he alters his nature for with ♀ and ☽ he is good but with the ☉ very evill and unfortunate CHAP. XXV Of the Conjunction of Mercury with Sol. MErcury with the ☉ by day in the ascendant signifies Kings Dukes and great persons But by night signifies the Father to be ignoble they will also be good Artists but live private and miserable according to the nature and quality of the signes Mercury and the Sol in the 2d house gives increase of estate and imployment about Princes The ☉ and ☿ in the 3d. house in ☌ signify interpreters of dreames Physitians Divines South-sayers Inchanters Astrologers Mathematitians Fortune-tellers In the 4th house ☿ and the ☉ in ☌ signifies ignoble persons skillfull and studious in hidden and unlawfull arts but neverthelesse honest and grave but the signe is deligently to be considered which they are posited in and the Lord of that signe for it is dangerous if they be so placed in the house of ♄ the Sun and ☿ in ☌ in the 5th house signifies noble persons easily bringing to perfection all things they desire but it is dangerous they never having constant felicity and apt to deceive many Mercury and the ☉ in ☌ in the 6th house signifies poore sluggish but laborious persons of ignorant parents dull and slow in all their actions unlesse some other starre be in the 10 but if any other starre be in the 10th house it is a signe of riches ingenuity and honour especially if a benevolent starre be in the 10th house The ☉ and ☿ in ☌ in the 7th house by day signifies great power riches to the native but neverthelesse a violent death But by night in this place they are very evil signifying perpetual evil to the native and to seeke his nourishment by daily labour and alwayes to be imployed in sordid actions and of stinking arts trades In the 8th house ☿ and the ☉ in ☌ signifies seeble diseased persons easy to be deceived in this place they signify sudden death and frequently madnesse Mercury and the ☉ in the 9th house signify exorcists and such as cure persons Possessed with details and evill Spirits and by such arts gaine the greatest part of their living The ☉ and ☿ in ☌ in the 10. house in such signes as they rejoyce in or are exahed in signifie great potent and powerfull persons especially if they have the restimony of ♃ Mercury and the ☉ in ☌ in the 11th house in the latter part of ones age give increase of estate and felicity The ☉ and Mercury in Conjunction in the 12th house denotes poore unhappy persons servile flaves and such as alwayes dye in a wandring Condition CHAP. XXVI Of the Conjunction of Mercury and Saturn MErcury and ♄ in ☌ in the ascendant in a diurnall genitute signifies hiders of money advocates men well skilled in the law scribes but of languishing bodyes and soone dye By night in this place they signify slaves servants and Captives and of freemen to be delivered into servitude and bondage to potent men If they be in a feminine signe in a nativity by night they signifie Evnuchs or barren men impotent in copulation sordid filthy impudent immodest persons In the 2d house ☿ and ♄ by day signifies herbarists and Physitians rich and famous in all their actions somtimes Orators according to the nature of the signe By night in this place they signifie lyars fools madmen keepers of Churches weake in some part of their bodyes and full of sundry vices often subject to be accused and put in prison having no Children Mercury and ♄ in the 3th house signifies water-bearers makers of Ornaments for Funeralls keepers of dead bodys or sepulchers Porters Saturn and ☿ in the 4th house signifies students in secret and unlawfull arts and get their living thereby but some that have ♄ and ☿ in the 4th are oftentimes subject to imprisonment Saturn and Mercury in ☌ in the 5th house cause the natives oftentimes to change their houses and dwellings signifie keepers of Granaries of Gemmes Pearls Aromaticks and mettalls and revealers of holy things Saturn and ☿ in ☌ in her 6th and 12. houses signifie in both alike for by day in either of these places they signifie knowledg inmany siences seeking into secret arts and mysteries desirous to know all humane things they are malitious and envious and often afflicted with vitious diseases But in either of these houses by night they signifie authors of false letters malitious wicked malefactors alwayes full of mischeife but if ♄ and ☿ be in either of these houses by day or night and ♂ Aspect them either by □ or ☠unlesse the evill be avoyded he signifies men to be punished by death for some Criminall offence Mercury and ♄ in ☌ in the 7th house signifies heires of women covetuous of great estates and lovers of women If they be in this house by night they denote misery to the native all his life and involved in many debts vitious and feeble of body malignant and malitious and subject to imprisonment for some accusation laid against them Mercury and ♄ in the 8th house in processe of time give increase of life and substance and to some an estate by the death of other men but they shall be troubled with some diseases about the belly by night in this place they signifie poverty and languishing sicknesse if the ☽ decreasing apply to Saturn or the full ☽ to Mars In the 9th house ☿ and ♄ signifie prophets makers of supersticious Images and religious ceremonies In the 10th house Mercury and Saturn signifie the native to inherit the estate of strangers inventors of great things writers actors or somtimes the procurators of great men if a fortunate starre Aspect them they signifie men of a divine wit Orators Masters of Oratory or Grammarians or Masters thereof Mercury and ♄ in ♂ in the 11th house fignifie the same things as they doe in the 5th In the 12th house ☿ and ♄ have the same signification as in the 6th house is exprest CHP. XXVII Of the Conjunction of Mercury aud Jupiter MErcury in conjunction with ♃ in the 1. house signifies noble men virtuous honest and honourable cheife magistrates or Governours of Townes and Citties alwayes delighting in Justice and honest actions Mercury and ♃ in the 2. house in a nativity by day signifies the native to have possessions and an estate adopted to him from strangers and in processe of time great felicity but in this place by night they signifie foolish persons of no durable felicity much subject to be deceived Mercury and ♃ in the 3. house signifie Magitians but alwayes lovers of goodnesse and virtue makers of hymnes religions persons and exciters of others to religious exercises keepers of temples foretellers of things to come all which are also signified by these Planets in the 9th house Merury and ♃ in ♂ in the 4th signifies singers and Organists Curates Tutors of Children and such as have the tuition of women
into some danger by reason of their friends or business and after many infortunes by the loss of Children they shall reioyce in an happy Off-spring Leo in the Mid-heaven signifies the native shall be wearied with many labours and obliged to some great person for honour or maintenance he will be valiant and in process of time flattered by many and by this means will raise many others he will be placed in some authority and increase his estate left him by his Father Taurus in the west Angle signifies the native shall be opprest with many adversaries alwaies covetous of venerous acts and subject to some infamy or disgrace he shall get an estate and lose it again and afterwards regain it again ♒ In the fourth House signifies danger of life by water and to whomsoever the native shall be profitable they will always be ingrateful to him CHAP. XL. The Horoscope in Sagittary SAgittary in the Ascendant signifies the native shall have many adversaries but an estate conferred upon him which he hoped not for he will be frequently in strange Countries going much by Sea in publick employments conversant on the water or about watery places having much Learning Prudent Ingenious and skilful in all Arts. ♠In the tenth denotes he shall be preferred to great power the common people shall obey him and many shall subsist by him but on whomsoever he bestows any thing they will alwaies be unthankful unto him ♊ in the seventh signifies the native shall have children and nephews in his old age he shall easily overcome all troubles and losses addicted to secret learning ingenuous just and prudent alwaies overtaking