be herein concerned must they run Retrograde till they have destroyed themselves or in a more peaceable manner come to be extinguished And if we do observe the place of the first appearance of this Comet though it was not then observed by Instrument that we hear of it is very probable that it was in or very neer the degree of the Ascendent of the great Solar Eclipse the 29 of March 1652 as Mr. Booker well noted as the time thereof was observed by divers Astronomers so that no marvel that such turbulent transactions did so suddenly succeed in the several parts of the world as England Holland Denmark Swedeland and divers others as cooperating with and exciting the influence of the preceding Eclipse But because we cannot attain to the precise time of the first appearance thereof by reason of its uncertainty it is necessary for such as may make further speculation for more particular accidents to insert the figure of the Lunation preceding for according to the 252 Aph. of Anonimus Ne fabrices figuram in puncte apparitionis Cometae quia non est verum punctum cum Cometa habeat augmentum diminutionem Erect not a Figure to the point of time of the Comets first appearance because it is not the true point of time when the Comet may have increase or diminution 1652. Decemb. 4 d. 14 h. 40. P. ☽ a ☠☉ ad ☠☿ Postea ad Cometaus London If as Mr. Lilly notes that Comets portend pratia in locis ad quem tendent Wars in those places to which they project their tails then Germany and those places that lie North-east and Eastward from England must expect a principal share in the effects Denmark Poland Swedeland c. Mr. Booker in his discourse of this Comet tells us that it is related of an Italian Astronomer that upon the sight of this Comet cryed Vae Vae Germaniae And who knows not what mischiefs have happened in those Countreys but especicially to Germany and Hungaria into which the Turks this year 1663. have made an invasion with almost an innumerous Army firing and killing and carrying captive all those poor Christians they come nigh to all which have been portended partly by this and such like prodigious appearance for it is reported and Mr. Booker himself hath shewn me a Treatise of another Comet that was seenin Germany Anno. 1661. But seeing from the influences of these there hath happen'd such great and grievous Calamities besides what succeeded not long ☞ The success of the present designs of the Turks probably conjecturep after the Comet here in Engl. Holland and other places there is now such great fear of the further designs of the Turk against Christendome by reason of his present preparations attended with such great and devilish Threatnings give me leave to add my conjectures thereon in which I shall not be too presumptuous but with submission to better judgements give such reasons as I conceive are grounded upon rational principles For as those violent and inordinate accidents do happen from those unnatural unusual and irregular causes and this Comet appearing so opposite to the great Conjunctions of the superiour Planets which are more natural and regular so it may be conjectured that the fury of those Evils and Calamities that do happen from thence will not neither cannot continue long but either as was said before by a forcible retrograde motion in their affairs or a willing condescension by little and little they as the Comet come at length to be extinguished or appeased Again seeing by 77 Aphor. of Dasipodius that the Fiery Triplicity hath most signification of the Christians and the Roman Empire by the consent of Cardane so many Planets in that Trigon so benevolently configurated especially that Mars who is in Leo is saluted with the Trine of Venus and applying to the Trine of the Conjunction I say that what cannot be accomplished by Treaties of which there will not be wanting the assistance of divers Princes and Potentates will by the power of the Sword though with labour and difficulty wherein one Heroick spirit attains to great Honour by his more than ordinary Martial Policy and Atchievements To which we add the reason already mentioned pag. 32. that as the Law and Religion of Mahomet the Turks had their rise from the Watry Triplicity so now from the effects of this Sabbathical return of the Superiours into the Fiery Trigon so accounted by some and almost all the Ancient Astrologians which distinction is questioned by some now must that Law Empire receive great restriction and abatement of its power and Dominion if not a finall and totall Subversion For what Law Religion Rule or Government had its original of rise or greatnesse from the celestial Influences must expect to receive great detriment and molestation from contrary causes so that because the effects of this returne shall most powerfully operate and be put forward by the effects of this Conjunction of the year 1663. therefore I say again all those enormities that do arise from contrary causes to these must speedily be subverted and exstinguished And although I take not upon me to judge the time precisely when the period of these Revolutions shall be yet seeing they were excited hereunto by the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars Anno 1662. which happened neer the place of the great Conjunction Anno 1603. and this of 63 so I conceive that from the effects of their second Conjunction in the year 1664. in the same Sign if not before will they receive their final and full period of prosecuting any further designs at this time against the Christians So that I dare presume to conjecture from these natural principles that the Turk will not be so successful in his attempts upon Europe as some and indeed with great reason have feared but that either matters will be reconciled by Treaties Embassies and Solicitations or he will be forced by the Christian Sword to retire And if we do but consult with the Histories of former times and that frequently after the apparition of such like unaccustomed prodigies we shall read of divers invasions of the Turks into Hungaria Bohemia Germany c. and that with almost innumerable Armies in which they have made great spoyl and havock and caused great desolation among the Christians yet hath God in his infinite Mercy been pleased to deliver them as he did often times the children of Israel against the Philistines by far lesse power and force and contrary to all humane reason And who should now distrust his Power and Will Surge ô Domine Arise arise ô Lord and help Notwithstanding I have heard of some Atheistical wretches who most blasphemously and audaciously have asked Where is now your crucified Saviour why doth he not come down and save his People c. Oh most horrid and detestable blasphemy But why doe the Heathâ—n rage and the people imagine a vain thing He that sitteth in the
Prae-Nuncius Sydereus AN ASTROLOGICAL TREATISE Of the Effects of the Great CONJUNCTION of the two Superiour PLANETS Saturn Jupiter October the Xth 1663. and other Configurations concomitant WHEREIN The Fate of EUROPE for these next twenty years is from the most rational grounds of Art more than probably conjectured AND The Success of the present Design of the Turk against Christendome occasionally hinted at By RICHARD EDLIN Astrophil Aliquod dictum quod non dictum prius Prius intellige tunc increpa LONDON Printed by J. G. for Nath Brook at the Angel in Cornhill 1664. Licensed March 14. 1663. Roger L'estrange TO THE EMINENTLY LEARNED AND NO LESSE HONOURED ELIAS ASHMOLE OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE Esq WINDSOR-HERALD AT ARMS AND COMPTROLLER OF THE EXCIZE For HIS MAJESTY A KNOWN MECAENAS TO ALL INGENIOUS ARTS THE ENSUING ASTROLOGICAL TRACTATE IS MOST JUSTLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR R. E. To the READER READER THis Treatise so long expected because so long promised is at length made publick although not without much labour and difficulty in the composure as well by reason of the Intricacy of the Subject it self as the various interruptions in my own Affairs The Intricacy of the Subject will appear if we consider that there are few or no presidents extant or to be obtained of any moment that treat of this Subject especially as to the measure of time whereby we should know when the effects will most principally manifest themselves However I doubt not but I have sufficiently handled the subject in all the parts thereof to the satisfaction of the Ingenious or at least to incourage them to make a further disquisition what I have done I dare presume to say is performed from most rational principles not hitherto so copiously handled And indeed it is not this part of Astrology alone but there are others also wherein we finde great deficiency in the Ancients by reason of the insufficiency of their Astronomical Tables so that they were oven forced upon many absurdities to salve up the errours they were frequently subject to and how observable is it even in our late Professors also and in some now living that following the steps of the Ancients without due examination or taking notice of their mistakes have been constrained to wring and scrue accidents to agree to their positions of Heaven whether they have been congruous or proper one to another or not and so have wrested their time many minutes and sometimes some hours from the truth as I could plainly and sufficiently instance but I forbear This I say is frequent in some which in Nativities the most necessary doctrine in particlar judgements how great injury it may be to the person concerned the judicious do very well know and our reason may inform us As to the irruptions or rather interruptions that have happened in my own affairs which hath also been one main cause of prolonging of time indeed they have been many and great Ratione solis ad Corp. Saturni M. C. ad corp Martis and other untoward Configurations But it is the providence of God that in the language of Dr. Brown in his Relig. Med. hath so constituted the Configurations of Heaven at my Nativity and I am therewith content till it be his pleasure otherwise to dispose of my fate which at present I thank God I am in no wise ashamed to own since I say it is his providence who for our transgressions visueth at his pleasure both in Mercy and Justice to the third and fourth generation But these I say have been one main cause that have obstructed the publishing of this Book which was long since intended to be published but this is not all there have also been many delayes and hinderances since it went from my hands through one occasion or another however for what concerns my self by reason of those enormities I have been so abundantly subject to let me be excused if I have been more careful of the substance and plainnesse of the matter it self than the elegancy of Style or the curiosities of Stops and Pointings for which I must submit to the censure of the judicious Notable transactions have indeed been acted upon the stage of the World before the Book came forth but not before it was penn'd as divers of my friends do very well know but let me tell you those accidents are not so properly the effects of the Conjunction it self but of some concomitant Configurations preceding as you may perceive I have mentioned in its proper place the ♀ it self not manifesting its effects so suddenly to the World so that in that respect the Book is come forth time enough and to what accidents have happened already as those between Portugal and Spain the Pope and the King of France c. I dare presume to affirm without ostentation they were timely predicted from the principles and reasons there mentioned Some there are that have objected that nothing could be predicted from this Conjunction these are such who deny any Influence at all in the Stars especially as to mundane affairs But these may be convinced by their own sense for there is nothing more apparent than that the configurations of the Celestial Powers especially of the Superiours do cause various and notable mutations of the Air that the application of the Moon to the fortunate or malevolent beams of the good or bad planets doth cause notable apparent changes and alterations in the bodies of sick people over whom she hath an especial influence that by the Sun 's transit through the several parts of Heaven and his various declination to the Northward or Southward of the Equinoctial the seasons of the year are not onely divided but all things that are produced out of the Earth have their Vicissitudes their Generation Growth and Corruption though in different manner in several parts of the world and in different years which is caused by the configurations of the other Planets either to the Sun or among themselves And who should deny their influences in matters political civil as well as in natural sure I am many instances might be produced to the satisfaction of the most scrupulous I desire with Bellantius onely to have the Nativity of such as are so incredulous of the celestial powers that by Arguments taken from the experience of their own affairs I might convince them to avoid all other arguments that might be produced sufficient enough to the purpose But one and he no mâ—an professor as he thinks himself will make us believe that little can be known of certainty from the Conjunction First because that great Conjunctions do happen but once in 794 or 795 years and there being few or no presidents since the Creation Ergo. Secondly the House of Heaven cannot be obtained in which the Conjunction happens therefore judged impossible to know the effects as if all depended upon the House of Heaven But to the first I answer this is no such great Conjunction that happened
