particular Persons that are born under either of those Signes or more plainly to those whose Ascendants are Sagittarius and Gemini I could say something of Scotland and Holland and I think it convenient so to do because they are Neighbouring Nations But the Troubles which I am about to tell you of will not Happen to those Nations till the years 1695. and 1696. yet perhaps may begin in 1694. when Saturn comes into Capricorn and then great Troubles and I fear Warres may be there expected and in or about those yeares the City of Oxford I fear will have manifold Troubles and Afflictions especially because the terrible Comet in the year 1680. appeared in the Ascendant thereof And perhaps some may expect that I should now mtntion something about Italy and Rome but Six or Seven yeares hence will be time enough for that when Saturn approacheth towards Aquarius therefore let them be Contented at present with this short Discourse of Events nearer at Hand and with true penitent Hearts and humble Minds let them pray to the Almighty God that he would be pleased to Preserve England from the Plague or any other unusual Mortality which I fear some Cities in Britain will be subject to in the years 1692. or 1693. for it hath been observed that this malevolent Planet Saturn never passed through a Sign of the Fiery Triplicity but he afflicts some City or other with the Plague or some other dangerous Disease Also it hath been Observed that when he hath Transited the Sign Sagittarius there hath usually Happened some great Fire in an Eminent City What hurt do I do by forewarning them to beware the most dangerous times being about November and December 1692. and about July 1693. Of the ECLIPSES of this present Year 1691. THis Year there will Happen only two Eclipses of the most Glorious Luminary of Heaven The Sun The First will be a great Eclipse of the Sun on the 18th of February and the middle time thereof will be at above half an Hour past four of the Clock in the Morning but it will be invisible to us because the Sun will then be sub terra It Happeneth in the Sign Pisces of the Watry Triplicity which signifies the Death of Common People Rumours of Warres the Overflowing of the Sea-Banks Destruction to Fishes It Happeneth in the second House and therefore it foreshews many Losses to Happen to Common People The Second will be also a great Eclipse of the Sun on the 13th of August and the middle time thereof will be near unto Five of the Clock in the Afternoon and it will be visible to us if the Air be clear It Happeneth in the First Degree of Virgo It denotes Scarcity of Corn and Fruit especially because it Happeneth in the Eighth House for which Reason it denotes Death to Humane Creatures Mercury is lord of the Eclipse and Combust wherefore it threatens Death to Scholars and the wiser sort of Men but Mars being lord of the subsequent Angle foreshews destruction by Warres but it will chiefely Operate in the Countreys and Places under the Signes Virgo Pisces Gemini and Sagittarius and according to the Rule of Astrology it will not begin to Operate very manifestly till the Month of June 1692. Behold now how the Glorious Wise Creator Secretly Rules the Air Earth and Water Changing the Minds ef Creatures that have sense Not only by the Starry Influence But also by strange Comets that Appear And by th' Eclipses that are ev'ry Year So that he hath made none of all his Works in vain Monthly Observations briefely Containing the most Remarkable Events and Accidents that are likely to Happen in every particular Month this present Year JANUARY THE Beginning of this Month or the latter End of the last Month seems to produce some kind of Discords or Variances amongst Common People All seems not to be well then at London Some Discords if not some other Afflictions about Religion yet chiefely in Ireland and in the City of Oxford c. about the latter End of the Month Many Affronts Happen on the Roads especially in Scotland Holland and Ireland Great Consultations in Councils about the Affairs of Ireland about the latter part of the Month Dangerous Sicknesses proceeding from Choler and Melancholy happen in the first half of this Month And in the latter half the Seas are like to be very Dangerous through Pyrates if not also at the beginning of the next especially near Ireland Lorrain the North-part of Scotland and great part of the Turks Dominions Ireland and Paris seem to be subject to some scandalous Sickness Rain or Snow on or about the 12th 13th 22th 23. and 27th days Cloudy if not some Thunder on or about the 16th or 17th days I cannot Choose but think of something past Which lately Happen'd in November last For then the two Infortunes were Conjoyn'd As if they had more Turbulence ordeyn'd To Happen shortly in Ireland though the greatest Troubles seem now to be over FEBRUARY SUperiours seem now to be Vexed with the stern and frowning sort of Common People as if something lately past were in remembrance which also seems to stick in the Stomachs of such Common People and I think the Core of displeasure Lies most in one corner of the City of Oxford I