middle but about the edges more rare those resembling beards have their extreams more rare and dispersed and those that are much extended in length are more rare and subtil The distinct significations of every Comet or Blazing Star The Antients have delivered moreover these nine following several Comets or Blazing-Stars and their virtues or Portences which I could no wise omit being so necessary to Instruction The first then is callâ—â— Veru for that it resembleth a spit or dart and appeareth in the day time very terrible to the beholders It denotes a scarcity of fruit both of the Earth and trees mutations in Church and State grievous slaughters and the death of Kings Nobles and such as are of their adherence The second Tenaculum of the colour of Mars and hath raies under it like the flames of burning coals it signifieth there shall not be such plenty as formerly yet not famine wars also are thereby stirred up to the great prejudice of the godlier sort of people who shall be very forward therein The third Pertica which sometimes emitts obscure raies and again at other times bright this denotes a drought both of the Earth and Waters and a scarcity of Provisions the which if corporally joined to any Planet signifyeth events according to the nature of that Planet the nature of every Planet you have been taught before as if it be joined to Saturn there shall be mortalities troubles to old men and those of the religious Orders to Jupiter it extends its effects to Kings and Grandees whether good or bad according to their fortitudes to Mars many wars tumults slaughters and effusion of bloud to the Sun it will not appear by reason of the Suns splendour yet it portends the death of Kings and many tribulations plagues and sicknesses to Venus it signifies drought and a diminution of great waters to Mercury it denotes the death of young men wits and ingenuous souls to the Moon it signifies death and grievous mortality to men especially common people The fourth Miles consecrated to Venus and hath an hairy tail or main emitting Moon-like beams or rayes it signifieth mischief to Kings Nobles and Great men and that men shall rise that will endeavour to alter the Laws and antient Customs and set up new but the greatest evil portended thereby will be incident to those places towards which it extends its tail or rayes it denotes also wars The fifth Ceruleus of a blew or azure colour appropriated to Mercury it denotes the death of Kings and Grandees Nobles such as are chief Rulers and chiefly towards the part towards which it extends its rayes also wars The sixth Aurora five Matutina assigned to Mars it hath a tale and is of a fiery complexion when it appeareth towards the East bending its head downwards it signifies war combustions fire and sword pestilence and famine in Arabia and Egypt drought and a scarcity of waters and this shall extend also to the Western Regions The seventh Argentum sive Argenteus and this is the brightest and clearest of all Comets it hath pure bright beams when it appears Jupiter being then in Cancer or Pisces it promiseth abundance of corn and fruit in those parts where it appeared but if Jupiter be then in Scorpio it will not be altogether so good The eighth Rosa this is a great round Comet and is of the form and similitude of of a man it causeth the death of Kings Great Noble and Rich men and the alteration of things The ninth and last Niger appropriated to Saturn being in colour like unto him it denotes mortality both natural and also by the sword beheadings and the like If a Comet appear in the Ascendent of any Town Note Kingdom City Family or in the Ascendent of the Revolution of the World it signifieth destruction of the things signified by the Ascendent and the sign thereof and if it appear in the sign of the mid-Heaven at the time of any of these it bringeth danger to such as are promoted to honour The signification of Comets in Earthy signs watry aiery and fiery Comets appearing in earthy signs denote sterility through drought in watry through abundance of rain and floods and causeth also Pestilence in aiery they promise Winds Seditions and Pestilence yet not alwayes Plagues in fiery Wars slaughters and commotions CHAP. IX Of the signification of Comets and Blazing-Stars appropriated to the seven Planets REceive these Rule following as from the Chaldeans Arabians and such as were very expert in these matters in former Ages The Portences of such Comets as belong to Saturn Wherefore know that if any Comet of the nature and complexion of Saturn appear in the Ascendent of the Revolution of the World it denotes many evils Famine Pestilence Banishment Want Anxiety terrour and trouble Chronick diseases and Melancholy distempers Catarrs Quartane Agues Falling Sickness Leprosies Palsies Cancers and those diseases which are of continuance lingring Consumptions and the like destruction to Beasts appertaining to the use of man excessive cold weather in winter Note but you are still to remember the Nature of the Climate for this inordinate cold in Aethiopia will cause but a temperate Ayr c. and therefore this is to be understood of these Northern parts clouds frost and snow strong and high winds tempests shipwracks destruction of Fish as also of Fruit by Caterpillers Locusts and such like Vermine great Inundations and storms to the anoyance of Cattel and all things Men and Kingdoms under the Dominion of Saturn shall suffer detriment and be in danger of destruction Comets of the nature of Jupiter and their portences Such as are of a silver colour bright and of great splendor and of the nature of Jupiter cause a plentiful year when they appear in the Ascendent as you have heard wholsome blasts of Ayr with many seasonable showers especially if it be a watry sign it denotes also such infirmities as are of the nature of Jupiter which you have heard in the second Book of this Volume and many alterations and changes in such Kingdoms Regions and Places subject unto him the which I have there also at large set down Comets of the nature of Mars and their significations Those Comets which you have heard we have understood by the names of Veru and Pertica are of the nature of Mars wherefore they denote horrible winds storms and tempests a drought of Fountains and a destruction of Fruit by corruption and all the diseases portended by Mars c. frequent Thundering and Lightnings to the destruction of many Ship at Sea wrath quarrels heart-burnings slaughters and blood-shed amongst men tumults seditions and wars alterations of Kingdoms Laws Government and Customs and such like evils appropriated to the nature of Mars and the shall chiefly be incident to such men as are under his Dominion Towns Cities Kingdoms and Places as also to those parts towards which the Comet extendeth its tayl as you have heard
an Eclipse of the lesser Luminary being grown to some bigness fullfilled the effects and significations of the eclipse by their several deaths one of them being torn in pieces with Hounds the second first by a fall from an high place broke his Thighes and then the second time his Neck and the third was burnt A third kinde of cavillers we are now to speak of who not observing and warily searching into the order of causes in Nature nor the government thereof are dazled and puzled with the contemplation of the marvellous and admirable works of God and so by reason of the diversity and dissimilitude of events and effects in divers matters and subjects rashly and most inconsiderately deny the powers and vertues of the causes themselves Object Their cavil is that we see many born at one and the same time and in one and the same latitude and the one perhaps is a King and the other a beggar the third a Gentleman and the like But this were I disposed to vindicate Nativities I might say is the gross mistake and ignorance of these Carpers at what they know not Answ that causeth them thus to render themselves ridiculous for there is no Astrologer but doth especially regard in any mans Nativity the time place Parents and the seed for the better inabling him in his judgement therein for he is most shallow and weak that thinketh it not material to consider whether the Native be born the child of a King The quality of the Native constitution of the Climate Laws Customs and other causes necessary to be observed in every mans Nativity or of a poor and mean parentage or that it importeth not whether all the causes the presence of whose help is necessary to the constitution of an effect do concur or that some onely be present or that knoweth not that the force of the general doth prevail over the particular and of those that are universal that the first cause doth excel the rest which it sustaineth I say he that thinketh not these things to be most material and worthy the consideration is not onely shallow and weak but most ignorant in the Art or at least willfully obstinate For there is nothing more certain then that Astrologers which are true Artists indeed do warily consider these inferiour causes according as their Rules in Art do prescribe and admonish to have respect as I have but now said to the situation of the Climate or Place Parents Laws and Customs c. Nota. The instance of a Kings son and a Beggars both born at one very minute if such were known of no validity against Astrologie For it were a vain thing for any man to pronounce that such a constellation as giveth beauty here in England should have the same effect in Ethiopia or that he that is the son of a beggar should because born at the same time the son of the King was be a a King or the like but he the beggars son shall as far transcend the degree of his Parents at that time the Kings Son doth come to the Crown of his Fathers or inlarge his Territories which is the only way a King can be honoured or raised to dignity as the Kings son doth his they being both born under one and the same fortunate constellation and thus is the beggars son extolled and raised in comparison of his degree as much as the Kings son in relation to his he being perhaps made some Tradesman or one in good repute and well to live among his Neighbours which his Predecessors were not able to do For you must know that the general fate doth over-rule the particular for it is neither agreeable to reason or policy that two Kings or more should be in one Countrey c. This I say were I disposed to vindicate the practise of some men in judging of Nativities I might speak in their behalf and to the silence of the Objectors who know not how in the least to reply Moreover others I have heard also question nay affirm positively and those too which seemed to be of some judgement in other matters but truly in this rendred themselves the most void thereof that can be imagined that a figure of Heaven which Astrologers do use to set for the goundwork of their business is Conjuration and illegal nay Diabolical What a figure of heaven is When at the worst it is but thus The form and shape of the Heavens or rather the picture thereof by which the Astrologer is made acquainted with the positions and several situations of the Pianets and Stars in every sign in the Heavens as we see in a Map the several situations of Countreys Provinces and Cities and if it be illegal diabolical and a Magical trick to set or make such a figure of the Heavens in a piece of Paper I know not what is lawfull but this may suffice for the silencing of such simpletons for let them be demanded what a figure is they thus condemn and you shall soon finde they have not a word to answer nor cannot tell how to give any definition thereof which is sufficient then to satisfie any rational man of their stupidity who thus rashly and ignorantly go about to condemn that as illegal and Diabolical That there is no harm in setting of a Figure of heaven is manifest which they are ignorant of and is no more hurt then to draw a mans figure or picture for knew they what it were they would never thus falsely conclude having no ground for their words but ridiculous tradition for indeed it was a most rare and fine invention and of great use for I can shew any man thereby the whole use of the Globe and the rising setting and culminating of every Star and Planet in the whole Heavens So then you clearly see the harmlesness of setting a Figure of Heaven and the envy of the Antagonists as also their extream ignorance thus to traduce so noble so worthy so excellent so delectable so satisfying so lawfull so true so transcendent and so incomparable and innocent an Art I but say they again or others though the Art in it self be lawfull being a contemplation only and study of Nature and its causes and though the setting of a Figure of Heaven be so far from any illegal or diabolical practise as that nothing can be more innocent yet is the study unlawfull Object by reason the Devil oft times brings things to pass in a secret way according to the prognostications of the Astrologer on purpose to cause the heart to be assured of the inevitable truth thereof and so bringeth by degrees the Student into the labyrinth of believing a fatality and so consequently to deny or distrust the Providence of God Answer in part It is confessed by all but Atheists that God the first and chief cause of all causes can alter and frustrate the power of the stars But as touching this confidence there is none
