wearies the native with daily evills either they are killers of their Wives or themselves if ♂ possesse one Angle by day and ☿ another he signifies fooles and void of reason if by day ♂ possesse one Angle and the ☉ another losse and death by fire if the ☽ violent death and the mother to dye a cruell death if he be by day in any Angle without the ☽ or ♂ of any other starre he signifies great sicknesse and debility ♂ likewise by day in any Angle or lord of the house of Children denies Children if he be the giver of life by night he gives long life if in a diurnall geniture he be the giver of life he kills the native in his youth but if another Plannet be giver of life and ♂ behold him by an ☠or □ he diminisheth 15. yeares of the natives life if the ☽ interpose between him and ♄ he causeth lamenesse or weaknesse to some part of the body according to the signification of the signe if he behold the ☽ increasing by a □ or ☠it soone kills the native CHAP. XIX The Suns signification in the signes IF the ☉ be lord of a geniture and well placed he signifies faithfull persons but proud wise doing all things with moderation ful of humanity religious honourers and lovers of their parents he signifies persons of corpulent bodies yellow haire he denotes husbandmen honest persons gaining an estate by vertuous actions but disaffected to Wives and Children of diseases he signifies infirmities about the eyes and other parts of the body frequently happening by fire and publique or violent death in strange places the ☉ increaseth the time of life if he be well placed and not impedited by the beame of any malevolent starre CHAP. XK The signification of the Sun in the 12. Houses THe ☉ in the Horoscope hardly gives any brethren but in a masculine signe or in his own house or exaltation or joyned to the benevolent Aspect of some good Plannet sheweth great nobility but if he be joyned to malevolent starres it blemisheth the eye-sight but if ☉ be in the ascendant by day he signifies Kings and great rulers but if his power be hindred Counsellors But because we have said he giveth great felicity in the first house it ought to be explained for if ♄ be posited with him by day it signifies Kings and Emperours if ♂ Aspect the ☉ or be placed with him it signifies great envy danger and trouble to the native to keepe his power but the ☉ in the ascendant and ♃ in any other Angle and ♂ in the 10 and the ☽ in any other Angle it denotes great power and dignity to the native but if the Sun and Jupiter be so posited and ♂ in the 10. or 7. and the ☽ with Mars in the 10. or 8 it signifies the native be he King or Emperour to dye a violent death or to be imprisoned and deposed from his honour according to the nature of the signes But if Saturu be in the 10. he signifies potent persons the ☉ in the ascendant and ♃ ♀ and ☿ in the other Angles signifies great men of happy persons prosperous and abounding in riches and alwayes free from the burden of Poverty especially if Saturn behold the ☉ with a △ or ⚹ But if the Sun Jupiter ♀ ☿ and ♄ be thus posited ♂ behold them with a □ or ☠or otherwise be evill placed or joyned to them he signifies great potent persons having power of life death but Theeves Robbers Tyrants greedy after other mens estates and at last to be banished or suffer a violent death The ☉ in the ascendant in a nativity by night signifies the native to be a more base sordid person but if ♄ or ♂ be with the Sun or behold him by a □ or ☠it signifies the native will kill his elder brethren and destroy all his own estate and substance and the Sun in any Angle of a geniture debilitateth the elder brethren unlesse the native be the first borne The Sun in the 2. house signifies the native to be carefull in seeking an estate and in all their lives good and affable of condition but languishing in their bodyes and of a short life and crossed with many troubles but if ♀ and ♃ behold the ☉ with any good Aspect as a △ or ⚹ or be with him they bring some unexpected good to the native and increase of happinesse raising up men that are dejected and cast down to some publique office or dignity The ☉ in the 3. house signifies an evill death to the Father signifies the native to be invalid and of no repute but if ♃ and ☿ be joyned to him by good Aspect he signifies grave Counsellors Treasurers Rulers and Governours of Cityes and the like but if he be in the 3. in his own house or exaltation or in the house or exaltation of ♃ ♀ or ☿ he signifies devout religious persons but if ♄ or ♂ be with him or joyned to him in other signes he signifies perjured perfidious persons prophane irreligious wicked blasphemers The Sun in the 4. house Aspected by ♄ or Mars signifies the death of the Father destruction of the whole family and estate neverthelesse he signifies a happy old age but the native unconstant in his affection towards his Wife and Children Sol in the 5. house signifies amiable honorable persons easily attaining all things they desire and beloved of all their friends but if he be so placed with ♀ or she behold him with any good Aspect △ or ⚹ he signifies great honour and dignity to the native But although malevolent starres be with him or in Aspect to him it doth not much hurt the native because of the naturall goodnesse of the place but is only hurtfull to the Children of the native The ☉ in the sixt house is hurtfull to the native and giveth great and long sicknesse and if ♂ be in the ascendant he afflicts the native with hurt or some wound by Iron denotes the Father to dye a sudden evill death and destroyes the natives estate But if any good starre be in the 10. he signifies riches great possessions and the native happily to enjoy his Fathers estate But although there be no starre in the Medium Coeli if Jupiter and ♀ be with the ☉ in the 6. house they mollifye and mitigate all evill Sol in the 7. house is very ill and gives many infirmities and diseases especially if ♂ and ♄ behold him with any Aspect or be placed with him he brings much sickness and affliction to the native according to the malignancy of the afflicting Planner But if the ☉ be in the 7 and the ☽ with him or in the 10. or ascendant he signifies potent and noble persons men in great authority chiefly if he be in his own house or exaltation or in the house of ♃ and have part of fortune in any Angle The ☉ in the 8. gives sudden death to the Father if ♂
