is hard to say whether it is a Blessing or a Punishment to us But be it as it will no man lives that shall not taste of it and therefore as I have begun with his Life in a natural way so I will go on to his Death and the time of it as near as I can According to this Correction we have before us the first Direction that is or can be allowed dangerous to Life is the Moon Giver of Life to the Cusp of the Seventh at 39 years and 7 months old but I am partly certain that cannot kill because the Moon at the same time comes to the Mundane Parallel of Jupiter just after it motu conversâ— and within 9 degrees of his Square so that I cannot allow that to hit him yet he will have some Illness at that time but without eminent Danger But when the Moon comes to the Opposition of the Sun at â—1 years of age almost I do not think he will escape it because it is followed by such a train of Directions after it no less than 10 but the next and immediate Direction that succeeds iâ— is the Square of Mars and from him we must seek the Species of the Disease Mars you see is in Capricorn in Square to the Sun Saturn and Mercury hence I judge his Distemper to be a Fever complicated with disorders of the Reins and Head perhaps Delirious and Nephritick if not a Suppression of Urine totally The Direction toucheth in the end of the year 1737. but the precedingRevolution being no ways violent Saturn being then with Mars in 9 degrees of Gemini and Jupiter in 7 degrees of Pisces I judge it will not affect him till the beginning of the year 1738. about the time of the Ingress or a little after Saturn then being in 19 degrees of Gemini and Mars in the middle of Aquary and when Mars comes to the beginning of Aries or the lâ—tter end of Pisces he will influence the place of Direction at which time it is probable he may feâ—l the Influence of his rugged Stars I have already told you That the Estimate Time was a little after I mane and my Rule generally is That Children are born sooner than the time commonly given and so may this for ought I know for the Direction that I principally rely on in the Correction is but a single one to suit to a single Accident which tho' they seem rational and probable yet I dare not be positive to the truth of the Correction though I believe it to be true But if he should happen to be born at 1 of the Clock or a few minutes before then the Moon will not be Giver of Life but the Ascendent if so the Cause and Time of Death must be sought from the Horoscope and not from the Moon and therefore I will give you the Directions to the Ascendent in a Figure set to that time Ascendens ad ☌ ♃ 7 45 8 6 1695 Ascen in Ascendens ad â–´ ♄ 22 23 24 4 1711 15 â™ Ascendens ad ☌ ♂ 22 33 24 6 1711  Ascendens ad âš¹ ♀ 24 3 26 4 1713  Ascendens ad semiquad ☉ 29 45 32 5 1719  Ascendens ad semiquad ♃ 35 57 39 1 1726  Ascendens ad sesquiquod ♄ 37 3 40 2 1727  Ascendens ad 8 ☽ 40 23 43 8 1730  Ascendens ad semiquad ♂ 51 12 54 10 1741  If the Ascendent is Hileg when it comes to the Body of Mars it will be a severe time for danger to his Life but I do not think he will dye of it because he hath a favourable Revolution no evil secondary Directions and Jupiter on the Place of Direction to a degree and in his radical Horoscope all that year and what is more it is a strong vital Nativity At the Age of 32 years and 5 months the Ascendent comes to the Semiquadrate of the Sun which will give him another dangerous fit of Sickness but not so bad as the other yet both of them attended with danger but I think he may outlive them But at the age of 40 years if the Horoscope is Apheta he will certainly dye without a Miracle from Heaven for according to my Skill in Astrology I can by no means see any ground to judge his Life will be continued beyond that time And to say the truth his Nativity cannot be exactly and truly corrected till the Ascendent comes to the Body of Mars it being the first Direction of consequence to an Angle and no other Directions can correct true either in this or any other Nativity Directions to the Sun and Moon will come near but the Angles exact And so I come to say something to the effects of his Directions in the former Table At the age of 4 years and 3 months he was taken into the particular care of a Gentleman and ever since hath been plentifully and genteely provided for by a Relation and a Person of Quality He had then the Ascendent directed to the Body of Jupiter At the age of almost 8 years he had the Small Pox and at 8 and 10 months he fell down a pair of Stairs for this I allow the Sun to the Opposition of Saturn cum sine Lat. with some other things already mentioned Aged 16 years he hath the Moon to the Sextile of Saturn and to the Trine of the Sun just after on these Directions he will be placed out in the world perhaps sent to the University or otherwise disposed Aged 17 or 18 years the Sun to the Square of Jupiter mundo the Moon to the Sesquiquad of Jupiter mundo and the Part of Fortune to the Parallel of Saturn in mundo his affairs of Life will be uneasy and he hindred in his Preferment according to his Capacity Aged 19 years and 6 months the Moon to the Trine of Venus and Sol ad Tr. Jovis this gives a healthy Constitution all things go easy and pleasant and some Preferment seems to offer it self Aged 20 years and 6 months the Ascendent comes to the Body of Mars this will give a Fit of Sickness and a ruggedness in his Affairs his Friends seem to be but indifferent in his Interest and all things for a short time go but untoward Aged 22 years the Moon comes to the Mundane Parallel of Jupiter and the Part of Fortune to the Trine of Mars he grows vigorous in his Health new Friends appear with Interest and Preferment and perhaps some attempt at Marriage Aged 24 years the Moon to the Parallel of Mars about this time he wâ—ll be subject to a feverish Hâ—bit and a Sâ—rfeit but a fit of illness will happen with a little Trouble or Disappointment in his affairs and I do think he will keep some wild Company under the Influence of this Direction Aged 25 years the Midheaven to the Sextile of Jupiter this Direction will certainly introduce the Native into the Acquâ—intance of new and honourable Friends by
a Nativity given me for Mahomet the Impostor April the 5th at Noon Anno Christi 569. the Planets places to that time are as followeth ♄ 7 59 ♎ ♀ 20 8 ♈ ♃ 26 10 ♌ ☿ 12 29 ♊ ♂ 21 1 ♊ ☽ 1 54 â™’ ☉ 6 2 ♉     ♄ 2 44 No. ♀ 1 3 So. ♃ 1 20 No. ☿ 0 26 No. ♂ 1 21 No. ☽ 4 19 So. If any man thinks he can make any thing of it or look on it as a Curiosity let him try his Skill for my part it cannot sink into my head that it is possible to be true or that he himself knew when he was born his Parents being obscure People and he sent abroad young as we may judge by the Craft he had learned However this is certain that he was but an obscure fellow before he fell upon this Crafty Design of Religion-making and though the proof of its falsity is not plain yet you may enter this also into the Catalogue of doubtful Nativities which is all one Gâ—â—orge Trapezontius is said by Garcaeus and Origanus to be born April the 4th 1396. but by Gadbury April the 24th and by Gauricus April the 4th 1395. so that here is a whole Year's difference and dispute in the matter and this from two great Men Gauricus and Origanus how they came by this Nativity I know not but I do observe that Junctine agrees with Origanus and Garcaeus Origanus and after him J. Gadbury tells us that Regiomontanus was born June the 6th ho. 4. min. 40. P. M. 1536. But Gassendus in his Life Junctine Gauricus Garcaeus and Cardan all say he was born in 1436. in June as aforesaid You see the difference is no great matter but a hundred years I am afraid my old Friend J. G. and Origanus are both out of the way and ought to be corrected and not the others because I find in Alstedius's Thes. Chro. pag. 484. that Regiomontanus was famous about the Year 1470. and as I remember he lived but forty odd years Rantzovius says he died when he was almost 42 years of Age as quoted by J. G. Gauricus says he died when he was 51 years 5 months and about 12 days old of a Pestilential Fever in the Hâ—â—spital of the Holy Ghost at Rome And yet Helvicus in his Chronology tells us he died Anno 1483. which if his Nativity is true makes him 47 at his death being 5 years more than the Age Rantzovius allows and four less than Gauricus affirms he was Thus you see how they differ about this Great Man's Death as well as his Birth and indeed you may guess at one by the other and though you call him Regiomontanus that was not his true name but from the Country where he was born which was Franconia a little Eastward from the Rhine and Northward from Constance a Hilly Mountainous Country sometimes called Mons Regius from thence Johannes de Monte Regio or de Regio-Monte which you will and his true Name says Gassendus in his Life was Johannes Mullerus Gauricus tells us Martin Luther was born Anno 1484. the 22d of October at 1 ho. 10 min. P. M. but Cardan says it was the same day at 10 ho. P. M. and after all this Garcaeus says he was born Novemb. 