have also observed Mars and Venus how briskly they operate upon the Minds of Young Men to make them desire the Companies of young Women more then ordinarily Rain Hail or Snow on or about the 7th 9th and 24th days somewhat windy on or about the 15th and 24th days The Sun now Eclipsed see before I Wonder why Sly Saturn Entertains The Warring Planet to Enrage his Brains And wherefore doth he Slyly backward move As if he were with Mars his Fury drove I think sure he doth so for no other End then with an intent to make more Mischiefs and Warlike Disturbances by some secret Contrivances shortly in some Part of Ireland though it seems now to be as it were quite over and at an End Cavete MARCH THere seems now to be a Treacherous Sort of Common People in many Nations especially in Barbary c. that are not yet thoroughly united to their own Superiours as well as not to the Superiour or Superiours of Rome for they seem yet to remember something past Bristol thou art now in a Glorious and Flourishing Condition but there seems to be a perplexing Enemy in thee or near thee Many will now be subject to Griefs in their Eyes and to Swooning Fits Many Losses happen to Common People small profit by Trading Rain on or about the 5th 8th 23th and 25th days some probability of Thunder about the End of the Month. Now Glorious Sol shines in his Exaltation And Jove shines with Him in our English Nation As if Religion by some high Command Will shortly be Promoted in our Land For Religious Jove or Jupiter is not only there Promoted under Sol on the very last day of
1691. ASTROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AND Predictions For the Year of Our LORD 1691. Wherein also Is Briefely Shewn the Signification of the Earthquake that Hapned in March last in the City of Bristol And wherein also Are Briefely Shewn the Significations of the Three Oppositions of Saturn and Jupiter that will Happen in the 1692. and 1693. And of the ECLIPSES of this present YEAR LIKEWISE Monthly Observations for every Month throughout this present Year Briefely Containing the most Remarkable Events and Accidents that are likely to Happen in divers Places of the World By JOHN SILVESTER Licensed to be Printed June 28. 1690. J. F. LONDON Printed for the Author 1690. Of the Earthquake that Happened in the City of Bristol and other Adjacent Towns and Places on Shrove-Tuesday last being the 4th day of March Anno Domini 1689. about a quarter of an Hour before one of the Clock in the Morning it being very Calm and without Rain before and after I Being not Awake my self at the Time of this strange Accident made several Enquiries about it but the best Information I could have of it was this That it first began with a loud and terrible Noise like the Bownce of a Barrel of Gunpowder when a House is blown up therewith and immediately the Bedstead and other things in the Room were shaken and as it were trembled which so continued by Guess about four or five Minutes and at length there was heard two small Noises like two Steps of a Man there being some small distance of time between and immediately it seemed to go out at the top of the House with another Bownce but not so great as the first This Person then Sitting on the Bed side being terribly Affrighted fell into a Swooning Fit Moreover by Others I was informed that it made the Chamber Door and Latch to shake and make a Noise and the Glass-windows to Shake and Rattle as if they would have been broken to pieces and made the Bodies of some that were Sitting to Rock and some that were standing to Reel to and fro they all wondring what was the Matter And because Report Rendred this Accident somewhat wonderful I could not but Enter into some serious Meditations about it which induced Me to make an Observation for the time of the Event which followeth Sagittarius the House of Religious Jupiter Ascends Mars lord of the 12th and Dispositor of Saturn is in Opposition to the Ascendant from Gemini the Ascendant of London And besides the Monn is Hastening to an Opposition of Saturn Posited in the 12th This according to my Opinion Signifies That some secret Mischievous Action or more plainly a Plot will too soon Manifest it self against some Religious Sort of Common People But whereas Jupiter Lord of the Ascendant is strong and Joyned with Venus Lady of the 10th the evil Design will not prosper but will End to the Joy and Comfort both of King and People Saturn's a Plotter Mars doth Him dispose Threatning th' Ascendant with great ireful Woes London beware of Plots and Mischiefs now Lest sudden Sorrows come thou Knowsst not how Watch wary the just time thou dost not Know. And besides the Opinion of the Ancient Astrologers was that all Earthquakes denote Warres or such kind of Troubles to the Places chiefely where the Event Happens so that by this Rule howevtr it should Happen in England but whether ever any such evil Design may have its Rise in the City of Bristol or not I leave it to some Wiser Head to Expound Those Glorious Celestial Bodies the Planets and Starres that so Miraculously and Continually perform their Circular Motions