of a thing which here is wanting But to the Text again In his 5th Chapter he discourseth wholly about the places of the Planets and whether we ought to consider the Planet in a right Line from the Centre of the Earth to the Planet and Primum mobile or by a right Line drawn from the Eye on the Superficies of the Earth through the Body of the Planet to the Primum mobile but never disputeth one word of beholding it from the Centre or Superficies of the Sun which if it were worthy to be taken notice of 't is strange Morinus should overlook and neglect it I might quote you many more places in this Author in order to my design but I shall content my self with these and sum up all in that Aphorism of his in the third Chapter Concursus duorum Radiorum Coelestium ad Terram sive Centrum Mundi qui in primi mobilis Zodiaco Terminati arcum abscindunt qui Circuli maximi in duodecim aequales partes divisi partem aut partes Continet similemque angulum ad Terram subtendit Lastly Didacus Prittus tells us page 63. Radii sunt proportionales partes alicujus Circuli secundum Communem sententiam Cujus Centrum sit in Centro Terrae And though he differs from the Common Opinion That the Mystery of the Ray doth not consist in the Angle at the Earth yet he allows every Aspect to make an Angle at the Earth and according as they think too some more acute and some more obtuse Now to tell you my Opinion of his Text though he doth deny the Angle to give the Aspect its force and mystick Power yet he allows the Earth to be the Point from whence this Aspect is to be seen in its Form and Measure which being observed from any place but the Earth is of no force nor validity at all to produce any Effect either in the Microcosm or Macrocosm because it is not such an Aspect as it is reported to be the Star or Stars being not to be seen in those Points and Parts of Heaven if observed from the Sun or any other Body in Nature By what hath been said it appears That all the Authors that have written of this Subject do allow no other Point but the Earth to see these Aspects from that are believed to have any effect or power on Sublunary things and that all other Rays from other points observed want not only a name but a power also to be known by nor did any man ever appear till here of late to perswade Mankind that such things were possible to be believed And now to sum up these Learned Authors I will add one more of greater Antiquity than any of them to prove what I endeavour and that is the Great Ptolomey in the 20th Chapter of his first Book of his Quadripartite but I know my Adversary will not believe him by the Scurrilous Names he calls him Having thus far discoursed the matter I am led by their Doctrine and Notions to consider it in Directions also which is practised and asserted for truth in an Almanack for 1692. In that Nativity we find Mars from the Earth in 25 degrees of Libra but from the Sun in 17 degrees Now if neither of these will hit my Accident by Direction I will step to Saturn or Jupiter and perhaps I may see him there in 13 or 14 degrees so that some of these Points so differently beheld must undoubtedly hit the mark 't is no matter whether it be agreeable or not with the Accident if there is but a Nominal Direction to be hit in our teeth when we ask the Cause of such or such an Accident To direct the Earth to the Body of Mars is such a paradox that will puzzle all the Heliocentrick-men in this Nation to demonstrate it to any man of Reason and to inform their Intellects how or by what means these two Bodies must meet or where we must stand to behold it for when the Sun and Moon are directed to the Body of Mars or when the Midheaven or Ascendent are directed to the Body of Mars we can stand at our own Doors and see them meet and pass by one another but where we must go to observe this uncouth Phoenomena I want a Chronocentrick Topographer to give me some Heliocentrick Directions how to find my way and when that is done I must wait for a Heliocentrick Pass and a Post-Boy before I can proceed on my Journey for I guess I must travel into the Sun the only fit place for a Heliocentrick Philosopher to dwell in but when we come thither all the plague will be we shall be frustrated of the things we expect for there is no such thing as Diurnal nor Nocturnal Arks and by that Consequence no Directions there is no Horoscope nor no Midheaven and by that means no Eighth House which will be a plaguy disappointment to our Astrologers for the People there must either live for ever or else dye by something that our Astrologers will be at a plunge to find out and bring into use instead of the Eighth House But to the point again Before any thing else be done by these Innovators let them tell us What the Heliocentrick Nocturnal Ark of the Earth is in all or any parts of the Zodiack because the Diurnal and Nocturnal Arks are the ground of all Directions both Direct and Converse If they say there is no such thing why I agree with them and tell them there is no Direction there by that rule nor can the Earth be directed to any thing because that is the Basis we stand upon to behold the Starry Motions and to receive their Influence and you may as well make any one man at the same time Patient and Agent Plantiff and Defendent as to direct the Earth to the Body or Beams of any Star for the Earth cannot be said to have either Diurnal or Nocturnal Arks. And I lay this down as an Aphorism That all Bodies not capable of those Arks are not quallified with any Motion serviceable in Directions And here perhaps I have opened a Window to my Adversary's Understanding by which he was never enlightned before By this means of turning the Tables and changing the Earth for the Sun I judge they apprehend all other things fall in naturally and easy If so pray let them tell us how to set a Heliocentrick Figure of Heaven and how we shall find out the Heliocentrick Midheaven and Ascendent for if we must have Heliocentrick Directions these ought to be principally considered or else we shall be losers by the bargain For to take in the Earth to help out at a dead lift and lose the two serviceable Angles will half undo the Astrologers For I will maintain That the Ascendent to ill Rays kills more than all the rest of the Hylegiack Points in the common way And I think it is but reasonable since they will thus put it upon us to direct the Earth
whatsoever other Points are taken and Lines drawn to that purpose between those Points are only imaginary and without any Ground and Foundation in the Order of Nature The proportional Distances of the Stars to the Angles ought to be taken from that Point and Part of the House from which they began their Distance hence it is a very strange sort of Philosophy to me to see some when they know the Stars do begin their Distance from one Point to take the Quantity of their Distance and its due Dimension from another Point no ways concerned which was only an Invention back'd with a general Consent to deceive themselves and others 5. The first and primary Division of the Heavens according to Ptolomy is into four Parts or Quarters two above and two under the Earth and these are again divided into two Denominations of Oriental and Occidental as you may see Lib. 1. Cap. 10. Lib. 4. Cap. 5. These four Parts of Heaven are constituted defined and demonstrated by those two great Circles the Meridian and Horizon as you may likewise see in the fore-quoted quadripartite Lib. 3. Cap. 11. and in other Places in which Place and Places you must observe that the Word Horoscope is not to be understood of the Exorient Part of the Ecliptick only but that Line which the Stars pass when they first appear to our Sight which Line is called Finitor Orientalis This primary Division of the Heavens is by the Help of the two beforementioned Circles wholly and entirely divided into twelve Houses and this Division doth not only comprehend the Zodiack and ten degrees of each Side of it but the whole Hemisphere above and also under the Earth Hence it is that we say A Star that hath great Latitude is in the Ascendent Twelfth House c. though the Sign that Star is in is not near the Cusp of that House nor is the Star near the Zodiack by many degrees but by its Rising with large North or South Latitude it is said to be in that House when it is in that Space made in this Division by the Horary Circles of Position Hence it is likewise that the Horary Circles of Position are rationally and demonstrably different from the Common Circles of Position and though they are both imaginary yet the former are far more naturally true and real than the latter And also that they depend on certain distances between the Angles which sheweth that not only the four Quarters which is the Division of the Zodiacal Circle but the Division of the four Quarters also doth wholly depend on the two great Circles the Meridian and Horizon Hence it appears also that the primary Division of the Heavens into four Quarters according to the Doctrine of Ptolomy sheweth that the Horary Circles of Position considered with the Tempora Horaria do plainly demonstrate that the Angles are in Square and Opposition one to another and that all the rest of the Houses as well one to another as to the Angles bear an equal and regular Distance and this by a certain and determinate Motion proper only to that Circle and that the Houses are parallel each to other and all of them to the two great Circles beforementioned the supposed Lines being drawn from one Intersection to the other and each of them extended are equal to the great Circles It is also plain that the Diurnal or Horary Circle of Time by which the Houses are determined and constituted is wholly different both in its Nature and Use from the Zodiacal Circle and by a Mistake in the use of both it hath given occasion of stumbling to some and a real Ground for Errors among others some of which at this Day are greedily embraced for undeniable Truths Hence it appears likewise that the Houses are certain Spaces in the Heavens consisting of Parts thereof and are endued both with Longitude and Latitude and they are proportional Distances equally drawn according to the Principles of Motion between one Angle and another and though there are divers Pretences to a Division of this nature yet there can be but one true These things being allowed that way of dividing the Zodiack into twelve equal parts and the Lines thence produced drawn through the Poles of the Ecliptick is wholly rejected as false because it doth not divide Motion but Air And also it is the most uncertain Division and irregular of all that have been invented and the most subject to Mutation It doth also wholly reject that Division of the Ecliptick parallel to the Equator and the Lines drawn through the Poles of the World and that for the Reasons before alledged It doth also wholly reject and disown the Division of the Vertical Circle which passeth by and cutteth the Equator in the Points Orient and Occident And though that Division of the Heavens is moderately proportional and for the most paâ—t constant and certain yet it is not a natural Division and that for these Reasons First it doth not divide the Motion and Influx of the Stars but the parts of the Air only Secondly it doth not determine the proportional Distances of the Houses from the à quo ad quem of the Stars Motion but from the Points of their Parallels which indeed are neither natural nor real and to say the Truth nothing at all but Imagination by which means they first lay an imaginary Foundation and then build an imaginary Structure thereon Thirdly Let there be two Stars or more in Conjunction exactly in the Point Rising and at some distance from the Equator then their opposite Point must be in their exact degree of Setting If so then why should their intermediate proportional Distances between the Angles be made by those Parallels in which they do not either Rise or Set and is it not a very idle thing to take the Distances of Motion from other Parts and Points than those of their Inception and Desition which are really the true à quo ad quem of their rapt Motion in our Sight and Hemisphere Therefore the Distances of Motion ought to be taken from those Points from whence the Stars begin to move and to increase their Distances by Motion This doth also reject that Division of Alcabitius as false and erroneous because he grosly errs in taking the Semidiurnal Ark of the Point Rising and makes that serve for the three Oriental Houses above the Earth by dividing it into three exact parts For it is very well known that the Semidiurnal Ark of the beginning of Cancer is far greater than the End of Aries and therefore when Cancer Ascends by that Division the three Houses above the Horoscope will have Arks above their Proportion and Right and the three Houses below the Ascendent will have Arks less than their due and so of the other six Houses by the same Rule Which you will find to be wholly irregular and false It also rejects that of Regiomontanus called the Rational which divides the Equator
