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A91502	Mene mene, tekel upharsin. The second part of Mene tekel, treating of the year MDCLXXXIX. : And modestly shewing what may probably be conjectured to succeed in the affairs of Europe in general, and of England, Holland, Scotland, and France in particular; with something also about the affairs of Ireland, and the French King's forces there. : To which is added a treasonable paper dispersed among the papists, by J. Gadbury, with some reflections thereon, and also on his almanack for 1689. / By John Partridge.	Partridge, John, 1644-1715.; Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1689 (1689)	Wing P619A; ESTC R203323	33,895	50

Sun in a certain Persons Nativity who is now in Tribulation At the Postventional Full Moon we find there the Moon to be separating from the Square of Mars and applying to the Body of the Sun and next after that to the Square of Saturn the Sun is in Domo Octava and the Moon in Secunda and she in that part of Heaven having at the Full Moon five degrees of South Latitude made her within Rays of the Square of Saturn so that we may conclude both the Preventional New and Postventional Full Moons do exactly agree with the Figure of the Ingress here before us and do really agree in describing the Circumstantial Adjuncts likely to attend this Quarter which is indeed like to be ushered in with Violence and violent Actions and therefore let those that are like to suffer therein take care how they manage their ticklish Fortune for here is such Work approaching that is not to be dallied with and he that once plays and loseth seldom or never comes to his Stake again Having already said how the Preventional and Postventional New and Full Moon agree with the Figure of the Ingress I come now to insist on the Figure it self and the various Positions Aspects c. therein contained And the first thing to be considered is what is like to be the Effects of this Quarter in the general for here we find as perhaps some will say no Extraordinary Positions to give Violence because the Sun is in Trine to Jupiter and Saturn and the Moon in no evil Aspect except by her Latitude in Opposition to Jupiter from the first and seventh houses And now going to the Sextile of Saturn and the Sun all that is may they say is the Sun in square to Mars in the Ascendent Alas they that expect to find Causes in Mundane Ingresses to predict or forshew Actions of that kind of quality that we must now expect are extreamly deceived and cheated for in all things of this Nature we must first consider the Motion of the Superiors Saturn and Jupiter for they are the Salt or Leaven of the World and from their Motion proceeds the variety of those Causes which Mankind oftentimes so severely feels and indeed it is that and that only which is equal in another branch of this Study to the primary Directions and these Ingresses are but like Revolutions that may either abate or aggravate the Direction in its time and quality of Operation but whether the Revolution or Ingress concur or not the Direction certainly works without it and therefore we are not beholden to the Figure of the Ingress for discovering to us the Cause of Mutations Wars c. but the time when God and Nature think fit to obtrude them upon us Hence therefore be pleased to consider that there have been three Squares of Saturn and Jupiter and the last of them was last January Saturn being then in Square and Jupiter in Opposition to the last Conjunction in ♌ in the year 1682 / 3 and this also on the place and square to it of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in October preceding and in the end of March last there was also a Square of Saturn and Mars the latter of which was then in Opposition to the place of the last Conjunction and to the Ecliptical place of the Moon in this Figure and you see that altho matters and things have been working yet they have not produced any thing material more than preparation for Action and Things of a greater Nature and this not only in this part of Europe but also in Spain and Germany and the parts adjacent There are other things that are to be considered in this Judgment but because they will occasionally fall in with other matters in this discourse therefore I omit to mention them for these are the principal that I have already noted and according to the Method I and all others that pretend to Astrology do or ought to proceed in their judging Mundane Revolutions concerning Wars Plagues Mutations of Government Abdication of Kings Plenty Famine c. Therefore in the first place we shall confider what may be the Consequence of this triple Square of Saturn and Jupiter of which the two first were from Libra and Capricorn the one an Equinoctial and the other a Tropical Sign but the last was from Scorpio and Aquary two fixed rough succedent Signs from whence I draw this Judgment that the first two thirds of their Effects shall be quick noble and glorious mighty things soon dispatch'd and done and the reason is because they were from Cardinal Signs but the last part will be slow tedious and full of labour apt to go sometimes backwards and sometimes forward and variety of success attend it Now for a proof of this let us look back to the Conjunction of the two Superiors in 1623 in Leo and observe when they made their Square which was but a single one and