a Conjunction though Saint Paul had his under the like In the year of Christ 94. was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo and soon after Ulpius Trajanus took the Roman Empire being two and forty years of age he was strong and expert in Military affairs he was also wise moderate and courteous so that by the general consent of all he deserved the name of very good he was prosperous in War he added to the Roman Empire Dacia of Scythia in the year of Christ 102. he subdued the Armenians Ibrians Colchians the Sermats Arabians and the Babylonians he brought under his power Seleucia Ctesiphon and Babylon and several other Cities but while he sailed in the Red-Sea they rebelled against him but he in person with his Army soon subdued them again he also smote the Cyrenian Jews and Parthians with great slaughters which rebelled against him he fell sick and died naturally in Cilicia in August Anno Dom. 117. Sure had Mr. Holwel compared History with his Astrology he might have judged more charitably of Rome Italy and Christendom for never yet did Christendom under any Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo suffer Detriment but came off Victoriously over their Enemies neither can either Turk Tartar or any other Enemy to Christendom under this Conjunction preprevail against them yet I suppose the Turk will have another attempt against Christendom though he come off with as great or greater loss than he did last at Vienna In the year of Christ 153 there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter and at the same time Antonius Pius was Emperor of Rome and with such virtue and goodness governed he that Empire that he excelled all others the whole World was at Peace with him all the time of his Empire foraign Princes did dread him so that they would make him the Arbitrator of their differences because of his Wisdom he died naturally Anno Dom. 161. Antonius Varus succeeded him and reigned prosperously he was succesful in War against the Parthians also in the Marcoman Wars he died of an Apoplexy Anno Dom. 171. Surely if Christian Princes were under this Conjunction so wise and successful in War against their Enemies I know no reason Astrologically why they should not be so now for the Conjunctions are the same and therefore must work the same effects let Mr. Holwel or any of Mahomets Prophets say what they will for the Celestial Powers have not changed their former Influences Anno Dom. 829. there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo and then Lodovick governed the Roman Empire but in the year following Pepin King of France conspired against him with the chief Governours and lays hold on the Empire but in the following year through the help of the Germans Lodowick regains the Empire and in the year 833. he is driven from the Empire by the Conspiracy of his three Sons and advice of the Bishops but in the following year Lodowick is wholly restored to Empire and so governed it to the day of his death which was in the year 840. after his decease his three Sons fall at difference for the Empire Lotharius the eldest against Lodowick and Charles the two youngest and joyn Battle so that many men were slain on both sides but in the year 844. they agree and divide their Fathers Inheritance thus amongst themselves unto Lotharius the Roman Empire that is Rome and Italy also Lorain which took its Name from Lotharius and also the Province of Burgany and to Ludovick all Germany Mentzspiras and Worms and to Charles the West Country of France In the year 888. there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo about this time was great War between the Normans and the French for in the year 890. the Normans lay Siege against Paris but took it not though as some say the Siege lasted seven years and in the year 898. the French slew of the Normans 18000 upon the Hill Faulcon near the City Anno Dom. 948. there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo about this time Berengarius usurps the Kingdom of Italy from Lotharius but the Italians disliking his Tyrannical Government which he held for the space of twelve years fled to Otho King of Germany who being gone into Italy in the year 962. received the Imperial Crown of Pope John and was saluted the first Emperor of Germany he two years after led away Berengarius into Bavaria and there he died so Otho governed the German Empire prosperously and victoriously all his days so that the German Empire had its rise under the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo a fixed Masculine Regal Sign which relates to Diuturnity and the long continuance of all things begun under it Thus you may see that under these three Conjunctions the Christians have had War one against another an Error too much practised amongst some Christian Princes And indeed at this time amongst those that profess the Christian Religion there are so many animosities and divers ways of Worship that I think most of our Dissenters had rather chuse to kiss the Turks Alchoran then to submit to our Lawful Regal Authority but let such know that under this Conjunction and all other Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo there hath been and will be a cleansing and purging by Regal Authority all the dangerous dregs of Fanaticism and of every wicked Principle repugnant to the well-being of Government There hath also been under those