in two hundred and forty years yet once in twenty years they come in Conjunction in one part or other of the Zodiack The third is the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the first term or degree of Cancer and this is once in thirty years The fourth is the Conjunction of the three superiours Saturn Jupiter and Mars in one term or face of any sign The fifth is the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars which is a mean and the least Conjunction of the superiours and therefore is not the fore-runner of such great n foreefs as the other as you shall by and by understand â—â—mâ—re sixth is the Conjunction of the Sun with any of the rest of the Planets at the time of his entrance into the first point of Aries The seventh and last is the Conjunction of the Sun and Moon which happeneth once every moneth Considerations before iudgement Of which we are now in order to treat but first you must know that the time for the erecting of your figure is when the Planets are in Partil Conjunction viz. in the very same signe degree and minute of the Zodiack You may see what a Partial Aspect is the 27 Chapter of the second Book of this Volume Having then erected the Figure of the Heavens at your punctual time and placed the Planets therein being reduced to the time of the day have regard unto the fortitudes and debilities of the Planets especially those in Conjunction for if they be strong and fortunate they presage good if weak and impedited the contrary And this good or evill shall be according to the nature of the Planets in Conjunction and the nature of the sign in which they are as if the Sign be aiery and the Planets evill impediment in the Ayr corruption and much damage thereby both to men and the fruits of the Earth is denoted and so judge of the rest of the signs in like manner judge the contrary if the Planets in Conjunction be Fortunes and well dignified Again if the Malevolents be in Conjunction in feminine Signs they denote Pestilence and evill infirmities to women and the Female sex of things in general chiefly in like manner to the Masculine sex if the Sign be Masculine and health prosperity and good success if they are benevolent Planets Moreover in fixed signs what they portend whether they are Benevolents or Malevolents is of continuance in moveable of little or no continuance in common signs a mean between these viz. they are neither of long or short continuance CHAP. XII Of the Conjunctions of the Superiours EVery Planet in some measure or other contributeth to the Government of this World for the which they were ordained but some more forcibly then others as being fore-runners of greater and stranger accidents and mutations Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Aries For the great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the first point of Aries or the first term thereof is the greatest and most notable Conjunction of all the other for that they are the highest and so consequently as to us the slowest of the Planets and therefore have more power to act what they denote then any of the other hâ—â—â— and for that Aries is the first of the signs of the Zodiack and the first sign of the Triplicities also the first of the fiery Trygon And therefore it is that when these two highest Planets are in Conjunction in the fiery Trygon especially in the first term or degree of Aries the Ascendent of the world and the place wherein the chief Luminary viz. the Sun was at the Creation many commotions wars seditions troubles subversion of Monarchies Kingdoms States alteration of Laws Customs Priviledges and Rights Plagues Famine Desolation Anxiety and trouble Treasons Treacheries and the death of Kings Nobles Princes Emperours and Powers follow Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in any Trygon So likewise when they are in Conjunction in the first term of any Trygon whether it be fiery earthy aiery or watry but not so forcible is their then Eâ—â—â—â— nor so terrible as the former yet though in a less degree the fore-runners an â—â—casioners of grievous mutations and accidents according to the nature of that Planet which hath most power of the two in the Sign wherein they are joined for if Saturn be stronger then Jupiter it will be very terrible but if Jupiter be stronger then him somewhat will be abated in fiery earthy and aiery Signs they cause drought and a scarcity of Provisions and barrenness of the ground Pestilence and Famine in watry detriment by the too much abundance thereof Also when these two first Conjunctions are in any of the Angles especially the tenth it denotes the arise of some new King or Prophet from the quarter signified by the sign wherein they are joined and if the Sign and Lord thereof be fortunate it denotes their continuance establishment and glory but if it be weak or afflicted and its Lord they shall be slain and put down for the whole world is governed by these Trygons as Ptolomy teacheth in his second Book and the whole Macrocosm compounded of the four Elements which answereth to the four Triplicities and therefore it is that the Conjunction of the Superiours in them are occasioners of such great mutations Of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Cancer In like manner the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the first degree or term of Cancer is the forerunner of much evill yet are the two former preferred before it viz. terrible wars slaughters depopulations and alterations of Government and destruction of Kingdoms fire and sword famine and pestilence c. and if it be Oriental its Effects will soon operate if Occidentall not so soon the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in any other sign and place is not so terrible And truly this is a terrible Conjunction if rightly considered and dictateth unto us upon the first consideration no less then horrible troubles and alterations in the World if we but consider it it is a Conjunction of the Malevolents two enemies must needs be stronger then one and here they are both together and in a sign wherein Jupiter our best friend is exalted and the Moon the mother of moisture pitcheth her Tent so that by their Conjunction therein both the assistance of the one and the nature of the other is much damnified and afflicted again Saturn is therein in detriment it being the sign opposite to his House Capricorn and Mars is therein in his fall Capricorn being the House of his exaltation and therefore it is these things being considered that they are so mischievous when joined in this sign the which of all their Conjunctions is the worst c. Of the Conjunction of Saturn Jupiter and Mars Also the Conjunction of Saturn Jupiter and Mars in any term or face and beheld by the Sun they being the three superiour Planets and most effectual for strength and height
so frequent amongst us viz. Markets Anacharsis doth well define it thus Est forum locus in quo alius alium circumvenit The Market-place is a place where one cozeneth and defraudeth another I may well term it all things being considered a convention of Cheaters and circumventing Lyers a place where must much evil needs be committed according to that of the Wiseman Between the buyer and the seller must needs be sin Of the Inns of Court or the Practises of Lawyers And what are our Inns of Court but meer conventions of Politicians fomenters of strife debate For fight Dog fight Bear they will never part you Incendiaries Lovers of mischief Takers of bribes Resisters and perverters of justice provided they are well fed Do they not Justifie the wicked for a reward and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him Isa 5.23 For doth not money do all Is it not it that maketh the Mare to go right or wrong doth it not carry the cause with these Catiffs How hard is it for a man to be a Lawyer and an honest man both together How many such think you you might find in a century of years Wherefore the time is coming and is now even at hand wherein the Prophets very next words will be verified upon them viz. Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth the chaff so their root shall be rottenness and their blossom shall go up as dust because they have cast away the LAW of the Lord of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel Isa 5.24 Of the Palaces of Kings And now should we but examine the state of the Chief Courts viz. he Palaces of Kings we shall yet finde therein naught but vanity and madness from the lowest to the higest from the King to the Beggar all are mad what greater vanity then to see men that are to Rule thousands be carried away with every breath of flattery of any one Parasite Then to see Kings and the Grandees of the World so easily perswaded contrary to what they in their own judgements know If there be any blemish in a King how soon is it applauded admired rather for a grace a vertue rather then a vice Alexander stooped in the shoulders wherefore all his Souldiers and Courtiers did so too Yet here I cannot but set down the wisdom and gallantry of our late King James of happy memory in this particulars as I have been by several informed who were conversant with him Considering one day the vanity of his Courtiers in applauding still all his actions very seriously about noon looking up to the Heaven out of a Window demanded of those that were about him whether they saw not a Star neer such a cloud for he said he was confident he did whereupon every one looking up began to deliver their opinions thus one said he saw it and that it was a little bright star another that it twinckled very much c. every one with a several addition concluded positively as he said whereupon he burst forth in these words or to this sense How unfortunate a man am I to have so many Fools to be my Councellors No wiser men then right or wrong to say as I say Again what Revelling Masking Playing Feasting Toying Fooling Whoring Pride Gluttony Drunkenness Wastry and what not that is evil or to be reprehended but is to be found in these places most abundantly There is no place free nor thing free but all and in all is vanity The Authors exhortation to this mad world Wherefore since it is so I can commend nothing in this transitory momentory vilde World but the knowledge of GOD and his Son JESUS CHRIST whom he hath sent in the flesh into the World to save sinners and the world and that we might through him obtain everlasting life We have here no abiding place wherefore what profit will it be unto us should we gain the whole World and lose our own souls We came naked in to the World we shall carry nothing out with us all must be left behind our pleasure riches honours preferments parts endowments wives husbands and children he that the whole earth could not contain and that sighing said Is there no more worlds to Conquer was at last contained in the narrow confines of a Coffin and could possess no more of what he had gained then his just length and breadth which was not denied to the meanest he subdued you have heard what the Great Conquerour of the East Saladin carried to his Grave of all he had gain'd bat a poor black Shirt wherefore let the WORD OF GOD be thy whole study thy delight both day and night that when thou ceasest to be here thou maist be eternally glorified hereafter this is the summum bonum the chiefest good yet next unto it let me recommend the study of Nature before