diurnal motion is 8 10 12 or 14. m. He finisheth his course through the twelve signs of the Zodiack in 12. years Revolution Distant from the earth His distance from the earth is according to Tycho 3990 semidiameters yet Albotegnius and Alfraganus say 10423 semidiameters of the earth ♃ when well fortified and Lord of the year Iupiter when he is Lord of the year and well dignified the King shall do Justice and it shall be happy for those that are Noblemen Judges Councellors of the Law and men of all sorts of Religious Orders shall be in a successfull happy pleasant and good condition and shall live pleasantly and contentedly in honour and also great esteem and the people also shall be in a good and prosperous condition and shall receive good from their King and Superiors and they from the people and the year shall be healthy plentifull and good a temperate ayr rain fair weather and frost in due season c. When weak But if Iupiter be weak judge the contrary according to the strength of the affliction wherewith he is afflicted and impedited Humours Of Humours he is author of the Sanguine or best complexion moist temperate sound healthful c. Quality of men when well placed Quality of men in general this is to be understood as indeed most of the qualities and attributions aforesaid he signifies Judges Councellors all Ecclesiastical men both Priests and Levites Chancellors Lawyers or those that follow the Law from the highest to the lowest all Scholars and Students in general Clothyers Woollen-Drapers Quality of men when weak When he is weak he signifies Mountebanks Quack-salvers Empericks Cheaters Takers of Bribes c. Nature He is author of sobriety and temperance Corporature or shape of body He gives an upright strait tall stature brown ruddy and lovely complexion an oval visage plump high forehead soft hair large gray eyes brown hair and it thick and a strong well set body a short neck and usually a kinde of a black spot between his two fore-teeth and indeed throughout a hansom compleat body sober and grave in discourse and of a most noble disposition Oriental If he be Oriental the skin is usually more clear sanguine great eyes a more fleshy body c. Occidental If Occidental a pure complexion yet a more short stature a browner hair smooth not curling c. North latitude His greatest North latitude is 1. d. 38. m. South latitude His greatest South latitude is 1. d. 38. m. Qual of men He signifies Religious men Church men c. Savours Sweet delicious pleasant favours Colours He ruleth the ash-colour green blew purple green and a mixt yellow In man In man he ruleth the Liver Spice herbs and drugs Gilly-flowers Nutmegs Sugar Mace Cloves Straberries Flax and Bitony Balm Fumitory Lungwort Walwort Wild Marjoram Sweet Marjoram or Organy Pimpernel Rubarb Alheal Wheat Bazil Bugloss Borage St. Iohns-wort Laskwort Pyony Liquorish Violets Pomgranates Mint Mastix Saffron Dazy and Feverfew and all such herbs as are helpfull to obstructions of the Liver c. Trees The Almond-tree Hazel Fig-tree Olive-tree Oak Cherry-tree Ash Goosberry tree Pine-tree Coral-tree Pear-tree Birch-tree Ivy Vine Mulberry-tree c. Birds Of Birds he ruleth the Eagle Peacock Phesant Partridge Stock-dove Snipe Stork Lark Bees c. Stones The Topaz Amithest Marble Emrald Chrystal Saphir Hyacinth Bezoar Free-stone c. Minerals Tin Pewter c. Fisnes The Whale Serpent Dolphin c. Beasts The Sheep Unicorn Doe Hart Stag Ox Elephant and all such beasts as are beneficial and usefull to mankinde Places Churches neat and curious places Gardens Synods Courts of Justice Wardrobs Palaces sweet places Oratories Weather He commonly causeth pleasant healthfull weather serenity temperate ayr c. Winds He ruleth the North and North-east winds He ruleth of the Coelestial signs Sagittary and Pisces Sagittary by day Signs and Pisces by night the meaning thereof is that if Iupiter be significators in the Revolution of any year being by day and in Sagittary he is so much the more fortified in Pisces in a Nocturnal Revolution c. He ruleth the fiery triplicity by night so that if Iupiter be in the 20. d of Aries Triplicity or the 10. deg of Leo in any Diurnal Revolution he shall be accounted peregrine as not having any dignity there not being in his house exaltation term triplicity or face in a Nocturnal Revolution he had not been peregrine for then he hath triplicity in these signs Exaltation Detriment He is exalted in the 15. d. of Cancer He suffers detriment in Gemini and Virgo for that they are signs that are opposite to his Houses This you must observe in all the other Planets He is in his fall in the 15. d. of Capricorn â—all for that it is opposite to the sign of his exaltation so also note that all the Planets are in their fall in that sign which is opposite to their exaltations Age. Middle age or years of most perfect judgement and discretion His Angel is Zadkiel Angel His Friends are Saturn Sol Venus Friends Mercury and Luna His Enemy Mars only Enemies Day of the week Of the days of the week he ruleth Thursday and of the nights that which we call Sunday night Spain Hungaria Babylon Regions Cullen and Persia Orbe His Orbe is 9. d. before and after any of his Aspects Generation Years In generation he ruleth the second and ninth moneths His greatest years he gives are 428. His greater years are 79. His mean years are 45. His least years are 12. Iourneys In journeys when he is significator he denotes pleasant travel good success safety health and mirth Diseases Infirmities of the Liver Obstructions Plurisies Apoplexies inflamation of the lungs infirmities in the left ear palpitation of the heart cramps pains in the back all infirmities of the reins or proceeding from corruption of blood and putrefactions therein Squinzies windiness Feavers proceeding from abundance of blood all griefs in the head pulse seed arteries convulsions prickings and shootings in the body c. Stationary He is Stationary five days before retrogradation and four days before direction Retrograde He is Retrograde 120. days CHAP. III. Of the Nature and Signification of MARS The nature and complection of ♂ Globe of ♂ LIkewise after Iupiter or next under him is located Mars of whom we are now to treat he is of a fiery shining bloody colour or as you see the fire burning in its strength to our ordinary sight he is somewhat bigger then Saturn yet not so big as Iupiter but as a star of the first magnitude he is masculine and nocturnal or somewhat less and according unto Tycho he is 13. times less then the earth Albotegnius saith he is in comparison of
ridiculous as for a man to dislike contradict gainsay or condemn what he is ignorant of if thou hast no belief in these matters yet mayst thou benefit thy self thereby it is but thy pains in trying the conclusions if they fail then mayst thou on good ground condemn them if they hit thou reapest hereby a double benefit knowledge and experience wherefore by the way I thought good to hint at this that thou mayest not persist in thy ill conceit of this Heavenly Art of the Judgment of the stars Look my Lux Veritaâ—â—s or Astrology since thou mayst let it alone till thou beest urged by any Artist to have any esteem thereof though never so slight but to our business in hand Minerals Of Mettals or Minerals the Sun ruled gold Fishes The Sea-Calf whose Nature is to resist lightning Shel-fish the Star-fish for her parching heat and the fishes called Strombi that follow their King and Margari which have a King also these Margari being dryed are fixed into a stone of a golden colour as witnesseth Cornelius Agrippa Beasts All such Beasts as are stately bold strong and invicible as the Lion Crocodile Wolf Ram Boar Bull Horse and Baboon of the which it is Recorded that he barketh every hour in the day viz. twelve times in a day and that in the Equinoctial times of the year he pisseth twelve times viz every hour also as often in the night Gesner on Beasts pag. 10. Whence the Egyptians as Cornelius Agrippa and others Lib. 1. cap. 23. de Occult. Philos relate did use to engrave them on their Fountains Moreover the Aegyptians did use to preserve them amongst their hollowed things for that by them they knew the time of the Conjunction of Sol and Luna see Gesner of Beasts pag. 