he hath the Sun Moon and Ascendent directed to the square of Mars Lord of both his House of Honour and Friends Mars is also Lord of the third House shewing that his professed Friends will be at variance and break their Leagues with him and so will some of his neighbouring Nations to his great Loss Surely a great Oversight in Mr. Holwel to thing the Grand Seignior should over-run Christendom upon such Directions yet he will certainly come against Christendom again About the year 1687. he hath the Sun Moon and Ascendent directed to the Body of Saturn I cannot positively say that he will lose his Life then about but I am certain he will undergo Afflictions of body and all his Affairs go unsuccessful for some considerable time he hath also about the same time the Mid-heaven directed to the Co-Antiscians of the Sun sure under these Directions the Christians may regain what the Turks formerly took from them and thus much of the Nativity of this great Prince I will in the next place insert the Nativity of that grand Impostor Mahomet the Author of the Turks Faith shewing thereby how some men are born to make and forge Lies as he did and others born to believe them CHAP. III. Mahomet Author of the Turks Faith born April the 24th 6h 30′ P. M. Anno Christi 569. Latitude 41d ☾ △ ♄ add □ ☿ THis Scheme of the Nativity of Mahomet the Author of the Turks Faith or Religion accords to the time given by the learned Doctor Addison and is very like to be true because it was ever by Astrologers concluded that the Turkish Faith first rose under Scorpio and Mars as the Christian Religion did under the Sun and Jupiter I was presented with this Scheme by my Friend and Tutor Mr. John Gadbury who also believes it true Most Writers accord that Mahomet was born in Mecca a City in Arabia the happy and Son of Abdalla a Merchant his Mother Hemina a Jew his Parents died when he was young and after their Decease he was brought up by his Uncle at sixteen years old he was bound to a Merchant named Abdalmutalif who finding him a witty Lad made him his Factor afterwards his Master dying he married his Mistress and until thirty eight years of age he followed his Merchandise travelling into many Countries where being satisfied with Wealth he began to think of high things for he was a curious searcher into both the Jews and Christian Religion being himself brought up a Pagan but Pride enflamed his heart and wrought in him a desire to be taken for a Prophet and to make men believe that he was a real Prophet he made use of his Disease which he was often troubled withal that was the Falling-sickness for he gave out that when he fell in those Fits that he then conferred with the Angel Gabriel by whom the pleasure of God was revealed to him and thus by his Delusions he perswaded the People so that they believed him to be a real Prophet or rather a God and do ever since honour and esteem him so to be Now that this Mahomet should be so much honoured and esteemed may be thought strange but if we do but consider the ignorance of People in those days and in those Countries we need not much scruple at it for the Heathens worshipped the Sun Moon and Stars esteeming them to be Gods because they knew not the true God nay some were more ignorant and worshipped Stocks and Stones also Images which their own hands had wrought esteeming them to be Gods also the Israelites unto whom God manifested himself by many Miracles Signs and Wonders and titled them his own People they believed not in him but made to themselves a Molten Calf and worshipped it saying these be thy Gods O Israel which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt although they knew that they came out of Aegypt a long time before they made it therefore no wonder that the Turks which were of the Seed of Ham that wicked Son of Noah whom his Father cursed should esteem such a lying Impostor as Mahomet was for a God or Saviour for History plainly saith that after the Death of Noah Ham went into Africa and there setled his Abode and from his Posterity sprang the Turks a sort of People much of his own nature and here in the Nativity of this Impostor Mahomet we find the Regal Sign Leo on the Medium Coeli and Jupiter the greater Fortune therein posited a most eminent token of Honour and that he might seem to be a setter up of a Religion contrary to that of Christ or rather the Author and Forger of malicious Lies we may consider that he hath Saturn in Libra the Horoscope of our blessed Saviour as Mr. Butler hath it in his Christologia and hath wilfully made himself an opposer of the Truth and hath established Christianity his Enemy as may be seen by Libra on the twelfth House and Saturn therein posited and Mars Lord of his Ascendent in Gemini the House of Mercury and the Moon Lady of the ninth House that being the House of Religion applying to a quadrat of Mercury and to an opposition of Jupiter might very well shew him to be both the Author