Conjunctions Treachery Treason and Rebellion the Son hath conspired against the Father and driven him from his Throne the Subjects have conspired against their Prince and Brethren have made War one against another for their Fathers Inheritance God grant that no such Conspiracy happen in any part of Christendom under this Conjunction In the year of Christ 1623. there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo just at which time Mustapha the Turks Grand Signior was deposed from his Imperial Throne the second time and Morat the rightful Heir proclaimed Emperour in his room being but fourteen years of age In this year the Turks had War with the Hungarians Persians and Transilvanians and the Persians took the Province and City of Babylon from the Turks slew many of them took Mosul formerly called Nineve Mecha and great part of the Turks Territories The following year was much in effect like unto this In 1625. a Rebellion broke out in Asia against the Grand Signior and a great Plague in Constantinople In 1626. the Turks besiege Babylon but came off by the loss of 70000 Turks and Tartars and in the following year no peace could be concluded 1628. the War continued and the Persians took several Towns from the Turks This War continued till the year 1638. at which time the Persians had War with the Indians and then the Grand Signior taking advantage of the Persians went himself in person with a mighty Army against Babylon and with much ado and the loss
he hath the Sun Moon and Ascendent directed to the square of Mars Lord of both his House of Honour and Friends Mars is also Lord of the third House shewing that his professed Friends will be at variance and break their Leagues with him and so will some of his neighbouring Nations to his great Loss Surely a great Oversight in Mr. Holwel to thing the Grand Seignior should over-run Christendom upon such Directions yet he will certainly come against Christendom again About the year 1687. he hath the Sun Moon and Ascendent directed to the Body of Saturn I cannot positively say that he will lose his Life then about but I am certain he will undergo Afflictions of body and all his Affairs go unsuccessful for some considerable time he hath also about the same time the Mid-heaven directed to the Co-Antiscians of the Sun sure under these Directions the Christians may regain what the Turks formerly took from them and thus much of the Nativity of this great Prince I will in the next place insert the Nativity of that grand Impostor Mahomet the Author of the Turks Faith shewing thereby how some men are born to make and forge Lies as he did and others born to believe them CHAP. III. Mahomet Author of the Turks Faith born April the 24th 6h 30′ P. M. Anno Christi 569. Latitude 41d ☾ △ ♄ add □ ☿ THis Scheme of the Nativity of Mahomet the Author of the Turks Faith or Religion accords to the time given by the learned Doctor Addison and is very like to be true because it was ever by Astrologers concluded that the Turkish Faith first rose under Scorpio and Mars as the Christian Religion did under the Sun and Jupiter I was presented with this Scheme by my Friend and Tutor Mr. John Gadbury who also believes it true Most Writers accord that Mahomet was born in Mecca a City in Arabia the happy and Son of Abdalla a Merchant his Mother Hemina a Jew his Parents died when he was young and after their Decease he was brought up by his Uncle at sixteen years old he was bound to a Merchant named Abdalmutalif who finding him a witty Lad made him his Factor afterwards his Master dying he married his Mistress and until thirty eight years of age he followed his Merchandise travelling into many Countries where being satisfied with Wealth he began to think of high things for he was a curious searcher into both the Jews and Christian Religion being himself brought up a Pagan but Pride enflamed his heart and wrought in him a desire to be taken for a Prophet and to make men believe that he was a real Prophet he made use of his Disease which he was often troubled withal that was the Falling-sickness for he gave out that when he fell in those Fits that he then conferred with the Angel Gabriel by whom the pleasure of God was revealed to him and thus by his Delusions he perswaded the People so that they believed him to be a real Prophet or rather a God and do ever since honour and esteem him so to be Now that this Mahomet should be so much honoured and esteemed may be thought strange but if we do but consider the ignorance of People in those days and in those Countries we need not much scruple at it for the Heathens worshipped the Sun Moon and Stars esteeming them to be Gods because they knew not the true God nay some were more ignorant and worshipped Stocks and Stones also Images which their own hands had wrought esteeming them to be Gods also the Israelites unto whom God manifested himself by many Miracles Signs and Wonders and titled them his own People they believed not in him but made to themselves a Molten Calf and worshipped it saying these be thy Gods O Israel which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt although they knew that they came out of Aegypt a long time before they made it therefore no wonder that the Turks which were of the Seed of Ham that wicked Son of Noah whom his Father cursed should esteem such a lying Impostor as Mahomet was for a God or Saviour for History