shall be in the second he shall be poor If you would know whether you shall have again a thing lent or not look if there be an evil Planet in the second and disagreeing with his Lord then he that detaineth the thing lent will not willingly render back the same but if there be a good Planet in the second and agreeing with his Lord it shall easily be recovered and if the Lord of the second be exalted and be evil or if an evil Planet be with him in the second or if the Lord of the second be exalted he which keepeth the thing deposited will not willingly restore the same but he shall do it whether he will or not And if an evil Planet be in the second it 's to be recovered but if Mercury be in the second so that he be his Lord and bringeth contrariety then it shall be recovered and if a good Planet be in the second House he signifies recovery although he be the Lord thereof Mark therefore the concord and discord of the Planets the Moon and Jupiter are friends the Moon and Mars enemies Mercury and the Sun are friends Mercury and Venus enemies Venus and Jupiter are friends Jupiter and the Moon are enemies The Planets are said to be friends when they agree in one nature and quality as Mars and the Sun because both their natures are hot and dry Venus and the Moon do agree in cold and moisture or when Planets do agree in substance and nature as Jupiter and Venus are friends or when the House of one is the exaltation of another or on the contrary Questions of the third House IF that you desire to know how many brethren a man hath see the Lord of the third and it is to be held that to so many Planets as he is joyned so many brethren the Querent hath and the Masculine Planets signifie brethren and the female Planets sisters and note That Saturn and Mars the Sun Jupiter the Dragons Head are masculine but the Moon Venus and the Dragons Tail are foeminine but Mercury is promiscuous sometimes masculine and sometimes foeminine he is masculine when he is joyned to masculine Planets or when he is in a masculine quarter of the Zodiack and he is foeminine when he is joyned to foeminine Planets or when he is in a foeminine quarter of the Zodiack Questions of the fourth House IF thou wouldst know whether it be good for thee to stay in any Land City Village Territory or House or not behold the Lord of the Ascendent of the fourth and of the seventh and if the Lord of the fourth be in the seventh and be good and the Lords of the first and the tenth House be good and with good Planets then it is good for thee to continue in that place wherein thou art And if the Lord of the seventh be with a good Planet and the Lord of the fourth with an evil Planet then it is not good for thee to abide there because if thou dost continue there thou shalt suffer many losses and have evil reports raised on thee in that Country But if thou wouldst know when any one that is absent will return behold the Lord of the Ascendent and if you finde him in any one of the four Angles he will return in that year and if he be not in an Angle then see how far he is distant from the first Angle for so long he will stay and so many years as there be Houses If you would be informed of the dearth or plenty of things behold the strong Houses the Succedents and the Cadents for the strong Houses signifie dearth and scarcity the Succedents a moderate season neither too dear nor too cheap the Cadents signifie plenty and profitableness of things Consider also the Planets and their places which if they be in strong Houses the things which are signified by those Planets will be rare and note That Saturn doth signifie fields vines and instruments to work in fields and leather and of fruits corn acorns oak-apples and pomegranates Jupiter hath oyl honey silk-wormes cloth wine and grass and things that are odoriferous Mars signifies wine and flesh and especially hogs wars and armour and such things as belong thereunto and red garments The Sun hath signification of wheat and wine purple colours and cloth and all things that are assimulated unto gold horses and birds such as hawks and falcons Venus doth signifie fatness and grapes figs and dates fish and pastimes Mercury hath barley millet grain money and quicksilver The Moon signifies oats milk cheese fire and salt cows rams hens and silver and accordingly plenty and scarcity of them Questions of the fifth House IF you would know whether a woman be with Child or whether she will have any children or not look if the Lord of the Ascendent be in the seventh or the Lord of the fifth in the first or the Lord of the first in the fifth or if the Lord of the fifth be in the seventh or if the Lord of the seventh be in the fifth or the Moon with them or if good Planets be in the first or the fifth or with the Lord of the fifth or * R. in Angles she is with child or may have children but if you finde none of them but evil Planets in the same places she neither is with child neither will she have any children and if there be both good and evil Planets in the said places then happily she may have children but they will not live but if Cancer Scorpio or Pisces shall be in the first or fifth House she may have children but if Leo and Virgo be there she is not with child neither shall she ever have any children or if the Lord of the fifth shall be in them Houses And if you would know within how many years she shall have children look where you finde the Lord of the fifth for in that year she shall have issue if he be in the first in the first year if in the second in the second year and so you may number unto the twelfth House And if mean Signes be in the Ascendent she that is with child hath twins in her wombe which will live if a good Planet be in the first and if an evil Plahet they will die and if there be one good and another evil one shall live and another die and if a mean Sign shall be ascending and Mars in that Sign the mother shall die and not the child if Saturn both the mother and child shall die and if the Dragons Tail be there it 's possible they will both die but the infant shall not escape and if the Dragons Tail be so in the first and the tenth House fallen the mother shall die likewise if Mars and the Moon or Mars and Saturn be in the first seventh or tenth the mother shall die Whether the party with child shall miscarry or not Consider if a moveable Sign be ascending because if it
natures of the signes ascending in their Houses and according to the natures and proprieties of the Figures which they have placed in the severall Houses and according to the commisture of other Figures aspecting them The Index of the Figure which the Geomancers for the most part have made how it is found in the former Figure But here we shall give you the secret of the whole Art to finde out the Index in the subsequent Figure which is thus that you number all the points which are contained in the lines of the proiections and this you shall divide by twelve and that which remaineth project from the Ascendent by the several Houses and upon which House there falleth a final unity that Figure giveth you a competent Judgement of the thing quesited and this together with the significations of the Judgements aforesaid But if on either part they shall be equal or ambiguous then the Index alone shall certifie you of the thing quesited The Example of this Figure is here placed There remains out of the division of the projections 6 points wherefore Jupiter in the sixth House sheweth the Index It remaineth now that we declare of what thing and to what house a Question doth appertain Then what every Figure doth shew or signifie concerning all Questions in every House First therefore we shall handle the significations of the Houses which are these The first House sheweth the person of the Querent as often as a Question shall be proposed concerning himself of his own matters or any thing appertaining to him And this House declareth the Judgement of the life form state condition habit disposition form and figure and of the colour of men The second House containeth the Judgement of substance riches poverty gain and loss good fortune and evil fortune and of accidents in substance as theft loss or negligence The third House signifieth brethren sisters and Collaterals in blood It judgeth of small journeys and fidelities of men The fourth House signifies fathers and grandfathers patrimony and inheritance possessions buildings fields treasure and things hidden It giveth also the