Conjunction or prevention if possible Of Coronations and Enstallings At Enstallings or Coronations place Leo the sign of the Ascendent and the Sun in Taurus in the tenth and the Moon in the Ascendent joyned to Venus Iupiter or Mercury and they strong essentially and receiving the Moon Of beginning of Government And when you begin first to rule or govern according to the election and choyce of the people let the angles be all fixed especially the Ascendent and fourth and let the Lord of the tenth be free from all manner of impediment and place the Lord of the Ascendent either in the Ascendent tenth or eleventh or at least in the fifth received of the Lord of the tenth and let the Lord of the tenth be received of its dispositor by Sextile or Trine and the Lord of the fourth free from impediment and in a good aspect of the Fortunes And if thou canst not do all this let the Moon be received of the Lord of the tenth and the Lord of the fourth free from impediment but let him not behold the Ascendent nor its Lord and let some of the Fortunes behold the fourth House or tenth or at least one of them if possible And thus may you judge of electing of other inferiour Magistrates whatsoever by distinguishing their several significators and disposing of them according unto these rules Mutatis mutandis wherefore it were needless here further to enlarge CHAP. II. Of obtaining favour of Kings and great men Iustice on Enemies and Pardons also of going of Progress with the King or any other Grandee Of obtaining favour of Kings and Grandees ABout obtaining of favour at the hand of any King or great man whatever sign you place in the Ascendent let Iupiter be therein in a good aspect of the Lord of the tenth with reception or place the Lord of the tenth in the Ascendent or in Sextile or Trine thereunto or to the Lord thereof or the Moon and if possible place the Moon in the tenth free from all impediment and let the Lord of the Ascendent also be strong and no wise afflicted by the Malevolents and let not Saturn nor Mars be in any of the angles especially the Ascendent unless he be a significator and you have ordered him according to discretion And if thou canst not perform all these let the Lord of the thing desired be in the tenth or the Lord of the tenth in the House signifying the thing or in good aspect thereunto or to the Lord thereof and if possible let the aspect be with reception c. Of obtaining Justice or Assistance from the King Also when thou wouldst obtain aid or leave of the King to prosecute thy adversary or when thou requirest Justice against him place the Moon free from all impediment and let her be increasing in light let the Ascendent also be free from affliction and place the Lord thereof in a good place strong and free from the malevolent aspects of the Infortunes and if possible let him be in his own dignities and direct and debilitate the Lord of the seventh which hath signification of your adversary and let him not be assisted by any of the Fortunes nor behold the Ascendent nor the Moon nor the Sun and let the Lord of the tenth be in reception with the Lord of the Ascendent and so if your condition be the others and thou wouldst obtain pardon debilitate the Moon and Lord of the Ascendent and fortifie the seventh Of obtaining of pardon c. quite contrary And thus by varying thy rule thou mayst apply thy business which way thou pleasest and be furnished upon any occasion provided thou art well acquainted with thy true significator Of going of progress with the King or any other Grandee In progressing with Kings or Grandees place Iupiter in the Ascendent or in the seventh for this signifieth good in the journey to those that undertake it and that they shall be merry but look thou place him not in the fourth neither let the Moon nor Venus behold him out of any angle nor let Saturn or Mars be in the Ascendent nor any other angle nor joyned by body or aspect to Venus neither let the Moon be under the Sun-beams nor with ☋ or the Infortunes for this denotes the party going to progress shall never return the Ancients also affirm Note that whoever fals sick at such a time shall never recover and whoever goeth into any combate shall be slain but dye therein CHAP. III. Of learning any Art or Occupation MOst of the Ancients have placed this matter in this House I conceive their reason was because a Trade or Occupation is the highest dignity such can look for that are bound thereunto Of learning of Trades or other Occupations Wherefore in this matter you are exactly to distinguish of the Planet signifying the Trade or Mysterie you would learn the which you have been taught in the second Book of this Volume then let your Ascendent or tenth House be a sign wherein that Planet beareth dominion by House as if you would learn Morality or any study or if thou desirest to be a Merchant place Gemini or Virgo in the Ascendent or else Libra the last fifteen degrees of Sagittary or Aquaries and fortifie the Lord of the Ascendent and the Cusp of the tenth and its Lord ☿ also and the ☽ yet have a more special care to fortifie ☿ then any other because he is the Planet signifying the Trade or Occupation Still remember to fortifie the Lord of the Trade or that Planet which naturally hath signification thereof above any other for I shall say no more on this matter in this place since I have been large in the second Section and first Chapter of this third Book Note well whether I shall here referr thee and now proceed being even weary of reiterations For whoso can understand the reason and ground of any one Election hath sufficient to lead him through all other whatsoever without these needless repetitions or else he shall never be able to apprehend them when we have said all we can yet because I have an earnest desire to make every thing plain even to the weakest capacity I have been thus tedious yet whoso shall compare me with the Ancients will find I do not equal them in tautologies SECTION XII Containing such Elections as are under the signification of the eleventh House of Heaven CHAP. I. Of accomplishing any thing hoped for and of gaining a good repute and the love of friends EVery man wisheth and hopeth for some one thing or other and few but strive to have a good Name or at least to be thought worthy thereof and because this may be obtained and yet the person no wise honoured in the world this Election is rather placed in this House then in the tenth by me To gain credit and the thing hoped for Wherefore when either thou wouldst accomplish thy hope or
so frequent amongst us viz. Markets Anacharsis doth well define it thus Est forum locus in quo alius alium circumvenit The Market-place is a place where one cozeneth and defraudeth another I may well term it all things being considered a convention of Cheaters and circumventing Lyers a place where must much evil needs be committed according to that of the Wiseman Between the buyer and the seller must needs be sin Of the Inns of Court or the Practises of Lawyers And what are our Inns of Court but meer conventions of Politicians fomenters of strife debate For fight Dog fight Bear they will never part you Incendiaries Lovers of mischief Takers of bribes Resisters and perverters of justice provided they are well fed Do they not Justifie the wicked for a reward and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him Isa 5.23 For doth not money do all Is it not it that maketh the Mare to go right or wrong doth it not carry the cause with these Catiffs How hard is it for a man to be a Lawyer and an honest man both together How many such think you you might find in a century of years Wherefore the time is coming and is now even at hand wherein the Prophets very next words will be verified upon them viz. Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth the chaff so their root shall be rottenness and their blossom shall go up as dust because they have cast away the LAW of the Lord of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel Isa 5.24 Of the Palaces of Kings And now should we but examine the state of the Chief Courts viz. he Palaces of Kings we shall yet finde therein naught but vanity and madness from the lowest to the higest from the King to the Beggar all are mad what greater vanity then to see men that are to Rule thousands be carried away with every breath of flattery of any one Parasite Then to see Kings and the Grandees of the World so easily perswaded contrary to what they in their own judgements know If there be any blemish in a King how soon is it applauded admired rather for a grace a vertue rather then a vice Alexander stooped in the shoulders wherefore all his Souldiers and Courtiers did so too Yet here I cannot but set down the wisdom and gallantry of our late King James of happy memory in this particulars as I have been by several informed who were conversant with him Considering one day the vanity of his Courtiers in applauding still all his actions very seriously about noon looking up to the Heaven out of a Window demanded of those that were about him whether they saw not a Star neer such a cloud for he said he was confident he did whereupon every one looking up began to deliver their opinions thus one said he saw it and that it was a little bright star another that it twinckled very much c. every one with a several addition concluded positively as he said whereupon he burst forth in these words or to this sense How unfortunate a man am I to have so many Fools to be my Councellors No wiser men then right or wrong to say as I say Again what Revelling Masking Playing Feasting Toying Fooling Whoring Pride Gluttony Drunkenness Wastry and what not that is evil or to be reprehended but is to be found in these places most abundantly There is no place free nor thing free but all and in all is vanity The Authors exhortation to this mad world