10. for after the aforesaid Conjunction the Male Baboon will neither look up nor eat but goes still dejected as it were lamenting the ravishment of the Moon with this disdainfull passion in like manner the Female at that time sendeth forth blood out of her womb of Conception for which cause the Egyptians signifie by a Baboon the Moon and her rising by his standing upright holding his hands up toward heaven Weather He causeth Weather according to the Season c. of the which more hereafter Places Princes Palaces Courts Houses all magnificent Buildings Halls Dining-rooms Parlers c. Winds He loveth and delighteth in the East part of the World and Eastern Winds Signs Of the Coelestial signs he ruleth for his house only Leo. Triplicity He ruleth by day the fiery Triplicity viz. Aries Leo and Sagittary He is exalted in Aries the 19. degree Exaltation He suffreth Detriment in Aquaries Detriment And Fall in Libra Fall Age. The strength of years His Angel is Michael Angel Friends His Friends are Iupiter Mars Venus Mercury and Luna His Enemy Saturn only Enemies Day of the week He ruleth Sunday of the days of the week and of the nights that which we call Wednesday night He ruleth the fourth Climate Italy Bohemia Sicilia Caldea Regions the Roman Empire Orbe Is 15. degrees before and after any Aspect Conception In conception he ruleth the fourth moneth His greatest years are 1640. Years Yet Bonatus and some others say but 461. His greater years are 120. His mean years are 69. His least years are 19. Iourneys In journeys he giveth good success Diseases He signifieth hot and dry Diseases palpitation of the heart infirmities of the eyes cramps soundings giddiness in the head diseases and infirmities of the mouth and brain Catharrs rotten Feavers c. The Sun is never Stationary Stationary Retrograde He moveth always direct in the Ecliptick and is never Retrograde CHAP. V. Of the Nature and Significations of VENVS The nature and complexion of ♀ I Come now to Venus who is next under Sol she is the lesser Fortune transparent bright and shining she is very well known by the Country people by the name of the Evening Star when she sets after the Sun and she is sometimes by them called the morning Star when she riseth before the Sun Feminine and Nocturnal And again by some she is called the Shepherds Star The globe of ♀ She is to our sight the biggest of all the Stars and Planets except Sol and Luna yet according to Tycho she is less then the earth six times Ptolomy Albotegnius and Alfraganus say 36. times c. Distant from the earth She is distant from the earth according to the same Ptolomie Albotegnins and Alfraganus 618. semidiameters of the earth but Tycho and Copernicus say 1150. Her mean motion is 59. m. 8. sec Mean and diurnal motion Her diurnal motion is sometimes 62. m. 64. m. 65. m. 66. m. 70. m. 74. m. or 76. m. but she never exceedeth 82. m. She finisheth her course through the twelve signs of the Zodiack in the same time the Sun doth Revolution or thereabouts When well fortified When she is Lady of the year in any Revolution and essentially dignified the year will be advantagious unto women who shall generally be free from infirmities and mischiefs they shall love and delight in the society of their Husbands shall be fruitfull easily conceive and bring forth the people shall also generally thrive and be prosperous shall delight themselves in recreations sports feastings mirth and jollities and all pleasure whatsoever also in fine apparel but if she be weak When ill placed judge the contrary Qualitie of men when well placed Musitians in general Gamesters and what Game soever it be Embroyderers Jewellers Linnen-Drapers Perfumers Picture-Drawers Ingravers Mercers Silk-men and all such Occupations as serve to the adorning of women c. Women Wives Mothers Virgins c. When ill placed or weak Fidlers Pipers ordinary Painters Seamsters Glovers Womens-Taylors Upholsterers c. She is author of voluptuousness and pleasure Corporature or shape of body A light brown hair smooth and much of it a mean stature a fair complexion tending to blackness lovely black eyes a round face having a Love-dimple in the chin a lovely mouth cherry lips extraordinary lovely and delightfull a pleasant taking countenance an exceeding well-shaped body throughout loving neatness spruceness trimming and the like lovely in all his gestures speaking softly and sweetly studious and solid in his deportment in all exercises of the body light and nimble When oriental When she is Oriental she gives a taller stature upright and straight not corpulent but decently composed Occidental When Occidental not so tall yet very comely and well-favoured North latitude Her greatest North latitude is 9. deg 2. min. South latitude Her South latitude at the most is no more Savours Delightfull pleasant toothsom sweet favours Colours Blew tending to white or white c. In man The Reins
the earth as seven is to six and Alfraganus saith Distant from the earth he is bigger then the earth by one half and distant 4584 semidiameters of the earth yet Tycho saith but 1745. Mean and Diurnal motion Revolution His mean motion is 31. d. 27. m. His Diurnal motion is sometimes 32 34 36 38 40 42 44. m. a day He finisheth his course through the 12. signs of the Zodiack in one year 321 days or thereabouts ♂ when well fortified When he is Lord of the year strong and well placed all such as belong to arms as souldiers and the like shall be fortunate and in good condition and shall overcome their enemies there shall be also during that Revolution sufficient and plenty of rain and at such times and no other as is convenient and requisite and the people shall be prosperous and happy but if he be weak judge the contrary and that the good or evil by him portended When ill placed shall be chiefly incident to those Places and Regions subject to the sign wherein he is Humours He is author of anger haste choler and ruleth these dispositions in man hot fiery and dry Qualities of men when well placed Conquerours Usurpers Tyrants Generals of Armies and all Souldiers in general Physitians Apothecaries Chirurgions Alchymists Marshalls Butchers Gunners Watch-makers Barbers Armourers and all such as use Iron tools Curriers Tannes Gamesters Dyers Carpenters Cooks Cutlers Taylors Smiths Bakers c. When ill placed Nature Corporature or shape of body When he is ill placed and not strong he denotes hangmen thieves bayliffs sergeants cutters by the high-way murtherers jaylors and all cut-throat people He is author of passion extravagancy heat and choler Red-haired a red face and round a fiery sparkling eye yet tending to a saffronish colour of stature neither high nor low but between both I have still observed that a right Martialist doth seldom exceed in height or to be at the most above a yard and a half high a bold confident countenance and it most commonly very harsh strong and big-boned seldom fat When oriental When Oriental he is somewhat above the middle size and hairy-bodied and a purer complexion then hath been already rehearsed When occidental When Occidental he is ruddy and not so tall a little head and not so hairy-bodied yellowish hair and of a drier constitution North latitude His greatest North latitude is 4. d. 31. m. South latitude His South latitude is 6. deg and 47. m. Savours Sharp bitter and unpleasant Colours Red yellow or saffron colour In man He rules the back veins gall Herbs and spice All such herbs as are hot and dry and such as have sharp-pointed leaves and are red they usually grow on dry places and such as are barren and hard stony places the thistle Devils-milk brambles briers nettles cammock onions lingwort radish arsmart mustard-seed ginger pepper garlick hemlock red sanders tamerindes castoreum Carduus benedictus or the blessed Thistle horehound leeks Trees All Trees that are thorny or prickly Birds The Hawk Kite Raven Vulture Owl Cormorant Crow Mag-pie and all ravenous birds or birds of prey c. Stones Blood-stone Load-stone Jasper Touch-stone Adamant the Amethist of divers colours Minerals Iron Steel Arsenick Antimony Brimstone and red Vermillion Fishes The Shark Pike Barbel Fork-fish all stinging Water-Serpents and hurtfull Fish Beasts The Mastiff Wolf Tyger Cockatrice Panther