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A57689	Astrologia restaurata, or, Astrologie restored being an introduction to the general and chief part of the language of the stars : in four books ... / by VVilliam Ramesey, Gent. ...	Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6.; Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6. Introduction to the iudgement of the stars.; Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6. Introduction to elections.; Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6. Astrologia munda.	1653 (1653)	Wing R201; ESTC R20735	479,753	423

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 twelve signs in any Annual Revolution 274 Chap. 4. Teaching how to iudge of the evill of any year the nature thereof and when the year is most likely to be turbulent obnoxious and unfortunate also what is portended by any Revolution when one Planet transfers his light and nature to another 278 Chap. 5. Shewing how to judge of health or sickness in any year 280 Chap. 6. How of wars or peace Idem Chap. 7. Of fertility and sterility 284 Chap. 8. Teaching how to know the price of any thing in any year 285 Chap. 9. Containing some Instructions touching the alteration of the Ayr and change of weather in any year 288 Chap. 10. Shewing how to judge of the weather by the Aspects of the Moon to the other Planets and by the several Aspects of the Planets amongst themselves 290 Chap. 11. Demonstrating the alteration of the Ayr by the Combustion Orientality and Occidentality of the Planets in every of the twelve signs of Heaven 292 Chap. 12. 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 294 Chap. 13. Teaching by other rules how to judge of the alteration of the ayr and to know when rain is to be expected 296 Chap. 14. Shewing Haly his judgement on weather and the alteration of the Ayr 298 Chap. 15. Shewing how to judge of weather from common Observation of the rising and setting of the ●un colour of the Moon appearance of the Rain-bow Comets Clouds brightness of the fixed Stars also by the prime day and from the time of the day wherein thunder happeneth 302 Chap. 16. Demonstrating the natural causes 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 Moons Eclipse 303 Chap. 17 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 305 SECT IV. Teaching how to judge of the natural mutations and accidents of this Elementary World by the appearance of Eclipses Comes great Conjunctions and Blazing-stars CHAP. I. Containing Ptolomies method in judging Eclipses and how to know the Regions to which the Effects belong 310 Chap. 2. Shewing the time when the Effects of any Eclipse shall begin and how long continue Idem Chap. 3. Of the kindes of Events of any Eclipse 311 Chap. 4. Of the quality of the Events of any Eclipse whether good or evil 312 Chap. 5. Of the Sun and Moon eclipsed in any Decanate or Face of the twelve Coelestial signs 315 Chap. 6. Of Comets and Blazing-Stars what they are the many sorts thereof their Portences and how long they appear at any time 318 Chap. 7. Shewing the Physical reasons of the horrid and terrible portencies of Comets and Blazing Stars 320 Chap. 8. Shewing some other names of Comets or Blazing-Stars and their Portencies 321 Chap. 9. Of the signification of Comets and Blazing-Stars appropriated to the seven Planets 323 Chap. 10. Shewing the significations of Comets when they appear in any of the twelve signs of Heaven 324 Chap. 11. Of great Conjunctions their Number and how to judge of their Effects 327 Chap. 12. Of the Conjunctions of the superiours 328 Chap. 13. Of the mean and lesser Conjunctions and their effects 329 Chap. 14. Of the Conjunction of the Planets in the twelve signs according to Hermes 330 Chap. 15. Shewing how to iudge of the general accidents of the World by the falling of New-Years Day 332 FINIS An INDEX pointing to the chief matters contained in this Volume This mark * before any figure points you to the folio in the first EPISTLE to the READER A ABraham an Astrologer Epist Ded. 1 Postscript folio 4. The first that taught the Egyptians the knowledge of the Stars Ibid. Abuse of any thing taketh not away the use thereof among the Learned * 3 Abuses cast upon the Author by the penners of the pretended Reply to his Lux Veritatis and he vindicated from them all from folio 26 to 29. their juglings and evasions discovered 29 Acute diseases how ruled 11 Adam an Astrologer notwithstanding Mr. Gatakers evasions in his Annotations on Jer. 10. ver 2. put forth by the Synod Epist Ded. 1 Postscript and for the clearing of the Text to that aforesaid Lux Veritatis Chap. 3. Sect. 5 Ayrs alteration how to judge thereof from 288 to 303 by general significators 288 289 by opening of Gates 290 by the aspects of the Moon to the other Planets 291 by the Planets mutual aspects 291 292 Orientallity Occidentallity and combustion in the 12 signs 292 293 by the application of the Moon to the other Planets having separated from the conjunction of the Sun 294 295 Aphorisms 296 Ordinary signs and tokens 297 by Haly his judgement from 298 to 302 by the rising and setting of the Sun the colour of the Moon the Rainbow and by the appearance of Comets 302 by Clouds Stars Prime day c. 303 Aeties a stone so called its vertue 57 Afflictions portended by revolutions the nature thereof and from whence it shall arise 275 Age decrepit prohibited physick 166 Age of those that are not to use Phebotomie 170 What time of the Moon it availeth 171 A time for making of Agreements 178 A time for any work in the art of Alchimy 179 A time for All things under the Sun 145 Almuten what 111 Alterations in the world occasioned by Ecclipses of either Luminary and why 308 by Comets 319 and why 320 A time for Anointing to remove superfluous hair 169 Antiscience of the Planets their force how to know them 76 Aphorisms conducing to the judging of Elections from 122 to 128 shewing how to judge of the condition of Kings People or any other what accidents are to happen them and at what time in any year from 221 to 224 more particularly of the People from 226 to 230 Apishness in men reprehended * 18 Excess of Apparel in the vulgar condemned * 19 A time for putting on of Apparrel 137. 156 Appearance of many Suns and Moons the reason thereof 303 Application what 110 A time for Applying Medicines to all the parts of the body 163 Aquaries its nature and quality 90 Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and part in man under its rule 91 why ruled by Saturn 68 the number names nature magnitude latitude and longitude of its most notable fixed stars 294 Aries its nature and quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and part in man under its rule 86 why governed by Mars 68 why the exaltation of the Sun and fall of Saturn 69 the number names nature magnitude latitude and longitude of its most notable fixed stars 94 Armour-bearers their significators general in annual judgments 220 A time for buying Arms. 184 Ascendant why so called 107 Asia its inhabitants the reason

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