of a false Religion and promoter of Lies and the Turks that accursed Generation of Ham addicted to believe them and that he should be an Enemy to the Christian Religion may well be observed from this Nativity the Moon being in Aquarius in opposition to Leo and Jupiter therein posited and in square of the Sun the Sign and Planets representing the Christian Religion The opinion of Mahomet or rather the Original of the Turks Religion may be said to take its beginning at the flight of Mahomet which was in the year Anno Christi 591. for in that year the Saracens drove him from Mecca at which time the Turks first began to settle their Religion and most Astrologers do conclude that the Turks Faith arose under Mars and the Moon and good reason may be shewed for it for in this Nativity Scorpio ascends and Mars is Lord thereof Cancer is on the Cusp of the ninth House the House of Religion and the Moon is Lady of it and may very well signifie a Rude and Savage Religion as well as People given to many Vices and lascivious Actions And to speak something of the continuance and desolation of their Faith if we take 264. the greatest years of Mars and 320. the greatest years of the Moon and add to the year of Christ 591. the year that Mahomet took his Flight it will make but 1175. a great mistake of Mr. Holwel who takes 480. for the greatest years of Mars and 260. for the Moons greatest years I wonder from what Author he had them but I suppose this is one of his own new Inventions and like his Directions of the Othoman Family being taken four years before it began as may be seen in his Appendix page the
esteemed and beloved of People than formerly both enriched and honoured by means of his Prudence and good Nature sometimes it produceth honourable Marriage also Travel both by Sea and Land whereby Honour is attained to Kings and Emperors it shews the Renovation of Leagues and Friendship and the composing of Differences with their Neighbours And the Sun directed to the Sextile of Venus doth import the Native to have a good Name also some more than former advance to Dignity and Preferment from whence he shall acquire great store of Wealth and be highly esteemed of all sorts of People in general he shall perform all his Affairs with much facility and obtain all his just desires with much love and content it most commonly produceth a Child unto the Native both these Directions happen about the year 1685. and what advantage he now gaineth he need not fear losing again as long as he liveth And about the year of our Lord 1688. this Native hath the Mid-heaven directed to the Square of Jupiter intimating Kings and Princes to gain the Displeasure of their Nobility and Gentry by abridging their Priviledges so that Judges and Lawyers will be at Controversie with him and many of them he will turn out of their Places also Ecclesiastical Persons and those of the highest degree offensive against him whereby will arise much Controversie Contention and Mutations also some of his Kindred will be disaffected to him but at last they will be forced to comply with him and that upon his own terms and they will be glad if they can regain their lost Favour But to mitigate these Troubles he hath at the same time the Ascendent directed to the Sextile of Venus which will make the Native delight himself in all manner of Pleasures and Recreations and that he will gain the Love of the Commonalty and Familiarity with Women of great Rank and Quality it often produceth honorable Marriages and Issue soon after and from henceforth for many years he hath no ill Directions so that according to the Rules of Astrology from which Rules I would not willingly vary this Emperor is like to have a long and prosperous Reign and I know not but that he may attain to eighty two years of age which God grant he may to the Honour of Christendom about which time it seemeth to be somewhat mortal but I will forbear any further Judgment thereof as having a Veneration for the Persons of Emperors and Kings who are Gods Vicegerents on Earth CHAP V. Treating of the Nativity of the most Christian King of France LEWIS the Fourteenth September 5. 11 h. 11 A M 1638. Sub Lat. 49 d. ☾ ☌ ♀ ad △ ♂ THis Scheme of the Nativity of the most Christian King of France is the same which Morinus Physician to the King of France affirms to be the true one and I suppose nearer the truth than that which Mr. Holwel inserts in his Appendix This Scheme may be seen in Morinus's Astrologia Gallica fol. 555. as Mr. Gadbury hath assured me and also printed it in defence of Scorpio In Mr. Holwels Appendix in the King of France's Nativity he predicteth that most Christian King to become one of the miserablest Princes in the world because saith he he hath many ill Directions But we will first consider the general Fate which is most to be regarded and then proceed to particulars but here I will shew you how there is some small difference between Mr. Holwels