Heaven and those immediately concerned in his Honour and Preferment are under the Earth and some of them Cadent But take Cardan's Opinion in this Case Cum Sol Jupiter Luna bene disponuntur cum fixis fuerint fortunatis Directiones ad tempus juventutis bonae terminantur plâ—res Revolutiones fortunatae tunc heros maximus vir evadit Lib de Judi Geniturarum Cap. 26 Cardini Si Sol Jupiter Mars vel Saturnus in trigono igneo fuerit vel in locis sublimibus vel cum fixis nobilibus vel se aspâ—ientes erit natus magni nominis ratione patentiae Et si Sol cum Joâ—â— Mercurio in aereis eodem modo fuerit ratione industriae Seg. 3. Aphâ—ris 135. Cardani VI. Of his Friends and Friendship Enemies and Imprisonment It is most certain that every popular man must naturally contract Friendship and Envy Friends and Enemies and I dare engage that this Native will have a large share in both as all men meet with that have such Positions from Cardinal Signs and Violent Rays and were not Jupiter strong in his Ascendent and the Moon in Trine to the Sun both in Mundo Zodiaco he would feel the Fury of his Enemies more than the Favour of his Friends He will have Enemies and those malicious ones but his Friends and the Friendship he will receive will screen and defend him from the greatest of their Fury and yet his Enemies no small people neither Notwithstanding I think the Square of the Sun and Mars and the Opposition of Sâ—turn to the Sun and Venus will give him Troubles yet they will be in the latter part of his Life and not attended with Imprisonment or Confinement for Jupiter in his Ascendent will defend both his Person and Reputation And it is my Opinion That in all Nativities that have such popular Positions as this Native hath he must have many Friends and also many Enemies and both sorts men of great and eminent Quality but Jupiter in his own House in the Ascendent will give him that obliging Temper that will make his Friends the greater number by far by his fair and genteel Carriage VII Of his Sickness and Diseases Losses Troubles c. In this case the Great Ptolâ—my adviseth us to consider the Two Angles of East and West and whether the Luminaries are there and joyned to either of the Maleficks which in this Scheme you see is not so but on the contrary Jupiter defends the prime Angle and doth irradiate the other with his opposite Rays Nor is there any Malefick in the Sixth House afflicting or afflicted which by our Author is much to be minded in judging Diseases which he distinguisheth from Laesiones or Hurts of the Body I therefore conclude he will not be subject to any fixt perpetual Disease or Infirmity of Body but to such as will return at some Intervals on proper Directions c. and these are Disorders from the Spleen mixt with Nephritick Pains and when grown into years vertiginous disorders of the Head and perhaps the Gout but generally of a healthy Constitution otherways His Troubles are to be considered first in their nature and so we must judge them to proceed from Saturn and Mars who afflicts his Sun the persons by them signified are false and fly Friends and malicious Enemies to hinder his progress in publick Affairs And 2dly as to the time they will happen which may be known by the Directions preceding and those will not appear till the after part of his Life some few fall in the former part of it but they are not considerable if compared with the good Directions that will attend him Lossâ—s and Damage to his Estate may happen divers ways for we find Satura Lord of his Second in Square to Mars and Opposition to Vâ—nus and the Part of Fortune in a perfect â—undane Square to the Mâ—on from the Fifth and Seventh This threatens him with Loss by Play or Gâ—ming and indeed I would advise this Native to shun Gaming of all sorts for it will be destructive to him and his Estate and I dare venture to tell him positively That whatever he plays for he will lose and always be unsuccessful in Pleasures of that kind There seems to be other Losses likely to attend him also signified by Venus afflicted by Mars and Saturn Women will projudice him if he is too intimate and familiar with them but especially Lewd Women because Venus is nearest in Opposition to Saturn Lord of his Second Therefore it will be his great Wisdom to avoid these ruinous Courses and all ill Company or Acquaintance VIII Of his Profâ—ssion and Employment and â—hat he may be inclin'd to I would not have my Reader think by the Title of this Paragraph that I intend to pitch upon a Trade or think