Zodiaquâ— accounted from the first assault of thâ— Diâ—â—â—se which makes up the Octile or Semiquadraâ—â— Aspâ—â—t there by the same Reason she begins to opâ—râ—â—e as she will in the next subsequent Critical 〈◊〉 whâ—â—hâ—r it be to Good or Evil And this falls out the Fourth day wherefore it is called of Hippocrates and Galen Index Diei Septimi sequentis The second Indicative the which Hippocrates and Galen six upon the 11 th may also be upon the 10. or 12. days according as the Moon in the Point intermediate shall hasten from the First Quarter or Quadrate to her Opposition and have run through 135. degrees from the time of Decumbiture which makes the Trioctile or Sesquiquadrate Aspect And so of the rest c. This done we must observe the Disposition of the Heavens to the time when the Moon comes to the foresaid Angles and that according to the generally received Precepts and Aphorisms But to make this the clearer I will illustrate all by Example A Gentleman fell Sick at Paris of an Acute Disease Anno 1641. the Second of January about 8 a Clock in the Afternoon at which time I find the Moon in 10 degr 19 Min. of â™’ wherefore I put this Sign with the degree and Minute in the first Angle as it were the Ascendant In the Next place I add 45 degrees to 10 degr 19 Min. of â™’ the Radical Point of the Moon and it gives me 25 degr 19 Min. of ♓ for the place of the Moon the First Indicative And by adding 45 degrees thereunto I get the place of the Moon for the Cuspe of the Third Angle 10 degr 19 Min. of ♉ the Point of the first Crisis And soby a continued addition of 45 degrees it produceth the Fourth Angle 25 dâ—grees 19 Minutes of ♊ the second Indâ—cative The Fifth Angle in which is observed the Second Crisis 1â— degrees 19 Minutes of ♌ being the Point Opposite to the Radical place The Sixth Angle 25 degrees 19 minutes of â™ designing the Third Indicative The Seventh Angle 10 degrees 19 minutes of â™ for the point of the Third Crisis And lastly the Eighth Angle wherein is the Fourth Indicative 25 degrees 19 minutes of â™ These had I therein insert the Places of the Planets respectively and so I have it compleat as the following Figure demonstrates Now to know when the Moon comes to the 10. degree 19. Min. ♉ for in that point she beholds the Radical Point or her place at the time of the Decumbiture with a Quartile Aspect viz. 10 degrees 19 min. â™’ you must do as followeth First look in the Ephemeris on what day the Moon comes to the degree of the Sign that beholds her Radical place with a Quartile which you will find to be the 9 th day of January for on that day at Noon her true place is 6 degrees 11 minutes of ♉ and the 10. day at Noon in 18 degrees 34 Minutes of ♉ wherefore her Diurnal Motion is 12 degrees 25 minutes and the distance from the place of her Quadrature 4 degrees 8 minutes which had I reason thus As her Diurnal Motion 12 degr 25 min. to 24 hours So the Distance 4 degr 8 min. To 8 hours ferè the Critical time desired In the same manner do I find out the Time of the other Crises and Indicatives and after that the state and disposition of the Heavens agreeing to every Critical Phasis as is evident by the following Synopsis Abacus seu Sypnosis Calculi Figura Octogonalis Species of Critical Days The Motion of the Moon The time of â—very Critical Phasis The state of the Moon in respect of her Place in the Ralix with the Syzygies and the Mutual Aspects of the Planets January 1641. S. V. Decumbiture d. 10 â— 19 â™’ D. 2 H. 8 M. 0 P. M. ☽ app ♀ and ♄ âš¹ ☽ ♂ â–¡ ☉ ♂ â–¡ ♃ ☿ ♂ ☉ ♃ ☿ 1. Inâ—icat 25 19 ♓ 6 5 43 Manè Octile oâ— Sâ—mi-quâ—drate 1. Critic 10 19 ♉ 9 8 0 P. M. Quartile Sinister â–¡ ♂ ☿ 3 h. 11′ 2. Indicat 25 19 ♊ 13 2 36 P. M. Trioct Sinister â–³ ♄ 10 h. 57′ shewing a Bad Crisis 2. Critic 10 19 ♌ 17 5 50 Manè Opposition 3. Indicat 25 19 â™ 20 3 44 P. M. Trioct Dexter â–³ ♃ 4 h. 28′ shewing a happy and propitious Crisis 3. Critic 10 19 â™ 23 9 1 P. M. Quâ—rtile Dexter â–³ ♀ hor 22 36′ 4. Indic 25 19 â— 2â— 12 9 P. M. Oâ—tile or Semi-quadrate 4. Critic 10 19 â™’ 29 16 17 P. M. Thâ— Radical plaâ—e The Story of this Observation concerns a Person who after a long and wearisome journy was suddenly assaulted at the time aforesaid by a Quotidian Feaver attended with a dry Cough and a Plurisie The Feaver grew to a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For indeed the Night before it seized on him he was in a grievous condition and the Third day he was quite without any Shivering nor brought it any Intermission to the Patient when the Moon passed 10 degrees 19 minutes of â™’ a Sign of Infirmity at which time she applyed to Venus and Saturn in a long Sextile of Mars who afflicted Jupiter and Mercury both in Combustion and likewise the Sun himself by a Quartile Aspect The Sixth of the same Month of January the disease grew worse for then the Moon came to an Octile or Semi-quadrate Aspect where the first Indicative was celebrated at which time there was no Aspect with the Moon and therefore a doubtful or unfortunate Crisis was to be feared The Ninth day about 8. a Clock produced the First Crisis by a little Sweat about which time both a Cough and a Pain he had in his side left him but his Pulse beat inordinately for thrâ—e hours after the Tritaeophia remaining Wherefore Galen Lib. 1. Epid. Proprium est Febrium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut malignarum exacerbari diebus Criticis The which also Mars seems to argue by his Quartile Aspect with Mercury about the same time Moreover both these Quartiles namely that of the Moon to her radical place ♉ to â™’ and the other of Mars to Mercury ♈ to ♑ are differing in Qualities as well Active as Passive which aggravates the mischief Besides it is to be noted that the Signs â™’ and ♉ are Signs of Infirmity The Thirteenth day when the Moon came to a Trioctile Aspect in 25 degrees 19 minutes of ♊ Saturn afflicting her by a Trine shewed that an evil Crisis was to be feared The Seventeenth day at 5 hours and 50 minutes in the Morning the Moon possessâ—ng the degrâ—e Opposite to the place she was in at the Decumbiture viz. 10 dâ—grees 19 minutes of ♌ whâ—n there was no Aspect good or bad unto her promised the Patient no hopes of his Health And then indeâ—d he was in greatest fear of himself Notwithstanding The Twentieth day about Four a Clock the Moon entered the 25. degree 19 minutes of â™ and came to a Trioctile with the
saith he saw two at once not many Years since one in the Morning the other in the Evening for many days together But in the Year 1618. there were two infallibly seen at once in the Morning in India and Persia. Nevertheless it hath sometimes fallen out that when indeed there hath been but one Comet yet because perhaps it was first seen in the Morning before Sun-rise and afterwards became Vespertine its Declination and Right Ascention being changed the same hath been mistaken for two as both Apian and Fracostorius observed of the Comets in 1531. and 1532. Moreover Aristotle informs us lib. 1. Meteor cap. 6. that in the 450 Year before Christ or thereabouts Democritus saw a Comet dissolved into many Stars and Ephorus the Historian affirms that the great Comet Anno 372. before Christ which preceded the sad Fate of Helice and Bura two Cities in Achaia both swallowed up of the Sea divided it self into two unknown Stars So Dio testifies that the Comet which hover'd so long over Rome Anno 13. before Christ was afterwards dissolved into many Faces or Stars and Kepler thinks no otherwise of the two Comets by him observed Anno 1618. But Nicephorus lib. 12. Hist. Eccl. cap. 37. records the quite contrary of that great Star or Comet in his time For saith he Paulatim ad eam velut apes ad ducem suum ingens aliarum Stellarum vis aggregabatur A mighty power of other Stars by little and little assembled unto it as Bees to their Prince or Captain 4. The time of their appearance TOuching which Junctinus Suesanus Resta Gloriosus Fromundus and others tell us they are generated for the most part in Autumn and Winter yet deny not but that other times have had their Comets however Ricciolus hath cull'd out only 41 of the 154 Recorded by him to prove that the greatest part have happened in Summer But I know not for what purpose since the Reasons wherein the other 113 happened are unknown or it may be purposely omitted by him in his Collections for in that I find him but too guilty whensoever it maketh for his Opinion or Interest and that as formerly I noted we know not how many have been hidden by the Sun's Beams or appeared in the other Hemisphere only 5. The time they continue AS for this Keckerman lib. 6. System Phys. makes mention of a terrible Comet beheld by Peter Creusser an Astronomer Anno 1527. which continued not above â— 96 parts of a day or which is all one an hour and fifteen minutes And this is the shortest time we read that ever any Comet lasted The longest was that whereof Josephus makes mention Lib. 7. Bel. Jud. Cap. 17. which was visible a whole Year together before the Destruction of Jerusalem for we meet not with any other that lasted above six Months and but three which lasted so long the first of which appeared in Nero's time in the 64 Year of Christ the second Anno 603. about a Year before Mahomet's Birth and the third in the Year 1240. upon the Eruption of Tamberlain the Great 6. The apparent Magnitude of their Heads WHich never was found to be certain few of the Ancients having writ thereof and those few but a few things Some have appeared greatest at their first appearance and by little and little sensibly decreased others the contrary as that of the Year 1460. observed by Pontanus The greatest we read of was that of the Year 146. before Christ which is said to have been bigger than the Sun whereof Seneca Lib. 7. Nat. qq Cap. 15. in these words Paulo ante Achaicum bellum Cometes Effulsit non minor sole A little before the Grecian War there was a Comet appeared as big as the Sun Haly mentions one that appeared Anno 1200. as great as the Moon seemeth when in either of her quarters The like Cardan Lib. 14. Var. Rer. cap. 69. Reports did appear Anno 1521. and 1556. Moreover Haly adds Lib. 2. Quad. Cap. 9. That the Comet in 1200. had a Head three times bigger than Venus The Comet in 1532. Fracostorius found to be three times greater than Jupiter But Tycho that in 1557. seven Minutes and more than twice so big as Venus when in Porridge whose apparent Diameter is according to Tycho 3 Minutes 13 Seconds The Comet in 1585. was at the first appearance observed by Tycho to be almost equal to Jupiter viz. 3 min. So that of the Year 1590. The Comet observed by Longomontanus Anno 1618. was somewhat bigger than the Virgins Spike yet less than Jupiter 7. The Apparent Magnitude of the Tail or Beard of Comets DO for the most part increase in a few days after their first appearance and at the end decrease The Tail of which Aristotle saw Anno 341. before Christ was 60 degrees in length The Tail of that in the 135 Year before Christ was exceeding great as Seneca Lib. 7. Nat. qq cap. 15. relates Attila regnante initio Cometes apparuerit modicus Deinde sustulit se diffuditque usque in Aequinoctialem circulum venit ita ut illam plagam Coeli cui lactea nomen est in immensum extensus aequaret In the Reign saith he of Attalus there at first appeared a small Comet afterward it mounted and dilated it self on high and came even to the Equinoctial Circle so immensly extended as that it equallized that portion of Heaven called the Via Lactea The Tail of that in 1533. was observed by Apian to be 15 degrees That in 1538. Thirty The Tail of the Comet in 1577. by Tycho Twenty two That in 1585. not above a Span in appearance and that other 1590. ten degrees But the Tail of the Comet in 1618. was more notable for Magnitude and variety of Magnitude than all the rest for that in the same Nights it appeared of different lengths not only to sundry Observers in several places but to the same Observer in one and the same place now shorter anon longer by the quavering extension of its Beams For Millerus found it Novemb. 