Judgment and mine of the time for I with Morinus affirm that he hath 14. degrees and 45. Minutes of Scorpio on the Horoscope and Mr. Holwel saith 22 degrees no great difference in the general fate but in the particular it will in some directions differ ten years of time so that the Accidents which are produced by either the Ascendent or Mid-heaven by Mr. Holwels Scheme will not come by Morinus until ten years after which is a great difference in time But we have here in our Scheme the Regal Sign Leo on the Medium Coeli and the Sun Lord thereof posited in the Mid-heaven also Mercury in his own house in the Mid-heaven which are absolute testimonies of durable Honour he hath also the part of Fortune in the eleventh house declaring that he shall be much advantaged by his professed Friends and that he shall have many Friends likewise the Moon is in Conjunction of Venus Lady of the Eleventh House the House of Friendship but Venus is Lady of the Twelfth House also the House of private Enemies so she is likewise Lady of the Seventh House the House of publick Enemies but inasmuch as Mars Lord of the Ascendent is stronger than Venus Lady of the Seventh and Twelfth it is an eminent token that his Enemies either publick or private shall not prevail against him neither will they be very apt to quarrel with him but those that will contend with him let them be sure to look to come off with loss and damage for they will not be able to withstand him But I suppose the main thing that caused Mr. Holwel to predict of the miserable poverty of this great Monarch might proceed from the position of Mars and the Dragons Tail in the Second House of his Scheme for these are commonly testimonies of waste of substance but Mr. Holwel doth mistake the Dragons Tail is not in the Second House as he hath placed him in his Figure but in the Eighth House and the Dragons Head is in the Second House And if we consider that Mars is Lord of the Ascendent we need not judge him a testimony of Poverty but rather of Riches which is much augmented by the position of the Dragons Head in the second House for Authors say the Lord of the Ascendent posited in the second House shews a great increase of Riches by the Natives own labour and industry the rather being in Reception with the Lord of the second And pray what Prince in the World now living hath laboured more and used greater industry to increase his Riches and to enlarge his Territories than the present King of France hath done neither hath any Prince had greater success than he And thus I shall leave the general and proceed to the particulars Whereas Mr. Holwel desireth any one that will to run down the Directions of this Mighty Monarch I have taken his advice and have run down the Directions of his Figure and I find that the Sun came not to the square of Mars until Twelve years of age but Mr. Helwel saith at Nine therefore unlike the Sun to the Square of Mars should give the Small Pox at Nine years of age Neither do I hold any Direction of either the Sun or Moon a safe Rule whereby to prove any Nativity by but rather by the Ascendent or Mid-heaven yet I do not say but the Directions of the Sun or Moon may operate as forcibly as the other according to their nature though not to prove the time of birth by But
of these Configurations than Mr. Holwel sheweth in either his Catastrophe Mundi or his Appendix which he hath written to make ignorant People believe that the World should be turned immediately upside down by means of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo 1682. and of the Comet that appeared in 1680. But let Mr. Holwel as well as my Reader know that there have been such Conjunctions and Comets before these which have had Effects bad enough but far different from what Mr. Holwel writes of these and therefore unlike to be true but I will shew you what hath hapned upon such Configurations already past and my Judgement on those lately hapned for the time to come The Scheam of the Nativity of the French King is the same that Morinus his own Physician published in his Astrologia Gallica and since printed in Mr. Gadbury's Defence of Scorpio that of the Grand Seignior is taken out of Mr. Gadbury's Book de Cometis but the Scheams of the Nativity of Mahomet Author of the Turks Faith and that of the German Emperour I had of my very good Friend Mr. John Gadbury's own Hand which he affirms to be the true ones for which I return him my hearty thanks And thus courteous Reader I have shewed thee according to the perfect Rules of Astrology the Fate that Europe will be like to undergo for near this twenty years yet to come both by the Nativities of some of her most Noble Princes the amazing Comet in 1680 and the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo 1682 which I do not question but Time will manifest to be true And in the mean time I crave nothing but thy kind acceptance judicial perusing careful observation of the Effects for the future and thy judgement of it according to its merits and this will encourage me to present thee with something of greater Consequence till then farewel John Merrifield From my House at the Hand and Pen at the lower end of Horsly-down near the Dock-head in Southwark London ♀ Feb. 22. 