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 To the Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free 
 and Ac.cEPTED MASONS. 
 
 Gentlemen and Brethren, 
 
 ^T^HE Antiquity of your excellent Fraternity, the uni- 
 versality of its plan, and the moral rectitude and 
 purity of its design, claim a decided pre-eminence over 
 every other Bond of Society into which mankind have 
 ever formed themselves for the mutual welfare and hap- 
 piness of each other. The nobleness of soul which first 
 prompted to its institution, and the benevolence of heart 
 which has ever since prevailed throughout all its members, 
 will remain a subject of lasting admiration ! 
 
 To you, therefore, as the promoters of liberal senti- 
 ment, and the guardians of every useful science, I com- 
 mit this venerable pile of ancient Astrology ; a fabric ob- 
 viously constructed by the Great Architect of the World, 
 primeval with the Ordination of Nature, and inseparable 
 from one of the grand subjects of your official contem- 
 plation. 
 
 This science, by being little known, and less under- 
 stood, may meet with censure and disapprobation from 
 that description of learned, as well as of illiterate, men^ 
 whose rule of faith uniformly keeps pace with their own 
 arbitrary conceptions. But the dispassionate part of 
 mankind, with every good Mason, will candidly weigh 
 the evidence " by the balance of the Sanctuary," and 
 reserve their sentence till after a fair and impartial trial. 
 
 2 Sheltered 
 
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 DEDICATION. 
 
 Sheltered, therefore, under the wing of your fraternal 
 regard, and patronized by every sober admirer of the 
 secret works of Nature, I shall attempt to lay the Foun- 
 dation-stone of an illustrious Building, sacred to Urania, 
 upon which some more able and ingenious Workman, 
 sanctioned by your patronage and protection, may here- 
 after raise the edifice to out-top the skies, and, like Ja- 
 cob's ladder, pierce the starry regions, leading the intel- 
 lectual faculties of the soul to tli,^ most sublime contem- 
 plations of God and Nature. 
 
 I have the honour to profess myself, with unequivocal 
 attachment and esteem, 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 Your Accepted Brother, 
 
 And faithful Servant, 
 
 E. SIBLY. 
 
 Portsmouth CommoiV, 
 Ib the Year of Masonry 5784.
 
 TO THE YOUNG STUDENT IN ASTROLOGY. 
 
 My Friend, 
 "lT7"HOEVER thou art, thatfhalt withfo much eafe receive the benefit 
 of my laborious ftudies, and dofl intend to proceed in acquiring this 
 heavenly knowledge of the Stars, wherein the great and admirable works- 
 of the invifible and all-glorious God are fo manifeftly apparent; — in the 
 firft place confider and adore thy omnipotent CREATOR, and be thank- 
 ful unto him for thy exiflence. Be humble, and let no natural know- 
 ledge, how profound and tranfcendent foever it be, elate thy mind,, or 
 withdraw thee from thy duty to that divine Providence, by whofe all- 
 feeing order and appointment all things heavenly and earthly have 
 their conflant and never-ceafing motion ; but the more thy knowledge 
 is enlarged by this comprehenfive fcience, the more do thou magnify 
 the power and wifdom of the Almighty God, and ftrive to preferve thy- 
 felf in his favour ; having in conftant remembrance, that the more holy 
 thou art, and the nearer thou approacheft to God in thy religious duties, 
 the purer judgment (halt thou always give. Beware of pride and felf- 
 conceit, yet never forget thy dignity. Refledl often on the primeval 
 ftate of thy creation, that thou waft formed in the perfed image of God, 
 and that no irrational creature durft offend Man, the Microcofnty but. 
 did faithfully ferve and obey him, fo long as he was mafter of his reafon 
 and pafTions, or until he fufFered his own Free- Will to be governed by 
 the unreafonable part. But, alas ! when the firft fatherof us all gave up 
 the reins to his difobedient afFedions, and deferted his reafon and his 
 God, then every creature and beaft of the field became rebellious and 
 difobedient to his command. Stand faft then, O Man ! to thy integrity,. 
 and thy religion ! Confider thy own noblenefs, and that all created 
 things, both prefent and to come, were for thy fake created ; nay, for 
 thy fake even God became man. Thou art that creature, who, being 
 converfant with Chrift, liveft and converfeft above the heavens. How 
 many privileges and advantages hath God beftowed on thee ! Thou, 
 rangeft above the heavens by contemplation, and conceiveft the motion 
 and magnitude of the Stars ; thou talkefl with angels; yea, with God 
 himfelf ; thou haft all creatures within thy dominion, and keepeft the 
 Devils in fubjc£lion. Thy capacity for acquiring knowledge is unlir- 
 No. I. a, mitedi
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 mited by thy Maker ; and the blefTednefs of an enlightened mind will 
 bring thee the confolations of joy and happinefs. — Do not then, for 
 fhame, deface thy nature, nor nna^e thyfelf unworthy of thefe ccleftial 
 gifts ; do not deprive thyfelf of the power and glory God hath alotted 
 thee, for the poflcffion of a few imperfeft, vain, and illufory, pleafurcs. 
 
 When thou haft perfeded the contemplation of thy God, and con- 
 fidered the extent of thofe faculties with which thou art endued, thou 
 wilt be fit to receive the following; inftru6tion, and to know in thv 
 pra6tice how to condu61 thyfelf. — As thou wilt daily converfe with the 
 heavens, fo inftruft and form thy mind according to the image of 
 divinity. Learn all the ornaments of virtue, and be lufiiciently inftruded 
 therein. Be humane, courteous, familiar to all, and eafy of accefs. 
 Affii£t not the unfortunate with the terrors of a fevere fate ; in fuch 
 cafes inform them of their hard fortune with fympathetic concern; 
 direft them to call upon God to divert the judgments impending over 
 them ; to fummon up all their fortitude, and to endeavour to remove 
 the threatened evil by a manly exercife of that free-will with which the 
 all-merciful God hath endowed them. Be modeft in converfation, and 
 aflbciate with the fober and learned. Covet not riches, but give freely to 
 the poor, both money and advice. Let no worldly confideration pro- 
 cure an erroneous judgment from thee, or fuch as may diihonour this 
 facred fcience. Love all thy fellow-creatures, and cherifti thofe honeft 
 men who cordially embrace this Art. Be fparing in delivering judgment 
 concerning thy king and country, or of the death of thy prince ; for I 
 know experimentally, that Reges fubjacent legibus Jiellarum. Rejoice 
 in the number of thy friends ; and avoid litigious fuits and controverfies. 
 In thy ftudy, be totus in illis, that thou mayeft be fingulus in arte. Be 
 not extravagant in the dcfire of learning every Icience ; be not aliquid 
 tantum in omnibui. Be faithful and complacent ; betray no one's 
 fecrets, I charge thee; never divulge the truft either friend or enemy 
 hath committed to thy faith. Inftruft all men to live well, and be a 
 good example thyfelf. Avoid the fafhion of the times, its luxuries, 
 and lafcivioufnefs ; but love thy country, and be its friend. Be not 
 difmayed, though evil fpoken of; for, confcientia prcejiat millt tefiibus.
 
 THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE to the NEW EDITION of 1794. 
 
 Tj^LATTERED as I have been by an uncommon demand for the for- 
 mer editions of this work, and honoured by letters of unbounded 
 approbation and applaufe from fome of the higheft and mofl venerable 
 characters in the Britifti Dominions, I could no longer forego their im- 
 portunities to bring forward the prelent new edition, which will be 
 found confiderably improved, and fome of the predi61ions foretold in 
 it upwards of feven years ago, particularly concerning France, now 
 adually fulfilled, and others fulfilling every day. See p. 1050, & feq. 
 
 When this publication was firfi announced, many indeed were fur- 
 prifed at the {Irangenefs of the do6lrine ; but none ventured to oppofe 
 the reafon and caufes on which it depends. Some igenious perfons, 
 who then doubted the poflibility of fuch a fcience, having tried its rules 
 for fpeculating into futurity, and finding them correfpond with truth, 
 are now become its warmefl advocates. And I have no difficulty in 
 declaring, that all who contemplate this fludy with candid and unbiafTed 
 minds, will foon be convinced of the high and important advantages to 
 be derived from it, both in temporal and eternal affairs. 
 
 Many, who had been in the habit of regarding Elementary Philofophy 
 as a fable or a farce, have, in very recent letters, exprefTed no fmall de- 
 gree of pleafure to find, that the principles of this fcience, which were 
 formerly held in fuch high veneration by the learned, are once more re- 
 vived and explained, and fitted to reafon under fuch examples as the 
 fenfes cannot eafily miflake. Indeed it is moft certain that they won- 
 derfully agree with the very nature of things, and correfpond with their 
 accidental efFedts ; and, fince their caufes and efFe<5ls flow by influx from 
 the celeftial bodies, and thus influence the ambient, the fcience claims 
 pre-eminence over its twin-fifler AJlronomy, which every one admires 
 and approves. Yet x\flronomy, divefled of this fpcculation, and regard- 
 ed only as the explication of celeftial phenomena, is like a cabinet with- 
 out a jewel ; but, when united to elementary philofophy, it is replete 
 with ufeful inftrudion, and conduces to the falutary purpofe of making 
 mankind wifer, happier, and better. 
 
 7 The
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 The track of Nature is a ftraight and obvious road : and yet her foot- 
 fleps are often (o fecretly conduced, that great perfpicuity is requifite 
 to purfue her with efFe^. The mind of man is unqueftionably too 
 much clouded wholly to comprehend the immenfe fabric of an all-wife 
 and infinite Archite6t ; and he might as well attempt to empty with a 
 cup the immenfe waters of the deep, which are only as a fingle drop 
 compared with the Omnipotence of the Creator, as to attempt to meafure, 
 by the utmofl ftretch of human capacity, the boundlefs extent of the 
 furrounding heavens. Yet in things which more immediately concern 
 ourfelves, and our future fate and fortune, tAe permanency of empires^ 
 and the profperity and happinefs of mankind, as the fame refult from the 
 natural confequences of good and evil, regulated by our choice of either ; 
 fo far we are qualified with ability to forefee, by contemplating the in- 
 flux or influences by which they are governed. Thus, from the writ- 
 ings of the moft eminent men in philofophy and the mathematics, im- 
 proved by my own laborious application and experience, I have at 
 length afcertained thofe powers and properties in the celeftial regions, 
 from whence thefe influences are conduced, and which open a door 
 for the difcovery of fecrets in futurity replete with wonder, deduced 
 from the firft and efficient properties, pafTions, motions, fympathies, 
 and adive qualities, of all things ; which, if reafon and truth had not 
 repeatedly confirmed, to the full conviflion of my fenfes, I fhould have 
 condemned and rejedled long ago — for reafon and truth have uniformly 
 guided the innumerable experiments of my laboratory, and fhall ever 
 influence the pen which communicates them to the world. 
 
 No. I, l/pper Tilchjield-Jlreet, 
 CcrvendiJJi-fquare.
 
 AN 
 
 ILLUSTRATIO N 
 
 Of the CELESTIAL SCIENCE of 
 
 ASTROLOGY 
 
 PART THE FIRST. 
 
 SENSIBLE as I am of the rooted prejudices of the times againll the 
 venerable fcience of Aftrology, and fenfible alfo of the reproach and 
 obloquy that will be levelled againft me by men of obflinate and dog- 
 matical principles; 1 (hall neverthclefs venture,upoii the bafis of Truth 
 and Experience, to make this feeble effort towards reftoring a com- 
 petent knowledge of that comprehenfive fcience, which in all ages of the 
 world was deenrsed the chief ornament of fociety, and the diftinguifhed 
 excellence of enlis^htened minds. How much, therefore, is it to be la- 
 mented that the cultivation of it is become obfolete and unfafliionable : 
 and that, owing to the violent difturbances at the clofe of the feventeenth 
 century — to the want of recent information on the fubjeft, and to the 
 too-refined notions of modern philolophers, its congenial rays iiave 
 been fo long withheld from fhedding their divine light upon thefe 
 kingdoms ! 
 
 That an Aftrology in the heavens does really exift, and was ordained 
 of God from the beginning of the world, for the immediate information 
 and direftion of his creatures here below, is obvioully and niconteftibly 
 proved from various parts of thofe lacred Books which contain the uner- 
 ring word of God, and the perfedt rule of faith for every good and I'ober 
 Chriftian. — To revive the gloomy days of luperflition, or to impole upon 
 the untaught multitude precepts of ignorance, is no part of the Author's 
 defign. — His aim is, to remove the mote from the eyes of prejudiced 
 men; and by juft reafoning and fair argument, founded on the principles 
 of religion and morality, to (how them that God is a God of order, and 
 created nothing in vaui ; — that he framed the world by number, weight, 
 and meafure, and fixed the whole fyftem of heavenly and earthly things 
 upon {o perfiid and immutable a plan, that the whole doth work harmo- 
 
 No. I. B nioufly
 
 ,^ AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 nlouflv and fvmpathetically together, fo as to anfwer all the various pur- 
 pofes for which they were fiift ordained ; — that fuperiors do uniformly rule 
 inferiors; and that celeftial bodies I'enfibly aft upon and influence all 
 earthly fubftances, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral ; not by chance 
 or accident, but by a regular inherent cauie, implanted in them from the 
 beo^Lnning by the omnipotence of God. 
 
 It is a maxim with perfons of a contumacious turn of mind, to confider 
 every thing as impoflible that does not immediately fall within the com- 
 pafs of their own ideas ; forgetting that the operations of Nature arc 
 as unfearchable as they are curious, and that the ways of God furpafi all 
 human comprehenlion ! — and fo warped are they from every fentiment 
 of liberality, that thofe who dlfcover a willingnefs to receive inflrudion, 
 or who differ from them in opinion, are doomed to ridicule and Icorn. 
 But, to fhow how reprehenfible fuch condu6t is, we need only refle6l on 
 the unbelieving St. Thomas, and the pointed exclamation of our Saviour 
 upon that occafion. Men of this untoward difpoiition will take up my , 
 book from the impulfe of curiofity, till, recolle61:ing themfelves, they 
 will tofs it with contempt into fome obfcure corner, and upbraid its 
 author perhaps in terms not the moft liberal or pleafing. And yet I am 
 bold to (iiy, that even fiich perfons, invulnerable as they may be to the 
 force of rcafon, might foon be convinced of the purity and excellence 
 of this Science, would they but for a time diveft themfelves of prejudice, 
 and impartially weigh the evidence brought in its fupport. — Nay, I have 
 reafon to believe, that, how much foever they appear externally to con- 
 demn Aftrology, they iieverthelefs feel in their own mind, and vainly 
 attempt to ftifle, an internal conviction of its abfolute exiftence. Would 
 they but wifely cultivate this internal evidence, and put on the folid rea- 
 foning of difpaffionate men, the order of nature would then unfold it- 
 felf to their view, and the {lupendous works of Creation captivate their 
 fenfes ; till, emulous of attaining the mofl: exalted knowledge, they 
 would feek the vaft: extent of fpace, and find the whole canopy of hea- 
 ven expanded for their contemplation. And thus, familiarized in the 
 wonderful properties of heavenly and earthly things, they would no 
 longer confider Aftrology as the parent of wicked compaft and infatua- 
 tion, or the child of impofture ; but would be fenfible it contains the bal- 
 famic nutriment of Truth and VVifdom. 
 
 Thofe who deny the influence of Aftrology, have furely never con- 
 templated the myfleries of their own exigence, nor the common occur- 
 rences that are infeparable from it, many of which are inexplicable 
 when abftraftedly confidered, and only ceafe to ftrike us with wonder 
 
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 becaufe they are obvious and familiar to our fenfes. If we recoUecl: 
 that the moll: trivial incident in nature cannot come to pafs without a 
 caufe ; and that thefe caufes are inceflantly giving birth to a new fate, 
 which at one time brings us comfort and at another overwhelms us 
 with misfortunes ; that to-day gives us the full enjoyment of our 
 wifhes, and to-morrow confounds every imagination of our hearts ; it 
 is ftrange we (hould deny that fuch caules exift, when every hour's expe- 
 perience confirms the faft, by the good or ill fuccefs that conftantly at- 
 tends all human purfuits. To illufhrate this obfervation more fully, 
 let us attentively confider the ll:upendous frame or model of Nature, as 
 laid down in the holy Scriptures, and endeavour to deduce therefrom 
 the fubordinate dependence of one part upon another, from the interior 
 heavens to the minuted iubftance upon earth. Hence we may poflibly 
 difcover the origin of thele caufes, and prove that Aftrology does not 
 exift in imagination only. 
 
 The fubflance of this great and glorious frame, v/hich the Almighty 
 created, we call the world ; and the world confifts of the heaven and the 
 earth. Gen. i. i. The model of it is, as the prophet Ezekiel defcribes 
 it, in the form of a wheel ; with many wheels within the fame, involved 
 one within another. Eze^. i. 15, 16. And thus we find it by mathe- 
 matical demonflration ; for the earth is a wheel or globe of fca and land 
 circumfcribed by the atmofphere, as within a great wheel, which is 
 globous too ; and furrounded by the heavens, as by many wheels in- 
 volved one within another, encircling the fun, moon, and ftars, and all 
 the hoft of them. The power which firfl aftuated and put thefe wheels 
 in perpetual motion, was the fame which called them into exiftence ; 
 the executioners of,whofe will are reprefented by the prophet under 
 the fimilitude of Jour living creatures, immeafurably endued with wif- 
 dom, courage, agility, and ftrength. And hence were life, and fpirit, 
 and power, and virtue, communicated to the heavens, and from the 
 heavens to the earth, and from the earth to man and beaft, and to every 
 plant and herb, and earthly fubftance. Hence alfo are derived the mag- 
 netic powers, and other wonderful properties of nature ; as, the virtues 
 of fympathy and antipathy, the invifible effeds of attradlion and repul- 
 fion, and all the various influences of the ftars and planets. 
 
 The proper agents of this noble ftrudure are angels and men ; the 
 one compofed of a pure ethereal fpirit, and incorruptible; the other, in 
 his primary flate lefs pure, but incorruptible alfo until his fall, which 
 brought upon himfelf and offspring mortality and death. The angels 
 are either good or bad, and ultimately know their reward or doom ; 
 
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 ,6 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 but the works of fallen man are yet upon the anvil, and time with us is 
 ftill croing on. But man is now endued, as in his primary ftate, with the 
 ao-ency of z. free-'will, and hath good and evil, for a teftof his obedience, 
 continually let before him, with freedom to choofe either. And thus, 
 unconftrained either by the immediate hand of God, or by the opera- 
 tion of the planets as fecond caules, iome embrace life, and others feek 
 condemnation ; and hence follow virtue and vice, prosperity and adver- 
 fity, ficknefs and health, life and death, and all the viciflitudes of for- 
 tune. And, though the rife and fall of empires proceed from the vir- 
 tues and vices of thofe men who govern and inhabit them ; and thefe 
 virtues and vices proceed from the free-will or agency of thofe men ; 
 and though the incidents good and bad of one man's life are innumcra- 
 ble, and the men who are the fubjefts of thole incidents in one lingle 
 age are innumerable alio ; and though the ages of men, fince the crea- 
 tion of the world, are innumerable too ; — yet have all thefe multiplied 
 incidents, whether trivial or important, come to pafs by a regvilar courfe 
 or concatenation of caules, originally implanted in the wheels or frame 
 of nature. And with fuch minute perfedion was this flupendous frame 
 confl;ru6ted, that neither the fall of man, nor the tremendous fhock which 
 agitated the world upon that affliding occafion ; not all the wickednefs 
 of mankind in after-ages, nor the del'olations which have rent the earth 
 in confequence thereof; have yet impaired the wheels of this aftonilhing 
 machine, or for a moment impeded its conftant and unceafing motion. 
 And luch was the amazing forefight and providence of God, that per- 
 ceiving, at one view, all the events of futurity, the turnings and wind- 
 ings of every man's will, and the total lum and uplhot of all virtue and 
 vice, he at once contrived the fates of profperity and adverfity, of re- 
 wards and punilhments, fo to come up, as precifely to anfwer the vir- 
 tues and prayers of the righteous, and the vices and profanenefs of the 
 wicked, in all ages of the world, at their fit and appointed leafons. 
 
 Now all mankind have each of them, more or lefs, a certain fliareof 
 wifdom, power, or wealth, wherewith they occupy in this life, and carry 
 forward ail their undertakings. Thus we fee fome men, by means of 
 riches, courage, or contrivance, grow mighty, and purpofe as if nothing 
 could impede the full accomplilhment of their defigns ; and yet we find 
 there are two things which confound the wifefV, and greateft, and proudeft, 
 of them all, in the very fummit of their glory ; — thefe are. Time and 
 Chance— two mighty lords upon earth, which bring to pafs many ftrange 
 and marvellous events. Time is that motion of fpace which proceeded 
 out of eternity when the world began, and holdeth on unto eternity which 
 is to fucceed at the world's end. Out of this one long time are engen- 
 
 dered
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 17 
 
 dered infinite fpaces of time, of a great variety of forts ; and thefe are 
 either general or fpecial, and each of them either fortunate or unfortu- 
 nate. There is a time for every purpofe under heaven ; a time of plea- 
 fure, and another time of pain and grief ; a time to rife, and a time to fall ; 
 a time to be born, and a time to die * There is a certain lucky time in 
 man's life, wherein if he go out to battle, though with but few men, yet 
 he carrieth the vidory ; and there is another time wherein, though he go 
 out with ever fo complete an army, yet fhall he gain nothing but dif- 
 grace.-|- So alfo there is a time when overtures of marriage fhall be 
 fuccefsful, but a man's defires anfwer not ; and again there is a time 
 when the defires of marriage (hall ftrongly urge, and all overtures prove 
 inefFedual ; but there is a time alfo when defires and overtures fhall 
 exa6tly correfpond, and fuit together. In like manner there is a time 
 when profperity and riches fhall offer ttiemfelves and be attained, whe- 
 ther a man fleep or wake ; and by and by, though he purfue them with 
 wings, yet fo unlucky a time occurs, that all his endeavours become 
 fruitlefs. Some men come into the world in a lucky hour, {o that, let 
 them be wife or foolifh, they fhall be buoyed up on the wings of fate 
 in all matters of wealth or honour, and fucceed in all that they take to ; 
 while wifcr and better men, fmitten with an unlucky time of birth, 
 fhall be as undefervedly difparaged, and all their undertakings fhall 
 prove unfuccefsful and unhappy. Some fhall be lucky in the van of 
 their enterprifes, and as unfortunate in the rear, and others again con- 
 trariwife. And thus time feems to mock and fport with the men of 
 this life, and to advance and counteraft, all their Ikill and contrivances, 
 even to a degree infinitely beyond whatever we could reafonably con- 
 ceive or expeft. And yet time of itfelf is but a dead thing and a mere in- 
 flrument ; but the wheels of the heavens, turning upon it, imprint rid- 
 dles in its face, and carve and cut out the various fhapes of profperity 
 and adverfity upon the minutefl portion thereof. And wonderful it is to 
 obferve, that a child, the moment it draws breath, becomes time-fmitten 
 by the face of heaven, and receives an imprefTion from the flars therein, 
 which, taking rife from the afcendant, fun, moon, and other principal 
 fignificators, operate as the imprefTors fland, and point out, as with the 
 finger of God, the caufes whence the fate and fortune of the new-boru 
 infant proceed ; and, whether it comes before or at its full time, or in 
 what part of the world foevcr it is born, it matters not; for, as the na- 
 ture of the fignificators are that afcend upon the horizon at the birth, 
 fuch fhall certainly be the fortune of the native.j This is a truth that 
 
 ♦ See Eccl. iii. i. 2, &c. f Chap. ix. 1 1. 
 
 X This aOonifhing property of nature will be illuftrated more at lar^e, in its proper place, and 
 the reader enabled, by plain and obvious rules, to make the experiment upon himfdf, upon his own 
 ' family, or upon any other fubjeft he may think proper. The event of his own obfcrvanon will 
 confirm the fad, and afford him an inexhauftible fund of moral and religious contemplation 1 
 
 No. I. C ^V.Il
 
 ,8 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 will bear the moft minute inquiry, and will be found the ordination of 
 an all-wife and indulgent Providence, for the fpeculation and iniprove- 
 ment of his creature man. And thefe fignificators reprefent, as it were, 
 a ferics of curious knots, which untie by courfe ; and, as every knot un- 
 ties, different times feem to fly out, and perform their errands ; and of 
 thefe, fometimes we may obferve two, or three, or more, lucky knots 
 opening together, and at other times as many that are inaufpicious. 
 Yet all limes are beautiful in their feafons, if men could hit them ; but, 
 through the malignity of fin, and an intemperate purfuit of worldly 
 pleafures, we often lofe the favourable time afforded us, of embracing 
 the moft fubftantial happinefs. 
 
 The (econd great lord over human inventions, is Chance. And thefe 
 chances proceed from a great variety of rare and fecret operations of 
 heaven, which throw in the way of men thofe ftrange and fortuitous 
 turns of fortune, that lurpafs all human forefight or conception. And 
 yet there is really no fuch thing as chance in nature ; but all thofe 
 curious hits, that ftrike in between the caufe and its efFed, we call 
 chances, as beft fuiting human ideas, becaufe of the undefcribable pro- 
 perties of them. For, in fhuffling a pack of cards, or in cafting the dice, 
 it feems to us a mere chance what caft fhould happen uppermoft, or 
 what card will go to the bottom of the pack ; and yet it is evident, by 
 experience, that there is a certain courfe in nature, which prefides over 
 all thefe adventures, fo that a man fhall either win or lofe in a metho- 
 dical courfe. It alfo happens in the time of battle, and in every purfuit 
 after wealth and honour, that chances fall in upon us, and turn the fcale 
 by a fecret kind of fate, beyond all that could reafonably have been ex- 
 pcfted; and thus heaven breathes into all human aftions an infinity of 
 thefe chances, that overturn the wifdom, and power, and all the great- 
 nefs, of man. Thefe chances are uniformly managed by a certain kind 
 of luck, either good or bad, which drives the nail ; and this by fome 
 heavenly influence, that infufes a fecret virtue or poifon into our a6lions, 
 as courage into their hearts on one fide, or difmay on the other; and 
 flcill into fome men's heads to purfue the right courfe to be rich, or folly 
 into others, whereby they run headlong to mifery and want ; or eife 
 fortunateth or infortunateth by miftake of words, fignals, or ads, that 
 turn to the beft or worft advantage, by ftrange hits or mifcarriages ; and 
 thus It happens that a flight miftake in battle begets an utter rout, after 
 a victory made almoft complete, by the mere utterance of a wrong word, , 
 or fteenng an improper courfe. But, which way foever it happens, the 
 whole matter is wrought by a good or ill luck, and the hand of God is 
 at the bottom of it ; not by any new-contrived a6t, but by the fame 
 regular courle of nature ordained from the beginning of the world. 
 
 7 Thus
 
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 Thus both Time and Chance are the fervants of Nature, under whofe 
 commands they fway the world, and worldly men ; but by her laws are 
 both of them difpofed. Time meafures out the extent of men's lives, 
 and fets bounds how long they may live by ftrength of Nature, and 
 how much of that time Ihall be extenuated by means of fin ; and it alio 
 carves out limits to the particular fates of all mankind ; and Chance 
 a61s in obfervance of thoie limits, and brings about the good and bad 
 fuccefs of every fate. And thus, by the fervice of Time and Chance, 
 Nature performs all her great and iecret operations, whether upon col- 
 lective bodies, or places, or perfons. It may be. thought ftrange that 
 Nature Ihould bring forth men and women at a great diftance of years, 
 hours, and places, all deftined to die at one time, and by the fame man- 
 ner of death, either by war, plague, peftilence, or fhipwreck ; and that 
 time and chance (hould pick them up, and draw them together, from a 
 variety of different purluits, to partake at lafl: in one and the fame de- 
 fl:ru6live fate. Yet this is no more ftrange than true ; for thefe things 
 frequently happen, and that by the imperceptible influences of thofe 
 heavenly afpe6ls and ftars, which in their courfes fought againji Sifera.^ 
 And by the fame rule, as many men, women, and children,' are, on the 
 other hand, gathered together by a fimilar force and virtue, to enjoy 
 great and good fortune. 
 
 Some perhaps will contend, that thefe operations of nature are incom- 
 patible with the free agency of man's will. But, if what has already 
 been premifed be attentively confidered, this fuppofition will imme- 
 diately vanifh ; for God, who ordained the courfe of nature, certainly 
 forefaw the minutefl: turn of every man's will, and eventually contrived 
 his fate to correfpond therewith, fo as to admit its free and uncontroled 
 choice. And whoever denies this antecedent principle, or prefcience of 
 God in the conftrudlion of the world, denies one of his moft eflential 
 attributes. The will of man, without doubt, in a variety of inftances, 
 makes great ftruggles and w refilings with the ftarry influences, both in 
 good and in evil purfuits, and often prevails over them exceedingly; for, 
 though a perfon be born under Ibch benevolent or malignant afpeds, 
 as Ihall point out his natural temper and difpolition, and indicate the 
 diftinguifhing marks of his life ; yet does it depend entirely upon the 
 free uncontroled will of that man, whether all thofe circumftances, fo 
 pointed out in his nativity, (hall come to pafs, or not ; becaufe the free 
 will in every man, when fortified by habits of virtue and wifdom, often 
 enable him to over-rule thofe evil afpeds, fo as to avoid the commif- 
 fion of any criminal offence, and to guard him againft the misfortunes or 
 
 * Judg. V. 2Q. 
 
 lofles
 
 20 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 lofles impending over iiim ; w hile men of a profligate and carelefs 
 habit hot only lofe the advantages of a promifing nativity, but, if 
 born under malevolent afpedts, are often reduced to the lafl: ftage of 
 diilrefs, and perifh under the very fame flrokes of nature, which wifer 
 and better men, born in the fame inaufpicious moments, have endured 
 with much eafe. And thus far fapiens dominabitur ajlries, " the wife 
 man," above the fool, " may rule his ftars." But we muft not forget, 
 that under thefe operations of fate, there are many influences fo power- 
 ful, that no wifdom of man can oppofe. Such are the fatal wounds of 
 death when nature's glafs is run out, and fuch the violent blows of 
 excruciating pain and ficknefs, and the high tides of profperity and 
 adverfity ; in ail which cafes, we find by experience, nfira regunt 
 homines, " the ftars rule and overpower men." Yet, neverthelefs, fuch 
 is the infinite prefcience and providence of God, that, forefeeing the 
 defires and deferts of all wife and holy men in their different ages and 
 times, he alfo laid their fates fuiting to their adions. He Torefaw 
 Jofeph's prayers and tears in his captivity, and accordingly provided 
 hs advance in nature to correfpond therewith.* He forefaw Hannah's 
 failing, and carneft prayer ; and ordained her opening womb to bud 
 forth in courfe of nature exaftly anfwering thereto. -j- So that the 
 wifdom and will of man has its full free work, without reftraint or 
 control ; and grace and virtue a6l by their own principles, as they 
 are led by the Holy Ghoft ; and yet nature, as it was contrived from 
 all eternity, adts freely too. This is the do(5lrine we are taught by the 
 word of God, which is confirmed by the evidence of our own reafon 
 and experience. 
 
 Now the fcience which we call Aftrology, is nothing more than the 
 ftudy or inveftigation of this frame or model of nature, with all its admi- 
 rable produftions and effe6ls ; whereby we acquire a knowledge of the fe- 
 cret virtues of the heavens, and the (hining luminaries therein contained. 
 It is a fcience which all may attain to, by common diligence and applica- 
 tion ; and, the more we delight in it, the more readily do we forefee the 
 motions of future events, and the curiofities of chance and natural acci- 
 dents, and the courfes of luck by which both are governed, and the order 
 of fate, unto which all of them are fubfervient; together with all the 
 moft curious ads of attrading and expelling, allurmg and threatening, 
 encouraging and diftieartening, and all fuch-like operations of nature, 
 moft fecretly and imperceptibly performed, beyond the reach of ima- 
 gination. And, as by a (kill in this ftudy we attain to fee and experience 
 things that are paft, fo by the fame ikill we attain to a knowledge of 
 things which are to come; and, by knowing the time of our birth, are 
 • See Gciu xxxvii. and xli. 40. Pfal. cv. 18, 19, 20. t Sam. i. 10, 11, &c. 
 
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 enabled to read in the heavens the ftory of our whole lives, our bleffings 
 and crofTes, honour and diihonour, profperity and adverfity, ficknefs and 
 health, and all the years of our life, and time of our death, even as though 
 ue had feen them tranfafted and come to pafs in their feveral times and 
 feafons. For God hath affuredly given this knowledge unto the wife 
 man, to know the time and the judgment, and the number of our days, that 
 ive may be certijied hotv long we have to live * with comfort and content ; 
 that we may be timely prepared for all flates of profperity and adverfity, 
 for a long and happy life, or a calamitous and fpeedy death ; and that 
 we may fupport ourfelves with fortitude and refignation, in proportion 
 to our foreknowledge of tbefe events. And no man fo fit to foreknow 
 thefe, as he who is able to fay, Major f urn quhm cui pojjit for tuna nocere. 
 
 But many men will not believe, that by natural means all or any of 
 this foreknowledge can be fairly and lawfully obtained, or that the in- 
 fluences attributed to the heavenly bodies have any foundation in truth. 
 It is therefore necefTary, before I enter upon the praiflical part of the 
 fcience, to bring fuch evidence in fupport of what has been already ad- 
 vanced, as will be found incontrovertible and decifive ; and for this pur- 
 pofe I mufl: refer to the teftimony of thofe facred writings which con- 
 tain the revelation of God ; and in which the do(fl:rine of this fcience is 
 fo demonftrably proved, that it will be difficult to believe the one with- 
 out admitting the other. Let us confider the account given by Mofes, 
 of the creation of the heavenly bodies. God faid, " Let there be lights 
 in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night ; the 
 greater light to rule the day, and the lefler light to rule the night ; and 
 let them be for ftgns and for feafons, and for days and years^ ■]■ Thefe 
 then were the purpofes for which they were ordained, and irrevocably 
 fixed by their great Creator: — Firft for lights ; for, had they not a place 
 in the firmament, or were we deprived of their illuminating rays, we 
 (hould be inftantly overwhelmed with impenetrable darknefs. Secondly, 
 they are to divide the day from the night; airl this they never ceafe to 
 do; for when the fun, the greater light, is funk five degrees below our 
 horizon, we call it night ; for then the moon and ftars appear, and fhed 
 their lejfer light, and darknefs in fome degree is fpread around, and every 
 thing declares it to be the ftate of night ; but, when the fun, that glorious 
 fountain of life, light, and motion, begins to touch the eaftern verge of 
 the horizon, darknefs is difpelled, light begins again to dawn, and the 
 ftars which beautifully befpangle our hemifphere are foon obfcured by 
 the full blaze of day. But, as days and nights ari unequal, and never 
 continue at one flay, thefe celeftial luminaries diftinguifh their refpedive 
 
 • See Eccl. i. 5. Pfal. xxxix. 4, j. f Gen. i. 14, 15. 
 
 No, 2. D reigns.
 
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 reig:ns. ' Thirdly, they are ior figns — not to brutes, for they have not the 
 faculty of underrtatiding them ; nor to angels, for they coutitiually be- 
 hold the face of God, and obey his will in the government of the heavenly 
 bodies, at his pleafure. Therefore, when God faith, Let them bcforftgns^ 
 he mufl: fpeak in reference to man, whom he formed a rational creature, 
 capable of diftinguifhing one fign from another, and of improving by 
 them. Nor are we to look upon them as mere figns, like beacons upon 
 a hill, or as only fetling bounds to days, months, and years ; but 
 we are to confider them as Jigns and tokern of thole hidden events of 
 futurity, which it concerns every wife and good man to know ; and which 
 he may always forefee, by a virtuous and iober ftudy of theie intelligent 
 Jigns, placed by God for that purpofe in the firmament of heaven. And 
 that this was the intent of them, is clearly demonftrated by the words of 
 our Saviour, when he foretold the deflru6iion of Jerufalem, and the final 
 confummation of all things. His apoftles afked him, What fhall the 
 Jign oi thele things be ? He replies, earthquakes, famines, and pefli- 
 lences ; fearful y7§-///j in the heavens, &n(\ Jigns in the Jiin, in the moon, and 
 in the flars.^ Such alfo was the ftgn by which the Eaflern fages difco- 
 vered the birth of our Saviour, and the place of his nativity: and nu- 
 merous other inftances may be adduced, both from facred and profane 
 hiftory, in fupport of this doftrine. The fourth ule of thefe celeftial lumi- 
 naries, is forjeajons. This is alfo obvious; for we find that heat and cold, 
 drought and moifturc, are all guided and governed by the heavenly bo- 
 dies ; and that not only fpring and autumn, and fummer and winter, 
 bear teflimony of it; but we have it confirmed by the evidence of our 
 own conftitution and feeling; for, when the weather is heavy and low- 
 ering, we find ourfelves dull and languid; when bright and radiant, we 
 are cheerful and merry; and, when unfeltled and unfeafonable, we feel 
 it by indifpofition and melancholy ; and this is all brought about by the 
 operation of thefe luminaries upon the feafons of the year, in the due 
 courfe of nature. The next ufe allotted them is, fifthly for (lays, and 
 fixtlily (ov years ; and that thefe are meafured out, and governed by them, 
 is every way apparent: by the fun's circuit, and the moon's energy. — 
 The fun, like a flrong man, rejoices to run his race ; he rifes out of the 
 chambers of the eaft, and with golden rays difpels the morning cloud?, 
 and exales the pearly dew ; cheering and refrefhing all nature with 
 his prefence. Hence it is evident that thefe luminaries were not only 
 placed in the heavens to give light upon the earth, to govern the feafons, 
 and to fet bounds to time ; but alfo to communicate ftgns and tokens 
 to mankind, of things' to come. We fliall now confider how far it is 
 fcnptural, and confonant to reafon, to allow them thofe influences, 
 attributed to them by Aftrology, 
 
 * Luke xxi. 6, 7, 1 1, 25, &c. 
 
 That
 
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 That the fun, moon, and all the planets, have a diredl and obvious in- 
 jluence upon earthly fubftances, no man of common obfervation will pre- 
 tend to deny. The fun is the fountain of heat, and that heat is the 
 nurfe of life ; and the moon is the fountain of moifture, which tempers 
 the violent heat of the fun, and modifies all his operations. But the fun 
 and moon, and all the planets, have each of them a particular fpecific 
 property, according to their own innate quality, and according to the 
 nature of that fign, or band of ftars, under which they happen to be pofi- 
 ted. This is a fa6l eftabliflied by repeated obfervation and experience. 
 For, when the fun enters the equinoftial fign Aries, the fpring begins to 
 (how herfelf, and all vegetative nature, by the moon's humidity, and the 
 fun's temperate heat, feems to revive and flourifli, and, as it were, to rife 
 from the dead, whither the cold blafts of the hyemnal air had before con- 
 figned it. So, when his radiant beams enter the fign Taurus, they ftir 
 up the benign influences of the Pleiades and Hyades ; Hoedi being then 
 to the north, and Orion to the fouth, and Arciurus finking below the 
 horizon ; and their cold and tempeftuous effe61s begin to ceafe, as they 
 are fucceeded by thefe benevolent conftellations, which produce warm 
 fouthern winds, and gentle fliowers, replenifliing the earth, and caufing 
 vegetation. Again, when the fun rifes with the dog-ftar, we find an 
 influence which caufes vehemency of heat, contagion, and infirmity. 
 Medicaments adminiftered under this conftellation prove hard and ob- 
 noxious ; and we find dogs at this time are apt to run mad : the fea is 
 troubled without any apparent caufe, and all nature feems more or lefs 
 oppreffed by it ; and yet thefe efFefts are never found to be equally violent 
 in any two fummers, which clearly proves an influence in the ftars, as well as 
 in the fun. And again, though the fun keeps the fame conftanl and invari- 
 able courfe through the twelve figns of the zodiac, for an infinity of annual 
 revolutions, yet we never find the feafons and weather exadly correfpond, 
 which they doubtlefs would do, were it not that cold and heat, and wind 
 and rain, are governed by the configuration the fun has with the planets 
 and fixed flars ; and this alfo evidently proves the force of their influence. 
 It is likewife manifeft, that, whenever the planet Saturn is pafTing out of 
 one fign into another, the weather is more or lefs turbulent and unfettjed. 
 
 But it is not the weather only, nor the inanimate part of the creation 
 alone, that is afFedled by the influences of the fun, moon, and planets ; 
 for we find they operate upon the human fpecies, and upon all animate 
 nature, in every part of the world. The fun and the quality of the 
 heavens about the torrid zone, naturally occafion thofe men who are born 
 and live under it to be quite black, with fhort crifped hair, of a mean 
 ftature, and hot conftitution, imbibing a fierce and favage fpirit ; and 
 
 this
 
 34 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 this by rcafoii of the fun's continual ftay and power in that fiery region. 
 It is obfervable, that the inhabitants of the Ibulh are of a better and 
 quicker wit, and much more ingenious and tractable ; and this is ac- 
 counted for by their vertical point being fituated nearer the zodiac, in 
 which the planets move. So likewife the inhabitants of the north are of 
 a ftrong body, but of rude manners and condition, becaufe their vertical 
 point is placed at a great diftance from the fun's courfe; and therefore 
 they abound with cold and moifture, and are of phlegmatic conftitution, 
 of a fair complexion, tall, courageous, and ingenious. Europe, being 
 fituated in the north-weft part of the earth, is under Mars in Aries; and, 
 by reafon of this planet ruling in that triplicity, its inhabitants are natu- 
 rally of a noble and magnanimous fpirit, given to martial exploits, and 
 feats of war ; of a generous mind, and courteous manners. And thus the 
 fun, modified by the different figns and conftellations through which he 
 pafles, regulates the climates, and fheds his influence upon all mankind, 
 leaving behind him evident marks of his government and fway. Some, 
 indeed, have attempted to account for the fwarthy and black complexion 
 of the favage race, by a variety of other plaufible conjedtures : but none 
 are to be relied on that do not attribute its caufe to the intenfe heat and 
 power of the fun in thole climates ; than which nothing can be more 
 confonant to reafon, fince we find, even in this country, that if we re- 
 main long together in the fun, in the heat of fummer, our complexions 
 change, and we become in a degree tanned and fwarthy. 
 
 Confpicuous as are the influences of the fun, thofe of the moon are no 
 lefs fo. This is evinced by a confideration of that wonderful and never- 
 ceafing operation of the moon upon the ocean, fo as to occafion that per- 
 petual flux and reflux of the fea, which we call tides. Here we fee the 
 waters of the vaft ocean, forgetful, as it were, of their natural refl, move 
 and roll in tides obfequioiis to the ftrong attradive power of the moon, 
 and with an increafe or diminution of force, in proportion as fhe appears 
 in flrength or want of afpeft. This is an influence fo univerfally ad- 
 mitted, and fo peculiar to that luminary, that it eftabliflies at once the 
 do61rine we contend for. But there are numerous other inftances of the 
 effefts of the moon, no lefs common than extraordinary, and perfedlly 
 well known. Thofe unhappy perfons who labour under a deprivation of 
 fenfe, are called lunatics, from luna, the moon, becaufe they have their fits 
 more violent and terrible, in proportion as the moon increafes in light and 
 motion ; and in all chronic and acute difeafes, her power and influence are 
 vifibly and forcibly felt. Indeed, every fubjeft of the creation is more or 
 lefs afFedled by the moon's energy ; the eyes of cats arc obferved to fwell 
 or fall at the full and change of the moon ; and even the (hell-fifh at the 
 
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 bottom of the ocean are known to feel the weight of her influence. 
 Thofe who fleep in the fields, or in any place expoied to the open air, by 
 moon-light, find their heads opprefled with water, and their, fenfes inert 
 and heavy ; and butcher's meat hung up, and expofed to the moon-light, 
 will foon putrefy. The gardener alfo brings us abundant teflimonies of 
 the influence of the moon upon the vegetable world. If peafe are fown 
 in the increafe of the moon, they never ceafe blooming ; and, if fruits and 
 herbs are fet in the wane, experience fhows they are neither fo rich in 
 flavour, nor fo ftrong and healthy, as when planted during her increafe; 
 fo vines, becaufe they (hoiild not fpread too fail, are ufually pruned in 
 the wane. It is alfo remarkable that a pomegranate will live only as 
 many years as the moon was days old when it was planted ; and, in plant- 
 ing fhrubs, or the like, if they are intended to (hoot up ftraight and tall, 
 and to take little root, they are fet when the moon is in an airy fign and 
 increafing in light : but contrariwife when they are to take deep root, and 
 to flrike downwards. And thus we may obferve flowers that are under 
 the moon's influence only open their bloflbms in the night; whilft thofe 
 which are peculiarly under the government of the fun open every morn- 
 ing when he begins to rife, and clofe in the evening when he finks below 
 the horizon. Thefe efFefls and influences of the moon are fo common, 
 and fo generally known, that it were almoft needlefs to repeat them here, 
 but for the purpofe of drawing this conclufion, that, as one planet has a 
 known and forcible aftion upon fublunary things, it is natural to believe 
 that all the others are endued iu fome degree with a fimilar force and 
 virtue. Indeed, moft phyficians know that the planet Saturn rules all 
 climadlerical years, as the Sun doth critical days, and the Moon the crifis 
 of all acute difeafes ; and that every feverith year Saturn comes to the 
 f<]uare or opposition of his place in the radix of every man's nativity; and 
 that, after the revolution of the Sun, he becomes the chief ruler of critical 
 days, and is often obferved, by his configurations with the Moon, to fet afide 
 the fatal criGs of thofe defperate diforders, over which the patient was not 
 expedled to live. From thefe phyfical reafons, we may fafely conclude that 
 Saturn is by nature cold and melancholy, as the Sun is hot and cheerful ; and, 
 being thus oppofite to the Sun in quality and effefl, fo is he in relation to 
 the figns and manfions of the heavens where he bears rule, and therefore 
 inclines always to cold, as the Sun does to heat. Hence it follows, that 
 when the Sun is in Aquaries, which is the proper fign of Saturn, and op- 
 posite to his own fign Leo, the weather inclines more to cold than to heat ; 
 and, at every conjundion, fquare, or oppofition, of Saturn with the two 
 great luminaries, we always find the weather cold, moift, and lowering, 
 even in the midfl: of the fummer, unlefs the rays of Jupiter or Mars inter, 
 pofe, in which cafe thefe efFeds are fomewhat lefs vifible. Thus, we 
 No. 2. E may
 
 26 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 may prefume to affirm, that the influences of the fun, moon, and planets, 
 are eftablifhed beyond contradidtion. 
 
 But, befides thefe figniorities of the fun, moon, and planets, the fixed 
 fiars have alfo their principalilies in the heavens. The Lord, who gave 
 the fun for a light by day, gave the ordinances of the moon and fan afo 
 for a light by night ; and to thefe ftars hath he committed a certain rule, 
 ordinance, or dominion, over the day and night,* and that promifcuoufly. 
 Now the ftars have no vifible operation upon us, befides that little light 
 thev adminifler to our eves in a dark and clear nie;ht ; and that is fo 
 \eiy (mail, that all the ftars in heaven, without the lun and moon, are 
 not to be compared, in this refped, with the fmalleft wax-light ; and 
 this little light too is only to be had when the nights are ferene and un- 
 clouded. Can it then be fuppofed that God made thefe glorious bodies, 
 many of which are bigger than the whole earth, and move in their orbs 
 as fo many other worlds in the heavens, merely for a twinkle in the night, 
 and that only when the weather permits? Lo ! every little daify that 
 grows upon tlie cold ground has a iecret and infenfible virtue wrapt in its 
 leaves and flowers ; and have thefe celeflial bodies no influences but what 
 we now and then catch with our eyes, as they occafionally fparkle their 
 dim glances upon us? Yes, they have each of them a fecret power and 
 virtue, wherewith they act upon all earthly things, as well by day as by 
 night, and in cloudy as well as in clear weather. But, as their operations 
 are not performed by fenfible and palpable means, it follows that they have 
 a fecret and hidden way of rule, whereby the influences are imperceptibly 
 infuled into every concern of this life. And, as have the ftars, fo alfo 
 have the fun and moon, a fecret and imperceptible aftion, peculiar tp 
 themfelves ; for it is not the mere heat that gives life, nor the mere moift- 
 ure that fuflains it ; for, if that were the cafe, then might man make living 
 creatures artificially. It is true that heat may hatch the eggs, but all the in- 
 genuity of man cannot make an egg that can be hatched ; for there is a fecret 
 operation of the fun and moon, independent of heat and moifture, necelTary 
 to the produftion of life, both in vegetative and fenfitive animals. And in 
 thele fecret and infenhble operations, befides the //^/// that they give, con- 
 fifls that rule which the fun, moon, and ftars, were ordained to exercife over 
 all the fons of day and night ; and herein are written all thole ordinance ' 
 of the moon and ftars, which are to be a law unto mankind, and to the 
 whole body of nature, fo long as the world endures, f Thus the ftars 
 have their natural influences, afligned to them in the frame of nature 
 from the beginning of the world ; and thefe influences are diffufed upon 
 all earthly things, as far as day and night extend their limits... And this God 
 • See J.remiah xxxi. 35. and Gen. i. 18. f Jeremiah xxxi. 3;, 36. 
 
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 himfelf confirms, when he fays to Job, «* Canft thou bind the fweet 
 influences of Pleiades^ or loofe the bands of Orion ? Canft thou bring 
 forth Mazzaroth inhisfeafon; or canft lho\i guide hv&.'dXMS with his fons?"* 
 Whence it is evident that the ftars called the Pleiades have their ordinances, 
 that is, t\\e.\T fweet influences, which no power of man is able to reftrain. 
 And the ftars of the Orion have their ordinances, and binding faculty, by 
 fhowers in fumnner, and froft in winter, bringing fuch an hard and tough 
 coat of armour upon the ground, as all the contrivances of man are not 
 able to prevent. Thus Mazzaroth, and Ardurns with his fons, -f have 
 alfo their ordinances, and the whole hoft of heaven have their courfe ; by 
 which the purpofes of God, and all the events of this life, are uniformly 
 brought to pais. 
 
 To this purpofe it is faid, by Deborah the prophetefs, That the flars of 
 heaven, in their courfe s, fought againft Sifera; % not by fword or fpear, nor 
 by thunder and lightning; but by thofe fatal and malevolent influences, 
 wherewith Silera and his hoft were marked from their cradle, and drawn 
 together by the operation of lime and chance, to partake in one common 
 deftrudion in the fame day. And to this effe6l the Almighty difcourfes 
 with Job, concerning the treafures of the fnow and hail, which he has hid 
 againfi the time of trouble, and the day of war and battle.^ Now what can 
 we luppofe the meaning of this hiding to be, but the order of thofe me- 
 teors, lo curioufly lodged within the arras of the ftars, and withheld by 
 their influences, that they may fall, by due courfe of nature, at fuch exadl 
 periods, as to effed the punifliment of the wicked, and of God's declared 
 enemies, fuch as was Sifera, at the precife time when their abominations 
 call forth the judgments of an injured and incenfed Deity? And after the 
 fame manner the light and heat, the wind and rain, the thunder and 
 lightning, the froft and dew, are all of them fo admirably contrived in 
 the pofition of the heavens, that they come to pafs in their due and ap- 
 pointed feafons, and make the grafs to grozv even in the wildernefs, where 
 no man dwells. \\ Now it muft be obvious to the meaneft underftanding, 
 that, if thefe things were regulated by a virtue immediately ifluing frona 
 the bofom of the Deity, then would the light and heat, the wind and 
 rain, and all the reft of them, fall only where men and beafts dwell, who 
 jnay fee and enjoy the blefllngs of them, and adore and glorify Him who 
 fends them ; but, fince they fall equally where neither man nor living 
 creature is to be found, it follows, that they fall by virtue of ineansy and 
 that in a continued courfe, wherever thofe means lead them, making the 
 
 ■v>t ■ 
 
 * Jobxxxviii. 31, 32, 33. f See Argol. Aftr. ante Ephem. lib. ii. cap. 8. Stellae tempeftuofc 
 funt Orion, Arifturus, &c. pluriofe Pleiades. J Judges v. 20. § Job xxxviii. *i, 23, 24, 25, &c. 
 K Job xxxviii. 26, 27. ^- ; - 
 
 earth
 
 i9 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 earth fertile and productive where eaters are not to be found as well as 
 where they are. 
 
 Thus far both Scripture and Reafon unite, in confirming our belief of 
 the Oarry influence ; but, there are fo many other proofs of it, in the or- 
 dinary produdions of nature, that it would be highly unpardonable were 
 I to pafs them over in filence. The loadflone, affords us one very ftriking 
 example, by its attradtive and repulfive faculty, and by the magnetic vir- 
 tue it has a power of communicating to other diftinft bodies. Thus we 
 lee a needle, only touched with a loadftone, and placed in the compafs, 
 will conftaiitly point towards the north pole, and, though it be ever fo 
 far diftant, or though rocks and mountains, or even the earth's body, in- 
 tervene, yet it retains this dire<51ive property in fo extraordinary a degree, 
 that it will continue precifely in the fame diredlion, unlefs violence be 
 ufed to prevent it; and, even after it has been removed by force, it will 
 of itfelf return to its former fituation, without the leaft fenfible difference. 
 The properties of the loadfione in many other refpecfts are fo very inex- 
 plicable, that the experiments of our mofl: celebrated modern mathema- 
 ticians have not been able to afford us a fatisfadory definition of them. 
 Ibis however is certain, that it could not pofhbly imbibe thefe miracu- 
 lous properties without the aid of fome celeftial matter, which is com- 
 municated to it by the influence of the pole-ftar, or fome other of the 
 heavenly bodies within the polar circles, from whence it is manifefl: the 
 loadftone receives thefe fecret and admirable qualities. Another aflo- 
 nifliing effedl of this influence may be obferved in the natural produdion 
 of life and motion ; how it flarts up and grows, and continues in the 
 lap of heat and raoiffure, proportionably conjoined, and perfe6l in all its 
 parts, beyond the utmoft of our comprehenfion whence it comes, or 
 which way it is maintained, unlefs by the operation of this fecret and 
 invisible influence. And if this be denied, I would wifh to aflc, Whence 
 the rofe, furrounded by ill-fcented weeds and thirties, derives its fragrant 
 fmell? or how the plantane, by the path-way fide, acquires its admirable 
 virtue of healing fores? or which way the lily, ftanding up to its middle 
 ai mud and mire, receives its coat of many colours, fo beautifully wrought, 
 as many times wc fee it is? or bow a grain of wheat, thrown into the 
 cold earth, putreifies and dies,* and then ftarts up into new life, and mul- 
 tiples Mito an car of thirty or forty grains for one ? Or tell mc how the 
 matter ju an egg, by the lilting of the hen, is ia a few weeks animated, 
 and converted nito a chicken, that will eat, and walk, and chirp, the mo- 
 ment It emerges from the fliell? or by what means the feed in the womb. 
 Without any art, or fkill, or knowledge, of the mother, coagulates, and 
 
 * St. John xxl'. 24. 
 
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 turns into flefli and blood, receives life, and is Co admirably formed into 
 a perfed child, that learns to fpeak and to eat ? You will fay, perhaps, 
 That this is the immediate workmanfhip and efFeft of God. But this 
 we already know ; the only queftion is, how he does it ; whether by 
 means, or without ? If without means, then every child that is born, and 
 every feed that grows out of the ground, mufl: of neceflity come to pafs 
 by a new creation ; for to bring things into exiftence without means, is 
 the fame as to produce them without matter ; which yet requires no more 
 but for the Almighty to fay, Let there be men, or, I^et there be leaves 
 and flowers; and, as the Word fays, they come to pafs. But we are 
 certain there never was more than one creation, which was at the begin- 
 ning of the world, and ever fince that time all things have come to pafs 
 by a regular courfe of nature ; and hence it follows that there muft be a 
 natural and efficient means for the produftion of all things. And, if fo, 
 then muft thefe things come to pafs by an earthly means alone, or elfe by 
 the aid and afliftance of fome celeftial influence. But by an earthly means 
 alone, it is evident, they cannot come to pafs; for we know experimen- 
 tally, that neither fire, earth, air, nor water, can of themfelves infufe 
 into the rofe its grateful and fragrant fmell ; it muft therefore proceed 
 from the agency of fome fpiritual or material fubftance, far fuperior 
 in efficacy and virtue to any earthly element. If it proceeds from a fpi- 
 ritual fubftance, it is effefted either by the angels, or by the foul of the 
 world. But by the angels we know it cannot be ; for they have their pe- 
 culiar offices allotted them in another way ; and, though they are fubje6ts 
 of the world, yet are they no part of the great frame of nature, from 
 whence all things in their order are formed. And, if it be efFe6led by the 
 foul of the world, then certainly mufl: there be fuch a foul fomevvhere ex- 
 ifliing, which at prefent is a matter in difpute among the learned; and 
 this foul mufl: have a fpecial feat in the world worthy of itfelf, from whence 
 it may inform and a6tuate every minute particle of the creation. If this 
 be admitted, then it undoubtedly dwells among the celeflial matter, and 
 from thence fupplies the earth, through the medium of the heavenly bo- 
 dies, with all that power and virtue, which brings to pafs that variety of 
 fhape, colour, fmell, life, and increafe, which we daily fee come to pafs. 
 But if this hypothefis be denied, and it is infifted that the earth is fupplied 
 with all her fecret virtues by fome fupernatural material fubftance ; then 
 name any one thing befides the heavenly matter, and the flars o^ hea- 
 ven, that can be fuppofed to form that fubftance, and the argument 
 ceafes ; for either way it proves an influence and an ajlrology in the hea- 
 vens, beyond contradiflion ; and there will remain only one queftion to 
 be decided, which is. Whether the celeftial influences create the fucceffiou 
 of earthly things by an immediate power from God, or whether there exifts 
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 30 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 a c^eueral foul in the world, through the means of which they come to 
 pafs in a due order and courfe of nature? Utrum horum mavis accipe : I 
 contend for no more. " In the beginning God created the heaven and 
 the earth ; and the earth was without form, and void, and darknefs was 
 upon the face of the deep, and the fpirit of God moved upon the face of 
 the waters."* Here, when there was nothing but earth and water, and 
 darknefs overfpread all, the ^/nV o/'Go^ maintained that chaotic mafs, 
 and managed the earth by the water, and the water and darknefs by 
 himfelf. But now both the earth and water are under the face of heaven, 
 and the light is upon this heaven, and the fpirit of God moveth upon the 
 face of the heavens in that light; and, as he adluates the earth and the 
 waters by the heavens, fo doth he adluate the heavens by hwifef. And 
 agreeably to this idea fpeaks the prophet Hofea, when he fays, God will 
 hear the heavens, and they Jliall hear the earth ; and the earth the corn and 
 wine and oil, and they Je%reel ; -j- wherein he (hows us, that, as man lives 
 by corn and wine, fo they by the earth, and the earth by the heavens; and, 
 if fo, then by the heavens it is that the earth receives all its efficiency and 
 virtue, whereby it brings forth fmell, colour, tafte, and life. Mofes 
 alfo tells us, that God Jliall open his good treafure the heavens, to give rain 
 unto the land, and to blefs all the works of our hands i^ whence it is evi- 
 dent that there lodges in the celeftial influences a faculty of fortunating 
 civil affairs, as well as of managing natural things ; and that the root of 
 all earthly bleflings is from heaven. Mofes fays again, that iho. fun, moon^ 
 and flars, God hath dijiributed unto all nations under heaven : and the 
 Pfalmifl:, fpeaking of the fun and heavenly bodies, fays, they declare the 
 glory of God, and jlievj forth his handy-work ; day and night do continually 
 tell of them, and their voice is heard in all languages, and their words are 
 gone into the ends of the world. \\ By which we learn, that the heavens, 
 and all the flars therein, are full of fuch virtues as the whole world hath 
 need of; and that thefe virtues God hath lodged in the heavens, to be 
 dealt out for the comfort and happinefs of his creatures upon earth. His 
 fpirtt (faith Job) hath garnijlied the heavens ; and by the fpirit of his mouth 
 was the whole anny of heaven made. \ 
 
 The notion, or idea, that there is one general foul adluating the whole 
 world, as there is one foul informing every man's body, was not only the 
 opinion of the Platonifls and ancient philofophers, but alfo of many 
 learned men in later ages: and I muft confefs, it appears very reafonable 
 to believe, that the world has fuch a foul. For, were there not one and 
 the fame general living virtue, comprehending the whole fyitem of nature, 
 
 * Gen. i. I, 2. + Hofea ii. 2 1, 2Z, § Deut. xxviii. 12. |1 Deut. iv. 19. Pfal. xix. i, 2, 3, 4. 
 
 X Job xxvi. 13. 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 31 
 
 from the exteilor circumference of the heavens to the inmoft centre <>{ the 
 earth, how couJd the l\mpathies and antipathies of nature pcffibly work 
 fuch comphances and differences as we know they do, at the amazing 
 diftances we fee them, and without any vifible or imaginable contadl ; 
 unlefs fome faculty exifts in the world, that is capable of fuflaining this 
 invifible correlpondency between one creature and another? Where life 
 *s, thefe things are eafily effeded ; as the child in the womb is nounlhed 
 by the food the mother eats ; but in the inanimate part of the creation, 
 •we are at a lofs which way to account for it. Now, admitting that there 
 really is fuch an univerfal foul exifling, yet is it queftionable whether 
 this foul be mUl/edfual, or xncrely vegetive. That there is an intelle£iual 
 power informing the whole world, as the foul does the body, is not to be 
 doubted; for otherwife the whole frame of nature would be inert and 
 motionlefs; but then, if ve admit the foul of the world to carry this 
 intelleQ in its own brain, it will follow, that this foul is a God ; for an 
 intelle61ual being, filling heaven and earth with its prefence, is an attri- 
 bute of God.* Hence I conclude there is an univerfal foul in the 
 world, but that it is only vegetive, and not intelleBual ; ?^^^ that in this 
 foul dwells the fpirit of Alni%bty God, who filleth the heavens and the 
 earth with his prefence, and from hence garnifheth the heavens, and 
 caufeth the precious influences of the fun, moon, and flars, to be diflri- 
 buted into all parts of the world. -j- And thus God rules immediately in 
 the heavens, but rules the world mediately by the heavens. It is true, 
 indeed, that God is equally well able to govern and maintain the world 
 without means, as he was at firfl to conflitute and create the frame of na- 
 ture ; but fuch is His divine will and pleafure, that he has thought fit to 
 bring all things to pafs by virtue of means, as ordained from the begin- 
 ning of the world. It is a common and true maxim, that God and nature 
 have made nothing in vain ; and yet it is as true, that grafs and herbs 
 grow where no creatures live to eat them, § Now, were the world go- 
 verned by God's immediate prefence only, then would the produdtion of 
 this grafs and herb be a work in vain ; becaufe God's word brings forth 
 all things at pleafure ; and, having a power of increafing or diminifhing 
 its operation in a moment, would certainly not have brought forth this 
 fertility in an uninhabited and defolate country. But nature, running 
 her courle by a conftant and unchangeable decree, has no power to ceafe 
 her work without a miracle ; and therefore, though the grafs may grow 
 in vain, yet nature's operations are not in vain, fince by one and the fame 
 caufe it produces vegetation in all parts of the world. 
 
 * See Jer. xxiii. 43, 24, 25. f See ASs xvii. a8 ; Job xxvi. 13 ; and Deut. iv. 10. 
 
 § See Job xxxviii. 26. 
 
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 32 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Known unto God are all his works, from the beginning of the world;* and 
 therefore it will be derogatory to the attributes of the Deity, not to be- 
 lieve that the minutefl: events of this world were forefeen and provided 
 for in the mofl: perfeft frame or model of nature, which, as we have al- 
 ready feeti, may be compared to the conftrudtion of a watch, confiftingof 
 many fmall wheels, regulated by one mafter-wheel, or firft mover, which 
 being wound up at the creation, with the line of time, of a feemingly 
 infinite length, has ever fince been winding off", unto the prefent hour ; 
 and yet is there ftill more line upon the wheel; but how much remains, 
 is only in the breaft of the Almighty. And, when this line (hall be en- 
 tirely wound off, then will the frame of Nature find its period,f and all 
 fubordinate wheels will ceafe their motion. But, until that time, there 
 is allotted in this frame of Nature, unto every one that comes into the 
 world, a certain order or courfe of life, by which he runs through fick- 
 nefs and health, honour and difhonour, and all the occurrences of life, 
 from his cradle to the grave. For man is, as it were, a little world within 
 himfelf; and, though he ftand but as one wheel in the frame of the great 
 world, yet within this one there feem many thoufands of wheels, efpe- 
 cially in enterprifing people, which appear tu move one within another 
 almoft ad infinitum, till the thread turned on the outer wheel break,, or 
 elfe be wound off, and there they make a flop, and die. All thefe things 
 God, who made man at the firft, perfedtly knows, and foreknew from 
 the beginning of the world ; and, by this order of man's life, he perfeftly 
 knows all the paflages of our lives, and even the mofl fecret thoughts of 
 our hearts, both fleeping and waking;:}: and how one thought drives off 
 and brings on another, and continues fo doing till the Jail: moment of our 
 life, when our breath fails. Now every man being, as it were, a wheel 
 of the great world, it will follow that all men move in a certain frame or 
 wheel above themfelves, by virtue of which the mafter-wheel of every 
 man's life is put in motion ; and this wheel is fubordinate unto others, 
 and thefe alfo unto the mafter-wheel of the whole world, which is the 
 high and mighty wheel of heaven, wherein the fun, moon, and ftars, arc 
 let, to carry on the great works of nature, unto the end of time. And 
 hence comes the original of every man's nativity, and of all natural qua- 
 lities, paffions, and incidents of our lives, except the motions of our free- 
 will and reafon, which may be allured and inclined by the works of na- 
 ture, but cannot be forced by them. Now above and beyond this great 
 wheel of nature, there is yet another wheel, within which the heavens 
 themfelves are turned ;§ and herein is that great and hidden line of time, 
 whereby the whole world, with all its dependencies, is made to hold on 
 and continue its motion, unto the final end of all things; and this ftu- 
 
 • Adls XV. 1 8. f Peter iii. % John ii. *+, 2;. § 2 Cor. xii. 2, 3, 4. 
 
 pendous
 
 V OF ASTROLOGY. ^3 
 
 pendous wheel is God htmfelf, who draws out the line of time, ^u6 Jilting 
 upon the circles of the earthy he Jlretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and 
 beholdeth all the inhabitants of the world as graf shoppers under his feet ; * 
 and hence he difcerns, as it were, with one view, all the world naked 
 befqjce him, both paflr, prefent, and to come. 
 
 ''rom what has been advanced, it appears obvious that every occurrence 
 of our lives, and all the various produdions of nature, however ftrange 
 or incomprehenfible they may appear, are brought to pafs by regular 
 and eftablirtied means, decreed by the wifdom of God at the begin- 
 ning of the world ; and confequently, whatever happens by a contrary 
 efte61", mufl: of neceffity be produced by the immediate hand of God, and 
 conftitutes a miracle. Such was the cafe when the Almighty made the 
 fun and moon fland ftill ; and when, at the prayer of Ifaiah, he reverfed 
 the fun's courfe, and made it retrograde. Such alfo were the works of our 
 Saviour, when he raifed the dead, and gave fight to men born blind. And 
 fuch was the work of God, when the fea made a lane for men to pafs 
 through on dry ground, and when the fire had no power to burn nor to 
 fcorch thofe who walked in the midftof it. -f- Thefe miracles, it is true, 
 bad no immediate dependance upon the works of nature ; and yet, as 
 God from the beginning favv the neceffity of them, and the occafion upon 
 which they would be required, it is reafonable to fuppofe he fet down in 
 his eternal mir.d the contrivance of thefe miracles, and fo ordained them 
 to keep pace v,'ith the works of nature, and to come to pafs at their ap- 
 pointed feafons, without diflurbing or deranging that univerfal frame of 
 the world, out of which all natural things proceed, and from whence all 
 the hofl: of heaven derive their faculty of influencing earthly fubftances. 
 And that the heavenly bodies poflefs thefe influences, in an infinitely 
 powerful degree, I believe will not be denied, fince both fcripture and 
 reafon, as we have now feen, fubftantially prove them. The ancient 
 philofophers were unanimous in fubfcribing to this opinion, even with- 
 out the teftimony of the facred writings ; and many very learned authoi's, 
 in later ages, have fupported the fame dotftrine. ^ Milton gives us a very 
 ftriking proof of his belief of the ftarry influence, in the following paf- 
 fage of his Paradife Loft : 
 
 To the blank moon 
 Her office they prefcrib'd ; to th'other five,. 
 Their planetary motions and afpeds. 
 In Textile, fquare, and trine, and oppofite, 
 Oi noxious efficacy,, auA when to join 
 In A nod unbenign; and taught the Jix'd 
 
 * Ifaiah xl. 22, 23, &c. f See Jofii. x. 12, 13. 2 Kings xx. 11. John ix. 6, 7. and xi. 44. 
 Exod- xvi. 21, 22. Dan. iii. 27. &c. &c. X Preltoii's lliuftrations of Mafonry, 12th edit. p. 135. 
 
 No. 2. G Their
 
 |4 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Their influence malignant when to fhow'r; 
 Which of them, riHng with the fun, or falling, 
 Should prove tempeftuousy Sec. Paradife Loft, x. 656. 
 
 The ingenious Mr. Fergufon alfo proves, in a variety of inftances, an 
 efficiency and influence in the fun and moon, though he denies that any 
 fuch faculty exifts in the fixed ftars. And yet he has fhown, by very fatit- 
 faiStory obfervations, that " the fixed ftars are fo many glorious funs, with 
 fvflems and worlds furrounding them fimilar to our own ; and that 
 " the Almighty would not have placed them at fuch diftances from each 
 other, unlefs proper obje61s were near enough to be benefited by their 
 influences." Hence it follows, from his own hypothefis, that the fixed 
 ftars do each of them pofTefs a natural influence, homogeneal to the fun 
 and moon.* But to whatdifl:ance the fixed ftars, or any of the heavenly 
 bodies, are capable of extending thefe influences, is beyond the power of 
 the moft enlightened mind to determine ; lince the celeftial matter flows 
 through a boundlefs and unlimited fpace, and operates upon every lub- 
 ftance that falls within the line of its dire6tion. 
 
 And now, having made it apparent, by an union of concurrent tefti- 
 monies, that the fun, moon, and ftars, have their refpedive influences, and 
 that an Aftrology in the heavens does by confequence exift, it will be pro- 
 per to confider how far the ftudy of this ncble fcience is compatible with 
 our moral and religious obligations, and what degree of it is attainable by 
 the human underftanding. 
 
 That the ftudy and pradice of Aftrology is a moral purfuit becoming 
 fobcr and religious men, may be collefled from the cuftoms of the an- 
 cients in all enlightened countries; as well as from the beft and wifeft of 
 God's chofen people. And that our all-wife and beneficent Creator 
 originally implanted in the frame of nature a means whereby mankind 
 may attain to the knowledge of fuch future contingencies as concern their 
 welfare and bappineis, is in no refpeft to be doubted, fince we obferve 
 in the brute creation, that even the moft inconfiderable creatures upon 
 the earth are more or lefs endowed with a gift of foreknowledge. Thus 
 the induftrious bee, and laborious ant,-}- lay up a ftore in fummer, to 
 fupply the neceflary wants of an inclement winter, which they fore knoiv 
 
 is 
 
 • See Fergufon's Aftronomy, nth edit. Seft. 4, ;, 8, 9, 14, ly, &c. 
 t Of all the race of reptiles, the ant, the fpider, and the bee, appear to be endowed with the 
 greateft (hare of fagacity. The wildom of the ants is conrpicuous in forming ihemfeives into a 
 kind of republic, and therein obferving, as it were, their own peculiar laws and policies. But the 
 Cunning of the fpider feems to exceed that of moft other infe<£ls; its various artifices to enfnare its 
 prey are no lefs remarkable than its contrivances of a cell or retreat behind its web, where it feafts 
 upon its game in fafety, and conceals the fragments of thofe carcafes it has devoured, without expof- 
 
 ing
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 35 
 
 IS yet to come. The badger, the hedge- hog, and the mole, alfo provide 
 themfelves a magazine of plants and herbs, which they foreknow will 
 enable them to lie concealed in their holes, during the hard frofls of 
 winter, contented with their prifon, which affords them fafety. Their 
 holes are alfo conftru61ed with amazing art, and have generally two 
 apertures, that, in cafe one is befet by an enemy, they may efcape by the 
 other. The doublings of the hare, and the tricks of the fox, to efcape 
 the hounds, are alfo aftonifhing indications of forefight and fagacity. 
 The feathered lace are likewife endowed with a fimilar faculty, and often 
 foretel an approaching l1:orm a confiderable time before it appears, by re- 
 tiring in flocks to their holes and hiding-places for flielter and protedion. 
 The birds of paflage feem to inherit this gift in a moft remarkable de- 
 gree ; for they affemble together in prodigious flocks, at an appointed 
 hour, and take their leave of lis before the approach of winter, which 
 they forefee will deftroy the flies and other infe6ls upon which their own 
 life depends, as they feed upon nothing elfe. And it is no lefs extraor- 
 dinary than true, that thefe birds return as early as the fun brings forth 
 this clafs of infeds into new life ; and they have alfo the fagacity to find out 
 and repoffefs their former nefts and habitations.* The fame provident 
 forecaji, for felf-prefervation and fafety, is even extended to the innume- 
 rable mhabirants of the immenfe ocean, where we fee the fiflies, preflTed 
 by unceaGfig hunger, indilcriminately prey upon one another, the large 
 upon the fmall, even of its own fpecies ; whence the fmaller fifh, in re- 
 gular gradations, when in danger of being devoured, fly for an alylum 
 to the fhallow waters where they know their enemy cannot or dares not 
 purfue them. And this purfuit of one fpecies of fifli after another, is by 
 no means confined to a fingle region ; for we find fhoals of them purfu- 
 ing one another, from the vicinity of the pole even down to the equator; 
 and thus the cod, from the banks of Newfoundland, purfues the whiting, 
 which flies before it, even to the fouthern fhores of Spain, It is aftonifh- 
 ing alfo that herrings, which appear to generate towards the north of Scot- 
 land, regularly make their way, once a-year, to the Britilh Channel. 
 Their voyage is conducted with the utmoft regularity; and the time of 
 their departure is fixed from the month of June to AugufI:. They always 
 affemble together before they fet out, and no flragglers are ever found 
 
 ing to public view "the lead remains of its barbarity, which might diftinguifh its place of abode, or 
 create tlie leaft jealoufy in any infefts, that their enemy was near. Into what hiftory can we look, to 
 find people who are governed by laws equal to what we obferve in the republic of bees I What expe- 
 rience can we defire beyond that we obferve in the cunning Ipider, to teach us to guard againft the 
 artifices of thofe who lay fnares to catch the thoughtlefs and un weary ? Or what can exceed the inde- 
 fatigable ant in teaching us letTons of frugality and induflry ? Well might the wife man fay to the 
 flothful and ignorant, Go, thou Jluggard, to the ant; conftder her ways, and be wife. Prov. v. 6. 
 
 * This has been difcovered by tying certain marks to th^ir legs, or by cutting off a claw, &c. 
 before they emigrate. In the cnfuing fpring, if you preferve their nefts, you will find the fame birds 
 v.i!l inhabit thtm, or, if you deftroy them, they will rebuild in the fame place, or near it. 
 
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 36 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 from the general body.* It is impoflible to aflign any caiife for this 
 emigration, but it doubtlefsly proceeds from the fame inftindlive im- 
 puHe with which all orders of animate nature are more or lefs endued. 
 Seeing then that the Supreme Being, in his paternal regard for the mi- 
 nutefi: parts of his works, has endued the loweft clafs of animals with a 
 gift of fore-knowledge in what immediately concerns their fafcty and 
 welfare; would it not be derogatory to the equal providence of God to 
 Ibppofe be had not ordained, in an infinitely luperior degree, a means of 
 communicating foreknowledge to man, whom he has gracioufly formed 
 in his own exprefs image and likenefs, and appointed lord over his vaft 
 creation? — A creature whom he hath endowed with a rational foul, ca- 
 pable of paying him adoration and worfhip ; and with an nnderflanding 
 qualified to decipher the golden charadfers he hath placed in the firma- 
 ment of heaven, ior Jigus of thofe hidden events of futurity which are 
 yet to come ? If we give the Scriptures an attentive perulal, we fhall 
 find a variety of pafTagcs to confirm this opinion, both in the Old and New 
 Teflament. And we mav siather additional evidence, that the Almighty 
 intended we fhould fludy rulurity, from the communications given to 
 Adam in Paradife bv the angel Gabriel ; as well as from the commiffion 
 Michael the archangel received from God, to fhow him in a vifion the 
 principal events of futmity, from his fall, to the birth, refurredlion, and 
 afcfnfion, of Chrifl.-f- And 1 think I am warranted to fay, from the 
 authority of our Saviour's own words, that there appears only one event 
 concerning the human race, which the Deity ever propofed to withhold 
 from their knowledge ; and that is, the time of the lall and terrible dav 
 of judgment. But even of this awful and fecret event, we are promifed 
 feme previous intimations, by figns in the fun, moon, and ftars ',\ 
 which are the common fignificators of all inferior tranlatfions of futurity, 
 tor this reafon we are told to %valch, for no man knoweih the hour ivhen 
 thefe things JJiall come. Therefore, thole who fludy the fidereal fcience, by 
 their watchtulnefs of the heavenly bodies, and their capability of di (co- 
 vering fi;ch ilgns in the fun, moon, and ftars, whenever the tremendous 
 fiat fhall be palTcd, will be the firft to know that the vifitation of God is 
 at hand ; uhilft thofe who condemn both the fcience and its pofTcfTors, 
 unprepaic-d by any previous intimation, and folded in the arms of 
 uicautious repofe, will find the fatal hour approach like a thief in the 
 
 • See Brooks's Nat. Hift id edit, izmo vol. i. p. 15. Introd. vol. ii. p. 168. vol. iii. p. 2, 4. 
 vol. VI. p. 9, 20. For more modern opinio.-is upon the furj d, fee my Nat. Hift. vol. xi. p. 65, &c. 
 t tee Mi'ton's. Paradife Left, Books v. vi. vii. viii. xi. and xii. Ad;m, for this purpofe, is faid 
 to be taken up :o ihi top of a high hill hy Micha-1, v.ho addrcfT.s him in thefe lines : 
 
 Adam, afcend 
 Tnis hili; Itt Eve (for 1 have drench'd her eyc^) 
 Here fleep below, while thou inforefight wak'ft; 
 As once thou flepi'ft, whilft fhe to life was form*''. 
 X Matth. xx'v. 29, 36. Msrk xiii. 24, 25, 32. Luke xxi. 25. 
 
 night ^ 
 
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 night ; when petrified and motionlefs, in bitter anguifh and defpair, they 
 will too late repent their negligence and incredulity. I would recom- 
 mend a ferious and attentive, perufal of thefe fcriptures to every perlbn 
 who has doubts concerning the dodrine of Aftrology. It is here pointed 
 out, to the underflanding of the moft unlettered part of mankind, that 
 the great and terrible day of the Lord, the day of judgment, will mold 
 afluredly come. Our Saviour's difciples enquire of him, When this day 
 fhall be? He replies, " Of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not 
 the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only:. 
 Watch, therefore, for in an hour when ye think not fliall thefe things 
 come ; for as, in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and 
 drinking, marrying aod giving in marriage, until the day that Noah en- 
 tered the ark ; and they knew not, until the flood came and took them 
 away ; fo alfo fhall the coming of the Son of man be. Then fliall he 
 fend forth his angels, and fhall gather together his ele6l from the four 
 winds, from the uttermoil: part of the earth to the uttermoft part of 
 heaven ; then fhall two be in a field, the one (hall be taken, and the 
 other left. Therefore be ye ready, left coming he find you fleepiiig ; 
 and what I fay to you, I fay unto all, watch." Mark xiii. 4, 32-37. Now 
 it is clear from the above, that figns of great and direful events are difco- 
 verable not only by the celeftial bodies, but alfo by fearful fights in the 
 heavens; by tremendous earthquakes; by total eclipfes of the two great 
 luminaries, which deprive them for a time of the power of giving light ; 
 and by other extraordinary phenomena, which fhould always be attended 
 to with reverence and awe. Thefe figns our Saviour informed his difciples 
 fhould precede the deftru6i:ion of Jerufalem ; and aftrologers, and other 
 hiftorians, have borne record of the exacSl completion of this prophecy ; 
 and it muft be felf-evident to every thinking mind, that the laft day will 
 come to pafs exactly in the way our Saviour has defcribed it. 
 
 Now if we confider Aftrology, what it truly is, a legal and virtuous 
 ftudy, we may eafily believe the accounts tranfmitted to us by Jofephus 
 and other hiftorians, concerning its antiquity and divine original. We 
 have already feen that Adam, previous to his expulfion from Paradife, was 
 inftruded in a foreknowledge of futurity, by the exprefs command of 
 God, as a means of enlarging his mind, and alleviating his diftrefs upon 
 being turned adrift into the wide world. Jofephus, an hiftorian of cha- 
 rai5ter and eminence, who quotes the moft ancient authors of refpeftability 
 for what he afferts, confirms the fame things; and further informs us, that 
 Adam, before his death, inftru6i:ed his fon Seth in this fcience, who after- 
 wards engraved the rudiments of it upon permanent pillars of ftone, which 
 endured through many generations, and were not entirely effaced till Ibme 
 time after the deluge. We have it from the fame authority, that the 
 art was taught by Euos and Noah, who preferved it to the days of Abra- 
 
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 38 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 ham -, and he increafed the knowledge of it by divine aids, teaching it to 
 the Chaldeans and Egyptians. Jofeph is alfo laid to have patronized and 
 taught it in Egypt ; and is fuppofed by Origen, Diodorus Siculus, and other 
 ancient hiftorian?, to have been the author of an aftrological work, called. 
 The Aphorifms of Hermes the Egyptian.* Mofes afterwards taught and 
 profefled it, independently of the gift of prophecy, which always came by 
 divine infpiration, and confequently was only exercifed upon certain ex- 
 traordinary occafions. From Mofes, we are told, the Prophets and Seers had 
 it ; and that it was afterwards particularly taught among the tribe of Ifla- 
 char, who are on that account lliled in the facred writings. Men who had 
 under jianding in the /imes,-\' and were expert at refolving all queftions con- 
 cerning futurity; and, as this tribe were neither priells nor levites, nor 
 endued with the fpirit of prophecy, it follows that their under// and/ng in the 
 times^ and their ability in foretelling future events, arofe entirely from an 
 acquired knowledge of the figns atid influences of the heavenly bodies. For 
 the fame reafon the Perfian aftrologers were called Mages, or wife men, 
 who were (killed in the times ; and the Chaldeans termed their young ftu- 
 dents in a ft ro logy, Menjkilled in isoifdom and cumiing fcience, to learn the 
 learning of the Chaldeans.\ And after the Chaldean method of ftudying the 
 fcience of Aflrologv, Daniel, and Shadrach, and Mefech, and Abednego, 
 were inftrudted by their tutor Melzar, and became ten times more learned in 
 all matters of zvifdom and under jianding than all the afirologers in the realm; 
 in confideration of which they were clefted members of the public fchools 
 at Babylon, § which were founded for the ftudy of this art ; and Daniel 
 was made, by the king's decree, mafter over the Chaldean aftrologers. jj 
 
 • 
 III the days of Samuel, it appears to have been a common cuflom to go 
 to the Seers, or men of undcrftanding in llie times, not only to be inform- 
 ed concerning future contingencies, but alfo to enquire after lofl: goods. 
 To this effe6f we find Saul and his fervant diicourfino;, when thev were 
 fent out to find the flray affes of Kifh, Saul's faiher; and, not being able 
 to find them, the fervant propoles to go and enquire of the Seer, which way 
 the affes were gone, and where they may be found. Saul agrees to this, 
 but alks. What have we to give him ? ive have no bread left, nor have ive any 
 fufjicicnt pre fent. The fervant replies, I have a fourth part of a Jliekel of 
 filver, I zvi II give him that. Saul anfwers. Well f aid, let us go. ^ This 
 paflage enables us to diftinguifh between the gift of prophecy, for the 
 purpofes of cftablifhing God's true religion, and the art of anfwering 
 horary queftions, and predicting future events. The one was evidently 
 efi-c6fed by fupernatural means, and promulgated to the people without 
 
 • Oiig. toni. in Gen, Diod. Sic. lib. i. cap. 2. f i Chron. xii. 32. i Efth. i. 13. Dan. i. 4. 
 
 § In fume of thcfL- fchools it is faid that Abram was taui;ht ; and that Belus, the father of Nimrod, 
 afterwards built the f^hool-houfe where Daniel was inibudted in this fcience. See Jjf. Ant. lib. i. 
 cap. 8. and Diod. Sic. lib. i. cap. S. 
 
 II Dan i. 4, 5, II, 17, 18, 19, 20. ii. 48. v. 11. ^ i Sam. ix. 6-i-.. 
 
 expenfe;
 
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 expenfe; whilft the other, by being calculated for the benefit of refpec- 
 tive individuals, was always accompanied with money or prefents. In 
 the fame way we find David, when in Keilah, where he heard that Saul 
 was coming 'to befiege him, was defnous of knowings the truth, whether 
 Saul was coming or not ; and, if he was, Whethtr the men of Keilah would 
 be true to him, or would betray him. And being informed they would 
 betray him into the hands of the enemy, who were feeking his life, he 
 fled into the wildernefs of Ziph, and efcaped the danger that was im- 
 pending over him. (i Sam. xxiii. 10-14.) And in the New Teflament 
 alfo, we have frequent confirmations of the meteorological part of this 
 fcience from our Saviour's own words, in his converfation with the Pha- 
 rifees, who were all verfed in Aftrology. He addrefTes them to this effed : 
 " When it is evening, ye fay, it will be fair weather, for the fky is red ; and 
 in the morning, it will be foul weather, for the Iky is red and lowering. 
 And, when a cloud arifeth out of the weft, flraightway ye fay, A fhower 
 Cometh; and it is fo. And when ye fee the fouth-wind blow, ye fay. 
 There will be heat ; and fo it comes to pafs. Ye hypocrites, ye can difcern 
 the face of the Iky, but the fignsof the times ye cannot difcern." (Matth. 
 xvi. 2, 3. Luke xii. 54-56.) And now, if we impartially contemplate 
 the origin and antiquity of this fcience, and recoiled that the bed: and 
 wifefl men in every age of the world were profefTors of it, we muft admit 
 its praflice to be highly confiftent with all our moral and religious duties.. 
 
 That the human underftanding is alfo capable of attaining to a very 
 high degree of knowledge in the hidden works of futurity, and in the 
 fecret operations of nature, is iikewife to be proved, beyond the power 
 of contradidion. Indeed, the pafTages already quoted from the holy 
 fcriptures, are a fufficient confirmation of it to every difpaffionate reader ; 
 but as there are fome very extraordinary inftances of this predidive 
 faculty, recorded by different hiflorians, I will juft mention a few of 
 them, by way of corroborating .the evidence already brought in its fup- 
 port. The Emperor Domitian required the profeflbr Largius Proculus 
 to calculate his nativity, from the luppofed time of his birth, which was 
 done, and delivered into the emperor's own hands. Afclatarius, a mofl 
 famous aftrologer of thofe times, procuring a copy of this nativity, rec- 
 tified it, and foretold the hour and manner of the emperor's death ; which 
 when Domitian heard, he commanded Afclatarius to be brought before 
 him, when he affirmed his predictions would prove true. Domitian afked 
 him if he could foretel the manner of his own death ? Afclatarius re- 
 plied. That he knew he fhould be torn in pieces by dogs ; but, to con- 
 fute the aflrologer, the emperor ordered him to be burnt alive. The 
 poor fellow was accordingly led for execution ; the body was bound and 
 laid upon the pile, and the fire kindled ; but at that inflant there arofe a 
 dreadful ftorm of wind and rain, which drove the fpedators away, and 
 
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 40 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 extino-uifhed the fire ; and Alclatarius was afterwards torn in pieces by 
 dof^s, as he had foretold. When Latinus informed the ennperor of this 
 event, he was greatly mortified, and very melancholy ; and, on the day his 
 aflaflination had been predi6led, he feigned himfelf indifpofed, and locked 
 himfelf up in his chamber. Stephanus, the captain of his guard, went 
 to his door, pretending he had received fome important difpatches, which 
 he wanted to deliver to him ; but, Domitian declinii)g to admit him till 
 a certain hour was pad, Stephanus perfuaded him it was then much later 
 than the time fpecified. The emperor, in confequence, concluding the 
 danger to have pafTed by with the hour, or looking upon the predidion 
 as a mere fable, and feeing no confpiracy or danger about him, apened 
 the door, upon which Stephanus ftept up to him with a drawn dagger, and 
 ftabbuJ him to the heart, in the very hour that had been predicted by the 
 aftrologer, on the i8th day of September, the month he had ordered to 
 be called Germanicus.*- The fame writers add, that Apollonius Tya- 
 neus was at that inftant of time at Ephefus, (landing in the prefence of 
 the magiftrates, and in a kind of ecftacy cried out, O Stephanus, llrike the 
 tyrant ; and, after a paufe, added. It is well, *hou haft killed him. This 
 art of redlifying nativities was a difcovery which brought the fcience to 
 very ligh perfedlion, and has enabled if profeflbrs to be aftonifliingly 
 exa6t in predidions of confequence. Thus Lucius Tarutius Firmianus, 
 by the ads of Romulus's life, and the time of his death, found that he 
 was born in the firft year of the fecond Olympiad, the twenty-third day 
 of the month, about fun-rifing. And hence he difcovered that the build- 
 ing of Rome was begun when the Moon was in Libra, the Sun with 
 Mercury, and Venus in Taurus, Jupiter in Pifces, and Saturn with Mars 
 in Scorpio. -f- The Archbilhop of Pifa confulted feveral different profefTors 
 of aflrology concerning his detliny, and they all calculated his nativity at 
 different times, and without any communication with one another; but 
 they all foretold he would be hanged. It feemed highly incredible at the 
 time, becaufe he was in fo much honour and power ; but the event juftified 
 the predidions ; for, in the fedition of Pope Sixtus IV. in the fudden 
 rage and uproar of the people, he was feized and hanged.^ Petrus Le- 
 ontius, a celebrated phyfician and aftrologer of Spoletanum, caft his own 
 nativity, and foretold that his death would be occafioned by water; and 
 many years afterwards he was found drowned in a pond, into which he 
 had fallen the preceding night, by miftaking his way.§ Jofephus tells us 
 he cafl: the nativities of Vefpafian and his fon Titus, and preciided that 
 they would both be emperors; and fo it turned out.|| R. Cervinus 
 
 * Vid. Sueton. in Domitian. f Vid. Peucer de Divinat. Seifb. Aftrolog- J Vid. Anna). 
 
 Florentin. § Jovius, Elog. 35 
 
 If See many other curious particu'ars of this kind in Jofephus. As, that of Tiberiu= appointing 
 his fuccefibr upon augury; Antiq. xviii. 8. The whole ftory of Aj;rippa, ibid. 7,8. c-tpeci:illy 
 P 47.')> 5''''i of ^^^ f"''o tranflation. For the death of Antigonus foretold by Judas, !ee Ant'q. xiii. 
 19. and Wars, i. 3. 
 
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 calculated the nativity of his fon Marcellus, and foretold that he fliould 
 come to great preferment and dignity in the church ; and, his mother 
 afterwards entreating him to marry one Caflandra Benna, he very refo- 
 lutely declined it, faying, he would not with the bands of matrimony bind 
 himfelf from that better fortune which the ftars had promifed him if he 
 continued to live fingle and unmarried. And he was afterwards really 
 made pope,* Picus Mirandula was a fevere writer againft Aftrology, in- 
 ibmuch that he was termed Flagellum Aflrologorum, the Scourge of Aftro- 
 logers ; and, to (lop the malignity of his pen, Lucius Bellantius, and two 
 other aftiologers of eminence, procured the time of his birth, and calcu- 
 lated his nativity, which they afterwards fent him, and with this predic- 
 tion inclofed, " That he would die in the thirty-third year of his age." 
 This exafperated him fo much, that he began to write a new tract, with 
 inconceivable alperity, againft the poor afirologcrs, attempting to prove 
 their calculations a mere bubble, and themfelves a fet of impoftors. But, 
 when the fatal appointed hour arrived, he Taw the folly of his own con- 
 ceits -, recanted his opinion, and fealed b) his death a ftanding memorial 
 of the inerrability and truth of this fcience.-j- Many other extraordinary, 
 circumftances of the kind might be related from different authors, were, 
 it not already fufficiently obvious that the intelledual faculties of man, 
 when cultivated by ftudy, and improved by obfervation and experience, are 
 capable of obtaining a very extenlive degree of knowledge and fkill in this 
 art. We will therefore difmifs this argument, and endeavour to explain 
 what the fubjedls are that the fcience of Aftrology naturally comprehends. 
 
 . Aftrology is compounded of aain;, /?flr, and xoyo,-, difcowfe ; and literally 
 implies. The doBrine of the flars ; teaching how to judge of their effects 
 and fecret influences, and to foretell future events by the order of their 
 different alpe6rs, qualities, and pofitions; and alfo how to dilcover their 
 energy and force upon earthly ibbftances, in the wonderful and abflrufc 
 operations of nature. It comprehends the moft excellent part of that 
 noble fcience called Phvllology, or Natural Philofophy, which is the doc- 
 trine of natural bodies in the conftruclion of the works of nature. The 
 body naturally mav be conceived either generally, as one perfed and entire 
 body; or fpecially, as it may be divided into two, or fubd:vided into 
 many thouiand component parts. This grand and perfedl body of nature 
 is called the Wot Id, or the whole world, which is generally confidered 
 
 • Vid. THuan- lib. 15. It is remarkable that this pre<]i£l'on was printed at Venice, and pub'lfiied 
 Sv Curtius Tr janus in a book of Njtivi;ie- v.ritten by Gauricu?, ujjivards of three viars b-*!ore 
 M^rcelius C-rvin^js was proclai.-ntd 0ope- See a very remarkable ftury in Rcques's Continuation 
 of Saurin's Drfltrrtotio.'is, torn. vl. p. 25^ 8 k'c-. edit. ..'•***^^ 
 
 t Yaiab, (cirig of Afric?., having be^n informed by one (killed in aftrologv, that a pmicD'a.- day- 
 would be fatal to him, pitflfed it in prayer.' In the evening, happy that he had efcaped thT ^i-f.ger, 
 he ordered a magiiiiicent feaft, and died as he fat down to table. 
 
 No. 3. I as
 
 4t AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 as makiiTT hut one entire body; but this general body admits of many 
 fpecial divilions and fuhdivifions ; and is firft divided into two branches, 
 making one body natural called Celeftial, and another called Terrtftrial ; 
 and hence arife two diftind Sciences, the one termed Uranology, and the 
 other Geology. 
 
 Geology (from y«, the earth") is a icience treating of the natural body 
 called the earth, and fpeaks either generally of the whole earth, or fpe- 
 cially of the parts, or fome particular part, thereof; and is either Ipecu- 
 lativc or pra(flical. Speculative Geology confifts in the fimple invelliga- 
 tioii cf the earth, either in whole or in part, and of the principles and 
 affei^lions thereof; and to this purpofe it treats either of the common be- 
 ing of any earthly thing, merely as it is a being abftra6i from all mat- 
 ter, whether intelligible or fenfible ; and as it operates thus, it is termed 
 Metaphvlical or Preternatural Philofophy. But, if it difcourles of a 
 movable being in matter, and that as it is perfe<5}ly material, it is then 
 called Natural Philofophy. Or, if it fpeaks of things converfant in mat- 
 ter intelligible, but not lenfible, as they are the ablhads of matter, it is 
 named Mathematical or Abilra6l Philofophy. Of this fort of fcience the 
 fubjeft is Quantity, and is either continued, or difcrete. If of continued 
 quantity, it is called Geometry, or its fubordinate, Perfpedive ; but, if 
 the quantity be difcrete, it is then termed Arithmetic, or its fubordinate, 
 Mufic. Natural Philofophy, properly fo called, treats of terreftrial bo- 
 dies, either fimple or mixed. The fimple bodies confifl: of the four ele- 
 ments, called Fire, Air, Earth, and Water, which occupy all places, 
 from the utmoft and inferior bodies of the heavenly matter unto the iti- 
 moft centre of the earth, fo that vacuum no where exifts under the cope 
 of heaven. The mixed bodies are compounded of thefe four elements, 
 and are divided into animate and inanimate bodies. And all animate 
 bodies are endued either with a vegetative, fenfitive, or rational, faculty. 
 Now, while we 0:u6y the doctrine of this earthly body natural, the fciences 
 of Geography, Hiftory, and Chronology, naturally flow from it: the firft 
 of which delcribes the fituation and boundaries of the different parts of 
 the earth ; the fecond relates the hiftory of whatever has been feen or 
 tranfafted upon it ; and the third computes and adjufts all the different 
 a;ras and portions of time, from the creation of the world to the prefent 
 hour. And fubordinate to thefc are Topography, or a defcription of 
 particular places, and Chronologies of certain diftinft periods of time. 
 Pradical Geology is that part of Natural Philofophy which confifts in 
 Speculation for the profit and advantage of mankind; and leaves a track 
 or fruit of its operation remaining, when the act itfelf is paft and gone. 
 Ami this is a fort of ftudy clalTed under the denomination of Art, rather 
 than of Science. The fubjed of it muft be either Man himfelf, or fome 
 
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 fubordinate fubftance. If Man be the fubjeft of inveftigatioii, then the 
 objecSt will be to teach him precepts of morality ; and this we cal! 
 Ethical Philofophy ; or elle to inftru6t him in the Art of Reafoiiiiig, cal- 
 led i^ogical Philofophy ; or in the art of Speaking, which we term Gram- 
 matical or Rhetorical Philofophy. But, if the fpeculation be upcn any 
 fubordinate fubftance, then the earth itfelf, or the productions of it, be- 
 come the fubjed of inveftigation. If it be the earth, then the bufinefs 
 we contemplate is to improve and cultivate the foil, for the increafe of 
 ufeful vegetation, which is called Agriculture ; but, if it be the produ6iions. 
 of the earth, then the Oudy mufl: be fo to prepare and manufa<5ture them, 
 as to render them the cflcntials of Health, Wealth, Food, or Clothing ; 
 or whatever elfe is conducive to the com.forts or neceffities of mankind. 
 And thefe are I'everally diftinguifhed by as many fignificant terms as there 
 are occupations or employments, by the invention and ufe of which all 
 thefe things are produced. 
 
 Uranology is a fcience which treats of the natural body of heaven, 
 after the fame manner as Geology defcribes that of the earth; and fpeaks 
 either generally, of the whole heaven; or fpecially, of ibme particular 
 or diftin6f part of it. And, as Uranology is a part of Phyfiology, fo has 
 it the fame principles, whether internal, as matter and form ; or exter- 
 nal, as the caufes efficient and final ; and thefe are principles of their 
 own nature, as chance and fortune are principles by accident. It hath 
 alfo afFe<5tions internal, as motion and refl-, and fmity and infinity ; and 
 the fame external, as time and place. Uranology is alfo either fpecula- 
 live or practical. Speculative Uranology confif^s in the fimple knowledge 
 of the heavens, either in whole or in part, and of their various principles 
 and affedions ; and to this purpofe it fpeaks of thefe things either ma- 
 thematically or naturally. Mathematically it treats of Aftronomy or 
 Uranometry, which is a fcience that points out the magnitude, meafure, 
 and motion, of the heavens, and of the flars therein ; and naturally, it 
 defines the qualities, motions, afpeds, and operations, of the heavenly 
 bodies, and all the apparent and infenfible influences. Pradical Ura- 
 nology is that fublime art, which, being once perfe<5tly known and 
 rightly underflood, enables a man, by his fkill in the affc6fions of the 
 heavens and heavenly bodies, to unbolbm the lemotefl tranfa6lions of 
 futurity, and to trace the myfterious and mofl obfcure operations of na- 
 ture to their fource; whence he defines the Innate principles and vir-' 
 tues of all animal, vegetable, and mineral, fubflances, and points out 
 their rcfpeclive ufes, for the lafl:ing profit and advantage of mankind. 
 
 Having thus fhown what the word Aftrology imports, and arranged its 
 component parts by the rules of fcience, it will be feen that its collateral 
 branches are fo extennve and multitudinous, that moil men of any 
 
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 44 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 learning or ingenuity at all are fome way or other converfant in Aflro- 
 logy, without appearing to know it. But the perverfenefs of human 
 nature is in this inftance moft ftrikingly vifiblc, fince it leads man- 
 kind to a choice of" inferior fpeculations, whilft they utterly ncglc6l 
 an inveftigation of thofe curious, indilcernable, inienfible, and impal- 
 pable, tracks of nature, vvliich open to a field of unbounded informa- 
 tion, calculated to reform the mind, and enlarge the underftanding ; and 
 to extirpate the feeds of athcifm, by leading to the moft fublime and 
 heavenly contemplations of a Suprenie Being. The common objedions 
 againft engaging in this elevated ftudy are equally abiurd and ridiculous ; 
 but they proceed only from thofe men who wilfully negled, or obfti- 
 nately perfift in a difbelief of, nature's fecret and imperceptible works; 
 and yet her operations arc lo manifeft, and fo often confirmed by fatal 
 experience, that it is aftonjfhing mankind are not more frequently awak- 
 ened hv them. Thus we fee a man inftantaneoufly taken off by a vio- 
 lent and feverifh diftemj^er, and yet no one can noflibly conceive how 
 or from what caufe it proceeds ; nor can the moft able phyfician, by any 
 depth of medical Ikill, point out its genuine caufe, lb as to ftiow that 
 another man under the i'ame fymptoms ftiall be feized with juft luch an- 
 other diforder. But look into the fick man's nativity by the rules of 
 Aftrology, and there you will moft apparently fee the root and caufe 
 of his afHidion : and hence we demonftrably prove, that it was not fo 
 much the efte6t of catching cold, or of any accident, which brought 
 on the malady, but the evil influence of fome malignant afpeiSl:, that 
 unperceived and unfufpedled gave the fatal blow, while a cold, or fome 
 trifling accident, was but the mere inftrument ; for another man ftiall 
 have a worfe cold, and fcarcely find himfelf the leaft feverilli, or expofed 
 to danger. 
 
 Thus we find Aftrology comprehends every operation that proceeds out 
 of the mafter-wheel or frame of nature, and furniflies us with a know- 
 ledge of the occult virtues of all earthly fubftances, and of the nature and 
 end of every particle of God's creation; and, to minds that can relifh 
 enjoyments fuperior to thofe of fenfe, nothing can furnifti more noble 
 and exalted pleafures than a contemplation and ftudy of thefe immenfe 
 works; while nothing furely can give greater proofs of an abjed and 
 contraded mind, than to be daily conver(ant with, and yet ftupidly in- 
 lenlible of, the amazing miracles of nature. The fun, moon, and ftars, 
 were not made by a wife and beneficent Creator, that the wonders of 
 them fliould open themfelves to eyes that fee not, or difplay their itj- 
 fluences unregarded to the incurious inhabitants of the earth. It was in- 
 deed principally for the pleafure of him by whom all things exift, that 
 they are Mid were created ; who rcjoketh in his works — in furveying .that 
 ftru6lure which Omnipotence alone could raife ; but they are likewife de- 
 
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 figned to communicate wifdom and happinefs, and intelle6tual and mo- 
 ral improvement, to mankind. And to him who is not barely fatisfied 
 with an external admiration of things, they will fuggeft fuch reflexions 
 as will make him both wifer and better ; for, at the fame time that they 
 feaft his imagination, they will enlarge his underftanding and meliorate 
 his heart. 
 
 Whatever part of the works of Nature we caft our eyes upon, we (hall 
 find imprinted therein ample lefTons of inftrudlion and improvement. 
 Would we contemplate this inexpreffible greatnefs and majefty of God, 
 let us look up and furvey the heavens, which are fpread over us like a 
 curtain : they declare the glory of God, and jlionjo forth his handy work. 
 They vifibly (how it forth to the rude and illiterate; but the mind which 
 is fraught with this comprehenfive ftudy may for ever expand itfelf in the 
 immenfity of the profpeft. Even the irrational and inanimate part of the 
 creation are held forth by the wifdom of God, to dire6l the beings of rea- 
 fon in the way that they (hould go ; and our Saviour in his parables 
 defcends to the lifelefs emblems of feed fown, of the fig-tree, and of a 
 (ingle grain of muftard-feed, to enlighten the underftanding of mankind. 
 Is it not then the duty of every rational creature to improve by this di- 
 vine example, and, by a ftudy of that excellent part of Aftrology called 
 Natural Philofophy, to increafe our imperfedl knowledge in the fubjetls 
 of creation ? Such knowledge as this lies open even to the way-faring 
 man ; it grows in every field, and meets us in all our paths ; and, as it is 
 moft important to be well underftood by the reader, before any material 
 progrefs can be made in the aftrology of the heavens, I (hall conclude 
 thefe obfervations with a (hort introdudtion to the ftudy of nature. 
 
 No. %. K A SUM-
 
 46 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A SUMMARY VIEW of the WORKS of CREATION, in the 
 CONSTRUCTION of NATURE. 
 
 "VFATURE is that which God has ordained emprels over all the works 
 -'- of his creation, and over every part of the celeftial and terreftrial 
 world. This World comprehends both the heaven and the earth, and is 
 compounded of three leparate and difl:in6l parts, which are alio called 
 worlds ; namely, an Elementary World, which is the loweft in dignity ; 
 a Celeftial World, which is next above the elementary; and an Ethereal 
 World, which is the highefl of all ; and thefe three fmaller worlds make 
 the one entire great World, or Univerfe. In the order of Nature, the 
 all-wife and fupreme Being has ordained that every inferior fliould be 
 governed by its fuperior; and by this eternal decree the intelleftual world 
 aftuates and governs the celeftial, which confifts of the fun, moon, and 
 ftars, and all the hoft of heaven ; and the celeftial world a(5tuates and go- 
 verns the elementary world, and all elementary bodies, whether animal, 
 mineral, or vegetable. 
 
 The Elementary World is compofed of the four elements, fire, 
 air, earth, and water, of which all things peculiar to the elementary 
 world are generated ; but thefe elements, in the ftate we commonly find 
 them, are not pure, but intermixed with each other ; and they often change 
 one into the other by nature, as fire turns into fmoke, and fmoke into air, 
 and air into water, &c. Each of thefe elements has likewife two fpecific 
 qualities, viz. fire is hot and dry, water is cold and moift, air is hot and 
 moift, and the earth is cold and dry ; fo that fire is inimical to water, and 
 air to the earth. Thefe elements alfo poflefs three efTential properties 
 inherent in themfelves, viz. Air has motion, thinnefs, and darknefs ; fire 
 has motion, brightnefs, and thinnefs ; water has motion, darknefs, and 
 thicknefs ; and earth hath darknefs, thicknefs, and quietnefs : fo that 
 fire is twice more thin than air, thrice more movable, and four times 
 more bright; air is twice more bright, three times more thin, and four 
 times more movable, than water ; water is twice more bright, thrice 
 more thin, and four times more movable, than earth : as therefore fire is 
 to air, fo is air to water, and water to earth ; and, vice verfa^ as earth is 
 to water, fo is water to air, and air to fire. Three of thefe elements 
 have motion, and are adlive ; but the earth is fixed and paffive, and only 
 I'upplies matter for the other elements to a6l upon ; for, as nothing can be 
 produced unlefs matter be fubminiftered, fo of neceflity one element 
 muft fubminifter that matter for the operation of the others. And no 
 influence could be difpenfed by the heavens, unlefs there were elementary 
 
 bodies
 
 OF ASTROLQGY. 47 
 
 bodies to receive their influence ; therefore every adive principle mufl of 
 neceflity be in motion, and every pafiivc principle muft be at reft. And 
 accordingly, as the a6live elements find the earth that they adl upon to 
 be pure or impure, fo will the work be that is produced. The earth can 
 brins: forth nothingr of itfelf, but is the womb or matrix into which the 
 other elements diftil or projeft their feminal virtues ; and, in proportion 
 as it is impregnated by their force and energy, it brings forth, according 
 to the due courfe of nature. The earth alfo receives the celeftial rays and 
 influences of all the heavenly bodies, as ordained by God to be the ob- 
 je6l, fubjeft, and receptacle, of them ; whereby it not only brings forth 
 what is intended to be produced, but alfo multiplies what it receives, and 
 feparates the good from the bad, and the pure from the impure. It like- 
 wife contains the feed or feminal virtues of all elementary bodies; and 
 hath a triplicity in Itfelf, viz. mineral, animal, and vegetive. It is the 
 common fountain or mother from whence all things fpring, whofe fruit- 
 fulnefs is produced by the three-fold operation of fire, air, and water. 
 And, as thefe elementary bodies podefs moft extraordinary qualities, it 
 will be proper to confider each of them dlftindly, and to explain their 
 feveral properties more at large. 
 
 Fire, the firft acSlive element, is an elaftic body, compofed of infinitely 
 fmall particles, fcarcely, if at all, adhering to each other ; and a body 
 in motion. It is in efFe6t the univerfal inftrument of all the motion and 
 aflion in the univerfe ; without fire, all bodies would become immove- 
 able, as in a fevere winter we adlually fee our fluids become folid for want 
 of it. Without fire a man would harden into a ftatue, and the very air 
 would cohere into a firm and rigid mafs. Fire then is the fole caufe of all 
 mutation or change ; for all mutation is by motion, and all motion by 
 fire. Upon the abfence of only a certain degree of fire, all oils, fats, 
 waters, wines, ales, fpirits of wine, vegetables, and animals, become 
 hard, rigid, and inert; and the lefs the degree of fire, the fooner \i this 
 induration made. Hence, if there were the greateft degree of cold, and 
 all fire were abfolutely taken away, all nature would grow into one con- 
 crete body, folid as gold, and hard as diamond ; but upon the re-appli- 
 cation of fire it would recover its former mobility. So that upon this one 
 element of fire depends all fluidity of humours and juices; alfo all vege- 
 tation, putrefaflion, fermentation, animal heat, and a thoufand other 
 things. Fire is in itfelf but one, though it centres in divers places. It 
 centres in the heavens, and is boundlels, where it guards and preferves 
 nature, and enlivens all the creation, giving life, light, and motion, to 
 all creatures, and ftirs them up to fecundity and fruitfulnefs. It centres 
 alfo in the earth, where it generates metals, minerals, and ftones ; and, 
 by joining itfelf with the beams of the celeftial fun and moon, pro- 
 duces
 
 48 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 duces vegetation upon the furface of the earth. It occafions that heat 
 we fometimes obferve in Iprings and fountains ; and imparts a principle 
 of its own to whatever it produces ; lb that whatfoever retains life 
 retains it by virtue of its own inciofed heat; and, whenever this is ex- 
 hauftcd or extinguilhed, it perifhes and dies. And, as water purgeth, 
 cieanfeth, and diflolveth, all things that are not fixed, fo fire purgeth and 
 perfedeth all things that are fixed; and, as water conjoins all things that 
 are diffolved, fo fire feparates all things that are conjoined ; it caules all 
 feeds to grow and ripen ; and, when they are ripe, it expels them by the 
 fperm into divers places of the earth ; and, as the fituation and tempera- 
 ture of thele places are, whether hot or cold, moid or dry, pure or im- 
 pure, fo will the dlverfity of things be both in the bowels and upon the 
 Turface of the earth. But, amongil all the wonderful properties of fire, 
 there are none more extraordinary than this ; that, though it is the prin- 
 cipal caufe of almofl: all the lenfible effedls that continually fall under our 
 obfervation, yet it Is In itfelf of fb infinitely a fubtle nature, that it baf- 
 fles or defeats our moft fugacious enquiries, nor ever comes within the 
 cognizance of our fenfes. 
 
 Fire may be divided into three kinds or fpecies, viz. celeftial, fubter- 
 raneous, and culinary. Celeftlal fire is that which is peculiar to the ce- 
 leftial regions, where it exifts in the greatefl: purity and perfection, un- 
 mixed with fmoke, or any of that grofs, feculent, or terreftrial, matter, 
 found in culinary and fubterranean fire ; but, allowing for this difference, 
 the efFe(5fs of the celeftlal fire appear to be the fame as thofe of the culi- 
 nary. Subterraneous fire is that which manifefts itfelf in fiery eruptions 
 of the earth, volcanoes, or burning mountains, and is always found in the 
 more central parts of the earth, and often in mines and coal-pits. Culinary 
 fire is that which we employ in all chemical operations, and in the common 
 occafions of life. Toalcertain the force and power of fire, the learned Boer- 
 haave made innumerable curious experiments, which enabled him to divide 
 it Into fix degrees. 1 he firft degree is that by which nature performs the 
 office of vegetation in plants, and by which chemlftry imitates and does 
 the like. This commences from the loweft degree of cold, which in 
 Fahrenheit's thermometer is denoted by one, and ends at eighty degrees ; 
 fiiice in this whole interval vegetables of one kind or other give indication 
 of life and growth ; fo that, if all plants be examined by the degrees of 
 heat contained within thefe limits, we (hall find all of them come to ma- 
 turity in one or other of thefe intermediate degrees. This heat is fuited 
 to extrad the native fpirits of odoriferous vegetables with oils, as that of 
 rofes, jeflamlne, and the like. Thus the fragrant fcent of rofes may be 
 communicated to oil, by putting the inodorous and infipid oil of olives in 
 a tall clean chemical glafs, and digefting it in a heat of fifty-fix degrees 
 
 with
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 49 
 
 with the rnofl fragrant rofes, gathered jufi: as they are opening in a morn- 
 ing ; the application of a fimilar degree of heat would alfo impregnate 
 alcohol with the purefl: fpirit of fafFron. The fecond degree of fire may 
 be accounted that of the human body in a healthj flate. This degree is 
 always greater than that of the ambient air, and may be fuppofed to com- 
 mence at the 40th degree of the thermometer, and end about the 94rh. 
 Within this compafs animals may live and fubfift ; that is, if their juices 
 be of anv degree of heat within thefe bounds. The eg-gs of infeds lubfift 
 unhurt during hard winters, and hatch in the fuccecding fpring. FiOies, 
 both of the fea and of rivers, live in water which is only thirty-four de- 
 grees warm; and fiflies that have lungs, (i.e. the cetaceous fifhes,) and 
 all refpiring animals in a ftate of health, communicate to their humours 
 a warmth of ninety-two degrees; and therefore the utmoft limits of this 
 degree are fixed at thirty-three and ninety-four. Within the compafs of 
 this heat are included the vital adlions of animals, the fermentation of ve- 
 getables, and the putrefa6i:ion both of vegetables and animals ; and like- 
 wife the generation, breeding, hatching, birth, and nutrition, of animals. 
 This degree is alfo employed by chemifts to prepare elixirs, volatile alka- 
 line falts, and tinctures. The third degree of fire is that which extends 
 from ninety-four degrees of the thermometer to 212 ; at which lad, water 
 ufually boils. This degree is required in the diftillation of fimple and com- 
 pound waters, the eflential oils of vegetables ; and will coagulate or con- 
 folidate the ferum, blood, and other animal juices, and confequently deftroy 
 life. The fourth degree of heat may be reckoned from the degree 212 to 
 600 ; within which limits all oils, faline lixivia, mercury, and oil of vitriol, 
 are diflilled ; lead and tin will alfo melt and mix together. The oils, lalts, 
 and faponaceous juices, of animals and vegetables, are rendered volatile 
 and acrid, and become more or lefs alkalefcent ; their folid parts are cal- 
 cined, and lofe their diflinguifhing qualities and proper virtues ; and with 
 this degree of fire follil fulphur and lal ammoniac are fublimed. The fifth 
 degree is that wherein the other metals melt, and which commences from 
 fix hundred degrees of the thermometer, and ends where iron is held in a 
 ftate of fufion. In this degree moft bodies are deflroyed ; but glafs, gold, 
 filver, copper, and iron, remain long unchanged ; all other fixed bodies 
 grow red hot in this degree, and all the unvitrifiable flones are calcined. 
 The fixth and higheft degree of fire hitherto known, is that of the burn- 
 ing lens, or fpeculum, by M. Villette, Tfchirnhauf'en, BufFon, and others. 
 The focus of thefe lenfes will even volatilize what is called the metalline 
 or mercurial part of gold, and vitrify the more terreftrial. The utmofl 
 degree of fire is the vitrification of fixed bodies, which the ancient magi, 
 or the aftrologers of the eafl, difbovered ; and they predi6led the final end 
 of the world by fire, and its mutation into tranfparent glafs.* 
 
 * See Prieftley's Exp. and Obf. vol. i. p- 282, &c. Franklin's Letters and Papers on Philofo- 
 phical Subjects, p. 412, &c. Encyciopsedia Londinenfis vol. iii. p. $34. vol. iv. i8i>i90, 386- 
 394. vol. ix. p. 277-283. 
 
 No. 3. L Air
 
 50 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Air is the next ad^ive element that engages our attention ; and it is di- 
 vided into proper or elementary, and common or heterogeneous. Elementary 
 air, properly lo called, is a fubtile, homogeneous, elaftic, matter ; the bafis 
 or fundamental ingredient of common air, and that which gives it the 
 denomination. It likcwil'e enters into the compofition of moft or perhaps 
 all bodies, and exifts in them under a Iblid form, deprived of its elafticity 
 and moft of its diftinguiOiing properties, and lerving as the cement and 
 univerfal bond of nature ; but capable, by certain procefles, of being dif- 
 engaged from them, recovering its elafticity, and relembling the air of 
 our atmofphere. The peculiar nature of this aerial matter we know but 
 little of; what authors have advanced concerning it being chiefly con- 
 jedural. We have no way of altogether feparating it from the other 
 matters with which, in its pureft ftate, it is more or lefs combined; and 
 confeqiiently no way of afceriaining, with fatisfadory evidence, its pe- 
 culiar properties, abftraftedly from thole of other bodies. Philofophers, 
 both ancient and modern, maintain, with great plaufibility, that it is the 
 fame with the pure ether, or that fine, fluid, a6live, matter, diffufed 
 through the whole expaiife of the celeftial legions, and of the interior 
 heavens ; and it is fuppofed to be a hody fui generis, ingenerable, incor- 
 ruptible, immutable, prelent in all places and m all bodies. 
 
 Common or heterogeneous air, is a coalition of corpufcles of various 
 kinds, which together conftitute one common mafs, wherein we live and 
 move, and which we are continually receiving and expelling by refpiration. 
 The whole aftemblage of this makes what we call the atmofphere ; and, 
 where this air or atmofphere ends, there the pure ether is illppofed to 
 commence, which is diftiiiguifhed from air, by its not making any fen- 
 (ible refraftion of the rays of light, as air does. This common air, fays 
 the ingenious Mr. Boyle, is the moft heterogeneous body in the univerfe ; 
 and Boerhaave fliows it to be an univerfal chaos, or colluvies of all kinds 
 of created bodies. Belldes the matter of light or fire, which continually 
 flows into it from the heavenly bodies, and probably the magnetic effluvia 
 of the earth, whatever fire can volatilize is found in the air. Hence the 
 whole foflil kingdom muft be found in it ; for all of that tribe, as falts, 
 fulphurs, ftones, and metals, are convertible into fume, and thus capable 
 of being rendered part of the air. Gold itfelf, the moft fixed of all na- 
 tural bodies, is found to adhere clofe to the fulphur in mines ; and thus 
 to be raifed along with it. Sulphurs alfo make a confiderable ingredient 
 of the air, on account of the many volcanoes, grottoes, caverns, and other 
 fpiracles, chiefly aflbrding that mineral, difperfed through the globe. All 
 parts of the animal kingdom muft alfo be in the air ; for, befide the co- 
 pious effluvia continually emitted from their bodies, by the vital heat, in 
 the ordinary procefs of perfpiration, by means of which an animal in the 
 courfe of its duration impregnates the air with many times the quantity 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 5^ 
 
 of its own bodv ; we find that any animal when dead, being expofed to 
 the air, is in a 'certain time wholly incorporated with it * As to vege- 
 tables, 'none of that clafs can be wanting in the contribution of their ef- 
 fluvia'to the common air, fince we know that all vegetables, by putrefac- 
 tion, become volatile. The afTociations, feparations, attritions, diflblutions, 
 and 'other operations of one fort of matter upon another, may likewife be 
 confidered as fources of numerous other neutral or anonymous bodies, un- 
 known to the mbft inquifitive naturalift. Thus air is one of the moft con- 
 
 ♦ This faa is proved in a very ftriking manner, by a,i extraordinary effed produced by thofe 
 dead bodies, after they became filled with air, which were unfortunately drowned ,« the Royal 
 George at Spithead, on the 29th of Auguft, .782. Th^s (h,p was hee'ed on her fide ^r the pur- 
 p^fe of fome repair, when the water rufh d into her lower port-holes, and funk her almoft m- 
 ftantaneoufly. She went down in fourteer, fathom water, and fell upon her fide, as was ev.- 
 dent from her top-mafts, which remained above the water in an inclined direction. A conlider- 
 able time after this fatal accident, (he luddeniy righted, and her marts became nearly perpen- 
 dicular. No one could account for this extraordinary tranfaa.on, which was efFefled without 
 any apparent caufe ; and it remained for fomc time a circumrtance equally afton-fhing and inexpli- 
 cable. At length fome very able anonymous writer publifhed the following ingenious and correct 
 
 '"""I'ilemufter-roll of this unfortunate (hip, it appears that 495 fouls perifhed between her 
 
 « decks- and, as the bodies had no way to efcape, they of courle remained in that iuuation. 
 
 •'Now all bodies in a (late of putrefadion ferment, and this fermentation generates large quan- 
 
 " ties of air; fo that a putrefying carcafe, inflated oy the generation of air, expands itfclf to a fize 
 
 « far exceeding its original bulk, and becomes lighter than water in a very high degree; and 
 
 " will confequently be prefTed upwards towards the furface, with a power equal to the weight 
 
 " of a quantity of water adequate in bulk to the inflated carcafe ; and would rife immediately 
 
 « to the furface in a perpendicular line, if not obft.uiled in its pafTage. Now it is obvious 
 
 « that the 49; carcafes, which lay between the decks until fermentation and putrefadlion com- 
 
 « menced, would rife as foon as the generated air rendered them Ipecifically lighter than 
 
 " fea-water: and, as fermentation increafed their bulk, they would, by their expanf.on remove 
 
 " a quantity of Water from between the decks, on the loWefl liJe ot the (hip (to which by their 
 
 « gravity they would naturally incline when their breath firft left them), equal to ttieir increafeJ 
 
 » bulk ; and, being then adted upon by the upper prefTure of the water, would exert againft the 
 
 « under part of the decks, immediately over them, a power likewife equal to fuch weight of water 
 
 «' as equals their increafed bulk. The heavieft fide of the (hip being thus firfl lightened by the 
 
 « difpiacing fo large a quantity of water, and exchanging it for air; and then aded upon by the pref- 
 
 " fure of the water upwards againft the under fide of the inflated carcafes, lifting hard againft the 
 
 « decks on or beneath the centre of the (hip ; and tarther by the prefTure of the water upwards againft 
 
 « the under fide of the hulls, mafts, &c. together with the counterpoife of a large weight of wa er 
 
 " between decks on the higheft fide ; would caufe her to be nearly in equilibrio; and confequently, 
 
 " the firft ftrong tide (as was the cafe) would fwing her on her keel, and right her. 
 
 " To (how that 495 bloated carcafes might have power fufficient to produce fo ftrange a pheno- 
 
 « menon, let us fuppole each carcafe at that time equal to a twenty-gallon cafk ; and it could be no 
 
 " lefs, fo?, when in a ftate of putrefadion, not only the abdomen and thorax, but even the fmal left 
 
 «' veffbl in the human frame, becomes inflated by the vapour generated in fermentation ; fo tha the 
 
 " limbs (well to the extremities, and become buoyant, which makes the eftimate of twenty gallons 
 
 " per carcafe lels perhaps than the truth. , , , • j u > .u 
 
 per p H^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^ fuppofed to have remained between the 
 
 20 " decks being multiplied by 20, the number of gallons increafed 
 
 « in each carcafe, which divided by 252, the number of gallons 
 
 252)9900(39 '« contained in a ton liquid meafure, quotes 39 tons 72 galloiis, 
 9828 " which multiplied by 3, to anfwer the treble power, niake 
 
 " near 1 18 tons; a difference of weight between the two hdes 
 
 • • 72 « fully fufficient, with the afTiftance of a Ipring-tide, to lift 
 
 " the (hip to a balance, which the tide, though ever (o ftrong, 
 
 39 72 « could not have effedted without it." 
 
 3 
 
 fiderable 
 
 117 216 
 
 cc
 
 52 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fiderable and univerfal agents in all nature, being concerned in the pre- 
 fervation of life and the produ£tion of moft of the phenomena relating to 
 this world. Its properties and efFeds, including a great part of the re- 
 fearches and difcoveries of the modern philofophers, have in a confiderable 
 degree l)een reduced to precife laws and demonflrations ; in which form 
 they make a very extenfjve and important branch of the mixed mathe- 
 matics, called Pneumatics ; for a more perfed knowledge of which, I 
 beg leave to recommend the curious reader to Dr. Prieflley's invaluable 
 Experiments and Obfervations on ditferent kinds of Air. But 1 fliall juft 
 obferve further, that to the prefTure of air we are to attribute the cohe- 
 rence of the parts of bodies. Breathing too, on which depends animal 
 life, is owing to the prefTure and ipring of the air; and to the fame 
 caufe may be attributed the produ6lion of fire and flame, as appears from 
 the fudden extinftion of fire when deprived of air. It is likewife necef- 
 fary for the exifttnce and propagation of founds, for the germination and 
 growth of plants, for conveynig all the variety of fmells, and for re- 
 ceiving and tranfmitting the rays and influences of the celeftial world to 
 the terreflrial. Air a&.s upon all bodies by its common properties of 
 weight and clafticity, aiid by the peculiar virtues of the ingredients where- 
 of it is compofed. Thefe properties of weight and elafticity in the aii', 
 when engendered in large quantities in the bowels of the earth, and 
 heated by the fubterranean fire, occafion earthquakes, and other vehe- 
 ment commotions of nature. And by fome experiments of M. de la 
 Hire it is found, that a certain quantity of condenfed air, if heated to a 
 degree equal to that of boiling water, would produce an explofion fuffi- 
 cient to tear afunder the folid globe. By means of a corroding acid, air 
 diflblves iron and copper, unlefs well defended by oil ; even gold in the 
 chemift's laboratory, when the air is impregnated with the effluvia of aqua 
 regia, contrads a ruft like other bodies. It fixes volatile bodies, and vo- 
 latilizes thofe which are fixed. From the different effluvise difFufed 
 through the air, proceed a variety of efFe(Ms. Near mines of coppei it 
 will difcolour filver and brafs ; and in London, where the air abounds 
 with acid and corrofive particles, metalline utenfils rufl much fooner than 
 ill the country. Stones alfo undergo the changes incident to metals. 
 Thus Purbeck ilone, of which SalifLury cathedral is built, is obferved 
 to become gradually fofter, and to moulder away in the air ; and Mr. 
 Boyle gives the fame account of Blackington ftone. It is very difficult 
 to obtain oil of iulphur in a clear dry air, as its parts are then more ready 
 to evaporate; but in a moift cloudy air it may be obtained in abundance. 
 All lalts melt mofl readily in cloudy weather; and feparations proceed 
 befl in the fame flate of the air. If pure wine be carried into a place where 
 the air is full of the fumes of wine then fermenting, it will begin to fer- 
 ment afrefh. The wholelbmenefs or unwholefomenefs of air is certainly 
 
 owing
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 53 
 
 owing to the different effluvia with which it abounds. The heft air is to 
 be found in open champaign countries, where the foil is dry, and Ipon- 
 taneoufly produces wild thyme, wild marjoram, and the like fweet-fcented 
 plants. The morning air is more refrefliing than that of the evening; 
 and air agitated with breezes than that which is ferene and ftill. As good 
 air contributes greatly to health, Co that which is bad or infedtious is no 
 lefs prejudicial to it, as is evident in contagious difeafes, plagues, mur- 
 rains, and other mortalities, which are fpread by an infected air. But 
 this infeded air may be corredled, and the body preferved from its fatal 
 efFe<5ts, by the effluvia of aromatic and ftrong-fcented herbs and flowers. 
 From obfervations on bleeding in rheumatifms, and after taking cold, it 
 is evident the air can enter with all its qualities, and vitiate the whole 
 texture of the blood, and other juices. From palfies, vertigoes, and other 
 nervous afFeftions, caufed by damps, mines. Sec. it is evident that air 
 thus qualified, can relax and obflru(9: the whole nervous fyflem. And 
 from the colics, fluxes, coughs, and confumptions, produced by damp, 
 moift, and nitrous air, it is evident it can corrupt and fpoil the noble or- 
 gans of the whole human ftrudture. Thus air is an inftrument which 
 nature is univerfally applying in all her works, confequently a knowledge 
 of its properties feems highly neceflary, not only to the chemifl: and phy- 
 (ician, but to the philofopher and divine § 
 
 Water, the third a6live element, is the menfl:ruum of the world, and 
 is of two kinds : Firft, Pure Water, which is a limpid colourlefs liquor, 
 without fmell or tafte, (imple and volatile, and is peculiar to the celef- 
 tial regions. Secondly, Grofs Water, which is a pellucid fluid, con- 
 vertible into ice by cold, naturally pervading the ftrata of the earth, and 
 flowing on the furface, and, with the body of the earth, conftitutes the 
 terraqueous globe. The figure of the component parts of water appears 
 to be fmooth and fpherical, like thofe of quickfilver; whence it becomes 
 extremely moveable and penetrating. Thus it readily enters the pores of 
 wood, leather, flcins, cords, and mufical firings, and is capable of moving 
 and agitating particles of matter, lefs a6tive than itfelf ; and fo proves 
 the more immediate phyfical agent of fermentation, putrefa6tion, Ib- 
 lution, and the like ; and thus it alfo conveys earthy and faline matter 
 through filtres of paper, ftone, &c. and even raifes fome proportion of 
 them in diflillations. Its particles appear to be extremely minute, and 
 fo have a large fhare of furface. Hence water is admirably fitted for a 
 
 i For more on this important fubje£l, fee Hales's Veget. Stat. ch. vi. Sir Ifaac Newton's 
 Optics, Qu. ^i. p. 371, 37Z. Buffon's Hift. Nat. Supp. vol, i. M. de la Hire, Mem. de I'Acad, 
 An. 1703. Phil. Tranf. vd. Ivi. p. ij2, &c. Bacon, Nov. Organ, lib. ii. app. 13. Lavoifier's 
 Phyfical and Chemical Effays, vol.i. Black's Efl". and Obf. Phyf. and Liter, vol. ii, Ency. Lend, 
 vol. i. p. 140 & feq. vol, ii. p. 473 & feq. and vol. iv. p. 154, ig6. 
 
 No. 3.. M folvent,
 
 54 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Iblvent, or for readily entering the pores of falts, and coming into full 
 contaft with all their particles; and thus it will pafs where air cannot, 
 on account of its moifture or lubricating power, whereby it faftens to 
 mucilaginous matters, and will therefore loak through the clofe pores of 
 a bladder. It penetrates the atmolphere very copioufly, by means of the 
 continual diftillations of the ocean and rivers, railed up by the heat of 
 the central fun, and draws along with it a warm unftuous vapour, which 
 caules a natural generation of whatever the earth, as a matrix, is im- 
 pregnated with. Water always contains an earthy lubftance, and is found 
 in tlie hardell: bodies, and in the driefl: air. It is the proper menf^ruum 
 of lalts, and, by the readinefs with which it imbibes the different kinds 
 of air, is eafily rendered, by a lately-dilcovered chemical procefs, to 
 poflcfs the fame qualities and virtues as the mod: efteemed mineral wa- 
 ters hitherto dilcovered. Water is alfo of infinite uie in all the works 
 both of nature and art, as without it there could be no generation, nutri- 
 tion, or accretion, performed in any of the animal, vegetable, mine- 
 ral, marine, or atmofpherical, regions. The blood could not flow in the 
 veins, the lap in the vefTels of vegetables, nor the particles of mine- 
 rals concrete and grow together, without water. It is this that makes 
 the largefl: part of our blood, our drink, and other aliments. I'here 
 could be no corruption, fermentation, or diflolution, carried on without 
 it ; no brewing, no diftilling, no wines, no vinegar,, no fpirits, made 
 without it. We alfo meet with water under an infinite variety of forms, 
 and in an infinite variety of bodies ; as that of air, vapour, clouds, fnow, 
 hail, ice, fap, wines, blood, flefh, bone, horn, ftone, and other bodies, 
 through all which it feems to pafs unchanged, as an agent or inftrument 
 that fufFers no alteration by re-a6tion, but remains capable of refuming 
 the form of water again upon any occafion. In its own common ftate, 
 water appears to be a combination of all the elements together ; as con- 
 taining a quantity of fire, which keeps it fluid ; a quantity of air, and a 
 quantity of earth ; whence it is not at all furprifing, that water alone, as 
 it appears to the fenfes, fhould fuflSce for vegetation in fome cafes where 
 little earth is wanted, or for fupporting animal and mineral life where 
 no great degree of nutriment is required ; and hence it proves a glue or 
 cement to iome bodies, and a folvent to others ; thus it confolidates brick, 
 plafter of Paris, flone, bone, and the like ; but difTolves falts and fubtile 
 earth approaching to falts, and becomes the inftrumental caufe of their 
 adion. Water alio conveys nourifhment, or a more fixed and folid mat- 
 tei', to the parts of vegetables, where having depofited it, the finer fluid 
 perfpires into the atmofphere, which gives us the phyfical caufe of the 
 dampnels and unwholefomenefs of woody countries, as they remarkably 
 find in America. For all large vegetables a6l after the manner of forc- 
 ing-pumps, continually drawing in large quantities of water at their roots, 
 
 and 
 
 1
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 55 
 
 and difchargiiig it at their leaves; which intimates a method of coUedting 
 water in drv countries, and likewife of making; fait water frefli. It is 
 alfo obfervable, that water m paffing through plants, after having depo- 
 fited its more terreftrial part, does not always go off pure, but impreg- 
 nated with the finer effluvia, or more fubtile particles, of the vegetables; 
 thus making an atmofphere around every plant according to its nature, 
 odoriferous or otherwise ; which fupplies us with a rule for procuring the 
 odoriferous waters of vegetables by diftillation. But the particles, not 
 •fine enough to go off thus along with the water, are left behind upon the 
 furface of the leaves and flowers of plants, being now thickened or 
 ftrained from their moifter parts, and remaining in the form of honey, 
 manna, gums, or balfams, according to the nature of the vegetable. And 
 hence we deduce the phyfical caufe why plants prove more odoriferous 
 and fweet when the air is both warm and moift, as is the cafe immedi- 
 ately after a fummer fhower. Water is likewife of the utmoft ufe in 
 divers of the mechanical arts and occafions of life, as in the motion of 
 mills, engines, fountains, and all other machines which aft by the laws of 
 Hydroftatics.-j- 
 
 The fourth element, which is paflive and fixed, is Earth, and confifts 
 of a fimple, dry, and cold, fubftance ; and is an ingredient in the compo- 
 fition of all natural bodies. It rnuft be obferved, that pure native earth 
 is a very different matter from the earth whereon we tread ; and this pure 
 earth is fuppofed to be the bafis or fubftratum of all bodies, and that 
 wherein the other principles refide. It is all that is folid in an animal or 
 vegetable body, all the real vafcular parts, the reft being juices. This 
 earth may be found in and feparated from all animal and vegetable fub- 
 ftances, and is the fame in all, and is the bafis of all. It remains after 
 the feparation of the other principles by chemiftry, from all animal and 
 vegetable fubftances, and neither coheres together, nor fuffers any change 
 in the fire. The aflayers acknowledge no difference between the earth 
 of animals and vegetables, but make their tefts for the niceft ufes equally 
 of both. If water be poured upon this earth, it acquires fome degree of 
 tenacity, fb as to become capable of being formed into veffels; but, if 
 oil be added, it coheres into a much ftronger and more compadl mafs ; 
 hence it appears that oil and earth are the principles which give confift- 
 ence and tenacity to plants. This oil, as well as this earth, feems the 
 fame in all, and poffefles nothing of the poifonous or medicinal virtues of 
 the plant or whatever it is extracted from ; they being all feparable by 
 deco6iion, diftillation, and other precedes of that kind ; and never remain 
 
 + For the further properties and eftefts of Water, fee Defag. Exp. Phil. vol. ii. Cotes's Hyd. 
 and Pneum. Lectures. Phil. Tranf. No. 203, 220, 3J7. Fergufon's Le<Etures, 410. p. 68, &c. En- 
 cyclopaedia Londinenfis, vol. iv. p. 155-257, 205-210, 348, 349, &c. 
 
 either
 
 56 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 either in the earth or in this conne^ling oil. Long drying will divert 
 plants of all their virtues ; fo that nothing but thefe principles ftiail re- 
 main in them ; and thefe, giving folidity and figure, preferve the plant iu 
 its former appearance ; but, thefe only remaining, it poflefTes none of its 
 virtues. This pure earth may be procured by drawing off the fpirit, ful- 
 phur, phlegm, and falts, of wine; and what remains will be a taftelefs, 
 fcentlefs, dufty, matter, not capable of being raifed by diftillation or dil- 
 iblved by folution, but will preferve the fame ftate and form even in the 
 fire ; and this is called pure earth, or caput mortuum. It may alfo be ob- 
 tained pure and unmixed from the common clafs of vegetables and other 
 bodies, by letting the remaining mals, after diftillation, be thoroughly cal- 
 cined, then boiled in feveral waters to get out all its fait, and after this 
 dried in a clear fire, or in the fun ; and this dried mafs will be pure earth. | 
 Thus, from the different qualities and operations of the four elements upon 
 one another, we may obferve, that the fire preferves the earth from be- 
 ing overwhelmed or dertroyed by water; the air preferves the fire, that 
 it be not extinguirtied ; and the water preferves the earth, that it be not 
 burnt: but, if either of thefe adlive elements were to become predomi- 
 nant in any great degree, the world would be deftroyed ; as was the cafe 
 at the time of the deluge, by the predominancy of water. 
 
 Of thefe four elements the whole terreflrial world is compofed, with 
 all its produ61ions and appendages; and over thefe Man hath the domi- 
 nion, as God's vicegerent upon earth, being compounded of the moft 
 perfect and noble part of earthly matter, and formed after God's own 
 image and likenefs. Hence man is called the Microcofm, from fti>tp®., 
 iittk, and «rr7fx®., world; literally fignifying, " the little world," which is 
 applied to Man, by way of eminence, as being an epitome of all that is 
 excellent and wonderful in Nature. If we attentively confider the ftruc- 
 ture and faculties of man, we Ihall clearU perceive that his exiftence upon 
 earth, in a charaifler fubordinate to that of angels, is only intended by the 
 Deity for a ftate of probation; and, as this corporeal life (hall terminate, 
 either in afts of piety, or profanenefs, fo fliall follow the retributions of an 
 impartial and juft Judge, in a future flate of everlafling duration. Man 
 is compofed of three diftinft effences. Spirit, Soul, and Body ; as St. Paul 
 evinces when he fays. Let your fpirit s, fouls, and bodies, be kept blamelefs 
 at the coming of the Lord Jefus Chrift. And thefe three effences are com- 
 pounded of the three diftin6f worlds ; the Soul of Man is formed of the 
 ethereal world ; the Spirit, of the celeftial world ; and the Body, of the 
 elementary world. Hence are deducible the influences of the fun, moon, 
 
 X For more on this fubjed, fee Boerhaave's Chemift. part ii. p. 21. Shaw's Le£lures, p. 151. 
 Phil. Tranf. No. 3. Hill's H.ft. of F.ffiis. Da Cofta's Foffils, p. 1 19, &c. And my Syftem of 
 Natural Hiftory, vol. xiv. p. 31a & fcq. publifhed by Wi.kes in Ave-tnaria-lane. 
 
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 and ftars, upon man's body, becaufe he hath a microcofniical fun, moon, 
 and ftars, within himfelf, that bear a fympathy with the celeftial bodies, 
 and in the centre of which (hines the divine Spirit. For the letifual ce- 
 leftial part of man is that whereby we move, fee, feel, tafte, and fmell, 
 and have a commerce with all material objeds ; and through thefe the 
 influences of the divine nature are conveyed to the more refined and fen- 
 fible organs. This celeftial fpirit actuates and influences the elementary 
 eflence, and ftirs it up to the propagation of its like, and to every other 
 purpofe for which nature defigned it. And this fpirit is even difcoverable 
 in herbs and flowers, which open when the fun rifes, and dole when he 
 (ets ; which motion is produced by the fpirit being fenfible of the approach 
 and denarture of the fun's influence. Next to thefe, in man, ftiines that 
 pure ethereal angelic part, called the rational foul ; w hich is a divine 
 light or ftream flowing immediately from the Great Creator, uniting 
 man with God, and railing him above all other parts of animated na- 
 ture. This foul, when once it enters the body, runs jjarallel with 
 eternity ; and joins in with the celeftial Spirit, through the fphere of the 
 planets ; and is conduded by divine genii to an hypoftatical union with 
 the elementary body; fo that there exift two adive principles in the body 
 of man, to one paflive ; and, as the fuperior rulers in the celeftial world 
 are fituated at the time of man's nativity, fo will his conftitution and dif- 
 pofition be framed. And here we derive the caufe of all thole aftonifhing 
 variations of temper, difpofition, and conftitution, which are not only pe- 
 culiar to different fubjedls, but even to one and the fame perfon ; for every 
 one will bear a tcftimony of this fail, that we find ouil'elves fometimes 
 cheerful, and at other times melancholy ; to-da_v in perfefl health, and 
 to-morrow in pain and anguifti ; this hour compofed, affable, and com- 
 placent, and the next auftere, petulant, and peremptory : and thefe con- 
 trarieties are evidently produced by the continual refiftance and oppofition 
 of the four elements in man's bod\, which alternately dilpofe him to the 
 various affedions difcoverable in human nature. T he caufe of this is 
 deduced from the natural enmity of the elementary matter, viz. heat and 
 cold, drynefs and moifture ; each of which occafionally predominates in 
 man's body, according to the motion and influence of thofe heavenly bo- 
 dies that rule, govern, and modify, the operation of the four elements, in 
 and upon every terreftrial fubftance. Thus it is evident, that the under- 
 ftanding and intelledual faculties of man are formed of the ethereal world; 
 and the grois and corruptible part, the flefh and blood, confifts of the 
 the fenfitive powers of life and a6fion are derived from the celeftial world; 
 elementary world ; which are all fubordinate the one to the other. 
 Under this idea of the workmanftiip and conftruclion of man. Job ex- 
 claimed, that he was fearfully and ivonJerfully made; in poffefliii^ 
 the three-fold elfences of fpirit, foul, and body, 
 o No. 3. N Sceptical
 
 58 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Sceptical and atheiftical writers, indeed, have attempted to overturn this 
 fyftcm of nature in the conOru6^ion of man, by denying the immortality 
 of the foul, and a future diflribution of rewards and puniflimcnts ; con- 
 tending that the foul is an indivifible part of the body, and has its diflb- 
 lutioii in the common courfe of mortality. But thefe tenets are fo ex- 
 tremely abfurd, fo vague, and fo deftitute of evidence, that the rational 
 mind is at a lofs to conceive how fuch an inconfiftent dodlrine could have 
 ever been broached ; for, the fame philofophical reafoning that enables us 
 to define the nature and exiftence of the body will likewife prove the 
 nature and exigence of the foul. It is only from the primary or eflential 
 qualities of body, its extenfion and folidity, that we form any idea of 
 it ; and why may we not form the complex idea of a foul or fpirit, from 
 the operations of thinking, underftanding, willing, and the like, which 
 are experiitients in ourfelves? This idea of an immaterial fubftance is as 
 clear as that we have of a material one; for, though the notion of imma- 
 terial fubftances may be attended with difficulties, we have no more 
 reafon to deny or doubt of its truth, than we have to deny or doubt 
 of the exigence of the body. That the foul is an immaterial fubflance, 
 appears from hence — that the primary operations of willing and think- 
 ing are not only unconnefted with the known properties of body, but 
 feem plainly inconfiftent with fome of its most eflential qualities. For 
 the mind not only difcovers no relation between thinking and the mo- 
 tion and arrangement of parts, but it likewife perceives, that confciouf- 
 nefs, a fimple ad, can never proceed from a compounded fubftance capa- 
 ble of bei'.;g divided into many parts. To illuftrate this, let us only 
 fuppofe a (vftem of matter endowed with thought; then, either all the 
 parts of which this fyftem confifts muft think, which would make it not 
 one, but a multitude of diftinft confcious beings; or its power of think- 
 ing muft arife from the conne6tion of the parts one with another, their 
 motion and difpofition, which, all taken together, contribute to the pro- 
 duclion of thought. But it is evident, that the motion of parts, and the 
 manner of combining them, can produce nothing but an artful ftru6lure, 
 and various modes of motion. Hence all machines, however artfully 
 their parts are put together, and htiwever complicated their ftru6ture, 
 though we conceive innumerable different motions, varioufly combined, 
 and running one into another with an endlefs variety, yet never produce 
 any thing but figure and motion. If a clock or watch tells the hour 
 and minute of the d::y, it is only by the motion of the difFerent hands, 
 pointing fucceftively at the different figures marked upon the hour-plate 
 for that purpofe. We never imagine this to be the effeft of thought or 
 intelligence, nor cunceive it poftible, by any refinement of ftru£lure, fo 
 to improve the compofition, as that it ftiall become capable of know- 
 ledge and confcioufnels ; and the reafon is plainly this, that thought 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 59 
 
 being fomething altogether different from motion and figure, without the 
 ieaft conne(5tion between them, it can never be iuppoled to refult from 
 them. This then bein? evident, that intelligence cannot ariie from an 
 union or combination of unintelligent parts ; if we fuppofe it to belong 
 to any fyftem of matter, we muft: neceflTarily attribute it to all the parts 
 of which that fyftem is compofed ; whereby, inftead of one, we fhall, 
 as was before obferved, have a multitude of diftinft confcious beings. 
 And becaufe matter, how far foever we purlue the minutcnefs of its parts, 
 is ftill capable of repeated divillons, even to infinity, it is plain that this 
 abfurdity will follow us through all the fuppofitions that make thought 
 inherent in a material fubftance. Wherefore, as confcioufnefs is incom- 
 patible with the cohefion of folid feparable parts, we are necelTarily led 
 to place it in fome other fubftance of diftincl nature and properties — 
 and this fubftance we call /^/V//, which is altogether diftind from ^o^, 
 nay, and commonly placed in oppofition to it ; for which reafon, the beings 
 of this clafs are called immaterial ; a word that implies nothing of their 
 true nature, but merely denotes its contrariety to that of matter, or mate- 
 terial fubftance. 
 
 As to the immortality of the human foul, the arguments to prove it 
 may be reduced to the following heads ; Firft, The nature of the foul 
 itfelf, its defires, fenfe of moral good and evil, and gradual increafe of 
 knowledge and perfection ; and lecondly. The moral attributes of God, 
 Under the former of thefe confiderations, it is apparent that the foul, 
 being an immaterial intelligent fubftance, as has been already proved, 
 does not dej>end upon the body for its exiftence; and therefore may, and 
 abfolutely mud, exift after the body, unlefs annihilated by the fame 
 power which gave it a being at firft, which is not to be fuppofed, i]l^ct 
 there are no initances of annihilation in nature. This argument, elpeci- 
 ally if the infinite capacity of the foul, its flrong defire after immortality, 
 its rational activity and advancement towards perfection, be likevvile con- 
 fidered, will appear perfe<5ily conclufive to men of a philoiophical turn; 
 becaufe Nature, or rather the God of Nature, does nothing in vain. But 
 arguments drawn from the moral attributes of the Deity are not only 
 better adapted to convince men unacquainted with abftra<ft reafoning, 
 but equally certain and conclufive with the former; for, as the juftice of 
 God can never iufFer the wicked to efcape unpuniflied, nor the good t< 
 remain always unrewarded ; therefore arguments drawn from the manifeft 
 and continual profperity of the wicked, and the frequent misfortunes 
 and unhappinefs of good and virtuous men, in this life, mull: convince 
 every thinking perfon, that there is a future flate wherein all will be fet 
 right, and God's attributes of wifdom, goodnefs, and juflice, fully vin- 
 dicated. Had the religious and confcientious part of mankind no hopes 
 of a future flale, they would be of all men the moft miferable ; but, as 
 
 this
 
 6o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 this is abfolutely inconfiftent with the moral charader of the Deity, the 
 certainty of fuch a ftate is clear to a demonftration. 
 
 Thus far we have coufidered the elementary world, which is the loweft 
 in dignity, and man, the chief fubjedt thereof. The Celestial World, 
 which is next in eminence, is conftituted of a body natural, mofl; fimple, 
 fpherical, clear, fluid, and moving conftantly in a circle, and this by virtue 
 of an innate power always within itfelf ; comprehending and containing 
 the fun, moon, planets, and ftars, fixed in difiindt orbs by the great Ar- 
 chiteft of Nature, and bearing (ympathy with all terreftrial iubftances, as 
 beins: formed out of the fame chaotic mafs at the beginning of the world. 
 This celeHial heaven is what Mofes calls t/ie firmament^ which was 
 the work of the fecond day's creation, and literally fignifics an expanfc 
 or extenjion ; a term well adapted by the prophet to the impreHloti 
 which the heavens make on our fenfes ; whence, in other parts of the 
 Scriptures, the heaven is compared to a curtain, or a tent ibctchcd out to 
 dwell in. Through the medium of this celeftial world, and the heavenly 
 bodies therein contained, the Supreme Being rules, governs, and actuates, 
 the elementary world ; and this is apparent, becaufe that thing which we 
 term obedience is onlv to be found in elementarv bodies. And, (ince mo- 
 tion is the caufe of all mutation and change, and as all motion originates 
 with the heavenly bodies, by the revolutions of which even time itfelf 
 is meafured out and divided, fo we find the celeftial influences produce 
 all the variations of heat and cold, drynefs and moifture, generation and 
 corruption, increafe and decreaie, life and death, and all the vicifTitudes 
 of nature, without ever varying themfelves, or being fubjetl to the leaft 
 change or alteration ; whilft the elementary bodies are perpetually chang- 
 ing, and never continue in one ftay. Hence it is apparent that the ceiel- 
 tial bodies are adtive, and the elementary paffive; To that the celeftial bo- 
 dies give the form and ftamp to all the produiflions of nature, and the ele- 
 mentary bodies ibbmuufter matter to receive this form. And, as the por- 
 tions and atfeflions of the heavenly afpedts are when this form or ftamp 
 is given, and as the quality of the elementary matter (hall be when (ub- 
 miniftered, fo will the nature and quality of the fubje<5f be that receives this 
 celeftial form or ftanip. And, were it not for this a<^tive and paffive prin- 
 ciple, then would all elementary things be alike, without a poflibility of 
 exiftuig. It is therefore a perfeft knowledge of this mediate or celef- 
 tial world, its various afi^e(51ions and difpofitions, the nature, tendency, 
 and effect, of the luminaries, their motions, al'pedls, and pofitlons, which 
 enable us to judge of future contingencies, and to difcover xhz fecret and 
 abftrufe operations of nature. But to attain this knowledge in any com- 
 petent degree, we muft trace thefe heavenly intelligencers throughout the 
 whole celeftial regions, and acquaint ourfelves vvjth their general and 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. (Ji 
 
 eflcntial qualities. I (hall for this purpofe, after treating of the ethereal 
 world, make this fpeculation a leading clue to the art of calculating 
 nativities. 
 
 The Ethereal World, which is the fuperior and the higheft in dig- 
 nity, is that which the iiifpired writers, and the ancient philofopherg, 
 called the Empyrean Heaven ; and is conceived to be the abode of God, 
 and blefTed fpirits, of angels, and the fouls of the righteous departed ; 
 wherein the Deity is plealed to afford a nearer and more immediate view 
 of himfelf, a more fenfibie manifeftation of his glory, and a more ade- 
 quate perception of his attributes, than in the other parts of the univerfe, 
 where l;e is likewife prefent. But the mofl: exalted conceptions we can 
 poffibly form of this blifsful abode are extremely inadequate and imper- 
 fe£i; nor is it in the power of the moft: enlarged underftanding to frame 
 fuitable ideas of the Godhead, or of the angelic hoft that perpetually fur- 
 round his throne. As much, however, as the human comprehenfion is 
 able to contain, the Almighty has been gracioufly pleafed to reveal to us 
 in the Scriptures, by the inipired writers, particularly Ifaiah, Ezekiel, and 
 St. John the Divine, who have given us very magnificent defcriptions of 
 the heavenly manfions, their ftru6lure, apparatus, and angelic attendance. 
 From this divine Revelation, the Hebrew writers, and other learned men, 
 have defcribed the Harmony of the Univerfe, and the neceflary fubordi-. 
 nation and dependence of one thing upon another, from the interior hea- 
 ven to the remoieft corner of the earth. We {hall therefore prefume tQ 
 follow thefe authors in fpeaking of God and his angels; and whoever fuf- 
 ficiently contemplates the fubje6t will be fecure againft the impious doc- 
 trines of atheifts, of free-thinkers, of immoral and irreligious men. 
 
 God is an immaterial, intelligent, and free, Being; of perfect goodnefs, 
 wifdom, and power; who made the univerfe, and continues to fupport it, 
 as well as to govern and dire6t it by his providence. By his imma- 
 teriality, intelligence, and freedom, God is diftinguiflied from fate, na- 
 ture, defliny, necefljty, chance, and from all other imaginary beings. 
 In fcriptuie, God is defined by, " I am that I am ;" " Alpha and Omega ;'^ 
 ^' the Beginning and End of all things.'' Among philofophers, he is de- 
 fined a Being of infinite perfection; or in whom there is no defedl of any 
 thing which we conceive might raife, improve, or exalt, his nature. 
 Among men, he is chiefly confidered as the Firfi: Caufe, the Firft Being, 
 who has exifted from the beginning, has created the world, or who fub- 
 fifts neceffarily, or of himfelf; and this knowledge of God, his nature, 
 attributes, word, and works, with the relations between him and his 
 creatures, make the extenfive fubje6t of Theology, the fift^r-fcience of 
 Aftrology. 
 
 No. 4. O Sir
 
 62 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Sir Ifaac Newton confiders and defines God, not as is ufually done, 
 fionn his perfedlions, his nature, exiftence, or the like; but from his 
 dominion, his ablolute power. The word God, according to him, is 
 a relative term: it is true it denotes a Being eternal, infinite, and 
 abfolutely perfisd ; but a Being, however eternal, infinite, and abfolutely 
 perfcdt, without dominion, would not be God. The fame author ob- 
 ferves, that the word God frequently fignifies Lord ; but every lord is 
 not God ; it is the dominion of a fpiritual being, or lord, that constitutes 
 God ; true dominion, true God ; fupreme, the fupreme ; feigned, the 
 falfe god. From fuch true dominion it follows, that the true God is 
 living, intelligent, and poiverful; and, from his other perfections, that 
 he is fupreme, or fupremely perfe6l ; he is eternal, and infinite', omni- 
 potent, and omnifcient; that is, he endures from eternity to eternity, and 
 is prefent from infinity to infinity. He governs all things that exift, and 
 knows all things that are to be known ; he is not eternity, nor infinity, 
 but eternal and infinite; he is not duration or fpace, but he en- 
 dures, and is prefent ; he endures always, and is prefent every-where ; 
 and by exifting always, and every-where, he conftitutes the very thing, 
 duration and fpace, eternity and infinity. He is omniprefent, not only 
 virtually, but alfo fubftantially ; for power without fubftance cannot fub- 
 fift. All things are contained and move in him, but without any mutual 
 paffion ; he fuffers nothing from the motions of bodies ; nor do they un- 
 dergo any refinance from his omniprefence. It is confefTed that God ex- 
 ifts neceflarily; and by the fame neceffity he exifts always, and every- 
 where. Heiice, alfo, he muft be perfedlly fimilar ; all eye, all ear, all 
 brain, all arm, all the power of perceiving, underftanding, and adiing; 
 but after a manner not at all corporeal, after a manner not like that of 
 men, after a manner wholly to us unknown. He is deftitute of all body, 
 and all bodily fliape ; and therefore cannot be feen, heard, or touched ; nor 
 ought to be worlhipped under the reprefentation of any thing corporeal. 
 We have ideas of the attributes of God, but do not know the fubftance 
 even of any thing; we fee only the figures and colours of bodies, hear, 
 only founds, touch only the outward furfaces, fmell only odours, and taflc 
 taftes ; but do not, cannot, by any fenfe, or any reflex a6t, know their 
 inward fubftances; and much lefs can we have any notion of the fub- 
 ftance of God. We know him by his properties and attributes; by the 
 moft wife and excellent ftrufture of things, and by final caufes ; but wc 
 adore and worfhip him only on account of his dominion; for God, fet- 
 ting afide dominion, providence, and final caufes, is nothing elfe but fate 
 and nature. See Newton's Philof. Nat. Princip. Math, in calce. 
 
 That admirable metaphyfician and divine, Dr. Clarke, has demonftrated 
 the being of a God, with that clearnefs and force of reafoning for which 
 
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 he is fo eminently diftinguiflied, by a feries of propofitions, mutually con- 
 neded and dependent, and forming a complete and unanfwerable argu- 
 ment in proof of the attributes of the Deity. Something, he fays, has 
 exirted from all eternity; for, fince fomething now is, fomething always 
 was : otherwife the things that now are muft have been produced out ot 
 nothing, abfolutely and without caufe, which is a plain contradiftion in 
 terms. There muft have exifted from all eternity fome one unchange- 
 able and independent Being; or elfe, there has been an infinite fucceffion 
 of changeable and dependent beings, produced one from another in an 
 endlefs progreffion, without any original caufe at all. For otherwife this 
 feries of beings can have no caufe of its exiftence, becaufe it includes all 
 things that are or ever were in the univerfe; nor is any one being in this 
 infinite fucceffion felf-exiftent or neceffary, and therefore it can have no 
 reafon of its exiftence within itfelf ; and it was equally poffible, that from 
 eternity there ftiould never have exifted any thing at all, as that a fuccel- 
 fion of fuch beings (hould have exifted from eternity. Confequently their 
 exiftence is determined by nothing; neither by any neceffity m their own 
 nature, becaufe none of them are felf-exiftent ; nor by any other being, 
 becaufe no other is fuppofed to exift. — The unchangeable and independent 
 Being, which has exifted from eternity, without any external caufe of its 
 exiftence, muft be felf-exiftent ; it muft exift by an abfolute neceflity ori- 
 ginally in the nature of the thing itfelf, and antecedent in the natural or- 
 der of our ideas to our fuppofition of its being. For whatever exifts, 
 muft either come into being without a caufe; or it muft have been pro- 
 duced by fome external caufe ; or it muft be felf-exiftent : but the two 
 former fuppofitions are contrary to the two firft propofitions. From this 
 laft propofition it follows, that the only true idea of a felf-exiftent or ne-. 
 ceflarily-exifting being, is the idea of a being, the fuppofition of whofe 
 non-exiftence is an exprefs contradidion ; and this idea is that of a moft 
 fimple being, abfolutely eternal and infinite, original and independent. It 
 follows alfo, that nothing is fo certain as the exiftence of a fupreme inde- 
 pendent caufe; and likewile, that the material world cannot poffibly be 
 the firft and original being, uncreated, independent, and of itfelf eternal ; 
 becauie it does not exift by an abfolute neceffity in its own nature, fo as 
 that it muft be an exprefs contradiftion to fuppofe it not to exift. With 
 refpeft both to its form and matter, the material world may be conceived 
 not to be, or to be in any refpedf different from what is, without a con- 
 tradidion. The fubftance or eflence of the felf-exiftent Being is abfo- 
 lutely incomprehenfible by us ; neverthelefs, many of the eftential attri- 
 butes of his nature are ftridtly demonftrable, as well as his exiftence.— 
 The felf-exiftent Being, having no caufe of its exiftence but the abfolute 
 neceffity of its own nature, muft of neceffity have exifted from everlafting, 
 without beginning; and muft of neceffity exift to everlafting, without 
 end .---The felf-rexiftent Being muft of neceffity be infinite and omnipre- 
 
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 64 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fcnt. Such a being muft be evcry-where, as well as always unalterably 
 the fame. It follows from hence, tbat the felf-exiftent Being muft be a 
 moft fimplc, unchangeable, incorruptible, being, without parts, figure, 
 motion, divifibility, and other properties of matter, which are utterly in^ 
 confiftent with complete infinity. The felf-exiftent Being muft of necef- 
 fity be but one ; becaufe in abfolute neceftity there can be no difference 
 or diverfitv of exiftence; and, therefore, it is abfolutely impoftible, that 
 there ftiould be two independent felf-exiftent principles, fuch as God and 
 matter. — The felf-exiftent and original Caufe of all things muft be an in- 
 telligent being. This propofition cannot be demonftrated ftriftly and 
 propeT\y d priori ; but, a pojleriori, the world affords undeniable arguments 
 to prove that all things are the effett of an intelligent and knowing 
 caufe. The caufe muft be always more excellent than the effedl ; and, 
 therefore, from the various kinds of powers and degrees of excellence and 
 perfection, which vifible obje6ts pofTefs; from the intelligence of created 
 beings, which is a real diftin6l quality or perfeftion, and not a mere efFe6l 
 or compofition of unintelligent figure a«d motion ; from the variety, or- 
 der, beauty, wonderful contrivance, and fitnefs of all things to their pro- 
 per and refpe6tive ends; and from the origin of motion; the felf-exiftent 
 creatine: Bein<; is demonftrated to be intelligreiit. The felf-exiftent and 
 original Caufe of all things is not a necejlary agent, but a Being endued 
 v.ith liberty and choice. Liberty is a neceiTary confequent of intelli- 
 sence; without liberty, no being can be faid to be an agent, or caufe of 
 any thing ; fince to a6f neceffarily, is really aiid properly not to aft at all, 
 but to be a6led upon. Befides, if the fupreme Caufe be not endued with 
 liberty, it will follow, that nothing which is not, could poftibly have 
 been ; that nothing which is, could poflibly not have been ; and that no 
 mode or circumftance of the exiftence of any thing could poftibly have 
 been in any refpeft otberwife than what it now adtually is. Farther, if 
 there be any final caufe in the univerfe, the Supreme Caufe is a free agent; 
 and, on the contrary fuppofition, it is impoftible that any effe61 fhould be 
 finite; and in every effeft, there muft have been a progreflion of caufes in 
 infinitum, without any original caufe at all. — The felf-exiftent Being, the 
 Supreme Caufe of all things, muft of neceftity have infinite power; fince 
 all things were made by him, and are entirely dependent upon him; and 
 all the powers of all things are derived from him, and perfeftly fubjecl to 
 him ; nothing can refift the execution of his will. — The Supreme Caufe 
 and Author of all things muft of neceflity be infinitely wife. This fol- 
 lows from the propofitions already eftablilhed ; and the proof i pofieriori, 
 of the infinite wifdom of God, from the confideration of the exquifire 
 perfeftion and confummate excellency of his Works, is no lefs ftrong and 
 undeniable. — The fupreme Caufe and Author of all things muft of neeef- 
 fity be a being of infinite goodnefs, juftice, and truth, and all other moral 
 peffeftions; fuch as become the Supreme Governor and Judge of the 
 
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 world. The will of a Being infinitely knowing and wife, independent 
 and all-powerful, can never be influenced by any wrong afFe<5lion, and can 
 never be mifled or oppofed from without; and, therefore, he mufl: do al- 
 ways what we know fitteft to be done; that is, he mufl; adt alwavs ac- 
 cording to the flrideft rules of infinite goodnefs, juftice, and truth, and all 
 other moral perfeflions; and, more particularly, being infinitely and ne- 
 ceflarily happy and all-fufficient, he mufl be unalterably difpofed to do 
 and to communicate good or happinefs. See Clarke's Demonftration of 
 the BeinsT and Attributes of God. 
 
 To this more abftrufe argument, a priori, for the exiflence of God, we 
 may add another, more generally obvious, and carrying irrefiflible con- 
 vidion, which is deduced from the frame of the world, and from the 
 traces of evident contrivance and fitnefs of things for one another, that 
 occur through all the parts of it. Thefe conlpire to prove, that the ma- 
 terial world, which in its nature is originated and dependent, could not 
 have been the efFed of chance or neceffity, but of intelligence and defign. 
 The beautiful, harmonious, and beneficial, arrangement of the various bo- 
 dies that com pofe the material fyftcm; their mutual dependence and fub- 
 ferviency ; the regularity of their motions, and the aptitude of thefe mo- 
 tions for producing the moft beneficial efFefts, and many other pheno- 
 mena refulting from their relation, magnitude, fituation, and ufe, afford 
 unqueflionable evidences of the creating power and wife difpofal of an 
 intelligent and almighty agent. The power oi gravity, by which the ce- 
 leflial bodies perfevere in their revolutions, deferves our particular confi- 
 deration. This power penetrates to the centres of the ilin and planets, 
 without any diminution of its virtue, and is extended to immenfe diflan- 
 ces, regularly decreafing, and producing the mofl: fenfible and impor- 
 tant effects. Its action is proportional to the quantity of folid matter in 
 bodies, and not to their furfaces, as is ufual in mechanical caufes; and, 
 therefore, feems to furpafs mere mechanifm. But however various the 
 phenomena that depend on this power, and may be explained by it, no 
 mechanical principles can account for its effefts; much lefs could it have 
 produced, at the beginning, the regular fituation of the orbs, and the pre- 
 fent difpofition of things. Gravity could not have determined the planets 
 to m.ove from wefl to eaft, in orbits nearly circular, almofl: in the fame 
 plane; nor could this power have projecied the comets, with all the va- 
 riety of their diredions. If we fuppofe the matter of the fyflem to be 
 accum.ulated in the centre by its gravity, no mechanical principles, with 
 the affiftance of this power, could feparate the huge and unwieldy mafs 
 into fuch parts as the fun and planets ; and, after carrying them to their 
 different diftances, projeft them in their feveral diredions, preferving flill 
 the equality of a6tion and re-a6iion, or the fl:ate of the centre of gravity of 
 
 No. 4, ' P the
 
 66 aN lLLt;stllATlON 
 
 the fyftem. Such an exquifite ftrufture of things eould only arife from 
 the cohtrivatjce arid poAverful influeotes bf an inteHigent, free, and nniofl: 
 potetit, agent. The fame powers, therefore, which at prefeiit govern the 
 material world, and condud its various motions, are very different from 
 thofe which werfe riecefiary to have produced it from nothing, or toi have 
 difpofed it in thb admirable form in which it now proceeds. 
 
 But we fhould exceed the limits of our plan, if^ confining our obferva- 
 tion to the earth, our own habitation, we were to enumerate only the 
 principal traces of defign and wifdom, as well as goodnefs, which are dif- 
 cernible in its figure and conftituent parts, in its diurnal and annual mo- 
 tion, in the polition of its axis with regard to its bfbit, in the benefit 
 which it derives from the lisht and heat of the fun, and the alternate vicil- 
 fitudes of the feafons ; in the atmofphere which furrounds it, and in the 
 different fpecies and varieties of vegetables and animals with which it is 
 replenifhed. No one can furvey the vegetable produdlions of the earth, 
 fo various, beautiful, and lifeful, nor the various griadations of animal 
 life, in fuch a variety of fpecies, all preferved diftinft, and propagated 
 by a fettled law, each fitted to its own element, provided with proper 
 food, and with inftindls and organs fuited to its rank and fifuation, aild 
 efpecially with the powers of fenfation and felf-motioii, and all more im- 
 mediately or remotely fubfervient to the government and ufe of man, 
 without admiring the (kill and defign of the original former. But thel'e 
 are more fignally manifefted in the ftrudure of the human frame, and in 
 the noble powers and capacities of the human mind; more efpecially in 
 the moral principles and faculties, which are a diftinguifhing part of our 
 conftitution, and lead to the perception and acknowledgment of the ex- 
 ifleiice and government of God. In thofe inftances that have now been 
 recited, and a variety of fimilar inftances fuggefted by them, or naturally 
 occurring to the notice of the curious and reflefting mind, contrivance is 
 manifeff, and immediately, without any tiice or fubtle reafoning, fug- 
 gefts a contriver. It ftrikes us like a fenfation ; and artful reafonings 
 againft it may puzzle us, without ftiaking our belief. No perfon, for ex- 
 ample, that knows the principles of optics, and the ftruclure of the eye, 
 can believe that it was formed without flcill i'n that fcience ; br that the 
 ear was formed without the knowledge of founds ; or that the male and 
 female, created and preferved in due proportion, were not formed for each 
 other, and for coiitinumg the fpecies. All our accouAts of nature are full 
 of inftances of this kind. The admirable and beautiful ftrudure of 
 things for final caufes, exalt our idea of the Contriver ; and the unity of 
 defign Ihows him to be one. The great motions in the lyftem, performed 
 with the feme facility as the leaft, fuggeft his almighty power, which 
 gaVe motidh to the earth and the celeftial bodies, with equal eafe as to 
 the minuteft particles ; the fubtilty of the motions and adions in the 
 
 internal
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 6; 
 
 internal parts of bodies, fhows that his influeiKe penetrates the inmoft 
 recedes of things, and that he is equally adive and prefent every- where. 
 The (implicity of the laws that prevail in the world, the excellent difpo- 
 fition of things, in order to obtain the beft ends, and the beauty which 
 adorns the works of nature, far fupcrior to any thing in art, fuggeft his 
 confummate wifdom. The ufefulnefs of the whole Icheme, fo well con- 
 trived for the intelligent beings who enjoy it, with the internal difpofition 
 and moral flrudure of thofe beings, (hows his unbounded goodnefs. 
 Thefe are arguments which are fufficiently open to the views and capa- 
 cities of the unlearned, while at the fame time they acquire new flrength 
 and luftre from the difcoveries of the learned. The Deity's atting and in- 
 terpofing in the univerfe, fhow that he governs it, as well as that he formed 
 it; and the depth of his counfels, even in conducing the material uni- 
 verfe, of which a great part furpaffes our knowledge, tends to preferve an 
 inward veneration and awe of this great Being, and difpofes us to receive 
 what may be otherwife revealed to us concerning him. His edence, as 
 well as that of all other fubftances, is beyond the reach of all our difco- 
 veries ; but his attributes clearly appear in his admirable works. We know 
 that the higheft conceptions we are able to form of them, are tlill be- 
 neath his real perfedions; but his dominion over us, and our duty towards 
 him, are abundantly manifeft. See Maclaurin's Account of Sir Ifaac 
 Newton's Phil. Difc. b, iv, chap. 9. Baxter in his Matho; Derham, Ray, 
 Nieuwentyt, De la Pluche in his Nature Difplayed, &c. 
 
 Another fubftantial argument to prove the exiftence of God, as the 
 creator and governor of the univerfe, may be deduced from the univerfal 
 confent of mankind, and the uniform tradition of this belief through 
 every nation and every age; it is impoffible to conceive that a falhacy, fo 
 perpetual and univerfal, Ihould be impofed on the united realon of man- 
 kind. No credible and (atisfadory account can be given of this univerfal 
 consent, without afcribing it to the original conftitution of the human 
 mind, in confequence of which it cannot fail to difcern the exift ence of a 
 Deity, and to the undeniable traces of his being which his works afford. 
 Fear, ftate-policy, and the prejudices of education, to which the concur- 
 rence of mankind in this principle has been fometimes refolved, are founded 
 on this miiverfal priticiple, fuppofe its being and influence, and are actuated 
 by its It is much more reafonable to imagine, that the belief of a God 
 was antecedent to their operation, than that it fhould have been produced 
 by them ; and that it was diftated by reafoii and confclence, independent 
 Of xht paffion and policy of Tneu. The uniform and univerfal tradition 
 of this belief, and of the creation of the world by the divine power, af- 
 fords concurring evidence both of the principle aud of the fad. The 
 exigence of God is alfo farther evinced by thofe arguments which have 
 been ufually alleged to prove that the world had a beginning,, and therefore 
 
 that
 
 68 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 that it mufl have been created by the energy of divine power. In proof 
 of this, the hiftory of Mofes, confidcred merely as the mofl: ancient hifto- 
 rian, deferves pa/ticuiar regard. His teftimony is confirmed by the molt 
 ancient writers among the heathens, both poets and hiftorians. It may 
 be alfo fairly alleged, that we have no hiftory or tradition more ancient 
 than that which agrees with the received opinion of the world's begin- 
 nincT, and of the manner in which it was produced ; and that the moft 
 ancient hiftories were written long after that time. And this confidera- 
 tion is urged by Lucretius, the famous Epicurean, as a ftrong prefump- 
 tion that the world had a beginning: 
 
 Si nulla fuit genitalis origo 
 
 Terrarum & coeli, femperque aeterna fueie ; 
 Cur fupra bcllum Thebanum, &: funera Trojae, 
 Non alias alii quoque res cecinere poetas ? 
 Befides, the origin and progrefs of learning and the moft ufeful arts con- 
 firm the notion of the world's beginning, and of the common zera of its 
 creation ; to which alfo may be added, that the world itfelf, being ma- 
 terial and corruptible, muft have had a beginning; and many phenomena 
 occur to the obfervation of the aftronomer and mathematician, which 
 furnifh a flrong prefumption, that it could have had no long duration, 
 and that it now gradually tends to diflblution. From thefe confidera- 
 tions we may infer the abfolute being and providence of God ; and thefe 
 alfo demonftrate the exiftence of his angels and miniftering fpirits, who 
 are the meflfengers of his will, and the proper inhabitants of the ethereal 
 world, and confequently the next fubjedls of our enquiry. 
 
 x'\n Anael is a fpiritual intelligent fubftance, and the firft in rank, and 
 dignity of^all created beings; though the word angel, ayyix®-, is not pro- 
 perly a denomination of nature, but of office; denoting a mejfenger, or 
 executioner of the will of fome fuperior power or authority. In this fenfe 
 they are frequently mentioned in Scripture, as miniftering fpirits fent by 
 the Almighty to declare his will, and to corredl, teach, reprove, and com- 
 fort. God alio promulgated the law to Mofes, and appeared to the old 
 patriarchs, by the mediation of angels, who reprefented him, and fpoke 
 in his name. The exiflence of angels is admitted in all religions ; the 
 Greeks and Latins acknowledged them under the names cf getill and 
 demo7iu and in the Alcoran we find frequent mention of them; the 
 profeflbrs of the Mahometan religion aflign them various orders and 
 degrees, as well as different employments, both in heaven and on earth. 
 The Sadducees alfo admit their exiftence ; witnefs Abufaid, the author cf 
 an Arabic verfion of the Pentateuch ; and Aaron, a Caraite Jew, in his 
 comment on the Pentateuch; both in manufcript, and in the late King 
 of France's library. The heathen philofophers and poets were alfo agreed 
 as to the exiftence of intelligent beings, fuperior to man ; as is fhown by 
 
 St.
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 69 
 
 St. Cyprian, in his Treatife on the Vanity of Idols, fronn the teftimonies 
 of Plato, Socrates, and Trifmegiftus. Authors are not fo unanimous 
 about their nature, as of their exiftence : Clemens Alexandrinus believed 
 they had bodies, which was alfo the opinion of Origen, Cgefarius, Ter- 
 tullian, and feveral others; but Athanafius, St. Bafil, St. Gregory Nicene, 
 St. Cyril, and St. Chryfoftom, hold them to be mere fpirits. Authors 
 are alfo divided as to the time of the creation of angels ; fome will have 
 it to have been before the creation of our world, or even from eternity ; 
 while others maintain that they were created at the fame time with our 
 world. The mofi; probable conjecture is, that they were created at dif- 
 ferent periods, whenever it pleated the Almighty to call them into exig- 
 ence But, though we cannot fo clearly demonfliate the precife nature 
 and duration of angels, we may neverthelefs conclude, that, though thev 
 are of an order highly fuperior to that of men, yet are they not complete 
 and perfedt; for, had they been created thus originally, they could not 
 have fallen, as Lucifer did, nor have finned, which the fcriptyres inform 
 us fome of them did, by rebelling againft the Almighty, and contending 
 with him for fupreme authority. For this reafon, as they are themfelves 
 imperfe6t beings, they can in no refpedl be confidered proper objeds 
 of human adoration, which we are bound to pay alone to that One Su- 
 preme, who is omnipotent, immortal, infinite, the fource and centre 
 of every thing that is great, and good, and perfed. 
 
 Theologifts have divided angels into different ranks or fubordinations, 
 which they term Hierarchies, from «f©-. holy, and apx", rule ; fignifying 
 holy . command, or to rule in holy things. St. Dionyfius, and other ancient 
 writers, have eftablifhed nine choirs or orders of thefe celeftial fpirits, 
 namely, cherubim, feraphim, thrones, dominions, principalities, powers, 
 virtues, angels, and archangels ; and thefe they form into three hierar- 
 chies, appointing them their refpeftive offices in the performance of ado- 
 ration and praife, and in executing the word and will of God. The rab- 
 bins and Jewifh writers, who had obvioufly a more immediate knowledge 
 of the angelic hoft, by the infpiration of their prophets and the revelation 
 of God's true religion, have defined one rank of angels, or intelligent 
 beings, fuperior to all the foregoing, which anfwer to, or are contained 
 in, the ten diftinguifhing names of God, and are the pure efTences of his 
 Spirit, or ftream through which his will and pleafure are communicated 
 to the angels and bleffed fpirits, and through which his providence ex- 
 tends to the care and prote6lion of all his works. The firfl: of thefe divine 
 eflcnces is denominated nin-, Jehovah, and is peculiarly attributed to God 
 the Father, being the pure and fimple eflence of the Divinity, flowing 
 through Hajoth Hakados, to the angel Metratton, and to the miniftering 
 fpirit Refchith Hagalalim, who guides the primum mobile, and beftows 
 the gift of being upon all things. To this fpirit is allotted the office of 
 
 No. 4. Q bringing
 
 70 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 bringing the fouls of the faithful departed into heaven ;' and by him God 
 ipake to Mofes. The fecond is n- Jah^ and is attributed to the Perfon 
 of the Mefliah, or Aefof, whofe power and influence defcend through the 
 angel Mafleh into the fphere of the Zodiac. This is the fpirit, or Word, 
 which aduated the chaos, and divided the unwrought matter into three 
 portions: of the firft, or moft eflential part, was the fpiritual world com- 
 pofed ; of the fecond, was made the vifible heavens and the luminous 
 bodies ; and of the third, or inferior part, was formed the terreflrial 
 world, out of which was drawn the elemental quintelTence, or firfl: matter 
 of all things, which produced the four elements, and all creatures that 
 inhabit them, by the agency of a particular fpirit called Raziel, who was 
 the ruler of Adam. The third is ^^^l«, Ehjek, and is attributed to the 
 Holy Spirit, whofe divine light is received by the angel Sabbathi, and 
 communicated from him through the fphere of Saturn. This is the/)r/Vi- 
 tipium general iofiis, the begitniiiig of the ways of God, or the manifefta- 
 tion of the Father and the Son's light in the fupernatural generation. 
 And from hence flow down all living louls, entering the inanimate body, 
 and giving form to unfettled matter. The fourth is "jk, £/, through the 
 light of whom flows grace, goodnefs, mercy, piety, and munificence, 
 to the angel Zadkiel, and, thence paffing through the fphere of Jupiter, 
 fafhioneth the images of all bodies, bertovving clemency, benevolence, 
 and jufi-icc, on all. The fifth is nbH, Elohi, the upholder of the fword, 
 and left hand of God, whofe influence penetrates the angel Geburah, and 
 thence defcends through the fphere of Mars, giving fortitude in war and 
 afilidfion. The fixth is niNav, Tfebaoth, who beftoweth his mighty 
 power through the angel Raphael into the fphere of the fun, giving mo- 
 tion, heat, and brightnefs, to it, and thence producing metals. The fe- 
 venth is iv'jv, Elion, who rules the angel Michael, and defcends through 
 the fphere of Mercury, giving benignity, motion, and intelligence, with 
 elegance and confonance of fpeech. The eighth is otn, Adonai, whofe 
 influence is received by the angel Haniel, and communicated through the 
 fphere of Venus, giving zeal, fervency, and righteoufnefs of heart, and 
 producing vegetables. The ninth is -to, ShadJai, whofe influence is con- 
 veyed by cherubim to the angel Gabriel, and falls into the fphere of the 
 nQoon, caufing increafe and decreafe of all things, governing the genii and 
 protedors of men. The tenth is D'n>:N, Elohivi, who extends his bene- 
 ficence to the angel Jefodoth, into the fphere of the earth, and difpenfeth 
 knowledge, underftanding, and wifdom. The three firft of thefe ten 
 names, viz. Jehovah, Jah, and Ehjeh, exprefs the eflence of God, 
 and are proper names ; but the other {even are only expreflive of his 
 attributes. The principal and only true name of the Godhead, accord- 
 ing both to the Hebrews and Greeks, is nvmNv^Nw, T.Tf«yfa;uft<.To», the name 
 of four letters, with which the Godhead, in moft languages, is ob- 
 fcrved to be expreffed ; thus in Hebrew the Supreme Being is called rmrr, 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 71 
 
 Jehovah; in the Greek, ©tot; in Latin, Deus ; in Spanifh, Dtos ; in Italian, 
 Idia; in French, Dieu; in the ancient Gaulifli, Diex ; in ancient Ger- 
 man, Diet; in the Sclavonic, Buck; in Arabic, j^lla; in the Polifh, 
 Bung; in the Pannonian, I/iu; in the Egyptian, Tenu ; in the Perfiau, 
 Sire ; and in the language of the ancient Magi, Orji. Thus God is con- 
 ceived to work by the ideas of his own mind ; and thefe ideas difpenfe 
 their feals, and communicate them to whatever is formed, or created. 
 
 In the exterior circle of the celeftial heaven, in which are placed the 
 fixed ftars, the Anima Mundi hath her particular forms, or feminal con- 
 ceptions, anfwering to the ideas of the Divine Mind ; and this fituation 
 approaching neareft to the empyrean heaven, the feat of God, receives 
 the fpiritual powers and influences which immediately proceed from 
 him. Hence they are diffufed through the fpheres of the planets and 
 heavenly bodies, and communicated to the inmoft centre of the earth, by 
 means of the terreftrial elements. Thus have the wife aiid learned men 
 among the Jews deduced the conftru6lion and harmony of the world, and 
 fhown that God performs all his fecret and ftupendous works by the me- 
 dium of the celeftial bodies. He a£ts and governs immediately by himfelf, 
 but mediately by the heavenly bodies, which are the inftruments of his Pro- 
 vidence, and the fecondary caufes, by which the earth, and all fimilar fyl- 
 tems, are regulated; and thefe, perhaps, regulate one another by a reci- 
 procal influence and fympathy communicated to them in the ordination of 
 nature. And hence comes the original or ground-work of all men's na- 
 tivities, and all manner of natural queftions and things, and the hiflory 
 of all that may happen or proceed out of natural caufes, to the full end 
 of time. To demonftrate this more fatisfadorily, we (hall now define 
 the natural properties of the celeflial world, with its particular divifions, 
 quantity, motion, and raeafure, as laid down by the rules of Aftronomy ; 
 and this will lead us to the Doftrine of Nativities. 
 
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 72 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 An ASTRONOMICAL SURVEY of the CELESTIAL WORLD, 
 with the Places, Order, and Motions, of the Heavenly Bodies. 
 
 IT was formerly a fubjed of difpute among Philofoohers, whether the 
 Earth or the Sun was the centre of the celeflial fyftem; but the latter 
 opinion has been generally received (Ince the time of Copernicus, who 
 about the year 1543 publifhed his fix books De Orbium Coeleftium Revo- 
 lutionibus', wherein he proves the Sun to be very near the centre of gra- 
 vity of the whole fyftem, and in the common focus of every one of the 
 planetary orbits ; thus reftoring the old fyftem of Pythagoras, which had 
 been let afide from the time of Ptolemy. (Ency. Lond. vol. ii. p. 425;, 
 424.) Next the Sun, Mercury performs his revolution around him; next 
 to Mercury is the orbit of Venus; and next to Venus, our Earth, with its 
 attendant or fecondary the Moon, perform a joint courfe, and by their re- 
 volution meafure out the annual period. Next to the Earth is Mars, the 
 firft of the fuperior planets; next to him are four newly-difcovered planets, 
 Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vefla ; then comes Jupiter, and lafl: of all Sa- 
 turn and Herfchel. Thefe and the comets are the conftituent parts of the 
 Copernican or folar fyftem, which is now received and approved as the 
 only true one, becaufe moft agreeable to the tenor of nature in all her ac- 
 tions; for by the two motions of the Earth, all the phenomena of the 
 heavens are refolved, which by other hypothefes are inexplicable without 
 a great number of other motions contrary to philofophical reafoning. It 
 is alfo more rational to fuppofe that the Earth moves round the Sun, than 
 that the huge bodies of the planets, the ftupendous body of the Sun, and 
 the immenfe firmament of flars, fhould all move round the Earth e\try 
 twenty-four hours. The harmony which runs through the folar fyflem, 
 wonderfully confirms this hypothefis, viz. that the motions of all the pla- 
 nets, both primary and fecondary, are governed and regulated by one and 
 the fame law ; which is, that the fquares of the periodical times of 
 the primary planets, are to each other as the cubes of their diftances from 
 the Sun; and likewife the fquares of the periodical times of the fecondary 
 of any primary are to each other, as the cubes of their diftances from that 
 primary. Now the Moon, which in the Copernican fyflem is a fecondary 
 of the Earth, in the other hypothefis is confidered as a primary one; and 
 fo the rule cannot take place, becaufe the periodical time ftated as 
 that of a primary one does not agree therewith. But this fingle conCde- 
 ration is fufEcient to eftablifh the motion of the Earth for ever; viz. if 
 the Earth does not move round the Sun, the Sun muft move, with the 
 Moon, round the Earth. Now the diftance of the Sun to that of the 
 Moon being as 10,000 to 46, and the Moon's period being lefs than twen- 
 ty-eight days, the Sun's pe'-iod would be found no lefs than two hundred 
 and forty- two years; whereas, in fad, it is but one year. The Sun alfo 
 being the fountain of light and heat, which it irradiates through all the 
 
 lyftem,
 
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 fyftem, it muft of courfe be placed in the centre, in order that the planets 
 may at all times have it in an uniform and equable manner. For, if the 
 Earth be fuppoled in the centre, and the Sun and planets revolve abont it, 
 the planets would then, like the comets, be fcorched with heat when 
 nearefi: the Sun, and frozen with cold in their aphelia, or greateft diftance, 
 which is not to be imagined. But, if the Sun be fuppofed in the centre 
 of the lyftem, we then have the rational hypothefis of the planets being 
 all moved round the Sun, by the univerfal law or power of gravity arifuig 
 from his vaft body, and every thing will anfwer to the laws of circular 
 motion and central forces; but otherwife we are wholly in the dark, and 
 know not how to define thefe operations of nature. Fortunately, how- 
 ever, we are able to give not only reafons, but demonftrable proofs, that 
 the Sun does poffefs the centre of the fyftem, and that the planets move 
 about him in the order above-mentioned. The firfl: is, that Mercury and 
 Venus are ever obferved to have two conjundions with the Sun, but no 
 oppofition, which could not happen unlefs the orbits of thefe planets lay 
 within the orbit of the Earth. The fecond is, that Mars, Jupiter, and 
 Saturn, have each their conjundions and oppofitions to the Sun alternately 
 and fucceffively, which could not be, unleis their orbits were exterior to 
 that of the Earth. In the third place, the greateft elongation or diftance 
 of Mercury from the Sun is about twenty degrees, and that of Vetius 
 forty-feven degrees ; which anfwers exadlly to their diftance in this fyf- 
 tem, but in the other they would be feen one hundred and eighty degrees 
 from the Sun in oppofition to him. Fourthly, in this difpofition of 
 the planets they will all of them be fometimes much nearer to the Earth 
 than at others; the confequence of which is, that their brightnefs and 
 fplendour, and alfo their apparent diameters, will be proportionally greater 
 at one time than another; and this we obferve to be true every day. 
 Thus the apparent diameter of Venus, when greateft, is near fixty-fix 
 feconds, but, when leaft, not more than nine and a half; of Mars, when 
 greateft, it is twenty-one feconds, but, when leaft, no more than two fe- 
 conds and a half; whereas, by the other hypothefis, they ought always 
 to be equal. The fifth is, that, when the planets are viewed with a good 
 lelefcope, they" appear with different phafes, or with different parts of 
 their bodies enlightened. Thus Venus is fometimes new, then horned, 
 and afterwards dichotomized, then gibbous, afterwards full, and fo in- 
 creafes and decreafes her light in the fame manner as the Moon, and as 
 this lyftem requires. The fixth proof is, that the planets, all of them, 
 do fometimes appear dired in motion, fometimes retrograde, and at other 
 times ftationary. Thus Venus, as ftie pafles from her greateft elongation 
 weftward to her greateft elongation eaihvard, will appear dire<Sl in mo- 
 tion, but retrograde as (he pafles from the latter to the former ; and, 
 when (he is in thofe points of greateft diftance from the Sun, ftie feems 
 
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 -^^ AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 for Ibme time ftationary ; all which is iiecefTary upon the Copernican hy- 
 pothefis, but cannot happen in any other. The I'eventh is, that the bo- 
 dies of Mercury and Venus, in their lower conjunftions with the Sun, 
 are hid behind the Sun's body, and ni the upper conjundions are (een to 
 pafs over the Sun's body, or di(k, in form of a black round fpot, which 
 is necefiary in the Copernican fyftem, but impoflible in any other. The 
 eit^hth is, that the times in which thefe conjundions, oppofitions, ftations, 
 and retroi;radations, of the planets, happen, are not fuch as they would 
 be if the Earth were at reft in its orbit, but precifely fuch as would hap- 
 pen were the Earth to move round the Sun, and all the other planets in 
 the periods afligned them ; and therefore this, and no other, can be the 
 true fvftem of the world. 
 
 But the better to determine the places of the celeftial bodies, and to 
 underftand the conftitution of the heavens more clearly, aftronomers have 
 conceived or defcribed feveral circles, called the circles of the fphere, by 
 which the celeftial world is divided and meafured out. Some of thefe 
 are called great circles, as the equinodial, ecliptic, meridian, &c. and 
 others fmall circles, as the tropics, parallels, &c. The equinodtial line 
 is a circle which we imagine to inveft the whole world, and is fo called, 
 becaufe whenever the Sun, in his progrefs through the ecliptic, comes to 
 this circle, it makes equal days and nights all round the globe, as he 
 then rifes due eaft, and fets due weft, which he never does at any other 
 time of the year. This equinoftial line is conceived to be three hundred 
 and fixty degrees in its whole circumference ; and each of thefe degrees 
 is divided into fixty minutes, or fixty equal parts of a degree, and thefe 
 again into as manv feconds. The meridian is another great circle, con- 
 fifting alfo of three hundred and fixty degrees, extending from one polar 
 point to the other, and twice cutting the equinoftial line, compaffing the 
 whole world from north to fouth, as the equino6lial does from eaft to 
 weft, and terminates at the fame point where it began. The equinoftial 
 line is fixed and immutable, and is of neceflity always conceived to be in 
 one and the fame place; but the meridian is mutable, and may circle the 
 world in any or in all degrees of the equator, as we may have occafion to 
 conceive or imagine; it muft, however, uniformly divide the fphere into 
 two equal parts, which are called hemifpheres. The polar points are 
 thofe two points in the immenfe ball of the world, which are equi- 
 diftant from the equinodial line, the one in the utmoft northern, and the 
 other in the utmoft fouthern, point. The three hundred and fixty degrees 
 of the cquinodtial line are called the longitude of the world, becaufe they 
 are in order as the fun and ftars move in their circuits through the fpa- 
 cious heavens in their refpedive orbs. But the three hundred and fixty. 
 degrees, of the meridian are called the latitude of the world, becaufe they: 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. -j^ 
 
 mete out that diftance wherein the fun and all the ftars, in a certain 
 breadth one from another, move in their circuits from eaft to weft. 
 
 Now the fun, in his annual progrefs from weft to eaft, does not keep 
 the equinodial line, but declines from it at one part of the year to the 
 north, and at another part of the year to the fouih ; and the planets alfo 
 obferve the fame order in their progrefs, except that the fun always keeps 
 the fame conftant track, whereas the planets often vary in their declina- 
 tions from the equinodial line. Hence another great circle is conceived 
 in the heavens, called the Zodiac, which is likewife divided, as all the 
 great circles are, into three hundred and fixty degrees ; but this circle,^ 
 being as it were the high road of the planets, and comprehending fo much 
 of the heavens as the fun and planets fwerve in their declinations, is con- 
 ceived to be twenty degrees broad ; and it is confined to this Ipace, becaufe 
 none of the planets ever reach beyond ten degrees north, or ten degrees 
 fouth, from the equinodial line ; and the fun's path or track in the zodiac 
 is called the ecliptic line, becaufe the eclipfes only happen when the moon 
 is alfo in this line. 
 
 - The zodiac is alfo divided into twelve equal parts, called, the twelve 
 fjgns, or houfes of heaven ; and, thefe beginning where the Sun enters the 
 equinodial to the northward, the firft fign is named Aries, and the reft 
 in order are called Taurus, Gemini,. Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, 
 Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquaries, and Pifces. Thefe fjgns confift of 
 thirty degrees each ; and, being all of them divided into four equal 
 parts, determine the four feafons of the year. Now, when the Sun en- 
 ters into the fign called Cancer, he is in his greateft north declination,, 
 and at that time is diftant from the equinodial line twenty-three degrees 
 and a half to the north; which occafions another circle to be defcribed, 
 called the tropic of Cancer,, the centre of which being the north pole, it 
 comprehends as much of the extremity of the round world as falls under 
 twenty-three degrees and a half from the equator to the northward. And, 
 when the Sun enters the fign Capricornus, he is in his utmoft fouth de- 
 clination, and> occafions another circle to be defcribed, called the tropic of 
 Capricorn, as many degrees from the equator to the fouth as the other 
 tropic is to the north. At the dillance of forty-five degrees from each of 
 thefe tropics, two other circles are imagined, called the arctic and an- 
 tardic circles, which, being but little more than twenty degrees difjant 
 from each pole,, do likewife encircle fome fmall portion of the extremities 
 of the world. The inferior circles, called parallels, run from eaft to weft,, 
 and ferve to divide the heavens into feveral fpaqes between the greater 
 circlesi.. 
 
 Ancient:
 
 76 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Ancient tradition has handed down to us the origin of that important 
 circle called the Zodiac, with the reafon why it is lb named, and the in- 
 genious method which the fiift men made ul'e of to know exaflly the 
 line which the fun defcribes under the heavens in the perpetual changings 
 of its place, and to divide the year into equal portions. This tradition is 
 found in two ancient authors, the one Roman, the other Greek. The 
 firfi: attributes it to the Egyptians; the other, to the firft inhabitants of 
 Chaldea. They every day law the fun and the whole heavens turning 
 and paffing from eafl; to weft. In the mean time they obferved that the 
 fun, by a motion peculiar to it, from day to day receded from fome cer- 
 tain ftars, and took its place under others, always advancing towards the 
 eaft. Whilft the moon was making twelve times that revolution, the fun 
 made it only once; but fhe began the thirteenth day again before the fun 
 had as yet completed its own. The habit of dividing the year into pretty 
 near twelve lunations, made them wifti that they had twelve divifions of 
 a year perfeflly equal, or twelve months, which might be exadly equi- 
 valent to the year itfelf, and which might, as it were, be pointed at with 
 one's finger in the heavens, by Ihowing fome certain ftars under 
 which the fun paftes during every one of thefe months. Here is then the 
 method by which they divided the courfe of the fun in twelve equal por- 
 tions or colle6tions of ftars, which are called afterifms, or conftellations: 
 Our aftronomers took a couple of brafs open veflels, the one pierced at 
 the bottom, and the other without any orifice below. Having ftopped the 
 hole of the firft, they filled it with water, and placed it fo as that the wa- 
 ter might run out into the other veflel the moment the cock fhould be 
 opened. This done, they obferved, in that part of the heaven where the 
 fun has its annual courfe, the rifing of a ftar, remarkable either for its 
 magnitude or brightnefs ; and, at the critical inftant it appeared on the ho- 
 rizon, they began to let the water flow out of the upper veflel into the 
 other during the reft of the night, and the whole following day, to the 
 very moment when the fame ftar, being come to the eaft again, began to 
 appear anew on the horizon. The inftant it was again feen, they took 
 away the under veflel, and threw the water that remained in the other 
 on the g'round. The obfervers were thus fure of having one revolution 
 of the whole heaven between the firft rifing of the ftar and its return. 
 The water, which had flowed during that time, might then afford them 
 a means of meafuring the duration of one whole revolution of the heaven, 
 and of dividing that duration into feveral equal portions; fince, by divid- 
 ing that water itfelf into twelve equal parts, they were fure of having the 
 revolution of a twelfth part of heaven during the efflux of a twelfth 
 part of the water. They then divided the water of the under veflel into 
 twelve parts perfedlly equal, and prepared two other fmall veflels capable 
 of containing exadly one of thefe portions, and no more. They again 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. -j-j 
 
 poured into the great upper vefTel the twelve parts of water all at once, 
 keeping the veffels (hut. Then they placed under the cock, ftill fliut, 
 one of the two fmall veffels, and another near it to fucceed the firfl: as 
 foon as it (hould be full. 
 
 All thefe preparations being ready, they, the next night, obferved that 
 part of the heaven towards which they had for a long while remarked that 
 the Sun, the Moon, and the planets, took their courfes ; and ftaid for the 
 rifing of the conftellation which is fince called Aries. The Greeks, per- 
 haps, gave that name to fome ftars different from thofe which went by it 
 before the flood; but this enquiry is not neceffary at prefent. The in- 
 ftant Aries appeared, and they faw the firfl ftar of it afcending, they let 
 the water run into the little meafure. As foon as it was full, they re- 
 moved it, and threw the water out. In the mean time they put the other 
 empty meafure under the fall. They obferved exadlly, and fo as to re- 
 member very well, all the flars that rofe during all the periods which the 
 meafure took in filling; and that part of the heaven was terminated in 
 their obfervations by the ftar which appeared the laft on the horizon the 
 moment the meafure was juft full: fo that, by giving the two little vef- 
 fels the time neceffary to be alternately filled to the brim three times each 
 during the night, they had, by that means, one half of the courfe of the 
 fun in the heaven, that is, one half of the heaven itfelf ; and that half 
 again was divided into fix equal portions, of which they might (how and 
 diftinguifh the beginning, the middle, and the end, by ffars, which, from 
 their fize, number, or order, were rendered diftinguifhable. As to the 
 other half of the heaven, and the fix other conftellations which the fun 
 runs over therein, they were forced to defer the obfervation of them to 
 another feafon. They waited till the fun, being placed in the middle of 
 the now known and obferved conftellations, fhould leave them at liberty 
 to fee the others during the night. 
 
 Doubtlefs, fome precautions were neceffary, not to miftake as to the 
 fall of the water, which muft flow more flowly in proportion as its mals 
 is lefs high. Hov/ever, after having, by this or fome fuch means, made 
 themfelves fure of the great annual courfe which the fun faithfully fol- 
 lows in the heavens, and of the equality of the fpaces filled by the twelve 
 colledlions of ftars that limit that courfe, the observers thought of giving 
 them names. They in general called them the ftations or the houfes of 
 the fun, and afilgned three of them to each feafon. They then gave 
 each conftellation a peculiar name, whofe propery did not only confift in 
 making it known again to all nations, but in declaring, at the fame time, 
 the circumftance of the year (which was of concern to mankind) when the 
 fun (hould arrive at that conftellation. 
 
 No. 4. S By
 
 78 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 By a particular care of Providence, the dams of the flock commonly 
 happen to be pregnant about the end of autumn; they bring forth during 
 the winter and in the beginning of the fpring; whence it happens that the 
 young ones are kept warm under the mother during the cold, and after- 
 wards eafily thrive and grow a6live at the return of the heat. The lambs 
 come the firft, the calves follow them, and the kids fall the laft. By this 
 means the lambs, grown vigorous and flrong, may follow the ram to the 
 fields, as the fine days come on. Soon after the calves, and at laft: 
 the kids, venture abroad, and, by increafing the flock, begin to augment 
 the revenues of their mafler. 
 
 Our ancient obfervers, feeing that there were during the fpring no pro- 
 ductions more ufeful than lambs, calves, and kids, gave the conftella- 
 tions, under which the fun pafles during that feafon, the names of the 
 three animals which enrich mankind moft. The firft was named Aries, 
 the fecond Taurus, the third the two kids, Gemini, the better to charac- 
 terize the fecundity of goats, which more commonly bring forth two 
 young ones than one, and have an abundance of milk more than fufl^- 
 cient to nourifli them. 
 
 The bulk of mankind had already very often remarked, that there was 
 a point to which the fun raifed itfelf in its coming towards them, but 
 which it never exceeded ; and that it afterwards funk daily, in receding 
 from them, for fix months together, till it arrived at another point a great 
 way under the firft, but below which it never defcended. This retreat 
 of the fun, made very flowly, and always backward, gave the obfervers 
 the occafion of diftinguifliing the ftars which follow the two kids, or 
 Gemini, by the name of the animal that walks backward, viz. Cancer, 
 the crab. When the fun paffes under the next conftellation, it makes our 
 climate feel fultry heats, but chiefly the climates where men were at that 
 time all gathered together. When poets attribute to that conftellation 
 the fiercenefs and raging of the Lion, of which it bears the name, it is 
 very eafy to guefs at what might determine that choice from the begin- 
 ning. Soon after, the houfing of the hay and the corn is entirely over 
 throughout the eaft; there remain on the ground only a few ears fcattered 
 here and there, which they caufed to be gleaned by the leaft neceflfary 
 hands ; this work is left to the youngeft girls. How then could they re- 
 prefent the conftellation, under which the fun fees no longer any crops on the 
 ground, better than by the name and figure of a young maid gleaning ? The 
 wings you fee her have in the fpheres are ornaments added of later date, 
 after the introduftion of fables. The Virgin, which follows the Lion, is 
 certainly no other than a gleaning girl, or, if you will, a reaper; and, left 
 we (hould miftake her funftions, flie has befides in her hand a clufter of 
 ears ; a very natural proof of the origin here attributed to her. 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 79 
 
 The perfedl equality of days and nights, which happens when the Sun 
 quits the fign Virgo, caufed aftronomers to give the next fign the name 
 of Libra, that is, of a balance. The frequent difeafes which the Sun leaves 
 behind him, or caufes by his retiring, procured the next fign the name of 
 Scorpio; becaufe it is mifchievous, and drags after it a fting and venom. 
 Towards the end of autumn, the fall of the leaf expofcs wild beafts, leav- 
 ing them lefs covering: vintage and harveft are over ; the fields are free; 
 and it is of ill confequence to fufFer the propagation of beafts at the ap- 
 proach of winter. Every thing then invites us to hunt ; and the fign, in 
 which the Sun is at that time, has from thence obtained the name of 
 Sagittarius; that is, the archer, or huntfman. What is the proper and 
 diftindive charader of the wild goat, or Capricorn, of which the firft 
 fign of winter has the name? it is to look for its food, getting from the 
 foot of the mountains to the higheft fummit, and always climbing from 
 rock to rock : the name of Capricorn was then fit to inform men of the 
 time when the Sun, having reached the loweft verge of its courfe, 
 was ready to begin to afcend again towards the higheft, and to continue 
 to do fo for fix months together. This is quite the reverfe of the crab 
 (Cancer) ; and the happy concurrence of the oppofite charaders of thele 
 two animals is a proof of what direded the firft obfervers in the impofi- 
 tion of all thcfe names. Aquaries and Pifces, without any difficulty, 
 mark out the rainy feafon, and the time of the year when fifties, fatter and 
 nicer than at any other time, bring on again the profit and pleafure of fifliing. 
 It may be remarked, that, of the twelve conftellations, there are ten, the 
 names of which are borrowed from feveral animals; which caufed aftro- 
 nomers to give the annual circle, which they compofe, the name of Zodiac. 
 It is as much as if you would fay, the circle of animals. 
 