Wherefore since it is so I can commend nothing in this transitory momentory vilde World but the knowledge of GOD and his Son JESUS CHRIST whom he hath sent in the flesh into the World to save sinners and the world and that we might through him obtain everlasting life We have here no abiding place wherefore what profit will it be unto us should we gain the whole World and lose our own souls We came naked in to the World we shall carry nothing out with us all must be left behind our pleasure riches honours preferments parts endowments wives husbands and children he that the whole earth could not contain and that sighing said Is there no more worlds to Conquer was at last contained in the narrow confines of a Coffin and could possess no more of what he had gained then his just length and breadth which was not denied to the meanest he subdued you have heard what the Great Conquerour of the East Saladin carried to his Grave of all he had gain'd bat a poor black Shirt wherefore let the WORD OF GOD be thy whole study thy delight both day and night that when thou ceasest to be here thou maist be eternally glorified hereafter this is the summum bonum the chiefest good yet next unto it let me recommend the study of Nature before any other thing whatsoever for that it is the great handmaid of the Almighty by which thou mayst daily and hourly see the secret operations of his hands and be drawn neerer and neerer to him for according to the Apostle by knowing Natural things we come to know Spiritual the better And now here it remaineth I should again return to shew thee the method and manner of the subsequent Work where I left off and so hasten to a conclusion but since I have recommended unto you that which is the chief means of our future felicity I think good first since our happiness here and the hope thereof hereafter consisteth much on the goodness or badness of our friends and associates here to deliver thee some Rules how to choose a true Friend to know a true Friend and to keep a true Friend for commonly according to the company so we conform our selves the which if it be other then good proves our utter destruction according to the old Proverb Evil communication corrupts good manners Instructions how to choose a friend In choosing then of Friends first negatively and then affirmatively I shall desire thee to observe these Rules Negatively that by no means you familiarly associate your self with a lyar dissembler or a flatterer neither with a proud man nor covetous person for they will prove deceitfull treacherous and self-ended beware also of Bragadotia's I mean such as boast and glory of their charity or courtesie to others that they have done this good turn and the other good turn for them for though it be true they have been beneficial to such and that they have done all that they brag of yet will such take it for an approved maxime be never true-hearted unto thee And such as are so base as to desire or beg that which they see is precious and deer in the sight of any one are also to be shunned with those that are not able to keep secret what is committed to them in Trust and Promise-breakers and such as meerly esteem of thee for thy Riches for these although they carry
easy to be accomplished Rules general for the electing the beginning of any work In the beginning of any work also see that the Dragons tayl be not with either of the Luminaries when they are in conjunction or opposition or in the Ascendent or house signifying the business in hand but place in those places some fortunate Planet or in the house of the business in Election or in the Angles of the Figure at the time of Election But have a special care in all Elections you put not the Moon in the Ascendent Note for she is an enemy thereunto so also is the Sun for he therein dissolves and undoes what is accomplished and done And let not an Infortune be placed in the Ascendent nor in any of the Angles especially if he have dominion in the sixth eighth or twelfth also look that in a diurnal Election you have a diurnal sign ascending in a nocturnal a nocturnal sign and if you can that the Luminaries be in the same signs I mean of the same nature especially that of the time Avoid Elections at such time as the Moon separates from the Conjunction or Opposition of the Sun Note and immediately goes to the configuration of an infortune for it shews that if the place of the Conjunction or Opposition be unfortunate the business then began shall come to no good end or conclusion but if the place of the Conjunction or Opposition be fortunate it shews that the beginning of the business then in agitation shall be good but it shall ill succeed in the end But if the Moon separate from Conjunction or Opposition and apply to a fortune and the place of the Conjunction or Opposition be unfortunate it signifieth that the beginning of the business shall be bad and the end thereof good and when the place of the Conjunction or Opposition is fortunate and the Moon applieth immediatly to a fortune it denotes that both the beginning and the end of the work then began shall come to good or be fortunate And so on the contrary if she apply to an infortune when the places of the Conjunction or Opposition are unfortunate when the place of the Conjunction or Opposition or their Lord or Disposer of them be in a succedent house it signifieth that the profit and good to be expected by the business shall be in the end accomplished though with some trouble and pains but if they be in a Cadent house viz. Cadent from the ascendent of the beginning of the thing or business or from the ascendent of the Election or Radix it shall be broken off and come to naught Albumazer a most learned Arabian in this Art Note saith that when the Lord of the Election which is the Planet signifying your business is Lord of the sign of the Luminaries especially that of the time in the Revolution of the year of the World or Lord of the year or Lord of the Ascendent at the time of the Revolution and be fortunate therein and also in the Election it signifyeth and denoteth extraordinary success and fortune in the business then began and in all the affairs thereof When the place of the Conjunction or Opposition and their Dispositors be well dignified and placed the business then began or done shall be firm and of continuance and fortunate Also accomplishment and good success of the business is signified when the Dispositor or Lord of the house of the Conjunction or Opposition before the beginning of the work or business is oriental in the hour of the beginning of the thing and be in his own house beholding those places with a Sextile or Trine but if he do not behold the aforesaid places of the Conjunction or Opposition he profiteth not Other Rules for electing the beginning of any work You may also make your Elections for the beginning of any work from the Lord of the Triplicity of the Moon at the time of the Conjunction or Opposition for they have power in the beginning of businesses for when they are received and fortunate at the time of the beginning of any work it signifieth good but that which doth the more confirm it is that the ascendent of the Election be a sign in which he or they be well dignified or have dominion in the revolution of the year and that the fortunes be in Angles and chiefly in the ascendent and mid-heaven also in succedent and in the place of the thing or business intended or in agitation Per quick dispatch or long continuance of your business In the beginning of any work also when the Luminaries behold each other with a good aspect it signifieth success in any business then began the business also know in hand is foreshewed by the Moon her being in the day-time under the earth and in the night above and in an Election wherein a speedy dispatch of any business is required fortifie not the Moon but put Iupiter or Venus in the ascendent or in the mid heaven but have regard unto the Moon in things of long continuance as Marriage Building and the like and when she is impedited put her in an Angle or succedent but let her not behold the ascendent nor its Lord nor the Lord of the house of the thing or his Dispositor nor the Planet which hath signification of the thing either generally or particularly but if you cannot observe exactly all these look that you observe as many of them as you can A short rule in electing the beginning of any work Some Authors hold it more necessary to fortifie the Lord of the Ascendent then the Moon others to fortifie the Lord of the house signifying the business and others the general significators c. For my part I hold it most necessary to fortifie the significators of the business the house and also if possible the Moon rather then the Ascendent or its Lord except they be proper significators Caveats general in Elections When the Moon is slow in motion viz. not exceeding 12. degrees in 24. hours she signifieth slowness and tediousness in the business in hand but if your business require haste and the Moon apply to an infortune make your infortune Lord of your Ascendent and if then he be free from misfortune it will be the better but if infornate and afflicted and receive the Moon out of the ascendent it is much better But still look that your chief significators be free from misfortune and the Quartile and Opposition of the malevolents as also of the Sun and of combustion and that they be not under the Sun beams a Planet is under the Sun beams when he is not fully elongated from the body of the Sun 17. degrees he is in combustion when he is within 8. degrees 30. min. of his body c. as you have already heard in the 43. chapter of the second Book of this Volumn Have regard also unto your ascendent that there be no infortune therein that it be