he will ever settle to one no he that hath Jupiter in his Ascâ—ndent and Five Planets in Cardinal Signs will employ his Thoughts in things of another nature and quality than a Trade and also endeavour to find business suitable to his humor In this Nativity Mercury is the prime Significator of his Business and Inclination and next Venus and Mars the one Lady of the Tenth and the other her Dispositor And all these we find in Equinoctial and Tropical Sigâ—s and both Venus and Mercury in Conjunction with the Sun in his Exaltation this shews his Employment will be business of Credit and Honour And if we consider the Moon applies to the Trine of Mercury and she in his Terms the Ascendent Saturn Mars and Venus all in the Terms of Mercury from whence I conclude his Employment will be Mercurial belonging to the Pen Accounts or such like bookish Business that he will incline to Secondly As the Sun Mercury and Venus are in Mars's House and the Sun's Exaltation so I judge his Employment will be among those concerned in the Government of a Nation or an Army or the like business of Credit Honour and Publick Affairs perhaps something of a Secretary Publick Minister or Envoy and this the rather because of the Virgins Spike on the Angle of Honour I do not desire to predict the particular thing because Cardan says Cumquâ— hoc scire exquisitè emnino sit impâ—ssibile per genera res erit diduâ—â—rds Seg. 6. Apho. 43. Cardani â—ut I have been the larger on this part as well as some other parts of my Judgment because I am of opinion that this young Gentleman will come to understand this Art himself when he arrives at years of Maturity there being an Aphorism in Cardan that takes place in this case exactly thus Quando Luna in Occidente Jupiter in Oriente in Marâ—is ospectu natus fato Astrologiae credet Aphor. 181. Seg. 5. Card. If he believes it very probable it is he may also study it IX Lastly Of his Death the Cause Kind and Time of it Death you know is the natural Consâ—quence of Life and it
of Pope Urban the Seventh who was made Captain General of Christ's Church Pope I mean the 15th of September 1590 and dyed within twelve days afterward H◠was born the 4th of August at 22 minutes past 7 of the Clock in the Morning 1521. Lat. 42. and ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ are Calculated by the Caroline Tables as you see ♄ 11 15 ♒ Latitude 0 56 S. ♃ 13 36 ♠0 35 N. ♂ 7 55 ♎ 0 6 N. ♀ 20 14 ♌ 5 0 S. ☿ 0 10 ♠1 8 N. ☽ 11 52 ♠2 56 N. ☉ 20 35 ♌  ☊ 17 32 ♎  The right Ascention of the Midheaven is 72 57 and they tell you that the Midheaven to the Trine of Jupiter gave him his Preferment and the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn gave his Death But how they will manage the Stars to make it out remains a mystery to me For he was chosen Pope the 15th of September sickned the 17th and dyed the 28 of the same Month 1590. being then 69 Years of Age and almost two Months Now consider the Midheaven to the Trine of Jupiter in Zodiaco is by Direction Ark 63 8. and the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn is Ark 69 53. the difference is almost 7 degrees then how could these two come together and you see the preferment and death fell out both in a Month and therefore there must be some other cause for both these Accidents than what is here asserted in their own way and to be further plain and open with you in the point the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn true came up 6 or 7 years before his death and the Midheaven ad Trine Jupiter a long time after it Now upon the result of all I am of the opinion that the Midheaven to the Body of Venus gave him his Preferment and the Ascendent to the Square of the Sun and semiquadrate of Mars gave his death which came all up at a time and 't is possible there might be a little poison in the way as he says there was a suspicion of for Venus who is concern'd in his Death as well as in his Preferment is indeed imbuted with the Rays of Saturn and may be justly suspected But if this is allowed we must make an alteration in the Figure of about 15 Minutes in time which is no great matter in the thing according to their Rules and Practice Object But perhaps some may say Why did not the Rays of Venus save seeing you tell us they do even by their Squares and Oppositions Answ. 