 By this very plain induftry, men acquired a new method of meafuring 
 time, and of regulating all their works. They already knew, without 
 any trouble or care, how to regulate the order of their feafts and common, 
 bufinefs, by infpe6tion only of the phafes of the moon. From the know- 
 ledge of the zodiac, they obtained an exa6l knowledge of the year ; the 
 conftellations became to them fo many very fignificant figns, which, both 
 by their names and refpedtive fituations, informed them of the order of 
 their harvefts, and of the cautions they were to take in order to bring 
 them about, openly and daily ftiowing them how long they were to ftay 
 for them ; the people were neither obliged to caft up the days, nor mark 
 out the order of times, to regulate themfelves. Twelve words, applied 
 to twelve different parts of the heaven, which every night revolved 
 before their eyes, were to them a part of knowledge no lefs convenient 
 and advantageous than eafy to be acquired. When men, after the fetting 
 of the Sun, faw the ftars of the fign Aries afcend the oppofite horizon, 
 and diftant from the Sun by one half of the heaven, they then knew that 
 
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 8o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 the Sun was under the fign Libra, which, being the feventh of the celef- 
 tial figns, was diftant from the firft by one whole half of the zodiac. — 
 When at the approach of day they faw in the middle of the heaven, and 
 at an equal diliance from eaft to weft, the fineft ftar of the llgn Leo, 
 they eafily underftood that the Sun, then ready to rife, was at the di{^ 
 tance of three figns from Leo, and removed towards the eaft one quarter 
 part of its circle. Thus, without feeing the ftars which the Sun drown- 
 ed by his brightnefs as he came under them, they faid, with a perfedl af- 
 furance, that the Sun is now in Scorpio ; two months hence we fhall have 
 the fiiorteft day. They could, on fight of a flngle conftellation, placed 
 in the eaftern, or middle, or weftern, part of the heaven, immediately fay 
 where the fun was, how far the year was advanced, and what kind of 
 work it was fit they fhould bufy themfelves about. After this manner fhep- 
 herds and farmers ftill regulate their work ; and, if we at prefent are ig- 
 norant of the ftars, if we are not able to determine the diftance between 
 one conftellation fhown us and the a6lual place of the fun, it is becaufe 
 we can read and write. The firft men perufed the heavens for want of 
 writing; and it is on account of the conveniency of writing that the gene- 
 rality of men now difpenfe with looking among the ftars for the know- 
 ledge of the operations and order of the year. But writing itfelf, that fo 
 ufeful invention, is one of the produ6ls of aftronomy; and it may be eafily 
 fhown alfo, that the names given the twelve celeftial figns gave birth to 
 the invention both of painting and writing. The hiftory of the heavens 
 ftill promifes further novelty, and it will continue to inform us of the 
 helps for which we are indebted to the ftudy of nature. 
 
 Now, merely to know and to underftand thofe divifions of the heavens 
 is nothing more than fpeculative aftrology, commonly called Aftronomy ; 
 but, to attain to the knowledge of Aftroloo-y in 2;eneral, we muft be con- 
 verlant in the affecliom and qualities of the heavenly matter, and of the 
 planets and fixed ftars. It is generally imagined that the fixed jiars are 
 faftened in the eighth orb of the celeftial heaven, and only move as that 
 orb doth, and uniformly together, about one minute's fpace in a whole 
 year ; but reafon has not abfolutely determined this point, fo as to leave 
 it quite fatisfa6tory, or incontrovertible. The fixed ftars are obferved to 
 differ from the planets by their twinkling or fparkling ; whence philofo- 
 phers have conceived them to fliine with their own innate light, the fame 
 as the fun does. The number of ftars difcoverable at once by the eye is 
 not above a thoufand. This at firft may appear incredible, becaufe they 
 feem to be without number; but the deception arifes from our looking 
 confufedly upon them, without reducing them into any order.* If we 
 but look ftedfaftly upon a pretty large portion of the fky, and count the 
 
 * Encyclopaedia Londinenfis, article Aftronomy, vol ii. p. 408. 
 
 ftars
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. Bi 
 
 ftars in it, we fhall be furprifed to find them fo few ; and, if we confi- 
 der how feldom the moon meets with any ftars in her way, although 
 there are as many about her path as in any other parts of the heavens, we 
 may foon be convinced that the ftars are much thinner fown than people 
 are aware of. The Britifh Catalogue, which befides the liars vifible to th-e 
 naked eye, includes a great number which cannot be feen without the 
 affiftance of a telefcope, contains no more than three thoufand in both 
 hcmifpheres. From what we know of the immenfe diftances of the fixed 
 ftars, the neareft may be computed at 32,000,000,000,000 of miles from 
 the earth, which is farther than a cannon-ball would fly in i'even million 
 of years! Thefe ftars, on account of their apparently various magnitude?, 
 are diftributed into feveral claffes or orders : thofe which appear 
 largeft are called flan of the Jirfl magnitude; the next to them, in fize 
 and luftre, y^arj of the fecond magnitude; and fo on to the fxth, which 
 confill of the fmalleft that can be feen by the naked eye. This diftribu- 
 tion having been made long before the invention of telefcopes, the ftars 
 which cannot be feen without the help of theie inftruments are difiiii- 
 guifhed by the nume oi tclefcoplc ftars. 
 
 For the fame reafoii tliat the ftars within the belt or circle of the zodiac 
 were divided into conflellations, fo have been thofe on either fide of ir ; 
 viz. to diftinguifh them from one another, fo that any particular ftar 
 may be readily found in the heavens, by the help of a celelfial globe, upon 
 which tlie conftellations are fo delineated as to put the moft remarkable 
 flars into fuch parts of the figures which reprefent them as are molt 
 eafily diftinguiflied ; and thofe ftars which could not be brought into 
 any part of thefe figures are called unformed [lars. The number of 
 the ancjent coiiflellations is forty-eight : viz. upon the zodiac twelve; 
 upon all that region of the heavens oti the north fide of the zodiac, 
 twenty-one; and upon the fouth fide fifteen more; making in the whole 
 forty-eight confteliatioiis. But, tlie more modern philofophers and aftro- 
 logians having added a number of others, I fhall let the whole down in 
 their proper ordei'. 
 
 TABLE of the ANCIENT CONSTELLATIONS. 
 
 
 
 Pioleniy. 
 
 Tycho. 
 
 ..Hevclius. 
 
 Fliiiitr. 
 
 Urfa minor 
 
 
 The Little Bear 8 
 
 7 
 
 f 12 
 
 24 
 
 Urfa major 
 
 
 The Great Bear 35 
 
 29 
 
 IZ 
 
 87 
 
 Draco 
 
 
 The Dragon 31 
 
 32 
 
 40 
 
 80 
 
 Cepheus 
 
 
 Cepheus 13 
 
 4 
 
 51 
 
 7>S 
 
 Bootes, Ardophilax 
 
 23 
 
 18 
 
 52 
 
 54 
 
 -Corona Boreal 
 
 is 
 
 T h e N or t hern 'C roJ<v n 8 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 21 
 
 -Gercules, 'Engt 
 
 viafia 
 
 Hercules kneeling 29 
 
 28 
 
 45 
 
 113 
 
 JVo. 5. 
 
 
 T 
 
 
 
 Lyra
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 
 Ptolemy. 
 
 Tycho. 
 
 Hevelius. 
 
 Fiamd. 
 
 Lyra 
 
 The Harp 
 
 10 
 
 I I 
 
 17 
 
 21 
 
 Cvo-iius, Gal Una 
 
 The Swan 
 
 19 
 
 18 
 
 47 
 
 81 
 
 Cafliopea 
 
 The Lady in her Chair 
 
 13 
 
 26 
 
 37 
 
 55 
 
 Perfeus 
 
 Perfeus 
 
 29 
 
 29 
 
 46 
 
 59 
 
 Auriga 
 
 The Waggoner 
 
 14 
 
 9 
 
 40 
 
 66 
 
 Serpentarius, Opinucus 
 
 Serpentarius 
 
 29 
 
 ^5 
 
 40 
 
 74 
 
 Serpens 
 
 The Serpent 
 
 18 
 
 13 
 
 22 
 
 64 
 
 Sagitta 
 
 The Arrow 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 18 
 
 Aquila, Vultur 
 
 The Eagle } 
 
 15 
 
 12 
 
 23 
 
 71 
 
 Antiiious 
 
 Antinous V 
 
 3 
 
 19 
 
 Delphinus 
 
 The Dolphin 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 14 
 
 18 
 
 Equulus, Efjuifeflio 
 
 The Horfe's Head 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 Pegafus Eguus 
 
 The Fly in a Horfe 
 
 20 
 
 19 
 
 38 
 
 89 
 
 Andromeda 
 
 Andromeda 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 47 
 
 66 
 
 Triangulum 
 
 The Triangle 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 12 
 
 16 
 
 Aries 
 
 The Ram 
 
 18 
 
 21 
 
 27 
 
 66 
 
 Taurus 
 
 The Bull 
 
 44 
 
 43 
 
 51 
 
 141 
 
 Gemini 
 
 The Twins 
 
 2^ 
 
 26 
 
 38 
 
 85 
 
 Cancer 
 
 The Crab 
 
 23 
 
 15 
 
 29 
 
 83 
 
 Leo 
 
 The Lion \ 
 
 35 
 
 30 
 
 49 
 
 95 
 
 Coma Berenices 
 
 Berenice's Hair S 
 
 14 
 
 21 
 
 43 
 
 Virgo 
 
 The Virgin 
 
 32 
 
 33 
 
 5° 
 
 1 10 
 
 Libra, C^e/a 
 
 The Scales 
 
 17 
 
 10 
 
 20 
 
 51 
 
 Scorpius 
 
 The Scorpion 
 
 24 
 
 10 
 
 20 
 
 44 
 
 Sagittarius 
 
 The Archer 
 
 31 
 
 14 
 
 22 
 
 69 
 
 Capricornus 
 
 The Goat 
 
 18 
 
 28 
 
 29 
 
 51 
 
 Aquaries 
 
 The Water-bearer 
 
 45 
 
 41 
 
 47 
 
 108 
 
 Pilbes 
 
 The Fiflies 
 
 38 
 
 36 
 
 39 
 
 113 
 
 Cetus 
 
 The Whale 
 
 22 
 
 21 
 
 45 
 
 97 
 
 Orion 
 
 Orion 
 
 38 
 
 42 
 
 62 
 
 78 
 
 Eridanus, Fluvius 
 
 Eridanus, the River 
 
 34 
 
 10 
 
 27 
 
 S4 
 
 Lepus 
 
 The Hare 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 Canis major 
 
 The Great Dog 
 
 29 
 
 13 
 
 21 
 
 31 
 
 Canis minor 
 
 The Little Dog 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 13 
 
 14 
 
 Argo 
 
 The Ship 
 
 45 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 64 
 
 Hydra 
 
 Crater ^ 
 
 Hydra 
 
 27 
 
 19 
 
 31 
 
 60 
 
 The Cup 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 
 31 
 
 Corvus 
 
 The Crow 
 
 7 
 
 4 
 
 
 9 
 
 Centaurus 
 
 The Centaur 
 
 37 
 
 
 
 35 
 
 Lepus 
 
 The Wolf 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 Ara 
 
 The Altar 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 Corona Auftralis 
 
 The Southern Crown 
 
 / 
 
 '3 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 Pifces Auftralis 
 
 The Southern Fidi 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 24 
 The
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 83 
 
 The NEW SOUTHERN CONSTELLATIONS. 
 
 Columba Naochi 
 
 
 Noah's Dove 
 
 10 
 
 Robur Carolinum 
 
 
 The Royal Oak 
 
 I 2 
 
 Griis 
 
 
 The Crane 
 
 13 
 
 Phoenix 
 
 
 The Phenix 
 
 13 
 
 Indus 
 
 
 The Indian 
 
 12 
 
 Pavo 
 
 
 The Peacock 
 
 H 
 
 Apus, ^vis Indica 
 
 
 The Bird of Paradife 
 
 1 1 
 
 Apis, Mufca 
 
 
 The Bee, or Fly 
 
 4 
 
 Chamaelion 
 
 
 The Camelion 
 
 10 
 
 Triangulum Auftralis 
 
 
 The Southern Triangle 
 
 5 
 
 Pifces volans, Pajfer 
 
 
 The Flying Fifh 
 
 8 
 
 Dorado, Xiphias 
 
 
 The Sword Fifli 
 
 6 
 
 Toucan 
 
 
 The American Goofe 
 
 9 
 
 Hydrus 
 
 
 The Water-Snake 
 
 10 
 
 ELIUS's CONSTELLATIONS made out of the unformed St 
 
 
 
 Hevel. 
 
 Flamftead, 
 
 Lynx 
 
 The 
 
 Lynx - 19 
 
 44 
 
 Lee minor 
 
 The 
 
 Little Lion 
 
 53 
 
 Afteron & Chara 
 
 The 
 
 Greyhounds a'? 
 
 25 
 
 Cerberus 
 
 Cerberus 4 
 
 
 Vulpecula & Anfer 
 
 The 
 
 Fox and Goofe 27 
 
 3S 
 
 Scutum Sobieflci 
 
 Sobieflci's Shield 7 
 
 
 Lacerta 
 
 The 
 
 Lizard 
 
 16 
 
 Camelopardalus 
 
 The 
 
 Camelpard 32 
 
 58 
 
 Monoceros 
 
 The 
 
 Unicorn 19 
 
 31 
 
 Sextans 
 
 The 
 
 Sextant 1 1 
 
 41 
 
 Thefe conftellations, or groups of fixed ftars, have doubtlefs their 
 diftinft energy and influence in the operations of nature ; although we 
 have not means fufficient to diflinguifli them all, according to their 
 peculiar virtues. The nearer they are fituated to the ecliptic line, and 
 the zodiac, fo much the apter are they to operate in the common ads 
 of nature ; and fo much the more eafily allured into the opportunities 
 of our acquaintance. Of the firfl: magnitude v/e have an extraordinary 
 inftance in that ftar in Leo called Cor Leonis, in twenty-five degrees of 
 the fign, known to be of the nature of Mars and Jupiter mixed together; 
 and a ftar greatly contributing to noble qualifications, and kingly favour. 
 Famous alfo is the knowledge of Spica Virginis, a ftar of Virgo by con- 
 ftellation, but in the fign Libra : this ftar partakes both of the nature of 
 Venus and Mars, and contributes greatly to ecclefiaftical preferments. 
 After thefe are the very- well-known ftars called Aldebaran in Gemini, and 
 
 Antares
 
 84 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Antares in Sagittal), both ftars of the nature of Mars, provoking to 
 courage and magnanimity, but inclining to violence and cruelty. Of 
 the I'econd magnitude are the South Balance, and the Head of Pollux, 
 both ftars of a furious and violent nature. Of the third magnitude, 
 the Head oj Medufa, or Algol, is famous for its mifchievous inclinations ; 
 and lo are the tivo AJfes, flars of the fourth magnitude. Of the fifth 
 ma-ynitude are the Pleiades^ ftars of remarkable influence, and celebrated 
 for their fweet and benevolent nature. Stars of the fixth magnitude 
 are very (mall ; yet, notwithftanding this, they are not without their 
 operations upon earthly things; as in the breaft of the Crab, called 
 Prctjebe, are feveral little flars which appear only like a white cloud, 
 and yet the force of this conftellation has been often felt in the affairs of 
 mankind. Thefe fixed flars alio often prove their force in the change of 
 weather, as they happen to rife, culminate, or fet, with the fun, moon, 
 and planets. 
 
 But the conftellations which form the twelve figns of the zodiac have 
 obvioully the mofl powerful and moft imrryediate operation upon man ; 
 and the reafon is, becaufe they form the pathway of the fun, moon, and 
 planets, in all their peregrinations, and thereby receive from them -a more 
 forcible power and energy. And, as thefe figns form a confiderable 
 part of the Science of Aftrology, we fhall confider them under all their 
 various qualities and afFeflions, but with refped to their operations upon 
 man's body and upon the four feafons of the year. Thefe figns are 
 known or difUnsfuifhed bv the following characters: 
 
 T Aries 
 y Taurus 
 n Gemini 
 
 25 Cancer 
 SI Leo 
 IJ)^ Virgo 
 
 :!cr/: 
 
 ■^ Libra 
 n\ Scorpio 
 
 I 
 
 Sa'2;"ittarius 
 
 Vf Capricornus 
 xxr Aquaries 
 ^ Pifccs 
 
 They are placed in this order, and divided into four equal parts, an- 
 fwering to'the four quarters of the year, becaufe the equator cuts and 
 divides the circle of the zodiac at the point beginning uith Aries, and 
 at the oppofite point of Libra, dividing the \\ hole into two equal parts, 
 confifting of fix northern and fix fouthern figns. But the reafon why the 
 Sun's courfe begins and is r-jckoned from Aries, is, as tradition informs 
 us, becaufe the Sun, when firfl brought into exigence, was placed in 
 this fign. And this is not an unreafonable conje61ure, fiiice the fprinc; 
 quarter begins when the Sun enters Aries, and brings with it increase and 
 length of days, and all nature begins to multiply and flourifn, and as it 
 were to rife into new life. The fixth northern figns terminate with 
 Virgo, and the fix fouthern commence with Libra; but the nort'nerntigu's 
 have always been confidered of a more efficacious and noble nature than 
 the fouthern. 
 
 Pliilofophers
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 85 
 
 Philofophers have alfo afligned another reafon for this order and divi- 
 fion of the twelve figns of the zodiac, namely. That nature works by 
 oppofition and contrariety, and thus brings about the four ftates of all 
 elementary bodies, viz. generation, confervation, corruption, and annihila- 
 tion. As therefore gxneratmi is the firft ftate, and is produced and 
 nouriihed by heat, they begin with the fiery fign Aries. The next qua- 
 lity being confervation, or durability, they fignify the fame by placino- an 
 earthy fign next in order, fince earth gives permanency and fixation to 
 corruptible bodies. The third quality being corruption, it is reprefented by 
 an airy fign, becaufe air is known to be the fource of putrefadion. 
 The laft ftate of an elementary body is its final end or dijfolution', and, 
 as water diflblves all corruptible bodies, fo have they defcribed it by 
 placing a watery fign the laft of all. In this arrangement of the figns 
 of the zodiac we may further obferve, that two pafifive principles are 
 placed between two active ones ; and, as our all-wile Creator hath fo 
 confl:ru6ted nature, that the oppofition of one thing fhould occafion the 
 exiftence or duration of another, fo we may obferve it in the divifions 
 of the zodiac ; for inftance, Aries, a fiery fign, is placed oppofite to Libra, 
 which is an airy fign ; and in all refpedls refembles a man fitting over a 
 fire with a pair of bellows in his hands, blowing to keep it burning : for, 
 without air, fire is foon extinguifhed. In the fame manner it is with the 
 water and the earth ; but, to make thefe obfervations more apparent, we 
 will arrange the figns of the zodiac under all their diiFerent qualities and 
 forms. 
 
 The DIVISIONS of the TWELVE SIGNS of the ZODIAC. 
 
 -the (ran 
 
 ift fix j :^ n; I 
 
 T-u 1- J 1 ir J- r Fiery T SI -T Hot and dry. 
 
 They are divided alio according ^ f, ' ^"^ * ^ ,, , /" 
 
 ^ \u ■ (T -r ■ }■ ■.■ a) Earthy y rp^ VJ Cold and dry 
 
 to their four 1 riphcities and< .. Vr tt 1 • 
 
 XT . '^ ^ Airy n =0: — Hot and moi 
 
 Signs oppofite are the ( T b R ^ 9, 1^ Northern and commanding, 
 firflfixto thelaft fix ) :^ ^ S VS -^ ¥: Southern and obeying. 
 
 Nature. 
 
 ry U zOz :x Hot and moift. 
 
 1^ Watery 55 tti K Cold and moift. 
 
 Some^are mafculine, as T n SI — | c^r Fiery and airy, mafculine. 
 
 Some are feminine, as b ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Earthy and watery, feminine. 
 
 Equino61ial T — 
 
 Tropical 25 vy 
 
 Fixed ti 9. H ^ 
 
 Common n 11^ 7 K ' 
 
 Moveable T S ii vy 
 
 No. c. U Thefe
 
 g5 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Thcfe fio-ns are termed fixed, common, and moveable, becaufe, whenever 
 the Sun is in any one of them, it anfwers to the fealbu of the year ; the 
 weather being then either moveable, or fixed ; or between both. 
 
 r^, ir J- -J J r Spring quarter T b n 
 
 They are alfo divided J gummer quarter ^ 9. W. 
 
 into the four quar- < ^^^^^^ ^rter ^^ ni | 
 
 ters of the year, as |^ winter quarter VS - ¥: 
 
 Aries begins the fpring quarter, for which reafon all the revolutional 
 fitrures, either for the world or for particular ftates, are fet from the Sun 
 enlerino- the firft point of the equinoftial fign Aries. 
 
 Bicorporal or double C 
 
 n H 
 
 bodied ^ 
 
 J the firft part of the fign only. 
 
 Fruitful figns 
 
 25 TTl K 
 
 Barren 
 
 n ^ m 
 
 Humane or courteous 
 
 u m — -^ 
 
 Mute figns, or flow of fpeech ^ v\ ^ 
 
 Feral figns 
 
 ^ l the laft part only. 
 
 Signs of right or long 
 
 afcenfions 25 $1 rr)^ =2: tt^ ; 
 
 Signs of (hort and obli 
 
 queafcenfions vy -c^ K T b H 
 
 Signs broken 
 
 SI ¥: 
 
 Signs whole 
 
 ^ ^ 11 "l 
 
 Signs fortunate 
 
 r n SI =ii= ; x=: 
 
 Signs unfortunate 
 
 « 95 TTi) Ti^ yj K 
 
 Signs fweet 
 
 n ^ :::■ 
 
 Signs bitter 
 
 T SI 1 
 
 Signs weak 
 
 r I ^ . 
 
 Signs ftrong 
 
 SI "I ^ 
 
 Some figns are convertible in their nature, according to their ac- 
 cidental fituation in', the heavens : as, n and SI "i the eafl are hot 
 and dry, b and xrn bottifh, J cold and moift, VS cold and dry, la 
 the weft, n 1% and VJ are cold and moift, b cold, I hot and dry. 
 Thefe qualities are abfolutely necefTary to be obferved in judging of the 
 weather. 
 
 When the Moon, or lord of the afcendant, is pofited, at a nativity, in 
 any of the figns we term hot, the native will be manly and vigorous, 
 and choler will abound in him ; but, if any of thofe figns we term cold, 
 
 he
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 87 
 
 he will then be meek, womanilh, and effeminate ; all which afFedions pro- 
 ceed from phlegm. 
 
 There are figns called quadrupedian, or four-footed, as T y ^ J^ VJ, 
 becaufe thofe creatures from whence they are named have four feet ; and 
 in a nativity, where either of them afcend, they import that the conftitu- 
 tion of the native partakes much of the nature of that creature they 
 reprefent ; for inftance, if Aries afcends, then he will be hot and dry, and 
 partake of the qualities of the ram ; if Taurus be lord of the afcendant, 
 he will be furious, as the bull; if Leo afcend, he will be in nature bold 
 and magnanimous; if Sagittarius, he will be perfevering and intrepid ; if 
 Capricorn, he will be luftful and libidinous, like the goat. So there are 
 figns of humanity, as n n)i ^ z^-, and the firfl part of % ; and in nativities 
 where any of thefe figns afcend, or in which the lord of the afcendant 
 is placed, it fignifies that the native is of a friendly difpofition, humane, 
 affable, and courteous ; of an excellent carriage, and engaging behaviour. 
 Again, feme figns are called fruitful, as 25 Tr[ ^ ; and, if the afcendant, 
 or his lord, or the moon, be placed in any one of thefe, or if the cufp of the 
 fifth houfe has one of thefe upon it, or if his lord be pofited in one of 
 them, the native will have many children, or will be of a prolific con- 
 ftitution ; but, if barren figns pofTefs the aforefaid places, then, according 
 to the plain courfe of nature, fierility and barrennefs will follow. There 
 are alfo fome figns termed mute, as 25 ni ^ . If any of thefe 
 afcend in a nativity, and Mercury, who is the general fignificator of 
 fpeech, be afflicted by the planets Saturn and the Dragon's Tail in an 
 evil houfe of heaven, and the afcendant alfo vitiated, the native will be 
 born dumb; if Mercury be free, and the afcendant only affli6ted, or if the 
 afcendant be ^xto, and Mercury afflidled, the native will be generally 
 filent, or flow of fpeech. But if figns of voice afcend in a nativity, 
 as n ni^ 25 J' isr, the native will pofTefs a volubility of fpeech, and be 
 a good orator. Again, fome figns are feral, i. e. brutifh, or favage; fuch 
 are Leo and the lafl part of Sagittarius ; and, whenever Leo or the lafl 
 part of Sagittarius afcend in a nativity, the native will be brutifhly inclined, 
 and pofTefs an unfeeling and cruel difpofition, Thofe perfons, in whofe 
 nativity T y ^ YJ' are horofcopical, have a conflant hoarfenefs or 
 whiftling in their delivery and fpeech, though otherwife quick and 
 voluble enough ; and thofe perfons are generally crooked, deformed, or 
 imperfedlly born, who have y afcending, and Caput Algol pofited in the 
 afcendant. But a confideration of the planets pofited in thofe figns mufl 
 not be negledted. 
 
 'D' 
 
 There are alfo degrees which are termed mafculine, feminine, light, 
 dark, fmoky, pitted, azimene or deficient, and increafing fortune; thefe 
 are all exhibited at one view in the following Table. 
 
 A TABLE
 
 88 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE exhibiting the Affections and Significations of the 
 Degrees in each Sign of the Zodiac. 
 
 •Signs 
 
 Masculine 
 
 Dfsrees 
 Feminine. 
 
 Degrees 
 Light. 
 
 Degrees 
 Dark. 
 
 Degrees 
 Smoky 
 
 Degrees 
 
 Vojd. 
 
 Pitted 
 or Deep 
 Degrees. 
 
 Deficient or 
 
 Azimene 
 
 Degreef. 
 
 Degrees 
 
 increasing 
 
 Fortune. 
 
 
 r 
 
 8 ,5 
 3° 
 
 9 
 
 22 
 
 8 20 
 29 
 
 i 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 33 
 
 II 16 
 
 23 29 
 
 
 
 '9 
 
 
 
 
 II 21 
 
 30 
 
 S '7 
 
 24 
 
 7 '5 
 28 
 
 3 
 30 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 20 
 
 5 12 
 
 24 25 
 
 678 
 9 10 
 
 3 15 
 
 27 
 
 
 n 
 
 i6 
 
 25 
 
 5 22 
 
 30 
 
 4 12 
 22 
 
 7 
 27 
 
 
 
 16 
 30 
 
 2 12 17 
 
 26 30 
 
 
 
 II 
 
 
 95 
 
 2 lO 
 
 23 30 
 
 8 12 
 
 27 
 
 12 
 28 
 
 H 
 
 20 
 
 18 
 
 30 
 
 12 17 23 
 26 30 
 
 9 10 II 
 12 13 
 14 IS 
 
 I 2 3 
 
 4 >S 
 
 
 9. 
 
 S IS 
 
 30 
 
 8 
 
 23 
 
 30 
 
 10 
 
 20 
 
 25 
 
 6 13 15 
 
 22 23 28 
 
 18 27 
 
 23 
 
 2 5 7 
 •9 
 
 
 n? 
 
 IZ 
 
 30 
 
 8 
 
 20 
 
 8 
 16 
 
 S 
 30 
 
 22 
 
 10 
 27 
 
 8 13 16 
 21 22 
 
 
 
 3 '4 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 5 20 
 
 30 
 
 15 
 
 27 
 
 S '8 
 *7 
 
 10 
 21 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 17 
 20 30 
 
 
 
 3 'S 
 21 
 
 
 4 '7 
 30 
 
 '4 
 25 
 
 8 
 22 
 
 3 
 30 
 
 H 
 
 H 
 29 
 
 9 10 22 
 «3 27 
 
 19 
 
 I 7 8 
 18 19 
 
 7 18 
 
 20 
 
 
 t 
 
 2 12 
 30 
 
 24 
 
 9 '9 
 
 30 
 
 12 
 
 23 
 
 
 
 7 '2 >S 
 
 24 27 30 
 
 13 20 
 
 12 13 
 
 14 20 
 
 
 V? 
 
 II 
 
 30 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 '9 
 
 7 22 
 
 30 
 
 15 
 
 25 
 
 7 «7 22 
 24 29 
 
 26 27 
 28 29 
 
 '9 
 
 18 
 
 
 r 
 
 5 *' 
 
 27 
 
 IS 25 
 
 30 
 
 9 21 
 30 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 25 
 
 I 12 17 
 22 24 29 
 
 7 .6 
 
 17 20 
 
 
 K 
 
 10 23 
 30 
 
 20 
 28 
 
 12 22 
 28 
 
 6 18 
 30 
 
 ° 
 
 25 
 
 4 9 24 
 
 27 28 
 
 
 
 13 10 
 
 
 In the firfl: column againfl: y you find 8. 15. 30. under the column of 
 maiculine degrees; and under the column of feminine you have 9. 22. 
 which (hows that the firft: eight degrees of Y are mafculine, and the 
 ninth degree feminine; from 9 to 15 are mafculine, and from 15 to 22 
 feminine, and from 22 to 30 are mafculine. The ule of which is, that, 
 if the principal fignificator in a nativity be pofited in the degrees and figns 
 mafculine, be the native male or female, it argues that he or fhe fhall 
 inheiita more mafculine temper and refolution than ordinary. But, if 
 the (ignificator he in feminine figns and degrees, then the native will be 
 more effeminate, timid, and lefs robuft. The fame obfervation holds 
 good with refped to the other figns and degrees, as in the Table they 
 ftaiid direfted. The fourth column points out that there are certain de- 
 grees in each fign which are termed light; and, if either of thefe afcend 
 
 ill
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 89 
 
 in a nativity, the native will be of a fairer and clearer complexion than 
 ordinary. The fifth column (hows that there are degrees termed dark or 
 obfcure ; and, whenever thefe happen to be horolbopical in a nativity, they 
 declare the native to be of a dark or fallow complexion, and, if he {hould 
 be born deformed, his deformity will be confiderably greater. The fixth 
 column {hows which degrees of the zodiac are termed y/wo/fy; and, if any 
 of them arife on the eaftern fineter at the time of birth, they declare the 
 native of a mixed complexion, neither fair nor fwarthy, but partaking of 
 both; and fimilar to his complexion will be his underftanding. The 
 feventh column fhows which of the degrees of the zodiac are called void ; 
 and, if the afcendant in the jadix of any nativity be pofited in them, it 
 declares an imbecility in the judgment and underftanding of the native ; 
 and, the farther he enters into converfation or bufinefs, the more obvious 
 will this defe£l appear. The eighth column points out what degrees in 
 each of the twelve figns are called deep and pitted; and thefe, in a nativity, 
 fignify, that if the afcendant, his lord, or the moon, be fituated in any of 
 them, the native will be of hafty and imperfeft fpeech, incapable of ex- 
 preffing his defires, or of declaring his fentiments ; and will always be in- 
 volved in vexatious litigations and difputes ; and, like a man in a pit or 
 fnare, will want the affiflance of another to help him out. The ninth 
 column diftinguifhes the azimene, lame or deficient, degrees ; and, if in a 
 nativity any one of thefe afcend, or the lord of the afcendant, or the moon, 
 be in any of them, the native will be crooked, lame, or deformed, or in 
 fome manner vitiated in the member or part of the body that the fign 
 governs in which fuch azimene degrees fhall happen to be. This rule 
 is fo unexceptionable and invariable, that it ought to be well confidered 
 in the judgment of every nativity. The tenth column points out all the 
 degrees in the twelve figns that are augmenters or increafers of fortune ; 
 and the knowledge to be derived from them is, that if, in a nativity, the 
 cufp of the fecond houfe, or the lord of the fecond, Jupiter, or Part of For- 
 tune, be in degrees augmenting, they then become arguments of much 
 wealth ; and prefage that the native fhall, according to his capacity or 
 fituation in life, attain to ftill greater honour, riches, and preferment. 
 
 But, befides thefe general properties, each of the figns pofTefTes a par- 
 ticular efficacy and virtue peculiar to itfelf, or to that part of the 
 heavens wherein it bears rule. For, as upon earth all ground will not 
 bring forth the fame fruit, fo in the heavens all places or parts thereof 
 will not produce the fame efFe6ts. Upon the earth, a man in his journey 
 rides over ten miles, more or lefs, upon the fands ; at another time, he 
 traces over as many miles more upon the clay ; and, after that, he pro- 
 ceeds on another ten miles upon the marl and gravel. Similar to this, 
 by the mofl corre£t obfervation, appear to be the alternate variations of 
 
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 90 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 the heavenlj matter. This we fhall render apparent, by examining the 
 different and diftind qualities of every fjgn throughout all the degrees of 
 the zodiac. And firfl 
 
 Of ARIES, r. 
 
 This fign, obfervation and experience both inform us, is hot and 
 dry, like a high gravelly or Tandy ground ; and, when this fign afcends 
 at a birth, or if the fun or moon be pofited in it, it ufually contributes 
 unto the native a dry body, lean ar.d fpare, flirong and large bones and 
 limbs, piercing eyes, a fwarthy or lallow complexion, and fandy-co- 
 loured or red hair, and inclines him to be choleric, brutal, violent, and 
 intemperate; that is, this fign naturally produces thefe effefts. But, if 
 the planets Jupiter or Venus be in the afcendant, or in this fign, it very 
 materially alters both the conftitution and complexion of the native for 
 the better,; but, if Saturn or Mars be pofited there, then it is altered 
 confiderably for the worfe.* For, as fome land will bear wheat, and 
 other land only rye, and yet, by adding com poll to it, or by ordering it 
 accordingly, the nature of the mould may oftentimes be changed, and 
 made to bring forth fruit contrary to its own nature ; — jufl the fame it is 
 when the planets, or their afpedls, fall flrongly into a fign ; they quite 
 change its nature and efFeft ; but, if none of thefe happen, then the fign 
 Aries, and the reft, unalterably purfue their own nature. 
 
 Aries is an equinoftial, cardinal, diurnal, moveable, fiery, choleric, hot 
 and dry, luxurious, violent, fign ; eaftern, and of the fiery triplicity. It 
 is the day-houfe of Mars, and confifts of twelve flars. The difeafes 
 produced by this fign are the fmall-pox and falling ficknefs, apoplexies, 
 head-ach, megrims, baldnefs, and all diforders of the head and face ; 
 hare-lips, ring-worms, meafles, fevers, convulfions, and the dead palfy. 
 The regions over which Aries prefidcs, are England, France, Baflernea, 
 Syria, Paleftine, the Upper Burgundy, Germany, SwifiTerland, the Upper 
 Silefia, the Lefler Poland, Denmark, and Judea ; the cities of Naples, 
 Capua, Ancona, Imolia, Ferrara, Florence, Verona, Lindavia, Brunfwick, 
 Cracovia, Marfeilles, Saiagoffa, Barganum, Csfarea, Padua, Augufta, and 
 Utrecht. In man it governs the head and face ; and the colour it rules 
 is white mixed with red. 
 
 TAURUS, b. 
 
 Taurus differs greatly from the preceding fign, being in nature cold 
 and dry, as if out of a hot and fandy foil a man were on a fudden to 
 enter into a cold deep clay-country. If this fign afcends at a birth, or is 
 
 * See Doft. of Nat. lib. i. cap. lo. fed. i. 
 
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 pofited in the fun or moon's place, it ufually renders a perfon with a 
 broad brow, thick lips, dark curling hair, of qualities fomewhat brutal 
 and unfeeling ; melancholy and flow to anger ; but, when once enraged, 
 violent and furious, and difficult to be appeafed. Hence it follows that 
 this is an earthly, cold, dry, melancholy, feminine, fixed, no6lurna], 
 fign ; fouthern, and of the earthy triplicity ; the night-houfe of Venus ; 
 and contains twenty-three ftars. The difeafes incident to this fign are, 
 cold and dry melancholic habits, fluxes of rheum, wens in the neck, fore 
 throats, king's evil, quinfeys, and confumptions. The regions over 
 which it prefides are, Perfia, Media, Parthia, Cyprus, the Iflands of the 
 Archipelago, Ada the Lefs, White Ruffia, the Greater Poland, Ireland, 
 Lorraine, Helvetia, Rhetia, Franconia, and Swifferland ; with the cities 
 of Mantua, Borronia, Parma, Sens, Terentia, Bithynia, Panorum, He- 
 liopolis, Leipfic, and Nantz. In man, it governs the neck and throat ; 
 and the colour it rules is red mixed with citron. 
 
 GEMINI, n. 
 
 Gemini is in nature hot and moift, like a fat and rich foil ; and pro- 
 duces a native fair and tall, of ftraight body and fanguine complexion 
 rather dark than clear ; the arms long, but oftentimes the hands and feet 
 fliort and flefhy ; the hair and eyes generally a dark hazel, of perfe6l 
 fight, and lively wanton look ; the underflanding found, and judicious 
 in worldly affairs. Gemini is defined an airy, hot, moifl:, fanguine, 
 double-bodied, mafculine, diurnal, weftern, fign, of the airy triplicity. 
 It is the day-houfe of Mercury ; and confifts of eighteen fixed ftars. 
 The difeafes produced by this fign are, all the infirmities of the arms, 
 fhoulders, and hands, phrenzy-fevers, corrupt blood, fraftures, and dif- 
 orders in the brain. The regions over which it prefides are, the wefl 
 and fouth-wefl of England, Brabant, Flanders, America, Lombardv, 
 Sardinia, and Wittembergia ; the cities of London, Mentz, Corduba, 
 Bruges, Hasford, Norringberg, Louvaine, Mogontia, and Verfailles. 
 In man, he governs the hands, arms, and fhoulders ; and rules all mixed 
 red and white colours. 
 
 CANCER, 55. 
 
 This fign, like a watery moorifli land, is by nature cold and moift ; 
 and, when it afcends at the time of birth, it yields a native fair and 
 pale, of a fhort and fmall feature, the upper part of the body generally large, 
 with a round face, brown hair, and grey eyes ; of qualities phlegmatic 
 and heavy, effeminate conflitution, and fmall voice : if a woman, inclined 
 to have many children. Cancer is the only houfe of the Moon, and 
 
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 ^2 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 *s the firft fio-n of the watery or northern triplicity ; it is a watery, cold, 
 moift, phleo-matic, feminine, nofturnal, moveable, fruitful, folfticial 
 fitrn, and comprehends nine fixed flars. Peculiar to this fign are all dil- 
 orders of the breafl and flomach, pleurifies, indigeftion, fliortnefs of 
 breath, want of appetite, cancers, coughs, phthifics, dropfies, furfeits, 
 impofthumes, afthmas, and confumptions. The regions which are more 
 immediately under the dominion of this fign, are Scotland, Holland, 
 Zealand, Grenada, Burgundy, Numidia, Africa, Bithynia, Phrygia, 
 Cholcis, and Carthage ; together with the cities of Coiiflantinople, 
 Tunis, York, St. Andrew's, Venice, Algiers, Genoa, Amfl^erdam, Mag- 
 deburo", Cadiz, St. Lucia, and New-York. In man, it governs the 
 breaft-, ribs, lungs, liver, pleura, and ventricle of the flomach ; and the 
 colour it rules is green and rufTet. 
 
 LEO, SI. 
 
 Leo is the only houfe of the Sun, by nature fiery, hot, dry, mafculine, 
 choleric, barren, and commanding; eaftern, and of the fiery triplicity; 
 and claims twenty-feven of the fixed ftars. When this fign afcends in 
 a nativity, it denotes that the native will be of a large mafculine body, 
 broad fhoulders, and auftere countenance ; dark or yellowifli hair, large 
 commanding eye, fprightly look, and ftrong voice ; the vifage oval, and 
 ruddy, or fanguine ; a refolute and courageous fpirit, afpiring mind, free 
 and ffenerous heart, with an open, bold, and courteous, difpofition. It 
 mufl however be remarked, that the beginning and middle of this fign 
 produce all the above faculties in the greateft degree of ftrcngth ; and 
 that, in the latter part of the fign, the native will be rather Ipare and 
 thin, with light flaxen hair, and of a weaker conftitution and tempera- 
 ture. The difeafes produced urkler Leo, are all the paffions and affec- 
 tions of the heart, as convulfions, fwoonings, trembling, qualms, violent 
 fever, plagues, peftilences, fmall-pox, raeafles, yellow jaundice, pleurifies, 
 fore eyes, and all difeafes arifing from choler, and all pains in the back, 
 ribs, and bowels. The provinces under the rule of Leo are, Italy, the 
 Alps, Cilicia, Bohemia, Phoenicia, Chaldea, part of Turkey, and Apulia; 
 alfo the cities of Rome, Damafcus, Cremona, Prague, Linzinus, 
 Philadelphia, Syracufe, Briflol, Crotona, and Ravenna. In man, it 
 governs the heart and back, the vertebra of the neck, and pericranium. 
 It rules the colours red and green. 
 
 D" 
 
 VIRGO, vji. 
 
 Virgo is an earthy, cold, dry, barren, feminine, fouthern, nocturnal, 
 melancholy, fign, of the earthy triplicity, and the houfe and exaltation of 
 Mercury, confifting of twenty-four fixed fiiars. When this fign afcends, 
 
 it
 
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 93 
 
 It perfonates a decent and well-compofed body, flender, and above the 
 middle flature, of a ruddy browti complexion, black or dark-brown lank 
 hair, the vifage fomewhat round, the voice fmall and flirill, a witty and 
 ingenious mind, ftudious, but rather unftable; and, if the afcendant be 
 free from the malevolent afpedls of Saturn, and this fign afcends with 
 Mercury therein, the perfon who hath them fo fituated at his birth will 
 be an excellent orator. The particular difeafes of this fign, are thofe 
 produced by worms, wind, and obftrudions ; hardnefs of the Ipleen, mo- 
 ther, hypochondriac melancholy, cholic, and iliac paflion. The regions 
 under the government of Virgo, are Babylon, Mefopotamia, AlTyria, 
 Achaia, Greece, Croatia, Corinthia, Crete, the territory of Athens, part 
 of Gallia Comata, part of Rhenus and the Lower Silefia ; with the cities 
 of Jerufalem, Corinth, Navarre, Arethium, Brundufium, Padua, Tou- 
 loufe, Paris, Bafil, Cratiflavia, Heidelburg, Sigina, Erphordia, and Lyons. 
 In man it governs the belly, bowels, fpleen, omentum, navel, and dia- 
 phragm; and it rules the colour black fpeckled with blue. 
 
 LIBRA, :0:. 
 
 Libra is a fign aerial, fanguine, hot and moift, equinodial, cardinal, 
 moveable, mafculine, weftern, diurnal, and humane; the day-houfe of 
 Venus, of the airy triplicity, and confifts of eight ftars. At a birth it 
 produces one of a tall, ftraight, and well-made, body ; of a round, lovely, 
 and beautiful, vifage ; a fine fanguine complexion in youth, but in old age 
 commonly brings pimples or a very deep red colour in the face ; the hair 
 yellow, or fomewhat tending to flaxen, long and lank ; grey eyes ; of a 
 courteous friendly difpofition, with a mind juft and upright in all its pur- 
 fuits. The difeafes common to this fign are, the ftone, gravel, heat, 
 wind-cholic, and difeafes in the loins ; impofthumes or ulcers in the reins, 
 bladder, or kidneys ; corruption in the blood, weaknefs in the back, and 
 gonorrhceas. The regions under its particular fway, are Badlriana, Caf- 
 pia, Ceres, Oafis, .Ethiopia, Sabandia, Alfatia, Sundgavia, Livonia, Auftria, 
 Pannonia, Portugal, and the country of Savoy. Alfo the cities of Lifbon, 
 Spria, Piacentia, Lauday, Friefburgh, Heilborn, Antwerp, Frankfort, 
 Vienna, Olyfiponis, Arafatum, Cajeta, Charles-Town, SuefTa, Argentum, 
 Velkkirchium, and Halafrifinga. In man it governs the reins, kidneys, 
 and bladder ; and the colours under its rule are black, dark, crimfon, or 
 tawny. 
 
 SCORPIO, tr{>. 
 
 Scorpio is a moift, cold, phlegmatic, feminine, no<flurnal, fixed, 
 
 northern, fign; the night-houfe and joy of Mars, and is of the watery 
 
 No. 5. Y trigon;
 
 94 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 trigon ; and includes twelve ftars. It gives a ftrong, robuft, corpulent, 
 
 body, of middle ftature, broad vifage, brown complexion, and brown 
 
 curlinty hair; a hairy body, fhort neck, and fhort thick legs; quick in 
 
 bodily°motion, but referved and thoughtful in converfation. The dif- 
 
 cafes incident to Scorpio, are the ftone and gravel in the bladder, ftran- 
 
 <rury, and other imperfedions in the urinary pafTage ; ruptures, fiflulas, 
 
 hemorrhoids, venereal dileafe, running of the reins, priapifms, fcurvy, 
 
 and piles. It bears rule over the regions of Matragonitida, Commagena, 
 
 Cappadocia, Judea, Idumea, Mauritania, Getulia, Catalonia, Norwegia, 
 
 the Weft Silefia, and the Upper Bavaria, the kingdom of Fez, and Bar- 
 
 bary ; together with the cities of Algiers, Valentia, Trapezuntia, Aquila, 
 
 Poftoria, Camerinum, Petavium, Meffina, Vienna of the AUobroges, 
 
 Gedandum, Crema, Ariminum, and Frankfort upon Oder. In man it 
 
 CToverns the privities, feminal velTels, groin, bladder, and fundament ; and 
 
 prefers a brown colour. 
 
 SAGITTARIUS, J. 
 
 Sagittarius is a fiery, hot, dry, mafculine, diurnal, eaftern, common, bi- 
 corporal, fign, of the fiery trigon ; the houfe and joy of Jupiter ; contain- 
 ing thirtv-one ftars. At a birth in endows the native with a well-formed 
 body, rather above the middle ftature ; with a handlome comely counte- 
 nance, a vifage fomewhat long, ruddy complexion, chefnut-coloured 
 hair, but fubje6t to baldnefs ; the body ftrong and adlive, and generally 
 a good horfeman ; ftout-hearted, intrepid, and carelefs of danger. The 
 difeafes proper to this fign are the fciatica, windy gout, running fores, 
 heat of the blood, peftilential fevers, and diforders produced by intem- 
 perance, and by falls from horfes. The regions under its government are 
 thofe of Arabia Felix, Tyrrhenia, Celtica, Hifpaniola, Dalmatia, Scla- 
 vonia, Hungaria, Moravia, Mifnia, Provincia, Liguria, and Spain ; the 
 cities of Toledo, Mutina, Narbonne, Avignon, Cologne, Agrippina, 
 Stutgardia, Rottemburgus, Cullen, Tuberinum, Indemburgus, and Buda. 
 In man it governs the thighs, hips, and os facrum ; and rules the yellow 
 green colour, tending to red. 
 
 CAPRICORN, yy. 
 
 Capricorn is an earthy, cold, dry, melancholy, feminine, nodurnal, 
 moveable, cardinal, folfticial, domeftic, fouthern, quadrupedian, fign, 
 of the earthy triplicity, the houfe of Saturn, and exaltation of Mars ; and 
 contains twenty-eight ftars. When this fign governs a nativity, it pro- 
 duces a (lender ftature, of a dry conftitution, long thin vifage, finaW 
 beard, dark hair, long neck, and narrow chin and breaft ; with a dif- 
 pofition colleded, witty, and fubtle. The difeafes peculiar to Capri- 
 corn,
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 95 
 
 corn, are the gout, fprains, fraftures, diflocations, leprofy, itch, fcabs, 
 and all difeafes of melancholy, and hyfterics. The regions over which it 
 bears fway, are thofe of India, Ariana, Macedonia, Illyria, Thracia, Bof- 
 nia, Mexico, Bulgaria, Greece, Mufcovy, Lithuania, Saxony, Morea, the 
 Orcades, Stiria, Romandiola, Marchia, Heffia, Thuringia, and Albany. 
 Likewife the cities of Juliacum, Chevonia, Berga, Mechlenberg, Gau- 
 danum, Vilna, Oxford, Brandenburgh, Augufta, Conftantia, Derrhona, 
 Feventra, Fortona, and Pratum. In man it governs the knees and hams ; 
 and rules the black or dark-brown colour. 
 
 ACTUARIES, :xz. 
 
 Aquaries is an airy, hot, moift, rational, fixed, humane, diurnal, fan- 
 guine, mafculine, wcflern, fign, of the airy triplicity ; the day-houfe of 
 Saturn, and comprehends, in its degrees of the zodiac, twenty-four ftars. 
 In a nativity, it dei>otes a perfon of weli-fet, thick, robuft, ilrong body, 
 long vifage, and pale delicate countenance ; clear fanguine complexion, 
 with bright-fandy or dark-flaxen hair. The difeafes common to this fign 
 are lamenefs and bruifes in the ancles, fra61ures and diflocations, cor- 
 ruption and putrefadlion of the blood, gouts, cramps, and rheumatifms. 
 The regions under its government are, Oxiana, Sogdiana, the Deferts 
 of Arabia Petrea, Azania, Sarmatia, Great Tartary, Wallachia, Red 
 Ruffia, Dania, the fouth part of Sweden, Wefl:phalia, MofTelani, Pede- 
 montum, part of Bavaria, Croatia, Germany, and Mufcovy ; with the 
 cities of Hamburgh, Breva, Montferrat, Trent, Pifaurum in Italy, Sa- 
 liflaurgus, Ingolftadius, Forum, Sempronium, and Bremen. In man it 
 governs the legs and ancles: and rules the fky-colour, or blue. 
 
 PISCES, K, 
 
 Pifces is a watery, cold, moifl:, feminine, phlegmatic, no61urnal, com- 
 on, bicorporal, northern, idle, effeminate, fickly, fruitful, fign, of the 
 atery triplicity, the houfe of Jupiter, and the exaltation of Venus ; and 
 ^jnfifl:s of twenty-four ftars. It produces a native of a fliort ftature, pale 
 complexion, thick flioulders, brown hair, of a fleftiy body, not very up- 
 right ; round-fliouldered, witlj an incurvating of the head. The difeafes 
 produced by this fign, are gouts, lamenefs, and pains incident to the feet ; 
 fait phlegm, biles, pimples, and ulcers proceeding from putrefied blood ; 
 alfo all cold and moifl: difeafes. The regions it governs are Phazonia, 
 Nazomontidis, Carmatia, Lydia, Pamphilia, Silefia, Calabria, Portugal, 
 Normandy, Galicia, Lufitania, Egypt, Garomentus ; and the cities of 
 Alexandria, Sibilia or Hyfpalis, Compoflella, Parantium, Rhotomagum, 
 Normantia, Ratiftjon, and Rheims. In man it governs the feet and toes, 
 and prefides over the pure white colour. 
 
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 96 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 It may perhaps be thought by fome of my readers, that the foregoing 
 influences, attributed to the twelve figns of the zodiac, are merely con- 
 jedural and imaginary. But the artift, whoever he be, that has the good 
 fenfe to determine for himfclf, by the ftandard of experience and obfer- 
 vation only, will carefully attend to all that has been ftated, as the par- 
 ticular efFe6t and virtue of each refpedive fign. For, without an intimate 
 acquaintance with them, no correft judgment can be formed upon any 
 nativity ; but, on the contrary, if the foregoing are ftridly attended to, 
 no one' who tries them will ever find an error in his calculations. 
 
 NATURAL
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. . 97 
 
 NATURAL PROPERTIES, INFLUENCES, and EFFECTS, of the 
 
 SUN, MOON, and PLANETS. 
 
 THE importance of thefe celeftial luminaries in the fcale of nature, 
 and the force of their operations upon the animal and vegetable 
 fyftems, require that they fhould be thoroughly inveftigated, and their 
 properties well underftood, before any advances are made in calculating 
 nativities, or refolving horary queftions. We fhall begin with Saturn, 
 the mofl: remote of the fuperior planets, and confider them individually 
 in the following order: 
 
 Saturn 
 
 b 
 
 1 Mars {J 
 
 Venus 
 
 9 
 
 Jupiter 
 
 -y. 
 
 } Luna ]) 
 
 And the central Sun 
 
 Mercury 
 
 5 
 
 There are alfo other charaders which we fhall have occafion to fpeak 
 of. The Dragon's Head S^, the Dragon's Tail ?5, and the Part of 
 Fortune ©. And firft:, 
 
 Of SATURN, b. 
 
 Saturn is the moft fupreme, or moft elevated, of all the planets, being 
 placed between Jupiter and the firmament, at about feven hundred and 
 eishtv millions of miles from the Sun. It travels in its orb at the rate of 
 eighteen thoufand miles every hour ; and performs its annual revolution 
 round the Sun in twenty-nine years, one hundred and fixty-feven days, 
 and five hours, of our time ; which makes only one year to that planet. 
 And, though it appears to us no larger than a ftar of the third magnitude, 
 yet its diameter is found to be no lefs than fixty-feven thoufand Englifli 
 miles ; and confequently near fix hundred times as big as the Earth ! This 
 planet is furrounded by a thin broad ring, fomewhat refembling the ho- 
 rizon of an artificial globe; and it appears double when feen through a 
 good telefcope. It is inclined thirty degrees to the ecliptic, and is about 
 twenty-one thoufand miles in breadth ; which is equal to its diflance 
 from Saturn on all fides. The-e is reafon to believe that the ring turns 
 round its axis, becaufe, when it is almoft edgeways to us, it appears fome- 
 what thicker on one fide of the planet than on the other ; and the thickeft 
 edge has been feen on different fides at different times. Dr. Herfchel has 
 difcovercd that Saturn revolves about an axis perpendicular to the plane of 
 its ring in 10 hours 16 min. 0*4". that therefore is the length of his day. 
 He has two degrees forty-eight minutes north, and two degrees forty-nine 
 minutes louth, latitude. He is retrograde one hundred and forty days, and 
 
 No. 5. Z ftationary
 
 98 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 ftationary five days before and fivcdays after his retrogradation. He is at- 
 tended by feven latellities. 
 
 Saturn is in nature cold and dry, occafioned by his being fo far re- 
 moved from the heat of the Sun ; abounds in moift vapours, and is a me- 
 lancholy, earthy, mafculine, folitary, diurnal, malevolent, planet ; and 
 the crieater infortune. His efFeds, when lord of the afcendant, or prin- 
 cipal ruler of a nativity, with all his qualities, are as follow : he produces 
 a middle ftature, with a dark, fwarthy, or pale, complexion, fmall leer- 
 in"- black eyes, broad forehead, lean face, lowering brow, thick nofe 
 and lips, large ears, black or brown hair, broad ftioulders, thin beard, 
 with fmall lean thighs and legs. If this planet is well dignified at the 
 time of birth, the native will be of an acute and penetrating imagination ; 
 in his conduft, aufi:ere ; in words, referved ; in fpeaking and giving, very 
 ipare ; in labour, patient ; in arguing or difputing, grave ; in obtaining 
 the croods of this life, fludious and folicitous; in his attachments, either 
 to wife or friend, conflant and unequivocal; in prejudice or refentment, 
 rio-id and inexorable. But, if this planet be ill dignified at the time of 
 birth, the native will be naturally fordid, envious, covetous, miftruftful, 
 cowardly, fluggifh, outwardly difTembling, falfe, ftubborn, malicious, 
 and perpetually diftatisfied with himfelf, and with all about him. When 
 Saturn is oriental, the human flature will be fhorter than ufual ; and, 
 when occidental, thin, lean, and lefsairy. If his latitude be north, the native 
 will be hairy and corpulent; if without any latitude, he will be of 
 large bones and mufcles ; and, if meridional, fat, fmooth, and fle(hy ; in 
 his firft ftation, ftrong, and well-favoured ; and, in his fecond flation, 
 weak and ill-favoured. Thefe remarks likewife hold good with refpedi 
 to all the other planets. It is alfo to be remarked, that, when Saturn is 
 fignificator of travelling, he betokens long and laborious journeys, peril- 
 ous adventures, and dangerous imprifonment. Saturn governs the fpleen, 
 right ear, bones, teeth, joints, and retentive faculty, in man ; and rules 
 every thing bitter, fharp, or acrid. His government and effeds in all 
 other refpedls are as follow. 
 
 Difeafes under Saturn. — All melancholy and nervous affedions, quartan 
 agues, falling ficknefs, black jaundice, tooth-ache, leprofy, defluxions, 
 tillulas, pains in the limbs and joints, gout, rheumatifm, hemorrhoids, 
 deafncls, infanity, pally, confumption, dropfy, chin-cough, fradures, 
 apoplexies, and all phlegmatic humours ; aod, in conceptions, he rules the 
 firll and the eighth months. 
 
 Herbs and Plants under Saturn. — Barley, fumitory, beech-tree, bifoil, 
 birdsfoot, bifiort, buckftiorn plantane, vervane, fpinach, bearsfoot, wolf- 
 bane.
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 99 
 
 bane, feni, fage, box, poppy, angelica, tamarind, capers, rue, willow, 
 yew-tree, cyprus-tree, hemp, pine-tree', wild campions, pile-wort, cleavers, 
 clown's woundwort, comfrey, cudweed, crofTwort, darnel, dodder, 
 epithymum, elm-tree, ofmond royal, flea-wort, flix-wced, gout-wort, 
 ftinking gladden, winter-green, hound's tongue, hawk-weed, hemlock, 
 henbane, horfetail, knap-weed, knot-grafs, medlar, mofs, mullen, night- 
 fhade, polypody, quince, rupture-wort, ruflies, Solomon's feal, yarrow, 
 cetrach, Saracen's confound, lervice-tree, tamarifk, black-thorn, melan- 
 choly thiftle, thorowax, tutfan, aconite, afphodil, agnus caftus, ftarwort, 
 orach, fhepherd's purfe, black hellebore, mandrake, opium. In gather- 
 ing his herbs, the ancients turned their faces towards the eaft in his 
 planetary hour, when in an angle and elTentially fortified, with the Moon 
 applying to him by fextile or trine. 
 
 Stones, Metals, and Minerals. — The fapphire, and lapis lazuli, or that 
 ftone of which azurq is made; likewife all unpolifhed black and blue 
 flones ; the loadftone, tin and lead, and the drofs of all metals. 
 
 Animals under Saturn. — The afs, the cat, the hare, moufe, dog, wolf, 
 bear, elephant, bafilifk, crocodile, fcorpion, adder, ferpent, toad, hog, 
 and all creeping things produced by putrefadlion. Alfo the tortoife, the 
 eel, and all kinds of (hell-fifh. Among birds, the crow, lapwing, owl, 
 bat, cratie, peacock, thru(h, blackbird, oftrich, and cuckow. 
 
 Weather and Winds. — He brings cloudy, dark, oblcure, weather, with 
 cold biting winds, and thick, heavy, condenfed, air. Thefe are his 
 general effefts ; but the more particular and immediate alterations of 
 weather produced by this planet are only to be known by his feveral 
 pofitions and afpedls with other planets, fortitudes, and debilities, of 
 which I fhall treat at large in my third book. Saturn delights in the 
 eaftern quarter of the heavens, and caufeth the eaftern winds. He is 
 friendly to Jupiter, Sol, and Mercury; but at enmity with Mars, Venus, 
 and the Moon. 
 
 Triplicity, and Signs. — He governs the flgn Capricorn by night, and 
 Aquaries by day, and the airy triplicity by day. Of the weekly days he 
 rules Saturday, the firfl: hour from fun-rifing, and the eighth hour of the 
 fame day, and the firft hour of Tuefday night. 
 
 Regions under Saturn. — Bavaria, Saxony, Stiria, Romandiola, Ravenna, 
 Conftantia, and Ingoldftadt. 
 
 Years. — Saturn's greateft year is four hundred and fixty-five ; his great 
 is fifty-feven ; his mean, forty-three and a half; and his leaft, thirty. 
 
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 The fignification of which, in aftrology, is, that if a kingdom, city, 
 town, principality, or family, take its rife when Saturn is eflentially 
 and occidentally ftrong, and well fortified, it is probable the fame will 
 continue in honour and profperity, without any material alteration, for 
 the fpace of four hundred and fixty-five years. Again, if in a nativity 
 Saturn is well dignified, is lord of the geniture, and not afflided by any 
 crofs-afpeds, then the native, according to the common courfe of na- 
 ture, may live fifty-feven years; if the planet be but meanly dignified, 
 then the native will not live more than forty-three years ; and if he be 
 weakly dic^nified, he will not live more than thirty years ; for the na- 
 ture of Saturn at beft is cold and dry, which are qualities deftrudive to 
 health and long life in man. 
 
 Qrb. — Saturn's orb is nine degrees before and after any afpe6l ; that is, 
 his influence begins to operate, when either he applies, or any planet ap- 
 plies to him, within nine degrees of his perfedl afpedl ; and his influence 
 continues in force until he is feparated nine degrees from the afpe6t partial. 
 
 JUPITER, H.. 
 
 Jupiter is the next planet below Saturn, and called \\\q greater fortune. 
 He appears to our fight the largeft of any ftar in magnitude except 
 Venus; and is of a bright refplendent clear afped. Modern aftronomers 
 have proved him to be four hundred and twenty-fix millions of miles from 
 the Sun, and above a thoufand times bigger than out Earth ; he goes in 
 his orbit at the aftonifliing rate of near twenty-fix thoufand miles an hour, 
 and his diameter is computed at eighteen thoufand Englifh miles, which 
 is more than ten times the diameter of the Earth. He completes his annual 
 courfe round the Sun in eleven years, three hundred and fourteen days, 
 twelve hours, twenty-minutes, and nine feconds. He is confiderably 
 fwifter i» motion than Saturn ; but to us his mean motion is four minutes 
 fifty-nine feconds ; his fwifter motion fourteen minutes. He has exaltation 
 in fifteen degrees of Cancer ; fufl^ers detriment in Gemini and Virgo, 
 and receives his fall in fifteen degrees of Capricorn. His greateft lati- 
 tude north is one degree thirty-eight minutes, and his greateft latitode 
 fouth one degree forty minutes. He is retrograde one hundred and twenty 
 days ; and ftationary five days before and four days after his retro- 
 gradaiion. His orb, or radiation, is nine degrees before and after any of 
 his afpecls. His day is nearly ten hours long. He is attended by fqur 
 fatellites. 
 
 Jupiter is a diurnal mafculine planet, temperately hot and moift, 
 airy and fanguine ; author of temperance, modefty, fobriety, and juf- 
 tice. He rules the lungs, liver, reins, blood, digeflive virtue, and natu- 
 ral
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. loi 
 
 ral faculties of man. When he prefides over a nativity, he gives an ereCl 
 and tall ftature, a handfome rofy complexion, an oval vifage, high fore- 
 head, large grey eyes, foft thick brown hair, a well-fet comely body, {hort 
 neck, large wide chefl: ; robuft, flrong, and well-proportioned, thighs and 
 legs, with long feet; his fpeech fober and manly, and his converfation 
 grave and commanding. If well dignified at the birth, this planet be- 
 tokens moft admirable manners and difpofition to the native : he will 
 he in general magnanimous, faithful, and prudent, honourably afpiring 
 after high deferts and noble adions, a lover of fair dealing, defirous of 
 ferving all men, juft, honeft, and religious ; of eafy accefs, aiid of affiible 
 manners and converfation ; kind and afFeftionate to his family and friends; 
 charitable and liberal to the utmoft extent of his abilities ; wife, prudent 
 and virtuous, hating all mean and fordid a61ion3. But, if Jupiter be ill- 
 dignified, and afflifled with evil afpeds at the time of birth, he then be- 
 tokens a profligate and carelefs diipofition, of mean abilities, and fhallow 
 underftanding ; a bigot in religion, and obftinate in maintaining errone- 
 ous do61rines ; abandoned to evil company ; eafily feduced to folly and 
 extravagance ; a fycophant to every one above him, and a tyrant in his 
 own family. If the planet be oriental at the birth, the native will be 
 more fanguine and ruddy, with larger eyes, and more corpulent body ; 
 and generally with a mole or mark upon the right foot. Jf occidental, 
 then it beftows a moft fair and lovely complexion, particularly to a fe- 
 male ; the ftature fomewhat (horter, the hair light brown, or approach- 
 ing to flaxen, but thin round the temples and forehead. 
 
 Difeafes under Jupiter. — All infirmities of the liver, obftrucfiions, pleu- 
 rifles, apoplexies, inflammation of the lungs, infirmities in the left ear, 
 palpitations of the heart, cramps, pains in the back, diforders in the 
 reins, proceeding from corruption of blood ; quinfies, windinefs, fevei-s, 
 proceeding from a fuperabundance of blood ; all griefs in the head, pulfe, 
 feed, arteries, convulfions, pricking and ftiooting in the body, and pu- 
 trefadion of the humours. In generation, he governs the lecond and 
 ninth months. 
 
 Herbs and Plants. — Agrimony, Alexander, afparagus, avens, bay-tree, 
 elecampane, beets, betony, borrage, bilberries, buglofs, chervil, colts- 
 foot, fweet cicely, cinquefoil, alecoft, dandelion, docks, bloodwort, 
 quickgrafs, endive, hart's tongue, hyflop, liverwort, lungwort, fvveet- 
 maudlin, oak-tree, red-rofes, fage, fauce-alone, fcurvy-grafs, fuccory, 
 cherries, lady's-thiflle, barberries, ftrawberries, liquorice, apples, mul- 
 berries, myrobolans, olives, peaches, pear-tree, felf-heal, wheat, madder, 
 maftic, fugar, honey, rhubarb, violets, pomegranates, mint, fafFron, dahy, 
 feverfew, nutmegs, gillyflowers, mace, cloves, flax, balm, fumitory, wild 
 
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 102 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 and fweet marjoram, St. John's wort, almond-tree, hazel, fig-tree, goofe- 
 berry-tree, pine-tree, coral-tree, ivy, and the vine. — Rule for gathering, 
 the fame as under Saturn. 
 
 Stones, Metals, and Minerals. — The topaz, amethyft, marble, emerald, 
 cryflal, fapphire, hyacinth, bezoar, and freeflone. Tin, lead, and 
 pewter. 
 
 Animals. — The unicorn, doe, hart, (lag, ox, elephant, horfe, Iheep, and 
 all domeftic animals that do not fly the dominion of man. Alfo the 
 whale, dolphin, fea-ferpent, and fheth-fifh. Among birds, the eagle, ftork, 
 peacock, pheafant, partridge, ftock-dove, fnipe, lark, &:c. 
 
 Weather and Winds. — Jupiter produces pleafant, healthful, and ferene, 
 weather; and governs the north and north-eafl: winds. He is friendly 
 with Saturn, Sol, Venus, Mercury, and Luna, but at enmity with Mars. 
 We call Thurfday his day ; and he rules on Sunday night. His influ- 
 ence commences an hour after fun-rife, and he governs the firfl: hour and 
 the eighth. 
 
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 Signs and Triplicity. — He rules the celeftial fign Saglttary by day, and 
 Pifces- by night. The effed of which is, that if Jupiter be fignificator 
 in the revolution of any year, by day, and in Sagittary, he is fo much the 
 more fortified ; and if in Pifces, in a nod^urnal revolution, the effect is 
 the fame. This obfervation extends to all the other planets. He pre- 
 lldes over the fiery triplicity by night; fo that, if Jupiter be in twenty 
 degrees of Aries, or the tenth degree of Leo, in any a'/ar^a/ revolution, he 
 (hall be accounted peregrine, as not having any dignity therein, being 
 neither in his houfe, exaltation, term, triplicity, or face; but in di noc- 
 turnal revolution he would not be accounted peregrine, for then he would 
 have triplicity in both thefe figns. 
 
 Journeys. — When he is fignificator, he denotes pleafant travelling, good 
 fuccefs, fafety, health, and mirth. 
 
 Countries under Jupiter. — Spain, Hungary, Babylon, Perfia, &c. 
 
 Colours under Jupiter. — Sea-green, blue, purple, afli-colour, a mixed 
 yellow and green. 
 
 Years. — Jupiter's greatefl year is four hundred and twenty-eight ; the 
 longefl year he gives is feventy-nine ; his mean year is forty-five ; and 
 his leafl year is twelve. 
 
 Of
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 103 
 
 Of mars, <S- 
 
 Mars is next located to Jupiter, and is the firft planet above the Earth 
 and Moon's orbit. His diftance from the Sun is computed at one hundred 
 and twenty-five millions of miles ; and, by travelling at the rate of forty- 
 feven thoufand miles every hour, he goes round the Sun in fix hundred 
 and eighty-fix of our days, and four hours; which is the exact length of 
 his year, and contains fix hundred and fixty-feven days and three quar- 
 ters ; but every day and night together is forty minutes longer than with 
 us. His diameter is four thoufand four hundred and forty-four miles, 
 which is but a fifth part fo large as the Earth. He is of a deep fiery red 
 colour; and, by his appulfes to fome of the fixed flars, feems to be en- 
 compafTed by a very grofs atmofphere. His mean motion is thirty-one 
 degrees twenty-feven minutes ; and his fwift motion from thirty-two ta 
 forty-four minutes. His exaltation is in twenty-eight degrees of Capri- 
 corn ; his fall in twenty-eight degrees of Cancer, and his detriment in 
 Libra and Taurus. His greateft north latitude is four degrees thirty-one 
 minutes, and his greatefl: fouth latitude fix degrees forty-feven minutes. 
 He is retrograde eighty days, and flationary two or three days before re- 
 trogradation, and two days before diredlion. His orb or radiation is feven 
 degrees before and after any of his afpedts. 
 
 Mars is a mafculine nofturnal planet, in nature hot and dry, choleric 
 and fiery, the fmaller infortune, author of quarrels, diffenfions, ftrife, war, 
 and battle; and rules the gall, left ear, head, face, fmell, imagination, 
 and attradlive faculty of man. This planet, prefiding at a birth, renders 
 up a ftrong well-fet body, of fhort feature, but large bones, rather lean 
 than fat ; a brown ruddy complexion, red, fandy, flaxen, or light-brown, 
 hair, round face, fharp hazle eyes, confident bold countenance, adive and 
 fearlefs. If well dignified, the native will inherit a courageous and in- 
 vincible difpofition ; unfufceptible of fear or danger ; hazarding his life 
 on all occafions, and in all perils; fubjeft to no reafon in war or conten- 
 tion ; unwilling to obey or fubmit to any fuperior ; regardlefs of all things 
 in comparlfbn of triumphing over his enemy or antagonift ; and yet pru- 
 dent in the management and diredtion of his private concerns. If the 
 planet be ill dignified, and afflided with crofs-afpeds, the party will then 
 grow up a trumpeter of his own fame and confequence, without decency 
 or honefty ; a lover of malicious quarrels and affrays ; prone to wicked- 
 nefs and {laughter, and in danger of committing murder, of robbing on 
 the highway, of becoming a thief, traitor, or incendiary; of a turbulent 
 fpirit, obfcene, rafh, inhuman, and treacherous, fearing neither God nor 
 man, given up to every fpecies of fraud, violence, cruelty, and oppreffion. 
 If the planet be oriental at the nativity, the native will be above the middle 
 ftature, very hairy, and of a clear complexion. If occidental, the native 
 
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 104 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 will be fliort, of a more ruddy complexion, a fmall head, with yellow 
 hair, and a dry conftitution. 
 
 Difeafes under Mars. — Peftilential fevers, plagues, murrains, tertian 
 at^ues, megrims, carbuncles, yellow jaundice, burnings and fcaldings, 
 riiio-worms, blifters, phrenzy- fevers, all hot and feveri(h complaints in 
 the head, bloodv flux, fiftulas, difeafes of the genitals, wounds of every 
 defcription, ftone in the reins and bladder, the difuria, ifcuria, diabetes, 
 {Irangury, fmall-pox, fhingles, St. Anthony's fire, choler, and all cho- 
 leric difeafes, wounds or bruifes by iron or fire, overflowing of the gall, 
 and all effedls proceeding from intemperate anger and paffion. 
 
 Herhs and Plants. — Arfe-fmart, aflarum, barberry-bufli, broom, fweet 
 bafil, broom-rape, butchers-broom, bramble, brooklime, betony, crow- 
 foot, madder, wake-robin, cranes-bill, cotton-thiflle, toad-flax, garlic, 
 hurt-bufh, hawthorn, hops, mafterwort, rocket, muftard, hedge-muftard, 
 onions, dittany, carduus benediflus, radifh, horfe-radifli, rhubarb, rha- 
 phontic, monks-rhubarb, thiftle, woolly-thiftle, flar-thiftle, treacle- 
 muflard, dyer's weed, wormwood, birthwort, camelion-thiflle, danewort, 
 ellue, cornel-tree, euphorbium, fpear-wort, white hellebore, fponge, lau- 
 rel-fl:eel, monks-hood, leeks, fcammony, coloquintida, elaterium, devil's 
 milk, nettles, ginger, pepper, red fanders, briers, cammock, horehound, 
 and all trees that are prickly and thorny. — Rule for gathering, the fame 
 as before. 
 
 Stones, Metals, and Minerals. — The bloodflone, loadftone, jafper, touch- 
 ftone, adamant, amethyft of divers colours ; antimony, flone-fulphur, 
 white arfenic, &:c. 
 
 Anmals. — The maftiff, wolf, tiger, cockatrice, panther, and all fuch 
 beafls as are ravenous and wild. Alfo the (hark, pike, barbel, fork-fifh, 
 all flinging water-ferpents and voracious fifh. Of birds, the hawk, kite, 
 raven, vulture, owl, cormorant, crow, magpie, and all birds of prey. 
 
 Weather and Winds. — Of Mars proceed thunder and lightning, fiery 
 meteors, peflilential air, and all flrange phenomena in tlie heavens. He 
 rules the weftern winds; and is friendly with all the planets except the 
 Aloon. Tuefday is his day; he rules the firfl and eighth hours, and 
 Friday nights. 
 
 Signs and Triplicity. — Aries is his day-houfe, and Scorpio his night. 
 He bears rule over the watery trigon, viz. Cancer, Scorpio, and Pifces. 
 
 Regions
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 105 
 
 Regions under Mars. — Jerufalem, the Roman Empire, Eveiito, Sarma- 
 tia, Lombardy, Batavia, Ferrara, Gothland, and the third climate. 
 
 Journey s. — In journeys, he portends danger of robbery, lofs of life, and 
 all the other perils attendant upon the traveller. 
 
 Years. — His greateft revolution-year is two hundred and fourteen ; his 
 great year isfixty-fix; his mean year is forty ; his leaft year is fifteen. 
 
 Of the MOON, ]). 
 
 The Moon is next below Mars, being a fatellite or attendant on the 
 Earth, and goes round it from change to change in twenty-nine days twelve 
 liours and forty-four minutes; and round the Sun with it every year. The 
 Moon's diameter is two thoufand one hundred and eighty miles; and her 
 diftance from the Earth's centre is two hundred and forty thoufand miles. 
 She goes round her orbit in twenty-feven days feven hours and forty-three 
 minutes, moving about two thoufand two hundred and ninety miles every 
 hour; and turns round her axis exactly in the time that fhe goes round 
 the Earth, \vhich is the reafon of her always keeping the fame fide towards 
 us, and that her day and night taken together is as long as our lunar 
 month. She is an opaque globe, like the Earth, and fliines only by re- 
 flecting the li2.ht of the Sun ; therefore, whilft that half of her which is 
 towards the Sun is enlightened, the other part muft be dark and invifible. 
 Hence fhe difappears when iTie comes between us and the Sun ; becaufe 
 her dark fide is then towards us. When fhe is gone a little way forward, 
 we fee a little of her enlightened fide ; which flill increafesto our view as 
 fhe advances forward, until (he comes to be oppofite the Sun, and then her 
 whole enlightened fide is towards the Earth, and fhe appears with a round 
 illumined orb, which we call the Full Moon, her dark fide being then 
 turned away from the Earth. From the full flie leems to decreafe gra- 
 dually as fhe goes through the other half of her courfe, fhowing us lefs 
 and lefs of her enlightened fide every day, till her next change, or ccn- 
 junftion with the Sun, and then fhe difappears as before. Her mean mo- 
 tion is thirteen decrees ten minutes and thirtv-fix feconds ; her fwift 
 or diurnal motion often varies, but never exceeds fifteen degrees two mi- 
 nutes in twenty-four hours. Her greateft north latitude is five degrees 
 and feventeen minutes ; and her gieateft fouth latitude is five degrees and 
 twelve minutes, or thereabouts. She is never ftationary nor retrograde, 
 but always direcl: ; though when flie is flow in motion, and 2;oes lefs than 
 thirteen degrees in twenty-four hours, fhe is confidered equivalent to a 
 retrograde planet. Her exaltation is in the third degree of Taurus; her 
 detriment in Capricorn, and her fall in three degrees of Scorpio. Her 
 
 No. 6. B b orb 
 
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 ,o6 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 orb, or radiation, is twelve degrees before and after any of her afpe<5ts ; 
 and flie rules over all infants until the feventh year of their age. 
 
 The Moon is feminine, no6lurnal, cold, moifl-, and phlegmatic. Her 
 influence, in itfelf, is neither fortunate nor unfortunate, but as fhe hap- 
 pens to fall in with the configurations of the other planets, and is then 
 either malevolent or otherwise as thofe afpedis happen to be. And un- 
 der thefe circumftances flie beconnes the moft powerful of all the hea- 
 venly bodies in her operations, by reafon of her proximity to the Earth, 
 and the fwiftnefs of her motion, by which (he receives and tranfmits to 
 us the light and influence of all the fuperiors by her configurations with 
 them. When fhe has rule in a nativity, (he produces a full (Mature, with 
 fair and pale complexion, round face, grey eyes, lowering brow, very 
 hairy, (hort arms, thick hands and feet, Tmooth body, inclined to be fat, 
 corpulent, and phlegmatic. If (he be impedited of the Sun at the time 
 of birth, (he leaves a blemifh on or near the eye; if fhe be impedited in 
 fuccedent houfes, the blemifh will be near the eye ; but, if with fixed 
 ftars, and in unfortunate angles, the blemifli will fall in the eye, and 
 will afFed the fight. If (he be well dignified at the nativity, the native 
 will be of foft engaging manners and difpofition, a lover of the polite 
 arts, and of an Ingenious imagination, fond of novelties, and given to 
 travelling, or rambling about the country; unflable, and providing only 
 for the prefent time, carelefs of futurity ; timorous, prodigal, and eafily 
 affrighted ; but loving peace, and defiring to live free from the cares and 
 anxieties of the world. If the native be brought up to a mechanical 
 employment, he will be frequently tampering with a variety of different 
 trades, but purfuing none of them long together. If the Moon be ill- 
 dignified at the birth, the native will then be flothful, indolent, and of no 
 forecafl; given up to a drunken, diforderly, beggarly, life, hating labour, 
 or any kind of bufinefs or employment. When oriental, (he inclineth 
 more to corpulence ; but, when occidental, rather lean, aukward, and 
 ill-formed. 
 
 Dtfeafes under the Moon. — The palfy, cholic, complaints of the bowels, 
 the done and gravel, overflowings or obffrudlons of the terms, dropfy, 
 fluxes and dyfentery, all cold and rheumatic complaints, worms in the 
 belly, difbrders of the eyes, furfeits, coughs, convulfions, falling fick- 
 nefs, king's evil, impofthumes, fmall-pox, lethargy, meafles, phrenzies, 
 apoplexies, vertigo, lunacy, and all crude humours in any part of the 
 body. In conception (he rules the feventh month ; and governs the 
 brain, the ftomach, bowels, bladder, the left eye in man, and the right 
 eye in woman, and the whole expulfive faculty. 
 
 Herbs
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 107 
 
 Herbs and Plants. — Adder's tongue, cabbages, colewort, ducks-meat, 
 water-flag, lily, water-lily, flower de luce, lettuce, fluellin, moonvvort, 
 loofe-ftrife, moufe-ear, orpine, poppies, purflane, privet, rattlegrafs, 
 turnips, white rofes, white and burnt faxifrage, wall-flowers, willow-tree, 
 toadftool, water-plantane, water-agrimony, water-betony, houfeleek, 
 moon-herb, hyffop, cucumber, endive, mushrooms, poppies, linfeed, 
 rapefeed, and all fuch herbs as turn towards the moon, and increafe and 
 decreafe as fhe doth ; the palm-tree, which fends forth a twig every time 
 the moon rifes, and all fuch trees and plants as participate or fympathizc 
 with her, and are juicy and full of fap. In gathering her herbs, the fame 
 rule is to be obferved as with the other planets. 
 
 Stones and Metals. — All ftones that are white and green, the marcafite, 
 the cryftal, the felenite, and all foft ftones. Silver, and all hard white 
 metals. And the colours white, pale green, and pale yellow. 
 
 Animals under the Moon. — All amphibious animals, or fuch as delight 
 in water, and all that fympathize with the iMoon, as the camelion, dog, 
 hog, frog, hind, goat, baboon, panther, cat, the civet-cat, mice, rats, 
 &c. Among fiflies, the felurus, (from «r£Xw, the moon,) whofe eyes in- 
 creafe and decreafe according to the courfe of the moon, and all other 
 fifhes of the like nature ; the tortoife, the echeneis, the eel, crab, oyflcr, 
 lobfler, cockle, mufcle, and all kinds of fhell-fifli. Among birds, the 
 goofe, fwan, duck, dive-dapper, moor-hen, the night-owl, night-raven, 
 bat, and all forts of water- fowl. 
 
 W^eather and Winds. — She produces weather according to her configu- 
 rations with other planets, viz. with Saturn, cold, moift, and cloudy, wea- 
 ther ; with Jupiter, warm and temperate air; with Mars, winds, clouded 
 iky, and fudden ftorms ; with the Sun, (he varies the weather according 
 to the time of the year ; with Venus, warm and gentle fliowers ; with 
 Mercury, ftormy winds and rain. But in the third part of this work we 
 fhall treat of this fubjeft more particularly. The Moon always occaflons 
 thofe winds fignified by the planet to which flie applies in her configu- 
 ration. 
 
 Signs and Triplicity. — Of the celeftial figns, fhe has only Cancer allotted 
 to her for her houfe. She rules the earthy triplicity by night, viz. Tau- 
 rus, Virgo, and Capricorn, She is in friendfhip with Jupiter, Sol, Ve- 
 nus, and Mercury ; but at enmity with Saturn and Mars. Of the weekly 
 days, fhe rules Monday and Thurfday nights. 
 
 Regions. — She has dominion over Denmark, Holland, Zealand, Flan- 
 ders, Nuremberg, and North America. 
 
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 Years. — Her greateft year is three hundred and twenty ; her great is 
 one hundred and eight ; her mean year is fixty-fix; and her leaft year is 
 twenty-five. 
 
 VENUS, 9- 
 
 Venus is the next planet below the Earth and Moon, having her orhit 
 within that of the Earth. She is computed to be fifty-nine millions of 
 miles from the Sun ; and, by moving at the rate of fixty-nine thoufand 
 miles every hour, fhe pafiTes through the twelve figns of the zodiac in two 
 hundred and twenty- four days feventeen hours of our time nearly. Her 
 diameter is (even thoufand nine hundred and fix miles; and by her diur- 
 nal motion fhe is carried about her equator forty-three miles every hour, 
 befides the fixty-nine thoufand above mentioned. When (he appears weft 
 of the Sun, fhe rifes before him in the morning, and is called the morning- 
 flar ; but, when flic appears eafi: of the Sun, fhe fhines in the evening after 
 he fets, and is then called the evening-flar ; and continues alternately for 
 the fpace of two hundred and ninety days in each of thefe fituations. It 
 may perhaps be thought furprifing at firfl, that Venus fhould continue 
 longer on the eaft or wefl: fide of the Sun than the whole time of her 
 j)eriod round him ; but the difficulty vanifhes when we confider that the 
 Earth is all the while going round the Sun the fame way, though not fo 
 quick as Venus ; and therefore her relative motion to the Earth muft in 
 every period be as much flower than her ablblute motion in her orbit, as 
 the Earth during that time advances forward in the ecliptic, which is two 
 hundred and twenty degrees. To us Ihe appears through the telefcope 
 in all the various fhapes of the Moon. Her mean-motion is fifty-nine mi- 
 nutes eight feconds ; and her daily or fwift motion is from fixty-tvvo mi- 
 nutes to one degree twenty-two minutes, but never greater. Her utmoft 
 latitude, either north or fouth, never exceeds nine degrees two minutes. 
 Her exaltation is in twenty-feven degrees of Pifces ; her detriment in 
 Aries and Scorpio ; and her fall in tweiity-leven degrees of Virgo. She 
 continues retrograde forty-two days, and is ffationary two days before and 
 two days after her ftate of retrogradation. Her orb, or radiation, is ieven 
 degrees before and after any of her afpeffs. In the human ffrudure fhe 
 governs the reins, back-boue, Iced, and fcminal vefTels ; alfo the neck, 
 throat, brcafls, and expulfive faculty ; and rules the light blue and white 
 colours. 
 
 Venus is a feminine planet, temperately cold and moift, no6>urnal, the 
 fmaller fortune, author of mirth and conviviality, alluring to procreation 
 and to the propagation of the fpecies. When fhe afcends at a nativity, 
 fhe gives a handfome, well-formed, but not tall, ffature; complexion fair 
 and lovely, bright fpaikling eyes of a dark hazle or black, the face round, 
 regular, fmooth, and engaging; the hair light brown, hazle, or chefnut, 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 109 
 
 fhining, and plentiful; the body regular and well-proportioned; and of a 
 neat, fmart, and airy, difpofition ; generally with dimples in the cheeks or 
 chin, and often in both ; the eye wandering, and naturally amorous ; in 
 motion light and nimble ; in voice, foft, eafy, fweet, and agreeable, in- 
 clined to amorous converfation, and early engagements in love. If well- 
 dignified at the time of birth, the native will be of a quiet, even, and 
 friendly, difpofition, naturally inclined to neatnefs, loving mirth and cheer- 
 fulnefs, and delighting in mufic ; amorous, and prone to venery ; though 
 truly virtuous, if a woman ; yet fhe will be given to jealoufy, even with- 
 out caufe. If the planet be ill-dignified, then will the native be riotous, 
 profligate, abandoned to evil company and lewd women, regardlefs of 
 reputation or chara(5^er; a frequenter of taverns, night-houfes, and all 
 places of ill-fame ; delighting in all the incitements to inceftuous and 
 adulterous pradices ; in pruiciple a mere atheift, wholly given up to the 
 brutal paffions of unbridled and uncultivated nature. If Venus be ori- 
 ental at the time, the ftature will be tall, upright, and ftraight ; but, if 
 occidental, fhortand {looping, though comely and well-favoured. If (he 
 be fignificator in a journey, and well dignified, flie portends much mirth, 
 pleafure, and fuccels, and promifes fafety and good fortune by the way. 
 
 Difeafes under Venus. — All diforders of the belly and womb, fufFoca- 
 tion, palpitation, heart-burn, diflocation, priapifm, impotency, hernias, 
 diabetes, all ftages of the venereal complaint, and all diforders of the ge- 
 nitals, kidneys, reins, navel, back, and loins. 
 
 Herbs and Plants. — Ale-hoof, alder-tree, apple-tree, {linking arach, 
 alkakengi, archangel, beans, burdock, bugle, ladies' bed-flraw, bifhop's 
 weed, blights, chickweed, chich-peafe, clary, cock's head, cowflips, daifies, 
 devil's bit, elder, eringo, featherfew, figwort, filapendula, fox-gloves, 
 gromwell, grcundfel, kidneywort, lady's mantle, mallows, herb Mercury, 
 mint, motherwort, mugwort, parfnip, penny- royal, periwinkle, primrofe, 
 ragwort, rofes, fow-thiflles, fpinach, tanfey, teafels, violets, vervain, 
 maiden-hair, coriander, melilot, daffodil, flone-parfley, fanders, fatyrion, 
 wild thyme, mulk, the fig-tree, pomegranate, the Cyprus, fweet-apple 
 tree, peach, myrtle, walnut-tree, almond-tree, apricots, the turpentine- 
 tree, ambergreafe, gum-labdanum, frankincenfe, and all fweet odori- 
 ferous plants, as the lily, rofe, &c. In gathering, the fame rule is to be 
 obferved as with the other planets. 
 
 Animals under Venus. — All fuch as are of a hot and amorous nature, as 
 the dog, coney, bull, (heep, goat, calf, panther, and hart. Among rifhes, 
 the pilchard, gikhead, whiting, crab, dolphin, and tithymallus. And, 
 among birds, the fvvan, water-wagtail, fwallow, pelican, nightingale. 
 
 No. 6. C c pigeon,
 
 1,0 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 pigeon, fparrow, turtle-dove, flock-dove, crow, eagle, partridge, thrufh, 
 blackbird, pye, wren, &c. 
 
 Stones and Metals. — The beryl, chyfolite, emerald, fapphire, cornelian, 
 marble, green jafper, astires, lazuli, coral, and alabafler ; alfo copper, 
 brafs, and filver. She governs the light-blue and white colours. 
 
 M'eather and Winds. — She denotes gentle fhowers in winter, and tem- 
 perate heat in Ibmmer ; and fhe rules the fouth wind. 
 
 Signs and Trlplicity. — Of the celeftial figns, fhe hath for her houfes 
 Taurus and Libra. She rules over the earthy triplicity by day, viz. 
 Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, She is friendly with Jupiter, Mars, 
 Mercury, and the Sun aad Moon ; but is at enmity with Saturn. She 
 prefides over Friday, aud Monday night. 
 
 Years. — Her greateft year is one hundred and fifty-one ; her great year 
 ]S eighty-two ; her mean year is forty-five ; and her leafl year is fifteen. 
 
 MERCURY, 5 . 
 
 Next to Venus, and within the orbits of all the other planets, is Mer- 
 cury, and of courfe the nearefl of them all to the central Sun. He com- 
 pletes his revolution, or traverfes through the twelve figns of the zodiac, 
 in eighty-feven days and twenty-three hours of our time nearly ; which 
 is the length of bis year. But being feldom feen, on account of his proxi- 
 mity to the Sun, and having no Ipots vifible on his furface or difk, the • 
 time of his rotatioji upon his own axis, and the length of his days and 
 jiights, are as yet unknown to us. His diftance from the Sun is com- 
 puted to be thirty-two millions of miles, and his diameter two thoufand 
 llx hundred. He moves round tdie Sun at the rate of ninety-five thoufand 
 miles every hour; and receives from that luminary a proportion of light 
 and heat almoft leven times as great as that of the Earth. At the times 
 he becomes vifible, he appears of a bright filver-colour, though generally 
 faint and dufkifli to the naked eye. His mean motion is fifty-nine 
 minutes and eight feconds, and fometimes fixty minutes; and his diurnal 
 motion is raoft times one hundred minutes a-day. His greatefi: latitude, 
 both north and fouth, is three degrees thirty-three minutes. His exalta- 
 tion is in fifteen degrees of Virgo; his detriment in Sagittarius and Pifces, 
 and his fall in fifteen degrees of Pifces. He is retrograde twenty-four 
 days; and is flatiouarj one day before and one day after retrogradation. 
 His orb or radiation is feven degrees before and after any afpeft. He 
 prefides over Wedncfday and Saturday niglit ; and governs the brain, 
 tojigue, hand?, feet, and intelledlual faculty of man. 
 
 Mercury
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. iii 
 
 Mercury is the leaft of all the planets, in nature cold, dry, and melan- 
 choly; but author of the moft pointed wit, ingenuity, and invention. He 
 is occafionally both mafculine and feminine; and lucky or unlucky, as 
 his pofition in the heavens may happen to be. When he is in conjunc- 
 tion with a mafculine planet, he is mafculine ; when with a feminipe pla- 
 net, feminine; good and fortunate when joined with the fortunes, but 
 evil and mifchievous when in conjunction with malevolent afpe6ls. When 
 he governs a nativity, he renders up a tall, ftraight, thin, fpare, body, 
 narrow face, and deep forehead ; long ftraight nofe, eyes neither black, 
 nor grey ; thin lips and chin, with but little beard ; brown complexion, 
 and hazle or chefnut-coloured hair; the arms, hands, and fingers, long 
 and flender ; and thighs, legs, and feet, the fame. If orientally pofited, 
 the ftature will be fhorter, with faudy hair, and fauguine complexion, 
 fomewhat fun-burnt ; the limbs and joints large and well fet, with fmall 
 grey eyes. But, if occidental, the complexion will be quite fallow, lank 
 body, fmall flender limbs, hollow eyes of a red caft, and of a dry conftitu- 
 tion. If Mercury be well dignified at the nativity, the perfon will inherit 
 a fl;rong fubtil imagination, and retentive memory ; likely to become an 
 excellent orator and logician, arguing with much eloquence of fpeech, 
 and with ftrong powers of perfuafion. Is generally given to the attain- 
 ment of all kinds of learning ; an encourager of the liberal arts ; of a 
 fharp, witty, and pleafant, converfation ; of an unwearied fancy, and cu- 
 rious in the fearch of all natural and occult knowledge ; with an inclina- 
 tion to travel or trade into foreign countries. If brought u'p in the mer- 
 cantile line, will be ambitious of excelling in his merchandife, and will 
 moft times prove fuccefsful in obtaining wealth. But, be the planet ill- 
 dignified, then the native will betray a difpofition to flander, and abufe 
 the character of every one without diftinftion ; he will be a boafler, a 
 flatterer, a fycophant, a bufy-body, a tale-bearer, given to propagate idle 
 tales and falfe ftories ; pretending to all kinds of knowledge, though a 
 mere ideot in his intelle<5lual faculty, and incapable of acquiring any 
 folid or fubilantial learning; apt to boafl of great honefty, yet very much 
 addi6ted to mean and petty thievery. 
 
 Difeafes under Mercury. — All diforders of the brain, vertigoes, madnefs, 
 defedts of the memory, convulfions, aflhmas, imperfeclions of the tongue, 
 hoarfenefs, coughs, fnuffling in the nofe, fl:opj:>ages in the head, dumbnefs, 
 and whatever impairs the intelledlual faculty ; alfo gout in the hands and 
 feet. la conceptions he governs the fixth month. 
 
 Herbs and Plants. — Calamint, carrots, carraways, champignon, dill, 
 fern, fennel, hogs-fennel, germander, horehound, hazel-nut, liquorice, 
 fweet marjoram, mulberry-tree, oats, parfley, pellitory oi the wall, 
 
 famphire
 
 •uHj AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 famphire, favory, fmallage, fouthernwood, trefoil, valerian, honey-fuckle, 
 ananas, columbine, juniper-tree, piony, the herb mercury, dragon-wort, 
 cubebs, vervain, hiera, treacle, and diombra wallnuts. In gathering, 
 the fame rules are to be obferved as with the other planets. 
 
 Stones and Metals. — The emerald, agate, red marble, topaz, mill-ftone, 
 marcafite, and fuch as are of divers colours. Alfo, quickfilver, block- 
 tin, and filver marcafite. 
 
 Animals. — The dog, and all fagacious animals, and fuch as do not fly 
 the dominion of man ; the ape, fox, weazle, hart, hyena, mule, hare, 
 civet-cat, fquirrel, fpider, pifmire, ferpent, adder, &c. Among fiHies, 
 the trochius, the fox-fifh, the mullet, the pourcontrel, and the fork-fiili. 
 And among birds, the linnet, parrot, popinjay, fwallovv, martin, pie, and 
 bullfinch. 
 
 Weather and Winds. — He ufually caufes rain, hail-ftones, thunder, 
 lightning, &c. according to the nature of the planet he happens to be in 
 configuration with. He delights in the northern quarter of the heavens, 
 and produces fuch winds as are fignified by the planet to which he applies 
 in afpeft. 
 
 Signs and Triplicity. — He hath for his houfes the celeftial figns Gemini 
 and Virgo; and he rules the airy triplicity by night, namely, Gemini, 
 Libra, and Aquarius. 
 
 Regions, — Flanders, Greece, Egypt, and the Eaft and Weft Indies. 
 
 Years. — His greateft year is four hundred and fifty ; his great isfeven- 
 ty-fix ; his mean year is forty-eight ; and his lead year is twenty. 
 
 SOL,©. 
 
 Sol, or the Sun, is an immenfe globe or body of fire, placed in the 
 common centre, or rather in the lower focus, of the orbits of all the 
 planets and comets ; and turns round his axis in twenty-five days and (ix 
 hours, as is evident by the motion of the fpots vifible on his furface. His 
 diameter is computed to be feven hundred and fixty-three thoufand miles; 
 and, by the various attradtions of the circumvolving planets, he is agi- 
 tated by a fmall motion round the centre of gravity of the fyftem. He 
 pafTes through the twelve figns of the zodiac in three hundred and fixty- 
 five days, five hours, forty-eight minutes, and fifty-feven feconds, which 
 forms the tropical or folar year, by which ftandard all our periods of time 
 are meaflired. His mean motion is fifty-nine minutes and eight feconds, 
 
 but
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 113 
 
 but his fwift or diurnal motion is fixty minutes, and fometimes fixty-one 
 minutes Hx feconds. He conftantly moves in the ecliptic, and is there- 
 fore void of latitude ; and, for the fame reafon, is never ftationary or 
 retrograde. His exaltation is in nineteen degrees of Aries ; his detriment 
 in Aquarius ; and his fall in nineteen degrees of Libra. His orb or radia- 
 tion is fifteen degrees before and after all his afpefls. In man, he governs 
 the heart, back, arteries, the right eye of the male, and left of the female ; 
 and the retentive faculty. He prefides over Sunday, and Wednefday 
 night. He is friendly with Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury, and the 
 Moon ; but is conflantly at variance with Saturn. 
 
 The Sun is in nature mafculine, diurnal, hot, and dry, but more tem- 
 perate than Mars; and, if well-dignified, is always found equivalent to 
 one of the fortunes. When he prelides at a birth, the native is gene- 
 rally of a large, bony, ftrong, body, of a fallow fun-burnt complexion, 
 large high forehead, with light or fandy curling air, but inclined to be 
 ibon bald; a fine, full, piercing, hazel eye; and all the limbs flraight 
 and well proportioned. If he is well dignified, the native will be of a 
 noble, magnanimous, and generous, difpofition ; high-minded, but very 
 humane ; of a large and benevolent heart, affable, and courteous ; in 
 friendfhip, faithful and fincere ; in promifes, flow, but pun6tual. The 
 folar man is not of many words ; but, when he fpeaks, it is with confi- 
 dence, and to the purpofe ; he is ufually thoughtful, fecret, and referved ; 
 his deportment is (lately and majeftic ; a lover of fumptuoufnefs and 
 magnificence ; and pofTelTes a mind far fuperior to any fordid, bafe, or 
 difhonourable, pradlices. Such was the firfl Lord Chatham. If the Sun 
 be ill dignified, then will the native be born of a mean and loquacious 
 difpofition ; proud and arrogant ; difdaining all his inferiors, and a fyco- 
 phant to his Superiors ; of fhallow underftanding, and imperfed judgment ; 
 reftlefs, troublefome, and domineering; of no gravity in words, or fober- 
 uefs in actions ; prone to mifchievoufnefs, aufterity, uncharitablenefs, 
 cruelty, and ill-nature. 
 
 Difeafes of the Sun. — All palpitations and trembling of the heart, faint- 
 ing and fwooning, weaknefs of fight, violent fevers, choler, diforders of 
 the brain, tympanies, cramps, foul breath, all diforders of the mouth and 
 throat, catarrhs, defluxions, and king's evil. In conception, he prefides 
 over the fourth month. 
 
 Herbs and Plants. — Angelica, avens, afh-tree, balm, one-blade, lo- 
 vage, burnet, butter-'bur, camomile, celandine, centaury, eyebright, 
 fig-tree, St. John's wort, marigolds, mifletoe, piony, Peter's wort, pim- 
 pernel, raifins, rofa folis, rofemary, rue, faffron, tormentil, turnfole. 
 
 No. 6. D d vipers-
 
 114 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 vipeis-buglofs, walnut-tree, cloves, mace, nutmegs, fcabious, forrel, 
 wood-forrel, borage, gentian, ivy, lavender, bay- tree, myrtle, olive-tree, 
 mints, date-tree, oranges, citrons, thyme, vine, zedoary, myrrh, frankin- 
 cenfe, aloes, lapis calaminaris, lemon-tree, mulk, fweet marjoram, 
 ginger, vervain, cinquefoil, barley, and pepper-honey. In gathering 
 fhefe herbs, the cuftom has been to do it in the Sun's proper hour, which 
 may be found by the Table calculated for that purpofe, in this work, 
 when he is in an angle, well fortified efTentially, and no way impeded ; 
 and let the Moon apply to him by trine or Textile. 
 
 Stones and Metals. — iEtites, the ftone called the eye of the fun, becaufe 
 it is like the apple of the eye in form, the carbuncle, chryfolite, the ftone 
 called Iris, the heliotropium, hyacinth, topaz, pyrophyllus, pantaurus, 
 pantherus or pantochras, the ruby, and the diamond. Alfo pure gold, 
 and all yellow metals. 
 
 Animals. — The Sun rules all {lately, bold, ftrong, furious, and invin- 
 cible, animals; as the lion, tiger, leopard, hyena, crocodile, wolf, ram, 
 boar, bull, horfe, and baboon. Among fifhes, he rules the fea-calf, 
 whole nature is to refifl: lightning; all fhell-fifh, the ftar-fiOi for its re- 
 markable hear, and the fifties called ftrombi. Among birds, the eagle, 
 phoenix, fwan, cock, hawk, buzzard, lark, and nightingale. 
 
 Weather and Winds. — He produces weather according to the proper 
 feafon of the year ; in the fpring, warm and gentle ftiowers ; in fummer, 
 if in afpeft with Mars, extremity of heat; in autumn, fogs and mifts; 
 and, in winter, fmall drizzling rain. He delights in the eaftern part of 
 the heavens, and brings eaflern winds. 
 
 Signs and Triplicity. — Of the celeftial figns, he has only Leo for his 
 houfe. He rules the fiery triplicity by day, viz. Aries, Leo, and Sagit- 
 tarius. 
 
 Regions. — He rules the fourth climate, Italy, Bohemia, Sicilia,Chaldea, 
 the Roman Empire, and North and South America. 
 
 Years. — His greateft year is one thoufand fix hundred and forty ; but 
 others fay, only four hundred and fixty-one ; his great year is one hun- 
 dred and twenty ; his mean year is fixty-nine ; and his leafl: is nineteen. 
 
 The DRAGON'S HEAD 9>, and DRAGON's TAIL 'Q. 
 
 The Head of the Dragon is mafculine, partaking of the nature both 
 of Jupiter and Venus ; but the Dragon's Tail is feminine, and of a di- 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 115 
 
 reft oppofite quality to the head. Thefe are neither figns nor conftella- 
 
 tioiis, but are only the nodes or points wherein the ecliptic is interfered 
 
 by the orbits of the planets, and particularly by that of the Moon ; nnaking 
 
 with it angles of five degrees and eighteen minutes. One of thefe points 
 
 looks northward, the Moon beginning then to have northern latitude ; 
 
 and the other points fouthward, where (he commences her latitude fouth. 
 
 But it muft be obferved, that thefe points do not always abide in one place, 
 
 but have a motion of their own in the zodiac, and retrograde-wife, three 
 
 minutes and eleven feconds per day ; completing their circle in eighteen 
 
 years and two hundred and twenty-five days ; fo that the Moon can be but 
 
 twice in the ecliptic during her monthly period ; but at all other times fhe 
 
 will have a latitude or declination from the ecliptic. The Head of the 
 
 Dragon is confidered of a benevolent nature, and almoft equivalent to one 
 
 of the Fortunes; and, when in afped with evil planets, is found to lefTen 
 
 their malevolent effeds in a very great degree. But the Dragon's Tail I 
 
 have always found of an evil and unhappy tendency, not only adding to 
 
 the malevolence of unfortunate afpeds, when joined with them; but 
 
 lefTening confiderably the beneficial influence of the Fortunes, and other 
 
 good afpe<Sls, whenever found in conjundlion with them. 
 
 Should the reader be defirous of more particular information on the 
 planetary fyftem, I beg leave to recommend to his attentive perufal the 
 aftronomical works of the ingenious Mr. Fergufon. And, in order to 
 bring all the foregoing particulars, concerning the periods, diftanccs, 
 bulks, &c. of the planets, into one point of view, I fubjoin his following 
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 Befides the foregoing natural influences of the planets, which they 
 produce on the human frame, as often as they bear abfolute rule at a 
 birth ; it muft alfo be remembered, that they differ in their effe6ls, ac- 
 cording as they are pofited or impeded by other afpeds at the time ; and 
 thefe variations muft be attentively perufed and digefted, before any cor- 
 red judgment can be formed on the circumftances of a nativity. 1 (hall 
 therefore arrange them under diftin6l heads, and fhow, in the firft place, 
 how their natural qualities are changed by their different afpcdts and 
 pofitions in the heavens. 
 
 The O in T» b > and n, is fanguine, and produces heat and moifture ; 
 as in fpring. 
 
 The O in 25, SI, and Hi, is choleric, and caufes heat and drynefs ; as 
 in fummer. 
 
 The O in ^, n^, and X , is melancholy, and brings cold and drynefs ; 
 as in autumn. 
 
 The O in yj", ;:sr, and X, is phlegmatic, and caufes cold and moift- 
 ure ; as in winter. 
 
 The ]) , from the new to the firft quarter, occafions heat and moifture. 
 
 The }) , from the firft quarter to the full, caufes heat and drynefs. 
 
 The 3), from the full to the laft quarter, produces cold and drynefs. 
 
 The ]) , from the laft quarter to the new, brings cold and moifture. 
 
 The planet Saturn, oriental, caufes cold and moifture. 
 The planet Saturn, occidental, brings drynefs. 
 
 The planet Jupiter, oriental, produces heat and moifture. 
 The planet Jupiter, occidental, occafions moifture. 
 
 The planet Mars, oriental, caufes heat and drynefs. 
 The planet Mars, occidental, gives drynefs only. 
 
 The planet Venus, oriental, produces heat and moifture, 
 The planet Venus, occidental, caufes moifture. 
 
 The planet Mercury, oriental, caufes heat. 
 The planet Mercury, occidental, brings drynefs. 
 
 The Moon, of her own nature, is cold and moift, and always inter- 
 mixes her influences with every planet that joins in afpe6t with her, or 
 from which her afpeft is feparated. Her effefts alfo increafe or decreafe 
 as follows : Increafing with (J , ftie caufes heat and drynefs ; but, de- 
 creafing with b » ftie produces cold and moifture. 
 
 No. 6. E e ESSENTIAL
 
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 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 ESSENTIAL DIGNITIES of the PLANETS. 
 A Planet is eflentially ftrong, or operates with the greatefh force and 
 energy, when pofited in its own houfe, exaltation, triplicity, term, or 
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 This Table fhows, that each of the planets have two figns for their 
 houles, except the Sun and Moon, which have only one each. Thus 
 the houfes of Saturn are Capricorn and Aquarius ; of Jupiter, Sagittarius 
 and Pifces ; of Mars, Aries and Scorpio ; of Venus, Taurus and Libra ; 
 of Mercury, Gemini and Virgo; of the Sun, 'Leo; and o( the Moon, 
 Cancer. One of each of thefe houfes is diftinguiflied by the name of 
 diurnal or day-houfe, and the other by nodfurnal or night-houfe, which 
 is denoted by the letters D and N in the Table. In thefe llgns or houfes 
 the planets have their exaltations, as pointed out in the third column ; 
 viz. the Sun in nineteen degrees of Aries, the Moon in three degrees of 
 Taurus, the Dragon's Head in three degrees of Gemini, and fo on. Thefe 
 
 twelve
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 119 
 
 twelve figns being divided into four triplicities, the fourth column fhows 
 which of the planets, both night and day, governs each triplicity. For 
 inftance, oppofite to Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, are the Sun and Jupiter ; 
 which imports, that the Sun governs by day, and Jupiter by night, in 
 that triplicity. Oppofite Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, are Venus and 
 the Moon ; which Ihows that Venus has dominion by day, and the Moon 
 by night, in that triplicity. Oppofite Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius, 
 are Saturn and Mercury; by which it appears that Saturn rules by day, 
 and Mercury by night, in that triplicity. Oppofite Cancer, Scorpio, and 
 Pifces, flands the planet Mars, who rules in that triplicity both night 
 and day. In the fifth, fixth, feventh, and eighth, columns, oppofite 
 Aries, {lands % 6. 9 14. &c. which imports that the firft ^ix degrees of 
 Aries are the terms of Jupiter ; from fix degrees to fourteen, are the terms 
 of Venus, and fo on. In the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth, columns, op- 
 pofite Aries, we find <5' 10. 20. $ 30. which (hows that the firll: ten 
 degrees of Aries are the phafes of Mars ; from ten to twenty degrees are 
 the phales of the Sun ; and from twenty to thirty the phafes of Venus. 
 In the thirteenth column, in a line with Aries, flands Venus in 
 detriment ; which fhows that Venus, being iti Aries, is in a fign diredly 
 oppofite to one of her own houfes, and is therefore faid to be in detriment. 
 In the fourteenth column, in the fame line with Aries, ftands Saturn in 
 fall ; which fhows that Saturn, when he is in Aries, is oppofite to Libra, 
 his houfe of exaltation, and fo becomes unfortunate, and is hence faid to 
 have his fall in that fi^n. 
 
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 The efi"e6ls produced by the planets under thefe fituations, are as fol- 
 low : If the planet, which is principal fignificator, be pofited in his own 
 houfe, in any fcheme or calculation whatever, it indicates profperity 
 and fuccefs to the perfon fignified, to the bufinefs in hand, or to what- 
 ever elfe may be the fubjeft of enquiry. If a planet be in his exaltation, 
 it denotes a perfon of majeflic carriage and lofty difpofition, high- 
 minded, auflere, and proud. If a planet be in his triplicity, the perfon 
 will be profperous and fortunate in acquiring the goods of this life ; no 
 matter whether well or illdefcended, or born rich or poor, his condition 
 and circumftances will notwithftanding be promifing and good. If a 
 planet be in his terms, it betokens a perfon to participate rather in the 
 nature and quality of the planet, than in the wealth, power, and dignity, 
 indicated thereby. If a planet be in his phafes, and no otherwife for- 
 tified, though fignificator, it declares the perfon or thing fignified to be 
 in great diftrefs, danger, or anxiety. And thus, in all cafes, judgment 
 is to be given good or bad, according to the flrength, ability, or imper- 
 fedion, of the fignificator. 
 
 TABLE
 
 120 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 TABLE (howing the FORTITUDES and DEBILITIES of the 
 
 PLANETS. 
 
 Essential Dignities. 
 
 A Planet in his own houfe, or 
 mutual reception by houfe, 
 (hall have dignities 
 
 In exaltation, or reception by 
 exaltation . _ - 
 
 In triplicity _ - - 
 
 In terms - - - - 
 
 In decant or phafis 
 
 4 
 3 
 
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 Debilities. 
 
 In detriment 
 In fall 
 Peregrine - 
 
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 4 
 5 
 
 Accidental Fortitudes. 
 
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 In the 7th, 4th, or nth, houfe 4 
 
 In the 2d or 5th houfe - - 3 
 
 In the 9th houfe - - - 2 
 
 In the 3d houfe - - - i 
 
 Direa - ... 4 
 
 In hayze ^ - - - - i 
 
 Swift in motion - - - 2 
 
 b, "3/, or <5 , oriental - - 2 
 
 9 , 5 , or the }) , occidental - 2 
 
 Free from combuftion - - 5 
 In cazimi, or in the heart of 
 
 the O - - - - 5 
 
 Befieged by If. and 9 - - 5 
 
 Partial conjunflion of the Si - 4 
 In partial conjunftion with If. 
 
 or (5 - - - - 5 
 
 In partial trine of 7/f or 9 - 4 
 
 In partial fextile of "^ or 9 - 3 
 In conjundlion with Cor Leo- 
 
 nis, in 25 degrees of ^ - 6 
 In conjundtion with Spica Vir- 
 
 ginis, in 18 degrees of :C^ - 5 
 
 In the terms of "^ or 9 - i 
 
 Accidental Debilities, 
 
 In the 1 2th houfe - - 5 
 
 In the 8th or 6th houfe - 4 
 
 Retrograde - - - 5 
 
 Slow in motion - - - 2 
 
 lp,'V,or (J, occidental - a 
 
 9 or 5 oriental- - - 3 
 
 }) decreafing in light - - 2 
 
 Combuftion of the O - - 5 
 
 Under the Sun's beams - - 4 
 Befieged by h and d - -6 
 
 Partial conjun6tion of ^ - 4 
 
 Partial conjundion with b oi" c? 5 
 
 Partial oppofition of b or <? - 4 
 
 Partial quartile of l^j or (J - 3 
 In conjundlion with Caput Al- 
 gol, in 21 degrees of y > or 
 
 within 5 degrees - - 5 
 
 In the term of b or c? - i 
 
 TABLE
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 121 
 
 TABLE of the FORTITUDES and DEBILITIES of the PART of 
 
 FORTUNE; 
 
 Dignities. 
 
 The Part of Fortune in b or ^ 
 In £= I 9,05 _ - - - - 
 
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 111 niJ 
 
 In the afcendant or medium coeli 5 
 
 In the 7th, 4th, or nth, houfe 4 
 In the 2d and 5th houfe - - 
 In the 9th houfe - - - - 
 In the 3d houfe - - - - 
 In conjunction of 7^ or 9 
 In trine of ^ or ? - - - 
 In fextile of 7/t or 9 - - - 
 In conjun<51ion of the SI - - 
 In conjundion of Regulus in 25 
 
 degrees of Leo _ - - - 
 In conjunClion of Spica Virginis 
 
 in 1 9 degrees of :^ - - - 
 Not combuft - - - - - 
 
 Debilities. 
 ntityy^ -_,__, 
 n the 1 2th houfe - - - - 
 n the 6th houfe - _ - 
 n the 8th houfe - - "* 
 n conjun61ion of Tp or cJ - - 
 n conjunction of <q _ _ _ 
 n oppofition of ip or <J - - 
 n quartile of fp or <5 - - - 
 n terms of 1p or (J - - 
 n conjunction of Caput Algol 
 in 2 1 degrees of y - - - 
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 5 
 
 5 
 4 
 4 
 5 
 3 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 S 
 
 The }) in conjunction or oppofition of the Q ^ S ot the is impe* 
 ded two days, viz. one day before, and one day after. 
 
 The J in quartile of theO b or (5 is impeded twelve hours before and 
 after. 
 
 To arrive at a proper degree of correCtnefs In our refearches into futu- 
 rity, we muft be well verfed in the true nature and flrength of the pla- 
 net's fortitudes and debilities, fo as to give them their due weight in the 
 fcale of nature, according to the experienced rules of this fcience, and 
 no farther. For, the more a man endeavours to ftrain a judgment be- 
 yond the natural tendency of the planets, and the more he fwerves from 
 truth in putting down their ftren?;th or debility, the more he augments 
 his error, and betrays his inexperience. To avoid this, let the ftudent 
 acquaint himfelf perfeClly with thefe Tables ; and in praCtice, whenever he 
 hae occafion to colleCt the fortitudes and debilities either of the planets or 
 part of fortune, let him fubtraCt the lefs number from the greater, and the 
 remainder will be the planet's excefs of fuperiority or debility; accord- 
 ing to which will be its operation upon the fubjeCt of his invcftigation. 
 
 No. 7. F f Of
 
 122 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Of the PLANETARY HOUSES, and their EFFECTS. 
 
 To give a more fubftantial idea of the nature and arrangement of the 
 twelve houfes of the planets, we fhall confider them according to the fol- 
 lowing daigram : 
 
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 In this fcheme Cancer and Leo have afligned unto them the two 
 trreat luminaries, Sol and Luna ; becaufe they are agreeable to each other 
 in nature ; for the Sun, being naturally hot and dry, fiiows his efFe61s more 
 forcibly when pofited in Leo than he doth in either Aries or Sagittarius. 
 And the Moon, for the fame reafon, hath Cancer allotted to her govern- 
 ment, becaufe fhe is cold and moill:, and oi the nature of this fign ; and 
 being the firft of the watery triplicity, and next to the Sun's houfe, fhe 
 receives her light from him ; and all things are generated by their joint 
 influence. 
 
 Saturn is naturally cold, and therefore an enemy to heat ; and, being 
 the higheft and moft remote from the luminaries of all the other planets, 
 has for his manfion the figns Capricorn and Aquarics ; which are the op- 
 pofite figns to Leo and Cancer, and are confequently cold and moift, Sa- 
 turn is accounted the moft obnoxious and moft malevolent of all the pla- 
 nets, becaufe he oppofes the two great luminaries, which are the fountains 
 of life, light, and nutrition. 
 
 Jupiter
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 123 
 
 Jupiter is placed under Saturn, and has the two figns that go before 
 and after Capricorn and Aquaries allotted for his houfes^ namely, Sagit- 
 tary and Pifces, w hich are in trine to the houles of the two luminaries ; 
 Pifces, his night-houfe, is in trine to Cancer, the houfe of the nodlurnal 
 luminary; and Sagittary, his day-houfe, in trine to Leo, the houfe of the 
 diurnal luminary. Jupiter, being naturally temperate, and having thefe 
 amicable afpefts, is deemed the moft benevolent of all the planets to man- 
 kind, and \}i\t greater fortune, *- 
 
 Mars next in order follows Jupiter, being placed under him ; and 
 therefore thofe figns that go before and after the houfes of Jupiter are al- 
 lotted to Mars, viz. Scorpio and Aries, which are in quariile to the houfes 
 of the Sun and Moon, as Aries his day-houfe is to Cancer, and Scorpio 
 his night-houfe is to Leo. And, fmce a quartile is found to be an afpe6t 
 of enmity, he is accounted malignant and unfortunate in an inferior de- 
 gree to Saturn, who beholds the luminaries with an oppofition, therefore 
 he is called the /ejer infortune. 
 
 Venus, a more temperate planet, hath appointed under her thofe houfes 
 that go before the houles of Mars, viz. Libra and Taurus, which are in 
 a lextile to the houfes of the two luminaries, and form an afpe6t of love 
 and amity ; but, becaufe a lextile is not fo iVo'^g ^^^ perfe6l an afpeft as 
 a trine, ihe is accounted the Icjfer fortune. 
 
 Mercury, being fituated within the orbits of all the other planets, has 
 the figns allotted him which precede the two houfes of the great lumina- 
 ries, namely, Gemini and Virgo; and, becaufe Mercury is never diftant 
 from the Sun above one fign, he naturally inclines neither to good nor evil, 
 but participates cither in the good or evil influences of whatever planet he 
 is joined with in alped:. 
 
 The EXALTATIONS and FALLS of the PLANETS. 
 
 The Sun, which is the fountain of life, takes his exaltation in nine- 
 teen degrees of Aries, becaufe he is then in the highefl northern point 
 of the ecliptic, making all things to fpring and flourifh, and producing 
 fine warm weather, and length of days. . And he is faid to have his fall 
 in Libra, becaufe it is the oppofite Hgn in the heavens to Aries, in which 
 the Sun declines to the utmofl: fouthern point, and occafions fhortnefs 
 of days, and cold winterly blafts, deftrudive to the fruits of the earth. 
 Now the Moon, being co-partner and co-temporary with the Sun, and 
 receivin? all her light from him, this enables her to be vifible to us fiifl 
 in Taurus -. and, becaule it is the firfl fign wherein (he has a triplicity, her 
 ■exaltation takes place in Taurus, wherein ihe increafes in light and mo- 
 tion.
 
 ,2^ AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 tion. But, Scorpio being the fign oppofite to Taurus, in which (he dc- 
 creafes in hght, it is hence allotted for her fall, being the fign immedi- 
 ately after Libra, and oppofite to Aries, the houfe of the Sun's exaltation. 
 
 Saturn, the mofl: remote planet, is the author of cold, as the Sun is of 
 heat, and is therefore exalted in that fign wherein heat is diminiflied and 
 cold increafed, viz. Libra ; and his fall takes place in that fign where cold 
 is diminiftied and heat increafed, viz. Aries ; which are quite contrary in 
 nature to the Sun, 
 
 Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, and has his fall in Capricorn ; for Jupiter 
 delights in the northern part of the heavens, where he fiirs up northern 
 winds, which increafe fertility and vegetation ; and, his greatefi: declina- 
 tion northwards being in Cancer, he is therein exalted. For the contrary 
 reafon he has his fall in Capricorn. 
 
 Mars is naturally hot and dry ; and, becaufe his influence and effe61s 
 are moft powerful in Capricorn, a fouthern fign, where the Sun is gene- 
 rally hotteft about noon, he is for this realon exalted therein: and he 
 takes his fall in Cancer, quite contrary to the nature of Jupiter ; for Mars 
 is hot and violent, and Jupiter cold and temperate. 
 
 Venus is naturally molfi:, efpecially in Pifc€s, in which fign the fpring 
 is moifiened and forwarded in the increafe and ftrength of nature ; and 
 therefore flie has the fign Pifces for her exaltation ; and, as Venus is the 
 mother of generation and procreation, fhe has her fall in Virgo, in the 
 autumn, when all things wither and fade. 
 
 Mercury, becaufe he is dry, and contrary in nature to Venus, is exalt- 
 ed in Virgo, and has his fall appointed him in Pifces, Virgo is both his 
 houfe and joy. 
 
 The TRIPLICITIES of the PLANETS. 
 
 A Triplicity means three figns of the zodiac, of one and the fame 
 nature, making a perfed triangle; and of thefe triplicities among the 
 figns there are four, anfwering to the four elements : viz. the fiery tri- 
 plicity which confifts of Aries, Leo, and Sagittary ; the airy triplicity, 
 confifling of Gemini, Libra, and Aquaries; the watery triplicity, con- 
 taining Cancer, Scorpio, and Pifces ; and the earthy triplicity, which 
 includes Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn. Thefe figns apply to each other 
 in a trine, in the fame manner as a planet in a fiery fign applies to another 
 planet in a fiery fign (if in the fame number of degrees) in a trine ; and 
 
 thus
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. "125 
 
 thus a planet In an airy fign beholds another planet in an airy fign with a 
 trine ; and fo the watery and earthy figns apply in the fame manner ; and 
 each of thefe trine afpe6ts conlifts of one hundred and twenty degrees. 
 
 The Sun and Jupiter have dominion over the fiery triplicity ; the Sun 
 
 by day, and Jupiter by night. The Sun by day, becaufe he is hot and 
 
 fiery, and of the nature of thefe figns; and Jupiter by night, becaufe he 
 
 is temperate, and moderates the- extremity of heat. This is called the 
 
 caftern triplicity. ' o 
 
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 Saturn and Mercury have dominion over the airy triplicity, which Is 
 weftern ; Mercury by night, and Saturn by day. But, as Libra Is the 
 exaltation of Saturn, and Aquaries the houfe and fign wherein he has 
 mofl joy ; and as Gemini is only the houfe of Mercury ; it follows that 
 Saturn has the principal government in this triplicity. 
 
 Mars both night and day governs the watery triplicity, which Is nor- 
 thern ; and it feems that Mars was appointed to this triplicity to temper 
 and abate his violent heat ; for we find he is more powerful in his malig- 
 nant effedts in the fign Leo than he Is in Cancer ; therefore he has his 
 fall appointed him in Cancer, though he is peregrine in Leo. 
 
 Venus and the Moon bear rule over the earthy triplicity, which is 
 feminine and fouthern, cold and moift, producing fouth-caft winds, and 
 cold moift air; hence this triplicity is affigned to the care of feminine 
 planets. 
 
 The TERMS of the PLANETS. 
 
 A Term is a certain number of degrees, in each houfe or fign of the 
 zodiac, wherein the planets Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury, 
 have a certam priority ; but the Sun and Moon have no terms. Thefe 
 degrees are called terms, ends, or bounds ; for the planets have each their 
 proportions fo allotted therein, that at the end of a certain number of 
 degrees, the terms of one planet ceafe, and thofe of another begin. 
 For Inftance, from the firft degree of Aries to the fixth, are the terms 
 of Jupiter ; from the fixth to the fourteenth, are the terms of Venus ; 
 and fo of all the reft. Ptolemy, Albumazer, and Bonatus, have all 
 fliown, that the greater years of the planets are difcovered by their feve- 
 ral terms or bounds through the zodiac ; which is done by finding what 
 number of degrees each of the planets have allotted them in each fign ; 
 and then, by adding them together, the fum will be the number of each of 
 their great years, as will appear more obvioufly by the following example: 
 
 No. 7. Gg TERMS.
 
 iz6 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 TERMS. 
 
 In the Sign T 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 
 b 
 
 3 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 
 n 
 
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 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
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 7 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
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 6 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 "R 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 wu. 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
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 3 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 6. 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
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 6 
 
 7 
 
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 6 
 
 6 
 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 8 
 
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 5 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
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 6 
 
 Great years 
 
 S7 
 
 79 
 
 66 
 
 8a 
 
 76 
 
 Theie great years being added together, make juft three hundred and 
 lixty degrees, being the whole extent or circumference of the zodiac. 
 
 The degrees are in this manner divided into terms, to fhovv what pla- 
 net has moft dignities in a fign, whether by exaltation and houfe,.tripli- 
 city and houfe, or houfe, exaltation,, or triplicity, alone ; and to that 
 planet which has two or more dignities, we aflign the firA term,, whe- 
 ther he be a fortune or an infortune. If an infortune has not two dig- 
 nities in a fign, he is placed laft, and the firfl term is given either to the 
 lord of the exaltation, or to the lord of the triplicity, or to the lord 
 of the houfe, uniformly preferring that planet which has two dignities to 
 thofc that have only one. But an exception to this rule extends to the 
 iigns Cancer and Leo ; for Cancer being the oppoiite fign to the exalta^ 
 tion of Mars, which is in Capricorn, occafions the firfl terra of Cancer to 
 be affigned to Mars ; and, becaufe Leo is the oppofite fign to the houfe 
 and joy of Saturn, the firfl term of Leo is for this realbn given to Sar 
 turn. To the infortunes are allotted the lall degrees of all the figns, ex- 
 cepting thofe of Leo, which are given to Jupiter. The quantity of terms 
 are divided according to tlie following method: When Jupiter and Venus 
 have not two dignitfes in the fame fign, nor in the fecond,, third, or 
 fourth, houfe, they have feven degrees allotted for their terms. Saturn 
 and Mars, becaufe they are infortunes, (except in their own houfes,) have 
 but five, and fometimes only four, three, or two,, degrees each. Mer- 
 cury, becaufe he is of a mixed natqre, has ufually fix degrees allotted him; 
 but, when any of the planets are eflentially dignified, they claim each one 
 degree more; as Venus in the firfl term of Taurus has eight degrees, and 
 
 2 ;_• Saturn
 
 OF ASTxROLOGY. r27 
 
 Saturn in the firft term of Aquaries claims fix. But, becaufe Venus has 
 eight degrees in Taurus, Saturn has only tsvo, being very weak in Tau- 
 rus ; and again, in Sagittary, Jupiter is increafed one degree, becaufe he 
 is flrong, and Mercury is diminifhed one degree, becaufe he is weak ; fo 
 that Jupiter takes eight degrees, and leaves Mercury but five. 
 
 It is alfo neceffary to obferve, that a planet in his own term is ftrong ; 
 and that the more dignities he gains therein, the ftronger will his influ- 
 ence be ; for example, Jupiter in the firfl; term of Sagittary is ftronger 
 and more powerful than in the firil: term of Aries, though they are 
 both equally his terms ; and the reafon of this is, becaufe the fign Sa- 
 gittary is both his houfe and triplicity, and Aries is his triplicity only ; 
 wherefore he has the firft eight degrees of Sagittary for his term, and 
 only fix in Aries. Hence it becomes apparent, that, the nearer a planet 
 is in nature to the place of his term, the ftronger will his influence be 
 therein. Jupiter, being hot and moifb, has but five degrees for his term 
 in Virgo, which is a cold and dry fign ; but in Gemini, which is hot and 
 inoiil, he has fix degrees, becaufe it agrees with his nature ; and yet in 
 Cancer, which is cold and moifl:, he poflefles feven degrees, although it 
 does not agree with his nature ; and the reafon is, Cancer is the houfe 
 of Jupiter's exaltation, and therefore the greater term is allotted him. — 
 In like manner, if a planet that is cold and dry be pofited in a term of 
 the fame temperature,, his coldnefs and drynefs will be greatly increafed 
 thereby, and he will operate the more powerfully in his influences. The 
 fame/ule holds good in refpe6t to all the other qualities of the planets ; 
 and it mufi: be remembered, that a planet is always increafed in ftrength 
 by being fituated in houfes or places of his own temperature and quality. 
 Thus a planet that is hot and dry lofes much of his natural vigour in a 
 term that is cold and moift ; and a planet that is cold and moifl: lofes con- 
 fiderably of its nature in a term that is hot and dry. And in like manner, 
 if a planet that is a fortune be pofited in a fortunate term, his beneficent 
 effects are the more increafed, and he is fortified with great power and 
 flrength to operate upon whatever fiibjedl: he is the fignificator of. And on 
 the contrary, if ati evil and malevolent planet be in an evil fign and term, 
 its effeds will be thereby rendered flill more mifchievous. And the lord 
 of a term when pofited in that term, be the fign what it may, has more 
 power therein than the lord of the fign, or than the planet that has tlie 
 fign for its exaltation. Again, if the lord of any term be pofited in his 
 term,, and the lord of the fign be fituated in another fign in afped with 
 him, the lord of the term will have more power in the fign where he is 
 than the lord of the fign, and fhall be the principal fignificator; but, if 
 the lord of the term be pofited in his own term and fign alfo, then his 
 flrength and energy will be flill more confiderablc. It may alio be ob- 
 
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 128 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 ferved, that, when a planet is weak in a fign, his debility would be yery 
 much lefTened fhould he chance to be fituated in that part of the fign 
 wherein he has terms. Whenever a planet is polited in a term and fign 
 both of his own nature, it is a very flrong and fortunate afpcd. 
 
 The PHASES of the PLANETS. 
 
 The Planets' Phafes confift of the twelve figns of the zodiac, divided 
 each into three equal parts ; fo that one phafis contains ten degrees, and 
 every iign three phafes. They arc called //w/w, becaufe they iignify or 
 reprefent the forms, natures, and inclinations, of the feveral planets ap- 
 propriated to them. A planet's term divides a phalis; a phafis divides a 
 fign ; a fign divides a triplicity ; and a triplicity divides the whole zodiac. 
 
 To afcertain the proper phafes of each planet, we begin with Mars 
 in the equino6lial fign Aries, becaufe it. is the houfe of this planet ; 
 wherefore the firft ten degrees conftitute the phafis of Mars ; the fecond 
 ten degrees are the phafis of the Sun ; and the third, which make up the 
 whole thirty degrees of Aries, confliitute the phafis of Venus. The 
 firft ten degrees of Taurus make the phafis of Mercury ; the fecond ten 
 degrees are the phafis of the Moon ; and the third ten conftitute the phafis 
 of Saturn. The firft ten degrees of Gemini make the phafis of Jupiter ; 
 the fecond ten, the phafis of Mars ; and fo on in the following order, 
 throughout the twelve figns of the zodiac. 
 
 Mars hath the firft phafis in Aries, which is the phafis of ftrength, 
 magnanimity, and couiage ; of refolution, confidence, and intrepidity. 
 The Sun hath the fecond phafis in Aries, and this is the phafis of renown, 
 majeftyyand might ; of candour, generofity, and noblenefs of foul ; and 
 herein the Sun has his exaltation. Venus hath the third phafis in Aries, 
 which is the phafis of effeminacy, and wanton merriment ; of joy, fport, 
 and play. 
 
 In Taurus, the firft phafis is attributed to Mercury, and it is the phafis 
 of mechanical arts, agriculture, and learning; of refined wit, logic, and 
 oratory. 1 he Moon has the fecond phafis in Taurus, and it is the phafis 
 of power, ambition, and authority; of violence, force, compulfion, and 
 arbitrary fway. Saturn has the third phafis in Taurus, which is the phafis 
 of cruelty, oppreffion, and bondage; of poverty, fervitude, and menial 
 occupations. 
 
 Jupiter hath the firft phafis in Gemini; and this is the phafis of nume- 
 ration, algebra, and all figures ; of deciphering hieroglyphic charaders, 
 
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 writino'S, and fculptures. Mars has the fecond phafls in Gemini: which 
 is the phafjs of ftudy, perfeverance, and labour ; of trouble, grief, and 
 painful anxiety. The Sun has the third phafis in Gemini : and it is the 
 phafis of boldnefs, contempt, and difdain ; of indolence, forgetfuhiefs, and 
 ill manners. 
 
 The firft phafis in Cancer belongs to Venus ; it is the phafis of a good 
 underflanding, mirth, and wit ; of cheerfulnefs, complacency, and love. 
 The fecond phafis in Cancer belongs to Mercury: it is the phafis of 
 wealth, honour, and preferment ; of fruitfulaefs, fertility, and fuccefs in 
 bufinefs. The third phafis in Cancer belongs to the Moon ; and it is the 
 phafis of fuccefs inarms, law, and oppofition ; of travelling, perfeverance, 
 and ftrength. 
 
 Saturn has the firft phafis in Leo ; it is the phafis of violence, rage, 
 and tyranny ; of luft, cruelty, and mifchievoufnefs. Jupiter has tlie fe- 
 cond phafis in Leo ; it is the phafis of difputation, contention, and ftrife : 
 of hoftility, violence, and battle. Mars hath the third phafis in Leo ; 
 which is a phafis of efteem and friendfliip, of union in the public caufe, 
 and of fuccefs in arms. 
 
 The Sun has the firft phafis in Virgo: it is the phafis of riches, pro- 
 perty, and wealth ; of induftry, improvement, and cultivation. Venus 
 hath the fecond phafis in Virgo : it is the phafis of avarice, covetoufnefs, 
 and fordid gain ; of meannefs, penurioufnefs, and parfimony. Mercury 
 has the third phafis in Virgo : and it is the phafis of advanced age, infir- 
 mity, and weaknefs ; of gradual decline, diflblution, and decay. 
 
 The Moon has the firft phafis in Libra : it is the phafis of juftice, mercy, 
 and truth ; of humanity, liberality, and benevolence. Saturn has the 
 fecond phafis in Libra : it is the phafis of advantage, emolument, and 
 gain ; of watchfulnefs, labour, and fubtilty. Jupiter has the third phafis 
 in Libra : which is the phafis of lafcivioufnefs, luxury, and licentioufnefs ; 
 of diflipation, drunkennefs, and depravity. 
 
 Mars has the firft phafis in Scorpio: it is the phafis of violent ftrife, con- 
 tention, andflaughter; of thieving, murdering, and robbing. The Sun 
 has the fecond phafis in Scorpio : it is the phafis of injuftice, deceitfiilnefs, 
 and envy ; of difcord, malice, and detradion. Venus hath the third 
 phafis in Scorpio : and it is a phafis of lewdnefs, fornication, and adultery ; 
 of flattery, feduflion, and deceit. 
 
 Mercury poflefifes the firft phafis in Sagittary: it is a phafis of ftrength, 
 
 valour, and intrepidity; of jollity, opennefs, and feftivity. The Moon 
 
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 I30 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 has the fecond phafis in Sagittary ; and it is the phafis of affliftion, forrow, 
 and perturbation of mind ; of internal woe, fufpicion, and miftruft. Sa- 
 turn has the third phafis in Sagittary : and it is the phafis of obftinacy,. 
 obduratenefs, and tyranny; of wilfuhiefs, mifchievoufnefs, and cruelty. 
 
 Jupiter has the firft phafis in Capricorn : it is the phafis of hofpitality, 
 benevolence, and honefty ; of conviviality, merriment, and fport. Mars 
 hath the fecond phafis in Capricorn: it is the phafis of inordinate defires, 
 of unbridled paffions, and intemperate lufts ; of difcontentednefs, peevifh- 
 neis, and difappointment. The Sun has the third phafis in Capricorn : 
 and it is a phafis of exalted underftanding, manlinefs, and wifdom ; of 
 fobriety, integrity, and honour. 
 
 Venus hath the firft phafis in Aquaries ; it is a phafis of continual 
 anxiety for gain, of laborious toil, and unwearied application ; of difap- 
 pointment, misfortune, and lofs. Mercury has the fecond phafis in Aqua- 
 ries : it is the phafis of modefty, clemency, and good nature ; of gentle- 
 nefs, mildnefs, and complacency. The Moon hath the third phafis in 
 Aquaries : and it is the phafis of diflatisfadlion, repining, and difcontenc ; 
 of jealouly, ingratitude, and envy. 
 
 Saturn hath the firft phafis in Pifces : it is a phafis of thoughtfulnefs, 
 fedatenefs, and temperance; of fobriety, reputation, and fuccefs in bufi- 
 nefs. Jupiter hath the fecond phafis in Pifces; it is the phafis of aufte- 
 rity, haughtinefs, and ambition ; of pride, vain-glory, and felf-conceit. 
 Mars hath the third and lafi: phafis in Pifces : and it is the phafis of con- 
 cupifcence and luft ; of debauchery, lewdnefs, and profligacy. 
 
 The advantage to be derived by a perfeft knowledge of the planets' 
 phafes will hereafter appear in the judgment of a nativity ; for, if the 
 afcendant on the cufp of any perfon's nativity be found in theie phafes, 
 then will the native's natural difpofitioii, manner, occupation, and general 
 purfuits, be regulated by them, according to the flrength or debility of the 
 other afpefts ; for, if the lord of the afcendant, or the Moon, or planet ap- 
 plying to the afcendant in afpe£l, or beholding the lord of the afcendant, or 
 Moon, are both pofited in phafes of the lame nature, then will their eifeds 
 \ipon the native be moft powerful and efficacious. 
 
 The JOYS of the PLANETS. 
 
 The planets are faid to be in their joys, when they are pofited in thofc 
 houfes wherein they are moft ftrong and powerful ; as, 
 
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 »3» 
 
 The planet 
 
 b 
 
 © 
 
 9 
 
 >■ joyeth in < 
 
 I 
 
 Til 
 
 SI 
 
 a 
 
 It may, perhaps, be enquired, why Saturn joyeth not m Capricorn, as 
 ■well as in Aquaries, fince both thele figns are his houfes ? The reafon 
 is, that in Aquaries he has both houfe and triplicity, and is therefore bet- 
 ter dignified, and more potent, in Aquaries than in Capricorn. So like- 
 wife Jupiter joyeth in Sagittary, and not in Pifces, becaufe in the former 
 fign be has both houfe and triplicity, but in the latter he has houfe 
 only. The fame obfervation extends to the other planets. The Moon, 
 indeed, has no triplicity ; but Ihe joyeth in Cancer, becaufe it is a lign 
 of her own quality and nature. Hence it appears that Saturn, though 
 ftrong and well dignified in Capricorn, is much flronger, and has more 
 dignities, in Aquaries j Jupiter alfo has ftrong influences when pofited in 
 Pifces, but much ftronger in Sagittary ; Mars is potent in Aries, but 
 infinitely more fo in Scorpio ; Venus has great operation in Libra, but 
 in Taurus her effects are more powerful; and Mercury, for the fame 
 caufe, operates much more forcibly in Virgo than he does in the fign 
 Gemini. The efficacy of thefe rules havhig been proved by repeated 
 experience, it is neceffary for every ftudent to confider thein with at- 
 tention, « 
 
 The ANTISCIONS of the PLANETS. 
 
 A planet's Antifcion is a certain virtue or influence it acquires by being 
 pofited in conjuudion with any ftar or planet, in degrees equally diilant 
 from the two tropical figns. Cancer and Capricorn, in which degrees 
 the Sun, when it arrives, occafions equal day and night all over the world. 
 For example, when the Sun is in the tenth degree of Taurus, he is as far 
 diftant from the firft degree of Cancer as when in the twelfth degree of 
 Leo ; therefore, wlien the Sun or any planet is pofited in the tenth degree 
 of Taurus, it fends its antifcion to the twentieth degree of Leo; that is, it 
 gives additional force and virtue to any planet at that time in the fame 
 degree by conjundion, or that call:etb any alpe6k to it. The planets' 
 anlifcions may, at ail times, be fomid by the following Table. 
 
 A TABLE
 
 132 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE of the ANTISCIONS of the PLANETS.* 
 
 T into xrn 
 b 
 
 n 
 
 9. 
 
 55 
 
 "I 
 
 ^ 
 
 Deg. 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 into deg. 
 
 29 
 28 
 27 
 26 
 
 25 
 24 
 
 Min. 
 I 
 
 2 - 
 
 3 ■ 
 
 4 ■ 
 
 5 ■ 
 
 into mm. 
 
 59 
 
 58 
 
 57 
 
 56 
 
 55 
 
 54 
 
 The foregoing Table fhows, that a planet, fituated in one degree onc 
 minute of Aries fends his antifcion into twenty-nine degrees fifty-nine 
 minutes of Virgo ; a planet in two degrees two minutes of Taurus, into 
 twenty-eight degrees fifty-eight minutes of Leo, and lb on through the 
 table. Thefe antilcions are confidered, in the rules of aftrology, equi- 
 valent to a lextile or a trine, particularly if the planets arc of the 
 benevolent or fortunate kind. Thefe planets have alio their contra-anti- 
 fcions, which are of the nature of a quartile or oppofition. To know 
 where thele fall, it only requires to find the antifcion, and in the oppo- 
 fite fign to that will be the contra-antifcion. For inftance, fuppofe Ju- 
 piter in one degree of Aries ; his antifcion will then fall in twenty-nine 
 degrees of Virgo, and his contra-antilcion in twenty-nine degrees of 
 Pilces, becaufe Pifces is the fign immediately oppofite to Virgo, where the 
 antifcion falls. 
 
 The ASPECTS of the PLANETS. 
 
 The flrongeft or rnoft forcible rays, afpe(51s, or configurations, pecu- 
 liar to the planets, are the following : A conjun6tion denoted by this 
 charafter, c5 ; a trine, ^ ; a quartile, □ ; a Textile, :^< ; and an op- 
 pofition, g . 
 
 A conjunction, (5 , is not properly an afped, though frequently fo call- 
 ed ; for, when two planets are both in the fame degree and minute of a 
 fign, they are faid to be in conjundion, confequently cannot at that time 
 be in afped to each other. The effedls of conjundions are either good 
 or bad according to the nature and quality of the planets that compofe 
 them, or as the planets in conjundion are friends or enemies to one 
 another, or to the fubjed then under confideration. 
 
 A fextile afped, :^, implies two of the heavenly bodies pofited at the 
 diflance of fixty degrees in longitude, or one fixth part of the zodiac, 
 
 * The Antifcions, according to the fyftem of Argol and Morinus, are followed here, though 
 difcontinued by lome modern profeffors. The Placidean methodj however, will be given in 
 the courfe of the work. See p. 6zg. 
 
 from 
 
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 from each other; for which reafon it is fometimes called a fexarvgular af^ 
 pe6t, or a hexagon. The Textile is termed an afpedl of :..' perfect love, 
 amity, or friendlhip ; becaufe when two planets, or lignificators, are in 
 Textile to each other, they import that any matter in difpute, treaty of 
 marriage, or other fubje6l of enquiry, may be happily terminated, or 
 brought about, by the intervention of friends ; or that, for want thereof, 
 the contrary may happen. And, though the Textile afpe6l is fometimes 
 over-ruled by the more powerful influences of malignant ones, yet it is 
 generally confidered an omen of a favourable kind. 
 
 By a quartile afpe6l, □, two planets are undcrftood to be polited at 
 ninety degrees, or one-fourth part of the circle of the zodiac, from each 
 other ; it is confidered an afpe6t of imperfect hatred, and atls vice verfa 
 with the Textile, inclining rather to malignancy, contention, and misfor- 
 tune, as the other does to friendfhip, harmony, and good fortune. 
 
 A trine aTpe61-, ^, imports the planets to be fituated at the diftance of 
 one hundred and twenty degrees, or one-third part of the circle of the zo- 
 diac, from each other ; and is fometimes called a trigonal afpecl:, or a tri- 
 gonocrater, implying rule of dominion in a certain trigon or triplicity. 
 This is an afpe6l of the moft perfe6l unanimity, friendfhip, and peace; 
 and it is fo confidered, becaule, when the planets are in a A afped, they 
 are pofited in figns precifely in the fame triplicity and nature ; that is to 
 fay, they are both in an earthy, airy, fiery, or watery, (ign ; and confe- 
 quently both contribute the fame influences unimpeded. But in a >]<:, 
 which is an afpe6l of imperfe6l amity, the planets are pofited in iigns ot 
 only a partial nature, viz. fiery with an airy, or an earthy with a watery, 
 fign ; and as the fiery fign is hot and diy, and the airy hot and moiji^ the 
 earthy cold and dry, and the watery cold and moiji, io the planets thus po- 
 lited, agreeing only in one point out of two, give but an imperfedt influ- 
 ence. Thus the diflinftions bptween a s|c and a A afped, and between a 
 □ and 8 , are founded in reafon and experience. 
 
 The oppofition § of two planets, fignifies their being pofited at one 
 hundred and eighty degrees, or jufl half the diftance of the zodiac, apart, 
 which places them in a diametiical radiation. This is confidered an alpeft 
 of perfed hatred, or of inveterate malice and enmity, as malignant in its 
 effects as the trine is benevolent ; and oi double the dedruttive tenden- 
 cy of the □ alpe61:. To inftance this, let us fuppofe two kingdoms, 
 ftates, focieties, or private gentlemen, at variance, and it is enquired whe- 
 ther the caufe of difpute may be amicably adjufted ? If a figure be erecled 
 
 No. 7, " I i ' " for
 
 ,2^ AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 for the pofitiotis of the heavenly bodies, and the two fignificators, repre- 
 fenting the two adverfaries, be in a quartile afpe6l, I Ihould infer, that 
 notvvithltandino- the then fubfifting enmity of the parties, with all the 
 threatened mifchiefs attending it, harmony may be reilored, if proper 
 means were ufed for that purpofe. But if the lignificators are found in 
 a(5iual oppofition, the dilpute in queftion would moft probably occafion 
 hoftilitv, war, litigation, or duel, or be attended with Ibme alarming 
 conlequences, before the matter would fubfide. Wherefore an <? is juft- 
 ly termed an afped of perfed enmity. 
 
 Thefe afpe6ts are all divided, for the fake of perfpiculty, into partik 
 and platlc afpedls. A partile afpeft confiders two planets exaflly lb many 
 decrees from each other as make a perfcft afped : that is, if Venus be in 
 nine decrees of Aries, and Jupiter in nine degrees of I^eo, they are in 
 partile trine afpeft. Again, if the Sun be in one degree of Taurus, and 
 the Moon in one degree of Cancer, they are in a partile fextile afped ; fo 
 that all perfeft afpefts arc partile, and imply the matter or thing threat- 
 ened, whether good or evil, to be near at hand. 
 
 By a platic afpeft we are to underftand two planets fo pofited as to ad- 
 mit half the degrees of each of their own rays or orbs; for inftance, if 
 Saturn be pofited in fixteen degrees of Aries, and Jupiter in twenty-four 
 decrrees of Gemini, then Saturn would be in a platic fextile afped to Ju- 
 piter, becaufe Saturn would be pofited within the moiety of both their 
 orbs, which are nine degrees each. The fame circumftance applies to the 
 afpedls of all the planets; for, if their diftance from each other brings 
 them within one half of each of their orbs or radiations, when added to- 
 gether, they will then form a platic afped. It muft alfo be carefully ob- 
 ierved in the platic aipeds, whether the co-operation of the two planets 
 is going off or coming on. In the above example, the effeiSl of Saturn's 
 platic lextile a(ped with Jupiter was going off; but if we reverfe their 
 fituations, and place Saturn in twenty-four degrees of Gennni, and Ju- 
 piter in fixteen degrees of Aries, then the afpedt would be coming on with 
 all its force and influence, and would proportionably affe6l the fubjc6l, 
 whatever it be, under confideration. 
 
 To enable the reader to find the platic afpefls more readily, I fubjoin 
 the following Table of the Planets' Orbs, Mean Motion, and Latitude. 
 
 TABLE
 
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 ^35 
 
 TABLE of the ORBS and MEAN MOTION of the PLANETS. 
 
 Orbs 
 
 Saturn 
 
 Jupiter 
 
 Mars 
 
 Moon 
 
 Venus 
 
 Mercury 
 
 Sun 
 
 lo degrees 
 
 12 degrees 
 
 7 degrees 
 12 dei^rees 50 min. 
 
 8 degrees 
 
 7 degrees 30 min. 
 17 degrees 
 
 Mean Motion, 
 2 minutes i fecond 
 4 minutes 59 feconds 
 31 minutes 27 feconds 
 13 deg. ID min. 36 fee. 
 59 minutes 8 feconds 
 59 minutes 8 feconds 
 59 minutes 8 feconds 
 
 TABLE of the PLANETS' LATITUDE. 
 
 North Latitude. 
 
 South Latitude. 
 
 
 D. 
 
 M. 
 
 S. 
 
 Saturn 
 
 2 
 
 4S 
 
 
 
 Jupiter 
 
 I 
 
 38 
 
 
 
 Mars 
 
 4 
 
 31 
 
 
 
 Moon 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 Venus 
 
 9 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 Mercury 
 
 3 
 
 83 
 
 
 
 D. 
 
 M. 
 
 S. 
 
 2 
 
 49 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 47 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 9 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 35 
 
 
 
 The Sun, always moving in the ecliptic, can have no latitude. 
 
 Now it muft be obferved, that thefe afpefts of the planets are projed- 
 ed or caft contrary ways, either onward in a line progreffively with the 
 ligns of the zodiac, which are termed finifter afpeils ; or elfe backward,, 
 in a line reverfeways to the order of the zodiac, which are termed dexter 
 afpefts. The whole of thefe appear at one view in the following Tabic 
 
 TABLE of the RADIATIONS, or SINISTER and DEXTER 
 ASPECTS, of all the PLANETS. 
 
 
 
 *nA<? 
 
 
 *oA<? 
 
 t 
 
 *oA^ 
 
 Dexter 
 
 Sinifter 
 
 r 
 
 
 a 
 
 
 
 Dexter 
 Sinifter 
 
 
 
 
 rtH 
 
 2Bn» ^ 
 
 Vf 
 
 
 Dexter 
 
 Sinifter 
 
 n 
 
 V K ^ » 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 
 Dexter 
 
 Sinifter 
 
 25 
 
 
 ni 
 
 
 K 
 
 anas'* 
 
 
 
 *DA<? 
 
 
 *oA.? 
 
 
 *oAc? 
 
 Itt
 
 J 36 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 In the foregoing Table, at the top of the third column note tlie cha- 
 radcrs of the afpeds, fextile ^, quartile Q, trine A» and oppofition <? , 
 as placed over the fgns of the zodiac. In the firll column obferve the 
 words Uexter and Sinifler, and in the fecond column the fign Aries f . 
 Thefe are intended to fhow, that a planet pofited in T would fend his 
 fextile a(pe6t, dexter to Aquaries and linifter to Gemini ; his quartile, 
 dexter to Capricorn and (Inifter to Cancer ; his trine, dexter to Sagittary 
 and finifter to Leo ; and would be in oppofition to a planet pofited in 
 equal degrees of Libra, The fame rules apply throughout the Table : but 
 it mull: not be forgotten, that finifter afpefts go in the fame order with the 
 fio-ns of the zodiac, and dexter contrariwife ; and that the dexter afpefts 
 are more ftrong and powerful than the finifter. And thus, according to 
 the operations of the planets and ftars, are the natures of all men, as the 
 planets have predominancy in them ; and fuch are the natures of all man- 
 ner of herbs and plants that grow in the field. Some are influenced by 
 Saturn, and thence are cold and dry : others by Jupiter, and thence are 
 hot and moift ; one, by an order of Mars, draws nothing but poifon to its 
 roots ; and another, by the fweet influence of Venus, lucks nothing but 
 the fvveet lap of the earth into all its fibres. If Saturn or Mars rife with 
 a birth, it is ten to one but the child dies that year, unlefs Jupiter or 
 Venus interpofe, by throwing their friendly influences ftrongly into the 
 fign. And in theie refpe«5ts we have as inconteftible proofs of the truth 
 of what we advance, as the phyfician has of the nature of herbs when 
 he taftes them ; he, from the demonftration, declares them to be hot or 
 cold, and good either to cure or kill ; but we can afcertain this without 
 tafting them,becaufe we know the fource from whence they derive thefe 
 oppofite qualities. 
 
 It were needlefs for me to dwell longer upon an explanation of the 
 different virtues and efFefts of the planets and figns. Sufficient has now 
 been faid to point out their operations and natural influences to the 
 underftanding of the moft limited capacity. It therefore only remains 
 for my readers, or luch of tiiem as intend to make any progrefs in the 
 ftudy, to familiarize themfelves with the fubjedl:, by a frequent perufal 
 of it ; and particlarly to acquire a corredl knowledge of all the charac- 
 ters by which the figns, planets, and afpeifls, are generally diftinguifhed. 
 It will then be proper to underftand the following terms peculiar to this 
 Art. 
 
 EXPLANA-
 
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 EXPLANATION of the TECHNICAL WORDS and TERMS of 
 
 ART ufed in ASTROLOGY. 
 
 DIRECTION fignifies a planet moving on its natural courfc, from 
 weft to eaft, according to the fucceffion ofthe figtis in the zodiac ; 
 thus, a planet is diretSl, when it moves in confcquentia, from Aries to 
 Taurus, from Taurus to Gemini, &c. Dire6lion is alfo a calculus^ 
 whereby to find the time of any accident or remarkable event that will 
 happen to the perfon who propounds a queftion, or has his nativity caft. 
 For inftance, a perfon enquires how many years he may live, by the 
 courfe of the planets at the time of birth ? Having cftablifned the Sun, 
 Moon, or Afcendant, as fignificators of life, and Mars or Saturn as pro- 
 mittors or portentors of death, the diredion is a calculation of the length 
 of time which the fignincator will be in meeting the promittor ; and this 
 refolves the queftion. In thefe calculations the fignificator is fometimes 
 termed apheta, or giver of life, and the promittor anareta, or giver of 
 death. The diredtions of all the principal points of the heavens, planets, 
 and fixed ftars, as the Afcendant, Mid-heaven, Sun, Moon, and Part of 
 Fortune, arc worked by the fame rule. 
 
 Stationary is underftood of a planet, when, to the eye or fenfes of 
 a beholder here on earth, it appears to ftand ftill, without any progreflivc 
 motion in its orbit. Not that a planet ever is or can be naturally in this 
 ftate, but is only rendered fo in appearance, by the inequalities which 
 arife from the pofitions and motions of the earth ; for, were the planets 
 to be viewed from the Sun, or centre of the lyftem, they would always 
 appear uniform and regular. 
 
 Retrogr ad ation implies an apparent motion inthe planets, whereby 
 they feem to go backwards in the ecliptic, and to move in anteceJentia, or 
 towards the antecedent figns, viz. from eaft to weft, contrary to the order 
 ofdiredion and to the fucceftion ofthe figns of the zodiac. This alfo is 
 an appearance produced by an oppofite motion of the earth to that of the 
 other planets. 
 
 Application fignifies the approach of two planets together, eithar 
 by conjundion or alpe6l, and is of three kinds : the firft is, when a pla- 
 net, fwift in motion, applies to one of flower progrefs ; for example, fup- 
 pofe Mercury pofited in fixteen degrees of Gemini, and Mars in twenty- 
 one degrees of the fame fign, both being direft in motion ; Mercury, by 
 liaving the greater apparent projedile force, would overtake and form a 
 
 No. 7. K k conjun^oa
 
 13S AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 con)un6llon with Mars, which is termed a direfl application. The fc- 
 coiid kind is formed by two retrograde planets ; as fuppofing Mercury 
 in fixteen decrrees of Gemini, and Saturn in fifteen degrees of the fame 
 fio-ii, both retrograde; Mercnry, being the lighter planet, applies to the 
 body of Saturn, a more ponderous planet, by retrogradation ; and this is 
 termed a retrograde application. The third kind is occafioned b}'^ one 
 planet going dire6l in motion, and meeting another planet that is retro- 
 grade ; for inftance, fuppofe Mercury retrograde in fixteeu degrees of 
 Gemini, and Saturn dired in twelve degrees of the fame fign ; here 
 Mercury, being the lighter planet, applies to a conjunftion of Saturn by 
 a retrograde motion ; and thefe two laft are deemed evil applications. It 
 muft alio be obferved, that the fuperior planets never apply to the inferior 
 but by a retrograde motion ; whereas the inferior planets apply both ways. 
 
 ■ r 
 
 Separation is imderftood of two planets that have been either in 
 partile conjundion, or afpeft, and are juft departed or feparated from 
 it. Thus, if we fuppole Saturn in twelve degrees of Sagittary, and Ju- 
 piter in thirteen degrees of the fame fign, Jupiter will be then feparated 
 one degree from a perfeft or partile conjundion with Saturn ; but they 
 would ftill be in a platic conjunftion, becaule they are within the moiety 
 of each other's radiations, which is four degrees and a half each ; confe- 
 quently thefe planets would continue in piatic conjundion until they 
 were feparated nine degrees, and then the afped would entirely ceafe. 
 The exad knowledge of every degree of the feparations of thefe afpeds ' 
 is of the utmoft confequence in giving judgment upon various impor- 
 tant occafions. For inftance, fuppofe it were demanded whether a cer- 
 tain treaty of marriage would take place or not ? When all the afpdds 
 are collcded upon the horofcope, and the two planets that are fignifica- 
 tors of the parties are found applying to each other in a coiijunflion, 
 and in common or fixed figns, the marriage may pi-obably take place in 
 fome length of time. If the fignificators are pofited in moveable fignS> 
 angular, and approaching fwift in motion to a conjundion, it may then 
 be confummated in a very (hort time ; but, if the fignificators are fepara- 
 ted from a conjunftion only a few minutes of a degree, one may fafely 
 conclude that there has been great probability, only a few days before, 
 that the wedding would have taken place ; but by this afpeft the parties 
 appear to be hanging in fpipenfe, and fome diflike or change of fenti- 
 ment feems to have taken place ; and, as the fignificators gradually iepa- 
 rate from the partile and piatic conjundions, in the fame gradation will 
 the treaty and afFeftions of the parties alienate and wear away ; and, by 
 the comparative time that the afped will occupy before it entirely ceafes, 
 fo will the time be io many weeks, months, or years, before the parties 
 ihali wholly relinquish the connection. 
 
 PROHIBITIOW
 
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 Prohibition Indicates the ftate of two planets that are fignificators 
 of fome event, or the bringing of fome bufinefs to an iflue or conclufion, 
 and are appl^'ing to each other bj conjundion; but before fuch conjunc- 
 tion can be formed, a third planet, by means of a fvvifter motion, inter- 
 pofes his body, and deftroys the expe6ted conjundion, by forming an 
 afped himfelf ; and this indicates that the matter under contemplation 
 will be greatly retarded, or utterly prevented. For example, fuppofe 
 Mars was pofited in feven degrees of Aries, Saturn in twelve deo-rees, 
 and the Sun in fix degrees, of the fame fign ; Mars is the fignificator of 
 the bulinels in hand, and promifes the iffue or completion of it fo foon 
 as he comes to a conjun6liou with Saturn ; but the Sun, being fwifter in 
 motion than Mars, paffes him, and prevents their conjunftion, by formino- 
 the afpe6t himfelf. This indicates, that whatever was expedled from the 
 approaching conjunftion of Mars and Saturn is now prohibited by the 
 Sun's iir ft impediting Mars and then Saturn; and this is termed a con- 
 jun£iional or bodily prohibition. There is alfo a prohibition by afped^, 
 either Textile, quartile, triiie, or oppofition ; and this happens when two 
 planets are going into conjun6tion. Suppofe Mars to be in feven degrees 
 of Aries, Saturn in thirteen degrees of the fame fign, and the Sun in five 
 degrees of Gemini ; the Sun, being fwifter than Mars in his diurnal mo- 
 tion, will quickly overtake him, and pafs by the fextile dexter of Mars, 
 and form a fextile dexter with Satnrn, before Mars can reach him ; by 
 this means their conjunftion is prohibited. 
 
 Frustration imports a fwift or light planet approaching to an 
 afpeft with one more flow and ponderous ; but, before they can approach 
 near enough to form that afpe(51, the weighty planet is joined to fome 
 other, by which the firfl: afpeft is fruft rated. To inftance this, fuppofe 
 Saturn pofited in fixteen degrees of Gemini, Jupiter in fifteen degrees of 
 Leo, and Mars in eleven degrees of the fame fign ; here Mars applies to 
 a conjun6lion with Jupiter, but, before he can reach it, Jupiter meets a 
 fextile afpecl from Saturn, which fruftrates the conjundion of Mars, and, 
 iu praftice, utterly deftroys whatever was promifed by it. 
 
 Refranation is the ftate of a planet in dire6l motion, applying to 
 an afpeft or conjunftion with another planet, but before they can meet 
 becomes retrograde, and thus refrains to foim the afpecl expe61ed. Sup- 
 pofe Jupiter in the twelfth degree of Gemini and Mars in the eighth ; 
 here Mars, the fwifter planet, promifes very foon to overtake Jupiter, 
 and form a conjun6tion with him ; but juft at the inftant falls retro- 
 grade, and refrains from the conjundlion, by taking an oppofite courfe 
 from Jupiter. 
 
 Translation
 
 ,4o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Translation of Light and Nature. This happens when a light 
 planet fcparates from a heavy one, and joins with another more ponderous : 
 and is efteCled in this manner: Let Saturn be placed in twenty degrees of 
 Aries, Jupiter in thirteen degrees, and Mars in fourteen degrees, of 
 the fame fign; here Mars I'eparates from a conjundlion with Jupiter, and 
 tranflates the light and nature of that planet to Saturn, to whom he next 
 apphcs. The eS'cti of this in practice will be, that, if a matter or thing be 
 promifed by Saturn, then whoever was reprclented by Mars fliall pro- 
 cure all the afliltance that the benevolent planet Jupiter could beftow, 
 and tranflate it to Saturn, whereby the bufinefs in hand would be the bet- 
 ter etf'edled and more happily concluded ; and this, being a very fortu- 
 nate pofition of the planets, is very proper to be known, lince it promifes 
 much in law-fuits, marriages, and all other queftions of the kind. 
 
 Reception is when two planets, that are fignificators in any queftioH 
 or nativity, are pofited in each other's dignity, as the Sun in Aries, and 
 Mars in Leo, which is a reception by houfes, and is deemed the moft 
 powerful and efficacious of all receptions. But reception may be by ex- 
 change of triplicily, term, or phafe, or by any efTential dignity; as Venus 
 in Aries, and the Sun in Taurus, is a reception by triplicity, if the quef- 
 tion or nativity happen by day. Or if Venus be in the twenty-fourth 
 degree of Aries, and Mars in the fixteenth degree of Gemini, it is a re- 
 ception of terms. The ufc of thefe pofitions in pra6tice is confiderable ; 
 for, fuppofe the event of any queftion required be denied by the afpefts ; 
 or the fignificators are in no afpeiSt with each other ; or it is doubtful 
 what may happen from a quartile or oppofition of the fignificators ; yet, 
 if the principal fignificators are found in mutual reception, the thing 
 defired will Ihortly come to pafs, and probably to the fatisfacfion and con- 
 tent of all the parties concerned. 
 
 Peregrination defcribes a planet to be fituated in a fign, or in 
 fuch certain degrees of a fign, where it has no efTential dignity, either 
 by houfe, exaltation, triplicity, term, or phafe : as Saturn in the tenth 
 degree of Aries, is peregrine ; and the Sun in any part of Cancer, is pe- 
 regrine, having no dignity whatever in that iign. In all queflions of 
 theft, it is very material to know the peregrine planet ; for it has been uni- 
 formly found, by aJmofl every regular profefTor of this art, that the thief 
 may be almofl conflantly difcovered by the peregrine planet pofited in an 
 angle, or in the fecond houfe. 
 
 Combustion is the flate of a planet, when fituated within eight de- 
 grees thirty minutes of the body of the Sun, either before or after him. 
 Suppofe Mercury in the twenty-firfl degree, the Sun ia the twenty-fifth 
 
 degree
 
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 141 
 
 degree, and Venus in the twenty-feventh degree of Aquaries ; here 
 Mercury and Venus would be both combuft ; but Venus would be more 
 affefted by it than Mercury, becaufe the Sun applies to, or moves to- 
 wards, Venus, and recedes frono Mercury, whereby his rays affli(5l her 
 more forcibly on his nearer approach, and become weaker upon Mercury 
 by his recefs from him. 
 
 Cazimi reprefents a planet in the heart of the Sun ; that is, if a planet 
 be only feventeen minutes before or after the Sun; as, if the Sun were in 
 fifteen degrees thirty minutes of Taurus, and Mercury in fifteen degrees 
 twenty minutes of the fame fign. Mercury would dien be in cazimi, or 
 in the heart of the Sun. All authors agree that a planet in cazimi is 
 fortified thereby, and is of greater efficacy ; whereas a planet in combuf- 
 tion is of a malignant nature. If the fignificator o- a querent, or perfon 
 propounding a queftion, be combuft, it fhows him or her to be under 
 fearful apprehenfions, and threatened to be over-powered, or greatly in- 
 jured, by fome fuperior perfon. It Ihould be carefully obferved, that all 
 planets may be in combuftion with the Sun, but the Sun cannot be in 
 combuftion with any planet ; and that combuflion can only be by perfonal 
 conjunftion in one fign, and not by any afpe6t, either fextile, quartile, 
 trine, or oppofition; the Sun's quartile or oppofite afpe6ts are afflifting, 
 but they do not combure, or render the planet combuft. A planet is al- 
 ways confidered under the fua-beams, until he is elongated fev.enteen de- 
 grees before or after his body. 
 
 Void of Course, is when a planet is feparated from another planet, 
 and does not, during its continuance in that fign, form an afpeft with any 
 other. This moft ufually happens with the Moon ; and in practice, it is 
 obferved that, if the fignificator of the thing propounded be void of 
 courfe, the bufinefs under contemplation will not fucceed, nor be attended 
 with any fatisfadtory or pleafing confequences. 
 
 Besieging, fignifies a planet fituated betwixt the two malevolent pla- 
 nets Saturn and Mars; for inftance, if Saturn were placed in the twelfth 
 degree of Aries, Mars in the fixteenth, and Jupiter in the fourteenth de- 
 .gree, Jupiter would then be befieged by Saturn and Mars. 
 
 Increasing in Light, is when a planet isfeparating from the Sun, 
 or the Sun from a planet ; thus the Moon, at her greateft diftance from 
 the Sun, appears with the greateft degree of light, having her whole orb 
 illumined. 
 
 No. 8. L 1 Oriental
 
 14.2 ' AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Oriental and Occidental. A planet, when oriental, rifes before 
 the Sun ; and, when occidental, fets after him, and is leen above the 
 horizon after the Sun is down ; confequently, when a planet is oriental 
 it is pofited in the eaft, and when occidental in the weft. 
 
 Supj;riors and Inferiors. Herfchel, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, 
 are diftinguiftied by the name of the fuperior, ponderous, and more- 
 weighty, planets; and Venus, Mercury, and the Moon, are called the in- 
 ferior planets. A fuperior always governs or over-rules an inferior; this 
 is an obfervation that holds good throughout the whole fyftem of nature. 
 
 Swift of course, is when a planet moves farther than his mean 
 motion in twenty-four hours; and he is jloiv of courfe, when he moves 
 lefs than his mean motion in the fame portion of time. 
 
 Almution, (Ignifies a planet that bears principal rule in a fign or 
 figure; which planet muft confequently have the moft elTential dignities. 
 
 Hayz, implies a mafculine diurnal planet to be (Ituated above the 
 horizon in the day-time, or a feminine no6turnal planet pofited below the 
 horizon in the night-time; which is an accidental fortitude the planets 
 delight in, and give favourable omens in all figures wherever they are 
 found. 
 
 Longitude and Latitude. The longitude of any ftar or planet, 
 is the degree of the ecliptic or zodiac in which they are found, numbered 
 from the firft point of the fign Aries. — The latitude of a ftar, or a planet, 
 is its diftance north or fouth from the fun's path, or ecliptic line, num- 
 bered by the degrees of the meridian. 
 
 Declination, is the diftance a planet fwerves either north or fouth, 
 from the equator or equinoflial line, in his circuit through the twelve 
 figns of the zodiac. 
 
 KiGHT Ascension, is the number of degrees and minutes of the 
 equinodtial line, reckoned from the beginning of Aries; that comes to 
 the meridian with the fun, moon, ftar, or planet, or any portion of the 
 ecliptic. ^ 
 
 Oblique Ascension, is the degree and minute of the equinoftial 
 line, that comes to, or rifes with, the degree of longitude of any ftar or 
 planet in the horizon ; or it is the degree of the equinodial line that 
 comes to the horizon with any ftar or planet in an oblique fphere. 
 
 Oblique
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 143 
 
 Oblique Descension, is the degree of the equinodial line that fets 
 in the horizon, with the degree of longitude of any ftar or planet in an 
 oblique fphere ; nnakingan oblique angle with the horizon. 
 
 AsCENTioNAL DIFFERENCE, is the diftinftion between the right and 
 oblique afcenfion of any planet or ftar, reckoned in the equator. 
 
 Pole of Position, fignifies the elevation of the poles of the world 
 above the circle of pofitiou of any flar or planet. 
 
 Circles of Position, are circles paffing through the common inter- 
 fe6lions of the horizon and meridian, and through any degree of the 
 ecliptic, or the centre of any ftar, or other point in the heavens ; and are 
 ufed for finding the fituation or pofition of any flar or planet. 
 
 Horoscope, is a figure or fcheme of the twelve houfes of heaven, 
 wherein the planets and pofitions of the heavens are coUefted for any 
 given time, either for the purpofe of calculating nativities, or anfwering 
 horary queftions. It alfo fignifies the degree or point of the heavens ris- 
 ing above the eaftern point of the horizon, at any given time when a pre- 
 diftion is to be made of any future event; but this is now mofb commonly 
 diflinguiflied by the name of the afcendant. 
 
 Colours. The colours given by, or peculiar to, each of the planets 
 and figns, are of great importance in the determination of all queftions 
 where the complexion of a perfon, or the colour of a thing, is neceffary 
 to be known. The reader mufl therefore be careful to remember, that, of 
 the planets, Saturn gives a black colour ; Jupiter, red mixed with green ; 
 Mars, a red fiery colour ; the Moon, all white-fpottcd or light-mixed 
 colours ; Venus, white and purple colours ; Mercury, light blue or 
 azure colour; the Sun, all yellow colours, or inclined to purple. Of the 
 twelve figm, Aries gives a white mixed with red ; Cancer, green 
 or rulTet ; Leo, red or green; Virgo, black fpeckled with blue; Libra, 
 black or dark crimfon, or fwarthy colour ; Scorpio, dark brown ; Sa- 
 gittary, yellow, or a green fanguine colour; Capricorn, black or ruf- 
 fet ; Aquaries, light-blue or iky-colour; Pifces, a glirtening light co- 
 lour. Thus, by knowing the colour or complexion attributed to each 
 of the planets and figns, it is eafy to determine the complexion of the na- 
 tive, or of any perfon or thing enquired after; for, as the complexion 
 or colour of the lord of the afcendant, or fign, or the fignificators, are, 
 that reprefent the party, fuch will be their colour and complexion. So if 
 it be alked concerning two cocks juft going to pit, which fhall be the 
 
 winner?
 
 ,44 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 winner ? Ered the figure, and the two planets reprefeiiting the diftin- 
 guiftiino- colours of the two cocks (hall be their fignificators ; and that 
 planet which is the fuperior, or that has moft elTential dignities, and is 
 moft ftrono-Iy fortified, fhall by his colour point out the cock that (hall 
 win bis battle. So of any other queftion determinable by colours. 
 
 And fince this art cannot be underftood, nor the work read with any 
 pleafure or improven:ient, without a perfe6t and familiar knowledge of all 
 the Charaders peculiar to the Signs, Planets, Sec. I (hall infert them 
 in this place together, that they may be at any time referred to with eale, 
 recommendino- at the fame time to all my readers, not to proceed any far- 
 ther, till they have learned them by heart. 
 
 CHARACTERS of the TWELVE SIGNS of the ZODIAC, 
 Dragon's Head, DRAGCi.' s Tail, and Part of Fortune. 
 
 Aries - - 
 
 Taurus - - 
 Gemini - - 
 
 Cancer 
 Leo - 
 Virgo 
 Libra 
 
 T 
 
 a 
 n 
 
 SI 
 
 Scorpio - 
 Sagittary 
 Capricorn - 
 Aquaries 
 Pifces - -r 
 Dragon's Head 
 Dragon's Tail 
 
 
 SI 
 IS 
 
 The Part of Fortune, ©. 
 
 CHARACTERS of the PLANETS. 
 
 Herfchel 
 Saturn 
 Jupiter 
 Mars 
 
 b 
 
 6 
 
 Moon 
 Venus - 
 Mercury 
 The Sun 
 
 9 
 
 
 CHARACTERS 
 
 Scxtile ■ 
 Quartile 
 
 diftingui(hing 
 
 the feveral 
 the PLANETS. 
 
 ASPECTS of 
 
 - - >|c I Trine - - - A 
 
 - - D I Oppofition - - g 
 And the Conjundtion, (5. 
 
 EXPLANATION
 
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 EXPLANATION of the TWELVE HOUSES of HEAVEN, with 
 DIRECTIONS for ereding the HOROSCOPE. 
 
 TITAVING fliown what the eflential qualities are, which the planets 
 -■--■- and heavenly matter derive from an inherent principle of nature; 
 it follows that I fhould explain the accidental qualities they receive by 
 their different pofitions in the twelve houfes of heaven : for as the hea- 
 vens are perpetually in motion, either afcending or defcending; and fince 
 it is beyond the reach of human penetration to define what ftar or planet 
 fhall afcend at the nativity of children yet unborn ; fo, in reference to hu- 
 man ideas, it is purely accidental what dignities the planets (hall acquire, 
 or what houfes they fhall be pofited in, at the time of birth. 
 
 That the reader may form a competent idea of what is meant by the 
 Twelve Houfes of Heaven, let us fuppofe the whole celeftial globe, or 
 fphere of heaven, divided into four equal parts, by the horizon and me- 
 ridional line, and each of thefe into four quadrants, and each quadrant 
 into three equal parts, by lines drawn from points of fedion in different 
 parts of the horizon and meridian, equi-diftant from each other. By this 
 operation, the whole globe or fphere will be apportioned into twelve equal 
 parts, which conftitute what we call, the twelve houfes of heaven. And 
 thefe houfes, as cbfervation and experience abundantly fhow, make up 
 the great wheel of nature, whereon depends the various fortunes contin- 
 gent to all fublunary matters and things. 
 
 In this divifion of the heavens, the firft quadrant is defcribed by a pa- 
 rallel line drawn from the point of the eafl angle to the fouth, or mid- 
 heaven; and contains the twelfth, eleventh, and tenth, houfes, called the 
 oriental, vernal, mafculine, fanguine, infant, quarter. The fecond qua- 
 drant if defcribed by a fimilar line running from the exterior point of the 
 mid-heaven to the point of the weflern angle ; and contains the ninth, 
 eighth, and feventh, houfes, called the meridian, eftival, feminine, 
 youthful, choleric, quarter. The third quadrant is formed by a parallel 
 line running from the extreme point of the eighth houfe to the north 
 angle ; and contains the lixth, fifth, and fourth, houfes, called the occi- 
 dental, autumnal, mafculine, melancholic, manly, cold and dry, quar- 
 ter. • The fourth quadrant is defcribed by a line drawn from the extreme 
 point of the north angle to the extremity of the line which defcribes 
 the firft quadrant, both meeting in the eafh angle of the heavens ; and con- 
 tains the third, fecond, and firfl, houfes, called the northern, winterly, 
 feminine, phlegmatic, quarter, the feat of old age, decrepidnefs, and 
 decay. The lines thus drawn defcribe the following figure, or horo- 
 fcope, into which the figns and planets are feverally introduced, and re- 
 No. 8. Mm' prefented
 
 l^J 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 prefented as in their true places in the heavens, before any queftion can be 
 folved or nativity calculated. The fpace in the centre, were the figure 
 drawn circular, might reprefent the vacuum in which the earth moves ; 
 but it is generally ufed to write down the day, year, and hour of the day, 
 when the figure was ere6led, with the purpofe of it, whether for a nati- 
 vity, or queflion refolved. 
 
 FIGURE of the HOROSCOPE, or Twelve Houses of Heaven. 
 
 Thefe twelve houfes are each diftinguiflied by their rcfpedive figures; 
 and are either angular, fuccedent, or cadent. The angular houfes arc 
 four, called the afcendant, mid-heaven, or medium cceli, the feveuth 
 houfe, and the bottom of the heaven ; thefe are deemed the mod power- 
 ful and moft fortunate houfes. The fucceeding houfes are the eleventh, 
 fecond, eighth, and fifth ; and are ranked next in force and virtue to 
 the angles. The third clafs, or cadent houfes, are the third, twelfth, 
 ninth, and fixth ; and are confidered of the leaft efficacy of them all. But 
 notwithftanding they are divided into only three claffes, or orders, 
 whereby their force and efficacy are eftimated, yet is there a regular gra- 
 dation
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 147 
 
 dation in this refpe6l running through the whole, whereby one houfe is 
 fubordinate to the other, from the firft to laft. Confidered in this order, 
 they {land thus ; 
 
 I 10 7 4 II 5 9 3 2 8 6 12 
 
 According to this rule, if we find two planets equally ftrong, and 
 of the fame dignities, one pofited in the firft houfe, and the other in the 
 tenth, we judge the planet, in the firft houfe, or afcendant, to have fupe- 
 riority over the planet in the tenth houfe ; and in pra6lice we infer from 
 fuch a pofition, that the perfon whofe fignificator was in the firft houfe 
 would get the better of his opponent whofe fignificator was in the tenth 
 houfe ; but, both being fo nearly equal in point of dignity, great ftrug- 
 gles and difficulties would intervene, as the nature of the cafe in point 
 may happen to be. This rule holds good from the tenth houfe to the 
 feventh; the feventh to the fourth, and fo on through the whole; but it 
 {hould always be remembered, that planets in angles, that is, thofe 
 which are feated in the angular houfes, are the moft forcible and potent 
 in their operation. 
 
 The firft houfe, which is denoted by the figure i, is called the afcen- 
 dant, becaufe, the point of its angle being level with the horizon, what- 
 ever planet afcends from under the earth, muft afcend upon this line, and 
 become vifible firft in this houfe. The line upon which the planets 
 afcend, or move, is called the cufp of the houfes; and that of the afcen- 
 dant is generally reckoned to extend about five degrees above the earth, 
 and twenty-five degrees beneath, ready to afcend. But, if figns of long 
 afcenfions afcend, then half five degrees above the earth, and thirteen be- 
 low, are its utmoft limits. If figns of fliort afcenfions afcend, then five 
 degrees above the horizon, and fifty degrees below, are ufually allowed. 
 Now the quality of whatfoever part of the heavens occupies or fills up the de- 
 grees of this houfe, carries along with it the health, life, and nature, of every 
 infant or thing that is conceived or brought forth within its jurifdi6lion. 
 And hence hath this point of the heavens a faculty of attrading or receiv- 
 ing the virtues of theceleftial matter that is accidentally afcending in that 
 part of heaven at the birth ; and alfo of the planets and fixed ftars in their 
 tranfits: and all the rays of the planets, in their afpeds and conjundions, 
 are attrafted into this part of heaven, in order to the formation of the 
 fhape, ftature, temperature of the body, quality of the mind, and all ac- 
 cidents and contingencies which (hall befall the native's body, or health, 
 or life, unto his dying day; fuch a fympathy is there between this part 
 of the heavenly frame and of every a6t and thing that is produced, or 
 that receives life, under it. For, as the feed in the ground, after it has 
 taken root, buds forth, and appears above ground, fo the heavenly in- 
 telligencers,.
 
 r48 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 tellio-encers, after they have framed the embryo, and the temperament 
 thereof, under the earth, give it life and being of its own, putting forth 
 level with them juft as they afcend. We do not however fuppofe, that 
 the temnerature and qualities of the native were wholly framed at theexa6l 
 time of birth, although the fituation of the heavens at that time never 
 fails exadllv to defcribe them. We have every reafon to believe, that the 
 temperature and qualities of the body, and the difpofition of the mind, 
 are formed in regular gradations from the conception to the time of birth; 
 but that the birth defcribes them, is indifputably clear, becaufe it cannot 
 happen at any moment of time, in any part of the world, but it muft fall 
 even with that part of the heavenly matter afcending from the lower unlo 
 the upper horizon, which is interefted in, and therefore points out, ihofe 
 temperatures and qualities. For any man to be fatisfied in this point, let 
 him but note what the nature of this afcending point of heaven is, with 
 all the ftars and planets pofited therein, or having afpefl with them from 
 other houfes, giving each of them their due weight and influence, accor- 
 din^T to their nature and dignity, neither ftrained one way nor the other; 
 and, juil: as thefe are found at the time of birth, juft fo fhall be found the 
 qualities and endowments of that native, with the principal adlions and 
 events of his life, which this point afcending takes the charge of. And 
 in this trial will the reader find more fubftantial proofs of the truth and ex- 
 iftence of Aftrology, than the moft acute arguments can inftil into his mind. 
 
 Now, fince the firft houfe, or afcendant, gives birth and life to the na- 
 tive, it follov/s that thole houfes, which are the attendants on, and uphold- 
 ers of, life, fhould be joined with it; and, as children, or the native's ofF- 
 fpring, are the upholders of life in this world, and religion and learning 
 the grand means of upholding it unto eternity in the other world, fo the 
 houfes which contribute theie bleffings to the life already given are joined 
 in an harmonious trine with the firft houfe, making up that three-fold 
 cord, which, as Solomon faith, can never he broken. The one is a fucce- 
 dent houfe, called the fifth houfe, and the other a cadent houfe, called the 
 ninth houfe; and, to be convinced of the effedts of this fifth houfe, note 
 the heavenly matter, planets, ftars, and afpeds, therein pofited at the time 
 of birth, according to the rules here laid down, and they fhall truly repre- 
 fent the number and flate of the native's offspring, and all other particu- 
 lars relative to children, and to breedine or barren women. So alfoexa- 
 mine the ftate of the eleventh houfe; and, as that reprefents, fo (hall the 
 native be in refpeft of religion and fcience ; for the heavenly matter, pla- 
 nets, ftars, and afpefts, therein, (hall (how what and how the man (hall 
 prove, whether wife or foolifh, devout or fcliifmatical, and what ftudy or 
 occupation he fhall be inclined to follow. Thefe furni(h matter for grace 
 to work upon; but, as for grace itfelf, nature can have no power over it; 
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 The fecond angular point of the houfes of heaven, is called the mid- 
 heaven, which is that point which culminates, being the very top or 
 higheft point of the heavenly frame. And whatever part of the heavens 
 happens to be culminating in this point at the birth of any perfon or 
 thing, that takes charge of, and carries along with it ever after, the pre- 
 ferment, honour, profeflion, fituation, and authority, of the native; and 
 as the nature of the planets, ftars, afpe€ts, and heavenly matter, happens 
 to be, that are fituated in this point, or in the degrees pertainino- to it, 
 fo fhall the native prove in his life-time, in point of dignity, advancement 
 and reputation, in this world, whether high or low, fortunate or unfortu- 
 nate, favoured or difgraced. The attendants upon, and upholders of, 
 man's honour and dignity, as the Scriptures and every day's experience 
 perpetually (how us, are wealth and fervants. The firft of thefe is at- 
 tached to the mid-heaven in a fuccedcnt houfe, called the fecond houfe of 
 heaven; and the other in a cadent houfe, called the lixth houfe of heaven; 
 and thefe two are fituated in an harmonious trine with the angular point of 
 the mid-heaven. And now well obferve what the planets, ftars, afpecls, 
 and heavenly matter, are in either of thefe houfes at the time of birth; 
 and fuch (hall the native's fortune prove in point of riches and fubordi- 
 nate dependants; in the firft of thefe houfes for wealth, and in the other 
 for fervants or dependants. 
 
 The third angle of the figure of heaven is the feventh houfe, or point 
 of the heavens and degrees contingent, which are always defcending, or 
 fetling out of our horizon, and finking under the earth; and this point 
 is diredly oppofjte to the eaflern angle, or afcendant. Now, as the rifing 
 heaven or afcendant is the beginning and conduit of life, fo this fet- 
 ting heaven, level with the afcendant, is the bringing all mundane 
 affairs level with life, fuch as our entrance into the flate of marriao-e ; 
 our contrads and enterprifes in bufinefs, war, and travel; and our con- 
 nexions and fuccefs therein, whether with friends, Grangers, or enemies; 
 and thefe whether honefl men, parafites, or thieves. And the heavenly 
 matter, planets, flars, and afpeds, fituated in this angle at a nativity, appa- 
 rently fhow how a man fhall fare in refpeft to wives, more or lefs, any or 
 none, good or bad ; and in matters of bufinefs or adventure, how fortu- 
 nate or unfortunate he may be likely to prove; and with enemies or 
 thieves, how far he is likely to be injured by them. NecefTary upholders 
 of marriage, fupporters in trade and travel, and defenders againft thieves, 
 plunderers, and enemies, are friends, relations, and neighbours. And 
 thefe, in a trine to the feventh houfe, are brought forth, the firft out of 
 the eleventh houfe of heaven, a fuccedent houfe, and the other out of the 
 third houfe of heaven, a cadent houfe. This eleventh houfe, by the pla- 
 
 No. 8. N n nets.
 
 nets, ftais, afpefls, and heavenly matter, therein, point out the ftate of a 
 man's friends and hopes in this life ; and the third houfe defcribes, by the 
 fame means, how happy or unhappy a man (hall prove in his relations, 
 connexions, and neighbours. 
 
 The lafl: angle of heaven is the fourth houfe, called the bottom oj 
 heavertf and reprefents that point which in our conception feems to hang 
 at the very bottom of the round ball of the celeftial world, being diame- 
 trically oppofite to the exterior, or mid-heaven. And, as that fhows what 
 a man in the courfe of nature fhall rife to in the world; this, on the con- 
 trary, declares what and when fhall be his fall, decay, and death. This 
 houfe has therefore fignification of the end of every worldly concern, 
 and, amongft other ends, of the grave, which is the end of all men liv- 
 ino-, however dignified or great. And the planets, liars, and afpefts, po- 
 fited in this houfe at the time of birth, never fail to (how what kind of 
 end the native is likely to find ; for, as the twelve figns have each their par- 
 ticular and vifible efi^efts upon and over every part of man's body, and as 
 the planets and their afpeds fhow in what fign the native fhall be impe- 
 dited, that is, in what part of the body the root of his natural infirmity 
 fhall be placed ; and what accidents fhall befal him during his life; fo is 
 it an eafy procefs to point out the manner of his death, and whether na- 
 tural, honourable, or ignominious. The upholders of this angle arc the 
 houfes of tribulation and death; the one a fuccedent houfe, called the 
 eio-hth houfe, or houfe of death ; and the other a cadent houfe, called the 
 twelfth houfe. And now let it be carefully obferved what planets, {tars, 
 alpe6ts, and heavenly matter, occupy thefe houfes at the time of nativity; 
 and they fhall point out, in the twelfth houfe, all the principal misfor- 
 tunes, affliftions, and tribulations, of the native's life, and in the eighth 
 houfe the time and manner of his death. 
 
 Independent of the faculties hitherto fpecified, each of thefe houfes of 
 heaven has other fignifications and effects, which they demonflrate in 
 various other ways. For inftance, the afcendant reprefents the native 
 coming into the world, and the fourth houfe at the fame time repre- 
 fents the parents of the native going out ; for one generation pajfeth away, 
 and another generation coxneth, according to the courfe of nature. (See 
 Ecclef. i. 4.) Of thefe parents, the father is more efpecially fignified by 
 the fourth houfe; and then, fecondarily, but not fo forcibly, the mother 
 of the native is fignified by the tenth houfe, and the grandfather by the 
 feventh ; and uncles, aunts, and relations, on the father's fide, by the 
 fixth; and uncles, aunts, and relations, on the mother's fide, by the 
 twelfth. Hence alfo it comes to p.afs, that by the fourth houfe are figni- 
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 fied houfes and lands, and all degrees of patrimony left by the father; 
 and by the eighth houfe are (hown all goods and legacies left by will of 
 the deceafed. The fecond and (ixth houfes in half-trine to the houfe of 
 the grave, and in oppolition to the eighth and twelfth, have a fecondary 
 fignification of ficknefs and death. 
 
 Such are the qualities and operations of the twelve houfes of heaven, 
 in the common courfe of nature ; but thefe qualities are fometimes ma- 
 terially altered, and changed for the better or worfe, by means either of 
 the moon, or fome other of the celeftial motions or affecflions. It is cer- 
 tain that the Moon circleth the Earth once in every twenty-eight days; but 
 in this perambulation (he neither keeps the Sun's pathway in the ecliptic, 
 nor continues her courfe conflantly on the fame fide of it; but once in 
 every fourteen days (he erodes the ecliptic, alternately to her north and 
 fouth declination; and it is found by long and corredt obfervation, that 
 the point in the heavens where (he crofTes this line is very ftrongly af- 
 fedied by her motion. The Moon is the great body of life and growth ; 
 and, when (he pa(res the ecliptic to the north, which brings her nearer 
 into this northern world, (he then gives an extraordinary degree of fruit- 
 fulnefs, which wonderfully (Irengthens with its influence whatfoever 
 happens within the line of its jurifdidtion. And this point, wherever it 
 falls, is called the Moon's north node, but is difl:ingui(hed in aftrological 
 works by the name of the Dragon's Head, as already explained in page 
 115. If this point happens to afcend in a nativity, it (Irengthens life with 
 a robuft and lively confiitution. If it falls in the mid-heaven, it promifes 
 great honour and preferment; if in the eleventh houfe, profperity and 
 riches. If Jupiter or Venus happen to be in thefe degrees, it makes them 
 much (Wronger and more eiHcacious in their benevolent operations; but, if 
 Saturn or Mars be pofited there, it gives them, on the contrary, a (Ironger 
 inclination to prove mifchievous and unfortunate. When the Moon in- 
 terfe6ls the ecliptic line to her fouthern declination, (he leaves that point 
 of the heavens where (he croiTes it, which is termed the Dragon's Tail, 
 as barren to all intents and purpofes as the other was fruitful. Hence 
 this point, afcending at a nativity, blcmifhes life, and leaves a (lain upon 
 it; impairs honour and advancement in the mid-heaven, and waftes riches 
 and brings adver(ity in the eleventh houfe ; and it weakens as well the 
 benevolent aufpices of Jupiter and Venus as the evil inclinations of Sa- 
 turn and Mars. How thefe circumftances operate beyond the equinoc- 
 tial, experience is yet filent; but it feems reafonable to fuppofe that the 
 Dragon's Tail is there the fruitful point, and the Head the barren point, 
 fince, when the Moon is going off from us, her influences muft be coming 
 pn with them. 
 
 Next
 
 ,^a AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Next to the nodes, the Part of Fortune has its operations upon thefe 
 twelve celeftial houfes. The point which we term the Part of Fortune, 
 is the diftance of the Moon's place from the Sun's, added to the degrees 
 of the afcendant; and the nature of it is, as conftant obfervation afcer- 
 tains, that, if this point falls among fortunate ftars, or in a fortunate part 
 of the heavens, then it promifes great fuccefs in health or wealth, honour 
 or offspring, or any other Ipecies of profperity, according as it is feated 
 either in the firft, eleventh, or fifth, houfes, or in any others. The reafon 
 of this appears to be, that the Sun, Moon, and Afcendant, being the prime 
 conduits through which the ftream of life flows, this feat of the Part of 
 Fortune is the harmony of all three concentering and uniting in the fame 
 ads of benevolence. 
 
 Now befides thefe, there are yet other qualities accidentally afFeded, 
 which concern either particular perfons or times. Thus the places of 
 Saturn or Mars, or the Tail of the Dragon, in the vernal figure, are un- 
 fortunate in the higheft degree, for the whole of that year; or, if they 
 happen in any of the quarter-figures, they portend afflidion and misfor- 
 tune for that quarter. But the places of Jupiter and Venus in a vernal 
 figure are as fortunate as the others are unfortunate for the fame time. 
 The places of an eclipfe of the Sun or Moon, and of the comets, are alfo 
 fortunate oi unfortunate, as their fituation may be, or as perfons, coun- 
 tries, or ftates, may be concerned in them. The place of Saturn or Mars 
 in a man's nativity, proves unfortunate to him all the days of his life ; and 
 the place of either of them in a revolutional figure is equally bad for that 
 year. But the place of Jupiter or Venus in a nativity, or in a revolutional 
 figure, is always fortunate, either for a man's life-time, or for the year, 
 as the other is unfortunate. Alfo the places of the twelfth houfe, or eighth, 
 or fixth, as they were in the native's fcheme, have always bad fignifications 
 unto a man, whenfoever they come up upon any of his concerns. And 
 the places of the tenth houfe, of the eleventh, of the afcendant, and of 
 the fecond houfe, generally promife as much good as the other houfes do 
 evil upon all the common occafions of life. 
 
 Thus far we have feen the operations of the twelve houfes of heaven, 
 as they appertain to the time and circumflances of a Nativity. We fhall 
 now explain their properties in that fyftem of nature, upon which the 
 do£lrine of Horary Queftions is grounded. And fuch has been the induf- 
 try and indefatigable labour of our forefathers, in bringing this fcience to 
 maturity, and in dilcovering and diftingui(hing the particular fignifications 
 and efFefls of all pofitions of the planets in thefe twelve houfes of heaven, 
 that whoever takes the pains to inform himfelf fufficiently of them, will 
 
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 not be in want of competent grounds, whereon to judge, or give rational 
 anfwers to every interrogation or queftion on the common occurrences of 
 life, or any contingent accidents or undertakings, with the confequences 
 and fuccefs of them. 
 
 The firft houfe bears fignification of the life of man, and of the Ma- 
 ture, colour, complexion, form, and fhape, of him who propounds aquef- 
 tion; and, as all the viciflitudes of nature depend upon the periods of 
 man's life, fo all queftions are refolved by this houfe that relate to fick- 
 nefs, health, or long life ; and alfo all accidents by which life may be en- 
 dangered or impaired ; what part of one's days will be the moil- happy 
 and profperous; whether any abfent friend or relation be living or dead ; 
 or whether any journey, voyage, or ftiipat fea, will be attended with fuc- 
 cefs and fafety, or whether meet with any accident fatal to life, or de- 
 ftruftive to the fhlp. In fhort, all queftions, relating to circumftances 
 that affedt life, are to be anfwered from the firft houfe. In ftate-aftrolocpy, 
 and in eclipfes, great conjundions, appearances of comets, and other lu- 
 minous and extraordinary phenomena in the heavens, and upon the Sun's 
 annual ingrefs into the equinodlial fign Aries; the firfl: houfe bears fio-ni- 
 fication of the community at large, or of that ftate, empire, or kingdom 
 where the figure is erected. Of colours, the firft houfe gives a white; 
 from which it is to be underflood, that, if a planet be pofited in this houfe, 
 which governs a light colour, and a queftion be propounded from any party 
 relative to a perfon, matter, or thing, where colours are concerned, and 
 this planet be the fignificator thereof, then the perfon's complexion and 
 drefs, or, if cattle, then their colour, fhall be of a white, pale, or lio-htifh, 
 kind; and, though this may appear ridiculous and infignificant to the un- 
 derftanding of lome readers, yet the faft ftands unfhaken in praftice. 
 Now, as every one of the twelve houfes of heaven have their fio-nifi- 
 cators, fo have they alfo their conjignificators, which have frequent 
 operation, and therefore ought to be confidered. A confignificator is a 
 planet either fallen into conjundtion, or joined in afpedf, with the princi- 
 pal fignificator; in which cafes, the planet either aflifls or oppofes in the 
 matter under confideration. If it be joined with a benevolent planet, it 
 imports good ; but, if it happens to the contrary, it either denotes deftruc- 
 tion to the fubje6t of enquiry, or great difturbance in the effefling of it. 
 The confignificators of the firft houfe are Saturn and Aries; and, if Sa- 
 turn is moderately well dignified in this houfe, and in any benevolent 
 afpeft with Jupiter, Venus, or the Sun or Moon, it promifes a good 
 fober conflitution of body, and generally gives long life. \i Mercury is 
 lord of this houfe, and well dignified, the perfon Ihall be a powerful and 
 good fpeaker. 
 
 No. 8. O o From
 
 1^4 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 From the fecond houfe we form a judgment upon all queftions relating 
 to wealth or poverty, profperity or adverfity, and lofs or gain in any un- 
 dertaking that may be propounded by the querent; and alfo concerning 
 moveable goods, and money lent or employed in fpeculation. In fuits of 
 law or equity, it fhows a man's friends or affiftants; in private duels, it 
 defcribes the querent's fecond ; in eclipfes, it fhows the growing profpe- 
 rity or adverfity of a ftate or people; and, at the Sun's entrance into Aries, 
 it exprefles the ftrength of the empire where the figure is ere6led, in its 
 internal refources, in its allies, and in all other requifites of war, or ielf- 
 defence. It gives a green colour, of which a fimilar ufe is to be made 
 as is defcribed in the firft houfe; and the fame obfervation will hold 
 good in all other houfes, in any queftion that relates to colours. The 
 confignificators to the fecond houfe are Jupiter and Taurus; for, if Jupiter 
 be placed in this houfe, or is lord thereof in full dignity, it implies the 
 acquifition of an eftate or fortune; but the Sun and Mars never promife 
 good in this 'houfe ; either of them indicate difperfion of fubftance, ac- 
 cording to the capacity and quality of him who propofes the queflion. 
 
 The third houfe having fignification of brethren, fifters, kindred, and 
 neighbours; and of all inland journeys, and of removing one's manu- 
 fafture or bufinefs from one place to another; fo all queftions that arc 
 founded upon any fubjefl: relative thereto are anfwered from the pla- 
 nets fituated in this houfe. Its confignificators are Mars and Gemini, 
 which is one reafon why Mars, unlefs joined with Saturn, is not found 
 jTo generally unbenevolent in this houle as in the others. If the Moon 
 be pofited here, it is always an argument to the querift of much refl- 
 lefTnefs, travelling, and change of fituation. This is a fuccedent houfe; 
 and gives a yellow, red, or forrel, colour. 
 
 From the fourth houfe, we refolve all quefliions in any way relating to 
 or concerning the father of the querift. Alfo all enquiries relating to 
 lands, houfes, or eftates; or to towns, cities, caftle?, or entrenchments, 
 befieged ; of treafures hidden in the ground, and all other queftions re- 
 lating to the earth; are anfwered out of this houfe, which is called the 
 mum cceli, bottom of heaven, or dark angle of the earth. Its configni- 
 ■ ficators are the Sun and Cancer ; and therefore, if the Sun be pofited in 
 this houfe, it denotes the father of the querift to be of a generous and 
 noble difpofition. It governs the red colour. 
 
 By the fifth houfe wc form all our predidions relative to children, and 
 to women in the ftate of pregnancy; alfo all queftions concerning the 
 prefent health of abfent fons or daughters, or the future health of thole 
 at home. Enquiries relating to the real and perfonal efFedfs of one's fa- 
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 ther, or concerning the fuccefs of meflengers, ambafTadors, or 'plenipo- 
 tentiaries; or refpeding the ammunition or internal ftrength of a place 
 befieged ; are all anfwered from this houfe. Its confignificators are Ve- 
 nus and Leo ; and therefore unfortunate when occupied either by Saturn 
 or Mars, both of Avhich indicate bafe and untoward children to the en- 
 quirer. It indicates a mixed black and white, or fanguine, colour. 
 
 The fixth houfe refolves all queftions that in any refpefl appertain to 
 fervants or cattle. Alfo enquiries concerning the ftate of a fick per- 
 fon, whether curable or not; the nature of the difeafe, and whether of 
 Ihort or long duration; particulars relating to uncles and aunts, and all 
 kindred on the father's fide ; alfo concerning one's tenants, ftewards, or 
 the like; are refolved by the difpofition of the ftars and planets fltuated 
 in this houfe. Its confignificators are Mercury and Virgo; and, when 
 Mars and Jupiter are found in conjunftion here, it is a ftronger argument 
 of a good phyfician, whenever it comes up upon a queftion propounded 
 in behalf of a patient who is vifited by a gentleman of the faculty. 
 This houfe, having no afpedl with the afcendant, is always deemed un- 
 fortunate. It gives a black or dark colour. 
 
 o 
 
 By the feventh houfe, we are enabled to refolve all queflions on love- 
 afFairs and marriage, and to defcribe the perfon of either the man or the 
 woman that the querifl: will be joined with in marriage. It likewife 
 anfwers all enquiries of the defendant in law-fuits and litigations ; or 
 concerning our public enemies in time of war. In thefts, it enables us to 
 defcribe the perfon of the robber, by his fhape, flature, complexion, 
 and condition of life. In an annual ingrefs, it ufually indicates whether 
 peace or war may be expelled ; and, prior to an engagement, betokens 
 which fide fhall prove vidorious ; it difcovers fugitives, out-lawed men, 
 and offenders efcaped from juftice. The confignificators to this houfe 
 are the Moon and Libra; and, when Saturn or Mars is found herein, it 
 is deemed an unfavourable omen, produ6tive of great forrow and wretch- 
 ednefs to the querift in any matrimonial engagement. It gives a dark 
 blue, black, or brown, colour. 
 
 From the eighth houfe we folve all queflions concerning death, its 
 time, quality, and nature ; with all matters relating to legacies, wills, and 
 lafl: teftaments ; or who fhall inherit the fortune and eftates of the de- 
 ceafed. Enquiries on the dowry or portion of maids or widows; in du- 
 els, concerning the adverfary's fecond ; in law-fuits, relative to the de- 
 fendant's fuccefs and friends ; and queftions on public or private enemies, 
 or concerning the fubflance and fecurity of thofe we conned! ourfelves 
 with in bufinefs; are all anfwered by the fituation of the planets in this 
 
 houfe,.
 