any other thing whatsoever for that it is the great handmaid of the Almighty by which thou mayst daily and hourly see the secret operations of his hands and be drawn neerer and neerer to him for according to the Apostle by knowing Natural things we come to know Spiritual the better And now here it remaineth I should again return to shew thee the method and manner of the subsequent Work where I left off and so hasten to a conclusion but since I have recommended unto you that which is the chief means of our future felicity I think good first since our happiness here and the hope thereof hereafter consisteth much on the goodness or badness of our friends and associates here to deliver thee some Rules how to choose a true Friend to know a true Friend and to keep a true Friend for commonly according to the company so we conform our selves the which if it be other then good proves our utter destruction according to the old Proverb Evil communication corrupts good manners Instructions how to choose a friend In choosing then of Friends first negatively and then affirmatively I shall desire thee to observe these Rules Negatively that by no means you familiarly associate your self with a lyar dissembler or a flatterer neither with a proud man nor covetous person for they will prove deceitfull treacherous and self-ended beware also of Bragadotia's I mean such as boast and glory of their charity or courtesie to others that they have done this good turn and the other good turn for them for though it be true they have been beneficial to such and that they have done all that they brag of yet will such take it for an approved maxime be never true-hearted unto thee And such as are so base as to desire or beg that which they see is precious and deer in the sight of any one are also to be shunned with those that are not able to keep secret what is committed to them in Trust and Promise-breakers and such as meerly esteem of thee for thy Riches for these although they carry
diurnal motion is 8 10 12 or 14. m. He finisheth his course through the twelve signs of the Zodiack in 12. years Revolution Distant from the earth His distance from the earth is according to Tycho 3990 semidiameters yet Albotegnius and Alfraganus say 10423 semidiameters of the earth ♃ when well fortified and Lord of the year Iupiter when he is Lord of the year and well dignified the King shall do Justice and it shall be happy for those that are Noblemen Judges Councellors of the Law and men of all sorts of Religious Orders shall be in a successfull happy pleasant and good condition and shall live pleasantly and contentedly in honour and also great esteem and the people also shall be in a good and prosperous condition and shall receive good from their King and Superiors and they from the people and the year shall be healthy plentifull and good a temperate ayr rain fair weather and frost in due season c. When weak But if Iupiter be weak judge the contrary according to the strength of the affliction wherewith he is afflicted and impedited Humours Of Humours he is author of the Sanguine or best complexion moist temperate sound healthful c. Quality of men when well placed Quality of men in general this is to be understood as indeed most of the qualities and attributions aforesaid he signifies Judges Councellors all Ecclesiastical men both Priests and Levites Chancellors Lawyers or those that follow the Law from the highest to the lowest all Scholars and Students in general Clothyers Woollen-Drapers Quality of men when weak When he is weak he signifies Mountebanks Quack-salvers Empericks Cheaters Takers of Bribes c. Nature He is author of sobriety and temperance Corporature or shape of body He gives an upright strait tall stature brown ruddy and lovely complexion an oval visage plump high forehead soft hair large gray eyes brown hair and it thick and a strong well set body a short neck and usually a kinde of a black spot between his two fore-teeth and indeed throughout a hansom compleat body sober and grave in discourse and of a most noble disposition Oriental If he be Oriental the skin is usually more clear sanguine great eyes a more fleshy body c. Occidental If Occidental a pure complexion yet a more short stature a browner hair smooth not curling c. North latitude His greatest North latitude is 1. d. 38. m. South latitude His greatest South latitude is 1. d. 38. m. Qual of men He signifies Religious men Church men c. Savours Sweet delicious pleasant favours Colours He ruleth the ash-colour green blew purple green and a mixt yellow In man In man he ruleth the Liver Spice herbs and drugs Gilly-flowers Nutmegs Sugar Mace Cloves Straberries Flax and Bitony Balm Fumitory Lungwort Walwort Wild Marjoram Sweet Marjoram or Organy Pimpernel Rubarb Alheal Wheat Bazil Bugloss Borage St. Iohns-wort Laskwort Pyony Liquorish Violets Pomgranates Mint Mastix Saffron Dazy and Feverfew and all such herbs as are helpfull to obstructions of the Liver c. Trees The Almond-tree Hazel Fig-tree Olive-tree Oak Cherry-tree Ash Goosberry tree Pine-tree Coral-tree Pear-tree Birch-tree Ivy Vine Mulberry-tree c. Birds Of Birds he ruleth the Eagle Peacock Phesant Partridge Stock-dove Snipe Stork Lark Bees c. Stones The Topaz Amithest Marble Emrald Chrystal Saphir Hyacinth Bezoar Free-stone c. Minerals Tin Pewter c. Fisnes The Whale Serpent Dolphin c. Beasts The Sheep Unicorn Doe Hart Stag Ox Elephant and all such beasts as are beneficial and usefull to mankinde Places Churches neat and curious places Gardens Synods Courts of Justice Wardrobs Palaces sweet places Oratories Weather He commonly causeth pleasant healthfull weather serenity temperate ayr c. Winds He ruleth the North and North-east winds He ruleth of the Coelestial signs Sagittary and Pisces Sagittary by day Signs and Pisces by night the meaning thereof is that if Iupiter be significators in the Revolution of any year being by day and in Sagittary he is so much the more fortified in Pisces in a Nocturnal Revolution c. He ruleth the fiery triplicity by night so that if Iupiter be in the 20. d of Aries Triplicity or the 10. deg of Leo in any Diurnal Revolution he shall be accounted peregrine as not having any dignity there not being in his house exaltation term triplicity or face in a Nocturnal Revolution he had not been peregrine for then he hath triplicity in these signs Exaltation Detriment He is exalted in the 15. d. of Cancer He suffers detriment in Gemini and Virgo for that they are signs that are opposite to his Houses This you must observe in all the other Planets He is in his fall in the 15. d. of Capricorn â—all for that it is opposite to the sign of his exaltation so also note that all the Planets are in their fall in that sign which is opposite to their exaltations Age. Middle age or years of most perfect judgement and discretion His Angel is Zadkiel Angel His Friends are Saturn Sol Venus Friends Mercury and Luna His Enemy Mars only Enemies Day of the week Of the days of the week he ruleth Thursday and of the nights that which we call Sunday night Spain Hungaria Babylon Regions Cullen and Persia Orbe His Orbe is 9. d. before and after any of his Aspects Generation Years In generation he ruleth the second and ninth moneths His greatest years he gives are 428. His greater years are 79. His mean years are 45. His least years are 12. Iourneys In journeys when he is significator he denotes pleasant travel good success safety health and mirth Diseases Infirmities of the Liver Obstructions Plurisies Apoplexies inflamation of the lungs infirmities in the left ear palpitation of the heart cramps pains in the back all infirmities of the reins or proceeding from corruption of blood and putrefactions therein Squinzies windiness Feavers proceeding from abundance of blood all griefs in the head pulse seed arteries convulsions prickings and shootings in the body c. Stationary He is Stationary five days before retrogradation and four days before direction Retrograde He is Retrograde 120. days CHAP. III. Of the Nature and Signification of MARS The nature and complection of ♂ Globe of ♂ LIkewise after Iupiter or next under him is located Mars of whom we are now to treat he is of a fiery shining bloody colour or as you see the fire burning in its strength to our ordinary sight he is somewhat bigger then Saturn yet not so big as Iupiter but as a star of the first magnitude he is masculine and nocturnal or somewhat less and according unto Tycho he is 13. times less then the earth Albotegnius saith he is in comparison of
hand being not began before ♃ A fortunate day go to noble men Iudges and Prelates and sue for thy right and take councel Converse with Lawyers and Ecclesiastical persons read the Laws Apply thy study to Philosophie and take Counsel Begin any good work make your journey to Kings and great men Prelates and Iudges Go thy journey and go to Prelates and Iudges ♂ An unfortunate day take no journey avoid the company of Souldiers c. Buy weapons of War or horses hire Champions and kindle the fire for Alchymle A day full of fear avoid contentions make no league or new friendship Dispose of all things for War buy cattel or beasts Take no journey flie company friendships and love of women ☉ Begin nothing but that thou wouldest have hidden and secret Take in hand the affairs of Kings and Princes and sue for preferments under them A day to be eschewed in all things deal not with company of great men Offer presents to Princes and your suit will be heard of them Sue for judgement from great men but avoid rich men ♀ A day for pleasures and delights put on new garments seek the love of women A day fit for amorous sports contract Marriage seek for all kinde of ornaments it is a prosperous day Hire servants or workmen make sports sing or play and marry Seek the love of women and put on new clothes if the Moon be not in Leo. It is good to hire men or maid servants to take recreation and contract marriage ☿ Begin writings and accompts chaffer send messengers or carriers Apply to thy study make accounts chaffer take charges send youths to school and accompany with Sages It is good to send Embassadors Orators and Carriers take your journey buy and sell Compose verses which require a good invention use exercise and send children to School Repair to Scribes and Chancellors send messengers take thy journey use Merchandise follow thy study The Vse of the TABLE You see here in the first column ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ and in the five other columns several matters over the first also yow see ☌ over the next âš¹ over the third â–¡ and upon the fourth â–³ and over the head of the last ☠which intimates no more then this viz. That they are the Moons aspects to the aforenamed Planets As in the first column you have these words An unfortunate day take no Journey c. in the same line and on the left hand yow have ♄ placed and over the head of these words ☌ shewing that the ☽ in ☌ with ♄ is an unfortunate day to begin any business or to go a journey c. In the next column and over against ♄ you see these words Converse with old men and husbandmen c. and over the head thereof âš¹ intimating that the ☽ in âš¹ with ♄ is good for such business and so understand of the rest of the columns and aspects over against ♄ and know also that those aspects on the head serve for all the other Planets and what you finde written over against any Planet appertains to the signification of that Planet as for example in the third column and over against ♃ you see this written Apply thy study to Philosophy and over the head thereor â— so that when the ☽ is in a â–¡ of ♃ it is good to apply ones study that way and so you may following this rule understand all the rest A Table of the Mansions of the Moon Mansions Sig D. M. Qualities Elections 1 ♈ 20 6 Temperate Take thy Journey and Physick Laxative 2 ♉ 2 57 Dry. Take thy Journey by water buy Cattel plant 3 ♉ 15 49 Moist Chaffer or buy and sell but goe not by Sea 4 ♉ 28 40 Moist and cold More cold Plant and sowe marry not nor journey by water 5 ♊ 11 32 Dry. Vse Merchandise Voyage joyn Wedlock and take Physick 6 ♊ 24 23 Temper War sowe not nor take in hand any good 7 ♋ 7 5 Moist Plough Sowe Travell not either by Sea or Land 8 ♋ 20 6 Cloudy and temâ—â—â—â—uâ—â—s Journey and take Physick 9 ♌ 5 57 Dry. Navigate 10 ♌ 15 49 Moist Plant Build Marry but make no