in two hundred and forty years yet once in twenty years they come in Conjunction in one part or other of the Zodiack The third is the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the first term or degree of Cancer and this is once in thirty years The fourth is the Conjunction of the three superiours Saturn Jupiter and Mars in one term or face of any sign The fifth is the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars which is a mean and the least Conjunction of the superiours and therefore is not the fore-runner of such great n foreefs as the other as you shall by and by understand â—â—mâ—re sixth is the Conjunction of the Sun with any of the rest of the Planets at the time of his entrance into the first point of Aries The seventh and last is the Conjunction of the Sun and Moon which happeneth once every moneth Considerations before iudgement Of which we are now in order to treat but first you must know that the time for the erecting of your figure is when the Planets are in Partil Conjunction viz. in the very same signe degree and minute of the Zodiack You may see what a Partial Aspect is the 27 Chapter of the second Book of this Volume Having then erected the Figure of the Heavens at your punctual time and placed the Planets therein being reduced to the time of the day have regard unto the fortitudes and debilities of the Planets especially those in Conjunction for if they be strong and fortunate they presage good if weak and impedited the contrary And this good or evill shall be according to the nature of the Planets in Conjunction and the nature of the sign in which they are as if the Sign be aiery and the Planets evill impediment in the Ayr corruption and much damage thereby both to men and the fruits of the Earth is denoted and so judge of the rest of the signs in like manner judge the contrary if the Planets in Conjunction be Fortunes and well dignified Again if the Malevolents be in Conjunction in feminine Signs they denote Pestilence and evill infirmities to women and the Female sex of things in general chiefly in like manner to the Masculine sex if the Sign be Masculine and health prosperity and good success if they are benevolent Planets Moreover in fixed signs what they portend whether they are Benevolents or Malevolents is of continuance in moveable of little or no continuance in common signs a mean between these viz. they are neither of long or short continuance CHAP. XII Of the Conjunctions of the Superiours EVery Planet in some measure or other contributeth to the Government of this World for the which they were ordained but some more forcibly then others as being fore-runners of greater and stranger accidents and mutations Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Aries For the great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the first point of Aries or the first term thereof is the greatest and most notable Conjunction of all the other for that they are the highest and so consequently as to us the slowest of the Planets and therefore have more power to act what they denote then any of the other hâ—â—â— and for that Aries is the first of the signs of the Zodiack and the first sign of the Triplicities also the first of the fiery Trygon And therefore it is that when these two highest Planets are in Conjunction in the fiery Trygon especially in the first term or degree of Aries the Ascendent of the world and the place wherein the chief Luminary viz. the Sun was at the Creation many commotions wars seditions troubles subversion of Monarchies Kingdoms States alteration of Laws Customs Priviledges and Rights Plagues Famine Desolation Anxiety and trouble Treasons Treacheries and the death of Kings Nobles Princes Emperours and Powers follow Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in any Trygon So likewise when they are in Conjunction in the first term of any Trygon whether it be fiery earthy aiery or watry but not so forcible is their then Eâ—â—â—â— nor so terrible as the former yet though in a less degree the fore-runners an â—â—casioners of grievous mutations and accidents according to the nature of that Planet which hath most power of the two in the Sign wherein they are joined for if Saturn be stronger then Jupiter it will be very terrible but if Jupiter be stronger then him somewhat will be abated in fiery earthy and aiery Signs they cause drought and a scarcity of Provisions and barrenness of the ground Pestilence and Famine in watry detriment by the too much abundance thereof Also when these two first Conjunctions are in any of the Angles especially the tenth it denotes the arise of some new King or Prophet from the quarter signified by the sign wherein they are joined and if the Sign and Lord thereof be fortunate it denotes their continuance establishment and glory but if it be weak or afflicted and its Lord they shall be slain and put down for the whole world is governed by these Trygons as Ptolomy teacheth in his second Book and the whole Macrocosm compounded of the four Elements which answereth to the four Triplicities and therefore it is that the Conjunction of the Superiours in them are occasioners of such great mutations Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Cancer In like manner the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the first degree or term of Cancer is the forerunner of much evill yet are the two former preferred before it viz. terrible wars slaughters depopulations and alterations of Government and destruction of Kingdoms fire and sword famine and pestilence c. and if it be Oriental its Effects will soon operate if Occidentall not so soon the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in any other sign and place is not so terrible And truly this is a terrible Conjunction if rightly considered and dictateth unto us upon the first consideration no less then horrible troubles and alterations in the World if we but consider it it is a Conjunction of the Malevolents two enemies must needs be stronger then one and here they are both together and in a sign wherein Jupiter our best friend is exalted and the Moon the mother of moisture pitcheth her Tent so that by their Conjunction therein both the assistance of the one and the nature of the other is much damnified and afflicted again Saturn is therein in detriment it being the sign opposite to his House Capricorn and Mars is therein in his fall Capricorn being the House of his exaltation and therefore it is these things being considered that they are so mischievous when joined in this sign the which of all their Conjunctions is the worst c. Of the Conjunction of Saturn Jupiter and Mars Also the Conjunction of Saturn Jupiter and Mars in any term or face and beheld by the Sun they being the three superiour Planets and most effectual for strength and height
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
method before any or all other Astrological Philosophers whatsoever and therefore as I have already said with him I shall conclude as touching this matter adding only this Chapter which I have collected out of of Junctinus that we may hasten to a conclusion of this Treatise CHAP. V. Of the Sun and Moon Eclipsed in any Decanate or Face of the twelve Celestial Signs DIvers rules have I before delivered unto thee which I collectedout of Junctinus wherefore now for conclusion of this point I thought good to give thee this Chapter out of him also the which he gathered from the writings of Proclus When there happens any Eclipse either of the Sun or Moon in Taurus Virgo or Capricorn it denotes a scarcity of the fruits of the Earth and Corn in Gemini Libra or Aquaries a Famin and outragious diseases Pestilencies and Mortalities in Cancer Scorpio or Pisces the death and slaughter of obscure common Plebean kinde of people continual quarrels and seditions and great damage to Navigators and such as converse in the Sea or Sea-affairs in Aries Leo or Sagittary I need say no more then this thas it is sufficiently declared in the handling the several Decanates of these Signs wherefore it will not be amiss if we also go through every sign of the whole Zodiack beginning at Aries that so thou mayest not be to seek upon any Eclipse of the Luminaries and first then of the Sun When the Sun is Eclipsed in any of the first ten degrees of Aries which you have heard is the first Decanate or Face thereof it portends the sudden and frequent motion of Armies continual expeditions assaults and batteries with many tumults seditions and controversies and an inclination of the ayr to intemperate heat and drought In the following Decanat or Face viz. from the tenth to the twentieth degree of Aries it denotes the Imprisonment trouble and sadness of some King and danger of death unto him a corruption of trees that are fruitful or of such fruits as are produced of Trees as also of the Earth In the last Decanate or Face viz. from the twentieth to the thirtieth or last degree of Aries he bringeth grief and sadness to mortals and the death of great women and a scarcity or diminution of Cattel viz. those of the lesser sort because it is signified by Aries An Eclipse of the Sun happening in the first Face of Taurus afflicteth Negotiators Agents and Solicitors destroyeth businesses and the Corn upon the Earth In the second Decanate or Face of Taurus incommodities to such as bear children and also to Travellers In the third Pestilence and Famine from whence we may collect the destruction of greater Cattel viz. Buls Oxen and Cows An Eclipse in the first Face of Gemini of the Sun causeth dissention amongst Priests of what Order soever they are inveterate hatred and seditions and a contempt of both the Law of God and Man is to be feared In the second thefts and robberies piracies and slaughters In the third the death of some King and various mischeifs to such Common-wealths as are under Gemini and the frustration of such Cities affairs and Negotiations Again an Eclipse of the Sun in the first Face of Cancer troubleth the ayr and causeth varâ—ous winds and alterations of weather