 ,^6 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 houfe. Its confignificators are Saturn and Scorpio'; and its colours arc 
 
 green and black. 
 
 o 
 
 By the ninth houfe we are enabled to anfwer all queftions on the fafe- 
 ty and fuccefs of voyages and travels into foreign countries; alfo enqui- 
 ries of the clergy concerning church-preferments, benefices, advowfons, 
 and the like, and all queftions relative to kindred and relations on the 
 wife's fide ; and the fame on the hulband's fide, if the wife be the querift; 
 and all matters relating to the arts and fclences are likewife refolved 
 from this houfe. Jupiter and Sagittarius are its confignificators; for, if 
 Jupiter be pofited herein, it naturally indicates a man of religious and 
 exemplary manners, and of modeft carriage and behaviour ; but, if Sa- 
 turn, Mars, or the Dragon's Tail, are found herein, it indicates a perfon 
 of atheiflical and irreligious principles; inflances of which, from the na- 
 tivities of many unhappy men of this caft, are almofl innumerable. The 
 colours betokened by this houfe are green and white. 
 
 The tenth houfe, being the medium cceli, or moft elevated part of the 
 whole heavens, refolves all queflions concerning kings, princes, dukes, 
 earls, marquifles, and all noblemen, judges, principal officers of flate, 
 commanders in chief, all orders of magiftrates, and other perfons in 
 power and authority. Enquiries after preferment, honours, dignity, of- 
 fices, places, penfions, or fmecures ; or concerning the flate of king- 
 doms, empires, provinces, commonwealths, countries, cities, or focie- 
 ties of men; are all refolved from the mid-heaven. The confignificators 
 of this houfe are Capricorn and Mars ; and, whenever Jupiter or the 
 Sun be pofited herein, it gives the flrongeft prefumptions of fuccefs in 
 whatever purfuit the querift may be engaged in ; but, if Saturn or the 
 Dra2;on's Tail afflidt the fignificators in this houfe, it denies honour, 
 fuccefs, or preferment, to perfons of quality or eminence; and to com- 
 mon people it denotes vexation and difappointment in the common 
 fundions of their occupation or employment. Its colours are the red 
 and white. 
 
 By the eleventh houfe we anfwer all enquiries concerning friends and 
 friendlhip, hope, truft, expedauce, or deiire ; alfo whatever relates to 
 the fidelity or perfidioulncfs of friends; or to the counfellors, advifers, 
 alfociates, favourites, flatterers, or fervants, of kings, princes, or men in 
 power. The confignificators of this house are the Sun and Aquaries ; 
 and its colour is either fafFron or deep yellow. 
 
 The twelfth houfe, being the houfe of tribulation, refolves all queftions 
 of forrow, afflidion, anxiety ^of mind, trouble, diftrefs, imprilonment, 
 
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 perfecutlon, malice, fecret enemies, fuicide, treafon, confpiracy, afTat- 
 filiation, and eveiy thing appertaining to the misfortunes and afflidions 
 of mankind. Its confignificators are Venus and Pilces; and Saturn greatly 
 joyeth in this houfe, being the parent of malevolence and malignity. 
 The colour it gives is green. 
 
 From the foregoing circumftantial lurvey of the twelve houfes of hea- 
 ven, I truft the reader will be enabled to form fuch an idea of the nature 
 of predifting by the horofcope, as will enable him not only to proceed to 
 place the ftars and planets therein with correftnefs and precifion, but alfo 
 to form an accurate and diftinft judgment of their power and influence, 
 under whatever aipeds or pofitions he may occafionally find them : for, 
 until he can accomplifh this, it will be in vain for him to attempt any 
 examples in the doctrine of horary queflions or nativities, which will be 
 the next objedl of our plan, after explaining the tables for finding the 
 places of the planets every hour and minute of the day, and diredling the 
 reader how to place them in the horofcope. But I cannot difmifs this 
 fubjecft, without giving my readers the definition of the twelve houfes of 
 heaven from the works of that learned and much-efteemed phllofopher 
 and aftrologian, Morinus ; and in doing this, I fliall adhere as much to 
 the fpirit and letter of the author as the nature of a tranflation will admit, 
 
 " It is a fa6t," fays this excellent author, " which preponderates in the 
 balance of reafon, and highly claims our fober confideration, that the life 
 of man is refolvable into four difl:in6l: periods or ages; namely, infancy, 
 youth, maturity, and old age ; though it may be laid with flrid truth, 
 that fcarcely half the human race attain to the conclufion of only their third 
 period. In the conftrudion of man, therefore, we dilcover four affeftions, 
 into which all other things appear to be reducible, as it were, to their firft 
 beginning; namely, life, aftion, marriage, and pallion. Thefe agree 
 with the rife, perfed^ion, declination, and termination, of all things; and 
 compnfe the whole efFedts and operations of nature. For man is truly 
 faid to rife into the world, the moment he receives refpiration and life; to 
 be in perfection, when he attains to manhood and maturity, and to the 
 propagation of his fpecies ; to decline, when he begins to lofe the innate 
 radical principle of heat and moifture ; and to fuftain the lafl paflion of 
 life, when he ceafes to breathe, and filently finks' into the grave. The 
 life, adlion, marriage, and paffions, of men, are therefore governed by 
 the fame celefliial principle which regulates the birth, perfection, decli- 
 nation, and dilTolution, of all other things. Wherefore life, in the (yC- 
 tem of nature, is regulated by the eaft angle of the heavens, called the 
 afcendant; adiion, by the fouth angle, or mid-heaven; marriage, by the 
 wefl angle; and paflion, by the north angle of the heavenly frame. And 
 
 No, 8. P p hence
 
 158 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 hence arife four triplicities of the fame genus or generical nature, and 
 twelve houfes, as heretofore defcribed. 
 
 «' The firft triplicity is of the eaftern angle, or afcendant, attributed to 
 infancy, and called the triplicity of life; and includes the firft, ninth, 
 and fifth, houfes, which behold each other in a partile trine in the 
 equator, where this rational divifion of the twelve houfes is ntiade. Man 
 either does or ought to live in a three-fold refpedt ; in himfelf, in God, 
 and in his pofterity ; for the great ends for which he was created, are 
 to worfhip and glorify his Maker, and to propagate his fpecies. The life 
 of man in himlelf, is therefore the firfl: and prime object in the order of 
 nature; for without this all other parts of the creation would be vain, 
 bein<y made J or man's ufe and benefit. For this caufe, the life of man ap- 
 pertains to the firft and principal houfe in the divifion of the heavens: 
 But man's life in God, confifting in his image of the Divinity, in the ra- 
 tionality of his foul, and in the purity of his morals, claims, for this 
 reafon, the ninth houfe, according to the motion of the equator, which 
 is the houfe of piety and religion. And as man's life is continued in his 
 pofterity, according to one and the fame unchangeable law prefiding over 
 all nature, fo the houfe of infancy and children, which is the fifth houfe, 
 is appropriated for this purpofe. And, thefe three concerns being confef- 
 fedly the grand obje6l of man's life, the three houfes of heaven, under 
 which they are relpedively nourilhed and foftered, form a trine with 
 each other, in a chain of mutual harmony and concord. 
 
 *' The fecond triplicity confifts of the angle of the mid-heavei> with 
 the fixth and fecond houfes. This triplicity wholly appertains to the 
 fecond ftage of man's life, namely, that of vigour and aclion ; and there- 
 fore comprehends all worldly attainments, with the advantages flowing 
 from them ; for every thing that worketh phyfically worketh for fome 
 phyfical good ; and, as the motion of the equator is from the eaft angle to 
 the mid-heaven, fo is the progrefs made in all our earthly acquifitions. 
 The higheft degree of man's elevation in this world, is to that of majefty, 
 power, honour, dignity, preferment, or magiOracy, or to any of thofb 
 fituations by which he acquires fuperiority and affluence. Thefe, confid- 
 ing of immaterial matter, and forming the firit order of earthly dignity, 
 claim the angular h'oufe of this triplicity, or the mid-heaven. The 
 fecond degree of worldly honour, is conceived to arife from fubjefts, 
 fervants, tenants, vaflals, and domeftics ; and thefe, being formed of 
 matter material and animated, are placed under the fixth houfe. The 
 third advancement to earthly grandeur, is by matter material and inani- 
 mate, fuch as gold, jewels, and other valuable effects, accumulated by 
 induftry and fweat of the broiv; which being under the fecond houfe, 
 
 thefe
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 159 
 
 thefe three houfes are alfo joined by fympathy in a partile trine, applying 
 to each other in concord and unanimity. 
 
 » 
 " The third triplicity comprehends worldly connetlinns, whether by 
 marriage, confanguinity, or friendfhip; and thefe, holding on in the or- 
 der of nature, even as the progrefs is made from the mid-heaven to the 
 weftern angle, apply to the progreflive tendency of youth to manhood 
 and maturity. In this ftage of life man is joined in a three-fold tie or 
 obligation ; in body, in blood, and in friendfliip. Firft, he is joined 
 in body, by the moil: facred of all earthly ties, matrimony; fan6tioned 
 under the feal of God's primary command, " Increafe and multiply.''' 
 Secondly, he is joined in confanguinity, not only by the propagation of 
 his like, but by all orders of his kindred in blood. Thirdly, he is joined 
 in friendfhip under that facred bond of benevolence and love, which 
 the Almighty commands every man to exercife towards his neighbour. 
 This is the very cement of fociety, and medicine of life, performing thofe 
 good offices in civil life, which the tree of life promifed in our more per- 
 fedl ftate; and thefe are the fentiments of friendfhip, which alone can 
 give a true relifh to every enjoyment of this world. The moft important 
 of thefe obligations, being marriage, is for that reafon placed under the 
 fanftion of the angular or fuperior houfe ; the fecond tie, being that of 
 blood, claims the government of the third houfe ; and the eleventh houfe, 
 which perfects this triplicity, is facred to friendfliip. Thefe three houfes, 
 from an union of nature, behold each other in a partile trine, according 
 to the motion of the equator. 
 
 " The fourth and lafl: triplicity is that of paffion, which comprehends 
 the three clafles of human affli6tion. The firft or angular houfe of this 
 triplicity, in allufion to its pofition in the lower horizon, is termed the 
 dark angle, the depth of night, and bottom of heaven; the den and cave 
 of the ftars and planets. To this houfe is committed the firft order of our 
 woes, agreeable to the courfe of nature. Thefe are, infupportable mif- 
 fortunes, and vifible decline of life ; the firft confequences of original 
 fin, by which man is devoted to corruption and decay, and to all the in- 
 firmities of nature. The fecond order of human affli6fions, is tribulation, 
 Ibrrow, and difeafe ; arifing either from the treachery and perfecution of 
 enemies, from the chains of fervitude and bondage, or from poverty and 
 want. Thefe, with a long train of confequent miferies, are appropriated 
 to the twelfth houfe. The laft ftiock that can be fuftained by human 
 nature, is death, the final end of all men. This is under government of 
 the eighth houfe, termed on this account the houfe of death. And 
 thefe houfes likewife, from the conformity of their nature and qualities, 
 conftitute a partile trine in the equator. 
 
 " Thus
 
 ,6o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 '* Thus the termination of this temporal life is the beginning of 
 life eternal. For nature knows no annihilation. All the works of Om- 
 nipotence are refolvable or changeable from one Hate to another; but God, 
 having created nothing in vain, fuffers nothing to be annulled. Where- 
 fore, accordint^ to the lecond motion of the planets, which is from welt 
 to eafl, an entrance is made out of the eighth into the ninth houfe, 
 which is the houfe of life in God, wherein man is taught, by the reve- 
 lation of the SUPREME WILL, that he (hall pafs, by the fecond mo- 
 tion of the foul, which is attributed to the mind or reafon, as the firft 
 or wrapt foul or fenfitive appetite is to the body, from this life of 
 anxiety and peril, to an eternal life of peace and reft. And therefore, 
 whatever is firfl: in dignity in the order of nature, poflefles the firft and 
 more noble houfes in thefe triplicities, in regular fubordination, accord- 
 ing to the motion of the ecliptic and planets. 
 
 " And now, What man is he, who confiding in the ftrength of his 
 own wifdom, will dare to meafure the works of his CREATOR by the 
 ftandard of his own comprehenfion ; or will venture to affirm, that thefe 
 operations and divifions of the twelve celeftial houfes-, conjoined with 
 fuch wonderful harmony, contrivance, and concord, are the etFe(5ls of 
 chance or accident? or that will fay, fuch admirable confents, fo excel- 
 lently formed, and mutually dependant on each other, are cafually found 
 in things fo complicated and abftrufe? If he obftinately perfifts that 
 thefe are altogether fiditious, let him point out the thing wanting to conv- 
 plete the evidence in fupport of the natural foundation and excellency of 
 them. But he can do neither; and therefore, as this divifion of the 
 heavens is founded in reafon, and obvioufly contrived by fupernatural 
 wifdom and prefcience, it comprehends genethliacally all things that in 
 the courfe of nature can poflibly be enquired of or concerning the works 
 of man. Forafmuch as the knowledge of contrarieties is univerfally 
 the fame, fo an affirmative, or a negative, may be fought out, and found 
 to be comprifed in the twelve houfes of the zodiac, anfwering to thefe 
 divifions," 
 
 DIRECTIONS
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. i6i 
 
 DIRECTIONS for erefllng the FIGURE of HEAVEN, and placing 
 the PLANETS in the HOROSCOPE. 
 
 "^M^ITHOUT being expert at finding the true places of the planets 
 ' ^ and flars, at any hour or minute required, either by day or night, 
 and without knowing how to difpofe them in the horofcope, fo as to 
 reprefent their exact fituations in the heavens, nothing can poflibly be 
 known or predicted by Aftrology. This acqulfition, therefore, is the 
 next ilep to be attained ; and, though it may at firft appear a tafk of fome 
 difficulty and labour, yet, by the help of a common Ephemeris, which 
 is publifhed annually, and the following Tables, which are calculated and 
 fubjoined for this purpofe, the reader may in a few hours become perfeft 
 mailer of this very elTential part of the fcience. 
 
 The Ephemeris, of which Mr. White's is the beft, is calculated to 
 fhow the exa6l places of the Sun, Moon, and planets, every day at twelve 
 o'clock; confeqiiently, by referring to it, a figure may be accurately fet 
 to that exa6l time. But it may leldom or never happen, that a figure 
 is wanted precifely at that hour, and therefore it is neceflary the young 
 praftitioner fhould know how to redtify the daily motions of the planets, 
 by the number of degrees they move every twenty-four hours, lb as to 
 eredl the figure, and introduce the true places of the figns and planets, 
 whenever required. This, by referring to the Ephemeris for the flations 
 of the planets at noon, may be done very eafily, by the common procels 
 of figures ; but, that every reader may be enabled to do it without 
 trouble, I have fubjoined an eafy Table, whereby the planetary motions 
 are reduced to hours and minutes, and may be found for either day or 
 night. 
 
 o 
 
 It is likewile of importance to know the planetary hours, that is, the 
 hour in which every planet has its particular influence ; for hereby we are 
 enabled to determine various points, and to draw many ufeful conclu- 
 fions, in our judgment, either on nativities or horary queftions. In 
 gathering herbs for medicinal purpofes, the planetary hour is certainly 
 of confequence, however modern refinement might have exploded 
 tlie idea. In nature, the moft fimple remedies are frequently found to 
 produce the moll: falutary effedls ; and in earlier times, when the art of 
 phyfic was lefs obfcured, and pradifed more from motives of benevo- 
 lence, the world was lefs afflided with difeafe, and the period of human 
 life lefs contraded. The Supreme Being, in his abundant mercies to 
 mankind, has furniftied ample remedies in the laboratory of nature, were 
 Nature but adhered to, for the removal of every curable diforder incident 
 
 No. 9. Q q to
 
 i6i 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 to the human frame ; for, notwithftanding all the parade of compound 
 medicines, the art of phyfic does not confifl fo much in preparing the 
 remedy as in knowing how to apply it. Hence it happens, that old 
 women, without education or experience, by the help of a fimple herb, 
 gathered in the planetary hour, in which hour it imbibes its greateft de- 
 gree of flrength and fpecific virtue, will fometimes perform very extra- 
 ordinary cures, in cafes where gentlemen of the faculty are abfolutely at 
 a lofs how to treat them.* The planetary hours begin at fun-rifing ; 
 and each planet governs in rotation, according to the following Table: 
 
 A TABLE of PLANETARY HOURS for every Day in the Week, 
 
 
 
 
 be 
 
 ginning at 
 
 Sun 
 
 -RISING. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sunday 
 
 Monday 
 
 Tue 
 
 fday 
 
 Wee 
 
 inef. 
 
 Thu 
 
 rfday 
 
 Fri 
 
 day 
 
 Saturday | 
 
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 Pla 
 
 H. 
 
 Pla 
 
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 Pla 
 
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 I 
 
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 I 
 
 5 
 
 I 
 
 % 
 
 I 
 
 9 
 
 I 
 
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 1 
 
 9 2 
 
 b 
 
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 2 
 
 D 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 % 
 
 2 
 
 5 3 
 
 X 
 
 3 
 
 9 
 
 3 
 
 b 
 
 3 
 
 
 
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 3 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 D 4 
 
 S 
 
 4 
 
 $ 
 
 4 
 
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 4 
 
 9 
 
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 b S 
 
 
 
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 9 
 
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 9 
 
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 8 
 
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 8 
 
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 8 
 
 9 
 
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 10 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
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 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
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 6 
 
 10 
 
 D II 
 
 6 
 
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 5 
 
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 9 
 
 11 
 
 b 
 
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 1 1 
 
 b 12 
 
 
 
 12 
 
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 12 
 
 & 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 12 
 
 :5^ 
 
 12 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 % 13 
 
 9 
 
 13 
 
 b 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 D 
 
 13 
 
 d 
 
 13 
 
 5 
 
 13 
 
 <? 14 
 
 5 
 
 14 
 
 7^ 
 
 14 
 
 9 
 
 14 
 
 b 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 5 
 
 14 
 
 15 
 
 3) 
 
 15 
 
 d 
 
 15 
 
 5 
 
 15 
 
 1/ 
 
 15 
 
 9 
 
 15 
 
 b 
 
 15 
 
 9 16 
 
 b 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 D 
 
 16 
 
 c? 
 
 16 
 
 5 
 
 16 
 
 :?« 
 
 16 
 
 5 17 
 
 % 
 
 17 
 
 9 
 
 17 
 
 b 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 D 
 
 17 
 
 c? 
 
 17 
 
 ]> 18 
 
 6 
 
 18 
 
 5 
 
 18 
 
 1!^ 
 
 18 
 
 9 
 
 18 
 
 b 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 i8 
 
 b 19 
 
 
 
 '9 
 
 D 
 
 19 
 
 d 
 
 ^9 
 
 5 
 
 19 
 
 % 
 
 19 
 
 9 
 
 19 
 
 % 20 
 
 9 
 
 20 
 
 b 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 D 
 
 20 
 
 6 
 
 20 
 
 5 
 
 20 
 
 6 21 
 
 5 
 
 21 
 
 1^ 
 
 21 
 
 9 
 
 21 
 
 b 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 }) 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 D 
 
 22 
 
 S 
 
 22 
 
 5 
 
 22 
 
 % 
 
 22 
 
 9 
 
 22 
 
 b 
 
 22 
 
 9 23 
 
 b 
 
 23 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 D 
 
 23 
 
 6 
 
 23 
 
 5 
 
 23 
 
 1^ 
 
 23 
 
 5 24 
 
 % 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 24 
 
 b 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 •]) 
 
 24 
 
 c? 
 
 24 
 
 To 
 
 • Although the author cannot too feverely cenfure the ambiguous garb In which the modern 
 praftice of phyfic is attired, yet he wifhes not to hurt the feelings of thofe good men, whofe lives 
 have been devoted to the ftudy of medicine, and who moved, lilce the good Samaritan, with bowels
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 163 
 
 To underftand the preceding Table, the reader muft recolle6l that we 
 
 have already afligned to each planet his refpeflive rule over every day in 
 
 the week ; for inftance, the Sun governs Sunday, the Moon Monday, 
 
 Mars Tuefday, Mercury Wednefday, Jupiter Thurfday, Venus Friday, 
 
 and Saturn Saturday. Each planet begins his rule the moment the Sun 
 
 appears above the horizon, and continues for one planetary hour ; at the 
 
 expiration of which, the next planet in order commences his rule, and 
 
 continues the fame portion of time ; and then the third planet in order 
 
 governs; and fo on through the whole week. So that, if I want to know 
 
 what planet rules in any particular hour of the day or night, I take the 
 
 planet which begins rule that day, and reckon in order till I find it. 
 
 For example, on Sunday the Sun rules the firft hour, Venus the fecond, 
 
 Mercury the third, the Moon the fourth, Saturn the fifth, Jupiter the 
 
 fixth, Mars the feventh, the Sun the eighth, Venus the ninth, and fo on 
 
 through the whole day and fucceeding night, till the Sun rifes again ; by 
 
 which mode of reckoning it will be uniformly found, that each planet 
 
 will begin its government at fun-rifing, according to the order above 
 
 defcribed, to the end of the world. This alfo evidently appears by the 
 
 Table ; for if we begin with the firft column, and reckon down the 
 
 whole twenty-four hours, we find the Moon begins her government at 
 
 the top of the fecond column on Monday morning, when the Sun 
 
 rifes. If we reckon down the fecond column in the fame order, we find 
 
 Mars begins his rule at the top of the third column, on Tuefday 
 
 morning. So the planets will be found to obferve the fame regular order 
 
 throughout all the other columns, which take in the hours of every 
 
 day and ni^ht throug-hout the week; and for the enfuing: week the Table. 
 
 begins again in the fame order, and will fo continue, without alteration 
 
 or error, to the end of time. By referring to the figures which 
 
 reprefent the refpe6tive hour of every day and night throughout the 
 
 of compaffion, adminifter balm to the bleeding wounds of their affli£ied brethren. The many 
 invaluable difcoveries lately added to the Pharmacopoeia, both from the vegetable and mineral 
 worlds, are ftrong arguments of the necefEty of regular praflice, and of profeffional education, in 
 forming the phyfician. But, were the bulkof thcfe gentlemen to confult a little more the planetary 
 influences, both on vegetable and mineral fubftances, and apportion them in their preicriptions 
 according to the nature and conftitution of the patient, uniformly confulting the effects of Saturn 
 and the Moon in each crifis and critical day, 1 am peifuaded that more immediate relief, in moft 
 cafes where nature is not too far exhaufted, might be afforded to the fick and languifhing patient. 
 Surgery too, which, like a guardian angel, fteps forward to alleviate the perilous accidents of the 
 unfortunate, would gain much improvement by the like confiderations. It is not, therefore, the re- 
 gular-bred pradlitioners of either phyfic or furgery that the author means to arraign, but that baneful 
 defcription of empirics and quacks, who now pervade the kingdom, and, like a fwarm of locufts 
 from the Eaft, prey upon the vitals of mankind. Thefe monfters in the fbape of men, with hearts 
 callous to every fentiment of compaffion, have only fees in view. Governed by this fordid principle, 
 they fport with life, unmoved amidft the bitter anguifh and piercing groans of the defponding 
 patient, till, too far gone for human aid to reftore, they abandon him to defpairand death. For the 
 fake of humanity, and the honour of a Chriftian country, let the legiflative power check this grow- 
 ing enormity ! [This has been done in fome degree by the Apothecaries' Bill, juft parted, and 
 which begins to operate this day, Auguft i, 1815. Editor.] 
 
 week,
 
 1 64 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 week, the reader may always fee what planet governs in that hour, as its 
 chara6ter is placed in the fame line with the figure. For example, fup- 
 pofe I want to know what planet rules the fifth hour on Sunday morning 
 
 I look down the firft column of the Tahle, over which is placed 
 
 Sunday Planetary Hour, and at the fifth hour I find Saturn governs, 
 Ao-ain, fuppofe it be required to know what planet governs the ninth 
 hour on Friday afternoon — look down the column over which Friday 
 Pla. H. is printed, and in the ninth hour it will be feen that Mercury 
 o-overns. Or if it be aflced, what planet rules the nineteenth hour on 
 Wednefday night ? Look down the column over which Wednefday Pla. 
 H. is prefixed ; and at 19, which fignifies the nineteenth hour, or the 
 feventh hour after the Sun is fet, it will be found that Mars governs ; 
 and fo for any other time required. 
 
 But a planetary hour not agreeing with the common divifion of time» 
 and being peculiar to aftronomy and aftrology only, we fhall explain it 
 more fully. The planetary hours are reckoned from the time of the 
 Sun's rifino- to its fettin^^, which fpace of time is divided into twelve 
 equal parts, and thefe arelermed the twelve planetary hours of that day. 
 Then the time from the Sun's fetting to its rifing the next morning is 
 in thefame manner divided into twelve equal parts, and thefe conftitute 
 the twelve planetary hours for that night. Hence it is obvious, that 
 when the days are fhort, a planetary hour does not confift of above forty 
 minutes, more or lefs, according to the twelfth part of the whole time 
 from the Sun's rifing to its fetting ; and, the nights being then long, a 
 planetary hour by night may confill of an hour and ten or twenty minutes, 
 or more; and fo vice verfa when the days are long, and the nights fhort ; 
 fo that the duration of planetary hours, both by day and night, is con- 
 tinually varying, and never agrees with the common meafure of time, 
 except on thofe two days in every year when the Sun enters Aries and 
 Libra, and then equal night and day is difpenfed to all parts of the world. 
 Therefore, to enable the reader to find the length of the planetary hours 
 without the trouble of calculating, I fubjoin the following Table, by 
 which they may be found, both night and day for ever. 
 
 TABLE
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 165 
 
 TABLE of the PLANETARY HOURS for every Day and Night 
 
 in the Week. 
 
 Length 
 
 f the 
 
 Length of the Plane- 
 
 Length of the 
 
 Plane- 
 
 Day. 
 
 
 tary Hours by Day. 
 
 tary Hours by 
 
 Night. 
 
 H. 
 
 M. 
 
 H. M. S. 
 
 H. M. 
 
 S. 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 I 30 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 32 30 
 
 I 27 
 
 30 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 35 
 
 I 25 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 57 30 
 
 I 22 
 
 30 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 I 20 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 30 
 
 42 30 
 
 I 17 
 
 30 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 45 
 
 I 15 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 30 ' 
 
 47 30 
 
 I 12 
 
 30 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 I 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 30 
 
 S^ ■ 3° 
 
 I 7 
 
 30 
 
 II 
 
 
 
 55. 
 
 I 5 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 30 
 
 57 30 
 
 I 2 
 
 30 
 
 12 
 
 - 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 * 
 
 30 
 
 I 2 30 
 
 57 
 
 30 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 I 5 
 
 ss 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 30 
 
 I 7 30 
 
 52 
 
 30 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 I lO 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 30 
 
 I 12 30 
 
 47 
 
 30 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 I 15 
 
 45 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 30 
 
 I 17 30 
 
 42 
 
 30 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 I 20 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 30 
 
 I 22 30 
 
 37 
 
 30 
 
 1 n 
 
 
 
 I 25 
 
 35 
 
 ° 
 
 The firft column of the above Table is intended to fhow the time 
 between the rifing and fetting of the Sun, from fix hours to feventeen, 
 which takes in more than the longeft or fhortefl: days. Then fuppofe the 
 time from the Sun's rifing to its fetting be only fix hours, the planetary 
 hours that day would be each thirty minutes long, as fpecified in the 
 fecond column, and the planetary hours the night following would be 
 each one hour and thirty minutes long, as exprefTed in the third column. 
 Again, fuppofe the time between the Sun's rifing and fetting be thirteen 
 hours and thirteen minutes, what would be the length of the planetary 
 hours that day and night? Look in the firft column of the Table for 
 
 No. 9. R r thirteen
 
 t66 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 thirteen hours and thirty minutes; ajid in the faoie line in the fecond 
 column ftand one hour feven minutes and thirty feconds, which is the 
 exaft leno^th of each planetary hour that day ; and in the fame line in 
 the third column Aand fifty-two minutes thirty feconds, which is the 
 leno-th of the planetary hours that night. By the fame rule the length 
 of the planetary hours may be eafily foand, in this Table, every day and 
 nioht thjpugh the year. The len„gth of time between the rifing and 
 lettino- of the Sun may always be found in the Ephemeris. This Table 
 is calculated within thirty minutes of the Sun's real time every day, 
 which is fufficiently near for all the purpofes required. 
 
 TABLE to reduce the Motion of the Planets to any Hour of the 
 
 Day or Night. 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 167 
 
 To find the true place of each planet, at any hour when we have occa- 
 fion to ere6l a figure, it only requires to turn to the Ephemeris for the 
 planets' places at noon ; thoie being found, note how many degrees or 
 minutes they move in the zodiac by twelve o'clock the next day, or from 
 noon the preceding day ; and then, by the help of the foregoing Table, it 
 will be feen how many degrees, minutes, or feconds, they move in an 
 hour. For example, fuppoie a planet moves one degree in twenty-four 
 hours, how far does it move in one hour ? At the top of the firft column 
 is the figure i, and in the fame line of the fecond column is 2 minutes 
 and 30 feconds; which fliows, that, if a planet be twenty-four hours in 
 moving one degree, it then moves at the rate of two minutes and thirty 
 feconds in an hour. Or, fuppofe a planet only moves two minutes in 
 twenty-four hours ; look into the firft column of the table for the figure 2, 
 oppofite, in the fecond column, fland 5 feconds, which fhows, that, if a 
 planet moves two minutes in twenty-four hours, it then moves only five 
 feconds in an hour. Again, if a planet's diurnal motion be thirteen 
 minutes, what is its hourly motion? Look into the firft column for 13, 
 and oppofite is 32, 30; which indicates, that, if a planet moves thirteen 
 minutes in twenty-four hours, it moves thirty-two feconds and thirty 
 thirds in an hour. The fame rules hold good for the motions of all the 
 planets ; it muft, however, be carefully obferved, that, if the diurnal 
 motion of any planet be in degrees, then you muft enter the firft column 
 of the Table under the denomination of decrees, and the fecond column 
 with minutes and feconds; but, if the diurnal motion of the planet be 
 only in minutes, then you muft begin to reckon in the firft column only 
 with minutes, and in the fecond column with fecoiids and thirds. This 
 is indicated by the initial letters placed over each column, which fignify 
 degree or minutes in the firft column, and, in the fecond, degrees and 
 minutes, minutes and feconds, feconds and thirds. Then, fuppofe a 
 planet moves one degree and thirteen minutes in twenty-four hours, how 
 far does it move in an hour? Refer to the Table, and fay, 
 
 One degree in 24 hours is 2 min. 30 fee. o thirds per hour, 
 Thirteen min. in 24 hours is o min. 32 fee. 30 thirds. 
 
 Anfwer 3 2 30 
 
 I 
 
 And thus any quantity of a planet's diurnal motion may be reduced to 
 time in the fame manner. 
 
 But, as no figure can be eredled without the help of an Ephemeris, and 
 Tables to fhow the Sun's place in each of the twelve figns, unlefs by 
 entering into long and tedious calculations, I (hall therefore infert in 
 this place the two pages of White's Ephemeris for June 1784, and the 
 Tables above-mentioned, with an explanation of the whole. 
 
 (COPY.)
 
 1 68 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 (COPY.) 
 WHITE'S EPHEMERIS for June 1784. 
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 J69 
 
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 2 
 
 49 
 
 4 
 
 38 
 
 21 
 
 13 
 
 12 
 
 33 
 
 II 
 
 57 
 
 
 
 48 
 
 13 
 
 22 34 
 
 3 
 
 3« 
 
 5 
 
 17 
 
 21 
 
 56 
 
 13 
 
 24 
 
 12 
 
 53 
 
 
 
 51 
 
 H 
 
 23 37 
 
 4 
 
 27 
 
 5 
 
 57 
 
 22 
 
 40 
 
 14 
 
 15 
 
 13 
 
 48 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 15 
 
 24 40 
 
 5 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 36 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 14 
 
 44 
 
 
 
 59 
 
 16 
 
 25 42 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 7 
 
 15 
 
 24 
 
 7 
 
 15 
 
 57 
 
 15 
 
 40 
 
 
 3 
 
 17 
 
 26 44 
 
 6 
 
 53 
 
 7 
 
 55 
 
 24 
 
 50 
 
 16 
 
 48 
 
 16 
 
 31 
 
 
 6 
 
 18 
 
 27 46 
 
 7 
 
 41 
 
 8 
 
 35 
 
 25 
 
 34 
 
 17 
 
 40 
 
 17 
 
 35 
 
 
 10 
 
 ^9 
 
 28 47 
 
 8 
 
 30 
 
 9 
 
 14 
 
 26 
 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 31 
 
 18 
 
 27 
 
 
 14 
 
 20 
 
 29 48 
 
 9 
 
 18 
 
 9 
 
 53 
 
 27 
 
 2 
 
 19 
 
 22 
 
 19 
 
 23 
 
 
 18 
 
 21 
 
 01149 
 
 lO 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 34 
 
 27 
 
 46 
 
 20 
 
 14 
 
 20 
 
 20 
 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 I 50 
 
 10 
 
 55 
 
 1 1 
 
 12 
 
 28 
 
 30 
 
 21 
 
 5 
 
 21 
 
 16 
 
 
 25 
 
 23 
 
 2 50 
 
 r I 
 
 43 
 
 7 I 
 
 52 
 
 29 
 
 14 
 
 21 
 
 57 
 
 22 
 
 12 
 
 
 29 
 
 24 
 
 3 51 
 
 12 
 
 31 
 
 12 
 
 32 
 
 29 
 
 58 
 
 22 
 
 49 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 
 33 
 
 25 
 
 4 51 
 
 13 
 
 '9 
 
 13 
 
 12 
 
 onj! 
 
 42 
 
 23 
 
 41 
 
 24 
 
 6 
 
 
 36 
 
 26 
 
 5 50 
 
 14 
 
 8 
 
 13 
 
 52 
 
 I 
 
 27 
 
 24 
 
 33 
 
 25 
 
 2 
 
 
 40 
 
 27 
 
 6 50 
 
 14 
 
 57 
 
 M 
 
 34 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 25 
 
 25 
 
 25 
 
 59 
 
 
 44 
 
 28 
 
 7 49 
 
 15 
 
 43 
 
 15 
 
 24 
 
 2 
 
 57 
 
 26 
 
 18 
 
 26 
 
 57 
 
 
 48 
 
 29 
 
 8 48 
 
 16 
 
 30 
 
 '5 
 
 51 
 
 3 
 
 42 
 
 27 
 
 1 1 
 
 27 
 
 54 
 
 
 52 
 
 30 
 
 9 47 
 
 17 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 31 
 
 4 
 
 2828 
 
 4 
 
 Al
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 171 
 
 A TABLE 
 Of Houfes, calculated for the Latitude of 51 Degrees 32 Minutes, 
 
 by double Horary Times. 
 
 Sol in Taurus. 
 
 A. 
 D. 
 
 R. 
 
 M. 
 
 27 54 
 
 28 51 
 
 29 49 
 
 30 46 
 
 31 45 
 
 32 42 
 
 33 40 
 
 34 39 
 
 35 37 
 
 36 36 
 
 37 35 
 
 38 34 
 
 39 33 
 
 40 32 
 
 41 31 
 43 31 
 
 43 31 
 
 44 31 
 
 45 31 
 
 46 32 
 
 47 33 
 
 48 33 
 
 49 34 
 
 50 35 
 
 51 36 
 
 52 38 
 
 53 40 
 
 54 42 
 
 55 44 
 
 56 46 
 
 57 47 
 
 Time 
 
 from Noon. 
 
 H. M. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 a 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 
 52 
 55 
 59 
 
 7 
 1 1 
 
 15 
 
 19 
 
 23 
 26 
 
 30 
 34 
 38 
 42 
 46 
 
 50 
 54 
 58 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 10 
 
 14 
 18 
 
 22 
 26 
 
 31 
 35 
 39 
 43 
 
 47 
 51 
 
 10 
 Houfe. 
 
 1 1 
 Houfe. 
 DnM 
 
 X2 
 
 Houfe 
 DgsM 
 
 o 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 I r 
 12 
 13 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 27 
 
 28 
 
 29 
 
 30 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 1 1 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 14 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 '9 
 
 20 
 21 
 22 
 
 23 
 24 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 47 
 
 45 
 
 4; 
 
 4' 
 
 38 
 
 35 
 
 32 
 
 29 
 
 25 
 
 21 
 
 17 
 13 
 10 
 
 7 
 4 
 o 
 
 56 
 52 
 48 
 
 45 
 42 
 
 29 39 
 
 02535 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 !8 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 27 
 28 
 
 28 
 
 29 
 OS133 
 
 16 
 
 3 
 51 
 
 39 
 
 26 
 
 13 
 
 o 
 
 47 
 
 34 
 21 
 
 7 
 53 
 
 39 
 26 
 
 12 
 
 59 
 46 
 
 Afcendaut 
 
 SI 
 D. M 
 
 27 
 28 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 / 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 26 
 
 21 
 
 17 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 58 
 
 I 
 2 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 20 
 
 7 
 
 54 
 
 41 
 
 29 
 
 17 
 6 
 
 55 
 44 
 
 33 
 
 21 
 
 9 
 
 58 
 
 16 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 '9 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 21 
 22 
 
 23 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 26 
 
 27 
 28 
 
 28 
 
 29 
 
 0^13 
 
 o 55 
 I 
 
 2 
 3 
 3 
 4 
 5 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 31 
 II 
 
 55 
 
 31 
 12 
 
 52 
 
 32 
 
 13 
 
 54 
 
 35 
 16 
 
 57 
 38 
 
 19 
 o 
 
 42 
 
 24 
 
 6 
 
 47 
 30 
 
 37 
 20 
 
 2 
 
 46 
 
 29 
 12 
 
 55 
 
 39 
 
 22 
 
 2 
 Houfe. 
 Dtri^M 
 
 4 
 5 
 5 
 6 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 10 
 
 II 
 
 12 
 12 
 13 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 '9 
 20 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 I23 
 
 24 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 3 
 
 Houfe. 
 
 Dn^M 
 
 2828 
 
 13 
 
 59 
 
 44 
 
 29 
 
 o 
 
 47 
 
 34 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 55 
 42 
 30 
 
 ^ 4 
 
 28 57 
 
 29 50 
 0=^431 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 4 
 52 
 40 
 28 
 16 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 1 1 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 14 
 15 
 
 416 
 
 5217 
 18 
 
 27 
 
 28 
 
 40 
 28 
 
 17 
 6 
 
 55 
 45 
 34 
 24 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 20 
 21 
 
 22 
 23 
 24 
 
 1425 
 
 37 
 
 31 
 
 25 
 
 '9 
 
 13 
 
 7 
 I 
 
 55 
 49 
 43 
 
 37 
 32 
 
 27 
 22 
 
 '7 
 13 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 2 
 
 57 
 
 52 
 48, 
 
 44 
 40| 
 
 36 
 32 
 29
 
 172 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE 
 
 Of Houfes, calculated for the Latitude of 51 Degrees 32 Minutes, 
 
 by double Horary Times. 
 
 57 
 58 
 
 59 
 60 
 
 62 
 
 63 
 6+ 
 
 6s 
 
 66 
 
 67 
 68 
 
 69 
 
 70 
 71 
 72 
 
 73 
 74 
 75 
 76 
 7'8 
 
 79 
 So 
 
 81 
 
 82 
 
 83 
 84 
 
 85 
 86 
 
 87 
 88 
 
 90 
 
 Sol in Gemini. 
 
 A. R. 
 
 D. M. 
 
 48 
 
 51 
 54 
 
 57 
 o 
 
 3 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 1^3 
 
 17 
 21 
 
 25 
 29 
 
 33 
 38 
 
 43 
 47 
 52 
 
 57 
 2 
 
 7 
 12 
 
 n 
 22 
 
 27 
 
 33 
 38 
 43 
 48 
 54 
 
 o 
 
 1 ime 
 from Noon 
 H. M. 
 
 3 
 3 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 
 4 
 4 
 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 ^ 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 6 
 
 51 
 
 55 
 o 
 
 4 
 8 
 
 12 
 16 
 
 21 
 25 
 29 
 
 33 
 33 
 42 
 46 
 
 51 
 
 55 
 
 59 
 
 3 
 8 
 
 12 
 16 
 21 
 
 25 
 29 
 
 34 
 38 
 43 
 47 
 51 
 56 
 o 
 
 10 
 Houfe. 
 
 n 
 
 o 
 I 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 1 1 
 12 
 
 13 
 14 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 17 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 27 
 28 
 29 
 30 
 
 1 1 
 Houfe. 
 DgsM 
 
 12 
 Houfe. 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 ro 
 I f 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 H 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 22 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 27 
 28 
 29 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 5810 
 
 54 1 1 
 4912 
 
 45^3 
 
 41 
 
 38 
 
 34 
 
 30 
 26 
 
 22 
 
 18 
 
 H 
 10 
 
 / 
 
 3 
 c 
 
 56 
 52 
 47 
 43 
 39 
 35 
 31 
 27 
 23 
 »9 
 15 
 12 
 
 9 
 6 
 
 •4 
 15 
 15 
 16 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 19 
 20 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 25 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 27 
 28 
 
 29 
 
 om 
 
 o 
 ,1 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 58 
 46 
 35 
 
 23 
 12 
 
 I 
 
 5> 
 
 40 
 
 3D 
 
 19 
 9 
 
 ^8 
 
 48 
 
 38 
 28 
 19 
 
 9 
 
 o 
 
 51 
 
 42 
 
 33 
 24 
 14 
 
 5 
 56 
 
 48 
 40 
 32 
 23 
 14 
 4 
 
 Afcendant 
 D. M. 
 
 2 
 Houfe. 
 Dn^M 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 9 
 
 [O 
 
 I 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 A 
 
 4 
 
 ■5 
 6 
 
 7 
 7 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 20 
 
 20 
 21 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 26 
 
 27 
 28 
 
 29 
 
 30 
 
 22 
 6 
 
 50 
 34 
 18 
 
 3 
 47 
 31 
 16 
 
 I 
 
 46 
 
 31 
 16 
 
 I 
 
 46 
 32 
 
 n 
 
 4 
 
 49 
 
 5 
 
 20 
 
 6 
 51 
 37 
 33 
 
 9 
 15 
 41 
 27 
 
 13 
 o 
 
 28 
 
 29 
 29 
 
 O: 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 9 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 20 
 21 
 22 
 23 
 23 
 
 3 
 Houfe. 
 
 D=-M 
 
 M 
 4' 
 5527 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 =46 
 
 36 
 
 27 
 18 
 
 9 
 o 
 
 51. 
 42 
 
 33 
 
 24 
 
 15 
 6 
 
 57 
 49 
 41 
 
 28 
 29 
 
 :\ 
 
 29 
 
 25 
 21 
 
 18 
 
 15 
 
 2 
 
 32 
 
 24 
 15 
 
 7 
 58 
 
 50 
 42 
 
 33 
 25 
 17 
 
 9 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 4 
 4 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 1 1 
 12 
 
 13 
 -14 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 n 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 53123 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 o 
 
 57 
 54 
 51 
 48 
 
 45 
 42 
 
 39 
 36 
 
 33 
 
 30 
 27 
 
 23 
 
 20 
 
 ^7 
 -f4 
 1 1 
 
 8 
 
 5 
 2 
 
 59 
 56
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 »73 
 
 A TABLE 
 
 Of Houfes, calculated for the Latitude of 51 Degrees 32 Minutes, 
 
 by double Horary Times. 
 
 
 
 
 f 
 
 -« 1 • 
 
 /-I 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 boi 1 
 
 n Cancer. 
 
 
 A. R. 
 
 Time 
 
 10 
 
 1 1 
 
 12 JAlcendantj 2 | 3 
 
 
 from Noon. 
 
 Houfe. H 
 
 oufe 
 
 . Houfe 
 
 <"--- 
 
 Houfe. Hoiife. 
 
 
 D. M. 
 
 H. M. 
 
 25 D 
 
 SI M D n^ M D. M. 
 
 D ^ M D TT]^ M 
 
 
 90 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 36 40 
 
 23 53123 56 
 
 
 91 S 
 
 6 4 
 
 I 
 
 7 
 
 6 56 47 
 
 24 4. 
 
 >24 S3 
 
 
 92 II 
 
 6 9 
 
 2 
 
 7 
 
 5^ 
 
 i 7 48 I 33 
 
 25 3725 50 
 
 
 93 16 
 
 6 13 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 5S 
 
 8 41 2 19 
 
 26 2826 47 
 
 
 94 22 
 
 6 17 
 
 4 
 
 9 
 
 52 
 
 9 3: 
 
 ? 3 5 
 
 27 2C 
 
 ' 27 44 
 
 
 9S 27 
 
 6 22 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 48 
 
 10 2j 
 
 ■ 3 51 
 
 28 II 
 
 28 40 
 
 
 96 32 
 
 6 26 
 
 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 45 
 
 II 17 
 
 4 37 
 
 29 2 
 
 29 36 
 
 
 97 38 
 
 6 31 
 
 7 
 
 12 
 
 42 
 
 12 9 
 
 5 23 
 
 29 53 
 
 0-f33 
 
 
 98 43 
 
 6 35 
 
 8 
 
 13 
 
 39 
 
 13 2 
 
 6 9 
 
 0IU44 
 
 I 29 
 
 
 99 48 
 
 6 39 
 
 9 14 
 
 36 
 
 13 54 
 
 6 SS 
 
 I 3t 
 
 2 25 1 
 
 
 100 S3 
 
 6 44 
 
 10 15 
 
 33 
 
 14 46 
 
 7 40 
 
 2 27 
 
 3 21 i 
 
 
 lOI 58 
 
 6 48 
 
 1 1 16 
 
 30 
 
 15 37 
 
 8 26 
 
 3 16 
 
 -4 17 i 
 
 
 i'03 3, 
 
 6 52 
 
 12 
 
 17 
 
 27 
 
 16 28 
 
 9 12 
 
 4 8 5 12 
 
 
 104 8' 
 
 6 57 
 
 13 
 
 18 
 
 24 
 
 17 20 
 
 9 57 
 
 4 59 6 8 
 
 
 105 13 
 
 7 I 
 
 14 
 
 19 
 
 21 
 
 18 12 
 
 10 43 
 
 5 50 
 
 I ^ 
 
 
 106 17 
 
 7 5 
 
 15 
 
 20 
 
 18 
 
 19 4 
 
 II 28 
 
 6 41 
 
 8 
 
 
 107 22 
 
 7 9 
 
 16 
 
 21 
 
 15 
 
 19 55 
 
 12 14 
 
 7 31 
 
 8 56 
 
 
 108 26 
 
 7 14 
 
 17 
 
 22 
 
 1220 46 
 
 12 59 
 
 8 22 
 
 9 53 
 
 
 109 31 
 
 7 ^8 
 
 18 
 
 23 
 
 921 37 
 
 13 45 
 
 9 13 
 
 10 50 
 
 
 ^110 35 
 
 7 22 
 
 19 
 
 24 
 
 6 
 
 22 28 
 
 14 30 
 
 10 3 
 
 1 1 46 
 
 
 I "^39 
 
 7 27 
 
 20 
 
 25 
 
 3 
 
 23 19 
 
 15 H 
 
 10 53 
 
 12 42 
 
 )< 
 
 ii2 43 
 
 7 31 
 
 21 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 24 9 
 
 15 59 
 
 II 42 
 
 13 38 
 
 '' 
 
 113 47 
 
 7 35 
 
 22 
 
 26 
 
 57' 
 
 25 
 
 16 44 
 
 12 31 
 
 14 34 
 
 
 ' iH 51 
 
 7 39 
 
 23 
 
 27 
 
 54- 
 
 25 51 
 
 17 29 
 
 13 20 
 
 f5 .'o 
 
 
 115 54 
 
 7 44 
 
 24 
 
 28 
 
 51- 
 
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 18 14 
 
 [4 9 
 
 [6 26 
 
 
 116 57 
 
 7 .48 
 
 25 ' 
 
 29 
 
 48^ 
 
 7 32 
 
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 7 22 
 
 
 118 I 
 
 7 52 
 
 26 
 
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 58 23 
 
 19 42 I 
 
 5 47! 
 
 8 18 
 
 
 119 4 
 
 7 56 
 
 27 
 
 I 
 
 422 
 
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 20 26 I 
 
 6 361 
 
 9 14 
 
 
 120 7 
 
 8 
 
 28 
 
 2 
 
 39 
 
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 121 9 
 
 8 5 
 
 29 
 
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 A TAB 
 
 L E 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 Of Hou 
 
 fes, calculated for the Latitude 
 
 of CI Degrees 32 
 
 Minutes, | 
 
 
 
 
 by double Horary Times. 
 
 
 
 
 Sol in Leo. 
 
 A. R. 
 
 1 
 
 from 
 
 ime 
 Noon. 
 
 10 II 
 Houfe. Houfe. 
 
 12 
 Houfe. 
 
 Alcendant 
 
 -A- 
 
 2 
 Hou 
 
 fe. 
 
 3 
 Houfe. 
 
 D. M. 
 
 H. 
 
 M. 
 
 a 
 
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 122 12 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 4 32 
 
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 46 
 
 22 
 
 38 
 
 '9 
 
 2 
 
 22 
 
 I 
 
 123 14 
 
 8 
 
 13 
 
 I 
 
 5 28 
 
 2 
 
 36 
 
 23 
 
 22 
 
 19 
 
 51 
 
 22 
 
 57 
 
 124 16 
 
 8 
 
 17 
 
 2 
 
 6 24 
 
 3 
 
 26 
 
 24 
 
 5 
 
 20 
 
 40 
 
 23 
 
 S3 
 
 125 18 
 
 8 
 
 21 
 
 3 
 
 7 20 
 
 4 
 
 15 
 
 24 
 
 48 
 
 21 
 
 2824 
 
 49 
 
 126 20 
 
 8 
 
 25 
 
 4 
 
 8 16 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 25 
 
 32 
 
 22 
 
 1725 
 
 45 
 
 127 22 
 
 8 
 
 29 
 
 5 
 
 9 12 
 
 5 
 
 54 
 
 26 
 
 16 
 
 23 
 
 6 
 
 26 
 
 40 
 
 128 24 
 
 8 
 
 34 
 
 6 
 
 10 8 
 
 6 
 
 43 
 
 26 
 
 58 
 
 23 
 
 54 
 
 27 
 
 35 
 
 129 25 
 
 8 
 
 38 
 
 7 
 
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 7 
 
 32 
 
 27 
 
 41 
 
 24 
 
 42 
 
 28 
 
 31 
 
 130 26 
 
 8 
 
 42 
 
 8 
 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 ao 
 
 28 
 
 23 
 
 25 
 
 30 
 
 29 
 
 27 
 
 131 28 
 
 8 
 
 46 
 
 9 
 
 12 56 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 29 
 
 6 
 
 26 
 
 18 
 
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 132 27 
 
 8 
 
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 10 
 
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 9 
 
 57 
 
 29 
 
 42 
 
 27 
 
 6 
 
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 18 
 
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 8 
 
 54 
 
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 14 48 
 
 10 
 
 45 
 
 o'ni3o 
 
 27 
 
 54 
 
 2 
 
 14 
 
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 8 
 
 58 
 
 12 
 
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 33 
 
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 13 
 
 28 
 
 41 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 
 135 29 
 
 9 
 
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 12 
 
 21 
 
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 55 
 
 29 
 
 28 
 
 4 
 
 7 
 
 136 29 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 14 
 
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 9 
 
 2 
 
 36 
 
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 5 
 
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 2 
 
 137 29 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 15 
 
 18 28 
 
 13 
 
 57 
 
 3 
 
 18 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 59 
 
 138 29 
 
 9 
 
 14 
 
 16 
 
 19 23 
 
 14 
 
 44 
 
 4 
 
 
 
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 48 
 
 6 
 
 55 
 
 139 28 
 
 9 
 
 18 
 
 17 
 
 20 i8|i5 
 
 31 
 
 4 
 
 41 
 
 2 
 
 35 
 
 7 
 
 52 
 
 140 28 
 
 9 
 
 22 
 
 18 
 
 21 12 
 
 16 
 
 18 
 
 5 
 
 22 
 
 3 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 49 
 
 141 27 
 
 9 
 
 26 
 
 19 
 
 22 6 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 46 
 
 142 26 
 
 9 
 
 30 
 
 20 
 
 23 
 
 17 
 
 S3 
 
 6 
 
 45 
 
 4 
 
 55 
 
 10 
 
 42 
 
 143 25 
 
 9 
 
 34 
 
 21 
 
 23 54 
 
 18 
 
 40 
 
 7 
 
 26 
 
 5 
 
 42 
 
 1 1 
 
 39 
 
 144 23 
 
 9 
 
 38 
 
 22 
 
 24 48 
 
 ^9 
 
 26 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 28 
 
 12 
 
 3S 
 
 145 22 
 
 9 
 
 41 
 
 23 
 
 25 42 
 
 20 
 
 1 1 
 
 8 
 
 47 
 
 7 
 
 H 
 
 13 
 
 31 
 
 146 20 
 
 9 
 
 45 
 
 24 
 
 26 35 
 
 20 
 
 57 
 
 9 
 
 28 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 28 
 
 147 18 
 
 9 
 
 49 
 
 25 
 
 27 29 
 
 21 
 
 43 
 
 10 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 47 
 
 15 
 
 25 
 
 148 16 
 
 9 
 
 S3 
 
 26 
 
 28 23 
 
 22 
 
 30 
 
 10 
 
 48 
 
 9 
 
 34 
 
 i6 
 
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 149 14 
 
 9 
 
 57 
 
 27 
 
 29 17(23 
 
 16 
 
 1 1 
 
 29 
 
 10 
 
 22 
 
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 21 
 
 150 II 
 
 10 
 
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 28 
 
 0^1024 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
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 II 
 
 9 
 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 151 9 
 
 10 
 
 5 
 
 29 
 
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 12 
 
 50 
 
 1 1 
 
 56 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 152 6 
 
 10 
 
 8 
 
 30 
 
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 32' 13 
 
 30 
 
 12 
 
 44 
 
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 A
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 1/5 
 
 ii 
 
 
 
 A 
 
 T 
 
 A B 
 
 L E 
 
 
 
 Of Houfes, ( 
 
 :alculated for 
 
 the 
 
 Latituc 
 
 e of 51 
 
 Degrees 32 Minutes, 
 
 
 
 
 by doi 
 
 ible 
 
 Horary 
 
 Times. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sol 
 
 in Virg 
 
 0. 
 
 
 
 A. R. 
 
 Time 
 
 10 
 
 
 [ I 
 
 12 
 
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 24 
 
 30 
 
 
 284 8 
 
 18 
 
 57 
 
 13 
 
 2 
 
 59 
 
 3 
 
 28 
 
 2 a 16 
 
 5 39 
 
 25 
 
 31 
 
 
 285 13 
 
 19 
 
 I 
 
 14 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 4 27 
 
 6 54126 
 
 32 
 
 
 286 17 
 
 19 
 
 5 
 
 15 
 
 5 
 
 22 
 
 6 
 
 54 
 
 6 33 
 
 8 8 
 
 27 
 
 33 
 
 
 287 22 
 
 19 
 
 9 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 34 
 
 8 
 
 39 
 
 8 39 
 
 9 20 
 
 28 
 
 33 
 
 
 288 27 
 
 19 
 
 14 
 
 17 
 
 7 
 
 49 
 
 10 
 
 25 
 
 10 43 
 
 10 31 
 
 29 
 
 32 
 
 
 289 31 
 
 19 
 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 8 
 
 59 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 12 42 
 
 1 1 41 
 
 02530 1 
 
 
 290 35 
 
 19 
 
 22 
 
 19 
 
 10 
 
 1213 
 
 59 H 40 
 
 12 50 
 
 I 
 
 29 
 
 
 291 39 
 
 '9 
 
 27 
 
 20 
 
 1 1 
 
 27,15 
 
 46 
 
 16 31 
 
 13 38 
 
 2 
 
 27 
 
 
 292 43 
 
 19 
 
 33 
 
 21 
 
 12 
 
 4017 
 
 33 
 
 18 20 
 
 15 5 
 
 3 
 
 25 
 
 
 293 47 
 
 19 
 
 3S 
 
 22 
 
 13 
 
 5419 
 
 21 
 
 20 5 
 
 [6 II 
 
 4 
 
 23 
 
 
 294 51 
 
 19 
 
 39 
 
 23 
 
 15 
 
 821 
 
 10 21 52 
 
 r; 17 
 
 5 
 
 20 
 
 
 2,95 54 
 
 19 
 
 44 
 
 24 
 
 r6 
 
 2223 
 
 23 33 1 
 
 8 22 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 
 296 S7 
 
 19 
 
 48 
 
 25 
 
 f? 
 
 3724 
 
 50 25 13 I 
 
 9 26 
 
 7 
 
 13 
 
 
 298 
 
 19 
 
 52 
 
 26 18 
 
 53^6 
 
 30 
 
 26 49 2 
 
 29 
 
 8 
 
 9 i 
 
 
 299 3 
 
 19 
 
 59 
 
 27 : 
 
 JO 
 
 1028 
 
 26 
 
 28 22 2 
 
 I 32 
 
 9 
 
 5 
 
 
 300 6 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 28 : 
 
 SI 
 
 27 0T12 
 
 29 S3 2 
 
 2 3410 
 
 2 
 
 
 301 6 
 
 20 
 
 5 
 
 29 : 
 
 t2 
 
 43 I 
 
 57 
 
 I II 23 2 
 
 3 35/0 
 
 59 
 
 
 302 12 ' 
 
 20 
 
 9 
 
 30 2 
 
 <4 
 
 3 
 
 41 
 
 2 50 2 
 
 4 36'xi 
 
 55 
 
 
 _.=_ '^l
 
 i8o 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 
 
 
 
 A 
 
 T 
 
 A B 
 
 L E 
 
 
 Of Hou 
 
 fes, calculated for t 
 
 he 
 
 Latitud( 
 
 J of 51 Degrees 3 
 
 2 Minutes, 
 
 
 
 
 
 by double 
 
 Horary 
 
 Times. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sol in 
 
 Aquaries, 
 
 
 A. 
 
 R. 
 
 i' 
 
 ime 
 
 10 
 
 1 1 
 
 12 
 
 Afcendant 
 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 from 
 
 Noon. 
 
 Houfe. 
 
 Houfe. 
 
 Houfe. 
 
 n 
 
 Houfe. 
 
 Houfe. 
 
 D. 
 
 M. 
 
 H. 
 
 M. 
 
 «*** 
 
 **<*• 
 
 D;srM 
 
 DrM 
 
 D. M. 
 
 DnM 
 
 D25M 
 
 302 
 
 12 
 
 20 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 41 
 
 2 50 
 
 24 
 
 36 
 
 II 55 
 
 303 
 
 14 
 
 20 
 
 13 
 
 I 
 
 25 
 
 n 
 
 5 
 
 26 
 
 4 14 
 
 25 
 
 36 
 
 12 51 
 
 304 
 
 16 
 
 20 
 
 '7 
 
 2 
 
 26 
 
 34 
 
 7 
 
 1 1 
 
 1 H 
 
 26 
 
 35 
 
 13 45 
 
 305 
 
 18 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 
 3 
 
 27 
 
 51 
 
 8 
 
 56 
 
 6 58 
 
 27 
 
 33 
 
 14 39 
 
 306 
 
 20 
 
 20 
 
 2^- 
 
 4 
 
 29 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 4C 
 
 » 8 17 
 
 28 
 
 31 
 
 15 32 
 
 307 
 
 22 
 
 20 
 
 29 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 ^25 
 
 1 2 
 
 25 9 33 
 
 29 
 
 28 
 
 16 26 
 
 308 
 
 24 
 
 20 
 
 34 
 
 6 
 
 I 
 
 43 
 
 14 
 
 IC 
 
 10 49 
 
 02524 
 
 17 19 
 
 309 
 
 25 
 
 20 
 
 38 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 I 
 
 15 
 
 54 
 
 12 3 
 
 I 
 
 20 
 
 18 13 
 
 310 
 
 26 
 
 20 
 
 42 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 19 
 
 17 
 
 37 
 
 13 14 
 
 2 
 
 16 
 
 19 6 
 
 311 
 
 27 
 
 20 
 
 46 
 
 9 
 
 5 
 
 37 
 
 19 
 
 22 
 
 14 24 
 
 3 
 
 1 1 
 
 20 
 
 312 
 
 27 
 
 20 
 
 50 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 55 
 
 21 
 
 4 
 
 15 32 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 20 S3 
 
 3^3 
 
 28 
 
 20 
 
 54 
 
 1 1 
 
 8 
 
 13 
 
 22 
 
 45 
 
 16 40 
 
 4 
 
 58 
 
 21 46 
 
 314 
 
 29 
 
 21 
 
 58 
 
 12 
 
 9 
 
 31 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 17 46 
 
 5 
 
 51 
 
 22 39 
 
 315 
 
 29 
 
 21 
 
 2 
 
 13 
 
 ro 
 
 49 
 
 26 
 
 2 
 
 18 53 
 
 6 
 
 43 
 
 23 31 
 
 316 
 
 29 
 
 21 
 
 6 
 
 14 
 
 13 
 
 6 
 
 27 
 
 38 
 
 19 56 
 
 7 
 
 35 
 
 24 23 
 
 3n 
 
 29 
 
 21 
 
 10 
 
 15 
 
 12 
 
 24 
 
 29 
 
 13 
 
 20 58 
 
 8 
 
 2725 14 
 
 31S 
 
 29 
 
 21 
 
 1 + 
 
 16 
 
 14 
 
 42 
 
 o«37 
 
 22 
 
 9 
 
 18 
 
 26 5 
 
 3'9 
 
 28 
 
 21 
 
 18 
 
 17 
 
 16 
 
 9 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 23 
 
 10 
 
 9 
 
 26 56 
 
 320 
 
 27 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 18 
 
 17 
 
 19 
 
 3 
 
 42 
 
 24 
 
 1 1 
 
 
 
 27 44 
 
 321 
 
 26 
 
 21 
 
 26 
 
 19 
 
 18 
 
 37 
 
 5 
 
 1 1 
 
 24 58 
 
 1 1 
 
 50 
 
 28 38 
 
 322 
 
 25 
 
 21 
 
 30 
 
 20 
 
 x9 
 
 55 
 
 6 
 
 40 
 
 25 55 
 
 12 
 
 40 
 
 20 29 
 
 323 
 
 24 
 
 21 
 
 34 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 26 51 
 
 13 
 
 29 
 
 oS^20 
 
 324 
 
 23 
 
 21 
 
 38 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 29 
 
 9 
 
 35 
 
 27 47 
 
 14 
 
 18 
 
 I II 
 
 32s 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 41 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 46,1 1 
 
 1 
 
 28 41 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 2 I 
 
 326 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 
 45 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 
 312 
 
 26 
 
 29 36 
 
 '5 
 
 54 
 
 2 51 
 
 327 
 
 18 
 
 21 
 
 49 
 
 25 
 
 26 
 
 20 r3 
 
 50 
 
 02529 
 
 16 
 
 43 
 
 3 42 
 
 328 
 
 16 
 
 21 
 
 53 
 
 26 
 
 27 
 
 37 
 
 15 
 
 13 
 
 I 22 
 
 17 
 
 31 
 
 4 32 
 
 329 
 
 H 
 
 21 
 
 57 
 
 27 
 
 28 
 
 5416 
 
 35 
 
 2 14 
 
 18 
 
 20 
 
 5 23 
 
 330 
 
 1 1 
 
 22 
 
 I 
 
 28 
 
 T 1 2J 1 7 
 
 56 
 
 3 5 
 
 19 
 
 8 
 
 6 13 
 
 33^ 
 
 9 
 
 22 
 
 5 
 
 29 
 
 I 
 
 2919 
 
 10 
 
 3 56 
 
 19 
 
 56 
 
 7 3 
 
 332 
 
 6 
 
 22 
 
 8 
 
 30 
 
 2 
 
 4720 
 
 34 
 
 4 45 
 
 20 
 
 44 
 
 7 53 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 A
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 i8i 
 
 
 
 A TABLE 
 
 
 Of Houfes calculated for the 
 
 Latitude of 51 De^ 
 
 rees 32 Minutes, by 
 
 
 
 double Horary Times. 
 
 
 Sol in Filces. 
 
 
 Time 
 
 10 
 
 1 1 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 A.R. 
 
 From Noon 
 
 Houfe. 
 
 Houfe. 
 
 Houfe. 
 
 A fee 
 
 ndant 
 
 Houfe. 
 
 Houfe. 
 
 D. M. 
 
 H. M. 
 
 ^ 
 
 DrM 
 
 DaM 
 
 D. 25 M. 
 
 DgsM. 
 
 DSIM. 
 
 33^ 6 
 
 22 8 
 
 
 
 2 47 
 
 20 34 
 
 4 
 
 45 
 
 20 44 
 
 7 54 
 
 ^33 3 
 
 22 12 
 
 I 
 
 4 3 
 
 21 50 
 
 5 
 
 35 
 
 21 41 
 
 8 43 
 
 334- o 
 
 23 16 
 
 2 
 
 5 19 
 
 23 5 
 
 6 
 
 23 
 
 22 17 
 
 9 33 
 
 334 S7 
 
 22 20 
 
 3 
 
 6 35 
 
 24 18 
 
 7 
 
 12 
 
 23 2 
 
 10 23 
 
 335 54 
 
 22 24 
 
 4 
 
 7 51 
 
 25 30 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 23 47 
 
 II 13 
 
 336 51 
 
 22 27 
 
 5 
 
 9 6 
 
 26 42 
 
 8 
 
 48 
 
 24 31 
 
 12 2 
 
 337 48 
 
 22 31 
 
 6 
 
 10 21 
 
 27 53 
 
 9 
 
 35 
 
 25 15 
 
 12 51 
 
 338 45 
 
 22 35 
 
 7 
 
 ri s6 
 
 29 3 
 
 10 
 
 22 
 
 26 
 
 13 41 
 
 339 41 
 
 22 39 
 
 8 
 
 12 51 
 
 on 12 
 
 1 1 
 
 7 
 
 26 45 
 
 14 30 
 
 340 37 
 
 22 42 
 
 9 
 
 14 6 
 
 I 20 
 
 1 1 
 
 52 
 
 27 30 
 
 15 19 
 
 341 33 
 
 22 46 
 
 10 
 
 15 20 
 
 2 27 
 
 12 
 
 37 
 
 28 14 
 
 16 8 
 
 342 29 
 
 22 50 
 
 II 
 
 16 33 
 
 3 33 
 
 13 
 
 23 
 
 28 58 
 
 16 57 
 
 343 25 
 
 22 54 
 
 12 
 
 17 45 
 
 4 39 
 
 14 
 
 7 
 
 29 42 
 
 17 46 
 
 344 21 
 
 22 57 
 
 13 
 
 18 57 
 
 5 44 
 
 14 
 
 54 
 
 0SI25 
 
 18 35 
 
 345 17 
 
 23 1 
 
 14 
 
 20 9 
 
 6 48 
 
 15 
 
 35 
 
 I 9 
 
 19 25 
 
 346 12 
 
 23 5 
 
 15 
 
 21 21 
 
 7 51 
 
 16 
 
 17 
 
 I 52 
 
 20 14 
 
 347 8 
 
 23 8 
 
 16 
 
 22 32 
 
 8 54 
 
 17 
 
 I 
 
 2 36 
 
 21 3 
 
 348 3 
 
 23 12 
 
 ^7 
 
 23 43 
 
 9 56 
 
 n 
 
 44 
 
 3 19 
 
 31 52 
 
 348 59 
 
 23 16 
 
 18 
 
 24 54 
 
 10 58 
 
 18 
 
 26 
 
 4 2 
 
 22 41 
 
 349 54 
 
 23 20 
 
 19 
 
 26 5 
 
 II 59 
 
 19 
 
 9 
 
 4 46 
 
 23 30 
 
 350 49 
 
 23 23 
 
 20 
 
 27 16 
 
 13 
 
 19 
 
 52 
 
 5.30 
 
 24 19 
 
 35^ 45 
 
 23 27 
 
 21 
 
 28 26 
 
 14 
 
 20 
 
 33 
 
 6 14 
 
 25 8 
 
 352 40 
 
 23 31 
 
 22 
 
 29 36 
 
 15 
 
 21 
 
 15 
 
 6 58 
 
 25 58 
 
 353 35 
 
 23 34 
 
 23 
 
 o»45 
 
 15 59 
 
 21 
 
 56 
 
 7 42 1 
 
 26 47 
 
 354 30 
 
 23 3^ 
 
 24 
 
 I 54 
 
 16 58 
 
 22 
 
 37 
 
 8 26 1 
 
 27 36 
 
 355 25 
 
 23 42 
 
 25 
 
 3 2 
 
 17 56 
 
 23 
 
 18 
 
 9 10 1 
 
 28 26 
 
 35^ 20 
 
 23 145 
 
 26 
 
 4 10 
 
 18 52 
 
 24 
 
 59 
 
 9 54 
 
 29 15 
 
 357 15 
 
 23 49 
 
 27 
 
 5 18 
 
 19 47 
 
 24 
 
 30 
 
 10 38 
 
 oni,4 
 
 358 10 
 
 23 53 
 
 28 
 
 6 26 
 
 20 40 
 
 25 
 
 21 
 
 1 1 22 
 
 53 
 
 359 5 
 
 23 5^ 
 
 29 
 
 7 33 
 
 21 34 
 
 26 
 
 2 
 
 12 5 
 
 I 43 
 
 360 
 
 24 
 
 30 
 
 8 40 
 
 22 27 
 
 26 
 
 42 
 
 12 49 
 
 2 33 
 
 No. 10. 
 
 
 
 Xx 
 
 it|
 
 l82 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 It is no uncommon thing with many readers, and particularly thofe 
 not very converfant with figures, to pafs over all Tables as intricate, or 
 difficult to underfland. But, fince no information can be obtained in the 
 pra61ical part of this fcience without them, it is proper to caution all my 
 readers againft this much-miflaken notion ; for every perfon who can make 
 ufeof a Ready Reckoner or Trader's Sure Guide, may with equal eafe uii- 
 dcrftand all the Tables calculated for this work. 
 
 The ufe of the Ephemeris, in fetting a figure, is to point out the j)laces 
 of the planets at noon, whenever required. For this purpofe, we refer 
 to the given day of the month, in the firft column of the right-hand page ; 
 and oppofite to it, in the fecond column, is the Sun's place, or longitude, 
 that day at noon. So alfo, in the fame line of the fucceeding columns 
 through the whole Table, are the places of the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, 
 jNIars, Venus, and Mercury, as fpecified at the top of each difl:in6l co- 
 lumn ; and thefe are the true places of the Sun, Moon, and planets, 
 every day throughout the year, precifely at twelve o'clock at noon. 
 Therefore, if the figure be erefted before that time, the diurnal motion 
 of the planets muft be deduced in hours and minutes, in proportion to 
 the rate they move at per hour ; but, if it be eredled after noon, then fo 
 many hours or minutes muft be added as will bring them to the precife 
 time of ere(5ling the fisfure. 
 
 The twelve Tallies of Houfes are next to be referred to ; and thefe are 
 calculated to fhow what degrees of each fign poffefs the cufps of the 
 twelve houfes of heaven when the figure is ere6led. They begin with 
 the Sun's entrance into the fign Aries, and fhow his progrefs through 
 each degree of the twelve figns of the zodiac. 
 
 Now let it be required, by way of example, to ere£l a figure for Fri- 
 day, the nth day of June, 1784, at 1 1 h. 24 min. A.M. that is, at 
 twenty-four minutes paft eleven o'clock in the morning. To do this, I 
 refer to the firft column of the right-hand page of the Ephemeris for 
 June, and oppofite the nth day of the month, in the fecond column, 
 which has ©'s longitude printed at the top, I find 21. 3. 27. with the 
 fign n prefixed at the fide of the firft range of figures. This indicates, 
 that the Sun, at twelve o'clock that day, is in twenty-one degrees three 
 minutes and twenty-feven feconds of Gemini; but the minutes and 
 feconds, when lefs than thirty, are rejeded without fenfible error, and, 
 when more than thirty, have as many added as will make then up even 
 degrees. I therefore turn to the Table of Houfes, and in page 172, enti- 
 tled Sol in Gemini, I look for the column that has the fign n at the 
 top, which is the third ; I feek for 21 degrees ; and, in the column on 
 
 the
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 183 
 
 the left fide of it, entitled Time from Noon, I find, even with 21 degrees, 
 5 h. 21 min. The hours and minutes thus found are uniformly to he 
 added to the time or hour of the day when the figure is ereded, unlefs it 
 be precifely at noon, in which cafe, as we have before obferved, the places 
 of the Sun, planets, and figns, are to be fet down exadly as they are found 
 in the Ephemeris, and Tables of Houfes. But, the prefent figure being 
 eretled jufl. thirty-fix minutes before twelve o'clock, I am to add this time, 
 reckoning from noon the preceding day, to the above 5 h. 21 min. and 
 from thefe two funis added together I fubtraft twenty-four hours, and the 
 remainder will give the degrees of each of the twelve figns, as then pofi- 
 ted upon the cufps of the horofcope ; thus : 
 
 h. min. 
 Time anfwering to 21 degrees of H 5 21 
 
 Time from noon the preceding day 23 24 
 
 Added together, make 28 45 
 
 Subtraft - - 24 o 
 
 Remainder 4 45 
 
 I feek this remainder in the Table of Houfes entitled Sol in Gemini, 
 in the column of Time from Noon ; but, not finding 4. 45. I take the 
 neareft number to it, which is 4. 46. and oppofite this number, in the 
 next column on the right, I find 13 degrees of Gemini in the tenth houfe, 
 which is denoted by loth Houfe 11, at the top of the column; and there- 
 fore I place thirteen degrees of Gemini in the line or cufp of the tenth 
 houfe of the figure. This done, I refer to the next column in rotation 
 to the right hand, and in the fame line with the twenty-one degrees of 
 Gemini I find 20. 7. and, looking to the top of the column, find it to 
 be twenty degrees and feven minutes of the fign 25, with 1 1 Houfe over; 
 and therefore I place twenty degrees feven minutes of Cancer upon the 
 cufp of the eleventh houfe. I follow the fame rule with the next co- 
 lumn, where I find 21. 48. and looking to the top find the fign SI 12 
 Houfe, and accordingly place twenty-one degrees thirty-eight minutes 
 of Leo upon the cufp of the twelfth houfe in the figure. Then I refer 
 to the next column, where I find ly, i. and at the top the word Afcen- 
 dant with the fign Ti)j prefixed, which fignifies that feventeen degrees one 
 minute of Virgo occupy the firfh houfe, or Afcendant, which I place ac- 
 cordingly. I then refer to the next column, and even with the preced- 
 ing figures ftand 9. 15. when, looking up the column, I obferve the 
 fign iCi: below ri^, and 2 Houfe at the top, which fhows that nine degrees 
 fifteen minutes of Libra are to be placed on the cufp of the fecond houfe. 
 This done, I refer to the lafl: column, and even with the former numbers 
 
 I find
 
 184 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 1 find 7. 48. and, looking up the column as before, I obferve the figti 
 Tr[ below :C^, and 3 Houfe over, which indicates that ievcn degrees forty- 
 ei^ht minutes of Scorpio are to be placed on the cufp of the third houfe. 
 Thus the fix oriental houfcs, namely, the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, firfV, 
 lecond, and third, are furnifned with the degrees of each fign then riling 
 upon them; and the fix occidental houfes, being oppolite to the former, 
 are always turnifhed with the fame degrees and minutes of the oppofite 
 figns ; thus : 
 
 Houfes oppofite. 
 
 4 10 
 
 5 ^i 
 
 6 12 
 
 1 7 
 
 2 8 
 
 3 9 
 
 Signs oppofite. 
 T ^ 
 
 « ni 
 
 n t 
 SI ^ 
 
 So that the tenth houfe is oppofite to the fourth, and the fourth to the 
 tenth ; the eleventh to the fifth, and the fifth to the eleventh ; and fo 
 through the whole ; the ufe of which is, that, if on the cufp of the 
 tenth houfe you find the fign Aries, then on the cufp of the fourth houfe 
 you mufl place the fign Libra, and, whatever degree and minute of Aries 
 poiTefifes the cufp of the tenth houfe, the fame degree and minute of Li- 
 bra muft be placed on the cufp of the fourth houfe ; and the fame rule 
 muft be obferved with all the other houfes and figns, which is univerfal, 
 and ever holds true. For example, in the prefent figure, we have placed 
 13 degrees of n on the cufp of the tenth houfe ; now, I being oppofite 
 to n , and the fourth houfe to the tenth, I therefore place 13 degrees of 
 J on the cufp of the fourth houfe. Upon the cufp of the eleventh 
 houfe, 20 degrees 7 minutes of Cancer being already placed, and the 
 fifth houfe being oppofite to the eleventh, and VJ oppofite 25, I there- 
 fore put 20 degrees 7 minutes of VJ upon the cui'p of the fifth houi'e. 
 The cufp of the twelfth houfe being alfo occupied with 21 degrees 38 
 minutes of $^, I place 21 degrees 38 minutes of the oppofite fign ;sr 
 upon the cufp of the fix^h houfe, vi'hich is oppofite the twelfth. Upon 
 the cufp of the firfi: houfe, or afcendant, there is 17 degrees i minute of 
 HR ; and, the feventh houfe being oppofite to the firlt, and the fign ^ to 
 15^, 1 accordingly place 17 degrees i minute of ^ upon the cufp, or line, 
 of the feventh houfe. Having alfo placed 9 degrees 15 minutes of =:b 
 upon the cufp of the fecond houfe, I place 9 degrees 15 minutes of the 
 oppofite fign T upon the cufp of the eighth houfe, which is oppofite to 
 the fecond. I then refer to the third houfe, upon the cufp of which are 
 placed 7 degrees 48 minutes of ^, ; and, the oppofite houfe to this being 
 
 the
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 185 
 
 the ninth, and y the oppofite fign, I place 7 degrees 48 minutes of Tau- 
 rus upon the cufp of the ninth houfe. And thus the twelve houfes are 
 completely occupied with the twelve figns of the zodiac, and with the de- 
 grees afcending at the precife time of erecting the figure. 
 
 Having fo far fucceeded, the next thing is to place the Sun, Moon, and 
 planets, in the figure, agreeable to their pofition at that, time in the hea- 
 vens ; and this is alfo to be done by the help of the right-hand page of the 
 Ephemeris. For inftance, I again refer to the iith of June, and oppo- 
 fite to it, in the column of the 0^s longitude, I find him in 21 degrees 
 3 minutes and 27 feconds of Gemini that day at noon. But, as the figure 
 is ereded thirty-fix minutes before noon, I note how far the Sun has 
 moved from noon the preceding day, and find he has gone at the rate of 
 fifty-feven minutes, which gives a difference of one minute and twenty- 
 feven feconds for the time before noon, as follows : 
 
 h. min. fi-c. 
 
 Sun's place at noon, June nth 21 3 27 
 
 Deduct for 36 min. before noon o i 27 
 
 Remains 21 2 O 
 
 Thus I find the Sun's place at twenty-four minutes after eleven o'clock 
 in 21 degrees 2 minutes of Gemini ; which fign being then upon the cufp 
 of the tenth houfe, I therefore place the Sun in that houfe, clofe to the 
 fign, with thefe degrees and minutes. I then refer to the Ephemeris for 
 the Moon's place,- and in the column of her longitude, oppofite the nth 
 day of the month, I find her in 5 degrees 46 minutes of Tj at noon ; but, 
 to know her place thirty-fix minutes before, I note how much fhe goes in 
 an hour, and find her motion to be 35 minutes ; then I dedu6t 21 minutes 
 for the time before noon, and find her true place to be in 5 hours 25 mi- 
 nutes of Aries, which I accordingly enter before the cufp of the eighth 
 houfe, clofe to that fign. I then refer to the Ephemeris for the planet 
 Tp, and on the nth of June I find him retrograde in 22 degrees 53 mi- 
 nutes of the fign VJ, wherefore I place him under Capricorn, in the fifth 
 houfe, with an R prefixed, to denote that he is retrograde. I refer to the 
 Ephemeris in like manner for the planets Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and 
 Mercury, which I alfo enter in their proper places in the figure, viz. Ju- 
 piter in 7 degrees 36 minutes of )(,Mars in 27 degrees 1 minute of 05, 
 Venus in 5 degrees 5 minutes of H, and Mercury retrograde in 24 de- 
 grees 2 minutes of the fame fign. 
 
 The planets being thus entered, I next refer to the top of the fecond 
 page of the Ephemeris, for the column of the Moon's node, which we 
 term the Dragon's Head; and I find on the 7th day of the month ix is 
 
 No. 10. Yy in
 
 1 86 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 in four decrees of Pifces ; but, as it moves backward about three minutes 
 per day, I dedu6l eleven minutes to bring it to the nth of June, and its 
 place will then be in 4 degrees 8 minutes of Pifces; 1 therefore enter 
 it in the fixth houfe, under the fign K ; and, as the place of the Dragon's 
 Tail is always oppofite to the Dragon's Head, I place it in the fame de- 
 o-rees of the'oppofite fign, which in this figure falls in the twelfth houfe, 
 which is oppofite to the fixth. 
 
 The figure is now entirely completed, except putting in the Part of 
 Fortune, which is the diftance of the Moon's place from the Sun's added 
 to the afcendant. The mode of determining this has commonly been by 
 firfl findino^ the true place of the Moon, then the true place of the Sun ; 
 then fubtrafting the Sun's place from the Moon's, and adding to the re- 
 mainder the degrees of the afcendant ; and this, if taken in the fpbere of 
 the Moon, gives the place of the Part of Fortune. But, a much more 
 correft method having been adopted by the learned Placidus, we recom- 
 mend it in preference to any other ; it is as follows : Firft note the fign and 
 decree on the afcendant, and enter with the fame fign and degree in the 
 Table of Oblique Afcenfions calculated for this work, in the latitude 
 wherein you ere6t your figure; and in the common angle of meeting you 
 will find the number required. Then enter the fame Table with the de- 
 gree of the Sun, and fubtrad the oblique afcenfion of the one from the 
 other, and the remainder will be the Sun's diftance from the afcendant. * 
 Then take the right afcenfion of the Moon, and enter the Table of the 
 Moon's Ri^ht Afcenfion, under the degrees of north or fouth latitude, as 
 (he then happens to be ; and, when the Moon's right afcenfion is found, 
 fubtrafl it from the Sun's diflance from the afcendant, and the remainder 
 will be the right afcenfion of the Part of Fortune. For example, in the 
 figure before us : deg. min. 
 
 The fign xiji has 17 deg. 1 min. upon the afcen- 
 dant, the oblique afcenfion of which is 161 ^3 
 The oblique afcenfion of the © (both being in 
 
 northern figns, nothing is added) is 47 43 
 
 Which being fubtra6fed from the others, remains 113 50 
 
 Then fubtraft the right afcenfion of the Moon, 2 50 
 
 Remains iii 58 
 
 Which is the ria:ht afcenfion of the Part of Fortune. I refer for this 
 fum to the fiift column of the preceding Tables of Houfes, under A. R. 
 
 * In this operation always obferve, ihat, if the fign afcending be fouthern, and the fign in which 
 the Sun be pofited be northern, then add the whole circle of ihe zodiac, or three hundred and fixty 
 degrees of the northern fign ; and vice verfay if a northern fign afcend, and the Sun be placed in a 
 fouthern. 
 
 which
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 187 
 
 which fignifies Right Afcenfion ; and in the Table at p. 173, or Sol in 
 Cancer, I find iii deg. 39 min. which is only nineteen minutes lefs ; 
 and oppofite to this fum, in the third column of the Table, ftands 30, with 
 the lign 55 at the top, and this denotes the Part of Fortune to be in 20 • 
 degrees of Cancer; but, as nineteen minutes were wantino- to make up 
 the number, 1 allow one minute more, becaufe fifteen minutes on the 
 equator is equal to i minute of time ; and hence the true place of the Part 
 of Fortune falls in 20 degrees 1 minute of Cancer ; and I accordingly enter 
 it below that fign in the fcheme, which is now completed, and fliands thus : 
 
 /\ 
 
 
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 Scheme or Figure 
 of the 
 
 HEAVENS, 
 
 On Friday, nth of June, lihi 
 24 min. A. M. or forenoon. 
 
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 S hor. Sub. lat. 51° 32'. 
 
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 This figure includes all that is required for the purpofe of judo-i„cr 
 horary queftions, and the like ; but, in nativities, and in the more imme- 
 diate concerns of Hfe and death, regard muft be had to the fixed flars, 
 according to their magnitude, influence, and pofitions near the alcendant 
 or Its lord, near the Moon, or the other fignificators. And, becaufe it is 
 of importance to know their natures, qualities, and fignificators, I fhall 
 lubjoin a Table of the moft confiderable fixed ftars in the northern he- 
 milphere, and then (how how to colleft fuch of them into the horofcope 
 as may relate to the fubjed at any time under inveftigation. 
 
 A TABLE
 
 i88 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE of the principal Fixed Stars near 
 their true Longitude, Latitude, Magnitude 
 
 the EcUptic, fhowing 
 , and Nature. 
 
 Names of the Fixed Stars. 
 
 South End ot ihe Fail of the Whale 
 
 The Star in the Wing of Pegafus 
 
 The Head of Andromeda 
 
 Whale's Belly 
 
 The Girdle of Andromeda 
 
 Bright Star in the Head of the Ram ..... 
 
 The Left Foot of Andromeda , 
 
 The Blight Star in the Jaw of the Whale . 
 
 The Head of Algol Medafa 
 
 The Pleiades 
 
 The middle Star of the Seven 
 
 Otulus Taurus 
 
 Aldebaran 
 
 Rigel 
 
 The former Shoulder of Ori)n 
 
 She-Goat 
 
 The former Star ill Orion's Belt 
 
 The middle Star in Orion's Belt 
 
 The higheft Star in the Head of Orion 
 
 The Star in the Horn of the Bull 
 
 The following Shoulder of Orion 
 
 Propus 
 
 The right Shoulder of Auriga 
 
 The bright Foot of G^min 
 
 Caftor Apollo 
 
 Pollux Hercules 
 
 The Imaller Dog Star 
 
 Prtefepe 
 
 North Affellus 
 
 South Affellus 
 
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 The Tail of the Lion 
 
 Crater, or the Bottom of the Pitcher 
 
 ArtSurus 
 
 l^he Virgin's Spike, Arifta 
 
 The South Balance , 
 
 The North Balance 
 
 The Left Hand of Ophiucus 
 
 Higher Star in the Forehead of the Scorpion 
 
 The Lift Knee of Ophiucus 
 
 Cor Scorpio 
 
 The Scorpion's Heart, Antares 
 
 The Right Knee of Ophiucus 
 
 The bright Star of the Vulture , 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. ' 189 
 
 The filft column contains the names of the fliars ; the fecond fhows 
 their longitude, or in what degree and minute of the twelve figns they 
 are fituated ; the third fhows the degree and minute of their latitude, 
 either north or fouth, which is denoted by the letters N. S. The fourth 
 column denotes their magnitude; and the fifth fhows their natural 
 quality. For example : The flar in the wing of Pegafus is in fix degrees 
 eleven minutes of Aries ; has twelve degrees thirty-five minutes north 
 latitude, is of the fecond magnitude, and participates of the nature and 
 quality of Mars and Mercury. The fixed fiars may be found and diftin- 
 guifhed in the heavens by their conjundlions with the Moon, or by ob- 
 ferving their order from,^any given point in the heavens ; thus, begin 
 with the Pleiades, vulgarly called the Seven Stars, and next to them in 
 order, but fomewhat lower, is a large red ftar called Aldebaran, or the 
 South Eye of the Bull ; next follows Orion's Belt or Girdle, which are 
 three ftars in a rank thus, ***, and are vulgarly called the Yard or Ell. 
 Next follows a flar called the Great Dog, which is a large bright flar, 
 fomewhat lower than the girdle of Orion. The next is called the Head 
 of Gemini, and is about the height of the Seven Stars; there are two 
 together, appearing thus, ^* ; the largeft of the two is the flar here no- 
 minated. The next, which follows in order, is called South Aflellus, no 
 great ftar, but of a red colour ; there are two of them, near together and 
 alike, and fland or appear thus, *^ ; the lowefl of the two is the flar 
 here meant. Next in order follows a flar called the Head of Hydra, 
 lower than AfTellus, and of a bright white colour. Then follows a flar 
 in the flank of the Lion, very bright, and about the height of the Seven 
 Stars. Next to that the Virgin's Girdle, a bright flar, and lower than 
 the flank of the Lion. And next follows a curious flar called the Vir- 
 gin's Spike, very large and bright ; it is a flar of the firfl magnitude, and 
 appears a little lower, or more foutherly, than the Virgin's Girdle. 
 Next in order follows the flar called Ardlurus, a very remarkable bright 
 red-coloured flar, about the latitude of the Pleiades. Then follows 
 the flar of the Crown, large and bright, and higher than ArcSturus. 
 Then the right Shoulder of Hercules, of a pale white colour, near the 
 altitude of the Seven Stars. Then follows the Head of Ophiucus, of a 
 pale white colour, and fomewhat fouthward of Hercules. Then appears 
 a flar under the armpit of Sagittary, a bright flar, but very low. Next, 
 the bright flar of the Vulture, large, and lower than the Seven Stars. 
 The next flar is called the Left Shoulder of the Water-bearer ; about 
 the altitude of Orion's Girdle, of a pale white colour. The next in order 
 is the flar called Marchab, being a flar of a bright colour, a little lower 
 than the Seven Stars, but much bissrer. Then follows the Southern Star 
 of the Whale's Tail ; this flar is of a pale colour, and about the height 
 of the Sun on the fhortefl day. Then follows a flar called the Girdle of 
 No. 10. ' Z z Andromeda,
 
 ,90 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Andromeda, a bright glittering ftar, and much higher than the Pleiades. 
 Laftly, there is the bright ftar of the Ram, of a red colour, and lower 
 than the Seven Stars. Thofe that would be curious in thefe fpcculations 
 fhould ftody the celeftial globe, and learn to be very expert in the ufe of 
 it, which is eafdy attained, and alfo very entertaining. 
 
 Now, to know whether any of the fixed ftars fall into the figure eretl- 
 ed, I note the fign and degree upon the cufps of the houfes, and then 
 examine the Tecond column of the foregoing Table of Fixed Stars, and, 
 if 1 find either of them afcending or delcending within five degrees of the 
 fiorns upon the cufps of the feveral houies, they are then to be entered in 
 the fame manner as the planets, and their qualities and influences are to 
 be duly weighed, according to the nature of whatever planet they corref- 
 poiid with, which is (hown in the lafl column of the Table. In the fore- 
 going figure of the heavens, I obferve ly degrees i minute of Vlji upon the 
 afcendant ; then, looking down the twelve figns in order in the fecond 
 column of fixed ffars, I find vcji 18. 32. and even with it, in the firft co- 
 lumn, the Tail of the Lion, which fhows that this flar is alfo afcending 
 within five degrees of the cufp of the firft houfe, or afcendant ; and there- 
 fore I place it in the firfl houfe of the figure, under the figntr)^. I then 
 examine the other cufps according to their rotation ; and, on the cufp of 
 the fourth houfe, I find J 13. o. and, in the Table of Fixed Stars, I find 
 l 14. ^^. and even with it the Right Knee of Ophiucus, which fhows 
 that this ftar is within two degrees of the cufp of the fourth houfe, in 
 which I accordingly place it. On the cufp of the fixth houfe I fee 
 jx: 21. 38. and in the Table of Fixed Stars I find Marchab Pegafi in 
 ^ 20. 25. I therefore place it under the fign ^ in the fixth houfe of the 
 figure. Upon the cufp of the eighth houfe in the figure is T 9- 15- and 
 in the Table of Fixed Stars I find the Head of Andromeda in T 11. 20. 
 I therefore place it jufl within the cufp of the eighth houfe. Upon the 
 medium coeli, I find n 13. o. and in the Table I find the eminent fixed 
 flar Rigel, of the firfl magnitude, in II 13. 56. I therefore place him in 
 the mid-heaven. Upon the cufp of the eleventh ftands 25 20. 7. and in 
 the Table I find the flar Pollux in gs 20. 12. which I enter within the 
 cufp of the eleventh houfe. Upon the cufp of the twelfth is SI 21. 38. 
 and in the Table I find the flar Hydra in Q_ 24. I2. and therefore 1 en- 
 ter him in twenty-four degrees of Leo in the twelfth houfe. And thus I 
 have collecffed the pofitions of all the planets and eminent fixed flars, as 
 they flood in the heavens at twenty-four minutes paft eleven o'clock, on 
 Friday the nth of June, 1784. As the fixed ffars move on their lon- 
 gitude at the rate of fifty feconds per year, and of courfe vary in their 
 pofition, I have for this reafon calculated a Table, by which their fitua- 
 tion mav be known at any given time, paft or to come. 
 
 TABLE,
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 191 
 
 TABLE, (howing the PLACES of the FIXED STARS, at any Time, 
 
 paft or to come. 
 
 Years. 
 
 Degrees 
 
 Mill. 
 
 Sec. 
 
 I Years. 
 
 Degrees 
 
 Mill. 
 
 Sec. 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 i 40 
 
 
 
 33 
 
 20 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 40 
 
 SO 
 
 
 
 41 
 
 40 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 30 
 
 i 60 
 
 
 
 SO 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 20 
 
 ' Z° 
 
 
 
 5« 
 
 20 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 80 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 4Q 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 90 
 
 'I 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 S 
 
 50 
 
 ICO 
 
 I 
 
 23 
 
 20 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 40 
 
 200 
 
 2 
 
 46 
 
 40 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 300 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 20 
 
 400 
 
 5 
 
 33 
 
 20 j 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 40 
 
 500 
 
 6 
 
 56 
 
 40 1 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 600 
 
 8 
 
 ^9 
 
 ! 
 
 Now fuppofe it were required to know the fituation of Aldebaran twenty 
 years ago ; I refer to the Table of Fixed Stars, and find him in fix de- 
 grees forty-five minutes of Gemini, in this prefent year ; I then enter 
 the column of years in the above Table, at No. 20, and even with it 
 in the following columns fland o. 16. 40. which (hows that Aldebaran 
 has moved fixteen minutes and forty feconds in twenty years ; and, this 
 fum being deduded from 6 degrees 45 minutes, his prefent place in 
 Gemini, fhows that twenty years ago he was pofited in 6 degrees 18 
 minutes and 20 feconds of this fign. This rule will hold good for any 
 other ftar, or for any number of years; only obferving, that, if it be 
 required to know the ftar's place twenty years hence, then the fixteen 
 minutes and forty feconds muft be added ; and fo in proportion for any 
 other length of time. But, fince the afpefls of the planets at the time 
 of erecting the figure conftitute the principal index of our judgment, I 
 examine their pofition in this refpe6i, and note them down under the title 
 of the figure, where they ftand as a conftant guide to our judgment on 
 the matter under confideration. For inftance, I examine the figure above 
 projedled ; and in the mid-heaven I find the Sun in twenty-one degrees two 
 minutes of Gemini, and Mercury in twenty-four degrees two minutes of 
 the fame fign, applying by his retrograde motion to a partile conjundion 
 with the Sun, which I note thus, d O 5 • Examining the other planets, 
 I find Venus in five degrees five minutes of Gemini, and the Moon in 
 five degrees twenty-five minutes of Aries ; I then reckon from five de- 
 grees of Aries to five degrees of Taurus is thirty degrees; and from five 
 degrees of Taurus to five degrees of Gemini is thirty degrees more ; thefe, 
 amounting to fixty degrees, conllitute a partile fcxtile afpe6^, which I thus 
 
 note,
 
 192 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 note, >|i D 9 • Then I obferve Jupiter in {^even degrees thirty-fix minutes 
 of Pilces, and Venus in five degrees five minutes of Gemini ; and, their 
 diftance from each other being reckoned as before, they are found to be 
 near eighty-eight degrees apart ; and, as ninety degrees make a quartile, 
 they are now within each other's orbs, and are confequently in a platic □ 
 applying to a partile afpedi, becaufe Venus is a fwifter planet than Jupiter; 
 wherefore I note down this afpe6l 9 %• Then I find Mars in twenty- 
 leven degrees one minute of Cancer, and Saturn retrograde in twenty-two 
 degrees fifty-three minutes of Capricorn ; which, being oppollte figns, and 
 the planet's degrees within each other's orbs, conftitute a platic oppcfition, 
 which 1 note thus, § b 6 • Thefe being all the afpe6ts, I range them to- 
 gether under the title of the figure thus, c50$>l=})9n$7/<? b 6 • 
 This figure is erecffed in the hour of Alars, as may be feen by referring to 
 the Table of Planetary Hours; I therefore fignify it thus ,5 hor. and, the 
 latitude under which the figure is ere6fed being that of London, I enter 
 51*^ 32, that is, fifty-one degrees thirty-two minutes north latitude. But, 
 as no figure can be ereded by the foregoing Tables of Houfes for any 
 other latitude than that of London, without being re6tified by the pofi- 
 tions of the poles, I here fubjoin a Table of the Poles' Pofitions for the 
 eleventh, third, twelfth, and fecond, houfes, whereby a figure may be 
 erefled for any latitude from thirty to fixty degrees. 
 
 TABLE of the Circles of Pofitions of the eleventh, third, twelfth, and 
 fecond, Houfes, from thirty-one to fixty degrees of Latitude. 
 
 Afcen- 
 
 II &3 
 
 12 & 2 
 
 Afcen- 
 
 II &3 
 
 12 
 
 &2 1 
 
 dant. 
 
 Houfes. 
 
 Houfes. 
 
 dant. 
 
 Houfes. 
 
 Houfes. 1 
 
 D. 
 
 D. M. 
 
 D. M. 
 
 D. 
 
 D. M. 
 
 D. 
 
 M. 
 
 3^ 
 
 II 25 
 
 21 58 
 
 46 
 
 19 28 
 
 35 
 
 9 
 
 32 
 
 II 52 
 
 22 47 1 
 
 47 
 
 20 7 
 
 36 
 
 8 
 
 33 
 
 12 19 
 
 23 35 \ 
 
 48 
 
 20 49 
 
 ^Z 
 
 8 
 
 34 
 
 12 4S 
 
 24 24 
 
 49 
 
 21 33 
 
 38 
 
 10 
 
 3S 
 
 13 17 
 
 25 13 
 
 50 
 
 22 17 
 
 39 
 
 1 1 
 
 36 
 
 13 48 
 
 26 4 
 
 51 
 
 23 4 
 
 40 
 
 16 
 
 37 
 
 14 17 
 
 26 55 
 
 52 
 
 23 51 
 
 41 
 
 20 
 
 3S 
 
 14 49 
 
 27 46 
 
 53 
 
 24 40 
 
 42 
 
 26 
 
 39 
 
 15 20 
 
 28 38 
 
 54 
 
 25 34 
 
 43 
 
 32 
 
 40 
 
 15 52 
 
 29 32 
 
 55 
 
 26 29 
 
 44 
 
 41 
 
 41 
 
 16 25 
 
 30 25 
 
 56 
 
 27 25 
 
 45 
 
 51 
 
 42 
 
 16 59 
 
 31 22 
 
 57 
 
 28 24 
 
 47 
 
 
 
 43 
 
 n 36 
 
 32 16 
 
 58 
 
 29 26 
 
 48 
 
 13 
 
 ! 44 
 
 18 13 
 
 33 13 
 
 59 
 
 30 30 
 
 49 
 
 26 
 
 ' 45 
 
 18 15 
 
 34 II 
 
 60 
 
 31 39 
 
 50 
 
 42 
 
 Suppofe
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 193 
 
 Suppofe It were required to find the pole's elevation of the eleventh 
 third, twelfth, and fecoiid, houfes, for the latitude of fifty-three degrees 
 I enter the Table at No. 53, under the title Afcendant, and right againfi 
 it I find, under the eleventh and third houfes, twenty-four degrees forty 
 minutes, which is the pole's elevation ; and under the twelfth and fecond 
 houfes 1 find forty-two degrees twenty-fix minutes, which is the pole's 
 elevation for the twelfth and fecond houfes ; and in this manner they may 
 be found for any other latitude. 
 
 Now, by knowing the pole's elevation for thefe houfes, a figure of the 
 heavens may be erefted for the nativity of any perfon born within thirty- 
 one to fixty degrees of latitude. For example, Suppofe a perfon born in 
 fifty-three degrees of latitude, on the fir (l of June, 1784, at thirty-fix 
 minutes pafl five o'clock in the afternoon; what would be the degrees 
 of each fign upon the cufps of the twelve houfes? To know this, turn 
 to the Ephemeris for the Sun's place on the firft of June, and it will be 
 found in eleven degrees thirty minutes of Gemini ; then refer to the 
 Table of Houfes for the Sun in Gemini, and in the column under loth 
 Houle I look down for 11. 30. but, finding no minutes, I look into the 
 column upon the left hand under Time from Noon, where I find 4 h. 
 38 min. the next arch of time being 4 h. 42 minutes, I divide the differ- 
 ence for the thirty minutes, ^vhich makes the true time 4h. 40 min. To 
 this I add 5 h. 26 rnin. the time after noon, which added together make 
 10 h. 16 min. which I feek in the column of time from noon; and in 
 the next column on the right hand 1 find the figure 2, with 10 Houfe rrij 
 at the top, which denotes that two degrees of Virgo are at that time upon 
 the cufp of the tenth houfe. — Then, in order to know what figns poflefs 
 the other houfes, I look into the firfl column of the Table, with A. R. 
 at the top, which fignifies the right afcenfion of time, and even with the 
 above number I find 154.O. which declares that to be the right afcenfion 
 of the mid-heaven. To thefe 154 degrees I add 30, which make together 
 184 ; then I refer to the above Table for pole's pofition in fifty-three de- 
 grees, and even therewith flands 24. 40. which is the pole of the eleventh 
 houfe. I then refer to the Table of ObHque Afcenfions, for twenty- five 
 degrees of latitude, and feek the number 184, which I find in the column 
 under Libra, and 12 min. over; then I look into the firfl column of de- 
 grees in this Table, and even to 184 flands 4; but, thefe 12 minutes be- 
 ing too much, I equate for them by the Sexagenary Tables, by which I 
 find that three degrees forty-three minutes of Libra are to be placed on 
 the cufp of the eleventh houfe. — Then I add thirty degrees to the above 
 184, for the twelfth houfe, which make 214. I refer to the above Table 
 of Poles Pofition in the latitude of fifty-three degrees for the pole of the 
 twelfth houfe, which I find to be 42. 26 ; 1 rejedt the 26, and in the 
 No. 10. q A ' Table 
 
 G
 
 194 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Table of Oblique Afcenfions for lat. 43 I feek 214, which I find under 
 the column of Libra ; and, looking into the fn{\. column of degrees, I find 
 27 ; but, equating by the Sexagenary Table for the odd minutes, it gives 
 twenty-fix degrees thirty-one minutes of Libra for the cufp of the twelfth 
 houfe. — Then, for the firft houfc, or afcendant, I add to the above 214 
 thirty degrees more, which make 244, and this fum I feek in the above 
 Table under the pole or latitude of birth, which is fifty-three degrees ; I 
 turn to the Table of Oblique Afcenfions for fifty-three degrees, which I 
 find in the column under Scorpio, and even with it in the firfl: column of 
 deforces I find 14, which (hows that fourteen degrees of Scorpio are on 
 the cufp of the afcendant. — I then bring down the above 244, adding 
 thirty degrees more for the fecond houfe, and thefe make 2745 I then 
 refer' to the above Table of Poles Pofition for lat. 53. and even with it. 
 in the column under Second Houfe I find 43. 26. I reject the 26 as be- 
 fore, and refer to -tjae Tables of Oblique Afcenfions for foity-two degrees 
 of latitude, where 1 feek No. 274, and find it in the column under Sagit- 
 tarius ; and even with it in the firfi column of degrees I find 14, which 
 direds 14 degrees of Sagittarius to be placed on the cufp of the fecond 
 houfe. — Then, for the third houfe, I add thirty degrees more to the above 
 274,* which makes together 304; I then refer for the pole's pofition of 
 the third houfe in the above Table, and find even with lat ^^^ ^^e num- 
 ber 24. 40 ; but, as thefe minutes exceed thirty, I refer to the Table of 
 Oblique Afcenfions for twenty-five degrees, where I feek 304, which I 
 find in the column under Capricorn, and even with it, in the firft column 
 of degrees, I find 21 ; but, by equating as before for the odd minutes in 
 the Sexagenary Tables, I find that twenty-one degrees twenty-nine mi- 
 nutes of Capricorn are upon the cufp of the third houfe. Thus the fix 
 oriental houfes are furnlflied with the proper degrees of each fign rifing 
 upon them at the time required, and ftand thus : 
 
 On the cufp of the loth houfe 
 
 nth houfe 
 
 1 2th houfe 
 
 Afcendant, or ift houfe 
 
 id houfe 
 
 3d houfe 
 
 And by thefe, the fix occidental houfes are to be furniflied in the fame 
 manner, as before diredted, with the oppofite figns; but, for the fake of 
 plainnefs, I will again ftate them. 
 
 * Note, that as often as thefe additions of 30 for each progrefSve fign exceed 360, which is the 
 whole number of degrees in the circle of the zodiac, then the circle of 360 muft be fubtradled, and 
 the remainder will be the number required of the Tables of Oblique Afcenfions. 
 
 Oppofite 
 
 
 Deg. 
 
 Min. 
 
 ^ 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 -TL. 
 
 3 
 26 
 
 43 
 3^ 
 
 ni 
 
 14 
 
 
 
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 Oppofite-^ 
 
 
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 Deg. 
 
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 Min 
 O 
 
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 29 
 
 In this plain, eafy, and obvious, manner, may the fituation of the 
 heavens be found for any latitude whatever. But, to make it more eafy, 
 it is necefTary to explain what we mean by the poles' pofitions, and the 
 equations of time. If we imagine twelve great circles, one of which is 
 the meridian of any given place, to interfeft each other in the two poles 
 of the earth, and to cut the equator in every fifteenth degree, they will 
 be divided by the poles into twenty-four feniicircles, which divide the 
 equator into twenty-four equal parts; and, as the Earth turns on its axis, 
 the planes of thefe femicircles come fuccefifively after one another every 
 hour to the Sun. And, as in an hour of time there is a revolution of 
 fifteen degrees of the equator, in a minute of time there will be a revo- 
 lution of fifteen minutes of the equator, and in a fecond of time a revo- 
 lution of fifteen feconds. Thus, to every place fifteen degrees eafiward 
 from any given meridian, it is noon an hour fooner than on that meri- 
 dian, becaufe their meridian comes to the Sun an hour fooner. And to 
 all places fifteen degrees weftward, it is an hour later, becaufe their me- 
 ridian comes an hour later to the Sun ; and fo on, every fifteen degrees 
 of motion caufing an hour's difference of time. Therefore they, who 
 have noon an hour later than we, have their meridian, that is, their lon- 
 gitude, fifteen degrees wefiward from us; and they, who have noon an 
 hour fooner than we, have their meridian or longitude fifteen degrees 
 eaftward from ours ; and fo, for every hour's difference of time, fifteen 
 degrees difference of longitude. And, as we (hall have frequent occafion 
 to equate the motions of the equator with the hours and minutes of time, 
 I here fubjoin two Tables for that purpofe. 
 
 TABLES
 
 196 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 TABLES for converting mean Solar Tinfie into Degrees and Parts of the 
 terreftrial Equator ; and alfo for converting Degrees and Parts of the 
 Equator into Solar Time. 
 
 ! 1. For converting 
 
 Time into De- 1 
 
 ' prees and Parts of the Equator. || 
 
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 1535 
 
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 9 
 
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 9 15 
 
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 9 
 
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 39 
 
 9 45 
 
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 150,10 
 
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 12 
 
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 3 
 
 
 
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 4 
 
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 270' 1 8 
 
 4 
 
 3048 
 
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 28519 
 
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 050 12 30 
 
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 5 
 
 ^SS^ |i2 45 
 
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 33022 
 
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 3052 
 
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 23 
 
 34523 
 
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 4553 
 
 13 15 
 
 24 
 
 36024 
 
 6 
 
 o!54 
 
 13 30 
 
 25! 375I25 
 
 6 
 
 ^S^S 
 
 13 45 
 
 26 
 
 390126 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 56 14 
 
 27 
 
 405I27 
 
 6 
 
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 57 14 15' 
 
 28 
 
 420 
 
 28 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 58 14 30 
 
 ,29 
 
 435 
 
 29 
 
 7. 
 
 15 
 
 59 H 45 
 
 30 
 
 450 
 
 30 
 
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 ,60 15 
 
 U. For converting 
 
 Degrees and Parts || 
 
 of the Equator into Time. || 
 
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 431 
 
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 70 
 
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 32 
 
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 8 
 
 80 
 
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 20 
 
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 1233 
 
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 90 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 16 
 
 34 
 
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 100 
 
 6 
 
 40 
 
 5 
 
 20 
 
 35 
 36 
 
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 7 
 
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 24 
 
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 120 8 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 28:37 
 
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 130 8 
 
 40 
 
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 3238 
 
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 140, 9 
 
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 9 
 
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 150,10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 4040 
 
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 160 10 40 1 
 
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 44 
 
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 20 
 
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 48 
 
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 5243 
 
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 16 
 
 
 
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 16 
 
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 18 
 
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 280 
 
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 23 
 
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 53 
 
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 290 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
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 54 
 
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 30020 
 
 
 
 25 
 
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 55 
 
 3 
 
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 31020 
 
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 26 
 
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 56 
 
 3 
 
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 323 
 
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 20 
 
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 59 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 197 
 
 If th'- eader in Table I. reckons the columns marked with afteriflcs 
 to be I .s of time, the other columns give the equatorial parts or 
 
 motion m degrees and minutes ; if he reckons the afterifle columns to be 
 feconds, the others give the motion in minutes and feconds of the equa- 
 tor ; if thirds, in feconds and thirds. And if in Table II. he reckons 
 the afterilk columns to be degrees of motion, the others give the time 
 anfwering thereto in hours and minutes ; if minutes of motion, the time 
 is minutes and feconds ; if feconds of motion, the correfponding time is 
 given in feconds and thirds. An example in each cafe will make the 
 whole very plain. 
 
 EXAMPLE I. 
 
 In 10 hours 15 minutes 24 feconds 20 thirds, how much of the Equator 
 
 revolves through the Meridian ? 
 
 Deg. M. s. 
 150 o o 
 
 3 45 o 
 
 - - 060 
 
 - - o o j; 
 Anfwer 153 51 5 
 
 Hours 
 
 10 
 
 Minutes 
 
 15 
 
 Seconds 
 
 24 
 
 Thirds 
 
 20 
 
 EXAMPLE II. 
 
 In what time will 153 degrees 51 minutes 5 feconds of the Equator revolve 
 
 through the Meridian ? 
 
 o 
 
 Degrees \ ^ 
 
 ° ^ 3 
 Minutes 51 
 
 Seconds 5 
 
 Anfwer 
 
 H. 
 
 M. 
 
 s. 
 
 T. 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 10 
 
 15 
 
 24 
 
 20 
 
 For the convenience of perfons born in any part of England, who may 
 want to calculate their own nativity, I have added the following Table 
 of the latitude and longitude of the moft confiderable towns in the king- 
 dom, which will likewife anfwer for any other places of birth that hap- 
 pen near them. 
 
 No. 10. 3 B A TABLE
 
 198 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE of the LATITUDE and LONGITUDE of the principal 
 Cities and Towns in England and Wales. 
 
 Lon 
 
 zz 30 
 
 « 55 
 
 22 57 
 
 23 3* 
 
 *3 40 
 
 20 zi 
 
 18 41 
 
 20 36I 
 ZI 54 
 
 19 38 
 
 21 9 
 
 20 47 
 
 2Z 
 
 24 25 
 
 21 7 
 
 Lat. 1 
 
 51 Z3I 
 
 52 8 
 
 England. 
 
 Reading, Berkftiire 
 
 Bedford, Bedfordfhire 
 
 Buckingham, Buckinghamfhire 
 
 Cambridge, Cambridgclhire 
 
 Ely, Carabridgefhire 
 
 Chefter, Chefhire 
 
 Launrefton, Cornwall 
 
 Carlifle, Cumberland 
 
 Derby, Derbyfhire 
 
 Exeter, Devonfhire 
 
 Crookherne, Somerfetlbire 
 
 Dorchefter,Dorfetfhire 
 
 Durham, Durham 
 
 Colchefter, Eflex 
 
 Gloucelter, Ciloucerterfhire 
 
 Winchefter, Hampfliire 
 
 Hertford, Hcrtfordfliire 
 
 Hereford, Herefordfhire 
 
 Huntingdon, Huntmgdonfh re ... 
 
 Canterbury, Kent , 
 
 Rochefter, Kent 
 
 Lancaftcr, Lancafhire 
 
 Leicefter, Leicefterftiire 
 
 Lincoln, Lincolnfhire 
 
 London 
 
 Monmouth, Monmouthftiire .... 
 
 Portfmouth, Hampfliire 
 
 Norwich, Norfolk 
 
 Peterborough, Northamptonfhire 
 
 5' 
 5* 
 
 59 
 13 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 zo 38 
 
 z; 12 
 
 43 
 7 
 
 H 
 H 
 
 20 33 
 
 22 14 
 
 22 54 
 
 23 z6 
 20 30 
 22 26; 
 
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 13 7^ 
 
 jz Z5 
 
 53 14 
 SO 43 
 
 54 57 
 S* 57 
 50 42 
 
 SO 45 
 
 50 40 
 
 54 46 
 
 5' 59 
 
 5' 
 5' 
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 52 
 
 5^1 
 z 
 
 5°; 
 5 
 
 52 ZI 
 
 SI 18 
 
 5« H 
 
 54 «> 
 
 5* 39 
 
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 5' 
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 32 
 51 
 
 50 50 
 52 44 
 S2 34I 
 
 Newcaftle, Northumberland ... 
 Nottingham, Nottinghamfliire ... 
 
 Oxford, Oxfordfliire 
 
 Oakham, Rutlandfliire 
 
 Shrewfbury, Shropfliire 
 
 Briftol, Somerfetftiire , 
 
 Bath, Somerfetfliire , 
 
 Wells, Somerfetfliire , 
 
 Litchfield, StafFordfliire 
 
 Ipfwich, Suffolk c 
 
 Guildford, Surrey , 
 
 Chichefter, SufTex 
 
 Coventry, Warwickfhire , 
 
 Kendal, Weftmoreland 
 
 Salifbury, Wiltfllire 
 
 Worcefier, Worcefterfliire 
 
 York, Yorkfhire 
 
 Wales. 
 
 Beaumaris, Anglcfea 
 
 Brecknock, Brecknockfhire 
 
 Carmarthen, Carmarthenfliire .. 
 
 Bang )r, Carnarvonfliire 
 
 "Cardigan, Cardiganfhire 
 
 Denbigh, Deiibighfhire 
 
 St. Afaph, Flintfliire 
 
 LlandafF, Glamorganfliire .. 
 
 Montgomery, Montgomeryfliire 
 
 St. David's, Pembrokefliire 
 
 Radnor, Radnorfhire 
 
 Thus, by proper attention to the rules and diredtions preceding, may 
 any perfon, though of fmall abilities, ere6l the horofcope, and introduce 
 the figns, planets, and ftars, therein, at any given time required. This 
 is indifputably a confiderable advancement in the pra6licai part of the 
 Science of Aftrology ; though it muft be owned, that the mere knowledge 
 of thus defcribing and arranging the planets in the horofcope, unlefs we 
 add to it the ability of defining, from certain and pradical rules, the 
 meaning, efFe6ls, and influences, of them, under whatever afpeds or fitu- 
 ations they may be found, can be of but little or no advantage. To make 
 this apparent, let me but a(k the reader to turn to the foregoing figure of 
 the heavens, ere6led for the nth of June, 1784, and defcribe the natural 
 meaning and indications of the figns and planets we have taught him to 
 place therein ? A compliance with this he finds impoffible, not having 
 either by theory or pradice attained to them. As a key to this important 
 acquifition, I fhall now lay down fome experienced rules and aphorifms, 
 which fhould be attentively confidered, and thoroughly underflood, before 
 any further advances are made in the ftudy. I (hall therefore begin with 
 
 the following General Axioms. 
 
 I. That
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 199 
 
 I. That every fign, planet, and fixed ftar, hath a fpeclfic and particu- 
 lar efFe6t in one houfe, or part of the heavens, different from what it has 
 in another. ;'/;ofT> .rn- 
 
 II. That the Sun by himfelf in any houfe of a figure hath one efFeft, 
 the Moon another, Saturn another, Jupiter another, and fo on through 
 the whole. And that this holds good alfo in refpeft to the figns and fixed 
 ftars. 
 
 III. That, as a planet hath one eff"e61: in himfelf, fo hath he another 
 when joined in conjunftion with another planet ; and by a fextile, quar- 
 tile, trine, and oppofition. 
 
 IV. That the quartile and oppofition of Saturn and Mars have one ef- 
 fe€t ; and the quartile and oppofition of Jupiter and Venus another. 
 
 V. That a planet hath one fpecial or fpecific efFe<5t when lord of the 
 firft: houfe or afcendant ; another when lord of the fecond houfe 5 another 
 when lord of the third houfe; and, when lord of the fourth, ftill another; 
 and fo on through all the twelve houfes of heaven. 
 
 o 
 
 VI. That whatever point of the heavens retains the Sun as fignificator 
 in any nativity, retains a folar force and influence in refpedl to that na- 
 tive as long as he lives. The lame rule extends to the Moon, and to Sa-- 
 turn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, &c. Wherefore the horofcope or afcendant 
 in every geniture hath and doth contain a radical influence over the na- 
 tive's life ; the mid-heaven over his aflions and occupation ; and each of 
 the other houfes over thofe particular ey^nts and viciffitudes to which it ~ 
 refpedively appertains. .', -• ' 
 
 VII. That the fame point in the heavens, which in one nativity is the 
 place of Sun, may in another nativity be the place of Saturn, Jupiter, 
 Mars, Venus, Mercury, or the Moon, 
 
 VIII. That every agent, afling by itfelf, a£ls only according to its own 
 peculiar form and virtue. 
 
 IX. That every patient fuffers according to its own proper nature ; and 
 that whatever is received is received only in proportion to the capacity of 
 the receiver. 
 
 ' X. That the fame, always exifting, muft always work the lame efl^e<5l 
 .in or upon the fame fubjed. Thefe being premifed, we fliall confider 
 
 The
 
 200 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The EFFECTS of each PLANET in each of the TWELVE HOUSES. 
 
 Saturn in the firft houfe, or afcendant, fhows melancholy, with many 
 forrows ; if near the afcendant, (hort life ; if at a diftance, innumerable 
 troubles; in the fecond, deftroys the fubftance ; in the third, hatred be- 
 tween brethren, and danger and lofs in journeying ; in the fourth, death 
 of father and mother before the native, lofs of inheritance and friends ; 
 in the fifth, barrennefs, death of children, or difobedient ones if living; 
 in the fixth, much ficknefs, crofles by fervants, and lofles by cattle ; in 
 the feventh, an ungovernable w'\(e, {hort and wretched life, with many 
 public enemies ; in the eighth, a violent death and lofs of legacies ; in 
 the ninth, many lofTes by fea ; in the tenth, difhonour, imprifonmcnt, 
 (hort life to the parents, death by fentence of a judge ; in the eleventh, 
 defpair, falfe friends, death of children; in the twelfth, forrow, trou- 
 ble, imprifonment, and perfecution by private enemies. Thefe are the 
 common efFeds of Saturn, when fignificator, and weak or meanly dig- 
 nified. 
 
 Jupiter in the firft gives a good, happy, and long, life, juft and 
 honeft; in the fecond, profufion of riches; in the third, friendfliip of 
 brethren, and fortunate journeys ; in the fourth, lands and inheritances, 
 with an honourable life and end ; in the fifth, many children, obedient 
 and virtuous ; in the fixth, health and faithful fervants, profit by deal- 
 ing in cattle ; in the feventh an honourable marriage, a good wife, an 
 honefi, wife, difcreet, virtuous, woman ; in the eighth, a natural death, 
 long life, legacies ; in the ninth, a true Chrifiian, ecclefiaftical prefer- 
 ment, profitable fea-voyages; in the tenth, preferment, great and dura- 
 ble honours, and riches by trading ; in the eleventh, increafe of riches, 
 faithful and great friends, the fulfilling of all his defires ; in the twelfth, 
 profit by cattle, vi6lory over private enemies: this if he be ftrong ; if 
 weak, the good will be much abated. 
 
 Mars in the firfl: houfe denotes fhortnefs of life, quarrelfomenefs, fears 
 in the head or face ; in the fecond, poverty, want, and many troubles ; 
 in the third, evil brethren, danger in travelling, an atheift, or ungodly 
 perfon ; in the fourth, fhort life to the father, ftrife between him and 
 the native, deftrudion to his inheritance ; in the fifth, wicked children, 
 and of fhort life, or fickly ; in the fixth, fevers, bad fervants, lofs of 
 cattle ; in the feventh, quarrels, law-fuits, public enemies, an evil wife, 
 ficknefs, a follower of lewd women ; in the eighth, a violent death, 
 lofs of fubftance, poverty ; in the ninth, changing of religion, lofs at 
 fea by robbers, an aiheifl ; in the tenth, unfortunate honour, troubles 
 from magiflrates, ficknefs to the mother, martial preferment; in the 
 
 eleventh.
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. aoi 
 
 eleventh, falfe friends, lofs of fubftance. In the twelfth, imprifonment, 
 lofs by fervants and cattle, many private enemies : this if Mars be weak 
 and afflided ; if flrong, thefe evils abate, and fometimes the contrary 
 good takes place, 
 
 Sol in the firft gives honour, glory, and long life. In the fecond, a 
 flow of riches continually, but a confumption of it. In the third, o-ood 
 brethren and journeys, a ftickler for his religion. In the fourth, honour 
 in age, a great and noble inheritance. In the fifth, few children, yet fuch 
 as will be good and virtuous. In the fixth, difeafes of the mind. In the 
 feventh, a good wife, honourable adverfaries, andficknefs. In the eighth, 
 a good portion with a wife, danger of a violent death. In the ninth, 
 truly religious, ecclefiaftical preferment, gain by the fea. la the tenth, 
 greatnefs, honour, glory, and power, from kings, princes, and noble wo- 
 men, much exceeding the quality of the native's birth ; the friendfliip of 
 perfons of high degree. In the eleventh, great and noble friends, and 
 very faithful; the fulfilling of one's hopes. In the twelfth, powerful ad- 
 verfaries : this if ftrong ; if weak, in many things the contrary. 
 
 Venus in the firft gives health, but inclines to the pleafure of women. 
 In the fecond, riches in abundance by women's means. In the third, re- 
 ligious loving brethren, good journeys. In the fourth, an inheritance, 
 honourable old age. In the fifth, many children, comely, obedient, and 
 virtuous. In the fixth, ficknefs from womankind, faithful pleafing fer- 
 vants, profit in fmall cattle. In the feventh, an incomparably good and 
 virtuous wife, a happy marriage, and but few enemies. In the eighth, a 
 good dowry with a wife, a natural death. In the ninth, ecclefiaftical 
 preferment, a really religious man, profit by fea. In the tenth, honour 
 and preferment by women's means, the favour of great women. In the 
 eleventh, honourable and faithful female friends. In the twelfth, profit 
 by great cattle, free from the power of private enemies : this if ftrong ; 
 if weak the contrary. 
 
 Mercury in the firft gives noble thoughts, good invention, graceful 
 elocution, a lever of arts and fciences. In the lecond, profit by arts and 
 fciences, books, writings, and the like. In the third, a mathematician, 
 fwift and profperous journeys, a fcholar, one of an excellent invention, 
 crafty brethren, a moral perfon. In the fourth, the getting of an inhe- 
 ritance by cunning or deceit. In the fifth, ingenious children. In the 
 fixth, thievifti fervants, difeafes of the breath and brain. In the feventh, 
 a fomenter of quarrels, vexatious law-fuits ; a difcreet wife. In the 
 eighth, an augmentation of eftate by wills and legacies, death by a con- 
 fumption. In the ninth, an incomparable artift, and one that under- 
 
 No. II. 3 C ftands
 
 202 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 ftands all fciences, even the moil; obfcure and occult things, a finder-out 
 of many new and excellent inventions. In the tenth, liberal preferment, 
 or a fecretary to fome great perfon. In the eleventh, inconftant friends. 
 In the twelfth, his private enemies will be of little efFeft. This if Mer- 
 cury be ftrong and not afflicted ; if weak, the good will much abate. 
 
 Luna in the firft fhows the native will travel ; will gain fuperiority 
 and rule over others ; the favour of princes and noble women, and great 
 advantages thereby. In the fecond, fdmetimes riches, fometimes po- 
 verty, an unftable fortune. In the third, many journeys. In the fourth, 
 gain by travelling. In the fifth, many children. In the fixth, difeafes 
 of the brain, good fervants, and gain by fmall cattle. In the feventh, 
 an honourable marriage. In the eighth, danger of drowning, but other- 
 wife a long and healthful life. In the ninth, travels beyond fea, incon- 
 ftancy in religion, acquaintance with arts and fciences. In the tenth, 
 great honour unto the native, profit by fea-voyages ; the favour of fome 
 noble women. In the eleventh, the friendship of great ladies, and noble 
 friends. In the twelfth, the common people will be his private enemies. 
 This if Luna be flrong and free from affliction ; if weak and afflidted, the 
 contrary. 
 
 The Dragon's Head in the firft (hows honefty. In the fecond, a 
 good eftate. In the third, fortunate journeys and honeft: kindred. In 
 the fourth, gain by land and travels. In the fifth, long life ; happy and 
 virtuous children. In the fixth, health, good fervants, and profit in cat- 
 tle. In the feventh, an honeft and virtuous wife. In the eighth, many 
 legacies, and a natural death. In the ninth, fincere piety, profperity at 
 fea. In the tenth, durability of honour. In the eleventh, faithful 
 friends. In the twelfth, open enemies ; but the pofition of the Dragon's 
 Tail in the fame places fignifies the contrary. The pofition of the Part 
 of Fortune gives fubftance from all thofe things fignified by that houfe 
 in which it is pofited, unlefs afflidted by the prefence or beams of a male- 
 volent planet. 
 
 GENERAL EFFECTS of the PLANETS in each of the 
 TWELVE SIGNS of the ZODIAC. 
 
 Saturn, in his own houfe, fignifies wifdom, prudence, and ftability 
 of fortune. In the houfes of Jupiter, a juft man, and one that will be 
 rich, and acquire honour. In the houfes of Mars, a ftrong body and 
 furious. In the houfes of Sol, greatnefs and honour. In the houfes of 
 Venus, a fecret lover of women. In the houfes of Mercury, one that is 
 ftudious of arts and fciences. In the houfe of Luna, infirmities of the 
 breaft and lun^s. 
 
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 Jupiter, in the houfes of Saturn, fignifies avarice and covetoufncfs 
 living always in fear of poverty. In his own houfes, infinite riches, ho- 
 nours, and dignities, and that among great perfons and clergymen. In 
 the houfes of Mars, the native may rife to honour by war. In the houfes 
 of Sol, honour, glory, and trcafure, from kings and great perfons. In 
 the houfes of Venus, riches by women, or an honourable wife. In the 
 houfes of Mercury, a good rhetorician. In the houfe of Luna, increafe 
 of fubftance beyond expeftation, with honour and renown ; for Cancer 
 is not only the exaltation of Jupiter, but alfo a cardinal fign, and the 
 northern tropic. 
 
 Mars, in the houfes of Saturn, fliows a lofty and magnanimous 
 fpirit, and wife. In the houfes of Jupiter, it fhows the acquaintance 
 of kings, princes, and noblemen. In his own houfes, a great and inge- 
 nious wit, a mathematician. In the houfes of Sol, forenefs of the eyes, 
 and danger of a violent death. In the houfes of Venus, luxurioufnefs, 
 a boafter, given to fallehood, and a deluder of women. In the houfes 
 of Mercur;,, one ingenious in arts and fciences, but covetous, knavifh, 
 and deceitful. In the houfe of Luna, a wavering, furious, rafh, man ; 
 one that may arrive to honour, but will precipitate himfelf therefrom 
 afterwards.. 
 
 Sol, in the houfes of Saturn, fhows a dejeded forlorn man. In the 
 houfes of Jupiter, one that fhall attain honour and glory in the world, 
 and be a companion of princes. In the houfes of Mars, a great and emi- 
 nent man; a commander, captain, or general of an army; a fubtle, crafty, 
 politic, ftatefman. In his own houfe, one that may attain the height of 
 honour, glory, and renown, quod capax, according to the quality of his 
 birth. In the houfes of Venus, one that will rife or fall by means of wo- 
 men. In the houfes of Mercury, a good engineer, a foldier, and mathe- 
 matician. In the houfe of Luna, honour by different women, but fuch 
 as he afterwards (hall receive prejudice from. 
 
 Venus, in the houfes of Saturn, fignifies hopes of honour and friends, 
 many children,, and old age. In the houfes of Jupiter, fhort journeys, 
 ficknefs, imprifonment, or death. In the houfes of Mars, private and 
 public enemies, and many journeys ; as alfo a lover of different women. 
 In the houfes of Sol, a fincere lover of his friends, and a lover of his 
 children. In her own houfes, a healthful long-lived perfon, jufl and 
 religious. In the houfes of Mercury, one covetous, but fickly ; religious, 
 yet an enemy to himfelf. In the houfe of Luna, a traveller, and one 
 that will arrive to great honour and preferment. 
 
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 Mercury, in the houfes of Saturn, (hows honour and travelling by 
 fea, with much pleafure, but fickncfs withal. In the houfes of Jupiter, 
 lands, inheritances, an honourable wife, and good friends. In the houfes 
 of Mars, private enemies ; ficknefs, many journeys, and a fhort life. In 
 the houfes of Sol, lands and inheritances, yet fubjedt to imprifonment, 
 and private enemies. In the houfes of Venus, much wealth and riches, 
 travelling by fea, one religious, with fome ficknefs. In his own houfes, 
 wit and ingenuity, knowledge of arts and fciences, honour and renown, 
 and a lover of children. In the houfe of Luna, many good friends, and 
 many journeys by land. 
 
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 Luna, in the houfes of Saturn, fignifies one religious, and having many 
 
 adverfaries ; as alfo fore eyes. In the houfes of Jupiter, a fickly body, 
 but one that fhall attain honour, glory, renown, and the favours of great 
 men. In the houfes of Mars, a lover of friends and children. In the 
 houfe of Sol, one that (hall be very rich through his own induftry. In 
 the houfes of Venus, a great lover of children, and one that (hall have 
 many friends. In the houfes of Mercury, inheritances, lands, and pri- 
 vate enemies. In her own houfe, happinefs and long life. 
 
 GENERAL EFFECTS from the POSITION of the LORDS 
 
 OF the houses. 
 
 The Lord of the Afcendant, in the afcendant, (hows a fortunate and 
 happy life, and one that (hall overcome all his enemies. In the fecond, 
 riches and wealth by his own induftry. In the third, many journeys. In 
 the fourth, lands and inheritance. In the fifth, children, and one given 
 to pleafure. In the (ixth, ficknefs. In the feventh, public adverfaries, 
 and the man will be an enemy to himfelf. In the eighth, legacies. In 
 the ninth, one religious, learned, and a traveller into foreign countries. 
 In the tenth, honour, preferment, and favour of princes. In the eleventh, 
 friends. In the twelfth, danger of imprifonment. 
 
 The Lord of the Second, in the fecond, imports great wealth; in the 
 third, wealth by brethren and travelling ; in the fourth, by the father ; 
 in the fifth, by gaming ; in the fixth, wealth by dealing in cattle ; in 
 the feventh, by marriage, and womankind; in the eighth, by legacies; 
 in the ninth, by the church, arts and fciences, religion, and the fea ; in 
 the tenth, by honour, preferment, trade, merchandife ; in the eleventh, 
 by friends ; in the twelfth, by great cattle ; in the afcendant, by birth, 
 or good fortune. 
 
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 The Lord of the Third, in the third, (hows affedlionate brethren, 
 good journeys; in the fourth, gain by travelling ; in the fifth, plea- 
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 i'ure in travelling. In the fixth, ficknefs in travelling. In the feventh, 
 thieves and robbers; and fometimes the native meets with a wife. In 
 the eighth, death in travelling. In the ninth, religious journeys. In 
 the tenth, journeys for preferment, trade, and the like. In the eleventh, 
 for iludy and improvement. In the twelfth, imprifonment in travelling. 
 In the afcendant, journeys for pleafure, and in purfuit of ufeful difcove- 
 ries. In the fecond, for profit, wealth, and riches. 
 
 The Lord of the Fourth in the fourth, fore(hows a good eftate or inhe- 
 ritance, a father of long life. In the fifth, that the eftate fliall go to the 
 native's children. In the fixth, that an eftate may be acquired by phy- 
 fic. In the feventh, that he may have an eftate with a wife ; in the 
 eighth, by fome gift, legacy, or wife's portion ; in the ninth, by mer- 
 chandife, by arts and fciences, or by the church ; in the tenth, by fome 
 office, dignity, or preferment ; in the eleventh, by means of a friend ; 
 in the twelfth, by dealing in great cattle ; in the afcendant, by inheri- 
 tance ; in the fecond, by purchafe ; in the third, by travelling, or by 
 the death of brethren. 
 
 The Lord of the Fifth in the fifth, indicates ftrong, lively, and virtuous, 
 children. In the fixth, that his children fhall be induftrious to gain 
 wealth, and it may be by his fervants. In the feventh, that his children 
 will travel, and that the native and they will difagree ; In the eighth, 
 that they ftiall polTefs the mother's dowry; in the ninth, that they fhall 
 be given to pleafure, and go to fea for the father ; in the tenth, that they 
 (hall be fickly, and follow the father's trade ; in the eleventh, that they 
 fhall have many public adverfaries, and prove enemies to themfelves ; 
 in the twelfth, that they (hall have many legacies, yet prove enemies to 
 their parents ; in the afcendant, that they will prove religious, and 
 learned, and love their parents ; in the fecond, that they will prove 
 honourable, and pofTefs the native's fubftance ; in the third, that they 
 fhall have many friends, and fuch as will be of their own kindred. In 
 the fourth, that they will have many private enemies. 
 
 The Lord of the Sixth in the fixth, forefhows ficknefs, yet juft: fer- 
 vants. In the feventh, ficknefs by women, and quarelling. In the 
 eighth, danger of a violent death, and dangerous ficknefs. In the ninth, 
 ficknefs at fea. In the tenth, ficknefs from hard labour and employment 
 in fome trade ; in the eleventh, by lofs of fome friend, or fruftration of 
 his expe6lations ; in the twelfth, by vexation of private enemies ; in the 
 afcendant, by irregularity of life ; in the fecond, by lofs of fome eftate ; 
 in the third, by reafon of fome journey ; in the fourth, by lofs of iahe- 
 
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 ritance or diikppointmcnt in trade. In the fifth, from vexatious children 
 and loofencfs of life. 
 
 The Lord of the Seventh in the fevetith, (hows ficknefs or death to the 
 native; yet a good wife. In the eighth, danger of lofmg the wife's for- 
 tune In the ninth, fhe will be a flranger to him, and a traveller ; in 
 the tenth, (he will be honourable, and poflefs a good inheritance; in the 
 eleventh, (he will be an entire lover of him and of his children ; in the 
 twelfth, (he will be his private enemy ; in the afcendant, (he will be 
 a very great lover of her hufband ; in the fecond, (he will be the aug- 
 mentation of his eftate ; in the third, (he will be a lover of her hu(band's 
 kindred, and defire to go beyond lea ; in the fourth, (he will be very 
 honourable, and the native (hall have land by her ; in the fifth, a lover of 
 the native's children ; iu the fixih, (he will be a great affliftion to the na- 
 tive and herfelf. 
 
 The Lord of the Eighth in the eighth, (hows the native (hall die a na- 
 tural death, and that he (hall have a rich wife. In the ninth, he will be 
 in danger of drowning. In the tenth, his death may be by fentence of 
 the judge ; in the eleventh, by the conlpiracy of fome pretended friend ; 
 in the twelfth, by conf[)iracy of a private enemy ; in the afcendant, by 
 the native's own irregularity ; in the fecond, by means of moneys or 
 goods; in the third, by the confpiracy of fome brother, kinfman, neigh- 
 bour, or thief; in the fourth, by the lofs of an eftate, or fome grief; in 
 the fifth, by drunkennefs and debauchery ; in the fixth, by ficknefs ; in 
 the feventh, by a public adverfary, or eminent grief. 
 
 The Lord of the Ninth in the ninth, (hows good fea-voyages, know- 
 ledge of arts and fciences, a religious perfon. In the tenth, that religion 
 will be profitable and honourable, and the native (hall be famous for his 
 learning. In the eleventh, church-dignity, and merchandife, by means 
 of a friend. In the twelfth, church-lands, and that the native will have 
 clergymen for his enemies. In the albendant, makes the native truly re- 
 ligious and learned ; and a merchant. In the lecond, riches by fea, arts, 
 fciences, and the church. In the third, a fe6larian. In the fourth, gain 
 by the church. In the fifth, one of a loofe religion. In the fixth, ho- 
 nourable church-preferment ; and yet that the native may be a flave in 
 his religion. In the feventh, an enemy to the church. In the eighth, 
 death or perlecution for his religion. 
 
 The Lord of the Tenth in the tenth, great honour, glory, and renown. 
 In the eleventh, by means of a friend; in the twelfth, through an 
 
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 enemy ; in the afcendant, by the native's own induftry ; in the fecond by 
 means of his money ; in the third, by a brother, kinfmau, or neighbour, 
 or by travel ; in the fourth, by his father ; in the fifth, by a wife ; in the 
 eighth, by a wife's fortune ; it may alfo fignify a violent death ; in the 
 ninth, by religion, arts, fciences, and navigation. 
 
 The Lord of the Eleventh in the eleventh, denotes great friends. In 
 the twelfth, private friends. In the afcendant, friends indeed to the na- 
 tive. In the fecond, fuch as fliall augment the native's fortune ; in the 
 third, fuch as are of his kindred or neighbours, or as he fliall find in tra- 
 velling; in the fourth, his father; in the fifth, fome friends of his wife; 
 in the fixth, his fervants ; in the feventh, his wife ; in the eighth, fome 
 brother's fervant ; in the ninth, a clergyman, merchant, or lover of arts ; 
 in the tenth, kings, princes, nobles, or great perfons. 
 
 The Lord of the Twelfth in the twelfth, denotes flrong and powerful 
 private enemies ; in the afcendant, fuch as are among his own family or 
 houfehold ; in the fecond, fome perfon envying his fituation or eftate. 
 In the third, kindred and neighbours; in the fourth, his father; in the 
 fifth, his children; in the fixth, his fervant; in the feventh, his wife ; 
 in the eighth, fome diftant relation ; in the ninth, fome merchant, foreio-n 
 dealer, or dignitary in the church ; in the tenth, kings, princes, or men 
 in power ; in the twelfth, fome particular reputed friend. 
 
 GENERAL EFFECTS PRODUCED BY THE ASPECTS. 
 
 Of the conjunction. 
 
 The Conjun6lion of Saturn and Jupiter (hows inheritances of houfes 
 and lands, poffeflions, and many worldly profits arifing from cultivatino- 
 the earth, and tillage, if Mars affli6l not, nor the evil beams of Sol. If 
 Jupiter is fignificator, the native is miflruflful. 
 
 The Conjundion of Saturn and Mars (hows much evil ; the native will 
 be afflided and vexed, (hall undergo many troubles, and go throuo-h 
 great difficulties. If you would know the caufe of the good or evil, you 
 mufl confider the houle in which the configuration happens, and what 
 houfe the configurated planets are lords of, and accordingly you may 
 nearly fpeak to the particular matter or accident, be it good or evil; for 
 things are much varied according to the diverfity of pofition and do- 
 mination of the planets, by which you mufl necelTarily vary thofe jud^-- 
 ments. 
 
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 The Conjunftion of Saturn and the Sun fhows the lofs of inheritance, 
 danger of houfes being burnt, the native likely to be cheated, to receive 
 much detriment, and, it may be, lofe all and become poor ; except a for- 
 tunate planet be pofited in the fecond houfe. 
 
 The Conjundlion of Saturn and Venus fhows one libidinous, and that 
 he fhall marry a woman wholly of an oppofite temper and difpofition to 
 himfelf ; get difhonour among women-kind, be unhappy in marriage, and 
 lead, by reafon of his wife, a very difconfolate life. If Venus be fignifi- 
 catrix, (he is much afflifted ; but, if Saturn, then the conjundion is be- 
 neficial ; and this is to be obferved in fimilar cafes. 
 
 The Conjundion of Saturn and Mercury fhows craft, fubtilty, and po- 
 licy ; that the native will dive into many fecret, deep, and occult, things ; 
 find out myfteries ; be covetous and proud, mixed with a certain kind of 
 gravity. If Saturn be fignificator, the native has a good elocution; but, 
 if Mercury, he has a great impediment in his fpeech. 
 
 The Conjun61ion of Saturn and Luna (hows one poor and obfcure ; if 
 Saturn be fignificator, the man is changeable, feldom an hour in one 
 mind, often doing things, and then repenting of them again ; but, if Luna 
 be fignificatrix, he is grave, cautious, malapert, over-wife and conceited, 
 and for the mod part wilful in all things. 
 
 The conjun61ion of Jupiter and Mars, if Jupiter be fignificator, makes 
 the native choleric, hafty, angry, bold, proud, prefumptuous, and daring ; 
 gives him fome martial command, and glory and renown in warlike 
 undertakings; but, if Mars be fignificator, it makes him milder, reli- 
 gious, good, juft, gives him preferment in the law, or he becomes a pried, 
 deacon, bi(hop, or other dignitary in the church. 
 
 TheConjundion of Jupiter and Sol. If Jupiter be fignificator, he af- 
 fll6ts the native feverely, cafts him into a deep melancholy or defpair, 
 feizes him with a fever or frenzy, brings the body to a confumption, and 
 afflids the eflate with confiderable lofs, even to his utter ruiti and de- 
 ilruftion ; yet, when by direftion Jupiter frees himfelf from Sol's beams, 
 thefe evils will ceafe ; but, if Sol be fignificator, he fo debilitates Jupiter, 
 that the configuration can promife nothing, but it makes the native 
 religious. 
 
 The Conjunflion of Jupiter and Venus. If Jupiter be fignificator, the 
 native is fuperlatively happy (more efpecially if the configurations happen 
 in Pifces, the houfe of Jupiter, and exaltation of Venus) ; he increafes in 
 
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 wealth and fubftance, in honour and glory, in health of body, and tran- 
 quillitv of mind, having in general the love of woman-kind ; but, if 
 Venus be fignificatrix, the native has beauty, health, and riches, attains 
 to great honour and renown, is truly virtuous, pious, and religious, and 
 has generally ecclefiaftical or jurifprudential preferment. This is one of 
 the moO: happy configurations that can be. 
 
 The Conjunflion of Jupiter and Mercury, if Jupiter be fignificator, 
 makes the native virtuous, religious, wife, of great knowledge, and of 
 good elocution, makes a general fcholar, and gives him the knowledge 
 of moft arts and fciences ; he may prove to be the ambafTador of a prince, 
 or fuch-like ; but, if Mercury be fignificator, the native is folid, lerious, 
 and grave, pious and religious, and probably may acquire a good eftate 
 by merchandife or fome ecclefiaftical promotion. 
 
 The Conjunftion of Jupiter and Luna. If Jupiter be fignificator, the 
 native proves a traveller, it may be beyond lea ; he is generally of a 
 changeable and mutable mind, and, although naturally of a very good 
 humour and condition, yet fometimes pettifh, froward, and peevilh. If 
 Luna be fisfiiificatrix, it siives great riches and treafures, according to the 
 native's capacity or birth; makes him prudent, wife, religious, and ho- 
 nourable ; gives him the acquaintance of great and worthy men clergy- 
 men, and fuch-like, and probably church-preferment. .. . 
 
 The conjunftion.of Mars and Sol fhows a hot and dry conflitution, 
 danger of fhort life, and death by hciStic fevers, marafmus, or by fire or 
 lig-htnino;. If Mars be figrnificator, the native has the favour of king;s and 
 princes, and it may be their frowns too, to his utter undoing ; he may 
 rife haftily, but perhaps to a precipice. If Sol be fignificator, the native 
 proves valiant and warlike, attains fome martial command or preferment ; 
 but, if he goes into war, he is killed in battle, or at beft comes off 
 wounded, or with the lofs of a limb. 
 
 The Conjundion of Mars and Venus. If Mars be fignificator, the na- 
 tive is given up to women, and retains the acquaintance of fuch as have 
 an infamous life and converfation ; he is kind, gentle, and courteous, 
 and, though fometimes hafty, yet of a good humour and difpofition, in- 
 fomuch that his kindnefs is oftentimes his undoing ; but, if Venus be 
 fignificatrix, the native is luflful, lafcivious, a fornicator, adulterer; 
 given over to wicked and lewd courfes, hafty, rafh, proud, inconfiderate, 
 quarrelfome, and running himfelf into many hazards, dangers, troubles, 
 and lofles. 
 
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 iio AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The Conjundion of Mars and Mercury. If Mars be fignificator, he 
 rrtakes the native pragmatical, talkative, a fmatterer in learning, a bab- 
 bler and deceiver, yet induftrious for the promotion of his own ends 
 and defigns; it gives no great preferment ; he may be a knavifli appara- 
 tor, cheating petty-fogger, or pedantic pedagogue : but, if Mercury be 
 fignificator, the native proves one of harfh manners and converfation, of 
 an ill life, a thief, highwayman, felon, murderer, traitor, ice. 
 
 The Conjundion of Mars and Luna. If Mars be fignificator, the na- 
 tive is of evil manners and infamous converfation ; rifes to no great pre- 
 ferment; but, if it fhould fo chance that the fcale fhould turn, his rife 
 may be by means of fome great lady; but, if Luna be fignificatrix, the 
 native is bold, ra(h, adventurous, quarrelfome, furious, given to cruelty 
 and bafe atSlions, may prove a thief, murderer, or traitor ; feldom lives 
 long, for this pofition fignifies a fhort life, and that the native may die a 
 violent death, by the means of fire, iron, a fall, blow, wound, or by the 
 hand of the executioner. 
 
 The Conjunftion of Sol and Venus. If Sol be fignificator, it makes 
 the manners of the native foft and effeminate ; yet he is born to glory, 
 and to do and perform great adions ; he obtains the love of women, but 
 affociates himfelf with fuch as are bafe, obfcure, libidinous, infamous, and 
 much below his rank and quality. If Venus be fignificatrix, it fhows a 
 fhort life, one aiming at glory, but not attaining it ; the native is he6tic 
 or confumptive, melancholy, meets with many croffes, loffes, and vexa- 
 tions ; and lives not out half his days. 
 
 The Conjun61ion of Sol and Mercury. If Sol be fignificator, the na- 
 tive is adorned with wit, ingenuity, learning, arts, fciences, policy, under- 
 ftands languages, and the power of words ; and, becaufe Mercury delights 
 to be under the Sun-beams, not being thereby hurt, as are the other pla- 
 nets, the native has excellent elocution, and proves a good rhetorician 
 and logician. If Mercury be fignificator, he bends all his wit, craft, and 
 policy, for the accomplifhment of high matters, and the attaining of great 
 things ; he becomes the favourite of a king, prince, or great man. 
 
 The Conjun6lion of Sol and Luna. If Sol be fignificator, though he 
 generally gives a great and high fpirit, and aiming at magnificent things, 
 yet this configuration gives only mean and low acquaintance, and the fo- 
 ciety of the common people ; makes the native mutable and changeable, 
 and his fortune unflable. If Luna be fignificatrix, the native fhall aim at 
 noble and gallant things, but not attain them ; many crofles (hall befal 
 him, and his life ihall be fhort. 
 
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 The Conjunftion of Venus and Mercury. If Venus be fignincatrix, it 
 gives a delicate beautiful body, adorned with wit, ingenuity, and elo- 
 quence ; niakes the native courteous and complaifant, furnifhes him with 
 variety of arts and learning, and is a configuration of very good import. 
 If Venus be lady of the fecond, it gives a good augmentation of fortune 
 through merchandife, or the ftudy of arts and fciences. If Mercury be 
 fignificator, it makes the native an orator, furnifhes him with courtfliip, 
 foft and effeminate words, makes him pleafant in all company, gives him 
 the fociety and love of women, and, if Venus be ftrong, of great ladies ; 
 in a word, it makes him exceedingly happy. 
 
 The Conjundion of Venus and Luna. If Venus be (ignificatrix, it 
 makes the native mutable and changeable, a mere Proteus, yet with a deal 
 of pleafantnefs and fatisfaftion to others ; it makes him of many words, a 
 great promlfer, but no performer; proud, lofty, conceited, and gives 
 him profit by the Tea, and all lunar and moift commodities. If Luna be 
 {ignificatrix, the native is very effeminate and courtly, having a voluble 
 tongue, free language, and excellent difcourfe, inclined to the love of wo- 
 men, which, if Venus be ftrong, is only to fuch as are virtuous ; delights 
 in mufic, dancing, and merry company, never thinking of forrow, or lay- 
 ing any thing to heart. 
 
 The Conjundlion of Mercury and Luna. If Mercury be fignificator, it 
 makes the native travel into foreign countries, defirous to fee new things, 
 fafhions, and places ; gives him favour and efteem among the ladies, and 
 to be in great eflimation among the popularity, by means of whom he rifes 
 to a good fortune, and to great profperity in the world. If Luna be fig- 
 nificatrix, it makes the native ingenious, and a lover of learning, feeking 
 after the knowledge of moil arts and fciences, chiefly the mathematics, 
 geography, cofmography, and navigation, by which he attains credit and 
 reputation ; he delights in journeys and embaffies, being of a mutable 
 and inconflant humour and difpofition. 
 
 Of the SEXTILE and TRINE. 
 
 The Sextile and Trine of Saturn and Jupiter, if Saturn be fignificator, 
 makes the native grave, fober, wife, religious, pious, and endows him with 
 riches and treafures of this life, gives him the favour and acquaintance of 
 the rich and great, or the native becomes a merchant, and gains confide- 
 rablyby it. If Jupiter be fignificator, the native is more propenfe to me- 
 lancholy, is inclinable to dig and delight in the earth and follow huf- 
 bandry ; fome eflate, inheritance, or houfes, may fall to him ; and he 
 may be promoted to fome ecclefiaftical dignity for his worth, learning, 
 and virtue ; however, Saturn (hows cowardice. 
 
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 212 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Saturn and Mars. If Saturn be lignificator, 
 his natural flownefs and warinefs turns into rafhnei's and boldnefs, (yet 
 with a kind of temerity ;) he runs into precipitate adions, and ftrangc ad- 
 ventures ; it commonly gives martial preferment. If ATars be fignifica- 
 tor, the raftinefs and daringncf's of difpofition are much abated, and the 
 native is guided by very confiderate and deliberate counfels ; if he proves 
 religious, (as luch feldom do,) he is an abfolute fetlarian, following perti- 
 nacioufly the fentiments of his own mind ; it fhows an ertate in land or 
 legacies. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Saturn and the Sun. If Saturn be fignificator, 
 the native has an auftere countenance, lightifh brown hair, large bones, 
 not very flefhy, (looping a little in his going ; he has a (how of generofitv 
 and noblenefs in his a6tions, but pafiionate and feeking revenge, vet 
 without any great courage or valour if put to the trial ; he probably mav 
 attain preferment at court. If Sol be fignificator, the man is more cor- 
 pulent, yet with a very decent body and a full round face ; given to 
 boafling and oftentation, wilful and conceited, yet without any kind of 
 malice, Icarcely injuring any but himlelf, by his extravagant expenle and 
 prodigality. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Jupiter and Venus. If Saturn be fignificator, 
 the native is comely, having brown hair, a delighter in women's company, 
 wafting his patrimony upon the female Tex, Icarcely leaving any eflate 
 behind for his fuccelTors, given over to pleafure and voluptuoufnefs. If 
 Venus be fignificator, the native is modeft, fhame-taced, yet loving his 
 belly well, very affable and courteous, and inclinable to few vicious ac- 
 tions ; gains by the dead, from ancient people, and from the fruits and 
 profits of the earth ; he has a good repute and converfation, and fcarcely 
 marries till after thirty years of age. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Saturn and Mercury. If Saturn be fignificator, 
 the native is conceited, full of chimeras and whims, of plots and contri- 
 vances, yet not often with effect, though carried on with a great deal of 
 ingenuity; he loves curiofities, and is ftudious, fubtil, and referved. If 
 Mercury be fignificator, the native is peevifh, difcontented and deje<5led in 
 his own mind, has ftrange fancies, and is very wilful, even Ibmetimes to 
 his own ruin ; yet given to the fludy of arts and fciences, and finding 
 out many curious inventions. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Saturn and Luna. If Saturn be fignificator, the 
 native is wilful, though very changeable of difpofition, fijbjedf to jcaloufy 
 and miflrufl. If Saturn be well fortified, the native becomes popular 
 
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 and gains much wealth and eftimation by the common people ; he alfo 
 attains the favour of fome eminent lady, and becomes famous in his ge- 
 neration. If Luna be fignificatrix, the native is cold by nature, and of an 
 ill complexion, inclinable to fordid and mean adions ; yet he is deliberate, 
 and, if he does ill, he does it with pre-con(ideration ; he is apt for inven- 
 tion, but very wilful in all things, conceited of himfelf, fo that he thinks 
 nothing well done but what he does himfelf. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Jupiter and Mars. If Jupiter be fignificator, 
 it fliows one of a free and noble difpofuion, bold, valiant, and honourable, 
 attempting and attaining brave and honourable exploits, generous to his 
 friends, obliging to his enemies, yet defiring and endeavouring to rule: 
 he i& alfo refolute and fubtle. If Mars be fignificator, the native is a man 
 of a large foul, cheerful and merry, of a jovial difpofition, a6live, cou- 
 rageous, pious, and a very juft man ; ennobled with valour, viftory, and 
 virtue ; one of good fame, and obtaining the favour and good-will of 
 great and worthy perfons. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Jupiter and Sol. If Jupiter be fignificator, it 
 fhows a flrong, tall, well-proportioned, body, of a frefh ruddy com- 
 plexion ; a noble, generous, courageous, foul, and of a magnanimous 
 mind ; one attempting and achieving great and honourable things ; or 
 becomes the favourite of fome king, prince, or great perfon, and rifes to 
 the top of preferment. If Sol be fignificator, the native is born to honour 
 and glory, and, quod capax, arrives to the highefl of all worldly felicities j 
 he is a man of great fpirit, performs beneficent and honourable adlions; 
 as Jupiter endows him with a fund of treal'ure, fo the liberal Ipirit of Sol 
 makes him wafle it in his too great generofity. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Jupiter and Venxisf. If Jupiter be (ignificatof,- 
 it gives a tall and complete perfon, of a pleafant, loving, courteous, difpo- 
 fition ; kind to the female fex, of an exceeding good nature, and the pa- 
 tron of hofpitality; it is the af'peft of love, concord, agreement, good- 
 fortune, and riches; the native is preferred, and rifes to honour. If Ve- 
 nus be fignificatrix, the perfon is comely and lovely, one generoufly dif- 
 pofed, aiming only at things brave, honourable, virtuous, and good : 
 it is the afpedl of virtue and piety, of honour, preferment, and vafl for- 
 tune, in the world ; the native has the acquaintance of perfons of the 
 higheft ecclefiaftical order, and, it may be, attains the like preferment 
 himfelf. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Jupiter and Mercury. If Jupiter be fignifi- 
 cator, it fhows a jufl, virtuous, good, man ; ingenious, and of a very fiibtle 
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 wit; it is the afpe£l of ingenuity, eloquence, and learning; the native is 
 affable, courteous, mild, and a general lover of learning ; one who by his 
 worth and virtue may be the fecretary or ambaflador to fome king or 
 prince. If Mercury be fignificator, it (hows one very ingenious, and whofe 
 ■wit is mixed with virtue and honefty ; of a deep underllanding, profound 
 wifdom, found judgment, and fuccefsful in any enterprife ; a perfoii fit 
 to be the counfellor of a king, or manager of the affairs of a kingdom or 
 commonwealth ; generous, free-fpirited, and perfeftly trufty. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Jupiter and Luna. If Jupiter be fignificator, 
 the native is generally good, juft, and virtuous, but of a very mutable 
 mind, changing his opinion with the leafl perfuafion ; it is the afpe6t of 
 popularity and general applaufe, and he becomes famous in his generation, 
 and draws after him the love of the common people ; he is loquacious, 
 highly conceited of himfelf, fortunate by water and women. If Luna be 
 fignificatrix, it fhows one of a generous, noble, juft, mind, aiming at high 
 and honourable things ; he gains by the church and churchmen, and is 
 an exaft obferver of juftice and truth, and a perfon who by his good 
 nature would oblige the whole world. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Mars and Sol. If Mars be fignificator, the 
 native has a rifing fortune, proves great, famous, and eminent, in the 
 world ; meets with preferment at court, or has the efpeciai favour of fome 
 king or prince : it is the afped of aftion and honour ; he is witty, inge- 
 nious, and trufty ; faithful even to his advcrfaries ; of a nimble wit, quick 
 fancy, courteous, and friendly; he may prove a general or commander 
 of an army. If Sol be fignificatrix, it is the afpeit of valour and vidory ; 
 the native is of a high fpirit and courageous, attains military honour and 
 preferment, loves warlike exercifes, appears a terror to his adverfaries, 
 and fifes far fuperior to his birth. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Mars and Venus. If Mars be fignificator, it is 
 the afpeft of liberty and love; if Mars be out of his dignities, the native 
 is vicious above meafure, loves gaming, wantonnefs, women, and all 
 manner of lewdnefs and debauchery ; he is ill-natured, unlefs among 
 his own party, and vvaftes and fpends his fortune upon women ; but, if 
 Mars is in his dignities, it fliows one witty, ingenious, a fearcher-out of 
 myfteries, and one who ftiall gain a confiderable fortune in the world. 
 If Venus be fignificatrix, it is the afped of pride, vanity, and vain-glory : 
 the native is comely, but bold, rafti, and adventurous, fearing nothing, 
 aiming at great things, and promifing himfelf mountains, but perfefting 
 little; and, if Venus be weak, the perfon is debauched, and guilty of 
 many lewd adtions. 
 
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 The Sextile or Trine of Mars and Mercury. If Mars be fignificator, it 
 is the afped of confidence and craft ; the native has a pregnant fancy, 
 capable of any thing ; prudent, fubtle, bold, very ingenious, eloquent, 
 and ftudious in moft arts and fciences, yet fomething hafty, and fubjeft 
 to pafiion, which being over, the man is good-humoured again. If Mer- 
 cury be lignificator, the native is valiant, courageous, ingenious, a lover 
 of military exercifes, phyfic, furgery, and chemiftry ; and may probably 
 get a fortune by the fire, or dealing in martial commodities ; the native 
 has generally a good opinion of himfelf. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Mars and Luna. If Mars be fignificator, it is 
 the afpeft of loquacity and mutability ^ the native gets by the common 
 people, or by travel, often changing his ftation or place of dwelling; he 
 is turbulent, furious, and rafh, but is eafily perfuadcd again to a compla-.. 
 cent humour. If Luna be fignificatrix, the native is paffionate, ambi- 
 tious of honour, afpiring to great things, and purfijing them even to a 
 precipice; and, when attained, they feldom continue with him; and the 
 reafon is, becaufe of the mutability and changeablenefs of his own nature, 
 mind, and difpofition, which beget a change of his fortunes. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Sol and Venus. If Sol be fignificator, it is the 
 afpeft of candour and generofity ; the native is exceedingly good- 
 natured, of an heroic difpofition, having nothing but gallantry in all his 
 aftions ; he gets by women, and has the favour of fome rich lady, by 
 whom he meets either with a good fortune or promotion ; he is witty, 
 ingenious, and of an adtive fancy. If Venus be fignificatrix, it is the 
 afpe6l of grandeur and magnificence ; the native meets with court pre- 
 ferment, or has the favour of fome prince ; rifes to high honour and 
 glory in the world ; of a good difpofition, yet a little paffionate, foon 
 angry, and as quickly appeafed again ; of a free liberal difpofition, lofty, 
 and a little given to pride and vain-glory ; but in general a fociable, 
 merry, good-humoured, perfon. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Sol and Mercury. If Sol be fignificator, the 
 native is proud, ambitious, conceited, yet very courteous, and without 
 any feeming refentment ; pafTes over fmall afFrt)nts, left the taking notice 
 of them Ihould be any prejudice to his grandeur ; he is nimble-witted, 
 loquacious, and very good at invention. If Mercury be fignificator, the 
 native feems to rife in the world wholly by his own wit and ingenuity, 
 and without doubt will attain to a degree of honour above that of his 
 birth and anceftors' quality. 
 
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 The Sextile or Trine of Sol and Luna. If Sol be fignificator, it is the 
 afpe£l of credit and fame, makes the native eminent in the world, born to 
 great a6lions, and to perform extraordinary undertakings amongfl: the 
 common people ; he is cried up for a god among the multitude ; if he be 
 a priefl or a phyfician, he has a vaft number of followers ; he is plealant, 
 cheerful, and good-natured. If Luna be fignificatrix, the native is proud, 
 ambitious, coveting after honour and glory, and generally born to enjoy 
 a great meafure thereof, but very mutable in his reiolves ; and, if Luna 
 be weak, he falls into diOionour again. 
 
 The Sextile of Venus and Mercury. If Venus be fignificatrix, the na- 
 tive is very comely, witty, ingenious, fubtle, and of a good nature, feldorft 
 guilty of any difhonourable a6lion, a good orator, and of an alpiring 
 fancy, yet feldom bringing things to perfection. If Mercury be fignifi- 
 cator, the native is of an exceedingly courteous nature; amorous, one de- 
 lighting in women's company, by whom he meets either with fortune or 
 preferment ; he is wife, prudent, juft, virtuous, a lover of learning, and 
 embelliflied with many excellent parts, both natural and acquired ; but, 
 if Mercury is weak and out of his dignities, the native proves vicious in- 
 flead of virtuous. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Venus and Luna. If Venus be fignificatrix, 
 the native will certainly arrive to honour, and be made great or rich, by 
 means of fome eminent lady ; he alfo has the eflimation of the common 
 people, and becomes very popular ; but is one of an inconftaiit unrtable 
 mind, by reafon of which he performs no great things; he is a comely 
 engaging perfon, neat and genteel, and very apt to be taken with court- 
 Ihip. li Luna be fignificatrix, the native is very effeminate and amorous, 
 of a gentle obliging difpofition and temper; fober, jufl^, and having 
 the love of moft women that he converfes with; but, if Luna be weaffc 
 and otherwile unfortunate, the native inclines to vice. 
 
 The Sextile or Trine of Mercury and Luna. If Mercury be fignificator, 
 the native is witty and ingenious, a lover of novelties and all manner of 
 new inventions and fancies, and mutable and changeable in bis mind, 
 refolution, and in all undertakings ; a man purely given to the art of dit- 
 fimulation, though a pleafant companion. If Luna be fignificatrix, the 
 native dives into arts and Iciences, is fubtle, crafty, covetous, a lover of 
 bimfelf, referved, and a little melancholy ; if Luna be ftrong, he makes 
 an excellent orator, a good advocate, and may be fecretary to lome prince 
 or nobleman; if Luna be weak, the native is a complete mafler of the 
 
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 Of the QUARTILE and OPPOSITION. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Saturn and Jupiter. If Saturn be fig- 
 nificator, it fhows trouble and vexation ; if the man be a fe6larian, he is 
 perfecuted by the clergy, tormented, and molefted ; if the conjun61ion 
 falls in the afcendant, twelfth, eleventh, tenth, or ninth, houfes, the 
 mifchief falls in the fore part, of life, and the native, through his own 
 folly, lofes a great part of his fortune or eftate. If Jupiter be fignihca- 
 tor, it is the afpeft of unceadng troubles and miferies : the native is a 
 continual lofer, has great crofTes, meets with difgrace and contempt, 
 and, were he born to a prince's eftate, would be in danger of becoming 
 a beggar ; the native is of a poor low fpirit, crofs, peevifh, ina6tive, dull, 
 miferable, and unfortunate in the world. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Saturn and Mars. If Saturn be fignifi- 
 cator, it is the afpe6l of cruelty and murder : the native is bafe, trea- 
 cherous, perfidious, envious, quarrelfome, choleric, proud, fcornful, 
 unfociable, rafh, ungrateful, and a very ill-natured perfon ; he has good 
 fbore of wit, but it is only to do mifchief with ; it is the afpefl of treafon 
 and rebellion ; the native is wilful, melancholy, fubjedl to many linger- 
 ing and continuing difeafes, and will be in danger of an untimely death 
 by falls, blows, treachery, or poifon ; the native has an unhappy father, 
 from whom he in part derives his turbulent fpirit, which extremely hurts 
 both himfelf and others. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Saturn and the Sun, This, if Saturn be 
 fignificator, is an afpe61: of contempt and infamy ; it fhows danger of a 
 violent death, and it may be by the hand of juftice ; the native aims at 
 high and great things, but always milTes his expe6lations, for his very at- 
 tempts only are his ruin, both of goods and eftate, and may fometimes 
 cofl: his life ; the native has a fhow of boldnefs, courage, and revenge, but 
 his valour is only a vapours If the Sun be fignificator, it is the afpe6l of 
 treafon and cowardice ; the native is inwardly very fpiteful and mali- 
 cious, falfe even to his deareft friend, ftudying revenge only by ways oc- 
 cult and cowardly ; he is wilful, fearful, and timorous, yet impudently 
 boafting of great things, far above his fphere, capacity, underftanding. 
 or undertaking:. 
 
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 The Quartile or Oppofition of Saturn and Venus; If Saturn be figni- 
 ficator, it is the afpeft of infamy and vice ; the native loves women, 
 and defires unlawful things ; his carriage is rude ; his condition bafe 
 
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 CTiveii over to lufts and pleafures of the flefh, inclinable to nothing but 
 vicious and fordid actions, prodigal in his expences, wafleful to the con- 
 fumption of his fortunes. If Venus be fignificatrix, it is the afpedt of de- 
 formity and bafenefs : the native is of a poor, low, bafe, timorous, fpirit, 
 afflldted with the greateft of all misfortunes and cataftrophes; lofes by the 
 fruits and products of the earth, and is indeed a gainer by nothing. It is 
 the deftrudion of the fignificatrix. 
 
 The Quartlle or Oppofition of Saturn and Mercury. Jf Saturn be fig- 
 nificator, it brings many evils from mercurial men and things, and from 
 profecutions and lawfuits; gives the native an impediment in his Ipeech, 
 and makes him ftutter, or ftammer; dulls the fancy, fpoils the ingenuity, 
 and makes the native wholly intent upon mifchief, wickedncfs, deceit, 
 cheating, and thieving. If Mercury be fignificator, the native will be 
 unfortunate in all his actions, perpetually poor, of a perverfe, felf-willed, 
 evil, malicious, envious, treacherous, difpofition, and it may be a mur- 
 derer, for Saturn ftirs up mercurial men to all manner of wickednefs ; he 
 will be deceitful above meafure, of a dejeded mind, revengeful, and 
 bring nothing to perfeftion. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Saturn and Luna. If Saturn be fignifi- 
 cator, it is the afpeft of travel and difcontent ; the native is of an in- 
 different ftature, dark or black hair, a difproportioned body, fometimes 
 crooked, a traveller, wanderer, or vagabond ; one having the ill-will and 
 reproach of all people, and not undefervedly ; a mere deceiver, and fub- 
 je(5l to great and manifold misfortunes from the vulgar. If Luna be fig- 
 nificatrix, it is the afpedt of jealoufy, fufpicion, and mift'uft ; the native 
 is crooked both in perfon and mind, malicious, deceitful, ftrongly vicious, 
 fcandalous, and debauched ; he is afflided all the days of his life with 
 innumerable troubles, croffes from adverfaries, want of health, wafting 
 of his eftate, poverty, death of his mother, a fliort life, and danger of a 
 violent death. 
 
 The Quartlle or Oppofition of Jupiter and Mars. If Jupiter be the 
 fignificator, it is the afpedt of fury and Ingratitude ; the native is rafh, fu- 
 rious, adventurefome, quarrelfome, choleric, and fometimes is vexed with 
 malignant fevers, is in danger of a violent death by a wound or blow ; a 
 wafter and deftroyer of himfelf, running headlong unto precipices, defi- 
 rous of rule, refolute, ill-natured, fubtle, and perpetually ungrateful to 
 all his friends, forgetting all their kindneffes. If Mars be fignl'icator, 
 it is the afpedl of atheifm and infidelity ; the native waftes and dcftroys 
 his fortune and fubftance ; he is bold, audacious, impudent, and incorri- 
 gible ; of a proud, fcornful, fcoffing, haughty, infolent, humour ; a defpifer 
 
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 of religion, virtue, piety, and moral honefty ; and is the abomination of 
 all CTOod men. 
 
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 The Quartile or Oppofition of Jupiter and the Sun. If Jupiter be fig- 
 nificator, it is .the afpe6t of arrogance and vain-glory ; the native is profufe 
 and riotous, given to all forts of excefs and prodigality, and lofes his ex- 
 peftation ; this configuration deprives him of all manner of honour and 
 preferment ; he is noble, lofty, and brave, but only in outward appear- 
 ance, and does nothing but to be feen of men. If the Sun is {ignificator, 
 the native waftes his patrimony; is proud, lofty, and pragmatical ; a de- 
 fpifer of the church and religion, and a great lover of pleafure and diffi- 
 pation, to his own infamy and ruin. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Jupiter and Venus. If Jupiter be ilg- 
 nificator, it is the afpeft of fornication and lufl. ; the native is given over 
 to debauchery, more efpecially if Venus difpofes of Jupiter. If Venus 
 be lady of the fecond, the native waftes his fortune and eftate, and will 
 become indigent and poor; he follows bafe and lewd women, and gets 
 an infamous name in the world. If Venus be fignificatrix, the native is 
 proud, pragmatical, conceited, given over to carnal pleafures, a defpifcr 
 of piety, virtue, honefty, and religion ; one having a mere outfide, a flat- 
 terer, deceiver, a wafter of his own fortune and patrimony ; he will have 
 many enemies created by his own evil ways, chiefly among thofe of the 
 church, and people of an honeft converfation. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Jupiter and Mercury. If Jupiter be 
 fignificator, it is the ai; e6l of ftrife and contention ; the native will be in- 
 volved in many troubles, controverfies, and perplexities, have many law- 
 fuits and incumbrances, to his very great prejudice, and to the injury of 
 his health as well as of his eftate ; be will be rafh, humourfome, and very 
 unflable in all his ways, being generally deceived in all his expe6latiohs ; 
 for Mercury, thus afflicted, reprefents things wrong to the imagination. 
 If Mercury be fignificator, it is the afpe6t of folly and imprudence; the 
 native is overfeen in all he undertakes, makes filly refolves, and as fool- 
 ishly repents of them to his prejudice; a repining fimple creature, given 
 over to fimplicity and abfurdity, to his own utter undoing. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Jupiter and the Moon. If Jupiter be 
 fignificator, it fhows a wafting and lofs of fubftanceby many ordinary peo- 
 ple; makes the native mutable, foolifh, without refolution, and one full 
 of words without any depth of reafon in them ; it fhows alfo lofs of 
 credit and eftimation, and brings many popular evils on him. If th« 
 
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 Moon be figtiificatrix, the native is perplexed with unequal fortunes in 
 the world; many crofTes and afflidions befal him ; falfe friends and de- 
 ceitful confederates enfnare him ; his fubftance is made a prey to merci- 
 4efs enemies, and himfelf the objeft of their cruelty. 
 
 The Quartilc or Oppofition of Mars and the Sun. If Mars be fignifi- 
 cator, it is the alpeft of confufion and ruin, the native aims at great and 
 high things, but falls at laft into an abyfs of troulde and milery ; he 
 mifcarries in all his undertakings, heaps upon himfelf torrents of forrow ; 
 ■and may exped a violent death ; which, if the Sun be lord of the fixth, 
 feventh, or eighth, houfes, will be by means of a fall, or of a wound 
 with a weapon ; but, if lord of the tenth, by fentence of a judge. If the 
 Sun be fignificator, it is the afpe6l of vanity, fury, and madnefs ; it fliows 
 -danger of the lofs of an eye, violent death, or death of a malignant fe- 
 ver; the native is rafh in all his adions, fquanders away his fubftance, 
 and makes his life and fortunes miferable and defperate. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Mars and Venus. If Mars be fignifica- 
 tor, the native is given to vanity, wickednefs, luftful pleafures, and all 
 manner of abominations of the flefh, gluttony, gaming, and drinking; 
 he is treacherous, ill-natured, and very unfortunate ; when he marries, 
 he commonly marries a woman of ill-fame ; he is much given to boaft- 
 ing and oftentation. If Venus be fignificatrix, the native is infinitely 
 wicked, a thief, felon, highwayman, or murderer; takes to all manner 
 of vice and mifchicf ; unfortunate both to himfelf and others ; given to 
 ftrife, contention, and every kind of debauchery and wickednefs. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Mars and Mercury. If Mars be fignifi- 
 tator, the native is bold, impudent, bafe, treacherous, deceitful above 
 meafure, even to his moft endeared friends; an atheift, a dcfpifer of God 
 and all goodnefs, a fuperficial, inconftant, unfettled, wretched, crea- 
 ture; a Ihifter up and down, a thief, and one that lives by dangerous 
 courfes ; one ill brooking, and long retaining, the fenfe of an injury ; 
 humourfome, conceited, difficult to be pleafed, and unfortunate in all 
 things, if Mercury be fignificator, the native is guilty of many crimes, 
 is of a very wicked and evil nature, likely to be guilty of murder or rob- 
 bery; a breeder of contention and mifchief, and a follower of almoft 
 6very diflionourable pradtice. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Mars and the Moon. If Mars be figni- 
 ficator, the native is ill-tongued, a perfect fcold, gives railing and bafe 
 language in almoft all difcourfe, is ungrateful, and a forgetter of kind- 
 
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 nefles, a wanderer, a vagabond, a detra6l:or from other men's worth, one 
 ftupid and of a fervile life, unfortunate in all his undertakings. If the 
 Moon is fignificatrix, the native will be in danger of lofing one of 
 his eyes, die a violent death, or be fubjed to many crofTes, troubles, 
 and affliftions of fortune and juftice ; he is fubjeft to hurts, wounds, and 
 other mifchiefs, and is mutable, rafli, paffionate, ambitious, prodigal, 
 malicious, treacherous, and fubjefl to innumerable miferies. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Sol and Venus. If Sol is fignificator, 
 the native lives in a difhonourable repute, receives many great troubles 
 and misfortunes by means of women ; he is bold, confident, proud, one 
 delighting in flrife, contention, and oppofition, unfortunate in moft of 
 his adions, and coming off in mofl: of his undertakings with difhonour. 
 If Venus be fignificatrix, the native deludes himfelf with vanities, and 
 expe6lations of things which will never be ; he is angry, paffionate, 
 and given up to pride, boafting, and vain glory ; receives much hurt by 
 great men, and fometimes may be in danger of his life by fentence of the 
 judge. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Sol and Mercury. If Sol is fignificator, 
 the native is fubjeft to many loffes and vexations by the law ; or receives 
 hurt by mercurial men and things ; is unfortunate, and has an impedi- 
 ment in his fpeech ; one that is deceitful, falfe, and not to be trufted. If 
 Mercury be fignificator, the native is of a middle ftature, dull fwarthy 
 complexion, tanned or fun-burnt, with light-brown hair, full face and 
 eye, high nofe, haft:y, choleric, proud, angry, and infolent ; a boafter, 
 ambitious, highly conceited of himfelf, and fubjedl to the frowns of 
 princes and great men. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Sol and Luna. If Sol is fignificator, the 
 native's fortune is mutable and unftable, he falls into contempt and re- 
 proach among the common people, and merits the hatred or difpleafure 
 of fome great lady or perfon ; he is a cheat, deceiver, or impoftor. If 
 Luna be fignificatrix, the native is full-faced, of a clear vifage, and light- 
 coloured hair, very ambitious of honour, which flies from him like a 
 fhadow purfued ; one aiming at and attempting many great things with- 
 out fuccefs, but meets with many croffes, lofifes, troubles, forrows, and 
 obftrutStions, in his way to preferment. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Venus and Mercury. If Venus is figni- 
 ficatrix, the native is crafty, fubtle, deceitful, and given to thievery; he 
 has an impediment in his fpeech, is of dull underftanding, froward, felf- 
 
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 223 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 willed, crols, and indeed a perfect knave, one whole ill condition and 
 ba-Te mind always keep him poor. If Mercury be fignihcator, the na- 
 tive is deceitful, diflioneft, flothfiil, given to indolence ami cafe, and 
 delights in the company of lewd \\ omen ; a mere cliffembler, and one 
 that waftcs and fpends his fortune in debauchery. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppoiition of V^enus and Luna. If Venus be lignin- 
 catrix, it fhows mutability, ftrife, contention, quarrelling, debate, one of 
 an ill tongue, and a worfe life, unfortunate in marriaL,e and children ; 
 idle, indolent, and lazy, fubjedl to poverty and beggary. If Luna be lig- 
 nificatrix, the perfon is of a bold, impudent, audacious, difpofition, given 
 up to lull and levvdnels ; a mere vulgar fordid creature ; a wanderer, 
 fugitive, and vagabond ; deceitful, and fubjeft to a multitude of misfor- 
 tunes, elpecially from and among women. 
 
 The Quartile or Oppofition of Mercury and Luna. If Mercury be 
 fjgnificator, the native is mutable, unftable in all his ways, foolilh, arro- 
 gant, void of reafon and good manners, loquacious, and very much con- 
 ceited of himfelf ; he fhall meet with many troubles and oppofitions, 
 and that from the common people ; lofe the favour of iome noble wo- 
 man, and be reduced to an abjeft flate of poverty: the frowns of a 
 prince are not fo formidable as the hatred of the common people, for 
 that fo precipitates a man, that it prevents him forever from rifing again 
 without Iome extraordinary aid. If Luna be fignificatrix, let the native 
 take what care and pains he will, he Ihall never do any thing commend- 
 able : it fignifies a defe6l in the tongue, and makes the native in every 
 undertaking very unfortunate, and for the mofl: part expofed to con- 
 tempt and infamy. 
 
 On the EFFECTS of the HOUSES. 
 
 Firft Houfe. — If one or both of the infortunes vitiate the degrees af- 
 cending, or the light of time be eclipfed or afflifted, or the lord of the 
 afcendant combufl, or retrograde and peregrine, or the birth was exa6tly 
 upon a new or full Moon ; or Luna be in conjundtion, quartile, or oppo- 
 fition, of Saturn or Mars, or both, in the fourth, fixth, eighth, or twelfth, 
 houfe, or befieged of the infortunes ; the native will be of fliort life ; but 
 contrariwife, if there be fignifications of long life ; that is, if the afcen- 
 dant, planet therein, or its lord, or all of then), be in a good houfe of 
 heaven, eflentially ftrong, and free from affliction, increafmg in number, 
 light, and motion ; the native will then have a long and happy life ; other- 
 wife unhappy. Now the affli6ting planet, by confidering what houfe he 
 is loid of, and pofited in, will (how the caule. 
 
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 Second Houfe. — The cufp of the fecond houfe, free from atflidion, or 
 afTifted with the prelence or beams of fortunate planets, or Fart of For- 
 tune, or lord of the fecond ; or the lord of the fecond fl:rong, free from 
 afflicftion, and in a good houfe, or in a conjundion, fextile, or trine, of 
 fortunate planets, or in conjuntHon of benevolent fixed flars of the firfl 
 or fecond magnitude, are all evident tellimonies of much wealth and 
 great riches ; but, if the cufp of the fecond houfe, the planet therein, 
 or the lord thereof, be combufi", weak, afflifted by conjunflion, quar- 
 tile, oi- oppofition, of the infortunes, decreafnig in number, light, and 
 motion, or in an evil houfe, they are evident teflimonies of poverty and 
 extreme want. 
 
 Third Houfe. — The cufp of the third, free from affli£lion, fortified 
 with the dragon's head, or good planets, or their afpedls, or the prefence 
 of its lord, or the lord thereof ftrong and free from afflidtion and in a 
 good houfe, in fextile or trine with good planets, or the Moon, (hows 
 good, pleafant, and fafe, journeys; but, if the cufp thereof, or its lord, be 
 afRifled with the conjunftion, quartile, or oppofition, of the infortunes, 
 or the lord thereof be weak, peregrine, and in the feventh or eighth 
 houfe, it indicates misfortunes, and loffes by robbery or otherwife. 
 
 Fourth Houfe. — The lord of the fourth, in the fourth, (and generally 
 any planets there,) fhow an inheritance in land, if they are fortunes, and 
 flrongly dignified ; or if the cufp of the fourth, or its lord, be in fextile or 
 trine with Saturn or Jupiter, it denotes the fame : but, if infortunes, or 
 affliiled by the quartile or oppofition of any planet, chieflv Saturn or Mars, 
 or the lord of the fourth be weak and retrograde ; there is either no inhe- 
 ritance, or elfe it is much incumbered, and in danger of being loft. 
 
 Fifth Houfe. — The angles and cufp of the fifth, and fign in which the 
 lord of the eighth is, being in fruitful figns, many planets in the fifth, 
 efpecially Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and Luna ; or they cafting their 
 trines to the fifth, or its lord ; or if there be any tranflation, or reception, 
 or mutual pofition, between them and the lord of the fifth ; or the lord of 
 the fifth, and the lord of the ascendant, or the planet in the afcendant, or 
 dragon's head, be there, thefe are fignificators of a plentiful ifliie : but 
 Saturn, Mars, Sol, or dragon's tail, there, efpecially in barren figns, and 
 Luna, and the lord of the afcendant, in barren figns alio, and the lord of 
 the afcendant, or fifth, in quartile or oppofition of one another, or with 
 Saturn or Mars, are evident teftimonies of barrennefs. 
 
 Sixth Houfe. — If the lord of the fixth, or planet in the fixth, afflict 
 not the afcendant or the lord thereof, or the lord of the afcendant be not 
 in the fixth, or in its lord's dignities, or in quartile or oppofition of Sa- 
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 224 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 turn or Mars ; or combufl: of Sol in the fixth, feventh, or twelfth, houfes ; 
 or the lord of the fixth, or any planet of his nature, be not in the afcen- 
 dant; then will the native be healthful, and of a rtrong body, and very 
 free from difeafes ; and fo contrariwile. If the lord of the fixth or pla- 
 jiet therein be in quartile or oppohtion of the lord of the afcendant or 
 fccond, or planets therein, or exalted therein, or the lord of the fecond 
 be in the fixth, in quartile or oppofition of the lord of the afcendant, or 
 fixth, the native's fervants will prove treacherous and thievifh to him; 
 and fo on the contrary. 
 
 Seventh Houfe. — If the Moon, or any light planet, traiiflate the light of 
 the lord of the afcendant, or planet therein, to the lord of the feventh 
 or planet therein, or there be any mutual reception between the figni- 
 ficators, either by houfe or pofition, or tliey apply one to another by 
 conjundlion, fextile, or trine, but efpecially with reception ; or the Moon 
 apply to the conjundion, fextile, or trine, of the lord of the afcendant, 
 or planet therein, and the fignificators be in fruitful figns, the native 
 will marry ; fo alfo, if flie tranflates the light of Mars to Venus ; and 
 fo contrariwife. The lord of the afcendant near a partile afpe£t of many 
 planets ; or the lord of the feventh and planets therein applying jointly to 
 the lord of the feventh, many planets in the feventh, and they in good 
 afpeft with Luna or Venus, or lord of the feventh, are arguments of 
 marrying more than once ; and fo contrariwife. The agreement between 
 both is difcerned from the quality of the application, reception, tranfla- 
 tion, pofition, and dignities, of the fignificators ; and in thefe words the 
 whole bufinefs of public adverfaries is comprehended; fave that fignifi- 
 cator which is flrongeft, freefl: from afflidtion, moft aflifted, and bell po- 
 fited, fhall overcome, and that perfon fliall live longefl:. 
 
 Eighth Houfe. — The lord of the afcendant ftrong, or in a good houfe, 
 and in good afpe<5l with the lord of the eighth, or planets in the eighth ; 
 or if Jupiter or Venus be lords of the eighth, or pofited in the cufp 
 thereof; or Luna tranflates the light of the lord of the eighth, or planet 
 in the eighth, to the lord of the afcendant, or planets therein by good 
 afpedl ; or when the lord of the afcendanj, the luminaries,' lord of the 
 eighth, or cufp of the eighth, be in violent figns, the native will die a 
 natural death : but, if the fignificators of death be eflentially fortified, and 
 rH the eighth, or in quartile or oppofition of the lord of the afcendant, Sol 
 and Luna, or planets in the afcendant, and in violent figns, or in oppo- 
 fition to the afcendant, the native will be in danger of dying a violent 
 death. The cufp of the eighth adorned with fixed ftars of the firfl: and 
 fecond magnitude, or with the prefence of Jupiter, Venus, Sol, Luna, 
 dragon's head, or part of fortune, or with the good afpeft of the faid pla- 
 nets ; or the lord thereof ftrong, free from affli6lion, and fortified with 
 
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 the conjun61:ion, fextlle, or trine, of benevolents, are figns of a good 
 dowry; and fo contrariwife. 
 
 Ninth Houfe. If the lord of the ninth, or planets in the ninth, be in 
 mutual reception with the lord of the afcendant, or planets in the afcen- 
 dant, or the Moon or any light planet makes any tranflation, or there be 
 any pofition or any application between the principal fignificators bv 
 good afpedl, the native will travel, prove a merchant, a fcholar, or a cler- 
 gyman ; and, if Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Luna, the Part of Fortune, or 
 Dragon's Head, be there ; or the lord of the ninth, or planets therein, 
 be in good afpecr with any benevolent, the native will be truly religi- 
 ous, and gain much by any thing he undertakes. The lord of the ninth 
 or the afcendant, in trine to a planet in the ninth, the fame ; but if Saturn, 
 Mars, or the lord of an evil houfe, or Dragon's Tail, be pofited there ; or 
 the lord thereof be weak, combuft, affli6ted, or retrograde ; it forebodes 
 much evil. 
 
 Tenth Houfe. — The only figns of honour are the ftrength of the lords of 
 the afcendant, medium coeli, and their difpofition either by good applica- 
 tion, pofition, reception, or tranllation ; or the prefence or good afpetl of 
 Jupiter, Sol, Venus, Mercury, or Luna ; or the pofition of the Dragon's 
 Head or Part of Fortune in the tenth or eleventh houfes ; the contrary 
 afpedfs (how diflionour, difgrace, fliame, contempt, and at length en- 
 danger a violent death. 
 
 Eleventh Houfe. — The lord of the eleventh, or any other planet there, 
 fhows friends ; fo alfo if they be in mutual reception, or pofition, or 
 if there be any tranflation or application between them and the lord of 
 the afcendant, or planets therein ; or if Jupiter, Venus, Sol, Luna, or 
 Dragon's Tail, be there, they are arguments of great, noble, generous, 
 and faithful, friends : but, if the fignificators have malignant afpeds, and 
 there be no tranflation, reception, nor pofition, or if Saturn and Mars 
 or the lord of the twelfth be pofited there, they fliow either few or no 
 friends, or elfe very bad and falfe ones. 
 
 Twelfth Houfe. — No planet in the twelfth, nor the lord thereof, in 
 any afpeft with the lord of the afcendant, or planets in the afcendant, or 
 afcendant itfelf, or the lord of the afcendant not pofited in the twelfth, 
 or in afpeft with the lord of the twelfth, are arguments of few private 
 enemies : but, if the afcendant, its lord, or planets therein, be in conjunc- 
 tion or evil afpe6l with the lord of the twelfth, or Saturn and Mars, and 
 they lords of evil houfes ; or if they be pofited in the afcendant, feventh, or 
 twelfth, houfes, or in combufl:ion ; the native will have many and great 
 enemies, and be fubje61: to imprifonment, and many other troubles; but 
 
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 if, inftead of evil, the afpeds be good, with the {Ignificators in bad 
 houfes, the native will be deluded and drawn into troubi. s 'Ifi-U'^h fair 
 pretences; and his private enemies will always be luch as outv\urdly ex- 
 prels a kindnefs for hinn. 
 
 GENERAL JUDGMENTS to be inferred from DIRECTIONS. 
 
 The Lor ri of the Ajcendant to PromiJJers. — To the afcendant, it figni- 
 fies mucn ha;jpinefs ; to the fecund houie or its lord, it has fignification of 
 fubftance ; to the third or its lord, of journeys; to the fourth or its 
 lord, of inheritances ; to the fifth or its lord, of children ; to the fixth 
 or its lord, of ficknefs and fervants; to the feventh or its lord, wives, 
 public enemies, and law-fuits ; to the eighth or its lord, death and le- 
 gacies ; to the ninth or its lord, learning, ecclefiaftical preferment, mer- 
 chandife, going to fea ; to the tenth or its lord, honour, preferment, 
 office, dignities, trading ; to the eleventh or its lord, friends, hopes, and 
 expe6fancies ; to the twelfth or its lord, imprifonment, and private 
 enemies. 
 
 The Lord of the Second to Promijfors. — To the fecond, a great increafe 
 of wealth and riches; to the third or its lord, gain or lofs by kindr-d, 
 neighbours, or travelling; to the fourth or its lord, gain or lofs by houfes, 
 lands, or parents ; to the fifth or its lord, by children, or by gaming ; to 
 the fixth or its lord, by fervants or cattle; to the feventh or its lord, 
 by marriage, women, public enemies, law-fuits; to the eighth or it* 
 lord, by death, or legacies ; to the ninth or its lord, by learning, arts, 
 fciences, the fea, religion ; to the tenth or its lord, by trade, honour, 
 preferment, or dignity ; to the eleventh or its lord, by friends; to the 
 twelfth or its lord, by great cattle, private enemies, imprifonment ; to the 
 afcendant or its lord, by the native's own iiiduftry. 
 
 The Lord of the Third to Promijfors. — To the third, many pleafant jour 
 neys ; to the fourth houfe or its lord, gain by travelling, or to fee his father, 
 or fome eftate ; to the fifth or its lord, travelling for pleafure, or on ac- 
 count of children ; to the (ixth houle or its lord, journeys about fmall 
 cattle ; to the feventh or its lord, journeying on lome law-fuit, public 
 adverfary, or woman ; to the eighth houfe or its lord, concerning fome 
 legacy, or wife's portion ; to the ninth or its lord, for the fake of re- 
 ligion, merchandife, learning, or to fee foreign countries; to the tenth 
 or its lord, for honour, preferment, trade, or to fee his mother ; to the 
 eleventh or its lord, to fee a friend, or in hopes of advantage ; to the 
 twelfth or its lord, becaufe of private enemies, or fear of imprifonment; 
 
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 to the afcendant or its lord, for health or pleafure ; to the fecoiid or its 
 lord, for lubftance or wealth. 
 
 The Lord of the Fourth to Promijfors. — To the fourth houfe, inheri- 
 tancea ; to the fifth or its lord, an eftate to fome of the native's childien ; 
 to the fixth or its lord, an ellate to fall to the native from fome relations, 
 or uncles and aunts by the father's fide ; to the feventh or its lord, by 
 marriage, or the law ; to the eighth or its lord, by fome legacy or portion 
 by a wife; to the ninth or its lord, by learning, trading to fea, the 
 church, or wife's kindred : to the tenth or its lord, by th; wife's father, 
 or the king, or fome noble or great man ; to the eleventh or its lord, by 
 means of a friend ; to the twelfth or its lord, by dealing in cattle ; to the 
 alcendant or its lord, by his own induflry ; to the fecond or its lord, by 
 purchafe ; to the third or its lord, by death of kindred. 
 
 The Lord of the Ffth to PromiJJors. — To the fifth houfe, it gives to the 
 native a child ; to the fixth or its lord, that his children may become 
 fervants to him ; to the feventh or its lord, that they may travel, or that 
 his wife may have another child ; to the eighth or its lord, danger of 
 death through fome excefs of pleafure ; to the ninth or its lord, that 
 the native will chiefly delight in religion, arts, fciences, or the fea ; to 
 the tenth or its lord, ficknefs to the native's children ; to the eleventh or 
 its lord, the love of a fpecial friend, or the marriage of one of his chil- 
 dren ; to the twelfth or its lord, the death of a child, or danger thereof, 
 or a legacy left to it ; to the afcendant or its lord, the love or hate of the 
 native's children to him, or their travelling beyond fea ; to the fecond or 
 its lord, that thev (hall have honour and renown in the world, and have 
 fome gifts from their father ; to the third or its lord, that the native 
 (hall take recreation in the country, and among his kindred ; to the 
 fourth or its lord, that the native's children may deal in great cattle, and 
 have many private enemies. 
 
 The Lord of the Sixth to Promiffors. — To the fixth houfe, thriving by 
 trade and hulbandry ; to the leventh or its lord, danger of ficknefs 
 through fome women, or by quarrelling ; to the eighth or its lord, dan- 
 ger of mortal ficknefs ; to the ninth or its lord, ficknefs at fea, or from 
 too much ftudy ; to the tenth or its lord, grief for fome difhonour, or 
 not attaining the honour defired ; to the eleventh or its lord, infedlion 
 among cattle, or grief of the native for fome fpecial friend's fake ; to the 
 twelfth or its lord, lofs of cattle by thieves, ficknefs, or infedion ; to 
 the afcendant or its lord, ficknefs through the native's own folly ; to the 
 fecond or its lord, for want of money, or lofs of an eftate ; to the third 
 or its lord, by reafon of fome journey, or unkindnefs of kindred ; to the 
 fourth or its lord, by reafon of his father, or grief for lofs of inheri- 
 tance ;,
 
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 tance; to the fifth or its lord, from fome unlawful pleafure, dlfobedi- 
 ence, or death of a child. 
 
 The Lord of the Seventh to Promijfors. — To the feventh houfe, fick- 
 nefs or illnefs to the native; to the eighth or its lord, the wife's por- 
 tion ; to the ninth or its lord, fhe goes into the country, or is concerned 
 with her kindred; to the tenth or its lord, takes polTeffion of an inheri- 
 tance ; to the eleventh or its loid, (he has a cliild, or comes more into the 
 hufband's favour ; to the twelfth or its lord, (he is fickly, or fome way 
 concerned with her hulband's private enemies ; to the afcendant or its 
 lord, ftie and her hufband become greater friends or enemies than formerly; 
 then alfo law-fuits either begin or end ; to the fecond or its lord, a wife 
 politic enemy, or a law-fuit proves good or bad to the native's fubftance ; 
 to the third or its lord, fhe either goes beyond fea, or takes fome long 
 journey ; to the fourth or its lord, fhe brings him lands : to the fifth or 
 Its lord, children and friends ; to the fixth or its lord, (he meets with 
 private enemies. 
 
 77/1? Lord of the Eighth to Promijfors. — To the eighth houfe, legacies; 
 to the ninth or its lord, legacies by fome of the wife's brethren, or by a 
 clergyman ; to the tenth or its lord, by his wife's father or his own mo- 
 ther ; to the eleventh or its lord, by fome friend ; to the twelfth or its 
 lord, by fome of his wife's uncles or aunts by the father's fide, or fome of 
 his own by the mother's lide ; to the afcendant or its lord, danger of 
 death ; to the fecond or its lord, receiving of the wife's portion ; to the 
 third or its lord, a legacy by a brother or kinfman ; to the fourth or its 
 lord, by a father ; to the fifth or its lord, danger of death to a child, or 
 the falling of an inheritance to it; to the fixth or its lord, a dangerous 
 licknefs to the native ; to the feventh or its lord, the wife's dowry, or 
 legacies by means of a wife. 
 
 The Lord of the Ninth to Promiffors. — To the ninth houfe, good fuc- 
 cefs at fea, church-preferment ; to the tenth or its lord, preferment and 
 honour by means of learning, the fea, or the church ; to the eleventh 
 or its lord, that the native gets many friends by his learning and fanftity ; 
 to the twelfth or its lord, many private enemies; to the afcendant or its 
 lord, that the native fhall attain to learning, arts, fciences, or ecclefiaf- 
 tical preferment, through his own induftry ; to the fecond or its lord, by 
 means of his wealth, and that he may get or lofe fubfliance thereby ; to 
 the third or its lord, that he may attain thofe things by means of a bro- 
 ther, kinfman, or neighbour, or may travel for improvement; to the 
 fourth or its lord, by means of a father or of an inheritance, or he may 
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 ous, and delight in the education of his children ; to the fixth or its lord, 
 ficknefs through too much ftudy, or care for bufinefs ; to the feventh 
 or its lord, church-preferment by means of a wife or woman ; to the 
 eighth or its lord, by means of her fortune ; or danger of death for fome 
 mifdemeanor. 
 
 The Lord of the Tenth to Promijfors. — To the tenth houfe, great and 
 eminent honour and preferment ; to the eleventh houfe or its lord, pre- 
 ferment through friends, and that he fhall attain honourable friends by 
 his preferment ; if he be a tradefman, he will gain much thereby, through 
 his friends and acquaintance, and fo on, conjideratis conjiderand'ts ; to the 
 twelfth or its lord, diflionour and lofs, or danger of imprifonment by 
 means of a private enemy ; to the afcendant or its lord, honour, glory, or 
 dignity, by his own induftry ; to the fecond or its lord, by means of 
 money ; to the third or its lord, by travel, kindred, neighbours, or the 
 like ; to the fourth or its lord, by means of a father, or an inheritance; 
 to the fifth or its lord, by means of children, or pleafant companions ; to 
 the fixth oi- its lord, by means of a fervant ; to the feventh or its lord, 
 by a wife, or fome woman ; to the eighth or its lord, by a legacy, or 
 wife's portion ; to the ninth or its lord, by the fea, merchandife, the 
 church, arts, fciences, &c. 
 
 The Lord of the Eleventh to Promijfors. — To the eleventh houfe, furc 
 friends ; to the twelfth or its lord, friendfhip from enemies ; to the 
 afcendant or its lord, endeared friends for the native's own fake ; to the 
 fecond or its lord, profitable friends ; to the third or its lord, friendfhip 
 of kindred, brethren, or neighbours ; to the fourth or its lord, friends 
 by means of an eflate ; to the fifth or its lord, by means of jovial compa- 
 nions, or children ; to the fixth or its lord, by means of a fervant ; to 
 the feventh or its lord, by a wife, or the reconciliation of an enemy; to 
 the eighth or its lord, legacies by means of a friend, alfo honourable 
 friends ; to the ninth or its lord, friendHiip by reafon of the church, fea, 
 arts, fciences, merchandife, &c. religious friends ; to the tenth or its lord, 
 the friendfhip of the king, queen, or fome nobleman ; honourable friends, 
 and fuch as are friends to him, by reafon of his profeffion, dignity, or 
 sreatnefs. 
 
 o 
 
 77/1? Lord of the Twelfth to Promijfors. — To the twelfth houfe, pri- 
 vate enemies ; to the afcendant or its lord, danger of imprifonment; 
 to the fecond or its lord, lofs or gain of fubftance by private enemies or 
 by cattle ; to the third or its lord, enemies amongfl; kindred or relations; 
 to the fourth or its lord, prejudice to iiiheritances ; to the fifth houfe 
 
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 or its lord, ficknefs, fallity of children ; to the fixth houle or its lord, 
 lofs of cattle by robbery or the like ; to the feventh or its lord, death 
 of private enemies ; to the eighth or its lord, gifts or legacies ; to the 
 ninth or its lord, enemies among churchmen, merchants, and learned 
 men; to the tenth or its lord, the notice of great and noble men, or 
 lofs of credit : to the eleventh or its lord, lofs of friends, or that friends 
 may become enemies. 
 
 Thefe directions may either fignify good or evil to thofe things which 
 we have fpecified them to fignify, according to the nature and quality of 
 the promifTor ; for, if the dire6tion was to the fextile or trine of the pro- 
 miflbr, without doubt the things promifed by that diredion may be 
 eminently good ; if to the quartile or oppofition, very bad ; and, if to 
 the conjunction, then according to the nature and quality of the planet, 
 and the houfes he is lord of, be he good or evil. 
 
 As the afcendant fignifies the body, mind, and life ; the fecond, ef- 
 tate and fubftance ; and the tenth, preferment, credit, trade, and favour of 
 threat men ; fo alfo, Sol, Luna, and the Part of Fortune, befides what they 
 import by being pofited in, or lords of, any particular houfe, fignify the 
 body, mind, fubftance, life, health, dignity, offices, alTedions, eftate, 
 fortune, and friendfhip of great perfons. Thefe things being under- 
 ftood, he that would truly judge of the effedts of diredions, ought 
 to confider the true meaning of the fignificator, of the promiflbr, and 
 of the houfe : firft, what they fignify eflentially, and what accidentally ; 
 fecondly, what by domination, and what by pofition ; for thofe things 
 fianified by the fignificator, (hall either be augmented or diminifhed, 
 preferved or deftroyed, ftrengthened or weakened, attained or loft, ac- 
 cordincT, firft, as the houfe or point where the direction falls is fortified 
 or vitiated by the prefence or beams of good or evil ft:ars ; fecondly, 
 according to the eminency of the fignificator ; and laftly, as the pro- 
 miffor is good or bad, ftrong or weak. — Therefore the fignificator fignifies 
 the thing promifed ; the houfe in which the directions falls, its relation 
 or quality ; and the promijfor the means of the accompliftiment ; wherein 
 muft be confidered the radical fortitudes of both, for accordingly the 
 efteCts of the direCtion will operate, and be durable, whether good or 
 evil, till this or fome other fignificator meets with another promiflbr, 
 & e contrar'io; wherein note, that, if the fignificator be ftrong, the thing 
 promifed will be very good and great ; and, if the promiflor aniwers 
 in ftrength, the direCtion will glorioufly appear ; but, if the promilTor be 
 weak or mean, the native may attain the thing fignified, but not without 
 o-ieat delay, labour, care, and toil. But coutrariwife, if the fignificator be 
 
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 weak ; for then the matter will not be great nor eminent, let the promif- 
 for be what it will. 
 
 If the fignificator difpofes of the place of the diredlion, though aa 
 evil one, the promiflbr will not do fo much hurt as it otherwife would ; 
 but, if the promiffor he difpofer of the place of an evil direftion, it will 
 then operate with double force, according to the greatnefs of its malig- 
 nity. But, if another planet difpoles of the place of the diredlion, then, 
 according as that planet fympathizes with the fignificator, either by na- 
 ture, body, or beams, fo the good or evil fignified by the dire£lion (hall 
 be increafed or diminifhed. 
 
 If Saturn, Jupiter, or Mars, be fignificators, they will not be fo much 
 impedited by evil promiflbrs as the other planets are ; but, whenever they 
 are promiflbrs, and afflidled by malefic afpefts, they efFe6l what they 
 portend with violence. 
 
 If two diredlions, the one good, the other evil, fhall operate at one and 
 the fame time ; unlefs they are diametrically oppofite one to another, 
 the efFeds of both will appear, but that moft apparently which coheres 
 with the revolution of the year. 
 