26. when it first appeared 90 degrees Kepler two days after Thirty December the 4 th it was 21 degrees the seventh day 57 degrees The Ninth Cysatus found it 75 degrees and Kepler the same day but 70 degrees The tenth day Longomontanus observed it to be 104 degrees The 14. Rhodius found it 50 or 60 degrees and Blanchinus on the same day but 36 degrees But the Tails of those Comets that appeared in the Years of Christ 70. 400. 1472 and l543 were observed to reach even to the Earth 8. The true Magnitude of the Head and Tail of Comets TYcho observed the true Diameter of the Comets Head Anno 1577. to be Three hundred sixty and eight German Miles and in proportion to the Diameter of the Earth as 3. to 14. To the Diameter of the Moon as 1. to 4. and the true length of the Tail at the least 95 Semi-diameters of the Earth and Eighty one
I therefore Anagrammatiz'd my name to Naworth and by that Name I writ an Almanack for several years together and continued unknown unless to some two or three of my friends whereby I seasonably prevented the before-named inconveniencies and hazards which otherwise I should inevitably have shared of And I presume that in doing this I neither wrong'd my self nor abused the Country where I lived And whatever other witty construction may be made thereof by these two trifling Gypsies by this they may perceive I took no delight as they do to be termed a Conjurer a Magician a Cabalist a Merline a trucking Mercury or any thing else whereby they desire and endeavour so much to promote and propagate their deceitful and unwarrantable dealings And whereas Lilly in the same Preface chargeth me under the same name to have wrested many false judgments from Astrology against the Parliaments actions intending thereby to prepossess the Kingdom with a vain fear that His Majesty and his designs should take place c. I must tell him that this his Accusation is most maliciously false And let him shew me if he can but one Aphorism or Sentence that ever I delivered for which I either quoted not my Authors or gave a sufficient reason in Astrology or that ever of which I shall hereafter prove him apparently guilty I wrested any part of Astrology from the Genuine sense thereof either to make for his Majesty or against the Parliament And if it hath pleased God to suffer the Loyal party thus to be trampled over it is for their sins and carâ—ies with it a supernatural Cause and Reason above the stars which could not be discerned by the clearest mortal eye No Symptome of such our sufferings could be read or observed by such man in the great Book of Heaven but rather the quite contrary as I could instance for many reasons in Astrology And whatsoever I spoke or writ was as your own sense imploys ever with submission to divine Providence But I will not busie my self so much as to examine and retort every Tatter of his ragged-Preface nor shall I need to vindicate his Majesties Officers whom he is therein pleased to term Ravenous from his polluted lips I see no reason why they may not meet with a fitter occasion and opportunity to require him but the thing I have proposed to my self is first to ferret the poor Quack inpoint of Art and afterwards in matter of Judgment The first thing and indeed the only thing that 's worth my observation is his Transcript of Eichstadius his Ephemerides for the year 1647 wherein indeed he hath taken a great deal of pains and deserves to be commended for this indefatigable Labour but withal I must tell him that he hath theâ—ein greatly betrayed his own ignorance in Astronomy or shewed himself exceedingly negligent and careless in that he hath not fitted the places of the Sun Venus and Mercury but especially the Moon to the Meridian of London as he hath done to his thinking in the Lunations and Aspects of the Planets nor which had been more easie and sooner done prescribed any Rule or Direction whereby to supputate their true places for that Meridian or any other place of the Kingdom And this Error he hath been guilty of throughout the two former years whereby our young Tyro's are much deceived in the Merline when they think they have the places of those Planets therein exactly Calculated to the Noon-tide of every day at London for although in the higher Planets whose motion is but slow there be no sensible difference yet in the Sun Venus and Mercury there is an apparent error For when they are in their swift motion their places at noon as Lilly hath set them will differ about 2. min. and often 3. min. from the truth And in the Moon whose motion is far swifter than any other of the Planets her Error is intolerable especially when she is in her swift motion For example the first of January 1647. the Diurnal motion of the Moon is 12. degr 24. min. being then but in her slow motion The difference of Meridians betwixt London and Uraniburge to which place the Longitude of the Planets as Wil. Lilly hath printed them were Calculated by Eichstadius is 50 minutes by his own confession in his Anglicus 1645. Page 54. that is the Sun cometh later to the Meridian at London than he does at Uraniburge by 50. Min. of time so that how much soever the Moon moveth according to Longitude in that space of time by so much hath Lilly erred in the Moons true place at noon for every day in the year which what it is for the said first of January I examine thus If the Moon in 24 hours move 12 degrees 24 minutes in Longitude What moves she in 50 min. of time Facit 26 min. ferè And by so much hath Lilly erred from her true place the said first of January at Noon So that whereas he hath placed her that day in 21 degrees 10 min. of Pisces she ought to have been in 21 degrees 36 min. of the same Sign And when she is in her swift motion he commits a greater Error as the tenth of March 1647. if you examin it according to the former rule you shall find just half a degree or 30 min. error and in stead of 26 degrees 3 min. of Virgo wherein Lilly hath put her that day she should be in 26 degrees 33 min. of the same Sign The next thing which I mean to take notice of is his Scheme erected to the Apparent time of the Moons Eclipse upon the tenth of January 1647. at 9. hours and 19 min. P. M. as he hath taken it from Eichstadius by deducting 50 min. for the difference of Meridians betwixt London and Uraniburge and to the same time I erect the Figure of Heaven according to the Doctrine of Regiomontanus and comparing his printed Scheme with that which I had more curiously set I find Lilly still bungling and botching but without any result of truth For whereas he hath made the Cuspe of the tenth House 22 degrees 20 min. of Gemini according to exact Calculation it is no lâ—ss than 23 degr 30. minutes whereby it appears that Master Lilly hath mistaken 1 degree and 10 min. in the Cuspe of the Medium Coeli And in the Ascendent of the same figure he haâ—h mistaken above one whole degree viz. 1 degr 10 min. for he hath made the Cuspe thereof but 23 deg and 51 min. of Virgo which should have been 25 degrees and 1 min. and the like Errors follow in the seventh house of the Figure and proportionably in all the rest which makes me wonder with what face this sensless botcher dares term me an A. B. C. fellow when all men may perceive him so shamefully ignorant in the very fundamentals of the Art he pretends to and that I am able to correct him in every point and particle of his profession For I desire
by the Sign of the Logger-head in the Front of it upon his judgmentâ— of the Year at the Vernal Ingress where he saith that Jupiter is in Ascendente hora revolutionis and accordingly draws fine Peaceable judgment from Jupiter being in the Ascendant when notwithstanding Jupiter is above 30 deg or a whole sign distant from thence and so in the 11 House as you may see in Wil. Lilly's Figura mundi in his Anglicus Erected for the same time and place by which the Reader may perceive what certainty can be in this dull Fellows Prognosticks who is thus palpably and intolerably erroneous as to miss no less than a whole Sign in the place of one Planet And thus have I diligently and carefully examined Wil. Lilly's Discourse wherein I find him very foolishly rash and even brim-full of Malice and Ignorance and do now assuredly know him unworthy the name of an Artist I could have taken notice of a great many more Errors c. and particularly in his Translation of those first 50 Aphorisms of Ptolomy's Centiloqui wherein he shews himself Ignorant in the Original so hath he infected some of them with his own foolish Commentaries and amongst the rest a ridiculous story of a Suit of Clothes that he tore many holes in in going a Nutting when the Moon was ill dignified in Leo which Suit he says did never do him any service after Whereby you see that Lilly is as bad a Taylor as he is an Astronomer that could mend his own Clothes no better the truth is he was not born to be a Workman But I shall reserve my other more serious Observations till I hear further from him which if ever I do I promiâ—e to lash him without Mercy in the interim I should advise such Gentlemen as desire to be Instructed in this kind oâ— Learning to shake off these Ignorant Fellows and apply themselves to Doctor Nicholas Fisk Doctor Scâ—â—borough Mr. Jonas Moor or Mr. Holland â—ho are all of them singular Artists and Men of Honeâ—t and clear intentions Multiplicatio Effectus Syderum Secreta HE that will know Great and