f 23 a d g b e g 24 b e a c f a 25 c f b d g d 26 d g c e a c 27 e a d f b d 28 f b e g c e 29 g c f a d f 30 a d g b e g 31 b e  c  a The Immovable Feasts are celebrabrated with us upon the days of the Moneth following The Feast of the Circumcision of Christ January 1. The Epiphany or Twelfth-day Jan. 6. The Conversion of St. Paul Janu 25 The Purification of the Virgin Mary Feb 2 St. George his day April 23. St. Matthias the apostle Feb 25. The Annuciation of the Virgin Mary Mar. 25. Phillip and Jacob Apostles May 1. St. John Baptist June 24. St. Peter and St. Paul Apostles June 29. St. James Apostle July 25. St. Bartholomew Apostle August 24. St. Matthew Apostle Sept. 21. Michael Arch-angel Sept. 29. St. Luke Euangelist Octob. 18. Simon and Jude apostles Octob. 28. St. Andrew apostle Nov. 29. St. Thomas apostle Dec. 21. Nativity of Christ Decem. 25. St. Steven Martyr Dec. 26 St. John Euangelist Dec. 27. Innocents Dec. 28. How to find the Moons Age. ADd to the day of the Month the Epact and so many days more as are Moneths from March to the Moneth you are in including both Moneths and if they amount not to thirty that Sum shall be the Age of the Moon but if your number exceed thirty deduct thirty and what remains is the Moons Age. This is to be understood when the Moneth hath one and thirty days but if the Moneth hath but thirty days you must substract but twenty nine and the rest is the Age a foresaid For in those Moneths that have thirty-one days the New Moon or Conjunction is the thirtieth day of her Age and those Moneths that have but thirty days the New Moon falls on the twenty ninth day of her Age. Take an Example to make this plain Suppose I would know the Age of the Moon January the First 1675. current Now considering that the Epact changeth not till March I add the Epact of the foregoing year which is three and the day of the moneth one their sum is four and January being the eleventh Moneth accounted from March being also added amounts to fifteen which is the true Age of the Moon the said First day of January 1675. Et sic in aliis THe Number of the days in each Moneth are briefly summed up in these following Verses Thirty Days hath September April June and November February hath twenty-eight alone And all the rest have thirty one Note That in Leap-year which happens once in four years February hath twenty nine days By this preceding Almanack you may finde the day of the Moneth as also the moveable and immoveable Feasts for twenty years to come It s use is plain and obvious to a mean capacity and the day of the Moneth found by it as in other Almanacks knowing but the Dominical Letter Vulgar Notes and Observations to know when the Moon rises or sets c. 1. AT the New-Moon she riseth and setteth with the Sun 2. At the Full-Moon she rises when the Sun sets and sets when the Sun rises 3. At the beginning of the Increase she rises after Sun rising and sets after Sun set 4. At the beginning of the Decrease she rises a little after Sun-set and sets a little before his rising 5. In the first Quadrat of her Increase she rises about Noon or Mid-day and sets about Mid-night 6. In the Second Quadrat of her Decrease she rises at Mid-night and sets about Noon or Mid-day And hence may be computed near enough for common use the intermediate times of the Moons rising every day slower by one hour and about a fifth part viz. twelve minutes The Four Terms are as followeth HIllary Term begins January the twenty third and ends February the twelfth Easter Term begins Seventeen days after Easter-day and ends the Munday before Whit-sunday Trinity Term begins next Friday after Trinity Sunday which is always the next after Whit sunday and ends on Wednesday nineteen days after Michaelmas Term begins on twenty third of October and end November the twenty eighth following FINIS
than the Conjunction of the Sun and Saturn because it 〈◊〉 doth occur although the Sun be a great Planet yet becaâ—se once every year he accosteth Saturn whereas Jupiter comes to him but once in fifteen years or more and therefore the Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is called the great Conjunction which is ever cold and chiefly if it be mixed with Venus is snowy or rainy Thirdly The Aspects of the greater Planets be of greater efficacy than those of the lesser Planets so the Conjunction of the Sun and Saturn and of the Sun Jupiter is more effectual than the Conjunction of the Sun and Mercury or the Sun and Venus or the Sun and the Moon Fourthly A potent mixture gives potent Aspects as the Conjunction of the Sun and Mercury is warm but if both of them have lately been in a forcible Aspect of Mars and so are mixed with his nature they do thunder Fifthly The