according to the unchangeable Decree and Will of the most Wise and Omniscient Creator do seem to shew forth to fallen Man a certain kind of Predestination of Events in the Will of the Almighty For the Minds of Men and People do naturally follow their Motions and mutual Concord and Discord amongst themselves as the Needle doth the Motion of a Loadstone though this Mystery be unknown to the greatest part of Men as by our daily Experiences we perceive and find for by some Aspects they secretly draw the Minds of Men and People to Love and Unity And by some Aspects contrariwise they stir up Mens Minds to Enmity and Discord And sometimes they Elevate the Lofty Mind unto greater pride Men wanting the most pure Divine Power for Preservation And sometimes they secretly operate and deject the Lofty Mind into a more humble state and at such a time they often induce it to Consider how vain all worldly pomp is by Reason of the Mortality of the Body so that at some time or times in every Mans Life there seems to drop down from Heaven a Refining Influence more then ordinarily powerful whereby the Refining Spirit of Judgement in Man or Men is as it were Awakened wakened to Reprove their Lofty Minds for their evil Deeds so that God hath not limited Himself to work only by his Spirit within but doth also freely Operate by those Heavenly Bodies without which being admirably Glorious as well in times past as in our dayes caused David thus to proclaim The Heavens declare the Glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his Handy Werk Psal 19. v. 1. The most Glorious Lamp of Heaven the Sun Enters into the First Minute of the Equinoctial Sign Aries on March the 9th 19 h. 32.1 P. M. At which time the 18th Degree of the Irish Sign Taurus Ascends and Venus Lady of the Ascendant is near unto Mars the Dispositor of Jupiter in the Eleventh yet slowly separates from him as if some Discords would yet be Continued in Councils especially in Ireland about some Religious Ceremonies which will but Vex the Commonalty and as if there were yet a people in Ireland that are somewhat for Warre though they sometimes desire Peace being somewhat loth to Fight to shed Blood Saturn lord of the 9th 10th and 11th Houses in the 7th doth not only shew a secret disunity of the Commonalty and Superiours but also being Retrograde towards the Cusp of the 7th doth foreshew some kind of secret Plottings and Mischievous Contrivances in Ireland tending to the discomfort of that Land But in May this present Year Jupiter comes into Taurus the Ascendant of Ireland and about that time Peace will begin to mitigate the furiousness of Men yet I fear the turbulency of Ireland will not be quite over till about the time when Saturn leaves the Sign Scorpio which will not be till towards the latter End of October this present year and then he enters into Sagittarius the Sign opposite to Gemini the Ascendant of London and then I fear some envious dissatisfied Spirits there will begin to plot and contrive how to bring to pass some Mischievous Design to make Disturbances and Alteration of Lawes or Religious Orders And besides the Warring Planet Mars enters into Gemini the Ascendant of London on the 5th day of August and will quarter there
seven Months And about December he will be almost in opposition to Saturn from Gemini and Sagittarius that I fear during the last four or five Months of this present year there will be some great Variances and Fury if not some Warlike Disturbances in some great City about Religious Orders and Ceremonies And further those dissatisfied Spirits will again be quickned by the Three Oppositions of Saturn and Jupiter in Gemini and Sagittarius in 1692. and 1693. Of which more hereafter Furthermore I observe the Moon to be Entertained by Jupiter in his Noblest Sign and she is applying to his Trine in England's Ascendant from hence great will be the Comforts of the Communalty to see such likelihood of the Establishment of the Religion that England doth and hath formerly enjoyed Jupiter will be in Aries till May so that he intends to Keep Peace and Temperance in England as much as he can during the first four Months of this present Year But it is observable that just about the time when Jupiter leaves Aries the quarrelsom Planet Mars enters therein but indeed he stays there but five or six Weeks that he cannot do much hurt though he may stir up or create some short Variances in England and France too in May or June but I Conjecture he will cause turbulent Actions in Ireland in July when he comes to the opposition of Saturn although Jupiter stands as it were at his Elbow to perswade him to Peace Again Venus Lady of the Ascendant being near to Mars will encline both Males and Females to Wantonness but Mars being exalted above Venus will somewhat quench those carnal desires and will also cause Women not soon to conceive with Child The Ascendant is a Fixed Sign and therefore the Judgement of this Vernal Ingress may the better serve for the whole Year The Position of Mars near the 9th House in the Figure of the Summer Solar Ingress and Saturn in the third