voyage 11 ♌ 28 40 Temperate and cold Sowe Plant Deliver prisoners but take no purgation 12 â™ 11 31 Moist Plant Marry but Navigate not 13 â™ 24 23 Temper Journey Navigate Sowe Plough Marry and send messengers 14 ♎ 7 15 Temper Sowe Plant take Physick neither travel nor marry 15 ♎ 20 6 Moist Delve and Dig but neither marry nor travel 16 â™ 2 57 Cold and moist Vnfortunate for any thing 17 â™ 15 49 Moist Buy cattel but Navigate not 18 â™ 28 40 Dry. Build Sowe Plant Navigate but Wed not 19 â™ 11 32 Moist War Plant Sowe and Voyage 20 â™ 24 23 Temper Buy cattel use hunting but Wed not 21 ♑ 7 25 Temper Build Repair to a Magistrate for favour but marry not 22 ♑ 20 6 Moist Take Physick Navigate and put on new apparel 23 â™’ 2 56 Temper Take Physick Voyage but neither Marry nor lend 24 â™’ 25 49 Temper Lead an Army Marry Sowe take Physick 25 â™’ 28 40 Dry. Build Marry seek friendship take thy journey 26 ♓ 11 32 Dry. It is in all things unfortunate save in taking of Physick 27 ♓ 24 23 Moist Plant Sowe Chaffer Marry but Navigate not 28 ♈ 24 15 Temper Vse Merchandise Marry take Physick but lend not neither enterprise any voyage The Vse of the Table In the first Column you have the number of the Mansions of the Moon and on the head thereof this word Mansions In the second Column you have the Signs Characters and over the head thereof Sig. intimating signs you see first ♈ and ♉ ♉ ♉ over against ♈ on the left-hand Column you see the Figure 1. over against the first ♉ the figure 2. and the figure 3. against the second ♉ 4. against the third ♉ all which speaks no more then thus that the first Mansion of the Moon is in Aries the second third and fourth in Taurus c. In the third Column over against the figure 1. and ♈ you finde 20.6 and over the head D. M. signifying degrees and minutes which shews that the first Mansion of the Moon begins at the 20th degree and 6th minute of Aries and ends at the second degree and 57th minute of Taurus at which beginneth the second Mansion and so understand of all the rest As for the Qualities of every Mansion in the next Column in the same line with each Mansion you have its quality or nature over the head of which Column you have this word Qualities As for example over against ♈ you see Temperate intimating the first Mansion to be so qualified and over against the figure 2. being the second Mansion you have dry and so observe of all the rest this being understood you may also over against each Mansion in the fifth and last Column finde the several elections which are then
which he hath also three dignities which makes with the other four seven then if we examine yet farther what face the cusp is in it being in the first ten degrees of the sign we shall finde it to be Mars his for the which he hath one dignity assigned him which together with the aforesaid five makes six and no more hence then I am to conclude the Sun to be Lord of the year being Almuten of the ascenden or the Planet bearing most dominion therein whose dignities you see were seven yet Mars shall be joyned in judgement with him but still the Sun shall be chief Dominator or Significator whether of good or evil according to their strength or debility as you have already sufficiently been informed yet because I desire that the Students in this Science should be well verst in their Rules I shall yet further deliver some Instructions touching the condition of such things signified by the Lord of the year in any Revolution by the signification of his Nature place in the Heavens and his configurations with the other planets and I hope to give you any more examples in this matter being so plain in this one wherefore then we shall to our business in hand CHAP. V. Of the Significations of the seven Celestial Planets when any of them is Lord of the Year whether Fortunated or Impedited and of the Aspects of the other Planets with them DElivering unto you the Rules of the Ancients for knowing of the Lord of the year in the preceding Chapter I have fully declared unto you the general denotation of the Lord of the year when well or ill dignified or disposed in any Revolution to which I shall only add these two or three words and proceed to the signification of every particular Planet when Lord of the year and Fortunate or afflicted If the Lord of the year be beheld by his Dispositor viz. the Planet in whose house or sign he is in any Revolution and free from Impediment for if so the People under that Revolution shall be in a good condition quiet secure at peace and tranquility also joyfull and pleasant If the Lord of the year be not impedited and not beheld by his Dispositor or if he be impedited and aspected by him judge their condition to be between both viz what you have heard and what follows For if he be impedited and behold him not they shall be sad solitary fearfull shall be molested with War Trouble and Anxiety for thou shalt judge the clean contrary to what thou hast heard Judge this also according to the Nature of the house wherein the Lord of the year is for if he be in the Ascendent judge as you have but now heard if in the second the good or evil signified shall happen to the signification of the second house as to the Peoples substance assistants and friends c. according as you have been taught in the former Chapter and other places in this Treatise Of ♄ when Lord of the year and fortified Now then to our business if Saturn be Lord of the year and well dignified the People shall that year or during that Revolution build and erect houses shall make many alterations in Fabricks shall abound in all things the earth shall be fruitfull and the People shall be in esteem and honoured by all their neighbours and the husbandmen shall exceedingly increase their Store and Wealth and be successfull in all their labours ♄ Lord of the year and weak But if Saturn be Lord of the year and weak or afflicted there shall be much cold great and grievous infirmities and men shall sustain much sorrow losses and crosses and great dammage by storms wind and rain but this must warily be considered if other Significators of Weather concur and then mayst thou assuredly conclude it to be so Ancient and old men and women shall die and these things shall chiefly happen to those Places Cities and Regions under Saturn his Dominion and the Dominion of the sign which he doth then possess ♃ when Lord of the year other strong or weak When Jupiter is Lord of the year and strong and well dignified the King shall do Justice and it shall be happy for those that are Noble men Judges Councellors of the Law and men of all sorts of Religious Orders shall be in a successfull happy pleasant and good condition and shall live plenteously and contentedly in honour and also great esteem and the People also shall be in a good and prosperous condition and shall receive good from their King and Superiors and they from the People also if the Lord of the Ascendent of the Moon be in reception with the Significator of the King or Lord of the year or be located in the mid-heaven but if Jupiter be weak or afflicted judge the contrary to all what you have heard in every particular which I omit to rehearse for brevities sake ♂ When Lord of the year either strong or weak Mars when he is Lord of the year strong and well placed all such as belong to Arms as Souldiers and the like shall be fortunate and in good condition and shall overcome their enemies there shall be also during that Revolution sufficient and plenty of rain as such times and no other it is convenient and requisite and the People shall be prosperous and happy but if he be Lord of the year and weak c. judge the contrary and you must remember still in the judging the good or evil portended by him and also all the rest of the Planets it shall chiefly happen in those places and Regions subject to his or their Dominion which you have been at large shewn in the second or Introductory Treatise The Sun when Lord of the year either strong or weak If in any Revolution you finde the Sun Lord of the year and well dignified the King and Nobles shall exceed and increase in glory and renown Corn Beasts and Birds shall be plentifull the people generally prosperous and successfull and all things in a good condition whereof the Sun hath any signification if weak judge the contrary Venus when Lady of the year either strong or weak When you find Venus Lady of the yeare and wel and fortunatly disposed the year will be successful and advantagious unto women who shall be free generally from Infirmities and mischances they shall love and delight themselves in the society and company of their Husbands shall be fruitfull easily conceive and bring forth their Children the People shall also generally thrive and be prosperous shall delight themselves in Recreations sports feastings mirth and jollities and all pleasure whatsoever they desire shall feast make Marriages and delight to go neat and fine in apparel if she be weak and impedited she denotes the contrary Mercury when Lord of the year either strong or weak Mercury signifies when he is Lord of the year and strong that Merchants Trades-men and all
any annual Revolution whether he be Lord of the Year or no. Mars in the first HAving done with the significations of Iupiter it follows now we come to Mars and his significations who if he be in the first House in any Revolution and strong whether he be Lord of the year or no shews that the People of that Country shall gain and be advantaged by wars or slaughters and shall overcome their Enemies during that Revolution but if he be weak they shall disagree and fall out one among another and shall beat draw blood and wound one another for which cause much evil and damage shall happen unto them Mars in the second If Mars be in the second House at the time of any Revolution or Ingress of the Sun into Aries and strong he denotes many thefts rapines and robberies and cozening and cheating of one another those also that are intrusted with money or goods of any one shall be false and deceitful and the People generally shall be driven to want and be perplexed with taxations and tributes Mars in the third But if he be in the third men shall not associate themselves with their neighbours and kindred but instead of being friends hate and envy one another Mars in the fourth Also if he be in the fourth he sends his vigorous heat and malice to all the other Planets so that if he be in a fiëry sign he dryes up and scorches the earth and causeth great mischief by fire also mortalities if the sign be humane he causeth many slaughters and effusion of blood quarrels and war and that chiefly in or towards the latter end of the year and in those places generally subject to the sin wherein she is Mars in the fifth And if he happen in the fifth hard and tedious labour is threatned to those with Child little or no merry meetings and feastings but if any he causeth dissentions and discords amongst them Mars in the sixth Again If he be in the sixth in a hot and dry sign he causeth hot and dry diseases if the sign be moyst the diseases will be hot and moyst if aiëry they will be feavers corruption of blood impostumes ventosies c. if it be an earthy sign they will be consumptions and melancholy diseases with some mixtures of choler and if the sign be bestial the beasts subject thereunto shall suffer c. Mars in the seventh Moreover if he be in the seventh afflicted and weak he denotes then great dissentions and enmities and that men shall be perplexed with theft much blood-shed contentions and wars and these shall chiefly be incident to the People of that Climate for which the Radix of your Figure is made viz. evil accidents wars and discords also fraud and deceit in Merchandizing trouble and sadness Mars in the eighth And if he be in the eighth there shall be fearful and terrible sudden deaths according to the nature of the sign in which he is Mars in the ninth If he be in the ninth travelling shall be dangerous also much robbing and plundering therein if the Journey be by Land if by Sea Shipwrack is much to be feared Mars in the tenth Again If he be in the tenth the King and Rulers shall be froward and cross with their People exercising cruelty and tyrannie without any piety or fear of God and punishing and taxing them without any mercy or pitty Mars in the eleventh If in the eleventh men shall not love one another nor