that from the Ends of Libra and Capricorn in the Month of February in the year 1629 and compare that and its Effects then with these three now and the prospect of things likely to attend us at this time and then say whether like Causes have not like Effects for in 1629 the Hollanders took the Hertogenbosch stom the Spaniards and also many of their Ships the Janizaries quarrel with the Grand Signior the Polanders make peace with the Sweeds A Great Diet at Prague the Kings of England and France make peace having together destroyed the poor Protestants at Rochel The French make great preparations of War against Italy and in the beginning of the Next year the King of Swedland did Invade the Empire and took Francfort upon Odor and Lantsberg c. How England stood affected at that time and what the Designs of the then King were your own Histories will inform you I have onely given you those that were forreign Thus you see the same Kingdoms and Countries were concerned in Action at that time as are now but the Quarrels and pretences different yet the Popish Crew then in Spain France and Germany were for rooting out the Protestants and the Protestant Religion and yet we even we are for succouring and defending them tho I thank God I am of another perswasion These things considered are sufficient to prove the Position that I laid down before that like Causes have like Effects and that the Motion of the Superior Stars are to be considered in the publick Affairs of the World c. But I must turn into my way again this discourse being not exactly pertinent to the Affairs in Hand Haly an old Arabian and one well acquainted with this kind of Doctrine tell us Significat quod existant rebelles qui adversabuntur regie qui quaerunt regnum Etian significat Mutationes res multas in negotiis regis similiter in Lege says he the Square of Saturn and Jupiter signifies that people shall rise against their King and

it signifies that there shall be strange grievous and durable Afflictions upon the Earth and among Mankind Multiplicabuntur Latrocinia Contentiones c. Cap. xxxvii de Revolut Annor Mundi The Intent of Messahalah in that place is to shew that when Mars is applying to Saturn they being the only two Corrosive Stars stir up a violent and an unusual Ferment not only in the Minds and Passions of Men but also in all things of Nature because Mars hath the Power of acting or agitating in a peculiar manner on those condens'd compact and acid Principles of old Saturn it is like the Effect of Salts and Acids being put together which cause a violent Ebulition and after that 's over it produceth a Tertium Neutrum something that is like neither of them The nature of Mars is well described by P. J. Faber who saith Mars veluti Sol alter Calorem summum rebus impertit suo intestissimo Caloro vitali perficit maturat crudum omne frigidum So that we are not to believe this kind of Effect that Messahalah speaks of to proceed from an empty Ignote Notion but from a real and rational Philosophick Principle and Quality and then this Application if we consider it is by Opposition the worst of Aspects and by Retrograde Motion which doth much increase the Maligne Effects of the Aspect the Application and whatsoever doth depend thereon which are Devastations and Ruine of Countries Pleets and fighting by Sea Armies and Destruction by Land Deceit and Treachery one with another and besides all this private Murders when violent Aspects happen upon Lunations c. But there is one thing more to be observed and that is the Parts of Heaven that they are in which are violent for they both culminate with violent fixed Stars perhaps there may be some that may carp at the word both culminate and therefore let all such know it is a proper Expression and can be vindicated with a very little Labour and Trouble and also in violent Parallels both which do aggravate and increase the Malignant Quality of these two Superiors Saturn and Mars the one in Taurus culminates with the Jaw of the Whale of the nature of Saturn the Head of Medusa of the nature of Saturn and Jupiter and also the Pleiades and the other with the Stars in the beginning of the Scorpion as the Lucida Corona the Stellae Nebulosae the Lanx Australis Borealis And thus much in general for the malignant part of the Effects of this Eclipse of the Moon in September As for the Benefick Influence thereof I can say very little to it for the two Fortunes from whom all the Balsam is expected to heal and also corroborate are not only in Opposition one to another and in a Mundane Square to Saturn and Mars but also upon the place and the Opposite Point of the last great Triple Conjunction in Leo in active parts of Heaven and in violent Parallels likewise From whence and all which considered together I can see but little Rebate from what the Opposition of Saturn and Mars in fixed Signs promiseth at the time of this Eclipse I shall now speak a word or two to the Ingress it self and so come to Particulars c. But before I enter on that you must give me leave to put you in Mind of that Opposition of Saturn and Mars from the beginning of Taurus and Scorpio by direct Motion in the beginning of August the Sun and Moon at that time being upon the place of the last Conjuction of Saturn and Jupiter At the time of this New Moon which is the fifth so August at 24 minutes past 3 of the Clock in the Morning the two