hand being not began before ♃ A fortunate day go to noble men Iudges and Prelates and sue for thy right and take councel Converse with Lawyers and Ecclesiastical persons read the Laws Apply thy study to Philosophie and take Counsel Begin any good work make your journey to Kings and great men Prelates and Iudges Go thy journey and go to Prelates and Iudges ♂ An unfortunate day take no journey avoid the company of Souldiers c. Buy weapons of War or horses hire Champions and kindle the fire for Alchymle A day full of fear avoid contentions make no league or new friendship Dispose of all things for War buy cattel or beasts Take no journey flie company friendships and love of women ☉ Begin nothing but that thou wouldest have hidden and secret Take in hand the affairs of Kings and Princes and sue for preferments under them A day to be eschewed in all things deal not with company of great men Offer presents to Princes and your suit will be heard of them Sue for judgement from great men but avoid rich men ♀ A day for pleasures and delights put on new garments seek the love of women A day fit for amorous sports contract Marriage seek for all kinde of ornaments it is a prosperous day Hire servants or workmen make sports sing or play and marry Seek the love of women and put on new clothes if the Moon be not in Leo. It is good to hire men or maid servants to take recreation and contract marriage ☿ Begin writings and accompts chaffer send messengers or carriers Apply to thy study make accounts chaffer take charges send youths to school and accompany with Sages It is good to send Embassadors Orators and Carriers take your journey buy and sell Compose verses which require a good invention use exercise and send children to School Repair to Scribes and Chancellors send messengers take thy journey use Merchandise follow thy study The Vse of the TABLE You see here in the first column ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ and in the five other columns several matters over the first also yow see ☌ over the next âš¹ over the third â–¡ and upon the fourth â–³ and over the head of the last ☠which intimates no more then this viz. That they are the Moons aspects to the aforenamed Planets As in the first column you have these words An unfortunate day take no Journey c. in the same line and on the left hand yow have ♄ placed and over the head of these words ☌ shewing that the ☽ in ☌ with ♄ is an unfortunate day to begin any business or to go a journey c. In the next column and over against ♄ you see these words Converse with old men and husbandmen c. and over the head thereof âš¹ intimating that the ☽ in âš¹ with ♄ is good for such business and so understand of the rest of the columns and aspects over against ♄ and know also that those aspects on the head serve for all the other Planets and what you finde written over against any Planet appertains to the signification of that Planet as for example in the third column and over against ♃ you see this written Apply thy study to Philosophy and over the head thereor â— so that when the ☽ is in a â–¡ of ♃ it is good to apply ones study that way and so you may following this rule understand all the rest A Table of the Mansions of the Moon Mansions Sig D. M. Qualities Elections 1 ♈ 20 6 Temperate Take thy Journey and Physick Laxative 2 ♉ 2 57 Dry. Take thy Journey by water buy Cattel plant 3 ♉ 15 49 Moist Chaffer or buy and sell but goe not by Sea 4 ♉ 28 40 Moist and cold More cold Plant and sowe marry not nor journey by water 5 ♊ 11 32 Dry. Vse Merchandise Voyage joyn Wedlock and take Physick 6 ♊ 24 23 Temper War sowe not nor take in hand any good 7 ♋ 7 5 Moist Plough Sowe Travell not either by Sea or Land 8 ♋ 20 6 Cloudy and temâ—â—â—â—uâ—â—s Journey and take Physick 9 ♌ 5 57 Dry. Navigate 10 ♌ 15 49 Moist Plant Build Marry but make no voyage 11 ♌ 28 40 Temperate and cold Sowe Plant Deliver prisoners but take no purgation 12 â™ 11 31 Moist Plant Marry but Navigate not 13 â™ 24 23 Temper Journey Navigate Sowe Plough Marry and send messengers 14 ♎ 7 15 Temper Sowe Plant take Physick neither travel nor marry 15 ♎ 20 6 Moist Delve and Dig but neither marry nor travel 16 â™ 2 57 Cold and moist Vnfortunate for any thing 17 â™ 15 49 Moist Buy cattel but Navigate not 18 â™ 28 40 Dry. Build Sowe Plant Navigate but Wed not 19 â™ 11 32 Moist War Plant Sowe and Voyage 20 â™ 24 23 Temper Buy cattel use hunting but Wed not 21 ♑ 7 25 Temper Build Repair to a Magistrate for favour but marry not 22 ♑ 20 6 Moist Take Physick Navigate and put on new apparel 23 â™’ 2 56 Temper Take Physick Voyage but neither Marry nor lend 24 â™’ 25 49 Temper Lead an Army Marry Sowe take Physick 25 â™’ 28 40 Dry. Build Marry seek friendship take thy journey 26 ♓ 11 32 Dry. It is in all things unfortunate save in taking of Physick 27 ♓ 24 23 Moist Plant Sowe Chaffer Marry but Navigate not 28 ♈ 24 15 Temper Vse Merchandise Marry take Physick but lend not neither enterprise any voyage The Vse of the Table In the first Column you have the number of the Mansions of the Moon and on the head thereof this word Mansions In the second Column you have the Signs Characters and over the head thereof Sig. intimating signs you see first ♈ and ♉ ♉ ♉ over against ♈ on the left-hand Column you see the Figure 1. over against the first ♉ the figure 2. and the figure 3. against the second ♉ 4. against the third ♉ all which speaks no more then thus that the first Mansion of the Moon is in Aries the second third and fourth in Taurus c. In the third Column over against the figure 1. and ♈ you finde 20.6 and over the head D. M. signifying degrees and minutes which shews that the first Mansion of the Moon begins at the 20th degree and 6th minute of Aries and ends at the second degree and 57th minute of Taurus at which beginneth the second Mansion and so understand of all the rest As for the Qualities of every Mansion in the next Column in the same line with each Mansion you have its quality or nature over the head of which Column you have this word Qualities As for example over against ♈ you see Temperate intimating the first Mansion to be so qualified and over against the figure 2. being the second Mansion you have dry and so observe of all the rest this being understood you may also over against each Mansion in the fifth and last Column finde the several elections which are then
till either Saturn or Mars transite the cusp of the tenth House at time of the Revolution or shall then begin ad continue at least till Mars have made one Revolution through the twelve Signs of the Zodiack But if then Saturn be in Virgo and Mars Aspect him out of Gemini as hath been said and the Moon also translate her light to Saturn and she in Sagittarie there shall be misery upon misery the mischief of mischiefs the trouble of troubles the tribulation of tribulations the pestilence of pestilencies and the misfortune of misfortunes and all kind of vexations troubles and torments also it signifies the destruction of Kingdoms and translation of one Kingdome into the power and under the subjection of another Moreover if the Moon when she translates her light and nature to Saturn either by Conjunction Square or Opposition and the Lord of the Sign wherein she is when there is a Partil Conjunction Square or Opposition betwixt them be then impedited unfortunate weak or afflicted there shall be many diversities of mischiefs during the time of that Revolution and if then the Moon were eclipsed at the Preventional or to be eclipsed at the Postventional full Moon immediately going before or comming after any such Configuration the mischiefs and troubles threatned shall continue so many moneths as the Moon is or shall be ecclipsed houres reckoning from the minute she first begins to be ecclipsed till the Punctum wherein she is again free But if Part of Fortune be Impedited and its dispositor when the Moon is so in Conjunction or aspect partil of Saturn the evill thereby signified or threatned shall be increased have regard also to the Sun how he is placed dignified and aspected by the Malevolent Planet or by what Aspect he beholds him as you have heard of the Moon and the Lord of the Sign in which he is at the time of the Partil Conjunction or Aspect and make Part of Fortune and its Dispositor participate in signification therewith and judge accordingly mutatis mutandis as you have heard I say of the Moon and if the Sun was eclipsed or to be eclipsed at the Preventional or Postventional Conjunction of the Luminaries or change of the Moon to speak plainly the evill then threatned shall continue so many years as the Sun is at that time eclipsed houres Also when any Planets behold one another and be in any Reception look in what place in the figure they project their rays or beams for those places subject to the sign wherein they cast their rayes shall suffer such things as are by those Planets signified whether good or bad more then any other place And if one planet transfer his light Nature and Vertue to another you are diligently to weigh their natures and significations and judge accordingly as you have been before sufficiently shown as if the Significator of the King transfer his light and Nature to Saturn and he also well disposed such people and religious orders and things which you have heard elsewhere signified by Saturn shall be bettered and receive good from the bounty or liberality of the King or Superiours If to Jupiter Nobles Judges and such as converse in the Law and are signified by him shall receive honour liberty and much good from the Kings hand c. And so judge if any other Planet and if any other Significator transfer his light to any remember the Nature of your Significator transfering his light and the Natural and Accidental signification of the Planet to whom it is transferred and judge according thereunto and you are right and will soon be able to judge of any matter mutatis mutandis varying your rules according to Art And thus far have I