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A47548	Vox stellarum: or, the voyce of the stars being a brief and easie introduction to the knowledge of the number, names and characters of the planets and signs, aspects and anticions: the division of heaven, and how to erect a figure thereof, either by a table of houses or by a table of right and oblique ascentions: an exact and true description of the planets and signs, with the countries, cities or towns under them. Likewise, how to judge of the affairs of the world, by revolutions, eclipses, great conjunctions and blazing stars. Also, something touching the Popish Plot, and other remarkable affairs of the year, 1678. By William Knight, student in astrology and physick.	Knight, William, fl. 1680-1699.	1681 (1681)	Wing K696; ESTC R216118	49,914	170

VOX STELLARUM OR THE Voyce of the STARS Being a brief and easie INTRODUCTION TO THE Knowledge of the Number Names and Characters of the Planets and Signs Aspects and Anticions the Division of Heaven and how to erect a Figure thereof either by a Table of Houses or by Tables of Right and Oblique Ascentions an exact and true Description of the Planets and Signs with the Countries Cities or Towns under them LIKEWISE How to judge of the Affairs of the World by Revolutions Eclipses great Conjunctions and Blazing-Stars ALSO Something touching the Popish Plot and other Remarkable Affairs of the Year 1678. By William Knight Student in Astrology and Physick Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos London Printed by E. T. and R. H. for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge 1681. TO THE READER Courteous Reader THe divine and laudable Science of Astrology is a Learning that teaches by the Natures Motions Configurations Significations and Influences of the Heavens and Stars therein how to judge of future Contingencies or predict natural Events the word Astrology is derived from Astra and Logos which is as much as to say the Speech reasoning or language of the Stars and to this we find the Psalmist consent when he sings the Heavens declare the glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy works day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard their line is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the World in them hath he set a Tabernacle for the Sun which is a Bridegroom coming out of his Chamber● and rejoyceth as a strong man to run a race his going forth is from the ends of the Heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof Psalm the 19.1 2 3 4 5 6. Thus being led by the signification of the word or appellation of this Noble Art unto those places of Scripture first I shall now look back to the beginning of the Holy Writ and so take along in order several portions thereof that farther prove the Stars to have influence on all sub-lunary things whether Animal Vegetable or Mineral to begin then observe And God said let there be Lights in the Firmament of the Heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for Signs and for Seasons and for days and years And let them be for lights in the Firmament of the Heaven to give light upon the Earth and it was so And God made two great Lights the greater Light to rule the day and the lesser Light to rule the Night he made the Stars also And God set them in the Firmament of the Heaven to give light upon the earth and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness and God saw that it was good Genesis the 1.14 15 16 17 18. And for the precious Fruits brought forth by the Sun and for the precious things put forth by the Moon Deuteronomy the 33.14 Again they sought from Heaven the Stars in their Courses fought against Sisera Judges the 5.20 Canst thou bind the sweet Influences of the Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion Job the 38.31 So likewise saith the Lord I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and the Earth shall hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyl and they shall hear Jezreel Hosea the 2.21 22. Many more places might be produced but these are sufficient to convince any sober Person that those glorious Bodies were not by their Maker placed in the Heavens only for ignorant people to gaze at but to shew forth his Almighty Power in their subordinate Rule and Government And now seeing this their Lordships is not managed by sensible and palpable acts and agitation it must needs follow that they have a secret and hidden way of Rule whereby they operate imperceptibly in all their agitations of their Dominion the Sun and Moon indeed have their palpable effects for the Sun is the Fountain of heat and that heat is the Nurse of Life also his presence and absence causeth day and night likewise his nearness to and remoteness from our Zenith together with the nature of the Parts of Heaven he passeth through causeth Summer and Winter heat and cold alteration of days and nights now the Moon seems to be as much the Fountain of moisture as the Sun is of heat as is apparent by the Tydes which constantly attend her motion and by all sorts of Shell-Fish and the eyes of Cats which are all fuller and bigger at