In the second dryeth up Rivers and Fountains and causeth petulent and greivous mortalities In the third through Armenia and Africa and the rest of the Regions and Places subject to Cancer Hidropical diseases seditions and the disease of France Naples Spain England and indeed of all the World yet commonly called the French and Neopolitan disease or more plainly the French Pox. Also an Eclipse of the Sun in the first Decanate of Leo denotes the death of some eminent Prince and the scarcity of Bread-corn In the second troubles and anxieties to Kings Princes and Great men or Magistrates In the third captivities slaughters rapines and profanation of holy and sacred Houses I conceive he hereby meant Churches Monasteries and such like Moreover an Eclipse of the Sun in Virgo argues the grievous calamity and death of some certain King in the confines of Virgo In the second Famine Pestilence and deadly Seditions In the third to Pictures Poets and Merchants and such as live by their Ingenuity and wit slaughters destruction banishment and the like If an Eclipse of the Sun be in the first Face of Libra it corrupteth the Ayr causeth the Pestilence and a scarcity and dearness of Corn In the second portendeth the death of some Great King under the Dominion of Libra Seditions and Famine In the third discords amongst Great ones and detriment in their estates Also if an Eclipse be in the first Face of Scorpio it moveth and stirreth up Wars and tumults slaughter hatred captivities plots and treacheries In the second mischief to some King whose minde is averse to war In the third the rise of some tyrant the slothfulness and idleness of the former King hateful to every one In the first Face or Decanate of Sagittary if an Eclipse of the Sun be it shews grievous dissentions and deadly fewds amongst men In the second the death of Camels and such Cattel as chew the cud especially the greater sort and such like In the third prejudice to Horses and Armies Again an Eclipse of the Sun in the first Decanate of Capricorn it denotes unhappiness and chances to Great men the transmigration of some King and the Rebellion of the Nobles and rusticks In the second hired souldiers are excited and animated against their Commanders and Superiours and frustrateth all their devices In the third it induceth the tumultuary motion of the King and causeth Famine Moreover an Eclipse of the Sun in the first Face of Aquaries causeth publique sorrow and sadness In the second publique thefts rapines and roberies Earth-quakes and Famine In the third the death and slaughter of sheep and beasts of the field Lastly an Eclipse of the Sun in the first Face of Pisces drieth up Rivers and unfortunateth the Sea and the affairs thereof In the second the death of famous and excellent men destruction of Fish Earth-quakes c. In the third sedition cruelty furiousness and inhumanity of souldiers The Moon eclipsed in the first Face of Aries An Eclipse of the Moon now in every Decanate is to be considered since we have done with the Sun wherefore when the Moon is Eclipsed in the first Decanate of Aries she denotes Feavers destruction of Woods by fire and a siccity and dryness of the ayr In the second Pestilence In the third Abortive births incommodities and such like dangers to women An Eclipse of the Moon in the first decanate of Taurus denotes destruction and death to great Cattel In the second the death of the Queen of some Region under Taurus and a scarcity of seeds and barrenness of the Earth In the third she shews cruelty on Serpents and such like Also an Eclipse of the Moon in the first
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
of Waters in the Western not so soon and it signifies many sicknesses and that Wolves and mad Dogs will rage And if in Virgo In Virgo it denotes the extirpation of Domesticks belonging to some King or Prince or their removall out of one place into another or out of one Kingdom into another or their banishment or their being carried away captive and their goods and offices shall be taken away without any hope of restauration neither shall they ever recover them it denotes also damage to Merchants and mutual injuries and injustice amongst men also vexations and captivities and much labour pain trouble tribulations and sadness Feavers Abortions in women a noise of Arms c. If it appear Eastward the sooner are its Effects manifest and portends war if Westward the later and denotes quarrels and a rankeness of Corn. In Libra it denotes theft and robberies also cutters on the High-way In Libra and men shall fear poverty and want and shall suffer through cold it denotes also the death of some eminent man slaughters and secret plots and treacheries a scarcity of Rain impetuous Winds a drought of Fountains and other waters a want of the Fruits of the Earth and Provisions for the use of man Earth quakes c. And if it be Eastern these Effects will the sooner appear and the Kings of Babylon and such as are under the sign Libra shall be unfortunate and Horses and Mules shall be dear and Wars amongst the Romans but if Western the contrary and servants shall contemn and reject their Masters and the fruits of the Earth shall not be altogether so scarce In Scorpio any Comet signifieth abundance of war and rebellion to Kings In Scorpio changes and alterations detriment and damage to souldiers labour and travel to all kings of men contentions amongst Great men great perils and dangers the death of some eminent man and a scarcity of waters at some certain times mischief to such as are with child a scarcity of Corn and the fruits of the Earth and pains in the Testicles and Bladder And if it be seen in the East or Eastward these do soon appear and it denotes a scarcity of rain and that Wolves sand Dogs will ravin but if it be Westward not so soon and there shall be Locusts and such like creatures Also a Comet in Sagittary denotes a decay of Nobility In Sagittary and a suppression of Great and Noble men wise prudent and learned and much evill and tribulation will fall upon them and especially to Scribes or Lawyers moreover captivity of Princes war and such like But if it be seen towards the East sooner will these be effected and it signifieth the death of Kings fightings robberies and a scarcity of Provisions for the life of man if towards the West later and it denotes many fantastical dreams and that women shall have many Abortions Again In Capricorn in Capricorn any Comet signifies fornications amongst men war amongst King and Nobles many calamities and misfortunes quarrels poisoning of Kings the death of Princes cutting by the High-way contempt of Religion men and things and it also shews persecution of or to Religion hail snow and a sharp winter to the great anoyance of the seeds of the Earth also it threatneth Famine Pestilence and the like If it be first seen in the Eastern part of Heaven its Effects will suddenly appear and it denotes that Kings shall be damnified by their enemies and they shall be the occasion of their death and alterations in Government snow also and abundance of rain to the destruction of Vines and other the fruits of the Earth but if in the Western not so soon and it denotes a Year of abundance of grass and water Moreover if in Aquaries In Aquaries it denotes many wars and slaughters and the death of some honorable and eminent Prince or Lady in the Eastern parts say some of the Antients but I should have judged it in the Western parts Aquaries being a Western sign c. war for a long time Epidemical diseases an obscuration of the Ayr with thundring and lightning Pestilence also and the death of both Illustrious men and also the common sort of people If it appear in the Eastern parts their Portences will sooner operate and it denotes abundance of grass if in the Western later and it signifies various rumors and chiefly of war and that many men shall be imprisoned and captivated Lastly In Pisces a Comet in Pisces signifies war amongst kindred and to another and there shall be much slaughter contentions also touching matters of Faith and priviledges and customs in Religion and antient Traditions there shall be also many apparitions in the Ayr fishes shall many of them suffer destruction and it shall be dangerous Navigating Kings shall War one against another the father against the son and the son against the father and brother against brother c. And if it appear in the East part of Heaven the sooner will these be manifested and it signifies enmities between Kings Nobles and Plebeans tumults bickerings c. if in the West part the later and there shall be many anxieties and deaths amongst men in the Western parts I should judge it in the North-west parts and this shall continue three years and and there shall be many birds fishes and inundations and overflowings of Rivers When Comets chiefly manifest their Effects You have heard that they chiefly shew their Effects to those parts to which they emitt their beams or rayes to the which I may adde the Regions where they are seen and the Kingdoms Countreys Provinces and Cities subject to the sign wherein they appear but the time when it shall be chiefly most manifest is when the Sun comes to the place of their first appearance or to that Planet of whose nature and complexion it is c. And thus much of Comets and Blazing-Stars come we now to great Conjunctions and so conclude these our labours CHAP. XI Of great Conjunctions their Number and how to judge of their Effects MOst of the Antients have been short in their judgments on this subject yet some more copious then others but none so effectual as I could wish for thy instruction since by the Conjunction of the Planets all the accidents and mutations of this Elementary World are known especially by the Conjunction of the Superiours how ever such as they are I shall here deliver unto the with my best assistance time and opportunity may happily produce more hereafter in the Interim understand thus much That there are seven sorts of Conjunctions considerable The first and greatest of all the rest is the Conjunction of the two superiour Planets Saturn and Jupiter in the first term or degree of Aries which happens but once in nine hundred and threescore yearr The second is the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the first term or degree of every triplicity and this is accomplished once
