Laws and to unfold Mens Secrets Generally such Men as are addicted to all manner of Sciences Venus the chief that participates in the Rule of the Geniture occasions such Commotions of the Native as be Delightful Merry Pleasant yet so as that he studyeth Good Works and Friendships whereof he is most observant and hereby becomes grateful to all Men He abhors all filthy but is taken with cleanly things comely Gestures decent Attires Ornaments and Elegance 4. Venus therefore and Jupiter do Promise great Felicity in Affairs both Civil and Ecclesiastical 5. There are most evident Testimonies of an Excellent Ingenuity 1. Mercury in Aquarius doth of himself suscitate the strength thereof 2. Besides there is a Reception from Houses and a Partile Trine betwixt Him and Saturn 3. Venus Angular doth the like 4. Especially for that the Moon and the Dragons Head are together in the same Angle 5. Mercury and the Moon are Asyntheti Pure and not vitiated yet both behold the Horoscope she by a Platique Trine he by a Partile Quadrature 6. Jupiter Lord of the Second Direct in Motion and Received of Mars plainly assures an abundance of Wealth The Part of Fortune most excellently augments this signification the same being posited in the Second where he is disposed of and Aspected by Jupiter These Riches take their Increase from Services faithfully performed from most Eminent Honours and Dignities and they more abundantly in the third or last Age. 7. Mercury Lord of the 10 th and having convenient society with Saturn presages Dignities not obscure We have spoken before concerning the Dominion of Jupiter and Venus wherefore seeing they equally share the Rule of the Geniture How can it be that they should not reward the Native with some or other most eminent Dignities 8. Your Neighbours or Kindred shall sometimes occasion your Damage in Houshold Goods or Affairs and you shall expend very much in Building 9. Mars Lord of the 6 th ingendreth Hot Infirmities yet they not so vehement because of Jupiter's Interposition Moreover Mars in Sagittary causeth most commonly a gravel in the Joynts of the Feet If he be found in that Sign and in the Sixth he inevitably brings the Gout the pains whereof are not to be taken away but by the Influence of Sagittary Pisces c. deduced from Heaven it self c. Some other Remedies also may do much yet not any that are got by Common Artifice 10. Your Death will be Natural by the means of some Chronical Infirmity proceeding chiefly from Saturn such as are Distillations upon the Jaws the Breast the Lungs Spleen c. Howbeit Old Age is a Disease and an easie Passage unto Death it self 11. The Sun and Moon disposing of the 9 th House do discern Honourable Journeys Mercury well posited in the Third occasioneth Journeys undertaken for the Cause of Honours and Dignities and to Persons most Honourable for Learning and Dignities Civil and Ecclesiastical 12. Venus Lady of the 11 th concerneth a Multitude of the best Friends Yet Mars beholding Venus by a Quartile shall stir up the Envy of some Persons sowing oftentimes Dissention and inverting all goodness 13. Venus shall give you Victory over your Enemies whereof indeed there are but a few denounced because she is Lady of the 7 th Angular and in her Exaltation 14. Your Marriage shall be Fortunate as to an Affluence of Riches yet herein beware of the Faithless Brawling and Luxurious Quadrature of Mars But this very much depends upon Mans Free-will and Young Men oft-times find themselves at a loss through their Ignorance and Rashness We will now consider the Signs of the Four Angles 15. Scorpio Ascending gives the Native an Elegant Acuteness of Wit Plenty of Discourse It also often Instilleth Great vices Infidelity Envy Covetousness Ingratitude which Learning and Right Reason Exterminate 16. Virgo Culminating is wont to Raise the Native to Magistracy It confers a toleration of Great Authority It transfers many Benefits to others from whom it returns not the like Favour 17. Taurus in the West-Angle presents you with such Adversaries as at length he will see oppressed by sundry kinds of Misfortunes He there incites you to Love Luxury Delights and Jeasting 18. Pisces posited in the Fourth indue the Mind of the Native with much Faith Integrity and Dexterity of Wit whereby they gain great Authority in their Administrations they delight to Walk and Dwell near Rivers But almost abhor uxorious Matters The Planets in the Houses of Heaven 19. The Sun in the Third presages Journeys in the Causes of Honours and Dignities He brings a Mutation of Places and Honour in Forraign parts 20. Mercury there well posited renders a Man most Learned in every Science whereof I could produce innumerable Examples Those shall invent many things by their own Ingenuity They are Fortunate in Church-Matters Writing and