his adversary with subtil dissimulations teaching all things and in process of time attaining to happiness Pisces in the fourth or Imum Caeli intimates the native shall gain his livelihood about the water or in watery places hee will be of good credit known and noble disaffected to a wife or marriage unless ♃ behold that place by some Aspect then he easily takes a wife and is well affected to her but she is a whorish or adulterous woman CHAP. XLI Of the Horoscope in Capricorn THe Horoscope in ♑ signifies the native will be faithfull in his freind-ship to his friends subtill and wanting nothing that appertaines to the sustenance of his life he will travaile in strange Countryes and relieve strangers but they will alwayes be ingratefull to him he will be amiable of a little Spirit a long life and wealthy abounding in lust to women and contemning dispraising them when his lust is satisfied studious to learne hidden secrets either of others lives or of religion and holy things The Mid-Heaven in ♎ denotes the native to be just honest learned well-spoken performing vowes to God for deliverance from some danger or necessity he will have good successe in his actions but afterwards some misfortune yet he will gaine by the misfortune of others and have profit by others deaths and gaines some secret profit by some antient thing Cancer in the 7th signifies the native to undergoe much trouble by his freinds or kindred and to be subject to many dangers Aries in the 4th house signifies the native will fall into many errors and many disprofits his life subject to change and mutability somtimes in a high degree of dignity and somtimes cast downe in adversity he will have a wife and his first sonne or what sonne soever he hath shall be much debilitated with sicknesse CHAP. XLII Of the Horoscope in Aquarius A Quary in the ascendant signifies the native shall wast and lose whatsoever he hath gotten but shall againe gather it together he will cherish and relieve many but in what state soever he is placed he will be in many dangers despaired of by men but delivered by the asistance of God he will be smitten by many with the stroke of envy but he will be in some religious office and well known by his good acts to great men The Mid-Heaven in ♠denotes the native will be valiant but leading a hard life and conversation removing from place to place if he be ingenious he will have some servile office but the event of all his actions will be prosperous but about the beginning of his marriage he will suffer many misfortunes by his wife or Children and afterwards much good fortune is conferred upon him Leo in the 7th house signifieth the native and his wife will live at variance either he will joyne himselfe to some unworthy woman or burne in love to many and many enemies will rise against him with some sudden actions and by his own power he will take a wife belonging to another man or espoused to another or a widdow Taurus in the 4th house signifies the native to be great and much conversant amongst potent persons to gaine honour in all his actions and much esteemed for his learning and to live a very old age if the Lord of the geniture be also well posited CHAP. XLIII Of the Horoscope in Pisces THe Horoscope in ♓ signifies ingenious prudent persons faithfull friends but having many enemies and easily vindicating himselfe from them inclined to travaile and negotiations in forraigne Countryes and in processe of time increase of estate and felicity The Medium-Caeli in ♑ involvs the native into many troubles and dangers having many great variances with potent persons and subject to insnare himselfe for some other man losing all his first possession and estate and againe getting the dominion and possession of another mans estate by the meanes of some faithfull friend Virgo in the 7th house denotes the native to be prudent faithfull and helpfull to others having many faithfull secrets commited to him raising many friends by his helps but they alwayes prove ingratefull he will attaine to much riches and greatnesse and have a loving tender affection towards his wife but she will sometimes be ingratefull to him and he will suffer much misfortune by his Wife and Children The fourth house in ♋ denotes much siknesse and labour to the native secret hidden greifes but afterwards good fortune on a sudden an estate shall be confered upon him to supply all his wants and in his old age he shall dye suddenly in a strange Country but herein the Lord of the geniture is to be observed for some will give another Judgment hereof but this is the substantiall truth of it CHAP. XLIIII THe ascendant in the tearmes of Saturn doth signifie slow dull sluggish persons slow of speech alienated from all goodnesse hated in all their actions keeping anger long If ♄ be in the ascendant in his tearmes he denyes the native to have any brothers or sisters or the first borne to dye an evill death or some evill fortune to befall them and the native to have no Children If ♃ be in the Horoscope in the tearms of ♄ it signifies sordid covetuous persons alwaies doing servile acts and letting all their estate be at the disposing of others Mars so
and Pamphlets of Fryer Bacon and Doctor Foster which were idle stories impudently Fathered on them since their deaths just like the story of James Hinde the great thiefe the pranks which they Printed of him as done by him are all in an old tale-book Printed above a hundred yeares agoe which I had when I was a School-boy nay I have heard some persons impudently tell some things to have beene done by Mr. Lilly which you may verbatim read amongst other stuffe in a story of George a Greene. And I verily believe when ever Mr. Lilly dies the Pamphlets of Doctor Foster and Fryer Bacon will be new vampt in his name I cannot tell how he can thinke otherwise having had the experience of so many impudent lies imputed to him in his life time But let every one learne to know himselfe and keepe the Devill out of his own bosome and he need not feare him any where else Reader here is also annexed a Sygil of ♄ to be made when he comes into his Exaltation which I have the rather put in because the elected time is now a coming you may make an experiment of it which happens but once in 30. yeares it was taken out of an Antient Author hereafter perhaps you shall see the rest in the meane time study the great book of God and this and you shall see them both agree to your good which that it may is the desire of him who is Amicus omnibus inimicus nullis nisi sibipsi A studio in Arte Coelesti 15. Jan. 1655. R. Turner William Lilly student in Astrology unto the Lovers thereof THis kind of Astrology now published by Mr. Turner had its Original from the Aegyptians and was first made known to us in Europe by the learned Jew Even Ezra from whom I conceive Johannes Angelus had those Notes which he first published at Venice 1494. and twenty yeares after reprinted This learning is properly tearmed Monomaeriarum Doctrina or a part of the Doctrine of the Sphears and may be of great Concernment unto parents who desire to know those Magisteries or Professions which would best suit with the naturall constitution of their Children For this is very true that if the Nativity be exactly rectified and the true Degree of the signe arising Horoscope or Ascendant exactly found out and then compared with the Decanate or Face of that signe so arising I say then much of the Inclination of the Child will be found out and unto what Magistery he is most propense and so the Parent may accordingly suite his Child with a Trade or Profession answerable unto his proper Genius or disposition by which means the Native is like to prove an absolute Master in that Profession he shall be put unto I am straitned of time else I would discover very manifold Uses of this booke The Author hath very well translated it and delivered the Astrologicall sence of every sentence judiciously I wish both the Translator Stationer and Book it selfe a kind acceptance the matter very highly deserving it Thine William Lilly FINIS Errata Page 2. line 6. dele like l. 12. dele in and for righ read right l. 15. r. Laborious p. 4. l. 18. after standing a. p. 5. l. 14. for retchlesse r. restlesse p. 8. l. 11. r. of eod r. and. p. 10.8 r. Covetous p. 16. l. 22. r. ascends p. 17. l. 