Thirdly That of Alcabitius as he hath delivered it himself in that Chapter called De esse Circuli Accidentali and learnedly handled by Valentine Naibod in his Comment on that Treatise page 137. Hence the Method of this Projection is thus To the Time given he takes the Right Ascention of the Midheaven in the common way to which he adds 90 degrees and under the Pole of the Region you set your Figure for take the degree of the Ecliptick answering to that Oblique Ascention as in the usual way of this Ecliptical Point Orient they take the Semidiurnal and Seminocturnal Arks each of which they divide into three equal parts and then proceed thus To the Right Ascention of the Midheaven they add one third of the Semidiurnal Ark and that gives the Right Ascention of the Eleventh House the degree of which you take in the Table of Right Ascention and so of the Twelfth House Then to the Right Ascention of the degree ascending they add one third of the Seminocturnal Ark and that gives the Right Ascention of the Second House whose degree is taken as above in the Table of Right Ascention and so of the Third likewise concernin gwhich I would give you an Example at large but that I think it is not worth while either to you or my self and this Way and Method hath been said by some to be Ptolomy's but untruly as you shall see hereafter The Falshood of this Projection will appear divers ways and soon put it out of doubt that it is wholly Fictitious and Imaginary and hath no ground in Nature and that for these Reasons following First All Planets pass the Cusps of the Houses in the Ecliptick and therefore the Cusps taken in the Equator as here must be vastly different sometimes and therefore very false Secondly the Distance of the Houses are not Equal either in the Ecliptick or Equator for in the Latitude of 51 degrees when 7 degrees of Virgo doth ascend the first scruple of Aries Culminates the Semidiurnal Ark of 7 degrees of Virgo is 101 degrees 6 minutes and the third part of it is 33 degrees 42 minutes Now by the Rule precedeing there should be one degree and a half of Cancer on the Eleventh House and 3 degrees of Leo on the Twelfth So that between the Tenth and Eleventh Houses there is 30 degrees and an half betwen the Eleventh and Twelfth Houses 31 degrees and an half and between the Twelfth and Ascendent 33 degrees and an half so that contrary to the Rule when the Semidiurnal Ark grows less that of the Equator grows larger Thirdly and most to the purpose The Semidiurnal Ark of the Ascendent may serve its own Distance from the Twelfth but not the Tenth and Eleventh for at the same time the Semidiurnal Ark of 7 of Virgo is 101 degrees 6 minutes the Semidiurnal Ark of no degrees of Cancer on the Eleventh House is 122 degrees 30 minutes therefore your own Reason will tell you this Division is false because the Distance of the Tenth and Eleventh Houses is but 33 degrees 42 minutes which ought by true Rule and Motion to be 40 degrees and 50 minutes And besides the Distance of each House in the Equator is so various that sometimes it is but 19 degrees and sometimes 40 by which means there is no certainty of the Pole of the House the Ascendent excepted With many other Objections which to spare Pains and Paper I do omit in this place Fourthly That of Campanus and Gazulus two men mentioned together as if they had been Contemporaries but of about 400 Years distance the first I suppose invented this Division and the latter reviv'd it again after it had been almost forgot This way of Campanus doth also divide the Heavens into Twelve Parts called Houses and this done by the Vertical Circle and is the most rational of all the four mention'd but yet sufficiently false for though he divides the Vertical Circle equally yet he divides nothing else equally neither the Equator nor the Ecliptick nor true Motion which of all is the most certain and unquestionable And therefore in these two Examples following you may see how the other parts of the Heavens are to be trusted to in that Division For Example Let the beginning of Capricorn be on the Tenth and Aries ascending in the Latitude of 51. then you have 8 degrees of Capricorn on the Eleventh House which should have been 18 degrees and 24 of Capricorn on the Twelfth House which ought to be 13 degrees of Aquary so that you have by that Division two Signs compleatly intercepted in the Twelfth Let Cancer o degrees be on the Tenth and o degrees of Libra ascending then by that Division you will have 27 degrees of Cancer on the Eleventh which ought to be 6 degrees in Leo and 27 of Leo on the Twelfth which ought to be 6 degrees in Virgo This also is notoriously false and not only in my Opinion but according to the Modus Rationalis also And therefore let these Objections be sufficient to prove this Division of the Heavens Erroneous which will likewise further appear in the Examination of the Modus Rationalis both being subject to the same way of Trial and Proof as you will soon see by what follows Fifthly That of Joannes de Regiomonte or Regiomontanus called the Modus Rationalis which divides the Heavens into Twelve equal Parts in the Equator but not in the Zodiack where the Cusps or Beginnings of the Houses do really fall and therefore all other Parts of that Line drawn from one Intersection of the Meridian and Horizon to the other signifies nothing to us so much as that part or point that cuts the Ecliptick for that alone is the Cusp of the House and the only Point that we direct under its peculiar Pole This Division is by Morinus commended as the most exact extant and yet in page 409. he complains of its Deficiency and tells us afterward That by a new Invention of his own he had supplied that Defect and made it serviceable to all Parts of the Universe even within the Polar Circles as you may see in the Page before quoted to which I refer you for further Information in that matter But I do say positively That the dividing the Equator or Vertical Circle into Twelve equal Parts is utterly impossible to form a true Astrological Scheme that shall agree with Motion let them draw their Lines of Distance from what Points they please either from the Intersection of the Meridian and Horizon the Poles of the World the Poles of the Zodiack or any other Point whence they shall think convenient provided they will let those Lines so drawn divide the Globe Into two equal parts if extended quite round Nor do I see any Reason why the Poles of the Houses should be so different and unequal as they are in this called The Rational Way c. For in the Region of 51. the Pole of the
into twelve equal Parts and that for the very same Reasons above alledged against the Division of the Vertical Circle For though they do not err on the same Bottom and Principle yet they err equally in the Consequence and thing they aim at which is a true and equal Division of the Heavens Many things more might be said in the matter but I think these are sufficient 6. The Division of the Heavens and the true parting of the Houses by the Pen of Nature do each of them consist of two Temporal Hours either of the Place or Star That is by a proportional Division of the Motions of the Moveable Arks from one Angle to another for it is most certain every thing that moves measures its own Distance by Motion and that Motion by Time as you have in effect heard above This Division of the Heavens is natural and freely offers it self to the Principles of Reason for Authority and Proof for according to this Measure and Motion the Houses are all equal and a Star or Constellation hath an equal tarriance in time in its Passage in and through every House which they have not by any other Division but by this of two temporal Hours For the Stars do dispence their Influence to us by a constant and successive Motion both in their Ascention and Descention in all Hemispheres and if they do continue longer in one House than in another the Effects as well as the way of judging thereof must be both false and irregular and it cannot be denied but that such a Division is false and the reason is because those Mansions Portions or Houses of Heaven are unequal Again a Star according to this Division being in the Center of the Eleventh House doth behold the Ascendent by a Sextile in the Tenth by a Square and in the Ninth by a Trine according to the Doctrine of Ptolomy Lib. 3. Cap. 11. de Loco Prorogatore which is not re vera to be found in any other Division whatsoever which proves this Distribution to be truly natural and also agreeable to the Rules and Precepts of Ptolomy And the Reason is plain because a Star found or placed in the Center of the Eleventh House is exactly one third of the Diurnal Ark distant from the Ascendent in the Tenth half the same Ark distant and in the Ninth two thirds of the same Ark exactly from the Horoscope which no other Division till this time discovered is able to perform besides this of two temporal Hours to a House which I have elswhere shewed more at large But perhaps it may be objected That though two temporal Hours are used as is here laid down yet the Houses are not equal because out of the Equator those above the Earth toward the North are greater than those under the Earth to the South the contrary And therefore this Division cannot be Regular and Equal To this it may be answered That an Equality among the Houses is only required in the same Hemisphere the World being divided into four Quarters or at leastwise into two Hemispheres one above and the other beneath yet the Hemisphere below differs nothing in Quality and Figure from that above nor can they differ one from another in any thing but Quantity therefore although a Star should perform its Diurnal Ark by a lesser Circle than his Nocturnal or the contrary yet still that Star passeth through the four quarters of the two Hemispheres nor doth the smalness of his Ark in any of them abate of his Power and Effect his Distance considered As we do experience in the Moon who passeth more swiftly through the Zodiack and in a far less Orb than any of the rest and yet we see she doth not less affect the Times and Seasons than they do From whence it is plain that the Stars do not less produce their Effects in the smaller Quarters by a swift Motion than in the greater by a slow Therefore this is no rational Objection to the Division of the Heavens by Temporal Hours seeing they are really and truly proportional parts in all quarters of Heaven and are all equal one to another as well in Influx as Motion notwithstanding the Hemispheres are different in their Measure And besides this Foundation being laid the Prorogator must remain immoveable in Mundo that is in the horary Circle of Position Which is confusedly jumbled hither and thither by the increase and decrease of the Ark in the common way according to their Motion and Method of Directions For whosoever pretends to the Art of Directions and doth not understand the horary Circles of Position I am sure he doth not know the Motion by which all Directions are made for all Directions are made by one and the same Motion both direct and convers and this according to the Doctrine and Method of Placid de Titis Thus I have endeavoured to shew the several ways of Dividing the Heavens into Houses and the Errors that do attend them and that this of all the Methods yet used is the only true and natural one and most agreeable to Motion which every one may use or refuse according as they are informed in their Understanding Nor is it my Design to impose upon any if I had Power so to do but I offer it to the Judgment and Censure of the Ingenious and for the Ignorant and Capricious they may let it alone CHAP. III. Of Directions to the Angles c. DIrections are of two Sorts and Denominations i. e. in Zodiaco in Mundo The Sun and Moon are capable of being directed both ways but the Angles of a Figure can be only directed in Mundo they being subject to the Accidents and Division of no Circle but that which constitutes the Measure of each Quadrant and is also measured by the Parts of the Diurnal and Nocturnal Arks And of these Directions only I shall take Liberty to speak in this Place and also shew those monstrous Absurdities invented by witty men that knew nothing of the Art and imposed them upon such who swallowed the Errors without asking Why or Wherefore and are at this present in general Repute among most of our modern Professors and this not only by those that pretend to be Teachers of the Art but also in Print under the Hands of some of the greatest Masters of this Science by which means the Professors of this Age are mis-led in their Practice as well as misguided in their first Rudiments and very hard to be retrieved when once Custom and Age hath confirmed them therein First It hath been and still is the common Method in Practice to direct the Midheaven and Horoscope to the Bodies and Oppositions of the Planets with and without Latitude and according as occasion serves they are both equally violent in giving Diseases and Death as you may see in their own Books and under their own Hands For example Argol says Henry II. King of France died on the Ascendent to the Body of