and all such beasts as are ravenous and bold Weather Thunder lightning fiery-meteors pestilential ayr and in it strange apparitions c. Places All places that are appertaining to fire and blood as slaughter-houses Furnaces Smiths shops c. Winds He ruleth and causeth Western winds Signs Of the Coelestial signs he ruleth Aries and Scorpio He hath Triplicity or Rule over the watry Triplicity or Trygon viz. these signs Triplicity which are Cancer Scorpio and Pisces he hath absolute dominion therein both night and day yet some of the Antients do joyn with him the Moon c. He hath exaltation in Capricorn in the 28. deg Exaltation He suffereth detriment in Libra and Taurus Detriment He is in his Fall in the 28. deg of Cancer Fall Age. From 22. till 45. Samael Angel His Enemie is the Moon only Enemies His Friends are Saturn Jupiter Sol Venus and Mercury Friends Day of the week Of the days of the week he ruleth Tuesday and of the nights that night we vulgarly call Friday night Jerusalem the Roman Empire even to the West Regions c. Orbe His Orbe is seven degrees before and after any Aspect Years His greatest years are 214. His greater years are 66. His mean years are 40. His least years are 15. In journeys he portends thieving sacking robbing slaying much danger or hurts viz. to the Traveller if Mars be significator and weak and ill-placed Journeys c. of the which more hereafter in our Treatise of Elections Diseases Feavers and those burning contagious and pestilential Megrims overflowing of the Gall Phrenzies the Plague distempers through the whole body Shingles Fistulaes Stone in the reins yellow Jaundies and all such diseases as proceed from excess of Choler Passion and Anger all diseases proceeding from the Gall Putrefaction of blood c. Stationary He is Stationary two or three days before Retrogradation and two days before direction Retrograde He is Retrograde 80. days CHAP. IV. Of the Nature and Significations of the SVN LEt us descend now unto the Sun We are by Gods blessing come now to the Sun which is successively next to be treated on he is under Mars placed in the midst of all the Planets being the chief light and president of them all sitting as a Judge or King amongst his Nobles The order of the Planets for as Saturn Jupiter and Mars is placed above his sphear so are Venus Mercury and Luna beneath him wherefore some of the Antients have ascribed to him chief rule and made him as it were an Emperor amongst the Stars Saturn is his Vice-roy for that all Planets give unto him their light or do homage and reverence unto him by reason of his slowness Jupiter hath assigned him chief rule and dominion in the Realm for that he is of a temperate sober good honest and religious inclination Mars is his chief Captain or General of all his Forces Venus is Receiver or Master-Comptroller of his house by reason she is nearer Sol then any other Mercury hath assigned him chief Secretary of State by reason when the King goeth any Progress or Journey he goeth and when the King stayeth so doth also Mercury for he is never far from his beck Luna is his Standard-bearer being furthest from him she is also as I may say Embassador Messenger c. to do his business The fixed Stars of several
and Mule the Hare Civet-cat Squirrel Spider Pismire the Hyaena c. Weather He must principally be observed the sign he is in and season of the year but usually he causes rain hail-storms sometimes thunder and lightning according to the nature of the Planets in configuration with him of the which more hereafter Winds He delighteth in the Northern Quarter of Heaven yet commonly he causeth such winds as are signified by the Planet to which he applies Places Schools Common-hals Tennis-Courts Fairs Ordinaries Markets Bowling-Allies Tradesmens-shops in a gentlemans-house his Hall c. Studies Libraries Signs Of the Coelestial signs he hath for his houses which he ruleth Gemini and Virgo Triplicity He ruleth the Aëry Triplicity by night viz. Gemini Libra and Aquaries He is exalted in Virgo the 15. degree Exaltation He suffreth Detriment in Sagittary and Pisces Detriment His Fall is in the 15. deg of Pisces Fall Age. From 7. to 14. Raphael Angel His Enemies are Mars Sol and Luna Enemies His Friends are Jupiter Friends Venus and Saturn He ruleth Wednesday Day of the week and that night we call Saturday night Flanders Graecia Aegypt Regions and Indies both East and West Orbe His Orbe is seven degrees before and after any Aspect In conception He ruleth the sixth moneth His greatest years are 450. Years His greater years are 76. His mean years are 48. His least years are 20. Journeys In Journeys he is according as he placed and in Aspect with the other Planets Diseases Vertigo's Lethargies Madness Frensies Diseases of the brain Ptisick Stammerings Defects in the memory Hoarsness Dry-cough the Hand and Feet-gout all imperfections in the Fancy Stationary He is Stationary one day before Retrogradation and one day before direction Retrograde He is Retrograde 24. days CHAP. VII Of the Nature and Significations of the MOON MY Intentions are now to treat of the lowermost of all the Planets and next unto the earth which is the Moon she is Feminine and Nocturnal The nature and complexion of ☽ her colour is so vulgarly known that it were superfluous or needless here to relate since our intentions and scope of our writings are to inform the ignorant and illiterate of what they as yet are ignorant of she is the biggest of Planets to our outward sight except the Sun nay and it is hardly discernable externally which of the two is the greater but this is by reason of their nearness unto our sight whence in Genesis she is called one of the two great lights which is to be understood as in relation to our sight But according to Tycho Globe of ☽ is 42. times less then the earth Ptolomie saith 39. times and Copernicus 43. times And according to Tycho she is less then Sol 5848. times Comparison of ☉ Ptolomie saith 6348. times and Copernicus 7000. times Distant from the earth And distant from the earth according to Tycho 60. semidiameters at her greatest elongation in her least elongation but 52. semidiameters Ptolomie saith 64. semidiameters her least 34. and her mean 49. Copernicus saith her greatest 68. her least 52. and her mean 60. Nature of ☽ She is neither fortunate nor unfortunate but as she is placed and in configuration with either the Fortunes or Malevolents she is most powerfull in operation of all the other Planets on Elementary bodies by reason of their proximity to us and her swiftness by which she transfers the light and influence of all the Superiors to us by her configuration with them Mean motion Her mean motion is 13. deg 10. min. 36. sec Diurnal She never exceedeth 15. deg 2. minutes in one day Revolution She finisheth her course through the 12. signs of the Zodiack in 27. days hours and 45. minutes or thereabouts Moon Lady of the year and strong in any Revolution ☽ When well placed denotes there shall be no want of rain in its due season both former and latter men shall be generall healthy fortunate safe and punctual in all their actions and promises especially if she be in reception with her dispositor or good Aspect therewith c. but if she be then weak and unfortunate you are to judge the contrary When ill placed One of a palish whitish colour round face gray-eyes yet having a kind of a lowring or cloudish eye-brow very hairy fleshie and plump of a large stature corpulent and well set Oriental When Oriental she inclineth more to fatness Occidental When Occidental not so well set Her greatest North latitude is 5. deg 17. sec or neer upon North latitude Her greatest South latitude is 5. deg 12. sec or neer upon Quality of men She signifieth common people Savours Fresh watrish tastes or such as one can hardly say what taste it is of Colours Silver-colour white a pale-green and a pale yellow In man She ruleth the Flegmatick humour the brain all watrish and excrementitious humours the left eye and the right eye of a woman her menstrues c. Sea tangle Lunaria or the Moon-herb Hysope Rosemary Agnus-castus Herbs the herb Chinosta Pompion Melon Muskmelon Gourd Cucumber Colwort Cabbidge Endive Mushrooms Poppy Lintseed Rapeseed and all such herbs as turn