delight in each others society neither will they be moved with any compassion or pitty Mars in the twelfth And if in the twelfth the People shall be much terrified and troubled by their Enemies from whence shall proceed slaughter and effusion of blood CHAP. IX Shewing the Significations of the Sun in the Twelve Houses of Heaven in any Annual Revolution whether he be Lord of the Year or no. REhearsing the Planets according to their order and places in the Heavens after Mars follows the Sun The Sun in the first who if he be in the Ascendent fortunate essentially dignified and in reception with the Lord of the Ascendent and beheld amically by him the year shall generally be happy and successful for every one as well the King as the Beggar but if he be therein infortunate it shall be clean contrary and especially noble and great men shall suffer in their persons dishonour disgrace and be perhaps cast out of their dignities and places The Sun in the second The Sun in the second the People shall waste and expend their wealth also their Rulers shall covet after the fingring and disposing thereof insomuch that they shall live sneakingly and poor The Sun in the third The Sun in the third shews the People shall delight in goodness and in the Law shall love and associate themselves with their neighbours friends kindred and associates for the which they shall be praised The Sun in the fourth If he be in the fourth Gardens and Vegetables shall be spoyled and suffer detriment especially if he be in signs of that nature great men and high shall be made low and degraded and if it be a watry sign the earth shall be dry and the water dried up I believe the Ancients meant fiëry The Sun in the fifth Again If the Sun be in the fifth he denotes detriment and grief to such Creatures as are with young so that hardly do any escape without some manifest hurt or other The Sun in the sixth Also if he be in the sixth many griefs and infirmities shall happen and chiefly in the eyes and such living Creatures shall dye as are signified by the sign wherein he is located the King also or chief Rulers shall be sad that year much loss also and damage shall be by servants and such things as are signified by the sixth House also the ignoble and baser sort of People shall envy and raise themselves up against their Superiours The Sun in the seventh Moreover if he be in the seventh he denoteth discords between the People and their Rulers and betwixt the King and the Nobles and that the King shall keep at a distance with the People or keep himself retire from them The Sun in the eighth In the eighth he denotes the death of Kings and great men also the deposing of Kings and unthroning of Nobles and Grandees and a lessening or diminishing of their power especially if he be beheld by the Lord of the eighth The Sun in the ninth But if he be in the ninth he shews the inclinations of the People are generally to good and that they shall be fortunate and successful in long Journies and Voyages and shall love and delight in both the Law of God and Man The Sun in the tenth Also if the Sun be in the tenth it denotes the glory renown and honour of the King or chief Rulers also the
good condition of the People and that there shall be kindness and love betwixt them for the People shall willingly obey and the Superiors shall conferr honour and priviledges on the People The Sun in the eleventh And if he chance to be in the eleventh the People generally shall have joy and gladness and shall be merry and solace themselves with their friends acquaintance and familiars and their hopes shall not be frustrated the chief Rulers shall love the People also and be advantageous unto them The Sun in the twelfth Lastly if he be in the twelfth Rich and Noblemen and the Grandees shall be eclipsed in their honour and ignoble persons shall affront and prejudice them and the People generally shall hate and despise their Superiours and their Superiours shall oppress and torment them CHAP. X. Shewing the Signification of Venus in the Twelve Houses of Heaven in any Annual Revolution whether she be Lady of the Year or no. Venus in the first AFter the Sun follows Venus who if she be in the Ascendent strong and well dignified the people shall be strong and healthy and have much joy and gladness shall endeavour to live neatly and in a comely spruce manner both for matter of meat and raiment and all other things necessary for the perfecting of a mans pleasure in this life Venus in the second Venus in the second causeth profit and gain by Women happiness and fertility of the Fruits of the Earth Venus in the third If she be in the third men shall hate one another and no wise desire the society of their friends and neighbours also be careless of Religion Law and all goodness Venus in the fourth Also if she be in the fourth men shall be jealous of their Wives and shall therefore shut them up also sadness and anxiety caused by Mothers but yet the latter end of the year shall be better then the beginning Venus in the fifth If she be in the fifth damage is portended through the occasion of Children but the latter end of the year will be better then the beginning and the grief and sadness converted into joy such Creatures as are with young shall go safely and be delivered but the most part will be Females Men shall be Captivated with the love of Women and shall be merry with them shall delight in singing dancing feasting and seeming spruce and neat Venus in the sixth Also if she be in the sixth and the sign humane men shall profit by servants in like manner if the sign be bestial they shall also gain thereby viz. by such beasts as are thereby signified and they shall be free from sickness and other accidents and women shall be sick through surfets and weakness of the stomack Venus in the seventh Again If she be in the seventh Women shall make and conclude Marriages and delight themselves with their Husbands if she be strong but if she be weak they shall fall out and scold with their Husbands and shall be disobedient unto them and shall run scolding and prating out of their houses and separate and divorce themselves many of them from their husbands Venus in the eighth Moreover if in the eighth she denotes the death of Matrons and great Women also generally mortality to all Women if she be then weak Venus in the ninth If she be in the ninth she shews Men of Religious Orders shall flit and remove from one place and house to another and that Men shall dream true Dreams and perform long Journeys and Voyages with safety and profit and gain thereby Men shall be Lovers of the Law both of God and Man and esteem of all good Learning and strive to be vertuous Venus in the tenth But if she be in the tenth joy and gladness will be occasioned by and from the King and Superiours the Grandees also shall love and delight themselves with Women whom they shall adorn and deck sumptuously they shall also take much pleasure in Jesters all merry conceits and tricks also in Musick Songs and the like the People shall be in a good condition and shall be beloved and honoured by their Superiours Venus in the eleventh Also if she be in the eleventh the People shall be fortunate successful and happy by reason their faith trust and hope shall not fail them they shall also accompany themselves with Women and shall be taken in love one with another and commit Fornications and transgress the Law yet shall they spend the year with great jollity and mirth Venus in the twelfth If in the twelfth Tribulation is threatned and enmity with Women for Men shall hate them and no wise be assistant unto them so that they shall be during the time of that Revolution most unfortunate CHAP. XI Of the Significations of Mercury in the Twelve Houses of Heaven in any Annual Revolution whether he be Lord of the Year or no. Mercury in the first MErcury in the twelve Houses of Heaven comes now to be considered who if he be in the first he shews the year shall be good and successful Men shall be ingenious and also Children and Youth so that they shall during that Revolution be apt to attain to any thing that shall be taught them or that they shall incline their minds to understand Mercury in the second If he be in the second and strong Merchants and Trades-men shall profit and gain by their Merchandizings shall be faithful and justly perform the trust reposed in them shall be honoured famous and in great esteem of their Superiours but if he be unfortunate it denotes loss and decay of trading infidelity and breach of trust and that men shall give themselves over to gain by unlawful and indirect means and the like Mercury in the third Also if he be in the third men shall love and delight in the Law and in all kind of Knowledge and Religion and shall love and associate themselves one with another and shall delight in short Journies Mercury in the fourth Again In the fourth he causeth discords and jarrings in words betwixt man and man also vexation and sadness also many Scribes shall be captivated or such as keep Books of Accounts or Secretaries of State and if the sign wherein he is be fixed they shall continue long in Prison if moveable judge the contrary and if Mars do then maliciously aspect him they shall be grievously beaten and tormented and perhaps slain Mercury in the fifth Also if he be in the fifth he denotes success and joy by and in Children messages sports pastimes and ingenious recreations by which sadness shall be totally abolished also such as are with Young shall go their time safely and be at length well delivered and these for the most part shall be ingenious Creatures but if he be unfortunate no Conception shall be brought to perfection and judge the contrary to what you have heard
wars c Remember still that if your Significator or Lord of the year Note c. be afflicted then mischief is to be expected if assisted and well dignified the contrary and whether good or bad is portended it shall still happen to the quarter of the Region answering to the quarter of heaven he is in as if in the Ascendent it shall happen in the Eastern parts in the Seventh in the Western in the Tenth in the Southern in the Fourth in the Northern in the Second in the North-east and by East in the Third in the North-east just if upon the Cusp thereof but if within the house North-east and by North and so judge of all the rest of the houses round the whole heavens But the good or evill shall chiefly be incident to those Regious and Countries subject to your Significator and the Sign in which he is located Also you are to remember to judge the nature of the good or bad according to the nature of the Planet afflicting or assisting and the nature of the Sign in which he is whether Aiëry Earthy Fiery or Watry for it is not for me upon every Rule to make repetition wherefore you are warily to understand and consider what hath been already delivered c. CHAP. XIII Containing the signfications of the Head and Tail of the Dragon in the Twelve Houses of Heaven in any Annual Revolution of the Years of the World SInce we have now waded through the significations of the Seven Celestial Planets in the Twelve Houses of Heaven in any Revolution of the Years of the World it resteth we now also shew the significations of the Head and Tayl of the Dragon and then proceed to the significations of them in the Twelve Celestial Signs ☊ in the first wherefore then if you find ☊ in the first the People will be successfull fortunate in honor and health especially if free from the malevolent aspects of the Infortunes ☋ in the first and fortunately beheld by the Benevolents But if ☋ be in the first it denotes dangers misfortunes crosses losses and that all manner of mischief shall be incident to the persons of the People also infirmities according to the Nature and signification of the Sign wherein it is ☊ in the 2d If ☊ he in the Second it portends fortune and good success to the People in their Trades that they shall grow rich and thrive in the world but if ☋ be therein little or no Trading crosses and losses in their substance and wealth is to be feared ☋ in the 2d and that casually and unexpectedly ☊ in the 3d. If ☊ be in the Third short Journies shall be profitable safe and advantagious to the People who shall also be good and well disposed and dream true Dreams and shall delight in all manner of good things Brethren and Associates