'T is true I do assert it and say the Rule will hold but in this case she is excepted by the Rule because she is under the Sun-beams and therefore cannot The next I have pitched upon is the Nativity he gives us for Ascanius Cardinalis Columna's time of Birth and it is a pretty Remarkable one both for Arguments of Greatness and Directions for Death as you may see by the Figure that followeth set to his time but my Division of the Heavens This is indeed a very good Position for Preferment for here we find Jupiter on the Ascendent the Sun in it in his Exaltation the Moon strong in Trine to the Ascendent Mars who hath dignities in the Tenth is in Sextile to the Moon and in Trine to the Midheaven Venus is in her Exaltation and in a Zodiacal parallel with Jupiter Sure this man could not want friends in his time nor indeed did he for you see he was made a Cardinal early and this by the Intercession of the King of Spain and had Nature been so kind to have prolong'd his days he had certainly obtained the Infallible Chair and been called his Holiness but we have but two Accidents to correct by and they are these following Aged 26 years and almost 10 months he was made Cardinal and as Argol says on the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun and the Part of Fortune to the Body of the Moon Aged 48 years one month and 14 days Anno 1608. May 17. he dyed of a Fever and a Cholerick Disease he had then says Argol the Ascendent to the Bull 's Eye As to the First of these Directions it seems so improbable to suit to the Accident of Preferment that no body I think can in reason allow it For if he had been under two or three good Directions at that time the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun would have knockt it all dead and have made it ineffectual for the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun creates Foes not Friends and therefore I am of opinion some other reason must be given for that Preferment than those laid down by our Author As to his death and the reason given for it I cannot imagine Argol himself thought it would be believed and I dare say my Reader will be of my opinion when he hears what I have to say in the case The Horoscope meets the Bull 's Eye in the 14th degree of Gemini with Latitude and I hope he doth not intend it without if he doth the Error is the greater for there is no such Direction so that he lets the Ascendent pass by the body of Mars Lord of the Eighth near the Pleiades After that the body of Saturn in a violent part of Heaven And a little after that to the Square of Venus out of the Twelfth and after these three Directions he kills him with this silly foolish thing not to be imagined by any Artist that hath had either Reading or Experience To pass the bodies of both the Maleficks nearly in Conjunction and let him dye on the Direction to a fixed Star that hath at least 5 degrees of Latitude Can you imagine Reader that Mars or Saturn or both together had not as much power to kill as the Bull 's Eye Or can you give me any reason why Saturn or Mars should not kill If you can I am sure you know much more of Astrology than I am Master of provided the reason you give will hold in any other Nativity where the same Directions or either of them happen But that which makes the thing more improbable is That the Sun is in the Ascendent and Giver of Life And though I know that the Ascendent to the bodies of Mars and Saturn could not kill yet the stress of my Argument lieth in this That if it was possible or probable for the Bull 's Eye to kill Why should not the bodies of Saturn and Mars do it more effectually before These things considered are sufficient to convince any doubting Reader that this is not a true Nativity nor can I judge what Scheme may be because it is not the faculty of these kind of Astrologers to give us the Estimate time with the Correct as they call it but if the time should be near this I think it is reasonable to conclude That the Sun to the Mundane parallel of Mars followed by the Mundane parallel of Saturn is a very suitable
