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Defectio geniturarum being an essay toward the reviving and proving the true old principles of astrology hitherto neglected or at leastwise not observed or understood : wherein many things relating to this science are handled and discoursed ... / by John Partridge.
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Partridge, John, 1644-1715.
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Heaven and those immediately concerned in his Honour and Preferment are under the Earth and some of them Cadent But take Cardan's Opinion in this Case Cum Sol Jupiter Luna bene disponuntur cum fixis fuerint fortunatis Directiones ad tempus juventutis bonae terminantur plâ—res Revolutiones fortunatae tunc heros maximus vir evadit Lib de Judi Geniturarum Cap. 26 Cardini Si Sol Jupiter Mars vel Saturnus in trigono igneo fuerit vel in locis sublimibus vel cum fixis nobilibus vel se aspâ—ientes erit natus magni nominis ratione patentiae Et si Sol cum Joâ—â— Mercurio in aereis eodem modo fuerit ratione industriae Seg. 3. Aphâ—ris 135. Cardani VI. Of his Friends and Friendship Enemies and Imprisonment It is most certain that every popular man must naturally contract Friendship and Envy Friends and Enemies and I dare engage that this Native will have a large share in both as all men meet with that have such Positions from Cardinal Signs and Violent Rays and were not Jupiter strong in his Ascendent and the Moon in Trine to the Sun both in Mundo Zodiaco he would feel the Fury of his Enemies more than the Favour of his Friends He will have Enemies and those malicious ones but his Friends and the Friendship he will receive will screen and defend him from the greatest of their Fury and yet his Enemies no small people neither Notwithstanding I think the Square of the Sun and Mars and the Opposition of Sâ—turn to the Sun and Venus will give him Troubles yet they will be in the latter part of his Life and not attended with Imprisonment or Confinement for Jupiter in his Ascendent will defend both his Person and Reputation And it is my Opinion That in all Nativities that have such popular Positions as this Native hath he must have many Friends and also many Enemies and both sorts men of great and eminent Quality but Jupiter in his own House in the Ascendent will give him that obliging Temper that will make his Friends the greater number by far by his fair and genteel Carriage VII Of his Sickness and Diseases Losses Troubles c. In this case the Great Ptolâ—my adviseth us to consider the Two Angles of East and West and whether the Luminaries are there and joyned to either of the Maleficks which in this Scheme you see is not so but on the contrary Jupiter defends the prime Angle and doth irradiate the other with his opposite Rays Nor is there any Malefick in the Sixth House afflicting or afflicted which by our Author is much to be minded in judging Diseases which he distinguisheth from Laesiones or Hurts of the Body I therefore conclude he will not be subject to any fixt perpetual Disease or Infirmity of Body but to such as will return at some Intervals on proper Directions c. and these are Disorders from the Spleen mixt with Nephritick Pains and when grown into years vertiginous disorders of the Head and perhaps the Gout but generally of a healthy Constitution otherways His Troubles are to be considered first in their nature and so we must judge them to proceed from Saturn and Mars who afflicts his Sun the persons by them signified are false and fly Friends and malicious Enemies to hinder his progress in publick Affairs And 2dly as to the time they will happen which may be known by the Directions preceding and those will not appear till the after part of his Life some few fall in the former part of it but they are not considerable if compared with the good Directions that will attend him Lossâ—s and Damage to his Estate may happen divers ways for we find Satura Lord of his Second in Square to Mars and Opposition to Vâ—nus and the Part of Fortune in a perfect â—undane Square to the Mâ—on from the Fifth and Seventh This threatens him with Loss by Play or Gâ—ming and indeed I would advise this Native to shun Gaming of all sorts for it will be destructive to him and his Estate and I dare venture to tell him positively That whatever he plays for he will lose and always be unsuccessful in Pleasures of that kind There seems to be other Losses likely to attend him also signified by Venus afflicted by Mars and Saturn Women will projudice him if he is too intimate and familiar with them but especially Lewd Women because Venus is nearest in Opposition to Saturn Lord of his Second Therefore it will be his great Wisdom to avoid these ruinous Courses and all ill Company or Acquaintance VIII Of his Profâ—ssion and Employment and â—hat he may be inclin'd to I would not have my Reader think by the Title of this Paragraph that I intend to pitch upon a Trade or think he will ever settle to one no he that hath Jupiter in his Ascâ—ndent and Five Planets in Cardinal Signs will employ his Thoughts in things of another nature and quality than a Trade and also endeavour to find business suitable to his humor In this Nativity Mercury is the prime Significator of his Business and Inclination and next Venus and Mars the one Lady of the Tenth and the other her Dispositor And all these we find in Equinoctial and Tropical Sigâ—s and both Venus and Mercury in Conjunction with the Sun in his Exaltation this shews his Employment will be business of Credit and Honour And if we consider the Moon applies to the Trine of Mercury and she in his Terms the Ascendent Saturn Mars and Venus all in the Terms of Mercury from whence I conclude his Employment will be Mercurial belonging to the Pen Accounts or such like bookish Business that he will incline to Secondly As the Sun Mercury and Venus are in Mars's House and the Sun's Exaltation so I judge his Employment will be among those concerned in the Government of a Nation or an Army or the like business of Credit Honour and Publick Affairs perhaps something of a Secretary Publick Minister or Envoy and this the rather because of the Virgins Spike on the Angle of Honour I do not desire to predict the particular thing because Cardan says Cumquâ— hoc scire exquisitè emnino sit impâ—ssibile per genera res erit diduâ—â—rds Seg. 6. Apho. 43. Cardani â—ut I have been the larger on this part as well as some other parts of my Judgment because I am of opinion that this young Gentleman will come to understand this Art himself when he arrives at years of Maturity there being an Aphorism in Cardan that takes place in this case exactly thus Quando Luna in Occidente Jupiter in Oriente in Marâ—is ospectu natus fato Astrologiae credet Aphor. 181. Seg. 5. Card. If he believes it very probable it is he may also study it IX Lastly Of his Death the Cause Kind and Time of it Death you know is the natural Consâ—quence of Life and it