10. at Eleven of the Clock at Night 1483. so we have our Choice which Year and which time of the Day or Night we think most probable And yet every one that hath printed this Great Man's Nativity have believed themselves in the right and could without doubt have proved each of them true by the concurrence of Accidents and Directions But be it how it will we may justly rank this among the rest of the very doubtful Nativities One makes him born by Day and gives him Capricorn ascending as Gauricus another by Night as Cardan and gives Leo ascending Cardan Gauricus Garcaeus and Origanus all of them tell us that Erasmus Roterdamus was born the 28th of October Anno 1467. with Libra ascending But if you look into his Life printed before his Colloquies the Author of that tells you he was born the 5th of the Calends of November which is the 28th of October Anno 1465. differing two years in his Birth from Cardan Gauricus c. but if you look into his Life printed at the end of his Colloquies Anno 1643. he tells us de anno quo Natus est apud Batavos non Constat Thus the four Authors are positive to 1467. The second Account is that he was born two years sooner and the third says that the Dutchmen themselves do not know the year when he was born and therefore may well pass for a doubtful Nativity And as they differ in his Birth so they differ in his Death also Gauricus says he lived 63 years and 11 months wanting 6 days Cardan says he lived to 70 years of Age and the Author of his Life says he lived 70 years 8 months and 15 days and died the fifth of the Ides of July 1536. which if true then he must be born in 1475. and the four first Authors mentioned are all in the wrong and his Nativity unknown to this day They are also divided in their Opinions about the Birth of Pope Leo the Tenth though they all agree in this That he ought to have a Nativity and they agree to make him one but they cannot agree upon the day For Garcaeus Gauricus and Junctine make him to be born at Sun-rising on the 11th of December 1475. but Cardan says he was born December the 9th at Sun-rising which will cause great alteration in the Moon 's place and something in all the Planets besides and therefore uncertain They are as much in confusion about the Birth and Nativity of Nicholas Copernicus as any of the rest for Junctine says he was born January 19. hor. 4. min 48. P. M. 1472. But Moestlinus as quoted by Gassendus says he was born February 19. hor. 4. min. 48. P. M. 1473. and after all Garcaeus tells you he was born on the 10th of February 1473. such is the variation and uncertainty of Nativities brought to prove the truth of the Art and its Rules It will not be improper in my Opinion to give you a short Account how they have managed Picus Mirandula's Nativity among the rest Junctine tells us he was born Febr. 24. 1463. at 2 h. 42 min. P. M. and so says Cardan Garcaeus and Lindbout say he was born 2 h. 42 min. ante occasum solis My Friend J. Gad. says it was 2 h. 42 min. post occasum solis and indeed in this I believe he is true But he is horribly out in the Year for he says he was born in 1464. which is false for Mars was the 24th of February that Year in 17 degrees of Aries but in the Year before on that day he was as they print him in about 13 degrees of Scorpio Had it been proper in this place I would have shewed you the
examined The Nativities and Practice of Morinus in his Astrologia Gallica HAving Read and Considered those Nativities Printed by Morinus in his Astrologia Gallica I began to observe his Reasons for Death and other Accidents in several of those Genitures and compare them one with another which I found not to be agreeable to Reason nor Truth no nor to the old Rules laid down by Ptolomy which have been owned by all the great men that ever yet lived well-wishers or Professors of this Art and having satisfied my self that they are not true in themselves nor do they agree one with another I think it my Duty to give the World my Opinion in the matter and leave it to the Judgment of those that are better Read and Masters of more Experience than my self in things of this nature assuring my self there will be a time when this Doctrine I lay down will be embraced and believed which at present I do despair of because those that have for a long time gone on in an Erroneous Practice think themselves now too old to learn any thing that thwarts their Practice and also too proud to be taught However I humbly submit my Opinion and Judgment to the Learned and shall take it as a Kindness to be instructed by any one that will make his Doctrine Universal and his Principles agree I did not fall upon this Subject in general and more particularly on this of Morinus out of any Disrespect to him or that I think my self a competent Judge of the subject-matter of his Book in general But this part of Astrology having been my Study for many Years I did think it might be no Injury done to that Learned Author nor Offence to the present Reader to give my Opinion on the Operations and Judgments on those Nativities he hath Printed and the rather because I intend it with all Tenderness and Respect to the one and Submission to the other I do acknowledge Morinus to have been an admirable Grammarian a most excellent Philosopher and Physician a good Mathmatician besides a sufficient Judge of all Universal Learning whose Parts and Proficiency therein I dare not pretend to and the more I read him the more I see my own Deficiency in Point of Comparison with him And yet for all this Bernardus non vidit omnia the little Hare you see hath a particular Faculty in Hearing and Running which the mighty Elephant cannot pretend to and yet the Faculties of the Elephant no ways impaired by that By the same Rule I may be allowed to have Skill in something though not an Universal Philosopher and all I beg of the Reader is To believe I intend and mean well and that I understand something of what I here pretend to And for that Learned Author were he now living I am certain he would be pleased with the Attempt rather than affronted at what is done And so I come to the matter it self The First Nativity that Morinus brings is that of Zaga-Christi a Prince of the Abyssines born at Corcora in Africa under the North Elevation of the Pole 6 degrees and this is to prove that the Stars have the same Influence in those Parts that they have in these more Northern And because of the Rarity of the Case I will give you the Scheme to his time but my Division of the Heavens and the Planets Places he says are from the Rudolph Tables The Time of his Birth was September 1st hor. 8. min. 10. Post Merid. 1614. This Prince says Morinus was driven out of his Country by his Uncle travelled through many Countries and suffered under divers Misfortunes and at last arrived in France and was there acquainted with the whole Court. At last he says he fell into Want and Poverty and being overprest with Discontent and Grief he dyed at Ruellus the 21st of April 1638. N. B. Poor Zaga a Banished Prince starved in France It seems the French were not arrived then to that Perfection to relieve and support every Banished Prince there is a great deal of difference between Zaga and James and I suppose you judge the Reason of it What the estimate Time was he hath not told us nor what Ground he had to Correct it by I know not But am partly sure the Time given was not to Ten minutes But I suppose he Corrected it by the Accident of Death and the Direction he says he dyed on and that is the Ascendent to the Square of the Moon But what time he left his own Country or what Direction gave that Accident he hath not told us but I do suppose it was upon the Sun to the Square of Mars at about Nineteen Years of Age or perhaps Twenty But what other Accidents he had we have no account of them and so I come to the matter in hand and what I have to observe on this Prince's Nativity The Direction that Morine allows for his Death you have heard was the Ascendent to the Square of the Moon and this only a single Direction and the Moon no ways Malefick unless you allow the Trine of Saturn to afflict her together with the Sextile of Mercury which if I should grant yet there is but one single Direction to give that fatal effect which in my Practice I cannot allow And though Saturn may be judged to afflict the Ascendent yet both Jupiter and Venus do behold the Ascendent likewise and therefore cannot be supposed to be so weak a Nativity as to yield to that one Direction in point of Death And therefore let us compare this First with Cardan's Nativity printed by this Author pag. 396. In that Scheme we find the Moon in Pisces in exact Square to Mars on the Cusp of the Second and yet when the Ascendent came to the Square of the Moon and Body of Mars they both together did not kill that Excellent Physician and Philosopher notwithstanding the Horoscope was also Giver of Life as it is in this of Zaga's Though it did give him a long and terrible Disease as Morinus also observes but more of this Nativity when I come to consider it Secondly In his own Nativity page 397. Astr. Gall. where the Ascendent is also Giver of Life there the Ascendent to the Square of the Moon did not kill neither although she was in Conjunction with Saturn in the Twelfth House Nay I do not find among all the Directions and the Accidents corresponding thereto given by himself pag. 648 and 649. Ejusdem Libri that he hath so much as taken notice of that Direction of the Ascendent to the Square of the Moon or allowed any Accident for it which very Direction he here tells the World killed poor Zaga Now do you think That the Moon in Zaga's Nativity is more Malignant and by that means hath more Power to kill by being in Trine with Saturn than she hath in Morine's Nativity by being in Conjunction with him and this in the Twelfth House too Truly those Astrologers that will
