middle but about the edges more rare those resembling beards have their extreams more rare and dispersed and those that are much extended in length are more rare and subtil The distinct significations of every Comet or Blazing Star The Antients have delivered moreover these nine following several Comets or Blazing-Stars and their virtues or Portences which I could no wise omit being so necessary to Instruction The first then is callâ—â— Veru for that it resembleth a spit or dart and appeareth in the day time very terrible to the beholders It denotes a scarcity of fruit both of the Earth and trees mutations in Church and State grievous slaughters and the death of Kings Nobles and such as are of their adherence The second Tenaculum of the colour of Mars and hath raies under it like the flames of burning coals it signifieth there shall not be such plenty as formerly yet not famine wars also are thereby stirred up to the great prejudice of the godlier sort of people who shall be very forward therein The third Pertica which sometimes emitts obscure raies and again at other times bright this denotes a drought both of the Earth and Waters and a scarcity of Provisions the which if corporally joined to any Planet signifyeth events according to the nature of that Planet the nature of every Planet you have been taught before as if it be joined to Saturn there shall be mortalities troubles to old men and those of the religious Orders to Jupiter it extends its effects to Kings and Grandees whether good or bad according to their fortitudes to Mars many wars tumults slaughters and effusion of bloud to the Sun it will not appear by reason of the Suns splendour yet it portends the death of Kings and many tribulations plagues and sicknesses to Venus it signifies drought and a diminution of great waters to Mercury it denotes the death of young men wits and ingenuous souls to the Moon it signifies death and grievous mortality to men especially common people The fourth Miles consecrated to Venus and hath an hairy tail or main emitting Moon-like beams or rayes it signifieth mischief to Kings Nobles and Great men and that men shall rise that will endeavour to alter the Laws and antient Customs and set up new but the greatest evil portended thereby will be incident to those places towards which it extends its tail or rayes it denotes also wars The fifth Ceruleus of a blew or azure colour appropriated to Mercury it denotes the death of Kings and Grandees Nobles such as are chief Rulers and chiefly towards the part towards which it extends its rayes also wars The sixth Aurora five Matutina assigned to Mars it hath a tale and is of a fiery complexion when it appeareth towards the East bending its head downwards it signifies war combustions fire and sword pestilence and famine in Arabia and Egypt drought and a scarcity of waters and this shall extend also to the Western Regions The seventh Argentum sive Argenteus and this is the brightest and clearest of all Comets it hath pure bright beams when it appears Jupiter being then in Cancer or Pisces it promiseth abundance of corn and fruit in those parts where it appeared but if Jupiter be then in Scorpio it will not be altogether so good The eighth Rosa this is a great round Comet and is of the form and similitude of of a man it causeth the death of Kings Great Noble and Rich men and the alteration of things The ninth and last Niger appropriated to Saturn being in colour like unto him it denotes mortality both natural and also by the sword beheadings and the like If a Comet appear in the Ascendent of any Town Note Kingdom City Family or in the Ascendent of the Revolution of the World it signifieth destruction of the things signified by the Ascendent and the sign thereof and if it appear in the sign of the mid-Heaven at the time of any of these it bringeth danger to such as are promoted to honour The signification of Comets in Earthy signs watry aiery and fiery Comets appearing in earthy signs denote sterility through drought in watry through abundance of rain and floods and causeth also Pestilence in aiery they promise Winds Seditions and Pestilence yet not alwayes Plagues in fiery Wars slaughters and commotions CHAP. IX Of the signification of Comets and Blazing-Stars appropriated to the seven Planets REceive these Rule following as from the Chaldeans Arabians and such as were very expert in these matters in former Ages The Portences of such Comets as belong to Saturn Wherefore know that if any Comet of the nature and complexion of Saturn appear in the Ascendent of the Revolution of the World it denotes many evils Famine Pestilence Banishment Want Anxiety terrour and trouble Chronick diseases and Melancholy distempers Catarrs Quartane Agues Falling Sickness Leprosies Palsies Cancers and those diseases which are of continuance lingring Consumptions and the like destruction to Beasts appertaining to the use of man excessive cold weather in winter Note but you are still to remember the Nature of the Climate for this inordinate cold in Aethiopia will cause but a temperate Ayr c. and therefore this is to be understood of these Northern parts clouds frost and snow strong and high winds tempests shipwracks destruction of Fish as also of Fruit by Caterpillers Locusts and such like Vermine great Inundations and storms to the anoyance of Cattel and all things Men and Kingdoms under the Dominion of Saturn shall suffer detriment and be in danger of destruction Comets of the nature of Jupiter and their portences Such as are of a silver colour bright and of great splendor and of the nature of Jupiter cause a plentiful year when they appear in the Ascendent as you have heard wholsome blasts of Ayr with many seasonable showers especially if it be a watry sign it denotes also such infirmities as are of the nature of Jupiter which you have heard in the second Book of this Volume and many alterations and changes in such Kingdoms Regions and Places subject unto him the which I have there also at large set down Comets of the nature of Mars and their significations Those Comets which you have heard we have understood by the names of Veru and Pertica are of the nature of Mars wherefore they denote horrible winds storms and tempests a drought of Fountains and a destruction of Fruit by corruption and all the diseases portended by Mars c. frequent Thundering and Lightnings to the destruction of many Ship at Sea wrath quarrels heart-burnings slaughters and blood-shed amongst men tumults seditions and wars alterations of Kingdoms Laws Government and Customs and such like evils appropriated to the nature of Mars and the shall chiefly be incident to such men as are under his Dominion Towns Cities Kingdoms and Places as also to those parts towards which the Comet extendeth its tayl as you have heard
Back-bone Seed and the Vessels of Seed the Privy-parts both of man and woman Herbs and spice All such herbs and plants as are odoriferous pleasant sweet and delectable and such as ïnvite to Venery viz. the Satyrian Daffidel Cucko-Pintle Maiden-hair the Violet Valerian Vervin Time the Rose Lilly c. All such Spices as are fragrant and sweet c. Trees and perfumes The Fig-tree Pomegranate the Cypres sweet Apple-tree Pear-tree the Mirtle-tree Walnut Almond-tree Peach Apricoks the Raison-tree or Vine Turpentine-tree the wild Ash-tree c. And of Perfumes Amber-greese Musk Civet the Gum Ladanum and all such sweet Perfumes Frankinsense c. Birds The Swan Water-wag-tail Swallow Pelican Nightingal Pigeon Sparrow Turtle-Dove Stock-Dove Crow the Burgander the Eagle because as the Egyptians report it will come to the Male if called after she hath been trod thirteen times in a day the Partridge Thrush Black-bird Pye Wren c. Stones The Beril Chrysolite Emrauld Saphyr Green Jasper Corneola Aetites the Lazul Coral Alabaster Marble Minerals Copper Brass and sometimes Silver c. Fishes The Pylchard Gilthead the Whiting Crab Tithymallus Dolphin Beasts All such Animals as are of a strong love delicious or luxurious the Dog Cony Sheep Goat Bull Calf Panther and Hart. Weather Weather she denotes gentle showres in Winter and temperate heat in Summer Wind. The South wind Places Beds and Bed-chambers Dining-rooms Dancing-schools Gardens Fountains Wardrobes Banqueting-houses Play-houses and Bawdy-houses Signs Of the Coelestial signs she ruleth and hath for her houses Taurus and Libra Triplicity She ruleth the Earthy Triplicity by day viz. Taurus Virgo and Capricorn She hath Exaltation in the 27. deg of Pisces Exaltation She suffereth Detriment in Aries and Scorpio Detriment She is in her Fall in the 27. deg of Virgo Fall Age. From 14. to 22. Anael Angel Saturn only Enemie Friends are Jupiter Friends Mars Sol Mercury and Luna Day of the week She hath Friday assigned to her Dominion and that night we call Monday night Arabia Regions Austria Campania Polonia Cyprus Vienna Parthia Turin and the sixth Climate Orbe Her Orbe is 7. deg before and after any Aspect Her greatest years are 151. Years Her greater years are 82. Her mean years are 45. Her least years are 15. Journeys In Journeys she causes good success mirth and sport by the way Diseases Cold and moyst Diseases such as happen in the members of generation veins bladder back belly navel matrix the Running of the reins Gonorrea Pox both French and Neapolitan Priapism Surfets the Pissing Disease weakness in the reins and members of generation all strains by over much excess of Lust Stationary She is two days Stationary before Retrogradation and two days before Direction Retrograde She is 42. days Retrograde CHAP. VI. Of the Nature and Significations of MERCVRY Complexion of ☿ his place Bigness to the eye AFter Venus or next under her and above Luna is located Mercury of whom by Gods blessing we are come now to Treat he is of a silver-colour but duskish seldom seen by us by reason of his proximity to the Sun he being never distant from him above 27. degrees to our sight he is the least of all the Planets to our sight except Saturn but according to Tycho Globe of ☿ he is less then the earth 19. times Albategnius saith 19000. time and Alfraganus 22000. times And by the opinion of Tycho he is distant from the earth 1150. Distant from the earth semidiameters of the earth Albotegnius and Alfraganus say but 115. semidiameter of the earth Nature of ☿ He is like an Hermophridite participating of both sex he is Masculine when joyned by Conjunction or Aspect to a Masculine Planet Feminine when with a Feminine good and fortunate when joyned with the Fortunes bad and mischievous when joyned to or with the Malevolents Motion mean His mean motion is 59. m. 8. sec and sometimes 40. m. never more Diurnal His Diurnal motion is never above 100. m. in a day sometimes 86. m. 80. m. 70. m. 68. m. and 66. m. Annual motion He finisheth his course through the 12. signs of the Zodiack much about the time that Venus doth yet he is the swifter of the two by somewhat ☿ when well fortified When Mercury is strong and Lord of the year he signifies Merchants Tradesmen and all such as give their minds to learning Arts and Sciences shall have a successfull year but if he be weak judge the contrary Quality of men when well dignified Astrologers Philosophers Mathematicians Secretaries Diviners Merchants Sculptors Poets Advocates School-masters Orators Embassadors Commissioners Atturneys Ingenious Artificers c. and all learned men in general When ill placed and wear Scriveners Accomptants Clerks Sollicitors Thieves Carriers Messengers Footmen Usurers Petty-foggers c. Nature He is Author of Wit Fancy Ingenuity and Invention Corporature Not much colour in his face nor much abounding in white nor duskish but a kind of a Sun-burnt-colour long visage a high forehead long nose thin lips his eyes of a saddish gray not altogether black a dark brown hair long hands and fingers and of a tall upright straight spare body Oriental When he is Oriental he is not very high but big-boned of a honey-coloured complexion small eyes and in disposition one altogether self-ended but well shaped Occidental When Occidental of a thin spare body swarthy visage hollow-eyed of a dry constitution c. North latitude His greatest North latitude is 3. d. 33. m. South latitude His greatest South latitude is 3. d. 35. m. Savours Sowrish and sharp savours Colours A mixt Galimaufry of colours purple c. In man The brain tongue and left ear Herbs and Drugs The herb Mercury Five-leaved grass Fumitory Marjorum Parsly Pimpernel and such as are of divers colours and mixed natures they have chiefly relation to the brain and tongue to dispel wind to comfort the spirits and open obstructions Adders-tongue Lungwort Dragonwort Cubabs and all such herbs as are beneficiall to the Muses and Divination as Vervin Hiera Treacle Diambra Trees The Walnut-tree Filbert-tree Hazel c. Birds Those Birds that are Naturally witty melodious and inconstant as the Linet Nightingal Black-bird Thrush the Bird Ibis the Bird Porphyrio Parret Swallow Popinjay Cockatoo Crane the Jack-Daw Lark the Bird Calandra Serpents Serpents and Adders Stones The Emrald Agates Red marble Topaz and such as are of divers colours Milstone Marchasite Minerals Quicksilver Tin and Silver Marchasite Fishes The Trochius the Fox-fish the Mullet the Pourcontrell the Fork-fish Beasts Of Beasts the Dog and such as are of quick sense ingenious inconstant swift and such as are easily acquainted with man Apes Foxes Weesles the Hart
cattel shall be in good condition if Retrograde the good condition and state of those that follow Trading is also promised Retrograde who shall gain and profit CHAP. XVIII Containing the Accidents signified by the Sun when he is Lord of the year in any of the twelve Signs LAbour but to understand the nature of every Planet and Sign and to distinguish exactly every ones strength and fortitudes from his debilities and then by observing the reasons of what hath been already said in these three forgoing Chapters in handling the Significations of these Superior Planets thou mayst soon know how to understand the Significations of the Sun in every Sign when ever he is Lord of the year and judge of them without any further instruction The Sun Lord Lord of the year in Aries free from affliction Yet thus much I shall say If the Sun be Lord of the year in Aries free from the Malevolent Aspects of the Infortunes it shall be well with the Common people the year shall be fruitful and succesful unto them as also to great noble and rich men Kings and the Grandees of the earth and that they shall be fortunate in honor and shall overcome their enemies be gracious and loving to their people and shall do them justice c. The Sun Lord of the year in Aries weak or afflicted But if he be in Aries afflicted and impedited judge the contrary yet know that whatever he signifies whether good or evil in Aries or its triplicity shall chiefly happen in and to those parts subject unto the Sign and their Cities and Towns and more particularly to the Eastern parts thereof so understand of the rest of the signs when he or indeed any of the other Planets are located in them or in any Triplicity The Sun Lord of the year in Taurus When in any annual Revolution you finde the Sun Lord of the year and in Taurus you shall judge the state both of rich and poor great and small noble and vile to be but so so although he be no wise afflicted by the Malevolent beams of the Infortunes for in Taurus he hath no manner of dignity but is wholly peregrine and weak the fruits of the earth also shall not be very plentiful especially if he be afflicted and you must still remember as you have been sufficiently taught before that according to the nature and quality of the affliction you are to judge dammage or detriment to such things as are signified by the Sun and that they shall chiefly be incident to those places subject unto Taurus and in the Southern parts of those places The Sun Lord of the year in Gemini If the Sun be Lord of the year and in Gemini if he be well aspected by the Fortunes judge success health and good according to the nature and accidental Significations and the adjuvant Planets or Planet to the Commons and year in general fruits of the earth nobles rich and great men and that these shall chiefly be incident to the Regions and Cities subject unto Gemini and the Western parts but if he be afflicted judge also the affliction accordingly by the nature and signification of the afflicting Planet c. The Sun Lord of the year in Cancer If he be in Cancer or its Triplicity judge the good or evil signified by him according to the natures of the Planets afflicting or assisting him to happen to the Northern parts of those places Cities Regions and Kingdoms signified or ruled by the Signs wherein he is this you have had often reiterated I do it not through forgetfulness or carelesness but through a willingness and an earnest desire the Rules may be easily apprehended and retained by the young Students for whose sakes only I did undertake these my labours for I doubt not but thereby they will soon be inabled to give a probable judgement upon any position of the heavens without the help of any Book when they have well pondred as I have often said the Rules of Art and the reasons thereof The Sun Lord of the year in Leo. Again if the Sun be Lord of the year and in Leo it shall be well with the Grandees of the earth and people in general the fruits of the earth shall be plentiful c. for you must know the Sun in Leo is very potent and strong by being in his own house unless he be afflicted at that time by the Malevolent Aspects of the Infortunes and then according to their mischievous power you are to judge the misfortune and detriment of such things as they shall naturally or accidentally signifie c. In the fourth Chapter of the second Book of this volumn you have heard the Sun hath no latitude neither can be Oriental Occidental Stationary Retrograde or Combust and therefore if you but remember to judge according to his strength essential and accidental in all the other subsequent signs as you have heard the method before this shall suffice to be said of the significations of the Sun when he is Lord of the year and located in any of the twelve Signs of heaven Wherefore let us proceed to the significations of Venus when she is Lady of the year and so posited CHAP. XIX Of the things signified by Venus when she is Lady of the year in any of the Twelve Signs LIttle will it avail you to observe the Latitudes of the three inferiour Planets in this manner of Judgement as you have heard of the Superiors as say most of the Ancients and truly in this I do agree with them though not in in many other of their tenets especially in their Rules in the last Chapter where they would teach the significations of the Sun in the 12. Signs in Annual Revolutions when it is impossible for him at such a time to be in any other sign then Aries and if the Judgement be half yearly or quarterly in Libra Cancer or Capricorn he must needs be but in no other for oftentimes we shall finde the Rules in the inferiour Planets vary and prove false by reason of their swift motion and frequent variations but in the superiour seldom or never This I thought good to prefix before our Discourse of the inferiour Planets that it might not seem strange to the diligent Inquirer we follow not the same Method in these as in the former Venus Lady of the year in Aries When Venus then is Lady of the year and in Aries in any Annual Revolution well aspected and in Configuration of none of the Malevolents and neither Retrograde nor Combust the ayr shall be temperate the Earth fruitful men in general successful shall thive be merry and delight in all pleasant recreations it shall also be well with Great and noble men and with the smaller sort of Cattel men shall be peaceably given and many pleasant moderate showers of rain shall fall and generally there shall be plenty of provisions and these shall
the twelve signs in any Annual Revolution 274 Chap. 4. Teaching how to iudge of the evill of any year the nature thereof and when the year is most likely to be turbulent obnoxious and unfortunate also what is portended by any Revolution when one Planet transfers his light and nature to another 278 Chap. 5. Shewing how to judge of health or sickness in any year 280 Chap. 6. How of wars or peace Idem Chap. 7. Of fertility and sterility 284 Chap. 8. Teaching how to know the price of any thing in any year 285 Chap. 9. Containing some Instructions touching the alteration of the Ayr and change of weather in any year 288 Chap. 10. Shewing how to judge of the weather by the Aspects of the Moon to the other Planets and by the several Aspects of the Planets amongst themselves 290 Chap. 11. Demonstrating the alteration of the Ayr by the Combustion Orientality and Occidentality of the Planets in every of the twelve signs of Heaven 292 Chap. 12. Containing further instructions touching the alteration of the Ayr from the application of the Moon to the other Planets having separated from the Conjunction or Opposition of the Sun 294 Chap. 13. Teaching by other rules how to judge of the alteration of the ayr and to know when rain is to be expected 296 Chap. 14. Shewing Haly his judgement on weather and the alteration of the Ayr 298 Chap. 15. Shewing how to judge of weather from common Observation of the rising and setting of the â—un colour of the Moon appearance of the Rain-bow Comets Clouds brightness of the fixed Stars also by the prime day and from the time of the day wherein thunder happeneth 302 Chap. 16. Demonstrating the natural causes of many Suns of the Rain-bow Rain Hail Frost Snow Dew Winde Earth-quakes Comets Thunders Lightnings and the cause of the Sun and Moons Eclipse 303 Chap. 17 Of the signification of the most notable fixed Stars both fortunate and unfortunate in any of the twelve Houses in Revolutions of the Years of the World 305 SECT IV. Teaching how to judge of the natural mutations and accidents of this Elementary World by the appearance of Eclipses Comes great Conjunctions and Blazing-stars CHAP. I. Containing Ptolomies method in judging Eclipses and how to know the Regions to which the Effects belong 310 Chap. 2. Shewing the time when the Effects of any Eclipse shall begin and how long continue Idem Chap. 3. Of the kindes of Events of any Eclipse 311 Chap. 4. Of the quality of the Events of any Eclipse whether good or evil 312 Chap. 5. Of the Sun and Moon eclipsed in any Decanate or Face of the twelve Coelestial signs 315 Chap. 6. Of Comets and Blazing-Stars what they are the many sorts thereof their Portences and how long they appear at any time 318 Chap. 7. Shewing the Physical reasons of the horrid and terrible portencies of Comets and Blazing Stars 320 Chap. 8. Shewing some other names of Comets or Blazing-Stars and their Portencies 321 Chap. 9. Of the signification of Comets and Blazing-Stars appropriated to the seven Planets 323 Chap. 10. Shewing the significations of Comets when they appear in any of the twelve signs of Heaven 324 Chap. 11. Of great Conjunctions their Number and how to judge of their Effects 327 Chap. 12. Of the Conjunctions of the superiours 328 Chap. 13. Of the mean and lesser Conjunctions and their effects 329 Chap. 14. Of the Conjunction of the Planets in the twelve signs according to Hermes 330 Chap. 15. Shewing how to iudge of the general accidents of the World by the falling of New-Years Day 332 FINIS An INDEX pointing to the chief matters contained in this Volume This mark * before any figure points you to the folio in the first EPISTLE to the READER A ABraham an Astrologer Epist Ded. 1 Postscript folio 4. The first that taught the Egyptians the knowledge of the Stars Ibid. Abuse of any thing taketh not away the use thereof among the Learned * 3 Abuses cast upon the Author by the penners of the pretended Reply to his Lux Veritatis and he vindicated from them all from folio 26 to 29. their juglings and evasions discovered 29 Acute diseases how ruled 11 Adam an Astrologer notwithstanding Mr. Gatakers evasions in his Annotations on Jer. 10. ver 2. put forth by the Synod Epist Ded. 1 Postscript and for the clearing of the Text to that aforesaid Lux Veritatis Chap. 3. Sect. 5 Ayrs alteration how to judge thereof from 288 to 303 by general significators 288 289 by opening of Gates 290 by the aspects of the Moon to the other Planets 291 by the Planets mutual aspects 291 292 Orientallity Occidentallity and combustion in the 12 signs 292 293 by the application of the Moon to the other Planets having separated from the conjunction of the Sun 294 295 Aphorisms 296 Ordinary signs and tokens 297 by Haly his judgement from 298 to 302 by the rising and setting of the Sun the colour of the Moon the Rainbow and by the appearance of Comets 302 by Clouds Stars Prime day c. 303 Aeties a stone so called its vertue 57 Afflictions portended by revolutions the nature thereof and from whence it shall arise 275 Age decrepit prohibited physick 166 Age of those that are not to use Phebotomie 170 What time of the Moon it availeth 171 A time for making of Agreements 178 A time for any work in the art of Alchimy 179 A time for All things under the Sun 145 Almuten what 111 Alterations in the world occasioned by Ecclipses of either Luminary and why 308 by Comets 319 and why 320 A time for Anointing to remove superfluous hair 169 Antiscience of the Planets their force how to know them 76 Aphorisms conducing to the judging of Elections from 122 to 128 shewing how to judge of the condition of Kings People or any other what accidents are to happen them and at what time in any year from 221 to 224 more particularly of the People from 226 to 230 Apishness in men reprehended * 18 Excess of Apparel in the vulgar condemned * 19 A time for putting on of Apparrel 137. 156 Appearance of many Suns and Moons the reason thereof 303 Application what 110 A time for Applying Medicines to all the parts of the body 163 Aquaries its nature and quality 90 Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and part in man under its rule 91 why ruled by Saturn 68 the number names nature magnitude latitude and longitude of its most notable fixed stars 294 Aries its nature and quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and part in man under its rule 86 why governed by Mars 68 why the exaltation of the Sun and fall of Saturn 69 the number names nature magnitude latitude and longitude of its most notable fixed stars 94 Armour-bearers their significators general in annual judgments 220 A time for buying Arms. 184 Ascendant why so called 107 Asia its inhabitants the reason
of their several inclinations 16 Aspects names nature characters why so named and charactered partile and platick 92 dexter and sinister 93 Aspects of the Planets to the Lord of the year 235 Assistance from whence to be expected and from what kind of men 282 to obtain it of great men 197 Astrologie the definition of the word * 1 its scope or definition * 3 agreeth with Divinity * 5.4 c. one of the Liberal Sciences together with Astronomy and Physicks 2 how they became separated or so accounted ibid. how brought into contempt * 1 * 3 the best of studies and lawful 4 18 23 revealed first to Adam by God not diabolical as some weakly have endeavoured to perswade the world but a great mean rather to acquaint us with a Diety 4 38 medleth not with the secrets of God 21 most useful for Physicians 23 28 its definition 29 Legality 38 Excellency 4 warranted by Councels 37 not impugned by Divine Scripture from 30 to 36 useful for all the parts of Physick 153 Athazer what 111 Atlas fained to be the supporter of the Heavens and why 4 The Author divided by the Author * 20 his exhortation to this mad world * 22 how far he holdeth of casual Events 22 his practice or way of living 28 denieth a fatality in the Stars Influencies ibid. yet proveth they have admirable Influence in all sublunaries 4 and that they are cause of fertility and sterility 5 how far he vindicateth it 37 38 alloweth not of the resolution of Questions whereby many now-a-days enrich themselves and cheat the world and bring a scandal on the purity of Astrologie but condemneth it with the setting of Nativities as toys trifles vanities cheats and abuses of the purity of the Science of the Stars * 3 * 36 38 the cause of his putting pen to paper in any of his works * 4 * 6 what books he hath hitherto wrote 4 his manner of writing in these his Labours * 25 c. the occasion thereof and his end therein * 6 his birth breeding and life hitherto declared * 28 * 29 Author of the pretended Reply to my Lux veritatis discovered and that it is not his under whose name the Epistle thereof passeth 24 B Barreness a curse * 13 A time for Bathing 169 Beasts a time to purchase 173 Beauty real defined as vulgarly received rejected * 9 A time for Begetting Boys and Girls 152 Benevolents not alwayes Jupiter and Venus 124 Besieging what 111 Birds a time to buy 174 Blackmores why black 14 Blood-letting when convenient 170 Book the first second third of this Volumn their scope * 2 the fourth * 3 Books published by the Author * 4 A time for Borrowing of money 135 A time to purge the Brain 168 A Bridle for Youth * 9 Of buying and selling 137 to profit thereby 136 C Cancer its nature and quality corporature diseases Angel colours places 87 Regions Cities part in man under its Rule 88 why ruled by the Moon 68 why the exaltation of Jupiter and fall of Mars 69 the number names nature magnitude latitude and longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 97 Capricorn its nature and quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part in man under its rule 90 why ruled by Saturn 68 why the fall of Jupiter and exaltation of Mars 69 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 103 Captives a time for freeing of them 201 Carbunkle its nature 57 Castles a time to build them 143 Casualties of Cities how to judge of them 144 Cattel small and great a time to buy them 173 to tame them 174 Cautions in administring Physick laxative 166 168 Cazimi what 111 Characters used in Astrological books explained 49 77 81 91 Charactery Astrologie questioned * 3 Childhood the vanity thereof * 7 * 8 Child dead to bring forth 153 Children born at the time of an Eclipse or at the Partile Conjunction of the Luminaries live not long and why 12 A time to purge Choler 168 A time to draw cholerick blood 171 Of Christening 154 Chronick diseases how ruled 11 Chrysolite its vertue 57 Churches a time to build 145 Chyrurgery a time to use 169 Circles of Heaven their number order and motion 79 Of Circumcision 154 A time to bathe for cleanliness 169 Clergymen their significators general in Annual judgments 220 more particularly 141 Cause of Climacterical years 12 Cloathing a time to buy 137 Clysters a time for administring them 164 Why it is Colder in January when the days increase in length then in December when they are at the shortest 13 Combustion what 111 Comet why so called the many sorts thereof 318 the definition thereof 304 318 the appearance thereof an evident token of Astrologies Legality and that it is allowed of by GOD 36 in what part of the Heaven they appear Continuance Portencies how to judge thereof the birth of our Saviour foretold thereby 319 Physical reasons of their portencies 320 why seldom seen and but in one part of heaven at what time of the year the reasons of their various shapes and colours distinct significations 321 Saturnian Jovial Martial Solar and Venerial their portencies 323 Mercurial Lunar 324 significations and portencies in any of the 12 Signs from 324 to 327 when chiefly they manifest their effects 326 Conception when hindred 152 when farthered 153 Vt mulier Conciplat ut non Concipiat 178 Great Conjunctions their Number Considerations before judgement 327 of the superiours and their effects 328 Lesser their portencies 329 Hermes of Conjunctions from 330 to 333 Conjunction its nature 92 How to order the matter of Conquest in any war 179 Considerations to be had in Phlebotomie 170 Constellations hindering and farthering Phlebotomie Ibid. To know the the Contents of any writing unseen 185 Contrantiscians of the Planets how to know them their force 77 Corns a time for the cutting of them 134 Coronations a time for them 197 Covetousness most detestable * 12 What sign the Sun was in at the first Creation 214 Critical-days whence caused 11 the true knowledge of them 162 may often be hindered by Saturn 13 Custome reproved* 16 a second nature 170 cannot wholly alter the Natural Constitution of any Place or People 15 The Customs and Laws of all Nations different and why 16 D. Dead childe to deliver 153 Debility of any Planet in any Sign to know 66 Decrepit age prohibited Physick 166 Degrees how many in a sign of Heaven 79 Delectatione cum muliere jacere 178 Devil ignorant of the issue of future accidents 21 Dexter aspect what its nature 93 Direction what 110 A time for any work in the Art of Distillation 139 Dog-days why not a like contagious every year 9 A time for buying of Dogs 173 of bringing them up 174 Dragons Head and Tayl what they are their nature 76 significations in the twelve Houses in the Revolutions of the years of the world 247 in