 The fignificator and promiflbr fliall fympathize together; and if the 
 good diredlion fliall fall in Textile to the radical place of the fignificator, 
 or near the body of an eminent fixed flar, cohering in nature, that di- 
 redion will famoufly manifefl: its influence ; for directions to the bodies 
 or fixed flars of the firfl;, fecond, or third, magnitude, according as they 
 in nature agree or difagree with the fignificator, fo they will fuddenly and 
 unexpedledly either help or impede him, and chiefly in and by thofc 
 things fignified by the houfe in which the diredlion falls. 
 
 JUDGMENTS to be inferred from TRANSITS. 
 
 Tranfits of good planets by good places or promiflbrs fignify good, but 
 by evil places, evil ; and fo contrariwife. And whatfoever we have be- 
 fore faid of diredions, the fame things, in an inferior degree, are to be 
 underflood of tranfits ; with this difference, that, whereas diredions fig- 
 nify the good or evil to be eminent, tranfits fignify much fmaller mat- 
 ters of the fame kind ; and, whereas the force or efFe61 of a diredion 
 lafts long, the eflTeft of a tranfit is generally over as foon as the tranfic ; 
 the one oftentimes lafting years, the other but days or weeks at mofl:. 
 
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 232 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 But the tranfits of the fuperiors, as Saturn and Jupiter, are very emi- 
 nently to be confidered, for they never pafs without obvious effects, which 
 often laft a whole year, be they good or evil ; for, if they be lords of ill 
 houfes, or radically in an ill houfe, if they tranfit the afcendant, the 
 quartile, or oppofition, or place of its lord, they threaten life ; if the 
 fecond or its lord, the fubftance ; if the third or its lord, journeys; if 
 the fourth or its lord, danger to the father, or lofs of inheritance ; if the 
 fifth or its lord, lofs by gaming, and death of children ; if the fixth or its 
 lord, death of cattle ; if the feventh or its lord, ficknefs of the wife; 
 if the eighth or its lord, lofs of fubftance, becaufe they caft: their op- 
 pofition unto the fecond ; if the ninth or its lord, lofs at fea, robbing by 
 land, envy of churchmen; if the tenth or its lord, the king's difpleafure 
 if a courtier ; but lofs of trade, if a tradefman ; if the eleventh or its lord, 
 evil friends, or their affliftlon, the lofs of hopes ; if the twelfth or its 
 lord, death, and lofs by cattle. 
 
 Obferve on what day the moon or other planets caft their trine or 
 Textile to the cufp of the fecond, or tranfit the trine or fextile of its lord, 
 or planet near its cufp, or caft their trine or fextile to the part of fortune, 
 for thofe days will be good to the native, and very profitable; and, if 
 he mind his bufinefs, he may then have aftoniftiing fuccefs ; but thofe 
 days in which the faid planets tranfit the quartile or oppofition, will be as 
 bad, wherein, if he lofes not money, he is fure to get none ; and this I 
 have found more than a thoufand times true; the fame if an evil planet 
 tranfits the conjun6tion of the lord of the fecond or part of fortune ; but 
 the tranfits of a good planet to their conjun61ion is advantageous. 
 
 Saturn and Jupiter, if they be lords of good houfes, and tranfit the 
 good afpeft or conjunftion of any fignificator, with whom they agree in 
 nature, or were radically in good afpeft with, they fignify much good. 
 
 If good planets or the lord of the afcendant tranfit the medium coeli, 
 or place of its lord, or its fextile or trine, the native gets honour or 
 trade; and, if he be in purfuit of any preferment, he attains it. 
 
 The lord of the afcendant, tranfiting the afcendant or his radical place, 
 fliows health to the native ; the fecond, or the conjunftion, fextile, or 
 trine, of its lord, gain ; the third, or conjundion, fextile, or trine, of its 
 lord, good journeys, and the friendfhip of kindred and neighbours, &c. 
 
 The lord of the fecond tranfiting the cufp thereof, or his radical place, 
 denotes gain; the third houfe, or the conjunction, fextile, or trine, of its 
 lard, or planet therein, (hows gain by travelling, neighbours, kindred, &c. 
 
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 The traiifits of the Moon difcover all things, whether good or evil, 
 which happen to a man daily through the whole courfe of his life ; her 
 application to, or tranfits of, fextiles and trines, (how good ; of quartiles 
 and oppofitions, evil, concerning all thofe things fignified by that houfe 
 in which the tranfit is made ; where if fhe be fignificatrix, the good or 
 evil will alfo fall in part upon the things fignified by her, according to 
 the houfe fhe was lady of, or pofited in the radix; but, if not, the good 
 or evil will fall upon thofe things fignified by the fignificator which is 
 tranfited. 
 
 JUDGMENTS to be inferred from REVOLUTIONS. 
 
 The judgments of a revolution are ealy to be determined, by confider- 
 inz in what houfe and fign in the revolution the radical fignificators are 
 pofited ; for according to thofe revolutional pofitions and configurations 
 we are to judge. So that, if the lord of the lecond houfe be in the third, 
 it fhovvsgain to come either by travel, or by kindred, or neighbours ; and, 
 if he be alfb in fextile or trine with the lord of the third in the radix, 
 the fame ; if with the lord of the fourth, by a father; if in the medium 
 coeli, or in conjundion, fextile, or trine, with his radical lord, gain by 
 trade, office, preferment, or noblemen. Hence it appears, that the figni- 
 ficator of fubfiance in a revolution, is not the lord of the fecond in the 
 revolution, but the lord of the fecond in the radix ; the fignificator of 
 lands is not the lord of the fourth in the revolution, but the lord of the 
 fourth in the radix ; the fame is to be understood of the refl ; but, if the 
 fame hgn which afcended radically afcends in the revolution, its efFedls 
 will be the more firm, becaufe the fignificators are the fame ; the like, if 
 the fame planets which were lords of the feveral houfes in the radix be 
 lords of the fame'in the revolution, though they pofTefs not the fame fign. 
 
 Whatfoever good or evil is prefaged unto the native, either by direc- 
 tion, tranfit, or revolution, we are to meafure the greatnefs thereof ac- 
 cording to the radical flrength or fortitudes of the fignificators, compared 
 with their ftrength or fortitudes at the time of dire6tion ; where, if they 
 are radically ftrong, the good or evil will be great and permanent, the 
 which is confirmed if they be flrong alfo at the time of direction or 
 tranfit; if radically weak, the good or evil will but meanly manifefl it- 
 felf ; and fcarcely at all, if weak at the time of direftion or tranfit ; but, 
 if radically weak, and flrong at the time of the dire6tioa or tranfit, the 
 efFeCfs thereof may appear much beyond the expedation of the native, 
 but will 'lot be very durable. 
 
 No. 1 2. 3 L The
 
 43 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The SIGNIFICATION of feveral FIXED STARS in 
 
 NATIVITIES. 
 
 The fignlficator of life or manners, joined to Caput Algol, makes the 
 native furly and choleric, and fhows danger of ludden death. To the 
 Pleiades, it (hows wantonnefs, ambition, and fcorn. To Aldebaran, 
 courage in war, and a martial inclination ; the lord of the afccndant and 
 the Moon or Saturn in conjundtion with this ftar, fliows a murderer, or 
 one that bears a very wicked mind. To Hircus, fliows curiofity, one de- 
 firing novelties ; yet a careful and fteady perfon. To Cingula Orionis, a 
 (harp memory and underftanding, one induftrious. To Syrius, an angry, 
 proud, fancy, giddy, imprudent, perfon. To Hercules, fubtilty, craft, 
 boldnefs, and cruelty. To Regulus, greatnefs of Ipirit, a generous and 
 magnanimous mind, one ambitious of rule and dominion. To Antares, 
 au unruly rafh perfon, and one likely to ruin himfelf by his obftinacy. 
 To Arifta, a fweet, noble, generous, foul, a lover of arts and fciences ; 
 and, if Mercury be with it, a curious inventor of rare things ; but, if Saturn, 
 a violent rigid fellow, and fometimes a fool. To Aquila, boldnefs, con- 
 (idence, valour, but a wicked perfon. To Cauda Delphini, one delight- 
 ing in fports, games, (hooting, hunting, and the like. The fignifica- 
 tor of fubftance, or cufp of the fecond, part of fortune, or its difpofitor, 
 in conjun6tiou with Regulus, or with Ariila, (hows much riches. 
 
 The fignificators of fubftance, part of fortune, or its lord, in conjunc- 
 tiou with Aldebaran or Caput Algol, (how lofs of eftate, and poverty. 
 The Sun or Moon with the Pleiades or Praefepe, Antares or Deneb, the 
 native will fuffcr fome hurt or defe6l in his eyes ; and it is incurable if 
 that light be angular. The Moon in conjunflion with Cingula Orionis, 
 and combuft, (hows blindnefs of one eye at leaft. The fignificators of ho- 
 nour in conjundlion, or within five degrees of conjundion forward or back- 
 ward, with Aldebaran, or with Hercules, Regulus, Arifta, Lanx Bore- 
 alis, or Antares, (how great honour and preferment. The Sun or Moon 
 in conjun6tion with the Pleiades or the Hyades, (hows military prefer- 
 ment ; the fame if thofe ftars culminate. Caput Algol, culminating, gives 
 the native authority over others ; fo alio Aldebaran, or Antares, in con- 
 jundtion of Sol or Luna in the alcendant, or medium coeli, give the native 
 honour, but with many difficulties and cafualties. Arifta afcending or 
 culminating, gives the native religious preferment. Fomahaut and Rigel 
 in the afcendant, or medium cceli, give an immortal name. Regulus, 
 Ardurus, or Humerus Orionis, in conjundion of Sol, Luna, or Jupiter, 
 in the tenth, give ample fortunes, and very great preferment. Syrius, or 
 Procyon, in conjundion with Sol in the afcendant or tenth, gives royal 
 preferment and favour. 
 
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 The luminaries, one or both, in conjonclion with Caput Algol, or 
 with Aldebaran, Hercules, Humerus Orionis, or Antares, prefage a vio- 
 lent death. Sol in conjundion with Caput Algol, in the eighth, and 
 his difpofitor in quartile or oppofition to Mars, the native will be in dan- 
 ger of lofing his head ; if the light culminates, he may die by fome wound. 
 Luna \'. ith Hercules, or Ardurus in the afcendant, I'eventh, or tenth, in 
 conjunflion with Mars, the native will be in danger of being fuffocated. 
 Luna with Antares, and Mars in the fourth, feventh, eleventh, or 
 twelfth, houfes, with Aldebaran, the native will die by the fword, or by 
 a blow, or a fudden fall, Luna with Antares in oppofition of Saturn 
 with Aldebaran, fhows, that if the native be not hanged, he will at leaft 
 die a violent death. Saturn or Mars with Caput Algol, and Luna with 
 Deneb ; he dies by the fentence of the judge. The Moon with Cor Hy- 
 dra, affli6ted by Saturn or Mars, he will be in danger of poifon, or of drown- 
 ing ; and, if the infortune be angular, it is fo much the more certain. 
 The Moon with Procyon, and Sol or Mars with Lucida Vulturis, or Fo- 
 mahaut, or Ultima in Dorfo Capricorni, fhows danger of being bit by a 
 venomous beafl. The Moon with Syrius and Saturn, or Mars with Ulti- 
 ma in Ala Pegafi, a violent death by the fury of violent beads, or martial 
 men. The Moon with Cingula Orionis and Saturn, or with Caput Her- 
 cules, or Antares, fhows the native will be in danger of perifhlng by water, 
 or by wicked perfons. The Moon with the Pleiades, and Saturn or MarS 
 with Regulus, fhows the lofs of one or both the eyes ; and this judgment 
 is confirmed, if Luna at the fame time be combufl. 
 
 The Pleiades in conjun6lion with Mars, and Regulus with Sdturn, are 
 eminent fignifications of a violent and untimely death. Fixed Stars of the 
 firfl magnitude near the cufp of the feventh, fhow a good and rich wife; 
 but her conditions will much fympathife with the nature of the flars. 
 Significators joined with fixed flars of the firfl or fecond magnitude, near 
 the ecliptic, fhow great preferment, and eminent honours. Fixed flars 
 of the nature of Saturn in conjun6tion with Sol, involve the native in 
 many miferies. Fixed flars of the nature of Mars and Sol, or Mercury 
 and Luna, give glory and renown ; of the nature of Jupiter and Venus or 
 Mercury and Venus, honour and wealth. Fixed fi:ars in angles, give 
 admirable preferment, and many great gifts; and elevate from poverty 
 to an extreme heicht of fortune. 
 
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 SIGNIFICATION of FIXED STARS in DIRECTIONS. 
 
 The afcendant, a planet therein, or its lord, direded to Ultima in Ala 
 Pegafi, Oculus Tauri Borealis, Lucida Pedis Gemini in Femore Leonis, 
 fhows unto the native good fortune, worldly happinefs, with the love of 
 
 women.
 
 236 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 women. To the Pleiades, Hyades, Caftor, Pollux, or Przefepe, wounds 
 or hurts in the face, arms, or eyes; impriionment, captivity, banifhnient, 
 or other obfcurity ; the native has often fore eyes upon thefe direftions ; 
 falls into many troubles through luft; engages in quarrels, meets with 
 lofs of reputation, and fometimes death itfelf. To the Afclli, a burn- 
 ing fever, lofs of eye-fight, efpecially the left eye, or lorcnels of the eyes 
 through diftillations of fhaip rheum ; hurts by fierce and violent hearts or 
 quarrels, malicious flanders, and other inconveniences. Jo Cingula Orio- 
 nis, Lanx Borealis, Axilla Sagittaiii, Cornu Capricorni Auftralis, Tibia 
 dextra Aquarii, denote legacies by inheritance, gain by jovial men and 
 things, occafions inordinate love, and gives a kind of gravity. To Alde- 
 baran, Regulus, Frons Scorpio, Antares, Humerus prascedens Orionis, 
 Humerus lequens Orionis, honour and wealth in a large meafure, eftima- 
 tion among perfons noble and great ; yet thefe directions (how fome dan- 
 ger to the native's health, and may give him an acute fever, or other vio- 
 lent difeafe. To Arifta, honour and renown in the church, eccletlaftical 
 preferment, applaufe and eftimation among all men ; it makes the native 
 ingenious, induftrious, honourable, and beloved. To Cauda Ixonis, much 
 worldly happinefs, but accompanied with melancholy, troubles, and cViC- 
 content. To Lucida Maxilla Ceti, Genu Caftoris, Genu Poilucis, Ventre 
 Gemini, or Cynofura, fhows danger of life, honour, or eftate, b\ evil men, 
 thieves, and the like ; yet thefe dire6tions often give the native poflefiions, 
 inheritances, and legacies. To Lucida Colli Leonis, Ala Leonis, Dorfo 
 Leonis, Lanx Auflralis, Genu & Tibia dextra Ophiuci, Dencb, Ultima in 
 Dorfo Capricorni, Sihifter Humerus & Cubitus dexter Aquarii, makes the 
 native folicitous al^out houfes, poffefiions, buildings, mines, or the like ; 
 gives him much labour, care, hazard, difturbance, and vexation, and a 
 melancholy difpofition ; with difgrace, flander, and fcandal, through wo- 
 men. To Hircus, it makes the native eminent in martial affairs, and 
 ftirs him up to valour, making him fubtle, witty, and difcreet, but a mere 
 diflembler ; fpending and wafting himfelf upon lufts and wantonn>;fs, 
 which ruins his credit and eftimation, reduces his trade if he has any, 
 and at lalt brings him to thieving, fwindling, robbing, and the like de(- 
 perate purfuits. 
 
 The medium coeli, planet therein, or its lord, directed to Ultima in Ala 
 Pegafi, Zona Andromeda, Pes Andromedas; Oculus Tauri Borealis, Lu- 
 cida Pedis Gemini in Femore Leonis, or Lucida Coronae, gives the native 
 honour, glory, and renown, and makes his fortune generally rife by means 
 of women. To the Pleiades, Hyades, Humerus Orionis fequens & pre- 
 Cedens, Caftor, Pollux, Procyon, or Priefepe, brings the native's honour into 
 queftion, wounds his reputation, involves him in many troubles and contro- 
 verfies; portends danger of a ftab, of imprifonment, or of fome tragical end 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 237 
 
 of his life. To the Afelli, Caput Herculis, Marchab, Dexter Humerus 
 Auriga?, forefliow a lafting wound in the native's honour, and more efpe- 
 cially if the Dragon's Tail be near them ; he then runs himfelf into every 
 fpecies of fin and wickednefs. To Cingula Orionis, Lanx Borealis, 
 Axilla Sagittarii, Cornu Capricorni auftraiis, Tibia dextra Aquarii, Caput 
 Andromeda, Collo Serpentarii, fhows honour, glory, renown, the favour of 
 great men, clergymen, ecclefiaftical preferment; and, if a tradefman or 
 merchant, a good trade, and happy returns from fea, with great profit. To 
 Aldebaran, Frons Scorpii, Antares, Hircus, Sirius ; thefe are profperous 
 direftions, and exalt the native infinitely, both in wealth and honour ; he 
 proves of an ingenious, magnanimous, and noble, mind ; gains favour from 
 princes and noblemen, and authority over others ; becomes governor ovej 
 an army, town, fort, or caftle ; and performs great aftions with honour 
 and applaufe. To Rigel, Arifla, Regulus, Arcturus, Fomahaut ; thefe 
 are the bell: directions that can ever happen to any native ; for they not 
 only raife him to honour, glory, renown, and wealth, to the enjoyment 
 of pleafure and riches, and to the favour of kings, princes, prelates, and 
 eminent ladies ; to power, authority, and dominion, with a healthful 
 conflitution of body ; but alfo crown him with an immortal name. To 
 Cauda Leonis, Caput Algol, Cor Hydra, extreme danger by reafon of 
 murder, robbery, or fome fudden death from the hands of others ; or the 
 native ading the fame upon others ; thefe are very evil direftions. To 
 Lucida Maxilla Ceti, Genu Caftoris, Genu PoUucis, Ventre Gemini, 
 Cynofura, Sinifter Humerus & dextra Cubitus Aquarii, Lucida Vulturis, 
 Scheat Pegafi, Cauda Ceti auftralis, {how unto the native many troubles, 
 flrife, contention, much difhonour, the lofs of the favour of fome great 
 or noble man, or eminent friend ; gives the native many enemies, and 
 much difcontent. To Lucida Colli Leonis, Ala Leonis, Lanx Auftralis, 
 Genu et Tibia dextra Ophiuci, Deneb, Ultima in Dorfo Capricorni, fore- 
 (how ftrife and contention with ancient men, lofs of eftate or good name ; 
 the falfity of eminent and ancient friends, with many other troubles, if 
 not imprifonment. To the fecond ftar in Ala finiftra Leonis, Lucida 
 Perfei, Dorfo Leonis, Vindemiatrix, honour and preferment among 
 fcholars, learned men, and governors of towns or cities ; it may be the 
 native may become mafter of a fchool in the country, or fellow of a col^ 
 lege in the univcrfity, or a magifbrate in a city or town corporate. 
 
 The fecond houfe, its lord, or planets therein, to Ultima in Ala Pegafi, 
 Oculus Tauri Borealis, Lucida Pedis Gemini in Femore Leonis, fhow an 
 increafe of the native's fubftance. To the Pleiades, Hyades, Caflor, Pol- 
 lux, Prffifepe, lofs of fubftance and eftate by quarrelling, contention, en- 
 vious neighbours, kindred, or relations, tedious and vexatious law-fuits, and 
 whoredom. To the Afelli : thefe are the worfl: of all directions, for they 
 
 No. I a. 3 M fignif/
 
 138 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fignify the confumption of an eftate, though it confifted of mountains of 
 gold. To Cingula Orionis, Lanx Borealis, Axilla Sagittarii, Cornu Ca- 
 pricoi ni auflralis, Tibia dextra Aquarii, an incieafe of fubilance, great 
 gains, gifts, legacies, and augmentation of wealth by the means of great 
 ladies and honourable women. To Aldebaran, Regulus, Frons Scorpii, 
 Antares, Humerus pr^ecedens Orionis, Humerus fequens Orionis, an aug- jM 
 
 mentation of fubftance by honours, preferments, or fome office or dig- m 
 
 nity, by the means of great and noble perfons; by military perlbns, &c. ■• 
 
 To Arifta, an increafe of fubftance by means of the church or ecclefiaf- 
 tical perfons, or to ecclefiaftical preferment by ingenuity, induftry, and 
 honourable women. To Cauda Leonis, an increafe of wealth, but with 
 much care, labour, and forrow ; if the diredion happen near the Dragon's 
 Tail, or the quartile or oppofition of Saturn or Mars, proves almofl; fatal 
 to the native's eftate. To Lucida Maxilla Ceti, Genu Caftoris, Genu 
 PoUucis, Ventre Gemini, Cynofura, an evil and hurtful time, a time of 
 Jofs, of cares, of forrows, troubles, and vexations, the native's eftate 
 waftes he knows not how. To Lucida Colli Leonis, Ala Leonis, Dorfo 
 Leonis, Lanx Auftralis, Genu & Tibia dextra Ophiuci, Deneb, Ultimo 
 in Dorfo Capricorni, Sinifter Humerus & Cubitus dexter Aquarii, gain 
 by houfes, lands, inheritances, by buying and felling of them, &c. yet 
 with care, pains, induftry, and much labour. To Hircus : this ftiows 
 gain by martial men and things, arts, fciences, and the like; if the di- 
 rection falls in the third, by kindred, neighbours, friends, travels, reli- 
 gious affairs, &c. 
 
 The Sun to the laft ftar in Ala Pegafi, Oculus Tauri Borealis, Lucida 
 Pedis Gemini in Femore Leonis, fliows the beginning of good fortune, 
 martial command, and warlike honour ; but in the end the native lofes all 
 again, honour, eftate, and liberty. To the Pleiades, Hyades, Caftor, 
 Pollux, Praefcpe, dangerous and violent difeafes, contentions, quarrellings ; 
 he commits murders, rapes, or other infolencies ; he will be in danger of 
 death by the (hot of a gun, the caft of a ftone, or a ftab ; or may be be- 
 headed, or banifhed, or wrecked ; I have known thefe direftions to caufe | 
 violent fevers ; and Sol to the Pleiades, a peftilential difeafe of which the I 
 native afterwards died ; but to Praefepe, danger of being murdered. To i 
 the Afelli, ficknefs, and ftiarp burning fevers ; in danger of fire, lofs of 
 honour and fortune ; mifchiefs from martial men ; the native may be in 
 danger of hanging, beheading, or imprifonment. To Cingula Orionis, 
 Lanx Borealis, Axilla Sagittarii, Cornu Capricorni auftralis. Tibia dex- 
 tra Aquarii, thefe fignify a noble, healthful, pleafant, and profit- 
 able, time, and all things go according to the native's defire. — To Al- 
 debaran, Regulus, Frons Scorpio, Antares, Humerus prascedens Sc 
 fequens Orionis : thefe diredions prefage ficknefs to the native, it 
 
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 may be iome violent or putrid fever ; they often exalt him to the top of 
 honour and preferment, but make him faitious and proud, and thereby 
 endanger the iofs of all his happinefs. To Arifta : this certainly gives 
 the native eminent honours, with a great augmentation of his fortune 
 and eftate ; if Arifta culminates, and the Sun comes lo it by dirediion, 
 it (hows ecclefiaftical preferment, or fome eminent place under govern- 
 ment. To Cauda Leonis, though no very good dire£iion, yet it aug- 
 ments the native's eftate, and raifes him to fome honour, but withal de- 
 ftroys it again, caufing much melancholy, and difeaies from thence. To 
 Lucida Maxilla Ceti, Genu Caftoris, Genu Pollucis, Ventre Gemini, 
 Cvnofura: thefe dire6tions forefliovv much evil to the native's bodv, 
 elliate, honour, and liberty; and betoken, if not the deftruftion, yet the 
 injury of them all, as llcknels, Iofs of money, fcandal, and danger of im- 
 prifonment. To Lucida Colli Leonis, Ala Leonis, Dorfo Leonis, Lanx 
 auflralis, Genu and Tibia dextra Ophiuci, Deneb, Ultima in Dorfo Capri- 
 corni, Sinifter Humerus & Cubitus dexter Aquarii ; thefe dire6tions 
 precipitate the native's honour and credit, and make him go under 
 many evil reports, to his great prejudice. To Hircus, it (hows martial 
 preferment, honour in war, exalts the native both in wealth and dignity, 
 makes him ingenious, and apt to find out many rare inventions. 
 
 The Moon to the lafi: ftar in Ala Pegafi, Oculus Tauri Borealis, Lucida 
 Pedis Gemini in Femore Leonis, forefhows a healthful time, with an aug- 
 mentation of wealth and honour. To the Pleiades, Hyades, Cartor, Pol- 
 lux, or Pr^efepe, makes the native fuffer the fcandal of evil tongues, 
 vexes and afflids him with crofs neighbours, law-fuits, and other trou- 
 bles. To the Afelli ; this diredtion afflids the body with many evils ; 
 and if it falls near the oppofition of Saturn and Mars, or the Sun, it is 
 much if the native be not blind; or have fome continual diftemper in 
 the eyes, or pains in the head. To Cingula Orionis, Lanx Borealis, Ax- 
 illa Sagittarii, Cornu Capricorni auftralis. Tibia dextra Aquarii, new 
 friends, the acquaintance of ladies aiid noble women, and gifts by their 
 means. To Aldebaran, Regulus, Frons Scorpii, Antares, Humerus pre- 
 cedens & fequens Orionis; thefe direftions forefhow honour, glory, 
 renown, and wealth from the king and other noble perfons, gives the na- 
 tive a command over others, and makes him famous in his generation. 
 To Arifta, honour, glory, and preferment both in church and ftate, the 
 overcoming of an adverlary ; dominion over the common people, and 
 gain by them. To Cauda Leonis, gives honour, and a good cflima- 
 tion among the vulgar; but withal threatens fcandal, Iofs, and con- 
 tempt. To Lucida Maxilla Ceti, Genu Caftoris, Genu Pollucis, Ventre 
 Gemini, Cynolura ; fcandal, odium, and fcorn even of the common fort; 
 the ill will of fome eminent lady or woman ; danger of thieves, and 
 
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 240 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fuch-like perfons. To Lucida Colli Leoiiis, Ala Leonis, Doilb Leoiils, 
 Lanx aufiralis, Genu & Tibia dextra Ophiuci, Deneb, Ultima in Dorlb 
 Capricorni, Sitiifter Humerus & Cubitus dexter Aquarii ; thefe are evil 
 dirc(flions, giving the native melancholy difeaies, efpecially in thofe parts 
 fisruified bv the iign in which the liar is ; he 2:oes alio under fcandal and 
 reproach. To Hircus, is a very ncble direction, and may fignify the 
 advancement of the native in all things, chiefly in military affairs ; yet 
 involves him in feveral vices and troubles with women ; and bids him 
 beware of fome fevere wound by a fall, blow, or flab. The fignificators 
 of the part of fortune, being dire6ted in like manner, are altogether the 
 fame with what we hinted in the dire<51ions of the fecond houle. 
 
 In all thefe diredlions we mufl have great regard both to the fign and 
 the houfe. In diredions which concern the body, we have refpeft to 
 the fign, becaufe that moft commonly indicates the part affli6ted ; fo alfo 
 does the houfe ; for, if the direftion falls in the afcendant, the afflidlion 
 falls in the head, as on the eyes, nofe, cars, or brain ; if in the fecond, in 
 the throat, &c. In directions which concern the eflate, honour, or for- 
 tune, we chiefly take notice of the houfe, for that indicates the means by 
 which the thing fhall be attained ; the nature of the fliar, the quality of 
 the perfon ; if in the third, by a kinfman, or by travel ; if in the feventh, 
 by a wife, or woman. 
 
 In dircdling any planet to thefe fixed flars, confider whether the flar 
 fympathizes with the fignificator in nature and quality, or not. If it does, 
 the direction may be good, although it be to an evil flar ; for fweet to fvveet, 
 is fweet; like to like breeds no dilcord ; an union and agreement of natures 
 takes away the evil efFe£ts ; for, if the lord of the afcendant were Saturn, 
 and he fhould be directed to Cauda Leonis, a flar of his own nature, this 
 could be no evil direftion, nor any-way afflift the native either in body 
 or eflate ; but would have famous and glorious efFeds, both for health and 
 wealth, according to the place it falls in. In thefe directions we are 
 principally to regard the magnitude of the ftar ; for flars only of the firfl 
 magnitude prefage things eminently glorious, or dangeroufly deftruClive ; 
 and thofe which are of the fecond, come very near them. Then the place 
 of the direction is to be noted; for, if it fall in an angle, the direction 
 will not only be famous and eminent, but alfo manifeft itfelf with a great 
 deal of life and vigour ; and that on a fudden ; in a fuccedent houfe, the 
 cfFeCls will be more languid ; in a cadent, not only weak and flow, but it 
 may be a queflion whether they will ever operate at all. Regard muft 
 alfo be had to the latitude ; for ftars, having fouth latitude, operate not 
 fo much upon our northern hemifphere as thofe which have north ; 
 thofe which have no latitude, fhow their efFeCt, be they good or evil, 
 
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 with ftri6l equality ; and thofe which have north latitude noanifeft their 
 force with great vigour. 
 
 The fign alfo in which the ftar is pofited is much to be confidered ; for 
 fixed ftars in cardinal figns exceed the others in power by fo much as 
 their place is more excellent and remarkable. And, if a direflion to any 
 eminent fixed ftar falls in Textile or trine to the places of any of the for- 
 tunes or of the luminaries, or coheres with any other eminent direfiion 
 at or near the fame time to the body or afpecSl of any planet of the na- 
 ture of the fame ftar, the effeds will not only be indubitably evident, 
 but alfo very ftriking and wonderful. 
 
 The durability of their efFedl remains only to be confidered ; wherein 
 muft be noticed, whether there be a continued feries of diredions attend- 
 ing of the fame purport and efFeft ; for, if there be, and nothing contra- 
 dids their influence, the efforts of them will, we may fafely conclude, be 
 durable and lafting. 
 
 APHORISMS for guiding the JUDGMENT upon NATIVITIES and 
 
 HORARY QUESTIONS. 
 
 Confider the degrees afcending, Sol and Luna ; and fee whether they are 
 affli6ted, or not ; if they are extremely afflidled, or either of them, it is an 
 argument of fliort life, and therefore it will be in vain to form long di- 
 redions for fuch a nativity. Thefe points are faid to be afflided or un- 
 fortunate, when either the conjundion, quartile, or oppofition, of the 
 infortunes, vitiate their places, or when many violent fixed ftars of the 
 nature of the lord of the eighth afcend with the degree afcending or with 
 the luminaries. 
 
 Confider the lord of the afcendant alfo ; for, if he be effentially ftrong, 
 free from the afflidion of the infortunes, not combuft nor retrograde, nor 
 impeded by the lord of the fourth, fixth, eighth, or twelfth, houfes, but 
 increafing in number, light, and motion, it (hows long life. H the Sun 
 in a birth by day, or the Moon in a birth by night, be ftrong, free from 
 afflidion, and aflifted by the fortunes, it fliows long life ; but thofe who 
 are borne exa6tly upon the very change or full of the Moon feldom live 
 long ; the Moon befieged between Saturn and Mars argues fiiort life. 
 
 That planet, which has moft dignities, efifential and accidental, in a 
 figure, is the lord of the geniture, more efpecially if he be lord of the 
 alcendant alfo. 
 
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 442 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The planet or planets in the afcendant are the chief fignificators of 
 manners ; but, if no planet be in the afcendant, then the planets from 
 which the Moon feparates, or to which fhe applies, fhall be fignificators. 
 
 The fignificator of manners in Aries, fhows one witty ; in Taurus, 
 one laborious; in Gemini, a lover of learning ; in Cancer, inconftancy ; 
 in Leo, fobriety and difcretion ; in Virgo, covetoufnefs ; in Libra, in- 
 conftancy and conceitednefs ; in Scorpio, wifdom, fubtilty, and boldnefs; 
 in Sagittarius, valour ; in Capricorn, lafcivioufnefs ; in Aquaries, com- 
 placency and kindnefs ; in Pifces, a mere hypocrite. 
 
 Mercury and Luna in coniun6lion, Textile, or trine, in any fign, fhows 
 ingenious perfons ; the quartile (hows wit, but more turbulent ; the op- 
 pofition fhows one leditious, ftubborn, imprudent, and dcftrudive. Mer- 
 cury in Taurus or Capricorn, in a cadent houfe, and retrograde or com- 
 bufl:, or affli61ed by Saturn or Mars, fhows the native to be fimple, and 
 of rude underflanding. Mercury in his own houfes, or in Aries or Aqua- 
 ries, in reception with Mars or Saturn, fhows a fliarp wit, and one of an 
 admirable invention. Mercury received of the Moon, either by houfe or 
 exaltation, gives a fertile genius. Mercury in conjunction, fextile, or 
 trine, of Saturn, fhows a wary conflant wit ; of Jupiter, an honefl: up- 
 right mind ; of Mars, a confident opinion ; of Sol, a proud heart ; of 
 Venus, a pleafant wit ; and of Luna, a ready and piercing wit. 
 
 If many planets be ftrong and eflentially fortified, efpecially Saturn, 
 Jupiter, and Mars, or Sol, the native will enjoy a manifefb and ample 
 fortune, live nobly, and in great efteem, above the ordinary quality of his 
 birth, managing the a£lions of his whole life with glory and fuccefs ; and 
 this judgment will be more confirmed, if moft or all the planets be efTen- 
 lially fortified at the fame time. But, contrariwife, when moft of the 
 planets are in their detriment or fall, peregrine, cadent, retrograde, afflidted, 
 or combuft; the native is then continually involved in a thoufand mif- 
 fortunes, one upon the heels of another, and his whole life is nothing 
 but a vale of mifery. But a mediocrity of teftimonies fhows a various 
 fortune, fometimes miferable, fometimes extremely happy, according to 
 the times of evil or good diredions. 
 
 Saturn fignificator of fubflance, fhows riches by building, hufbandry, 
 gardening; Jupiter, by the church, religion, government, trufl, clothing; 
 Mars, by war, inftruments of war, law, furgery, or phyfic ; Sol, by honour, 
 command, office, digiiity, or preferment ; Venus, by friends, gifts, or 
 women ; Mercury, by arts, fciences, learning, oratory, merchandife ; Luna, 
 by navigation, bv the common people, or women. 
 
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 The Moon fortunate in the afcendant gives wealth and eftimation all 
 the life long. The Sun and Luna in trine, and he in his exaltation, free 
 from the affli6lion of Saturn or Mars, are ample teftimonies of a large 
 fortune ; the fame if Jupiter or Venus be in the fecond. The difpofitor 
 of the Part of Fortune in the eighth, or the lord of the eighth eflentially 
 fortified in a good houfe, promifes the native an eftate by the death of 
 friends. The Moon combufl;, or in conjun6iion, quartile, or oppofition, 
 of Saturn, deflroys an eftate though never fo large, and reduces the native 
 to poverty; the fame happens if the lord of the lecond be i'o. 
 
 If the fignificator of fubflance be efientially fortified, well pofited, free 
 from afRidion, or in a fixed lign, the native's fubftance will be firm and 
 durable all his life. An infortune in the fecond, ftrong, fhows that the 
 eftate may continue, but with great difficulty ; but, if weak, that it will 
 come to nothing; if a fortune be there, the native's eil:ate will be firm. 
 If no planet be in the fecond, confider the lord of the fecond, and the dif- 
 pofitor of the Part of Fortune, and judge by them, and by their diredions 
 to good or evil promilTors. The fignificators of fubftance oriental, and 
 fwift in motion, fhow the native will be rich quickly ; but occidental, 
 flow in motion, or both, or retrograde, not till old age. 
 
 The lord of the afcendant, and third houfe, in good afpe6t or mutual 
 reception, (hows concord among brethren, kindred, and neighbours; but, 
 if in evil afpecft, the contrary. If Saturn or Mars be peregrine in riie 
 third, or the Dragon's Tail be there, the native and his kindred will be at 
 perpetual variance, and by them he will receive many crolTes and lofles. 
 If Saturn or Mars, or the Dragon's Tail, be in the third houfe, or in con- 
 jun6tion, quartile, or oppofition, of the lord of the third, the native lofes 
 by travel, and will always be in danger of thieves or robbers upon the 
 highway, and will have many evil neighbours. 
 
 The Sun or Moon in Via La6tea, affli6led with the conjun6tion, quar- 
 tile, or oppofition, of Saturn and Mars, or with nebulous flars, portends 
 blindnefs, if both luminaries are afflided ; if the Sun only be afflided, it 
 is the right eye ; if the Moon, the left. The fame if the Moon be in con- 
 junction, quartile, or oppofition, with Sol or Saturn, with nebulous flats, 
 or if Sol be in conjunction with Mars in the eighth. 
 
 The Sun in good afpe6t with Saturn or Jupiter in a diurnal geniture, 
 or the Moon fo conjoined in a nodurnal, efpccially in the fecond or fourth, 
 or if they have dominion in the fourth, fignify a good patrimony to de- 
 fcend to the native, and an augmentation of his paternal inheritance. But 
 the Sun afflided by Mars by day, or by Saturn by night, and not affifled 
 by the fortunes of Luna by night, decreafing and affliCied by Saturn or 
 
 Mars,
 
 i44 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Mars, or both ; or if the lord of the fecond, or the fourth houfe or its 
 lord, be afflicted in like manner; it (hows the native will wafte his fa- 
 ther's eftate, and bring it to nothing. The fame if Saturn be in conjunc- 
 tion with the lord of the fourth in the twelfth ; or the infortunes in the 
 fourth in conjunftion with the lord of the fifth ; fo it is alfo if Mars be 
 in conjunction with Sol, and peregrine, affliding the fecond. 
 
 In a diurnal genefis, Sol and the lord of the fourth fignify the father, 
 and the Moon the mother ; but, in a nocturnal, Saturn, with the lord 
 of the fourth, the father ; and the Moon the mother. Now, if thefe 
 behold the afcendant or its lord by Textile or trine, there will be concord 
 and love between the native and his parents ; but, if by quartile or oppo- 
 Ction, much ftrife, difcord, and contention. The fignificators which caft 
 the beft or greateft afpe6t to the afcendant or its lord (how that the per- 
 fon fionified by them will love the native beft. 
 
 Saturn in the fourth, in his houfe or exaltation, dire(5l, fwift in mo- 
 tion, and in fextile or trine with Jupiter, Venus, or the lord of the fe- 
 cond ; the lord of the fourth in reception with either luminaries, and they 
 in good afpeft to the fourth or planets therein ; (how an ample fortune 
 by managing quarries, mines of metal, coal, (tones, minerals, &c. 
 
 The lord of the afcendant in the fixth or twelfth, and he or the afcen- 
 dant affli6led by malefic planets, (hows a fickly perfon. If the fign af- 
 cending and all the planets be in figns of one triplicity, the native will 
 always be afflidled with difeafes of the nature and quality of that trigon ; 
 if the fiery, with fevers and inflammations ; if the airy, fuperfluities and 
 difeafes of the blood ; if the watery, dropfy, and other vyatery difeafes ; 
 if the earthy, confumptions, melancholy, and the like. 
 
 The Sun in the fixth, feventh, eighth, or twelfth, houfes, and afflided 
 or affliding the lord of the afcendant, gives few years, with much fick- 
 nel's and many afflictions. The Moon applying to the conjunction of Sol 
 (hows lean and infirm people, affliCted with fuch difeafes as the phyfician 
 can neither cure nor difcover. The Moon affliCted by the conjunction, 
 quartile, or oppofition, of Saturn and Mars, in conjunction with the Dra- 
 gon's Tail in the afcendant or fecond, (hows the falling ficknefs, or the 
 native's whole life to be fickly ; and fixed (tars of the nature of Saturn 
 being joined with the luminaries do the fame, making the perfon alfo lean 
 and pale. Mars in the afcendant (hows difeafes in the head, and fears 
 and wounds in the face ; Saturn in the medium coeli, fudden hurts by 
 falls, bruifes, and the like, as alfo lofs of honour ; but, in the afcendant, 
 pains of the teeth. The Moon, afflicted by the oppofition of Saturn, 
 Mars, or Mercury, (hows madnefs or folly ; the fame if Saturn and 
 Mars be in partile oppofition, or applying to it from angles. 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 245 
 
 If Mercury be lord of the fixth, or the planets in the fixth be ftrong, 
 eflentially fortified, and in good afped with the afcendant, or fecond, or 
 their lords, it fhows that the native's fervants will be honeft, juft, and 
 profitable to him ; the fame if the fignificators be angular; and fo con- 
 trariwife. A fortunate planet in the fixth or twelfth (hows good fervants, 
 and profitable; but the Dragon's Tail, Saturn, or Mars, in the fixth, 
 and peregrine, denotes bafe, fordid, and thievifti, fervants. 
 
 Planets in the fifth, and the Moon and Venus, or their difpofitors, free 
 from affliflion ; figns upon the afcendant and fifth, and figns in which 
 their lords are, being fruitful, fhow many children ; the fame if Venus 
 or the Moon be in the afcendant, or Jupiter in the feventh. Jupiter or 
 Venus, or the lord of the fifth, in trine to Luna, in human or fruitful 
 figns ; all or moft of the planets in fruitful figns, and in good afpedt to 
 the lord of the fifth, or planets therein ; Ihow a plentiful ififue. Saturn in 
 the fifth declares ftubborn and undutiful children ; Mars, fuch as will be 
 bold and daring; but Sol in conjun6tion, quartile, or oppofition, of Saturn 
 in the fifth or eleventh, fhows barrennefs; the fame if the lord of the fifth 
 be retrograde, or combuft, or in conjundion, quartile, or oppofition, of 
 Saturn or Mars, and they peregrine. Saturn or Mars, or both, peregrine 
 in the fifth or eleventh ; Sol in the fifth joined to an iufortune ; Sol, Sa- 
 turn, Mars, or Mercury, in quartile or oppofition of Luna in the medium 
 coeli; Jupiter in oppofition of Saturn or Mars or both; the lord of the 
 fifth in the eighth or twelfth ; or in conjunftion, quartile, or oppofition, 
 of Saturn or Mars; are all certain arguments that the children will die. 
 
 In marriages, obferve the motion of the fignificators ; for, if they are 
 dired and fwift, the native marries early; but, if retrograde and flow, 
 or ftationary, they prolong the time very much. The particular time of 
 marriage is difcerned by direft and converfe diredlions of the afcendant, 
 or medium coeli, or their lords; or the Sun or Moon to the conjundion, 
 Textile, quartile, or trine, of the lord of the feventh, or planets in the fe- 
 venth, or by dire6tions of the afcendant or medium coeli or their lords 
 to the conjun6tion, fextile, quartile, or trine, of Jupiter, Sol, Venus, or 
 Luna; and if any of them are in the feventh houfe, or afcendant, con- 
 joined to many planets, they fliow many wives ; and fo alfo does the lord 
 of the afcendant in configuration with many. The Moon configured to 
 one planet only, (hows but one wife ; and, if the Moon be ftrongeft:, the 
 man outlives his wife ; but, if the planet with whom the Moon is con- 
 joined be ftrongeft, he dies firft. 
 
 The Moon applying to Saturn, well-affe6led, fliows a ferious, induf- 
 
 trious, fober, laborious, woman ; but, being ill-aiFe6"ted, a fufpicious. 
 
 No. 13. . 3 O crofs,
 
 246 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 crofs, envious, froward, woman, indolent and carelefs ; applying to Ju- 
 piter well-affe(51ed, a fober, honeft, godly, religious, chafte, and virtuous, 
 woman, and a good houfewife ; but, being ill-afFeded, the woman may 
 have virtues, but they arc generally clouded ; applying to Mars well- 
 affe61ed, it fhows one of a lofty, honourable, open, and generous, mind; 
 a true friend, yet fcorning to receive any affront or injury, and one that 
 will defire to be mafter ; but, being ill-affcfted, an evil, quarrelfome, 
 proud, petulant, woman ; applying to the Sun, being well-affefled, fhows 
 an honourable and truly-noble creature, full of generofity and humanity, 
 afFedting high and great things ; but, if ill-affe61ed, (he will be idle, 
 vain, foolifh, proud, infulting, and domineering ; to Venus well-affeded, 
 a beautiful, fair, pleafant, civil, courteous, loving, good-conditioned, and 
 virtuous, woman ; but, if ill-affedled, fhe is an impudent, bold, arrogant, 
 prodigal, talkative, luflful, bafe, woman, Laftly, the Moon applying to 
 Mercury well-affe£led, fhows a loving, neat, ingenious, pleafant, well- 
 fpoken, careful, woman ; but, if ill-affe£led, an intruding, prattling, in- 
 conftant, diffembling, turbulent, creature. 
 
 The lords of the tenth and feventh, or fecond and feventh, in each other's 
 houfes of the figure, or in mutual reception, (how a good wife ; but the 
 lords of the fixth or twelfth in mutual reception, or pofition with the lord 
 of the feventh, (how a very mean, obfcure, ill-bred, woman. Saturn or 
 Mars in the feventh, very (Irong, (hows a good and rich wife, yet her 
 fubftance not attainable without trouble ; if peregrine there, it (hows one 
 of low birth, poor, and ill-conditioned ; if Jupiter, Sol, or Venus, be 
 there, the contrary. If the fignificators of man and wife be in quartile 
 or oppofition of one another, or in quartile or oppofition to the Moon, 
 there may be many quarrels, and that upon very flight occafions; the 
 contrary if they be in conju6tion, fextile, or trine, or in mutual reception 
 or pofition ; or if the Moon makes any tranflation between them by good 
 afpe6l. The lord of the feventh in quartile or oppofition to Saturn or 
 Mars, (hows an evil woman, immodeft and fliamelefs; and, if the lord 
 of the feventh be in the twelfth, although in trine with Venus, the wo- 
 man will prove inconftant to her hufband. 
 
 If Mercury and Luna be in conjunction or reception, or the lord of the 
 ninth be in the afcendant, or the lord of the afcendant be in the ninth, or 
 Mercury or Luna be in the afcendant, third, or ninth, or in mutual re- 
 ception of their lords;, or in conjun6tion with them, the native will travel 
 beyond fea, or take many long journeys. The caufe of the journey 
 appears from the nature of the fignificator, and the houfe in which he is 
 pofited ; if Saturn be fignificator, the caufe is from fome inheritance, le- 
 gacy, or things and commodities faturnine ; if Jupiter, the caufe is frcyn 
 
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 religion, ecclefiaftical preferment, honour, or law ; the like of the other 
 planets. If the fignificator be in the afcendant, the native is pofTefled 
 with a natural defire of feeing ftrange countries ; in the fecond, he travels 
 with a defign of enriching himlelf ; and fo of the other houfes. 
 
 If the lord of the ninth be in the afcendant, the native will travel much ; 
 if in the fecond houfe, he will gain confiderably by his travels; if in the 
 third, he will cohabit with ftrange women, and often fhift his refidence ; 
 if in the fourth, his parents will have fome occult infirmities, and he will 
 die on his travels; if in the fifth, he will have children in another 
 country ; if in the fixth, he will gain by his flaves or fervants, and his cat- 
 tle will fall fick on his travels ; if in the feventh, he will obtain a good 
 and obedient wife. - When the fignificators of journeys are eflentially 
 ftrong, well pofited, and free from afflidlion, and in Textile or trine of a 
 good planet, they denote honour, profperity, and fecurity, in travels, quod 
 capax, according to the quality of the perfon ; and contrariwife, if Sa- 
 turn or Mars afflid the fignificators, it fhows, in the twelfth houfe, dan- 
 ger of imprifonment ; in the fecond or third, treachery by kindred or 
 neighbours, or danger by common thieves ; but, in this judgment Saturn 
 fhows rather poverty and want of money ; Mars, bodily wounds. The 
 countries into which the native had beft travel, are chiefly thofe fubjeft to 
 the figns of the afcendant, fecond, ninth, tenth, and eleventh ; or thofe 
 figns in which Jupiter, Venus, Part of Fortune, or Dragon's Head, are 
 pofited ; but thofe fubjed to the figns in which the infortunes or Dra- 
 gon's Tail are pofited, will prove unfavourable to the traveller; and fo 
 alfo will thofe that are fubjed to the figns of the fourth, fixth, feventh, 
 eighth, or twelfth, houfes. 
 
 Saturn, Mars, or the Dragon's Head, in the ninth, or Saturn or Mars 
 in the third, oppofite to the ninth, Jupiter being peregrine, cadent, and 
 affli6led, fhows either pernicious feftaries, of no religion, or atheifls. But 
 Jupiter, Venus, or the Dragon's Head, in the ninth, fhows a truly reli- 
 gious perfon ; the fame if Sol, Mercury, Luna, or the Part of FortunCj 
 be there in fextile or trine with Jupiter or Venus. If no planets are in 
 the ninth, confider its lord and Jupiter; if they, or either of them, be 
 effentially fortified and ftrong, or angular, or in reception of Sol or Luna, 
 or with the lord of the afcendant or planets therein, or pofited in the af- 
 cendant, the native will be truly pious, honefl, and religious ; and fo 
 contrariwife. Saturn in the ninth, effentially flrong, fhows flrong zeal, 
 chaflity, and faith ; Sol there, fhows piety, and makes an excellent 
 preacher. If Sol or Jupiter hath dominion in the ninth houfe, or in the 
 afcendant, and hath dignities in the places of Mercury or Luna, the 
 words of the native will be like oracles. 
 
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 248 AN ILLUSTRATION ^ 
 
 The fignificators of honour in their houfes, exaltations, or in mutual 
 reception or pofition with the lord of the afcendant, or angular, being 
 alfo free from affli6tion, beftow on the native honour, glory, trufl, and 
 command. Jupiter, Sol, Venus, or Luna, in the medium cceli, the 
 fame ; more efpecially if they are effentially fortified. The Sun and 
 Moon in the degree of their exaltations, not affli£led, fhow, quod capax, 
 the greateft preferment. The light of time culminating, and in Textile 
 or trine with Jupiter and Venus, or with the other light, fhows great 
 honour. But thofe who have neither of the luminaries angular, or in a 
 mafculine fign, or in Textile or trine of Jupiter or Venus, will all their days 
 be abjeft and poor, and of the vulgar fort. 
 
 If the planet or planets which have dignities in the places of Sol, Luna, 
 or the fign afcending, (hall be ftrong and effentially fortified, and if it be 
 Saturn, Jupiter, or Mars, oriental, or if it be Venus or Mercury oc- 
 cidental ; the native (hall raife himfelf, though low, to a very high 
 condition. So alfo Sol culminating in Aries, Leo, or Sacjittarius ; or 
 Sol and Luna in reception, or in fextile or trine ; or if the Sun or light 
 of time be in conjundlion with Aldebaran, Regulus, Arifla, Pleiades, 
 Antares, Rigel, Hircus, Cor Hydra, Ardturus, Fomahaut, or Marchab, 
 and more efpecially if thofe ftars culminate alfo ; the Sun, Moon, and 
 Jupiter, in trine with each other ; the Sun and Mars in mutual reception, 
 or in trine from fiery figns ; Jupiter, Venus, and Luna, in conjundion or 
 partile trine, efpecially in angles ; Jupiter and Venus in conjunftion or 
 any angle, but chiefly in the tenth, with the Dragon's Head there ;— are 
 all teflimonies of eminent honour. 
 
 The Sun in Cancer, the Moon in Scorpio in conjunflion with Jupiter, 
 or in trine with him from Pifces, are arguments of great preferment. 
 The Moon in the afcendant, near the full, in conjundion, fextile, or 
 trine, with Jupiter, Sol, or Venus, or fixed flars of their nature, and 
 of the firft magnitude, fhows great increafe of honour and preferment. 
 Sol or Luna in conjundlion with Regulus or Arifta ; or in conjun6lion 
 with the Dragon's Head and Jupiter in the tenth, in trine to them, or to 
 Mars or Venus, will raife the native from obfcurity to fit with princes. 
 Whatfoever preferment is fignificd, if Saturn or Mars cafl their quartile 
 or oppofition to the tenth houfe, its lord, the Sun, or Jupiter, it will be 
 lofl again. If the lord of the tenth and afcendant apply one to another, 
 and are both oriental, and in their effential fortitudes, the native will be 
 great, and be beloved. 
 
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 Saturn in the tenth never lets the native enjoy his honour and prefer- 
 ment long ; but cafts him down headlong, when leaft expeded ; from 
 
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 which dejeftion he never rifes. The lord of the afcendant in Textile or 
 trine with the Sun, and oriental, or in trine or Textile with the lord of 
 the medium coeli, the native will attain to honour and dignity, and be 
 beloved of kings, princes, and noblemen. The lord of the afcendant in the 
 fign afcending, or in his own dignities, he will rife to honour and efteem 
 by his own induftry ; more efpecially if he applies to a planet angular and 
 in his own exaltation. The quality of the preferment is difcerned from 
 the planet or planets which apply to the luminaries, or to which the lu- 
 minaries apply; if Saturn be that planet, preferment comes by means of 
 an eftate, inheritance, pofTeffions, or favour of auceftors ; if Jupiter, by 
 means of virtue, honour, or learning, or honefty, gravity, juftice, reli- 
 gion, or wealth. If Mars, by valour, or by merit as captain or general 
 in the army, or by being a phyfician, furgeon, chemift, &c. If Venus, 
 by courtfliip, pleafantnefs, or through the means of women. If Mercury, 
 by wit, judgment, oratory, or learning; by the law, merchandife. Sec. 
 wherein alfo confider the houfe in which this planet is. If no planet 
 beliold the luminaries, or is beheld by them, then conCder the planet in 
 the tenth, and the ftrongefl. planet there, if there be many; if no planet 
 in the tenth, confider the lord of the tenth, and difpofer of the light of 
 time, or that luminary which is either above the earth or ftrongeft, and 
 judge ut fupra; for, if the planet (howing the preferment be eflentially 
 ftrong, free from afflidion, and affifted by other planets in quartile or 
 trine, the native's honour will be permanent, otherwife not. 
 
 Mars in his detriment, and in oppofition to the afcendant, fhows an un- 
 fortunate and infamous man. Mercury in quartile or oppofition to Sa- 
 turn, caufes an impediment in the tongue or fpeech ; in conjun6lion, 
 Textile, or trine, to Jupiter, makes excellent orators, of great realbn, un- 
 derftanding, and juftice, and gives him great friends among churchmen 
 and lawyers ; in afpe61: with Mars, he inclines to phyfic, furgery, chemif- 
 try ; in quartile or oppofition of Sol, to coining money ; in Textile or trine, 
 with Luna, gives him a good underftanding, and inclines him to the 
 knowledge of things to come, to arts and Tciences, as philoTophy, philo- 
 logy, mathematics, medicine, &c. if her application be in Virgo or 
 Scorpio, the native proves a lover of the mathematics. Mars in aTpe<5t 
 with Sol, gives the native power, authority, and magiftracy, making him 
 famous. Jupiter, Sol, Venus, or Luna, in the eleventh, eflentially forti- 
 fied, and in conjunftion. Textile, or trine, with the lord of the aTcendant, 
 fhow great and good friends ; but contrarivvife if Saturn and Mars be there 
 and weak. The Dragon's Tail in the eleventh, always (hows falfity 
 in friends, which is found never to fail ; in the third, the Tame. Fortunes 
 in the firft, fifth, Teventh, ninth, and eleventh, houTes, many friends ; in- 
 fortunes in the twelfth, or in angles, many enemies. 
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 2^0 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Thofe planets which are in oppofition to the luminaries, lord of the af- 
 cendant, or are pofited^in the twelfth houfe, fignify the native's enemies ; 
 no planets in the twelfth or feventh, or in oppofition of the luminaries, 
 few or no enemies. The lord of the afcendant in the feventh or twelfth 
 or the lord of th* feventh or twelfth in the afcendant, argue many enemies. 
 Thofe planets in feptima, or in oppofition of the luminaries, will difcover 
 their malice openly; thofe in the twelfth or cadent, will a6t their malice 
 clofely and cunningly. The lord of the afcendant either difpofing of the 
 fignificator of enemies, or much ftrongerin elTential dignities, and angular, 
 the native overcomes all his enemies, and contrariwife. Significators of 
 enemies cadent, peregrine, retrograde, or combufl, argue mean perfons. 
 Either of the luminaries afflicted by conjundlion, quartile, or oppofition, of 
 Saturn or Mars in angles, and difpofed of alfo by the faid infortunes, ar- 
 gues imprifonment ; lb if Sol or Luna be in the twelfth in conjunction 
 with Saturn. Saturn and Mars in conjunftion, out of their own digni- 
 ties, or dignities of the luminaries, the fame ; the lame if Sol and Luna be 
 in conjundlion in the eighth, in any fign except Taurus, Cancer, or Leo. 
 The lord of the afcendant combuft in the twelfth, imprifonment, and 
 many forrows ; in the tenth, death by fentence of a judge ; in the eighth, 
 forrows, and an infamous end. The lor«^of the afcendant in quartile or 
 oppofition of the lord of the eightl^pr any planet therein, or in conjunction 
 with evil fixed ftars of the nat^Jre of the lord of the eighth, or in the 
 fourth, fixth, eighth, or twelfth, in conjunftion, quartile, or oppolition^ 
 of Saturn or Mars, or combuft, and out of all his effential dignities, are all 
 demonftrations of a violent death. If thefe configurations happen in 
 fiery figns, it may be by beheading ; in airy figns, hanging ; in earthy figns, 
 by falls, blows, or the like ; in watery figns, by water or drowning ; in 
 angles, the death will be more honourable; fuccedent, by accidents; in 
 cadent, very (hameful. If the fignificators of manners be with Caput 
 Medufae, the native will be of a violent nature, even to murder or be 
 murdered; if with Aldebaran, he will be fierce, and given to warlike 
 aftions ; if with the Pleiades, he will be ambitious, turbulent, and libidi- 
 nous ; if with Cingula Orionis, he will be witty, of great underftanding, 
 and have a vaft memory ; if with Regulus, he will be magnanimous, no- 
 ble, generous, and aiming at rule and dominion ; if with Antares, he 
 will be rafh, headftrong, without rule or government, obftinate even to 
 his own deftru61ion ; if with Hercules, he will be rafh, bold, impudent, 
 cruel, fubtle, crafty, with a (how of valour and honour; if with Arifta, 
 he is noble, generous, and brave, of a gentle, affable, and courteous, dif- 
 pofition, juft, honeft, faithful, true-hearted, ftudious, and ingenious ; if 
 with Lyra, wanton and luxurious, but pretending to gravity and honefty ; 
 if with Aquila, bold, confident, and valiant. 
 
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 Saturn oriental, or in the afcendant, gives a ftature fomewhat above the 
 middle fize ; occidental, a mean ftature inclining lo brevity. Jupiter ori- 
 ental, gives a tall, large, and comely, perfon ; occidental, middle fized, but 
 large boned and well fet. Mars oriental gives an itiditterent large cor- 
 porature and flrong body ; occidental, one of a middle fj^e, but full body. 
 Sol gives a large and comely corporature ; Venus oriental gives a tall, 
 ftraight, and flender, perfon ; occidental, one (hort and well fet; Mercury 
 oriental gives a complete, tall, upright, and flender, body ; occidental, one 
 low and fmall. The Moon increafmg gives a full, fat, plump, perfon, 
 inclining to tallnefs ; decreafing, a fhort, low, fquat, body. Planets hav- 
 ing north latitude fhow large and grofs bodies, but of a more dull and 
 fluggifh nature; planets having fouth latitude fhow lefs proportion, and 
 fuch as are nimble and aflive. Saturn fhows a long vifage, fwarthy, black, 
 or tawny, and lowering ; Jupiter a fair, full, comely, vifage; Mars a full 
 fun-burnt or ruddy vifage ; Sol a full round face, high bold forehead, 
 and tawny complexion ; Venus a fair beautiful vifage ; Mercury accord- 
 ing as he is conjoined ; of himfelf he gives a long Iwarthy complexion ; 
 Luna full-faced if increafing; pale, wan, and long-vifaged, if near her 
 change. If Saturn is lord of the geniture, or in the afcendant, the na- 
 tive is melancholy, envious, fearful even of his own fliadow ; if Luna 
 is in'quartile or oppofition to him, he proves ambitious, and fills his ful- 
 len fancy with glorious conceits ; but, if Mars, it is much if he proves not 
 mad ; if Mercury, an enthufiaft or diviner. If Saturn be in the medium 
 ccEli, it deftroys the native's honour and fame, though ever fo great, and 
 he ever fo deferving ; fo much the more if he be in quartile or oppofition 
 to Sol or Jupiter ; but, if Jupiter or Venus be there under fortunate di- 
 redions, he may with much labour preferve it ; yet at lafl it will be de- 
 ftroyed. Saturn in conjundion with Luna, in an angle, though the native 
 were ever fo rich, yet fhall he be reduced to poverty ; fo the Dragon's Tail 
 in the fecond deftroys the native's eflate and fortune, be it never fo great, 
 and he will be driven to many exigencies and wants ; and Saturn or Mars 
 retrograde, peregrine, and cadent, being in quartile or oppofition to the 
 fecond houfe or its lord, makes the native perpetually poor. Saturn or the 
 lord of the afcendant in one man's nativity, being upon the cufp of the 
 fevcnth in another's, forefliows perfedt hatred, and the latter will be the 
 injured perfon. Saturn in the afcendant, in Gemini, Virgo, Libra, Ca- 
 pricorn, or Aquaries, in good afpeft with Mercury, makes fcholars and 
 learned men ; with Jupiter, divines and lawyers ; if he be in the eighth, 
 in a nodlurnal geniture, he forefliows a violent death. Saturn lord of the 
 feventh, makes the native long before he marries ; fcarcely before thirty, 
 unlefs Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, or Luna, be in the afcendant ; or feme 
 of the other three, and the lord of the afcendant be in good afpefl of 
 Ivuna. Saturn in quartile or oppofition with Sol or Luna from angles, 
 
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 252 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 portends blindnefs; the fame if the luminaries be in quartile or oppofition 
 of Mars. Saturn in the imum coeli, although in a fortunate genefis, fore- 
 (hows an evil end to the native, though he be a prince. 
 
 Jupiter lord of the getiiture, or in the afcendant, makes the native of a 
 noble and brave fpirit, aiming at good and honeft things, without the 
 fenfe or leaft imagination of evil. But if either of the luminaries, or 
 Saturn or Mars, be in quartile or oppofition to him, he proves proud, 
 treacherous, and a perfecSi villain, who under the notion of fandity may 
 Hiroud a thoufand enormities. Jupiter or Venus pofited in the afcendant 
 or medium coeli, free from afHiftion, makes the native beloved of all forts 
 of perfons, though his birth be ever fo mean ; and gives him a jufl:, up- 
 right, and honeft, foul. Jupiter, Venus, or the Dragon's Head, in the 
 fifth, in a fruitful fign, (hows many children; and, if Luna be in any 
 good afpeft with them alfo, fhe (hows ftill the greater number. 
 
 Saturn or Mars in the ninth, and the Dragon's Tail in the afcendant, 
 generally makes the native an atheift in judgment, though a prieft by pro- 
 feflion. Saturn upon the cufp of the fecond, makes the native always poor, 
 let him have what a(fi{l:ance foever ; unlefs he be effentially fortified there, 
 and in good afpe6t of the fortunes, Saturn and Mars in oppofition to 
 equinodial figns, makes (if a king) a great tyrant ; and, if they be in 
 quartile with Jupiter, he may be an obferver of law and religion, but it 
 will be for his own ends. Saturn in oppofition to Luna, or Mars in oppo- 
 fition to the afcendant, makes an abfolute knave and a traitor. 
 
 Mars lord of the geniture in the afcendant effentially fortified, makes 
 a courageous perfon, a good foldier, furgeon, or phyfician, and one honour- 
 able in his profeffion. Mars ftrong in a nativity, and lord of the feventh, 
 in nogoodafpeft to the luminaries or afcendant, the native will be unfor- 
 tunate in war, controverfies, and law-fuits ; for the feventh houfe fignifies 
 his enemies, and in this refpe6t they will be too powerful for him. Mars 
 in the medium coeli brings fcandal and di(honour to the native in many 
 things, whether he deferves them or not. Mars in Aries, Scorpio, or 
 Capricorn, in the afcendant of a nativity, makes the native invincible ; 
 and this more efpecially if he be in good afpe6l of the luminaries, or pla- 
 nets ellentially fortified. Mars in conjun6lion, quartile, or oppofition, to 
 Luna and Saturn, in the fame afpedl of Sol from angles, (hows a violent 
 death. If fo pofited in violent figns, though out of angles, the fame. 
 Mars and Sol in the fecond houfe, effentially fortified, the native may 
 have a good eftate, but will have ways enough to fpend it ; but, if 
 they be weak, peregrine, or afflided, the native will be driven to want. 
 
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 Mars and Sol in the afcendant, in aereal or fiery figns, make proud, fcorn- 
 ful, prodigal, perfoas, conceited of themlelves. Mars in oppofition to 
 Jupiter or Venus deflroys the iflTue of the native, though ever fo great and 
 numerous. 
 
 Sol lord of the geniture, or flrong in the afcendant, makes the native 
 aim at fovereignty, rule, and dominion; u'ho, quod capax, will be very 
 famous; the fame if Aries, Leo, or Sagittarius, afcend, and the Sun be 
 fl:rong and in trine with Jupiter. Sol in the afcendant makes a great 
 boafler and very proud perfon ; Mars there, denotes a notorious liar, ro- 
 mancer, and inventor of fables, and a contriver of mifchief, given over 
 to perjury, violence, and cruelty. Sol or Luna in quartile or oppofition 
 to Saturn or Mars from angles, chiefly in the medium cceli, fhows a violent 
 death ; if to Mars only, and in human figns, the native will be flain by 
 the hands of his enemies ; if to Saturn, he will either have a great fall, 
 be imprifoned, or flarved to death in a prifon. Sol and Luna affli6l:ed in 
 watery or airy figns affliff the native greatly with the gout. Sol and Luna 
 in conjunftion of Venus in Cancer or Capricorn give the native a great 
 fancy and a large underflanding. If Sol, Luna, or the medium coeli, be 
 direded to the conjundion, Textile, or trine, of Jupiter or Venus, the 
 native, if in years, generally marries. Sol, Luna, or the afcendant, being 
 Hyleg, dire61ed to the conjun6lion, quartile, or oppofition, of Saturn, and 
 the direftion being in Aries, Cancer, or Leo, the native rarely efcapes 
 death when thefe diredions come up, becaufe thofe figns reprefent the 
 moll: vital parts in man's body, and Saturn in the oppolite figns has mofl 
 power to do mifchief. Sol and Mercury in ponjundion in the third or 
 fourth makes the perfon fkilful in occult arts and fciences. Sol, Luna, 
 or the afcendant, in a geniture of fhort life dire6ted to the Dragon's Tail, 
 generally proves mortal. 
 
 Venus, lady of the geniture, or flrong in the afcendant, makes the na- 
 tive a great lover of pleafure, of an upright, julT:, honeft, heart; but, if 
 fhe be weak, and afflided by Saturn or Mars, the native is libidinous, 
 lenfually and beaflly inclined, and will be afflided with venereal difeafes.i 
 Venus and Mercury in conjundlion in Gemini, Libra, or Aquaries, in the 
 afcendant, in trine with Jupiter in the ninth, make great fcholars and 
 learned men. Venus and Mercury pofited in the medium coeli, either in 
 Aries, Gemini, Virgo, or Scorpio, make the native very eminent in 
 arts and fciences. Venus in the afcendant, and Mercury lord thereof, in 
 reception with her, denotes a good underftanding, and a worthy honefl 
 man. Venus pofited in the medium coeli makes the native, whether man 
 or woman, marry very advantageoufly. 
 
 No. 13. 3 Q Mercury
 
 254 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Mercury lord of the geniture, or flrong in the afcendant, gives the na- 
 tive an admirable fancy and great elocution ; if he be in good afpedl with 
 Luna or Venus, or in reception with either of them, he proves a famous 
 orator ; if in good afpe6l or reception with Saturn or Jupiter, he makes 
 an excellent philofopher or divine ; if with Mars, a good phyfician, fur- 
 geon, or mathematician. Mercury in cafimi, and in his own dignities, 
 makes the native a great orator, or fubtile counfellor, in the eftimation of 
 all men. Mercury in quartile or oppofition of Mars gives a Iharp, hue 
 a turbulent and troublel'ome, wit and underftanding ; one never content, 
 but always feeking out new things and ftrange inventions. Mercury in 
 an angle in Pifces, afflidl'ed of Mars or Sol, and the Moon in an angle, 
 afflided of Saturn, makes a fool or a madman ; for thefe configurations 
 opprefs the brain, and reprefent a thoufand fancies. Mercury in Cancer, 
 retrograde, in quartile to Mars and Jupiter, and they in oppofition to each 
 other in the nativity of a divine, make a great enthufiaft. If Mercury be 
 afflided by Saturn, in thofe genitures where Cancer, Scorpio, or Pifces, 
 afcend, the native is either dumb or has a very great impediment in 
 his fpeech ; the fame if Mercury be with the Dragon's Tail ; if affli6ted 
 by Mars in fuch a genefis, the native flammers very much. Mercury free 
 from afflidtion in genitures where Gemini, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, 
 or Aquaries, afcend, gives the native a graceful fpeech and an excellent 
 elocution. Mercury and the Dragon's Tail in the afcendant in Libra, and 
 the Moon in Aries in the feventh, make the native a promoter of fcandal 
 and falfehood. Mercury in either of the houfes of Saturn gives a found 
 underftanding; and, if he be in fextile, trine, or reception, of Saturn, the 
 native comes into great repute by his ingenuity. Mercury in the houfes 
 of Mars, in good afpe<El of Luna and the lord of the afcendant, gives ;an 
 excellent underftanding. 
 
 Luna being lady of the geniture or ftrong in the afcendant, the native 
 Joves novelties, is fubje6t to mutation, and defirous of travelling to fee dif- 
 tant countries ; of a gentle nature and difpofition, and timorous ; if fhe be 
 in afpedt with Mercury, the native will be mafter of many languages. Lu- 
 na in conjundlion with the Pleiades, and in quartile of Mars from an angle, 
 (hows great defeds in the eyes, if not total blindnefs. Luna in con- 
 junftion or oppofition of Sol in any genefis, (hows that the native will 
 live but a fhort time, unlefs the Moon has great latitude ; for that fame- 
 times may make the conjundion or oppofition eight or nine degrees 
 diftant. Luna in conjundlion of Saturn in an earthy fign, and an earthy 
 fign afcending, makes the native very melancholy and low-fpirited. Luna 
 in reception and trine of Mercury gives a good underftanding, and makes 
 the native able to overturn the arguments of moft men. Luna in the 
 twelfth, in quartile to Caput Algol in the medium coeli, fhows lofs of 
 
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 honour, if not captivity, or death in prifon. Luna in Via Combufta, and 
 Sol in Via La6tea, denote great danger to the eyes ; if the infortunes be in 
 the afcendant, or in oppofition thereto, it prefages blindnefs. Luna, Sol, 
 or the afcendant, direded to the conjun6tion of Mars, ihows the fmall- 
 pox or meafles in children ; in men it denotes malignant fevers ; and, in 
 elderly people, death. Luna in good afpedt of the almuten of the medium 
 coeli, and in the fame with the lord of the afcendant, gives to the native 
 eminent honour. Luna or Sol, or both, in the afcendant, afflided by 
 the body or partile afpe6l of the infortunes, denotes that they will be of 
 a very fhort and fickly life. 
 
 Fixed flats of the firfl or fecond magnitude in the afcendant, or medium 
 ccjeli, give the native extraordinary fame and honour, make him eminent 
 and profperous, and one whom the world will admire. Fixed ftars of a 
 violent nature, upon the cufp of the medium coeli, and its lord pofited 
 with fuch, fhow deftrudion to the native's honour and fame. Fixed ftars 
 are to be confidered, in general pofitions or diredlions, in refpeft of their 
 afpeds, as well as the planets. 
 
 The medium coeli affli6ted by the Dragon's Tail, and both the lumina- 
 ries afflidled by Mars, in a violent fign in the fourth, fhow a wretched 
 end, both to the honour and life of the native. The medium coeli well 
 fortified gives the native not only great honour, but fuch as fhall be fixed 
 and durable ; though fometimes upon bad diredions it may be fubjecl to 
 interruptions. The medium coeli directed to promittors never kills unlefs 
 in the genefis there be flgns of a violent death. 
 
 All the planets, or mofl of them, above the earth, make the native, 
 of whatfoever capacity, eminent and famous beyond it ; and, if they fhall 
 be fo pofited in their dignities, he (hall, like a comet, out-fhine all others 
 in the place where he lives. All the planets in a nativity retrograde, and 
 under the earth, though the native be of great and noble birth, fhow him 
 not of a rifing, but of a falling, fame and fortune. The lord of the af- 
 cendant ftronger than the lord of the feventh fhows the native always 
 overcomes his adverfaries, and fo contrariwife. Aries, Leo, or Sagitta- 
 rius, afcending, and the lord of the afcendant in medium coeli, fhows the 
 native will always be aiming at things beyond the capacity of his birth or 
 prefent fortune. 
 
 The inferior planets many times fhow great honour to the fame of a 
 native, but will not be of long continuance. The fortunes in the ninth 
 make famous churchmen, lawyers, and rich merchants; the fame, if the 
 bcnevolents trine the ninth or lord thereof. Many planets in the ninth, 
 
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 256 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 ill the nativities of any clafs of perfons, gives them the higheft honour and 
 dignity in their profeffion. If Virgo afcend, the native is generally very 
 ingenious, unlefs Mercury be in Sagittarius or Pifces ; and then the native 
 is generally confident and conceited of his own abilities, though a mere 
 fool. The lord of the medium coeli in the twelfth, and the lord of the 
 twelfth in the afcendant, denote captivity or imprifonment ; the like if 
 the Moon or lord of the afcendant be pofited in the twelfth. The greater 
 the planets' dignities are, the more fplendid and glorious are the native's 
 honour and fortune ; the greater their debilities, the more obfcure will 
 be his. If the medium coeli be directed to the body of Saturn, he being 
 pofited in the tenth or eleventh houfe, the native will lofe all his honour 
 and offices, and will fcarcely ever rife again to preferment ; and, if in fuch 
 genefis there be fignificatiozis of a violent death, the aforefaid dire6iion 
 puts an inglorious period to the native's life. 
 
 A continued feries of o-ood direftions makes a bad nativity fometimes 
 very good ; but thai good lafis not long. Two, three, or more, planets 
 in the eighth, upon good diredions unto them, increafe greatly the na- 
 tive's fubftance by wills and legacies of the dead. The eleventh houfe, 
 fortified by the prefence of good planets, fhows many great and powerful 
 friends ; but, by the prefence of evil planets, and they ill-affeded, it 
 fhows few and faithlefs friends. The lord of the eleventh ftronger than 
 the lord of the feventh declares the native's friends to be more powerful 
 than his enemies. 
 
 All the planets under the earth, when they promife honour, dignity, 
 and fortune, which is chiefly when they are effentially fortified in noc- 
 turnal genitures, generally perform it in the latter part of the native's life. 
 All the planets in a nativity out of their eflential dignities, (how obfcure 
 perfons; who, if they ever attain any honour, glory, or renown, in the 
 world, never long enjoy it. A fortunate planet in the eighth houfe always 
 denotes a natural death ; the lord of the eig-hth in the medium coeli fhows 
 the native will die by the fentence of a judge. Such as have a fatellium, 
 or crowd of planets in angles, have at fome time or other of their lives 
 prodigious fuccefs or detriment, according to the occurring diredions. 
 Many planets in reception, or in good afpedt of each other, give the native 
 many and good friends. Planets fquaring or oppofing each other from 
 angles and cardinal figns denote great misfortunes to the native, and that 
 at lall: he fhall die a violent death. Cardinal figns polTeffing the angles of 
 a nativity make the native, if of any capacity, moft eminent and famous in 
 his generation, and to do fuch ads as that after-ages fhall admire him. Di- 
 redions to the bodies or afpe6ts of planets in thedefcending part of heaven, 
 although they denote the greatell happinefs, yet it proves not very durable. 
 
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 257 
 
 In a feminine genefis, the lord of the feventh being pofited in the 
 afcendant, makes her govern her hufband ; and if the lord of the af- 
 cendant be a fuperior planet, and the fign thereof commanding, fhe will 
 be a great virago, and hedlor over him. Allowance is many times to be 
 given in the meafure of time in directions, when tranfits of weighty pla- 
 nets, contrary to the nature of the dire6lions, (hall near that time occur; 
 for good and evil diredlioris may be either anticipated or continued by the 
 force of the tranfits. Some perfons, although they have bad genitures, 
 rife wonderfully, becaufe their genitures fympathize with the nativities 
 of thofe by whom they are raifed. The greateft fympathy that can be in 
 any two nativities, is by having the fortunes in one upon the places of 
 the luminaries in the other ; and the luminaries in the latter upon the 
 places of the fortunes in the former. The greateft antipathy is, where 
 the infortunes in the one pofTefs the places of the luminaries in the other ; 
 and the luminaries in the latter pofTefs the places of the infortunes in the 
 former; the fame happens if the lord of the afcendant in the one he in 
 oppofition to the lord of the afcendant in the other, and fo contrariwife. 
 The lord of the afcendant in the radix in conjunflion with the lord of the 
 eighth, in the revolution, an-d in the eighth houfc, will be very dangerous 
 to the life of the native. 
 
 Mercury peregrine, atid in detriment or fall, retrograde or combuft, 
 in quartile or oppofition of Luna from angles, flow in motion, cadent, or 
 in via combufla, or affli6ted by Saturn or Mars, fhows the native not to 
 be wife, but rather ftupid, and dull of underftanding, impertinent, trou- 
 blefome, a diffembler, and very fjjly creature ; but the quartile or oppofition 
 of Mars and Mercury caufes a turbulent and unquiet wit, and makes the 
 native the author of many inventions. 
 
 RUDIMENTS of the DOCTRINE of HORARY QUESTIONS. 
 
 Let the radix be drawn into a fpeculum, and, being fully and com- 
 pletely directed with obfervations of all the current tranfits, draw forth 
 the revolution alfo of the year. Then, confider the matter about which 
 the queftion is propofed, whether it be tranfient or durable. Confider 
 alfo to what houfe the thing belongs, what planet is the fignificator 
 thereof, the afcendant and its lord, and the planets which may confirm, 
 impede, or deftroy, the bufinefs. What planets are hurtful to the fignifi- 
 cator of the thing, and confequently to the querent, which are fuch as 
 the lords of the feventh or twelfth houfe, or fuch as are in quartile or 
 oppofition to them in the radix. Then if the lord of the afcendant come 
 by diredlion or tranfit to the body or good afpedl of the lord of the houfe 
 fignifying the thing, or planet pofited therein ; or they contrariwife to 
 
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 258 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 the good afpeft of the lord of the afcendant ; the matter (hall come to 
 pafs, or take effe£l. So if a planet by direction or tranfit bath lately 
 feparated from the fignificators of the thing, and immediately applies 
 to the conjunftion, Textile, or trine, of the lord of the afcendant or pla- 
 net therein, it fhows the fame. If the fignificators of the thing, or lord of 
 the fourth from the houfe fignifying the fame, (hall tranfit the afcendant, 
 or come by dire£lion thereto, it (hows good. If the radical and revolu- 
 tional fignificators apply by good afpe6t in the Ephemeris, or are in 
 reception, or another planet makes a tranflation or coUeftion of their 
 light, it (hows the perfedlion of the matter. If the aforefaid tranfits or 
 dire6tions happen to be in mutual reception to the lords of their radical 
 places, it (hows Co much the more eminent good. And, whether the fig- 
 nificators be ftrong or weak at the time of the diieftion or tranfit, if 
 ihev were ftrong in the radix, their fignifications will be the more firm. 
 If any planet colleifls the light of both fignificators, and at that time tran- 
 fits the afcendant or houfe fignifying the thing, it perfects the matter. 
 The fame if by direftion or tranfit they come to one another's places in 
 the radix, or to any eminent fixed ftar upon the cufp of the eleventh 
 houfe or medium coeli. Confider what houfe the planet which tranf- 
 lates or colle6ls the light of the fignificators is lord of and pofited in ; 
 for according to the nature of the things fignified by thofe houfes (hall 
 the matter terminate. If the Sun, Moon, or Part of Fortune, tranfit the 
 medium coeli, or houfe fignifying the thing, or come thereto by direc- 
 tion, it fignifies good : but if there be neither direction nor tranfit, nor 
 fignificators of good or evil, it is requifite to fufpend judgment to a future 
 day. 
 
 If it be a weighty and durable thing which is defired, it will fcarcely 
 be performed without a good direftion or tranfit ; yet you may judge 
 thereof, according to the next that comes, as it is either good or evil. 
 But, if the oppofite evil to what we have ftated (hould happen, then judge 
 of it by the contrary rule ; but, if both good and evil happen, judge ac- 
 cording to the more weighty and greater number of teftimonies. And 
 whatever we have faid of the radix, if the fame configurations happen in 
 the revolution, they import the fame, but not with fuch powerful efFedl. 
 
 Laftly confider to what points in the revolution the radical fignificators 
 approach by tranfit or direction ; or contrariwife, to what points in the 
 radix the revolutional fignificators apply ; and accordingly, as it is either 
 good or evil, join all with the other configurations aforefaid, and accord- 
 ingly judge. 
 
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 •RUDliMENTS of the DOCTRINE of RADICAL ELECTIONS. 
 
 If any thing be really intended to be obtained, the time of the be- 
 ginning and undertaking thereof ought to be elefted from the radix 
 of life, and nothing elfe. For at that time, once for all, the great God 
 deputed every fignificator to a certain purpofe or fignification, and firmly 
 eftablifhed the fame for ever unalterable by the power of nature. There- 
 fore, in making an ele^ion, firfl correftly learn what planet is the true 
 and real fignificator of the thing defired, for without the true knowledge 
 thereof all is in vain; fecondly, confider the nature and quality of the 
 thing, whether it be proportional to the capacity of him who defires it, or 
 impoffible. 
 
 Confider alfo to what houfe of heaven the fame doth appertain, and 
 what eminent fixed ftars were upon or near the cufp thereof, and what 
 planets in the radix beheld it by friendly afpeft. Note likewife the re- 
 volution, what fign is upon the cufp of the fame houfe, what planet is 
 lord thereof, or beholds it by good afpe6l. Confider the promifTor, or 
 planet, or houfe fignifying that or them by or from whom the thing 
 hoped for is to be obtained or performed. Then confider, in every elec- 
 tion, the fourth houfe from the houfe fignifying the thing, its lord, and 
 planet pofited (if any be) therein ; for that hath fignification of the end 
 of the matter. 
 
 Let the radix be direded with a fpeculum completely fitted, thereby 
 readily to obferve, with a glance of the eye, all the tranfits of every fig- 
 nificator, whether good or evil. This done, obferve at what time the 
 fignificators come by diredlion or tranfit to the body or good afpedt of the 
 promiffor in the radix, or to the lord of the fourth, or planet pofited 
 therein, or eminent fixed flar of the nature of the promiffor, or at what 
 time there is any tranflation made by the promiffor, Sun, or Moon, by 
 good afpe6l, to the cufp of the afcendant, lord thereof, or planet pofited 
 therein ; as alfo at what time in the Ephemeris they come to any good 
 afpedl ; and make your eledion for the fame accordingly. 
 
 Obferve when thofe radical fignificators come by diredion or tranfit 
 to the body or good afpedt of the aforefaid revolutional promiffors, — 
 Obferve alfo when the cufp of the fourth from the houfe fignifying the 
 thing, or its lord, by diredion or tranfit comes to the body or good 
 afpedl: of the afcendant or its lord, or tranflates the light of the figni- 
 ficator or promiffor thereto; or comes to the houfes or lord thereof figni- 
 fying the thing. Note alfo, when the revolutional fignificators come 
 by tranfit to the body or good afpedl of the aforefaid promiffors, whether 
 
 radical
 
 45o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 radical or revolutional, and whether there be any evil diredllon or tranfit 
 at the fame time, either radical or revolutional, accompanying the afore- 
 faid configurations. 
 
 Let the fignificators, but efpecially the promiflors, be effentially forti- 
 fied, or in conjundtion, fextile, or trine, with their places in the radix, if 
 poffible. Let the medium coeli in the radix, as alfo the Sun and Moon 
 and lord of the eleventh, be free from all afflidlion, and haftening by di- 
 re6lion or tranfit to fome good configuration. And let the fame fign and 
 degree, if poffible, afcend at the undertaking which did in the radix, for 
 then the fignificators are the fame ; if that cannot be, let thofe upon the 
 cufp of the houfe fignifying the thing afcend ; or let the Sun or iMoon 
 be pofited in the houfe fignifying the thing, taking heed that the radical 
 infortunes may be cadent if pofllble, and not angular. Obferve if there 
 be any reception between the radical fignificators and promifiTors ; the 
 fame obferve in the revolution ; or whether the radical and revolutional 
 fignificators are in reception one with another at the time of the direftions 
 or tranfits, for that is very promifing ; and thofe afpe6ls only are propi- 
 tious to make eledions in. 
 
 Laftly, if the radical fignificators be weak or unfortunate, there can 
 be no ftrong or firm eledion made for the native ; for what good can be 
 cxpcded to proceed from weak, afflided, impotent, and unfortunate, 
 promifiTors or helps ? It is true there may be an accidental good, but that 
 never can overcome the power of an eflential or radical evil ; yet, if an 
 eledion be made for fuch a one, let the fignificators be efifentially flrong at 
 the time of the eledion, and if poffible in trine to their radical places. 
 
 Now, if the exa6l time be required in which any thing fignified fliould 
 come to pafs, that muft be found by the diredion of each fignificator to 
 their refpedive promifTors, both by progreffive and converfe operation ; or 
 by drawing a fpeculum for the mundane afpefis, which will at firft fight 
 point out the year, month, and day, in which all the material accidents of 
 human life fhall appear, and be made manifeft. If you would know how 
 many children the native (hall have, you mufl: have confideration to the 
 fifth, feventh, ninth, eleventh, firfl, and third, houfes, for thefe fignify 
 the native's children ; and, as the fifth from the afcendant fignifies children, 
 ib it fignifies the firfl and feventh child ; the feventh fignifies the fecond 
 child, for it is the houfe of brethren from the fifth ; the ninth fignifies 
 the third child, becaufe it is the third from the feventh ; and fo in like 
 manner the eleventh fignifies the fourth child; the firft, the fifth child; 
 the third, the fixth child ; the fifth, the feventh child as aforefaid ; the 
 feventh, the eighth child ; and fo on. The fex of the infant is difcovered 
 by the nature of the fignificators. 
 
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 la regulating and afcertaining thefe judgments, the difcreet Aftrolo- 
 gian muft likewife underftand, that all fiery figns incline men to be cho- 
 leric, hafty, furious, quarrelfome, revengeful, proud, ambitious, impe- 
 rious, importunate, and fool-hardy ; involving themfelves in many trou- 
 bles and misfortunes ; yet they are moflly ingenious, but often changing 
 their opinions and purfuits. 
 
 Airy figns fhow men cheerful, affable, courteous, liberal, free-hearted, 
 faithful, good-natured, and loving mirth, fuch as finging, dancing, mufic, 
 and all civil recreations ; of modeft deportment and manners, and of 
 found reafon and underflanding. 
 
 Earthy figns denote perfons of referved thought, flow in fpeech, and 
 deliberate in all their undertakings, keeping clofe their counfels and 
 intentions. They alfo frequently prove to be very fraudulent, covetous, 
 and fufplcious, feldom forgetting or forgiving injuries ; often forrowful 
 and low-fpirited ; loving no man's efleem but their own ; for the mofl 
 part prudent and careful, but auflere and furly in their manners and 
 deportment. 
 
 Watery figns make them cowardly, luxurious, wanton, mutable, dull, 
 and fluggifh ; with low, effeminate, whining, voices ; very timorous and 
 fearful, having much deceit in them. They are ufually pretty much 
 given to the fchools and nurferies of Venus, which often prove a great 
 injury to them, and fometimes their total ruin. 
 
 It mufl alfo be remembered, that Saturn is extremely cold and dry. 
 Jupiter is remifsly hot and moifl, Mars extremely hot and dry, the Sun is 
 meanly hot and dry, Venus is hot and moifl. Mercury is remifsly cold 
 and dry, the Moon is meanly cold and moifl. If Saturn be in Aries, his 
 drynefs is increafed and his coldnefs abated, or he is intenfely dry or re-. 
 mifsly cold : in Taurus he a6ls with a double force, viz. he is intenfely. 
 cold and dry ; in Gemini'he is remifsly cold and dry ; in Cancer he is in- 
 tenfely cold ; fo that, if Saturn afped the afcendant from any of thefe 
 fiwns, he varies his influence according to the fign he is in. A planet in 
 his houfe, as the Sun in Leo, retains his own nature, and is well affeded 
 in his influence ; but if in his detriment, as in Aquaries, he is then ill 
 affefted or deprived. If he be only peregrine, he is meanly affe<5fed as 
 to good or evil, viz. neither effentially flrong nor weak ; if in his fall, he 
 flags in his motion, and is a man indifpofed and uneafy. Therefore a 
 planet in its fall or detriment efFc61s no good to the native ;. if any, it is 
 depraved, and confequently dangerous or pernicious. 
 
 No. 14. 38 A pla-
 
 262 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A planet dire£t and fwift iii motion, or on the contrary, as thofe very 
 terms import ; therefore their celerity, orientality, and pofition, if fupe- 
 r'lors, yuf>ra terram^ makes them more manifeft and powerful. Aries af- 
 cending gives a martial wit and inclination ; but, if the Sun be in partile, 
 trine, or fextiJe, to it, or its lord, or in conjundion of Jupiter, who may 
 be in platic Textile or trine to either of them, then it is made folar and 
 jovial, but chiefly folar. Underfland the like in other figns afcending, 
 according to their refpeflive nature, and the nature alfo of thofe planets 
 that behold them. 
 
 The nature and flate of every planet mufl: be attended to ; for a planet 
 may be confidered in relation to the portents or fignification of any fign or 
 manfion of heaven ; thus, Firfl, as to pofition ; fecond, dominion ; third, 
 exaltation ; fourth, afped ; fifth, oppofition thereunto ; as for example, 
 Saturn in Aries mud be confidered as martialized and folalized, becaufe, 
 Aries is the houfe of Mars, and the exaltation and triplicity of the Sun, 
 and fo in others. The afcendant in any nativity is to be obferved, alfo 
 the lord of the afcendant and his pdfition, or a planet pofited therein ; 
 all which are to be confidered by the reader or ftudent as to the portents 
 or fignification of the afcendant. The fixth houfe fignifies difeafes ; but 
 yet the twelfth fhall be a configurator in all corporal affliftions, as being 
 in oppofition thereto. 
 
 From the lord of the afcendant, or in any other houfe, proceeds the 
 chief virtue or moft powerful parts as to the fignification of that houfe. 
 If Saturn and the Sun be in conjundlion in Leo in the tenth houfe, the 
 latter being neareft to the cufp thereof, then the native arrives to fome 
 degree of dignity or honour from the analogy, pofition, dominion, or 
 • fortitude, of the Sun, as alfo his propinquity to the cufp. But Saturn 
 being of a contrary nature, and adverfe to what the Sun portends, alfo 
 hating the place of his refidence, and partly affli6ting the Sun, will there- 
 fore caufe fome unhappy misfortune to arife, and cloud the glory pro- 
 mifed by the Sun in the end. Saturn in conjun6lion with Jupiter in 
 Virgo is mofi: powerful, and overcomes in his effects ; but, if they are 
 conjoined in Aries, then Jupiter is ftrongefl', and becomes vidor. This 
 reciprocally by each being in his fall. 
 
 The luminaries are to be confidered as more, powerful and fignificant 
 than the reft of the planets; and therefore any of the fuperiors in con- 
 junclion with the Sun in Leo influences much power and honour to the 
 native by virtue of the Sun, &c. Se if Saturn be in conjun61ion with Ju- 
 piter in Sagittarius, the houfe of Jupiter, then Saturn atls in dependance 
 to his difpofitor. Any planet ftrong in a good houfe is of good fignifi- j 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 263 
 
 catibn, bot much better if the planet be a fortunate one by nature. A 
 malefic planet, \reak in the tenth houfe, denies honour, if they behold 
 either the cufp or the lord thereof by any malevolent afpeft; then many 
 impediments or obftru6lions prejudice or hinder the native's advancement. 
 Mars in the mid-heaven, ftrong, ufually portends military preferment, 
 dignity^ or profeffion. 
 
 Saturn or Mars, flrong in a good ho\ife of a figure, are as difcords in 
 mufic, connefted to efFedl; a concord or harmony in founds; for, being 
 well affefted, they caufe a perfed good, though it be attended with dif- 
 ficult means or methods to accompany it. In flne» their good is always 
 tempered with fomething of evil, becaufe they are naturally more pro- 
 penfe to cffeOi evil than good ; as for example, Saturn in the fecond houfe, 
 or lord thereof, and ftrong, gives riches by rapine and covetoufnefs ; in 
 the feventh he denotes the death of the wife. A malefic planet meanly 
 affeded in a good houfe oftentimes obftruds or prevents what is naturally 
 fignlfied thereby, or at beft but meanly efFeds a good. As for example, 
 Saturn meanly afFeded, viz. peregrine in the fecond houfe, gives not 
 riches, yet retains them when gathered by being fparing and penurious. 
 Mars fo pofited and ill-affeded, diffipates or deftroys an eftate by prodi- 
 gality, and fuch other imprudent expenfes. Saturn, debilitated in the 
 eleventh houfe of a nativity, produces trouble with or by the means of 
 friends unrelated ;, and the analogy is according to the debility of the 
 planets, and how they are beheld, and mitigated by fextiles and trines, or 
 contrarily inflamed by quartiles or oppofitions. 
 
 An infortune in conjunction with a fortunate planet, is either impeded 
 or deprived of the good fignified ; for, though the fortunate planet be in 
 his own houfe, yet he partakes fomething of the nature or analogy of 
 the malefic with whom he is conjoined. Three planets or more in 
 conjundlion, aft jointly and feverally according to their refpeftive natures, 
 and to their heavenly ftates, but principally according to the nature and 
 ftate of the moft ftrong and ruling planet. If an infortune, efpecially 
 Saturn, be placed between two planets which are in conjundion, he pre- 
 vents or retards the good promifed by the other two planets ; the nature 
 or kind thereof is difcovered by the houfe of heaven wherein fuch a con- 
 grefs is made. 
 
 The lord of the afcendant applying to the conjundion of the Sun in 
 any nativity, ftiows the native apt, or delights, to converfe with honour- 
 able perfons, grandees, and fuch-like ; as alfo that he will be ambitious of 
 fame, honour, and dignity, &c. If he apply to Saturn, the native affeds 
 to converfe or aflbciate himfelf with perfons of an inferior rank, viz. rul- 
 
 tics.
 
 264 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 tics, plebeians, &c. He is fubjeft to envy, fear, penfivenefs, and co- 
 vetoufnefs. Two planets in reception a6t or difperle their influence in 
 an amicable method, and, if benevolent by nature, their virtues are the 
 more powerful. Many planets and cardinal figns in any geniture, always 
 effed fome great things ; if in one houfe, the native receives or fuffcrs 
 an excefs of good or evil, according to the nature of that houfe. The 
 benevolent planets Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury alfo, retrograde in any 
 nativity, is of eminent import, adding to the felicity of a native ; and this 
 is the more powerful if they are applying to the conjunftion of the Earth ; 
 but the retrogradation of Saturn or Mars in angles is ever attended with 
 difficulties and unhappinefTes, from which pofitions I (hall always pray. 
 Libera nos, Domine. 
 
 END of the FIRST PART.
 
 AN- 
 
 ILLUSTRATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CELESTIAL SCIENCE 
 
 OF 
 
 ASTROLOGY. 
 
 PART THE SECOND: 
 
 CONTAINING THE 
 
 DOCTRINE OF NATIVITIES, 
 
 AND THE 
 
 ART OF RESOLVING HORARY QUESTIONS; 
 
 TOGETHER WITH 
 
 A Collection of Nativities of the moft eminent and remarkable 
 Persons; Twins, Dwarfs, Giants, &c. 
 
 By the late E. SIBLY, M.D. F. R. H. S. 
 
 LONDON : printed IN THE YEAR M.DCec.XXIV, 
 
 ■i
 
 
 1
 
 AN 
 
 ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Of the CELESTIAL SCIENCE of 
 
 ASTROLOGY. 
 
 PART THE SECOND. 
 
 The ART of RESOLVING HORARY QUESTIONS. 
 
 TT is an obfervation moft true, that all people endued with reafon are 
 -*- folicitous to know their future eftate and condition ; but, as feme 
 perfons find it impoffible to procure the exa6l time of their birth, Aftro- 
 Jogy fupplies that defeft by the dodrine of Horary Queftions ; fo that, 
 from a queftion ferioufly propounded, almoft as much fatisfaftion may be 
 given the querent, upon many fubjeds of inquiry, as if his nativity were 
 a6lually known. For, as the nativity is the time of the birth of the body, 
 the horary queflion is the time of the birth of the mind ; and there are 
 few perfons living but are in fome way or other fubjedl to horary doubts, 
 which, being ferioufly propounded in the fhape of a queftion, may be fatis- 
 faflorily refolved. This dodrine feems to be founded upon that miracu- 
 lous fympathy in nature, which is admirably manifefted between the 
 Moon and the Sea ; by which that amazing body of water is conftantly 
 drawn after her, though no man fees, or can conceive, how. In thefe 
 fympathies there can be no doubt but the vegetive foul of the world invi- 
 fibly carries and unites a fpecific virtue from the heavens between one 
 thing and another, every-where working thofe fecret efFefts which no 
 mortal can fail to admire. And in the prefent cafe, who is to determine 
 Vi'hat this foul cannot effedt between the heavenly bodies and the animal 
 fpirit of man, working fuch fympathies, as that a queflion of impor- 
 tance to our welfare cannot ftart from the mind but in a point of time 
 when the planets and figns governing the perfon's birth, and acting upon 
 the very fubjed that engages his thoughts and attention. And hence the 
 birth of the queftion, like the nativity of a child, carries the ftory of 
 the whole matter in hand upon its forehead. And hence alfo follows 
 
 that
 
 268 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 that (kill in natural predi6tioiis by which the artift is enabled to demoii- 
 (Irate the particulars of the event required : and this as well by the ftars 
 of heaven as Abiathar the pricft was of old enabled to do by the fl-ars of 
 
 the eplio(l. 
 
 But, however, the predi6tions that are made from the queftionary way 
 are by no means fo perfe6l and corred as thofe deduced from Nativities; 
 andtherefore I recommend all judgments of futurity to be made from 
 nativities, when they can be procured, rather than from horary queftions. 
 But at the fame time I am very confident that the omnifcient Creator is 
 not at all wanting for any pofTihle care in his contrivance of the works of 
 nature, for the fupply of all our moderate wants and enquiries. And, if 
 it be cflential to man's welfare to be forewarned of the time and the judg- 
 ment, as Solomon declares it i?, and that the wife man Jliall know it, 
 (Ecclef. V. 6. viii. 12.) then it is plain that God has afforded means to 
 obtain this knowledge without a miracle; and this means may furely be 
 l)y the ftars of heaven, refponding our horary queftions ; and experience 
 continually affirms, day by day, that it is lo. Not that I believe the 
 trivial concerns and accidents of mankind, as fome writers have pretended, 
 may be thus deduced, as if a glove, loft or hidden in fport and wanton- 
 ncls, fhould be fo watched and attended by the heavenly intelligencers, 
 that they mull needs point out where this piece of leather were to be 
 found; or that queftions propounded out of mere curiofity or diverfion 
 are to be relolved by them. No; God's works are ferious, and not to be 
 made the fport and ridicule of the gay and inconfiderate. For, although 
 the heavenly contrivance may aptly refpond our ferious and important con- 
 cerns, as when David anxioufly defired to know whether hefliould go up into 
 any of the cities of Judah, and which of them f yet that they fhould as aptly 
 fatisfy oiir intemperate dellres, and be fubfervient to our frolics, is too 
 ridiculous to imagine. There is no doubt but the heavens are able to 
 (how us more learning than we mortals, in this ftate of frailty and cor- 
 ruption, can evei' attain to underftand ; and it is a great bounty of God 
 that we know fo much as we do ; therefore it highly becomes every wife 
 and good man to glorify the Maker of all things for the little knowledge 
 he can and doth attain, and to be careful how he fports even with the 
 leaft amoiis: his !'racinus works. 
 
 » 
 
 All enquiries that are ferious, and tliat come under the denomination 
 of an horary q;;tf!:i')n, muft neceflariiy relate either to things /»a/?, ^rif/^w/, 
 or to come; or to concerns that once were, now are, or may be hereafter ; 
 ;i;nl the anlwci to fuch queftions muft be either effential or accidental. 
 '1 fic cftl-ntial a-Mwer is always one of the three things following, to wit, 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 269 
 
 that the matter concerning which the enquiry is made, is firft, to be, or 
 not to be; fecond, either good or bad; and third, either true or fa If e. 
 Therefore, if the queftion be real, and the matter rightly ftated, the true 
 anfwer, which is always (hort, will be eafily difcovered by the following, 
 rules. The accidental anfwer is that which appertains to the accidents 
 of the bufinefs in hand; and is always defined by %vhere, when, how., or 
 why. And whoever attempts to extend his judgment beyond thefe limits, 
 ftrains art beyond its bounds, and forces it to fpeak that which it is totally 
 incapable of; and by this means many pretenders to Afl:rology fail 
 egregioufly in their undertakings. To avoid this, let the following que- 
 ries be attended to. 
 
 QUERY I. h the Subjed of Enquiry to be or not to be f 
 
 Here the firft thing to be attended to is the perfeftion or deflruflion 
 of the matter under confideration. The perfe6t:ion or completion of the 
 fubjedl of enquiry may be efFefled four feveral ways; viz. by the appli- 
 cation, traiiflation, reception, and pofition, of the planets; and thefe are 
 determined and defined by the proper and refpe6tive fignificators of the 
 fubje6is of enquiry, which are, firft, the lords of thofe houfes which relate 
 to the matter in hand ; fecondly, planets near the cufps of thofe houfes ; 
 thirdly, planets exalted or dignified therein ; and fourthly, the config- 
 nificators of thofe houfes. The lords of the houfes are thofe planets 
 which are lords of the figns that happen to fall upon the cufps of the 
 houfes. The confignificators of each houfe are as follow : of the firft 
 houfe or afcendant, Saturn and iVIars ; of the fecond, Jupiter and Venus; 
 of the third, Mars and Mercury ; of the fourth, Sol and Luna; of the 
 fifth, Venus and Sol ; of the fixth, Mercury alone ; of the feventh, Luna 
 and Venus; of the eighth, Saturn and Mars; of the ninth, Jupiter 
 alone; of the tenth, Mars and Saturn; of the eleventh, Sol and Saturn ; 
 and of the twelfth, Venus and Jupiter. From hence it appears, that 
 each houfe hath a primary and fecondary confignificator ; the firft where- 
 of arifes from the order of the planets, the other from the order of the 
 figns. 
 
 The confideration of the matter propofed is taken from that houfe 
 which hath relation to, and fignification of, the fame; and this fignifi- 
 cation of the houfes is either (imple or compound. The fimple figni- 
 fication of the houfes is that which hath relation fingly to the perfon of 
 the querent ; compound fignification is that which hath relation to the 
 matter, or quefited. The querent is he or fhe that alks the queftion ; 
 the matter, or quefited, is that about which the queftion is propofed. 
 The fimple fignifications of the houfes are as follow : The firft houfe 
 fignifies the querent's life and perfon ; the fecond, his fubftance ; the 
 
 No. 14. 3 U third.
 
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 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 third, his kindred, neighbours, and fhort journeys ; the fourth, his grave, 
 father, and lands; the fifth, his pleafures and offspring ; the fixth, his 
 ficknefs, fervants, and fmall cattle ; the feventh, his wife, public ene- 
 mies, and law-1'uits ; the eighth, his death and legacies; the ninth, his 
 religion, long voyages, and learning ; the tenth, his mother, trade, and 
 honour; the eleventh, his fiiends and hopes; the twelfth, his private 
 enemies, great cattle, imprifonments, and crofTes. The compound sig- 
 nification is derived from the fimple, by confidering what houfe that is 
 which fjgnifies the matter or quefited ; and accounting that, be it what- 
 foever houfe it may, for its afcendant or firft houfe ; and fo afcribing the 
 fignification of the firft houfe of the figure to it ; doing in like manner 
 to all the other houfes in order. So that, if a queftion relates to a brother 
 or relation, the third houfe is then his afcendant or firft houfe, and fignifies 
 his life and perfon ; the fourth houfe (which is in this cafe his fecond) 
 his fubftance or eftate ; the fifth houfe (his third) his relations and fhort 
 journeys; the fixth (his fourth) his father; the feventh his children; 
 the eighth his ficknefs ; the ninth his wife, &c. and the fame of all 
 others. Thefe things being laid as a foundation, we now come to fhow 
 the perfedlion of the matter by the different affe(5lions of the afpe<Ss. 
 
 Application is when two planets hallen to conjundfion or afpe<5lof one 
 another. The light planets only apply to the more weighty. So Saturn 
 'applies to none; Jupiter only to Saturn; Mars to Saturn and Jupiter; 
 Sol to Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars; Venus to Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and 
 Sol ; Mercury to Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sol, and Venus ; and Luna to 
 them all. But, if any of the higher planets be retrograde, they may then 
 apply to a lighter by retrogradation. Thus Saturn may apply to Jupiter, 
 Mars, Sol, Venus, Mercury, or Luna ; Jupiter to Mars, Sol, Venus, 
 Mercury, or Luna ; Mars to Sol, Venus, Mercury, or Luna ; Venus 
 to Mercury or Luna ; and Mercury to Luna, when retrograde. In this 
 application the lords of each houfe are not only to be confidered, but alfo 
 the confignificators of the fame ; for, if they alfo apply together by good 
 afpedt, we may give the more probable judgment. Thele applications 
 may be always difcerned by the Ephemeris ; wherein may not only be 
 feen when the Moon applies to any afpedl, but alfo when any of the other 
 planets apply to one another. 
 
 Tranflation is when a planet feparates from the body or afpe6l of one 
 planet, and immediately applies to the conjun6tion or afpedt of another. 
 And the planet tranflating is always lighter, except in retrogradation, 
 than the planets from or to whom the tranflation is made. So Luna may 
 tranflate the light of the other planets from one to another; Mercury 
 may tranflate the light of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sol, and Venus, from 
 
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 one to another; Venus the light of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Sol, fronn 
 one to another; Sol the light of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, from one to 
 another ; Mars the light of Saturn and Jupiter, from one to another ; but 
 Jupiter and Saturn, without retrogradation, can make no tranflation. This 
 tranflation is to be confidered between the lords of the houfes signifying 
 the matter, the planets near the cufps, and the confignificators of the 
 fame. So, if the queflion belong to the feventh houfe, and Sagittarius be 
 on the afcendant, then Jupiter is lord of the afcendant, and Mercury of 
 the feventh ; Saturn is the firfl: confignificator of the afcendant, and Mars 
 the fecond ; Luna is the firft confignificator of the feventh, and Venus 
 is the fecond. And, if the tranflation be between Jupiter and Mercury, 
 OF Saturn and Luna, or Mars and Venus, it may pofTibly perform the 
 matter ; but, if there be a tranflation between them all, as alfo between 
 planets pofited near the cufps of the houfes, the thing will undoubtedly 
 be brought to pafs, the fame as by application. A more weighty planet 
 may alfo make a tranflation by feparating in retrogradation from a 
 weightier than himfelf, and applying to a lighter than himfelf. So Ju- 
 piter, being retrograde, may feparate from Saturn or his afpefl, and tranf- 
 late his light and virtue to Mars, Sol, Venus, Mercury, or Luna. 
 
 Reception is either fmgle or mutual. A fingle reception is when but 
 one of the fignificators receives the other into his dignities ; vFz. his houfe, 
 exaltation, or triplicity ; this is but of fmall force, and is called difpofi- 
 tion. Mutual reception is when two planets are in each other's dignities ; 
 as Mars in Gemini, and Mercury in Aries. This reception is threefold, 
 either by houfe, exaltation, or triplicity. By houfe, when Saturn is in 
 the houfes of Jupiter, and Jupiter in the houfes of Saturn. By exaltation, 
 as when Saturn is in Aries, the exaltation of Mars; and Mars in Libra, 
 the exaltation of Saturn. By triplicity, as when Saturn is in Leo, the 
 triplicity of Mars, and Mars in Taurus, the triplicity of Saturn. There 
 is alfo another reception of dignities ; and that is when one planet is in 
 another planet's houfe, and that planet in the other's exaltation or tripli- 
 city. As Saturn in Taurus,' thehoufe of Venus, and Venus in Libra, the 
 exaltation of Saturn, or in Virgo his triplicity. Thefe receptions are re- 
 markably ftrong and forcing, if they fall either in the antifcions of each 
 other, or in or near each other's fextile or trine. 
 
 Pofition ift when either the lords of the two houfes concerned, or the 
 confignificators of the fame, or both, are pofited in each other's houfes ; 
 or the lord of the afcendant, or its confignificator, or both, are pofited in 
 the houfe fignifying the thing ; or, laftly, when the lord or configni- 
 ficators of the houfe fignifying the thing are pofited in the afcendant. 
 
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 272 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 So, if the queftion belongs to the medium coeli, if the lord of the afcen- 
 dant be found in the medium coeli, or lord of the medium coeli in the af- 
 cendant, or in mutual pofition, it perfeds the thing defired. This pofi- 
 tion is eminent ; and, if the faid fignificators be pofited in the antifcions 
 or other dignities of each other, or of the planets fignifying the thing, it 
 abfolutely denotes the full completion of it ; more elpecially if the iaid 
 fignificators by pofition are in fextile or trine to each other ; or to Jupi- 
 ter, Sol, or Venus, or to lords of good houfes. The power of antifcions 
 is equal to a fextile or trine, chiefly if they fall near thofe points, or in 
 the dignities of their proper planet, or both. Thefe antifcions are to be 
 confidered in all the ways aforefaid ; to wit, 'in application, tranf- 
 lation, reception, and pofition, in which they effeft much more than 
 otherwife could be imagined. If there be application of one or both fig- 
 nificators, though to no afpec), but to the antifcion of the other fignifi- 
 cators ; or reception by antifcion with good afpeft, or real pofition in 
 antifcion of the one, with good tranflation to the other fignificator, it 
 perfefts things beyond expeflation. And thus, by any or all of the fore- 
 going circumflances, may the fubjedl of enquiry be brought to pals, and 
 completed. 
 
 The matter is deftroyed by prohibition, which is when the fignifica- 
 tors are applying to an afpeft, and before they can come to that afpeft, 
 the lighter or applying planet comes to the conjunftion or afpedt of ano- 
 ther; which planet deftroys what is defired. Or by fruftration, which is 
 when fignificators are coming to an afped, and the more weighty planet, 
 before they can make that afped, meets with the conjundion or afped 
 of another planet, and thereby fruftrates the former afped. Or by re- 
 franation, which is when two fignificators are coming to an afpedt, and, 
 before they can make that afpe6t, the applying planet falls retrograde, 
 if dired; or, if retrograde, he becomes direft before he can make the faid 
 afpedl. 
 
 Things are alfo deftroyed by afpe6t, which is when the fignificators 
 apply to the quartile or oppofition of one another, without reception ; 
 or by the conjunftion of the Sun, which is called combuflion, and is the 
 greateft affliftion of all. Alfo by feparation, which is, when the fignifi- 
 cators of the querent, and thing propofed, have lately been in afpe6l, and 
 are newly feparated, though never fo little ; and this denotes the full and 
 abfolute deft:ru61ion of the matter, which we feldom or ever find to fail. 
 The quality of the afpefl likewife fhows the condition of the thing or 
 matter lately pafled, if it was good, good ; if evil, evil ; and it is either 
 totally deftroyed, or at leaft brought to pafs with much difficulty, if the 
 tranflation be made by quartile or oppofition. But more efpecially if 
 
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 another planet at the fame time fhall tranflate the virtue or light or both 
 fignificators to Saturn or Mars, or to the lords of evil houfes. 
 
 If there be a tranflation between the fignificators by quartile or oppofi- 
 tion, or by Textile or trine, and, before the tranflation can be made, one 
 or both of the fignificators fhall go into another fign, the matter will 
 come to nothing. If there be prohibition, fruftration, refranation, evil 
 afpedl, feparation, or evil tranflation, by quartile or oppofition, without 
 mutual reception, it is enough to defl:roy the matter, but more efpccially 
 if fome or all of them happen to be in fixed figns, and in a fuccedent or 
 cadent houfe of the figure, or from the houfe fignlfying the thing. Move- 
 able figns are Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn ; fixed figns are Tau- 
 rus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquaries ; common figns are Gemini, Virgo, Sa- 
 gittary, and Pifces ; angles are the firfl:, fourth, feventh, and tenth ; fuc- 
 cedents are the fecond, fifth, eighth, and eleventh, houfes ; cadents are 
 the third, fixth, ninth, and twelfth, houfes. 
 
 QUERY II. Is the Matter good or evil? 
 
 Confider the houfe to which the thing belongs, its lord, and planets 
 therein ; and the houfe fignifying the matter of the end, its lord, and 
 planets therein; and, if the houfe fignifying the thing be fortified by the 
 prefence or beams of good planets, or eminent fixed ftars of the firft or 
 fecond magnitude, or if the Dragon's Head be there, it fliows good, but 
 the contrary, evil. The fame more particularly, if the lord of the houfe 
 fignifying the thing be angular, ftrong, and eflentially fortified ; or in 
 good afpe6l to the cufp of that houfe fignifying the matter of the end, its 
 lord, or planets pofited therein ; but the contrary, evil. 
 
 Likewife mutual pofition or reception, and the fignificators in good 
 afpe6l with the fuperior planets, or planets more weighty than themfelves, 
 are all teftimonies of good. But the fignificator of the thing peregrine, 
 flow in motion, retrograde, or feparated from the lord or planet in the 
 houfe fignifying the matter of the end, are all fignificators of evil. The 
 houfe fignifying the matter of the end is always that which relates to the 
 thing or things expefted from the queflion propofed ; for example, if the 
 queftion was, Is it good to remain ? here the end of the query is to be 
 underfl:ood, whether it be for health, wealth, preferment, or the like : if 
 for health, the afcendant fignifies the matter of the end ; if wealth, the 
 fecond houfe ; if preferment, the tenth, and fo on. 
 
 QUERY III. L the Report true or falfe ? 
 
 Thefe judgments are drawn from that houfe, its lord, and planet 
 therein pofited, fignifying the matter or thing concerning which the re- 
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 -274 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 port is. So, if it be a brother or other relation, judgment is drawn from 
 the third ; if of a father, from the fourth ; if of a child, from the fifth; if of 
 a fervant, from the fixth ; if of a wife, enemies, or war, from the feventh ; 
 if of a king or prince, from the tenth ; if of a lawyer or clergyman, from 
 the ninth, and fo on. If any planet whaifoever be in the hoiife fignifying 
 the thing concerning which the report is, or the Dragon's Head be there, 
 or the lord of the fame houfe be angular or in conjunftion or afpefl of 
 any planet, the matter or report is true. But, if the report was good, 
 aiid the faid fignificator or planet pofited in the faid houfe be retrograde 
 or flow in motion, or combufl, or peregrine, or in evil afpeft of a more 
 weighty planet, or cadent, or in conjundion with the Dragon's Tail, or 
 the Dragon's Tail pofited in the laid houfe, it certainly figuifies the 
 report is premature ; and fo contrariwife. 
 
 The Moon angular 'generally fignifies the report to be true ; more ef- 
 pecially if the report be evil, and fhe be in evil afpedl with malign pla- 
 nets ; or if good, and fhe be in good afpedl of the benign. The Moon 
 in a fixed fign, and in conjun«51ion of the Dragon's Head, fhows truth ; 
 but moveable, void of couif'e, and in conjun6tion of the Dragon's Tail, 
 falfehood. Laftly, if it be concerning the furrender of a city, or conqueft 
 either by fea or land ; confider the afcendant of the given place, and upon 
 what cufp it is pofited in the figure, and accordingly judge in all refpe6ls 
 as if that houfe was the real and eflential fignificator of the thing con- 
 cerning which the report was made. Hitherto of the eflential anfwer of 
 a queflion ; we now come to the accidental. 
 
 QUERY IV. Where, or which JVay ? 
 
 Wherevei- the fignificator is, there is the thing; the houfe where the 
 fignificator is pofited fliows the quarter of heaven, or point of the com- 
 pafs, which way the thing may be. If the houfe and fign cohere, this 
 judgment is fo much the more firm ; if they difagree, confider the pofi- 
 tion of the Moon, and with what fhe agrees moft, and give judgment 
 from her. If the Moon agrees neither with the fign nor houfe in which 
 the fignificator is pofited, then confider the Part of Fortune in the fame 
 manner as before you confider the Moon, and accordingly judge. And, 
 if this anfwers not, confider laftly the difpofitor and the Part of Fortune, 
 and determine by that. 
 
 The diftance is difcovered from the proximity or diftance of the fignifi- 
 cators to body or afpe£l, confidered as they may happen to be either an- 
 gular, fuccedent, or cadent, refpe6l being had to their latitude, whether 
 little or great, north or fouth. Great latitude fliows obfcurity, and great 
 
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 difficulty in finding what is fought for : if the latitude be north, it fhows 
 difficulty only, not impoffibility ; but if fouth, then all the labour of 
 feeking will be in vain, unlefs the fignificators be angular and near in af- 
 pe6l. Angles fignify nearnefs ; fuccedents farther off; and cadents be- 
 yond thought or imagination. 
 
 The fignificator angular and without latitude {hows fome paces ; if it 
 hath north latitude, fome furlongs diftant ; if fouth, fome miles. The 
 fignificator fuccedent and without latitude fhows fome furlongs ; if it 
 hath north latitude, fome miles ; if fouth, fome leagues. The fignifi- 
 cator cadent and without latitude fhows fome miles; if it hath north lati- 
 tude, fome leagues; if fouth, fome degrees. But thefe rules are chiefly 
 to be confidered in things having life ; the former give the knowledge of 
 the way and diflance in general, and the latter meafure it out diftindly 
 by numbers. If it be required to know the true number of paces, 
 furlongs, miles, leagues, or degrees, of diftance, confider the number of 
 degrees and minutes between the body or afpe6l of the fignificators, and 
 according to the number of degrees which are between the conjunction, 
 fextile, quartile, trine, or oppofition, fo many paces, furlongs, miles, 
 leaguesj-or degrees, is the thing fought after diftant from the place from 
 whence it was loft, or from the perfbn making enquiry. And, fo manv 
 minutes as adhere to the degrees, fo many fixtieth parts of the fame de- 
 nomination of the meafure which one degree fignifies are to be accounted 
 and added to the former number. 
 
 QUERY V. fF/ien, or in what Time f 
 
 The limitation of time is taken, firflly, by houfe and fign ; fecondly, by 
 afpefl; thirdly, by tranfit ; or, fourthly, by diredtion. The firft three are 
 ufed in horary queftions, or eleftions ; the two laft only in nativities 
 and annual revolutions. If the fignificator hath latitude, the meafure of 
 time hath its limitation from houfe and fign. Whether things are to 
 be brought to pafs or deftroyed, the time, if it be fignified by the houfe 
 and fign, muft be confidered as the fignificator is angular, fuccedent, or 
 cadent, having moveable, fixed, or common, figns. Angles fignify the 
 fudden performance of the matter ; fuccedents, long time, and with much 
 difficulty; cadents, fcarcely at all, or at leaft when all hopes are paft, and 
 with care and vexation. Angles fignify, if they have moveable (ygns, 
 fome days ; if common figns, fome weeks ; and, if fixed figns, fome 
 months. Succedents fignify, if they have moveable figns, fome months ; 
 if common figns, fome years ; and, if fixed figns, when all hopes are pafl, 
 if at all. If it be required to know the certain number of days, weeks, 
 months, or years, confidcr the number of degrees or minutes between 
 
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 276 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 the body or afpefl of the fignificators, and according to the number of de- 
 grees which are between their conjun6tion, Textile, quartile, trine, or op- 
 pofition, fo many days, weeks, months, or years, (hall it be before the 
 matter enquired after fhall be fully accomplished or quite dcftroyed. 
 Great fouth latitude often prolongs the time beyond the former limita- 
 tion ; north latitude often cuts it fhorter ; but, if the fignificators have no 
 latitude, the limitation of time is made fimply by the afpeft. 
 
 The time fignificators meet by afpedl is found out in the Ephemeris ; 
 to wit, the month and day thereof in which the fignificators meet. 
 Tranfits (how the progrefs of the matter, whether the fignificators have 
 latitude or not, and point out the moft probable times in which the matter 
 may be forwarded or impeded. 
 
 In obfervations of tranfits, the figure mufi: be drawn into a fpeculum. 
 Find what configurations, viz. what conjun61ion or afpe6t, it is by which 
 the matter may be brought to pafs, or deftroyed ; and, laftly, obferve in 
 the Ephemeris when the chief fignificators come in the fame fign, degree, 
 and minute ; for that is the time in which the matter will be completed. 
 And by the tranfits in the fpeculum may conftantly be found the good and 
 evil days that affe6t the matter, until it is either perfeded or become 
 fruftrate. 
 
 QUERY VI. How or -why ? 
 
 The planets which make the prohibition or fruflration, whether by- 
 good or evil afpeft, are the hurting, deflroying, or impediting, planets; to 
 wit, the planets that fignify he, fhe, or that thing, which fhall hinder or 
 deftroy the bufinefs. The man, woman, or thing, is difcovered from 
 the impediting planet, by confidering what houfes he is lord of, and what 
 he is pofited in. The houfe he is lord of denotes the quality or relation 
 of the man, woman, or thing ; the houfe is pofited in, the matter ; 
 and the houfe in which the prohibition or fruftration happens, the caufe 
 or reafon. 
 
 ■ If the impediting planet is lord of the fecond houfe, it is a matter of 
 eftate ; if of the third houfe, kindred, neighbours, &c. if of the fourth 
 houfe, inheritances or fatliers ; if of the fifth houfe, gaming, pleafures, 
 children ; if of the fixth houfe, ficknefs, fervants, fmall cattle ; if of the 
 feventh houfe, enemies, law-fuits, wives; if of the eighth houfe, lega- 
 cies, wives' portions, death ; if of the ninth houfe, religion, churchmen, 
 voyages at fea, arts, fciences ; if of the tenth houfe, mothers, great men, 
 trjide, honour, offices, employments; if of the eleventh houfe, hopes, 
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 OF* ASTROLOGY. 27; 
 
 frfends, acquaintance ; if of the twelfth houfe, great cattle, difeafes, 
 private enemies, imprifonmenr, &c. Then confider whether the pla- 
 net is good or evil, mafculine or feminine, or whether in a mafculine or 
 feminine lign and houfc, and accordingly judge of the efFeds more 
 remifs or exa6J, as they may be brought to pafs either by man, woman, 
 or thing ; judging always in this cafe by the fuperior teftimonies. And 
 obferve, laftly, that, whatfoever has been faid of the impediting or hin- 
 dering planer, the fame is to be underftood of the planet adjuvant, or 
 helping. 
 
 The next thing to be confidered, is the propriety of the queflion pro- 
 pofed, and the fincerity of the querent ; for it fometimes happens that 
 queftions are improperly and incorredtly ftated ; and at others, that they 
 are put through knavery and impertinence, with a view to injure and 
 difgrace the artifl-. In thefe cafes, the queftion not being radical, no 
 anfwer can be obtained ; and therefore he who attempts to refolve them 
 will bring fhame "upon himlelf, and difgrace upon the fcience. Every 
 queftion, to be radical, mud be (incere and natural ; and, unlefs they are 
 K), they cannot be refolved. Therefore, to afcertaiii their fmcerity on 
 the one hand, and their fitnefs or unfitnefs on the other, the following 
 rules muft be obferved. 
 
 Ere6l the figure as before dire(5ted ; and, if the fi^n afcendios; and the 
 planet in the afcendant defcribe exactly the perfon of the querent, the 
 queftion is radical, and fit to be judged. But, if either the very begin- 
 ning or extreme end only of the fign afcends, it will not be proper to 
 give judgment ; for it denotes the querent to be a knave, and the queftion 
 a forgery, propofed merely out of ridicule and intemperate mirth. This 
 rule 1 have often verified in praftice, by diredly charging the querent with 
 fuch defign ; and the efFedl this unexpefted difcovery had upon them has, 
 ufually produced an acknowledgment of it. The fame thing is indicated 
 by the quartile or oppofition of the Moon with the lord of the feventh 
 houfe ; or by the Moon being void of courfe, or combuft ; which pofitions 
 likewife denote the queftion to be improperly and incorredtly ftated. Sa- 
 turn in the afcendant, impedited and affli61ed, fhows the queftion propofed 
 to be either falfe or without ground, or the fubjedt of it paft hope ; and 
 whenever the lord of the afcendant is found combuft or retrograde, it in- 
 dicates the fame thing, and fliows the queftion is propofed to anfwer fome 
 abfurd or knavifti purpofe, and therefore not to be meddled with. 
 
 Any queftion may be deemed radical, when the lord of the afcendant 
 and the lord of the hour are of the fame nature and triplicity. Thus, 
 fuppofe Leo afcends upon the horofcope at the tin^e the qucilioo is pro- 
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 , pb'fed, knd Mars happens to be' lord of flie hour, the queftion will be 
 radical, becaufe the Sun, which is lord of the horofcope, and Mars, arc 
 of one nature, viz. hot and dry. So, it Jupiter be lord of the hour, 
 the queftion will be radical, becaufe the Sun and Jupiter are of the fame 
 
 "triplicity ; and this obfervation extends to all the other planets, and uni- 
 formly fhows the queftion proper to be judged. But, whenever the 
 teftimonies or fignificators in the figure are found equally ftrong for and 
 againft the matter propounded, it ought not to be adjudged ; for the artift 
 knows not uhich way the balance may yield, and therefore judgment 
 (hould be deferred to a future time. 
 
 There is one ruk by which the radicalnefs of a queftion may be afcer- 
 tatned with great certainty, or at leaft with lefs probability of mif- 
 take than by any other ; and this is by the moles with which everv 
 perfbii is more or lefs marked. It is really an aftonifhing fa6l, and 
 no 'lefs extraordinary than true, that thefe moles or marks are all uni- 
 formly diftinguifhed by the figns and planets which prevail at the time of 
 birth, if not abfolutely produced by them. It was the truth and univer- 
 fality of this obfervation which firft led to the dilcovery of that affection 
 and government which the celeftial figns have upon the different members 
 of man's body; a fa£l fo obvious, that noiwithftandiiig all endeavours to 
 refute the idea of j)lanetary influence, yet this fad is annually recorded 
 
 "it! every almanac, and finds a place in almoft every other aftronomical 
 
 .miblication. 
 
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 According to this rule, whenever a perfon comes to propound a quef- 
 tipi), let a figure of the twelve houfes be erected for the querent; then 
 ■iip,t"e what fign is upon the cufp of the afcendaut, and iti the part of the 
 . q'qerent's body which that fign governs, if the queftion be radical, the 
 ■ Querent will have a mole. For inftance, if Aries be the fi^n afcendins 
 at the time, the mole will be on the head or face ; if Taurus, on the neck 
 ^of-,fhroat ; if Gemini, on the arms or (houlders ; if Cancer, on the breaft ; 
 and fo upon any other part of the body which the fign afcending (hall 
 govern. Oblerve next, in which of the twelve houfes the lord of the 
 aiccndant is pofited, and in that part of the body the fign governs which 
 happens to fall upon the cufp of that houfe will the querent have another 
 mole. Next obferve the fign defcending on the cufp of the fixth houfe, 
 and in whatever part of the body that fign governs the querent will find 
 another mole; and upon that member alfo which is fignirted by the fign 
 wherein the lord of the fixth houfe is pofited will be found another. 
 Oblerve alfo, what fign the Moon is pofited in, and in that part of the 
 body which is governed by it (hall the native or querent find another 
 riiole. \i the planet Saturn „be the fignificator, the mole is either black 
 
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 V?^OF ASTROLOGY^, S79 
 
 %V of a dark colour ; if Mars be ilgnificator, and iii a fiery fign, it then 
 
 'refemblcs a fear, cut, or dent in the flefli ; but in any other (ign it is a red 
 
 • inole. If Jupiter be the fignificator, the mole is of a purple or bluifl^ caft ; 
 
 if the Sun, it is of an olive or chefnut colour; if Venus, it is yellow; if 
 
 Mercury, of a pale lead colour; if the Moon, it is whitifli, or participates 
 
 'of the colour of that planet with which (he happens to be in afped ,; and, 
 
 ' If the planet which gives the mole be much impedited or afflifted, the 
 
 -'mark or mole will be large, and more vifible. 
 
 If the fign and planet which gives the mark or mole be mafculine, 
 
 it is then fituated on the right fide of the body ; but, if feminine, on the 
 
 left fide. If the fignificator or planet which gives the. mole be found 
 
 "-iabbve the horizon, that is, from the cufp of the afcendant to the cufp of 
 
 *Vhe feventh, either in the twelfth, eleventh, tenth, ninth, eighth, or fe- 
 
 venth, houfe, the mark or mole will be on the fore part of the body ; 
 
 but if the fignificator be under the earth, that is, in either the fir ft, fc- 
 
 cond, third, fourth, fifth, or fixth, houfe, it will be fituated on the back 
 
 or hinder part of the body. If only a few degrees of the fign afcend upon 
 
 the horofcope, or defcetid on the fixth; or if lord of the afcendant, lord 
 
 &f the fixth, or the Moon, be pofited in the beginning of aoy^^ii ;,,the 
 
 ■;ttiole or mark will be found upon the upper part of the niembcr thofe figns 
 
 ' |t>vern. If half the degrees of a fign afcend, or the fignificators be pofited 
 
 in the middle of any fign, the mark or mole will be in the middle of the 
 
 member; but, if the laft degrees of the fign afcend, or the fignificators 
 
 are in the latter degrees of a fign, the mark or mole will then be fituated 
 
 ott the lower part of the member fuch fign governs. 
 
 ■ • if the queftion be radical, the time rightly taken, and the queretit fifl- 
 ccre, and of fufficient age, this rule will feldom or ever be found to fail. 
 In afcertaining the exa6l time of any perfon's nativity, I have found it of 
 excellent ufe; never having been once deceived by it in the fmallcft de- 
 gree. In company I have frequently tried the experiment upon a ftran- 
 ger, and ever found it correl'pond, to the aftonifhment of all perfons 
 prefent ; and it is an experiment which any reader may eufily ir.ake upon 
 himlelf or friends. But in the months of Novembt^r and December, 
 when figns of fhort afcenfions are upon the afcendant, great care, rnuft be 
 taken to be exa(5t in point of time; for in thofe months the Sun is fre- 
 quently not vifible, and clocks are not always to be depended upon ; 
 therefore, without proper care, the right afcendant may eafily be mifTcjd, 
 for Pi fees and Aries both afcend in the fpace of fifty minutes, and Aqua- 
 ries and Taurus in little more than an hour; but, if the time he taken 
 cxa6t, no one need ever miflruft the certainty of thefe rules, and the exadi 
 conformity of the marks or moles to the figns and planets which jef re- 
 ■'*•■ ~' ' fent
 
 48d AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fent them. Thus, by looking at a perfon's nativity, and attending to thcfe 
 rules, tlie reader may cxadlly point out and defcribe the mole in any part 
 of the native's body, though it be a peribn he never law or converfcd 
 with ; and, if he is corre6l to time, he may fafely venture his life upon 
 the matter. And by the fame kind of funple, ealy, and certain, rules, 
 are all predittions in aftrology managed ; fo that, inftead of calling in the 
 aid of any fupernatural or infernal compa6l, it only requires to be correft 
 to time and calculation, and to know the true nature and influence of the 
 planets, and by thefe alone are the events and contingencies of futurity 
 demonftrated and foretold. 
 
 As thefe rules hold good upon the body of every querent, fo will they, 
 fttutatis mutandis, upon the body of the quefited ; for example, Suppofe 
 a perfon enquires concerning a wife or fweetheart, then the leventh houfc 
 will be her firfl; or afcendant, and the twelfth her lixth ; and in thofe parts 
 of her body which the figns upon the cufps of thofe houfes govern (hall 
 fh-e have moles; and ib by the Moon and other fignificators. It is alfo 
 found by conOant obfervation, that an infortune pohted in the afcendant 
 always marks the face with a mole or fear ; for the afcendant or firft houfe 
 always reprefents the face, let what figns foever afcend ; the fecond re- 
 prefents the neck, the third the arms and flioulders, the fourth the breaft, 
 and fo on, every houfe and lign in order, according to its fucceffion. It 
 is alfo obfervable, that, if the Moon be in conjun6tion or oppofition of 
 the Sun, in an evil afpeft to Mars, and in angular houfes, the querent has 
 a natural infirmity or blemifh in or near one of his eyes. Thus having 
 ftiown how to difcover whether quellions are proper and radical, or not; 
 we (hall now dired how to give judgment upon them. 
 
 QUESTIONS proper to the FIRST HOUSE. 
 
 The firft houfe has fignification of the life of every perfon, and eXpfefles 
 the ftature and temperature of the body ; and in Horary Queftions thef« 
 following are proper unto it: 
 
 1 . Of the Length of the Querent* s Life, 
 
 2. Of the Good or Evil attending Life. 
 
 3. When or in what Time JJiall the Native undergo ii Change f 
 
 4. What Part of the Querent* s Life is likely to be moft profperous} 
 
 5. Towards what Part of the World may he dire£l his Affairs to profptr 
 
 in them f 
 
 6. A Perfon having aDefre tofheak with another tjliall he find him at home .' 
 ■7. Of an abfent Party, if dead or alive. 
 
 8. Of a Ship at Sea, her Safety or Dejlru^ion. 
 
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 Thefe particulars being explained, will give light fufficient to the aftro- 
 logian, whereby he may judge of any other queftion proper to this houfe. 
 
 1. Of the Length of the Querent's Lfe. 
 
 To refolve this queftion, obferve the (ign afcending, the lord thereof, and 
 the Moon; and, if they are found free from the malignant beams of the 
 infortunes, or of the lords of the fourth, fixth, eighth, and twelfth, houfes, 
 and not combuft, the querent's life will not be (hort ; and, if the fiornifi- 
 catorsare not affli6ted by the prefence of violent fixed ftars, it may be ftill 
 more prolonged; but if the lord of the afcendant be combuft and retro- 
 grade, and in an evil houfe of heaven, the querent is not likely to live 
 long. When the fignificators are unfortunately afpeded from good places 
 of the figure, or the benevolent planets interpofe their rays, the malevo- 
 lence threatened will be fomewhat abated ; but, if it be from evil houfes 
 in the fcheme, and the benevolent planets afford no help, dano-er of a 
 fhort life is then alfo to be feared. 
 
 2. Of the Good or Evil attending Life. 
 
 The good and evil that attends each perfon, is diftinguifhed by the 
 fortunate and unfortunate radiations in the figure. When benevolent pla- 
 nets poffefs the afcendant, or the principal places of the figurej they in- 
 dicate much good to the querent through the whole courle of his life^ 
 And if the lord of the afcendant and the Moon be friendly by the beams 
 of the fortunes, although from malignant places of the fcheme, yet it 
 prefages good to the native, inafmuch as an accidental evil cannot re- 
 bate or withftand an eflential good. But, when the infortunes poflefs 
 thefe places, or by evil afpe6l afflidt the fignificators, the querent will be 
 fubje6t to a troublefome life. If Saturn pofTefs the afcendant, the querent 
 will be melancholy and penfive, and fubje6l to perplexities from aged 
 men. If Mars, he will be choleric, and liable to oppreflion by knaves 
 and fwindlers, and fometimes by the treachery of kindred ; if the Dra- 
 gon's Tail be in the afcendant, he will never be free from fcandal and dif- 
 grace. When the afflitling planets are lords of unpropitious houfes, the 
 evil will be the longer durable; but-, when the afTifting planets are lords of 
 good houfes, the good will be more permanent. Note alfo the houfes 
 thofe planets govern; for from thence is difcovered by what means the 
 querent fhall be fortunate or unhappy. And, as the malignant beams of 
 the evil planets prevent or eclipfe the good that is fignified ; fo the bene- 
 volent rays of the fortunate ftars reverberate much of the mifchief por- 
 tended : by duly confidering which, according to the ftrength of the pla- 
 nets afTifting or affliding, the extent of the good or evil that attends each 
 querent's life may be eafily afcertained, 
 " No. 15. 3 Z . , 3. In
 
 282 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 3. //; ivhat Time may the Nat he expedl a Change? 
 
 Whenever this queftion is ferioufly propounded, and the nativity of 
 the proponent not attainable, (Tor, if the nativity can be had, horary 
 queftion are ufelels;) erefl the figure, and draw it into a fpeculum, and 
 dire6t the I'everal fignificators to their promittors, as in a nativity. Find 
 the true diftance of each fignificator from his promittor, and turn it into 
 time, as in a nativity, and according to the efFediis of the direftions judge 
 of it. But this method is only to be taken when queftions of weighty 
 concern are propounded; upon any trivial or ordinary bufinefs it is wholly 
 unneceffary. In matters of little importance, it is fufficient to ob- 
 ferve the degrees of diftance between the fignificators, either of their 
 bodies or alpedls, which will point out the time corredly enough. When 
 fixed flars of a violent nature occupy the principal parts of the figure, 
 the afcendant, mid-heaven, and place of Luna, they prefage fudden and 
 unexpe6ted mifchief ; but when fixed flars of a noble and generous nature 
 pofTeis thefe places, they demonflrate fudden and permanent good to the 
 querent. 
 
 4. IVhat Part of the Qucrent'i^ Life is likely to be mo/l profpcrous? 
 
 To refolve this queftion, it only requires to obferve in what part of the 
 figure the fortunate ftars are, and according to their pofition judge of it. 
 If the propitious planets are in the afcendant, the twelfth or eleventh 
 houfes, the native will prol'per moft in his younger days ; if in the tenth, 
 ninth, or eighth, in the middle part of his age; if in the feventh, fixth, 
 or fifth, after his middle age; if in the fourth, third, or fecond, his lat- 
 ter days will be the moft comfortable and happy. The time is afcertained 
 by reckoning for every houfe fituated between the fortunate planets 
 and the afcendant five years, if the fignificators of life be weak; if 
 moderately dignified, fix ; but, if the fignificators of life are remarkably 
 iljong and well dignified, then feven years may be reckoned for every 
 houfe. 
 
 5. Towards vuhat Part of the World may the Querent direct his Courfe to 
 
 pro [per? 
 
 It is a misfortune not very uncommon for perfons to undertake long 
 journeys and voyages, much to their prejudice and difadvantage ; for, 
 although all places are alike to him that made the earth, yet they are not 
 fo to men that pofTefs it ; therefore it WAX be requifite for thofe who judge 
 queftions of this kind to obferve the following rules, or at leaf} as many 
 of them as may be necelfary. The whole heaven is divided into four 
 
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 quarters ; eaft, weft, north, and fouth ; and thefe four quarter'? are again 
 I'ubdivided, viz. the firft houle is full eaft; and the twelfth houft% be- 
 ing in afcenfion next unto it, is eaft by fouth ; the eleventh, next unto 
 that, fouth by eaft; and the mid-heaven fouth, &c. Now according to 
 thefe quarters of heaven, thus divided and fubdivided, look for the bene- 
 voknt planets Jupiter, Venus, Luna, and the Part of Fortune, or the 
 moft of them, and diredt the querent in his affairs thither. For exam- 
 ple, fuppofe thefe planets (hall be in the mid-heaven, that being fouth, 
 direft the querent fouthwards ; if they be in the ninth, it is beft to go 
 fouth-weft ; if in the weft, it is his intereft to go full weft ; and lo of the 
 reft. Confider alfo the nature of the querent's defire, whether it be for 
 health, riches, honour, friends, &c. that he engages in his undertaking; 
 for, by rightly underftanding the queftion, the querent's defire ftiall be 
 the more readily anfwered. If it be for health he would remove his ha- 
 bitation, oblerve where, or in what quarter, the lord of the afcendant and 
 the Moon are pofited, and dire6l him that way; if for riches, take notice 
 of the lord of the fecond and the part of fortune; if for honour, confider 
 the Sun and the lord of the tenth; if for friends, the lord of the eleventh; 
 and fo of the other fignificators. , 
 
 6. A Per/on having a dejire to f peak with another, JJiall he fnd him at home? 
 
 The truth I have always found in the anfwers to this queftion, princi- 
 pally induced me to give it a place here ; for I have often tried the ex- 
 periment both for myfelf and others, and have never known it to fail. 
 The rules are thefe ; If you would fpeak with a perfon that you have fa- 
 miliar and conftant dealings with, but are no way related to, take the f»- 
 venth houfe and his lord to ilgnify him, that is, the feventh from the al- 
 cendant ; for the afcendant always fignifies the querent. If the lord of the 
 feventh be in any of the four angles, viz. in the firft, fourth, feventh, or 
 tenth, houfes, the perfon you would fpeak with is certainly at home. If 
 the lord of the feventh be in any of the fuccedent houfes, viz. in the fe- 
 cond, fifth, eighth, or eleventh, he is not then at home, but is near it, 
 and may, with a little diligence, be found; but, if the lord of the feventh 
 be in any one of the cadent houfes, viz. the third, fixth, ninth, or 
 twelfth, the party is far from home, and confequently cannot be fpoken 
 with if fought for. If the lord of the afcendant apply to the lord of the 
 feventh by a friendly afpedl at the time of enquiry, the querent may 
 perhaps meet the quefited, or accidentally hear of him by the way; or, if 
 the Moon or any other planet transfer the light of the lord of the feventh 
 to the lord of the afcendant, it denotes the fame thing. The nature and 
 fex of the planet transferring the light denotes what manner of perfon 
 fhall give notice to the querent of the perfon he enquires after, accord- 
 ing
 
 a84 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 iiig to the fign and quarter he is pofited in. But, if the perfon enquired 
 after be a relation, then the lord of the feventh is not to be taken, but 
 the lord of that houfe which fignifies fuch relation ; as, if it be a bro- 
 ther, then the lord of the third mufl: be referred to; if a father, regard 
 muft be had to the lord of the fourth; if a Ton or daughter, obferve the 
 lord of the fifth, and (6 on; and according to their pofitions judge as 
 above fpecified, 
 
 7. If an ahfent Party be dead or alive. 
 
 Herein alfo muft be confidered what relationfhip the querent hath to 
 the party quefited, and take the fignificator accordingly. But, if there be 
 no relationfhip between them, then take the afcendant, his lord, and the 
 Moon, to fignify the party that is abfent; and judge thus : If the lord of 
 the afcendant, or the Moon, be in conjundion with the lord of the eighth, 
 or a planet in the eighth, and no benevolent teftimonies concur, the 
 abfent party is certainly dead. Or, when the Moon and the lord of the 
 afcendant (hall be in oppofition to the lord of the eighth, from the fe- 
 cond and eighth, or from the fixth and twelfth houfes, the abfent party 
 is likewife dead. If the lord of the afcendant be in the fourth, and the- 
 Moon in the feventh, in quartile to him, it fhows great danger to the 
 quefited, if not abfolute death. When an evil planet fhall tranflate the 
 light of the lord of the eighth unto the lord of the afcendant, or of the 
 lord of the afcendant to the lord of the eighth, it is mofh probable the 
 abfent party is dead. If the lord of the afcendant and the Moon be in 
 the fourth houfe from the afcendant, or in the houfe of death, and either 
 combuft or in their fall, or joined with the lord of the eighth, the party 
 quefited is undoubtedly deceafed ; but, if none of thefe pofitions happen,, 
 and on the contrary you find the Moon, and the afcendant, and his lord, 
 flrong and well fortified, the abfent party is alive and well. If the lord 
 of the afcendant, or the Moon, feparate from the lord of the fixth, the 
 abfent party hath been lately fick ; if from the lord of the eighth, he has 
 been in danger of death ; if from the lord of the twelfth, he has been in 
 prifon, and fuffered much anxiety of mind. And, by thus varying the 
 rule, his condition, according to the application and feparation of the 
 fignificators, will be corredly found. 
 
 8 . Of a Ship at Sea, her Safety or DeJiruSlion. 
 
 This queftion, although referred by the ancient Arabian and Latin 
 aflrologers to the ninth houfe, becaufe it relates to voyages, yet the 
 judgments hereof being fuch as properly relate to the firfl houfe or afcen- 
 dant.
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 285 
 
 dant, I have for that reafon referred it thereto. The parts of the fhip are 
 thus divided according to the figns of the zodiac :* 
 
 T The breaft of the (Kip £= That part above the bread in 
 
 b Under the breaft toward the the water. 
 
 water ttj. Where the mariners abide 
 
 n The rudder or ftern | The mariners 
 
 25 The bottom or floor VJ The ends of the fhip 
 
 fL The top above the water ::: The captain or mafter 
 
 m The belly of the fhip H The oars, 
 
 The afcendant and the Moon are generally fignificators of the fhip, and 
 the burthen fhe bears ; but the lord of the afcendant is fignificator of the 
 perfons that fail in her. And, if in a queftion all thefe appear fortunate, 
 they denote profperity to the fhip ; but, if on the contrary they are found 
 impedited and afflided, the veffel and all in her are in imminent danger, if 
 not abfolutely loft. When a malevolent planet, having dignities in the 
 eighth houfe, fhall be found in the afcendant, or the lord of the afcend- 
 ant in the eighth, in evil afped: with the lord of the eighth, twelfth, fixth, 
 or fourth, houfe, or if the Moon be combufl under the earth, all thefe are 
 indications of danger, and preflige the fhip either to be lofl, or in a very 
 defperate condition. But when all the fignificators are free, and no way 
 impedited, it denotes the fliip to be in a very good and profperous con- 
 dition, and all the perfons and things on-board her. If the afcendant and 
 the Moon be unfortunate, and the lord of the afcendant flrong, and in a 
 good houfe, it indicates the fhip to be in an ill condition; but the men, 
 &c. that are on-board her, will do well, and come home in fafety. But 
 if the afcendant and the Moon fhall be fortunate, and the lord of the af- 
 cendant unfortunate, it fliows that the veffel will do well, or that it is in 
 fafety ; but that her crew are in great danger of being deflroyed by fome 
 putrid difeafe, or of being taken by an enemy. 
 
 If any perfon enquires the fuccefs a fhip fhall have in her voyage 
 upon her fetting fail, you mufl then note the angles of the figure; and, 
 if the fortunate planets and the Moon (for flie is lady of the feas) are 
 found therein, and the unfortunate planets cadent, or in an abje6t con- 
 dition, it forefhows the fhip and her lading will go very fafely unto the 
 intended haven ; but if the infortunes be in angles, or in fuccedent 
 houfes, fhe will meet with fome accident in her voyage; and the mis- 
 fortune will fall upon that part of the fliip, perfon, or thing, in the fame, 
 
 * Da fiiiium "y", pefioribus navis ; y , ei quod eft fub pedoribiis modicum verfiis aquam ; 
 n, gubernaciilo navis; ^B, fundo navis ; ^, fummitati navjs quae flat fupcr aquam ; Tip, 
 ventri navis; -i^, ci qiiod lublevatiir et cleprimit de pedoribus navis in aqua; tT]^, loco iibi 
 mcrant naiitas ; J^ , ipfi nauta- ; VJ", fuiibiis exiftcntibus in nave; ^, magiftro navis; ^, 
 rtmi?. Haly dc Judic. Aftrol. pars tertia, cap. 14. fol. 1]5. 
 
 No. 15. 4 A fignified
 
 286 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fignificd by the fign where the infortune is po(ite>l ; and, if the infor- 
 tune threatening this danger fliall be Saturn, the veffel will either be 
 I'pht or llink, and moft of the crew either drowned, or fubjcit to many 
 hardlhips ; but if the infortune be Mars, and he in any of his el- 
 fential dignities, or alpedling a place where he hath ftrength, or po(it- 
 ed in an earthy fign, he portends the lanie mifchief, with tlie additiop.al 
 misfortune of the crew being either taken by an enemy, imprifoned, or 
 carried into flavery. But if the fortunes caft their friendly beams unto 
 cither of the aforefaid places, and the lords of the angles, particularly of 
 the afcendant, and the difpofitor of the Moon, be free, it denotes that 
 although the fliip fliall undergo much damage, or be loft, yet the major 
 part of the men and goods Ihall be laved. But if Mars afflid: the lords of 
 the angles, and the difpofitor of the Moon, the men and the fl\ip will 
 be in danger of pirates, or of a public enemy. And, it any other evil af- 
 fetlions appear in the figns, there will be quarrelling and contention, 
 or fome dangerous mutiny, in the Ihip ; and this will chiefiy happen when 
 the infortunes are located in thole figns which difpofe of the parts in the 
 upper divifion of the (hip. But, if Saturn afllidt in the fame manner as 
 above recited of Mars, there will be many difturbances in the fliip, but 
 no bloodlhed, And, if the infortunate figns fignify the bottom or lower 
 parts of the ihip, it prelages drowning by means of Ibme dangerous leak. 
 If fiery figns be in the mid-heaven, near violent fixed ftars, and Mars 
 prove the afflidling planet, the Ihip will be burnt, either by fome acci- 
 dent within her, or by lightning, or by the falling of fome inflammable 
 meteor. But, if Mars be in an human fign, the burning of the fliip will 
 be occafioned by fome engagement with an enemy ; and the danger 
 will begin in that part of the fliip fignified by the fign wherein the 
 infortune was placed in the figure. If Saturn be the threatening planet in- 
 llead of Mars, and pofited in the mid-heaven, the veffel will be caft away, 
 or damaged by the motion of violent ftorms and winds, or by reafon of 
 leaks, or bad fails; and the danger will be either greater or lefs, in pro- 
 portion to the dignity or power of the infortune, and his diftance from the 
 beams of the benevolent planets. 
 
 If the lord of the afcendant in the figure be fortunate, the (hip fliall 
 return with fifety and good fuccefs ; but, if he be unfortunate, fhe fiiall 
 fuffer much lofs and damage. If the lord of the eighth houfe fliall af- 
 fiicl the lord of the afcendant, or if the lord of the afcendant be in 
 the eighth, it denotes the death of the captain or mafter of the fliip, or fome 
 of the principal ofticers belonging to her. And if the part of fortune 
 and part of fubftance, and their lords, fliall be afflided, it denotes lofs 
 in the fale of the goods that are in the fliip. But, if inftead of this af- 
 flidlion they fh all be in fortunate pofitions, it denotes much gain, and a 
 
 profitable
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 287 
 
 profitable voyage. When the lord of the afcendant, and the difpofitor 
 of the Moon, Ihall be flow in coiirfe, the fliip in all likelihood will make 
 a long and tedious voyage ; more particularly if the lords of thole places 
 be flow aifo ; but, if the iignificators be quick in motion, the fliip will 
 make a (liorter or quicker voyage than may be expected. If in the figure 
 there be enmity in the pofitions between the lord of the afcendant and 
 the difpofitor of the Moon, and no reception between them, nor any aid 
 from benevolent planets ; the feamen will contend one with another, or 
 there will be dilcord between the captain, or mail:er, and the crew ; and 
 he whofe fignificator is ftrongefl, Ihall overcome, that is, if the lord of 
 the afcendant be mofl powerful, the feamen will prevail; but, if the 
 difpofitor of the Moon be beft fortified, the mafter or captain will over- 
 come. If the lord of the fecond (hall be remote from his own houfe, 
 and the fecond houfe from the Moon, and the lord of the part of for- 
 tune from the part of fortune, in cadent houfes, or in quartile or oppo- 
 fition, it prefages want of necefl'ary provifions ; and, if they be found in 
 aquatical fi.gns, it Ihows want of frefh water, and great danger of death 
 by hunger and thirll. 
 
 QUESTIONS proper to the SECOND HOUSE. 
 
 The fecond houfe being the houfe of fubfiance, the queftions proper to 
 it are as follow : 
 
 1 . Shall the ^luerent be rich or poor P 
 
 2 . Hy iSL'hat vieans Jl:>ciU he attain riches f 
 
 3 . The time 'when P 
 
 4. Shall he obtain the goods or money lent ? 
 
 5. Shall be obtain the wages or Jlipend due to him 9 
 
 Shall the §luerent be rich or poor P 
 
 In refolving this queflion, obferve the fign of the fecond houfe and its 
 lord, the planet or planets located therein, and cafting their rays to the 
 cufp, or the lord thereof; the part of fortune alfo, and its difpofitor; and 
 if all thefe fignificators are free, and afiilied by the bodies or afpedts of 
 the benevolent planets, the querent will attain a very confiderable for- 
 tune ; and fhall efcape poverty. But when the fignificators are afflided, 
 and the fortunate ftars afford them no affiftance, it denotes the perfon in- 
 terrogating will be poor all his life-time. If the lord of the afcendant, 
 or the Mocn, be joined to the lord of the houfe of fubftance ; or the lord 
 of the feventh houfe to the lord of the afcendant ; or if the lord of the 
 houfe of fubfi:ance be pofited in the afcendant ; or if the lord of the af- 
 cendant, and the Moon, be in the houfe of fubftance; or if the Moon, 
 
 or
 
 288 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 or any other planet, transfer the light of the lord of the fecond houfe to 
 the lord or the afcendant, or of the lord of the afcendant to the lord of 
 the fecond houfe ; the querent will attain riches, and live in good efteem, 
 according to his fituation or birth. But, if none of thefe pofitions hap- 
 pen, then note Jupiter, the natural fignificator of fubftance ; or Venus, 
 who ahb is a fortune; or the Dragon's Head, which always portends 
 good ; and if they be free from the ill beams of the infortunes, or happen 
 to be pofited in the houfe of fubftance,' the querent will moft certainly be 
 rich, and will bear great fway in the place where he liv^s. When Saturn, 
 Mars, or the Dragon's Tail, are pofited in the fecond houfe, or afl1i(5l the 
 lord of the fecond, Jupiter, \ enus, or Part of Fortune, it is an argument 
 that the querent will not attain riches ; or, if he were in a good capacity, 
 he will be reduced to a very mean fituation. The fignificators of fub- 
 ftance fwift in motion, and in good parts of the figure, and free from af- 
 fiidlion, fhow the querent will be rich of a fudden ; but if they are flow 
 in motion, though not afflicted, the querent will attain riches but flowly ; 
 particularly if the planets fignifying riches are ponderous, and in fixed 
 ft .is. 
 
 By what Means Jloall the ^erent attain Riches ? 
 
 The fignificators of fubftance, their feveral locations, and the houfes 
 they govern, are in this queftion to be particularly attended to; for 
 from thence is known by what means riches come. If the lord of the 
 fecond houfe, or the other fignificators of fubftance, be fortunately placed 
 in (he afcendant, the querent will attain great riches without much la- 
 bour, in a manner unexpectedly ; but, if the lord of the fecond be in the 
 fecond, it ftiews the querent v/ill obtain an eftate by his own induftry. 
 The adjuvant planets fitiiated in the afcendant, or the lord thereof, denote 
 the querent will advance himlblf by his own iiiduftry. If the lord of the 
 fecond be in the fecond, he acquires wealth by merchandife, and by pro- 
 perly managing his bufinefs ; if in the third, or lord of the third, he gains 
 by brethren kindred, or neighbours. The moft aft'ured teltimonies upon 
 queftions upon this nature, are thefe : If the lord of the firft and fecond, 
 and Jupiter, be in conjundtion either in the fecond, firft, tenth, fourth, 
 feventh, or eleventh, houfes; or if they apply by fextile or trine to each 
 other with mutual reception; but, if thev apply by quartile or oppofitioa 
 with reception, the party will then alfo thrive, and have an eftate, thougli 
 with much labour and difficulty. 
 
 The Time ivhen a Man may attain Riches P 
 
 Confider ferioufly the application of the Moon, or lord of tlie afcend- 
 dant, unto the planet or planets fignifying the fubftance of the querent ; 
 
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 for they denote, the time when the querent may acquire riches. Then 
 find the degrees of diftance between the fignificators, and turn them 
 into time, which will fhow the true diftance of time in which riches, or 
 the goods of fortune, are attainable by the querent. Fixed fio-ns prolong 
 the bufinefs ; but corporal fhew an inditferency, or that the time will 
 neither be long nor Ihort. Moveable or cardinal figns haflen the matter. 
 In all queftions that relate to time, the fureft way is, to take the right or 
 oblique afcenlions of the fignificators, and dired: them to their feveral 
 promittors, as in a nativity ; and thus the time of a man's obtaining 
 riches may be exactly known ; but if the queftion be of fmall confequence, 
 obferve the degrees of diftance, and according to the figns they are in 
 meafure out the time in years, months, weeks, or days, as before di- 
 red:ed. 
 
 Shall the ^erent obtain the Goods or Money lent f 
 
 In this queftion the lord of the afcendant and the Moon are fignifi- 
 cators of the querent ; and the lord of the fecond denotes his fubftance. 
 But the feventh houfe and his lord reprefent the perfon of whom you 
 enquire ; and the eighth houfe, and the lord thereof, his fubftance. Ob- 
 ferve whether the lord of the afcendant or the Moon be joined to the 
 lord of the eighth, who is fignificator of the fubftance of the party en- 
 quired after ; for, if either of them be joined to or in good afpe6t with a 
 planet in the eighth houfe, and the planet therein happen to be a fortune, 
 the querent fhall then obtain the goods or money enquired after. And 
 if it fhall fo happen, that an infortune be either in the eighth houfe, or 
 lord of the eighth, and he receive either the lord of the afcendant or the 
 Moon, the perfon enquiring fhall obtain what he expedts. But not 
 without reception. When the lord of the eighth is pofited in the firft or 
 fecond houfe, and the lord of the fecond ftiall receive him, it denotes the 
 perfection of the bufinefs enquired after. But, if the lord of the feventh 
 or eighth fliall be pofited in the firft or fecond, and not be received by ei- 
 ther the lord of the afcendant, the Moon, or lord of the fecond, it fnows 
 the querent will not only go without his defirc, but, if he purfue the bu- 
 finefs, he will fuftain much lofs and detriment. If the lord of the afcen- 
 dant or the Moon be joined to one of the fortunes, which have dignity 
 in the fign afcending, it denotes the difpatch of the bufinefs enquired 
 after; or if either of them be joined to an infortune, having dignities in 
 the afcendant, and receive the lord of the afcendant, or the Moon, it de-. 
 notes the accomplifhment of the matter or bufinefs enquired after. And, 
 if the fortunes be in powerful places of the figure, and joined to the lord 
 of the afcendant or the Moon, the matter or bufinefs will be accompliihed, 
 although there be no reception. 
 
 No. 15. , 4B If
 
 ago AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 If the ^evint Jhall obtain bis Wages ^ Salary ^ or Penjion, due either from 
 Governrnent or from an Individual. 
 
 Behold the afcendant, the lord of the fame, and the Moon, for they 
 have fignilication of the querent ; and the fccond from the afcendant, 
 which is the querent's houie of fubrt:ance, and his lord. And note the 
 tenth houfe anJ his lord, which are the fignificators of the quefited. And 
 the eleventh houfe, and his lord, fignify the fubftance of him or them. 
 If in the figure the lord of the afcendant or the Moon is joined to the 
 lord of the eleventh, or to a fortunate planet in the eleventh houfe, with- 
 out let or impediment ; the querent will certainly obtain the wages or 
 falary. And if it Ihall happen that the Moon or lord of the afcendant 
 be joined to an unfortunate planet, and the unfortunate planet receives 
 them, the querent will then obtain his defire, although it will be after 
 long waiting, and with many folicitations. But if there be no reception 
 between the lord of the afcendant, the Moon, and the infortune, not- 
 withftanding any oppofition between them, yet the querent will rarely 
 obtain his money or falary enquired after. If the fignificators are in 
 friendly afpedt from good houles of heaven, and this without impediment 
 or hindrance, the querent will be fuccefsful ; but, if infortunes impede 
 the fignificator of the querent's good, conlidcr what houfe he is lord of, 
 and that will point out the perlbn or thing that obflruds it. 
 
 JUDGMENTS proper to the THIRD HOUSE. 
 
 This houfe appertains to brethren, fifters, kindred, and neighbours ; 
 to inland journey.*;, and rumours; and therefore thefe queftions are par- 
 ticularly moft proper to it : 
 
 1. Shall the ^erent^ and his Brethren\.^c. or Neighbours, accord f ' 
 
 2 . Of the Condition and EJiate of an abfent Brother ^ 
 
 3. Shall the ^erent'^s inland Journeys be prof per ous .? 
 
 4. Reports and Rumours, whether true or falfe ? 
 
 5. Of the Advice of a Frkady (^c. if good, or bad? 
 
 Many other queftions may be propounded, that properly pertain to this 
 houfe ; but whoever underftands the manner of judging thefe, may with 
 cafe anfwer any other that may be propofed. 
 
 Shall the ^erent and his Brethren^ &c. or Neighbours, accord f 
 
 The Moon, the afcendant, and its lord, are the fignificators o'i the 
 querent J and the third houfe, and its lord, of the quefited. Ihe queflion 
 is refolved thus : I'i the lord of the third heufe be a benevolent planet, 
 
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 and in the afcendant, or the Moon be in good afpe6t with a fortunate 
 planet in the third, the querent and his brethren and neighbours will 
 agree well. When the lord of the afcendant and lord of the third are in 
 fextile or trine to each other, and in mutual reception ; or the lord of the 
 third cafts a fextile or trine to the cufp of the afcendant ; and the lord of 
 the afcendant or the Moon cafts the fame to the cufp of the third houfe, 
 it is an argument of great unity, love, and concord, between them. When 
 a fortunate planet is in the afcendant, and the lord of the afcendant be- 
 holds the cufp of the third, or applies friendly to the lord of the third, it 
 is an argument of good difpofition in the querent, and fpeaks him willing 
 to accord with his brethren, kindred, and neighbours. And if a fortune 
 be in the third, and the lord of the third apply in harmony to the lord of 
 the afcendant, the brethren, kindred, or neighbours, are moft indulging. 
 Thofe perfons whofc fignificators do not apply, are moft imperious, and 
 apt to difigree ; and thofe whofe fignificators make application, are flexi- 
 ble, willing, and yielding, and de/irous of agreement and concord. When 
 Saturn, Mars, or the Dragon's Tail, in fuch a queftion, fliall be in the 
 afcendant, it denotes the peribn enquiring to be obftinate, and averfe to 
 a friendly agreement ; but if they, or either of them, are podted in the 
 third, the brethren, neighbours, and kindred, are of a malicious difpo- 
 fition ; and if it happen that Saturn or Mars ftiall be peregrine, retro- 
 grade, or combuft, the malice arid mifchief they threaten will be the more 
 michievous. W^hen Saturn or the Dragon's Head are in the third, the 
 neighbours are obftinate, and the kindred covetous and fparing ; if Mars, 
 the kindred are treacherous, and the neighbours dilhoneft. And this is 
 certain, when they are out of their effential dignities. 
 
 Of the Condi I ion and Eft ate of an abjent Brother 9 
 
 To refolve this queftion, confider the lord of the third houfe, for that 
 hath fignification of brethren ; and the houfe where he is pofited, becaufe 
 that fhows the ftate and condition of the quefited. For it the lord of the 
 third be in conjundlion, quartile, or oppofition, of the infortunes, or in 
 evil afpecft of the lords of the obfcure houfes, the condition of the bro- 
 ther is forrowful ; but if, on the contrary, he be in good afpcd: with the 
 fortunes, and in propitious places of the figure, his condition is good and 
 profperous. If the lord of the third be pofited in the fourth, in no evil 
 afped: of the malevolents, the brother which is abfent hath an intention 
 to enrich himfelf in the place where he is; for the fouith houfe is the. 
 fecond from the third. If the lord of the third be pofited in the fifth, 
 in conjunction with the lord of the fifth, with or w iihout the reception 
 of the fortunes, it fliows the abfent brother to be in health nd very hap- 
 pily fituated. But if the lord of the third be in the fifth, void ot courfe, 
 
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 393 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 or in corporal conjun(flion or malicious afpcdl of the infortunes, and 
 this without reception, and the unfortunate planets themfelvcs impedited, 
 it declares the abfent brother in a bad condition, indifpofed in health, 
 and not contented in the place where he is ; or, if he fliall be found 
 in any of the obfcure parts of the figure, which arc naturally evil, as tivc 
 fixth, eighth, or twelfth, houfcs, the abfent brother is not well, nor in 
 a profperous fituation. When the lord of the third is found in the eighth, 
 either in conjundion, fextile, or trine, of one of the fortunes, the abfent 
 brother is not well j or if the lord of the third be joined to evil planets 
 in the llxth houfe, or in conjundlion with the lord of the fixth, he is 
 then in an infirm and fickly condition ; and, if the lord of the fixth be in 
 the third, except the lord of the third be well difpofed, it denotes the 
 fame. Then note whetiier the lord of the third be in conjun(5tion with 
 the lord of the eighth, or in combufiion ; for fuch a configuration de- 
 clares he wmU die of the infirmity. But, if the lord of the third be in the 
 feventh, the brother is in the fame country he went into at firft, and con- 
 tinues there ; and his condition is neither well nor ill. If the fignificator 
 be in the eighth, the abfent brother is in danger of death, particularly 
 if he be combuft;, or in conjundlion with the lord of the eighth, in con- 
 junction or afpedl of the infortunes j for thefe are ftrong arguments of 
 death. When the lord of the third is in the ninth, it denotes that the 
 abfent brother is removed from the place he firfl: went to, and is gone 
 into a more remote country. And if he be in the tenth, in conjunilion 
 or good afped: of the fortunate planets, and with reception, it denotes 
 him to have acquired fome honour, office, or preferment, in the place 
 where he lives. But if he fhall be in conjundlion, quartile, or oppofi- 
 tion, of the infortunes, combufl, or any other way infortunated, it is to 
 be feared the abfent brother is dead. If the lord of the third be in the 
 eleventh houfe, in conjundlion, fextile, or trine, of the fortunes, or in 
 conjundlion with the lord of the eleventh, it denotes the abfent brother 
 to be at the houfe or place of fome friend, where he is happy and well ; 
 but if he be malicioufly beheld of the unfortunate planets, he is not 
 pleafed with the fituation he is in, but is grieved and perplexed. The 
 fignificator of the abfent party, in the twelfth houfe, in conjundtion or 
 good afpedl of the fortunes with reception, and the fortunes themfelve.s 
 no way impedited, fliews he will deal in merchandize, and gain riches. 
 But, if he be infortunated in the twelfth houfe, either by the bad afpedts 
 of the malevolents, or lord of the eighth, or in combuftion, it fhows 
 ihe abfent brother to be difcontented, troubled, and perplexed, and not 
 likely to lee the land of his nativity again. 
 
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 293 
 
 Shall the Cerent's inland yourneys be profperons ? 
 
 Perfons who travel much in the country where they live, and have not 
 their nativities to diredt them, may have occafion to enquire the event of 
 fome intended journey ; for we know thofe tliat travel much do not al- 
 ways travel fafe ; but fometimes are in danger either of thieves, ficknefs, 
 or accidents, upon their journeys, that may occafion them to repent the un- 
 dertaking of them. Now, for ti^e prevention of fuch accidents, and to en- 
 able the reader to refolve queftions of this nature, let the following rules 
 be obferved. Give the afcendant and his lord, and the Moon, to the que- 
 rent ; the third houfe and lord thereof to fignify the journey ; and if the 
 fignificators be fwift in motion, or in the effential dignities of each other, 
 or in conjuniS'ion, fextile, or trine, to each other, in good places of the 
 figure; the journey will be good and profperous. Or if the Moon be 
 in the third, in textile to the afcendant, or the lord of the third cad a 
 Textile or trine to the afcendant, or be in the lame ; and the lord of the 
 afcendant well dignified in the third, they alfo denote a I'afe and plea- 
 fant journey. If the lord of the afcendant or Moon apply to any planet 
 in the third houfe, or the lord of the third to a planet in the al'cen- 
 danr, it likewife denotes the journey enquired after to be plealant. Or, 
 if Jupiter or Venus be in the third houfe, it (liows a profitable and de- 
 lightful journey ; particularly if they caft a fextile to the afcendant. The 
 Dragon's Tail in the third houfe, flio.ws the fame. When Saturn, Mars, 
 or the Dragon's Head, are pofited in the third houfe, or afflid: the lord 
 thereof, or the Moon, it portends an unlucky journey to the querent, and 
 'very ill fuccel's therein. Saturn Ihovvs the querent to be melancholy and 
 penfive in his journey j Mars and the Dragon's Head fliovv him to be in 
 danger of thieves and robbers ; and, if they are in human figns, or fiery, 
 it denotes him to be lamed or wounded in his journey. \Vhen the lord 
 of the alcendant is retrograde, the querent will return again before he 
 hath gone to the place he intended j and, if the fignificators be flow, he 
 makes but little hafte or fpeed in his journey. If the lord of the fixth 
 afflid: the fignificators, the querent will fall fick by the way ; if the lord 
 of the twelfth, he will be impeded by malicious people; and, if the lord 
 of the eighth be the affliding planet, it flaows danger of death ; particu- 
 larly if the fignificators are near violent fixed fiars. 
 
 Reports and Rumours, rrhether true or falfe ? 
 
 This queftion may be anfwered thus : Obferve the lord of the afcen- 
 dant and the Moon, and the difpofitor ot the Moon, and fee if cither of 
 them be in an angle or fuccedent houfe in a fixed fign, or in good afped: 
 v»-ith Jupiter, the Sun, or Verais; for ufually, upon fuch configurations. 
 
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 294 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 the reports and rumours are true. But if the lord of the afcendaiu or 
 the Moon be afflided of Saturn or Mars, or cadent froiri an angle, al- 
 though they be ftrong in the fign where they are, yet the rumour is falfe. 
 Rumours are alfo true and good when the angles of the figure are in fixed 
 figns, and the Moon and Mercury in fixed figns, feparating from the in- 
 fortunes, and applying to a fortune pofited in any of the angles of the 
 figure. So alfo when the angles of the tenth and fourth houfes are fixed, 
 and the Moon (liall be received in either of them, although the rumours 
 and reports be of an evil nature, yet they will hold true. If the fortu- 
 nate planets Jupiter and Venus fhnll be in the alcendant, and the Moon 
 at the fame time unfortunate, let the rumours or reports be ever fo mif- 
 chievous and iinlucky, they will be fure to prove falle, and come to no- 
 thing. Mercury being retrograde or othervvife afflided, declares ill ru- 
 mours to be falfe ; the like doth the afiiiftion of that planet to whom 
 "Mercury or the Moon applies. If the lord of the afcendant or the Moon 
 fh.ill be under the Sun-beams, the truth of the rumour is kept fecret by 
 men in power, and few fhall know the truth thereof. If the Moon be 
 void of courfe, or in quartile or oppofit.on of Mercury, and neither of 
 them call: their fextile or trine afpeds to the afcendant, the news or rumour 
 is vain and falfe, and may be lately contradicted. 
 
 The Ad-vice of a Friend, 'wheiher good or had? 
 
 It fometimes happens that neighbours or friei.ds in fundry difKcult or 
 embarraffed circumffances, will advife and perfuade a perfbn what he had 
 bell to do in fuch a cafe ; and if it be required to know whether they in- 
 tend faithfully, or perfidioufly, by luch advice, eredl your figure to the mo- 
 ment of time they firft drop their counfel, and judge as follows: Behold 
 the mid-heaven, that being the houfe fignifying advice, and fee '\i there 
 be any fortunate ft.ir or planet p fired therein ; tor then the counfel or ad- 
 vice is ferious and good, and will be proper to follow. But if an infor- 
 tune be found in the tenth houfe, the friends that pretend counfel adl deceit- 
 fully, and intend knavifhly. 
 
 JUDGMENTS proper to the FOURTH HOUSE. 
 
 The fourth houfe gives judgment on poflefTion, inheritances, lands, or 
 houfes, and of things loft and miflaid j of the father, 5cc. and hath thefe 
 quef\ions proper to it, viz. 
 
 1. Shall the Querent purcha/e the Uouje or Land deJiredP 
 
 2. Of the ^ality thereof and Jhall the ^erent do li-ell to take it P 
 
 3. If it be bcjl for one to remove, or abide ivhere he isf 
 A. Of hidden Treafure, f attainable P 
 
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 5. Is there Treafure hidden in the place fuppofedP 
 
 6. Shall the ^erent enjoy the Eft ate. of his jatherf 
 
 Thefe queltions being once refolved, will lead the artift to the under- 
 flanding ot at^y thing of the hke nature. 
 
 Shall the ^ercnl purchaje the lloufe or Land deftred? 
 
 To refolve this queftion, give the afcendant and his lord, and the Moon, 
 to iignity him that enquires; the fign of the fourth houfe and lord thereof 
 to fignify the thing quclited. If the lord of the afcendant or the Moon 
 be in the fourth houfe, or the lord of the fourth in the firll, or if either 
 of them are in conjunction with the lord of the fourth, or in fextile or 
 trine to him with reception, it declares the accomplifhment of the thing 
 without impediment or hindrance. But if they are joined without recep- 
 tion, or in quartile or oppofition with perfect reception, the querent may 
 poflibly obtain his defire. Or if the fignificators be not joined together 
 either by body or afpedl, yet if fhere be a tranflation of light between 
 them. Cither by the Moon or another planet, it fhows a poflibility of the 
 purchafe, though with much difficulty and trouble. 
 
 The following is alfo a good method to judge of this quedion. Give 
 the fign afcending, and the lord thereof, and the planet from whom the 
 Moon is feparated, to the querent or purchafer ; the feventh houfe and 
 his lord, the planet or planets pofited therein, and the Moon, to fignify 
 the thing to be bought or purchafed ; and the mid-heaven to fignify the 
 price thereof. And if in your figure the lord of the afcendant behold the 
 lord ot the feventh, and the lord of the feventh apply to the lord of the 
 afcendant, the fel.er hath a greater defire to deal with the buyer; and if 
 they chance to be in each other's dignities, or any good tranflation of light 
 happen between them, or if they apply to corporal conjund.ion, the que- 
 rent will agree with th: feller without much difficulty or trouble. But, 
 if the application or tranllation of light be by quartile or oppofition, 
 the buyer and feller will at Ian agree; but it will be with much labour 
 and lofs of time, and atter many probabilities of breaking off. If the 
 lord of the afcendant or the Moon apply to the lord of the fourth; or if 
 lord of the f urth or the Mo' 11 apply to the lord of the afcendant; 
 or if the lord of the fourth alone fhall apply to the lord of the aicen- 
 dant, and there be a reception between them ; or if the lord of the afcen- 
 dant, or the Moon, be in the fourth, or lorJ of the fourth in the afcen- 
 dant ; they dcnoie the party enquiring ihall buy or purchafe the land or 
 inheritance enquired after. But it neither of thefe happen, yet if the 
 Moon Ihall transfer the light of one figuiiicator to the other, it denotes 
 
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 296 A N I L L U S '1' RATION 
 
 that the thing will be perfcded by the mediatiot\ of friends, or by mellcn- 
 gers. But if there be no application, reception, or tranllation of light, 
 between them, then it is improbable that any thing fliall be concluded be- 
 tween them. 
 
 Of the ^dlity of the Purchafe, and whether the ^erent does 'welf to take It f 
 
 Take the fourth houfe to rcfolve this interrogatory; and if the two 
 unfortunate planets are pofited therein, either potent or peregrine, the 
 thing enquired after will be walled by the buyer ; and the prefcnt is in no 
 very good condition. If the lord of the fourth be infortunalcd, either by 
 retrogradation, detriment, Adl, or peregrination, it denotes the houfe or 
 land to be bad, or lb encumbered that it will never continue long with the 
 purchafer. But if the fortunate planets, or the Dragon's Tail, be in the 
 fourth houfe, it Ihows the bufinefs enquired after to be good ; and that 
 the buyer, or purchafer, fhall be a gainer thereby. When the fortunate 
 planets call: their benevolent rays unto the fourth houfe, and the lord of 
 the fourth fliall be pofited in a good houfe, in fextile or trine to the fecond 
 houfe or his lord, it is an argument that the bargain is good, and that the 
 purchafer Ihall be a gainer thereby. If Aries, Leo, or Saggittarius, be 
 upon the cufp of the fourth houfe, it denotes an cftate to be hilly, hard, 
 and dry ; if Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn, the land is level and very good ; 
 if Gemini, Libra, or Aquaries, the ground is fome part high, and fome 
 low, and is in quality neither very good nor very bad; if Cancer, Scor- 
 pio, or Pifces, it abounds with much water. An unfortunate planet in 
 the fourth, retrograde, fliows the land or houfe will turn out very un- 
 lucky, and not be worth the taking, and will be accompanied with many 
 infelicities; but, if a fortunate planet be pofited there ftrong, the land is 
 good, and may well invite the querent to go on, for he will have a good 
 bargain. 
 
 Jf be (I for a Verfon to remove, or abide inhere he is f 
 
 In this queftion give the afcendant and the lord thereof, to fignify 
 the querent; the feventh houfe and lord thereof, to lignify the place 
 to which he would go; the fourth houic and his lord, the fubflance of 
 the querent; and the tenth houfe and his lord, the profit of removal. 
 The lord of the afcendant or fourth in the feventh, and the lord the 
 afcendant and feventh, fortunate planets, fwift in motion, flrong and po- 
 tent where they are, the querent then will do well to remain where lie is, 
 and not remove. But if the lord of the feventh be with a good planet, 
 and the lords of the afcendant or fourth with an evil one, the querent had 
 better remove, for he will get little by continuing where he is. Fortu- 
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 nate planets in the afcendant or fourth may invite the querent to renaain 
 where he is. If the lords of thofe houfes are in conjunftion, or in good 
 afpedt with fortunate ftars, it denotes the fame. Unfortunate planets 
 in the afcendant or fourth, fliow the querent it is good to remove; and, 
 if the lords of the afcendant and fourth be afflicted by the malefics, either* 
 by body or afped, it denotes the fame, Obferve the afflicting planet or 
 planets, and the houfe or houfes they govern ; for from thence the occa- 
 flon of the mifchief that the querent fuftains is known ; the like obferve 
 of the affifting or friendly planets, whence a rational anfwer to the quef- 
 tion propofed will be eafily obtained. 
 
 4. Of Treafures hid, xvheiher attainable or not. 
 
 It is not uncommon for penurious perfons to hide treafure in their 
 life-time, and to go out of the world without informing their heirs or 
 executors where to find it. Whenever this is fufpefted to be the cafe, 
 and a queftion is grounded upon it, eredl your figure, and confider what 
 application, reception, tranflation, &c. there may be between the lord 
 of the afcendant and fourth houfe. If there be a friendly application 
 and reception, the perfon enquiring fhall obtain the treafure he enquires 
 after ; but, if there be a quartile or oppofition between the (ignificators, 
 without the reception, the treafure will rarely be found. When the 
 fignificators apply to each other corporally in a fixed fign, there are 
 great hopes of finding and obtaining the fame fpeedily; particularly if 
 the application be in a good houfe. Both or either of the luminaries in 
 the afcendant no way unfortunate, or friendly beholding the fame, argues 
 a fpeedy recovery of the treafure hid ; but, if they fhould happen to be 
 cadent, or in quartile or oppofition thereto, it gives but fmall hopes. 
 If the part of fortune be in the afcendant, beheld by fortunate planets, 
 or by the luminaries, the querent will have a fair profpeft of acquiring 
 his wifhes ; but, if the part of fortune and the luminaries be cadent, par- 
 ticularly the Moon ; and neither of the lights cafl a friendly afpeft to the 
 part of fortune or to the afcendant ; nor the lord of the afcendant be- 
 holding the afcendant ; it is an argument that the querent will not obtain 
 the treafure hid. I always find, in queflions of this nature, that, if 
 fortunate planets are in the fourth, or govern the fourth, there is trea- 
 fure ; and, if the lord of the afcendant or the Moon be in good afpedi 
 with thofe planets, the querent generally attains it by diligent fearch. 
 But, on the contrary, if infortunes be in the fourth houfe, or the lumi- 
 naries weak therein, it is an argument of irrecovery ; or fhows that it has 
 been taken away before. 
 
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 5 . Is the Treafure hidden in the Place fuppofed f 
 
 A queftion being thus in a general way propounded, give the lord of 
 the alcendant and the Moon to the querent for his fignificators ; and the 
 fourth houfe, and the planet or planets pofited therein, will (ignify the 
 treafure enquired after. When Jupiter, Venus, or the Dragon's Head, 
 are in the fourth houfe, they declare the treafure to be in the place fup- 
 pofed ; and, if they be in their eflential dignities, it is very certain that 
 there is great value there. Or if any of the other planets are pofited in 
 their own houfes, or in the fourth houfe without impediment, it fhows 
 that there is treafure in the place fuppofed. But if the fourth houfe be 
 infortunated with the Dragon's Tail, or Saturn or Mars be there, and no 
 way efTentially dignified ; or if Saturn or Mars caft a quartile or oppofi- 
 tion thereunto; there is no treafure at all. The lord of the fourth or the 
 Moon feparating from good planets, fhow that there has been treafure 
 hid in the place fuppofed, but that it is gone. 
 
 6. Shall the Querent enjoy the E/laie of his Father f 
 
 This queftion is oftentimes of great importance to the proponent, and 
 therefore ought to be contemplated with more than ufual acutencfs. If 
 in the figure, judicioufly erected, and corredt to time, the lord of the 
 fecond and lord of the fifth are found in the mutual dignities of each 
 other, or the lord of the fecond in the fifth, or the lord of the fifth in 
 the fecond, the querent will enjoy the eftate of his father. But, if the 
 lord of the fifth houfe be retrograde, or afflicled by fome malevolent pla- 
 net, it prefages that much of the eftate which the querent's father in- 
 tended for him will be wafted or otherwife difpofed of. When the lord 
 of the fifth difpofes of the part of fortune in the afcendant, or fecond 
 houfe of the figure, there is no fear but the querent will enjoy what he 
 expedls from his father. The lord of the alcendant, or fecond houfe, 
 difpofing of the lord of the fifth, (hows the thing enquired after to be fo 
 fecured to the querent, that he cannot be deprived of it. The Moon 
 transferring the light of the lord of the fifth, by fextile or trine, to the lord 
 of the fecond, or lord of the afcendant, declares the queftion enquired after 
 fhall come to good; or, if Jupiter or Venus in the fifth fhall friendly 
 behold the lord of the fecond, or a planet in the fecond, it fignifies the 
 fame. If the lord of the fecond and fifth apply to a good afpedl, or a cor- 
 poral conjunction by retrogradation, the querent will receive fome of his 
 father's eftate very (hortly, and in his father's life-time; but, if the lord 
 of the fourth be in afpeft with an infortune, or an infortune in the fourth, 
 it denotes the father will not part with any thing till his death. 
 
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 JUDGMEMTS proper to the FIFTH HOUSE. 
 
 This houfe appertains to the birth of children, embaffies, meflengers, 
 &c. and hath thefe queftions proper to it. 
 
 1 . Whether a Woman Jliall ever have Children ? 
 
 2. In what Time JhallJIie conceive f 
 
 3. Whether a Woman enquiring he with Child? 
 
 4. Whether JJie be pregnant with a Boy or a Girl? 
 
 5. Shall Jlie have Twins ? 
 
 6. When will the Birth happen ? 
 
 "J. Of a Mejfenger fent on an Embajfy ? 
 
 And by knowing how to refolve thefe queO'ions, the reader will be able 
 to anfwer any others belonging to this houfe. 
 
 I. Whether a Woman Jliall ever have Children ? 
 
 To anfwer this queftion, carefully obferve the afcendant, its lord, and 
 the Moon; and, if either of them be joined to the lord of the fifth, the 
 querent fhall have children. But, if neither of thefe happen, note 
 whether any other planets transfer the light of the lord of the afcendant 
 to the lord of the fifth ; for that is an argument that the querent may 
 have children. Confideralfo whether the fign upon the fifth be fruitful, 
 and whether the lord of the fifth, the Moon, the afcendant, and its lord, 
 are in prolific figns ; for, if fo, it is an aflured argument that the querent 
 will have iffue. If the lord of the afcendant, or the Moon, be pofited in 
 the fifth houfe, the querent will have children ; or, if the lord of 
 the fifth houfe be in the afcendant, it declares the fame. If neither 
 the lord of the afcendant nor the Moon apply to the lord of the fifth, 
 yet, if there be a tranflation of light and virtue between them, the que- 
 rent need not doubt of having children. But, if all the fignificators be 
 in fterile figns, and in defedive degrees of thofe figns, the querent will 
 rarely have iffue. So alfo, if Venus, the general fignificator of children 
 or iffue, be afHidled, either by the prefence of Saturn, Mars, or the 
 Dragon's Tail, or combuft of the Sun, the querent will not have cbil- 
 dren. Saturn or the Dragon's Tail in the fifth, or affliflin? the lord of 
 the fifth, generally denies iffue ; and, if Saturn or Mars be in quartile or 
 oppofition to the fifth houfe, or its lord, it portends the fame. Lafily, 
 confider the planets Jupiter and Venus ; and, if you find either of them, 
 in the fifth, third, firfl, ninth, or eleventh, houfes, free from all impedi- 
 ment, the querent will certainly have children. 
 
 2. In
 
 300 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 2. In what Time (liall the Woman conceive ? 
 
 Having before found a pofTibility of ifliie, it may be alked when the 
 time fhaJl be ? to anfwer which, obferve in what fign the lord of the 
 fifth houfe is pofited, and what planet or planets are in configuration 
 with him; for, if he be in the afcendant, fifth or eleventh houfes, in 
 fruitful figns, and with fruitful planets, the querent may fpeedily con- 
 ceive. If the lord of the fifth be in the firft houfe, the querent may con- 
 ceive in the firfl year; if in the fecond, the fecond year; if in the tenth, 
 the third year; if in the feventh, the fourth year; if in the fourth houfe, 
 the fifth year ; and fo on. Or, having noted the capacity and condition 
 of the querent for conception, obferve the diflance between the friendly 
 afpefls of the Moon, or lord of the afcendant, with the lord of the fifth, 
 and Jupiter or Venus, and judge of the time thus: If riiey are in move- 
 able figns, their degrees of diltance fhow weeks or days ; in common 
 figns, months or weeks ; in fixed figns, years or months, &c. as before 
 dire6led in queftions that relate time. 
 
 3. If a Woman enquiring be with Child? 
 
 It fometimes happens that a woman has reafon to believe (he is with 
 child, and yet, owing to fome internal complaint, may be in doubt 
 about it, and by that means be led to afk the queftion, whether fhe be 
 or not ? The queflion is anfwered by thefe rules : If the lord of the af- 
 cendant, or the Moon, behold the lord of the fifth with any good afpecfl 
 or tranflation; or they, or either of them, happen to be pofited in the 
 fifth houfe; the woman enquiring is with child. And, when the figni-, 
 ficators apply friendly, or are pofited in fruitful figns, and in fruitful hou- 
 fes alfo, as the fifth, eleventh, and feventh, the party enquiring is with 
 child. The lord of the afcendant, or lord of the fifth, afpedfing a planet 
 with reception in an angle, and the Moon in reception with a planet 
 efTentially fortified in an angle, alfo fhows the querent to be pregnant. 
 Jupiter, the natural fignificator of children, in the afcendant, fifth, fe- 
 venth, or eleventh, houfes, no way affli6led of the infortunes, denotes the 
 querent to be with child. But if Jupiter be afflided, or cadent, the wo- 
 man enquiring is not with child. If the lord of the tenth, and the Sun, 
 be in good places of the figure, and in friendly configuration with the 
 benefics, the woman enquiring is with child. Likewife, if the Moon, 
 and the lord of the triplicity (he is in, be well located in figns of many 
 children, as Cancer, Scorpio, or Pifces, the woman has conceived. 
 So alfo, if Jupiter and Venus be pofited in angles free from the mali- 
 cious beams of the infortunes, the woman is certainly with child. But, 
 if the fignificators are afRided of Saturn, Mars, or the Dragon's Tail, 
 
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 301 
 
 the woman is not with child, but is troubled with fome complaint 
 which fhe hath miftaken for conception. The pofitions of Saturn, 
 Mars, or the Dragon's Tail, in the fifth, likewife fhow non-conception ; 
 but, if it happens that the teftimonies for her being with child are the 
 greater in number, they then threaten abortion ; and the lame when they 
 afflid either Venus, the Moon, or the Lord of the fifth houfe, or the 
 afcendant. 
 
 4. Whether the Woman is pregnant with a Boy or Girl? 
 
 To anfwer this queftion, obferve the afcendant and its lord, the fifth 
 houfe and the lord thereof, together with the Moon, and planet to which 
 fhe applies ; for, if they, or m oft of them, be in mafculine figns, the 
 querent is with child of a boy ; but, if in feminine figns, it is a girl. 
 The faid fignificators, though in feminine figns, yet if they are in afpe6l 
 with mafculine planets, and in houfes mafculine, and with ftars of a 
 mafculine nature and difpofition, the woman will have a male child. 
 Mafculine planets are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and the Suu; the feminine 
 are Venus and the Moon ; Mercury is in its nature convertible, and is 
 either mafculine or feminine according to the planet or planets he is in 
 afpe6l with. Signs of a mafculine difpofition, or nature, are Aries, Ge- 
 mini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius. And feminine figns are 
 Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pifces; which being 
 well obferved, the fex is eafily difcovered. 
 
 5 . Shall jlie have Twins or more than one f 
 
 Confider the fign upon the afcendant, and where the lord thereof is 
 pofited, and what fign is upon the cu{p of the fifth houfe ; for, if the 
 fignificators are in bicorporal or double-bodied figns, the querent will 
 very probably have two children. If Jupiter, Venus, or the Dragon's 
 Head, be in a fruitful fign, either in the fifth or afcendant, it is pollible 
 for the querent to have three children; particularly if the Moon lends 
 her afliftance. But, if thefe planets are not pofited in the afcendant, or 
 fifth houfe; yet, if they caft their friendly rays to either of them, it is 
 an argument that the querent will have twins. But, if fixed figns, or 
 moveable, poflefs the cufps of the afcendant or fifth houfe, and the Sun 
 or Moon be pofited therein, it is a certain argument that the woman is 
 breeding with but one child. 
 
 6. When or in what Time will the Birth happen f 
 
 To refolve this queftion, regard muft be had to the fignificators as well 
 
 of the child as of the perfon enquiring; and to the part of children alfo, 
 
 No. 16. 4 E , (as
 
 302 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 (as will be explained hereafter,) which mufl: be direded by the oblique af- 
 cenfions, &c. to the degree of the fifth houfe or its lord, or to Jupiter, or 
 to his good afpeds; and, by allowing a day to each degree of diftance, the 
 time of birth will be nearly found. This is difcovcred by confideriiig 
 what direction or tranfit there may be either to the fifth houfe, oi- to Ju- 
 piter, Venus, or the Moon, for at that time the woman may be delivered; 
 particularly if the true tranfit or direftion falls in the fifth, eleventh, or 
 afcendant. 
 
 7. Of a Mejfenger fent on an Embajfy, or on any important Bujinefs ? 
 
 When this queftion is propofed, give the afcendant and its lord to 
 him that fent the meffenger; the feventh houfe and its lord to fignify 
 him to whom the meffenger is fent; and let the Moon fignify the meffage 
 itfelf ; and the lord of the fifth the meffenger, and his management or 
 ordering of the bufinefs. When the lord of the fifth houfe fhall feparate 
 from the lord of the feventh, and apply to the lord of the afcendant, 
 then judge the meffenger hath effe6led his bufinefs, and is returning again. 
 And, if he feparates from the lord of the fecond, he then brings money 
 with him, let the fignificator of that houfe be either a fortune or infor- 
 tuiie. If the fignificator of the meffenger feparates from fortunate planets, 
 it is an argument he has been honefi, and will bring good tidings of the 
 bufineis; but, if he feparates from the malevolents, it (hows the mef- 
 fenger has done his bufinefs lamely, or has been hindered in the per- 
 formance of it. If the fignificator of the meffenger applies to an infor- 
 tune by quartile or oppofition, and this before he can feparate from the 
 lord of the feventh, it fignifies that the meffTenger has met with fome 
 impediment in the bufinefs he went about from the party to whom he 
 was fent. But, if the fignificator of the meffTenger fhall go to the quar- 
 tile or oppofition of either of the infortunes, after he is feparated from 
 the lord of the feventh; the meffenger will receive fome prejudice or 
 impediment in his way home. If there be found an infortune in the 
 ninth, the meffenger will not travel fafe, but will be in danger of high- 
 way robbery, and bodily hurt; but if, on the contrary, a benefic be in 
 the ninth, he will travel fafe. If the lord of the afcendant and lord of 
 the fifth are in reception, or in good afpeft from good places of the figure, 
 the meffenger is faithful, juft, and honeft; particularly if he be either a 
 fortune, or in good afpe6t with a fortune. But, if there be no reception 
 or afpeff, and the configuration be with or in the dignities of an infortune, 
 the contrary may be expe6ted. If there happens a reception between 
 the lord of the feventh and the lord of the fifth, the meffenger will be 
 received ; and, if at the fame time the lord of the fifth or Mercury 
 tranflates the virtue of the lord of the feventh to the lord of the afcend- 
 
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 dant, the querent obtains whatfoever he hoped for by the meflage ; which 
 I have found true in a variety of inftances. 
 
 JUDGMENTS proper to the SIXTH HOUSE. 
 
 The fixth houfc gives judgment on ficknefs, fervants, and Imall cattle, 
 &c. and the following queftions are conomonly attributed to it : 
 
 1. What Part of the Body is affliaed? 
 
 2. Is the Difeafe in the Body or Mind, or both f 
 
 3. Shall the Di/iemper be chronic or acute ? 
 
 4. What is the caufc of the Di/iemper? 
 
 5. Shall theftck Party recover, or die of the 'Difeafe f 
 
 6. Of Servants, Jhall they prove juji or diJJione/i ? 
 
 7. Of fmall cattle^ jliall the Querent thrive by them or not ? 
 
 In the former part of this work, I have Ihown what difeafes are attri- 
 buted to each planet, houfe, and fign ; which, in refolving the fir/l of 
 thefe five queftions, ftiall be particularly noticed. 
 
 1. What Part of the Body is affliaed? 
 
 Having ereded the figure, obferve the afcendant, the fixth houfe, and 
 place of the Moon, for they are natural fignihcators of the difeafe; and 
 then judge as follows : The horofcope afflided by the prefence of an evil 
 planet, or by the pofjtion of the Dragon's Tail, indicates that the diftem- 
 per lies chiefly in the head, and in that member or part of the body re- 
 prefented by the fign afcending. If the Moon be afflided by the infor- 
 tunes, the lick party is indifpofed in that part of the body the affliding 
 planet governs from his own houfe. If the afcendant be Scorpio, and 
 Mars and Venus be in the afcendant or fixth houfe, the difeafe lies in the 
 head, bowels, and fecrets, becaufe Mars governs thofe members in either 
 place ; which rule holds good with all the other figns and planets. 
 
 2. Is the Difeafe in the Body or Mind, or in both? 
 
 The afcendant and the dilpofitors of the Sun and the Moon bear figni- 
 fication of the mind, and the lord of the afcendant and the Moon of the 
 body. Now, if the afcendant or its lord, the Sun or the Moon, be af- 
 flided, it (hows the diftemper hath feized the whole body and mind alfo 
 of the fick party. If the afcendant and the dilpofitors of the Sun and 
 the Moon be afflided, the difeafe impairs the mind ; but, if the lord of 
 the afcendant and the Moon be afflided, the difeafe afFeds only the body^ 
 and the mind is free. If Saturn afflid the afcendant, and the difpofitor 
 
 or
 
 304 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 of the lumitiaries, and the Moon be at the fame time in quartile or oppo- 
 fition of him, or in quartile or oppofition of the lord of the afcendant, 
 the fick party is afflided in mind, concerning the things of this world, 
 and about lolfes in his bufinefs or eftate. If Jupiter, by being lord of 
 evil houl'es, afRidt the aforefaid fignificators, the querent is troubled in 
 mind about religious tenets. If Venus, by difappointments in love; if 
 Mars, or Mercury, by a too intenic exercife of the mind, by ftudy, or by 
 application to fcience or philofophy. 
 
 3, Shall the Difeafe be chronic or acute ? 
 
 To know this, confider the complexion of the perfon, his age, and the 
 time of the year ; for the knowledge of thefe conduces much to the dil- 
 covery of the certainty of the matter propounded. Difeafes in autumn 
 and winter are ufually reputed chronical or long; but longer in winter 
 than in autumn. In fpring and fummer acute or fhort; but more acute 
 in fpring than in lummer. So infirmities affliding young perfons, or 
 thofe in the firfl half of their age, are fhorter and lefs dangerous than 
 thofe in elderly perfons, or thofe that are in the lafl part of their age. 
 Likewife, melancholy and phlegmatic perfons are fubjedl to chronical dif- 
 eafes ; but fanguine and choleric perfons to acute. Saturnine difeafes, 
 which are cold and dry, are ufually long and tedious ; the Moon and 
 Venus are protraders of the infirmity; Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, and 
 Mercury, fignify difeafes of no long continuance, but fuch as may re- 
 turn fpeedily ; but, by being lords of evil places, or otherwife affli6led, 
 they may have fignification of chronic difeafes. The figns poffefling the 
 afcendant, fixth houfe, or place of the Moon, being fixed, declare a 
 chronic difeafe; common figns fhow difeafes neither very long nor very 
 (hort; moveable figns denote the difeafe to terminate quickly, either 
 one way or the other. An infortune being lord of the fixth, and in the 
 fixth, prefages a lafling ficknefs; but, if a benefic be lord of the fixth, 
 and in the fixth, the difeafe will admit of an immediate cure. The lord 
 of the afcendant, the Moon, or lord of the fixth, in conjundion, fextile, or 
 trine, of the lord of the tenth, denotes the difeafe to be of no long con- 
 tinuance; and, if they be in conjuii6tion, fextile, or trine, of the fortunes, 
 the fame. But, if the faid fignificators, or any of them, be in conjunc- 
 tion, quartile, or oppofition, of the infortunes, the difeafe will be both 
 long and tedious; and, if this fhall happen in fixed figns, it argues the 
 duration or continuance to be ftill the longer. 
 
 o 
 
 4. IVhat is the caufe of the Di/iempei' ? 
 
 The caufe of the diflemper is known from the pofitions of the fignifi- 
 cators of ficknefs, before delcribed, in either of the four trigons or triplici- 
 ties; for therein they fhow the humour that is predominant. If thefe 
 
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 fignificators, or moft of them, are pofited in fiery figns, they declare the 
 diftemper to have its origin from choler, whence fevers and all fuch-like 
 difeafes proceed. But, if the fignificators be in airy figns, blood is then 
 predominant in the body, and the difeafe is thence caufed ; as gouts, le- 
 profies, &c. When the fignificators of ficknefs are in earthy figns, 
 they declare the caufe of the difeafe to have its origin from melancholy, 
 and thofe difeafes are ufually long and tedious, as confumptions, agues, 
 &c. And the fignificators of difeafes in watery figns denote the infir- 
 mity to proceed from cold and moifi: caules, as phlegm; and thefe difeafes 
 principally are coughs, phthyfic, and all difeales of the ftomach. When 
 the pofitions of the fignificators do not thoroughly point out the na- 
 ture of the diftemper, note the fixed ftars in the figure, and they will 
 aflift in the difcovery of the caufe of the difeafe. 
 
 5. Shall the Jick Party recover ^ or die of the Ififirmitij afii£ling ? 
 
 If the Moon defiux from the infortunes, and apply to the benevolents 
 without frufiration, prohibition, or refranation, there is great hopes the 
 infirm party will recover; fb the fignificators of ficknels, no way af- 
 flifted, but free from the ill beams of the malevolents, declare great 
 hopes of the recovery of the fick. If they are in fextile or trine of the 
 luminaries, or in any friendly reception with them, or either of them, 
 the fame. The Moon increaiing in light and motion, and being pofited 
 in good houfes of heaven in fextile or trine of the lord of the afcendant, 
 denotes great hopes of life; if the lord of the afcendant be an infortune 
 in this judgment, it will no way affed the fick party. When the Moon 
 fhall either be found in the afcendant or in any of her dignities, or fhall 
 caft a fextile or trine thereunto, it is a great argument the (Jck will not 
 die of the difeafe affli61ing. The lord of the afcendant and the Moon 
 combuft of the Sun denote death, unlefs there be fome reception between 
 the Sun and them; and, if they (hall be in conjunftion with the lord of 
 the eighth, except Jupiter or Venus interpofe their friendly beams, it 
 (hows the fame. The lord of the eighth in an angle, and the Moon and 
 lord of the alcendant cadent, or affli6ted of the infortunes, prefage mor- 
 tality; the application of the lord of the afcendant or the Moon unto 
 the lord of the eighth by evil afpedt, (hows the fame ; and, if he be an 
 infortune, it puts the matter pafl all doubt. The lord of the afcendant 
 in the eighth, or lord of the eighth in the afcendant, declares the irre- 
 covery of the fick. \i the lord of the eighth be in the tenth, and the 
 lord of the afcendant in the fourth, fixth, or feventh, houfes, any way 
 affli6ted, it portends death to the fick party. The lord of the afcendant 
 and Moon with violent fixed ftars, according to their latitude, generally 
 denote death unto the fick. 
 
 No. 16. 4F 6. cy
 
 3o6 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 6. Of Servants ; Jhnll they prove juji or dijhone/i ? 
 
 When this queftion is put by the mafter, give the lord of the afcendant 
 and the aicendant itfelf to fignify the querent ; the fixth houfe and its 
 lord to fignify the fervant. And, if the lord of the fixth commit his 
 difpofition by any friendly ray to the lord of the afcendant, the fervant 
 will prove juft and honeft. If the Moon transfer the light of the lord of 
 the fixth to the lord of the afcendant, by a good afped, it fpeaks the ho- 
 nefty of the fervant. The lord of the fixth in the dignities of the for- 
 tunes in fextile or trine to the afcendant, pleads for the honefty of the 
 fervant. If he be near fixed ftars of a benevolent nature, the fame. But, 
 if the lord of the fixth fhall be in conjun6lioii of the infortunes, and in 
 quartile or oppofition to the afcendant or lord thereof, the fervant will 
 not prove honefi:. The Moon in the fixth, in quartile to the lord of the 
 fixth in the lecond, (hows the fervant to be a pilferer, and fuch a one as 
 the querent will never grow rich by. If the principal fignificators are 
 void of all reception, and there be neither good application nor tranflation 
 of light to be found among them, the fervant is not to be trufted. When 
 Mercury, the natural fignificator of fervants, fhall be in the dignities of 
 Saturn or Mars, and in quartile or oppofition to the afcendant or fecond 
 houfe, or either of their lords, it gives great caufe to fufpe6t the fervant. 
 If the Dragon's Tail be in the fixth, or doth afflid the lord of the fixth, 
 it denotes the fame. 
 