11. r. the. p. 22. l. 16. for Virgo r. Saturn p. 25. l. 16. r. a role p. 27. l. 6. r. covetously p. 33. l. 25. r. a Camel p. 45. l. 11. r. after shoulder r. it signifies a man without Power p. 48. l. 14. for Venus r. Mercury p. 53. l. 1. for Aries r. Saturn p. 55. l. 27. r. of Pisces p. 59. l. 7. for Crump r. Cramp l. 13. for Aries r. Mars l. 20. for Leo r Saturn p. 62. l. 1. for Aries posited r. Saturn posited p. 62. l. 9. for Aries r. Saturn p. 63. l. 9. for Aries r. Saturn l. 11. for 6. r. Conjunction p. 66. l. 18. r. beholds Pt 72. l. 2. dele valitious l. 11. r. rejoyceth p. 74. l. 20 r. Herdsman p. 75. l. 13. r. diaffected l. ult for Taurus r. Venus p. 77. l. 14. r. Iupiter p. 82. l. 9. for joyned to r. beholding l. 12. r. he be p. 85. l. 8. r. Covetous p. 87. l. 25 r. Lamenesses p. 90. l. ult for Saturn r. Mars p. 95. l. 16. for and posited r. posited and. p. 96. l. 19. fo the Mars read that Mars p. 103. l. 17. r. lascivious p. 114. l. 23. r. fortune p. 116. l. 22. r. aspect p. 122. l. 22. r. the 6th p. 122. l. 25. r. Sicences p. 129. l. 14. r. Opposition l. 24. r. Mercury and Mars p. 131. l. 18. r. opposite p 134. l. dele they p. 135 l. 8. r. infamous p. 135. l. 12 dele to p. 141. l. 13. dele Opposition or p. 145. l. 21. for quartile Mars p. 147. l. 1. r. great l. 16. to r. and p. 152. l. 11. r. Courteous p. 152. l. 13. r. women p. 152. l. ult r. cruelly 153. l. r. wickednesse John Angelus OF Astrology CHAP. I. Of the Faces of the Signes their Signification the Formes of every Degree of the Zodiack with the Condition and Description of the person signified by them THe first Face of Aries is of Mars and it is a Face of Boldness Fortitude Stoutnesse and Immodesty The Second face of Aries is of the Sun and is a Face of Nobility Highnesse Rule and great Dominion The Third Face of Aries is of Venus and is a Face of Subtilty in every work and of Meeknesse of Play Mirth and Beauty In the first Face of Aries ascends a Valiant man Armed holding out a Fauchion in his right Hand In the Second Face ascends a man in a gowne like a Clergy man The third face ascends like a young woman sitting on a stooll and playing on a Lute The Formes ascending throughout all the Degrees of Aries In the First degree of ♈ there ascendeth a man holding a Sicle in in his righ hand and in his left hand an Engyne of Warre A man then borne or querent shall be laboirous and much exercised in Warlike affaires In the Second degree of ♈ there ascendeth a man having a Head like a Dog stretching out his right hand towards the Skies and holding a Staffe in his left hand It denotes the man borne under that degree will be a Litigious and troublesome person and envious as a dog The Third degree of ♈ ariseth like a handsome man stretching forth his right hand as if he were shewing the various things of the world and applying his left hand to a girdle bound about him It signifies a peaceable quiet person In the Fourth degree of ♈ there ascendeth a man with a curled head of haire holding a Hawk in his right hand and a whip in his left hand The person signified by this ascention is seldom rich but a spender of his estate
first born or first nourished or those Bretheren which were born before do depart out of the place he giveth a haughty proud and high Spirit But if ♄ be in the horoscope by day and ♂ possesse any other Angle of the Geniture or be in the Angle of the Ascendant he Signifies much evill and bringeth many Dangers and losse of estate and expence of ones patrimony and more frequently if no benevolent Stars be joyned with them or cast their powerfull Rayes unto them Saturn in the horoscope in a naivity by night he that hath him so placed shall be troubled with great labours and continually oppres thereby he shall be exercised in imployments about waters but his conversation shall always be laborious Saturn placed in the 2. place from the Horoscope giveth to the native great sicknesse and many overthrowes he is a destroyer of wife and Children and a frequent stirrer up of great troubles a waster of the substance both of Father and Mother and the native will be slow and dull in all his actions to some he giveth continuall infirmnesse of body But if Saturn be thus constituted and ♂ in any Angle of the geniture and behold the Sun by a □ or ☠or the ☽ increasing with the like Aspect he causeth poverty and misery and a body overprest with daily labours But if ♄ be in the second in a nativity by day he giveth increase of substance but slowly and by degrees but the native will be of a low Spirit and one delighting to live obscure and secret and alwayes denying that they have any thing and he giveth increase of estate to some through imployments about the water ♈ posted in the 3. giveth a slow sluggish idle body not regarding to get any estate but if he be placed in this house with the ☽ or ♀ he maketh the native foolish malicious speaking sacrilegious words against divinity wasters of their Patrimony Theeves but seldom have good successe therein If ♈ be thus posited and ♂ joyned to him by any Aspect whatsoever he maketh the native a flase accuser a sycophant wicked malevolent envious and malitious and alwayes dying an evill death Saturn partilely placed in the fourth house that is in Imo-Coeli if it be by day he signifies the native to be a covetuous hoarder up and keeper of Gold and Silver but in this place by night then the native is a spender of his Patrimony bringeth sudden death to the Father he also afflicteth the body with great sicknesse cold diseases and infirme old age If the ☽ behold him by a □ or ☠or if the ☽ be placed in the same house with him he giveth barrennesse and causeth the native to adopt strangers Children for his own or maketh him a tutor of little Children deformeth the body through some hidden griefe wherewith he alwayes languisheth he maketh the Mother a widdow and afflicteth her with many diseases incident to women and continuall paines and griefs of the stomack Saturn posited in the 5. house by day maketh Kings or Dukes or raiseth the native to great power and authority But if ♈ be thus posited and not the ☉ but ♃ in the Horoscope and ♄ separated from a 6. of ☽ he giveth perpetuall felicities great Power and Magistracy But if ♄ be thus posited and not the ☉ but ♃ in the Horoscope he raiseth the native to a lesser office of Magistracy but signifieth a governour of some City or the like neverthelesse he maketh him Lord of a great estate and one that susteineth others by his riches But if neither ☉ nor ♃ be in the Horoscope and ♄ be placed in the fifth and separated from a ☠of ☽ he giveth substance and possessions but commonly the native leads a single life or joynes himself to some unworthy match But if ♄ be thus placed in a Nocturnall Geniture he giveth some happinesse to the native in the later part of his age but the continuance thereof is uncertaine and the man slow in all his actions but if the moone be joyned unto him and deficient in light it destroyes a mans estate and makes him miserably spend what before he had gotten Saturn placed in the sixt house destroyes a mans estate for he is alwayes ill posited there for he giveth much sicknesse if the ☽ decreasing be joyned to him or behold him by a □ or ☠he is the author of much unhappinesse he makes men unhappy infamous vagabonds such as can seldom subsist long in a place But if ♂ do behold ♄ thus placed by a □ or ☠or be in the same signe with him he giveth many hidden and secret griefs of body as ptisicks dysenteries and if they be thus placed and their malignancy not mitigated by the benevolent beames of some good starre they bring death to the native by some of the fore-mentioned diseases Saturn in the 7. house that is the West Angle partilely posited in a diurnall Geniture is good and giveth a good estate and old age signifieth the native to be a covetuous keeper of money and for diseases he signifies secret infirmities the Hemorrhoides and shrinking of the sinewes Saturn thus placed in a nativity by night causeth Fistulaes Hemorrhoides and such diseases about the fundament especially if ♂ be in any Aspect with him he causeth Rheumatick bodies and the native is very subject to impostumes and oftentimes the death of their wives happen by some such infirmity Saturn in the 8. house by day giveth a good estate in old age and if he