the twelve signs of Heaven 267 268 A time for Dwelling 179 E. A time for husbanding the Earth 148 Earthquakes how occasioned signes thereof 304 Earths Semidiamiter 50 Cause of the Ebbing and flowing of the sea 11 Eclipse of the Sun the cause thereof 304 of the Moon why they happen not twice every Moneth 305 how to judge of the mutations and accidents in this Elementary world thereby from 308 to 318 that alterations do follow in the world upon the Eclipse of either Luminary and wherefore 308 an Introduction from 308 to 310 what is to be considered 310 when their effects manifest themselves Ibid. how long continue 311 to know the Lord of any Eclipse ibid. the kinds of the Events 312 quality whether good or evil from 313 to 315 of the Sun in any decanate of the 12 Signs 316 of the Moon 317 Ecliptick Circle what it is why so called 79 Education not of force sufficient to alter the natural constitution of a People or Nation 15 Egypt how watred 290 A time for Electing Kings and Governours 196 Elections ordinary slighted * 3 Elections by the Aspects of the Moon to the other Planets 129 Electuaries a time to administer 168 A time for sending Embassadors 159 Enemies a time to suppress 182 Enoch an Astrologer vid. Postscript A time for Enstaulings 197 Equator or the Equinoctial circle what it is why so called 79 To know when a Planet is Essentially dignified 65 To know the event of any war 181 Events portended by the Lord of the year 231 c. where they shall be manifested 232 of Comets 319 of Eclipses from 308 to 318 To know the Evil threatned in any year to any place 278 the cause of any evil to happen 223 Europians why of magnaminous spirits and given to wars and exploits 16 To Expel a dead child 153 Eye of the Sun a Stone so called its vertue 57 A time for administring remedies to the Eyes 163 F. Faces of the Planets their use why so called 73 their significations 74 A time for Feasting 156 To know if any Land be fertile 147 Fertility and sterility on what they depend 10 How to judge of the fertility of any year 284 Figure of Heaven what it is 20 how to frame it 112 Firmament why so called 78 First Book its Subject * 2 First-mover why so called 78 A time to fish 187 Fixed Stars no cause of plenty or scarcity 10 Tables demonstrating the Names Nature Number Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of the chiefest of them in every of the 12 signs from 94 to 106 why called fixed 94 their significations in any of the 12 houses of Heaven in Revolutions of the years of the World from 305 to 308 Flegm a time to purge it 168 Flegmatick-blood a time to extract it 171 A time for flitting or removing 138 Fluxes a time to stop them 164 Fourth Book its subject * 3 Fortunate Planets 127 A time to fowl 187 Fresh-waters why not so subject to ebb and flow 11 Friendship between Brethren a time to make 140 between any two 141 a time to obtain it of any 199 Friends how to choose them * 22 prove them and keep them * 24 Frost what it is 304 Frustration what 111 Fryers their significators general in Annual judgements 220 Fugitives a time to seek 184 Furlongs how many in a sign of Heaven 79 Future accidents to know 223 G. Galen his admonition to the Vulgar 161 Gall a time to purge 168 How to win at any game 186 A time for administring Gargarisms 165 Opening of Gates what it is 299 a cause of the change of weather 290 Gemini its nature and quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and part in man under its Rule 87 why ruled by Mercury 68 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 96 General accidents how to judge of them by the falling of Newyears day 333 General Rules will not hold in particular affairs 128 Gentlemen their vanity in general * 20 A time for getting of Girls 152 A time for giving of Gifts 155 God worketh by causes * 4 is the God of order ibid. clearly to be seen in the order of Nature * 5 10 seldom or never perverteth its order * 5 A time for the beginning of Governments 197 A time for Graffing 150 A time for buying of great Cattel 173 Groundwork of Elections 122 H. Hail what it is how condensed 304 Hair a time for cutting of it 133 a time for applying medicines to remove what is superfluous 163 when to bathe for the same purpose 169 Haiz what 111 An Harmony between the Coelestial and Terrestrial bodies 122 bodies 122 A time for administring remedies to the Head 163 A time to bathe for Health 169 How to judge of the Health of any year 280 A time to purge the Heart 168 Heavens power and vertue admirable 5 Gods book in which all things from the beginning to the subversion of the world is written 18 order number and motions 78 division into 12 Signs 79 Heliotropion its vertue 57 A time for buying of Heritages 146 Hermophrodites when begotten 152 A time for Hiring any thing 149 servants 172 A time for obtaining the thing Hoped for 199 Horizon what it is its diversity 80 A time for buying Horses 201 Houses of Heaven what the reasons of their significations 107 108 division into 12 parts 109 how to judge of any thing signified by them 275 Houses a time for buying of them 146 for building 142 letting or hiring 149 for ridding of evil spirits 151 A time for buying of Hounds 173 A time to Hunt 187 A time for buying of Land for Husbandry 147 Hyacinth its vertue 57 Hypocrites reproved * 15 I. Jacob an Astrologer 18 Impeditions of the Moon 127 Infants prohibited Physick 166 Inferiour what 111 Inferiours ruled by Superiours 123 Influence of the Stars may be found our notwistanding the slowness of the starry sphear in less then thirty years time 7 c. may certainly be predicted notwithstanding the Revolution of the starry sphear since Ptolomies time or since the first Creation 8 c. takes not away Gods government 22 may be altered by him * 4 yet it is seldom or never seen * 5 A time for acting any thing of Ingenuity 158 Inns of Court described * 21 A short Journey what it is 140 a time for going ibid. A time of Iourneying and returning and to judge of the success therein 191 Iris a stone so called its vertue 57 Issue a blessing * 13 such as desire none reprehended ibid. Judicial days whence caused 11 the true knowledge of them 162 Jupiter his Nature and Complexion Magnitude mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Distance from the Earth Humours Quality of men signified by him Corporature greatest North-Latitude South Colours Savours Spice Hearbs and Drugs ruled by him and part of Man 52 Trees Birds mineral Stones Fishes Beasts Places Weather Winds Signs Triplicity Diseases Regions
Day of the week ruled by him his Exaltation Fall Detriment Age Angel Friends Enemies Orb Years Moneth after Conception 53 his Joy 75 why so called and charactered 77 is not always a fortune 124 216 significations when Lord of the year 234 in any of the 12 houses of Heaven in any revolution of the years of the world 239 c. in any of the 12 Signs from 253 to 256 when Lord of an Eclipse 313 A time to obtain Justice of Rulers 197 K. Kings significators in Annual Judgements not exempt from the power of the Stars 219 Condition in any year 221 222 How to judge of their permanency 225 A time to obtain their favour 197 and their Pardon 198 L. A time for Lanching of Ships 195 A time for buying of Land 146 for Letting 149 if it be fertile 147 A time to prevail in Law-suits 181 Lawyers their significator general 220 reprehended * 21 A time to Learn Sciences 195 Arts or Occupations 198 A time for Lending of money 135 Leo its Nature Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its Rule 88 why ruled by the Sun 68 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 98 A time for composing of Letters 158 Lightning what it is 304 Liver a time to purge it 168 Lord of the Year how to know him according to the Antients 231 according to the Author 233 of the Aspects of the Planets to him 235 Loss how to judge of it 282 To know the Love between two married or any other 177 Low-countreymen why they shoke off the Spaniards Government 16 Lewdness described its portencies * 10 its remedy * 11 A time to purge the Lungs 168 Lybra its Nature Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its Rule 89 why ruled by Venus 88 why the fall of the Sun and exaltation of Saturn 69 the Number Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 100 M. Malefactor a time to make him confess Truth 185 Malevolents are not always Saturn and Mars 124 Man his vanity in general * 11 * 12 * 13 subject to Gods Government and Angels rule as well as to the power of the stars and how 22 wherein he differeth from a brute Creature 23 Mansions of the Moon their several qualities and Elections 130 A time for Manuring the Earth 148 A time for Marriage according to the Antients 176 according to the Author 177 the end thereof * 13 forced censured * 17 Markets described * 21 Mars his Nature Complexion Magnitude Distance from the Earth mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Humours Quality of men Corporature North Latitude South what Savours Colours Part in man Hearbs Trees and Spice ruled by him 54 what Winds Weather Signs Diseases or Triplicity Places Birds Stones Fish Beasts Mineral Day of the week Enemies Friends Angel Age Exaltation Fall Detriment Orb Regions Places Years 55 Joy 75 why so called and charactered 77 may sometimes be a benovolent and adjuvant Planet 124 216 significations when Lord of the Year 235 in any of the twelve Houses 241 in any of the twelve signs from 256 to 259 when Lord of an Eclipse 314 The vertue of Medicinal things how found out 161 A time for applying Medicines to all parts of the body 163 A time to purge Melancholy 168 A time to extract Melancholy blood 171 A time to purge any Member of the body 168 A time to purge the Members of Generation ibid. Merchants their significators general 220 Mercury his Nature Complexion Magnitude Distance from the Earth mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Quality of Men Corporature greatest North Latitude South Savours Colours and Part of man ruled by him 6â— Hearbs Drugs Trees Birds Serpents Stones Minerals Fishes Beasts Weather Winds Signs Triplicity Places Day of the week Regions Moneth after Conception Years Diseases c. under his Dominion Exaltation Fall Detriment Age Angel Friends Enemies 62 Joy 75 why so called and charactered 77 significations when Lord of the Year 235 in any of the twelve Houses 244 in any of the twelve signs from 263 to 265 when Lord of an Eclipse 314 Meridian what it is wherefore so called 80 A time for sending of Messengers 159 Method of the fourth Book 214 Miles how many in a sign of Heaven 79. A time for building of Mills 145 Minutes in a degree how many 79 Monarchial Government cast off by the English and why 17 Monks their significators general 220 A time for receiving Money 135 Moons Influence proved 11 12 mock-moons the cause of them 303 her Nature Complexion Magnitude mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Distance from the Earth Humours Quality of men Corporature North-Latitude South Colours Savours Hearbs Trees and Plants 63 Birds Stones Mineral Fishes Beasts Places Weather Winds Sign Triplicity Exaltation Fall Detriment Age Angel Enemies Friends Day of the week Regions Orb Years Moneth after conception Journies Diseases c. ruled by her 64 Joy 75 why so called and charactered 77 78 significations when Lady of the Year 235 in any of the twelve Houses of Heaven 245 in any of the twelve signs 266 A time to Learn Musick 195 N. Nails of the hands or feet a time to cut them 134 No Nation but hath good and bad in it * 23 Nativities Legality questioned and condemned as vain * 3. * 6 how far maintained by the Author 38 The study of Nature and help to the Knowledge of God * 22 38 its course may be altered and how * 5 how often since the Creation ibid. No New thing under the Sun * 25 * 26 Noblemen their significator general 220 A time for applying Remedies to the Nose 164 A time for sending Children to Nurse 132 Northern Inhabitants why strong bodyed rude and fair complexioned 15 O. Objections against Astrology answered from 18 to 23 Occidental what 111 A time for making odoriferous smels 158 Opposite Aspect or an Opposition why so called and charactered 93 wherefore malevolent 92 93 Oriental what 111 P. Palaces of Kings defined with their vanity * 21 Pantaura its vertue 58 A time for obtaining pardon of King 198 Parents Carelesness reprehended * 13 their folly in bringing up Children * 8 Partile Conjunction Sextile Square Trine and Opposition what 92 Of Partnership 178 The Patient his danger by being in the hands of an unskilful Physitian 161 Patriarchs Astrologers vid. Postscript A time of peace 182 How to judge of peace in any year 282 A wonderfull thing of Pease 11 12 People their significators in Annual Judgements 215 their State and Condition 222 and from 226 to 230 Peregrination what 111 How to know the permanency of Kings States Governments or any in Authority 225 Philosophers-stone what 27 studied by the most refined spirits in all ages and why so many miss of obtaining it 139 A time for administring Physick to all the parts of the body 163 Physick denyed to Children
and decrepit age 166 Physitians ought to be well versed in Astrologie 153 the errour of most of them 136 160 the Ignorant therein accounted by the rational rather fools then Physitians 23 160 280 what is requisite to perfect them in their Art being ignorant in Astrology can never safely administer Physick nor accounted by the judicious fit to be trusted with the lives of men 161 a time for going to his Patient 171 Phlebotomy what Constellations hinder it what farther Considerations when best to refrain when to use it 170 what time of the Moon is to be observed in all Ages and Humours of men 171 A time for administring Pils 168 Pisces its Nature Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its rule 91 why ruled by Jupiter 68 why the exaltation of Venus and fall of Mercury 69 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed stars 150 Planets Influence proved 10 13 Number Names Characters 49 What time is best to plant or sow 12 A time for planting of Trees 150 Platick Conjunction Sextile Square Trine and Opposition what 92 Plenty and scarcity depend on the motions and configurations of the Planets 10 How to judge of Plenty in any Year 284 A remarkable thing of the Pomegranate 12 When Preparatives ought to be administred 164 A time for Preparing Medicines 168 A time to give Presents 155 To know the Price of any thing to be bought or sold. 146 To know the Price of any thing in any Year from 285 to 288 Pride its Cause removed * 14 A time for freeing of Prisoners 201 A time for going of Progress 198 Prohibition what 110 A time for obtaining Promises 200 When to prune and cut Vines 12 Ptolomies method in judging of Eclipses from 310 to 315 A time for pulling down what hath been built 145 A time for taking of Purges 166 A time for putting on of Apparrel 137 156 Pyrophilus its vertue 57 Q. A time for Quarrels 179 Quartile Aspect its nature why so called and charactered why unfortunate 92 Questions if radical agree with the Nativity yet both rejected as not sufficient ground-works for Elections 322 the resolution thereof as practised among us by Impostors condemned * 3 * 6 38 R. Race-horses a time for buying them 173 Rain what it is how procreated 304 never seen in Egypt 290 Rainbow the cause thereof 304 how to judge of the weather thereby 302 Four Reasons why the pretended Reply to my Lux Veritatis is not taken notice of by me 24 another reason 26 another 30 A time to receive gifts 155 Reception what 111 Regrenation what ibid. Regions under Saturn 51 subject to Jupiter 53 Ruled by Mars 55 by the Sun 59 by Venus 60 by Mercury 62 by the Moon 64 by Aries 86 by Taurus and Gemini 87 by Cancer Leo and Virgo 88 by Libra and Scorpio 89 by Sagittary and Capricorn 90 by Aquarius and Pisces 91 A time for applying Remedies to all the parts of the Body 163 A time for removing 138 A time for renting of Houses Land Fruit or ought else 149 A time for obtaining Requests 200 Retrogradation what 110 That Birds may return that are let fly 173 A time for stopping of Rheumes 164 Revolution of the Starry-sphere of Saturn Sol Venus Mercury and the Moon 7 of Jupiter and Mars 8 Revolutions of the Years of the world their portencies the Radix or ground-work from which they are to be judged 214 how many Scheams ought to be set for the judging thereof 215 Considerations before judgement 216 217 Considerations from the Sun and Moon when the Revolution is either diurnal or nocturnal 274 at Suns set or at break of day Considerations from the Lord of the hour part of fortune its Dispositor the Position of Saturn and Mars the Conjunction of Dragons head with Saturn in Aries in Taurus in Gemini 276 in Cancer in Leo in Virgo in Libra in Scorpio in Sagittary in Capricorn in Aquarius in Pisces or of Dragons tail in any of these Signs And of Mars in Conjunction with Dragons head or Dragons tail in any of the twelve signs 277 from the fixed Stars in the twelve Houses from 305 to 308 Rich-men their Significators general in Annual judgements 200 Riches wherein they consist * 12 A time for riding of Horses 202 S. Sagittary its Nature and Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its rule 90 why ruled by Jupiter 68 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 102 Saturn his Influence proved 12 c. removal out of one Sign into another cause of change of Air 9 Colour Nature Magnitude diurnal Motion Distance from the Earth 49 Humours Profession Coporature Quality of men ruled by him Savours what part in man Hearbs Trees Plants and Birds 58 Stones Minerals Fishes Beasts Places Weather Winds Signs Triplicity Angel Age Friend Enemies Regions Orb 59 is sometimes a benovolent and adjuvant Planet 124 216 his Significations when Lord of the Year 234 in any of the twelve Houses of Heaven 237 238 in any of the twelve Signs from 249 to 253 when Lord of an Eclipse 313 Scarcity of any year how to judge of it 284 A time for setting of Children to School 132 Scorpio its Nature and Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its rule 89 why ruled by Mars 68 why the fall of the Moon 69 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 011 Second Book its subject * 2 Seconds how many in a minute 79 A time for sowing of Seeds 151 Self-endedness reprehended * 14 A time for selling to gain thereby 137 Of selling and buying ibid. Separation what 110 A time for hiring Servants 172 Seth an Astrologer Epist. Dedic 1. vid. Postscript Sextile Aspect its nature why so called and charactered benevolent 92 A time for building of Ships 194 When the Sick is not likely to recover 198 How to judge of Sickness in any year 280 Significations of Saturn and Jupiter when Lords of the Year in any Annual Revolution 234 when rulers of an Eclipse 313 of Mars the Sun Venus Mercury and the Moon when Lords or Ladies of the Year 235 Mars Venus and Mercury when rulers of an Eclipse 314 in any of the twelve Houses or Signs from 237 to 268 in their exaltations or mutual aspects 269 270 exalted one above another from 271 to 273 of Dragons head and tail 247 of the Planets in any Triplicity 248 Significators of the King People and their Enemies in any Annual Revolution 219 of all sorts of People 220 Signs what they are why called Signs how many degrees in a Sign how many Minutes in a degree how many Seconds in a Minute how many Miles or Furlongs a Sign consisteth of 79 their Names and Characters Divisions 81 why so called and
charactered 83 c. why reckoned from Aries and not placed in the Heavens according to the order of the four Elements 85 A time to learn to Sing 196 Sinister Aspect what it is its nature 93 A time for buying of small Cattel 173 of taming of them 174 A time for making sweet Smels 150 A time for administring Sneezings 165 Snow what it is 304 Southern Inhabitants why quickwitted 15 A time for ridding houses of Spirits 151 A time to purge the Spleen 168 Spring-time the cause thereof 9 11 Square Aspect its Nature why so called and charactered why malevolent 92 Standard-bearers their significators 220 Stars portencies what * 4 cause of sterility and fertility proved by the Word of GOD 5 most effectual and never perverted but by miracle * 4 both Signs and Causes warranted by the word of GOD 35 influence proved 3 6 10 11 14 15 16 17 18 maintained by sacred writ in spite of its Antagonists 23 31 and 33 The Annual motion of the Starry-sphere 7 10 Stationary what 110 Sterility and fertility on what they depend 10 how to judge thereof in any Year 284 A time for Storming Castles and Towns 182 To know the Strength of any Planet in any Sign 66 A time for Studying divine matters or ought else 141 Summer the cause thereof 9 11 why not alike hot every Year 9 what Physick is therein most safe to be taken 166 Sun his Influence proved 10 18 his nature complexion magnitude distance from the Earth mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Quality of men 56 Corporature Savours Colours Part in man Hearbs Spice Trees Birds Stones 57 Minerals Fishes Beasts Weather Places Winds Sign Triplicity Exaltation Fall Detriment Age Angel Friends Enemies 58 Day of the week Regions Orb Moneth after conception Years Diseases 59 Significations when Lord of the Year 235 in any of the twelve Houses 241 his Presence or Absence not alone the cause of heat or cold 9 Mock-Suns the reason thereof 303 under the Sunbeams what 111 Superiour what ibid. T. Tables of the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of the most notable fixed Stars in every Sign from 94 to 105 of the Essential dignities of the Planets according to Ptolomy or rather an unknown Author 95 of their fortitude and debilities 66 c. of the Aspects of the Moon to the other Planets and Elections thereby 129 of the mansions of the Moon 130 A time for Taming small Cattel 174 Taurus its Nature Quality Corporature 86 Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its rule 87 why ruled by Venus 68 why the Exaltation of the Moon 69 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 95 Term what it is wherefore so called and why so attributed to the Planets 71 their use 72 Terms of Art explained 110 c. A time for apprehending Thieves 184 to make them confess truth 185 Third book its subject * 2 Thirds how many in a second 79 Thunder what it is 304 A time for Tilling the ground 148 A time to cut Timber to keep long 12 What Time is best to use Physick 166 Phlebotomie 170 A Time for all things under the Sun 145 A convenient time to set Children to a Trade 132 Tradition in some kind censured * 3 * 6 Translation what 111 Translation of light among the Planets and what is thereby portended in Revolutions 279 A time for planting of Trees 150 Trine aspect its Nature why so called and charactered 93 why good and benevolent 92 93 Triplicity what it is how many how nominated by what Planet ruled and wherefore 70 Tydes not so apparent in the Atlantick Sea as in others and why in some places they are hindred 11 V. Venereal sports a time for them 178 A time for applying Ventosies 170 Venus her Nature Complexion Magnitude Distance from the Earth mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Quality of men 58 Coporature Part of man Beasts Hearbs Spice Trees Perfumes Birds Stones Mineral Fishes Weather Winds Places Signs Triplicity Day of the week Regions Years Diseases ruled by her her Age Angel Exaltation Fall Detriment Enemy Friends 60 her joy 75 why so called and charactered 77 is sometimes a malevolent and interficient Planet 124 216 Significations when Lady of the Year 235 in the twelve Houses 243 in the twelve Signs from 261 to 263 when Lady of an Eclipse 314 How to order the matter for Victory 179 How to judge of Victory in any year 282 When to prune and cut Vines 12 Virgo its Nature Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its rule 88 why ruled by Meâ—cury 68 why his exaltation and fall of Venus 69 the Number Names Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 99 Vertue of Hearbs Stones Minerals Drugs and other Medicinal things how found out 280 Vnfortunate Planets 127 A time for making of Vnguents 158 A time for Voyaging 195 Void of Course what 111 W. A time for War 179 to judge of the event 181 how to judge of it in any year where and when it shall happe 281 who shall be the beginner thereof 283 A time to bring Water to an House by pipe or otherwaies 148 A time for Weaning of Children 133 Weather how to judge of it from 288 to 303 A time for digging of Wells 148 How to know the Whisperings of any two 185 Will of any one if to be altered or stand in force and how to judge of the state thereof 189 How to Win at any game 186 Wind what it is 304 Winter the cause thereof 9 11 why not all alike cold 9 what physick is therein best to be taken 166 Women their significators general 220 their Darling toys described * 19 Word of God the chiefest Good * 22 World how governed by GOD since he finished his six days work * 5.4 ruled by Planets 328 the vanity thereof in general * 7 its description and vanity more particularly from * 14 to * 19 turned topfie turvy * 17 Writing of Letters a time therefore 158 Y. Year whether likely to be turbulent or obnoxious 278 plentiful or scarce 284 Greater Years of the Planets how known 71 Youth and its vanity and folly described * 9 * 10 From my Study at my Fathers House in Holborn within two doors of the wounded Heart near the Kings Gate this 17 of January 1652. FINIS Reader AS in all Volumes you shall finde the Printers faults so in this by reason it is a work wherewith they are unacquainted mayest thou abundantly finde their failings which I would intreat thee candidly to pass by and amend with thy pen before thou adventurest to read the same especially or that some are so gross and absurd they may otherwise lead thee into an errour unless thou art well acquainted with this manner of learning I have put the fault all along according as it should be amended in a different letter
a great appearance or outward gloss of Friendship unto thee yet are they never cordial and real Friends but fained outsides But on the other side let such be deer unto thee and chosen for thy friends and familiars that are honest and prudent and as Cicero saith whose integrity constancy fidelity and liberality is known to all their acquaintance Let him that is zealously affected with and to vertuous and religious acts be thy associate and choice companion for as Plato saith friendship was given by nature to Mankind to help us and further us to vertuous inclinations not to vitious lewd and sordid practices wherefore Pythagoras very excellently said if we would shun vice we must be familiar but with few and Dicearchus would intimate the same unto us when he adviseth us to make the vertuous only our Friends if we desire to keep the name of vertuous and honest men and the rest of the world if possible welwillers unto us wherefore wise Bias very wisely said He was not wise that would make every one his Familiar whence I may also conclude that in the multitude of friendship is friendship violated Do not exceed then in abundance of friends and acquaintance for if thou hast but a few honest men and real friends to be thy friends thou mayst be assured thou dost exceedingly abound in friends Caveats in choosing of friends And now that thou mayst not be an enemy to thy self in this thy choice let me here give thee one or two Memorandums First that you let not common applause or reproach be a rule or ground to your affection or dis-esteem of any one but first seriously examine the truth and then accordingly mayst thou use thy discretion and reason Secondly let not the Nation of a man deter thee from real affection if there be sufficient cause and ground to the contrary for it were absurd in us to think all Nations evil and our selves only good As there are both good and bad amongst us so is there also in the very ruralest of Nations what reason have we to think all the Irish blood-thirsty all the Scots deceitfull all the French fantastical c. because many of them are so For my part if I meet with any man of these that is true-hearted and honest or of any other Nation they shall be more deer unto me then a thousand English Knaves and as I will not conclude any man of another Nation a Knave or Honest till I have experience thereof so will I not be so indulgent as to make no question of those of my own Nation but carry a like suspition of both the one and the other till I am rightly and truly informed The Scots are vulgarly amongst us traduced and envyed and yet they cannot be so odious here but amongst them we are as contemptible Tradition carries a great sway with fools and the vulgar but with wise men it is never regarded Thirdly let not the apparel or cloaths of any one stave thee off from the familiar society of friendship it is not the Peacocks fine feathers that can make him sing like a Nightingal a Philosopher may be in rags when an Idiot is gorgeously arrayed look not to the outside but the inside rather of a man and thou shalt not be deceived How to know a true friend Now to know the reality of thy friend or whether thou hast a true friend or no see that in your tryal of him you let him not know your condition let it be in what degree or thing soever you prove him in it would be too tedious a thing for me to speak of every thing and way whereby thou mayst try him wherefore I shall here only instance one by which according to the same method thou mayst judge of the rest Admit you would borrow money then be sure first you want not money lest if your friend fail you you are exposed to want and sorrow yet be not known upon any condition to him you are or can be supplied lest then on the other side he knowing your ability readily performs your request and you thereby kept still ignorant of his affection for take this for a sure Rule that that and that only is real love that without regard to requital or consideration at all thereunto sets it self on work let it be in this or any other kinde whatsoever wherefore if thou hast found such a Friend as this thou hast assuredly a faithfull and real Friend indeed never believe the fair pretences and promises of men neither their alluring tongues and smooth speeches which commonly are the properties of dissemblers and false-hearted or hollow-hearted people for you shall seldom see a fair tongue and a dissembling heart go asunder wherefore if any such thou findest thou hast more matter of suspition then credit given thee But remember that in proving of thy Friend thou render not thy self so unfriendly to him as to require any unlawfull thing at his hand for then assuredly thou must not only expect a denial of thy present request from thy friend but the future friendship of thy Friend hereafter How to keep a true friend That thou mayst now keep a true Friend when thou hast found him it is requisite as I have promised to give thee some Rules Wherefore then let your patience be reciprocal your opinions mutual your love in all matters especially things of indifferency free let your love be for love not recompence or gain And for that Nemo sine crimine vivit there is none without a fault you are to hide them and to wink at them in one another provided they proceed from frailty and imbecility of Nature and when you admonish or reprehend a friend let it be in a place and at a time convenient not openly in company but privately between you and him otherways you will harden him in his way and work no good on him not when he or thy self is in passion for this will cause thy words to be lightly esteemed and work no impression on him And let thy speech be gentle and mild yet be plain with him and speak to the purpose overcome him rather with mildness and clemency then anger and rigour by which he will be constrained rather to adhere unto thee and acknowledge himself obliged for this favour then remain obstinate and wilfull But let me now returne to shew thee the method of these my subsequent Labours In the penning of them I have bin very plain for that I desire to be understod Animis scribo non auribus I write to edifie my readers understanding not to please his eare with fine words rather respecting the matter then syllables and I have endeavoured to compare one Author with another and those with a third and again a fourth with all almost on every subject and where one hath been short I have inlarged with another and where all have failed to my expectation I have supplied of my self according to Didacus Stella in Luc. 10.