him from any fortunate place as if he be in his Termes House or Exaltation or behlods him by a ▵ Aspect Saturn partilely placed in the 10. house that is the mid-heaven maketh Emperors Dukes Presidents Magistrates if the Sun be in his exaltation in the Horoscope Also ♄ thus posited in a nativity by day denotes honest men of good manners wealthy Farmers their dwelling and possessions alwaies adjoyning to the Sea Rivers or Woods he giveth also great substance and honour and possessions from great persons especially if he be so posited and in no Aspect with ♂ but if ♂ be ioyned to him so placed he abateth the good before spoken of But ♄ in the mid-heaven in a Nocturnall Geniture is the author of infelicity a destroyer of substance and hindreth marriage and Children cheifly if he be found in the place signe or tearmes of any Malignant starre but if any benevolent starr as ♃ or ♀ behold him with a good Aspect they take away his malignity giving those things which ♄ denyes being so placed by night But ♄ by night is alwayes evill in any of the Angles and signifies much evill to the geniture for he killeth the wife destroyeth the Children and afflicteth the whole course of a mans life with bitter evils But if ♄ so posited separate from a conjunction of the ☽ decreasing he that hath ♄ so placed shall alwayes be afflicted with the burden of poverty so that he shall scarce have daily sustenance to maintaine his life especially if the ☽ be decreasing and joyned to him in a feminine signe But if ♄ be so placed and separate from the beames of the ☽ increasing he giveth unstability and unconstancy of life so that he that hath ♄ so placed shall scarce have one course of his life like another but alwayes subject to mutability but ♄ so placed if that ☿ be joyned to him signifies the native to be crafty slye and subtill and giveth long life especially if he be Lord of the geniture or giver of life but if on the contrary the Lord of the geniture be opposite to the giver of life it abates 30 yeares of the natives life and signifies greater evills and more powerfull as often as he is so posited against the Lord of the geniture which the Greeks call Oicodespoten or if he be placed against the giver of life especially if ♂ behold him by a □ or ☠he giveth the palsy the native is crooked hunchbackd ridiculous deformed persons Hermophrodites and the like which things are knowne by the markes and substance of the corporature of the body But if ♄ be so placed and the ☽ seperating from him applying to ♂ in a nocturnall birth he signifies fools Lunaticks melancholy persons of languishing bodies or ♄ so posited in the last quarter of the ☽ decreasing it signifies the ptisick Saturn posited in the 11. somtimes signifies good and somtimes increases evils he that is then borne shall live in the same place and after the same fashion as his Father hath done before him but about the 30. yeare of his age he loseth whatsoever he had gotten and never attayneth to any dignity or estate till he hath surpassed the 30th yeare of his age Saturn placed in the 12. houses sheweth much strife to the native to happen through words and dangers and losse by servants and causeth bondage and he giveth to him that hath him so placed great griefes and moderate sicknesse especially if ♄ be thus placed and the ☽ in any manner joyned to him But if a benevolent starre be placed in any Angle of the geniture then though ♄ be so placed he that hath a benevolent star in any Angle of the geniture it doth in some sort mitigate these evils and malignancy of ♄ making them more mild and gentle if ♄ be found so posited by day But the evill is more strong and vehement if ♄ be found thus placed in any nativity by night but in which of these houses soever ♄ is posited in diligently inquire out his part that is to find out in what part place or tearmes of his Duodecathemary he is placed for by the Duodecathemary and the terms of the Duodecathemary you may finde out all the power of Saturn CHAP. XV. Of the signification of Jupiter in the Signes IF ♃ be Lord of a birth he maketh men of high Spirits coveting greatnesse faith full and alwayes aspiring to great acts giving more to themselves then the faculty of their patrimony or power requires Imperious Noble Glorious and honest in all their actions lovers of cleanlinesse chearfull and amiable in all their actions desiring much meate lovers and affecters of their freinds and alwayes delighting in welldoing a handsome composed body beautifull and faire faire and beautifull eyes and head the same adorned with thick haire of a grave gate Their life is glorious notable and full of felicity following whatsoever they desire beautified alwayes with a good and honest conversation and protected by the testimony of great men tender over their Wives and Children their Sons alwayes increasing their dignity bringing great honours to their Fathers by their Acts. He giveth some sicknesse or infirmities to the liver through Wind or Crudities and death by dejection or undue carnall copulation But when ♃ is Lord of a Geniture then looke how ♄ beholds him and the other starres for what hath beene