Merchandize 21. Venus most excellently well collocated in the Fourth will give you Large Possessions and Habitations chiefly in your Last Age she declares the Period of your Life Honourable and Praise-worthy 22. Mars in the First and there not Infortunate makes a Man Couragious Rash and somewhat Angry sometimes he presageth Wounds in the Head and Face 23. Jupiter in the 5 th doth sometimes confer the Great Rewards of Great Men He makes a Man Fortunate in Embassies 24. Saturn thus excellently seated in the 8 th gives many Inheritances He threatens death by Catharrs A Cough c. and often-times by the Plague The Planets in the Signs 25. The Sun in the House of Saturn makes the vital vertue more Robust and as it were more Compact whence he gives a Longer Life than ordinary 26. The Moon in the House of Jupiter promotes all things that are good yet being here Afflicted by the Quartile of Mars exciteth some strifes in Possessions often reiterateth small Fevers 27. Satuâ—n in the House of Mercury gives a Profound Wit Occult Sciences 28. Jupiter in the House of Mars indifferently well Affected makes one Victorious 29. The same is signified by Mars in the Mansion of Jupiter Thus they both of them render the Native very gracious with Princes and Noblemen and under them to have Authority 30. Venus in the House of Jupiter bestows many Benefits either by the means of Women or of some Ecclesiastical Preferments She makes you Discrâ—et Honest Healthful Sometimes she occasioneth strife and falling out with your Neighbours and some of your Friends for that Venus is expos'd to the Quadrature of Mars 31. Mercury in the House of Saturn gives always a profound Wit and a Man that is greedy of all Sciences The Lords of the Houses 32. The Lord of the Horoscope received of Jupiter from Houses plainly declares a Generous Mind 33. The Lord of the Second in the Fifth increaseth your Wealth through Rewards bestowed by Great Men. 34. The Lord of the Third in the Eighth occusioneth Journeys either on the behalf of some that are Dead or by reason of the Plague He
the Miâ—â—ries a Man suffereth in his whole life-time Now for that all these are Enemies to Life therefore are they contained under the onely consideration of an Enemy in the 12. house which is truly callâ—d the valley of miseries and immediately followeth in this Triplicity according to the Motion of the Aequator 3. The last Affliction inhabiting the 8. House is the Death of man himsâ—lf which is an End of this Temporal and the Beginning of an Eternal Life wherefore according to the second motion or the motion of the Planets which is from West to East there is an entrance made from the 8. house into the 9. which is the house of Life in God whereby man is given to understand that he is to pass by the second motion of the Soul which is attributed to the mind or reason as the first and rapt mâ—tion is to the Body or sensitive appetite from a Tâ—mporary Death unto a Life in God which is Eternal Therefore in these Triplicities that which is First in the order of nature or dignity possesseth alway the more noble houses viz. the Angular That which is second succedent houses according to the motion of the Aequator And that which is last Cadent which are also succedent according to the motion of the Ecliptick or Planets Now I beseech you what is he will suppose this Division of the 12 Coelâ—stial houses by Triplicities appearing in this so excellent a consent and in such wonderful order to be in any wise feigned or casual Or whether by chance such consents are wont to be in things so abstruse and intermixed Or if altogether fictitious whether therefore altogethâ—r wanting a Natural Foundation which before I have plainly proved to be false and now made that most orderly consâ—nt of the Houses themselvâ—s manifest Therefore is this Division Natural and ordâ—ined by great wisdom as comprehending at least generically all worldly things that can possibly be enquired of or concerning Man forasmuch as the knowledge of Contraries is the same and that an â—ffirmative or negative may be sought of any thing belonging to any house For example Seeing Man by the force of natural light knoweth that there is one God who made and governeth the world and therefore to be worshipped and Loved above all as the Trine Aspect made from the first house the cause of all inclinations to the 9. which is the house of Religiâ—n by the first principles of nature insinuateth from the Stars and Planets or their Aspâ—cts râ—sident in the 1. and especially in the 9. may judgment bâ— given whether the native shall be inclinced to the woâ—ship oâ— God and to Râ—ligion or the contrary And so câ—â—câ—â—niâ—g other things of this nature In like manner conjecture is made from the 7. house whether he shall lead a married or a single life From