to please my own fancy and humour although Providence hath now made them publique But here it may be some will carp at my writing in English but at such I shall only laugh for I aym to benefit the ingenious of my own Country and write to their edification not to shew my self a Scholar or a welwiller to Forrainers but I would fain ask such Creatures whether Homer that wrote in Greek or Cicero in Latine were not as worthy reprehension as I that write in English since those were also their vulgar tongues or what advantage or benefit should the people of my Nation receive by having an unknown language delivered them I write not to a few but to them all in general But if I may be plain the thing that most troubles them is their Trade will be spoild by reason their Juglings and Cheatings are beaten down and the substantial part of the Art so plainly divulged But to these men I say let them sorrow and repent themselves of their hypocrisie self-endedness pride and coveteousness the root of all evil and learn love humility charity and to purchase unto themselves general spirits I know the consciences of some of them will testifie unto themselves they are herein spoken to and presently imagine I speak in ill will to them being conscious to themselves they have given me sufficient cause by their frequent disparagements of me to some of my acquaintance But I appeal to an higher power to be Judge of this my action I do not envy or bear ill will to any of their persons but I cannot endure to have men pretend to promote an Art or any thing else and yet in the mean time act nothing less nor nothing more then the ingrossing of it wholly to themselves it is this and this only that causeth me in any place to hint at them wherefore since I know my own innocency herein I shall be content to let them rail and revile me at their pleasure The Authors lâ—fe It resteth now I refer you to the subsequent Discourses but first I shall deliver unto the World a testimony of my Birth Breeding and Life hitherto being by some calumniated of late and now likely to incur more of their bitterness by these my labours and let not the Reader wonder I witness of my self for it is no more then many of the Ancients and Fathers of the Church have done before me besides I am not so ancient but what I write may by one or other also be justified The time and place of his birth and his parentage and family I was born the thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord 1625. stilo Angliae in the City of Westminster in the County of Middlesex Angliae My Mother was by birth of England as were all her Predecessors my Father of Scotland and that of an antient family viz. of Eighther-house which hath flourished in great glory for 1500 years till these latter days as the Records there testifie The original of my Name and stock The Original of our Name was from the residence of his and my Progenitors in the Land of Egypt from the pleasantness of the soyl where they inhabited or of herbs growing thereon which therefore had the same name RAMESEY in English being as much as to say Joy and Delight and this was in that County which is called Goshen from thence they came into Germany under the conduct of the Roman Emperour in which Wars for their service they obtained of him in a field Argent the Eagle sable displayed with one head for their coat of Arms whence the War being ended being desirous to travel they took ship intending for England and being often kept back by stress of weather and Divine Providence they at length resolved to take that place for their residence to Posterity where they should be first forced to Land and not many days after it so happened they were driven into an harbour in Scotland on that coast which is called Fife where they being but eight in number left alive built the aforesaid house and called it by that name in their Language which hath since been thus called according to the speech of the Countrey viz. Eighther-house It is further recorded of them that as they increased in number they dispersed themselves into several Families of the which Dalhousie is now reported the chief William Lord Ramesey being Earl thereof Of But to come neerer home when our late Soveraign Lord King James of happy memory came to the Crown of England he sent into France for my Father who was then there and made him Page of the Bed-chamber and Groom of the Privy-chamber and Keeper of all his Majesties Clocks and watches this I mention for that by Viz. So â—e of that Trade to countenance and credit themselvs in the Kings time affirming him to be their Master and now since by others through envy thinkâ—ng thereby to upbraid and reproach both him and me some he hath bin termed no better then a watch-maker I contemn no trade or lawful vocation whatsoever but I would have men speake the truth it 's confest his ingenuity led him to understand any peece of work in that nature we read the same of Henry the 4th of France and Lewis the 13th and many Princes and Emperors of Germany and others which I could but for brevities sake record and therefore the king conferred that place upon him Now how this should prove him a Watch-maker and no other more then the late Earles of Pembrook ordinary Chamberlains because they bore this office in the Kings house do thou judge but this by the way Where the Author had his education and how he hath since spent his days As soon as I was of any capacity I was put to School in St. Albones in Hartfordshire Bushy Westminster Milend-green and other places and when I should have gone to Oxford by reason of our late differences I was prevented and therefore being desirous to further my Learning I importuned my Father to send me to St. Andrews in Scotland but there also I was disappointed by the frequent approaches of the Marquess of Montrosse and his Army I therefore rather then fail setled in Edinburgh Colledge where I continued till it pleased God to visit that Town with Pestilence the which at length growing very hot I returned in April 1645. into England and have remained in London ever since wholly applying my self as ever to the study of Nature and the more secret and sublime Sciences but practised nothing save Physick for our home-bred differences and distractions rending me with many others mean in the sight of the more inferiour Spirits of the world for wealth and honour I perceive brings not nobleness of mind I would not associate my self with many men and much acquaintance but still lived an obscure retired and reserved life dedicating myselfe wholly I say to my book so that I dare boldly averr notwithstanding I was born and bred-up
all my days in and about this City of London save only the time I was in Scotland I am not familiarly acquainted with three people in all England for such is my disposition that I had rather be a stranger in the Land of my Nativity in this perverse and rebellious Age and to the generality of men living therein then to my self and my own conscience the which so long as I may freely enjoy I shall never repine but be ever content with what condition loss or change soever God hath farther in his Wisdom and Providence decreed for me to whom for eternal protection I shall here commend thee and remain Die ☿ 19. Januarii 1652. Thy Loving Friend William Ramesey On his Ever Honoured and most Ingenious Friend the unparalleld AUTHOR WHy wert not thou produced in those Days In which Philosophers did wear the Bays Learning and Art in this Age are beat down Learning of old was had in great renown In Syria Greece and Babylonia A rabia Persia Lacedemonia ' Mongst the Caldeans also and Assyrians REnown'd Egyptians and Sydonians And Indians with our Neighbours of France Much honoured it and still did it advance Each then in vertue striving to exceed So vertuous were they Now in our need Even when it was almost forgotten quite You were brought forth to bring it unto light W. D. Iatromathematicus On this incomparable Work and my worthy Friend the Ingenious AUTHOR VVHat shall I of these learned Labours write Or of the Author what shall I indite Come all ye Gods assist this pen of mine Come all ye Sisters come ye Muses Nine Lend here your help and let now all men know If they in Mysteries desire to grow Here they the Treasure of the East may finde And Natural hidden causes to their minde How by the vertue of the glorious Stars Health Sickness Plenty Scarcity Peace Wars Are brought to pass in their due time and all Things that are done in this World great and small And that God worketh not prepostrously As some men strangely have maintaind but by Order and Nature he brings all to pass Which we may clearly see as in a glass Could we but read the volumes of the Skie As here the Author clears it to the eye Of every notion whose elaborate pains Be recompensed with immortal gains And when he shall be taken from this place Let him be fixt amongst the Stars to grace Those Heavenly bodies and those Lamps of Light For he hath made them glorious in our sight I. W. Vpon the Authors Elaborate Pains in these his Labours VVHO in his Writings seeks all men to please Is not unlike the Merchant on the Seas Meeting with rocks winds pyrates shelves and sands Yet boldly ventures ere at home he lands His Ship full fraught returned safe and sound Discharg'd of Wealth wherewith she did abound He sits him still and lives at quiet ease Thinks the Land better then the boystrous Seas Even so our Friend in these ungratefull times Hath brought home learning bred in Forraign Clymes Is sure to meet with Find-Faults for his pains When he seeks nought but profit to their brains And pleasure all men Dolts do ever pine When they see Learning live and Vertue shine All Ages Sorts of men and Learned Schools Have honour'd this rare Science save some Fools Who neither know nay will not understand Unto what purpose God hath given command To the great Lights of Heaven Planets and Stars To shew their power on these Inferiours I envy none yet hee 's no Friend of mine Who having Pearl's will cast them unto Swine The Commonwealth of Learning cannot flourish If she instead of True-born Bastards nourish Some say those things are best which are in common But in these speculations there is no man Will so adjudge For an illiterate head But only taught to spell perhaps to read His mother Tongue high Secrets to expound Mis-leading others runs himself on ground But as our Merchant in some Forraign soyl Hath got a precious Jewel by his toyl And industry hoping thereby to raise His Fortunes brings it home which he doth praise Unto his Friends It they much magnifie And some choice person doth his Jewel Buy And much esteem it So this Far-fetcht piece Of Heavenly Science will the Golden Fleece Even much resemble Th' Author honoured be As Jason was to all Posterity I. B. The Contents of the First BOOK CHAP. I. PRoving Astrology to be one of the Liberal Sciences Fol. 1. CHAP. II. That Astrology and Astronomie are one and the same Science and that they were ever so received by the Ancients Fol. 3. CHAP. III. Shewing the excellency and nobility of the Science of Astrology as also its antiquity and the admirable power and vertues of the Heavens Fol. 4. CHAP. IV. That the Stars and Heavens have influence on inferiour and elementary bodies proved by Scripture or the Word of God and acknowledged by the Philosophers and the learned in former Ages Fol. 5. CHAP. V. Shewing that observation may be made of the motions of the Stars in answer to those that hold it impossible for any man in his days to observe the particular configurations of every Planet with the fixed stars and with one another as also that thereby we may discern their Influences if we have any capacity Fol. 7. CHAP. VI. That the variation of the Heavens from their places wherein they were in Ptolomies time or at the first Creation causeth no Errour in Astrological judgements Fol. 8. CHAP. VII Shewing the powerfull influence of the Stars and Planets and how far we are to have regard to the fixed stars Fol. 10. CHAP. VIII Shewing further the influence of the Heavens on inferiour and elementary bodies Fol. 14. CHAP. IX Shewing that the influences of the Heavens and predominancy of the stars in every climate is the cause of the several Laws and Customs of the people therein Fol. 16. CHAP. X. Containing the resolution of the main objections against this Divine Science Fol. 18. CHAP. XI Containing an Introduction to the vindication of my Lux Veritatis from the aspersions of Dr. Homes and his second with the first reason why I accounted him not worthy of my notice Fol. 23. CHAP. XII Comprehending three reasons more why that rabble of theirs was not worthy answering as to every quirk Fol. 24. CHAP. XIII Containing the Authors fourth reason and a vindication of both him and his Lux Veritatis from some of their abuses and untruths and their juglings and evasions manifested Fol. 26. CHAP. XIV Containing the Authors fifth Reason and the Scripture proofs alledged for Astrology in his Lux Veritatis proved to remain unshaken Fol. 30. CHAP. XV. Shewing that the Text in the 19. Psal ver 3. alledged by the Author to prove the Stars have influence is no wise refelled Fol. 32. CHAP. XVI Proving their Reply to Job 38.31 shewing the Stars to have influence to be frivilous and of no effect Fol. 33. CHAP. XVII Proving
it apparent where the whole influence of the Heavens and the increase of all Vegetatives are attributed to the Sun and Moon viz. For the precious fruits brought forth by the Sun Nota. and for the precious things put or thrust forth by the Moon Again we see cleerly in many places of Scripture the stars are called the Hoasts of Heaven Further that the stars have influence which certainly would never have been thus named were they of no force and efficacy the word hosts intimating their power and strength see 2 King chap. 17. ver 16. and chap. 21. ver 3.5 and chap. 23. ver 4 5 c. So likewise God himselfe expressing his omnipotent and irresistible power and force he is called the Lord of Hosts Isa 24. v. 23. Is 23.9 and chap. 22. v. 5.12.14 15 25 and many several other places which are worth the while to peruse But further to put this matter quite out of doubt viz. That the stars have their influence on Elementary bodies see Deut 4.19 where you see cleerly they are for the use of man divided or imparted unto all Nations under the Sun by which if any man shall conclude and affirm is meant their light Object or that distinction which they cause between day and night Answ and of seasons I must needs tell him his conclusion is very weak since we have so small use of their light either in the day or night that it may very well be counted none at all and as touching that distinction of days and seasons the Sun and Moon would be sufficient for that matter without those innumerable Hoasts of Heaven the starres Nota. therefore the use of the stars must in this place have a further constrution The influence of the stars extends to the temperature of men as we see in Lunatick To the success of mens affairs also though denyed by some The influence of the stars acknowledged by Philosophers Moreover that their influences have power and extend to the temperature of men appeareth Matth. 17.14 where the lunatick is offered unto Christ to be healed whose distemper as experience and common example sheweth followeth the course of the Moon and to the success of mens affairs doth yet further appeare by Judg. 5.20 where it is recorded that the stars in their courses fought against Sisera of the which more anon as also that passage in the 38 of Job and the 19 Psal as touching the Pleiades and Orion and that the Heavens declare the glory of God their voice or language of the stars being gone through the whole earth c. Thus have we cleerly seen the influence of the stars proved by the Word of God how they were esteemed in former ages by all Philosophers Emperours Kings and the nobler spirited people you may see if you will have regard to the 4 Sec. chap. 1. of my Lux Veritatis where you may see not onely the great esteem the Art was in amongst all wise and learned men in former ages but also the names of the chiefest Patriarchs Fathers Philosophers Emperours and Kings that were students herein which notwithstanding the pretended arguments of the envious against it stands unshaken as will appeare to any that shall peruse it comparing it with the pretended Replyers discourse therefore here I shall refer thee thereunto being desirous to be as short as possibly I can CHAP. V. Shewing that observation may be made of the Stars motions in answer to those that hold it impossible for any man in his days to observe the particular configurations of every Planet with the fixed Stars and with one another as also that thereby we may discern their influence if we have any capacity Observation teacheth us the stars influence I Shall here therefore now shew that observation will clearly evince us that the Stars have admirable influence on these inferiour and elementary things for though it be most certain that the Heavens make not their Revolution under 36000. years yet is its variation so slow as that it dependeth upon the motion of the fixed Stars so that before there can be any great difference worth speaking of the same constellations may be often observed in particular though not in the whole for the fixed Stars according to the neerest account of our late Writers or the sphear in which they are move not above one degree which is 60. minutes in 72. years in which time there is none but who are altogether ignorant that cannot make sufficient observation of every constellation worth noting for the confirmation of their influence for though they move from East to West once in 24. hours so making this Diurne Revolution 366. times in a year yet since in respect of the motion of this Sphear from West to East these 366. Revolutions causeth not a minutes difference it must needs follow that the very same fixed stars do rise culminate set That the true nature of the Stars may be known and how and lie in the same Circle of position and also may be in configuration of the Sun and any of the other Planets and that so exactly in one and the same place or part of Heaven that it is impossible with any instrument to discern any variation either in the longitude latitude declination right or oblique ascention thereof so that hereby it is clear the nature of any star may be found out and be exactly known The power of the Planets But now as touching the Planets first we attribute as is clear to every vulgar notion most power and efficacy to the Sun next to the Moon then to Venus and so to Mercury and next to Jupiter and Saturn and lastly to Mars this I mean in relation to their motion with the Sun for by how much the light of the Planets to us is greater and their motion swifter by so much are their operations necessarily the more apparent and manifest to us or our sense we prefer Venus before Mercury for that though he be swifter yet is she the greater and so consequently of more efficacy and the reason why Mars is of least note or most obscure unto us is for that he is lesse then Saturn and Jupiter who are preferred before him and moveth in so large and great an Epicycle that he seldomest rancounters with the Sun The significations of the influence of the Stars are soon found out in relation to their configurations with the Moon with the Sun Venus and Mercury In relation to the configurations of Saturn Jupiter and Mars with them And we know that the Moon as I have said in chap 4. of my Lux Veritatis sect 2. finisheth her course through the Zodiack every 28. days and some odd hours viz. twelve times in a year by which we may and do plainly perceive her configurations viz. Conjunction Sextile Trine Square and Opposition with every Star in the whole Heavens both fixed and errant and thereby their nature and mixture often to be known
and discerned and that very certainly The Sun Venus and Mercury also do every year once finish their course so that also hereby every year we may and do plainly see and finde out their own specifical nature and the properties of the other Stars viz. fixed as also their mixtures and that before any sensible errour can be made by the motion of the Starry Sphear Again Saturn Jupiter and Mars although they are by reason of their superiority of flower motion yet doth it neither any ways hinder but that their effects may easily and soon as also their mixtures among themselves and the fixed stars be known for though Saturn be 29. years some odd moneths and days making his revolution or running his course through the twelve Signs of the Zodiack Jupiter twelve years Mars three years yet by reason of their long continuance in every sign as also by their retrogradations stations and directions coming often to the conjunction of the Stars in the Sign wherein they are and to the Aspects of others in other Signs we cannot but often and plainly be taught to perceive the several influence of every star in the whole Zodiack without the least sense of errour especially since the Luminaries also the Sun and Moon in the mean time come to them and so make commixture of their influence yearly and monethly The Influence of the Stars taught at large by former Astrologers Of all which the Student in Astrologie cannot be ignorant if he but warily observe his Authors who have sufficiently and largely declared them all unto him as they by observation and frequent practice have both been found out and approved by them to be most effectually true from Age to Age yet if thou beest so curious as I could wish thou wert and all other ingenious souls as that thou wilt make particular observation thereof thy self Nota. thou mayest see that before the Starry Heaven moveth a degree Saturn who is the very slowest of the Planets finisheth his course and cometh to Conjunction Sextile Square Trine or Opposition of every particular Star of every particular magnitude in every particular of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack twice and Jupiter six times Mars 24. times the Sun Venus and Mercury 72. times and the Moon 864. times or thereabouts but oftner and more frequently they meet with one another I mean the Planets as the great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter happeneth once in twenty years of Saturn and Mars once in two years c. So that particular observation of their effects may easily and that in a mans life be both observed and known distinctly I say if any be thus curious Thus far chiefly to clear the point I intend here next to insist upon viz. That the Stars and their influence have power over all sublunary things least some should as of late they have render themselves ridiculous to posterity in denying both their effects and power or at least in affirming man if they have any is not able to comprehend the depth thereof c. CHAP. VI. That the variation of the Heavens from their places wherein they were in Ptolomies time or at the first Creation causeth no erring in Astrological Iudgements Object ANd first since it is objected by some That the true effects of the stars cannot be known by us for that Ptolomie whom we account as a chief Doctor amongst us in the delivering the mysteries and instructions of this Art writ so long since that the Heavens are gone some whole degrees from their places they were in at his time and therefore the same Rules will not now hold which he delivered Answ For the answering of this Objection I should do well to say no more then this that it is altogether weak and occasioned through ignorance c. and not trouble my self further to answer what needs no answer The motion of the Heavens since Ptolomies time nor indeed since the first Creatlon is any cause of errour in Astrologers judgements in this our Age. but least those for whom I have undertaken these my labours should then for that they are not well grounded in the Art think this Goliah to be more then it is I shall say thus much that Ptolomie tyed us not by his Writings to be confined to use his Rules for those places the Signs were in at that time but thus Saturn in Aries signifieth so and so where ever Aries be removed for it is the nature of the Sign the Planet is in that causeth him to have such and such a signification not the place where the Sign is in respect of the Revolution of the Starry Sphear for then we making no such observation for the direction of our Judgements should never be able to predict any thing of certainty besides if this had been necessary Ptolomy would have taught us accordingly and also have directed the precepts of the Art to have dependency on the place of the Heavens at the Creation which were as far removed before his time as they have been since so that since the first Creation of all things Aries the first sign and so consequently uniformly all the rest in that Starry Sphear is removed and revolved in the course of its motion neer upon three whole signs according to Ticho his Account which if this were of any or the least moment as I have said we should never possibly be able having no regard thereunto to foretell any thing with certainty But our Rules run on another strain as hath been said viz. a Planet in such a Sign signifieth so and so let it be by its revolution where it will c. But this we finde daily certain and the other consequently then of no efficacy as for example We see clearly and that to be testified by every vulgar notion that when the Sun comes into the Equinoctial point of Aries the Spring forthwith begins to shew it self The aforesaid objection cleared by example every thing by its humidity and temperate heat being thereby made to flourish and as it were to rise again from the dead which have by the tedious blasts of the Hyemnal Ayr been kept in obscurity and this without respect to the place where Aries was in Ptolomies time or at the first Creation which neither then at that time had any other but the same efficacy now they have though they may be intended or remitted by the conjunctions and configurations of the Planets or by the variation of their declination as they dart their beams more or less down perpendicularly upon us and so work more or less powerfully at one time then another in the same place So likewise when he enters into the first Solstice or the Tropick of Cancer he being then neerest our Zenith causeth Summer in the second Equinoctial Libra Autumn in the last Trophick Capricorn Winter c. But to put this matter quite out of doubt let us but observe when the Sun comes into the Sign Taurus and
elementary bodies and things The Authors appeal to what he himself hath delivered in his Vox Stellarum for the justification of the validity and certainty of Astrology and for the proving the Stars and Planets to have influence over sublunary bodies and that by our monthly and yeerly prognostication made apparent to every vulgar notion and capacity so that for the further justification and confirmation thereof I shall not need to desire any better testimony then my Vox Stellarum and the writings of some of those seen in this heavenly Art published for the last yeer and the two ensuing yeers viz. till the latter end of 1654 provided they are guided by the rules of Art For instance since as touching my Vox Stellarum now I have so fit an opportunity First from page 19 to 21 and from page 105 to 107 you may see I positively concluded we should have war the yeer 1652 and yet by all judicious men it seemed very improbable both at the time of my penning and publishing that book it being wrote in August 1651 and Printed in October following at which time we were in a very seeming setled condition yet we can all now experimentally testifie that by the time the Summer quarter was well began we were at slashing and pelting with the Hollanders and they with us and at swords drawing in the Spring quarter Secondly in the thirty third page though I durst not speak plain English then yet I hope it will be no offence now it is past to mention it I declared in Latin that those signified by the sign wherein Saturn was should have the better Saturn was then in Cancer under which sign is Holland and Scotland and I need not ask either our Army in the one and Fleet against the other of the verity thereof and it is further to be noted that both these were acted about one and the same time Thirdly in the 134 page I shewed the inclination of those in Authority to Taxations and what man is there that looks into his purse but can aver that in that very Winter-quarter the Tax was raised 30000. l per mensem above what it was before Fourthly in the 103 page you may see I mentioned mischief to men by Thunder and Lightning and how fatal this proved even to the astonishment of us all is well known to all England especially to those in Leiton in Cheshire in which Town on the 20 of June 1652 being Sunday there was in the Sermon time eleven slain in the Church by Thunder and Lightning and many hurt To be short let the Merchants and such as make long Voyages hinted at in the 16. and 17. pages and other places of my Book testifie whether they have not received many crosses losses and miseries and the people in general and whether many have not sustained losses by thieves and hurts or wounds the year 1652. Also whether there was not an unusual dryness in the Summer a scarcity of Fruits insolency in the Commons fraud and deceit amongst most men treachery and such like evils abundantly mentioned in many places of that Treatise and many more which at this time I forbear to particularize Only for a farther testimony of the verity and admirable excellency of this Science let me intreat thee to make particular observation of what I have predicted by the Eclipse of the 29. of March 1652. treated of also in that same Vox Stellarum and Lux Veritatis whose effects will operate till towards the latter end of the year 1654. and tell me then what you think thereof when you shall see what is here mentioned come so punctually true as also excess of heat in Summer and divers maladies and infirmities afflicting men in general Wherefore let the weakest capacity judge then what reason or sense there is in such men as shall traduce so worthy and incomparable an Art as this which they never broke sleep to understand but content themselves being altogether ignorant with a bold facing down the unspeakable validity worth and excellency thereof which of all Arts and Sciences is both the most noble and so deserving the study of the more refined and heavenly Spirits and also the chief and most delectable of all the liberal Sciences Wherefore what hath been said shall suffice at this time for the confirmation of the influence of Jupiter and the rest since I desire not to be more tedious then I needs must and since this will be cleared more fully anon when we come to treat of Eclipses Comets Great Conjunctions and Blazing-stars where we shall shew and teach their nature and influence over all earthly things whatsoever I shall for this consideration as also for that we are here in this place still to treat of the influence of the Heavens and then to speak a word or two of that Discourse late published in pretence of a Reply to my Lux Veritatis least this Treatise grow too big crave your pardon till anon CHAP. VIII Shewing the Influence of the Heavens on Inferiour and Elementary Bodies All general accidents whatsoever are and may be known by revolutions of the World Eclipses Comets great Conjunctions and Blazing-Stars in a natural way IN this place then we are to treat of the Influence of the Heavens you have already heard how for matter of plenty or scarcity they are the immediate causes next under God and that proved and warranted both by Scripture and the Learned in former Ages for then that Eclipses Revolutions of the World Comets Blazing-stars and great Conjunctions treate of the Accidents general of all Nations Kingdoms and Languages there is nothing more true viz. plenty scarcity health plague wars peace alteration of ayr and mutations in the Laws Customs Rights and Priviledges of Nations and to be short of things appertaining to the life of man in a Natural way c. And if we have regard to Ptolomy lib. 2. cap. 2. 3. de Quadr. we shall finde that he doth not only refer the Nature and Custom of Nations unto the general Inclination and Nature of the Triplicity they are under but the inclinations of their minde particularly as well as the shape and form of their bodies as also their manners and kinde of life as those who are inhabitants of the Torrid Zone as hath been said are black Of those that live in the Torrid Zone having also black and crisped hair of a mean stature and of a hot constitution and of a fierce and cruel spirit propter longam assiduam solis moram in eorum regionibus by reason of the long and constant stay of the Sun in that Region or Climate nigra sunt corpora eorum quia Sol per Zenith suorum capitum currit eosque comburit they are black over all their body by reason the Sun constantly transites their Zenith and so scorcheth them that they are of that hue Of the inhabitants of the South And these Inhabitants of the South
Cities and Regions under Saturn his Dominion and the Dominion of the sign which he doth then possess Humours Of Humours he is author of Melancholy And such men if they take to love any one let them be man or woman which happeneth but very seldom they love most constantly and intirely and if they hate as most commonly they do they hate to the death and with a perpetual hatred hardly to be removed Profession or mastery when well fortified If he be fortunate of professions and Mastery he denotes such as are profound and occult antiquities things and callings belonging to labour care and rarities and such as belong or have any relation unto water or neer water Saylers Tankerd-bearers Plummers Ship-Carpenters and the like and such as belong to the earth as Curriers Broom-men Bearers of dead corps Hostlers Brick-makers Plow-men Scavengers Colliers Ditchers Carters Chandlers Gardners Herds-men Dyers of black cloth Shepherds Coach-men and Cow-herds Brick-layers c. Profession when weak Nature When unfortunate he denotes generally labourers emptyers of Jakes Diggers of Cole-pits and the like fordid and base occupations He is cold dry Melancholick author of solitariness Corporature or shape of body Corporature or shape of the body he gives a middle stature pale swarthy or muddy small black eyes looking downward a broad forehead black or very dark hair and it rugged or harsh great ears lowring eye-brows thick lips and Nose thin beard a lumpish heavy countenance large shoulders stooping and many times crooked a short lank belly thin thighs indecent feet shuffling against one another Oriental Oriental the stature is more short but decent and well composed As touching this and other terms of Art have recourse to the 43. chapter Occidental Without latit Meridional North latitude Occidental more black and lean less hair If he want latitude he is more fat if it be Merdional but quick in motion fat and fleshly and so of the rest of the Planets If the latitude be North hairy and much flesh his greatest North latitude is two degrees 48 minutes South latitude His South latitude is two degrees 49 minutes and more he hath not 1. Station In his first station a little fat 2. Station In his second station fat il-favoured bodies and weak observe this in all the other Coelestial bodies Qual of men Quality of men in general he signifyeth fathers grand-fathers old men day-labourers Beggers Clowns Husbandmen Monks Jesuits c. Savours Savours bitter sowre sharp In man In man he ruleth the spleen Herbs plants and trees Herbs Hemlock Starwort Bears-foot Wolf-bane Fern white and black Helebor Henbane Burdock Dragon Parsnip Poppy Pulse Mandrake Vervine Nightshade Moss Angelica Box Tutsan Orage Sage Bithwind Spinach Cummin Fumitory Shepherds-purse Horse-tail Tamarisk Capers Polipody Sene Hemp Savin Rue Willow-tree Pine-tree Yew-tree Cyprus-tree Birds Crow Owl Crane Thrush Ostritch Lapwing Peacock Bat Black-bird Cucko Stones subject to him are the Saphir Lapis Lazuli Stones or that stone of which Azure is made unpolished black and blewish stones Minerals Minerals he governeth Lead the Load-stone the dross of all Mettals Fishes Fishes the Tortois Eel and shel-fish Beasts Beasts the Ass Cat Hare Mouse Mole Dog Wolf Bear Elephant Basilisk Crocodile Scorpion Serpent Adder Toad Hog all manner of creeping creatures breeding of putrefaction Places Places he delighteth in deserts woods obscure vallies dens caves holes sepulchers Church-yards ruinous buildings cole-pits sinks muddy dirty stinking places wells and houses of offices Weather Weather cloudy dark obscure ayr cold and hurtfull thick black and condense clouds this is but generally his particular and immediate alteration of weather is to be known from his several positions and aspects with other Planets Fortitudes and Debilities c. of the which more hereafter according as I have leisure Winds He delighteth in the East quarter of Heaven and causeth Eastern winds Gathering of Herbs In gathering of his herbs turn thy face towards the East in his hour when he is in an Angle and well fortified essentially and no wise accidentally impedited and let Luna apply by a Sextile or Trine to him Observe this method in the rest of the Planets mutatis mutandis Signs Triplicity Of the signs he ruleth Capricorn by night and Aquarius by day and the aiëry triplicity by day Age. Old Age. His Angel is Cassiel Angel His Friends are Jupiter Sol and Mercury Friends His Enemies are Mars Venus and Luna Enemies Day of the week He ruleth Saturday beginning the first hour after Sun rising and that night we commonly call Tuesday night Regions he ruleth Bavaria Saxony Stiria Romandiola Ravenna Constantia Regions Ingolstad Orbe His orbe is 9. degrees before and after any Aspect which is to say his influence begins to operate when either he applies to any Aspect of any Planet or they to him and is within nine degrees of the perfect aspect and continueth in force untill he is fully separate nine degrees from the aspect Partill What a Partill aspect is you shall have anon in the 28. chapter but note this in all the rest of the Planets Conception Years In generation he ruleth the first and eighth moneths after conception His greatest yeers he signifies are 465. His greater 57. His mean 43. and a half His least 30. The meaning hereof is no more but this If a Kingdom City Town Family or the like have its beginning when Saturn is essentially and accidentally well fortified its probable the Monarchy City Building c. may continue firm and in good condition as at the first 465. years and so of the rest c. Journeys In long journeys when he is Significator he portends long and laborious travel perilous dangers and imprisonments Diseases caused by Saturn are the Falling-sickness Flegmatick humours Defluctions Diseases Melancholy Leprousie Fistulas Morphew Aches and Colds in the joynts Deafness Tooth-ache pains in the bones in the bladder all cold diseases the Gout Scab Palsie Consumptions Black-jaundies Quartan Agues the Iliack-passion Dropsie Chin-cough Catarrs c. Stationary He is Stationary before Retrogradation five days and five days before direction Retrograde He is Retrograde 140. days CHAP. II. Of the Significations and Nature of IVPITER The nature and complexion of ♃ The globe of ♃ IN the next place we are to proceed to Jupiter who is in height next unto him he is masculine and temperate the greater fortune bright shining and clear the biggest star in magnitude as to our sight except Venus yet according to Tycho he exceeds the globe of the earth in bigness 14 times Albotegnius saith 81 times Alfraganus 95 times yet many of late hold him to be equal in bigness with Saturn Mean and diurnal motion He is swifter in motion then Saturn as to us his middle motion is 4 m. 59 s his
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 last by Gods assistance found out by the Antients Wherefore so called The are called Terms Ends or Bounds for that the Planets have their proportion so allotted them at the end of so many degrees begin the bounds term or ends of another Planet As for example from the first degree of Aries to the sixt is the term end or bounds of Jupiter from the 6. to the 14. is the term of Venus c. To know the greater years of the Planets by the Terms Ptolomie Albumazer and Bonatus shew that the greater years of the Planets are found out by their several terms through the Zodiack which is no more but this look what number of degrees every Planet hath assigned him in every sign and add them together and the make the just number of the great years as you have the before as for example more plainly  ♄ ♃ ♂ ♀ ☿ Signs Terms ♈ 4 6 5 8 7 ♉ 2 7 6 8 7 ♊ 4 6 6 7 7 ♋ 3 7 6 7 7 ♌ 6 6 5 6 7 ♠6 5 6 6 7 ♎ 6 8 6 5 5 ♠3 8 6 7 6 ♠6 8 5 6 5 ♑ 6 7 5 6 6 ♒ 6 5 5 8 6 ♓ 5 6 5 8 6 Greater years 57 79 66 82 76 These being added together make just 360. degrees But the reason why the Planets are after this manner divided into terms is briefly this The Sages and Philosophers in former Ages followed this rule The reason why the terms are so attributed to the Planets first to observe what Planet had most dignities in a sign whether by Exaltation and House Triplicity and House or House Exaltation or Triplicity only and to that Planet that had two or more Dignities they assigned the first term whether he were a Fortune or Infortune and if an Infortune have not two dignities in a sign they placed them last and gave them the last term of the sign and the first term to the Lord of the Exaltation to the Lord of the Triplicity or the Lord of the House ever preferring him who hath two dignities before those or him that had but one except only in Cancer and Leo for because Cancer is the opposite sign to the exaltation of Mars viz. Capricorn therefore is the first term of Cancer assigned to Mars and because Leo is the opposite sign to the house and joy of Saturn is the first term of Leo given to him to the Infortunes are given still the last of all the signs except of Leo the last term is given to Jupiter the quantity of the terms are thus divided when Iupiter and Venus have not two of the aforesaid dignities in the same sign nor in the second third nor fourth they have seven degrees alotted them for their term Saturn and Mars because they are infortunes except in their own houses but five sometimes four three and two Mercury for that he is of a mixt nature and naturally neither good nor bad hath six degrees alotted him In like manner when a Planet hath the aforesaid dignities he hath assigned him one more as Venus in the first term of Taurus hath assigned her eight degrees and Saturn in the first term of Aquaries hath six degrees alotted him and where Venus hath eight you see Saturn hath but two in Taurus being so much diminished he being very weak in Taurus so also in Sagittary you see Jupiter is increased one being he is there strong and Mercury being weak is diminished one Jupiter hath eight Mercury but five but why they are so divided throughout the signs I finde no Author give sufficient reasons I mean for this Table according to Ptolomie which he saith he found in an old rotten worm-eaten book which was half consumed with worms and age in which he saith there was a long story of the utility and reasons of the terms but by reason of the so much decay of the Book it could not be legible so that he could not transcribe it and so leaveth the Reader still in doubt concerning this point the clearing whereof requireth much time and study which shall not be wanting hereafter in me to bestow God granting me life and health for the benefit both of the Art and Students therein In the interim be content with what I have now delivered CHAP. XIV Shewing the use which is to be made of the Terms REmember that a Planet in his own Term is strong and that the more dignities he hath there the stronger he is for Iupiter in the first term of Sagittary is stronger and more powerfull then in the first term of Aries yet they are both his terms the reason is because Sagittary is both his House and Triplicity Aries is but his Triplicity only wherefore you see in Sagittary he hath the first eight degrees for his term in Aries but six and so observe the neerer a Planet is in nature to the place of his term the stronger is the Planet therein for Iupiter being hot and moist hath but five degrees for his term in Virgo which is cold and dry yet in Gemini which is hot and moist he hath six it agreeing with his temper yet in Cancer which is cold and moyst you will perhaps say he hath seven which agreeth not so near to his nature but the reason thereof is Cancer is his house of Exaltation and so hath alotted him one for that as you have heard before for you must know the more dignities a Planet hath in a sign the stronger he is and hath the greater term alotted him In like manner if a Planet that is cold and dry be in a term so likewise qualified viz. cold and dry also his cold and dryness is the more increased and will work the more forcibly on the Inferiours he is significator of observe the same rule in all the rest of the qualities and humors still remembring that a Planet is so much the more increased in strength by how much the more he is located in the places of his own temper and nature Moreover a Planet that is hot and dry is lessened of his vigour in a term that is cold and moyst so likewise is he augmented in heat if he be naturally cold and moyst and in a term that is hot and dry In like manner note that if a fortunate Planet be in a fortunate term I say note in general his goodness is the more increased and augmented having more power and strength to operate in any thing whatsoever he is significator of as if he have signification of good he is then so much the better and on the contrary an evil or malevolent Planet in a malevolent sign and term is the more mischievous The Lord of a Termwhen he is in that Term let it be what sign it will hath more power therein then the Lord of that sign or the Planet that hath that sign for his Exaltation if he be Peregrine anywhere which is as much to say Possession is