be thus placed in the house of ♂ or termes of ♂ he brings profit to the native by the death of strangers But if ♄ be thus placed in a nativity by night he destroys the estate of the native or if the ☽ behold him by a □ or ☠he is ill placed here or if the ☽ be in the house of ♄ and behold him with the like Aspects or if the ☽ be so placed with ♄ and ♂ behold him with any such Aspect it brings a violent death to the native But if ♂ and ♃ behold ♄ and the ☽ so placed with any good Aspect it is fortunate and giveth a prosperous life but the native is alwayes unconstant in his love towards women a good Aspect is a a ▵ or ⚹ Saturn in the 9. house maketh famous men opinionated Philosophers Priests men that have alwayes some imaginary opinions also according to the quality of the signe he maketh witches diviners Mathematitians interpreters of Divinity Prelates somtimes Diviners and Interpreters of dreames but most frequently he signifies Philosophers but ♄ thus posited in a nativity by night stirreth up the wrath of God and the hatred of the Prince towards the native especially if the ☽ carry light to him any way whatsoever but he that is thus borne receiveth more evil from the anger of God then from his Prince if ♄ be so placed with the Moone and ♂ behold him but these evils are mitigated if ♃ cast his beames to
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
a great estate much honour and love amongst great men But if ♂ and ♃ be thus posited and the ☽ apply to ♂ by a fortunate Aspect it signifies great honour power to the native Captaines and Generalls of Armeis to whom is commited authority over life and death and great power of the sword but if the ☽ behold him not but Venus be with him or behold him by a â–³ he signifies the native to be rich and happy pursuing honourable acts of proper handsome bodies But by day Mars signifies the native shall spend his estate and frequently change his house and because of misfortunes happening to him he often dies in a strange Country or undergoes some eminent danger But if ♃ or ♀ be joyned to him or behold him by a â–³ or âš¹ they bring great profit to the native by travaile and recall him soone home to his own Country But if by day the ☽ increasing be in ☠to him let him feare great trouble or danger of bondage to happen to him For although he seeme to be happy yet his happinesse is alwayes subject to the power of another for he signifies Councellors to great Judges accusations seditions troubles losse and sudden dangers weakness in some part of the body somtimes madnesse burning feavers which cause phrensies he also signifies Jayles Bondage and imprisonment unlesse Jupiter beholding the ☽ in the ☠to ♂ or ♂ himself abate these calamities for Jupiter brings sudden help ♂ also in this place by day denies Children without the testimony of Jupiter Mars in the 6th house signifies much ill brings hurt to Children gives inequality of life he gives diseases according to the quality of the signes in crooked signes he denotes lamenses and crooked deformity and signifies all kinds of diseases in this place Mars in the 7th house is very evill causeth great dangers to the native signifies great labours homicides wicked persons guilty Inventors of wickednesse Tormentors Hang-men Traytors But if he behold his own house by an ☠he gives not a violent death for ♂ never destroyes his own house but generally ♂ in the 7. by day or night causes a violent death according to the nature of the signe But these evills are more violent in signes contrary to him for in this Place he gives many griefes and troubles of body somtimes sudden death or perpetuall imprisonment in nativities by night he causeth trouble to proceed from all their actions oftentimes causes wounds by fire or Iron great secret diseases and infirmities of body especially if he be lord of the time or partake thereof with the full ☽ But if ♄ be posited with Mars or in the mid-heaven or it be the power of ♄ or if the full ☽ apply to ♂ or ♄ it denotes great evill to the native and many misfortunes somtimes accusations somtimes imprisonment somtimes losse great sentences pronounced against him or he is cast unto wild-beasts cast down headlong destroyed by domestick treachery killed by theeves or perisheth by shipwrack but these are discerned by the quality of the signes for in earthly signes he signifies death by wild-beasts in solid signes destruction by some fall headlong in watry signes drowning in humane signes to perish by the sword but if the ☉ be in ☠to him or with him or in any Angle of the geniture he signifies the native to be burned alive and afflicts him with lamentable miseries before the last day of his life he shall suffer hurt by fire iron violence torments or homicides ♂ also greviously afflicts Wives and Children in the 7th house Mars in the 8th house by day either denies any estate or causeth the native miserably to spend what he hath if he have the ☉ and ☽ in ☠he causeth blindnesse but if he be alone in this place he signifies want penury trouble sedition and danger but if the ☽ be in the second and ♃ in no Aspect to Mars and behold not the ascendant he giveth a violent death according to the quality of the signe in humane signes to be slaine by the sword by Pirates or theeves or by his own houshould or to be put to death for sonne crime by the sentence of the Judge and to come to some publique cruell death without the testimony of Jupiter or ♀ in earthly signes to be slayne in some desert place having first undergone great troubles in four-footed signes to be drowned in some River or Lake or cast into the Sea by Pirates in solid signes death by a sudden fall in fiery signes burning By night he signifies the native to be crafty and have some good office neverthelesse violent or sudden death But if Jupiter be joyned to him or behold him by any good Aspect he mitigates these evills or if ♃ be in the ascendant or the ascendant the house of Iupiter or ♀ these mitigate and abate his malice Mars in the 9th house is good giveth a happy and honourable life especially if Jupiter be in the ascendant but by night if Jupiter be in the Horoscope he signifies Magistracy such as have the power of the sword leaders of Armies but frequently causeth some dammage in travailes but if the 9. be the house of ☿ or ♀ he signifies learned famous Doctors and Orators but if he be in his own house or in the house of Jupiter or in his exaltation and Jupiter not in the ascen dant it signifies the native to be a terr or to evill Spirits and easily to expell them and command them to depart out of any one that is possest with them Mars in the 10th house by night in his own house or the house of Jupiter in a masculine signe or in his exaltation subjecteth the native to great danger and often is easie to be deceived neverthelesse he signifies cheife rulers Captaines Lords of life and death Tyrants and terrible Governours in Townes and Countries but commonly dying an evill death Mars in the 11th house is very fortunate and good giveth increase of estate and lore amongst people giveth some dignity or preferment if the ☽ be with him decreasing and Jupiter be old him with a good Aspect or be with him or joyned to him by a â–³ then he signifies Judges or such as have the power of the sword Mars in the 12th house by day giveth great troubles and evill signifies losse by wicked treacherous servants much sickness cares and dangers but by night these are all mitigated We ought alwayes to wish in all genitures either by day or night that ♂ be in some â—ood Aspect either with ♀ or Jupiter for they abate his malice and also it is to be desired that Mars possesse no Angle of any birth for Mars in any Angle of a geniture by day doth divers wayes afflict the native if by day Mars possesse one Angle ♄ another and ♃ another he signifies a violent death to the natives or to be selfe murderers But if by day ♂ be in one Angle and ♀ in another he
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 ♂
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