 7. Of f mall Cattle ; jliall the Querent thrive by them or not ? 
 
 By fmall cattle are meant hogs, (heep, and the like. — If the lord of 
 the fixth and the lord of the fecond are in conjundion, in a good houie 
 of heaven, the querent may thrive by them; or, if they be in fextile or 
 trine, the fame. The lord of the fixth carting a friendly afpe£t to the 
 Part of Fortune, or being in good configuration with the diipofitor there- 
 of, denotes much good to the querent by dealing in fmall cattle. The 
 lord of the fixth in the fecond, in the dignities of Jupiter or Venus, 
 and Jupiter or Venus cafling a fextile or trine to the fecond, or to the fe- 
 cond in conjuncflion with him, argues great gain to the querent by deal- 
 ing in fmall cattle. But if, on the contrary, the lord of the fixth be un- 
 fortunate, and in evil afpeft with the lord of the afcendant or fecond, or 
 caft malignant rays to either of their cufps, the querent will lole by deal- 
 ing in fmall cattle. If the lord of the fixth be in quartile or oppofi- 
 tion to the difpofitor of the Part of Fortune, or the Moon, the querent 
 catvnot thrive by dealing in fmall cattle; the fame if the lord of the fixth 
 be afflifted either by Saturn, Mars, or the Dragon's Tail ; or be found either 
 retrograde, combufl, cadent, or peregrine. The Dragon's Tail and Mars 
 
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 fhow much lofs therein by knaves and thieves, and ill bargains, &c. and 
 Saturn denotes much damage by the rot or murrain. 
 
 INTERROGATORIES proper to the SEVENTH HOUSE. 
 
 This houfe refolves queftions concerning marriage, partnerfhip, Jaw- 
 fuits, public enemies, war, &c. thefts, fugitives, and ftrays; which, be- 
 caufe they are of feveral diftind natures, are treated of under three dif- 
 ferent heads ; and, iirft, of marriage. 
 
 I . Shall the Querent marry ? 
 
 a. J^t what Time fhall the Querent marry ? 
 
 3. Shall the Querent marry more than once ? 
 
 4. What manner of Perjon Jhall the Querent marry? 
 
 5. Shall they accord after Marriage f 
 
 6. Shall the Marriage be confummated or broken of? 
 
 I . Shall the Querent marry ? 
 
 To know this, confider the pofition of the lord of the afcendant, the 
 Moon, and Venus, and the part of marriage, and their pofitions; for they 
 all have fignification of the party enquiring in this cafe. If all or the 
 greater part of them be in prolific or fruitful ligns, it is a great argument 
 that the party enquiring will marry. If the Moon or the lord of the aC- 
 cendaat be in good afpe6t with the Sun, or either of the fortunes, or near 
 fixed ftars of their nature, the party enquiring may marry. When the 
 lord of the afcendant, the Moon, or Venus, are in the feventh houie, or 
 in the dignities of the lord of the feventh, and the lord of the feventh 
 either in the afcendant or in fextile or trine to the faid fignificators, the 
 querent will certainly marry. If none of thefe arguments appear, but 
 on the contrary all the fignificators of marriage are in flerile figns, and 
 in quartile or oppofition to the lord of the feventh or feventh houfe, the 
 party enquiring is averfe to marriage. 
 
 2. At what Time JItall the Querent marry ? 
 
 The fignificators of marriage applying to each other by a friendly afpedl,. 
 or by conjunction in the oriental or meridional parts of heaven, denote 
 the querent will be married fuddenly; but, if in the occidental part of 
 heaven, or feptentrional, it will be much prolonged, and a great while 
 before accompliflied. All the fignificators above the earth, and fwift in 
 motion, accelerate or haften the matter, particularly if in moveable figns j 
 but, if they are under the earth, and flow in motion, the marriage will 
 be retarded. The degrees of diftance, either in body or afpe6t, between the 
 
 lord
 
 3o8 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 lord of the afcendant and the lord of the feventh, the Sun, or Venus, 
 Ihow the time of marriage, if there happen a good tranfit to bring on 
 the bufinefs. In this judgment, moveable figns give weeks or days; bi- 
 corporal give months or weeks; and fixed figns years or months: and, 
 if the fignificators are How in motion, and in fixed figns, the degrees of 
 diftance will be fo many years; if fwift in motion, then fo many months; 
 ftc de cater is. 
 
 3. Shall the Querent marry more than once? 
 
 The fignificators of marriage in bi-corporal or double-bodied figns de- 
 clare the querent, be it either man or woman, to marry more than once. 
 The fignificators of marriage in conjunftion, Textile, or trine, with many 
 planets, portend marriage to the querent more than once; particularly 
 from the fifth, feventh, or eleventh, houfes. Many planets in the feventh 
 houfe, in Textile or trine to the luminaries or lord of the afcendant, de- 
 note the querent will be married more than once. But, if the fignifica- 
 tors of marriage are in fixed figns, and in afpedt with not above one planet, 
 it prefages that the querent will marry only once. 
 
 4. JVhat kindofPerfon fliall the Querent marry, and how qualified f 
 
 Obferve what planet the lord of the afcendant, or Moon, is nearefl: in 
 afpedt with, and the fign he is in, and defcribe the perfon, either man 
 or woman, accordingly; for fuch a one the querent will marry. If the 
 lord of the afcendant or Moon be in conjunction or afpeft with Venus, 
 the perfon is pleafant and affable ; if with the Sun, he is noble, of a 
 great fpirit, and imperious; if with Mars, the perfon is many times rafti 
 and furious, and fubjedt to choler and pafiion; if with Saturn, he is in- 
 clinable to melancholy, but prudent and grave; if with Jupiter, the 
 perfon is juft, honefi:, and religious; if with Venus, fubtil, cunning, 
 &c. Note the fixed flars that are near the fignificators, for they often 
 alter the quality of the planets. By thus confidering the dignities and 
 debilities of the planet or planets aforefaid, the fhape, qualification, and 
 temperature, of the perfon whom the querent fhall marry, may be known 
 and difcovered. 
 
 5 . Shall they accord and be happy after Marriage ? 
 
 The lord of the afcendant, or Moon, in conjunftion, Textile, or trine, 
 of the lord of the feventh or Venus, argues much pleafure and delight 
 after marriage, and (hows the parties fhall agree well, and not quarrel ; 
 but, if they are in quartile or oppofition unto each other, it fhows much 
 
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 quarrelling and contention after marriage ; and, if they be in quartile, 
 conjundion, or oppoiition, of the infortunes, in any places of the figure, 
 it (hows the fame. Saturn, Mars, or the Dragon's Tail, in the afcen- 
 dant, (hows the querent to be imperious after marriage, and by his or 
 her obftinacy will occafion much difcontent and trouble; but, if they 
 are po(ited in the feventh houfe, the perfon whom the querent marries- 
 will be the occafion of the trouble and difcontent. Benevolent planets 
 polTeffing the feventh houfe, and a friendly reception between the lord of 
 the feventh and lord of the a(cendant, denote good agreement after mar- 
 riage. If there happens to be a reception, though they are in quartile, 
 it implies the Came. 
 
 6. Shall the Marriage be effe£led or broken off ? 
 
 The perfon, who enquires concerning the concluding or breakincf-off 
 an intended marriage, mufl: have the lord of the afcendant and Moon for 
 fignificators ; and the perfon quelited muft have the lord of the (eventh 
 and the planet from which the Moon is feparated. If the lord of the al- 
 cendant or Moon be joined to the lord of the feventh, or in Textile or 
 trine to him in any of his eiTential dignities, the marriage intended will 
 be brought to perfedtion, particularly if it be from good houfes of the 
 figure. If a quartile or oppofition happens between the fignificators, 
 and no reception, the intended marriage will be broken off, and come to 
 nothing. When there is no afpecl between the fignificators, yet, if there 
 be any good tranflation of light between them, and this by a benevolent 
 planet, the marriage maybe efFefted by a perfon reprefented by the houfe 
 that planet is lord or governor of. So alfb, if the fignificator of both 
 parties apply to a friendly afpe<ft, and, before the afpe6l be made, an in- 
 fortune interpofes his malicious rays, the marriage will be obftru6ted by 
 a peribn fignihed by the houfe the interpofing planet is lord of. If the 
 interpohng planet be lord of the third, a kinfman of the querent's, or a 
 neighbour or brother, (hall break off the bufinefs; if he be lord of the 
 tenth or fourth houfes, the father or mother of the querent will obftruft 
 the marriaore intended : and fo of the other houfes. 
 
 o 
 
 Of Partnership, Law-Suits, War, &c. 
 
 The extent of this part will be better underftood by being digefted 
 into the following particulars: 
 
 1 . Shall two Partners agree, and be fuccefsfttl in their Parinerjlilp ? 
 
 2. Shall the Querent or his Adverfary, overcome in a Law-Suit ? 
 
 3. Shall a Perfon return fafe from War ? 
 
 4. Shall the City, Cafile, or ft rang Hold, bejieged, be taken f 
 
 No. 16. 4G \. Shall
 
 .Vo AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 I . Shall two Partners agree, and be fuccefsful in their Partnerjliipf 
 
 The lord of the afcendant and feventh, being friends according to na- 
 ture, and in reception or good afpecl with each other, declare the part- 
 ners fliall agree in their partnerfliip, and gain confiderably by their un- 
 dertaking, if they are enemies by nature, and void of good rays towards 
 one another, and in no reception, it is an argument that they will never 
 agree, but will be perpetually jangling, and injuring each other. If the 
 lord of the alcendant be a more weighty planet than the lord of the 
 leventh, and better dignified, it ftiows the querent will thrive befl: in the 
 partnerfhip; but, if the lord of the feventh be moll ponderous, the 
 quefited gains moft. Mars or Mercury lord of the fecond, afflidling the 
 lord of the eighth, (hows the querent will cheat his partner; but, if 
 either of them be lord of the eighth, and afflift the lord of the fecond, 
 the partner will cheat the querent, He, whofe fignificators are ftrongeft 
 and in good places of the heavens, will thrive befl: in the partnerfhip; but 
 he whole fignificators are weak and in evil places of the figure, will be 
 injured by the partnerfhip. 
 
 2. Shall the Querent, or his Adverjary, overcome in a Law-Suit ? 
 
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 If the lord of the afcendant be more potent than the lord of the fe- 
 venth, or the afcendant better fortified than the leventh houfe, either by 
 the good afpefts or the prelence of the fortunate planets, there is great 
 probability the querent will be fuccefsful in the fuit at law, and overcome 
 his adverfary. But, if the lord of the feventh be more powerful in dig- 
 nities than the lord of the afcendant, and the leventh houfe better guarded 
 by the prefence or rays of the fortunate flars than the afcendant, the ad- 
 verfary will overcome. If the lords of the afcendant and feventh he af- 
 flidled by the infortunes, neither party will fucceed, but both will be 
 injured, if they go on with the fuit. If they fhould both be adifted by 
 the fortunate planets, poffibly fome friend will make up the breach be- 
 tween them. Both fignificators in their effential dignities, and in angles, 
 fliow both perfons to be too high to hearken to a reconciliation. If they 
 apply friendly to each other, the matter will be taken up among them- 
 felves ; and he, whofe fignificator doth apply, will be the firft to make 
 overtures of friendlhip and peace. 
 
 3. Shall a Perfon return fafe from a Cruize or Campaign? 
 
 The lord of the afcendant ftrong and potent, free from the evil beams 
 of the infortunes, is an argument of great fecurity to the querent, and 
 that he fhall return fafe from a cruize or campaign. If he be pofited with 
 a good planet, in, a propitious houfe, it (hows the fame. If the lord of 
 
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 the afcendant be combuft or cadent, or in his peregrination, or if Mars 
 be weak in the figure of the queftion, the querent will gain no honour 
 or reputation in the war. If the lord of the afcendant be in afpe6l with 
 a good planet, and at the fame time the lord of the feventh be with an 
 evil one, he may return home again; but he will fufFer great prejudice 
 before his return. Saturn being in the firft, or with the lord of the firft, 
 piefages much lofs and damage to the querent by war. If Mars fhall be 
 with the lord of the firft, either by conjunftion, quartile, or oppofition, 
 and weak, and Saturn locally in the afcendant, the querent will be wound-, 
 ed. But, if Mars or the Dragon's Tail fhould ill-dignify the afcendant,' 
 the querent will be mortally wounded ; and, if the lord of the afcendant 
 and the Moon fufFer afflidion at the fame time, he will be killed on 
 the (pot. 
 
 4. Shall the City, Town, Caflle, or Jlrong Hold, bcfteged, be taken f 
 
 The afcendant and lord thereof reprefent the beflegers, and the fourth 
 houfe the befieged; the lord of the fourth, the governor; the fifth aiid 
 its lord, the ammunition, fbldiery, and the afTiitance they either have 
 or may expect. If the lord of the afcendant be flrong and fortunate,' 
 and joined to the lord of the fourth in the afcendant, or with the Moon 
 or lord of the tenth houfe, in reception; it is an argument that the 
 befiegers fhall prove vi6torious. Or, if the lord of the fourth be in 
 houfes not beholding the fourth, or impeded of the infortunes, it is 
 an argument that the garrifon will be taken, and the governor thereof 
 fiabje(S to danger. If the unfortunate planets, or the Dragon's Tail, 
 happen to be in the fourth houfe, and the fortunate planets, interpofe ' 
 not their benevolent rays, it will be taken by treachery and bafenefs in a 
 fhort time. If the lord of the fourth commit his difpofition and virtue 
 to the lord of the afcendant, it fhows the governor has been tampered 
 with, and for a confideration will furrender the garrifon. But, if none 
 of thefe afpe6fs happen, and on the contrary the fourth houfe and its lord 
 fhall be fortunate, and free from all impediments, and the lord of the 
 fourth be in no reception with the lord of the firfl, the garrifon, &C. ' 
 then befieged, fliall be taken by the army that invefls it. 
 
 Of Thefts, Fugitives, Strays, &c. 
 
 1 . Of Fugitives or Strays, jJiall they be found or not f 
 
 2 . Which Way are they gone, and to what Di fiance ? 
 
 3. Things lo/l, if recoverable or not .^ 
 
 4. IFho is the Thief? The Age and Sex of the Thief? 
 
 5. Are there more than one concerned? 
 
 6. Are they Strangers or Familiars ? " - 
 
 7. In IV hat Time Jhall the Thing flolen be recovered?. 
 
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 311 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 We (hall now coufider thefe in their order, and To conclude the judg- 
 ments belonging to the feventh houfe. 
 
 1 . Of Fugitives or Strays, JJiall they be found or not ? 
 
 The Moon and Mercury are naturally fignificators of fugitives and 
 ftrays: but the feventh and its lord are particularly fignificators thereof, 
 unlefs the thing ftrayed be a horfe, &c. If the lord of the feventh be 
 retrograde, the perfon abfconded (hall return again of his own accord, 
 before he goes far from the querent's houfe. The lord of the afcendant 
 or Moon in good afped with the lord of the feventh, and the lord of the 
 feventh in application, declares him to be returning home again. If the 
 feventh do not apply, the querent may find him by enquiry. But if the 
 fignificators behold each other by quartile or oppofition, or from no af- 
 pedl at all, it denotes the perfon will not return again. If the lord of the 
 feventh be in the third or ninth, it denotes the fame. If a horfe, ox, or 
 cow, be ftrayed, obferve the lord of the twelfth, and, if he be found re- 
 trograde, the flray will return of his own accord ; and obferve the fame 
 rules as above, only changing the lord of the houfe. If the Moon tranf- 
 fers the light of the lord of the fugitive or ftray to the lord of the afcen- 
 dant, it argues hopes of recovering them again. If fhe transfers Mer- 
 cury's light or virtue, it fignifies the fame. The Moon in good con- 
 figuration with Jupiter or Venus, or either of them cafting a good afpe<fl: 
 to the afcendant, or its lord, from good houfes of the figure, fhow hopes 
 of recovery. The lord of the feventh, either in the twelfth houfe of the 
 figure or combuft, denotes the perfon to be under bonds of reflraint, 
 perhaps in prifon; Mercury fo pofited argues the fame. When the pla- 
 net feparatcs from the houfe of the Moon, it fhows the fVray is taken into 
 cuftody, and driven away and Ibid ; and, if any planet be found to 
 feparate from the lord of the fecond, it (hows the fame. If the Moon, 
 or fignificator of the ftray, &c. apply to the lord of the eighth from his 
 afcendant, or be pofited in the eighth, it is dead. If the difpofitor of 
 the Moon, or fignificator of the beafi:, be pofited in the eighth houfe, ap- 
 plying to the quartile or oppofition of an infortune in the fourth, the 
 fame. The lord of the fixth or twelfth, pofited in the fixth or twelfth, 
 or in the ninth or tenth, argues the beaft ftrayed to be either in the pound 
 or in the cuftody of fome perfon. The lord of the feventh, or fixth, 
 fortunated by the good beams of Jupiter or Venus, in the fecond, fifth, 
 or eleventh, houfe, or the Sun cafting a trine unto them, denotes they 
 are likely to be found again. 
 
 2. Which Way are they gone ? and to what Di fiance ? 
 
 The Moon, or fignificator of the fugitive or fl:ray, in the tenth houfe, 
 (hows they are goue foutb; in the feventh, weft; in the fourth, north; 
 
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 in the afcendant, eaft. If the fignificator of the ftray be in watery figns, 
 they are northward, and in fome moift moorifh place. If in airy figns, 
 they are weftward, and in mountainous and high places. If in earthy 
 figns, they are fouthward, and in copfes or woods. If in fiery figns, they 
 are eaftward, and in the open fields. The Moon in the fame quarter with 
 the lord of the afcendant, and not more than one fign diftance between 
 them, fhows they are near the place from whence they went ; but, if they 
 are diflant above ninety degrees, then they are gone far from the querent. 
 If the Moon be diftant from the fignificator of the fugitive or ftrav, either 
 by body or afpe6t, only one degree in a moveable fign, they are diftant 
 above feventeen furlongs from the owner; if in common or fixed figns, 
 ftill lefs ; fo that the diftance is to be apportioned according to the number 
 of desrrees the Moon and fifirnificator are from each other. 
 
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 3. Of Things lojiy if recoverable or notf 
 
 Fortunate planets in fexile or trine to the lords of the afeendant or 
 fecond houfe, and the difpofitor of the Part of Fortune pofited in the afcen- 
 dant or fecond houfe, declare a recovery of the goods loft. Either of the 
 fortunes in the afcendant, having dignities in the fecond houfe, or the 
 Moon in the feventh, in Textile or trine to the lord of the afcendant, are 
 very certain arguments of recovering the thing or things loft. The Moon 
 in the tenth, in trine to a planet in the fecond ; or in the fecond, in trine 
 to the lord of the fecond ; the difpofitor of the Part of Fortune or the lord 
 of the afcendant in the fecond ; the luminaries in trine to each other, or 
 in trine to the cufp of the fecond houfe ; or the lord of the fecond in the 
 eleventh or fourth houfes ; are all arguments of recovery. The lord of 
 the eighth in the afcendant, or with the lord of the afcendant, denotes a 
 recovery of the goods loft ; atid Jupiter, Venus, or the Dragon's Head, 
 in the eleventh houfe, give great hopes of the fame. The Moon, the 
 Part of Fortune, or its difpofitor, or the lord of the fecond, in the eighth 
 houfe are great arguments that the goods loft cannot be recovered. 
 When both luminaries are under the earth, the thing loft is hard to be 
 recovered ; and, if the fecond houfe or its lord be any way afflicted, it 
 denotes the fame. But the greateft arguments of irrecovery are the pofi- 
 tions of Saturn, Mars, or the Dragon's Tail, out of their eflential digni- 
 ties, in the fecond houfe ; or the lord of the fecond in combuftion, or 
 in the eighth houfe; or the lord of the fecond in quartile or oppofition 
 with the lord of the eighth. If the lord of the feventh be in coiijun6lion 
 with the lord of the eighth ; or if the lord of the fecond behold not the 
 firft houfe, or lord thereof; or the Sun and Moon not afpeding each 
 other, nor the Part of Fortune ; or if they are both under the earth ; there 
 can be no reftitution of the goods loft. 
 
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 314 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 4. Who is the Thief? — the Age and Sex of the Thief? 
 
 A peregrine planet in an angle is to be taken for the fignihcator of 
 the thief; particularly if the peregrine planet hath dignities in the fe- 
 venth houfe, or is lord thereof; or afHi6ts the houfc of fubftance, or its 
 lord; or the Part of P'ortune, or its lord. But, if no planet malicioufly 
 afpcds the aforelaid fjgnificators, then admit the lord of the feventh to fig- 
 nify the thief, becaule he hath natural fignification of thieves. Or, if the 
 planet affli61ing the lubflance, or Part of Fortune, or their lords, be 
 peregrine, or elTentially dignified, he will fjgnify the thief. — If the planet 
 afflifting the lubftance, &:c. be malculine, and in a mafculine (ign and 
 quarter, it denotes the thief to be a man; if the planet be feminine, 
 and in feminine parts of the figure, it denotes the thief is feminine, or a 
 woman. Saturn fignihcator of the thief fhows him to be old, except in 
 the beginning of figns ; the Sun, Mars, and Jupiter, about thirty or fome- 
 what more ; Venus and Mercury youthful ; the Moon according to her 
 age : in the firfl: quarter fhe fignifies young ; in her fecond, between 
 twenty and thirty ; in her third, between thirty and forty-five ; in her 
 fourth, between forty-five and fixty. 
 
 5. Are there more concerned in the Theft than one ? 
 
 Many planets affli6ling the fignificators of fubftance, whether pere- 
 grine or not, (how many thieves, or more thieves than one. If the 
 fignificator of the thief be in Textile or trine with other planets, and in 
 double-bodied figns, there are more thieves than one, although but one 
 be found to afflift the fignificators of fubftance. The angles of the figure 
 fixed, and the fignificator of the thief fixed, in no afpeft with any planet, 
 except the lord of the fubftance, or the difpofer of the Part of Fortune 
 whom he afflidts, denote that only one perfon is concerned in the theft or 
 robbery. 
 
 6. Is the Theft committed by Strangers or Familiars? 
 
 The luminaries beholding the afcendant, or its lord, or the lord of the 
 firft in the firft, in conjundion with the lord of the feventh, denote the 
 thief to be a familiar, or one well known to the lofer. When the lumi- 
 naries are in their proper houfes, or in the houfes of the lord of the afcen- 
 dant, or in the triplicity of the lord of the afcendant, they denote the 
 thief well known to the querent or lofer. The fignificator of the thief 
 ftrong in the afcendant, denotes a brother or kinfman, particularly if he 
 chance to be lord of the third ; if the lord of the feventh be in the fe- 
 venth, he is one of the family. The lord of the afcendant in the third 
 
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 or fourth houfe, denotes the thief to be a fervant in the family. The 
 fisfnificator of the thief in the third or ninth from his own houfe, fhows 
 the thief to be a flranger; and, if the lord of the afcendant and the fe- 
 venth, or fignificator of the thief, be not of one triplicity, it denotes the 
 fame. Mars or Mercury, fignificator of the thief, prefage him to be a 
 common pilferer, unlefs they govern a houfe of relation ; which if they 
 do, they then point out who it is. If the thief be a domeftic, he is known 
 thus : The Sun fignifies a father or mafter ; the Moon, a mother or mif- 
 trefs: Venus, a wife or a woman ; Saturn, a fervant, or a ftranger com- 
 ing there by chance; Mars a fon, brother, or kinfman ; Mercury, a youth 
 familiar, or friend. 
 
 7. In what Time fliall the Thing flolen be recovered? 
 
 If teftimonies of recovery appear in the figure, the time may be known 
 thus: Obferve the application of the two planets fignifying recovery, 
 and confider the degrees of diftance between their body and afpe6t, and 
 turn the diftance into time. If they happen to be in moveable figns, 
 then allow as many weeks or days as there are degrees of diftance for the 
 fpace of time in which it may be recovered ; if in common figns, allow 
 months or weeks; if in fixed figns, years or months. When the Sun' 
 and Moon together behold the afcendant, the thing loft will fpeedily be 
 recovered; for they fufFer nothing to lie long hid or obfcured; and, if at 
 the fame time the lord of the fecond be in the afcendant, it will be had 
 again very fpeedily. The fignificators increafing in light and motion, 
 and pofited in fortunate places of the figure, prefage a fudden recovery 
 of the goods loft or miffinsr. 
 
 JUDGMENTS proper to the EIGHTH HOUSE. 
 
 This is called the Houfe of Death, becaufe we enquire from it con- 
 cerning Death, and of the manner of it. It has alfo fignification of the 
 dowry of a wife, being the fecond houfe from the eighth. The queftions 
 proper to it are thefe : 
 
 1 . Of the Time of the Death of the Querent ? 
 
 2. What manner of Death jjiall he die f 
 
 3. Shall the Querent obtain the Wife's Portion f 
 
 4. Shall the Querent or his Wife die fir fi f 
 
 And each of thefe {hall be treated of particularly in a feparatc and dif- 
 tin6t fe6lion. 
 
 I. Of
 
 3i6 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 I . Of the Time of the Death of the Querent f 
 
 To aDhver this queftion, let the lord of the afcendant, the afcendant 
 itCelf, and the Moon, fignify the querent ; the eighth houle, lord there- 
 of, and the part of death, together with the planet or planets in the 
 eighth, fignify the death of the querent. If the lord of the afcendant 
 and the Moon be free from the beams of the infortunes ; or if no infor- 
 tune, nor the Dragon's Tail, be pollted in the afcendant ; they argue no 
 danger to the querent, but (how him to be of a long life. If the faid 
 fignificators, or either of them, be in conjun6tion or good afpeff of the 
 fortunes, or the fortunes pofited in the afcendant, and the part of life 
 free ; they pre(age the querent, according to nature, may live to a con- 
 fiderable age. Thus, finding all the fignificators free, the querent will 
 live as many years as there are degrees between the conjunftion, quartile, 
 oroppofition, of the lord of the eighth houfe and the lord of the afcendant. 
 Or, if, before the lord of the afcendant receives his affliftion from the 
 lord of the eighth, he happens to be combull: of the Sun in the fourth, 
 eighth, twelfth, or fixth, houfes, the degrees of diftance between the Sun 
 and the fignificator will (how the years the querent may live, before he 
 jfhall conclude this life. But, if the fignificators be afflifted, either by the 
 infortunes, or by the lords of the fourth, fixth, eighth, or twelfth, houfes, 
 the querent's life will be of no very long continuance. In the meafure of 
 time, allow for degrees of diftance, &c. in moveable figns, weeks; iti 
 common figns, months ; and in fixed figus, years ; which will fliow the 
 length, according to natural caufes, of the querent's life. When queftions 
 of this nature are propounded, draw the figure into a fpeculum, and direct 
 the fignificators as in a nativity, and when the afcendant or Hyleg fhall 
 come to any malicious dire£lion, according to the folar meafure of time, 
 adjudge the perfon enquiring may be cut off from the land of the living. 
 But this is only to be done when the nativity of a perfon is not be had; 
 for no abfolute confidence can be placed in predi6tions that relate to death, 
 but fuch as are grounded upon the genethliacal figure of birth, for reafons 
 that will hereafter be given. 
 
 2. What Manner of Death JJiall the Querent die? 
 
 Either the lord of the eighth or planets pofited in the eighth (how the 
 kind of death the querent fhall be fubjeft to, reference being had to the 
 planets beholding him or them. If the fignificator be Jupiter or Venus, 
 in their elTential dignities, they portend a gentle death to the querent, 
 except violent fixed (lars be near them. If Saturn be fignificator, he de- 
 notes death by fome fevere ague, dropfy, or confumption; Mars, by fe- 
 vers or wounds ; the Sun, by pleurifies, or by fome obflrudion of the 
 
 vitals ;
 
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 vitals; Mercury, by the phthylic, frenzy, madnefs, lethargy, &c. and the 
 Moon by drowning, or by difeafes proceeding from cold and moifture. 
 
 3. Shall the Querent obtain his IVifs's Portion ? 
 
 Every querent is fignified by the alcendant, and the fecond houfe fig-r 
 nifies his fubftance ; the quefited is fignified by the feventh houfe, and 
 the eighth houfe hath fignification of his fubflance in this queftion. — 
 The lord of the eighth in the eighth, no way impeded or afflided by the 
 unfortunate planets, declares the querent will have a good eftate with 
 his wife, and take pofTelTion of it without trouble. Jupiter, or Venus, 
 or the Dragon's Head, pofited in the eighth houfe, or on the cufp of the 
 eighth, in the terms of the fortunes, the lord of the eighth being no wav 
 impeded, argues the querent fhall have his wife's portion without ariv 
 manner of trouble. The Part of Fortune in the eighth houfe, in the 
 dignities of Jupiter or Venus, and they caOing their fextilc or trine af- 
 ped^s thither, argues not only that the querent fhall have the dowry of 
 his wifej^but alfo (hows it to be confiderable. If there happens a friendly 
 afpe61 between the lord of the fecond and eighth, with reception ; or if 
 the lord of the eighth be in the fecond, or the lord of the fecond in the 
 eighth ; they denote the querent will obtain his wife's dowry without 
 ditficulty. But, if there be a quartile or oppofition between the fignifi- 
 cators, and no reception or tranflation of light ; or if the lord of the eighth 
 be combuft or retrograde ; the querent will not obtain the portion of his 
 wife without great trouble and difficulty. If Saturn or Mars be in the 
 eighth, and peregrine, very little of the wife's portion will be obtained ; 
 and, if any, there v/ill be great and violent contention about it : the Dra- 
 gon's Tail in the eighth portends the fame. If a woman enquires concern- 
 ing the eftate of a man (he experts to marry, thefe rules will ferve fuffici- 
 ently ; for the afcendant reprefents the woman, if a woman enquires ; and 
 the feventh houfe mufb then be for the man, and the eighth for his eftate. 
 
 *4. Shall the Man or his JViJe die fir ft f 
 
 In this queftion particularly note the lord of the afceedant, and the 
 lord of the feventh ; and obferve which of them goes to conjundlion, quar- 
 tile, or oppofition, of the lord of the eighth houfe, or to combuftion of 
 tjie Sun, or to afpefts of the unfortunate planets, and thence judge. If 
 it be the lord of the afcendant that firll: fufFers that afflidlion, the man, 
 if a man be querent, (hall die £r(l ; if the lord of the feventh o-oes firft 
 tothofe afflictions, the woman will die firft. But it is always to be ob- 
 ferved, that the (Ignificator which is ftrongeft and mod: powerful in the 
 figure, denotes the party reprefented by him fhall live the longeft. This 
 queftion, however, fhould never be decided but by ini'pedion of the na- 
 tivity of each of the parties, properly redified and duly confidered. 
 
 No. i6. 4 I JUDG-
 
 3i8 * AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 JUDGMENTS proper to the NINTH HOUSE. 
 
 We judge of voyages at fea, their profperity or infelicity, of fciencc, 
 Sec. and of perfons and things religious, by the ninth houfe ; and thefe 
 queftions are the rnofl: common unto it ; 
 
 1. S/ia// the Voyage be prof per ous or not ? 
 
 2. fVi// it be long or JJiort ? 
 
 3. May the Querent profit by the Science intended? 
 
 4. Shall a Clergyman obtain the Benefice he enquires after ? 
 
 Thefe queftions properly explained and refolved will give fufficient 
 light to enable the reader to refolve any others of the like nature and 
 import proper to this houfe. 
 
 I . Shall the Voyage be profperous or not ? 
 
 When the ninth houfe or its lord fhall be unfortunately afpeded, it 
 denotes many hazards and dangers to attend the voyage. If Saturn be 
 the affliding planet, the perfon enquiring will be fubje6t to ficknefs 
 and lofs of goods ; but, if Mars or the Dragon's Tail atfli6t either the 
 ninth houfe or its lord, they declare danger by enemies or pirates. If 
 the ninth houfe or its lord be fortunate and flronp-, much good and 
 great fuccefs are promifed to the querent in the voyage, and that he ftiall 
 make a happy and fafe return. The lord of the afcendant and lord of 
 the ninth in conjundion, fextile, or trine, with each other, particularly 
 if there be any reception between them, or pofition in each other's 
 houfes, argues an admirable voyage, and a propitious and fafe return ; 
 but, if they be in quartile or oppofition, void of all reception, or if 
 there happen no good tranflation between them, the querent will have 
 an inauipicious voyage, and, before he returns home again, will have 
 reafon to wifh he had let it alone. If the lord of the afcendant or the 
 Moon be in conjunftion with a fortunate planet in the tenth houfe, 
 that being the fecond from the ninth, the querent (hall gain great flore 
 of wealth by the voyage he undertakes, and enjoy remarkable health of 
 body. But if the lord of the afcendant or the Moon be in abjed 
 places of the figure, or with the lords of abjedl houfes, or in quartile or 
 oppofition to them, either peregrine or combufl of the Sun, the perfon 
 will fall fjck in the journey, and the voyage will be unfortunate to him ; 
 and, if they be with violent fixed flars of the firft magnitude, it will be 
 worfe. 
 
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 2. TVill the Foyage he long or Jhort ? 
 
 The figiiificators of the perfon enquiring, and of the voyage, fvvift in 
 motion, oriental, and in moveable figns, denote the voyage to be fhort 
 and quick ; but, if occidental, they fhovv fome obftrudions. When 
 the lord of the afcendant applies to the lord of the ninth, or the lord of 
 the ninth to the lord of the afcendant ; or if a fortunate planet transfers 
 the light of the one to that of the other ; they are good arguments of a 
 fafe return, and a (hort and fpeedy voyage. The lord of the ninth in 
 fixed figns, and the lord of the afcendant and Moon in fixed figns, denote 
 a very long voyage to the querent ; if in common figns, the voyage will 
 be indifferently good ; if in moveable figns, he returns fpeedily. If the 
 lord of the afcendant be 'retrograde, or if either he or the Moon apply to 
 a planet that is retrograde, it fignifies the perfon that goes the voyage 
 will return home in a fhort time, or perhaps before he goes to the place 
 intended. 
 
 3. May the Querent projit by the Science intended? 
 
 Give the afcendant, its lord, and the Moon, to fignify the querent; 
 the ninth houfe, the lord thereof, and the planet pofited therein, to fig- 
 nify the fcience enquired after ; and, according to their pofitions and 
 configurations, judge of the queftion. The lord of the afcendant and 
 lord of the ninth in conjundion, or in Textile or trine unto each other 
 either in or from angles or fuccedent houfes, give great hopes to the 
 querent that he fhall gain or profit by the art or fcience he intends to 
 follow. If fortunate planets pofTefs the afcendant or ninth houfe, and 
 thence fliall friendly behold either the cufps of each houfe or the lord of 
 them, it is an argument that the querent will profit by the art or fcience 
 intended. If the Moon be pofited in the ninth, in fextile to the lord 
 of the afcendant or ninth houfe in the eleventh, particularly if a recep- 
 tion happen, there is no doubt but the querent will gain by the fcience 
 intended, and prove a good artifl: therein ; but if none of thefe things 
 appear in the figure, but on the contrary there happens a quartile or oppo- 
 fition between the fignificators, the party enquiring will not profit by the 
 art or fcience intended. When the unfortunate planets or Dragon's Tail 
 are pofited in the afcendant or ninth houfe, or afili6t their lords, or the 
 Moon; or if an unfortunate planet happens to be lord of the ninth, and 
 pofited in an evil place of the figure ; the perfon enquiring will not gain 
 much by the fcience.. 
 
 4. Shall
 
 320 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 4. Shall a Clergyman obtain the Benefice he enquires after ? 
 
 Give the afcendant and its lord, and the Moon, to fignify the clergy- 
 man ; and let the ninth l^oufe fignify the living, or other ecclefiaflical 
 preferment fought after. The lord of the afcendant or Moon, joined to 
 the lord of the ninth by body or good alpeft, gives great hopes that the 
 minifler or querent may obtain the benefice defired. If the Moon or 
 lord of the afcendant be in the ninth, or lord of the ninth in the afcendant, 
 or in reception with each other, they are very good arguments that the 
 querent or minifter, fhall obtain the parfonage or church-preferment de- 
 fired.* When the lord of the afcendant, or Moon, is joined to the Sun 
 or Jupiter; or in fextile or trine of either of them, in the afcendant or 
 ninth houfe ; it denotes that the querent will obtain the benefice enquired 
 after. If the principal fignificators be in fextile or trine with reception, 
 the preferment or benefice comes with little trouble ; if they be in quartile 
 and at the fame time in reception, the benefice may be obtained, but it 
 will be with great trouble and delay. The bufinefs may alfo be brought 
 to pafs by tranflation of light ; for, if a planet feparatcs immediately from 
 the good afpe6t of the lord of the ninth, and applies to the lord of the af- 
 cendant; or if he fepartites from the lord of the afcendant, and apphes to 
 the lord of the ninth ; the benefice or preferment will be obtained, and by 
 the means of a perfon fignified by the planet that thus transfers the light 
 of the fignificators to each other. — But, if none of thefe teffimonies hap- 
 pen, it will be a very difficult matter to obtain the benefice defired. The 
 lord of the afcendant retrograde, combuff, or cadent, and he or the Moon in 
 quartile or oppofition of the iiifortunes, or of the lord of the ninth houfe, 
 without reception, declares the deftruffion of the matter enquired after, 
 and fhows that it fliall come to nothing. Infortunes in the ninth or in 
 the afcendant, or affliding the lord of the afcendant, or ninth houfe, or 
 the Moon, (how much trouble and vexation to the perfon enquiring after 
 the benefice, and an impoflibility of obtaining the bufinefs af laft. Ob- 
 f^rye that planet which cafls a quartile or oppofition either to the lord of 
 the afcendant or Moon, and take notice of the houfe he is lord of; for by 
 that means may be difcovered what or who will be the occafion of pre- 
 venting the bufinefs from taking place. The affliding planet, being lord 
 of the third, denotes a neighbour to be the impeditor of the thing ; if of 
 the eleventh, fome pretended friend; if of the tenth, the patron hath no 
 good opinion of him ; if of the feventh, or fifth, he is confidered a conten- 
 tious and improper perfon. Fortunate planets in fortunate places of the 
 figure, befriending the fignificators, give hopes of the bufinefs enquired 
 after; but, if malefic planets, in unfortunate places of the figure, affli6l 
 the fignificators of the bufinefs, it will never come to any thing. 
 
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 JUDGMENTS proper to the TENTH HOUSE. 
 
 The honour, office, dignity, and profeffion, of each querent, are known 
 from the tenth houfe ; and thefe interrogations are common to it : 
 
 1. Shall the Querent obtain the Office or Dignity dejired? 
 
 2. Shall he remain in the Emplomnent he pojfejfes. f 
 
 3. IVhat ProfeJJion will be the beji for any one to follow ? 
 
 Thefe queft ons properly anfwered will inftrudl the ingenious reader 
 how to judge of any other of the like nature. 
 
 I . Shall the Querent obtain the Office or Dignity defred? 
 
 Still remember to give the afcendant, its lord, and the Moon, to fignify 
 the querent, let him be a perfon either of high or low condition ; and the 
 tenth houfe and the lord thereof, and the Sun, becaufe he is the natural 
 fignificator of honour and dignity, to reprefent the office, honour, or 
 dignity, enquired after. If the lord of the afcendant or Moon be joined 
 to the Sun, or to the lord of the tenth, or if they behold the tenth by a 
 Textile or trine, the querent fhall obtain the dignity fought after, by his 
 induftry, and by the means he intends to ufe. If the lord of the afcen- 
 dant or the Moon be in the tenth, or the lord of the tenth or the Sun be 
 pofited in the afcendant, and neither of them impeded, the querent ftiall 
 obtain t*he honour or office he feeks after. The fignificators in fextile 
 or trine to each other, or a fortunate planet tranflating the friendly beams 
 of one to the other, give afTured hopes of fuccefs to the querent. For- 
 tunate planets in the tenth, or in conjundlion, fextile, or trine, of the 
 lord of the tenth, having dignities in the afcendant, declare the querent 
 will obtain the office or dignity defired. If Saturn or Mars be ftrong in 
 the afcendant, and joined to the lord of the tenth, either by body or good 
 afped, it prefages hopes of the preferment fought after, and that it 
 will be gained, although with much trouble. A fortunate planet tranf- 
 ferring the light of the lord of the tenth to the lord of the afcendant, 
 denotes the querent will obtain the dignity or honour fought after, by 
 the means of the perfon reprefented by that planet who thus transfers the 
 light of the lord of the tenth. If the Sun's light be fo transferred, it 
 portends the fame. But, if none of the aforefaid configurations, re- 
 ceptions, or tranflations, happen among the fignificators, the honour and 
 preferment fought after by the querent will not be obtained ; although 
 he may have the greateli promifes, and the mofl: probable hopes that 
 can poflibly be conceived. 
 
 No. 17. 4 K 2. Shall
 
 312 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 2. Shall a Per/on remain in the Employment lie pojfejfes ? 
 
 When a perfon is in an employment, truft, or office, and is jealous of 
 being turned out of the fame, obferve whether the lord of the afcendant 
 or Moon, and the lord of the tenth, are going to conjundiion, or to any 
 friendly afped;, as a Textile or trine ; or if there be any reception between 
 the two chief fignificators : for, if fo, the querent (hall hold and keep the 
 employment he pofTefTes. If the lord of the afcendant be in Textile or 
 trine to either of the two fortunes in the tenth houfe, and no affii6lion 
 happen from the infortunes, the querent will long enjoy the place he 
 pofTefles. The lord of the afcendant in the tenth, or lord of the tenth 
 in the afcendant, denotes the fame. But, if the lord of the afcendant or 
 the Moon be in quartile or oppofition with any planets, and the fame 
 planets in conjundion, fextile, or trine, with the lord of the tenth, or the 
 Sun, the querent will lofe the employment he poflefTes ; and fuch per- 
 fons as are fignified by the planets in conjun6iion, fextile, or trine, with 
 the lord of the tenth, or the Sun, are endeavouring to prejudice him in 
 the bufinefs. The lord of the afcendant retrograde, and combuft of the 
 Sun, (hows the querent to have incurred the difpleafure of thofe that 
 have power over him, and that they will therefore take away the office 
 or employment he holds. If the Moon or lord of the afcendant be in 
 quartile or oppofition with the lord of the tenth or the Sun without re- 
 ception, it portends the querent to be in danger of lofing the office or 
 employment he holds or pofTefTes. The lord of the afcendant or the 
 Moon Teparating from the lord of the tenth or the Sun, declares the 
 querent in danger of lofing the office or employment he holds ; particu- 
 larly if from their feparation they apply to the malicious afpeds of the 
 infortunes. 
 
 3. What Profejffion •will be heft for the Querent to follow. 
 
 This queflion is only fit to be propounded by mechanics, and not by 
 thofe who live and move in a higher fphere ; and, when a proper perfon 
 propounds the queflion, he may be anfwered according to the following 
 rules. Confider the lord of the afcendant, and the Moon, for the perfon 
 enquiring ; and the lord of the tenth houfe, and the planets Mars and 
 Venus, for the trade and profeflion of the querent ; and obferve the afpedls 
 between the fignificators according to the figns they are pofited in, and fo 
 judge of the profeiTion of the querent. If the fignificators, or the greater 
 part of them, happen to be in fiery figns, the querent will do well in any 
 profeflion that relates thereunto, according to his capacity of birth ; as 
 a phyfician, chemifl, furgeon, goldfmith, filverfmith, jeweller, or apo- 
 thecary ; or, if of a meaner condition, he may make a good cutler, fmith, 
 baker, glafs-maker, or the like. The fignificators in aereal figns, ac- 
 cording
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 323 
 
 cording to the birth of the querent, denote he will make a good lawyer, 
 arithmetician, accomptant, furveyor, fcrivener, clerk, aftronomer, &c. 
 otherwife a good haberdafher, milliner, painter, draper, or one that 
 may deal in retail commodities. But, if the fignihcators be in earthy 
 figns, the querent may make a good farmer or hufbandman, gardener, 
 grazier, coach-maker, joiner, carpenter, &c. The fignificators of trade 
 or profeffion, in watery figns, denote the querent to do well in 
 brewing, malting, or in felling wines and fpiriluous liquors. When 
 the lord of the afcendant is in Textile or trine to either of the fignificators 
 of trade, and they are polited m angles or other good houfes of the figure, 
 the querent may do very well in the trade or profefTion he follows. Jf 
 the Moon be in the like good configurations with any of them, it portends 
 the fame. But, if the fignificators of trade be affliitqd in cadent places 
 ef the figure, and the lord of the afcendant or the Moon in quartile or 
 oppofition to them, thfi.quereiit.wili^not.tiirive ,by. the. trade pr.prefdJion 
 he is about to follow. ii/idii si f^voi.; iliw jn-^irifp sdi^o gh'-'?ii> o.nJ .co^ 
 
 Ql noi) 
 
 JUDGMENTS proper to the ELEVENTH 'HOUSE. 
 
 This houfe gives judgment relative'--to the fri^/jds" of each querent, 
 their bafenefs or fidelity^ and of his. hopes, &c. The queftions that are 
 moft cotiimon1toitar&the(e: - .- c.qo.. (....a , 
 
 li Shcfll the Friends of the Querent proi^e faithful to him? 
 %. Shall 'the Querent obtain what he anxioufly defres ? 
 
 AlVbthie'r tnings''DarticuiarJy''yeIiVirig^i:b!^^^^'i^^ are comprehended 
 under thefe two. 
 
 lU 
 
 (ii 
 
 I 
 
 , Shall the Friends of the Querent prove faithful to him ? 
 
 The afcendant and its lord reprefent the querent, and the eleventh 
 houfe and its lord the friends of ttie querent. Now, if any benevolent 
 afpefl: is found between the lords of the afcendant and the eleventh houfe, 
 or any friendly reception or tranl]ation of light between them, the friend 
 of the querent is not to be fufpe<51ed, but he will prove faithful. If 
 the Moon be ii} friendly afped to the lord of the eleventh, or there 
 happens any good tranfiation of light or reception between them in 
 good places of the figure, the friend proves juft and faithful. The dif- 
 pofitor of the part of friends, in conjundion, fextile, or trine, or in good 
 reception with the lord of the afcendant in good houfes, and configurated 
 with f^ars of a benevolent nature, argues the querent's friends to be juft 
 and faithful to him. The lord of the afcendant or the Moon in the 
 eleventh houfe, and the lord of the eleventh in the afcendant, fliow a 
 
 reciprocal
 
 324 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 reciprocal afFe6lion between the querent and his friends. If either of the 
 fortunes caft their friendly beams to them both at the fame time, it ar- 
 gues the fame. On the contrary, if the lord of the afcendant or the Moon 
 be in quartile or oppofition of the infortunes in the eleventh, or of the 
 lord of the eleventh, the friends of the querent are not faithful to him. If 
 there be no reception between them, this judgment is the more certain. 
 The Dragon's Tail affli6ling the eleventh houfe, or the lord thereof, fhows 
 the friends of the querent to be very deceitful, let them pretend ever fo 
 fair. The fame if the lord of the eleventh be near violent fixed ftars, 
 as Caput Algol, Oculus Taurus, Serpentarius, the Chzele, &c. If the 
 iignificators of the querent and his friends be in quartile or oppofition 
 from fixed figns, and in angles, it declares the friends, or at leaft fuch as 
 pretend to be fo, faithlefs ; and that perpetually. If the natural fignifi- 
 cators of friendship, which are Jupiter and Venus, be pofited in the af- 
 cendant, or cafl: a friendly afped thereto, or to the lord thereof, or the 
 Moon, the friends of the querent will piove faithful. But, if they caft a 
 quartile or oppofition to the Moon, or lord of the afcendant, or to the af- 
 cendant itfelf, it admoiiifhes the querent to beware of pretended friends. 
 
 2. Shall the Querent obtain what he hopes for or dejires ? 
 
 When a perfon hath hoj?es of a thing, and is unwilling to declare what 
 it is, yet would wifh to be refolved what the efFedl may be, and accord- 
 ingly propounds the above queflion, the afcendant and its lord are to fig- 
 nify him, and the eleventh houfe and its lord, with the fortunate planets 
 therein, are to fignify the matter or thing defired. If the fignificators 
 are in reception, or in good afpe,£l with each other, the bufinefs or matter 
 hoped for is poflible to be obtained ; or, if there be any good tranflation 
 of light or reception in houfes, it argues the fame thing. If the lord of 
 the afcendant and lord of the eleventh receive each other in angles, or 
 (hall be received of the fortunate planet in angles or in fuccedcnt houfes, 
 the thing that the querent hopes for fhall be accompliflied. Either the 
 lord of the afcendant or the Aloon received in fixed figns, (how the que- 
 rent fliall obtain the bufinefs that he hopes for, and that completely; if 
 in moveable figns, he will obtain very little or nothing of what he hopes 
 for ; and, if in bicorporal figns, he will have only a part of what he de- 
 fires to obtain. But if, on the contrary, the fignificators are in quartile 
 or oppofition, and void of all manner of reception, having no good 
 tranflation of light ; or if they be combuft, cadent, peregrine, or retro- 
 grade, or with fixed ftars of an evil influence ; the matter defired will not 
 be brought to perfeftion. But, if the querent in propounding the quef- 
 tion tells the particular thing he hopes to attain, then the fignificators 
 thereof muft be taken from their proper place, and the rules varied as 
 the fubje6l may require^ 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 325 
 
 JUDGMENTS proper to the TWELFTH HOUSE. 
 
 By this houfe we judge of private enemies, captivity, and imprifon- 
 ment ; and the queftions belonging to it are, 
 
 1 . Hath the Querent private Enemies ? 
 
 2 . JVho are they, or how may he knoiv them ^ 
 
 3. Of a Pr if oner or Captive, ijojien may he be freed? 
 
 Thefe queftions being refolved, will enable the reader to anfwer any 
 others of a fiaiilar fhape and tendency. 
 
 I . Hath the Quere?it private Enemies ? 
 
 If this queftion is indifferently propofed, obferve what aipeft there 
 is between the lord of the afcendant and twelfth houfe, and from what 
 houfe of heaven it happens ; and ^o judge of the querent's private enemies. 
 If the afped be by quartile or oppofition, and out of malignant houles of 
 the figure, the querent hath private enemies; and if the lord of the twelfth 
 be a fuperior planet, as Saturn, Jupiter, or Mars, and any way dignified, 
 the enemies are the more to be feared; but, if they are inferiors, they are 
 not fo dangerous; the more powerful the fignificators of the enemies are, 
 the more injury will the querent fuftain by them; the lefs powerful, the 
 lefs evil and mifchief will thev be able to do him. If the lord of anv other 
 houfe befides the twelfth be in quartile or oppofition to the lord of the 
 afcendant or the Moon, or to the afcendant itlelf, from obfcure places of 
 the figure, the querent hath private enemies. But if the afcet;dant, and 
 the lord thereof, and the Moon, be void of the evil afpeds of any planet 
 or planets, and are befriended by the good rays of the fortunes, and the 
 lord of the afcendant and the Moon in fortunate places of the figure, they 
 denote the querent hath no private enemies. 
 
 2. M'^ho are his private Enemies, and how may he know them f 
 
 To refolve this queftion truly, obferve the pofitions of the lords of the 
 afcendant and twelfth houfe; for if the lord of the twelfth affiidl the 
 lord of the afcendant, or the afcendant from the third houfe, the lord of 
 the third affixing, the querent's greateft private enemies are thofe that live 
 near him, or are nearly related to him; that is to fay, either a brother, 
 kinfman, or neighbour. The perfon is to be defcribed by the planet af- 
 flicting, and the fign in which he is pofited. U the lord of the twelfth 
 afflift the afcendant or his lord from the fourth houfe, the father of the 
 querent is his enemy; if in the fifth, his children, or fome occafional 
 
 No. 17. 4 L vifitor
 
 326 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 vifitor will prove his private enemy; if in the fixth houfe, his fervants, 
 or an uncle ; if in the ferenth houfe, his wife or partner (hall prove fe- 
 cretly mifchievous to him. The perfon or perfons fignified by that houfe 
 where the Dragon's Tail is pofited, will be malicious and prejudicial to 
 the querent; particularly if the lord thereof affli6t the lord of the afcen- 
 dant, the afcendant itfelf, or the Moon, at the fame time. 
 
 3. Of a Prifoner or Captive, when Jliall he befet at Liberty ? 
 
 The lord of the afcendant or Moon, fwift in motion, denotes freedom 
 from imprifonment in a fhort time; if either of them commit their vir- 
 tues or difpofitions to any planet or planets in the third or ninth houfe, or 
 to the lords of them, not being pofited in angles, it argues a releafe from 
 imprifonment in a fhort time. If the lord of the afcendant or the Moon 
 be more potent in the figure.than the lord of the twelfth, or be feparating 
 from the ill afpedts of the lord of the twelfth, or the difpofitor of the part 
 of imprilonment, particularly in moveable figns, and thence immediately 
 applying to the friendly beams of the fortunate planets Jupiter or Venus; 
 the prifoner or captive cannot remain long in the pril'on where he is, but 
 will be relealed. The lord of the afcendant or the Moon in the fourth, 
 fixth, eighth, or twelfth, houfes, or under the Sun-beams, or retrograde, 
 or unhappily afflifted of Saturn or Mars, Ihows the perfon under re- 
 ftraint will not be releafed from confinement for a long time; and, if 
 the infortune happens to be lord of the eighth, he will die in prifon. If 
 the lord of the afcendant or the Moon Teparate from the lord of the 
 fourth, and immediately apply to Jupiter or Venus; or if the lord of the 
 fourth feparate from the lord of the afcendant; they argue good hopes 
 that the captive or prilbner (hall not continue long in prifon. A fixed 
 fign afcending at the time of the queftion, and the lord thereof a ponder- 
 ous planet, and in an angle, portends a tedious time of imprifonment. 
 If common (igns, the afflidion will not be fo long; if moveable, it 
 will be verv fhort; if the lord of the afcendant be cadent from his 
 houfe of exaltation, and the Moon happen to be in Scorpio or Aqua- 
 rius, it prelages long imprifonment. If the lord of the hour in which 
 the prifoner was taken, be an unfortunate planet, and unfortunately 
 placed in the heavens, it declares a tedious imprifonment, and very 
 long captivity; but, if he be a fortune, the imprifonment cannot be 
 long. The only way to difcover the length of time in which a prifoner 
 or captive (hall be releafed, is, by obferving the degrees of diftance 
 between the fignificators and the fortunate planets, or the Sun ; and ac- 
 cording to the figns they (hall be found in, whether fixed, common, or 
 moveable, meafure the days, weeks, months, or years, of the prifoner's 
 captivity, as heretofore direded. 
 
 Having
 
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 327 
 
 Having thus given rules and diredions how to folve any kind of quef- 
 tion proper to each of the twelve houfes, I fliall next proceed to illuf- 
 trate thele rules further, by giving examples of a variety of true and re- 
 cent queflions which I have refolved for different perfons, moft of whom 
 are now living, and ready to confirm any fa6f that may be difputed by 
 the incredulous reader. I fhall begin with fuch as properly belong to the 
 firft houfe, and fo pafs on regularly to the others, and give an example or 
 two from each of them. 
 
 QUESTION I. On the LENGTH of LIFE. 
 
 A gentleman of eminence and fortune in his majefty's navy, having an 
 inclination to lay out a fum of money on life-annuities, applied to me 
 with a very prefling folicitation to inform him whether his life would be 
 long or fhort, that he might thereby determine whether fuch a purchafe 
 would be to his advantage. Not being able to procure his nativity, I 
 took down the time of the day when the queftion was propofed, and, 
 having redified it by a correft regulator, 1 immediately projected the 
 following fcheme. 
 
 M^
 
 328 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 My firfl: bufinefs was to examine the figure, to find whether it were 
 radical, and fit to be adjudged ; which 1 found to be the cale, becaule 
 the lord of the afcendant and the lord of the hour are of one nature and 
 triplicit) ; and the lignificator of the querent exadtly delcribed his perlbn, 
 which is of a middle ftature, fanguine complexion, and of an acute un- 
 derftanding, denoted by Mercury's pofition in the fign Aries, the houfe 
 of Mars, The Moon being in oppofition to the Sun, fhows him to have 
 a mark or fear near the left eye ; which was alfo true. And therefore, as 
 I found all circumflances to concur in proving the queftion to be well 
 and fcrioDlly grounded, and free from all impofition, I gave him my 
 judgment upon the figure as follows. 
 
 The princely fign Leo, the querent's fignificator, occupies the afcen- 
 dant; and the Sun, the lord thereof, and giver of life, is pofited near 
 his meridian altitude in the medium coeli, and in the fign Aries, his 
 houfe of exaltation, flrong, powerful, and in full dignity, free from the 
 evil rays of the lord of the fixth, eighth, fourth, or fecond, houfes, 
 which neither impedite the Sun nor the alcendant with any evil afpecfl. 
 But the Moon, lady of the twelfth, is in oppofition to the Sun, making 
 at the fame time a quartile mundane afpedl: with the afcendant, and a lex- 
 tile alpect with Saturn in the zodiac; from which pofitions I inferred the 
 following particulars. 
 
 The affli6fion of the lord of the afcendant, by oppofition of the 
 Moon in Libra, the houfe of Venus, and Venus difpofitor of the Moon 
 in her own houfe, and in the feminine fign Taurus, going to a femifex- 
 tile with the Sun, denotes that he will receive fome confiderable injury 
 from a female connexion, now exifling under the fpecious pretence of 
 friendfhip and fond attachment; and this is declared by the Moon being 
 lady of the twelfth, the houfe of private enemies, which difpofes of the 
 part of fortune, and thereby indicates that he will lofe fome part of his 
 fortune by her means. 
 
 The Moon's mundane quartile afpedl to the afcendant, in an airy fign, 
 declares that he will be attacked with a fevere fit of the wind-cholic, or 
 fome dangerous complaint in the bowels and reins; but it will not prove 
 fatal to him, becaufe the Sun, the lord of his afcendant, is more flrong 
 and powerful, and in greater dignities, than the afflicting planets ; and 
 therefore, according to natural efficient caules, they will prevail over all 
 fubordinate effects. 
 
 'rom
 
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 From a co.nfideration of thofe parts of the figure which relate to the 
 circumftaiices of his pafl life, 1 infon-ned him he had improved his for- 
 tune, and been I'uccefsful in Tome important vo\age, becaufe the Dr,*- 
 gon's Head is fituated in his ninth houfe ; but that he had lately iufFe.r^ 
 oreatly by a violent hurricane, that threatened deftrudion or {hipwreck ; 
 which is denoted by the oppofition of Saturn to the Part of Fortune, and 
 the Moon having lately feparated fi9tn an oppofition with Mercury, lord 
 of the third houfe, where the Dragon"'s Tail is pofited. This circum- 
 ftance I had the pleafure of hearing him acknowledge to be true; and 
 that the florm arole only eight days before the fhip came into port. 
 
 He requeued rae to afcertain the time when the above illnefs would 
 happen. I accordingly took the number of degrees between the Sun and 
 Moon, by fubtradting the lels fum from the greater ; and found the 
 diflance to be eleven degrees fifty-nine minutes. I tjsien fought the 
 Moon's latitude, and found it one degree thirty-three .minutes fouth ; 
 which, added to the above, make thirteen degrees thirty-two minutes; 
 and, as the fignificators are in moveable figns, I computed the time by 
 weeks and days, and predicted this illnels would befall him about the 
 2oth of July following ; and that, after he (hould be reftored to health 
 again, he would go on, without luftaining any other ferious indifpofition, 
 until the fixty-ninlh year of his age; about which time I conceive the 
 funciions of life will be naturally exiinguifhed by a complicatiQu of in- 
 firmities. 
 
 I have lately had the pleafure of converfing with the gentleman on the 
 fubjedt of this queftion. He informed me, that towards the middle of 
 July, 1783, he was atladked by a kind of bilious comj)laint in his 
 ftomach, which brought on violent fits of the cholic. That, towards 
 the latter end of the lame month, he found an obflrudion in his bowels, 
 and his phyfician declared it next to a (miracle that his life was laved. 
 He now appears to be in perfetTt health, and has funk a confiderable fum 
 of money on life-annuities,' which he declares was done in conlequ<;iiQe 
 of the verity he found in thele predi<5tions. 
 
 QUESTION II. On the FATE of a SHIP at SEA. 
 
 In the year 1 781, a gentleman called upon me who had a confiderablc 
 ihare in a privateer, which had been completely fitted out and lent to 
 fea a long time before, and the proprietors could not obtain the leaft 
 information of her. He therefore requefted me, if in my power, to give 
 him fome probable account of what had befallen her. After convincing 
 myfclf the queftion was radical, and no trick or impoiltion intended, 
 
 No. 17. 4 M which
 
 330 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 which is always neceflary to be carefully enquired into by the rules 
 already laid down for that purpole, 1 proceeded to give my judgment 
 on the following figure, reditied to the precile time the quelHon was pro- 
 pounded. 
 
 Here the afcendant and the Moon are fignificators of the (hip ; and 
 Venus, becaufe the fign Taurus, the houfe of Venu<;, is on the afcendant,. 
 is fignificatrix of the crew ; and Mercury, with the Part of Fortune, de- 
 note her ftores and all the other materials on-board her. The (hip itfelf 
 appears well found and fubftantial, but not a fwift failer, as is demon- 
 ftrated by an earthy (ign poflefling the cufp of the afcendant, and the fitu- 
 ation of the Dragon's Head in five degrees of the fame fign. The pla- 
 net Mars is fignificator of the enemy. 
 
 Now the Moon, which reprefents the fhip, being fituated in the eighth 
 houfe, the houfe of death and difappointment, and at the fame time be- 
 iieged by the two malefic planets Saturn and Mars, denotes her to be 
 overpowered by the enemy. Mars, lord of the feventh,. the houfe of 
 
 open
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 331 
 
 open enemies, being pofited with all his dignities therein ; and in recep- 
 tion of Jupiter, lord of the enemy's houfc of lubftance ; and being alfo 
 difpofitor of the Moon, Mercury, and Venus, which reprefent the fhip 
 and crew, obvioufly declares them to be in the hands of the enemy. The 
 fignificators being pofited in fiery figns, indicates an engagtrment to have 
 taken j)Iace ; but the fuperior ftrength of the malefic /ays of the infor- 
 tunes declares it to have been of (hort duration, and of very unequal force. 
 The crew being reprefented by Venus, who is difpofed of by Mars in the 
 twelfth houfe, the houfe of imprifonment and affli6lion, plainly fhows 
 them to be imprifoned in the enemy's country. And as Mercury is re- 
 trograde, and fituated alfo in the twelfth houfe, with the Moon's fortu- 
 nate node, it is apparent that the fhip and ftores will never be reftored to 
 the owners, but will be appropriated to the u(e of the captors, or difpoled 
 of for their advantage. The Moon's pofition in the eighth houfe declares 
 the fhip to have been taken at a confiderable diftancc from home; and 
 Sagittarius poflefling the cuip of the eighth, which is a fouth-weft fign, 
 and fituated in the louth-wert part of the heavens, denotes the capture to 
 have been made in a fouth-weft part of the world. 
 
 The querent left me with ftrong hopes of finding this judgment erro- 
 neous ; and appeared fo extremely avei lb to believe there could be any 
 truth in it, (becaufe perhaps it operated fo much againft: his own intereft,) 
 that I would not fufFer him to leave the room until he had promifed 
 upon his honour to let me know the refult. Accordingly, in about fix 
 months afterwards, I received a (hort note from him, informing me that 
 the owners had received advice from the captain of the privateer, that he 
 had fallen in with a French frigate of twenty-four guns, which being 
 vaflly fuperior to him, he was obliged, after a fhort refiftance, to flrike 
 his colours, and was carried prifoner, with the reft of the crew, into 
 France. 
 
 Q.UEST10N III. Of an ABSENT SON, whether DEAD or ALIVE. 
 
 A poor woman applied to me in the greateft diftrefs of mind, on ac- 
 count of her fon, who had turned out wild, and gone to fea without the 
 confent of his friends. He had been abfent a confiderable time, without 
 ever once fo far refleding on the difconfolate fituation of his parent, as 
 to be induced to addrefs a line to her, to remove her anxiety, or to ftate 
 his own profpeds and purfuits. It was the woman's conftant pradlice to 
 make inquiry after him among the fea-faring people, till at length (he 
 heard an imperfed ftory of fome engagement abroad, in which lier fon 
 was reported to be killed. Upon this unpleafant news flie requeftcd mc 
 
 to
 
 33Z 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 to inform her, by the rules of Aftrology, whether her fon was dead or 
 alive; or whether the account (he had heard was true or falle. Her un- 
 cafinefs of mind was too apparent for ine to doubt her lincerity, or to (up- 
 pofe the quelliou not fit to be adjudged ; and therefore 1 creded thib 
 figure, and gave my opinion thereon as follows : 
 
 miJi^^j^m^msEss^sss^messri^sr^ 
 
 S^'m:i3^:^i.ii'^iii^ii&^::£^.f::^tl\uM-^£sii:-isr^ 
 
 In this figure Virgo rifes upon the afcendant, and Mercury, lord there- 
 of, and fignificator of the querent, is pofited in the twelfth houfe, the 
 houfe of affli6tion and forrow. The fifth houfe of the figure is here con- 
 iidered as her fon's firfl: or afcendant; and Saturn, lord thereof, is his 
 fjgnificator, and is pofited in the fourth angle, or imum coeli, which rc- 
 prefcnts the grave and termination of all things. Saturn is alfo in con- 
 jundion with the Part of Fortune in the fourth, both of which are dif- 
 pofed of by Jupiter, and Jupiter by Mars; which malefic planet pofleffes 
 the fon's firft houfe or afcendant in his exaltation, and in oppofition to 
 the Sun and Venus in the feventh, which is the houfe of open enemies 
 
 and war. 
 
 From
 
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 From thefe configurations I drew the inferences following : That Mer- 
 cury, the querent's fignificator, by being pofited in the twelfth houfe, 
 plainly fhowed her fears were too well grounded. That Saturn, figni- 
 ficator of the quefited, and the Part of Fortune, being both difpofed of 
 by Jupiter, and this planet difpofed of by Mars, indicates all their bene- 
 volent effedls to be delT:royed by the malignant influence of this infortune. 
 Mars being in the Son's afcendanf, in his exaltation, and in oppofition 
 to Sol, is a ftrong argument of a violent death ; the "kind and manner 
 of which are thus defcribed. Saturn, his fignificator, is pofited in the 
 fiery fign Sagittarius ; and Leo, which occupies the cufp of his eighth, 
 and Aries the cufp of his fourth, are alfo of the fiery triplicity ; the Sun, 
 the giver of life, and light of time, is pofited in the watery fign Cancer, 
 difpofed of bv the Moon in the watery fign Pifces, and the Moon by 
 Jupiter in the Nvatery fign Scorpio; and the whole of their influences are 
 transferred to the fiery planet Mars, in his afcendant. From thefe cir- 
 cumftances it became obvious to me that the youth was no longer in ex- 
 igence; and that his death happened upon the water, by means of fome 
 fatal warlike inftrument, and in fome defperate engagement with an 
 open enemy. 
 
 The querent then afked me if I could give her any fatisfa6lory account 
 how long ago this happened. I took down the degrees and minutes of 
 the two principal fignificators, viz. the Sun and Mars, and fubtra6led the 
 one from the other, which gave four desrrees five minutes for the remain- 
 der ; and this being converted into time by the rules before laid down for 
 moveable figns, in which the above fignificators were pofited, I informed 
 her the accident had befallen her fon fomewhat more than a month before 
 (he heard the news of it. Some time afterwards a fhip arrived with an 
 account of the engagement, which happened on the coafl of France, and 
 confirmed the whole of this judgment. 
 
 QUESTION IV. On the PROSPECT of RICHES. 
 
 A gentleman called upon me to enquire, whether any remarkale 
 change of circumftances would ever happen to him in refped of riches, 
 and the time when. Conceiving his defire toarife from a flrong impulfe 
 of the mind, I took the exa6l time of the day, and eredled the following 
 figure to refolve this queflion. 
 
 No. 17. 4N • The
 
 334 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 
 
 •# 
 
 Shall the • I ' 
 
 ,b' 
 
 S*^ 
 
 QUERENT I ^>. 
 
 ^ I RICH? AND WHEN? 
 
 March 5, lOh. SOm. A. M. 1781. 
 
 Tj hor. 
 
 lOD gilliO 
 
 The lord of the afcendant, and lord of the hour, being of due nature 
 and triplicity, (hows the figure to be radical. And, as Gemini occupies 
 the cufp of the afcendant, Mercury is its lord, and the querent's fignifi- 
 cator ; and being pofited in the eleventh houfe, in a watery fign, and in 
 trine to Jupiter, lord of the feventh, who is here pofited in the fixth, is 
 a ftrong argument of riches by means of fervants, or of perfons in a fub- 
 ordinate capacity. The Moon, who is lady of the fecond, being in her 
 exaltation, in trine afpecl to the Sun, and applying to a trine with Jupi- 
 ter, and a dexter trine afped with Mercury, declares a great and ludden 
 flow of riches to the querent, and that unexpededly. 
 
 Being much prefTed to fpeak to the particular point of time when this 
 good fortune Ibould come up, I confidered what might be the gentle- 
 man's occupation ; and obferving Mercury to be his fignificator, and po- 
 fited in a watery fign, I told him that I judged he belonged to the fea, 
 • and had fome employment on ftiip-board, in a capacity where writing or 
 accounts were principally concerned. This he acknowledged, by faying 
 
 he
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 3^^ 
 
 he was captain's fecretary. I then obferved that his principal fignifica- 
 tors of wealth and riches were alfo pofited in watery figns, as the Moon 
 in Cancer in the fecond houfe, and Jupiter in Scorpio in the fixth, and 
 the Sun and Mercury in Pifces in the eighth, all in trine afpeds of each 
 other, which plainly indicated thefe riches were to come by the fea ; and, 
 as they were to be iiidden, and as it were inftantaneus, I concluded they 
 would arife by the capture of fome rich prize, in a fouth-eaft direction 
 from London, which is denoted by the Part of Fortune being in the twelfth 
 houfe, and Venus, its difpofitor, in Aquarius, a Ibuthern fign, in quar- 
 tile afpedt of the Part of Fortune ; and the Part of Fortune being oppo- 
 fite to Jupiter, lord of the feventh, the houfe of public enemies, alfo de- 
 clares the querent's Fortune fhould come that way; which is rendered 
 ftill more apparent, by the Part of Fortune being in Textile to the Moon 
 and Mercury, When I had mentioned thefe particulars, he frankly told 
 me his fhip was under failing orders, and he expeded to be called on- 
 board every hour. 
 
 To afcertain the time when thefe riches fhould be acquired, I parti- 
 cularly noticed the application of the Moon to the lord of the afcendant, 
 and found them nineteen degrees dlftant from a partile trine afpedl:. But 
 the Moon, being fwift in motion, with three degrees north latitude, and 
 Mercury having no latitude, I dedu6ted three degrees from the Moon's 
 place, which 1 let down at twelve degrees ; and then, by fubtratling twelve 
 degrees from twenty-eight degrees three minutes, which is Mercury's place, 
 there remains fixteen degrees three minutes ; which, as the Moon is in a 
 moveable fign, and Mercury in a common fign, is equal to fixteen weeks, 
 or thereabout ; and therefore I concluded this good fortune would hap- 
 pen to him in nearly that diflance of time. And I have fincc had the 
 fatisfadion of hearing, from the gentleman's own mouth, that this pre- 
 diftion was literally verified by the capture of a rich prize within the time 
 fpecified. 
 
 QUESTION V. On the Succefs of a JOURNEY. . 
 
 Being applied to by a tradelman, who was going a journey on fome 
 particular bufinefs, to inform him whether it would be profperous and 
 fuccefsful ; I took the time of the day, and projeded the following 
 fcheme to correfpond with it. 
 
 Here
 
 23^ 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Here I find four degrees fourteen minutes of Gemini upon the cufp of 
 the horofcope, and confequently Mercury is the querent's fignificator, 
 which being pofited in the twelfth houfe, the houfe of anxiety and dif- 
 appointment, combuft of the Sun, and difpofed of by Mars, the impli- 
 cator of private enemies, in the querent's houfe of fubftance ; thefe po- 
 fitions plainly (howed the objeiSl of the journey to be concerning the ad- 
 juftment of fome accounts, or other money-matters. The Moon, lady 
 of the third, {ignifies the journey ; and the feventh houfe and its lord, 
 i. e. Jupiter, reprefents the place and perfon the querent is going to. 
 
 Nqw the Moon having lately feparated from a partile conjun61ion of 
 her fortunate node and Jupiter, and applying to a quartile of Mars, and 
 then to a conjunftion of Venus, tends to prove that his journey fhould 
 be fafe and unimpeded ; but at the fame time denotes that the objed of it 
 fhould not be accomplifhed, which is further confirmed by the pofition 
 of Mars in the fecond houfe. I informed him that he would moft pro- 
 bably meet with unpleafant treatment from fome lady, refpecting money- 
 concerns, and that they fhould part in anger, which would terminate to 
 
 his
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 337 
 
 his prejudice ; and this I conceired from the application of the Moon to 
 a quartile afpeft with Mars, followed by a conjunction with Venus. It 
 further appeared to me that his journey would be far from pleafant or 
 agreeable ; but that, on the contrary, he would meet with great vexation, 
 trouble, and difappointment. This is indicated by the Moon's unfortu- 
 nate node, or Dragon's Tail, being pofited in the fifth, or houfe of plea- 
 fure and delight, at the fame time that the querent's fignihcator occupies 
 the houfe of difappointment and trouble. Hence I perfuaded him to 
 poftpoiie his journey to a future day ; becaufe, if he did go, 1 was per- 
 fedlv fatisfied he would lofe more than he would gain, exclufive of be- 
 ing difappointed in the principal obje6l of it. He then left me, and went 
 home with an undetermined mind ; but has fince told me that his necef- 
 fity got the better of his reafon, and therefore he went the journey con- 
 trary to my advice, and found the event, with all its contingencies, ex- 
 a(5lly as I had predided. 
 
 Some months after, he came to me again, faying he wifhed to take 
 another journey on the fame bufinefs ; but, as my former prediftion had 
 fo exactly correfponded with the event, he was now determined to adt 
 implicitly by my advice, and therefore requefted mc to ereft a figure to 
 know whether there were better hopes of fuccefs in his prefent under- 
 taking than in the former. To oblige him I drew out the figure to the 
 exaft time of propofing the queftion, and, finding the benevolent afpedls 
 all in the querent's favour, I told him he had no time to lofe ; for that, if 
 he haftened away, fuccefs would crown his labours. He went, met the 
 parties at home, fettled his accounts, and returned with his pockets full 
 of money, and his heart full of content ; and a few days afterwards he 
 thanked me for my fervices. 
 
 QUESTION VI. On PATERNAL INHERITANCE. 
 
 A young gentleman in the navy, who had been rather wild, and was 
 in confequence under the difpleafure of his parents, having been threat- 
 ened to be difinherited, came the inftant he received this unfavourable 
 news, and enquired of me whether he fliould, or fhould not, enjoy his 
 father's eftate. To refolve his doubts, I proje<5i:ed the figure following. 
 
 No. (7. 4. O The
 
 538 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 /'V 
 
 rf> '# 
 
 Shall the 
 
 QUERENT 
 
 EWJOV Bit 
 
 FATHER'S ESTATE ? 
 
 Oct, 20, 2h. 40m. A. M. 1780. 
 
 9 dia. 
 
 Lat. 51' 32'. 
 
 ^^ 
 
 .A£. 
 
 The afcendant and its lord reprefent the querent ; and, as Aquarius oc- 
 cupies the <;ufp thereof, Saturn is bis fignificator. The father is repre- 
 fented by the fourth houfe, and Mercury, the lord thereof, is his fignifica- 
 tor. The fecond houfe and its lord fignifies the querent's fubftance ; and 
 the fifth houfe and its lord the fubftance of his father. Here we find 
 Mercury in conjun6tion with Jupiter in the eighth houfe, which is the fa- 
 ther's fourth, and implies a fubftantial fortune, particularly as the Sun is 
 pofited in the fame houfe, with mutual reception between the two figni- 
 ficators of fubftance ; whereby it is evident that the fon will inherit the 
 father's eftate and fortune. 
 
 The conjun6lion of Jupiter with Mercury, the father's fignificator, is 
 alfo a ftrong argument of paternal regard on the fide of the father ; and 
 therefore 1 informed him that there appeared to me no doubt but he 
 would fucceed to the eftate of his anceftors, provided he afted at all con- 
 fiftently with the duty and obedience of a fon, and would ufe proper en- 
 deavours to regain his father's good-will and forgivenefs, and aim to be 
 more prudent and careful in fpending his income ; for the pofition of 
 
 Jupiter
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 339 
 
 Jupiter declares him to be regardlefs of money among his companions 
 and acquaintance, and extravagantly generous and good-natured. The 
 conjunftion of Mars with Venus likewife (hows his defire after women, 
 and denotes that they will be a continual fource of misfortune and ex- 
 pence to him, and will help ofF pretty faft with his money ; but the po- 
 litioo of the fortunate node of the Moon in his fecond houfe fufficiently 
 indicates that he will have a competent provifion during life. 
 
 QUESTION Vll. On a CHANGE of SITUATION. 
 
 A perfon had fome time been fettled in bufmefs, without meeting with 
 fo much encouragement as he expeded ; and, an opportunity offering of 
 fettling in the fame line of bufinefs in another place, he came and re- 
 quefted my advice upon the matter, whether it would be moft to his ad- 
 vantage to embrace the prefent offer, or to continue in his former iitua- 
 tion. To fatisfy him in this particular, I ereded the following figure. 
 
 \ 7 >^ / 
 
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 yf 
 
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 Will the 
 
 QUERENT 
 
 GAIN ovi LOSE 
 
 By a Change of Situation ? 
 May 20, 10b. 83m. A. M. 1748. 
 % dia. 
 
 
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 Leo
 
 340 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Leo being upon the cufp of the afcendant, gives the Sun for the que- 
 rent's fignificator ; the fourth houfe and its lord reprefent his prefent 
 fituation ; and the feventh houfe and its lord the place to which he has 
 thoughts of removing. Now the Sun, the querent's fignificator, being 
 on the point of leaving a fixed fign, and entering upon a common fign, 
 clearly implies a ftrong inclination in the querent to travel, or to remove 
 from one place to another ; or rather, that he had almoft determined in 
 his own mind to change his prefent abode for the one under contempla- 
 tion ; and, on putting the queftion to him, he frankly confelTed it. 
 
 The feventh houfe having no benevolent afpef^, and Saturn, its lord, 
 being pofited in the fixth, indicates afflittion and prejudice by open 
 enemies, if he removed to the place intended ; and that he would fuffer 
 great lofs and injury thereby, if he removed. But finding Mars, lord 
 of the fourth, in trine afpe6l to the fourth, which reprefents his prefent 
 place of abode ; and Venus, lady of the tenth, the houfe of trade and 
 profeffion, flrongly dignified therein, and applying to a fextile afpe6t of 
 Mars, denotes an increafing and profperous trade to the querent, provided 
 he remained in his prefent fituation ; which for thefe reafons I greatly 
 preffed him to do. He took my advice, and has lately thanked me for 
 it, having already found an increafe of bufinefs. I told him he need not 
 doubt of ftill greater fuccefs ; for, when the efFefts of the fextile afpe6l 
 of Venus and Mars fhall begin to operate, which will be about the end 
 of 06lober, as is demonftrated by the degrees between thefe two figni- 
 ficators, at which time they will alfo be in a mutual reception, his in- 
 creafe of trade will become more vifible ; particularly as Venus, the prin- 
 cipal fignificatrix of bufinefs, will then have feparated from a conjunc- 
 tion with Mercury, and will apply to a conjunction of the Sun, the lord 
 of the afcendant, and the fignificator of the querent. 
 
 J QUESTION VIII. On CHILD-BEARING. 
 
 A lady having been fome time married, without having any reafon to 
 fuppofe herfelf pregnant, and being very defirous of children, came to 
 enquire whether fhe fhould ever breed. Having every reafon to believe 
 the queftion fincere and radical, I took down the precife time of the day, 
 and ereded this figure to correfpond with it. 
 
 s 
 
 No
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 341 
 
 / 
 
 SHALL THE 
 
 QUERENT 
 
 HAVE 
 
 CHILDREN? 
 
 March 3, lolu P.M. 1783. 
 D dia. 
 
 Lat. 5» 32'. S '^ 
 
 No pofition of the planets, perhaps, could be more favourable to the 
 defines of the querent, than thofe in the above fcheme. As Libra rifes 
 upon the afcendant, Venus is lady thereof, and flgnificatrix of the que- 
 rent; and, being pofited in the fifth houfe, in her exaltation, having the 
 fruitful fign Pilces upon the cufp thereof, is one infallible proof that the 
 querent will have children. The Moon, which is the author of all radical 
 moifture, is feparating from the conjun6lion of the Sun, the author of all 
 vital fpirit, and applies to a Textile afpeft of Jupiter, a benevolent and pro- 
 lific planet, and thence forms a conjundion with Venus, the querent's 
 fignificator; and then applies to her fortunate node. From thefe con- 
 fiderations I hefitated not a moment to inform the querent that (he would 
 be the mother of a large aud numerous offspring. This is declared by the 
 pofition of Venus in the fifth houfe, which gives three children ; and, 
 being lady of the afcendant, in conjun6^ion with the Dragon's Head, or 
 fortunate node of the Moon, gives three more. The Moon, being like- 
 wife in conjundtion with them, adds three more, and makes the number 
 nine. And, as thefe configurations are all pofited in the double-bodied 
 
 No. 18. 4P fruitful
 
 3+2 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fuitful fisn Pifces, it doubles the number, and declares there fliall be ei^h- 
 teen children. This judgment is ftrengthened by Jupiter's Textile afpeft 
 with the above fignificators, and thereby adds two more to the number ; 
 which induced me to inform the lady that (he would in all probability be 
 the mother of twenty children. 
 
 This is an extraordinary inftance of the pofition of the heavens to give 
 fruitfulnefs and fecundity, and what I have rarely found either in geni- 
 turcs or horary figures ; and therefore I would wifli the reader to note, in 
 order to enable him to judge of other queflions of the like nature, that, if 
 the lord of the afcendant be in the feventh houfe, or the lord of the fifth 
 in the firfV, or the lord of the firll: in the fifth ; or, if the lord of the fifth 
 be in the feventh, or the lord of the feventh in the fifth ; or the Moon po- 
 fited with them, or good planets in the afcendant, or with the lord of the 
 fifth, or fituated in any of the angles : there is in none of thefe inftances 
 any fort of doubt but that the lady will conceive. But, when none of 
 thefe teftimonies concur, and barren figns or evil planets occupy the 
 above-mentioned places of the figure, (he never has nor ever will conceive. 
 When good and evil planets are promifcuoufly joined together, (he may 
 perhaps conceive, and have children, but they will not live, nor fcarcely 
 ever come to maturity. — But to return : the lady then prefled me to in- 
 form her how long I thought it might be before (he (hould conceive with 
 her firft child. To fatisfy her on this head, I referred to the figure, and 
 obferved the Moon within fix degrees fifty-one minutes of a partile con- 
 jun6tion with Venus, the querent's fignificatrix ; and, the Moon being in 
 a common fign, I computed the time to be at fix weeks and two days, and, 
 defiring her to take notice of the time, had no doubt (he would foon after" 
 have reafon to believe herfelf pregnant. 
 
 It is not lefs remarkable than true, that exa6lly as I had predided the 
 event turned out : for the lady, fome months after, very politely called to 
 thank me for the information I had given her, and declared her concep- 
 tion to have taken place as near as poffible from the time I had mentioned. 
 During this converfation, (he defired me to inform her whether (he was 
 breeding with a boy or a girl; and, finding her fericus in the demand, I 
 folved it by the following figure.
 
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 343 
 
 g5SSS5!E^BS5g^^.^agaiftatSiW8Ba^^ 
 
 Here the firft thing to be confidered is the lord of the afcendant, 
 which fignifies the mother ; and the lord of the fifth, which reprefents 
 the child ; together with the afpeds of the planets to the above fic^nifi- 
 cators, and the angles of the figure, and whether mafculine or femi- 
 nine ; and fo judge by the greater teftimonies. In the above ficrure the 
 angles are feminine; and the Moon, which is a feminine planet, is 
 pofited in a feminine fign, feparating from a fextile afped with the Sua 
 in a fign of the fame nature, and applying to an oppofition with Mars, 
 lord of the afcendant and fifth, in a feminine fign alfo, at the fame time 
 that (he is forming a platic trine with Jupiter, who is alfo pofited in a 
 feminine fign ; fothat we have five teftimonies that the lady was pregnant 
 with a girl. And therefore, as there are but three teftimonies in favour of 
 a boy, viz. the fextile of Jupiter to Mars, which is mafculine, the fio-n 
 upon the cufp of the fifth houfe, which is alfo mafculine, and the lo'rd 
 of the fifth houfe, which is the fame, I informed the lady flie mi«^ht reft 
 perfedly affured of having a girl ; and fo the event proved ; for indeed 
 
 thefe
 
 344 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 thefe rules have never been known to fail in determining queftions of 
 this nature. 
 
 But, for a more general mode of afcertaining whether a lady be preg- 
 nant with a boy or girl, take particular notice of the afcendant and its 
 lord, and of the fifth houfe and its lord; and note whether the figns 
 upon their cufps be either Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, or 
 Aquarius, for thefe figns always import a male ; but, the other fix give 
 a female. If the lord of the afcendant be in a mafculine fign, and the 
 lord of the fifth in a feminine, then have recourfe to the Moon ; and, if 
 ihe applies to a planet in a mafculine fign, fhe gives a boy ; but, if a fe- 
 minine, a girl. Always remember that the mafculine planets are Saturn, 
 Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun; and the feminine, Venus and the Moon. 
 Mercury, as he happens to be pofited either with a mafculine or feminine 
 planet, inclines accordingly ; but, when he is oriental of the Sun, he is 
 reputed mafculine ; and, when occidental, feminine. 
 
 The querent will fometimes aflc how long fhe hath conceived. To 
 refolve this, have regard to the Moon, the lord of the fifth, and the lord 
 of the hour ; and note which is nearefl from the feparation of any planet, 
 and from what afpe6l: this feparation was : if from a trine afpeft, fhe is 
 in the third or fifth month of her conception ; if from a fextile, fhe is 
 either two or fix months gone ; if the feparation was from a quartile, 
 fhe is in her fourth month ; if from an oppofition, fhe hath conceived 
 feven months ; but, if from a conjunction, her conception has been only 
 one month. 
 
 QUESTION IX. On taking SERVANTS. 
 
 A merchant of my acquaintance, having lately occafion' for an up- 
 per clerk, to fuperintend a bufinefs of confiderable truft and importance, 
 and being recommended to a perfon for this undertaking of whofe 
 ability and indufliry he was fomewhat in doubt, called to afk my advice 
 and opinion on the matter, whether he was likely to anfwer his purpofe 
 or not.
 
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 345 
 
 The iirft houfe reprefents the querent, and the fixth the quefited. 
 Venus, who is the querent's fignificarcr, is fituated in her own terms ; 
 and Mars, who is fignificator of the fervant, is fituated in her own term of 
 Jupiter, accompanied with the Part of Fortune, in the eleventh houfe, 
 which is the houfe of confidence and truft, and of friends and friendship ; 
 and is an irrefragable argument of mutual concord and good faith. Mars 
 is alfo lord of the querent's fecond, as well as of the fervant's fixth, and 
 denotes that great advantages fhall accrue to the mafter by the fervant's 
 means ; Saturn, in the third houfe, is in partile afpe£t to Mars, and denotes 
 that the dealings which may be conduced by the fervant fliall be very 
 beneficial, though attended with great labour and difficulty, as is evi- 
 dently demonftrated by Saturn's pofition in the fign of Capricorn. The 
 oppofition of the Sun and Jupiter in a watery fign indicates that fome 
 little inconveniences may arife by the fervant's drinking rather too freely ; 
 but, as the Dragon's Head, or fortunate node of the Moon, is pofited 
 in the fourth houfe, which fignifies the end or termination of the bufi- 
 nefs, it is felf-evident that all matters entrufted to the care and manage- 
 No. 1 8. 4 Q ment
 
 346 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 meiitof this fervant will terminate to the mafter's fatisfaftion and advan- 
 tage. I therefore adyifed him by no means to hefitate in taking him into 
 his fervice. 
 
 QUESTION X. On COURTSHIP and MARRIAGE. 
 
 A young lady having for fome time received the addrefles of a gentle- 
 man of fortune, during which a variety of circumflances had occurred to 
 put off" the much-wi(hed-for day of confummating their nuptials; and 
 being alfo in doubt whether her lover had not fome attachment to another 
 lady, who fhared in his affeftions, and fought for his company ; (he was 
 induced to come to me for my advice and opinion, whether the above 
 gentleman was really fmcere in his profeffions to her, and whether their 
 marriage Ihould ever be confummated, and when? Finding her perfedly 
 fincere and earneft in her wiflies, and the queftion truly radical, I gave 
 her my judgment as follows : 
 
 .n HA J..IIJ ;(i 
 
 III
 
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 347 
 
 In this figure the Sun is fignificator of thelady ; and Saturn, lord of the 
 feventh houfe, is fignificator of the gentleman. It mufl alio be obferved, 
 that in this, and in all queflions relative to raatrinaony. Mars and the Sun 
 are the natural fignificators of a woman's marriage; and Venus and the 
 Moon are thofe of a man's. Now Saturn, the gentleman's fignificator, is 
 remarkably well pofited in the fifth houfe, and has Venus wit. in his orb, 
 applying to him by conjun6fion ; which is a very powerful indication 
 that his afFediions are fincere and honourable, and that his mind is fully 
 bent to the marriage-flate. The Sun likewife, being in a fextile afpedt 
 with Mars, the lady's fignificator of marriage, plainly fhows her incli- 
 nation to matrimony to be flrongly fixed, and her afFc6lions perfe6fly 
 lincere. 
 
 The next thing to be confidered, is, whether there be any fruftration 
 or impediting afpeft between thefe fignificators ; and, I find the Moon 
 and Venus, the gentleman's fignificators of marriage, are applying to a 
 quartile afpeif with each other. This is an evident proof that the mar- 
 riage is prolonged by the interference of fome other woman of this gen- 
 tlemari's intimate acquaintance, becaufe the afpedl: is made in a feminine 
 fign; but as the Moon, in feparating from Venus, applies to a perfect trine 
 with Mars, the querent's principal (ignificator of marriage, and alfo to a 
 Textile of the Sun, her natural fignificator in the figure, it totally removes 
 the evil efFeds of the malefic afpeft, and leaves the path free and unob- 
 flruded to the gates of Hymen. This opinion is greatly flrengtheiied 
 by confidering the mode in which their fignificators are feverally difpofed, 
 Saturn difpofes of the Sun, who is pofited in the terms of Venus ; and 
 Venus, Saturn, and the Moon, are all difpofed of by the benevolent pla- 
 net Jupiter, who is himfelf difpofed of by Mars, the principal fignificator 
 of this lady's marriage, and who thus triumphs over every obftacle to 
 the celebration of their nuptials. I therefore could not hefitate in declar- 
 ing to the lady, in the fuUefl and moff fatisfadfory terms, that the gentle- 
 man who courted her had a fincere and tender regard for her; and that, 
 hough fome circumftances might have happened rather unfavourable to 
 ner wifhes, yet fhe might reft perfedfly afTured that he was the man allotted 
 to be her hufband. 
 
 Apparently well fatisfied with thefe declarations, fhe proceeded to in- 
 quire in what length of time this defirable circumffance might come to 
 pafs. To gratify her wiflies in this particular, I referred ao-ain to the 
 figure, where the Moon, the gentleman's principal fignificator of mar- 
 riage, wants upwards of eleven degrees of forming a perfed fextile afpeft 
 
 with
 
 348 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 with the Sun, the lord of the afcendant, and the fame to Mars, her (ignl- 
 ficator of marriage ; and therefore, by converting the degrees into time 
 by the rule heretofore given, I fixed her marriage at about the end of 
 three months, affuring her it would not exceed that time. The event 
 has fully proved the truth of the predidion ; the lady and gentleman have 
 both done me the honour of a call fuice the celebration of their nuptials, 
 and I found they were married precifely at the time I had predided ; I 
 have likewife the additional pleafure to find, that my aflurances to the 
 lady were produ6tive of frefh efteem and clofer attachment to the man of 
 her heart, and that they now live a pattern of conjugal felicity. 
 
 QUESTION XI. On WAR and BATTLE. 
 
 During the trial of a certain noble Commander in Chief, at the Go- 
 vernor's houfe at Portfmouth, a company of gentlemen one day called 
 upon me, and requefted I would take down the pofition of the planets 
 at the time that much-talked-of aftion commenced, and give them my 
 judgment upon it, according to the rules of planetary influence. Wil- 
 ling to oblige them in a matter which I conceived could be of no pre- 
 judice to any party, fince no advantage could be taken from it ; and alfo 
 deeming it a fit fubjeft whereby to manifeft the fublimity and excellence 
 of this art ; I hefitated not to promife them every information in my 
 power. For this purpofe I ere6led my figure, not to the time this 
 queftion was propounded, for it related to an event that had long been 
 pafied by, and not to any matter that was hereafter expefted to happen ; 
 and therefore I projeded the fcheme to correfpond with the exad time 
 when this extraordinary aftion commenced, and at which moment the 
 heavenly bodies were under the remarkable configurations delineated in 
 the following fcheme :
 
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 349 
 
 The afcendant, the Moan, an:l Vcnvi^ repr-feiit the Britlfli fleet ; 
 Mars and Aries denote tiiat of the eiieniv. The fi.ft thiii;^ lo l;e co i- 
 fidered is the afpeft theic two lignihcators hear to one r.notlier, which is 
 a partile Textile, a well-known indicafion of -iinperfeil love; and, ;-3 it 
 Ihows that Mars and Venir, i-avc n )t in themfelves aii inveterate hatred, 
 fo it imports that the two commanders in chief did not hclK)Id aich other 
 in an afpett of perfecl and direful malignancy and wrath. Venus, lativ 
 of the afccndant, is pofitcd witii Juiiiter in his fall, a ht^ncvolent planer, 
 and a lover of peace; and, as ht; is in this figure lord of the thirt.l h.oulc, 
 and within fiftv degrees of the alccndanr, jt indicates tiiat both com- 
 rnandcrs have :v defire to promote peace,, bv a(5iing principally upon the 
 defenfive, and by guarding and protedllng th;;ir reipedive coafls, without 
 a. defire of anv clol'e or decifive aclion, or of venturiui' to anv "reat dii- 
 tance from home. 
 
 The cool, cautious, deliberate, planet Saturn, is iTtuated in the firft 
 
 lioufe, and indicates not fo much a defirc for hot, and precipitate adiou 
 
 No. 1 8. 4R as
 
 35<> 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 as for felf-prefervation, or the prote6lion of national wealth ; and this is 
 plainly exemplified in the Britifli admiral's watchfulnefs and care in 
 covering and prote6ting the homeward-bound India-fleet, as well as in 
 the French admiral's retiring after he found his views upon that rich and 
 unguarded flota were completely fruftrated. The pofition of Mercury 
 being combufl: of the Sun, and difpofer of the Moon, Venus, and Jupi- 
 ter, and lord alfo of the twelfth houfe, the houfe of private enmity and 
 malice, indicates private rancour and enmity in a fubordinate com- 
 mander; and, as Mercury is pofited between the two fignificators, Venus 
 and Mars, evilly dignified, and combufl:, lo he denotes the perfon repre- 
 sented by him will infallibly be governed by malevolent principles, and 
 ufe his influence to retard the obje6l of the bufinefs in hand. The truth 
 of this indication has, I think, been too well eftabliflied to need any fur- 
 ther illuflration from me. 
 
 The enemy, as I have before obferved, is reprefented by Mars, who is 
 pofited in the tenth houfe, the houfe of honour, and in the fign of his 
 triplicity, but in the dignities of Jupiter; and this fhows that the enemy 
 would as much as poflible avoid clofe adion, but would take the advan- 
 tage to fhift from fighting ; and Mars, being in his fall, deprives the 
 enemy of their honour, and clearly proves, that, if a clofe and well-con- 
 neded adion had been kept up, and continued without ceafing, a decifive 
 vidory would have followed on the. part of the Englifli, becaufe Jupiter 
 is in conjundion with Venus and the Moon, which difpofes of Mars ; but, 
 as Mars has the watery triplicity afligned him, he (hows the enemy fhould 
 take the advantage of that element to run away. 
 
 We find alio, in the above figure, a quartile afped of Saturn and Mer- 
 cury, a configuration which is alvvavs known to produce tempeftuous 
 weather and Ihong winds; and this we find was the cafe ofF U(hant at 
 the time of the above engagement. The pofition of Mercury in the firft, 
 where Saturn is fituated, plainly indicates thcfe winds to be highly con- 
 ducive to the fafety of the enemy, but of dangerous tendency to the Bri- 
 tifli fleet, in cafe of a purfuit. 
 
 After duly weighing the natural influences and efi^eds of the configu- 
 rations in this figure, which are the true and genuine flate of the heavens 
 at the time of the engagement, I hefitated not to declare, that both 
 commanders had a flronger inclination to preferve peace than to break 
 it, and that a clofe-conneded and decifive adion was not to happen, 
 owing to Saturn being in the afcendant on the fide of the Englifli, with 
 too much thought and deliberation ; and to Mars being in his fall in the 
 
 dignities
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 351 
 
 dignities of Jupiter, on the part of the French, which declares their watch- 
 fuhiefs to run away. This judgment is likewife further confirmed by the 
 two principal (ignificators not forming a warlike afpeft, but operating by 
 one rather inclined to tranquillity and peace. 
 
 Whoever contemplates the preceding figure, and defines its afpeQ by 
 the rules laid down in this or in any other treatife on Aftrology, will find 
 no point ftrained to afFedl the tendency of the foregoing judgment. The 
 meaning put upon them here is uniform and natural, and no more thaa 
 what they are and have been allowed to bear from the earlieft ages, and 
 fuch as every profefTor of the art mufl: allow to be confonant to the ftrifteft 
 rules of the Icience. If this be admitted, I think it muft flrike the fenfe 
 of every intelligent man, that this pofition of the planets, on the famous 
 27th of July, could not have been configurated to defcribe the particular 
 turns of that aftion by mere accident, nor without having fome influence 
 upon it. — A ftrong proof of planetary operation, as well as of the moral 
 certainty of prediding by their means. 
 
 QUESTION XII. On THEFT. 
 
 Being once on a journey through the Weft of England, and particular 
 bufinefs detaining me in a fmall town where fome of my friends lived, 
 an atrocious robbery and burglary was, during that time, committed in 
 the neighbourhood, in the houfe of a poor old blind decrepid man, who, 
 by hard labour and rigid economy in his younger days, had faved up three 
 hundred pounds to divide among his children at his death. This money 
 was kept in a ftrong cheft by the bedfide where the poor old man lay ; 
 when fome villains, watching an opportunity in the abfence of his family, 
 made their way into his apartment, broke open the cheft, and carried off 
 all the money undifcovered. My friends hereupon made it known that I 
 had fome knowledge of the occult fciences, and, if applied to, might pof- 
 fibly give fome account how the money went; in confequence of which 
 I received a letter the next day from the poor man's eldeft fon, earneftly 
 entreating my affiftance in making a difcovery of the robbers, and to 
 endeavour to get reftored to his father fome part at leaft of the little all 
 he had been years labouring to fave up for his children. Moved 
 with compaflion at fo cruel a circumftance, I determined to do myutmoft 
 to ferve this diftrefted family, and for this purpofe projeded the following 
 figure.
 
 352 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The fign Taurus, occupying the afcendant, gives Venus for the que- 
 rent's fignificatrix; the Moon, lady of the fourth, reprefents tlie querenfs 
 father, and the feventh and tenth houfes are to denote the thieves ; aad, 
 the reafon I allot two houfes for them is, becaulc the leventh Iiouic of the 
 figure is the natural fignificator of lliieves to I'le querent, who was heir to 
 part of the money, and had been promifed it by his father, and coufc- 
 quently bore a fhare in the lofs ; and the tenth houle being the father's 
 leventh, reckoned from his firft, or fourth in the iigurc, nauirally denotes 
 thieves to him ; and therefore, as the Ion is querent, and the father Iiad 
 the principal fliarc in the lois, both thefe houics muft be well confid.gu'd, 
 before any account can be given of tlie thieves. 
 
 Here I find Jupiter, lord of tiie eiglith and twelfth houle, pofited in 
 the tenth, out of all his effcntial dignities, in his fall, and co-(igni^ica- 
 tor with Mars; wherefore, I declared two perlons to be concerned in the 
 robbery, and defcribcd them according to th.efe fignificators, viz. a m'id- 
 dle ftature, v/ith dark brown hair, pale complexion, of a lurly dil'po- 
 
 fiiion^
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 353 
 
 fition, one leg fomewhat Shorter than the other ; and appeared to be Cons 
 of a perfon who had worked with or for the querent's father. 
 
 My next bufinefs was to conllder what was done with the money ; and, 
 as there are two fignificators in refpeci of the queftion, namely, the feventh 
 houfes and their lords, fo there muft be two to reprefent the difpofal of 
 the money; and thefe are the fourth houfes and their lords. Accord- 
 ingly I find the Moon, who governs the querent's fourth houfe, pofited in 
 Scorpio, a watery llgn ; and, being alio underneath the fign, I declared 
 Tome part of the money was buried underneath a rock or ftone over 
 which the tide flowed, and near the habitation of the thieves, which I 
 judged was not far diftant from the lea-fide. Again, I find Mars iord of 
 the father's fourth, pofited in Capricorn, a bell:ial fign, in conjundliofi 
 with Jupiter, who governs corn, and with Saturn, who rules the fruits of 
 the earth ; and, as Mars is the lighter planet, and applies to Jupiter, and 
 as Jupiter is in the term of Saturn, I concluded that another part of the 
 money had been paid away to fome hufbandman or farmer, who refided 
 about the diftance of eight miles fouth from the place where the robbers 
 lived. 
 
 When thefe circumftances were all thrown together, and each duly 
 confidered, fufpicion fell upon two perfons, who were brothers, in every 
 refpedt anfvveiing to this delcription, and who, upon enquiry, they found 
 had paid one hundred pounds to a farmer, three days after the robbery 
 was committed, who lived in the fituation above defcribed, aiid who 
 had for Ibme time threatened the parties with an adion, on account 
 of their backwardnefs or inability to pay him. Upon this I was alked,. 
 if the parties were taken up, whether any of the money would be re- 
 covered ? To anfwer this, I referred asjain to the figure, and noted the 
 fituation of the two luminaries, both of which are affli6led. The light 
 of time is pofited in the twelfth houfe, in conjundtion with Venus, 
 lady of the afcendant, and fignificatrix of the querent, which affords one 
 ftrono; argument againft recovering the money. The Moon is alio greatlv 
 afflidTed in the fixth houle, and in no afpect either to the Sun or to the 
 afcendant, but on the contrary is applying to a trine of Mercury, lord 
 of the fixth, and this to a fextile of Saturn, lord of the father's fixth, 
 and alfo the fignificators of the two thieves ; all which pofitions give 
 the flrongeft proofs of an utter impolfibility of recovering any part of the 
 property, particularly as both the fignificators of the querent and his 
 father are greatly afflided by accidental pofitions, as well as by the 
 Part of Fortune being in conjundion with the Moon's unfortunate 
 
 No.. 18.. 4. S node.
 
 3^4 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 node, or Dragoa's Tail; wherefore I judged the money loil beyond- re- 
 covery. 
 
 Many circumflances, however, afterwards concurring to confirm this 
 fufpicion of the two brothers above alluded to, they were in confequence 
 taken into cuflody, and examined before feveralof the county magillrates, 
 who found fufficient grounds to commit them for trial at the next affizes. 
 They were in confequence arraigned ; but, though fufpicion fell heavy 
 upon them, yet, as no pofitive evidence could be adduced to prove they 
 were caught in the fa6l, or to identify the money, they were both acquit- 
 ted, notwithflanditig the long train of well-conneded and concurring cir- 
 cumftanees, which came out upon the trial, left them guilty in the eyes of 
 all the court. 
 
 QUESTION XIII. On LEGACIES. 
 
 A perfon of a free and convivial humour called upon me to enqiui*c 
 concerning a legacy which his wife's mother had often promifed to leave 
 them at her death ; but, having had fome high words, in confequence of 
 his loofe way of living, fhe had lately refcinded her former promifes ; and, 
 as this lay upon his mind, and had vexed him for fome days part, he was 
 now defirous to know, by the celeftial intelligencers, whether his legacy 
 would be left him or not. Finding the man fincere in his wiflies, and 
 deeming the queftion perfedly radical, 1 proceeded to give my judgmeiif 
 upon the matter as follows.
 
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 Mercury is here lord of the afcetidant, and fignificator of the querent; 
 he is fituated in the feventh houfe, and difpofcs of Jupiter, the figuifi- 
 cator of his wife, who is pofited in the fourth, his own houfe, ftrong and 
 powerful, and in trine afpedl to tiie Sun. The Moon's fortutiate node 
 likewife falls in the wife's fecond houfe, in Textile afpeft to the Part of 
 Fortune in the querent's fecond ; all which are powerful teftimonies that 
 the querent's wife would not lole her inheritance. This opinion is alftJ 
 flrrengthened by the pofition of the benevolent planet J'upiter, who i<i 
 lord of Pifces, and the wife's fignificator, and lord alfo of the wife'rf 
 tenth, and lignificator of the mother, viz. the fourth houfe in' the figur^V 
 which evidently {hows a mutual love and attachment between the 'mothel' 
 and daughter, that nothing but death can efface, andto which inheritiandd 
 will: follow. 
 
 The querent's fignificator being in his fall in' Pifces, a watery fi^tf} 
 and in conjunflion with Venus, Hiows him to be a man given up to 
 drinking and conviviality, and perhaps to other fpecies of intemperance. 
 
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 356 
 
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 as is denoted by the quartile of Jupiter and Mercury ; and further (hows 
 that it has in fome meafure been the means of alienating the wife's affec- 
 tions from him. And as Mercury is difpofed of by Jupiter, in a femi- 
 nine (is?n, and polited with a feminine planet, and being alfo controvert- 
 ible in his nature to the quality of any planet he is in configuration with, 
 it plainly manifefts the querent to be of an effeminate mind and fpirit, 
 content to give up all rule and government to his wife, fo he has but the 
 enjoyment of his friend and bottle. 
 
 The fituation of the Sun and the Dragon's Head in the wife's fecond, 
 or querent's eighth, denotes that he had heretofore received a legacy bj 
 the death of his wife's father ; which being mentioned, he readily con- 
 felTed that it was fo. This legacy he appears to have fquandered away, 
 as is manifefted by the Part of Fortune being in conjundion with the 
 Dragon's Tail in the fecond houfe. And now, taking all the foregoing 
 afpeds together, and noting that the Sun, the natural (Ignificator of 
 fathers, is pofited in his exaltation, with the Moon's fortunate node, and 
 free from all fruftration or afflidiion ; and notwithftanding the querent 
 had fquandercd away the firft legacy by the father, and had lately fallen 
 out with the mother, yet I hefitated not to declare, that, according to 
 the beft of my judgment, he would be certain of the legacy by the 
 mother alfo ; not out of any regard or love to him, but purely through 
 her affedion and anxioufnefs for the welfare and happinefs of her 
 daughter. 
 
 QUESTION XIV. On the SUCCESS of a FLEET. 
 
 At the time Admiral Rodney fet fail for the Wefl: Indies, with a grand 
 fquadron under his command, and a convoy of above three hundred fail 
 of merchant-fhips, exhibiting at once the pride, the glory, and the riches, 
 of this great commercial empire, I was applied to by fome naval gen- 
 tlemen, who particularly requeued me to give them my opinion on the 
 fuccefs of the admiral's expedition, and the fafety of his fleet. Many 
 opinions had for fome time been in circulation relative to this equip- 
 ment, and many of the firft-rate connoifleurs in politics had undertaken 
 to declare it too weak for the obje6t of its dcftination, and that it would 
 fall an eafy prey to the enemy ; I was therefore the more readily pre- 
 vailed upon to proje6t a figure for this queftion, upon which I delivered. 
 xay judgment as follows..
 
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 The watery figu Aquarius, falling upon the afcendant, gives Saturn for 
 the adoiiral's fignificator ; and, as Pifces alfo falls intercepted in the 
 firft houfe, Jupiter, lord thereof, muft have cofignification of all th.ofe 
 that accompanied him. The ninth honfe reprefents the voyage, the fiirt 
 houfe or a(cendant the port or ftation from whence they fet fail, the feventh 
 houfe the quarter to which they are deftined, and the lord thereof denotes. 
 the obftacles or enemies they fhall meet with ; the fourth houfe rcprefeiHl^i 
 the completion of the voyage, and the accomplifliment.and terminatioRj 
 of the obje(S, or bufinefs of the expedition ; the whole of which are to.is^j 
 feparated and. diftin(5lly contemplated. . 'i 
 
 Saturn, the fignificator of the commander in chief, is pofited in the 
 medium coeli, the houfe of preferment and honour ; and,, being at the 
 fame time in Sagittarius, a fign of the fiery trigon, and contrary to his 
 own nature, defcrioes hinri to be a man of a free, gener(>u.s». and nobler} 
 Ipirit, ambitious of glory and applaufe ;■ and, having been lately in coiv-: 
 jun61ion with the iMoon's unfortunate node, and jiqm' ,Hi the very degree 
 of its exaltation, (hows him to have been under great anxiety and dil- 
 
 No. 1 8. 4 T trefs
 
 358 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 trefs in regard to his private circumftances. But this afflidion appears 
 only as a dark cloud, which, when the ftorm is over, quickly gives way 
 to the all-cheering and enlivening beams of the refreshing Sun. And 
 this is evinced by the admiral's (ignificator having juft feparated from this 
 malignant configuration, and afterwards forming a propitious Textile afpedt 
 in the zodiac, and a mundane trine afped to the fecond houfe, the houfe 
 of profperity, fortune, and riches, aided by Mars, the lord thereof, who is 
 fituated in the firft houfe, and in his own triplicity. 
 
 In examining thefe fignificators, I find Saturn, who reprefents the admi- 
 ral, is difpofed of by Jupiter, lord of the tenth houfe, the houfe of princes, 
 which fhows his appointment came from the king himfelf. Venus, lady 
 of the enemy's houle of fubflance, as well as all the fignificators of the 
 enemy, and Part of Fortune alfo, are difpofed of by Saturn, lord of the 
 afcendant ; and Mars, the natural fignificator of war, and lord of the 
 Britifh admiral's houfe of fubftance and riches, is pofited in the afcend- 
 ant, in trine to Scorpio, his own fign, in the ninth, the houfe of fea- 
 voyages ; and, being alfo in his own triplicity, (hows that this voyage 
 fhall be profperous and important. This judgment is greatly flrength- 
 ened by the pofition of the propitious fixed ftar Fomahaut in the firft 
 houfe ; which, being of the nature of Venus and Mercury, and of the 
 firft magnitude, and joined with Mars in Pifces, declares great riches, 
 honour, and preferment, (hould be acquired by this voyage, and fuch as 
 Aould place the noble commander above the frowns and malice of both 
 his public and private enemies. 
 
 The fign in the feventh houfe, and the intercepted fign Virgo, (how the 
 dcftination of the fleet ; and the Sun and Mercury reprefent the enemies 
 they (hall meet with ; and, as the lord of the feventh is pofited in a fign 
 that has more planets within its degrees than one, fo it points out that 
 the admiral (hall be engaged with more fleets than one. Here is alfo a 
 moft remarkable reception between Venus and Mars in exaltation ; Mars 
 being pofited in the fign of the exaltation of Venus, and Venus in the 
 fign of the exaltation of Mars ; and, as Venus is lady of the enemy's 
 houfe of fubftance, this reception declares that the Briti(h fleet will cap- 
 ture many rich and noble prizes, and make great havock with the fub- 
 ftance or riches of the enemy. Mars being in fextile afpedl with the Part 
 of Fortune, and the Sun lord of the feventh, (hows thefe prizes (hall be 
 taken with much fighting. And that the vidtory (hall declare itfelf on the 
 fide of the Engli(h, is manifefted by Venus, fignificatrix of the enemy's 
 fubftance, being difpofed of by Saturn, the lord of the afcendant, and fig- 
 nificator of the Briti(h admiral. 
 
 After
 
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 After duly weighing the probable tendency of all thefe propitious 
 afpeds, and reflefting that the Moon, whofe influence is confiderable, 
 is pofited in the dignities of Saturn ; and that Jupiter and Saturn difpofe 
 of all the planets in the figure ; and likewife that Jupiter and Saturn 
 are the grand fignificators of the Britifh admiral and fleet ; I boldly af- 
 firmed this expedition would prove fortunate and fuccefsful, crowning 
 its commanders, and all under them, with honour, glory, and riches, 
 and adding immortal fame to the annals of the Britifli page. This is a 
 fadl that accordingly happened, and fuch as comes within the cognizance 
 of every individual. 
 
 QUESTION XV. On PLACES and PREFERMENTS. 
 
 A gentleman who had for fome time been foliciting for promotion in 
 the army, and had met with feveral unpleafant rebuffs, which made 
 him almoft defpair of fuccefs, came to a(k my opinion whether, if he 
 perfevered in his folicitations, he fhould eventually obtain the preferment 
 he fb much defired. I gave my judgment of this queftion from the 
 foUowinsr figure. 
 
 ATTAIN THE 
 
 Promotion defired ? 
 
 March 95, llh. 53m. A. M. 1782. 
 V hor. 
 i dia. Sub. lat. 50° 50' 
 
 
 
 Here
 
 36o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Here the celeftial Crab afcends upon the horoicope, and the Moon, 
 llgiiificatrix of the querent, is pofited in the (Ign Leo. The tenth houfe 
 bears fignificatiou of the querent's honour and promotion ; and the ele- 
 venth denotes his friends and patrons. The Moon, lady of the afcend-, 
 ant, being pofited in the fecpnd houfe, out of all her eflential dignities, 
 declares the querent to be in diftrefTed circumftances, and that his failure 
 hitherto has been greatly owing to the want of money. His patrons in 
 the prefent bufinefs are defcribed by Venus, who being pofited in the 
 fign Pifces, in every degree of her exaltation, (hows them to be of fuf- 
 ficient weight and intereft to accomplifli his defircs ; and as Venus is 
 alfo in a propitious Textile afpecl with Mars, and in trine to the afcend- 
 ant, it indicates that his petition (hall be attended to, and his wishes 
 gratified. 
 
 This judgment is abundantly confirmed by the following confidcra- 
 tions. The Sun is pofited in. the medium coeli, the houl'e of his ex-, 
 altation ; and the fortunate node of the Moon is conjoined with him 
 in the tenth alfo, which is an irrefragable argument of honour and pre- 
 ferment. It is alfo to be obferved, that the Sun is lord of the fecond 
 houfe, and difpofes of the Moon, the querent's fignificatrix ; and thus 
 (hows that his preferment (hould be in the military line. And as a 
 watery fign rifes upon his afcendant, and occupies the cufp of his ninth 
 houfe, and as Mercury, lord of his third houfe, is pofited in his ninth, 
 it declares he (haJl be fubjed to an employment upon water ; and, being 
 in Scorpio, a fixed fign, denotes the querent (hall be fubjeft to a long 
 continuance upon the water, and at a great diftance from home. Venus 
 being lilcewife in the fame fign, in the triplicity of Mars, and Mars in 
 the triplicity of Venus, and in fextile afped of each other, denotes he 
 (hall hereafter meet with a number of friends, and prove remarkably 
 fortunate in his pofl:. This port is reprefented by the fituation of the 
 Moon in Leo, and Mars in Taurus, and the Sun in Aries, to be a com- 
 mand on-board (hip, over foldiers or marines ; and this he acknowledged 
 was what. he had been Ibliciting for, and what I told him he would 
 certainly fucceed in. 
 
 He then requefted me to afcertain the length of time in which I fup- 
 pofed this command would be given him. I took notice of the degree 
 the Moon was in, and what applications (he had made. I obferved (lie 
 had lately been in trine afpe6i of the Sun, which ftrongly prompted the 
 querent to pu(h forward for promotion ; and her next application, being 
 tn a trine with her fortunate node, declares this promotion (hall be 
 very (hortly attained, though with difficulty, becaufe (lie is at the fame 
 
 time
 
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 time forming a quartile afpeft with Mars, which fiiows that fome perfoii 
 of confequence is endeavouring to exclude him, in order to make way for 
 another perfon, I further informed him, that the men under his com- 
 mand would prove faithful and obedient ; and that he himfelf would be 
 fortunate and fuccefsful in executing his commiflion, and gain confider- 
 able honour and applaufe. The truth of this prediction was very foon after 
 exemplified in the rapid progrefs the querent made in all the acquirements 
 of honour and profperity ; and I have frequently had the plealure of re- 
 ceiving his thanks for the information I gave him on the above occafion. 
 
 QUESTION XVI. On IMPRISONMENT. 
 
 A perfon of credit, during the late war, being taken up on fufpicion of 
 giving private information to the enemy, and of aiding and aflifting in fuch 
 a traiterous correfpondence, was committed for trial at the enfuing affifes ; 
 and his wife, under all the horrors of diftrefs and afflidion, came to in- 
 quire of me how the matter would terminate; whether her hufband would 
 fufFer death, or be acquitted of the crime laid to his charge. — The anxiety 
 of the poor woman was a fufficient proof of the fincerity of her defire ; 
 and therefore, having taken down the precife time of the day, I ere6led 
 the following fcheme to refolve the queftion : 
 
 No. 19. 
 
 4U 
 
 Sagittarius
 
 362 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Sagittarius being upon the cufp of the afcendant, Jupiter is lord there- 
 of, and the querent's fignificator. Gemini defcends on the cufp of the 
 feventh, and gives Mercury as fignificator of the hulband ; the twelfth 
 houfe fignifies the prifon and the prifoner's profecutors ; the tenth houfe 
 and its lord denote the judge ; and the fourth houfe declares the trial, or 
 termination of the matter. 
 
 Now Mercury, the lord of the feventh houfe, and fignificator of the 
 hufband, is pofited in the twelfth, the houfe of imprifonment, and is dif- 
 pofed of by Mars, the fignificator of private enemies, who is pofited in 
 the tenth houfe, or medium cceli, which here fignifies the houfe of juf- 
 tice and mercy. The afcendant denotes the prifoner's open enemies or 
 accufers ; and, as Jupiter is pofited therein, ftrong, and in conjundlion of 
 Saturn, lord of the fecond, it fhows his profecutors are perfons of rank 
 and power, who are pofTeffed of every ability to carry on the profecution 
 againft him. The Moon, lady of the houfe of death, being in the fourth, 
 in trine to the afcendant, (hows that the accufation or indiftment is of 
 fuch a nature as threatens the prifoner's life. But finding the Dragon's 
 Tail in the tenth, and the Part of Fortune in the fixth, difpofed of by 
 Venus, and at the fame time in oppofition to Mercury, the prifoner's fig- 
 nificator, I was clearly of opinion that the diflribution of money among 
 thofe who appeared to be his friends would greatly tend to fave his life 
 and facilitate his enlargement. 
 
 Finding the Moon, lady of the eighth houfe of the figure, pofited in 
 the fourth, and going to an oppofition of Mars and Venus, I hereby 
 imagined the prifoner would run a great hazard of his life in attempting 
 to efcape out of prifon, by being fired upon ; and this I found afterwards 
 happened, though no farther mifchief enfued. I next confidered the ap- 
 plication of the Moon, after her feparation from the above afpe£ts ; and 
 I found her going to a propitious trine-afpedl with Jupiter, the fignifica- 
 tor of his enemies, and thence applying to an oppofition of the Sun, and 
 to a fign of Saturn ; and as Saturn is lord of the eighth houfe, and the 
 Moon lady of his fecond, I judged that he would efcape the hand of juf- 
 tice by being admitted an evidence, which, in the courfe of a few months 
 afterwards really happened, to the prefervation of his own life, and the 
 deftrudlion of that of his accomplice. 
 
 Thus have I given fufficient examples of the verity and utility of 
 Aftrology in the queftionary way ; which though not of fo much import- 
 ance, nor always attended with fo much certainty, as the genethliacal, 
 yet is not to be wholly difregarded, fince in many cafes, as we have 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 365 
 
 abundantly fhown, it may fafely be relied on. I (hall therefore difmifs 
 this part of the fcience, with once more obferving, that horary queftions 
 (hould never be made ufe of when the querent's nativity can be had ; as 
 fo much more certainty depends upon the one than upon the other, and 
 of courfe affords greater fatisfadion to every perfou who bends his mind 
 to the knowledge of futurity. 
 
 Before I enter upon the management of Nativities, it will not be im- 
 proper, in this place, to give the rules by which the reader may be enabled 
 to afcertain the kind of perfon each planet reprefents when fignificator, in 
 in all or any of the twelve figns of the zodiac. By the help of thefe, it 
 is eaiy to determine what kind of a perfon the new-born babe will be 
 when it arrives to the years of maturity ; and we can alfo, by the fame 
 means, as truly defcribe the ftature, complexion, make, and difpofition, of 
 a perfon we never faw, provided the true time of birth be previoufly 
 known. Thefe rules are, therefore, abfolutely necefTary to be well under- 
 ftood by every perfon who is defirous of calculating a nativity. 
 
 PERSONS defcribed by SATURN in the TWELVE SIGNS of the 
 
 ZODIAC. 
 
 Saturn in the fign Aries reprefents a perfon of a frefh ruddy com- 
 plexion, fpare and large-boned, full face, deep voice, dark hair, with lit- 
 tle beard ; addi6ted to felf-commendation and praife ; and given to boaft- 
 ing of valour and courageous undertakings, when there is but little caufe ; 
 being generally a contentious quarrelfome bravado, and confequently very 
 ill-natured. 
 
 Saturn in Taurus defcribes an uncomely perfon, of a heavy, lumpifli, 
 aukward, appearance, with dark hair, rough (kin, middling ftature, of a 
 rugged uneven difpofition, inclinable to vicious and fordid anions, unlefs 
 the fortunate ftars, by their propitious rays, modify and temper this other- 
 wife-baiieful influence. 
 
 Saturn in Gemini reprefents a perfon of a moderately-tall ftature, of a 
 dark fanguine complexion, oval vifage, and well-proportioned body ; the 
 hair either dark-brown or black. The native is generally very ingenious, 
 but unfortunate in moft of his undertakings ; his difpofition is naturally 
 perverfe, felfifti, and crafty, and therefore warily to be dealt with. 
 
 Saturn in Cancer denotes one of a weak and infirm conftitution of 
 body, of a thjn middling ftature, rather ill-proportioned, and fometimes 
 
 crooked ;;
 
 364 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 crooked ; a pale meagre countenance, fad brown hair, and languid eyes ; 
 of a morofe and jealous difpofition, leaning to vicious inclinations, and 
 very deceitful in his dealings. 
 
 'Saturn in Leo gives a perfon of a moderate large ftature, broad round 
 flioulders, wide cheft, light brown hair, of a furly auftere afpeft, rather 
 lean, and hollow-eyed, large bones and mufcles, and bends or ftoops for- 
 ward in going. The qualities of the mind and difpofition are tolerably 
 good, and carry an appearance of noblenefs and generofity ; though fome- 
 what pafTionate, and eager of revenge, but neither courageous nor valiant 
 when put to the teft. 
 
 Saturn in Virgo reprefents a perfon of a tall fpare body, fwarthy com- 
 plexion, dark-brown or black hair, and much of it ; a long vifage, and 
 folid countenance; but generally an unfortunate perfon, much inclined to 
 melancholy, and retaining anger long; a projedlor of many curiofi ties to 
 little purpofe; ftudious, fubtle, and referved; and, unlefs fome other con- 
 figurations of the planets contradi6i, is too much addided to pilfering and 
 indireft dealing. 
 
 Saturn in Libra defcribes a perfon above the middle ftature, tolerably 
 handfome, brown hair, an oval face, a large nofe and forehead, a mode- 
 rately clear complexioii, yet not beautiful; not willing to entertain low 
 or mean thoughts of himfelf ; fomewhat prodigal in expences, and con- 
 fequently rarely leaving any confiderable eftate behind them for their chil- 
 dren to enjoy ; they are eafily moved to controverfy and debate, and ottea 
 come ofFvidors. 
 
 Saturn in Scorpio reprefents a perfon of a middling ftature, a fquare, thick, 
 well-fet, body, broad fhoulders, black or dark hair, and ufually fliort and 
 thick ; very quarrelfome and contentious, delights to create mifchief, and 
 to promote violent and dangerous actions, though to his detriment and in- 
 felicity. 
 
 Saturn in Sagittarius ufually gives a full ftature, brown hair, the 
 body very conformable and decent, the complexion not much amifs ; a 
 difpofition fufficiently obliging, not courteous, but moderately frugal, 
 rarely profufe, but fomewhat choleric, and by no means able to bear 
 an affront, yet willing to do good to all, and fometimes too apt to com- 
 ply, and rafhly make fuch promifes as cannot conveniently be performed 
 without prejudice ; a real lover of his friend, and merciful to an enemy. 
 
 Saturn
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 365 
 
 Saturn in Capricorn perfonates a lean raw-boned peifon, with dark- 
 brown or black hair, a rough (kin, a middle ftature, rather inclined to 
 brevity than tallnefs, an obfcure fallow complexion, little eyes, long 
 vifage, and an ill pofture in going. For the qualities of the mind, Saturn 
 fo pofited and fignificator, ufually gives a difcontented, melancholy, 
 peevifli, perfon, covetous of the goods of this life, not addi6Ved to ufe 
 many words, a lover of the earth, and all things of profit produced from 
 thence, fearful, fabje^l to retain anger, and rarely wants a reafonabie por- 
 tion of gravity. 
 
 Saturn in Aquarius reprefents a full ftature, a large head and face, the 
 body rather inclinable to corpulency than otherwife, dark-brown hair, 
 and a clear complexion, a fober graceful deportment, very affable and 
 courteous, of an excellent fearching fancy, and generally a very happy 
 proficient in what he labours after, whether in fciences or curious arts ; 
 apt to conceit and think well of his own powers and abilities, and there- 
 fore fubje£l to no ill-becoming pride, but naturally a perfon of a very 
 pregnant genius. 
 
 Saturn in Pifces reprefents a perfon of a middle ftaturc, pale 'com- 
 plex^n, with hair tending to blacknefs, a large head, and a full eye ; 
 fometimes the teeth diftorted ; not very comely, yet adive, and too much 
 inclined to diffimulation ; contentious, malicious, and prone to many ill 
 adions, which abate as the perfon grows in years ; not loquacious, but 
 very deliberate. In fine, it denotes an uncertain fickle perfon in moft 
 things, one that is able to prefent a good outfide, but will prove in the end 
 fraudulent and deceitful, and therefore warily to be confided in. 
 
 PERSONS reprefented by JUPITER in each of the TWELVE SIGNS. 
 
 Jupiter in Aries defcribes a middle-flatured perlbn, of a ruddy com- 
 plexion, with light-brown or flaxen hair, quick and piercing eyes, a high 
 nofe, and fometimes pimples in the face, an oval vifage, the body rather 
 lean than corpulent ; but generally a perfon of a noble and free difpofition, 
 One that loves a good outfide, and to demean himfelf with much generofity 
 amoiigft his friends and aflbciates, and confequently very obliging and 
 complacent. 
 
 Jupiter in Taurus gives a perfon of a middle ftature, well fet, afwarthy 
 complexion, brown ruggtd hair, fomewhat curling or frizzled, a vvell- 
 compaded body, but not decent; the difpofition reafonably good, the 
 
 No. 19. 4 X judgment
 
 366 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 judo^ment found, and a perfon of iio contemptible deportment ; a lover of 
 the female fex, and generally good-natured, and free to fuch objeds as de- 
 ferve charity and compaffion. 
 
 Jupiter in Gemini reprefents a decent well-compofed body, with fan- 
 cruine complexion, not very clear ; a perfop above a middle ftature, rather 
 tall than otherwife, brown hair, full becoming eyes, a graceful deportment; 
 very affable and courteous ; a gentle, mild, obliging, perfon ; an admirer 
 of the female fex, efpecially thofe of the mofl refined wit and beauty ; a 
 o^eneral lover of learning ; but, if Jupiter be near violent fixed flars, it 
 renders the perfon rafh and unftable in his adtions, and confequently in- 
 imical to himfelf, and unacceptable to others. 
 
 Jupiter in Cancer gives a perfon of a middle feature, a pale unwhole- 
 fome fickly complexion, flefhy, or inclinable to corpulency ; dark-brown 
 hair and oval face, and the body moflly difproportioned ; a bufy 
 loquacious perfon, too apt to intermeddle with other men's affairs, con- 
 ceited and high, has no mean thoughts of his own abilities, a great lover 
 of women, fortunate by water, and dehghts to be thereon, and yet a per- 
 fon of very little courage or valour, unlefs his fignificator be well beheld 
 of Mars. • ^ 
 
 Jupiter in Leo reprefents a Arong well-proportioned body, tall of flature, 
 light brown or yellowifh curling hair, ruddy complexion, full eye, and a 
 perfon fufficiently comely ; in difpoiition very noble-minded, courageous, 
 magnanimous, lofty ; delighting in valiant warlike adlions and achieve- 
 ments, he proves a terror to his enemies, and a perfon that fcorns to bend 
 to an adverfary, but will encounter with any danger or hazard for the fake 
 of honour. 
 
 Jupiter in Virgo gives a perfon of a reafonably full (lalure, brown hair 
 tending to blacknefs, ruddy complexion, but not fair or clear, a well-built 
 perfon, and one we term handfome, having a due proportion and confor- 
 mity in all the members; in difpofition fomewhat choleric, and ambitious 
 of honour, inclinable to boafling, fludious, yet covetous, and through rafh- 
 uefs fubjedt to lofTes in flate ; in fine, not eafily wrought upon by any 
 perfon. 
 
 Jupiter in Libra perfonates a complete body, an inviting countenance, 
 a mofl clear complexion, a full eye, an upright flature, rather tall than 
 otherwife, not grofs but flender, an oval face, light-brown hair, fome- 
 
 times
 
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 times flaxen, fubjedl to pimples in the face ; ot very mild difpofition and 
 winning behaviour, a great delighter in noble exercifes and recreations, 
 obliging to all perfons ; and confequently gains much honour and ef- 
 teem. 
 
 Jupiter in Scorpio reprefents a perfon of middle ftature, a well-com- 
 pacted body, brown hair, a full flefhy face, a dull complexion ; but, in 
 difpofition, a lofty, proud, ambitious, perfon ; one that defires and endea- 
 vours to bear rule over his equals, refolute and ill-natured, covetous, 
 and guilty of too much fubtlety in all his aftions ; and therefore ought 
 warily to be dealt with by thofe who (hall be concerned with fuch a 
 perfon. 
 
 Jupiter in Sagittarius gives an upright tall ftature of body, chefnut- 
 Goloured hair, oval face, ruddy complexion, much beard, a good eye, 
 a perfon every way decently compofed ; in difpofition very courteous 
 and affable, of a mofl noble graceful deportment and behaviour, jufl in 
 all his adions, and injurious to none, generally a great lover of horfes ; 
 and, in fine, a mofl accomplifhed perfon, deferving commendation and 
 more than ordinary refpeft from all perfons with whom he converfes 
 and alTociates. 
 
 Jupiter in Capricorn gives a mean ftature of body, a pale complexion, 
 thin face, little head, not much beard, a fmali weakly perfon generally, 
 yet ingenious ; brown hair, fometimes the beard lighter of colour than 
 the hair of the head ; in qualities and conditions not very commendable, 
 low-fpirited, peevifh, not very a6live, nor fortunate in the world, unlefs 
 fome other teftimonies aflifl ; in line, a very helplefs, indigent, harmlefs, 
 perfon. 
 
 Jupiter in Aquarius perfonates a middle ftature, brown hair, indif- 
 ferently well fet, a clear complexion, rather a corpulent body than other- 
 wife, and weli-compafted ; in difpofition cheerful and affable, hurtful 
 to none, but obliging to all, delights in decent and moderate recreation, 
 very juft and merciful, even to thofe that are enemies ; in fhort, a very 
 good-humoured, laborious, induftrious perfon, rarely guilty of an ex- 
 travagance, but generally of a very commendable difpofition and deport- 
 ment. 
 
 Jupiter in Pifces defcribes a perfon of a middling llature, of a dark 
 complexion, fie (hy body, and light-brown hair; a harmlefs creature, yet 
 
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 368 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 ftudious in profound matters, and endowed with very excellent natural 
 parts and acquirements, fortunate upon the water, and one that gains love 
 from thofe he hath converfation with ; fometimes proves a good friend, 
 and delights in good company, if the Moon dart her quartile or oppofite 
 afpe<5ls. 
 
 Jupiter ufijaily fignifies good teeth, as Saturn doth the contrary, and 
 fometimes produces fomc apparent mark in the fore-teeth; Jupiter, in an 
 airy fign, gives broad fore-teeth ; in a fi«ry fign, crooked, or diftorted ; 
 in an earthy fign, foul teeth ; but, in a watery fign, the teeth decay fud- 
 denly, and grow black or rotten ; and this the more certain if Jupiter be 
 in any bad afpeft of Saturn or Mars, or in conjundion with the Dragon's 
 Tail. 
 
 When Jupiter is fignificator, and pofited in a watery fign, the perfon 
 is fat and comely ; in an airy fign, more ftrong and corpulent, with a 
 decent comelinefs and proportion of body ; in an earthy fign, a well-com- 
 pofed body, not fat nor lean, but a mediocrity, provided he has not much 
 latitude, and in no afpe6t with other planets ; but if in a fiery fign, the 
 body is rather fquare than corpulent. If Jupiter be fignificator, and po- 
 fited in a watery fign, the perfon has fome impediment in his fpeech, or 
 fpeaks with great deliberation : this is the more certain, if in quartile or 
 oppofition to Mercury. 
 
 PERSONS defcribed by MARS in each of the TWELVE SIGNS. 
 
 Mars in Aries reprefents a perfon of a middle ftature, of a fwarthy 
 complexion, well fet, large bones, light hair, or fometimes red and curl- 
 ing, and an auftere countenance ; if Mars be occidental, the complexion 
 is more ruddy, and the body more fmooth ; if oriental, the perfon is taller 
 of ftatnre, and the complexion not fo fwarthy, and it renders the native 
 more comely and valiant ; in difpofition, Mars in Aries ever fhows a bold, 
 confident, undaunted, perfon, choleric, lofty, defirous to bear rule over 
 others, and fcorns to fubjeft himfelf to any perfon; a true lover of war, 
 and often gains preferment and great advantage thereby. 
 
 Mars in Taurus gives a middle-ftatured perfon, well fet, rather (hort 
 than tall, pretty corpulent, of no clear complexion, brown or black rug- 
 ged hair, a broad face, wide mouth, generally a well-fet body, fometimes 
 ruddy, and marked in the face ; it reprefents a profligate perfon, one that 
 gives himfelf much liberty in all manner of vicious adions, as gaming, 
 
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 drinking, wenching, &c. and, in fine, a very treacherous, debauched, 
 ill-natured, unfortunate, perfon, \inlels the fortunes interpctfe their 
 fiiendly rays. If Mars be near the Pleiades, this defcription is ag- 
 gravated. 
 
 Mars in Gemini perfonates a reafonably-tall ftature, black or brown 
 hair; the beginning of the fign gives it lighter; if it falls near Alde- 
 baran, the connplexion is tending to fanguine, the body well proportion- 
 ed, and the members conformable, but a very unfettled perfon in moft 
 of his aftions, yet ingenious in many things, though unfortunate in all; 
 and generally lives in fome mean condition, (hifting here and there, ex- 
 ercifing his wits for a livelihood. 
 
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 Mars in Cancer gives a fhort perfon, of bad complexion, brown hair, 
 and much of it ; a difproportioned body, fometimes crooked, and the 
 condition of the mind for the moft part as crooked ; a dull fottifh perfon 
 of few or no commendable adions, unfortunate, always engaged in fome 
 fervile or mean employment, and is rarely capable of better. 
 
 Mars in Leo, gives a ftrong able-bodied perfon, of a fun-burnt com- 
 plexion, tall, with light flaxen hair, large limbs, and great eyes ; a hafty 
 choleric perfon, whofe paffion too often over-fways his reafon ; delights 
 in warlike exercifes, as ftiooting, riding, fighting, &c. but naturally a 
 noble, generous, free-fpirited, perfon, elpecially to fuch as obferve him, 
 and endeavour to oblige him. 
 
 Mars in Virgo gives a middle-ftatured well-proportioned body, black 
 or dark brown hair, the complexion fwarthy, and fometimes a fear or 
 blemifh in the face ; a hafty revengeful perfon, too fubjeft to paflion, and 
 apt to retain an injury a long time in his memory ; very humourfome, 
 and difficult to be pleafed ; conceited, but generally unfortunate in all or 
 moft of his a6lions. 
 
 Mars in Libra gives a well-proportioned body, fomewhat tall, light- 
 brown hair, oval face, and fanguine complexion ; a brifk cheerful afpe6^, 
 a lover of the female fex, conceited of his own abilities, inclinable to 
 boafting, delights in noble recreations, loves neatnefs in his apparel, and 
 is generally beloved of women, but often to his prejudice. 
 
 Mars in Scorpio gives a well-fet middle ftature, black curling hair, 
 
 broad face, corpulent body, and fwarthy complexion ; in difpofition a 
 
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 370 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 very ill-humoured perfon, paflionate, quarrelfome, unfociable, rafti, re- 
 vengeful, and ungrateful; but notwithflanding his ill-nature, he has 
 fome good qualities intermixed with them; a perfon of quick and ready 
 apprehenfion, and becomes excellent in any thing his adiive fancy leads 
 him to the infpedion of. 
 
 Mars ia Sagittarius gives a tall perfon, with a well-proportioned body 
 neatly compared, fanguine complexion, brown hair, oval vifage, quick 
 eye ; a perfon of a large heart, and of a choleric hafty difpofition ; yet a 
 cheerful merry jovial companion, aflive, courageous, loquacious, delights 
 in neatnefs, and loves to hear himfelf applauded by others; and is, in fine, 
 of no contemptible humour or temper. 
 
 Mars in Capricorn gives a mean ftature, a lean body, an ill complexion, 
 and black lank hair ; a thin face, little head, but an ingenious perfon, and 
 of a refolute good difpofition, a penetrating fancy, and generally very for- 
 tunate, and happy in moft of his undertakings. 
 
 Mars in Aquarius defcribes one of a well-compofed body, reafonably 
 corpulent, reddifh or fandy-coloured hair, a moderately-clear complexion, 
 middle feature, but of a turbulent fpirit, too much addicted to contro- 
 verfy, many times to the detriment of body and eftate, if other teftimo- 
 nies do not occui . 
 
 Mars in Pifces gives a raean-ftatured perfon, rather fhort and fleftiy 
 than otherwife, no handfome body nor good complexion, a light brown 
 or fair flaxen hair, a fottifti kind of debauched perfon, very dull and ftupid, 
 yet a lover of women ; a mere diflembler, an idle companion, not a 
 friend to himfelf or others. 
 
 If Mars be in conjunftion, quartile, or oppofition, of Saturn, or with 
 the Dragon's Tail, and they in angles, then the native is more fierce and 
 violent ; in fiery figns he is choleric and hafty, and many times hath a 
 falling-in of the cheeks ; in other figns the face is more full and flelhy ; 
 Mars in earthy figns renders the native of a fullen temper, not courteous 
 or affable ; in airy figns, more free and obliging ; in watery figns, fome- 
 ■What ftupid and fottifti, unlefs he be well beheld of Jupiter, Sol, or Luija ; 
 their friendly afpe6ts do fomething meliorate the aforcfaid fignifications, 
 which muft be warily confidered by the ingenious artifl: in his judgment ; 
 as alfo the nature of thofe fixed ftars that are joined to the particular 
 fignificator. 
 
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 PERSONS defcribed by the MOON in each of the TWELVE SIGNS- 
 
 The Moon in Aries defcribes a perfon of an indifferent ftature of 
 body, a round face, light brown or flaxen hair, reafoiiably corpulent or 
 flefhy, and a nnoderately-good complexion ; in difpofition a mutable 
 perfon, rafh and pafTionate, ambitious of honour, and of an afpiring 
 fancy, but rarely fortunate, or at leaft continues but a fliort time in fuch 
 a condition. 
 
 The Moon in Taurus gives a vvell-compofed body, of a middle ftature, 
 rather inclinable to brevity, a corpulent flrong body, of no clear com- 
 plexion, brown or black hair ; a perfon of a gentle difpofition and oblio-- 
 ing temper, of fober carriage and deportment, jufl in all his anions, 
 and confequently gains refpedt from all perfons he converfes with ; and 
 alfo eafily attains preferment in the world, fuitable to his decree and 
 quality of birth. 
 
 The Moon in Gemini perfonates a well-compofed body, and tal! ; 
 brown hair, good complexion, not fanguine or pale, but between both ; 
 the members well-proportioned, and the body very upright and comelv ; 
 the difpofition not commendable, but rather offenfive ; an inorenious fub- 
 tle perfon, remarkably crafty, yet generally unfortunate, unlefs other tef- 
 ti monies afTifl. 
 
 The Moon in Cancer reprefents a middle-flatured perfon, well-pro- 
 portioned and flefhy ; a round full face, brown hair, pale dufkilTi com- 
 plexion ; in difpofition flexible, jocular, and pleafant ; often addicted to 
 good fellowfhip, very harmlefs, and generally well beloved ; fortunate in 
 mofl affairs, yet mutable and uncertain in his refolves, but free from paf- 
 fion or rafh adions. 
 
 The Moon in Leo denotes a perfon fomevvhat above the middle flature, 
 a well-proportioned body, flrong and large boned, fanguine complexion, 
 light brown hair, full faced, large eyes; in difpofition a lofty, proud, 
 afpiring, perfon, very ambitions of honour, defirous to bear rule over 
 others, but abhors fervitude or fubjedion, and rarely proves a fortunate 
 perfon. 
 
 The Moon in Virgo fignifies a perfon fomething above the middle fla- 
 ture, brown or black hair, an oval face, fomewhat of a ruddy com- 
 plexion; in difpofition an ingenious perfon, melancholy, very referved,. 
 covetous, unfortunate, and rarely performs any commendable a(5]ion. 
 
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 372 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The Moon in Libra fignifies a well-compofed body, neatly compadled, 
 moderately tall of ftatu re, fnnooth light brown hair, and fanguine com- 
 plexion mixed with white ; the difpofition no iefs pleafant ; a very jocund 
 perfon, a lover of mirth and recreation, as alfo very well refpefled of the 
 female fex in general. If a woman, fhe will be admired, or at leaft 
 courted by many lovers ; yet fubje<Sl to misfortunes, unlefs Venus be well 
 placed, and in good afpeft to the Sun, Moon, or Jupiter. 
 
 The Moon in Scorpio reprefents an ill-fafhioned perfon, thick, and 
 ftiort, flefhy, and of a very obfcure complexion, brown or black hair, and, 
 in (hort, a very ill-difpofed perfon, and rarely qualified with any good 
 humours ; fottifh, malicious, and treacherous, unlefs alleviated with 
 good education, or the Moon be in fbme good afpe6t of the fortunes ; if 
 a female, fhe rarely lives free from fevere cenfure, and not without defert, 
 except the Moon be befriended by fome benevolent configuration of good 
 planets. 
 
 The Moon in Sagittarius gives a handfome well-proportioned body, an 
 oval face, bright brown hair, and fanguine complexion ; a generous free- 
 fpirited perfon, paflionate for a (hort time, ambitious, aiming at great 
 things, generally of an obliging temper, and confequently gains refpc(5t of 
 fuch perfons as he or (he aflbciates with. 
 
 The Moon in Capricorn fignifies a perfon of a low ftature, and of an 
 ill complexion, a fpare thin body and face, brown or black hair, fome- 
 times a defed or weaknefs in the knees, and at be(^ no ftrong-bodied per- 
 fon; one of fmall activity or ingenuity; inclinable notwithfl:anding 
 to debauchery and mean a6lions, which renders him a perfon but of 
 low efleem ; yet, if the Moon receives the friendly rays of Jupiter, the 
 Sun, or Venus, from good places of the figure, the difpofition is thereby 
 much corre6ted. 
 
 The Moon in Aquarius gives a perfon of a middle (Mature, not tall or 
 (hort, but between both; the body well-proportioned, but rather cor- 
 pulent ; brown hair, and clear fanguine complexion ; an ingenious per- 
 fon, of a very affable courteous difpofition, inoffenfive to all, loves 
 curious and moderate recreation, apt for invention, which confequently 
 /hows an aftive fancy, a pregnant brain, and one who is rarely guilty of 
 any unworthy adlion. 
 
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 The Moon in Pifces delcribes a perfon of a mean or low ftature of body, 
 atvd the complexion rather pale than otherwife, the hair a bright brown, 
 the body plump or fat, a perfon not much delighting in aftion, unlefs 
 of the worfl: kind, and unfortunate in moft undertakings, neither good for 
 himfelf or others ; the difpofition may be fomewhat meliorated, provided 
 the Moon be pofited in a good place of the figure, and in afped with good 
 and adjuvant planets, which muft alfo be confidered of all the planets in 
 their particular Significations, efpecially of the difpofition and qualities of 
 the mind, throughout all the twelve figns. 
 
 PERSONS reprefented by VENUS in each of the TWELVE SIGNS. 
 
 Venxts in Aries gives a middle flature, rather flender than grofs bodied, 
 light hair, and ufually feme marks or fears in the face ; a good com- 
 plexion ; but generally a very unfortunate penfive perfon, neither lucky 
 to himfelf nor to any other he has concerns with ; the reafon is, becaufe 
 Venus receives her detriment in Aries. 
 
 Venus in Taurus gives a comely perfon, of mean ftature, a ruddy com- 
 plexion, but not clear, brown hair, and plump body, not grofs, but de- 
 cently compofed; a mild-tempered perfon, of a winning difpofition, 
 fortunate in moft of his adions; injurious to none, but rather obliging to 
 ail, thereby gaining a general refpcdl from moft perfons he converfes 
 wish. 
 
 Venus in Gemini ufually gives a perfon above a middle ftature, reafon- 
 ably tall, a flender well-compofed ftraight body, brown hair, and a mode- 
 i-ately cleair complexion ; in difpofition a good-humoured loving perfon, 
 very liberal to fuch as appear fit objects af charity, and is eafily wroug-ht 
 upon to do good, being a lover of all juft adions, and rarely guilty of any 
 t^ing which is diftronourable or unworthy. 
 
 VenUB i« 'Caryoer generally reprefents a ^ort ftature, round face, fttidy 
 paie complexion ; light-coloured hair, and a reafonably-corpuleut body; 
 m difpofitidnan idle flothful perfon, too much addi6tcd to good fellowfliip 
 and recreations of the meaner fort ; but puts the bcft fide outward, atid 
 feems to be in earneft when he is not ; in fine, it ftiows a very mutable 
 incon-ftant perfon in moft of his anions. 
 
 Vidfittft in Leo gives a reafonably^taH perfon, and the memtbers wisli 
 
 (idftYpa£ted; clear complexion, round face, full eye, ibmetimes freckles 
 
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 374 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 in the face, light brown or flaxen hair, and many times of a fandy red ; 
 in difpofition not to be difliked, as being foon angry, and quickly appeafed; 
 of a generous free difpofition, a little addi61ed to pride, but not in the ex- 
 treme ; often indifpoled in body, but not much prejudiced thereby ; a fo- 
 ciable good-humoured perfon in general. 
 
 Venus in Virgo gives a tall well-proportioned body, an oval face, brown 
 or black hair, dark complexion, an ingenious perfon, and a good orator, 
 but fomewhat unfortunate in his affairs ; a fubtle adive perfon, of an 
 afpiring fancy, but rarely attains his defires. 
 
 Venus in Libra gives an upright tall perfon, a vvell-compofed body, with 
 a conformity in all the members ; fanguine complexion, brown hair, fome- 
 timcs freckles in the face, and dimples in the cheeks ; in difpofition, a per- 
 fon of an obliging deportment, and generally well-beloved of mofl: he has 
 any dealings or converfation with. 
 
 Venus in Scorpio reprefents a well-fet body, reafonably corpulent, a 
 broad face, dulkifti complexion, and fad-brown or black hair; but in dif- 
 pofition a very debauched perfon, too fubjeft to contention and envy ; 
 guilty of many vicious aftions, and this the rather if Venus happens to be 
 in any ill afpe6l with Saturn or Mars. 
 
 Venus in Sagittarius gives a perfon rather tall than otherwife, of a mo- 
 derately clear complexion, tending to fanguine, brown hair, oval vifage, 
 and a very proportionable body in general. In difpofition very generous, 
 one that aims at no mean or bafe things; a commendable deportment, 
 fomewhat proud, and a little paffionate ; yet in general of a good temper, 
 and no way to be dilliked, delighting in harmlefs recreations ; and, in fine, 
 a very obliging fortunate perfon. 
 
 Venus in Capricorn reprefents a mean ftature, rather inclining to bre- 
 vity than otherwife; of a pale fickly complexion, thin-faced, dark hair, 
 tending to black ; in difpofition none of the befl: ; a general lover of wo- 
 men ; or, if a woman, a delighter in the courtfhip and dalliance of men ; 
 one that loves pleafure ; not fortunate, but too fubjecSl: to change his 
 ftation, and fufFer fudden changes in his affairs. 
 
 Venus in Aquarius perfonates a handfome perfon, reafonably corpulent, 
 clear complexion, and brown hair generally, but fometimes of a flaxen 
 colour; in quality and difpofition exceedingly good and commendable; a 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 37^ 
 
 very affable courteous perfon, inclinable to few or no vicious adions; one 
 that loves civil recreation, a peaceable quiet perfon, obliging to all, fortu- 
 nate in his affairs, and well refpeded by his friends and acquaintance in 
 general. 
 
 Venus in Pifces perfonates a middle-ftaturcd body, of a moderately o-ood 
 complexion, between pale and ruddy, a round face, brown hair, fome- 
 times flaxen, with a dimple in the chin, a flefliy plump perfon ; in difpo- 
 fition a good-humoured creature, juft: in his adions, very mild and peace- 
 able ; ingenious, but fomewhat mutable in his refolutions, and moderately 
 fortunate in the world. 
 
 PERSONS defcribed by MERCURY in each of the TWELVE SIGNS. 
 
 Mercury in Aries gives a body of a mean ftature, fpare and thin, an 
 oval face, light brown hair, fubjed to curling ; no clear complexion, a 
 very ill-difpofed mind, and much addided to theft, and fuch-like unwor- 
 thy adlions. 
 
 Mercury in Taurus gives a perfon neither tall nor very fhort of ftature, 
 but a well-fet corpulent body, of a fwarthy fun-burnt complexion, brown 
 hair, ffiort and thick ; in difpofition a very flothful idle perfon, one that 
 loves his eafe and his belly well, and takes pleafure amongft women to 
 his own detriment and misfortune. 
 
 Mercury in Gemini gives a reafonably-tall perfon, an upright ftraight 
 body, every way well-compofed, brown hair, and good complexion ; in- 
 difpofition very ingenious, a good orator, and fometimes becomes a very 
 cunning lawyer, or a perfon dealing in books, &c. In ftiort. Mercury 
 in Gemini gives a perfon that well underftands his own intereft, and 
 is rarely overcome by the moft fubtle politician, or deluded by the moft 
 crafty knave that he may have occafion to encounter with ; but generally 
 out-wits the moft cunning fophiftry, efpecially if Mercury be no way 
 affliaed. 
 
 Mercury in Cancer perfonates a low or ffiort ftature of body, of an ill 
 complexion, dark hair, thin face, ftiarp nofe, and little eyes ; and in dif- 
 pofition a mere diflembler, a fottifh kind of pot-companion, and light- 
 fingered ; alfo an ill-natured perfon, unlefs the Moon and Jupiter be in 
 good afpe6l with Mercury. 
 
 Mercury
 
 ^^ AN ILLtrSTRATION 
 
 Merctrry in Leo gives a pcrfon of a pretty large ftature of body, btit 
 tro clear complexaon, rather fwanhy or fun-burnt, light brown hair, round 
 fece, full eye, and a broad or high nofe ; in difpofition a hafty choleric 
 proud conceited perfon, ambitious of honour, a boafter, and too often fub- 
 jeft to contention. 
 
 Mercury in Virgo defcribes a tall, flender, well-proportioned, p«rfon, 
 daiik-brown or black hair, no clear complexion, a long vifagc, and 
 an auftere afpedl ; in difpofition and qualities of mind a mod ingenious 
 perfon, a profound wit and fearching fancy, capable of attaining divers 
 languages, befides other rare accomplilhments ; and this in a greater 
 degree, provided Mercury be free from afHiftion. But it muft be under- 
 ftood, that every perfon who has Mercury for his fignificator, and fo 
 pofited, mufl: not expe61 fuch qualifications ; for the capacity of birth, 
 parents, and education, muft: alfo be confidered, and guide every judicious 
 artifl: in his judgmeirt. 
 
 Mercury in Libra defcribes a decent-compofed body, rather tail than 
 otherwife, light-brown fmooth hair, ruddy or fanguine complexion, 
 the body realonably corpulent ; in difpofition a very juft: and virtuous 
 perfon, prudent, a lover and promoter of learning. In fhort, a perfon 
 moft happily qualified with both natural and acquired accomplidk- 
 ments. 
 
 Mercury in Scorpio gives a perfon of a mean ftature, well-fct, broad 
 fhoulders, fwarthy complexion, brown hair curling, with an ill-compofed 
 body ; fuch a perfon is very fubtle, a lover of the female fex, inolinafele 
 to company, and does many a6ls of good fellowfhip ; ingenious, and 
 ftudiotis for the promotion of his own intereft. 
 
 Mercury in Sagittarius perfonates a tall ftature, a well-fhaped body, 
 not corpulent, but rather large-boned and fpare, an oval face, brown 
 hair, ruddy complexion, and large nofe ; for qualities and conditions, 
 paftionate, but foon appeafed ; too rafh in his actions, which many times 
 occafion his own detriment, but good-conditioned in general, and delights 
 in noble things, yet rarely attains his ends. 
 
 Mercury in Capricorn fignifies a perfon of mean ftature, thin face, 
 brown hair, and duflcifh complexion ; fometimes bow-kggcd, or fome 
 defeat in thofe members. In dilpofition peevifli, difoontented, and un- 
 fortunate, unlefs other teftimonies concur ; in fine, an impotent deje6lcd. 
 peffon. 
 
 Mercury
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 377 
 
 Mercury in Aquarius denotes a perfon of an indifferent ftature of body, 
 reafonably corpulent and flefliy, a good clear complexion, brown hair, full 
 face ; in difpofition an ingenious obliging perfon, inclinable to the ftudy 
 of arts and fciences, of a pregnant wit, and apt to find out many curious 
 inventions. 
 
 Mercury in Pifces gives a perfon of a low flature, brown hair, thin 
 face, of a pale and (Ickly complexion, generally very hairy upon the body; 
 in difpofition a repining difconfolate perfon, yet a lover of women, 
 and addifted to drinking ; and confequently the greatelt enemy to 
 himfelf. 
 
 PERSONS defcribed by the SUN in each of the TWELVE SIGNS. 
 
 The Sun pofited in Aries, which is accounted his exaltation, defcribes 
 a perfon of a reafonable ftature of body, ftrong and well compofed, a 
 good complexion, though not very clear, light hair, flaxen or yellowifh; 
 a noble fpirit, very courageous and valiant; delights in all warlike adl^ions, 
 gains vi6lory and honour thereby; appears a terror to his enemjes, and 
 makes himfelf famous in his generation, fometimes even beyond his capa- 
 city of birth. 
 
 The Sun in Taurus reprefents a (hort well-fet perfon, with brown 
 hair, not very comely, a dark complexion, wide mouth, great nofe, 
 broad face, a good confident bold perfon, fufficiently ftrong, and not 
 a little proud; delighting much in oppofing others, and generally becomes 
 conqueror. 
 
 The Sun in Gemini reprefents a well-proportioned body, of fanguine 
 complexion, above the middle ftature, brown hair ; a perfon of a 
 good difpofition, affable and courteous to all, not very unfortunate in 
 any affairs, fubjeft to the checks and controlment of others, and patiently 
 pafles over flight abufes, which fliows him to be a very mild-tempered 
 perfon. 
 
 The Sun in Cancer perfonates or reprefents a mean ftature, of an ill 
 complexion, with fome deformity in the face, very unhealthy afped, 
 brown hair, and an ill-proportioned body ; but very harmlefs and inno- 
 cent, cheerful, and a lover of the females ; alfo an admirer of muCc, 
 dancing, and fuch kind of recreations ; but cares not to follow any labo- 
 rious employment. 
 
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 378 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The Sun in Leo gives a ftrong well-proportioned perfon, of a very lan- 
 guine complexion, light brown or yellowifli hair, full face, and large eyes, 
 Ibmetimc; a mark or fear in the face; a very honeft perfon, faithful to 
 his friends, pundual in the performance of his promife, yet delights to 
 take his pleaiure, is ambitious of honour, whether in war or otherwife ; 
 and ulually promotes all things in order thereto. 
 
 The Sun in Virgo gives a perfon fomewhat above the middle feature, 
 a well-proportioned body, not corpulent, but rather {lender ; good com- 
 plexion ; the hair brown, and much of it ; in difpofition an ingenious cheer- 
 ful perfon, enjoying all decent recreations, particularly thofe which delight 
 the ear and the palate^ 
 
 The Sun in Libra gives an upright flraight body, an oval face, and 
 ruddy cheerful complexion, light hair, full eyes, and fometimes pimples 
 in the face ; a very unfortunate perfon in all or moft of his adtions, efpe- 
 cially in warlike affairs; for therein he is fure to come off" with difhonour, 
 if he efcapes other dangers, unlefs his fignificator be befriended by fome 
 potent benign planet. 
 
 The Sun in Scorpio gives a (quare body, full face, cloudy complexion, 
 fun-burnt, brown hair, a very plump flefliy body in general; in difpofition 
 an ingenious perfon, but of a rugged nature; ambitious of honour; one 
 that would not willingly admit of an equal ; fortunate upon the feas, or 
 in the pradlice of phylic. 
 
 The Sun in Sagittarius gives a tall, well-proportioned, comely perfon, 
 with an oval vifage, fanguine complexion, and light-brown hair. For 
 qualities and difpofition, a very lofty proud-fpirited perfon ; aiming at 
 great things, and too fevere in the exercife of his power ; yet fome ho- 
 nourable exploits are performed by him, which add much to his commen- 
 dation, and render him confpicuous. 
 
 The Sun in Capricorn ufually reprefents a mean ftature, a fickly com- 
 plexion, brown hair, not curling, an oval face, a fpare thin body, not 
 decently compofed, but rather a difproportion in the members thereof; 
 ui difpoiition very juft in his adlions, thereby gaining love and friendship ; 
 lometimes paflionate, a favourer of the female fex, and, in general, a good- 
 humoured perfon to thofe he hath converfation with. 
 
 The Sun in Aquarius delccibes a perfon of a middle flature, a corpu*» 
 lent body, decently compofed, a round full face, light brown hair, and 
 
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 generally a clear complexion ; the difpofition moderately good, but fubjeft 
 to oftentation, and dcfirous to bear rule, but free from malicious adions 
 againft any one. 
 
 The Sun in Pifces gives a perfon rather fhort of ftature ; a round face, 
 and an indifferent good complexion; light brown hair, fometimes flaxen ; 
 a reafonably plump or corpulent body ; a general lover of the female fex, 
 and of all kinds of pleafure ; addifts himfelf to gaming and feafling, many 
 times to his own detriment; yet a perfon very harmlefs toothers, and who 
 injures none but himfelf, which he often does by too much extravagance 
 and prodigality. 
 
 Brief OBSERVATIONS in drawing a Defcription from the PLANET 
 that is LORD of the ASCENDANT. 
 
 I. If no planet be in afpeft with the lord of the afcendant, then judge 
 of the native by the lord of the afcendant wholly, without any regard to 
 the fign in which he is pofited. 
 
 II. If the lord of the afcendant be retrograde, or in his fall or detriment, 
 then defcribe the native with due reference to the nature of that fign in 
 which he is fo pofited. 
 
 III. If the lord of the afcendant behold the afcendant at the time of 
 birth, then judge of the native by the quality of the fign upon the cufp 
 of the afcendant. 
 
 IV. If two planets happen to be in afpeft with the afcendant, take your 
 judgment from him who is mofi: perfe6f in partile, and pofited in his own 
 houfe, rather than from him who is in his exaltation. — Thefe obfervaiions 
 are to be confidered as well in regard to the difpofition and qualities of the 
 mind as in the defcription and formation of the body. 
 
 The
 
 38o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The ART of CALCULATING NATIVITIES made plain and 
 
 EASY. 
 
 A NATIVITY, or Geniture, is the very moment of birth, or precife 
 time of the child's coming into the world, and in which he is made 
 a vifible member of the creation. In this moment it is that the ftars be- 
 gin to a6l and operate their influence upon the new-born infant, by the 
 power or intervention of thofe angels who rule and govern the conftella- 
 tions then level with the horizon, or that afcend upon the horofcope ; ac- 
 according to that obfervation of St. Jerome, in his comment upon the 
 eighteenth chapter of St. Matthew, where he fays, " Great is the dignity 
 of fouls, for every one at their firft coming into the world have an angel 
 appointed for their cuftody and fafety." And, as it is from thefe confi- 
 gurations that we are enabled to point out the incidents of the native's 
 future life, fo is it abfolutely neceflary that the very inftant of birth fhould 
 be well and minutely afcertained, in order to arrive at correftnefs and 
 certainty in thefe fpeculations. It mull: be obvious to every one, that 
 the celeftial bodies are in perpetual motion, and therefore every quar- 
 ter of an hour muft confiderably vary their pofition ; as do alfo dif- 
 ferent parallels from any one given point of the heavens ; and hence 
 it is that the latitude, as well as the true time of birth, becomes fo abfo- 
 lutely neceffary in calculating or bringing up the diredions of a na- 
 tivity. 
 
 By knowing the place of birth, the latitude is eafily afcertained ; 
 but to determine the precife time of a native's emerging from the womb 
 is a circumftance that has been always found difficult and precarious ; 
 not only on account of the inattention of nurfes and midwives to this 
 moft interefting event, but alfo by reafon of the" difference and uncer- 
 tainty of almoft all clocks, watches, and dials, in reference to the 
 Sun. Wherefore the ancient profeffors of this art, to remove the 
 errors in the common or eftimate time of birth, have contrived fe- 
 veral ways of re6lifying a nativity; and have given fuch rules for this 
 purpofe, that the true time of birth may be thereby corre£lly afcertained. 
 This rectification may be efFefted three different ways : Firft, by the 
 Trutitiam Hertnctis, or Trutine of Hermes ; fecondly, by the Animo- 
 der of Ptolomy ; and, thirdly, by the natural accidents of the native. 
 Thefe three methods I (hall explain fully, when 1 come to treat of the 
 re£liJications of nativities ; fuffice it here to fay, that the method moftly 
 in ufe, and which is found liable to the leaft error, particularly in the 
 
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 genitures of grown perfons, is that of leftifyjng by fuch accidents as 
 might have befallen them during their paft life. 
 
 As the dodrine of nativitie-s is the very efTence of Aftrology, and the 
 principal criterion by which mankind will judge of the utility and rea- 
 fonablenefs of the fcience, it will be requifite for me in this place to be as 
 plain and circumflantial as poflible. It cannot be unentertaining, nor 
 wholly ufelels even to a common reader, much lefs to thofe who mean to 
 fl"udy the art, to know the true grounds upon which this part of the 
 fcience is founded ; together with thofe afpedts or configurations at 
 birth, from which our predidions are framed ; and the time alfo when 
 their influence and effects will vifibly operate upon the body or affairs 
 of the native. In elucidating this fubjeft, I fhall be principally guid- 
 ed by the Quadripartite of the great Ptolomy ; the truth and excellency 
 of whofe dodrine, the experience of many ages, and the obfervations of 
 the moft intelligent profefTors of this art, have fully eftablifhed and con- 
 firmed. 
 
 It is manifeft to the moft fuperficial obferver, that a certain fecret 
 power is difflifed through all things that are near the earth, according 
 to the nature and properties of the firmament, and circum-ambient 
 air ; and to the power and influence of the luminaries, and other ce- 
 leftial bodies. The Sun, being the fuperior luminary, and the foun- 
 tain of life, governs all things that bear relation to the earth, not only 
 by varying the feafons, and bringing to perfedlion the feeds of animals, 
 and the fruitfulnefs of plants, the flowing of waters, and the mutation 
 of bodies ; but alfo the changes of the day, of heat and moifture, of 
 drynels and cold, as it hath refpe6l to the meridian, or mid-heaven. — 
 The Moon alfo, being nearefl: to the earth, d:fl:ils down an amazing in- 
 fluence, by which things animate and inanimate are affefted and changed. 
 Rivers are augmented and diminished, according to her light ; the tides 
 vary as flie rifes and fets; plants and animals, in whole or in part, in- 
 creafe and decreafe with her. In the fame manner the ftars, fixed and 
 erratic, as they keep on their uniform courle, caufe many appearances 
 around us ; for they produce cold and heat, and wind and rain, by 
 which alfo things on earth arefuitably governed ; and their mutual con- 
 figurations, as their influences co-operate with, or oppofe, one aaother,- 
 produce variations accordingly. :j;ib it: lo 
 
 The power of the Sun is on all hands admitted to be mofl: prevalent, 
 
 as it is obvioufly moft umverfal. The other heavenly bodies, according 
 
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 38a A N I L L U S T R A IM O N 
 
 to the variety of their alpeds with the Sun, unite with, or refift, his tn- 
 fliience, agreeable to the nature and force of luch af'peits. This hap- 
 pens moft frequently, and mofi: forcibly, with the Moon, at all the 
 changes. But thefe afFe6lions in the flars operate more obfcurely, and 
 employ longer time, according to their declination, or as they appear or 
 difappear in our horizon. Hence then, by the rules of nature, and the 
 teftim.ony of our own reafon and experience, it muil: be admitted, that 
 of all the planets, the influence of the Sun is the moll powerful; and 
 that the influences of the other planets have moll energy when the 
 beams of the Sun co-cperate with them. The Moon likewifc, by rea- 
 fon of her iwiftne(s, and proximity to the earth, modifies and conveys 
 thefe influences to fublunary bodies, with a force (iiperior to all the 
 other {lars. And thefe influences are always mofI: powerful, and moft 
 vifible in their efFe61s, when this mediation of the Moon is exercifed in 
 conveying the influences of the flars to the Sun, or of the Sun to the 
 other flars, and thence to the earth. But in defining thefe varying pro- 
 perties and efFefts, particular regard mud be had to the latitude, decli- 
 nation, rifing, and fetting, of the flars, both fixed and erratic, efpecially 
 thofe which approach nearefl to the ecliptic. 
 
 Whoever contemplates thefe premifes, and attentively obferves the 
 afpedls, will find that not only conjoined bodies are fubjcft to the confi- 
 gurations of the flars, but alfo the buddings and perfeilion of feeds are 
 framed and formed according to the quality with which the heavenly 
 matter and circum-ambient air is endued. The obfervant hufbandman 
 and fhepherd pre-conje6lure the proper feafons for fowing, planting, and 
 for the procreation of animals, by confulting the flate of the winds, and 
 the face of the fky. The fkilful mariner likewife prepares againll: the 
 dangers of an approaching florm, by fimilar obfervations ; but they are 
 frequently deceived for want of better experience, and an adequate know- 
 ledge of the courfes and efFeds of the heavenly bodies, which, when ex- 
 a£Hy underftood, conduce to an almofl certain prefcience herein. For 
 it is found, that he who correftly knows the motions of the flars, and 
 their configurations with the Sun and Moon ; and is not ignorant of the 
 times, nor the place, nor the afpefts ; and is well fkilled in the fimple 
 ways of nature ; can admirably foretel, in any feafon, the proper flate 
 and temperature of the air ; as that it will be hotter and moifler, or cold- 
 er or drier, according to the nature and properties of the refpedlive rays 
 of the flars and Moon configurated with the Sun. And, as thefe fpecula- 
 tions are founded upon the moft fimple principles of nature, as that the 
 Sun is hot and dry, and the Moon is cold and moift, and the obferva- 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 383 
 
 tions deduced herefrom are feldom known to vary ; fo, by fimilar qua- 
 lities and obfervations, and by rules equally well founded, we obtain a 
 legal and extenfive prefcience refpefting Man. For from the natural 
 ftate of the ambient and heavenly matter at the time of the conlb-udion 
 of the body it is eafy to know in general, the quality and temperature of 
 each perfon born ; that fuch (hall be the formation of his body, and fuch 
 the difpofition of his mind, and fuch the future events, advantageous 
 or difadvantageous, of his life, according to the flate of the heavens at 
 that particular time, whether qualified for the produ6tion of fuch a 
 temper, or whether inimical to it. Thus a prefage is not only poffible 
 by the laws of nature, but proper and necellary to the vvifdom and well- 
 being of fociefy. 
 
 The errors of thofe who do not underfland the fundamental princi- 
 ples of this learning, have doubtlefs afforded flrong and plaufible reafons 
 to the bulk of mankind, for difcarding it altogether, and for confiderino- 
 thofe events, which others have more fuccefsfully afcertained, to be the 
 efFe6ls of mere chance. But lurely a do6frine is not to be rejected, be- 
 caufe fbme of its followers are vicious or ignorant. In this I'peculation, 
 above all others, reafonable allowance fliould be made, as well for the 
 weaknefs of human comprehenfion, as for the great and undefinable ex- 
 tent of the contemplation. Much depends upon the ability of the phyfi- 
 cian, in modifying and proportioning his prefcription, not only to cor- 
 refpond with the ftate of the difeafe, but alfo with the temperature and 
 conftitution of the patient. In the fubjeft under confideration, a judg- 
 ment no lefs fagacious is abfolutely neceflary ; becaufe the quality of the 
 heavenly matter is often conjedfural, and the mixtures of difFt^rent af- 
 pe61:s and influences are fometimes fo complicated, that the brighteft un- 
 derflanding can fcarcely arrange them with precifion. 
 
 But the confideration of Nativities, in points which relate to the par- 
 ticular temper and difpofition of refpedive perfons, hath other caufes 
 in nature to apt to be forgotten, or perhaps lightly paffed over as cir- 
 cumftances of no moment. But it is undeniably true, and muft be ad- 
 mitted on all hands, that the place of birth, will often make confidera- 
 ble difference in thofe who arc born ; and, though the feed be the fame 
 from which they are procreated, and though tlie conflitution of the 
 heavens be the fame, yet the diverfities of countries wherein they are 
 born will naturally produce a difference in their bodies and minds. Be- 
 fides this, a different education and cuftom will form a different difpo- 
 fition and manner of life ; as do alfo the different fituations or clalfes 
 
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 384 ANIL LUSTRATION 
 
 in which mankind are brought up, and to which they are accuftomed. 
 Therefore he who does not attentively confider each of thefe diftindions, 
 and unite them judicioufly with the caufes produced by the ambient and 
 heavenly matter, will meet with great uncertainty' in his conclufions. 
 For, although the power of heaven is confeffedly the grcateft, and with 
 this all the others are conceived as adjuvant caufes, yet they do not al- 
 ways afTume the circum-ambient matter as a concaufe ; conlequcntlv 
 thofe who attempt to predi6t from the motion of the heavenly bodies 
 alone, without due reference to thefe confiderations, will entail contempi 
 upon themfelves, and difgrace upon the fcience. 
 
 But that aftrological predictions are poflible, and to be defined with 
 great precifion, when properly managed, is an aflertion moft true, 
 and which I flatter myfelf I have already made manifeft. It remains, 
 therefore, that wc fpeak of the advantages of this benevolent difpenfa- 
 tion of Providence ; for, if a fore knowledge be advantageous or necefla- 
 ry to the fafety and future happinefs of the foul, what can be more fo in 
 refpeft of the body, fince it affords not only temporal delight, happinefs, 
 and pleafure, but enables us to underftand things both divine and hu- 
 man ? Whatever happens in the courfe of nature, either necelTarily or 
 accidentally, that materially affefts our profperity or adverfity, and either 
 prolongs life or deflroys it, if they happen fuddenly and unexpeditedly, 
 confound with fear, or tranfport with joy ; but, if they are foreknown, 
 they fortify the mind by fuch foreknowledge, and prepare it for fuftain- 
 ing the bed or worft occurrences with calmnefs and ferenity. In what 
 refpedl therefore is man fuperior to the irrational part of the creation, if he 
 cannot bear to know the hour of his dilTolution ? The terms of our ex- 
 iftence, as every day's experience repeatedly fliows, are, that we muft 
 fuffer death. Where then, to minds fraught with reafon and integrity, 
 can be the horror, the diftrefs, or calamity, of knowing the tinie when 
 that certain event fhall take place ? To men of a virtuous habit, luch 
 a knowledge muft; be invaluable; and to thofe of lefs fcrupulous prin- 
 ciples, it cannot be unwelcome, provided reafon or philofophy make 
 any part of tiieir conftitution. To men of the mofl exemplary conduct, 
 it affords fit opportunity of adjufting their temporal concerns, and re- 
 lieves them under the diftrefles and affliftions of this life, by afcertain- 
 ing the period of their fufferings, and by giving them hopes of retribu- 
 tion and reward in that which will fucceed. To the inconfiderate and 
 worldly-minded, it not only gives the fame advantages, but begets in 
 them a proper fenfe of the more important concerns of that endlels fl:atc 
 of exiftence, " from whence no traveller returns." For thefe grand 
 
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 OFASTROLOGY. 385 
 
 purpofes chief?}', the all-wife and benevolent hand of Providence feems 
 to have pointed out to mankind the Art of Prefcience and Predi6tion ; 
 not to fay any thing of the innumerable lefs-important concerns of hu- 
 man affairs, which may oftentimes afford lingular advantage and happi- 
 nefs to individuals, as well as to ftates and Societies, by being thus timelj 
 forewarned of what fhall hereafter come to pafs. And furely I need not 
 mention a ftronger inftance of the advantages of prefcience than what 
 will naturally arife from theobfervation of every man of experience, when 
 he looks back upon the occurrences of his pad life and recoUefts but 
 half the lofles and inconveniences he has fuffained, only for want of that 
 foreknowledge in worldly affairs which the art of predidlion fupplies. 
 
 We are not however to believe, that the accidents and events of life 
 fo befal men, as though a law were fet over them bv fome indilloluble 
 caufe from above, by which they are of neceffity brought to pafs, no 
 other caufe being able to oppofe or prevent them. It were unphilofo- 
 phical and abfurd thus to imagine ; for the motion of the heavenly bo- 
 dies is immutable by divine law, and the mutation of earthly things is 
 difpofed of and revealed by a natural generation and order, which the fu- 
 perior caufe follows by accident. It is alfo to be obferved, that many 
 things happen to man, not only by reafon of the natural and proper qua- 
 lity of the heavenly matter, but alfo by the operation of fome more.uni- 
 verfal caufes ; as by great mutations and mixtures of the elements, plagues 
 and peftilences, and floods and conflagrations, are produced, by which 
 multitudes are at once fwept away, and perifh under one common fata- 
 lity. Thus greater caufes always overcome the lefs, and the ftronger 
 the weaker ; and, whenever the ftronger power prevails in any great mu- 
 tation, the more general effe6Is we have been fpeaking of happen. 
 Other things likewiie happen to individuals, becaufe the natural property 
 6f each is overcome by the contrariety of the circumambient matter, 
 whether the antipathy thereof be fmall or fortuitous. Now this being 
 admitted, it becomes apparent, that thofe things which happen gene- 
 rally and particularly, be the accident whatever it may, whofe firfl 
 caufe is ftrong and irrefiftible, and no other caufe having power to with- 
 ftand it, come to pafs wholly by neceflity. But thofe accidents 
 which have a weaker caufe are overthrown, if any other caufe, able to 
 withftand it, is found ; and, if fuch a refifling caufe appears not, then 
 thofe accidents happen agreeably to the nature and impulfe of their firfl: 
 caufe ; and they are produced, not through the ftrength of the caufe, nor 
 by neceflity, but becaufe the antipathy by which it might have been 
 deflroyed is neither known nor to be defined. Thus it happens to 
 all things that have a natural caufe and beginning, as metals, flones, 
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 386 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 plants, animals, wounds, flckncfs, affe61ions, &c. feme of which work 
 neceflarlly, and others not, except when fomething is found of fufficient 
 ftrength to oppofc their efficient power. Hence it is demonftrable, 
 that, though fimple caufes have natural properties peculiar to themfelves, 
 yet there are other caufes equally (imple, which operate in conta6l with 
 thofe of the former, and by which the bare fimple nature of each is 
 changed by mutation into a third quality, which differs in nature from 
 cither of the former ; according to which fuch fimple natural proper- 
 ties are either partly or wholly changed, or otherwife fruflrated or di- 
 verted. As for example, in the weather ; the Sun, in his own fimple 
 nature, is the fountain of light and heat ; but, being joined with Saturn, 
 never fails, if not prevented by fome other apparent cauie, both in win- 
 ter and fummer, to produce cold and cloudy weather. But, if Mars hap- 
 pens to be joined in configuration with them, the cafe is altered; and, 
 inftead of cold, the weather will not fail in fummer to be hot and ful- 
 try, though at the fame time cloudy, corrufcuous, and diforderly ; and 
 in winter remarkably clofe and warm, though lowering and turbulent ; 
 more efpecially if attended with a new or full moon. Thefc are fads 
 founded upon a rational hypothefis, and proved by long experience and 
 conflant obfervation. 
 
 Thefe preliminaries being laid down, and confidered as the ground- 
 work of Aflrology, it follows that thofe, who would wifh to be proficient 
 in it, fliould learn to predi61 futurities after a natural way, by fuch prefci- 
 ence as nature has pointed out, and not by an inconfiderate or vain opi- 
 nion that this fliall happen, becaufe it hath many great and efficient 
 caufes which it is impoffible to refift ; or that this fhall not happen, 
 becaufe it hath refifling afledions. Calculators of nativities, therefore, 
 when they fpeak of thofe things which may come to pafs, can do it in 
 no other way, conformably to truth and nature, but by the power and 
 efFc6fs of the circumambient matter or afpeds, which, being more or 
 lefs inclined to lucli a temperature, will produce fuch an accident, fla- 
 ture of body, or difpofition of mind. As when a phyfician afferts that 
 an ulcer will eat away or putrefy, or a naturalift that the loadflone will 
 attraft iron ; not becaufe it is neccffary that the ulcer fhould eat away 
 or putrefy, or the loadflone attradt ; but, if the contraries are not known, 
 nor their effects prevented, thefe circumftances will aifuredly happen, 
 according to the caufe and confequences of things, as they have been 
 i?om the beginning of the world. Thus it happens, and thus we ought 
 to judge, in the calculation of nativities ; for thofe events wliich per- 
 petually fall in upon all human affairs are produced according to the 
 iucceflion of natural order, either becaufe things that may oppofe and 
 
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 OFASTROLOGY. 387 
 
 prevent are not found, or becaufe they are not known. And again, 
 events known naturally, and according to order, and thofe things being 
 found which difagree and oppofe, the) are then either wholly prevented, 
 or elfe come to pafs with very fmall efFe6l, and are fcarcely vifible in 
 their operation. 
 
 Now, feeing there is both in generals and particulars fuch a confe- 
 quence, it is curious to remark, that, though many people believe in ge- 
 nerals, and allow it is poflible to prognofticate upon that fyftem, and al- 
 fo think it advantageous towards prelervation and health, yet in parti- 
 culars they will not allow the fame operations to have any force. For 
 many confefs they know the proper feafons, and the fignification of the 
 fixed ftars, and the afpeds of the Moon, and they obferve them for the 
 eftabliihment of their health, and to reduce their conftitutions to a good 
 and regular temperature, in fummcr by cooling medicaments, and ia 
 winter by heating. They alfo obferve the fignifications of the fixed 
 ftars for the purpofes of navigation ; and they plant, and fow, and for- 
 ward vegetation, by obferving the different afpects of the Moon ; and 
 no one fuppofes thefe general efFeds either impoffible or ufelefs. But 
 in particulars, as of cold or heat, which increale and decreafe in their 
 proper temper, and by the properties and mixtures of other matter, they 
 neither believe it pofiible to foretel, nor conceive that we may be pre- 
 ferved from, the confequences attending them. But the caufe of this 
 opinion, is the difficulty of knowing particulars, and the management 
 of them with precifion and truth ; and, becaufe men are feldom found of 
 fo penetrating a comprehenfion, that none of the contraries be hidden 
 from their view, hence the oppofing power or influence, for the moft 
 part, not being joined with a foreknowledge in the efFe61 produced by firfl 
 caufes without impediment, they judge of things fimply, as though 
 immutable and impoflible to be prevented. But, as in the art of predic- 
 tion its poffibility appears worthy of confideration, although it is not al- 
 together infallible, this prefervative part is certainly worthy of particu- 
 lar regard, fince it may brii^ig relief to many, though not a perfed cure 
 to all. For this reafon the Egyptians, finding the efficacy of this art,, 
 every-where joined phyfic to prognoflic afrronomy ; and hence it is ap- 
 parent, that, if they had thought futurities could not be removed or di- 
 verted, they would never have prefcribed certain remedies and preferva- 
 tives againft the effedl of the ambient, prefent or to come, whether in 
 general or particular cafes; they therefore fought out a method at once 
 advantageous and profitable, that, by aflrology, the quality of the fubja- 
 cent temperaments, and the accidents which come to pafs by the influ- 
 ence of the heavenly bodies, might be difcovered and known ; but by 
 
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 388 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 the medical art to diftinguifli the fympathies and antipathies of each, 
 and to underftand the natural cure of prefent dllcafe, and the true 
 mode of prefervation from future. For, without this ipecies of aftro- 
 nomical knowledge, the medical art is found in many cafes to fail; 
 though I am ready to allow that there are not remedies to be found for 
 all bodies and difeafes. 
 
 Thefe obfervations become clear and obvious, from a confideration 
 of the planets and their afpefts. The Sun is found by nature to caufe 
 heat and drynefs in a moderate degree. His power and influence are moft 
 vifible to our fenfes, by reafon of his magnitude, and the manifeft mu- 
 tation of the feafons ; for, by how much the nearer he approaches to 
 our vertical point, by fo much the more he ftirs up heat in us, and 
 fubjeds us to his nature. But the nature of the Moon is chiefly moift- 
 ening ; for, being nearer the earth, (he exhales the vapours of all moift 
 bodies, and thus evidently afFe6ls all moift things, and putrefies them ; 
 but, becaufe of her analogy with the Sun, fhe moderately participates of 
 heat. The planet Saturn cools and dries, becaufe he is far diftant from 
 the heat of the Sun and vapours of the earth ; but he cools moft abun- 
 dantly, and dries moft moderately. The other planets alio receive 
 virtue according to the configurations they make with the Sun and 
 Moon. Mars drleth much, and burns, becaufe of his hot and fiery na- 
 ture ; but the influence of Jupiter is temperate, becaufe he moves be- 
 tween the coldnefs of Saturn and the heat of Mars. Venus hath nearly 
 the fame temperature, but in a different meafure, becaufe of her vicinity 
 to the Sun ; ftie moiftens moft, as does the Moon, through the great- 
 nefs of their light, by which they aftume the moifture of the vapours of 
 the earth. Mercury fometimes dries, and fometimes moiftens; according 
 to his pofition and configuration with other ftars. Hence arife the four 
 principal humours, whence all bodies are engendered. Two of them 
 are generative and adtive, the hot and the moift ; for by thefe are 
 all things joined together, and increafed : and two are corruptive and 
 hurtful; the dry and the cold; for by thefe all things are diflblved 
 and deftroyed. Wherefore two of the planets, viz, Jupiter and Venus, are 
 defined to be benefics, becaufe of their benevolent temperature, and 
 becaufe heat and moifture equally abound in them ; and likewife the 
 Moon, for the fame reafons. But Saturn and Mars, being of an oppo- 
 fite nature, are defined to be of a malevolent and deftru6live influence, by 
 reafon of the extreme cold of the one and the violent heat of the other. 
 And the Sun and Mercury, being of a controvertible nature, are found to 
 produce both thefe influences, according to the nature, force, and qua- 
 lity, of the afpedts or configurations they make with other bodies. 
 
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 OFASTROLOGY. . 389 
 
 As there are four diftind humours or qualities incident to the planets, 
 Co are there two primary fexes by which they are diftinguiftied, namely, 
 the mafculine and the feminine. The feminine planets partake princi- 
 pally of moifture ; therefore the Moon and Venus are term.ed feminine, 
 becaufe moifture chiefly abounds in them. But Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, 
 and the Sun, are mafculine, becaufe they heat and dry with the greater 
 energy. Mercury, in point of fex, is confidered indifferently, becaufe 
 he equally dries or moiftens as occafion may be. The ftars are like- 
 wife confidered, as to fex, according to their pofition with the Sun. 
 When they are oriental, and going before the Sun, they become mafcu- 
 line ; but, when they are occidental, and follow the Sun, they are fe- 
 minine. The two apparent diftin6tions of time, called day and night, 
 are alfo divided uito lexes. The day, becaufe of its heat and activity, 
 is termed mafculine ; and the night, becaufe of its moifture, and con- 
 veniency for reft, feminine ; therefore the Moon and Venus are noftur- 
 nal, and the Sun and Jupiter diurnal; but Mercury is in this refped 
 alfo indifferent, diurnal when in an oriental fituation, and no6i:urnaI 
 when occidental. But the two malevolent planets, Saturn and Mars, are 
 confidered diurnal and nodurnal, not according to their quality and 
 nature, as heat to heat, but contrary ; for a good temperament, taking 
 its like, maketh the good greater, and unlike, mixed with evil, deftroys 
 much of that evil ; therefore Saturn, as cold, is joined to the heat of 
 the day ; and Mars, as dry, to the moifture of the night. So each of 
 them, becoming moderate in their influences, will appear confonant to the 
 conditions which give the temperament. It is alfo to be remarked, that 
 a planet is diurnal, when in a diurnal nativity above the earth and in a 
 no6turnal nativity under the earth ; but no£1urnal, when in a nodurnal 
 nativity above the earth or in a diurnal nativity under the earth. 
 
 Now the influences and effeds of the planets have fmaller or greater 
 force, according to their afpeds and configuration with the Sun ; for 
 the Moon along her increafe, from her firft appearance to the firft 
 quarter, is moiftening ; from the firft quarter to her full, (he warms ; 
 from the full to the laft quarter, fhe dries ; and, from the laft quar- 
 ter till (he is hid, (he is cold. The planets matutine to the firft fta- 
 tion are more moift ; from the firft ifation till they rife at night, 
 they are more heating ; from their rifing at night to the fecond ftation, 
 they dry more ; and, from the fecond ftation, they cool more. The firft 
 ftation is when a planet begins to be retrograde ; and the fecond ftation, 
 when from retrogradation it becomes dire6l ; and they begin to rife at 
 night when in oppofition to the Sun.* Thus the power of thefe va- 
 rious 
 
 • The rifing and fetting of the ftars are threefold ; cofmical, achronical, and heliacal.— 
 Cofmical rifing is, when a ftar or planet afcends the horizon with the fame degree and mi- 
 No. 10. n D nute
 
 39° 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 rious afFetlions, being mixed among themfelves, produce many differ- 
 ences of quality in the circumambient matter which continually fur- 
 rounds us; the proper and diftindt power of which, alternately prevail- 
 ing, is changed more or lefs by the force of other configurations. To 
 thefe efFe61s, the operation of the fixed flars in general contributes not a 
 little. Thofe of the greatefl magnitude are the moft powerful and ef- 
 ficacious ; and thofe in or near the ecliptic have more energy than thofe 
 remote from it. The bright flars have more influence than the dull 
 and languid ; thofe of a red colour partake of the quality of Mars ; 
 thole of a lead colour operate with fimilar effe6f to Saturn ; and lb of 
 the others, according to their affinity with the planets, as hath been al- 
 ready explained. Stars which have northern latitude and declination afFe6t 
 us moff; and thofe with fouth latitude, the more Ibuthern climates. Thofe 
 fituated in the zenith influence more than tholb which are more re- 
 mote; and fuch as are in partile conjunftion or antifcion of any planet, 
 or which rife or fet, or culminate, with any planet, have a more than 
 ordinary power and influence : but of themfelves the fixed flars emit 
 no rays. 
 
 The four angles of the horofcope, or cardinal houfes of heaven, from 
 whence the general winds take their rife, mufl likewife be confidered. 
 The oriental angle is pofTefTed of great drynef^; for, when the Sun ar- 
 rives there, thofe things which were moiflened by the night begin to dry ; 
 and the winds which blow from thence, commonly called eaft-winds, are 
 very drying, and without moiflure. The angle of the fouth is moft hot, 
 becaufe the Sun, being there culminate, burns and heats with greater 
 energy, becaufe our mid-heaven declines to the fouth; wherefore the 
 winds proceeding from thence, commonly called fouth-winds, are hot 
 and filling. But the occidental angle is moiff, becaufe, when the Sun 
 arrives there, thofe things which were dried in the day begin to be 
 moiffened ; confequently the winds blowing from thence, commonly 
 called wefl-winds, are free from thicknefs or moiflure. The northern 
 angle, or point lying towards the Bears, is mofl cold, becaufe the culmi- 
 nating Sun, in refpeft to that part of the earth which we inhabit, declines 
 moflfromit; for which reafon, the winds blowing from that quarter 
 are generally cold and freezing. The perfeft knowledge of thefe things 
 
 is 
 
 nute of the ecliptic in which the fun is; and cofmical fetting is, when a ftar or planet fets 
 exaflly when the fun rifes. Achronical rifing is, when a ftar rifes above the horizon at fun- 
 fettine; and achronical fetting i";, when a Itar fets with the fun. Heliacal rifing is, when a 
 ftar, which before was hidden by the rays of the fun, begins to appear in \.\\c eaft ; and he- 
 liacal fetting is, when a ftar, which before was feen, is hidden under the fun-beams, and dif- 
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 OFASTROLOGY. 391 
 
 IS very neceflary to enable us to diftinguifh the mixti^e of particulars ; for 
 it is apparent, that, according to the conflitution ol the ieafons, of ages, 
 and of the angles, the efficient power and influence of the (tars vary ; 
 and, when there is no contrary conflitution, the (tars have a flronger 
 influence, becaufe it is unnaixed ; for, in heating, they that are moff hot 
 are moil: powerful; and, in moifl conftitutionS: thofc are the mofl pow- 
 erful which are of a moiftening nature. But, when the conflitution is 
 contrary, they are weaker, by reafon of the temperament and mixture of 
 contrariety, afFefted by the heating flars in cold conftitutions, and by 
 the moifl in dry. In the fame manner each of the other conftitutions 
 have power, according to the proportions of tlieir mixtures. To thefe 
 we may join the mutual properties of the twelve figns of the zodiac; 
 for their general temperatures are agreeable to the feaions fubje61: to each 
 fign ; and they obtain fome other qualities arifuig from their analogy to 
 the Sun, Moon, and ftars ; and thefe confiderations of the agreement or 
 dil'agreement of the natures and mixtures of the various influences of the 
 flars, figns, and parts of heaven, are of no fmall conlequence in aflrolo- 
 gical contemplations. 
 
 Of the twelve figns, fome are termed tropics, fome equino6fial, fome 
 fixed, and others bicorporal. The tropics are two; the firft from the 
 fummer foiftice, the thirty degrees of Cancer ; and the other from the 
 winter folfliice, the thirty degrees of Capricorn. Thefe are called tro- 
 pics, becaufe, when the Sun is pofited in the beginning of thefe figns, he 
 turns back out of the courfe of latitude or declination, to the contraries, 
 making fummer by his entering into Cancer, and winter by his palTage 
 into Capricorn. There arc alfo two of the figns equinociial -, one from 
 the vernal equinox, which is Aries; the other from the autumnal equi- 
 nox, which is Libra. Thefe are fo termed, becaufe, whenever the Sun 
 enters the beginning of them, he makes the days and nights equal all the 
 world over. 
 
 Of the other eight figns, four are fixed and four bicorporal. TheJixecL 
 are thofe which follow the tropical and equinodial ; becaule, when the 
 Sun is pofited in any of thefe, the cold or heat, or drynefs or raoif- 
 ture, of the feaions, which began while the Sun was m the tropics or 
 equinocfials, more flrongly atfeds us, and the conftitution of the fea- 
 fon is more forcibly relt"- not becauie their condition is naturally fuch, 
 but becaufe we, being no longer under lucb a conllitution, become more 
 fenfible of its power. Th^^ bicorporal follow the fixed ; and, becaufe 
 they are between the fixed and the tropics, they partake of the nature 
 
 of both conflitutions. 
 
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 Again, fix of the twelve figns are named mafculine and diurnal ; and 
 fix fenniiiiiie and nofturnal. And because the night is always next to 
 the day, and the feniinine is joined to the mafculine, they are placed 
 one after another by turns. The beginning is taken from Aries, be- 
 caufe the moifture of the fpring is the beginning of the feafons ; and 
 becaufe the mafculine virtue is predominant, and the a6tive power before 
 the paffive ; therefore the figns Aries and Libra are efteemed mafcu- 
 line and diurnal ; for thefe defcribe the equinoctial circle ; and the prime 
 mutation, and ftrongeft motion of all, is caufed by them. The other 
 figns are alternately placed one after another in their proper order; and, 
 from the form and quality of them, fomc are termed four-footed, others 
 terreftrial ; fome commanding, and others fruitful. And, to renew them 
 in the mind of the reader, it may not be improper to diftinguifh them 
 here. — Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquaries, are 
 mafculine and commanding; Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, 
 and Pifces, are feminine and obeying. Aries, Taurus, Leo, Sagittarius, 
 and Capricorn, are four-footed. Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, are 
 terreflial. Cancer, Scorpio, and Pifces, are fruitful. Again, Aries, 
 Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, are termed moveable ; Taurus, Leo, 
 Scorpio, and Aquaries, fixed. Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pifces, 
 common ; Aries, Taurus, and Gemini, vernal; Cancer, Leo, and 
 Virgo, eftival ; Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, autumnal; Capricorn, 
 Aquaries, and Pifces, hyemnal. Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, are hot, 
 dry, and fiery; Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, are cold, dry, and earthy; 
 Gemini, Libra, and Aquaries, are hot, moift, and airy ; Cancer, Scorpio, 
 Pifces, Gemini, and Leo, are moift and watery ; and Virgo is barren. 
 
 Now from this difpofition and temperature of the figns, are brought 
 about the great ends and purpofes of nature, by means of the afpeds and 
 pofitions of the planets configurated in them; and it is upon thefe 
 afpefts and configurations that the art of predifting is grounded and 
 the events of futurity fought out and known. Thefe afpefts are of two 
 forts, or claffes, viz. zodiacal and mundane. The principal zodiacal 
 afpedfs are the fextile, quartile, trine, and oppofition ; and, though the 
 conjundion cannot properly be termed an afpeft, yet it may come un- 
 der the more general name of a familiarity, common to all the afpedls. 
 The conjunftion is formed by two planets being bodily joined, or meet- 
 ing in the fame degree and minute of a fign. The fextile is formed by 
 two planets when they are two figns, or fixty degrees, afunder; the 
 quartile, when three figns, or ninety degrees, afunder ; the trine, when 
 four figns, or one hundred and twenty degrees, afunder ; and the oppo- 
 fition, when fix figns, or one hundred and eighty degrees, afunder ; 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 393 
 
 which, being juft one half of the great circle, places the planets exaflly 
 facino- one another. The fmaller or inferior zodiacal afpe6ls are the 
 femiquadrate of forty-five degrees ; the quintile, of feventy-two degrees ; 
 the fefquiquadrate, of one hundred and thirty-five degrees ; and the 
 biquintile, of one hundred and forty-four degrees. And thefe are either 
 partile or platic ; partile, when the conjunftion or afped is made in 
 the fame degree and minute, and platic when not configurated in the 
 fame degree and minute, but only within the orbs of the afpedling pla- 
 net. Moreover, thefe afpe6ts are either dexter or finifter ; dexter, when 
 contrary to the fucceflion of the figns, as a planet in Leo cafts a fextile 
 dexter to another planet in Taurus. Sinifter afpeds are according to 
 the fuccefTion of the figns ; agreeable to which, a planet in Aries cafts 
 his trine finifter to another in Leo ; or one in Leo cafts a trine finifter to 
 another in Sagittarius. 
 
 Mundane afpe£ls are thofe which are made in the meridional circle, 
 in reference to the earth, and confift of only the fextile, quartile, trine, 
 and oppofition ; though there are other familiarities which we call pa- 
 rellels, and thefe both mundane and zodiacal. Of thefe familiarities, 
 the conjundion is good with benevolent ftars ; but with malevolent, bad. 
 The quintile, biquintile, fextile, and trine, are alfo good and fortunate ; 
 but the femiquadrate, fefquiquadrate, quartile, and oppofition, are evil 
 and unfortunate. Thefe good and evil influences proceed more from the 
 nature and quality of the ftars than from the nature of the figns they 
 pofTefs ; for it is found that even good afpeds of malefic planets will pro- 
 duce mifchief, though not in fo great a degree as the evil configurations. 
 
 Zodiacal Parallels are what are commonly called Antifcians, and are 
 nothing more than parallels of declination, or two points in the hea- 
 vens at equal diftances from the beginning of any of the tropics, or 
 equinoftial points. For example ; one planet in ten degrees of Aries, 
 and another in twenty degrees of Pifces, are in zodiacal parallel to each 
 other ; or, in other words, one planet in twenty degrees of Pifces cafts 
 its antifcian, or one parallel, to ten degrees of Aries, and its contra-anti- 
 fcian, or another parallel, to ten degrees of Libra. But in taking thefe, 
 particular attention muft be had to each of the planets' latitude, for want 
 of which, great errors have been frequently made. For, fuppofe the 
 Moon to be pofited in twenty-two degrees of Taurus, with five degrees 
 of north latitude, her antifcian, or ^zodiacal parallel, taken in the com- 
 mon way, would fall in eight degrees of Leo, and her contra-antifcian 
 in eight degrees of Aquaries ; whereas the true antifcian falls in ten 
 degrees of Cancer, which is no lefs than twenty-eight degrees from that 
 
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 394 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 obtained in the common way, for there is exadly that difference be- 
 tween the ecliptical longitude of twenty-two degrees of Taurus with- 
 out latitude, and twenty-two degrees of Taurus with five degrees of 
 north latitude. 
 
 A planet thus confidered, as having latitude, hath four zodiacal paral- 
 lels ; one at its body, one at its antifcional point, and the other two at 
 their oppofite points. And hence, according to the example above 
 ftated, the Moon's parallels at her body fall in twenty degrees of Ge- 
 mini, and at the antifcional point in ten degrees of Cancer ; and their 
 oppofite points or contra-antifcians, fall in twenty degrees of Sagitta- 
 rius, and in ten degrees of Capricorn. Thefe antifcians, and contra- 
 antifcians, are always of a benign and friendly nature, when formed by 
 the benefic planets ; but they are equally unbenign and unfortunate, 
 when made by violent and malevolent flars. 
 
 As zodiacal parallels are only equal diftances from the tropical and 
 equiiioflial circles, fo mundane parallels, by a parity of reafon, arc no- 
 thing more than a like equal diftance from the horizontal or meridional 
 points or circles. For example, a planet on the cufp of the twelfth 
 houfe is in parallel to the cufp of the fecond houfe, becaufe it is exaftly 
 at the fame diflance from the afcendant or horizon that the twelfth is ; 
 and iikewife in parallel to the eighth houfe, as being exaftly the fame 
 diflance from the tenth houfe or meridian that the twelfth is. And, as 
 the zodiacal parallels are meafured by the circle of the zodiac, fo the 
 mundane parallels are meafured by the diurnal or nodurnal arches ; for 
 juft fo long as the Sun or any other planet will be in proceeding from 
 the cufp of the twelfth houfe to the cufp of the tenth, juft fo long the 
 fame Sun or other planets will be in proceeding, on the fame day, from 
 the cufp of the tenth to the cufp of the eighth houfe; and juft fo many 
 hours and minutes of time as there are between the fun-rifing and noon, 
 juft fo many hours and minutes are there, the fame day, between noon and 
 fun-fetting ; hence the diftance between the Sun's rifing and fetting; is no- 
 thing but the diurnal arch, which the meridian, or Sun's place at noon, 
 cuts into two equal parts ; and the diftance between the Sun's fettingand 
 rifing conftitutes the nodlurnal arch. Thefe mundane parallels have a 
 twofold confideration in dire6tions : firft fimple, and according to natural 
 order; and fecondly, according to the rapt motmi of the earth, or primum 
 mobile; both of which muftbe attended to in the calculation of nativities. 
 
 Now there are figns difTociate and feparate ; and thefe are fuch as 
 have no familiarity by any of the ways beforementioned ; for they nei- 
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 OFASTROLOGY. 395 
 
 ther command nor obey, nor mutually behold each other, nor are of 
 equal power ; but they are configurated by one or five figns, and do not 
 at all paitake of the apfefts, either by oppofition, trine, quartile, or 
 Textile. Hence they are termed injmSl; for, being configurated by one 
 fign's diftance, they are as it were diftorted from each other ; and thofc 
 which behold by five figns, divide the whole circle of the zodiac into 
 unequal parts. The figns under this defcription, are Aries, Gernmi, 
 Libra, and Sagittarius, which have no familiarity or afpeds with Taurus 
 or Scorpio ; and the figns. Cancer, Virgo, Capricorn, and Pifces, have 
 no familiarity with Leo or Aquaries. 
 
 But the planets have familiarity with all parts of the zodiac by 
 Houfes, Trigoiis, Exaltations, and Terms. Cancer and Leo, approachino- 
 nearer to our vertical point than either of the others, and thereby pro- 
 ducing heat and warmth, are for that reafon defined to be the houfes of 
 the two great and primary luminaries : Leo is attributed to the Sun as 
 mafculine, and Cancer to the Moon as feminine. Hence the femi- 
 circle of the zodiac from Leo to Capricorn is termed folar, and from 
 Aquaries to Cancer lunar, in order that each perfon fhould poffefs one 
 fign for its houfe in each of its femicircles ; the one bearing configuration 
 to the Sun, and the other to the Moon, according to the motion of the 
 fphere of each, and to their natural qualities. Saturn, therefore, being 
 in nature cold, and inimical to heat, occupying the highefl orb, and 
 being at the greateft diftance from the luminaries, takes for his houfes 
 the figns which are oppofite to Cancer and Leo, namely, Aquaries and 
 Capricorn, becaufe thefe figns are by nature cold and winterly, and the 
 afpedis which are made by oppofition do not combine to any good or 
 benevolent purpofe. Jupiter, becaufe his orb is next below that of 
 Saturn, aflumes for his houfes the two next figns, Sagittarius and Pifces, 
 which are windy and fruitful, by reafon of their trigonal refpe61: to the 
 luminaries, which is a fituation proper for the produ6lion of good. 
 Mars, being next in order to Jupiter, and dry by nature, takes for his 
 houfes the two next figns, Aries :ind Scorpio, which are fimilar in their 
 effects to Mars, by having malefic and mifchievous radiations with the 
 luminaries. Venus, being temperate, has for her houfes the two next 
 figns, Taurus and Libra, which are of a fruitful and prolific nature, 
 and correfpond with the luminaries by a fextile ray ; and is never more 
 than two figns diftant from the Sun. Mercury, being circumfcribed by 
 the orbs of all the other planets, takes for his houfes Gemini and Virgo ; 
 and is never more than one fign diftant from the central Sun, being 
 the firft planet next him. 
 
