things from the beginning to the subversion of the world is written 18 order number and motions 78 division into 12 Signs 79 Heliotropion its vertue 57 A time for buying of Heritages 146 Hermophrodites when begotten 152 A time for Hiring any thing 149 servants 172 A time for obtaining the thing Hoped for 199 Horizon what it is its diversity 80 A time for buying Horses 201 Houses of Heaven what the reasons of their significations 107 108 division into 12 parts 109 how to judge of any thing signified by them 275 Houses a time for buying of them 146 for building 142 letting or hiring 149 for ridding of evil spirits 151 A time for buying of Hounds 173 A time to Hunt 187 A time for buying of Land for Husbandry 147 Hyacinth its vertue 57 Hypocrites reproved * 15 I. Jacob an Astrologer 18 Impeditions of the Moon 127 Infants prohibited Physick 166 Inferiour what 111 Inferiours ruled by Superiours 123 Influence of the Stars may be found our notwistanding the slowness of the starry sphear in less then thirty years time 7 c. may certainly be predicted notwithstanding the Revolution of the starry sphear since Ptolomies time or since the first Creation 8 c. takes not away Gods government 22 may be altered by him * 4 yet it is seldom or never seen * 5 A time for acting any thing of Ingenuity 158 Inns of Court described * 21 A short Journey what it is 140 a time for going ibid. A time of Iourneying and returning and to judge of the success therein 191 Iris a stone so called its vertue 57 Issue a blessing * 13 such as desire none reprehended ibid. Judicial days whence caused 11 the true knowledge of them 162 Jupiter his Nature and Complexion Magnitude mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Distance from the Earth Humours Quality of men signified by him Corporature greatest North-Latitude South Colours Savours Spice Hearbs and Drugs ruled by him and part of Man 52 Trees Birds mineral Stones Fishes Beasts Places Weather Winds Signs Triplicity Diseases Regions
Day of the week ruled by him his Exaltation Fall Detriment Age Angel Friends Enemies Orb Years Moneth after Conception 53 his Joy 75 why so called and charactered 77 is not always a fortune 124 216 significations when Lord of the year 234 in any of the 12 houses of Heaven in any revolution of the years of the world 239 c. in any of the 12 Signs from 253 to 256 when Lord of an Eclipse 313 A time to obtain Justice of Rulers 197 K. Kings significators in Annual Judgements not exempt from the power of the Stars 219 Condition in any year 221 222 How to judge of their permanency 225 A time to obtain their favour 197 and their Pardon 198 L. A time for Lanching of Ships 195 A time for buying of Land 146 for Letting 149 if it be fertile 147 A time to prevail in Law-suits 181 Lawyers their significator general 220 reprehended * 21 A time to Learn Sciences 195 Arts or Occupations 198 A time for Lending of money 135 Leo its Nature Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its Rule 88 why ruled by the Sun 68 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 98 A time for composing of Letters 158 Lightning what it is 304 Liver a time to purge it 168 Lord of the Year how to know him according to the Antients 231 according to the Author 233 of the Aspects of the Planets to him 235 Loss how to judge of it 282 To know the Love between two married or any other 177 Low-countreymen why they shoke off the Spaniards Government 16 Lewdness described its portencies * 10 its remedy * 11 A time to purge the Lungs 168 Lybra its Nature Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its Rule 89 why ruled by Venus 88 why the fall of the Sun and exaltation of Saturn 69 the Number Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 100 M. Malefactor a time to make him confess Truth 185 Malevolents are not always Saturn and Mars 124 Man his vanity in general * 11 * 12 * 13 subject to Gods Government and Angels rule as well as to the power of the stars and how 22 wherein he differeth from a brute Creature 23 Mansions of the Moon their several qualities and Elections 130 A time for Manuring the Earth 148 A time for Marriage according to the Antients 176 according to the Author 177 the end thereof * 13 forced censured * 17 Markets described * 21 Mars his Nature Complexion