shall love and agree also be helpfull and advantagious one to another but if be therein ☋ in the 3d. judge the contrary discords dissentions and feuds among them chiefly amongst the men if the Sign wherein it is be masculine amongst the women if feminine also dammage and loss by long journies c. ☊ in the 4th If ☊ be in the Fourth and the Sign wherein he is be ♈ ♌ or ♠or ♊ ♎ or ♒ if signifies good success and increase of things of the Earth as fruits and the like and all immoveable things signified by the Fourth house but if it be ♉ ♠♑ ♋ ♠or ♓ judge the contrary and if ☋ be therein Poverty and Indigency ☋ in the 4th also a scarceness of fruits and the ill state of things signified by that house is to be expected ☊ in the 5th Also if the Dragons Head be in the Fifth it signifies encrease of Joy by children also abundance of pleasure c. but if the Dragons Tayl be therein sadness trouble ☋ in the 5th vexation and anxiety is to be expected also grief and trouble by and through children and if any recreation or pastime be used it is an hundred to one if there follow not much inconveniency thereby ☊ in the 6th Again if the Dragons Head be in the Sixth it denotes encrease of small Cattell and much gain and profit thereby also faithfull Servants and such as shall advantage their Masters and the Ayr shall be healthfull and pleasant but if you find the Dragons Tayl therein judge the contrary also loss by Cattell and Servants ☋ in the 6th and that they shall be perfidious and false ☊ in the 7th Moreover if the Dragons Head be in the Seventh men shall delight in the company and society of women and love shall be encreased between them the enemies of the People shall be strong and in good condition but if the Dragons Tayl be there ☋ in the 7th say there shall be no love nor delight between men and women nor society in any love but 02 rather quarrels scoldings brawlings chiefly among the common sort of people c. ☊ in the 8th If ☊ be in the Eighth the People shall gain and profit by the decease of men and women also by Legacies and such like c. but it ☋ be there ☋ in the 8th it signifies loss by the death of men and women quite contrary ☊ in the 9th Also ☊ in the Ninth long journies shall be successfull men shall also be Lovers of the Law and all good Learning but if ☋ be therein ☋ in the 9th long journies and voyages by Sea shall be tedious dangerous and unprofitable also men shall be negligent and careless of the Law and Learning ☊ in the 10th Again if ☊ be in the Tenth the condition of the King and Rulers shall be good and the People shall study such Trades as are very curious and ingenious also dive into the Secrets of all Sciences and Studies but if ☋ be there ☋ in the 10th they shall be also as inquisitive but the Arts shall be Diabolical and unlawfull and the Trades-men shall devise ways in their Trade to cozen and cheat their Neighbors and the King or Rulers shall have crosses and troubles and perhaps their Honor ecclipsed ☊ in the 11th Also if ☊ be in the Eleventh the Ancients have sayd he signifieth neither good nor bad the same also they affirm of ☋ ☋ in the 11th I must confess I have not had much regard to the verity thereof by any sufficient observation nor can I as yet conceive the true Reason thereof I hope a little time and Search thereinto will better inform both me and thee in the Interim because they have so concluded I shall not in the least contradict them in this Point nor derogate from them because something may I know be sayd for this their Tenet although not so much as is fully satisfactory to my Objections c. ☊ in the 12th Lastly if ☊ be in the Twelfth he
fifteen degrees of Sagittary it signifies also an hot and dry ayr also a thick and obscure face of heaven ☋ in ♠And if Dragons Tail be therein it signifies the dejection of Noble and Great men and their misfortune but the rise of Ignoble base fellows and the sad condition of Judges Councellors Learned and Wise-men espetially if Dragons-Tail be in the first fifteen degrees Also if Dragons-Head be in Capricorn it denotes joy and gladness to Rich ☊ in ♑ Noble and Great men and their honour and preferment but the dejection of the base and Ignoble ☋ in ♑ but if Dragons Tail be therein it signifies Earthquakes and dammages especially in the southern parts And Dragons-Head in Aquaries signifies the death of religious men and such as study the Law ☊ in ♒ this to some few but in one kinde or other they will all suffer detriment and vexation ☋ in ♒ many Sects and Shismes shall also arise and if Dragons Tail be therin Kings Great-men and Land-Lords shall be very injurious and tyrannical over their subjects servants and tennants and shall afflict tax and grinde theire faces beyond common humanity and honesty Lastly Dragons-Head in Pisces shews the honour and dignity of Great and Noble men ☊ in ♓ and of every man according to his degree and if Dragons-Tail be in Pisces ☋ in ♓ many Noble and rich men shall be subjugated and brought under the power of the militia or men in armes and be removed out of their habitations for their faults and much controversie and debates concerning Sects and the apperance of some new Heresie or Schism And so much for the significations of the Head and Tail of the Dragon and what we have to say in this second Section Let us now proceed to the third and hasten to a conclusion SECTION III. Containing some other necessary Instructions for the judging of Events portended by any Revolution of the Years of the World Also shewing how to judge of such Years as signifie fertility sterility wars peace health or sickness alteration of and in the air and of all other things foreknown by the position of the Heavens at the Ingress of the Sun into the first point of Aries CHAP. I. Shewing the Significations of the Planets in their Exaltations and also in Conjunction Square or Opposition of Saturn or Mars at that time in any Revolution IN this matter we shall have chief respect to the superiour Planets who by reason of their magnitude and slowness of motion in comparison of the other do effect more forcibly and infallibly on the Elementary things of the world and bodies of men The signification of Saturn when in any Revolution he is in the point of his exaltation We shall begin then with Saturn being the highest as you have heard who if he be at the time of the Sun his Ingress into the first point of Aries in Libra especially the 21 degree thereof which is the sign and point of his exaltation and receive the light and nature of Venus he shall signifie and denote and be the fore-runner of some great and most notable thing to happen during that Revolution especially in those parts subject to Libra and Saturn and men shall suffer much loss and detriment in their estates and fortunes and that his significations shall be of long continuance but if Venus be fortunate Occidental direct free from the affliction of the Malevolents or other impediment free from combustion and the Sun-beams Saturn shall be the portender of good prosperity and increase of the Kingdoms and Powers in the places subject to his dominion and the sign Libra but if Venus be weak retrograde unfortunate afflicted by the Malevolents combust under the Sun-beams and impedited judge the contrary but yet you may be confident of some strange Catastrophe to happen thereupon but the nature thereof will incline rather to evil then good Also if Jupiter in any Revolution be in the 15 degree of Cancer being his exaltation fortunate and strong accidentally as being well aspected of the Fortunes and no wise afflicted by the Malevolents Of Jupiter when in his exaltation and well aspected of the Moon and she also strong both essentially and accidentally there is no doubt to be made of it but that he shall be the occasioner of some great alteration in Church-affairs and matters Divine and appertaining to the Law and that for the better but if they be afflicted weak and impedited judge the contrary viz. that the alteration shall be for the worse Again if at the Sun his ingress you find Mars in the 28 degree of Capricorn being his exaltation Of Mars when in his exaltation he denotes many and great Mutations yet not altogether so notable and strange as the two other preceding and the nature and quality thereof shall be according to his own proper signification viz. wars fire combustions uproars slaughters thefts rapines and robberies and such like unless he be beheld of Saturn by a Sextile or Trine and Saturn be then also well dignified and free from all manner of impediment and affliction or behold other Planets of whom he is received and well aspected and those Planets also fortunate and free from all manner of impediment but if otherwise it shall be the worse Of the Sun There is nothing to be said of the Sun in this particular who by reason the Revolution is still made by his return to the first point of Aries can never be in the point of his exaltation in any Revolution of the World neither indeed have I found any of the Ancients regard any of the inferiour Planets in this matter onely Bonatus testifieth of Albumazar a most learned Arabian in this Heavenly Science that in every Revolution of the World we are to have regard to the exaltation of Mercury which is the 15 degree of Virgo and see what Planet is then therein receiving Mercury or Mercury him for he shall be Lord or chief Denoter or Significator of what is portended by him according to his strength or weakness as you have heard of the Superiours for after the same manner must you judge c. And truly I see no reason why we may not after this rule judge of Venus and the Moon also Of the Conjunction or Aspect of Saturn with any Planet in exaltation in any Revolution In every Revolution see what Planet is in his exaltation and how aspected by either Saturn or Mars for if it be Saturn he shall cause much dammage and detriment and trouble to those Regions and Places subject to the Planet with whom he is in Configuration and if Saturn be in a fixed sign and the Planet also in a fixed sign the evill shall continue so many years as there wanted degrees betwixt the perfect Conjunction or Aspect if in common signs so many moneths if movable so many weeks or dayes but if one be in a fixed sign and the
till either Saturn or Mars transite the cusp of the tenth House at time of the Revolution or shall then begin ad continue at least till Mars have made one Revolution through the twelve Signs of the Zodiack But if then Saturn be in Virgo and Mars Aspect him out of Gemini as hath been said and the Moon also translate her light to Saturn and she in Sagittarie there shall be misery upon misery the mischief of mischiefs the trouble of troubles the tribulation of tribulations the pestilence of pestilencies and the misfortune of misfortunes and all kind of vexations troubles and torments also it signifies the destruction of Kingdoms and translation of one Kingdome into the power and under the subjection of another Moreover if the Moon when she translates her light and nature to Saturn either by Conjunction Square or Opposition and the Lord of the Sign wherein she is when there is a Partil Conjunction Square or Opposition betwixt them be then impedited unfortunate weak or afflicted there shall be many diversities of mischiefs during the time of that Revolution and if then the Moon were eclipsed at the Preventional or to be eclipsed at the Postventional full Moon immediately going before or comming after any such Configuration the mischiefs and troubles threatned shall continue so many moneths as the Moon is or shall be ecclipsed houres reckoning from the minute she first begins to be ecclipsed till the Punctum wherein she is again free But if Part of Fortune be Impedited and its dispositor when the Moon is so in Conjunction or aspect partil of Saturn the evill thereby signified or threatned shall be increased have regard also to the Sun how he is placed dignified and aspected by the Malevolent Planet or by what Aspect he beholds him as you have heard of the Moon and the Lord of the Sign in which he is at the time of the Partil Conjunction or Aspect and make Part of Fortune and its Dispositor participate in signification therewith and judge accordingly mutatis mutandis as you have heard I say of the Moon and if the Sun was eclipsed or to be eclipsed at the Preventional or Postventional Conjunction of the