description of those who want any thing by theft losing or negligence The fifth House giveth judgement of Legats Messengers Rumours News of Honour and of accidents after death and of Questions that may be propounded concerning women with childe or creatures pregnant The sixth House giveth Judgement of infirmities and medicines of familiars and servants of cattel and domestick animals The seventh House signifies wedlock whoredom and fornication rendreth Judgement of friends strifes and controversies and of matters acted before Judges The eighth hath signification of death and of those things which come by death of Legats and Hereditaments of the dowry or portion of a wife The ninth House sheweth journeys faith and constancy dreams divine Sciences and Religion The tenth house hath signification of Honours and of Magisterial Offices The eleventh House signifies friends the substance of Princes The twelfth House signifies enemies servants imprisonment and misfortune and whatsoever evil can happen besides death and sickness the Judgements whereof are to be required in the sixth House and in the eighth It rests now that we shew you what every figure before spoken of signifieth in these places which we shall now unfold Fortuna major being found in the first House giveth long life and freeth from the molestation of Diseases it demonstrateth a man to be noble magnanimous of good manners meane of stature complexion ruddy hair curling and his superiour members greater then his inferiour In the second House he signifies manifest riches and manifest gain good fortune and the gaining of any thing lost or mis-laid the taking of a thief and recovery of things stollen In the third House he signifies brethren and kinsmen Nobles and persons of good conversation journeys to be prosperous and gainful with honour it demonstrateth men to be faithful and their friendship to be unfeigned In the fourth House he represents a father to be noble and of good reputation and known by many people He enlargeth possessions in Cities increaseth Patrimonies and discovereth hidden treasures In this place he likewise signifies theft and recovers every thing lost In the fifth House he giveth joy by children and causeth them to attain to great Honours Embassages he rendreth prosperous but they are purchased with pains and prayers He noteth rumours to be true he bestoweth publick Honours and causeth a man to be very famous after death foresheweth a woman with childe to bring forth a man-childe In the sixth House he freeth from diseases sheweth those that have infirmities shall in a short time recover signifieth a Physitian to be faithful and honest to administer good Physick of which there ought to be had no suspition houshold-servants and ministers to be faithfull and of animalls he chiefly signifies Horses In the seventh House he giveth a wise rich honest and of good manners loving and pleasant he overcometh strifes and contentions But if the Question be concerning them he signifieth the adversaries to be very potent and great favourites In the eighth House if a Question be proposed of the death of any one it signifies he shall live the kinde of death he sheweth to be good and natural an honest burial and honourable Funerals He foresheweth a wife to have a rich dowry legacies and inheritance In the ninth House he signifies journeys to be prosperous and by land on horseback rather then on foot to be long and not soon accomplished He sheweth the returne of those that are absent signifies men to be of good faith and constant in their intentions and religious and that never change or alter their faith Dreams he presageth to be true signifieth true and perfect Sciences In the tenth House he foresheweth great Honours bestoweth publike Offices Magistracie and Judgments and honours in the Courts of Princes signifieth Judges to be just and not corrupted with gifts bringeth a Cause to be easily and soon expedited sheweth Kings to be potent fortunate and victorious denoteth Victory to be certain signifieth a mother to be noble and of long life In the eleventh House he signifies true friends and profitable a Prince rich and liberal maketh a man fortunate and beloved of his Prince In the twelfth House if a Question be proposed of the quality of enemies it demonstrateth them to be potent and noble and hardly to be resisted But if a Question shall be concerning any other condition or respect to the enemies he will deliver from their treacheries It signifieth faithful servants reduceth fugitives hath signification of animals as horses lions and bulls freeth from imprisonments eminent dangers he either mitigates or taketh away Fortuna minor in the first House giveth long life but incumbred with divers molestations and sicknesses it signifieth a person of short stature a lean body having a mold or mark in his forehead or right eye In the second House he signifies substance and that to be
consumed with too much prodigality hideth a thief and a thing stoln is scarcely to be recovered but with great labour In the third House he causeth discord amongst brethren and kinsfolks threatneth danger to be in a journey but escapeth it rendreth men to be of good faith but of close and hidden mindes In the fourth House he prejudiceth Patrimonies and Inheritances concealeth treasuries and things lost cannot be regained but with great difficulty He signifieth a father to be honest but a spender of his estate through prodigality leaving small portions to his children Fortuna minor in the fifth House giveth few children a woman with childe he signifies shall have a woman-childe signifies Embassages to be honourable but little profitable raiseth to meane honours giveth a good fame after death but not much divulged nor of lasting memory In the sixth House he signifies diseases both Sanguine and Cholerick sheweth the sick person to be in great danger but shall recover signifies faithful servants but slothful and unprofitable And the same of other animals In the seventh House he giveth a wife of a good progenie descended but you shall be incumbred with many troubles with her causeth love to be anxious and unconstant prolongeth contentions and maketh ones adversary to circumvent him with many cavillations but in process of time he giveth victory In the eighth house he sheweth the kinde of death to be good and honest but obscure or in a strange place or pilgrimage discovereth Legacies and possessions but to be obtained with suit and difficulty denoteth Funerals and Buryings to be obscure the portion of a wife to be hardly gotten but easily spent In the ninth House he maketh journeys to be dangerous and a party absent slowly to returne causeth men to be occupied in offices of Religion sheweth Sciences to be unaccomplished but keepeth constancy in faith and Religion In the tenth House he signifieth Kings and Princes to be potent but to gain their power with war and violence banished men he sheweth shall soon returne it likewise discovereth Honours great Offices and benefits but for which you shall continually labour and strive and wherein you shall have no stable continuance A Judge shall not favour you Suits and contentions he prolongeth A father and mother he sheweth shall soon die and always to be affected with many diseases In the eleventh House he maketh many friends but such as are poore and unprofitable and not able to relieve thy necessities it ingratiates you with Princes and giveth great hopes but small gains neither long to continue in any benefice or office bestowed by a Prince In the twelfth House he sheweth enemies to be crafty subtil fraudulent and studying to circumvent you with many secret factions signifies one in prison to be long detained but at length to be delivered Animals he sheweth to be unfruitful and servants unprofitable and the changes of fortune to be frequent from good to evil and from bad to good Via in the first House bestoweth a long and prosperous life giveth signification of a stranger leane of body and tall of stature faire of complexion having a small beard a person liberal and pleasant but slow and little addicted to labour In the second he increaseth substance and riches recovereth any thing that is stolen or lost but signifies the thief to be departed without the City In the third he multiplies brethren and kinsfolks signifies continual journeys and prosperous men that are publickly known honest and of good conversation Via in the fourth House signifies the