demonstrate the Direction of the First House to the Second the directing the Mid-heaven and Ascendent Convers the directing the Angles to the Aspects of the Planets with half the Latitude of the Body the direction of the Moon after the Common Way Of which you will hear more by and by The Directions of the Ascendent to the Bodies and Oppositions of the Planets without Latitude the directing the Angles to the Aspects of the Planets in the Zodiack upon what Ground and Authority they build their Directions in Revolutional Figures and lastly how they will prove by Demonstration That the Part of Fortune is always in the Zodiack which is the natural Consequence of their Precepts for directing it as you may see in most Authors And I do not doubt but when the so long promised and long expected Body of Astrology salutes the unlearned world we shall find Methods and Matter not only to inform our Understandings but to take off those foul Spots and Blemishes from the Face of the Divine Urania and as one hath filed the Key to the Secrets of Heaven bigger so I hope the other will take care to polish it Fifthly There is another notorious Conceit they use very gravely and to puzzle the Cause and make it look more mysterious they confound both themselves and their Pupils in teaching them how to work and perform it And that is to direct the Ascendent and Midheaven to the Aspects of a Planet in the Zodiack with half the Latitude either of the same oâ— the contrary Denomination whether it be Sextile or Trine And the only Author I find hath taken Pains to impose explain and teach this way in English is the Author of Clavis Astrologiae Elimata page 671 and 672. Where he endeavours to make his Disciple learn to work and understand an unintelligible non-entity i. e. the Ascendent to the Trine of Venus with half her Latitude of a contrary Denomination and that this may be the more exact and true it is there wrought Trigonometrically but how true it was performed will appear presently He there says That the Ark of this Direction is 33 deg 25 min. add this to the Right Ascention of the Mid-heaven 318 deg 2 min. and it produceth 351 deg 27 min. which shews that 21 degrees of Pisces then toucheth the Mid-heaven by Direction and that Venus wanteth a full degree of that Cusp when this pretended Direction of the Ascendent to the Trine of Venus is finished Now what man of Sence that will consult his own Reason as well as a little Skill in this Case can ever imagin Venus is in Trine to the Ascendent before she hath past the Midheaven and when she is not compleatly 90 degrees from the Horoscope which ought to be 120 And to say the Truth of all in that Case That Direction by his own Figure could not touch by true and visible Motion till Seventy one Years of Age Ark 63 17. And this by Ptolomy's measure of Time which he pretends to teach his Reader page 637. which is vastly different from this as you may see by comparing both But can any man in the Worâ—d conceive or imagine That Venus is in Trine to the Ascendent when she is not 89 degrees distant from it and this put upon the World by a Mathematical Astrologer that is willing all should appear demonstrably and plain to the Readers By which you may learn How our great pretended Masters of Astrology understand the Nature and Motion of Directions Pray let this worthy Author appear once more and shew us by his own Skill and Demonstration How the Directing the Angles to the Aspects of the Planets with Half and Quarter Latitude is performed in Nature If not as he took the Pains to file the Key bigger so I will assist him in the polishing of it But let the Direction be how and when it will in his Apprehension as to Time and Operation which are indeed both amiss the main thing we have now to enquire is Why the Latitude is allowed to the Aspect of any Planet directed to an Angle And Secondly Why but half of it as in the Example before us These Gentlemen that do thus confound Astrology by these pretty Devices do it either out of Ignorance or Design for they make things difficult to be understood that Nature hath made plain and easie and puzzle us with Motions and Directions that they understand not themselves nor are there such things in the Being and Order of Nature and this is principally done by blending the two so different Circles of the Zodiack and World together which is indeed a thing utterly impossible to be done and yet keep to the true Order of Natural Motion I have told them That all Bodies which move in and near the Zodiack are to be directed in the Zodiack only and that they meet all Rays in those Circles wherein they move Thus the Sun meets all Rays both Bodies and Aspects in his own Way and Circle but all Points of Heaven in the World receives all Rays in Mundo only and by that Circle also measureth its Aspects Hence it is impossible for the Mundane Circle to measure the Zodiack or the Zodiack the Mundane Circle and this you may easily see for when the 1st degree of Sagitary is on the Tenth House the latter degrees of Capricorn Ascend So that you have but two Signs between those two Angles and hardly that but there are above four Signs then between the First and Fourth Houses and the same number between the Tenth and Seventh and so of the rest when the End of Capricorn is on the Tenth House and the beginning of Gemini Ascending But however I think or believe concerning this Conceit of Latitude in the Aspects in the Zodiack I wholly deny it in Mundo and all Aspects to the Angles for we are not beholding to those imaginary Aspects made in Zodiaco and used in Mundo but to the real Distances of the Stars made by the equally divided Figure into Twelve Houses from which Points and Places they behold the Angles c. and are just so many parts distant as do compleat that Aspect then formed and made and if any Mathematical Gentleman can do that in any part of the Figure with half the Latitude c. I should be very glad to see such a Curiosity performed But why with Half the Latitude Why truly for no other Reason but because Morinus says it and gives a demonstration to that purpose to confirm this Notion which Morinus fercheth from Blanchinus and Leovitius supposing their Authority might strengthen his But whereabout in the Figure this little parcel of half Latitude should fall I cannot apprehend for though the thing is true in it self when a Planet is furthest from his Node that the Square falls in the Intersection and by that Projection the Trine in their Sense will have different Latitude from the Body yet in this Circle in Mundo there is not one
of the Moon and the residue they call the Ark of Direction which is 30 degrees 47 minutes at which time the Moon is really in 30 degrees of Aries with Latitude and not in 11 degrees the Place of the Sun for when the Moon comes to the 11th degree of Aries she hath 5 degree of North Latitude by which reason she passeth the Sun's Body with and in 22 degrees of Pisces under the Horary Circle as you may see by the Globe if you please so that the true Direction of the Moon to the Body of the Sun 23 degrees 45 Minutes is not taken notice of by the common Professors and others nor indeed is it known to them for in all their Books they tell you There is but one Direction of the Moon to the Body of the Sun in that Position and that differs 7 degrees 2 minutes from the true one I am sure there is no man but what will readily agree with me in the Truth of this Direction and as readily agree That the Moon 's Latitude ought to be taken notice of in the Place where the Direction is finished for by this Reason when a Star hath large Latitude and the Moon large Latitude also of a contrary Denomination the Direction may be of little or no effect because their Bodies or Oppositions may be 10 or 12 degrees distant from one another when the Direction is really compleat In the next Place I would direct the Moon to her own Square in the Zodiack and this under the Pole of the Ascendent also and that falls in 8 degrees of Taurus and according to the modish way of directing now in Use and Practice they substract the Oblique Ascention of the Moon taken at that time from the Oblique Ascention of the 8th degree of Taurus and the Ark of Direction so wrought is 43 degrees 00 minutes but the true Ark of Direction of the Moon to her own Square taken with the Latitude she hath in that Point is 34 degrees 8 minutes differing from the other wrought in the common way 8 degrees 52 minutes And this you may perceive by the Globe as well as the Tables that the Moon meets her own Square in 19 degrees of Aries For at that time when they tell us That Direction is compleat and finished the Square of the Moon is past that Pole of Position in the Horary Circle about 5 degrees of Altitude above the Horizon which if you rightly understand it will soon appear to be a notorious false way of directing And yet among all the Professors Teachers and Pretenders at this day there is no other way in use nor is there any other to be practised with general approbation and so long as no body questions it every one is satisfied Nay our great Mathematical Teachers too those Men of Numbers who to say the Truth of them know the least in Astrology of any men they I say have swallowed the Gudgeon too and yet we forsooth must trust to them in the Division of the Heavens and contriving Methods to direct by and which you see are false in many things and in this for one There is not a man in being though totally unacquainted with Mathematical Learning but will soon agree that every Star that is directed must meet those Rays they are directed to in their own Way and Circle wherein their Motion is performed and if you direct them in some Conceited imaginary Circle contrary to Nature you cannot believe that Direction true For it is perfectly impossible that he who travels Oxford Road should ever meet that man or men that travel York Road I suppose you will judge the Reason of it Why just so it is in our Case now before us but perhaps a Diagram may more aptly shew it and make it plain to you In this Diagram let a A ♋ B ♑ represent the Meridian Line C ♈ D a part of the Equator A ♈ B the Eastern Finitor a part of which is the Point ascending C ☽ D the Mâ—on 's Way in Mundo O ☽ E M the Moon 's Way in the Zodiack with Latitude in which prick'd Line she meets her own Square or any other Body or Ray that falls in the Ecliptick or near it for it is perfectly impossible that the Moon or any other Star should meet the Beams or Bâ—dies of other Stars in a Way Line or Ciâ—cle that they move not in And I believe you will grant me this without pressing That it would seem horridly ridiculous for any one to pretend to direct the Sun in the Prick'd Line O ☽ E M when we know he always moves in the Line ♑ ♈ ♋ Why then is it not as absurd to direct the Moon in the Line ♑ ♈ ♋ when she doth not move there but in the Line O ☽ E M 5 degrees from it as I believe by this time you understand and are ready to grant Now let us take a view of the common way and observe how ridiculous the thing appears upon Examination for they neither direct the Moon in the Ecliptick nor in her Circle of Latitude but out of both For they take her Oblique Ascention with the same Latitude she hath at Birth which in our Example in the Diagram is 1 degree South as you may see by the Prick'd Line ☽ N and in that Line and Quantity of Latitude they do direct her through the Natives whole Life when it is plain she doth not move in it but in the other Line ☽ E â–¡ M which is 4 degrees from it when she comes to the beginning of Gemini Therefore if you take no more notice of her Latitude after you have taken her Oblique Ascention at Birth which in the present Example is 1 degree South you direct her all a-long with that 1 degree of Latitude and no more and in an imaginary Circle not yet known to Nature which appears to be ridiculouâ—ly false because the Moon is not there In the Diagram Let the Moon be in 00 degrees of Aries with one degree South and I would here direct her under the Pole of the Ascendent to her own Square which falls in Zodiaco in 00 degrees of Cancer and the Ark of Direction in their way sine Lat. is 54 degrees 37 minutes And by their Principles there is no such Direction as the Moon to her own Square cum Lat. because they say the Square always falls in the Ecliptick and can have no Latitude but how true that is I judge you may see by the annexed Diagram but the true Ark of Direction must be wrought with Latitude and the Ark so wrought is 63 degrees 4 minutes differing from that of theirs 9 degrees 27 minutes which is a small Fault with them but a plaguy Blunder in Direction For do you think that their Direction and mine can have an equal Force Or that the Direction the Moon meets in her own way is not of more Force than that in the Zodiack or the other out of her Way