and somtimes to finde some hidden treasures by chance whereby they attaine to great happinesse In the 5th house ☿ and ♃ by day or night do signifie the same thing in processe of time they raise the native to great power and make them happy in all their actions easily attaining what they desire the same signification they have in the 11th house Mercury and ♃ in the 6th house by night and day have the same signification and are very fortunate fignifying happinesse to the native in all his actions especially if any other starre be in the 10th house or if the ☽ apply to them it denotes great riches to the native and to flow in money to be Lords of much Gold and great possessions Mercury and ♃ in the 7th house by night or day signifies gaine and profit from women publique offices men of long life a happy old age of good Counsell and good manners alwayes coveting good things but if it be in a nativity by night and ♂ behold ☿ and ♃ by a □ or ☠it diminisheth their goodness Mercury and ♃ in ♂ in the 8th house in a diurnall geniture are but moderatly good the native subsisting by his own invention they signifie some disgrace to the native in his youth but in the latter part of his age increase of estate If they be in this house by night either the native gaines somthing himself to subsist well on or some great estate is conferred upon him but they denote a sickly body Mercury and ♃ in the 9th house have the same signification as in the third In the 10th house ☿ and ♃ signifies magistrates and men or great power according to the quality of the native In the 11th house they have the same signification as in the 5th Mercury and ♃ in the 12th house in a nativity by night and orientall signifies secretaries to Princes States or great men Notaries but often offending subject to much unhappinesse in their youth or put to a violent death but in a diurnall geniture they signifie the native not to be so much subject to offences and to continue longer in their place or office if in this place they be Occidentall the native is more slow in his actions they denote a sinister unhappy fate much subject to trouble and popular actions CHAP. XXVIII Of the Conjunction of Mercury and Mars MErcury and ♂ in ♂ in the first house are very unfortunate and Signifie unhappinesse to befall the native by unlawfull love and for some evil deed to be put to a violent death if it be a diurnall Geniture But by night he Signifies men of great Offices Captaines and such as shall have good successe in warr But if by night ♂ ☿ be so posited and ♄ behould them by a □ or ☠he Signifies much unhappiness to the native ☿ and ♂ in the 2. house by day Signifies vagabonds fugitives Captives and a violent death if the full ☽ behold them but in this house by night Signifies men of an evil minde wicked malicious but subject to be deceived in all their Actions Mercury and ♂ in the 3d. house Signifies foretellers of things to come suchas are much conversant in Implovment about Churches and in process of time happiness ☿ and ♂ in the 4th house signifie men of a poor unfortunate Condition enemies and treacherous to their parents and freinds practisers of unlawfull acts alwayes by their evil actions involving themselves into trouble bringing poverty upon themselves and subject to great and long sicknesse if the ☽ behold them by a □ or ♂ But if it be by night they Signifie the native to come to some publique office as Captaines or Magistrates but to dye a violent death Mars and ☿ in the 5th house Signifies valiant noble men Conquerers and invincible in all their actions publique treasurers tyrants and terrible to all their adversaries In the sixth house ☿ ♂ in a diurnall Geniture signifies great sickness Imprisonment the native to suffer much by false accusations and Circumventions of his Servants and servile persons or to suffer false Imprisonment for others mens facts and to suffer great torments or a violent death especially if the full ☽ any way beheld them But if ♂ and ☿ be thus posited by night they signifie the native to be much in debt or suffer much by usury they denote sluggish and dull persons in all their actions and to suffer many unjust accusations by their servants and envious persons Sometimes the natives are cruell to their servants afflicting them with over much labour hunger and torments Mercury and ♂ in the 7th house in a diurnall Geniture Signifie the native will kill his wife or some other woman by reason of some unlawfull lust and by reason thereof to suffer Imprisonment and death but generally ♂ and ☿ so posited signifies Homicides Theeves Pirates and such like according to the nature of the signes alwayes pursuing evil actions and to receive a publique sentence of death for some wicked fact If they be thus posited by night they Signifie the native to be involved in trouble by reason of some unlawfull acts committed with women Mercury and ♂ in the 8th house in a diurnall Geniture signifie the native seldome attaines to what he desires subject to many dangers and losse of all their estates foolish and willfull persons often Imprisoned and dying a violent death By night in this house he signifies men of evil parts studious to execute evil offices and alwayes living by evil acts it signifies Theeves Robbers Faith-Breakers Inventors or Actors of wickedness Tormentors Hangmen subsisting by such actions or oftentimes subject to dy a violent death Mercury and ♂ in the 9th house Signifies irreligious unjust perjured persons of erronious mindes spoilers of Churches sacrilegious especially if they be farr from the Sunbeames or oppsiote to the Sun or in his house or if the fulls ☽ behold them by □ or ☠Mercury and ♂ in the 10th house sinnifies weak and miserable persons loving navigation and watery places sometimes slaves to Kings and great Men according to the quality of the signes But commonly ♂ and ☿ in the 10th house signifie the native to be imployed in some publique office but not long to continue in it by reason of some false accusation to be against him whereby he will lose his place and estate unlesse he be friendly aspected by Jupiter Mercury and ♂ and ♀ in the 11th house signifie alwayes the native to dye in fight lovers of watery places of weapons sound Counsellers happy in all their actions Mercury and ♂ in the 12th house are very unfortunate and signifies many Calamities to the native for they who have ♂ and ☿ so posited are much addicted to false-hood and wicked acts much oppressed with debt subject to suffer publique shame and disgrace by reason of their perfidious wickednesse CHAP. XXIX Of the Conjunction of Mercury and Venus MErcury and ♀ in the ascendant in a diurnall Geniture signifies men belonging
west angle it brings servitude or imprisonment to the mother But if by night the ☽ be in this place at full it signifies a Mother rich and noble and greatly raises the natives by daily increase of riches But if the ☽ be in the 4th house and the ☉ in the ascendant the natives receive deserts of happinesse some by religion others by negotiations about women but by day they signifie ignoble wandring persons their whose lives full of troubles and dangers imployed somtimes in some servile office about the Church especially if any evill starres behold the ☽ The ☽ in the 5th house by night signifies the native to have many Sonnes and joy with them or from them but in a diurnall geniture she giveth many daughters In the 6th house the ☽ increasing in light and well aspected by good Planets gives profit to the native by four footed beasts and health and soundnesse of body but if beheld by the rayes of evill lanets she signifies miserable humble servile laborious persons The ☽ in the 7th house in a nocturnall geniture in those signes wherein she is exalted or rejoyceth and increasing in light well Aspected by ♃ or ♀ gives a happy old age profit by women and a happy marriage but if she be oppressed by the malevolent beames of evill Planets especially in a diurnal geniture and decrease in light she hinders marriage and when she doth give a wife she is a widdow barren or very much deformed and ilfavoured The ☽ in the 8th house gives an estate by the dead and denotes sudden death to the native without paine or torment but if ☠or ♄ do behold her by â–¡ or ☠she often signifies lunaticks In the 9th house the ☽ being placed in a diurnall geniture signifies the native to remaine sordidly in the Churches and to pretend to reveale somthing to men declared unto them from God but in a nativity by night she signifies divine worshippers of God religious persons having some office about the Church men of