father to be honest increaseth the Patrimony and Inheritance produceth wealthy fields sheweth treasure to be in the place enquired after recovereth any thing lost In the fifth he increaseth the company of male-children sheweth a woman with childe to bring forth a male-childe sendeth Embassages to strange and remote parts increaseth publick honours signifieth an honest kinde of death and to be knowne thorow many Provinces In the sixth House Via preserveth from sickness signifies the diseased speedily to recover giveth profitable servants and animals fruitful and profitable In the seventh House he bestoweth a wife faire and pleasant with whom you shall enjoy perpetuall felicity causeth strifes and controversies most speedily to be determined adversaries to be easily overcome and that shall willingly submit their controversies to the Arbitration of good men In the eighth House he sheweth the kinde of death to proceed from Phlegmatick diseases to be honest and of good report discovereth great Legacies and rich Inheritances to be obtained by the dead and if any one hath been reported to be dead it sheweth him to be alive In the ninth House Via causeth long journeys by water especially by Sea and portendeth very great gains to be acquired thereby he denoteth Priesthoods and profits from Ecclesiastical employments maketh men of good Religion upright and constant of faith sheweth dreams to be true whose signification shall suddainly appear increaseth Philosophicall and Grammatical Sciences and those things which appertain to the instruction and bringing up of children In the tenth House if Via be found he maketh Kings and Princes happy and fortunate and such as shall maintain continual peace with their Allies and that they shall require amity and frendship among many Princes by their several Embassages promoteth publike Honours Offices and Magistracie amongst the vulgar and common people or about things pertaining to the water journeys or about gathering Taxes and assesments sheweth Judges to be just and merciful and that shall quickly dispatch Causes depending before them and denotes a mother to be of good repute healthy and of long life In the eleventh House he raiseth many wealthy friends and acquireth faithful friends in forreign Provinces and Countries and that shall willingly relieve him that requires them with all help diligence It ingratiates persons with profit trust among Princes employing him in such Offices as he shall be incumbred with continual travels Via in the twelfth House causeth many enemies but such as of whom little hurt or danger is to be feared signifies servants and animals to be profitable whosoever is in prison to be escaped or speedily to be delivered from thence and preserveth a man from the evil accidents of Fortune Populus being found in the first House if a Question be propounded concerning that House sheweth a meane life of a middle age but inconstant with divers sicknesses and various successes of Fortune signifies a man of a middle stature a gross body well set in his members perhaps some mold or mark about his left eye But if a Question shall be propounded concerning the figure of a man and to this figure if there be joyned any of the figures of Saturn or Rubeus it sheweth the man to be monstrously deformed and that deformity he signifies to proceed from his birth but if in the fifth House if he be encompassed with malevolent Aspects then that monstrousness is to come In the second
House Populus sheweth a meane substance and that to be gotten with great difficulty maketh a man also always sensible of laborious toyl things stoln are never regained what is lost shall never be wholly recovered that which is hidden shall not be found But if the Question be of a thief it declareth him not yet to be fled away but to lie lurking within the City In the third House Populus raiseth few friends either of brethren or kindred foresheweth journeys but with labour and trouble notwithstanding some profit may accrue by them denotes a man unstable in his faith and causeth a man often to be deceived by his companions In the fourth House it signifies a father to be sickly and of a laborious life and his earthly possessions inheritances to be taken away sheweth profit to be gained by water sheweth treasure not to be hid or if there be any hidden that it shall not be found A patrimony to be preserved with great labour In the fifth House he sheweth no honest Messages but either maketh the messengers to be Porters or publick Carryers he divulgeth false rumours which notwithstanding have the likeness of some truth and seem to have their original from truth which is not reported as it is done It signifies a woman to be barren and causeth such as are great with childe to be abortives appointeth an inglorious Funeral and ill report after death In the sixth House Populus sheweth cold sicknesses and chiefly affecteth the lower parts of the body A Physician is declared to be careless and negligent in administring Physick to the sick and signifies those that are affected with sickness to be in danger of death and scarcely recover at all it notes the deceitfulness of servants and detriment of cattel In the seventh House it sheweth a wife to be faire and pleasant but one that shall be solicited with the love of many wooers signifies her loves to be feigned and dissembling maketh weak and impotent adversaries soon to desert prosecuting In the eighth House it denotes sudden death without any long sickness or anguish and oftentimes sheweth death by the water giveth no inheritance possession or legacy from the dead and if any be they shall be lost by some intervening contentions or other discord he signifies the dowry of a wife to be little or none Populus in the ninth House sheweth false dreames personates a man of rude wit without any learning or science in religion he signifies inferiour Offices such as serve either to cleanse the Church or ring the bells and he signifies a man little curious or studious in religion neither one that is troubled with much conscience In the tenth House he signifies such Kings and Princes as for the most part are expulsed out of their Rule and Dominions or either suffer continual trouble and detriment about them he signifies Offices and Magistracy which appertain to matters concerning the waters as about the Navy bridges fishings shores meadows and things of the like sort maketh Judges to be variable and slow in expediting of causes before them declareth a Mother to be sickly and of a short life In the eleventh House he giveth few friends and many flatterers and with Princes giveth neither favour nor fortune In the twelfth House he sheweth weak and ignoble enemies declareth one in prison not to be delivered discovereth dangers in waters and watry places Acquisitio found in the first House giveth a long life and prosperous old age signifies a man of middle stature and a great head a countenance very well to be distinguished or known a long nose much beard hair curling and fair eyes free of his meat and drink but in all things else sparing and not liberal In the second House he signifies very great riches apprehendeth all theeves and causeth whatsoever is lost to be recovered In the third House many brethren and they to be wealthy many gainful journies signifies a man of good faith In the fourth is signified a Patrimony of much riches many possessions of copious fruits he signifieth that treasure hid in any place shall be found and sheweth a father to be rich but covetous In the fifth House Acquisitio signifies many children of both Sexes but more Males then Females sheweth a woman to be with child and that she shall be delivered without danger and if a question be propounded concerning any Sex he signifies it to be Masculine encreaseth gainful profitable Embassages and Messages but extendeth fame not far after death yet causeth a man to be inherited of his own and signifieth rumours to be true In the sixth House he signifies many and grievous sicknesses and long to continue maketh the sick to be in danger of death and often to die yet he declareth a Physitian to be learned and honest giveth many servants and cattel and gaines to be acquired from them In the seventh House he signifies a wife to be rich but either a widow or a woman of a well-grown age signifies suits and contentions to be great and durable and that love and wedlock shall be effected by lot In the eighth House if a man be