towards the Moon and increased and decrease as she doth Trees and Plants The Plam-tree for that it sends forth a twig every time the Moon riseth and all such trees and plants as participate or sympathize with her and are juicy and full of sap Birds Goose Swan Duck Divedapper Moor-hen and all Fowl using the water Night-owl Night-raven Bat c. Stones All stones that are white and green the Marchasite the Chrystal the Senenite and soft stones Minerals Silver Aelurus Fishes whose eyes increase aand decrease according to the course of the Moon all fish of the like nature the Tortoise the Echeneis Crab Oister Lobster Cockle Muscle and all shel-fish also the Eele c. Beasts Such Beasts as use and delight in water as the Otter c. and such as sympathize any wise with the Moon as the Camelion Dog Hog Frog Hind Goat Baboon Panther Cat the Civet Cat all monstrous Beasts Mice Rats c. Of the Baboons passions I forbear here to speak since you have had it related in the 4. chapter being caused by the secret influence of Sol and Luna Places Fountains Fields Sea-Ports High-ways Rivers Deserts Pools Fish-Ponds Bogs Brooks Docks Springs Common-shores Wharffs c. Weather According to her configuration with the other Planets viz with Saturn cold moyst and clowdy weather with Jupiter heart and temperate ayr with Mars wind and clouds with the Sun according to the time of the year with Venus showres with Mercury wind and rain Wind. She usually causeth that wind signified by the Planet she
the Ground-work or Reasons thereof for the benefit of the Students therein delivered the better to confirm them in every point thereof as also to satisfie such who shall either enviously or ignorantly traduce or cavil against it By VVILLIAM RAMESEY Gent. Student in Astrology Physick and the most Heavenly and Sublime Sciences Job 38.31 32 33. An constringes delicias Pleiadum aut lora Orionis dissolves induces ne remotiora signa quodque tempore suo aut Arcturum cum filiis suis duces An cognoscis de statutis Coeli an disponere potes dominium ejus in terra c. LONDON Printed for R. VV. 1653. HONORATISSIMO DOMINO NON MINVS VIRTVTE SVA QVAM GENERIS SPLENDORE INSIGNI ILLUSTRISSIMO WILHELMO SEYMOVR MARCHIONI ET COMITI DE HARTFORD DOMINO IN SEYMOVR BEAVCHAM c. Salutem Felicitatem Perpetuam DOMINO SUO MVLTIS NOMINIBVS OBSERVANDO HANC SUAM AD ASTROLOGIAM INTRODVCTIONEM SUBMISSE DEDICAT Wilhelmus Rameseus TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND Truly Noble both for Learning and Parts VVilliam Seymour Marquess and Earl of HARTFORD Lord SEYMOVR and BEAVCHAM c. Right Honourable SHould I have least hope of merit from your Honour by this my Dedication Having never had the happiness to appear in your Honours presence I should render my self both weak and presumptuous but my comfort is I write to a Person of Honour Learning and Parts who is of that Magnanimity that he will not despise the smallest gift or the meaness of the Giver or the first for the unworthiness of the last Artaxerxes King of Persia disdained not the water a poor man as he saw him pass by brought from a River in his hand and gave him but received it with a smiling countenance not measuring the grace of the Gift according to the value of the Present but according to the good Will and intent of the Giver accounting it no less an act of Magnanimity and Kingly bounty to take small Presents in good part then to give greater And truly though this my mite may seem small proceeding from so mean a hand as my own Yet let me say thus much of this Science which is the chief of these we call Liberal together with ASTRONOMY PHYSICKS and NATVRAL PHILOSOPHY which make up all but one intire Science and of themselves are but parts thereof And not only Aristotle but also all other Ancient and Authentick Writers as doth more appear in the first Book of this Volume as witnesseth Aristotle Lib. 2. Cap. 2. Phis as also further in his Metaphis 6. and 12. and 1. Pol. Cap. 7. and in his 2. De Coelo Text 17. and Lib. De Proprietat element lib. de Mundo cap. 9. and in his 4. De Generatione Animimalium Cap. 10. using in all his Writings indifferently the Name of ASTROLOGER and ASTRONOMER and ASTROLOGER and PHILOSOPHER for one and the same for the Contemplaters of Nature in and by this Science are of all Philosophers the chiefest and this Antiquity maketh plain unto us as testifieth the most Ancientest Historiographers who Record that the Priests and Kings amongst the EGYPTIANS the CHALDEANS among the BABYLONIANS the GYMNOSOPHYSTS among the INDIANS the MAGICIANS among the PERSIANS the chief PHILOSOPHERS of GREECE and ITALY and the DRUIDES of FRANCE were all ASTROLOGERS and esteemed by these Nations as the wisest men And therefore fore I say as it is a part of the chiefest of the Liberal Sciences so hath it been still in high esteem amongst the Nobler and Graver sort of People and the more refined Souls in all Ages especially amongst the Chaldeans Egyptians Assyrians Lacedemonians Sydonians Indians Persians Greeks and Arabians for amongst the Egyptians it was not Lawfull for any man to take the Function of Priest-hood on him except he were an ASTROLOGER neither could any be chosen King except he were of the Colledge of the Priests And Rodiginus reporteth that for the prevention of Treason the Nativities of all Infants born therein was brought to the King to be judged on and Dion recordeth the same to be practised by the Emperour Tyberius and in the Prophesie of Daniel we may see that the Monarchs of Babylon attempted nothing of importance without first asking Councel of the Caldeans And the Kings of Lacedemonia suffered none to sit in their Councels but who were Astrologers And amongst the Persians none was admitted to the Crown but who were excellently skilled in ASTROLOGY Wherefore my LORD since this is an ART that hath ever been esteemed amongst the Nobler Wiser Greater Ingeniouser and the most refined Spirits of the World from Age to Age and chiefly Studied Maintained and Upheld by them I humbly presumed to Dedicate this Introductory Part unto your Honour since all these Properties are Naturally Inherent in your Noble Self for tâ—ue Nobility is the fittest Patron for such Noble SCIENCES neither are they fit to be offered to any but who are really such it surpassing the reach of the ordinary capacity of the World so that my LORD my hope is that if not for the Wel-wishes and Honour the Presenter thereof beareth to your Lordship nor the Antiquity and Excellency of the Thing presented yet your Honour will accept thereof out of the Munificence of your own Innate Magnanimity it being sufficient honour for me to acknowledge my self MY LORD Your HONOURS Most Humble Servant William Ramesey To the Reader HAving before in the First Book sufficiently proved and shewn the validity excellency certainty and legality of this Noble Science and vindicated it from all its aspersions it resteth now I shew thee the grounds and reasons of the Art viz. the Number of the Signs their Names and Natures the Dignities Number and Names of the Planets and the Reasons of all these and what is else most expedient and necessary to be known that thou mayst not be to seek but be sufficiently enabled to answer all opposers and gainsayers thereof in which thou hast also a plain and easie Introduction to the whole Art wherefore thou oughtest to be very well skilled and perfect in every point and part contained in this Book before thou venturest to proceed to the two other subsequent Treatises for otherwise thou shalt never be able to apprehend them the which contrariwise if thou art perfect in this will prove very easie unto thee wherefore that it might be so I have in this place prefixed it Let the benefit be thine or no I am sure the Pains and Labour hath been mine yet now I rest Thy Loving Friend William Ramesey The Contents of every Chapter contained in the Second BOOK being an Introduction to the Iudgement of the STARS CHAP. 1. OF the names and number of the Planets with their several Characters and signification and Nature of Saturn Fol. 49. Chap. 2. Of the signification and Nature of Jupiter Fol. 52 Chap. 3. Of the signification and Nature of Mars Fol. 54 Chap. 4. Of the signification and Nature of the Sun Fol. 56 Chap. 5.
