the earth as seven is to six and Alfraganus saith Distant from the earth he is bigger then the earth by one half and distant 4584 semidiameters of the earth yet Tycho saith but 1745. Mean and Diurnal motion Revolution His mean motion is 31. d. 27. m. His Diurnal motion is sometimes 32 34 36 38 40 42 44. m. a day He finisheth his course through the 12. signs of the Zodiack in one year 321 days or thereabouts ♂ when well fortified When he is Lord of the year strong and well placed all such as belong to arms as souldiers and the like shall be fortunate and in good condition and shall overcome their enemies there shall be also during that Revolution sufficient and plenty of rain and at such times and no other as is convenient and requisite and the people shall be prosperous and happy but if he be weak judge the contrary and that the good or evil by him portended When ill placed shall be chiefly incident to those Places and Regions subject to the sign wherein he is Humours He is author of anger haste choler and ruleth these dispositions in man hot fiery and dry Qualities of men when well placed Conquerours Usurpers Tyrants Generals of Armies and all Souldiers in general Physitians Apothecaries Chirurgions Alchymists Marshalls Butchers Gunners Watch-makers Barbers Armourers and all such as use Iron tools Curriers Tannes Gamesters Dyers Carpenters Cooks Cutlers Taylors Smiths Bakers c. When ill placed Nature Corporature or shape of body When he is ill placed and not strong he denotes hangmen thieves bayliffs sergeants cutters by the high-way murtherers jaylors and all cut-throat people He is author of passion extravagancy heat and choler Red-haired a red face and round a fiery sparkling eye yet tending to a saffronish colour of stature neither high nor low but between both I have still observed that a right Martialist doth seldom exceed in height or to be at the most above a yard and a half high a bold confident countenance and it most commonly very harsh strong and big-boned seldom fat When oriental When Oriental he is somewhat above the middle size and hairy-bodied and a purer complexion then hath been already rehearsed When occidental When Occidental he is ruddy and not so tall a little head and not so hairy-bodied yellowish hair and of a drier constitution North latitude His greatest North latitude is 4. d. 31. m. South latitude His South latitude is 6. deg and 47. m. Savours Sharp bitter and unpleasant Colours Red yellow or saffron colour In man He rules the back veins gall Herbs and spice All such herbs as are hot and dry and such as have sharp-pointed leaves and are red they usually grow on dry places and such as are barren and hard stony places the thistle Devils-milk brambles briers nettles cammock onions lingwort radish arsmart mustard-seed ginger pepper garlick hemlock red sanders tamerindes castoreum Carduus benedictus or the blessed Thistle horehound leeks Trees All Trees that are thorny or prickly Birds The Hawk Kite Raven Vulture Owl Cormorant Crow Mag-pie and all ravenous birds or birds of prey c. Stones Blood-stone Load-stone Jasper Touch-stone Adamant the Amethist of divers colours Minerals Iron Steel Arsenick Antimony Brimstone and red Vermillion Fishes The Shark Pike Barbel Fork-fish all stinging Water-Serpents and hurtfull Fish Beasts The Mastiff Wolf Tyger Cockatrice Panther and all such beasts as are ravenous and bold Weather Thunder lightning fiery-meteors pestilential ayr and in it strange apparitions c. Places All places that are appertaining to fire and blood as slaughter-houses Furnaces Smiths shops c. Winds He ruleth and causeth Western winds Signs Of the Coelestial signs he ruleth Aries and Scorpio He hath Triplicity or Rule over the watry Triplicity or Trygon viz. these signs Triplicity which are Cancer Scorpio and Pisces he hath absolute dominion therein both night and day yet some of the Antients do joyn with him the Moon c. He hath exaltation in Capricorn in the 28. deg Exaltation He suffereth detriment in Libra and Taurus Detriment He is in his Fall in the 28. deg of Cancer Fall Age. From 22. till 45. Samael Angel His Enemie is the Moon only Enemies His Friends are Saturn Jupiter Sol Venus and Mercury Friends Day of the week Of the days of the week he ruleth Tuesday and of the nights that night we vulgarly call Friday night Jerusalem the Roman Empire even to the West Regions c. Orbe His Orbe is seven degrees before and after any Aspect Years His greatest years are 214. His greater years are 66. His mean years are 40. His least years are 15. In journeys he portends thieving sacking robbing slaying much danger or hurts viz. to the Traveller if Mars be significator and weak and ill-placed Journeys c. of the which more hereafter in our Treatise of Elections Diseases Feavers and those burning contagious and pestilential Megrims overflowing of the Gall Phrenzies the Plague distempers through the whole body Shingles Fistulaes Stone in the reins yellow Jaundies and all such diseases as proceed from excess of Choler Passion and Anger all diseases proceeding from the Gall Putrefaction of blood c. Stationary He is Stationary two or three days before Retrogradation and two days before direction Retrograde He is Retrograde 80. days CHAP. IV. Of the Nature and Significations of the SVN LEt us descend now unto the Sun We are by Gods blessing come now to the Sun which is successively next to be treated on he is under Mars placed in the midst of all the Planets being the chief light and president of them all sitting as a Judge or King amongst his Nobles The order of the Planets for as Saturn Jupiter and Mars is placed above his sphear so are Venus Mercury and Luna beneath him wherefore some of the Antients have ascribed to him chief rule and made him as it were an Emperor amongst the Stars Saturn is his Vice-roy for that all Planets give unto him their light or do homage and reverence unto him by reason of his slowness Jupiter hath assigned him chief rule and dominion in the Realm for that he is of a temperate sober good honest and religious inclination Mars is his chief Captain or General of all his Forces Venus is Receiver or Master-Comptroller of his house by reason she is nearer Sol then any other Mercury hath assigned him chief Secretary of State by reason when the King goeth any Progress or Journey he goeth and when the King stayeth so doth also Mercury for he is never far from his beck Luna is his Standard-bearer being furthest from him she is also as I may say Embassador Messenger c. to do his business The fixed Stars of several
ridiculous as for a man to dislike contradict gainsay or condemn what he is ignorant of if thou hast no belief in these matters yet mayst thou benefit thy self thereby it is but thy pains in trying the conclusions if they fail then mayst thou on good ground condemn them if they hit thou reapest hereby a double benefit knowledge and experience wherefore by the way I thought good to hint at this that thou mayest not persist in thy ill conceit of this Heavenly Art of the Judgment of the stars Look my Lux Veritaâ—â—s or Astrology since thou mayst let it alone till thou beest urged by any Artist to have any esteem thereof though never so slight but to our business in hand Minerals Of Mettals or Minerals the Sun ruled gold Fishes The Sea-Calf whose Nature is to resist lightning Shel-fish the Star-fish for her parching heat and the fishes called Strombi that follow their King and Margari which have a King also these Margari being dryed are fixed into a stone of a golden colour as witnesseth Cornelius Agrippa Beasts All such Beasts as are stately bold strong and invicible as the Lion Crocodile Wolf Ram Boar Bull Horse and Baboon of the which it is Recorded that he barketh every hour in the day viz. twelve times in a day and that in the Equinoctial times of the year he pisseth twelve times viz every hour also as often in the night Gesner on Beasts pag. 10. Whence the Egyptians as Cornelius Agrippa and others Lib. 1. cap. 23. de Occult. Philos relate did use to engrave them on their Fountains Moreover the Aegyptians did use to preserve them amongst their hollowed things for that by them they knew the time of the Conjunction of Sol and Luna see Gesner of Beasts pag. 10. for after the aforesaid Conjunction the Male Baboon will neither look up nor eat but goes still dejected as it were lamenting the ravishment of the Moon with this disdainfull passion in like manner the Female at that time sendeth forth blood out of her womb of Conception for which cause the Egyptians signifie by a Baboon the Moon and her rising by his standing upright holding his hands up toward heaven Weather He causeth Weather according to the Season c. of the which more hereafter Places Princes Palaces Courts Houses all magnificent Buildings Halls Dining-rooms Parlers c. Winds He loveth and delighteth in the East part of the World and Eastern Winds Signs Of the