m.  ☉ ad ♂ ♃ in Crepuse  43 27 47 7 1604. â™ ad â–¡ ☽  45 13 49 2 1605. â™ ad par ♂ in mundo d. d.  46 29    ♠ad par ♂ in Zod. 53 2    ♠ad par ♃       My Learned Italian tells us That Cardinal Simoncellus was born November the 5th at 49 minutes past 7 of the Clock at Night in the Year 1536. under the Elevation of 43. And also says he was created Cardinal on the 22d day of December 1553. by Pope Julius III. and this at the age of 17 years and 2 months almost on the Midheaven to the Body of Jupiter and Trine of Mercury This was a very young Cardinal in my Opinion but old enough I judge to take the profits of his Trade And that he dyed in the month of February about the middle of it Anno 1605. by a difficulty in his Urine at the Age of 68 years and 3 months and this says Sir Andrew was from the Moon Lady of the Ascendent directed to the Antiscion of Saturn in an obedient Sign and the Ascendent to the Square of Mercury imbuted with the Nature of Mars which he says naturally gives a Retention of Urine I can by no means believe that Mercury is afflicted or hurt by Mars because he is in exact Trine to Jupiter by his Longitude and by his Latitude in exact Conjunction with Venus and for those Reasons I think he can do no great hurt And therefore the whole Charge must lye upon Saturn for it is his Turn to murder now because he is Lord of the Eighth House and therefore that you may see it all before you take the Scheme before I come to the Correction which is the same Argol printed This is a very odd sort of Doctrine and perfectly unintelligible to let the Ascendent pass the Body of the Moon Square of the Sun and Antiscion of the Sun and at last kill him with the Moon to the Antiscion of Saturn and the Moon under the Earth and no ways like to be Hileg a very likely story Pray observe you see he kills Cardinal de Comitibus on the Ascendent to the Body of the Moon and so he doth Philip Columna He kills Cardinal Placentinus and Cardinal Zacchia with a single Square of the Sun each of them and yet here where the Square of the Sun falls exactâ—y on the the Body of the Moon and both near the Lyon's Heart which adds to their Violence extreamly they will not do his business but at last a little sneaking Antiscion which is indeed no Antiscion must be called in and had not Saturn been Lord of the Eighth I believe his Antiscion could not have done it neither Is there any man living that can justifie this Doctrine and bring it into Rule that it may be made useful to those that depend on it What man is there that had seen those Examples mentioned before and believed them that would not have been extravagantly positive in this Nativity that the Ascendent to the Body of the Moon to the Square of the Sun and the Lion's Heart would have killed which you see did not Away away with this foolish stuff But besides this if the Directions of the Moon have power to kill why did not the Moon to the Body of Saturn Square of Mercury and Square of Mars do it when there was no Help or Reliet to save Life In my Correction of this Scheme I alter Argol's Figure and make it 5 minutes later which I judge no body will quarrel at that considers how little it is The R. A. of the Midheaven is 349 degrees 47 minutes Jupiter is in the Midheaven and Mercury and Mars in Conjunction on the Cusp of the Sixth House and the early preferment that he had was from the Midheaven to the Body of Jupiter and the Part of Fortune to the Trines of Mercury and Mars at which time being but 17 years of age he was made a young Cardinal The Midheaven to the Body of Jupiter came up 2 years before his Preferment and paved his way to it by Interest and good Friends which made it come easy afterward The Directions on which this Native did expire were the Part of Fortune giver of Life to the Opposition of the Sun and Zodiacal Parallel of Saturn and the Moon to the Zodiacal Parallel of Saturn also at the same time who is radically in Square with Mars and Mercury I have told you already That the Part of Fortune is not to be directed in the Zodiack but in the World only and in order to that take notice its Right Ascention is 33° degrâ—â—s minutes its distance from the Tenth House 13 degrees 42 minutes its Tempora Horaria Diurna 17 degrees 58 minutes the distance of the Sun from the Cusp of the Fourth is 60 degrees 38 minutes to this I add the part proportional 13 degrees 47 minutes and that gives the Ark of Direction of the Part of Fortune to the Opposition of the Sun 74 degrees 25 minutes This turned into time gives 68 years and 3 months The Part of Fortune to the parallel of Saturn hath Ark 76 degrees 50 minutes And these two I do allow for his Death which was a Retention of Urine but this last which is the Poiothanatos gives the Disease and its Quality and is likely to produce it either by a paralitick Accident in the Bladder and Nerves adjacent or by impairing the expulsive Faculty in the Reins both which are the natural effects of Saturn and his Terrene Quality And I am of Opinion that he had been subject to this Disease for 3 years before he dyed being first began by the Ascendent to the Body of Saturn which doth for the most part cause a deficiency in all parts of Nature though he had not power to kill See the Directions  de m. y. m.  ♠ad â–¡ ☽ 62 2 56 9 1593 Ascend ad ♂ ♄ 71 35 65 7 1602 â™ ad 8 ☉ 74 25 68 3 1605 â™ ad par ♄ in Zod. 76 50 70 5 1607 ☽ ad par ♄ in Zod. 76 50 70 5 1607 And seeing I have made use of these Directions often in this Treatise I care not if I take a little pains and demonstrate the thing to the young Student which I am sure is generally unknown to the Astrologers of our Nation I mean to direct the Moon to the Antiscions of the Planets and therefore I will here do it once for all And to that end take notice That Antiscions are nothing else but parallels of Declination which are to be taken with the Planets Latitude and not otherways and those that take them without make haste to discover their Ignorance and shew you they grope in the dark without Reason or Skill having taken up a false method delivered to them by they know not who and â—ow they are loth to part with it and whether I am
is hard to say whether it is a Blessing or a Punishment to us But be it as it will no man lives that shall not taste of it and therefore as I have begun with his Life in a natural way so I will go on to his Death and the time of it as near as I can According to this Correction we have before us the first Direction that is or can be allowed dangerous to Life is the Moon Giver of Life to the Cusp of the Seventh at 39 years and 7 months old but I am partly certain that cannot kill because the Moon at the same time comes to the Mundane Parallel of Jupiter just after it motu conversâ— and within 9 degrees of his Square so that I cannot allow that to hit him yet he will have some Illness at that time but without eminent Danger But when the Moon comes to the Opposition of the Sun at â—1 years of age almost I do not think he will escape it because it is followed by such a train of Directions after it no less than 10 but the next and immediate Direction that succeeds iâ— is the Square of Mars and from him we must seek the Species of the Disease Mars you see is in Capricorn in Square to the Sun Saturn and Mercury hence I judge his Distemper to be a Fever complicated with disorders of the Reins and Head perhaps Delirious and Nephritick if not a Suppression of Urine totally The Direction toucheth in the end of the year 1737. but the precedingRevolution being no ways violent Saturn being then with Mars in 9 degrees of Gemini and Jupiter in 7 degrees of Pisces I judge it will not affect him till the beginning of the year 1738. about the time of the Ingress or a little after Saturn then being in 19 degrees of Gemini and Mars in the middle of Aquary and when Mars comes to the beginning of Aries or the lâ—tter end of Pisces he will influence the place of Direction at which time it is probable he may feâ—l the Influence of his rugged Stars I have already told you That the Estimate Time was a little after I mane and my Rule generally is That Children are born sooner than the time commonly given and so may this for ought I know for the Direction that I principally rely on in the Correction is but a single one to suit to a single Accident which tho' they seem rational and probable yet I dare not be positive to the truth of the Correction though I believe it to be true But if he should happen to be born at 1 of the Clock or a few minutes before then the Moon will not be Giver of Life but the Ascendent if so the Cause and Time of Death must be sought from the Horoscope and not from the Moon and therefore I will give you the Directions to the Ascendent in a Figure set to that time Ascendens ad ☌ ♃ 7 45 8 6 1695 Ascen in Ascendens ad â–´ ♄ 22 23 24 4 1711 15 â™ Ascendens ad ☌ ♂ 22 33 24 6 1711  Ascendens ad âš¹ ♀ 24 3 26 4 1713  Ascendens ad semiquad ☉ 29 45 32 5 1719  Ascendens ad semiquad ♃ 35 57 39 1 1726  Ascendens ad sesquiquod ♄ 37 3 40 2 1727  Ascendens ad 8 ☽ 40 23 43 8 1730  Ascendens ad semiquad ♂ 51 12 54 10 1741  If the Ascendent is Hileg when it comes to the Body of Mars it will be a severe time for danger to his Life but I do not think he will dye of it because he hath a favourable Revolution no evil secondary Directions and Jupiter on the Place of Direction to a degree and in his radical Horoscope all that year and what is more it is a strong vital Nativity At the Age of 32 years and 5 months the Ascendent comes to the Semiquadrate of the Sun which will give him another dangerous fit of Sickness but not so bad as the other yet both of them attended