of them mischievous quarrelsom and apt in and delighting in odious abhorred and vilde actions Jupiter hath the first face of Capricorn Of the 1. face of ♑ which is a face of handsom form and shape loving to ramble to be merry and sport Mars hath the second face of Capricorn Of the second which is a face of seeking things that cannot be attained nor brought to perfection Sol hath the third face of Capricorn Of the third which is a face of a coveteous desire to rule and govern or have riches at his disposal suspecting and mistrusting himself Venus hath the first face of Aquaries Of the 1. face of ♒ which is a face of continual trouble for money and profit never at rest ever in labour and toyl yet poor and indigent Mercury hath the second face of Aquaries Of the second which is a face of comeliness and beauty of understanding modesty mildness clemency of good behaviour and of a handsom composed shape Luna hath the third face of Aquaries Of the third which is a face of contentions repinings and strife Saturn hath the first face of Pisces Of the first face of ♓ which is a face that is not sad pensive nor dejected in his undertakings of a good nature and handsom of many thoughts and cogitative flitting from one place to another for the procuring himself a name and riches Jupiter hath the second face of Pisces which is a face of haughtiness Of the second and a high disposition seeking after great and high things Mars hath the third face of Pisces which is a face of concupiscence and lust Of the third and delight with women yet loving rest and quietness The Use of all this is no more but if you finde the cuspe of the Ascendent in the Nativity of any one in any of these faces you may judge the Native to be qualified as you here find your judgment will be the more certain if you finde the Lord of the Ascendent the Moon Planet beholding the ascendent or Planet beholding the Lord of the ascendent or the Moon or both in the same face or faces of the same nature to dwell longer here were but vain since this is so clear and plain CHAP. XVI Of the Joys of the Planets MOreover the Planets are said to be in their joys when they are in those houses where they are most strong and powerfull as ♄ Joyeth in ♒ ♃ Joyeth in ♠♂ Joyeth in ♠☉ Joyeth in ♌ ♀ Joyeth in ♉ ☿ Joyeth in ♠☽ Joyeth in ♋ The reason why these are their joys is this Saturn joyeth in Aquaries and not in Capricorn although both are his houses because in Aquaries he hath both house and triplicity by day in Capricorn he hath only house so likewise Jupiter joyeth in Sagittary and not in Pisces because he hath in Sagittary both house and triplicity in Pisces but only house and so of all the rest except Luna who although she hath not triplicity in Cancer yet is it a sign of her own nature and complexion The use that is to be made hereof is only this Saturn is more powerfull in Aquaries then Capricorn and Jupiter in Sagittary then Pisces Mars in Scorpio then Aries Venus in Taurus then Libra Mercury in Virgo then Gemini c. Of which may many good Uses be made in the practice of this Art as beneath in their due places will appear CHAP. XVII Of the Head and Tail of the Dragon EVer remember that the head and tail of the Dragon are not signs nor Planets neither any Constellations only Nodes and Places of the Ecliptick which the Moon cutteth they have no Aspect to any Planet but they may be and are aspected by them as touching their motion it is according to the motion of the Moon Their Nature is various according as they may be placed and aspected some of the Ancients have maintained that the head is good and fortunate the tail bad and infortunate naturally without any exception others are of a contrary opinion and say the Head is good when well placed and fortunately aspected by the benevolents and fortunate Planets but when afflicted and aspected by the malevolents it is bad Also that the Tail is good with the good Planets viz. being joyned with them or in aspect therewith and bad with the bad and some again will have the Head when joyned with the Malevolents to be good and with the Benevolents bad also the Tayl when joyned or in configuration with the Fortunes they say is bad and with the Infortunes good for my part I have still by that little observation I have made found the Head to be good and the Tail bad and unfortunate as is the nature of Saturn and Mars naturally but accidentally they may also sometimes be both good and bad I mean contrary to what they are generally reputed thou mayst follow which thou pleasest experience will be thy best rule when thou hast done all therefore let that together with reason be thy guide till thou canst inform thy self in what is not fully comprehended by thee CHAP. XVIII Of the Antiscions and Contrantiscions of the Planets The force of an Antiscion SOme of the learned in this Art do hold that the Antiscions of the Planets be equivalent unto a Sextile or a Trine-aspect especially if they were beneficial Planets and their Contrantiscions to be of the nature of Quadrate or Opposition How to know the Antiscions is no more but thus first know the Antiscions of the signs How to know the Antiscions of the Planets which is no more but a sign being equally distant with another from Cancer and Capricorn the two Tropicks as Gemini hath its Antiscion in Cancer Taurus in Leo Aries in Virgo Pisces in Libra Aquaries in Scorpio and Capricorn in Sagittary for when the Sun is in the 1. degree of Gemini he is as far from the Tropick point of Cancer as when he is in 29. degrees of Cancer and in the 5 degree of Taurus as when in the 55. degree of Leo c. Having the true knowledge of the Antiscions of the signs the Antiscions of the Planets then is easily known viz. look in what sign and degrees your Planet is whose Antiscion you would know and substract the degrees and minutes he is in from 30. degrees or a whole sign and in what degree and minute remains is his Antiscion and then knowing in what sign he is and his Antiscion must be in what answers thereunto as abovesaid as if he be in Virgo his Antiscion is in Aries c. The Contrantiscion is known thus look in what sign degree and minute your Antiscion falls To know the Contrantiscion of the Planets and your contrantiscion will be in the same degree and minute of the opposite sign to your Antiscion as for example I admit your Antiscion of Saturn Iupiter or Mars or any Planet be in the 16. degree
first a fiery sign next an 〈…〉 â—hen an aëry and lastly a watry c. CHAP. XXV Shewing the Reasons why the signs are reckoned from Aries and not from any other sign as also why they are not placed according to the order of the four Elements I Have said before my intention in all these my Writings is not to treat of any thing that hath been already delivered to the Students of this noble Art by the wel-willers thereof in a plain manner and our vulgar tongue farther then to give me occasion for what is my drift viz. to render to my loving Countreymen and wel-willers of this Science the reasons and grounds of the Art according to the most rational of the Antients that they may be both confirmed in their way as also the better able to answer the weak Arguments or rather cavils of their puny Antagonists I mean the vain-glorious ignorant praters and scriblers against this Heavenly Science I come therefore now God enabling me to shew you the Reasons of the Ancients why the signs are still reckoned from Aries and so forward since the Zodiack as well as the Heavens is round and what is round hath no beginning and what hath no beginning must needs have no ending and what wanteth beginning and ending must needs have no middle yet the twelve Coelestial signs are said to begin at Aries which is called the first and so forward to Taurus which is the second to Pisces which is the twelfth and last for these reasons Why we reckon from ♈ and not from any other sign First because the Equator cutteth and divideth the Circle of the Zodiack in the beginning of Aries and also the opposite sign Libra so that six signs are Northern and six Southern but the reason why the beginning is from Aries and not from Libra is for that that part which is Northern is stronger and of more force efficacy and power and is more noble then that which is Southern and Aries is the first Northern sign and so are all to the latter end of Virgo the rest are Southern or declining Southward wherefore since by all in general the Northern signs are accounted stronger and more noble then the Southern did the Ancients appoint Aries the first of the signs it being the first of them Other reasons Secondly the Ancients began to number the signs from Aries for that when the Sun enters into Aries all things increase and multiply the days increase in length the Trees flourish the earth brings forth fruit and all things are as it were revived or raised from â—â—â—th being to outward appearance as it were by the preceding Winter barren anâ—â—ead also when Sol enters Aries it is the beginning or chief principium of the 〈◊〉 causing every thing to receive vigour and strength resembling youth which is â—â—â—â—â—me and most pleasant time and beginning of life c. which are the reasons whâ—â— Ancient have named Aries the first of the signs Aries is a fiery sign and 〈◊〉 â—nto him they have placed Taurus which is an earthy sign after him Gemini a 〈◊〉 aëry â—â—d then Cancer which is a watry sign and then again beginning with a 〈◊〉 sign tâ—en an earthy one after an aëry and lastly a watry and so following tâ—◠〈◊〉 ordeâ—â—hroughout the twelve signs and not according to the order of the foâ—â—â—â—enâ—s â—iz Fire Ayr Water and Earth but the reasons hereof are briefly th◠〈◊〉 we â—ill hasten to conclude this our first Treatise being meerly an Inâ—â—â—â—â—y â—â—â—course before we come to peruse the following Tracts Yet if you finde any beâ—â—◠〈◊〉 by I shall be very glad and esteem my pains well bestowed for my 〈◊〉 to benefit young Students that they may give reasons and grounds for 〈◊〉 â—â—â—rt as I said before I write not to the learned but to such as these for 〈◊〉 I â—ook these pains knowing they may happily by some ignorant Antagonâ—â— and enemy to the Art be questioned wherefore such and such things are held by them c. Why the signs are not placed according to the order of the four Elements But let us proceed the Ancients then as abovesaid have placed first a fiery sign then an earthy sign after an aëry and lastly a watry sign for divers good Reasons first then for that the four Elements receive an alteration and corruption one with the other by the incessant motion of the Coelestial signs of which corruption and alteration there are generated four special qualities incident to elementary bodies viz. Generation Conservation Corruption and Destruction Now for that Generation is the chief and more noble quality they began with that sign which is the author of Generation viz. a fiery Next unto which quality is conservation fixation durability or continuance which is caused by those signs by which nature is moved to constancy or duration as corruptible things receive permanency and fixation and they are earthy After which is corruption the more inferiour quality wherefore they placed in the third place that sign which is author thereof according to that of Aristotle Aer vita est vivorum destructio mortuorum Ayr is the life of every living thing but the death or corruption of every dead thing viz. an Aëry sign Lastly the most ignoble and rejected is destruction which is caused by the watry signs wherefore they placed in the fourth place a watry sign Secondly they have placed the signs in this manner for that heat and cold are active Drought and moisture passive and heat being strong and more noble then cold signifying or causing generation as most deserving is placed first viz. a fiery sign so likewise for that dryness is the stronger of the Patients it is put first of them and next after heat being an earthy sign cause of durability and therefore placed next to generation and because corruption goeth before destruction is an aëry sign placed before the watry and because generation is the first beginning of any living thing and therefore first placed so is destruction being the last placed last continuation and corruption in the middle c. They have also thus appointed the order of the signs and placed a fiery sign first for that heat ruleth in fire by which all things are quickned and vivifyed and therefore being the more noble quality as abovesaid they place it first and next unto it an earthy sign by reason of the nearness of its quality with heat it being a dry substance after it they place an aëry sign and preceding the watry as participating with the humidity thereof and lastly is the watry sign placed last as the fiery is first being contrary thereunto in nature and quality the passives being placed in the middle between the actives which are placed in the extreams There are several other reasons may be produced for this order of the signs but one or two may suffice to put to silence any caviller against this most noble Art let us
in their Nativities of a tall stature and somewhat handsomly shaped but it hath been when there was a Planet in the ascendent of that power and signification Pisces commonly gives a good large face and a palish complexion the body fleshy c. Diseases All diseases in the feet as Aches Lameness Gout Salt-flegm Scabs Itch Botches and Boils Breakin gs out and Ulcers proceeding from blood putrified also cold and moist diseases Barchiel Angel Colour Places A white glittering colour It signifies grounds full of water Springs Fish-ponds Rivers places where Hermitages have been Water-mils Moats about houses Wells Pomps Conduits Cisterns and those places in houses where water is most frequent Phazonia Nazomonitidis Garamatis Lydid Pamphilia Cilicia Calabria Portugal Regions Normandia Galitia Lusitania Egupta Alexandria Sibilia or Hyspalis Compostella Parantium Rhotomagum Normatia Cities Ratisporia Worms In man The feet Thus much of the nature qualities and significations of the signs we come now to the Aspects of the Planets and to say somewhat of them and so proceed CHAP. XXVII Of the Aspects of the Planets and Signs their Names Characters and Natures and wherefore they were so named and charactered MAny new Aspects there are which we shall here omit and here treat only of those Aspects of the Planets and signs which are most usual and necessary And they are thus called and charactered Sextile ⚹ Quartile □ Trine △ and Opposition ☠We omit here to speak of Keplers new Aspects since these are the most necessary in the practise of this study There is also a Conjunction thus Charactered ☌ Of a ☌ which is not properly termed an Aspect since a Planet is then said to be in Conjunction with another when he is in the self same degree and minute of one and the same sign the other is in and therefore cannot properly be said to behold or Aspect him It s nature but is in ☌ with him this ☌ is of nature neither good nor bad but according to the significators and their dispositions and places is both viz. sometimes good and some times bad A Sextile is so called Of a ⚹ for that it is the sixth part of the Zodiack and is therefore charactered in this manner ⚹ with six strokes it consisteth of 60. deg in length as a Planet in the first degree of Aries beholdeth another in the first degree of Gemini with a ⚹ Aspect Also if a Planet be in the first degree of Aries he beholdeth another in the fifth degree of Gemini Of a Platick aspect with a ⚹ and this is called a Platick Aspect admitting of the Orbs of the Planets in Aspect as Saturn in the 15. degree of Aries and Jupiter in the 23 deg of Gemini Jupiter is in a ⚹ of Saturn by reason he is not fully elongated 9 deg which the half orb of Saturn and Iupiter maketh as Saturns half orb being 4. deg and a half and Iupiters 4. d. and a half added together make just nine deg and here you see them but 8. deg separated from a Partile aspect Of a Partil aspect which is when they are both in one and the same number of degrees and minutes as abovesaid The use thereof is only thus if in any scheme or judgement whatsoever you finde the Significators in a Sextile Platick you may be confident if your light or Planet be applying your business signified by those Significators shall be accomplished when they come to the Partil aspect especially if the more weighty Planet be retrograde or in reception by house or exaltation with the more light if they are separating and without reception the contrary for by how much they are separated from the Partil aspect by so much the more unlikely is the business signified by the significators so separating to come to a conclusion but look when they are fully separated by the mediety of their Orbs and about that time shall the business be fully broken of except one of the Significators be just then Stationary and then immediatly apply again for then it hangeth in some suspence and after a while beginneth afresh The reason why ⚹ and △ are good □ and ☠bad c. But you must note that application by ⚹ or △ is good for they are Aspects of love amity and Friendship yet the △ is more forcible and better for that a Planet in △ with another is out of houses of the one and the same nature as fire with fire earth with earth water with water and ayr with ayr A ⚹ is by a fiery with an aëry or earthy with watry and therefore is not altogether so good as a △ for that these agree not in every point for fire is hot and dry ayr hot and moist agreeing partly viz. in heat so likewise earth and water the earth is cold and dry the water cold and moist agreeing in coldness for which reason a ⚹ is accounted indifferent good and so likewise note that a □ and ☠are naught and of enmity and discord quite contrary to the other yet the ☠is the worse c. A Quartile is so called Of a □ for that it is the fourth part of the Zodiack and is charactered four square □ it consisteth of 90 deg in length and four times 90 deg is 360. deg you must know a Partil and Platick □ by the same rule you know a ⚹ and so of all the rest viz. △ and ☠But note that a business brought to pass by the □ or ☠of the significators causeth much discontent and sadness so that the business had better never been done c. A Trine is the third part of the Zodiack Of a △ and is therefore charactered three square and triangled △ consisting of 120. deg and three times 120. deg maketh just 360. deg An Opposition ☠is that aspect which divideth the Zodiack in two equal parts Of an ☠and is therefore charactered with a line between two round o's ☠intimating the direct opposition of the Orbs of two Planets and it consisteth of 180. deg c. Of Dexter and sinister aspects There is also an aspect which the Ancients called Dexter and Sinister a Dexter aspect is contrary to the succession of the signs a Sinister is according to the succession of the signs as a Planet in Aries beholding another in Leo is a △ aspect Sinister a Planet in Aries beholding another in Sagittary is a 🜄 Dexter the Dexter is not so good as the Sinister Here I may also give you some other reasons why one aspect is better then another which I had almost forgot which is in respect of the Luminaries for as the Sun is Fons vitae the fountain of life Other reasons for the goodness and badness of the aspects so is the Moon of main power and efficacy by her forcible influence on inferiour bodies bringing the light and influence of all the
other Planets to us I say in respect of them are the aspects termed good or evil for Saturns houses behold the houses of the Luminaries with an ☠which is the worst of Aspects by reason he is the worst of Planets In like manner a △ aspect is the most fortunate and best for that the houses of the best and most temperate Planet Jupiter beholdeth the houses of the Luminaries with a Trine aspect even as Capricorn is opposite to Cancer and Aquaries to Leo so is Pisces in Trine to Cancer and Sagittary to Leo and so is a Quartile the lesser malevolent aspect for that the houses of the lesser fortune viz. Mars behold the houses of the Luminaries with a Quartile viz. Aries is in Quartile to Cancer and Scorpio to Leo neither is this aspect so bad as is an Opposition for that Scorpio one of his houses is in Trine to Cancer the house of Luna Likewise a Sextile being from the houses of the lesser Fortune Venus is of less force then a Trine c. and so much for the aspects of the Planets and Signs CHAP. XXVIII Of the fixed Stars in the Zodiack wherefore they are called fixed their number particular names natures magnitudes latitudes and longitudes and first of those in Aries as they are delivered by the most learned in this Art I Come here to say somewhat of the fixed stars since without the true knowledge thereof our works will be imperfect I mean our Judgements as also these our labours without them would be but lame and imperfect I shall but speak of some of the stars chiefly viz. the most notable and those of the first second third and fourth magnitude except here and there of some more obscure I shall refer my Reader if he be curious herein to the perusal of Copernicus Tycho Lucas Gauricus Stadius and Sconerus and what others treat of in this Nature yet what I here set down may suffice for any judgement whatsoever in the Art of Astrologie of what part thereof soever it be The method I follow is briefly first to declare unto you the number names nature magnitude latitude and longitude of the most notable fixed stars in the Zodiack of the first second third and fourth magnitude as also those of the same magnitude both on the North and South part and these will serve for ever and in all Regions and places through the whole Globe of the Earth except their longitudes which will vary somewhat in respect of the Equinoctial wherefore I shall only give you the degrees of their longitudes We will begin with Aries being the first sign as you have already heard and so forward but before we begin I think meet first to let you know wherefore these stars are called fixed stars that there may be nothing in the Art which the Student if occasion serve may not give a reason for for it is my desire to have knowledge increase and ignorance and envy perpetually put to silence The reason then why they are called fixed stars is for that they are indeed fixed and immovable never stirring but they are violently carried about with the Heavens by the first mover as abovesaid not having any peculiar motion of their own as the Planets have c. But let us now come to the fixed stars their number natures names magnitudes and latitudes and first of Aries in Aries there are twenty five notable fixed stars Their number The names of the Stars Their Nature magnitude Their latitude Longitude  In ♈   D  M D 1 Algenib the end of the right wing of Pegasus ♂ ♃ or ☿ 2 12 B 30 3 ♈ 2 Alderaimim the right shoulder of Cephus ♄ ♃ 3 29  00 8 3 The formost of the 3. bright stars in the band of the fishes ♄ P ☿ 4 2  15 8 4 Alpheraoz the Navel of Pegasus the head of Andromeda ☿ 2 26  00 9 5 The hindermost in the tail of the VVhale ♄ 3 15 M 20 11 6 The middlmost of the 3. bright stars in the band of the fishes ♄ P ☿ 4 1 B 10 12 7 The middlemost of the 3. in the body of the Whale ♄ 3 25 M 20 13 8 The last of the 3. bright stars in the band of the fishes ♄ P ☿ 4 1  20 14 9 Baten Kaiton the belly of the VVhale ♄ 2 20  0 16 10 Of Andromeda the left shoulder blade Sheder ♀ 3 24 B 33 16 11 Of Andromeda the small of the left arm 3 15  30 17 12 The first middlmost of the stars after the bowing of the B. of fishes ♄ P ☿ 4 2 M 20 18 13 The first middlmost of the stars after the bowing of the B. of fishes ♄ P ☿ 4 2  40 20 * 14 Acarnar the bright star of the River Eridanus ♃ ♀ 1 53  30 21 15 The latter of the 3. after the bowing of the ban of the fishes ♄ P ☿ 4 7  45 22 16 The middlemost star of the girdle of Andromeda ♀ 3 30 B 00 23 17 The northermost of the girdle of Andromeda 3 32  00 23 18 The knot of the band of the fishes or pole of the VVhale ♃ ☿ 3 8 M 30 24 19 Mirach the furthermost star of the girdle of Andromeda ♀ 3 26 B 20 25 20 Angetenar the turning of the River Eridanus ♄ 4 34 M 50 27 21 The foremost star in the right horn of the Ram. ♄ ♂ 3 7 B 20 28 22 The southermost of the 2. hindermost stars in the brest of the Whale ♄ 3 27 M 30 28 23 The foremost in the neck of the Whale ♄ 4 4  10 29 24 The latter star in the right horn of the Ram. ♄ ☿ 3 8 B 20 29 25 The middle of the chair of Cassiopea ♄ ♀ 3 51  40 29 CHAP. XXIX Of the Fixed-stars in Taurus their number names nature magnitude latitude and longitude VNto the fixed stars in Taurus we now descend as they succeed one another in longitude which are in number thirty five as followeth Their number The Names of the Fixed Stars Their Nature magnit Their latitude Longit.  In ♉   D  M ♉ 1 The foremost in the Jowl of the Whale ♄ 3 14 M 00 2 0 2 Schedar the breast of Cassiopea ♄ ♀ 3 46 B 45 2 3 The point of the Triangle ☿ 3 19  00 2 4 The Peruck of the Whale ♄ 4 6 M 20 3 5 The first bright star after the space of the River ♄ 3 23  10 3 6 The middle of the mouth of the Whale 3 11  30 4 7 The left hinder foot of the Ram. ♂ 4 5  15 6 8 The foremost star in the bottom of the Triangle ☿ 3 20 B 40 7 9 The star on the seat or buttock of Cassiopea ♄ ♀ 3 49  00 8 10 The hindermost star in the bottom of the Triangle ☿ 3 19 B 00 8 11 Alamac the left foot of Andromeda
 In â™ Â Â D.  M. â™ 1. A Star in the hollow of the left foot of Ophiuchus ♄ P. ♀ 4 00 B 45 2 2 The forem of the 3 bright stars in the middle of the Scorpion ♂ P. ♃ 3 3 M 45 2 3 The left Knee of Ophinchus ♄ P. ♀ 3 11 B 50 3 4 Cor Scorpii Alatrab Col Antares the heart of the Scorpion ♂ P. ♃ 2g 4 M 00 4 5 The Eye of Iunonius or the Dragon ♄ ♃ 3 75 B 40 4 6 The hind of the 3 bright stars in the middle of the Scorpion ♂ P. ♃ 3 5 M 30 6 7 The left shoulder of Hercules or Engonasin ☿ 3 48 B 00 8 8 Ras Alget the head of Hercules or Engonasin ☿ ♂ 3 37  30 9 9 The first joint next the body of the Scorpion 3 11 M 00 10 10 The Southernmost of the 2 in the 3d joint of the Scorpion ♄ P. ♀ 3 18  00 11 11 The flame of the Altar ♀ ♄ 3 34  00 12 12 The right knee of Ophiuchus ♄ P. ♀ 3 7 B 20 12 13 the foremost above the ancle of the right foot of Ophiuchus 4g 2  15 14 14 The fourth joint nere the tail of the Scorpion 3 19  30 14 15 The right leg ♄ P. ♀ 3g 2 B 15 15 16 The 2 of the 4 in the right foot of Ophiuchus Serpentarius or Aesculapâ—us 4g 1  30 15 17 Ras Alangue the head of Ophiuchus Serpentarius or Aesculapâ—us 3 36  00 16 18 The 3d of the 4 in the right foot of Ophiuchus Serpentarius or Aesculapâ—us 4g 00  20 16 19 Of the 2 stars of the north part of the sting of the Scorpion without form Northernmost ♂ ☽ 5 1 M 10 17 20 Of the 2 stars of the north part of the sting of the Scorpion without form Southernmost 5 6  10 17 21 The star in the tail or sting of the Scorpion ☿ ♂ 3 13  20 19 22 The star in the fifth joint of the Scorpion ♄ P. ♀ 3 18  50 19 23 The star in the 7 joint next the sting of the Scorpion 3 15  10 20 24 Ras Aben the head of Junenius or the Dragon ♄ ♂ P. ♃ 3 75 B 30 21 25 The sixth joint of the tail of the Scorpion ♄ P. ♀ 3 16 M 40 22 26 The dim star without form following the sting of the Scorpion ♂ ☽ obs 13  15 22 27 The head or sharp point of the arrow of the Archer or Sagittarius ♂ ☽ 3 6  30 26 28 North end of the Bow of the Archer or Sagittarius ♃ ♂ 4 2 B 50 28 29 The left hand that holdeth the Bow of the Archer or Sagittarius 3 6 M 30 29 30 South part of the Bow of the Archer or Sagittarius 3 10  50 29 CHAP. XXXVII Of the fixed Stars in Capricornus their Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude ENter we in the next place on the fixed Stars in Capricorn which are but twenty four as followeth Their number The Names of the Fixed Stars Their nature Magni Their Latitude Long.  In ♑   D.  M. ♑ 1 The Southernm in the north part of the bow of the Archer or Sagittarius ♃ ♂ 3 1  30 0 9 2 The Arrow or shaft of the Archer or Sagittarius 4 3  50 4 3 Duble clowdy star of the Eye of the Archer or Sagittarius ☉ ♂ obs 00 B 45 6 4 The left shoulder of the Archer or Sagittarius ♃ ♂ 3 3 M 10 6 5 The foremost of the three in the Head of Sagittarius ☉ ♂ 4 2 B 10 7 6 The star under the Armpit of Sagittarius ♃ ♄ 3 6 M 45 7 7 The left Knee of the Fore-leg of Sagittarius ♀ ☿ 2 18  00 8 * 8 Wega Fidicula The shining Harp the falling Vulture 1 62 B 10 8 9 The left Hoof before of Sagittarius ♄ ♃ 2 23 M 00 9 10 The middlem star of the third in the head of Sagittarius ☉ ♂ 4g 1 B 30 9 11 The latter in the head of Sagittarius 4 2  00 10 12 The first star of Antinous by the Eagle ♂ ♃ 3 18  10 12 13 Of Sagittarius the middlemost In the northernmost trail behind the head ♃ ☿ 4g 4  30 13 14 Of Sagittarius the northernm In the northernmost trail behind the head ♄ ♃ 4 6  30 14 15 Of Sagittarius the Right hoof behind 3 20 M 10 18 16 Of Sagittarius the Left thigh of the hinder leg 3 13  30 18 17 The foremost of the two in the back of the Eagle ♂ ♃ 3 31 B 30 24 * 18 Alkair The Eagle or flying Vulture the latter of them 2g 29  10 25 19 Albirto the mouth of the Swan or bill of the Hen. ♀ ☿ 3 49  20 26 20 The next to the bright star in the back of the shoulder of the Eagle ♂ ♃ 3 l 30  00 26 21 The foremost in the Neck of the Eagle 3 27  10 26 22 Of the Goat the Northernmost star in the left horn ♀ P. ♂ 3 7  30 28 23 Of the Goat the Southernmost star in the left horn 3 5  00 28 24 The 1 of the bright stars without form before the South fish ♄ 3 22 M 20 29 CHAP. XXXVIII Of the fixed Stars in Aquaries their Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude SO much of the Stars in Capricorn come we now to those in Aquaries which are briefly as followeth and in number Thirty nine Their Numâ—er The Names of the Fixed Stars Their nature Mag. Their Latitude Long.  In â™’   D.  M. â™’ 1 The head of Antinous the foremost southward from the head of the Edgle ♂ ♃ 3 21 B. 40 0 18 2 The foremost of the 3 stars in the Jaw of the Goat ♄ P. ♀ 6 1  45 0 18 3 The middlemost of the 3 stars in the Jaw of the Goat 6 1  30 0 28 4 The last southernmost of the 3 stars in the Jaw of the Goat 6 00  45 0 38 5 The star betw the head shaft of the arrow of Hercules ♂ ♀ 4 39  20 1 6 The right knee of the Goat ♂ ☿ 4 6 M. 30 2 7 The middlemost of the bright stars without form before the south or great fish called Notius ♄ 3 22  10 2 8 The next after of the bright stars without form before the south or great fish called Notius 3 21  20 5 9 The foremost of the 3 in the garment on the left hand of Aquarius ♄ ☿ 3 8 B. 30 6 10 Of the said three stars on the back Side of the same hand 3 5  30 8 11 The southern of the 3 in the mid of the body of the goat ♂ ☿ 5 4 M. 00 8 12 The northern of the 3 in the mid of the body of the goat 5
easy to be accomplished Rules general for the electing the beginning of any work In the beginning of any work also see that the Dragons tayl be not with either of the Luminaries when they are in conjunction or opposition or in the Ascendent or house signifying the business in hand but place in those places some fortunate Planet or in the house of the business in Election or in the Angles of the Figure at the time of Election But have a special care in all Elections you put not the Moon in the Ascendent Note for she is an enemy thereunto so also is the Sun for he therein dissolves and undoes what is accomplished and done And let not an Infortune be placed in the Ascendent nor in any of the Angles especially if he have dominion in the sixth eighth or twelfth also look that in a diurnal Election you have a diurnal sign ascending in a nocturnal a nocturnal sign and if you can that the Luminaries be in the same signs I mean of the same nature especially that of the time Avoid Elections at such time as the Moon separates from the Conjunction or Opposition of the Sun Note and immediately goes to the configuration of an infortune for it shews that if the place of the Conjunction or Opposition be unfortunate the business then began shall come to no good end or conclusion but if the place of the Conjunction or Opposition be fortunate it shews that the beginning of the business then in agitation shall be good but it shall ill succeed in the end But if the Moon separate from Conjunction or Opposition and apply to a fortune and the place of the Conjunction or Opposition be unfortunate it signifieth that the beginning of the business shall be bad and the end thereof good and when the place of the Conjunction or Opposition is fortunate and the Moon applieth immediatly to a fortune it denotes that both the beginning and the end of the work then began shall come to good or be fortunate And so on the contrary if she apply to an infortune when the places of the Conjunction or Opposition are unfortunate when the place of the Conjunction or Opposition or their Lord or Disposer of them be in a succedent house it signifieth that the profit and good to be expected by the business shall be in the end accomplished though with some trouble and pains but if they be in a Cadent house viz. Cadent from the ascendent of the beginning of the thing or business or from the ascendent of the Election or Radix it shall be broken off and come to naught Albumazer a most learned Arabian in this Art Note saith that when the Lord of the Election which is the Planet signifying your business is Lord of the sign of the Luminaries especially that of the time in the Revolution of the year of the World or Lord of the year or Lord of the Ascendent at the time of the Revolution and be fortunate therein and also in the Election it signifyeth and denoteth extraordinary success and fortune in the business then began and in all the affairs thereof When the place of the Conjunction or Opposition and their Dispositors be well dignified and placed the business then began or done shall be firm and of continuance and fortunate Also accomplishment and good success of the business is signified when the Dispositor or Lord of the house of the Conjunction or Opposition before the beginning of the work or business is oriental in the hour of the beginning of the thing and be in his own house beholding those places with a Sextile or Trine but if he do not behold the aforesaid places of the Conjunction or Opposition he profiteth not Other Rules for electing the beginning of any work You may also make your Elections for the beginning of any work from the Lord of the Triplicity of the Moon at the time of the Conjunction or Opposition for they have power in the beginning of businesses for when they are received and fortunate at the time of the beginning of any work it signifieth good but that which doth the more confirm it is that the ascendent of the Election be a sign in which he or they be well dignified or have dominion in the revolution of the year and that the fortunes be in Angles and chiefly in the ascendent and mid-heaven also in succedent and in the place of the thing or business intended or in agitation Per quick dispatch or long continuance of your business In the beginning of any work also when the Luminaries behold each other with a good aspect it signifieth success in any business then began the business also know in hand is foreshewed by the Moon her being in the day-time under the earth and in the night above and in an Election wherein a speedy dispatch of any business is required fortifie not the Moon but put Iupiter or Venus in the ascendent or in the mid heaven but have regard unto the Moon in things of long continuance as Marriage Building and the like and when she is impedited put her in an Angle or succedent but let her not behold the ascendent nor its Lord nor the Lord of the house of the thing or his Dispositor nor the Planet which hath signification of the thing either generally or particularly but if you cannot observe exactly all these look that you observe as many of them as you can A short rule in electing the beginning of any work Some Authors hold it more necessary to fortifie the Lord of the Ascendent then the Moon others to fortifie the Lord of the house signifying the business and others the general significators c. For my part I hold it most necessary to fortifie the significators of the business the house and also if possible the Moon rather then the Ascendent or its Lord except they be proper significators Caveats general in Elections When the Moon is slow in motion viz. not exceeding 12. degrees in 24. hours she signifieth slowness and tediousness in the business in hand but if your business require haste and the Moon apply to an infortune make your infortune Lord of your Ascendent and if then he be free from misfortune it will be the better but if infornate and afflicted and receive the Moon out of the ascendent it is much better But still look that your chief significators be free from misfortune and the Quartile and Opposition of the malevolents as also of the Sun and of combustion and that they be not under the Sun beams a Planet is under the Sun beams when he is not fully elongated from the body of the Sun 17. degrees he is in combustion when he is within 8. degrees 30. min. of his body c. as you have already heard in the 43. chapter of the second Book of this Volumn Have regard also unto your ascendent that there be no infortune therein that it be
Ascendent how to take part of substance or any other part you shall have hereafter as I have leisure CHAP. III. Of buying to profit again by the sale thereof DOst not thou know there are many men make a Trade of buying Commodities and selling them again to their best advantage yet there are many again confess they have often sold their Wares at disadvantage the reason was they bought them at hap-hazard without respect to any peculiar or particular time as our ignorant Physitians prescribe Vomits Purges and Phlebotomie at any time A great error in the generality of our Physitians procuring thereby much mischief to their Patients as I have by several known so that they had need again the remedy being or proving by the ignorance of the prescriber worse then the disease to take Physick to expel that Physick they have already taken and this sometimes cannot but indanger the Patients life for that nature being far spent before must needs by this rash act of the unskilfull Physitian who is rather as Galen and Hippocrates say to be termed a Fool then to be honoured with that noble term of Physitian in prescribing their remedies at such improper times that they work contrary effects as Purges vomet Ignorance the author of mischief and Vomets purge be more weakened and prejudiced nay and it doth often fall out so that nature together with the life is wholly extinguished wherefore anon in its due place more shall be said hereon and the true real times for administring of physick be cordially delivered unto you but to the busines in hand wherefore let them observe what followeth Of buying to profit again by the sale thereof In buying therefore any thing to make advantage or gain of the sail thereof fortifie the Moon especially for that she hath most power of any of the Planets in the ordinary course of the life of man Fortifie also Mercury who hath also much influence in such matters also the Lord of the second and if possible the Lord of the Ascendent let the Moon also be joyned to Mercury by body or a benevolent aspect free from impediment either accidental or essential as also from the affliction of Mars as much as you can But if you cannot fortifie Mercury fortifie the Moon the eleventh house and the Lord thereof but yet let Mercury be free from the body or Aspect of Mars and if you can by any means let him be in Conjunction or good aspect of Venus or the Lord of the eleventh or both Now be sure you observe these rules well for by how much the more you fortifie Mercury next to the Moon being to be regarded by so much the more may you be confident and assured of benefit and profit for Mercury the Moon the second and the eleventh are chief significators herein and they still cause gain if well dignified or disposed but then be sure they be free from the body or aspect good or bad of Mars CHAP. IV. Of selling to advantage Of selling to advantage EVen thus must you do if you would Elect a time to sell thy commodity at any high rate Let the Moon be in Taurus Cancer Virgo or Pisces free from misfortune and separating from the Conjunction or aspect of the fortunes and applying to the aspect not Conjunction of the infortunes for this is good for the Seller but the clean contrary for the Buyer CHAP. V. Father concerning Buying and Selling in the ordinary course of the World Advantage to the buyer THus in the daily and ordinary way of trade must you do fortifie ⊗ and place it in one of the houses of Iupiter and let Iupiter or some other of the fortunes behold it with a good aspect for this will be advantagious to the Buyer but not to the Seller Also if the Moon be in signs of short or oblique ascentions decreasing in light it is good for the Buyer But if she be in signs of right or long ascentions increasing in light number or motion and joyned with the fortunes it shall be more advantagious for the Seller and it shall seldom be but at such a time the Buyer shall lose by the bargain But note that in all this the Moon and Mercury be free from the body or aspect of Mars for that he ever hinders buying and selling and causes discord and wrangling also see they be free from the presence of ☋ for he is little worse then it To know the significators of buyer and seller the thing to be bought and the price Some of the Ancients have delivered these Rules for buying and selling but others have taught that the Ascendent and its Lord are for the Seller the seventh and the Lord thereof for the Buyer and the Moon for the thing to be bought and sold Althabarus from whom I cannot descent herein saith that when the Buyer is the first propounder or mover of the business or doth first speak to the Seller concerning the thing he would buy the Ascendent and its Lord is for the Seller the seventh and the Lord thereof for the Buyer And if the Seller be the first mover of the business to the Buyer the contrary is to be understood The mid-heaven and its Lord is to signifie the price of the thing the fourth and its Lord the thing to be sold and also the Planet from whom the Moon last separated is given to signifie the Seller the Planet to whom she next applies the Buyer and the ג the thing to be bought and sold Some hold that the Moon in the Ascendent either in buying or selling is good yet in a * Note journey is very bad But note that in selling it will not be amiss for thee to place the Moon in her exaltation or triplicity separated from the Fortunes and beholding the Infortunes but not joyned to them by body CHAP. VI. Of buying clothing or putting on of Apparel HEar now what is observable in putting on or buying of Apparel fortifie the Ascendent and its Lord and the Moon and let the Ascendent and the sign wherein the Lord of the ascendent is be movable and if possible let the Moon be in Aries except the seventh degree or in Cancer excepting the first six degrees or in Libra or the first eighteen degrees of Virgo or in the first nineteen degrees of Sagittary or the twenty first degrees of Pisces and by all means avoid fixed signs except the first twenty degrees of Taurus for that there it being the house of Venus and exaltation of the Moon it signifyeth great joy and delight but by all means let her not be in Leo or Scorpio Leo especially c. And if possible let the Moon be in Sextile or Trine of the Sun for it will be then so much the better but if in thy Election thou canst not observe all this place the Moon out of Leo Scorpio and Capricorn and Via Combusta and look that she be no wise