spoken of one ought to be an example to guide you in the rest For if ♃ be Lord of ageniture and possesse the first Angles of the geniture in his own house exaltation or rearmes or in the house of the ☉ and in a nativity by day and is adorned with the testimonies of benevolent starres the full ☽ carrying her light unto him and ♂ possesse not any other Angle of the nativity nor 〈◊〉 them and the ☽ increasing oppose him not it signifies full and compleate felicity But if he be in any base humble signes or termes or in base abject places of the geniture and ♃ and the ☽ afflicted by any valitious malevolent Planets it deprives him of all power sheweth no good signification in the geniture neither doth the native live a full age for if malevolent starres do Aspect him by a □ or ☠according to their strength they shorten his dayes CHAP. XVI The signification of Jupiter in the 12. Houses IUpiter partily placed in the 1. Angle that is in the Horoscope in those signes in which he rejoyneth or in either of his own house Tearmes or exaltation he maketh the native noble glorious cheife ruler to Cities sometimes signifying the cheife governour of great Cityes according to the measure of his strength in the geniture by nature he signifies good benevolent honest chearfull and rich persons especially if he be placed in the Horoscope by day and aspected by no malevolent starre For if ♃ be so placed and malevolent starres behold him with ill Aspects it greatly diminishes the good signified by Jupiter If ♃ be
placed in the Horoscope in a nativity by night he signifies the native to be the first borne or the death of his brethren that were borne before him or seperates him farre from them signifies him to be the governour of some Country or chiefe ruler in his Fathers house to be delicately brought up his parents to live in great felicity But if ♃ possesse this place by night and malevolent starres behold him he signifies the native to be a spend thrist and a destroyer of the estate of his Father and Mother But alwayes ♃ placed in any Angle of the geniture either the native is the first borne or his brethren dy that were borne before him and he beares cheife Rule in his Fathers house but of he be in the Horoscope whether it be by night or by day if the ☽ increasing be joyned to him by any Aspect whatsoever he signifies great Magistrates Governours of Citties or men imployed in weighty affaires Jupiter in the 2. house signifies possessions in forraign Countryes and from strangers he giveth great dominions and possessions to Noble men if he be so placed ☿ joyned to him by any good Aspect But ♃ so placed if ☿ be joyned to him and ♂ or ♄ behold them it signifies mutability of estate changing from good actions to bad and he that hath ♄ so posited all the tearme of his life will be various and subject to mutability sometimes abounding with riches and other times cast downe under the burden of poverty Jupiter in the 3. house is neither good nor evill but equally moderate somtimes a helper forward to spend an estate and somtimes a gatherer together of riches Jupiter in the 4. house that is in the Imum Coeli signifies Lawyers Judges men loving Cattle Hredsmen Tillers of the ground according to the nature of the signe Embassadors of Kings or Dukes or such as to whom is given the charge of some publique government in a Common-Wealth messengers often sent to and fro by the command of the King Prince or Judges he frequently signifies the native to be employed in some publique actions by the King c. Religious Persons Pilgrims fortellers of things to come reverend Churchmen c. Some according to the quality of the signe are finders out and discoverers of hid treasure but alwayes ♃ being so placed giveth to the native a happy old age to the time of his death But if ♃ be so placed and the ☉ in ☠to him he signifieth the Father to be noble and honorable but the native will spend his estate in his middle age and get it againe afterwards he will be slow in Venereous acts disaeffcted to Children Iupiter thus placed by night gives an indifferent estate and in processe of time happinesse Iupiter in the 5. house signifies great felicity and the native to be honored with some publique preferment especially if he be in his houses or in his termes or exaltation or in the house of the ☉ But if ♃ be thus placed and ♂ behold him with any good Aspect he signifies Captaines and such as have the power of life and death but if without ♂ Mercury and the ☽ be joyned to him he signifies Officers pertaining to Kings if ♀ alone be joyned to him he giveth perfect happinesse if ♉ be joyned to him he giveth length of yeares and old age and giveth Children of both sexes especially if he be Lord of the geniture or Lord of part of the Horoscope or Lord of that signe wherein the Lord of the geniture is placed But if in a nocturnall geniture he be placed opposite to the giver of life for ♃ rejoyceth not in nocturnall genitures he diminisheth 12. yeares of the natives age but if in a nocturnall geniture ♂ ♀ or the ☽ be opposite to him they fill the native with many vices according to the nature and quallty of the signes in humane signes they are libidinous excessive lustfull and preposterously effeminate in 4. footed signes Hunters Lovers of Wild-beasts frequent haunters of Woods and desert places and given to much labour in earthly signes herbarists desirous to know more of the secrets of nature then is lawfull in watry signes fishers or such as get their living about Rivers the Sea or watry places truly laborious and alwayes living thereby But if ♃ be thus posited by night opposing these stars and the ☽ seperating from him he signifies an unconstant life subject to much unhappinesse but the same is in some sort mirigated if