inquire Yet it must not be expected that such great alterations should immediately succeed but sometimes sooner and sometimes later according to the will of the Creator and the intentions and remissions of other Natural Causes For Corpora coelestia non agunt in instanti sed cum tempore the Coelestial bodies do not act in an instant or not alwayes on a sudden but many times at length and with some delay there must be Coition and Conception before there can be a birth or bringing forth of things If we add to either of the forementioned Revolutions 200 or more truly 199 years it brings us to the entrance of the superiour Planets into the next Triplicity which are called Conjunctiones Mediae their Mean Conjunctions for notable transactions have succeded these also Anonim 85. Mutationes Trigonum ab uno signo ad alterum vehementes durabiles mutationes efficient in provinciis gentibus The Mutations of the Triplicities from one Sign to another do effect vehement and durable mutations in Provinces and Countreys For example The last Restitution of the Fiery Triplicity except this we are now under was Anno Christi 809. as was mentioned before about the 20 of October to which if we add 199 years it brings us to the year 1008. in which year about the middle of June Saturn and Jupiter made their first conjunction in the next which is called the Earthly Triplicity and that about the 10. or 11. of Virgo ex Tab. Carol. the Invasion of ☜ William the Conquerour was during the effects of this Trigon and succeeded about 60 years after And thus the same proportion of years being added we are directed to the third and fourth Triplicities and so to the Lesser Conjunctions which do happen in signs of the same Triplicity and are once in 20 years the particular times of which for the reasons already mentioned are not to be obtained without calculation Vid. Proph. Merl. p. 52. Seq As to the quality of the Events according to the precepts of Astrologers besides what hath been already mentioned shall be more fully handled in the following discourse and perhaps may hereafter be inlarged I have been the more large upon these things because they have principal relation to the present subject nor is this doctrine of Conjunctions hitherto sufficiently handled the best Treatise I have hitherto met withall in general is that forementioned of Mr. Lilly viz. Prophetical Merl. from which I have received great light to the discovery of the effects depending on this Conjunction I am now to treat of CHAP. IV. Of Comets and new Starrs c. to be considered in generall Accidents THere are also other principal Causes of natural Mutations as was mentioned in the beginning and they are Comets New Stars Parahelii and Paraselenes or Mock-suns and Mock-moons and divers other Meteorological Appearances which by the Learned we are also advised to consider in future Events Ptol. Quad. fol. 105. Cardanus Segm. Aph. 133. In consideratione generalium eventuum c. In consideration of general events Comets and all such things as are incident thereto are to be consider'd For by the 99. of the Centiloq Ptol. they also carry a second part in judgement History makes plentiful mention of these and the notable events that have succeeded and our own experience of late years are a sufficient testimony not to mention many how ominous was that Comet or Blasting Star that appeared in the year 1618. to Germany especially and divers other Countreys too fresh in our memories to be denied What strange alterations succeeded suddenly after the Comet of the year 1652. here in England assisted with other causes concomitant as the Eclipse of the Sun c. New Lords New Laws New Governors and Government New Customes and what not But of this Comet I shall have occasion to speak more in the sequel Nor can it be with good reason conceived that such Prodigies as these should appear in vain Signa quae videntur in coelo aut Luna vel cum aliis stellis quae apparuerint extra motum cursum natura nunquam evenient sine magna mutatione regnorum illius climatis in quo apparuerint Rig. Prop. 87. Signs which are seen in Heaven either with the Moon or with other Stars when they appear beyond the motion and course of Nature they never happen but they portend great mutation of those Kingdomes or the Kingdomes of that Climate in which they appear And here I cannot omit the repetition of those excellent expressions of Herodotus mentioned by Mr. Lilly When God intends to punish a Nation or a City he first signifies his will by Prodigies Loquitur cum hominibus non modo lingua humana c. God doth not speak to man with humane tongue onely As by Prophets Apostles and Pastors but also by divers forms and Images composed in the Elements And indeed it is worthy of note that seeing those ordinary and more frequent signatures of the will of the Almighty the Influences of the Celestial Bodies instituted by God himself at the Creation Gen. 1. 14. are not so diligently observed by all nay derided by some he therefore many times sends us such prodigious and unaccustomed Appearances such extraordinary and irregular Accidents in Nature that he might thereby leave a more deep impression of his Almighty power and Will in the hearts of the sons of men that all might be left without excuse Not that hereby we limit the more secret purposes of God in the ordering and governing his Church for whose glory and promulgation all Monarchies and States have their being here But that we may observe that God seldome bringeth any extraordinary transactions to pass in this world but he first foreshewes his Will and future purpose by some ordinary or extraordinary productions of Nature Thus the Birth of our Saviour was accompanied with a glorious Star that the wise men of the East who no doubt were conversant in the Astral Influences might also come to the knowledge of the Messias and God of Nature For having seen HIS STAR we are come to worship him Mat. 2. 2. Of the New Star of the year 1604. and the Comet 1652. whose influences are cooperating with our present Conjunction they are handled in the following discourse in their proper places CHAP. V. Of Eclipses and Lesser Conjunctions of the Planets HItherto of the most principal causes of such accidents as do naturally happen in the World Lesse principal causes are Eclipses lesser conjunctions of the Planets Revolutions c. And by lesser conjunctions of the Planets I mean of Saturn or Jupiter or Sol with Mars which I term lesser Conjunctions comparatively to those of Saturn and Jupiter alone And in this sense may Messahala be understood when he terms the conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter Great of Saturn and Mars Mean of Jupiter and Mars the Least These although they produce many times very forcible effects yet those effects are not
so universal especially of Eclipses because they variously appear in different places and the defect is sooner varied but do operate therefore more especially upon some particular places and persons which although it be sometimes with a malignant kind of violence yet is the duration thereof of far shorter continuance Rightly therefore was it said of Cardanus Segm. 7. Aphor. 121. Nulla Eclipsis omnino toti orbi penuriam aut pestem pronunciare potest Pestis autem ex his quatuor annis durare nunquam potest No Eclipse can signife Want or Scarcity Pestilence or such like Accidents to be general to the whole World because those Accidents signified by Eclipses cannot last above four years Nor do the effects of Saturn or Jupiter with Mars or of Sol with either continue above two years because once in or about two years they make conjunction and those in different parts of Heaven but the conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter do happen but once in twenty years and that in signes of the same Triplicity These therefore are properly said to dispose of the times in general and those lesser Causes do more particularly shew the intention and remission of the effects For it is an Axiom That by how much a Planet is more ponderous and slow of motion the more powerfully doth he leave an impression of his influence This is very evident in the Transits and Aspects of the Planets by the Hylegiacal places of Nativities and in the mutation of the Air and as demonstrative in other Astrological Judgements And these therefore are also to be considered in general judgements For as hath been already mentioned it is not onely the Conjunctions themselves or any one Configuration that doth operate alone but the concomitancy of succedent yea and precedent causes that are also to be considered according to that notable saying of Naibod sup Alcabit pag. 357. Tempora vero magnoruÌ„ eventuum non à Saturm Jovis conjunctionibus solummodo sed etiam à deliquiis esse supputanda c. The times of Great Events are not onely signified from the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter but also from Eclipses or from hence it may be inferred that their Effects that is of the Superiours are portended to longer times by reason of the many and infinite Transits of themselves and other Planets through the several Regions of Heaven therefore it is necessary their influence should oft-times vary and change but the effects of Eclipses do seldome exceed two years and a half Nay it is the judgement of Dasipodius Propos 65. Conjunctiones magnae nisi ab Eclipsibus vim recipiant non sunt magni faciendae That great Conjunctions are not of so great force or to be so much esteemed of except they receive strength from Eclipses that is as to the particular times of the events although as to generals they have great signification For by the 61. and 62. Propositions Judicia temporum in magnis eventibus ex Eclipsibus sumuntur The Judgements of the times when great Events shall happen are assumed from Eclipses Ex Eclipsibus magni effectus proveniunt For from Eclipses great Events do happen Thus I say are these considerations to be understood that although the General Accidents of the World are produced from the more superiour causes who have a more general and universal signification yet then shall those accidents most evidently appear when they are put forward by inferiour causes such as are Eclipses Lesser conjunctions of the Planets c. who neverthelesse produce many times very notable effects of themselves which yet are subordiate to the general disposition of the times Annual Revolutions also are to be noted which strictly taken cannot indeed be said to be causes of Natural Events but rather as onely signes of what accidents shall happen in such or such a year to those Countreys and places for which the Revolution is set according as it hath relation to the then predominant Configurations I mean of preceding causes of Heaven Thus Bonatus doth plainly inform us Fol. mihi 224. Per revolutionem Annorum mundi scitur quid in illo Anno sit futurum de bono aut malo utrum tranquillus aut guerrae c. By the Revolutions of the years of the World is known what will ensue in that year whether Good or Ill Peace or War Plenty or Scarcity what the condition of Kings Princes Nobles the Religious and all other sorts and degrees of men and quality of things whatsoever according to the property of man therein of the dearnesse and cheapnesse of things of the fruits of the Earth c. But this being not so pertinent to our present purpose I omit further discourse thereof Nor is it my task to handle the whole doctrine of General Judgements who please may be further satisfied as to Effects of Great Conjunctions in general from that judicious Treatise of Mr. Lilly's mentioned already of the doctrine of Eclipses I refer to his Annus Tenebrosus of Coâ—â—ets there is not any thing to purpose in English somewhat there is in the Prophetical Merlin but more in the Annual Prognosticks of Mr. Lilly Mr. Booker and Mr. Wharton for the year 1654 to which also I refer you As for those other Inventions of the Ancients as the change of the Excentricity Profections c. since they are not grounded upon sufficient demonstrative principles of Natural Motions I have no more to say of them onely That as divers accidents have happened contrary to expectation others not according to prediction as well in this as in other parts of Astrology did the Ancients invent or conceive there were other grounds of Judgement which indeed do scarcely deserve the name of Natural Causes These General considerations I thought necessary to premise as conducing much to our present purpose What is farther necessary to the amplifying of this doctrine of General Contingencies as occasion requires is more fully handled in the subject it self PART II. CHAP. I. The Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1663. Octob. 10. Astrologically handled FOr such as are not acquainted with Astrology and its principles I think necessary to premise That the twelve Signs of the Zodiack are by the Ancients divided into four Triangularities or Triplicities The first which they term the Fiery Triplicity is of Aries Leo Sagittarius which they also say is Cholerick Masculine and the Regal Triplicity and doth therefore signifie the most principal accidents of the World The second is of Taurus Virgo Capricorn this is called the Earthly Triplicity Melancholy Feminine and signifie more sordid and vulgar accidents The third Triplicity is of Gemini Libra Aquarius is Masculine Sanguine Temperate beholds the first by benevolent Aspect and do also signifie very eminent Transactions to ensue when conjunctions are made therein The fourth and last is Cancer Scorpio Pisces Watry Flegmatick Cold and Moist inimical to the first Triplicity The several Conjunctions of these superiour Planets Saturn and Jupiter as hath