Magnitude Distance from the Earth mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Humours Quality of men Corporature North Latitude South what Savours Colours Part in man Hearbs Trees and Spice ruled by him 54 what Winds Weather Signs Diseases or Triplicity Places Birds Stones Fish Beasts Mineral Day of the week Enemies Friends Angel Age Exaltation Fall Detriment Orb Regions Places Years 55 Joy 75 why so called and charactered 77 may sometimes be a benovolent and adjuvant Planet 124 216 significations when Lord of the Year 235 in any of the twelve Houses 241 in any of the twelve signs from 256 to 259 when Lord of an Eclipse 314 The vertue of Medicinal things how found out 161 A time for applying Medicines to all parts of the body 163 A time to purge Melancholy 168 A time to extract Melancholy blood 171 A time to purge any Member of the body 168 A time to purge the Members of Generation ibid. Merchants their significators general 220 Mercury his Nature Complexion Magnitude Distance from the Earth mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Quality of Men Corporature greatest North Latitude South Savours Colours and Part of man ruled by him 6â— Hearbs Drugs Trees Birds Serpents Stones Minerals Fishes Beasts Weather Winds Signs Triplicity Places Day of the week Regions Moneth after Conception Years Diseases c. under his Dominion Exaltation Fall Detriment Age Angel Friends Enemies 62 Joy 75 why so called and charactered 77 significations when Lord of the Year 235 in any of the twelve Houses 244 in any of the twelve signs from 263 to 265 when Lord of an Eclipse 314 Meridian what it is wherefore so called 80 A time for sending of Messengers 159 Method of the fourth Book 214 Miles how many in a sign of Heaven 79. A time for building of Mills 145 Minutes in a degree how many 79 Monarchial Government cast off by the English and why 17 Monks their significators general 220 A time for receiving Money 135 Moons Influence proved 11 12 mock-moons the cause of them 303 her Nature Complexion Magnitude mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Distance from the Earth Humours Quality of men Corporature North-Latitude South Colours Savours Hearbs Trees and Plants 63 Birds Stones Mineral Fishes Beasts Places Weather Winds Sign Triplicity Exaltation Fall Detriment Age Angel Enemies Friends Day of the week Regions Orb Years Moneth after conception Journies Diseases c. ruled by her 64 Joy 75 why so called and charactered 77 78 significations when Lady of the Year 235 in any of the twelve Houses of Heaven 245 in any of the twelve signs 266 A time to Learn Musick 195 N. Nails of the hands or feet a time to cut them 134 No Nation but hath good and bad in it * 23 Nativities Legality questioned and condemned as vain * 3. * 6 how far maintained by the Author 38 The study of Nature and help to the Knowledge of God * 22 38 its course may be altered and how * 5 how often since the Creation ibid. No New thing under the Sun * 25 * 26 Noblemen their significator general 220 A time for applying Remedies to the Nose 164 A time for sending Children to Nurse 132 Northern Inhabitants why strong bodyed rude and fair complexioned 15 O. Objections against Astrology answered from 18 to 23 Occidental what 111 A time for making odoriferous smels 158 Opposite Aspect or an Opposition why so called and charactered 93 wherefore malevolent 92 93 Oriental what 111 P. Palaces of Kings defined with their vanity * 21 Pantaura its vertue 58 A time for obtaining pardon of King 198 Parents Carelesness reprehended * 13 their folly in bringing up Children * 8 Partile Conjunction Sextile Square Trine and Opposition what 92 Of Partnership 178 The Patient his danger by being in the hands of an unskilful Physitian 161 Patriarchs Astrologers vid. Postscript A time of peace 182 How to judge of peace in any year 282 A wonderfull thing of Pease 11 12 People their significators in Annual Judgements 215 their State and Condition 222 and from 226 to 230 Peregrination what 111 How to know the permanency of Kings States Governments or any in Authority 225 Philosophers-stone what 27 studied by the most refined spirits in all ages and why so many miss of obtaining it 139 A time for administring Physick to all the parts of the body 163 Physick denyed to Children