the 5. whether he be fruitful and to have issue or the contrary and so of the rest of the other houses Moreover this light of the Triplicities doth very clearly distinguish the things which belong to every House per se and manifests their Errors who judge from the purpose by inconvenient or Repugnant Houses For example In a manner all Astrologers do suppose but â—rroneously that health and sickness belong to the 7. and 6. Houses per se whereas indeed they depend upon the Temperament which is the Seat of Life and therefore ought judgment to be given concerning them from the First House per se but the judgment deduced from other Houses is only per accidens that is as you shall find the Malevolent Planets or their Beams upon which the horoscope falls by Direction or which shall come by Direction to the horoscope it self or to the opposition or Square thereof during the Life of the Native And therefore if Saturn or Mars shall at the Moment of his Birth be found in the 2. or 6. House from these Houses shall judgment be given per accidens of a Saturnine or Martial disease to happen when the horoscope comes by Direction to Saturn or Mars in the 2. Or when Saturn or Mars shall come by Direction to the opposite of the horoscope in the 7. Therefore judgment per se is always referred to the horoscope The like of other Houses which Ptolomy especially seems highly to pervert but would have said otherwise had he known this Cabal of the Houses which so perfectly distinguisheth the proper house of evâ—ry thing Much more might be said concerning these Triplicities conducing to the natural light of Praedictions which here I omit presuming I shall abundantly satisfie as well the Friends as Enemies of Astrology if from the Doctrine proposed I do give a full and clear Answer to the beforementioned importunate Questions put to Astrologers concerning these houses Therefore to the first Question I say that heaven is divided into 12 Houses and no more because every one of the 4 Cardinal parts of heaven which govern the beginning vigour Declination and Death of things do by a Trine Aspect behold two other Caelestial parts which be of its own Nature whence shall arise three places out of each of the 4. Cardinal of the same nature for three times 4. doth make neither more nor less than 12. To the second I say that the first House is called the House of Life because a man is said first to Rise upon this Scene of the world when first he draws the Breath of this Life and therefore seeing that the first breathing of this Life is the beginning thereof it must be placed in the East as the beginning of every other Physical thing To the third I answer that it matters not as to the instituting of Caelestial Influxes or Praedictions what number any House be called by whether 2.3 or 4. provided heaven be divided as before into four Triplicities and the nature of the Houses not changed Yet the Physical order of the Houses is from the East to the South into the West agreeable to the Motion of the first and most universal Physical cause according to whose parts succeeding one another by that motion are the principal Estates or Ages of all generable things contained according to their succession before related in the Equator the principal Circle of the first cause and so Physically the House of Enemies is the second in order the House of Friends the third the House of Magistracy the fourth and so forth But mystically or Analogically the Numerical order begins from the East by the North Angle to the West the reason whereof is this There are two Motions in the heavens the first is of the first Moveable termed the Rapt-motion the second of the Planets who notwithstanding the Rapt-motion by which they are wheel'd about inviolably observe the Laws of their own Moderate motion ordained to the contrary of the former There are also two Motions in Man who is called the Microcosine one of the sensitive Appetite which is the Motion of man in as much as he is
one mind and cordially to unite in Obedience to God and Loyalty to him their Pious Soveraign I have set the Scheme here that in case John Booker have occasion to write of it he may have it exactly done ready to his hand for the Meridian of London and publish it without fear of further Correction Thaema Coelicum ex tabulis Directionum Regiomontani ad tempus Apparens ☌ ♄ ♂ die Mercurii Junii 28. 1648. 