Luminaries or change of the Moon to speak plainly the evill then threatned shall continue so many years as the Sun is at that time eclipsed houres Also when any Planets behold one another and be in any Reception look in what place in the figure they project their rays or beams for those places subject to the sign wherein they cast their rayes shall suffer such things as are by those Planets signified whether good or bad more then any other place And if one planet transfer his light Nature and Vertue to another you are diligently to weigh their natures and significations and judge accordingly as you have been before sufficiently shown as if the Significator of the King transfer his light and Nature to Saturn and he also well disposed such people and religious orders and things which you have heard elsewhere signified by Saturn shall be bettered and receive good from the bounty or liberality of the King or Superiours If to Jupiter Nobles Judges and such as converse in the Law and are signified by him shall receive honour liberty and much good from the Kings hand c. And so judge if any other Planet and if any other Significator transfer his light to any remember the Nature of your Significator transfering his light and the Natural and Accidental signification of the Planet to whom it is transferred and judge according thereunto and you are right and will soon be able to judge of any matter mutatis mutandis varying your rules according to Art And thus far have I in a manner reiterated rules and words for thy through understanding and instruction in such matters as have been delivered in a more short and compendious manner before and indeed so much the rather because that though what was at the beginning of this Discourse set down was sufficient to and for any one that is any thing entred into this Art yet would it perhaps have seemed somewhat difficult to those who are as yet altogether unseen therein and therefore I hope this fault will be by the Judicious deemed venial Wherefore let us now proceed CHAP. V. Shewing how to judge of health or sickness in any year THus then if thou wouldst be expert in this manner of judgement have respect to the Cusp of the Ascendent of the figure of the heavens at the time of your Revolution and the Ascendent of the figures at the time of the Conjunction or preventional Conjunction of the Luminaries before the Sun his ingress into Aries and then if these two Ascendents and the Moon be free from Misfortune and the Lord of the place of the Conjunction also free and then applying to a Fortune as also the Luminaries beholding him especially that of the time viz the Sun if it be by day the Moon if by night then it signifies that that year shall be free from infirmities general and diseases and shall be healthful but if the Lords of these two Ascendents and the Moon and Lord of the place of the Conjunction and prevention be all or the major part of them unfortunate it denotes general infirmites and diseases and no healthful year and that according to the power of the infortunate Planets their nature and the nature of the signs and places they are in what diseases are appropriated to both the Planets and Signs I have sully delivered unto you in the second Treatise of this Volumn entituled An Introduction to the judgement of the STARS Also if the Lords of those two Ascendents or one of them being so unfortunated apply to the Lord of the Eighth House there shall be many general infirmities and also death but if otherwise there shall be many infirmities and general diseases but not mortality and if death it will not be great Moreover if the strongest Planet of these Significators apply to the Lord of the Eighth there shall be many sudden deaths without any great or tedious sicknesses also if to the Lord of the sixth there shall be many infirmities and general diseases and those of long continuance And if Mars be the afflicting Planet he shall signifie hot and dry diseases especially if he be in a siëry sign and swift of motion and if it be Saturn he shall cause lingring Agues Coughs Consumptions and Saturnian tedious diseases especially if he be in a cold and dry sign and flow in motion CHAP. VI. Of Wars or Peace HItherto we have proceeded in a plain and easie manner of Instruction for it is my most earnest desire that knowledge may flow as a stream amongst all judicious souls especially those of this my native Nation of England and therefore I shall here again desire the more quick and nimble apprehensions to pardon both my largeness and plainness since I write to those that are altogether to seek
the rule or Dominion before the other yet shalt thou joyn him in judgement therewith but if there be several Planets that have Dominion in these places you shall prefer that which is nearest an Angle and most strong in the degree of the Eclipse and make him Lord of the Eclipse Fixed Stars to be considered And you are also to observe those fixed Stars which are of most note and placed nere the place of the Eclipse and the Cuspe of the Angle preceding the Eclipse as also the Cusps of the Ascendent and mid-Heaven at the time of the Eclipse The forms and figures of the signs Having thus seriously considered the fixed Stars as you ought the forms and figures of the signs are to be considered in which an Eclipse fals and in which the predominant Planets are for the quality of the Events cannot be well known but by the nature thereof For humane signs of such as are of that form have signification unto mankinde and if they be ferall signs or such as bear the form of wild Beasts or four-footed Creatures it shall be to such Beasts and Creatures which are found in shape and Nature agreeable thereunto whether the sign signifie Snakes Beasts of the field domestick tame Creatures c. Northern signs Nota. signifie sudden Earth-quakes which have the figure of Beasts of the field when an Eclipse is therein in Southern alteration of the ayr in such Signs and Constellations as have wings such as are Virgo Sagittary the Hen the Vulture c. it denotes detriment to birds and flying fowl chiefly such as are usually eaten by man If in Cancer Pisces or the Dolphin to Creatures living in the water if in the Constellation of the Ship to Ships and such as Navigate in Aquaries to Rivers and the like c. The portence of an Eclipse in Tropical or Equinoctial signs Also if an Eclipse of either I uminary be in any of the Tropical or Equinoctial signs it denotes change of ayr in every of these times if in the vernal Equinox dammage to Trees when they begin to bud and shout forth as the Vine Fig-tree and others then springing if in the Summer Solstice the events will be on fruits when they are gathered but in Egypt it signifies the over-flowing of Nilus If in the Autumnall Equinox they will be manifest on Hearbs and the Seeds of the Earth when they are sown and detriment in harvest in the Winter Solstice on Pot-Hearbs Birds of the season and Fish Also if an Eclipse be in Equinoctial signs it shews its Effects in Religious things and Church affairs in the Tropicks in the ayr laws and manners of men In fixed signs in foundations and edifices in common signs in mankinde and Kings In the quarters of Heaven Moreover Eclipses nere the East signifie their Effects will be apparent in fruits youth and foundations in the mid-Heaven in the Church State great ones and such as are of middle age but if in the West in the Laws and Customs of the People the alteration thereof and in those of elder years it hath signification also of Murthers To know the greatness of the Events of any Eclipse The quantity or the greatness of their Effects are known from the greatness of the Eclipse and from those Stars which in the place of the Eclipse are caused of the future events For when an Eclipse of the Sun is vespertine the evill portended thereby is lessened but when Matutine increased so likewise on the contrary an Eclipse of the Moon Vespertine increaseth the evill Matutine impareth it the one half The reason thereof is because the Sun is the proper Governour of the Day and the Moon Governess of the Night Gen. 1.16 and therefore when they are thus afflicted in their own season the Effects must needs be much more effectual then when on the contrary CHAP. IV. Of the quality of the Events of any Eclipse whether Good or Evill How to know the nature and quality of the Events of any Eclipse whether good or evill UNder the verge of this Chapter will the quality of the events whether good or evill fall and the nature of them both the which is known from the nature of the Planets having most fortitudes in the place of the Eclipse and the Communication and commixtion of one with another and the places in which they are in the Figure of Heaven For the Sun and Moon bear rule over the other Planets and are main causes of future accidents as also the power and efficacy of the other Stars are by them augmented or diminished but the commixture of those Stars who are of most power shew the quality of the events But let us declare the works and properties of each Planet and their natures but that our relation thereof may be the more effectual you are to take notice that when I nominate or declare the nature generally of the five Planets you are to understand their temper power and force whether that Planet doth of himself in his own nature predominate or no or whether any other Star which is not errant or other place of the Zodiack of the same nature and temper or influence of that Star wherefore if possible we are to know the nature and quality of every fixed Star worthy the noting for the making a right commixtion when they are joined in Configuration with the Errant Stars or Planets because this is as considerable as their commixtion one with another according to their familiarity before mentioned Of Saturn when he is chief Ruler and his significations in general So that if Saturn be only chief Lord or Ruler he shall be generally the occasion of destruction and mischief caused by cold and particularly when his influence relateth unto men he causeth long and tedious Infirmities Tissicks and obnoxious Diseases occasioned from Humors Flegm and Defluxions quartane Feavers Banishment Want Tribulation Anxiety Fears sadness and Death and these chiefly to those that are stricken in years But when it relateth to Beasts and Creatures belonging to the use of Man he bringeth destruction and causeth a scarcity of them and sickness and rottenness to those that remain death also and infirmity in the same nature to those men that use or eat them In the ayr he shall cause frost and snow and such as shall produce bitter cold weather cloudy and obscure also pernicious pestiferous and tempestuous Snow and inconvenient wind and moisture producing by corruption pernicious and offensive creatures to mankinde But in the Sea and Rivers tempests and shipwracks also difficult and dangerous Navigating a destruction and scarcity of fishes increase and decrease of waters in the Sea by fits the over-flowing of Rivers and eruptions of the Sea-banks and mischief by water In the Earth a diminution and destruction of fruits and chiefly to such as are more particularly for the use of Man they shall suffer by Worms very much detriment and Caterpillars Locusts and