a Figure for the 25th day of September 1689. at 2 Hours after Noon at which time 8 degrees of Capricorn Ascends and the Part of Fortune is within 9 degrees of the Cusp of the Ninth House being 39 degrees distant from the Midheaven 14 degrees of Scorpio then culminating Then if you set another Figure at 6 of the Clock the same Night you will find at that time 11 degrees of Capricorn on the Tenth and 28 degrees of Aries on the Ascendent and the Part of Fortune is in 27 degrees of Capricorn in the Tenth House 16 degrees within the Cusp Then if you set another Figure at 10 of the Clock that Night you will find 10 degrees of Pisces culminate and 13 degrees of Cancer Ascend and the Part of Fortune in 14 degrees of Aries upon the Cusp of the Eleventh distant from the Midheaven 34 degrees Again set a Fourth Figure for the 26th day at 2 in the Morning at which time there is 14 degrees of Taurus on the Cusp of the Tenth and 26 of Leo Ascending and the Part of Fortune in the very end of Gemini in the Eleventh House 7 degrees within the Cusp Let us set another Figure for 6 of the Clock in the Morning and then we shall have 11 degrees of Cancer on the Tenth and 8 degrees of Libâ—a Ascending and the Part of Fortune in 14 degrees of Cancâ—r in the Tenth being skipt back from 7 degrees within the Eleventh to 4 degrees within the Tenth Let us take the pains to set another Figure for 10 of the Clock the same 26 Day in the Morning and then we have 10 degrees of Virgo on the 10th and 8 of Libra Ascending and the Part of Fortune is 28 degrees in Leo in the Ninth House 12 degrees distant from the Tenth And to make up the 24 Hours let us set another Figure for 2 of the Clock Afternoon the 26th day and then you find 15 degrees of Scorpio on the Tenth and 9 degrees of Capricorn Ascending and the Part of Fortune in 19 degrees of Libra distant from the Cusp of the Ninth 2 degrees almost and from the Cusp of the Tenth 26. So that you may observe that in the first 12 Hours of this 24 the Part of Fortune runs end ways 83 degrees and in the last 12 Hours it danceth back again 70 degrees By which it appears here is a threeâ—old Motion One its Progress through the Zodiack by which Motion it moves through the Twelve Signs The Second is its direct running Motion And the Third is its Retrograde Running Motion And all these in 24 Hours which was to be proved and I hope it is so Again If you look to July 31st 1694. at 7 of the Clock that Morning when 7 degrees of Gemini culminates the Part of Fortune is 15 degrees in Taurus 13 degrees from the Cusp of the Ninth in that House At 5 of the Clock after Noon when 2 degrees of Capricorn Ascends the Part of Fortune is 9 degrees in Virgo in the Eighth House nearer by much to the Cusp of the Eighth than the Ninth and yet at 12 of the Clock that Night when 24 degrees of Gemini Ascends the Part of Fortune is got into the Ninth again So that you see it danceth backward and forward from one House to another which must of Necessity render all the Directions to that Point modo communi of no effect because every degree in Direction motu rapto changeth the Face of Heaven which you see causeth this dancing Motion in the Part of Fortune And for that Reason the Promittor cannot find the Part of Fortune when Significator because he plays at Bo peep and endeavours not to be found I wouâ—d not have you think that there are no other Times to be found but these two in which the Part of Fortune danceth in this manner because I have mentioned no more I have given these Two Times that you may readily see what I am endeavouring to shew and I mention no more because I will not blot Paper to so little purpose as I should in giving you some hundreds of these Examples so easie to be found by any that are willing to take Pains however I will name one Time more and that is October the 26th anno 1693. see what you can make of it And as if the Part of Fortune was not loaded with Fooleries and Absurdities enough Origanus helps forward the Work When teaching his Pupils to take the Part of Fortune in a Revolutional Figure he directs them to take the Distance of the Sun and Moon in the Radix to which they must add the Degree and Minute of the Revolutional Ascendent and the Sum shews the Part of Fortune in that Scheme 12 Signs being cast away if need be And for this you may read his own Woâ—ds if you please page 779. de Effecti Where you may find an Example performed with a great deal of Pains and to a very little Purpose but it is by such Methods we have gain'd most of the choice Notions we now vapour with The like you may read in Argol's Ptolomâ—us parvus in cap. 1. De Revoluâ—â—nibus pag. 173. What shall we say now to the whole matter if the Part of Fortune be thus uncertain And what Credit is to be given to those Directions of Argol in his De Diebus Criticis where he makes two Cardinals one on the Part of Fortune to the Body of the Moon and the other to the Antiscion of Jupiter p 160. pag. 330. But especially in the Duke of Montmoranci where he makes the Part of Fortune to the Antiscion of Mars to kill him and so doth J. G. in Bishop Usher's Nativity kill him with the Part of Fortune to the Opposition of Mercury In the first of these namely Argol the Part of Fortune was according to the Doctrine of Ptolomy giver of Life but how far the true Pars Fortunae was from his I leave to the ingenuous Enquirer to examine but what J. G. talks of the Part of Fortune in the Bishop's Nativity for I cannot think nor imagine for it is not there in an Aphetical Place which if it were it could not be allowed to be Hileg because the Sun and Moon are both above the Earth But more of this Matter when I come to examine these Authors in particular and so I conclude this Chapter with this Axiom c. The Part of Fortune is the Lunar Horoscope and depends on the Sun and Moon for its Motion it moves through the Houses as the Moon doth through the Signs and no faster it is seldom in the Ecliptick and wholly uncapable of the Rapt Motion and for that Reason not to be directed Convers and whosoever understands the Part of Fortune other ways than thus suffers himself to be put upon and knows nothing of the Matter But I cannot pass by that Learned Stuff about the Parts of the Houses without taking some Noticâ— of thâ—â— lest they should think I did
of Mars but from the 10th to the 20th is the Decanate of the Sun from the 20th to the End is the Decanate of Jupiter They have also their Duâ— Denarys or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the Distance of the Sun or any other Star from a certain Part of Heaven of which I can see no great matter of use Then they have their Novenaries called by the Arabians Anaubarach and it is thus They divide a Sign into 9 parts each part consisting of 3 degrees 20 minutes then observe in which Novenary of the Sign or House the degree of the Planet is in and the first Novenary is governed by the Lord of the moveable Sign in that Triplicity and the second Novenary is given to the Lord of the next Sign to it and so forward throughout the nine Parts Example Let us suppose a Sign of the Fiery Triplicity in which Aries is the moveable and Mars Lord of it so that Mars governs the first part oâ— Novenary Venus the second Mercury the third the Moon the fourth the Sun the Fifth and so on till you come to the degree you seek by which means you find out the Lord of the Novenary where the degree of the Sign or House is that you seek after And when you have done all this what use it serves for I cannot tell it seems to me to be a great deal of Pains to little or no purpose and indeed so is the whole Chapter in my Judgment and so I leave it to your Opinion in general I have been the larger in this Chapter because of J. G.'s asserting People to die on the Evil Alfrydaâ—ies and I suppose he will allow the Chronocrators also For which Reason I have been very plain as well as brief And indeed he and some others being ignorant of the true motion are forced to fly to such silly Shifts and Shams as these are for a Refuge when nothing else will do I therefore desire him or any of his Partakers That they would shew us how and in what Nativities these and such like Shams and Fooleries have been the Cause of Death And if they do not I must take it for granted That they only make use of the thing for a â—ham and know nothing of the Matter And if they produce any Nativities for Examples I do intreat them to give us the true estimate Time thereof CHAP. X. Of Transits and Eclipses in reference to Life and Death I Know by my Conversation among intelligent men in this Lâ—arning That Transits are and have been esteemed dangerous and endued with a Power to Kill and that many men will rely on the Power of an ill Transit or two to judge this or that man did expire by and that there were no other Causes for Death but only that Transit that they shall alledge and think fit But I confess they seldom make use of this thing but in Nativities where the Persons are dead and they can find no Direction fit to be assigned for it and therefore in such Cases they have Recourse to Transits nor did I ever know any of that Opinion durst venture to predict a man's Death by a Transit nay though there were half a dozen bad Transits together they do not dare rely on them and say They will kill but that they have killed that I have often heard them say when the Work was over and Death had taken Possession Now if this should be true it is very strange that some ingenious man or other had not in all this Time licked this Doctrine into Shape and Form sufficient to have assisted the Artist in his Judgment on Death for it is certain if they do ever kill it is possible to foresee when they will and when they will not by a continual Observation thereof and one or two Experiments of this kind would mightily clear the Doubt and convince its Adversaries and prove the Point in Dispute against all Arguments whatsoever but to this Time all Volumes are silent in the Matter and their Authors and the Artists themselves are mute and destitute of Experiments of that kind i. e. of Death fairly predicted before hand by a Transit or Transits and nothing else The Truth is if we will but give our selves leave to consider How many violent and dangerous Transits a man pasâ—eth in Forty or fifty Years and not kill him it would be sufficient of it self to confront this Doctrine and convince its Favourites that there is nothing of Truth in the thing and wholly take off their Opinion of its Power And to this End and Purpose I will mention Two or three Examples and the first is of Charles II. who some of them say dyed by the Force of two or three Transits and nothing else i e. the Sun in Quartlâ—e to the Radical Places of Mars and the Moon Mars in Square to his own and to the Moon 's Radical Place for his Death If this should be true why did he not dye in September 1656. when the Sun Saturn and Mars were all in Conjunction upon his Horoscope and in Square to the Moon and to the Sun 's Radical Place Or in December 1660. when Saturn was in Opposition to the Moon 's Radical Place the Sun and Mars in Sagitary in Opposition to the Sun 's Radical Place and both in Square to the Ascendent Or in November 1672. when all the Hilegical Points were afflicted at once Saturn and Mars in Pisâ—cs in Square to the Midheaven and the Sun 's Radical Place and in Opposition to the Ascendent and the Sun in Opposition to the Moon 's Radical Place and in Square to the Part of Fortune and yet for all this he did not dye and I think he was not sick neither at that time as ever I heard These and twenty more such times he passed that were worse Transits than those they say he dyed upon But to put all out of doubt I can assure them That he had seven Directions and from them seven his Death was predicted some Years before he dyed The second Example is his Brother who I have heard them say had the Misfortune to lose three Kingdoms by an Eclipse of the Sun on the Sun 's radical Place and nothing else to assist it Now if you will but look back to the 14th of October 1650. he had an Eclipse of the Sun exactly in almost 2 degrees of Scorpio on his Radical Place and yet no Mischief to him then as I remember but what his Brothers and Sisters were all liable to In the Year 1660. April the 15th there was a great Eclipse of the Moon on his Radical Sun's place within 4 degrees and yet no Hurt to him not withstanding Saturn was there also But above all that of October 14th 1669. the Sun then was eclipsed on his Radical Place and that upon the very Node too which shews it must be a great and Central Eclipse and yet no Injury to him at that Time neither though