and decrepit age 166 Physitians ought to be well versed in Astrologie 153 the errour of most of them 136 160 the Ignorant therein accounted by the rational rather fools then Physitians 23 160 280 what is requisite to perfect them in their Art being ignorant in Astrology can never safely administer Physick nor accounted by the judicious fit to be trusted with the lives of men 161 a time for going to his Patient 171 Phlebotomy what Constellations hinder it what farther Considerations when best to refrain when to use it 170 what time of the Moon is to be observed in all Ages and Humours of men 171 A time for administring Pils 168 Pisces its Nature Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its rule 91 why ruled by Jupiter 68 why the exaltation of Venus and fall of Mercury 69 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed stars 150 Planets Influence proved 10 13 Number Names Characters 49 What time is best to plant or sow 12 A time for planting of Trees 150 Platick Conjunction Sextile Square Trine and Opposition what 92 Plenty and scarcity depend on the motions and configurations of the Planets 10 How to judge of Plenty in any Year 284 A remarkable thing of the Pomegranate 12 When Preparatives ought to be administred 164 A time for Preparing Medicines 168 A time to give Presents 155 To know the Price of any thing to be bought or sold. 146 To know the Price of any thing in any Year from 285 to 288 Pride its Cause removed * 14 A time for freeing of Prisoners 201 A time for going of Progress 198 Prohibition what 110 A time for obtaining Promises 200 When to prune and cut Vines 12 Ptolomies method in judging of Eclipses from 310 to 315 A time for pulling down what hath been built 145 A time for taking of Purges 166 A time for putting on of Apparrel 137 156 Pyrophilus its vertue 57 Q. A time for Quarrels 179 Quartile Aspect its nature why so called and charactered why unfortunate 92 Questions if radical agree with the Nativity yet both rejected as not sufficient ground-works for Elections 322 the resolution thereof as practised among us by Impostors condemned * 3 * 6 38 R. Race-horses a time for buying them 173 Rain what it is how procreated 304 never seen in Egypt 290 Rainbow the cause thereof 304 how to judge of the weather thereby 302 Four Reasons why the pretended Reply to my Lux Veritatis is not taken notice of by me 24 another reason 26 another 30 A time to receive gifts 155 Reception what 111 Regrenation what ibid. Regions under Saturn 51 subject to Jupiter 53 Ruled by Mars 55 by the Sun 59 by Venus 60 by Mercury 62 by the Moon 64 by Aries 86 by Taurus and Gemini 87 by Cancer Leo and Virgo 88 by Libra and Scorpio 89 by Sagittary and Capricorn 90 by Aquarius and Pisces 91 A time for applying Remedies to all the parts of the Body 163 A time for removing 138 A time for renting of Houses Land Fruit or ought else 149 A time for obtaining Requests 200 Retrogradation what 110 That Birds may return that are let fly 173 A time for stopping of Rheumes 164 Revolution of the Starry-sphere of Saturn Sol Venus Mercury and the Moon 7 of Jupiter and Mars 8 Revolutions of the Years of the world their portencies the Radix or ground-work from which they are to be judged 214 how many Scheams ought to be set for the judging thereof 215 Considerations before judgement 216 217 Considerations from the Sun and Moon when the Revolution is either diurnal or nocturnal 274 at Suns set or at break of day Considerations from the Lord of the hour part of fortune its Dispositor the Position of Saturn and Mars the Conjunction of Dragons head with Saturn in Aries in Taurus in Gemini 276 in Cancer in Leo in Virgo in Libra in Scorpio in Sagittary in Capricorn in Aquarius in Pisces or of Dragons tail in any of these Signs And of Mars in Conjunction with Dragons head or Dragons tail in any of the twelve signs 277 from the fixed Stars in the twelve Houses from 305 to 308 Rich-men their Significators general in Annual judgements 200 Riches wherein they consist * 12 A time for riding of Horses 202 S. Sagittary its Nature and Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its rule 90 why ruled by Jupiter 68 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 102 Saturn his Influence proved 12 c. removal out of one Sign into