various Cogitations if she be in the house of ☿ Astronomers if of ♀ singers if the house of ♂ Armourers makers of weapons if the house of ♃ devout persons well skilled in the law if of ♄ Chymists if the house of the ☉ profit by fourfooted beasts if she be in ♋ her own house the native hath knowledge in all things belonging to the water The ☽ in the 10th house in a nocturnall geniture in a signe wherein she is exalted or rejoyceth and increase in light and be well Aspected by ♃ signifies great potent persons having in their hands the power of life and death great Counsellors Dukes Magistrates happy in all their actions But if ♄ be in any other Angle of the geniture it signifies much envy and unhappinesse to oppresse the native In a nativity by day the ☽ in the 10th house signifies the native to be subject to be deceived in all his actions but if the ☉ be in the first in his own house or exaltation or in the house of ♃ it signifies great potent persons happy in their actions The ☽ in the 11th house hath the same signification as in the fifth house is declared The ☽ in the 12th house in a nocturnall geniture signifies long life but if ♃ or ♀ or either of them be in the ascendant it signifies power and happinesse But if ♄ or ♂ in a nocturnall geniture be in the ascendant or one of them and the Moen in the 12th it signifies many evills misfortunes and sicknesse both to the native and his Mother But if there be no Planet in the ascendant and the ☽ in the 12th house in a nativity by day it signifies misery and destruction of the estate Or if she be alone in this house by night she signifies miserable servile laborious men their bodies having a filthy savour subject often to be deceived and suffer loss by strange Journeys The ☽ so placed in the place of fortune and apply to ♃ or be with him fignifies great happinesse and magistracy If with ♀ or apply to ♀ denotes much honesty if she apply to ☿ â—â—gnifies men happy potent ingenious cordiall by learning raising themselves to dignity and increase of their estate If the ☽ be in this place and apply to ♂ it signifies miserable laborious persons laboring in fire or about Iron and getting their living thereby if she apply to ♄ it signifies the native to spend both his Fathers and Mothers estate and to die an erist death In all genitures the course of the ☽ is to be diligently observed not only on the very day of the birth but also we ought diligently to inquire on the 3. day of the nativity to what starre and by what Aspect she is joyned from whom she separates and to whom she applies whether she increase or decrease in light and what malevolent starres behold her for the 3d. day gives the same Judgment in all things as the first which being diligently observed and collected together we can never erre in giving judgment of the fates of men by their nativities If the ☽ apply or be carryed to ♄ and increase in light it signifies widdow-hood to the mother destruction of the estate and much misfortune If the ☽ increase in light and apply to ♃ or be joyned to him it signifies rich faithfull honest happy persons if ♂ do not behold her by a â–¡ or ☠otherwise it signifies much misery and unhappinesse If the ☽ increasing apply to ♂ or be joyned to him in a nocturnall geniture it signifies crafty violent dangerous persons often subject to be deceived by day weake feeble bodies subject to diseases about the eyes and stomach and to dye a violent death If the ☽ be carryed to the ☉ or be joyned to him what part of the scheame soever it be in it signifies miserable persons in all things unfortunate afflicted daily with sicknesse If the ☽ be carryed to ♀ and ♀ partilely receive the beames of the approaching ☽ and if the ☽ increasing apply her selfe to the ♂ of ♀ if signifies noble Parents but the natives to be seperated from their affections and miserably burdened with want but they are well known noble full of grace and honesty and in proces of time gaine increase of estate But if the ☽ decreasing apply so to ♀ she signifies power happinesse in youth but to be scandalized with daily reports unchast lustful and burning in lust towards women especially if ♂ behold them with a â–¡ and the evills are the greater if the ☽ and ♀ be in the house of ♄ or â–¡ without the testimony of ♃ If the ☽ be joyned to ☿ she signifies eloquent orators especially if ☿ be wel placed in his own signes or tearmes or ♃ behold them with a â–µ If the ☽ seperate from ♄ and apply to ♃ it denotes rich wealthy happy persons The full ☽ seperating from ♄ and applying to ♂ signifies much sicknesse and infirmities and the native to
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
possessions great gaines or some honorable office in the Church The ☽ seperating from ♀ and applying to ♂ in a diurnall Geniture at full or increasing signifies misery destruction imptisonment or a sudden death by reason of the love of some one but if in nocturnall Geniture the ☽ so apply to ♂ it signifies cruell persons in great power but subject to daily dangers and mischances If the ☽ be transferred from ☿ to the ☉ it seperates the native from his parents by some bitter falling out Whereby he is cruell burdened with want full of trouble but unchast and miserably afflicted with love but after youth is past in proces of time he increaseth his estate and easily attaines his desires If in a diurnall Geniture the ☽ increasing seperate from ☿ and apply to ♄ it denotes deasnesse flammerers or such as have some impediment in their speech interpreters priers into secret acts laylors but if it be a nativity by night it signifies watermen or men imployed to labour about the water but if malevolent starrs afflict them it denotes imprisonment and ill fortune to the native If the ☽ be transferred from ☿ to ♃ it signifies great men Embassadours Treasurers stewards of Noble men priests rich happy persons If the ☽ be increasing or at full or apply from ☿ to ♂ in a diurnall Geniture it signifies irreligious perjured fallacious wicked persons full of malice their wicknesse daily increasing Theeves Robbers Church-Breakers Homicides murderers and for some wicked act to suffer a violent death If it be in a Nocturnall Geniture and the ☽ at full or increasing appyly to ♂ it signifies Captaines Governors of cities men in great power but terrible tyrants never standing long in their power but divers wayes offending and therefore to be deposed banished or put to a violent death if the ☽ seperate from ☿ and apply to the Sun it signifies men dull in their understanding impedited in their speech deaf poor wandring people having no Constant dwelling house but in process of time these evils will be qualified and after the time of youth is past they gain a lively hood by sundry imployments if in a Nocturnall Geniture the full ☽ separate from ☿ and ayply to ♀ it signifies men imployed in publique actions getting Credit and honour in all their actions and increase of hapinesse it signifies orators men of fluent tongues poets gaining by women and womens affaires Makers of painting Pictures and Colours Medecines Iewellers but living meanly neither abounding nor in want intemperate in venereous acts and thereby getting some disgrace But if in a nocturnall geniture the ☽ be decreasing and apply to ♀ it signifies rich and wealthy persons having the cheife government of some Townes or Cities especially if the ☽ be free from the beames of the ☉ and so likewise ♀ But if this ♂ be in the other places of the geniture it signifies men alwaies of honest actions and gaining an estate by their own if in a nativity by day the ☽ decreasing by joyned to ♀ and this ♂ be in the 10th house it signifies religious persons builders of Churches Prelates or men bearing great Offices in the Church but in any other places of the geniture this ♂ signifies men of meane estates occupied in arts about mettals or Leather-dressers sellers of perfumes or sweete spices polishers of precious Jewells Colourers of Gemms and Jewells ingravers of Images builders Choristers such as have knowledge in celestiall sciences learned in hidden and secret arts and by such meanes gaining their lively-hood The Signification of the 12 Signes or Houses in the four Angles of Heaven CHAP. XXXII The Signification of the Horoscope in Aries IF the Horoscope be found in ♈ the Medium Caeli