in at birth that I aim at and direct to and I believe there is no man that understands Directional motion that will pretend to Controvert this point unless it is to shew the Excellence of his parts in Cavilling at a positive truth But when he talks of the â™ to be directed Converse I am asham'd of it to find so great a Philosopher insist on so ridiculous a Soloecism nay a perfect impossibility for among all the Authors that ever I have read there are none that will pretend to this foolery but those who know nothing of the matter And I am certain any man will be my Convert that will but consider the Thing and it's Motion But I confess I do not wonder at this Doctrine in Morinus who doth also direct the Angles Converse and this by the same Rule with the former and upon the same ground but both false But to the point nothing can be directed Converse but what is capable of the rapt motion which the Part of Fortune is not for the Part of Fortune passeth through all the Signs in the Zodiack in 24 Hours by the rapt Motion which it could not do if it were possible to be directed Converse For Example Let us suppose the Part of Fortune to be in the Tenth in Conjunction with the Sun Moon Venus and Mercury all which four are capable of the Rapt Motion and are to be directed Converse by the same Rule for they are carried away to the Cusp of the seventh and so to the Fourth and Ascendent c. But the Part of Fortune doâ—h not go with them but stays in the Tenth or thereabouts till the next day about Noon and then it is in Conjunction with them again but meets them sooner than it did the day before being got nearer to the Ascendent by one day's motion of the Moon than it was Now you may for all this direct it Converse if you please and assign some effect to it too but it will look so like no Direction at all and your pains so ill rewarded with empty expectation that perhaps you will save that labour the next time I think this is sufficient to convince any one in this matter that is not too proud to be inform'd And for those that are too stately to be taught and bid adieu to Truth if there were ten times so much more said it would be in vain The next Heterodox point he falls upon is directing the Houses one to another and what is the Consequence of it the Angles Converse for by the same Rule you can do the one I must allow the other But to be plain with you I deny both and do say they are only imaginary and groundless and there is nothing to be said for them but opinion And to shew you the true way of doing it you must have recourse to the Nativities of Walstein and Lewis the 14th in the first of which he directs the Sun in the Seventh to the Midheaven which is in plain terms nothing else but the Midheaven Converse to the body of the Sun In the Second he directs the Ascendent Converse to the Square of the Moon both which I say are no Directions nor have they any effect But because I have spoke of these things largely before I shall omit to say more of them in this place In the 22d Book there are many things more that relate to Directions that I might have recited in their order which because I do not intend a Comment nor a particular Transcription of all I have omitted But there is one thing more that I think seems a little strange to be laid down with so much Authority as he seems to do it with and that is in page 587 to extract the Nativities of the Parents Brethren Wife Children Servants Friends and Enemies from that of the Native's because they stand related to him by the denomination of several Houses in the Figure in which matter I confess he taâ—ks well and learnedly But for the use and truth of those Nativities when gotten I judge no man will venture his Reputation and Credit I know what Ptâ—lomy says of the matter in his 3d Book and 4th Chapter and what Cardan and others say from him about it But of all that have written I think Morinus is the largest and I doubt a little too large too At last he starts a pretty sort of a Question and also Answers it himself And it is Whether by the death of any Native the Celâ—stial Iâ—fluence ceaseth from that Figure to the Parents Brethren Wife Children and all others so related But as I think there is little in the thing it self and less use to be made of it I shall pass it by with as little notice and refer those that would see more of it to Morine's own words page 588. In his 23d Book he discourseth of Revolutions and how to take them In which he hath taken a great deal of pains and in my opinion to a very little purpose for he makes the same thing the basis of his work that they all do which is 5 hours 49 minutes and the operation is almost as tedious as that of the Nativity to gâ—in the Revolution And when that is done how much are we the Exacter than what Argol did by a Table before him and what did Argol do more than Leovitius had done a hundred years before him For so long since he made the difference to be 5 hours 49 minutes between each Revolution And it is the same still as appears by them all one after another and to say the truth I see nothing of Excellence done of late but what tends to puzzle the Cause and increase labour and toil and when all this is attain'd and done they only load the Art with abundance of fooleries of no use of which this of Revolutions is one I do not say the observing the Revolutions every year is a foolery but I say the way of managing and handling them as now used and taught is a meer toy and good for nothing but trouble And that there is nothing in the Revolution but Transits and Returns that are remarkable and worth observing The first that I find did improve Revolutions after the manner now used was Schoner And since him they are grown so artificial that they mâ—ke the Revolution a second Nativity with Directions and Measure of time and other little tricks which they have thought convenient and for the improvement of these ridiculous fooleries some of our English Artists as they call them are behind-hand with none of them but of all the Modern Writers I know none that go beyond Morinus in depending on the Figure of a Revolution so taken as before mentioned as you may see from page 598. to 671. In which Book if the Doctrine is true there is enough to make any man Master of the whole Method and Matter Nay he hath been so nice not to say any worse of it page 644 to