keep Books of Accompts Stewards and Secretaries of State Trustees c. souldiers shall be obedient to their Commanders and many thefts and robberies by the High-way shall be committed so that passengers are threatned mischief ☌ ♄ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ and the ☽ in ♋ So likewise Saturn and Jupiter and Mars and the Sun and Venus and Mercury and the Moon in Conjunction in Cancer signifieth detriment in every thing and fear shall fall on men and the King shall perplex men and one man another there shall also be Earth-quakes and detriment both at Sea and Land ☌ ♄ ♃ ♂ and ♀ ☽ in ♌ And when Saturn and Jupiter and Mars and the Moon are joined in Leo Kings shall war and kill one another and there shall happen many great terrors and evils to men ☌ ♄ ♂ and ☿ in ♠☉ Eclipsed and ♂ in ☌ ☌ ♄ and ♀ When Saturn and Mars and Mercury are joined in Virgo it signifieth damage and detriment to women and Kings shall be deceived also if the Sun be eclipsed in Virgo and Mars joined unto him there shall be slaughter between the Nobles and Plebeans and great dissentions Also when Saturn and Venus are joined in this sign it denotes an increase of waters ☌ ♂ and ♃ in ♎ ☌ ♃ ☉ and ☽ in ♎ When Mars and Iupiter are joined in Libra it signifies the evill state of Noble men and their Associates Also when Iupiter and the Sun and the Moon are therein joined there shall happen mortalities to women and just men and there shall be much rain clouds and malignant ayr ☌ ♄ ♂ and ♀ in ♠Again when Saturn and Mars and Venus are joined in Scorpio it signifieth the King shall be wounded or bitten by some Beast or stung by some Adder or obnoxious creature and that Kings shall go out of their own Lands into others one King shall disagree and clash with another and they shall break the league and promise which they have made to each other Also when the Moon is also joined with them it signifies much rain and increase of waters Moreover if Scorpio be the Ascendent of the Revolution of the World and Saturn be there and Mars also joined unto him or have any participation with him in the Ascendent and Venus be then Combust and Iupiter retrograde judge evill in every thing wars and quarrels sackings and spoilings of Cities and Towns Earth-quakes terrours and blood-shed mortalities and many destructive infirmities because Scorpio is the most unfortunate of all the signs judge also that Kings shall disagree and fight one with another and Noble and Great men shall die and there shall happen many anxieties tribulations and trouble in the world ☌ ♃ and ♀ in ♠also if both the Fortunes be joined in this sign there shall many seducers be discovered and such as study to with-draw men from the true Worship of God ☌ ♄ ♃ ☿ and ☽ in ♠Also when Saturn and Iupiter and Mercury and the Moon are joined in Sagittary it signifieth there shall be many waters upon the face of the Earth and that Kings shall exalt themselves also Noblemen Scribes Astrologers and Ingenuous men shall be in great esteem ☌ ☉ ♂ and ☿ in ♑ Again when the Sun and Mars and Mercury are joined in Capricorn it signifieth destruction to Kings causeth hot and dry diseases many Combustions and fiery apparitions in the ayr many windes and a scarcity of all sorts of Vegetables and that there shall be many thefts and robberies ☌ ♂ ♄ and ☽ in ♒ Moreover when Mars and Saturn and the Moon are joined in Aquaries it signifieth a scarcity of water and rain damage to travellers and that there shall be many Snakes and Serpents ☌ ♄ ♃ and ♂ in ♓ ☌ ☉ ♂ and ♄ ♓ Lastly when Saturn and Iupiter and Mars are joined in Pisces it signifieth the death and great damage of Kings Noblemen and Grandees also if the Sun and Mars and Saturn be there joined the King shall be slain there shall be little or no rain and many Fishes shall be taken in the Sea Note that when Dragons Head and Saturn are joined in any Sign The Conjunction of Dragons Head and Saturn in any sign it signifieth evill and damage according to the nature of the Sign as if they be joined in any fiery Sign drought and damage to Beasts if in Aries to Sheep and small Cattel if in Leo to Lyons or feral Beasts and creatures of prey if in Sagittary to Horses especially in the last 15 degrees thereof if in Earthy viz. Taurus to Buls Cows and Oxen in Capricorn to Goats and such like and damage to the Earth and fruits but especially if in Virgo if in watry damage in and by water shipwracks and the death of Fish and creatures living in the water if in Aiery there shall be many tempestuous pernicious winds and storms corruption of the Ayr the death of many Kings and many infirmities c. And thus have I by the blessing of God delivered unto thee the Natural rules and reasons of fertility Note sterility health sickness wars peace alterations and accidents of this life and how to judge of them by the Revolutions of the Years of the World Eclipses of the two great lights and lamps of Heaven the Sun and Moon Comets and Blazing-Stars the fore-runners of great mutations which we have found in all Ages God hath used to send for the reclaiming of his people from their evill wayes before his wrath be poured on them and lastly by the great mean and lesser Conjunctions of the Coelestial Planets who next under the Great Creator Governour and Causer of all causes are the Governours of the World and causes of all things therein in a general and natural way Wherefore to him alone that ordereth and disposeth all things according to his Divine will and that Created the Heavens Earth Coelestial Planets and Stars and that calleth them all by their names and that maketh them differ from each other in glory and that giveth of his free will and pleasure the knowledge of Divine and Natural things to the sons of men he ascribed all possible Praise Glory Power Dominion and Thanksgiving both now and for evermore Amen With this Chapter I thought to have concluded but since we have treated already of the Natural causes of the general accidents of the World and that some of the Antients have judged of all these things by the Falling of New-Years-Day and for that I have for some few years found them experimentally true I shall adde this own Chapter more for my Readers recreation and sport when he is so disposed yet if he diligently observe the Effects he will finde them for the most part come very near truth though many times on the otherside they may deviate therefrom CHAP. XV. Shewing how to judge of the General Accidents of the World by the Falling of New-Years Day YOu are herein to
observe on what day of the week New-Years-Day falleth for if it fall on Sunday Sunday a pleasant Winter ensueth and a natural and kindly Summer and sufficient fruit the Harvest will be indifferent for weather yet some wind and rain it will produce a temperate Spring and it seasonable it denotes also many Marriages plenty of Wine and Honey the death of young Men and Cattel robberies in most places news of Prelates and Kings and cruel wars towards the end of the Year or at lest much dissention and discord amongh men If it fall on a Monday Monday the Winter will be somewhat uncomfortable the Summer temperate No great plenty of fruit many fansies and fables dispersed abroad many Agues the death of Kings Nobles and Great men in most places marriages and a downfal of the Gentry If on Tuesday there followeth a stormy Winter and a wet Summer Tuesday a various harvest and moist Spring Corn and fruit indifferent yet Garden Herbs shall not flourish great sickness amongst men women and young children and a mortality of Cattel many men shall die of the Bloody-Flux and every thing save corn shall be dear On Wodensday a warm Winter in the beginning Wodensday but towards the end snow and frost a cloudy Summer plenty of fruit also of corn wine hay honey and other things damage and hard labour to women with child death to many children plenty of sheep news of Kings and great wars and blood-shed towards the midst On Thursday both Winter and Summer windy a rainy Harvest and a moist Spring Thursday many Innundations towards the latter end of the Year much fruit and plenty of the fruits of the Earth and honey but flesh shall be dear a death of Cattel in general great trouble wars and commotions and women shall be loose and licentious On Fryday a stormy Winter and no pleasant Summer a moderate Spring Friday save only it will be windy and an indifferent Harvest and small store of fruit wine and honey corn dear many blear Eyes Youth shall dye many of them Earth quakes in many places much Thunder and Lightning also Tempest and the sudden death of Cattel Lastly on Saturday a mean Winter a very hot Summer a late harvest Saturday and a dry windy Spring Garden Herbs shall be cheap much burning plenty of honey flax and hemp the death of antient people in most places many Feavers but chiefly Tertians great rumours of wars and sudden murthers in many places for or upon little or no occasion c. Thus much from the falling of New-Years-day the which although the Illiterate and Vulgar may make use of for the frequent verity thereof yet would I not have them depend thereon for I cannot I must confess finde any sure ground why the Antients should thus conclude wherefore here I desist with this Conclusion To God alone be the Praise FINIS The Post-Script To the Iudicious and Impartial Reader UPon the closure of these my Labours and when so much of the Epistles was printed that I could not conveniently bring in this which I am here to deliver unto thee appears an invective flashy weak ridiculous inconsiderate cholerick raving and rayling Pamphlet against one which it seems he is displeased with for not concluding with him on the Annotations which he published on Jer. 10.2 The which as indeed ridiculous so should I have smilingly passed it over in silence and not