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A33536 [Meteorologia, or, The true way of foreseeing and judging the inclination of the air and alteration of the weather in several regions ... by William Cock ...]. Cock, William. 1671 (1671) Wing C4794; ESTC R4959 21,118 84

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the one to the other which is succedaneous and almost equivalent to the great and proper aspectings of those two mighty Planets Be careful to observe this one thing that Mercury Mars and the Sun do in some manner enforce the other Planets to give an accompt of their natures and influences Mercury after a moderate way but Mars more strongly and the Sun is the most active of all the three As for example when the moist planet Venus is in Conjunction with Mercury suppose in the begining of the sign Gemini Mercury making Venus appear in her own nature we have showers and sun-shine interchangeably But when Mars is united to Venus we have more continued snows or rains but most of all it powreth down rivers when the Sun Venus do meet together These three Planets not unlike unto Chymists do distill and extract the natures of the other Planets Now to draw to a close of this point you must understand that the seven Planets which are visible in the Skies have their secret correspondents throughout the whole body of the Universe that is there be seven Planets occultly in the air and there be also hidden Stars and Planets in the bowels of the earth There is a visible Saturn and a visible Jupiter in the Firmament there is an hidden Sarurn and an hidden Jupiter and hidden Stars also within the obscurities of the earth The matter is thus then the Planets above do move their brother-Planets below of this inferior globe of earth and water to move and keep harmony with them so Saturn below sympathiseth with Saturn above in sending forth cold exhalatious for it is the earthly Saturn moved by the celestial Saturn that bringeth forth the colds out of the bowels of the earth The Second Principle is The Nature of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack Which are Aries or the sign of the Ram Taurus or the sign of the Bull Gemini or the sign of the Twins Cancer or the sign of the Crab Leo or the sign of the Lion Virgo or the sign of the Virgin Libra or the sign of the Ballance Scorpio or the sign of the Scorpion Sagittarius or the sign of the Archer Capricornus or the sign of the Goat Aquarius or the Sign of the Skinker Pisces or the sign of the Fishes Their Characters be these ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓ These twelve Constellations are set about the Firmament like a girdle through which the Sun maketh his way every year and since the Creation of the world it is the only road in the starry frame which all the Planets do move in The Sun enters the Ram in March and makes his progress through the Bull in April and he perambulates the Twins in May and so in order bestoweth a whole months time upon every Sign journeying from one to another he goeth round thorow all the Signs until he come to the Ram again and thence begin his travels for the next year If you would know the Sign where a Planet hath taken up his quarters any time you must procure the book of the motions of the Planets for that year commonly called Ephemerides The twelve Signs are divided into four sorts for some be earthy others watery a third sort aery and the fourth sort is fiery There be three of each sort the earthy which are so named because like the earth they are cold and dry namely the Bull the Virgin the Goat the watery are apt for rainy aspects being cold and moist and they are the Crab the Scorpion and the Fishes If any great Eclipse of the Sun or great Conjunction or Aspect of ♄ and ♃ do happen in them we have store of rains The three aery are the Twins the Ballance and the Skinker which are temperately warm and moist and hugely windy and chiefly for Westerly winds Jupiter in the Skinker opposed by Saturn in the Lion did raise mighty South-west winds So Jupiter lately in the Twins being in a trine-Aspect of Saturn in the Skinker did bring us mighty winds from the South-West The three fiery signs which be most apt to thunder are the Ram the Lion the Archer moderately dry but sensibly hot they stir up heats and so make the Planets very active while they reside in them When Saturn without mixture of other Planets is in them we have excessive droughts So then to judg upon the Signs Observe when a Planet is in an earthy Sign he was lately dried up by perambulating a fiery Sign and after that immediately having made his progress in an earthy Sign he is quite bound up from moisture So the Sun in the Bull is dry and Jupiter having but a temperate moisture of himself becometh sapless in an earthy Sign and Saturn in them is dry and cold except in the first 15 degrees of Capricorn he is moist Then if there be an Aspect with Jupiter in an earthy Sign the season is at least dry In like manner when a Planet hath been somewhat moistned in an airy Sign and after that having made a pretty progress in a watery Sign he is pretty well sap'd So Jupiter in the watery Signs or Triplicity occasioneth a wet time When a Planet is in the beginning of one Sign and in the end of another he is indifferent to either of them two Signs but when he is in the middle of any Sign he is then well acquainted with the nature of that Sign Mars in the midle of Leo is hot but in the midle of Cancer he is moist and a little abated of his heat but in the end of Leo and the beginning of Virgo he is neither much heightned nor much abated in his heat yet he is purely dry for both the Lion and the Virgin are dry Signs So Venus in the beginning of the Ram differeth not much from Venus in the end of the Fishes and Venus in the end of the Ram is almost of the same temper with Venus in the beginning of the Bull. Thirdly Consider in what Sign the Planet is strongest Other parts of Astrology do admit of 5 dignities of the Planets viz. House Exaltation Triplicity Tearm and Face the Planets are strongest in their Houses next to that in their Exaltations where there be some fixed Stars directly of the Planets nature next to them they are strongest in their Triplicities they have some strength also in their Terms but least of all in their Faces But Astrology as it respecteth the weather hath only reference to three of them namely House Exaltation and Triplicity The Houses of Saturn are the Goat and the Skinker his Exaltation is in the Balance his Triplicity according to some is the three airy Signs these indeed have relation to Saturn of the Skinker and in them Saturn is windy but the earthy Saturn of the Goat hath his Triplicity in the earthy signs in all which he is cold and in the Bull and the Virgin if by mixtures of other Planets he be not accidentally