Elevation and Sleswick in particular So that I judge that 51 should have been 55 or 56 unless he was born in his Mother's Country at Berlin in the Dukedom of Brandenburg which I do not think he was And therefore I will conclude him born under the Pole 55 degrees 43 minutes He was first Bishop of Bremen elected King of Denmark and Norway in 1648. was block'd up in his City of Copenhagen in the year 1659. by the Swedes and he dyed February 9th 1670. This NatIvity we are told hath not its fellow among the most Illustrious Genitures and for that Reason I think it worth my Consideration and Pains How this Gentleman did get this Nativity I know not and if I ask it will be to no purpose The principal thing that this Author values himself upon in this Nativity is His Prediction from the Scheme and Directions when the King was a Prisoner in Copenhagen that he should again recover his Liberty his Kingdom and his former Honour but if he had given me the Reason for his Prediction I should have been better satisfied in the point for one would think Saturn in the Seventh and the Moon Lady of the Twelfth in the Sixth in Square to the Sun Lord of his Ascendent in the Tenth and Venus oppressed by Mars and Jupiter by Saturn were but cold Encouragements for such an Adventure notwithstanding the Sun was in the Tenth which I know he did depend on Now the first Query that I make upon these Directions of the Midheaven and Sun to the Body of Mars which he says gave those Mischiefs and perhaps they might do it is why should we believe or how could he by his own Rules that these Directions would terminate in Liberty and not in Death For First in Charles Gustavus's case he tells us â—e dyed on the Mid-heaven to the Body of Saturn and his Nativity no more violent than this is there was only one Aphetick Point afflicted by a single Direction and yet that kill'd Here is two and yet this could not do it notwithstanding Mars was with the Pleiades Secondly in the Earl of Strafford there he makes the Midheaven to the Body of Saturn likewise kill and this by Beheading but here the Sun and Midheaven to the Body of Mars go off and give only loss of Liberty and Honour Thirdly Why the Midheaven to the Opposition of Mars should kill the Earl of Essex pag. 45. and the Body not kill this Prince Indeed it is strange to me that he or any man else should think this Doctrine is possible to be received by any man that will not betray his Reason And the same Cant passeth still Fourthly Why should we believe this could give him Troubles and Confinement when the Midheaven to the Body of Mars married the Princess Royal of England page 20 Why should not Mars in this King's Geniture and on this Direction give Honour and Fame because Lord of the Tenth as well as give Marriage in that Lady's because Lord of the Seventh Fifthly Why should we believe the Midheaven to the Body of Mars should give this Prince any Mischiefs at all when we find that Sir T. Mayern had it and gave him nothing at all Now what shall we say to these Contradictions And who is able to reconcile them For my part I cannot nor do I think the Author of them able to do it These are but a few of this kind I could give you many more and perhaps I may so before I conclude Now upon the whole we may conclude That the Midheaven to the Body of Mars by common Practice gives a King Confinement in his chiefest City gives a Princess Marriage gives an Earl Death by being beheaded gives a Bishop Imprisonment and gives a Doctor of Physick nothing at all Well but these things were written and done while this Prince lived and he doth not tell us one Word what he thinks did â—ill him for he lived above 10 years after these Misfortunes and dyed February the 9th 1670. being then almost 61 years of age I doubt this will prove an ugly knotty odd sort of a business to find out a cause for his Death that may agree with these Directions and Figure corrected and confirmed by them and prove satisfactory to the intelligent Reader and to tell you the Truth it makes me Shrug for I am not over-fond of the work whatever you think on it but it must be done and therefore let us to it You know it is their method when a man is dead and they are to sâ—ek a Cause for Death any of the Five Hilegicals serve and an indifferent Direction will do for the most part and I will pursue their own Doctrine in their own way for I know what they can do and say in such cases as these are And to this end we must certainly allow this Scheme without alteration or else all the fine things said by our Author on those Directions of the Midheaven are out of Doors and of no effect I will begin with the Sun The Sun we find on the Midheaven and therefore is to be directed by the Right Ascention and by that motion I find the Sun is got into 9 degrees of Gemini by Direction at the time of his Death to his own Sextile a year and two months past to the Bull 's Eye 3 year past and to the Trine of Saturn wanting eight months What a plaguy thing this is to be so near and neither of them hit exactly had the Aldebaran but hit we would have depended on that and the Sextile of the Sun The Midheaven is got into 8 degrees of Gemini and just past the Sextile of the Sun shall we dâ—pend on that No I doubt we shall not make that pass We 'll go on The Ascendent is by the Oblique Ascention got into 15 degrees of Virgo and there we find the Lioâ—'s Tail shall we depend on that No no they will not believe it and besides that Star riseth with the beginning of Virgo The Pole of the Moon is about 53 and under that Pole she is by Direction got into 21 degrees odd minutes of Aquary just past the Square of Venus Lady of the Fourth Sure that will do or else the Devil is in 'em what believe nothing No no it is too far past a year and a half else it would have done bravely Why then we are undone if the Part of Fortune doth not help us out The Pole of the Part of Fortune as they say is about 25 degrees it s O. A. under that Pole is 24 degrees 22 minutes O. A. of the Opposition of the Moon sine Lat. 84 degrees 32 minutes Ark of Direction 60 degrees 10 minutes which by Nâ—ibod gives almost 61 years Sure this will do without dispute Ay ay this is as clear as the Sun and therefore now let us agree and settle the point The Sun to his own Sextile began his Disease the Part of Fortune to the Opposition of
impossible to keep Death out of Doors let the Alchocoden be never so strong and 40 Years of its number to come On the contrary let the giver of Years be never so weak and a continued Series of good Directions to the Hileg succeed one another for some Years and no Doubt but that Native shall live though the Alchocoden hath been expired Twenty Years And yet after all I know there are some Nativities that are naturally stronger and more vital than others but it is from another Cause and Principle than this foolish and imaginary Whim And yet I do not doubt but in some Nativities it may nearly comply with what they pretend to but where it doth once it falls ten times and then where is your Rule CHAP. VIII Of the Almuten c. OUR Authors have made a great Bustle about this that they call Almuten it is an old Arabian Word and signities as much as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Greek that is Lord And indeed the Word in it self is well enough so long as it is used for the Lord of a House the Lord of a Sign c. But when they come to talk of the Lord or Almuten of a Nativity and that he shall signifie every thing as Stature Temperature Riches Preferment as you may see Doctr. Nativ pag. 92. where you are taught how to take it there I must leave them Now this Almuten is that Planet who is strongest both in Essential and Accidental Dignities as they say and according to their Method laid down both to examine and judge of its Fortitude And when they have done all I count no Planets strong but those that are Angular either in the Signs or in the Houses or both and they indeed are the true Lords of the Nativity and by whose Nature and Quality the Native shall be sway'd in his Inclinations and Passions c. And in this way of Judgment the Houses next in Power to the Angles are the Fifth and Ninth Houses The reason of that in Nature shall be taught another time and in another Treatise more proper than here But if you consider Naibod in Alcabitium he gives order to find this Almuten quite contrary to these already mentioned for he says it is that Planet that hath most Dignities in the Places of the Sun Moon Ascendent Part of Fortune and the Preventional New or Full Moon Which Doctrine is indeed laid down by Alcabitius himself however they came to pervert the Arabian Text for it came originally from that Author who doth indeed go further than all this with it For he makes it a great Significator of Life in which he makes it a Partner with the Hileg and Alchocoden his Words are these Aâ—muten est qui praeest Nativitati ab eo significatur esse nâ—ti pâ—st Hâ—lech Alchocoden Now after all I can see no ground for its Power Use oâ— Election and that it is no more but an Arabian Whim of the same Stamp with the Alchocoden and serves rather to puzzle the Cause than to inform the Understanding of any man for it is indeed the only Mischief that attends the young and perhaps some of the old too Students in this Art That they have such a cluster of Causes and such a Cloud of Circumstances to consider in every Case that it confounds them in considering and betrays their Judgment into Error when if their Causes were fewer and their Rules in Judgment more concise they would sooner arrive to a degree of Perfection and the Artist from being a good Guesser as Mr. Mutable has it would be thought half a Prophet or at least-ways one of the Prophetical Tribe In a Word seeing there is no Authority for it but Tradition nor no use for it but to create Labour I do not think it worth while to insist longer on a Subject void of all Advantage But they that are disposed to read more of it may have recouse to Alcabitius Differen Quarto cap. 5. Naibod in Alcabitium pag. 381. Julius Firmicus lib. 4 cap. 12. Origanus de Effectibus pag. 556. And all our English Writers in general that have writ of Nativities especially Mr. Lilly in his Introduction page 531. And so I come to say something to the Lord of the Orb the Chronocrators and the Alfridaries in which I shall be short CHAP. IX Of the Alfrydaries Chronocrators Lord of the Orb and the Division and Divisor c. PErhaps it may be said That seeing these are not Printed by our English Authors I have no need to mention them in this Treatise To which I answer I am led directly to what I intend because a certain Innovator tam Fide quam Arte among us did in an Almanack Anno 1693. tell the World That some died on Transits some on Eclipses some on Revolutions others on Profections and some on evil Alfrydaries some