House denotes to Marriners pretty dangerous Summer Sea-Voyages partly by a disturbed Sea and partly through Pyrates or Sea-Fights especially near the English Irish and French Shore Merchants and Mariners greatly desire peace and freedom on the Waters Leo the Ascendant of Rome and Bristol is the Ascendant of the Figure of the Autumnal Solar Ingress and the position of Mars in the 11th in Gemini seems to cause Discords in Councils in this Autumnal Quarter especially in the Councils of Rome London and Bristol Of the Three Oppositions of Saturn and Jupiter in June and December 1692. and in April 1693. IT hath been long Observed That the most Remarkable Mutations of a Kingdom or Nation have chiefely depended on the Cunjunctions or Aspects of those two Superiour Planets Saturn and Jupiter and by their Effects past we perceive that the most Wise Creator First Placed them higher then all the other Planets that they should respect chiefely the highest and most durable Affairs and Concernes of Men on Earth And if one Opposition of Saturn and Jupiter produceth much how then can those three Oppositions to come do any less then cause some Remarkable Changes and Alterations of Laws or Religious Orders in Englands Chief and most Renowned City because Saturn then will be stronger then Jupiter who also at his second Opposition will be near unto the Body of Mars the Planet of Warre and having took Possession of Religious Jupiter should contend with him with a frowning lofty Countenance in Londons Ascendant from whence I fear some Religious Disturbances if not some Warlike Violence by Insurrections or otherwise occasioned by some frowning dissatisfied Minds which will then Happen in some part of Britain or take its Begsnning there to the Purpose in those yeares Ah poor Jupiter in Gemmi L n I fear thou wilt then be so much Humbled against thy Will that thou wilt think thou hast a sufficient Occasion to bewail thy Condition And if so God will suffer this that thou mayest humbly Endeavour to forsake thy accustomed Sins and that thou mayest know Pewer is not in Thee to help thy self But yet I think thou wilt then have no need to fear that God hath wholly forsaken Thee For look but a little back unto the Yeares 1682 and 1683. where Jupiter was three times in Conjunction with Saturn in a Sign of his own Triplicity and Consider was not he then stronger then Saturn and hast not thou been Victorious ever since throughout all those great Changes and Alterations and when thou hast thus Considered perhaps thou wilt believe that that which begins well will End well and indeed perhaps it may so Happen but be not too proud of this a Word is enough to the Wise Spain is under the Sign Sagittarius and Buda too and I Conjecture there will great Troubles and Discords begin there as soon as the Mischievous Planet Saturn Enters into that Sign which will be at the latter End of October this present Year for then there will be secret Mischievous Plottings by a sort of People that will be dissatisfied with the present Government there and in June 1692. when Jupiter makes his first Opposition against Saturn there will Arise higher Discords then before about their Religion And a wonder it will be if some Zealous People in Flanders or some other place under Gemini be not then quickned and stirred up to make Warres against those dissatisfied people in Spain And when Mars comes to the Conjunction of Saturn in November 1692. I doubt not but it will shortly after cause an Insurrection and Warlike Tumult amongst the people of that Land And in December which is the next Month after when Jupiter makes his second Opposition against Saturn I am of Opinion that there will then be a terrible Warre and much Bloodshed or that it will stir up strong Resolutions to effect it in a short time because Mars will then be so near unto Saturn And when Jupiter makes his third Opposition against Saturn there will shortly after be Imprisonments to many if not also Death for as this is the last of the Oppositions so Imprisonments and Death are the last or end of Warre Let the King of Spain beware for I doubt he will be in danger of being Sick for those Oppositions do usually dispose Kings to be Sick and Magistrates under one of the Signes of the Opposition and Jupiter the lord of Spain will then he very weak I doubt not but such will be the Effects of those Oppositions in Spain or in those places chiefely under Sagittarius and Gemini and yet may Operate in a less measure in the places under Pisces and Virgo but though they begin to Operate presently yet perhaps they may not always publickly manifest their Effects just at the very time of their Oppositions but sometimes in some Weeks or Months after And though those Oppositions Operate chiefely in those places that are under Sagittarius and Gemini yet they will Create great troubles in any other Nation to