Aspects in lofty or firy signs are strong Aspects So a Sextile of the Sun in Sagittary or the Archer and Saturn in the Balance or the Skinker is stronger than a Trine of Saturn and the Sun in the Bull and the Virgin two earthy Signs although a Trine in it self be a greater Aspect than a Sextile Sixthly The Aspects of the Planets in their Houses are mighty yea and in their exaltations also as a Trine of Mars in the Ram and of the Sun in the Lion is hot and thundering Lastly When there is no Aspect or when the Aspects be weak the season is quiet If forcible Aspects in dry Signs rain not yet the air may be lowring and cloudy Fifthly or the fifth Rule is Carefully to observe the mixtures of Planets That is to say a Planet not only acteth according to his own nature when he is in an Aspect but also carries along with him the nature of the Planet which did behold â—im in the Aspect which adventitious nature got by the Aspect is called a mixture as for Example the Sun a hot Planet in the Sign of the Ram his exaltation a fiery hot sign lately being in Conjunction of Jupiter a warm Planet in the sign of the Fishes becometh very hot and active coming to a Quadrat which is a strong Aspect of Saturn a cold and dry Planet yet being moist in the first fifteen degrees of the Goat as also lately joined with Venus a cold and moist Planet the Sun potently stirreth up the nature of Saturn which is tinged or mixed with the moisture of Vinus and occasioneth a cold and moist season nevertheless after the cold is over-past Saturn retaineth a little warm tincture of the Sun By these mixtures or tinctures also I have observed Jupiter lightly tinged with Saturn but lately united to the Sun in the sign of the Lion so Jupiter becoming active through the mixture of the Sun coming to the Conjunction of Venus who was lately aspected of Saturn did procure abundance of ruins whereas our common Prognosticators would have predicted a fair season because of the Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus which doth many times make a clear sky if mixtures do not contradict it Though Mercury Mars and the Sun do stir up cold Planets to shed forth their natures and Jupiter fortified by hot mixtures doth the same yet if any of them be over-heated they do then burn away the influences of the cold Planets and do only exercise the hot influence So Jupiter in the cold winter being twice immediately warmed with the Sun and once by Mars free from the intervening of all cold aspects is hotter than either the Sun or Mars are in themselves for at that time Jupiter being opposed to Venus who was lately in Quadrat or Square with Saturn after a little cold beginning because of the nature of Venus and mixture of Saturn did at length thaw the ice and banish the cold After the like manner there is a cold mixture of an high degree for I have observed Mars damped with some cold Aspects without intermission when he came to the Aspect of Jove a warm Planet the vulgar Astrologer would then have fore told a hot and thundering time did then emit a cold influence Mars also in the cold winter in an aspect of cold Saturn yet Mars being heated by the Sun who was lately warmed with Jupiter and Saturn also separating from a good Aspect of the Sun lately fortified by the fire of Mars this Aspect even in the winter-season did redouble the great Ordnance of thunder and lightning When a Planet is but lightly or singly tinged and immediatly applieth to another Planet he first manifesteth the adventitious mixture and when that is past he acteth according to his own nature as the Sun coming from the Trine of Saturn and so a little colded and going to the Trine of Jupiter separating from the Trine of Venus at first meeting chiefly in the watery or aery Triplicity they are a little cold moist and windy but after that is gone they are warm If a Planet be tempered with two contrary mixtures the last is first manifested then the first mixture doth appear The Sixth Rule is Diligently to take notice of the renewing or anticipating the Aspects by the Moon Though the Moon it self be but weak yet when it passeth between two other Planets that are coming to a strong Aspect it maketh their influence operate before their proper time of aspecting which may be called the anticipation of the Aspect Or when two Planets do break up their Aspect and so separate the one from the other the Moon coming between them doth renew the bargain of the Aspect and worketh the influence over again which may be called the Renovation of the Aspect And I advise thee to peruse all the Moons Aspects every day to this purpose An example of anticipation is when the Sun strongly applieth himself to Mars for the letting off the