1683 4. ERRATA PAge 4. line 13. for Ascendent read second p. 6. l. 25. for thing r. think p. 9. l. 33. r. Religion excepting that of christ against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail p. 12. for 60. r. Co-Anticians p. 16. l. 1. dele by p. 20. l. 32. r. St. Stephen p. 25. l. 1. for heart r. hearts p. 26. l. 3. dele Christ p. 27. l. for too r. to p. 11. l. 11. for Joseph r. Josephus for Falicimus r. Ferdinandus CATASTASIS MVNDI OR The true STATE VIGOR and growing Greatness of Christendom under the Influences of the last triple Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo the late Comet c. CHAP. I. Treating of the Rise of the Ottoman Family which is accounted to be the Foundation of the Turks Empire IF we take the Original or Beginning of the Turks Empire to be from the Ottoman Family as I suppose we justly may although they had many Risings and Fallings after they left their Native Countrey Anno Dom. 844. and were then called Scythians for Ottoman taking upon him the Government of the Turks he first founded this great Empire in the year of Christ 1289. at which time Saturn was in Pisces and Authors tell us that Turky or the greatest part of it lies under Capricorn and therefore governed by Saturn And according to the Rules of Astrology Saturns greatest years are 465. which added to 1289. will make 1754. therefore this Monarchy seemeth to stand firm and stable no longer then unto the year of Christ 1754. but as it hath hitherto had at some times Risings and at other times Diminishings so it will be like to continue and had not Saturn at his Conjunction with Jupiter been in Aquarius his own House and a fixed Sign a little before the beginning of this Empire it had not continued so long But to take the time of this Conjunction and to work by directions from the New Moon preceding to find the Time of the good or evil Events of this Empire I think it frivolous and vain and an Abuse to Astrology as Mr. Holwel hath done for would not any rational man think it great Folly or Madness in an Artist to calculate a Childs Nativity and take the time thereof four months before it was born or first drew breath in the World but Mr. Holwel hath taken the Nativity of the Turks Empire four years before it began as he himself hath written but neither the Day nor Hour being as I suppose known nor attainable when this Empire was first established by a Law therefore to know when this Empire shall be most Honourable and Successful or most miserable and unsuccessful consider carefully the Nativities of the Emperors and chief Commanders thereof and an able Artist may give a good Astrological Judgment of the Success of that Empire during his Reign for as a King or Emperor is the Head and his People the Members so the Head cannot suffer Affliction but the Members must partake with it and what Increasing Decreasing Ebbing and Flowing have happened in this Empire in times past History relates at large and therefore I shall not here mention it lest my Book swell beyond my Expectation for I intend not to write a large-Folio but a few Sheets to shew the World that there is a more certain way of judging the State of a Nation than Mr. Holwel hath used in his Catastrophe Mundi or in his Appendix thereto The future state of an Empire or Kingdom may also be judged from the Conjunctions of the superior Planets Comets Eclipses and Solar Ingresses all which I shall give a hint at which I hope I may do without offence And first I will here insert the true Nativity of the Grand Seignior the present Emperor of the Turks and it is the same which Mr. Gadbury hath in his Book de Cometis which I alter only three Degrees on the Medium Coeli and dare affirm it to be the truest that is attainable as I shall prove by several Accidents The Nativity that Mr. Holwel hath taken cannot be the true time because the Accidents which have already happened will not admit of Sagittary to ascend in the Nativity of that Illustrious Prince CHAP. II. Treating on the Nativity of Sultan Mahomet the Turks Grand Seignior Sultan Mahomet Ham was born January the 1st 7h 26′ A. M. Lat. 43 deg ☾ ☌ ☉ add V. Cour. SUltan Mahomet Ham the present Emperor of the Turks was born at Constantinople on the first day of January 1641 2 26 minutes past 7 in the Morning That this is a most Illustrious Nativity here are many eminent Testimonies as may be seen by the Position of Jupiter the Sun Moon and part of Fortune in the Ascendent and other Testimonies which I will here omit and proceed to the general fate of the Native this Scheme was taken out of the Book de Cometis written by my very good Friend Mr. John Gadbury