who please to observe the distances of the forementioned Aspects and convert them into time as is already prescribed or as is more precisely used in the determination of the effects of our present Conjunction may see how those times did concur with the directions The effects thereof being fully expired upon or rather before this Conjunction of the year 1663. by reason of some other notable reasons that might be taken from general as well as more particular causes and this Conjunction being largely and as judiciously handled by Mr. Lilly being the subject of his Prophetical Merlin I forbear any further observation thereon and hasten to what I intend CHAP. V. Of the Comet that appeared in the year 1652. ANno 1652. December the 9. by most the 6 7 and 8 by some was the first appearance of a great Comet or blazing Star having a large Tail which at some times and in some places appeared bigger than at other times it seemed It continued visible about 23 days therefore the effects must continue so many years from the time of its appearance viz. till the year 1675. so that the influence thereof must be manifested and also co-operate with the effects of our present Conjunction according to the determination of the times thereof and because it was of great Magnitude even in the simile of Mr. Booker as the full Moon in her Apogaeon or farthest distance from the Earth or as Mr. Lilly and Mr. Wharton have it about 14 or 15 inches diameter and the Tail extended to 3 or 4 degrees North-east-ward or opposite to the Sun Hence the effects are of the greater concernment For Quo magis Stella eo efficacior est By how much greater a Star is the more powerful and efficacious The times of its Appearance its Longitude Latitude Diurnal motion as it was observed by Mr. Rook sometime Reader of Astronomy at Gresham Colledge and the declination by Mr. Wharton is as by the following Table appears Where we must observe that the 9th day was the first time of the observation thereof by Instrument though it did appear two or three days before nor could it be every night seen so as to observe it therefore there is no more set down than the observations were The nature of the Effects we come to know from the colour of the Comet and the ruling Planets c. Ephemexis Cometae Decemb. H. M. Long. Lat. Declinat 9 7 0 10 ♊ 0 39  10 16 46. A 10 7 0 5  29 27 M 51 0 4. A 11 11 0 2  45 18  20 2 46. B 12 7 0 1  0 9  0 11 36  14 11 0 27 ♉ 30 4 S 55 24 21  15 10 0 25  30 9  10 28 4  16 10 0 23  45 14  10 32 25  18 9 1 2 22  50 19  0 36 48  19 9 0 21  40 21  30 38 50  21 9 1 2 20  40 25  30 42 19  22 8 0 20  25 26  45 43 25  23 10 0 20  10 28  10 44 39  25 10 0 19  30 30  35 46 41  30 6 10 18  50 33  30 49 9  Which because they are particularly handled by Mr. Lilly Mr. Booker and Mr. Wharton I shall onely make some general observations conducible to our present purpose as they are concomitant with the influence of this Conjunction And that which therefore is most observable is that the place in which this prodigious Comet was first observed to be was in the exact place of the Moon and opposite to the place of the great Conjunction Anno 1603. and the New Star of the year 1604. which also is in opposition to our present Conjunction so must we expect that what inordinate effects are thereby signified are such as must contradict or disturb the influences of those more eminent causes And if as by the consent of the Learned those Conjunctions did signifie the erection of some new Monarchies Empires and Dominions in the world some new Laws and Customes Ceremonies and Privileges both in Church and State so likewise from the effects of this Comet should those Laws and Customes c. receive great alteration and disturbance and who knows not the great change of Government and consequently of Customes and Privileges that succeeded and happened the year following in England as the influence of this Comet and the great Eclipse of the Sun in Aries the preceding March which Eclipse signified some new Government which by reason of the contrary effects of this Comet to those preceding causes must be by the subversion and abrogating of the former Power Laws and Customes and not as that of the coming of King James from Scotland to the Crown and Regal Government of England which was in peace and tranquillity And seeing from the influence of our present Conjunction which as hath been already mentioned is so neer the place of the great Conjunction and new Star all those former Rights and Privileges Laws and Customes shall be restored and those exorbitant abuses both in Church and State abolished yet we may infer from hence that seeing the effects of this Comet do co-operate yet for several years to come therefore will not the effects of the Conjunction take place without great troubles and disturbances to ensue And although for the forementioned considerations we may most rationally conclude that Almighty God hath some great and eminent work to do and doth signifie to us some extraordinary events to happen in the world by this last restitution of the Superiours which shall be augmented and excited or stirred up and put forward by the influence of the New Star and that those wonderfull events will in a great measure be manifested these next 20 yeares by reason of the concurrence of the Conjunction with those preceding Configurations yet I say by the 32 of Rigel forementioned will mens minds or the minds of some men be excited by this preposterous Comet if I may so call it to Mischief Sedition Insurrection and Disturbance to secret Conspiracies Mutinies and Rebellions and all such irregular Enormities as such malevolent spirits can be capable of contriving which by reason of the Retrograde motion of this Comet and that with such celerity or swiftnesse cannot but redound to their own destruction or detriment in as much as also it opposed those more regular and more natural and accustomary causes which indeed have the more principal and general disposition of the times So that I say that at what time soever whether it be in England or in what other parts of the world whatsoever there may happen any irregular Transactions any violent and unexpected incursions although they may at first very furiously go on and seem to prosper in such irregular unlawful and unjust designs whether it be by war or other more cunning or politick Stratagems yet ☞ The Turk may
signa Cometa Illi etiam Belli motus feraque Arma minantur Magnorum clades populorum funera Regum CHAP. VI. Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars and other Lesser Conjunctions of the Planets Anno 1662. THere were also as the Prodromi of this Conjunction of the year 1663. no lesse than 15 Conjunctions together of the Planets among themselves in the latter end of the year 62. nine of which were in this very sign Sagittary which although of themselves they produce no such grand effects as I said before yet because they have generally such coherence with our present Conjunction and those eminent preceding causes we may the rather according to the 50 Propos of Ptolomy take the more cognizance thereof and the rather because that at the Lunation which was on the 30. of Novemb. in that year the Moon was passing by all the Planets in that very Sign in which all these most eminent Configurations have happened viz. Sagittary which by the forementioned Aphorism of Anonimus signifie something memorable to happen to the World But I have already given caution that these must be looked upon onely as the promoters and forerunners of those great effects that attend those more principal causes whatever are or have been the high conceptions of some The most principal of these Conjunctions and that which is more remarkable as to our present purpose is the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars the 5 of Novemb. in that year 1662. in the 6 degree of Sagittary whose effects do particularly operate but till the latter end of the year 1664. at what time they make Conjunction again in the latter degrees of the same Sign and neer the place of the Sun in the great Conjunction this Conjunction of the year 1662 being in the place of Mercury and very neer viz. within or about two degrees of the great Conjunction and not far elongated from the place of our present Conjunction of the year 1663. the New Star 1604. and the opposite place to the Comet 1652. I say by reason of these great Concomitances of the great Conjunction and this in 63. this Conjunction of Saturn and Mars is the more remarkable because it certainly excites the influence of the one and prepares matter for the effects of the other And therefore seeing the Conjunctions of Saturn and Mars according to the doctrine of Haly in his Jud. Astror and other Astrologers do of themselves cause notable transactions as sudden Commotions Uproars sometimes War Murders and very violent and cruel Enormities in those places that are under the dominion of the Sign in which they are conjoyned and this happening with such relation to those eminent causes it is then no marvel that from hence also we hear of very grand Transactions in those places of the World even before this Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter doth happen and can take place to operate And which I must now add who is there that is not sensible of very eminent Transactions to have brake forth in those places which have been chiefly subject to that very Sign and Trigon viz. in Spain and Portugal France and Italy Germany Hungaria c and more yet are likely to happen either there or in other places of the world because it hath yet a longer time to operate and I say must prepare matter for the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter and seconded by another Conjunction in the same Trigon so that by the way I may also note to you that although as I mentioned before the Conjunctions of Saturn and Mars do work suddenly violently and generally operate but two years yet because of these notable concurrences so often though but necessarily mentioned it may be conjectured that they may extend their influence to a longer time viz. till the year 1666. or till Mars comes to the place of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter of which he wants about 7 degrees from his Conjunction with Saturn However seeing there are certainly yet a longer time for the effects thereof and that among other enormities that have already happened in Forein parts the Plague hath lately afflicted many Countreys I must once again take notice that seeing the power of Mars is so great at his Conjunction with Saturn and being with the Scorpions heart a most violent fixed Star of his own nature there being other reasons which I mentioned before these I say do give cause from natural grounds to fear an eminent Plague or pestilent Disease to afflict us ere the effects be at a period Quod Deus avertat And although Mars hath such power to excite Wars Seditions Tumults Vproars Murthers Fires c. yet by reason Saturn hath greater elevation as well by Latitude as in his Orbite and approaching to his Aphelion so it may be feared that he will produce great Scarcity and want if not a Famine in some of those places subject to the influence of the Conjunction from both great Drought destruction of Catell and Mortality among men Shipwracks at Sea and these the rather because the Moon agrees with Saturn in Latitude which by the 132 of Almans and the 91 Aph. Segm. 5. Cardani doth add to his vertue and power with whom she so agrees in Latitude which I understand is when she passeth by them in Conjunction to whose beams she is nearest united I have no more of any moment to say of this Conjunction of Saturn and Mars but that as those grievous Enormities that have happened in the world have succeeded their Conjunction and may well be attributed to their malevolent effects so I hope that much of their violence will be taken off by the effects of this Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter of which I am coming now more especially and particularly to treat having both as fully and as briefly as I cloud touched all those things as were directly necessary to the prosecution of our present subject So the next thing we are to treat of is in CHAP. VII The quality of the Events attending the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter more particularly WHich must be known by the nature of the Planets that are conjoyned and which hath the greater power and fortitude the place in which they are conjoyned with relation either by Position or Aspect to other Planets or that have dignity in the Conjunction As for the Planets themselves you may remember I told you they were the two Superiours Saturn and Jupiter who have the chiefest signification of the order and governing the times of the most material changes and accidents that do happen in the world all other Configurations of Heaven or that are made among the Planets are subordinate to their influences That this their Conjunction is in the Fiery Regal and most eminent Triplicity and the third Conjunction they have made therein since this their last return which is the seventh return into this Triplicity since the Creation of the World and will therefore produce the more eminent effects And