changed he is dry The Houses of Jupiter are the Archer and the Fishes his Exaltation the Crab and his Triplicity the three fiery Signs and I say for wind in the three aery Signs The Houses of Mars are the Ram and the Scorpion his Exaltation they say is in the Goat But the Triplicity of Mars in the Scorpion is the three watery Signs and the Triplicity of Mars in the Ram is the three fiery signs The House of the Sun is the Lion his Exaltation is in the Ram his Triplicity in the three fiery signs The Houses of Venus are the Bull and the Balance her Exaltation is in the Fishes they say her Triplicity is in the three earthy signs but I think her as powerful in the watery signs The Houses of Mercury are the Twins and the Virgin his Exaltation in the Virgin his Triplicity because he is a little windy in the airy signs The House of the Moon is the Crab her exaltation the Bull her triplicity the three earthy Now for judging according to the dignities Though the Goal be a dry sign yet when Saturn is there it raineth much in the first fifteen degrees of it The Bull is a dry sign yet Venus joyned with the Sun is not a little rainy she is there in her own house The Archer is a dry sign and the house of Jupiter yet when Jupiter entertaineth Saturn there he is pretty moist Jupiter in the Fishes his own House and in the Grab his Exaltation playeth Rex for rains In aery signs he is windy in fiery signs he is hot in earthy signs he is very dry Mars in the Ram his own house in a Trigon or Trine of the Sun in the Lion is very hot and so in the firy triplicity though in the watery triplicity he is for rains The Fourth Fundamental is The Observation of the Aspects As when one Planet doth behold another Planet at a certain distance which according to the rules of the worlds harmony do affect the spirit of the world and particularly of the earth water and aire as musick hath an influence upon the minds of men The principal and most powerful Aspects are a Conjunction Opposition Quadrat Trine Sextile The Circle of the Zodiack in which the Planets move round the Firmament being divided into 360 degrees when two or three Planets are in one and the same degree of the Zodiack they are said to be in a Conjunction as Jupiter and Saturn in the 25 degree of Pisces both at once in the year 1644 were there in a Conjunction When one Planet is directly distant from another the half of the Firmament that is the half of the Circle viz. 180 degrees they be them in an Opposition as Saturn in the sixth degree of the Lion When Jupiter is in the sixth degree of the Skinker remember that every sign containeth just 30 degrees at the distance of 180 degrees from the sixth degree of the Lion Saturn and Jupiter are then opposite When one Planet is distant from another 90 degrees as Mars in the first degree of the Ram when Jupiter is in the first degree of the Crab they are said then to be in a Square or Quadrat aspect So when one Planet is distant from another the space of 120 degrees as Saturn in the fifth degree of the Crab when Jupiter is in the fifth degree of the Scorpion they be then in a Trigon or a Trine Aspect And when one Planet is removed from another the distance of 60. degrees as when the Sun is in the twentieth degree of the Balance and Jupiter in the twentieth of the Archer they be then in a Sextile So an Opposition taketh up the half a Trine the third part a Square the fourth part a Sextile the sixth part of the whole Circle the which Aspects are profoundly demonstrated by the famous Kepler in his Harmonice Mundi to the which he addeth some new Aspects upon the same grounds as a Semisextile of 30 deg a Quintile of 72 deg a Decile of 36 a Semiquadrat of 45. deg The Characters of the Aspects are Conjunction ☌ Semisextil Ss. Opposition ☍ Quintil Q. Trine △ Decil Dec. Square □ Semiquad S. Sextil ⚹ Quincunx is of 150 d. distance Vc. To pass your judgment upon the weather have a regard to the strength of the Aspects for one Aspect is more powerful than another and one and the same Aspect is more potent at one time than another Fir● therefore a Conjunction is the most powerful of all others nex● to it is the Opposition then th● Quadrat then the Trine then the Sextile then the Quincunx then the Semisextile The Conjunction of Saturn and Mars if the mixture of othe● planets hinder nor is clear and frosty so is the Conjunction o● the Sun and Saturn but of Mercury and Saturn a little cold louring and misty that of Saturn and Vinus snow and hail in winter The Conjunction of Jupiter and the Sun if the Sun come from the Aspect of Saturn and if Mercury hath seen Jupiter a little before is warm and windy but if they be tinged and mixed with Mars chiefly in fiery signs is thund●●●ing The Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars is warm and thundering if they be not hindered with cold mixtures for then they be a little showry without the noise of Thunder yet these showers are like unto thunderdashes The Conjunction of Iupiter and Venus if they be not impedited with strong mixtures of other Planets is clear and pleasant Otherways if Jupiter be strongly mixed with Mars or the Sun some rains do follow but if Jupiter be strongly mixed with Saturn it is cold and a little moist Conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury is misty Conjunction of Mars and the Sun if they be not dulled with cold mixtures or in earthy signs is thundering In dry signs there may be lightning without thunder Mars and Venus is showry or snowy according to the season Mars and Mercury warm and misty if there be any wet mixtures The Sun and Venus is showry or snowy The Sun and Mercury clear and fair if strong watery mixtures do not intervene What is here said of Conjunctions the same though not in so high a degree may be said of the other Aspects Venus and Mercury is sometimes shining sometimes showring Secondly The Aspects which do more seldom come to pass do make a deeper impression upon the earths interior Lamp than those which are obvious every moneth quarter or year So the Conjunction of Mars and the Sun which falleth out but once every two years is much more valid than that of the Sun and Mercury which cometh to pass several times in one year or of the Sun and the Moon once in a moneth Thus an Eclipse of the Sun is of more force than an Eclipse of the Moon and either of the Eclipses is more effectual than other Conjunctions or Oppositions of the Sun and Moon be The Conjunction or Opposition of Jupiter and Saturn is more