see how miserably they beg the Question and when a Person is dead how they run from one thing to another the Ascendent the Sun Moon to any ill Aspect of a Malesick nay and sometimes of a Benefick too shall serve their turn or the Canda Draconis or the Midheaven it self directed for Death which is very rarely and will quadrate but in some special cases which I fear they do not understand Thus rather than fail to have some Direction or other which contents them they turn the Figure topsy-turvy and remove it from East to West most confidently from any Estimate Time and how can they then miss of something to humour them As very lately an ignorant Reformer of Astrology hath impudently removed the present French King's Ascendent from the middle of Scorpio his confessed Horoscope by all learned men ever since he was born to the middle of Virgo to suit it with a new Crotchet of his own too ridiculous to mention thereby shamefully anticipating the true Birth almost 6 hours in time These things give great Advantages to the Adversaries of this noble Science when they see such discrepancâ— between the Practisers of it and with what pitiful shifts some of them do satisfie themselves taking non causam pro causa and contradicting themselves in every other Nativity for they are not constant to any one Rule And if they please sometimes to kill a man by the Sun under the Earth to the Square of Saturn they will be so kind to let another man escape it and the Ascendent to the Body of Saturn or the Moon no way qualified to be Hileg to the Square of Mars shall kill him when if they understood Ptolomy there is but one principal Giver of Life which is the Hileg and who that is there are Rules to agree upon tho' some skill in chusing him And this must be the standing Principle in all Genitures whatsoever All the rest and running from one Point to another the Ascendent Sun Moon Part of Fortune and what they please when not endowed with Aphetical Qualifications are all nonsense and adulterate Notions not Sterling Astrology and no more the cause of the Death of a man or the length of his Life than as our Kentish Proverb hath it Tenterden Steeple is the Cause of Goodwin 's Sands How many false Genitures are given about and how many are made false by bungling Artists to turn them to their own Lesbian Rules is incredible The voluminous number of Genitures in Junâ—tine in Origanus Garcaeus and others I perfectly believe not a tenth part true and some hundreds published by our modern Authors most took upon trust and will notabide the Touchstone I may say of the Orthodox and Primitive Astrology This hath plung'd many good and able Artists in the Mire whence striving to get out they ran for Refuge to new-invented Fancies and Chimaeras of their own and so fighting with a Phantome broach'd those Heretical Tenets and Opinions which we meet with in their Tracts This makes some despair of fixing the true Art after many years Study and Labour and this makes others turn absolute Recusants and I believe was the only cause made Sixtus ab Heminga turn Apostate For it is true and will be true in all ages what Cardan complained of in his Filii supposititii Nativitates falsae turbaverunt judicia â—mnium Astrologorum And Multae Geniturae vel ludo vel etiam consulto falso circumferuntur But tho' this be a great and incurable Mischief yet with wise and unprejudiced men it hath no more reason to impeach the Genuine Art of Astrology than that Heresies do stain the lustre of Divinity Quacks and Mountebanks blemish the Art of Physick and perhaps kill more than they cure and the corrupt petti-fogging Lawyer disparageth the Profession of the Law If the foundation be false or weak the superstructure must needs fall If the Nativity be false given if no such person was born at that time if the Heavens and Planets were quite otherwise disposed what wonder is it if the Artist shoot wide of the mark and his Judgment agree with nothing either in Life or Death But this Obâ—èr the thing I meant to tax was the mistaken point of the true Hilâ—g so little understood or regarded by some Practicers tho' otherwise learned It hath been as strange as grievous to see the Confusion and Contradiction which hath appeared in publick among several who are Writers and call themselves Authors in this Art with what bitterness they contradict one another and every one sets up their own Whimsies and Fancies and yet pretend to be the only Searchers after Truth and that they only contend for Truth tho' at the same time they do nothing indeed but gratifie their own revengeful Humor in Railing and ill Language Who have been the first aggressâ—rs in this kind let them take it to themselves But besides the Scandal which this hath created to the Aâ—t with learned and disinterested men the errors on both sides hath yet dishonoured it more of which tho I am sure some of themselves are convinced yet they have not the Ingenuity to confess or recant them as publickly as they vented them which if they were all pursuers and enquirers after Truth only as they pretend they would do and lay aside their private Animosities and this they would think no shame or reflection upon themselves if they imitated the learned and ingenious Cardan who confessed he had erred but despising the Pride of Vain-glory for Truth 's sake recanted and declared it to Posterity Ego aliâs erravi feci errare multos sed nostrae sinceritatis seâ—per fuit magis diligere veritatem quà m gloriam vel utilitatem Quod enim alii magno dedecori sibi ascriberent fateri tam ingentem errorem atque diutuâ—num nos pro gloria insigni ducimus calcasse fastum existimationis ob veritatem Behold the Ingenuity and Candor of the most learned man of his age which if I could I would recommend to all who think themselves able to write to imitate and then it would fare well with Astrology and we might hope to see it grow to more and more Perfection and Reputation every age Your Treatise affords many other material things besides the pursuit of the true Hileg in the management of a Nativity worth observing and imitating too which escape many Practicers and are slighted by some who think themselves too old or are too proud to learn and others who are to dull to understand I shall not so much as mention them it not being my business or design and because I have been too prolix already and they are obvious to every intelligent Reader But I am perswaded that all gentile learned and unprejudiced Artists will give you thanks for so ingenious a piece publishâ—d to the worâ—d not out of a disposition to carp at other men's Labours who have deserved very well also by their endeavours but
Issue of Life and Death is lodged there without some better Proof than I have yet met with to convince me and to say the Truth the common Astrologers have foisted in so many idle Fooleries that they are never to seek for a Cause let the Case be what it will but especially in Death concerning which the only thing that remains yet undetermined is to know beforehand which of all the Lethiferos Causes shall give Death Whether Revolutions Transits Eclipses Alfrydaries Profections Climacterical Years or any of the other Chimera's that they so often talk of but not a Man of them will venture to predict Death on any one of these Causes no nor on half a dozen of them they believe them so well And now give me Leave not to part with you in the Dark about this matter but shew you how I understand Climacterical Years and from what Cause they derive their Power and by what measure of Years they are to be understood Climacters are not from a Mystery in Numbers as some vainly think but from the Motion of the Moon and therefore sometimes it is the Sixth and sometimes the Seventh Year according as the Moon is swift or slow so that Critical Days in Diseases and Climacterical Years have both the same Foundation only one is a Measure in Days and the other in Years Thus suppose one born the 12th of March at Noon 1694 5. the Moon then is in 00 degrees in Cancer when she comes into 00 degrees in Libra by telling the Days and the pâ—â—ts of a Day if you will be so exact it shews â—ou when the first Climâ—cter is which will be at the Age of 7 Years and almost 5 Months The second will be at almost 14 Years of Age the third at a little above 20 the fourth begins at 27 and 3 Months c. So that the Age of 42 is not a Climacter but 41 nor 63 but 62 is the dangerous time as supposed And yet for all this it signifies nothing at last unless the Hileg at the same time is directed to the Rays of a Violent Star which if so it addeth to the Danger of Death and when the Causes or Arguments on both sides seem to be equal in guiding your Judgment you may consider this as one and that is all the Use I ever make of it And I believe when you have taken as much Pains on the matter as I have done you will not be far different from me in the Conclusion When in a Nativity the Hileg shall be directed to the III Rays of a Malefick Star and that this Direction begins to work in a Climacterical Year it hath the same Effect and Power on the Life of a Man in Health and Vigour in order to a Change for the worse as the Moon hath on a Sick Man when she passeth by the ill Rays of the Sun Saturn Mars on a Critical Day And to say all in a Word Climacterical Years are the same in Nativities that Critical Days are in Decumbitures and as I have already told you they are both from the same Cause the Moon and her Motion And if any one else will be pleased to let us understand them in any other way that is intelligible I am not too old to learn and shall be ready to withdraw this my Judgment when my Reason shall be better Informed But methinks I hear some pert Capriciâ— object and say What! do you allow the Crisis and the Climacter to be both from the same Cause and yet allow the one to kill and the other not Yes that is my Assertion and yet if you will have but Patience to hear I will make that clear also for that is my next thing to insist on Critical Days in acute Diseases are only Time of Judging the good or ill State of the Patient because then both the Disease and Nature exeâ—t their â—ower to the utmost and the Superior carries the Point for the most part especiâ—lly if the same carries it in two successive Cryâ—es if the Patient lives so long but if the Dâ—cumbiture be viâ—leâ—t and the first Crisis so likewise they generally dye about or near the first Crisis and yet this is not caused by the Crisis but by the Fury of the Direction or Directions that give the Disease For if the Direction is not mortal a bad Crisis tho' never so ill â—hall not kill So likewise in Climacterâ—cal Years though it be that of 63. the most celebrated of all yet if no bad Direction concur the Native shall not then dye For if it did or doth certainly kill no man would live beyond that Year which we see daily contradicted Therefore when it doth kill it must be from some other superior Cause assisting it or rather giving it Power as it doth that of Critical Days I could say much more on this subject were it proper here and because I think I have sufficiently spoke to what I promised I shall conclude only advise those that would read more on both these Subjects to have recourse to Origanus pag. 770. de Effectibus Franciscus de Bonattis lib. cap. 14. 16. of his Astrosâ—phia Didac Prit in his Coelestis Philosophia lib. 1. cap. 19. where you may see that he calls them by no other Name than Anni Critici or Critical Years CHAP. XI Of Heliocentrick Aspects and Directions c. AMong all the Fooleries that have been set on foot to puzzle the Cause and make people stare this is not one of the least though it be one of the last and most groundless of all and carries no Reason in it self to make any man that hath the Use of his Senses believe that it any ways concerns us Geocentricks any more than those Aspects c. made or beheld at the Body of Saturn or the Moon And if the Interest of those that promote the Whim have Power to delude Mankind into the belief of it we may shortly expect to hear some mighty Champion asserting the Truth of the Chronocentricks Zeuocentricks Areocentricks and Selenâ—centricks and all of them maintained and justified with Reason and Truth equal to the Heliocentricks and indeed full as useful to help out at a dead lift when nothing else will do as we have seen already in a Nativity where we are told That the Earth was directed to the Heliocentrick Placâ— of Mars He might as well have told us That he saw a man with a Pot-Gun kill an invisible Ox and I should have been as ready to believe the one as the other For if we should allow the Earth to be directed which is real Nonsense will they direct it to a Point or Body not visible from the Earth For we see Mars in 25 degrees of Libra and at the same time they say his Heliocentrick place is where they direct him in that example in 17 degrees of Libra yet no Soul upon the Earth could see him in that degree at that time but he was to be seen