on the Combustion of the Ascendent or his Lord with sundry other Causes By this Word Causes you may observe he allows any one of these to be a Cause sufficient for Death I commend him he will have Strings enough to his Bow and the Devil is in 't if some one of them will not do but I dare him to prove what he hath so confidently asserted and to take a Nativity of one that is living and tell us which of all these his Causes that Native shall expire by and when he hath done settle it for a Standing Rule But to my Work in hand The Lords of the Alfrydaries are imaginary Lords and Dispositors of a number of Years appointed to every Planet so that the Seven Planets with the Head and Tail of the Dragon taking this Government successively one after another the whole number of Years will amount to 75 And in a Diurnâ—l Geniture they begin with the Sun in a Nocturnal with the Moon Their Years are as followeth ☉ 10 Years ♀ 8 Years ☿ 13 Years ☽ 9 Years ♄ 11 Years ♃ 12 Years ♂ 7 Years ☊ 3 Years ☋ 2 Years So that if the Birth is by Day the Sun rules the first 10 Years then begins Venus and she rules the next 8 then Mercury begins and he rules the next 13 and so on to the Moon Saturn and the rest But if the Birth were Nocturnal then the Moon governs the first 9 Years Saturn then begins and rules the next 11 then begins Jupiter and he rules the next 12 and so on to the End And this is the Method of the Alfrydaries and their Lords of which you may see more in Alcabitius and what their Effects are see in Schoner They have brought this Doctrine of the Alfrydaries into such a sort of Method as Ptolomy describes in his last Chapter of his Fourth Book called De Tempor Divisione But they differ from him both in the Number of Years they attribute to every Planet and in the Use of them as to Judgment in and on Nativities For in my Opinion it will make Astrology and its Rules very doubtful
the Square of the Sun kill'd him is such a rugged sort of a Doctrine not like the Polite Morinus in his other Learning and therefore I cannot allow the former to be the cause of his Grandeur because the latter I am sure is false and by my Correction he was preferred on the Moon to the Trine of Mars in Zodiaco His Marriage need make no Controversy for it was about a year after his Preferment and therefore the same Directions may serve But if you will have a Direction for it take the Midheaven to the Body of the Sun Morinus and I do both agree on the cause of his being turn'd out of his Places and the Court favour for it was most certainly on the Sun to the Square of Mars in Zodiaco But that about his death in 1642. December the 8th I can by no means comply with when he says the Ascendent to the Square of the Sun â—ill'd him First it is not possible to do it for when both the Luminaries are above the Earth in Aphaetical places the Ascendent cannot kill though it were directed to 20 Maleâ—ick Directions at once And furthermore the Ascendent to the true Square of the Sun came up at about 42 Years of Age. Secondly It is not like an Artist to say so but like a Mountebank in Astrology and whensoever I hear any man render such a reason as this is for death let him be never so famous an Artist I am sure he knows but little of the thing he pretends to and I can mumble him at my pleasure Nay I will go further with you There is not a man in England that follows Morine's Method that dares venture his Name in Publick to a Prediction of this kind and I dare venture a Wager Morinus was not positive that this Direction kill'd him or would do it till he was in his Grave I say it is not like an Artist for every man that understands his Profession will build his skill on such Principles that are agreeable one to another and will seldom fail if but carefully observed and managed In this Nativity both the Luminaries are in Aphaeâ—ical places but the Sun claims the power of Hileg as his due and yet this Learned man tells us he died on the Ascendent to the Square of the Sun which notion tells us that he did not build upon a fixt Principle For in Hemmenga's Franciscus de Bonne's and his own Nativity that Direction did not kill nor doth he take any notice of it to do any harm then pray What must the considerate Reader think of it in this Case Why truly he must think it is a point strain'd not to say any worse of it Now to sum up all I do say he died on the Sun to the Mundane parallel of the Moon and she radically imbuted by the Rays of Mars by being in a Mundane parallel with him the Moon to the Square of Saturn in Mundo the Moon to the Square of Mars in Zodiaco and the Sun to the Square of Mars in Mundo and then the Calculation stands thus  d m y mon  Luna ad â–³ ♂ in Zodiaco 36 14 40 6 1617 M. C. ad Corpus ☉ 38 00 42 2 1618 Luna ad parall ♃ Mundo d. d. 42 2 46 4 1623 Sol ad â–¡ ♂ in Zodiaco 45 5 49 7 1626 Luna ad â–¡ probâ—â—n 60 00 65 1 1641 Sol ad parall ☽ Mundo d. d. 60 26 65 5 1641 Luna ad â–¡ ♄ in Mundo d. d. 63 00 68 0  Luna ad â–¡ ♂ in Zodiaco 64 51    ☉ ad â–¡ ♂ in Mundo d. d. 67 34    At the time of Death the Sun who is Hileg is arrived by hiâ— Directional Motion to the 4th degree of Scorpio and is there void of all relief that can succour much less save life And the Moon at the same time directed to her own Square and this followed immediately by a Mundâ—ne quare of Saturn as you may see by the Table And these Directions I take to be very rational Causes for such an Effect as followed and such Causes that I or any man else may venture his reputation upon and come off â—â—ch Credit and all this is done by a Figure that doth not â—â—â—ser from Mâ—rinus any more than one degree and a few minutes in the Ascendent and a little more than two in the â—â—â—heaven His Time is at 19 minutâ—s past 9 in the Morning and mine 〈◊〉 at 28 minutes paâ—t 9 mane so that we differ in time but 9 minutes which may be allowed and I believe will too by my rankest Anâ—agonist and the right Ascention of my Midheaven is 122. 20. and that will lead you to all the rest of the Figure Object But perhaps it may be Objected That my Direction of the Sun to the Mundane parallel of the Moon falls short almost a whole Year of the time of his death For the Direction gives but 65 and 5 months and he lived till he was 66 and 3 months Answer Morinus tells you That his Disease began the Year before and was a double Tertian which afterward did change to a Quartan which is naturally seen in that Direction of the Moon to Saturn A Quartan you know is a Chronick Disease and so his was for it held him a year almost and besides if you understand the Directions they kill certain but not quick as Saturn doth naturally shew in all cases where he is concerned and after all this is said the time is so near the truth that if you will but allow an alteration of almost one minute sooner it will hit the time exactly And for all those that are captiously concerned in this point and have an ill Opinion of it I desire them to oblige the World with something of their own better done than this is and the main thing I desire is to see it I am now come to the last of his Nativities and that is the Figure and Birth of Charles Condren whom Morine calls his Pater Beatus He was a Jesuit and General of that Order in France He was born the 16 of December at 39 minutes past 6 of the Clock in the morning 1588. Latitude of 49. the Planets from the Rudolph Tables the Figure followeth Anno 1608. he resolved to lead a Religious Life at which time Jupiter Lord of the Ascendent was directed to the Body of Mars at another time he would have said that should give imprisonment because Mars is Lord of the Twelfth and the Mid-heaven to the Sextile of the Sun As to this last Direction it did not come up till almost 40. and for the first it was more likely to give Debauchery than Piety But the true Direction I do believe was the prospect he had of some fat Church Preferment Anno 1612. he entered into Holy Orders as they call it and this Devotion saith Morine was raised by the Sun directed to the Trine of Jupiter but yet he
of Parma was born the 28th of April at 17 minutes past 3 manè 1612. sub Polo 48. This Prince dyed September the 11th anno 1646. being very fat and corpulent And it was his Misfortune to dye on the Ascendent directed to the Pleiades notwithstanding the Moon is Hileg Here you may see he hath broken his own Rule for he kills the Duke of Mantua just now mentioned with the Ascendent to the Body of the Sun and yet here you see it hath not Power to kill the Duke of Parma Do you think this is not very fine Astrology and fit to be believed Yes certainly by those that have forfeited their Reason and by no body else See the Scheme Thus you see the wonderful Ascendent doth every thing and so it will do till some witty Heliocentrick man can contrive a Scheme of Heaven without a Horoscope and then they will be all at a loss if not undone I really think among all the Nativities this Author hath given us which are 117 he makes at least three fourths of them dye on Directions to the Ascendent Why should we not as well believe the Sun to the Square of Mars Lord of the Eighth in Conjunction with Saturn was as likely to kill him as the Ascendent to the Pleiadâ—s I must needs say it seems to me one of the most improbable Directions to give Death that ever â— heard assigned by so learned a man as our Author was to let him outlive the Sun to the Square of Mars and Saturn and the Ascendent to the Body of Mercury and the Sun and every one of them Lords of obscure Houses and at last kill him with a little paltry Star of the Third Magnitude methinks it is below a Philosopher to give such a Reason and too contemptible a thing for a Prince to sall by Again can any man believe this to be his true Nativity when he tells us of his Corpulency and Fatness and yet placeth Mars and Saturn on the Ascendent It is not likely they should make a man corpulent they commonly make peevish morose uneasy people and