according to Morinus's Figure which I suppose to be nearest the truth he had between three and four years of age the Mid-heaven to the Sextile of Jupiter about which time the French Kings Father died and he stiled King of France about twelve years of age he had the Mid-heaven directed to the Conjunction of the Sun under this Direction he received his Crown about thirteen or fourteen he had the Sun to the Square of Mars and then he had troubles in France and at Paris they shut the Gates against him About two or three and twenty he had the Sun directed to the Sextil of both Venus and the Moon under these Directions he was married to Maria Tiresia d'Austria Infanta of Spain which was on the Ninth of September 1660. And Mr. Holwel saith the French King hath lately had the Midheaven to the Sextil of Mars and that caused him to be prosperous in Arms but I say he hath not yet had that Direction but he hath lately had the Sun to the Sextil of Mars and the Ascendent to the Cusp of the second House this caused him to be prosperous in Arms and thereby to increase his Substance and Territories And Mr. Holwel also saith that the French King in August 1683. shall have many Miseries both in Body Mind and Fortune and that then his own Subjects will rebel against him and that he would be in danger of Fire and Gunshot also Stabbing and Imprisonment and that he should be in danger of being cheated of his Life and then saith he if this happen one may say there is some truth in Art But I am assured that as this hath not yet hapned and though it never do as I am perswaded it never will yet there is more Truth in Art than there is honesty in Mr. Holwel or truth in such Artists for such nonsensical boasters of Art are but abusers of Art and therefore not worthy to bear the Name or Title of an Artist He saith moreover about the same time the French King should lose all his former Honour both by Sea and Land but sure he meaneth this of himself and that all he takes in hand for seven years space will prosper ill if he lives so long and that he will soon come to be imprisoned or Banished and be one of the miserablest Princes in the World But none of these things have yet hapned neither can I find according to the Rules of Astrology that such Calamities will at all happen to this most Christian Prince for certainly he is not a Prince born to Misfortune Disgrace nor Poverty as an ingenious Artist may well perceive by his Nativity but to be the Glory of his Nation and a Terror to his Enemies and as for those Directions which Mr. Holwel pretends should bring such afflictions on this most Christian King are not yet come neither will they for many years and when they do come they will not be so violent as he speaketh of for he considereth not that about the same time that there happeneth evil Directions there also happeneth good ones for about the year of our Lord Christ 1690. the Ascendent comes to the Square of Mercury Lord of the eighth and tenth Houses which might shew some danger both of Life and Honour but at the same time the Sun comes to the body of Jupiter Lord of the seventh and eleventh Houses thereby raising Friends unto the Native and bringing even his Enemies to be at peace with him and thus abating the evil threatned by Mercury And about the year 1692. the Ascendent will be directed to the body of Mars Lord of the sixth House which may give some afflictions of body and at the same time the Mid-heaven comes to the Sextile of Mars mitigating the evil influence of Mars to the Ascendent yet I suppose about the year 1690. or between that and the year 1693. he may have some affliction of body that will be very violent which if he escape he may favente Deo live many years Mr. Holwel also saith that in a short time the Commons of France will be in Arms against their present King and that if he should live but two years that would be but to the year 1685 he would be driven from his Throne by his own Subjects and if he die before then the next King will be served so but what reason he hath for any of this I think that neither himself nor any rational man can tell but especially whereby he judgeth the fate of the next King by this present Kings Nativity nay he is not content therewith but he addeth more nonsensical stuff for in the same Nativity he saith the Turks shall over-run France Spain Italy Rome Venice Muscovia and Poland destroying it with Fire and Sword and that the Key of Christendom shall be lost but it were better a thousand such Predictors were served as Baals Prophets were that we might have no more such Christian Turks amongst us to dishearten us with lies but I shall forbear to mention any more of these fooleries and certifie my Readers that the ruine of these Kingdoms and Countries cannot by the Rules of Astrology be predicted of from this Nativity therefore this is like the rest of his false nonsensical stuff and Time will manifest it so to be and then let Mr. Holwel