great guns of the clouds according to the course of nature The Moon then coming from the Conjunction or strong Aspect of the Sun she ushers the way to the Sun and gives Mars the first salutation and anon it thundereth before the Sun come to act his part or if the Moon apply from the Opposition of Mars to the immediate Opposition of the Sun the same effect doth follow An Example of Renovation At the time when Jupiter and Venus in the Lion did give a dropping season the Moon was then in Cancer in her own house in a watery sign and shortly after presented her self to Jupiter Venus the Sun and Saturn one after another renewing the business by her progress among the Planets and all that while for the most part it rained apace which work of the Moon is not vulgarly taken notice of the neglect of which I doubt hath brought forth one if not more false principles in Astrology Yea and as Physitians do observe her influence upon the sick of the fever when she cometh to the Quadrat of her own place she worketh
then also even so it is in the weather if she be not impedited The seventh Rule is Of the Transits of the Planets which by no means must be neglected That is when either of the two Planets that did aspect one another comes first to that point of the Zodiack where the other Planet was whom he did aspect in Sextile or Trine or Quadrat or when he passeth along the point himself was in But in Conjunctions or Oppositions when he also cometh to the Square of that degree wherein the Conjunction or Opposition was It may be admitted for a transit also when an aspect falleth upon the place of another Planet which he had in the time of a great Conjunction or at the first appearance of a Comet or in the time of a great Eclipse or when an aspect falleth upon the same degree where other Planets did not long ago aspect each other For an example of the first sort of Transits Saturn in the Lion did oppose Jupiter in the Skinker and did first raise up a South-west wind and then a mighty cold aire afterwards in the year 1669 Saturn transiting the place of Jupiter in the Skinker in that threefold Opposition did raise up the same sort of winds which did continue all that year for the most part yea and did stir up the same sort of diseases that he had formerly occasioned at the threefold Opposition It is therefore fitting to review the Aspects of preceding years if we would truly know the state of succeeding times and to this purpose an old Ephemerides is useful for some years after they be expired Jupiter in the Twins aspected by Mars in the Ram not only in the time of the aspect did they shew their natures but also when Mars came to the place which Jupiter had in the aspect it thundered The like in the Trine of Mars in the Ram and the Sun in the Lion it thundereth if not damped by cold mixtures when Mars first comes to that degree where the Sun was in the Lion the thunder is re-excited though more faintly and the same effect followeth when the Sun first comeeth to the degree Mars was posited in at that Trigon the which is little minded by our raw Astrologers An Example of the Second sort The Sun and Mars united in the same degree of the Crab which was Saturns place at the eclipsing of the Sun in the Ram in the year 1652. which did occasion a thundering and showery season The Eighth Rule is To consider the Sign which sympathizeth with the Country in particular Which of necessity must be looked into For an Aspect will operate in the Country which is subject to the Sign wherein it is celebrated many times more powerfully than in Countries agreeable to other Signs Some Countries are subject to the firy Triplicity England to the Ram Italy to the Lion Spain to the Archer Some to the watery Triplicity as Scotland and Holland to the Crab Norway to the Scorpion Some to the Airy as Austria to the Balance Tartary to the Skinker Some to the earthy as Ireland to the Bull. Thus the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter or of the Sun and Venus in the Crab giveth abundance of rain in Scotland whereas in the South of England they are but few if some Aspect in the fiery Triplicity do not increase them The Aspects may shed forth their influence in all Countries after some measure but they work most potently in Countries subject to the signes wherein the Aspect is made And to go no further for the proof of this than the year 1669 when the Conjunctions of Mars and Venus and of the Sun and Venus came to pass in the Crab the which did abundantly moisten North-Britain though they were not so operative in Englands South parts and when Jupiter the same year came to the Crab these Aspects were again irritated by Sextiles with Jupiter and the effects did follow