rendered my self thus worthy of laughter in recording his folly but that he was so absurd and childish as to bring me upon the Stage whom he knoweth not and who is altogether a stranger unto him save for what the Mendax Rufus Rolandus or his Brother Orlando furioso hath maliciously and contrary to his own knowledge delivered unto him Vpon the first sight thereof I perceived it to be a scurrulous Pamphlet no more worthy the heeding then Politicus Phreneticus or Walkers dissembling and lying Occurences as it was composed of such like paper and variety of letter being I beleive by the Printer published gratis and therefore by him not thought worthy of better paper letter or work being such mean stuffe so doth it contain the like phrensies invectives and whimsical inventions and evasions I shall not spend time or paper to mention any part thereof save only where he is pleased now and then thinking he hath sufficient ground from the malicious aspersions of the unworthy before mentioned for his imprudent and impudent taunts and language to vent his washipness and froward crasiness against me his reason I know not unless it were for answering a Dr. Homes who was when he commenced Doctor a strong man for the Bishops then he became a Presbyterian and now a most detestable Independent turn-coat of his own Livery who had vainly and ignorantly attempted to beat down that which he is altogether ignorant of or for that none could ever yet give me a Reply though it hath been attempted with all the vigour and rigour that might be but to no purpose as appears by the first Book of this Volume In his 92 page he boldly tels his Reader Sir Christopher Heydons large discourse and Wil. Rameseys reply to Dr. Homes it sufficiently confuted But he doth not in the least tell us how nor make it plain it is enough for this old man to sit at home and hear people talk or read the title of Books but search no further either for want of time or judgement for if that patch up pretended Reply to my Book were ever perused by him he cannot be ignorant that there is not any one Argument of Sir Christopher Heydons so much as mentioned much less discussed or confuted and as touching mine which this old Tom if I might answer him in his own language and shew him his plain stiling of me without being guilty of the same absurdity with him or if I might vindicate my self from his aspersions by casting the same dirt in his face that he hath boldly done in mine learnedly tearmeth a Reply as his learned Confutor did before him but sober men know it is preposterous to call that a Reply which is an Answer but it will quickly appear as I have said to the Judicious by the first Book of this Volumne that the main and chief arguments therein remain at yet both by him and others unshaken nay by Mr. Gataker himself they are unrefelled though much carped at as is plain by his subsequent words where he affirmeth the alligation of both Sir Christopher and my self that Astrology was revealed by God to Adam Seth Enoch and there posterity to be frivolous and groundless as also at the lower end of his 4 page and at the beginning of his 168 page he doth not only hint at the same but passeth it over with a peremptory attestation of the contrary without either argument proof rime or reason against it me things he should not so frequently have taken me up unless he could
unto Him of all our Natural injoyments and casualties viz. Fertility Sterility Wars Peace Health Sickness Alterations of the Ayr Inundations Earthquakes Thunders Lightnings Storms Tempests Commotions Troubles Alteration of States Kingdoms Laws Customs and of all things in a Natural way incident to and in this Elementary World for there is nothing more certain then that the Portencies of the Stars so far as conduceth to the government of the Natural and Elementary World and the things therein composed of the same matter and stuff shall prove true and effectual unless God do work a Miracle and pervert the Order and Government of the World c. I do not deny the omnipotent power of God that he is able to alter the course of Nature he that made them with and by the word of his mouth can questionless by the same word not only alter their motions and pervert their effects but also annihilate them again but as this is not by me denyed so cannot the Objectors against this Science but confess that God is the God of Order and worketh in order and not preposterously for because he can alter the course and influence of the Stars argueth not at all that therefore he will for why should this be any Argument to us since we read but of three times he hath wrought in this manner since the Creation of the World viz. first in Joshuahs time when he made the Sun stand still the second in Hezekiahs time when he made the Sun go back and the third and last time at the passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ when he miraculously Eclipsed the Sun at the time of the Full Moon which caused Dionysius the Areopagite thus to burst forth Aut Deus Naturae patitur aut Mundi machina dissolvitur Either the World is at an end or the God of Nature suffereth Wherefore it is clear God worketh not or createth new things he finished his Work in the first six days he therefore now upholdeth all things by his Providence and bringeth them to pass by secondary causes according unto his inevitable Decrees and Divine Will for it were great impiety in us and detraction from the Al-sufficient Wisdom and Power of the Almighty to affirm he hath not preordained all things to come to pass from the first Creation even to the Subversion and that they are signified unto us in the Heavens have recourse to Gerson his Trilogium Astrologiae Theologizatae for we read that before the destruction of Jerusalem there appeared a Comet in the Heavens in form of a Sword for many days Horsmen also fighting in the Ayr Josephus Bel. Jud. Lib. 7. Cap. 12. Eusebius Eccles Hist. Lib. 3. Cap. 8. presaging the overthrow thereof which was after accomplished by Titus Vespasian also before the death of Claudius Caesar there appeared a Comet for a long time and before the Civil broils in Rome Octavius being Consul and again before the War between Great Pompey and Julius Caesar as Plinie testifieth Lib. 2. Cap. 25. De Nat. And if we come neerer home we shall finde the Comet in 1618. to be the forerunner of all our late Civil Un-civil Wars in England Scotland and Ireland as well as of the Commotions and Desolations in Germany c. But this will be very clear unto us even from The word of GOD That Theologie and Astrologie agree together if we but with diligence and observation read the Histories of the Old Testament of the Subversion of Kingdoms and Nations but especially that of the Jews by the Babylonians the which People upon condition they would follow the Law of the Lord were promised to be established for ever shall any one from this Promise aver that their Kingdom was not preordained to destruction in its due time and the limitation thereof long before set down but that immediatly because they disobeyed they were destroyed and carried away captive or rather that that Age wherein they were so captivated should in the fulness of that time be so inclined to wickedness as to bring that affliction so long before threatned upon them So then these two THEOLOGY and ASTROLOGY must agree together or we shall never be able to agree in Truth but run our selves into many Errours and Absurdities In that Book also you may see how far we may safely attribute to the power of the Stars and that their effects may be altered yet but by one means viz. Prayer for if GOD give an heart to pray as it ought no question he also therewith grants the Petition requested in those Prayers Lastly my main scope and chief drift in this my fourth fourfold Work is since I have so often stood up for the maintenance of this Science to endeavour to manifest unto the World the purity thereof The Authors chief drift in these his Labors having cleansed it from its pollutions and abuses that so it may appear what TRUE ASTROLOGY is and what I maintain to be so and the abuse be not only discovered but taken away that once more it might shine gloriously and be able to stand against all Gain-sayers whatsoever For notwithstanding I had delivered my self so plainly in my former Works especially in my Vox Stellarum yet did the purity of this Science remain under the censure being by many deemed no other then jugling by others to extend no further then to the resolution of Horary Questions and the Judging of Nativities and the Fates and Fortunes of men thereby or at least that this was the main and chief subject thereof when the truth is the practise of some men in these ridiculous vanities together with some other abuses of this MOST NOBLE SCIENCE OF ASTROLOGIE have brought the purity thereof into question by the unworthy and the Science it self generally into reproach with the illiterate The Authors opinion touching Nativities and Horary Questions For I dare positively affirm and shall be ready to prove it to any Rational man That the Resolution of Horary Questions is wholly vain and uncertain as also Nativities on which they depend or at least should excepting how to Judge of the particular Constitution and Temperature of the Body and the Natural inclination of Man as I shall specifie in the 20. Chapter of the first Book of this Quadripartite fol. 38. But it may be some may here demand the Reason then I do in my Lux Veritatis undertake the Resolution of some Questions But I shall answer in that vulgar and rustical Proverb It is a good Horse that never stumbles and truly this is Language fit enough for such Horse stuff as are they I am but flesh and blood Ergo as all in my condition have failings I desire not so much as to hide my fault when I finde it either of my self or by the loving advise of others much less then do I desire to continue in an obstinate way of simplicity I must confess there are many Faults in that Tract yet not so many neither as some would perswade