in ♑ the 7th house in Libra and the fourth in ♋ we come now generally to explaine what the Horoscope in ♈ and the other three Angels signifies The Horoscope in ♈ for the most part signifies youth denyeth any brethren or only one liveth of many and he is debilitated by the bitternesse of some vice whereby his name is hated he keepeth not his Fathers estate in the same state it was left him but somtimes wastes and spends it and againe gathers it together to some he will seeme free from too much liberality and displease others with his free liberality bestowing benefits upon ungratefull persons that will never give him thanks he will be mutable unconstant and subject to griefes and paines in the head If the Medium Caeli be also partilely in ♑ he will persevere to attaine to some honorable acts and flatter with a certaine humility he will be placed in some office chiefe in some learned imployment maintayning many procureing estates to others ingenious in many necessary things penetrating into celestiall secrets if ☿ behold that place or be in that house The third Angle the 7th house chalengeth wherein if ♎ be posited it signifies the native to be a daily servant in the houses of Kings or Princes or imployed in publique actions but their lives to be mutable and of an unequall fortune infelicity following happinesse and misfortune prosperity casting them suddenly down from the highest degree of dignity to the lowest of humility envy alwaies fighting against their happinesse especially if ♃ do not behold the Horoscope by a ▵ or be not posited therein the evils are the stronger The next Angle is the 4th house wherein if ♋ be found and the Horoscope in ♈ it signifies famous happy persons if ♃ be in the ascendant and behold that place or be in that place but some of the natives kindred will be adversaries to him either because of himselfe or of some necessary thing belonging to him he will be sordid and slovenly in his haire but will alwayes have plenty of all necessaries especially if ♃ be found in any Angle CHAP. XXXIII Of the Horoscope in Taurus THe Horoscope in Taurus alwayes denotes the native to be defatigated with many labours losing whatsoever he gets in his youth but afterwards whatsoever he lost before he shall cheerefully regaine and a plentifull increase of happinesse he shall see his enemyes miserably cast down and kept in continuall subjection if the Medium Caeli be in ♒ he shall alwayes be in favour and freindship amongst great men and his whole life shall be conversant in publique actions and his imployment for the most part to be about the water sometimes enviously accused but he shall have increase of riches as well as losse If the 7th house be the signe the native will be prudent in the whole conversation of his life nourishing others by some Office of his procuring burying his first wife and if the native be a woman she buryeth her husband and a sonne If the 4th house be in Leo the native gaines an estate by his own proper labour and by divers kindes of wyles gaines a great estate but alwayes living happily but these things are to be judged according to the nature
of the geniture CHAP. XXXIIII Of the Horoscope in Gemini IF the Horoscope be found in ♊ it signifies the native to begin his life with labour to receive comfort from his parents bound in freind-ship to wicked men Which gives his patrimony If the Medium Caeli be in ♓ it signifies the native to live in watry places and to possesse his estate and patrimony to gaine his livelihood by other mens endevours and either to be potent in two Citties or to divide his patrimony If the West Angle be in â™ he brings some damage to himselfe or his kindred occasioned by him and his minde to be troubled with many cares by reason of the various changes of the time he shall have many enemies and be beaten out of his own Country to wander in strange Nations but afterwards shall returne to his own Country and his estate be restored unto him The 4th house in â™ signifies the first part of the natives age shall be wearyed with the continuation of many labours but in process of time to attaine to many felicities and much happinesse but all these things are to be considered by the position or the whole geniture which we have frequently desired you diligently to observe CHAP. XXXV The Horoscope in Cancer THe Horoscope in Cancer signifies acute ingenious persons doing al things with moderation subject to much anger but the same is soone mitigated and qualified they subsist by publique imployments or offices using much flattery If the Horoscope be in ♋ and ♄ therein it signifies a violent death or much sicknesse or their own brothers to suffer for their vices If ♈ be in the 10th house or Medium Caeli it signifies the native to lead his life amongst great men to have his daily subsistance from other mens estates alwaies seeking after and desiring good things but his estate subject to mutability somtimes loosing and as often gaining Capricorne in the 7th house denotes the native shall be troubled with some daily hidden afflictions but the same shall be appeased after much disprofit he will be ingenious in his actions and understanding but susteyning some secret griefe and his minde afflicted with many forrowes Libra in the 4th bouse or Imum Caeli denotes the native shall suffer many labours applying to civill women and conversant in popular imployments he will wast the substance of his patrimony that is left him he will be in power and necessary to others well learned and trusted with others secrets attaining to a very old age and have an honorable buriall If Mercury be in the following signe he will be preferred before all his brethren but if ♀ be in the 2d house the daughters have most preferment if the Lord of the geniture be well placed and Aspected by benevolent starres CHAP. XXXVI Of the Horoscope in Leo IF the Horoscope be found in ♌ he that hath this ascendant shall be subject to much labour and many dangers well known alwayes ingenious one having free power not expressing his malice in all things desirous to live and Rule and getting the Substance of his estate by his own endeavours but if ♂ be partilely placed in the ascendant or the ☉ behold him with a â–¡ or ☠he denies having any Children but if ♃ be found so placed he gives one daughter The Medium Caeli in ♉ signifies the native to live in some publique imployment or in the Church to Contract marriage with some widdow whore servile person or old woman or one publiquely infamous he shall receive his greatest honour from some potent person he will be Ignorant but neverthelesse shall have a prosperous increase of fortune Fortune alwayes favours fools If â™’ be in the 7th house it signifies his life shall be subject both to losse and gain he will be gratefull and approved in some things If â™ be in the 4th house he will be the Chief in some imployments but if ☠do behold this place by any aspect he will sometimes be imprisoned if ♂ be so posited and orientall he will be a souldier or Commander of an army but will dye in some strange and forraigne place a Sudden or violent death CHAP. XXXVII The Horoscope in Virgo THe Horoscope being in â™ signifies many Cares and troubles to the native he will be skilfull in telling things to come much subject to unlawfull loâ—e Coveting the Society of many women but he shall labour with these vices but untill the Anaphora of his signe be Compleated He will he well learned humane friendly knowing much and seeking into all secret learning of a good memory gaining some office by his learning and thereby great increase of his estate The Medium Caeli in ♊ signifies an estate by publique or religious imployment in his old age a devote worshipper of God and having some government of a City seeking after hidden things but Ignorant of much learning just and upright in the latter part of his age If âš¹ be in the 7th house the native shall travaile in many strange places and he known to many men many will flatter him he will be gratefull happy amiable acute full of much Imployment in all his Conversation Noble The 4th house in â™ signifies the native will be happy receiving an estate from his friends many will flatter him he will rejoyce in the happinesse of his Children but shall grieve for the losse of some of them he will be apt and fit for all