Native did live And after this came up the Mundane Square of Saturn to the Sun thus The distance of the Sun from the Cusp of the Tenth is 24 degrees 5 minutes the distance of Saturn from the Cusp of the Ascendent is 62 degrees 27 minutes now by the Rule of Proportion I say if 17 degrees 58 minutes gives 24 degrees 5 minutes what shall 19 degrees 29 minutes give 26 degrees 7 minutes which is the part proportional to be substracted from 62 degrees 27 minutes Saturn's primary distance from the Ascendent and it leaves the Ark of Direction 36 degrees 20 minutes And these two Directions to the Hileg will appear much more likely to give Death I mean to one that understands it than the Ascendent to the Body of Mars which is but a Sham Direction and nothing in it Argoll tells us Leonora Dutchess of Sfortia was born the 12th of March at 7 of the Clock at Night 1570. sub Polo 43 R. A. of the Midheaven 107 degrees 19 minutes and that she dyed on the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Moon Mars to the Tâ—ine of Venus and the Sun to the Square of Venus That she was taken the last day of November at Night with great Pain in the Reins and Ureters and Suppression of Urine attended with a slight Fever and on the 17th of December she dyed being aged 64 years and 9 months 1634. Among his 117 Nativities he kills two on the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Moon and they are this Lady for one and Cardinal Burghesius for the other In the first the Moon is Hileg but in the last she is not so that the Mystery is not lodged in that point And he lets six pass the same Direction without dying or so much as telling us a reason for it And they are Gaspar Cardinal Matteus who had his Moon in the Eighth Duke Bernard Veimarius whose Nativity see before Pope Gregory XV. Domina Foelix Gloveria where the Moon was Lady of the Eighth Cardinal Cobellutius who had the Moon in the Eighth and Cardinal Viâ—ilis who had the Moon there also These all escaped on that Direction And for the other Direction of the Sun to the Square of Venus it looks so notoriously like a Sham that I am loth to observe it there being so many among his Geniture that have passed that Direction untoucht either with Sickness or Death And among those I will name only Four of them Pope Sixtus V. Pope Gregory XV. Cardinal Richelieu Feltrius Duke of Urbin with a great many more too great a number to name He also makes use of another Direction and that is the Moon to the Opposition of Jupiter Lord of the Sixth House but this as well as the Square of Venus are so far from killing that they would have saved had either the Sun or Moon been Hileg Thus by comparing one with another you see what Credit is to be given to those Directions that our Author says kill'd her which you find he will not allow to hold in other Nativities and therefore suspicious here Nor doth he tell us whether he lays the stress on the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Moon or the Moon to the Seventh House but in his way if the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Moon could kill now why did not the Body of Saturn do it when she was young Sometimes the Sextile and Trine of Saturn will kill and sometimes the Body and Opposition will not and is not this a sorry sort of Astrology But to what purpose do they talk of a Hileg and never use it All Authors write of it all Practitioners can speak the word but to this day I could never find any of them keep to it except the Learned Placidus who follows Ptolemy strictly In this Lady's Nativity the Moon is most certainly Hileg and because it is a curious case and comes under that Rule of Ptolemy concerning Addition and Substraction in his 14th Chapter of the Third Book I will take the pains to correct the Figure and shew you how naturally it doth answer to the Rule in that Case and the time of her Death The correct Scheme is this that follows and differs but 6 minutes from his mine being 6 hours 54 minutes and his 7 hours P. M. his 13 degrees of Libra and mine 12 degrees ascending 'T is needless I think to quote Authors to prove the Moon Hileg I suppose every one will readily grant that the Moon within two degrees and an halâ— of the Cusp of the Ninth House must be allowed Giver of Life in a Nocturnal Nativity and so she is here and seeing we have no other accident but Death we must endeavour to prove her Death by rational Causes and find such Directions as are suitable to give those Disorders that she complain'd of before her Death which were Pains with a Suppression of Urine and for these I say she had the Sun to the Mundane Squâ—re of Mars that gave the beginning of her Disease but the mortal Directions were the Moon to the Cusp of the Seventh and to the Mundane Parallel of Saturn which I thus work The Oblique Ascention of the Moon under the Pole of Birth is 263 degrees 17 minutes her distance from the Cusp of the Seventh House is 68 degrees 13 minutes which Ark I thus adjust according to the Doctrine of Ptolemy in the place before quoted by Addition and Substraction Thus I first observe how many Rays of the Benefick Stars fall between the Cusp of the Seventh and the Body of the Moon these increase the Native's years and must be added to the Ark of Direction Then I observe what Rays of the Maleficks are likewise projected in that place for they diminish the number of years and must be substracted from the Ark of Direction each of them first wrought in proportion to its Ark c. And to this purpose I find Venus casteth a Sextile to the Seventh her Quintile and her Square Jupiter casteth his Quintile and Quartile thither Saturn sendeth his Opposition his Biquintile and Sesquiquadrate The Sun his Semiquadrate and Mars his Square I might have taken notice of Mercury but that I do not find him joyn'd either to a Benefick or Malefick and therefore pass him by for Ptolemy's words are Mercurius vero Utris Adjunctus fuerit hos Adjuvabit But in the Table following you may see a Synopsis of the whole Calculation Cuspis 7. directa Aspects Ar. D. pa. pr. ad Sextâ—lem ♀ 4 16 0 21 ad Quinti ♃ 4 43 0 23 ad Quintol ♀ 18 20 1 32 ad Quadrat ♃ 26 39 2 13 ad Quadrat ♀ 39 10 3 16 Arcui Directi Addendae 7 45 Cuspis 7. directa ad Oppositi ♄ 8 46 0 44 ad Semiqua ☉ 29 42 2 32 ad Biquint ♄ 43 4 3 37 ad Quadrat ♂ 44 56 3 55 ad Sesquiquad ♄ 51 4â— 4 20 Ab Arcu Directi Subtraâ—end 15 â— In the Right-hand Table you see
Fortunae ad â–³ ♂ 20 23 22 5 1709 Luna ad âš¹ ♄ Zod. cum lat 21 35 23 7 1710 Luna ad paral ♂ mâ—tu raâ—to 22 00 24 0 1711 Pars Fortunae ad âš¹ ♀ 22 10 24 2 1711 Mâ—dium Coeli ad âš¹ ♃ 23 8 25 6 1712 Luna ad â–³ ♀ in Zod cum lâ—t 24 16 26 8 1713 Luna ad â–³ ♃ in Zod sine lat 24 20 26 9 1713 Ascendens ad sâ—miquad ☉ 24 50 27 3 1714  Ark. Measur A. C. Luna ad Cor Leonis sine lat 25 47 28 3 1715 Sol ad â–³ ♂ in Zod. 28 37 31 3 1718 Sol ad paral ♃ motu rapto 29 47 32 5 1719 Luna ad â–³ ♃ in Zod. cum lat 30 48 33 5 1720 Sol ad â–¡ ♂ in Mundo d. d. 30 48 33 5 1720 Luna ad sesquiqu ♂ Mun. d. d. 31 12 33 10 1721 Luna ad â–³ ♂ in Zod. sine la. 32 13 34 10 1722 Luna ad Câ—r Lâ—nois cum lat 32 14 34 10 1722 Ascendens ad semiquad ♃ 32 47 35 4 1722 Ascendens ad sesquiqua ♄ 33 37 36 9 1723 Luna ad paral ♂ Mund. d d. 34 45 37 11 1725 Sol ad â–³ ♃ in Mundo d. d. 35 17 38 5 1725 Ascendens ad 8 ☽ 36 28 39 7 1726 Sol ad âš¹ ☽ in Zod. 37 22 40 6 1728 Medium Coeli ad âš¹ ♂ 37 44 41 0 1728 Pars Fortunae ad âš¹ ☽ 38 15 41 6 1728 Luna ad â–³ ♂ in Zod. cum la 38 34 41 10 1728 Sol ad paral ♂ motu rapto 38 39 41 11 1729 Luna ad paral ♃ Mun. d. c. 39 47 43 1 1730 Medium Coeli ad â–³ ☿ 40 10 43 6 1730 Medium Coeli ad â–³ ☉ 40 45 44 2 1731 Luna ad â–³ ♂ in Mundo 40 45 44 2 1731 Pars Fortunae ad â–¡ ☿ 41 00 44 5 1731 Pars Fortunae ad â–¡ ☉ 43 8 46 7 1733 Sol ad sâ—squiquâ—◠♃ Mun. d. d 44 56 48 5 1735 Ascendens ad semiquad ♂ 45 17 48 8 1735 Luna ad â–¡ ♃ in mund d. d 45 49 49 2 1736 Luna ad 8 ☿ in Zod. sin lat 46 5 49 8 1736 Luna ad 8 ☉ in Zâ—d sine lat 47 11 50 10 1737 Luna ad â–¡ ☉ in mundo d. c. 47 12 50 10 1737 Sol ad â–¡ ☽ in mundo d. d. 47 12 50 10 1737 Med. Coeli ad âš¹ ♄ 48 17 51 11 1738 Sol ad â–³ ♂ in Mundo d d. 49 00 52 6 1739 Luna ad â–¡ ♂ in Zodiaco â—l 49 20 53 0 1740 Sol ad parall ♃ in Mun. d. d. 49 46 53 5 1740 Luna ad 8 ☿ Zod. c. l. 51 00 54 8 1741 Luna ad ♂ ♄ in Zod. s. lat 51 35 55 3 1742 Luna ad 8 ☉ in Zod. c. lat 52 3 55 9 1742 Med. Coeli ad â–³ ☽ 53 16 57 00 1744  Ark Measure A. C. Sol ad âš¹ proprium in Zod. 5322 571 1744 Luna ad parall ♄ in Zod. 5335 574 1744 Pars Fort ad parall ♄ in Zod. 5335 574 1744 Luna ad â–¡ ♂ in Zod. c. lat 5413 5711 1745 Luna ad parall â— in Zod. 5616 5900 1746 ☽ ad corpus ♄ in Zod. c. lat 5620 591 1746 Medium Coeli ad corpus ♃ 6200 648 1751 Ascendens ad â–¡ ♃ 6200 648 1751 From the Position preceding these Directions are wrought there might have been more but these are sufficient for the end and purpose I do them for In the Scheme you have the Regal Sign Sagitary Ascending and Jupiter Lord of it placed in the Horoscope which is no small Argument of a just prudent and bountiful Disposition and Temper The Virgins Spike on the Angle of Honour And to add to this there are Five Planets in Cardinal Signs which add to his pregnant Parts Spirit and Fortune And because I have not seen a more illustrious Geniture both as to Positions and Directions I do resolve to handle this Nativity in a methodical way and speak something largely on the most material Passages Fortunes and Occurrences of this hopeful young Gentleman's Life and at last to give my Opinion of his Terminus Viâ—ae and what according to Astrological Rules will be the cause thereof And so I proceed to give my Judgment on these particulars following I. Of Life Manners Temper Ingenuity c. As to his Life I judge he will live to years of Perfection and Maturity and not dye young because Jupiter guards his Asâ—endent the Sun is in Conjunction with Venus the Part of Fortune is in Aspect to Jupiter the Sun's Dispositor is strong in the Ascendent but above all the Moon who is Lux Temporiâ— and Givâ—r of Life in the Scheme is no ways afflicted either by Position or Direction for many years to come His Manners Inclination c. are to be considered from the Signs as well as the Planets but especially from Mercury and the Moon And in this case we must consider Mercury by his Latitude is in Aries and the only Planet the Moon applies to Jupiter Lord of the Ascendent is in it and Mercury is in Square to Mars applying Hence I judge he will be of a Fair Generous Easy Temper in his Conversation and very Ingenious subject to a little Passiâ—n because Mercury is in Square to Mars and the Moon in Parallel with Mars Just because Jupiter is in the Ascendent Popularly Ingenious and desiâ—â—vs of publick Business because of Five Planets in Cardinal Signs Inconstant because a double-bodied Sign Ascends and Jupiter Lord thereof in a double-bodied Sign also and in the Ascendent And in this case Mâ—rcury is disputable In general it is impossible but that this Native must and will be of a very losty soaâ—ing ambitious and something too haughty a Spirit because of Five Planets essentially dignified Five Planets I â—â—y say Sâ—x for Mercury by his Latitude is got into Aries in Cardinal â—igns and Jupiter who is himself strong in the Ascendent which is as good as a Seventh Which Positions indeâ—d will have great and eminent Influence upon his Fortune as well as upon his Tempâ—r and Disposition But this Haughtiness and Aspiring after some years will be much corrected and abated by the Wisdom of Jupiter and the Gravity of Saturn after the first fervour of his Youth is over not to insist that the Mâ—on 's Application to the Trine of Mercury and the Sun mâ—st needs give him a sound Judgment and Consideration and a Decorum in all his Actions Besides the Constitution of the Luminaries as Cardan saith in his own Nativity Secundâ—m Naturam alterius scilicet in signo Masculino alterius in Foeminino as they are in this Nativâ—s indicat ut circâ— actiâ—nes naturales sit absque reprehensiâ—â—e Honour and a sense of Reputation will sway his chiefest Conduct But these so strong and dignified Positions being in violent Aspects for the most part will make him also Proud
Heaven and those immediately concerned in his Honour and Preferment are under the Earth and some of them Cadent But take Cardan's Opinion in this Case Cum Sol Jupiter Luna bene disponuntur cum fixis fuerint fortunatis Directiones ad tempus juventutis bonae terminantur plâ—res Revolutiones fortunatae tunc heros maximus vir evadit Lib de Judi Geniturarum Cap. 26 Cardini Si Sol Jupiter Mars vel Saturnus in trigono igneo fuerit vel in locis sublimibus vel cum fixis nobilibus vel se aspâ—ientes erit natus magni nominis ratione patentiae Et si Sol cum Joâ—â— Mercurio in aereis eodem modo fuerit ratione industriae Seg. 3. Aphâ—ris 135. Cardani VI. Of his Friends and Friendship Enemies and Imprisonment It is most certain that every popular man must naturally contract Friendship and Envy Friends and Enemies and I dare engage that this Native will have a large share in both as all men meet with that have such Positions from Cardinal Signs and Violent Rays and were not Jupiter strong in his Ascendent and the Moon in Trine to the Sun both in Mundo Zodiaco he would feel the Fury of his Enemies more than the Favour of his Friends He will have Enemies and those malicious ones but his Friends and the Friendship he will receive will screen and defend him from the greatest of their Fury and yet his Enemies no small people neither Notwithstanding I think the Square of the Sun and Mars and the Opposition of Sâ—turn to the Sun and Venus will give him Troubles yet they will be in the latter part of his Life and not attended with Imprisonment or Confinement for Jupiter in his Ascendent will defend both his Person and Reputation And it is my Opinion That in all Nativities that have such popular Positions as this Native hath he must have many Friends and also many Enemies and both sorts men of great and eminent Quality but Jupiter in his own House in the Ascendent will give him that obliging Temper that will make his Friends the greater number by far by his fair and genteel Carriage VII Of his Sickness and Diseases Losses Troubles c. In this case the Great Ptolâ—my adviseth us to consider the Two Angles of East and West and whether the Luminaries are there and joyned to either of the Maleficks which in this Scheme you see is not so but on the contrary Jupiter defends the prime Angle and doth irradiate the other with his opposite Rays Nor is there any Malefick in the Sixth House afflicting or afflicted which by our Author is much to be minded in judging Diseases which he distinguisheth from Laesiones or Hurts of the Body I therefore conclude he will not be subject to any fixt perpetual Disease or Infirmity of Body but to such as will return at some Intervals on proper Directions c. and these are Disorders from the Spleen mixt with Nephritick Pains and when grown into years vertiginous disorders of the Head and perhaps the Gout but generally of a healthy Constitution otherways His Troubles are to be considered first in their nature and so we must judge them to proceed from Saturn and Mars who afflicts his Sun the persons by them signified are false and fly Friends and malicious Enemies to hinder his progress in publick Affairs And 2dly as to the time they will happen which may be known by the Directions preceding and those will not appear till the after part of his Life some few fall in the former part of it but