Lights are appproaching the Horoscope in Leo and the two Malevolents in the tenth and fourth Houses all Angular and indeed so are all the Planets except Venus The Effects of this Opposition will have the same tendency that the other before mentioned will have and the one will increase the Force and Vigor of the other and therefore I have given my Judgment on the second only because at that time the force of both will be in operation And Bonatus in par 4. cap. 87. speaking of a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the tenth says Si fuerit in decima significat detrimentum Regum Magnarum Destructionem esses eorum Mortem Magni Regis if says he it was in the tenth it signifies the Detriment of Kings and Great Men and their Destruction and also the Death of a great King. And it is certain that as the Affairs of Europe now appear these things are probable to happen in divers Countries and Kingdoms of Europe And tho our Author speaks of a Conjunction in that part of Heaven yet we shall find that this Opposition will be attended with such like Effects ad unguem And therefore you shall hear what the same Author says of Mars unfortunately placed in the tenth House as we have in the 85 Cap. Et si fuerit in decima significat Tribulationem venturam Rusticis atque popularibus ex parte Regis Divitum ac Potentum significat vulnera percussiones gladiorum atque flagella Angustiam ex eis atque Carcerem penuriam seu indigentiam victualiam significat Bella Contentiones de rebus quae non sunt● illorum qui petunt eas nec pertinent ad eos if says he it is in the tenth as here it signifies Sorrow and Tribulation shall come to the common People by reason of their King and great Men and it also signifies Wars and Contentions for things that are not theirs neither do belong to them So that we see it is not only from the Rays those two there are conjoyn'd but from Mars also in that Angle ill placed or rather purely malefick for Mars cannot be worse placed then in Opposition to Saturn and both of them Peregrine and neither of them in Signs really agreeable to their own Natures But besides all this Mars doth more immediately signify some King or other or at leastwise one that thinks himself to be so because he is Lord of the tenth House the Horoscope of Kings and great Men in general and in the Genethliacal Part of Astrology it is observed that Mars in the Ascendent Peregrine and afflicted always signifies a Man that is bold angry quarelsom and yet a Coward and with these Qualifications he is generally poor and needy And so I have done with the Oppositions of Saturn and Mars in general only observe First That all the Effects of these two Oppositions and also the third will wholly be directed and guided by the same Rule and to the same End as the Conjunction of them in November 1688 was intended and upon every remarkable Aspect in these Signs or Leo and Aquary which are in the same Quadrangle you will see or hear something remarkable done or acted in order to the great Work till it

endeavour to take the Kingdom and that it shews various and many Mutations in the King's Affairs and also in the Law. So that it seems in those Eastern Countries even there too where their Kings are really Arbitrary such Accidents do use to happen upon such Configurations as well as in these Northern parts where Government is by Compact and Agreement His word Rebels is a term used in those Countreys as well to those who regulate the abuses of Government that prevent the subversion of Kingdoms and the ruine of Religion as to those that indeed are so and no doubt but that Man that calls himself King or rather Tyrant of France would look upon it as a great Injury done to him to be called to an account for all his Villanies Murders Perjuries breach of Oaths Promises destroying of his Subjects disturbing the peace of Europe burning Towns without any Cause hanging his Subjects sending others to the Galleys while others of them are starving in Jailes and all for being Protestants I say perhaps this Man would think himself injured and would be apt to call them Rebels that should doe it when indeed it would be a good Service and a work of merit to ease the groaning Slaves of their Burden the Earth of a Tyrant and the Princes of Europe of a Perfidious and treacherous Neighbour This Square of Saturn and Jupiter was attended by a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in October last of which Haly says thus Si quando Mars Junctus fuerit cum Saturno struet qui liber alteri fraudes deceptiones erunt inter homines percussiones vulnera that when Saturn and Mars shall be conjoined it shews much Fraud and Deceipt and that there shall be fighting and wounds especially if they meet in a humane Sign And this Conjunction was succeeded by a Square of them about the end of March from the Signs of Scorpio and Aquary and also at the very time of that great Central Eclipse of the Moon in Libra which was near the place of Saturn at the time of the second Square of Saturn and Jupiter in July 1688. All Authors do agree and indeed Experience can plead for it that such Crowds of Malignant Positions do naturally give mischief and trouble to Mankind Effusion of Blood Destruction of Great and Noble Men Wars Pestilence and all Manner of Violence that attends such kind of Affairs and Transactions as you that please may read more at large in Guido