plainly in 25 degrees of that Sign But more of this anon The Ground of these Aspects is imagined from the Sun being supposed to be the Center of the visible World and that those People who inhabit that Body do see the Planets in those Signs and Degrees which are called their Heliocentrick Places from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sol and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Câ—nter that is to say The Sun is the Place they are beheld from and the real center both of those Bodies and Aspects that they attribute such mighty Power to in their various Operations on Geocentrick Bodies and Things and I do not remember they were ever thought to have any Influence worth taking notice of till that excellent Mathematician Mr. Th. Street did imagine it and truely to do the man right he did but guess that they had some Influence on the Weather But now some People do affirm they do every thing Nay direct to them too in cases of Life and Death Ignorantia detestanda I do indeed now see there is nothing so absurd but it will find some Favourites and Admirers It is a thing so idle and totally unknown to the Ancients that there is no Author hath thought it worth his while so much as to mention it in Print judging as I suppose that no man would be born so ignorant as to believe it if he did write thereon therefore what Authors I bring are to prove the contrary though I think there is no great occasion for any of them because two or three rational Arguments ad rem will confound the whole Project but however to shew I have some Authority for what I do I will give you a few Quotations It hath been generally judged and agreed to by all Astrological and Astronomical Professors That the distance in the Zodiack c. which is called an Aspect and stirs up agitates and conveys all sublunary Influence diffusively through the whole Globe is only efficacious and powerful because of its Angle it makes at the Earth which is the whole Mystery of the Cause as well as the Effects in Directions Mutations of the Air c. and I will begin with Kepler in his Epit. where he says Aspectus est Angulus à Radiis Luminosis binorum Planetarum apud Terram formatus Efficax ad stimulanaum Naturam Subiunarem By which you see Kepler allows no other Aspects in Nature to stimulate and agitate the several Members of the Microcosm but such Aspects as make their Angles at the Earth or to speak more Intelligibly whose Places are to be seen from some part of this terrene Globe and therefore in my Opinion this Text of Kepler alone doth cut down and destroy all Heliocentrick Pretensions of that nature as you may see by that Expression of Apud Terram formatus which I take to be positive in opposition to the Heliocentrick and others of that kind Likewise Sir Christ. Heydon tells us speaking of Rays and Aspects This savoureth nothing of Matter but hath only consideration of Form not so much respecting the strait Beams of Light which flow from every Star as valuing and esteeming how their Beams meet at the Earth Not at the Sun I pray observe that for it is the Geocentrick and not the Heliocentrick Angle that makes the Aspects remarkable and effectual and hath been hitherto allowed by all the Innovators excepted Lucius Bellantius seems full and positive in the Point when he says Aspectus Stellarum non considerantur qui fiunt respectu partium Coeli respectum non habentes ad Terram That all Aspects made from parts of Heaven not having respect to the Earth are vain and useless pag. 86. and as if he had intended it against Heliocentrick Aspects in particular he doth enforce it with this Argument for says he by the same Rule the Sixth and Second House may be said to be the Midheaven for it is only in respect to the Earth that these and many other Divisions of the Heavens are made For in respect to the divers parts of Heaven the Stars are perpetually in Aspect one to another and those Aspects too of different Denominations though from the same Bodies For example the Sun and Moon are constantly in Conjunction Sextile Square Trine and Opposition according to the Heliocentrick Rule for when in respect to the Earth it is a Conjunction in respect to a Point in the Orb of Mercury it is an Opposition And when we Geocentricks see it is an Opposition from a Point in the Orb of Satuâ—n it is a Conjunction and so of all the rest of the Orbs and Bodies And for my part I cannot quote any thing fuller than this is nor can Words be spoke more directly to the matter in debate than this of the Learned Bellantius And pray give me leave to ask one Question seeing I find our Author just mentioned hath given a short touch at the thing How will the Circle be divided into Houses and by what Motion or Circle must it be divided and where the Horoscope will fall I doubt we shall have all Horoscope or all Midheaven for I am sure there will be no Subtoranean Arks no Crepusculine Circles nor no such thing as Directions to those that inhabit the Globe of the Sun to which Point all Heliocentrick Aspects are to be referred and considered Morinus in the 16th Book of his Astrologia Gâ—ica hath spoke sufficiently 〈◊〉 â—spects in general and in all that Discourse he takes no notice of any Aspects but those that make their Angle at the Center of the Earth as you may see in the first Section of the first Chapter Where he says An Aspect doth consist of the Rays of two Stars beholding one the other or rather they unite their Rays in a Line drawn recipâ—ocâ—lly from one Star to another as if the Stars did look towards one another and also as they constitute an Angle at the Center of the Earth or World To the same purpose he speaks also in the third Chapter Pro concursu duarum Linearum ad Terram And a little after he says Idâ—que Aspectus Concipiendi sunt Terrae respectu Hence we see that he as well as the rest of the Learned do conclude That an Aspect ought to consist of a certain Distance in the Zodiack and that the Power of that Aspect on Geocentrick Bodieâ— doth consist in its Angle made at the Center of the Earth Because from thence and thence only that Aspect is to be measured in the Ecliptick for if at the same time it is beheld from any other Body or Orb than the Earth it is not that Aspect nor that Distance that it is seen from the Earth to be as you see Lucius Bellantius hath before observed Therefore if this Doctrine be allowed where shall we find a good Philosophical Basis to build this Notion on about Heliocentrick Aspects c for it is most certain we ought to have a rational Notion as well as a practical Use
question whether we ought not to divide the Revolution of a Nativity into 4 Quarters as we do that of the Year for Mundâ—ne Affairs And because he would be exact he also considers the Revolutions of the Moon gives Rules for judging and tells you what significant Effects they had in his own Nativity A man would have thought one of his Learning and Parts might have been better employ'd than to write so largely of such useless things or if you please of things of such little use as what you have heard The greatest and the best Authority we have doth only advise us to consider Revolutions to see what Transits and Ingresses there are and how the Radical Prorogators are affected by th good or afflicted by the bad Stars as in these words Afflictis enim Locis in Annorum â—xitu Stellis Inficientibus praecipuâ— loca mortem certam Perhaps there may be many read these words that may not understand them though good Proficients in Grammar and the Latin Tongue but that is not my fault It hath been the Knavery or Foolery of Professors in all Sciences to load each art with abundance of useless things to make themselves seem the more learned in their Profession Thus you may observe that Crollius tells us there were originally but four Diseases and yet a Physician a few years since told us in print that there were 600 Diseases belonging to the Eyes So extravagantly numerous they have multiplied our Mischiefs What reason have we to believe that the Degree Ascending and by Consequence all the other Houses have any virtue or force in them to influence that years Affairs the Revolution is set for And what is more absurd and foolish Why should we cheat our selves to think that the Directions to the Miâ—heaven Ascendent Sun and Moon in a Revolution have anâ— more force and power in them than if you set a figure at Random every quarter of that year Let two men but manage a Nativity and the one take the Sun Calculated from Street and another from Wiâ—g in some parts of the year they will differ 5 minutes in motion which is no less than two hours in time and when these two men come to set the Revolutional Figures what a fine confusion shall we have no less than two hours in time and do you think that will not give a great alteration in the Ascendent and mid-Mid-heaven Then how do you think the Directions of the Five Hilegiâ—ck Points will agree in these two men's operations and what a Jargon here will be He that would be Master of this nonsensical stuff let him read Coley's Key filed bigger and there he may see these Foo'eries in their excellence especially page 710 713 714. things I am sure he knows nothing of only he imagined there might be some easy people would swallow the Gudgeon and believe his most ingenious Invention of no use but to spend time and create trouble but I shall talk with him another time this is only by the way What Reason have we to believe That the Sun's Return gives us a title to any Ascendent or Midheaven but that of the Radix Perhaps you will say You have found by Experience a great deal of truth in them by corresponding to the Fate and Fortune of the Year Why yes that may be and yet when that is allowed there is nothing in it And I am certain you will find as much to say to a Figure set to this instant for the Fate of the present Year as to the most exact Revolutional Figure you ever set in your days Transits and Ingresses excepted And any man may see this is true by the great noise Morinus makes with his Lunar Revolutions There is no Figure you can set at any time but you may fancy it to be a Revolutional and its Directions and Positions shall do full as well as your exact Revolution shall those things beforementioned excepted for among all those Directions you pretend to in a Revolution there is not one of them hath any effect but as a good or bad Transit or Return happens at the same time you say your Direction commenceth and it is that gives the Effect and not the Direction you imagine But if you do but conceit it gives what you say it doth it is full as well as if it did do it really Nay some are grown so ripe in this practice that they are able to predict Death from a single Revolution ut ipsi dicunt as I can prove from their own words But because Morinus is my subject therefore I must keep to my Text and pray hear what he says Praedixi says he Pluribus Amicis ex hac Revolutione Mortem pag. 614. speaking concerning Cardinal Richelieu If Morinus knew there was a Killing Direction he might be bold in the Point if so why doth he say the Revolution kill'd him For let the Revolution be good or bad if it is a mortal Direction he certainly dies but if there is no Direction I am sure and certain a Revolution how bad soever cannot kill But you hear what he says though I must confess I think it no more but a French flourish As to both the Nâ—tivities of Richeliâ—u and Tronson the Directions brought to prove their Deaths are so idle and frivolous that I can by no means allow them and therefore they must dye on the Influx of the Revolutions which you may believe if you please for I do not He tells us pag. 628. That by the pâ—esence of three Planets in the Third House of a Revolution which House he says hath signification of Religion they gave Charles Condren a reselution to lead a Religious life and yet pag. 650. he says It was from the M. C. to the âš¹ ☉ and Jupiter directed to the Body of Mars that gave him that Resolution I cannot understand this man's method and doctrine I would fain have him tell me in plain words Whether he lays the stress of the business on the Revolution or on the Direction and which he makes subordinate for there can be but one principal cause in this and most other cases If you please to look into page 632. you will see what he says on the Revolution of this man's Death and when you have read them over I really think you cannot chuse but smile at them to see what a crowd of Stuff he doth enumerate as causes of his Death but it was when he was in his Grave and you may be certain he passed many such Revolutions and perhaps worse too in his Life-time that did not kill But I will leave it to the Judgment of others and satisfie my self with these Remarks on his Doctrine and Principles and sum up this Paragraph and this Second part also with my Opinion of Revolutions and what ought to be done therein Revolutions are the times when the Sun comes to the same degree and minute he was in at Birth in which case you need not be so very