they remain as yet by them unshaken and that they have no other refuge but barely to face it down with a bold and impudent forehead especially being in the former so shamefully bafled Wherefore now it resteth I snew you the full power and subject of Astrology and how far I maintain or allow of the Art and here desist referring you for further satisfaction to that discourse of mine which is able to justifie these my words since for all that the Replyers thereunto can say the Art remains still unshaken and it unanswered wherefore they had but small reason to title that weak piece Judicial Astrology Judicially condemned when alas there is hardly a judicious sentence to be found between the beginning and end thereof unless borrowed of some other Author neither are they or it able to shew their faces before the judicious and impartial Judges of the matter without suffering condign condemnation themselves CHAP. XX. Containing the power and subject of Astrology and how far the Author vindicateth it YOu are now to receive The power and subject of Astrology which by all what you have heard How the Author sets down the power and subject of Astrology dealeth with such things as are performed by Art and Nature with the will of man indirectly and accidentally and his inclinations temperature and dispositions as also with his affections and body and with natural and secondary causes and general accidents and contingencies But not with rare contingencies or such as have an indifferent respect to the opposites as depending upon unknown and indeterminate causes which may happen one way or other neither with mans will doth Astrology meddle but accidentally so far as the Soul with the faculties thereof follows the temperature of the body neither with the Providence of God or shew a cause of miracles or with the secrets of God for they are saith the Scripture past finding out Ergo Astrologers that are men that contemplate but natural causes are falsly and most scandalously abused when thus impeached neither hath the influence of the stars any fatality as inevitable except some contigency be mixed therewith for this were to deny the Providence of God How far the Author maintaineth or justifieth Astrology Now as touching the parts of Astrology I shall here according to Ptolomy in the beginning of his second Book of his Quadripartite chap. 1. divide into two the first and chief part being general as having relation to Countries Kingdoms Provinces and Cities alterations of Kingdoms Laws Customs death plenty wars peace health sickness and mutations in the Air c. The second particular viz. To mens Nativities as to know the particular constitution temperature and natural inclination of any man or woman but not other accidents as whether a man shall live long the time when he shall die and what manner of death whether he shall be rich and how attain it c. which are as also Horary questions depending thereon not certain The first is judged by the position of the Heavens and the Planets and their Natures and significations at the time of any Revolution of the yeers of the world the appearance of Eclipses Comets Blazing-stars or great Conjunctions The latter at the time of the parties birth and so far and no farther do I any wise allow of the Art for what is called Astrology more then this is not ASTROLOGY but the meer abuse of the Art I meand Charactery-Astrology and other superstitions of the Arabians and Chaldeans also horary questions and elections if not depending or grounded on the Radix of the parties Nativitie or rather on that part which teacheth of the general accidents of the world are neither countenanced or vidicated by me in the least for I have studied and know sufficiently the experience thereof neither do I wholly relie on the setting of any mans Nativity though it hath been approved of by some of the learned The Authors opinion touchiug Nativities fer since the stars have no power on such as are ruled either by Reason or Grace as you have heard where I say Astra agunt not cogunt are sapiens dominabitur astris to what end then is it for a man to busie his head about such uncertainties when except the native be a man meerly natural no Prediction shall fall out true as to accidents and disposition sure is worse then madness then to spend time on this part of the Art Touching Horary questions and Elections Wherefore it must needs follow then that the resolutions of questions and elections thereon depending are more uncertain yet I must confess the Astrologer may undertake in some sense to answer the demands of the Querent by his Art without regard to the Radix or ought else since he may be confidently assured that such inquirers are nowise either rational or religious and so consequently are easily carried on to the temptations and delusions of the devil or according to the natural inclination and influence of the Heavens Yet know that Elections touching the administration of Physicke Phlebotomy using of Husbandry and Navigation I do allow of as also all other elections if they depend on this matter but what is more then this doth in my opinion subject mans will to the power of the stars and all his voluntary actions which to affirm were most ridiculous Needs must he be most impious and ignorant that traduceth Astrology And thus far is the glory of God made cleerly manifest in his creatures and to deny this which is indeed the pure Art of Astrology is to deny the most heavenly and chiefest study next to Divinity under the Sun and also that which of all studies else most conduceth to the praise and glory of the omnipotent and omniscient creator for which they and all things else were first created and then consequently must the treducers thereof be most impious and ignorant Reader I shall here for conclusion say no more then this that thou first seek thy Creator and serve him before thou apply thy minde unto this subsequent or any other study for that so thou shalt be made the more excellent and perfect therein yet particularly as for this heavenly contemplation let me tell thee wert thou an Heathen before thou wert seen therein yet wilt thou cleerly be made thereby when thou art acquainted therewith to see thy Creator and his unspeakable wisdom therein * Ergo far from making men Athiests as some have affirmed except they believe a fatality which in this study is to be wholly denyed and by me ever was wherefore in all thy study give him the whole praise and glory who hath disposed and ordered all things according to his divine will and inevitable decree and that thou mayest be the better inabled thereunto thou shalt never want my prayers nor service Die ♄ 31. Januarii 1651. FINIS AN INTRODVCTION TO THE Iudgement of the Stars WHEREIN The whole ART of ASTROLOGY Is plainly Taught and
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
Also if he be Oriental wars and discords amongst noble great and rich men or such as are the Grandees of the earth Occidental But if he be Occidental many fears and troubles shall fall upon men as also discords and contentions Retrograde Again if he be retrograde men shall be perplexed with many infirmities in many parts of their body but especially in their eyes Direct But if direct and combust or otherways impedited men shall be hypocritical cloathed in sheeps cloathing but shall inwardly be ravening woolves Mars Lord of the year in Taurus Also if Mars be Lord of the year in any Revolution and in Taurus he denotes many great Southern winds and blasts very hurtful and destructive to the fruits of the earth by reason sudden heats will follow thereupon there shall also be many showers of rain and much thunder and lightning death to greater cattel and women or at least many tribulations and crosses unto them also the year shall not be fruitful nor healthful the fruits shall be blasted and rotten and the seeds of the earth destroyed If he have north latitude South latitude And if he have North latitude he signifies much rain and somewhat the more good unto the herbs and fruits of the earth But if South latitude he denotes many gusts of wind and blasts as you have heard and destruction to the fruits of the earth Oriental Occidental Direct If he be Oriental there shall be peace in the Southern and Western parts And if Occidental he denotes much death and many infirmities especially to women and that they shall be hated if he be direct and otherways impedited Retrograde But if he be Retrograde many children and young people shall dye during the time of that Revolution Mars Lord of the year in Gemini But if Mars be Lord of the year and in Gemini many casualties and damage shall befal men through thunder and lightning and little rain or through the want thereof also by excess of heat there shall also be debates and contentions thefts and robberies in the Northern and Western parts the King or chief Rulers shall be exalted and overcome their enemies there shall be many griefs of the ears as inflammations and pustules which shall be very offensive and troublesome to men If he have north south latitude Oriental Occidental And if he have North latitude he signifies much rain but if his latitude be South there shall be a drought of fountains and a scarcety of water If Oriental he causeth many infirmities pustules scabs and breakings out in the skin and if Occidental he denotes much trouble and auxiety to Lawyers Scribes Merchants and Judges and that some of them shall run away by reason of their injustice extortion and cheating tricks Direct Retrograde Again if he be Direct men shall be blabs of their tongues and divuldge both their own and others secrets committed to their charge and when he is Retrograde religious men or such as take such kinde of functions on them shall clash disagree and contend upon some nice points Mars Lord of the year in Cancer Again if Mars in any annual Revolution of the world be Lord of the year in Cancer he shall signifie frequent shipwracks by reason of sudden blasts of wind also dissentions and quarrels in the Western and Northwest parts and that men shall suffer much damage under taxations