be sure that he will be derided not only by Artists but by every one wholly ignorant of Art that hath or shall chance to read his Books which will be to him a greater Disgrace than ever his Books procured him Fame or Profit thus he hath used his endeavour to dishearten all Christendom and to incourage the Turks and Heathens with false Predictions But I will advise Mr. Holwel not to disoblige the King of England nor the Laws of our Land for he hath disobliged almost all Christendom and belied the Turks and if he should have a fansie or be forced to travel I would have him well consider into what Kingdom or Country he may be the most welcome if to the Turks he go let him have a care of strangling for he hath been to them an abominable lying Prophet if to the Kingdom of France the Bastile is the way to the Wheel on which they break all impudent Impostors for he hath frighted that Country if at least any among them be so senseless to be frighted with his absurd Crudities with false Fears more than enow If to any other Country of Christendom they 'l quickly smell out an Ass under the Skin of a Lyon and bait him accordingly my Advice therefore is that he keep himself at home with the Catastrophe Mundi and Appendix of his own addle Writing there being nothing in them but what is become most notorious and loathsome to all sober men CHAP. VI. Treating of the Conjunction of the Superior Planets and more particularly of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo in the year 1682. EVery Planet contributeth in some measure or other
of a great many men took it from the Persians on promise of quarter but contrary to his promise he caused all Men Women and Children to be barbarously massacred and by this you may see the faith of a Turk And thus much of the signification of this Conjunction and of what is past I proceed now to what is yet to come I come now to speak of the Triple Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo in the year of our Lord 1682. And it is a Maxim according to that of Cardan Segm. 5. Aphor. 63. Operationes Planetarum nunquam cessant donec contraria à Planeta vel Stella fixa aut signi parte contrariae qualitatis impedimentur vel in Solis radios incidant The operation of the Planets never cease until they are impedited by a contrary Planet or fixed Star or from part of the Sign of contrary quality or when they fall into combustion viz. into the rayes of the Sun In this Conjunction those Planets are not in evil aspects of either the Sun or Mars therefore no great matter of their effects could operate at the time of this Conjunction but about the beginning of November 1682. the Sun came to the Square of both Saturn and Jupiter and also of the place of the Conjunction at which time the effects began to operate though but slowly but about the latter end of January following the Sun came to the Opposition of both Saturn and Jupiter and the place of the Conjunction this insinuated mischief into the heart of the Turks to proclaim open War against Germany and in the latter end of August and beginning of September when Mars came to the Square of Saturn and the place of the Conjunction the effects began to operate to purpose as we know about Vienna and had not Jupiter been stronger than Saturn Christendom might have had too great a cause to have remembred it for Mars is an Enemy to both Saturn and Jupiter but a little after Jupiter met with the Conjunction of Venus governess of Libra and thereby raised the Siege being the Sign under which Vienna lieth And whereas this Conjunction hapned in Leo we may consider by what hath been already said that Christendom never suffered much under such Conjunctions but hath come off either with honour or victory although they have had many Troubles and Afflictions for under such Conjunctions they have beaten the Turks and almost all that have opposed them Now if I should be asked the reason why the Christians have been so fortunate under the Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo Consider that Jupiter in Leo is stronger than Saturn there and disposeth of Saturn in his own Triplicity for Saturn being Perigrine and in his Detriment he is as a man in custody of his Enemy forsaken of his Friend and not able to work the evil effects he might do if he were strong either in his own House or Exaltation for what hurt can an envious man do when he is bound in Prison and forsaken of his Friends Saturn can do no more in this Conjunction neither can Kingdoms nor People under Saturn but envy the happiness of Religions Countreys and Persons under Leo and not under Leo only but those that be under any Sign that is in Sextile or Trine to Leo which are Libra Sagitary Aries and Gemini But here peradventure I may be asked the Question why Vienna in Austria being under Libra sped so ill To that I answer Had it not been for this Conjunction it might have sped worse for the Besieging of Vienna was not wholly