Coelestial signs he ruleth for his house only Leo. Triplicity He ruleth by day the fiery Triplicity viz. Aries Leo and Sagittary He is exalted in Aries the 19. degree Exaltation He suffreth Detriment in Aquaries Detriment And Fall in Libra Fall Age. The strength of years His Angel is Michael Angel Friends His Friends are Iupiter Mars Venus Mercury and Luna His Enemy Saturn only Enemies Day of the week He ruleth Sunday of the days of the week and of the nights that which we call Wednesday night He ruleth the fourth Climate Italy Bohemia Sicilia Caldea Regions the Roman Empire Orbe Is 15. degrees before and after any Aspect Conception In conception he ruleth the fourth moneth His greatest years are 1640. Years Yet Bonatus and some others say but 461. His greater years are 120. His mean years are 69. His least years are 19. Iourneys In journeys he giveth good success Diseases He signifieth hot and dry Diseases palpitation of the heart infirmities of the eyes cramps soundings giddiness in the head diseases and infirmities of the mouth and brain Catharrs rotten Feavers c. The Sun is never Stationary Stationary Retrograde He moveth always direct in the Ecliptick and is never Retrograde CHAP. V. Of the Nature and Significations of VENVS The nature and complexion of ♀ I Come now to Venus who is next under Sol she is the lesser Fortune transparent bright and shining she is very well known by the Country people by the name of the Evening Star when she sets after the Sun and she is sometimes by them called the morning Star when she riseth before the Sun Feminine and Nocturnal And again by some she is called the Shepherds Star The globe of ♀ She is to our sight the biggest of all the Stars and Planets except Sol and Luna yet according to Tycho she is less then the earth six times Ptolomy Albotegnius and Alfraganus say 36. times c. Distant from the earth She is distant from the earth according to the same Ptolomie Albotegnins and Alfraganus 618. semidiameters of the earth but Tycho and Copernicus say 1150. Her mean motion is 59. m. 8. sec Mean and diurnal motion Her diurnal motion is sometimes 62. m. 64. m. 65. m. 66. m. 70. m. 74. m. or 76. m. but she never exceedeth 82. m. She finisheth her course through the twelve signs of the Zodiack in the same time the Sun doth Revolution or thereabouts When well fortified When she is Lady of the year in any Revolution and essentially dignified the year will be advantagious unto women who shall generally be free from infirmities and mischiefs they shall love and delight in the society of their Husbands shall be fruitfull easily conceive and bring forth the people shall also generally thrive and be prosperous shall delight themselves in recreations sports feastings mirth and jollities and all pleasure whatsoever also in fine apparel but if she be weak When ill placed judge the contrary Qualitie of men when well placed Musitians in general Gamesters and what Game soever it be Embroyderers Jewellers Linnen-Drapers Perfumers Picture-Drawers Ingravers Mercers Silk-men and all such Occupations as serve to the adorning of women c. Women Wives Mothers Virgins c. When ill placed or weak Fidlers Pipers ordinary Painters Seamsters Glovers Womens-Taylors Upholsterers c. She is author of voluptuousness and pleasure Corporature or shape of body A light brown hair smooth and much of it a mean stature a fair complexion tending to blackness lovely black eyes a round face having a Love-dimple in the chin a lovely mouth cherry lips extraordinary lovely and delightfull a pleasant taking countenance an exceeding well-shaped body throughout loving neatness spruceness trimming and the like lovely in all his gestures speaking softly and sweetly studious and solid in his deportment in all exercises of the body light and nimble When oriental When she is Oriental she gives a taller stature upright and straight not corpulent but decently composed Occidental When Occidental not so tall yet very comely and well-favoured North latitude Her greatest North latitude is 9. deg 2. min. South latitude Her South latitude at the most is no more Savours Delightfull pleasant toothsom sweet favours Colours Blew tending to white or white c. In man The Reins
applies unto Signs Of the Coelestial signs she hath but one for her house viz. Cancer Triplicity Her Triplicity is the earthy Triplicity which she ruleth by night viz. Taurus Virgo and Capricorn Her Exaltation is in Taurus the 3. degree Exaltation She suffers detriment in Capricorn Detriment Fall in Scorpio 3. degree Fall Age. Infancy till seven years of Age. Gabriel Angel Her Enemies are Saturn and Mars Enemies Her Friends are Jupiter Friends Sol Venus and Mercury Day of the week Of the days of the week she ruleth Monday and that night we commonly call Thursday night Denmark Regions Holland Zealand Flanders Norinberge Orb. Her Orbe is twelve degrees before and after any Aspect Years Her greatest years are 320. Her greater years are 108. Her mean years are 66. Her least years are 25. In conception In conception she ruleth the seventh moneth Journeys According as she is strong or weak strengthened or debilitated Diseases Megrims Frenzies Apoplexies Vertigoes Wind-Cholick Diseases in the bladder Testicles and left-side and in the liver of women and members of Generation Menstrues Fluxes cold Rhumes Belchings cold stomack hurts in the left eyes of men and right of women Sciatica Surfets Coughs Convulsions Falling-sickness Aposthumes small Pox Measles and the Kings-evil Stationary She is never stationary Retrograde Nor Retrograde but when she goeth less then 13. deg in 24. hours she is accompted equivalent to a Planet retrograde but in her own proper motion she ever moveth direct forward CHAP. VIII Of the Essential Dignities of the Planets I Have already shewed the Natures and Significations of the Planets I am come now to shew their essential Dignities without the which there can no part of this Art be understood or indeed by any wise beneficial wherefore it is necessary that all the Students herein warily observe their Fortitudes and Debilities in any part of their works to which end they must be exceeding well skilled herein which that they may diligently study to do I will God inabling me cordially and sincerely to the full here relate When a Planet is essentially dignified or fortified A Planet then is said to be essentially strong or in essential Dignities when he is in his own House Exaltation Triplicity Term or Face How these are assigned to every Planet you may see by this Table following though there hath been much dissention therein amongst the Ancients with the which if thou agree not I hope thou art not hurt hereby since thou hast liberty to follow what Authors thou pleasest A Table of the essential Dignities of the Planets according to Ptolomie Signs Houses of the Planets Exalations Triplicities D. N. The terms of the Planets The Faces of the Planets Detriment Fall ♈ ♂ D ☉ 19 ☉ ♃ ♃ 6 ♀ 14 ☿ 21 ♂ 26 ♄ 30 ♂ 10 ☉ 20 ♀ 30 ♀ ♄ ♉ ♀ N ☉ 3 ♀ ◠♀ 8 ☿ 15 ♃ 22 ♄ 26 ♂ 30 ♀ 10 ☽ 20 ♄ 30 ♂  ♊ ☿ D ☊ 3 ♄ ☿ ☿ 7 ♃ 14 ♀ 21 ♂ 25 ♄ 30 ♃ 10 ♂ 20 ☉ 30 ♃ ☋ ♋ ♄ N D ♃ 15 ♂ ♂ ♂ 6 ♃ 13 ☿ 20 ♀ 27 ♄ 30 ♀ 10 ☿ 20 ☽ 30 ♄ ♂ ♌ ☉ N D   ☉ ♃ ♄ 6 ♀ 13 ♂ 19 ♀ 25 ♂ 30 ♄ 10 ♃ 20 ♂ 30 ♄  ♠☿ N ♀ 15 ♀ ☽ ☿ 7 ♀ 13 ♃ 18 ♄ 24 ♂ 30 ☉ 10 ♀ 20 ☿ 30 ♃ ♀ ♎ ♀ D ♄ 21 ♄ ☿ ♄ 6 ♀ 11 ☿ 19 ♃ 24 ♂ 30 ☽ 10 ♄ 20 ♃ 30 ♂ ☉ ♠♂ N  ♂ ♂ ♂ 6 ♀ 14 ♃ 21 ☿ 27 ♄ 30 ♂ 10 ☉ 20 ♀ 30 ♀ ☽ ♠♃ D ☋ 3 ☉ ♃ ♃ 8 ♀ 14 ☿ 19 ♄ 25 ♂ 30 ☿ 10 ☽ 20 ♄ 30 ☿ ☊ ♑ ♄ N ♂ 28 ♀ ☽ ♀ 6 ☿ 12 ♃ 19 ♄ 25 ♂ 30 ♃ 10 ♂ 20 ☉ 30 ☽ ♃ ♒ ♄ D   ♄ ☿ ♄ 6 ☿ 12 ♀ 20 ♃ 25 ♂ 30 ♀ 10 ☿ 20 ☽ 30 ☉  ♓ ♃ N ♀ 27 ♂ ♂ ♀ 8 ♃ 14 ☿ 20 ♂ 25 ♄ 30 ♄ 10 ♃ 20 ♂ 30 ☿ ☿ The Vse of the Table IN the first Column you have ♈ ♉ ♊ c. under each other to the end of the signs over them is written signs intimating all these beneath are the Characters of the signs In the next Column to signs you have written the Houses of the Planets under which you see ♀ D. over against it on the left hand is ♈ and under ♂ D. you have ♀ N. and over against her on the left hand ♉ intimating no more but this that ♈ is ♂ his day house signified by D. and ♉ is ♀ her night house signified by N. and so all along underneath you have declared what sign properly belongeth to every Planet In the next column you see written Exaltations under it and over against ♈ you finde ☉ 19. and under him over against ♉ you see ☽ 3. which is ☉ in the 19. degree of ♈ is in the very point of his exaltation and ☽ in the 3. degree of ♉ and so of the rest In the next column you see Triplicities and under is D. N. under D. N. you have ☉ ♃ ☉ under D. and ♃ under N. and over against ♈ so also over against ☊ in the same column you see ☉ ♃ and again over against ♠which shews no more but that the ☉ hath triplicity in the Day signified by D. in these three fiery signs or Triplicity and ♃ in the night signified by N. so you may see ♀ and ☽ rule the earthy Triplicity ♀ by day ☽ by night ♄ and ☿ the aëry ♂ the watry only wherefore you finde ♂ both under D. and N. shewing that both night and day he ruleth the watry Trygon In the next column and over against ♈ you see ♃ 6. and in the next column ♀ 14. and next unto her over against ♈ still you finde ☿ 21. c. and over their heads you have written The terms of the Planets the meaning whereof is that ♃ in the first 6. degrees of ♈ hath terms ♀ from 6. to 14. hath terms ☿ from 14. to 21. hath terms c. and so in order of the rest In the tenth column over against ♈ you finde ♂ 10. ☉ 20. and ♀ 30. over their heads The faces of the Planets which is ♂ in the first 10. degrees of ♈ hath a face ☉ from 10. to 20. degrees and ♀ from 20. to 30. degrees mark this all along in the rest In the thirteenth column you finde ♀ over against ♈ and under her ♂ over against ♉ next ♃ over against ♊ and over all written Detriment intimating ♀ in ♈ ♂ in ♉ ♃ in ♊ are in detriment viz. in houses that are opposite to their own whereby they are debilitated or suffer detriment or damage and so you may see of all the rest of the Planets In the