Noble things must commit three Rules to Memory 1. The Rarity and Time of the Planetary Conjunctions and multiply one into the other if it be exquisite or perfect if not into the part thereof in respect of Days and the Factus shall be the number of the Days of that Effect For Example Suppose a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in some point of the Zodiack and besidâ—s that of the Moon ad unguem The Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is in Twenty Years and the Recourse of the Moon in Twenty seven Days and eight Hours Then Multiply Twenty seven and one third part of a Day by Twenty and they make Five hundred forty six Years and two thirds of a Year for the time of the Effect of that Conjunction But yet it may ere that be obstructed by another Conjunction especially after one half of the time be expired for the Effect will be Naturally increased for the space of Two hundred seventy three Years and one third part of a Year And this when the Conjunction of all the Three shall be in one Point But admit the Moon should then be distant Thirty Minutes we will take the Semi-diameters of the Moon and therewith compare the Proportion of her distance in such sort as that we allow thereunto one half of the time because her Semi-diameter is one half of her distance And so if the Moon shall be distant one whole degree we must give only a Fourth part Multiplying six Days and twenty Hours into twenty Years and the time of the Effect shall be One hundred thirty six Years The like must be done until the Moon shall be further distant than the quantity of her Beams which is twelve degrees and a half For although this Proportion be not altogether perfect yet it is sensible and near to the truth The Magnitude of Sun is 16 m. Moon 17. Jup. Venus 5. almost to 6 m. Sat. Mars 4. Mercury 2. 2. That the Effects be multiplyed in Strength like the Rarity according to an exquisite Application As if Saturn have Four Vertues Jupiter Five Mars Three and are all conjoyned in one Point then let us multiply Three Four and Five together and the Effect shall be Sixty in Strength viz. twelve times so much to the Effect of Jupiter alone fifteen times so much to Saturn and twenty times so much to Mars But if Mars shall be distant one degree at a time when Saturn and Jupiter are in Conjunction we must multiply three Minutes of the Semi-diameter of Mars into three the Number of his Strength and the Factus is Nine Then Divide the Number by Sixty the number of Minutes in the distance of Mars from Jupiter and Saturn and the Quotient is three twentieth parts which we multiply into Twenty the Number of the strength of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter and the result is Three whiâ—h add to Twâ—nty and the strength of that Conjunction shall be Twenty three that is almost eight times so much as the strength of Mars six times so much as the strength of Saturn and five times so much as the strength of Jupiter And the like of the rest The strength of every Planet may be known by the Magnitude thereof and the slowness of its Motion for by how much greater the Planets be and by how much slower they are in Motion by so much stronger are they in General Causes but not so in Particular For Example I would know what Power Saturn hath in respect of the Moon as to length or continuance of their Effects I see that Saturn's Revolution is performed in Twenty nine Years and Three hundred fifty eight Days wherein are 10750 Days This I multiply into the Square of his Semi-diameter and they make 96750 Days In like manner I multiply the Circuit of the Moon into the Squared Minutes of her Semi-diameter and the Factus is 7899 Days and one eighth part of a Day I Divide the one by the other and the Quotient is Twelve And so much is the proportion of Saturn's strength to the strength of the Moon The same I say of Conjunctions in respect of the length or Continuance of their Effects And it may be demonstrated in one word because the Effects continue until the Return as the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter till another Conjunction and the Ingress of Saturn into the first point of Aries untill his next entrance into the same Point For Nihil datur inane in Natura And therefore if the Effects should not continue until the Return it were a Mathematical Circuit not a Natural a Cause without an Effect yea a kind of Impotency Wherefore Proportio Circuitus ad Circuitum ut temporis ad tempus quod erat probandum Nevertheless every one of these Circuits is reduced to the half thereof because that from the Opposition the force of the
Conjunction is finished and the Opposition regarded only These things understood it is manifest that in either Rule what is said of two Planets and three holds also in four and five and six As if Saturn Jupiter Mars and the Moon shall be joyned ad unguem or within some degrees you must multiply their Times and Vertues as well in respect of the Magnitude of the Effects as the Magnitude of Time Observing the first Rule in the Times the Second in their Vertues 1. Hence it is concluded that the most powerful Conjunction and the most durable is that of the Head of Aries of the Eighth Sphere with the Head of Aries of the Ninth Sphere because it is but once in Thirty six Thousand Years And in this Conjunction it is manifest that all the Signs of the Eighth Sphere do agree to those of the Ninth and that all the Stars of the Eighth Sphere contribute their Powers So likewise all the Planets because their Absides are moved by the Motion of the Eighth Sphere and for that the Ecliptique-lines are joyned to one another unto which the Planets have a Respect both in regard of the Sun's Motion and the Motion of Latitude also 2. The Second is the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the Sign of Aries that is the Circuit from Aries to Aries which is but once in Seven hundred ninety five Years regard being had to the change of the Trigon 3. The change of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter from one Trigon to another which happens in One hundred ninety nine Years and proceeds according to the Succession of Signs viz. from the first Trigon of Aries into the second Trigon of Taurus thence into the Trigon of Gemini and then into that of Cancer after which it returns to the first Trigon 4. The Return of Saturn to the beginning of Aries in the space of Thirty Years 5. The Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter once in every Twenty Years 6. The Return of Jupiter to the beginning of Aries perfected at the end of Twelve Years 7. The Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter in Twenty seven Months 8. The Conjunction of the Sun and Mars in Twenty six Months 9. The Conjunction of Mars and Saturn in Twenty five Months 10. The Circuit of Mars in Twenty three Months 11. The Conjunction of the Sun and Jupiter every Fourteen Months 12. The Conjunction of the Sun and Saturn every Thirteen Months 13. The Circuit of the Sun in Twelve Months And what is said of the Sun as to his own Circuit and his Conjunction with the Superiour Planets must be understood also of Venus and Mercury In like manner what shall be said touching the Conjunction of the Moon with the Sun must be understood also of the Conjunction of the Moon with Venus and Mercury 14. The Conjunction of Venus with the Sun in Ten Months or Two hundred ninety two Days 15. The Conjunction of Mercury with the Sun in two Months or in Fifty and eight Days 16. The Conjunction of the Moon with the Sun in twenty nine Days and ten Hours a Lunar Month. 17. The Revolution of the Moon in twenty seven Days and eight Hours 18. The Return of any Planet or Fixed Star or Place of Conjunction to the Ascendant or Circle of the Mid-heaven which hath as much force as the Ingress of the same Star into the first Point of Aries And this is demonstrable by the third Rule which is this Every Star that hath much Power per se as is the Rarity of the Event for this was but even now demonstrated and this Rarity in gradu is always a Three hundred and sixtieth part Therefore if the Star be the same and Rarity the same it is as much to have that Star in the degree of the Ascendant which happens every day and is called the Diurne Circuit as that the same Star should enter the first Point of Aries Now I will shew that Rarity is the same For like as every day that Degree continues but only four Minutes of time in the Ascendant So Saturn remains the space of a Month ferè in the first degree of Aries And thus notwithstanding the Ingress of Saturn into Aries can be but once in Thirty Years and Saturn in the Ascendant but once every day yet because he remains in the Ascendant but for a Moment viz. Four Minutes of an Hour which are the three hundred and sixtieth part of a Day and the whole Circuit and in the first degree of Aries the space of a Month which is also the three hundred and sixtieth part of Thirty Years Circuit It is evident that it is as Rare to have Saturn in the degree of the Ascâ—ndant as in the fâ—rst degree of Aries The same may be demonstrated concerning the Moon and the Great Conjunctions of the Hâ—ad of Aries of the Eighth Sphâ—â—e with the Head of Aâ—iâ—s of the Ninth For although it happen but once in Thirty six thousand Years yet because the Head of Aries of the Eighth Sphere continues in the first degree of Aries in the Ninth and every Fixed Star of the Eighth in one degree of the Ninth Sphere the space of a Hundred Years 't is plain that it is as Rare to have the Head of Aries in the Ascendant whether of the Eighth or Ninth Sphere as that any one is Born at the time of that Conjunction viz. Of the Head of the Eighth Sphere with the Head of the Ninth in the same Degree And so of the rest wherein a regard must be had of the Circuit because one Term remaineth Fixed The like I prove of Those in which the Terms are both moveable and as is manifest for Example in the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter which although it falls out but once in Twenty Years yet remain joyned for the space of the 360 th part of the Circuit that is to say for more than Twenty Days the like of all others And the Reason is the same concerning the Circuit and Corporal Conjunction in respect of one of those Stars in the Cuspe of the Ascendant and Mid-heaven Whence it follows That even all Conjunctions whether of the Planets amongst themselves or of the Fixed Stars in respect of the same distance suppose of one Degree or ten Minutes or in the very same Minute are of the same Vertue according to their Rarity yea and according to their Power or Strength in respect of Rarity but yet not in respect of the Stars that be in Conjunction For that as but now was said the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter can do more than the Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter and much more the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter than of Venus and Mercury in the same distance in regard of their Bodies And so likewise the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the same degree be it in what place soever of a Nativity may do more than if Saturn or Jupiter only were in the degree of the Ascendant or