1. Hor. 58. Min. 7. Sec. P.M. Latitude 51.32 You see Sir the Regal Sign Leo culminates the Sun who is Lord thereof and Venus and Mercury are in the ninth House of the Figure and Jupiter possesseth the Mid-heaven The Conjunction happens in the eleventh deg and eighth min. of Gemini the Ascendant of London and in the eighth House which is the House of Death Labours Sadness and Heritage of Dead men And Mars is Lord of the Ascendant for the third deg and 29 min. of Scorpio ascends at the time of this Meeting And he likewise disposeth of the second House where the Dragons Tail also miserably afflicteth I shall leave the Judgment to John Booker only I shall tell him thus much that I think the Cavaliers will by this time challenge a better esteem from the City of London than now they dare and perhaps enjoy their own without Composition I shall say no more but conclude with an Application of that pertinent and Pious complaint of the Aquitains occasioned upon the Deposing of King Richard the Second to the present condition of this wretched Kingdom O good God! Where is the World become Saints are turned to Serpents and Doves into Devils The English Nation which hath been accounted fierce only against their Foes and always faithful to their Friends are now become both fierce and faithless against their Lawful and Loving Prince and have most Barbarously betrayed him Who would ever have thought that Christians that Civil People that any Men would thus have violated all Religion all Laws and all Honest and Civil demeanor And although the Heavens blush at the view and the Earth sweats at the burthen of so vile a Villany and all Men proclaim and exclaim upon shame and confusion against them yet they neither feel the horror nor shrink at the shame nor fear the revenge but stand upon terms some of Defence for the Lawfulness of their dealing and some of Excuse for the Necessity Well let them be able to blind the World and to resist Mans Revenge yet shall they never be able to escape either the sight or vengeance of Almighty God which we daily expect and earnestly desire to be poured upon them Alas good King Charles thy Nature was too gentle and thy Government too mild for so stiff and stubborn a People What King will ever repose any trust in such unnatural Subjects but fetter them with Laws as Thieves are with Irons What carriage hereafter can recover their Credit What time will be sufficient to blot out this Blemish What other Action could they have done more joyfull to their Enemies more woful to their Friends and more shameful to themselves O Corruption of Times O Conditions of Men Hor. lib. 1. Ode 35. Eheu cicatricum sceleris pudet Fratrumque Quid nos dura refugimus Aetas quid intactum nefasti Linquimus unde manus juventus Metu Deorum continuit quibus Pepercit aris FINIS MERLINI ANGLICI ERRATA OR The Errors Mistakes and Mis-applications of Mr. Lilly's New Ephemeris for the Year 1647. Discovered Refuted and Corrected By C. GEORGE WHARTON Student in Astronomy Printed in the Year 1647. To the Reader IT is a common Proverb Dogs bark more for Custom than Fierceness And had I not assuredly known this Whelp Lilly to be one of that bawling Litter I should not have suffered his perpetual snarling with that Patience and Temper I did but before this would have alighted from my Saddle to hurle him one stone at the least to gnaw on But as he is now grown bolder and blacker in the jaws I must begin to have an Eye over him and a care to keep him at a distance lest he bite me till I bleed and thereby I become maniaque or Brain-sick like himself and so be more desirous of his Liver than his Heart I shall scorn to take notice of his former Grinnings nor will I trouble my self or the Reader with any repetition of his by-past Fooleries frantick Expressions and but a few if any of his many Errors and Mistakes so grosly committed in every of his Lowzy-Pamphlets for them indeed I have tyed and twitch'd up together in a Pack-thread as thinking them fitter for his Quondam Hell than the meanest Shelf in my Study but I will content my self only with that dainty bit this sweet Brat of his own begetting Merlini Anglici Ephemeris the fourth and perhaps the last of that name And examine I shall and that strictly of what metal it is compounded or whether it be simple like the Dad of it and the truth you have freely as followeth The Errors Mistakes and Mis-applications of Mr. Lilly's New Epheemeris c. I Will not trouble my self or the Reader in taking notice of any thing in his Long-winded-Preface save only the reverend mention he hath made concerning him whom he is pleased to term an A. B. C. fellow viz. Naworth of Oxford by whom as he pretendeth he found himself intolerably abused in Print and could do no less than vindicate himself in point of Art As for the Name Naworth which William Lilly and John Booker to make their Worships merry have so often and as wisely as wittily inverted to No-worth and Worth-nothing it is well known to be the Letters of my name long since transposed purposely to avoid the Scandal and obloquy which both these Mounte-banks so greatly delight in and indeavour so much to assume For whereas I observed the Common people generally possessed of a confident beliefe