I believe you will conclude with me That they are seldom fat and I think I may say never to excess Upon the whole matter I am certain this Scheme is not true nor am I able to say what Figure is true but with a little alteration I think the Moon being Hileg comes to the mundane Parallel of the Sun and might kill being succeeded by the Squares of Saturn and Mars in the Zodiack but if the Ascendent by Direction could have killed at any time he had never outliv'd the Body of the Sun Argoll says Bernardus Duke of Veimar was born August the 16th 8 min. past 10 of the Clock before Noon 1604. sub Polo 51. as you may see by the Scheme it self This Prince going from Basil to a Fortress not far distant on the 15th day of July 1639. perceived himself to be ill and therefore hastned to Naumburg where he died on the 18th of the same month and being opened the Physicians found his Liver and Spleen hard and his Lungs corrupted which they attributed to his constant Labour of Body and Anxiety of Mind For his Death Argol says he had the Ascendent directed to the Body of Mars and yet both Sun and Moon in Aphetical places Thus you see according to Custom he was sent out of the world by the power of the Ascendent which had no power at all to kill if you will know the truth of it You may be certain the Time was not given to 8 minutes but either at 10 or half an hour after it and that he did alter the time to make the Ascendent come to the Body of Mars for his Death And you may be sure that this was done after he was in his Grave for if the Prediction for his Death had been made while he was living they would have been in a sad confusion what to have judged able and willing to kill him for there are divers Candidates stand fair for the Election according to their Rules as you may see by examining the Scheme Why should not the Sun to the Square of Saturn and Jupiter or the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Moon or the Moon to the Square of the Sun in the Eighth House or to the Opposition of Saturn there also I say Why should not some of these have been as likely to kill as the Ascendent to the Body of Mars Nay I can assure you if the Ascendent to that Direction had power to take away Life he had never lived so long for the Opposition of the Moon had done the business 7 years before In the next place consider how many he lets out live the Ascendent to the Body of Saturn and Mars and not kill this you may see in the Nativities of Sixtus Quintus Urban VII Urban VIII Clement VIII all Popes but in the last of them it was the Opposition of Mars which I do esteem equally violent with the Body Nay in that of Cardinal Columna he had the Ascendent to the Bodies of Saturn and Mars together almost and yet both their Force had not power to kill him What do you think of these things Was not this Duke 's a very hard Case to be sent out of the world by that which would kill no body else Let not this be told to the Unbelievers lest they laugh you to scorn and set your Stars in derision But perhaps you will now ask me What I think killed him since I refuse to believe what he says did it And I care not much if I comply with your expectations though I dare not be positive because I know not the estimate time but believe it to be later than this printed and the Right Ascention of the Midheaven in my Correction is 121 degrees 41 minutes and the Sun beyond all doubt giver of Life and so he would be if the Time were an hour sooner or 3 hours later and therefore I will endeavour to correct according to my Sentiments and Opinion and leave other men to the Enjoyment of their own desiring them to make me happy in the sight of a better Correction than I give them The Directions that I conclude kill'd him were the Sun directed to the Mundane Parallel of Mercury Direct and Convers and this followed by the Mundane Square of Saturn and I really think that these Directions are both suitable and probable to produce such Distempers whereof this Duke dyed I am sure more likely than the Body of Mars by far and the Operations for them are thus The distance of Mercury from the Tenth House is 6 degrees 22 minutes the distance of the Sun 24 degrees 5 minutes the proportional distance to be added to Mercury's distance is 25 degrees 28 minutes which gives the Ark of Direction of the Sun to the Parallel of Mercury d. d. 31 degrees 50 minutes which turned into time gives almost 35 years and so long this
and Terms of Mars but the Square of Jupiter following he recover'd his Health Anno 1616. On the 26th of May he dyed on the Ascendent to the Opposition of Mars the violent Star in the South Balance and Square of Mercury Occidental and Malefick And I should have told you That in the years 1603 and 1604. he received great Obligations of Favour and Dignity and was at last made a Cardinal on the Midheaven to the Body of Jupiter In the Scheme he sets we find almost 28 degrees of Virgo Ascending and the Moon in the Ascendent in 4 degrees 37 minutes of Libra she Light of the Time and certainly giver of Life and must be directed for Death and not the Ascendent Can any man imagine that the Moon directed to the Opposition of Mars and Square of Mercury c. was not as likely to kill as the Ascendent to those Beams of Mars and Mercury Besides if you please to look into other Nativities that passed through his hands you will find he lets the Ascendent pass more destructive Rays and never kill For example in Cardinal Sabellus his Nativity he lets him pass the Ascendent to the Opposition of Mars Square of Saturn and Body of the Moon and live Twenty years after it and all these three Directions came up at the same time and were three as violent ones as could be and to make them the more dangerous Mars was Lordof the Eighth House and in it and Saturn Lord of the Fourth Which are mighty Arguments of Death and Danger according to his Hypothesis and way of practice In the Nativity of Cardinal Caesarinus he lets him pass the Ascendent to the Square of the Sun Squâ—re of Mercury and Square of Saturn and live twenty years after them Likewise in Cardinal Lenius he lets him pass the Ascendent to the Bodies of both Sun and Moon and Opposition of Saturn and no Injury to his Life The like in Paulus Burghesius Paul the V s Nephew and abundance more if you will take the trouble to examine them By which it appears he hath no â—ixt Rule to walk by in the case of Deâ—th but rambles from one thing to another according as it suits his Judgment when the man is in his Grave Nor is it reasonable to believe that the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn as they call it should give such dangerous Diseases as he says it did and the Moon to the Opposition of Mars give nothing for he takes no notice of any effect it had among those Accidents and Directions he mentions And yet in the Nativity of Didacus Herraera the Moon to the Square of Mars he says is mortal with a little help of the Sun to the Ascendent And in the Nativity of Cardinal Simoncellus the Moon to the Antiscion of Saturn is made use of to kill and yet under the Earth in the Third House Any Tooth good Barber Now I will give you my Opinion in the Correction of this Nativity and keep strictly to my Rule of giver of Life and the measure of Time too nor will I differ much from Argoll's Figure only 4 degrees in the Ascendent and Midheaven and 22 minutes in time and then he dyed on the Moon directed to the Zodiacal Parallel of Saturn the Mundane Parallel of Mars and these followed by the Zodiacal Parallel of the Sun which the Moon meets in the 19th degree of Scorpio The Zodiacal Parallel of Saturn is thus the Pole of the Moon is 39 degrees her Oblique Ascention under that Pole is 187 degrees 33 minutes she meets Saturn's Parallel in 15 degrees 48 minutes of Scorpio with almost 4 degrees of South Latitude whose Oblique Ascention is 239 degres 35 minutes from whence substracting the Moon 's Oblique Ascention leaves the Ark of Direction 52 degrees 2 minutes This turned into Time gives 52 Years and 2 Months The Moon to the Mundane Parallel of Mars is thus Oblique Ascention of the Ascendent is 182 degrees 2 minutes the Oblique Ascention of the Moon is 187 degrees 52 minutes her distance 5 degrees 50 minutes the distance of Mars his Opposition 47 degrees 33 minutes to which adding the part proportional 4 degrees 41 minutes gives the Ark of Direction of the Moon to the Mundane Parallel of Mars Directione Directa 52 degrees 14 minutes which turned into Time gives 52 Years and 4 Months As to his Sickness in 1605. on the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn it is wholly false for that came up at 28 years of age and could indeed give little or nothing But the true cause of that was the Moon to the Opposition of Mars cum Lat. whose Ark of Direction is 41 degrees 3 minutes which gives in time 41 years almost and with it the Square of Mercury As to his Preferment I cannot deny the Midheaven to the Body of Jupiter to be a likely Direction to give Preferment but yet I do not think it was that did immediately precede his being made Cardinal nor do I think it did him any service at all considerable because the Body of Saturn went before it and the Opposition of Mercury followed it But the Direction that I think gave it was the Sun to the Sextile of Mercury in the Zodiack and Venus Lady of the Ascendent to the Sextile of Mars but that which I judge was most powerful were two good Revolutions 1603 and 1604. and excellent secondary Directions to assist them Those that will set the Figure I will here give them the Planets Places as followeth ♄ 0 6 ♌ 0 25 North. ♃ 4 6 ♌ 0 42  ♂ 8 20 ♉ 1 26  ♀ 28 37 ♑ 1 9 South ☿ 29 29 â™ 0 33  ☽ 4 37 ♎ 5 15  ☉ 23 54 ♑    ♌ 6 55 ♑    Michael Cardinalis Mazarinus was born says Argol the 28th day of August at 56 minutes past 7 of the Clock at Night 1605. Latitude of 42. That he was made a Cardinal by Pope Urban VIII on the 7th of October 1647. on the Part of Fortune to the Antiscion of Jupiter Lord of the Ninth and the Trine of Mars Lord of the Medium Coeli in the Terms of Venus That he dyed August the 31st in 1648. on the Ascendent directed to the Sextile of Mars and the Bull 's Eye The Occasion of it was thus As he was walking on August the 17th a Nail happened to run into his Foot which in the Night following put him into a Fever of which he dyed 16 days after How many Nativities shall we find in Argol's de Diebus Criticis that have passed the Ascendent to the Bull 's Eye nay to the Square and Opposition of Mars too and never dyed and yet here the Sextile of Mars does the business with the help of the Aldebaran A man would have thought that the Ascendent to the Square of Mars Lord of the Eighth or to the Square of the Sun and Mercury had been more like to have done the Old