many infirmities also are threatned feavers pains and infirmities in the throat and breast the ayr shall be grievous and contagious and a want of rain also the year shall be turbulent and dangerous many cattel especially horses shall dye the fruits of the earth generally shall be wanting and there shall be a palpable scarcety thereof Septentrional Meridional And if his latitude be Septentrional there shall be grievous sharp cold weather in winter and a drought of fountains also if he have Meridional latitude many noisom gusts of wind very destructive to trees and fruits Oriental Occidental If he be Oriental there shall be a death or mortality amonst such creatures as are kept upon Commons and in the open fields when Occidental the common people shall be very careful and industrious in their ordinary imployments and negotiations Direct And if it be Direct the ayr shall be healthy and pleasant but if he be Retrograde men shall be lascivious and study how they may opportunely commit Adulteries and Fornications Mars Lord of the year in Leo. If he have north latitude If south Oriental Retrograde Yet again if Mars be Lord of the year and in Leo he signifies wars contentions and discords and a scarcity of provisions and the fruits of the earth in the Eastern parts especially also death amongst men and that chiefly to those of younger years and if he have Septentrional latitude there shall be a scarcity of waters but if he be Meridional there shall be no want thereof if Oriental damage to such beasts as are useful to mankinde especially the greater sort Occidental fish and such creatures as inhabit the water shall be destroyed and dye If he be Retrograde loss and detriment shall be to the great and rich men of the earth and if he be Direct many great Western winds Direct and ships shall be safe and secure at Sea Mars Lord of the year in Virgo If Septentrional Meridional Oriental Occidental Direct Retrograde Mars Lord of the year in Libra Moreover if Mars be in Virgo and Lord of the year he denotes war and effusion of blood in the Northern parts also pains and griefs in the eyes plenty of provision and fruits of the earth death to many women c. And if he be Septentrional damage to fruits and seeds also infirmities to mans body if Meridional success to the fruits c. if Oriental the death of old men if Occidental he denotes great and tempestuous winds if Direct he denotes the good and prosperity of rich and great men if Retrograde wars shall happen amonst men When Mars is Lord of the year and in Libra he signifies vehement and great winds infirmities and mortalities and more especially to men then women also winds rain and clouds also mists and those chiefly Southward and infirmities and mortalities a scarcity of the fruits of the earth corn and wine many sackings and robberies quarrels dissentions and discords amonst men terrors fears and tribulations Septentrional â—eridional Oriental And if he have Septentrional latitude there shall be many thunderings and lightnings if Meridional many infirmities amonst men especially on the left side and if he be Oriental he signifies wars and dissentions amonst rich and noble men if Occidental Occidental Retrograde Direct rich noble and great men shall be safe and secure if Retrograde sickness shall be incident to noble great rich men and Judges if Direct it will not be so bad with them Mars Lord of the year in
Scorpio Again when Mars is Lord of the year and accidentally located in Scorpio he signifies much misty and cloudy weather also much cold in winter and very excessive heat and intemperate ayr in Summer for which cause the fruits of the earth shall be much damnified as also the herbs and seeds shall be much hurt men shall be molested with pains and griefs in the eyes thefts and robberies quarrels and debates as also deceits and frauds and a scarcity of fruits and provisions Also if he be Septentrional Septentrional Meridional Oriental Occidental Retrograde Direct there shall be a scarcity of water if Meridional abundance of water if Oriental many infirmities shall be incident to man especially in the lower and secret parts if other testimonies concur if Occidental small Piety among men if Retrograde he denotes many tribulations fears and troubles if Direct things will be so much the better Mars Lord of the year in Sagittary Also Mars in Sagittary if he be Lord of the year he signifies wars shall happen in the Eastern parts also damage and mischief unto the inhabitants of those parts and the Regions subject to the sign Sagittary death infirmities coughs and infirmities in the eyes as also in the loyns and back little or no rain and extream cold weather in winter as also the spring so that the fruits of trees shall be blasted and nipt also plants herbs and seeds shall be very much damnified and the year generally shall be scarce and indigent of provisions also honey shall not be plentiful for by reason of the scarcity of herbs Bees shall many of them be destroyed and if therein he be well aspected and free from the Malevolent Aspects of the Infortunes all such as bear arms or have any relation thereunto of what degree soever shall be in good condition fortunate and successful Some of the Ancients with Albumazar say that if Mars be in the last fifteen degrees of Sagittary If strong and Lord of the year in any Revolution or in any humane Sign he denotes wars tumults and insurrections of the people against their King and Superiors sudden death feavers both Tertian Quartan and Pestilential and many other infirmities robbings sackings and polings bloodshed fire and sword and lightnings and if he be Infortunately aspected by the Malevolents and otherways also debilitated If weak he signifies all these things you have now heard but more mischievously unless the Benevolent Aspects of Jupiter prevent and contradict his fury Septentrional Meridional Oriental If his latitude be Septentrional he signifies the ayr shall be good pleasant and temperate if Meridional Merchants and Trades-men shall be on the thriving and gaining hand if he be Oriental he denotes peace quietness and security and no war Occidental the safety of trees and much fruit and if Retrograde he denotes coughs Occidental Retrograde Direct and pains in the hinder part of the head and neck also in the thighs if Direct a death or mortality amongst cattel Mars Lord of the year in Capricorn Again if Mars be Lord of the year in any Revolution and located in Capricorn he denotes wars tribulation and slaughter to yong men perplexities and fears to the Eastern parts also rain in due season and that moderate plenty of all provisions and a fruitful and plentiful year North latit Meridional Oriental And if he have North latitude he signifies much snow in those parts where it is usual and requisite if he have Meridional latitude he denotes a close hot ayr if Oriental let the Roman Emperor have a care of a stob and so much the more assured will this be if the Moon be in the eighth house or joyned by body or aspect to the Lord thereof or joyned to Mars in any of the Angles or indeed any other house especially in the eighth or be beheld by the Square or Opposition of the Lord of the eighth and the more assuredly will this be and thou mayest be confident thereof if there be mutual reception also betwixt them or either of them and the Lord of the eighth for if then Jupiter prevent not by his Benevolent beams and cast his aspect unto Mars or the Moon he will not escape with life that Revolution unless God miraculously shew his infinite mercy towards him if he be Occidental botches boyls Occidental Direct Retrograde and such like shall molest the bodies of men if Direct abundance of plenty is promised during that Revolution if Retrograde want scarcity and penury Mars Lord of the year in Aquaries Moreover if Mars be in Aquaries and Lord of the year tribulation and trouble is threatned to men during that Revolution abundance of rain snow and cold weather in winter and such times as it is usual a probability of degrading and unthrowning Kings and great Hogens of the times in those places for which the Revolution of the year is a scarcity and want of provisions and fruits of the earth especially in the Western parts but if he be beheld then by Venus or the Lord of the Ascendent and she be then also Septentrional the spring shall be good and seasonable and if he be Septentrional Septentrional much snow and cold hard weather in winter if Meridional much hot weather but a thick obscure muddy ayr if he be Oriental it shall be well with great noble and rich men and they shall be jovial Meridional Oriental Occidental Retrograde and merry if Occidental it will not be so good but if he be Retrograde he denotes very hot weather and detriment to trees and their fruits by reason thereof if Direct there shall be many Catterpillars and such like creatures Direct that shall destroy trees especially if then the Dragons head be also in this Sign or in Gemini Mars Lord of the year in Pisces Lastly if Mars be Lord of the year and in Pisces he signifies much snow and rain also destruction to fish and such creatures as live in the water for men shall catch many during that Revolution the slaying and massacring of Kings and Great men scarcity of provisions and the fruits of the earth and generally it shall be a turbulent and hard year both for man and beast and if Venus behold the Ascendent there shall be much thunder and lightning also much death and mortality amongst men and grief and pains in their eyes Septentrional Meridional and if Mars be Septentrional the ayr shall be good pleasant and healthy and if he be Meridional there shall be many Caterpillars and Locusts in such places as shall be natural for them and such like noysom creatures but they shall not do much hurt if he be Oriental Oriental he signifies the slaughter of rich and great men if Occidental Occidental Direct many infirmities shall fall on servants and the inferior sort of people and if he be Direct they shall be safe and in health also sheep and small