enquired after it sheweth him to be dead signifieth the kinde of death to be short and sickness to last but a few dayes discovereth very profitable legacies and inheritances and signifieth a wife to have a rich dowry In the ninth House he signifies long and profitable journeys sheweth if any one be absent he shall soon returne causeth gain to be obtained from Religious and Ecclesiastical Persons or Scholars and signifies a man of a true and perfect Science In the tenth House he maketh Princes to inlarge their Dominions a Judge fovourable but one that must be continually presented with gifts causeth Offices and Magistracy to be very gainful sigfieth a Mother rich and happy In the eleventh House Acquisitio multiplieth friends and bringeth profit from them and increaseth favour with Princes In the twelfth House he signifieth a man shall have many powerful or potent enemies reduceth and bringeth home servants fled away and cattel strayed and signifies he that is in prison shall not be delivered Laetitia in the first House signifies long life with prosperity and much joy and gladness and causeth a man to out-live and be more victorious then all his brethren signifies a man of a tall stature faire members a broad forehead having great and broad teeth and that hath a face comely and well coloured In the second House it signifies riches and many gaines but great expences and various mutations of ones state and condition theft and any thing lost is recovered and returned but if the Question be of a theef it declareth him to be fled away In the third house Laetitia sheweth brethren to be of a good conversation but of short life journeys pleasant and comfortable men of good credit and faith In the fourth he signifies happy Patrimonies and possessions a Father to be noble and honoured with the
dignity of some Princely office sheweth treasure to be in the place enquired after but of less worth and value then is supposed and causeth it to be found In the fifth House he giveth obedient children endued with good manners and in whom shall be had the greatest joy and comfort of old age signifies a woman with child to bring forth a daughter sheweth honourable Embassages and declares rumours and news to be altogether true and leaveth a good and ample fame after death In the sixth House it sheweth the sick shall recover denoteth good servants good and profitable cattel and animals In the seventh House Laetitia giveth a wife fair beautiful and young overcometh strifes and contentions and rendreth the success thereof to be love Laetitia in the eighth House giveth Legacies and possessions and a commendable portion with a wife if a Question be proposed concerning the condition of any man it signifies him to be alive and declares an honest quiet and meek kinde of death In the ninth House Laetitia signifies very few journeys and those that do apply themselves to travail their journeys either are about the Messages and Embassages of Princes or Pilgrimages to fulfil holy vows sheweth a man to be of a good religion of indifferent knowledge and who easily apprehendeth all things with natural ingenuity In the tenth House it raiseth Kings and Princes to honour and great renown maketh them famous by maintaining peace during their times signifies Judges to be cruel and severe honest Offices and Magistracy signifies those things which are exercised either about Ecclesiastical affairs Schools or the administration of justice sheweth a mother if she be a widow that she shall be married again In the eleventh House Laetitia increaseth favour with Princes and multiplies friends And in the twelfth House Laetitia giveth the victory over enemies causeth good servants and families delivereth from imprisonment and preserveth from future evils Puella in the first House signifies a person of a short life weak constitution of body middle stature little fat but fair effeminate and luxurious and one who will incur many troubles and dangers in his life-time for the love of women In the second House it neither encreaseth riches nor diminisheth poverty signifies a theef not to be departed from the City and a thing stollen to be alienated and made away if a Question be of treasure in a place it is resolved there is none In the third House Puella signifies more sisters then brethren and encreaseth and continueth good friendship and amity amongst them denoteth journeys to be pleasant and joyous and men of good conversations In the fourth House Puella signifies a very small patrimony and a Father not to live long but maketh the fields fertile with good fruits In the fifth House a woman with child is signified to bring forth a woman-child denotes no Embassages causeth much commerce with women and some office to be obtained from them Puella in the sixth House signifies much weakness of the sick but causeth the sick shortly to recover and sheweth a Physitian to be both unlearned unskilful but one who is much esteemed of in the opinion of the vulgar people giveth good servants handmaids cattel and animals In the seventh House Puella giveth a wife fair beautiful and pleasant leading a peaceable and quiet conversation with her husband notwithstanding one that shall burn much with lust and be coveted and lusted after of many men denoteth no suits or controversies which shall depend before a Judge but some jarres and wranglings with the common people one amongst another which shall be easily dissolved and ended In the eighth House if a Question be of one reputed to be dead Puella declareth him to be alive giveth a small portion with a wife but that which contenteth her husband In the ninth House Puella signifies very few journeys sheweth a man of good religion indifferent skill or knowledge in sciences unless happily Musick aswel vocal as instrumental In the tenth House Puella signifies Princes not to be very potent but notwithstanding they shall govern peaceably within their Dominions and shall be beloved of their Neighbours and subjects it causeth them to be affable milde and courteous and that they shall alwayes exercise themselves with continual mirth plays and huntings maketh Judges to be good godly and merciful giveth Offices about women or especially from noble women In the eleventh House Puella giveth many friends and encreaseth favour with women In the twelfth House Puella signifies few enemies but contention with women and delivereth Prisoners out of prison through the intercession of friends Amissio in the first House signifies the sick not to live long and sheweth a short life signifies a man of disproportioned members of his body and one of a wicked life and conversation and who is marked with some notorious and remarkable defect in some part of his body as either lame or maimed or the like Amissio in the second House consumeth all substance and maketh one to suffer and undergo the burden of miserable poverty neither theef nor the thing stollen shall be be found signifies treasure not to be in the place sought after and to be sought after with loss and damage In the third House Amissio signifies death of brethren or the want of them and of kindred and friends signifieth no journeys and causeth one to be deceived of many In the fourth House Amissio signifies the utter destruction of ones Patrimony sheweth the Father to be poor and Son to die Amissio in the fifth House sheweth death of children and afflicts a man with divers sorrows signifieth a woman not to be with childe or else to have miscarried raiseth no fame or honours disperseth false rumors In the sixth House Amissio signifies the sick to be recovered or that he shall soon recover but causeth loss and damage by servants and cattel In the seventh House Amissio giveth an adulterous wife and contrarying her husband with continual contention nevertheless she shall not live long and it causeth contentions to be ended In the eighth House Amissio signifies a man to be dead consumeth the dowry of a wife bestoweth or sendeth no inheritances or legacies In the ninth House Amissio causeth no journeys but such as shall be compassed with great loss signifies men to be inconstant in Religion and often changing their opinion from one sect to another and altogether ignorant of learning In the tenth House Amissio rendreth Princes to be most unfortunate and sheweth that they shall be compelled to end their lives in exile and banishment judges to be wicked and signifies Offices and Magistracy to be damageable and sheweth the death of a Mother In the eleventh House Amissio signifies few friends and causeth them to be easily lost and turned to become enemies and causeth a man to have no favour with his Prince unless it be hurtful to him In the twelfth House Amissio destroyeth all enemies