plainly saith that after the Death of Noah Ham went into Africa and there setled his Abode and from his Posterity sprang the Turks a sort of People much of his own nature and here in the Nativity of this Impostor Mahomet we find the Regal Sign Leo on the Medium Coeli and Jupiter the greater Fortune therein posited a most eminent token of Honour and that he might seem to be a setter up of a Religion contrary to that of Christ or rather the Author and Forger of malicious Lies we may consider that he hath Saturn in Libra the Horoscope of our blessed Saviour as Mr. Butler hath it in his Christologia and hath wilfully made himself an opposer of the Truth and hath established Christianity his Enemy as may be seen by Libra on the twelfth House and Saturn therein posited and Mars Lord of his Ascendent in Gemini the House of Mercury and the Moon Lady of the ninth House that being the House of Religion applying to a quadrat of Mercury and to an opposition of Jupiter might very well shew him to be both the Author of a false Religion and promoter of Lies and the Turks that accursed Generation of Ham addicted to believe them and that he should be an Enemy to the Christian Religion may well be observed from this Nativity the Moon being in Aquarius in opposition to Leo and Jupiter therein posited and in square of the Sun the Sign and Planets representing the Christian Religion The opinion of Mahomet or rather the Original of the Turks Religion may be said to take its beginning at the flight of Mahomet which was in the year Anno Christi 591. for in that year the Saracens drove him from Mecca at which time the Turks first began to settle their Religion and most Astrologers do conclude that the Turks Faith arose under Mars and the Moon and good reason may be shewed for it for in this Nativity Scorpio ascends and Mars is Lord thereof Cancer is on the Cusp of the ninth House the House of Religion and the Moon is Lady of it and may very well signifie a Rude and Savage Religion as well as People given to many Vices and lascivious Actions And to speak something of the continuance and desolation of their Faith if we take 264. the greatest years of Mars and 320. the greatest years of the Moon and add to the year of Christ 591. the year that Mahomet took his Flight it will make but 1175. a great mistake of Mr. Holwel who takes 480. for the greatest years of Mars and 260. for the Moons greatest years I wonder from what Author he had them but I suppose this is one of his own new Inventions and like his Directions of the Othoman Family being taken four years before it began as may be seen in his Appendix page the
to the Government of this World but some more forcibly than others as the Superiours being forerunners of great and strange Accidents War Slaughter and Mutations I come now to speak something of the Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter and as for Mr. Holwels method of direction to that purpose in a Figure of the new or full Moon either next before or after it I think it not a safe way there to find the time of their Effects for by this way of direction round and round the Zodiac the Effects of a Conjunction would last to the end of the World and if all the Conjunctions which have been since the Creation should to this day work their Effects as they did at or soon after they happened what a miserable time should we now live in but they are not to last always for they are appointed for Signs and for Seasons for days and years and as he hath directed Saturn and Jupiter in their Conjunction in Sagitary Anno Dom. 1603. to the new Star which was in the year 1572. and the Ascendent and Midheaven of the new Moon before the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682. directed to the same new Star is to no more effect comparatively than a man being very cold should fit by a great Fire till he had warmed and refreshed himself and many years after he being in the same Extremity with Cold and coming to the same House expecting there again to warm and refresh himself but finds neither Fire nor Inhabitants there at present nor had any been there for many years past only there remained the House empty so by this direction the House or Sign of the Zodiac may be found but the new Star long time past quite out and extinguished so are the directions to the other Promitters as erroneous and frivolous But I having been atleast twenty years a Student in Astrology and other parts of the Mathematicks I have read many Authors and discoursed with Doctor Reason and Doctor Experience and they tell me that the time of the Events of Conjunctions of the superior Planets are taken two ways that is generally and particularly first generally as to the time of the whole duration of their effects take this for a general Rule that the effects of the Conjunction of any of the superior Planets continue in force but until another Conjunction of them happen which is in about twenty years and then their effects will alter according to the nature of the Sign in which it happens consideration being had to their Position and other Configurations so that the effects of that Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagitary in the year 1603. so much spoken of by Mr. Holwel in his Catastrophe Mundi ended in the year 1623. for at that time there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo whose effects also