ipse stabiliendus est Vitae Significator verùm si fuerit in Octava aut Duodeeima videndum an Luna fuerit in loco Apbetico quo casu Luna statuenda est Si Luminaria ambo fuerint hac praerogativa destituta accipiendus est Planeta qui plures dignitates obtinuerit in locis praediciis dummodo fuerit repertus in loco Aphetico quod si nec iste fuerit ad vitam moderandum idoneus assumetur tandem pro Vitae significatore Ascendens seu Linea Orientalis In Genitura Nocturna primum â—cum occupat Luna quae in locis Apheticis reperta statuitur Vitae Significatrix Si vero fuerit in Octava aut Duâ—decimâ— aut sub Terra Sol fuerit in illis vigintiquinque gradibus post Lineam Orientalâ—m ac in Crepusculo Matutino ipse erit vitae moderator Si Sol non fuerit ideneus iterum indagandus Planeta dominatur in illis locis dictis an fuerit in loco Aphetico quo idoneo non reperto accipienda est Pars Fortunae Horoscopus Lunaris dummodo fuerit in Aphetico loco omnibus tamen exclusis tandem Ascendens Regionis Horoscopus seu Linea Orientalis statuenda est vitae significatrix Notandum quod ut saepè contingit si fuerint Duo aut Tres Significatores in locis Apheticis Sol videlicet Luna Dominus illorum locorum tune eligendus est validior tum ratione dignitatum tum ratione situs Ex Sole Luna eligendus est potentior nam posita exempli gratia Luna in Medio Coeli in suis dignitatibus sole vero peregrino in Septima aut Nono quamvis Nativitas sit Diurna Luna erit praeferenda Dominus etiam illorum locorum potentior poterit juxta Ptolemaei Dogmata praeferri Luâ—ninaribus cùm scilicet fuerit in loco eminentiori suis Dignitatibus Aneretae Abscâ—ssores qui vitam detruncant ex Ptolemeo sunt Corpora Saturni Martis Eorum Radii Oppositi Quadrati Eorum Antiscia Imperantia Obedientia illorum Radius Sextilis in signis longarum Ascentionum Trinus brevium qui Radii babent vires Quadrati Posita Luna Vitae Significatrice Corpus Solis interimit cum ad illam pervenerit Dirâ—ctiâ—ne idâ—m multi contendunt de Solis Radio Quadrato Opposito Radius Quadratus Aphetae cum scilicet Apheta pervenerit ad suum Quadratum id est 75 gradus ad minus interimit Posito Apheta inter Cuspidem Domus Septimae Medium Coeli unus statuitur Anareta id est Angulus Occidentalis reliqua vero Corpora aut Radii Maleficorum incidentes inter Aphetam gradum Occidentis non interimunt sed facta discussione Beneficorum Maleficorum minuunt vel addunt annos demonstratos ex directione Aphetae ad Gradum Occidentis quae Directio est Eadem quae Ascendentis ad Oppositum loci Aphetae dicti Hoâ— est Ptolemei sententia Alia Schola in plurimis consentit cum Ptolemaeo discrepat in aâ—â—quibus adsiricta ut asserunt â—bservatiâ—nibus Pro significatione vitae â—osdem statuit quos Pâ—olemaeus praetâ—r dâ—minum illorum locorum verâ—â— Ascendens seu Lineam Orientalem primariò Luminaria ubique collocata tam sub terra quà m supra ciâ—m maleficis occurrerint posse Aegritudinem vel Mortem decernere ut dominantia potentiis vitali naturali ex quibus consistit vita Aneretas cosdem statuit quos Ptolemaeus corpora Radios Malâ—ficos Intuentia Martis Saturni Praeterâ—a corpus Lunae ejusque radios Quadratos Opsitos praesertim Ascendente Apbeta posita Luna Apheta Solis Corpus Radii Mal fici interimunt Et non soluâ— Luna Apheta verùm quocunque alio dum Sol fuerit imbutâ—s natura Malefica Martis aut Saturni â—um disponat eorum loco Planetae enim sub Radiis neque ad noâ—endum neque adjuvandum idonei ex Ptolemaeo statuit Anaretam Domum Quartam foveam Planetarum Nodos Lunares Caput praecipue Caudam Draconis Lunae Cor Leonis Pallilitium Antares Herculem Lances Librae aliasque fixas Maleficas Dominum Octavae terminos Maleficorum sic Eclipses Cometes Incidentes in locum Aphetae Aphetam ad suum Quadratum ponit interimere buncque esse ultimum naturalis vitae terminum quod Nicepso Pithosyris mixtice dâ—cuerunt asserentes neminem in vita posse transgredi Trimorion id est congeriem trium Signorum Radiationem Tetragonicam quae superet gradus 75. nam alâ—ter esset Radius Sextilis Hinc in boc tractu Italiae posset quis vivere annis 120. posito Apheta Ascendente in principio Leonis ex distantia gradum usque ad principium Scorpii In Germania verò Regionibus in quibus Polus Boreus magis elevatur annis admodum pluribus pro numero graduum inter Ascentiones primi gradus Leonis Scorpii Plin. lib. 7. cap. 4. meminit inter Appeninum Montem Padum plurimos diversis annis vixisse tempore longiori Epigenes negavit quemquam posse vivere annis 122. Berosus ex Plinio annis 117. narrant Joannem de Temporibus vixisse annis 125. WHereas in the following Decumbitures the time of Death is assigned to divers Causes so that sometimes it may seem to be different and various from the Opinion of Ptolemy yet seeing all things do agree with the Observations of our modern Professors I think it necessary to add here these few things Concerning the Space of Life the opinion of Ptolemy in his Quadâ—ipartite is this The Aphetas or Significators of Life are Five And those are the Sun the Moon the Ascendent Part of Fortune and that Planet who hath most dignities in the place of the Sun Moon Ascendent and Part of Fortune in the Celestial Figure and in the place of the Conjunction or Opposition of the Luminaries preceding the Nativity in which this Order is to be observed In a Diurnal Geniture see if the Sun is in an Aphetical place and fit to give and determine Life which places are the mid-Mid-heaven the Eleventh House the First the Ninth and Seventh any House above the Earth except the Eighth and Twelfth for then he is allow'd to be giver of Life but if he should be in the Eighth or Twelfth see if the Moon be in an Aphetical place if so the Moon is to be accepted But if neither of the Luminaries should be so qualified then take that Planet who hath most Dignities in the before-mentioned places and in an Aphetical place also but if there is none such then you must take the Ascendent for Giver of Life In a Nocturnal Geniture the Moon claims the first place among those qualified to be givers of Life But if she should be in the Eighth or Twelfth or under the Earth and the Sun should be in those Five and twenty degrees next succeeding the Ascendent and in the Matutine Crepusculum he shall be giveâ— of Life But if the Sun should not be so qualified then see
about 22 degrees and a half in Taurus with 3 dâ—g 57 min. South Latitude and after these in 24 of Taurus the Trine of the Snn. All which are Arguments of death far more probable than the Ascendent to the Square of Mars But perhaps some Sceptick or other may question me for bringing in the Moon to the Trine of the Sun as an Argument of death which they tell you will save because he is fons Lucis fons Vitae And if you please you will find him as certainly fons mortis too but I have very good Authority besides Experience to confirm me in this Doctrine Perhaps I may be also asked why the Moon to the Body of Saturn Lord of the Eighth did not kill That I confess is a Question to be asked and I am sure not one in Forty of the Pretenders to Astrology can Answer it And I can give them 20 Examples where the same thing hath happened in other Nativities and did not kill likewise Nay I will go further with you I believe it scarce gave him any sickness which perhaps you will say is mighty strange indeed but if the Rules I practice by are true it could not give any sickness remarkable but by no means death Thus you see it is not so easy a thing to perform the Directions in a Nativity as our Common Nativity-makers tell you it is when they say to use their own Language I will run down your directions for you Alas there are many motions to be considered and in many cases a Speculum cannot help you And a Nativity is to be well examined and considered before Judgment on any Directions but especially those of Death for there is not one in 40 dies on a single Direction and that made the Learned Cardan say seg 1. Apho. 33 Manifestum est igitur Astrologiam Constare ex scientia motuum exquisita Naturali Philosophia quorum neutrum cum plerique habeant utrumque ante haec nemâ— nil mirum est Infamiam arti praedecessâ—res nostros Addidisse Apho 34 est igitur Astrologia ut pulcâ—errima sic laboriosissima difficilima Octavianus Vestrius was born the 26 day of August 21 hours P. M. 1576 at Rome as our Author hath given us among the rest of his Nativities This noble Roman says Argol was one of the Pope's Bed-chamber and died on the Sun Apheta to the Body of the Moon in the terms of Mars and Square of Mercury May the 1 st 1626 but how this can be is a mystery to me for he makes Mercury to be in 26 degrees of Leo in exact Sextile to the Moon though Leovitius makes him to be in 1 d. 38 m. of Virgo that day at Noon and how the Sun can come to the Square of Mecury and Body of the Moon together I leave to you to judge But can any Astrologer that hath his senses about him imagine that the Sun could pass the Square of Mars and Sextile of Saturn and kill him on the body of the Moon and Sextile of ☿ For though Saturn's Sextile of it self hath not power to kill yet it increaseth the mischief that Mars's Square stirs up and this the rather because Radically Saturn is in Square to the Sun who as Argol truly says is Giver of Life Nay I dare swear if his Nativity was known before he dyed not a man of them I am sure would then believe that he could outlive the Sun to the Square of Mars and dye on the body of the Moon The Scheme followeth In the Figure Argol prints he makes 118 degrees 20 minutes the R. A. of the Midheaven and you see mine is 120 and 43 but a small difference if you well consider it not three degrees in the Midheaven To this time he hath the Sun directed to the Mundane Parallel of Mars d. d. thus The distance of the Sun from the Midheaven is 44 degrees 6 minutes His semidiurnal Ark is 95 42 the primary distance of Mars from the fourth is 7 degrees 28 minutes which substracted from his Secundary distance 52 degrees 59 minutes leaves the Ark of Direction of the Sun to the Mundane Parallel of Mars Direct 45 degrees 31 minutes which turn'd into time gives 49 years and 8 months And this is followed by the Sun to the body of the Moon in the Zodiack within two degrees and she Radically in Square to Mars The Pole of the Sun is 22 and his Oblique Ascension is 162 15. The Oblique Ascension of the Moon under the same Pole is 209 57. from which substracting that of the Sun leaves the Ark of Direction in the Zodiack 47 degrees 42 minutes And the Diseases that he died by were a Redundance of Humours Pains in his Reins a Malignant Fever and an Imposthume in one of his Buttocks And now I will tell you why the Sun to the Square of Mars did not do it before it was because the Rays of Jupiter succeeded that Direction and did hinder the effects of Mars his Square from killing but yet I do believe he was always Crazy and more Infirm after that Direction than he was before because of the other being so near at hand Lastly If ever there was such a man as this born at that time these Directions to the Hileg are more likely to kill than that of the Moon alone that he alledgeth Laurentius Mancinus dyed the 14 day of October 1650. being first taken ill September the Ninth but his Disease he doth not tell us yet lets us know that he dyed on the Moon to the â—quare of Mars and the Ascendent to the Antiscion of Mars with the help of a bad Revolution And for the better Speculation because there is no great matter of labour in the Directions to be wrought and you may by your Eye only soon decide the point between this great man's opinion and mine about the death of Mancinus I will here give you the Scheme as followeth set according to my Division of the Heavens but to his time When you have considered the thing seriously see if you can make it agree with Reason that the Moon should pass the body of the Sun by Direction and not kill and that the Square of Mars should do it afterwards Is it to be imagined that Mars can kill more certainly than the Sun or do you think that because the Sun is not Lord of the Eighth he could not do it 'T is true Mars is in the Eighth and perhaps Argol might depend upon that to kill it being an approved Doctrine among many Professors to allow nothing to kill but the Lord of the Fourth Sixth Eighth or Twelfth but chiefly the Lord of the Eighth or a Planet in it But Ptolomy tells us Cum Luna est prorogatrix solis lâ—cus fit Interfector And it is a most certain truth which will never fail you without some very considerable thing happens to save which you will find by reading that Author what and how to which I