another cause of change of Air 9 Colour Nature Magnitude diurnal Motion Distance from the Earth 49 Humours Profession Coporature Quality of men ruled by him Savours what part in man Hearbs Trees Plants and Birds 58 Stones Minerals Fishes Beasts Places Weather Winds Signs Triplicity Angel Age Friend Enemies Regions Orb 59 is sometimes a benovolent and adjuvant Planet 124 216 his Significations when Lord of the Year 234 in any of the twelve Houses of Heaven 237 238 in any of the twelve Signs from 249 to 253 when Lord of an Eclipse 313 Scarcity of any year how to judge of it 284 A time for setting of Children to School 132 Scorpio its Nature and Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its rule 89 why ruled by Mars 68 why the fall of the Moon 69 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 011 Second Book its subject * 2 Seconds how many in a minute 79 A time for sowing of Seeds 151 Self-endedness reprehended * 14 A time for selling to gain thereby 137 Of selling and buying ibid. Separation what 110 A time for hiring Servants 172 Seth an Astrologer Epist. Dedic 1. vid. Postscript Sextile Aspect its nature why so called and charactered benevolent 92 A time for building of Ships 194 When the Sick is not likely to recover 198 How to judge of Sickness in any year 280 Significations of Saturn and Jupiter when Lords of the Year in any Annual Revolution 234 when rulers of an Eclipse 313 of Mars the Sun Venus Mercury and the Moon when Lords or Ladies of the Year 235 Mars Venus and Mercury when rulers of an Eclipse 314 in any of the twelve Houses or Signs from 237 to 268 in their exaltations or mutual aspects 269 270 exalted one above another from 271 to 273 of Dragons head and tail 247 of the Planets in any Triplicity 248 Significators of the King People and their Enemies in any Annual Revolution 219 of all sorts of People 220 Signs what they are why called Signs how many degrees in a Sign how many Minutes in a degree how many Seconds in a Minute how many Miles or Furlongs a Sign consisteth of 79 their Names and Characters Divisions 81 why so called and
charactered 83 c. why reckoned from Aries and not placed in the Heavens according to the order of the four Elements 85 A time to learn to Sing 196 Sinister Aspect what it is its nature 93 A time for buying of small Cattel 173 of taming of them 174 A time for making sweet Smels 150 A time for administring Sneezings 165 Snow what it is 304 Southern Inhabitants why quickwitted 15 A time for ridding houses of Spirits 151 A time to purge the Spleen 168 Spring-time the cause thereof 9 11 Square Aspect its Nature why so called and charactered why malevolent 92 Standard-bearers their significators 220 Stars portencies what * 4 cause of sterility and fertility proved by the Word of GOD 5 most effectual and never perverted but by miracle * 4 both Signs and Causes warranted by the word of GOD 35 influence proved 3 6 10 11 14 15 16 17 18 maintained by sacred writ in spite of its Antagonists 23 31 and 33 The Annual motion of the Starry-sphere 7 10 Stationary what 110 Sterility and fertility on what they depend 10 how to judge thereof in any Year 284 A time for Storming Castles and Towns 182 To know the Strength of any Planet in any Sign 66 A time for Studying divine matters or ought else 141 Summer the cause thereof 9 11 why not alike hot every Year 9 what Physick is therein most safe to be taken 166 Sun his Influence proved 10 18 his nature complexion magnitude distance from the Earth mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Quality of men 56 Corporature Savours Colours Part in man Hearbs Spice Trees Birds Stones 57 Minerals Fishes Beasts Weather Places Winds Sign Triplicity Exaltation Fall Detriment Age Angel Friends Enemies 58 Day of the week Regions Orb Moneth after conception Years Diseases 59 Significations when Lord of the Year 235 in any of the twelve Houses 241 his Presence or Absence not alone the cause of heat or cold 9 Mock-Suns the reason thereof 303 under the Sunbeams what 111 Superiour what ibid. T. Tables of the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of the most notable fixed Stars in every Sign from 94 to 105 of the Essential dignities of the Planets according to Ptolomy or rather an unknown Author 95 of their fortitude and