Cities and Regions under Saturn his Dominion and the Dominion of the sign which he doth then possess Humours Of Humours he is author of Melancholy And such men if they take to love any one let them be man or woman which happeneth but very seldom they love most constantly and intirely and if they hate as most commonly they do they hate to the death and with a perpetual hatred hardly to be removed Profession or mastery when well fortified If he be fortunate of professions and Mastery he denotes such as are profound and occult antiquities things and callings belonging to labour care and rarities and such as belong or have any relation unto water or neer water Saylers Tankerd-bearers Plummers Ship-Carpenters and the like and such as belong to the earth as Curriers Broom-men Bearers of dead corps Hostlers Brick-makers Plow-men Scavengers Colliers Ditchers Carters Chandlers Gardners Herds-men Dyers of black cloth Shepherds Coach-men and Cow-herds Brick-layers c. Profession when weak Nature When unfortunate he denotes generally labourers emptyers of Jakes Diggers of Cole-pits and the like fordid and base occupations He is cold dry Melancholick author of solitariness Corporature or shape of body Corporature or shape of the body he gives a middle stature pale swarthy or muddy small black eyes looking downward a broad forehead black or very dark hair and it rugged or harsh great ears lowring eye-brows thick lips and Nose thin beard a lumpish heavy countenance large shoulders stooping and many times crooked a short lank belly thin thighs indecent feet shuffling against one another Oriental Oriental the stature is more short but decent and well composed As touching this and other terms of Art have recourse to the 43. chapter Occidental Without latit Meridional North latitude Occidental more black and lean less hair If he want latitude he is more fat if it be Merdional but quick in motion fat and fleshly and so of the rest of the Planets If the latitude be North hairy and much flesh his greatest North latitude is two degrees 48 minutes South latitude His South latitude is two degrees 49 minutes and more he hath not 1. Station In his first station a little fat 2. Station In his second station fat il-favoured bodies and weak observe this in all the other Coelestial bodies Qual of men Quality of men in general he signifyeth fathers grand-fathers old men day-labourers Beggers Clowns Husbandmen Monks Jesuits c. Savours Savours bitter sowre sharp In man In man he ruleth the spleen Herbs plants and trees Herbs Hemlock Starwort Bears-foot Wolf-bane Fern white and black Helebor Henbane Burdock Dragon Parsnip Poppy Pulse Mandrake Vervine Nightshade Moss Angelica Box Tutsan Orage Sage Bithwind Spinach Cummin Fumitory Shepherds-purse Horse-tail Tamarisk Capers Polipody Sene Hemp Savin Rue Willow-tree Pine-tree Yew-tree Cyprus-tree Birds Crow Owl Crane Thrush Ostritch Lapwing Peacock Bat Black-bird Cucko Stones subject to him are the Saphir Lapis Lazuli Stones or that stone of which Azure is made unpolished black and blewish stones Minerals Minerals he governeth Lead the Load-stone the dross of all Mettals Fishes Fishes the Tortois Eel and shel-fish Beasts Beasts the Ass Cat Hare Mouse Mole Dog Wolf Bear Elephant Basilisk Crocodile Scorpion Serpent Adder Toad Hog all manner of creeping creatures breeding of putrefaction Places Places he delighteth in deserts woods obscure vallies dens caves holes sepulchers Church-yards ruinous buildings cole-pits sinks muddy dirty stinking places wells and houses of offices Weather Weather cloudy dark obscure ayr cold and hurtfull thick black and condense clouds this is but generally his particular and immediate alteration of weather is to be known from his several positions and aspects with other Planets Fortitudes and Debilities c. of the which more hereafter according as I have leisure Winds He delighteth in the East quarter of Heaven and causeth Eastern winds Gathering of Herbs In gathering of his herbs turn thy face towards the East in his hour when he is in an Angle and well fortified essentially and no wise accidentally impedited and let Luna apply by a Sextile or Trine to him Observe this method in the rest of the Planets mutatis mutandis Signs Triplicity Of the signs he ruleth Capricorn by night and Aquarius by day and the aiëry triplicity by day Age. Old Age. His Angel is Cassiel Angel His Friends are Jupiter Sol and Mercury Friends His Enemies are Mars Venus and Luna Enemies Day of the week He ruleth Saturday beginning the first hour after Sun rising and that night we commonly call Tuesday night Regions he ruleth Bavaria Saxony Stiria Romandiola Ravenna Constantia Regions Ingolstad Orbe His orbe is 9. degrees before and after any Aspect which is to say his influence begins to operate when either he applies to any Aspect of any Planet or they to him and is within nine degrees of the perfect aspect and continueth in force untill he is fully separate nine degrees from the aspect Partill What a Partill aspect is you shall have anon in the 28. chapter but note this in all the rest of the Planets Conception Years In generation he ruleth the first and eighth moneths after conception His greatest yeers he signifies are 465. His greater 57. His mean 43. and a half His least 30. The meaning hereof is no more but this If a Kingdom City Town Family or the like have its beginning when Saturn is essentially and accidentally well fortified its probable the Monarchy City Building c. may continue firm and in good condition as at the first 465. years and so of the rest c. Journeys In long journeys when he is Significator he portends long and laborious travel perilous dangers and imprisonments Diseases caused by Saturn are the Falling-sickness Flegmatick humours Defluctions Diseases Melancholy Leprousie Fistulas Morphew Aches and Colds in the joynts Deafness Tooth-ache pains in the bones in the bladder all cold diseases the Gout Scab Palsie Consumptions Black-jaundies Quartan Agues the Iliack-passion Dropsie Chin-cough Catarrs c. Stationary He is Stationary before Retrogradation five days and five days before direction Retrograde He is Retrograde 140. days CHAP. II. Of the Significations and Nature of IVPITER The nature and complexion of ♃ The globe of ♃ IN the next place we are to proceed to Jupiter who is in height next unto him he is masculine and temperate the greater fortune bright shining and clear the biggest star in magnitude as to our sight except Venus yet according to Tycho he exceeds the globe of the earth in bigness 14 times Albotegnius saith 81 times Alfraganus 95 times yet many of late hold him to be equal in bigness with Saturn Mean and diurnal motion He is swifter in motion then Saturn as to us his middle motion is 4 m. 59 s his