in the Thirteenth of Queen Elizabeth a Hill of Twenty Acres with a Rock under it at Kinnaston in Hereford-shire The like another Anno 1583. which removed a Field of three Acres at Blackmore in Dorset-shire 6. Great Winds and Tempests manifest Changes and diversities of the Times Infection of the Air and all that Breath in it especially of such Creatures as are accounted Irrational viz. Oxen Swine and Sheep whose Heads are inclined downward for the Vapours that ascend are deadly Poysonous bringing Plagues and Pestilence as you may Read in Pliny Lib. 2. And in Seneca's Natural Questions 7. Cardan Lib. de Rer. Var. Cap. 72. goes yet a little further For saith he Terrae motus magni Bellum out Pestem Nunciant vel Tyrannicam Oppressionem efficiunt segetum inopiam Famem i. e. Great Earthquakes do presage a War or Pestilence or at least some grievous Oppression they cause a scarcity of Corn and a Famine Sundry Excellent Rules shewing by what Laws the Weather is Governed and how to discover the various Alteration of the same TO Satisfie the Learned and Ingenious part of the World on what grounds we proceed in judging of the Alteration of the Air and to convince another sort of People who reflecting on Marsianus his Rule Si vis divinare totum contrarium ad unguem dicito ejus quod Astrologi pollicentur Suppose we do but guess at the Weather and believe that if they should say Rain when the Astrologer writes fair and dry Weather or Calm when he fore-tells Winds they should hit the Mark as often as the Astrologer I will once for all hint a few of the many Causes which either are or should be considered by all such as aim at Credit or Truth in their Predictions of this kind First then you must know that when the Sun according to appearance wheels to a Star of a hot Nature as to Mars or Jupiter it argues a hot or warm disposition of the Air If to a Star of a cold Nature as Saturn or Mercury a distemper'd Air through the extremity of Cold. And the mutual Conjunction of the Stars that be of one Complexion augments the same Quality As the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars by a two-fold vertue of their Heat make the lower Region of the Air more fervent Many Planets especially the Superiour in Northern Signs a hot Summer or a temperate Winter The contrary when many Planets the three Superiours chiefly are in Southern Signs For so they signifie a Cold and Moist Peristasis of the Air and a colder Winter Saturn in Southern Signs and especially in Capricorn and Aquarius Terrible Winters of Frost and Cold Summers remiss in Heat a Famine an evil increase of Wine and of all such Fruits as delight in the Sun Moreover when the Cold Nature of Saturn is duplicated by the presence of Mercury it makes the Quality of the Season Colder But if such a Conjunction or Aspect of the Planets falls out at the New or Full Moon or at any other Aspect of the Luminaries the vertue thereof shall appear much more Effectually nay if within three days preceding a New Moon it addeth Vigour to the Vertue of such a Planetary Conjunction or Aspect But when Signs of a contrary Nature be united by commixture of Mutual Aspects then shall a temperate affection of the Air attend the same The like you may Judge if there happen at the same time Constellations of different Natures whereof one produceth Frost and Cold the other Heat or if one of them bode a Dry Air the other a Moist for so of necessity a mean is produced The Influences of contrary Constellations mutually impeding and mitigating one another As the Conjunction of the Sun and Jupiter or Mars when both in Fiery Signs brings with it greater Heat than if one were in a Cold Sign and the other in a Hot. Furthermore the Full and New Moons that be Celebrated in Angles the Horoscope especially or Angle of the Earth are usually accompanied with Rain the same Day they happen But here you must Note That the Effects of the Stars do often-times shew themselves before they come into Partile Configuration that is to say during the time of their Access or Application one to another and sometimes in their defluxion or separation which the Ancient Grecian Astrologers named Epichemasin and Prochemasin There are some who not altogether without Reason Erect Schemes to the Apparent times of the Conjunctions of the Luminaries And having found the Almuten of the Figure and observed what Planets be Angular direct the Horoscope of the Conjunction allowing one Day for every thirteen Degrees eleven Minutes the mean Motion of the Moon in one Day For that when the Horoscope comes by such Direction to any Planet that was then Angular or to the Lord of the Lunation some Change of Air to Rain or Snow or Wind at least a dark Cloudy Air succeedeth Consider likewise the Position of the Lord of the Lunation in the Figure and the Latitude of the Moon for from thence come the Winds that occasion Tempests Take notice also when the Moon comes wâ—â—hin the Beams of the Lord of the Figure or the Angular Planets for then principally does she manifest her self according to the Nature of the Planet The Conjunction of the Planets with Fixed Stars not far distant from the Ecliptique produce a Notable Alteration of the Air And when the Stars leave one Sign and enter into another they betoken Showers Yet still a regard must be had to the Qualities of the Signs and Seasons As if the Mutation be in a Watry Sign and in the Winter or Spring then may Rain or Snow be safely denounced Snow in Winter if so be a Cold Peristasis is impending The General Rule is Grandines in Aprili Octobri Nives in Hyeme in Aestate Tonitrua A special regard must be had to the Nature of the Earth and Air peculiar to the Horizon you live in or Write for because that in all places they are not of a like Nature And no less to the Winds that agree to the particular Season of the Year for as much as they blow not alike in all places some being Topical and peculiar to one place others Chronical which come at a certain time of the Year Wherefore Cardan Seg. 7. Aph. 29. Oportâ—t Coelum cognoscere Regionis quo tempore Anni sit tempestuosum tum etiam cui signo Regio magis conveniat si veritatem in judicando assequi velimus In the next place let the Interval of the Sun Moon and Planets be Observed which consists of the Aggregate of the Sun and Planets Orbs upon the Access or deflux thereof and especially in the Corporal Conjunction of the Planets As in the Sun's Application to a Conjunction with Saturn because the Sun's Orb consists of twelve Degrees and Saturn's of Nine Therefore so soon as the Sun shall be distant from him not more than Twenty one Degrees
and the last year 1664. and so will again unless the Julian Calendar which yet we follow be reform'd in the years 1667. 1669. 1673. 1677. 1681. 1684. 1685. 1687. 1688. 1691. 1694. 1697. and 31 times more before the year of Christ 1800. Nor is this all For there often happens a whole Months Errour as to the time of the Celebration thereof having already fallen out so three years since that of Christ 1600 viz. in the years 1625. 1652. and 1655. and so will again without correction of the Calendar in the years 1679. 1682. 1720. 1723. 1747. 1750. 1774. 1777. and in the year 1807. For in those years there will happen from the Aequinox two Full-Moons befoâ—e our Easter can be kept Nay there falls out very often no less than 35 days or five Weeks errour in the time of our Easter having already fallen out so no less than eleven times since the year 1600. viz. in the years 1603. 1606. 1614. 1617. 1622. 1633. 1636. 1641. 1644. 1660. and as I said before in the year 1663. and so will again without amendment of the Calendar in the years 1671. 1674. 1690. 1693. 1698. 1701. and just twenty times more before the year 1800. But in the years 2437. 2446. 2491 c. there will be 42 days Errour and sometimes afterwards no less than 49 days And after the year 2698. if the old Calendar should still be continued it will never again happen according to the Rule of the Church which fixeth it on the Sunday following the first Full-Moon next after the Vernal Equinox One Cause of which Errours is the Precession of the Aequinoctium Vernum which from the first Nicâ—ne Council to this time hath anticipated no fewer than Eleven days falling now the Tenth of March whereas at the time of that Council it was on the Twenty first of the same Month. And the reason of this Anticipation is for that the Julian year exceeds the true Solar year by 10 Minutes 48 Seconds or thereabout which causes the Aequinoxes and Solstices yearly to change their places and fly backwards so many Minutes and Seconds The Lunations also by reason of the too great Quantity allowed them do in every 19 years anticipate almost an hour and an half and in 312 years and a half one whole day and therefore not exactly to be found by the Golden Number although on those Lunations the Feast of Easter dependeth as of it all the rest of the Moveable Feasts which is another cause of those Errours and both together the First occasion of the Roman Emendation whereby that Church doth always produce Easter on the Sunday following the first Full-Moon next after the Vernal Aequinox according to the Decree of the Nicene Council Now here I could willingly and indeed intended to have demonstrated how all this might be remedied but that multiplicity of business which Steers my thoughts another course and the Narrow limits I am here confin'd to do both obstruct and discourage me All therefore I shall further say is this I do much wonder that this Lyncaeus whoever he was that so vainly boasted of his discovery of that one Weeks pretended Errour in the time of Easter and therefore traduced us all with Ignorance or Inadvertency should himself not yet discover that real Errour of the first of those Rules prefixed to the New Common Prayer-Book Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Anno 1664. the very year of that his great Discovery which pretends to shew how to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin viz. Easter-day on which the rest depend is always the First Sunday after the first Full-Moon which happens next after the One and Twentieth day of March. And if the Full-Moon happens upon a Sunday Easter-day is the Sunday after For although that