in the Eastern parts and abundance of provision and the earth shall be fruitfull and the year generally successfull but if she be impedited it will be nothing so well Venus Lady of the year in Aquaries Again if Venus be in Aquaries in any Annual Revolution and free from impediment men shall be in a happy and prosperous condition during that Revolution and there shall be no abundance of rain nor snow neither much cold in Winter the year shall be successfull and plentifull and people in a happy condition and prosperous if Mars work not the contrary Venus Lady of â—â—e year in Pisces Lastly if Venus be in Pisces free from the Malevolent aspects of the Infortunes and Lady of the year there shall not be much cold weather in Winter nor much snow nor rain but what shall be necessary and convenient and that too in due Season the Earth shall be fruitfull the year plentifull and the Sea quiet and safe from Shipwracks and Pirates but if she be afflicted Retrograde or Combust and beholding the Ascendent she denotes Thunders and Lightnings also death amongst men and pains in the eyes and generally unless Mars hinder they shall abound in all things that are produced by the Earth CHAP. XX. Of the Significations of Mercury when he is Lord of the Year in any of the Twelve Signs IN the next place we are to look what are the significations of Mercury who is the second of the inferiour Planets and the next under Venus who if he be Lord of the year and posited in Aries Mercury Lord of the year in Aries there shall be abundance of water and rain and a scarcity of provisions in the Western parts he signifies also great winds much dew and many thin clouds also death to young men and women Now because he is of that quality that he participateth still of the nature of that Planet in Configuration with him it is requisite we have respect thereunto for with the Fortunes he is good with the Infortunes bad in his own nature indifferent and he is with the Masculine Planets a Masculine Planet and of that signification with the Feminine a Feminine Wherefore if Mercury be joyned to the Moon either by body or aspect it denotes plenty of Fish if to the Sun plenty of Wine and the safety and prosperity of women and so much the rather if Mars and Venus be then in Conjunction or Aspect with the Sun and if Saturn be in the place of Mercury he signifies very much rain and abundance of Waters but if Mars be only then with the Sun he denotes pains in the eyes and much war and blood-shed Mercury Lord of the year in Taurus If Mercury be Lord of the year and located in Taurus he signifies many showers and plenty of waters and a destruction of Corn and the fruits of the earth through diversity and change of ayr pains and infirmities in the eyes in the Eastern parts and the death of Great and Noble men unless Jupiter or Venus work the contrary by their benovolent aspects to him or to the Ascendent but if Mars behold the Ascendent he signifies the death of Cows and the greater sort of Cattel especially in the Southern parts Mercury Lord of the year in Gemini Also if he be in Gemini and be Lord of the year in any Revolution of the World he denotes Wars in those parts subject to the sign much snow and dammage to the fruits of the earth and plenty of wine This is one of the mad Rules of the Ancients I would fain know why not a plentifull year for every thing else as well as wine if he be strong for this is his own house and if he be weak how comes he to be so successfull to Vines and nothing else they say also he signifies pestilencies and death inflammations swellings and eruptions he denotes also much dew and moist ayr I believe it should be a wholsom good ayr and health and prosperity to the People in general the Antients say if Jupiter or the Sun behold the Ascendent of the Revolution Pestilence and Sickness will be lessened and that there will be a diminution of these evils and men in the Eastern parts shall be stronger and in a better and happier condition then before it is clear to me all this will happen without their assistance so Mercury be but free from impedition and the malevolent aspects of the Infortunes when he is located in this sign Reader thou mayst follow the Ancients in every thing they say if thou wilt and be a Drone for ever for my part I am absolutely resolved to the contrary especially in these and such like whimsies of theirs Mercury Lord of the year in Cancer If Mercury be Lord of the year in Cancer he signifies slaughter and bloodshed in the Western parts I believe it should be in the Northwest parts a little time and experience will soon decide the controversie scarcity of provisions and the fruits of the earth mischief and detriment to Trees and Seeds many infirmities through Rheums Defluxions and Swellings and those chiefly in the neck throat and brest such as are Squincies Kings-evil Obstructions and stuffings in the pectorals through thick gross tough Flegme unnatural Swellings or Hydropical Humours in the legs If he be joyned by either body or aspect to Mars and Venus both together he denotes the murthering and slaughtering of great and Noble men or perhaps of such as are rampant in authority in any Nation for which your Revolution is made but if Venus and the Moon be so joyned to him judge the contrary Mercury Lord of the year in Leo. Also if he be in Leo and be Lord of the year he denotes excessive and vehement hot weather in Summer also hot and warm winds also if he be beyond the tenth house viz. towards the seventh he signifies impediment and dammage to those parts or to that Quarter of Heaven viz. Southwest Southwest and by South and Southwest and by West and a diminution or a scarcity of Provisions and Fruits but not an absolute Famine If he be in any Configuration of the Fortunes the evil will be lessened by so much as the adjuvant Planet is in strength and the aspect in goodness but if beheld by the Infortunes by so much the more is the mischief increased by how much the worse is the aspect and power of the malevolent Planet he also signifies the death of Lions Wolves and such beasts as are ravenous Mercury Lord of the year in Virgo Again if he be in Virgo and Lord of the year there shall be much rain and plenty of Corn and the fruits of the earth too I may add and there shall be many Infirmities of the eyes and death in the Southern parts I should truly rather conclude this sign being the house wherein he is both exalted and essentially dignified by house contrary to the precepts of my
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
Face of Gemini threatneth incursions and rapins of enemies In the second the frequent motion of Armies and the solicitations of private and publique things In the third the death of some illustrious and famous man Again an Eclipse of the Moon in the first Face of Cancer excites and stirs up Wars In the second grievous exactions intolerable Tributes Taxations and such like burthens In the third death to the Female sex and sudden destruction and miseries Also an Eclipse of the Moon in the first Face of Leo denotes the death of either some Illustrious King or famous Man In the second the journey of the King and mutation of things In the third she excites the People and Armies to new actions and attempts An Eclipse of the Moon in the first Face of Virgo causeth diseases and Infirmities to the King and various seditions and discords amongst men In the second causeth mischief to Councellors Scribes or such like men In the third brings deadly diseases A Lunary Eclipse in the first Face of Libra provoketh furious and tempestuous hail storms In the second mischief and trouble to every one In the third death to some famous and illustrious men If an Eclipse of the Moon be in the first Face of Scorpio it causeth horrible Thunder and Lightning and sometimes Earth-quakes In the second dryeth Olives and causeth a dry ayr and Burning Feavers In the third the same is threatned and death many seditions quarrels and troubles over and above Also an Eclipse of the Moon in the first Face of Sagittary sendeth thefts and rapines In the second destruction to Horses and Mules In the third the Pestilence and many evils Again the Moon eclipsed in the first face of Capricorn shews suggestions amongst men and untimely death or mischief to some illustrious and Noble man In the second frequent incursions and assaults of souldiers thefts roberies and Captivities In the third the death of some King under the Dominion of Capricorn also sedition Moreover the Moon eclipsed in the first face of Aquaries denotes the misfortune of some King under Aquaries In the second universally hurteth the seed of the Earth In the third a change in all things Lastly the Moon eclipsed in the first face of Pisces bringeth sadness and anxiety to those we call Priests and Religious Houses In the second the death of some great and Illustrious Person In the third thefts rapines robberies by Land and piracies and troubles by Sea And thus much shall suffice to be said of Eclipses at this time hereafter God sparing me life and leisure from my other studies perhaps I may make some addition thereunto if I finde the present age worthy thereof Let us now proceed CHAP. VI. Of Comets and Blazing-Stars what they are the many sorts thereof their Portences and how long they appear at any time What a Comet is ELsewhere you may remember you have been shewn what a Comet is viz. in the 16. Chpater of the 3. Section of this Book it being no other then a dry exhalation viscuous and slimy exhaled by the Sun and power of the Stars by degrees into the upper Region of the Ayr for by how much the dryer or moister are the vapours whereof they are compounded the higher or lower are they placed and drawn up The name thereof This word Comet we borrow from the Greeks who call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cometes quasi comata stella an hairy Star as the word signifies in English whence the Latines call it Crinita because many times they appear like hair made of fire or fire in the manner and form of a mans head or an horses main and we in England do vulgarly