ground The fourth house its Lord and Planets therein placed and the Moon are significators of the house land or heritage to be bought and sold The price of the land or house The tenth the Lord thereof and Planets therein located signifie the price viz. whether it will be cheap or dear it signifyeth also the wood or timber on the ground Having thus rightly understood the ground of your Work you will be the better able to go through with the same wherefore then in buying or purchasing houses land and heritages fortifie chiefly the fourth House and Lord thereof also the Moon and its Dispositor and Part of Fortune and its Lord and those Planets therein placed let them be no wise impedited or Retrograde in Fall or Detriment or in any Aspect of the Malevolents especially of Mars for these cause the house or land so purchased to be soon lost and of no continuance with your Posterity That the Land may be purchased by the Buyer and that at a good rate or to his advantage But in making your Bargain or that your Bargain may be good and to your advantage also that you may assuredly have the Land or thing to be purchased if you please fortifie the Ascendent its Lord the Planet from whom the Moon last separated also the Moon her self and her Dispositor the fourth its Lord and Planets therein and Part of Fortune and its Dispositor also place the Moon in Cancer or Taurus if possible and let her behold the Lord of the Ascendent or sign ascending with a Sextile or Trine and be in good houses of Heaven and the Lord of the seventh applying to the Lord of the Ascendent or disposed of by the Lord of the Ascendent or in reception therewith let the fourth house also be in Taurus Leo or Aquaries and the Lord of the Angles Oriental and free from combustion Let also the Fortunes in purchasing Lands or Heritages have chief power in the Angles if not in all the Angles yet in the first and fourth and in the other two place the Luminaries beholding the Ascendent and fourth or one of them especially the Ascendent with a Sextile or Trine and see that the Lords of the Angles be not Retrograde nor a Retrograde Planet placed in any of them nor in the eleventh or ninth nor the Lord of the fourth of a fiery nature nor any of that nature therein placed especially if they are not beheld by the Benevolent Aspects of the Fortunes And note that if the Lord of the fourth be of a watry nature or of a cold and moist temper let not Saturn behold him or it and let not the Lord of the tenth be unfortunate The Land is good and pleasant Fortunes or Planets essentially dignified in the fourth or the Lord of the fourth and the sign of the fourth fortunate denote the goodness and pleasantness of the Land House or Heritage also that it is a fertile and good soil and the seeds already sown or to be sown therein shall be fruitfull c. The Plants are good and fruitfull Such in the seventh and the sign and the Lord thereof so disposed shew the Herbs Sets and Plants and the culture thereon are pleasant good and fruitfull The Timber is good and high or tall In the tenth the Trees are tall sound fruitfull and good that there is much timber or what is there is excellent good and commodious Know also that the Infortunes or weak Planets in these places cause mischief and impediment according to the nature of the Planets and the places in which they are therefore look that these Angles be free from them and especially the seventh house for the Malevolents there cause mischief malice and deceit of the Husband-men or Tenents of the ground or houses Saturn therein placed shews their cozening and lying Mars denotes them lyars unconstant and thieves CHAP. VII Of Buying of Land or ground for Husbandry and not to build on IN buying of Land then not to build on but for to manure and husband for thy profit and advantage fortifie the Ascendent and its Lord the Moon and its dispositor Part of Fortune also and its Lord also Saturn and if it be possible put him in Libra or if the Land be to be bought in the day time place him in Capricorn or Aquaries but if in the night put him in Aries Leo or Sagittary or Libra let him also be in a Trine of Jupiter or in a Sextile with him or the fourth house but by all means see that Mars behold them not by any Aspect and let the Moon be in the increase of her light viz. in the first Square or Quarter beholding Saturn with a Sextile or Trine or that Planet that beholds him Many labourers in the land it shall be fruitfull c. And if the Moon behold Jupiter it signifieth that the land shall have labourers enough that there shall be many fruitfull Trees and Plants and that the land shall be very fertile the same understand if he be in configuration with Saturn c. But if Saturn cannot be made to be beheld of Jupiter yet let Venus behold him and fortifie the watry signs for the Fortunes shall be stronger in them then in the aëry let the Moon be in the tenth in Taurus beholding the lord of the Ascendent with a benevolent Aspect and let the Moon and the sign ascending be free from all manner of misfortune CHAP. VIII Of bringing of Water to a house either by Conduit Pipe or Pump and of digging of Wells AS in the foregoing Elections so in this it is necessary you fortifie the Ascendent and let it be one of the watry signs as also its Lord and let him be oriental and free from all manner of Impediment and in an Angle in his own dignities essential Let Saturn also be oriental and free from misfortune and in the eleventh house but look that the Moon be not in Conjunction with them Fortify also Iupiter and let there be no Infortune or malevolent planet in the tenth house for that it will cause rather discension then ascension of the water Let the Moon also and its dispositor be well dignified and in the third or fifth houses of Heaven in an Earthy sign but if she will needs be above the earth place her in the ninth tenth or eleventh Alkindus adviseth to place the Moon Ascendent or any other Angle free from all manner of misfortune or impedition and let her be in her first Quarter or from her Conjunction to the first Square of the Sun increasing in light and motion But know that if the Moon be in any house under the earth you must fortifie her well and place her in configuration of a benovolent Planet in the tenth if possible or however of one above the earth and if she be above the earth let her by no means behold any Planet below the earth except with reception by house or exaltation and in
thou canst not so place him let him be in the third fifth or ninth House but these are not so powerful or so good as the aforesaid places In going or sending to Kings or great men Nota. let not the Moon be in Gemini or Pisces To Church-men Also if you send or go to Popes Cardinals Bishops Deans Prebends or any belonging to the Church let the Moon be in Sextile or Trine of Iupiter out of the aforesaid places and if possible with reception or in reception with the Lord of the Ascendent To Souldiers If your business be with Warriers as Generals or any Souldiers whatsoever understand the same by Mars and let him be accordingly placed but let not the aspect of the Moon be from Angles but succedent Houses To ancient men and husbandmen To Women To Scholars Secretaries Scriveners or young men If to Husband-men or ancient men understand the same of Saturn To Women let her apply to Venus To Mercury let the Moon be joyned or have aspect if you send to young men of no alliance or relation to you or to Scriveners Secretaries or Scholars c. but let Mercury be free from misfortune and impediment and understand the same of the foregoing Planets if your business be with such as are signified by them And thus much for the Elections appertaining to the fifth House SECTION VII Of Elections appertaining to the sixth House CHAP. I. Of the true Knowledge of the Crisis or Critical and Judicial Days very useful for those that study Physick The errour of most Physicians LIke as we read in the holy Writ The Physician is honorable so indeed he is but being ignorant in his Art he rendereth himself despicable and ridiculous and the way to make him perfect is to know NATURE and her secret operations and that by the influence of the Superiors and Rulers of all Inferiors viz. The Stars It is not his looking in an Urinal of water or feeling the pulse of the party or questioning with him how he feeleth himself and in what places of his body he is most afflicted that can give a through understanding of his malady the water is Meretrix the pulse is Fallax the patient himself is Ignorans These I say are not sufficient grounds for him to work on and without a good foundation the fabrick is not likely to be well built or at least to stand long they are indigent and insufficient and the patient perhaps so overcome with torment or desire of relief that he cannot well define his own misery The cause of a disease is to be first known before a cure be undertaken And since it is so a Physician or rather a Pretender thereunto I may justly call him for as Galen and Hippocrates say They are rather to be termed fools then Physicians must be better versed in his Art before he can do any thing for as he is he can do nothing with certainty A blinde man may catch a hare but it is very unlikely The cause of a disease must first be known before it be endeavored to be removed and the cause being taken away the effect will soon cease but they are ignorant of the cause ergo not able to perform what they undertake And again the nature and temper of the Patient is to be regarded and this can never be certainly and throughly discerned by looking in his Urine nor by feeling of his pulse That which causeth his Constitution to be either Sanguine The nature and temper of the patient is to be regarded or known also Flegmatick Cholerick or Melancholy is to be regarded it is not any inferiour thing that causeth it it is the influence of the superiours ergo Physicians ignorant therein are not able to perform with certainty any Cure whatsoever For what will cure a Flegmatick man of a Feaver will not a Cholerick and then the pretended Physician seeing his Medicine doth not work the like operation as formerly supposes the malady to be somewhat else and himself mistaken and falls another way to work and so kills the patient with a great many Thanks and Gratuities both of Money and Gifts for as the ignorant about him suppose doing his endeavour to save the sick The simplicity of the vulgar especially if he can but talk of this rare cure and that excellent remedy he hath formerly given and preach himself up and others a thousand times more knowing then himself down and now and then use some Latin in his Discourse and flourish it over with hard words to the ignorant I say he carries it then whether he save or kill and that with a great deal of credit but of all murtherers these we see seldomest hang'd yet none more deserving it The nature of the Medicine ought to be known before physick is to be administred The nature of medicinal things found out known by the stars Again the nature and quality of every medicinal thing ought especially to be known as Herbs Drugs or Minerals otherwise the pretending Physician doth what he doth not understand and if we will believe GALEN he telleth us They are onely to be known and judged by the stars So also Fernelius and Ficinus two learned Physicians confess also HIPPOCRATES PARACELSUS and CORNELIUS AGRIPPA who was Physician to the Emperor Charles the fifth and not onely these but all the more rational of the Ancient Physicians and Studiers of Nature which were onely Physicians indeed have acknowledged the same whose names if I should here record it would be be too tedious both for my self and thee and in a manner superfluous or needless in so clear a case since it is most certain that Hippocrates and Galen the two pillars of the Art of Physick found out the use of Vegetables and their natures as also of all their Physical things by the Stars who are the Governors and Disposers of them all and causes of their several vertues according to the several Constellations they are under A Physician ignorant in Astrologic can not safely administer physick Hippocrates and Galen further say that a Physician cannot safely give physick that is ignorant in the knowledge of the Stars and Superior bodies not knowing indeed when to give purges or vomits or let blood without much mischief doing nor in what quantity which ignorance often times indangers the life of the Patient when as these that know not the influence of the heavenly bodies give vomits at such times as cause a purge and purges when they become vomits which in laxative diseases or fluxes prove very dangerous if not deadly or totally destructive and at other times when the physick never worketh at all The cunning of the ignorant physicians to colour their ignorance yet you shall never finde the ignorant without an excuse for their rashness as when they administer a purge if it cause vomiting then say they the party is of a weak constitution and cannot retain the
when the sign ascending is a common sign at the beginning of any two playing it signifies that as soon as they have left off others shall begin and thus much for this remember what hath been said and you are well enough also let the Moon when you go out of your house intending to play be in your face and the Lord of the Ascendent applying to the Fortunes and in the mid-heaven or in the eleventh house and how ever let him be above the earth free from combustion and the affliction of the Malevolents CHAP. IX Of Hunting Fowling and Fishing Of hunting of Beasts either wilde or tame IN this manner of Judgement you are to know the sign most proper for the business as in all other is especially to be chosen for here are three several elements to rove in If on the earth you hunt either Hare Deer Fox or wilde Beast in every of these you are to place your Ascendent accordingly as if ordinary Beasts place a Beastial or fourfooted sign upon your Ascendent and place the Moon therein as Aries Taurus or Capricorn but if you Hunt feral Beasts such as are Wolfs Lions Bears Leopards or the wilde Boar let your Ascendent be Leo or Sagittary the last 15. degrees and let your Ascendent be strong as also its Lord the Moon and the sign of the sixth and its Lord and weaken and debilitate the seventh house and its Lord as much as you can for the Ascendent its Lord and the Moon hath signification of the Hunters and therefore it strengtheneth them The sixth and its Lord denote the Dogs Nets or other Instruments of Hunting and the seventh hath signification of the thing chased wherefore I rather advise thee to place the sign of the seventh of the Nature of the thing you would take or Hunt rather then the Ascendent and debilitate it and if possible place Mars therein for that denotes bloodshed and that you shall take what you seek but be sure you fortifie the Ascendent its Lord the Moon the sign of the sixth and the Lord thereof and it will be the more certain but by no means let Saturn be in the seventh least you toil and labour to no purpose for he signifyeth you shall not obtain your desire though you see the beast you aym at or if you take it yet shall it escape again and these Rules you are Mutatis mutandis to use in Fowling and Fishing c. Of Fowling or taking of Birds on the land As if you are to hunt Birds or more properly to Fowl and the Birds are such as are taken by Nets Setting-dogs Pinfals or any other device let your Ascendent be aëry and the Lord thereof in an earthy sign well dignified but debilitate the seventh house and its Lord and fortifie also the sixth and its Lord as you have heard for it addeth vigour to the Springes Nets Dogs c. and other instruments appropriate to your work In the Ayr. But if you aym at such Birds as are usually taken in the ayr by Hawk or Faulcon let the Ascendent be an aëry sign and the Lord thereof also in an aëry sign yet let them both be strong and also the sixth and its Lord and debilitate the seventh and its Lord as you have heard In the Water And if you hunt Water-fowl as Duck Mallard or the like let your Ascendent be an aëry sign and the Lord thereof strong in a watry or place the Lord thereof in an aëry and the ascendent in a watry or earthy in like manner do with the sixth and its Lord and dispose of the seventh as you have heard Of fishing in Sea Rivers or Pools Again if your sport be fishing place the Ascendent and its Lord in watry signs and well dignified fortifie also the sixth and its Lord and place the Ascendent if you would catch shel-fish and are roving in the Sea in Cancer and let Iupiter be in Pisces well dignified and debilitate the seventh house and its Lord. For smaller fish if you angle or fish by any other Instrument in Rivers or Pools prefer Pisces and so according to discretion frame your business for since you have had the fundamental Rules of Elections delivered you at the beginning of this third Book you must not expect I shall do any more then hint at any thing we are hereafter to handle in this Book for if your own ingenuity will not lead you and enable you to go through with any election pertaining to the life of man by what thou hast already heard thou wouldest never apprehend the mystery thereof should I inlarge as much as is possible upon every particular Of teaching of Dogs to hunt In teaching of Dogs to Hunt such as are Hounds Grew-hounds and such like place the Moon in Aries in Conjunction of Mars for this will make them soon learn and put vigour and courage in them to slay and bite but let Jupiter be also in aspect unto them for the better preservation of them from danger in hunting In teaching of Setting-dogs place the Moon in an earthy sign and the Lord of the Ascendent in an Aëry in Conjunction with the Moon and in good aspect of Mercury and Venus that he may be the more docible and gentle In teaching of Hawks Faulcons and such like let the Moon be in Aquaries applying to Mars To teach Hawks and Faulcons and let Mars be in Scorpio Note that if the Moon be applying to a Retrograde Planet when any one begins either to Hunt Fowl or Fish it signifieth they shall get nothing but weariness pain and trouble but if it be in the Ascendent it denotes great agility in Hunting or in the Sport and if Mars be in the mid-heaven it denotes the same to the Birds or Beasts pursued And if the Moon be in the Mid-heaven afflicted by Mars it signifies the Faulconer shall lose his Hawk But let those that delight much in hawking place the Moon in Aries applying to Mars in Capricorn for this denotes good sport both in the ayr and on the earth To be short in hunting it is most necessary you place the Moon in the mid-heaven and a moveable sign in the ascendent and Jupiter therein in good aspect of the Moon and Mars in the seventh and Saturn Cadent and in no aspect of the Ascendent and Venus in the Ascendent or mid-heaven and the Moon applying unto her for thereby shall both man horse and hounds be elevated and strengthened to undergo the business chearfully and they shall obtain their desire without much pains toil or trouble neither shall they be much wearied SECTION IX Containing Elections appertaining to the signification of the eighth House CHAP. 1. Of making of Wills UNder the signification of this House cometh the Wills of the dead and the heritages left thereby as touching Wills we are in this place to treat viz. what time is best for to make them When thou makest thy Will let not
the Moon be in a movable sign nor the Ascendent nor its Lord if thou intendest it shall stand for this denotes its mutability and that after a short time thou shalt alter it again wherefore let the Ascendent be fixed and the Moon and the Lord thereof placed in fixed signs for this denotes permanency this is for such as will be disposed to such actions before they are visited with sickness but when once it hath seized on them it is not to stand upon electing of times but then you are to judge of the event by the time in this manner If the Moon be slow in motion and increasing in light and in no aspect of any Planet in combustion under the Sun beams or Retrograde it is good and denotes the death of the party quickly and that his Will shall not be altered especially if she be joyned to Mars by body but not by aspect provided Mars be not in the Ascendent nor in aspect therewith nor its Lord yet it shall not be kept but in a short time it shall be either lost or stollen But if Saturn be placed with the Moon or Lord of the Ascendent as you have heard of Mars and in no aspect of the Ascendent it signifieth the sick party shall yet live and the Will then made shall continue in force all his life and also after his death for it shall not be altered nor revoked bur if he afflict the Ascendent it shall be altered Also if Iupiter and Venus be so posited the party sick that hath made his Will shall again recover And that some time after he shall revoke the former Will and make an other c. CHAP. II. Of the Heritages of the Dead DO thou be sure herein to place one of the houses of either Jupiter or Venus in the eighth house or else fortifie the cusp of the eighth and the Lord thereof and place them in Sextile or Trine of either Jupiter or Venus or make the degrees of the cusp of the eighth and the Lord thereof the terms of Iupiter or Venus and make the second and its Lord strong and free from all manner of impediment and if possible in good aspect of the Fortunes Fortifie also the Moon and let her lovingly behold the eighth house or its Lord and if possible fortifie also the Ascendent and its Lord and place the Lord of the eighth in reception with the Lord of the second or Ascendent and if you can let him be in the second and the Lord of the second in the eighth c. SECTION X. Containing the Elections of the ninth House of Heaven CHAP. 1. Of the returning of such as are absent and of going of journeys and entring into any place EVery man hath some Fancy or particular way to himself that is not common to all some of the Ancients have placed returnings in the tenth House by reason it is the next after the ninth that hath signification of long journeys and voyages which returnings follow others have placed this matter in the eighth making the ninth house to follow it because a man must journey to return but because one cannot return without voyaging or travelling contrary to both these I have placed it in the ninth house it self And as I dissent from the Ancients in placing this Election so do I also much deviate from them in the matter thereof yet if thou wilt follow them thou mayest please but thy self and I am content Of returning from any journey Fortifie therefore in this manner of judgement the ninth house at the time of your setting forth the Lord thereof and the Moon as also the ninth and its Lord and the place of the Moon in the Revolution of the year of the World or Quarter if it be a year wherein such are admitted and if possible let Jupiter or Venus or both be in the ninth or applying thereunto or to the Lord thereof or the Moon in both these Schemes and let these places however you do be free from the malevolent configurations of the Infortunes and see that there be no Infortune in the second house in a return nor in the eighth when thou settest first out for the second is then in lieu of the eighth being the eighth from the seventh which hath ever signification of the place intended or travelled to and therefore it seemeth requisite unto me that you also fortifie the seventh house at the time of the first journey as also its Lord and the place of the Moon at that time But thou wilt the better understand how to make an Election for returning by knowing how to set out at first Of going of jâ—urneys or Voyages Wherefore you must know the Ascendent is the significator of the City Town or place from whence any one Travels the seventh of the place intended or journeyed to the tenth house hath signification of the ways or passages in the journey and the fourth of the ways or passages in the return Look then how these places are affected and accordingly judge for if they are assisted by the presence or aspects of the Fortunes good is promised if by the Malevolents evil according to the Nature of the thing signified by the house afflicted or assisted as if the seventh be fortunated you may judge success and happiness to the Traveller in the Country or place to which he goes if the tenth he shall have good success in his journey shall be safe and merry and in good health if the fourth judge the same at his return c. In beginning of any Journey let the Moon be increasing in light and motion free from impediment and affliction of the Infortunes for an Infortune afflicting the Moon doth more hurt then when it afflicteth the Ascendent and let her not be in the second eighth fourth sixth nor twelfth but in the fifth and if possible beheld of the Fortunes however it causeth good success and gain in the journey health of body and that he shall quickly return to his own content and let Mercury be free from combustion and the malevolent aspects of the Infortunes as also the Lord of the Ascendent and let him be placed in a good place of Heaven place also a Fortune in the Ascendent or some Angle for such an Election denotes safety agility joy and gladness in the journey and let not the Moon be in the Ascendent neither going nor returning for it signifies sickness and much grief in the journey But if thou canst not observe all this let the ☽ apply unto the Ascendent as also the Lord of the Ascendent and let them be free from the malevolent aspects of the Infortunes also prosperity and good followeth if the Moon be joyned to Jupiter or Venus or be beheld of them by a Sextile or Trine But you must know there can no Election be framed without respect to the Revolution of the World and the true significator of every man therein according to his quality the which
and be Significators as you have been already shewn in the first Chapter of the first Section of our Introduction to Elections The vanity of the opinion that ♄ and ♂ are always bad and ♃ and ♀ good As for example in the Suns ingress into Aries I have Libra ascending or Aquaries or Capricorn and Saturn located therein I must not hereby because Saturn is Naturally evil judge the condition and state of the People signified by the Ascendent to be evil and unfortunate this year but contrarywise other testimonies concurring they will be in a most prosperous and gallant condition For you must know a Planet in his own house is strong and advantagious according to the old Proverb The Devil is good to his own Children and so contrarywise Jupiter in my Figure at the ingress is in detriment and afflicted and Significator or Planet from whence I am to inquire of fertility and in Square or Opposition of other Significators which also concur to the same signification must I from hence because Jupiter who for the most part is good and in his own natural inclination free from mischief affirm or conclude the year to be fruitfull and free from any want or penury No but because he is the Significator this year of this matter and in detriment retrograde in his fall afflicted impotent and weak I judge the clean contrary For I am to judge according to his signification and ability at that time not according to his natural signification for otherwise we should make most manifest contradictions and confound our selves both in judgement and reason to make Saturn and Mars the only Workers of iniquity for we see clearly all the evils in the World are not of the Nature of these two which would of necessity follow were this admitted but some are Jovial some Venereal and a third fort Mercurial others participating of the Nature of the Sun and again of the Moon But to clear this point yet more fully for I would not have the ingenious thus misled in so gross an errour admit Jupiter or Venus bear chief Rule of the eighth house which you know hath signification of death and mortality and I finde by several consequences and reasons in nature the Heavens do incline to such mischief shall I barely because one of these rules that House conclude contrary to all found reason and manifest testimonies the year will be rather healthfull Believe it I shall refuse thus to do for every Planet must perform that whereunto it is ordained Venus is now to denote death as being Lady of the eighth and therefore in such years I ought thus to judge Yet thus much I shall follow her nature as to say there shall be much mortality or death amongst the People by reason of voluptousness or Venery and such like because she hath naturally such signification In like manner if Jupiter be Lord of the eighth and mortality that year denoted I shall notwithstanding he bears rule in that part of the Heavens thus judge as hath been said viz. death and mortality but the nature thereof I shall take from his natural signification as by corruption of Blood Feavers and the like I shall say is this mortality to be occasioned c. In the next place you are to have a special care to be well instructed in the nature of every Planet and House wherefore be thou sure to have the exact knowledge of the second Treatise it being Introductory before thou adventurest thus far least thou be discouraged from ever attaining to the perfection of this study which I am certain thou wilt never do if thou beest not therein very perfect wherefore let the first eight Chapters thereof be perused over and over and then proceed Judge not upon every light testimony but according to Reason and Art do thou order thy matter for the more assurances and testimonies you have on any matter and concurrences in causes the more affirmatively may you deliver your ' conclusions Fear God study Nature follow the Rules of Art be knowing therein and be ignorant in the vanities of the course of the World and thou shalt come nearest unto Truth and infinitely augment thy knowledge In your judgement of the Suns ingress joyn also in consideration with it the significations of Eclipses great Conjunctions Comets and Blazing-stars if there be any either preceding or coming after it for be assured these things never happen but before some notable change and alteration in the World Remember that according to the Debility and strength of your Significator you are to judge of the condition of any person the people or thing whatsoever thereby signified and you have attained to a great help but now least you should be still to seek in the true understanding of the Significators necessary in this manner of Judgement I shall notwithstanding what hath been delivered in the Introduction or Second Book of these our labours here beneath clearly demonstrate them unto thee CHAP. III. Shewing which are the Significators of the King People their Enemies and Assistants in any Revolution of the years of the World LArgely have the Antients treated of these matters yet some therein have come very short and to little or no purpose troubled their heads leaving still the Student both in doubts and errors wherefore according to the sincerity of my first undertakings I shall here indeavour to undeceive my Readers touching these particulars and impart unto them the truth and surest rules for the judging thereof I shall first give you some of their Instructions and then my own or such as I in my judgement hold to be most rational that so thou mayst be the better able to distinguish truth from falshood Note that those in Authority are understood by the tenth house when there is no King We shall begin with the Significator of Kings but you are to note that in any Nation where no such are the Grandees or chief Rulers of the times are to be understood the which say they is thus to be known or found Look to the Lord of the tenth house in your Figure at time of the Revolution of the Sun into the first point of Aries who if he be free from Combustion Retrogradation Impedition and such like and within five degrees of the cusp of the tenth either before or after viz. within or without the house he shall without doubt be the Kings Significator or chief Rulers without any farther inquiry but if he be any ways impedited as in Detriment Fall Combust Peregrine Retrograde or besieged c. he shall not be significator of the King or Chief Rulers Have recourse then to that Planet who hath Exaltation in the Sign of the tenth and if he be within five degrees of the cusp as you have heard and in no sort impedited or afflicted thou shalt conclude him to be Significator of the King but if he be impedited or afflicted as abovesaid he shall not be Significator But now
position and fortitudes of their significators Also how to know the Lord of the year in any Revolution of the years of the World and the significations thereof in the twelve Houses Signs and Aspects of the Planets also of the significations of the Head and Tail of the Dragon in any of the twelve Houses CHAP. I. Of the state or condition of the King or chief Rulers and People in any Annual Revolution AFter thou art well informed of the true significator of the King and People or any ones person or thing concerning which thou wouldst judge of any future event thou wilt be the better able to accomplish thy desires How to judge of the condition of the King in annual Revolutions Wherefore now to know the true state and condition of the King People or any other have regard to their true significators as unto the sign of the tenth if thou enquirest concerning the King c. its Lord and the Planet or Planets therein posited and some of the Ancients have said the Sun Part of Fortune and its dispositor are also to be joyned in consideration with them thou mayst choose which thou wilt follow and see how they are dignified how aspected and by what Planets their nature place in the Heavens and nature of the sign from whence they aspect your significator If he be in Sextile or Trine of the Fortunes and out of good Houses thou mayst expect and judge from thence good but if beheld by the Square or Opposition of the Infortunes mischief is to be feared if the aspects be good and from many benevolent Planets judge much success if otherwise less and so contrariwise much evil if your significator be several ways afflicted c. To know the nature of the good or evil threatned If you would know the nature of the evil or good which is threatned by the assistance or debilities of your significator look to the nature of the Planet afflicting and the nature of the sign wherein he is located and the part of Heaven in which he is placed and according to their significations judge As for example in your figure you have suppose the Lord of the tenth in the ninth by which you shall judge some secret treason or plot against his person during that Revolution because it is the twelfth from the tenth and signifieth secret enemies and plots But if beheld by the Lord thereof by a malitious Square or Opposition you shall say he shall undertake some Journey by which he shall endanger his life or in the which some such Perils shall happen and if also at the same instant he be afflicted by the malevolent Aspect of the Lord of the Eighth which is the Fifth in the figure no wise assisted by the adjuvant beams of the Fortunes thou mayst then assuredly conclude him to be in great jeopardy of his life and if other Testimonies concur thou mayst absolutely pronounce death for you must still remember that according to the signification of the Sign the afflicting Planet is Lord of and the Sign and place of heaven wherein he is to pronounce the nature of the evil threatned for we shall suppose the Lord of the Eighth before mentioned to be in the Seventh which is the Fourth in the Figure though Seventh from the Tenth by which you may assuredly say that the evil viz. the danger of death threatned shall be occasioned by the malitious and furious actions of his enemy the Seventh house having signification thereof and so judge of any other position and contrariwise if the Aspects and Planets aspecting be Fortunes and in good places of Heaven judge the contrary The Condition and state of the Common People in any Revolution of the years of the World or any other So likewise judge of the state and condition of the People having regard to the Ascendent its Lord the Moon and Lord of the year and if they be well placed and dignified also well aspected by the Benevolents judge the condition of the common People or Subjects to be prosperous but if you find the contrary judge also the contrary In like manner you may judge of any of the aforesaid significators mutatis mutandis As if the Sign of the Eleventh the Lord thereof and the Planet or Planets therein posited be essentially strong and free from all manner of impediment judge the condition of the Souldiers and assistance of the Rulers to be fortunate and successfull during that Revolution If otherwise judge the contrary and so of the rest c. Rules touching the Significator of the King If the Significator of the King be under the Sun beams there is much danger as say the Arabians of his decease in that Revolution but I should rather judge his Kingly power to be then neer Death or an End or likely to be much eclipsed for that there are many Significators to be considered for the judging of Death which ought never to be pronounced upon one bare testimony besides were this admitted we should consequently conclude by the same rule the Death of a whole Senate upon such a position in such an Ingress they being signified by the same significator where there is no King which were ridiculous in any one so to do but I say that their power and glory shall be eclipsed and shaken and perhaps overthrown at that time when any such Position is found If the Significator be not as yet under the Sun beams but within twelve or thirteen degrees entring then judge this Catastrophe to be when he comes under his beames or in conjunction with the Sun bodily The same also is to be feared when the Sign of the Tenth is Leo and Mars in Square or Opposition of the Sun or in corporal Conjunction with him but more especially if he be Lord of the Eighth or therein located or in reception or translation of light with the Lord of the Eighth or with Saturn or any Aspect especially if he be infortunately placed in the time of his Nativity or Coronation So likewise when the Lord of the year is in Combustion in the Tenth this danger is threatned him in his own Dominions but if he be thus afflicted in the Fourth or Seventh the danger is to be feared and expected from some coming out of those Regions signified by the Sign wherein the Lord of the Year is afflicted Know also that when in any Revolution the Sun is Significator of the Rulers of any place and in Square or Opposition of Jupiter they shall be envyed and molested by their own Houshold Servants and Subjects if there be any such Aspect betwixt the Lord of the Ascendent and Lord of the Tenth the Common People will also rise up against their Superiors to reject them But if there be any friendly aspect betwixt them or reception or translation of light judge the contrary How to know the several accidents to happen to any You may know the several accidents and the nature of