Rule be true enough in respect of the Gregorian yet it is altogether mistaken as being in no wise applicable to our Julian Account which yet the Table of Moveable Feasts in the said Common Prayer-Book calculated for 40 years regardeth only and which must be followed until his Majesty shall think fit to command a better and therefore very improper for that place But I hope the Most Reverend Father in God his Grace the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury will make it his concern not only to cause this Errour to be rectified but in due time also move His Sacred Majesty to assume the Glory of a better Emendation of the Calendar than yet the Roman Church can boast of APOTELESMA or The Nativity of the World and Revolution thereof I 'Le not trouble my self or the Reader with the various Opinions of Men and Nations concerning the Lapsed years of the World's Creation some being utterly lost in conceipts that repugn Philosophy others sway'd with Philosophical Conjectures destructive to Divinity and the rest miserably varying one from another For the Heathens afford us no satisfaction Epicurus and Aristotle will not allow it had any beginning The Jews are wâ—etchedly dissenting in their accompts Philo and Josephus irreconcileable The Samaritans differing from the Jews and indeed all others The Jews from the Christians and they amongst themselves Scaliger and Petavius of the Latins Clemens Alexandrinus and Nicephorus among the Greeks T is true Longomontanus a most learned modern Astronomer with a silere amplius nequeo takes boldly upon him to discover this grand secret from the motion of the Sun 's Apogaeum supposing the Sun's Eccentricity immutable and the Apogaeum a yearly motion of One Minute One Second Fifty Thirds Fourteen Fourths stiling it Illusâ—re testimonium de Mundi Exordio duratione hactenus For by positing the Sun 's Apogaeum in the beginning of Aries at the Creation and his Perigaeum in the opposite point Libra He concludes of 4000 years within a half betwixt the Creation and the Passion of our Saviour and till the 1588 th year of his Incarnation 5554. allowing 33 whole years for our Saviour's Age with addition of the time intercepted betwixt his Nativity and Passion And this this learned Author grounds on the accurate Observations of his learned Master Ticho-Brahe who indeed concluded the progress of the Sun 's Apogaeum S.S.S. till that year 55 degrees 30 Minutes And to the End we might compare the same with the Observations of sundry old and late Astronomers throughout the respective Ages they lived in exhibits to our view the following Table of The Place of the Sun 's Apogaeum from the beginning of the World and the true Vernal Aequinox In the several Ages of Years of the World Deduct Observat Difference Hipparchus Rhodius 3810 65 16 65 30 14 Min. C. Ptolemaeus Alexandriae 4099 70 3 Â Â Â Â Albategnius Maham 4849 82 53 82 16 37 Min. Guarterus Norimberg 5454 93 43 94 15 32 Min. Nicolaus Copernicus Tur. 5492 94 23 95 8 45 Min. Tycho-Braheus Dan. 5554 95 30 95 30 0 Min. Whereby it appears that the moved Apogaeum of the Sun proportionably deduced according to the Annual motion
the quantity or quality thereof breaks out violently The which Hippocrates seemeth also to grant Lib. 4. de Morbo saying Conturbatur homo dumfebricitat cujus reisignum est quod horror alià s atque ailà s per corpus transcurrit The Extâ—â—nal cause is from some Alteration of the Spirit or Air namely when the Humours are changed from what they were by Nature as from a Cold to a Hot or from a Dry to a Moist condition contra For Hippocrates Aphoris 6. and elsewhere in his Book De Nat. Hum. tells us that Heat and Moisture in the Body move forward the Crises For saith He some Diseases proceed from naughty Dyet others from the Air we attract by means whereof we Live Wherefore Dyet as it breeds such and such Humors is the Internal and Air attracted the External cause of the Crisis That the Qualities are alter'd by the Influence of the Stars and especially the Luminaries is a thing not now to be doubted it being sufficiently apparent in the four seasons of the year how the Air with all Plants and Animals c. do diversly admit of Alteration and therefore the Watry Humors and the Spirit being Aerial are observed to operate more when they are excited than otherwise As when the Harp is touched it moves men to Dancing when the Trumpet Sounds to War like Employments Hence it appears that the universal Cause of all Crises is the Influence of the Heavens For the Coelestial Bodies by their Heat Light Motion and Configuration or Aspects to which St. Augustine adds Afflatum that is Inspiration or Instinction and St. Thomas Aptitudinis Efficaciam a virtual Aptitude or fitness do rule and govern not only the Four Elements but all Elementary Bodies and especially Man from the very first Moment of his Birth until the Ultimate Minute of his Death inciting him sometimes to Mirth another while to Sorrow now to be Sick anon Well again For as Aristotle saith Ex irroratione Coelorum felicia infaelicia germinantur in Terris c. But as touching the Efficient Radical cause thereof the Philosophers making a deeper Scrutiny thereinto do attribute it to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Unity as that which primarily and radically governs the whole Universe as the Agent and first Act from which by which and into which all things are at length Resolved Wherefore the Pythagoreans named the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Unity Apollo because that as from Unity all Numbers take their Original and Encrease So are all things not otherwise than from One alone Surely the same Act which is the Word works centrally and alone from the Center to the Circumference for God is contained in the Heavens as a Center is within its Circle but by a different manner according to the variety of the Subject whereon it appears The Form or Essence of the Agent not being changed which is always Permanent and the same Wherefore it is evident that there is but only One Agent in every Region of this World and but only One Act of his yet divers and sundry Effects according to the manifold condition of the Organical Subject the thing Receiving or Suffering Whereof more in Dr. Flud in Cris. Mysterio There are two Principal sorts of Crises the One as in Acute Diseases and Lunar The Other in Chronical Diseases and Solar Such Crises as take their Original from their proper Principle or from an Internal cause as do the Crises Synochorum depend upon the Motion of the Moon But such as Proceed from the Air or from an External Cause as do the Crises of all Pestilential Feavers are govern'd both of the Sun and Moon Of the Sun if respect be had of the year if of the Month only then of the Moon Wherefore Acute diseases follow the Motion of the Moon and her configurations or Aspects to the place she was in at the first beginning of the disease But here we must Note that in Acute Diseases the Aspects or Radiations of the Moon viz. her Quartiles and Oppositions are not to be counted as if they should begin from her Conjunction with the Sun but from the degree and minute she is in at the Beginning of the Disease until her return to the same Radical Point which is performed in 27 days 8 hours or thereabouts Of Acute Diseases some are Acuti simpliciter simply Acute some Acuti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu Decidentia or from Mutation and Degeneration some Peracuti very Sharp others Perperacuti Exceedingly Sharp Acuti simpliciter are they which from the 8. to the 10 11 14 20 and 21 day Run to the very height some whereof are called Menstrui because absolved within the space of a Lunar Month. Acuti ex decidentiâ from Diminishing or Degeneration are such as are judged imperfectly For sometimes they wax worse in respect of the Symptoms and are sometimes Remitted according as the Moon meets with the Good and Evil Aspects of the Good or Bad Planets And oftentimes they Degenerate from being Acute and become Chronical As when a Pleurisie turns into an Empiema or an Ulcer in the Breast So when a Quotidian Feaver becomes a Hectick or from an Intermittent degenerates into a Quotidian Contrà And these Diseases are judged within 40 Days Peracuti are such as are judged the 5 6 7 and 8 days in which number are the Febres causones Synochae Cholera Angina Peripneumonia Lethargus and the like Perperacuti be such as are absolved within the Space of 3 days or 4 at the utmost and in that time terminated either with Recovery or Death of which sorts are all Pestilential Feavers the Apoplexy Pleurisie Phrensie c. Chronical Diseases follow the Motion of the Sun Acquiring a Crisis after the 40 th day and Judgment when the Sun attains to the Quadrates as is Evident in Hectiques Dropsies and Quaternaries When he comes to the Sextiles and Trines there are only some Indicative Motions made of such Effects as follow in the Opposition Nevertheless they are oftentimes Anticipated or Protracted according as the Planets he meets with help or hinder and for the better if by Nature those Planets be Benevolent if Malevolent for the worse And the like we are subject to in the whole course of our Lives Nam Morbus est Modus vitae Partialis as Campanella Lib. 4. Medicinal most ingeniously observes Moreover the Crises are thus generally distinguished viz. Salvae Dubiae seu suspiciosae Judicatae seu periditatae non Judicatae Crisis Salva or safe is that which happens without any great and Pernicious Accidents Crisis Dubia doubtful or Suspicious which appears with great and Pernicious Accidents and is the most dangerous Crisis Judicata or Hazarded is when on the 4 th day the Signs of Concoction do appear and therefore pâ—aesage the Disease to be judged on the Seventh day Crisis non judicata or not Judged is when the Crisis is absolved the Seventh day yet was not to be Judged the Fourth