and Mule the Hare Civet-cat Squirrel Spider Pismire the Hyaena c. Weather He must principally be observed the sign he is in and season of the year but usually he causes rain hail-storms sometimes thunder and lightning according to the nature of the Planets in configuration with him of the which more hereafter Winds He delighteth in the Northern Quarter of Heaven yet commonly he causeth such winds as are signified by the Planet to which he applies Places Schools Common-hals Tennis-Courts Fairs Ordinaries Markets Bowling-Allies Tradesmens-shops in a gentlemans-house his Hall c. Studies Libraries Signs Of the Coelestial signs he hath for his houses which he ruleth Gemini and Virgo Triplicity He ruleth the Aëry Triplicity by night viz. Gemini Libra and Aquaries He is exalted in Virgo the 15. degree Exaltation He suffreth Detriment in Sagittary and Pisces Detriment His Fall is in the 15. deg of Pisces Fall Age. From 7. to 14. Raphael Angel His Enemies are Mars Sol and Luna Enemies His Friends are Jupiter Friends Venus and Saturn He ruleth Wednesday Day of the week and that night we call Saturday night Flanders Graecia Aegypt Regions and Indies both East and West Orbe His Orbe is seven degrees before and after any Aspect In conception He ruleth the sixth moneth His greatest years are 450. Years His greater years are 76. His mean years are 48. His least years are 20. Journeys In Journeys he is according as he placed and in Aspect with the other Planets Diseases Vertigo's Lethargies Madness Frensies Diseases of the brain Ptisick Stammerings Defects in the memory Hoarsness Dry-cough the Hand and Feet-gout all imperfections in the Fancy Stationary He is Stationary one day before Retrogradation and one day before direction Retrograde He is Retrograde 24. days CHAP. VII Of the Nature and Significations of the MOON MY Intentions are now to treat of the lowermost of all the Planets and next unto the earth which is the Moon she is Feminine and Nocturnal The nature and complexion of ☽ her colour is so vulgarly known that it were superfluous or needless here to relate since our intentions and scope of our writings are to inform the ignorant and illiterate of what they as yet are ignorant of she is the biggest of Planets to our outward sight except the Sun nay and it is hardly discernable externally which of the two is the greater but this is by reason of their nearness unto our sight whence in Genesis she is called one of the two great lights which is to be understood as in relation to our sight But according to Tycho Globe of ☽ is 42. times less then the earth Ptolomie saith 39. times and Copernicus 43. times And according to Tycho she is less then Sol 5848. times Comparison of ☉ Ptolomie saith 6348. times and Copernicus 7000. times Distant from the earth And distant from the earth according to Tycho 60. semidiameters at her greatest elongation in her least elongation but 52. semidiameters Ptolomie saith 64. semidiameters her least 34. and her mean 49. Copernicus saith her greatest 68. her least 52. and her mean 60. Nature of ☽ She is neither fortunate nor unfortunate but as she is placed and in configuration with either the Fortunes or Malevolents she is most powerfull in operation of all the other Planets on Elementary bodies by reason of their proximity to us and her swiftness by which she transfers the light and influence of all the Superiors to us by her configuration with them Mean motion Her mean motion is 13. deg 10. min. 36. sec Diurnal She never exceedeth 15. deg 2. minutes in one day Revolution She finisheth her course through the 12. signs of the Zodiack in 27. days hours and 45. minutes or thereabouts Moon Lady of the year and strong in any Revolution ☽ When well placed denotes there shall be no want of rain in its due season both former and latter men shall be generall healthy fortunate safe and punctual in all their actions and promises especially if she be in reception with her dispositor or good Aspect therewith c. but if she be then weak and unfortunate you are to judge the contrary When ill placed One of a palish whitish colour round face gray-eyes yet having a kind of a lowring or cloudish eye-brow very hairy fleshie and plump of a large stature corpulent and well set Oriental When Oriental she inclineth more to fatness Occidental When Occidental not so well set Her greatest North latitude is 5. deg 17. sec or neer upon North latitude Her greatest South latitude is 5. deg 12. sec or neer upon Quality of men She signifieth common people Savours Fresh watrish tastes or such as one can hardly say what taste it is of Colours Silver-colour white a pale-green and a pale yellow In man She ruleth the Flegmatick humour the brain all watrish and excrementitious humours the left eye and the right eye of a woman her menstrues c. Sea tangle Lunaria or the Moon-herb Hysope Rosemary Agnus-castus Herbs the herb Chinosta Pompion Melon Muskmelon Gourd Cucumber Colwort Cabbidge Endive Mushrooms Poppy Lintseed Rapeseed and all such herbs as turn towards the Moon and increased and decrease as she doth Trees and Plants The Plam-tree for that it sends forth a twig every time the Moon riseth and all such trees and plants as participate or sympathize with her and are juicy and full of sap Birds Goose Swan Duck Divedapper Moor-hen and all Fowl using the water Night-owl Night-raven Bat c. Stones All stones that are white and green the Marchasite the Chrystal the Senenite and soft stones Minerals Silver Aelurus Fishes whose eyes increase aand decrease according to the course of the Moon all fish of the like nature the Tortoise the Echeneis Crab Oister Lobster Cockle Muscle and all shel-fish also the Eele c. Beasts Such Beasts as use and delight in water as the Otter c. and such as sympathize any wise with the Moon as the Camelion Dog Hog Frog Hind Goat Baboon Panther Cat the Civet Cat all monstrous Beasts Mice Rats c. Of the Baboons passions I forbear here to speak since you have had it related in the 4. chapter being caused by the secret influence of Sol and Luna Places Fountains Fields Sea-Ports High-ways Rivers Deserts Pools Fish-Ponds Bogs Brooks Docks Springs Common-shores Wharffs c. Weather According to her configuration with the other Planets viz with Saturn cold moyst and clowdy weather with Jupiter heart and temperate ayr with Mars wind and clouds with the Sun according to the time of the year with Venus showres with Mercury wind and rain Wind. She usually causeth that wind signified by the Planet she
last column you finde over against ♈ ♄ over against ♋ ♂ over against ♠♀ and over all written Fall shewing that ♄ in ♈ ♂ in ♋ ♀ in ♠c. are in their Falls viz. in the signs opposite to their exaltations To know the strengths and debilities of the Planets in any figure But that you may fully examine the strengths and debilities of the Planets in the judging of any part of this Science and to know how many dignities essential a Planet hath when in Exaltation what in house how many in Triplicity term or face nay and accidental dignities as being in Aspect or Conjunction with the Fortunes and located in good houses c. or debilities essential or accidental have special regard to this following Table A Table shewing the Fortitudes and Debilities of the Planets Essential Dignities Debilities A Planet in his own house or mutual reception by house shall have dignities 5 In Detriment 5 In exaltation or reception by exaltation 4 In Fall 4 In Triplicity 3 Peregrine 5 In Term. 2   In decanet or face 1   Accidental Fortitudes Accidental Debilities In Medium Coeli or ascendant 5 In the 12. house 5 In the 7.4 or 11. houses 4 In the 8. or 6. 2 In the 2. or 5. 3 Retrograde 5 In the 9. 2 Slow in motion 2 In the 3. 1 ♄ ♃ and ♂ occidental 2 Direct 4 ♀ and ☿ oriental 2 Swift in motion 2 ☽ decreasing in light 2 ♄ ♃ or ♂ oriental 2 Combust of ☉ 5 ♀ and ☿ occidental 2 Under ☉ beams 4 ☽ occidental or increasing 2 Partil ☌ with ♄ or ♂ 5 Free from combustion and ☉ beams 5 Partil ☌ with ☋ 4 In Cazemi 5 Besieged of ♄ or ♂ 5 In Partil ☌ with ♃ and ♀ 5 Partil ☠of ♄ or ♂ 4 In Partil ☌ with ☊ 4 Partil □ of ♄ or ♂ 3 In Partil △ with ♃ or ♀ 4 In Conjunction with Caput Algol in 20 degrees of Taurus 5 In Partil ✴ with ♃ or ♀ 3   In ☌ with Cor ♌ in 24. deg of ♌ 6   In ☌ with Spica ♠in 18. deg ♎ 5   CHAP. IX Shewing the Vse of these former dignities c. What a Planet in his own house signifieth USE The use that is to be made of all this is no more but this if you finde a Planet in his own house and he significator he shews a good state of the person or thing he signifieth in any scheam whatsoever As if in the Revolution of the year of the World he be significator of the King People c. he signifies thus much That their condition is and shall be during the time of his being essentially strong in great esteem prosperity health plenty c. What a Planet signifieth in his Exaltation If a Planet be in his Exaltation he shews a man of a high and majestical carriage and disposition very high-minded lofty and proud taking more upon him then befitteth In Triplicity If a Planet be in his Triplicity it shews a man meanly endued with the goods of this life not meanly nor very well descended yet his present condition to be good In Term. If a Planet be in his Terms it shews a man rather participating of the temper and shape of the Planet then of the wealth power or dignity signified by the nature of that Planet In Face In face a Planet no otherwise fortified then but being in face and significator of any one shews him signified to be as it were at the last shift or as we say at the last gasp not knowing how to bestow himself nor what course to take and so judge of any thing signified to be either in a good or bad condition according to the strength of the significator Chap. X. Of the Houses of the Planets and wherefore they were so distributed DIligently note this Chapter The Reasons why the signs are as abovesaid in that manner attributed and assigned to the dominion of the Planets I thought good here to relate that the Students