occasioned by the Conjunction but rather by the last Comet that appeared in 1682 and passed through Libra and the Conjunction may well be reputed the Raising of the Siege at Vienna or if any one will have it to proceed from the Conjunction only it matters not for it is no more than I told you before that Saturn or the Turks by him represented would shew their Envy to Religion Countries Cities and Persons under Leo and under Signs in Sextile or Trine to Leo but would want strength and power to destroy them for if we compute the Loss that the Turks have sustained by that Siege both in Substance and People and compare it with the Loss of the Christians we may say that the Conjunction was not prejudicial but rather beneficial to Christendom and prejudicial to the Turks Yet I do not say but these Places under Leo and in Sextile and Trine to it may have Troubles but their Enemies shall not have power to prevail against them to overcome them for though Saturn be the most superior yet being out of all his essential Dignities he shall be forced to seek to and comply with the Sun and Jupiter and that upon their terms and not upon his own But these Regions Countries and Cities under Aquarius being in opposition to Leo and those in square which are Taurus and Scorpio will be like to be most sufferers under this Conjunction by one means or other either by War Famine Sickness or Inundations of Waters c. for certainly if those under the Sextiles and Trines partake of Evil much more those under the Squares and Oppositions will be Sufferers by their effects as may be seen by this following example being yet in the memory of many thousands now living in England In the year 1663. there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagitary and Gemini is the opposite Sign London being under it what sad fates did London undergo soon after for in the year 1665 there was a lamentable Plague and in 1666. the City almost consumed with Fire many more sad Accidents I could instance but let this suffice at this time And because that every one that may happen to read this Book may not be an Artist good enough to know what places are under the Signs before mentioned I will here insert the Names of some Countries and Cities under Leo and under the Signs in Opposition and Square to it which are as followeth Under Leo are Italy Sicily Bohemia the Alps Gallia Togata Apuleia Phoenicia and part of Turky Cities Damascus Syracuse Rome Ravinna Cremona Ulms Prague Lints Confluentia Bristol c. Under Aquarius are Samaria Amazonia Tartaria Muscovia Westphalia Mosel Aethiopia Media Arabia the desart Cities Hamborough Breme Montserat Pisarum Ingoldstad and Trent c. Under Taurus are Russia Polonia major Lorrain Campagnia Helvetia Switzerland Persia Cyprus Parthia Ireland Cities Parma Nants Bononia Sena Mantua Sicila Tigur Tarentum Lucern Lipsic c. Under Scorpio are Norway the Higher Bavaria Campagena Cappadocia Idumea Catalonia Barbary Fez Cities Gaunt Algera Messina in Italy Frankfort upon Odar Valentia and Catalonia in Spain Thus I have shewed some of the Places under the Signs in which the effects of this Conjunction is like to be most powerful and for the time of the future effects it is most like to be when the Sun or Mars shall behold Saturn Jupiter
The Sun Jupiter and the Moon in the Ascendent are sure Testimonies of Honour both from great and eminent Persons as also from the vulgar People it makes him extreamly proud so that he will esteem none so good as himself but will be apt to quarrel with those of his neighbouring Nations but the Moon in this Nativity applies to void of Course shewing most of his Undertakings to be unfortunate in this Nativity Saturn Lord of the Ascendent is in square of Mars Lord of the tenth House the House of Honour so will he himself act something that will be prejudicial to his own Honour Mars Lord of the Tenth is in the Eleventh the House of Friendship and there in Conjunction of Venus shewing the Native will have many Friends that will procure Honour to him by their means which will be Leaders and Generals of his Armies the rather because Mars is Lord of the eleventh House the House of Friendship but Jupiter Lord of the Twelfth is in the Ascendent shewing that he will have secret Enemies about his own House or Palace and that there will be many Seditions and Tumults raised against him by his own Subjects but they will not prevail against him but will be defeated in their Designs The Lord of the Eleventh is in square to the Lord of the Ascendent which will cause the Friends of the Native to prove deceitful to him Saturn Lord of the Ascendent posited in the Second shews the Native to use industry to increase his Substance and to inlarge his Territories but Saturn is an Infortune by Nature and by being posited in the Ascendent will rather destroy the Natives Substance and diminish his Empire the Dragons Tail in the Third makes his Inland Journies not