the ☽ seperate from him and apply her selfe by a good Aspect to ♀ but if the ☽ depart from him and go to ♂ with any starre it signifies much misery and unhappinesse But if ♃ be thus placed and the ☽ separate from him and apply to ♂ by a □ it denotes a violent death to the native according to the nature and quality of the signes for if ♂ behold the ☽ with and ☠so departed from ♃ in a nativity by night it signifies wranglings dangers and strife with inferiour people Wherefore Iupieer in this signe by night commonly signifies calamities Iupiter in the 6. house signifies much evill if he be lord of the signe wherein the Horoscope is or of the mid-Heaven or behold the ☉ ♄ or ♂ by a □ or if he behold the ☽ decreasing by a □ or the ☽ be decreasing in the same signe but if he be not afflicted by any evill starre and receive the light of the ☽ increasing the evill is thereby mitigated he signifies here south-sayers embroyderers in Gold Silver-Smithes but neverthelesse if they gaine any thing by these artes they quickly spend it Iupiter in the 7. house signifies wealth and long life in a nativity by day but in nocturnall genitures he generally signifies Wives and Children for the native shall lose a deare Wife and see the miserable death of a Son or a Daughter But in old age he giveth increase of estate neverthelesse but meane and so much as he shall not want Jupiter in the 8. house commonly destroyes ones estate raiseth up a great many enemies stirreth up seditions commonly among the people and malicious acts he signifies the native to be ignoble a proud foolish boaster full of preposterous animosity and mad raging folly especially if there be an evill starre in any Angle of the geniture but if he have ☿ with him or in ▵ to him or the ☽ increasing behold him with any good Aspect he signifies procurators or messengers of Kings and the native alwayes to die in his youth Jupiter in the 9. house by day signifies Prophets and Foretellers of things to come interpreters of the Oracles of God Preists Churchmen and somtimes he signifies losse or damage in a nativity by night he signifies dreamers of false dreames and the like Iupiter in the 10. House or mid-Heaven signifies Princes publique officers Chiefe Governours men alwayes graced with publique honors and desirous of praise but luxurious of life men employed about the affaires
of Kings or great men to some he giveth happiness throughout their whole lives but commonly he signifies felicity if no evill starre hinder but if any malevolent starre hinder him whatsoever estate honour or dignity is got in Youth he looses and consumes in Age unlesse the 7. house be fortified with some benevolent starre Iupiter in the 10. House by night signifies honest men and of good manners but apt easily to be deceived and sudden wasters of their estates If ♃ be in the 11. house in a nativity by day he gives much happinesse great riches power and government if the ☉ and ♀ be joyned to him by good Aspect but if it be in a nativity by night and the ☽ in ☠to him the good is thereby abated but if ♂ be in the 8. contrary to him though the native have great riches honour and dignity he turneth it all to misery and unhappinesse Iupiter in the 12. House giveth good fortune signifies the native to be powerful over his enemies and a terror to them especially if a malevolent starre be in the ascendant or ♂ in the 7. house but ♂ in the 7. undoubtedly signifies a sudden violent death and the evills and calamities of the native will be more prevalent and greater if the ☉ and ♄ behold ♃ by an ☠but if in a nocturnall geniture the ☽ decreasing oppose him it signifies great poverty But if neither ☉ nor ♄ be in ☠to him are in good houses nor the ☽ afflict him these who have ♃ so posited may thrive by some art or mystery as Gold-smiths or embroyderers of garments with Gold painters or workers of Silver but what art soever it be it will be sought after and praised if ♃ be so placed and ♀ joyned with him CHAP. XVII The signification of Mars in the signes IF ♂ be Lord of a nativity he signifies men of proud Spirits subject to no reason immoveable contentious and audacious head-strong fearing no danger subject to be deceived great eaters valiant high-minded ignorant having redhaire eyes bloud-shotten imperious alwayes desiring to rule over others of a preposterous mind not careing for Wife Children nor freinds greedily coveting other mens goods he signifies hurt by fire and Iron as cuttings or burnings falls from high places or burstings in the lower parts of the body he giveth a sudden or violent death if he seperate from the full ☽ death by theeves or condemned by the Magistrate for some offence but if his malice be kindled by the beames of the ☉ it signifies openly destruction by burning But ♂ is more strong if he be Lord of a birth by day and be in any Angle and the full ☽ in any other Angle afflicted by the beames of ☽ or giving her power to ♂ But if in a nativity by night he be in the house of ♄ or ♃ or in their tearmes or in his own house or tearmes or in the 5.11.10 or first and behold the ☽ decreasing or the ☽ decreasing give powerto ♂ or ♃ joyned to him in an Angle by a ▵ he signifies Dukes Captaines Tyrants terrible rulers men of great power but if be in the 7th house in ♂ as before spoken he denotes the native surely to dye a violent death for alwayes ♂ in the 7th house signifies a violent death but the kind thereof is to be judged according to the nature and quality of the signe CHAP. XVIII The signification of Mars in the 12. Houses MArs partilely placed in the ascendant by night in a masculine signe maketh Souldiers By day without the beames of ♃ he signifies bountifull men willing to give more then their estates will beare somthing profuse but their