in this Noble Art may not want grounds and reasons for their Rules as also that they may be able to give an answer to the proudest Antagonist We will then according to our method begin with the Luminaries Of the Luminaries and their houses viz. Sol and Luna who have Cancer and Leo assigned them by reason of their heat which is caused through their nearness to our Zenith or Cardinal point the Sun hath allotted him Leo for that it is most agreeable unto his nature besides we see that the Sun being naturally hot and dry doth shew its effects more forcibly in this sign then in any other for though Aries Sagittary be also fiery signs yet is he not so hot powerfull nor efficacious therein as in Leo. The Moon hath Cancer for the same reason allotted to her government it being most agreeable to her temper for Cancer is the first sign of all the rest that are moveable and watry and so more agreeable with her temper and quality then any of the rest Oh ♄ and his houses Saturn because he is naturally cold and an enemy to heat and the highest and most remote from the Luminaries of all the Planets hath therefore assigned him Capricorn and Aquaries which are the opposite signs to Cancer and Leo wherefore they are cold and moyst and by reason of this their Opposition Saturn is reputed hurtfull and the most obnoxious and malevolent of all the Planets by reason he thus opposeth the Luminaries that are the Lamps of light life and nutrition And because Jupiter is placed under Saturn Of ♃ he hath allotted him those two signs that go before and after Capricorn and Aquaries viz. Sagittary and Pisces which are in a Trine to the houses of the Luminaries Pisces his night-house to Cancer the house of the Nocturnal Luminary and Sagittary his day house to Leo the house of the Diurnal Luminary wherefore they are temperate and by reason of this their Amical Aspect he is concluded assistant temperate and good fortunate and benevolent to mankinde and the greatest Fortune of all the Planets Mars in order followeth Jupiter Of ♂ whom you have heard is immediatly placed after him and therefore those signs which go before and after the houses of Jupiter are given to him viz. Scorpio and Aries which are in a Square to the house of the Luminaries viz. Aries his day-house to Cancer and Scorpio his night-house to Leo wherefore by reason a Square is an Aspect of enmity he is accounted hurtfull and unfortunate yet not so bad as Saturr who beholds them as hath been said with an Opposition and is the lesser infortune Venus by reason of her temperate constitution Of. ♀ challengeth those houses which go before and after the houses of Mars viz. Libra and Taurus which are in a Sextile to the houses of the Luminaries which is an
not infortunate in the Revolution of the years of the World for that year which you have bin taught is the Radix of your Work have also a special care that you bring not your Radix backward viz. from the ascendent to the second but rather forward viz. to the twelfth and see that the Lord of your ascendent be not Occidental especially if the Moon be joyned with him Of the significations of Saturn with the Sun or Moon in the ascendent in Elections Know also that the Sun in the ascendent is not good as hath been said except he be in Leo or Aries the Sun in the ascendent with Saturn hindreth the business in Election and causeth an end with much labour and difficulty Saturn with the Moon in the ascendent signifieth much sadness long and tedious diseases mischief and death evil from Kings and great men loss of substance and kindred friends and companions Jupiter with the Sun in the ascendent signifieth sadness grief and little good and change out of one place into another with the Moon he signifieth many waters Of Jupiter and young children concubines marriage and honours Mars with the Sun in the ascendent signifieth also much grief and dammage by enemies small friendship from friends destruction and sudden death by iron or fire Of Mâ—â—â— with the Moon he denotes power and strength for mischief and deceit Venus with the Sun in the ascendent signifieth much pain and travel Of Venus discords and accusations by friends and alliance also the appurtinances of women with the Moon she denotes health and safety of the body gain also and profit by women c. Mercury in the Ascendent with the Sun also signifieth grief and sadness Of Mercury with the Moon he signifieth many imployments and occasions and that often with friends and alliance The Moon in the ascendent with the Sun signifieth destruction Of the Moon mischief grief and trouble instability also and griefs in the eyes c. but the knowledge of these is more for curiosity then practice or use in my opinion Also have a care in businesses of continuance of movable signs in such as require haste of fixed and in such as are indifferent prefer common signs as hath been said still remembring that according to the business in hand and agitation a sign must accordingly viz. of its nature be chosen and thus much shall suffice for the first chapter being introductory therefore let us now proceed CHAP. II. Of the signs and their significations in Elections and of the hinderances of the Moon being a farther instruction to the judging of Elections LIke as I have promised I shall for the better instruction of the Students herein be in this Chapter somewhat more large in delivering the significations of the signs and how they are to be chosen in electing any manner of work Of the signification of the moveable signs in elections Know then that movable signs as are Aries Cancer Libra and Capricorn signifie and denote mutation and alteration of things and that they shall be of short continuance wherefore in Planting Sowing Graffing and in buying and selling they are to be chosen and if any one fall sick in these signs viz. when they are in the ascendent or bearing rule otherways the sick party shall either soon die or soon recover and whoso flieth or taketh a journey at such a time shall be soon taken or return and the promise made or any other thing then began shall soon come to an end and be speedily performed news or reports are at this time uncertain and most commonly false Of the signification of the fixed signs in Elections Then look that you begin not any work you would have continue at such a time but in such affairs elect the fixed signs which are Taurus Leo Scorpio and Aquaries for in all things these make a continuance and prolong time wherefore in building it is good to elect these signs also marriages or any such thing as you would have continue if voyages or journies be taken in them they cannot be good except there be many testimonies of the Fortunes and if any one be at such time taken prisoner his inlargement shall be protracted and this I can testifie upon my own knowledge and who so shall incur the anger and displeasure of any one shall never be more in that parties favour Of the signification of the common signs in Elections The common signs such as are Gemini Virgo Sagittary and Pisces are to be preferred in such businesses as you would have of no long continuance nor yet soon at an end for they are neither movable nor fixed but common between both wherefore that house founded or what ever it be that is then began shall not long continue wherefore in such it is good to purifie gold and silver or to put children to School or any other learning and it advantageth in all such businesses as do admit of a medium or indifferency c. But note the Moon doth never good in the ascendent unless when well fortified and in good aspecâ— or upheld by the fortunes But to elect any business beforementioned or any other in the like nature put the Moon in the ascendent in a convenient sign viz. both agreeing to your business in nature and continuance and make her apply to a fortune with reception in a sign also of the same nature if possible if it be in the day see that your signs be diurnal or the day-houses of the Planets and so on the contrary if it be in the night time for so much the better will your business succeed To insist longer hereon were but vain wherefore let us proceed c. In this manner of work viz. Electing a good and fitting time for the acting or doing of any business you must have a special regard to the Moon Note and that she be nowise impedited or afflicted for as all the ancient Rabies in this Art do testifie there are ten ways whereby the Moon may be impedited wherefore since it is a thing so necessary I shall here plainly insert them The ten impâ—ditions of the Moon First then the Moon may be impedited by being in combustion of the Sun and even when she is twelve degrees distant from his body either before or after or more plainly applying to or separating from him but you must note she is not so much afflicted when she is separated as when she is applying In the next place the Moon may be impedited when she is in the degree of her fall viz. in the third degree of Scorpio Note still that your infortunes are the impediting â—anâ—rs as in relation to your business not Saturn and Mars as you have heard in the first chapter Thirdly she may and is impedited when she is in Opposition of the Sun Fourthly when joyned with infortunes or in Quartile or Opposition of them Fifthly the Moon is impedited when she