with danger but I think he may outlive them But at the age of 40 years if the Horoscope is Apheta he will certainly dye without a Miracle from Heaven for according to my Skill in Astrology I can by no means see any ground to judge his Life will be continued beyond that time And to say the truth his Nativity cannot be exactly and truly corrected till the Ascendent comes to the Body of Mars it being the first Direction of consequence to an Angle and no other Directions can correct true either in this or any other Nativity Directions to the Sun and Moon will come near but the Angles exact And so I come to say something to the effects of his Directions in the former Table At the age of 4 years and 3 months he was taken into the particular care of a Gentleman and ever since hath been plentifully and genteely provided for by a Relation and a Person of Quality He had then the Ascendent directed to the Body of Jupiter At the age of almost 8 years he had the Small Pox and at 8 and 10 months he fell down a pair of Stairs for this I allow the Sun to the Opposition of Saturn cum sine Lat. with some other things already mentioned Aged 16 years he hath the Moon to the Sextile of Saturn and to the Trine of the Sun just after on these Directions he will be placed out in the world perhaps sent to the University or otherwise disposed Aged 17 or 18 years the Sun to the Square of Jupiter mundo the Moon to the Sesquiquad of Jupiter mundo and the Part of Fortune to the Parallel of Saturn in mundo his affairs of Life will be uneasy and he hindred in his Preferment according to his Capacity Aged 19 years and 6 months the Moon to the Trine of Venus and Sol ad Tr. Jovis this gives a healthy Constitution all things go easy and pleasant and some Preferment seems to offer it self Aged 20 years and 6 months the Ascendent comes to the Body of Mars this will give a Fit of Sickness and a ruggedness in his Affairs his Friends seem to be but indifferent in his Interest and all things for a short time go but untoward Aged 22 years the Moon comes to the Mundane Parallel of Jupiter and the Part of Fortune to the Trine of Mars he grows vigorous in his Health new Friends appear with Interest and Preferment and perhaps some attempt at Marriage Aged 24 years the Moon to the Parallel of Mars about this time he wâ—ll be subject to a feverish Hâ—bit and a Sâ—rfeit but a fit of illness will happen with a little Trouble or Disappointment in his affairs and I do think he will keep some wild Company under the Influence of this Direction Aged 25 years the Midheaven to the Sextile of Jupiter this Direction will certainly introduce the Native into the Acquâ—intance of new and honourable Friends by
Emperor nâ—r the Duke of Buckingham nor Parson Mackernes nor in Mr. John Gadbury's and many more in his Collection besides that have escaped it and therefore he should not have pressed it upon us here We are told by our Author That Sir Robert Holburn was born November the 16th hor. 2. min. 10. P. M. die Jâ—vis Anno 1598. Lat. 51. 32. And that his Nativity was elaborately done by Dr. Fisk his Friend and Tutor at the Knight's Request That he dyed in the 48th year currant of his age and this on the Sun directed to the Opposition of Jupiter in Capricorn You see the Scheme and the Reason he gives for his Death I wish he had also told us Whether Dr. Fisk did predict his Death from that Direction or whether our Author did not make it himself after this Gentleman was in his Grave If Dr. Fisk did predict his Death at that time on that Direction it was a happy Hit of Fate and more by Chance than Skill for Jupiter did never before that time kill any one and therefore a bold Venture But I am of Opinion that it was made when he was dead and it seems to be of the same sort that our Author hath furnished us with before and from the same hand And the rather because he adds If any ask Why the Square of Saturn might not kill as well as Jupiter's Opposition I answer He had no Dignities in the Eighth or Fourth and so had Jupiter in both Now I am answered and perfectly satisfied The truth is the Moon is Hileg and she and none but she must be directed for Death and I doubt we shall be untowardly put to it to find a cause for it in this Scheme but if he will allow me his somewhat that is 28 minutes I can find Directions sufficient for Death and they are the Moon to the Mundane Parallel of the Sun and Mars and the Zodiacal Square of Saturn But if he doth still persist in it That he did dye on the Sun to the