day by any sign of Concoction Hence the days themselves are divided into Three Classâ—s For 1. Some are called Critical nomine Generico 2. Oâ—hers Judicative on which Sentence is Pronounced 3. Oâ—thers Intercident the which are Posited between the judicative and Critical whereon the Diseases is Remitted Many other Distinctions there are amongst Physicians not so proper for this Place For here I intend not to enumerate all belonging to Physick but such only as concern Astrology Nor shall I need to say any thing of the Sympathy and Antipathy Power and Efficacy of the Stars my room being so Narrow and the same amply handled in several Learned Authors Only I think it requisite before I come to the manner of Acquiring the Critical and Judicative Days to say something concerning the Terminus à quo or the Point of time from whence they take their Original Seeing therefore that by these Critical and Decretory days some Notable Alteration would be foreseen tending either to the Health or Death of the Patient 't is fit we begin our Account from the first Notable Point of the Diseases Invasion For to Assign a beginning to the Disease is a thing very hard to be done as Galen himself confesseth Lib. 1. Cap. 6. Exactè primum Principium ferè est insensibile The time when the Sick-party takes his Bed is the beginning of his Decumbiture but not the beginning of the Disease For a Man that is strong and robust endures a Disease more easily and takes not his Bed so soon as a Man that is tender weak or fearful of Mind who suspecting himself upon every Idle Pinch gets forthwith to Bed Nevertheless in many Diseases as the Vertigo Epilepsie Paralysis Apoplexy Haemorrhagia Plurisie and the like it is easie to find out the precise Beginning or Hour the Disease Invadeth And the Learned in Astrology do believe and affirm that the Moment of time to be taken for the beginning of the Disease is the very Instant in which a Man shall perceive any manifest Hurt or Malady in his Body as when he begins to lie down and be Sick of a Feaver but not when the Head akes or that he suffers any other trivial Symptom Because these are not Feavers but rather Febrium Nuntii the Messengers of Feavers Thus Hippocrates observed his Indications from the day a Man Sickned of a Feaver but not from the day whereon he perceived a Heaviness of the Body only or was troubled with the Head-Ach For by how much sharper and more violent the Feaver is by so much is it the more Manifest to sense and impossible the first Assault or Invasion thereof should be hid from the Patient It now follows that I shew the manner of numbering and determining these Critical days by the Motion of the Moon because the Radix and Fountain of this Doctrine is of all Astrologers and by Hippocrates and Galen themselves said to consist in her Efficacy and in the Motion and Position of the Parts of the Zodiaque And first I will shew you the manner of finding out the Critical and Indicative days by an Octogonal or Figure of 8 sides according to the Opinion of Hippocrates and Galen the construction whereof follows First find the Place of the Moon to the beginning of the Patient's Decumbiture as before you were taught Next let a Circle be described and divided into 8. equal parts representing the Zodiaque wherein the Moon is moved And let the Degree and Minute the Moon is in at the Hour of the Patients Decumbiture be Posited in the first division or Angle of the Figure which shall be accounted as the Ascendant or First-House Thirdly Let 45 degrees be added thereunto aâ— to the Radical place of the Moon for so many degrees are the Angles of this Octogonal Figure distant one from another and by this means you have the Moons Place in the Second Angle called the First Indicative Unto which if you add 45 degrees more it gives you the Place of the Moon in the Third Angle in which the First Crisis is Celebrated being always elongated from the Radical Point by the space of 90 degrees After this Add 45 degrees to the place of the Moon in the Third Angle and the Aggregate givâ—s you the Place of the Moon in the Fourth Angle wherein is made the Second Indicative and if thereunto you again add 45 degrees they make 180 degrees the direct point of Opposition And so by a continued Addition of 45 degrees until she return to the Radical Point of the Decumbiture By which means there will be Four principal Angles in which the Crises are observed and 4 Less principâ—l wherein the Days-Indicative are Demonstrated Lastly let the Planets be inserted in their respective Places of the Figure thus Delineated to the time of the Patients Decumbiture Now seeing it is manifest by what hath been said that the Critical days are made in such time as the Moon counting from the time of the Decumbiture or the first Paroxism of the Disease shall have run through one fourth part of the Zodiaque or 90 degrees wherein she produced the first Crisis or Alteration in the Disease which commonly happens on the Seventh day yet we must note that it may fall out on the Sixth if the Moon be swift in Motion or if slow on the Eighth day And because this Aspect is Evil Naturally by reason of the Signs Disconveniency in Qualities Passive or Active therefore a War commences between the Disease and Nature whence it is deservedly call'd Criticus Primus the first Critical Day whereon if it happen that the Moon be afflicted by Saturn or Mars or the Lord of the Eighth this Crisis the Disease growing worse and worse tends unto Death But if the Disease end not this Critical day you must wait till she comes to her Opposite Point which fâ—lls out commonly the Fourteenth day and sometimes the Thirteenth or Fifteenth according as the Moon is Swift or Slow in Motion For then the Second Crisis is to be looked for Whereon if yet the Disease be not Loosn'd then we must attend the Mâ—ons access to her other Quadrate in which shall be the Third Crisis viz. the 20 or 21 day according to the Moon 's Swift or Slow Motion And if the Diseâ—se continue still we must mark when the Moon returns to her Radical Place for then the Lunar Month is finished whose Period is 27 days and 8 hours and the Fourth and Last Crisis accomplished in Acuâ—e Diseasâ—s Wherefore if the Disease shall persevere beyond the Lunar Month we must thenceforward have regard to the Motion of the Sun and the râ—st of thâ— Planets For then the Acute degenerates into a Câ—ronical or long continued Disease as Quartan Feavers and the like Aâ— for the Second species of the Critical Points called Indicative they are such as fall exactly in the Middle of every Qâ—adrature For when the Moon â—ttains the half of her Quadrate that is 45 degrees of the
Radical Place of the Moon in the third Indicative Jupiter benignly Irradiating the Moon by a Trine about the same time denounced a propitious Crisâ—s to â—nsue The Twenty-third day about Nine a Clock in the Evening the Moon perambulating 10 degrees 19 min. of â™ wherein fell the second Critical day applyed to the Trine of Venus At which time she Produced a wholsome and propitious Crisis For on this very day the Feaver began to leave him and soon after he râ—covered his Health Quod sanè miram rerum Medicarum cum coelo Harmoniam consensum arguit Now that the Cause of this Crisis arising from the Stars may yet more plainly appear I will hereunto add a Coelestial Figure erected after the Rational manner with a Judgment Astrological thereupon Judicium Astrologicum ex Figurâ Decubitus Rationali Figura Decubitus Rationalis Ad Annum 1641. Mens Januarii Die Hor. Min. 2. 8. 00. Lat. 480 50′ T. Ap. ☽ ad âš¹ ♂ ☌ ♀ The Principal significators of this Figure are 1. The Ascendant and 2. Mercury Lord thereof in Capricorn a movable Sign Retrograd and Combust in the Fifth House 3. The Sixth House and 4. the Lord thereof in Aquarius a Fixed Sign strong and powerful in his own House the Moon in the Cusp of the Sixth House in Aquarius The Sun in the Fifth afflicted at the beginning of the Disease by a Quadrate of Mars in Aries a Fiery Sign and Lord of the Eighth House Whence it appears that the Disease proceeded from Choller ingendred of a Churlish Melancholy Humor according to the Aphorisme Sol à Marte ad Initium Morbi quovis modo infortunatus aegritudo erit Cholerica ex humore bilioso orta Furthermore Jupiter in a movable Sign in the Fifth House which rules the Stomach Liver and the Sides c. combust and wounded by the Quartile of Mars brought the Pleurisie upon him and because Mercury Afflicted by the Malevolent Planets is hereby rendered Malevolent he gave him the Dry-Cough Moreover the Moon in Aquarius applying to Saturn argues that the Cause of the Disease proceeded from the Weariness of a Journey according to the Doctrine of Hermes and Hippocrates Now for determining the length or shortness of the Disease consider these Aphorisms Sexta Domus in Signo Fixo Morbi Longitudinem pollicetur Item Saturnus existens Dominus sextae in Signo Fixo longum praesagit morbum Rursum Saturnus Dominus Sextae Domino Ascendentis fortior Morbi Incrementum denotat Postremò Luna Domino Sextae applicans Incrementum Morbi portendir Seeing therefore that Mars in a fiery Sign afflicts both the Luminaries namely the Sun by a Quadrate and the Moon by a long Sextile which is equivalent to a Quadrate I gather that the Principal Authors of this Disease are Saturn and Mars which together excited a very long Burning Feaver Then Mercury the dry Cough and at last Jupiter the Plurisie the which together with the Cough sooner ended than the Feaver for that Mercury and Jupiter were both constituted in a movable Sign Of the Mutations Inclinations and Eversions of Empires Kingdoms c. IT will not be I hope ungrateful to the Ingenious if I recollect and commend unto their and my own contemplation the Causes of the Mutations Inclinations and Eversions of Empires Kingdoms and Commonwealths and the rather because as I suppose Time never produced an Age so full of Prodigies nor a Generation of Men so inclin'd to Novelty as now the present wherein every day presents a New Inquiry every Month a fresh Vicissitude The Politiques distinguish the Causes of all Mutations into Two sorts First and Second The First cause is God the Creator and Governour of all things For notwithstanding the Actions of all Individual Human Creatures be in a Human Power yet the Constitutions Governments and Conservations of Human Communions and Societies or Republiques are not so in the Power of Men but depend wholly upon the First and Supreme Cause and the disposition thereof And for as much as God performs his greatest works in the world by Angels it is not impossible or strange if I say and aver that every Empire Kingdom and Republique hath some certain Angel and Genius peculiarly appropriated thereunto as a Governour ordained by God For this is the constant opinion of the Jews who believe that every Person and Place hath a certain Guardian Angel set over it nor do a few Doctors of the Catholick Church believe otherwise whilst in Dan. 10 11. there is mention made of an Angel Governour of Persia and Grece and that the Apostle Ephes. 