Directions but besides that of the Moon the Scorpion's Heart the Parallel of Saturn and the Mundane Square of Mars Our Author tells us That Domina Foelix Gloveria was born the 5th of December at 34 minutes past 6 in the Morning 1588. â—ub Lat. 42. and on the 25 day of November 1633. she having been at a Vinyard to recreate her self being returned to her House in the Evening fell sick of a Fever under which Sickness she lingred and languisht till the 18th day of January following and at 7 of the Clock that Evening dyed And this Argoll says was from the Moon to the Square of Saturn and the Ascendent to the. Trine of Saturn Are not these two hopeful Directions and like to give a Fever For he mentiors no other cause but this And had it been a Quartan Ague he would have given the same reason for it no doubt To this I object First The Moon is not giver of Life and it is that alone must be directed for Death but in this Nativity no Direction to the Moon câ—n kill Secondly If she was Hileg the Direction he depends on could not kill which is the Square of Saturn because the Sextile of Venus falls in the same place exactly But besides that the Moon to the Square of Saturn câ—m Lat. came up about Three years before this without Latitude and I would know why that did not kill Thirdly The Ascendent hath nothing to do in the case no more than the Moon hâ—th first because it is not Apheâ—a secondly there was no such Direction at that time to the Ascendent as the Trine of Saturn for that came up at Two or Three and Twenty Years of age But if it were allowed to be at this time it makes nothing to his purpose nor her death Fourthly If all these things were allowed that he pleads for in his Calculation yet the Ark of Direction will not do because the Ark that must give 45 years which was her age is 49 degrees 30 minutes and his Ark is not 45 degrees full out and for that reason among the rest all he says signifies nothing to me But to be short I am positive that the Sun is giver of Life in this Nativity and this I am sure none of them all can deny and this being allowed I have nothing else to do but to proceed to my Correction or at least ways to give my Reasons for her death and I will not repeat things too often having spoke fully before in this Treatise of the Use and Authority of the Giver of Life and for the greater Satisfaction of the Enquirer I have calculated the Places of the Sun Moon and Saturn which you will find in the Figure set to his Time exactly by my Division of the Heavens as followeth As to Argol's Figure I will not alter it a minute but take it as he hath delivered it to us with 14 degrees of Sagitary ascending and by that Figure prove that she had Directions suitable to the Fate she underwent and that she had not the Ascendent to the Trine of Saturn at that time but to the Square of him and that was the first that came up then the Sun to the Mundane Square of Saturn next to the Trine of Mars and lastly to the Zodiacal Parallel of the Moon The distance of Saturn from the Fourth House is 49 degrees to which â—dding the proportional part 47 minutes gives the Ark of Direction of the Sun to the Square of Saturn in mundo d. d. 49 degrees 47 minutes which turned into time gives 45 years and â—lmost 4 months and so I will give the Directions all together that gave her both Sickness and Death Aseendens ad â–¡ ♄ 49 00 44 7 1632 ☉ ad â–¡ ♄ in mundo d. d. 49 47 45 3 1633 ☉ ad â–³ ♂ in Zodiac 50 47    ☉ ad parall ☽ in Zodiac 52 1    Thus you see without any alteration of his Time and Figure here are no less than Four Directions and three of them to the Hileg which will kill in any Nativity but that which began the mischief was the Ascendent to the Square of ♄ but the reason of the Fever was from the Rays of Mars and the Moon who were both in Square in the Radix the one in Opposition and the other in Square to Mâ—rcury Perhaps some men may scruple and doubt the Direction of Mars to have any thing to do in killing because it is his Trine To such Enquirers I shall only say this the Tâ—ines of the Maleficks do not kill singly but when they club in with other Directions they certainly increase their Malignity and help on the Work of Death at least they specificate the Disease and this I have often found and also mentioned before and therefore let this suffice here for that matter And in the next place I think I have a Question or two to ask my Adversary let him be who he will and that is to desire him according to his Principles and Practice to tell me Why the Ascendent and â—un directed to the Body of Mercury Square of Mars Lord of the Fourth and Opposition of the Moon Lady of the Eighth did not kill this Lady at 21 years of age or there-abâ—uts I am sure Argol and divers others of them have killed many a one with half that Power and would at this day predict Death too upon those Directions if they were not past so horridly ignorant are they in their Profession And now lest you should think me as ignorant as they are I will tell you why these could not kill if the Principles I pretend to are true for the Lady of the Eighth is no more to me than the Lord of the Tenth but to them it is an Idol the reason why those Three Directions could not kill is because at the same time the Sun and Ascendent came to the Square of Venus and Tâ—ine of Jupiter And how this is performed and to be understood every one that understands the 14th Chapter of the Third Book of Ptolemy's Quadripartite knows very well Argol tells us That N. Burattus the Bononian was born the 27th of May at 2 hours P. M. 1553. sub Lat. 44. and that he dyed the 17th of March in the year 1627. on the Direction of the Sun Hileg to the Body of Mars in Virgo the Figure is as followeth set to his time and my division of the Heavens You see now it serves a turn he tells us of the Hileg being directed to the Body of Mars for his Death and this a single Direction too which I can hardly allow Pray do but consider with your selves what Reason I have to believe this single Direction killed this man when you see the Sun to the Body of Mars in Cardinal Columna did not kill nor in Cardinal Richelieu though it fell between 50 and 60 years of age nor in the King of Spain his Son nor in Cosmus II. Duke of
is hard to say whether it is a Blessing or a Punishment to us But be it as it will no man lives that shall not taste of it and therefore as I have begun with his Life in a natural way so I will go on to his Death and the time of it as near as I can According to this Correction we have before us the first Direction that is or can be allowed dangerous to Life is the Moon Giver of Life to the Cusp of the Seventh at 39 years and 7 months old but I am partly certain that cannot kill because the Moon at the same time comes to the Mundane Parallel of Jupiter just after it motu conversâ— and within 9 degrees of his Square so that I cannot allow that to hit him yet he will have some Illness at that time but without eminent Danger But when the Moon comes to the Opposition of the Sun at â—1 years of age almost I do not think he will escape it because it is followed by such a train of Directions after it no less than 10 but the next and immediate Direction that succeeds iâ— is the Square of Mars and from him we must seek the Species of the Disease Mars you see is in Capricorn in Square to the Sun Saturn and Mercury hence I judge his Distemper to be a Fever complicated with disorders of the Reins and Head perhaps Delirious and Nephritick if not a Suppression of Urine totally The Direction toucheth in the end of the year 1737. but the precedingRevolution being no ways violent Saturn being then with Mars in 9 degrees of Gemini and Jupiter in 7 degrees of Pisces I judge it will not affect him till the beginning of the year 1738. about the time of the Ingress or a little after Saturn then being in 19 degrees of Gemini and Mars in the middle of Aquary and when Mars comes to the beginning of Aries or the lâ—tter end of Pisces he will influence the place of Direction at which time it is probable he may feâ—l the Influence of his rugged Stars I have already told you That the Estimate Time was a little after I mane and my Rule generally is That Children are born sooner than the time commonly given and so may this for ought I know for the Direction that I principally rely on in the Correction is but a single one to suit to a single Accident which tho' they seem rational and probable yet I dare not be positive to the truth of the Correction though I believe it to be true But if he should happen to be born at 1 of the Clock or a few minutes before then the Moon will not be Giver of Life but the Ascendent if so the Cause and Time of Death must be sought from the Horoscope and not from the Moon and therefore I will give you the Directions to the Ascendent in a Figure set to that time Ascendens ad ☌ ♃ 7 45 8 6 1695 Ascen in Ascendens ad â–´ ♄ 22 23 24 4 1711 15 â™ Ascendens ad ☌ ♂ 22 33 24 6 1711  Ascendens ad âš¹ ♀ 24 3 26 4 1713  Ascendens ad semiquad ☉ 29 45 32 5 1719  Ascendens ad semiquad ♃ 35 57 39 1 1726  Ascendens ad sesquiquod ♄ 37 3 40 2 1727  Ascendens ad 8 ☽ 40 23 43 8 1730  Ascendens ad semiquad ♂ 51 12 54 10 1741  If the Ascendent is Hileg when it comes to the Body of Mars it will be a severe time for danger to his Life but I do not think he will dye of it because he hath a favourable Revolution no evil secondary Directions and Jupiter on the Place of Direction to a degree and in his radical Horoscope all that year and what is more it is a strong vital Nativity At the Age of 32 years and 5 months the Ascendent comes to the Semiquadrate of the Sun which will give him another dangerous fit of Sickness but not so bad as the other yet both of them attended with danger but I think he may outlive them But at the age of 40 years if the Horoscope is Apheta he will certainly dye without a Miracle from Heaven for according to my Skill in Astrology I can by no means see any ground to judge his Life will be continued beyond that time And to say the truth his Nativity cannot be exactly and truly corrected till the Ascendent comes to the Body of Mars it being the first Direction of consequence to an Angle and no other Directions can correct true either in this or any other Nativity Directions to the Sun and Moon will come near but the Angles exact And so I come to say something to the effects of his Directions in the former Table At the age of 4 years and 3 months he was taken into the particular care of a Gentleman and ever since hath been plentifully and genteely provided for by a Relation and a Person of Quality He had then the Ascendent directed to the Body of Jupiter At the age of almost 8 years he had the Small Pox and at 8 and 10 months he fell down a pair of Stairs for this I allow the Sun to the Opposition of Saturn cum sine Lat. with some other things already mentioned Aged 16 years he hath the Moon to the Sextile of Saturn and to the Trine of the Sun just after on these Directions he will be placed out in the world perhaps sent to the University or otherwise disposed Aged 17 or 18 years the Sun to the Square of Jupiter mundo the Moon to the Sesquiquad of Jupiter mundo and the Part of Fortune to the Parallel of Saturn in mundo his affairs of Life will be uneasy and he hindred in his Preferment according to his Capacity Aged 19 years and 6 months the Moon to the Trine of Venus and Sol ad Tr. Jovis this gives a healthy Constitution all things go easy and pleasant and some Preferment seems to offer it self Aged 20 years and 6 months the Ascendent comes to the Body of Mars this will give a Fit of Sickness and a ruggedness in his Affairs his Friends seem to be but indifferent in his Interest and all things for a short time go but untoward Aged 22 years the Moon comes to the Mundane Parallel of Jupiter and the Part of Fortune to the Trine of Mars he grows vigorous in his Health new Friends appear with Interest and Preferment and perhaps some attempt at Marriage Aged 24 years the Moon to the Parallel of Mars about this time he wâ—ll be subject to a feverish Hâ—bit and a Sâ—rfeit but a fit of illness will happen with a little Trouble or Disappointment in his affairs and I do think he will keep some wild Company under the Influence of this Direction Aged 25 years the Midheaven to the Sextile of Jupiter this Direction will certainly introduce the Native into the Acquâ—intance of new and honourable Friends by