of the most grand differences that are now or lately have been but some controversies and difficulties do often intervene so that the hopes of a Period of those Cumbustions and molestations that have lately been in several parts of Europe do go on but very slowly and things are with no small difficulty performed For besides those forementioned malevolent Aspects and Positions of Mars I find also that in this year and about the ☉ ad â–¡ ♂ moneth of April the Sun is directed to the Square of Mars in the Conjunction which signifies some contentions and debates among the most principal persons concerned in the affairs of Kingdomes a factious spirit will not suffer matters to be thorougly performed But seeing that toward the latter end of the year the Moon comes by direction to the Trine of the Sun in the great Conjunction gives hopes that then notwithstanding the difficulties and cross transactions intervening matters will be brought to a better and more peaceable conclusion A conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Taurus in Opposition to the place of Mercury Conj ♄ ♂ in ♉ threatens detriment to the Irish Nation by factious Confederacies by notorious Robberies Cheats and such like by destruction of Buildings by Fires Combustions and Tumults which will be most fiercely manifested in the year 1677. and that is all the considerable configurations for our present purpose in general for the year 1677. But in the year 1678. these two superiour Planets do make two Quartile Aspects ♄ ♃ â—n â–¡ twice this year he one in the beginning the other towards the latter end the one Jan. 20. in three degr of Gemini and Pisces one in Square the other in Opposition to the great Conjunction within 5 degrees The other is a platick Quartile about the beginning of Novemb. Jupiter then in the 23 deg of Pisces within half a degree of the Quartile but then he becomes direct and happily meets with a Trine of the Sun There is also in this year and in the moneth of July die 21. a notable conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the 22 degr Conj ♄ ♂ in ♊ in ☌ to the new Star of Gemini viz. in opposition to the New Star the Ascendent and place of the Sun at the great Conjunction and not over much elongated from our present Conjunction and the place of the Moon therein hence I say this may also be expected to be a year of very principal action Here will be notable struggling and debates in many places about Religion discords among great men commotion in Spain Hungaria some uproars and disturbances about Religion in England especially in London which will also suffer much by Fires Slaughters Sicknesse and such like evils factious spirits do now endeavour to promote their ends and interest and some of the superiour quality and degree do act and aim very highly matters are carried on generally now with great majesty in many places with great severity so that many people do manifest their dislike by murmuring and repining many are about these times put out of their Offices and Employments some eminent King and Queen of Europe falls out Towards the latter end of the year 1679. viz. 26 Sept. Saturn and Jupiter come again to a Sextile Aspect Sat. and Jup. in Sextile Saturn in 9. deg of Cancer Jupiter in the same degree of Taurus Saturn in his detriment Jupiter retrograde And on the 20 of Jan. following a second âš¹ of ♄ and ♃ they make a second extile in the same Signs but in the third deg thereof In the first Sextile Mars is in the place of Mercury in the Conjunction Lately in Trine to Saturn but in opposition to Jupiter The Sun near the M. C. of the great Conjunction and his own place in this of the year 1663. is lately in Square to Saturn Mercury applying to his Square were it not for the private Interests of some fraudulent persons who fearing lest they should now be called to an account and the late domestick Controversies of some Grandees that causes obstructions in the Affairs and Counsels of Nations The Actions and Consultations of the years 1679. but of 1680. especially would wholly tend to peace and to reconciliations of differences and indeed great will be the endeavours of the Superiour powers of Kingdoms and Countries to that purpose both Ecclesiastical and Civil many having suffered infinite loss by those calamities that have preceded and would now gladly accept of a Period and Conclusion Saturn in this year is directed into Capricorn his own house it is a Cardinal point the private Consultations of a subtile Generation is 5 and Jupiter directed into Capric now more fully discovered things tending to Amity and Peace many do act more honestly and publickly than formerly But the affairs of the World are of great and Superlative concernment generally a great settlement of Matters formerly in debate and doubt A Conjunction of Saturn Conj of Sat. and Mars in Cancer and Mars in Cancer this year in Quartile to the Sun in the Conjunction he being in the seventh of Virgo in quartile to the great Conjunction and place of the Moon denotes some disturbances in the Northern parts some Commotions in Scotland Inundations in Holland Notorious Robberies and Seditious Conspiracies in England extraordinary Piracies at Sea But although these things may begin to be manifest towards the latter end of the year 1680. yet more manifest in the year 1681. In which year there is little else of Concernment as to general Affairs Mars to the sextile of Sol. only the planet Mars by direction to the Sextile place of the Sun in our present Conjuncton shews the Heroick attempts and the great Honour and Dignity of some Martialist about those times especially in Italy the Alpes or some place under the Dominion of the sign Leo who by his great Power Policy and Prudence doth mightily sway the Affairs of some European Princes to good purpose or is mightily assistant to their advantage in composing some differences which before they might suffer under and could not be otherwise concluded among themselves The Conclusion I Have now done this discourse and in what is most observable therein have faithfully according to my ability communicated to the world As to those more particular accidents that might have been discovered though of less concernment the times thereof must be known from the revolutions and other configurations that have any similitude to these more Eminent preceding causes consideration being had whether those Concordances be from the Figure of Heaven which do only shew the Accidents of particular places or persons or among the Planets themselves which indeed are more universal in their operations I have omitted all the Conjunctions of the Inferiour planets and indeed of the superiours where they have not some concomitancy with our present subject as of little concernment therewith And of all the Eclipses since the year 1672. because of the uncertainty thereof from Argoll's Ephemerides and the great errors frequently committed in that particular all which are left for those years to the more diligent inquiry of those judicious Artists that in their Annual Prognostiques shall have occasion to make use thereof There are some notable configurations as to the affairs of England to be deduced from this Conjunction which are purposely omitted as having no sufficient warrant to meddle withall which with some other reasons may be sufficient excuse for my publick Omission yet that I may not be thought too negligent know that the years 1666. towards the latter end and 1667 68 72 74 and 75. do produce very notable Transactions as to the affairs of the Kingdom but in what nature I forbear I say those years do most effectually shew the Conjunctional Influences amongst us seeing that generally it intends more the affairs of other Nations especially Spain Italy France and Hungary onely As to what may be Physically observed I have in several places hinted and have great cause to fear do therefore once again premonish you of a great Plague in the year 1665. and pray God divert it It is possible there may be some accidents happen that I have not mentioned which some more curious inquiry may afterwards discover or perhaps by my own further experience I may afterwards come to the knowledge of For according to that of Manilius lib. 1. Per varios casus Artem experientia facit c. And by the 77 of Rig. Res multae sunt quae non videntur ratione naturali esse effectus quidem per formas superiorum corporum considerare possumus habereque eas si in tempore proprio Investigatae quaesitaeque sint However let not any carp at me till they are certain they have or can correct me Humanum est errare It is the property of humane nature to err and nemo vivit sine crimine no man liveth without committing faults We are now arrived to the year 1682. in which happens another Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter October the 20. in the 20 degree of that Regal sign Leo There being in the preceding moneth of Septem first a Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars and then of Saturn and Mars in the same sign And which is very notable because unusual these two superior Planets do make two more Conjunctions in the same sign the one on the 20. of Jan. following in the 18. degree of Leo the other the 16 of May in the 16 of the same But what the portents of those may be must be the subject of some other discourse and time This is all that is necessary at present Gloria Deo omnibus Finitur Die veneris Feb. 5. 1663 4. Ad captum lectoris habent sua fata libelli FINIS
in the year 1603 its in the discourse you may see at large and this is the third Conjunction that hath happened in that Trigon which indeed should have beeen the fourth inorder c. But suppose it had been their first Conjunction we have some general rules though but short to judge of great Conjunctions nor are those presidents we have of so little use as to be neglected but must we have presidents of necessity for all we write or judge then I fear this Astrologer will hardly ever be capable of judging a Nativity true while he lives I have great reason to think and do verily believe he never yet did or very rarely As for his position of Heaven I have said as much of that in the Discourse it self as is necessary and certainly there are other things of more principal concernment to judge of than the House of Heaven which I need not stand to mention here because sufficiently handled in the Book it self and if we consider the great variety of judgement in respect of different Meridians and Elevations of the Pole who is there will satisfie or incourage an Artist for the great labour it will require But why do I trifle time in answering one who with much confidence and as much ignorance doth cavil at the labours of others nay most ingratefully against those who have been his greatest support and promoters whilest it may be made evidently appear that in all or most that ever he did yet he hath committed frequently most gross and absurd errours in his very fundamentals and this appears not to be want of care or through oversight but absolutely for want of judgement and yet he must be a corrector of or rather a caviller at other mens labours although though as I could make it appear he understands them not But I shall refer my Reader to a particular Treatise shortly to come forth wherein this boasting Ignoramus is anatomized to the full his Absurdities Ignorance and gross abuse of Art particularly laid open and made known to undeceive the world But to thou that art courteous this Book is commended to thy judicious censure the subject it self is not able and I have been carefull to my power to perform what lay on on my part without playing the Plagiary or robbing any man of his Labours nor have I had the assistance of any either in Calculations or Judgement not that I am ambitious of any Igenuity therein but having used an honest endeavour in the performance thereof if thou meetest with any errours or deficiency either in the Pen or Press let me crave as I doubt not of thy courteous censure and care to correct And as for the envious I challenge and expect their emendation or be silent Farewell From my Study next door above the four Swans in Bishopsgate-street I am thine R. E. Observationes Astrologica A Treatise of a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars whererein are also many things of principal concernment in Astrology not frequently practised A most Learned and Ingenious Discourse of the true visible Systeme of the World according to Capernicus and our late best Astronomers The second Edition to be sold by the Author and at the Angel in Cornhill I have perused this Astrological Discourse of Mr. Richard Edlin ' s and may truly say It is not more Elaborate then Learned and very worthy the view of all Judicious Artists Die ♀ Feb. 12. 