or rather a foolish conceipt that such as could write Almanacks were esteemed with a Country-reverence Wise-men like Lilly and Booker or if I shall render it in their own Dialect Conjurers or such as can tell all things past present and to come And so were usually haunted by the silly people with a number of unlawful unnecessary and ridiculous questions by means whereof many ingenious and honest Artists have not only been branded with the titles of Conjurers Necromancers Wizards Sorcerers and Figure-Casters in the worst sense but have often been imprisoned and Indicted and proceeded against upon the Statute against Witchcraft c. and hardly escaped with their lives especially when they came before Judges that were ignorant in or disaffected to Astrology after they had suffered several years imprisonment and thereby wasted and consumed their estates I say that I having resolved to write yearly which was not usual without prefixing a name nor for the reasons above mentioned would I then publish any thing of that nature in my own name
Rev'rend Bishops too had need look to 't For Churches Lands they Challenge ev'ry Foot As Purchas'd by their Money or their Blood But howsoever the Saints Title 's good The Spirit tells 'em They 'r the only Heirs This is the Land of Promise and all Their's 7. In April Bless'd Reformation taught such gainful things As Sacriledge and Murdering of Kings Precious the Pastors with such Manna fed us Holy the Cov'nant to such Duties led us Who would Abjure that Caledonian-Gull Cram'd both the Belly and the Conscience full 8. In May. Mistake me not For I reflect on none That be true Converts they who can bemoan Their Treason and not grudge to term it such Shall pass for Currant if they 'l ' bide the touch My Heart no Malice harbours I forgive The Knaves as willingly as they would Live 9. In June But Monsters some there are with Wood-street Faces Have Crept th know how into warm Places Places of Trust and Profit none knows why Whose Hearts defiance bids to Majesty Send out and see how England's over-spread With Froggs and Locusts worse than Egypt bred 10. In July Survey the Customs Garble the Excise Inspect our Courts of Justice Look who Plies As well below-bridge as above Enquire Into our Offices Then one step higher And see how deadly ev'ry where w' are gnawn By the foul Jaws of Presbyterian spawn 11. In August And must such Miscreants be the only Wise And Worthy We their lasting Sacrifice Who is 't will longer dote on Vertuous Deeds When black Rebellion so fairly speeds If Plato's Morals such Requitals give Who would not study Machiavil to Live 12. In September I but those Beasts are Pardon'd That w' allow But shall their Treasons be Rewarded too With Halters be 't For they alone can Season Such Restless Minds and keep from speaking Treason Nor is 't but fit they should be Treated thus Full Twenty Years so kindly Treated us 13. In October For 't is not long since a Poor Cavalier Durst scarce so much as blow his Nose for fear Of doing wrong They kept us in such awe We Cleft their Wood we did their Water draw And shall we still be Subject to their Scorns License such Sawcy Jacks to wind their Horns 14. In November 'T is true the Storm 's Prodigious Seas are rough But yet our Ship 's well Mann'd and stout enough Why should we dread the sight of Rocks or Shelves Our Foes adventur'd all yet sav'd themselves Whose Scarlet sins pass'd but for over-sights Who think th 'ave all deserved to be Knights 15. In December But now I think nay dare Prognosticate For I have study'd and know well their Fate We shall no longer be their Captives led Our Chains are broke their Hydra's vanquished But till once more our Sins do their's surpass Enjoy our own and prove The Devil 's an Ass. 16. Upon London's Choosing Sir John Robinson Lord Mayor for Conclusion Welfare fair London for this Happy Choice The Snake's untwisted at her Thundring Voice The Royal Tower and Town both in such Hands Despise all Factious and Fanatick Bands He dreads no Plots nor dreameth of Surprize Nought startles Him like Presbyterian Lyâ—s In his Kalendarium Carolinum for Annâ— 1664. We meet these Ingenious Pieces of Poetry 1. In January WElcom the Year pick'd out from all the rest To note great Charles his good Subjects blest Blest from the Fiery Zeal and deadly Feud Of a deluded Brain-sick Multitude Blest with the Influence of so good Stars Peace cannot Surfeit nor devour us Wars 2. In February Titan affronts the President of War Jove joyns with Venus now our Morning-Star The Persian Deity casts his Sextile Light On him and Chronus Th' Empress of the Night Vails her lent Beauty for a little space But then rich Beams do re-adorn her Face 3. In March Sol Jove and Saturn all in Quartile move Mars bids Defiance to the Queen of Love Whence showers of