debilities 66 c. of the Aspects of the Moon to the other Planets and Elections thereby 129 of the mansions of the Moon 130 A time for Taming small Cattel 174 Taurus its Nature Quality Corporature 86 Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its rule 87 why ruled by Venus 68 why the Exaltation of the Moon 69 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 95 Term what it is wherefore so called and why so attributed to the Planets 71 their use 72 Terms of Art explained 110 c. A time for apprehending Thieves 184 to make them confess truth 185 Third book its subject * 2 Thirds how many in a second 79 Thunder what it is 304 A time for Tilling the ground 148 A time to cut Timber to keep long 12 What Time is best to use Physick 166 Phlebotomie 170 A Time for all things under the Sun 145 A convenient time to set Children to a Trade 132 Tradition in some kind censured * 3 * 6 Translation what 111 Translation of light among the Planets and what is thereby portended in Revolutions 279 A time for planting of Trees 150 Trine aspect its Nature why so called and charactered 93 why good and benevolent 92 93 Triplicity what it is how many how nominated by what Planet ruled and wherefore 70 Tydes not so apparent in the Atlantick Sea as in others and why in some places they are hindred 11 V. Venereal sports a time for them 178 A time for applying Ventosies 170 Venus her Nature Complexion Magnitude Distance from the Earth mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Quality of men 58 Coporature Part of man Beasts Hearbs Spice Trees Perfumes Birds Stones Mineral Fishes Weather Winds Places Signs Triplicity Day of the week Regions Years Diseases ruled by her her Age Angel Exaltation Fall Detriment Enemy Friends 60 her joy 75 why so called and charactered 77 is sometimes a malevolent and interficient Planet 124 216 Significations when Lady of the Year 235 in the twelve Houses 243 in the twelve Signs from 261 to 263 when Lady of an Eclipse 314 How to order the matter for Victory 179 How to judge of Victory in any year 282 When to prune and cut Vines 12 Virgo its Nature Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its rule 88 why ruled by Meâ—cury 68 why his exaltation and fall of Venus 69 the Number Names Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 99 Vertue of Hearbs Stones Minerals Drugs and other Medicinal things how found out 280 Vnfortunate Planets 127 A time for making of Vnguents 158 A time for Voyaging 195 Void of Course what 111 W. A time for War 179 to judge of the event 181 how to judge of it in any year where and when it shall happe 281 who shall be the beginner thereof 283 A time to bring Water to an House by pipe or otherwaies 148 A time for Weaning of Children 133 Weather how to judge of it from 288 to 303 A time for digging of Wells 148 How to know the Whisperings of any two 185 Will of any one if to be altered or stand in force and how to judge of the state thereof 189 How to Win at any game 186 Wind what it is 304 Winter the cause thereof 9 11 why not all alike cold 9 what physick is therein best to be taken 166 Women their significators general 220 their Darling toys described * 19 Word of God the chiefest Good * 22 World how governed by GOD since he finished his six days work * 5.4 ruled by Planets 328 the vanity thereof in general * 7 its description and vanity more particularly from * 14 to * 19 turned topfie turvy * 17 Writing of Letters a time therefore 158 Y. Year whether likely to be turbulent or obnoxious 278 plentiful or scarce 284 Greater Years of the Planets how known 71 Youth and its vanity and folly described * 9 * 10 From my Study at my Fathers House in Holborn within two doors of the wounded Heart near the Kings Gate this 17 of January 1652. FINIS Reader AS in all Volumes you shall finde the Printers faults so in this by reason it is a work wherewith they are unacquainted mayest thou abundantly finde their failings which I would intreat thee candidly to pass by and amend with thy pen before thou adventurest to read the same especially or that some are so gross and absurd they may otherwise lead thee into an errour unless thou art well acquainted with this manner of learning I have put the fault all along according as it should be amended in a different letter