detaineth long in prison but preserveth from dangers Conjunctio in the first House maketh a prosperous life and signifies a man of a middle stature not lean nor fat long face plain hair a little beard long fingers and thighs liberal amiable and a friend to many people In the second House Conjunctio doth not signifie any riches to be gotten but preserveth a man secure and free from the calamities of poverty detecteth both the theef and the thing stolen and acquireth hidden treasure In the third House he giveth various journeys with various success and signifieth good faith and constancy In the fourth House Conjunctio sheweth a meane Patrimony causeth a Father to be honest of good report and of good understanding In the fifth House he giveth Children of subtile ingenuity and wit sheweth a woman pregnant to have a male-childe and raiseth men to honours by their own meer proper wit and ingenuity and disperseth their fame and credit far abroad and also signifies news and rumours to be true In the sixth House Conjunctio signifies sicknesses to be tedious and of long continuance but foresheweth the Physitian to be learned and well experienced and sheweth servants to be faithful and blameless and animals profitable In the seventh House he giveth a wife very obedient conformable and dutiful to her husband and one of a good wit and ingenuity causeth difficult suits and controversies and crafty subtil and malicious adversaries In the eighth House him of whom a Question is propounded Conjunctio signifies him to be dead and pretendeth some gain to be acquired by his death sheweth a wife shall not be very rich In the ninth House he giveth a few journeys but long and tedious and sheweth one that is absent shall after a long season return Conjunctio in this House increaseth divers Arts Sciences and Mysteries of Religion and giveth a quick perspicuous and efficacious wit In the tenth House Conjunctio maketh Princes liberal affable and benevolent and who are much delighted and affected with divers Sciences and secret Arts and with men learned therein causeth Judges to be just and such who with a piercing and subtil speculation do easily discern causes in controversie before them enlargeth Offices which are concerned about Letters Learning sound Doctrines and Sciences and signifies a Mother to be honest of good ingenuity and wit and also one of a prosperous life In the eleventh House Conjunctio signifies great encrease of friends and very much procureth the grace and favour of Princes powerful and noble Men. In the twelfth House Conjunctio signifies wary and quick-witted enemies causeth such as are in prison to remain and continue so very long and causeth a man to eschew very many dangers in his life Albus in the first House signifies a life vexed with continual sickness and grievous diseases signifies a man of a short stature broad brest and gross arms having curled or crisped hair one of a broad full mouth a great talker and babler given much to use vain and unprofitable discourse but one that is merry joyous and jocund and much pleasing to men In the second House Albus enlargeth and augmenteth substance gained by sports playes vile and base arts and exercises but such as are pleasing and delightful as by playes pastimes dancings and laughters he discovereth both the theef and the theft or thing stolen and hideth and concealeth treasure In the third House Albus signifies very few brethren giveth not many but tedious and wearisome journeys and signifies all deceivers In the fourth House he sheweth very small or no Patrimony and the father to be a man much known but declareth him to be a man of some base and inferiour Office and Imployment In the fifth House Albus giveth no children or if any that they shall soon die declareth a woman to be servile and causeth such as are with young to miscarry or else to bring forth Monsters denoteth all rumours to be false and raiseth to no honour In the sixth House Albus causeth very tedious sicknesses and diseases discovereth the fraud deceit and wickedness of servants and signifies diseases and infirmities of cattel to be mortal and maketh the Physitian to be suspected of the sick patient Albus in the seventh House giveth a barren wife but one that is fair and beautiful few suits or controversies but such as shall be of very long continuance In the eighth House if a Quest be propounded of any one Albus shews the party to be dead giveth little portion or dowry with a wife and causeth that to be much strived and contended for In the ninth House Albus denoteth some journeys to be accomplished but with meane profit hindreth him that is absent and signifies he shall not returne and declareth a man to be superstitious in Religion and given to false and deceitful Sciences In the tenth House Albus causeth Princes and Judges to be malevolent sheweth vile and base Offices and Magistracies signifies a Mother to be a whore or one much suspected for adultery In the eleventh House Albus maketh dissembling and false friends causeth love and favour to be inconstant Albus in the twelfth House denoteth vile impotent and rustical enemies sheweth such as are in prison shall not escape and signifies a great many and various troubles and discommodities of ones life Puer in the first House giveth an indifferent long life but laborious raiseth men to great fame through military dignity signifies a person of a strong body ruddy complexion a fair countenance and black hair In the second House Puer increaseth substance obtained by other mens goods by plunderings rapines confiscations military Laws and such like he concealeth both the theef and the thing stolen but discovereth no treasure In the third House Puer raiseth a man to honour above his brethren and to be feared of them signifies journies to be dangerous and denoteth persons of good credit In the fourth House Puer signifies dubious inheritances and possessions and signifies a Father to attain to his substance and estate through violence In the fifth House Puer sheweth good children and such as shall attain to honors and dignities he signifies a woman to have a male-child and sheweth honors to be acquired by military discipline and great and full same In the sixth House Puer causeth violent diseases and infirmities as wounds falls contusions bruises but easily delivereth the sick and sheweth the Physician and Chirurgion to be good denoteth servants and animals to be good strong and profitable In the seventh House Puer causeth a wife to be a virago of a stout Spirit of good fidelity and one that loveth to bear the Rule and Government of a house maketh cruel strifes and contentions and such adversaries as shall scarcely be restrain'd by Justice Puer in the eighth House sheweth him that is supposed to be dead to live signifieth the kinde of death not to be painful or laborious but to proceed from some hot humour or by iron
or the sword or some other cause of the like kinde sheweth a man to have no legacies or other inheritance In the ninth House Puer sheweth journeys not to be undergone without peril and danger of life yet nevertheless declareth them to be accomplished prosperously and safely sheweth persons of little Religion and using little conscience notwithstanding giveth the knowledge of natural philosophy and physick and many other liberal and excellent Arts. Puer in the tenth House signifies Princes to be powerful glorious and famous in warlike atchievements but they shall be unconstant and unchangeable by reason of the mutable and various success of victory Puer in this House causeth Judges to cruel and unmerciful inereaseth offices in warlike affairs signifies Magistracy to be exercised by fire and sword hurteth a Mother and endangereth her life In the eleventh House Puer sheweth Noble friends and Noble men and such as shall much frequent the Courts of Princes and follow after warfare and causeth many to adhere to cruel men nevertheless he causeth much esteem with Princes but their favour is to be suspected Puer in the twelfth House causeth Enemies to be cruel and pernicious those that are in Prison shall escape and maketh them to eschew many dangers Rubeus in the first House signifies a short life