they are not considerable if compared with the good Directions that will attend him Lossâ—s and Damage to his Estate may happen divers ways for we find Satura Lord of his Second in Square to Mars and Opposition to Vâ—nus and the Part of Fortune in a perfect â—undane Square to the Mâ—on from the Fifth and Seventh This threatens him with Loss by Play or Gâ—ming and indeed I would advise this Native to shun Gaming of all sorts for it will be destructive to him and his Estate and I dare venture to tell him positively That whatever he plays for he will lose and always be unsuccessful in Pleasures of that kind There seems to be other Losses likely to attend him also signified by Venus afflicted by Mars and Saturn Women will projudice him if he is too intimate and familiar with them but especially Lewd Women because Venus is nearest in Opposition to Saturn Lord of his Second Therefore it will be his great Wisdom to avoid these ruinous Courses and all ill Company or Acquaintance VIII Of his Profâ—ssion and Employment and â—hat he may be inclin'd to I would not have my Reader think by the Title of this Paragraph that I intend to pitch upon a Trade or think he will ever settle to one no he that hath Jupiter in his Ascâ—ndent and Five Planets in Cardinal Signs will employ his Thoughts in things of another nature and quality than a Trade and also endeavour to find business suitable to his humor In this Nativity Mercury is the prime Significator of his Business and Inclination and next Venus and Mars the one Lady of the Tenth and the other her Dispositor And all these we find in Equinoctial and Tropical Sigâ—s and both Venus and Mercury in Conjunction with the Sun in his Exaltation this shews his Employment will be business of Credit and Honour And if we consider the Moon applies to the Trine of Mercury and she in his Terms the Ascendent Saturn Mars and Venus all in the Terms of Mercury from whence I conclude his Employment will be Mercurial belonging to the Pen Accounts or such like bookish Business that he will incline to Secondly As the Sun Mercury and Venus are in Mars's House and the Sun's Exaltation so I judge his Employment will be among those concerned in the Government of a Nation or an Army or the like business of Credit Honour and Publick Affairs perhaps something of a Secretary Publick Minister or Envoy and this the rather because of the Virgins Spike on the Angle of Honour I do not desire to predict the particular thing because Cardan says Cumquâ— hoc scire exquisitè emnino sit impâ—ssibile per genera res erit diduâ—â—rds Seg. 6. Apho. 43. Cardani â—ut I have been the larger on this part as well as some other parts of my Judgment because I am of opinion that this young Gentleman will come to understand this Art himself when he arrives at years of Maturity there being an Aphorism in Cardan that takes place in this case exactly thus Quando Luna in Occidente Jupiter in Oriente in Marâ—is ospectu natus fato Astrologiae credet Aphor. 181. Seg. 5. Card. If he believes it very probable it is he may also study it IX Lastly Of his Death the Cause Kind and Time of it Death you know is the natural Consâ—quence of Life and it
impossible to keep Death out of Doors let the Alchocoden be never so strong and 40 Years of its number to come On the contrary let the giver of Years be never so weak and a continued Series of good Directions to the Hileg succeed one another for some Years and no Doubt but that Native shall live though the Alchocoden hath been expired Twenty Years And yet after all I know there are some Nativities that are naturally stronger and more vital than others but it is from another Cause and Principle than this foolish and imaginary Whim And yet I do not doubt but in some Nativities it may nearly comply with what they pretend to but where it doth once it falls ten times and then where is your Rule CHAP. VIII Of the Almuten c. OUR Authors have made a great Bustle about this that they call Almuten it is an old Arabian Word and signities as much as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Greek that is Lord And indeed the Word in it self is well enough so long as it is used for the Lord of a House the Lord of a Sign c. But when they come to talk of the Lord or Almuten of a Nativity and that he shall signifie every thing as Stature Temperature Riches Preferment as you may see Doctr. Nativ pag. 92. where you are taught how to take it there I must leave them Now this Almuten is that Planet who is strongest both in Essential and Accidental Dignities as they say and according to their Method laid down both to examine and judge of its Fortitude And when they have done all I count no Planets strong but those that are Angular either in the Signs or in the Houses or both and they indeed are the true Lords of the Nativity and by whose Nature and Quality the Native shall be sway'd in his Inclinations and Passions c. And in this way of Judgment the Houses next in Power to the Angles are the Fifth and Ninth Houses The reason of that in Nature shall be taught another time and in another Treatise more proper than here But if you consider Naibod in Alcabitium he gives order to find this Almuten quite contrary to these already mentioned for he says it is that Planet that hath most Dignities in the Places of the Sun Moon Ascendent Part of Fortune and the Preventional New or Full Moon Which Doctrine is indeed laid down by Alcabitius himself however they came to pervert the Arabian Text for it came originally from that Author who doth indeed go further than all this with it For he makes it a great Significator of Life in which he makes it a Partner with the Hileg and Alchocoden his Words are these Aâ—muten est qui praeest Nativitati ab eo significatur esse nâ—ti pâ—st Hâ—lech Alchocoden Now after all I can see no ground for its Power Use oâ— Election and that it is no more but an Arabian Whim of the same Stamp with the Alchocoden and serves rather to puzzle the Cause than to inform the Understanding of any man for it is indeed the only Mischief that attends the young and perhaps some of the old too Students in this Art That they have such a cluster of Causes and such a Cloud of Circumstances to consider in every Case that it confounds them in considering and betrays their Judgment into Error when if their Causes were fewer and their Rules in Judgment more concise they would sooner arrive to a degree of Perfection and the Artist from being a good Guesser as Mr. Mutable has it would be thought half a Prophet or at least-ways one of the Prophetical Tribe In a Word seeing there is no Authority for it but Tradition nor no use for it but to create Labour I do not think it worth while to insist longer on a Subject void of all Advantage But they that are disposed to read more of it may have recouse to Alcabitius Differen Quarto cap. 5. Naibod in Alcabitium pag. 381. Julius Firmicus lib. 4 cap. 12. Origanus de Effectibus pag. 556. And all our English Writers in general that have writ of Nativities especially Mr. Lilly in his Introduction page 531. And so I come to say something to the Lord of the Orb the Chronocrators and the Alfridaries in which I shall be short CHAP. IX Of the Alfrydaries Chronocrators Lord of the Orb and the Division and Divisor c. PErhaps it may be said That seeing these are not Printed by our English Authors I have no need to mention them in this Treatise To which I answer I am led directly to what I intend because a certain Innovator tam Fide quam Arte among us did in an Almanack Anno 1693. tell the World That some died on Transits some on Eclipses some on Revolutions others on Profections and some on evil Alfrydaries some on the Combustion of the Ascendent or his Lord with sundry other Causes By this Word Causes you may observe he allows any one of these to be a Cause sufficient for Death I commend him he will have Strings enough to his Bow and the Devil is in 't if some one of them will not do but I dare him to prove what he hath so confidently asserted and to take a Nativity of one that is living and tell us which of all these his Causes that Native shall expire by and when he hath done settle it for a Standing Rule But to my Work in hand The Lords of the Alfrydaries are imaginary Lords and Dispositors of a number of Years appointed to every Planet so that the Seven Planets with the Head and Tail of the Dragon taking this Government successively one after another the whole number of Years will amount to 75 And in a Diurnâ—l Geniture they begin with the Sun in a Nocturnal with the Moon Their Years are as followeth ☉ 10 Years ♀ 8 Years ☿ 13 Years ☽ 9 Years ♄ 11 Years ♃ 12 Years ♂ 7 Years ☊ 3 Years ☋ 2 Years So that if the Birth is by Day the Sun rules the first 10 Years then begins Venus and she rules the next 8 then Mercury begins and he rules the next 13 and so on to the Moon Saturn and the rest But if the Birth were Nocturnal then the Moon governs the first 9 Years Saturn then begins and rules the next 11 then begins Jupiter and he rules the next 12 and so on to the End And this is the Method of the Alfrydaries and their Lords of which you may see more in Alcabitius and what their Effects are see in Schoner They have brought this Doctrine of the Alfrydaries into such a sort of Method as Ptolomy describes in his last Chapter of his Fourth Book called De Tempor Divisione But they differ from him both in the Number of Years they attribute to every Planet and in the Use of them as to Judgment in and on Nativities For in my Opinion it will make Astrology and its Rules very doubtful
Saturn was then in Opposition to his Ascendent By this you may see that Transits and Eclipses do little or nothing in order to Death or any great mutation in a man's Life without some very considerable Directions and then too they do only assist by their Motion to give or rather shew the Time when a Direction begins to operate But this I lay down as a positive Rule That they never kill per se. Under this Rule I might also bring Great Conjunctions Revolutions Profections Climacterical Years c. all which are made use of to the same End and Purpose as the former are when there are no Directions to be assigned for Death and of each of these a Word or two Great Conjunctions falling on the Angles or on the Sun and Moon in Nativities may give great Troubles and Losses but by no means Death Nay Directions that fall near those Places of the Conjunctions or opposite to them c. shall give more cruel Effects than they do at other times but not Mortal unless they would have been so without the Conjunction had influenced them And in most Nativities where the Conjunction is on the Places of the Luminaries or in Square or Opposition to them or the Angles those People of what Quality soever are generally sufferers in and through that 20 years Revolutions are also vainly thought to have the Power of Death and many men contend earnestly for the Truth thereof Schonâ—r's Imitator tells us in his Doctrine of Nativities page 228. That the Opposition of the Sun and Saturn from the Second and Eighth in a Revolution gives Death and proved true in the Death of Sir John Reynolds And yet in his Câ—â—â—c Genit page 164. he says He dyed on the Ascenâ—ent to the Body of the Moon and Square of the Sun and so sets the Stars together by the Ears who shall have the Honour to kill him I know a man who had lately his Moon in a Revolution in Conjunction with Mars Lord of the Eighth in Opposition to Saturn and all these in Square to his Ascendent Hileg and the Sun in Square to Jupiter Lord of the Fourth And yet this man did not dye in that year nor indeed was he Sick Ay but this was not from the Second and Eighth Houses Say you so That may be something indeed That is a special Reason Ex Grumulo Mâ—ntem facis In a Word There is nothing in Revolutions in order to Death but as they Quadrare with Directions Notwithstanding Morinus doth so strenuously contend for their Power and Force in his Astrol. Gall lib. 23. where he tells us about the Death of Richelieu that to several of his Friends he predicted his Death from that very Revolution of his in 1642. And in several other Places of that Book he lays mighty Weight upon them as the Causes of many and various Accidents And Argol in his Ptolomâ—us parvus labours as much as the former to assert that Doctrine and in his De Diebus Criticis he hath in many Nativities rendred very inconsiderable Reasons for Death besides what he lodged in the Power of Revolutions Nor doth the Authority of Campanella any way sway me to believe what he asserts and concludes ought to be done in the Judgment of Revolutions For though I have an honourable Esteem for Authors and the Truth they hand down to us yet I am not bound to believe all they write because it comes from men of Learning and Credit Nay you will do a substantial Author both Honour and Service in examining his Works before you set your Hand to the Truth of them Profections as they are now stated and understood are nothing else but a confused Motion neither agreeable to Reason nor Nature and no ways probable to have any Power to kill But of this matter see more in my Opus Reformatum page 94. 95. Climacterical Years not only among Astrologers but among all other Learned Men besides have for many Ages had a known Reputation for Danger to Life but especially that of 63 But Origanus tells us of another dangerous one which he calls Climactericus Heroicus and that is the 56th Year and this for no other Reason but because the Ascendent at Birth comes then to the Eighth House But how I cannot tell unless he means by allowing 7 Years to every House and so if you multiply 7 by 8 it gives 56 Which hath no sway at all on my Belief So that now it is grown so commonly known among the Vulgar that there is not a Plowman but can tell you That every seventh Year carries a Face of Danger in it and threatens a Change and Alteration to every one either in Life or Fortune But before we take it for granted let me premise a Word or two and enquire into the Ground and Nature of the thing Whatever the Opinion of Pythagoras was concerning the Mystery of Numbers it doth no ways prevail with me to believe That the Number 7 hath more Power than the Number 6 in order to the Mutations of Human Life and especially Death Nor doth the doubtful urging of this Doctrine by Marsilius Ficinus lib. 2. cap 20. De Vita longa make it any more plain true or probable than it was before Nor do any that have wrote of it give it any other Authority than Probability And when they are put to the Proof of that they run back to their old Authors from whom both they and we derive those known and common Errors with which all Sciences are at present clogged and loaded But if any one is willing to read of it at large the Learned Dr. Brown will furnish them with an account from Authors of all Kinds and Nations by which it will appear it is founded only on Precarious Principles and no Authority in Nature but groundless Supposition bearded Antiquity and an ipsi dicunt and yet it is assigned by J. G. in his Almanack for 1693. That this likewise of it self doth sometimes kill which I utterly deny to be true By this and what we can else derive from all Authors the whole matter depends and proceeds from a superstitious Opinion they have had of the Mystery of Numbers and there have always been some to promote it and because it comes by Accident something near to Truth it hath obtained a Place in the Opinion of divers Credulous men which if they would but examine and consider would neither support nor believe it either in general as it is commonly understood or in particular to this of Death which I am now about to discuss And to say the Truth the Mystery of Numbers is in this Sence nothing else but Pythagorean Whims or Rosicrucian Maggots and Delusions set on foot to undermine Truth and turn those out of the Way that are in Pursuit after it and though I do allow a Harmony in Numbers equal to diverse other things in Nature yet I can by no means be brought to consent and believe that the