in a manner reiterated rules and words for thy through understanding and instruction in such matters as have been delivered in a more short and compendious manner before and indeed so much the rather because that though what was at the beginning of this Discourse set down was sufficient to and for any one that is any thing entred into this Art yet would it perhaps have seemed somewhat difficult to those who are as yet altogether unseen therein and therefore I hope this fault will be by the Judicious deemed venial Wherefore let us now proceed CHAP. V. Shewing how to judge of health or sickness in any year THus then if thou wouldst be expert in this manner of judgement have respect to the Cusp of the Ascendent of the figure of the heavens at the time of your Revolution and the Ascendent of the figures at the time of the Conjunction or preventional Conjunction of the Luminaries before the Sun his ingress into Aries and then if these two Ascendents and the Moon be free from Misfortune and the Lord of the place of the Conjunction also free and then applying to a Fortune as also the Luminaries beholding him especially that of the time viz the Sun if it be by day the Moon if by night then it signifies that that year shall be free from infirmities general and diseases and shall be healthful but if the Lords of these two Ascendents and the Moon and Lord of the place of the Conjunction and prevention be all or the major part of them unfortunate it denotes general infirmites and diseases and no healthful year and that according to the power of the infortunate Planets their nature and the nature of the signs and places they are in what diseases are appropriated to both the Planets and Signs I have sully delivered unto you in the second Treatise of this Volumn entituled An Introduction to the judgement of the STARS Also if the Lords of those two Ascendents or one of them being so unfortunated apply to the Lord of the Eighth House there shall be many general infirmities and also death but if otherwise there shall be many infirmities and general diseases but not mortality and if death it will not be great Moreover if the strongest Planet of these Significators apply to the Lord of the Eighth there shall be many sudden deaths without any great or tedious sicknesses also if to the Lord of the sixth there shall be many infirmities and general diseases and those of long continuance And if Mars be the afflicting Planet he shall signifie hot and dry diseases especially if he be in a siëry sign and swift of motion and if it be Saturn he shall cause lingring Agues Coughs Consumptions and Saturnian tedious diseases especially if he be in a cold and dry sign and flow in motion CHAP. VI. Of Wars or Peace HItherto we have proceeded in a plain and easie manner of Instruction for it is my most earnest desire that knowledge may flow as a stream amongst all judicious souls especially those of this my native Nation of England and therefore I shall here again desire the more quick and nimble apprehensions to pardon both my largeness and plainness since I write to those that are altogether to seek
the Ground-work or Reasons thereof for the benefit of the Students therein delivered the better to confirm them in every point thereof as also to satisfie such who shall either enviously or ignorantly traduce or cavil against it By VVILLIAM RAMESEY Gent. Student in Astrology Physick and the most Heavenly and Sublime Sciences Job 38.31 32 33. An constringes delicias Pleiadum aut lora Orionis dissolves induces ne remotiora signa quodque tempore suo aut Arcturum cum filiis suis duces An cognoscis de statutis Coeli an disponere potes dominium ejus in terra c. LONDON Printed for R. VV. 1653. HONORATISSIMO DOMINO NON MINVS VIRTVTE SVA QVAM GENERIS SPLENDORE INSIGNI ILLUSTRISSIMO WILHELMO SEYMOVR MARCHIONI ET COMITI DE HARTFORD DOMINO IN SEYMOVR BEAVCHAM c. Salutem Felicitatem Perpetuam DOMINO SUO MVLTIS NOMINIBVS OBSERVANDO HANC SUAM AD ASTROLOGIAM INTRODVCTIONEM SUBMISSE DEDICAT Wilhelmus Rameseus TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND Truly Noble both for Learning and Parts VVilliam Seymour Marquess and Earl of HARTFORD Lord SEYMOVR and BEAVCHAM c. Right Honourable SHould I have least hope of merit from your Honour by this my Dedication Having never had the happiness to appear in your Honours presence I should render my self both weak and presumptuous but my comfort is I write to a Person of Honour Learning and Parts who is of that Magnanimity that he will not despise the smallest gift or the meaness of the Giver or the first for the unworthiness of the last Artaxerxes King of Persia disdained not the water a poor man as he saw him pass by brought from a River in his hand and gave him but received it with a smiling countenance not measuring the grace of the Gift according to the value of the Present but according to the good Will and intent of the Giver accounting it no less an act of Magnanimity and Kingly bounty to take small Presents in good part then to give greater And truly though this my mite may seem small proceeding from so mean a hand as my own Yet let me say thus much of this Science which is the chief of these we call Liberal together with ASTRONOMY PHYSICKS and NATVRAL PHILOSOPHY which make up all but one intire Science and of themselves are but parts thereof And not only Aristotle but also all other Ancient and Authentick Writers as doth more appear in the first Book of this Volume as witnesseth Aristotle Lib. 2. Cap. 2. Phis as also further in his Metaphis 6. and 12. and 1. Pol. Cap. 7. and in his 2. De Coelo Text 17. and Lib. De Proprietat element lib. de Mundo cap. 9. and in his 4. De Generatione Animimalium Cap. 10. using in all his Writings indifferently the Name of ASTROLOGER and ASTRONOMER and ASTROLOGER and PHILOSOPHER for one and the same for the Contemplaters of Nature in and by this Science are of all Philosophers the chiefest and this Antiquity maketh plain unto us as testifieth the most Ancientest Historiographers who Record that the Priests and Kings amongst the EGYPTIANS the CHALDEANS among the BABYLONIANS the GYMNOSOPHYSTS among the INDIANS the MAGICIANS among the PERSIANS the chief PHILOSOPHERS of GREECE and ITALY and the DRUIDES of FRANCE were all ASTROLOGERS and esteemed by these Nations as the wisest men And therefore fore I say as it is a part of the chiefest of the Liberal Sciences so hath it been still in high esteem amongst the Nobler and Graver sort of People and the more refined Souls in all Ages especially amongst the Chaldeans Egyptians Assyrians Lacedemonians Sydonians Indians Persians Greeks and Arabians for amongst the Egyptians it was not Lawfull for any man to take the Function of Priest-hood on him except he were an ASTROLOGER neither could any be chosen King except he were of the Colledge of the Priests And Rodiginus reporteth that for the prevention of Treason the Nativities of all Infants born therein was brought to the King to be judged on and Dion recordeth the same to be practised by the Emperour Tyberius and in the Prophesie of Daniel we may see that the Monarchs of Babylon attempted nothing of importance without first asking Councel of the Caldeans And the Kings of Lacedemonia suffered none to sit in their Councels but who were Astrologers And amongst the Persians none was admitted to the Crown but who were excellently skilled in ASTROLOGY Wherefore my LORD since this is an ART that hath ever been esteemed amongst the Nobler Wiser Greater Ingeniouser and the most refined Spirits of the World from Age to Age and chiefly Studied Maintained and Upheld by them I humbly presumed to Dedicate this Introductory Part unto your Honour since all these Properties are Naturally Inherent in your Noble Self for tâ—ue Nobility is the fittest Patron for such Noble SCIENCES neither are they fit to be offered to any but who are really such it surpassing the reach of the ordinary capacity of the World so that my LORD my hope is that if not for the Wel-wishes and Honour the Presenter thereof beareth to your Lordship nor the Antiquity and Excellency of the Thing presented yet your Honour will accept thereof out of the Munificence of your own Innate Magnanimity it being sufficient honour for me to acknowledge my self MY LORD Your HONOURS Most Humble Servant William Ramesey To the Reader HAving before in the First Book sufficiently proved and shewn the validity excellency certainty and legality of this Noble Science and vindicated it from all its aspersions it resteth now I shew thee the grounds and reasons of the Art viz. the Number of the Signs their Names and Natures the Dignities Number and Names of the Planets and the Reasons of all these and what is else most expedient and necessary to be known that thou mayst not be to seek but be sufficiently enabled to answer all opposers and gainsayers thereof in which thou hast also a plain and easie Introduction to the whole Art wherefore thou oughtest to be very well skilled and perfect in every point and part contained in this Book before thou venturest to proceed to the two other subsequent Treatises for otherwise thou shalt never be able to apprehend them the which contrariwise if thou art perfect in this will prove very easie unto thee wherefore that it might be so I have in this place prefixed it Let the benefit be thine or no I am sure the Pains and Labour hath been mine yet now I rest Thy Loving Friend William Ramesey The Contents of every Chapter contained in the Second BOOK being an Introduction to the Iudgement of the STARS CHAP. 1. OF the names and number of the Planets with their several Characters and signification and Nature of Saturn Fol. 49. Chap. 2. Of the signification and Nature of Jupiter Fol. 52 Chap. 3. Of the signification and Nature of Mars Fol. 54 Chap. 4. Of the signification and Nature of the Sun Fol. 56 Chap. 5.