to be very Fortunate therefore not much like to inlarge his Dominions by Land-Armies but Saturn must be spiteful though he be defeated of his Enterprise as the Moon is Combust so hath he been all his Life-time in Combustions and Troubles even from his Minority his Sea-Affairs seem more successful than his Land-Affairs do yet he hath had his Affairs by Sea often defeated by the Venetians which have taken sunk and burned many of his Ships and Galleys The Moon Lady of the seventh House the House of publick Enemies is stronger then Saturn Lord of the Ascendent shewing that he shall not prevail against them neither will his Enemies be apt to quarrel with him seeing the Moon Lady of the Seventh is in Sextile to Saturn Lord of the Ascendent but he disposing of the Moon in the Ascendent and in the Sign of the Ascendent makes him think that he can over-power the whole World and especially Christendom not considering the Moon is in her own Triplicity and in an Angle and therefore not to be prevailed against for though Mr. Holwel in his Appendix page the 25 th saith that the Turk is ordained within a few years to gain a great part of Christendom yet I do aver that according to the Rules of Astrology they shall not gain one foot of Land in Christendom but what they shall pay dear Sawce for let them have a care they lose none of their own for I would have Mr. Holwel as well as my Reader know that the influences of the Stars have not limited so short a continuance for the Christian Religion But the main thing that provoked this Emperor to give such an Alarm against Christendom in general and Vienna in particular are because about this time he had the Sun Moon and Ascendent directed to the Square of Mars and Germany being under Aries drew him with a vast Host that way supposing that Germany had been his own with little or no Resistance and so his Ambition was against Rome Italy France Spain and all Christendom but let not him boast that putteth on his Armour but he that puts it off But had Mr. Holwel rightly understood the Grounds of Astrology he might have rectified his Scheme by Accidents and he might easily have seen that there had been but little hope that the Sultan should gain Honour or enlarge his Territories about this time by the Sword nor need he have judged Vienna to be taken upon such Directions but that is like the rest of his nonsensical stuff I have wrought out the Directions of this Nativity and will acquaint you with some of them to shew thereby the truth of the Scheme and others what Fate the Grand Seignior is yet like to undergo In the year 1648. on the 17 th of August Ibrim Father of this present Emperor of the Turks was strangled in Prison and his Son Mahomet being not full seven years of age was proclaimed Emperor in his Fathers stead but he being in his Minority the Government was wholly left to his Mother who by the Advice of the Councel took on her the Regency he had then the Mid-heaven directed to the Sextile of the Sun and Moon when he was about nine years of age he had his Mid-heaven to the square of Mars then were Domestick Troubles as well as Loss by the Venetian War he was for the most part of his Life healthful of body but he hath often been unfortunate in War although he have had many good Directions of both the Sun Moon and Ascendent but the general fate of his Nativity and the many ill Directions of the Mid-heaven hath made him often unsuccesful in War At seventeen years of Age he took on him the Regency about which time he had his Ascendent Sun and Moon directed to the Anticians of Mars About twenty one years of age he had the Ascendent Sun and Moon to the Sextile of Mars then was great care taken for the carrying on the War both against Transilvania Hungary and Venice About the year 1669. came the Ascendent Sun and Moon to the Sextile of Venus and soon after to the body of Jupiter then was concluded Peace with the Venetians and he prevailed in War against the Polanders and he much delighted himself in Pleasures and Recreations but about the same time he had his Mid-heaven to the Conjunction of Mars and see the effects of it for in the year 1673. the Poles deny paying to the Turk their promised Tribute General Sobieski now King of Poland fell upon the Turks Camp then under the Command of Chusalin and other Bashaws killed about twenty five thousand of their Men with most of their Officers this was very considerable for besides the ordinary Baggage they took two thousand Purses of Money that were brought to pay the Souldiers and twenty five thousand Waggons of Provision and Ammunition and about this time he had the Mid-heaven to the square of Saturn Lord of his own Ascendent But since that time he hath had the Mid-heaven directed to the Conjunction of Venus and to the Sextile of Jupiter also the Sun Moon and Ascendent to the Sextile of Mercury which hath lifted up his heart with Pride but to abate his haughtiness in this year 1683.