applies unto Signs Of the Coelestial signs she hath but one for her house viz. Cancer Triplicity Her Triplicity is the earthy Triplicity which she ruleth by night viz. Taurus Virgo and Capricorn Her Exaltation is in Taurus the 3. degree Exaltation She suffers detriment in Capricorn Detriment Fall in Scorpio 3. degree Fall Age. Infancy till seven years of Age. Gabriel Angel Her Enemies are Saturn and Mars Enemies Her Friends are Jupiter Friends Sol Venus and Mercury Day of the week Of the days of the week she ruleth Monday and that night we commonly call Thursday night Denmark Regions Holland Zealand Flanders Norinberge Orb. Her Orbe is twelve degrees before and after any Aspect Years Her greatest years are 320. Her greater years are 108. Her mean years are 66. Her least years are 25. In conception In conception she ruleth the seventh moneth Journeys According as she is strong or weak strengthened or debilitated Diseases Megrims Frenzies Apoplexies Vertigoes Wind-Cholick Diseases in the bladder Testicles and left-side and in the liver of women and members of Generation Menstrues Fluxes cold Rhumes Belchings cold stomack hurts in the left eyes of men and right of women Sciatica Surfets Coughs Convulsions Falling-sickness Aposthumes small Pox Measles and the Kings-evil Stationary She is never stationary Retrograde Nor Retrograde but when she goeth less then 13. deg in 24. hours she is accompted equivalent to a Planet retrograde but in her own proper motion she ever moveth direct forward CHAP. VIII Of the Essential Dignities of the Planets I Have already shewed the Natures and Significations of the Planets I am come now to shew their essential Dignities without the which there can no part of this Art be understood or indeed by any wise beneficial wherefore it is necessary that all the Students herein warily observe their Fortitudes and Debilities in any part of their works to which end they must be exceeding well skilled herein which that they may diligently study to do I will God inabling me cordially and sincerely to the full here relate When a Planet is essentially dignified or fortified A Planet then is said to be essentially strong or in essential Dignities when he is in his own House Exaltation Triplicity Term or Face How these are assigned to every Planet you may see by this Table following though there hath been much dissention therein amongst the Ancients with the which if thou agree not I hope thou art not hurt hereby since thou hast liberty to follow what Authors thou pleasest A Table of the essential Dignities of the Planets according to Ptolomie Signs Houses of the Planets Exalations Triplicities D. N. The terms of the Planets The Faces of the Planets Detriment Fall ♈ ♂ D ☉ 19 ☉ ♃ ♃ 6 ♀ 14 ☿ 21 ♂ 26 ♄ 30 ♂ 10 ☉ 20 ♀ 30 ♀ ♄ ♉ ♀ N ☉ 3 ♀ ◠♀ 8 ☿ 15 ♃ 22 ♄ 26 ♂ 30 ♀ 10 ☽ 20 ♄ 30 ♂  ♊ ☿ D ☊ 3 ♄ ☿ ☿ 7 ♃ 14 ♀ 21 ♂ 25 ♄ 30 ♃ 10 ♂ 20 ☉ 30 ♃ ☋ ♋ ♄ N D ♃ 15 ♂ ♂ ♂ 6 ♃ 13 ☿ 20 ♀ 27 ♄ 30 ♀ 10 ☿ 20 ☽ 30 ♄ ♂ ♌ ☉ N D   ☉ ♃ ♄ 6 ♀ 13 ♂ 19 ♀ 25 ♂ 30 ♄ 10 ♃ 20 ♂ 30 ♄  ♠☿ N ♀ 15 ♀ ☽ ☿ 7 ♀ 13 ♃ 18 ♄ 24 ♂ 30 ☉ 10 ♀ 20 ☿ 30 ♃ ♀ ♎ ♀ D ♄ 21 ♄ ☿ ♄ 6 ♀ 11 ☿ 19 ♃ 24 ♂ 30 ☽ 10 ♄ 20 ♃ 30 ♂ ☉ ♠♂ N  ♂ ♂ ♂ 6 ♀ 14 ♃ 21 ☿ 27 ♄ 30 ♂ 10 ☉ 20 ♀ 30 ♀ ☽ ♠♃ D ☋ 3 ☉ ♃ ♃ 8 ♀ 14 ☿ 19 ♄ 25 ♂ 30 ☿ 10 ☽ 20 ♄ 30 ☿ ☊ ♑ ♄ N ♂ 28 ♀ ☽ ♀ 6 ☿ 12 ♃ 19 ♄ 25 ♂ 30 ♃ 10 ♂ 20 ☉ 30 ☽ ♃ ♒ ♄ D   ♄ ☿ ♄ 6 ☿ 12 ♀ 20 ♃ 25 ♂ 30 ♀ 10 ☿ 20 ☽ 30 ☉  ♓ ♃ N ♀ 27 ♂ ♂ ♀ 8 ♃ 14 ☿ 20 ♂ 25 ♄ 30 ♄ 10 ♃ 20 ♂ 30 ☿ ☿ The Vse of the Table IN the first Column you have ♈ ♉ ♊ c. under each other to the end of the signs over them is written signs intimating all these beneath are the Characters of the signs In the next Column to signs you have written the Houses of the Planets under which you see ♀ D. over against it on the left hand is ♈ and under ♂ D. you have ♀ N. and over against her on the left hand ♉ intimating no more but this that ♈ is ♂ his day house signified by D. and ♉ is ♀ her night house signified by N. and so all along underneath you have declared what sign properly belongeth to every Planet In the next column you see written Exaltations under it and over against ♈ you finde ☉ 19. and under him over against ♉ you see ☽ 3. which is ☉ in the 19. degree of ♈ is in the very point of his exaltation and ☽ in the 3. degree of ♉ and so of the rest In the next column you see Triplicities and under is D. N. under D. N. you have ☉ ♃ ☉ under D. and ♃ under N. and over against ♈ so also over against ☊ in the same column you see ☉ ♃ and again over against ♠which shews no more but that the ☉ hath triplicity in the Day signified by D. in these three fiery signs or Triplicity and ♃ in the night signified by N. so you may see ♀ and ☽ rule the earthy Triplicity ♀ by day ☽ by night ♄ and ☿ the aëry ♂ the watry only wherefore you finde ♂ both under D. and N. shewing that both night and day he ruleth the watry Trygon In the next column and over against ♈ you see ♃ 6. and in the next column ♀ 14. and next unto her over against ♈ still you finde ☿ 21. c. and over their heads you have written The terms of the Planets the meaning whereof is that ♃ in the first 6. degrees of ♈ hath terms ♀ from 6. to 14. hath terms ☿ from 14. to 21. hath terms c. and so in order of the rest In the tenth column over against ♈ you finde ♂ 10. ☉ 20. and ♀ 30. over their heads The faces of the Planets which is ♂ in the first 10. degrees of ♈ hath a face ☉ from 10. to 20. degrees and ♀ from 20. to 30. degrees mark this all along in the rest In the thirteenth column you finde ♀ over against ♈ and under her ♂ over against ♉ next ♃ over against ♊ and over all written Detriment intimating ♀ in ♈ ♂ in ♉ ♃ in ♊ are in detriment viz. in houses that are opposite to their own whereby they are debilitated or suffer detriment or damage and so you may see of all the rest of the Planets In the
not infortunate in the Revolution of the years of the World for that year which you have bin taught is the Radix of your Work have also a special care that you bring not your Radix backward viz. from the ascendent to the second but rather forward viz. to the twelfth and see that the Lord of your ascendent be not Occidental especially if the Moon be joyned with him Of the significations of Saturn with the Sun or Moon in the ascendent in Elections Know also that the Sun in the ascendent is not good as hath been said except he be in Leo or Aries the Sun in the ascendent with Saturn hindreth the business in Election and causeth an end with much labour and difficulty Saturn with the Moon in the ascendent signifieth much sadness long and tedious diseases mischief and death evil from Kings and great men loss of substance and kindred friends and companions Jupiter with the Sun in the ascendent signifieth sadness grief and little good and change out of one place into another with the Moon he signifieth many waters Of Jupiter and young children concubines marriage and honours Mars with the Sun in the ascendent signifieth also much grief and dammage by enemies small friendship from friends destruction and sudden death by iron or fire Of Mâ—â—â— with the Moon he denotes power and strength for mischief and deceit Venus with the Sun in the ascendent signifieth much pain and travel Of Venus discords and accusations by friends and alliance also the appurtinances of women with the Moon she denotes health and safety of the body gain also and profit by women c. Mercury in the Ascendent with the Sun also signifieth grief and sadness Of Mercury with the Moon he signifieth many imployments and occasions and that often with friends and alliance The Moon in the ascendent with the Sun signifieth destruction Of the Moon mischief grief and trouble instability also and griefs in the eyes c. but the knowledge of these is more for curiosity then practice or use in my opinion Also have a care in businesses of continuance of movable signs in such as require haste of fixed and in such as are indifferent prefer common signs as hath been said still remembring that according to the business in hand and agitation a sign must accordingly viz. of its nature be chosen and thus