1663 4. G. WHARTON I have read over this Piece and averr it is excellently and judiciously penn'd and know not what could have been said more of this Subject ☽ 15. Feb. 1663 4. W. LILLY I have seriously read over this elaborate Treatise of Mr. Edlin ' s and so far approve thereof that I wish it were made publick for the satisfaction of all ingenious persons 17. Feb. 1663 4. JOHN BOOKER PART I. CHAP. I. Containing some General Considerations of Natural Causes THe Causes of all Natural Mutations next unto God whether as to the World in general or more particularly as to Humane bodies are the vertues and influences of the Celestial bodies whereof some are termed more others lesse principal The more principal causes as they are distinguished by the Learned are the transmutations of the Absides or Aphelions of the Planets Great Conjunctions of the Superiours new Stars and Comets to which some have added though as it is conceived not upon sufficient grounds the change of the Sun's excentricity and the obliquity of the Ecliptique Causes lesse principal or adjutant Causes as Spineus termes them are Eclipses of the Luminaries Lesser Conjunctions Annual Revolutions to which are supposed the motion of profection of the great Orb of great Conjunctions before the Floud the Birth of Christ Mahomet c. All which have their variety of Effects according to their different qualities and the nature of the subject they operate upon which although some are scrupulous is confirmed by the institution of the Almighty himself Sint Signa c. Let them be for signes and for seasons And indeed in order to the will and power of the Lord they are but as signes of his providential will and pleasure but as to natural Operations they are not improperly called Causes for Sub Deo semper agunt is a true Motto And not onely this institution of God himself but the consent of the Learned do also confirm it For S. Austin the Divine hath this saying Deus inferiora regit per Superiora God governeth all inferiour things by their Superiours And the Philosopher Cardanus Segm. 2. Aph. 58. Dei igitur altissimi coelum est instrumentum quo agit impellit regitque Heaven is the instrument of the most high God by which he acteth inforceth and governeth all things Amesius in his Medulla Theologica lib. 1. cap. 9. de providentia Dei terms it modus ordinarius the ordinary and usual way of Gods providence wherein we are to consider both the antecedent and the consequent as it is in Hos 2. 22. Exaudiam coelos ipsi exaudient terram c. I will hear the Heavens saith God and they shall hear the Earth and the Earth shall hear the Fruit and the Corn and the Oyl and they shall hear Israel And this order saith he is that Law of Nature adhibited by God himself at the Creation Fiat esto sit ita Let it be so and it was so Hence the Prophet styles them the Statutes and Ordinances of the Sun and of the Moon and Stars Jer. 31. 35 36. ver and chap. 33. 20. he calls it Gods Covenant with them And God himself asketh Job chap. 38. v. 31 32 33. among other interrogaties of the powers of Heaven whether he knew the ORDINANCES of Heaven or could set the dominion thereof in the Earth Hence then we may conclude with Cardan Seg. 1. Aphor. 20. Astrologia altissima scientiarum est tum quia de coelestibus tum quia de futuris quorum scientia non solum divina est
sed etiam utilissima of the Sciences the language or influences of the Stars is the supreme because it treateth of celestial things as well as of things to come the knowledge of which is not onely divine but also profitable a good reason is also rendered by Great Albertus Vniversi ordinationem nulla scietia humana perfectè attingit ficut scientia judiciorum Astrorum No humane Science doth perfectly attain the ordination of the whole Universe so as the knowledge of the Astral influences But I am not to dwell upon this Now seeing by the consent of the most learned in this Science it is not one configuration of the Celestial powers alone Porrò multa necessaria ad hanc inquisitionem c. Rig. 53. But there are moreover many things necessary to this disquisition as the knowledge of former superiour configurations the concomitancy of great Eclipses and such like which are to be considered in general Events it is necessary therefore that we take some consideration of those forementioned causes of Natural Mutations for the better amplifying the discourse of the present subject For Nullus planetarum effectus sive parvus à revolutione vel ab aliis significantibus erit quod non primum à raedice habeat exordium quare summa diligentia radices considerandae sunt No effects of the Planets shall be whether from revolutions which of themselves are of little force or from any other such like significations which are not first founded upon some Radix wherefore the first Radixes or Grounds of things are with special diligence to be considered CHAP. II. Of those accidents signified by the Mutation of the Aphelions of the Planets ANd first for the mutation of the Aphelions That principal transactions do attend these take the authority of Cardanus Segm. 1. Aphor. 37. Per mutationes absidum regna Regiones Religiones mutant By the change of the Absides or Aphelions of the Planets out of one sign into another Kingdoms Regions Religions Faith Sects and Opinions of men are altered So Rigel Aph. the 9. and he gives this reason If the Planet whose Absis it is be ascending in these or the opposite places he contracts vertue of the nature thereof which vertue is most strong in the Absis but depraved in the opposite place Grandes solent imperus causare rerum honoribus mutationes transitus augium in diversa signa diversos terminos Anonym 244. The transits of the Auges or Aphelions of the Planets in divers signs and parts of Heaven do use to cause grand mutations in Empires and in the glory and honour of things And if I may add my own conjecture or opinion in this point The Aphelions of the Planets being those parts of their Ellipses or Orbites in which when the Planets are they are at their greatest distance from the Sun their proper focus and center of motion and where they may be said to begin and end their peculiar perids and revolutions and consequently their apparent motions are encreased or diminished being measured from thence It therefore seems rational to me that as they are varied from one point or part of Heaven to another they should cause proportional mutations on Earth And if we would know where and in what nature these accidents will be the forementioned proposition of Lud. de Regiis informs us Illarum gentium quarum significator erit planeta augis permutata those mutations will happen among those people whose significator is the Planet whose Aphelion is so changed Mutatioque erit bonum vel malum secundum naturam significatorum superiorum illorum temporum secundum naturam significationis And this mutation shall be to good or ill according to the superiour signicator of those times and the nature of the signification But-since this doctrine hitherto hath not been sufficiently handled as indeed no wonder I must here of necessity give caution to prevent mistakes For indeed it must be Reason must guide us to the knowledge of the true effects our Experience in this particular being very deficient and that for these two reasons especially First the slow motion by which it is varied which is onely 48 seconds in a year ex Tabulis Carolinis * In other Hypotheses the motion is slower in some though swifter in others occasioned by the precession of the Aequinox and not from any motion that is in the Aphelion as the Author of the Caroline Astronomy hath judiciously prov'd which slow motion varies but one sign in 2250 years so that the Aphelions have not transited above two signs and a half since the creation of the World as we generally account it and therefore were there no other reason it were enough since we should have almost no examples to verifie this doctrine But another argument may be taken from the unhappy mistakes of almost all Astronomers especially the Ancients whose Astronomy being founded upon a mistaken Hypothesis might very well be deficient in the motion and places of the Aphelions nor is the difference so small among the Moderns as that we may trust to any Radix whereon to build any solid judgement for if we believe Spineus the Aphelion of Saturn was translated out of Sagittary into Capricorn Anno 1630. but by the Tables either of Kepler and Bullialdus that Aphelion is not changed till after the year 1700. almost 100 years difference and by the accurate tables of Astronomia Carolina not till the year 1818. neer 100 years after that So likewise the Aphelion of Mars by the computation of the Authors aforesaid should have entred Virgo Anno 1650. but by the Caroline Tables it is not till the year 1691. where by the way we may note that what grand alterations or changes have been conjectured by some to be the effects of these or such like mutations of the Aphelions cannot be expected to happen accordingly or if any such accidents should happen neer those times they must be the portents of other causes These things I say I thought necessary to give caution of not to be critical against those Learned Authors whose mistakes are rather to be pitied than cavill'd at since we are so much ingaged to Antiquity for their willing endeavours And because it may be worth our observation let us examine the last mutations of the Aphelions that so by comparing the Times with History we may see what notable transactions have happened in the World If we substract 2250 years from the year of Christ 1818. at what time the Aphelion of Saturn enters Capricorn that is by the Caroline Tables which I rather accept of because they are more harmonious and demonstrative in themselves more consentaneous to all undoubted observation and though but new yet more approved of than any other by the most able and learned of our English Astronomers I say by making substraction it brings us to the year before Christ 432. when the Aphelion of Saturn entred Sagittary The Aphelion of Jupiter