of him That â—he hastened his own Death by Abstinence c. Yet I cannot think that these Directions could any ways cause or further his Death But on the contrary fortifie his Life if Ptolomy is to be believed and therefore there must be some other Cause found than the Quartile of Venus and Mercury by Direction to the Ascendent for his Death Pray observe he tells us himself That at 29 Years old he was seized with a Cough and violent for 7 Months during which time he spit up much sanious purulent Matter and was near Death And he adds That he was cured of it the Year following when the Moon came to the Opposition of Venus and Mercury at 30 Years of Age Venus and Mercury saved him to a Miracle and at 75 Years old they killed him to a Miracle A very pretty kind of Astrology if you can but believe it I do not find that Cardan assigns any Accident for the 44th or 45th Year of his Age when the Suâ— came to the Opposition of Mars and Quartile of the Moon Nor for 53 when the Sun came to the Opposition of Saturn Nor at 39 and 40 when the Sun was directed to the Zodiacal Parallel of Mars all which are violent Directions and do seldom pass over without something worthy the Native's Memory and especially in a Nativity attended with the Violence that this is I dare not venture on the Correction of this Nativity though I am sure it is not exact for Two Reasons The first is Because he hath not given us the estimate Time And the second is He is too great a man to be questioned by me Nor would I have any think that I do in this to Eclipse or Deface the Fame and Learning of this most excellent Man who hath deserved so well of all but what I aim at is nothing more than to justifie the Science from the Abuses and Incoherences that its Adversaries catch at and are so often objected to us by those that know little of the matter The Third Nativity that Morinus brings is his own pag. 397. But the Accidents and Directions brought for its Verification you will find them pag. 648 649 661 662 and 663. He makes 27 degrees of Aries to Ascend and 13 degrees of Capricorn in the Midheaven and the Accidents and Directions that he brings to prove it true are these following Aged 8 Years almost he had a Quartan Ague the Sun then was directed to the Quartile of Saturn Aged 22 Years and 4 Months July 9th 1605. wounded dangerously in a Quarrel about a Woman Ascendent then to the Quartile of Venus Aged 29 and 3 Months Anno 1612. May 30. he fell into a long and dangerous Disease by Heat and Drinking and at the same time there was an Eclipse of the Sun For this he had Jupiter and the Moon directed to the Ascendent and the Ascendent to the 9th degree of Gâ—mini the Place of that Eclipse Aged 30 Years and 2 Months he took his Degree of Doctor in Physick May 9th 1613. For this he gives the Midheaven to the Dodectile of Saturn that is the Semisextile and the former Directions of Jupiter and the Moon to the Horoscope Aged 31 Anno 1614. he was received a Physician in ordinary to the Bishop of Bollâ—ignc then the Sun was directed to the Ascendent Aged 32 Anno 1615. went into Hungary which Journey was attended with great Dangers by Water by Quarrels by Duels and Luxury the Ascendent then to the Square of Saturn without Latitude Aged 33 in April â—616 he was seized with a dangerous malignant Disease the Ascendent to the Quartile of Saturn with Latitude Aged 38 in October 1621. Physician in Ordinary to the Duke of Luxemburg Sun now to a Sextile of Mars sine Latitudine Aged 46 in August 1629. Professor Regius in the Mathematicks he had then the Midheaven to the Body of Mercury Aged 51 March 30th 1634. he publickly demonstrated the Longitude found by which he had great Fame throughout all Europe Midheaven then to the Body of the Sun Aged 59 November 2d 1642. he was seized by a long lingring Fever with strange Evacuations of Choler he had then the Ascendent directed to the Body of Mars Aged 61 1644. he sollicited for the Royal Allowance for the Longitude found He quarrelled with Bullialdus and some others He had now the Midheaven directed to the Body of Saturn Mars to the Opposition of the Sun and Saturn to the Quartile of the Moon Aged 62 1645. April 8th he had an ample Pension and a noble Reward out of the Treasury Mars then was directed to the Opposition of the Sun and Jupiter and the Part of Fortune to the Trine of the Moon without Latitude Aged 73 and 8 Months on November 6th 1656. he dyed of a Fever and no Cause appears for it in his Nativity as I can find He gives us more Accidents which because I think they are not to the purpose are omitted Of all the Arguments and Directions brought to verifie any Scheme and Accidents that I have seen these are indeed the weakest and most improbable especially coming from so great a Man as Mâ—rinus was both for Labour and Learning and therefore I will modestly give you my Thoughts on each of them and leave you to your Opinion and Choice when I have done There are as you see Thirteen of them of which I allow but Two and that is the Sun to the Body of Saturn for his Quartan Ague for one As to the Second I suppose a few Words will serve because there are very few will believe a man should be wounded very dangerously on the Ascendent to the Quartile of Venus as he says he was And yet nothing on the Ascendent to the Square of Mâ—rcâ—â—y and after that to the Square of the Sun If he had said He had been given to Drinking Whoring and Lewdness I might have believed it But as to the Third I think he hath outdone himself there to tell us he was seized with a dangerous Disease when the Sun was Eclipsed and to direct the Ascendent to the â—lace of the Eclipse and Jupiter and the Mâ—â—n to the Ascendent to give this dangerous Diseâ—se As to the first it is impossible it should give a Disease before it was in bâ—ing it self for you cannot believe the Body was brought iâ—to a diseasy Habit in an Houâ—s time as you must if you think that the Cause And for the Second there is no such thing as directing those Two Stars to the Ascendent Nor is there any such thing in directional Motion to bring the Ascendent up to Jupiter and the Moon I know what you have to say for your selves in this Case which is That the degree of the Ascendent comes up to them Why yes that I will â—llow But that is not the Ascendent for when that degree is pâ—st that Point it hath no more Power than the First Second or Third that follow iâ— Hence if the Ascendent
question whether we ought not to divide the Revolution of a Nativity into 4 Quarters as we do that of the Year for Mundâ—ne Affairs And because he would be exact he also considers the Revolutions of the Moon gives Rules for judging and tells you what significant Effects they had in his own Nativity A man would have thought one of his Learning and Parts might have been better employ'd than to write so largely of such useless things or if you please of things of such little use as what you have heard The greatest and the best Authority we have doth only advise us to consider Revolutions to see what Transits and Ingresses there are and how the Radical Prorogators are affected by th good or afflicted by the bad Stars as in these words Afflictis enim Locis in Annorum â—xitu Stellis Inficientibus praecipuâ— loca mortem certam Perhaps there may be many read these words that may not understand them though good Proficients in Grammar and the Latin Tongue but that is not my fault It hath been the Knavery or Foolery of Professors in all Sciences to load each art with abundance of useless things to make themselves seem the more learned in their Profession Thus you may observe that Crollius tells us there were originally but four Diseases and yet a Physician a few years since told us in print that there were 600 Diseases belonging to the Eyes So extravagantly numerous they have multiplied our Mischiefs What reason have we to believe that the Degree Ascending and by Consequence all the other Houses have any virtue or force in them to influence that years Affairs the Revolution is set for And what is more absurd and foolish Why should we cheat our selves to think that the Directions to the Miâ—heaven Ascendent Sun and Moon in a Revolution have anâ— more force and power in them than if you set a figure at Random every quarter of that year Let two men but manage a Nativity and the one take the Sun Calculated from Street and another from Wiâ—g in some parts of the year they will differ 5 minutes in motion which is no less than two hours in time and when these two men come to set the Revolutional Figures what a fine confusion shall we have no less than two hours in time and do you think that will not give a great alteration in the Ascendent and Mid-heaven Then how do you think the Directions of the Five Hilegiâ—ck Points will agree in these two men's operations and what a Jargon here will be He that would be Master of this nonsensical stuff let him read Coley's Key filed bigger and there he may see these Foo'eries in their excellence especially page 710 713 714. things I am sure he knows nothing of only he imagined there might be some easy people would swallow the Gudgeon and believe his most ingenious Invention of no use but to spend time and create trouble but I shall talk with him another time this is only by the way What Reason have we to believe That the Sun's Return gives us a title to any Ascendent or Midheaven but that of the Radix Perhaps you will say You have found by Experience a great deal of truth in them by corresponding to the Fate and Fortune of the Year Why yes that may be and yet when that is allowed there is nothing in it And I am certain you will find as much to say to a Figure set to this instant for the Fate of the present Year as to the most exact Revolutional Figure you ever set in your days Transits and Ingresses excepted And any man may see this is true by the great noise Morinus makes with his Lunar Revolutions There is no Figure you can set at any time but you may fancy it to be a Revolutional and its Directions and Positions shall do full as well as your exact Revolution shall those things beforementioned excepted for among all those Directions you pretend to in a Revolution there is not one of them hath any effect but as a good or bad Transit or Return happens at the same time you say your Direction commenceth and it is that gives the Effect and not the Direction you imagine But if you do but conceit it gives what you say it doth it is full as well as if it did do it really Nay some are grown so ripe in this practice that they are able to predict Death from a single Revolution ut ipsi dicunt as I can prove from their own words But because Morinus is my subject therefore I must keep to my Text and pray hear what he says Praedixi says he Pluribus Amicis ex hac Revolutione Mortem pag. 614. speaking concerning Cardinal Richelieu If Morinus knew there was a Killing Direction he might be bold in the Point if so why doth he say the Revolution kill'd him For let the Revolution be good or bad if it is a mortal Direction he certainly dies but if there is no Direction I am sure and certain a Revolution how bad soever cannot kill But you hear what he says though I must confess I think it no more but a French flourish As to both the Nâ—tivities of Richeliâ—u and Tronson the Directions brought to prove their Deaths are so idle and frivolous that I can by no means allow them and therefore they must dye on the Influx of the Revolutions which you may believe if you please for I do not He tells us pag. 628. That by the pâ—esence of three Planets in the Third House of a Revolution which House he says hath signification of Religion they gave Charles Condren a reselution to lead a Religious life and yet pag. 650. he says It was from the M. C. to the âš¹ ☉ and Jupiter directed to the Body of Mars that gave him that Resolution I cannot understand this man's method and doctrine I would fain have him tell me in plain words Whether he lays the stress of the business on the Revolution or on the Direction and which he makes subordinate for there can be but one principal cause in this and most other cases If you please to look into page 632. you will see what he says on the Revolution of this man's Death and when you have read them over I really think you cannot chuse but smile at them to see what a crowd of Stuff he doth enumerate as causes of his Death but it was when he was in his Grave and you may be certain he passed many such Revolutions and perhaps worse too in his Life-time that did not kill But I will leave it to the Judgment of others and satisfie my self with these Remarks on his Doctrine and Principles and sum up this Paragraph and this Second part also with my Opinion of Revolutions and what ought to be done therein Revolutions are the times when the Sun comes to the same degree and minute he was in at Birth in which case you need not be so very