of the Common People in any Region by any Revolution IN the first Chapter of this second Section I have sufficiently shewn the way and manner of judging the condition and state of the People yet for the better illustration thereof as I have said I shall in this manner further enlarge my self thereon The Ascendent Lord thereof and the Planet therein posited but more especially the Lord of the Ascendent and the Moon are significators of the Common People of any Nation Country or Kingdom concerning which thou doest intend to judge by the Sun his ingress into the first point of Aries the which if at that time thou findest well disposed fortunate in their own dignities essential and in an angle or succedent free from the aspects of the Infortunes it denotes the People shall that year be in a good condition shall thrive shall be successful and prosperous and shall have one gain and success upon the neck of another especially if the Planet or Planets in Configuration with them be Fortunes or well disposed or that to which the Moon doth then apply If the Planet to which the Lord of the Ascendent or the Moon doth apply or is in aspect with be Jupiter they shall be safe and secure that year shall enjoy their Liberties shall be free from all manner of molestation shall have Justice and good Laws executed and shall be in credit and honour If it be Venus they shall abound and have plenty of all things shall be merry delight in and enjoy pleasure and sufficient recreation shall be neat curious and propagate Marriages Thus you see we still judge according to the nature of the Planet in configuration of our significator and the strength of both Planets see this yet further cleared and demonstrated If the Moon at this time when she is thus in aspect with these Planets that naturally you know are Fortunes be cadent weak and no wise essentially dignified yet shall the condition of the People be fortunate and good but shall not so abound in their felicities nor have them multiplied so one upon the neck of the other as you have but now heard and if the Moon were so very well fortified and dignified as you even now heard and apply to these Fortunes being also as aforesaid essentially fortified but cadent it shall signifie the gallant condition and state of the Commons and that they shall have good success upon the neck of another but yet not in so ample a manner as was before declared when they were also placed in Angles The Moon applying to the Fortunes weak and out of their effential dignities Also if these Fortunes be out of all essential dignities and weak yet shall they receive so much benefit therefrom as to be safe in their persons and in health though not much abounding in other matters c. Yet further observe but the subsequent rules and the reasons being well pondered in thy mind thou shalt be fully enabled to judge of other matters and significators your rules being varied according to art and discretion If in any annual Revolution the Moon being weak and peregrine applyes to the Infortunes being essentially strong and well disposed it denotes mischief trouble and anxiety to the people poverty want and disgrace according to the nature and signification of the Planet so in configuration with her and if the unfortunate Planet be Lord of the eighth and be therein located or have any dominion therein judge the death and mortality of the People nay even though the Infortunes were not so placed and the Lord of the eighth beholding the Moon or the Lord of the Ascendent it still portends the mortality of the People but more particularly according to the nature of the Planet afflicting If it be Saturn thou shalt judge the People to be afflicted and perplexed with cold Saturnian diseases such as are Consumptions Palsies Agues and the like which shall be the occasion of death if to Mars they shall be hot and dry Feavers over-heating of the blood c. and if then Mars shall happen to be in an humane sign there shall be much blood-shed and man-slaughters and so much the more assured shall this judgement be if the Ascendent come then to the place where Mars was in at the time of the beginning of that Law or Government or Commonwealth c. or to the Square or Opposition thereof or to his place in any great Conjunction of his going before this revolution for in any year where thou findest such like Configurations thou mayst assuredly judge Wars Commotions and effusion of blood to follow especially in those parts subject to the sign and quarter of Heaven wherein Mars was War may also be predicted when he is in an angle and strong also when he in any Revolution is Combust or enters his Fall or when Jupiter is in combustion see in what part Mars is and whether Occidental Oriental Meridional or Septentrional and judge those in the quarter wherein he is to overcome If Saturn and Mars in any Revolvtion be joyned in signification and in an earthy sign it denoteth Earthquakes in those parts wherein they are if Mars be joyned with Mercury there shall be much Merchandizing Also if the Moon and the Infortunes be so disposed and mixed together so that one part is strong and well dignified and the other weak and peregrine if signifieth the People shall change their condition during that Revolution from worse to better and from better to worse according to their strength and significations So likewise if Part of Fortune be strong or well disposed as also its dispositor and free from all manner of affliction good success shall be to the People if afflicted mischief and loss judge the nature of the good or bad according to what you have been already shewn Of the signification of thē Planets in Revolutions when either strong or weak Moreover if Saturn be strong in any Revolution and well placed he signifieth Content quiet and rest unto the People also prosperity health and increase of both food and money but if he be weak and afflicted he denotes the contrary as misfortunes destructions depopulations c. If in any Revolution Iupiter be significator of the People or Almuten of the Ascendent and strong the People shall be good vertuous honest chast just and loving Justice Law and all points of equity and honesty but if he contrariwise be unfortunate the People shall exercise Cruelty Oppression Injustice shall be disobedient and break the Laws and prove quite contrary to what you have heard Also when in any Revolution Iupiter is placed in the seventh or opposite to the Ascendent it signifieth that the People shall have no success or good that Revolution If Mars be as aforesaid Almuten and strong c. the People shall be safe secure and free from the molestation of all their Enemies they shall overcome them and beat them all under their feet and shall be in
such as give their minds to Learning Arts and Sciences shall have a successfull year c. and if weak judge the contrary The Moon Lady of the year either strong or weak Lastly if thou seest the Moon Lady of the year in any Revolution and that she be strong and well placed say there shall be no want of rain in its due season both former and latter men shall be generally healthy fortunate just and punctual in all their actions and promises especially if she be in reception or good Aspect of the Planet who is her Dispositor c. but if she be the weak judge the contrary And thus much briefly touching the general significations of the Planets when they are Lords of the year and either strong or weak which you have been shewn somewhat more briefly yet altogether as plainly before in the preceding Chapters of this same fourth Treatise yet by reason the Ancients set them down thus large nay far larger and least the significations of the Planets should not be well apprehended by thee I thought good notwithstanding what had been said to spend one quarter of a sheet more for thy better understanding and that the rather because thereby the subsequent Discourse I hope will be the better understood Of the aspects of any Planet to the Lord of the year in any Revolution Now we are to speak of the Planets to the Lord of the year that we may know how to judge of future events thereby the Ancients as in some other things so in this have not been so plain and full as I could wish they had been for the instructing of such as are but young Students therein wherefore I shall endeavour to be as plain therein as shall be requisite for the instructing even the weakest capacity if he observe what is beneath expressed which is not much yet ad rem it is more then hath been delivered by any Author that ever I met with for all their tediousness At the