and an evil end signifies a man to be filthy unprofitable and of an evil cruel and malicious countenance having some remarkable and notable signe or scar in some part of his body In the second House Rubeus signifies poverty and maketh theeves and robbers and such persons as shall acquire and seek after their maintenance and livelihoods by using false wicked and evil and unlawful Arts preserveth theeves and concealeth theft and signifies no treasure to be hid nor found In the third House Rubeus renders brethren and kinsmen to be full of hatred and odious one to another and sheweth them to be of evil manners and ill disposition causeth journeys to be very dangerous and foresheweth false saith and treachery In the fourth House he destroyeth and consumeth Patrimonies and disperseth and wasteth inheritances causeth them to come to nothing destroyeth the fruits of the field by tempestuous seasons and malignancy of the earth and bringeth the Father to a quick and sudden death Rubeus in the fifth House giveth many children but either they shall be wicked and disobedient or else shall afflict their Parents with grief disgrace and infamy In the sixth House Rubeus causeth mortal wounds sicknesses and diseases him that is sick shall die the Physitian shall erre servants prove false and treacherous cattel and beasts shall produce hurt and danger In the seventh House Rubeus signifies a wife to be infamous publickly adulterate and contentious deceitful and treacherous adversaries who shall endeavour to overcome you by crafty and subtil wiles and circumventions of the Law In the eighth House Rubeus signifies a violent death to be inflicted by the execution of publike Justice and signifies if any one be enquired after that he is certainly dead and a wife to have no portion or dowry Rubeus in the ninth House sheweth journeys to be evil and dangerous and that a man shall be in danger either to be spoiled by theeves and robbers or to be taken by plunderers and robbers declareth men to be of most wicked opinions in Religion and of evil faith and such as will often easily be induced to deny and go from their faith for every small occasion denoteth Sciences to be false and deceitful and the professors thereof to be ignorant In the tenth House Rubeus signifies Princes to be cruel and tyrannical and that their power shall come to an evil end that either they shall be cruelly murdered and destroyed by their own Subjects or that they shall be taken captive by their Conquerers and put to an ignominious and cruel death or shall miserably end their lives in hard imprisonment signifies Judges and Officers to be false cheevish and such as shall be addicted to usury sheweth that a mother shall soon die and denoteth her to be blemisht with an evil fame and report In the eleventh House Rubeus giveth no true nor any faithful friends sheweth men to be of wicked lives and conversations and causeth a man to be rejected and cast out from all society and conversation with good and noble persons Rubeus in the twelfth House maketh enemies to be cruel and traiterous of whom we ought circumspectly to beware signifies such as are in prison shall come to an evil end and sheweth a great many inconveniences and mischiefs to happen in a mans life Carcer in the first House being posited giveth a short life signifies men most to be wicked of a filthy and cruel unclean figure and shape and such as are hated and despised of all men Carcer in the second House causeth most cruel and miserable poverty signifies both the theef and thing stolen to be taken and regained and sheweth no treasure to be hid In the third House Carcer signifieth hatred dissention amongst brethren evil journeys most wicked faith and conversation Carcer in the fourth House signifieth a man to have no possessions or inheritances a Father to be most wicked and to die a sudden and evil death In the fifth House Carcer giveth many children sheweth a woman not to be with child and provoketh those that are with child to miscarry of their own consent or slayeth the child signifieth no honours and disperseth most false rumours In the sixth House Carcer causeth the diseased to undergo long sickness signifieth servants to be wicked rather unprofitable Physitians ignorant In the seventh House Carcer sheweth the wife shall be hated of her husband and signifies suits and contentions to be ill ended and determined In the eighth House Carcer declareth the kinde of death to be by some fall mischance or false accusation or that men shall be condemned in prison or in publike judgement and sheweth them to be put to death or that they shall often lay violent and deadly hands upon themselves denieth a wife to have any portion and legacies Carcer in the ninth House sheweth he that is absent shall not returne and signifieth some evil shall happen to him in his journey it denotes persons of no Religion a wicked conscience and ignorant of learning In the tenth House Carcer causeth Princes to be very wicked and wretchedly to perish because when they are established in their power they will wholly addict themselves to every voluptuous lust pleasure and tyranny causeth Judges to be unjust and false declareth the Mother to be cruel and infamous and noted with the badge of adultery giveth no Offices nor Magistracies but such as are gotten and obtained either by lying or through theft and base and cruel robbery In the eleventh House Carcer causeth no friends nor love nor favour amongst men In the twelfth House it raiseth enemies detaineth in prison and inflicteth many evils Tristitia in the
first House doth not abbreviate life but afflicteth it with many molestations signifieth a person of good manners and carriage but one that is solitary and slow in all his business and occasions one that is solitary melancholy seldome laughing but most covetous after all things In the second House it giveth much substance and riches but they that have them shall not enjoy them but shall rather hide them and shall scarce afford to themselves food or sustenance therefrom treasure shall not be found neither shall the theef nor the theft Tristitia in the third House signifieth a man to have few brethren but sheweth that he shall outlive them all causeth unhappy journeys but giveth good faith In the fourth House Tristitia consumeth and destroyeth fields possessions and inheritances causeth a Father to be old and of long life and a very covetous hoorder up of money In the fifth Houâ—e it signifies no children or that they shall soon die sheweth a woman with child to bring forth a woman-child giveth no same nor honours In the sixth House Tristitia sheweth that the sick shall die servant shall be good but slothful and signifie cattel shall be of a small price or value In the seventh House Tristitia sheweth that the wife shall soon die and declareth suits and contentions to be very hurtful and determining against you In the eighth House it siginfies the kinde of death to be with long and grievous sickness and much dolour an pain giveth legacies and an inheritance and indoweth a wife with a portion Tristitia in the ninth House sheweth that he that is absent shall perish in his journey or signifies that some evil mischance shall happen unto him causeth journeys to be very unforunate but declareth men to be of good Religion devout and profound Scholars In the tenth House Tristitia signifies Princes to be severe but very good lovers of justice it causeth just Judges but such as are tedious and slow in determining of causes bringeth a Mother to a good old age with Integrity and honesty of life but mixt with divers discommodities and misfortunes it raiseth to great Offices but they shall not be long enjoyed nor persevered in it signifies such Offices as do appertain to the water or tillage and manuring of the Earth or such as are to be imployed about matters of Religion and wisdom In the eleventh House Tristitia signifies scarcity of friends and the death of friends and also signifies little love or favour In the twelfth House it sheweth no enemies wretchedly condemneth the imprisoned and causeth many discommodities and disprofits to happen in ones life Caput Draconis in the first House augmenteth life and fortune In the second House he increaseth riches and substance saveth concealeth a theef signifies treasure to be hid In the third House Caput Draconis giveth many brethren causeth journeys kinsmen and good faith and credit In the fourth House he giveth