ended in the year 1643. and the more fully there then happening a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Pisces a Sign of the watry Triplicity whose effects lasted but to the year 1663. for then hapned another Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagitary whose effects were not different from that in 1603. I mean in their own Nature and not as the many Eclipses solar Ingresses and other Configurations altered them and their effects ceased when the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter hapned in October 1682. and was the first of the Triple Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo which hapned then and in the following year under whose effects we now are and shall so be until the year 1702 and their effects in their own nature are not like to be much different from that which hapned in the year 1623 only this in 1682. is of far greater force it being a Triple Conjunction and therefore its effects will be more powerful The effects of the Conjunctions of the Superior Planets are commonly Seditions Troubles Mutations Wars Subversions of Monarchies Kingdoms States alterations of Laws Customs Priviledges Treacheries Treasons and sometimes the Death of Emperors Kings Princes Potentates and Powers and thus much of the general Operation now we come to the particular And the better to judge of the future effects of the Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo in the years 1682. and 1683. let us look back into History and see what hath hapned under such Conjunctions already past and thereby we shall be the better able to judge of their following significations In the year Anno Christi 35. being but one year after the Death and Passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo and then the Jews waxed bitter cruel against the Disciples of our Saviour for after the death of Christ the Holy Spirit falling on them they boldly profess what they had seen and heard and that openly and Stephen being chosen to perform Holy Service in the Company of the Christians because he fervently imployed himself in publishing the Glory of Christ being laid hold on by envious Persons was stoned to death and from that time the chief of the Jews endeavoured all they could to blot out the name of the Christians by what means they could but especially Saul breathed out threatnings against them who having the largest Power made over to him from the high-Priest he then bended toward Damascus that he might oppress them but in his Journey he was affrighted and being struck to the Earth he is converted and suddenly applied himself wholly to the Worship of Christ This hapned in the third year after the death of Christ and the first after the Conjunction And this is a very good Example of what is now coming on after the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo 1682. for Jupiter being a Significator of the Christian Religion and afflicted by the body of Saturn in Leo the House of the Sun another Significator of the Christian Religion and Saturn being Significator of the Turks may well stir them up against Christendom Saturn being the most superiour Planet put great and haughty thoughts of conquering the Christians into the Turks malicious minds But I suppose that neither the Turk nor Mr. Holwel thought of nor considered that Saturn was weak in Leo and disposed of by the Sun Significator of both the Christians and their Religion for all that Saturn can do in Leo is but to stir up Christian Emperours Kings Princes and Governours to purge out all the dangerous dregs of obstinate Dissenters and Fanaticism and those of every wicked principle contrary to the well-being of Government and that in all parts of Christendom but especially in those places under the Sign Leo also to those in Sextile or Trine to it which are Aries Gemini Libra and Sagitarius so that all Countries and Cities under those Signs will in some way or other receive benefit by the means of this Conjunction rendring the Regal power like the Sun glorious and splendid but I doubt of the Conversion of the Turks under such
passeth through one years effects which I suppose we justly may we shall not have much less than eight years expired before its effects be fully over and I think this will prove the exactest measure of time in the effects of this Comet and thus much of Comets in general and of the Comet in 1680. in particular with their significations But what Mr. Holwel hath written of Comets is nonsensical and the most part of it much varying from the Rules of Astrology especially what he mentioneth of this Comet in his Judgment of the year 1683 which was one great cause of my writing to shew the World the true signification of Comets according to what Authors more experienced than Mr. Holwel and daily experience have shewed CHAP. VIII Treating of and Confuting most of Mr. Holwels Judgments on the State of the years from 1683. unto the year 1700. mentioned in his Catastrophe Mundi MR. Holwel in his Catastrophe Mundi speaking of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter saith according to natural causes Persons signified by the Sun should be afflicted in Person with Horror and Amazement and shall be in danger of their Lives Honour and Estate and be forced to fly for Safeguard for by bad advice they shall attempt to do that which they shall never attain to by which means they