the Moon and the Sun to the Trine of Satuâ—n killed him But now if any unlucky Rogue should ask the reason of his Death what shall we say Say Eâ—ter Mr Trâ—ublesom Well Gentlemen what do ye say what was it killed Frederick III Say Why we say he dyed on the Sun Giver of Life to his own Sextile and Trine of Saturn and Part of Fortune Hileg to the Opposition of the Moon Ha ha ha Pray Gentlemen speâ—k softly or else you 'l spoil Urania's Reputation Now these Directions you will find to be all they can sâ—v for this man's Death and is not this a parcel of miserable Stuff I should have been willing to have seen the estimate Time and then a man might have said something to the Correction of it but without that we are all in the dark And I do believe this Nativity of his to be true as certainly as I believe that of the Lord Strafford Charles Gustavus and the Princess Royal nor will I venture to correct it Charles Tortenson the Swedish General is by our Author said to dye on the Ascendent to the Opposition of Saturn and yet the Moon in the Seventh in Cancer and certainly Hileg if this is the true time of that man's Birth Besides he lets the Ascendent pass Four Directions one after another successively and two of them Lords of the Eighth House and 30 or 40 years after he kills him on the single Direction of Saturn's Opposition He lets Queen Elizabeth outlive the Ascendent to the Opposition of Saturn notwithstanding the Horoscope is Giver of Life And the Minister page 111. and Sir Robert Holburn and Mr. Hoâ—per the Merchant with divers others and why should this man be thought to dye on it when all these escape James Duke of Richmond and Lenâ—x dyed on the Ascendent to the Square of the Moon and Opposition of Jupiter if you will believe our Author and yet the Moon Hileg in the Midheaven And to add to his Skill in the matter he lets him pass the Ascendent to the Square of the Sun Loâ—d of the Eighth some time before which did not affect him as I can find The Lord Francis Villers is also said to dye on the Ascendent tothe Body of Mars when both the Moon and Part of Fortune are in Aphetical Places the one in the Tenth and the other in the Seventh The Ascendent to the Body of Mars did not kill Charles Tortenson nor the Queen of Hungary nor Charles Gustavus I. King of Sweden nor the Duke of Albemarle nor Dr. Gouge nor John Heydon nor Mr. Eastwood and a many more and therefore I cannot believe it in this Lord's case John Picus Earl of Mirandula is borrowed from Lyndhalt to shew the Power of the Stars and how exactly the Predictions of several Astrologers were verified in his Death who had strenuously wrote against Astrologers and the Verity of their Art On this man's Nativity many had spent their Judgment and all agreed that he could not live beyond the Ascendent to the Body of Mars at or about the Age of 33 years which happened near enough to prove their Pretences as he called them to the Power of the Stars For when he was 33 years of age he dyed as they all agree on the Ascendent directed to the Body of Mars and this as Sir Christopher Heydon well observes page 193. while he was wrangling and scolding against Astrology in general and the effects of Directions in particular It is most certain that he dyed on the Ascendent to the Body of Mars c. But whosoever runs away with this Notion and makes the same Prediction on the same Direction in another case may chance to see himself mistaken if he lives to the Time he appoints For I am able to shew you divers Nativities where the Ascendent is Hileg too and yet always the Ascendent to the Body of Mars doth not kill as you may see in Mr. Eastwood's Case page 170. if that is the true time of his Birth he out-lived the Ascendent to the Body of Saturn and Mars in Conjunction near the Pleiades But I something doubt the Truth of that Figure But I judge you all allow that an Opposition is nearly as dangerous as the Body if so then take Mr. Gadbury's own Nativity who did not dye on the Ascendent to the Opposition of Mars and yet the Ascendent Hileg There are divers things to be considered before you judge Death positive on such a Direction as they did in Picus's Case and I think I am also able to tell you when such a Direction will and when it will not kill a short Specimen of which I will here give you as an Example in this Nativity which was never mentioned before though it â—ath gone through such hands whose heads are far better furnished than mine is and first see the Figure Now according to the usual Doctrine Why should the Ascendent to the Body of Mars kill He is not Lord of the Fourth Sixth Eighth or Twelfth but in Trine to Venus Lady of the Ascendent and in Trine to the Sun Lord of the Eleventh in his own House in Scorpio and no ways qualified by the Common-Trade-Astrology to be a Murderer and yet for all this you see they predicted his Death upon it And you find he either out of Constraint or Complaisance dyed upon it And yet you may also see the Duke of Richmond did not dye upon the Ascendent to the Body of Mars nor on the Bodies of Mercury and Saturn that came up after it but when the Square of the Moon and Opposition of Jupiter came they did his business But in this Case of Picus Mirandula I dare engage where-ever you find the Ascendent directed to the Body of Mars with a Train of Directions attending it as this man had it shall always kill be the Nativity never so vital and strong See the Directions wrought  d. m. y. m.  Ascend ad â–¡ ♄ 30 2 33 00 1496. Ascend ad ◠♂ 32 55    Ascend ad â–¡ ☿ 34 35    Ascend ad ☠☽ 43 34    Now by this short Table you see there is a Train of Directions and not one good one to fall in either to deter their Force or break their Fury And it was not the Ascendent really to the Body of Mars but to the Square of Saturn came up first and yet I have not altered their Scheme a minute in Time yet I allow Mars to be the Poiothanatos We are told That Prince Maurice was cast away at Sea on the Ascendent directed to the Square of Saturn notwithstanding the Moon is Hileg in the Ninth and about that time by Direction comes to the Body of Venus in the Tenth This plaguy Ascendent kills more people than all the other Points of Heaven put together do by Direction and yet the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn did not kill in Francis Lâ—sdiguerius's Nativity though he was Lord of the
Eighth nor in Columna's page 63. nor in Bishop Hall's where he was Lord of the Sixth and Eighth Houses nor in Mr. Gataker's nor in Mr. John Bentham's and abundance more And why in this I am sure he hath no more Authority to kill here than he had in those Nativities and therefore suspiciously false I pass by above half a dozen Genitures chargeable to Origanus and Aâ—gol and come to the famous Duke of Buckingham p. 66. Where we are told That he dyed on the Ascendent to the Body of Mars and Venus in Virgo and this followed by the Square of Jupiter in Sagitary contrary to the Rules of Ptolemy and indeed to Experience also How they can think the Conjunction of Mars and Veâ—us should give a Stab I do not know 'T is true had it been by Poison there might have been some Pretence for it He lets Philip IV. of Spain out-live the Ascendent to the Body of the Moon and Saturn both Peregrine and Malesick and yet here he kills a man with a thing next to nothing I wish I could see them make their own Examples agree one with another In Ann Queen of Hungary Mars was in Square to Venus and yet the Ascendent to the Body of Mars and Square of Venus would not kill her though it came up young nor did the Body of Venus and Mars kill Charles Tortenson nor the Squares of Mars and Venus to the Ascendent kill the Duchess of Sfortia with a great many more And therefore I cannot believe what he says in this Duke's case Our Author says That James Duke Hamilton was beheaded on March the 9th on the Midheaven to the Opposition of Saturn and the Ascendent to his Square I remember Morinus is the Author of this Doctrine of killing People by Directions to the Midheaven if they dye a violent Death But if Mr. Gadbury or Morinus had been to predict this man's Death when he was living do you think they would have depended on these Directions of the Midheaven and Ascendent and have said he would dye violently I look on Jupiters Trine to the Sun to ballance Saturn's Square and the Moon in Sextile to Mercury Lord of the Ascendent and both free from Affliction to be a Ballance to Saturn and Mars being in the Fourth and besides the Sun and Moon are both in Aphetical Places and one of them must be directed for Death And that is the Sun in Cancer in the Tenth House in Trine to Jupiter and when the Sun is so qualified I see no Reason nor have they any Rule but what they imagine to direct the Ascendent and Midheaven for Death And to say the Truth I believe the Time is strained to make these Directions serve their turn without which they had nothing would do the Sun at that time being very near the Zodiacal Parallel of Venus and the Moon by their way of Direction not come to the Opposition of Mars so that this or nothing must do