things learned and happy CHAP. XXXVIII The Signification of the Horoscope in Libra LIbra in the ascendant signifies much sicknesse many troubles and dangers many adversaries the native will be religious a worshipper of God but his life much subject to mutability but inconquerable in all things the later part of his time will be more glorious but having few Children of a right sincere Judgment in all things proceeding from a divine and heavenly minde Cancer in the 10th signifies he will be ocpucied in some famous actions his old age will be honorable pentifull rich and happy having a good estate but few Children But if ♃ behold this place by any aspect he will have a happy off-spring Aries in the 7th house signifies profit to the Native by the water or watry places he will be fearefull he will be in danger of his life in some desert place subject to dangers and sudden travailes having some hidden vice and happinesse in his old age The 4th house in ♑ the natives estate shall be subject to mutability somtimes losing and againe getting what he lost but he shall get all his estate by his own proper industry and the latter part of his estate shall be very happy CHAP. XXXIX The Horoscope in Scorpio THe Horoscope in â™ signifies the native to be acute in youth angry subject to many misfortunes but afterwards happy and given much to mirth if ♃ behold him by any Aspect they will be famous religious and magnified by their own Studies alwaies high spirited running
posited signifies malicious wicked cruell persons giving themselves over totally to worke wickednesse but their mischeife is often discovered and brought to light The ☉ so placed denotes men of temperite manners but alwaies armed with envy imperfect and defective in their Counsells Venus thus placed signifies men sordidly lascivious about Venereous acts and alwayes covetuous of other mens goods Mercury in this place signifies men sordidly wicked in all their actions oftentimes imprisoned suffering much trouble by reason of their wickednesse The ☽ thus posited and at full or increasing signifies men vaine both in minde and body but if the ☽ be decreasing in light she vitiateth their bodyes with malignant humours either dropsies or a deformed pale Colour or madnesse CHAP. XLV Of the Horoscope in the tearmes of Jupiter THe Horoscope in the tearmes of ♃ signifies wife vertuous persons and if ♃ be posited there magnanimous but full of cruelty Saturn or ♂ in those places by night signifies perfidious persons never keeping their credit or promise wise in their own conceits leading a poore life full of sorrow and misery but in a diurnall geniture these evills are in some sort mitigated Venus thus placed signifies men apt to performe all good offices but never having prosperous successe in marriage they are loving and daily reaping the fruits of felicity Mercury posited here denotes persons of good manners free from malice simply and plainly understanding and discerning many things The ☽ thus placed is very fortunate and gives soundnesse and health of body The ☉ in this place signifies the same as the ☽ doth CHAP. XLVI Of the Horoscope in the tearms of Mars THe Horoscope in the tearmes of ♂ alwayes signifies men of an acute quick Spirit ♄ in this place signifies also acute Spirits but long keepers of Anger Jupiter in the same place also signifies an acute sharp wit but such as are desirous alwayes to do good to others Mars in the Horoscope in his own tearmes signifies in a diurnall Geniture men addicted to all wickednesse but timerous and subject to unfortunare Changes in a nocturnall Geniture Cruel irreligious persons destroyers of other mens goods The full ☉ thus placed denotes crafty subtill persons but oftentimes insnared in treachery Venus in this place signifies lustfull adulterate persons Mercury in this place signifies homicides such are given to wicked lascivious and unlawfull lusts and drunkennesse ingenious but seldom having any true Judgment of any thing The ☽ thus posited denotes men divers wayes contending with their adversaries and their adversaries doing the like by them they are very laborious receiving some wound by fire or iron but if it be a diurnall geniture and the ☽ at full it gives a strong body if a nocturnall geniture it denotes a strong well composed body fit for labour but covetuous and alwayes dying a violent death CHAP. XLVII The Horoscope in the tearmes of Venus THe Horoscope in the tearmes of Venus signifies lovers of musick benevolent persons desirous to be profitable to all men in a diurnall geniture great dignity profit and good fortune Saturn thus placed in the tearmes of Venus signifies scorners of women haters of marriage if it be a diurnall geniture but in a nativity by night it signifies sordid uncleane immodest persons addicted to unnaturall lusts not loving naturall coition mutable in their Counsells and haters of all goodnesse Jupiter in this place signifies tender delicate but libidinous persons luxurious but free from envy and cruelty mercifull in any office their imployment to be appertayning to the Church Mars in these termes in a diurnal geniture gives sudden troubles losses many and seditions among the people whereby he comes into much danger but signifies lovers of musick and poetry engravers or the like In a nocturnal geniture ♂ in the tearmes of ♀ gives a double marriage and great riches thereby but withall much carefulnesse The ☉ thus placed signifies the native to Prosper daily in his actions but dissertion in marriage and disprofit thereby but it gives gaines and love amongst great men alwayes favoured and commended by them Mercury in the tearmes of ♀ thus posited in the ascendant signifies libidinous wise and of good manners desiring to profit others Grammarians Astrologers Poets Orators The ☽ thus placed signifies Artificers delighting in neat honest artes Ingravers getting commendations by their worke but in a nocturnall geniture she signifies fishermen or such as get their lively-hoods by such imployments signifies zealous persons of a good minde and understanding CHAP. XLVIII Of the Horoscope in the tearmes of Mercury THe Horoscope in the tearmes of ☿ signifies learned men credited with offices of trust Orators stewards of great men If ☿ be therein placed he signifies Astrologers Mathematians doing vertuous offices and esteemed for their knowledge Saturn in the tearmes of ☿ signifies unhappy cruell persons slow in their words and actions great laborers full of poisonous malice long keepers of anger of an evill report interpreters of dreames rash in their Counsels Jupiter in this place signifies men skilled in the law physitians advocates for great persons but lustfull and adulterers but in a nativity by night he signifies the natives to be scriveners and of a good report and credit unto the end of their lives Mars thus placed in a diurnall geniture signifies wicked malicious persons contentious cruell rash not ruled by reason clamorous impudent full of raging preposterous fury hangmen full of all wickednesse but in a nativity by night these evills are somthing qualified The ☉ thus placed signifies famous Noble men of popular applause and fame interceders or advocates in the defence of the people whereby they are publiquely known exercising many offices and if ☿ be thus posited with the ☉ they do all things with sound Counsel and reason and are of an uncorrupt iudgment Venus in the tearmes of ☿ hath the same signification as we have declared ☿ to have in the tearmes of ♀ she signifies great happy persons easily attaining their desires in all things learned merry persons lovers of musick Poets famous for their verses gaining estates by others mischances The ☽ in the tearmes of ☿ in a diurnall geniture maketh artificers such as are preferred for their artificiall works but in a nocturnal geniture she denotes such as have knowledge in all arts all manner of artists delighting in all manner of exercises ingenious dealing in Merchants and for reign affaires knowing all things and for divers causes are transferred from one place to another and striving to hide and dissemble all grief and infirmities FINIS Books sold by John Allen at the Rising Sun in St. Pauls Church-yard between the two North doores in the New Building c. 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