acts all ballanced with reason But if by day the ascendant be the house of ♂ and a masculine signe and ♂ therein and ♃ with him or beholding him with a good Aspect he signifies generalls and cheife Captaines of Armies Lords of life and death and terrible to all Cities or Countryes they approach unto happy valiant and grave greatly subject to anger not greatly affecting Wife nor Children Mars in the ascendant by day signifies crafty audacious furious persons vagabonds instable never finishing any thing with reason full of revenge spenders of their estate loosing all the substance of their lives and Wives and Children not reserving any patrimony for them and dye young but if ♃ be in his house exaltation or tearmes and behold him with a △ he mitigates these evills every way But I know and have found in many genitures when ♂ hath been in the ascendant the natives to have beene banished and have beene good Governours in the Common wealth Mars in the 2. House is very unfortunate by day if it be in the morning he maketh the native to wander from his Fathers house and home and wander up and down in strange Countries but if the ☽ increasing be with him or in ☠or □ to him he signifies slow feeble persons subject to receive hurt by Iron Colds or fower-footed-beasts somtimes he maketh Seamen men subject to be Captives or come in bondage through their own wit but high-minded in their greatest necessities But if ♃ he joyned to him by good Aspect or in his house or tearmes he bringeth the native out of danger freeth them from Captivity or imprisonment and restores them to liberty But somtimes they are in want but ♂ so placed by night signifies the native to be a knight or a great ruler but such as somtimes shall be subject to dangers though assisted by the beames of ♃ or ♀ Mars in the 3. house signifies the native shall attaine to honour with great labour covetuous of other mens goods envying all men and having a wicked conscience but if Iupiter be in the 11. or 7. he signifies the native may attaine to an estate through great labour in some publique Office if Iupiter be in ♂ with him he giveth great riches and power exceeding others in nobility or if he be in the 3. in his own house termes or exaltation and Iupiter joyned to him he signifies Magistrates and Governours Mars in the 4th house by night signifies common Souldiers such as live in desert Countryes keepers of wild beasts somtimes wasters or spoilers of Countryes according to the quality of the signe it destroyes both life and estate of the parents giveth widdow-hood ruine one Child or none and he that hath one shall be hindred by him in all his actions by day he signifies weake feeble lame bodies subject to receive hurt by Iron opposed by women alwayes ingratefull but if the ☉ behold him by a □ or ☠or be in ♂ with him these evills he augmenteth and maketh the native mad or lun atick if the ascendant be the house of ♂ Mars in the 5. house by night in his own house or in the house of Jupiter or in his tearmes or exaltation or if Iupiter be with him or behold him in his own house by a △ signifies much honour
or ♄ be with him or Aspect him by â–¡ or ☠he signifies dotage falling evill Phrensies and vicious diseases according to the nature of the signe But if the ☽ be in ☠to him and the ♂ or ♄ do Aspect him by â–¡ or ☠he signifies diseases of the head Lunatick Ptisick and Dropsies according to the nature of the signe Sol. in the 9. house signifies builders of Churches and religious persons lovers of Divine Worship makers of hymnes and Divine Songs and gaining glory thereby and signifies the Father to be of a happy estate and to lead a happy life but neverthelesse many changes and mutations of life to happen to the native The ☉ in the 10. house in a diurnall geniture in his own house or the house of ♃ or in his exaltation signifies potent persons men in great offices power and dignity but if ♂ be in the 7. house and the ☽ in any other Angle beholding ♂ let the native be King Duke or of what degree soever he signifies that he shall suffer imprisonment But generally the ☉ in any Angle with ☿ signifies learned and devout persons Orators and studious of various kinds of learning and curious Arts the same effects ☿ produces if he be farre from the ☉ free from ♄ and ♂ and ♃ and ☿ behold him by any good Aspect The ☉ in the 11. house signifies noble persons men of a good happy estate and condition living in great credit and in processe of time increase of felicity and the greater if ♃ or ♀ be with him or behold him by a â–³ or âš¹ Aspect neither do malevolent starres impedite or hinder the native but only are obstructive to the place of Children The ☉ in the 12. house frequently signifies ignoble persons servants and Captives sudden death to the Father and destruction of the estate and great afflictions and diseases to the body if good starres be with him neverthelesse he signifies ignoble persons but if malevolent starres be with him he giveth perpetuall-calamities of body and continuall bondage and servitude CHAP. XXI The signification of Venus in the signes VEnus being Lady of a nativity signifies loving amiable cheerefull persons luxurious gratefull honest near libidinous godly just sincere and faithful freinds of uncorrupted freindship of a slender handsome body pleasant countenance faire eyes thick haire a little curling a beautifull corporature great drinkers but little eaters covetuous of venereous acts oft entangled in love honest and virtuous in all their actions lovers of mirth delighting in musick makers of musicall instruments Painters if ♀ be placed in the Principall places of the geniture ture she signifies great fame and honour to the native students in sacred learning the men great affecters of women and the