Revolution of the world for that year ought to be regarded and concluded the radix or ground-work of all your Elections for according to the nature of the significator therein must your Election be framed Divers events happen to men on the election of one and the same hour and minute or your shall never be perfect in this Art Hence it is that often we shall finde some kind of men and occupations thrive and prosper some years more then in others and again on the contrary do all what they can their business still and endeavours go backward The reason is their significator is more fortified or debilitated in the Radix and we see that such shall in an Election by Saturn and Mars have a good and prosperous day The reason thereof and upon the square or opposition of the Moon to Saturn or Mars although on a mischievous day because these malevolents were chiefe rulers or significators of the business in hand things or persons c. in the Radix Consider also the places of any Eclipse or Great conjunction in every year So that when your true significator is known and his essential and accidental fortitudes and debilities you cannot erre the following Rules being diligently and warily observed there being an harmony and such a concordancy betwixt the Coelestial Creatures and our Terrestrial affairs according to that excellent saying of Hermes there is nothing here beneath that is not governed and ruled by what is above Coelestial influences are not effectual but to such as are of their own nature Know then that in judging of the stars in Elections special care must be had unto the business in hand for according unto the nature thereof must your business be ordered and your time chosen as for earthy businesses as planting and sowing and the like an earthy sign is to be chosen or placed in the ascendent if appertaining to fire a fiery sign if to the water a watry one c. As for example if you would elect a time to plant you must prefer Virgo before any other of the signs because she is an earthy sign and such an one too as is participating more of the nature of the fruits of the earth then any other viz. Taurus or Capricorn and so understand of any business be sure you still elect a sign proper for your business and agreeable to the nature thereof For the continuance or dispatch of business And for the speedy dispatch of any business let a moveable sign be chosen if for permanency you would elect any time take a fixed sign if you be indifferent or desire your business shall neither be of long or short continuance preferr a common sign c. Chief Significators to be fortifyed The Moon The Sun But still look to the fundamental grounds of Elections viz. to fortify your chief significators and cheifly the Moon because she hath a general signification in all things in journeys times places and all businesses whatsoever also the Sun he being as it were cheif Ruler or King amongst the other Planets but more particularly the Planet signifying the business in hand as if your Election be concerning war or fireworks you must fortify Mars if to speak to the King the Sun to gain money Iupiter if concerning marriage or love-matters Venus because these significations these Planets are generally of and so understand of any business whatsoever still have a care to fortify the Planet signifying your business in general as well as particular if you can The Sign agreeing generally with the business to be fortifyed In like manner you must choose and fortify the Sign signifying your business in general for as I have sayd as is the nature of your business such must the Sign be you choose and fortify as if you would goe by water as to Sea c. you must fortify a watry Sign and more especially Cancer for that she is the house of the Moon if by land as a journey c. an earthy Sign c. viz. free from misfortune or affliction of the malevolent aspects of the Infortunes and place it in the Ascendent of your Election or the Lord of the Ascendent therein or the Moon Note or both if possible and this is necessary in all Elections and the Antients moreover have for men elected a masculine sign for women a feminine but this is needless c. The sign and house signifying your businesâ— in your radix is also to be observed in Elections A general rule worth the noting The sign also and house signifying your business in your Radix ought to be regarded and well dignifyed also fortify the house and sign signifying the business in your Election as if you would elect a time for profit you must fortify in the figure of your Election the second house in the Radix its sign and the Lord thereof as well as the second in your Election c. In all Elections remember to fortify the Ascendent its Lord and Disposer of him and the fourth and the Lord of the fourth and also his Dispositor for by fortifying the Ascendent the Lord thereof and his Dispositor the health and safety of the Parties body electing is promised by fortifying the fourth its Lord and his Dispositor a good and safe conclusion and end of the business But note as aforesayd that if a malevolent Planet be significator in any thing in the Radix you must fortify it and not think the making a fortune viz. Iupiter or Venus which are but generally so significators will be beneficial for it will often prove contrary Jupiter and Venus may sometimes be malevolent Planets and not fortunes Saturn and Mars may also sometimes be fortunes not infortunes for all men are not ruled by Jupiter and Venus neither as I say are they always fortunes for accidentally they may be infortunes and when they are Lords of the eighth twelfth and sixth they are occasions of sickness poverty imprisonment mischief and death as effectually as Saturn or Mars for every Planet must doe the office whereunto it is ordained and so by the same rule may Saturn and Mars be fortunes and so they are to those they cheifly rule and to such things as are properly under their dominion either naturally or accidentally wherefore the true knowledge of your significator in Elections of the business intended is of great value and worthy serious consideration Also in electing any work have especial care to fortifie the part of fortune the Lord thereof and its Dispositor so that they be either in body or aspect helped by the fortunes and free from the configurations of the Malevolents Let not the Lord of your Ascendent by any means be retrograde Note for it will occasion tardity and hindrance in any thing although all the other significators were essentially strong and promising the effecting of the business it causeth also much trouble and pains in the business although naturally never so
is within twelve degrees of the head or tail of the Dragon which is the term or place of an Eclipse Sixthly when she is in the latter degrees of a sign wherein there is an infortune Seventhly when she is cadent from angles or in via combusta the burnt way which is in the last 15. degrees of Libra and the first 15. degrees of Scorpio and this is the worst Impedition the Moon can have especially in Marriages and in all matters belonging to women also in selling buying and in travelling or going a journey Eightly the Moon is impedited when she is in detriment viz. in Capricorn or in Quartile with her own house or not beholding her house with Sextile or Trine Ninethly when he is slow in motion viz. when she moves in four and twenty hours less then is her mean motion understand the same in all the Planets The mean motion of the Moon according to the most learned in this art is 13. deg 10. min. 36. Sec. Tenthly and lastly the Moon is impedited when she is void of course which is when she is in any sign and beholds not any Planet till she enter another sign c. Understand not the fortunes to be only Jupiter and Venus and infortunes Saturn and Mars as in the sust chapter Let therefore in all manner of Elections for good the Moon be strong and well dignified and in good aspect of the fortunes and free from the Configurations of the Malevolents and that she be not in the Ascendent yet if she be beheld by the Fortunes and be in the Ascendent it is good to buy and sell and make the Moon and the Lord of the Ascendent in your affairs of electing behold the Ascendent for when a Planet beholds not his own house it is like a man that is not able to benefit his house nor remove the evil Impending but when a Planet beholdeth his own house it is like a man that is strong in his habitation that is able to protect and defend those that are under his power and tuition and to repell and keep off those enemies that are without and note further that when the Lord of the Ascendent is unfortunate This is in case of necessity and when you cannot defer time for a better election you must place him so as that he behold the Ascendent with a Trine or Sextile and if the Moon he impedited let her by no means be in an Angle but place the Fortunes therin or the Moon when she is beheld of the Fortunes out of an Angle Let not Part of Fortune be cadent in the beginning of any work or question from the Aspect of the Moon or her Conjunction it mattereth not for the Dispositor of the Part of Fortune neither mattereth it whether Part of Fortune be cadent from the ascendent but put the Lord of the ascendent with Part of Fortune because it is most profitable for gain but let not the Moon be placed in the second sixth eighth or twelfth from Part of Fortune because it causeth ill success Rules more for the beginning of works And in all beginnings of works whatsoever let the ascendent and the Moon be in signs of right ascensions as are Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio and Sagittary because it denoteth good success and speedy dispatch in the business but the signs of oblique ascention as are Capricorn Aquaries Pisces Aries Taurus and Gemini cause a hindrance therein and much tediousness