ipse stabiliendus est Vitae Significator verùm si fuerit in Octava aut Duodeeima videndum an Luna fuerit in loco Apbetico quo casu Luna statuenda est Si Luminaria ambo fuerint hac praerogativa destituta accipiendus est Planeta qui plures dignitates obtinuerit in locis praediciis dummodo fuerit repertus in loco Aphetico quod si nec iste fuerit ad vitam moderandum idoneus assumetur tandem pro Vitae significatore Ascendens seu Linea Orientalis In Genitura Nocturna primum â—cum occupat Luna quae in locis Apheticis reperta statuitur Vitae Significatrix Si vero fuerit in Octava aut Duâ—decimâ— aut sub Terra Sol fuerit in illis vigintiquinque gradibus post Lineam Orientalâ—m ac in Crepusculo Matutino ipse erit vitae moderator Si Sol non fuerit ideneus iterum indagandus Planeta dominatur in illis locis dictis an fuerit in loco Aphetico quo idoneo non reperto accipienda est Pars Fortunae Horoscopus Lunaris dummodo fuerit in Aphetico loco omnibus tamen exclusis tandem Ascendens Regionis Horoscopus seu Linea Orientalis statuenda est vitae significatrix Notandum quod ut saepè contingit si fuerint Duo aut Tres Significatores in locis Apheticis Sol videlicet Luna Dominus illorum locorum tune eligendus est validior tum ratione dignitatum tum ratione situs Ex Sole Luna eligendus est potentior nam posita exempli gratia Luna in Medio Coeli in suis dignitatibus sole vero peregrino in Septima aut Nono quamvis Nativitas sit Diurna Luna erit praeferenda Dominus etiam illorum locorum potentior poterit juxta Ptolemaei Dogmata praeferri Luâ—ninaribus cùm scilicet fuerit in loco eminentiori suis Dignitatibus Aneretae Abscâ—ssores qui vitam detruncant ex Ptolemeo sunt Corpora Saturni Martis Eorum Radii Oppositi Quadrati Eorum Antiscia Imperantia Obedientia illorum Radius Sextilis in signis longarum Ascentionum Trinus brevium qui Radii babent vires Quadrati Posita Luna Vitae Significatrice Corpus Solis interimit cum ad illam pervenerit Dirâ—ctiâ—ne idâ—m multi contendunt de Solis Radio Quadrato Opposito Radius Quadratus Aphetae cum scilicet Apheta pervenerit ad suum Quadratum id est 75 gradus ad minus interimit Posito Apheta inter Cuspidem Domus Septimae Medium Coeli unus statuitur Anareta id est Angulus Occidentalis reliqua vero Corpora aut Radii Maleficorum incidentes inter Aphetam gradum Occidentis non interimunt sed facta discussione Beneficorum Maleficorum minuunt vel addunt annos demonstratos ex directione Aphetae ad Gradum Occidentis quae Directio est Eadem quae Ascendentis ad Oppositum loci Aphetae dicti Hoâ— est Ptolemei sententia Alia Schola in plurimis consentit cum Ptolemaeo discrepat in aâ—â—quibus adsiricta ut asserunt â—bservatiâ—nibus Pro significatione vitae â—osdem statuit quos Pâ—olemaeus praetâ—r dâ—minum illorum locorum verâ—â— Ascendens seu Lineam Orientalem primariò Luminaria ubique collocata tam sub terra quà m supra ciâ—m maleficis occurrerint posse Aegritudinem vel Mortem decernere ut dominantia potentiis vitali naturali ex quibus consistit vita Aneretas cosdem statuit quos Ptolemaeus corpora Radios Malâ—ficos Intuentia Martis Saturni Praeterâ—a corpus Lunae ejusque radios Quadratos Opsitos praesertim Ascendente Apbeta posita Luna Apheta Solis Corpus Radii Mal fici interimunt Et non soluâ— Luna Apheta verùm quocunque alio dum Sol fuerit imbutâ—s natura Malefica Martis aut Saturni â—um disponat eorum loco Planetae enim sub Radiis neque ad noâ—endum neque adjuvandum idonei ex Ptolemaeo statuit Anaretam Domum Quartam foveam Planetarum Nodos Lunares Caput praecipue Caudam Draconis Lunae Cor Leonis Pallilitium Antares Herculem Lances Librae aliasque fixas Maleficas Dominum Octavae terminos Maleficorum sic Eclipses Cometes Incidentes in locum Aphetae Aphetam ad suum Quadratum ponit interimere buncque esse ultimum naturalis vitae terminum quod Nicepso Pithosyris mixtice dâ—cuerunt asserentes neminem in vita posse transgredi Trimorion id est congeriem trium Signorum Radiationem Tetragonicam quae superet gradus 75. nam alâ—ter esset Radius Sextilis Hinc in boc tractu Italiae posset quis vivere annis 120. posito Apheta Ascendente in principio Leonis ex distantia gradum usque ad principium Scorpii In Germania verò Regionibus in quibus Polus Boreus magis elevatur annis admodum pluribus pro numero graduum inter Ascentiones primi gradus Leonis Scorpii Plin. lib. 7. cap. 4. meminit inter Appeninum Montem Padum plurimos diversis annis vixisse tempore longiori Epigenes negavit quemquam posse vivere annis 122. Berosus ex Plinio annis 117. narrant Joannem de Temporibus vixisse annis 125. WHereas in the following Decumbitures the time of Death is assigned to divers Causes so that sometimes it may seem to be different and various from the Opinion of Ptolemy yet seeing all things do agree with the Observations of our modern Professors I think it necessary to add here these few things Concerning the Space of Life the opinion of Ptolemy in his Quadâ—ipartite is this The Aphetas or Significators of Life are Five And those are the Sun the Moon the Ascendent Part of Fortune and that Planet who hath most dignities in the place of the Sun Moon Ascendent and Part of Fortune in the Celestial Figure and in the place of the Conjunction or Opposition of the Luminaries preceding the Nativity in which this Order is to be observed In a Diurnal Geniture see if the Sun is in an Aphetical place and fit to give and determine Life which places are the Mid-heaven the Eleventh House the First the Ninth and Seventh any House above the Earth except the Eighth and Twelfth for then he is allow'd to be giver of Life but if he should be in the Eighth or Twelfth see if the Moon be in an Aphetical place if so the Moon is to be accepted But if neither of the Luminaries should be so qualified then take that Planet who hath most Dignities in the before-mentioned places and in an Aphetical place also but if there is none such then you must take the Ascendent for Giver of Life In a Nocturnal Geniture the Moon claims the first place among those qualified to be givers of Life But if she should be in the Eighth or Twelfth or under the Earth and the Sun should be in those Five and twenty degrees next succeeding the Ascendent and in the Matutine Crepusculum he shall be giveâ— of Life But if the Sun should not be so qualified then see
of Pope Urban the Seventh who was made Captain General of Christ's Church Pope I mean the 15th of September 1590 and dyed within twelve days afterward H◠was born the 4th of August at 22 minutes past 7 of the Clock in the Morning 1521. Lat. 42. and ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ are Calculated by the Caroline Tables as you see ♄ 11 15 ♒ Latitude 0 56 S. ♃ 13 36 ♠0 35 N. ♂ 7 55 ♎ 0 6 N. ♀ 20 14 ♌ 5 0 S. ☿ 0 10 ♠1 8 N. ☽ 11 52 ♠2 56 N. ☉ 20 35 ♌  ☊ 17 32 ♎  The right Ascention of the Midheaven is 72 57 and they tell you that the Midheaven to the Trine of Jupiter gave him his Preferment and the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn gave his Death But how they will manage the Stars to make it out remains a mystery to me For he was chosen Pope the 15th of September sickned the 17th and dyed the 28 of the same Month 1590. being then 69 Years of Age and almost two Months Now consider the Midheaven to the Trine of Jupiter in Zodiaco is by Direction Ark 63 8. and the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn is Ark 69 53. the difference is almost 7 degrees then how could these two come together and you see the preferment and death fell out both in a Month and therefore there must be some other cause for both these Accidents than what is here asserted in their own way and to be further plain and open with you in the point the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn true came up 6 or 7 years before his death and the Midheaven ad Trine Jupiter a long time after it Now upon the result of all I am of the opinion that the Midheaven to the Body of Venus gave him his Preferment and the Ascendent to the Square of the Sun and semiquadrate of Mars gave his death which came all up at a time and 't is possible there might be a little poison in the way as he says there was a suspicion of for Venus who is concern'd in his Death as well as in his Preferment is indeed imbuted with the Rays of Saturn and may be justly suspected But if this is allowed we must make an alteration in the Figure of about 15 Minutes in time which is no great matter in the thing according to their Rules and Practice Object But perhaps some may say Why did not the Rays of Venus save seeing you tell us they do even by their Squares and Oppositions Answ. 'T is true I do assert it and say the Rule will hold but in this case she is excepted by the Rule because she is under the Sun-beams and therefore cannot The next I have pitched upon is the Nativity he gives us for Ascanius Cardinalis Columna's time of Birth and it is a pretty Remarkable one both for Arguments of Greatness and Directions for Death as you may see by the Figure that followeth set to his time but my Division of the Heavens This is indeed a very good Position for Preferment for here we find Jupiter on the Ascendent the Sun in it in his Exaltation the Moon strong in Trine to the Ascendent Mars who hath dignities in the Tenth is in Sextile to the Moon and in Trine to the Midheaven Venus is in her Exaltation and in a Zodiacal parallel with Jupiter Sure this man could not want friends in his time nor indeed did he for you see he was made a Cardinal early and this by the Intercession of the King of Spain and had Nature been so kind to have prolong'd his days he had certainly obtained the Infallible Chair and been called his Holiness but we have but two Accidents to correct by and they are these following Aged 26 years and almost 10 months he was made Cardinal and as Argol says on the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun and the Part of Fortune to the Body of the Moon Aged 48 years one month and 14 days Anno 1608. May 17. he dyed of a Fever and a Cholerick Disease he had then says Argol the Ascendent to the Bull 's Eye As to the First of these Directions it seems so improbable to suit to the Accident of Preferment that no body I think can in reason allow it For if he had been under two or three good Directions at that time the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun would have knockt it all dead and have made it ineffectual for the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun creates Foes not Friends and therefore I am of opinion some other reason must be given for that Preferment than those laid down by our Author As to his death and the reason given for it I cannot imagine Argol himself thought it would be believed and I dare say my Reader will be of my opinion when he hears what I have to say in the case The Horoscope meets the Bull 's Eye in the 14th degree of Gemini with Latitude and I hope he doth not intend it without if he doth the Error is the greater for there is no such Direction so that he lets the Ascendent pass by the body of Mars Lord of the Eighth near the Pleiades After that the body of Saturn in a violent part of Heaven And a little after that to the Square of Venus out of the Twelfth and after these three Directions he kills him with this silly foolish thing not to be imagined by any Artist that hath had either Reading or Experience To pass the bodies of both the Maleficks nearly in Conjunction and let him dye on the Direction to a fixed Star that hath at least 5 degrees of Latitude Can you imagine Reader that Mars or Saturn or both together had not as much power to kill as the Bull 's Eye Or can you give me any reason why Saturn or Mars should not kill If you can I am sure you know much more of Astrology than I am Master of provided the reason you give will hold in any other Nativity where the same Directions or either of them happen But that which makes the thing more improbable is That the Sun is in the Ascendent and Giver of Life And though I know that the Ascendent to the bodies of Mars and Saturn could not kill yet the stress of my Argument lieth in this That if it was possible or probable for the Bull 's Eye to kill Why should not the bodies of Saturn and Mars do it more effectually before These things considered are sufficient to convince any doubting Reader that this is not a true Nativity nor can I judge what Scheme may be because it is not the faculty of these kind of Astrologers to give us the Estimate time with the Correct as they call it but if the time should be near this I think it is reasonable to conclude That the Sun to the Mundane parallel of Mars followed by the Mundane parallel of Saturn is a very suitable