method before any or all other Astrological Philosophers whatsoever and therefore as I have already said with him I shall conclude as touching this matter adding only this Chapter which I have collected out of of Junctinus that we may hasten to a conclusion of this Treatise CHAP. V. Of the Sun and Moon Eclipsed in any Decanate or Face of the twelve Celestial Signs DIvers rules have I before delivered unto thee which I collectedout of Junctinus wherefore now for conclusion of this point I thought good to give thee this Chapter out of him also the which he gathered from the writings of Proclus When there happens any Eclipse either of the Sun or Moon in Taurus Virgo or Capricorn it denotes a scarcity of the fruits of the Earth and Corn in Gemini Libra or Aquaries a Famin and outragious diseases Pestilencies and Mortalities in Cancer Scorpio or Pisces the death and slaughter of obscure common Plebean kinde of people continual quarrels and seditions and great damage to Navigators and such as converse in the Sea or Sea-affairs in Aries Leo or Sagittary I need say no more then this thas it is sufficiently declared in the handling the several Decanates of these Signs wherefore it will not be amiss if we also go through every sign of the whole Zodiack beginning at Aries that so thou mayest not be to seek upon any Eclipse of the Luminaries and first then of the Sun When the Sun is Eclipsed in any of the first ten degrees of Aries which you have heard is the first Decanate or Face thereof it portends the sudden and frequent motion of Armies continual expeditions assaults and batteries with many tumults seditions and controversies and an inclination of the ayr to intemperate heat and drought In the following Decanat or Face viz. from the tenth to the twentieth degree of Aries it denotes the Imprisonment trouble and sadness of some King and danger of death unto him a corruption of trees that are fruitful or of such fruits as are produced of Trees as also of the Earth In the last Decanate or Face viz. from the twentieth to the thirtieth or last degree of Aries he bringeth grief and sadness to mortals and the death of great women and a scarcity or diminution of Cattel viz. those of the lesser sort because it is signified by Aries An Eclipse of the Sun happening in the first Face of Taurus afflicteth Negotiators Agents and Solicitors destroyeth businesses and the Corn upon the Earth In the second Decanate or Face of Taurus incommodities to such as bear children and also to Travellers In the third Pestilence and Famine from whence we may collect the destruction of greater Cattel viz. Buls Oxen and Cows An Eclipse in the first Face of Gemini of the Sun causeth dissention amongst Priests of what Order soever they are inveterate hatred and seditions and a contempt of both the Law of God and Man is to be feared In the second thefts and robberies piracies and slaughters In the third the death of some King and various mischeifs to such Common-wealths as are under Gemini and the frustration of such Cities affairs and Negotiations Again an Eclipse of the Sun in the first Face of Cancer troubleth the ayr and causeth varâ—ous winds and alterations of weather In the second dryeth up Rivers and Fountains and causeth petulent and greivous mortalities In the third through Armenia and Africa and the rest of the Regions and Places subject to Cancer Hidropical diseases seditions and the disease of France Naples Spain England and indeed of all the World yet commonly called the French and Neopolitan disease or more plainly the French Pox. Also an Eclipse of the Sun in the first Decanate of Leo denotes the death of some eminent Prince and the scarcity of Bread-corn In the second troubles and anxieties to Kings Princes and Great men or Magistrates In the third captivities slaughters rapines and profanation of holy and sacred Houses I conceive he hereby meant Churches Monasteries and such like Moreover an Eclipse of the Sun in Virgo argues the grievous calamity and death of some certain King in the confines of Virgo In the second Famine Pestilence and deadly Seditions In the third to Pictures Poets and Merchants and such as live by their Ingenuity and wit slaughters destruction banishment and the like If an Eclipse of the Sun be in the first Face of Libra it corrupteth the Ayr causeth the Pestilence and a scarcity and dearness of Corn In the second portendeth the death of some Great King under the Dominion of Libra Seditions and Famine In the third discords amongst Great ones and detriment in their estates Also if an Eclipse be in the first Face of Scorpio it moveth and stirreth up Wars and tumults slaughter hatred captivities plots and treacheries In the second mischief to some King whose minde is averse to war In the third the rise of some tyrant the slothfulness and idleness of the former King hateful to every one In the first Face or Decanate of Sagittary if an Eclipse of the Sun be it shews grievous dissentions and deadly fewds amongst men In the second the death of Camels and such Cattel as chew the cud especially the greater sort and such like In the third prejudice to Horses and Armies Again an Eclipse of the Sun in the first Decanate of Capricorn it denotes unhappiness and chances to Great men the transmigration of some King and the Rebellion of the Nobles and rusticks In the second hired souldiers are excited and animated against their Commanders and Superiours and frustrateth all their devices In the third it induceth the tumultuary motion of the King and causeth Famine Moreover an Eclipse of the Sun in the first Face of Aquaries causeth publique sorrow and sadness In the second publique thefts rapines and roberies Earth-quakes and Famine In the third the death and slaughter of sheep and beasts of the field Lastly an Eclipse of the Sun in the first Face of Pisces drieth up Rivers and unfortunateth the Sea and the affairs thereof In the second the death of famous and excellent men destruction of Fish Earth-quakes c. In the third sedition cruelty furiousness and inhumanity of souldiers The Moon eclipsed in the first Face of Aries An Eclipse of the Moon now in every Decanate is to be considered since we have done with the Sun wherefore when the Moon is Eclipsed in the first Decanate of Aries she denotes Feavers destruction of Woods by fire and a siccity and dryness of the ayr In the second Pestilence In the third Abortive births incommodities and such like dangers to women An Eclipse of the Moon in the first decanate of Taurus denotes destruction and death to great Cattel In the second the death of the Queen of some Region under Taurus and a scarcity of seeds and barrenness of the Earth In the third she shews cruelty on Serpents and such like Also an Eclipse of the Moon in the first
tribulation alteration anxiety and trouble which I shall by and by more amply deliver unto thee Some Comets move others again are fixed How to judge of their Portences You are to take notice that some Comets do move as the Planets and again others stir not but are fixed as are the other Stars To judge of the accidents portended by Comets the place of their appearance in the Heavens is to be observed and what Stars are in Configuration therewith also in what similitude they appear and where they appear and shine If they appear like swords wars are threatned and destruction of mankinde like Flutes or Hout-boys it portends mischief to Musitians if in the middle of a sign to whore-masters and women gamesters in form of a triangle or quadrange viz. a Trine or Square Aspect to any of the fixed Stars to wits and learned men if a Comet appear in either of the Nodes or those places which we commonly call the Head and Tail of the Dragon it proves infectious and pestiferous The birth of our Saviour fore-known by the Comet in Augustus his time We come now to shew the events of Comets or such things as they are the forerunners of yet I cannot but first let my Reader know the strange foreknowledge Sybilla Tiburtina had in this Science who from the apparition of that great and famous Comets which was seen in Caesar Augustus his time in whose dayes and reign was our Saviour Christ born told the Emperour that it pointed out a child born of a Virgin which should be great then he and therefore she exhorted him to worship and adore him c. The Portencies of Comets and Blazing-Stars Histories antient Writers and common experience in former ages testifieth unto us that these signs in the Heaven or appearance of Comets are the assured forerunners of the sterility of the Earth Pestilence Famin War alterations of Kingdoms States and Empires Laws and Customs Winds Earth-quakes Iuundations extream heat and drought greiveous diseases and infirmities and such like horrid evils CHAP. VII Shewing the Physical reasons of the horrid and terrible portences of Conmets and Blazing-Stars THat they are the cause of inordinate heat is apparent by their ardent burning in the ayr and their matter of which they are made Of sterility by reason the fatness of the Earth is together with the exhaled matter whereof they are composed drawn out and the Earth left dry and lean and so the moisture and convenient humidity whereby it fructified all things growing therein is dried up by excessive heat and consequently rendred barren whence there must needs follow famine or sterility in those Regions as places where they are seen or from whence their matter or substance was drawn Of Pestilence and Diseases in that they ayr is by them infected through hot thick cloudy exhalations the which being drawn in at the mouth of living creatures infecteth and killeth them also by excessive and inordinate heat the radical himidity and moisture of living creatures whereby they subsist is dryed up whereby they become no other then dead carkasses wherefore it is necessary in such times to use colling and moistning preparatives which are of that nature as to restore and conserve radicall moisture Of war and alterations in Kingdoms States Laws and Customs in that when a Comet or Blazing-Star appears there are many exhalations in the Ayr and those of nature hot and dry the which do so dry up the humors in men and increase choler that they are easily excited to quarrels after which follow blows wars and blood-shed and so consequently alterations in States Governments Laws Customs and Empires Of Winds for that they are of the same matter whereof Comets are as you have heard in the 16 Chapter and 2 Section of this fourth Book and when any Comet or Blazing-Star appears many such dry vapours are exhaled besides when they vanish they become windy vapours Of Earth-quakes for the same aforesaid reason for they are the occasion of winds and winds of Earth-quakes as in the same aforesaid 16 Chapter you have been taught Of Inundations for the same reason also for Comets cause winds winds cause the Sea to roar and rage whence follows inundations Thus have I delivered you the reasons of their portences the which I would not have thee nor any to fear though never so horrid and terrible but rather take courage thereby to call earnestly to God for mercy that he might evert his judgments whereof he doth so fairly warn us by these his messengers CHAP. VIII Shewing some other names of Comets or Blazing-Stars and their Portences Why Comets are seen but seldom and but one at a time HEre it will not be amiss if I set down something which I had almost forgot viz. that Comets and Blazing-Stars seldom are seen for that it is not an easie matter for the Sun and Planets neither is it soon done to draw up so much dry vapour as is requisite for the composition of such an apparition and therefore is it also that there doth but one appear at a time thâ—ugh Aristotle affirmeth there hath been many seen together and this I must confess is as likely to be true as many other of his stories and tales At what time of the year Comets and Blazing-Stars usually appear They are seldom never seen in Winter by reason of the abundance of cold and moist weather that then aboundeth so that there can be no such dry vapour exhaled by the Sun or Stars nor in that quantity as is requisite to the composition of such apparitions neither in Summer by reason of the excess of heat or the heat of the Sun which consumes and disperseth the matter whereof they are made so that it cannot ascend unto that part of the Region of the Ayr wherein they are usually placed neither in the Spring time by reason of the abundance of moisture that then reigns and the want of sufficient heat to elevate so much matter but in Autumn especially when Saturn and Mars are in Conjunction because then the heat that exhales the matter is more strong Comets white and red and the reason thereof Father note that some Comets are white some again red which ariseth from the divers nature and qualit of the matter whereof they are for pure thin exhalations produce a white clear and bright Comet when it is more gross and impure red and these appear like burning coals but when the matter whereof they are is very gross they appear as red as Scarlet or blood wherefore the Antients have assigned them unto the several Planets according to their complexions for such as are Saturnian are pale wan and of a leaden colour like unto Saturn Jovial bright Martial red Solar golden or yellow Venereal obscure Mercurial blews c. The reason of their shape and form Such as are like the hairs of a mans head as you have heard are more condensed and thick in the