wealthy inheritances causeth the Father to attain to old age In the fifth House Caput Draconis giveth many children signifies women with child to bring forth women children and oftentimes to have twins it sheweth great honours and fame and signifies news and rumours to be true Caput Draconis in the sixth House increaseth sicknesses and diseases signifieth the Physitian to be learned and giveth very many servants and cattel In the seventh House he signifieth a man shall have many wives multiplies and stirreth up many adversaries and suits In the eighth House he sheweth the death to be certain increaseth legacies and inheritances and giveth good portion with a wife In the ninth House Caput Draconis signifies many journeys many Sciences and good Religion and sheweth that those that are absent shall soon return In the tenth House he signifies glorious Princes great and magnificent Judges great Offices and gainful Magistracy In the eleventh House he causeth many friends and to be beloved of all men In the twelfth House Caput Draconis signifieth men to have many enemies and many women detaineth the imprisoned and evilly punisheth them Cauda Draconis in all and singular the respected Houses aforesaid giveth the contrary judgement to Caput And these are the natures of the figures of Geomancy and their judgments in all and singular their Houses upon all manner of Questions to be propounded of or concerning any matter or thing whatsoever But now in the manner of proceeding to judgement this you are especially to observe that whensoever any Question shall be proposed to you which is contained in any of the Houses that you shall not onely answer thereunto by the figure contained in such a House but beholding and diligently respecting all the figures and the Index it self in two Houses you shall ground the face of judgement You shall therefore consider the figure of the thing quesited or enquired after if he shall multiply himself by the other places of the figure that you may cause them also to be partakers in your judgement as for example if a Question shall be propounded of the second House concerning a theef and the figure of the second House shall be found in the sixth it declares the theef to be some of ones own houshold or servants and after this manner shall you judge and consider of the rest for this whole Art consisteth in the Commixtures of the figures and the natures thereof which whosoever doth rightly practice he shall alwaies declare most true and certain judgements upon every particular thing whatsoever Of OCCULT PHILOSOPHY OR Of MAGICAL CEREMONIES The Fourth Book Written by Henry Cornelius Agrippa IN our Books of Occult Philosophy we have not so compendiously as copiously declared the principles grounds and reasons of Magick it self and after what manner the experiments thereof are to be chosen elected and compounded to produce many wonderful effects but because in those books they are treated of rather Theorically then Practically and some also are not handled compleatly and fully and others very figuratively and as it were Enigmatically and obscure Riddles as being those which we have obtained unto with great study diligence and very curious searching and exploration and are heretofore set forth in a more rude and unfashioned maner Therefore in this book which we have composed and made as it were a Complement and Key of our other books of Occult Philosophy and of all Magical Operations we will give unto thee the documents of holy and undefiled verity and Inexpugnable and Unresistable Magical Discipline and the most pleasant and delectable experiments of the sacred Deities So that as by the reading of our other books of Occult Philosophy thou mayest earnestly covet the knowledge of these things even so with reading this book thou shalt truly triumph Wherefore let silence hide these things within the secret closets of thy religious brest and conceal them with constant Taciturnity This therefore is to be known That the names of the intelligent presidents of every one of the
so that it being an aiery body sometimes the departed shadow would speak unto his remaining friends and sometimes evilly vex and torment his enemies with revenge as in the Poet Dido threatneth Aeneas saying Omnibus umbra locis adero dabis improbe penas My ghost shall every where attend thee Villain I will torment thee Suetonius as we have shown before addeth the like concerning the dead body of C. Caligula the Emperour in the Garden of Lamius being not duly buried for this body because it was only covered with a light turff did very much disquiet and trouble the possessors of the Garden with violent incursions in the night until by his sisters who were returned from banishment it was taken up again and ritely and duly by them buried Castor And the house wherein the same Emperour died could by no other way or means be freed from the fury of these shadows or spirits as History makes mention but by burning thereof Pollux Aristotle speaking of miracles mentioneth a certain mountain in Norway named Hechelberg environed about with the Sea that continually sent forth such lamentable voices like the yelling and howling of infernal devils insomuch that the noise and clamour of their terrible roaring might be heard almost a mile and the flocking together of great Ravens and Vultures neer it did prohibit any access thereunto And he reporteth that in Lyppora neer about the Aeolian Islands there was a certain Hill from whence in the night there was heard Cymbals and sounds of tinkling instruments of brass with certain secret and hidden screechings laughings and roarings of Spirits But even now Castor thou didst make mention of Zazelus whom also thou didst assert to have been called Earynomus by Pausania I desire thee to shew me something more largely concerning this Spirit Castor They do declare that he lives altogether by the flesh of the dead so as sometimes he doth not leave the bones Pollux Saxo Grammaticus in the fifth book of his Danish History doth most truly subscribe their consents and agreements to this thy Assertion for there he sets before our eyes an admirable History of one Asuitus and Asmundus which easily proveth all thy sayings Castor I beseech thee declare this unto me Pollux Pollux Give attention it is thus Asuitus and Asmundus had sworn with mutual vows each to other that he which should live longest of them would entomb himself alive Now sickness did consume away Asuitus before Asmundus whereupon Asmundus for his Oath of friendship sake with his dog and his horse entombed himself alive in a vast deep den having carried with him some meat whereupon a long time he fed And at length Ericus the King of Suecia came into that place with an Army and broke open the tomb of Asuitus supposing there had been treasure hid therein but when the cave was opened he drew out Asmundus and brought him into the light who was covered with a deformed sharp countenance a deadly deformity and gored with blood flowing from his fresh wounds Castor But this story pertaineth not to our purpose Pollux Truly it doth if you diligently mark these verses which set forth the cause of his wounds Castor Shew me those verses if thou hast them Pollux They are these which follow Quid stupetis qui relictum me Colore cernitis Obsolescit nempe vivus omnis inter mortuos Nescio quo Stygii numinis ausu Missus ab inferis Spiritus affluit Saevis alipedem dentibus edit Infandoque Canem praebuit ori Non contentus equi vel canis esu Mox in me rapidos transtulit ungues Discissaque gena sustulit aurem Hinc laceri vultus horret imago Emicat inque fero vulnere sanguis Haud impune tamen monstrifer egit Nam ferro secui mox caput ejus Perfodique nocens stipite Corpus Why are ye amaz'd to see me pale ' Mongst th'dead what 's living needs must fail By what strange warrant from black Hell A Spirit sent I know not fell With merciless teeth upon my Horse And next my Dog without remorse Devour'd but not with Dog and Horse Contented he on me the force Of his sharp nails try'd hence did tear Part of this cheek and one whole ear So my torn face doth look thus ill And all this blood appeareth still But yet this monstrous fiend from me I do assure you escap'd not free His head my sword did from him take And 's trunk to th'ground I fixt with stake Castor I observe here that Asmundus did cut the head of the Spirit Zazelus or Eurynomus and struck and pierced his body with a club what have Spirits bodies