Saturn ought to have killed her because he is Lord of the Eighth as he stiles him and in Scorpio a violent Sign and the Sun's Opposition comes within 6 degrees after his Square which would certainly have proved mortal if the Directions to the Ascendent could have kill'd her And besides Mars in direct Opposition to the Ascendent would have ended the dispute of Life in the first Year of her Age or else have put it in very great danger If you please to give your self the trouble to examine his Book you will find he kills Cardinal Blanchâ—tius on the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Sun and there giver of Life as in this Qâ—â—en's Case And in Cardinal Zacchia Januen the Ascendent to the Square of the Sun kills So in Gonzague Duke of Mantua the Ascendent to the Body of the Sun killed him as dead as a Herring The like you may see in many more as Cardinal Placentius Cardi Vidonius c. and do you think that the Sun hath not as much Power to kill here as in those Cases for which reason I doubt the Truth of this Nativity and must be better satisfied in the point before I believe it do you as you please When you come to consider the thing â—airly and to compare the Directions in one Nativity with those in another you will either conclude Astrology to be a ridiculâ—us idle Study or else that the Pretenders to it do not understâ—nd what they would have the world believe they do for it is certain the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn or Opposition of the Sun ought to have the same effect in one Nativity as they have in another or else Rules of Exception laid down that we may know when they are to be relied on and when not which to this day was yet never done but they go on like a Drift of Carriers Horses in the same Track and so long as they all agree to be ignorant they are very well satisfied and one defends another in it but if any one steps out of the common Road presently he is cried down for an Innovator and an impertinent Fellow because he demands Reasons for their Practice and desires them to make their Art all of a piece and that their Rules may agree and also have the same effect in one Nativity as in another but you know what the Policy of Demetrius was and also on what bottom it was â—ounded I confess it is a hard matter to determine whether this Nativity is near truth or not because the estimate time is not given to us But I am sure this of Argol's is not true and that for the preceding Reasons And now considering she had a Catarrh I shall take that for the original Cause of her other Disorders and Death and therefore endeavour to assign proper causes for both and in the first place I determine the Sun to be the giver of Life without dispute and was directed to the Zodiacal Parallel of the Mâ—on at 24 years of Age the Ark of Direction 21 degrees and 29 minutes which gives in time 23 years and 10 months He was also directed to the Mundane Parallel of Mars d. d. Ark 22 degrees 7 minutes gives in time 24 years and about 5 months and the Oblique Ascention of the Ascendent in the Figure that I use is 325 degrees 7 minutes and these Directions seem rationally like to be the cause both of the Catarrh Palpitation and Death of this Qâ—een and though I cannot say these Directions will give these Diseasâ—s exactly in another Nativity yet I affirm they shall give an adequate Effect and Death also let the Figures be proportional in their positions and yet I dare not affirm this to be the true Nativity fâ—r all this because it may be later as well as earlier which I have made it in this my Essay Argoll says That Charles Gonzaga the first Duke of Mâ—ntâ—a was born May the 6th hor. 12. min. 32. P. M. 1580. sub Pol. 48. 10 degrees of Aquary ascending and he tells us He dyed on the Ascendent to the Body of the Sun Which perhaps some people may believe and depend on But if you look into other Nativities that he hath given us you will find he doth not keep to his own Rule as for example In that of Ascanius Columna where the same Direction did not prove mortal and for ought we know gave nothing at all for he takes no notice of it or of its effects on his Health and he lived many years beyond it Nor in Farnesius Duke of Parma's Case nor in Cardinal Farnesius nor in Cardinal Bentivoglio's nor in the Nativity of Edward Duke of Parma nor in Cardinal Lenius Romanus with divers others and yet he kills Cardinal Zacchia Januen on the Ascendent to the Square of the Sun a very likely thing when the Body would not do in all these Therefore pray tell me Is not this a confused Doctrine how shall a man know by their Rules when it will and when it will not do it that we may know how and when to rely on it Now if I were to manage this Prince's Nativity I must rely on the Directions to the Moon for his Death because the Moon is in the Ascendent and solely giver of Life and without any straining of the Directions comes to her own Square in Zodiaco at the same time and by altering the time he gives a little later she comes up to the Mundane Parallel of the Sun at the same time also which will undoubtedly kill not only in this but in any other case where such Positions and Directions happen But perhaps some little busy Fellow or other that hath his Head cramm'd with Heliocentrick Maggots may ask me First Why did not the Moon to the Square of Saturn kill him To that I answer I do not believe he was so much as sick upon that Direction but I am sure he could not be in danger of his Life because at the same time the Moon was directed to the Zodiacal Parallel of Jupiter and the Mundane Sextile of Venus which certainly saves against any single bad Direction be it never so maletick Secondly Why the Moon to the Body of the Sun did not kill This I confess is a very bad one and must put his Life in Danger but I should hardly have judged it mortal for Three Reasons 1. The Moon had then 5 degrees of Latitude 2. She was out of the Ecliptick and in the same Parallel of Declination with Venus 3. By her Latitude she was within less than 12 degrees of Jupiter's Opposition For which Authority see Ptolem. lib. 3. cap. 14. The Planets Places are as followeth ♄ 17 29 â™’ 0 51 S. ♃ 11 39 â™ 0 47 N. ♂ 21 31 ♓ 1 42 S. ♀ 0 58 ♋ 1 56 N. ☿ 17 53 ♊ 2 3 N. ☽ 6 31 ♓ 1 26 N. ☉ 25 58 ♉    ☊ 20  ♒    He tells us That Edward Duke
there is 15 degrees 8 minutes and in the Left-hand Table you find 7 degrees 45 minutes which must be substracted from the former and there remains 7 degree 23 minutes to be substracted from the Ark of Direction of the Moon to the Cusp of the Seventh 68 degrees 13 minutes and so you have the true Ark of Direction of the Moon to the Cusp of the Seventh House 60 degrees 50 minutes and this adjusted according to the Doctrine and Precepts of Ptolemy which you may also find approved of and recommended to the ingenious world by the Learned Campanella in his Treatise of Astrology lib. 4. cap. 4. articu 4. where he says Stellae ergo interjectae inter Aphaetam occasum vel Radii non interimunt sed beneficae adjiciunt tempus Vitae Maleficae adimunt And this Ark 60 degrees 50 minutes thus gained I turn into Time and that produceth 64 years and 8 months The next is the Moon to the Mundane Parallel of Saturn d. d. and it is thus wrought The distance of the Moon from the Midheaven is 37 degrees 55 minutes the distance of Saturn from the Midheaven is 94 degrees 32 minutes then I say by the Rule of Proportion if 17 degrees 14 minutes gives 37 degrees 55 minutes what shall 14 degrees 18 minutes give 30 degrees 58 minutes and this substracted from the distance of Saturn gives the true Ark of Direction of the Moon to his mundane Parallel 63 degrees 54 minutes and though the Sun to the Square of Mars gave the beginning of the Distemper and the Moon to the Seventh Death yet it was this of Saturn did specificate the Disease and was the true cause of the Obstructions Saturnus igitur dominans mortis adfert exitium per morbos diuturnos Lienis Labefactationem Hydropem Casstoris Intestini aut Matricis dolores c. Quadripart lib. 4. cap. 10. And so much for this Lady's Nativity and to let the common Astrologers know there is an Astrology which they are not acquainted with The directions follow Sol ad â–¡ ♂ in Zod. 60 41 64 6 1634 Luna ad Cusp Sept. 60 50 64 8 1634 Luna ad par ♄ d. d. 63 54 67 9  I now come to the Nativity of that most Excellent man Dominicus Molinus Senator of Venice who had Travelled through all Europe England France Germany Denmark Greece Italy and Poland who was born as says Argol on the 20th day of November 1572. at 2 minutes past 10 in the morning sub polo 45. R. A. of M C. 217. 15. and here he tells us that the Sun is Apheta and seems to lay a great stress upon it 'T is true the Sun is Hileg and â—ust be so owned by every one that understands the true Principlâ—s He tells us likewise that he dyed on the 16th of November in the year 1635. being within 4 days of 63 years of Age and that he dyed of a kind of Fever and Ague on the Direction of the Sun to the Antiscions of Mercury and Saturn It is true I do allow that he did dye on the Sun to the Antiscion of Mercury but he takes his Antiscion in 9 degrees and 10 minutes of Aquary and I take mine in 15 degrees and 13 minutes of that Sign The Pole of the Sun is 24. and his oblique Ascention under that is 256 44. and the Ark of Direction is 68 degrees 27 minutes which turned into time gives exactly 63 years and this immediately followed by the Antiscion or Zodiacal parallel of Saturn And with this he had also the Sun to the Mundane parallel of the Moon whose Ark of Direction is 68 32 and just after it the Trine of the Moon also Perhaps I may be asked why the Sun to the body of Mars did not kill and the Zodiacal parallel of Mars did not do it 10 years before To that I Answer The parallel could not kill because it was a single Direction and the Square of Jupiter came up within Eight or Nine degrees after it and before the Body The Body of Mars could not kill because the Square of Jupiter came up just before it and the Square of Venus with it nor could this give him any danger at all But the former I judge gave him a sickness and some danger and for the satisfaction of those that would set the Figure I will here give them the Planets places with their Latitudes     Lat. Plan. ♄ 20 6 â™ 1 58 N. ♃ 1 25 ♈ 1 25 S. ♂ 23 23 ♑ 1 23 S. ♀ 22 44 ♎ 2 3 N. ☿ 21 5 â™ 1 32 N. ☽ 16 40 ♊ 2 23 S. ☉ 7 19 ♠  ♌ 15 13 ♋   Argol gives us the Nativity of Uâ—rospius Romanus a Cardinai born March the 6th hor. 13. min. 22. P. M. 1572. under the Pole 42. the Latitude of Rome But I do suppose there is a mistake in the Printer because the Scheme is set to 6 minutes after 12. and the right Ascension of the Midheaven that he useth doth also agree to that time as you may see by his Direction wrought And very near to that time I shall éndeavour to give the reasons for his death and preferment different to what Argol allows and yet they shall be such reasons as will hold in other Cases and not serve here only and no where else This Native after he had been employ'd in much Publick business was at last made a Cardinal by Pope Urban on the 30th of August 1627. he then being 55 years and six months old almost and this on the Midheaven to the Trine of the Sun And he dyed the 27 of January Anno 1639. as Argol saith on the Ascendent to the Trine of Mars having just passed the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn which he says consumed his natural heat and gave him an ill habit of body subject to the Dropsy I confess it was a Dog-trick of Mars to send this old Gentleman out of the World when Saturn had Three quarters kill'd him before and this done with a Trine an Aspect of friendship and kindness Nay It was a jilting trick of Venus likewise to confederate with Mars in the murder for she stood by with her Sextile at the same time and would not so much as step in and use her endeavour to save the old Priest Thus you may see there is tricking above as well as below and pray observe what a plaguy thing it is when the Stars and the Astrologers agree to knock an old Fellow down But pray let me ask Argol a question or two or at least-ways his Pupils for him First How often he hath known the Directions to the Ascendent kill when the Sun or Moon are in the Horoscope and Givers of Life Secondly What is the reason the Ascendent to the Trine of Mars should kill when to the Square it did not For when the Ascendent came to the Square of Mars it then came also to the Sextile of Saturn and
some occasion to do the like by him when time shall be no more in his account As to the Nativities I will not print them all but give you some of the most remarkable ones and make Remarks from them on those I shall mention to illustrate the Doctrine and Method that I intend to pursue therein and my reason for so doing is because the Book it self is not so scarce to be had but I believe in the hands of most Professors or may be had if they think it is worth their while and charge to purchase it And so I come to the matter it self without detaining you longer in this Introduction As to the Nativity of the World I think it is not worth mine nor any other man's time to consider it and the rather because the Learned Sir Thomas Brown doth conclude it was not made in any one Quarter of the Year but in all four And though Firmicus hath taken notice of this nicety yet I am no more satisfied that he knew the Birth of the World than I am of Morinus's knowing the Birth of our Saviour and though I should allow his Curiosity in knowing something of it I am sure it would puzzle a good Artist to correct it notwithstanding the World hath Accidents sufficient but if this should be allowed too they have no measure of time nor did they ever yet agree under what Pole of Position the Figure ought to be erected With this we may very reasonably join the Nativities of Nero and Alexander the Great the last of which we are told had Saturn Lord of his Ascendent in pitted and azimene Degrees which made him wry-necked then by the same Rule the Moon Lady of the Ascendent at the Creation ought to have had some such effect also of Deformity to bestow either on the World in general or on its Inhabitants in particular because she was also in a dark degree that is three of Tauâ—us as they have made her As to Nero's Nativity they may have some pretence of exactness more than in Alexander's because our History is more certain since our Saviour than before but for the reason of his Death which was the Moon to the Body of Mars that I am sure is false because the Opposition of Jupiter is in the next degree after it and the Body of Venus four degrees from that therefore they must find out some new Cause for his Death And as to Aleaxnder's Birth I must beg their excuse if I cannot believe a word of it But when the Chronologers have certainly fixt the Year of our Saviour's Birth I will tell them more of my mind Alstedius and Helvicus say he was boâ—n Aâ—â—â— Mundi 3947 or 3948 they cannot well tell which Isaaâ—kâ—â—n says He was born in the end of 3947. and yet afteward he tell as he was born in 3950. and after all these a private Gentleman a Friend of mine doth affirm and maintain he waâ— born Anno Mundi 4000. and of the same Opinion is John Swâ—â— and in this Confusion I will leave them but when they are agreed bring me Alexander's Nativity and I will give you my Opinion on the Position till then I think this and a great â—any more serve