call them Comets or Blazing-Stars of which there are divers sorts as mentioneth Pliny Lib. 2. cap. 25. de Nat. and others Divers sorts of Comets or Blâ—zing stars The first by the Greeks called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à barba resembling a beard because it hath a circle about it of that form or shape I mean about the nether part thereof The second they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est a jaculo because it is shapen in form of a dart or spear The third 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the same as is the former save only they are shorter and sharper-pointed at the top then the other and pale like a sword and without raies The fourth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 discus id est a dish or platter this Comet is so called for that it is round resembling a dish yet now and then it putteth forth one of the brims thereof The fifth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pitheus and this is in form like a Tun invironed in a smoaky light The sixth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ceratias thus called for that it resembleth an horn and such an one Pliny testifieth appeared when the whole manhood of Greece fought the battel of Salamis The seventh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lampas à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 splendeo to shine like a lamp and therefore hath it this name The eighth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hippeus this emitteth streams like unto an Horse main and therefore it is thus called this is swift in motion and often turneth round as saith Pliny A ninth he recordeth to be white and bright like silver hair and of that splendor that a man is hardly able to behold it and others become shaggy and compassed as it were with hair or frindge round about Where or in what part of Heaven usually seen They are in a manner all seen under the Great Bear or that constellation which we vulgarly call Charlimains Wain or Charles his Wain yet some have been discerned to appear in that white part of the Heaven called commonly the Milky way from the fictions of the Poet they denote many boisterous winds and excessive heat seldome are any seen in the West part of Heaven but about the South or Antartick Pole some have been seen as Pliny in the same aforesaid Chapter testifieth to whom I here refer thee where thou shalt finde what Prodigies they were the fore-runners of in the time of Claudâ—us Caesar Pompey and Octavius the Consul Their continuance in the Heavens It hath been observed and noted by the diligent care industry and pains of the Antients that they never appear a shorter time then a seven-night nor longer then 80 dayes some have said 40 others 75 from Plutarch who noted so much from the Comet which appeared before the Peloponsian wars in Greece but their continuance is according to their magnitude for if they be but small they will be soon burnt out unless they be daily fed with new exhalations I shall not here trouble my self to recite what Seneca Aristotle and others write in Histories concerning such horrid accidents which have followed in many places on the appearance of Comets since all the learned in the works of Nature do unanimously conclude they are the fore-runners of much
The signification of the Sun his Coments Comets and Blazing-Stars of the nature and complexion of the Sun denote the death of Kings Great men and Nobles in those parts they appear and in that Kingdom or Nation under the Ascendent of that sign where in they appear and for which the Revolution is made when they are seen in the Ascendent thereof also alterations in Government to the better continall and dayly tumults also war drought and such infirmities and are solar and those chiefly to solar men and to such places as are under his Dominion Comets of the nature of Venus and their portences Such as are appropriated unto Venus shew their Effects on Fruits and in Waters and cause change and mutations in the World alterations of the Laws Customs and Priviledges of Men damage and detriment to Women Nuns and Matrons chiefly in their Stomach Secrets and Reins c. All infirmities signified by Venus are threatned to those especially that are under her rule and also to those places subject unto her What is signified by Mercurial Comets Mercurial Comets occasion the death of some Great man still remember this is where they have Dominion grievous calamities War Pestilence and Famine Destruction Tribulation Anxiety trouble and sadness to Mercurialists and Ingenuous and wise men and such as are ruled by Mercury and grievous trouble and sorrow to such places as are subject unto him and the sign wherein the Comet appears and places to which it extends it self and where it is visible it sends Mercuriall diseases What by Lunar Lunar Comets chiefly manifest their significations on women and common people as also to all such as are under her rule whether Towns Cities Kingdoms or Nations they particularly denote troubles alteration of the Laws Customs and Rites Sterility and Wars all infirmities signified by the Moon and those chiefly to such as are by her governed c. Note also that if a Comet extends its self towards Saturn viz. its raies or tail it portends the destruction of the fruits of the Earth and a scarcity or Famine towards Jupiter wrath and destruction to Kings and the Grandees of the Earth towards Mars grievous and terrible sicknesses wars slaughters and blood-shed and the alteration of Kingdoms towards the Sun the death and destructions of Kings and Government towards Venus the death of Great and Noble women and damage to such things as appertain unto them towards Mercury much consumption of wealth with shame and infamy towards the Moon troubles and shame to the People in general CHAP. X. Shewing the Significations of Comets when they appear in any of the twelve Signs of Heaven Of the signification of Comets when they appeat in Aries ALbumaser and Junctinus with many others say that if any of the aforesaid Comets or Blazing-Stars appear in Aries it signifies evill and detriment to Noble men and the Grandees of the Earth in the Eastern parts and abundance of sadness to the commoner sort and truly I conceive all Nations Kingdoms and People Cities Towns Villages and Families under the sign Aries will suffer the same also a noise of the clashing of Arms blood-shed and the death of some eminent Prince or slaughter of some great Lady you must remember to confine your judgment herein to the places wherein the Blazing-Star or Comet hath power so also in the subsequent rules in the like case with fear and trouble of slaughter amongst men also great drought common diseases in the Head Eyes and Brain a rot amongst small Cattel especially Sheep and a dejection of Great and Noble men or an un-throning of some King and a rise or promotion of vile and ignoble mean people If its apparition be in the Eastern part of Heaven it will operate sooner and there shall be enmity amongst men but if in the Western more slow and much evill and detriment from Kings or Superiours and many showers inundations and frequent snows in Winter In Taurus If any Blazing-Star or Comet appear in Taurus it signifieth mischief to men and diminution of their goods also injuries and wrongs put upon them it uses also to signifie as say the Antients the death of some Great man Captivities injuries and a toleration of evils detriment to the greater sort of Cattel especially Buls Cows and Oxen great winds a corruption of Fruit and destruction of Corn and in Winter much cold also grievous Earth-quakes vehement sicknesses and dry scurfie diseases proceeding of putrefication as scabs c. If it appear toward the East it will sooner operate and the King shall fear his Enemies and men shall be molested with boils and swellings about the Groins and these shall continue for some years also sicknesses in the Summer-quarter and if it appear in the Western part it will work more slowly and signifies much rain In Gemini In Gemini if any Comet appear it signifies men shall be lascivious and incestuous In Gemini loose livers and neglecters of goodness also it denotes quarrels wars and dissentions amongst men sicknesses and the death of children and yong men especially also Abortive births the slaughter of Birds Famine Thunder and Lightning with very high winds to the eradication and subversion of trees and houses And if it appear towards the East part of Heaven the Effects thereof will soon be seen and many Grandees of the World shall be abased and brought down from their High Places and Honours and if it appear in the West not so soon and it signifies much captivity and abundance of rain and inundations In Cancer Also if a Comet appear in Cancer it signifies abundance of Locusts in the parts where they are naturally produced in our Climate it produces Caterpillars and such like pernitious worms which shall eat up and destroy the Fruits of the Earth also small worms in Corn and Trees a scarcity of Fruit and plenty of Worms it denotes also wars discords and much evill the death of some Great Person submersions Rapes and Robberies Famine and Pestilence And if it appear in the Eastern part of Heaven its Effects will be quickly manifest and there shall be scarcity of Provisions for the use of man towards the latter end of the year if in the Western not so soon it denotes the kindness of Kings and Great men to the Commons Again if any appear in Leo men shall be damnified by wild Beasts In Leo. Lyons and Woolfs this is to be understood in those Regions where such feral creatures are Worms and Vermin shall be destructive to the Corn an men shall be damnified in their estates the Gentry and Nobility shall suffer detriment and many of them death and War amongst Kings towards the end of the year and much effusion of bloud in the Eastern parts note the Parenthesis in Aries and pains in the Eyes And if it appear in the Eastern part the Effects are soon manifested and it signifies great Winds Lightning and a scarcity