shall bring themselves and Fame to destruction for ever and therefore he adviseth Persons to beware that have ten or eleven Degrees of Leo ascending And in his judgment of the year 1683. he saith that a very great Person of Europe that hath Leo ascending will be afflicted and flung into a great many Troubles with the death of some of his Children Loss of Honour and esteem in the World Sure Mr. Holwel hath forgotten that he himself hath Leo ascending that he judgeth so hard of persons born under it but I could wish that he had named what great Persons of Europe he meaneth that we might have observed the Event but I shall here as I have already shew them that great Persons born under Leo shall not by the effect of this Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo receive Detriment or Loss either of Honour or Estate but on the contrary they shall gain both Riches and Honour by the effects of this Conjunction though Mr. Holwel gained the displeasure of the Honourable E. A. Esquire to whom he confidently dedicated his Book although he never knew him which nonsensical Stuff be disliking made the Epistle Dedicatory to be taken out again this was done when Saturn transited Leo Mr. Holwels Ascendant as also Saturn did when the said Book was written Neither do I judge of the death of any Prince in Europe that hath about thirteen degrees of Virgo ascending though it be said in Catastrophe Mundi if there be a Prince in Europe that hath about thirteen degrees of Virgo ascending he should in the year 1684. return to the ground from whence he was taken for I find no such matter by the Rules of Astrology as may signifie the death of any such Prince but I pray for all Christian Princes and particularly for such as have Virgo or Leo ascending on their Horoscope And whereas Mr. Holwel saith in his judgment of the year 1698. that Saturn in opposition to the place of the Conjunction 1682. and Jupiter in square thereto threatens Italy with no less than Confusion and utter Subversion of the triple Crown and although it may not be fully compleated in this year yet saith he this year sets a great say to it and in the following year its full destruction And that then the power of France shall be brought low and many thousands of his Subjects destroyed through the pride of an insulting King and envy of the Roman Clergy But if this Opposition and Square be the cause of all this why had not Rome been destroyed in the year 1639. when Saturn was in opposition to the place of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo which was in the year 1623. I have searched into History and found that there was War at that time between the Swedes and the Germans and between the French and the Italians but not any thing to the Destruction of any Nation or People yet many eminent Persons died about that time some in War and some in Peace and many strange Accidents hapned and I suppose near the like may happen now but little or nothing of what Mr. Holwel writes in all his judgment on his several years will prove true there being no grounds in Astrology for them but what his own fantastical Pate hath imagined to raise himself a Fame in the World by predicting Lyes and to deceive the World by Delusions for I will appeal to all Artists what Rules there are in Astrology whereby to predict as Mr Holwel hath that in the Eastern part of the World a whole Army should be destroyed with fire from Heaven with their Wealth and Treasure or that there should be War and Plagues over the face of the whole Earth and that there should be so many men destroyed that there should not be men enough left to get in Harvest as he predicteth in his judgment of the year 1699. therefore I aver all that he speaks of that year and the next to be absolutely false nonsensical and erroneous in the next year with which he concludeth his Book he saith that Rome is now destroyed and Peters Seat thrown down and the Conversion of the Turks and Jews soon follows and Religion but what Religion he knows not truly preached universally over all the World sure this must not be Astrology but Prophecy and if Prophecy then Mahometal and if Mahometal then lying like Baal's Prophets and so deserving the reward that they received from Elijah ADVERTISEMENT THe Author hereof calculateth Nativities exactly by knowing the Hour of any ones Birth shewing thereby the general Fate of the Native and the greatest Accidents that will happen to any one through the whole course of his Life and the time when they will happen whereby one may withstand much evil and augment the good He also teacheth the whole Art of Astrology and by Astrology resolveth all Lawful Questions This for Mr. John Gadbury at his House in Brick-Court in Westminster SIR HAve you seen Saunder's Apollo Anglicanus for the year 1683 Written as I suppose by Mr. Henry Coley which if you have I question not but that you have seen therein how he unworthily derides both you and me about your Calculation of your ten and twenty-years Ephemerides which I dare presume himself is no way able to compose the like or any that shall have so much truth in it as those have as for the Ephemerides of ten years which you calculated your self he saith it was handsomly Transcribed from Hecker which that I suppose to be a very great Mistake in Mr. Coley and therefore unworthily taxed by him in an Almanack for I have heard you say when you