Bonatus pars quart cap. 57. and cap. 77. and also in Origanus de effectibus And thus much for those things that are passed by and yet in force to produce something to come I come now to the Figure it self and where I left off The Moon is at this Ingress upon the place of the last Conjunction and in the seventh House and by her Latitude in Opposition to Jupiter This shews the Common sort not to be pleased with some things done by those that are signified by that Star but Jupiter is in trine to the Sun he hath secured himself from what can appear from thence But here we also find the Sun and Mars in an exact Square from Aries and Cancer and this not only Zodiacal but a Mundane Square likewise and from two of the most principal Signs in the whole Zodiack and from Angles besides This can be construed to give nothing more proper to its Nature then Action and Hostility both by Sea and Land and therefore about the time of the Ingress we may hear of some considerable Action performed by the Dutch or Germans or both against the French Tyrant and also about the same time expect the same Success of the English and Dutch Fleets by Sea against him and his wicked Accomplices that are endeavouring to dip the World in Blood and also to make Slavery and Tyranny hereditary If you will believe our Friend J. Gadbury he tells us in his Almanack for 1689 that it promiseth Tempests and Hurricanes but the Fellow will so lie especially since he turned Papist that he is not to be believed However perhaps it may by inverting his Notion prove true by appearing in Hurricanes Storms among the Papists and that Cursed Faction of which he is believed to be a worthy Member to his Reputation and their Advantage We also find here that Mars is in the Ascendent and of such a Position when he is afflicted as here Haly says speaking of Mankind before Crescent inter eas rixae discordiae se vulnerabunt percutient sanguinem fundent propter hoc accident eis magnum damnum malum That there shall be Quarrels and Discords from whence shall arise Blows and Wounds and the Effusion of Blood and for this reason there shall happen to them meaning Mankind much damage and loss A Planet Angular hath indeed much more Power to perform what he signifies by being in an Angle than in the other Houses and of the Angles the first and tenth is the chiefest and therefore he may be allowed by his Position there to give both speed and violence to his Effects If we consider the Moon we shall really find her in the seventh House separated from the Sextile of the Sun and applying to the Opposition of Jupiter and the Sextile of Venus The Moon is Lady of the fifth House the Angle of Embassies c. and in the seventh the House of Wars and Contests Jupiter is Lord of the Tenth and just turned Retrograde in his own House Pisces and is in a Zodiacal Parallel with Saturn likewise This seems to shew some new thing on Foot about making some League or entering into or upon some new Project of War which is at present wholly unknown but the advantage in the Consequence of it will be considerable and it seems designed for the mighty States of Holland and their Confederates and this seems to be managed under some other kind of pretences then what is intended perhaps it may be some Affairs that may concern the King of Denmark for the Moon here is on the Radical place of his Jupiter and Mars here on the Radical place of his Venus and both Sun and Venus here on the Cusp of his Radical Mid-Heaven But this I am sure will be considerable for so many Planets do not use to be Angular and in Cardinal Signs for nothing and especially when such Applications and Positions attend them And this brings me to the Consideration of what Countries and Nations are like to be concerned in the Transactions of this Year and who are like to be the Sufferers thereby In the Figure we find this Square is from Aries and Cancer under Aries are England France Germany Denmark c. under Cancer are Scotland Holland Zealand c. and from these Kingdoms and Countries will be the first appearance of the Action of this Summer in Cancer we find the Sun in Trine to Jupiter in Sextile to the Moon and in Conjunction with Venus now all

soon after will either desert and leave them or else forbear to act as they had done before in short the Effects of this Revolution will frown on their Affairs and the Conclusion of all will be sharp and fatal notwithstanding there may be much Blood spilt and a great deal of Confusion Destruction and Ruin but let this be our Comfort that it will be the Ruin of those that began it and the Destruction that they intended will fall upon themselves and the Snare they laid will catch their own Feet Thirdly We may observe that Mars is just before the Ingress turned Retrograde in Taurus his Detriment this shews that the Arms and Warlike Affairs of some Prince or other are grown scandalous by their ill Success and the Fate that attends them their Reputation declines and themselves grow diffident of their own Courage and Conduct and yet this is but the beginning of it to the purpose we shall hear more hereafter In the Figure we find the Moon in exact Trine to the tenth House a popular Position and will be of good Consequence in whose Nativity it shall have a proportional one like it But for the rest of the Positions I see none good they all being according to the principal Motion inclined