women of men that are thereby signified she signifies the native to be fruitfull and to have many Children and their Children to be great joy and comfort to them But the positure and dignity of this starre is diligently to bee noted for in a nativity by night if shee bee in the first 5.10 or 11. or in her own house exaltation or Tearmes or receive power from the ☽ decreasing or be beheld by ♃ by a â–³ or the ☽ apply to her without the testimony of ♄ she signifies Councellors Treasurers and honourable persons or if Mars do behold her with a â–³ she also giveth great power and dignity if ♂ be in his own house or in the house of ♃ or in his tearmes or in the tearmes of Jupiter or in his exaltation and Venus be free from the beames of the ☉ But if ♀ be thus placed with ☿ or in his house tearmes or exaltation or ☿ in the house of ♀ or in her tearmes and in good houses or places of the geniture he signifies sundry changes and varieties of life But if ♀ be ill posited in the house or tearmes of ♄ by night or ♂ by day she signifies unchast lustfull persons afflicted with daily calamities and mischances receiving great disgrace by luxurious lust and unlawfull love and such as bring to themselves publique infamy and disgrace by reason of adultery and unlawfull lusts and for this cause to dye a shamefull violent death especially if ♀ be in the 7. and behold Mars with any ill Aspect CHAP. XXII The signification of Venus in the 12 signe VEnus in the ascendant in a nativity signifies Divines godly men beloved of great men imployed in their affaires good Orators according to the nature and quality of the signe in humane signes she signifies Preists Preachers foretellers of things of come she denotes courteous honest men and rich if she be not impedited by some malevolent starre if ☿ be with her it signifies good musitians in sixed signes and signes of a small voyce she signifies great students lovers of their Princes in earthly or watry signes embroyderers or Painters in four-footed signes noble Heroick Spirits lovers of Cattle and a nativity by day she signifies infamous libidinous unchast persons Venus in the 2. house signifies inventers of Curious arts in a nativity by night but often branded with infamy but by little and little attaining to a happy condition gratefull and free in love â—â— in this place by day she giveth many crosses hinders marriage and giveth sudden death to the wife but if ☉ or ♄ behold her with a â–¡ or ☠or be with her she causeth barrenness and insufficiency in Venereous acts the native never marries but is a great lover of Children But this influence is more potent if by day ♀ be in the house of ♄ ♂ or ☿ or in their tearmes Venus in the 3. house is fortunate if well Aspected by ♃ the native is religious and marries one belonging to the Church Venus posited in the 4. house destroyes an estate and causes Widdow-hood the native is alwayes uncapable of getting any thing and if she be joyned with ☿ she signifies Adulterers But by night in this place she raiseth in processe of time to credit and honour and signifies the native to bebeloved of great men and to live in good favour and credit she signifies the first part of youth to want nothing but neverthelesse the mind to be filled with some vices acording to the quality and signification of the signes For in tropick or double signes she signifies Widdow-hood and losse about women in sixed signes love and an estate by women setting â™’ aside for ♀ in the 4. in this signe with the ☽ or in â–¡ or ☠to her caused barrennes and such as care not for marriage Venus in the 5th house is fortunate and signifies good honest persons such as eafily attaine to their desires if ♃ Aspect her she signifies famous men and such as attaine to great dignity if ♀ be placed with her he augments the promotion and preferment of the native but brings Infamy and dilgrace therewith But she signifieth the native to be a conquerer in all things and to receive rewards of victories foretellers of things
to come great gainers by wives or women If ♀ be posited in the sixth house whether it be by day or night she signifies ignoble Wives Widdowes or weak women if no star be in the mid-heaven if a woman have ♀ posited in the sixth house of her nativity it signifies she shall have hard difficult labour and undergoe great perill in Child-birth but a benevolent starre in the 10. causeth happinesse and good fortune Venus posited in the 7th house in her own signe by night gives a happy old age but hinders marriage and Children but brings some disgrace to the native by reason of venereous acts and if ♂ be with her or joyned to her by a □ or ☠she signifies unchast lascivious libidinous persons and if ♂ and ♀ be so posited and ♄ behold them by □ or ☠or be posited with ♀ it denotes that women that have ♀ so posited to be unchast and lsacivious and these vices are the more potent if these starres be conjoyned with ♂ in ♑ If ♀ be in the 8th house she hinders marriage and signifies the Wife to be barren and deformed if the native do marry but if ☠be with her and malevolent starres behold them by □ or ☠or be with them it signifies destruction of your native estate and death by a Gonorthea or Apoplexie But Venus in this house by night signifies riches to the native and great profit by the death of women and denotes a sudden death but without terror or torment Venus in the 9th house by day signifies the native to be much tempted of the Devill to goe sordidly without dressing his haire pretending themselves to be Prophets and interpreters of dreames and the more if Saturn be in any Aspect with Venus In a nativity by night ♀ signifies religious persons devout worshippers of God studious of sacred and religious things and somtimes the natives to be imployed