 • ■ The
 
 3^6 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 The familiarities by triplicity are next to be confidered by calculators 
 of nativities ; for whereas a triplicity and a figure of equal fides obtain 
 an ao-reement, Co the circle of the zodiac is circumfcribed by three 
 circles, the equinodial and the two tropics, and is divided into four 
 equilateral triangles, which conftitute thefe triplicities. The firft is 
 formed by the three mafculine figns, Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius ; and 
 it has for its lords, the Sun, Jupiter, and Mars; but Mars, being of a 
 contrary nature to the folar influence, is excluded from bearing any 
 government in this triplicity, and therefore the Sun has the rule by 
 day, and Jupiter by night. Aries occupies the equinoftial circle, Leo 
 the eftival, and Sagittarius the winter. This trigon is principally 
 northern, by reafon of the dominion of Jupicer ; and it is windy and 
 fruitful. It is alfo north-weft, and receives a mixture of the north- 
 weft winds, becaufe it is the houfe of Mars, which planet ftirs up and 
 governs thofe winds. 
 
 The fecond triplicity, which confifts of Taurus, Virgo, and Capri- 
 corn, is under the government of the Moon and Venus. The Moon 
 governs by night, and Venus by day. 1 aurus is in the eftival circle, 
 Virgo in the equinoftial, and Capricorn in the winter. This triplicity, 
 becaufe of the dominion of Venus, is fouth ; for this ftar, being endued 
 with a warming and moiftening power, produces fouth winds ; and, be- 
 caufe Saturn has his houfe in Capricorn, in this triplicity, it likewife 
 partakes of a mixture of the eaft winds ; for Saturn, being familiar to the 
 oriental parts by reafon of the condition of the Sun, produces and go- 
 verns the eaft winds. 
 
 The third triplicity is formed of the figns Gemini, Libra, and Aqua- 
 ries, three mafculine figns, and is placed under the government of 
 Saturn and Mercury ; Saturn rules by day, and Mercury by night ; 
 Gemini is fituate in the fummer circle. Libra in the equinodtial, and 
 Aquaries in the winter. This triplicity is chiefly eaftern, on account of 
 the government of Saturn ; but it becomes partly north-eaft, by the 
 influence of Jupiter, on which account it aflumes a mixture of the north- 
 eaft winds. 
 
 The fourth triplicity, confifting of Cancer, Scorpio, and Pifces, is 
 chiefly under Mars, who derives an influence here, on account of 
 having his houfe in Scorpio ; but, becaufe the figns in this triplicity are 
 feminine, the Moon by night, and Venus by day, rule jointly with 
 Mars, and intermix their qualities and influence together. Cancer is 
 fjtuate in the eftival circle, Scorpio in the winter, and Pifces in the 
 ^ equinotlial ;
 
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 39: 
 
 cquiiioflial. This triplicity is weftern, becaufe of the dominion of Mars 
 and the Moon ; but, affuming a mixture by the rule of Venus, it becomes 
 in fome meafore fouth-weft. 
 
 The familiarities by exaltation are thus occafioned : The Sun, when 
 he enters Aries, makes his tranfit into the high and northern fcmicircle ; 
 but, when he enters Libra, he pafles into the low and fouthern femicir- 
 cle. For this reafon, the Sun has his exaltation in Aries, in which the 
 days begin to lengthen, and the heating nature of the Sun begins to in- 
 creafe ; and for the contrary reafon he receives his fall in Libra. Saturn, 
 being of an oppofite nature to the Sun, has his exaltation in Libra, and 
 his fall in Aries ; for, wherefoever heat is increafed, cold is diminifhed; 
 and, where there is an augmentation of cold, heat is leffened. So the 
 Moon, becaufe flie makes her conjun6lion with the Sun in Aries, and 
 makes the beginning of the increafe of her light in the firft fign of her 
 triplicity, which is Taurus, that is affigned for her exaltation. So Ju- 
 piter, the producer of northern and fruitful winds, when in Cancer, be- 
 comes more northerly, and acquires a greater increafe of power; he 
 therefore takes Cancer for his exaltation, and Capricorn for his fall. And 
 fince Mars is chiefly of a burning nature, and becomes moft heating in 
 Capricorn, becaufe he is then in his moft fouthern declination, he hath 
 his exaltation in Capricorn, oppofite to that of Jupiter, and his fall in 
 Cancer. Again, Venus is naturally moiftening, but mollly fo when in 
 Pifces ; for which reafon (he aflumes her exaltation in that fign, and 
 takes her fall in Virgo. But Mercury, being of an oppofite nature, and 
 moftly dry, takes the oppofite fign Virgo for his exaltation ; for then 
 autumn, the dricft part of the feafon, appears ; and he has his fall in the 
 fign Pifces, 
 
 Familiarities by terms have been already largely explained in the 
 former part of this work. But it is necefTary to remark, that the be- 
 ginning of the figns, and of the terms alfo, ought to be made from the 
 beginning of the equino6lial and tropical figns; and this is manifefl, be- 
 caufe we fee their natures, and powers, and familiarities, have not any 
 other caufe, but from the tropics and equinoxes ; for, if other begin- 
 nings are appointed, we Ihall either be necefi!itated to ufe the nature of 
 the figns no longer in the theory of judgments, or, if we do admit them, 
 we (hall commit error by corrupting the diftanccs, and dividing thofe 
 from which influences are afforded them. 
 
 Befides thefe familiarities of the ftars and figns, they alfo pofTefs what 
 
 are called their faces, thrones, and the like. Their proper face is when 
 
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 398 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 each ftar keeps the fame figure with the Sun and Moon which its houfc 
 bears to their houfes. This is done when Venus makes a fexangular 
 figure to the luminaries ; and to the Sun when fhe is occidental, and to 
 the Moon when oriental, according to the fucceflion of houfes. They 
 arc alio faid to be in their thrones, when they have a power in the place 
 they poffefs, according to the foregoing prerogatives, by two or more 
 teltimonies ; for then their energy and influences are increafed, becaufe 
 the familiarity of the ambient twelve figns co-operates therewith. They 
 are likewife faid to be in their joy, when, although they have no fami- 
 liarity v.'ith the ambient figns, yet are fo in refpeft to others of the fame 
 condition with them, and by which likenefs there is found a communi- 
 cation by lympathy. So again, when they are found of an unlike and 
 contrary condition, much of their power is diminilhed by a new and 
 mixed virtue arifing from the different temperature of the ambient figns. 
 Hence let it be underfkood, that, when Mercury is one fign diftant from 
 the Sun, he is in his face; Venus, when two figns diftant ; Jupiter, 
 when four figns diftant ; and Saturn, when five figns from the Sun.- — 
 The fame obfervation holds good in refpe6l of the Moon, but then the 
 rule muft be made in figns antecedent to her ; as, if the Moon were in 
 Virgo, then Mercury would be fo dignified in Leo, Venus in Cancer, 
 Mars in Gemini, &c. The thrones of the planets are thefe ; Saturn's 
 throne is in Aquaries ; Jupiter's in Sagittarius ; Mars's in Scorpio ; the 
 Sun's in Leo ; Venus's in Taurus ; Mercury's in Virgo ; and the Moon's 
 in Cancer. 
 
 The famUiarities, by application and feparation, are likewife to be con- 
 fidered in the Do6lrine of Nativities. Thofe planets which precede 
 apply to thofe which follovv ; and they that foUqglpf feparate from thofe 
 which precede. Thefe applications and feparations are likewife to be 
 confidered with refpe6l to their latitude ; for, the fmaller the latitude of 
 planets in conjundiion is, the more powerful will be their influence ; 
 and, if two planets in conjunftion have confiderable latitude of different 
 denominations, their influence will be thereby much lefTened. This 
 obfervation likewife holds good in diredions ; .for, the nearer any pla- 
 net is to the ecliptic line, the greater will his influence be. Moreover, 
 their efFe61-s are either flrong or weak, in refpeft ot the horizon ; for, 
 when they are pofited in the mid-heaven, or pafs into the place fucce- 
 dent to the mid-heaven, they are very flrong and powerful ; the fame 
 alfo if they are in the horizon itfelf, or in any of the fuccedent houfes, 
 and more particularly when in oriental parts. But, when they are in the 
 imum coeli, or otherwife pofited under the earth, their influence is very 
 weak, and of but little efFeft. 
 
 From
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 399 
 
 From all the foregoing confiderations,-it is evident that the efficient 
 power of the ftars is deduced from their peculiar and natural afpecb, 
 or proportional diftances, confidered in refpeft of the Sun, the an^les^ 
 and the quality of the ambient figns; and by the power and influence of 
 thele afpeds are all aftrological fpeculations governed. But how thefe 
 afpefts were firft difcovered, and their virtues and pioportions alcertained* 
 does no where appear ; though it might be no dhhcult talk to account 
 for both upon philofophical and mathematical principles, fmce nature 
 every where, as well in the motions and effeds of the heavenly bodies 
 as in all other arithmetical and geometrical refpefls, particularly cele- 
 brates thofe proportions above all others. Picus, fpeaking of the afpeds, 
 thinks njankuid were led to the knowledge of them by obfervino- the 
 different phafes of the Moon ; 'for, when fhe is new, horned, in her 
 quarters, gibbofity, or at full, her forms are ftill changed at thefe pro- 
 portioned diftances from the Sun ; belides which, it is to be obferved 
 that in her annual revolutions (he is conftantly found about the trine of 
 her own place in the beginning of the former year. 
 
 Other aftronomers, of eftablifhed reputation, have likewife obferved, 
 that nature particularly points to every configuration, while we confider 
 the motions of the other planets. Abohazer judicioufly affirms, that 
 the two inferior planets, in their ftations, defcribe the arch proper to a 
 quartile alpe6t ; and Pliny alfo recommends to our obfcrvation the trine 
 afpe6ts, conftantly formed by the ftations of three fuperior planets. 
 But, above all, it cannot be confidered without great admiration, how 
 wonderfully Nature hath nobilitated all the afpeds in the motions of 
 Saturn and Jupiter. For, as their conjundions are rare, and happen but 
 once in twenty years, fo hath Nature evermore difpofed thele conjunc- 
 tions in the moft remarkable parts of the zodiac, that is, in fuch herns 
 only as behold each other in an equilateral triangle infcribed. For, be- 
 tween any two great conjundions of Saturn and Jupiter, there are nine- 
 teen Egyptian years, three hundred and eighteen days, and thirteen 
 hours, in which fpace of time thole planets are moved from the place 
 of their former conjundions eight ligns and almoft three decrees ; which 
 excefs of three degrees is the caufe why, after ten conjundions, they pafs 
 from one triplicity to another, attd one triphcity continues one hundred 
 ninety-eight equal years, two hundred ;nd fixty-five days, (the intercalary 
 day of every fourth year omitted,) and ten hours. But the revolution of 
 all the triplicities is finiftied only once in feven hundred ninety-four 
 equal >ears, three hundred thirty-one days, and fixteen hours ; or other- 
 wile in leven hundred ninety- four Julian years, one hundred thirty- 
 three days, and fixteen hours ; which, being doubled, amounts to one 
 
 thoufand.
 
 400 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 thouiand five hundred and eighty-eight, which number of years thofc 
 authors are thought to have relpe61ed who confidered the year 1588 from 
 the birth of Chrift would prove lb fatal. 
 
 From hence therefore, it is, and not without fufficient caufe, that 
 they are termed great conjun6lions, both happening rarely, and abiding 
 in one triplicity almoft two hundred years together, and not compleat- 
 ing all the triplicities of the zodiac in much lefs than eight hundred 
 years ; confequently they have not yet gone through all the triplicities 
 eight times Cnce the beginnins; of the world. Neither are the other 
 afpcdts formed by thefe planets to pafs unnoticed ; for whoever obferves 
 when Saturn and Jupiter behold each other by an oppofition or quartile 
 afpedt, they will evidently perceive that they ftill carry fuch a regard 
 to the figns or places of their preceding and next conjun6tions, as ever 
 more to irradiate the one and the other with an oppofition, Textile, 
 quartile, or trine afpc6t; which I think is a fufficient proof that nature 
 hath allured us to the confideration of the arcs formed by thefe afpedls 
 in the particular motion of each refpedive planet. 
 
 To confirm the virtues and efFedts of thefe afpe6ls, we need only con- 
 fider what phyficians are taught by experience, namely, that the crifis 
 of all acute difeafes has a palpable and extraordinary fympathy with 
 all thefe five configurations of the Moon, made to her place at the be- 
 ginning of the difeafe. Or, as a further proof, we need only refer to 
 what has already been faid relative to the tides, which conftantly 
 obferve the motions of the Moon, their fpring and highefl floods al- 
 ways concurring with their conjundtion and oppofition to the Sun, as 
 the neaps and loweft tides always do to her quarters. And it is 
 equally remarkable that the feas, in their daily ebbing and flowing upon 
 every coafi:, have refpedt only to fuch azimuthal circles, as are in a 
 quartile pofition when the Moon pafles by them. Again, the Sun moft 
 evidently manifefts great efFeds by the quartile afpedf, fince he modi- 
 fies and governs the viciffitudes of feafons, or four quarters of the 
 year, by his ingrefs into the four equinoftial and tropical points of the 
 zodiac. 
 
 The power of thefe afpedls is not injudicioufly flated by Julius 
 Firmicus, in the arithmetical obfervation which he makes of the num- 
 ber of figns agreeable to the afpe6ts, i, 2, 3, 4, 6, anfwering in pro- 
 grcffivc order to the conjundion, fextile, quartile, trine, and oppofi- 
 tion ; for thefe numbers only, and no others, will divide the zodiac 
 confifting of twelve figns ; for which reafon lie makes them the only 
 
 7 aliquot
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 401 
 
 aliquot parts of a circle. Ptolemy alfo added not a little to the dignity 
 of thefe irradiations, when he firft difcovered the geometrical propor- 
 tion which the fubtenfes of each of thefe arches bear in refpedl to the 
 diameter of a circle. Others again, with no lefs ino-enuity, have ob- 
 "ferved, that araongft all regular or ordinate figures that may be infcribed 
 in a circle, though the fame be infinite, there are none whofe fides and 
 angles 'carry away the prerogative at the circumference and centre, but 
 thofe whofe fides and angles are anfwerable to the fubtenfes and arches 
 of their afpe6fs. For, amongff all ordinate planes that may be infcribed 
 . there are no two whofe fides joined together have pre-eminence to oc- 
 cupy a femicircle, except the hexagon, quadrate, and equilateral triangle 
 anfwering to the fextile, quartile, and trine irradiated. The fubtenfe 
 therefore of a fextile afped confifls of two figns ; and, joined to the fub- 
 tenfe of a trine, compofed of four, being regular and equilateral, take 
 up fix figns, which is a complete femicircle. In like manner, the fides 
 of a quadrate infcribed, fubtending three figns, and twice reckoned, alfo 
 occupy the moiety of a circle. And what the foregoing figures are faid 
 to perform, either doubled or joined together, may alfo be found in 
 the afpeft of oppolition ; for the diametrical line which pafTes from the 
 place of conjundion to the oppofite point, divides a circle into two 
 equal parts, a circumftance which cannot be found in any other infcripts. 
 For example, the fide of a regular pentagon fubtends leventy-two de- 
 grees; of an odagon but forty-five; the remainders of which arches, viz. 
 one hundred and eight, and one hundred and thirty-five, degrees, are not 
 fubtended by the fides of any ordinate figure. 
 
 And thus, as the fubtenfes of thefe afpeds are the fame with the fides 
 of the foregoing infcripts, and only take up the circumference of a 
 circle ; fo it is evident, that the angles at which they concur, are the 
 fame wherewith the ordinate planes take up the whole fpace about the. 
 centre. For, if we confider the angle of a fextile afpe6l at the earth, it 
 is all the fame w^ith that of an equilateral triangle confifl:ino- of fixty 
 degrees, and contains two-thirds of a right angle. But fix times two- 
 thirds of a right angle make four right angles ; wherefore fix fextiles, 
 equal to fix equilateral triangles, fill the whole fpace about a point, 
 which is equal to four right angles. Secondly, every angle of a 
 quartile is a right angle, and the fame with the angle of a reflano-le 
 quadrilater figure, four of which fill a whole fpace. Thirdly, the ano-le 
 which two flars in a trine make, at the centre of the earth, is meafured 
 by an angle of one hundred and twenty degrees, which is equal to the 
 angle of a regular hexagon, confifling of a right angle and one-third ; 
 and, taken three times, makes four right angles ; wherefore three equila- 
 
 No. 21. 5 G teral
 
 402 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 teral hexagons, or three trine aipedls, alio fill the whole fpace about the 
 centre. To thcfe \vc niay likewife add the alpedi of oppofition, which 
 confifts of two right angles, and therefore, being doubled, will perfornn 
 the like opcrxition with the reft; whilft any other figure of many angles, 
 however joined together, will either fall fhort of four .right angles, or 
 elfe exceed them. For inftance^ the angle of a pentagon contains a right 
 angle and one fifth over, wherefore three I'u'ch angles placed about a point 
 will fall fhort of four right angles by two-fifths of a right angle ; whilft, 
 on the other hand, four fuch angles will exceed four right angles by 
 four- fifths, 
 
 Thefe fpeculations therefore duly confidered, it were fenfelefs to ima- 
 gine that nature hath fo many ways diftinguifhed thefe remarkable irra- 
 diations of the ftars in vain, or admoniflied us to a particular regard of 
 them by fo many rare and fecret operations, as well in the motion of 
 the planets as in their efFe6ts and proportions, if they were not endued 
 with more force and virtue than any of the others. Hence it has given 
 fcope to the ingenuity and abilities of the learned to aftign a caufe, why 
 thefe few configurations, above all the others, fhould be endued with 
 fuch extraordinary efficacy. Nor has any reafon yet been given, with 
 more apparent probability, than that thefe proportions, whereof the 
 afpefts are found to confift, are precifely the fame with thofe which arc 
 found in harmonical concords; for which reafon it is fuppofed no lefs 
 probable, that the rays of the ftars in thefe proportioned diftances fhould 
 powerfully afFe6l the matter of all fublunary things, by the fame rule 
 that the like geometrical fymmetry in founds and voices fhould ftir up 
 the fenfe and paffions of the hearer. And it is an eftablifhed obfervation 
 throughout the produftions of nature, that where due proportion is 
 not wanting, there fhe never fails to endue all her eifefts with fuch an 
 height of perfeftion as cannot but ftrike the fenfe and underftanding of 
 every obferver. And thus it is even in artificial compofitions, and in 
 medicines ; for we know thofe only to be raoft kind and fovereign, 
 which obferve a competent fymmetry or temperature of the a6live and 
 paffive qualities. With great propriety, therefore, and with every ap- 
 pearance of truth, moft of the learned agree with Ptolemy, that the 
 caufe of this wonderful efficacy in the foregoing, afpefls proceeds in a 
 great meafure from harmonical proportion. 
 
 But, more clearly to demonftrate this flmilitude or affinity between 
 the proportions of the afpe6ls and the like diftances obferved in mufical 
 concords, we muft underftand that all harmony whatfoever originally 
 fprings from three fuch terms or numbers as refpedl each other in fuch a 
 
 manner,
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 403 
 
 manner, that their differences invariably retain the fame proportion as 
 is found between their extremes. For inflance, in thefe three numbers, 
 6, 4, 3, anfwering to the figns of the oppofition, trine, and quartile', 
 configurations, it is evident, if we compare the extremes with the mean, 
 that 2 will be the difference between 6 the fail, and 4 the fecond 
 num.ber ; and i is in like manner between 4 the middle or fecond, 
 and 3 the third, number; but, 2 being double in proportion to i, there- 
 fore 6, the firft number, refpeds 3, the third number, with the like 
 proportion. The analogy of which proportions, as before ftated, is 
 found to be the bafis of all mufic, ariling wholly from thefe three 
 fmiple concording diftances, which by muficians are termed diapente, 
 eonfifting of a fefquialter proportion, as 6 to 4 ; or, which is all the 
 fame, of three to two ; diatcjfaron, compounded of a fefquitertia, as 4 
 to 3 ; and diapafon, confiffing of a double proportion, as 6 to 3, or 2 to 
 I ; and is equal to the two firft diftances and proportions put too^ether. 
 For a fefquialter added to a fefquitertia, according to the rules of pro- 
 portion, will produce a diapafon, or double proportion, exaftly fuch as 
 is found between the former extremes compared together, viz. as 6 to 
 3. In like manner, by comparing, the diapafon with both thefe parts, 
 that is, with the fefquialter and fefquitertia, according to the cuftoipary 
 manner of fupputating proportions, we are brought to the two other 
 compounded or imperfect concords ; fo conflituting the five firO: and 
 natural diftances in harmonical founds, that, being diverfly and judici- 
 oufly varied between themfelves, produce an infinite variety of all kinds 
 of melody. 
 
 After the fame manner we find it with regard to the light and in- 
 fluence of the heavens. For, although there are other afpeds attributed 
 to the ftars, both zodiacal and mundane, yet thefe five were anciently, and 
 are even now, obferved as being moft apt to aftion, and moft powerful in 
 their effeds, namely, the conjunftion, oppofition, trine, quartile, and 
 fextile ; and there is nothing more certain, than that by the harmonical 
 mixture of thefe proportioned beams, the generation and corruption of 
 this mortal world is infinitely varied and governed. Wherefore, as the 
 force of all harmony, fo likewife the effeftual reafon of all adion, in the 
 influence of the ftars, is properly deduced from the aforefaid fymmetry 
 of thefe diftances. But, more fully to illuftrate that the angles of the 
 afpeds, compared between themfelves, concur with thefe harmonic pro- 
 portions in mufic, let it be remembered, that flars in aii oppofite or dia- 
 metrical afpe6l are disjoined by the fpace of two right angles, which 
 are meafured with the arch of fix figns, of one hundred and eighty de- 
 grees of circumference ; and that the trine, confifting of four figns, or 
 
 one
 
 404 
 
 AN rLLUSTRATION 
 
 one hundred and twenty degrees, conftitutes one right angle and one 
 third of another; alfo, that the quartile afpeit takes up one entire right 
 ano-lc, and is fubtended with the arch of three figns, or ninety degrees ; 
 and Jikewife that a Textile is conflituted but of two figns, or fixty de- 
 crees, which is two thirds of a right angle. This being admitted, if 
 we now compare the two right angles of the oppofition, taken toge- 
 ther with the angles of the reft of the afpetts, and either the trine placed 
 between the oppofition and the quartile, or the quartile between the 
 oppofition and the Textile, we (hall find either way three numbers 
 which admit all the laws of harmonic proportion, as becomes evident 
 by the following figures, of which the firft proves the three concords to 
 have three perfed afpedts; and the fecond fhows the Textile to be an im- 
 perfeft al'pe6f, at^reeable to SaDente cum diapafon^ that is, a triple propor- 
 tion, as 60 is to 80. 
 
 8 
 
 A 
 
 D 
 
 8 
 
 D 
 
 * 
 
 180 
 
 I 20 
 
 90 
 
 180 
 
 90 
 
 60 
 
 The firfl figure fufficiently explains itfelf ;. buf in the fecond, let the 
 oppofition be compared with the Textile, and it will be found to have a 
 triple proportion to the Tame, compounded of a double and TeTquialter 
 proportion, as diapente is with diapaTon in mufic ; and hence it is found 
 110 fimple or perfeft afpeft, but exa611y anTwerable to B flat, the firft 
 imperfedl or compounded concord in mufic, being a Tixth from G fol re 
 ut ; which is nevertheleTs in Tome reTpedls efteemed perfecf, becauTe it 
 bears the Tame divifion compared to ^ fol re, as the perfect concords do ; 
 for it is half a fifth, and fituate in the centre between G ut and ^ fol re^ 
 Again, the Textile aTpedt compared with the trine,- is juft one half there- 
 of, which has been already proved to be in a TeTquialter proportion to 
 .the oppofition, as D fol re is to G ut, and therefore exactly correTponds 
 with the diapente in mufic ; which I here take occafioa to mention 
 
 1 again.
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 405 
 
 again, becaufe I may hereafter allude to it, when I tome to fpeak of the 
 new afpe6ts. What I have already faid will fuffice to fhow the philo. 
 fophical fpeculation of thofe who have afcribed the efficacy of the pla- 
 netary irradiations to the harmonical proportions which are found between 
 them. And, fince it is obvious that thefe afpeds do really bear the fame 
 mutual afpeft one towards another as all harmonical concoids are found 
 to retain among themfelves, what reafon can be afligned, why nature's 
 operations in the lights and influences of the heavenly bodies fhould not 
 be governed by this fymmetry of proportion, in the fame manner as we 
 find to be univerfally admitted in the fcience of mufic ? 
 
 But all this rather fer%-es to illuftrate a fimile, and to prove that nature 
 has indeed diftinguifhed thefe proportions with extraordinary virtues 
 above any other, than to fatisfy the mind ivhy, in the infinite variety of 
 founds and lights, thefe proportions only fhould correfpond fo fweetly 
 in mufic, and be mofl effedual in the operations of nature. Kepler, 
 with a fhow of plaufibility, has endeavoured to demonftrate, that God, in 
 the creation of the world, obferved the fame proportion in the mao-ni- 
 tude and diflance of the celeflial fpheres that is found in the regular 
 folids which in geometry have their origin from the ordinate planes; 
 and therefore concludes, that the motions of the heavenly bodies cor- 
 refpond moft fweetly, and co-operate moft powerfully together, when 
 the nature of fublunary things, endued, as he fuppofes, with a fenfitive 
 faculty, apprehends and receives the beams of the flars bv their con- 
 currence at the centre of the earth ; which anfwers to the ordinate 
 planes, from whence the regularity of thefe proportions is derived, as 
 the imprefTed charadl^crs of that admirable fymmetry which God is faid 
 to have obferved in the creation of the world. And hence he fuppofes 
 that, as often as any earthly fubflance meets with thefe proportions, it is 
 affected as it were by this idea, and exercifed in fuch a manner, that 
 what it but ordinarily performs at other times, it will now produce 
 with much more efFed. Not that thefe proportions work any thing of 
 themfelves; for in mufic, it is neither the founds nor the proportion 
 of the concords that work any thing of themfelves, or beget any de- 
 light in the hearer ; but the foul, approaching to the organs of fenfe, 
 there firfl entertains the founds inwardly, then regards their proportions, 
 and, finding the fame good and geometrical, laflly exhilarates itlelf, and 
 moves the body wherein it is as with an obje6l wherein it takes delio^ht. 
 Such alfo is the fympathy between the heavenly influences and all fublu- 
 nary matter, animate or inanimate. 
 
 No. 21. 5 H But,
 
 40 6 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 But, be this conceit of Kepler's as it may, we are not without fuffi- 
 cieut geometrical demonftration, to fhow the reafon why thefe propor- 
 tions, or irradiations of the ftars, are more effedual than any others. 
 For, fince it is admitted that an union of beams afFords the greateft in- 
 fluence, fo it is allowed that the conjundion and oppofition are for this 
 reafon the moft potent and powerful configurations of all others, as is 
 fhown by the following figure, where we find the beams, as well incident 
 as refledted, to be united. 
 
 For, let A be fuppofed in conjundion with B, it is firft manifeft that 
 all the beams flowing from G and E, the points of touch in the circum- 
 ference of A, fhall unite themfelves with the beams that are lent from 
 B to C the eartli's centre. Secondly, we are alfo to obkrve, chat in 
 this cafe the beam AC, or B C, coming from the centre of r le ftars, 
 reflefts only into itfelf, as being perpendicular; whereas t lole .)eams 
 which are fent from the points E and G make an acute angle at C, and 
 refled the one into the other at equal angles ; as G C refleds n om C to 
 E, and EC from C to G. Laflly, the union that happens i . an op- 
 pofition is manifefl without any illuftration, where the beams fent from 
 the oppofite points make but one ftraight line, as G F, and E H, in the 
 
 foregoing figure. 
 
 In
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 407 
 
 In like manner, in my contemplation, the configurations of the Tex- 
 tile and trine have a concurrence of their beams at the earth, and a mutual 
 refle61ion of the one into the other, and fo an union by refledion, as in the 
 
 following figure is manifeft 
 
 For, admit ABC to be three ftars, A and B in a Textile configuration, 
 and A C in a trinej then, forfomuch as B F, the beam iacident of the 
 Textile, falls obliquely in refpect of A F, and makes an acute angle there- 
 with, it, is evident to any one who has the fmallefl under/landing in 
 optics, that B F fhall reflect to C, and fo be united to C F, the incident 
 of the ll:ar C, which is in a trine configuration with A. For the fame reafon 
 C F fhall refleft to the flar in B, and be alfo united with B F, the inci- 
 dent of the ffar at B. And hence arife the grounds of that familiarity ia 
 thefe arches of heaven, which Ptolomy has laid down as the mofl apt for 
 the aph ra of life, or the houfes of the figure. 
 
 But the quartile afpe£l, whofe beams only cut each other ad cmgulos 
 re&os, and {o refle6t into themfelves, derives its principal virtue from 
 the exa£l proportion of its angles in taking up the centre of the earth ; 
 and hence the rayflery of thefe configurations wholly confifls in this, that 
 thefe irradiations only, and thofe that are derived from them, are pro- 
 portionable unto all patible matter, and therefore moft efFedtual. For 
 that thefe irradiations only are every way proportionable, has been al- 
 ready abundantly proved, whether we refped their taking upthe circum- 
 ference, the power and proportion of their fubtenfes unto t he diameter,, 
 or, laflly and principally, their occupying of place at the cen tre of the 
 earth by their angles, whereby they raufl needs (hine upon all elementary 
 
 matter
 
 4o8 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 matter with a due and even mixture of light and influence. And, fincc 
 no other arches, fubtenies, or angles, are found to enjoy thefe preroga- 
 tives, it is evident that thefe, above all others, have that fymmetry of 
 proportion which is neither defective, interrupted, nor redundant; but 
 fuch are the arches, fubtenfes, and angles, of thefe irradiations, that thefe, 
 and no other, are exa(511y proportionable. Now as that which is defe6iive, 
 and wants equality of proportion, leaves the a6lion fruftrate, and with- 
 out efFeft; fo that which on the other hand offends in excefs, muft needs 
 incur the contrary fault, and overcharge that which either nature or art 
 intended to perform ; whereby it will neceflarily follow, that, wherever 
 there is no defed nor excefs, but an equal and jufl: mixture of the in- 
 fluence of the f^ars in thefe irradiations, thefe only can be apt and pro- 
 per to produce perfedl and agreeable effeds in the formation and tempe- 
 rature of all fublunary things. For it happens in thefe effeds which are 
 produced by the mixture of light and heat, jufl the fame as in chemical 
 operations, where a defeft of heat produces nothing ; while, on the con- 
 trary, excefs will deflroy the whole, either by fublimation, vitrification, 
 eruption, or the like. 
 
 Having thus fatisfadtorily fhown how the points of the ordinate planes, 
 whereunto thefe configurations have been compared, often reiterated, do 
 take up place, I fhall now fet forth how the beams of any two flars in 
 any one of the former configurations fhall occupy more fpace than that 
 which is comprehended between their incidents or beams of true motion; 
 and how by their beams, either incident, refledfed, or oppofite, they 
 occupy and pofTefs the whole centre of the earth at one inflant with pro- 
 portionable angles. To demonflrate this, in refpeiSt to the conjunction 
 and oppofition whofe force rather depends upon union than proportion, 
 I need only refer the reader to a view of the lafi: diagram but one, where 
 he will find that the united beams of fuch flars as are in conjun6tion and 
 oppofition furround the centre, and all elementary matter whatfoever, 
 fubjeft to the a6fions of heaven. With regard to the quartile, whofe 
 beams incident and oppofite traverfe the centre of the earth at four right 
 angles, viz. at A F G, GFI, A F H, and HFI; and feeing four 
 points of a reCfangle-quadrilater figure have been already proved to occu- 
 py place; I likewife need no other proof in this configuration, than that the 
 reader will in the laft figure obferve how thefe four right angles, made 
 by one quartile afped, take up the centre of the earth. But concerning 
 the trine and lextile afpedls, we have yet more to confider ; for fuppole 
 two flars, A and B, in the lafl diagram, irradiate the earth with their 
 Textile beams ; although it be true, that, by protrading the oppofite 
 beam from B to F, the centre of the earth feems occupied with propor- 
 
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 tionable angles, B FA being fubtended by the arch of fixty degrees, which 
 is before declared to be the angle of an ordinate equilateral triano-le, and fo 
 leaves the outward angle B F I equal to the angle of an ordniate hex- 
 agon, fubtended here by the arch of one hundred and twenty dco-rees, 
 which is the arch of a trine ; and the like being alio found in the angles 
 made by the oppofite beams ad verticem ; yet, neverthelefs, we rnuft 
 here confider how the incident beam of B, viz. B F, reflefts into C 
 and fo takes up the whole femicircle A B C I with three Textiles viz! 
 AFB, BFC, and CFI. In like manner, if we fuppofe C to be in 
 a triangular configuration with A, it is evident that, as the oppofite beam 
 of H, viz. FI, makes a Textile with the incident beam of a flar at C, viz» 
 CF; fo CF, being the beam incident of the ftar at C, refleds alio to* 
 the point B, and fo makes the fame three Textile afpeds wherewith the 
 aforefaid whole femicircle is occupied, as above demonftratcd. Thefe 
 confiderations will undoubtedly fatisfy the reader how any two ftars, in 
 either of the afpefts above alluded to, proportiouably occupy the whole 
 centre of the earth in the fame moment of time, without reiteratino- the- 
 fame angle. 
 
 I have hitherto only fpoken of what are termed old configurations,, 
 which are indifputably the moft excellent ; but I fhall now mention 
 what are called the new ones, as introduced by the ingenious Kepler, 
 namely, the quintile, confifting of feventy-two degrees ; the biquintile, 
 of one hundred and forty-four degrees ; and the fefquiquadrate, of one 
 hundred and thirty-five degrees ; which afpefts being added to the for- 
 mer, make eight configurations, anfwering to the eight confonant ftops 
 in a monochord, Thefe new additions are by no means improperly 
 made, fince many eminent pradiitioners of this fcience have experienced 
 their utility in fpeculations on the weather and meteors, as well as in 
 bringing up the accidents of a nativity. Neither is there any want of 
 philofophical or mathematical demonflrations to fupport them ; for, as in 
 mufic there are but three perfedt concords, namely, the diapafon, diapente,, 
 and diateflaron; fo in aftrology there are but three perfeftafpefts aiifwer- 
 able to them, viz. the oppofition, the trine, and the quartile ; the fextile 
 having already been proved an imperfeft afpedl', anfwering exaftly to 
 Bflat, the firfl: among the imperfeft and compounded concords. Where- 
 fore, confidering that the firft three perfeft concords are found to have 
 their perfect afpefts anfwerable unto them, and that B flat, being an im- 
 perfefl: concord, is alfo found to agree exa6lly in proportion with the 
 lextile, being an imperfe6l afpe61, this undoubtedly gave Kepler fuffici- 
 ent reafon to conceive that the other harmonical proportions contained in 
 the fame monochord might alfo have their afpe»Sts, namely, the quin- 
 
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 tile, biquiutilc, and fcfquiquadrate, which are precifely found to cor- 
 rel'pond with them, and are in a fimilar degree effedual in their mode of 
 operation. 
 
 Thus having explained what the afpeds or configurations of the pla- 
 nets really are, and proved that their power and influences are grounded 
 upon philofophical and mathematical principles, I Ihall now proceed to 
 fhow their applications in the iiTues of human life, from conception to 
 the grave. 
 
 It is, 1 believe, univerfally admitted, that the beginning of human 
 generation takes place at the time of conception ; and therefore we ought 
 to be exact in afcertaining this time, and in coufidering the etFetlive 
 power of the configurations of the ftars, as they then happen to he 
 polited, and from thence contemplate the qualities of the mind and body. 
 For in the beginning, although the feed at once affumes a quality by the 
 communication of the circumambient matter, which at other times of 
 its formation and increafe becomes different; yet naturally, as it increafes, 
 it retains its own proper matter, and is rendered more like the peculiar 
 nature of the firft quality, with which it was imprefled at the time of 
 conception. But, if it be of Ibme importance to know the time of con- 
 ception, it is infinitely more fo to know the true time of birth ; for by 
 the firft, the accidents only before birth are known ; but by the fecond, 
 the incidents of our whole lives are to be difcovered. Wherefore one 
 may be called a beginning, and the other an after-beginning; the firft, 
 the generation of human feed ; the fecond, that of man. For in this 
 flate the infant affumes many things which it had not when in the womb, 
 and thofe peculiar to human nature alone, and the formation of the body. 
 And, although the properties of the celeftial and elementary matter 
 feem to confer nothing, at the time of birth, in refpe£l to the formation 
 of the child, yet it operates moft forcibly upon it in other refpeds ; for 
 nature, after perfeding the formation, difpofes the enfuing effeft ac- 
 cording to the ftate of the former at the beginning. Hence it is rea- 
 fonable, in thofe whofe time of conception is unknown, that the con- 
 figurations of the ftars formed at their birth fliould be {ignificative ; not 
 that it wholly contains an effedive power, but becaufe it neceffarily hath 
 a power by nature fimilar to the effedive. But it is always beft, if the 
 time of conception can be had, to compare it with the time of birth ; 
 ^ for the time of conception (hows what (hall happen to the infant while 
 in the womb; as whether it (hall be ftrong or weak, firm or infirm, perfe6l 
 or imperfed, male or female, fingle or twins; or whether it fliall arrive to 
 
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 OFASTROLOGY. 41 1 
 
 the full and perfe6l time of birth. But the occurrences of life after birth 
 are to be conlldered from the pofition of the heavens at the birth only. 
 
 Now, fince nothing can be predided in aftrology without this funda- 
 mental guide, namely, the radix, or true time of birth, various methods 
 have been invented in different ages, for the purpofe of afcertaining this 
 point with precifion, after the eftimate or fuppofed time is given. And 
 this is termed the re£lification of nativities, becaufe the times ufually 
 noted down by parents or midwives is feldom correal, either through 
 inattention, or from errors in clocks ; but by thefe rules the difference 
 between the eflimate or fuppofed time, and the real, is difcovered and 
 corrected. This reftification is done by various ways. Firftly, by the 
 Trutine of Hermes; fecondly, by the Animoder of Ptolomy; and thirdly, 
 by accidents of the native's life, which is alfo fivefold: firftly, according 
 to Argol ; fecondly, according to Kepler ; thirdly, according to Morinus ; 
 fourthly, by the luminaries ; and fifthly, by new and more corre6J: 
 methods. 
 
 Firftly, by the Trutine of Hermes, ere<5l the figure to the eftimate time 
 of birth, and reftify the Moon's place thereto; then take her diftance from 
 the afcendant, if (he be under the earth ; or from the feventh houfe, if 
 above the earth, by fubtrafting the angles from the Moon's place ; 
 adding thereto the three hundred and fixty degrees of the zodiac, if fub- 
 traftion cannot be made without ; then with the remainder enter the fol- 
 lowing Table under the column of the Moon's diftance; andpven with it, 
 in the fecond column if the birth was in February, in the third column 
 if January or December, in the fourth column if in April or September, 
 or in the fifth column if in March, May, June, July, Auguft, Oftober, 
 or November, will be found an equation of days to be added to, or 
 fubtradled from, the day of birth, according to the letters A or S, at the 
 top of each refpeftive column, whofe fum or difference gives the day of 
 the month, in the month of conception ; always obferving, that, if the 
 year of birth be a leap-year, one day more muft be added to every mouth 
 after February. 
 
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 If the birth was in January, the month of conception was April ; if 
 February, the month of conception was May ; if March, June ; if 
 April, July; if May, Auguft; if June, September; if July, Odober ; 
 if Auguft, November; if September, December; if Oflober, January; 
 if November, February; and, if December, March. Then bring the 
 Moon's place, the day of conception, to the fign, degree, and minute, 
 afcending, at the eflimate time, for the true time of conception. Or 
 thus; Subtradl: the right afcenfion of the Sun at the eftimate time of con- 
 ception, from the right afcenfion at the eftimate time of birth,- (taken in 
 the Table of Houfes againft the Moon's place, under the afcendant, 
 adding the three hundred and fixty degrees of the zodiac as before, if 
 fubtraftion cannot otherwife be made ;) the remainder, converted into 
 time, is the true hour and minute of conception. The degree and mi- 
 nute of the fign in which the Moon was pofited at conception is the 
 true degree and minute afcending at birth, according to the Trutine of 
 Hermes. 
 
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 413 
 
 To redify, Secondly, by theAnimoder of Ptolomy, ere6l the figure as near 
 as poflible to the eftimate time of birth, and confider in what fign, and in 
 what degree of that fign, the New Moon happened that lafl: preceded the 
 birth; or, if a Full Moon more nearly preceded the time of birth than a 
 new, then note the degree of the fign wherein either of the luminaries 
 were pofited that were above the earth; but, if one of the luminaries be 
 exaftly rifing, and the other fetting, prefer that which is rifing. Then 
 obferve which of the planets hath moft dignities by triplicity, houfe, ex- 
 altation, term, or configuration, in the degree of fuch precedin<y New 
 Moon, or in the degree of the luminary above the earth, or that afcends, 
 at fuch preceding Full Moon ; and alfo what fign and degree then af- 
 cends upon the horizon, or that culminates or pofifefTes the cufp of the 
 tenth houfe; and, if the degree of the planet, dignified as above, be 
 fituated nearer the degree afcending than to the degree culminatino-, 
 place the fame degree in number of the fign afcending, upon the cufp of 
 the afcendant, that fuch ruling planet pofTefled of the fign he was in. 
 But, on the contrary, if the planet be nearer the degree on the cufp of 
 the tenth houfe or medium cceli than to the afcendant, then the deo-ree 
 culminating, or poffeffing the cufp of the mid-heaven, muft be made 
 the fame with the degree the faid planet was in ; and fo, accordino- to 
 the fign and degree thus afcertained, muft the other houfes of the fio-ure 
 be varied; and this will be the true time of the native's birth. But, if it 
 fhould happen that two planets have equal dignities in the degrees 
 aforefaid, prefer that which is pofited the ncareft to the afcendant. 
 Ptolomy further obferves, that fign the Moon is in at the time of birth 
 is the very fign which afcended at the conception; and again, whatever 
 fign the Moon is in at conception, that or the oppofite will be the fio-n 
 alcending at birth. 
 
 Thirdly, to redify by accidents, i . according to the method of Argol, fet 
 the fcheme exadtly to the eftimate time, and draw it into a fpeculum ; then 
 run down the columns in the fpeculum, belonging to the afcendant and 
 medium coeli, confidering what diredlions might moft probably fio-nify 
 the accidents given, obferving the afcendant for accidents befalling the 
 body ; the medium coeli for things relating to credit or reputation, as 
 trade, honour, diftionour, preferment, &c. and convert the time of the 
 accident into an arch of diredlion, by Naibod's meafure of time ; and 
 then finding the true, right, or oblique, afcenfion of the promiffor with 
 latitude, if he hath any, from which fubtradling the arch of diredion, 
 the remainder will be the right afcenfion of the medium cceli, or oblique 
 afcenfion of the afcendant. If it be the oblique afcenfion of the afcen- 
 dant, fubtradl ninety degrees from it, the remainder will be the right 
 
 No. 21. 5 K. afcenfion
 
 414 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 afcenfion of the medium cceU correfled, between which, and the right 
 afcenfion of the medium cceli of the fuppofed time, take the difference ; 
 which add or fubtraft to or from the fuppofed time, according as the 
 right alcenfion of the medium coeli did Increafe or decreafe ; and the fum 
 or difference is the true time of birth required. 
 
 2. According to Kepler, gather a table of the Sun's place for eighty, 
 ninety, or one hundred, davs, more or lefs, immediately fucceeding 
 the day of birth ; then, having the time of the accident, number fo 
 many davs of the Sun's motion as there were years elapfed from the 
 birth, making allowance for the odd days ; and find the Sun's place at 
 that time, with tlie right afcenfion thereof, which fubtraft from the 
 oblique afcenfion of the promiffor denoting the accident, (added to two 
 hundred and feventy degrees ;) the remainder is the right afcenfion of time 
 correfled ; where note, that, having fet the figure to the eftimate time, 
 calculate the Sun's place thereto, and find the difference between that 
 and his place at noon the day of birth ; which if it exceeds his place of 
 birth, l"ubtra6t the aforefaid difference from his place at noon, agreeing 
 with that day fignifying the number of years in which the accident 
 happened ; but, if it be lefs, add ; fo fhall the difference or fum be the 
 Sun's diretlion for years complete ; then, for the odd days of the acci- 
 dent if any be, find the Sun's diurnal motion, in the faid table, againfl 
 the day fignifying the faid number of years, and fay. As three hundred 
 and fixty-five days fix hours is to the Sun's diurnal motion, fo arc 
 the faid odd days to the odd minutes, which are to be added to the Sun's 
 direftion aforefaid; which lum is the Sun's true place at the time of 
 birth. But, to redtify it by an accident compared with the medium 
 coeli, fubtradl the right afcenfion of the Sun, found by the former 
 rule, for the year and day of the accident, from the right afcenfion of 
 the promiffor, by adding three hundred and fixty degrees, if fubtradion 
 cannot be made without ; and the remainder is the right afcenfion of time 
 corrected. 
 
 3. According to Morinus, to re61ify the afcendant, or medium coeli, 
 by a diredion to the conjunftion or oppofition of the promiffor of any 
 accident, is exadly the fame with Argol ; but, if it be to the fextile, 
 quartile, or trine, of any fuch promiffor, firfl find their latitude, and 
 then in all refpeds follow the fame method as is above given in the 
 directions of Argol. 
 
 4. To reflify by the luminaries, proceed as follows: If no direiflioji 
 cf either angles will anfwer to the accident given, and it be eminent^ 
 
 conCder
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. ^r^ 
 
 confider the pofition of the luminaries, and fee what diredion of either 
 of them might moft probably fignify the fame ; which done, find the 
 luminary's pole of pofition exadly for its place in the eflimate fio-ure, 
 under which pole dire6l the faid luminary to the faid probable promiflbr, 
 and find the difference between that and the time of the accident 
 converted into an arch of diredtion ; then make a fecond fuppofition 
 at the pole of pofition, working as before ; and, noting the difference be- 
 tween the arches of the two directions, fay, As the difference of thefe two 
 arches is to the difference in the poles of pofition, fo is the firfl aforefaid 
 difference to the difference between the firfl fuppofed pole of pofition 
 and the true pole of the luminary propofed ; but it is neceffary here, 
 that the eftimate time be given pretty exaft. Thus, having found the 
 true pole of pofition, it gives the true oblique afcenfion or defcenfion of 
 the luminaries, with its diftance from the meridian ; by which may be 
 found the medium coeli corred, and thereby the true time of birth. 
 
 5. Befides thefe, there are feveral new methods of redifyino- nativi- 
 ties by accidents. For inflance, fet the figure to the eftimate time, and 
 draw a fpeculum thereto ; in which, befides the afpeds of the planets, 
 infert alfo the afpe«5fs which the afcendant and medium coeli make with 
 every hgn ; this done, confider what promiffors occur to a conjundion, 
 fextile, quartile, trine, or oppofition, of the afcendant, or medium coeli; 
 and for every year account one day in the Ephemeris, to the year 
 current in which the accident happened ; find that promiffor's place 
 (in that day adhering to the year current) for the eflimate time of 
 birth ; faying. As twenty-four hours is to the planet's diurnal motion, 
 fo are the hours and minutes elapfed from noon to the minutes to be 
 added or fubtraffed to or from the planet's place at noon that day ; ac- 
 cording as the laid planet was either direct or retrograde; then laftly. As 
 three hundred and fixty-five days fix hours are to that promiffor's diurnal 
 motion, fo is the number of days elapfed from the birth (at the termination 
 of which the accident fell out) to the minutes to be again added or fub- 
 traded to or from the aforefaid place of the faid promifTor, as he was 
 diredl or retrograde ; to which very degree and minute the afcendant or 
 medium coeli mufl be brought. But, if there be no diredion of the 
 afcendant or medium coeli to fignify that accident, confider what other 
 fignificator, being dire6fed to any likely promiflor, might effed the fame ; 
 and in the Ephemeris, againfl that day fignifying the number of the 
 years current for the eflimate time of birth find the place of the faid 
 promifTor ; then fay. As three hundred and fixty-five days fix hours are 
 to twenty-four hours, fo are the days elapfed (in which the accident 
 happened from the birth-day) to their proportioned part. Secondly, As 
 
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 4i6 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 twenty-four hours are to the fignificator's diurnal motion, fo is the afore- 
 laid proportional part to the minutes and feconds, which are to be fub- 
 dudled out of the place of the aforefaid promiflbr ; and the remainder is 
 the exadt place of the faid fignificator at the true time of birth. In this 
 cafe it will be neceflary to have the eftimate time very near ; and that 
 the Sun, Venus, Mercury, or the Moon, be fignificators ; and Saturn, 
 Jupiter, or Mars, or their afpeds, promiflbrs ; otherwife, if the more 
 weighty planets be fignificators, take the diurnal motion of the promiflbr, 
 and work as before, fubdufting thefe minutes and feconds from the 
 fignificator, and the remainder is the exad place of the promiflbr at the 
 true time of birth. If yet no direction appears which may fignify the 
 given accident, confider the Moon's direftions on the right-hand page 
 of the Ephemeris, againfl: the day (ignifying the year current in which 
 the accident happened; and, allowing two hours for a month, .fubtra6l the 
 days elapfed from the birth-day from the hours and minutes, adhering 
 to the lunar afpeft; and the remainder will be the hour and minute of 
 birth corredted. The fame obfervation likewife holds good with refpefl 
 to the mutual afpeds. 
 
 But the (horteflr, eafiefl:, and moft fimple, way of reflifying a nativity, 
 and which includes all the perfe6lions of the foregoing, provided the 
 eftimate time does not exceed two hours of the real, is as follows. — 
 Having ere6ted the fisfure to the eftimate time, obferve whether either of 
 the luminaries be pofited in the centre of any one of the three prime 
 angles, namely, the afcendant, medium coeli, or feventh houfe, or near 
 them ; and, if fo, bring either of them to the cufp of the angle, and the 
 degree and minute they were in is the true time of birth. But, if 
 neither of thefe are found thus centrically polited, nor near the cufps of 
 either of thofe angles, then bring them to a right parallel from angles, 
 and that will be the true time. If their pofitions will not admit of 
 this, obferve the two benefic planets Jupiter and Venus, and note 
 whether either of them be fituated as above fpecified, namely, in the 
 centre of the angles, or in a right parallel with either of the luminaries, 
 that is to lay, with the Sun by day, or the Moon by night ; and either 
 of thefe brought to the cufps as before, will give the true time of 
 birth. So likewife either of the malefic planets Saturn and Mars, if 
 found pofited in the centre of the angles, or near their cufps, or in 
 parallel to either of the luminaries as above, will be the prorogator of 
 life, and likewife fhow the true time of birth; but thefe laft pofitions 
 are rarely if ever found in the fchemes of grown perfons' nativities, 
 becaufe their influences, if not correded by the rays of benevolent 
 
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 ftars, are of To deftruflivc a tendency, that they generally cut off life in 
 a fhort time, either in infancy, or at leaft in the firft ftage of life. 
 
 Now, having brought a Nativity from its eftimate or fuppofed time 
 to that of the real, we are next to conflder its proper and contingent 
 parts and fignifications, fo far as they relate to accidents before birth, 
 and to thofe after the fubjeft comes into the world ; as alfo to parents 
 brethren, and relations, of the native. The particular confiderations 
 before birth relate to fex, as whether the infant be male or female; 
 and likewife to number, as whether there be twins or not. The caufes 
 of deformity, of monfters, and of thofe which perifh in the womb for 
 want of nourifhment, are alfo included in this part of the doftrine of 
 nativities. But the particular fubje6ls of enquiry after birth, relate to 
 the length of life, and form of the body ; to bodily difeales, and 
 accidental hurts and blemiflies of the members ; to the faculties of the 
 mind, and mental affedlions. They likewife include the future fortune 
 of the native, as well in pofTeffions as in dignities ; and alfo in the 
 quality of his aftions. Then concerning marriage and procreation; the 
 harmony of friends, and animofity of enemies ; next of travelling ; 
 and laftly, of death. — But the confideration concerning death is naturally 
 joined to that which relates to the fpace of life, fince it Ihows the quality 
 and mode of its termination. 
 
 1 It may naturally be alked, how thefe events are feverally and relpec- 
 tively diftinguifhed ? To explain this, let it be always remembered, that 
 for any particular event, we are to refer to fuch peculiar place in the 
 zodiac as is proper to that fpecies of a<5tion in the geniture con- 
 cerning which we are about to enquire. And whatever ftar is found to 
 have dominion in fuch place, either by triplicity, houfe, exaltation, 
 term, or configuration, fuch ftar (hall have dominion of the event. But, 
 if two or more ftars (hall be found in thcfe feveral pofitions, then that 
 ftar which has familiarity by moft ways, namely, that has the majority 
 of dignities, fliall be taken as ruler of the event, and ftiall affume the 
 dominion accordingly. The quality of the event is always known from 
 the nature of thefe ruling ftars, added to that of the figns in which thofe 
 flars are pofited, and the familiarities they have with the other fignifi- 
 caut parts of the heavens. The extent and importance of the event is 
 known from the lordftiips and dominions of thefe ruling ftars, according 
 to their ftrength or wcaknefs in refpedl of their afpeds in the world and 
 the geniture. They are ftrong in refpe6l of the world, when they arc 
 in proper places, or oriental, or augmented ; and in refpeSt of the ge- 
 niture when they make their tranfits on the angles, or fuccedent houfes ; 
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 4t8 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 but particularly when they occupy the cufps of the alcendant or mid- 
 heaven. And they are deemed weak, in re(pe6t of the world, when they 
 are in occidental places, and flow, retrograde, and diminifhing their 
 Courfes ; but weak in refpedl of the geniture, when they are in cadent 
 houles, or falling from the angles. The general time of the event is 
 known from thele ruling liars being orientally or occidentally polited in 
 refpe6t of the Sun and the horolbope, and from their beiJig in the angles 
 or luccedent houles ; for, when they are matutiiie or angular, they are 
 quick ; but, when occidental or velpcrtine, flow. 
 
 Thefe things being premifed, it follows that the firfl: confideration 
 upon the face of a geniture is that which relates to the parents of the na- 
 tive. The Sun, therefore, and Saturn, reprelent the perfon of the father ; 
 and the Moon and Venus that of the mother. And, as thefe are found 
 afflidled among themfelves, or otherwife, fo we underfl:and the accidents 
 appertaining to parents will be. The ftars that are configurated with 
 the luminaries fhow what relates to their fortunes and poffeflions ; for, if 
 they are furrounded by the benefics, and by fuch as are of the fame 
 nature, and in the fame figns, or the fucceeding, their fortunes will be 
 illuftrious and fplendid ; particularly if the Sun be configurated with 
 oriental ftars, or the Moon by occidental. If Saturn and Venus be ori- 
 entally pofited, or angular, they forefliow happinefs according to the par- 
 ticular circumftances of each parent. If the luminaries are voidof courfe^ 
 and in no good afpeft with the fortunate ftars, a low condition, or an 
 ignoble life, is prenoted. But, if the luminaries are varioufly configu- 
 rated with good and evil ftars, a mediocrity and inequality in the fortunes 
 of the parents is thereby demonftrated ; as when Mars afcends to the 
 Sun, or Saturn to the Moon, and the benefics in different conditions. 
 Again, if the Part of Fortune in the nativity is found in a good pofition, 
 with the ftars configurated with the Sun and Moon, the affairs of the 
 parents will be prolperous ; but if it be difcordant, and fituated in a bad 
 place of the figure, with malefic ftars, their concerns will turn out injurious 
 and unprofitable. 
 
 The length and fhortnefs of life muft be confidered from other confi- 
 gurations. If Jupiter or Venus are any way joined in afpeft with the Sun 
 or Saturn, or if Saturn hath an harmonizing configuration with the Suhj 
 that is, if they behold each other by a fextile or trine, and ftrongly dig- 
 nified in other refpeds, they promife long life to the father. But if 
 thefe pofitions are found weak, with Mars dignified above the Sun, and 
 Saturn in quartile or oppofition, the father will be taken off in the early 
 part of his life. The diftindtions which relate to the mother, are thefe. 
 
 4 If
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 419 
 
 If Jupiter IS configurated to the Moon or Venus, or Venus alone be- 
 holds the Moon by a lextile or trhie afpedt, the mother will enjoy health 
 and longevity. But, if Mars be pofited. in any of the angular or luc- 
 ceedent houfes, beholding tiie Moon or Venus with a quartile or oppo- 
 fition ; or if Saturn is thus configurated with the Moon, flow in motion, 
 and declining from angles ; they induce the direft contrary effedis, and 
 proclaim a difeafed and fhort life to the mother. Thus from the nativity 
 of a child may the principal concerns of the father and mother be fought 
 out, and afcertained ; and fuch is the fympathy exifting by this bond of 
 nature and confanguinity, that little difference will be found, if compared 
 with the proper nativity of each parent. 
 
 But, to give judgment in fuch cafes with corrednefs, feparate fchemes 
 muft be ere6led for the father and mother, by the following rule. — In 
 the figure eredled for the father, if the nativity be diurnal, note the 
 degree in which the Sun is pofited in the child's nativity, and make 
 that the degree afcending upon the horofcope for the father ; and, con- 
 formable to that, order the cufps of all the other houfes, by the i-ules 
 heretofore laid down. If the figure be erected for the mother, then 
 take the degree of Venus, inftead of the Sun, and proceed in all other 
 reipeils the fame. But, if the nativity be nofturnal, take the degree of 
 Saturn for the father, and that of the Moon for the mother. And in 
 all thefe cafes it mufl be obferved, that the nativity of the firft-born is 
 to be preferred, then tljgt of the fecond, and fo on ; and that whatever 
 is prenoted in. relatirn to the parents from thefe figures, is only fuch 
 as fhall happen to them after the birth of the child, and not to any 
 thing before. The time in which any or each of thefe events will hap- 
 pen is to be fought out by the arcs of dire6tion, or diftances, of that fl:ar 
 which hath the dominion, in refpe6i: of the Sun, and the angles of the 
 world ; and this 1 fhall make perfedlly eafy to the meancft underftanding, 
 when I come to treat of Dire6tions in general. 
 
 o 
 
 Now the next confideration in the native's geniture is the place of 
 brethren; and this is taken from the fign on the mid heaven, and the 
 maternal place, which is the pofition of Venus by day, and the Moon by 
 night. For, as this can only relate to children born of the fame mother, 
 this fign, and that which fucceeds it, being maternal, naturally confti- 
 tute the place of brethren. This place, therefore, when configurated by 
 benevolent ftars, denotes plenty of brethren, becaufe the increafe of bro- 
 thers and fiflers happens according to the multitude of flars, and from 
 their being fituated in double-bodied figns, or in thofe of one form ; 
 but, if the malefics have fuperiority in number or power, or are advcrfe 
 
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 420 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 by oppofition, paucity of brethren will happen, particularly if unbr- 
 nign ftars circumfcribe the Sun, If the contrariety of afpe6ls be in 
 angular houfes, efpecially in the afcendant, Saturn will procure thofe 
 that are firft nouriflied, and firft-born ; and Mars will induce to few- 
 . nefs and death. Moreover, if the flars which give brethren are well 
 affeded according to mundane fituations, the general fortunes of the 
 brethren will be glorious and famous; but mean and obfcure if the con- 
 trary pofitions happen. If the malefics be fupcrior in number and ftrength 
 to the ftars which give brethren, their conftitutions will be puny, and 
 their lives (hoct. 
 
 And here alfo we may obferve, that, from the gcniture of one bro- 
 ther, the principal incidents of the life of another may be difcovered, by 
 conlVituting the place of the given planet as an hoiofcope; that is, the 
 planet which has piincipal rule in the houfe of brethren, whether by 
 day or night. The method is, to place this ruling planet, with the 
 fame degree he is found in, upon the afcendant, furnifhing the culps of 
 all the other houfes by this ftandard, as before ftated in the cafe of pa- 
 rents. It muft however always be remembered, that malculine fbars 
 produce males, and feminine females. Alfo, if the fl:ars which denote 
 brethren and that which has rule in the houfe of brethren agree by 
 any harmonious configuration, they will be affeded towards each other, 
 and live in friendfhip and concord ; but, if thefe ftars are found in 
 contrary pofitions, and in figns inconjundl, enmity and hate will mark 
 their condu6t towards each other. 
 
 The foregoing fpeculations are deduced from an invefligation of the 
 poCtion of the heavens at the time of birth; but, in order to know 
 whether the infant be male or female, during the ftate of pregnancy, 
 the time of conception only muft be confidered. For this purpofe, we 
 muft particularly obferve the pofition of both the luminaries in refpeft 
 to the horofcope, at the time of conception, together with the fitua- 
 tions of all the ftars which have a regard to them ; and whether the 
 ruling ftars are conftituted of a mafculine or feminine nature. For the 
 produftion of males and females is according to the diftindion of maf- 
 culine and feminine ftars, which I have already fhown proceeds from 
 the nature of the figns in which they are pofited, and from their mutual 
 and mundane afpe6ts ; for, being oriental, they are mafculine ; but, 
 occidental, feminine. The fame likewife in refpeft to the Sun ; for, 
 being oriental, they are referred to the male ; and, occidental, to the 
 female. Therefore thofe which have the greateft power in thefe refpe6h 
 at the time of conception will give fufficient grounds to conjecture at the 
 fex of the infant for months before it is boru. 
 
 So
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 441 
 
 So likewife the fame confiderations hold good, in fome refpefls, con- 
 cerning twins, or more ; for herein we are principally to regard the two 
 luminaries and the afcendant. For it happens through the mixtures 
 which are occafioned when they poflefs bicorporal figns, or when the 
 ruling planets are fituated in them, and many prolific ftars caft their rays 
 to the fame, that it will be a plural conception. The number then 
 generated is known from the ftar which induces the propriety of the 
 number; but the fex is determined by the ftars configurated with the 
 Sun, Moon, and horofcope. For we find from obfervation, that, when 
 both the luminaries are in the mid-heaven, twins are procreated ; when 
 Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, have configuration with the affigned places in 
 bicorporal figns, three males are generated ; but three females, when 
 Venus, Luna, and Mercury, are configurated in the fame manner. Saturn, 
 Jupiter, and Venus, thus difpofed, produce two males and one female ; 
 but Venus, Luna, and Mars, two females and one male. Thefe configu- 
 rations but rarely happening at the time of conception, render it a kind 
 of phenomenon whenever they occur; and hence we generally find the 
 births that follow in confequence are ranked amongft the wonders of the 
 day in the public prints, though the caufe has a radical foundation in 
 nature. And hence too it is, that, as thefe configurations are more or 
 lefs imperfedtly made, fo will be the quality of the conception, either 
 bringing all into life uniform and perfetSl at the birth, or elfe bringing 
 one with good conformation, and another with puny, imperfect, or mon- 
 flrous, members. 
 
 There are alfo certain configurations of the ftars, which abfolutely pro- 
 duce moles or monfters in every conception that takes place under 
 them. Thus it happens when the luminaries decline from angles, and 
 fall cadent, without any kind of afpe<5l to the afcendant, and when the 
 cardinal houfes are occupied by the malefic planets. But to defcribe the 
 fpecies of unnatural birth, it is neceflary, in thefe configurations, to 
 obferve the place of the laft full moon preceding the time of conception, 
 together with the ruler thereof, and the lord of the luminaries ; for, if 
 the places of thefe fignificators have no familiarity with the place of the 
 faid preceding full moon, what is then generated will be of unnatural 
 conformation. If the luminaries are at the fame time pofited in four- 
 footed figns, and the two malefic planets in angular houfes, what is then 
 conceived will not be in human ftiape ; but if Jupiter or Venus interpofe 
 their benevolent rays, and give teftimony to the luminaries, then 
 what is conceived will be of human conformation, but of a fierce and 
 favage nature. If Mercury correfponds with the luminaries, the difpo- 
 fition will be agreeable to nature, but the form of the body will be 
 
 No. 2a. 5 M unnatural ;
 
 422 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 unnatural ; or if the luminaries be in human figns, and the ruling planet 
 difcordant, then the offspring will be of proper conformation, but mon- 
 ftrous in quality. If one of the malefic ftars give teftimony in any of 
 the foregoing pofitions, what is then generated will be irrational, or of 
 ungovernable qualities ; but, if Jupiter or Venus give teftimony, the 
 offspring will naturally pofTefs the mental accomplifhments, with an her- 
 maphroditical conformation. If Mercury alone give teftimony, to the 
 aforefaid pofitions of the luminaries, that which is procreated will be deaf, 
 and perhaps dumb, though intelleftually well qualified, and ingenious. 
 Thefe fpeculations are doubtlefs abftrufe, becaufe fuch configurations fel- 
 dom happen, and the refult of them is very little known ; but, to confirm 
 their efFe6l, I have only to recommend to thofe who have their doubts, 
 to be guided by obfervation, and to decide by the refult; for the more we 
 enquire into the pathlefs ways of nature, the more readily we deduce a 
 radical caufe for all her produdions. 
 
 But here I muft not omit to remark, that the time of conception, and 
 that only, is to be referred to for the conformation or accidents of the 
 child in the womb; and the time of birth for what fhall happen after- 
 wards; notwithftanding there is always fuch a concurring agreement be- 
 tween the conception and birth, that whatever is produced by the former 
 is in a great meafure to be difcovered from the latter, though not wholly 
 corre6l, or to be relied upon as infallible. Thofe therefore, who are 
 born in their natural fhape, and afterwards become crippled and lame, 
 even to a monftrofity, yet, fince not brought into the world with the na- 
 tive, they fall under the defcription of blemifhes, or bodily infirmities, 
 rather than the refult of monftrous and unnatural conformations. 
 
 Diftin61: from this fpecies of conception, is that which, though per- 
 fedly natural and well conformed, yet is void of ftamina, and hence 
 termed an embryo not nouriJ}ied. This kind of conception happens when 
 one of the luminaries, in an angular pofition, is joined with a malefic 
 ftar, and that luminary giver of life. So likewife if the parallel of longi- 
 tude between the malefic planet and the luminary be partile, or accord- 
 ing to a figure of equal fides, and none of the fortunes correfpond- 
 ing; and at the fame time the lord of the luminaries be pofited in a dis- 
 cordant place, what is then generated cannot be nouriflied, but decays in 
 the womb, or expires foon after the birth. Or if they are not equi- 
 laterally configurated, but the two malefic planets nearly irradiate the 
 places of the luminaries, afflwSling both, or only one of them, no matter 
 whether the malefics be fuccedent or oppofite, fo one or both of them be 
 in partile configuration with the luminaries; for whatever is born under 
 
 fuch:
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 423 
 
 fuch influences will be of no duration, {jnce the greatnefs of the power of 
 the malefics will deftroy what fliould neceflarily conduce to the nourifti- 
 ment of life. 
 
 It is particularly to be obferved, that Mars afflidls the Sun by fuccef- 
 fions, and Saturn the Moon ; but by oppofitions the contrary happens ; 
 for in thefe the Sun is affli6ted by Saturn, and the Moon by Mars ; and 
 this afflidion is the more eminent when the malefic flars are fignifi- 
 cators, and by that means become fuperior both to the luminaries and 
 the horofcope. From thefe obfervations fubordinate efFedls have been 
 afcertained ; for, when there are two oppofitions of the malefic ftars, and 
 the luminaries fituated in angles, whatever follows that conception will 
 be fl:ill-<born. But if at this time the luminaries are feparating from the 
 benefic planets, or are in any other afpe6l with them, carting their beams 
 at that time in a converfe diredion, the foetus will obtain animation, 
 and be found alive and perfedl at the birth ; but will live only fo many 
 months, days, or hours, as there are degrees, minutes, or feconds, of the 
 folar motion, between the beams of the Apheta and the neareft malefic 
 planet. But, if the malefics cafl: their beams to the parts preceding 
 the luminaries, and the benefics to the degrees following, what is born 
 will fufFer great affli6tions, and flruggle much with infirmities, but fhall 
 recover and live. 
 
 And hence the confideration that naturally follows regards the dura- 
 tion or fpace of life, which, taking in the whole compafs of hUman pur- 
 fuits, and the duration and viciffitudes of them, certainly becomes the 
 moft interefting part of the doflrine of the ftars. The mode of afcer- 
 taining this important point, namely, the fpace of duration of the native's 
 life, is defined from a comparifon of the aphetic, hylegiacal, or prorogatory, 
 places, with tlie killing or anaretical places in the genethliacal figure at 
 the time of birth. The aphetic place is the fituation of the Apheta, 
 Hyleg, Prorogator, Significator or giver of life, for they have all the 
 fame meaning; and the anaretical place is the fituation of the 
 Anareta, or killing planet ; and whenever thefe fhall meet together, or 
 be conjoined in a bodily afpecl, the native will find a termination of life ; 
 confequently the length of time, in which the Apheta and Anareta, as 
 pofited in each refpedtive figure of a nativity, will be in forming a con- 
 junction, or coming together in the fame point of the heavens, is the 
 precife length of the native's life ; and this period is afcertained by what 
 we term arcs of dire6tion, equated by the folar motion, and reduced 
 to common time. The method of afcertaining thefe aphetical and 
 anaretical places, of finding the arcs of diredion, aad o£ reducing 
 
 them.
 
 4»4 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 them to the common meafure of time, fliall be copioufly explained after 
 we have taught the mode of afcertaining the particular occurrences 
 of the native's life, from the face of the horofcope, or genethliacal 
 figure. 
 
 Of the FORM and TEMPERATURE of the BODY. 
 
 If the fpace of life appears likely to exceed childhood, we are next to 
 confider and define the ihape and figure of the native's body, according 
 to the rules heretofore laid down. The parts of the body are formed 
 before the foul ; and, becaufe it is infinitely more grofs, hath a connate 
 and almojfl: apparent endowment of temper. But the foul, not being 
 communicated to the body till the entire conformation thereof be wholly 
 perfe6ted, manifefts by degrees an aptitude proceeding from the firft caufe, 
 but much later than thofe of the external accidents ; and therefore it re- 
 quires fome length of time before the nature and progrefs of this mental 
 aptitude can be known. As to the form and temperature of the body, 
 that is generally defcribed from the oriental horizon, and from fuch of 
 the planets as bear rule in it, or have the dominion thereof; together with 
 the particular and refpeftrve configurations with the Moon ; for according 
 to the quality of thefe two places, and the nature of the ruling fiars, 
 the formative virtue, and the temperament in each fpecies, with reference 
 to the declination of the afcending fixed ilars, is the particular for- 
 mation of bodies defined. 
 
 To what has been already faid, concerning the effefts of each planet 
 refpedively, in giving fhape to fuch infants over whofe nativities they 
 prefide, we muft likewife add the peculiar force and operative faculty of 
 the luminaries with which they may then happen to be configurated. — 
 If the Sun co-operates, it contributes much towards the produdiion of a 
 more comely and majeftic perfonage, and of a mild and good habit; and 
 the Moon, when flie withholds her defluxion, caufes a more proportionate, 
 flender, and moift, temperament; but varioufly, according to the nature 
 and qualities of her feveral quarters. Again, if the luminaries corref^ 
 pond with oriental rays, they add to comelinefs and ftature ; or, if 
 ftationary, they make the native ftrong and robuft. But, when they acci- 
 dentally concur, difproportionate formations and evil temperaments are 
 commonly the refult. 
 
 In this fpeculation, the different effeds of the four quadrants are like- 
 wife to be confidered; that from the vernal equinox to the fummer 
 
 tropic.
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 4^5 
 
 tropic gives the native an excellent complexion, comely, of a good 
 ftature, abounding with heat and moifture. But the quadrant from the 
 fummer tropic to the autumnal equinox gives but an indifferent com- 
 plexion, though the body is well proportioned, healthy, and vigorous, 
 abounding with heat and drynefs. That from the autumnal equuiox to 
 the winter tropic gives a fanguine complexion, with a flender, lean, and 
 fickly, habit, abounding with drynefs and cold. The quadrant from the 
 winter folftice to the ipring equinox gives a dark complexion, with a 
 moderate flature, fquare and llrong, abounding with cold and moif- 
 ture. This is to be underftood in reference to the figns afcending, and 
 in which the Moon and other fignificators refpedlively bear rule. But 
 it is more particularly to be obferved, that the figns which are of human 
 form, both in the zodiac and without it, make bodies of a moft excellent 
 fymmetry and proportion ; while thofe which are not of human form 
 a6l contrariwife, deranging the proper rules of proportion, and influ- 
 encing from the properties effential to an elegant fhape to that of difpro- 
 portion and deformity. 
 
 Of the RADICAL CAUSE of BLEMISHES and BODILY 
 
 DISEASES. 
 
 From a fimilar hypothefis to the above, we derive the obfervatioti of 
 external blemifhes and bodily difeafes, with all the common accidents of 
 the human frame, to which the native is expofed during the courfe of 
 his life. The moft approved mode of afcertaining and diftinguifhing 
 thefe is by regarding the eaftern and weftern angles of the horizon, but 
 particularly the weftern, and the part preceding, which is the fixth 
 houfe, for that is inconjun6l: with the oriental angle. Thefe angles 
 being properly taken, we fhould next obferve the malefic ftars, and how 
 they are configurated ; for, if both or either of them are pofited upon the 
 afcending parts of the faid angles, either bodily or by quartile or oppo- 
 fition, there will be external blemifhes, or bodily infirmities, infe- 
 parable from the perfon then born. Or, if both the luminaries, or only 
 one of them, be angular, as above defcribed, either in conjunftion or 
 oppofition, with a malefic flar afcending, they will produce fuch infirmi- 
 ties or blemiflies as the particular places of the horizon and figns then 
 afcending, and as the nature of the malefic and ill-afi^e£ted ftars, (hall ref- 
 pedively manifeft; for in this cafe, as in all fimilar ones, the degrees of 
 the figns which are upon the afflided part of the horizon will ftiow the 
 particular part of the body wherein the infirmity is, whether it be a 
 blemifti or difeafe, or both; and the nature of thole ftars will likewife 
 point out the caufe and quality of the fymptom. 
 
 No. 32. 5 N Blemishes
 
 426 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Blemifhes and bodily hurts for the mofl: part happen when the male- 
 fics are oriental ; but dif'eafes when occidental. And, as their caufe is 
 different, fo alfb is their effedt ; for hurt or blemifli fufFers pain only 
 once, and is not prolonged ; but a difeafe frequently comes by fits, or con- 
 tinually affedls the patient, inducing a long and lingering diflblu- 
 tion, or confumptive habit. Thefe are general confiderations ; but the 
 more particular do6trine of blemifhes and difeafes hath another fpecula- 
 tion of figures, by which, for the mofl: part, fimilar accidents follow. 
 For blindnefs of one eye is indicated, when the Moon is pofited in either 
 of the afore-mentioned angles by herfelf, or at the precife time of be- 
 coming new or full; or when fhe is configurated in a quartile afpedl, and 
 applies to any of the nebulous converfions in the zodiac. The fame mif- 
 fortune happens when Saturn and Mars, being oriental, afcend to the 
 Moon, pofited in an angle ; but, whenever they are thus configurated to 
 both the luminaries, either in the fame fign or in the oppofite, and orien- 
 tally pofited in refped of the Sun, but occidental in rcfpe6t of the 
 Moon, they caufe blindnefs in both the eyes. Mars ufually denotes 
 blindnefs by the effefts of a blow or thrufl", and by lightning, burnings, 
 &c. but, if configurated with Venus, it generally proceeds from an ac- 
 cident in play or exercife, or from the fudden attack of aflaffins or def- 
 peradoes. 
 
 Saturn produces blindnefs by catarafl^s and colds, or by pin and web, 
 and by fuch-like accidents; but, if Venus be pofited in any of the above- 
 mentioned angles, particularly in the weft, configurated or joined with 
 Saturn and Mars at the fame time elevated, or in oppofition, the males 
 then born will be incapable of propagating their fpecies, and the females 
 either wholly barren, or fubjedt to abortion, or to the bringing forth of 
 ftill-born children, or to fuch as adhere to the womb, and are obliged to 
 be feparated by manual operation, or brought away in pieces. This moft 
 commonly happens in the figns Cancer, Virgo, and Capricorn. But, if 
 the Moon be at the fame time in the afcendant, configurated with Mer- 
 cury or Saturn, and applying to Mars, what are then born will partici- 
 pate in the nature of both fexes, and perhaps be void of a natural paf- 
 fage. It is likewife found, that if the Sun be configurated with Mercury, 
 and both the luminaries difpofed after a mafculine manner, the Moon 
 decreafing, and the malefic fl:ars afcenduig in the following degrees, 
 the males will be deprived of the members proper for generation, 
 or be irreparably blemiflied or infufficient in them, particularly in the 
 figns Aries, Leo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Aquaries; and the females will 
 be naturally barren all their lives. 
 
 Impediments
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 4^7 
 
 I 
 
 Impediments or blemiflies in the fpeech are found to arife from the 
 configurations of Saturn and Mercury with the Sun, in the aforefaid 
 angles; particularly when Mercury is pofited in the weft, and beholds the 
 Moon either by an oppofition or quartile arpe6l. And, if theie configu- 
 rations happen to be made in mute figns, as in Cancer,. Scorpio, or 
 Pifces, the impediment will prove confiderably greater. Again, if the 
 malefic ftars are pofited in angles, and the luminaries afcend to them 
 either by conjundion or oppohtion; or if the malefics alceiid to the lumi- 
 naries, and the Moon be in her node in hurtful figns, as Aries, 
 Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio, or Capricorn, the defeds of the body will be 
 by lamenefs, gibbofity, dirtortion, or luxation. If the malefic fl:ars are in 
 conjundion with the luminaries, thefe aftedions will take place from the 
 birth; but, if they are fituated in the mid-heaven, elevated above the 
 lumin'aiies, or in oppofition to them, they will arife from the concurrence 
 of various accidents, fuch as falls, blows, wounds, and the like, during 
 their progrefs through life. 
 
 Blemiflies happen for the mofl: part when the ^foon is in tropical or 
 equinoctial figns. In the vernal figns they are chiefly occafioned by 
 morphew; in the fummer, by tetters; in the autumn, by the fcurvy; and 
 ill the winter,, by biles and other morbid eruptions. But difeafes moftly 
 happen when the malefic flars are configurated in the aforefaid angles, 
 but coutrarily as to the luminaries, viz. occidental to the Sun, and 
 oriental to the Mooa. In thefe pofitions,. Saturn induces to unufual cold^ 
 nefs in the belly and rejns, and fubjefts the native to phlegmatic humours, 
 bloody fluxes, jaundice, and the whole train of hyflerical affections. Mars 
 occafions melancholy, difeafes of tne lungs, fiflulas, hot ulcers, and putre- 
 fadlions. If Mercury co-operates with either of thefe ungracious planets, 
 it is for the increafe of evil, adding frefli violence to the diforder, and 
 perhaps fooner inducing a fatal termination. 
 
 But the properties of Ibme bodily difeales arife from the variety of 
 figns which poflTefs the foregoing configurations upon the two angles. — 
 For inltance, Cancer, Capricorn, and Pifces, caule difeafes from putre- 
 fadlion, tetters, Icurvy, or king's evil ; but Sagittarius and Gemini by 
 falls, epilepfies, falling ficknefs, and the like. ~. l( the planets are in the 
 latter degrees of thefe figns, they produce bodily difeafes and blemifhes 
 in the extremities, by reafon of luxations or injuries, from whence arife 
 elephantiafis, gouts, cramps, and rheumatic complaints. And here it 
 mufl: be carefully noted, that, if none of the benevolent planets are con- 
 figurated with the malefic^ which polTcfs the caufe of thefe various difor- 
 
 dcrs,,
 
 4*8 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 ders, nor to either of the luminaries in angular pofitions, then thefe 
 bodily difeafes will be wholly incurable, and the blemifhes never to be 
 removed; but, if the benefics pofTeCs a confiderable (hare in the configu- 
 rations which induce the caufe, or overcome the malefic rays by an equal 
 or fuperior power, then the difeafes will be much more moderate, and 
 the blemifhes not fo obvious, if more than barely difcernable. It muft 
 here, as in all other cafes of the like kind, be obferved, that the ftronger 
 any ruling planet is, whether benefic or malefic, the more eminent and 
 powerful its efFe£ls will be ; and alfo that a planet is flronger when ori- 
 ental than when occidental ; wherefore a malefic planet orientally pofited 
 gives blemiflies ; but an occidental, difeafes. It is likewife to be re- 
 marked, that, if the pofition of the planet inducing the caufe be very 
 ftrong, the defeft will be from the birth; but, if weak, it will arife from 
 feme accident after birth. 
 
 Of the NATURAL BENT and QUALITY of the MIND. 
 
 Such is the do6lrine of bodily accidents, as deducible from the face of a 
 gcnethliacal figure ; but the qualities of the mind, as rational and 
 mental, are judged of from the conflitution of Mercury with regard to 
 different figns and planets. That which appertains to the fenfe alone, 
 or that renders it irrational, is confidered from the mere corporeal ftatc 
 of the luminaries ; that is, of the Moon and ftars configurated by repa- 
 ration or application. But, fince the animal inclination is various, this 
 fpeculation is contemplated from many divers obfervations, according to 
 the diverfity of figns which contain Mercury and the Moon, or the 
 ruling ftars which have dominion in them, and that confer their in- 
 fluences to the temper and quality of the mind; together with the confi- 
 gurations of thofe ftars which have refpe(5l to the Sun and the angles 
 confidered as to the proper and diflinft nature with which each of 
 them a61;s upon the mental motions of each individual. It is therefore 
 generally found that tropical figns render the native's mind highly inge- 
 nious, full of invention, eager in the purfuit of moral and political 
 knowledge, and of great fortune and perfeverance. Double-bodied 
 figns agitate the mind with a variety of whimfical and very ufelefs pur- 
 fuits, lead the tongue to loquacious habits, and induce to negligence and 
 folly. Fixed figns fortify the mind with prudence and virtue, and give 
 a bias to oeconomy, chaftity, and temperance. Again, oriental configu- 
 rations produce mental qualities of a ftrong and ingenious nature, free, 
 open, and undifTembling, quick of apprehenfion, conftant, judicious, 
 benevolent, and chafte ; but the occidental ones aft upon the mind 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 439 
 
 in a very oppo^te maaner, inclining the native to profligacy and intem- 
 perance, and impairing the iijtellefl by a naturally-vicious difpofition. 
 
 It is likewife a juft obfervation, that if the ftars which have dominion 
 are pofited in good places of the figure, and well configurated, they render 
 the mental endowments exquifitely perfedJ, and induce to a general crood 
 fortune. This is moft remarkably obvious in thofe genitures which 
 have Mercury well configurated, and joined with the feparation or appli- 
 cation of the Moon. But, if Mercury and the Moon are not thu^ 
 difpofed, or are affli6ied by the evil rays of the malefics, they will eveo 
 then imprint the quality of their natures upon the foul, though not fo 
 ftrongly, but in a lefs obvious and more obfcure degree ; not tending i'o 
 much to good fortune and advancement in the common concerns of 
 life. Hence the property of the ruling planet, whether good or evil, 
 inftils its own nature into the animal fpirit, with a power and energy 
 equal to its predominancy in the heavens at the hour of birth ; and this 
 energy is either ftrengthened or diminished, according to the force and 
 adion of fubordinate configurations; for thofe who, by reafon of ftrono- 
 malefic rays, are prone to violence and injultice, have not their vicious 
 inclinations hindered, unlefs thefe evil rays are oppofed by fome contrary 
 eiFe(Sl ; but, if a contrary afpeft oppofes this familiarity of the malefics, 
 the evil inclination is then proportionably corredled, and the mind is 
 more eafily brought to a proper fenfe of its intemperate purfuits. By 
 the fame rule, thofe who are good and juft, becaufe born under a famili-t 
 arity of benefic ftars, willingly and cheerfully purfue a life of redi- 
 tude and virtue; and, being naturally fortunate, as well as prudent, their 
 undertakings generally prove advantageous and profitable; but, if a con- 
 trary afpe6t oppofes this happy familiarity of the benefics, either a lefs 
 exemplary condu6t, or a more unprofitable purfuit of worldly concerns, 
 is fure to mark the chara£ler of the native through all the different ftages 
 of his life. 
 
 Thus far we have confidered the influences of Mercury and the Moon 
 upon the mind of man, in a general way, unconnefted with the ope- 
 ration or effeSi of any particular planet, which may happen to afluoie the 
 dominion, and thereby imprint its own peculiar influences upon the 
 rnental faculties, in proportion to its fuperiority over the other planets. 
 Let us now turn our obfervation to that prodigious variety of affedlions 
 of the animal or intelledlual part of man, which each diftindl planet 
 is found to produce, when they alone govern the mind at the time 
 of birth. 
 
 No, 23. 5 O Saturn
 
 430 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Saturn having; alone the dominion of the mental faculties, and ruling 
 Mercury and the Moon, if he be eligibly fituated in relpe6t of the world 
 and the angles, will induce the native to an imperious and covetous dif- 
 pofition, remarkably fordid, felf-fufficient, and envious ; but, if he 
 be but indifferently pofited in refpe6f to the angles and the world, he dif- 
 pofes the mind to treacherous inclinations, fraught with fuperftltion, 
 cowardice, and meanneis. If he is found in a concordant familiarity 
 with Jupiter, and both in good politions of the figure, they qualify the 
 mind with better inclinations, and dilpofe it to a6ts of benevolence, 
 prudence, and magnanimity; but, if they are configurated in evil places 
 of the figure, they work a contrary efFe6t, difpofing the mind to turbu- 
 lence and cruelty, and to various a61s of hypocrily and fraud. If Saturn 
 be in good afpedt with Mars, and well pofited in the figure, he difpofes 
 the inclination to great and arduous undertakings, remarkable for intre- 
 pidity and courage in war, and for a watchful, laborious, inflexible, and 
 collected, mind, though much difpofed to afts of violence, tyranny, 
 and oppreflion ; but, if they are found in bad pofitions of the figure, they 
 produce a mind given up to every Ipecies of fraud and impofition, and 
 wholly abandoned to impiety and wickednefs. If united to Venus, in 
 elevated pofitions, he renders the mind libidinous and luftful, given to 
 difTipation and intemperance, but fubject to fufpicion and jealouly in re- 
 fpe6l of women ; but, if unhappily difpofed in the houfes of the figure, 
 he will induce the mind to the moft: filthy uncleannefs, and to other a&s 
 of the bafefl: and moft reproachful kind. If Saturn hath familiarity with 
 Mercury, in a good pofition, he addi6ts the mind to the fober ftudy of the 
 polite arts, or bends the inclination to the purfuit of fome particular im- 
 provement or new difcovery in the fciences ; and in general renders the 
 difpofition fedate, careful, and induflrious ; but, if they be configu- 
 rated with each other in evil places, they incline to treachery and 
 unfaithfulncfs, difpofe the mind to the recolledion of paft injury, and 
 urge to malice and premeditated revenge. This variety of mental affec- 
 tions chiefly proceeds from the influences of Saturn; but they are mode- 
 rated, and differently difpofed, according to the nature and force of thofc 
 rays, which, as we have feen, are refpedlively contributed by the prefence 
 of other planets. 
 
 Jupiter having alone the dominion of his mind, and being well pofited 
 in the figure, influences the animal foul to the moft noble and exalted 
 ideas of honour and redtilude, difpofing to magnanimity in the caufe of 
 morality and virtue, and leading the operative faculties to every praife- 
 worthy a<St of generofity and benevolence; but, if Jupiter is pofited in any 
 difcordant part of the figure, his influences have lefs effedt ; for, though 
 
 they
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 45^ 
 
 they imprint the fame natural impulfe upon the mind, leading to all good 
 and moral puriuits, yet it is in a much more faint and obfcure manner, 
 being accompanied with a great degree of indolence and ina61ivity. If 
 Jupiter hath configuration with Mars in a good pofition, he produces a 
 fiery and impetuous difpofition, bold, daring, and courageous, and given 
 to the purfuit of great and arduous enterprifes ; but, if evilly dilpofed 
 with Mars in the figure, he induces to an unmerciful, feditious, and 
 unftable, mind, prone to turbulence and faftion, and given up to all the 
 irregularities of an evil and difiipated inclination. If Jupiter be in 
 familiarity with Venus, and well pofited, he difpofes the mind to lenti- 
 ments of liberality and juftice, gives ingenuity and perfeverance, and 
 ftrengthens the intelledt by a capacious memory; but, if placed in 
 difcordant parts of the figure, he dilpofes to the purfuit of fenlual and 
 lafcivious pleafures, and gives a turn for Uiofe and diforderly converfation. 
 If Jupiter hath configuration with Mercury, and in good places, he 
 difpofes the mind to the purfuit of learning and wifdom, and gives thofe 
 natural endowments of a refined intellect, which produce the moft 
 accompliflied politicians, orators, poets, painter?, or mathematicians; 
 and is indeed one of the moft happy configurations that attuate and 
 govern tfie mental faculties; but, if he hath an evil configuration with 
 Mercury, he induces the mind to vanity and enthufiafm, leads to felf- 
 conceitednefs and fuperftition, and gives levity, loquacioufnefs, and fu- 
 perficial ideas. 
 
 Mars having alone the dominion of the mind, and well pofited in the 
 figure, produces a bold, confident, and intrepid, fpirit ; given to violence 
 and war, impatient, tyrannical, and arbitrary; intermixed with an ex- 
 ternal (how of rcditude and generofity ; but, if unhappily difpoied, he 
 influences the mind to barbarity and malevolence, to implacable hatred 
 and inhuman revenge, and difpofes the foul to the perpetration of 
 the moft dark and malicious afls of crueltv and fraud. Having fa- 
 miliarity with Venus, and happily fituated in the figure, he gives a mind 
 fraught with liberality and cheerfulnefs, difpoied to fincerity and 
 friendftiip, to circumfpedion and fobriety, and fond of mirth and plea- 
 fure; but, if in an evil pofition of the figure, he inclines to drunkennefs 
 and debauchery, and furnifties a mind given to treachery, deceit, and 
 cverv jpecies of immorality. If Mars hath familiarity with Mercury in 
 a profperous ftation, he gives a mind happily formed for conducing 
 military or naval affairs, furnifties the foul with a thirft for great a id 
 noble adlions, and fortifies it with temper, deliberation, coolnels, con- 
 fidence, and magnanimity; endowing the mind, at the lame time, with 
 th« fineft feelings of honour, generofity, humanity, and benevolence; but, 
 
 if
 
 4|2 ANJLLUSTRATION 
 
 if evHly difpofed, he furniflies a carelefs and incoaftant mind, prone 
 to wicked and itiirchievous practices, and fond of difcord, ftrife, aod 
 iedition. 
 
 K 
 
 Venus alone having government of the intelledual faculties, and well 
 placed in the figure, endows the mind with complacency and foftnefs, 
 renders the fentiments delicate, modefl:, and well difpofed, and the man- 
 ners fvveet and engaging; but, contrarily lituated, fhe induces to wan- 
 tonnefs, Qoth, and effeminacy, fraught with cowardice and profligacy. 
 Having familiarity with Mercury, and in a prosperous pofition, (he leads 
 the mind to a relifti for philofophy and fcience, gives eloquence and in- 
 genuity, and forms an intelledt for divinity, law, or phyfic ; but, evilly 
 difpofed, (he gives a treacherous and unftable mind, bent on perverfenels 
 9iQd contention, and given to flander, hypocrify, and intemperance. 
 
 If Mercury alone hath the dominion and government of the mind, he 
 inclines it to the purfuit of prudence and wifdom, gives a turn for in- 
 genious fpeculations, and a tafte for poetry and fcience ; the retentive 
 faculty is generally flrong, and the wit lively and penetrating ; but, if 
 he be pofited in an unpropitious part of the figure, he difpofes the mind 
 to forgetfulnefs and indolence, and influences to the purfuit of mean and 
 crafty objects; rendering the native mutable and unflieady in mind and 
 judgment, and in moft cafes ra(h, inconfiderate, and fubjeft to error. 
 
 The luminaries likewife have their peculiar operations upon the mind 
 and mental faculties of the native ; for the Moon, being in her greateft 
 north and fouth latitude, renders the motions of the animal foul more 
 various, crafty, and mutable ; but, when fhe is in her nodes, (he make^ 
 them more quick, adive, and fprightly. In oriental pofitions, and in-!- 
 ereafing in light and motion, fhe gives a more open, free, and ingenuous, 
 mind; but, if decreafing, (he renders the imagination dull, languid, and 
 heavy, and the temper changeable and uncertain. The Sun contributes 
 his effe6ts according to the familiarity or configuration he makes with the 
 planet which is ruler of the mental faculties. If the afpeft be good, and 
 iii a fortunate part of the figure, he conduces to form the mind more 
 honourable, ju(t, and perfed ; but in the contrary pofitions, he influences 
 tp a more abje6l, cruel, and unworthy, difpofition. 
 
 From the foregoing remarks, the ingenious ftudent will readily infer, 
 that the qualities and affedtions of the mind are confidered, firft, from 
 the places and pofitions of Mercury and the Moon ; fecondly, from the 
 loids of the different places of the figure ; thirdly, from the nature and 
 
 conflitution
 
 I 
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 433 
 
 conftitutloti of the planets with thofe places, or their refpecl to the Suti 
 with their lords; fourthly, from their oppofition in refpedl to the angles; 
 fifthly, from the nature and property of each ftar in conjundion with, or 
 beholding, thofe places; and fixthly, from the power or debility of every 
 iuch fignificator refpe6lively confidered. Nor ought the fixed ftars of 
 the firft and lecoud magnitude, in or near the ecliptic, or that are nearly 
 vertical to the place of birth, and in conjun6tion with the fignificators, 
 to be in any wife neglefted. 
 
 We may likewife add, that Mercury in conjundion with the Sun pro- 
 duces a mind fitly formed for the prudent and fuccefsful management of 
 any kind of bufinefs ; but, if they irradiate each other at a diftance of 
 twenty or twenty-four degrees, the mind will be altogether unfit for bu- 
 finefs, or any aftive line of life, but moftly difpofed to fludy, or to a 
 fedentary calling. In equino6fial or tropical figns, Mercury has the lame 
 incitement to aftivity and public bufinefs as when bodily configurated to 
 the Sun ; but in watery figns he afts contrarily, in other figns more 
 varioufly, but always beii where befi: dignified. 
 
 If Mercury be afflided with malevolent planets, the wit is always dull, 
 flow, and flupid ; if fwift in motion, he renders the mind quick but in- 
 conflant ; if retrograde, dubious and unfixed ; if under the Sun-beams, 
 the mind will lean to the purfuit of ufelefs and unprofitable fpeculations ; 
 if pofited in oriental houfes, the difpofition will be open and in- 
 genuous; but, if in occidental, it will be wily, fubtle, and diffembling. 
 Jf Mercury be better dignified and ftronger than the Moon, the realon- 
 able faculties will be ftronger than the ienfitive, particularly if Mercury 
 be in figns of long afcenfion, and the Moon in thofe of fhort afcenfion ; 
 but if Mercury be in commanding figns, and the Moon in obeying, the 
 native's intelledl will be naturally weak and impaired; and, if the Moon 
 chance to be at the fame time irradiated by the affliding rays of either of 
 the infortune?, the native will be irrational and a perfect ideot. 
 
 Of the NATURAL DISEASES incident to the MIND. 
 
 The affedions and properties of the mind are of a feparate and diftind 
 confideration from the difeafes of the mind, Iuch as madnefs, infanity, the 
 falling ficknefs, and the like; but are equally deducible from the 
 face of the native's geniture. For this purpofe we mufl: again refer to 
 the configurations of Mercury and the Moon, and obferve how they are 
 pofited in refped of each other, and in reference to the angular houles. 
 
 No. 22. 5 P and
 
 434 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 and alfo to the malefics. For, if Mercury and the Moon are in an in- 
 conjunft pofition in refpeft of themfelves, or the oriental horizon, and 
 are irradiated by contrary and malefic configurations, whereby fuperiors 
 rule or oppofe, they thus conftitute various difeafes in the qualities of the 
 mind; the particular fpecies of which is known from the qualities of the 
 flars which poiTefs the places. Hence it is obvious that the more mode- 
 rate difeafes of the mind have their radical caufe from an excefs or defeft 
 of thofe operations which induce the mental qualities; for, the predomi- 
 nancy of fuch qualities naturally promotes an excefs of evil, and confti- 
 tutes a difeafe, in proportion as the ambient matter is unmixed, and 
 above or below a proper mediocrity; but the more obvious and fatal dif- 
 eafes of the mind arife from a difproportion or defe£l of matter infinitely 
 greater, and wholly befide nature. 
 
 Thofe who are born when Mercury and the Moon are inconjun<^, 
 either in refpe6t of themfelves or the oriental horizon, Saturn and Mars 
 being angular, and beholding the configuration, Mars by night, and 
 Saturn by day, will be naturally fubjeft to the falling ficknefs all their 
 lives; but, if Saturn happens to take this pofition by night, and Mars by 
 day, the native will be fubje6t to phrenfy and madnefs, more efpecially 
 if the afpe6l fall in Cancer, Virgo, or Pifces. Again, if the Moon, being 
 in her phaOs, is overcome by malefic rays, namely, by the concurrence 
 of Saturn when approaching to a new, or by Mars at her full, either in 
 the figns Sagittarius or Pifces, whoever- is born under fuch configurations 
 will be lubjeft to lunacy. Therefore the malefic ftars, overcoming or 
 predominating in any configuration, induce a variety of mental difeafes, 
 which are either remarkably violent, or obfcure and latent, according to 
 the nature and energy of each refpedtive ruling planet. 
 
 If the benevolent planets Jupiter and Venus have familiarity, in ori- 
 ental pofitions, and angular, with the malefics occidentally pofited, thefe 
 mental difeafes, though ftrong and violent, will be curable;. if Jupiter 
 prefides, they will be moved by medical help ; but, if Venus, by the 
 natural ftrength of the mental faculties. But, if thefe pofitions happen 
 to be reverfed, the malefic flars angular, and in oriental flations, and the 
 beiiefics letting, the difeafes will become more manifefl, and be wholly 
 incurable. Hence we derive the caufe of the ever-varying mutation of 
 the animal fpirits, which are always more or lefs afFeded in proportion 
 as Mercury and the Moon are agitated by the good or evil influences of 
 other concurring and adjuvant caufes. 
 
 Such
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 435 
 
 Such are the morbid aftedions in the aftlve part of the rational foul, 
 produced by the planetary configurations ; but the great change which 
 arifes in the patient, that is, in the irrational part of the foul,* is induced 
 chiefly from excefs or defe6t, according to the particular conformation 
 of male or female, in which they either exceed, or are deficient, 
 in the parts proper to their fex. For it is found, that if the Sun be confi- 
 gurated with the Moon in the place of Mercury, and Mars and Venus 
 have familiarity with them, the luminaries being in mafculine figns, the 
 men will exceed in that which is natural, having thofe parts in excefs 
 that are proper to man ; and the women will have a conformation of parts 
 preternatural and mixed. But, if Mars and Venus fhould be one or both 
 conftituted with them after a mafculine manner, the men will be fubjedl 
 to mixtures of fex, and the women to violent lufl and intemperate 
 wantonnefs. If Venus alone be difpofed after a mafculine manner, this 
 fenfation will be lefs flrong, and the parties will conduft themfelves with 
 more decency and modefty ; but, if Mars and Venus both are fo confli- 
 tuted, they will be moved to carnal embraces by the moft violent and ir- 
 refiftible fenfations. 
 
 If the luminaries alone are configurated in feminine figns, the women 
 then born will be of immoderate conformation, and will have ftrong and 
 continual defires after men; but the men then born will be changed to 
 that conformation which is inferior to nature, and will inherit an effemi- 
 nate and tender conftitution of body and parts. And, if Venus be 
 difpofed with them in a feminine manner, the women will be more laf- 
 civious and prone to venery ; and, in whatever line of life they chance to 
 glide, this paffion will always be predominant, and moft probably fubjeft 
 them to difgrace and infamy. The men under this conflitution are ftill 
 more effeminate and impotent; but, if Mars be thus conftituted inftead 
 of Venus, they become robuft and vigorous, and luft after women. 
 The oriental or diurnal configurations of Mars and Venus contribute to 
 a more mafculine and robuft conformation, but the occidental and 
 vefpertine to their being more effeminate and debilitated. If Saturn hap- 
 pens to be configurated with them, he contributes to more luft and 
 wantonnefs, but in an unnatural way ; if Jupiter irradiates the afpe6f, 
 
 * To prevent the reader from being innocently led aftray, and the defigning critic from explain- 
 ing away the author's meaning, it is jult neceflary to remark, that what is faid here of the mind and 
 foul is not to be underftood of the Jupernatural fouly which never dieth^ but of the intellect- 
 ual rational part of the animal foul., which is formed, ruled, and wholly governed, by thofe 
 fupreme and fo!e fecond caufes, under God, the ftars, but principally by the is/loon and 
 M?rcury. 
 
 he
 
 436 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 he conduces to more modefty and decency; but Mercury influences to a 
 greater mobility of paflion, to a frequent change of objefts, and to a con- 
 tinual love of variety, whether the native be male or female. 
 
 Of WEALTH and RICHES. 
 
 We have hitherto confidered only fuch parts of the native's geniture 
 as relate to the accidents of his body and mind, and the general qualities 
 incident to them, as well before as after the birth. From thefe the Tpecula- 
 tions naturally follow which regard the contingences of them ; whereof 
 thofe appertaining to temporal pofTeffions leem peculiarly to agree 
 with what concerns the body, and thofe which relate to honour 
 and dignity feem more particularly to flow from the qualities of the 
 mind. 
 
 To afcertain, therefore, the kind and quality of worldly poflTeflions in 
 any rational degree, we are to confider the pofition of the Part of 
 Fortune, with the nature and ftrength of the planet which rules it, to- 
 gether with his configurations and pofitions in refpeft to other flars. 
 For whatever planet aflumes the lordfhip of the Part of Fortune, if flrong 
 and well dignified, he will afTuredly contribute wealth and riches, but 
 more abundant and lafting when the luminaries give teftimony to him 
 by irradiating the place of his pofition. It is to be obferved that Saturn 
 gives an increafe of wealth by the improvement and cultivation of lands, 
 or by buildings or navigation. Jupiter contributes riches by the confi- 
 dence and love of friends, which produce legacies and patrimony; alfo by 
 preferment in the church. Mars conduces to wealth by warfare, intre- 
 pidity, and good generalfhip. Venus, by friendfliip, gifts, and marriage. 
 Mercury by fcience, oratory, or perfeverance in bufinefs. 
 
 Saturn having familiarity with the Part of Fortune, and configurated 
 at the fame time with Jupiter, promifes lands and hereditaments ; par- 
 ticularly if pofited in a fuperior angle, and Jupiter occidental in a double- 
 bodied fign, or in application with the Moon; for then, being adopted, 
 the native will become the heir of others. And, if thofe fl:ars, which are 
 of the fame nature with the fignificator of the Part of Fortune, give tefti- 
 mony of dominion, the pofleffion will remain with the native ; but, if 
 thofe of a contrary quality are elevated above the lord which has dominion, 
 the pofTeflion will be of no duration, and future riches precarious. The 
 general time of thefe events is taken from the inclination of the ftars which 
 produce the caufe in refped to the angles and fuccedents. It may alfo 
 
 be
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 437 
 
 be further obferved, that if thefe lords of the Part of Fortune, commonly 
 called fignificators of riches, are in an angular pofition, the acquifition of 
 wealth will happen in youth ; and, if on the cufps of thole angular 
 pofitions, ftill earlier. If they are poCted in fuccedents, the riches 
 will prefent themfelves at a middle age; if in cadent houfes, either 
 late or in extreme old age. The fame circumftances are likewife pro- 
 duced by oriental and occidental pofitions, in refpeft of the Sun and 
 the World. 
 
 Of DIGNITIES and HONOURS. 
 
 Things which relate to honour and dignity are deduced from the dif- 
 pofition of the luminaries, and the familiarity of the ftars by which they 
 are furrounded. Wherefore, if both the luminaries at the time of birth 
 are found in mafculine figns, angular, and attended by the five planets, 
 the Sun by oriental ftars, and the Moon by occidental, thofe perfons 
 will afpire to extraordinary power and dignity, and exercife autho- 
 rity and dominion over others, from whence great tribute and ho- 
 nour will flow. And, if thefe furrounding planets are angular, or con- 
 figurated to a cardinal houfe above the earth, they will be great and pow- 
 erful in a fuperior degree; but ftill more fo, if the attending planets 
 make a dexter configuration to the angles above the earth, with the Sun 
 in a mafculine fign, and the Moon in a feminine; for then the native 
 will arrive to a power like that of princes, having abfolute dominion and 
 government, difpofing, in a comparative degree, of the iffues of life and 
 death. 
 
 But, if the luminaries happen to be thus pofited, and none of the fur- 
 rounding planets are in angular ftations, nor give teftimony to the angles, 
 the native will be great and honourable as a magiftrate or general, but 
 not as having dominion or princely dignity. So, if the furrounding planets 
 are fome or moft of them in angular flations, or configurated to the 
 angles, yet, if the luminaries are not in angular pofitions alfo, the native 
 will not arrive to fuch illuftrious preferment, and will but moderately 
 excel in dignity and honour. But, if neither of the attending planets is 
 configurated to the angles, the native will be obfcure, and pafs his whole 
 life without promotion or dignity ; but, if neither of the luminaries are at 
 the fame time found in a mafculine fign, nor angular, nor attended by 
 the benefic rays of good planets, the native's life will be abjedl and mife- 
 rable, and bis fortune hard. 
 
 No. 22. 5 Q Thus
 
 438 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 Thus the general confideratioii and mutability of dignity and honour 
 is fought out and determined. But many things between the two ex- 
 tremes of dignified ftation and abjedt fervility mufl: be taken into the 
 account, before any reafonable judgment can be formed from the native's 
 geniture; for we muft recolle(5t, that every perfon born under the fame 
 propitious configuration cannot alike arrive to the felf-fame height of 
 dignity and honour, becaufe the difference of birth and ftation will at 
 once deftroy the poffibility of it ; not to fay any thing of croft afpeds, 
 and other baneful familiarities, which may either cut the thread of life, 
 or tend to leflen the grateful influences of benefic configurations. 
 It therefore follows, that we are not only to judge of perfonal honour and 
 dignity, under certain reflri6lions, from the nature, quality, and place, of 
 birth, but likewife from a due confideration of all occurring and 
 fubordinate rays, which may in any (hape be liable to affe<Sl the fignifi- 
 cators of dignity. We muft not however forget, that, when thefe figni- 
 ficators are fo dignified in a nativity, that no evil rays, either mundane or 
 zodiacal, or any fubordinate parallels, confpire to afHi6l or diminish their 
 good influences, and the prorogator of life is flrong and durable, be the 
 quality of birth what it may, and the obfcurity of the parents ever fo re- 
 markable, yet the infant thus brought into the world fhall be exalted to 
 a degree of eminence and grandeur infinitely beyond whatever could 
 have been expefted. And it is juft the fame in refped of riches, plea- 
 fure, wedlock, children, friends, enemies, travelling, and all other events 
 common 'to human life; for, if the place of the nativity proper to 
 either of them be thus flrongly and happily configurated, the effects will 
 be produced in an eminent and glorious manner ; but, when there hap- 
 pen crofs and latent familiarities to oppofe and afflift the refpe^tive fig- 
 nificators, and particularly if there are teftimonies of fliort life, death will 
 of courfe enfue, and all inferior or dependent incidents naturally 
 ceafe, and are prevented. 
 
 Of NATURAL INCLINATIONS or PROFESSIONS. 
 
 Since the confequences of the fall produced that unalterable decree of 
 heaven, that man (liould eat bread by the f we at of his brow; and fince the 
 increafe of mankind upon the face of the earth rendered a variety of pro- 
 feflions neceflary; fo it is natural to believe, what obfervation has 
 long confirmed, that the bent of every man's mind is more or lefs dif- 
 pofed towards the purfuit of fome particular avocation, by which the calls 
 of nature may be fupplied, and the decrees of heaven fully accompliflied. 
 And hence it is that the ftars, as fecond caufes under God, derive the 
 
 power
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 439 
 
 power of influencing mankind to a natural choice of thefe profeffions ; 
 our propenfities to which are fo deeply rooted, and fo ftrongly inaprinted 
 on the mental faculties, that no human bias is able to counteraft them, 
 nor the moft elevated ftation in life, not even that of majefty itfelf, fuf- 
 ficient to repel the inclination from an attachment to fome branch of me- 
 chanifm or fcience, by which an advantage might in fome meafure be 
 derived, either univerfally or individually. 
 
 To enter upon this fpeculation, we muilr confider the lord of the pro- 
 feffion, or planet that affumes the dominion,, which is taken two 
 ways, either from the Sun, or the fign upon the Mid-heaven ; wherefore 
 we ought to obferve the ftar that makes an oriental appearance next to 
 the Sun or mid-heaven, but more particularly when approached by 
 the application of the Moon; and, if one and the fame planet paffes both, 
 or makes the neareft approaches to the Sua or Mid-heaven, we take 
 that planet for lord of the profeflion. But, if one planet be pofited 
 before the Sun, and another in the Mid-heaven, having familiarity with 
 the Moon, both are to be confidered, and that only preferred, as fignifi- 
 cator, which is apparently the moft ftrong, and bed dignified. In cafes 
 where no planet is found approaching the Sun, nor pofited in the Mid- 
 heaven, then that fliall be taken which hath dominion, or is lord of the 
 Mid-heaven. 
 
 To endeavour to afcertain the very profeflion or mechanical trade each 
 native will follow, is an idle and abfurd attempt, and favours of folly and 
 fanaticifm. For, though it is poffible to defcribe the kind and quality of 
 the profeflion in refpedl to its general tendency and genus, yet it 
 is impoflible to afcertain particularly whether a man fliall be a common 
 carpenter, a wheelwright, or a cabinet-maker. What we are able to dif- 
 cover is made known by the properties of the three planets. Mars, Ve- 
 nus, and Mercury, confidered in refpeft of the figns in which they are 
 pofited. Mercury influences to the love of literature and the polite arts ;: 
 and, if he be lord of the profeflSon, will naturally incline the adivc 
 qualities of the mind to fuch purfuits as are conformable thereto, and. 
 which come under the various branches of the fciences and philofophy. 
 He therefore produces excellent orators, ftudents in law, phyfic, or di- 
 vinity ; eminent poets and hiftorians ; together with the whole train of 
 dependent and inferior avocations of this clafs, which are difcoverable 
 by the prefence or aflifling rays of the other planetary configurations; for,, 
 if Saturn gives teftimony to Mercury, the profeflion will be of an 
 inferior order ; but, if Jupiter, it will be more excellent and ho- 
 nourable.
 
 440 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 If Venus afTumes the dominion of the profeflion, (he will difpofe the 
 native to the ftudy of flowers, and of botany in general, and confequently 
 to the knowledge and preparation of unguents, tinctures, elTences, fpices, 
 aromatic waters, wines, cordials, and other produdions of herbs and flow- 
 ers, fome or other of which the native will probably deal in. If 
 Saturn gives teflimony to her, fhe makes chemifts, apothecaries, dealers 
 in dyes and colours, or fuch as deal in wearing-apparel, or the materials 
 of which they are compofed. But, if Jupiter gives teftimony, the native 
 will afpire after fome eminent office, or place of trufl: under government; 
 or to fome poft of honour, or official department in the ftate; or will ob- 
 tain fome honourable profeflion in the navy or army by a perfeverance 
 in that line. 
 
 If Mars is ruler of the profeflion, and irradiated by the Sun, he leads 
 to all thofe branches of the mechanics which are wrought by the opera- 
 tion of fire; whence he produces all the artificers in brafs and iron, and 
 the workers and refiners of metals. But, being in conjun6tion with the 
 Sun, he influences to huflaandry, agriculture, and working in wood and 
 flone. If Saturn gives teftimony to him, he carries the inclination 
 towards a feafaring life, or to a love of gain by travelling, or by traffic 
 in foreign countries, or by dealing in cattle. If Jupiter gives teftimony, 
 the native's profeflion will be that of the army or navy, or fome place, 
 office, or employment, dependent thereon. 
 
 If Mercury and Venus are fo configurated in the geniture as to be- 
 come joint rulers of the profeflion, they will produce excellent muficians, 
 and good compilers of mufical pieces; alfo mufical-inftrument makers, 
 compofers of fongs and glees, and admirable fingers ; likewife comedians, 
 opera-dancers, tumblers, and the tribe of exhibitionifts. And, if 
 Saturn gives teftimony, he will make jewellers, toymen, and dealers 
 in ornaments and precious ftones. But, if Jupiter gives teftimony to 
 them, he will difpofe the mind to the ftudy of politics, or of national 
 and conftitutional law ; or he will make the profeflTion that of a teacher 
 or fchoolmafter, or the ruler and manager of fome public feminary of 
 learning. 
 
 If Mars and Mercury are joint lords of the profeflion, they lead the in- 
 clination to the choice of painting or drawing ; to ftatuary, fculpture, 
 carving, engraving, and fuch-like ingenious arts. But, becaufe the hap- 
 py configurations which confpire to the produftion of talents proper for 
 thefe purfuits are not often to be found in any geniture, without fome 
 
 malevolent
 
 O F A S T R d L O G Y. 441 
 
 malevolent or afRifling rays, whereby the native's genius is impaired^ It 
 feldom happens that we find very high perfeftion, or fuper-extraordinary 
 merit, among the numerous profeflbrs and followers of the polite arts ; 
 whence comes the foundation of the common faying, fo ftriflly confor- 
 mable to truth and reafon, that painters, poets, and muficians, muft be 
 {o born ; that is, muft inherit from nature a ftrong bias for either ot 
 thefe profeflions, to make any extraordinary progrefs in them. And it 
 is remarkable, that, if Saturn gives teftimony to this joint rule of Mars 
 and Mercury, all the above ingenuity and tafte will be deftroyed, and 
 the native become wholly untra6lable and indolent, and given up to 
 theft, fwindling, (harping, and other fpecies of fraud and violence, for 
 the means of a fubfiftence. 
 
 If Mars and Venus jointly take dominion of the profeffion, they pro- 
 duce workers and dealers in various kinds of metals ; likewife hulband- 
 men, apothecaries, and phvficians, and all profeffions in the nature of 
 plants and herbs. If Saturn gives teftimony to them, they will make 
 ignorant pretenders to mufic and divinity ; and, in all other profeflions 
 under this configuration, the native will betray a want of ingenuity and 
 capacity. But, if Jupiter gives teftimony, the contrary efFefts will hap- 
 pen ; and, in whatever purfuit the native engages, proper to this mixture 
 of the ruling planets, he will have the fatisfa6lion of deriving both ho- 
 nour and profit from his labours. 
 
 It muft alfo be obferved, that the quality of the figns in which thefe 
 congrefTes are made, and wherein the lords of the profeffion are pofited, 
 confers to the variety and advantage of fuch profeffion. Thofe of human 
 fhape conduce amazingly to the perfedtion of all thofe fciences and avo- 
 cations which are for the improvement and information of the mind. 
 Four-footed figns contribute to the greater perfedion of metallic arts, 
 navigation, and architedure ; tropical and equinodial figns forward 
 the purfuits of hufbandry, agriculture, the mathematics, chemiftry, 
 and theology ; earthy and watery figns to the perfection of phyfic and 
 furgery, to thftj art of conftru6ting (hips, and to the profeffion of a 
 merchant. 
 
 Again, if the Moon pofTefles the place of the profeffion, having confi- 
 guration with Mercury, at her conjunction with the Sun, either in 
 Taurus, Capricorn, or Cancer, flie will conduce to greater fagacity and 
 penetration in whatever profeffion the native happens to follow. If this 
 configuration happens in Sagittarius or Pifces, it conduces to a melan- 
 choly and timid purfuit of bufinefs, and burthens the mind with enthu- 
 
 No. 23. 5 R fiaftic
 
 ^42 ANIL LUSTRATION 
 
 iiaftic and fuperftitious affefllons. If it happens in Virgo or Scorpio, ir. 
 contributes profound wifdom and knowledge to the profeffion of phy- 
 ficians, lawyers, or divines; and to the followers of Icience or philofo- 
 phy. If in Libra, Aries, or Leo, it makes entliufiaftic preachers, and 
 fills the mind with idle and immoderate ideas of gain by each relpedtive 
 bufinefs or avocation. 
 
 Thus the kinds and qualities of profeffions are to be fought out in a- 
 e-eneral way, and defcribed accordingly ; but the importance and extent 
 of them muft be confidered from the ftrength and dignity of the ruling 
 ftars. For, being oriental or angular, they make the profeffion eminent 
 and profitable ; but, if occidental, or declining from angles, it will be 
 unimportant, mean, and unprofitable. If the benefics are fuperior, the 
 profeffion will be eminent, honourable, and conducive to great riches;, 
 but, if the malefics are fuperior, it will be mean, inglorious, and wholly 
 unprofitable. Saturn is found to deftroy the benefits of an aftive pro- 
 feffion by tardinefs, indifference, and inactivity ; but Mars through 
 boldnefs, loftinefs, and prelumption : wherefore both a&. in oppofition 
 to the luccefs and advantage of the native's profeffion. But the general 
 caufes of the failure or profperity of bufinefs mufl be judged of from 
 the difpofition and quality of the flars which produce this effed ; and 
 this in reference to the oriental and occidental angles. The eaft angle 
 denotes the beginning of life ; the weft angle the end ; and the mid- 
 heaven the middle part, from about thirty to forty years : and, as the 
 fjfynificators are difpofed in the radical figure, fo will the efFeds thereof 
 be at the fet time of life conformable thereto. 
 
 It muft be ever remembered, that the doftrine of profeffions here laid 
 down, and the effefts arifing from them, relates only to fuch as are fol- 
 lowed in confequence of the natural impulfe of the mind ; in which cafes 
 alone we are to feek for adequate fuccels and perfection in the profecu- 
 tion of them. Among the obfervations we make of the common occur- 
 rences of life, we too often find youth configned to fuch employments, 
 by the will or caprice of their parents, as they are neither defigned for 
 by nature nor have the leaft inclination to follow. And hence it is 
 that fo many bunglers rife up in all trades and profeffions, who, finding 
 their bufineis a continual load of oppreffion and perplexity, either aban- 
 don it altoo-ether, or elfe become indolent, fottiih, and inaClive, to the 
 titter ruin of their families, and to the general annovance of the more 
 induftrious part of mankind. From this confidcration, parents and 
 guardians ffiould be careful to educate and bring up the rifing generation, 
 as far as prudence will admit, according to the natural bent and genius 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 443 
 
 of their own inclinations, which is the only direil road to excellence 
 and perfeftion. This I think is a faft that needs no further illuftration, 
 fince the obfervations of moft n:ien will furnifh them with inftances of 
 perfons being regularly bred to fome profeflions, which even at an ad- 
 vanced time of life they wholly abandon, in purluit of Ibme other callincy 
 more confonant to their nature and abilities, and in which they often 
 lucceed, to the aftonilhment of their competitors. 
 
 Of MARRIAGE, 
 
 To what has been fald follows the confideration of marriage, or the fit 
 conjufiflion and living together of man and woman, according to the 
 divine ordinance of the Supreme Being. And, as this law was evidently 
 eftablifhed from the beginning of things, as well for the propagation of 
 the fpecies as for the mutual comfort and happinefs of the fexes, it were 
 fenfelefs to fuppofe human nature void of the impulfe of reciprocal love ; 
 or that tbe in\oluntary adrions of the foul, by whi-:h it is moved towards 
 the objedl of its afFedions, have not a radical caufe in the order of nature. 
 If this be admitted, it cannot furely be deemed a fubjed of ridicule, to 
 believe that this, as well as the other important tranfadions of our lives, 
 may be fought out by a contemplation of the celeftial bodies. 
 
 To invefligate this point, therefore, in refpf-ft to men, let thfe pofi- 
 tions and conlbtutions of the Moon be particularly conlidered. For, 
 when fhe is found in the oriental quadrants at the time of birth, (he in- 
 fluences the native to ihe conlummation ot marriage at an early period 
 of his life ; but, if pufited in the occidental quadrants, he will probably 
 live fmgle till the approach of old age, and then marry a very youno- 
 "Woman. If the Moon be affli<5fed by the Sun-beams, and in configura- 
 tion with Saturn, i« either of thefe portions the native will never marry 
 at alL If fhe be found in a fign of one form, and making application ta 
 one planet only, the native will marry but once ; but, if pofited in a bi- 
 corporal or fign of many forms, and making application to feveral flars 
 in the fame lign, he will be feveral times married. And, if the flars 
 which receive the Moon's application, either by conjunifion, fextile, or 
 trine, are benefic, the wives will be good and virtuous; but, if the ap- 
 plication be made .to nvalefic planets, and by evil configurations, they 
 will be altogether of an oppofite defcription, Therefore, if Saturn re- 
 ceives the Moon's application, it indicates a laborious, but fullen, fro- 
 ward, and ungovernable, wife. If it be made to Jupiter, fhe will be free 
 open, and generous, truly virtuous, and a good houfewife. If to Mars, 
 
 fhe
 
 444 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 {he will be bold, fVubboni, and refradory. If to Venus, cheerful, com> 
 placent, affable, and chafte. If to Mercury, wife, prudent, loving, and 
 Gonftant. But, if Mars irradiates the place, ihc will be furly, paflioa- 
 ate, talkative, and unfteady. 
 
 For t^e particulars of marriage in refped of women, we are to confider 
 the pofitions of the Sun inftead of the Moon ; for, if he be fituated in 
 the oriental houfes at the time of birth, the native will either marry very 
 young, or elfe at an advanced time of life to a young man ; but, if the 
 Sun be found in the occidental houfes, fhe will marry late, or to a man 
 far advanced in years. And alfo, if he be fituated in a fign of one form, 
 Ihe will marry but once ; but, if in a fign of many forms, or configurated 
 to many oriental ftars, fhe will have more hulbands than one, who will 
 partake of the fame nature and qualities as the fl:ars to which the confi- 
 gurations are made. Thus, Saturn, if configurated to the Sun, will 
 indicate fober, grave, and laborious, hufbands, but cold and phlegmatic. 
 Jupiter difpofes them to more opennefs of mind, and generofity. Mars 
 makes them violent, warm, unruly, pafilonate, and arbitrary. Venus 
 forefiiows them to be indulgent, fond, good-natured, and handfome. 
 Mercury difpofes them to be careful, prudent, induftrious, and faithful. 
 But, if Saturn be joined with Mercury, they will be churlifh and re- 
 ferved ; if with Venus, they will be dull, four, and inconftant: if with 
 Mars, quick, lively, luftful, and fond of variety. Thofe are here to be 
 confidered the oriental quarters in refpe<St of the Sun, which precede the 
 oriental and occidental fign of the zodiac ; and, in refpeft of the Moon, 
 thofe from her new and full to her other quarters; and the occidental 
 houfes are thofe which fall oppofite to the foregoing. 
 
 As to events that occur after marriage, that is a different fpeculation, 
 and requires great attention to the following particulars. Whenever the 
 geniture of both hufband and wife have the luminaries configurated in 
 mutual agreement, that is, in trine or Textile to each other, they will 
 live together in comfort and harmony, and for a long continuance of 
 time if the luminaries happen to be in mutual reception. And this du- 
 ration will ftill be more firm and lading, if the pofition of the huiband's 
 Moon agrees with that of the Sun in the wife's geniture. But, if the 
 pofitions of the luminaries are placed in figns inconjund, and configu- 
 rated by quartile or oppofition, they will either live together in difcord 
 and enmity, and be rent by violent jealoufies and contention, or clfe be 
 ftjlly and finally eflranged from each other. 
 
 Again,
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 445 
 
 A?aio, if the benefic ravs of the fortunate planets behold the coiifioru- 
 rations of the luminaries iti mutual reception, the marriage will be 
 durable, conftant, happy, and profitable ; but, if the malefic planets 
 irradiate thofe -places, the marriage will be unhappy, contentious, and 
 ^miferable. If the luminaries are not configurated in mutual reception, 
 yet, if the benefics give teflimony to them, the marriage will be mode- 
 rately bappy and durable ; and, when flrife and difagreements happen, 
 the fame will wear off, and reconciliation will take place between them.; 
 but, if the malefic gives teflimony to the difcordant pofitions of the lu- 
 minaries, inconftancy and infidelity will enfue, and the marriage will 
 'be difTolved with fcandal and difgrace.. If Mercury be joined with the 
 ■malefics, the feparation will be for hatred and diflike, and by mutual 
 confent; but, if Venus gives teftimony to them, it will be a divorce, by 
 •due courfe of law, for infidelitv and adultery. 
 
 Marriages, in other refpefts, are confidered from the familiarities and 
 ■connexions of Venus, Mars, and Saturn. For, if thefe are all three 
 xronfigurated with the luminaries, the marriage will be good, domeflic, 
 and profitable, by rcafon of the affinity which the benefic planet Venus 
 hath with Mars and Saturn ; with Mars, becaufe of youth and florid coun- 
 teiiance, feeing they have exaltation in mutual trigonal figns, as Mars in 
 Capricorn the tripliclty of Venus, and Venus in Pifces the triplicity 
 of Mars; or Mars in Pifces the exaltation of Venus, and Venus in 
 Capricorn the exaltation of Mars. So likevvife Capricorn and Libra are 
 common to Saturn and Venus ; for Venus in Libra hath houfe, and Sa- 
 turn triplicity ; and in Capricorn, Saturn hath houfe, and Venus tripli- 
 city ; and hence fhe bears relation to Saturn by an older complexion, 
 feeing they have their houfes trigonal to each other. Wherefore Venus 
 with Mars conduces to make the inclinatioriS more fond and amorous ; 
 and Mercury giving teftimony to them, qualifies the paffions, and keeps 
 the fenfual appetite within rational bounds. If Venus be found in any 
 of the above familiar and prorr.ilcuous figns, fhe indicates marriages be- 
 tween kinfmen and relations ; or, if fhe be with the Moon in a mafcu- 
 line geniturc, it predids that two fifters, or near relations, will be mar- 
 ried to the farae man ; but, if fhe be thus configurated to Jupiter, or the 
 Sun, in a feminine geniture, it fhows the women will naarry two bro- 
 thers, or two men that are nearly related. 
 
 It is like wife obfervable, that, isi all cafes where Venus is thus con- 
 figurated to Saturn, iti the place of marriage, the connubial flate 
 will be blifsful and happy to the native ; and, if Mercury be joined 
 with them, he adds profpcrity ; but, if Mars be fubflituted in his place, 
 
 No. 23. 5 S the
 
 446 AN I L L U S 1' R A T 1 O N 
 
 the marriage will be altogether wretched, contentious, and unhappy. 
 If Mars be configurated to Venus, Saturn, and Mercury, the native 
 marries with a perfon nearly of an equal age; but, if he be pofited in an 
 oriental or eaftcrly ftation, the native marries with a perfon much youn- 
 ger ; and, if an occidental or well;erly flation, with a perfon much older. 
 If Venus and Saturn be found in promiicuous figns, fuch as Capricorn 
 or Libra, the native will marry among his own kindred ; but, if this 
 configuration is made upon the cufps of the horofcope or mid-heaven, 
 irradiated by the Moon, and the geniture be mafculine, the native will 
 luft after his own fiflier, aunt, or mother-in-law ; or, if the geniture be 
 feminine, (he will have defire unto her own brother, uncle, or daughter's 
 hufoand. Should the Sun irradiate the place, inftead of the Moon, then. 
 the males will have defire toward their daughters, or fon's wife ; and the 
 females to their Tons, nephews, or fifter's hulband. 
 
 Obfervation likewife proves, that, if Venus and Saturn are configu- 
 rated neither in a mafculine nor feminine fign, but in thofe of an oppo- 
 fite quality, which are alike in fex, but contrary in nature ; or in thofe 
 that are ruled by places of a contrary nature, as Capricorn is ruled by 
 Saturn and Mars, and Pifces by Jupiter and Venus ; the native will be 
 prone to luft, of a loofe converfation, and immodeft carriage; more par- 
 ticularly if the configuration be made in the firft or latter degrees of 
 Aries, near the Hyades, in the latter degrees of Leo, or upon the face 
 of Capricorn. And, if thefe planets occupy the two principal angles,, 
 namely, the afcendant or mid-heaven, thefe libidinous affections will be 
 the more ftrong, open, and offenfive, making the party glory, as it were, 
 in lafcivioufnefs and debaucheries ; but it is a moft extraordinary cir- 
 cumftance, that the fame afpeds in the northern and wefte/n angles not 
 only conduce to an oppofitc difpofition, but render the native either bar- 
 ren, deficient, or of evil conformation, in refped to the parts neceflary tO' 
 generation. 
 
 The difpofition of men, as to modeft or vicious habits, very much de- 
 pends on the pofition and configurations of Mars; for, if he be feparat- 
 ing from Saturn and Venus, and applying to Jupiter, men born at that 
 time will be difcreet and modeft, decent in their iutercourfes with the 
 other fex, and difpofed only to the natural ufe. If Jupiter and Venus be 
 configurated to Saturn and Mars, the native will be eafily moved on, and 
 have a fecret defire to ads of venery ; but will have an external ftiow of 
 chaftity, and labour to avoid the ftiame. If Mars and Venus are alone 
 configurated together, or if Jupiter bears teftimony, the native will be 
 openly lafcivious, and indulge in the moft luxuriant enjoyments of the 
 
 oppofate
 
 OF A S r R O L O G Y. 447 
 
 cppofite lex. It one of thefe planets be oriental, and the other occi- 
 dental, he will be difpofed towards men as well as women ; but, if both 
 are found configurated in the occidental quarters, the native's company 
 fhould be avoided, for he will burn with unnatural defires after men or 
 boys ; more particularly if the afpe6ts fall in mafculine llgns, in which 
 cafe the inclination is mod: aftonifhingly moved towards this infamous 
 and {hocking pradlice. It is likewifc to be remarked, that, if Venus be 
 alone in an occidental pofitron, the native will for the mofl part have 
 intercourfe with none but the meaneft and moft proftituted part of the 
 fex ; but, if Mars be alone in this pofition, he influences to greater deli- 
 cacy and faftidioufnefs, and marks the charaifter with a defire after married 
 women, or the more continent and raodell: among the fingle ones. 
 
 Such are the caufes which vary the fenfual appetites of men ; we w,li 
 now confider thofe peculiar to women. — If Venus be configurated to 
 Jupiter, and Mercury gives teftimony, the native will be fober, pure, 
 and moderate in her defires after men ; but, having familiarity with Mer- 
 cury alone, (he will privately give herfelf up to fenfual embraces, though 
 remarkably coy and referved in public. So likewife, if Venus be con- 
 figurated to Mars alone, the native will be wanton and lafcivious; and, 
 if Mercury has fanpiliarity with them. The will be wholly given up to 
 luftful pleafures and proftitution. If Jupiter concurs in this afpe<5l, and 
 Mars be combufi: of the Sun, the native will be mean and abjefl, fub- 
 mitting to the ufe of the moft vulgar and loweft clafs of mankind ; but,, 
 if Venus be combuft inftead of Mercury, (he will fubmit with more re- 
 ferve and caution, and moftly with decent and genteel perfons. If thefe 
 planets be configurated after a feminine manner, the fenfual appetite of 
 the native will, be only paffive ; but, if difpofed after a mafculine man- 
 ner, it will be a61ive alio. Saturn, having familiarity with thefe confi- 
 gurations, adds to the greater luft and licentioufnefs ; but Jupiter to a; 
 greater (hare of modedy, decency, and external decorum.. 
 
 Of C H I L D R E N. 
 
 After the confideration of marriage follows that of children. This> 
 fpeculation is deduced from the ftars configurated in the mid-heaven, or 
 fuccedent, which is the eleventh houfe ; but, if none of the planets are 
 found in thefe places, then the oppofite ones are to be confidered. The 
 Moon, Jupiter and Venus, are the givers of children ; but the Sun, 
 Mars, and Saturn, occafion flerility, or paucity of children. Mercury, 
 as in all other cafes, contributes his influences according to the nature 
 and quality of that (lar or planet with which he is configurated ; adding 
 to the increafe of children when in the eaft, but to (lerility and barren- 
 
 nefs.
 
 448 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 nefs when occidental, or in the weft. When therefore thefe (iars, which 
 are givers of children, are thus pofited, and by themfelves, they foVe- 
 (how only one child to the native; but, if they are fornned in double-bo- 
 died or feminine figns, they caufe the generating of twins : fo likewife, in 
 fruitful figns, as Pifces, Cancer, or Scorpio, they will produce two or 
 three children at a birth. If they are of a mafculine nature, by being 
 configurated to the Sun, and in mafculine figns, they caufe males; but, 
 if they arc difpofed after a feminine natuie, they give female?. If the) 
 are overcome by malefic planets, and pofited in barren places, or figns, 
 fuch as Leo or V^irgo, they will give children, but not of any ftability 
 or duration ; they will be naturally weak and puny, by being void of a 
 proper (hare of vital heat and nouri(hment. If the Sun and malefic ftars 
 jointly poflefs the mdheaven or eleventh houfe, in mafculine or fterile 
 figns, without either of the benefics concurring, they indicate pcrpetua'l 
 barrennefs to the native, and (how an utter want of children ? but, if 
 they be in feminine or fruitful figns, or aided by the benefics, they fore- 
 (how the produ6tion of children, but fuch as are either hurt or blemifhed 
 in their bodies, or of a (hort and unhealthy life. 
 
 In all thefe cafes it muft be remembered, that whenever the malefic 
 fl:ars have the dominion, and the benefics give teftimony, being configu- 
 rated in, or having refpc6t to, prolific figns, there will happen a rejc£tion 
 of children according to the cxcefs which the ftars giving teftimony have 
 in each condition, cither of all the children, or of a few, or moft, as they 
 are found more powerful, by being more oriental or angular, or more ele- 
 vated or Cuccedent. If therefore the lords of thofc fio^ns, boincr divers of 
 children, are orientally pofited, or in good places of the figure, the chil- 
 dren will be fortunate and afpiring, and will arrive at fingular fame and 
 honour : but, if the pofition be occidental, or in evil places of the figure, 
 the children will be altogether mean and obfcure. Moreover, if they 
 agree with the part of fortune and horofcope, they forefhow mutual love 
 and confidence, and a good underftanding always to exift between the 
 children and parents, and they will become the heirs and inheritors 
 of their fortunes ; but, if thefe be found unconjoined and difagreeing, the 
 children will be vicious and incorrigible, lofing the efteem, and wearing 
 out the patience, of their parents, and thereby ,'perhaps miffing the inhe- 
 ritance of their fubftance. If the ftars which aflume the dominion of 
 children are agreeably configurated among themfelves, they forefhow love 
 and harmony among brothers and fifters, and that they will help and 
 affift one another during their lives. But, as to other particulars rela^ 
 live to the fortunes and general purfuit of children, they are to be fought 
 out by placing the fign and degree inr which the fignificator of children 
 
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 is found, upon the afcendant, and making the figns upon the cu{\-is of 
 all the other houfes agreeable thereto, in the fame manner as if it was tlie 
 proper nativity of each child; and then judge of the difpofition of the 
 figure, according to the rules heretofore laid down. 
 
 Of FRIENDS and ENEMIES. 
 
 The things vhich relate to friendfhip and enmity are confidered bv 
 obferving the principal places of the geniture wherein the fignificator? 
 thereof have familiarity or afpecff, together with the weaknefs or flieno-th 
 of them. The great and more durable familiarities or differences of thele 
 ftars are termed lympathies and enmities; and the fmall and temporarv 
 familiarities are called focieties and contentions. To difcover thefe, we 
 mufi: carefully obferve the places of the Sun and Moon, in refpeft to the 
 horofcope and part of fortune; for, if thefe happen in the fame figns, or 
 if they change places when rifing, and not more than feventeen degrees 
 diftant, they forefhow long and faithful friendfhip ; but, if they are in- 
 conjunft, or pofited in oppofjte figns, they produce great and implacable 
 enmity and hatred. If the luminaries are not found in any of thefe lltu- 
 ations, but are only configurated in figns, either by trine or Textile, they 
 fhow flight and precarious friendfhip ; but, if by quartile, finall and im- 
 potent enmity. Hence it happens that friendfhips ceafe, and appear as 
 it were at an utter end, while the malcfics tranfit the configuration; and 
 yet, when thefe are over, the friendship is again renewed, and mutual 
 civilities and good offices take place, as if no fuch circumftance had hap- 
 pened. So in like manner the malicious objeds of hatred and enmity 
 feem to ceafe and lie dormant, when the benefic flars are making their 
 ingrefs upon the configuration ; but are renewed with frefh rancour looa 
 after thefe ingrefles are at an end, 
 
 Friendfhip and enmity are therefore confidered under three kinds; for 
 men are obferved to be {o difpofed either by ele6tion, or for profit, or for 
 forrow or pleafure ; and, when either all or mofl of the forementioned 
 j)laces have familiarity with each other, friendfhip is conftltuted by thefe 
 three kinds; but, if thefe places are found unagreeing, then enmity ariles 
 in a fimilar manner. When the places of the luminaries alone have 
 familiarity, friendfhip will arife from eleftion, involuntary choice, or na- 
 tural regard, which is the moft firm and lafting; but, if the places of the 
 luminaries are contrarily difpofed, hatred is in the fame manner pro- 
 duced, and is the mofl inveterate and fatal. When the place or part of 
 fortune hath familiarity, or is otherwife found, then thele affections 
 
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 450 
 
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 arife from motives of felf-intereft or gain ; but, when they are from the 
 horofcope, they are produced by thofe anions of the mind which arife 
 from melancholy and choler, or from vivacity and good humour. But 
 in all thefe cafes wc muft particularly obferve the (tars elevated above or 
 configurated with each of thefe refpe6tive places ; for that place (hall give 
 a higher degree of friendship or enmity than any other, to which the 
 elevation or fucceflion of ftars is the neareft, whether in the fame fign 
 (;r the adjoining. But the place which pafTes the ftars in configuration, 
 if the flars are friendly, denotes advantage and interefl: to be the caufe of 
 friendship ; or, if difcordant ftars occur, enmity will arife from interefted 
 motives, which will expire with the caufe of it. 
 
 The foregoing obfervations are applicable to the mofl extravagant and 
 lifting inftauces of friendship and enmity ; but thofe which arife from 
 more temporary and trivial caufes have a different fpeculation. The 
 common occafions of friendship or animofity, which arile in the genera! 
 purfuit of bufinefs oi pleafure, or which arife from mixing with the 
 world, are only to be deduced from the motion of the ftais taken in both 
 genitures, in order to find when the fignificators in one nativity Shall 
 come to the fame point in the other nativity ; for at fuch periods there 
 will arife particular friendships or enmities, which will have duration no 
 longer than the refpeftive familiarity or connexion of thefe ftars exiSl. 
 Saturn and Jupiter, coming in this manner to each other's places, caufe 
 friendship by meeting in focieties or company; or by agreement in huf- 
 bandry and agriculture, or by the joint inheritance of fortunes. Saturn 
 and Mars produce ftrife and contention, and often foreSliow premeditated 
 fraud and villainy. Saturn and Venus denote love and friendship through 
 the interference of kindred ; but it hath no duration. Saturn and Mer- 
 cury produce friendship by converfation or connexion in bufinefs, fcience, 
 or confederacy. Jupiter and Mars produce enmity by politics, improper 
 preferment, or interefted meafures of government. Jupiter and Venus^ 
 occafion friendship through the interference of women, ecclefiaftics, or 
 teachers; Jupiter and Mercury through mutual attachment to literature, 
 fcience, and philofophy ; Mars and Venus cauie friendship by a like 
 difpofitioa to laScivioufnefs, diilipation, and intemperance; Mars and 
 Mercurv produce enmity by fimilar interefts in bufinefs, or by the 
 fame parties following the fame avocation ; but Venus and Mercury 
 by means of jealouly, learning, correl'pondeuce by letter, or love of 
 women. 
 
 The increafe or decreafe of friendship and enmity is discerned from the 
 nature of the poSIeSTed places of each fignificator, compared with the 
 
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 451 
 
 drd four principal places of the figure ; for, if they apply to the place of 
 the part of fortune, or to the luminaries angular, they render the friend- 
 fhip or enmity more confpicuous; but, feparated and disjoined, they 
 make them obfcure and fecret. To know whether thefe affe6)ioiis fhall 
 be more or lefs injurious or advantageous, we are to obfcrve the force 
 and power of the ftars which behold the above-mentioned places, and 
 judge according to their quality and difpofition either to good or evil. 
 But, if it relates to good or evil from fervants, the place of the ruling 
 difpofition in refpeft of them in the figure muft be taken from the fign 
 in the twelfth houfe, and from the ftars which behold the place in the 
 geniture itfelf, with the ingrefles or oppofition ; but more particularly 
 when the rulers of the figns have either familiarity with the principal 
 places of the geniture, or are contrarily and unhappily configurated; from 
 which judgment muft be made accordingly. 
 
 Of the NATURAL INCLINATION for TRAVELLING. 
 
 The circumftances which relate to travelling are confidered from the 
 pofition of the luminaries in refpedl to the angles, but chiefly from thoie 
 of the Moon ; for, if {he be found in the feventh houfe, and declining 
 from angles, fhe denotes a continual difpofition for travelling, and perpe- 
 tual change of place, to the native. Mars himfelf being occidental, or 
 declining from the midheaven, and having an oppofite or quartile pofi- 
 tion to the luminaries, will produce the fame inclination in a fomevvhat 
 lefs degree. But, if the part of fortune falls in the fame fign with the 
 fignificator of travelling, the principal part of the life and anions of the 
 native will be fpent in a foreign country* 
 
 Whenever the benevolent planets irradiate the above-mentioned places, 
 of the luminaries, or Mars, or the Part of Fortune, or fucceed to them, 
 the native's travelling will be glorious and profitable, and his return fafe 
 and without impediment ; but, if the malevolent ftars behold or fucceed^ 
 the contrary effefls will be found to happen. In all thefe cales, how- 
 ever, the quality and temperament of the fmaller familiarities, as they 
 add to or take from the power and force of their configurations, muft 
 be invariably attended to. If the luminaries incline or fall to the ori- 
 ental quadrants, the travelling will be towards the eaftern or fou- hern- 
 parts of the globe, confidered in refpeft to the place of birth ; but, if 
 they are found in the occidental quadrants, the peregrination will be to- 
 wards the north or weft. If the figns in which the fignificators of tra- 
 velling are pofited be of one form, either in refpedt of themfelves, oir 
 of the ftars which have the lordftiip over them, the travelling will be 
 
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 452 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 far, but at intervals ; but, if the figns are double-bodied, or of two 
 forms, it will be perpetual, and of vail: extent. It muft, however, be 
 here obferved, that, though the cauies and fuccefs of travelling are in- 
 fluenced by Mars and the Part of Fortune, yet the quarter towards which 
 the peregrination fiiall be is only to be known from the pofition of the 
 luminaries. 
 
 If Jupiter and Venus are rubers both of the luminaries and places of 
 the fio-ure which induce travelling, the journeys will not only be com- 
 pleted without danger, but they will alio be pleafant, healthy, and agree- 
 able ; for, by the good government of the countries he vifits, and the 
 accidental meeting of friends, he will meet uith hpipitality and kind- 
 nefs ; the conftitution of the air, and the plenty of neceflary accommo- 
 dations, contributing at the fame time to his health and prefervation ; 
 and, if Mercury be joined to the aforefaid configuration, an additional 
 fhare of honour, profit, and information, will be derived from the journey; 
 but, if Satan and Mars poffefs or govern the places of the luminaries, 
 at a great diftance from each other, they will occafion great dangers and 
 a variety of ill fortune in the courfe of the journey. Being in moirt: 
 fio-ns, they denote misfortune by fhipwreck, or falling into defolate and 
 inaccefllble places ; in fixed figns, by precipices, or tempeftuous and con- 
 trary winds ; in tropical and equino61ial figns, by want of provifions, by 
 a fcorbutic or epidemic diforder, or by a fickly temperature of the air ; 
 in human figns, by the fudden attack of mountaineers and robbers, of 
 favages, or ambufcades ; in earthy figns, by the attack of wild and fe- 
 rocious animals, or by falling into pits or fubterraneous places ; but, if 
 Mercury give teftimony in any of the foregoing cafes, the danger may 
 arife from venomous creatures, or by poifon, or fome villainous ac- 
 cufation. 
 
 Thefe are the general confiderations ; but the more particular, fuch as 
 relate to the peculiar advantage or injury of each event, muft be deduced 
 from the nature and property of the principal places and fignificators of 
 profeflion and fubflance, of dignity and honour, or of bodily and mental 
 endowments, according to the rules already premifed. But the know- 
 ledge of the times when thefe various incidents are to happen is only to 
 be acquired from the refult of the diredions of each refpedlive fignifica- 
 tor, by the method which we Ihall prefently recommend. 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 455 
 
 Of the APHETA, HYLEG, PROROGATOR, or SIGNIFICATOR 
 of LIFE, and the Places proper thereto. 
 
 The aphctic, hylegiacal, or prorogatory, places, are thofe particular 
 places of the figure, or of the heavens, from whence the apheta,- hyleg, 
 prorogator, or fignificator of life, is to be taken. Thefc appellations 
 have all the fame meaning, and fignify that planet or ftar which is lord of 
 life. The firft is derived from the Greek, the fecond from the Hebrew, 
 and the latter from the Latin. 
 
 The hylegiacal or prorogatory places are in number five, viz. the 
 afcendant, the feventh, ninth, tenth, and eleventh, houfes, and are ta- 
 ken from the five degrees next and immediately above the cufp of the 
 afcendant to the twenty-five degrees below the cufp of the lame, com- 
 puted by oblique afcenfion. In the fame manner the prorogatory places 
 are determined in the feventh, ninth, tenth, and eleventh, houfes; for 
 inftance, it is computed from the five decrees \\.\ the eighth houfe, to 
 the middle of the eleventh houfe, towards the twelfth ; which middle 
 is eafily found, by adding half the femidiurnal arch to the right afcenfion 
 of the medium coeli, and where that ends in the middle of the eleventh 
 houfe ; the part beyond which is not hylegiacal or prorogatory. Now 
 thefe only are the places in which the planet who afiTumes the power o§ 
 hyleg or giver of life can be found ; for vvhatfoever is under the earth 
 is not fit for fuch dominion ; nor is any pofition above the earth, which 
 hath not configuration to the horofcope. The twelfth houfe, therefore, 
 which is called the evil angle, is not prorogatory, becaufe it not only de- 
 clines from the angle, but alfo makes the influence of the flars pofited 
 therein of an evil tendency, fince it difturbs, and as it were deflroys, the 
 thick vapour proceeding from the moifture of the earth, whereby they 
 become contrary to nature both in colour and magnitude. 
 
 If the native's birth be by day, the Sun fliall be taken for hyleg, pro- 
 rogator, or giver of life, if he be found in any of the foregoing hylegiacal 
 places; if he be not, then obferv^e whether the Moon be pofited in either 
 of them, and, if fo, then fhe fhall betaken for fignificator of life. But, 
 if neither of the luminaries be fo found, then any planet whatfoever, that 
 hath moft dignities in the place of the Sun at the preceding conjun6lion 
 with the Moon, and in the horofcope, (hall be preferred as fignificator of 
 life. It mufl however be remembered, that this planet mufl be dignified 
 three ways or more in one of the above-mentioned places, to be fo pre- 
 ferred ; buti if no planet fhould be found fo dignified, or, if dignified, 
 not in an aphetical place, then take the afcendant for giver of life. 
 
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 454 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 If the time of birth happens to be by night, the Moon fhall be pre- 
 ferred for giver of life, if (he be pofited in any of the aphetical places of 
 the figure. If (he be not, then the Sun fhall be preferred, if found in 
 any of thefe places ; but, if neither Sun nor Moon be fo fituated, then 
 any planet whatever, which was moft dignified in the place of the pre- 
 ceding Full Moon, and in the place of the Part of Fortune, fliall be 
 preferred. If none fuch are found in the geniture, the afcendant (hall be 
 taken for giver of life, if a conjunction preceded ; but, if it was a Full 
 Moon, then the Part of Fortune muft be preferred. If both the lumi- 
 naries, or feveral of the planets which afTume the power of fignificaLor 
 of life by the above-mentioned conditions, are found together in tlic 
 aphetical places, and (eem to contend for dominion of prorogation, then 
 that (liall be preferred which is found in the moft principal place of the 
 luminaries, whether it be the Sun, Moon, or any other planet whatever. 
 The principal places of the luminaries are thefe : firft, in the medium 
 cceli ; next, in the afcendant; then, in the eleventh houfe ; next to that, 
 the feventh ; and, laftly, the ninth houfe. According to this order, 
 therefore, by the genethliacal figure at the time of birth, (hall the (igni- 
 ficator of life be fought out and afcertained. 
 
 ■•o 
 
 Of the ANARETICAL or KILLING PLANET, and of the 
 
 QUALITY of DEATH. 
 
 The anaretic or killing places are the places of Saturn and Mars, 
 which kill according to the diredion of the hyleg to the fucceedingfigns, 
 when they meet either bodily, or caft their rays from any place of the 
 fio-ure, whether it be by quartile or oppofition ; and fometimes it hap- 
 pens by fextile, when they proceed from figns obedient or beholding, 
 becaufe' they have then the fame efficacy with the quartile or oppofition. 
 So likewife a quartile, configurated from the following or fucceeding 
 fio-ns to the aphetic place ; and alfo a fextile evilly affedled, when in 
 fi«ns of long afcenfion ; and even the trines, in (hort afcenfions ; have 
 fufficient force to kill, when unimpeded by benefic rays; as will alfo the 
 folar place, if the Moon be hyleg. But it muft be remembered that 
 thefe places are only anaretic when they are evilly afFefled ; for their 
 anaretic or killing power is impeded or deftroyed, whenever it falls in the 
 terms of a benefic ftar, or whenever the benefics caft a fextile, quartile, 
 trine, or oppofitional, ray to the very anaretical point, or to thofe points 
 which follow. Hence life is generally found to be preferved, when Ju- 
 piter is not above twelve degrees diftant from the anareta or killing 
 planet ; or when Venus is not more than eight. The zodiacal afpeds 
 of the anaretic or killing ftars will be likewife of little force, whenever 
 the latitude of the apheta, or giver of life, and that of the anareta, or 
 deftroyer of life, do not correfpond. 
 
 When
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 455 
 
 When the afiifting and anaretic rays are found two or more on each 
 fide, we muft obferve which of them exceed moft in number and power, 
 which is to be underftood when the benefics or anarctas are fome of 
 them in proper places of the figure, and others not ; particularly when 
 fome are oriental, and others occidental, either in refped of the Sun or 
 the figure itfelf ; for in general no planet under the beams of the Sun 
 hath power to kill or. fave, unlefs when the Moon is giver of life ; ia^ 
 which cafe the place of the Sun, being afflided by fome malefic planet 
 joined to it, and receiving no help from benefic rays, will certainly pro- 
 duce death ; but, if any benevolent configuration irradiates the place, the 
 native's life will be preferved. 
 
 To define the caufe and quality of death, we muft confider whether it 
 is likely to happen by means of the beams of the malefic ftars being caft 
 orientally ; for the place of the malefic or anaretical planet, if joined by 
 body, or, if not, the place of the afpeft, ought carefully to be obferved, 
 in order to judge of the quality of death. If thefe deftrudive beams flow 
 occidentally, confider the occidental place of the ftar ; for, fuch as they 
 are which have dignities in the anaretic place, fuch will be the quality of 
 death ; or, if no planet hath dignities therein, then fuch as before others 
 are carried by their motions to thefe anaretic places are to be efteemed 
 the caufers of death, and our judgment (hould be regulated thereby ; the 
 configurations of the ftars made thereto being likewife confidered, toge- 
 ther with the nature of the figns, and the terms in which they fall. 
 
 Saturn, poflefllng the dominion of death, caufes death by chronic dif^ 
 tempers, phthyfics, fluxes, agues, difeafes of the fplcen, dropfies, iliac and 
 hyfteric diftempers, and, in a word, by all diforders arifing from abun- 
 dance of cold. Jupiter produceth death by the quinfey, inflammation of 
 the lungs, apoplexy, cramps, and cardiac affe6lions, and by thofe diforders 
 which happen with vehement and ftinking breathing. Mars caufes 
 death by continual fevers, femi-tertians, fudden ftrokes and nephritic 
 afFedions, fpitting of blood and hemorrhage, by abortion and birth, and 
 St. Anthony's fire, and by all diforders which arife from abundance of 
 heat. Venus induceth death by afFedions of the ftomach and liver, ring- 
 worms, and bloody flux ; alfo by putrefaction and fiftulas, and giving of 
 poifon ; and, in a word, by all thofe complaints which proceed from 
 abundance of moifture, or through want or wafting thereof. Mercury 
 deftroys life by madnefs, extafy, and melancholy ; falling ficknefs, coughs, 
 and fpitting affedions ; and by thofe which happen limply through much 
 drynefs, or a want thereof. And thefe deaths happen naturally, when 
 
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 4i6 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 the rulers of death are in their proper and natural quality, and none oi' 
 the malefics concur. 
 
 Violent and remarkable deaths happen when both the malefics are 
 lords of the anaretic places, or when both or one of the two are joined to, 
 or fquare, or oppofe, or evilly afFed, both of the luminaries, or the Sun 
 alone, or the Moon ; for then the milchievouiiiefs and violence of death ii 
 produced by the evil affcftions of the malefics. But the reniarkablenels 
 and extraordinary circumflances of the death proceed from the teftimony 
 of the lights ; and its quality is known from the reft of the afpediiig 
 ftars, and the figns containing the malefics. Safurn therefore in quartile 
 or oppofition to the Sun, orientally, and in fixed figns, caufeth death by 
 fufFocation, tumults of the people, or by hanging or ftrangUng ; In like 
 manner he doth the fame if he be occidental, and the Moon follow ; or, 
 if he be in beaft-like figns or places, he caufes to perifli by beafts ; and 
 Venus, being joined to them, caufes death by poifon, or by the treachery 
 of women. Jf he is in Virgo or Pifces, or in moift figns, configurated 
 to the Moon, he will caufe death by water, by being fuffbcated and 
 drowned ; if he be about Argo, by (hipwreck ; if he be in tropical or 
 equinodial figns, the Sun being with him, or oppofing, or if Mars be 
 there, he will caufe death by the efFeds of a fall ; if they are in the tenth 
 houfe, death will happen by precipitation from on high ; thus Saturn 
 caufes thefe efFe<5ts, being configurated to the lumiiiaries. 
 
 Mars in quartile or oppofition to the Sun, and the Sun or Moon ori- 
 ental, in figns of human form, will caufe death by flaughter, either 
 civil or hoftile, or by laying violent hands upon himfelf. If Venus give 
 teftimony, death will enfue by means of women. If Mercury be configu- 
 rated to them, death will enfue by robbers, and evil doers, and pirates. 
 If he be in mutilated or imperfedl figns, or with the Gorgon of 
 Perfeus, he will induce to death by beheading, or by the effedl of ampu- 
 tation. Being found in Scorpio or Taurus, he will caufe death by me- 
 dical cutting and burning, or by contraftions ; but, if he be found in the 
 midheaven, or oppofite to the midheaven, he will caufe death by hanging; 
 particularly if he be found about Cepheus and Andromeda. If he be found 
 in the weft, or oppofite to the horofcope, he will caufe death by fire ? 
 but, if he be found in fourfooted figns, he will caufe death by falling, or 
 by the breaking of limbs. If Jupiter gives teftimony to Mars, and he 
 evilly affeded, death will happen through the anger of princes, or by 
 condemnation. If the malefics efpecially agree together, and both of 
 them evilly affed any of the faid places, they make the cruelty of the 
 death the greater. The quality of death, and the ruling thereof, always 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 457 
 
 will be fliown by the ftar that is in the anaretic place ; but death will 
 happen in ftrange places when the ftars which poffefs the anaretic point 
 fall from angles ; and efpecially when the Moon is either found with, or 
 in quartilc or oppofition to, the faid places. 
 
 Thus the caufe and quality of death are to be fought out, and the ex- 
 tent of life known, by the refult of the dire6tions of each refpedive ficr- 
 nificator,. either direct, by which the anaretic point is carried to the 
 place of the giver of life ; or converfe, by the hyleg being carried to 
 tihe weft angle, which alone of all converfe diredions hath power to cut. 
 off life. 
 
 Of DIRECTION S. 
 
 A direftion, or an arch of diredion, is the pathway or track defcribed 
 in the heavens by any planet that is fignificator, or that alTjoies the do- 
 minion or government, of life, or any other incident or event peculiar 
 to the native, from the moment of birth to its meeting or formino' au 
 afped with the anaretas, or promittors, at which time the event, ba 
 it what it may, that is indicated thereby, comes to pafs.. For, as all the. 
 heavenly bodies conftantly move in circles, their progrefs, whether for a 
 long or (hort time,, will neceflarily form arches, the content ordeorees of 
 which, being accurately found, and meafured, or equated by the folar mo- 
 tion, will defcribe the length of time, whether it be years, months, or 
 days, which the fignificator will be in forming the. arch of diredlion 
 which produces the event. Now thefe diredions are known, by. the 
 following rules, and are of two diflinft clafTes :. the firft of which is zo- 
 diacal, or according to the circle of the zodiac ; and the lecond,, mun- 
 dane, or according to the^motion of the planets round the earth, or in re- 
 lation to their proportional diflance from the I'everal houfes of the ficruie.. 
 
 ZODIACAL DIRECTIONS. 
 
 How to dire£l the SUN, being in or near the Midheaven^ namely, when he 
 is either on^ or not more than three degrees from, the Cufp of the Houfe, 
 
 FirfV, Take the right afcenfjon of the Sun, and then the place of the 
 afpe6t to which it is to be directed, vizw the right afcenfion of the afpetf, 
 whether it be a conjunction or oppofite ; the latitude m.this cafe is to 
 be negledled if he hath not greater latitude than his orb; if he hath,, it- 
 is not to be negle6ted ; this is the difference between the horizuntai (or, 
 mundane) and zodiacal afpe£ts, becaufe they are made from the greateili 
 
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 4j8 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 nearnefs to the greateft diftance of the ftars amongft themfelves ; and 
 above the real path of them in the zodiac. The greateft nearnefs hap- 
 pens in the fame partjle longitude, although they are diftant and ditFer 
 according to latitude ; unlefs, as I have faid, the latitude, in either oppo- 
 fition or conjunftion, exceeds the greatnefs of their orb; if it be greater, 
 then is the conjundlion or oppofition in the zodiac of fmall force ; now 
 fubtra6l the riaht afcenfion of the Sun from the risfht afcenfion of the 
 planet's afpe6l, and the remainder is the arch of dire61ioi). As for ex- 
 ample, fuppofe the medium coeli, in eight degrees fifteen minutes of Scor- 
 pio, and the Sun in eight degrees twenty-one minutes of the fame fign, 
 to be direded to the conjun6tion of Venus in twenty-two degrees forty- 
 five minutes of Sagittary. The right afcenfion of the Sun is two hundred 
 and fifteen degrees fifty-eight minutes, the right alcenfion of Venus is 
 two hundred and fixty-two degrees eight minutes ; fubtra6t the right 
 afcenfion of the Sun from the right afcenfion of Venus, and there remains 
 forty-fix degrees ten minutes, which is the true arch of diredlion ; and 
 which, if equated, or turned into time, according to the folar motion, 
 by the rules hereafter laid down, will (how the time when this afpcB: 
 will be formed. 
 
 How to dire£l the SUN, being near the Horofcope or feventh Houfe. 
 
 Take the oblique afcenfion of the Sun, in the latitude of the place, if 
 it be in the afcendant, and near the cufp thereof; but, if near the cufp 
 of the feventh houfe, his oblique defcenfion or the oblique afcenfion of his 
 oppofite place ; then take the oblique afcenfion or oblique defcenfion of 
 the afpefts, under the fame pole, ftill negle<5ling their latitude if it be 
 not greater than their orb ; then fubtraft the oblique afcenfion of the Sun 
 from the oblique afcenfion of the afpe6t, and the remainder is the arch 
 of diredion required. 
 
 How to dlreB the SUN above the Earth, being far diji ant from any of the 
 cardinal Houfes. If the Sim be above the Earth, and above three De- 
 grees diJi ant from the Cufp of the cardinal Houfes, do thus : — 
 
 Take the diftance of the Sun from the midheaven in right afcenfion, and 
 from that fubtrad the right afcenfion of the afpefls, which we call the 
 firft diftance ; then get the femidiurnal arch of the Sun, and alfo of the 
 afpe6ts; and by the rule of proportion fay. If the femidiurnal arch of the 
 Sun gives that right afcenfional diftance, what fhall the femidiurnal arch 
 of the afpeft or promittor give? The produ6l fhall be the fecondary 
 
 right
 
 O F A S r R O L O G Y. +59 
 
 right afcenfion ; and, if both be made in the afcending part-of heaven, 
 fubtraft the fecondary afcenfion from the primary, and the remainder is 
 the arch of diredion. 
 
 Another Way. 
 
 Take the elevation of the pole of the Sun, and therein the oblique 
 afcenfion of the Sun, and likewife the oblique afcenfion of the afpedl ; 
 fubtraft one from the other, and the remainder is the arch of diredion. 
 For this reafon, I have fet the Table of the eleventh, third, twelfth, and 
 fecond, houfes, from thirty to fixty degrees of north or fouth latitude. 
 
 Hoxv to take the Pole of Pojition, commonly called tJie Circle of Poftion^ of 
 
 SUN or any other Significator. 
 
 Firft obferve vs^hether the fignificator be above or under the earth : if 
 above, get his femidiurnal arch; if under, his femino6lurnal ; which, 
 being obtained, mufl- be converted into degrees and minutes, whereof 
 one third part is the pole of one houfe ; then take the ftar's diftance from 
 the neareft houfe to which he is placed ; and by the rule of proportion 
 fay, If the third part of the femidiurnal or feminodturnal arch of the fig- 
 nificator gives the pole of the other houfe, what fhall his diflance give ? 
 which if it falls in the third, fourth, ninth, or tenth, houies, the remain- 
 der is the pole of pofition ; but, if it falls in the firfl, fecond, fifth, 
 lixth, feventh, eighth, or twelfth, houfes, add or fubtratl it to or from 
 the pole of the fucceeding or preceding houfe ; as for example : the 
 Moon's femidiurnal arch in eight hours fifteen minutes ; a third part is- 
 two hours forty-five minutes ; which, converted into degrees, gives forty- 
 one degrees fifteen minutes for the fpace of one houfe ; the Moon's dif- 
 tance from the tenth houfe in right afcenfion is thirty-three degrees fifiy 
 minutes, the pole of the eleventh houfe is twenty-three degrees ; then by 
 the rule of proportion fay. If forty-one degrees fifteen minutes, being the 
 fpace of one houfe, give twenty-three degrees, the pole of the eleventh 
 houfe, what fhall thirty-three degrees fifty minutes give? It gives eigh- 
 teen degrees fifty-two minutes for the Moon's true circle or pole of pofi- 
 tion. But, becaufe it is near nineteen degrees, I take nineteen degrees 
 for her pole ; and note, that, if odd minutes at any time exceed thirty, 
 accept of it as a whole degree ; but, if they be under thirty, then reje6t 
 them entirely. 
 
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 46o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 How to dire^ the SUN to any Jifpe£i, being under the Earth, in the Space 
 
 of Twilight. 
 
 The Sun, being found in the fpace of twilight, ought to be ciirecSted 
 above parallel circles to the horizon, ynd not above horary circles, as 
 when the Sun is above the earth. If the Syn be found in the mornins: 
 twilight, firfl: dired the Sun to the degree of the aiped under the lati- 
 tude of the place, although the Sun is not there, and afterwards take 
 the diftance of the Sun from the horofcope, in oblique afcenfion, which 
 call the Sun's primary diflance ; and be careful that this diftance be not 
 greater than the parallel of twilight, which does not exceed eighteen de- 
 grees, for, if it be, the Sun is not in that parallel, and in this cafe you muft 
 work by the following rule ; but, if the Sun be in the parallel of twilight,, 
 then, with the diftance of the Sun from the horizon above taken, enter 
 the Table of Twilight under the latitude of the place, which is in the top 
 of the Table, and with the fign and degree in the head or foot of the Table: 
 and in the angle of meeting, or body of the Table, find the diftance of 
 the Sun from his rifing, and obferve the degree of the parallel of twi- 
 light, which the Sun poflefTes, in the firft column, taking the proper- 
 tional part of the Sun's place to degrees ; and under the fame parallel 
 look out the diftance of the direftiosi, that is to fay, what diftance the 
 Sun is from the horofcope in that parallel of twilight ; and this diftance 
 call the fecondary diftance ; then, if both the firft and fecond diftance are 
 equal, the true arcft of diredion is that which was firft: taken in the 
 horofcope ; but, if they are not equal, fubtradl the lefs from the greater,., 
 and the remainder call the oriental diftance ; and, if the fecondary diftance 
 be greater than the primary, then fubtraft the oriental diftance from the 
 arch of dirediion, and the remainder is the true arch of diredion, which 
 is to be equated as before. In feeking the primary diftance of the Sun 
 from the horofcope, in the Tables of Twilight hereafter infcrted, it is 
 fufficient to take the proportional part of the degree only, rejedting the 
 minutes, which, when taken, note the degree of the depreftion or paral- 
 lel of twilight, and in the right line with parallel diftance find the 
 neareft proportional diftance, which when found by proportional parts, 
 the firft primary natural diftance of the Sun may be neglct^ed, for it is not 
 neceflary to take the degrees and minutes of the depreftion of twilight, but 
 only the greateft and the neareft degree of the Sun's longitude with the 
 proportional part ; as for example : the Sun directed to the quartile of 
 Mercury in no degree of Cancer, Mercury being in no degree of Aries at 
 birth ; at the fame time eleven degrees of Pifces afcend. In the latitude 
 forty-four degrees, the Sun being in Aries fifteen degrees forty-fix mi- 
 nutes,
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 461 
 
 uutes, tlie oblique afeenfion of the afcendant in that latitude is three 
 hundred forty-nine degrees forty-five minutes; the oblique afcenfion of 
 the Sun, with the circle, is three hundred and fixty-eight degrees twenty- 
 eight minutes ; the difference is eighteen degrees forty-three minutes. 
 Enter the Table of Twilight in the latitude of forty-four degrees, and 
 there look for this diftance, eighteen degrees forty-three minutes, and 
 alfo for f.xteen degrees of Aries, which cannot be found; but there is 
 ten degrees and twenty degrees, which is near enough ; now, under ten 
 degrees of Aries is eighteen degrees thirty-two minutes, and under twenty 
 degrees 1 find nineteen degrees one minute ; the difference is twenty- 
 nine minutes. Then I fay, if ten degrees give twenty- nine minutes, what 
 (hall fix degrees give ? Anfwer, feventeen minutes ; which, being added 
 to eighteen degrees thirty-two minutes, make eighteen degrees forty-nine 
 minutes ; and againft that, in the firft column, is the parallel of twilight, 
 thirteen degrees, required. 
 
 Now the Sun's primary diftance, viz. eighteen degrees forty-three mi- 
 nutes, being neglected, as aforefaid, I take eighteen degrees forty-nine 
 minutes ; then looking out the afpeff, which falls in no degrees of Can- 
 cer, under the latitude forty-four degrees, and thirteen degrees parallel 
 of twilight, I find twenty-four degrees forty-five minute?, which is the 
 fecondary diftance, and is greater than the primary by five degrees fifty- 
 fix muiutes ; the oblique afcenfion of the Sun is eight degrees twenty- 
 eight minutes, and both under the latitude of forty-four degrees. Now I 
 fubtraft the oblique afcenfion of the Sun from the oblique alcenfion of the 
 afpeQ, and the ditference is fifty-fix degrees forty-two minutes. And, be- 
 caufe the fecondary diftancc is greater than the primary, I fubtrafl five 
 degrees fifty-fix minutes from the aforefaid fifty-fix degrees forty-two 
 minutes, and there remain fifty degrees forty-fix minutes, the true arch 
 of direftion required, which is to be equated as before. If the Sun is to 
 be dire6ted at evening twilight, all things muft be noted as before, but 
 juft contrary in all the operations, or elfe taken in oblique afcenfion to all 
 the oppofite places. 
 
 To dire& the Sun, being found beyond the Parallel of Twilight, under the 
 
 Earth. 
 
 If the Sun be found under the Earth, whether oriental or occiden- 
 tal, out of the parallel of twilight: Firft, take his femmo61urnal arch, 
 and thence fubtrad his whvile arch of twilight, and keep the remainder, 
 which is the obfcure arch; afterwards take the feminocturnal arch of the 
 afped, whence fubtradt his whole arch of twilight, and the remainder is 
 
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 46i AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 the obfcure arch of the afpe6l. Next take the diftance both of the Sun and 
 afpeft from the fourth houfe in right afcenfion ; then, by the rule of pro- 
 portion, fay, If the whole arch of obfcurity of the Sun gives his diftance 
 from the fourth houfe, what fhall the arch of obfcurity of the afpeft give? 
 which diftance being found, obferve the fame rules as in dire6tingthe Sun 
 above the Earth, and confider the arches of obfcurity the fame as the femi- 
 diurnal or feminodfurnal arches. 
 
 For 'Example ; 
 
 Let the Sun, in eleven degrees forty-five minutes of Aquaries, be di- 
 rected to an afped in twenty-two degrees thirty-five minutes of Pifces. 
 The feminodlurnal arch of the Sun is feven hours feven minutes ; the whole 
 arch of twilight being fubtratled, which is one hour forty-three minutes, 
 the remaining five hours twenty-four minutes is the arch of obfcurity. 
 The Sun's diftance from the fourth houfe, in right afcenfion, is forty degrees 
 eleven minutes. Now the femino6turnal arch of the afpe6t is fix hours ele- 
 ven minutes, andhis arch of twilight isone hour thirty-nine minutes, which, 
 being fubtrafted from the femino6turnal arch, leaves four hours thirty-two 
 minutes for the arch of obfcurity. The diftance of the afpe6t from the 
 fourth houfe in right afcenfion is feventy-nine degrees ten minutes ; then 
 by the rule of proportion fay. If five hours twenty-four minutes give forty 
 degrees eleven minutes, what fhall four hours thirty-two minutes give ? 
 thirty-three degrees forty-four minutes, the arch of diredion required. 
 
 To dire& the Sun to zodiacal Parallels, being found in any Part of the 
 
 Heavens. 
 
 Firft find the declination of the promittors, with latitude if they have 
 any, and fee what degree and minute of the ecliptic anfwers to that de- 
 clination, which is its parallel. If the Sun be near the cardinal houfes, 
 his direction is as aforefaid ; but, if farther diftant, then dire6t under his 
 proper pole of pofition, as above fpecified. 
 
 To dire& a Signifcator, having Latitude, or any Conjun&ion or AfpeB. 
 
 As the Sun keeps his true courfe in the ecliptic, fo the reft of the 
 planets which have latitude, when they come to be direCled to any af- 
 peft, they move in their own fpheres according to their fucceffion of la- 
 titude. We call \\. fuccejfion, becaufe it is not always the fame, but is 
 changed according to the greateft diftance or nearnefs that they are to 
 the nodes : therefore it follows, that a fignificator, having latitude, when 
 he is to be direded to any afpe6t, the latitude of the afpe6l is to be neg- 
 lected.
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 4^3 
 
 Icdted, and the latitude which the fisrnificator hath at that place where 
 
 I ' 1_ 
 
 the afpedt falls is to be taken ; and the diredions are the lame as the 
 others; only neglefting the rule of the Sun's diredion under the Earth. 
 
 To diredl a S'tgnificaior, having 'Latitude, to Parallels. 
 
 Firft find the declination of the ftar, to whofc parallel you would di- 
 reft a fignificator with latitude ; which when found, enter the Tables of 
 Declination with the latitude the fignificator (hall have in that place until 
 you come to the degrees and minutes of the promittor's declination : 
 
 As for Example, 
 
 I would dire£l the Moon to the Parallel of Saturn. 
 
 Suppofe Saturn to be in thirteen degrees of Pifces, and his latitude one 
 degree fouth ; his declination will be found to be feven degrees thirty- 
 feven minutes, which in the ecliptic anfwers to about ten degrees of 
 Pifces ; the Moon is in twenty-four degrees of Leo. Now I enter the 
 Tables of Declination under Virgo, the oppofite part, in that place where 
 the Moon meets with this parallel. The Moon's north node is in nine- 
 teen degrees of Cancer, fo in that place flie will have three degrees fifty- 
 three minutes north latitude, with which I enter the Table of Declination ; 
 and againft ten degrees of Virgo, and four degrees north latitude, I find 
 eleven degrees thirty-three minutes, which is too much ; fo, under the 
 faid four degrees of latitude, I come to twenty-one degrees of Virgo, a- 
 gainfl which I find feven degrees fifteen minutes, and under five degrees 
 north latitude I find eight degrees ten minutes ; in which faid twenty- 
 one degrees of Virgo, I find what latitude the Moon will have ; and, by 
 her diftance from her node, I find (he hath four degrees twenty-three mi- 
 nutes north latitude. Now the difference between feven degrees fifteen 
 minutes and eight degrees ten minutes is fifty-five minutes ; therefore 
 I fay. If fixty minutes give fifty-five minutes, what will twenty-three 
 give ? Anfwer, twenty-one minutes ; which, added to feven degrees fifteen 
 minutes, will make feven degrees thirty-fix minutes ; which fhows, that 
 twenty-one degrees of Virgo is the true parallel of Saturn. 
 
 How to dlre£i a Signtficator to his own proper Afpe£is. 
 
 Firfl find his longitude, that is, the longitude of his afpe£l in the 
 ecliptic if it be the Sun, and according to her latitude if it be the 
 Moon ; always obferving the latitude that fhe hath at the place of her af- 
 peft, which is found by her diftance from her nodes as before taught ; 
 
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 464 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 then take the right arcenfioti or oblique afcenllon of the afpeift, both in 
 latitude and longitude, and work according to the former rules ; but 
 note that neither the afcendant nor medium coell are to be directed to 
 any of the planet's afpefts in the zodiac, but to thole in the world only ; 
 nor to parallels in the zodiac, but to thofe in the horizon, or world ; and to 
 thefe always direft, and never converfe. 
 
 Of MUNDANE DIRECTIONS. 
 
 The afpedts in the world are proportional diftances by their motion 
 about the world ; for, a ftar that (hall be dilliant from the horizon a third 
 part of his diurnal arch will caft his Textile to the afcendant ; and, if he 
 be half his diurnal arch, he will cart a quartile to the afcendant ; and 
 two thirds of his arch is a trine, and his whole arch is an oppolltion ; 
 therefore the firft houfe is in Textile to the eleventh and third, and in 
 quartile to the tenth and fourth ;. in trine to the ninth and fifth, and in 
 op;jofition to the feventh ; and i'o of the reft. And, although the diurnal 
 and no6turnal arches differ among thcmieivcs, yet the houles have no dif- 
 tindion, property, nature, or force, of thcmfelves, but what they re- 
 ceive from the liars, ar.d in the divifion of the houfes by double horary 
 times, according to the method and rules of Ptolomy. The houfes have 
 no more relpe6t to the ecliptic than if there were no fuch thing; for they 
 have only rcfpedt to the femidiurnal and feminoclurnal arches of the 
 ftars ; and the afpefts they make in the world, to any houfe or from any 
 houfe, have no relpeft to the ecliptic, but according to their femidiur- 
 nal and femino6lurnal arches, or according to their motion about the 
 world; which, being rightly confidered, and well underftood, will render 
 the whole mundane art of directions very cafy. 
 
 To dire£l the Midheaven or the Afcendant to the Sex tile, Quartile, or Trine, 
 
 of any Star. 
 
 If you would diredl the midheaven to a fextile of any ftar that is 
 placed either in the twelfth, afcendant, or fecond houfe, you have only 
 to do thus : Take the oblique afcenfion of the cufp of the twelfth houfe, 
 under its proper pole, and under the fame pole the oblique afcenfion of 
 the promittor ; fubtra£l: the one from the other, and you will have the 
 arch of diredion. For obferve, that, when the houfe is direded to the 
 body of any planet, at the fame time the midheaven comes to the fex- 
 tile ; when the afcendant comes to the body of any ftar, at the fame 
 time the midheaven is dire6ted to the quartile thereof ; and, when the 
 cufp of the fecond houfe is direded to the body of a ftar, then the mid- 
 heaven
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 465 
 
 heaven comes to the trine; (o that, by always obferving this rule, it will 
 be impoflible to err; for thefe afpe6ls in the world are not made by their 
 diftance in figns, degrees, and minutes, but by their diftance according- to 
 the order or fucceffion of the houfes, which diftances are afcertained by the 
 femidiurnal or feminodlurnal arches. 
 
 The fame rule is alfo to be followed in direding the afceiidant, as was 
 obferved in the mid-heaven; for, if it be required to direct the a(cendant 
 to a fexlile, we have no more to do than to dired the cuifp of the eleventh 
 houfe if the promittor be above the earth, or the cufp of the third houfe 
 if he be under the earth, to his body ; in both of which cafes the 
 afcendant will be found to come to his fextile. If it be required to diredl 
 the afcendant to a quartile, obferve whether the promittor be above the 
 earth; and, if fo, direft the mid-heaven to his body; but, if under the 
 earth, dire6t the cufp of the fourth houfe to his body; either of which 
 operations will bring the afcendant to his quartile. But, if the afcend mt 
 is to be direfted to a trine, then, if the promittor be above the earth, 
 dire6l the cufp of the ninth houfe to his body; but, if under the earth, 
 the cufp of the fifth houfe, which will in the fame manner brino- the 
 afcendant to his trine. By an attention to thefc rules, the angular houfes 
 may at all times be direded with fingular eafe and exadnels; for, havino- 
 found the cufp of the houfe required, we are to dire6l under the pole of 
 that houfe, let the pofition of the ftar be where it will, which if rio-htly 
 done, the dire6tion will never fail of being true. 
 
 To dire^ the Afcendant or Medium-Coeli to the Conjun£lion or Oppofition 
 
 of any Star. 
 
 To direct the medium-coeli to a conjundlion or oppofition, take the 
 right afcenfion of the tenth houfe, from the right afcenllon of the ftar 
 with latitude; and after the fame manner the conjundion, with con- 
 trary latitude ; the remainder is the arch of direclon Ibught. But, in di- 
 reding the afcendant to the conjundion of a ftar, fubtra6l the oblique 
 afcenfion of the afcendant from the oblique afcenfion of the ftar, with 
 latitude, if any ; and in the fame manner for an oppofition, only with 
 contrary latitude ; and the remainders will be the arches of diredion re- 
 quired. 
 
 Another Way to dire£l the Afcendant. 
 
 Subtraft the femidiurnal arch of the ftar from his right afcenfion, 
 and from the remainder fubtrad the right afcenfion of the medium- 
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 466 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 coeli; and there will remain the true arch of direftion of the afcendant, 
 as before. By the fame operation the afcendant may be dire6ted to any of 
 the fixed ftars. 
 
 Another Way to direSi the Medium-Cceli to a Sextile, Quart He, or Trme. 
 
 Firft enter the Tables of Declination with the flar's place, and take its 
 declination according to its latitude, obferving to what degree of the 
 ecliptic that declination anfwers ; if it be above the greatefl obliquity, 
 work, by the Tables of Afcenfional Difference, and find its femidiurnal 
 arch. But, if the declination be within twenty-three degrees thirty mi- 
 nutes, enter the 'i'ables of Semidiurnal Arches, and look for the corre- 
 j(ponding degrees in the ecliptic; and againft it will be found the femi- 
 diurnal arch in hours and minutes, which mufl: be converted into degrees 
 and minutes of the equator, whereof two thirds make a textile, which 
 muft be added to the right afcenfion of the ftar, if it be pofited in the 
 occidental part of the heavens ; but, if it be in an oriental pofition, then 
 fubtrad the two thirds of the equator. For example : Suppofe the right 
 afcenfion of the medium-coeli to be two hundred and twenty degrees, 
 which anfwers to twelve degrees twenty-feven minutes of Scorpio, and a 
 planet were in twenty-eight degrees of Sagittarius, having eleven .nniutes 
 of north latitude ; his declination will be twenty-three degrees twenty 
 minutes, which anfwers to twenty-three degrees of Sagittarius. With this 
 I enter the Tables of Semidiurnal Arches, under the latitude of the place, 
 viz. fifty-two degrees, which I find to be three hours forty-fix minutes, 
 and, being converted into degrees and minutes of the equator, make fifty- 
 two degrees thirty minutes. Now two thirds thereof are thirty-leven 
 degrees forty minutes, which, being fubtradted from two hundred and 
 fixty-feven degrees forfy-nine minutes, the planet's right afcenfion, leaves 
 two hundred and thirty degrees niiie minutes for the right afcenfion of 
 the Textile of the planet, from whence the right afcenfion of the medium- 
 coeli being fubtraded, there will remain ten degrees nine muiutes, the 
 true arch of direction to the fextile. The directions to a quartile or trine 
 are performed in a fimilar manner. 
 
 Another Way to dire6l the Afcendant to a Sextile, Quartile^ or Trine, Afpe£l 
 
 oj any Planet, 
 
 If the afcendant is to be diretled to the afped of a planet above the 
 earth, divide the femidiurnal arch of the planet into three equal parts, 
 and add two of thoie parts to the oblique afcenfion of the planet, taken 
 under the pole of birth, and from that lubtradl the oblique afcenfion of 
 the afcendant, and the remainder is the arch ofdiredion to a fextile. 
 
 By
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 467 
 
 By the fame operation the afcendant is direfted to the quartile and trine 
 afpedls; only obferving to take four of thole parts for a trine, and the 
 whole lemidiurnal arch for a quartile. It is proper juft to remark, that 
 the afcendant and mid-heaven are never to be directed to zodiacal afpeds, 
 but to thofe only in the world. 
 
 Another Way to dire5i the Afcendant. 
 
 Take one third part of the femidiurnal arch of the planet from its 
 right afcenfion, and from the remainder (ubtraft the right afcenfion of the 
 mid-heaven, and the refidue is the true arch of dire6tion to the fextile 
 afpeft, as before. If the third part of the femidiurnal arch of the planet 
 be added to its right afcenfion, and from that fum the ri^ht afcenfion of the 
 mid-heaven be dedudted, there will remain the true arch of dire61ion to a 
 trine. 
 
 But it muft be carefully remembered, that in all cafes where diredions 
 are to be brought to the afpeds of planets under the earth, we are to divide 
 the femiiiodurnal arch of the planet into three parts, and to work by the 
 right aicenfion of the fourth houfe, inflead of that of the mid-heaven; but 
 in all other refpe6is the operation is the fame. 
 
 Another Way to dired the Afcendant to a Quartile AfpeB. 
 
 Take the oblique alcenfion of the planet, under the pole of birth, with 
 latitude if any, and to that add its femidiurnal or feminodurnal arch, 
 according as the planet may be pofited, either above or under the arch ; 
 from this fum fubtradl the oblique afcenfion of the alcendant, and the re- 
 mainder is the arch of diredion to the quartile afpe6l. By a proper at- 
 tention to thefe firnple and eafy rules, the whole myflery and difficulty of 
 the art of direftions, which has fo long embarraffed modern aftrologers, 
 will be entirely removed. 
 
 How to direct the Afcendant or Medium-Cceli to a Semiquartile, Quint tie, 
 Sefquiquadrate, or Biquintile^ Afped. 
 
 The fame operation is to be followed in thefe diredions as are given 
 above for the fextiles, quartiles, and trines, with this difference only, 
 that a femiquartile being only half the quartile, and the qulntile only a 
 fifth part, are to be fubtraded in that proportion from the femidiurnal or 
 feminodurnal arches ; the fefquiquadrate is the femidiurnal or leminoc- 
 turnal arch, and half the fame added thereto; and the biquintile is a quintile 
 doubled, as appears fully and diftindly by the Tables of Afpeds, which 
 follow at the end of thefe Rules for Diredions. 
 
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 468 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N | 
 
 The true Method of dire6ling a S'tgn'tficator to any Afpe6i or Promittor, either 
 
 Direfi or Converfe. 
 
 If the fignificator and promittor happen both to be pofited near the 
 cufps of houfes, what hath been obferved in the rules for direding the 
 afcendant and mid-heaven may ferve here ; for it only requires to bring 
 them both to the cufps of the houfes to which they are near, and it will 
 form the afpe6l that is between the houfes. But, in cafes where the fig- 
 nificator and promittor are differently pofited, the following rules mufl be 
 obferved. 
 
 Suppofe a fignificator to be pofited in the tenth houfe, and to be di- ^^ 
 
 refted to the fextile of a promittor in the twelfth or eighth houfe. Firfl 
 take the diflance of the fignificator in right afcenfion from the tenth 
 houfe, which call the primary diftance ; then take the diflance of the 
 promittor from the twelfth houfe, which referve ; next take the femi- 
 diurnal arch of the fignificator, and alfo of the promittor ; add the two 
 arches together, and fay, by the rule of proportion. If the two arches give 
 the diflance of the promittor from the twelfth houfe, what fhall the 
 femidiurnal arch of the fignificator give? which, when found, add it to 
 the primary diftance of the fignificator, and the fum will be the arch 
 of dire6lion required. But it mufl here be obferved, that if the fignifi- 
 cator had been placed beyond the cufp of the tenth houfe, or in the ninth 
 houfe, then the primary diflance mufl: be fubtra£fed from the fecondary, 
 and the remainder will be the arch of direction. The fame rule is to be 
 followed for the quartile afpec^l, if the promittor be in the afcendant ; 
 but, if the promittor be pofited either in the fecond or fixth houfe, then the 
 fame rule mufl be followed for the trine, always remembering to take the 
 femino6furnal arch inflead of the femidiurnal, when the diredion is to or 
 from a planet under the earth. 
 
 Another Way. 
 
 If a fignificator be pofited within three degrees of the mid-heaven, take 
 his right afcenfion, and the right afcenfion alfo of the promittor's body or 
 oppofition, together with his latitude ; but, if the fignificator be within 
 three degrees of the afcendant, then take the oblique afcenfion both of the 
 fignificator and promittor, under the pole of the houfe, and fubtradl the 
 fignificator from the promittor, regarding his latitude if he hath any, and 
 the remainder is the arch of diredion required; which, if rightlypcrformed, 
 will never be found to err. 
 
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 OFASTROLOGY. 4^9 
 
 It may here be remarked, that, if the fignificator and promlttor be 
 tipon or within three degrees of the cufp of any other houfe, the direc- 
 tion is the fame with the houfe, and may be direfted under the pole of 
 that houfe, or by right afcenfion if upon the mid-heaven as before ; 
 but, if they are in the defcending part, then ufe the oppofrte^ places. For 
 example: Suppofe ths Sun were to be direded to a fextile of Jupiter, the 
 Sun being on the cufp of the ninth houfe, in five degrees of Leo, and 
 Jupiter in eighteen degrees of Cancer, the pole of birth being forty-four 
 degrees. Now I take the oppofite fign and degree, becaufe the Sun and 
 Jupiter are both in the defcending part of the heavens ; the poles of the 
 ninth and third houfes are eighteen degrees, and the oblique alcenfion 
 of the Sun's oppofite place is three hundred and fourteen degrees nearly, 
 from whence I fubtradt fixty degrees, and the remainder, which is two 
 hundred and fifty-four degrees, is the oblique afcenfion of the alcendant. 
 Now the oblique afcenfion of Jupiter's oppofite place under the pole of 
 eighteen degrees, is two hundred ninety feven degrees, from whence I 
 fubtra61 the oblique afcenfion of the afcendant, viz. two hundred and 
 fifty-four degrees, and there remains the arch of dire6lion required, 
 which is forty-three degrees ; becaufe, by the motion of the primum 
 mobile, when the afcendant comes to the oppofite place of Jupiter, the 
 Sun at the fame time comes to his fextile. 
 
 To direSl a Signifcator^ being above three Degrees diflant from the Cufp 
 
 of any Houfe. 
 
 Find the femidiurnal arch of the planet if above the earth, or the 
 fcminoflurnal arch if below the earth, with his diftance from the pre- 
 ceding or fucceeding cufps of the houfes, either of which will anfwer 
 the purpofe ; then take the femidiurnal or feminodurnal arch of the pro- 
 mittor, as his pofition either above or below the earth (hall require ; for, 
 if the afped be above the earth, the femidiurnal arch muft invariably be 
 taken, but, if under the earth, the feminoflurnal ; and this may always 
 be readily known by the houfes themfelves, for the tenth houfe hath the 
 eighth aud twelfth houfes in fextile, the firft and feventh in quartile, and 
 the fixth and fecond in trine ; and fo of all the reft, which is abfolutely 
 neceflary to be thoroughly underftood, to render thefe mundane afpeds 
 familiar and intelligible ; and therefore I mention it again here. Having 
 afcertained the arches as above required, fay, by the rule of proportion, 
 If the femidiurnal or femino6lurnal arch of the fignificator gives his 
 diftance from the cufp of the houfe, what ftiall the femidiurnal or femi- 
 nodurnal arch of the promittor give ? which when found, call it the 
 fecondary diftance of the promittor from the cufp of the preceding or 
 
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 lucceeding houfe, according to which the fignificator and promittnr were 
 taken from. If they are botli taken from houfes which precede or follow, 
 then in either cafe fubtra6l the lefs from the greater, and the remainder is 
 the arch of diredioii fought : but, if the fignificator be taken from the 
 cufp of a preceding houfe, and the promittor from the cufp of a fucceed- 
 ing, or vice verfa, then add the two numbers together, and the fum will be 
 the direction required, as before. 
 
 To direct a S'tgnijicntor to his own Afpetis. 
 
 This is only applicable to the Sun and Moon, for no other fignifica- 
 tors can be direded this way ; but when either of thefe happen to be the 
 fignificator, and come to their own afpe6ls, they are produdive of very 
 remarkable events. The operation is quite eafy ; for to bring up the di- 
 re6tion of either the Sun or Moon to their proper fextile is no more than 
 finding the content of two third parts of their femidiurnal or feminoc- 
 turnal arches, according to their pofition either above or below the ho- 
 rizon, and that will be the true arch of dire6tioa to the fextile. For 
 the quartile, the content of the whole femidiurnal or feminodurnal arch 
 is to be taken ; and, if a fifth part of the whole femidiurnal or feminoc- 
 turnal arch be added to the fextile, it will be the diredi^ion to the quintile 
 afpe6t ; and thus, by taking fuch a proportion of thefe arches as corre- 
 fponds with each refpeftive afpedl, may the true arches of direction of all 
 of them be found. 
 
 To diredi a Slgnijicator to Parallels in the World. 
 
 Parallels in the world fignify nothing more than the pofition of two 
 planets, when equally diftant from any one of the four cardinal houfes ; 
 for example, fuppofc one planet to be upon the cufp of the eleventh 
 houfe, and another upon the cufp of the ninth houfe, they are then in 
 exad mundane parallel, as being both equally diftant from the mid- 
 heaven, or tenth houfe. So likewife a planet upon the cufp of the ele- 
 venth houfe is in parallel with a planet upon the cufp of the third houfe, 
 being both equally diftant from the afcendant. Again, a planet, when 
 placed on the cufp of the eleventh houfe, is in parallel to a planet upon 
 the cufp of the fifth houfe, becaufe they are both equally diflant from 
 the tenth and fourth houfes ; which rule will hold good with regard to 
 the other houfes. Now thefe laft mentioned are parallels by their po- 
 fition ; but, if one planet (hould be pofited upon the ninth houfe, and 
 another upon the twelfth, they are not in parallel till by the motion of 
 
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 the primum mobile they are brought to that equal point of diftance 
 that one fiiali be iuH: fo far paft the mid-heaven as the other wants to it ; 
 and, when they are fo, they are in exa6t parallel. And further, if two 
 planets are placed either in the eleventh or twelfth houfe, they will, by 
 the motion of the primum mobile, be brought to fuch an equality of dif- 
 tance as to be in exaft parallel ; for, fuppofing them to be fituated one in 
 twelve degrees and another in fixteen degrees of the fame fign, when the 
 fourteenth degree comes to be upon the cufp of the mid-heaven, the 
 parallel is then made ; becaufe both planets are then juft two degrees 
 difiant from the mid-heaven. The fame rule is to be applied to all the 
 four angular houfes ; but, becaufe direflions to thefe parallels may be 
 fomewhat difficult to a learner, I (hall here give an example at large of 
 the eafiefl: and moft: corre6t method of taking them. 
 
 Find the declination of that planet which is neareft to the angle from 
 which it is taken, with latitude if he hath any ; then obferve what de- 
 gree of the ecliptic anfwers thereto, and take the femidiurnal or feminoc- 
 turnal arch, according as the planet is fituated either above or below the 
 horizon. Ufe the fame operation with the other planet, which is fartheft 
 from the angle ; and, having found the content of both their arches, add 
 them together ; then find the diftance from the angle, with this precau- 
 tion ; viz. if it be from the afcendant, take the diftance by oblique afcen- 
 fion ; if from the feventh houfe, by oblique defcenfion, or by the oblique 
 afcenfion of the oppofite point; but, if the diftance be from the mid- 
 heaven, or the fourth houfe, it muft be taken by right afcenfion ; and, 
 when found, call it the primary diftance. Then take the difference of the 
 right or oblique afcenfion of the two planets, and by the rule of propor- 
 tion fay. If the two arches give that difference of right or oblique afcen- 
 fion, what fhall the femidiurnal or feminodurnal arch of that planet 
 give which is neareft the angle? and the product fhall be the fecondary, 
 right, or oblique, afcenfion ; then, if the planets are fituated one before the 
 angle, and the other after it, fubtrad the primary diflance of that which is 
 nearefl the angle from the fecondary diflance, and the remainder is the 
 arch of diredion required ; but, if both planets fhould be pofited (hort 
 of the cufp of the houfe, then add the primary diflance to the fecondary, 
 and the fum will be the arch of diredion, as before. 
 
 It may not be improper in this place to remark, that, when a fignifi- 
 cator comes to the parallel of Jupiter or Venus, in good places of the 
 figure, thefe parallels produce very powerful effefts, and arc nearly of 
 equal force with their Textiles and trines ; fo that, if a fignificator, par- 
 ticularly the giver of life, comes to the parallel of the lord either of the 
 
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 472 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fourth or the eighth houfe, it moft certainly produces death, unlefs fomc 
 other direftion of an equally powerful but benefic nature falls in with it 
 at nearly the fame point of time, and impedes its malefic effect. By the 
 fame rule, if a fignificator comes to the parallel of the lord of any other 
 houfe, being evilly placed in the figure, it produces vexation and mif- 
 fortune, according to the nature of the houfes they govern ; and fo, on 
 the contrary, if the parallel be made in fortunate places of the figure, they 
 denote an increaie of profperity and happinels, according to the nature 
 of the houfe that the promittor is lord of. Thefe parallels are always 
 made by the motion of the primum mobile from eaft to weft. 
 
 Another Way of dire&ing to Parallels in the World. 
 
 If the fignificator and promittor are in parallel above the earth, take 
 their diftance from the right afcenfion of the medium coeli, which call 
 the primary diftance; then by the rule of proportion fay. If the femi- 
 diurnal arch of the fignificator gives his diftance from the medium coeli, 
 what fhall the femidiurnal arch of the promittor give? which having 
 found, work by the rule before laid down for dire61ing the Sun above the 
 earth in the zodiacal afpedts, and the refult will be the arch of dire6tion 
 required. 
 
 When the fignificator and promittor are both under the earth, their 
 diftance muft either be taken from the fourth houfe or from the horizon, 
 but the operation in all other refpe6ts is precifely the fame as the fore- 
 going ; but, if one planet be above the earth, and the other below, take 
 the diftance of the one from the mid-heaveji, and of the other from the 
 fourth houfe, and work as before ; or otherwife take the oppofite place 
 of the planet under the earth, in manner before fpecified. Great care 
 muft however always be taken in bringing up the direftions, not to mif^ 
 take the femidiurnal for the feminodlurnal arch, but in all cafes to take 
 the femidiurnal arch if the planet be above the earth, and the feminoc- 
 turnal when the planet is under the earth ; for by thefe parallels in the 
 world, we conceive the fignificator to remain immoveable in the horary 
 circle of his pofition ; becaufe, in a nativity, the virtue of the fignificator, 
 as well as of the promittor, in the fame primum mobile, is imprinted ; and 
 thefe virtues are brought to by its motion from eaft to weft. 
 
 To dire£i the Sun being under the Earth, to any Afpe£i. 
 
 If the Sun be in the fpace of twilight, firft find the diredVion of the 
 Sun to the afpedt of the promittor, whether it be a fextile, quartile, or 
 
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 '^ O I^ ASTROLOGY. 473 
 
 trine, in manner already taught, which arch call the feigned arch ; then 
 find what degree of the zodiac the Sun comes to at that time, by taking 
 his pole, and then add his oblique afcenfion; to this add the feigned arch 
 above mentioned, and the fum will be the oblique afcenfion of the degree 
 of the zodiac to which the Sun comes on both fides. Then with the 
 Sun's primary diftance from the horizon, find what parallel of twilight 
 he poflefles, and therein his fecondary diftance, to which the feigned di- 
 rection fhall come ; and by the rule of proportion fay. If the feminoftur- 
 nal arch of the Sun gives his fecondary diftance from the horofcope, what 
 ftiall the femidiurnal or femino6lurnal arch of the promittor give ? The 
 fourth number (hall be the fecondary diftance of the promittor from the 
 cardinal or any other houfe of the genethliacal figure, whence we are to 
 feek the proportional diftance, and thereby obtain the true arch of direftion 
 required. 
 
 To dire& the Sun^ out of the Space of Twilight. 
 
 Obtain the feigned place of the afpedl, as taught in the preceding rule, 
 and find what degree of the ecliptic the Sun comes to by this dire(5lion ; 
 then fay. If the arch of obfcurity of the Sun gives his primary diftance 
 from the fourth houfe, what ftiall the obfcure arch of the ecliptical de- 
 gree give, which the Sun comes to by this diredion ? the produd will 
 be the fecondary diftance from the fourth houfe. Now, if the Sun be 
 pofited in the third or fourth houfes, ufe this diftance; but, if he be in^ 
 the fecond or fifth houfes, fubtraft from this diftance a third part of the 
 Sun's feminodurnal arch, and the remainder is the Sun's fecondary dif- 
 tance from the third or fifth houfes; then fay. If the feminodlurnal arch 
 of the Sun gives his fecondary diftance from the determinate houfe, what 
 diftance fhall the feminodlurnal arch of the promittor give from that 
 houfe alfo ? which when found, proceed as in the foregoing rules for 
 the arch of direction required. 
 
 Method of directing a Signifcator to all AfpeSJs Converfe, that are made in 
 
 the World. 
 
 Direftions are eafily brought up to afpefts which are made converfe, 
 by confidering the promittor as fignificator; for, if a fignificator be pofi- 
 ted in the eleventh houfe, and the promittor in the twelfth, the fextile 
 will fall in the tenth houfe; and to dire6l a fignificator from the ele- 
 venth houfe into the tenth, is contrary to the fucceflion of both houfes 
 and figns, wherefore the afpedl is called converfe. Now the beft way 
 
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 474 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 to manage thefe afpeds, is certainly to direft the promittoi* to the figni- 
 ficator in all cafes where the dirc6tions are converfe, which may be done 
 with the greateft exadiiefs by the preceding rules, only obferving to take 
 the femidiurnal and femino6turnal arches of the promittor firfl:, inftead 
 of thofe of the fignificator, and perform the operation throughout as if 
 the promittor were fignificator. But remember that neither the afcen- 
 dant, mid-heaven, nor any other of the houfes, are ever to be dire6ted 
 converfely ; for they have no motion whatever to any preceding planet 
 or alpe<5l. 
 
 How to equate the Arches of Dire£lion, whereby to a/certain the length of 
 Time in which the Events denoted by them will be in coming to pafs. 
 
 « 
 
 The art of bringing up the dire6tions of a nativity, from the difufe 
 which this fcience has for fome years paft fallen into, is a matter that has 
 puzzled moft. of its prefent followers ; and the method of equating thefe 
 direftions when found, by a meafure that (hall in all cafes correfpond to 
 truth and nature, has been the fubjefl of many controverfies and difputes 
 among modern authors ; arifing, I conceive, from their ignorance of the 
 plain and genuine fyftem handed to us by the immortal Ptolomy, and 
 from a want of refleding that the revolutions of all the heavenly bodies, 
 as well as the periods of all earthly events, are only reducible to one uni- 
 verfal ftandard meafure of time, namely, the Sun's geocentric motion in 
 the ecliptic. It is therefore furprifing that fb many inventions fhould 
 havearifen, and fo many errors in confequence adopted, in equating di- 
 re£tions, fince it mufl: be evident to the moft unlettered mind, and a fadt 
 beyond the reach of contradiction, that the fame rule which eftimates the 
 days, months, and years, of a man's life, from the moment of his birth, 
 likewife eftimates the progreflive motion, in days, months, and years, of 
 every luminary within our cognizance, in the vaft extent of fpace ! This 
 rule is nothing more than the Sun's apparent progre(s through every de- 
 gree and minute of the ecliptic, meafurcd by the degrees of the equator; 
 to which unerring ftandard, every matter that refers to any defcription or 
 portion of time muft be ultimately brought, or all our labour, and all 
 our accuracy, will prove abortive and premature. 
 
 According to the common adage, " When the difeafe is known, the cure 
 is half performed;" and fo we may fay from the meafures of direftions ; for, 
 when the ftandard is known, the procefs is eafily accomplilhed, as follows: 
 When the true arch of diredion is found by any of the foregoing rules, 
 and is to be equated, take the right afcenfion of the Sun's place at the time 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 475 
 
 of birth, and add the arch of dire<5llon to the Sun's right afcenfion ; with 
 this ium enter the tables of Right Afcenfton, and find what degree and 
 minute of the ecHptic anfwers thereto ; then take the Ephemeris for the 
 year of birth, and note how many days and hours the Sun will be, from 
 the time of birth, in coming to that degree and minute of the ecliptic ; 
 and for every perfedt day, which is twenty-four hours, account a year, 
 and for every two days over and above the even days, a month, and fo 
 in the fame proportion for minutes and feconds of time; and the arch of 
 diredion will be truly equated ; as will be fliown by repeated examples, in 
 equating the diredions of the following Nativities. 
 