Grief and strong Debates arise To shew what Mortal thinks himself most Wise. But if such Wisdom to Sedition tend Fiat Justitia he 's not England's Friend 4. In April See how the Churle and thundring Zeus wrangle With their Inferiours from a pow'rful Angle Whilst yet with Paean they preserve a Truce And bath the Teeming Earth with Fertile Juice Juice that distilled in a Silver shower Whos 's ev'ry Pearl-like-drop awakes a Flower 5. In May. Mars now at Archas and the Royal Sun Darts his Malignant Radiation But Sol and Hermes in Conjunction meet Phenon and Pyrois each other greet It is approved Prudence to comply With such whose Greatness will admit no vye 6. In June Titan the two Superiours doth Oppose So Hermes Jove so Saturn Phosphoros Mars frowns at Venus and the Aged Sire But smiles on Phaëton Thus th' Heav'ns Conspire Our Weal or Woe and as they Love or Hate We Mortals find our Bad or Happy State 7. In July Sol and Cyllenius re-unite their Rays And breath fresh gales to Fan the Soultry Days Jove storms at Mars affronts sweet Aphrodite Lucina loses all her borrow'd Light But in four hours resumes her wonted Grace Could Ladies so where then an ugly Face 8. In August What gracious Aspects doth this Month produce Sextiles and Trines which melting Love diffuse Methinks when th' upper Worlds so well agree This World of Ours should Reconciled be But that there 's still a Holy Madness rages Which nought but all-consuming Time asswages 9. In September Old Falcifer Nature 's not best of Friends With Sol and Venus eagerly contends Titan with Jove Jove with the Cyprian Queen As if resolv'd to shew each other's Spleen But those high Quarrels quickly are decided Since Jealousies nor Fears have them divided 10. In October Jove's winged Herald from the parching Sun Completes his utmost Elongation The Sun and Saturn Jove and Hermes smile As if all one yet once a Crocodile So Cap and Cringe some fly Fanaticks still But trust 'em not for then they mean to Kill 11. In November Saturn and Mavors close in Council sit Contriving Plots and how those Plots should hir Now which of such Malignants is 't will say He hath gone wrong and doth Repent his way For They their Plots shall unsuccessful find To His great good whose Ruine they design'd 12. In December Phoebus and Saturn in the Goat do meet Whence Feather'd Snow or Storms of Rain and Sleet But now now that the Crowded Wassail-Bowl So frolick looks what matters fair or foul Let 's as the fair Rowena did begin A Solemn Health unto our Lord the King 13. Under the Table of Kings Your Mercy SIR hath gain'd you what are Good And few repine save those delight in Blood If now your Justice unto such extends You Qâ—ell â—he Moâ—stâ—rs and secure your Friends The 〈◊〉 â—â—litick's nor safe nor free Whilst but one Member dares Rebellious be 14. Under the Table oâ— Tâ—â—ms No more Custodes Carolus soâ—ndâ— better This sets us Free That Uâ— and Ours
the Luminaries by Malign Aspects and from a violent Sign the Sun alâ—o noâ— far distant from Palalitium or the Bulls Eye a Malevolent Fixed Star denounces a violent Death or great danger thereof Whereof the troubled Character upon the Region of Saturn is an Argument For thereon shall such Characters appear either in some other form or else more clearly when the Evil approacheth 4. We do judge the Integrity of Behaviour from the Saturnia terminating at the Natural Mean Venus in her own House Irradiating the Moon by a Trine begets a Natural shamefac'd-ness the which is seconded by Jupiter who as we told you hath the Dominion in this Geniture Mercury if not Superiour to him is certainly his Equal in Government 5. The Tuberculum of the Sun presenting almost the Character of Saturn is not accounted very Fortunate for that it betokeneth many Enemies without Cause Envy accompanying The Luminaries so greatly infested of Saturn presage the same As often as the Sun's Place beareth the Greek Letter χ so that the Line cutting that which is erected on his Tuberculum descendeth from the Interval of the Auricular and Annular the like whereof the Cingulum Veneris usually describeth you may most certainly adjudge Difficulty of Businesses through the Envy of Men. 6. Venus forming three little clear Lines on her Mount augments his Revenue in some Measure by the Means of a Wife as is clearly evinc'd by her Positure in the Second with the Part of Fortune 7. The Vital vitiated in three places by the Transite of three little Lines threatens three sufficiently Grievous Diseases about the 32 th 40 th and 45 th Years of his Age. If you bring the Horoscope to â—he Quartile of Mars and in like manner the Moon to the Quartile of Mars and Saturn you shall surely produce the Years before nominated Example XII The Brother of the former Born A. C. 1583. June 27. Hor. 11. Min. 30. Afternoon 