is this year 1663. in the beginning thereof in 8 deg 15 min. 36 seconds of Libra which is the motion or retrocession of the Equinox in 619 years which if we substract from this year it brings us back to the year of Christ 1044. for its entrance into that sign And so the Aphelion of Mars by the same computation entred Leo Anno anto Christum 559. The Apogaeon of the Sun entred Cancer or rather the Aphelion of the Earth Capricorn in the 1156 year of Christ The Aphelion of Venus entred Aquarius Anno Christi 1506. and of Mercury the 746 of Christ into Sagittary * Nota. By all which it appears there is not any mutation of any of the Aphelions of the primary Planets during the effects of our present Conjunction If we would more particularly know the nature of these transactions from Saturn we judge of Antiquities renovation of ancient customes of things already begun of Sects Schismes Heresies destruction and depopulation of Kingdomes and Countreys all manner of Idolatries Jesuitism Monkery all Jewish Superstitions sordid and inhumane debauchery ruine of Buildings and ancient Foundations Dearth Famine Captivities Shipwracks c. From Jupiter is known the change of such things as chiefly concern the Law Religion and the worship of God especially as to Church-discipline He hath signification of the Gentry of any Kingdome or Countrey and particularly of the Clergy and Lawyers From Mars is judged Wars Commotions Insurrections Rebellions Massacres Persecutions Murthers all Martial and Military affairs firing of Houses and Cities Rapine Theft all manner of Tyranny and Oppression The Sun signifies new Monarchies Empires Kingdomes which should continue in great Majesty glory and Renown By Venus we judge of Sports Games all manner of Pleasure and Delight Voluptuousnesse Adulteries Fornications but great peace and plenty of all things and a general Tranquillity she also signifies From Mercury we know the fate of Arts and Sciences the discoveries of all ingenious Inventions and secret Devices he signifies Philosophers Astronomers and such as are lovers of all curious Arts also Merchants Arithmetick and Accomptants The Apogaeon of the Moon depending upon another law of motion is more frequently changed out of one sign into another viz. in or about nine months It entred the sign of Scorpio in June 1662. about the 18. day by the Carol. Tab. and it enters Sagittary about the 17 of March this year 1663. and into Capricorn December following So that by the swiftnesse of this we may indeed have experience enough onely we must note that the Moon is but the Earths attendant a secondary Planet and cannot signifie any such grand transactions to the world as those of the primary Planets yet let us observe what considerable Events may happen in those Countreys subjrct to the sign Sagittary during the Transit of the Apogaeon through the sign Astrologers say that under Sagittary are Spain Portugal Hungaria Dalmatia Slavonia Arabia the Happy and divers other Southern Countreys which with the dominions of the other signs over their several Countreys and Regions are plentifully mentioned in other Books Thus I say who please may by comparing the Histories of former times see whether such like or what other notable transactions have succeded those times for the better correction of this hitherto uncertain Doctrine CHAP. III. Of the several Conjunctions of the Superiour Planets BUt there are other principal causes more certain if we take them in a general sense as to time and those are the several Conjunctions of the superiour Planets Saturn and Jupiter who are the most ponderous Planets and slow of motion and therefore called the Superiours as well as by reason of their remote distance from the Sun who is their center And of these is the present subject of our discourse in particular together with a consideration of other causes in general But of these Conjunctions there are three kinds as by the Learned they have been distinguished and they are Great Mean and Lesser Conjunctions and these I say are to be understood of the two superiours themselves not of those Lesser Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter with Mars of which more by and by The Greatest or Great Conjunctions are those after a full period and revolution of the whole Circle viz. when Saturn and Jupiter have made their several conjunctions in the several triplicities and do again begin to conjoyn in the first triplicity which is also called the Fiery and Regal Triangularity and this is a period of 794 years and some odd dayes Mean Conjunctions are those which are made or do happen after the leaving of one and conjoyning in another subsequent Triplicity as from Aries Leo Sagittary which is the first into Taurus Virgo or Capricorn which is the second and so successively into Gemini Libra Aquarius which is the third and lastly into Cancer Scorpio and Pisces which is the fourth and last Triplicity or Triangularity And this is a period of neer 200 yeares or more particularly in 199 yeares and some odde dayes Lesser or the least Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter are those which happen after the entring of any one Triplicity in signs of the same Triplicity and these do happen once in or about 20 years so that by making ten Conjunctions in one and the same Triangularity it doth appear they are neer 200 years ere they remove out of one and enter by conjunction into another Triplicity and consequently neer 800 years ere they perform these conjunctional Revolutions of the four Triplicities of the whole Circle And here note that the true distance of any of these whether Great Mean or Lesser Conjunctions cannot be obtained without careful calculation and that from the best Theories by reason of the great discrepancy among themselves as hereafter will appear For if we take the distances of time between one Conjunction and another since their last return into the Fiery Trigon the variety will appear too great to be confided in whereby any certain rule can be made without calculation For from the 7. of December Anno 1603. the time of the first to the 7. of July Anno 1623. the time of the second are 19 years 212 dayes and from thence to the 16. of Feb. 1642 3. the time of the third Conjunction are 19 years 224 dayes thence to the year 1663. October the 10. the time of a fourth Conjunction and that which is now the principal subject here intended is 20 years 236 dayes and from thence to the next Conjunction in October Anno 1682. but 19 years just yet there are two more Conjunctions not long after in the same sign the one in January following which is a retrograde Conjunction the other in May Anno 1683. a most wonderful congression of which I have nothing to say here If you would have the Authority of the Learned for the several distinctions before mentioned I must refer you to Mr. Lilly's Prophetical Merlin where this particular is principally handled
haereses dirae armisque protectae ob Martem Lunam fides plus armis quam miraculis ampliatur c. Under the fourth Triplicity which respects the first by hostile Aspect the first Monarchy that is the Monarchy or Monarchies that arise from the first Trigon shall be broken direful heresies begin protected with Arms by reason of Mars and the Moon Faith more inlarged by the Sword than Miracle new Religions and Tenents arise checking the former Austerity or rather Superstition and all this to a good intent because it is the properties of the Stars to incline Conjunctiones in Signis Aqueis quia est Trigonus Martis significant multa bella inventiones operum mechanicorum propter martem haereses graves magnos c. Dasipod Aph. 66. When Conjunctions happen in watry Signes which is the Triplicity of Mars they signifie Wars and the invention of mechanick Works and Instruments for that purpose great and grievous Heresies do also abound the Law and Religion of Mahomet had its beginning from this Triplicity to which agrees Cardan Spineus and others And if such accidents do attend the orderly course of the Superiours in this Triplicity how much more when it happens so irregularly as this in the year 1643. did viz. after two Conjunctions in the Fiery Trigon And who is there now living that cannot seal to the truth of such preposterous Effects that have attended the English Monarchy these last 20 years But let us now observe that after this digression if I may so term it of the superiour Planets Almighty providence hath ordained them in this their next meeting Anno 1663. to return again to their former path and there to make conjunction not onely in the same Triplicity but very neer to the place of their first meeting therein From whence we may with good reason conjecture that those Kingdomes or Common-wealths those Monarchies States and Governments all those Families and persons as had either original or progresse to greater Dignity or Authority from the influence of the Great Conjunction of the year 1603. or of that Minor Conjunction Anno 1623. And which during the effects of that preposterous Congresse Anno 1643. did receive restriction and almost total subversion shall from the effects of this Restitution of the Superiours be again restored and firmly established upon their former principles and all those Schisms Heresies and factious Inclinations that were predominant in the unruly minds of men will be either totally abolished or greatly suppressed so that all matters both in Church and State generally shall be reduced to their pristine beauty and lustre and for these next twenty years shall continue in great Glory and Majesty although perhaps afterwards matters may for some time be carried on with greater austerity c. Yet will not these things be altogether free from Disturbances Molestations and dislikes of a ruder sort of distempered spirits especially the former part of the Effects of the Conjunction or especially till Saturn and Jupiter do make their first Sextile Aspect For the Comet which appeared in the year 1652. in opposition to the Great Conjunction which also exhausted mens spirits to Rebellion Tyranny c. is yet cooperating with the effects of this Conjunction we now treat of and so will be for some years which conjunction is almost directly in opposition to the place in which the Comet first appeared And although we cannot obtain the hour of the Conjunction so precisely yet this is certain that the Moon that day and I do believe near the true time passeth by the forementioned Comet and applies to the opposition of the Conjunction and Mercury her dispositor in that pernicious Sign Scorpio having lately been in Square with Mars Hence I say although from the prerogative of Jupiter in the Conjunction we may expect much Tranquillity and Happinesse and that matters should be carried on with much mildnesse and sobriety in matters both Legal Political and Religious yet there will appear a factious and distempered kind of people of the rural or more common sort men of unsetled judgements that I say will molest and disturb the peace of the Kingdome and of all those places where otherwise the benevolent influence of the Conjunction will operate and what they cannot accomplish by force by reason that both the Moon and Mercury are weak and Mars disposing of Mercury they will endeavour by private Conspiracy false Rumours and seditious Pamphlets nay and sometimes by tumultuous Insurrections I cannot call this Conjunction Great although it be as it were a restitution of the Fiery Trigon considering that irregular one of the year 1643. Yet let me tell you the effects thereon depending will be no small moment in all or most of the Kingdomes and Common-wealths of the world but more especially in the European and Christian part thereof by reason of the Great Conjunction it self and other eminent causes For besides the Great Conjunction Anno 1603 there was also in the year following a most eminent New Star which continued visible about 16 moneths in a most splendent manner whose place of appearance was not onely in this Fiery Trigon also but in or neer the Ascendent of the Great Conjunction as it was carefully observed by Sir Christopher Heydon and Jo. Kepler Now our present Conjunction being so near the place of the Great Conjunction 1603 the Ascendent thereof and the new Star of the year 1604. for the Great Conjunction was about the 8th deg of Sagittary the Ascendent and new Star about the 18 deg of the same sign and our present Conjunction in the 14 deg thereof interposing the Conjunction and new Star without doubt very eminent effects must be expected to happen during the effects of the Fiery Trigon in general And what was more particularly signified by the great Conjunction and in a more especial manner by the new Light whose effects must continue during the influence of the whole Trigon and certainly prenotes some extraordinary effects to ensue therefrom by reason it appeared so near the beginning of the Fiery Trigon that is the first entrance of the Superiours therein and continued so splendent in the same place for above one year I say the effects hereon depending shall be exceedingly renewed excited put forward and in an especial manner manifested to the world by the influence of our present Conjunction seeing it hath so neer alliance to those eminent preceding causes And therefore it was not in vain that which Cardanus and other of the Learned adviseth Cum videris conjunctionem vel oppositionem superiorum in triplicitate Ignea vel Aeria non festines judieium nec idem tradas in rebus parvis maxime si Sol vel duo de superioribus in ipsis Triplicitatibus manserint praeeminentes enim sint hae duae ab aliis triplicitatibus prima quidem in celsitudine gloriae secunda vero in bonitate profanditate ingeâ—i Cardanus in Ptolom When thou seest a Conjunction or an