only to waste Paper and spend time to no purpose King Henry the Sixth of England was born says our Author at half an hour past one after noon But Stow in his Annals says he was born at four hours P. M. the same Day and indeed this is most likely to be true because then the Moon will be in the Twelfth in Taurus in Opposition to Mars in Virgo in the Sixth from fixed Signs which I think naturally shews his long Imprisonment and then the Sun and Mercury will be in Opposition to his Horoscope which are likely Arguments of his Unsuccessfulness both in War and Peace nay in every thing But as to Mr. Gad.'s Figure pray what reason have we to believe that he was murdered on the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn when he had escaped the Ascendent to the body of the Moon among the Pleiades and at the same time to the Opposition of Mars and to make it the more dangerous the Moon Lady of the Fourth After this twenty Years he passed the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Sun and Mercury out of the Eighth and never stirred for it till the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn came followed with Jupiter's Sextile a very likely Story but besides the Ascendent was not Hileg but the Moon and she must be directed for Death and you see she had passed this fatal Square of Saturn and did nothing in order to kill This is a miserable sort of Astrology if well considered Now if you please to take Stow's Time of 4 h. P. M. or at 3 h. 52 m. P. M. you will have the Sun Hileg directed to the Zodiacal Parallel of Mars and to the Mundane Square of Saturn and with these the Midheaven to the Opposition and Ascendent to the Square of Saturn likewise but I leave the Particulars to those that love to spend time about uncertain Nativities and satisfy my self that this is false in its Correction as well as doubtful and uncertain in the Time Henry the Eighth King of England is brought by Mr. Gadbury to prove the truth of Astrology and this I find he hath taken from Cardan who hath it among his Hundred Genâ—ures who makes it to be on the 28th of June before Noon only a degree differing in the Ascendent Now if you please to have recourse to Gauâ—icus he tells you he was born the 29th day of June Hemminga and Junctine agree with Cardan exactly from whom I suppose they took it But if you look into Stow he tells us he was born June the 22d which is a horrid mistake in one of them for the difference is here six Days and I believe you will imagine that may make some difference in any Nativity I shall say but little in general to this Nativity only the Direction he says he died on is false for that could not kill because the Sun is Giver of Life in the Tenth House and besides it came up Sixteen years before he says it did and if the Scheme he gives should be true I am sure he did not dye on the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn but it serves for them that know no better Edward the Sixth King of England is allowed by all to be born or cut out of his Mothers Womb on the 12th of October at two Manè and our Author here makes it 9 minutes sooner which Alteration must be allowed to any man if his Rules agree in every thing else That he died on the Ascendent to the Body of Saturn is by all Professors and Pretenders believed this seems to me more strange than all the rest how they can reconcile this to their own Reason if they believe their own Rules for in the common way the Trine of Jupiter comes just
Position to give the Ark of Direction to the Body of Mars 58 degrees 13 minutes which turned into time gives 59 years and 6 months and soon after he dyed For it is impossible if the Sun is Hileg that he should outlive the Sun to the Body of Mars And for his coming to the Crown of England he had the Sun to the Zodiacal Parallel of Venus Lady of the Tenth her Latitude by Stadius from whom he took the Planets places being almost one degree South which gives her Zodiacal Parallel Ark 35 degrees 44 minutes and that in time gives 36 years and some months I do believe to make the Ascendent to the Body of Jupiter give his coming to the English Throne this Nativity was corrected which was the reason they let the Sun pass the Body of Mars the Sun's Pole being too small to meet it in that point they have made him But why Mr. Gadbury hath so strenuously maintained That this Native did not dye by Poison I cannot tell telling his Reader That no such thing was to be read in the Heavens at his Birth and therefore not to be allowed at his Death when there is nothing more plain and visible to be read both at his Birth and Death For he dyed on the Sun to the Body of Mars Square of Venus and Body of Saturn or to take it in his own words to the Conjunction of Saturn and Square of Venus Is not Venus with the Dragon's Tail among the Pleiadâ—s and the Author of the Doctrine of Nativities tells us The Moon is made poisonous by bâ—ing with the Dragon's Tail page 148. parag 14. and why not Venus be made poisonous too by that Rule But Ptolemy tells us in plain Words Sed cum Venus est simul significat Veneficia c. Lib. 4. Cap. de genere Mortis Here you see Venus is joyned with the Maleficks and makes good the Rule to a hair And to â—nforce his Opinion for Doctâ—ine he argues with us very odly saying Jupiter is Lord of the Eighâ—â— and so Lord of Death And when he is so the Native dyes of a Plurisy an Apoplexy an Angina Convulsions of the Hâ—ad and Stomach c. but by Poison it is absolutely impossible Before he said The Cause of Death was from the Sun Hileg to the Body of Saturn if Saturn gave Death most certainly he gave the Disease also If a man be killed with a Swâ—rd that very Sword and not another that gave the Wound gave the Death also If Thomas Blood should kill a man in the County of Cornwall and they should take up Tom. Chance in the County of Nâ—rfolk prosecute him and hang him for that Murder though he knew nothing of the matter it would be most barbarous and cruel Why just so they deal by Jupiter for Saturn murdered this man and poor Jove is like to be hang'd for it Is this Philosophick Astrology Out upon it Charles I. King of England born November 19th at 10 at Night as he says 1600. He makes him 25 degrees of Leo ascending but not one Direction suitable to the Accidents mentioned except the Midheaven to the Trine of the Moon for his Coronation But to talk of the Ascendent to the Square of Mars for his Death is such a rough Doctrine not only unpleasant to the Ear but improbable to reason for if you have any faith in Ptolemy's Doctrine the Ascendent is not giver of Life but the Part of Fortune see Quâ—dri Lib. 3. Cap. 13. Besides how many doth he allow passed the Ascendent to the Square of Mars and never killed them As Qâ— Elizabeth the Earl of Essâ—x pag. 45. the Duchess of Sfoâ—â—â—â— Pope Gregory XV. Bishop Hall Mr. John Beale Dr. Geoffery le Neve and many others who had the Luminaries not in Aphetical Plaâ—cs as this Prince likewise had them nor is Mâ—rs any more made Malefick by position in this then in any of those Nay Mars is here in Conjunction with Venus and therefore the mâ—re unlikely to kill And in a word I do positively affirm That the Asâ—â—ndent to the Square of Mars was not the cause of this Prince's Death And the reason for this seems plain to me for we must walk by a Rule and if they will allow this to be a positive effect of the Ascendent to the Square of Mars I would desire some Gentleman to make a Rule of Exception to it and shew us why those Natives abovementioned did escape with Life on this Direction And till that is made clear and plain I must believe this to be a very doubtful Nativity as well as his Father's I have told you the Part of Fortune is Hileg in this Nativity and if I were to correct it I should direct the Part of Fortune to the Square of the Moon to the Zodiacal Parallel of Saturn and to the Mundane Parallel of Mars and this by making but a small Alteration for the Part of Fortune is but 10 degrees distant from the Midheaven and the time would be a little later I do not desire any man should be confined to my Notion or Opinion in this matter but then I desire they would let their Directions in their own way do the same thing at one time that they do at another and not bubble us with sham Stories and Tricks If they do but nearly hit the Mark it is no matter what Bow they shoot in The Duke of Glocester is said by our Author and I suppose believed by many to dye on the Sun directed to the Opposition of Saturn which cannot be because the Sun is on the Cusp of the Eighth and not Hileg if his Figure is true and the Division of the Heavens likewise but the Mâ—on because of her Latitude is there certainly Apheta Why did not the Sun to the Opposition of Saturn kill Henry VIII Frederick III. Emperor of Germany Duchess of Sfertia Mr. Sâ—epkins Mr. Jâ—hn Mallet Mr. John Booker Mr. John Gadbury Examine these Nativities where it came up in some young others in old age and yet in none it kill'd with divers others I could have mentioned Therefore we may reckon this also among the doubtâ—ul Nativities The Lady Mary eldest Daughter to Charles I. was born November the 4th at 17 minutes past 5 in the morning 1631 as saith our Author page 20. and that it nearly agrees with the Bishop's Diary And tells us also He was imposâ—â— on by a Pretender to print a false one for this Lady 's true Birth before but now he says he is certain it is true And yet 15 years after this he printed another forher true time of Birth and which of these three we may rely on I know not In the first he made 19 degrees of Scorpio ascending in the second 27 degrees of Libra and in the third in his Obsâ—qui Rationab 2 degrees of Scorpio Now if this last is the truest which indeed it ought to be then the Directions that he gives in his Collection for her
a Quarter of an Hour at the age of 61. years and the Moon at the same time to her own Square in Cancer the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Sun and the Sun just afterwards Motu Converso to the Mundane Parallel of Mars Oh Sir if this is all the Skill you have to shew us I thank you for nothing pray keep it to your self you told me I must not dance from one Point to another and why do you This is like you I do not dance from one Point to another I give you two Dirâ—ctions to the Hileg sufficient to kill and to corrobâ—rate those I shew how the Moon and Horoscope are afflicted by Dirâ—ction at the same time for though I do not allow them to kill when they are not Apheta's yet I tell you they impair the Body and give Diseases and under such Circumstances an easy Direction to the Hileg lets in Death Now after all I have said and the Reasons I have given why he did not dye sooner and that there are Directions suitable for Death at the time he did dye yet I do not dâ—pend on this for a true Nativity and aâ— almost of the Opinion it was topt upon us at that time to shew his Zeal for the Cause and they that supported it and to tell you my Thoughts on the matter I do not believe the Duke ever knew his own Nativity And so much for this Nativity and the First Part of his Genitures also Our Author begins his Second Part with the Nativities of Six Popes of which Four are taken from Argol one from Cardan and one from the Lord knows who The First is of Alexander VII whose Nâ—tivity he knew much about as well as I do He tells us here That the Moon is Hileg which is false for she is not 5 degrees from the Second And yet after this he says The Sun under the Earth to the Opposition of Saturn would kill him 3 or 4 year afterward By this time I believe he is satisfied That the Sun in the Third House to the Opposition of Saturn will not kill as he well remembers And so I leave this Pope Pope Paul III. was the Prodigy of his Age and it was on this man's Nativity that Ceresarius of Mantua predicted danger of Death at 81 years of age from the Ascendent to his own Trine Qui pro quadrato habetur to use his own words for it If a man should dye on such a Direction I am sure it would be next to a Miracle And almost like this our Author says A man of 81 years may dye without a Killing-Direction which if he can prove I will justifie also that so may a man of One and twenty by the same Rule Clement VIII Pope of Rome is by our Author branded with being a Hypocrite a Dissembler and he loads him with Heresy and Errors in matters of Faith and all this because he hath Saturn in the Ninth in his Detriment This is a sad thing that our Infallible Father should be guilty of those horrid Crimes and scandalize so pious a Church You will find Dr. Hammond had the Dragon's Tail in the Ninth and yet a good man Mr. Gregory had Mars in the Ninth in Libra in Square to Saturn and yet a good man And honest Abiezer Coppe had the Dragon's Tail there and Mercury in Cancer in Square to Jupiter and Mars and yet I am sure he will not call him a bad man No nor is the Pope a bad man by his Saturn being there Pope Paul V. is said to dye on the Ascendent directed to the Antiscion of Mars and to the Cusp of the Fourth and yet the Moon in the Seventh Hileg The Ascendent to the Square of Saturn among the Pleiades past by and let him live but this Fourth House tript up his heels if you can believe it I am weary with observing such improbable Doctrines Pope Gregory XIII is said to be born January the 9th at 46 minutes past 9 at Night 1554. but the Figure is set for 22 minutes sooner which is a mistake and not want of Skill I am sure but the Directions for his Death are not to be allowed though I do allow the Ascendent Hileg too for to believe that Mercury had more power to kill than Mars Lord of the Eighth had is to deny their own Rules and yet he outlived Mars his Square if this Figure and their Rules are true And so I leave them believing I have served the Church as far as I can possible with false Nativities It is certain the Birth of Erasmus Roterdamus is very doubtful if not perfectly false he was born of very poor Parents and his own Countrymen have confest they do not absolutely know the Year when he was born And therefore I shall not spend time about his Geniture Philip Melancthon is said by Mr. Gadbury to be born Feb. 16. h. 7. m. 6. P. M. 1497. and that he had 27 degr of Virgo on the Ascendent and thathe dyed at the age of 63 as says Alstedius but Helvicus says at 60 I rather believe the former And Mr Gadbury says in the Scheme he gives There is no Direction can come up to cut off Life at that age and therefore he thinks it convenient to alter it from Virgo 27 to Libra 26 and then the Ascendent to the Body of Mars will come up and is likely to give a Fever of which Disease he dyed But by Mr. Gadbury's favour if he alters the Figure so much the Ascendent cannot kill by Direction because the Moon will be then Giver of Life which in this Figure of his and Gauricus belongs either to Venus or the Ascendent Be it as it will I do not think it worth my while to spend time in correcting one that is so doubtful as this is Martin Luther is said by our Author to be born October the 22d hor. 1. min. 10. P. M. Anno 1483. and says He took it from Gauricus and so he might in part That is the time of the Day is from Gauricus but the year from Cardan for Gauricus says He was born in 1484. which I have told you at large in the latter end of the First Part and if I should take pains to prove it it being doubtful can no way prove the Truth of Astrology and therefore I will leave it as I found it The Learned Cardinal Peter Bembus is said by our Author to be born 1470. May the 28th hor. 1. min. 3. P. M. and he makes the Moon in 6 degrees of Aquary Cardan says He was born the 20th of May at Noon and makes the Moon in 8 degrees of Libra By which difference you may see the Nativity is uncertain and whatsoever I should say upon it can be at best but peradventure and therefore I will leave it till they are agreed when he was born Cardinal Richelieu is by our Author said to be born September the 9th a little before Noon i. e. half an Hour