the Full-Moon then they are at the Change or New-Moon Again it is very observable that if a man chance to fall asleep abroad in the Fields in a Moon-light night how she besots him and fills him with dulness and drowsiness but besides those palpable acts of the Sun and Moon they have their secret and imperceptible influence as the other Planets and Stars for though heat is the Nurse of Life and moisture an hand-maid to it yet it is not the mere heat which giveth life nor the mere moisture that helpeth to live for if so then might man make living Creatures artificially but this we see is past his skill to do the heat may hatch the eggs but all the art of man cannot make an egg that can be hatched No for there is a secret act of Sun and Moon besides the mere putting to of heat and moisture which produceth life both in sensitive and vegetive Animals And in these secret and insensible operations or influences of the Sun Moon and Stars besides the light which they give consists that rule which they do exercise over all the Sons of day and night so that man if he lives upon the earth must come under the touch thereof so well as Brutes and Vegetives And this Power man being unable to avoid but must in a great measure submit thereunto the Stars therefore are said to give Laws unto him and to the whole Body of Mortallity so long as the World endureth So then Astra regunt homines sed regit Astra Deus the Stars rule men but God rules the Stars Ay but hark ye say some what do you tell us of the heat and moisture of the Sun and Moon and their secret influences in producing and upholding life it is God that giveth life to all Creatures and maintains the same in them and he it is that ruleth all persons and things on earth So say we too this we know and believe only the question is how he does them whether with means or without if without means then every Child that is born every living creature that is brought forth and every Seed and Herb that grows out of the Ground comes to pass by a new creation as well as by generation for to bring things to pass without means is all

of the Description Nature and Disposition thereof either good or evil according to the strength or weakness of that Planet and his good or ill Aspect by the true Observation hereof I have for some late years so exactly described the quesited Person in the Resolution of Ho●ary Questions that many of my Clients have stood amazed to hear me and in this I never fail if my Figure be truly radical and I true to those Rules The several Years of the Planets ♄ 30 43 57 465 ♀ 8 45 82 151 ♃ 12 45 79 428 ☿ 20 48 76 450 ♂ 15 40 66 214 ☽ 25 66 108 320 ☉ 19 69 120 1460           The use of this Table is thus to be understood suppose a Town City or Country were taken founded or built under the regency of ♄ and he very strong then might you judge it would continue under the Government of the Builders or Takers thereof from being retaken wasted or destroyed 465 years if ♄ was but meanly strong 57 years if he were weak 43 years and if very weak then thirty years shall be the utmost time thereof and so of the rest of the Planets A Table of the Planets Latitudes Friends Enemies and Joys   North South Friends Enemies Joys ° ′ ° ′ ♄ 2 48 2 49 ♂ ☿ ♃ ☉ ☽ In ♒ ♃ 1 38 1 40 ☉ ♀ ☽ ♄ ☿ ♂ In ♐ ♂ 4 38 6 47 ☉ ♄ ☿ ☽ ♀ In ♏ ☉ 0 0 0 0 ♃ ♂ ☿ ♄ In ♌ ♀ 9 0 9 0 ♃ ☉ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♂ In ♉ ☿ 3 33 3 35 ♄ ♀ ♃ In ♍ ☽ 5 17 5 12 ♃ ♀ ♄ ♂ In ♋ This Table is so plain that it needs no further Discourse yet least some should stumble at it I will illustrate it thus in the first and left hand Column you have the seven Planets in the next to the right hand each Planet's greatest North Latitude in the third Column their greatest South Latitude in the fourth their Friends in the fifth their Enemies and in the last Column their Joys The mean motions of the Planets ♄ 2 minutes ♃ 5 minutes ♂ 31 minutes ☉ 59 minutes ♀ 59 minutes ☿ 59 minutes ☽ 13 degrees ♄ is near 30 years tracing through the 12 Signs ♃ 12 years ♂ 2 years ☉ one year ♀ one year ☿ one year ☽ almost a moneth viz she slips through them 13 times in a year The Magnitudes of the Planets according to that Learned Astronomer Tycho Brahe ♄ is bigger than the Earth 22 times ♃ is bigger than the Earth 14 times ♂ is less than the Earth 13 times ☉ is bigger than the Earth 140 times ♀ is less than the Earth 6 times ☿ is less than the Earth 19 times ☽ is less than the Earth 42 times The bigness or compass of the Globe or Ball of the Earth is 21600 English miles from hence you may find how many miles each Planet is about as for Example the Moon which you see is the very least of all the Planets will be found by this Rule near 500 miles round every way which tells you the Heavens must be of a large Volumn therefore considering this together with their Influences with the Prophetical King you may say when we consider the Heavens ☉ ☽ and Stars which God hath made What is man that he is so mindful of him c. CHAP. XII For to find what Planet ruleth every hour of the Day or Nigh also some Terms of Art The The Hours of the Day and Night Week days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Sunday ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ Sund. night ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ Monday ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ Mond night ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ Tuesday ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ Tuesd night ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ Wednesday ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ Wedn. night ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ Thursday ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ Thurs night ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ Friday ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ Frid. night ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ Saturday ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ Saturd night ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ The Vse of the Table In the first Column to the left hand you have the days of the week and the night following each day In the other 12 Columns is contained the 12 hours of the day or night and the Planet ruling each hour observing that the Planet which governs the day ever rules the first hour thereof beginning at Sun-rising then successively the next in order as you will find by the Table You must know these Planetary hours are greater or lesser according to the motion of the Sun always dividing the day and night each into 12 equal Parts allowing the time from Sun-rising to Sun-setting to be divided into 12 equal Parts for the day and from Sun-setting to Sun-rising for the night So that those Planetary hours are never of equal length with a common hour which is 60 minutes unless it be when the Sun is in the Equinoctial which is about the tenth of March and the thirteenth of September every year By this Rule we shall find that from the tenth of March to the thirteenth of September a Planetary hour is longer by day than a common hour and so much shorter than a common hour by night but from the thirteenth of September to the tenth of March a Planetary hour is shorter than a common hour by day and so much longer than a common hour by night The length of the day The length of the Planetary hour by day The length of the Planetary hour by night h. m. h. m. h. m. 6 0 0 30 1 30 7 0 0 35 1 25 8 0 0 40 1 20 9 0 0 45 1 15 10 0 0 50 1 10 11 0 0 55 1 5 12 0 1 0 1 0 13 0 1 5 0 55 14 0 1 10 0 50 15 0 1 15 0 45 16 0 1 20 0 40 17 0 1 25 0 35 18 0 1 30 0 30 This Table is very easie to understand and shews you how the Planetary hours do lengthen and shorten according to the day and night as is before declared you may make proportion for the odd minutes of the day if you will but it 's needless if you do but take the nearest whole hour Some useful Terms of Art to be had in Memory Direction Retrogradation Stationary Application Separation Prohibition Refrenation Translation Collection Reception Frustration Peregrination Combustion Cazimi under the Sun-beams void of Course Besieging Oriental Occidental Superior Inferior Athazer Almuten and Haiz What every one nor any of these are I shall not stand to explain it being so copiously handled in most Introductions

Caves Hermitage places Moats about Houses or Towns Pomps Bear-casks Colour white glittering Quarter North by West CHAP. XIV Of the Countreys Cities and Towns under the Planets and Signs ♄ and ♑ GRaecia India Albania Ariana Macedonia Illyria Thracia Bosnia Bulgaria Massovia Lithuania Saxony Morea Orcades Islands Stiria Romandiola Marchia Hassia Turingia Cities or Towns Oxford in England Brandenburg Juliacum Chevonia Berga Meclinia Gaudanum Vilna Augusta Constantia Derrhona Faventia Tortona Pratum ♄ and ♒ Tartary Muscovia Arabia Desert Oxiana Sogdiana Paetrea Azania Sarmatia Valachia red Russia Dania Swecia South part Westphalia Mosselania Pedemontium Arabia Stoney West part of Bavaria Croacia Cities or Towns Hamburgum Monsferatus Brevu Pisaurum Salisburgus Forum Sempronium Trent Ingolstadius ♃ and ♐ Spain Hungary Arabia Foelix Dalmatia Slavonia Tyrrhenia Celtica Moravia Misnia Provincia Lyguria Lunesana Cities or Towns Colonia Toletum Volaterrae Mutina Norbona Avininion Agrippina Stutgardia Rotemburgus Tuberinum Indemburgus Astum Buda Firmum ♃ and ♓ Portugal Galitia Cilicia Egypt the higher Phazonia Nazomonitidis Garamatis Lydia Pamphilia Calabria Normandia Lusitania Cities or Towns Alexandria Compostella Sibilia or Hyspalis Parantium Rhotomagum Normatia Worms Ratisporia ♂ and ♈ England France Germany Sweedland Denmark the lesser Poland Judea the upper Burgundy upper Sylesia Syria Bastarnea Palestina Of Cities or Towns Naples Vtrecht Capua Ancona Imola Ferraria Florenea Verona Liudavia Brunswick Cracovia Massilia Seragosse Berganum Caesaria Padua ♂ and ♏ Catalonia Norway Cappadocia Matragonitida Commogena Idumaea Mauritania Getulia the Kingdom of Fez. Cities or Towns Algera Aquileia Ariminum Valentia Trapizuntius Virbinum Pistoria Camerinum Petavium Messana Viena of the Allobroges Gedamun Crema Forum Julii ☉ and ♌ Italy Sicilia Bohemia Phoenicia the Alps Aemilia Chaldea Sabina Togata Orichemia part of Turky Cities or Towns