in some office about the Church or in Kings houses or about making Ornaments for women whereby they increase their estate But if ♂ behold ♀ so posited by a □ or ☠especially if he be angular he gives to the native many enemies and his Children to suffer cruell death and that for adultery or whoredome But if ♀ be so posited and ♃ or ☠behold her with a □ or ♄ by an ☠and ☠in □ to him or ♄ and ♀ with ☠thus placed she gives barrennesse signifies lovers of Children lustfull persons and by reason of such vices given to homicide and such Crimes Venus in the 10th house signifies happy men famous and of great and happy fortunes if ☠be with her Musitians schollers artists if ♄ and ♂ be not joyned to her by any Aspect she signifies Musitians and Philosophers but if ♄ behold her with any Aspect if signifies infamy and men of no power nor repute but such as commit the tuition of their estate to others if it be a woman that hath ☠so posited it signifies her to be unchast and expose her selfe to every lust full of whorish actions and to prostitute her selfe to whoreing to maintaine her life Venus in the 11th house by night Aspected by ♂ and ♄ causeth barrennesse and hinders marriage but by degrees increaseth an estate by the helpe of friends neverthelesse she signifies honest persons and if she receive the ☽ be ♂ she signifies wealth and power to the native somtiems the cheife ruler of a City But if by day she be thus placed with the ☽ it signifies power wealth and good fortune to the native from his youth to the day of his death and the rather if ☠be with them or Aspect them Venus posited in the 12th house by night signifies dally trouble and griefe to a woman by reason of lust and unlawfull love if the native be a man she signifies him to marry his maide or some common whore whereby he is without Children but ♀ in this place by day signifies death to the native through women according to the nature of the signes for this starr hath various instuences which are difficult to be found out for as a Painter by mixture of severall colours brings them to the true form and colour of a perfect body so the Aspects of the starres and intermixture one among another alters and changes their natures For if ♀ be thus posited and ♄ joyned to her if signifies men of perverse mindes full of vices and necessary for no act especoally if it be in a nativity by night but if ♃ behold them with any Aspect he abates this malice and conferres much good to the native increase of his estate and free from vice If the ☽ be in ☠to ♀ it signifies infanous lustfull persons lovers of Children given to incest whoredome and coveting unlawful beds or if the ☽ be wth ♀ in ☠or behold her by a □ it alwayes signifies the native to burne with unlawfull lust if it be a woman she is mch given to lust promiscuous love and pleasures But in a nativity by night ♀ posired in a good signe and well Aspected by ♂ gives increase of happinesse wealth and honour But by day if ♂ behold her with any Aspect it signifies much ill fortune for ♀ rejoyceth by night if the ☽ ♂ or ☠be joyned to her and gives much happinesse and felicity to the native But if ♀ be in this place with the ☉ she signifies injustice for she is ill placed here with the ☉ but she rejoyceth here in the morning behind the ☉ and signifies good with the good and increase of happinesse But if she be Lady of the ascendant and of the geniture and placed in a good signe she giveth long life but if the giver of life oppose the Lord of the ascendant in a nativity by day it abates 8. yeares of the age and affects the native with some vices but such as do not much staine him with infamy CHAP. XXIII The signification of Mercury in the signes IF ☿ be Lord of the geniture he signifies witty ingenuous persons easily learning all things modest searchers into the secrets of all arts covetuous of learning if he be in his own house tearmes or exaltation or in the house of Venus or behold her by a △ he maketh poets eloquent Orators in the house of the ☽ he signifies men of a gracefull speech But if ☿ be in the house or tearmes of ♄ and ♃ or ♀ behold him with a good Aspect or if ♃ be in any Angle or in the third house he signifies the native to be addicted to religion searchers into secret magical arts Mathematicians Astrologers Religious faithfully keeping the bond of friendship just and honest doing all things with reason and counsell But if Mars behold him by any Aspect or apply to him by a □ and if ☿ be in the 3th house in humane signes adorned with the testimony of ♃ or ♃ in the first or 10. he signifies advocates Orators men of great wit and ingenuity attaining their
dye in his youth If the ☽ seperate from ♄ and apply to the ☉ it is very unfortunate and signifies many calamities madnesse lunatick Dropsies and the like to happen to the native daily during his life The ☽ seperating from ♄ and applying to ♀ signifies noble happy rich wealthy persons but libidinous and thereby to suffer infamy if the ☽ decrease in light it denotes the native to cover unlawfull loves impure and immodest lusts but neverthelesse seeking after and gaining an estate and riches If the ☽ seperate from ♄ and apply to ☿ and be increasing she signifies obscure close persons guilty of writing unlawfull letters studying celestiall sciences liberall arts good Orators and Physitians But if the ☽ decrease in light she impedites the speech or hearing the body is sickly subject to the spleene melancholy Coughs Dropsies and daily griefes of the Cholick If the ☽ seperate from ♃ and apply to ♂ in a nocturnall geniture and be increasing it denotes magistrates men in great power but holding their power in grea care and danger and not without sicknesse The ☽ seperating from ♃ and applying to the ☉ destroyes all the