Emperor nâ—r the Duke of Buckingham nor Parson Mackernes nor in Mr. John Gadbury's and many more in his Collection besides that have escaped it and therefore he should not have pressed it upon us here We are told by our Author That Sir Robert Holburn was born November the 16th hor. 2. min. 10. P. M. die Jâ—vis Anno 1598. Lat. 51. 32. And that his Nativity was elaborately done by Dr. Fisk his Friend and Tutor at the Knight's Request That he dyed in the 48th year currant of his age and this on the Sun directed to the Opposition of Jupiter in Capricorn You see the Scheme and the Reason he gives for his Death I wish he had also told us Whether Dr. Fisk did predict his Death from that Direction or whether our Author did not make it himself after this Gentleman was in his Grave If Dr. Fisk did predict his Death at that time on that Direction it was a happy Hit of Fate and more by Chance than Skill for Jupiter did never before that time kill any one and therefore a bold Venture But I am of Opinion that it was made when he was dead and it seems to be of the same sort that our Author hath furnished us with before and from the same hand And the rather because he adds If any ask Why the Square of Saturn might not kill as well as Jupiter's Opposition I answer He had no Dignities in the Eighth or Fourth and so had Jupiter in both Now I am answered and perfectly satisfied The truth is the Moon is Hileg and she and none but she must be directed for Death and I doubt we shall be untowardly put to it to find a cause for it in this Scheme but if he will allow me his somewhat that is 28 minutes I can find Directions sufficient for Death and they are the Moon to the Mundane Parallel of the Sun and Mars and the Zodiacal Square of Saturn But if he doth still persist in it That he did dye on the Sun to the Opposition of Jupiter then I would ask him Why it did not kill Bishop Land Sir Theodore Mayern Mr. Stepkins Dr. Geoffory le Neve and others and I am certain that neither Dr. Fisk nor my Friend Mr. Gadbury would venture to predict Death from that Direction when a man is living and I am sure Sir Robert Hâ—lburn's Death was not to be predicted by this Nativity And if he were living would it not be more rational to judge he should dye on the Moon to the Body of the Sun and Mars or the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Sun and Mars than on the Ascendent to the Opposition of Jupiter Fie fie lay by these Fooleries or else delend them and I will appear against you in the cause Cornelius Agrippa I willingly pass by as not being of any esteem for Truth in my Opinion And for that of Sir Theodore Mayern I have already handled it in my Opus Reformatum to which I refer those that would see it Peter Gassendus nat Januar. 21. S. N. hor. 17. min. 52. P. M. 1592. sub Lat. 44. they make him Capricorn ascending 6 degr and they kill him on the Ascendent to the Body of Mars and Square of Saturn the one in Cancer and the other in Aries The Sun is in 2 degrees of Aquary and the Moon 7 degrees in Taurus and they contentedly let him outlive thâ— Ascendent to the Body of the Sun Lord of the Eighth and Square of the Moon in the Fourth and think no body will in the least question that Now according to their own Rule Why should not we believe the Ascendent to the Lord of the Eigth and Square of the Moon in the Fourth is more likely to kill than to the Lord of the Tenth and Ascendent And yet after all the bussle they have made the Sun is Giver of Life in the Ascendent and he dyed not on the Ascendent to the Boâ—y of Mars but on the Sun to his own Square and Body of the Moon who is in the Radix in their fatal Fourth House and this done with a very little Alteration to the Figure Dr. Nicholas Fisk born July 25th hor. 1. min. 47. P. M. 1575. Lat. 52. and my Author says He dyed on the Ascendent to the Oppoâ—â—tion of Mars so that at one Blow he breaks Two of the most principal Rules of Ptolâ—my First The Ascendent cannot kill by Direction because the Sun is in the Ninth Giver of Life Secondly Mars cannot kill as a Promiâ—tâ—r because he is under the Sun Beams And yet both these are rothing to our Author in his way of Practice It is plain that the Figure he prints was made after the man dyed because of crowding in this Direction to stop his Readers mouth and prevent further Enquiry but the time was undoubtedly a little sooner and then the Sun Hilâ—g was directed to his own Square and the Mundane Parallel of Satura having a little before passed the Square of Mars who â—ad not power to kill but gave him that lingring Consumption that attended him to his Death and was indeed the occasion of it because Hecticks are the true effect of the Sun in many Cases and what Mars gave was of the Nature of the Sun at that time Mr. Stepkins is said to be born May the 15th hor. 10. min. 54. P. M. 1604. Lat. 51. 32. And our Author says He dyed on the Ascendent to the Opposition of Mars But then suppose some captious Fellow or other should ask the Reason Why the Ascendent should pass the Square of Mercury Lord of the Eighth and Square of the Sun both together and presently after the Square of Saturn and all these together not able to kill as well as the Opposition of Mars I must confess the Readers of such Authors had need have a mighty Opinion of them or else they cannot swallow these Gudgeons easily without kecking Dr. George Starkâ—y was born as saith J. Gadbury June the 9th hor. 11. min. 35. Manè 1628. Sub Lat. 52. who was living when this Book of his was printed but dyed of the Plague in 1665. and the Scheme of his Birth seems likely to signifie his Parts and also shew the time of his Death which if our Author had the managing of the matter must be fathered on the Ascendent to the Square of the Moon notwithstanding the Moon is Hileg in the Midheaven The truth of the matter is thus The Sun Giver of Life is directed to the Mundane Parallel of the Moon followed by the Zodiacal Parallel of Mars Body of Mars and Body of Venus for his Death and its Quality which was the Plague which I am informed he took by opening a man that dyed of that Disease From page 130 to 138. there is nothing remarkable either to the Reader or to the Animadvertor and therefore I pass them by and come to Mr. Stephen Rogers who our Author tells us was born October the 7th hor 4. min. 44. P. M.
is hard to say whether it is a Blessing or a Punishment to us But be it as it will no man lives that shall not taste of it and therefore as I have begun with his Life in a natural way so I will go on to his Death and the time of it as near as I can According to this Correction we have before us the first Direction that is or can be allowed dangerous to Life is the Moon Giver of Life to the Cusp of the Seventh at 39 years and 7 months old but I am partly certain that cannot kill because the Moon at the same time comes to the Mundane Parallel of Jupiter just after it motu conversâ— and within 9 degrees of his Square so that I cannot allow that to hit him yet he will have some Illness at that time but without eminent Danger But when the Moon comes to the Opposition of the Sun at â—1 years of age almost I do not think he will escape it because it is followed by such a train of Directions after it no less than 10 but the next and immediate Direction that succeeds iâ— is the Square of Mars and from him we must seek the Species of the Disease Mars you see is in Capricorn in Square to the Sun Saturn and Mercury hence I judge his Distemper to be a Fever complicated with disorders of the Reins and Head perhaps Delirious and Nephritick if not a Suppression of Urine totally The Direction toucheth in the end of the year 1737. but the precedingRevolution being no ways violent Saturn being then with Mars in 9 degrees of Gemini and Jupiter in 7 degrees of Pisces I judge it will not affect him till the beginning of the year 1738. about the time of the Ingress or a little after Saturn then being in 19 degrees of Gemini and Mars in the middle of Aquary and when Mars comes to the beginning of Aries or the lâ—tter end of Pisces he will influence the place of Direction at which time it is probable he may feâ—l the Influence of his rugged Stars I have already told you That the Estimate Time was a little after I mane and my Rule generally is That Children are born sooner than the time commonly given and so may this for ought I know for the Direction that I principally rely on in the Correction is but a single one to suit to a single Accident which tho' they seem rational and probable yet I dare not be positive to the truth of the Correction though I believe it to be true But if he should happen to be born at 1 of the Clock or a few minutes before then the Moon will not be Giver of Life but the Ascendent if so the Cause and Time of Death must be sought from the Horoscope and not from the Moon and therefore I will give you the Directions to the Ascendent in a Figure set to that time Ascendens ad ☌ ♃ 7 45 8 6 1695 Ascen in Ascendens ad â–´ ♄ 22 23 24 4 1711 15 â™ Ascendens ad ☌ ♂ 22 33 24 6 1711  Ascendens ad âš¹ ♀ 24 3 26 4 1713  Ascendens ad semiquad ☉ 29 45 32 5 1719  Ascendens ad semiquad ♃ 35 57 39 1 1726  Ascendens ad sesquiquod ♄ 37 3 40 2 1727  Ascendens ad 8 ☽ 40 23 43 8 1730  Ascendens ad semiquad ♂ 51 12 54 10 1741  If the Ascendent is Hileg when it comes to the Body of Mars it will be a severe time for danger to his Life but I do not think he will dye of it because he hath a favourable Revolution no evil secondary Directions and Jupiter on the Place of Direction to a degree and in his radical Horoscope all that year and what is more it is a strong vital Nativity At the Age of 32 years and 5 months the Ascendent comes to the Semiquadrate of the Sun which will give him another dangerous fit of Sickness but not so bad as the other yet both of them attended with danger but I think he may outlive them But at the age of 40 years if the Horoscope is Apheta he will certainly dye without a Miracle from Heaven for according to my Skill in Astrology I can by no means see any ground to judge his Life will be continued beyond that time And to say the truth his Nativity cannot be exactly and truly corrected till the Ascendent comes to the Body of Mars it being the first Direction of consequence to an Angle and no other Directions can correct true either in this or any other Nativity Directions to the Sun and Moon will come near but the Angles exact And so I come to say something to the effects of his Directions in the former Table At the age of 4 years and 3 months he was taken into the particular care of a Gentleman and ever since hath been plentifully and genteely provided for by a Relation and a Person of Quality He had then the Ascendent directed to the Body of Jupiter At the age of almost 8 years he had the Small Pox and at 8 and 10 months he fell down a pair of Stairs for this I allow the Sun to the Opposition of Saturn cum sine Lat. with some other things already mentioned Aged 16 years he hath the Moon to the Sextile of Saturn and to the Trine of the Sun just after on these Directions he will be placed out in the world perhaps sent to the University or otherwise disposed Aged 17 or 18 years the Sun to the Square of Jupiter mundo the Moon to the Sesquiquad of Jupiter mundo and the Part of Fortune to the Parallel of Saturn in mundo his affairs of Life will be uneasy and he hindred in his Preferment according to his Capacity Aged 19 years and 6 months the Moon to the Trine of Venus and Sol ad Tr. Jovis this gives a healthy Constitution all things go easy and pleasant and some Preferment seems to offer it self Aged 20 years and 6 months the Ascendent comes to the Body of Mars this will give a Fit of Sickness and a ruggedness in his Affairs his Friends seem to be but indifferent in his Interest and all things for a short time go but untoward Aged 22 years the Moon comes to the Mundane Parallel of Jupiter and the Part of Fortune to the Trine of Mars he grows vigorous in his Health new Friends appear with Interest and Preferment and perhaps some attempt at Marriage Aged 24 years the Moon to the Parallel of Mars about this time he wâ—ll be subject to a feverish Hâ—bit and a Sâ—rfeit but a fit of illness will happen with a little Trouble or Disappointment in his affairs and I do think he will keep some wild Company under the Influence of this Direction Aged 25 years the Midheaven to the Sextile of Jupiter this Direction will certainly introduce the Native into the Acquâ—intance of new and honourable Friends by