3. expresly constitutes a certain Order of Angels which he calls Potestates Rulers or Potentates or as our English Translation hath it Principalities and Powers God hath set certain Intervals and Periods of times to all Empires c. amongst which Periods the 500. and 700. years are accounted most Fatal as you may see in Bodin Lib. 4. Cap. 2. but especially in Richterus Ax. 1.2 seq And the natural reason hereof is for that in this space of time there clapseth the sixth Generation of Men which abateth of and more and more declineth from the simplicity strength and fortitude of those Men who at first obtained and preserved Empires by such vertues For like as the Bodies of Men became weak and feeble in the fourth and fifth Generation even so also decreaseth the strength and fortitude whereby Kingdoms are acquired preserved and propagated Besides it hath been observed that at the end of every 30 th year there usually falls out some one or other Mutation in Empires c. because that after so many years such men as formerly had the Government of Affairs and things therein do for the most part leave their Station and that from thenceforth New Ones succeed them who in the space of Thirty years more grow up and introduce new Customs and Opinions in the Commonwealth as you may read in Richterus Axiom 9. Moreover it is certain that as God hath appointed fatal Bounds and Limits of time to all Empires c. so hath he the like Bounds and Limits to all other particular places and when any change of Empires c. is imminent he commonly raiseth up some great Heroes whom he useth as Organs to punish or amend them yet first revealeth such future changes by certain Signs and Prodigies Vid. Bodin Lib. 4. Cap. 2. Richt Axiom 19. And thus much of the first cause of the Changes of Empires Kingdoms and Republiques c. The Second Cause is either Natural or Moral The Natural cause is either Superior or Inferior The Superior Natural Cause is the Motion and Influence of the Planets and Stars upon these Inferiours touching which the Ingenious Keckerman Lib. 1. Cap. 26. delivers this Canon Coelum Efficacissimè agit in Corpus humanum sibi maximè cognatum atque adeo etiam in corpus tum ipsius Principis tum Subditorum ita nempe ut in corporibus mutat temperamenta
from whence I have since Calculated its Declination every day and here together present them the Reader Ephemeris Cometae Anni 1652. Decemb. Hor. Min. Longitude Latitude Declination 9 7 0 V. ♊ 10 0′ 39° 10′ A. 16° 46′ A. 10 7 0 V.  5 29 27 51 A. 0 4 A. 11 11 0 V.  2 45 18 20 A. 2 46 B. 12 7 0 V.  1 0 9 0 A. 11 36 B. 14 11 0 V. ♉ 27 30 4 55 B. 24 21 B. 15 10 0 V.  25 30 9 10 B. 28 4 B. 16 10 0 V.  23 45 14 10 B. 32 25 B. 18 9 30 V.  22 50 19 0 B. 36 48 B. 19 9 0 V.  21 40 21 30 B. 38 50 B. 21 9 30 V.  20 40 25 30 B. 42 19 B. 22 8 0 V.  20 25 26 45 B. 43 25 B. 23 10 0 V.  20 10 28 10 B. 44 39 B. 25 10 0 V.  19 30 30 35 B. 46 41 B. 30 6 10 V.  18 50 33 30 B. 49 9 B. By which we see it continued from the 6 7 or 8. day of December till the 30. at the least on or about which day it vanished betwixt Perseus his Sword and Cassiopeia having run through the first ten degrees of Gemini and the last eleven degrees and ten minutes of Taurus by a Retrograde Motion and that perpetually decreasing It changed its Latitude from South to North intersecting the Ecliptique about the beginning of Gemini It was Stella Caudata not Crinita as some supposed because it had a visible Tail projected towards the North-East parts of the Earth Now let us hear and adhere to the Doctrine of Ptolemy lib. 2. cap. 8. Observandi sunt Cometae sive in deliquiis sive alio quovis tempore effulserint in universalium eventuum consideratione quales sunt quae vocantur Trabes Tubae Dolia ac hujusmodi etenim Effectus hae pariunt quales à Marte cientur ac Mercurio ut Bella Aestus motus turbulentos alia quae ista sequi consueverunt Caeterum quibus locis minitentur intentent effectus suos ostendunt Zodiaci partes sub quibus collectae ipsae incensae primum exarserint tum inclinationes Comarum Crinitae pro rationae formae Ex ipsa verò Collectionis ardentis velut facie ac forma affectionis species res in quam illa pervasura est innotescet duratio flammae de eventuum intensione aut remissione habitudo ad solem de initio eorundem quando primum invadent decebit Nam cum Matutinae fuerint diuque flagrant celeriores Sin Vespertinae tardiores eventus arguunt The Genuine sense and meaning whereof is thus in the Englsh. In the Consideration of general Events Comets are also to be observed whether they appear in Eclipses or at any other time or of what form or name soever they be for they produce Effects like those that be caused of Mars and Mercury as Wars Strifes Turbulent Motions and such other Events as usually follow these But unto what places they menace and threaten their Effects those parts of the Zodiack in which they are first collected and fixed as also the inclinations of the Comets Rays in respect of the form thereof do declare But by the Face and Shape as it were of that blazing Substance the kind of the Effect and the Matter into which it will change shall be known The duration of the Flame shall inform us of the intention or remission of the Events The Comets positure to the Sun the beginning of their Operation For when they are Matutine and burn long they argue swifter Events but being Vespertine slower By which words Ptolemy insinuateth three things to be considered in Comets viz. The Quality Place and Time of their Effects 1. For the Quality or Nature thereof I am tyed by the Rules of Art to consider in the first place the Situation of the Orb at the beginning or middle appearance of a Comet or else to the time of the swiftest Motion thereof But forasmuch as not one of those three times can certainly be known I am resolved by the Examples of Haly Cardan Longomontanus and others to Examine the Figures of Heaven erected to the Full Moon of Decemb. 5. at 2. a Clock and 26 Minutes in the Morning And the Quartile of Jupiter and Mars the 7 th of December at 6 in the Morning at or near upon which times this Comet questionless appeared And that Planet which shall be Lord of the place of the Comet and of the preceding Angle because the Motion thereof was contrary to the succession of Signs I shall take to be Lord of the Figure and Comet and consequently the Significator of future Events In the Full Moon preceding or incident with this Comet the Moon was above the Earth and so the Luminary of the time in the 24. degree of Gemini whereof Mercury is Dispositer and together with the Sun opposing her Mars Lord of the Angle preceding applying to a Quartile of Jupiter and upon the Cuspe of the Ascendant In the Quartile of Jupiter and Mars the 27. degree of Taurus is the Cuspe of the West Angle the most part of Gemini viz. 24. degrees thereof being in the same Angle and therewith the Comet Mercury Lord of the place of the Comet Mars of the Angle precedent and the Moon in Quartile to Mars and oppos'd to Jupiter Whereby it appears that Mercury and Mars are as well the Accidental as Natural Lords of this Comet and therefore the Events thereon depending of their Nature 2. Secondly we must consider it as to the colour thereof Color enim significat naturam Planetae dominantis for the colour of a Comet signifies the Nature of the Ruling Planet This was of a Fiery Red but mixed with a dusky Silver colour which made it look but dim in appearance unless in clear Nights before the Moon was up for then it look'd more Rutilant and therefore it was likewise in this respect of the Nature of Mars and Mercury as shall also be the Effects thereof which nevertheless will not be so Noble as if it had been of a more Glorious and Splendent colour Stella quo magis est lucida eo nobilioris censetur naturae By how much brighter any Star or Comet is by so much it is supposed to be of a more Noble Nature 3. The Form or Shape thereof is next to be observed for this also partly denotes the Nature of the Planet unto which it belongs and by consequence the quality of the Effects Quae Crinita versicolor vel bene caudata Mercurius est The Comet that is Hairy of sundry colours or very much Tailed belongs to Mercury 4. The fourth thing considerable as to the Nature of its Effects is the Magnitude thereof I mean first of the Head of the Comet for the knowledge of which there are three things necessarily required 1. The apparent Diameter of its Discus 2. The Distance
Mid-heaven not of Rarity For as to this they are of equal Power as was before demonstrated But for that Reason that the Planets are joyn'd they do conduplicate their Power by the second Rule And hence another thing follows viz. That some Conjunction of Venus and Mercury shall be far more Powerful than the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter or of the Sun and Moon Because the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter or of the Sun and Moon may be in the same degree only and the Conjunction of Venus and Mercury Corporeal I call that a Corporeal Conjunction when the Planets are not more distant one from another than the Aggregate of their Semi-diameters as Venus and Mercury not farther than Eight Minutes in Longitude and so Venus from the Moon not above Twenty three Minutes And if such a Conjunction be made also in respect of Latitude it will be far more effectual and valid Nevertheless the Latitude doth not so much as the difference in Longitude because the distance of Latitude impedeth not but that both the Stars may be moved in the same Circle passing by the Poles of the Zodiack And the greatest distance that can be of two Planets in Latitude is betwixt Mars and Venus viz. When Mars is in the utmost extremity of his Southern Latitude and Venus in the like of her Northern Latitude for then they are distant fourteen degrees and a half A Second way whereby the Conjunction of Venus and Mercury may be greater than the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter I omit then what they might be with some Fixed Star or in the beginning of Aries and with Saturn and Jupiter in the end of Virgo for that were to multiply the Conjunction and make it Triple as for Example this Venus and Mercury may be in the Degree of the Ascendant and Saturn and Jupiter in the end of the second House And this by the third Rule A Third manner is That in One Nativity wherein Venus and Mercury are conjoyn'd they may be Lords of the Ascendant In another wherein Saturn and Jupiter are joyned neither of them may have any Power at all in the Ascendant as when the tenth Degree of Virgo or Taurus Ascendeth or but very little as when the tenth of Leo Ascendeth where only Jupiter hath but the Dignity of a Trigon and especially if the Nativity be by Day A Fourth Mode is if whilst Venus is joyn'd to Mercury a Comet should appear in the Heavens or that the Sun and Moon be in Conjunction the rather if there be an Eclipse for then also because it may not behold the Place this Conjunction of Venus and Mercury shall be more Powerful than the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter wherewith none of these great Causes happeneth And Note That there are six great Causes in Heaven The First is the Conjunction of the Ecliptiques of the