wherefore let not the ascendent or the Moon be in signs of oblique ascentions And if the Moon be impedited and your business is in such haste as that you must elect your business at such a time let not her have any relation to the ascendent either by body or aspect but let her be cadent from the ascendent and place a fortune in the ascendent or in good aspect therewith and fortifie the cusp of the ascendent and its Lord and the Lord of the hour The method of the subse quent discourse Thus have you as brief as can be the general way of judging of Elections let us therefore now descend to particulars wherefore the Method we shall take or follow herein shall be to proceed according to the several demands belonging to every house of Heaven since there is no one thing or business incident in the affairs and life of man but it is signified by one or other of them wherefore we will begin with the businesses appertaining to the first house and then in order we shall proceed to the second and third and so to the rest c. But first let me give you these two following Tables the one of Elections according to the aspects of the Moon to the other six Planets and the other of the Mansions of the Moon and elections thereby since they have been thought worthy of note by the most learned of the Ancients in this most noble and heavenly Science CHAP. III. Shewing Elections by the Aspects of the Moon to the other six Planets and by her Mansions LIkely some people have not the capacity to understand or judge of the Rules of Art so as to elect a fitting time for their work or business in hand or cannot perhaps admit of so much time as to make an Election wherefore for brevitie sake since I have met with these following Tables in the books of the learned not to leave these my labours lame I thought good to insert them that I might not leave my Reader to seek in any thing of this nature that hath come to my hand yet know that there is not much credit to be given unto them since they are general Rules and therefore cannot hold at all times nor in every bodies affairs for as hath been abovesaid Jupiter and Venus may accidentally be malevolents and infortunes to some men and Saturn and Mars may prove Fortunes and Assistors wherefore then in those mens affairs that have Saturn or Mars their chief significator and strong in their Nativities the Quartile or Opposition of the Moon I mean such days as she is thus aspected may prove rather advantagious then prejudicial and to whom Jupiter or Venus are Rulers of the sixth eighth or twelfth in their Nativities a Sextile or a Trine or the Moon to them may not a whit advantage however I thought good to give you them as they are here beneath represented to you by my Author A TABLE of Elections according to the Aspects of the Moon to the other six Planets  ☌ ⚹ □ △ ☠♄ An unfortunate say take no journey speak not to Princes nor old men avoid the company of husbandmen Converse with old men and husband men build and plant trees graft but seek not the love of Women Confer not with old men nor sue to Princes take no Physick or journey defer thy desire Converse with old men and husbandmen repair what is ruinous and manure ground Hire no servants seek not after thy gain take nothing in
the first fourth seventh and tenth The succedents are the second fifth eighth and eleventh the Cadents are the third sixth ninth and the twelfth as you have already in the preceding Treatise heard and have a special care also that the Moon be not in Gemini especially if she be beheld of Saturn or Mars by a Square or Opposition for if beheld of Saturn it is to be feared they grow not again and if they grow they grow ilfavoured and thin and if Mars behold her by any of these malevolent Aspects and placed as aforesaid they will grow into the flesh which will cause much pain and perhaps endanger the loss of the joynt if not the whole hand Haly saith in cutting the nails let not the Moon be in Gemini or Sagittary nor beheld of their Lords viz. Jupiter and Mercury but put her in Aries Taurus Cancer Leo or Libra free from infortune or any impedition and let her not be in Via combusta which is in the first 15. degrees of Scorpio and the last 15. degrees of Libra as you have already heard but the first 15 degrees of Libra you may adventure on Of the feet In cutting the nails of the feet put not the Moon in Gemini or Pisces or in Via combusta or in any other impediment or affliction In cutting of Corns that they may not grow speedily And in cutting of corns observe the same rules and that they might not soon grow again let the Moon be in Gemini Leo or Virgo decreasing in light and motion but not afflicted by the malevolents for that may prove obnoxious and hurtfull and if you can let the Moon be in a cadent house of Heaven SECTION III. Of Rules for Electing matters appertaining to the second House CHAP. I. Of receiving and borrowing of Money To borrow or receive money IN things of this Nature you must be very carefull to fortifie the Lord of the second the Lord of the sign in which he is the cusp of the second in your time of borrowing or receiving and the cusp of the second in your Radix the Lord of the second and the Lord also of the house in which he is if you can Jupiter also ought to be fortified for that he is a general significator of wealth c. Let the Moon be also decreasing in light and in Leo Scorpio Sagittary Aquaries or Pisces and let Jupiter or Venus behold the ascendent or the Moon and if you can both yet look that the Moon be not impedited of any of the Infortunes nor Mercury especially by Conjunction or Square neither let the Fortunes be cadent for the Moon by Mars afflicted causeth much sollicitation pains and labour also much difficulty in the procuring and perhaps anger If by Saturn it causeth much protraction and delays and oftentimes after much pains and travel causeth the business to come to no good or frustrateth the borrowers expectation Neither borrow nor lend Take this for an approved Rule that when the Moon is in the first degree of Gemini Leo or Sagittary or they on the cusp of the ascendent it is not safe either to borrow or lend for that much inconveniency will come thereof That none may know of thy borrowing of money And if you would borrow money privately that it might not be known or divulged let the Moon when you borrow it or receive it be under the Sun beams and going to Conjunction of the Fortunes when she is separate from the Sun or some other good aspect of the Fortunes no ways impedited this causeth the business to be kept private and close But if the Moon be joyned or apply by any aspect to Mars when she separates from the Sun his beams the business will be divulged abroad and known by many and those too that you desire should be ignorant thereof look also that the Moon be free from Via Combusta or the conjunction of Dragons Head and and Dragons Tail CHAP. II. Containing other Rules concerning borrowing and lending of money UNless you know the true significators you can herein do nothing The Ascendent and its Lord are the significators of the Borrower or Petitioner the seventh and his Lord are significators of the Lender Mercury and the Moon signifie the Thing to be lent When therefore you finde the Lord of the Ascendent and the Lord of the seventh in any good Aspect of each other or in reception or the Lord of the seventh in any good Aspect of each other or in reception or the Lord of the seventh in the ascendent or Mercury or Mercury joyned to the Lord of the Ascendent by body or aspect or in reception of each other the business shall be accomplished The money to be borrowed shall be had But if the Moon be under the Sun beams the Sun shall signifie the thing demanded in stead of the Moon And Haly saith If the Moon be in Via Combusta or in the ascendent at noon or in the first degrees of Gemini Leo or Sagittary or if they be in the degree or cusp of the ascendent it signifieth no good to the Lender but to the Borrower this is Halies opinion you have but just now heard it is neither good for the Borrower or Lender at such a time you may follow which you please and in your curiosity try them both and follow which you finde most true a little experience will soon clear the doubt however it is no ways good to lend any thing in the hour of Saturn That the borrowed money may long last But if you desire that the received money remain long with you not desiring any ways to imploy it let the ascendent at the time of the receit thereof be a fixed sign and the Lord of the ascendent the Moon and the Lord of the second in fixed signs free from misfortune or impediment as also the angles of your figure But if for some occasions you have you would speedily disburse turn and winde your money which perhaps may be advantagious let the ascendent be a movable sign or a common but a movable in such a case is much better Of laying out money to advantage let also the Lord of the ascendent the Moon and the Lord of the second in your Radix and at the time if you can of the receit of the money be a movable sign free from impediment as also the Angles of your Figures and remember that in all Elections you fortifie if possible your chief significators as also in your Radix as well as at the time of the Election Furthermore if you desire to keep what you get or receive that it may be imployed by you to your best advantage fortifie the ascendent and its Lord at the time of the receit of the money fortifie also Jupiter and let not Mars behold the Moon Ascendent Part of substance or part of Fortune or their houses or any of their Lords especially of the Moon or