 I flatter myfelf that the rules given in this fyftem of Dire6Hons, if care- 
 fully attended to, will be amply fufficient to familiarize atiy of my read- 
 ers in this important branch of the occult fciences ; without the aid of 
 which, little or nothing can be done in the Calculation of Nativities. 
 For though it be admitted, that a fludent may make great advances in the 
 knowledge of futurity, by acquiring an adequate comprehenfion of the na- 
 ture and efFefls of the various configurations and familiarities of the celef- 
 tial bodies, and of their particular influences, both benefic and malific, upon 
 the human race; and, though we may by this means attain to know that 
 fuch and fuch events will certainly come to pafs, yet even this acquifition 
 in the fcience muft be confidered incomplete, without the ability of point- 
 ing out, by fome fixed and certain rule, the prccifc time when thefe events 
 fliall happen. This is not to be attained by the methods ufed in the vul- 
 gar Aftrology, as already laid down in the former part of this work, 
 where the common Aftrology is treated of, but with great rifle and un- 
 certainty; and was therefore only introduced for the purpofe of anfwer- 
 ing horary queftions, where corredtnefs, in this particular, is little at- 
 tended to by any modern profellors. 
 
 This grand acquifition is therefore not to be obtained by any other 
 mode than that of bringing up the arch of dire6lion of each refpe6tive 
 fignificator in the native's figure of birth to the afpe6t which denotes 
 each refpe6tive event; and this arch of dire6lion, as I have before ob- 
 lerved, is nothing more than the track or circle in the heavens formed 
 by the fignificator in moving from that particular point in the heavens 
 where he is found at the birth, to the precife point where he forms the 
 afpedl with the promittor that indicates the event, which, upon his ar- 
 rival there, is to happen. It is confequently apparent, that if this track 
 or circle can be found, and its contents in degrees and minutes accurately 
 taken, and reduced into common time according to the motion of the 
 Sun, which regulates all our accounts of time, it will (how us at one 
 
 2 view,
 
 47* AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 view, the exaft tim6 when that event, according to the common courfe of 
 nature, (hall infallibly come to pafs. 
 
 In this procefs confifts the whole myftery of afcertaining the period of 
 man's life, which is thought fo wonderful a matter by fome, and confi- 
 dered altogether impoflible by others ; and yet it is no more than a fimple 
 operation of nature, deduced from an intimate knowledge of fecond 
 caufes. For this is a rule that will never be found to fail, if our arith- 
 metic be true; that at the very time the principal fignificator in a nativity, 
 that is, the giver of life, (hall arrive at the anaretical point of the afpeft 
 of the killing planet, the native (hall furely depart this life ; provided 
 no benefic rays at the fame time irradiate the place, or in any refpeft con- 
 cur to impede the killing force, which may always be known from the 
 diipofition of the benefic planets in the nativity. If this afiertion be 
 true, which has been proved by innumerable examples in all ages of the 
 world, and which I truft will be confirmed by the nativities following, 
 it is evident that we can, by the foregoing rules, bring up the dire6tions 
 with fufficient accuracy to afcertain the precife length of time, in years, 
 months, and days, which the fignificator of life will be in moving to 
 the anaretical or killing point ; and juft lo long will be the life of that 
 native. Where, then, is the myftery or impoflibility of afcertaining the 
 period of human life, and with extraordinary precision ? But this accu- 
 racy wholly depends upon the true time of birth being obtained ; for a 
 failure here in the radical point will deftroy the whole calculation, and 
 nothing predi<5led therefrom can poflTibly happen but by the efFe<Sl of 
 chance. 
 
 But it is here neceflary to remark, that, in fuch nativities as are vital, 
 and afford fufficient teftimonies of a ftrong and healthful conftitution, 
 one diredVion alone is feldom found to kill ; for in fuch nativities there 
 is required a train of malevolent direftions to concur to death ; and the 
 interpofition of one fingle direction of the benefics, even if it be a quar- 
 tile or oppofition, irradiating the very anaretical point, will moft-times 
 preferve life. But where feveral malevolent directions of the malefic 
 ftars concur together, without the aid or interference of the benevolent 
 planets, they never fail to deftroy life. And here it muft be obferved, 
 that in fuch trains of diredions we are to diftinguifti between the killing 
 planet, and that which is the caujer of the quality of death ; for one pla-i 
 net doth not (how both. The foremoft of the tiialefic train is the killing 
 place, and (hows the time of death ; but the following diretlions, though 
 benevolent, Ihow the quality of it. If this train falls all together, and 
 none follow, then oblerve tbofe which precede,' though at a diftance, 
 
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 OFASTROLOGY. 477 
 
 and benefic, for the quality of death; for, though the benevolent ftars 
 contribute to the prefervation of life, yet they frequently fpecify the dii- 
 eafe which is the caufe of death, as we have already abundantly fhown. 
 And with thefe concur the configurating ftars, the quality of the ftars 
 and figns, and the terms in which the ruling planets happen to be pofited. 
 But in violent deaths the genethliacal pofifions of the luminaries are to 
 be obferved, and how the malefics affedl them, and are alfo connefted by 
 diredions in the quality of death. 
 
 Of SECONDARY DIRECTIONS. 
 
 All the diredions hitherto treated of are termed primary directions, 
 becaufe they are the firft and moft important of any thing of the kind 
 in the dodrine of nativities; and without the aid of thefe, all aftrologi- 
 cal calculations would be vain and delufive, as muft appear obvious from 
 what has been already premifed. But fecondary diredions are by no 
 means of fuch an extenfive confideration ; nor of any great utility in the 
 fcience, that I have as yet been able to difcover, particularly if great 
 accuracy be required. For, by the ufe of the primary direflions in 
 the calculation of nativities, we are not only enabled to judge of 
 the quality and influence of the afpeds, but can likewife trace them 
 to the precife time of their operation ; whez-eas the fecondary diredlions 
 at beft only afford the artift matter for fuperficial enquiry and 
 vague conjefture. I fhall neverthelefs explain the nature and ufe of 
 them in this place, fince it is the plan of this work to comprehend 
 every practice hitherto introduced into the fcience of aftrology, with a view- 
 to enable the reader to diftinguifli the ufeful and rational from the inutile 
 and redundant part of it. 
 
 By fecondary direftions, then, we are to underftand thofe configurations 
 and familiarities of the planets which arife daily from the time of birth, and 
 are applied to the prediction of events that are to come to pafs in the fame 
 fucceffion of years from the birth as correfpond with thofe days. For ex- 
 ample — All afpedis of the ftars, both to the luminaries and cardinal houfes, 
 that happen on the firft day after birth, are applied to the firft year; thofe 
 of the fecond day after birth to the fecond year ; thofe of the third dav 
 to the third year; thofe of the fourth day to the fourth year; and fo on, 
 in progreffive rotation, as far as this fpeculation can extend. 
 
 In the management of thefe dirc6lions, we are principally to obferve what 
 configurations the Moon has to the other planers ; for, if (he be joined 
 with benefic ftars, or irradiated by their good afpeds, or even by the 
 
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 good afpefls of the infortunes, it denotes a happy, healthful, and prof- 
 perous, year to the native, in nature and quality peculiar to the principal 
 fignificator iu each conhguration, and to the houic-, and figns in which they 
 fall in the radical figure. But, on the contrary, if the Moon be joined to 
 malevolent ftars, or irradiated by them, or in parallel declination of the 
 ii)fortunes, it forebodes, to thofe years pointed out by the days in which 
 thefe evil configurations happen, great affli6tions either in mind, body, or 
 eflate ; and, if a primary direction fliould corrcfpond with them of the 
 fame malignant nature, a complication of temporal misfortunes will moft: 
 probably enfue. 
 
 In the confideration of thefe dire6tions, we arc particularly to attend to 
 the critical days and climadferical years ; for at thofe times the good 
 or evil configurations of the planets are mofl: powerful in their opera- 
 tion. If upon either of thofe occafions the Moon be found in quartile or 
 oppofition to the place in which (he was pofited at the time of birth, and 
 an evil primary diredlion of the fignificator of life correfpond therewith, 
 death is then at the door, or at that time very much to be apprehended, 
 even in the ftrongeft conftitutions. And fo likewife, if the Sun or Moon 
 in thefecondarydireftions are afflided by the malignant rays of inaufpicious 
 configurations with an evil primary dire6fion, with v. hich both the re- 
 volution and tranfit agree, it is confidered an irrevocable indication of 
 death to the native. 
 
 Thefe fecondary dire6fions, I underftand, have always been in reputa- 
 tion among the Arabs and Egyptians, who, in common praftice, prefer 
 this method of prediding from the genethliacal figure to the more compli- 
 cated and laborious mode of calculation by the primary directions. The 
 former pradlicc has doubtlefs the advantage in point of expedition ; for by 
 the ufe of it in thofe countries, they will, upon the bare uilpe61ioii of a 
 nativity, give an account of the general and particular incidents during the 
 whole courfe of the native's life ; and yet, by repeated trials of it myfelf, 
 I have found it in many inftances erroneous, and therefore not to be adopted 
 in the ferious inveftigation of nativities, where accuracy and truth are to 
 be defired. It is a doffrine much on a level with that of horary queftions, 
 and may be nfed to give a general idea of the native's figure of birth, and 
 of his probable bent of fortune, where time or circumftances will not ad- 
 mit of particular calculations. 
 
 But, upon delivering judgment upon either fpecies of direftions, whe- 
 ther primary or fecondary, it is abiblutely neceflary to pay the greateft 
 attention to the nature and quality of the afpedts we dired to, as well 
 
 thofe
 
 I 
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 479 
 
 thofc in the world as thofe in the zodiac : for it often happens that a 
 zodiacal afpecl may import much good, when at the fame point of time 
 a malignant mundane configuration may come up, of lb flrong and pow- 
 erful a nature as to fruftrate all the beneficial effefts portended by the 
 former. The want of attending to, or knowing, this, has frequently 
 confounded our modern praditioners ; who, confiding in the benignant 
 tendency of fome extraordinary good afpe6ls in the zodiac, have promifed 
 an advance of fortune to the native, which has never come to pafs, becaufe 
 counter-afpecls in the world, which have the ftrongefl and nearcft rela- 
 tion to fublunary things, have confpired, at the fame inftant of time, to 
 fuperlede the beneficial efFefts of the zodiacal configurations ; and which 
 would perhaps have been felt in an extraordinary degree of malignity, 
 were it not that the above-mentioned falutary afpetls were oppoled to 
 them. 
 
 Hence it muft appear to every rational mind, that the ftri6teft caution 
 and the utmolt deliberation are neceffary, in forming our opinion upon the 
 dire61ions of a nativity ; for, if at laft we err in this, all our labour is loft, 
 and the unfortunate enquirer is deluded with vain expe6tations of a happy 
 run of great good fortune, or terrified with the approach of fome dread- 
 ful cataftrophe, neither of which, by the nature of the ftars, was ever 
 intended to nappen. That this want of judgment has of late years been 
 too commonly pra6tiled upon the public, cannot be denied, nor too fe- 
 verely reprobated. But ftill, let not the relentlefs unbeliever of Aftrology 
 raife his creft too his:h on this occafion ; nor infift, becaufe thefe errors have 
 been frequent, that the fcience of predidion has no exiftence in truth and 
 nature ; his unbelief m.ufi: clearly arifc from a want of inclination to con- 
 template the curious effects of fecond caufes. 
 
 Brute creatures may perhaps enjoy the faculty of beholding vifible 
 things with a more penetrating eye than ourfelves; but fpiritual obje6ls 
 are as far out of their reach as though they had no being. Neareft, 
 therefore, to the bioite creation, are thofe men, who fuffer themlelves to 
 be fo far governed by external objefts, as to believe nothing but what 
 they fee, and feel, and can accommodate to their own (hallow imagina- 
 tions. Let fuch men doubt whether they have a foul in their body, be- 
 caufe their eyes never faw it; or that there are ftars in the firmament at 
 noon-day, becaufe they appear not ; or that it is not air in which they 
 breathe, becaufe nothing appears to them but an infenfible vacuity? 
 Surely all that know they pofTefs a foul muft of neceflity believe the 
 rule and government of angels, which they fee not ; and, if from no 
 other grounds, they muft, 1 think, from that apparent analogy which 
 
 2 thev
 
 48o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 they cannot but perceive between the greater and the lefs world ; for, 
 as the little world Man confifts of an outward vifible body, and an in- 
 ward fpiritual foul, which gives life and motion to the organical frame, 
 fo pofleffing all parts as to be wholly in all, and in each diftinft part 
 wholly ; fo muft it be alfo in the great univerfe, the fenlible and mate- 
 rial part whereof hath being and motion from thofe fpiritual powers 
 which dwell in, and wholly fill and aftuate, it: therefore the Aftrologiaii 
 regards nature with the eyes of St. Paul, 2 Cor. iv. i8. he looh not at 
 the things which are feeriy but at the things which are not feen; for the 
 things which are feen are temporal^ but the things which are not feen are 
 eternal. 
 
 Having now completely laid down the rudiments of the Science of 
 Aftrology, in as comprehenfive, plain, and intelligent, a manner as pof- 
 fible, I fhall immediately proceed to teach the application thereof in 
 calculating the followmg nativities. It is my wifh to perform this talk 
 in fuch a manner as to enable the moft fuperficial reader to accompany 
 me through every minute procefs in the bufinefs, and to follow me in 
 bringing up every dire6Vion to their proper afpe6ts, as they fhall refpec- 
 tively occur in the genethlical figures. If I can do this, I have no 
 doubt of loon convincing the moft obftinate unbeliever of the fcience, 
 that it has both utility and truth on its fide ; and that the beings of Rea- 
 fon, who bear the image of their beneficent Creator, are not wholly left 
 without the help or forefight and foreknowledge, in a very ample and 
 extraordinary degree, if they will but adopt the neceflary means of ac- 
 quiring it. 
 
 The nativities that follow fall immediately under my own obfervation 
 and knowledge, and I have chofen them in preference to any that have 
 been before publifhed, or to thofe of perfons not now living, becaufe I 
 would avoid putting it in the power of any perfon to fay, that our calc\i- 
 lations are at all founded upon enquiries into the people's ways of life, 
 of their good or ill fortune, or their ficknefs or health, or the particular 
 incidents of their life paft, or of the external caules of their death ; for, 
 if the rules that I have laid down will not enable us to accomplish all 
 this from the fituation of the planets in the figure of birth, our fcience 
 is indeed a mere delufion, and its followers nothing better than jugglers 
 and impoftors. 
 
 » 
 
 But to make this enquiry eafy to my readers, and to fave them as much 
 as poffible the trouble of long and tedious calculations, I fhall in this 
 place introduce a fet of Tables, which are fo contrived as to refolve every 
 
 queftion
 
 O F A S T R O L O G r. 481 
 
 queftion that will arife in the management of nativities or horary quef- 
 tions ; as well in rei'peft to the places and politions of the planets and 
 their afpe6ls, as to the bringing up their proper direftions. I fliall 
 likewife add a fhort explanation of each diftindl fet of Tables, and 
 reduce them to practice, in calculating the following nativities, in fuch 
 a manner as to make their ufe eafy and familiar ; hoping by this means 
 to remove, if poffible, that fudden imprelhon of difficulty and embar- 
 ralTment, which is felt by moll readers on the firll view of mathematical 
 Tables. I am perfuaded no difficulty whatever will attend the acqui- 
 fition of a competent knowledge of thefe, if a proper attention be paid 
 to them ; without which, little progrefs can be expetled. The moll 
 accompliflied artill of us all could never yet bellow the gift of infpira- 
 tion ; and therefore, without fuitable endeavours, let none attempt the 
 intricate paths of fcience. 
 
 The Tables I fhall introduce in this place, are thofe for finding the 
 Semidiurnal and Semino6lurnal Arches; Tables of Twilight ; of Mun- 
 dane Afpefts ; of Right and Oblique Afcenfions ; of Declination, and 
 Afcenfional Differences ; with fome others, calculated to make the ufe 
 of the above more comprehenfive and univerfal. 
 
 Of the T A B L E S of S E M I D I U R N A L and SEMI- 
 NOCTURNAL ARCHES. 
 
 After what has been premifed in the foregoing Treatife on Diredions, 
 the neceffity of readily finding the femidiurnal and leminoAurnal arches 
 mull become obvious. I have therefore calculated a Table of them to 
 every degree of the ecliptic for the latitude of London, which, being 
 moll wanted, will of courfe fave the practitioner fome trouble. Under 
 the different latitudes in the other Tables, are fpecified the lemidiurnal 
 arches of all the northern figns, proper to thofe latitudes ; as Aries, 
 Taurus, and Gemini, at the top of the Table ; and Cancer, Leo, and 
 Virgo, at the bottom of the Table. But, to find the feminoclurnal 
 arches proper thereto, it only requires to fubtrad the femidiurnal arch 
 from twelve hours, and the remainder will be the lemino6lurnal arch 
 fought. So likewife the femino6lurnal arches for all the fouthern figns 
 are placed under the different latitudes in the Tables, having Libra, 
 Scorpio, and Sagittarius, at the top of the columns ; and Capricorn, 
 Aquaries, and Pifces, at the bottom ; and, to obtain the femidiurnal arches 
 correfponding with them, add the amount of the feminodlurnal arch to 
 twelve hours, and the fum will be the femidiurnal arch required ; many 
 examples of which will be Ihown hereafter. 
 
 No. 25. D But,
 
 482 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION. 
 
 But, fhould the femidiurnal or femino^turnal arches be required for any 
 latitude not fpecified in the Tables, they may be found thus : Firll, find 
 the declination of the planet under the pole of birth ; and, if the decli- 
 nation falls in any of the fix northern figns, add the diiFerence of 
 afcenflon to ninety degrees, and the fum will be the femidiurnal arch, in 
 degrees and minutes ; if the afcenfional dilference be fubtrafted from 
 ninety degrees, the remainder will be the femidiurnal arch. But, if the 
 declination lliould fall in either of the fix fouthern figns, then fubtra<fl 
 the difference of afcenfion from ninety degrees, for the femidiurnal arch ; 
 and add the afcenlional difference to ninety degrees, for the feminodlurnal 
 arch. If the arches thus found are divided by fix, they will give the 
 horary times, or true length of the planetary hours ; and, if divided by 
 three, they will give the true difiance of one houfe, by which method the 
 true divifion of all the houfes may be obtained, according to the rules of 
 Ptolemy ; two of which parts make a fextile, as appears more obvioufly 
 by the Table of Mundane Afpeds, wherein are fpecified all the afpeds 
 that are made in the world. 
 
 Of the TABLES of TWILIGHT. 
 
 The ufe of thefe Tables, in bringing up the arches of diredlions, hath 
 been already mentioned ; it will therefore be fufUcient in this place to 
 inform the reader how to make ufe of them. The firfl column on the 
 left hand contains the Parallels of Twilight ; and the body of the Tables 
 fhows the diflance the Sun mufl be from the eaftern or welfern angles, that 
 is, from the afcendant or feventh houfe, to be in thofe parallels ; therefore, 
 whenever thefe Tables are ufed for any calculations, the following me- 
 thod mull be adopted : Take the oblique afcenfion of the afcendant 
 under the pole of birth, from whence fubtrad the oblique afcenfion of 
 the Sun, and the remainder will be its primary diiiance, which is to be 
 fought in the Tables as near as poffible to that degree which the Sun is 
 in ; which being found, look in the column of Parallels of Twihght, 
 and fee what parallel correfponds with it, for under that parallel the arch 
 of twilight mull be taken; examples of which will hereafter be frequently 
 given. 
 
 Of the TABLE of MUNDANE ASPECTS. 
 
 The firll column of thefe Tables contains the femidiurnal and femi- 
 nodurnal arches, from three to nine hours, calculated to every fix mi- 
 nutes. In the next column, and oppolite to thele arches, in a diredt 
 line, is the fpace of the houfe that the femidiurnal or feminodurnal 
 
 arches 

 
 OFASTROLOGY. 483 
 
 arches refpe6lively give ; and in the fucceeding columns are arranged all 
 the mundane afpe6ls anfwering thereto, truly calculated to the very degree 
 and minute, which are fometimes twice as much as at others; and the 
 reafon is, becaufe the iemidiurnal and femino(5lurnal arches vary in their 
 content to full that amount. 
 
 Ofthe TABLES of RIGHT ASCENSIONS. 
 
 To find the right afcenfion of a ftar, the longitude mull be given, 
 with which enter the left-hand column of the Table ; and under the fign 
 and latitude at the top of the columns, in the angle of meeting, is the 
 right afcenfion required. For example: Suppofe a planet to be polited in 
 ten degrees of Aries, and to have two degrees north latitude; enter the 
 Tables of Right Afcenfion with ten degrees of Aries, in the left-hand co- 
 lumn; and in the angle of meeting, under two degrees of north latitude, 
 will be found the right afcenfion thereof, viz. eight degrees twenty-three 
 minutes. 
 
 Of the TABLES of DECLINATION. 
 
 To find the declination of a planet, the longitude muft be given, with 
 which enter the Table of Declination on the left-hand; and in the column 
 of longitude, againft the degree of longitude, is the declination fought. If 
 the ftar hath latitude, either north or fouth, enter the Tables under the 
 latitude, as the titles diredl, always remembering that, if the ftar be in 
 Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, or Sagittarius, the degrees of longi- 
 tude to the left hand, beginning at the top of the Tables, are to be taken; 
 but, if the liar be in Capricorn, Aquaries, Pifces, Aries, Taurus, or 
 Cancer, then the degrees of longitude to the right hand, beginning at the 
 foot of the Table, mull be reforted to. Example: Suppofe a liar in ten 
 degrees of Virgo, with one degree twenty-feven minutes north latitude; 
 I enter the Table of Declinations, finding Virgo in the head of the Table; 
 and againft ten degrees under one degree of latitude I find eight degrees 
 forty-feven minutes, and againfl: ten degrees under two degrees of latitude 
 I find nine degrees forty-two minutes ; the difference is fifty-five minutes. 
 Then, for the part proportional agreeing to the odd minutes of latitude, I 
 fay, If fixty give fifty-five, what fhall twenty-feven give ? It gives twen- 
 ty-five ; which, added to eight degrees forty-feven minutes, leaves the 
 declination of the point fought, nine degrees twelve minutes. But, if 
 the flar had been in twenty degrees of Aries, I mufl have entered at the 
 foot of the Table; and, having the fame latitude, the fame declination 
 would emerge. 
 
 1 Of
 
 484 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 Of the TABLES of the ASCENSION A L DIFFERENCES 
 
 of the PLANETS. 
 
 The afcenfional difference is a certain arch of diftance, between the right 
 and obUque afcenfions of any liar or planet, in any degree of the EcHptic; 
 and, to find it by the following Tables of Differences, obferve thefe rules. 
 Enter with the degrees of declination on the left-hand of the "^1 able; and 
 under the circle of pofition in the head, in the common angle of meeting, 
 with equation, will be found the afcenfional difference required. Example': 
 Suppofe a planet to have ten degrees of declination, and his circle of pofi- 
 tion be fifty-one degrees forty-two minutes; 1 enter with ten degrees on 
 the left hand under the circle of fifty-one degrees, and there I find twelve 
 degrees thirty-five minutes; but, having forty-two minutes more, 1 take 
 the part proportional between fifty-one degrees and fifty-two degrees, viz. 
 
 deg. 
 
 f 51 
 Declination ten degrees latitude. < 
 
 deg. 
 
 min. 
 
 12 
 
 35 
 
 13 
 
 3 
 
 Difference o 28 
 
 Then I fay, by the rule of proportion. If fixty give twenty-eight, what 
 Ihall forty-two, the odd minutes of the circle of pofition, give? It gives 
 twenty nearly; which, added to twelve degrees thirty-five minutes, gives 
 the true afcenfional difference, twelve degrees fifty-five minutes of the 
 point fought. 
 
 Having obtained the afcenfional difference, the ufe of it, in the art of 
 direaions, is as follows: Firft, if the declination be north, lubtrad the 
 afcenfional difference from the right afcenfion, and the remainder will 
 be the oblique afcenfion; but, if you add it to the right afcenfion, the 
 fum will be the oblique defcenfion. Secondly, when the declination is 
 fouth, add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, and the fum 
 will be the oblique afcenfion; but, if you fubtraA it from the right af- 
 cenfion, the remainder will be the oblique defcenfion. And note, that 
 the afcenfional difference is only of iervice when the planet or liar hath 
 latitude. 
 
 Of
 
 OF ASTROLOGT. 
 
 485 
 
 Of the TABLES of OBLIQUE ASCENSIONS for the 
 LATITUDE of LONDON. 
 
 Enter thefe Tables with the degrees of longitude in the left-hand co- 
 lumn; and in the common area, under the fign in the top of the column, 
 IS the true oblique afcenfion fought. For example, fuppofe the ftar to 
 be m ten degrees of Aries, and the latitude of birth fifty-one degrees 
 thirty-two minutes; look for ten degrees in the fide-column under Aries 
 m the head, and the oblique afcenfion will be four degrees ten minute of 
 the point fought. 
 
 To find the oblique defcenfions by thefe Tables, obferve the following 
 rule: lake the oppofite fign and degree; and, if it fall in any of the fix 
 northern figns,add one hundred and eighty degrees to the oblique afcenfion 
 found, and the fum will be the oblique defcenfion of the point fought • but 
 in the fix fouthern figns fubtradion muft be made, and the oblique defcen- 
 fion remains. Example: in the latitude of fifty-one degrees thirty-two 
 minutes, I would know the oblique defcenfion of ten degrees of Libra 
 Now I take the oppofite point Aries, which is northern, and add theretJ 
 one hundred and eighty degrees as follows : 
 
 Ublique afcenfion of ten degrees of Aries is 4 i o 
 
 Add ISO o 
 
 184 10 
 
 Thus the oblique defcenfion of ten degrees of Libra is one hundred and 
 eighty-four degrees ten minutes ; but, for the oblique defcenfion of ten 
 degrees of Aries, I take the oblique afcenfion of the oppofite point Libra 
 which is fouthern, and fubtrad one hundred and eighty degrees from it' 
 as rollow^s : o ./ o , 
 
 ^^x.^' r y r , ^^g- ^in. 
 
 Oblique afcenfion of ten degrees of Libra is 194 12 
 
 Subtradl \ 80 
 
 14 12 
 
 Thus the oblique defcenfion of ten degrees of Aries is fourteen de- 
 
 ^'no ^^^"^^^ mmutesi and the fame rule will hold good in all fimilar 
 
 ^' ""** ^-^ operations
 
 480 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N. 
 
 operations for the latitude of London. I fliall likewife give a praxis for 
 finding the obhque afcenlions and defcenlions of every other latitude, by 
 help of the afore-mentioned Tables of Afcenfional DitFerences. 
 
 It would be needlefs to enter into any farther explanation, or to adduce 
 other examples in this place, to fliow the nature and ufe of the following fct 
 of Tables, fmce we fliall hereafter have frequent occafion to refer to them 
 in calculating and bringing up the directions of the following Nativities, 
 which will at once prove the facility and corredlnefs with which any cal- 
 culations maybe found by them, and initiate the young pradlitioner into 
 a more intimate knowledge of them, without labour or embarraffment. 
 What I have already premifed on the fubjeft, has been merely to demon- 
 Itrate their general expediency, and to remove thofe fuggellions of diffi- 
 culty and difguft, which are too frequently felt by common readers upon 
 the firll fight of a collection of Tables, from an ill-founded apprehenfioa 
 that they ihall never be able to underhand them ; and which confequently 
 is apt to give a fatal blow to the further progrefs of the lludent. Now the 
 fame objections might be made, with equal propriety, to the ufe of the 
 Trader's Sure Guide, and the Ready Reckoner, fince both of them conlill 
 of nothing but Tables, calculated to fliow the value of any quantity of 
 goods at any given price, and are now univerfally made vife of by perlbns 
 ■wholly unacquainted with the theory of figures. If, therefore, thefe 
 books can be ufed with fo much advantage for the above-mentioned pur- 
 pofes, by perfons utterly incapable of performing the moll (imple rules in 
 addition or multiplication, why may not the following Tables be reforted 
 to with fimilar eafe, for folving any queftions upon the fubjeCl before us? 
 The anfwer is obvious j and the utility of the plan unexceptionable. 
 
 I 
 
 TABLE
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 487 
 
 TA BL E of SEMIDIURNAL and SEMINOCTURNAL ARCHES. 
 
 Pole of 
 
 4.4 degrees. 
 
 I'o 
 
 e of 47 deg. 
 
 Pole of 50 degrees. || 
 
 deg. 
 
 Semid 
 
 Y 
 
 « 
 
 n 
 
 Semid 
 
 Y' 
 
 « 
 
 n 
 
 Semid 
 
 . v 
 
 « 
 
 n 
 
 
 Semin 
 
 ^ 
 
 n 
 
 t 
 
 Semin 
 
 -A. 
 
 "I 
 
 t 
 
 Semin 
 
 .rf%. 
 
 "l 
 
 X 
 
 h. 
 
 m. 
 
 h. m. 
 
 h. m. 
 
 h. 
 
 m. 
 
 h. m. 
 
 h. m. 
 
 h. 
 
 m. 
 
 li.m 
 
 h.m. 
 
 o 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 6 47 
 
 7 24 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 6 51 
 
 7 34 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 6 56 
 
 7 44 
 
 30 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 6 4« 
 
 7 25 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 6 53 
 
 7 35 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 6 58 
 
 7 45 
 
 29 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 6 50 
 
 7 26 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 6 55 
 
 7 36 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 6 59 
 
 7 47 
 
 28 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 651 
 
 7 27 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 6 57 
 
 7 37 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 I 
 
 7 48 
 
 27 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 6 52 
 
 7 28 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 6 59 
 
 7 38 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 7 3 
 
 7 49 
 
 26 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 '^ 54 
 
 7 29 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 7 
 
 7 39 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 7 5 
 
 7 50 
 
 25 1 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 II 
 
 2 ^^ 
 
 7 30 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 7 2 
 
 7 40 
 
 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 7 7 
 
 7 51 
 
 24 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 6 56 
 
 7 31 
 
 6 
 
 14 
 
 7 4 
 
 7 41 
 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 7 9 
 
 7 52 
 
 23 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 M 
 
 6 58 
 
 7 32 
 
 6 
 
 15 
 
 7 5 
 
 7 42 
 
 6 
 
 15 
 
 7 10 
 
 7 53 
 
 1 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 15 
 
 ^ 59 
 
 7 33 
 
 6 
 
 ^7 
 
 7 7 
 
 7 43 
 
 6 
 
 17 
 
 7 12 
 
 7 54 
 
 21 
 
 lO 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 7 
 
 7 33 
 
 6 
 
 19 
 
 7 « 
 
 7 43 
 
 6 
 
 19 
 
 7 14 
 
 7 55 
 
 20 
 
 1 1 
 
 6 
 
 18 
 
 7 2 
 
 7 33 
 
 6 
 
 20 
 
 7 9 
 
 7 44 
 
 6 
 
 21 
 
 7 15 
 
 7 56 
 
 19 
 
 12 
 
 6 
 
 20 
 
 7 3 
 
 7 34 
 
 6 
 
 22 
 
 7 11 
 
 7 45 
 
 6 
 
 23 
 
 7 17 
 
 7 57 
 
 18 
 
 13 
 
 6 
 
 21 
 
 7 4 
 
 7 -34 
 
 6 
 
 24 
 
 7 12 
 
 7 46 
 
 6 
 
 25 
 
 7 19 
 
 7 58 
 
 n 
 
 H 
 
 6 
 
 23 
 
 7 6 
 
 7 35 
 
 6 
 
 25 
 
 7 ^3 
 
 7 46 
 
 6 
 
 26 
 
 7 20 
 
 7 58 
 
 16 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 24 
 
 7 7 
 
 7 35 
 
 6 
 
 27 
 
 7 14 
 
 7 47 
 
 6 
 
 28 
 
 7 22 
 
 7 59 
 
 15 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 25 
 
 7 8 
 
 7 36 
 
 6 
 
 29 
 
 7 16 
 
 7 4B 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 7 24 
 
 8 
 
 14 
 
 '7 
 
 6 
 
 27 
 
 7 10 
 
 7 36 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 7 18 
 
 7 4H 
 
 6 
 
 32 
 
 7 25 
 
 8 
 
 13 
 
 18 
 
 6 
 
 29 
 
 7 II 
 
 7 37 
 
 6 
 
 32 
 
 7 19 
 
 7 49 
 
 6 
 
 34 
 
 7 27 
 
 8 I 
 
 12 
 
 19 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 7 12 
 
 7 37 
 
 6 
 
 33 
 
 7 20 
 
 7 49 
 
 6 
 
 36 
 
 7 28 
 
 8 2 
 
 1 1 
 
 20 
 
 6 
 
 32 
 
 7 13 
 
 7 3« 
 
 6 
 
 34 
 
 7 22 
 
 7 49 
 
 6 
 
 38 
 
 7 30 
 
 8 2 
 
 10 
 
 21 
 
 6 
 
 33 
 
 7 14 
 
 7 38 
 
 6 
 
 36 
 
 7 23 
 
 7 50 
 
 6 
 
 40 
 
 7 31 
 
 ^ 3 
 
 9 
 
 22 
 
 6 
 
 34 
 
 7 15 
 
 7 3« 
 
 6 
 
 3« 
 
 7 24 
 
 7 50 
 
 6 
 
 42 
 
 7 33 
 
 « 3 
 
 8 
 
 23 
 
 6 
 
 36 
 
 7 17 
 
 7 38 
 
 6 
 
 39 
 
 7 26 
 
 7 50 
 
 6 
 
 43 
 
 7 34 
 
 8 4 
 
 7 
 
 24 
 
 6 
 
 3» 
 
 7 18 
 
 7 3H 
 
 5 
 
 40 
 
 7 27 
 
 7 51 
 
 6 
 
 45 
 
 7 36 
 
 8 4 
 
 6 
 
 25 
 
 6 
 
 39 
 
 7 19 
 
 7 39 
 
 6 
 
 43 
 
 7 28 
 
 7 51 
 
 6 
 
 47 
 
 7 37 
 
 8 4 
 
 5 
 
 26 
 
 6 
 
 40 
 
 7 20 
 
 7 39 
 
 6 
 
 44 
 
 7 29 
 
 7 51 
 
 6 
 
 49 
 
 7 3« 
 
 8 4 
 
 4 
 
 27 
 
 6 
 
 42 
 
 7 21 
 
 7 39 
 
 6 
 
 46 
 
 7 30 
 
 7 ii 
 
 6 
 
 51 
 
 7 40 
 
 8 5 
 
 3 
 
 28 
 
 6 
 
 43 
 
 7 22 
 
 7 39 
 
 6 
 
 48 
 
 7 3' 
 
 7 51 
 
 6 
 
 53 
 
 7 41 
 
 8 5 
 
 2 
 
 29 
 
 6 
 
 45 
 
 7 23 
 
 7 39 
 
 6 
 
 49 
 
 7 33 
 
 7 51 
 
 6 
 
 54 
 
 7 43 
 
 8 5 
 
 I 
 
 30 
 
 6 
 
 47 
 
 7 24 
 
 7 39 
 
 6 
 
 51 
 
 7 34 
 
 7 51 
 
 6 
 
 56 
 
 7 44 
 
 !^ 5 
 
 
 deg. i 
 
 Soiiid 
 
 . 15 
 
 .fi 
 
 25 
 
 Sem'd 
 
 m 
 
 a 
 
 25 
 
 Sc}?iid 
 
 "E 
 
 a 
 
 25 
 
 Setnin 
 
 . X 
 
 ^ 
 
 Vf 
 
 ^t'liiiii 
 
 K 
 
 ^ 
 
 Vf 
 
 Scjiiin 
 
 . X 
 
 ^ 
 
 Vf
 
 488 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N. 
 
 TABLE of SEMIDIURNAL and SEMINOCTURNAL ARCHES. 
 
 Pole of 
 
 5 1 degrees. 
 
 
 Pole of 52 degrees. 
 
 Pole of 53 degrees. | 
 
 deg. 
 
 Scniid 
 
 . ^ 
 
 « 
 
 n 
 
 Scmid 
 
 . 'v 
 
 « 
 
 n 
 
 Scvi'id 
 
 T 
 
 « 
 
 
 1 
 
 Seinin 
 
 jv 
 
 "I 
 
 t 
 
 Seviiii 
 
 j%. 
 
 "I 
 
 t 
 
 S'ouiii 
 
 . ^ 
 
 fn 
 
 X 
 
 h. 
 
 m. 
 
 h.m 
 
 h. 
 
 m. 
 
 h. 
 
 m. 
 
 h.m. 
 
 h.m. 
 
 h. 
 
 m. 
 
 h. m. 
 
 h m. 
 
 o 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 6 58 
 
 7 
 
 48 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 7 52 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 7 3 
 
 7 57 
 
 30 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 49 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 7 2 
 
 7 54 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 7 5 
 
 7 5B 
 
 29 
 
 o 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 7 2 
 
 7 
 
 5' 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 7 4 
 
 7 55 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 7 7 
 
 8 
 
 28 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 4 
 
 7 
 
 52 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 6 
 
 7 56 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 9 
 
 8 I 
 
 27 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 7 6 
 
 7 
 
 53 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 7 B 
 
 7 58 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 7 II 
 
 8 2 
 
 26 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 7 « 
 
 7 
 
 $s 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 7 10 
 
 7 59 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 7 13 
 
 ^ 4 
 
 25 
 
 6 
 
 b 
 
 12 
 
 7 9 
 
 7 
 
 56 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 7 12 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 7 15 
 
 8 6 
 
 24 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 14 
 
 7 ^^ 
 
 7 
 
 57 
 
 6 
 
 H 
 
 7 H 
 
 8 1 
 
 6 
 
 15 
 
 7 17 
 
 « 7 
 
 23 
 
 8 
 
 b 
 
 16 
 
 7 13 
 
 7 
 
 5« 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 7 i^ 
 
 8 3 
 
 6 
 
 17 
 
 7 i« 
 
 8 8 
 
 22 
 
 9 
 
 b 
 
 18 
 
 7 15 
 
 7 
 
 59 
 
 6 
 
 18 
 
 7 17 
 
 8 4 
 
 6 
 
 19 
 
 7 20 
 
 8 9 
 
 21 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 20 
 
 7 17 
 
 « 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 20 
 
 7 1^9 
 
 8 5 
 
 6 
 
 21 
 
 7 22 
 
 8 10 
 
 20 
 
 1 1 
 
 6 
 
 22 
 
 7 188 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 22 
 
 7 21 
 
 8 6 
 
 6 
 
 23 
 
 7 24 
 
 8 II 
 
 '9 
 
 12 
 
 6 
 
 24 
 
 7 20 
 
 8 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 24 
 
 7 23 
 
 S 7 
 
 6 
 
 25 
 
 7 26 
 
 8 12 
 
 18 
 
 L3 
 
 6 
 
 26 
 
 7 22 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 26 
 
 7 25 
 
 8 7 
 
 6 
 
 27 
 
 7 28 
 
 8 13 
 
 17 
 
 14 
 
 b 
 
 28 
 
 7 23 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 28 
 
 7 27 
 
 8 8 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 7 30 
 
 8 14 
 
 16 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 29 
 
 7 25 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 7 28 
 
 8 9 
 
 6 
 
 32 
 
 7 32 
 
 8 15 
 
 15 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 31 
 
 7 27 
 
 8 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 32 
 
 7 30 
 
 8 10 
 
 6 
 
 34 
 
 7 34 
 
 8 16 
 
 14 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 35 
 
 7 28 
 
 8 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 34 
 
 7 32 
 
 8 II 
 
 6 
 
 36 
 
 7 35 
 
 8 17 13 
 
 18 
 
 6 
 
 37 
 
 7 30 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 36 
 
 7 34 
 
 8 II 
 
 6 
 
 3« 
 
 7 37 
 
 8 17 12 
 
 19 
 
 6 
 
 39 
 
 7 32 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 38 
 
 7 35 
 
 8 12 
 
 6 
 
 40 
 
 7 39 
 
 8 18' 
 
 1 1 
 
 20 
 
 6 
 
 41 
 
 7 33 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 40 
 
 7 37 
 
 8 12 
 
 6 
 
 42 
 
 7 41 
 
 8 19 
 
 10 
 
 ?1 
 
 6 
 
 43 
 
 7 35 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 42 
 
 7 39 
 
 8 13 
 
 6 
 
 44 
 
 7 43 
 
 8 19 
 
 9 
 
 22 
 
 6 
 
 45 
 
 7 37 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 44 
 
 7 40 
 
 8 13 
 
 6 
 
 46 
 
 7 44 
 
 8 20 
 
 8 
 
 23 
 
 6 
 
 47 
 
 7 3» 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 46 
 
 7 42 
 
 8 13 
 
 6 
 
 48 
 
 7 46 
 
 8 20 
 
 7 
 
 24 
 
 6 
 
 49 
 
 7 39 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 48 
 
 7 43 
 
 8 14 
 
 6 
 
 50 
 
 7 48 
 
 8 20 
 
 6 
 
 25 
 
 6 
 
 51 
 
 7 41 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 50 
 
 7 45 
 
 8 14 
 
 6 
 
 52 
 
 7 50 
 
 8 21 
 
 5 
 
 36- 
 
 6 
 
 52. 
 
 7 42 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 52 
 
 7 47 
 
 8 14 
 
 6 
 
 54 
 
 7 51 
 
 8 21 
 
 4 
 
 27 
 
 6 
 
 55 
 
 7 43 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 54 
 
 7 48 
 
 8 i^ 
 
 6 
 
 57 
 
 7 52 
 
 8 21 
 
 3 
 
 1 28 
 
 6 
 
 56 
 
 7 45 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 56 
 
 7 50 
 
 8 M 
 
 6 
 
 59 
 
 7 54 
 
 8 22 
 
 2 
 
 29 
 
 6 
 
 57 
 
 7 46 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 b 
 
 58 
 
 7 51 
 
 8 M 
 
 7 
 
 I 
 
 7 55 
 
 8 22 
 
 I 
 
 30 
 
 6 
 
 58 
 
 7 4B 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 7 51 
 
 8 15 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 7 57 
 
 8 22 
 
 
 
 Semid 
 
 . nR 
 
 51 
 
 2B 
 
 Semid 
 
 m 
 
 a 
 
 25 
 
 .Se??;?</ 
 
 ^ 
 
 il 
 
 m 
 
 deg. 
 
 Seniin 
 
 K 
 
 c: 
 
 Vf 
 
 Sdvi'm 
 
 X 
 
 XT 
 
 kf 
 
 Seii'hi 
 
 K 
 
 :r 
 
 Vf 

 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 489 
 
 TABLE of SEMIDIURNAL and SEMINOCTURNAL ARCHES. 
 
 Pole of 
 
 54 degrees. 
 
 Pole of 5^ deg. 
 
 j Pole of 56 degrees. 
 
 
 Scmid. 'T 
 
 « 
 
 n 
 
 Semid. ^ « 
 
 n 
 
 Scviid. ir 
 
 » 
 
 n 
 
 
 deg. 
 
 Scmiii. ^ 
 
 n 
 
 / 
 
 Semin. — 
 
 'n 
 
 t 
 
 Semin. '^ 
 
 "I 
 
 ^ 
 
 h. 
 
 m. 
 
 h. m |h. m. 
 
 h. 
 
 m. 
 
 h. m 
 
 h. m. 
 
 h. 
 
 m. 
 
 h.m. 
 
 h.m 
 
 o 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 7 5!8 2 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 7 7 
 
 8 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 7 9 
 
 8 12 
 
 30 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 7 78 3 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 7 8 
 
 8 7 
 
 ! 6 
 
 2 
 
 7 II 
 
 8 14 
 
 29 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 7 9:8 5 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 7 IC 
 
 8 9 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 7 14 
 
 8 15 
 
 28 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 7 II 
 
 8 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 7 12 
 
 8 10 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 7 16 
 
 8 17 
 
 27 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 7 13:8 7 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 7 M 
 
 8 12 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 7 18 
 
 8 19 
 
 26 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 7 15,8 9 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 7 17 
 
 8 13 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 7 20 
 
 8 20 
 
 25 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 7 i7i8 10 
 
 6 
 
 H 
 
 7 198 15 
 
 6 
 
 14 
 
 7 22 
 
 8 22 
 
 24 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 15 
 
 7 198 II 
 7 228 13 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 7 21 8 16 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 7 25 
 
 8 23 
 
 23 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 ^7 
 
 6 
 
 18 
 
 7 238 17 
 
 6 
 
 19 
 
 7 27 
 
 8 25 
 
 22 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 19 
 
 7 24 
 
 8 14 
 
 6 
 
 20 
 
 7 25 
 
 8 18 
 
 6 
 
 21 
 
 7 298 26 
 
 21 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 22 
 
 7 26 
 
 8 15 
 
 6 
 
 22 
 
 7 27 
 
 8 19 
 
 6 
 
 23 
 
 7 328 27 
 
 20 
 
 II 
 
 6 
 
 24 
 
 7 28 
 
 8 i6 
 
 6 
 
 25 
 
 7 29 
 
 8 20 
 
 6 
 
 26 
 
 7 34 
 
 8 29 
 
 19 
 
 12 
 
 6 
 
 26 
 
 7 30 
 7 32 
 
 8 17 
 
 6 
 
 27 
 
 7 3' 
 
 8 21 
 
 6 
 
 28 
 
 7 36 
 
 8 30 
 
 18 
 
 ^3 
 
 6 
 
 28 
 
 8 18 
 
 6 
 
 29 
 
 7 33 
 
 8 22 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 7 39 
 
 8 31 
 
 •17 
 
 H 
 
 6 
 
 31 
 
 7 33 
 
 8 19 
 
 6 
 
 32 
 
 7 35 
 
 8 23 
 
 6 
 
 33 
 
 7 4' 
 
 8 32 
 
 16 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 33 
 
 7 35 
 
 8 20 
 
 6 
 
 34 
 
 7 37 
 
 8 24 
 
 6 
 
 3S 
 
 7 43 
 
 8 33 
 
 15 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 35 
 
 7 37 
 
 8 21 
 
 6 
 
 36 
 
 7 39 
 
 8 25 
 
 6 
 
 31 
 
 7 45 
 
 8 34 
 
 14 
 
 ^7 
 
 6 
 
 37 
 
 7 39 
 
 8 22 
 
 6 
 
 39 
 
 7 41 
 
 8 2& 
 
 6 
 
 39 
 
 7 48 
 
 8 35 
 
 13 
 
 18 
 
 6 
 
 39 
 
 7 41 
 
 823 
 
 6' 
 
 41 
 
 7 43 
 
 8 27 
 
 6 
 
 41 
 
 7 50 
 
 8 36 
 
 12 
 
 19 
 
 6 
 
 41 
 
 7 43 
 
 8 24 
 
 6 
 
 43 
 
 7 45 
 
 8 28 
 
 6 
 
 43 
 
 7 52 
 
 8 37 
 
 II 
 
 20 
 
 6 
 
 4-1 
 
 7 4? 
 
 8 25 
 
 6 
 
 46 
 
 7 47 
 
 8 29 
 
 6 
 
 46 
 
 7 54 
 
 837 
 
 10 
 
 21 
 
 6 
 
 46 
 
 7 47 
 
 I ^A 
 
 6 
 
 48 
 
 7 49 
 
 8 ^0 
 
 6 
 
 48 
 
 7 56 
 
 8 38 
 
 9 1 
 
 22 
 
 6 
 
 48 
 
 7 49 
 
 8 25! 
 
 6 
 
 50 
 
 7 51 
 
 8 30 
 
 6 
 
 50 
 
 7 58 
 
 8 38 
 
 8 : 
 
 23 
 
 6 
 
 .';o 
 
 7 ^0 
 
 8 2b 
 
 5 
 
 52 
 
 7 538 30 
 
 6 
 
 52 
 
 7 59 
 
 8 39 
 
 7 ; 
 
 2+ 
 
 6 
 
 .-j^ 
 
 7 '^2 
 
 8 26 
 
 6 
 
 54 
 
 7 548 31 
 
 6 
 
 55 
 
 S I 
 
 8 39 
 
 6, 
 
 25 
 
 6 
 
 54 
 
 7 54 
 
 8 26 
 
 6 
 
 56 
 
 7 56 
 
 8 31 
 
 6 
 
 57 
 
 « 3 
 
 839 
 
 5 
 
 26 
 
 6 
 
 SI 
 
 7 55 
 
 8 27 
 
 6 
 
 59 
 
 Z -^^ 
 
 832 
 
 6 
 
 59 
 
 « 5 
 
 b 40 
 
 4 
 
 27 
 
 6 
 
 59 
 
 7 57 
 
 8 27 
 
 7 
 
 I 
 
 8 
 
 8 32' 
 
 7 
 
 2 
 
 * 7 
 
 8 40 
 
 3 
 
 28 
 
 7 
 
 I 
 
 7 59 
 
 8 27 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 8 2 
 
 8 33 
 
 7 
 
 4 
 
 ^ 8 
 
 « 40 
 
 2 i 
 
 29 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 8 o« 27i 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 8 4 
 
 8 34 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 i 10 
 
 S 41 
 
 I 
 
 30 
 
 7 
 
 5 
 
 ^ =; 
 
 27 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 8 5 
 
 « 34 
 
 7 
 
 9 < 
 
 i 12 
 
 ^ 41 
 
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 ieg. 
 
 Semid. 
 
 np 
 
 ii 
 
 25 
 
 Semid. 
 
 «E 
 
 oa 
 
 5S 
 
 Vt;?«/6?. 
 
 iru 
 
 ^ 
 
 Semiu 
 
 K 
 
 ir 
 
 Vf 
 
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 xl 
 
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 Vf 
 
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 No. 25. 
 
 6F
 
 40O 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 
 
 TABLE, 1 
 
 Showing the Seminoclurnal A.rch to every degree of the Ecliptic. 
 
 Calculated for the Latitude of 51 degrees 32 minutes. 
 
 
 
 <r 
 
 « 
 
 " 
 
 2S 
 
 a 
 
 m 
 
 -/\. 
 
 m 
 
 f 
 
 b' 
 
 ;c; 
 
 K 
 
 deg. 
 
 h. 
 
 m 
 
 h.m. 
 
 h. 
 
 m. 
 
 h.m. 
 
 h.m. 
 
 h.m. 
 
 h. m. 
 
 h. m. 
 
 Ii m. h.m. 
 
 h.m. 
 
 h. m. 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 c 
 
 6 59 
 
 7 
 
 51 
 
 8 13 
 
 7 5C 
 
 6 59 
 
 6 
 
 5 I 
 
 4 10 
 
 3 47 
 
 4 10 
 
 5 I 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 7 ' 
 
 7 
 
 52 
 
 8 13 
 
 7 49 
 
 6 58 
 
 5 58 
 
 -i 59 
 
 4 8 
 
 3 47 
 
 4 n 
 
 5 2 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 7 3 
 
 7 
 
 53 
 
 8 12 
 
 7 47 
 
 6 56 
 
 5 56 
 
 4 57 
 
 4 7 
 
 3 47 
 
 4 12 
 
 5 4 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 5 
 
 7 
 
 54 
 
 8 12 
 
 7 46 
 
 5 54 
 
 5 54 
 
 4 55 
 
 4 5 
 
 3 48 
 
 4 13 
 
 5 6 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 7 7 
 
 7 
 
 55 
 
 8 II 
 
 7 45 
 
 6 52 
 
 5 52 
 
 4 53 
 
 4 4 
 
 3 48 
 
 4 15 
 
 5 8 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 7 9 
 
 7 
 
 56 
 
 8 11 
 
 7 43 
 
 6 50 
 
 5 50 
 
 4 52 
 
 4 3 
 
 3 48 
 
 4 16 
 
 5 10 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 7 i^ 
 
 7 
 
 57 
 
 8 10 
 
 7 42 
 
 5 48 
 
 5 48 
 
 4 50 
 
 4 2 
 
 3 49 
 
 4 18 
 
 5 '2 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 14 
 
 7 13 
 
 7 
 
 59 
 
 8 10 
 
 7 4' 
 
 6 46 
 
 5 46 
 
 4 48 
 
 4 I 
 
 3 49 
 
 4 20 
 
 ^ '^ 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 7 15 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 8 9 
 
 7 40 
 
 6 44 
 
 5 44 
 
 4 46 
 
 4 
 
 3 50 
 
 4 21 
 
 5 16 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 18 
 
 7 '7 
 
 8 
 
 I 
 
 8 9 
 
 7 39 
 
 6 42 
 
 5 42 
 
 4 45 
 
 3 59 
 
 3 50 
 
 4 23 
 
 5 18 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 20 
 
 7 20 
 
 8 
 
 28 8 
 
 7 38 
 
 5 40 
 
 5 40 
 
 4 43 
 
 3 58 
 
 3 5J 
 
 4 25 
 
 5 20 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 6 
 
 22 
 
 7 23 
 
 8 
 
 38 8 
 
 7 37 
 
 6 38 
 
 5 38 
 
 4 41 
 
 3 57 
 
 3 51 
 
 4 27 
 
 5 22 
 
 
 12 
 
 6 
 
 24 
 
 7 26 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 8 7 
 
 7 36 
 
 6 36 
 
 5 36 
 
 4 39 
 
 3 56 
 
 3 52 
 
 4 29 
 
 5 24 
 
 
 13 
 
 6 26 
 
 7 28 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 8 7 
 
 7 35 
 
 6 34 
 
 5 34 
 
 4 37 
 
 3 55 
 
 3 53 
 
 4 30 
 
 5 20 
 
 H 
 
 6 
 
 28 
 
 7 30 
 
 8 
 
 5 
 
 8 6 
 
 7 33 
 
 6 32 
 
 5 32 
 
 4 36 
 
 3 54 
 
 3 53 
 
 4 32 
 
 5 28 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 7 33 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 8 6 
 
 7 31 
 
 6 30 
 
 5 30 
 
 4 34 
 
 3 54 
 
 3 54 
 
 4 34 
 
 5 30 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 32 
 
 7 35 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 ^ ^ 
 
 7 30 
 
 6 28 
 
 5 28 
 
 4 32 
 
 3 S3 
 
 3 54 
 
 4 36 
 
 5 32 
 
 '1 
 
 6 
 
 34 
 
 7 3^^ 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 
 8 4 
 
 7 28 
 
 6 26 
 
 5 26 
 
 4 30 
 
 3 S33 55 
 
 4 37 
 
 5 34 
 
 18 
 
 6 
 
 36 
 
 7 37 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 
 8 4 
 
 7 26 
 
 6 24 
 
 5 24 
 
 4 29 
 
 3 523 56 
 
 4 39 
 
 5 36 
 
 19 
 
 6 
 
 38 
 
 7 38 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 8 3 
 
 7 23 
 
 6 22 
 
 5 22 
 
 4 27 
 
 3 5^ 
 
 3 57 
 
 4 41 
 
 5 38 
 
 20 
 
 6 
 
 40 
 
 7 39 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 8 2 
 
 7 20 
 
 S 20 
 
 5 20 
 
 4 25 
 
 3 51 
 
 3 58 
 
 4 43 
 
 5 40 
 
 21 
 
 5 
 
 42 
 
 7 40 
 
 3 
 
 9 
 
 8 I 
 
 7 ^7 
 
 6 18 
 
 5 18 
 
 4 23 
 
 3 50 
 
 3 594 45 
 
 5 42 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 44 
 
 7 4^ 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 7 '5 
 
 6 16 
 
 5 16 
 
 4 21 
 
 3 504 oi4 46 
 
 5 44 
 
 23 
 
 6 
 
 46 
 
 7 42 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 7 59 
 
 7 13 
 
 6 14 
 
 5 14 
 
 4 20 
 
 3 494 1 
 
 4 48 
 
 5 4S 
 
 24 
 
 6 
 
 48 
 
 7 43 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 7 57 
 
 7 11 
 
 6 12 
 
 5 12 
 
 4 18 
 
 3 494 2 
 
 4 5'^ 
 
 5 48 
 
 2^ 
 
 6 
 
 5c 
 
 7 45 
 
 8 
 
 1 1 
 
 7 56 
 
 7 9 
 
 6 10 
 
 5 10 
 
 4 16 
 
 3 48J4 3 
 
 4 52 
 
 5 50 
 
 26 
 
 6 
 
 52 
 
 7 46 
 
 8 
 
 1 1 
 
 7 55 
 
 7 7 
 
 5 8 
 
 5 ^ 
 
 4 15 
 
 3 48 
 
 4 4 
 
 4 53 
 
 5 52 
 
 27 
 
 6 
 
 54 
 
 7 47 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 12 
 
 7 54 
 
 7 5 
 
 6 6 
 
 5 6 
 
 4 13 
 
 3 48 
 
 4 5 
 
 4 55 
 
 5 54 
 
 28 
 
 6 
 
 5^' 
 
 7 48 
 
 8 
 
 12 
 
 7 53 
 
 7 3 
 
 6 4 
 
 5 4 
 
 4 12 
 
 3 47 
 
 4 7 
 
 4 57 
 
 5 56 
 
 29 
 
 6 
 
 58 
 
 7 49 
 
 8 
 
 13 
 
 7 52 
 
 7 ^ 
 
 6 2 
 
 5 2 
 
 4 II 
 
 3 47 
 
 4 8 
 
 4 59 
 
 5 58 
 
 30 
 
 6 
 
 59 
 
 7 5c 
 
 8 
 
 13 
 
 7 5' 
 
 ^ 59 
 
 6 
 
 5 1 
 
 4 10 
 
 3 47 
 
 4 10 
 
 5 I 
 
 6
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 401 
 
 TABLE. 
 
 Showing the Seminodurnal Arch to every degree of tlie Ecliptic. 
 Calculated for the Latitude of 51 degrees 32 minutes. 
 
 deg. 
 
 o 
 I 
 2 
 3 
 4 
 
 S 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 1 1 
 
 12 
 
 '3 
 H 
 ic 
 16 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 '9 
 20 
 21 
 22 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 27 
 28 
 29 
 30 
 
 V 
 
 h. m, 
 
 6 
 
 15 
 
 '5 
 
 5 
 
 S 
 
 5 
 
 S 
 
 5 
 
 S 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 15 
 
 I5 
 
 S 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 h.m, 
 
 h. m, 
 
 a 
 
 h.m.h. m 
 
 584 
 564 
 544 
 524 
 504 
 
 48 
 46 
 44 
 
 424 
 404 
 
 59 
 
 57 
 
 55 
 
 S3 
 
 5i|4 
 
 494 
 
 47 
 45 
 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 
 38 
 35 
 
 34 
 
 324 
 
 304 
 284 
 264 
 
 244 
 22I4 
 
 2o'4 
 
 184 
 
 164 
 
 ^ 
 
 =2: I tri 
 
 Vf 
 
 X 
 
 h m. h.m.h. m. h.m. h.m. 'h.m 
 
 43 
 40 
 
 37 
 34 
 32 
 303 
 293 
 ^13 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 
 12 
 
 JO 
 
 8 
 6 
 
 4j4 
 24 
 '4 
 
 '/ 
 25 
 24 
 
 23 
 
 22 
 
 213 
 203 
 
 19 
 18 
 
 15 
 
 H 
 
 '3 
 II 
 
 10 
 
 03 
 
 593 
 5% 
 573 
 563 
 5% 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 501 
 
 TABLE of MUNDANE ASPECTS. 
 
 Semidi- 
 urnal 01 
 seminoc- 
 turnul 
 Arches. 
 
 h. m. 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 S 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 S 
 S 
 S 
 
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 s 
 
 6 
 
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 6 
 
 12 
 
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 24 
 
 30 
 
 36 
 
 42 
 
 48 
 
 54 
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 6 
 
 12 
 
 18 
 
 24 
 
 30 
 36 
 
 42 
 48 
 
 54 
 o 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 18 I 
 24 I 
 
 30 
 36 
 42 
 48 
 
 54 
 o 
 
 Space 
 of one 
 Hou/e. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 15 
 
 15 
 16 
 16 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 19 
 
 I20 
 20 
 21 
 21 
 22 
 22 
 23 
 23 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 26 
 
 27 
 
 27 
 28 
 
 28 
 
 29 
 29 
 30 
 
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 30 
 
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 tile. 
 
 Smq. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 22 30 
 
 23 15 
 
 24 o 
 
 24 45 
 
 25 30 
 
 26 15 
 
 27 o 
 
 3o!27 45 
 028 30 
 
 30I29 15 
 
 Scx- 
 tik. 
 
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 30 
 
 31 
 
 32 
 
 33 
 
 34 
 
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 36 
 
 37 
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 31 12 
 
 38 24 
 
 39 36 
 
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 drate. 
 Sfq. 
 
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 42 o 
 
 43 12 
 
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 39 046 48 
 
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 30 
 
 30 4541 049 1 2 61 
 
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 30 
 
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 31 3042 
 
 32 1543 
 
 33 044 
 
 33 4545 
 
 34 3046 
 
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 30 
 
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 30 
 
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 30 
 
 30 
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 37 
 38 
 39 
 
 39 45 
 
 40 30 
 
 41 i< 
 
 42 o 
 
 42 45 
 
 43 30 
 
 44 15 
 
 47 
 48 
 
 49 
 
 50 24I63 
 
 51 36 
 
 52 48 
 
 54 o 
 
 55 12 
 
 56 24 
 
 45 o 
 
 46 30 
 
 48 o 
 
 49 30 
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 52 30 
 
 54 o 
 
 55 30 
 57 o 
 
 30 
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 30 
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 64 30 
 
 66 o 
 
 67 30 
 
 69 o 
 
 70 30 
 
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 m. 
 
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 m. 
 
 58 
 60 
 
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 58 4873 30 
 
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 52 o 
 
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 59 070 4888 30 
 
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 68 o' 76 30 81 36 
 70 o 78 45 84 o 
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 76 o 85 30 91 12 
 78 o 87 45 
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 94 0105 45 1 12 48 
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 104 OJI17 o'i24 48[f56 o 
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 90 o 
 93 o 
 96 o 
 
 99 o 
 
 102 o 
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 114 o 
 
 117 o 
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 123 o 
 126 o 
 129 o 
 
 93 36 
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 502 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 
 TADLE Of MUNDANE ASPECTS. | 
 
 
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 270
 
 OF ASTRO LOOT. 
 
 503 
 
 
 TABLE 
 
 of RIG FIT ASCENSIONS.— North Latitude. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 V 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 359 37 
 
 359 13 
 
 358 49 
 
 35« 25 
 
 358 I 
 
 357 
 
 37 
 
 
 I 
 
 55 
 
 32 
 
 8 
 
 359 44 
 
 359 20 
 
 358 56 
 
 35« 
 
 32 
 
 
 2 
 
 I 50 
 
 I 27 
 
 I 3 
 
 39 
 
 15 
 
 359.51 
 
 359 
 
 27 
 
 
 3 
 
 2 45 
 
 2 22 
 
 I 58 
 
 I 34 
 
 I 10 
 
 46 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 
 4 
 
 3 40 
 
 3 17 
 
 2 S3 
 
 2 29 
 
 ■ 2 5 
 
 I 41 
 
 I 
 
 17 
 
 
 S 
 
 4 35 
 
 4 12 
 
 3 48 
 
 3 24 
 
 3 
 
 2 36 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 
 6 
 
 5 30 
 
 5 7 
 
 4 43 
 
 4 19 
 
 3 55 
 
 3 31 
 
 '> 
 >) 
 
 7 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 25 
 
 6 2 
 
 5 38 
 
 5 14 
 
 4 50 
 
 4 26 
 
 4 
 4 
 
 2 
 57 
 
 
 8 
 
 7 21 
 
 6 57 
 
 6 33 
 
 6 9 
 
 5 45 
 
 5 21 
 
 
 9 
 
 8 16 
 
 7 52 
 
 7 28 
 
 7 4 
 
 6 40 . 
 
 6 16 
 
 5 
 
 52 
 
 
 lO 
 
 9 II 
 
 8 47 
 
 8 23 
 
 7 59 
 
 7 35 
 
 7 II 
 
 6 
 
 47 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 10 6 
 
 9 42 
 
 9 18 
 
 8 55 
 
 8 31 
 
 8 7 
 
 7 
 
 43 
 39 
 
 
 12 
 
 1 1 2 
 
 10 38 
 
 10 14 
 
 9 51 
 
 9 27 
 
 9 3 
 
 8 
 
 
 ^3 
 
 II 57 
 
 II 33 
 
 II 9 
 
 10 46 
 
 10 22 
 
 9 58 
 
 9 
 
 34 
 
 
 14 
 
 12 sz 
 
 12 29 
 
 12 5 
 
 1 1 42 
 
 II 18 
 
 10 54 
 
 10 
 
 30 
 
 
 '5 
 
 13 48 
 
 13 25 
 
 13 I 
 
 12 38 
 
 12 14 
 
 1 1 50 
 
 1 1 
 
 26 
 
 
 i6 
 
 14 44 . 
 
 14 20 
 
 13 57 
 
 13 57 
 
 13 10 
 
 12 46 
 
 12 
 
 22 
 
 
 17 
 
 15 40 
 
 15 16 
 
 14 S3 
 
 14 S3 
 
 14 6 
 
 13 42 
 
 13 
 
 18 
 
 
 18 
 
 16 31 
 
 16 12 
 
 15 49 
 
 15 49 
 
 15 2 
 
 14 39 
 
 14 
 
 15 
 
 
 19 
 
 17 35 
 
 17 8 
 
 16 45 
 
 16 45 
 
 .5 58 
 
 15 3S 
 
 15 
 
 1 1 
 
 
 20 
 
 18 27 
 
 18 4 
 
 17 41 
 
 17 18 
 
 16 54 
 
 16 31 
 
 16 
 
 7 
 
 
 21 
 
 19 23 
 
 19 
 
 18 37 
 
 18 14 
 
 17 51 
 
 17 28 
 
 17 
 
 4 
 
 
 22 
 
 20 20 
 
 19 56 
 
 19 33 
 
 19 1 1 
 
 18 48 
 
 18 25 
 
 18 
 
 I 
 
 
 23 
 
 21 16 
 
 20 53 
 
 20 30 
 
 20 8 
 
 19 45 
 
 19 22 
 
 18 
 
 58 
 
 
 24 
 
 22 12 
 
 21 50 
 
 21 27 
 
 21 5 
 
 20 43 
 
 20 19 
 
 19 
 
 55 
 
 
 25 
 
 23 9 
 
 22 47 
 
 22 24 
 
 22 2 
 
 21 39 
 
 21 16 
 
 20 
 
 52 
 
 
 26 
 
 24 6 
 
 23 44 
 
 23 21 
 
 22 59 
 
 22 36 
 
 22 13 
 
 21 
 
 50 
 
 
 27 
 
 25 2 
 
 24 41 
 
 24 19 
 
 23 57 
 
 23 34 
 
 23 II 
 
 22 
 
 48 
 
 
 28 
 
 25 52 
 
 25 38 
 
 25 16 
 
 24 44 
 
 24 31 
 
 24 9 
 
 23 
 
 46 
 
 
 29 
 
 26 57 
 
 2^ 35 
 
 26 13 
 
 25 51 
 
 25 29 
 
 25 • 7 
 
 24 
 
 44 
 
 
 30 
 
 27 54 
 
 27 33 
 
 27 1 1 
 
 26 49 1 26 27 
 
 26 < 
 
 25 
 
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 504 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 
 f 
 
 lABLE 
 
 of RIGHT ASCENSIONS 
 
 . — South Latitude. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Of. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. ni. 
 
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 55 
 
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 2 37 
 
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 3 49 
 
 4 13 
 
 
 
 3 
 4 
 
 2 45 
 
 3 8 
 
 3 32 
 
 3 56 
 
 4 20 
 
 4 44 
 
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 4 27 
 
 4 51 
 
 5 15 
 
 5 39 
 
 6 3 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 4 35 
 
 4 5» 
 
 5 22 
 
 5 46 
 
 6 10 
 
 6 34 
 
 6 58 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 5 30 
 
 5 54 
 
 6 18 
 
 6 42 
 
 7 6 
 
 7 30 
 
 7 53 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 25 
 
 6 49 
 
 7 13 
 
 8 8 
 
 7 37 
 
 8 1 
 
 8 25 
 
 8 48 
 
 
 8 
 
 7 21 
 
 7 44 
 
 8 32 
 
 8 56 
 
 9 20 
 
 9 43 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 8 16 
 
 8 40 
 
 9 4 
 
 9 28 
 
 9 51 
 
 10 15 
 
 10 38 
 
 
 
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 9 II 
 
 9 35 
 
 9 59 
 
 10 23 
 
 10 46 
 
 1 1 10 
 
 II 33 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 10 6 
 
 10 30 
 
 10 54 
 
 II 18 
 
 1 1 41 
 
 12 5 
 
 12 28 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 1 1 2 
 
 1 1 25 
 
 II 49 
 
 12 13 
 
 12 36 
 
 13 
 
 13 23 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 II 57 
 
 12 20 
 
 12 44 
 
 13 « 
 
 13 31 
 
 13 55 
 
 14 18 
 
 
 
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 12 53 
 
 13 16 
 
 13 39 14 3 
 
 14 26 
 
 14 50 
 
 15 13 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 13 48 
 
 14 44 
 
 14 12 
 
 14 35 14 58 
 
 15 21 
 
 15 45 
 
 16 8 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 15 7 
 
 15 30 
 
 15 53 
 
 16 16 
 
 16 40 
 
 17 3 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 15 40 
 
 16 3 
 
 16 25 
 
 16 48 
 
 17 1 1 
 
 17 35 
 
 17 58 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 16 35 
 
 16 58 
 
 17 21 
 
 17 44 
 
 18 7 
 
 18 30 
 
 18 53 
 
 
 
 19 
 
 17 31 
 
 17 54 
 
 18 17 
 
 18 40 
 
 19 2 
 
 19 25 
 
 19 48 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 18 27 
 
 18 50 
 
 19 13 
 
 19 36 
 
 19 58 
 
 20 21 
 
 20 43 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 19 23 
 
 J 9 46 
 
 20 9 
 
 20 22 
 
 20 54 
 
 21 17 
 
 21 39 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 20 20 
 
 20 42 
 
 21 5 
 
 21 28 
 
 21 50 
 
 22 12 
 
 22, 34 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 21 16 
 
 21 28 
 
 22 I 
 
 22 24 
 
 22 46 
 
 23 8 
 
 23 30 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 22 12 
 
 22 35 
 
 22 57 
 
 23 20 
 
 23 42 
 
 24 4 
 
 24 26 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 23 9 
 
 23 31 
 
 23 43 
 
 24 16 
 
 24 38 
 
 25 
 
 25 21 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 24 6 
 
 24 28 
 
 24 50 
 
 25 12 
 
 25 34 
 
 25 56 
 
 26 17 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 25 2 
 
 25 25 
 
 25 47 
 
 26 9 
 
 26 30 
 
 26 52 
 
 27 13 
 
 
 
 28 
 
 25 59 
 
 26 22 
 
 26 43 
 
 27 5 
 
 27 26 
 
 27 48 
 
 28 9 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 26 57 
 
 27 19 
 
 27 40 
 
 28 I 
 
 28 22 
 
 28 44 
 
 29 5 
 
 
 
 1 30 
 
 27 54 
 
 28 16 
 
 28 37 
 
 28 58 
 
 29 19 
 
 29 40 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 £05 
 
 
 A TABLE of RIGBT ASCENSIONS. North Latitude, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 27 54 
 
 27 33 
 
 27 1 1 
 
 26 49 
 
 26 27 
 
 26 5 
 
 25 42 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 28 51 
 
 28 30 
 
 28 8 
 
 27 57 
 
 27 25 
 
 27 3 
 
 26 40 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 29 49 
 
 29 27 
 
 29 6 
 
 28 45 
 
 28 23 
 
 28 I 
 
 27 3S 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 30 46 
 
 31 44 
 
 30 25 
 
 30 4 
 
 29 43 
 
 29 21 
 
 28 59 
 
 28 37 
 
 29 46 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 31 33 
 
 31 2 
 
 30 39 
 
 30 19 
 
 29 58 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 32 42 
 
 32 21 
 
 32 
 
 31 41 
 
 31 18 
 
 30 57 
 
 30 35 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 33 40 
 
 33 20 
 
 32 59 
 
 32 38 
 
 32 17 
 
 31 56 
 
 31 34 
 
 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 34 38 
 
 34 18 
 
 33 58 
 
 33 31 
 
 33 16 
 
 32 55 
 
 32 33 
 
 
 
 35 31 
 
 35 17 
 
 34 57 
 
 34 56 
 
 34 15 
 
 33 54 
 
 33 33 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 36 36 
 
 36 16 
 
 35 56 
 
 35 36 
 
 35 15 
 
 34 54 
 
 34 33 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 37 34 
 
 37 M 
 
 36 55 
 
 36 35 
 
 3^ 15 
 
 35 54 
 
 35 33 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 38 33 
 
 38 14 
 
 37 54 
 
 37 35 
 
 37 15 
 
 36 54 
 
 36 33 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 39 33 
 
 39 H 
 
 38 54 
 
 38 35 
 
 3S 15 
 
 37 55 
 
 37 34 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 40 32 
 
 40 13 
 
 39 54 
 
 39 35 
 
 39 15 
 
 38 56 
 
 38 35 
 
 
 
 H 
 
 41 31 
 
 41 13 
 
 40 54 
 
 40 3S 
 
 40 16 
 
 39 57 
 
 39 36 
 
 
 
 ^5 
 
 42 31 
 
 42 13 
 
 41 54 
 
 41 36 
 
 41 17 
 
 40 58 
 
 40 38 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 43 31 
 
 43 13 
 
 42 54 
 
 42 36 
 
 42 18 
 
 41 59 
 
 41 39 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 44 31 44 13 
 
 43 55 
 
 43 37 
 
 43 19 
 
 43 
 
 42 40 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 45 31 
 
 45 H 
 
 44 56 
 
 44 38 
 
 44 20 
 
 44 I 
 
 43 42 
 
 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 46 32 
 
 46 14 
 
 45 57 
 
 45 39 
 
 45 21 
 
 45 3 
 
 44 44 
 
 
 
 47 32 
 
 47 15 
 
 46 58 
 
 46 40 
 
 46 23 
 
 46 7 
 
 45 46 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 48 23 
 
 48 16 
 
 47 59 
 
 47 42 
 
 47 25 
 
 47 5 
 
 46 49 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 49 34 
 
 49 17 
 
 49 
 
 48 44 
 
 48 27 
 
 48 9 
 
 47 52 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 50 35 
 
 50 18 
 
 50 2 
 
 49 46 
 
 49 29 
 
 49 12 
 
 48 55 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 51 36 
 
 51 20 
 
 51 4 
 
 50 48 
 
 50 32 
 
 50 15 
 
 49 58 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 52 38 
 
 52 22 
 
 52 6 
 
 51 51 
 
 51 35 
 
 51 18 
 
 51 2 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 53 40 
 
 53 24 
 
 53 9 
 
 52 54 
 
 52 38 
 
 52 22 
 
 52 6 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 54 42 
 
 54 27 
 
 54 12 
 
 53 57 
 
 53 42 
 
 S3 26 
 
 53 10 
 
 
 
 28 
 
 55 44 
 
 55 29 
 
 55 15 
 
 55 
 
 54 45 
 
 54 30 
 
 54 14 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 56 46 
 
 56 32 
 
 56 18 
 
 56 3 
 
 55 49 
 
 55 34 
 
 55 18 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 57 48 
 
 57 35 
 
 57 21 
 
 57 7 
 
 56 53 
 
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 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 
 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENSIONS.— South Latitude. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 « 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 30 I 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 27 54 
 
 28 16 
 
 28 37 
 
 28 58 
 
 29 19 
 
 29 40 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 28 51 
 
 29 13 
 
 29 34 
 
 29 55 
 
 30 16 
 
 30 37 
 
 30 57 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 29 49 
 
 30 10 
 
 30 31 
 
 30 52 
 
 31 13 
 
 31 34 
 
 31 54 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 30 46 
 
 31 7 
 
 31 28 
 
 31 49 
 
 32 10 
 
 32 31 
 
 32 51 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 31 44 
 
 32 5 
 
 32 25 
 
 32 46 
 
 33 7 
 
 33 27 
 
 33 47 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 32 42 
 
 33 3 
 
 33 23 
 
 33 43 
 
 34 4 
 
 34 24 
 
 34 44 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 33 40 
 
 34 I 
 
 34 21 
 
 34 41 35 I 
 
 35 21 
 
 35 41 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 34 38 
 
 34 59 
 
 35 19 
 
 35 39 
 
 35 58 
 
 36 18 
 
 36 38 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 35 31 
 
 35 57 
 
 36 17 
 
 36 37 
 
 36 56 
 
 37 15 
 
 37 35 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 36 36 
 
 36 56 
 
 37 15 
 
 37 35 
 
 37 54 
 
 38 13 
 
 38 32 
 
 
 
 lO 
 
 37 34 
 
 37 54 
 
 38 13 
 
 38 33 
 
 38 52 
 
 39 II 
 
 39 29 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 38 33 
 
 38 53 
 
 39 12 
 
 39 31 
 
 39 50 
 
 40 9 
 
 40 27 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 39 33 
 
 39 52 
 
 40 1 1 
 
 40 30 
 
 40 48 
 
 41 7 
 
 41 25 
 
 
 
 »3 
 
 40 32 
 
 40 51 
 
 41 10 
 
 41 28 
 
 41 46 
 
 42 5 
 
 42 23 
 
 
 
 1 4 
 
 41 31 
 
 41 50 
 
 42 9 
 
 42 27 
 
 42 45 
 
 43 3 
 
 A3 21 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 42 31 
 
 42 50 
 
 43 8 
 
 43 26 
 
 43 44 
 
 44 2 
 
 44 19 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 43 31 
 
 43 49 
 
 44 7 
 
 44 25 
 
 44 43 
 
 45 
 
 45 17 
 
 
 
 '7 
 
 44 3^ 
 
 44 49 
 
 45 6 
 
 45 24 
 
 45 42 
 
 45 59 
 
 46 15 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 45 31 
 
 45 49 
 
 46 6 
 
 46 23 
 
 46 41 
 
 46 58 
 
 47 14 
 
 
 
 19 
 
 46 32 
 
 46 49 
 
 47 6 
 
 47 23 
 
 47 40 
 
 47 57 
 
 48 13 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 47 32 
 
 47 49 
 
 48 6 
 
 48 23 
 
 48 39 
 
 48 56 
 
 49 12 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 48 33 
 
 48 50 
 
 49 6 
 
 49 23 
 
 49 39 
 
 49 55 
 
 50 1 1 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 49 34 
 
 49 50 
 
 50 6 
 
 50 23 
 
 50 38 
 
 50 54 
 
 51 10 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 50 35 
 
 50 51 
 
 51 6 
 
 51 23 
 
 51 38 
 
 51 53 
 
 52 9 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 51 36 
 
 51 52 
 
 52 .7 
 
 52 23 
 
 52 38 
 
 52 S3 
 
 S3 8 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 52 38 
 
 52 53 
 
 53 8 
 
 53 24 
 
 S3 38 
 
 53 53 
 
 54 8 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 53 40 
 
 53 55 
 
 54 9 
 
 54 24 
 
 54 38 
 
 54 53 
 
 ^i '7 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 54 42 
 
 54 56 
 
 55 II 
 
 55 25 
 
 55 39 
 
 55 53 
 
 56 7 
 
 
 
 28 
 
 55 44 
 
 55 58 
 
 56 12 
 
 56 26 
 
 56 40 
 
 56 54 
 
 57 7 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 56 46 
 
 57 ° 
 
 57 13 
 
 57 27 
 
 57 41 
 
 57 54 
 
 58 7 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 57 48 
 
 58 2 58 15 
 
 58 29 
 
 58 42 
 
 58 55 
 
 59 7 
 
 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 507 
 
 1 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENSIONS.— North Latitude. 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 n 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 
 57 48 
 
 57 35 
 
 57 21 
 
 57 7 
 
 56 S3 
 
 56 38 
 
 56 23 
 
 
 I 
 
 58 51 
 
 58 38 
 
 58 24 
 
 58 10 
 
 57 57 
 
 57 42 
 
 57 28 
 
 
 2 
 
 59 53 
 
 59 41 
 
 59 27 
 
 59 14 
 
 59 I 
 
 58 47 
 
 58 33 
 
 
 3 
 
 60 56 
 
 60 44 
 
 60 31 
 
 60 18 
 
 60 5 
 
 59 52 
 
 59 38 
 
 
 4 
 
 61 59 
 
 61 47 
 
 61 35 
 
 61 22 
 
 6i 10 
 
 60 57 
 
 60 44 
 
 
 S 
 
 63 3 
 
 62 51 
 
 62 39 
 
 62 27 
 
 62 15 
 
 62 2 
 
 61 50 
 
 
 6 
 
 64 6 
 
 63 SS 
 
 63 43 
 
 ^3 32 
 
 63 20 
 
 63 8 
 
 62 56 
 
 
 7 
 
 65 9 
 
 64 59 
 
 64 47 
 
 64 37 
 
 64 25 
 
 64 13 
 
 64 2 
 
 
 8 
 
 66 13 
 
 66 3 
 
 65 52 
 
 65 42 
 
 65 30 
 
 65 19 
 
 65 8 
 
 
 9 
 
 67 17 
 
 67 7 
 
 66 .^7 
 
 66 47 
 
 66 36 
 
 66 25 
 
 66 14 
 
 
 lO 
 
 68 21 
 
 68 II 
 
 68 2 
 
 67 52 
 
 67 42 
 
 67 31 
 
 67 21 
 
 
 II 
 
 69 25 
 
 69 16 
 
 69 7 
 
 68 57 
 
 68 48 
 
 68 38 
 
 68 28 
 
 
 12 
 
 70 29 
 
 70 21 
 
 70 12 
 
 70 3 
 
 69 54 
 
 69 45 
 
 69 35 
 
 
 13 
 
 71 34 
 
 71 26 
 
 71 17 
 
 71 9 
 
 71 
 
 70 5^ 
 
 70 42 
 
 
 14 
 
 72 38 
 
 72 31 
 
 72 22 
 
 72 15 
 
 72 6 
 
 71 58 
 
 71 49 
 
 
 15 
 
 73 43 
 
 73 36 
 
 73 28 
 
 73 21 
 
 73 13 
 
 73 5 
 
 72 57 
 
 
 16 
 
 74 47 
 
 74 41 
 
 74 33 
 
 74 27., 
 
 74 19 
 
 74 12 
 
 74 4 
 
 
 17 
 
 75 52 
 
 75 46 
 
 75 39 
 
 75 33 
 
 75 26 
 
 75 19 
 
 75 12 
 
 
 18 
 
 76 57 
 
 76 5' 
 
 76 45 
 
 76 39 
 
 76 33 
 
 76 27 
 
 76 20 
 
 
 19 
 
 78 2 
 
 79 7 
 
 77 56 
 79 2 
 
 77 51 
 
 78 57 
 
 77 45 
 
 77 40 
 
 77 34 
 
 77 28 
 
 
 20 
 
 78 52 
 
 7847 
 
 78 41 
 
 78 36 
 
 
 21 
 
 80 12 
 
 80 8 
 
 80 3. 
 
 79 59 
 
 79 54 
 
 79 49 79 44 
 
 
 22 
 
 81 17 
 
 81 13 
 
 81 9 
 
 81 5 
 
 81 1/ 
 
 80 56 80 52 
 
 
 23 
 
 82 22 
 
 82 18 
 
 82 15 
 
 82 II 
 
 82 8 82 4 
 
 82 
 
 
 24 
 
 83 38 
 
 83 24 
 
 8321 
 
 83 18 
 
 83 15 
 
 83 II 
 
 83 9 
 
 
 25 
 
 84 33 
 
 84 30 
 
 84 27 
 
 84 25 
 
 84 22 
 
 84 20 
 
 84 17 
 
 
 26 
 
 85 38 
 
 85 36 
 
 85 33 
 
 85 32 
 
 85 29 
 
 8s 28 
 
 85 25 
 
 
 27 
 
 86 44 
 
 86 42 
 
 86 40 
 
 86 39 
 
 86 37 
 
 86 36 
 
 86 34 
 
 
 28 
 
 87 49 
 
 87 49 
 
 87 46 
 
 87 46 
 
 87 44 
 
 87 44 
 
 87 42 
 
 
 29 
 
 88 55 
 
 8855 
 
 88 S3 
 
 88 S3 
 
 88 52 
 
 88 52 
 
 8851 
 
 
 30 
 
 90 
 
 90 90 1 
 
 90 90 1 
 
 90 QO i] 

 
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 I 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 u 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 58 2 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 58 55 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 57 48 
 
 58 15 
 
 58 29 
 
 58 42 
 
 59 7 • 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 58 51 
 
 59 4 
 
 59 17 
 
 59 30 
 
 59 43 
 
 59 55 
 
 60 7 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 59 S3 
 
 60 6 
 
 60 19 
 
 60 31 
 
 60 44 
 
 60 56 
 
 61 8 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 60 56 61 8 
 
 61 21 
 
 61 33 
 
 61 46 
 
 61 57 
 
 62 58 
 
 62 9 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 61 59 
 
 62 II 
 
 62 23 
 
 62 35 
 
 62 48 
 
 63 9 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 63 3 
 
 63 14 
 
 63 25 
 
 63 37 
 
 63 50 
 
 63 59 
 
 64 10 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 64 6 
 
 64 18 
 
 64 28 
 
 64 39 
 
 64 52 
 
 65 I 
 
 65 II 
 
 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 65 9 
 
 65 20 
 
 65 31 
 
 65 41 
 
 65 54 
 
 66 2 
 
 66 12 
 
 
 
 66 13 
 
 66 23 
 
 66 34 
 
 66 44 
 
 66 56 
 
 67 4 
 
 67 13 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 67 17 
 
 67 27 
 
 67 37 
 
 67 46 
 
 67 58 
 
 68 6 
 
 68 15 
 
 
 
 ID 
 
 68 21 
 
 68 30 
 
 68 40 
 
 68 49 
 
 68 59 
 
 69 7 
 
 69 16 
 
 
 
 I I 
 
 69 25 
 
 69 34 
 
 69 43 
 
 69 52 
 
 70 I 
 
 70 9 
 
 70 17 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 70 29 
 
 70 38 
 
 70 46 
 
 70 55 
 
 71 3 
 
 71 1 1 
 
 71 19 
 
 
 
 ^3 
 
 71 34 
 
 71 42 
 
 71 49 
 
 71 58 
 
 72 5 
 
 72 '3 
 
 72 21 
 
 
 
 H 
 
 72 38 
 
 72 46 
 
 72 53 
 
 73 I 
 
 73 8 
 
 73 15 
 
 73 23 
 
 
 
 ^5 
 
 73 43 
 
 73 50 
 
 73 57 
 
 74 4 
 
 74 11 
 
 74 18 
 
 74 25 
 
 
 
 i6 
 
 74 47 
 
 74 54 
 
 75 I 
 
 75 7 
 
 75 14 
 
 75 20 
 
 75 27 
 
 
 
 J? 
 
 75 52 
 
 75 58 
 
 76 5 
 
 76 II 
 
 76 17 
 
 76 23 
 
 76 29 
 
 
 
 i8 
 
 76 57 
 
 77 3 
 
 77 9 
 
 77 15 
 
 77 20 
 
 77 26 
 
 77 31 
 
 
 
 19 
 
 78 2 
 
 78 7 
 
 78 13 
 
 78 18 
 
 78 23 
 
 78 28 
 
 78 33 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 79 7 
 
 79 12 
 
 79 n 
 
 79 21 
 
 79 26 
 
 79 31 
 
 79 35 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 80 12 
 
 80 17 
 
 80 21 
 
 80 25 
 
 80 29 
 
 80 34 
 
 80 38 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 81 17 
 
 81 21 
 
 81 25 
 
 81 28 
 
 81 32 
 
 81 36 
 
 81 40 
 
 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 82 22 
 
 82 25 
 
 82 29 
 
 82 32 
 
 82 35 
 
 82 39 
 
 82 42 
 
 
 
 83 28 
 
 83 30 
 
 83 33 
 
 83 36 
 
 83 39 
 
 83 42 
 
 83 45 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 84 33 
 
 84 35 
 
 84 37 
 
 84 40 
 
 84 42 
 
 84 45 
 
 84 47 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 85 38 
 
 85 40 
 
 85 41 
 
 85 44 
 
 85 45 
 
 85 48 
 
 85 49 
 
 
 
 27 
 28 
 
 86 44 
 
 86 45 
 
 86 46 
 
 86 48 
 
 86 49 
 
 86 51 
 
 86 53 
 
 
 
 87 49 
 
 87 5Q 
 
 87 50 
 
 87 52 
 
 87 52 
 
 87 54 
 
 87 54 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 88 55 
 
 88 55 
 
 88 55 
 
 88 56 
 
 88 56 
 
 88 57 
 
 88 57 
 
 
 
 30 1 90 
 
 1 90 
 
 QO 
 
 90 
 
 90 
 
 90 
 
 90 
 
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 509 
 
 
 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENSIONS. North Latitude. 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 6 
 
 
 23 
 
 o 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d . ni . 
 
 90 
 
 d, ni. 
 
 d. m. d. m. 
 
 
 90 
 
 90 
 
 90 
 
 90 
 
 90 
 
 90 
 
 
 I 
 
 91 5 
 
 91 6 
 
 91 7 
 
 91 7 
 
 91 7 
 
 91 8 
 
 91 8 
 
 
 2 
 
 92 9 
 
 92 12 
 
 92 14 
 
 92 14 
 
 92 15 
 
 92 16 
 
 92 18 
 
 
 3 
 
 93 16 
 
 93 18 
 
 23 20 
 
 93 20 
 
 94 28 
 
 93 23 
 
 93 24 
 
 93 26 
 
 
 4 
 
 94 22 
 
 94 24 
 
 94 27 
 
 94 30 
 
 94 32 
 
 94 35 
 
 
 5 
 
 95 27 
 
 95 30 
 
 95 33 
 
 95 3S 
 
 95 38 
 
 95 40 
 
 95 43 
 
 
 6 
 
 96 33 
 
 96 26 
 
 96 39 
 
 96 42 
 
 96 45 
 
 96 48 
 
 96 50 
 
 
 7 
 
 97 38 
 
 97 42 
 
 97 45 
 
 97 49 
 
 97 52 
 99 
 
 97 56 
 
 98 
 
 
 8 
 
 98 43 
 
 98 47 
 
 98 50 
 
 98 55 
 
 99 4 
 
 99 8 
 
 
 9 
 
 99 48 
 
 99 52 
 
 99 57 
 
 100 
 
 100 7 
 
 100 12 
 
 100 16 
 
 
 lO 
 
 100 53 
 
 lOO 58 
 
 roi 3 
 
 lor 8 
 
 lOI 14 
 
 lOI 19 
 
 loi 24 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 lOI 58 
 
 102 4 
 
 102 9 
 
 102 15 
 
 102 20 
 
 102 26 
 
 102 52 
 
 
 12 
 
 103 3 
 
 103 9 
 
 103 ^5 
 
 103 20 
 
 '°3 37 
 
 ^03 33 
 
 103 40 
 
 
 13 
 
 104 8 
 
 104 14 
 
 104 20 
 
 104 27 
 
 104 34 
 
 104 40 
 
 104 48 
 
 
 14 
 
 ^05 13 
 
 105 19 
 
 105 27 
 
 105 33 
 
 105 40 
 
 105 48 
 
 105 56 
 
 
 15 
 
 ro6 17 
 
 106 24 
 
 ro6 33 
 
 106 39 
 
 106 47 
 
 106 55 
 
 107 3 
 
 108 9 
 
 
 16 
 
 107 22 
 
 107 29 
 
 107 38 
 
 107 43 
 
 107 S3 
 
 108 2 
 
 
 17 
 
 108 26 
 
 108 34 
 
 108 43 
 
 ^08 53 
 
 108 59 
 
 109 9 
 
 109 18 
 
 
 18 
 
 109 30, 
 
 109 39 
 
 109 48 
 
 109 57 
 
 no 5 
 
 no 15 
 
 no 25 
 
 
 19 
 
 1 10 35" 
 
 no 44 
 
 I'o 53 
 
 III 3 
 
 III 13 
 
 n I 22 
 
 in 32 
 
 
 20 
 
 rii 39 
 
 III 49 
 
 III 58 
 
 112 8 
 
 112 18 
 
 112 29 
 
 112 35 
 
 
 21 
 
 112 43 
 
 112 S3 
 
 113 3 
 
 "3 13 
 
 113 24 
 
 "3 35 
 
 113 46 
 
 
 22 
 
 1^3 47 
 
 1^3 57 
 
 114 8 
 
 114 18 
 
 114 30 
 
 1 14 40 
 
 114 52 
 
 
 23 
 
 1^4 51 
 
 1 15 
 
 '15 13 
 
 fi5 23 
 
 115 35 
 
 115 47 
 
 115 58 
 
 
 24 
 
 I '5 54 
 
 116 5 
 
 1 16 17 
 
 [16 28 
 
 1 16 40 
 
 1 16 52 
 
 117 4 
 
 
 25 
 
 116 57 
 
 117 9 
 
 117 21 
 
 ^17 33 
 
 117 46 
 
 117 58 
 
 118 10 
 
 
 26 
 
 118 
 
 n8 13 
 
 118 25 
 
 [18 38 
 
 118 55 
 
 '19 3 
 
 1 19 16 
 
 
 27 
 
 119 4 
 
 [ 19 16 
 
 1 19 29 
 
 [ 19 42 
 
 fi9 55 
 
 [20 8 
 
 [20 23 
 121 27 
 
 
 28 
 
 120 7 
 
 [20 19 
 
 120 33 1 
 
 [20 46 
 
 [20 59 
 
 [21 13 
 
 
 29 
 
 121 9 
 
 [21 22 
 
 [21 36 
 
 [21 50 
 
 [22 3 
 
 [22 18 
 
 122 32 
 
 
 30 
 
 122 12 
 
 122 25 
 
 t22 39 
 
 122 53 
 
 ^23 7 
 
 123 22 123 37 1 
 
 
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 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 
 TABLE of 
 
 RIGHT ASCENSIONS.- 
 
 —South Latitude. 
 
 s* 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 /I 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 S5 
 
 o 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 90 
 
 90 
 
 
 
 90 
 
 
 
 90 
 
 90 
 
 
 
 90 
 
 90 
 
 
 I 
 
 91 5 
 
 91 
 
 5 
 
 91 
 
 5 
 
 91 4 
 
 91 
 
 4 
 
 91 3 
 
 91 3 
 
 
 2 
 
 92 9 
 
 92 
 
 10 
 
 92 
 
 9 
 
 92 8 
 
 92 
 
 b 
 
 92 6 
 
 92 6 
 
 
 7 
 
 93 16 
 
 93 
 
 15 
 
 93 
 
 H 
 
 93 12 
 
 93 
 
 9 
 
 93 9 
 
 93 8 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 94 22 
 
 94 
 
 20 
 
 94 
 
 ^9 
 
 94 16 
 
 94 
 
 iJ 
 
 94 12 
 
 94 9 
 
 
 5 
 
 95 27 
 
 95 
 
 25 
 
 95 
 
 23 
 
 95 20 
 
 95 
 
 18 
 
 95 15 
 
 95 13 
 
 
 6 
 
 96 32 
 
 96 
 
 30 
 
 96 
 
 27 
 
 96 24 
 
 96 
 
 20 
 
 96 18 
 
 96 15 
 
 
 7 
 
 97 38 
 
 97 
 
 3S 
 
 97 
 
 30 
 
 97 28 
 
 97 
 
 25 
 
 97 20 
 
 97 18 
 
 
 8 
 
 98 43 
 
 98 
 
 39 
 
 98 
 
 3S 
 
 98 32 
 
 98 
 
 28 
 
 98 24 
 
 98 20 
 
 
 9 
 
 99 48 
 
 99 
 
 43 
 
 99 
 
 39 
 
 99 3S 
 
 99 
 
 30 
 
 99 26 
 
 99 22 
 
 
 lO 
 
 100 53 
 
 100 
 
 3« 
 
 100 
 
 43 
 
 100 89 
 
 100 
 
 34 
 
 100 29 
 
 100 25 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 lOI 58 
 
 lOI 
 
 53 
 
 lOI 
 
 47 
 
 loi 42 
 
 lOI 
 
 37 
 
 loi 32 
 
 1 01 27 
 
 
 12 
 
 103 3 
 
 102 
 
 57 
 
 102 
 
 50 
 
 102 45 
 
 102 
 
 40 
 
 102 34 
 
 102 29 
 
 
 13 
 
 104 8 
 
 104 
 
 2 
 
 103 
 
 55 
 
 103 49 
 
 103 
 
 43 
 
 ^03 37 
 
 103 30 
 
 
 H 
 
 105 13 
 
 105 
 
 6 
 
 104 
 
 59 
 
 104 52 
 
 104 
 
 46 
 
 104 40 
 
 104 33 
 
 
 1 r 
 
 106 17 
 
 106 
 
 10 
 
 106 
 
 3 
 
 105 56 
 
 105 
 
 49 
 
 105 42 
 
 105 3S 
 
 
 J 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 107 22 
 
 107 
 
 14 
 
 107 
 
 7 
 
 106 59 
 
 106 
 
 52 
 
 106 45 
 
 106 37 
 
 
 17 
 
 108 26 
 
 108 
 
 18 
 
 108 
 
 9 
 
 108 2 
 
 107 
 
 SS 
 
 107 47 
 
 107 39 
 
 
 18 
 
 109 31 
 
 109 
 
 22 
 
 109 
 
 14 
 
 109 5 
 
 108 
 
 SI 
 
 108 49 
 
 108 40 
 
 
 19 
 
 "o 35 
 
 1 10 
 
 26 
 
 no 
 
 17 
 
 no 8 
 
 1 10 
 
 
 
 109 51 
 
 109 43 
 
 
 20 
 
 III 39 
 
 1 1 1 
 
 30 
 
 1 11 
 
 20 
 
 III 9 
 
 1 11 
 
 a 
 
 "o S3 
 
 110 44 
 
 
 21 
 
 112 43 
 
 112 
 
 33 
 
 112 
 
 23 
 
 112 13 
 
 1 12 
 
 4 
 
 III 54 
 
 III 45 
 
 
 22 
 
 "3 47 
 
 1^3 
 
 31 
 
 113 
 
 26 
 
 113 16 
 
 ii3 
 
 6 
 
 112 56 
 
 112 47 
 
 
 23 
 
 114 51 
 
 1 14 40 
 
 114 
 
 29 
 
 114 19 
 
 114 
 
 « 
 
 113 58 
 
 113 48 
 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 115 54 
 
 115 
 
 43 
 
 115 
 
 32 
 
 115 20 
 
 115 
 
 10 
 
 "4 59 
 
 114 49 
 
 
 25 
 
 116 57 
 
 116 
 
 46 
 
 116 
 
 35 
 
 116 23 
 
 116 
 
 12 
 
 116 
 
 115 50 
 
 
 26 
 
 118 
 
 117 
 
 49 
 
 1 17 
 
 31 
 
 117 25 
 
 117 
 
 14 
 
 IJ7 2 
 
 116 50 
 
 
 27 
 
 119 4 
 
 118 
 
 50 
 
 1 18 
 
 39 
 
 118 27 
 
 118 
 
 15 
 
 118 3 
 
 117 52 
 
 
 28 
 
 120 7 
 
 119 
 
 54 
 
 119 
 
 40 
 
 119 29 
 
 119 
 
 16 
 
 119 4 
 
 118 52 
 
 
 29 
 
 121 9 
 
 120 
 
 56 
 
 120 
 
 43 
 
 120 30 
 
 120 
 
 '7 
 
 120 5 
 
 119 'S3 
 
 
 30 
 
 122 12 
 
 121 
 
 5B 
 
 121 
 
 45 
 
 121 30 
 
 121 
 
 18 
 
 121 5 
 
 120 53 

 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 511 
 
 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENSIONS.— bouth Latitude. 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
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 124 16 
 
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 125 20 
 
 126 5 
 
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 126 22 
 
 127 7 
 
 126 52 
 
 126 36 
 
 126 22 
 
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 128 24 
 
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 127 37- 
 
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 129 25 
 
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 128 54 
 
 128 37- 
 
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 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENS IONS.— North Larif^iH;^ 
 
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 177 48 
 
 n^ 43 
 
 180 33 
 
 181 28 
 
 182 23 
 
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 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
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 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENSIONS.— South Latitude. 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 d. in. 
 
 
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 d. ni. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
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 151 2 
 
 150 40 
 
 150 20 
 
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 153 4 
 
 152 40 
 
 152 20 
 
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 '5' 38 
 
 151 16 
 
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 154 
 
 '53 38 
 
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 152 55 
 
 '52 34 
 
 152 12 
 
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 154 58 
 
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 '54 13 
 
 '53 50 
 
 '53 30 
 
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 155 54 
 
 '55 32 
 
 '55 10 
 
 154 48 
 
 '54 26 
 
 154 4 
 
 153 43 
 
 
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 156 60 
 
 156 29 
 
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 '54 39 
 
 
 6 
 
 157 48 
 
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 157 3 
 
 156 40 
 
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 '55 56 
 
 '55 34 
 
 
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 158 44 
 
 158 22 
 
 '57 59 
 
 '57 36 
 
 '57 14 
 
 '56 52 
 
 150 30 
 
 
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 159 40 
 
 158 18 
 
 '58 55 
 
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 158 10 
 
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 159 39 
 
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 163 25 
 
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 167 7 
 
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 165 10 
 
 164 47 
 
 
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 168 3 
 
 167 40 
 
 167 17 
 
 166 52 
 
 166 29 
 
 166 5 
 
 165 42 
 
 
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 168 58 
 
 168 35 
 
 168 12 
 
 167 47 
 
 167 24 
 
 167 
 
 166 37 
 
 
 19 
 
 169 54 
 
 169 30 
 
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 168 19 
 
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 167 32 
 
 
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 21 
 
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 170 26 
 
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 177 6 
 
 176 42 
 
 
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 515 
 
 
 TABLE 
 
 of RIGHT ASCENSIONS. North Latitude. 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 d. m. 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 r£i 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 o 
 
 180 
 
 180 23 
 
 180 47 
 
 181 10 
 
 181 35 
 
 181 59 
 
 182 23 
 
 I 
 
 180 55 
 
 181 18 
 
 181 42 
 
 182 6 
 
 182 30 
 
 182 54 
 
 183 18 
 
 2 
 
 181 50 
 
 182 13 
 
 182 37 
 
 183 
 
 183 25 
 
 183 49 
 
 184 13 
 
 3 
 
 182 45 
 
 183 8 
 
 ^83 32 
 
 183 56 
 
 184 20 
 
 184 44 
 
 185 8 
 
 4 
 
 183 40 
 
 184 3 
 
 184 27 
 
 184 <J0 
 
 185 15 
 
 ^85 39 
 
 186 3 
 
 5 
 
 184 35 
 
 184 58 
 
 185 22 
 
 185 46 
 
 186 lO 
 
 r86 34 
 
 186 58 
 
 6 
 
 185 30 
 
 185 54 
 
 186 18 
 
 186 42 
 
 187 6 
 
 187 30 
 
 187 53 
 
 7 
 
 186 25 
 
 186 49 
 
 187 13 
 
 '87 37 
 
 188 
 
 188 25 
 
 i8« 48 
 
 8 
 
 187 20 
 
 187 44 
 
 188 8 
 
 188 32 
 
 188 56 
 
 189 20 
 
 189 43 
 
 9 
 
 188 16 
 
 188 39- 
 
 ^89 3 
 
 189 27 
 
 189 50 
 
 190 15 
 
 190 38 
 
 lO 
 
 189 10 
 
 189 34 
 
 189 58 
 
 190 22 
 
 190 46 
 
 191 10 
 
 ^91 33 
 
 II 
 
 190 6 
 
 190 29 
 
 190 53 
 
 191 17 
 
 191 40 
 
 192 5 
 
 192 28 
 
 12 
 
 191 2 
 
 191 25 
 
 191 48 
 
 192 13 
 
 192 36 
 
 193 
 
 193 23 
 
 13 
 
 191 57 
 
 192 20 
 
 192 43 
 
 193 8 
 
 193 30 
 
 193 55 
 
 194 iB 
 
 H 
 
 192 53 
 
 193 16 
 
 193 39 
 
 194 3 
 
 194 26 
 
 194 50 
 
 '95 13 
 
 15 
 
 193 48 
 
 194 12 
 
 194 35 
 
 194 58 
 
 195 20 
 
 195 45 
 
 196 8 
 
 16 
 
 194 44 
 
 195 7 
 
 195 30 
 
 '95 53 
 
 196 16 
 
 196 40 
 
 197 3 
 
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 195 40 
 
 196 2 
 
 196 25 
 
 196 48 
 
 197 10 
 
 197 35 
 
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 18 
 
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 196 58 
 
 197 20 
 
 197 44 
 
 198 7 
 
 198 30 
 
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 19 
 
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 199 48 
 
 20 
 
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 199 58 
 
 200 20 
 
 200 43, 
 
 21 
 
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 200 9 
 
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 22 
 
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 23 
 
 24 
 
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 203 20 : 
 
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 25 
 
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 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENSIONS.— South Latitude. i| 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 , 6 
 
 .== 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 o 
 
 180 
 
 179 
 
 37 
 
 179 U 
 
 178 49 
 
 178 25 
 
 178 
 
 177 37 
 
 I 
 
 180 55 
 
 180 
 
 32 
 
 180 8 
 
 179 44 
 
 179 20 
 
 178 59 
 
 178 32 
 
 2 
 
 181 50 
 
 i8r 
 
 27 
 
 [8r 3 
 
 180 39 
 
 180 15 
 
 179 50 
 
 179 27 
 
 3 
 
 182 45 
 
 182 
 
 22 
 
 181 58 
 
 181 34 
 
 181 10 
 
 180 46 
 
 180 22 
 
 4 
 
 183 40 
 
 r83 
 
 17 
 
 182 S3 
 
 182 29 
 
 182 5 
 
 181 40 
 
 181 17 
 
 5 
 
 1S4 35 
 
 184 
 
 12 
 
 183 48 
 
 183 24 
 
 183 
 
 182 36 
 
 182 12 
 
 6 
 
 185 30 
 
 185 
 
 7 
 
 184 43 
 
 184 19 
 
 183 55 
 
 183 30 
 
 183 7 
 
 7 
 
 186 25 
 
 186 
 
 2 
 
 185 38 
 
 185 14 
 
 184 50 
 
 184 26 
 
 184 a 
 
 8 
 
 187 20 
 
 186 
 
 2 
 
 186 33 
 
 186 9 
 
 185 45 
 
 185 20 
 
 184 57 
 
 9 
 
 188 16 
 
 187 
 
 52 
 
 187 28 
 
 187 4 
 
 186 40 
 
 186 16 
 
 185 52 
 
 10 
 
 189 10 
 
 188 
 
 47 
 
 188 23 
 
 '87 59 
 
 187 36 
 
 187 10 
 
 186 47 
 
 1 1 
 
 190 6 
 
 189 
 
 42 
 
 189 19 
 
 188 ss 
 
 i88 30 
 
 188 7 
 
 187 43 
 
 12 
 
 191 2 
 
 190 
 
 38 
 
 190 14 
 
 189 50 
 
 189 27 
 
 ^89 3 
 
 188 39 
 
 13 
 
 191 57 
 
 191 
 
 33 
 
 191 9 
 
 190 46 
 
 190 22 
 
 189 58 
 
 189 34 
 
 14 
 
 192 53 
 
 192 
 
 29 
 
 192 5 
 
 191 42 
 
 191 18 
 
 190 54 
 
 190 30 
 
 '5 
 
 193 48 
 
 193 
 
 25 
 
 193 
 
 192 38 
 
 192 14 
 
 191 50 
 
 191 26 
 
 i6 
 
 194 44 
 
 194 
 
 20 
 
 193 57 
 
 193 34 
 
 193 10 
 
 192 46 
 
 192 22 
 
 '7 
 
 195 40 
 
 195 
 
 16 
 
 194 53 
 
 194 30 
 
 194 6 
 
 193 42 
 
 193 18 
 
 i8 
 
 196 35 
 
 196 
 
 12 
 
 195 49 
 
 195 26 
 
 195 2 
 
 194 39 
 
 194 15 
 
 19 
 
 197 30 
 
 197 
 
 8 
 
 196 45 
 
 196 22 
 
 195 58 
 
 ^95 35 
 
 195 ID 
 
 20 
 
 198 27 
 
 198 
 
 4 
 
 197 40 
 
 197 18 
 
 196 54 
 
 196 30 
 
 196 7 
 
 21 
 
 199 23 
 
 (99 
 
 
 
 198 37 
 
 198 14 
 
 197 50 
 
 197 28 
 
 197 4 
 
 22 
 
 200 20 
 
 199 
 
 56 
 
 199 33 
 
 199 10 
 
 198 48 
 
 198 25 
 
 198 
 
 23 
 
 201 16 
 
 202 12 
 
 200 
 
 53 
 
 200 30 
 
 200 8 
 
 199 45 
 
 199 22 
 
 198 58 
 
 24 
 
 201 
 
 50 
 
 201 27 
 
 201 5 
 
 200 42 
 
 200 19 
 
 199 55 
 
 25 
 
 203 9 
 
 202 
 
 47 
 
 202 24 
 
 202 2 
 
 201 39 
 
 201 16 
 
 200 52 
 
 26 
 
 204 6 
 
 203 
 
 44 
 
 203 20 
 
 202 59 
 
 202 36 
 
 202 13 
 
 201 50 
 
 27 
 
 205 2 
 
 204 
 
 40 
 
 204 19 
 
 203 57 
 
 203 34 
 
 203 10 
 
 202 48 
 
 28 
 
 205 59 
 
 205 
 
 38 
 
 205 16 
 
 204 54 
 
 204 30 ' 
 
 204 9 
 
 203 46 1 
 
 29 
 
 206 57 
 
 206 
 
 35 
 
 206 13 
 
 205 50 
 
 205 29 ' 
 
 205 7 
 
 204 44 1 
 
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 207 57 
 
 207 
 
 33 
 
 207 10 
 
 206 49 
 
 206 27 : 
 
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 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
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 d. 
 
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 207 32 
 
 207 
 
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 206 
 
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 206 
 
 27 
 
 206 
 
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 205 41 
 
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 208 
 
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 208 30 
 
 208 
 
 8 
 
 207 
 
 47 
 
 207 
 
 25 
 
 207 
 
 3 
 
 206 40 
 
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 209 
 
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 209 27 
 
 209 
 
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 208 
 
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 208 
 
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 208 
 
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 207 38 
 
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 210 
 
 46 
 
 210 25 
 
 210 
 
 4 
 
 209 
 
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 209 
 
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 208 
 
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 208 37 
 
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 211 25 
 
 211 
 
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 210 
 
 41 
 
 210 
 
 19 
 
 209 58 
 
 209 36 
 
 5 
 
 212 
 
 41 
 
 212 21 
 
 212 
 
 
 
 211 
 
 39 
 
 211 
 
 18 
 
 210 
 
 57 
 
 210 35 
 
 6 
 
 213 
 
 40 
 
 213 20 
 
 212 
 
 59 
 
 212 
 
 38 
 
 212 
 
 17 
 
 211 
 
 56 
 
 211 34 
 
 7 
 
 214 
 
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 214 18 
 
 213 
 
 58 
 
 213 
 
 37 
 
 213 
 
 16 
 
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 212 23 
 
 8 
 
 215 
 
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 215 17 
 
 214 
 
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 214 
 
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 214 
 
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 213 
 
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 216 16 
 
 215 
 
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 215 
 
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 214 
 
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 214 33 
 
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 217 
 
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 217 15 
 
 216 
 
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 216 
 
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 216 
 
 15 
 
 215 
 
 54 
 
 215 33 
 
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 218 
 
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 218 14 
 
 217 
 
 54 
 
 217 
 
 3S 
 
 217 
 
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 216 
 
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 216 32 
 
 12 
 
 219 
 
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 219 14 
 
 218 
 
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 218 
 
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 218 
 
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 217 
 
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 220 
 
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 220 13 
 
 219 
 
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 219 
 
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 219 
 
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 218 
 
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 218 35 
 
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 221 
 
 31 
 
 221 13 
 
 220 
 
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 220 
 
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 220 
 
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 219 
 
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 219 36 
 
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 222 
 
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 221 
 
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 221 
 
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 220 
 
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 223 
 
 31 
 
 223 13 
 
 222 
 
 54 
 
 222 
 
 36 
 
 222 
 
 18 
 
 22l 
 
 59 
 
 221 39 
 
 J? 
 
 224 
 
 31 
 
 224 13 
 
 223 
 
 55 
 
 223 
 
 37 
 
 223 
 
 19 
 
 223 
 
 
 
 222 40 
 
 18 
 
 225 
 
 31 
 
 225 14 
 
 224 
 
 56 
 
 224 
 
 38 
 
 224 
 
 20 
 
 224 
 
 I 
 
 223 41 
 
 ^9 
 
 226 
 
 31 
 
 226 14 
 
 225 
 
 57 
 
 225 
 
 39 
 
 225 
 
 21 
 
 225 
 
 3 
 
 224 44 
 
 20 
 
 227 
 
 31 
 
 227 15 
 
 226 
 
 58 
 
 226 
 
 40 
 
 226 
 
 23 
 
 226 
 
 5 
 
 225 46 
 
 21 
 
 22S 
 
 33 
 
 228 16 
 
 227 
 
 59 
 
 227 
 
 41 
 
 227 
 
 25 
 
 227 
 
 7 
 
 226 49 
 
 22 
 
 229 
 
 34 
 
 229 17 
 
 229 
 
 
 
 228 
 
 44 
 
 228 
 
 27 
 
 228 
 
 9 
 
 227 51 
 
 23 
 
 230 
 
 35 
 
 230 18 
 
 230 
 231 
 
 I 
 4 
 
 229 
 
 46 
 
 229 
 
 29 
 
 229 
 
 1 1 
 
 228 55 
 
 24 
 
 231 
 
 36 
 
 231 20 
 
 230 
 
 48 
 
 230 
 
 31 
 
 230 
 
 15 
 
 229 58 
 
 25 
 
 232 
 
 3« 
 
 232 21 
 
 232 
 
 6 
 
 231 
 
 51 
 
 231 
 
 35 
 
 231 
 
 18 
 
 231 I 
 
 26 
 
 233 
 
 40 
 
 233 24 
 
 233 
 
 9 
 
 232 
 
 54 
 
 232 
 
 38 
 
 232 
 
 21 
 
 232 6 
 
 27 
 
 234 
 
 41 
 
 234 27 
 
 234 
 
 II 
 
 233 
 
 57 
 
 233 
 
 41 
 
 233 
 
 26 
 
 233 10 
 
 28 
 
 235 
 
 43 
 
 235 29 
 
 235 
 
 15 
 
 235 
 
 
 
 234 
 
 45 
 
 234 
 
 30 
 
 234 14 
 
 29 
 
 236 46 
 
 236 31 
 
 236 
 
 18 
 
 236 
 
 3 
 
 235 
 
 49 
 
 235 
 
 34 
 
 235 '8 
 
 30 
 
 237 
 
 48 '237 35 
 
 237 
 
 21 
 
 237 
 
 7 
 
 236 
 
 53 
 
 236 38 
 
 236 23 ..
 
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 519 
 
 
 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENSIONS. North Latitude. | 
 
 - \ 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 t 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 o 
 
 237 48 
 
 238 I 
 
 238 15 
 
 238 29 
 
 238 41 
 
 238 55 
 
 239 7 
 
 I 
 
 238 51 
 
 239 4 
 
 239 17 
 
 239 30 
 
 239 43 
 
 239 55 
 
 240 4 
 
 a 
 
 239 S3 
 
 240 6 
 
 240 19 
 
 240 31 
 
 240 44 
 
 240 56 
 
 241 8 
 
 3 
 
 240 56 
 
 241 9 
 
 241 21 
 
 241 33 
 
 241 45 
 
 241 47 
 
 242 9 
 
 4 
 
 241 59 
 
 242 II 
 
 242 23 
 
 242 3S 
 
 242 46 
 
 242 58 
 
 243 9 
 
 5 
 
 243 3 
 
 243 14 
 
 243 25 
 
 243 37 
 
 243 48 
 
 243 59 
 
 ,244 10 
 
 6 
 
 244 6 
 
 244 17 
 
 244 28 
 
 244 39 
 
 244 50 
 
 245 I 
 
 /245 II 
 
 7 
 
 245 9 
 
 245 19 
 
 245 31 
 
 245 41 
 
 245 51 
 
 246 I 
 
 246 11 
 
 8 
 
 246 1 3 
 
 246 23 
 
 246 34 
 
 246 44 
 
 246 54 
 
 247 4 
 
 247 13 
 
 9 
 
 247 17 
 
 247 27 
 
 247 37 
 
 247 47 
 
 247 56 
 
 248 6 
 
 248 15 
 
 lO 
 
 248 21 
 
 348 30 
 
 248 40 
 
 248 49 
 
 248 58 
 
 249 7 
 
 249 16 
 
 11 
 
 249 25 
 
 249 34 
 
 249 43 
 
 249 51 
 
 250 
 
 250 9 
 
 250 17 
 
 12 
 
 250 29 
 
 250 38 
 
 250 46 
 
 250 55 
 
 251 3 
 
 251 11 
 
 251 19 
 
 252 21 
 
 13 
 
 251 34 
 
 251 41 
 
 251 49 
 
 251 58 
 
 252 5 
 
 252 13 
 
 H 
 
 252 38 
 
 252 46 
 
 252 53 
 
 253 I 
 
 253 8 
 
 253 15 
 
 253 23 
 
 ^^ 
 
 253 43 
 
 253 50 
 
 253 57 
 
 254 4 
 
 254 II 
 
 254 18 
 
 254 25 
 
 16 
 
 254 47 
 
 254 54 
 
 255 I 
 
 255 7 
 
 255 14 
 
 255 20 
 
 255 23 
 
 17 
 
 255 51 
 
 255 58 
 
 25^ 5 
 
 256 1 1 
 
 256 17 
 
 256 21 
 
 256 29 
 
 18 
 
 256 57 
 
 257 3 
 
 257 9 
 
 257 15 
 
 257 19 
 
 257 25 
 
 257 31 
 
 19 
 
 258 I 
 
 258 7 
 
 258 13 
 
 258 18 258 23 
 
 258 28 
 
 258 33 
 
 1 20 
 
 259 7 
 
 259 II 
 
 259 17 
 
 259 21 
 
 259 26 
 
 259 31 
 
 259 3S 
 
 21 
 
 260 II 
 
 260 17 
 
 260 21 
 
 260 25 
 
 260 29 
 
 260 34 
 
 260 38 
 
 22 
 
 261 17 
 
 261 21 
 
 261 25 
 
 261 28 
 
 261 31 
 
 261 36 
 
 261 40 , 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 262 21 
 
 262 2^ 
 
 262 29 
 
 262 31 
 
 262 35 
 
 262 39 
 
 262 41 
 
 263 28 
 
 263 30 
 
 263 33 
 
 263 36 
 
 263 39 
 
 263 41 
 
 263 45 
 
 25 
 
 264 33. 
 
 264 35 
 
 264 37 
 
 264 40 
 
 264 41 
 
 264 45 
 
 264 47 
 
 26 
 
 265 38 
 
 265 40 
 
 265 41 
 
 265 44 
 
 265 45 
 
 265 48 
 
 265 49 j 
 
 27 
 28 
 
 266 44 
 
 266 45 
 
 266 46 
 
 266 48 
 
 266 49 
 
 266 51 
 
 266 21 : 
 
 267 49 
 
 267 i;o 
 
 267 50 
 
 267 51 
 
 267 51 
 
 267 54 
 
 .267 54 
 
 29 
 
 268 55 
 
 268 55 
 
 268 55 
 
 268 56 
 
 268 56 
 
 268 SI 
 
 268 57 
 
 30 
 
 270 270 1 
 
 270 
 
 270 270 I270 1 
 
 270 1
 
 53d 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENSIONS.- 
 
 -South Latitude. 
 
 ==-= 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 o 
 
 d. ni. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 rn. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 ni. 
 
 237 48 
 
 237 55 
 
 237 21 
 
 237 
 
 7 
 
 236 
 
 53 
 
 ^36 38 
 
 236 
 
 23 
 
 I 
 
 23« 51 
 
 238 38 
 
 238 24 
 
 238 
 
 10 
 
 237 
 
 57 
 
 237 41 
 
 237 
 
 28 
 
 2 
 
 239 53 
 
 239 41 
 
 239 28 
 
 239 
 
 H 
 
 239 
 
 I 
 
 238 47 
 
 22H 
 
 33 
 
 3 
 
 240 56 
 
 240 44 
 
 240 31 
 
 240 
 
 18 
 
 240 
 
 5 
 
 239 51 
 
 240 57 
 
 239 
 
 38 
 
 4 
 
 241 59 
 
 241 47 
 
 241 35 
 
 241 
 
 21 
 
 241 
 
 ID 
 
 240 
 
 44 
 
 5 
 
 243 3 
 
 242 51 
 
 242 39 
 
 242 
 
 27 
 
 242 
 
 15 
 
 242 I 
 
 241 
 
 SO 
 
 6 
 
 244 6 
 
 243 55 
 
 243 A3 
 
 243 
 
 31 
 
 243 
 
 20 
 
 243 8 
 
 242 
 
 56 
 
 7 
 
 245 9 
 
 244 59 
 
 244 47 
 
 244 
 
 37 
 
 244 
 
 25 
 
 244 13 
 
 244 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 246 13 
 
 246 3 
 
 245 51 
 
 245 
 
 41 
 
 245 
 
 30 
 
 245 '9 
 
 245 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 247 17 
 
 247 7 
 
 246 57 
 
 246 
 
 47 
 
 246 
 
 36 
 
 246 25 
 
 246 
 
 14 
 
 lO 
 
 248 21 
 
 248 II 
 
 248 I 
 
 247 
 
 51 
 
 247 
 
 41 
 
 247 31 
 
 247 
 
 21 
 
 1 1 
 
 249 24 
 
 249 16 
 
 249 '7 
 
 248 
 
 57 
 
 248 48 
 
 248 38 
 
 248 
 
 28 
 
 12 
 
 250 29 
 
 250 21 
 
 250 II 
 
 250 
 
 3 
 
 249 
 
 54 
 
 249 45 
 
 249 
 
 35 
 
 13 
 
 251 34 
 
 251 26 
 
 251 17 
 
 251 
 
 9 
 
 251 
 
 
 
 250 51 
 
 250 
 
 41 
 
 14 
 
 252 3« 
 
 252 31 
 
 252 21 
 
 252 
 
 15 
 
 252 
 
 6 
 
 251 58 
 
 251 
 
 49 
 
 M 
 
 253 43 
 
 253 36 
 
 253 28 
 
 253 
 
 21 
 
 253 
 
 13 
 
 253 5 
 
 252 
 
 57 
 
 16 
 
 254 47 
 
 254 41 
 
 254 33 
 
 254 
 
 27 
 
 254 
 
 19 
 
 254 II 
 
 254 
 
 4 
 
 17 
 
 ^55 51 
 
 255 46 
 
 ^55 39 
 
 255 
 
 33 
 
 255 
 
 26 
 
 255 19 
 
 ^SS 
 
 1 1 
 
 18 
 
 256 57 
 
 256 51 
 
 256 45 
 
 256 
 
 39 
 
 256 
 
 33 
 
 256 27 
 
 256 
 
 19 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 258 I 
 
 257 56 
 
 257 51 
 
 257 
 
 45 
 
 257 
 
 40 
 
 ^57 34 
 
 257 
 
 28 
 
 259 7 
 
 2<9 I 
 
 258 57 
 
 258 
 
 51 
 
 258 
 
 47 
 
 258 41 
 
 258 
 
 36 
 
 21 
 
 260 1 1 
 
 260 8 
 
 260 3 
 
 259 
 
 59 
 
 259 
 
 54 
 
 259 49 
 
 259 
 
 44 
 
 22 
 
 261 17 
 
 261 13 
 
 261 9 
 
 261 
 
 <; 
 
 261 
 
 I 
 
 260 56 
 
 260 
 
 52 
 
 23 
 
 262 21 
 
 262 18 
 
 262 15 
 
 262 
 
 1 1 
 
 262 
 
 8 
 
 262 4 
 
 262 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 263 28 
 
 263 24 
 
 263 21 
 
 263 
 
 18 
 
 63 
 
 15 
 
 263 II 
 
 263 
 
 9 
 
 25 
 
 264 33 
 
 264 30 
 
 264 27 
 
 264 
 
 25 
 
 264 
 
 21 
 
 264 19 
 
 264 
 
 17 
 
 26 
 
 265 38 
 
 265 36 
 
 2^J5 33 
 
 265 
 
 31 
 
 265 
 
 29 
 
 265 28 
 
 265 
 
 26 
 
 27 
 
 266 44 
 
 266 41 
 
 260 40 
 
 266 
 
 39 
 
 266 
 
 37 
 
 266 36 
 
 266 
 
 34 
 
 28 
 
 267 49 
 
 267 49 
 
 267 46 
 
 267 46 
 
 2^7 
 
 44 
 
 267 44 
 
 267 
 
 43 
 
 29 
 
 268 55 
 
 268 54 268 S3 
 
 368 
 
 S3 
 
 268 
 
 51 
 
 268 51 
 
 268 
 
 51 
 
 30 
 
 270 '270 I270 1270 
 
 9 
 
 270 
 
 
 
 270 
 
 270 
 
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 521 
 
 1 
 
 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENSION 
 
 S. — "North Latitude. | 
 
 
 
 
 i I 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 kf 
 
 d. m. 
 
 c! . m . 
 
 d. in. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d, ni. 
 
 o 
 
 I 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 270 
 
 271 5 
 
 272 1 1 
 
 273 16 
 
 274 21 
 
 375 27 
 
 276 31 
 
 277 3^ 
 
 1270 
 
 271 5 
 
 272 10 
 
 273 '5 
 
 270 
 
 27' 5 
 
 272 10 
 
 273 14 
 
 270 
 
 271 4 
 
 272 8 
 
 273 II 
 
 -70 
 
 271 4 
 
 272 8 
 '-73 II 
 
 270 
 
 271 3 
 
 272 6 
 
 273 9 
 
 274 11 
 
 275 15 
 
 276 18 
 
 277 21 
 
 270 
 
 271 3 
 
 272 6 
 
 273 8 
 
 274 19 
 
 275 25 
 
 276 30 
 
 277 35 
 
 274 19 
 
 275 23 
 
 276 27 
 
 277 31 
 
 274 16 
 
 275 20 
 
 276 24 
 
 277 28 
 
 274 15 
 
 275 iB 
 
 276 21 
 
 277 25 
 
 274 'I 
 
 275 13 
 
 276 15 
 
 277 18 
 
 J 
 
 1 1 
 
 278 43 
 
 279 48 
 
 280 S3 
 
 281 58 
 
 278 39 
 
 279 43 
 
 280 48 
 
 281 53 
 
 278 35 
 
 279 39 
 
 280 43 
 
 281 47 
 
 278 31 
 
 279 35 
 
 280 39 
 
 281 41 
 
 278 28 
 
 279 31 
 
 280 34 
 
 281 37 
 
 278 24 
 
 279 26 
 
 280 29 
 
 281 31 
 
 278 20 
 
 279 21 
 
 280 25 
 
 281 27 
 
 12 
 
 ^5 
 
 283 3 
 
 284 8 
 
 285 13 
 
 286 17 
 
 282 57 
 
 284 I 
 
 285 6 
 .■:86 10 
 
 282 51 
 
 283 55 
 
 284 59 
 286 3 
 
 282 45 
 
 283 49 
 
 284 53 
 
 285 56 
 
 282 40 
 
 283 43 
 
 284 46 
 
 285 49 
 
 282 34 
 
 283 37 
 
 284 40 
 
 285 41 
 
 282 29 
 
 283 31 
 
 284 33 
 
 285 35 
 
 16 
 
 17 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 287 21 
 
 288 29 
 
 289 3c 
 
 290 35 
 
 287 14 
 
 288 18 
 
 289 21 
 
 290 26 
 
 287 7 
 
 288 II 
 
 289 14 
 
 290 17 
 
 286 59 
 
 288 I 
 
 289 5 
 
 290 8 
 
 286 51 
 
 287 55 
 28857 
 290 
 
 286 45 
 
 287 47 
 
 288 49 
 
 289 51 
 
 286 37 
 
 287 39 
 
 288 41 
 
 289 43 
 
 20 
 21 
 
 22 
 23 
 
 291 39 
 
 292 43 
 
 293 47 
 
 294 51 
 
 295 54 
 
 296 57 
 
 298 I 
 
 299 4 
 
 291 30 
 
 292 33 
 
 293 37 
 
 294 40 
 
 291 20 
 
 292 23 
 
 293 26 
 
 294 29 ' 
 
 291 ir 
 
 292 13 
 
 293 16 
 
 294 16 
 
 291 I 
 
 292 4 ' 
 
 293 6 : 
 
 294 8 '. 
 
 290 53 
 
 291 55 
 
 292 56 
 
 ^93 58 
 
 290 44 
 
 291 45 
 
 292 47 
 
 293 48 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 27 
 
 295 43 ' 
 
 296 46 1' 
 
 297 49 : 
 
 298 51 : 
 
 295 31 ■ 
 
 296 35 ' 
 
 297 37 - 
 598 39 : 
 
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 296 23 ; 
 597 25 : 
 J98 27 ' 
 
 295 10 ; 
 
 296 II i 
 
 297 14 i 
 -98 15 2 
 
 594 59 
 596 X 
 
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 294 49 
 
 295 50 
 
 296 51 
 
 297 51 
 
 28 
 
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 2 
 
 3 1 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 yp 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. in. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. ni. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. in. 
 
 270 
 
 271 8 
 
 272 16 
 
 273 24 
 
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 3 
 
 270 
 271 
 272 
 273 
 
 
 
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 16 
 
 270 
 
 271 6 
 
 272 1 1 
 
 273 18 
 
 270 
 
 271 7 
 
 272 14 
 
 273 20 
 
 270 
 
 271 8 
 
 272 15 
 
 273 23 
 
 270 
 271 
 272 
 
 273 
 
 
 
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 16 
 
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 270 
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 272 18 
 
 273 26 
 
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 7 
 
 274 
 
 275 
 276 
 
 277 
 
 21 
 
 27 
 32 
 38 
 
 274 24 
 
 275 50 
 
 276 36 
 
 277 41 
 
 274 26 
 
 275 33 
 
 276 39 
 
 277 45 
 
 274 31 
 
 275 3^ 
 
 276 45 
 
 277 51 
 
 274 
 
 275 
 276 
 
 277 
 
 31 
 38 
 45 
 51 
 
 274 31 
 
 275 40 
 
 276 48 
 
 277 56 
 
 274 34 
 
 275 43 
 
 276 51 
 
 278 
 
 8 
 9 
 
 lO 
 
 1 1 
 
 278 
 279 
 280 
 
 281 
 
 43 
 48 
 S3 
 58 
 
 278 47 
 
 279 51 
 
 280 58 
 
 282 4 
 
 278 51 
 
 279 57 
 
 281 3 
 
 282 9 
 
 278 59 
 2S0 6 
 
 281 13 
 
 282 20 
 
 278 
 280 
 281 
 282 
 
 59 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 20 
 
 279 4 
 
 280 1 1 
 
 28 1 19 
 
 282 26 
 
 279 8 
 
 280 16 
 
 281 24 
 
 282 31 
 
 12 
 13 
 
 15 
 
 283 
 284 
 
 285 
 286 
 
 3 
 8 
 
 13 
 17 
 
 283 9 
 
 284 14 
 
 285 19 
 
 286 24 
 
 283 15 
 
 284 21 
 
 285 27 
 
 286 31 
 
 283 27 
 
 284 34 
 2S5 41 
 286 47 
 
 283 
 284 
 
 285 
 286 
 
 27 
 34 
 4^ 
 
 47 
 
 283 33 
 
 284 41 
 
 285 48 
 
 286 5s 
 
 283 40 
 
 284 48 
 
 285 so 
 287 3 
 
 16 
 
 J? 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 287 
 288 
 289 
 290 
 
 21 
 26 
 
 31 
 35 
 
 287 29 
 
 288 34 
 
 289 39 
 
 290 44 
 
 287 38 
 
 288 43 
 
 289 48 
 
 290 53 
 
 287 54 
 
 289 17 
 
 290 56 
 
 291 3 
 
 287 
 289 
 290 
 291 
 
 54 
 
 
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 1 1 
 
 288 I 
 
 289 9 
 
 290 15 
 
 291 21 
 
 292 29 
 
 293 3S 
 
 294 41 
 
 295 47 
 
 28S II 
 
 289 18 
 
 290 25 
 
 291 31 
 
 20 
 21 
 
 22 
 23 
 
 291 39 
 
 292 43 
 
 293 47 
 
 294 51 
 
 291 49 
 
 292 S3 
 
 293 57 
 295 I 
 
 291 58 
 
 293 3 
 
 294 8 
 
 295 13 
 
 292 8 
 
 293 13 
 
 294 18 
 
 295 23 
 
 292 
 
 293 
 294 
 295 
 
 18 
 
 24 
 30 
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 292 39 
 
 293 46 
 
 294 51 
 
 295 58 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 27 
 
 295 
 296 
 
 298 
 299 
 
 54 
 
 57 
 
 I 
 
 4 
 
 296 5 
 
 297 9 
 
 298 13 
 
 299 16 
 
 296 17 
 
 297 21 
 
 298 25 
 
 299 29 
 
 296 28 
 
 297 33 
 
 298 38 
 
 299 41 
 
 296 
 297 
 
 298 
 
 299 
 
 40 
 
 45 
 
 50 
 SS 
 
 296 S3 
 
 297 58 
 
 299 3 
 
 3C0 8 
 
 297 4 
 
 298 10 
 
 299 16 
 
 300 22 
 
 28 
 29 
 30 
 
 300 
 301 
 
 302 
 
 7 
 8 
 
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 300 19 
 
 301 21 
 
 302 25 
 
 300 33 
 
 301 36 
 
 302 39 
 
 300 46 
 
 301 50 
 
 302 53 
 
 300 
 302 
 303 
 
 59 
 3 
 
 7 
 
 301 M 
 
 302 18 
 
 303 21 
 
 301 27 
 
 302 31 
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 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENSIONS. North Latitude. 
 
 * 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 
 
 302 II 
 
 301 58 
 
 301 45 
 
 301 31 
 
 301 18 
 
 301 5 
 
 300 52 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 3'^3 H 
 
 303 
 
 302 47 
 
 302 33 
 
 302 19 
 
 302 6 
 
 301 52 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 304 16 
 
 304 I 
 
 3'^3 48 
 
 303 34 
 
 303 20 
 
 303 6 
 
 302 52 
 
 
 
 3 
 4 
 
 3<^S 18 
 
 30s 3 
 
 304 50 
 
 304 3S 
 
 304 21 
 
 304 7 
 
 303 52 
 
 
 
 3c6 20 
 
 306 5 
 
 305 51 
 
 305 3^ 
 
 305 21 
 
 305 7 
 
 304 52 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 307 31 
 
 307 7 
 
 306 51 
 
 306 36 
 
 306 31 
 
 306 7 
 
 3°S 5' 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 308 34 
 
 308 8 
 
 307 S3 
 
 307 37 
 
 307 32 
 
 3C7 7 
 
 306 51 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 309 25 
 
 309 9 
 
 308 54 
 
 308 37 
 
 308 33 
 
 308 7 
 
 307 51 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 310 26 
 
 310 10 
 
 309 54 
 
 309 37 
 
 309 21 
 
 309 6 
 
 308 50 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 311 27 
 
 311 10 
 
 310 54 
 
 310 37 
 
 310 31 
 
 310 5 
 
 309 49 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 313 38 
 
 313 II 
 
 311 54 
 
 311 37 
 
 311 31 
 
 311 4 
 
 310 48 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 3' 3 28 
 
 3^3 12 
 
 312 54 
 
 312 37 
 
 313 30 
 
 312 3 
 
 311 47 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 314 29 
 
 314 II 
 
 313' 54 
 
 313 37 
 
 313 19 
 
 313 2 
 
 312 46 
 
 
 
 ^3 
 
 3'S 29 
 
 3^5 II 
 
 3H 54 
 
 314 36 
 
 314 18 
 
 314 I 
 
 313 45 
 
 
 
 H 
 
 316 29 
 
 316 II 
 
 315 S3 
 
 315 3S 
 
 315 17 
 
 3^S 
 
 314 42 
 
 
 
 '5 
 
 3^7 29 
 318 29 
 
 317 10 
 
 316 51 
 
 316 34 
 
 316 16 
 
 315 58 
 
 315 41 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 318 10 
 
 317 51 
 
 317 33 
 
 3i'7 15 
 
 316 57 
 
 316 39 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 319 28 
 
 319 9 
 
 318 50 
 
 318 31 
 
 318 14 
 
 317 5S 
 
 317 37 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 320 27 
 
 320 8 
 
 319 49 
 
 319 30 
 
 319 II 
 
 318 S3 
 
 318 3S 
 
 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 321 27 
 
 321 7 
 
 330 48 
 
 320 29 
 
 320 10 
 
 319 51 
 
 319 32 
 
 
 
 323 36 
 
 323 6 
 
 331 47 
 
 321 27 
 
 331 8 
 
 320 49 
 
 320 31 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 323 25 
 
 323 4 
 
 322 45 
 
 322 25 
 
 322 6 
 
 321 47 
 
 321 38 
 
 
 
 33 
 
 324 23 
 
 324 3 
 
 323 43 
 
 323 23 
 
 323 4 
 
 322 45 
 
 322 25 
 
 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 325 22 
 
 325 I . 
 
 324 41 
 
 324 21 
 
 323 51 
 
 323 41 
 
 323 22 
 
 
 
 326 20 
 
 325 59 . 
 
 325 39 
 
 325 19 - 
 
 324 59 . 
 
 324 39 
 
 324 19 
 
 
 
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 327 18 
 
 326 57 , 
 
 326 37 
 
 326 17 ^ 
 
 325 S^ . 
 
 325 36 
 
 325 16 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 328 16 
 
 327 55 ; 
 
 527 33 
 
 327 14 . 
 
 526 S3 . 
 
 526 33 
 
 326 12 
 
 
 
 27 . 
 
 329 14 
 
 328 S3 : 
 
 528 31 . 
 
 328 II 
 
 527 50 . 
 
 527 30 
 
 327 '0 
 
 
 
 28 
 
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 529 29 . 
 
 329 8 : 
 
 528 47 : 
 
 538 37 
 
 328 6 
 
 
 
 29 . 
 
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 330 47 : 
 
 ?30 26 ^ 
 
 330 5 : 
 
 529 44 : 
 
 529 23 
 
 329 3 
 
 
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 332 6 
 
 331 44 . 
 
 331 23 . 
 
 331 I : 
 
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 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 
 
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 ASCENSIONS. South Latitude. ^ 
 
 
 
 
 d. in. 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 A- 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 d. m. 
 
 
 ^: 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. in. 
 
 d. 
 
 in. 
 
 
 o 
 
 302 12 
 
 302 25 
 
 302 
 
 39 
 
 302 53 
 
 303 7 
 
 303 
 
 21 
 
 303 37 
 
 
 I 
 
 303 14 
 
 303 2^ 
 
 303 
 
 42 
 
 303 57 
 
 304 I] 
 
 304 
 
 26 
 
 304 41 
 
 • 
 
 2 
 
 304 16 
 
 304 31 
 
 304 
 
 45 
 
 305 
 
 305 15 
 
 305 
 
 30 
 
 305 46 : 
 
 
 3 
 
 305 18 
 
 305 33 
 
 305 
 
 48 
 
 30^ 4 
 
 306 18 
 
 306 
 
 34 
 
 306 50 ; 
 
 i 
 
 4 
 
 306 20 
 
 306 36 
 
 306 
 
 51 
 
 307 6 
 
 307 21 
 
 307 
 
 38 
 
 307 54 : 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 307 22 
 
 307 38 
 
 307 
 
 54 
 
 308 9 
 
 308 25 
 
 308 
 
 41 
 
 308 58 
 
 h 
 
 6 
 
 308 24 
 
 308 40 308 56 
 
 309 II 
 
 309 29 
 
 309 
 
 45 
 
 310 I 
 
 7 
 
 309 25 
 
 309 41 309 
 
 58 
 
 310 14 
 
 3'o 31 
 
 310 
 
 48 
 
 311 5 
 
 1 • f 
 
 8 
 
 310 26 
 
 310 43 
 
 311 
 
 
 
 311 16 
 
 311 34 
 
 31' 
 
 5' 
 
 312 8 i 
 
 r 
 
 9 
 
 311 27 
 
 311 44 
 
 312 
 
 I 
 
 312 18 
 
 312 35 
 
 312 
 
 54 
 
 313 11 
 
 ; 
 
 lO 
 
 312 28 
 
 312 45 
 
 3^3 
 
 2 
 
 313 19 
 
 313 37 
 
 313 
 
 55 
 
 314 14 ^ 
 
 ' 
 
 1 1 
 
 3' 3 28 
 
 3n 4^ 
 
 314 
 
 4 
 
 314 21 
 
 314 39 
 
 314 
 
 57 
 
 315 16 
 
 
 12 
 
 3'4 29 
 
 314 46 
 
 315 
 
 4 
 
 315 2 
 
 315 40 
 
 315 
 
 59 
 
 316 18 : 
 
 
 13 
 
 315 29 
 
 315 47 
 
 3^6 
 
 5 
 
 316 23 
 
 316 41 
 
 317 
 
 
 
 317 19 
 
 
 14 
 
 316 29 
 
 3>6 47 
 
 317 
 
 6 
 
 317 24 
 
 317 41 
 
 3i« 
 
 I 
 
 318 21 
 
 
 15 
 
 317 29 
 
 317 47 
 
 318 
 
 6 
 
 318 24 
 
 318 44 
 
 319 
 
 I 
 
 319 21 
 
 
 16 
 
 318 29 
 
 318 47 
 
 319 
 
 6 
 
 319 25 
 
 319 44 
 
 320 
 
 4 
 
 320 24 
 
 t 
 
 J7 
 
 319 28 
 
 319 47 
 
 320 
 
 6 
 
 320 25 
 
 320 45 
 
 321 
 
 4 
 
 321 25 
 
 
 18 
 
 320 27 
 
 320 46 
 
 321 
 
 6 
 
 321 25 
 
 321 45 
 
 322 
 
 5 
 
 322 26 
 
 
 19 
 
 321 27 
 
 321 46 
 
 322 
 
 6 
 
 322 25 
 
 322 45 
 
 323 
 
 6 
 
 323 27 
 
 
 20 
 
 322 26 
 
 322 45 
 
 323 
 
 5 
 
 323 25 
 
 323 45 
 
 324 
 
 6 
 
 324 27 
 
 
 21 
 
 323 25 
 
 323 44 
 
 324 
 
 4 
 
 324 24 
 
 324 45 
 
 325 
 
 6 
 
 325 27 
 
 
 22 
 
 324 23 
 
 324 42 
 
 325 
 
 3 
 
 325 24 
 
 325 45 
 
 326 
 
 6 
 
 326 27 
 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 325-21 
 
 325 42 
 
 326 
 
 I 
 
 326 23 
 
 326 44 
 
 327 
 
 5 
 
 327 27 
 
 
 326 20 
 
 326 40 
 
 327 
 
 I 
 
 327 21 
 
 327 44 
 
 328 
 
 4 
 
 328 26 
 
 
 25 
 
 327 iS 
 
 327 39 
 
 328 
 
 
 
 328 21 
 
 328 41 
 
 329 
 
 4 
 
 329 25 
 
 
 26 
 
 328 16 
 
 328 37 
 
 328 58 
 
 329 19 
 
 329 41 
 
 330 
 
 I 
 
 33<^ 24 
 
 
 27 
 
 329 14 
 
 329 35 
 
 330 33 
 
 329 
 330 
 
 56 
 
 54 
 
 33"^ 17 
 
 330 39 
 
 331 
 
 I 
 
 331 24 
 
 
 28 
 
 330 11 
 
 33^ 15 
 
 331 37 
 
 331 
 
 59 
 
 332 21 
 
 
 29 
 
 331 9 
 
 33^ 30 
 
 331 
 
 51 
 
 332 14 
 
 332 3S 
 
 332 
 
 57 
 
 333 20 
 
 334 18 1 
 
 
 1 30 
 
 33-2 6 
 
 332 27 I332 
 
 4-9 I333 II 
 
 333 34 
 
 333 
 
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 525 
 
 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENSIONS.— North Latitude. | 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 K 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 O 
 
 332 6 
 
 33^ 44 
 
 33^ 23 
 
 331 
 
 2 
 
 330 4^ 
 
 330 20 
 
 329 59 
 
 I 
 
 333 4 
 
 532 41 
 
 332 20 
 
 331 
 
 59 
 
 331 38 
 
 331 16 
 
 330 55 
 
 2 
 
 334 I 
 
 333 38 
 
 333 17 
 
 332 
 
 •55 
 
 332 34 
 
 332 12 
 
 331 51 
 
 3 
 
 334 58 
 
 334 35 
 
 334 13 
 
 333 
 
 52 
 
 333 30 
 
 333 8 
 
 332 47 
 
 4 
 
 335 55 
 
 335 32 
 
 335 10 
 
 334 
 
 48 
 
 334 26 
 
 334 4 
 
 333 43 
 
 5 
 
 33^ 51 
 
 33^ 29 
 
 33^ 1 
 
 335 
 
 44 
 
 335 22 
 
 335 
 
 334 39 
 
 6 
 
 337 48 
 
 337 25 
 
 331 3 
 
 33(^ 
 
 40 
 
 33^ 18 
 
 335 56 
 
 335 34 
 
 7 
 
 338 44 
 
 338 22 
 
 331 59 
 
 331 
 
 56 
 
 337 H 
 
 336 52 
 
 33^ 30 
 
 8 
 
 339 40 
 
 339 18 
 
 338 ss 
 
 338 
 
 32 
 
 338 10 
 
 337 48 
 
 331 26 
 
 9 
 
 340 37 
 
 340 14 
 
 339 51 
 
 339 
 
 28 
 
 339 6 
 
 338 43 
 
 338 21 
 
 lO 
 
 341 33 
 
 341 10 
 
 340 47 
 
 340 
 
 24 
 
 340 2 
 
 339 39 
 
 339 17 
 
 1 1 
 
 342 29 
 
 342 6 
 
 341 43 
 
 341 
 
 20 
 
 340 58 
 
 340 35 
 
 340 12 
 
 12 
 
 343 2-; 
 
 343 2 
 
 342 39 
 
 342 
 
 16 
 
 341 53 
 
 341 33 
 
 341 7 
 
 13 
 
 344 20 
 
 343 58 
 
 343 35 
 
 343 
 
 12 
 
 342 49 
 
 342 25 
 
 342 2 
 
 H 
 
 345 16 
 
 344 53 
 
 344 30 
 
 344 
 
 7 
 
 343 44 
 
 343 20 
 
 342 57 
 
 15 
 
 346 12 
 
 345 48 
 
 345 25 
 
 345 
 
 2 
 
 344 39 
 
 344 15 
 
 343 52 
 
 16 
 
 347 7 
 
 346 44 
 
 346 21 
 
 345 
 
 57 
 
 345 34 
 
 345 10 
 
 344 47 
 
 17 
 
 348 3 
 
 347 40 
 
 347 J 7 
 
 346 
 
 52 
 
 346 29 
 
 346 5 
 
 345 42 
 
 ]8 
 
 348 58 
 
 348 36 
 
 348 12 
 
 347 
 
 47 
 
 347 24 
 
 347 
 
 346 37 
 
 19 
 
 349 54 
 
 349 31 
 
 349 7 
 3S° 2 
 
 348 
 
 43 
 
 348 19 
 
 347 55 
 
 347 32 
 
 20 
 
 350 49 
 
 350 26 
 
 349 
 
 38 
 
 349 ^4 
 
 348 50 
 
 348 27 
 
 21 
 
 351 44 
 
 351 21 
 
 350 57 
 
 350 
 
 33 
 
 350 9 
 
 349 45 
 
 349 22 
 
 23 
 
 352 39 
 
 352 16 
 
 351 52 
 
 35^ 
 
 28 
 
 35^ 4 
 
 350 40 
 
 350 17 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 353 35 
 
 354 30 
 
 353 II 
 
 352 47 
 
 352 
 
 23 
 
 35' 59 
 352 54 
 
 35^ 35 
 
 351 12 j 
 
 354 6 
 
 353 42 
 
 353 
 
 18 
 
 352 30 
 
 352 7 i 
 
 25 
 
 355 25 
 
 355 I 
 
 354 38 
 
 354 
 
 14 
 
 353 5° 
 
 353 26 
 
 353 2 ' 
 
 26 
 
 356 20 
 
 356 57 
 
 3S5 33 
 
 355 
 
 9 
 
 354 45 
 
 354 21 
 
 353 57 
 
 27 
 
 357 15 
 
 356 52 
 
 356 28 
 
 356 
 
 4 
 
 355 40 
 
 355 16 
 
 354 52 
 
 28 
 
 358 10 
 
 357 47 
 
 357 23 
 
 356 
 
 59 
 
 356 35 
 
 356 II 
 
 355 47 
 
 29 
 
 359 5 
 
 358 42 
 
 358 iB 
 
 357 
 
 54 
 
 357 30 
 
 357 (^ 
 
 35^ 42 
 
 30 
 
 360 
 
 359 37 
 
 359 13 
 
 35^ 
 
 49 
 
 358 2.? 358 I 1 
 
 357 37. 
 
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 6 P
 
 525 AN ILLUSTRATION OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 
 TABLE of RIGHT ASCENSIONS.- 
 
 -South Latitude. 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 a 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 X 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 o 
 
 33'^ 6 
 
 332 28 
 
 332 
 
 49 
 
 333 II 
 
 333 
 
 33 
 
 333 55 
 
 334 18 
 
 I 
 
 333 4 
 
 333 25 
 
 333 
 
 47 
 
 334 9 
 
 334 
 
 31 
 
 334 53 
 
 335 16 
 
 2 
 
 334 I 
 
 334 22 
 
 334 44 
 
 335 6 
 
 335 
 
 29 
 
 335 51 
 
 33^ 14 
 
 3 
 
 33A 58 
 
 33S 19 
 
 335 
 
 41 
 
 336 3 
 
 33(> 
 
 26 
 
 336 49 
 
 337 12 
 
 4 
 
 335 55 
 
 336 16 
 
 33(> 
 
 39 
 
 337 I 
 
 331 
 
 24 
 
 337 47 
 
 338 10 
 
 5 
 
 336 51 
 
 337 13 
 
 337 
 
 36 
 
 337 58 
 
 338 
 
 21 
 
 33^ 44 
 
 339 8 
 
 6 
 
 337 48 
 
 338 10 
 
 33'^ 
 
 33 
 
 338 55 
 
 339 
 
 18 
 
 339 41 
 
 340 5 
 
 7 
 
 33'^ 44 
 
 339 7 
 
 339 
 
 30 
 
 339 52 
 
 340 
 
 15 
 
 340 38 
 
 341 2 
 
 8 
 
 339 40 
 
 340 4 
 
 340 
 
 27 
 
 340 49 
 
 341 
 
 12 
 
 341 35 
 
 341 59 
 
 9 
 
 340 37 
 
 341 
 
 341 
 
 23 
 
 341 46 
 
 342 
 
 9 
 
 342 32 
 
 342 56 
 
 lO 
 
 341 33 
 
 341 56 
 
 342 
 
 19 
 
 342 42 
 
 343 
 
 6 
 
 343 29 
 
 343 53 
 
 II 
 
 342 29 
 
 342 52 
 
 343 
 
 15 
 
 343 38 
 
 344 
 
 2 
 
 344 25 
 
 344 49 
 
 12 
 
 343 25 
 
 343 48 
 
 343 
 
 1 1 
 
 344 34 
 
 344 
 
 58 
 
 345 21 
 
 345 45 
 
 13 
 
 344 20 
 
 344 44 
 
 345 
 
 7 
 
 345 30 
 
 345 
 
 54 
 
 346 18 
 
 346 42 
 
 H 
 
 345 16 
 
 345 40 
 
 346 
 
 3 
 
 346 26 
 
 346 
 
 50 
 
 347 14 
 
 347 38 
 
 15 
 
 346 12 
 
 347 7 
 
 3A(> 3S 
 
 346 
 
 59 
 
 347 22 
 
 347 
 
 46 
 
 348 10 
 
 348 34 
 
 16 
 
 347 31 
 
 347 
 
 55 
 
 348 18 
 
 348 
 
 42 
 
 349 6 
 
 349 30 
 
 17 
 
 348 3 
 
 348 27 
 
 348 
 
 51 
 
 349 14 
 
 349 
 
 38 
 
 350 2 
 
 350 26 
 
 18 
 
 348 58 
 
 349 22 
 
 349 
 
 46 
 
 350 9 
 
 350 
 
 33 
 
 350 57 
 
 351 21 
 
 19 
 
 349 54 
 
 350 18 
 
 350 
 
 42 
 
 35^ 5 
 
 35^ 
 
 29 
 
 35^ 53 
 
 352 17 
 
 20 
 
 350 49 
 
 351 13 
 
 351 
 
 37 
 
 352 I 
 
 352 
 
 25 
 
 352 49 
 
 353 13 
 
 21 
 
 3S^ 44 
 
 352 8 
 
 352 
 
 32 
 
 352 56 
 
 353 
 
 20 
 
 353 44 
 
 354 8 
 
 22 
 
 352 39 
 
 353 3 
 
 353 
 
 27 
 
 353 51 
 
 354 
 
 15 
 
 354 39 
 
 355 3 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 3S3 35 
 
 353 58 
 
 3?4 
 
 22 
 
 354 46 
 
 35S 
 
 10 
 
 355 34 
 
 355 58 
 
 354 30 
 
 354 S3 
 
 355 
 
 '1 
 
 355 41 
 
 356 
 
 5 
 
 356 29 
 
 356 53 
 
 25 
 
 355 25 
 
 355 48 
 
 356 
 
 12 
 
 35^ 3^ 
 
 351 
 
 
 
 357 24 
 
 351 48 
 
 26 
 
 356 20 
 
 356 43 
 
 3n 
 
 7 
 
 357 31 
 
 357 
 
 55 
 
 358 19 
 
 358 43 
 
 27 
 28 
 
 357 15 
 
 357 38 
 
 35« 
 
 2 
 
 358 26 
 
 358 
 
 50 
 
 359 14 
 
 359 38 
 
 358 10 
 
 358 33 
 
 358 
 
 57 
 
 359 21 
 
 359 45 
 
 360 9 
 
 361 32 
 
 29 
 30 
 
 359 5 359 28 
 
 352 
 
 52 
 
 360 16 
 
 360 
 
 40 
 
 361 4 
 
 360 28 
 362 23 1 
 
 360 360 23 '360 
 
 47 
 
 361 II 
 
 361 
 
 35 
 
 361 59
 
 TABLES 
 
 SHOWING THE 
 
 DECLINATIONS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PLANETS.
 
 T
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 529 
 
 
 TABLE of 
 
 DliCLlNAnON^ 
 
 5.— North Latitude. 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 2E 
 
 o 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 30 
 
 
 23 32 
 
 24 32 
 
 25 32 
 
 26 32 
 
 27 32 
 
 28 32 
 
 29 32 
 
 
 I 
 
 23 31 
 
 24 31 
 
 25 31 
 
 26 31 
 
 27 31 
 
 28 31 
 
 29 31 
 
 29 
 
 
 2 
 
 23 31 
 
 24 31 
 
 25 31 
 
 26 31 
 
 27 31 
 
 28 31 
 
 29 31 
 
 28 
 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 23 30 
 
 24 30 
 
 25 30 
 
 26 30 
 
 27 30 
 
 28 30 
 
 29 30 
 29 28 
 
 27 
 26 
 
 
 23 28 
 
 24 29 
 
 25 28 
 
 26 28 
 
 27 28 
 
 28 28 
 
 
 5 
 
 23 26 
 
 24 26 
 
 25 26 
 
 26 26 
 
 27 26 
 
 28 26 
 
 29 26 
 
 25 
 
 
 6 
 
 23 23 
 
 24 23 
 
 25 23 
 
 26 23 
 
 27 22 
 
 28 22 
 
 29 22 
 
 24 
 
 
 7 
 
 23 20 
 
 24 20 
 
 25 20 
 
 26 20 
 
 27 19 
 
 28 19 
 
 29 19 
 29 16 
 
 23 
 22 
 
 
 8 
 
 23 17 
 
 24 17 
 
 25 17 
 
 26 16 
 
 27 16 
 
 28 16 
 
 
 9 
 
 23 13 
 
 24 13 
 
 25 13 
 
 26 12 
 
 27 13 
 
 28 12 
 
 29 12 
 
 21 
 
 
 lO 
 
 23 9 
 
 24 9 
 
 25 9 
 
 26 9 
 
 27 8 
 
 28 8 
 
 29 8 
 
 20 
 
 
 II 
 
 23 4 
 
 24 4 
 
 25 4 
 
 26 4 
 
 27 3 
 
 28 3 
 
 29 3 
 
 19 
 
 
 12 
 
 22 59 
 
 23 59 
 
 24 59 
 
 25 59 
 
 26 59 
 
 27 58 
 
 28 58 
 
 18 
 
 
 13 
 
 22 53 
 
 23 53 
 
 24 S3 
 
 25 S3 
 
 26 52 
 
 27 52 
 
 28 52 
 
 n 
 
 
 H 
 
 22 47 23 47 
 
 24 46 
 
 25 46 
 
 26 46 
 
 27 45 
 
 28 45 
 
 16 
 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 22 41 23 41 
 
 24 40 
 
 25 40 
 
 26 40 
 
 27 39 
 
 28 39 
 
 15 
 
 
 22 34 
 
 23 34 
 
 24 33 
 
 25 33 
 
 26 33 
 
 27 32 
 
 28 32 
 
 14 
 
 
 17 
 
 22 27 
 
 23 27 
 
 24 26 
 
 25 26 
 
 26 25 
 
 27 25 
 
 28 24 
 
 13 
 
 
 18 
 
 22 19 
 
 23 19 
 
 24 18 
 
 25 18 
 
 26 17 
 
 27 16 
 
 28 16 
 
 (2 
 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 22 10 
 
 23 10 
 
 24 9 
 
 25 9 
 
 26 8 
 
 27 7 
 
 28 6 
 
 I I 
 [Q 
 
 
 22 2 
 
 23 2 
 
 24 I 
 
 25 
 
 25 59 
 
 26 58 
 
 27 57 
 
 
 21 
 
 21 53 
 
 23 43 
 
 23 52 
 
 24 51 
 
 25 50 
 
 26 49 
 
 27 45 
 
 9 
 
 
 22 
 
 21 43 
 
 22 43 
 
 23 42 
 
 24 41 
 
 25 40 
 
 26 39 
 
 27 38 
 
 8 
 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 21 33 
 
 22 33 
 
 23 32 
 
 24 31 
 
 25 30 
 
 26 29 
 
 27 28 
 
 7 
 6 
 
 
 21 23 
 
 22 22 
 
 23 21 
 
 24 20 
 
 25 19 
 
 26 18 
 
 27 n 
 
 
 25 
 
 21 13 
 
 22 1 1 
 
 23 >o 
 
 24 9 
 
 25 8 
 
 26 7 
 
 27 6 
 
 5 
 
 
 26 
 
 21 I 
 
 22 
 
 22 59 
 
 23 58 
 
 24 57 
 
 25 5^ 
 
 26 55 
 
 4 
 
 
 27 
 
 20 50 
 
 21 48 
 
 22 47 
 
 23 46 
 
 24 45 
 
 25 44 
 
 26 43 
 
 3 
 
 
 28 
 
 20 38 
 
 21 36 
 
 22 35 
 
 23 34 
 
 24 33 
 
 25 32 
 
 26 30 
 
 
 29 
 
 20 26 
 
 21 23 
 
 22 22 
 
 23 21 
 
 24 20 
 
 25 19 
 
 26 17 
 
 I 
 
 
 30 
 
 20 13 
 
 21 12 
 
 23 10 
 
 23 9 
 
 24 7 
 
 25 9 
 
 26 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 n 
 
 
 No. 
 
 27. 
 
 6 Q
 
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 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 TAiBLE of DECLINATIONS. South Latitude. || 
 
 25 
 
 o 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 lO 
 
 1 1 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 14 
 15 
 
 16 
 
 18 
 19 
 
 
 d. m. 
 
 I 
 d. m. 
 
 
 d. m. 
 
 3 
 d. m. 
 
 4 
 d. m. 
 
 5 
 d. m. 
 
 6 
 d. 111. 
 
 30 
 29 
 28 
 
 27 
 
 26 
 
 25 
 24 
 23 
 
 22 
 21 
 20 
 
 18 
 
 16 
 15 
 
 13 
 12 
 1 1 
 
 10 
 
 9 
 8 
 
 7 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 I 
 
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 23 32 
 23 31 
 23 31 
 23 30 
 
 22 32 
 22 31 
 22 31 
 22 30 
 
 21 32 
 21 31 
 21 31 
 21 30 
 
 20 32 
 20 31 
 20 31 
 20 30 
 
 19 32 
 
 19 31 
 19 3^ 
 19 33 
 
 18 32 
 18 31 
 18 31 
 
 18 30 
 
 17 31 
 
 17 31 
 
 17 31 
 17 30 
 
 23 28 
 23 26 
 23 23 
 23 20 
 
 22 28 
 22 26 
 22 23 
 22 20 
 
 21 28 
 21 26 
 21 23 
 21 20 
 
 20 28 
 20 26 
 20 23 
 20 20 
 
 19 28 
 19 26 
 19 23 
 19 20 
 
 18 28 
 18 16 
 18 23 
 18 20 
 
 17 28 
 17 26 
 
 17 23 
 17 20 
 
 17 17 
 
 17 '3 
 17 10 
 
 17 5 
 
 17 
 
 16 54 
 16 48 
 16 42 
 
 23 17 
 23 13 
 23 9 
 23 4 
 
 22 17 
 22 13 
 22 9 
 22 4 
 
 21 17 
 21 13 
 21 9 
 21 4 
 
 20 17 
 20 13 
 20 9 
 20 4 
 
 19 17 
 
 19 13 
 19 9 
 
 19 5 
 
 18 17 
 18 13 
 18 9 
 18 5 
 
 22 59 
 22 S3 
 22 47 
 22 41 
 
 21 59 
 21 53 
 21 47 
 21 41 
 
 20 59 
 
 20 53 
 20 47 
 20 41 
 
 »9 59 
 
 19 53 
 
 19 47 
 19 41 
 
 19 
 
 18 54 
 18 48 
 18 42 
 
 18 
 
 17 54 
 17 48 
 
 17 42 
 
 22 34 
 22 27 
 22 19 
 22 10 
 
 21 35 
 21 28 
 21 20 
 21 15 
 
 20 35 
 20 28 
 20 20 
 20 II 
 
 19 35 
 19 28 
 
 19 21 
 
 19 12 
 
 18 36 
 18 29 
 18 21 
 18 13 
 
 17 36 
 17 29 
 17 21 
 17 ^3 
 
 16 36 
 16 29 
 16 21 
 16 13 
 
 20 
 21 
 22 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 27 
 
 28 
 29 
 
 -1 
 
 22 2 
 21 53 
 21 43 
 21 33 
 
 21 3 
 
 '20 54 
 20 44 
 20 34 
 
 20 4 
 
 19 55 
 19 45 
 19 35 
 
 19 4 
 18 56 
 18 46 
 18 36 
 
 18 5 
 
 17 57 
 17 47 
 17 37 
 
 16 47 
 
 16 37 
 16 47 
 
 16 5 
 
 15 58 
 15 48 
 15 38 
 
 21 23 
 ai 12 
 21 I 
 20 50 
 
 20 24 
 20 14 
 
 20 a 
 19 51 
 
 19 25 
 
 19 15 
 
 19 3 
 18 52 
 
 18 26 
 18 16 
 18 4 
 
 17 53 
 
 17 27. 
 17 17 
 
 16 54 
 
 16 28 
 16 18 
 16 7 
 15 56 
 
 15 28 
 
 15 19 
 15 8 
 
 H 57 
 
 20 38 
 
 20 26 
 
 20 13 
 
 
 
 19 39 
 19 27 
 
 19 14 
 
 I 
 
 18 40 
 18 28 
 18 15 
 
 2 
 
 17 41 
 17 29 
 17 17 
 
 3 
 
 16 42 
 x6 30 
 16 18 
 
 4 
 
 15 44 
 15 32 
 15 19 
 
 5 
 
 H 45 
 
 14 33 
 14 20 
 
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 ■>ii 
 
 . 
 
 TABLE of DECLINATIONS 
 
 . — North 
 
 I,atitu(le. 1 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 Si 
 
 o 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 30 
 
 20 13 
 
 21 12 
 
 22 10 
 
 23 9 
 
 24 7 
 
 25 6 
 
 26 5 
 
 I 
 
 2D 
 
 20 59 
 
 21 57 
 
 22 56 
 
 23 54 
 
 24 53 
 
 25 51 29 
 
 2 
 
 19 47 
 
 20 45 
 
 21 44 
 
 22 42 
 
 23 40 
 
 24 39 
 
 25 37 28 
 
 3 
 4 
 
 19 33 
 
 20 31 
 
 21 30 
 
 22 28 
 
 23 26 
 
 24 25 
 
 25 23 27 
 
 1 
 
 19 19 
 
 20 17 
 
 21 16 
 
 22 14 
 
 23 12 
 
 24 1 1 
 
 25 9 J26 
 
 5 
 
 19 5 
 
 20 3 
 
 21 2 
 
 22 
 
 22 58 
 
 23 56 
 
 24 54 
 
 25 
 
 6 
 
 18 50 
 
 19 49 
 
 20 47 
 
 21 45 
 
 22 43 
 
 23 41 
 
 24 39 
 
 24 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 iS 35 
 
 19 34 
 
 20 32 
 
 21 29 
 
 22 27 
 
 23 25 
 
 24 23 
 
 23 
 
 18 20 
 
 19 18 
 
 20 16 
 
 21 13 
 
 22 II 
 
 23 9 
 
 24 7 
 
 22 
 
 9 
 
 18 4 
 
 19 2 
 
 20 2 
 
 20 57 
 
 21 55 
 
 22 53 
 
 23 51 
 
 21 
 
 lO 
 
 17 48 
 
 18 46 
 
 19 44 
 
 20 41 
 
 21 39 
 
 22 37 
 
 23 34 
 
 20 
 
 II 
 
 12 
 
 17 32 
 
 18 29 
 
 19 27 
 
 20 25 
 
 21 22 
 
 22 20 
 
 23 17 
 
 19 
 
 17 15 
 
 18 12 
 
 19 10 
 
 20 8 
 
 21 S 
 
 22 3 
 
 23 
 
 18 
 
 13 
 
 16 58 
 
 17 55 
 
 18 S3 
 
 19 51 
 
 20 48 
 
 21 46 
 
 22 43 
 
 17 
 
 14 
 
 16 41 
 
 17 38 
 
 18 36 
 
 19 23 
 
 20 30 
 
 21 28 
 
 22 25 
 
 16 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 16 24 
 
 17 21 
 
 18 18 
 
 19 13 
 
 20 12 
 
 21 10 
 
 22 7 
 
 15 
 
 16 6 
 
 17 3 
 
 18 
 
 18 57 
 
 19 54 
 
 20 52 
 
 21 49 
 
 14 
 
 17 
 
 15 48 
 
 16 45 
 
 17 42 
 
 18 39 
 
 19 36 
 
 20 33 
 
 21 30 
 
 13 
 
 18 
 
 15 29 
 
 i5 26 
 
 17 23 
 
 18 20 
 
 19 17 
 
 20 14 
 
 21 1 1 
 
 12 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 15 II 
 
 16 8 
 
 17 4 
 
 18 I 
 
 18 58 
 
 19 5S 
 
 20 52 
 
 11 
 
 14 52 
 
 15 49 
 
 16 45 
 
 17 42 
 
 18 39 
 
 19 36 
 
 20 33 
 
 10 
 
 21 
 
 H 33 
 
 15 30 
 
 16 26 
 
 17 23 
 
 18 20 
 
 19 17 
 
 ao 13 
 
 9 
 
 22 
 
 14 14 
 
 15 II 
 
 16 7 
 
 17 4 
 
 18 
 
 18 57 
 
 19 53 
 
 8 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 13 54 
 
 14 51 
 
 15 47 
 
 16 44 
 
 17 40 
 
 18 37 
 
 19 33 
 
 7 
 
 13 34 
 
 14 51 
 
 15 27 
 
 16 42 
 
 17 20 
 
 18 17 
 
 19 13 
 
 6 
 
 a*; 
 
 13 H 
 
 14 11 
 
 15 7 
 
 16 4 
 
 17 
 
 17 57 
 
 18 53 
 
 5 
 
 26 
 
 12 54 
 
 13 51 
 
 14 47 
 
 15 43 
 
 16 39 
 
 17 36 
 
 18 33 
 
 4 
 
 27 
 28 
 
 12 33 
 
 13 30 
 
 14 26 
 
 15 22 
 
 16 18 
 
 17 15 
 
 18 11 
 
 3 
 
 12 13 
 
 13 9 
 
 14 5 
 
 15 I 
 
 15 57 
 
 16 54 
 
 17 50 
 
 2 
 
 29 
 
 II 52 
 
 12 48 
 
 13 44 
 
 14 40 
 
 15 36 
 
 16 33 
 
 17 29 
 
 I 
 
 30 
 
 II 31 
 
 12 27 
 
 13 23 
 
 14 19 
 
 15 15 
 
 16 11 
 
 17 7 01 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 » 1
 
 532 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 TABLE of DECLINATIONS. South Latitude | 
 
 SI 
 
 o 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 lO 
 
 II 
 
 12 
 13 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 »7 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 21 
 22 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 27 
 
 
 d. m. 
 
 I 
 d. m. 
 
 2 
 d. m. 
 
 3 
 d. m. 
 
 4 
 d. m. 
 
 5 
 d. m. 
 
 6 
 d. m. 
 
 
 20 13 
 20 
 
 19 47 
 19 3 
 
 19 14 
 19 I 
 18 48 
 
 18 35 
 
 18 16 
 
 18 3 
 17 50 
 17 36 
 
 17 17 
 
 17 4 
 16 51 
 
 16 38 
 
 16 18 
 16 5 
 15 52 
 15 39 
 
 15 20 
 
 15 7 
 14 54 
 14 41 
 
 14 21 
 14 8 
 13 SS 
 
 13 42 
 
 30 
 
 29 
 
 28 
 
 27 
 
 19 19 
 
 19 5 
 18 50 
 18 35 
 
 18 21 
 18 7 
 17 52 
 17 38 
 
 17 22 
 
 16 54 
 16 39 
 
 16 24 
 16 10 
 15 56 
 15 41 
 
 15 26 
 15 12 
 .4 58 
 14 43 
 
 14 27 
 14 13 
 13 59 
 13 44 
 
 13 59 
 »3 '5 
 13 I 
 12 46 
 
 26 
 
 25 
 24 
 23 
 
 22 
 21 
 20 
 
 19 
 
 18 20 
 18 4 
 17 48 
 17 32 
 
 17 22 
 17 6 
 16 50 
 i^ 34 
 
 16 24 
 16 8 
 15 52 
 15 36 
 
 15 26 
 15 10 
 
 H 54 
 14 38 
 
 14 28 
 14 12 
 13 56 
 13 40 
 
 13 29 
 
 13 14 
 12 58 
 
 12 42 
 
 12 31 
 
 12 16 
 12 I 
 
 II 45 
 
 17 ^5 
 16 5B 
 16 41 
 16 24 
 
 16 17 
 16 
 
 15 43 
 15 26 
 
 15 20 
 
 15 3 
 
 14 46 
 
 14 28 
 
 14 22 
 14 5 
 13 48 
 13 31 
 
 13 24 
 13 8 
 12 51 
 
 12 34 
 
 12 26 
 
 12 10 
 
 II 53 
 II 36 
 
 1 1 29 
 
 II 13 
 10 56 
 10 39 
 
 18 
 
 17 
 16 
 
 15 
 
 16 6 
 
 15 48 
 15 29 
 15 11 
 
 15 8 
 
 14 50 
 
 H 32 
 14 14 
 
 14 1 1 
 
 13 S3 
 13 35 
 13 17 
 
 13 14 
 12 56 
 
 12 38 
 12 30 
 
 12 17 
 
 " 59 
 1 1 41 
 
 II 23 
 
 1 1 19 
 II I 
 
 10 43 
 
 10 25 
 
 10 22 
 10 4 
 
 9 46 
 9 28 
 
 14 
 
 13 
 
 12 
 1 1 
 
 H 52 
 
 14 33 
 14 14 
 
 13 54 
 
 13 55 
 
 13 36 
 
 13 17 
 12 58 
 
 12 58 
 12 39 
 12 20 
 12 I 
 
 12 I 
 II 42 
 II 23 
 II 4 
 
 II 4 
 
 10 45 
 10 26 
 10 7 
 
 9 48 
 9 28 
 9 8 
 8 47 
 
 10 7 
 9 48 
 
 9 29 
 9 10 
 
 9 10 
 
 8 51 
 
 8 32 
 
 8 13 
 
 10 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 6 
 
 5 
 4 
 3 
 
 2 
 I 
 
 
 « 
 
 13 34 
 
 13 14 
 12 54 
 
 12 33 
 
 13 38 
 12 18 
 
 II 59 
 II 36 
 
 II 41 
 1 1 21 
 1 1 I 
 10 39 
 
 10 44 
 10 24 
 10 4 
 
 9 43 
 
 8 51 
 8 31 
 8 II 
 
 7 50 
 
 7 54 
 7 35 
 7 15 
 6 54 
 
 28 
 
 29 
 
 30 
 
 12 13 
 
 11 52 
 
 II 31 
 
 
 
 1 1 17 
 10 56 
 
 10 35 
 
 I 
 
 10 20 
 10 
 
 9 39 
 
 2 
 
 9 24 
 
 9 4 
 
 8 43 
 
 3 
 
 8 28 
 
 8 7 
 
 7 46 
 
 4 
 
 7 31 
 
 7 II 
 6 50 
 
 5 
 
 6 35 
 6 15 
 
 5 54 
 6
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 533 
 
 
 
 TABLE of DtiCLINAliONS.- 
 
 — North 
 
 Latitude 
 
 
 
 
 i o 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 ' 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 "E 
 
 i d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 O 
 
 1 II 3' 
 
 12 27 
 
 13 23 
 
 14 19 
 
 15 15 
 
 •16 1 1 
 
 17 7 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 II 9 
 
 12 5 
 
 13 I 
 
 13 57 
 
 14 53 
 
 15 46 
 
 16 45 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 10 48 
 
 II 45 
 
 12 41 
 
 13 36 
 
 14 32 
 
 15 28 
 
 16 24 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 10 26 
 
 II 23 
 
 12 19 
 
 13 14 
 
 14 10 
 13 48 
 
 15 6 
 
 16 2 
 
 15 40 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 10 5 
 
 1 1 I 
 
 II 57 
 
 12 52 
 
 14 44 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 9 43 
 
 10 39 
 
 II 35 
 
 12 30 
 
 13 26 
 
 14 22 
 
 15 iS 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 9 21 
 
 10 17 
 
 II 13 
 
 12 8 
 
 13 4 
 
 14 
 
 14 55 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 8 58 
 
 9 55 
 
 10 51 
 
 I I 46 
 
 12 42 
 
 13 37 
 
 14 33 
 14 10 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 8 36 
 
 9 32 
 
 10 28 
 
 II 23 
 
 12 19 
 
 13 14 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 8 rj 
 
 9 10 
 
 9 6 
 
 I I I 
 
 1 1 56 
 
 12 52 
 
 13 47 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 7 51 
 
 8 47 
 
 9 42 
 
 10 38 
 
 II 33 
 
 12 29 
 
 13 24 
 
 
 
 II 
 
 7 28 
 
 8 23 
 
 9 18 
 
 10 14 
 9 51 
 
 II 9 
 
 12 5 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 7 5 
 
 8 
 
 8 55 
 
 10 46 
 
 II 42 
 
 12 37 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 6 42 
 
 7 37 
 
 8 32 
 
 9 28 
 
 10 32 
 
 1 1 19 
 
 12 14 
 
 
 
 H 
 
 6 19 
 
 7 14 
 
 8 9 
 
 9 5 
 
 10 
 
 10 36 
 
 " 5i 
 
 
 
 »5 
 
 5 56 
 
 6 52 
 
 7 47 
 
 8 42 
 
 9 37 
 
 10 3 
 
 II 28 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 5 33 
 
 6 29 
 
 7 24 
 
 8 19 
 
 9 14 
 
 10 10 
 
 II 5 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 5 9 
 
 6 5 
 
 7 
 
 7 55 
 
 8 50 
 
 9 46 
 
 10 41 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 4 46 
 
 5 42 
 
 6 37 
 
 7 32 
 
 8 27 
 
 9 22 
 
 10 17 
 
 
 
 19 
 
 4 22 
 
 5 18 
 
 6 13 
 
 7 8 
 
 8 3 
 
 8 58 
 
 9 53 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 3 58 
 
 4 54 
 
 5 49 
 
 6 44 
 
 7 39 
 
 8 34 
 
 9 29 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 3 35 
 
 4 30 
 
 5 25 
 
 6 20 
 
 7 15 
 
 8 10 
 
 9 5 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 3 II 
 
 4 7 
 
 5 2 
 
 5 57 
 
 6 2 
 
 7 47 
 
 8 42 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 2 47 
 
 3 43 
 
 4 38 
 
 5 33 
 
 6 28 
 
 7 23 
 
 8 18 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 2 24 1 
 
 3 19 
 
 4 H 
 
 5 9 
 
 6 4 
 
 6 59 
 
 7 54 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 a 
 
 2 55 
 
 3 50 
 
 4 45 
 
 5 50 
 
 6 35 
 
 7 30 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 I 36 
 
 2 31 
 
 3 26 
 
 4 21 
 
 5 10 
 
 6 II 
 
 7 6 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 I 12 
 
 2 7 
 
 3 2 
 
 3 57 
 
 4 52 
 
 5 47 
 
 6 42 
 
 
 
 28 
 
 48 
 
 I 43 
 
 2 38 
 
 3 33 
 
 4 28 
 
 5 23 
 
 6 iS 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 24 
 
 I 19 
 
 2 14 
 
 3 9 
 
 4 3 
 
 4 59 
 
 5 54 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 I 50 
 
 2 45 
 
 3 40 
 
 4 35 
 
 5 30 1 
 
 
 No. 27. 
 
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 534 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 
 
 TABLE of DECLINATIONS.- 
 
 —South 
 
 Latitude. 
 
 
 
 "R 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 O 
 
 II 31 
 
 10 35 
 
 9 39 
 
 8 43 
 
 7 46 
 
 6 50 
 
 5 54 
 
 
 I 
 
 II 9 
 
 10 14 
 
 9 18 
 
 8 22 
 
 7 25 
 
 6 29 
 
 5 33 
 
 
 3 
 
 10 48 
 
 9 53 
 
 8 57 
 
 8 I 
 
 7 4 
 
 6 8 
 
 5 12 
 
 
 3 
 
 10 26 
 
 9 31 
 
 « 35 
 
 7 39 
 
 6 43 
 
 5 47 
 
 4 51 
 
 
 4 
 
 10 5 
 
 9 9 
 
 8 14 
 
 7 18 
 
 6 22 
 
 5 26 
 
 4 3° 
 
 
 5 
 
 9 43 
 
 8 47 
 
 7 52 
 
 6 56 
 
 6 
 
 5 4 
 
 4 8 
 
 
 6 
 
 9 21 
 
 8 25 
 
 7 30 
 
 6 34 
 
 5 38 
 
 4 42 
 
 3 46 
 
 
 7 
 
 8 58 
 
 « 3 
 
 7 7 
 
 6 II 
 
 5 15 
 
 4 19 
 
 3 23 
 
 
 8 
 
 8 36 
 
 7 40 
 
 6 44 
 
 5 49 
 
 4 S3 
 
 3 57 
 
 3 I 
 
 
 9 
 
 8 13 
 
 7 17 
 
 6 21 
 
 5 26 
 
 4 30 
 
 3 34 
 
 2 39 
 
 
 lO 
 
 7 51 
 
 6 55 
 
 5 59 
 
 5 4 
 
 4 8 
 
 3 12 
 
 2 17 
 
 
 II 
 
 7 28 
 
 6 32 
 
 5 37 
 
 4 41 
 
 3 46 
 
 2 50 
 
 I 55 
 
 
 12 
 
 7 5 
 
 6 9 
 
 5 14 
 
 4 18 
 
 3 23 
 
 2 27 
 
 I 32 
 
 
 13 
 
 6 42 
 
 5 46 
 
 4 51 
 
 3 55 
 
 3 
 
 2 4 
 
 I 9 
 
 
 H 
 
 6 19 
 
 5 23 
 
 4 28 
 
 3 32 
 
 2 37 
 
 I 41 
 
 46 
 
 
 15 
 
 5 56 
 
 5 I 
 
 4 6 
 
 3 10 
 
 2 15 
 
 I 19 
 
 24 
 
 
 i6 
 
 5 33 
 
 4 38 
 
 3 ^i 
 
 2 57 
 
 I 52 
 
 56 
 
 
 
 
 »7 
 
 5 9 
 
 4 14 
 
 3 19 
 
 2 24 
 
 I 29 
 
 33 
 
 24 
 
 
 i8 
 
 4 46 
 
 3 51 
 
 2 56 
 
 2 I 
 
 I 5 
 
 10 
 
 47 
 
 
 19 
 
 4 22 
 
 3 27 
 
 2 32 
 
 I 37 
 
 41 
 
 14 
 
 I 9 
 
 
 20 
 
 3 58 
 
 3 3 
 
 2 8 
 
 I 13 
 
 18 
 
 38 
 
 I 33 
 
 
 21 
 
 3 35 
 
 2 29 
 
 I 44 
 
 49 
 
 6 
 
 I 2 
 
 I 57 
 
 
 22 
 
 3 II 
 
 2 16 
 
 I 21 
 
 26 
 
 29 
 
 I 25 
 
 2 20 
 
 
 23 
 
 2 47 
 
 I 52 
 
 57 
 
 2 
 
 S3 
 
 I 48 
 
 2 43 
 
 
 24 
 
 2 24 
 
 I 28 
 
 33 
 
 22 
 
 I 17 
 
 2 12 
 
 3 7 
 
 
 25 
 
 2 
 
 I 5 
 
 9 
 
 46 
 
 I 41 
 
 2 36 
 
 3 31 
 
 
 26 
 
 I 36 
 
 41 
 
 15 
 
 I 10 
 
 2 5 
 
 3 
 
 3 55 
 
 
 27 
 
 I 12 
 
 17 
 
 39 
 
 I 34 
 
 2 29 
 
 3 24 
 
 4 19 
 
 
 28 
 
 48 
 
 7 
 
 I 3 
 
 I 57 
 
 2 52 
 
 3 47 
 
 4 42 
 
 
 29 
 
 24 
 
 31 
 
 I 27 
 
 2 21 
 
 3 16 
 
 4 II 
 
 5 6 
 
 
 1 30 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 I 50 
 
 2 45 
 
 3 40 
 
 4 3S 
 
 5 30 
 
 ■
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 555 
 
 TABLE of DECLINATlON^S. North Latitude. J 
 
 
 i I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 
 5 
 
 6 1 
 
 ii: 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 
 24 
 
 48 
 
 1 12 
 
 55 
 
 31 
 
 7 
 
 I 
 
 I 50 
 I 27 
 
 I 3 
 39 
 
 2 45 
 2 21 
 
 I 57 
 I 34 
 
 3 40 
 3 16 
 
 2 52 
 2 29 
 
 4 35 
 4 II 
 3 47 
 3 24 
 
 5 30 
 S 6 
 
 4 42 
 4 19 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 1 ^6 
 
 .0 
 
 2 24 
 2 47 
 
 41 
 
 1 5 
 I 29 
 
 I 5- 
 
 15 
 9 
 
 34 
 57 
 
 I JO 
 
 46 
 22 
 2 
 
 ' 2 5 
 
 I 31 
 I 17 
 
 53 
 
 3 
 2 36 
 
 2 12 
 
 I 48 
 
 3 55 
 3 31 
 3 7 
 2 43 
 
 8 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 1 1 
 
 3 II 
 3 35 
 
 3 5« 
 
 4 22 
 
 2 16 
 
 2 30 
 
 3 3 
 
 3 27 
 
 I 21 
 
 1 44 
 
 2 8 
 2 32 
 
 26 
 
 49 
 
 1 13 
 
 I 37 
 
 29 
 6 
 18 
 41 
 
 I 25 
 I 2 
 
 38 
 14 
 
 2 20 
 
 I 57 
 I 33 
 I 9 
 
 12 
 
 15 
 
 4 46 
 
 5 9 
 5 33 
 5 56 
 
 3 51 
 
 4 14 
 
 4 38 
 
 5 I 
 
 2 55 
 
 3 19 
 
 3 43 
 
 4 6 
 
 2 
 2 24 
 
 2 47 
 
 3 10 
 
 I 4 
 
 1 28 
 
 2 52 
 2 15 
 
 9 
 
 32 
 
 56 
 
 1 19 
 
 46 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 16 
 
 17 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 6 19 
 
 6 42 
 
 7 5 
 
 7 28 
 
 5 24 
 
 5 4^ 
 
 6 9 
 
 6 32 
 
 4 29 
 
 4 51 
 
 5 14 
 5 37 
 
 3 33 
 
 3 55 
 
 4 18 
 
 4 41 
 
 2 38 
 
 3 
 3 23 
 3 46 
 
 1 42 
 
 2 4 
 2 27 
 2 50 
 
 47 
 
 1 9 
 
 I 32 
 I 55 
 
 20 
 21 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 7 51 
 
 8 13 
 
 8 36 
 8 58 
 
 6 56 
 
 7 18 
 
 7 41 
 
 8 3 
 
 6 
 6 22 
 
 6 45 
 
 7 7 
 
 5 5 
 
 5 27 
 
 5 50 
 
 6 12 
 
 4 9 
 4 31 
 
 4 54 
 
 5 16 
 
 3 13 
 
 3 35 
 358 
 
 4 20 
 
 2 18 
 
 2 40 
 
 3 2 
 3 24 
 
 24 
 
 -5 
 26 
 
 27 
 
 9 21 
 
 9 43 
 10 5 
 10 26 
 
 8 25 
 
 8 47 
 
 9 9 
 9 31 
 
 7 30 
 
 7 52 
 
 8 14 
 
 8 36 
 
 6 34 
 
 6 56 
 
 7 ^8 
 7 40 
 
 5 38 
 
 6 
 
 6 22 
 6 43 
 
 5 42 
 5 4 
 5 26 
 
 5 47 
 
 3 46 
 
 4 8 
 
 4 30 
 4 51 
 
 28 
 29 
 30 
 
 10 48 
 
 11 9 
 II 31 
 
 9 53 
 10 14 
 
 10 35 
 
 857 
 9 18 
 
 9 39 
 
 8 1 
 8 22 
 
 8 43 
 
 7 4 
 
 -7 25 
 7 46 
 
 6 8 
 6 29 
 
 6 50 
 
 5 12 
 5 33 
 
 5 5 !
 
 i36 
 
 AN ILF. USTRATION 
 
 
 TABLE of DECLINATIONS. 
 
 — South 
 
 Latitude 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 J5: 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d, m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m . 
 
 O 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 I 50 
 
 2 45 
 
 3 40 
 
 4 35 
 
 5 30 
 
 I 
 
 24 
 
 I 19 
 
 2 14 
 
 3 9 
 
 4 4 
 
 4 59 
 
 5 54 
 
 2 
 
 48 
 
 I 43 
 
 2 3^ 
 
 3 33 
 
 4 28 
 
 5 23 
 
 6 18 
 
 3 
 
 I 12 
 
 2 7 
 
 3 2 
 
 3 57 
 
 4 52 
 
 5 47 
 
 6 42 
 
 4 
 
 I 36 
 
 2 31 
 
 3 26 
 
 4 21 
 
 5 16 
 
 6 II 
 
 7 6 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 2 55 
 
 3 50 
 
 4 45 
 
 5 40 
 
 6 35 
 
 7 30 
 
 6 
 
 2 24 
 
 3 19 
 
 4 14 
 
 5 9 
 
 6 4 
 
 6 59 
 
 7 54 
 
 7 
 
 2 47 
 
 3 42 
 
 4 37 
 
 5 32 
 
 6 27 
 
 7 22 
 
 8 17 
 
 8 
 
 3 II 
 
 4 6 
 
 5 I 
 
 5 56 
 
 6 51 
 
 7 46 
 
 8 41 
 
 9 
 
 3 35 
 
 4 29 
 
 5 24 
 
 6 19 
 
 7 '5 
 
 8 10 
 
 9 5 
 
 lO 
 
 3 58 
 
 4 53 
 
 5 48 
 
 6 43 
 
 7 39 
 
 8 34 
 
 9 29 
 
 1 1 
 
 4 22 
 
 5 17 
 
 6 12 
 
 7 7 
 
 8 3 
 
 8 58 
 
 9 53 
 
 12 
 
 4 46 
 
 5 41 
 
 6 36 
 
 7 31 
 
 8 26 
 
 9 21 
 
 10 16 
 
 13 
 
 5 9 
 
 6 5 
 
 7 
 
 7 55 
 
 8 50 
 
 9 45 
 
 10 40 
 
 14 
 
 5 33 
 
 6 29 
 
 7 24 
 
 8 19 
 
 9 14 
 
 10 9 
 
 II 4 
 
 15 
 
 5 56 
 
 6 52 
 
 7 47 
 
 8 42 
 
 9 37 
 
 10 33 
 
 II 28 
 
 16 
 
 6 19 
 
 7 14 
 
 8 9 
 
 9 5 
 
 10 9 
 
 10 56 
 
 I' 51 
 
 17 
 
 6 41 
 
 7 37 
 
 8 32 
 
 9 28 
 
 10 23 
 
 1 1 19 
 
 12 14 
 
 18 
 
 7 5 
 
 8 
 
 8 55 
 
 9 51 
 
 10 46 
 
 II 42 
 
 12 37 
 
 19 
 
 7 28 
 
 8 23 
 
 9 18 
 
 10 14 
 
 II 9 
 
 12 5 
 
 13 
 
 20 
 
 7 51 
 
 8 47 
 
 9 42 
 
 10 37 
 
 II 32 
 
 12 28 
 
 13 23 
 
 21 
 
 « 13 
 
 9 9 
 
 10 5 
 
 1 1 
 
 II 55 
 
 12 51 
 
 13 46 
 
 22 
 
 8 36 
 
 9 32 
 
 10 28 
 
 II 23 
 
 12 19 
 
 13 14 
 
 14 10 
 
 23 
 
 8 58 
 
 9 54 
 
 10 50 
 
 1 1 46 
 
 12 42 
 
 13 37 
 
 14 33 
 
 24 
 
 9 21 
 
 10 17 
 
 1 1 12 
 
 12 8 
 
 ^3 4 
 
 14 
 
 14 55 
 
 25 
 
 9 43 
 
 10 39 
 
 II 35 
 
 12 30 
 
 13 26 
 
 14 22 
 
 15 18 
 
 26 
 
 10 5 
 
 II I 
 
 II 57 
 
 12 52 
 
 13 48 
 
 14 14 
 
 15 40 
 
 27 
 
 10 26 
 
 II 23 
 
 12 19 
 
 13 14 
 
 14 10 
 
 15 6 
 
 16 2 
 
 28 
 
 10 48 
 
 II 45 
 
 12 41 
 
 13 36 
 
 14 32 
 
 15 28 
 
 16 24 
 
 29 
 
 II 9 
 
 12 6 
 
 13 2 
 
 13 58 
 
 14 54 
 
 15 50 
 
 16 46 
 
 1 30 
 
 II :ii 
 
 12 27 
 
 13 23 
 
 14 19 
 
 15 15 
 
 16 II 
 
 ^7 7 ,
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 53; 
 
 
 
 TABLE of DECLINATIONS.- 
 
 -North 
 
 Latitude. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. Ill, 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 II 31 
 
 10 35 
 
 9 39 
 
 8 43 
 
 7 46 
 
 6 50 
 
 5 54 
 
 
 I 
 
 1 1 52 
 
 10 56 
 
 10 
 
 9 4 
 
 8 7 
 
 7 II 
 
 6 15 
 
 
 2 
 
 12 13 
 
 II 17 
 
 10 20 
 
 9 24 
 
 8 28 
 
 7 31 
 
 6 35 
 
 
 3 
 
 12 35 
 
 II 37 
 
 10 40 
 
 9 44 
 
 8 48 
 
 7 51 
 
 6 55 ! 
 
 
 4 
 
 12 54 
 
 II 58 
 
 1 1 I 
 
 10 4 
 
 9 8 
 
 8 II 
 
 7 15 
 
 
 5 
 
 13 H 
 
 12 18 
 
 1 1 21 
 
 10 24 
 
 9 28 
 
 8 31 
 
 7 33 
 
 
 6 
 
 13 34 
 
 12 38 
 
 II 41 
 
 10 44 
 
 9 48 
 
 8 51 
 
 7 54 
 
 
 7 
 
 13 54 
 
 12 58 
 
 12 I 
 
 II 4 
 
 10 7 
 
 9 10 
 
 8 13 
 
 
 8 
 
 14 14 
 
 13 17 
 
 12 20 
 
 II 23 
 
 10 26 
 
 9 29 
 
 8 32 1 
 
 
 9 
 
 14 33 
 
 13 36 
 
 12 39 
 
 II 42 
 
 10 45 
 
 9 48 
 
 8 51 1 
 
 
 10 
 
 14 52 
 
 13 55 
 
 12 58 
 
 12 I 
 
 II 4 
 
 10 7 
 
 9 10 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 15 II 
 
 14 14 
 
 13 17 
 
 12 20 
 
 II 23 
 
 10 25 
 
 9 28 j 
 
 
 12 
 
 15 29 
 
 14 32 
 
 13 35 
 
 12 38 
 
 1 1 41 
 
 10 43 
 
 9 46 
 
 
 13 
 
 15 48 
 
 14 50 
 
 13 53 
 
 12 56 
 
 II 59 
 
 1 1 I 
 
 10 4 
 
 
 H 
 
 16 6 
 
 15 8 
 
 14 II 
 
 13 H 
 
 12 17 
 
 II 19 
 
 lo 22 
 
 
 15 
 
 16 24 
 
 15 26 
 
 14 29 
 
 13 31 
 
 13 34 
 
 II 36 
 
 10 39 
 
 
 16 
 
 16 41 
 
 15 43 
 
 14 46 
 
 13 48 
 
 12 51 
 
 II 53 
 
 10 56 
 
 
 17 
 
 16 58 
 
 16 
 
 15 3 
 
 14 5 
 
 13 8 
 
 12 10 
 
 II 13 
 
 
 18 
 
 ^7 15 
 
 16 17 
 
 15 20 
 
 14 22 
 
 13 24 
 
 12 26 
 
 1 1 29 • 
 
 
 19 
 
 17 32 
 
 16 34 
 
 15 36 
 
 14 38 
 
 13 40 
 
 12 42 
 
 'I 45 
 
 
 20 
 
 17 48 
 
 16 50 
 
 15 52 
 
 14 54 
 
 13 56 
 
 12 58 
 
 12 I 
 
 
 21 
 
 18 4 
 
 17 6 
 
 16 8 
 
 15 10 
 
 14 12 
 
 13 14 
 
 12 16 
 
 
 22 
 
 18 20 
 
 17 22 
 
 16 24 
 
 15 26 
 
 14 28 
 
 13 29 
 
 12 31 
 
 
 23 
 
 18 35 
 
 17 37 
 
 16 39 
 
 15 41 
 
 14 43 
 
 13 44 
 
 12 46 ' 
 
 
 24 
 
 18 50 
 
 17 52 
 
 16 54 
 
 15 56 
 
 14 58 
 
 13 59 
 
 13 I 
 
 
 25 
 
 19 i 
 
 18 7 
 
 17 8 
 
 16 10 
 
 15 12 
 
 14 13 
 
 13 15 1 
 
 
 26 
 
 19 19 
 
 18 21 
 
 17 23 
 
 16 25 
 
 15 26 
 
 14 27 
 
 13 29 
 
 
 27 
 
 19 33 
 
 18 35 
 
 17 36 
 
 16 38 
 
 I 539 
 
 14 41 
 
 13 42 
 
 
 28 
 
 19 47 
 
 18 48 
 
 17 50 
 
 16 51 
 
 15 52 
 
 14 54 
 
 13 55 I 
 
 
 29 
 
 20 
 
 19 I 
 
 18 3 
 
 17 4 
 
 16 5 
 
 15 7 
 
 14 8 
 
 
 30 
 
 20 13 
 
 19 14 
 
 18 16 
 
 17 17 
 
 16 18 
 
 15 20 
 
 14 21 
 
 No. 27. 
 
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 ;38 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 
 TABLE of DECLINATIONS. 
 
 — South 
 
 Latitude 
 
 
 '% 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. ni. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 o 
 
 11 31 
 
 12 27 
 
 13 23 
 
 14 19 
 
 15 15 
 
 16 1 1 
 
 17 7 
 
 I 
 
 II 52 
 
 12 48 
 
 13 44 
 
 14 40 
 
 15 36 
 
 i^^ 33 
 
 17 29 
 
 2 
 
 12 13 
 
 13 9 
 
 14 5 
 
 15 I 
 
 15 57 
 
 16 54 
 
 17 50 
 
 3 
 4 
 
 12 33 
 
 13 20 
 
 14 25 
 
 15 21 
 
 16 18 
 
 17 14 
 
 16 10 
 
 12 54 
 
 1356 
 
 14 46 
 
 15 42 
 
 16 39 
 
 17 3+ 
 
 18 31 
 
 5 
 
 13 H 
 
 14 11 
 
 15 7 
 
 16 7 
 
 17 
 
 17 56 
 
 18 52 
 
 6 
 
 13 34 
 
 H 31 
 
 15 27 
 
 16 24 
 
 17 20 
 
 18 17 
 
 19 13 
 
 7 
 
 13 54 
 
 14 51 
 
 15 47 
 
 16 44 
 
 17 40 
 
 18 37 
 
 19 33 
 
 8 
 
 14 14 
 
 15 II 
 
 16 7 
 
 17 4 
 
 18 
 
 iB 57 
 
 19 53 
 
 9 
 
 14 33 
 
 15 30 
 
 16 26 
 
 17 23 
 
 18 20 
 
 19 17 
 
 20 13 
 
 lO 
 
 14 52 
 
 15 49 
 
 16 45 
 
 17 42 
 
 18 39 
 
 19 36 
 
 20 33 
 
 1 1 
 
 15 II 
 
 16 8 
 
 17 4 
 
 18 I 
 
 18 58 
 
 19 55 
 
 20 52 
 
 12 
 
 15 29 
 
 16 26 
 
 17 23 
 
 18 20 
 
 19 17 
 
 20 14 
 
 21 II 
 
 13 
 
 I? 48 
 
 16 45 
 
 17 42 
 
 18 39 
 
 19 36 
 
 20 33 
 
 21 30 
 
 H 
 
 16 6 
 
 17 3 
 
 18 
 
 18 57 
 
 19 54 
 
 20 52 
 
 21 49 
 
 15 
 
 16 24 
 
 17 21 
 
 18 18 
 
 19 15 
 
 20 12 
 
 21 10 
 
 22 7 
 
 16 
 
 16 41 
 
 17 38 
 
 18 36 
 
 19 33 
 
 20 30 
 
 21 28 
 
 22 25 
 
 17 
 
 16 58 
 
 17 55 
 
 18 53 
 
 19 51 
 
 20 48 
 
 21 46 
 
 22 43 
 
 18 
 
 17 15 
 
 18 12 
 
 19 10 
 
 20 8 
 
 21 5 
 
 22 3 
 
 23 
 
 19 
 
 17 32 
 
 18 29 
 
 19 27 
 
 20 25 
 
 21 23 
 
 22 20 
 
 23- 17 
 
 20 
 
 17 48 
 
 18 46 
 
 19 44 
 
 20 41 
 
 21 39 
 
 22 37 
 
 23 34 
 
 21 
 
 18 4 
 
 19 2 
 
 20 
 
 20 57 
 
 21 55 
 
 22 S3 
 
 23 51 
 
 22 
 
 18 20 
 
 19 18 
 
 20 16 
 
 21 13 
 
 22 1 1 
 
 23 9 
 
 24 7 
 
 23 
 
 18 35 
 
 19 34 
 
 20 32 
 
 21 29 
 
 22 27 
 
 23 25 
 
 24 23 
 
 24 
 
 18 50 
 
 19 49 
 
 20 47 
 
 21 45 
 
 22 43 
 
 23 41 
 
 24 59 
 
 25 
 
 19 5 
 
 20 3 
 
 21 2 
 
 22 
 
 22 58 
 
 23 56 
 
 24 54 
 
 26 
 
 19 19 
 
 20 17 
 
 21 16 
 
 22 14 
 
 23 12 
 
 24 1 1 
 
 25 9 
 
 27 
 
 19 33 
 
 20 31 
 
 21 30 
 
 22 28 
 
 23 26 
 
 24 25 
 
 25 23 
 
 28 
 
 19 47 
 
 20 45 
 
 21 44 
 
 22 42 
 
 23 40 
 
 24 39 
 
 25 37 
 
 29 
 30 
 
 20 
 
 20 59 
 
 21 47 
 
 22 56 
 
 23 54 
 
 24 S3 
 
 25 51 
 
 20 13 
 
 2T 12 
 
 22 10 
 
 23 9 
 
 24 7 
 
 1 25 6 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 539 
 
 
 TABLE of DECLINAIU) NS.- 
 
 -N'orth 
 
 Latitude. 
 