And I am sure this that he gives was not the true cause and therefore the Nativity doubtful And to shew you it is so look into Queen Mary's Nativity and you will find that she had the Midheaven to the Body and the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn near together and it did not touch her Life nor in the Duke of Albemarle the Midheaven to the Body of Saturn did not kill George Duke of Albemarle is said to be born December the 6th 9 minutes before noon 1608. in the Latitude of 51. and he dyed at Whitehall January the 4th 16 69 70 of a Dropsy as they say but I rather think a complication of Diseases being aged 6â— years and a month And I am afraid we shall be as bad plagu'd to find out something to kill him fairly and regularly as we were in the case of Frederick III. King of Denmark for the Sun is most certainly Giver of Life in the Figure our Author hath printed and all things both of Life and Fortune agreed mighty well till 1660. Now let us for a trial of Skill suppose this Gentleman to be living and any dextrous Artist that thinks himself a man of Skill take this Nativity and throughly consider it and upon a perfect and mature deliberation tell us upon what Direction he would predict this man's Death according to a method that may not only serve here but also hold in other men's Nativities with some kind of certainty for if you cannot pitch upon your Dirâ—ction now he is dead I am sure you cannot do it when one is living Perhaps when he was young you would have sworn that the Ascendent to the Body of Mars Lord of the Eighth and to the Square of the Sun Lord of the Sixth would without all doubt have killed him but that could not for the Sun is Hileg What is next Why if he lives to old age the Ascendent to the Cusp of the Fourth and Square of Mars Fie for shame do not talk of such stuff as this is at this time of day Tell me the truth of the matter without these shams and dancing from one point to another Why then in plain terms I cannot tell if I must stick to one Giver of Life and depend on that only it is not to be done say what you will unless you trump up some Parallel or such like Maggot which I do not nor never will believe while I breath Perhaps so I guess at their Capacity by their Answer I have heard tell of a Fool that his Nurse gave him a dish of Broth and it being too hot he scalded his Mouth with the first Spoonful upon which without enquiring further into the matter he throw'd away Dish and Pottage too and said He would never eat any more Broth so long as he lived Well but you say You know nothing to kill if the Hileg is to be sluck to Why then I will shew you some of my Skill in the point Supposing this to be a true Nativity or at leastwise within 10 or 15 minutes First then the Sun Hileg meets the Square of the Moon followed by the Body of Saturn this you would think a dangerous business but I do not think it so nor should if he were living because the Sun meets the Mundane Parallel of Venus within two degrees after the Moon 's Square and breaks the Train The Sun to the Body of Saturn could not kill because the Square of Jupiter falls at the heels of it see Ptolemy Nor could the Sun to the Mundane Parallel of Saturn kill because it came up just after Jupiter's Squâ—re Especially if the time be allowed to be about 6 or 8 minutes sooner Thus you see there is no Train of Directions to hit him nor is there any to come before the Sun reacheth the Body of Mars Next let us see when the Sun comes to the Cusp of the Seventh House Quadri Lib. 3. Cap. 14. Paragrap 2. and that we find comes up by making the time sooner by
Emperor nâ—r the Duke of Buckingham nor Parson Mackernes nor in Mr. John Gadbury's and many more in his Collection besides that have escaped it and therefore he should not have pressed it upon us here We are told by our Author That Sir Robert Holburn was born November the 16th hor. 2. min. 10. P. M. die Jâ—vis Anno 1598. Lat. 51. 32. And that his Nativity was elaborately done by Dr. Fisk his Friend and Tutor at the Knight's Request That he dyed in the 48th year currant of his age and this on the Sun directed to the Opposition of Jupiter in Capricorn You see the Scheme and the Reason he gives for his Death I wish he had also told us Whether Dr. Fisk did predict his Death from that Direction or whether our Author did not make it himself after this Gentleman was in his Grave If Dr. Fisk did predict his Death at that time on that Direction it was a happy Hit of Fate and more by Chance than Skill for Jupiter did never before that time kill any one and therefore a bold Venture But I am of Opinion that it was made when he was dead and it seems to be of the same sort that our Author hath furnished us with before and from the same hand And the rather because he adds If any ask Why the Square of Saturn might not kill as well as Jupiter's Opposition I answer He had no Dignities in the Eighth or Fourth and so had Jupiter in both Now I am answered and perfectly satisfied The truth is the Moon is Hileg and she and none but she must be directed for Death and I doubt we shall be untowardly put to it to find a cause for it in this Scheme but if he will allow me his somewhat that is 28 minutes I can find Directions sufficient for Death and they are the Moon to the Mundane Parallel of the Sun and Mars and the Zodiacal Square of Saturn But if he doth still persist in it That he did dye on the Sun to the Opposition of Jupiter then I would ask him Why it did not kill Bishop Land Sir Theodore Mayern Mr. Stepkins Dr. Geoffory le Neve and others and I am certain that neither Dr. Fisk nor my Friend Mr. Gadbury would venture to predict Death from that Direction when a man is living and I am sure Sir Robert Hâ—lburn's Death was not to be predicted by this Nativity And if he were living would it not be more rational to judge he should dye on the Moon to the Body of the Sun and Mars or the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Sun and Mars than on the Ascendent to the Opposition of Jupiter Fie fie lay by these Fooleries or else delend them and I will appear against you in the cause Cornelius Agrippa I willingly pass by as not being of any esteem for Truth in my Opinion And for that of Sir Theodore Mayern I have already handled it in my Opus Reformatum to which I refer those that would see it Peter Gassendus nat Januar. 21. S. N. hor. 17. min. 52. P. M. 1592. sub Lat. 44. they make him Capricorn ascending 6 degr and they kill him on the Ascendent to the Body of Mars and Square of Saturn the one in Cancer and the other in Aries The Sun is in 2 degrees of Aquary and the Moon 7 degrees in Taurus and they contentedly let him outlive thâ— Ascendent to the Body of the Sun Lord of the Eighth and Square of the Moon in the Fourth and think no body will in the least question that Now according to their own Rule Why should not we believe the Ascendent to the Lord of the Eigth and Square of the Moon in the Fourth is more likely to kill than to the Lord of the Tenth and Ascendent And yet after all the bussle they have made the Sun is Giver of Life in the Ascendent and he dyed not on the Ascendent to the Boâ—y of Mars but on the Sun to his own Square and Body of the Moon who is in the Radix in their fatal Fourth House and this done with a very little Alteration to the Figure Dr. Nicholas Fisk born July 25th hor. 1. min. 47. P. M. 1575. Lat. 52. and my Author says He dyed on the Ascendent to the Oppoâ—â—tion of Mars so that at one Blow he breaks Two of the most principal Rules of Ptolâ—my First The Ascendent cannot kill by Direction because the Sun is in the Ninth Giver of Life Secondly Mars cannot kill as a Promiâ—tâ—r because he is under the Sun Beams And yet both these are rothing to our Author in his way of Practice It is plain that the Figure he prints was made after the man dyed because of crowding in this Direction to stop his Readers mouth and prevent further Enquiry but the time was undoubtedly a little sooner and then the Sun Hilâ—g was directed to his own Square and the Mundane Parallel of Satura having a little before passed the Square of Mars who â—ad not power to kill but gave him that lingring Consumption that attended him to his Death and was indeed the occasion of it because Hecticks are the true effect of the Sun in many Cases and what Mars gave was of the Nature of the Sun at that time Mr. Stepkins is said to be born May the 15th hor. 10. min. 54. P. M. 1604. Lat. 51. 32. And our Author says He dyed on the Ascendent to the Opposition of Mars But then suppose some captious Fellow or other should ask the Reason Why the Ascendent should pass the Square of Mercury Lord of the Eighth and Square of the Sun both together and presently after the Square of Saturn and all these together not able to kill as well as the Opposition of Mars I must confess the Readers of such Authors had need have a mighty Opinion of them or else they cannot swallow these Gudgeons easily without kecking Dr. George Starkâ—y was born as saith J. Gadbury June the 9th hor. 11. min. 35. Manè 1628. Sub Lat. 52. who was living when this Book of his was printed but dyed of the Plague in 1665. and the Scheme of his Birth seems likely to signifie his Parts and also shew the time of his Death which if our Author had the managing of the matter must be fathered on the Ascendent to the Square of the Moon notwithstanding the Moon is Hileg in the Midheaven The truth of the matter is thus The Sun Giver of Life is directed to the Mundane Parallel of the Moon followed by the Zodiacal Parallel of Mars Body of Mars and Body of Venus for his Death and its Quality which was the Plague which I am informed he took by opening a man that dyed of that Disease From page 130 to 138. there is nothing remarkable either to the Reader or to the Animadvertor and therefore I pass them by and come to Mr. Stephen Rogers who our Author tells us was born October the 7th hor 4. min. 44. P. M.