the Sun evil is threatned to the chief Ruler of the City or Mayor If Venus it will fall on the Women of the City If Mercury be joyned with Dragons tail there shall be much deceit and many lyes and cozening deceitfull tricks used If the Moon the common sort of people shall be afflicted So on the contrary judge the good success of those signified by those Planets free from impediment and in a fortified condition at the time you laid the first stone of your foundation if the Planets are all strong judge fortune and good success in general c. To know the signification of any thing or casualty incident to or in any City and how to judge thereof Moreover know that the Ascendent of a City hath signification of the life of the Inhabitants the second house of its riches strength and power the third of the Laws thereof the fourth of the end of the Inhabitants causes as also the end of the City and the secret places therein as hidden treasures and the like the fifth of the children of the Inhabitants the sixth of the servants and infirmities and maladies incident to the inhabitants the seventh of the Marriages of the Citizens the eighth of their great houses the ninth of their manners customs and Voyages the tenth their habitations Masterie and occupations also their honour power and dignity the eleventh their friends and assistants the twelfth their great Cattel Plots and secret Enemies also imprisonments and poverty So that from hence you may judge methodically and particularly of every particular quality of any City for in what houses you finde the Malevolents and such houses as you see are afflicted and impedited you may judge the ill success and misfortune according to the strength of your afflicting Planets to those things signified by the house afflicted and impedited c. So likewise of the good state and condition of those things signified by those houses you finde assisted by the Benevolents and well fortified When Saturn is in any of the angels alone and not assisted by the Fortunes it signifies delays and slowness in those things signified by the angle he is in and in the actions and undertakings of the Citizens in general if Mars be there he denotes many mischiefs dammages robberies and corrupt or over hot ayr But if at the beginning of the building or laying of a Cities foundation ♄ and ♃ behold each other with a good aspect and be in angles and other good places of Heaven strong and well dignified it denoteth the City shall be of long continuance and increase in glory and plenty a long time Observe warily what I have already said and it will be needless for me longer to insist on this point Let us therefore proceed CHAP. III. Of Building of Churches WE shall find this Election since in this our age we build more Serralias then Churches to be in a manner needless yet since by the most Learned and well-minded Antients it hath been mentioned I shall for the benefit of Posterity which I hope will exceed us in Religion and goodness deliver the Rules of Astrologie in such an operation c. At the time then the first stone of the Foundation is laid let the Ascendent be fortunate as also its Lord the Moon and its Lord the Part of Fortune and its Lord the ninth house and its Lord the Planets in any of these Places also the Planet in configuration with the Moon and let Jupiter be in the Ascendent and if possible in Sagittary or Pisces or if you cannot do so let him be in Sextile or Trine of the Ascendent especially in Trine and out of his own houses and good places of Heaven but let the Lord of the Exaltation of the Ascendent be well placed the tenth and its Lord the ninth and its Lord the Moon and its Dispositor and Jupiter if you cannot observe all the rest c. CHAP. IV. Of Building or Erecting of Mills IN building of Mills be sure you place the Moon in Aries in the Ascendent or Libra or the latter part of Virgo and by no means let her be in Cancer or Capricorn but in the aforesaid signs as also the Lord of the Ascendent or in Sextile and Trine thereunto free from the Malevolent Aspects of the Infortunes Observe also this time in beginning any work belonging to Mills c. CHAP. V. Of pulling down or destroying of Houses or any Fabrick whatsoever LIke as the wisest of Mortals very well once said There is a time to build and a time to pull down what hath been built there being a time for all things under the Sun having given you the time of building it resteth you know also the time of pulling down what hath been built for there is nothing sublunary permanent or that is not subject both to change and destruction c. Haly saith when you would pull down or spoil any building place the significators contrary to what you have in building Put the Moon in a fiery sign and its Lord let the Ascendent also be a fiery sign and the Lord thereof in a fiery sign or an aëry but Athabarus a learned Author saith let the Ascendent be a sign of right Ascentions and the Lord thereof Occidental slow in motion going also to a sign in which he is afflicted in Fall or Detriment let him also be Retrograde and falling from an angle and let also the Moon be decreasing in light and motion cadent from angles and joyned to Planets very weak and unfortunate and if possible let her be in Scorpio or Capricorn and under the earth or in configuration with a Planet under the Earth Meridional descending and joyned to retrograde Planets and let her be in the last Square with the Sun Let the Lord of the fourth and sign thereof be weak and afflicted as also all the other significators and the Planets to whom they are joyned or in Aspect with but chiefly in this work debilitate Mars if you cannot all what you have heard for as he is against building so is he also against pulling down what is built But if it be so that you care not much whether the destroyed place or house be rebuilt or no let the Moon be separated from the Malevolents and joyned to the Fortunes or in reception of them and this will cause the Fabrick so destroyed to be the easier rebuilt if ever taken in hand CHAP. VI. Containing rules of Elections in buying of Land Houses or Heritages The significators of the Buyer LOok in every Election or Work you have a special care you exactly know which are your true significators wherefore in this matter the Ascendent its Lord and Planet from whom the Moon last separated are the true significators of the Buyer Of the Seller The Lord of the seventh house and the seventh house it self and the Planet the Moon applies to of the Seller Also the Seeds and Plants sown or growing on the
which he hath also three dignities which makes with the other four seven then if we examine yet farther what face the cusp is in it being in the first ten degrees of the sign we shall finde it to be Mars his for the which he hath one dignity assigned him which together with the aforesaid five makes six and no more hence then I am to conclude the Sun to be Lord of the year being Almuten of the ascenden or the Planet bearing most dominion therein whose dignities you see were seven yet Mars shall be joyned in judgement with him but still the Sun shall be chief Dominator or Significator whether of good or evil according to their strength or debility as you have already sufficiently been informed yet because I desire that the Students in this Science should be well verst in their Rules I shall yet further deliver some Instructions touching the condition of such things signified by the Lord of the year in any Revolution by the signification of his Nature place in the Heavens and his configurations with the other planets and I hope to give you any more examples in this matter being so plain in this one wherefore then we shall to our business in hand CHAP. V. Of the Significations of the seven Celestial Planets when any of them is Lord of the Year whether Fortunated or Impedited and of the Aspects of the other Planets with them DElivering unto you the Rules of the Ancients for knowing of the Lord of the year in the preceding Chapter I have fully declared unto you the general denotation of the Lord of the year when well or ill dignified or disposed in any Revolution to which I shall only add these two or three words and proceed to the signification of every particular Planet when Lord of the year and Fortunate or afflicted If the Lord of the year be beheld by his Dispositor viz. the Planet in whose house or sign he is in any Revolution and free from Impediment for if so the People under that Revolution shall be in a good condition quiet secure at peace and tranquility also joyfull and pleasant If the Lord of the year be not impedited and not beheld by his Dispositor or if he be impedited and aspected by him judge their condition to be between both viz what you have heard and what follows For if he be impedited and behold him not they shall be sad solitary fearfull shall be molested with War Trouble and Anxiety for thou shalt judge the clean contrary to what thou hast heard Judge this also according to the Nature of the house wherein the Lord of the year is for if he be in the Ascendent judge as you have but now heard if in the second the good or evil signified shall happen to the signification of the second house as to the Peoples substance assistants and friends c. according as you have been taught in the former Chapter and other places in this Treatise Of ♄ when Lord of the year and fortified Now then to our business if Saturn be Lord of the year and well dignified the People shall that year or during that Revolution build and erect houses shall make many alterations in Fabricks shall abound in all things the earth shall be fruitfull and the People shall be in esteem and honoured by all their neighbours and the husbandmen shall exceedingly increase their Store and Wealth and be successfull in all their labours ♄ Lord of the year and weak But if Saturn be Lord of the year and weak or afflicted there shall be much cold great and grievous infirmities and men shall sustain much sorrow losses and crosses and great dammage by storms wind and rain but this must warily be considered