1. THe Line of Life troubled by the Intervening of another threatens a Disease about the 20 th Year of his Age. And doubtless at that time the Direction of the Horoscope comes to the Quartile of Mars So likâ—wise the Progression of the Moon to Saturn himself Howbeit this Direction in regard of the presence of Jupitâ—r is not much to be feared 2. The Rule of the Geniture belongs to Saturn and Jupiter Wherefore the Tuberculum of Jupiter affords us overthwart little Lines But the Tuberculum of Saturn a Star until the Saturnia also Ascendeth 3. You have likewise the Signatures of Mercury and Venus in their own Places which are now conjoyned in Leo the Conjunction being not to be despised although it be Platique 4. The three little Lines collocated on the Ferient insinuate Journeys and so doth Mars Lord of the Horoscope in the House of Mercury and the Sun in Cancer 5. The Cross in the Cavea of Mars increaseth his Martial Disposition and the Heat of the Liver 6. The Sun's Place presenting a Cleft increases his Honours but slowly In the Geniture the Decrees of Dignities are obscure Yet the Sun is Angular with the Heads of the Twins 7. The Saturnia being whole promiseth a Happy success of Events and Actions and so doth the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter Dispositors of the 8 9 10 11 and 12 th Houses Example XIII A Brother of both the two last Born A.C. 1577. Nov. 7. Hor. 3. Min. 12. Afternoon This Third Example I lately got at Ratisbone 1. THE Saturnia whole although Obliquely drawn to its proper Seat shews that Saturn is Lord of the Geniture He discerns not absolutely an Adverse Fortune c. Hither transfer the rest of Saturn's Significations from their proper Place when he is not Infortunately Posited Yet Saturn in the Cuspe of the 10 th perturbs the good Fortune of Venus and Jupiter who share in the Rule of this Geniture Mars also in the West Angle and there in a strange Sign denounceth the same Which Mischiefs shall be multiplyed in his Old Age. 2. Venus by reason of her North Lâ—titudâ— Resides on the Cuspe of the 7 th having the Moon joyned with her in regard of her South Latitude And therefore their Place tells us of Lines and Marks that be trim and handsome Notwithstanding the Moon 's more Remissly in regard that she hasting to the Sun is not Illustrated with Light sufficient 3. Jupiter Direct and in Conjunction with Venus near unto Spica Virginis adorns his Region with a little Line that is Decent enough But yet he is Oppressed of Saturn We have often observed that his Conjunction with Venus hath bestowed very Great Riches by Marriage Wherewith here agree the Condition of Venus and the Part of Fortune 4. The Via Solis shews it self in some sort a Friend unto Honours That Planet Angular in Scorpio and with the Scorpion's Heart must not be rejected 5. Mercury Retrograde in his Detriment and in the Eighth House is accounted very weak He is somewhat strengthened of Venus and Jupiter wherefore you see at this time no Signature to be found in his Region 6. The due breadth of the Mensa differeth not much from this Habit of the Stars 7. The Cross above the Restricta promiseth Tranquillity in his Old Age But the Saturnia denies it But seeing that Cross is made of the little Line which descendeth from the Vital and the Region of Venus look if it bring not Misfortune and Strifes by the Means of Wives c. The rest are left to every Mans Discretion Nevertheless we must needs acknowledge that All Incisures are neither here nor elsewhere scrupulously Delineated Example XIV One Born at Thuringia A.C. 1586. Decemb. 3. Hor. 7. Min. 30. Before Noon Lat. 51 Degrees WE have before in the 5 th Example almost the same Position The distance of their Births is only five days The Principal Lines do agree in Situation and Conformity In the rest there is some yet no very notable difference 1. The Vital is often Dissected about the End and middle thereof Wherefore it denotes a Sickly Disposition in his Old Age. The two little Lines vitiating the same by their Transite and descending upon the Cavea of Mars manifest Martial Infirmities of the Body about the 50 and 52 Year of his Age. Wounds also in the Head or Feet are then to be feared 2. In like sort Saturn letting fall a Line Obliquely from his Place shall at the same time besprinkle his Poyson Wherefore that time shall be full of Misfortunes A Disease also must be expected about the 11 th Year of his Age because the Vital is there Marked by a touch of the Cephalica The Horoscope comes at that time to the Quartile of Marâ— 3. The track of the Cephalica extended to the Mensal argues a Ready Wit In the Geniture Mercury is not unhappily Posited in the Horoscope in a Trine of Saturn But yet he possessâ—th a strange Sign being likewise Oppress'd by the Quartile of Mars Whence you see