much shall suffice for the first chapter being introductory therefore let us now proceed CHAP. II. Of the signs and their significations in Elections and of the hinderances of the Moon being a farther instruction to the judging of Elections LIke as I have promised I shall for the better instruction of the Students herein be in this Chapter somewhat more large in delivering the significations of the signs and how they are to be chosen in electing any manner of work Of the signification of the moveable signs in elections Know then that movable signs as are Aries Cancer Libra and Capricorn signifie and denote mutation and alteration of things and that they shall be of short continuance wherefore in Planting Sowing Graffing and in buying and selling they are to be chosen and if any one fall sick in these signs viz. when they are in the ascendent or bearing rule otherways the sick party shall either soon die or soon recover and whoso flieth or taketh a journey at such a time shall be soon taken or return and the promise made or any other thing then began shall soon come to an end and be speedily performed news or reports are at this time uncertain and most commonly false Of the signification of the fixed signs in Elections Then look that you begin not any work you would have continue at such a time but in such affairs elect the fixed signs which are Taurus Leo Scorpio and Aquaries for in all things these make a continuance and prolong time wherefore in building it is good to elect these signs also marriages or any such thing as you would have continue if voyages or journies be taken in them they cannot be good except there be many testimonies of the Fortunes and if any one be at such time taken prisoner his inlargement shall be protracted and this I can testifie upon my own knowledge and who so shall incur the anger and displeasure of any one shall never be more in that parties favour Of the signification of the common signs in Elections The common signs such as are Gemini Virgo Sagittary and Pisces are to be preferred in such businesses as you would have of no long continuance nor yet soon at an end for they are neither movable nor fixed but common between both wherefore that house founded or what ever it be that is then began shall not long continue wherefore in such it is good to purifie gold and silver or to put children to School or any other learning and it advantageth in all such businesses as do admit of a medium or indifferency c. But note the Moon doth never good in the ascendent unless when well fortified and in good aspecâ— or upheld by the fortunes But to elect any business beforementioned or any other in the like nature put the Moon in the ascendent in a convenient sign viz. both agreeing to your business in nature and continuance and make her apply to a fortune with reception in a sign also of the same nature if possible if it be in the day see that your signs be diurnal or the day-houses of the Planets and so on the contrary if it be in the night time for so much the better will your business succeed To insist longer hereon were but vain wherefore let us proceed c. In this manner of work viz. Electing a good and fitting time for the acting or doing of any business you must have a special regard to the Moon Note and that she be nowise impedited or afflicted for as all the ancient Rabies in this Art do testifie there are ten ways whereby the Moon may be impedited wherefore since it is a thing so necessary I shall here plainly insert them The ten impâ—ditions of the Moon First then the Moon may be impedited by being in combustion of the Sun and even when she is twelve degrees distant from his body either before or after or more plainly applying to or separating from him but you must note she is not so much afflicted when she is separated as when she is applying In the next place the Moon may be impedited when she is in the degree of her fall viz. in the third degree of Scorpio Note still that your infortunes are the impediting â—anâ—rs as in relation to your business not Saturn and Mars as you have heard in the first chapter Thirdly she may and is impedited when she is in Opposition of the Sun Fourthly when joyned with infortunes or in Quartile or Opposition of them Fifthly the Moon is impedited when she
which he hath also three dignities which makes with the other four seven then if we examine yet farther what face the cusp is in it being in the first ten degrees of the sign we shall finde it to be Mars his for the which he hath one dignity assigned him which together with the aforesaid five makes six and no more hence then I am to conclude the Sun to be Lord of the year being Almuten of the ascenden or the Planet bearing most dominion therein whose dignities you see were seven yet Mars shall be joyned in judgement with him but still the Sun shall be chief Dominator or Significator whether of good or evil according to their strength or debility as you have already sufficiently been informed yet because I desire that the Students in this Science should be well verst in their Rules I shall yet further deliver some Instructions touching the condition of such things signified by the Lord of the year in any Revolution by the signification of his Nature place in the Heavens and his configurations with the other planets and I hope to give you any more examples in this matter being so plain in this one wherefore then we shall to our business in hand CHAP. V. Of the Significations of the seven Celestial Planets when any of them is Lord of the Year whether Fortunated or Impedited and of the Aspects of the other Planets with them DElivering unto you the Rules of the Ancients for knowing of the Lord of the year in the preceding Chapter I have fully declared unto you the general denotation of the Lord of the year when well or ill dignified or disposed in any Revolution to which I shall only add these two or three words and proceed to the signification of every particular Planet when Lord of the year and Fortunate or afflicted If the Lord of the year be beheld by his Dispositor viz. the Planet in whose house or sign he is in any Revolution and free from Impediment for if so the People under that Revolution shall be in a good condition quiet secure at peace and tranquility also joyfull and pleasant If the Lord of the year be not impedited and not beheld by his Dispositor or if he be impedited and aspected by him judge their condition to be between both viz what you have heard and what follows For if he be impedited and behold him not they shall be sad solitary fearfull shall be molested with War Trouble and Anxiety for thou shalt judge the clean contrary to what thou hast heard Judge this also according to the Nature of the house wherein the Lord of the year is for if he be in the Ascendent judge as you have but now heard if in the second the good or evil signified shall happen to the signification of the second house as to the Peoples substance assistants and friends c. according as you have been taught in the former Chapter and other places in this Treatise Of ♄ when Lord of the year and fortified Now then to our business if Saturn be Lord of the year and well dignified the People shall that year or during that Revolution build and erect houses shall make many alterations in Fabricks shall abound in all things the earth shall be fruitfull and the People shall be in esteem and honoured by all their neighbours and the husbandmen shall exceedingly increase their Store and Wealth and be successfull in all their labours ♄ Lord of the year and weak But if Saturn be Lord of the year and weak or afflicted there shall be much cold great and grievous infirmities and men shall sustain much sorrow losses and crosses and great dammage by storms wind and rain but this must warily be considered if other Significators of Weather concur and then mayst thou assuredly conclude it to be so Ancient and old men and women shall die and these things shall chiefly happen to those Places Cities and Regions under Saturn his Dominion