that may be seen and handled by men Pollux Cortesius doth not deny but that their natures may receive the habit and covering of vegetable bodies and be transformed in several kindes of shapes whereby they can the more craftily and subtilly delude and deceive the improvident wits of men Basilius Magnus also testifieth the same and witnesseth that they have bodies appropriate to themselves as likewise also have the pure Angels Psellus a Necromancer doth also report the same and he also teacheth That sometimes they sleep or rest and do change their places and shew themselves visible to the sences of men Socrates asserteth That a Spirit did speak with him which also sometimes he saw and felt but their bodies cannot be discerned to be different in sex But Marcus Cherronesus an excellent searcher into the natures of Spirits writeth That they have simple bodies and that there doth belong a difference of sex to compound bodies yet their bodies are easily drawn to motion and flexibility and naturally apt to receive every configuration For saith he even as the clouds do shew forth the apparition and resemblance sometimes of men and sometimes of every thing you conceive so likewise do the bodies of Spirits receive various shapes as they please by reason whereof they transform themselves into the forms sometimes of men and sometimes of women Nevertheless this is not free to them all but only to the fiery and aiery Spirits For he teacheth That the Spirits of the water have more slow and less active bodies which by reason of the slowness and softness of that element they do most especially resemble birds and women of which kinde the Naiades and Nereides are celebrated by the Poets Trimetius testifies That the Devils do desire to assume the shapes of men rather then any other form but when they cannot finde the matter of the air convenient and befitting for that purpose And he saith That they frame such kinde of apparences to themselves as the contrary humour or vapour will afford and so they are seen sometimes in the form and shape of a Lion a Wolfe a Sow an Ass a Centaure of a Man horned having feet like a Goat such as it is reported were seen in the mountain of Thrungia where there was heard a terrible roaring Castor
would know if two fellows shall love one another look if the Lords of the first and the seventh be friends and agreeing then they will love one another but if they be enemies and disagree then they will not If you desire to know who shall overcome in any cause matter or controversie behold the Lords of the first and the seventh which if they be in Angles neither of them shall overcome and see which of them is joyned with an evil Planet because he shall overcome and if the Planet be evil from them both the victor shall kill the conquered if one of them be strong and the other weak and the Planet which is in the strong House do not fall nor hath not an evil Planet with him and if he which is weak be not in his own House nor in his exaltation nor with a good Planet he whose Planet is in the strong House shall overcome likewise he whose significator is in a mean House shall have great fear and doubt in his heart because sometimes he shall hope to conquer and otherwhiles fear to be overcome And note that in a Question concerning war and kingdom it is said that there is more power and efficacie or fortitude in the exaltation of a Planet then in his House but in all other Questions the contrary If you would be informed concerning any one being that is gone to any fight whether he shall return safe see the Lord of the Ascendent if he be good that is with good Planets and a good Planet in the first he will return safe but if the Sun be with the Lord of the first in any part of the Question let him not go because the Sun burneth him And if the Lord of the seventh be with a good Planet and the Lord of the first with a good Planet likewise he shall have some impediment in the way but he will not die And if an evil Planet be with the Lord of the first and a good Planet in the first if he goeth he shall suffer great damage but not death nevertheless he may be grievously wounded And if Saturn be in the first or with the Lord of the first let him not go because some impediment will happen unto him by some man that he will meet And if there be an evil Planet with the Lord of the first or Saturn be in the first or with the Lord of the first he will be wounded with wood or with a stone If Mars and the Dragons Tail be in the first or with the Lord of the first or if there evil Planets in the first or with the Lord of the first he will suffer wounds or death See likewise if there be an evil Planet in the eighth because then death is to be feared And if the Sun be with the Lord of the seventh or in the eighth it signifies that it is ill to go The like judgement is of the seventh and the tenth And if a Question be proposed concerning the event of War see the seventh and the first and their Lords for the first House and his Lord signifies the Querent and the seventh House and his Lord the adversary So that if there be good Planets in the first and evil in the seventh and if the Lord of the first and seventh be evil the Querent shall overcome but if there be an evil Planet with the Lord of the first and an evil Planet in the first and the Lord of the seventh good or * R * in the seventh the Querent shall be overcome or taken or slain And if the Lords of them both be in the first and there be good Planets from the part of the first House unto the end of the House which is the middle of the Question and if evil Planets do possess the other half of the Question that is to say from the seventh unto the end of the twelfth house the adversary shall overcome But if both the Lords shall be in the Ascendent and if they be good from the part of the first and evil from the part of the seventh they shall both suffer great loss but the Querent shall have the better in the end But if the Lord of the Ascendent be in the seventh or in his Question it signifies fortitude of the adversary and if the Lord of the seventh be in the first or in his Question it signifies fortitude of the actor And if the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eighth or with the Lord of the eighth or the Lord of the eighth in the first or with the Lord of the first it signifies the death of the Querent And if the Lord of the seventh be in the second or with his Lord or the Lord of the second in the seventh or with the Lord of the seventh it signifies the death of the enemy If you would know whether War shall continue long or not if mean or meanly if the Lords of the first and the seventh do agree the parties shall be pacified after the War If thou wouldst depart from the place wherein thou art and remove thy self to some other place and if thou wouldst know whether it be better for thee to stay or go or concerning two businesses if thou destrest to know which of them is most expedient for thee to undertake consider the Lords of the first and the second for those places to which thou wouldst go the place wherein thou art and the gain which thou gettest there and the seventh and the eighth and their Lords for the place to which thou wouldst go and the gain which thou mayst get there and those places chuse whose Lords are the better or joyned to the better Planets Or otherwise behold the Lord of the Ascendent and the Moon which if they be separated from evil Planets and joyned to good and fortunate Planets it is better for thee to go from the place where thou art then to stay there and to do what business soever thou hast in thy minde And if the Lord of the Ascendent and the Moon be separated from the Fortunes and joyned to evil Planets then it is not good for thee to remove thy self nor to do thy business Or thus See the Moon and if the Planet from which she is separated be better then that to whom she is joyned do not remove and if the Planet which she is joyned to be better then that from which she is separated then go Questions of the eighth House COncerning any man or woman if you would know what kinde of death they shall die see if Leo Scorpio †R. †Mars be in the eighth the party shall die by a beast And if Saturn be in the eighth or with the Lord of the eighth in Scorpio Cancer or Pisces he shall die in water And if an evil Planet be in the eighth or with the Lord of the eighth or if Mars or the Dragons Tayl be there he shall die by fire iron or of a fever And