and bear dominion either by essential dignity or bodily presence in the sixth or else some other misfortune will befal him according to the nature of Saturn and the place and sign of Heaven wherein he is located If the Combustion fall out so as to be in the seventh or fourth Houses of Heaven Judge the mischief to be according to the signification of these Houses as you have heard of the Ascendent for if it be in the seventh you shall say because it hath signification of the Enemies of the People that the disaster shall be occasioned by them in the fourth being the seventh from the tenth from his own proper Antagonists c. if in the tenth it self this combustion be it shall proceed from his own unruliness or wilfulness c. this is clear Wherefore now also have regard to the condition and state of the People but first let us consider the durability of Kings and Rulers CHAP. II. Teaching how to judge of the permanency or durability of Kings or such as are in Authority by any Revolution MUch time and paper might I here consume in delivering unto you all the ways the Learned in former ages have set down for the judging of this matter but lest I then deviate from both my intentions at this time and natural inclination to short discourses and trouble both thee and my self to no purpose since it may as well be delivered in fewer words I shall satisfie my self with these following rules From whence Judgement is to be required for the predicting the durability of any Kingdom or Government First Erect your figure of the Heavens which for the judging of these matters must be according to that punctum of time the King was first Elected or Crowned if you are to judge of a Senate take the time of their first sitting or assembling together or wherein they were first created or made a Free State or assumed power to act according to what their own counsels shall produce Then having exactly placed the Planets therein according to their then several places and reduced them to the just hour and minute of the day especially the Moon you are to see what Planet is Hylech or Alchochoden or Giver of Life in your Figure and Almuten or Chief Ruler of the Ascendent to know the state of his body or person what of the mid-heaven to judge of the state and condition of his Kingdom or Regal power and having thus done thou mayst easily judge of either of these in this manner Observe what sign degree and minute ascends and culminates what sign degree and minute the Sua and â—â—oon possesses and where to a very minute also is your Almuten and Hylech of each House then see in every Revolution Eclipse or great Conjunction how these places and significators are disposed and how aspected by the Malevolents and judge the continuation or subversion of their Government according as you see occasion If your Hylech or Giver of Life be afflicted judge the evil according to the strength of the afflicting Planet to fall on the person or persons of the Rulers or touching their lives if the Almuten of the mid-heaven upon their Regal power and so contrariwise if they be assisted and fortunately beheld or come to the places of the Fortunes or the Fortunes fall in any of their places in any Revolution Eclipse or great Conjunction judge the contrary still remember the good or evil doth depend on the power of the Benevolent or Malevolent Planets for if much afflicted much evil is to be expected and so on the contrary as you have already been taught If any of the aforesaid places or significators fall in the place of any Eclipse or great Conjunction judge the mischief threatned to happen according to the signification of the Eclipse or Planets so in Conjunction warily judging according to the nature of the Houses wherein they are in the Scheme of the Eclipse or Conjunction and the signification of their own nature and the nature of the Houses which they rule and are located in at the time of the Kings Coronation or Election This you shall more fully understand in the delivering the rules of this Art touching the Judgement of Eclipses and great Conjunctions at the latter end of this Treatise I utterly for my own part Refuse to follow the rules of the Ancients touching their giving a year to every sign betwixt the Planet afflicting and afflicted for the judging the time of the alteration of any Government and the like for that they stand not with much reason or are they built on any strong foundation so as to stand unquestionable a little experience and observation will soon manifest unto thee the truth hereof for touching the just time when any such accident shall happen I conceive ought rather and that with a great deal of more reason to be left to the good pleasure and will of the Most High who is the great orderer and disposer of all the Causes in Nature and will according to his own good time effect what is most agreeable unto his Divine will Wherefore let it suffice to know by the iuclinations of those Glorious Bodies the alterations and durabilities of sublunary things without enquiring how or when it will be performed if thou findest at the beginning of any Government or State the Angles of Heaven fixed the Lords thereof well disposed especially of the Ascendent and mid-heaven and free from the malevolent presence and Configurations of the Infortunes and essentially dignified and aspected by the adjuvant Planets thou mayst from hence conclude the firmness and permanency of the Rule or Government then set up but if thou findest these places and significators contrariwise afflicted moveable and weak judge the contrary thereunto If Saturn be then Lord of the Ascendent and essentially well dignified and altogether free from the affliction of the Malevolents and Angular say that the Kingdom State Rule or Government then began shall flourish and continue unchangeable 465 years being the greatest years of Saturn and if he be not altogether so well placed but free from all impediment and in a succedent House the Government or Rule then setled shall continue firm and unaltered 57 years being his greater years if he be significator and essentially dignified and free from all impediment aforesaid and in a Cadent House say it shall continue in the condition it first was in 43 years and a half being his mean years but if he be but thus meanly placed and but moderately dignified judge the continuance thereof to be but 30 years which are his least years and so accordingly judge of all the other Planets when they are significators and well placed and dignified as you have heard of Saturn their greatest greater mean and least years being all recorded in our Introduction to the Judgement of the STARS where the nature and significations of the Planets are delivered c. CHAP. III. Shewing the state and condition
a successful and most prosperous condition but if contrariwise he be then weak and impedited retrograde combust c. he denotes wars quarrels slaughters trouble effusion of blood epidemical diseases feavers hot and dry diseases many mischiefs and the clean contrary to what he before promised So likewise if the Sun be as aforesaid significator and strong the People shall assuredly be in an honourable and noble condition and many that are thereunto fit shall be raised to dignity power and authority according to the capacity and quality of their persons and be in great esteem and favour with their King or Rulers but if he be weak and impedited it diminisheth the honour of the King and abaseth their condition and the People shall suffer much damage and disgrace from their Superiors and be tormented by them If Venus be placed and dignified as above said the People shall have all the pleasures and good promised by her signification as delights banquets riches pleasure c. and shall delight themselves with Women and the like if she be impedited you may judge the clean contrary as sadness poverty and little or no mirth c. If you find Mercury in your Figure placed as you have heard the People shall gain by Merchandizing and increase their riches by Traffique shall love and delight in knowledge good instructions and ingenious Arts and Sciences shall also cherish and propagate all good Learning and the Studious therein and shall love one another but if he be afflicted and unfortunate they shall suffer much loss and vexation by contrary winds decay of Trade and Merchandizing and have no disposition at all to any good Learning or Education and to be short he signifies the clean contrary to what you have but now heard In like manner if the Moon be well placed and be Almuten and essentially strong as hath been said the year shall be seasonable fortunate and fertile and the People during that Revolution happy successful and in a prosperous and fortunate condition and shall be preserved from death slaughters and sickness Also if she be ill-affected and impedited much damage and mischief shall happen unto the People the year shall be unseasonable destructive sickly and unfruitful or scarce by distilling unseasonably rain and dew when no need is thereof and withholding of it when it is requisite and thirsted after by the earth So likewise as thou hast judged of the Moon and the Planets in a general way as being Almuten mayst thou judge of the Lord of the Ascendent who if he be fortunate and well dignified and aspected thou mayst judge the fortunate condition and state of the Common People during that Revolution also their mis-fortune if afflicted impedited c. Judge the nature thereof from the nature of the House Planet afflicting and sign wherein it is whether it be good or bad as you have been already sufficiently taught wherefore it were needless and superfluous here to run over the nature of the Planets fortunate and unfortunate afflicting or assisting your significator and the nature of the Signs and Houses they are in for an example Yet least thou shouldest not be so apt and ingenious herein as I could wish thou wert I shall a little hint at the manner thereof that so thou mayest be the better enlightened to the through understanding of this kinde of Judgement If the Lord of the Ascendent or Moon be in the seventh afflicted and weak especially if malevolently aspected by the Lord of the seventh and he essentially strong say the People shall during that Revolution be grievously afflicted and molested by their enemies if in the eighth by death in the ninth by or in long journeys in the tenth by their Rulers Superiours and Kings in the eleventh by their friends or so in pretence or by the frustration of their hope and trust in the twelfth by imprisonment secret enemies and the like in the Ascendent they shall suffer bodily in their own proper persons according to the nature of the sign then possessing the cusp thereof and so accordingly vary your Judgement after the nature and signification of the other houses if therein he be in the like manner afflicted the more assured will this Judgement be if it be a humane sign if bestial then will it happen to the beasts of that place for which your Revolution is observed And according to the Nature of the sign will the evil fall on such beasts as are appropriated thereunto as if the sign ascending at that time be Aries or Capricorn it will happen on Sheep Hogs Hares Goats c. and all lesser Cattel for the use of man if Iaurus or the last fifteen degrees of Sagittary on Cowes Oxen Horses and the greater sort of Cattel if in Leo or any of the feral signs on the wilde sort of Beasts if in Scorpio Cancer or Pisces on Fishes and such Creatures as live on the Water if in any of the aëry signs the mischief shall be in the ayr viz. it shall be Intemperate Pestilential and Infectious Some of the Ancients also say that if Gemini do then ascend the evil will fall on young men chiefly if Virgo on Virgins and young women if Libra on men of more mature years if in the first fifteen degrees of Sagittary or Aquaries on the Antienter People this shall chiefly happen to those Regions Cities and Places subject to the sign and the part of Heaven thereby signified of which you are fully informed in the 28th Chapter of our Introduction to the Judgement of the Stars also to these places assigned to the dominion of the Planet concerning which thou mayst also fully be informed in the same aforesaid Treatise As if the Ascendent be Aries and Mars be then impedited the Regions Cities Villages and places subject to Aries shall be damnified and shall suffer much detriment by the heat of the ayr and defluctions of Rheume head-ach and the like except the benevolent Aspects of Venus be prevalent and gainsay it if the Ascendent be Scorpio those places subject thereunto shall be afflicted with water and venemous Creatures the Pox pain in the head and arms c. If the Ascendent be Taurus and Venus then impedited and afflicted the Regions and Countreys subject thereunto shall suffer much detriment and loss through extremity of Cold Frost and Snow and also dryness whereby the fruits of the earth shall be destroyed c. If the Ascendent be Libra such as are thereunto allotted shall suffer affliction by winds pestilential ayr sicknesses and pains in the head and reins except Mars work or signifie to the contrary In like manner if the Ascendent be Gemini and Mercury then afflicted and weak the Places under the power or Gemini shall be afflicted with corrupt ayr and receive much hurt and loss by winds and the people shall be troubled with Head-aches and obstructions of the Lungs and Breathing-pipes if it be Virgo the evil threatned will be in the Regions and
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
he is accidentally placed in any of the Twelve Houses of Heaven in any Annual Revolution whether he be Lord of the Year or no. THus have you heard plainly and fully the true significations of Saturn as he is located in any of the twelve Houses in any Revolution whatsoever whether he be Lord of the year or no it resteth therefore now we descend to Jupiter who as you have heard in our Introduction is the next under Saturn and therefore we shall in this place speak first of him and then of all the rest in order as they are accordingly located in the Heavens Jupiter in the Ascendent or first House of Heaven in any Annual Revolution of the years of the world and what he thereby signifies If Jupiter then in any Annual Revolution of the years of the world be in the Ascendent and strong and in good aspect of his dispositor as you have heard of Saturn in the former Chapter he signifies the People of that Climate or Region shall be successful and fortunate on every side healthy in their bodies shall have much joy honour and peace men shall be desirers and searchers of and in Divine Mysteries and the Law and the Students thereof shall be in great and high esteem and they shall build and repair Churches and Courts of Judicature c. and if he be weak men shall be negligent and careless of Divine Duties and the Law and though thou mayst not judge altogether the contrary to what hath been said yet mayst thou say the People shall be little the better for his presence in their Ascendent or receive little or no good from him for the good he would and is naturally willing to do you see he is altogether unable to perform being weak or having no power or ability in like manner judge of his consistence in any other House when he is in the like case indigent Jupiter in the second If he be in the second and strong he signifies abudance of prosperity and riches to the People especially in such things and commodities as are signified by the sign wherein Iupiter is also if the Lord of the second apply unto him their riches will come tumbling on them they know not how but if he apply to the Lord of the second it will be by their own labour and industry that they shall augment their riches By this rule mayst thou if thou hast well considered what hath been said in the preceding Discourse judge of every thing appertaining to the signification of any House If Iupiter be weak and in the second he neither promiseth riches nor poverty in himself except by accident wherefore you are warily to consider as hath been said the signification of each Planet as he is in your Scheme significator of any thing and not wholly as he is naturally and so judge of the good or evil portended by his signification and aspect sign and quarter of Heaven he possesses Jupiter in the third Also if he be in the third and strong the People shall be pleasant and delight to associate themselves with their neighbours acquaintance and kindred shall delight also in charitable and alms deeds and be prosperous and successful in all short Journies and give themselves to the study of Arts and Sciences but if he be weak they shall not have the like strong inclinations unto these things Jupiter in the fourth Again If Iupiter be in the fourth and well dignified men shall infinitely abound in wealth and prosper by their labours on the ground especially husbanders and manurers thereof but if he be unfortunate there shall happen much sadness and trouble unto them towards the end of the year c. Jupiter in the fifth Moreover if he be in the fifth men shall delight in feasting sporting and all manner of recreation and pastime shall be pleasant merry and receive much joy and content from and by their Children women shall be apt to conceive with Child and they shall bring them safely forth perfect and without danger but if he be weak it will not be so well if any thing at all good Jupiter in the sixth In the sixth and well dignified the good condition and state of Servants is promised also health both unto them and the People in general if the sign wherein he is be humane if bestial to beasts of that nature the sign is of c. as you have heard in the preceding Chapter where we spake of Saturn his being in the same House if he be afflicted judge not so much good but if you see other testimonies concuring say rather there will be the clean contrary and diseases such as are Impostumes unnatural windy swellings obstructions of the Liver and the like be sure you derive your judgement according to discretion and the nature of the Planet and Sign he is in c. Jupiter in the seventh Jupiter in the seventh fortunate denotes many Marriages and Contracts shall be made and Men shall delight themselves with Women but if he be unfortunate they shall not agree shall jarr clash and fall out one with another during that Revolution Jupiter in the eighth If he be in the eighth there shall not be any great mortality if he be then strong but if he be weak judge the contrary or there shall be some affliction according to the nature of the sign in which he then is Jupiter in the ninth Also if he be fortunately placed in the ninth men shall make safe and prosperous Journies and Voyages by Sea and also thrive by removing from one place or house to another and men shall love and delight in the Law both of God and Man Moral and Divine but if he be weak it will not be so good By what hath been already said and rightly apprehended thou mayst easily judge when it will be contrary or bad in any degree Jupiter in the tenth Again If he be in the tenth and dignified the King and Superiours shall be good shall honour his or their People and do Justice generally and impartially and they shall thrive under their Government and be successful but if he be weak in dignities he cannot be so strong as to perform this good so effectually and there shall be both Law and discord amongst the People c. Jupiter in the eleventh If he be in the eleventh the People shall be most successful or fortunate also faithful just and honest shall not be deprived of their hopes nor confidence and shall be merry but if he be weak it will not be so good Jupiter in the twelfth Lastly If Jupiter be in the twelfth the People shall profit and gain by their Enemies shall be quiet love and cherish one another and shall be free from malice and envy but if he be weak judge the contrary as you shall have occasion and reason CHAP. VIII Containing the Significations of Mars in the Twelve Houses of Heaven in
denotes encrease of mischief and not good and ☋ loss to and by great Cattell that few men shall during that Revolution be imprisoned and if they be they shall not so continue Note but I shall desire thee to remember that according to their affliction or assistance thou art to judge good or bad and not always according to these general Rules as you have been sufficiently taught of the Planets so also touching the places where their effects shall be manifested observe the same Rules you have been already taught viz. those subject to the signs in which they are c. CHAP. XIV Shewing the Significations of the Planets in any of the Triplicities when any of them is Lord of the Year in any Annual Revolution of the years of the World EVen as we have before promised to give you some Rules more at large for the better and further illustration of what hath been already delivered so though what hath been said is sufficient we shall yet further persist and endeavour to make every thing so clear that there shall not be the least complaint thereof now therefore as touching the signification of every Planet when they are either Lords or Ladies of the year in any of the four Triplicities what a Triplicity is and how and wherefore so divided you have been already shewn in the 12. Chapter of our Introduction to the Judgement of the Stars and then what may be expected by their being in any of the twelve signs as also the Head and Tail of the Dragon and so we shall proceed to the third Section that we may the sooner hasten to a conclusion I might hereon inlarge as have the Ancients but it shall be needless to say more then thus much That look what Planet is Lord of the year and the sign he is then placed in and ponder exactly his Debilities and Fortitudes and according to his strength you know and have been sufficiently already taught you are to judge good or bad according to his nature the nature of the sign he is in and the nature of the place of Heaven he is placed in as if Saturn be in Aquaries or its Triplicity this being both his house and Triplicity by day and so consequently if the Revolution be Diurnal strong and well dignified as also having exaltation in Libra the same Triplicity you shall judge what he signifies and denotes shall be advantagious and good to the Common People and Nation but it shall chiefly be manifested and effected in the Western parts because this is a Western sign For whatever your Planet Lord or Lady of the year denotes whether by her or his natural Complexion or Accidental Fortitudes good or bad it shall be chiefly manifest in those Regions subject to the sign wherein he or she is and the Countreys also subject to that Triplicity but more particularly in the quarter signified by the said Triplicity as for example if Saturn be in Aries he shall denote mischief and dammage to all Noble Rich and Great men because they are denoted and signified especial by fiery signs which also you have heard in the 23. Chapter of the second Treatise of this Volume are regal also to the Common People and Nation in general because he is Lord of the year and so becomes significator thereof or of them now I say mischief shall be unto these losses and crosses because Saturn in this sign as also in the whole Triplicity is weak Aries being his Fall and Le◠his Detriment c. And this shall be in the Places Cities Regions Countreys and Kingdoms signified by Aries and all the Triplicity which you have also been shewn in the aforesaid Book and 27. Chapter especially in the Eastern parts thereof because they are Eastern signs c. this is clear So that if thou hast but regard to the Natural and Accidental significations of the Planet Note sign he is in his strength and debilities therein what Triplicity the sign is of and what Regions and Quarter of Heaven it denotes together with the Triplicity and do but judge according to what thou hast been shewn and I need say no more for thereby mayst thou easily and exactly judge of the rest CHAP. XV. Demonstrating the Significations of Saturn when he is Lord of the Year in any of the twelve Signs YOu have been promised this plain jog trot way and therefore I shall here deliver it you though to the ingenious what hath been already said is sufficient and this superfluous Of the significations of Saturn when Lord of the Year and in Aries In Aries and impedited Wherefore then know that if Saturn be Lord of the year and in Aries he stirreth up many great winds and those Eastern and causeth the death of many Matrons and old Women or such as are Overseers of Nunneries scarcity of Provisions and a leanness and barrenness of the earth And if he be impedited he causeth many Thefts and Robberies Cutters by the High-way anxiety sadness and tribulation during that Revolution Also if he be the only Lord or Significator of the year and be Cadent from the Ascendent and behold it not and be direct he shews anxiety and trouble to Rich and Noblemen or such as are the Grandees of the earth and if he be Retrograde their houses substance and coffers of wealth shall be visited and destroyed or taken away and so much the rather if he be beheld by the malevolent Aspects of Mars for then he shall denote grievous cold weather the death of Cattel especially Sheep and such as are signified by Aries and that by some rot or the violence and rudeness of Wars and if he do not behold Mars or Mars him the Winter shall be extream cold according to the nature and quality of the Climate and there shall be a destruction or death of Cattel also if he be not Retrograde there shall be dissentions and quarrels amongst men Sackings Robbings and Spoilings and a great deal of mischief especially if he be beheld of Mars out of an angle but if he behold him from a Cadent house it shall not be so bad Also if Saturn be direct and in an angle he signifies much rain discords amongst great and rich men especially if he be aspected by Mars for then the Common People shall assuredly disagree and contend with their King and Superiours and if he be Retrograde the state and condition of the People shall be grievous and if both Mars and the Moon behold him with a malevolent Aspect together there shall be terrible cold weather Cattel shall die and there shall be dissentions and Wars Saturn Lord of the year and in fixed signs In any Revolution of the World if you finde Saturn in a fixed sign he denotes mortality poverty scarcity and great want of the fruits of the earth if he be Lord of the year this is meant especially in Leo because he is therein afflicted and in detriment being the sign opposite to his
Catterpillers and the like and if he be Retrograde the Common People shall be angry and fall out one with another if Direct it signifies the good Condition of Great and Noble men that they shall carry themselves well towards all men and that they shall delight in and love the Law and put it in execution Saturn Lord of the year in Aquaries If Saturn be Lord of the Year and in Aquaries having Septentrional Latitude he signifies much Rain Frost and Cold at Times convenient when Meridional a scarcity of water in Fountains and Rivers if he be Oriental the Common People shall obtain but few Heritages and thrive but little if he be Occidental he signifies many Combustions if he be Retrograde the Evill is increased and if Direct he denotes the Death of such Cattell as Men ordinarily imploy about their Occasions Saturn Lord of the year in Pisces Lastly if Saturn be Septentrional and Lord of the year and in Pisces he signifies many great and tempestuous blasts of winds and that from the North and grievous cold weather in winter if he be Meridional he denotes storms and tempests by sea and many shipwracks also hurt and loss to those that have their living and dependency on the sea or water and if he be Oriental it signifies dissentions and discords amongst great and noble men and also slaughter amongst them but if he be Occidental the ignoble and baser sort of people shall exalt themselves above their Superiors and if he be Retrograde there shall be many dissentions tribulations and discords amongst Religious men and such as study Divine matters and if he be Direct men shall serve and worship God c. CHAP. XVI Shewing the Significations of Jupiter when he is Lord of the year in any of the Twelve Signs WE are now in order to descend to Jupiter being the next Planet under Saturn in the heavens Jupiter Lord of the year in Aries who if he be in Aries and Lord of the year he signifies an appearance of religion in the Eastern parts or that some new Sect or Schism shall there arise and men shall be observers and lovers of the Laws both Moral and Divine and shall be given to good works also he denotes much windy weather and that from the East or Eastern parts as also much cold and rain in winter yet not so much as shall be hurtful or to cause any inundation the fruits of the earth also shall be plenteously and seasonably produced And if he be then well dignified when he is Lord of the year and in Aries he signifies the prosperous and successful condition of those men places Cities and Countreys subject unto him and the sign wherein he is that they shall be merry and jovial and want nothing the like also to the common people in general and that they shall love their Superiors but if he be impedited and weak judge the contrary Also if Jupiter be in humane Signs or fiëry Signs in any Revolution and Lord of the year you are to know if he be weak that he signifies great and noble men shall be dejected and perplexed molested and afflicted and shall sustain many losses and disgraces according to the nature of the affliction and these shall chiefly be incident to the Regions and places subject unto him and the sign in which he is located as also the place for which the figure of the Revolution is erected but if he be strong judge the contrary Also if he be strong and well placed or accidentally aspected by any of the other fortunate Planets which you have heard may sometimes accidentally be fortunes in earthy or watery Signs he shall denote good to all such things as are thereby signified as the fruits of the earth and seeds if in earthy Signs also fishes and such things as appertain to water if in watry signs as Navigators and such as have their living out of the Sea they shall make good voyages and that safely and with security but if he be weak you may judge danger by shipwrack tedious and unprofitable voyages and the like and so contrariwise in earthy Signs when he is weak and afflicted he denotes a scarcity of Grain fruits and seeds and that the earth shall be afflicted with barrenness according to the nature of the Planet or Planets assisting him c. Jupiter Lord of the year in Taurus Jupiter in Taurus and Lord of the year well dignified or assisted by Adjuvant Planets shall denote fertillity and the good condition of the fruits of the earth and that there shall be a temperate and good ayr men shall delight in the husbandring and manuring of the ground and shall profit thereby the King also and the Rulers or Great and Noble men shall do good to the people and incourage them and do them justice and equity and again the People shall love honor and respect their Superiors there shall also be sufficient and moderate rain and sweet Southern winds and all things signified by Jupiter shall chiefly be manifest in the Southern parts and those places subject to Taurus but if he be weak and afflicted judge the contrary and judge the nature thereof from the significator affâ—icting as you have been often taught before Nora bene But you are ever to remember this general rule which I would also have you observe and take notice of in all the other Planets that although Jupiter do in Taurus signifie good when he is well disposed he being naturally good in himself yet doth he not effect it so powerfully or so fully as when he is in Aries for he hath therein borh Triplicity and Term but in Taurus only Term and in Sagittary more power then in Aries to effect what he denotes for therein he hath both House Triplicity and Term for by how much the stronger essentially a Planet is by so much is his power increased and so on the contrary when he is debilitated c. this I say I would have thee still remember in what thou hast already heard as also in what follows and in all the other Planets Jupiter Lord of the year in Gemini If Jupiter be Lord of the year in Gemini and well dignified and in some Aspects of the Malevolents men shall be perplexed with extream warm winds and if he be in Aspect with Mars many casualties through thunder and lightning shall be incident unto them but if he be aspected with Saturn he denotes corruption of ayr and if other testimonies concur pestilential ayr and diseases through corruption of blood are to be feared but if you see him free from any Aspect of the Malevolents yet shall he denote no very pleasant ayr many sudden gusts of winds and storms of rain which shall be somewhat destructive to the fruits of the earth and not pleasant unto men For it is certain that when Jupiter is in Gemini if he do no hurt he doth as little good or rather none
Predecessors in this most heavenly Science that there will be a pleasant wholsom healthy ayr and a diminution of infirmities both of the eyes and other parts of the body comfortable and seasonable showers and gusts of winde and plenty of all manner of fruits and provisions convenient for the life of man unless the malicious beams of Saturn or Mars prevent it Mercury Lord of the year in Libra Mercury in Libra and Lord of the year denotes great and high winds and if he be free from impediment of the Malevolents saith my own Natural Reason the ayr shall not be so troublesom and the year shall be pretty plentifull yet the Ancients say without any exceptions there shall be a diminution of Provisions if he be in Libra and truly I am of their opinion if he be then afflicted otherwise not If Saturn be either joyned to him in this sign by either Conjunction or Aspect he signifies men shall be troubled with pains and infirmities in the head and belly I know no reason why they might not also have said in the neck throat back and reins but if the Sun do then behold Saturn the malice and mischief of Saturn is taken away Mercury Lord of the year in Scorpio Also if he be Lord of the year and in Scorpio there shall be much snow and cold weather in those parts wherein such are natural or usual also Wars and Quarrels in the Northern and Western parts and if he be beheld of Mars they will be rather Northern then Western and there will be also much thieving pillaging and robbing both by Sea and Land the Sea shall be very turbulent and there will be many Shipwracks and mischiefs therein also pestilencies and contagious Feavers in the Northern parts why not in those Regions and places subject to Scorpio and all manner of infirmities and diseases of the eyes Mercury Lord of the year in Sagittary Much snow during that Revolution shall fall in Winter when you finde Mercury Lord of the year and in Sagittary especially in those parts of the World where such accidents are most usual as also in the place under which your Revolution is an unconstant turbulent ayr a scarcity and dimunition of the fruits of the earth and provisions for the use of man and Wars and dissentions in the Western parts say the Ancients but if it should prove in the Eastern parts I know no reason why we should so much confide in every thing they write Mercury Lord of the year in Capricorn Again in Capricorn Mercury signifies if he be Lord of the year in your annual Revolution Wars Tribulations and Sorrows to the Southern parts and places subject to the sign this is if he be afflicted but if assisted by the benevolent aspects of the Fortunes and free from all other impediments the year will be pretty fruitfull and healthy but if he be afflicted by the Malevolents judge the contrary Mercury Lord of the year in Aquaries Also if he be in Aquaries and Lord of the year or Quarter he signifies many Catterpillers and Locusts in such places where they are naturally and diminution of rain also that men shall be molested with Plurisies and Pustules or Eruptions in the skin especially in the thighs and this shall chiefly be occasioned through corruption of the ayr and several changes thereof and if he be then in a corporal Conjunction of Venus there will be earthquakes in that Revolution especially if the Sun do then behold them or be joyned unto them and if Mars also or Saturn behold them with a Square or Opposition thou mayst be confident thereof and that there will be pestilential Diseases and many Thefts and Robberies and if Saturn be corporally joyned to Mercury there shall be an increase of waters and rain Mercury Lord of the year in Pisces Lastly Mercury in Pisces in any annual Revolution when he is Lord of the year or Quarter denotes very much wind and rain in the Northern parts also death Fish shall abound and want of provisions and fruits of the earth detriment also to the Sea and those that converse therein many Shipwracks c Now although Mercury at time of the Sun his ingress into Aries cannot possibly be in some of these signs by reason he is never distant from the Sun above 28. degrees as you have heard in the sixth Chapter of the second Treatise of this Work yet may not any one conclude these Rules superfluous and the Antients therein ridiculous since as you have heard in the first Chapter of the first Section of this very Treatise it often falls out that there are four Schemes to be erected and sometimes two for the judging of annual affairs in the World and therefore it was requisite that his significations should also be known in any sign of the Heavens for in these we shall otherwise be to seek c. CHAP. XXI Containing the Significations of the Moon when she is Lady of the Year in any of the twelve Signs ALL that I have said from the 15. Chapter of this second Section hath been but in a manner meerly reiterations and an inlargement of such rules as were more briefly delivered before that the Students in this Art might be very well versed in their rules and perfected in the reasons and grounds thereof It resteth therefore now we also handle the significations of the Moon in every one of the twelve Celestial signs when she is Lady of the year but I must confess I am almost tired and wearied out with this kinde of repetition wherefore I shall only in less bounds yet as largely and plainly as the Ancients for matter of Instruction deliver unto you the ground of these rules and so proceed to the significations of the Dragons Head and Tail Know then that the Moon as you have heard in the 5. Chapter of this second Section doth denote all the good that can possibly be desired to the Commons and People in general when she is Lady of the year and strong or well dignified if she be weak the contrary according to her debility and impediment you are to judge Well then when you see in your figure she is strong either essentially or accidentally look to the Nature of the sign she is in and artificially commixing their Natures and their strength therein judge thou good to such things and places as are by her and the sign she is in signified or understood either naturally or accidentally as they are placed in the Heavens according as you have heard sufficiently before if she be weak judge the contrary after the same manner For you must remember that the Moon in humane signs shews her events whether good or bad on mankinde according to the Sex of the sign she is in if in aëry signs in the ayr in watry in the water in earthy in the earth in bestial in and upon beasts of the nature and quality of the sign as if
other in a common one you are according to discretion to make commixture of moneths and years one in a common sign and the other in a movable make commixture of moneths and weeks or weeks and days as you see reason but if by other testimonies thou findest that the evil shall not continue after that Year wherein your Revolution was made although the Conjunction or Aspect be in or from fixed signs yet shalt thou give but moneths then for every degree they want of the perfect Conjunction or Aspect Note also that if the Conjunction or Aspect be by common signs and thou thereby judgest moneths and the evil still continue longer then thy time prefixed then shalt thou convert them into Years So likewise if thou didst judge days or weeks thy significators being in movable signs and the evil still continue after those weeks or days be expired then art thou to say the continuation thereof will be so many moneths or years c. for as Ptolomy in his Centilo 1. saith A te à scientia for though thou hast the art to help thee yet thou art not wholly to lay aside discretion and reason But if any Planet by his body or aspect doth frustrate the Conjunction or Aspect of Saturn then shall not the evil happen in the places subject to the Planet in exaltation but to those places ruled by the Planet so frustrating but if there be no frustration by neither the interposition of the body or aspect of any Planet but that Saturn do come by his beams to touch the beams of the Planet so in exaltation the evil by him threatned shall assuredly happen in those Regions and Places subject to his Dominion c. Of Mars in aspect or Conjunction with any Planet in exaltation Also if any Planet in exaltation in any Annual Revolution be beheld of Mars as you heard of Saturn by a Square or Opposition or else afflicting any Planet by his bodily Conjunction he shall denote very much evil detriment and dammage to the people under his jurisdiction that is in exaltation but if the Planet so exalted be afflicted by Square or Opposition it will be the more grievous by reason the nature of Mars is to cause quarrels dissentions wars bloodshed and thefts which will then be incident to those parts as touching the durability of the time you are to judge thereof according to the nature of the signs your significators are in as you have heard of Saturn whether they be movable fixed or common c. Consider also the position of the Sun and Moon and see how in every Revolution they are placed and in Conjunction or Aspect with any Planet for if either of them be in any Configuration with any Planet in the whole Heavens they shall be joyned in signification therewith and note that if the Moon be lately separated from any Planet according to the nature thereof and the place of Heaven he is located and hath dominion in mayst thou judge of what hath lately happened but if he be applying to any thereby mayst thou know what is immediatly to happen c. CHAP. II. Of the Significations of the Planets and Dragons Head and Tail as also Blazing-Stars when they are in any Revolution exalted one above another UNless I here remove a seeming obstruction or stumbling block perhaps some mistakes or errours might arise much to the dammage and puzzeling of the younger Student which is this In the foregoing Chapter you have heard the significations of the Planets especially the Superiour when in any Revolution they are in the point of their proper exaltations but in this Chapter when we speak of their being exalted one above the other we mean as to their places in the Heavens at the time of the Sun his ingress into Aries for he or she that is nearest to the Cuspe of the mid-heaven or tenth house is the Planet most elevated or exalted and shall have signification as followeth yet note that it is not meant barely by the position of one above the other at that time but when any two are in Conjunction or other Configuration and elevated the one above the other at that time then I say shall their significations be as is here expressed Contrary to the Ancients who begin in this matter with Venus I shall as all along I have done begin with Saturn and so give you their significations still in order as they are placed in the Heavens as Saturn being in Conjunction Square or Opposition with any Planet the Dragons Head and Tail or Blazing Star and exalted above them we shall begin thus Saturn exalted above Jupiter and then above Mars and afterwards above the Sun and so forwards and not as the Ancients have done who set down his significations as he is exalted above the Moon first then above Iupiter then Mars then Dragons Head Dragons Tail Blazing-Star and lastly Venus omitting his significations when in any Configuration of Mercury or the Sun and exalted above them which defect as in this so in the signification of the other Planets I shall endeavour to supply for in the significations of Venus they have omitted Iupiter and Dragons Head and a Blazing-Star in the significations of Iupiter the Sun in the significations of Mars the Sun and Venus of Mercury the Sun also of the Dragons Head Iupiter and Mars c. If you find not my opinion and judgement herein sufficiently grounded on reason you may follow what other you can find delivered unto you which may be more pleasing and agreeable to thy fancy or remain ignorant as the Ancients have left thee but to our business Saturn in any Scheam at the time of any Revolution of the years of the World Saturn exalted above any of the Planets Dragons Head Dragons Tayl or Blâ—z Star Jupiter Ecclipse or great Conjunction or at the time of the appearance of any Comet or Blazing-Star or at the time of any Opposition of the Superiours or any other remarkable or considerable face of the Heavens in Conjunction Square or Opposition or any other Aspect of Jupiter and at that time elevated above the Body of Jupiter in the figure of the Heavens Great and Noble men shall be slain if he be exalted above Mars Mars The Sun he signifies good and better success if above the Sun when in any of the aforesaid Configurations with him Let those Kings and such as are in high or chief Authority in those Regions subject to the sign the Sun then is in look for much trouble and sorrow as also Treacheries and Treasons If he be exalted above Venus Venus men shall delight in Pictures Ornaments and neatness and addict themselves to their Trades and Occupations and delight themselves therein Mercury above Mercury they will delight in Arts and Sciences especially such as are Ingenuous above the Moon Luna men shall be clownish and ill-behaved Above Dragons Head Great and Noble-men shall have good