and the Dominion of the sign which he doth then possess ♃ when Lord of the year other strong or weak When Jupiter is Lord of the year and strong and well dignified the King shall do Justice and it shall be happy for those that are Noble men Judges Councellors of the Law and men of all sorts of Religious Orders shall be in a successfull happy pleasant and good condition and shall live plenteously and contentedly in honour and also great esteem and the People also shall be in a good and prosperous condition and shall receive good from their King and Superiors and they from the People also if the Lord of the Ascendent of the Moon be in reception with the Significator of the King or Lord of the year or be located in the mid-heaven but if Jupiter be weak or afflicted judge the contrary to all what you have heard in every particular which I omit to rehearse for brevities sake ♂ When Lord of the year either strong or weak Mars when he is Lord of the year strong and well placed all such as belong to Arms as Souldiers and the like shall be fortunate and in good condition and shall overcome their enemies there shall be also during that Revolution sufficient and plenty of rain as such times and no other it is convenient and requisite and the People shall be prosperous and happy but if he be Lord of the year and weak c. judge the contrary and you must remember still in the judging the good or evil portended by him and also all the rest of the Planets it shall chiefly happen in those places and Regions subject to his or their Dominion which you have been at large shewn in the second or Introductory Treatise The Sun when Lord of the year either strong or weak If in any Revolution you finde the Sun Lord of the year and well dignified the King and Nobles shall exceed and increase in glory and renown Corn Beasts and Birds shall be plentifull the people generally prosperous and successfull and all things in a good condition whereof the Sun hath any signification if weak judge the contrary Venus when Lady of the year either strong or weak When you find Venus Lady of the yeare and wel and fortunatly disposed the year will be successful and advantagious unto women who shall be free generally from Infirmities and mischances they shall love and delight themselves in the society and company of their Husbands shall be fruitfull easily conceive and bring forth their Children the People shall also generally thrive and be prosperous shall delight themselves in Recreations sports feastings mirth and jollities and all pleasure whatsoever they desire shall feast make Marriages and delight to go neat and fine in apparel if she be weak and impedited she denotes the contrary Mercury when Lord of the year either strong or weak Mercury signifies when he is Lord of the year and strong that Merchants Trades-men and all
any annual Revolution whether he be Lord of the Year or no. Mars in the first HAving done with the significations of Iupiter it follows now we come to Mars and his significations who if he be in the first House in any Revolution and strong whether he be Lord of the year or no shews that the People of that Country shall gain and be advantaged by wars or slaughters and shall overcome their Enemies during that Revolution but if he be weak they shall disagree and fall out one among another and shall beat draw blood and wound one another for which cause much evil and damage shall happen unto them Mars in the second If Mars be in the second House at the time of any Revolution or Ingress of the Sun into Aries and strong he denotes many thefts rapines and robberies and cozening and cheating of one another those also that are intrusted with money or goods of any one shall be false and deceitful and the People generally shall be driven to want and be perplexed with taxations and tributes Mars in the third But if he be in the third men shall not associate themselves with their neighbours and kindred but instead of being friends hate and envy one another Mars in the fourth Also if he be in the fourth he sends his vigorous heat and malice to all the other Planets so that if he be in a fiëry sign he dryes up and scorches the earth and causeth great mischief by fire also mortalities if the sign be humane he causeth many slaughters and effusion of blood quarrels and war and that chiefly in or towards the latter end of the year and in those places generally subject to the sin wherein she is Mars in the fifth And if he happen in the fifth hard and tedious labour is threatned to those with Child little or no merry meetings and feastings but if any he causeth dissentions and discords amongst them Mars in the sixth Again If he be in the sixth in a hot and dry sign he causeth hot and dry diseases if the sign be moyst the diseases will be hot and moyst if aiëry they will be feavers corruption of blood impostumes ventosies c. if it be an earthy sign they will be consumptions and melancholy diseases with some mixtures of choler and if the sign be bestial the beasts subject thereunto shall suffer c. Mars in the seventh Moreover if he be in the seventh afflicted and weak he denotes then great dissentions and enmities and that men shall be perplexed with theft much blood-shed contentions and wars and these shall chiefly be incident to the People of that Climate for which the Radix of your Figure is made viz. evil accidents wars and discords also fraud and deceit in Merchandizing trouble and sadness Mars in the eighth And if he be in the eighth there shall be fearful and terrible sudden deaths according to the nature of the sign in which he is Mars in the ninth If he be in the ninth travelling shall be dangerous also much robbing and plundering therein if the Journey be by Land if by Sea Shipwrack is much to be feared Mars in the tenth Again If he be in the tenth the King and Rulers shall be froward and cross with their People exercising cruelty and tyrannie without any piety or fear of God and punishing and taxing them without any mercy or pitty Mars in the eleventh If in the eleventh men shall not love one another nor delight in each others society neither will they be moved with any compassion or pitty Mars in the twelfth And if in the twelfth the People shall be much terrified and troubled by their Enemies from whence shall proceed slaughter and effusion of blood CHAP. IX Shewing the Significations of the Sun in the Twelve Houses of Heaven in any Annual Revolution whether he be Lord of the Year or no. REhearsing the Planets according to their order and places in the Heavens after Mars follows the Sun The Sun in the first who if he be in the Ascendent fortunate essentially dignified and in reception with the Lord of the Ascendent and beheld amically by him the year shall generally be happy and successful for every one as well the King as the Beggar but if he be therein infortunate it shall be clean contrary and especially noble and great men shall suffer in their persons dishonour disgrace and be perhaps cast out of their dignities and places The Sun in the second The Sun in the second the People shall waste and expend their wealth also their Rulers shall covet after the fingring and disposing thereof insomuch that they shall live sneakingly and poor The Sun in the third The Sun in the third shews the People shall delight in goodness and in the Law shall love and associate themselves with their neighbours friends kindred and associates for the which they shall be praised The Sun in the fourth If he be in the fourth Gardens and Vegetables shall be spoyled and suffer detriment especially if he be in signs of that nature great men and high shall be made low and degraded and if it be a watry sign the earth shall be dry and the water dried up I believe the Ancients meant fiëry The Sun in the fifth Again If the Sun be in the fifth he denotes detriment and grief to such Creatures as are with young so that hardly do any escape without some manifest hurt or other The Sun in the sixth Also if he be in the sixth many griefs and infirmities shall happen and