Eighth and Ninth Spheres and of the Heads of Aries thereof for this excelleth all the rest The Second a Comet which confounds both Sea and Land and all things else The Third an Eclipse which for the most part troubles and disturbs one certain and determinate kind of Creatures The Fourth is the Conjunction of the Luminaries whereby all moist things are governed Therefore the Seas Crabs Fishes Diseases Fâ—ll'd or Lopped Wood and the like The Fifth is the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in what place soever it chanceth whereby Laws Empires and Regions are Governed The Sixth and Last the Conjunction of the Luminaries with the Fixed Stars whereof the Solar Conjunctions govern the Winds the Lunar the Seas 19. The Nineteenth Conjunction is that of Venus and Mercury which may be called Irregular for that it hath no certain Circuit Yet is there one assigned the same being Collected and Divided from many Conjunctions and this is called the Mean Circuit of Five Months and three Days or thereabouts 20. The Twentieth is the Transits of the Absides out of one Sign into another which is in the space of about Three thousand Years some say Four Thousand others Twelve hundred and another sort Sixteen hundred But it is not as yet determined in what time precisely the Apogaeon absolves one Sign nor consequently one Degree as Petavius hath Observed and therefore I forbear any Judgments thereon A Brief Account of the Causes of Earthquakes THere are Four Causes of Earthquakes as admitted and owned by Philosophers and Naturalists viz. Efficient Material Formal Final The Efficient Cause of all Earthquakes is the Heat of the Sun and therewithal the Subterranean Fires assisted by the Astringent Qualities of the three Superiour Planets The Material Cause is the Spirit or Vapour confin'd within the Bowels of the Earth striving to break out The Formal Cause the concussion of the Earth and the Agitation of the Vapours and Exhalations therein inclosed The Final Cause is a Sign of an Angry God justly provoked by the Scarlet Crimes or a Sinfâ—l People according to that of King David Commota est contremuit Terra fundamenta Montinuâ— conturbata sunt commota sunt quoniam iratus est eis i. e. The Earth shook and trembled the Foundations also of the Hills moved and were shaken Because He was wroth 2. Of their Species ARistotle Lib. 2. cap. 8. de Meteor maketh only two Species of them viz. Tremor and Palsus a Trembling and Beating or Thrusting Others have added a Third which they call Hyatus a Gaping Rending or Cleaving of the Earth Many more there are whereof you may Read in Pliny Seneca Possidonius Fromundus and others I willingly omit them 3. Of their Antecedentia THE Antecedentia or Signs preceding Earthquakes are Calmness and Tranquillity of the Air Dimness of the Sun a more than ordinary quietude and Solitariness of Birds Nevertheless a Raging of the Seas Putrefaction and Troubledness of the Waters of Pits and Wells of any Depth Great Noise and hideous sounds under Ground resembling groans and which is more the very Thunder 4. Of their Consequentia AND now the Consequentia or Effects of Earthquakes the which I only aim at are 1. Ruine of Buildings and the Destruction of many People as you may see in Lanquet and Eusebius their Chronologies Tacitus Lib. 2. Fromund Lib. 4. Meteor 2. The Conversion of Plain Fields into Mountains and the raising of Islands in the Sea as Thia Therasia Delos Rhodes and others 3. The Levelling of Mountains sinking of Islands and other Grounds as Helice and Buris So likewise of the Earth which once was where now is only that deep Pit in the County of Durham commonly called Hell-Kettles in the 24 of Henry 2 d. 4. The driving away or cutting the Neck of some Isthmus from the Continent For thus saith Seneca was Sicily divided from Calabria Spain from Africk and if Verstegan say true Britain from France 5. The Translation of Mountains Buildings Trees c. from one place to another As that did a whole Town in Lumbardy in the Reign of Henry the First And that other
the Luminaries by Malign Aspects and from a violent Sign the Sun alâ—o noâ— far distant from Palalitium or the Bulls Eye a Malevolent Fixed Star denounces a violent Death or great danger thereof Whereof the troubled Character upon the Region of Saturn is an Argument For thereon shall such Characters appear either in some other form or else more clearly when the Evil approacheth 4. We do judge the Integrity of Behaviour from the Saturnia terminating at the Natural Mean Venus in her own House Irradiating the Moon by a Trine begets a Natural shamefac'd-ness the which is seconded by Jupiter who as we told you hath the Dominion in this Geniture Mercury if not Superiour to him is certainly his Equal in Government 5. The Tuberculum of the Sun presenting almost the Character of Saturn is not accounted very Fortunate for that it betokeneth many Enemies without Cause Envy accompanying The Luminaries so greatly infested of Saturn presage the same As often as the Sun's Place beareth the Greek Letter χ so that the Line cutting that which is erected on his Tuberculum descendeth from the Interval of the Auricular and Annular the like whereof the Cingulum Veneris usually describeth you may most certainly adjudge Difficulty of Businesses through the Envy of Men. 6. Venus forming three little clear Lines on her Mount augments his Revenue in some Measure by the Means of a Wife as is clearly evinc'd by her Positure in the Second with the Part of Fortune 7. The Vital vitiated in three places by the Transite of three little Lines threatens three sufficiently Grievous Diseases about the 32 th 40 th and 45 th Years of his Age. If you bring the Horoscope to â—he Quartile of Mars and in like manner the Moon to the Quartile of Mars and Saturn you shall surely produce the Years before nominated Example XII The Brother of the former Born A. C. 1583. June 27. Hor. 11. Min. 30. Afternoon 1. THe Line of Life troubled by the Intervening of another threatens a Disease about the 20 th Year of his Age. And doubtless at that time the Direction of the Horoscope comes to the Quartile of Mars So likâ—wise the Progression of the Moon to Saturn himself Howbeit this Direction in regard of the presence of Jupitâ—r is not much to be feared 2. The Rule of the Geniture belongs to Saturn and Jupiter Wherefore the Tuberculum of Jupiter affords us overthwart little Lines But the Tuberculum of Saturn a Star until the Saturnia also Ascendeth 3. You have likewise the Signatures of Mercury and Venus in their own Places which are now conjoyned in Leo the Conjunction being not to be despised although it be Platique 4. The three little Lines collocated on the Ferient insinuate Journeys and so doth Mars Lord of the Horoscope in the House of Mercury and the Sun in Cancer 5. The Cross in the Cavea of Mars increaseth his Martial Disposition and the Heat of the Liver 6. The Sun's Place presenting a Cleft increases his Honours but slowly In the Geniture the Decrees of Dignities are obscure Yet the Sun is Angular with the Heads of the Twins 7. The Saturnia being whole promiseth a Happy success of Events and Actions and so doth the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter Dispositors of the 8 9 10 11 and 12 th Houses Example XIII A Brother of both the two last Born A.C. 1577. Nov. 7. Hor. 3. Min. 12. Afternoon This Third Example I lately got at Ratisbone 1. THE Saturnia whole although Obliquely drawn to its proper Seat shews that Saturn is Lord of the Geniture He discerns not absolutely an Adverse Fortune c. Hither transfer the rest of Saturn's Significations from their proper Place when he is not Infortunately Posited Yet Saturn in the Cuspe of the 10 th perturbs the good Fortune of Venus and Jupiter who share in the Rule of this Geniture Mars also in the West Angle and there in a strange Sign denounceth the same Which Mischiefs shall be multiplyed in his Old Age. 2. Venus by reason of her North Lâ—titudâ— Resides on the Cuspe of the 7 th having the Moon joyned with her in regard of her South Latitude And therefore their Place tells us of Lines and Marks that be trim and handsome Notwithstanding the Moon 's more Remissly in regard that she hasting to the Sun is not Illustrated with Light sufficient 3. Jupiter Direct and in Conjunction with Venus near unto Spica Virginis adorns his Region with a little Line that is Decent enough But yet he is Oppressed of Saturn We have often observed that his Conjunction with Venus hath bestowed very Great Riches by Marriage Wherewith here agree the Condition of Venus and the Part of Fortune 4. The Via Solis shews it self in some sort a Friend unto Honours That Planet Angular in Scorpio and with the Scorpion's Heart must not be rejected 5. Mercury Retrograde in his Detriment and in the Eighth House is accounted very weak He is somewhat strengthened of Venus and Jupiter wherefore you see at this time no Signature to be found in his Region 6. The due breadth of the Mensa differeth not much from this Habit of the Stars 7. The Cross above the Restricta promiseth Tranquillity in his Old Age But the Saturnia denies it But seeing that Cross is made of the little Line which descendeth from the Vital and the Region of Venus look if it bring not Misfortune and Strifes by the Means of Wives c. The rest are left to every Mans Discretion Nevertheless we must needs acknowledge that All Incisures are neither here nor elsewhere scrupulously Delineated Example XIV One Born at Thuringia A.C. 1586. Decemb. 3. Hor. 7. Min. 30. Before Noon Lat. 51 Degrees WE have before in the 5 th Example almost the same Position The distance of their Births is only five days The Principal Lines do agree in Situation and Conformity In the rest there is some yet no very notable difference 1. The Vital is often Dissected about the End and middle thereof Wherefore it denotes a Sickly Disposition in his Old Age. The two little Lines vitiating the same by their Transite and descending upon the Cavea of Mars manifest Martial Infirmities of the Body about the 50 and 52 Year of his Age. Wounds also in the Head or Feet are then to be feared 2. In like sort Saturn letting fall a Line Obliquely from his Place shall at the same time besprinkle his Poyson Wherefore that time shall be full of Misfortunes A Disease also must be expected about the 11 th Year of his Age because the Vital is there Marked by a touch of the Cephalica The Horoscope comes at that time to the Quartile of Marâ— 3. The track of the Cephalica extended to the Mensal argues a Ready Wit In the Geniture Mercury is not unhappily Posited in the Horoscope in a Trine of Saturn But yet he possessâ—th a strange Sign being likewise Oppress'd by the Quartile of Mars Whence you see