if other Significators of Weather concur and then mayst thou assuredly conclude it to be so Ancient and old men and women shall die and these things shall chiefly happen to those Places Cities and Regions under Saturn his Dominion and the Dominion of the sign which he doth then possess ♃ when Lord of the year other strong or weak When Jupiter is Lord of the year and strong and well dignified the King shall do Justice and it shall be happy for those that are Noble men Judges Councellors of the Law and men of all sorts of Religious Orders shall be in a successfull happy pleasant and good condition and shall live plenteously and contentedly in honour and also great esteem and the People also shall be in a good and prosperous condition and shall receive good from their King and Superiors and they from the People also if the Lord of the Ascendent of the Moon be in reception with the Significator of the King or Lord of the year or be located in the mid-heaven but if Jupiter be weak or afflicted judge the contrary to all what you have heard in every particular which I omit to rehearse for brevities sake ♂ When Lord of the year either strong or weak Mars when he is Lord of the year strong and well placed all such as belong to Arms as Souldiers and the like shall be fortunate and in good condition and shall overcome their enemies there shall be also during that Revolution sufficient and plenty of rain as such times and no other it is convenient and requisite and the People shall be prosperous and happy but if he be Lord of the year and weak c. judge the contrary and you must remember still in the judging the good or evil portended by him and also all the rest of the Planets it shall chiefly happen in those places and Regions subject to his or their Dominion which you have been at large shewn in the second or Introductory Treatise The Sun when Lord of the year either strong or weak If in any Revolution you finde the Sun Lord of the year and well dignified the King and Nobles shall exceed and increase in glory and renown Corn Beasts and Birds shall be plentifull the people generally prosperous and successfull and all things in a good condition whereof the Sun hath any signification if weak judge the contrary Venus when Lady of the year either strong or weak When you find Venus Lady of the yeare and wel and fortunatly disposed the year will be successful and advantagious unto women who shall be free generally from Infirmities and mischances they shall love and delight themselves in the society and company of their Husbands shall be fruitfull easily conceive and bring forth their Children the People shall also generally thrive and be prosperous shall delight themselves in Recreations sports feastings mirth and jollities and all pleasure whatsoever they desire shall feast make Marriages and delight to go neat and fine in apparel if she be weak and impedited she denotes the contrary Mercury when Lord of the year either strong or weak Mercury signifies when he is Lord of the year and strong that Merchants Trades-men and all
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
head especially if the sign ascending be Aries In the second If they be in the second House afflicting the Cuspe thereof or the Lord thereof or both as abovesaid of the Ascendent judge the evill to fall in and to mens estates and riches especially to the common people who shall many of them be exposed to poverty and want and in some measure even the Nobles also and best of them shall have losses and crosses in such matters it signifies also that there shall many maladies and infirmities in the Ears Throat and Neck afflict men such as are Impostumes Catarrs and Rheumes c. especially if the sign of the second be Taurus In the third If in the third the evill shall happen to those that go short journies and they shall be unprofitable strife contentions and discords amongst brethren neighbors and kindred without cause or any occasion given many grievous infirmities and those cheifly in the Arms Hands and Shoulders or Shoulder-blades especially if the sign of the third be Gemini In the fourth In the fourth as you have heard of the Ascendent or in Conjunction with the Lord thereof evill and mischief is threatned to the Earth and its Fruits it signifies also wars and contentions amongst men and one City and Place with another also dissentions and quarrels between Fathers and Children and the end of mens actions shall be evill also if any shall purchase Land Houses or Heritages they shall not finde that profit and good therein which they expected and there shall be many Infirmities and diseases in the Breasts and Lungs and parts adjacent especially if the sign be Cancer In the fifth Also in the fifth if they or any of them be found afflicting the Cusp thereof or its Lord much evill shall happen to Children Parents shall not be so affectionate and careful as they ought Women conceaved shall miscarry such as are not conceaved shall continue unfruitful friends also and loving acquaintance shall disagree and clash and Men shall suffer detriment in and by such things as they most delight in and many infirmities will be incident to man also especially in the Back Reins and Parts or Vessels of Generation and in the Stomach cheifly if the sign of the fifth be Leo. In the sixth Again if in the sixth c. mischief shall happen to small Cattel servants of both sex it signifieth also there shall be no gain or profit in Merchandizing and Trading in small Cattel and many infirmities in the Belly and Intrals if the sign of the sixth be Virgo especially In the seventh In the seventh or any of them in Conjunction with the Lord thereof as you have heard c. denotes wars dissentions amongst great ones also quarrels and dissentions amongst Associates and Lovers and between Man and Wife Kings and their Subjects and Associates and they with their King or Superiours mens hearts shall be hardned neither shall there be any mercy or pity amongst them nor faith nor truth and promises tyes and protestations shall be violated and lightly esteemed and men shall not care for the use of their Trade Profession or Calling but shall be given to looseness and it signifieth also there shall be many Infirmities in the Bladder Ureters and Reins especially if the sign of the seventh be Libra In the eighth In the eighth it denotes the evill condition and trouble of Theeves and Robbers also that men shall quarrel and disagree that have inherited the Goods and Legacies of the late deceased and to be short impediment loss and damage in to and by all things appertaining to the signification of the eight House which you have been abundantly shewn in the 41. Chapter of the second Book it signifies also many Infirmities in the Secrets if the sign be Scorpio especially also Plagues Mortalities and Malevolent infectious and poysonous Diseases In the ninth Also if in the ninth judge mischief to happen to the Religious sort of men and such as bear Office in the Church and Ecclesiastick affairs Sects Schisms and new Tenets shall be allayed perhaps extirpated and totally beaten down and quasht c. Much damage it also signifies to such as travel and go long journeys and no success or profit therein It signifies also that men shall be corrupt Heathenish and of ill conversations there shall be little or no war and men shall be perplexed with many accidents and Infirmities in the Thighs especially if the sign of the ninth be Sagittary In the tenth Again if any of the Malevolent fixed Stars be in the tenth afflicting the Cuspe thereof or the Lord thereof it denotes much damage and detriment sorrow and trouble to those in Authority also dissention quarrel and discord amongst them and they shall be so put to it for mony that they will de induced to tax the people neither indeed will they contribute to their necessities as formerly nor have so venerable an esteem of them but shall slight deride and scoffe at them and set up themselves if possible in their room Nobles will be dejected and Rusticks erected and elevated and there shall be many infirmities in the Knees especially if the sign be Capricorn In the eleventh Also if in the eleventh strife dissention and discord shall happen among friends and acquaintance and one shall abuse and slander the other and study to injure and prejudice each other hopes shall be frustrated and the Treasure of the King or chief Rulers shall be exhausted and those in whom they most confide shall deceive them and leave them helpless at their greatest extreamity and men shall be perplexed with many Infirmities in the Legs especially if the sign be in Aquaries In the twelfth Lastly if in the twelfth It denotes many theeves and much theeving and robbing by the High-way also deceit and falsehood of servants towards their Masters and much detriment by them a diminution of indigent and poore people the Commons shall be kept under by their Superiours damage shall be to great Cattel and there shall be many infirmities incident to man in the feet especially if the sign be Pisces In like manner judge the contrary if you finde the benevolent Stars so posited they are benevolents that you find are of the nature of Jupiter or Venus or both or of the nature of Jupiter and Saturn Jupier and Mars or Venus and Saturn Venus and Mars and of the nature of Jupiter and Mercury Venus and Mercury and of the nature of Mercury only especially if assisted by the benevolent Aspects of the Fortunes And thus much shall suffice for Instruction in the judging of the Annual Revolutions of the world let us now descend to Eclipses and so hasten to a conclusion of these our labours SECTION IV. Teaching how to judge of the Natural Mutations and Accidents of this Elementary World by the appearance of Eclipses Comets great Conjunctions and Blazing Stars IN the Sixteenth Chapter of this very