you will be of my Opinion when you have Considered that Mars is the Dispositor of Saturn But I 'le tell you something more to the purpose by and by Women with Child will be in great danger of Miscarriages A probability of Rain on or about the 3d. 15th 17th and 30th days Venus Gives Jove her Courteous Salutation Wishing Him Peace now in the Irish Nation L n Oh thou art now become the place Where furious Mars stares with his brazen Face With Mischievous Saturn in his Bosom And whereas this Autumnal Ingress happens but one day after the Preventional New Moon their Ascendants also being the same they will Operate both together the more powerfully this Month and the beginning of the next OCTOBER THis seems to be a Month of Remarkable Events and it seems to produce much Brawling and Strife amongst Common People and a great disunity between some Religious sort of Commons and Councils for indeed something seems to be there which the Commons savour not for Saturn is crept into the Council-House now where Mars was at the last New Moon and whereever he goes he usually makes discords I am loth to write so much about such high Assemblies because some may think I mean those in England as well as in other places though indeed I do not gain say what they may think for thoughts are free but my meaning is that those kind of discords will happen chiefely in Spain Hungary Ireland c. but if I write not that which is something near the truth I had better write nothing at all for if Mars or Saturn be at any time in the Council-House it is not in my power to Command them to be gone I wish those Branglings about Religion may at last rather End with the Tongue than with the Sword Some likelihood of Rain or Hail on or about the 3.8.16.19 and 22. days High winds on or about the 3.8.13.16 and 28. days Wise Merc'ry's in the Council-House but He With Irish Jove can by no means Agree With Him about Religion He contends And twice his furious Rayes unto Him-sends For you must understand he is the Dispositor of angry Mars At the latter End of this Month the Planet Saturn enters into Sagittarius and it is said when he goes out of one Sign into another there doth usually happen some kind of Apparition in the Air. NOVEMBER THere seems now to be a Sly Envious and dissatisfied Spirit in the hearts and minds of many of the inferiour sort of Common people against the Higher Powers in many places and I am almost afraid of some great City in England for Saturn is now got into Sagittarius and he is under the Earth applying to the Opposition of the Cusp of the 10th House in Gemini the Ascendant of a great City Our Superiours there have now need to be very vigilant God preserve them from dangers by some Mischievous Plot My Pen may do them some good but per haps their own Care and Wisdom may do them more good Let the Higher Powers that are at Greece Corinthia Babylon and Assyria beware but enough of this because they are Countreys far remote from us There seems indeed to be fears and troubled spirits amongst almost all sorts of people Bristol seems to lie under some scandalous Reports and as it were to be subject to some kind of Affronts by a secret Enemy Many great Men dy Many Sicknesses amongst Common people Rain Hail or Snow on or about the 5.7 10.14.24 and 27. days A very Rainy or Snowy month High-winds about the 7 and 24. days Wise Merc'ry's now with Mars his Fury drove Once more to throw his Verbal Darts at Jove Soon after goes to Saturn with great Ire They Whisper and with Treach'rous Hearts Conspire To do some mischief I fear to Superiours I have already told you where though I have not told you yet that I fear that People of several degrees will be Confederates with the Inferiour sort DECEMBER THIS Month I think begins with high windy words at London and Controversies and publick discords seem to be there this Month I wish it may not continue till the beginning of March but if it doth it will then creep into a corner and sleep for a time till Sly malitious Saturn hath plotted some secret Mischief there which I think he already begins to do though I scarce believe it will be ripe enough till the latter End of November next and then Mars will awake and start up in a warlike Fury to execute the secret Mischievous design of Saturn the Year is drawing to an end I wish the troubles were too Most of the Communalty seem to desire Peace especially about the middle of the Month but their Minds seem to be disquieted about the times and to be tumbled and toss'd like a Ship upon the Rude and deep Ocean Many Losses now happen to Common people Snow or Rain on or about the 7. and 22. days or at least Cloudy some Winds about the 4. and 12. days Now Smiling Venus sends her Greeting Rayes To Pious Jove who yet in Ireland stayes Hermes beholds Him with a Courteous Face Great Sol salutes Him with sweet words of Peace So that Peace seems now to be better Established in Ireland and the hearts and minds of many there Rejoyce FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THese are to Give Notice That at the Blew Boar in the Old Bayley near Newgate Liveth a Student in Physick and Astrology who by that Noble and Sublime Art Resolveth all Lawful Question which Rationally can be Required Also very good Medicines for the Cure of most Curable Diseases His Houres are from 8 in the Morning till 7 at Nighe