in the North though the South was wonderfully dry After the like manner drought proceeding from an Eclipse of the Sun in the Ram is much more felt in Countries subject to the fiery Triplicity than in Countries related to the Crab or the watery Triplicity The Ninth Rule General causes are to be looked upon as Comets great Eclipses chiefly of the Sun the great Conjunctions of Saturn Jupiter Comets cause dry times for the most part and more particularly in dry Signs and their Countries as our days can witness by experience of the Comets in the year 1664. There was a great Eclipse of the Sun in the Ram and about that time a Comet to which also may be added Saturn in the Lion the which did occasion a dry Spring and Summer in England It hath been wondered at by many at the dry Summer and Harvest of the year 1669. But if they do consider the Eclipse of the Sun in the dry and earthy Sign of the Bull and although it was not visible in our Horizon yet in matters of the weather it worketh all over for the fabrick of this world is like a Musical instrument well tuned of the which if a string be touched at one end it will quiver all along to the farther end And in the Bull and the Twins the Comet of the year 1664 did move and Saturn in the Skinker looking on the Bull with a Square and on the Twins with a Trine Aspect and in Opposition to the Lion where he was in the time of drought in the years 1652 and 1653. And likewise the Sign wherein Mars was in the time of the great Conjunction in the year 1663. he may then wonder the less However it is most true that God sendeth extraordinary droughts to punish sinners as in the days of Elijah for the space of three years and an half it did not rain upon the land of Israel And God causeth it to rain upon one City and not upon another The Tenth Rule Observe the Nature of the most eminent fixed Stars in or near the Zodiack when the Planets are in Conjunction with them As when the Sun is joyned to Sirius or the Dog-star of a fiery nature the air is hotter than at other seasons of the year if doubled or redoubled mixtures of other Planets do not contradict So the Pleiades or the cluster of Seven-stars are accounted moist if Venus be aspected when she cometh to them so Hyades and so of others The Eleventh Rule The Season of the year must be looked upon For the influence of a cold rain in Summer is snow in Winter and snow or sleet in the Spring Warm Configurations if they be moist are for rain both Summer and Winter Anniversary winds or rains which do come once a year as in the moneth of March it raineth about Rome the winds called the Etesii do usually blow Moreover take especial notice of this that prediction for every days weather in an Almanack is absurd for an Aspect of rain except it be very potent is not at
one and the same time generally all the Countrey over For suppose it may rain at London to day tomorrow it may rain at Bristol and be fair and day at London it may rain at Norwich the third day and that day the other two places may be without rain and so it may move from place to place while that rainy influence lasts The common people do call this a falling out by Planets The Twelfth Rule Forget not the Latitude and Scituation of the Country The Latitude is how far North or South it lieth The Scituation is whether it be an Island or Firm-land whether it be hilly or a plain champaign ground a low vale Now an Island is more windy than the Continent or Firm land because the Sea is seldom without winds and it is more warm in winter except it be seituate in the Frozen-zone as Island than the main-land therefore Britain hath milder Winters than France In the low Vales and level grounds which are not exalted with hills the rainy clouds make but a short aboad but swiftly move away through those aires without stop whereas among high tops of mountains the clouds are hampered and arrested and have not so free passage but crouding together at length do discharge themselves by millions of drops into the lower bottoms The Scituation also doth tell us what Winds are most frequent and familiar in any Countrey if we do look how the Sea bears to the Land The Western Ocean looketh broad upon Britain from whence Westerly-winds do often blow upon this Island The Mediterranean-Sea upon the East of Portugal giveth that Country moist Easterly-winds These same great waters flowing from the South Regions upon the shoars of Italy do furnish that Country with moist South-winds but the land of Canaan lying at the bottom of the Streights to the East of the Mediterranean doth meet with Westerly wet winds but the winds that blow upon it from the South coming from Sun-burnt Egypt are hot Thus our Saviour reasoneth with the Jews Luke 12. 