therefore in this ☋ is omitted again if Dragons Head be exalted above a Blazing Star Blazing Star it signifies tempestuous stormy windes and tempests and those very often Dragons Tayl exalted above ♄ Dra. T. exalted above Saturn Jupiter Mars Sol. Venus Mercury Luna signifies the death and destruction of old people and Monks and Religious men Above ♃ long life and joy Above ♂ sadness and vexation above ☉ much evill and want of charity Above ♀ dammage to Women especially to young Maids and Virgins Above ☿ evil to learned and wise men above the ☉ destruction to rich men and loss of substance Above a Blazing Star It denotes damage in the affairs generall of women Now lastly touching Blazing Stars Blaz. S. exalted above Saturn Jupiter and what may be predicted by their being exalted above the Planets ☊ and ☋ A Blazing Star then being in Configuration of ♄ and exalted above him signifies many and great infirmities Above ♃ men shall kill and murther their Nobles and Great men and such as are in esteem Above ♂ men shall usually delight to bear Arms and there shall happen many great wars and slaughters If above ☉ Mars Sol. Venus Mercury Luna Dragons Head Dragons Tayl. men shall quarrell one with another be treacherous and given to Treasons Above ♀ a deminution and drying up of waters Above ☿ damage and destruction to young men Above ☽ loss and damage to men in generall in their substance Above ☊ Noble men shall be slain and such as are in esteem Above ☋ there shall happen loss and destruction to fruits of the Earth and Trees CHAP. III. Containing Considerations from the Sun and Moon when the Revolution is either Diurnal or Nocturnal also when the Revolution happens at Sun-setting and break of day from the Lord of the hour Part of Fortune the indisposition of Saturn and Mars from their Conjunction with the Dragons Head and Tail in any Annual Revolution DIligently thou art to observe whether the Revolution in any year be by night or by day viz. Diurnal or Nocturnal and if it be Diurnal have regard to the Sun If any Revolution be Diurnal how and where he is posited in the figure at the time of the Revolution and how aspected of the Fortunes or Infortunes for if he be well aspected by benevolent and adjuvant Planets it signifies according to the nature and signification of the Planets aspecting him and the nature of the signs they are in if he be maliciously and unfortunately beheld by the Malevolents judge the contrary dammage and evil For if the Sun be strong and well dignified and aspected he signifies the Revolution being Diurnal the accomplishment of some high and remarkable action see also if the Lord of the then Ascendent be strong essentially and accidentally well aspected for if so he shall signifie prosperity health and happiness during that Revolution to those Regions Cities Towns and Places subject to the sign which is then upon the Cuspe of the Ascendent also to that Kingdom or Nation for which the Revolution is made and the Kingdoms Regions and Places subject to the Lord of the Ascendent but if he be weak afflicted and impedited he shall signifie trouble vexation misery detriment and very much unhappiness according to the quantity and quality of his affliction unto those aforesaid places subject to the Lord of the Ascendent and sign thereof And if the Ascendent be Libra and Venus who is Lady thereof be cadent from it or from an angle impedited retrograde or combust afflicted by the Malevolents or any other ways unfortunated it signifies there shall happen sadness vexation trouble misery and many infirmities and destruction in an high measure to all those Regions Towns Cities Kingdoms and Nations under the dominion of Venus and Libra what those are you are taught in the second Book and so likewise judge of any other Planet and Sign in the same nature If the Revolution be Nocturnal But if the Revolution be Nocturnal you are to have regard to the place and strength of the Moon as you have heard of the Sun and judge accordingly for if the Moon be Lady of the Year or of the Ascendent increasing in light and motion in Cancer well dignified and aspected of the benevolent Planets you shall judge the Year will be successful the people generally healthful fortunate and happy but if she be weak impedited afflicted of the malevolent Planets slow in motion decreasing in light and impedited judge the contrary and that this good or evil shall chiefly be incident to those Regions and Places signified by her and Cancer c. but if she be not in Cancer look to the Planet that is then her dispositor viz. he that is Lord of the sign wherein she is and see whether he be essentially or accidentally debilitated or assisted and accordingly judge as you have heard of the Moon good or bad as he is strong or weak and that it shall happen to the places subject to the sign ascending the Lord thereof and to the sign wherein the Moon is and its Lord as also the Region for which your Figure is erected See also if the Moon the Revolution being Nocturnal be either in Conjunction or aspect with Saturn or any other malevolent Planet if in your Figure you find him also accidentally significator of mischief and impediment without any reception either of house exaltation triplicity term or face and the Moon decreasing in light for if so the mischief and misfortune is so much the more increased as is the nature and signification of the afflicting or impediting Planet but if the Moon be separating from the Conjunction or aspect of any afflicting and unfortunate Planet and be increasing in light and motion the evil will be so much the more lessened and diminished c. The nature of any affliction and from whence it shall arise If you would know the nature of the affliction threatned or portended by any Planet afflicting or impediting your significator you need do no more then this see to the natural signification of the afflicting Planet and also accidental as he is placed in your Scheme the nature of the house and sign he is placed in and so judge accordingly judge the evil shall proceed from the signification of the house wherein the afflicting Planet is located the nature and quality thereof from the natural and accidental signification of the Planet and sign wherein he is As for example we shall suppose your significator to be the Lord of Year or Ascendent the Planet afflicting to be Mars and he Lord of the seventh and located in the second from hence you shall conclude that the people of the Nation for which the Revolution is made signified by the Lord of the Year or Ascendent shall be afflicted and damnified in their estates and riches being afflicted in or from the second house which you know denotes the wealth and riches of the
people therefore from hence shall the evil or mischief threatned proceed Now as touching the nature thereof or manner how it shall come to pass you shall say it shall be by the sword thefts wars murthers and the like which are the natural significations of Mars or else by the power or treacherous plots of their Enemies which is his accidental signification as being Lord of the seventh which you have heard is the house of Enemies c. or if the sign of the second be Libra and Mars therein look to his significations in Libra as you have been taught in the seventeenth Chapter of the second Section of this same Treatise and say it shall be occasioned so and so as you have it there expressed in like manner if it be any other sign or any other Planet judge according as you shall see most requisite and agreeing to art and nature if the afflicting Planet be in the third the evil shall proceed from short journies neighbours kindred or brothers and sisters or associates if in the fourth from fathers heritages loss of possessions houses farms or destruction of seed and fruits c. judge still according to the nature of the house wherein your afflictor shall be found which you have been taught elsewhere sufficiently How to judge of any thing signified by the 12 houses of Heaven Having hereby now fully declared unto thee the manner how thou mayst exactly and truly judge of the state and condition of what is signified by the Lord of the Ascendent so also is it requisite to acquaint thee that thou mayst following the same method judge of what is also signified by the Lord of the second third fourth fifth sixth and so round the whole Heavens of every thing appertaining to the life of man in a natural way there being nothing in the world but what is signified by one house or other and by which a man may judge of the quality and nature thereof As if the Lord of the second house be strong free from misfortune and impediment judge the good success of all things thereby signified and to all Nations and Places subject unto the sign thereof and its Lord but if unfortunate impedited weak and afflicted judge mischief trouble crosses and losses c. according to the signification thereof and the aforesaid Places and Regions under the sign and Lord thereof and so I say mayst thou easily in this manner judge of any other thing still remembring to derive your Judgement from the signification of the house nature of the Planet afflicting or assisting and that the good or evil will be incident to those Regions and Places subject to the sign and Lord thereof c. If the Revolution be at Sun setting or day breaking Look also that if your Revolution be at the time of the Sun-setting or within an hour and half thereof you regard not the position and fortitudes of the Sun but of the Moon who is the Governess of the night which doth then immediately succeed In like manner if the Revolution be about the same time before break of day the Sun is to be considered in the same manner as you have been shewn and not the Moon it being so near day-breaking and over and above what hath been delivered unto you you are in the consideration of the strength of either the Sun or Moon to see if either of them are to suffer an Eclipse during the time of that Revolution and if so to look to the place thereof viz. in what house of Heaven in what sign and degree of the Zodiack and the Almuten of those places and the state of those Planets in Configuration with him or the place of the Eclipse viz. whether they be strong or weak good or bad and accordingly judge but of this more in the next Section wherein we shall treat of Eclipses Considerations from the Lord of the hour Part of Fortune and its Dispositor Again you must know that in every Revolution the Lord of the hour or Planet ruling the time in which the Revolution is made is to be regarded as also Part of Fortune and its dispositor for if they be well dignified well placed and aspected of the fortunate and adjuvant Planets thou mayst assuredly conclude that the good signified by the Lord of the Year or significator of the King shall be augmented if the Lord of the Year or significator of the King do denote any good but if they portend evil and the Lord of the Year Part of Fortune and its dispositor be also ill disposed unfortunate and weak the mischief shall be also augmented but if then the Lord of the hour Part of Fortune and its dispositor be strong the mischief shall be diminished and so on the contrary if they be weak and the Lord of the Year strong and also the significator of the King they shall diminish the good by them signified Considerations from the Position of Saturn and Mars Consider also in every Revolution the position of Saturn and Mars and see if Mars be then stationary to retrogradation and in Conjunction with Saturn or Saturn applying to him whilst he remains stationary or Mars unto him when he becomes retrograde for if so thou shalt assuredly judge there shall be much fierceness cruelty barbarous and outragious actions amongst men and little or no piety or mercy but Malefactors Thieves Cutters Murtherers and Robbers by the High-way shall abound and servants and the rural sort of people shall be disobedient to their Masters and Superiours and it shall be the worse if Saturn be in Libra retrograde and in Opposition of the Sun and the Sun in aspect with Mars and Mars by his retrogradation also applying to the Sun for you must know that the superiour Planets cannot apply to any inferiour Planet except when they are retrograde and the evil will be yet the more increased if Mars be then peregrine and going to the Conjunction of Saturn and the Revolution be at Sun-setting or near thereunto viz. a little before or after also when these Configurations are in any Revolution some of the Ancients have concluded there will be many wars quarrels discords and much bloodshed in the Cities and Regions of both the East and West and truly my opinion also is that there will thereon assuredly happen many commotions intestine wars and bloodshed in many parts those places chiefly I conceive will be concerned in it that are subject to both Saturn Mars and the signs wherein they are then located From the Conjunction of Dragons Head with Saturn Dragons Head in Conjunction of Saturn in Aries Again see whether the Dragons Head in any Annual Revolution be in ♂ with ♄ for then shalt thou conclude much mischief and detriment to those Regions and Places subject to the sign wherein the ♂ is unless the benevolent aspect of some fortunate Planet prevent it for if they be in ♂ in ♈ they shall denote evil and
mischief to Sheep and the smaller sort of Cattel unless the ⚹ or △ of ♂ intervene and he well dignified essentially also much anxiety vexation and trouble to Kings Nobles and great men if ☉ behold them not with a good aspect and be also fortified or else the Lord of the tenth Dragons Head Saturn Conjunction in Taurus And if ☊ be in ♂ with ♄ in ♉ the evil shall happen to Oxen Buls Cows and the greater sort of Cattel Horses c. also in some sort to Sheep and to young Men and Youths Hearbs Plants and Trees there shall be little rain and a diminution of provisions and fruits of the earth if ☽ and ♀ prevent not Dragons Head Saturn Conjunction in Gemini In Gemini if they be in Conjunction because it is a humane sign there shall much evil and mischief fall on mankind especially those in their younger years but those in the strength of years not so much nor on such as are well stricken in age there shall also be many great windes and abnoxious In Cancer such places as are subject to Locusts and Caterpillars shall abound therewith and where rain is no novelty there shall be much more then is usual ☊ ♄ in ♂ in ♋ the fruits of the Earth also shall suffer much damage by Locusts and such kinde of obnoxious creatures unless aspected by Luna or Jupiter And if they be in Conjunction in Leo the evil shall fall on wilde and savage beasts ☊ ♄ ♂ in ♌ also on Kings and Great men if the Sun doth not with some benevolent Aspect behold them Also if they be in Conjunction in Virgo ☊ ♄ ♂ in ♠dammage is threatned to women and chiefly to the younger sort and also young men will not be wholly free Seeds Corn and such fruits as are reduced to seed will be diminished or there shall be a scarcity thereof by reason they shall be much damnified for you must know this is an earthy sign Again if in Libra which is an aiëry and humane sign ☊ ♄ ♂ in ♎ it shall happen to men and in the air and that chiefly to those of mature years and such as are of a good age and not to the younger sort and there will be many great and high windes if Saturn or Venus contradict it not Moreover if they be in Conjunction in Scorpio ☊ ♄ ♂ in ♠the mischief shall happen to such creatures as are of a poysonous and venemous nature especially to Scorpions Also if Dragons Head and Saturn be in Conjunction in the first fifteen degrees of Sagittarius which is humane the impediment or mischief shall happen to mankinde but in the last fifteen degrees on great Cattel ☊ ♄ ♂ in ♠especially on Horses and such as men ride on In Capricorn on Goats and such like ☊ ♄ ♂ in ♑ and the fruits of the Earth will suffer detriment but not altogether so much as when they are joined in Virgo also grievous cold and sharp weather if Mars work not to the contrary by his Aspect unto them In Aquaries on antient and old men ☊ ♄ ♂ in ♒ and not to those in their prime and strength of age and youths or young men And in Pisces on such creatures as live in the element of water ☊ ♄ ♂ in ♓ especially such fishes as are usually eaten by men if Jupiter or Venus prevent not And if Dragons Head be in Conjunction with Mars in any of the twelve signs ☊ ♂ ♂ in any of the 12 signs he shall signifie also much evil but not so much as Saturn doth and it shall chiefly be by heat and drought unless Jupiter or Saturn work to the contrary Also in Conjunction with Dragons Tayl be it in what sign it will ☋ ♂ ♂ in any of the 12 signs he signifies destructions depopulations fire sword slaughter and great blood-shed famine also and much mischief So likewise if Saturn and Dragons Tayl be in Conjunction in any sign ☋ ♄ ♂ in any of the 12 signs he signifies famine a scarcity of provisions great mischiefs cold in the extremity grievous fears anxieties terrors and troubles much want and scarcity of the fruits of the Earth and a superfluity of evils torments and grievances and these shall be incident to those places subject to the sign wherein they are joined and understand the same of Mars when he is joined with either the Head or Tail c. CHAP. IV. Teaching how to judge of the evil of any year the nature thereof and when the year is most likely to be both turbulent obnoxious and unfortunate also what is portended in any Revolution when one Planet transfers his light and nature to another EVer when you would know what grievous and heavy accidents and evils are to happen or are threatned to any place look to the Position of Saturn and Mars for from them are you to require judgment touching this matter for if you find them in the higher circle viz. in the middle thereof towards the North and they have then Septentrional latitude and be above the earth thou shalt judge there will grievous and horrible actions happen in that Revolution or before the Sun enter again the first point of Aries in and to those parts under the Sign and Triplicity wherein they are also look how much they are elevated above the earth especially Saturn and they shall signifie so much the more mischief and trouble and the more certain will your judgment be also when they are in the superiour part of the Circle they denote a hard and scarse year both for provisions fruits of the Earth and all things else And if one be in a Square of the other it will be the worse in every particular also Iefections to and in all kind of living creatures tribulations and troubles and that of continuance and durability and so much the rather if Saturn be then in Virgo and Mars in Gemini and the Revolution Nocturnal and Mars applying or translating his light and nature to Saturn and he receive him and either both or one of them Retrograde and Saturn shall be then most mischievous In so much that Jupiter shall not be of sufficient efficacy to alter it unless Saturn or Mars be in Cancer in a Sextile or Trine of Jupiter and he strong and well dignified at that time and then he shall break his malice with whom he is aspected and diminish it or wholly take it away which you may judge from the strength of your Significators The affairs also of the King or Grandees of the Nation where your Revolution is and their condition shall be bad and suffer detriment and much trouble and difficulty there shall be in or about them and they shall require aid and assistance from the common people Religion shall be slingted and impiety and wickedness shall increase amongst men and no mercy or pity shall be found amongst them and this shall continue
till either Saturn or Mars transite the cusp of the tenth House at time of the Revolution or shall then begin ad continue at least till Mars have made one Revolution through the twelve Signs of the Zodiack But if then Saturn be in Virgo and Mars Aspect him out of Gemini as hath been said and the Moon also translate her light to Saturn and she in Sagittarie there shall be misery upon misery the mischief of mischiefs the trouble of troubles the tribulation of tribulations the pestilence of pestilencies and the misfortune of misfortunes and all kind of vexations troubles and torments also it signifies the destruction of Kingdoms and translation of one Kingdome into the power and under the subjection of another Moreover if the Moon when she translates her light and nature to Saturn either by Conjunction Square or Opposition and the Lord of the Sign wherein she is when there is a Partil Conjunction Square or Opposition betwixt them be then impedited unfortunate weak or afflicted there shall be many diversities of mischiefs during the time of that Revolution and if then the Moon were eclipsed at the Preventional or to be eclipsed at the Postventional full Moon immediately going before or comming after any such Configuration the mischiefs and troubles threatned shall continue so many moneths as the Moon is or shall be ecclipsed houres reckoning from the minute she first begins to be ecclipsed till the Punctum wherein she is again free But if Part of Fortune be Impedited and its dispositor when the Moon is so in Conjunction or aspect partil of Saturn the evill thereby signified or threatned shall be increased have regard also to the Sun how he is placed dignified and aspected by the Malevolent Planet or by what Aspect he beholds him as you have heard of the Moon and the Lord of the Sign in which he is at the time of the Partil Conjunction or Aspect and make Part of Fortune and its Dispositor participate in signification therewith and judge accordingly mutatis mutandis as you have heard I say of the Moon and if the Sun was eclipsed or to be eclipsed at the Preventional or Postventional Conjunction of the Luminaries or change of the Moon to speak plainly the evill then threatned shall continue so many years as the Sun is at that time eclipsed houres Also when any Planets behold one another and be in any Reception look in what place in the figure they project their rays or beams for those places subject to the sign wherein they cast their rayes shall suffer such things as are by those Planets signified whether good or bad more then any other place And if one planet transfer his light Nature and Vertue to another you are diligently to weigh their natures and significations and judge accordingly as you have been before sufficiently shown as if the Significator of the King transfer his light and Nature to Saturn and he also well disposed such people and religious orders and things which you have heard elsewhere signified by Saturn shall be bettered and receive good from the bounty or liberality of the King or Superiours If to Jupiter Nobles Judges and such as converse in the Law and are signified by him shall receive honour liberty and much good from the Kings hand c. And so judge if any other Planet and if any other Significator transfer his light to any remember the Nature of your Significator transfering his light and the Natural and Accidental signification of the Planet to whom it is transferred and judge according thereunto and you are right and will soon be able to judge of any matter mutatis mutandis varying your rules according to Art And thus far have I in a manner reiterated rules and words for thy through understanding and instruction in such matters as have been delivered in a more short and compendious manner before and indeed so much the rather because that though what was at the beginning of this Discourse set down was sufficient to and for any one that is any thing entred into this Art yet would it perhaps have seemed somewhat difficult to those who are as yet altogether unseen therein and therefore I hope this fault will be by the Judicious deemed venial Wherefore let us now proceed CHAP. V. Shewing how to judge of health or sickness in any year THus then if thou wouldst be expert in this manner of judgement have respect to the Cusp of the Ascendent of the figure of the heavens at the time of your Revolution and the Ascendent of the figures at the time of the Conjunction or preventional Conjunction of the Luminaries before the Sun his ingress into Aries and then if these two Ascendents and the Moon be free from Misfortune and the Lord of the place of the Conjunction also free and then applying to a Fortune as also the Luminaries beholding him especially that of the time viz the Sun if it be by day the Moon if by night then it signifies that that year shall be free from infirmities general and diseases and shall be healthful but if the Lords of these two Ascendents and the Moon and Lord of the place of the Conjunction and prevention be all or the major part of them unfortunate it denotes general infirmites and diseases and no healthful year and that according to the power of the infortunate Planets their nature and the nature of the signs and places they are in what diseases are appropriated to both the Planets and Signs I have sully delivered unto you in the second Treatise of this Volumn entituled An Introduction to the judgement of the STARS Also if the Lords of those two Ascendents or one of them being so unfortunated apply to the Lord of the Eighth House there shall be many general infirmities and also death but if otherwise there shall be many infirmities and general diseases but not mortality and if death it will not be great Moreover if the strongest Planet of these Significators apply to the Lord of the Eighth there shall be many sudden deaths without any great or tedious sicknesses also if to the Lord of the sixth there shall be many infirmities and general diseases and those of long continuance And if Mars be the afflicting Planet he shall signifie hot and dry diseases especially if he be in a siëry sign and swift of motion and if it be Saturn he shall cause lingring Agues Coughs Consumptions and Saturnian tedious diseases especially if he be in a cold and dry sign and flow in motion CHAP. VI. Of Wars or Peace HItherto we have proceeded in a plain and easie manner of Instruction for it is my most earnest desire that knowledge may flow as a stream amongst all judicious souls especially those of this my native Nation of England and therefore I shall here again desire the more quick and nimble apprehensions to pardon both my largeness and plainness since I write to those that are altogether to seek
in the Revolution of the year quarter or moneth decreasing in light and motion or applying to a Retrograde or weak Planet she signifieth the same But as touching the cheapness and dearness of any thing have regard to the Ingress of the Sun into Aries or any other quarter if it be so that so many figures are to be made and therein diligently consider the state and condition of the Planet and Sign signifying that concerning which you would require judgement and according to his strength and debility judge for if strong the things will be deer and of an high price or value and if weak judge the contrary Some of the Antients have also taught that for monethly observations in this matter we have regard to the Conjunction of the Luminaries and Haly saith that we ought in every year to have regard whither Saturn or Jupiter enter the sign of the Kingdom Nation or Countrey for which you erect your Figure and from their then places strengths and debilities we are to judge for that if the Planets are unfortunate in these places it signifies things shall be cheap but if they be there fortunated and strong judge the contrary Moreover you are to take notice that every Planet in his Exaltation or elevated in his Epicycle whether he have dignity in the Ascendent or no signifieth things shall be deer that are of the nature of that Planet and the Sign wherein he is and therefore I say again it is most requisite you be throughly acquainted with the significations of the Planets and Signs taught you in the second Book CHAP. IX Containing some Instructions touching the alteration of the Ayr and change of weather in any Year MUch pains and diligent observation is required for the delivering rules infallible in this matter I mean for these Regions and parts of the Earth wherein we live being Islands but doubtless the Antients did sufficiently treat hereof neither is the validity and certainty of their rules which they have left to posterity to be questioned for such is the reason they carry with them that questionless they were most authentick and seldom or never admitted of correction in those parts of the Continent wherein they lived and perhaps in these parts also with a little amendment they may be made infallible wherefore I shall here do my utmost endevour to deliver them unto thee and perhaps hereafter according as I shall have life liberty and leisure afforded me I may give you them more short compendious and efficacious For I must confess the present Philosophers of this our age are more to seek in their judgements of weather then in any one thing whatsoever and do oftenest therein deviate from truth How to judge of the alteration of the ayr and change of the weather In the judging then of these matters have regard unto the figure of the Sun his ingress into Aries for the general judgement thereof for the whole year if no more Figures are to be erected but if two or four as you have heard in the 1. Chapter of this Treatise you are to have respect unto them to know the state of the weather quarterly and half-yearly but you are also to remember you join in judgement with them the figures at the time of the Preventional Conjunction and Opposition of the Luminaries and if you would judge of the alteration of the ayr for every moneth you may have regard to the figure of Heaven at the time of every Conjunction of the Luminaries as also to every Square and Opposition if you would predict of every week Of the chief and general signicator of the weather When you would judge of any of these times have regard unto the degree ascending of the figure whither it be for the year half year or quarter and the places of the Conjunction and Opposition preceding and see in what mansion of the Moon these places fall viz. whether in a dry moist cold or temperate mansion the which you are taught in the 1. Sect. and 3. Chapter of the third Book of this Volume being our Introduction to Elections and whither the Lord of the Mansion have any Aspect to the Conjunction Opposition Ascendent of the Revolution or Lords thereof and of what nature temper and quality he is and the mansion he is in and accordingly judge of the state of the weather he being the general and chief Significator especially if he be Almuten of the Ascendent for he shall as saith Ptolomy be Significator though he doth not behold their Conjunction or Opposition but if any other doth you must join him in judgement with him Have regard also to the fixed stars of the first second third and fourth Magnitudes rising culminating and setting and see how they are aspected by the Significator and see whither any of them be in Conjunction with him consider their nature and mansion they are in also have regard to the nature and quality of the Lord of the place of any great Conjunction or Eclipse of any of the Luminaries and to what Planets or fixed Stars they apply as also the Moon after her Conjunction and Opposition with the Sun and as you finde it requisite having regard to the major testimonies judge of the nature quality and temper of the weather If your Significator be free from impediment strong no wise beheld by any of the Planets nor he in Conjunction nor applying by Aspect to any of them nor to any notable fixed star you shall judge the quality and nature of the weather from his bare signification but if any Planet be in Configuration with him or he with any Planet or fixed star you are to judge according to the nature of your Significator and the nature of the Planet or fixed star in Conjunction or other Configuraâ—ion with him by making a rational and judicious commixture and this shall happen at that time and on those dayes wherein you finde them in Conjunction or Aspect As if Saturn be chief Significator of weather in an Angle no wise impedited nor applying to any other Planet nor any to him he shews temperate showers and seasons dark clowds over-spreading the sky especially if he be in a temperate Mansion but if it be a cold Mansion the weather will incline to cold if a moist to moisture But if he be impedited or ill aspected he shall signifie storms tempests hail rain winde thunder and dark clowds especially if he be then malevolently aspected of Venus or Mercury out of an Angle and in a moist Mansion of Jupiter windes rain and thick clowds of Mars yellow clowds lightning thunder and rain in places and time convenient of the Sun red clowds winde and great rain also in Summer thunder and lightning according to the nature of the Signs Mansions and Places of the Heavens their Conjunction or Aspects are But you must know the Sun or Moon are never assigned chief Dominion in any Figure concerning weather because they are general Significators
Occidental high windes Oriental more temperate In Scorpio Combust moisture Occidental storms Oriental gales of winde In Sagittary Combust drought Occidental the same but Oriental it will not be so very dry In Capricorn Combust clowdy Occidental some heat Oriental more temperate In Aquaries Combust drought Occidental and Oriental plenty of windes In Pisces Combust and Occidental drought Oriental thunder and lightning The Sun now should follow in order The Sun but he as you have heard before can never be either Combust Oriental or Occidental the Planets being thus termed in respect of him besides you have been also shewn that neither the Sun nor Moon are to be admitted chief Rulers in any Scheme because they are general significators of times and seasons therefore let us now have regard unto the significations of Venus when she is either Combust Occidental or Oriental in any of the signs of the Zodiac Venus in Aries Combust and Occidental causeth moisture and great windes Venus Oriental thunders and rains In Taurus Combust thunders Occidental fair Oriental pleasant weather In Gemini Combust and Occidental winde Oriental a calmer ayr In Cancer Combust Occidental or Oriental a quiet calm time In Leo Combust Occidental or Oriental drought In Virgo Combust and Occidental drought Oriental the contrary In Libra Combust moist ayr Occidentall rain Oriental fair In Scorpio Combust Occidental or Oriental rain In Sagittary Combust rain Occidental winde and cold Oriental not so bad In Capricorn Combust cold ayr Occidental and Oriental rain In Aquaries Combust clowdy Occidental hot Oriental rain In Pisces Combust cold Occidental and Oriental disposed to snow Mercury in Aries Combust promiseth tempests Occidental and Oriental Mercury fair windy weather In Taurus thunder and storms being Combust Occidental and Oriental a clowdy dark muddy ayr In Gemini Combust and Occidental winde Oriental temperate ayr and small gusts of winde In Cancer Combust and Occidental tempestuous stormy weather Oriental calmer In Leo combust Occidental and Oriental winde In Virgo Combust drought and often tempests so also when Occidental but when Oriental the contrary In Libra Combust Occidental or Oriental windes In Scorpro Combust and Occidental raging weather chiefly Oriental In Sagitary Combust and Occidental rain Oriental clear ayr In Capricorn Combust Occidental and Oriental rain In Aquaries Combust snow Occidental more cold Oriental rain In Pisces Combust Occidental or Oriental moist ayr CHAP. XII Containing further Instructions touching the alteration of the Ayr from the application of the Moon to the other Planets having separated from the Conjunction or Opposition of the Sun ENdeavour thou but to understand this Chapter well and thou shalt be sufficiently furnished with ability to judge of the weather for every moneth In the ninth Chapter of this Book you have heard that the Planet the Moon next applyes unto after her Conjunction and Opposition with the Sun is especially to be regarded for the exact judging of the state of the weather wherefore I thought good for thy better Instruction to insert this Chapter which teacheth largely how to judge by her application unto any other Planet after her aforesaid Configurations with the Sun of the mutation or alteration of the ayr Because Saturn is the higest of all the Planets as you have heard and therefore we have still began with him in all the progress of this our labour we shall here also follow the same method and shew what is to be expected when she separates from the Conjunction or Opposition of the Sun and applyes next unto Saturn and then to Jupiter and so in order of the rest Having erected your figure then for the Conjunction if that be your time or for the Opposition of the Luminaries if you are to consider that have regard to the place of the Conjunction or Opposition the nature of the signs and Mansions they are in and the Square Aspects of the Malevolents unto these places and accordingly judge judge the time when the effect will be manifested from the number of degrees they want of the Partil Aspect and the nature of the signs fixed common or moveable and so according to reason judge dayes or houres but if your Significators or the Moon be swift of motion it will be the sooner if slow the contrary c. The Moon separating from the Conjunction or Opposition of the Sun and applying to Saturn If the Moon after her bodily Conjunction or Opposite Aspect with the Sun do immediately next apply unto Saturn in moist signs and mansions let it be by what Aspect it will rain shall follow in some measure more abundantly if she apply by Conjunction Square or Opposition not so much if by Sextile and if by Trine yet there will be mislings and dark clowdy obscure ayr c. Remember according to the nature of the signs aspects and mansions to pronounce judgement But if Saturn be then in a fiery sign and a dry Mansion and the Moon also so posited there shall rather be a turbulent dark obscure ayr then rain To Jupiter On the contrary if she then apply next unto Jupiter although she and he both be in moist signes and mansions yet shall they denote onely sweet showers and moderate dews and the like but in other signes and mansions hardly any rain at all how ever it will be but very moderate seasonable and pleasant if there be any which sometimes as other causes may concur perhaps may be But if either Venus or Mercury or both do then cast their beams unto either the Moon or Jupiter or both there will happen rain in some measure judge the quality from the natuâ—e of the mansions and nature of the signs they are in as if moist then it will be the more wet if dry the less if in signs aiery windes and showers by fits but seldome is any rain or weather produced or occasioned by Jupiter that is destructive or unseasonable but it is still moderate temperate and wholsome Again if the Moon apply next unto Mars after her Conjunction or Opposition with the Sun and Saturn be then also in any Aspect with her or Mars To Mars or with the Sun rain is threatned and that immoderate if they are in moist signs and mansions and if in temperate and yet the Moon be in a moist sign and mansion it shall denote rain though not so much but if she be in a moist sign and mansion and they in a dry there shall be but very little wet but if Venus do then Aspect Mars also you shall judge the contrary that there shall be much rain and if it be in summer thunder and lightning with all To the Sun Also if at the time of the Conjunction or Opposition of the Luminaries you finde them in Aspect with none of the Planets nor any with them judge it will be fair weather and little or no rain but if Saturn or Mars especially Saturn behold either of them or any other