beginning of the first Chapter of this second Section I have in few words fully delivered sufficient Rules for the judging of any Aspect of any Planet to any Significator speaking of the Significator of the King and how to judge thereof by which Rules I say having regard still to your Significator thou mayst judge of the condition of any person or thing to be considered in any Annual Revolution and the natural inclination and accidental signification of the Planet in Aspect therewith whether it be by Sextile Trine Square Opposition or corporal ♂ together with the signification of the signs and places of Heaven they are located in at the time of the revolution As for example because I desire thou shouldest be well and perfectly seen in this particular for then hast thou attained to the accomplishment of the whole Art if thou canst exactly vary thy Rules I shall give you one or two by which thou mayst easily judge of all the rest If Saturn be Lord of the year and in configuration of the Sun suppose by a Seatile upon which the Ancients say the King shall be poor and be inforced to require ayd of the people this because the Sun is a general Significator of the King but I see no reason at all it should therefore follow we should thus conclude unless the Sun were at the time of the Revolution Lord of the tenth but rather thus if Saturn be also Lord of the Ascendent the Sun then if the cusp be Aquaries being Lord of the seventh is particularly and chiefly Significator of the enemies of the people as you have heard and therefore being thus in Sextile with Saturn unless by reception I should say the enemies of the people shall desire peace and a conformity with the People and shall intreat and sue for it and if there be any reception betwixt him and Saturn either by House Triplicity Exaltation Term or Face say it will be agreed to by the Common People who are signified by Saturn who is Lord of the year and Ascendent If the Aspect be by Opposition judge dissentions quarrels and discords among them or between them also open War if you finde other testimonies concurring in signification for you are not to derive your judgement from the general signification of the Planet in configuration with your significator altogether though somewhat may be hereon affirmed or from hence concluded but from the signification of the Planet as located in your Scheme and therein significator having regard to the places of Heaven and signs they are placed in for we see even the most pernitious Planets Fortunes sometimes as they may be Significators and placed and the most beneficial and Fortunate Planets Infortunes as you have already heard for every Planet must perform the Natural Office whereunto in any Revolution or other Scheme of the Heaven it is constituted as we shall further instance Admit the Sun be in the 12th you shall then say the Peoples enemies the Aspect being by Opposition as aforesaid shall Clandestinely and Treacherously by some underhand Plot or Device study the overthrow or prejudice of the People the twelfth house signifying secret Plots and mischief and so judge according to the signification of the other Houses when therein located be sure you ever remember the true signification of the Planet in his own proper nature and accidental signification by his Position in the Heavens afflicting your significator or assisting him and the nature of the sign and house wherein he is and your shall never fail if accordingly you pronounce Judgement of giving not only a rational but solid conclusion on any configuration from any sign or house of Heaven made by any Planet whatsoever to the Lord of the year or indeed to any Planet whatsoever Mutatis mutandis And this I say if thou canst attain unto thou hast accomplished not only the way and manner of judging the signification of the Aspects of any Planet to the Lord of the year but also to any other Significator in the whole Scheme and art Master of the whole Art and this thou shalt never be capable of by any instruction but only by a diligent search and contemplation of the natures of every sign house and Planet and the Reasons why they were so constituted wherefore I should desire thee for thy better instruction and assistance to read over and over and seriously consider every title of our second Treatise of this Book being an Introduction to the Judgement of the Stars and now let us proceed to shew you what may be expected in any Revolution from the Position of the Planets in any of the twelve Houses of Heaven whether they be Lords of the year or no for the further illustration of what hath been said CHAP. VI. Containing the true Significations of the Planet Saturn as he is in any Annual Revolution accidentally placed in any of the Twelve Houses of Heaven whether he be Lord of the Year or no. EVen as it
he is accidentally placed in any of the Twelve Houses of Heaven in any Annual Revolution whether he be Lord of the Year or no. THus have you heard plainly and fully the true significations of Saturn as he is located in any of the twelve Houses in any Revolution whatsoever whether he be Lord of the year or no it resteth therefore now we descend to Jupiter who as you have heard in our Introduction is the next under Saturn and therefore we shall in this place speak first of him and then of all the rest in order as they are accordingly located in the Heavens Jupiter in the Ascendent or first House of Heaven in any Annual Revolution of the years of the world and what he thereby signifies If Jupiter then in any Annual Revolution of the years of the world be in the Ascendent and strong and in good aspect of his dispositor as you have heard of Saturn in the former Chapter he signifies the People of that Climate or Region shall be successful and fortunate on every side healthy in their bodies shall have much joy honour and peace men shall be desirers and searchers of and in Divine Mysteries and the Law and the Students thereof shall be in great and high esteem and they shall build and repair Churches and Courts of Judicature c. and if he be weak men shall be negligent and careless of Divine Duties and the Law and though thou mayst not judge altogether the contrary to what hath been said yet mayst thou say the People shall be little the better for his presence in their Ascendent or receive little or no good from him for the good he would and is naturally willing to do you see he is altogether unable to perform being weak or having no power or ability in like manner judge of his consistence in any other House when he is in the like case indigent Jupiter in the second If he be in the second and strong he signifies abudance of prosperity and riches to the People especially in such things and commodities as are signified by the sign wherein Iupiter is also if the Lord of the second apply unto him their riches will come tumbling on them they know not how but if he apply to the Lord of the second it will be by their own labour and industry that they shall augment their riches By this rule mayst thou if thou hast well considered what hath been said in the preceding Discourse judge of every thing appertaining to the signification of any House If Iupiter be weak and in the second he neither promiseth riches nor poverty in himself except by accident wherefore you are warily to consider as hath been said the signification of each Planet as he is in your Scheme significator of any thing and not wholly as he is naturally and so judge of the good or evil portended by his signification and aspect sign and quarter of Heaven he possesses Jupiter in the third Also if he be in the third and strong the People shall be pleasant and delight to associate themselves with their neighbours acquaintance and kindred shall delight also in charitable and alms deeds and be prosperous and successful in all short Journies and give themselves to the study of Arts and Sciences but if he be weak they shall not have the like strong inclinations unto these things Jupiter in the fourth Again If Iupiter be in the fourth and well dignified men shall infinitely abound in wealth and prosper by their labours on the ground especially husbanders and manurers thereof but if he be unfortunate there shall happen much sadness and trouble unto them towards the end of the year c. Jupiter in the fifth Moreover if he be in the fifth men shall delight in feasting sporting and all manner of recreation and pastime shall be pleasant merry and receive much joy and content from and by their Children women shall be apt to conceive with Child and they shall bring them safely forth perfect and without danger but if he be weak it will not be so well if any thing at all good Jupiter in the sixth In the sixth and well dignified the good condition and state of Servants is promised also health both unto them and the People in general if the sign wherein he is be humane if bestial to beasts of that nature the sign