chiefly in the eyes and such living Creatures shall dye as are signified by the sign wherein he is located the King also or chief Rulers shall be sad that year much loss also and damage shall be by servants and such things as are signified by the sixth House also the ignoble and baser sort of People shall envy and raise themselves up against their Superiours The Sun in the seventh Moreover if he be in the seventh he denoteth discords between the People and their Rulers and betwixt the King and the Nobles and that the King shall keep at a distance with the People or keep himself retire from them The Sun in the eighth In the eighth he denotes the death of Kings and great men also the deposing of Kings and unthroning of Nobles and Grandees and a lessening or diminishing of their power especially if he be beheld by the Lord of the eighth The Sun in the ninth But if he be in the ninth he shews the inclinations of the People are generally to good and that they shall be fortunate and successful in long Journies and Voyages and shall love and delight in both the Law of God and Man The Sun in the tenth Also if the Sun be in the tenth it denotes the glory renown and honour of the King or chief Rulers also the
in two hundred and forty years yet once in twenty years they come in Conjunction in one part or other of the Zodiack The third is the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the first term or degree of Cancer and this is once in thirty years The fourth is the Conjunction of the three superiours Saturn Jupiter and Mars in one term or face of any sign The fifth is the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars which is a mean and the least Conjunction of the superiours and therefore is not the fore-runner of such great n foreefs as the other as you shall by and by understand â—â—mâ—re sixth is the Conjunction of the Sun with any of the rest of the Planets at the time of his entrance into the first point of Aries The seventh and last is the Conjunction of the Sun and Moon which happeneth once every moneth Considerations before iudgement Of which we are now in order to treat but first you must know that the time for the erecting of your figure is when the Planets are in Partil Conjunction viz. in the very same signe degree and minute of the Zodiack You may see what a Partial Aspect is the 27 Chapter of the second Book of this Volume Having then erected the Figure of the Heavens at your punctual time and placed the Planets therein being reduced to the time of the day have regard unto the fortitudes and debilities of the Planets especially those in Conjunction for if they be strong and fortunate they presage good if weak and impedited the contrary And this good or evill shall be according to the nature of the Planets in Conjunction and the nature of the sign in which they are as if the Sign be aiery and the Planets evill impediment in the Ayr corruption and much damage thereby both to men and the fruits of the Earth is denoted and so judge of the rest of the signs in like manner judge the contrary if the Planets in Conjunction be Fortunes and well dignified Again if the Malevolents be in Conjunction in feminine Signs they denote Pestilence and evill infirmities to women and the Female sex of things in general chiefly in like manner to the Masculine sex if the Sign be Masculine and health prosperity and good success if they are benevolent Planets Moreover in fixed signs what they portend whether they are Benevolents or Malevolents is of continuance in moveable of little or no continuance in common signs a mean between these viz. they are neither of long or short continuance CHAP. XII Of the Conjunctions of the Superiours EVery Planet in some measure or other contributeth to the Government of this World for the which they were ordained but some more forcibly then others as being fore-runners of greater and stranger accidents and mutations Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Aries For the great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the first point of Aries or the first term thereof is the greatest and most notable Conjunction of all the other for that they are the highest and so consequently as to us the slowest of the Planets and therefore have more power to act what they denote then any of the other hâ—â—â— and for that Aries is the first of the signs of the Zodiack and the first sign of the Triplicities also the first of the fiery Trygon And therefore it is that when these two highest Planets are in Conjunction in the fiery Trygon especially in the first term or degree of Aries the Ascendent of the world and the place wherein the chief Luminary viz. the Sun was at the Creation many commotions wars seditions troubles subversion of Monarchies Kingdoms States alteration of Laws Customs Priviledges and Rights Plagues Famine Desolation Anxiety and trouble Treasons Treacheries and the death of Kings Nobles Princes Emperours and Powers follow Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in any Trygon So likewise when they are in Conjunction in the first term of any Trygon whether it be fiery earthy aiery or watry but not so forcible is their then Eâ—â—â—â— nor so terrible as the former yet though in a less degree the fore-runners an â—â—casioners of grievous mutations and accidents according to the nature of that Planet which hath most power of the two in the Sign wherein they are joined for if Saturn be stronger then Jupiter it will be very terrible but if Jupiter be stronger then him somewhat will be abated in fiery earthy and aiery Signs they cause drought and a scarcity of Provisions and barrenness of the ground Pestilence and Famine in watry detriment by the too much abundance thereof Also when these two first Conjunctions are in any of the Angles especially the tenth it denotes the arise of some new King or Prophet from the quarter signified by the sign wherein they are joined and if the Sign and Lord thereof be fortunate it denotes their continuance establishment and glory but if it be weak or afflicted and its Lord they shall be slain and put down for the whole world is governed by these Trygons as Ptolomy teacheth in his second Book and the whole Macrocosm compounded of the four Elements which answereth to the four Triplicities and therefore it is that the Conjunction of the Superiours in them are occasioners of such great mutations Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Cancer In like manner the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the first degree or term of Cancer is the forerunner of much evill yet are the two former preferred before it viz. terrible wars slaughters depopulations and alterations of Government and destruction of Kingdoms fire and sword famine and pestilence c. and if it be Oriental its Effects will soon operate if Occidentall not so soon the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in any other sign and place is not so terrible And truly this is a terrible Conjunction if rightly considered and dictateth unto us upon the first consideration no less then horrible troubles and alterations in the World if we but consider it it is a Conjunction of the Malevolents two enemies must needs be stronger then one and here they are both together and in a sign wherein Jupiter our best friend is exalted and the Moon the mother of moisture pitcheth her Tent so that by their Conjunction therein both the assistance of the one and the nature of the other is much damnified and afflicted again Saturn is therein in detriment it being the sign opposite to his House Capricorn and Mars is therein in his fall Capricorn being the House of his exaltation and therefore it is these things being considered that they are so mischievous when joined in this sign the which of all their Conjunctions is the worst c. Of the Conjunction of Saturn Jupiter and Mars Also the Conjunction of Saturn Jupiter and Mars in any term or face and beheld by the Sun they being the three superiour Planets and most effectual for strength and height