of another Opinion I should be glad to see his Doctrine published Since I wrote this I have sound his Life in my Study written by Mr. J. G. which I did not think of before and he says He dyed September the 20th Anno 1668. of a Hoarsness with a Catarrh and Consumption In the Nativity of Mr. John Sabye it is said He was born July the 1st hor. 5. min. 15. P. M. 1621. Lat. 52. and that he dyed on the Direction of the Ascendent to the Opposition of Saturn But that cannot be for Two Reasons First The Ascendent is not Hileg and Secondly Saturn is under the Sun-Beams and therefore cannot kill by a positive Rule Besides what reason have we to believe the Ascendent to the Opposition of Saturn hath more power to kill here than in Mr. Hooper the Merchant's Peter Gassendus Sir Robert Holburn the Minister pag. 111. Frederick King of Denmark and divers others where his Title to kill is full as good as here and yet did not do it In the Scheme that he hath given Jupiter is Hileg but I judge the time was given him half an Hour past 5 or between 5 and 6 and then the Sun will be Hileg by which means the Nativity will be doubtful Mr. John Collins the Mathematician was born die Saturni March the 5th hor. 6. min. 12 P. M. 1625. Lat. Oxford Our Author makes him the beginning of Libra Ascending but I rather think he hath the latter end of Virgo ascending or else I cannot imagine what kill'd him at 58 years and 6 months old But I am certain our Author can give no reason for his Death by the Figure he hath printed unless he will make the Sun to the Body of Venus mortal which perhaps some may be so weak in their Understanding as to believe because she is in the Eighth I judge he was born at 6 or a very little afterward and then the Moon is Hileg and directed to the mundane Parallel of Saturn followed by his Body and the Opposition of Mercury But as to the Correction he hath made by the Midheaven to the Trine of the Sun for his Office and the Ascendent to the Trine of the Mooâ— for his Marriage it is false and those Two Accidents were not from those Two Directions This Gentleman was an excellent Mathematician and taught it in London many years with great Approbation and I have heard him recommended for a man of great Reason and Ingenuity which if true how shall we construe the 36th Aphorism in the Collection which says Mercury in Pisces makes a man Confident without Reason and pretend to what he knows noâ—â— Mr. Will. Leybourn was born die Mercurii October the 18th hor. 5. min. 41. P. M. 1626. and hath lived in defiance of their Stars and the Continuance of his Life hath given the Lye to most of their Rules now in fashion for he hath outlived the Midheaven to the Opposition of Saturn that killed Duke Hamilton and James Sibbalds He hath outlived the Ascendent to the Square of Mars that killed Oliver Cromwel He hath outlived the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn that killed Lewis XIII King of Francâ— and Prince Maurice He hath outlived the Sun to the Square of Saturn that killed Judge Reeves He hath outlived the Moon to the Opposition of Saturn that killed Mr. Eastwood He hath outlived the Moon to her own Square and the Opposition of Mars that killed Bishop Morton and the Sun to the Square of Mars that killed Dr. Gouge And if he hath got this Art and Power of Living I believe they must be forced to find out some new Stars for the old ones will not do you see The Moon in this Nativity is Giver of Life without any doubt and though she hath passed her own Square in their method yet she hath not in mine and that is followed by a Mundane Parallel of Saturn but when that happens I cannot tell because I suppose this Figure is corrected as he calls it by the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn for his Fever at 24 years of age which I am sure alters it much from the estimate Time I know a Thickheaded Astrologer who on such an occasion altered his Estimate time but Three Hours to crowd in such a Direction upon us and therefore I must suspect this by that Rule We are told by our Author That the famous Mr. William Lilly was born the 1 st of May at 8 minutes past 2. manè 1602. Lat. 52. 38. and we all know he dyed the 9th day of June 1681. being then 79 years and a month old And a Club of Authoâ—s in a Book lately printed have told us He dyed on the Moon Hileg to the Mundane Parallel of Mars which I should be glad to see proved to do which will I am sure require a Club of a double number and the Famous and Learned Mr. C to be one of them But to be short there was no such Direction as that at that time nor within 20 years of it but if there had been such a one as they say it is at that time it could not kill because they say it is a Converse Direction and Ptolemy says There is but one Converse Direction kills and I am sure this is not that which he means and therefore I give Credit to their Figures both alike Indeed had they told us of the Moon to the Zodiacal Parallel of Saturn to the Zodiacal Parallel of Mercury and Body of Mercury it might have had some Credit but the other non at all Had I any certain ground to proceed on I am very willing to take some Pains on this famous man's Nativity but the Estimate Time being so uncertain nay the day is no more but guessed at and the time of the day for ought I see is more uncertain than that and therefore to pretend to take pains on such a doubtful Subject is but to abuse the world with another Imaginary Nativity which I am not willing to do The next I shall consider is that of the Author himself Mr. Joâ—n Gadbury which he hath printed three or four times already and in my Judgment every one of them false The Accidents that he corrects it by are the Ascendent to the Sextile of Venus for his Marriage at 24 and 10 months and to the Opposition of Mars for a Surfeit at 19 years and 8 months and when all this is done he hath not given us the Estimate Time And therefore let me say this in short If he should bring twice as many such Arguments more to prove it I will not believe one of them unless he can solve the main Objection about the Mid-heaven to the Body of Saturn on which Direction I say he was Committed to Prison As to his saying It was the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun gave that Trouble it will admit of a Debate whether there be such a Direction or not but this of the mid-Mid-heaven to the
Body of Saturn is certain and positive and admits of no debate because Saturn is visible on the place and we can see him pass the Midheaven but the Square of the Sun is perfectly imaginary as he understands and works it and therefore I will correct it by the Midheaven to the Body of Saturn for his Trouble beginning November the 2d 1679. at which time he was taken into Custody But if you look into his Table of Directions you will find that his Midheaven to the Sextile of Jupiter and Square of the Sun came up and toucht in December 1678. and he was not in â—rouble till November 1679. By which I suppose it will be granted That his Correction is not true in it self if you allow his method and that I thus prove If you keep to the Figure printed then the Ascendent to the Sextile of Venus in Zod. comes up at 24 and 8 months to marry him The Ascendent to the Opposition of Mars for his Fever and Surfoit at 19 and 11 months but he was sick at 19 and 8 months but then the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun will come up just a year before his Trouble which I cannot allow if there were such a Direction which I say there was not If you correct the Scheme by the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun to touch 2 months before his Trouble then the Ascendent to the Opposition of Mars comes up at a year and a month after his Surfeit and the Sextile of Venus comes up just 8 months after he marrried So that these things differing will call the whole Calculation in question if we should grant such a thing as the Square of the Sun in Zod. for the Directions will not nearly hit I do not expect them to hit exactly and I know the Reason why they will not do it but a year difference is not to be allowed notwithstanding Morinus his Sham of a Direction that lay dormant 14 months after it toucht and then began to work And so I will shew you the Figure of my correcting by the Midheaven to the Body of Saturn for his Trouble in 1679. I shall not trouble you with a long Preamble of Reasons for my Correction it is sufficient I have told you my Reason why I think his is not true and by the Direction following you may judge of the truth of the preceding Figure only I will tell you this That neither the Sun Moon Ascendent nor the Part of Fortune are any of them Givers of Life but Mars alone and it is he must be directed for Death if any one will take the Trouble to do it which I will not at this time And as to his Marriage I allow the Moon to the Sextile of the Sun in Mundo to give that though I must tell you I do not look on Marriage or the Small Pox to be such remarkable Accidents as some think they are to correct by and for his Surfeit and Fever the Sun to the Rapt Parallel of Saturn with the assistance of a violent and pernicious Revolution and so I will give you a few Directions past and to come that you may see what reason I have to believe the Figure I give to be true And also observe the effects of those to come but if you have better of your own either print or else let me see them without Printing and it will be an Oâ—ligation  d. m. y. m.  ☉ ad pâ—rall ♄ motu rapto 19 39 18 10 Surfeit and Fever ☽ ad sextil ☉ mundo d. d. 24 27 23 3 Married first Med. Coeli ad corpus ♄ 51 8 51 8 Imprisonment Med. Coeli ad â–³ ♀ 59 39 59 10 Married again Ascendens ad corpus Jovis 61 48 62 00  Sol ad par ♄ Zod. per A. O. 62 12 62 8 Trouble confin'd ♂ ad 8 ☉ 66 25 66 11 Sick and disord Sol ad 8 ♄ 71 45 73 1 1700 ☽ ad parall ♄ in Zod. 71 58 73 4 1700 ♂ ad parall ♃ in Zod. 72 31 74 2 1701 ♂ ad parall ☉ in Zod. 73 57 75 7 1702 ☽ ad corp ♂ cum lat 74 36 76 3 1703 ♂ ad parall ♄ motu rapto 75 35 77 3 1704 Ascendens ad semiquadr ☽ 76 9 77 10 1704 ♂ ad parall ♃ in Mundo 76 49 78 6  ☉ ad parall ♄ in Zod. 79 55 81 8  Ascendens ad â–³ ♄ 79 58 81 9  Thus I have given you my Sentiments of this Gentleman's Nativity and what Reasons I have to dissent from the Scheme he corrected and for the future part of his Life I do not think it is my business to meddle with it here but leave that to his own private Eâ—quiry not doubting of his Ability especially to satisfie his own Curiosity I do observe That he assigns Directions for every one almost of those Children at the end of his Book as the cause and occasion of Death but in that he is mightily out for where there is one dyeth by Direction within the space of a year or a year and an half there are ten dyes by Position and so did most of those there given Espceially his own Son Mr. Martyn's Daughter T. Tryon's Daughter Coley's Child and for Mr. Sawyer's Child can any man conceive the Ascendent to the Opposition of Saturn could kill it when the Moon was in Conjunction with Jupiter so near the Horoscope I judge the Nativity is made and fitted to the time of Death not to the Birth of the Child for the Moon is most certainly Hileg in this Nativity and the Child lived beyond the years of Nutrition and therefore it dyed by Direction and not by Position but not by the Direction he hath given And so I conclude my Discourse on those Nativities mentioned in his Collection of Genitures and yet before I end this Fourth part let me give you two Nativities more that I believe will be as useful to you that are Readers of this Book and Students of thâ—s Art as any I have before mentioned they being both of them very remarkable ones The First is the Nativity of one Mrs. Taylor a Woman as Remarkable as any this present Age can afford us especially if we consider and weigh the Circumstances and Contingencies of her Life and Death She was born of good Reputable Parents but not endow'd with any great Estate that might put them into a capacity above that of their Neighbours among whom they dwelt She married at the age of 18 years and 9 months and had four Children living at her Death At the age of 23 or 24 she did so well improve her Credit that she borrowed of divers People without Bond or Security a great many Sums of Money to the value of 20000 Pounds in the whole and some say 40000 which I believe will seem very incredible to those that hear the Story only and knew nothing of it that people should so easily part with their money