Opposition of Jupiter then I would ask him Why it did not kill Bishop Land Sir Theodore Mayern Mr. Stepkins Dr. Geoffory le Neve and others and I am certain that neither Dr. Fisk nor my Friend Mr. Gadbury would venture to predict Death from that Direction when a man is living and I am sure Sir Robert Hâ—lburn's Death was not to be predicted by this Nativity And if he were living would it not be more rational to judge he should dye on the Moon to the Body of the Sun and Mars or the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Sun and Mars than on the Ascendent to the Opposition of Jupiter Fie fie lay by these Fooleries or else delend them and I will appear against you in the cause Cornelius Agrippa I willingly pass by as not being of any esteem for Truth in my Opinion And for that of Sir Theodore Mayern I have already handled it in my Opus Reformatum to which I refer those that would see it Peter Gassendus nat Januar. 21. S. N. hor. 17. min. 52. P. M. 1592. sub Lat. 44. they make him Capricorn ascending 6 degr and they kill him on the Ascendent to the Body of Mars and Square of Saturn the one in Cancer and the other in Aries The Sun is in 2 degrees of Aquary and the Moon 7 degrees in Taurus and they contentedly let him outlive thâ— Ascendent to the Body of the Sun Lord of the Eighth and Square of the Moon in the Fourth and think no body will in the least question that Now according to their own Rule Why should not we believe the Ascendent to the Lord of the Eigth and Square of the Moon in the Fourth is more likely to kill than to the Lord of the Tenth and Ascendent And yet after all the bussle they have made the Sun is Giver of Life in the Ascendent and he dyed not on the Ascendent to the Boâ—y of Mars but on the Sun to his own Square and Body of the Moon who is in the Radix in their fatal Fourth House and this done with a very little Alteration to the Figure Dr. Nicholas Fisk born July 25th hor. 1. min. 47. P. M. 1575. Lat. 52. and my Author says He dyed on the Ascendent to the Oppoâ—â—tion of Mars so that at one Blow he breaks Two of the most principal Rules of Ptolâ—my First The Ascendent cannot kill by Direction because the Sun is in the Ninth Giver of Life Secondly Mars cannot kill as a Promiâ—tâ—r because he is under the Sun Beams And yet both these are rothing to our Author in his way of Practice It is plain that the Figure he prints was made after the man dyed because of crowding in this Direction to stop his Readers mouth and prevent further Enquiry but the time was undoubtedly a little sooner and then the Sun Hilâ—g was directed to his own Square and the Mundane Parallel of Satura having a little before passed the Square of Mars who â—ad not power to kill but gave him that lingring Consumption that attended him to his Death and was indeed the occasion of it because Hecticks are the true effect of the Sun in many Cases and what Mars gave was of the Nature of the Sun at that time Mr. Stepkins is said to be born May the 15th hor. 10. min. 54. P. M. 1604. Lat. 51. 32. And our Author says He dyed on the Ascendent to the Opposition of Mars But then suppose some captious Fellow or other should ask the Reason Why the Ascendent should pass the Square of Mercury Lord of the Eighth and Square of the Sun both together and presently after the Square of Saturn and all these together not able to kill as well as the Opposition of Mars I must confess the Readers of such Authors had need have a mighty Opinion of them or else they cannot swallow these Gudgeons easily without kecking Dr. George Starkâ—y was born as saith J. Gadbury June the 9th hor. 11. min. 35. Manè 1628. Sub Lat. 52. who was living when this Book of his was printed but dyed of the Plague in 1665. and the Scheme of his Birth seems likely to signifie his Parts and also shew the time of his Death which if our Author had the managing of the matter must be fathered on the Ascendent to the Square of the Moon notwithstanding the Moon is Hileg in the Midheaven The truth of the matter is thus The Sun Giver of Life is directed to the Mundane Parallel of the Moon followed by the Zodiacal Parallel of Mars Body of Mars and Body of Venus for his Death and its Quality which was the Plague which I am informed he took by opening a man that dyed of that Disease From page 130 to 138. there is nothing remarkable either to the Reader or to the Animadvertor and therefore I pass them by and come to Mr. Stephen Rogers who our Author tells us was born October the 7th hor 4. min. 44. P. M.