54 55. We do use to say in Britain that when it cleareth up in the West in time of raines that it will be fair anon because no more Clouds at that time do come from the Western Ocean Under the Equinectial in the middle of the World there is a Trade-wind so called by reason of the great trading of Merchants in those Seas one half of the year blowing from the East and the other half year from the West according as the Sun is on this or that side the Equinoctial And in the East-Indies when the Sun in or near the Aequinoctial is Vertical or direct over their heads it raineth almost constantly because of the great Indian Ocean from whence the Sun with his mighty heat draweth great store of moisture The winds upon mighty high mountains which are not adjacent to the Sea do vary according to the point of the Compass the Sun is in any hour of the day The Sun in the Meridian and upon the direct South of the airy Alpes the wind at that hour upon Mount Viso one of the highest among the Alpes is quite contrary to the Sun blowing directly from the North. As for the Latitude of the Country the farther North as being more remote from the Sun the colder it is but the farther South the warmer it may snow in the High-lands of Scotland when it but raineth at London it may rain in a North mountainons Countrey when it is dry weather in great Champains and Southern plaines The Northern Countries of Denmark Norway Swedeland Russia and the North of Germany are for the most part frozen all Winter and then the exhalations and mists are close imprisoned therefore the aire is calm and clear and the starry lights glistering most beautifully They can walk upon the narrow Sound between Sweden and Danemark as upon dry land it is so strongly bridged with Ice In the Spring-time when the ice is chawed and Winter must go lodg among the Antipodes and the pleasant Spring and flowery Summer do enter the stage then the imprisoned exhalations do break out and fill the aire with warm fogs bringing a warmer Summer than islands have which lie farther South In the South-parts Egypt is dried up and hath little or no rain Judea seldom is rained upon in June and July the East-Indies hath great rains when the Sun is vertical through the Suns vehement heat upon the Indian Ocea CHAP. III. What may be prognosticated and how THere may be foreseen 1. The temper of the Air cold or hot infallibly 2. Calm and dry seasons 3. Wet weather as rains sleets mists snow hail 4. Thunders and Lightning 5. Winds 6. Cloudy dark aires 7. Comets and other fiery Meteors For the First of Heat and Colds The Conjunctions and Oppositions and other powerful Aspects of Saturn if he be not over-heated by mixture are cold The Conjunction and Opposition of Jupiter and Saturn are vehemently cold yet not always frosty Saturn and Venus bring Colds Snows Rains Hails consideratis considerandis The Sun and Saturn Mars and Saturn are clear and frosty and Mercury and Saturn are not warm remembring alwayes according to the fore-going Rules to consider the Latitude Scituation and Sign and Planet sympathizing with the Country The strength of the Aspect the Sign the Dignities of the Planets aspecting their Mixtures Transits the Seasons and general Causes A Planet proceeding from the Aspect of Jupiter to the Aspect of Saturn or Venus Saturnized is cold For Heats the applications of firy or warm Planets if they be not double damped with cold mixtures Thus the Conjunctions of Mercury with the Sun Mars or Jupiter are hot So the powerful Aspects of Mars and Jupiter or Mars and the Sun So the Aspects of the Sun and Jupiter Or when cold Planets are deeply dyed with hot and firy mixtures Or the applications of Planets separating from Saturn or Venus mixed with Saturn or Jupiter Hence you may know whether proves mild or rigid If the Planets go from Saturn immediately to Jupiter the Winter is mild if they go from Jupiter immediatly to Saturn it proves a cold Winter In this particular of Heat and Cold the new Aspects of Kepler do take place and do bring a sensible alteration of the air For the Second calm and temperate weather When there is no Aspect or no powerful Transit for some season or when the Aspect is weak and mean or when the Aspect is in Earthy Signs chiefly the Aspects of Jupiter and Venus or when the Planets are well mixed with a dry Jupiter Look also is Saturn be in an earthy or fiery Sign except the Goat Cold and dry Aspects in Summer do give frosty nights but clear and pleasant days Total Eclipses of the Sun in the Ram Lion or Earthy Signs and also Comets do prenote a dry season For the Third thing namely wet weather may be fore-seen by strong Aspects of the Planets with Venus or with any Planet well