patrimony of Father and Mother the native to live from his Parents exiles fugitives slaves Captives especially if the ☽ be in the house of ♄ or ♂ If the ☽ increasing or at full seperate from ♃ and apply to ♀ it signifies noble potent powerfull persons but to live from their own house soone to want their parents but neverthelesse it signifies happinesse in the latter part of their age honest gratefull courteous persons and much happinesse to gaines by their wives If the ☽ seperate from ♃ and apply to ☿ he signifies Judges Collectors of money interpreters of the law religious persons in all things happy If the ☽ seperate from ♃ and apply to ♄ and be increasing or at full it signifies the native to be adopted by a stranger tutors or teachers of Children to be imployed in moist watry places Saylers Pilgrims but if the ☽ be decreasing it signifies servitude misfortune captivity continual sickness misery a miserable death if it be a nocturnall geniture a violent death If the ☽ seperate from ♂ and apply to the ☉ it signifies very great evills misfortunes shortnesse of life infelicity a violent death and to dye in a strange Country The ☽ seperating from ♂ and applying to ♀ at full or increasing denotes Adulterous libidinous lecherous persons loving and coveting libidinous Venereous acts and thereby oftentimes involving themselves into dangers it signifies Jewellers painters perfumers commonly dealers in mettals and somtimes according to the nature of the signe Vintners Innkeepers Victuallers If the ☽ be decreasing in light it signifies fortunate happy persons sollicitors about women and getting wealth by them gaining by their wives estate and credit but somtimes suffering disgrace by Venereous acts alwayes addicted to promiscuous lusts The full ☽ seperating from ♂ and applying to ☿ in a nocturnall geniture signifies great persons in great publique authority but wicked malicious alwayes coveting to do wickednesse if it be in a nativity by day and the ☽ at full it signifies them to receive a publique sentence of condemnation from the mouth of a Judge and therefore to be put to a violent death If the ☽ seperate from ♂ and apply to ♄ it denotes sluggish dull persons profitable for nothing if the ☽ be at full or increasing destroyers of their estate full of sundry vices But if the ☽ be decreasing it denotes hunger sicknesse Lunaticks falling sicknesse Hemorhoids and to dye a violent death If the ☽ seperate from ♂ and apply to ♃ it signifies powerfull rich fortunate persons but if she be decreasing in light it afflicts the native with secret hidden vices and frequent sicknesse The ☽ in a diurnall geniture seperating from the ☉ and applying to ♀ signifies barrennes hinders marriage and Children denotes preposterous loves filthy uncleane lusts persons addicted to servile studies and occupied in servile actions subsisting and maintayning themselvs by their owne endevours and in processe of time living happily But in a nativity by night it signifies the native to have many wives to be gratefull acceptable well beloved living in credit and getting a great estate The ☽ seperating from the ☉ and applying to ☿ in a diurnall geniture sigmfies the native to be full of danger in all his life and actions of evill manners sacrilegious denying the Divinity In a nocturnall geniture signifies publique Notaries Scriveners inventers of occult and secret writing or unlawfull letters finders out of secret things whereby some gaine an estate if not hindred by ♄ or ♂ The ☽ seperating from the ☉ in a diurnall geniture and applying to ♄ destroyes an estate divides one from his parents and brings him to want and misery but in processe of time gives an estate and happinesse but by night it signifies want destruction of ones estate much sicknesse and affliction The ☽ seperating from the ☉ and applying to ♃ by day signifies a great estate good fortune and happinesse beyond measure but in a nocturnall geniture the natives get their estate by their own industry are subject to daily travails apt to be deceived in their youth but in age they live in good credit and gaine good estates If the ☽ apply from the ☉ to ♂ in a diurnall geniture it signifies sudden death to the parents and want to the native commonly the parents dye a violent death the natives are subject to blindnesse or defects in the sight lame feeble bodyes they dye young somtimes a violent death if it be a nocturnall geniture it signifies cruell violent persons their imployment to be about fire Iron or Mettals subject to continuall labour The ☽ parting from ♀ and applying to ☿ if she be increasing or at full signifies stewards of noble women thereby gaining preferment it denotes also Dyers Jewellers Armourers delighters in Musick but libidinous subject to daily lusts but gratefull and amiable in venereous acts but if the ☽ decrease it signifies vitious uncleane persons but of various imployments as Orators makers of images ingracers Painters susteyning the care of others pleasures and delights The ☽ eperating from ♀ and applying to ♄ at full or increasing in a nocturnall geniture gives a wife that is a publique common woman or some of his kindred If it be a diurnall geniture and the ☽ decrease the native is addicted to filthy lusts and vitious delights and through libidinous acts getting great disgrace and infamy servile wandring filthy persons Bauds and keepers of Whore-houses if the native be a woman she will be a common Whore If it be in a nocturnall geniture it denotes barren persons Eunuchs He moprodites if the ☽ seperate from ♀ and apply to ♃ it signifies Noble men Cheif Magistrates of Citties grateful Courous lovers of women if the ☽ decrease it signifies the natives to gain much by womaen to live happy from their youth attaining to