is of c. as you have heard in the preceding Chapter where we spake of Saturn his being in the same House if he be afflicted judge not so much good but if you see other testimonies concuring say rather there will be the clean contrary and diseases such as are Impostumes unnatural windy swellings obstructions of the Liver and the like be sure you derive your judgement according to discretion and the nature of the Planet and Sign he is in c. Jupiter in the seventh Jupiter in the seventh fortunate denotes many Marriages and Contracts shall be made and Men shall delight themselves with Women but if he be unfortunate they shall not agree shall jarr clash and fall out one with another during that Revolution Jupiter in the eighth If he be in the eighth there shall not be any great mortality if he be then strong but if he be weak judge the contrary or there shall be some affliction according to the nature of the sign in which he then is Jupiter in the ninth Also if he be fortunately placed in the ninth men shall make safe and prosperous Journies and Voyages by Sea and also thrive by removing from one place or house to another and men shall love and delight in the Law both of God and Man Moral and Divine but if he be weak it will not be so good By what hath been already said and rightly apprehended thou mayst easily judge when it will be contrary or bad in any degree Jupiter in the tenth Again If he be in the tenth and dignified the King and Superiours shall be good shall honour his or their People and do Justice generally and impartially and they shall thrive under their Government and be successful but if he be weak in dignities he cannot be so strong as to perform this good so effectually and there shall be both Law and discord amongst the People c. Jupiter in the eleventh If he be in the eleventh the People shall be most successful or fortunate also faithful just and honest shall not be deprived of their hopes nor confidence and shall be merry but if he be weak it will not be so good Jupiter in the twelfth Lastly If Jupiter be in the twelfth the People shall profit and gain by their Enemies shall be quiet love and cherish one another and shall be free from malice and envy but if he be weak judge the contrary as you shall have occasion and reason CHAP. VIII Containing the Significations of Mars in the Twelve Houses of Heaven in
and if he be Retrograde let the King have a care of death or some prime and chief Ruler during that Revolution and if Mars behold him with any Malevolent aspect it signifieth Mortalities to the aforesaid places and many evils and mischiefs And if Saturn behold not the Ascendent there shall be much cold rain and dew but if he be direct the evil shall not be so bad except then the Moon be in the Ascendent for that signifieth the evil shall fall on the King or chief Rulers of the Region in which the Revolution is if not death it self but if he be retrograde and beheld of Mars it signifieth death and mortality in those Regions aforesaid and if he be Cadent and not beholding the Ascendent and be direct and Mars Cadent from him it signifieth that men shall be secure and safe and so much the more assured will this be if he be past the first fifteen degrees of the sign yet shall there be infirmities in the Regions and Places subject unto the said sign but if he be retrograde and beheld of Mars and neither of them in the Aspects of the Fortunes many tribulations and troubles shall be incident unto those Regions also abundance of rain and cold weather also Shipwracks and Disasters by Sea and much danger to Navigators and such as make Voyages also death to fish and the creatures lying in the Sea and other Waters Saturn in Cancer and having Septentrional latitude Meridional Oriental Occidental If that Saturn be in Cancer having Septentrional Latitude he denotes a scarcity of Waters and a drought of fountains and rivers and but little rain Also if he be Meridional that men shall labour and take much pains in their Trades but shall gain little or nothing thereby if he be Oriental he denotes dark thick and obscure unwholsom ayr also in the Winter time grievous cold raw weather and dammage to fruits by Northern winds if he be Occidental also much rain And if he be retrograde the evil shall be augmented and the King or Rulers of the Countreys and Nations under the sign wherein Saturn is shall undergo grievous aspersions reproaches and disgraces even equivalent to death it self but if he be direct it will lessen and diminish the evil a little for look how much your significator is fortified and so much the less shall the evil signified be and so much the more the good c. And this thou wilt plainly see by what follows if thou hast diligent respect to what shall be expressed so as to ponder throughly the reason of every Judgement the which I would advise thee to do for then shalt thou be assuredly an expert Philosopher and be soon able to deliver Judgement most rationally on any Configuration of the Heavens without recourse to thy Books for that Astrologer whose brains remains in his Library shall never come to the accomplishment of this Science but he that makes his Library remain in his brains shall not erre Et ille erit mihi amicus Saturn Lord of the year and in Leo. But if Saturn be Lord of the year in any Revolution and in Leo having Septentrional or North latitude he causeth much rain and corruption of things both to the prejudice of great and small Rulers and People also bringeth to nought the designs and works of mens hands If he be Oriental he denotes many infirmities to the People of the Climate under that Revolution and if he be Occidental many Mortalities and Pestilencies shall happen unto the People and so much the more grievous will the Evil and mischief be if he be retrograde less if direct Saturn Lord of the year in Virgo Also if Saturn be in Virgo and be Lord of the Year and Septentrional he signifies good wholsom and sweet gales and blasts of wind also convenient and seasonable gusts in Harvest-time and if he be Meridional there shall be a drought of Fountains and a scarcity of waters but if he be Oriental the women that shall conceive during that Revolution shall miscarry by reason of wind or carnal copulation after conception but if he be Occidental he causeth acute and sharp Fevers and if he be Retrograde the King and Rulers shall fear their Enemies but if he be Direct they shall not thus fear but be provided for by them Saturn Lord of the year in Libra Again if Saturn be in Libra and Lord of the Year Septentrional he denotes a hot and dry Ayr and little or no rain during that Revolution and a scarcity of Waters And if he be Meridional a good wholsom sweet Ayr and no noysom Blasts and if he be Oriental men shall have a lustfull inclination to women but if he be Occidental he denotes infamy and disgrace which shall come of such Doings If he be Retrograde he signifies Infirmities to Servants and the Baser Sort of People And if he be direct there shall be pretty Plenty of the Fruits of the Earth especially of Barly c. Saturn Lord of the year in Scorpio Saturn Lord of the Year and in Scorpio Septentrional signifieth abundance of Rain and increase of Waters both in Rivers and Fountains also that they shall be corrupt and if he be Meridional he shall denote a scarcity of provisions appertaining to the life of man especially such as are produced by the Earth And if he be Oriental there shall be many dissentions and quarrels amongst Great men but if Occidental he signifies destruction and trouble on the Sea also loss and dammage to such as have their Livelihood thereon also if he be Retrograde there shall happen Pestilential Diseases but if direct Babylon as say some of the Antients shall be safe Saturn Lord of the year in Sagittary Again if Saturn be Lord of the Year Septentrional and in Sagittary he denotes the increase of Fountains and extremity of Cold in Winter according to the nature of the Climate if he be Oriental Noble and Rich men shall be put out of their Countries and Habitations and if he be Occidental there shall be many dissentions quarrels and wars between Kings and Great men also if he be Retrograde it shall go ill with all manner of men and their affairs and quarrels shall be amongst them and if he be Direct Travellers both by Sea and Land shall be in a good Condition and successfull Saturn Lord of the year in Capricorn Moreover if Saturn be Lord of the Year and in Capricorn and Septentrional the Ayr shall be temperate and healthy and there shall be moderate and seasonable Rains but if he be Meridional or have Meridional Latitude in Winter there will be dark cloudy cold weather and if he be Oriental the state of Great and Noble men shall be but sad and troublesome neither shall they agree with the Common People and if he be Occidental the fruits of the Earth shall be wasted and consumed by and through extremity of heat and creeping things as