to what is violent and troublesome I might have spoke of the Square of Mars and Venus in the Zodiack the Mundane Parallel of Jupiter and Mars the Mundane Square of the Moon and Mars and the Moon and Saturn but the Effects of them being couched in the Judgment of the other Rays and Motions it would have been but so much time protracted in my Writing and your Reading and therefore omitted as needless and inconvenient Honest J. Gadbury in his Judgment of the Scheam of this Ingress which is indeed very short gives the same Judgment as he did of this Summer Quarter before it that it will be attended with very bad weather I doubt his head was full of Vapors when he wrote that and that he had the sound of the Confusion of Popery in his Cranium which it seems he mistook and thought it had been nothing more but the Concussion of the Elements and a fit of an Ague in the Air. Ah John what pity it was that your Catholick Soul should be thus deceived what Pennance must you undergoe for it why really I think instead of keeping one Whore as you used to do formerly for this offence you ought to keep half a dozen remember the Nosegay The whole considered together and applyed to particulars of Men and Things c. IN the preceding discourse I have given you the General of their Effects according to the Order and Course of Nature that may be expected in those Countrys where the God of Nature hath designed them to spend their Power and Influence this perhaps might suffice it being the Common Method that is used by those who call themselves Astrologers but I will endeavour to come nearer to the Agent and Patient and give it more particular as to Countrys Princes People and Things where these Effects before mentioned may probably terminate and who they are that are like to be passive under them The Eclipse of the Moon which was in March was celebrated in the 16 degree of Libra under that Sign is some part of Germany and also some parts of Turkey which may expect to feel some of its Effects but it more immediately concerns the Kings of Spain and Denmark for it falls in the Mid-Heaven of the King of Spains Nativity and Saturn at the same time on his Radical Horoscope in Square to his Mid-Heaven these Positions will give some Disturbance either to his Health or Government perhaps both In the King of Denmarks Nativity this Eclipse falls in his Horoscope and Saturn at the same time in Opposition and Mars in Square to his Radical Sun this shews rather Injury to his Subjects and Commotion in some of his Territories than Sickness to his Person because neither Sun nor Horoscope are Givers of Life in his Radical Figure But it will certainly give some Commotion in the Dominions of the Grand Signior for according to Ptolomy's Doctrine part of his Dominons are under Venus and Libra and more also of those Eastern Countreys the Eclipse also particularly concerns the late King for Evil and not for Good for Saturn is there on the place of his Radical Sun and also the Moon is in Opposition to his Mid-Heaven and Hileg At the Solstitial Ingress we find the Sun and Mars in Square from the beginning of Aries and Cancer under these two Signs are England Holland Scotland France and also some parts of Germany These Countrys according to their General Capacities and Qualifications for War seem to approach toward Action and that considerably too the English French and Dutch for Sea Action the Germans and Scots for Land. At the New Moon preceding the Ingress the Sun was in the Eleventh in a Western Sign and in a South-East part of Heaven Mars was in a South-West quarter this shews some Action by Sea West or South-West from England and this about the time of the Ingress and also about the middle of July when the Sun comes to the Square of Saturn so likewise in the South-West part of Germany by land about those times neither will the Kingdom of Scotland be idle This Aspect happening from Cardinal Signs will make the Action and Effects the more famous and considerable and the rather because the Sun and Mars are Essentially strong Mars in his own House and the Sun in Cancer in reception with the Moon in Leo and to shew it will be something of Violence the Moon at the same Time is on the Ecliptical place of the last Conjunction 1682 c. and for an Argument of the French Tyrant being concern'd be pleased to consider that Mars is in Conjunction with the Sun in his Revolution and Saturn exactly on the place of his pars fortunae and now stationary on the place of his Sun by Direction at the time of this Square the Sun is on the King of Denmarks Mid-Heaven and Mars on his seventh House in a Mundane and Zodiacal Square which may also give him some Action either by Sea or Land or both On July the 12th the Sun comes to a Square of Saturn from the beginning of Leo and Scorpio this doth particularly Affect the late King and gives disturbance to his Mind as well as Opposition and want of Success in his Affairs because Saturn is on the Radical place of his Sun and the Sun on the Radical place of his Moon in the Ecliptick In the beginning of August there is an Opposition of Saturn and Mars from the beginning of Taurus and Scorpio the Sun at the same time in Opposition to Jupiter from Leo and Aquary This doth particularly concern that King last mentioned now in Ireland for Saturn is on the place of his Radical Sun Mars in Opposition to it this gives all