Fourth Book I have already declared what an Eclipse of either of the Luminaries is and the cause of that defect in each of them wherefore it would be both needless and superfluous here again to touch thereon I shall therefore give you now the whole Method whereby to judge of any Mutation or Accident in this World portended by Eclipses and that in brief according to the Rules of our Predecessor Ptolomy whom I prefer for his shortness and plainness before any or all other Writings that I have mett with it is true Leovitius hath been very large on this subject and others but since what Ptolomy hath delivered us is sufficient for instruction to any that are to seek in these matters I shall pass them by as more mysterious and intricate and yet tending no more to edification In the first Section and first Chapter of this Fourth Book you have been taught that in your judgement of Revolutions you are to consider the place of the Eclipses of either Luminaries or both if any such happen and joyn them in judgement for if there be any Eclipse or Eclipses you are to see if there be any agreement betwixt them and the Lord of the Year and Ascendent of the Revolutions for there is nothing more certain then that there followeth many inconveniencies and alterations in the World after any of the great Lights are Eclipsed for by them all things have their subsistence and nutriment in a natural way and therefore it must needs follow sublunary things must suffer detriment in one kinde or other when either of them are deprived of their lights and influences especially if both in one Moneth whence Hermes saith Note There shall much inconveniency and trouble happen in the World when both the Luminaries shall be Eclipsed in one Moneth and chiefly in those places in which their Effects shall be manifested Wherefore in any Year if either or both the Luminaries are Eclipsed or in any quarterly Revolution see if the Lord of the Sign wherein the Eclipse is to fall be strong or weak or in Conjunction or any Configuration with the Lord of the Ascendent at the time of the middle of the Eclipse which you are to know is the time wherein you are to erect your Scheme or Figure of the Heavens for the judging of the Effects of any Eclipse or with the Lord of the Year or Quarter What time the figure of Heaven is to be erected for the judging of Eclipses or whether the Fortunes behold these or the Infortunes for if the Fortunes you are to judge good if the Infortunes the contrary The nature and quality thereof judge from good if the Infortunes the contrary The nature and quality thereof judge from the nature of the Significators as you have heard before likewise whether much evill or good is to be expected by considering the strength of your Significators and their Receptions and nature of their Aspects What things or places are signified good or evill in any Eclipse And judge this evill or good to those signified by the Planet in Configuration with these Lords or the Fortunes or Infortunes whether men or things as if the Ascendent or its Lord be beheld by the Fortunes then you may safely say the People of that Nation or Kingdom wherein the Revoluton is shall be safe of good health and prosperous c. and so judge of all the rest of the Houses according to their several significations as you have been taught before and so on the contrary evill if by the Infortunes And this shall be the more encreased if the Lord of the Ascendent or Lord of the Year be the Lord of the Sign wherein the Eclipse is to happen In like manner pronounce evill and dammage to the persons and things signified by any other House of whom you find the Lord of the Sign of the Eclipse Ruler c. Judge the time when it shall be most grievous unto them to be when the Sun comes to the same House in the Eclipse I mean the very degree and minute of the Cusp whereby they are signified or to the degree and minute of the Zodiack their chief Sgnificator was then in as if it be the Common People when the Sun comes to the degree and minute of the Ascendent at the time of the middle of the Eclipse if it be the Rulers or King it will be most grievous when the Sun comes to the degree and minute of the Tenth House at that time and so of the rest Detriment and mischief also is to be expected to all things signified by the House wherein any Eclipse is as if in the Tenth to Kings Grandees and chief Rulers if in the Ninth to Church-men in the Eighth the death of Old men c. and it shall be chiefly incident unto men if any Eclipse be in Humane Signs if in Aiery to Birds if in Earthy to the Fruits of the Earth and Seeds yet Junctinus assureth us that if an Eclipse be in Libra it signifies the rottenness of Herbs and that there shall be Sects and Schisms amongst Church-men in watery to the Fish and Creatures living in the Watery Element in Bestial Signs to Beasts according to the nature of the Sign as if Aries to Sheep if Capricorn to Goats if Taurus to Bulls Cows and Oxen if Sagittary the last 15 degrees to Horses c. and if feral signs to wild Beasts The Portence of an Eclipse in any Triplicity See also in what Triplicity the Luminaries are Eclipsed for Junctinus saith An Eclipse either of the Sun or Moon in the Fiery Triplicity denotes the motion of Armies the death and destruction of Cattell Kings and Great men imprisonments enmity between the Vulgar and Nobler sort of People dissemblings fewd and discords wars and grievous slaughter and destruction of men murthers thefts depopulations abortions to women sharp Feavers and Epidemical diseases through excess of heat apparitions in the Air scarcity of Rain especially in those Regions and places subject to the sign wherein the Eclipse is admirable and strange mutations In the Earthy Triplicity when any of the Luminaries are Eclipsed it occasions scarcity of the Fruits of the Earth and chiefly of Corn and such things as are usually sown every Year In the Aiery shews Famine fierce and violent Maladies and Pestilential Diseases tempestuous stormy winds and those very pernicious In the Watry Triplicity it promiseth the death of the Vulgar and ignobler sort of People seditions and rumors of wars and eruptions and overflowings of the Sea-banks In the Cardinal points Moreover he further testifieth that if an Eclipse happen in Aries it causeth alteration in Fruits Vines and Fig-trees shall be corrupted If in Libra in Seeds and Herbs and Schisms amongst Ecclesiastical men as you have already heard In Cancer a rot tenness or corruption of the fruit when it is gathered causing sickness to those that eat them perhaps surfeits In Capricorn it denotes Olives to be devoured
the rule or Dominion before the other yet shalt thou joyn him in judgement therewith but if there be several Planets that have Dominion in these places you shall prefer that which is nearest an Angle and most strong in the degree of the Eclipse and make him Lord of the Eclipse Fixed Stars to be considered And you are also to observe those fixed Stars which are of most note and placed nere the place of the Eclipse and the Cuspe of the Angle preceding the Eclipse as also the Cusps of the Ascendent and mid-Heaven at the time of the Eclipse The forms and figures of the signs Having thus seriously considered the fixed Stars as you ought the forms and figures of the signs are to be considered in which an Eclipse fals and in which the predominant Planets are for the quality of the Events cannot be well known but by the nature thereof For humane signs of such as are of that form have signification unto mankinde and if they be ferall signs or such as bear the form of wild Beasts or four-footed Creatures it shall be to such Beasts and Creatures which are found in shape and Nature agreeable thereunto whether the sign signifie Snakes Beasts of the field domestick tame Creatures c. Northern signs Nota. signifie sudden Earth-quakes which have the figure of Beasts of the field when an Eclipse is therein in Southern alteration of the ayr in such Signs and Constellations as have wings such as are Virgo Sagittary the Hen the Vulture c. it denotes detriment to birds and flying fowl chiefly such as are usually eaten by man If in Cancer Pisces or the Dolphin to Creatures living in the water if in the Constellation of the Ship to Ships and such as Navigate in Aquaries to Rivers and the like c. The portence of an Eclipse in Tropical or Equinoctial signs Also if an Eclipse of either I uminary be in any of the Tropical or Equinoctial signs it denotes change of ayr in every of these times if in the vernal Equinox dammage to Trees when they begin to bud and shout forth as the Vine Fig-tree and others then springing if in the Summer Solstice the events will be on fruits when they are gathered but in Egypt it signifies the over-flowing of Nilus If in the Autumnall Equinox they will be manifest on Hearbs and the Seeds of the Earth when they are sown and detriment in harvest in the Winter Solstice on Pot-Hearbs Birds of the season and Fish Also if an Eclipse be in Equinoctial signs it shews its Effects in Religious things and Church affairs in the Tropicks in the ayr laws and manners of men In fixed signs in foundations and edifices in common signs in mankinde and Kings In the quarters of Heaven Moreover Eclipses nere the East signifie their Effects will be apparent in fruits youth and foundations in the mid-Heaven in the Church State great ones and such as are of middle age but if in the West in the Laws and Customs of the People the alteration thereof and in those of elder years it hath signification also of Murthers To know the greatness of the Events of any Eclipse The quantity or the greatness of their Effects are known from the greatness of the Eclipse and from those Stars which in the place of the Eclipse are caused of the future events For when an Eclipse of the Sun is vespertine the evill portended thereby is lessened but when Matutine increased so likewise on the contrary an Eclipse of the Moon Vespertine increaseth the evill Matutine impareth it the one half The reason thereof is because the Sun is the proper Governour of the Day and the Moon Governess of the Night Gen. 1.16 and therefore when they are thus afflicted in their own season the Effects must needs be much more effectual then when on the contrary CHAP. IV. Of the quality of the Events of any Eclipse whether Good or Evill How to know the nature and quality of the Events of any Eclipse whether good or evill UNder the verge of this Chapter will the quality of the events whether good or evill fall and the nature of them both the which is known from the nature of the Planets having most fortitudes in the place of the Eclipse and the Communication and commixtion of one with another and the places in which they are in the Figure of Heaven For the Sun and Moon bear rule over the other Planets and are main causes of future accidents as also the power and efficacy of the other Stars are by them augmented or diminished but the commixture of those Stars who are of most power shew the quality of the events But let us declare the works and properties of each Planet and their natures but that our relation thereof may be the more effectual you are to take notice that when I nominate or declare the nature generally of the five Planets you are to understand their temper power and force whether that Planet doth of himself in his own nature predominate or no or whether any other Star which is not errant or other place of the Zodiack of the same nature and temper or influence of that Star wherefore if possible we are to know the nature and quality of every fixed Star worthy the noting for the making a right commixtion when they are joined in Configuration with the Errant Stars or Planets because this is as considerable as their commixtion one with another according to their familiarity before mentioned Of Saturn when he is chief Ruler and his significations in general So that if Saturn be only chief Lord or Ruler he shall be generally the occasion of destruction and mischief caused by cold and particularly when his influence relateth unto men he causeth long and tedious Infirmities Tissicks and obnoxious Diseases occasioned from Humors Flegm and Defluxions quartane Feavers Banishment Want Tribulation Anxiety Fears sadness and Death and these chiefly to those that are stricken in years But when it relateth to Beasts and Creatures belonging to the use of Man he bringeth destruction and causeth a scarcity of them and sickness and rottenness to those that remain death also and infirmity in the same nature to those men that use or eat them In the ayr he shall cause frost and snow and such as shall produce bitter cold weather cloudy and obscure also pernicious pestiferous and tempestuous Snow and inconvenient wind and moisture producing by corruption pernicious and offensive creatures to mankinde But in the Sea and Rivers tempests and shipwracks also difficult and dangerous Navigating a destruction and scarcity of fishes increase and decrease of waters in the Sea by fits the over-flowing of Rivers and eruptions of the Sea-banks and mischief by water In the Earth a diminution and destruction of fruits and chiefly to such as are more particularly for the use of Man they shall suffer by Worms very much detriment and Caterpillars Locusts and
such like or by inundations over-flowings of Water or too much abundance of Rain cold Frost or the like so that thereby there shall be such a scarcity and deerness of such things that many men shall dye for want of bread Of Jupiter when he is chief Ruler what he signifieth in general If Jupiter be chief Ruler he causeth generally an increase and plenty of all things and particularly to man he elevateth their condition to honour renown and plenty giveth health tranquillity peace and an increase of riches and goods and all things appertaining to the life of man in a natural way Increaseth the benefits and goods received from Princes or such as are in Authority and causeth also even these Grandees to be more Illustrious inlargeth their Territories and Dominions and abundantly augmenteth their Grandure generally Jupiter denotes success and happiness in every thing To Beasts belonging chiefly to the use of Man he signifieth an increase but such as are destructive and not profitable he destroyeth The ayr also he tempereth and maketh wholsome and sendeth convenient moisture in seasons requisite for the Production of the fruits of the Earth the which he multiplyeth and increaseth by his sweet influence The Sea also for Navigation shall be safe the floods of Rivers temperate c. Of the significations of Mars if he be chief Ruler If Mars be chief Lord of any Eclipse he generally threatneth mischief to all sorts and kinds of men which shall happen through extremity of drought and particularly he causeth much war intestine hatreds fewds quarrels and discords amongst men especially of that kinde of life viz souldiers he excites men also to many robberies spoilings sacking tyranny and rebellion he also causeth the wrath of Kings and Great men and troubles in general sudden death sicknesses and those chiefly tertian Agues or Feavers and those principally or more particularly to those of younger years or in their strength of youth much choler and anger amongst men of small repute they shall commit unlawful things and violate the Law many Combustions slaughters rapines thefts and robberies In the ayr he causeth extremity of heat and very warm windes also ligthning and little rain In the Sea destruction to ships and submersions suddenly by mixt winds lightning and such like In Rivers a scarcity of waters a drought of Fountains and detriment by drinking of waters which for the most part will be corrupted And in things appertaining to the life of Man viz. Beasts and Vegetables he shall cause a scarcity and destruction of the fruits of the Earth by reason they shall be scorched with extremity of heat or eaten with Locusts and Caterpillers or destroyed by winds or nipt in the bud Of Venus and her significations general But if Venus be chief Significatrix she denotes the same as doth Jupiter generally but together with it some Venereal sports and particularly to men she causeht honour fame joy fortunate success in every thing happy marriages abundance of children and felicity in all things belonging to Matrimony and an increase of riches and an unusual familiarity and correspondency between Princes and their Subjects and Familiars In the ayr winds but temperate bringing abundance of showers yet they very seasonable and convenient for the fructifying of the Earth a seasonable time according to the nature of the season In the Sea such Ships as Navigate shall be safe and prosperous In Rivers abundance of waters by reason of many showers Beasts Vegetables and such things as are for the use of man shall be plentiful Of Mercury and his significations when he is chief Ruler If Mercury be chief Ruler he signifieth such events generally as are of the nature of the Planet he is in Conjunction with and in Configuration for you have been taught in our second Book of this Volume that he participateth in Nature with the Planet in Conjunction or Configuration with him but properly in his own nature he furthers the natural signification of the other Particularly in men he excites expedition industry cunning and ingenuity in every thing In the Sea he causeth unfortunate Navigation when he is joined in judgement with the Infortunes as being in Configuration or Conjunction with them but if with the Fortunes judge the contrary with the Malevolents also he denotes many diseases and infirmities Quotidian Feavers Imposthumes Consumptions and Coughs Phthisis and dry diseases as touching matters of State Laws Customs and Priviledges he orders all according to the Planets and Stars in Configuration with him wherefore we see he being dry of constitution being so nere the Sun and of a swift motion and because he is often Retrograde he stirs up frequent turbulent and pernicious winds also thunder and lightning openings of the Earth and Earth-quakes and perhaps much damage thereby to Vegetables and Creatures for the use of Man I conceive Ptolomy might very well have left out perhaps also in the houres of his setting he causeth a diminution of Waters and Rivers in the houres of his rising an augmentation and thus much of the innate significations of the Planets Now when according to the variety of the Aspects and Signs they are mingled by being mutually behold of each other and their Position in respect of the Sun they thereby vary their effects or actions according to the variety of significations and judgements arising from their several Conjunctions and Configurations Wherefore since it is impossible to relate exactly unto thee all their Configurations and their commixtures or at least for that it would be so intricate a thing we shall refer it to the study and consideration of the Student for as I have said before unless thy Genius leadeth thee to the exact knowledge thereof the reading of all the Books in the World will no wise avail thee But we ought diligently to observe the nature of those Stars by which the events are signified and their affinity with those Regions where the effects are to be manifested thus If they be fortunes and have relation to the evil places where the events shall happen and no wise contradicted by other Stars they more effectually perform what events were afore promised but if they have no relation to those places or if they be gainsayed by malevolent Stars their good influence is by so much lessened and so thou mayest judge on the contrary And thus much of Eclipses according to Ptolomy Some lines towards the latter end of the eighth chapter of his aforesaid second Booke I have willingly omitted for that I do not in every word agree with him and therfore herein I shall desire to be excused as also if I have in any other places varied somewhat from him I know no reason why any man that standeth on his shoulders may not see farther then he truly I must really confess he hath merited much honour from his successors wherefore I shall esteem him as for his shortness so for his accurate and sufficient largeness and
signifieth the destruction of Kingdoms Sects and Schisms and great things according to their strength and the nature of that Planet which is strongest in the sign c. Note that when these Planets are joined in their exaltations they denote good to their power yet there shall be much war and many Miracles if they be joined in their fals they denote mischief Famine and Pestilence c. CHAP. XIII Of the mean and lesser Conjunctions and their Effects SOme of the Antients have termed the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars I mean their Conjunction in any other sign or place of the Heavens save that in Cancer a mean Conjunction that of Jupiter and Mars a lesser and that of the Sun with any Planet in his ingress into Aries and his Conjunction with the Moon every moneth least of all Their reasons will soon appear if we but warily consider why they term the foregoing Conjunctions greatest or greater for Saturn and Mars must needs do more mischief then Jupiter and Mars Saturn being of a Malevolent nature and highest of all the Planets and so consequently slowest as to us yet his motion doth equal if not exceed the Moons only the largeness of his sphear causeth that it is not so apparently obvious to our sense and Jupiter of a Benevolent and sweet Influence and lower c. and therefore as touching the rest your own sense will give you having considered what hath been said that the Inferiour are not of such power and efficacy as are the Superiour Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars The Conjunction of Saturn and Mars I mean this mean Conjunction denotes war and blood-shed but if you would know in what degree this will be executed you are to see what Planet is Almuten of the figure and whether he be fortunate or no for if he be strong essentially and free from impediment and affliction and be of a Benevolent nature judge the evil will be lessened in one kinde or other and if this Almuten have any good Aspect to the place of the Conjunction see to the nature of your Almuten and the quarter of Heaven he is in and the nature of the sign he doth possess and judge that by such things occasions or men signified thereby shall the war threatned be mitigated and perhaps dissolved especially if there be any reception between him and the strongest of those Planets in Conjunction c. understand this in all the rest mutatis mutandis Note likewise if your Almuten be evil weak and unfortunate judge the contrary and that rather by such as are by him signified the war will be fomented or increased Note also that if they are joined in humane signs many infirmities shall be incident to men and those according to the nature of the strongest of the two in Conjunction in earthy signs frost snow and cold shall molest and prove offensive and destructive to the fruits and seeds of the Earth in fiery the Earth shall be barren through extremity of heat and drought in aiery there shall be many high and tempestuous winds in watry abundance of waters and many inundations so likewise if it happen in beastial signs the evil chiefly will be incident to Beasts and those especially that are of the nature and form of the sign c. as you have often heard before in delivering rules for the judging of the Revolutions of the Years of the World in this manner also mayest thou enlarge upon all the preceding and subsequent Conjunctions Note if they be joined in an Angle they declare war amongst great ones and many tribulations and dissentions which shall continue till they are otherwise joined c. Of the ☌ of ♃ and ♂ The chiefest of the lesser Conjunctions is the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars and this denotes many accidents and evils by rain snow corruption of the ayr war â—nd blood-shed if Jupiter be strongest in the Conjunction it will not be so bad if Mars do not expect better and if they be joined in the Ascendent of the Revolution of the Year mischief and misfortune will happen assuredly unto the people in general the nature of the evil judge from the nature of the sign they are in and the Planet most fortified c. In the same manner judge of the rest of the preceding and subsequent Conjuntions if they be in the Ascendent of the Revolution and so also according to the signification and nature of every House wherein you find them in the Figure or Revolution as you have heard in other cases sufficiently before understand this and thou hast attained a great secret The ☌ of the ☉ with the other Planets Of the ☌ of the ☉ and ☽ The Conjunction of the Sun with any other Planet when he in his annual Revolution enters the first point of Aries you are to judge according to the nature of the Planet whether good or bad of which as also his Conjunction with the Moon every Moneth I need say no more in this place since what hath been delivered where we treat of the Revolutions of the World of weather and alteration of the Ayr and of Eclipses before in this same fourth Book may suffice wherefore let us now draw to a conclusion of this work CHAP. XIV Of the Conjunction of the Planets in the twelve Signs according to Hermes ENdeavour thou but to understand what hath been said touching Conjunctions and this one Chapter more and thou wilt soon be able to give a rationall and sufficient judgement upon any Cinjunction whatsoever Of the ☌ of ♃ ♀ ☿ and ☽ in ♈ When Jupiter Venus Mercury and the Moon are joined in Aries they promise good success to Mankinde and much gain and profit every where fertil shewers and honour to women and Secretaries of State also if the Moon and Jupiter alone be joined in Aries they denote justice and honesty amongst men ☌ ♀ and ♂ in ♉ When Venus and Mars are joined in Taurus it signifies women shall brawl and quarrel with their husbands and there shall be many Epidemical diseases amongst men and Beasts destruction and slaughter strong and Malevolent winds and detriment to trees and fruits ☌ ♃ ♀ ♂ and ☽ in ♉ also if Jupiter and Venus and Mars and the Moon be joyned in Taurus there shall be much lying and dissembling amongst men as also treacheries destruction of Kings and Nobles vile and ignoble men shall rebel and raise war against their Prince also it denotes Earth-quakes And if Saturn and Jupiter and Mars be joined in Taurus they signifie the death and mortality of beasts ☌ ♄ ♃ and ♂ in ♉ and that Kings shall go out of their own Kingdoms into others and there shall happen many infirmities to men through choler and grievous mortalities both to Man and Beast ☌ ☉ ♀ and ♂ in ♊ Also when the Sun and Venus and Mercury are joined in Gemini Scribes and Secretaries shall suffer detriment and such as
them by your significators coming to the place wherein the Infortunes were at the time of the ingress or meeting with them in their ordinary motions c. and this of either King People or any other still remembring to have regard to the Planet afflicted and who are thereby understood If the significator of the King or any other applyes to a malevolent Planet or receive the light of one slow in motion it threatens very much mischief or death to the party or parties signified by your significator To know the cause of any evil threatned Also if thou wouldst know the cause of any evil or cross to happen to the King or chief Rulers by the significations of the Houses thou must be sure thou beest well versed in them which thou mayst learn in the 42 Chapter of our second Tract in this Volume as if the significator be afflicted in the second House or from Planets therein judge the cause to proceed from the signification thereof as Money Wealth Assistants c. if in the third it is caused from or by Children Kindred Neighbors short Journeys and the like and so according to the signification of the other Houses judge if it happen in any of them and so likewise of any other significator as well as the Kings Mutatis mutandis also of any other thing or accident let this be your rule c. When it shall come to pass Look when the afflicting Planet comes to the perfect Conjunction Square or Opposition of your significator and at that time say the evil threatned will come to pass or when the afflicting Planet comes to the Cusp of the House signifying any person or persons of whom thou wouldst judge or to the place viz. degree and minute of the sign wherein the Planet which is your significator is located and say then the evil shall happen unless the fortunate aspects of the benevolents thereunto at the same time prevent it and if so then also see what House that fortunate Planet is Lord of and where located and of what significator and judge the deliverance or prevention to proceed from the person persons or things signified by the nature and signification of the Planet sign and House he is Lord of posited in and is significator of c. but if the aforesaid Conjunction Square or Opposition be in an angle then judge the evil portended to happen when your significator becomes combust of the Sun How to judge by the nature of the aspects of the nature of the persons signified by the Planet afflicting your significator Further note that if your significator be afflicted by Sextile judge the evil proceeds from such as are pretendedly friends to the King People or any which your significator denotes or from such as are not thought or suspected to be Enemies if it be by a Square aspect judge the mischief signified thereby to arise from such as are clandestine and secretly Enemies if by a Trine from real Friends and Confederates and lastly if by Opposition by open and professed Enemies Consider also the Planet afflicting and how dignified as if a Planet in his own House afflict the significator of the King or chief Rulers judge the evil to arise from their own domestick friends and alliance if he be in his exaltation say it will proceed from some of the Nobles Princes Dukes or such as are in high power and authority or near unto the Crown if but in his triplicity from such as have their dependency on the aforesaid Nobility or are allied unto them if in term from such as are inferiour unto these as are Marquesses Earls Lords and the like if in face onely then say they are but Knights or Gentlemen but if the Planet afflicting be peregrin and in no essential dignity it shall proceed from such as are altogether vile and base or of no reputation or quality having no honourable rise or dignity after the same manner may you judge as you have heard of the significator of any other as well as the chief Rulers by varying your rules according to art and discretion but I believe you will never have much need of these curious rules of the Ancients What is signified by the retrogadation of any Planet in Revolution If your significator be retrograde in any annual Revolution judge much trouble impediment and anxiety to the persons or things signified thereby As if it be significator of the King or chief Rulers it denotes much trouble and detriment unto their persons and great fear of unthroning of them likewise if it be significator of the People and so of any other or if the Lord of the year be thus afflicted say the condition of the People shall be very sad and grievous and much trouble and mischief shall be to their Cities and Towns and this shall more assuredly be if your significator be then in the terms of the Infortunes and the unfortunate Planet afflicted also and indisposed for then shall the mischief and trouble be the more grievous and troublesome So also if your significator be in the terms of a fortune if he be ill-affected weak and in the Houses of the Malevolents but if he be free the evil will be the less especially if he be in his own House or Exaltation or triplicity essentially well dignified What Kings and Rulers may expect when their significator or Lord of the tenth House of Heaven in any Revolution is impedited Now as touching the significations of the impedition of the Lord of the tenth in any annual Revolution and then let us proceed to the rules of the Ancients in judging the true state and condition of the Common-People in any Region by any Revolution of the year over and above what hath been already said for the better illustration thereof that so the Student may be the better able to retain and understand the rules of Art as also to judge of these matters the more accurately You have heard that the sign of the tenth House in any annual Revolution together with the Lord thereof hath signification of Kings and chief Rulers the which if it be combust in any of the Angles it signifieth destruction to the King or chief Rulers during that Revolutions effects As if it be in the Ascendent and the Sun be Lord thereof you may from hence conclude if other testimonies concurr that the Common People or Subjects will rise up against their Superior or Governers and kill him or them or depose them or at least grievously molest and afflict them according to the power and strength of the significators for if Mars do then afflict him by Conjunction or aspect and be either Lord of the eighth or fifth or therein located death is the more to be feared but if Saturn be then in aspect or Conjunction with the Lord of the tenth it is likely some Saturnian disease or evil will afflict his person if he be not Lord of the aforesaid Houses
own house Aquaries not altogether so bad in Scorpio and in Taurus a great deal less mischievous then in Scorpio for the more he is impedited the more evil shall he be the occasioner of especially if he behold Mars or be aspected by him except Jupiter do moderate the matter by his benevolent beams If Saturn be Lord of the year and have Septentrional Latitude Saturn when Lord of the year and hath North latit When South latitude or more plainly North Latitude because every one understands not Septentrional he denotes thick gross and corrupt ayr also dark and cloudy If he have Meridional or South latitude he signifies much hard cold weather and frost Saturn Lord of the year and Oriental If he be Oriental also he shall be the occasioner of trouble sadness grief and sorrow to Great and Noblemen perhaps through the coldness and frostiness of the weather Saturn Lord of the year and Occidental Again if he be Occidental there shall be Earthquakes during that Revolution especially in the Eastern parts this is if he be in Aries or any sign signifying that Quarter if he denote Earthquakes and be Oriental joy shall not be so great if he be Retrograde it will be the worse and so judge of the quality and greatness of the good or evil still signified by any Planet according to his strength or impediment and affliction Saturn in Taurus and Lord of the year Thus much touching the significations of Saturn when Lord of the year and posited in Aries wherefore now as touching this position in Taurus when he is Lord of the year who if he be then in an angle and direct he signifies War and Discords or Quarrels chiefly in the Regions and Places subject to Taurus and in the Southern parts of the Nation in which the Revolution is made also destruction to the Seeds and Plants in the earth because Taurus is an Earthy sign and he no ways essentially fortified so as to do there any good and being naturally evil unless the good aspects of the Fortunes do prevent and alter his influence he shall also cause Catterpillers Worms and such kinde of Creatures as shall destroy the Fruits of the Earth also Tribulations and Sorrows in the earth destruction of Houses Cities and Towns also Earthquakes chiefly Southward because Taurus is a Southern sign c. and in those places subject unto Taurus Moreover if Saturn be Lord of the year and located in Taurus he signifies Wars Scarcity and Famine or a want of such things as are produced out of the earth and if he be impedited he also denotes mortality and that also to the great Ones of the earth and if Mars and the Moon be joyned either in Conjunction or Aspect with Saturn in what ever sign it be or what ever then ascends they shall denote mortality and famine or a scarcity and if they be joyned to Mars it signifies trouble and vexation to the King and chief Rulers also Quarrels and Wars in the Southern parts and if he be then Retrograde he denotes destructions and violencies generally over all the Region Wars and Bloodshed especially if he be in the tenth for then it shall be more universal also mischief and dammage to children and young men but if he behold the Ascendent and be direct the evil shall not be so great and general and if he be Cadent from the Ascendent nor in Aspect therewith and be direct nor beheld of Mars the evil is thereby still declared not to be so great but if he be retrograde and impedited by Mars he denotes destruction to the fruits of the earth and mortalities according to the nature of the sign he is in Saturn Lord of the year and in Gemini When Saturn is Lord of the year and in Gemini and in an angle direct he stirreth up many great and high Western winds and causeth very sharp cold weather in Winter according to the nature and quality of the Climate the Birds of the ayr shall suffer Detriment of which there shall be a scarcity also men shall be afflicted with cold and dry Diseases commixed with heat and moisture and men shall be lyars contentious and shedders of blood there shall be much Frost in Winter and in Summer corruption of ayr thunder lightning and rain and if he be Retrograde dissentions and discords shall happen between Kings Nobles and great men also they shall during that Revolution be in great fear of death it signifieth also Earthquakes and these towards the Western parts and if he be remote from an Angle he signifies as well Eastern as Western winds and abundance of Cold and men shall suffer many changes so also judge they shall be if Saturn be then Retrograde and that there shall be many infirmities through winds storms unnatural Dews and Rains but if he be Cadent and not beholding the Ascendent and be direct these things shall happen in the sign in which Saturn then is and shall cause many Southern and Southwest winds Also if Saturn be in the fourth house in Gemini or its Triplicity and Lord of the year or if he be not Lord of the year yet if he be in aspect of the Lord of the Ascendent he signifieth that in the Western parts during that Revolution many men shall die through Earthquakes but if he be in Aspect with the Lord of the tenth there shall be many controversies and dissentions about Rule and Government and the power and right of one another also many inundations and abundance of overflowings of Waters by which the fruits of the earth shall be damnified Again Saturn Lord of the year having Septentrional lat in ♊ if Saturn have Septentrional Latitude there shall be many grievous high winds corrupt foggy dark ayr and earthquakes and these chiefly in the Western parts and places subject to Gemini If he be Meridional Oriental But if he have Meridional Latitude there will be a hot and dry ayr mortality and little or no rain if he be Oriental he denotes infirmities and sickness also trouble to the Grandees of the earth and Nobles of those Regions under Gemini Occidental so if he be Occidental there shall be a very dry ayr and little or no rain c. Saturn Lord of the year and in Cancer Again if Saturn be in Cancer in any Revolution and Lord of the year there shall be an increase and abundance of Water Fish and Locusts or Caterpillers rather in our Country and such Worms and creeping Creatures as are destructive to Fruits and are ingendred by immoderate rain with which the year shall abound as also with Fishes and if Mars behold him not there shall be grievous and terrible cold weather and many infirmities in those places under the sign wherein Saturn is as also under the signs in Square and Opposition to him and they shall be such Diseases as shall be of the nature of the sign he possesses
and if he be Retrograde let the King have a care of death or some prime and chief Ruler during that Revolution and if Mars behold him with any Malevolent aspect it signifieth Mortalities to the aforesaid places and many evils and mischiefs And if Saturn behold not the Ascendent there shall be much cold rain and dew but if he be direct the evil shall not be so bad except then the Moon be in the Ascendent for that signifieth the evil shall fall on the King or chief Rulers of the Region in which the Revolution is if not death it self but if he be retrograde and beheld of Mars it signifieth death and mortality in those Regions aforesaid and if he be Cadent and not beholding the Ascendent and be direct and Mars Cadent from him it signifieth that men shall be secure and safe and so much the more assured will this be if he be past the first fifteen degrees of the sign yet shall there be infirmities in the Regions and Places subject unto the said sign but if he be retrograde and beheld of Mars and neither of them in the Aspects of the Fortunes many tribulations and troubles shall be incident unto those Regions also abundance of rain and cold weather also Shipwracks and Disasters by Sea and much danger to Navigators and such as make Voyages also death to fish and the creatures lying in the Sea and other Waters Saturn in Cancer and having Septentrional latitude Meridional Oriental Occidental If that Saturn be in Cancer having Septentrional Latitude he denotes a scarcity of Waters and a drought of fountains and rivers and but little rain Also if he be Meridional that men shall labour and take much pains in their Trades but shall gain little or nothing thereby if he be Oriental he denotes dark thick and obscure unwholsom ayr also in the Winter time grievous cold raw weather and dammage to fruits by Northern winds if he be Occidental also much rain And if he be retrograde the evil shall be augmented and the King or Rulers of the Countreys and Nations under the sign wherein Saturn is shall undergo grievous aspersions reproaches and disgraces even equivalent to death it self but if he be direct it will lessen and diminish the evil a little for look how much your significator is fortified and so much the less shall the evil signified be and so much the more the good c. And this thou wilt plainly see by what follows if thou hast diligent respect to what shall be expressed so as to ponder throughly the reason of every Judgement the which I would advise thee to do for then shalt thou be assuredly an expert Philosopher and be soon able to deliver Judgement most rationally on any Configuration of the Heavens without recourse to thy Books for that Astrologer whose brains remains in his Library shall never come to the accomplishment of this Science but he that makes his Library remain in his brains shall not erre Et ille erit mihi amicus Saturn Lord of the year and in Leo. But if Saturn be Lord of the year in any Revolution and in Leo having Septentrional or North latitude he causeth much rain and corruption of things both to the prejudice of great and small Rulers and People also bringeth to nought the designs and works of mens hands If he be Oriental he denotes many infirmities to the People of the Climate under that Revolution and if he be Occidental many Mortalities and Pestilencies shall happen unto the People and so much the more grievous will the Evil and mischief be if he be retrograde less if direct Saturn Lord of the year in Virgo Also if Saturn be in Virgo and be Lord of the Year and Septentrional he signifies good wholsom and sweet gales and blasts of wind also convenient and seasonable gusts in Harvest-time and if he be Meridional there shall be a drought of Fountains and a scarcity of waters but if he be Oriental the women that shall conceive during that Revolution shall miscarry by reason of wind or carnal copulation after conception but if he be Occidental he causeth acute and sharp Fevers and if he be Retrograde the King and Rulers shall fear their Enemies but if he be Direct they shall not thus fear but be provided for by them Saturn Lord of the year in Libra Again if Saturn be in Libra and Lord of the Year Septentrional he denotes a hot and dry Ayr and little or no rain during that Revolution and a scarcity of Waters And if he be Meridional a good wholsom sweet Ayr and no noysom Blasts and if he be Oriental men shall have a lustfull inclination to women but if he be Occidental he denotes infamy and disgrace which shall come of such Doings If he be Retrograde he signifies Infirmities to Servants and the Baser Sort of People And if he be direct there shall be pretty Plenty of the Fruits of the Earth especially of Barly c. Saturn Lord of the year in Scorpio Saturn Lord of the Year and in Scorpio Septentrional signifieth abundance of Rain and increase of Waters both in Rivers and Fountains also that they shall be corrupt and if he be Meridional he shall denote a scarcity of provisions appertaining to the life of man especially such as are produced by the Earth And if he be Oriental there shall be many dissentions and quarrels amongst Great men but if Occidental he signifies destruction and trouble on the Sea also loss and dammage to such as have their Livelihood thereon also if he be Retrograde there shall happen Pestilential Diseases but if direct Babylon as say some of the Antients shall be safe Saturn Lord of the year in Sagittary Again if Saturn be Lord of the Year Septentrional and in Sagittary he denotes the increase of Fountains and extremity of Cold in Winter according to the nature of the Climate if he be Oriental Noble and Rich men shall be put out of their Countries and Habitations and if he be Occidental there shall be many dissentions quarrels and wars between Kings and Great men also if he be Retrograde it shall go ill with all manner of men and their affairs and quarrels shall be amongst them and if he be Direct Travellers both by Sea and Land shall be in a good Condition and successfull Saturn Lord of the year in Capricorn Moreover if Saturn be Lord of the Year and in Capricorn and Septentrional the Ayr shall be temperate and healthy and there shall be moderate and seasonable Rains but if he be Meridional or have Meridional Latitude in Winter there will be dark cloudy cold weather and if he be Oriental the state of Great and Noble men shall be but sad and troublesome neither shall they agree with the Common People and if he be Occidental the fruits of the Earth shall be wasted and consumed by and through extremity of heat and creeping things as