Bristol in England Prague Linzinus Damascus Rome Ravenna Cremona Confluentia Cremisium Croton Ghent in Flanders ♀ and ♉ Ireland the greater Poland Lorain Persia Media Parthia Cyprus white Russia the Islands of Archipelagus the lesser Asia Helvetia Rhetia Switzerland Franoamia Cities or Towns Mantua Bononia Parma Senas Tarentum Burgus a Castle in Spain Panoruma the head of Histria Brixia Tigurum Lucerna Vanceium Metis Herbipolis Carolastadium Liepsia Nants Posua Novogardi Guesma ♀ and ♎ Aethiopia Alsatia Austria Livonia Bastriana Caspia Seres Oasis Sabandia Sundgavia Pannonia the Dukedom of Savoy Jamaica Island Of Cities or Towns Lisbon in Portugal Vienna in Austria Olysiponis Arefatum Cajeta Lauda Suessa Placentia Friburgia Argentina Veldkirchium Spira Francofordia Halafrisinga Heilprima Mosbachium Landshuta ☿ and ♊ Flanders Brabant Lombardy Armenia Barbados Island Cities or Towns London Bamberg Norrinberg Lovain Cesena Hasford Bruges Corduba Mentz ☿ and ♍ Babylon Mesopotamia Corinthia Athens Croatia Assyria Achaia Greece Athesina Creet or Candy the lower Silesia Egypt the lower Cities or Towns Jerusalem Corinth Paris Cumas Novaria Rhodes Arethium Brundusium Tolosa Lugdunum Basil Heidelburg Cratislavia Erphordia Sigina Reding in England ☽ and ♋ Scotland Holland Zealand Granado Numidia Affrica Carthage Calchis the lower Burgundy Cities or Towns York St. Andrews Amsterdam Venice Lubeck Genoa Tunis St. Cadiz Millan Wittenberg Magdenberg St. Lucas Prousia VOX STELLARUM OR THE Voyce of the STARS Being a brief and easie INTRODUCTION To the Judgment of Annual REVOLUTIONS OF THE VVORLD Eclipses of the Luminaries great Conjunctions Comets or Blazing Stars c. By William Knight Student in Astrology and Physick Foelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas LONDON Printed by E. T. and R. H. for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London Bridge 1681. OF REVOLUTIONS CHAP. I. SECTION I. Teaching how many Schemes ought to be erected for this purpose and for what time they are to be set I Shall not dispute the various Opinions of Authors about this business but wholly adhere to the Judgment and Precepts of Ptolomy who was Princeps Astro●ogo●um which is that we should erect Schemes for the punctual times that the Sun enters the four Cardinal Signs viz. ♈ ♋ ♎ and ♑ and from thence deduce a judgment of that years affairs that is thus from the Position of Heaven at his ingress into ♈ we are to judge of the Accidents of the Spring Quarter which is from the 10th of March until the 11th of June at which time he enters ♋ from whence judgment must be drawn of the Summer Quarter or until he enters ♎ which is about the 13th of September from the Figure whereof we are to judge the events of Autumn or the Harvest Quarter and lastly by the Position of Heaven at his ingress into ♑ we may know the state of the Winter Quarter that is from the 11th of December until he enters ♈ again However you ought in a general way to prefer and esteem the Scheme of his ingress into ♈ above all the rest For the Ancients have affirmed that the Sun was placed in this very Sign and in the first punctum thereof at the Creation where he began his unwearied course in the Meridian of Mesopotamia Therefore must the Position of Heaven at the time of his return thereunto every year be the Principal Piller on which we are to build our Astrological Judgment of Mundane Affairs and this we need not cavil at if we do but consider that he is sons vitae the Fountain of Life fons lucis the Fountain of Light or anima mundi the Soul of the World by which all things as well Vegetatives as Sensitives have their subsistence and vivifying nourishment Again experience crams us with belief that this affirmation of the Ancients is an undeniable truth First we see that when the Sun 〈…〉 this Equinoctial Sign the Earth and 〈◊〉 grow green and ●r●ctifie by degrees afterwards the birds warble forth their sweet and melodious Tunes and all Creatures rejoyce Secondly we find the Actions and Affairs of the World correspond with the Face of Heaven at this time SECTION II. Of the Lord of the Year The Lord of the Year is that Planet who is almuten of the Ascendent at the Sun's ingress into ♈ CHAP. II. Of the significations of the Planets when they are Rulers of the Year SECTION I. Of ♄ when strong THe People will that year build New Houses and alter and repair their Old they will be fortunate in all their worldly Employments and be in good esteem among their Neighbours the Earth shall be fruitful so that the Farmers or Countrey-men will increase in Substance and the poor Day-labourer have little cause to complain But if he be weak Then instead of building and repairing their Houses they may be forced to sell or morgage them There will be much cold weather People shall be sorrowful crossed and vexed in their undertakings grievous infirmities will be spread abroad dammage by Storms and Tempests Hurricanes Earth-quakes Ancient People will die and the Winter pinching cold SECTION II. Of ♃ when strong Noblemen Judges Councellors and all such Persons signified by him shall be succesful and they will do justice too which as