Body of Saturn is certain and positive and admits of no debate because Saturn is visible on the place and we can see him pass the Midheaven but the Square of the Sun is perfectly imaginary as he understands and works it and therefore I will correct it by the Midheaven to the Body of Saturn for his Trouble beginning November the 2d 1679. at which time he was taken into Custody But if you look into his Table of Directions you will find that his Midheaven to the Sextile of Jupiter and Square of the Sun came up and toucht in December 1678. and he was not in â—rouble till November 1679. By which I suppose it will be granted That his Correction is not true in it self if you allow his method and that I thus prove If you keep to the Figure printed then the Ascendent to the Sextile of Venus in Zod. comes up at 24 and 8 months to marry him The Ascendent to the Opposition of Mars for his Fever and Surfoit at 19 and 11 months but he was sick at 19 and 8 months but then the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun will come up just a year before his Trouble which I cannot allow if there were such a Direction which I say there was not If you correct the Scheme by the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun to touch 2 months before his Trouble then the Ascendent to the Opposition of Mars comes up at a year and a month after his Surfeit and the Sextile of Venus comes up just 8 months after he marrried So that these things differing will call the whole Calculation in question if we should grant such a thing as the Square of the Sun in Zod. for the Directions will not nearly hit I do not expect them to hit exactly and I know the Reason why they will not do it but a year difference is not to be allowed notwithstanding Morinus his Sham of a Direction that lay dormant 14 months after it toucht and then began to work And so I will shew you the Figure of my correcting by the Midheaven to the Body of Saturn for his Trouble in 1679. I shall not trouble you with a long Preamble of Reasons for my Correction it is sufficient I have told you my Reason why I think his is not true and by the Direction following you may judge of the truth of the preceding Figure only I will tell you this That neither the Sun Moon Ascendent nor the Part of Fortune are any of them Givers of Life but Mars alone and it is he must be directed for Death if any one will take the Trouble to do it which I will not at this time And as to his Marriage I allow the Moon to the Sextile of the Sun in Mundo to give that though I must tell you I do not look on Marriage or the Small Pox to be such remarkable Accidents as some think they are to correct by and for his Surfeit and Fever the Sun to the Rapt Parallel of Saturn with the assistance of a violent and pernicious Revolution and so I will give you a few Directions past and to come that you may see what reason I have to believe the Figure I give to be true And also observe the effects of those to come but if you have better of your own either print or else let me see them without Printing and it will be an Oâ—ligation  d. m. y. m.  ☉ ad pâ—rall ♄ motu rapto 19 39 18 10 Surfeit and Fever ☽ ad sextil ☉ mundo d. d. 24 27 23 3 Married first Med. Coeli ad corpus ♄ 51 8 51 8 Imprisonment Med. Coeli ad â–³ ♀ 59 39 59 10 Married again Ascendens ad corpus Jovis 61 48 62 00  Sol ad par ♄ Zod. per A. O. 62 12 62 8 Trouble confin'd ♂ ad 8 ☉ 66 25 66 11 Sick and disord Sol ad 8 ♄ 71 45 73 1 1700 ☽ ad parall ♄ in Zod. 71 58 73 4 1700 ♂ ad parall ♃ in Zod. 72 31 74 2 1701 ♂ ad parall ☉ in Zod. 73 57 75 7 1702 ☽ ad corp ♂ cum lat 74 36 76 3 1703 ♂ ad parall ♄ motu rapto 75 35 77 3 1704 Ascendens ad semiquadr ☽ 76 9 77 10 1704 ♂ ad parall ♃ in Mundo 76 49 78 6  ☉ ad parall ♄ in Zod. 79 55 81 8  Ascendens ad â–³ ♄ 79 58 81 9  Thus I have given you my Sentiments of this Gentleman's Nativity and what Reasons I have to dissent from the Scheme he corrected and for the future part of his Life I do not think it is my business to meddle with it here but leave that to his own private Eâ—quiry not doubting of his Ability especially to satisfie his own Curiosity I do observe That he assigns Directions for every one almost of those Children at the end of his Book as the cause and occasion of Death but in that he is mightily out for where there is one dyeth by Direction within the space of a year or a year and an half there are ten dyes by Position and so did most of those there given Espceially his own Son Mr. Martyn's Daughter T. Tryon's Daughter Coley's Child and for Mr. Sawyer's Child can any man conceive the Ascendent to the Opposition of Saturn could kill it when the Moon was in Conjunction with Jupiter so near the Horoscope I judge the Nativity is made and fitted to the time of Death not to the Birth of the Child for the Moon is most certainly Hileg in this Nativity and the Child lived beyond the years of Nutrition and therefore it dyed by Direction and not by Position but not by the Direction he hath given And so I conclude my Discourse on those Nativities mentioned in his Collection of Genitures and yet before I end this Fourth part let me give you two Nativities more that I believe will be as useful to you that are Readers of this Book and Students of thâ—s Art as any I have before mentioned they being both of them very remarkable ones The First is the Nativity of one Mrs. Taylor a Woman as Remarkable as any this present Age can afford us especially if we consider and weigh the Circumstances and Contingencies of her Life and Death She was born of good Reputable Parents but not endow'd with any great Estate that might put them into a capacity above that of their Neighbours among whom they dwelt She married at the age of 18 years and 9 months and had four Children living at her Death At the age of 23 or 24 she did so well improve her Credit that she borrowed of divers People without Bond or Security a great many Sums of Money to the value of 20000 Pounds in the whole and some say 40000 which I believe will seem very incredible to those that hear the Story only and knew nothing of it that people should so easily part with their money
Heaven and those immediately concerned in his Honour and Preferment are under the Earth and some of them Cadent But take Cardan's Opinion in this Case Cum Sol Jupiter Luna bene disponuntur cum fixis fuerint fortunatis Directiones ad tempus juventutis bonae terminantur plâ—res Revolutiones fortunatae tunc heros maximus vir evadit Lib de Judi Geniturarum Cap. 26 Cardini Si Sol Jupiter Mars vel Saturnus in trigono igneo fuerit vel in locis sublimibus vel cum fixis nobilibus vel se aspâ—ientes erit natus magni nominis ratione patentiae Et si Sol cum Joâ—â— Mercurio in aereis eodem modo fuerit ratione industriae Seg. 3. Aphâ—ris 135. Cardani VI. Of his Friends and Friendship Enemies and Imprisonment It is most certain that every popular man must naturally contract Friendship and Envy Friends and Enemies and I dare engage that this Native will have a large share in both as all men meet with that have such Positions from Cardinal Signs and Violent Rays and were not Jupiter strong in his Ascendent and the Moon in Trine to the Sun both in Mundo Zodiaco he would feel the Fury of his Enemies more than the Favour of his Friends He will have Enemies and those malicious ones but his Friends and the Friendship he will receive will screen and defend him from the greatest of their Fury and yet his Enemies no small people neither Notwithstanding I think the Square of the Sun and Mars and the Opposition of Sâ—turn to the Sun and Venus will give him Troubles yet they will be in the latter part of his Life and not attended with Imprisonment or Confinement for Jupiter in his Ascendent will defend both his Person and Reputation And it is my Opinion That in all Nativities that have such popular Positions as this Native hath he must have many Friends and also many Enemies and both sorts men of great and eminent Quality but Jupiter in his own House in the Ascendent will give him that obliging Temper that will make his Friends the greater number by far by his fair and genteel Carriage VII Of his Sickness and Diseases Losses Troubles c. In this case the Great Ptolâ—my adviseth us to consider the Two Angles of East and West and whether the Luminaries are there and joyned to either of the Maleficks which in this Scheme you see is not so but on the contrary Jupiter defends the prime Angle and doth irradiate the other with his opposite Rays Nor is there any Malefick in the Sixth House afflicting or afflicted which by our Author is much to be minded in judging Diseases which he distinguisheth from Laesiones or Hurts of the Body I therefore conclude he will not be subject to any fixt perpetual Disease or Infirmity of Body but to such as will return at some Intervals on proper Directions c. and these are Disorders from the Spleen mixt with Nephritick Pains and when grown into years vertiginous disorders of the Head and perhaps the Gout but generally of a healthy Constitution otherways His Troubles are to be considered first in their nature and so we must judge them to proceed from Saturn and Mars who afflicts his Sun the persons by them signified are false and fly Friends and malicious Enemies to hinder his progress in publick Affairs And 2dly as to the time they will happen which may be known by the Directions preceding and those will not appear till the after part of his Life some few fall in the former part of it but they are not considerable if compared with the good Directions that will attend him Lossâ—s and Damage to his Estate may happen divers ways for we find Satura Lord of his Second in Square to Mars and Opposition to Vâ—nus and the Part of Fortune in a perfect â—undane Square to the Mâ—on from the Fifth and Seventh This threatens him with Loss by Play or Gâ—ming and indeed I would advise this Native to shun Gaming of all sorts for it will be destructive to him and his Estate and I dare venture to tell him positively That whatever he plays for he will lose and always be unsuccessful in Pleasures of that kind There seems to be other Losses likely to attend him also signified by Venus afflicted by Mars and Saturn Women will projudice him if he is too intimate and familiar with them but especially Lewd Women because Venus is nearest in Opposition to Saturn Lord of his Second Therefore it will be his great Wisdom to avoid these ruinous Courses and all ill Company or Acquaintance VIII Of his Profâ—ssion and Employment and â—hat he may be inclin'd to I would not have my Reader think by the Title of this Paragraph that I intend to pitch upon a Trade or think he will ever settle to one no he that hath Jupiter in his Ascâ—ndent and Five Planets in Cardinal Signs will employ his Thoughts in things of another nature and quality than a Trade and also endeavour to find business suitable to his humor In this Nativity Mercury is the prime Significator of his Business and Inclination and next Venus and Mars the one Lady of the Tenth and the other her Dispositor And all these we find in Equinoctial and Tropical Sigâ—s and both Venus and Mercury in Conjunction with the Sun in his Exaltation this shews his Employment will be business of Credit and Honour And if we consider the Moon applies to the Trine of Mercury and she in his Terms the Ascendent Saturn Mars and Venus all in the Terms of Mercury from whence I conclude his Employment will be Mercurial belonging to the Pen Accounts or such like bookish Business that he will incline to Secondly As the Sun Mercury and Venus are in Mars's House and the Sun's Exaltation so I judge his Employment will be among those concerned in the Government of a Nation or an Army or the like business of Credit Honour and Publick Affairs perhaps something of a Secretary Publick Minister or Envoy and this the rather because of the Virgins Spike on the Angle of Honour I do not desire to predict the particular thing because Cardan says Cumquâ— hoc scire exquisitè emnino sit impâ—ssibile per genera res erit diduâ—â—rds Seg. 6. Apho. 43. Cardani â—ut I have been the larger on this part as well as some other parts of my Judgment because I am of opinion that this young Gentleman will come to understand this Art himself when he arrives at years of Maturity there being an Aphorism in Cardan that takes place in this case exactly thus Quando Luna in Occidente Jupiter in Oriente in Marâ—is ospectu natus fato Astrologiae credet Aphor. 181. Seg. 5. Card. If he believes it very probable it is he may also study it IX Lastly Of his Death the Cause Kind and Time of it Death you know is the natural Consâ—quence of Life and it