Opposition of the superiour Planets in the Fiery or Airy Triplicity be not hasty to give judgement neither let it be of small matters especially if the Sun or two of the Superiours be in those Triplicites for the actions of these are praeeminent above the other Triplicities those of the first or Fiery Triplicity do exceed in height and glory those of the Airy do signifie or operate in Goodness and profoundnesse of Wit Notable to this purpose is that of Mr. Lillies in his An. tenebros pag. 26. The most material changes and alterations of this world saith he have alwayes succeeded either a great Conjunction of the Superiours or some grand and wonderfull Eclipse in the Fiery Trigon of which these Conjunctions have been the Prodromi And that which is yet further worthy of note is that seeing the Conjunctions of Mars with Saturn or Jupiter according to the precepts of Albumazar Leovitius and other Astrologers are necessarily to be considered to the magnifying of the Effects of great Conjunctions let us observe that Mars doth make two Conjunctions with Saturn in this very Sign not to be neglected one in the latter end of the year preceding viz. in Novemb. 1662. in the 6 deg of Sagittary which was neer the place of the great Conjunction 1603. The second happens in the year after our present Conjunction in the 27 deg of the same Sign and near the place of the Sun in the said great Conjunction his place now being neer the same it was at the Conjunction 1623. Nor is it unworthy of our observation that in the latter end of the year 1662. there was no lesse than 9 Conjunctions of the Planets besides Lunar Conjunctions in this very Sign Sagittary which of the 120 Conjunctions Ptolomy adviseth us to consider Aphor. 50. are of very principal concernment the rather as they are the Prodromi of this superiour conjunction Memorabile aliquod significant plures planetae conjuncti eodem signo When many Planets are conjoyned in one and the same Sign or Division of Heaven they signifie something memorable to happen to the world Not that such accidents are signified by these inferiour Conjunctions For by the 39 of Ludov. de Reg. Cum superioribus nunquam judicia de rebus parvis cumque inferioribus de rebus magnis trades As from the Superiours we are not to judge of small or trivial matters to ensue so neither of great matters from the Inferiours For according to the 282 of Anonymus or an unknown Author Conjunctio superiorum efficacior utilior inferiorum The Conjunction of the Superiours is more efficacious than of the Inferiours Nor let any mistake me or think by these eminent transactions Nota. I here judge may ensue that I accord with those erronious Judgements who from the Conjunctions or rather Position of all the Planets in this sign the first of December 1662. that the consummation of the Universe or that the calling of the Jewes or a Fifth Monarchy as some have vainly conjectured is thereby signified I do only urge that seeing this Harmony of Celestial Configurations and such an agreement of natural Causes especially of the Great Conjunction and New Star It cannot be with any sound reason as some on the other side have vainly imagined but that the Almighty doth hereby signifie unto us some grand Mutations and Accidents to happen in the world from the effects of this last return of the Superiours and those in an especial manner to be manifested these next twenty yeares being excited by the influence of this Conjunction we now treat of Therefore for the better finding out what those events more particularly are it is necessary that by the 51 of Hermes that we consider those eminent preceding Causes severally and apart especially of the Great Conjunction and New Star who have the general disposition of the times for almost 200 years from the year 1603. Causae Vniversales effectuum sunt potentiores causis singularibus generaliores minus generalibus Dasipod 57. Causa universalis vincit singularem ubi par est magnitu do effectuum significatorum Aphor. 59. Causa Vniversalis in comparatione ad proprium effectum potentior est quam singularis 60. Most Excellent Aphorisms according to which are the first and second of Anonimus Constellatio particularis reducit ad actum suo tempore eaque significavit constellatio universalis superior Potentior causa destruit significata contrariae causae minus potentis The summ of all is That general and universal Causes are of more power than singular and particular causes for a particular Constellation doth but reduce those things to action in their proper times which a more superiour Configuration hath signified CHAP. II. Of the Great Conjunction Anno 1603. 1603. Decem. 7 d. 7 h. 35. A. M. ☽ a ☠☿ ♃ ♄ ad ☠☉ ♀ London And seeing the nature and property of this Triplicity by the general consent of the Learned is diametrically contrary to the former it may be rationally conjectured that the more eminent changes and alterations are likely to happen ere the effects thereof be at a period Undoubtedly there will be a great suppression if not a total subversion of some Ancient Dignities Laws Customs Privileges Monarchies Kingdoms and Commonwealths and also of some ancient Families who had their first foundation of greatnesse from the effects of those preceding configurations And either the Erection or restauration of others who must continue in great Glory and Majesty and shall be firmly established during the effects of this revolutional Congresse or till some contrary Configurations of Heaven do produce their dissolution So many Planets posited in the sign of the Conjunction separating and applying considering also that the Conjunctions of Mars the year following with Sat. first then with Jupit. both neer the place of the great Conjunction and the Ascendent of London these may induce us to conceive that some more than ordinary effects are to be signified by this return of the Superious into the Fiery Triplicity I say more than perhaps hath usually happened from any or most of those that have preceded since the Creation of the World and that amongst other places London and generally the whole Nation is herein concerned And what those effects are Campanella and others do inform us Sub Arietis triangulo sunt Monarchiae ingentes leges justae sapientes divinorum pietas bona coeli Europes in nostro Hemispherio Under the Triangle of Aries which is the first and called the Fiery Trigon are mighty Monarchies erected just Laws the Europians of our Hemisphere will be more pious and searchers after divine things Tranquillitas pax ex Solis Jovis dominio Tranquillity and Peace by reason of the dominion of the Sun and Jupiter Item sapientes insignes sterilitates magna ob Triangulum Igenum Also wise and famous men do appear in the world great barrennesse in many places because it is the Fiery
yet shall they be most terrible and rigorous after the year 1660. God divert the Evil that is yet further portended from the effects of this Star from the Kingdom of England for seeing the Star did first appear so neer the body of Mars and that Saturn was also applying whose influence Mars translates first to the New Star afterwards to Jupiter it may probably be conjectured that many violent and turbulent accidents must ensue in the world which as they do proceed from such natural causes whose influences are universal so that all places more or lesse shall be sensible of the effects therefore England cannot be excluded and the rather because we are under a sign of the same Triangularity But if we consider the dominion of the Sign it self or their situation in Heaven the effects are for certain extended to the more Southern parts of the World and such as are both South-East and South-West from England and in Europe more particularly Spain France Italy Portugal c. But let this suffice for the effects of the New Star also onely if we consider the time of the Sun 's coming to the place of the Star Mars and Jupiter it informs us of some superlative transactions to fall out in the years 1664 65 and 66. CHAP. IV. Of the other Lesser Conjunctions Anno 1623. and 1643. OF these we are not to take any great notice seeing the effects extended but to the following 20 years after each Conjunction among which we may not forget that the death of King James succeeded the Conjunction of the year 1623. and that King Charls whose Ascendent was the sign of the Conjunction came by rightful succession to the Crown there was also several years of great Drought Scarcity and a most furious Plague And therefore seeing such like Evils did also succeed the great Conjunction of the year 1603 especially that great Plague in England Anno 16â—â— and that as Mr. Cambden observes Saturn cannot or seldomâ— doth passe through the Fiery Triplicity b 〈…〉 afflicts the City of London with a Plague and as at other times it hath been observed so God grant it not to be so now But truly when I consider beside the Transit of Saturn through the sign Sagittary that besides other Enormities great Plagues have also succeeded those preceding Conjunctions of the years ☞ 1603. and 1623. that there are also two conjunctions of Saturn and Mars in the same Sign me thinks we have too great cause to fear an approaching Plague and that a very great one ere the year 1665. be expired I dare not be positive in such determinations but I say from these reasons taken from such eminent natural causes it is greatly to be feared and if we consider how the Fruits of the Earth have been corrupted by intemperate seasons and unwholsome airs and thence a great destruction of Cattel we cannot but look on those also as the Prodromi of the same and how hath Almighty God visited most Nations about us and a long time spared us LIBERA LIBERA NOS DOMINE Notable is that expression of Mr. Lilly's We in England saith he have had two of our best Princes followed with two Great Plagues viz. Queen Elizabeth 1603. and King James 1625. There 's a Mysterie in it if I durst unfold it God grant we have no more such Plagues I wish such Princes I onely further note in this Conjunction of the year 1623. that as Mars his next Aspect is a Quartile with the Moon who translates the light and malevolent influence of Mars to the Sun by a hostile Aspect viz. a Square from Cardinal Signs and that the Sun being separated from the Opposition of Mars applies next to the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter doth evidently denote most violent Transactions to ensue though not suddenly because of the distance of the degrees which if we convert into time viz. of the Moon to the Quadrate of the Sun and Mars to his opposite place it gives about 16 or 17 years which brings us to the years 1639. or 40. And who knows not what troubles were then agitating and beginning to come upon us And seeing that the place of Mars at the time of our present Conjunction is the place of the Conjunction of the year 1623. or near it which sign being the Ascendent of Rome and of Italy in general it threatens detriment to them especially by Fires Tumults War and such like Enormities by which means those who especially had the Original of their greatnesse from the effects of that Conjunction shall be deposed and lose much of their Honour and Dignity whiles others by some Noble Heroick Exploits and principal Martial performances will be elevated to greater dignity and power which will be also of longer continuance But as for the Conjunction in 1643. which according to the usual order of the Superiours should have happened in Aries and so have made their third Conjunction in the Fiery Trigon but contrarily it happened in Pisces which is a sign of the last Triplicity so that after two Conjunctions made in the Fiery Triplicity this preposterously comes in to finish the period of the former Triangularity And indeed the effects thereof were of as contrary nature according to that of Lud. de Reg. Aph. 32. Deterior â—â—â—ur general hominum per transmutationes illarum magnarum cum succedeâ—tes inimicabiliter configurantur cum figuris praeteritarum c. the kinds of men are made worse by the transmutations of those Conjunctions when those that succeed are inimically configurated to those that are past So I say did this preposterous Conjunction produce as preposterous Effects viz. the suppressing and abrogating of former Laws Religion Customes Privileges Governments c. which now from the effects of this Restitution or returning again of the Superiours into the Fiery First and Regal Triplicity must all those exorbitant abuses both in Church and State be abolished and all or most of those former Rights and Privileges Laws and Customes be restored and established upon their former principles and foundations But if we consider moreover the malevolent configurations of the Planets at the time of the Conjunction Mars is neer the opposite place of Mercury and the Conjunction of the year 1603. the Sun separating from his Quadrature and applying next to the place of the Conjunction the Moon separated from the body of Mars and Square of the Sun is in Square to Mercury and opposition of the Ascendent of the great Conjunction and New Star and applies next to the Square of a Conjunction All which I say considered are all Arguments in Astrology of much Faction and Division of much turbulency and disturbance in Affairs which although they were carried on under pretence of Religion and Justice Rights and Liberties of the people yet were the intents of those Enormities nothing but self-ends and who knows not how fraudulently and deceitfully matters were performed however they were at first otherwise pretended Those
because that after an inordinate Conjunction that intervened in contrary parts of Heaven which produced as contrary effects this Conjunction happens in the sign of the great Conjunction and New Star and so makes a restauration as it were of the Fiery Trigon which because it hath such relation to all the forementioned causes and configurations of the Heavenly bodies do certainly denote unto us the greatness of the accidents to happen from this last return in general and that those accidents shall more especially be manifested these next 20 years from the effects of this present Conjunction These considerations being already handled in the foregoing discourse let us now come to particulars wherein we must first consider the Planets themselves of both because it a conjunction of two Cum duo simul planetae dominantur erit judicium amborum significatio mixto when two Planets together do rule the judgement shall be a mixt signification of both One of these Planets as Saturn is an infortunate and very malevolent destructive and inimical the other as Jupiter is a fotunate benevolent and friendly to Nature Et generaliter si fuerit infortuna fortunae copulata infortuna elevata fierint duae infortunae nihil firmè juvanies sed multum nocentes quod si fortuna elevatur infortuna juvabit quidem sed nocebit c. Cardan Segm. 5. Aph. 122 123. And generally if an Infortune be joyned to a Fortune and the Infortune be more elevated both are made Infortunes helping nothing firmly but hurting much and if the Infortune be depressed he may do some good but he will also do much hurt Quoniam detrimenta magna facilius est inferre quam felicitates impediuntque detrimenta magna faelicitates felicitates autem detrimenta impedire non solent Because saith he great detriments are more easily inferred than happinesses and detriments do usually impedite felicities but felicities are not wont to impedite or keep back mischiefs But besides this elevation here spoken of which as Mr. Lilly observes was of great esteem among the Ancients it is the judgement precepts of the more judicious Astrologians since the time of Ptolomy that the Fortitudes and Dignities of the Significator is also to be considered so Almansor Propos 60. but more plainly and full by Cardanus himself Seg. 2. Aphor. 189. In omni conjunctione planetarum eum planetam dominatorem constitue qui sublimior qui in loco plures habuerit dignitates plures stellas suae naturae similes In every conjunction of the Planets constitute him Ruler that is the most superiour in his excentrick that is neerest his Aphelion and hath most dignities in the place of the Conjunction and the fixed Stars that they are with are most of his nature This I say is the judgement of all vid. Proph. Mer. pag. 75. Seq In our present Conjunction Saturn is most elevated having about one degree more North Latitude and being neer the superiour part of his Orbite but Jupiter is better dignified as to essential dignities therefore both the forecited Aphorismes of Cardane are in force and it is a general rule Quod ligat Saturnus Jupiter dissolvit haec significatio est super res magnas that what Saturn binds or hinders Jupiter dissolves or furthers and this hath signification of great matters saith Almans Propos 36. and by 51 Proposit If the Fortunes have dignity in those places Minuitur malitia infortunarum the malice of the Infortunes is diminished or by the 18th of Anohim is made more moderate and temperate By all which we may gather thus much that seeing from the influence of such like conjunctions of the Planets viz. of Saturn and Jupiter there usually succeeds such superlative Transactions deep Consultations and matters of great moment in the world what mischief soever is portended by Saturn in this Conjunction which will not be a little to some persons and in some places will not be so vigorous or at all times so efficacious and in such a plentiful manner executed by reason of the greater prerogative of Jupiter yet so as what general benefit and felicity Jupiter doth promise to mankind herein will be remitted retarded and sometime abrogated by the malignant power of Saturn If you examine the dignities of each Planet you shall finde Jupiter to be more strong though it be by few testimonies yet is he essentially dignified and onely suffers by affliction from Saturn whose dignities and support are chiefly from Jupiter and Venus Oh what Craft and Subtilty what Fraud and Hypocrisie c. will there be used even by those who receive their Interests Being and Subsistence from others yea even against those very persons that do intrust them and this as well among great persons as those of lower degree For from Saturn is signified matters Political and Civil all subtil and politick Counsels Deceitful private and cunning Stratagems Covetousnesse Self-ends Destruction to some ancient Family and Buildings in this Conjunction to Lawes Liberties Customes and Privileges Depopulations c. this he signifies in Political matters In Ecclesiastical affairs he portends great Superstition Idolatry Hypocrisie Monkery Jesuitism and the several Orders of Friers all manner of Debauchery and Basenesse under Religious pretences Sects Schismes Heresies Jewish Superstitions and Ceremonies To Mankind in general he threatens great and difficult Labour Poverty and Want to many he afflicts the body with tedious Infirmities and Diseases as the Gout of all sorts the Sciatica especially because in Sagittary Hectique Fevers Defluction of Rheum Quartan Agues and such like Diseases as are not easily remedied by the most skilful Physician he afflicts the mind with Sorrow Fear Lamentation Trouble Banishment long Imprisonment In Natural things he portends great Want and Scarcity Destruction of Cattel Corn and Fruits Famine and Mortality unwholsom Airs Cold Cloudy Misty Foggy weather and sometimes long and tedious Frosts At Sea he signifies Shipwracks and great damage by Ruine and Decay by Inundations of Waters and breaking of Sea-banks Dearth and Scarcity of Fish and Fowl especially Water-Fowl Of Persons he signifies those of Superiour Rank and Quality because he is the most superiour of the Planets Rarò applicatur Saturnus alteri Planetae quare propter hos significat magnos Principes Monarchas stabiles Anonim 35. Saturn seldom applieth to another Planet but generally all the other Planets to him wherefore he signifies great Princes and stable Monarchs but generally he signifies the laborious Countrey-man Husbandman Farmers Yeomen c. In our Conjunction he signifies a deceitful sordid pernicious kind of people who will inhabit even in the Courts of Kings and Princes who will undermine and deceive endeavour to spoil and subvert the more wholsom purposes intended to set up and promote their own Interest and Profit This I say is the general signification of Saturn which in some measure at some time and in some places will be manifested according as his influence is augmented or excited by
Meridians the several elevations of the Pole yet this is very observable that at the time of the Vernal Ingress these two superiour Planets were very near their Conjunction neither were they much Elongated all the year even till the time of their true Conjunction Which consideration together with the several Conjunctions of the Planets the latter end of the preceding year especially of Saturn and Mars in the same sign these I say are very notable for as much as from hence matters were preparing forcibly for the effects of this Conjunction though perhaps not manifest themselves so powerfully as when the Conjunction it self begins to operate At the time of the Conjunction the Sun is separated from the Sextile of Saturn and Jupiter Mars applies to their Trine Venus is the place of the great Conjunction 1603. applies to a Trine of Mars and to the bodies of Saturn and Jupiter but before she comes to these she becomes Retrograde what may we from hence judge but that certainly the endevours of many will be for Peace and Reconciliation of Differences for quieting the fears and jealousies of the people and the suppressing of that malignant humour that is the cause of their sorrow grief and complaints but some are discouraged and are either willing or forced to fall off their Embasses prevailing but little or having not liberty to treat the Sun is weak in his Fall and Saturn and Jupiter are possessed of his dignities in part he viz. Kings Emperours c. have not power to prevail many are dejected Mars who is disposed of by the Sun is very powerful in a commanding Sign with majestical Stars of his own nature and hath great dominion in the Lunations preceding and subsequent so that what he cannot effect by Martial policy which indeed will be very prevalent he will conclude by force and violence The Moon at the time of the Conjunction is in or neer to an opposition of the Conjunction disposed of by Mercury who is malevolently posited in that treacherous and pernicious Sign Scorpio lately in Square with Mars his Dispositor the place of the Moon being neer the same as at the great Conjunction and of the Comet 1652. Good God! what a multitude of factious and unsettled Judgements there are also in some places that will plot contrive and oppose the Superlative Consultations of the Superiours and cause Tumults Insurrections and various Disturbances though to their own destruction She is elevated above the Sun if we either consider her as being in a commanding Sign so great North Declination or her position in the figure of the preceding Lunation And Si magna conjunctio fiat in triplitate Ignea Luna elevatur supra solem rebellabunt populi adversus proprios principes Anon. 65. When first I had thoughts of writing upon this Conjunction and considering the great dominion of Jupiter therein and that there was no malevolent Aspects among the Planets or to the Conjunction it self except those of the Moon and Mercury but that the Sun a little before even then when they were within one degree of their Conjunction was in Sextile first to Jupiter then to Saturn translating the Sextile vertue of Mars to Jupiter of both to Saturn Mars applying by Trine to the Conjunction these being the whole or the general Configurations of the Planets at and about the time of the Conjunction I say considering these I had thoughts much good might have been expected from the effects of the Conjunction that is to say that Tranquillity and Peace should have been established Religion and Religious men propagated encouraged and purely and with sincerity exercised just and wholsome Laws Priviledges and Customes restored and executed without doubt there will not onely be much endeavour used to promote these things in several places of the world but also there will be at some times and in several places an accomplishment thereof But when I found Saturn to have also such power by accident and that he did suppresse Jupiter by being more elevated and neer his Aphelion so that he would not onely have great power and prerogative in swaying the Consultations and Affaires of the world for these next twenty years especially for the Conjunctions of the year 83. are in his detriment but by this his remote distance from the Earth he operates closely subtily and with some kind of moderation in his Counsels and observing also that the Conjunction was in Opposition to the last Comet which in its motion opposed the place of the Sun the New Star and the great Conjunction it self it gives us cause to fear that which hath been already mentioned viz. that a malevolent kind of spirit will both in matters Politick and Ecclesiastick cunningly and for self-ends endeavour to subvert and suppresse those more sober and honest intents endeavoured for the peace and tranquility of the People Nations and Kingdomes These things I say have been already mentioned yet let me not be blamed for repetitions since they are the substance in general of the whole matter and indeed I am warranted by Cardane Repetitio in hac scientia necessarià est vel ob difficultatem vel ob necessitatem vel ob utilitatem ingentem vei ob contradictionem That repetition in this Science is necessary either by reason of the difficulty necessity great benefit or to avoid contradiction In page 4. of the Prophetical Merlme there is a very notable observation of Ganeverus upon a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter wherein Saturn was most elevated Quod potestas Ecclesiastica in multis partibus opprimetur à temporali potestate maximè in substantiis Ecclesiasticis That therefore the Ecclesiastical power in many places will be suppressed by the Temporal especially in their substance and Ecclesiastical benefits so will it be endeavoured in many places of Europe from the influence of this Conjunction But that which Sir Christopher Heydon observed in the great Conjuction is also observable here in this viz. that as Saturn who is the president of Antiquity doth challenge such prerogative to himself by being so elevated above Jupiter and will therefore endeavour to carry on his pernicious and subtil Stratagems yet is the New Stars place elevated above the place of Saturn in this Conjunction also for though Saturn had 1 deg 18 min. North Latitude the Star had 1. 54. or thereabouts by the consent of all Observators which may therefore further confirm our judgement in this that although a Saturnine Close Hypocritical and Jesuitical kind of people may carry on their designs never so privately at some time when they have the most convenient opportunity yet at length must those privacies be discovered and by the influence of this new light whether it operates in new Laws Customes and Privileges in matters civil or in new Decrees Orders or Discoveries in matters Ecclesiastical shall all those malevolencies signified by Saturn be at length not onely brought to light but also very much suppressed if not