 
 1 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 d. m. 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 ^ 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m 
 
 19 14 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 20 13 
 
 18 16 
 
 17 17 
 
 16 18 
 
 15 20 
 
 14 21 
 
 I 
 
 20 26 
 
 19 27 
 
 18 28 
 
 17 29 
 
 16 30 
 
 15 32 
 
 H 33 
 
 2 
 
 20 38 
 
 19 39 
 
 I J 40 
 
 17 41 
 
 16 42 
 
 15 44 
 
 14 45 
 
 3 
 
 20 50 
 
 19 51 
 
 18 52 
 
 17 53 
 
 16 54 
 
 >5 55 
 
 •4 57 
 
 4 
 
 21 I 
 
 20 2 
 
 19 3 
 
 18 4 
 
 17 5 
 
 16 7 
 
 15 8 
 
 5 
 
 21 13 
 
 20 13 
 
 19 15 
 
 18 16 
 
 17 17 
 
 16 18 
 
 15 19 
 
 6 
 
 21 23 
 
 20 24 
 
 19 25 
 
 18 26 
 
 17 27 
 
 16 28 
 
 15 28 
 
 7 
 
 21 33 
 
 20 34 
 
 19 35 
 
 18 36 
 
 17 37 
 
 16 38 
 
 15 38 
 
 8 
 
 21 43 
 
 20 44 
 
 19 45 
 
 18 46 
 
 17 47 
 
 16 47 
 
 15 48 
 
 9 
 
 21 53 
 
 20 54 
 
 19 55 
 
 18 56 
 
 17 56 
 
 16 57 
 
 15 58 
 
 10 
 
 22 a 
 
 21 3 
 
 20 4 
 
 19 5 
 
 'i ^ 
 
 17 6 
 
 16 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 23 10 
 
 21 1 1 
 
 20 12 
 
 19 13 
 
 i8 13 
 
 18 21 
 
 17 14 
 
 16 14 
 
 12 
 
 22 19 
 
 21 19 
 
 20 20 
 
 19 21 
 
 17 22 
 
 16 22 
 
 13 
 
 22 27 
 
 21 28 
 
 20 28 
 
 19 28 
 
 18 29 
 
 17 29 
 
 16 29 
 
 14 
 
 22 34 
 
 21 3i 
 
 20 35 
 
 19 35 
 
 18 36 
 
 17 36 
 
 i6 36 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 22 41 
 
 2r 41 
 
 20 41 
 
 19 41 
 
 18 42 
 
 17 42 
 
 16 42 
 
 22 47 
 
 21 47 
 
 20 47 
 
 19 47 
 
 18 48 
 
 17 48 
 
 16 48 
 
 17 
 
 22 S3 
 
 21 53 
 
 20 S3 
 
 19 53 
 
 18 54 
 
 n 54 
 
 16 54 
 
 18 
 
 22 59 
 
 21 59 
 
 20 59 
 
 19 59 
 
 19 
 
 18 
 
 17 
 
 '9 
 
 23 4 
 
 22 4 
 
 21 4 
 
 20 4 
 
 19 5 
 
 18 5 
 
 n 5 
 
 20 
 
 23 9 
 
 23 9 
 
 21 9 
 
 20 9 
 
 19 10 
 
 18 10 
 
 17 10 
 
 21 
 
 23 13 
 
 22 13 
 
 21 13 
 
 20 13 
 
 19 14 
 
 18 14 
 
 17 14 
 
 22 
 
 23 17 
 
 22 17 
 
 21 17 
 
 20 17 
 
 19 17 
 
 18 17 
 
 17 17 
 
 23 
 
 23 20 
 
 22 20 
 
 21 20 
 
 20 20 
 
 19 20 
 
 18 20 
 
 17 20 
 
 24 
 
 23 23 
 
 22 23 
 
 21 23 
 
 20 23 
 
 19 23 
 
 18 23 
 
 n 32 
 
 25 
 
 23 26 
 
 22 26 
 
 21 26 
 
 20 26 
 
 19 26 
 
 18 26 
 
 17 26 
 
 26 
 
 23 28 
 
 22 28 
 
 21 28 
 
 20 28 
 
 19 28 
 
 18 28 
 
 17 28 
 
 27 
 
 23 30 
 
 22 30 
 
 21 30 
 
 20 30 
 
 19 30 
 
 18 30 
 
 17 30 
 
 28 
 
 23 31 
 
 22 31 
 
 21 31 
 
 31 
 31 
 
 19 31 
 
 18 31 
 
 17 31 
 
 29 
 
 23 31 
 
 22 31 
 
 21 31 
 
 19 31 
 
 18 -31 
 
 17 31 
 
 30 
 
 23 32 22 32 1 
 
 21 32 
 
 32 
 
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 18 32 
 
 17 32
 
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 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 
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 i ABLE of DECLINATIONS. 
 
 — South 
 
 Latitude 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 t 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 ni. 
 
 
 o 
 
 20 
 
 M 
 
 21 12 
 
 22 10 
 
 23 9 
 
 24 7 
 
 25 6 
 
 26 
 
 4 
 
 
 I 
 
 20 
 
 26 
 
 21 25 
 
 22 23 
 
 23 22 
 
 24 20 
 
 25 19 
 
 26 
 
 n 
 
 
 2 
 
 20 
 
 3« 
 
 21 37 
 
 22 36 
 
 23 35 
 
 24 33 
 
 25 32 
 
 26 
 
 30 
 
 
 3 
 
 20 
 
 1 
 
 50 
 
 21 49 
 
 22 48 
 
 23 47 
 
 24 45 
 
 25 44 
 
 26 
 
 A3 
 
 
 4 
 
 ! 21 
 
 I 
 
 22 
 
 23 59 
 
 23 58 
 
 24 57 
 
 25 5S 
 
 26 
 
 55 
 
 
 5 
 
 21 
 
 13 
 
 22 1 1 
 
 23 10 
 
 24 9 
 
 25 8 
 
 26 7 
 
 27 
 
 6 
 
 
 6 
 
 21 
 
 23 
 
 22 22 
 
 23 21 
 
 24 20 
 
 25 19 
 
 26 18 
 
 27 
 
 17 
 
 
 7 
 
 21 
 
 33 
 
 22 32 
 
 23 31 
 
 24 3> 
 
 25 30 
 
 26 29 
 
 27 
 
 28 
 
 
 8 
 
 21 
 
 43 
 
 22 42 
 
 23 41 
 
 24 41 
 
 25 40 
 
 26 39 
 
 27 
 
 38 
 
 
 9 
 
 21 
 
 53 
 
 22 52 
 
 23 51 
 
 24 51 
 
 25 50 
 
 26 49 
 
 27 
 
 48 
 
 
 lO 
 
 22 
 
 2 
 
 23 I 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 
 25 59 
 
 26 58 
 
 27 
 
 57 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 22 
 
 10 
 
 23 10 
 
 24 9 
 
 25 9 
 
 26 8 
 
 27 7 
 
 28 
 
 6 
 
 
 12 
 
 22 
 
 19 
 
 23 19 
 
 24 18 
 
 25 18 
 
 26 17 
 
 27 16 
 
 28 
 
 15 
 
 
 13 
 
 22 
 
 27 
 
 23 27 
 
 24 26 
 
 25 26 
 
 26 25 
 
 27 24 
 
 28 
 
 24 
 
 
 14 
 
 22 
 
 34 
 
 23 34 
 
 24 33 
 
 25 33 
 
 26 32 
 
 27 31 
 
 28 
 
 31 
 
 
 15 
 
 22 
 
 41 
 
 23 41 
 
 24 40 
 
 25 39 
 
 26 39 
 
 27 38 
 
 28 
 
 38 
 
 
 16 
 
 22 
 
 47 
 
 23 47 
 
 24 46 
 
 25 45 
 
 26 45 
 
 27 45 
 
 28 
 
 44 
 
 
 J? 
 
 22 
 
 53 
 
 23 S3 
 
 24 53 
 
 25 52 
 
 26 52 
 
 27 52 
 
 28 
 
 51 
 
 
 18 
 
 22 
 
 59 
 
 23 59 
 
 24 59 
 
 25 58 
 
 27 58 
 
 27 5S 
 
 28 
 
 57 
 
 
 19 
 
 23 
 
 4 
 
 24 4 
 
 25 4 
 
 26 3 
 
 27 3 
 
 28 3 
 
 29 
 
 2 
 
 
 20 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 24 9 
 
 25 9 
 
 26 8 
 
 27 8 
 
 28 8 
 
 29 
 
 7 
 
 
 21 
 
 23 
 
 13 
 
 24 13 
 
 25 13 
 
 26 13 
 
 27 13 
 
 28 12 
 
 29 
 
 12 
 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 17 
 
 24 17 
 
 25 17 
 
 26 17 
 
 27 16 
 
 28 16 
 
 29 
 
 16 
 
 
 33 
 
 23 
 
 20 
 
 24 20 
 
 25 20 
 
 26 20 
 
 27 19 
 
 28 19 
 
 29 
 
 19 
 
 
 24 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 24 23 
 
 25 23 
 
 26 23 
 
 27 22 
 
 28 22 
 
 29 
 
 22 
 
 
 25 
 
 23 
 
 26 
 
 24 26 
 
 25 26 
 
 26 26 
 
 27 25 
 
 28 25 
 
 29 
 
 25 
 
 
 26 
 
 23 
 
 28 
 
 24 28 
 
 25 28 
 
 26 28 
 
 27 28 
 
 28 28 
 
 29 
 
 28 
 
 
 27 
 
 23 
 
 30 
 
 24 30 
 
 25 30 
 
 26 30 
 
 27 30 
 
 28 30 
 
 29 
 
 30 
 
 
 28 
 
 23 
 
 31 
 
 24 31 
 
 25 31 
 
 26 31 
 
 27 31 
 
 a8 31 
 
 29 
 
 3' 
 
 
 29 
 
 23 
 
 31 
 
 24 31 
 
 25 31 
 
 26 31 
 
 27 31 
 
 28 31 
 
 29 
 
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 30 
 
 23 
 
 32 
 
 24 32 
 
 25 32 
 
 26 32 
 
 27 32 
 
 28 32 
 
 29 
 
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 3 
 
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 6 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
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 17 
 
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 6 
 
 9 
 
 13 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 22 
 
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 29 
 
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 17 
 
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 5 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 16 
 
 21 
 
 26 
 
 32 
 
 37 
 
 42 
 
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 6 
 
 13 
 
 19 
 
 25 
 
 32 
 
 38 
 
 44 
 
 51 
 
 57 
 
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 7 
 
 7 
 
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 30 
 
 37 
 
 44 
 
 52 
 
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 8 
 
 8 
 
 17 
 
 25 
 
 34 
 
 42 
 
 51 
 
 59 
 
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 19 
 
 29 
 
 38 
 
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 57 
 
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 21 
 
 32 
 
 42 
 
 53 
 
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 I 25 
 
 I 36 
 
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 23 
 
 35 
 
 47 
 
 58 
 
 I 10 
 
 I 22 
 
 I 34 
 
 I 46 
 
 I 58 
 
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 13 
 
 25 
 
 38 
 
 51 
 
 I 4 
 
 I 17 
 
 I 30 
 
 I 43 
 
 I 56 
 
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 13 
 
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 28 
 
 42 
 
 56 
 
 I 9'; I 23 
 
 I 37 
 
 I 52 
 
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 32 
 
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 I 53 
 
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 2 26 
 
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 17 
 
 34 
 
 52 
 
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 I 26 
 
 I 44 
 
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 18 
 
 37 
 
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 I 14 
 
 I 32 
 
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 2 28 
 
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 19 
 
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 I 44 
 
 2 4 
 
 2 25 
 
 2 46 
 
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 I 27 
 
 I 49 
 
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 23 
 
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 I 55 
 
 2 19 
 
 2 41 
 
 3 6 
 
 3 29 
 
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 22 
 
 24 
 
 49 
 
 I 13 
 
 I 37 
 
 2 2 
 
 2 26 
 
 2 50 
 
 3 15 
 
 3 40 
 
 4 5 
 
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 23 
 
 25 
 
 51 
 
 I 17 
 
 I 42 
 
 2 8 
 
 '2 33 
 
 2 59 
 
 3 25 
 
 3 51 
 
 4 18 
 
 24 
 
 27 
 
 53 
 
 I 20 
 
 I 47 
 
 2 14 
 
 2 41 
 
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 3 35 
 
 4 3 
 
 4 30 
 
 
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 28 
 
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 3 45 
 
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 5 52 
 
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 4 4 
 
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 7 38 
 
 8 31 
 
 
 41 
 
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 4 31 
 
 5 26 
 
 6 21 
 
 7 16 
 
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 56 
 
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 7 32 
 
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 5 
 
 12 
 
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 8 
 
 32 
 
 9 
 
 29 
 
 10 31 
 
 4 
 
 7 I 4 
 
 2 9 
 
 3 13 
 
 4 j8 
 
 5 
 
 23 
 
 6 28 
 
 7 34 
 
 8 
 
 40 
 
 9 47 
 
 10 54 
 
 4 
 
 8 I 7 
 
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 3 20 
 
 4 27 
 
 5 
 
 35 
 
 6 42 
 
 7 5^ 
 
 8 
 
 59 
 
 10 
 
 8 
 
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 4 
 
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 3 27 
 
 4 37 
 
 5 
 
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 6 57 
 
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 10 
 
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 5 
 
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 2 23 
 
 3 35 
 
 4 47 
 
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 8 35 
 
 9 
 
 39 
 
 10 
 
 53 
 
 13 8 
 
 5 
 
 I I 14 
 
 5 28 
 
 3 43 
 
 4 57 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 7 27 
 
 8 43 
 
 10 
 
 
 
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 17 
 
 12 35 
 
 i 5 
 
 2 I 17 
 
 2 34 
 
 3 51 
 
 5 8 
 
 6 
 
 26 
 
 7 44 
 
 9 3 
 
 10 
 
 33 
 
 II 
 
 42 
 
 13 3 
 
 ^ 5 
 
 3 I 20 
 
 2 39 
 
 3 59 
 
 5 19 
 
 6 
 
 40 
 
 8 1 
 
 9 23 
 
 10 
 
 45 
 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 13 32 
 
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 4 I 23 
 
 2 45 
 
 4 8 
 
 5 31 
 
 6 
 
 55 
 
 8 19 
 
 9 43 
 
 1 1 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 35 
 
 H 3 
 
 - 5 
 
 5 I 26 
 
 2 52 
 
 4 18 
 
 5 44 
 
 •7 
 
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 8 38 
 
 10 6 
 
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 35 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 H 35 
 
 5 
 
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 2 58 
 
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 7 
 
 27 
 
 8 58 
 
 10 39 
 
 13 
 
 2 
 
 13 
 
 35 
 
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 4 38 
 
 6 11 
 
 7 
 
 44 
 
 9 19 
 
 10 54 
 
 13 
 
 30 
 
 14 
 
 7 
 
 15 45 
 
 ^ 5 
 
 8 I 36 
 
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 4 49 
 
 6 26 
 
 8 
 
 2 
 
 9 41 
 
 II 30 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 41 
 
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 5 
 
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 8 
 
 22 
 
 10 4 
 
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 13 
 
 32 
 
 15 
 
 17 
 
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 5 21 
 
 6 57 
 
 8 
 
 43 
 
 10 29 
 
 12 17 
 
 14 
 
 5 
 
 15 
 
 55 
 
 17 47 
 
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 3 37 
 
 5 25 
 
 7 ^'f 
 
 9 
 
 5 
 
 10 56 
 
 12 48 
 
 14 45 
 
 16 
 
 36 
 
 18 33 
 
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 3 46 
 
 5 39 
 
 7 33 
 
 9 
 
 28 
 
 1 1 24 
 
 13 31 
 
 15 
 
 30 
 
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 20 
 
 19 33 
 
 ^6 
 
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 3 56 
 
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 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 A Table cf Ascensional Differences, 6cc, 
 
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 TABLE of 
 
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 AN IT. LUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE of OBLI QJJ E ASCENSIONS, 
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 22 
 
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 12 44 
 
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 13 39 
 
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 14 17 
 
 14 45 
 
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 A TABLE of OBLIQJJE ASCENSIONS, 
 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Uin.— North Latitude. 
 
 
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 8 33 
 
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 5 5 
 
 
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 14 
 
 12 21 
 
 10 41 
 
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 7 ^8 
 
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 3 45 
 
 
 3 
 
 14 30 
 
 12 49 
 
 1 1 10 
 
 9 29 
 
 7 40 
 
 5 58 
 
 4 12 
 4 38 
 
 
 4 
 
 15 
 
 13 18 
 
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 9 55 
 
 8 12 
 
 6 26 
 
 
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 6 
 
 15 29 
 
 13 48 
 
 12 7 
 
 10 23 
 
 8 40 
 
 6 53 
 
 1 
 
 5 4 
 
 
 16 
 
 14 19 
 
 12 37 
 
 10 59 99 
 
 7 21 
 
 5 32 
 
 
 7 
 
 16 31 
 
 14 48 
 
 13 7 
 
 1 1 22 
 
 9 38 
 
 7 49 
 
 5 59 
 
 6 27 
 
 6 55 
 
 
 8 
 
 17 2 
 
 15 19 
 
 13 37 
 
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 10 7 
 
 8 17 
 
 
 9 
 
 17 35 
 
 15 50 
 
 14 8 
 
 12 23 
 
 10 36 
 
 8 45 
 
 
 10 
 
 18 4 
 
 16 21 
 
 14 39 
 
 12 54 
 
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 9 15 
 
 7 22 
 
 
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 18 33 
 
 16 53 
 
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 7 52 
 
 
 19 8 
 
 17 26 
 
 15 41 
 
 13 56 
 
 12 6 
 
 10 15 
 
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 17 57 
 
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 12 36 
 
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 15 31 
 
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 14 12 
 
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 10 20 
 
 
 17 
 
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 22 31 
 
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 26 
 
 27 28 
 
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 28 7 
 
 26 
 
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 22 33 
 
 20 36 
 
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 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
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 4 
 
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 21 27 
 
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 24 35 
 
 5 
 
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 17 37 
 
 18 46 
 
 19 16 
 
 20 22 
 
 21 57 
 
 23 33 
 
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 6 
 
 16 
 
 20 53 
 
 22 27 
 
 24 3 
 
 25 38 
 
 7 
 
 16 31 
 
 18 7 
 
 19 47 
 
 21 25 
 
 22 59 
 
 24 35 
 
 26 10 
 
 8 
 
 17 2 
 
 18 40 
 
 20 19 
 
 21 57 
 
 23 32 
 
 25 7 
 
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 17 33 
 
 19 12 
 
 20 51 
 
 22 29 
 
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 25 39 
 
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 26 12 
 
 27 46 
 
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 20 16 
 
 21 55 
 
 23 33 
 
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 26 46 
 
 28 20 
 
 12 
 
 19 8 
 
 20 49 
 
 22 29 
 
 24 7 
 
 25 43 
 
 27 21 
 
 28 54 
 
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 21 23 
 
 23 2 
 
 24 40 
 
 26 17 
 
 27 55 
 
 29 28 
 
 14 
 
 20 13 
 
 21 56 
 
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 27 26 
 
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 28 12 
 
 29 50 
 
 31 28 
 
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 27 8 
 
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 32 42 
 
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 34 57 
 
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 25 33 
 
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 33 
 
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 TABLE of OBLIQJLJE ASCENSIONS, 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Min. — North Latituds, 
 
 
 u 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 d. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 O 
 
 30 10 
 
 28 21 
 
 29 29 
 
 24 32 
 
 22 34 
 
 20 27 
 
 18 21 
 
 
 I 
 
 30 52 
 
 29 2 
 
 27 9 
 
 25 12 
 
 23 14 
 
 21 7 
 
 19 
 
 
 % 
 
 31 36 
 
 29 45 
 
 27 47 
 
 25 52 
 
 23 52 
 
 21 47 
 
 19 38 
 
 
 3 
 
 32 19 
 
 30 27 
 
 28 zz 
 
 26 35 
 
 24 35 
 
 22 29 
 
 20 17 
 
 
 4 
 
 33 4 
 
 31 12 
 
 29 .18 
 
 27 19 
 
 25 18 
 
 23 II 
 
 20 58 
 
 
 5 
 
 33 4H 
 
 31 57 
 
 30 2 
 
 28 4 
 
 26 - 2 
 
 23 H 
 
 21 42 
 
 ■ 
 
 6 
 
 34 34 
 
 32 42 
 
 30 46 
 
 28 49 
 
 26 45 
 
 24 30 
 
 22 24 
 
 
 • 7 
 
 35 20 
 
 Z2, 28 
 
 31 33 
 
 29 33 
 
 27 29 
 
 25 20. 
 
 23 7 
 
 
 8 
 
 36 7 
 
 34 15 
 
 32 20 
 
 30 19 
 
 28 15 
 
 26 6^ 
 
 23 52 
 
 
 9 
 
 36 55 
 
 35 2 
 
 33 7 
 
 31 6 
 
 29 I 
 
 26 52 
 
 24- 37 
 
 
 lO 
 
 37 44 
 
 35 50 
 
 33 56 
 
 31 54 
 
 29 50 
 
 27 39 
 
 25 25 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 38 33 
 
 36 39 
 
 34 44 
 
 32 43 
 
 30 38 
 
 28 27 
 
 26 12 
 26 59 
 
 
 12 
 
 39 23 
 
 37 30 
 
 35 34 
 
 zz 32 
 
 3F 28 
 
 29 16 
 
 
 13 
 
 40 14 
 
 38 2r 
 
 36 24 
 
 34 23 
 
 32 17- 
 
 30 7 
 
 27 48 
 
 
 14 
 
 41 6 
 
 39 13 
 
 37 14 
 
 zs 15 
 
 ZZ 7 
 
 30 57 
 
 28 37 
 
 
 15 
 
 41 59 
 
 40 6- 
 
 38 7 
 
 36 8 
 
 34 
 
 31 49 
 
 29 29 
 
 
 16 
 
 42 52 
 
 41 
 
 39 I 
 
 37 2 
 
 34 54 
 
 32 41 
 
 30 22 
 
 
 17 
 
 43 47 
 
 41 54 
 
 39 56 
 
 37 5^ 
 
 Zi 48 
 
 ZZ zs 
 
 31 17 
 
 
 r8 
 
 44 42 
 
 42 48 
 
 40 49 
 
 38 51 
 
 36 43 
 
 34 31 
 
 32 II 
 
 
 19 
 
 45 36 
 
 43 44 
 
 41 47 
 
 39 45 
 
 37 38 
 
 35 27 
 
 Z^ 6 
 
 
 20 
 
 46 33 
 
 44 41 
 
 42 44 
 
 40 42 
 
 38 34 
 
 36 23 
 
 34 2 
 
 
 21 
 
 47 31 
 
 45 38 
 
 43 40 
 
 41 39 
 
 39 33 
 
 37 19 
 
 34 58 
 
 
 22 
 
 48 29 
 
 46 zs 
 
 44 38 
 
 42 37 
 
 40 31 
 
 38 17 
 
 35 56 
 
 
 23 
 
 49 28 
 
 47 35 
 
 45 38 
 
 43 36 
 
 41 32 
 
 39 19 
 
 36 57 
 
 
 24 
 
 50 28 
 
 48 35 
 
 46 39 
 
 44 36 
 
 42 31 
 
 40 20 
 
 37 59 
 
 ■ 
 
 2< 
 
 51 29 
 
 49 37 
 
 47 41 
 
 45 40 
 
 43 ZZ 
 
 41 21 
 
 39 
 
 
 26 
 
 52 3' 
 
 50 40 
 
 48 43 
 
 4^^ 43 
 
 44 36 
 
 42 25 
 
 40 3 
 
 
 ^z 
 
 53 34 
 
 51 42 
 
 49 46 
 
 47 46 
 
 45 40 
 
 43 28 
 
 41 7 
 
 
 28 
 
 54 37 
 
 52 46 
 
 50 50 
 
 48 5r 
 
 46 45 
 
 44 34 
 
 42 13 
 
 
 29 
 
 iS 41 
 
 53 50 
 
 51 S^ 
 
 49 56 
 
 47 51 
 
 45 40 
 
 43 20 
 
 
 30 
 
 56 46 i 
 
 54 56 53 2 51 Z^ 
 
 48 55 
 
 46 48 
 
 44 29 
 
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 560 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 — 
 
 
 !l 
 
 A TABLE of OBLIQJLJE ASCENSIONS, 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Wm.—South Latitude. 
 
 u 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 30 10 
 
 31 58 
 
 33 42 
 
 35 25 
 
 37 6 
 
 38 44 
 
 40 20 
 
 I 
 
 30 52 
 
 32 40 
 
 34 25 
 
 36 8 
 
 37 49 
 
 39 26 
 
 41 3 
 
 2 
 
 31 36 
 
 33 21 
 
 35 9 
 
 36 51 
 
 38 32 
 
 40 10 
 
 41 47 
 
 3 
 
 32 19 
 
 34 6 
 
 35 52 
 
 37 35 
 
 39 16 
 
 40 S3 
 
 42 3' 
 
 4 
 
 33 4 
 
 34 50 
 
 36 37 
 
 38 20 
 
 40 
 
 41 38 
 
 43 15 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 33 4B 
 
 35 36 
 
 37 21 
 
 39 5 
 
 40 46 
 
 42 24 
 
 44 1 
 44 48 
 
 34 34 
 
 36 21 
 
 38 7 
 
 39 50 
 
 41 31 
 
 43 12 
 
 7 
 
 35 20 
 
 37 8 
 
 38 54 
 
 40 37 
 
 42 18 
 
 43 58 
 
 45 34 
 
 8 
 
 36 7 
 
 37 ^S 
 
 39 41 
 
 41 24 
 
 43 5 
 
 44 45 
 
 46 21 
 
 9 
 
 36 55 
 
 3^ 44 
 
 40 29 
 
 42 13 
 
 43 54 
 
 45 34 
 
 47 10 
 
 10 
 
 37 44 
 
 39 32 
 
 41 18 
 
 43 1 
 
 44 43 
 
 46 21 
 
 47 59 
 
 1 1 
 12 
 
 3« 33 
 39 23 
 
 40 21 
 
 42 8 
 
 43 51 
 
 45 33 
 
 47 II 
 
 48 48 
 
 49 38 
 
 41 12 
 
 42 58 
 
 44 42 
 
 46 24 
 
 48 I 
 
 13 
 
 40 14 
 
 42 2 
 
 43 48 
 
 45 34 
 
 47 ^3 
 
 48 S3 
 
 50 30 
 
 H 
 
 41 6 
 
 42 55 
 
 44 41 
 
 46 25 
 
 48 5 
 
 49 44 
 
 51 22 
 
 15 
 
 41 59 
 
 43 47 
 
 45 33 
 
 47 17 
 
 48 58 
 
 50 37 
 
 52 13 
 
 16 
 
 42 52 
 
 44 41 
 
 46 28 
 
 48 II 
 
 49 51 
 
 51 30 
 
 S3 6 
 
 17 43 47 
 
 45 35 
 
 47 22 
 
 49 5 
 
 50 44 
 
 52 24 
 
 S3 59 
 
 18 
 
 44 42 
 
 46 31 
 
 48 18 
 
 49 59 
 
 51 40 
 
 S3 19 
 
 54 54 
 
 19 
 
 45 36 
 
 47 27 
 
 49 H 
 
 50 54 
 
 52 3S 
 
 54 13 
 
 SS 49 
 
 20 
 
 46 33 
 
 48 23 
 
 50 9 
 
 51 49 
 
 S3 30 
 
 SS 9 
 
 56 43 
 
 21 
 
 47 31 
 
 49 19 
 
 51 5 
 
 52 45 
 
 54 25 
 
 56 4 
 
 SI 39 
 
 22 
 
 48 29 
 
 50 16 
 
 52 2 
 
 S3 43 
 
 55 24 
 
 57 I 
 
 58 36 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 49 28 
 
 50 28 
 
 51 15 
 
 53 I 
 
 54 42 
 
 56 22 
 
 58 
 
 59 34 
 
 52 15 
 
 54 
 
 55 42 
 
 57 21 
 
 58 58 
 
 60 32 
 
 ' 25 
 
 51 29 
 
 53 17 
 
 55 I 
 
 56 42 
 
 58 21 
 
 59 58 
 
 61 31 
 
 ; 26 
 
 52 31 
 
 54 iB 
 
 s6 I 
 
 57 43 
 
 59 21 
 
 60 58 
 
 62 30 
 
 27 
 
 53 34 
 
 55 20 
 
 57 3 
 
 58 44 
 
 60 21 
 
 61 58 
 
 63 30 
 
 28 
 
 54 37 
 
 56 23 
 
 58 5 
 
 59 46 
 
 61 23 
 
 62 59 
 
 64 31 
 
 29 
 
 s^ 41 
 
 57 26 
 
 59 9 
 
 60 49 
 
 62 25 
 
 64 I 
 
 65 32 
 
 30 
 
 56 36 
 
 5« 31 
 
 60 14 
 
 61 53 
 
 6t, 29 
 
 65 4 
 
 66 35
 
 OF ASTROLOGY, 
 
 c6i 
 
 .__— — - „ 
 
 A TABLE of OBLIQUE ASCENSIONS, 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Dcg. 32 Min. — North Latitude. 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 j 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 d, m. 
 
 d. m 
 54 56 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 51 3 
 
 d . m . 
 
 d. m, 
 46 48 
 
 d. m .| 
 
 56 46 
 
 53 2 
 
 48 59 
 
 44 29 
 
 I 
 
 57 52 
 
 56 2 
 
 54 9 
 
 52 10 
 
 50 7 
 
 47 5^ 
 
 45 38 
 
 2 
 
 S« 59 
 
 57 10 
 
 55 18 
 
 ^3 19 
 
 51 17- 
 
 49 6 
 
 46 49 
 
 3 
 
 60 6 
 
 58 j8 
 
 56 26 
 
 54 28 
 
 52 26 
 
 ^Q 16 
 
 47 59 
 
 4 
 
 6i 14 
 
 59 28 
 
 57 37 
 
 55 39 
 
 S3 38 
 
 5^ 29 
 
 49 13 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 62 23 
 
 60 37 
 
 58 47 
 
 59 57 
 
 56 50 
 
 54 49 
 
 52 41 
 
 53 56 
 
 50 26 
 
 63 33 
 
 61 47 
 
 58 I 
 
 56 3 
 
 51 41 
 
 7 
 
 64 43 
 
 62 49 
 
 61 8 
 
 59 H 
 
 57 J6 
 
 55 II 
 
 52 58 1 
 
 8 
 
 65 54 
 
 64 9 
 
 62 20 
 
 60 27 
 
 58 29 
 
 56 25 
 
 54 12 ! 
 
 9 
 
 67 6 
 
 65 22 
 
 63 34 
 
 61 41 
 
 59 43 
 
 57 41 
 
 55 30 
 
 10 
 
 68 19 
 
 66 37 
 
 64 50 
 
 62 58 
 
 61 G 
 
 59 I 
 
 56 50 
 
 1 1 
 
 69 33 
 
 67 52 
 69 6 
 
 66 s 
 
 64 ^5 
 
 65 33 
 
 62 18 
 
 60 19 
 
 58 10 
 
 59 31 
 
 12 70 47 
 
 67 19 
 
 63 37 
 
 61 37 
 
 '3 
 
 72 I 
 
 70 22 
 
 68 38 
 
 66 50 
 
 64 56 
 
 62 57 
 
 60 53 
 
 H 
 
 73 17 
 
 71 38 
 
 69 55 
 
 68 8 
 
 66 16 
 
 64 17 
 
 62 14 
 
 15 
 
 74 33 
 
 72 54 
 
 71 1 1 
 
 69 26 
 
 ^7 34 
 
 65 39 
 
 63 35 
 
 16 
 
 75 50 
 
 74 II 
 
 72 30 
 
 70 45 
 
 68 55 
 
 67 I 
 
 64 59 
 
 17 
 
 18 
 
 77 7 
 
 78 25 
 
 75 29 
 
 76 48 
 
 73 50 
 75 10 
 
 72 5 
 
 70 17 
 
 68 25 
 
 66 24 
 
 73 26, 
 
 71 40 
 
 69 46 
 
 67 49 
 
 19 
 
 79 4« 
 
 78 7 
 
 76 30 
 
 74 48 
 
 73 2 
 
 71 II 
 
 69 16 
 
 20 
 
 81 2 
 
 7928 
 
 77 52 
 
 76 10 , 
 
 74 26 
 
 72 37 
 
 70 43 
 
 2t 
 
 82 21 
 
 80 48 
 
 79 13 
 
 77 32 
 
 75 49 
 
 74 2 
 
 72 9 
 
 22 
 
 B3 41 
 
 82 9 
 
 80 36 
 
 78 55 
 
 77 15 
 
 75 28 
 
 73 3^ 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 85 I 
 
 83 30 
 
 81 99 
 
 80 19 
 
 7« 39 
 
 76 54 
 
 75 3 
 
 t 
 
 86 22 
 
 84 52 
 
 83 20 
 
 81 45 
 
 So 5 
 
 78 23 
 
 76 32 
 
 25 
 
 87 42 
 
 86 15. 
 
 84 44 
 
 83 10 
 
 81 32 
 
 79 50 
 
 78 2 
 
 26 
 
 «9 3 
 
 87 38 
 
 86 8 
 
 84 35 
 
 82 58 
 
 81 17 
 
 79 30 
 
 27 
 
 90 24 
 
 88 59 
 
 87 31 
 
 85 59 
 
 84 25 
 
 82 45 
 
 81 I 
 
 2« 
 
 91 47 
 
 90 23 
 
 88 55 
 
 87 23 
 
 85 51 
 
 84 13 
 
 82 32 
 
 1 29 
 
 93 'I 
 
 91 46 
 
 90 21 
 
 88 52 
 
 87 20 
 
 85 43 
 
 84 4 
 
 I 30 
 
 94 34 
 
 93 12 
 
 91 4.7 
 
 90 iS 
 
 88 48 
 
 87 12 
 
 85 35 
 
 No. 29. 
 
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 562 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TADLE of OBLI Q^U E ASCENSIONS, 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Min. — Sou/b Latitude. 
 
 2S 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. ni. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 56 46 
 
 58 3' 
 
 60 14 
 
 61 53 
 
 63 29 
 
 65 4 
 
 66 35 
 
 I 
 
 57 52 
 
 59 36 
 
 61 19 
 
 62 57 
 
 64 39 
 
 66 7 
 
 67 -^s 
 
 2 
 
 5« 59 
 
 60 43 
 
 62 25 
 
 64 2 
 
 65 39 
 
 67 1 1 
 
 68 43 
 
 3 
 
 60 6 
 
 61 50 
 
 63 31 
 
 65 8 
 
 66 43 
 
 68 6 
 
 69 46 
 
 4 
 
 61 14 
 
 62 58 
 
 64 39 
 
 66 15 
 
 67 51 
 
 69 22 
 
 73 52 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 62 23 
 
 64 7 
 
 65 15 
 
 65 47 
 
 66 54 
 
 67 22 
 
 68 30 
 
 68 57 
 70 3 
 
 70 23 
 
 71 57 
 
 63 33 
 
 7' 34 
 
 73 2 
 
 7 
 
 64 43 
 
 66 25 
 
 68 3 
 
 69 38 
 
 71 12 
 
 72 42 
 
 74 10 
 
 8 
 
 65 54 
 
 67 34 
 
 69 12 
 
 70 47 
 
 72 20 
 
 73 49 
 
 75 ^6 
 
 9 
 
 67 6 
 
 68 45 
 
 70 23 
 
 71 SS 
 
 73 27 
 
 74 56 
 
 76 23 
 
 10 
 
 68 19 
 
 69 59 
 
 71 35 
 
 73 7 
 
 74 38 
 
 76 7 
 
 77 33 
 
 1 1 
 12 
 
 69 33 
 
 71 13 
 
 72 48 
 
 74 18 
 
 75 49 
 
 77 17 
 
 78 43 
 
 70 47 
 
 72.25 
 
 74 
 
 75 29 
 
 77 
 
 78 28 
 
 79 52 
 
 13 
 
 72 I 
 
 73 39 
 
 75 12 
 
 76 43 
 
 78 1 1 
 
 79 33 
 
 81 I 
 
 14 
 
 73 17 
 
 74 S3 
 
 76 26 
 
 77 57 
 
 79 23 
 
 80 50 
 
 82 12 
 
 15 
 
 74 33 
 
 76 7 
 
 77 39 
 
 79 9 
 
 80 36 
 
 82 I 
 
 83 23 
 
 16 
 
 IS 50 
 
 77 23 
 
 78 SS 
 
 80 23 
 
 81 45 
 
 83 14 
 
 84 36 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 77 7 
 
 78 38 
 
 80 10 
 
 81 38 
 
 83 3 
 
 84 27 
 
 85 48 
 
 78 25 
 
 79 56 
 
 81 26 
 
 82 50 
 
 84 18 
 
 85 39 
 
 87 
 
 19 
 
 79 43 
 
 81 13 
 
 82 42 
 
 84 7 
 
 85 33 
 
 86 53 
 
 88 14 
 
 20 
 
 81 2 
 
 82 32 
 
 83 58 
 
 85 23 
 
 86 47 
 
 88 7 
 
 89 27 
 
 21 
 
 82 21 
 
 83 50 
 
 85 15 
 
 86 39 
 
 83 2 
 
 89 22 
 
 90 40 
 
 22 
 
 83 41 
 
 85 9 
 
 86 33 
 
 87 56 
 
 89 17 
 
 90 37 
 
 91 55 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 85 I 
 
 86 22 
 
 86 28 
 
 87 53 
 89 1 1 
 
 89 15 
 
 90 34 
 
 91 54 
 
 93 10 
 
 87 47 
 
 90 32 
 
 91 51 
 
 93 10 
 
 94 26 
 
 2.? 
 
 87 42 
 
 89 8 
 
 90 31 
 
 91 51 
 
 93 »o 
 
 94 26 
 
 95 41 
 
 26 
 
 89 3 
 
 90 28 
 
 91 51 
 
 93 10 
 
 94 28 
 
 95 42 
 
 96 57 
 
 27 
 
 90 24 
 
 91 48 
 
 93 10 
 
 94 29 
 
 95 46 
 
 96 59 
 
 98 13 
 
 28 
 
 91 47 
 
 93 10 
 
 94 31 
 
 95 49 
 
 97 4 
 
 98 18 
 
 99 31 
 
 29 
 
 91 11 
 
 94 32 
 
 95 51 
 
 97 8 
 
 98 23 
 
 :99 36 
 
 100 49 
 
 ^ 30 
 
 94 34 
 
 95 54 
 
 97 n 
 
 98 27 
 
 99 42 
 
 100 54 
 
 102 6
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 563 
 
 A 
 
 TABLE 
 
 of 
 
 OB LI 
 
 QJU E 
 
 ASCENSIONS. 1 
 
 
 For 
 
 the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Min. — xV^r//^ Latitude. 
 
 SI 
 
 t 
 
 I 
 
 
 2 1 
 
 3 
 
 4 \ 
 
 5 1 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 rn. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 94 
 
 34 
 
 93 
 
 1 1 
 
 91 47 
 
 90 iS 
 
 88 48 i 
 
 87 12 ! 
 
 85 35 
 
 I 
 
 95 
 
 5« 
 
 94 
 
 35 
 
 93 t2 
 
 91 45 
 
 90 i6 1 
 
 8rf 41 ! 
 
 87 3 
 
 2 
 
 97 
 
 22 
 
 96 
 
 I 
 
 94 37 
 
 93 '2 
 
 91 45 
 
 90 1 1 
 
 88 36 
 
 3 
 
 98 
 
 45 
 
 97 
 
 2'J 
 
 9^ 3 
 
 94 39 
 
 93 12 
 
 91 41 
 
 90 8 
 
 4 
 
 100 
 
 8 
 
 98 
 
 51 
 
 97 30 
 
 96 7 
 
 94 41 
 
 93 II 
 
 91 39 
 
 5 
 
 1 
 
 lOI 
 
 33 
 
 100 
 
 16 
 
 98 56 
 
 100 23 
 
 97 34 
 99 2 
 
 96 9 
 
 97 38 
 
 94 43 
 
 93 II 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 102 
 
 57 
 
 lOI 
 
 40 
 
 96 13 
 
 94 43- 
 
 7 
 
 1 04 
 
 22 
 
 103 
 
 6 
 
 lor 49 
 
 100 31 
 
 99 9 
 
 97 44 
 
 96 16 
 
 8 
 
 105 
 
 46 
 
 1C4 
 
 33 
 
 103 17 
 
 102 
 
 ICO 39 
 
 99 16 
 
 97 46 
 
 9 
 
 107 
 
 1 1 
 
 105 
 
 59 
 
 104 44 
 
 103 39 
 
 102 8 
 
 100 46 
 
 99 21 
 
 10 
 
 loS 
 
 36 
 
 107 
 
 25 
 
 106 10 
 
 104 56 
 
 103 37 
 
 102 16 
 
 ICO 54 
 
 1 1 
 
 i ^^ 
 
 no 
 
 2 
 
 108 
 
 53 
 
 107 38 
 
 106 23 
 
 105 8 
 
 106 37 
 
 103 47 
 
 102 27 
 
 1 1 1 
 
 27 
 
 no 
 
 19 
 
 109 7 
 
 107 52 
 
 105 19 
 
 103 59 
 
 ! '^■ 
 
 112 
 
 S3 
 
 III 
 
 46 
 
 1 1 34 
 
 109 20 
 
 108 6 
 
 106 48 
 
 105 30 
 
 ^+ 
 
 114 
 
 18 
 
 113 
 
 12 
 
 112 2 
 
 no 50 
 
 109 36 
 
 loS 20 
 
 107 2 
 
 15 
 
 115 
 
 44 
 
 114 
 
 37 
 
 113 30 
 
 112 19 
 
 III 5 
 
 109 51 
 
 108 3S 
 
 16 
 
 117 
 
 10 
 
 116 
 
 4 
 
 114 58 
 
 113 48 
 
 112 36 
 
 III 22 
 
 no 7 
 
 17 
 
 iiS 
 
 36 
 
 117 
 
 31 
 
 1 16 25 
 
 117 S3 
 
 115 16 
 
 1 14 6 
 
 112-53 
 
 III 40 
 
 18 
 
 120 
 
 2 
 
 118 
 
 58 
 
 1 16 46 
 
 115 36 
 
 114 25 
 
 113 13 
 
 '9 
 
 121 
 
 27 
 
 120 
 
 35 
 
 119 22 
 
 118 15 
 
 117 7 
 
 115 57 
 
 1 14 46 
 
 20 
 
 122 
 
 54 
 
 121 
 
 51 
 
 120 49 
 
 119 44 
 
 118 36 
 
 117 27 
 
 1 16 16 
 
 21 
 
 124 
 
 20 
 
 123 
 
 18 
 
 122 16 
 
 r2i II 
 
 120 6 
 
 118 57 
 
 117 49 
 
 22 
 
 125 
 
 46 
 
 124 
 
 45 
 
 123 43 
 
 122 40 
 
 121 37 
 
 120 29 
 
 1 19 21 
 
 25 
 
 24 
 
 127 
 
 12 
 
 126 
 
 12 
 
 124 1 1 
 
 124 8 
 
 123 6 
 
 121 59 
 
 120 53 
 
 128 
 
 39 
 
 127 
 
 39 
 
 126 39 
 
 125 37 
 
 '24 35 
 
 123 29 
 
 122 24 
 
 25 
 
 130 
 
 5 
 
 129 
 
 6 
 
 128 7 
 
 127 6 
 
 126 4 
 
 124 59 
 
 123 54 
 
 ! ^"^ 
 
 131 
 
 31 
 
 130 
 
 31 
 
 129 34 
 
 128 34 
 
 127 34 
 
 126 30 
 
 125 26 
 
 27 
 
 132 
 
 57 
 
 131 
 
 59 
 
 131 2 
 
 130 3 
 
 129 3 
 
 128 
 
 126 58 
 
 28 
 
 134 
 
 23 
 
 ^33 
 
 27 
 
 132 29 
 
 131 31 
 
 130 32 
 
 129 29 
 
 128 29 
 
 29 
 
 135 
 
 50 
 
 134 
 
 53 
 
 '33 57 
 
 132 59 
 
 1 32 
 
 130 59 
 
 129 58 
 
 •0 
 
 ^^7 
 
 15 
 
 136 
 
 19 
 
 135 23 
 
 134 27 
 
 133 29 
 
 132 29 
 
 131 29
 
 564 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A 
 
 TABLE 
 
 of 
 
 B L I CLU E 
 
 ASCENSIONS, 
 
 
 For the Lati 
 
 tudc 
 
 of 5 
 
 I LVg. 32 M 
 
 n. — South Latitude, 
 
 a 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. in. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m 
 
 94 
 
 34 
 
 95 
 
 54 
 
 97 
 
 12 
 
 98 27 
 
 99 42 
 
 100 54 
 
 102 6 
 
 I 
 
 9i 
 
 5« 
 
 97 
 
 17 
 
 98 
 
 34 
 
 99 49 
 
 lOI 2 
 
 102 13 
 
 103 24 
 
 2 
 
 97 
 
 21 
 
 98 
 
 39 
 
 99 
 
 55 
 
 lOI 9 
 
 ro2 22 
 
 '03 32 
 
 104 42 
 
 3 
 
 98 
 
 45 
 
 (CO 
 
 
 
 lOI 
 
 17 
 
 3 02 29 
 
 103 42 
 
 104 51 
 
 106 I 
 
 4 
 
 too 
 
 8 
 
 lOI 
 
 24 
 
 102 
 
 40 
 
 103 51 
 
 105 2 
 
 106 II 
 
 107 19 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 lOI 
 
 3 • 
 
 102 
 
 48 
 
 104 
 
 2 
 
 105 12 
 
 ao6 33 
 
 106 22 
 
 107 31 
 
 108 37 
 
 102 
 
 57 
 
 104 
 
 12 
 
 ^05 
 
 23 
 
 107,42 
 
 108 51 
 
 '09 57 
 
 7 
 
 104 
 
 22 
 
 105 
 
 35 
 
 106 
 
 47 
 
 107 55 
 
 109 4 
 
 no 12 
 
 III 17 
 
 8 
 
 iOi 
 
 46 
 
 106 
 
 52 
 
 108 
 
 9 
 
 109 17 
 
 no 25 
 
 III 32 
 
 112 37 
 
 9 
 
 107 
 
 1 1 
 
 108 
 
 23 
 
 109 
 
 n 
 
 1 10 40 
 
 1 1 1 46 
 
 1 12 52 
 
 '13 56 
 
 10 
 
 108 
 
 30 
 
 109 
 
 47 
 
 1 10 
 
 56 
 
 112 3 
 
 113 9 
 
 114 13 
 
 115 16 
 
 II 
 12 
 
 I 10 
 
 2 
 
 1 1 1 
 
 1 1 
 
 112 
 
 19 
 
 113 26 
 
 114 ^8 
 
 114 30 
 
 115 52 
 
 I '5 34 
 
 • 
 
 116 37 
 
 Ili 
 
 27 
 
 I 12 
 
 3^^ 
 
 113 
 
 43 
 
 "6 ss 
 
 "7 58 
 
 '3 
 
 I 12 
 
 53 
 
 114 
 
 2 
 
 115 
 
 7 
 
 116 II 
 
 117 ^3 
 
 118 17 
 
 119 19 
 
 14 
 
 114 
 
 18 
 
 115 
 
 26 
 
 116 
 
 30 
 
 117 34 
 
 118 36 
 
 "9 39 
 
 120 40 
 
 15 
 
 ^15 
 
 44 
 
 116 
 
 50 
 
 117 
 
 55 
 
 118 SI 
 
 119 58 
 
 121 
 
 122 
 
 16 
 
 117 
 
 10 
 
 1x8 
 
 16 
 
 119 
 
 18 
 
 120 20 
 
 121 21 
 
 122 22 
 
 123 20 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 118 
 
 36 
 
 119 41 
 
 1 20 
 
 42 
 
 121 44 
 
 122 45 
 
 '23 45 
 
 124 42 
 
 120 
 
 2 
 
 121 
 
 5 
 
 122 
 
 7 
 
 123 7 
 
 124 7 
 
 125 7 
 
 126 4 
 
 19 
 
 121 
 
 27 
 
 122 
 
 30 
 
 123 
 
 3' 
 
 124 31 
 
 125 30 
 
 126 28 
 
 127 26 
 
 20 
 
 123 
 
 54 
 
 123 
 
 55 
 
 124 
 
 56 
 
 125 55 
 
 126 54 
 
 127 50 
 
 128 48 
 
 21 
 
 124 
 
 20 
 
 J 25 
 
 20 
 
 126 
 
 21 
 
 127 19 
 
 128 17 
 
 129 13 
 
 130 10 
 
 
 '25 
 
 46 
 
 126 
 
 46 
 
 127 
 
 45 
 
 128 43 
 
 129 40 
 
 130 37 
 
 ^i 32 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 127 
 
 12 
 
 128 
 
 9 
 
 129 
 
 9 
 
 130 7 
 
 131 3 
 
 '3' 59 
 
 '32 54 
 
 128 
 
 39 
 
 129 
 
 ■^ /- 
 
 jj 
 
 T30 
 
 34 
 
 131 31 
 
 132 26 
 
 ^33 21 
 
 134 16 
 
 25 
 
 130 
 
 5 
 
 131 
 
 2 
 
 J 32 
 
 
 
 132 56 
 
 133 49 
 
 '34 45 
 
 '35 3« 
 
 26 
 
 131 
 
 3' 
 
 '3^- 
 
 27 
 
 ^33 
 
 26 
 
 134 19 
 
 ^3S 13 
 
 136 8 
 
 '37 ' 
 
 27 
 
 '32 
 
 57 
 
 133 
 
 54 
 
 134 
 
 50 
 
 135 43 
 
 136 36 
 
 137 30 
 
 '38 23 
 
 28 
 
 134 
 
 23 
 
 135 
 
 18 
 
 136, 
 
 ^3 
 
 137 6 
 
 138 
 
 '3^ S3 
 
 '39 45 
 
 29 
 
 »35 
 
 50 
 
 136 
 
 44 
 
 '37 
 
 36 
 
 13S 30 
 
 '39 24 
 
 140 i6 
 
 141 8 
 
 30 
 
 137 
 
 15 
 
 n8 
 
 8 
 
 130 
 
 I 
 
 13Q 55 
 
 140 49 
 
 IA\ 40 
 
 142 31
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 S6s 
 
 A TABLE of OBLIQUE ASCENSIONS, 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Mln.—Norfh Latitude. 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d, m 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 137 ^S 
 
 136 19 
 
 135 23 
 
 134 27 
 
 ^33 29 
 
 132 29 
 
 131 29 
 
 I 
 
 138 41 
 
 137 46 
 
 136 51 
 
 '3S 54 
 
 134 57 
 
 ^3 58 
 
 '32 S^ 
 
 2 
 
 140 7 
 
 139 12 
 
 ^38 17 
 
 137 22 
 
 136 26 
 
 ^35 28 
 
 134 29 
 
 3 
 
 141 33 
 
 140 39 
 
 139 44 
 
 138 50 
 
 '37 54 
 
 136 58 
 
 136 
 
 4 
 
 142 59 
 
 142 6 
 
 141 13 
 
 140 10 
 
 139 23 
 
 138 27 
 
 137 30 1 
 
 .5 
 
 144 25 
 
 ^43 32 
 
 142 40 
 
 141 46 
 143 13 
 
 140 51 
 
 139 55 
 141 24 
 
 138 59 
 140 30 
 
 6 
 
 145 51 
 
 [44 58 
 
 144 7 
 
 142 19 
 
 7 
 
 147 17 
 
 [46 24 
 
 145 33 
 
 144 41 
 
 H3 46 
 
 142 53 
 
 141 58 
 
 8 
 
 148 43 
 
 C47 52 
 
 147 I 
 
 146 9 
 
 H5 15 
 
 144 22 
 
 143 27 
 
 9 
 
 150 8 
 
 [49 18 
 
 148 27 
 
 147 37 
 
 146 44 
 
 145 51 
 
 144 57 
 
 10 
 
 15^ 34 
 
 150 44 
 
 149 53 
 
 149 2 
 
 148 12 
 
 147 18 
 
 146 26 
 
 1 1 
 12 
 
 152 59 
 154 25 
 
 152 10 
 
 151 26 
 
 150 29 
 
 149 40 
 
 148 46 
 
 '47 54 , 
 
 ^53 36 
 
 152 47 
 
 •5^ 55 
 
 151 7 
 
 150 14 
 
 149 22 
 
 13 
 
 155 50 
 
 155 2 
 
 •54 13 
 
 153 22 
 
 152 33 
 
 151 42 
 
 150 52 
 
 H 
 
 157 16 
 
 156 28 
 
 155 38 
 
 154 48 
 
 153 59 
 
 153 9 
 
 152 18 
 
 15 
 
 158 41 
 
 157 53 
 
 157 5 
 
 156 16 
 
 155 27 
 
 154 37 
 
 '53 47 
 
 16 
 
 160 7 
 
 159 18 
 
 158 3' 
 
 157 42 
 
 156 54 
 
 '5^ 3 
 
 155 15 
 
 i8 
 
 161 32 
 
 160 44 
 162 9 
 
 159 57 
 i6i 23 
 
 159 9 
 
 158 20 
 
 157 3' 
 15S 5S 
 
 '56 43 
 '58 9 
 
 162 58 
 
 160 35 
 
 159 47 
 
 19 
 
 164 23 
 
 163 36 ' 
 
 162 50 
 
 162 3 
 
 161 14 
 
 160 25 j 
 
 '59 35 
 
 20 
 
 165 48 
 
 165 2 
 
 164 16 
 
 163 29 
 
 162 40 
 
 161 52 
 
 161 3 
 
 21 
 
 167 13 
 
 166 28 
 
 165 41 
 
 16+ ss 
 
 164 7 
 
 163 19 
 
 162 30 i 
 
 22 
 
 168 39 
 
 167 52 
 
 167 6 
 
 166 19 
 
 i6<; 33 
 
 164 45 
 
 163 57 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 170 4 
 
 169 18 
 
 170 43 
 
 168 32 
 
 167 45 
 
 166 58 
 168 24 
 
 166 12 
 
 167 38 ^ 
 
 165 24 
 
 . 1 
 
 171 30 
 
 169 57 
 
 169 1 1 
 
 166 ,sO 
 
 25 
 
 172 54 
 
 172 7 
 
 171 22 
 
 170 35 
 
 169 49 
 
 169 2 1 
 
 168 15 
 
 26 
 
 [74 20 
 
 ^73 33 
 
 172 47 
 
 172 1 
 
 171 ^5 
 
 170 28 
 
 169 42 
 
 27 
 
 175 45 
 
 174 58 
 
 174 13 
 
 173 27 
 
 172 40 
 
 171 54 
 
 171 7 
 
 28 
 
 177 10 
 
 176 23 
 
 •75 38 
 
 174 52 
 
 174 6 
 
 173 20 
 
 172 33 
 
 29 
 
 178 36 
 
 177 48 
 
 '77 3 
 
 176 18 
 
 175 32 
 
 174 45 
 
 '73 59 
 
 30 
 
 180 10 
 
 179 13 
 
 178 29 
 
 177 43 
 
 176 57 
 
 176 II 
 
 '75 2^^ 
 
 No. 
 
 20. 
 
 
 
 7B 
 
 

 
 566 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE of B L I QJJ E ASCENSIONS, 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Min. — South Latitude, 
 
 ' ■ 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 139 2 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d, m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 1 
 
 137 15 
 
 138 8 
 
 139 55 
 
 140 49 
 
 141 40 
 
 142 32 1 
 
 1 
 
 138 42 
 
 139 33 
 
 140 26 
 
 141 19 
 
 142 13 
 
 143 3 
 
 H3 54 ; 
 
 o 
 
 140 8 
 
 140 58 
 
 141 52 
 
 142 43 
 
 M3 36 
 
 144 26 
 
 H5 n i 
 
 3 
 
 141 33 
 
 142 24 
 
 143 16 
 
 144 8 
 
 144 59 
 
 145 49 
 
 146 40 
 
 4 
 
 ^2 59 
 
 H3 53 
 
 144 42 
 
 145 32 
 
 146 22 
 
 147 12 
 
 h8 5 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 144 25 
 
 145 52 
 
 H5 17 
 
 146 7 
 
 •46 57 
 
 148 21 
 
 147 46 
 
 148 36 
 
 149 27 
 
 146 42 
 
 147 32 
 
 149 -12 
 
 150 
 
 1^0 50 
 
 7 
 
 147 17 
 
 148 7 
 
 148 56 
 
 149 45 
 
 150 35 
 
 151 25 
 
 152 14 
 
 8 . 
 
 148 43 
 
 149 32 
 
 150 22 
 
 '51 9 
 
 151 59 
 
 152 49 
 
 ^53 38 
 
 9 
 
 150 8 
 
 150 5^ 
 
 151 47 
 
 152 35 
 
 153 24 
 
 '54 13 
 
 155 2 
 
 10 
 
 •51 34 
 
 152 23 
 
 ^53 J 2 
 
 153 59 
 
 154 49 
 
 155 37 
 
 156 25 
 
 II 
 
 12 
 
 152 59 
 
 153 4« 
 
 154 16 
 
 ^55 24 
 
 156 13 
 
 157 I 
 
 M7 47 
 
 154 25 
 
 ^55 14 
 
 156 2 
 
 156 50 
 
 M7 37 
 
 158 25 
 
 159 12 
 
 13 
 
 155 50 
 
 156 30 
 
 M7 27 
 
 158 15 
 
 159 2 
 
 ^59 49 
 
 160 35 
 
 H 
 
 157 16 
 
 158 4 
 
 15^ 52 
 
 159 40 
 
 160 26 
 
 161 13 
 
 i6i 59 
 
 15 
 
 158 42 
 
 159 28 
 
 160 16 
 
 161 4 
 
 161 50 
 
 162 37 
 
 163 23 
 
 16 
 
 160 7 
 
 160 54 
 
 161 42 
 
 162 28 
 
 163 14 
 
 164 
 
 164 47 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 161 32 
 
 162 58. 
 
 162 19 
 
 163 6 
 
 163 52 
 
 164 38 
 
 165 25 
 
 166 12 
 
 167 35 
 
 163 45 
 
 164 31 
 
 165 16 
 
 i66 3 
 
 166 49 
 
 19 
 
 164 23 
 
 165 10 
 
 ^65 56 
 
 166 42 
 
 167 27 
 
 168 13 
 
 168 59 
 
 20 
 
 165 48 
 
 166 T,S 
 
 167 22 
 
 168 6 
 
 168 51 
 
 169 38 
 
 170 24 
 
 21 
 
 167 13 
 
 168 2 
 
 168 46 
 
 169 32 
 
 170 17 
 
 171 3 
 
 171 49 
 
 22 
 
 168 39 
 
 169 25 
 
 170 10 
 
 170 55 
 
 171 42 
 
 172 27 
 
 173 13 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 170 4 
 
 170 50 
 
 171 35 
 173 
 
 172 22 
 
 173 6 
 
 173 52 
 
 174 37 
 
 171 30 
 
 172 15 
 
 !73 4^ 
 
 174 31 
 
 175 16 
 
 17^ 3 
 
 25 
 
 172 54 
 
 173 40 
 
 174 27 
 
 175 12 
 
 ns 57 
 
 176 42 
 
 177 28 
 
 26 
 
 174 20 
 
 175 5 
 
 175 52 
 
 n^> 31 
 
 177 22 
 
 178 8 
 
 n^ 54 
 
 27 
 
 175 45 
 
 176 32 
 
 177 17 
 
 178 2 
 
 178 48 
 
 179 33 
 
 180 19 
 
 28 
 
 177 10 
 
 177 56 
 
 ^7^ 43 
 
 179 26 
 
 180 12 
 
 180 57 
 
 181 43 
 
 ; 29. 
 
 178 36 
 
 T79 22 
 
 180 8 
 
 180 52 
 
 iSi 37 
 
 181 23 
 
 183 10 
 
 ^o 
 
 i8o" '180 47 
 
 t'8i 32 
 
 182 17 
 
 t8^ ^ 
 
 183 49 
 
 184 3<
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 567 
 
 A 
 
 TABLE 
 
 of OBLIQJJE ASCENSIONS. 1 
 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Min. — North Latitude. 
 
 .re 
 
 
 
 J 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 180 
 
 179 
 
 13 
 
 178 29 
 
 177 43 
 
 176 57 
 
 176 
 
 1 1 
 
 175 25 
 
 I 
 
 181 25 
 
 180 
 
 39 
 
 179 52 
 
 179 .9 
 
 178 23 
 
 177 
 
 37 
 
 176 50 
 
 2 
 
 182 50 
 
 182 
 
 4 
 
 181 17 
 
 181 34 
 
 n9 47 
 
 179 
 
 3 
 
 178 17 
 
 ■ 3 
 
 184 15 
 
 i«3 
 
 29 
 
 182 43 
 
 180 58 
 
 i8l 12 
 
 180 
 
 27 
 
 179 41 
 
 4 
 
 185 40 
 
 184 
 
 55 
 
 184 8 
 
 1B3 23 
 
 182 38 
 
 i8i 
 
 ';2 
 
 181 6 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 187 6 
 
 i85 
 
 20 
 
 185 33 
 
 184 48 
 
 184 3 
 
 185 29 
 
 •83 
 
 18 
 
 182 32 
 
 188 30 
 
 187 
 
 45 
 
 187 
 
 186 n 
 
 184 
 
 44 
 
 ^83 57 
 
 7 
 
 189 56 
 
 189 
 
 10 
 
 188 25 
 
 187 39 
 
 186 54 
 
 186 
 
 9 
 
 18? 23 
 
 8 
 
 191 21 
 
 190 
 
 35 
 
 189 50 
 
 189 5 
 
 188 19 
 
 187 
 
 .33 
 
 186 47 
 
 9 
 
 192 47 
 
 191 
 
 59 
 
 191 14 
 
 190 29 
 
 189 43^ 
 
 188 
 
 57 
 
 i88 II 
 
 10 
 
 194 12 
 
 193 
 
 25 
 
 192 39 
 
 191 54 
 
 191 9 
 
 190 
 
 22 
 
 189 36 
 
 II 
 
 195 37 
 
 194 
 196 
 
 50 
 15 
 
 194 4 
 
 193 19 
 
 192 33 
 
 193 57 
 
 191 
 
 47 
 
 191 I 
 
 1 
 
 12 
 
 197 2 
 
 195 29 
 
 194 44 
 
 193 
 
 1 1 
 
 192 25 
 
 13 
 
 198 28 
 
 197 
 
 42 
 
 196 54 
 
 196 8 
 
 195 22 
 
 194 
 
 3S 
 
 193 49 
 
 14 
 
 199 33 
 
 199 
 
 6 
 
 198 19 
 
 197 32 
 
 196 46- 
 
 196 
 
 
 
 195 13 
 
 15 
 
 20 1 19 
 
 200 
 
 32 
 
 199 44 
 
 1 98 56 
 
 198 ,10 
 
 "97 
 
 
 196 37 
 
 16 
 
 202 44 
 
 201 
 
 5^ 
 
 201 9 
 
 200 20 
 
 199 34 
 
 198 
 
 47 
 
 198 I 
 
 '7 
 
 204 10 
 
 203 
 
 22 
 
 202 T;;^ 
 
 201 45 
 
 20Q 58 
 
 2C2 23 
 
 200 
 201 
 
 1 1 
 35 
 
 199 25 
 
 18 
 
 205 35 
 
 204 
 
 46 
 
 203 59 
 
 203 10 
 
 2CO 49 
 
 19 
 
 207 I 
 
 206 
 
 12 
 
 205 .24 
 
 204 36 
 
 203 47 
 
 202 
 
 59 
 
 202 13 
 
 20 
 
 208 26 
 
 207 
 
 37 
 
 206 49 
 
 206 2 
 
 205 12 
 
 204 
 
 23 
 
 203 35 
 
 21 
 
 209 52 
 
 209 
 
 2 
 
 208 13 
 
 207 25 
 
 206 35 
 
 20.? 
 
 47 
 
 204 59 
 
 22 
 
 21 1 17 
 
 210 
 
 28 
 
 209 38 
 
 208 51 
 
 208 - I 
 
 207 
 
 1 1 
 
 206 22 
 
 23 
 
 212 43 
 
 21 1 
 
 S3 
 
 211 4 
 
 210 15 
 
 209 25. 
 
 208 
 
 35. 
 
 207 46 
 
 214 9 
 
 213 
 
 18 
 
 212 29 
 
 211 39 
 
 210 49 
 
 210 
 
 
 
 209 10 
 
 25 
 
 215 35 
 
 214 
 
 43 
 
 213 53 
 
 213 3 
 
 212 14 
 
 21 1 
 
 24 
 
 21& 33 
 
 i 26 
 
 216 59 
 
 216 
 
 10 
 
 215 19 
 
 214 28 
 
 213 38 
 
 212 
 
 48 
 
 211 55 
 
 27 
 
 218 27 
 
 217 
 
 36 
 
 216 43 
 
 215 52 
 
 215 I 
 
 214 
 
 1 1 
 
 213 20 
 
 28 
 
 ^19 S3 
 
 219 
 
 2 
 
 218 9 
 
 217 17 
 
 216 24 
 
 215 
 
 34 
 
 214 43 ■' 
 
 29 
 
 221 19 
 
 220 
 
 27 
 
 219 34 
 
 218 41 
 
 217 47 
 
 216 
 
 57 
 
 216 6 
 
 ! .^0 
 
 222 46 1221 
 
 52 
 
 220 59 220 t; 
 
 219 1 1 
 
 218 
 
 20 217 2(i \
 
 S68 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE of O B L I C^U 
 
 E ASCENSIONS, | 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Min. — 
 
 •South Latitude. 
 
 hf 1 < 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 180 
 
 10 
 
 180 47 
 
 181 32 
 
 182 
 
 '1 
 
 '83 
 
 3 
 
 '83 45 
 
 1 84 35 
 
 I 
 
 181 
 
 25 
 
 182 12 
 
 182 57 
 
 '83 
 
 42 
 
 184 
 
 28 
 
 185 15 
 
 186 2 
 
 2 
 
 182 
 
 SO 
 
 183 37 
 
 184 22 
 
 '85 
 
 8 
 
 185 
 
 54 
 
 186 40 
 
 187 27 
 
 3 
 
 184 
 
 15 
 
 185 2 
 
 185 47 
 
 186 
 
 33 
 
 187 
 
 20 
 
 188 6 
 
 188 53 
 
 4 
 
 ifi5 
 
 40 
 
 186 27 
 
 187 13 
 
 187 
 
 59 
 
 188 
 
 45 
 
 189 32 
 
 190 19 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 187 
 
 6 
 
 '87 S3 
 
 188 38 
 190 3 
 
 189 
 
 25 
 
 190 
 
 1 1 
 
 190 58 
 
 '9' 45 
 '93 'o 
 
 188 
 
 30 
 
 189 17 
 
 190 49 
 
 191 
 
 35 
 
 192 22 
 
 7 
 
 1^9 56 
 
 190 42 
 
 191 28 
 
 192 
 
 '5 
 
 193 
 
 2 
 
 '93 48 
 
 '94 36 • 
 
 8 
 
 191 
 
 22 
 
 192 8 
 
 192 54 
 
 193 
 
 42 
 
 '94 
 
 27 
 
 '95 '4 
 
 196 3 
 
 9 
 
 192 
 
 47 
 
 '93 32 
 
 '94 19 
 
 '95 
 
 5 
 
 '95 
 
 53 
 
 196 42 
 
 197 30 
 
 10 
 
 194 
 
 12 
 
 194 58 
 
 '95 44 
 
 196 
 
 32 
 
 '97 
 
 20 
 
 198 8 
 
 '98 57 
 
 II 
 
 12 
 
 195 
 
 37 
 
 196 24 
 
 197 10 
 
 '97 
 
 58 
 
 198 
 
 47 
 
 '99 35 
 
 200 25 
 
 197 
 
 2 
 
 197 52 
 
 '98 37 
 
 199 
 
 25 
 
 200 
 
 '3 
 
 201 2 
 
 201 52 
 
 13 
 
 198 
 
 28 
 
 199 16 
 
 200 3, 
 
 200 
 
 52 
 
 201 
 
 40 
 
 202 29 
 
 203 18 
 
 H 
 
 199 
 
 52 
 
 200 42 
 
 201 29 
 
 202 
 
 18 
 
 203 
 
 6 
 
 203 57 
 
 204 45 
 
 15 
 
 201 
 
 19 
 
 202. 7 
 
 202 ss 
 
 203 
 
 44 
 
 204 33 
 
 205 23 
 
 2c6 13 
 
 16 
 
 203 
 
 44 
 
 203 32 
 
 204 22 
 
 205 
 
 12 
 
 206 
 
 I 
 
 206 52 
 
 207 42 
 
 17 
 
 18 
 
 204 
 
 10 
 
 204 58 
 
 205 47 
 
 206 
 
 38 
 
 207 
 208 
 
 27 
 53 
 
 208 18 
 
 209 9 
 
 205 
 
 35 
 
 206 24 
 
 207 13 
 
 208 
 
 5 
 
 209 46 
 
 210 38 
 
 19 
 
 207 
 
 2 
 
 207 50 
 
 208 40 
 
 209 
 
 32 
 
 210 
 
 20 
 
 21 1 14 
 
 212 6 
 
 20 
 
 208 
 
 26 
 
 209 19 
 
 210 7 
 
 210 
 
 58 
 
 211 
 
 4^ 
 
 212 42 
 
 213 34 
 
 21 
 
 209 
 
 52 
 
 210 42 
 
 211 33 
 
 212 
 
 23 
 
 213 
 
 16 
 
 214 9 
 
 215 3 
 
 22 
 
 21 1 
 
 n 
 
 212 8 
 
 212 59 
 
 213 
 
 5^ 
 
 214 
 
 45 
 
 215 38 
 
 216 23 
 
 23 
 
 212 
 
 43 
 
 213 3f> 
 
 215 2 
 
 214 27 
 
 215 
 
 '9 
 
 216 
 
 '4 
 
 217 7 
 
 218 2 
 
 24 
 
 214 
 
 9 
 
 215 53 
 
 216 
 
 47 
 
 217 
 
 42 
 
 218 2,6 
 
 219 30 
 
 25 
 
 2r5 
 
 35 
 
 216 28 
 
 217 20 
 
 218 
 
 14 
 
 219 
 
 9 
 
 220 5 
 
 221 2 
 
 26 
 
 216 
 
 59 
 
 217 54 
 
 218 47 
 
 219 
 
 42 
 
 220 
 
 37 
 
 221 Z2, 
 
 222 30 
 
 27 
 
 218 
 
 27 
 
 219 21 
 
 220 16 
 
 221 
 
 10 
 
 222 
 
 6 
 
 223 2 
 
 224 
 
 28 
 
 219 
 
 53 
 
 220 48 
 
 221 43 
 
 222 
 
 38 
 
 223 
 
 34 
 
 224 32 
 
 225 32 
 
 29 
 
 221 
 
 19 
 
 222 14 
 
 223 9 
 
 224 
 
 6 
 
 22<? 
 
 3 
 
 226 2 
 
 227 2 
 
 30 
 
 222 
 
 46 
 
 223 42 
 
 224 37 
 
 225 
 
 33 
 
 226 
 
 32 
 
 227 32 
 
 228 35
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 569 
 
 A TABLE of OBLI QJJ E ASCENSIONS, 
 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Min. — 
 
 North Latitude. 
 
 
 »i 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 3 
 
 i 
 
 1- 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 322 
 
 46 
 
 221 5r 
 
 220 59 
 
 220 5 
 
 219 
 
 1 1 
 
 218 20 
 
 217 29 
 
 
 I 
 
 224 
 
 1 1 
 
 223 16 
 
 222 24 
 
 221 30 
 
 220 
 
 36 
 
 219 44 
 
 218 51 
 
 
 2 
 
 225 
 
 37 
 
 224 41 
 
 223 47 
 
 222 54 
 
 222 
 
 
 
 221 7 
 
 220 15 
 
 
 3 
 
 227 
 
 3 
 
 226 6 
 
 225 10 
 
 224 17 
 
 223 
 
 24 
 
 222 30 
 
 221 37 
 
 
 4 
 
 228 
 
 29 
 
 227 33 
 
 226 ^s 
 
 225 41 
 
 224 47 
 
 223 51 
 
 222 59 
 
 
 5' 
 6 
 
 229 
 
 55 
 
 228 58 
 
 22S 
 
 227 4 
 
 226 
 
 1 1 
 
 225 15 
 
 224 21 
 
 
 231 
 
 21 
 
 230 25 
 
 229 26 
 
 228 29 
 
 227 
 
 35 
 
 226 39 
 
 225 44 
 
 
 7 
 
 232 
 
 47 
 
 231 51 
 
 230 5^ 
 
 229 S3 
 
 228 
 
 51 
 
 228 1 
 
 227 6 
 
 
 8 
 
 234 
 
 14 
 
 233 14 
 
 232 15 
 
 231 17 
 
 230 
 
 20 
 
 229 23 
 
 228 28 
 
 
 9 
 
 235 
 
 40 
 
 234 40 
 
 233 39 
 
 232 41 
 
 23 r 
 
 43 
 
 230 47 
 
 229 50 
 
 
 10 
 
 237 
 
 6 
 
 236 5 
 
 235 4 
 
 234 5 
 
 232 
 
 50 
 
 232 10 
 
 231 II 
 
 
 II 
 12 
 
 238 
 
 33 
 
 237 30 
 
 236 29 
 
 235 29 
 
 234 
 
 235 
 
 30 
 53 
 
 233 31 
 
 232 34 
 
 
 239 
 
 58 
 
 238 55 
 
 237 53 
 
 236 53 
 
 234 53 
 
 233- 56 
 
 
 13 
 
 241 
 
 24 
 
 240 19 
 
 239 18 
 
 238 16 
 
 237 
 
 15 
 
 236 15 
 
 235 18 
 
 
 14 
 
 242 
 
 50 
 
 241 44 
 
 240 41 
 
 239 40 
 
 238 
 
 39 
 
 237 38 
 
 236 40. 
 
 
 15 
 
 244 
 
 16 
 
 243 10 
 
 242 5 
 
 241 3 
 
 240 
 
 I 
 
 239 
 
 238 
 
 
 16 
 
 245 
 
 41 
 
 244 34 
 
 243 30 
 
 242 26 
 
 241 
 
 24 
 
 240 21 
 
 239 20 
 
 
 - 17 
 18 
 
 247 
 
 8 
 
 245 58 
 
 244 53 
 
 243 49 
 
 242 
 
 47 
 
 241 43 
 
 240 41 
 
 
 248 
 
 33 
 
 247 24 
 
 246 17 
 
 245 II 
 
 244 
 
 8 
 
 243 5 
 
 242 I 
 
 
 19 
 
 249 5^ 
 
 248 49 
 
 247 41 
 
 246 34 
 
 245 
 
 33 
 
 244 26 
 
 243 23 
 
 
 20 
 
 251 
 
 24 
 
 250 13 
 
 249 4 
 
 247 57 
 
 246 
 
 51 
 
 245 47 
 
 244 44 
 
 
 21 
 
 252 
 
 49 
 
 251 37 
 
 250 27 
 
 249 20 
 
 248 
 
 14 
 
 247 8 
 
 246 4 
 
 
 22 
 
 254 
 
 H 
 
 253 I 
 
 251 51 
 
 250 43 
 
 249 
 
 35 
 
 248 28 
 
 247 23 
 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 -55 
 
 3S 
 
 254 2$ 
 
 255 48 
 
 253 13 
 
 252 5 
 
 250 
 
 56 
 
 249 48 
 
 248 43 
 250 3 
 
 
 -51 
 
 3 
 
 254 37 
 
 253 27 
 
 252 
 
 18 
 
 251 9 
 
 
 25 
 
 258 
 
 27 
 
 257 II 
 
 255 58 
 
 254 48 
 
 253 
 
 38 
 
 252 29 
 
 251 23 
 
 
 26 
 
 259 
 
 51 
 
 258 36 
 
 257 20 
 
 256 9 
 
 254 
 
 58 
 
 253 49 
 
 252 41 
 
 
 27 
 
 261 
 
 15 
 
 260 
 
 258 43 
 
 257 30 
 
 256 
 
 18 
 
 255 9 
 
 253 59 
 
 
 28 
 
 262 
 
 39 
 
 261 21 
 
 260 5 
 
 258 51 • 
 
 257 
 
 38 
 
 256 28 
 
 255 18 
 
 
 29 
 
 264 
 
 3 
 
 262 43 
 
 261 26 
 
 260 1 1 
 
 258 
 
 58 
 
 257 47 
 
 256 36 
 
 
 30 
 
 265 
 
 26 
 
 264 6 
 
 262 48 
 
 261 33 
 
 260 
 
 18 
 
 259 6 
 
 257 54 
 
 
 Ko. 29. 
 
 7C
 
 s^o 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE of OB LI Q^U E ASCENSIONS, 
 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Min. — Soia/j Latitude. 
 
 
 Wl 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 d. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 
 222 46 
 
 223 41 
 
 224 37 
 
 225 33 
 
 226 31 
 
 227 31 
 
 228 31 
 
 
 1 
 
 224 11 
 
 225 7 
 
 226 3 
 
 227 1 
 
 228 
 
 229 I 
 
 230 I 
 
 
 2 
 
 225 37 
 
 226 23 
 
 227 31 
 
 228 29 
 
 229 27 
 
 230 31 
 
 231 31 
 
 
 i 3 
 
 227 3 
 
 228 I 
 
 228 58 
 
 229 57 
 
 230 57 
 
 232 
 
 233 I 
 
 
 4 
 
 228 29 
 
 229 28 
 
 230 26 
 
 231 26 
 
 232 36 
 
 233 30 
 
 234 34 
 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 229 55 
 
 230 54 
 
 231 53 
 
 232 54 
 
 233 56 
 
 235 I 
 
 236 
 
 
 231 21 
 
 232 21 
 
 233 21 
 
 234 23 
 
 235 ?5 
 
 236 7.1 
 
 237 36 
 
 
 7 
 
 232 47 
 
 233 48 
 
 234 49 
 
 235 51 
 
 236 54 
 
 238 I 
 
 239 7 
 
 
 8 
 
 234 H 
 
 235 15 
 
 236 17 
 
 237 20 
 
 238 23 
 
 239 31 
 
 240 39 
 
 
 9 
 
 235 40 
 
 236 41 
 
 237 44 
 
 238 49 
 
 239 54 
 
 241 I 
 
 242 1 1 
 
 
 10 
 
 237 6 
 
 238 6 
 
 239 II 
 
 240 16 
 
 241 24 
 
 242 33 
 
 243 44 
 
 
 II 
 12 
 
 238 33 
 
 239 35 
 
 240 38 
 
 241 45 
 243 14 
 
 242 S3 
 
 244 3 
 
 245 14 
 
 
 239 53 
 
 241 I 
 
 242 7 
 
 244 24 
 
 245 3S 
 
 246 47 
 
 
 13 
 
 241 24 
 
 242 29 
 
 243 3S ' 
 
 244 44 
 
 245 54 
 
 247 7 
 
 248 20 
 
 
 H 
 
 242 50 
 
 243 56 
 
 245 I 
 
 246 II 
 
 247 24 
 
 248 38 
 
 249 S3 
 
 
 »5 
 
 244 16 
 
 245 23 
 
 246 30 
 
 247 41 
 
 248 SS 
 
 250 9 
 
 251 25 
 
 
 16 
 
 245 41 
 
 246 48 
 
 247 58 
 
 249 10 
 
 250 24 
 
 251 40 
 
 252 58 
 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 247 8 
 
 248 14 
 
 249 26 
 
 250 40 
 
 251 55 
 
 253 II 
 
 254 30 
 
 
 248 33 
 
 249 41 
 
 250 S3 
 
 252 8 
 
 ^SZ 23 
 
 254 41 
 
 256 I 
 
 
 19 
 
 249 58 
 
 251 7 
 
 252 21 
 
 253 37 
 
 254 52 
 
 256 13 
 
 257 33 
 
 
 20 
 
 251 24 
 
 252 35 
 
 253 50 
 
 255 4 
 
 256 23 
 
 257 44 
 
 259 6 
 
 
 21 
 
 252 49 
 
 254 I 
 
 255 16 
 
 256 31 
 
 257 52 
 
 259 14 
 
 260 39 
 
 
 22 
 
 254 H 
 
 255 27 
 
 256 43 
 
 258 
 
 259 21 
 
 260 44 
 
 262 r I 
 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 255 38 
 
 256 54 
 
 258 II 
 
 259 29 
 
 260 51 
 
 262 16 
 
 263 44 
 
 
 257 3 
 
 258 20 
 
 259 37 
 
 260 58 
 
 262 22 
 
 263 47 
 
 265 17 
 
 
 25 
 
 258 27 
 
 259 44 
 
 261 4 
 
 262 26 
 
 263 51 
 
 265 17 
 
 266 40 
 
 
 26 
 
 259 51 
 
 261 9 
 
 262 30 
 
 263 S3 
 
 265 19 
 
 266 49 
 
 268 21 
 
 
 27 
 
 261 I 5 
 
 262 34 
 
 263 57 
 
 265 21 
 
 266 48 
 
 268 19 
 
 269 51 
 
 
 28 
 
 262 39 
 
 263 59 
 
 265 23 
 
 266 48 
 
 268 15 
 
 269 49 
 
 271 20 
 
 
 29 
 
 264 3 
 
 265 25 
 
 266 48 
 
 268 15 
 
 269 44 
 
 271 19 
 
 272 '55 
 274 25 
 
 
 30 
 
 265 26 
 
 266 49 
 
 268 13 
 
 269 41 
 
 261 II 
 
 272 48 

 
 « 
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 57^ 
 
 f — 
 
 1 A TABLE of OBLIQUE ASCENSIONS, 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Min. — North Latitude. 
 
 / 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 * i 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m, 
 259 6 
 
 d. m.j 
 
 265 26 
 
 264 6 
 
 262 48 
 
 261 -7,1 
 
 260 18 
 
 ,257 54 . 
 
 I 
 
 266 49 
 
 265 28 
 
 264 9 
 
 262 51 
 
 261 37 
 
 260 24 
 
 259 " j 
 
 2 
 
 i68 II 
 
 266 50 
 
 26^ 29 
 
 264 1 1 
 
 262 56 
 
 261 41 
 
 260 29 : 
 
 3 
 
 269 34 
 
 268 II 
 
 266 50 
 
 265 31 
 
 264 14 
 
 263 I 
 
 261 47 
 
 4 
 
 270 56 
 
 269 31 
 
 268 9 
 
 266 50 
 
 265 31 
 
 264 18 
 
 263 3 1 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 272 18 
 
 273 38 
 
 270 51 
 
 269 29 
 
 268 9 
 
 269 28 
 
 266 50 
 
 265 34 
 
 266 50 
 
 264 19 1 
 
 272 13 
 
 270 49 
 
 268 9 
 
 265 34 i 
 
 7 
 
 274 58 
 
 273 31 
 
 272 8 
 
 270 45 
 
 269 26 
 
 268 6 
 
 266 50 
 
 8 
 
 276 19 
 
 274 51 
 
 273 27 
 
 272 4 
 
 270 43 
 
 269 21 
 
 268 5 
 
 9 
 
 277 39 
 
 276 10 
 
 274 45 
 
 273 21 
 
 271 58 
 
 27038 
 
 269 20 
 
 10 
 
 .78 5B 
 
 277 28 
 
 276 I 
 
 274 37 
 
 273 13 
 
 271 SZ 
 
 270 zz 
 
 1 1 
 
 12 
 
 280 17 
 
 278 47 
 
 277 18 
 
 275 58 
 
 274 27 
 
 275 41 
 
 273 7 
 
 i-ji 46 
 
 281 34 
 
 280 4 
 
 278 34 
 
 277 8. 
 
 274 21 
 
 273 
 
 U 
 
 282 f3 
 
 281 21 
 
 279 50 
 
 278 21 
 
 276 57 
 
 275 IZ 
 
 274 21 
 
 H 
 
 284 10 
 
 282 27 
 
 281 5 
 
 279 37 
 
 278 II 
 
 276 46 
 
 275 24 
 
 15 
 
 285 27 
 
 283 sz 
 
 282 21 
 
 280 51 
 
 279 24 
 
 277 59 
 
 276 37 
 
 16 
 
 286 41 
 
 285 7 
 
 283 34 
 
 282 3 1 
 
 280 37 
 
 279 10 
 
 277 48 
 
 »7 
 18 
 
 287 58 
 
 286 21 
 
 284 48 
 
 283 17 
 
 1 
 
 281 49 
 
 280 21 
 
 278 59 
 
 280 8 
 
 289 1 1 
 
 287 zs 
 
 286 
 
 284 31 
 
 283 
 
 281 zz 
 
 19 
 
 290 27 
 
 288 47 
 
 287 ,1 
 
 285 41 
 
 284 II 
 
 282 43 
 
 281 17 
 
 20 
 
 291 41 
 
 290 I 
 
 288 2s ' 
 
 286 sz 
 
 285 21 
 
 283 SZ 
 
 282 2) 
 
 21 
 
 292 SZ 
 
 291 15 
 
 289 37 I 
 
 288 5 
 
 286 zz 
 
 285 4 
 
 283 37 
 
 22 
 
 294 5 
 
 292 26 
 
 290 48 
 
 289 13 
 
 287 40 
 
 286 II 
 
 284 44 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 295 16 
 
 293 zs 
 
 291 57 
 
 290 21 
 
 288 48 
 2S9 57 
 
 287 18 
 
 288 26 
 
 285 50 
 
 296 27 
 
 294 45 
 
 293 6 
 
 291 30 
 
 286 58 
 
 25 
 
 297 37 
 
 295 54 
 
 294 13 
 
 292 38 
 
 291 3 
 
 289 3£ 
 
 288 3 
 
 26 
 
 298 46 
 
 297 I 
 
 295 21 
 
 293 45 
 
 292 9 
 
 290 38 
 
 289 8 
 
 27 
 
 299 54 
 
 298 10 
 
 296 29 
 
 294 51 
 
 293 17 
 
 291 44 
 
 290 14 
 
 28 
 
 301 I 
 
 299 17 
 
 297 35 
 
 295 58 
 
 294 21 
 
 292 46 
 
 291 17 
 
 29 
 
 302 8 
 
 300 24 
 
 298 41 
 
 297 3 
 
 295 27 
 
 293 ^Z 
 
 292 21 
 
 30 
 
 303 H 
 
 301 29 
 
 299 46 
 
 298 7 
 
 296 31 
 
 294 56 
 
 ^93 -7
 
 57^ 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 # 
 
 A TABLE of OBLI QJJ E ASCENSIONS, 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Ueg. 32 Min. — 3outh Latitude. 
 
 \ i 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 ^ 
 ^ 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 268 13 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 271 1 1 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 265 26 
 
 266 49 
 
 269 41 
 
 272 47 , 
 
 274 25 
 
 I 
 
 266 49 
 
 268 14 
 
 269 39 
 
 271 8 
 
 272 40 
 
 274 17 ;275 56 
 
 [ 2 
 
 268 II 
 
 269 37 
 
 271 5 
 
 272 36 
 
 274 9 
 
 275 47 277 23 
 
 3 
 
 269 34 
 
 271 I 
 
 272 29 
 
 274 I 
 
 275 35 
 
 377 15 
 
 278 59 
 
 4 
 
 270 56 
 
 272 21 
 
 273 51 
 
 275 25 
 
 277 I 
 
 278 43 
 
 280 30 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 271 18 
 273 37 
 
 273 45 
 
 275 16 
 
 276 40 
 
 276 50 
 278 J5 
 
 278 28 
 
 279 55 
 
 280 10 
 
 281 58 
 
 275 8 
 
 281 38 
 
 283 28 
 
 7 
 
 274 58 
 
 276 30 
 
 278 3 
 
 279 31 
 
 28l 21 
 
 283 6 
 
 284 57 
 
 8 
 
 276 19 
 
 277 51 
 
 279 24 
 
 281 5 
 
 282 45 
 
 284 32 
 
 286 24 
 
 9 
 
 277 39 
 
 279 II 
 
 280 47 
 
 282 28 
 
 284 II 
 
 285 58 
 
 287 51 
 
 10 
 
 278 58 
 
 280 31 
 
 282 8 
 
 283 50 
 
 235 34 
 
 287 23 
 
 289 17 
 
 ! II 
 12 
 
 280 17 
 
 281 53 
 
 283 30 
 
 285 I I 
 
 286 58 
 
 288 49 
 
 290 44 
 
 281 34 
 
 283 II 
 
 284 50 
 
 286 34 
 
 288 20 
 
 290 14 
 
 292 II 
 
 13 
 
 282 53 
 
 284 31 
 
 286 10 
 
 287 55 
 
 289 34 
 
 291 35 
 
 293 36 
 
 14 
 
 284 10 
 
 285 49 
 
 287 30 
 
 289 15 
 
 291 5 
 
 292 59 
 
 295 I 
 
 15 
 
 285 27 
 
 287 6 
 
 288 49 
 
 290 34 
 
 292 26 
 
 294 21 
 
 296 25 
 
 16 
 
 286 43 
 
 288 21 
 
 290 5 
 
 291 51 
 
 293 44 
 
 295 43 
 
 297 46 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 287 58 
 
 289 38 
 
 291 21 
 
 293 10 
 
 295 4 
 
 296 23 
 
 297 3 
 
 298 7 
 
 289 13 
 
 290 54 
 
 292 41 
 
 294 27 
 
 298 23 
 
 300 29 
 
 19 
 
 290 27 
 
 292 8 
 
 293 55 
 
 295 45 
 
 297 41 
 
 299 43 1301 50 1 
 
 20 
 
 291 41 
 
 293 23 
 
 295 10 
 
 297 I 
 
 299 
 
 3CO 59 303 19 
 
 21 
 
 292 S3 
 
 294 38 
 
 296 26 
 
 298 19 
 
 300 17 
 
 302 19 304 30 
 
 22 
 
 294 S 
 
 295 51 I297 40 
 
 299 3?, 
 
 301 31 
 
 303 35 
 
 305 48 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 295 16 
 
 296 27 
 
 297 » 
 
 298 51 
 
 300 46 
 
 301 59 
 
 302 44 
 
 304 49 
 
 307 3 
 
 308 19 
 
 298 13 
 
 300 -3 
 
 303 57 
 
 306 4 
 
 25 
 
 297 37 
 
 299 23 1301 13 
 
 30^ 10 
 
 305 II 
 
 307 19 
 
 309 34 
 
 26 
 
 298 46 
 
 300 31 
 
 302 23 
 
 304 21 
 
 306 21 
 
 308 31 
 
 310 47 
 
 27 
 
 299 54 
 
 301 41 
 
 303 34 
 
 305 31 
 
 307 34 
 
 309 H 
 
 312 I 
 
 28 
 
 301 I 
 
 302 50 
 
 304 41 
 
 306 41 
 
 308 43 
 
 310 54 
 
 313 II 
 
 29 
 
 302 8 
 
 303 58 
 
 305 51 
 
 307 50 
 
 309 S3 
 
 312 4 
 
 314 21 
 
 30 
 
 303 14 
 
 305 4 
 
 306 68 
 
 308 57 
 
 311 I 
 
 3^3 II 
 
 315 3>
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 573 
 
 A TABLE of OBLIQJJE ASCENSIONS, 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Ucg. 32 Min. — North Latitude. 
 
 r _ ... 
 
 Vf 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 
 d. rn. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m.' 
 
 d. m. 
 
 303 H 
 
 301 29 
 
 299 46 
 
 298 7 
 
 296 31 
 
 294 56 
 
 293 25 
 
 I 
 
 304 19 
 
 302 34 
 
 300 51 
 
 209 1 1 
 
 297 3s : 
 
 295 59 
 
 294 28 
 
 2 
 
 305 22 
 
 303 37 
 
 301 55 
 
 300 14 
 
 298 37 .297 I 
 
 =95 29 
 
 3 
 
 306 26 
 
 304 40 
 
 302 57 
 
 301 16 
 
 299 39 1 
 
 298 2 
 
 296 30 
 
 4 
 
 307 29 
 
 305 42 
 
 303 59 
 
 302 17 
 
 300 39 i 
 
 299 2 
 
 297 30 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 30-^ 31 
 
 306 42 
 
 307 45 
 
 304 59 
 
 303 18 
 
 301 39 
 
 300 2 
 
 301 2 
 
 298 29 
 
 309 32 
 
 306 
 
 304 18 
 
 302 39 
 
 299 28 
 
 7 
 
 310 52 
 
 308 45 
 
 306 59 
 
 305 18 
 
 303 38 
 
 302 
 
 300 26 
 
 8 
 
 311 31 
 
 309 44 
 
 307 58 
 
 306 17 
 
 304 36 
 
 302 59 
 
 301 24 
 
 9 
 
 312 29 
 
 310 41 
 
 308 55 
 
 307 II 
 
 305 35 
 
 303 56 
 
 302 21 
 
 10 
 
 313 26 
 
 311 37 
 
 309 51 
 
 308 15 
 
 306 30 
 
 304 51 
 
 303 17 
 
 II 
 12 
 
 314 22 
 
 312 32 
 3>^3 29 
 
 310 46 
 
 309 6 
 
 307 25 
 
 305 47 
 
 304 II 
 
 Z^S 18 
 
 311 42 
 
 310 I 
 
 308 20 
 
 306 41 
 
 305 6 
 
 13 
 
 316 12 
 
 314 25 
 
 312 38 
 
 310 55 
 
 309 15 
 
 307 36 
 
 306 I 
 
 14 
 
 317 8 
 
 2>'S 19 
 
 i^z 32 
 
 311 49 
 
 310 9 
 
 308 30 
 
 306 54 
 
 15 
 
 318 I 
 
 316 12 
 
 314 27 
 
 312 42 
 
 311 2 
 
 309 22 
 
 307 47 
 
 16 
 
 318 54 
 
 317 5 
 
 315 19 
 
 3^3 35 
 
 3^1 55 
 
 310 16 
 
 308 38 
 
 ' '7 
 
 319 46 
 
 317 58 
 
 316 12 
 
 314 26 
 
 312 47 
 
 311 7 
 
 309 30 
 
 18 
 
 320 37 
 
 318 48 
 
 317 2 
 
 315 18 
 
 313 36 
 
 311 59 
 
 310 22 
 
 19 
 
 321 27 
 
 319 39 
 
 317 52 
 
 316 9 
 
 314 27 
 
 312 49 
 
 1311 12 
 
 1312 I 
 
 20 
 
 322 16 
 
 320 28 
 
 318 42 
 
 316 59 
 
 3^S 27 
 
 3^3 39 
 
 21 
 
 323 5 
 
 321 16 
 
 319 31 
 
 317 47 
 
 316 6 
 
 314 27 
 
 312 50 
 
 22 
 
 323 52 
 
 322 5 
 
 320 19 
 
 318 36 
 
 3^6 55 
 
 ^3^S 15 
 
 '3^3 39 
 
 '^ 
 
 -0 
 
 324 40 
 
 322 53 
 
 321 6 
 
 319 22 
 
 317 42 
 
 316 2 
 
 314 26 ' 
 
 24 
 
 325 26 
 
 323 39 
 
 321 52 
 
 320 10 
 
 318 29 
 
 316 48 
 
 3^S 12 
 
 25 
 
 1326 12 
 
 324 24 
 
 322 39 
 
 320 55 
 
 319 H 
 
 317 36 
 
 3^S 59 
 
 26 
 
 326 56 
 
 325 10 
 
 323 22 
 
 321 40 
 
 320 
 
 318 22 
 
 316 45 
 
 27 
 
 327 41 
 
 325 54 
 
 324 8 
 
 322 25 
 
 320 44 
 
 319 7 
 
 317 29 
 
 z'i 
 
 328 24 
 
 326 38 
 
 324 51 
 
 323 9 
 
 321 28 
 
 319 50 
 
 318 12 
 
 29 
 
 329 8 
 
 327 20 
 
 325 35 
 
 323 52 
 
 322 1 1 
 
 320 34 
 
 3' 8 57 
 
 30 I329 50 
 
 328 2 
 
 326 18 
 
 324 35 
 
 322 54 
 
 321 16 
 
 319 40 
 
 No. 29 
 
 D
 
 574 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE of OBLI Q^U E ASCENSIONS. 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Min. — South Latitude. 
 
 yf 
 
 
 
 
 
 f 
 
 I 
 
 3 
 
 i 
 
 \ 
 
 f 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 
 
 303 
 
 14 
 
 305 
 
 H 
 
 306 58 
 
 308 57 
 
 311 
 
 I 
 
 Z^Z 12 
 
 315 31 
 
 I 
 
 304 
 
 19 
 
 306 
 
 10 
 
 308 
 
 5 
 
 310 4 
 
 312 
 
 9 
 
 314 20 
 
 316 40 
 
 2 
 
 305 
 
 22 
 
 307 
 
 14 
 
 309 
 
 10 
 
 311 9 
 
 313 
 
 15 
 
 Z^S 2^ 
 
 317 47 
 
 3 
 
 306 
 
 26 
 
 308 
 
 18 
 
 310 
 
 14 
 
 312 14 
 
 314 
 
 20 
 
 316 32 
 
 318 52 
 
 4 
 
 307 
 
 29 
 
 309 
 
 20 
 
 311 
 
 17 
 
 l^Z 17 
 
 l^S 
 
 24 
 
 317 35 
 
 319 57 
 
 5 
 
 308 
 309 
 
 31 
 32 
 
 310 
 
 22 
 
 312 
 
 19 
 
 314 20 
 
 316 
 
 27 
 
 318 39 
 
 321 
 
 6 
 
 311 
 
 25 
 
 7>^2> 
 
 21 
 
 3M 22 
 
 317 
 
 27 
 
 319 40 
 
 322 I 
 
 7 
 
 310 
 
 32 
 
 312 
 
 25 
 
 314 
 
 22 
 
 316 24 
 
 318 
 
 28 
 
 320 41 
 
 323 3 
 
 8 
 
 311 
 
 31 
 
 313 
 
 25 
 
 7>^S 
 
 22 
 
 317 22 
 
 319 
 
 29 
 
 321 42 
 
 324 4 
 
 9 
 
 312 
 
 29 
 
 3H 
 
 22 
 
 316 
 
 20 
 
 318 21- 
 
 320 
 
 29 
 
 322 41 
 
 325 2 
 
 10 
 
 3^3 
 
 26 
 
 3^S 
 
 19 
 
 317 
 
 16 
 
 319 18 
 
 321 
 
 26 
 
 323 37 
 
 325 58 
 
 1 1 
 
 314 
 
 23 
 
 316 
 
 16 
 
 318 
 319 
 
 12 
 1 1 
 
 320 15 
 
 322 
 
 22 
 
 324 ZZ 
 
 326 54 
 
 12 
 
 315 
 
 18 
 
 317 
 
 12 
 
 521 10 
 
 323 
 
 17 
 
 325 29 
 
 327 49 
 
 U 
 
 316 
 
 12 
 
 3i« 
 
 6 
 
 320 
 
 4 
 
 322 4 
 
 324 
 
 12 
 
 326 25 
 
 328 48 
 
 H 
 
 317 
 
 8 
 
 319 
 
 
 
 320 
 
 59 
 
 322 58 
 
 325 
 
 6 
 
 327 19 
 
 329 38 
 
 15 
 
 3i« 
 
 I 
 
 319 
 
 54 
 
 321 
 
 52 
 
 323 52 
 
 ^26 
 
 
 
 328 II 
 
 330 3' 
 
 16 
 
 3i« 
 
 54 
 
 320 
 
 47 
 
 322 
 
 46 
 
 324 45 
 
 326 
 
 52 
 
 329 2 
 
 331 i2 
 
 17 
 
 319 
 
 46 
 
 321 
 
 39 
 
 323 
 
 32 
 
 325 37 
 
 327 
 
 42 
 
 329 52 
 
 332 12 
 
 18 
 
 320 
 
 37 
 
 322 
 
 30 
 
 324 
 
 26 
 
 326 28 
 
 328 
 
 32 
 
 330 44 
 
 333 I 
 
 19 
 
 321 
 
 27 
 
 323 
 
 21 
 
 325 
 
 16 
 
 327 18 
 
 329 
 
 22 
 
 zz^ 32 
 
 333 48 
 
 20 
 
 322 
 
 16 
 
 324 
 
 10 
 
 326 
 
 4- 
 
 328 6 
 
 330 
 
 10 
 
 332 21 
 
 334 35 
 
 21 
 
 zn 
 
 5 
 
 324 
 
 5« 
 
 326 
 
 52 
 
 328 54 
 
 330 
 
 59 
 
 333 8 
 
 335 22 
 
 22 
 
 323 
 
 52 
 
 325 
 
 45 
 
 327 
 
 40 
 
 329 -41 
 
 331 
 
 45 
 
 333 54 
 
 ZZ^ 8 
 
 23 
 
 324 
 325 
 
 40 
 26 
 
 326 
 
 32 
 
 328 
 
 27 
 
 330 27 
 
 332 
 
 31 
 
 334 40 
 
 336 52 
 
 24 
 
 327 
 
 18 
 
 329 
 
 4 
 
 ZZ^ II 
 
 3 33 
 
 15 
 
 ZZS 22 
 
 337 36 
 
 25 
 
 326 
 
 12 
 
 328 
 
 2 
 
 329 
 
 58 
 
 zz^ 56 
 
 ZZZ 
 
 58 
 
 336 6 
 
 338 18 
 
 26 
 
 326 56 
 
 328 48 
 
 330 
 
 42 
 
 332 41 
 
 334 42 
 
 336 49 
 
 339' 2 
 
 27 
 
 327 
 
 41 
 
 329 
 
 32 
 
 331 
 
 27 
 
 333 25 
 
 335 
 
 25 
 
 337 31 
 
 339 42 
 
 28 
 
 328 
 
 24 
 
 330 
 
 15 
 
 332 
 
 1 1 
 
 334 8 
 
 zz(^ 
 
 7 
 
 338 12 
 
 340 22 : 
 
 29 
 
 329 
 
 B 
 
 330 
 
 58 
 
 IV" 
 
 51 
 
 334 48 
 
 zz^ 46 
 
 338 52 
 
 341 , 
 
 30 
 
 329 
 
 50 
 
 ?>1>^ 
 
 39 
 
 ?,^Z 
 
 31 
 
 ZZi 28 
 
 337 
 
 26 15^9 32 I341 32
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 SI: 
 
 A TABLE 
 
 : of OBLIQUE ASCENSIONS, | 
 
 For the Lat 
 
 tude of 51 Deg. 3 
 
 2 Min. — Nor/b Latitude. 1 
 
 „ 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 o 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 328 
 
 m. 
 
 2 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m, 
 321 16 
 
 d. m. 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 329 50 
 
 326 18 
 
 324 
 
 35 
 
 322 54 
 
 319 40 
 
 I 
 
 330 32 
 
 328 
 
 42 
 
 327 
 
 325 
 
 17 
 
 323 3^ 
 
 321 59 
 
 3'^0 22 
 
 2 
 
 331 12 
 
 329 
 
 25 
 
 327 41 
 
 325 
 
 50 
 
 324 18 
 
 3 22 40 
 
 321 4 
 
 3 
 
 331 52 
 
 330 
 
 6 
 
 328 21 
 
 326 
 
 41 
 
 325 
 
 323 22 
 
 321 45 
 
 4 
 
 332 32 
 
 330 
 
 46 
 
 329 2 I327 
 
 21 
 
 325 42 
 
 324 2 
 
 322 27 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 333 II 
 333 46 
 
 33^ 
 
 26 
 
 329 42 
 
 328 
 328 
 
 
 41 
 
 326 22 
 
 324 42 
 
 323 7 
 
 332 
 
 4 
 
 330 22 
 
 327 2 
 
 325 22 
 
 323 47 
 
 7 
 
 334 27 
 
 33^ 
 
 42 
 
 33^ I 
 
 329 
 
 19 
 
 327 40 
 
 326 2 
 
 324 25 
 
 8 
 
 335 4 
 
 333 
 
 21 
 
 331 39 
 
 329 
 
 57 
 
 328 19 
 
 526 40 
 
 325 2 
 
 9 
 
 335 42 
 
 333 
 
 57 
 
 332 15 330 
 
 34 
 
 328 56 
 
 327 18 
 
 325 42 
 
 lO 
 
 33'^ i'^ 
 
 334- 
 
 35 
 
 332 52 33^ 
 
 I r 
 
 329 33 
 
 327 55 
 
 326 20 
 
 1 1 
 
 12 
 
 33^ 52 
 337 29 
 
 335 
 33S 
 
 1 1 
 
 46 
 
 333 29 
 
 33^ 
 332 
 
 48 
 26 
 
 330 10 
 
 330 46 
 
 328 32 
 
 326 57 
 
 3H 5 
 
 329 9 
 
 327 34 
 
 '3 
 
 33^ 4 
 
 33(^ 
 
 20 
 
 334 41 
 
 333 
 
 I 
 
 331 23 
 
 329 45 
 
 328 II 
 
 H 
 
 33^ 39 
 
 336 56 
 
 335 16 
 
 333 
 
 36 
 
 331 58 
 
 330 21 
 
 328 46 
 
 15 
 
 339 H 
 
 337 
 
 30 
 
 335 49 
 
 334 
 
 1 1 
 
 33 2 34 
 
 330 56 
 
 329 22 
 
 16 
 
 339 47 
 
 33^ 
 
 4 
 
 336 24 
 
 334 
 
 46 
 
 333 9 
 
 33 1 32 
 
 329 58 
 
 17 
 
 330 19 
 
 33^ 
 
 37 
 
 336 58 
 
 337 31 
 
 33<; 
 
 20 
 
 333 43 
 
 334 17 
 
 332 5 
 332 39 
 
 330 32 
 
 18 
 
 340 52 
 
 339 
 
 1 1 
 
 335 
 
 52 
 
 33l 6 
 
 19 
 
 341 24 
 
 339 
 
 44 
 
 33^ 5 
 
 33(^ 
 
 27 
 
 334 ^Q 
 
 3,33 14 
 
 33 I 47 
 
 20 
 
 341 5^ 
 
 340 
 
 17 
 
 338 38 
 
 33O 
 
 59 
 
 B3S 22 
 
 333 48 
 
 332 14 
 
 21 
 
 3+2 28 
 
 340 
 
 40 
 
 339 9 
 
 337 
 
 31 
 
 335 55 
 
 3.34 21 
 
 332-46 
 
 22 
 
 342 59 
 
 341 
 
 20 
 
 339 41 
 
 33^ 
 
 2 
 
 336 28 
 
 334 52 
 
 333 18 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 343 27 
 
 341 
 
 52 
 
 340 12 
 
 33^ 
 
 35 
 
 337 I 
 
 335 25 
 
 333 50 
 
 334 22 ' 
 
 343 59 
 
 342 
 
 22 
 
 340 44 
 
 339 
 
 7 
 
 337 32 
 
 335 57 
 
 2^ 
 
 344 31 
 
 342 
 
 52 
 
 341 14 
 
 339 
 
 38 
 
 338 2 
 
 336 27 . 
 
 334 54 
 
 26 
 
 345 I 
 
 343 
 
 22 
 
 341 45 
 
 340 
 
 9 
 
 338 32 
 
 336 58 1 
 
 335 25 
 
 27 
 
 345 30 
 
 343 
 
 52 
 
 342 14 
 
 340 
 
 39 
 
 339 4 
 
 337 28 . 
 
 535 55 
 
 28 
 
 346 
 
 344 
 
 22 
 
 342 45 
 
 341 
 
 10 
 
 339 34 
 
 337 59 . 
 
 337 27 
 
 29 
 
 346 29 
 
 344 
 
 50 
 
 343 16 
 
 341 
 
 40 
 
 340 4 
 
 338 30 338 58 
 
 30 
 
 346 5^ 
 
 345 
 
 20 
 
 34-? 4-5 
 
 342 
 
 6 
 
 3 JO 82 
 
 33q 337 27
 
 576 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 j A TABLE 
 
 of OBLICLUE ASCENSIONS, 1 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Min. — South Latitude. 
 
 jCrT 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 329 50 
 
 331 
 
 39 
 
 m 3^ 
 
 335 28 
 
 337 26 
 
 339 32 
 
 341 39 
 
 I 
 
 330 32 
 
 337, 
 
 ^l 
 
 334 12 
 
 33*^ 9 
 
 338 6 
 
 340 II 
 
 342 19 
 
 ! 2 
 
 331 12 
 
 333 
 
 I 
 
 334 52 
 
 336 48 
 
 338 45 
 
 340 49 
 
 34^- 56 
 
 3 
 
 331 52 
 
 333 
 
 40 
 
 335 32 
 
 337 27 
 
 339 24 
 
 341 27 
 
 343 32 
 
 4 
 
 332 32 
 
 334 
 
 21 
 
 336 12 
 
 338 5 
 
 340 2 
 
 342 5 
 
 344 49 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 333 II 
 
 335 
 
 
 
 336 52 
 
 338 44 
 
 340 41 
 
 342 41 
 
 343 17 
 
 344 45 
 
 333 49 
 
 335 
 
 40 
 
 337 29 
 
 '39 22 
 
 341 18 
 
 345 21 
 
 7 
 
 334 27 
 
 336 
 
 18 
 
 338 7 
 
 339 57 
 
 341 52 
 
 343 52 
 
 34f 54 
 
 8 
 
 335 4 
 
 336 
 
 53 
 
 ^38 42 
 
 340 32 
 
 342 27 
 
 344 26 
 
 346 27 
 
 9 
 
 335 42 
 
 337 
 
 29 
 
 339 18 
 
 HI 7 
 
 343 2 
 
 345 
 
 347 I 
 
 10 
 
 336 18 
 
 338 
 
 5 
 
 339 54 
 
 341 44 
 
 343 37 
 
 345 34 
 
 ^M 34 
 
 II 
 
 12 
 
 336 52 
 
 338 
 
 39 
 
 340 28 
 
 342 19 
 
 344 10 
 
 346 7 
 
 348 5 
 
 337 29 
 
 339 
 
 12 
 
 341 I 
 
 342 52 
 
 344 42 
 
 356 49 
 
 348 37 
 
 13 
 
 338 4 
 
 339 
 
 48 
 
 341 36 
 
 343 26 
 
 ■45 16 
 
 347 J 2 
 
 349 H 
 
 14 
 
 3S8 39 
 
 340 
 
 22 
 
 342 10 
 
 343 58 
 
 345 48 
 
 347 42 
 
 349 40 
 
 15 
 
 339 14 
 
 340 
 
 57 
 
 342 43 
 
 344 29 
 
 346 21 
 
 48 12 
 
 350 9 
 
 16 
 
 339 47 
 
 341 
 
 30 
 
 343 H 
 
 344 2 
 
 346 52 
 
 348 44 
 
 350 41 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 340 19 
 
 342 
 
 2 
 
 343 .47 
 
 345 34 
 
 347 24 
 
 49 15 
 
 51 10 
 
 340 52 
 
 342 
 
 34 
 
 343 19 
 
 345 4 
 
 347 54 
 
 349 45 
 
 351 39 
 
 19 
 
 341 24 
 
 343 
 
 7 
 
 344 50 
 
 346 35 
 
 348 22 
 
 350 15 
 
 ^52 8 
 
 20 
 
 341 56 
 
 343 
 
 39 
 
 344 21 
 
 346 6 
 
 348 54 
 
 350 45 
 
 352 38 
 
 21 
 
 342 28 
 
 344 
 
 16 
 
 345 52 
 
 347 37 
 
 349 25 
 
 35^ 15 
 
 353 5 
 
 22 
 
 342 59 
 
 344 41 
 
 345 22 
 
 347 8 
 
 349 52 
 
 351 42 
 
 353 32 
 
 23 
 ' 24 
 
 343 27 
 
 345 
 H5 
 
 12 
 41 
 
 346 52 
 
 348 38 
 
 349 7 
 
 350 22 
 
 352 II 
 
 354 I 
 
 343 50 
 
 347 22 
 
 350 51 
 
 352 39 
 
 354 28 
 
 25 
 
 344 31 
 
 ^46 
 
 12 
 
 347 52 
 
 349 30 
 
 351 20 
 
 '^iZ 1 
 
 354 56 
 
 26 
 
 345 I 
 
 346 
 
 42 
 
 348 22 
 
 350 4 
 
 351 48 
 
 353*34 
 
 355 22 
 
 27 
 
 345 30 
 
 347 
 
 1 1 
 
 348 50 
 
 350 31 
 
 352 15 
 
 354 7 
 
 ^ss 48 
 
 28 
 
 346 
 
 H7 
 
 39 
 
 349 19 
 
 350 59 
 
 352 42 
 
 354 29 
 
 ^56 15 
 
 29 
 
 346 29 
 
 348 
 
 7 
 
 349 47 
 
 351 27 
 
 353 'o 
 
 354 SS 
 
 356 42 
 
 30 
 
 346 58 
 
 348 
 
 35 
 
 350 15 
 
 351 55 
 
 \^?, .37 
 
 355 21 3^7 7 fj
 
 OF A S T R O F. O G Y. 
 
 sn 
 
 A TABLE 
 
 of OBLIQUE ASCENSIONS, 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Dcg. 32 Min. — 
 
 Nor//j Latitude. 
 
 K 
 
 
 
 
 [ 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 ^ 
 
 \ 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 342 9 
 
 d. 
 
 m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 337 27 
 
 346 
 
 58 
 
 345 
 
 20 
 
 343 45 
 
 340 
 
 33 
 
 339 
 
 I 
 
 347 
 
 26 
 
 345 
 
 49 
 
 344 H 
 
 342 39 
 
 341 
 
 3 
 
 339 29 
 
 337 56 
 
 2 
 
 347 
 
 54 
 
 346 
 
 18 
 
 544 43 
 
 343 7 
 
 341 
 
 32 
 
 339 58 
 
 338 25 
 
 3 
 
 34« 
 
 22 
 
 3-1^ 
 
 46 
 
 345 10 
 
 343 34 
 
 342 
 
 I 
 
 340 27 
 
 338 54 
 
 4 
 
 34« 
 
 50 
 
 347 
 
 14 
 
 345 39 
 
 344 4 
 
 342 
 
 30 
 
 340 56 
 
 339 21 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 349 
 
 17 
 
 347 
 
 41 
 
 346 7 
 
 344 31 
 
 342 
 
 58 
 
 34^ 24 
 
 339 51 
 
 340 18 
 
 349 
 
 45 
 
 348 
 
 8 
 
 ?46 35 
 
 344 59 
 
 343 
 
 25 
 
 341 52 
 
 .7 
 
 350 
 
 12 
 
 348 
 
 37 
 
 347 2 
 
 345 27 
 
 343 
 
 53 
 
 342 19 
 
 340 46 
 
 8 
 
 350 
 
 3^ 
 
 349 
 
 4 
 
 347 28 
 
 345 55 
 
 344 
 
 21 
 
 342 47 
 
 341 14 
 
 9 
 
 iS"^ 
 
 6 
 
 349 
 
 30 
 
 347 55 
 
 346 21 
 
 344 
 
 47 
 
 343 13 
 
 341 41 
 
 10 
 
 351 
 
 32 
 
 349 
 
 57 
 
 348 23 
 
 346 49 
 
 345 
 
 18 
 
 343 41 
 
 342 9 
 
 1 1 
 12 
 
 351 
 
 59 
 
 350 
 
 24 
 
 348 50 
 
 347 16 
 
 345 
 
 43 
 
 344 9 
 
 342 37 
 
 3S^ 
 
 25 
 
 3SO 
 
 'JO 
 
 349 17 
 
 347 42 
 
 346 
 
 9 
 
 344 35 
 
 343 3 
 
 13 
 
 3S^ 
 
 51 
 
 351 
 
 17 
 
 349 43 
 
 348 9 
 
 346 36- 
 
 345 I 
 
 343 29 
 
 H 
 
 3S3 
 
 17 
 
 351 
 
 42 
 
 350 9 
 
 348 34 
 
 347 
 
 2 
 
 345 27 
 
 343 55 
 
 15 
 
 3S3, 
 
 43 
 
 352 
 
 8 
 
 350 34 
 
 349 
 
 347 
 
 28 
 
 345 53 
 
 344 21 
 
 16 
 
 354 
 
 « 
 
 352 
 
 34 
 
 35^ I 
 
 349 26 
 
 347 
 
 54 
 
 346 20 
 
 344 47 
 
 ^7 
 18 
 
 354 
 
 34 
 
 3SZ 
 
 I 
 
 351 28 
 351 53 
 
 349 52 
 
 348 
 
 20 
 
 346 45 
 
 345 13 
 
 
 
 345 39 
 
 354 
 
 59 
 
 353 
 
 25 
 
 350 18 
 
 348 
 
 45 
 
 347 11 
 
 19 
 
 ISS 
 
 25 
 
 353 
 
 52 
 
 352 18 
 
 350 45 
 
 349 
 
 1 1 
 
 347 37 
 
 346 ? 
 
 20 
 
 355 
 
 50 
 
 354 
 
 17 
 
 352 43 
 
 351 10 
 
 349 
 
 37 
 
 348 -2 
 
 34''^ 30 
 
 21 
 
 35<' 
 
 16 
 
 354 
 
 41 
 
 353 -8 
 
 351 35 
 
 350 
 
 1 
 
 348 27 
 
 346 S5 
 
 22 
 
 35<^ 
 
 41 
 
 355 
 
 7 
 
 353 34 
 
 352 I 
 
 350 
 
 27 
 
 348 53 
 
 347 21 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 357 
 
 7 
 
 355 
 
 32 
 
 353 59 
 
 352 25 
 352 50 
 
 350 
 
 52 
 
 349 19 
 
 349 44 
 
 347 47 
 
 357 
 
 32 
 
 355 
 
 57 
 
 354 25 
 
 35 f 
 
 17 
 
 348 II 
 
 25 
 
 357 
 
 5'^ 
 
 35^ 
 
 24 
 
 354 49 
 
 353 j6 
 
 351 
 
 43 
 
 350 JO 
 
 348 36 
 
 26 
 
 35« 
 
 22 
 
 35^ 
 
 49 
 
 355 14 
 
 3S3 41 
 
 35'^ 
 
 8 
 
 350 34 
 
 349 
 
 27- 
 
 iS^ 46 
 
 357 
 
 12 
 
 355 39 
 
 .154 ^ 
 
 352 
 
 32 
 
 350 59 
 
 349 25 
 
 28 
 
 359 
 
 I r 
 
 357 
 
 38 
 
 356 3 
 
 354 32 
 
 352 
 
 58 
 
 351 25 
 
 349 51 
 
 29 
 
 359 
 
 34 
 
 358 
 
 3 
 
 356 28 
 
 354 57 '353 
 
 23 
 
 35"^ 49 
 
 350 H 
 
 30 
 
 ^60 
 
 
 
 358 
 
 27 
 
 35^> 55 
 
 355 21 353 
 
 47 
 
 352 13 
 
 3^0 39 1 
 
 No. 
 
 2Q. 
 
 
 
 
 
 -7 E 
 
 
 

 
 578 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE of OBLIQJJE ASCENSIONS, 
 
 For the Latitude of 51 Deg. 32 Min. — ^outh Latitude . 
 
 H 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 ■*4 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 d. 
 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 350 15 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 353 31 
 
 d. m. 
 
 d. m. 
 
 357 7 
 
 346 58 
 
 348 35 
 
 351 55 
 
 355 21 
 
 I 
 
 347 20 
 
 349 4 
 
 350 43 
 
 352 24 
 
 354 5 
 
 355 48 
 
 357 34 
 
 I 
 
 347 54 
 
 349 32 
 
 351 II 
 
 352 50 
 
 354 32 
 
 356 14 
 
 357 59 
 
 3 
 
 348 22 
 
 349 59 
 
 351 38 
 
 353 16 
 
 354 58 
 
 356 40 
 
 358 24 
 
 4 
 
 348 50 
 
 350 26 
 
 352 5 
 
 353 43 
 
 355 25 
 
 357 6 
 
 358 50 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 349 17 
 
 350 54 
 
 351 22 
 
 352 32 
 
 354 10 
 
 355 51 
 
 356 17 
 
 357 33 
 357 58 
 
 359 '7 
 
 349 45 
 
 352 59 
 
 354 37 
 
 359 40 
 
 7 
 
 350 12 
 
 351 50 
 
 353 27 
 
 355 3 
 
 35^ 44 
 
 358 23 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 350 38 
 
 352 16 
 
 353 53 
 
 355 29 
 
 357 9 
 
 358 48 
 
 31 
 
 9 
 
 351 6 
 
 352 42 
 
 354 19 
 
 355 5 
 
 357 34 
 
 359 13 
 
 55 
 
 lO 
 
 351 32 
 
 353 8 
 
 354 45 
 
 356 22 
 
 358 
 
 359 40 
 
 I 20 
 
 1 1 
 
 35' 59 
 
 353 34 
 
 355 10 
 
 356 47 
 
 358 24 
 
 4 
 
 I 44 
 
 12 
 
 352 25 
 
 354 
 
 355 35 
 
 357 13 
 
 358 49 
 
 28 
 
 2 8 
 
 13 
 
 352 S' 
 
 354 26 
 
 356 I 
 
 357 38 
 
 r59 15 
 
 54 
 
 2 33 
 
 14 
 
 353 17 
 
 354 52 
 
 356 27 
 
 358 4 
 
 359 41 
 
 I 19 
 
 2 58 
 
 15 
 
 353 43 
 
 355 17 
 
 356 53 
 
 358 28 
 
 5 
 
 I 43 
 
 3 21 
 
 16 
 
 354 -8 
 
 355 44 
 
 357 19 
 
 358 54 
 
 30 
 
 2 9 
 
 3 45 I 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 354 34 
 
 356 10 
 356 35 
 
 357 45 
 
 359 19 
 
 56 
 
 2 33 
 
 4 10 . 
 
 354 59 
 
 358 9 
 
 359 43 
 
 I 19 
 
 2 56 
 
 4 33 
 
 ^9 
 
 355 25- 
 
 357 
 
 358 34 
 
 8 
 
 I 45 
 
 3 21 
 
 4 59 
 
 20 
 
 355 50 
 
 357 24 
 
 358 58 
 
 33 
 
 2 10 
 
 3 46 
 
 5 23 
 
 21 
 
 356 i^ 
 
 357 48 
 
 359 23 
 
 57 
 
 2 33 
 
 4 9 
 
 5 46 
 
 22 
 
 356 41 
 
 358 14 
 
 359 48 
 
 I 23 
 
 2 57 
 
 4 33 
 
 6 9 i 
 
 23 
 24. 
 
 357 7 
 
 358 38 
 
 12 
 
 1 47 
 
 2 1 1 
 
 3 22 
 
 4 56 
 
 6 32 
 
 357 32 
 
 359 3 
 
 37 
 
 3 46 
 
 5 20 
 
 6 56 i 
 
 25 
 
 357 56 
 
 359 29 
 
 I 2 
 
 2 37 
 
 4 II 
 
 5 46 
 
 7 21 
 
 26 
 
 358 22 
 
 359 53 
 
 I 27 
 
 3 I 
 
 4 35 
 
 6 10 
 
 7 45 1 
 
 27 
 
 358 46 
 
 18 
 
 I 51 
 
 3 25 
 
 5 
 
 6 31 
 
 8 9 1 
 
 28 
 
 359 II 
 
 4^ 
 
 2 16 
 
 '3 50 
 
 5 24 
 
 6 58 
 
 8 33 
 
 29 
 
 359' 94 
 
 I 8 
 
 2 44 
 
 4 14 
 
 5 48 
 
 7 23 
 
 8 57 , 
 
 30 
 
 360 1 1 3-^ 
 
 3 5 
 
 4 39 
 
 6 13 
 
 7 47 
 
 9 21
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 579 
 
 PRAXIS, 
 
 Tor -finding the Oblique Afcenfions or Defcenfions of the "Planets, for any 
 Latitude, by the Help of At tifcial iiines and Tangents. 
 
 T7IRST, The planet's declination is to be fought. 
 
 Secondly, The height of the pole wherein the planet is pofited. 
 
 Thirdly, With this enter the Sines and Tangents, and gain the afcen- 
 fional difference. 
 
 Fourthly, The right afcenfion of the planet muft be found, either as 
 it is, or without latitude. 
 
 Fifthly, To this right afcenfion, a^d or fubtracft the afcenfional dif^ 
 fercncc, acccording to the declination of the planet, whether it be north 
 or fouth, and the oblique afcenfion is found. 
 
 If the declination of a flar is north, fubtradl the afcenfional difference 
 from the right afcenfion, and the remainder will be its oblique afcenfion; 
 but, if added together, the fum will be the oblique defcenfion of the flar. 
 
 If the declination of a planet is fouth, add the afcenfional difference and 
 right afcenfien together, and the fum will be its oblique afcenfion ; but, 
 if you fubtradl, the remainder will be its-oblique defcenfion. 
 
 EXAMPLE. 
 
 Suppofe it be required to find the oblique afcenfion of 
 Mars, as in the figure page 18 7 of this work, under the 
 elevation of the pole of the eleventh houfe, which is 
 twenty-three degrees twenty-nine minutes; proceed thus: 
 Firrt find the declination of Mars, which is twenty-tvvo 
 degrees two minutes north ; with this look into a table 
 of artificial fines and tangents, and feek the tangent an- 
 fwerable to that degree and minute, which will be . — 9.607136 
 
 Then feek the co-tangent anfwerablc to the elevation of 
 the pole (or latitude), viz, twenty-three degrees twenty- 
 nine minutes, and it will be — — — — 10.362044 
 
 Which co-tangent fubtradl from the tangent by adding 
 10.000000 to the tangent, otherwife fubtradion cannot 
 be made ; and there remains — — — — 9.245093 
 
 This
 
 5?o A N I L L U S T R A T I N 
 
 This remaining number feck in the column of fines, and it will rm- 
 fwcr to ten degrees eight minutes, which is called the afcenfional dif- 
 ference. 
 
 Then feek the right afcenfionof Mars, in the foregoing 
 tables of right afcenfions, with one degree feventeen mi- d. m. 
 
 nutes north latitude, which will be — — — 119 2-i 
 
 The declination of Mars being north, fubtradl the af- 
 cenfional difference from the right afcenfion, and the af- 
 cenfional difference is — — — — — ro8 
 
 The remainder is the oblique afcenfion of Mars, re- 
 quired, viz. — — — — — — 109 rj 
 
 To find the oblique defcenfion of the planets, with latitude, work as 
 by the following example of the Moon in the aforefaid figure. 
 
 Firft, The Moon's declination is to be fought, which is four degrees 
 tv\enty-nine minutes north latitude. 
 
 Secondly, With this declination find the tangent anfwer- 
 able thereto, and it will be — — — — 8.894366 
 
 Thirdly, Find the Moon's pole, viz. forty-one degrees 
 thirty-fix minutes, with which feek the co-tangent an- 
 fvverable, and it will be — — — — 10.051664 
 
 Which co-tangent fubtradt from the tangent by adding 
 
 lo.ocoooo, which fubtradion cannot. otherwife be made ; • 
 
 there will remain — — — — — 8.842702 
 
 Which number feek for in the column of fines at the top, ar.d it will 
 be found anfwerable to three degrees fifty-nine minutes, which is called 
 the afcenfional difference. 
 
 The Moon's latitude being two degrees forty-two minutes north. 
 
 Seek the right afcenfion of the Moon with that latitude, d. m. 
 
 and it will be — — — — — — "^S S3 
 
 To this add the afcenfional difference, becaufe the de- 
 clination is north, — — — — — r 3 59 
 
 And the oblique defcenfion required will be — 56 52 
 
 If
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 581 
 
 If the declination of the Moon were fouth, the afcenfional difference 
 muft then have been fubtradted from the right afcenfion, and the remain- 
 der would have been the oblique defcenfion. — The fame rules will apply- 
 to the calculating or finding the oblique defcenfion of all the planets, in 
 every degree of latitude. 
 
 I fhall now fubjoin Tables of LogiHical Logarithms, for the purpofe 
 of finding the part proportional, either in time or motion, between any 
 two planets or fignificators j which will entirely complete this fet of 
 Aftrological Tables, and render them an eafy and familiar guide to every 
 fludent, in afcertaining the diredions of all the planets, whether mun- 
 dane or zodiacal, dired: or converfe, that can poffibly occur in the cal- 
 culation of nativities, or horary queftions. 
 
 To make the ufe of them more obvious to the underftanding of every 
 reader, I Ihall fubjoin a variety of examples, fhowing how to afcertain 
 the daily and hourly motion of any given planet; and alio to determine 
 the precife time when any two fignificators will meet in one and the fame 
 point of the heavens, or form any other afpecft upon the horofcope oj 
 geniture of any inquirer, in the courfe of pradlice. 
 
 The expedition with which Nativities may be calculated, or Aftro- 
 logical Queries anfwered, by the aid of this fet of Tables, not to mention 
 the expedition with which the governing configurations are found, will 
 amply reward the reader for any time or trouble beflowed in acquiring a 
 competent knowledge of them ; as will abundantly appear by the method 
 in vv-hich 1 fhall bring up the diredtions of the fubjoined nativity of my 
 learned friend Mr. Witchell, Mafler of the Portfmouth Royal Academy. 
 It may alfo be premifed, that the ftudent well informed in all the fore- 
 going rudiments of the fcience ; in the nature and tendency of the pla- 
 nets, and their various configurations; will, with pleafing aptitude, by 
 the ufe of thefe tables, find himfelf qualified for the calculation of his 
 own or any other nativity, precifely in the fame way as will be laid down 
 in the management of that above-mentioned, which will prove a compe- 
 tent example for all others. 
 
 Thefe Tables of Logiftical Logarithms are of a triple or three-fold ex- 
 tent : the firfl column appertains to motion ; the fecond to abfolute num- 
 bers, and the third to a correal meafure of time ; as fpccified at the top 
 of each table, refpedlively. 
 
 I have thought it moft confident to let the tables precede, and the 
 
 explanatory examples follow j for it is impolTible to imprefs the mind 
 
 No. 30. 7 F with
 
 ^82 AN ILLUSTRATION OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 •with a proper idea of the procefs^ without often referring to thefe and the 
 other tables which compofe the fet, as will evidtixtly appear by what 
 occurs hereafter. 
 
 It is not abfolutcly neceflary that the reader flrould ftudy the art of 
 conilrudting logarithms to underfland the ufe of the following Tables, 
 which are here inferted for the mere purpofe of reference, agreeable to 
 the feveral Examples tliat follow ; it is fufficient for the reader to know, 
 that addition of logarithms is the fame thing as inuhiplication in common 
 arithmetic, and fubtraclion of logarithms the fame as divijton; therefore, 
 jn multiplication by logarithms, add the logarithms of tlie multiplicand 
 and multiplier together, and their fum. is the logarithm of the produd"; 
 and in divifion, fubtrad: the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm 
 .of the dividend, and the remainder is the logarithm of the quotient. 
 To extradl the roots of powers by logarithms, divide the logarithm of 
 the number by the index of the power, and the quotient is the logarithm 
 .of the root fought; to raife a number to any power, multiply the loga- 
 rithm of the number by the index of that power, and the produdt is the 
 logarithm of the power to which the number was required to bexaifed. 
 
 TABLES
 
 TABLES 
 
 OF 
 
 LOGISTICAL LOGARITHMS. 
 
 rOR FINUI^'G THE 
 
 PART PROPORTIONAL 
 
 BOTH TO 
 
 TIME and MOTION.
 
 
 
 F A S 
 
 T R L 
 
 G Y. 
 
 
 5S5 
 
 LOGISTICAL L O G A R 1 r H INI S. 
 
 1 
 
 Minute. 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 a ! 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 
 - 
 
 
 60 
 
 120 
 
 180 
 
 240 
 
 300 
 
 360 
 
 
 O 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 ■^ 
 
 4 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 1 1 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 14 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 27 
 28 
 
 29 
 30 
 
 Time, 
 m. f. 
 
 
 h. m. 
 
 24 
 
 h. m. h, m. 
 
 48: I 12 
 
 h. m. 
 
 I 36 
 
 h. m. 
 2 
 
 h. m., 
 
 2 24 
 
 
 I 
 24 
 48 
 
 1 12 
 
 2 
 
 35563 
 
 32553 
 30792 
 
 29542 
 
 28573 
 
 17782 
 17716 
 
 17639 
 
 '7570 
 17501 
 
 17434 
 
 1 477 1 
 
 H735 
 14699 
 
 14664 
 
 14629 
 
 14594 
 
 13010 
 12986 
 12962 
 12939 
 12915 
 12891 
 
 1 1761 
 
 1 1743 
 11725 
 1 1 707 
 11689 
 1 1671 
 
 10792 
 10777 
 10763 
 10749 
 
 i0734 
 10720 
 
 1 0000 
 9988 
 9976 
 9964 
 
 9952 
 9940 
 
 
 24 
 48 
 
 3 12 
 36 
 
 4 
 24 
 
 4B 
 
 5 12 
 36 
 
 6 
 
 24 
 48 
 
 27782 
 271 12 
 26532 
 26021 
 
 25563 
 25149 
 
 17368 
 17302 
 17238 
 
 17175 
 171 10 
 
 17050 
 
 M-559 
 
 14525 
 14491 
 
 14457 
 14424 
 
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 A NEW AND COMPLETE 
 
 ILLUSTRATION 
 
 OF THE CELESTIAL SCIENCE OF 
 
 ASTROLOGY; 
 
 OR, THE 
 
 Art of foretelling future Events and Contingencies 
 
 BY THE 
 
 Aspects, Positions, and Influences, of the HEAVENLY BODIES. 
 
 FOUNDED OX 
 
 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, SCRIPTURE, REASON, and the MATHEMATICS. 
 
 In which the abflriife Doarine of the STARS, of MAGIC, DIVINATION, EXORCISM, and Familiarity 
 with Spirits, vegetable, aftral, and infernal — the Calculation of Nativities— Horary Queftions— and the Aftro. 
 logical Prefcience of FUTURITY — are clearly demonflrated and proved ; and the Ability of doing it made 
 eafy to the nieanefl: Capacity ; and wherein all the intereding and important Matter, diffufedlhroughout the 
 fcarce and valuable Writings of above five hundred ancient Hiftorians and Philofophers, whofe Works are now 
 either wholly out of Print, or only to be found in the Britifh Mufeiini, or in fome few of the public Libraries 
 of Europe, are felected and combined. 
 
 IN TWO VOLUMES. 
 
 H iffxyiAir iifimis nvsijaf. Argol. Astr. Lib. ii. Cap. 8, 
 
 7"^e Sun, Moiin, and Slars, hath God difiributed iinlo all Nations under Heaven. They declare the Glury of God, and 
 Jliowjorth his Handy-wiirk: Day and Night do continunlly tell of them, and their roice is heard in all Languages, 
 and their ll^ords are gone into the Endi (f the Earth. Deut. iv. 19. Pfal. xix. i — 4. 
 
 By E. S I B L Y, M. D. 
 
 OF THE KING'S COLLEGE IN ABERDEEN; AND FELLOW OF THE HARMONIC PHILOSOPHICAL 
 
 SOCIETY IN PARIS. 
 
 VOLUME THE SECOND. 
 
 The ELEVENTH EDITION, corrcctoil. EniLeMi^hed with curious COPPER-PLATES, which exhibit Representations of ' 
 the Harmony anil Con-lructiHU of the World; the secret influences of the Heavenly Bodies communicating to HumanNalure; 
 and iheir Cijieration and Kficct upon Man, in four curious Prints. The appearance of Herbs and Flowers in full bloom, 
 produced bj a simple Spirit, exiracied from each Herb or Flower. Edward Keli.y in the Act of raising up the (ihost 
 of a decpascd Person in Walton Church-yard, in Lancashire. Plans and Prints of the exterior and interior M.igical 
 Circle-, Implements, and Characters, used in exorcising or calling up Spirits or Ghosts. Portraits encircled with the 
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 AN 
 
 ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Of the CELESTIAL SCIENCE of 
 
 ASTROLOGY, 
 
 CALCULATION of NATIVITIES. 
 
 HAVING, in the former volume, given at large the ludiments of 
 the Aftral Science, I Ihall now proceed to the real Calculation of 
 Nativities, according to the Placidian method as laid down and exempli- 
 fied in this work. I (hall begin with that of my learned and very inge- 
 nious friend, Mr. Witchell, Mafter of the Royal Academy at Portfmouth, 
 a crentleman well known in the literary world ; as well on account of hi& 
 valuable difcoveries in the longitude, as for his very ufeful mathematical 
 publications. 
 
 For the eafe and inftruftion of the reader, I fliall go through every cal- 
 culation of this nativity in the moft pradical and intelligent manner, in 
 order that it may afford every iieceffary example for directing fignificators 
 to promittors, in all cafes whatfoever, as well as to {how the probable 
 efFe6ls to be deduced therefrom in nativities in general. 
 
 The fcheme of Mr. Witchell's nativity, in the annexed plate, was 
 eredled by himfelf ; and, from his great veneration for the fcience, he 
 o-ave me leave to publiih it, and to make what obfervations I thought 
 neceffary in the calculation of it. 
 
 On examining the figure, I found it wanted redification ; and, there- 
 fore, according to the method pointed out in Vol. I. p. 416, I proceeded 
 to brino- the eftimated time to the true time of birth. It is here to be 
 obferved, that neither of the luminaries are in the centre of the angles, 
 nor fortunes in parallel of angles ; but, as a nodurnal nativity, the Moon's 
 fituation with Saturn prefented itfelf moll: eligibly for the purpofe of rec- 
 tification. My bufinefs therefore was to bring them in a right parallel 
 from the fourth houfe, which is done thus: 
 
 Vol. II. No. 31. /N Firfl
 
 620 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 Firft take the right afccnfion of Saturn (no latitude) 325 58 
 Then the right aicenfion of the Moon (no latitude) 288 23 
 
 •Subtra61:, ant! the difference is the diftance of Saturn) 37 35 
 from the Mooa i 
 
 • Then feek the feminofturnal arch of Saturn and the Moon, in the Table 
 <of the Scminodurnal Arches for the Latitude of London ; and, by enter- 
 ing the figa Capricorn on the top column with feventeen degrees, on 
 the left hand fide, in the common angle of meeting, it is declared that 
 the leminofturnal arch of the Moon is - - 8'' 5™ 
 
 Which is tile fpace of three houfes ; but, as the Moon 
 is not elongated above one houfe, it is to be divided by 
 three; the third partis - - - - 2'' 41*" 40' 
 
 And is to be turned into degrees of the equator, by 
 the Table in page 196, and it gives _ - - 40° 25' 
 
 The fame procefs may be obferved with refped to 
 Saturn. The feminofturnal arch of Saturn is 
 
 Divided by three, the third part gives - ■ 
 
 Turned into equinoftial degrees by the Table, gives 
 To this third part is to be added that of the Moon 
 
 And their arches make _ _ - 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion, If feventy-fix degrees twenty mi- 
 nutes give thirty-feven degrees thirty-five minutes, being the diflance of 
 Saturn from the Moon, what will forty degrees twenty-five minutes, the 
 third part of the femino6lurnal arch of the Moon, give r 
 
 Anfvver, It gives - - - - ^9 53 
 
 To which add the Moon's place in the zodiac - 1656 
 
 And they make - - - - 36 49 
 
 Which, by allowing for Capricorn thirty degrees, makes the cufp of the 
 fourth to be fix degrees forty-nine minutes of Aquarius ; confequently 
 there will be fix degrees forty-nine minutes of Leo on the tenth houfe, 
 and twenty-feven degrees thirty-three minutes of Libra afcending. Thus 
 the figure is brought to a redified time, having the right afcenlion of tlie 
 mid-heaven one hundred and twenty nine degrees fourteen minutes, the 
 oblique afcenfion of the afcendant two hundred and nineteen degrees 
 foujteen minutes; and, by adding thirty to each houfe, the oblique af- 
 penfion and defcenfion of each of the houfes are obtained. 
 
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 2 
 
 23 
 
 40 
 
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 55 
 
 
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 25 
 
 
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 20 

 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 621 
 
 The next thing to be obferved in the copper-plate figure is the Pait 
 of Fortune; which mufl alio be reftified, for it is very incorreflly placed 
 by Mr. Witchell. Its true pofition, in this nativity, is of the greateft 
 confequence, both as to its pole and place; particularly as it is Hyleo-, 
 and direfted for the native's death ; and, as the Part of Fortune in thTs 
 figure depends wholly on the Moon for declination, right afcenfion, dif- 
 tances, &c. and hath its diurnal and nofturnal arches increafed or dimi- 
 nifhed as the Moon rifes or fets, it may be truly deemed a lunar horofcope ; 
 I fhall therefore give the following rules for its rcftitication, which 
 will hold good on every fimilar occafion. Firft, find the oblique afcen- 
 fion or defcenfion of the Sun, according to his pofition in the fio ure, under 
 his own pole; fubtraft the oblique delcenfion of the Sun fromthe oblique 
 afcenfion of the afcendant, and the remainder referve; then obtain the 
 pole of the Moon, and under the pole obtain her oblique afcenfion or 
 defcenfion, with latitude, as before obferved, by the Sun; and from 
 the oblique afcenfion of the Moon fubtrad the diftance of the Sun 
 from the afcendant, as above referved, and the remainder will be the 
 oblique afcenfion or delcenfion of the Part of Fortune; which may be 
 known by its being a greater or lefs number of degrees than the mid- 
 heaven ; for,^ by allowing thirty degrees for each houfe, it will declare 
 in what houfe the Part of Fortune falls; and to know what decree of the 
 zodiac is anfwerable thereto, only requires to find the pole o^ the Part 
 of Fortune; and,, by giving it the fame latitude and declination as the 
 Moon, it fhows its afcenfional difference, M-'hich mufl be added to or fub- 
 trafted from the aforefaid oblique afcenfion as it is found either \\\ a north- 
 ern or fouthern fign, and the right afcenfion is found ; which by look- 
 ing in the Table of Right Afcenfions, allowing its latitude, if any, the 
 degree and minute of the zodiac is pointed out for the place of the Part 
 of Fortune ; as exemplified in the followins fio"ure. 
 
 The pole of the Sun is to be obtained thus: — The Sun is in twelve 
 degrees feventeen mini^es of Aries, and his feminocT:urnal arch under the 
 latitude of birth - - - _ ^ ^6 
 
 . The third part of which is - - - \ Rz 
 
 Which, turned into degrees of the equator, is - 28 o 
 
 The pole of the feventh houfe is - ' 5^ 31 
 
 The pole of the fixth, as may be found by the Table in 
 
 page 192 of this work, is - - - 40 48 
 
 Subtrafled, leaves the difference of the two poles - 10 43 
 
 Then
 
 622 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 Then take the diftance of the Sun from the feventh houfe, 
 thus: The oblique defcenfion of the feventh houfe is - 39 14 
 
 The oblique defcenfion of the Sun under the pole of the 
 feventh is - - - - - 1718 
 
 Subtracl, and the diftance of the Sun from the feventh is 2 1 56 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If twenty-eight degrees, the Sun's 
 femino6lurnal arch, give ten degrees forty-three minutes, being the dif- 
 ference between the pole of the feventh and fjxth houfes, what will 
 twenty-one degrees fifty-fix minutes give, which is the diftance of the Sun 
 from the feventh houfe ? 
 
 The anfwer is pointed out by the Table of Logarithms, thus : Seek the 
 logarithm of the fecond and third number, and add them together ; then 
 fubtradl the logarithm of the firft number therefrom, and the remainder 
 is the logarithm of the fum required. 
 
 EXAMPLE FOR THE FOLLOWING FIGURE. 
 
 Seek the logarithm of the fecond number, which is 10" 43'. In the firft 
 column, at the head of the Table, (p. 588.) feek ten, and on the fide- 
 column, on the left-hand, enter with forty-three minutes, and in the 
 angle of meeting will be found the logarithm - - 7481 
 
 In the fame manner feek the third number, viz. twenty-one 
 degrees at the top, and fifty-fix minutes at the fide, and in 
 the angle of meeting is the logarithm required - - 437° 
 
 Add them together, and they make - - - 11851 
 
 Then by the fame rule feek the logarithm of the firft num- 
 ber, 28, which is - - - - 33^'^ 
 
 And fubtrad it from the fiam of the other two - - 8541 
 
 Seek this remainder in the logarithms, and it will give very near eight 
 degrees twenty-three minutes ; this being the number fought for, it is to 
 be fubtraded from the pole of the feventh houfe, thus: 
 
 The pole of the feventh - - - 5^ 3^ 
 
 The number required is - - - 8 23 
 
 Subtraded, leaves for the pole of the Sun - 43 8 
 
 And under this pole the oblique defcenfion is to be obtained, thus : — 
 Give the afcenfional difference under the pole of forty-three degrees eight 
 minutes, and the afcenfional difference is - - 4-35 
 
 And, as the Sun is in a northern fign, the afcenfional 
 difference is to be added to the right afcenfion. The 
 right afcenfion is - - - - 1 1 1 8 
 
 And
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 623 
 
 And the oblique defcenfion is - - ^5 53 
 
 Now, as the afcendant is in a fouthern fign, in order to 
 make fubtra6lion, the circle muft be added - 360 o 
 
 And the fum is - - - - 375 53 
 
 From which fubtradl the oblique afcenfion of the al- 
 cendant - - - - - 21914 
 
 And the diftance of the Sun from the afcendant is obtained 156 39 
 
 Then obtain the oblique afcenfion of the Moon under her pole, by the 
 following method : Firft, find the femino6lurnal arch of the Moon under 
 the latitude of birth, which is - - - 8'' 5" o' 
 
 The Moon not being above the diftance of one houfe from 
 the fourth, this arch muft: be divided by three, - 2 41 40 
 
 And turned into equinoftial degrees, by the Table, 
 
 Then take the right afcenfion of the fourth houfe, 
 
 Subtraft, and the Moon's diftance from the fourth is 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If forty degrees twenty-five minutes 
 give twenty-three degrees twenty-feven minutes, being the pole of the 
 third houfe, what will twenty degrees fifteen minutes, the diflance of the 
 Moon from the fourth houfe, give ? By the logiflical logarithms it gives 
 eleven degrees forty-five minutes for the pole of the Moon, Avhich is 
 correft. 
 
 
 2 
 
 40° 
 
 25- 
 
 309 
 
 14 
 
 20 
 
 15 
 
 The afcenfional difference of the Moon under that pole is 6 o 
 The Moon's right afcenfion, being in a fouthern fign, 
 mufl be added _ _ _ - 288 59 
 
 And the Moon's oblique afcenfion remains - - 294 59 
 
 From which fubtraft the diftance, as before obtained, 
 of the Sun from the afcendant - - 156 39 
 
 And the remainder is the oblique afcenfion of the Part 
 of Fortune - - - - - 138 20 
 
 Its true place in the zodiac is obtained thus: Take the 
 right afcenfion of the mid-heaven, which is - 129 14 
 
 And fubtra6l it from the oblique afcenfion of the Part 
 of Fortune, and its place is difl:ant from the medium coeli 9 6 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, fay,. If thirty degrees, the diftance of 
 one houfe, give twenty-three degrees twenty-feven minutes, the pole of 
 the eleventh, what will nine degrees fix minutes, the difi:ance of the Part 
 of Fortune from the tenth houfe, give? By the logarithms it gives feven 
 
 No. 31.. 7 O degrees.
 
 624 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 degrees fix minutes for the pole of the Part of Fortune. Let it be ob- 
 ferved, that, if the afcenfional difference is obtained by the Moon's de- 
 cHnation under tlie above pole, which is three degrees thirty-five minutes, 
 add to it the oblique alcenfion of the Part of Fortune, thus 3 ^^ 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Part of Fortune - 138 20 
 
 Makes 
 
 141 55 
 
 Which is the right afcenfion, with latitude, of the Part of Fortune; and, 
 by looking into the Table of Right AfcenlJons, it afcertains the zodiacal 
 degree of the place of the Part of Fortune, which is in twenty degrees 
 forty-three minutes of the fign Leo, in the tenth houfe. 
 
 Thus this nativity is re6lified, according to the following fcheme, and 
 the Part of Fortune fupputated in its horary circle, by the true do61rine 
 of Ptolemy; and, having equal degrees from the afceadant, conflitutes 
 what is cfteemed a lunar horofcope; in which the Part of Fortune is pro- 
 rogator, or giver of life. 
 
 Righl Afcenfion, 119 14 
 
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 Mr. G. WITCHELL, 
 ASTRONOMER^ 
 
 AT 1HE 
 
 ROYAL ACADEMY, 
 
 PORTSMOUTH. 
 
 Born the Tweiity-fiift of March, 
 
 7h. 52in. V. M. 17 28. 
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 Latitude 510 31' 
 
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 Right Afcenfion, 309 1+ 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 625 
 
 Ptolemy fays, in his Quadripartite, that the Sun, if he be in an aphetic 
 place, is to be preferred by day ; if he be not, the Moon fliall be pre- 
 ferred ; but, if (he be not in an aphetic place, that planet (hall be taken 
 that had three dignities in' the place of the Sun at the preceding con- 
 junction of the Sun and Moon. If no planet hath thofe titles of domi- 
 nion, the horofcope fhall be taken ; but, if it fhould be a Full Moon, and 
 no fuch planet in an aphetic place, then the Part of Fortune Ihall be 
 taken. 
 
 
 A SPECULUM OF THE FOREGOING FIGURE. 
 
 
 Planets La- 
 titude. 
 
 Declination. 
 
 Antifcions, or Zodiacal 
 
 Parallels. 
 
 Pole- ol 
 Po fit ion. 
 
 Right Af- 
 
 cenfion 
 
 with Lat. 
 
 Semidiurnal and Se- 
 minoftiirnal Arch. 
 
 deg. min. 
 
 br 6S 
 
 fleg. min. 
 20 24S 
 
 d. m. d. m. 
 
 29 1025 vj 50 1 n 
 
 deg. min. 
 II II 
 
 dig. roin. 
 
 326 21 
 
 h. m. deg. Diiii. 
 711 107 45 
 
 ^0 35S 
 
 19 39N 
 
 27 26TI], y 2 24Sl^ 
 
 34 55 
 
 57 51 
 
 750 117 30 
 
 63 12N 
 
 14 I5N 
 
 22 29_^ 7 58^1 « 
 
 16 39 
 
 ^5? 58 
 
 6 58 — 104 30 
 
 00 
 
 4 52N 
 
 i2i7T=2=i7 43^>^ 
 
 43 8 
 
 II 18 
 
 5 35 83 45 
 
 90 52S 
 
 8 47S 
 
 73orr^)(22 3o-:T 
 
 19 43 
 
 337 53 
 
 6 49— 102 15 
 
 $3 17N 
 
 12 ' 52N 
 
 3 55 »"126 s^^ 
 
 51 21 
 
 22 22 
 
 5 10— yy 30 
 
 })4 17S 
 
 26 42S 
 
 00 
 
 11 45 
 
 288 59 
 
 8 5— 121 15 
 
 04 17S 
 
 26 42N 
 
 00 
 
 7 6 
 
 141 550 — c 
 
 
 
 51 31 
 
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 The firft and feventh 
 
 N. B. The oblique -ifcenfinn o 
 the Eleventh is fuund bj' adiiin;-' 31 
 to the risht Afcenlion of the Mi- 
 dinm Cceii; and in the fame nianni ■ 
 .'= obtained the obliqiu' AiVeiifion m 
 Defcerfion of the red of th. h..uf v. 
 
 The 2d, 8th, 12th, and 6th 
 
 40 48 
 
 The nth, 3d, 9th, and 5th 
 
 23 27 
 
 
 The above exhibits a fpeculum of fome neceflary calculations at one 
 view ; but, in order to remove every embarraffment out of the way of the 
 young ftudent, I (hall now proceed regularly throughout the whole prac- 
 tical part of every calculation in this nativity, in fo plain a manner, that 
 the meaneft capacity may foon become a mafter of it. I (hall therefore 
 proceed to (how how to gain the pole, or circle of polition, of the other 
 planets; 
 
 To
 
 626 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 To GAIN THE POLE OF SATURN. 
 
 Saturn being in twenty-three degrees thirty-eight minutes of Aquarius, 
 enter with this degree and minute in the Tables of Seminofturnal Arches 
 for the latitude of birth, which is in London, and it gives feven hours 
 eleven minutes ; which being anfwerable to the fpace of three houfes, or 
 ninety degrees of the zodiac, I divide it by three, and one of thefe three 
 parts will be the diftance from the cufp of the fourth to the cufp of the 
 fifth houfe ; then by the rule of proportion find the diftance of Saturn 
 from the fourth houfe, as follows : The third part of ftven hours eleven 
 minutes is two hours twenty-three minutes and forty feconds, which 
 time convert into degrees by the Table for that purpofe, in page 196; 
 by which it is found to give thirty-five degrees fifty-five minutes for the 
 fpace of one houfe. The pole of the fifth, as may be found by the Tabic 
 in page 192, is twenty-three degrees twenty-feven minutes. 
 
 The right afcenfion of Saturn, with latitude, is - 326 21 
 
 The right afcenfion of the fourth is - - 309 14 
 
 Subtradl, and there remains - - - ^7 7 
 
 The diftance of Saturn from the fourth houfe. Then fay, by the rule 
 of proportion. If thirty-five degrees fifty-five minutes, the fpace of one 
 houfe, give, for the pole of the fifth, twenty-three degrees twenty-feven 
 minutes, what will feventeen degrees feven minutes, being the diftance 
 of Saturn from the fourth, give ? 
 
 To find this proportion, make ufe of the Logiftical Logarithms, as be- 
 fore, and feek the logarithm belonging to the two laft-mentioned num- 
 bers, which add together, and then find the logarithm of the firfl, and 
 fubtra6l it from them, and the remainder is the proportion required. 
 Thus, feek in the uppermoft column at the head of the logarithms for 
 twenty-three, and in the fide column for twenty-feven, and in the angle 
 of meeting is the logarithm _ _ _ 4080 
 
 In the fame manner feek feventeen on the top, and feven 
 on the fide, and in the angle is - - - 5447 
 
 Add them together, and they give - - 95^7 
 
 Then feek the logarithm of thirty-five degrees fifty-five 
 minutes by the fame rule, and it is - - 2229 
 
 Which is to be fubtraded from the above - - 7298 
 
 This
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 627 
 
 This remainder I feek among the logarithms, and find, by caftiug mj 
 eye on the head of the Table (p. 587) for degrees, and 'on the firft 
 column on the left hand, that it gives eleven degrees eleven minutes, 
 which is the part proportional, and confequently the true pole of Saturn. 
 
 To TAKE THE TRUE POLE OF JUPITER. . 
 
 Jupiter is in twenty-nine degrees fifty-five minutes of Taurus, 
 
 His femidiurnal arch under the latitude of birth is 
 Divided by three, and multiplied by two, gives 
 
 Turned into degrees of the equator by the table 
 
 The pole of the feventh - - _ 
 
 The pole of the ninth - - _ 
 
 Subtra6t one from the other, and the difference is 
 
 The oblique defcenfion of Jupiter with latitude 
 The oblique defcenfion of the feventh* houfe 
 
 Subtraft, and Jupiter's diflance from the feventh is 
 
 Then by the rule of proportion. If feventy-eight degrees twenty-five 
 minutes, being two parts of Jupiter's femidiurnal arch, give twenty-eight 
 degrees four minutes, being the difference of the pole of the feventh and 
 ninth houfes, what will forty-five degrees nineteen minutes, Jupiter's dif- 
 tance, give? Anfwer, Sixteen degrees thirty-fix minutes ; 
 
 Which I fubtra6l from the pole of the feventh, - 5 1 3 1 
 
 16 36 
 
 And the remainder is the pole of Jupiter - - 34 55 
 
 To FIND THE POLE OF MARS. 
 
 Mars is in forty-four minutes of Virgo. The femidiurnal arch 
 
 of Mars, under the latitude of the feventh, is - 6'' 58'" o' 
 
 - Being divided by three, gives for one houfe - 2 19 20 
 
 ■» The oblique defcenfion of the feventh houfe is gained thus: Take the right afcenfion of the mid- 
 heaven, and fubtraft ninety, being a quarter of the circle, and there reniains the oblique defcenfion 
 «f the feventh. 
 
 No. 31. 2 P Turned 
 
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 7 
 5 
 
 50 
 43 
 
 0' 
 40 
 
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 78" 
 
 t 
 
 25 
 
 - 
 
 51 
 23 
 
 31 
 
 27 
 
 
 28 
 
 4 
 
 f 
 
 84 
 39 
 
 33 
 14 
 
 
 45 
 
 ^9
 
 34" 
 
 5o 
 
 23 
 
 27 
 
 ^53 
 
 58 
 
 129 
 
 14 
 
 24 
 
 44 
 
 628 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Turned into degrees by the table, gives • 
 The pole of the eleventh houle 
 
 The right afcenfion of Mars, with latitude, 
 The light afcenfion of the mid-heaven, 
 
 Subtrad one from the other, and the remainder is> 
 the diftance of Mars from the mid-heaven, S 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion. If thirty-four degrees fifty minutes, 
 the third part of the femidiurnal arch of Mars, give twenty-three de- 
 grees twenty-feven minutes, the pole of the eleventh, what will twenty- 
 four degrees forty-four minutes, the diftance of Mars from the tenth, 
 give? 1 find it gives fixteen degrees thirty-nine minutes, which is the 
 true pole of Mars required. 
 
 The pole of the Sun has been already obtained,, and is forty-three de- 
 grees eight minutes. 
 
 To GAIN THE TRUE POLE OF VENUS. 
 
 Venus is in five degrees twenty-one minutes of Pifces; 
 
 The femino6lurnal arch of Venus is - - 
 
 Being divided by three, the third part is - - 2 16 20* 
 
 Turned into degrees of the equator. 
 The pole of the fifth houfe. 
 
 The right afcenfion of Venus, with latitude, 
 The right afcenfion of the fourth, 
 
 Subtra6t, and the diftance of Venus from the fourth is 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion. If thirty-four degrees five minutes,, 
 the third part of Venus' feminofturnal arch, give twenty-three degrees 
 twenty-feven minutes, the pole of the fifth houfe, what will twenty-eight 
 degrees thirty-nine minutes, being the diftance of Venus from the fourth,, 
 give ? 
 
 Anfvver, Nineteen degrees forty-three minutes. 
 
 To OBTAIN THE POLE OF MERCURY. 
 
 Mercury's place in the zodiac is twenty-five degrees fifteen mlnutesof 
 Aries. 
 
 His 
 
 6'' 
 2 
 
 49' 
 16 
 
 34^ 
 23 
 
 5 
 
 27 
 
 337 
 3°9 
 
 53 
 14 
 
 28 
 
 39
 
 5- 
 
 lo"" 
 
 
 I 
 
 43 
 
 20» 
 
 -• 
 
 25" 
 
 50' 
 
 
 51 
 
 40 
 
 31 
 
 48 
 
 
 10 
 
 43 
 
 
 39 
 
 14 
 
 - 
 
 39 
 
 4 
 
 is 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 629 
 
 His femino^turnal arch for that point is 
 Being divided by three, the third part will be 
 
 Turned into degrees of the equator, by the Table 
 
 The pole of the cufp of the feventh, 
 
 The circle of pofition of the lixth houfe, - 
 
 Subtract, and the difference of the two poles is 
 
 The oblique defcenfion of the feventh. 
 The oblique defcenfion of Mercury, under the pole 
 of birth - _ - - . 
 
 Subtra6l, and the diftance of Mercury from the feventh is 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If twenty-five degrees fifty minutes 
 give ten degrees forty-three minutes, being the difference of poles, what 
 vv'ill ten minutes give, which is the diftance of Mercury from the feventh 
 houfe ? 
 
 Anfwer, it gives four minutes, which is to be thus fubtra6led from 
 the pole of the feventh, - - - 5^ 3^ 
 
 And the remainder is the true pole of Mercury, - 5 1 27 
 
 The Method of obtaining the POLE of the MOON. 
 
 This figure has been already fhown, and was found to be eleven de- 
 grees forty-five minutes, as was alfo 
 
 The Method of obtaining the POLE of the PART of 
 
 FORTUNE, 
 
 Which was found to be feven de2;rees fix minutes. 
 
 With a view to make this work entirely complete, Ihave, in page 132, 
 given the fyflem laid down by Argol and Morinus, for finding the an- 
 tifcions of the planets ; but, as that method is now obfolete,.! fhall, ac- 
 cording to a former promife, give the Placidian method of taking them ; 
 which is the true way, and which 1 recommend to every fludent to prac- 
 tife. 
 
 Tiie.
 
 636 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The place of Saturn in the zodiac is twenty-three degrees thirty-eiglit 
 minutes of Aquarius, and his declination twenty degrees twenty-four mi- 
 nutes iouth ; now, as there is no table immediately for the declination of 
 Aquarius in this work, yet, as Leo is fituate oppofite Aquarius in the zo- 
 diac, it only requires to enter into the Table of Declinations under Leo, 
 (p- 53'0 ^^'i'^li contrary latitude, that is, north inftead of fouth, and it will 
 be found to anlvver exadlly the fame purpofe; for Saturn's declination., 
 anlwerablc to one degree fix minutes north latitude, is twenty degrees 
 twenty-four minutes. To find the zodiacal parallel anfwerable to that 
 declination, I examine the firfl: column of declination in the Table, under 
 o latitude, and feek for twenty degrees twenty-four minutes; but, not 
 finding that declination in that column, I trace back into Cancer, p. 529. 
 where I find it anfweiable to twenty-nine degrees ten minutes of that 
 planet, which (hows that Saturn's parallel falls in twenty-nine degrees ten 
 minutes of Cancer and Capricorn, and fifty minutes of Sagittary and 
 Gemini ; and thefe points, being equi-diftant from the tropics, are called 
 the antilcions, in page 132. 
 
 In the fame-manner is found the antifcion or zodiacal parallel of Jupi- 
 ter, whofe place is twenty-nine degrees fifty-five minutes of Taurus, and 
 his declination nineteen degrees thirty-nine minutes, with thirty-five 
 minutes of fouth latitude. But, as there is no Table of Declination for 
 Taurus, that of Scorpio, being oppofite, mufl: be entered under north 
 latitude, which is equally the lame as having a Table of Declination for 
 Taurus, by obfeiving always to enter with contrary latitude; and feek ia 
 the firft column under o for nineteen degrees thirty-nine minutes, (p. 53"/.) 
 and it will give twenty-feven degrees twenty-fix minutes of Scorpio and 
 Taurus for Jupiter's zodiacal parallel, and alfo two degrees thirty-four 
 minutes of Leo and Aquarius, as may be found by the aforenamed Tabic 
 of Antifcions. 
 
 The pofition of Mars in the heavens is in forty-four minutes of Virgo, 
 and his declination fourteen degrees fifteen minutes, with three degrees 
 twelve minutes north latitude. I enter the Table of Declination in Virgo, 
 p. 533, under the column o; but find no fuch declination, therefore I 
 feek in the Table of Leo, p. 531, in the fame column under o at the top, 
 and find it points to twenty- two degrees two minutes of Leo and Aqua- 
 rius, and feven degrees fifty-eight minutes of Scorpio and Taurus; which 
 give the zodiacal parallel of Mars, 
 
 The mode of finding the Sun's antifcion, or zodiacal parallel, is exadly 
 the fame as given by Argol and Morinus; and the realon is, becaufe the 
 Sun never varies, but always moves in the fame line throughout all the
 
 OFASTROLOGV. 631 
 
 "iigns of. the zodiac. The antifcions of the Sun, therefore, fall in 
 twelve degrees feventeen minutes of Aries and Libra, and feventeen de- 
 grees forty-three minutes of Virgo and Pifces. 
 
 The mode of afcertaining the antifcions or zodiacal parallels of Venus 
 differs from that of the Sun, becaufe Venus has latitude. The place of 
 Venus in the zodiac is five degrees twenty-one minutes, her decUnation 
 IS eight degrees forty-feven minutes, and her latitude fifty-two minutes 
 fouth ; and, as there is no table of declination for the fign Pifces, I take 
 the oppolite fign Virgo, as before, and feek for eight degrees forty-fevea 
 mjnutes m the column with o on the top, and it will be found anfwer- 
 able to feven degrees thirty minutes of Virgo and Pifces, and twenty-two 
 degrees thirty minutes of Libra and Aries ; thofe places being equi-diflant 
 from the two tropics. 
 
 The antifcion or zodiacal parallel of Mercury is gained in the fame 
 manner as the former ; his place being in twenty-6ve degrees fifteen mi- 
 nutes of Aries, his latitude three degrees feventeen minutes north, and 
 his declination twelve degrees fifty-two minutes in Aries ; but, as there 
 is no table for Aries, it is to be worked by the contrary fign Libra ; but, 
 not finding in the column of no latitude that degree"^ of declination^ I 
 enter the fign Scorpio, and find it anfwerable to three degrees fifty-five 
 minutes of that fign, and three degrees fifty-five minutes of Taurus, and 
 twenty-fix degrees five minutes of Leo and Aquarius. 
 
 The antifcion or parallel of the Moon cannot in any cafe be direded, 
 Ihe having twenty-fix degrees forty-two minutes of declination, and the 
 greatefl declination of the ecliptic is but twenty-three degrees thirtv-two 
 minutes, and therefore there can be no zodiacal parallel of the Moon for 
 diredion. 
 
 Of MUNDANE PARALLELS. 
 
 Let it be remembered, that the cuf|DS of the afcendant, feventh, mid- 
 heaven, and imum coeli, are angles in the world, and are defcribed by 
 the fpheres to cut the globe of this earth in four equal parts or quarters, 
 each quarter containing ninety degrees of the equator. A mundane pa- 
 rallel, therefore, is no other, than when two ftars or planets are equally 
 dif}ant from any of thefe foui^angles; or are brought into that fituatioii 
 by the motion of the primum mobile. And, as an exaft method of taking 
 them is abfolutely necelTary to be known, where any degree of accu- 
 
 No. 32. 7 Q racy
 
 632 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 racy is required ; and, as they conftitute the nioft confiderable diredions 
 in human life, 1 (hall give the following examples in this nativity, by way 
 of initiating the beginner in a corre6t mode of taking them. 
 
 The MUNDANE PARALLEL of MARS and VENUS. 
 
 Diftancc of Mars from the mid-heaven, - z^P 44'' 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of Saturn - - 6*" 58°* 
 
 Seminofturnal arch of Mercury - 6 49 
 
 Diftance of Venus from the fourth houfe, by right 
 ^.fcenfion, 28 39 
 
 Then, By the rule of proportion, If the femidiurnal arch of Mars, viz. 
 fix hours fifty-eight minutes, gives for his diflance twenty-four degrees 
 forty-four minutes, what will fix hours forty-nine minutes, the leminoc- 
 turnal arch of Venus, give ? 
 
 Anfwer, twenty-four degrees twelve minutes. 
 
 Which is to be fubtraded from the diflance of Venus from the fourth 
 houfe thus; the diftance of Mercury from the fourth 28 39 
 
 The proportional part - - - 24 12 
 
 Remain for the arch of dire6tion - - 4 27 
 
 To turn this arch of diredion into time, add the Sun's 
 right afcenfion - - - - 11 18 
 
 And it is augmented to - - 15 45 
 
 Which feek in the Tables of Right Afcenfions, in order to find what 
 degree and minute of the zodiac anfwers thereto, and on examination 
 it will be feventeen degrees five minutes-of Aries. This being found, 
 refer to the Ephemeris, and examine what length of time the Sun will 
 take in going from twelve degrees feventeen minutes of Aries, being his 
 point at birth, to feventeen degrees fi.ve minutes of the fame fign, and it 
 will be found he is four days and near twenty-one hours ; which be- 
 ing computed according to the dodlrine of Ptolemy, by allowing one day's 
 motion of the Sun for a year, and two hours motion for a month, declares 
 the native was four years, ten months, and fifteen days, old, when Mars 
 cantie to a parallel of Venus in Mundo. 
 
 The
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 633 
 
 The SUN to the Parallel of JUPITER in MUNDO. 
 
 The Sun being in the fixth houfe, and the parallel made from the 
 feventh, the Sun's diftance is to be taken from the feventh houfe by ob- 
 lique defcenfion, under the pole of the feventh, viz. fifty-one degrees 
 thirty-one minutes. 
 
 Diflance of the Sun from the feventh - - 21° 56' 
 
 Seminocturnal arch of the Sun - 5'' 35" 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of Jupiter - 650 
 
 Diftance of Jupiter from the feventh - - 45 19. 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion, If five hours thirty- 
 five minutes, being the nofturnal arch of the Sun, give its 
 diftance, twenty-one degrees fifty-fix minutes, what will 
 feven hours fifty minutes give? 
 
 Anfwer _ _ _ - 31 43 
 
 Which is to be fubtraded from Jupiter's diftance, and the 
 remainder is the arch of diredtion - - ^3 3^ 
 
 Which, by adding the right afcenfion of the Sun, and turning it into 
 time, as in the foregoing example, points out the native to be fifteen, 
 years, four months, and twenty-one days, old, when the Sun came to the 
 mundane parallel of Jupiter. 
 
 The MOON to the PARALLEL of VENUS in Mundo,. 
 
 Diftance of the Moon from the fourth houfe, by right 
 afcenfion, - - - - - 20 15 
 
 Seminodlurnal arch of the Moon - 8 5 
 
 Seminodurnal arch of Venus - 6 49 
 
 Diftance of Venus from the fourth - - 28 39 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion. If eight hours five minutes give 
 twenty degrees fifteen minutes, being the diftance of the Moon from the 
 fourth houfe, what will fix hours forty-nine minutes, the feminotturnar 
 arch of Venus, give ? 
 
 Anfwer, feventeen degrees five minutes. 
 
 This
 
 634 A N I L jL U S T R A T I O N 
 
 This proportional part is to be fubtraded from the diftaiice of Venus, 
 thus : 
 
 Diftance of Venus from the fourth 28** 39™ 
 
 Proportional part fubtraft - 17 5 
 
 And there remains for the arch of diredion 11 34 
 
 Which, by being turned into time by the foregoing rules, gives twelve 
 years, eio-ht months, and about {even days, of the native's life. 
 
 The SUN to the M U N D A N E P A R A L L E L of M A R S.* 
 
 Diftancc of Mars from the midheaven - 24° 44 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of Mars - - 658 
 
 Seminodurnal arch of the Sua - 5 25 
 
 Then by the rule of proportion, if fix hours fifty-eight minutes give 
 twenty-four degrees forty-four minutes, what will five hours thirty-five 
 minutes give? 
 
 Anfwer - - - - - 21 40 
 
 Which muft be fubtraded from the diftance of the Sun from the, 
 fourth houfe thus ; the difl-ance of the Sua from the fourth, by right afcen- 
 fion, is - - - - 62 4 
 
 The proportional part fubtraft - - - 2 1 40 
 
 And the remainder is the arch of diredtioa 40 24 
 
 Which, by adjufting according to the former examples, gives forty- 
 three years of the native's age. 
 
 MERCURY to the MUNDANE PARALLEL of JUPITER. 
 
 The diftance of Mercury from the feventh houfe, by oblique defcea- 
 fion, under the pole of the feventh, is - - 121 
 
 Semino61urnal arch of Mercury - 5 10 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of Jupiter - 7 5° 
 
 * There can be no Mundane Parallels to the Part of Fortune, becaufe the Part of Fortune emits 
 no raysi 
 
 The
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 63s 
 
 The diftance of Jupiter from the feveuth, by obhque 
 defcenfion, under the pole of the feventh, is - - 45° ly 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If five hours ten mi- 
 nutes, o"ive one degree twenty-on- minutes, the diflance 
 of Mercury, what will leven hours fifty minutes, the femi- 
 iiodurnal arch of Jupiter, give ? 
 
 Anfw 
 
 er. 
 
 Which, being fubtrafted fi'om Jupiter's diftance, leaves 
 for the arch of diredion - - - 43 16 
 
 Which, being turned into time by the foregoing rule, gives forty-five 
 years, ten months, and about twelve days, of the native's life, when 
 Mercury came to the parallel of Jupiter in mundo. 
 
 SATURN to the MUNDANE PARALLEL of VENUS. 
 
 The diftance of Venus from the fourth houfe is - 28 3,9 
 
 The feminodurnal arch of Venus - 6'' 49"' 
 
 The femino6lurnal arch of Saturn - 7 n 
 
 The diftance of Saturn from the fourth houfe - - 17 7 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion If fix hours forty-nine minutes,, 
 the feminodurnal arch of Venus, give her diftance from the fourth houfe, 
 viz. twenty-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes, what will feven hours 
 eleven minutes give, being the feniino6lurnal arch of Saturn ? 
 
 Anfvver, ^ - - - - 30 
 
 12 
 
 To which is to be added the diftance of Saturn from the 
 
 fourth, becaufe that planet is not paft the cufp, - 17 7 
 
 And the arch of diredion will be - - 47 ^9 
 
 Which, being turned into time, declares the native to be forty-nine 
 years and near ten months old, when Saturn comes to the mundane paral- 
 lel of Venus. • 
 
 l!^o.S2; 7R The.
 
 636 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 The MOON to the PARALLEL of the SUN in Mundo. 
 
 The diftauce of the Moon from the fourth houfe is - 20^1 y 
 The feminociurnal arch of the Moon - S** 5™ 
 
 The leminoclurnal archof the Sun - 5 35 
 
 The diftance of the Sun from the fourth houfe - 624 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If eight hours five mi- 
 nutes o-ive twenty degrees fifteen minutes, what will five 
 hours thirty-five minutes, the ferainoaurnal arch of the 
 Sun, give?' Anfwer, - - - - ^3 59 
 
 Now, as the Moon is pafl the cufp of the fourth houfe, 
 the proportional part muft be fubtraded from the dii^ance 
 of the Sun from the fourth. 
 
 And there remains for the arch of direction - - 4^ 5 
 
 Which arch of diredlion, turned into time, declares, that, when the 
 Mundane Parallel of the Moon atid Sun came up, the native was fifty 
 years, eight months, and about fixteen days, old. 
 
 MARS to the P A R A L L E L of M E R C U R Y in Mundo. 
 The diflauce of Mars from the midheaven is - 24 44 
 
 The feminodurnal arch of Mars - 6 58 
 
 The feminodturnal arch of Mercury -' 5 10 
 
 The dillance of Mercury from the fourth houfe, - 73 ^ 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion. If fix hours fifty-eight 
 minutes give twenty-four degrees forty-four minutes, 
 what will five degrees ten minutes give? Anfwer, 18 22 
 
 The part proportional is to be fubtracied from the dif- 
 tance of Mercury from the fourth houfe. 
 
 And the remainder is the arch of diredion - « 54 46 
 
 Which arch of diredion, being turned into time, declares the native 
 fifty-feven years, five months, and twenty-fix days, old, when Mars came 
 in parallel with the planet Mercury, 
 
 Of
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 637 
 
 Of M U N D A N E ASPECTS. 
 
 IMundane Alpeds are formed by the pofition of the twelve houfes of 
 heaven, as they arc oppofcd to, or arpe(5l, each other. For inflance, the 
 cufp of the midheaveu beholds the cufp of the feventh houfe and the 
 cufp of the afcendant "with a mundane quartile ; and the cufp of the 
 fourth with an oppofition. The cufp of the ninth houfe beholds the 
 cufp of the eleventh with a fextile, and the cufp of the fifth with a trine ; 
 fo the cufp of the twelfth beholds the culp of the fecond with a fextile, 
 and the cufp of the fourth with a trine. Andth\i3 the Mundane Afpeds 
 go round the twelve houfes, and have a meafure peculiar to themfelves, 
 being dilVindt from the meafure ufed for bringing up zodiacal afpeds, 
 where fixty degrees make a fextile, and an hundred and twenty make a 
 trine ; but thefe are meafurcd by their dillances from a given angle, and 
 by the femidiurnal and feminodlurnal arches ; fo that, to proportionate 
 or limit a Mundane Afpedl, it only requires to bring the ftar or planet to 
 the cufp of any of the houfes, according to the afpedl it is to be diretfled 
 to ; which may be done, by looking into the Table of Mundane Afpedts, 
 in pa2;es 501 and 502 of this work, where, by entering with the femidiur- 
 nal or feminocTturnal arch of the (iar or planet, is Ihown the limited pro- 
 portion of their various afpetfts, as in the following examples. 
 
 The PART of FORTUNE to the MUNDANE QUARTITE of 
 
 MERCURY. 
 
 The diftance of Mercury from tlie feventh houfe, under the pole of the 
 feventh, is - - - - S° 17' 
 
 The femino(5hirnal arch of Mercury - 5'' 10°^ 
 
 The femidiurnal arch of the Part of Fortune 8 5 
 
 [The Part of Fortune hath its diurnal and feminotlurnal arches in- 
 creafed or diminillied in proportion to thofe of the Moon, being wholly 
 dependent on her for declination, latitude, &:c. fo that, iu this Nativity of 
 Mr. Witchell, it forms a Lunar Horofcope.] 
 
 Then lay, by the rule of proportion, If five iiours ten minute?, being 
 the feminodilurnal arch of Mercurv, gives his dlllance from die feventh, 
 viz. three degrees fcventeen minutes, what will eight hours five minutes, 
 die diurnal arch of the Part of Fortune, give r Anfwer, -58 
 
 Then take the diftancc of the Part pf Fortune from the midheaven, 
 thus : 
 
 The
 
 638 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 The rischt alcenfiou of the Part, of Fortune with the 
 
 Moon's latitude, is - - - 141° 4^ 
 
 Thcright afcenfion of the midhcaven - - 129. 14 
 
 And the diftancc of the Part of Fortune from tlie m'idr 
 
 heaven - - - - i2 30 
 
 To which add the above proportional part - 58" 
 
 And the fum total is the arch of diredioii. - 17 38 
 
 Then, by adding the right afcenfion of the Sun, and turning the arch- 
 of dire6tion into time, as by the former examples, it will be evident that 
 the Quartile of the Part of Fortune and Mercury in Mundo came up 
 M'hen the native was nineteen years, two months, and. about twenty-three 
 days, old. 
 
 The dUARTILE of MARS and JUPITER in Mundo. 
 
 The diftance of Mars from the midh.eav.en, by right afcen- 
 fion, is - - - 24 44 
 
 The difl:ance of Jupiter, by oblique defcenfion under the 
 
 pole of the feventh, is - - - 45 39. 
 
 The femidiurnal arch of Mars - 6^ 58"' 
 
 The femidiurnal arch of Jupiter - 7 5°- 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion, If (ix hours fifty-eight 
 minutes give the diftance of Mars from the midheaven, what 
 will feveu hours fifty minutes give ?■ Anfwer, - 27 52 
 
 Which muft be fubtraded from Jupiter's diftance from 
 the feventh houfe, 
 
 And the arch of direftion is - - - 1747 
 
 Which, turned into time, points out the native's age, when Mars came 
 to the Mundane Quartile of Jupiter, to be nineteen years, fix months,., 
 and about five days. 
 
 The MUNDANE QUARTILE of the P A R T of F O R- 
 
 T U N E and JUPITER. 
 
 The diftance of the Part of Fortune from the midheaven 1 2 ^o 
 
 TUc
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 The diftance of Jupiter from the feventh 
 
 The femidiurnal arch of the Part of Fortune 
 The femidiurnal arch of Jupiter 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion, If eight hours five 
 minutes give twelve degrees thirty minutes, what will 
 feven hours fifty minutes give ? Anfwer, - - 12 
 
 Which, is to be fubtradled from Jupiter's diflance. 
 
 r 
 • 
 
 
 639 
 
 
 45° 
 
 39' 
 
 gh ^m 
 
 
 
 7 50 
 
 
 
 And the arch of direftion is - - - 33 2^ 
 
 Which, turned into time, gives thirty-iive years, eleven months, and 
 about three days. 
 
 The MUNDANE QUARTILE of SATURN and JUPITER. 
 
 The diftance of Saturn from the fourth houfe - 177 
 
 The diflance of Jupiter from the feventh - 45 39 
 
 The feminofturnal arch of Saturn r/u iji.,..^. 1 1 
 
 The femidiurnal arch of Jupiter - 7 5'^ 
 
 ..•IK h,r 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion, If feven hours eleven 
 minutes give feventeen degrees feven mmutes, what will 
 feven hours fifty minutes give ? Anfwer, - 1 8 40 
 
 This mufl be fubtrafted from the diflance of Jupiter from 
 the feventh houfe. 
 
 And the arch of dire6lion is - ' - - 26 59 
 
 Which, being turned into time, gives twenty-nine years and two 
 months, when Saturn came to the Quartile of Jupiter in Mundo. 
 
 The SUN to the S E X T I L E of J U P I T E R in Mundo. 
 
 The diflance of Jupiter from the eighth houfe, by oblique defcenfion, 
 taken under the pole of the eighth, is - - 6 34 
 
 - No. 32. 7S The 
 
 . 1 JL
 
 640 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The femidiurnal arch of Jupiter - 7'' 50" 
 
 The{'emino6lurnal arch of the Sun - 5 35 
 
 Add thefe arches together,* and they make 13 25 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If thirteen hours twenty-five minutes 
 give the diftance of Jupiter, viz. fix degrees thirty-four minutes, what 
 will five hours thirty-five minutes, the arch of the Sun, give? 
 
 Anfwer, - # - - - - 3^0- 
 
 To which add the diftance of the Sun from the fixth, taken 
 under the pole of the fixth, - - - - 67 
 
 And the arch of diredion is - - "97 
 
 And being turned into time, by adding the right afcenfion of the Sun 
 to the arch of direction, gives nine years, ten months, and about twenty- 
 two days, when the Sun came to the Mundane Sextile of Jupiter. 
 
 The PART of FORTUNE to the SEXTILE of JUPI- 
 TER in MUNDO. 
 
 The diftance of Jupiter from the eighth is - - 6 34 
 
 The femidiurnal arch of Jupiter - 7 50 
 
 The femidiurnal arch of the Part of Fortune 8 5 
 
 Being added, make - - ^5 55 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If fifteen hours fifty-five minutes give 
 fix degrees thirty-four minutes, what will eight hours five minutes give? 
 
 Anfwer, - - - - 3 20 
 
 To which add the diftance of the Part of Fortune from 
 the tenth houfe - - - - ' 2 30 
 
 And the arch of diredion is - - - ^5 5'^ 
 
 Which, being turned into time, gives feventeen years, three months, 
 and about four days. 
 
 * A Sextile being lefs than a Quartile, and a Trine more, if muft always be remembered to add 
 the two diurnal or nodlurnai arches togetheri and thus let the complement of both be the firA num- 
 ber in all proportional demands. 
 
 The
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 641 
 
 The SUN in TRINE of the PART of FORTUNE in Mundo. 
 The Sun's diftance from the fixth houfe is - 6=" 7' 
 
 The feminodlurnal arch of the Sun - 5'' 2 c" 
 
 The femidiurnal arch of the Part of Fortuue 8 5 
 
 Being added, make ^ - 13 40 
 
 Then by the rule of proportion, If thirteen hours forty minutes give fix- 
 degrees feven minutes, what will eight hours five minutes give? 
 
 Anfwer, -- -. _ . o^ 
 
 To which add the diftance of the Part of Fortune from 
 the midheaven, - - _ , 12 
 
 3^ 
 
 And the arch of diredion is - - . 167 
 
 Which, being turned into time, gives feventeen years, four months, and 
 about twenty-three days. 
 
 The MOON to the TRINE of MERCURY in Mundo. 
 
 The diftance of Mercury from the feventh is - 3 ^7 
 
 Seminofturnal arch of Mercury - - 5 lo 
 
 Seminodurnal arch of the Moon - ^37 
 
 Being added together, make 13 47 
 
 Then by the rule of proportion. If thirteen hours forty-feven minutes 
 give three degrees feventeen minutes, what will eight hours thirty-fevcn 
 minutes give ? Anfwer, - - - - 2 " 
 
 To ^yhich add the Moon's diftance from the third houfe, 
 which is obtained by the oblique afcenfion, under the pole 
 of the third houfe, - - _ _ 2221 
 
 And it makes the arch of direction - - 24 24 
 
 Which, turned into time, gives twenty-fix years, four months, and 
 near twenty-two days, from the native's birth, when the Moon came to a 
 Trine of Mercury. 
 
 The
 
 642 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 The MOON to the MUNDANE SEXTILE of VENUS. 
 
 The diftance of Venus from the fifth - - 6° 12/ 
 
 Seminofturnal arch of Venus - 6'* 49™ 
 
 Semino6turnal arch of the Moon - - ^37 
 
 Added together, make - - - 1526 
 
 Then by the rule of proportion, If fifteen hours twenty-fix minutes 
 give fix degrees twelve minutes, being the diftance of Venus from the 
 fifth houfe, what will eight hours thirty-feven minutes, the feminofturnal 
 arch of the Moon, give ? Anfwer, - - - 3 21 
 
 Add the Moon's diflance from the third 2221 
 
 And the arch of diredion is - - - 25 42 
 
 And, turned into time, will point to twenty-feven years, nine months, 
 and about eight days, of the native's age, when the Moon camie to the 
 Sextile of Venus. 
 
 The PART of F O R T UN E in TR I N E of MER C U R Y 
 
 in MuNDO. 
 
 UdJVji wiiJ r^l' .. . /4jI/C iO 03U£l'iili Oil J 
 
 The diftance of Mercury from the fixth houfe, by oblique 
 defccnfion - - - - - 22 44 
 
 Semino6lurnal arch of Mercury - 5 10 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of the Part of Fortune , .i^' v; 33 b'^hbK 
 
 Added together, make - - - ^ 3 ' 47 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion. If thirteen hours ior^y-feven minutes 
 give twenty-two degrees forty-four minute's, whatvi'ill eight hours thirty- 
 Ibven minutes give ? AnAver, ^ _^^ -^r.;}, ,-^-,,1^ ^-^ ■ i3„i^ 
 
 To which add the dittatfe^^f'tWime ^mrtiif/e' fV^i^' , ' "^^''^ 
 the midheaven, " - - - - - iz" 30 
 
 And the arch of dn-eftion fs found - - 26 23 
 
 Which, turned into time, gives twenty-eight years fix months, from the 
 time of birth, when the Part of Fortune came to the Trine of Mercury. 
 
 ■ ' . The
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 643 
 
 The SUN in TRINE cf M A R S in Mundo. 
 
 The diftance of the Sun from the fixth is - - 6" 7' 
 
 Semino6lurnal arch of the Sun - 5*" 35™ 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of Mars - - 6 58 
 
 Being added, make - - - ^^33 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If twelve hours thirty-three minutes 
 give fix degrees feven minutes, what will fix hours fifty-eight minutes 
 give ? Anfvver, - - - - - 3 o 
 
 Add the diftance of Mars from the midheaven - 24 44 
 
 And the fum is the arch of direction - - , 27 44 
 
 Which, being turned into time, by adding the right afcenfion of the 
 Sun to the arch of diredion, it will give, from the time of birth, twenty- 
 nine years, eleven months, and near feven days, when the Sun came to 
 the Trine of Mars. • 
 
 PART of FORTUNE in SEXTILE of MERCURY in Mundo. 
 Diftance of Mercury from the feventh - - 5^7 
 
 Semino6turnal arch of Mercury - 5 ^^ 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of the Part of Fortune ' ^ 37 
 
 Added together, make - - - 13 47 
 
 Then, If thirteen hours forty-feven minutes give three degrees feven- 
 teen minutes, what will eight hours thirty-feven minutes give ? 
 
 Anfwer, - - - - - i 38 
 
 To which add the diftance of the Part of Fortune from 
 the ninth houfe, which is found by taking the oblique af- 
 cenfion under the pole of the ninth houfe, - - - 29 54 
 
 And the fum of the arch of dircdion is 
 
 31 32 
 
 Which, turned into time, gives thirty-three years, ten months, and 
 about fifteen days, of the native's life. 
 
 No. 32. 7 T ^ The
 
 644 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 The PART of FORTUNE in TRINE of VENUS in Mundo, 
 
 Diftance of Venus from the fifth houfe, - - 6° la' 
 
 Seminotlurnal arch of Venus - 6'' 49"" 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of the Part of Fortune 8 "^^ 
 
 15 26 
 
 Then, Jf fifteen hours twenty-fix minutes give (xy. degrees twelve- mi- 
 nutes, what will eight hours thirty-feven minutes give ? 
 
 Anfwer, - - - - - 3 26 
 
 To which add the diftance of the Part of Fortune from 
 the ninth houfe, taken under the pole of the ninth, by ob- 
 lique afcenfion, as before - - - - 2954 
 
 And the fum total is the arch of direftion - 2)?) -° 
 
 Which, beiug turned into time, declares the native was thirty-five years 
 and nine months old, when the Part of Fortune cametotheTrine of Venus. 
 
 The MOON to the S E X T I L E of S A T U R N in Mundo. 
 
 The diflance of Saturn from the fifth houfe, by oblique defcenfion, 
 tinder the pole of the fifth, is - - - 2227 
 
 Seminotturnal arch of the Moon - '^31 
 
 Semino6lurnal atch of Saturn - 711 
 
 15 48 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion, If fifteen hours forty-eight mi- 
 nutes give twenty-two degrees tvventy-feven minutes, what will eight 
 hours thirty-feven minutes give ? Anlvver, - - 12 15 
 
 Add the Moon's diftance from the third houfe - 22 21 
 
 And the arch of direftion is - - - 34 36 
 
 Which, being turned into time, by adding the right afcenfion of the 
 Sun to the arch of direftion, it (hows that the native was thirty-fix years, 
 ten months, and twenty-two days, old, when the Moon came to the 
 Sextile of Saturn in Mundo. 
 
 The
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 645 
 
 The MOON to the Trine of the SUN in Mundo. 
 
 Diftance of the Sun from the feventh - - 21" 46' 
 
 Semino6iurnal arch of the Sun - 5^ 35"" 
 
 SemJnodurnal arch of the Moon - ^37 
 
 Being added, make - - 14 12 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion, If fourteen hours twelve minutes 
 give twenty-one degrees forty-fix minutes, what will eight hours thirty- 
 feven minutes give ? Anfwer, - - - 13 22 
 
 Add the Moon's diftance from the third houfe 
 
 22 21 
 
 And thearchof diredion is - - 35 43 
 
 Which, being turned into time, gives thirty-feven years and two 
 months of the native's life, when the Moon came to the Trine of the Sun 
 in Mundo. 
 
 The MOON to the OPPOSITION of JUPITER in Mundo. 
 
 The diftance of Jupiter from the ninth - - 32 19 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of Jupiter - 7 50 
 
 Seminodturnal arch of the Moon - 8 37 
 
 Added, make - - 16 27 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion. If fifteen hours tvventy-feven minutes 
 give thirty-two degrees nineteen minutes, what will eight hours thirty- 
 leven minutes give ? Anfwer, - - - 16 56 
 
 Which mufi: be added to the diftance of the Moon from 
 the third houfe, viz. - - - 32 21 
 
 Being added to the Part Proportional, makes - 39 17 
 
 for the arch of diredion 
 
 Which, being turned into time, gives forty-one years and about ten 
 months of the native's age, when the Moon came to the Mundane Op- 
 pofition of Jupiter. 
 
 The
 
 646 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The PART of F O R T U N E in TRINE of S A T U R N 
 
 in MuNDO. 
 
 The diftance of Saturn from the fifth - - 22" 27' 
 
 Seminoftiirnal arch of Saturn - 7'^ ii*" 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of the Part of Fortune 8 57 
 
 / 
 
 Added together, make - - 15 48 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If fifteen hours forty-eight minutes 
 give twenty-two degrees twenty-feven minutes, what will eight hours 
 thirty-feven minutes give ? Anfwer, - - 12 29 
 
 To which add the diftance of the Part of Fortune from the 
 ninth houfe, viz. - - - - 29 54 
 
 And the arch of direction is - - - 42 23 
 
 Which, being turned into time, gives forty-four years, eleven months, 
 and about fifteen days, when the Part of Fortune came to the Mundane 
 Trine of Saturn. 
 
 The MOON in TRINE of the PART of FORTUNE in Mundo. 
 
 The diftance of the Part of Fortune from the midheaven, by right af- 
 cenfion, is - - _ . . 12 30 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of the Part of Fortune 8 37 
 
 Seminofturnal arch of the Moon - 8 37 
 
 Added, make - - 17 14 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion. If feventeen hours four- 
 teen minutes give fixty-five degrees thirty-one minutes, 
 being the dif>ance of the Moon from the fecond houfe, what 
 will eight hours thirty-feven minutes give? Anfwer, - 32 45 
 
 Which being added to the Part of Fortune, the arch of 
 dire<Stion is - - _ 
 
 45 ^5 
 
 Which gives forty-fevcn years, ten months, and about eighteen days, of 
 the native's life. 
 
 The
 
 OP ASTROLOGY. Ml 
 
 The MOON in TRINE of MARS In Mundo. 
 Diftance of the Moon from the fecond houfe - 65° 31' 
 
 Seminofturnal arch of the Moon - 8*" 37"* 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of Mars - -. 6 58 
 
 Added together make - - ^S oS 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If fifteen hours thirty-five minutes 
 give fixty-five degrees thirty-one minutes, what will fix hours fifty-eight 
 minutes give? Anfwer, - _ ^ _ 29 26 
 
 Diflance of Mars from the midheaven - - 23 34 
 
 Add the diftance of Mars to the proportional part, and the 
 ■arch of direftion is found - - - 52 50 
 
 Which, turned into time, gives forty-five years and about five months 
 of the native's life, when this direction came up. 
 
 MARS to the TRINE of V E N U S in Mundo. 
 
 Diflance of Venus from the fifth houfe - 612 
 
 Semino6turnal arch of Venus - 6 49 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of Mars - - - 6 58 
 
 Added together - - 13 47 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion. If thirteen hours forty-feven minutes 
 give fix degrees twelve minutes, what will fix hours fifty-eight minutes 
 give? Anfwer, -^ « - - - 3 S'J 
 
 The diftance of Mai-s from the ninth houfe, by oblique 
 afcenfion, under the pole of the ninth, is - • 48 24 
 
 Then add the proportional part to the diftance of Mars, 
 and the arch of direction is - - - 52 21 
 
 Which, being turned into time, gives fifty-four years, eleven months, 
 and about fourteen days, of the native's age, when Mars came to the 
 Trine of Venus in Mundo. 
 
 No. 32. 7 U The
 
 64S A N I L L U S T R A T 1 O N 
 
 The MOON to the Q U I N T I L E of the S U N ia Mvndo- 
 
 The right alccnfion of the Sun, added to the whole circle 
 of the zodiac, is - - - - 371° iS» 
 
 From which fubtrad the quintile, - - y$ 
 
 And the remainder is - - - 296 i8- 
 
 Seek for this fum in the Table of Right Afcenfions, and it 
 will point in the zodiac to twenty-four degrees twenty-three 
 minutes of Capricorn, the declination of which point is 
 twenty-one degrees twenty-nine minutes. Then find the 
 alcenfional difference under the pole of the Moon, which is 4 39- 
 
 Add it to the right afcenfion, above given, 
 
 And the oblique afcenfion of the quintile of the Sun will be 300 57 
 
 From which fubtrad the oblique afcenfion of the Moon 
 taken under her own pole,, - - - 292 14 
 
 And the remainder is -• , - - 8 43 
 
 Then find the feminodurnal arcK of the Moon, according to her lati- 
 tude, which is eight hours thirty -feven minutes. 
 
 [The method of taking the Moon's feminoflurnal'arch with latitude,, 
 is thus: Find her declination with latitude, and thereby obtain her af- 
 cenfional difference under the pole of the afcendant, which afcenfional 
 difference is either to be added to or fubtradled from ninety degrees, ac- 
 cording whether it be ano6turnal or diurnal arch, or a northern or fouthern 
 fign.] 
 
 The feminodarnal arch of the quintile of the Sun is 7'' 54'" 
 
 [ The lemino6lurnal or femidiurnal arch of an afpeft is thus found : 
 Find the decree the planet (which is the promittor) poIIefTes in the zodiac,, 
 and add or lubtra6l what degrees are neceiTary for the afped, and with, 
 that degree in the zodiac find the femidiurnal or leminodurnal arch under 
 the latitude of birth. For example : Suppofe the femino(5turnal.arch of 
 the quintile of the Sun be required as above; proceed thus : The place 
 of the Sun in the zodiac, which in this example is promittor, is twelve 
 degrees feventeen minutes of Aries, from which fubtraft the quintile, 
 viz. feventy-five degrees, and it points to twenty-feven degrees feventeen* 
 minutes of Capricorn ; find the declination without latitude, viz. twenty 
 degrees forty-feven minutes, and then gain its afcenfional difference, 
 wKich is twenty-eight degrees thirty-two minutes ; add it to ninety, be- 
 caufe the afped is in a fouthern fign, and nodurnal, and it makes 
 
 eighteen
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 649 
 
 eighteen degrees thirty-two minutes; which, by the table for turning de- 
 grees and minutes into time, in page 196, gives leven hours fifty-four 
 minutes, which is the feminodurnal arch required. In the fame manner 
 the feminodurnal 01" diurnal arch may be obtained for any other afped.] 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion, If eight hours thirty-fevea 
 minutes, being the femino£l:urnal arch of the Moon, give eio-ht deo-rees 
 three minutes, the diflance of the Sun's quintile from the Moon, what 
 will {e\en hours fifty-four minutes, the nocturnal arch of the quintile, 
 give ? — For the arch of dire6lion - - - 80 
 
 Which is to be turned into time,, by the foregoing rule, and it will 
 Ihow the native was eight years, nine months, and about eighteen days, 
 old, when the Moon came to the Quintile of the Sun. 
 
 The SUN to the SESQUIQUADRATE of MARS in Mundo. 
 
 Right afcenfion of Mars with latitude - i^qo rg' 
 
 Sefquiquadrate afpeft from Mar* - - r^j 
 
 Subtraft, and the right afcenfion of the afpe6l is - 18 58 
 
 And, being fought in the Tables of Right Afcenfions, points 
 to twenty degrees thirty-three minutes of Aries, the decli- 
 nation of which is eight degrees three minutes ; by this, gain 
 the afcenfional difference under the pole of the Sun, viz. 7 -^y 
 
 Add the difference to the right afcenfion above, and the 
 
 oblique defcenfion of the fefquiquadrate of Mars is - 26 qc 
 
 Subtrad the oblique defcenfion of the Sun — 15 P2 
 
 43 
 
 And there remains - - - - 10 
 
 Semino6turnal arch of the Sun - 5'' 25*" 
 
 Semino6lurnal arch of the fefquiquadrate of Mars, 
 according to the above rule - - 5 29 
 
 Then fay by the rule of proportion, If five hours thirty-five miniites 
 give ten degrees forty-three minutes, what will five hours twenty-nine 
 minutes give? i\nfwer, - - - - 10 32' 
 
 Add it to the right afcenfion of the Sun, to turn it into time, and it 
 will give eleven years, fix months, and abovit fifteen days, of the iiati-vie's 
 life, when the Sun came to the Sefquiquadrate of Mars, 
 
 The
 
 650 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 The PART of FORTUNE to the SESQUIQUA- 
 DRATE of ME RC UR Y in Mundo. 
 
 Right afccnfion of Mercury, with latitude, - .22° 22' 
 
 Selquiquadrate of Mercury's afpedl, - - 135 
 
 Being added, make the right afcenfion - - 157 22 
 
 Which, being fought in the Table of Right Afcenfions, 
 points to five degrees thirty-five minutes of Scorpio ; the 
 declination thereof is nine degrees thirty minutes, and the 
 afcenfional difference under the pole of the Part of Fortune is in 
 
 Which afcenfional difference fubtraft from the ri^htaf- 
 cenfion, it being in a northern fign, and the oblique afcen- 
 fion of the fefquiquadrate is - - - 156 II 
 
 From which fubtraft the oblique afcenfion of the Part of 
 Fortune - - - - - 138 8 
 
 Remains - - - - - 18 j 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of the Part of Fortune, be- 
 ing the fame arch as the Moon, - - ^ 37 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of the fefquiquadrate of 
 Mercury, - - - - 6 40 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion. If eight hours thirty-feven mi- 
 nutes give eighteen degrees three minutes, what will fix hours forty 
 minutes give? Anfwei:, - - - ^3 5^ 
 
 Which is the arch of direftion; and, being turned into time, will give 
 ■fifteen years, three months, and about ten days, of the native's life, when 
 ;this direction begins to operate. 
 
 The SUN to the SEMIQUARTILE of VENUS in Mundo. 
 
 Right afcenfion of Venus with latitude is - 357 5^ 
 
 To which add her femiquartile - - 44 
 
 Venus's firft ^iftance is _ - - 382 
 
 From which fubtiadl the circle - - 360 
 
 >:? 
 
 And the right afcenfion will be - - 22 ^^ 
 
 Which
 
 e 
 
 r 
 
 O F A S T R O L G Y. 651 
 
 Which points in the zodiac to tvventy-four degrees forty-five minutes 
 of Aries; the declination is nine degrees thirty-feven minutes, and thi 
 afcenfional difference, taken under the pole of theSun, is o" 8' 
 
 Which, being added to the above right afcenfion, makes the 
 oblique declcnfion of the femiquartile of Venus - '•j 
 
 From which fubtrad the oblique defcenfion of the Sun 15 52 
 
 And there remains - - . 16 o 
 
 Seminodlurnal arch of the Sun - ^'' 05™ 
 
 Seminodturnal arch of the femiquartile of Venus 5 20 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion, If five hours thirty-five minutes 
 give fixteen degrees nine minutes, what will five hours twenty minutes 
 give for the arch of dired:ion ? Anfvver _ _ i c 26 
 
 Which being turned into time, by adding the right afcenfion of the 
 Sun, in order to gain its true place in the zodiac, the diurnal motion of 
 the Sun will mealure fixteen years, eight months, and about twenty-four 
 days, of the native's life, before the femiquartile of Venus in mundo will 
 begin to operate. 
 
 The MOON to the QUINTILE of MERCURY in Mundo. 
 
 Right afcenfion of Mercury, with the circle - 382 23 
 
 From which fubtrad; the quintile - « 7c o 
 
 And the right afcenfion of the point is - 307 22 
 
 Which anfwers to five degrees of Aquaries, the declination 
 of which is nineteen degrees five minutes. 
 
 Afcenfional difference under the pole of the Moon 
 
 Which, being added to the above right afcenfion, makes the 
 oblique afcenfion of the quintile of Venus 
 
 From which fubtradl the oblique afcenfion of the Moon 
 
 And there remains - _ 19 16 
 
 Seminodlurnal arch of the Moon _ - S*" 3-7™ 
 ' Seminodlurnal arch of Mercury's quintile - -7 31 
 
 No. 33. 7 X Then 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 311 
 292 
 
 30 
 14
 
 653 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If eight hours thirty-feven minutes 
 give nineteen degrees fixteen minutes, what will feven hours thirty-one 
 minutes give for the arch of diredlion ? Anfvver 16° 49' 
 
 Which, turned into time, gives eighteen years and about four months, 
 when this diredion of the Moon in quintile of Mercury comes up. 
 
 The MOON to the SEMIQUARTILE of the SUN in Mundo. 
 
 Right afcenfion of the Sun, with the circle - 371 18 
 
 Semiquartile fubtrad: - - - 45 O 
 
 326 18 
 
 This right afcenfion anfwers to twenty-three degrees fifty- 
 eight minutes of Aquaries, the declination of which is 
 thirteen degrees thirty-three minutes. 
 
 And the afcenfional difference, taken under the pole of the 
 Moon, is - - - - - 2 52 
 
 Which fubtradt from the above right afcenfion, and the 
 oblique defcenfion is - - - - 323 26 
 
 From which fubtrad the oblique afcenfion of the Moon 292 14 
 
 And there remains - - 31 12 
 
 Seminodurnal arch of the Moon - S^ 37"^ 
 
 Seminodlurnal arch of the femiquartile of the Sun 7 5 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion. If eight hours thirty-feven mi- 
 nutes give thirty-one degrees twelve minutes, what will feven hours five 
 minutes give for the arch of diredlion? Anfwer - 25 39 
 
 Which, joined to the Sun's right afcenfion, meafures the time of the 
 coming up of this diredlion to be thirty-three years, two months, and 
 about eight days. 
 
 The MOON to the SEMIQUARTILE of MERCURY in Mundo. 
 
 Right afcenfion of Mercury, with the circle - 382 22 
 
 Semiquartile fubtrad - - - 45 O 
 
 And the right afcenfion remains - - . 337 22 
 
 This
 
 2o 
 
 0' 
 
 335 
 292 
 
 23 
 14 
 
 43 8 
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 6y^ 
 
 This points to five degrees thirty-five minutes of Pifces, the 
 decimation of which is nine degrees thirty minutes. 
 
 The afcenfional difference, under the pole of the Moon, is 
 
 Subtradl the afcenfional difference from the above right af- 
 cenfion, and there remains - _ _ 
 
 From which fubtrvid. the Moon's oblique afcenfion 
 
 And the arch of the difference is _ _ 
 
 ^eminodturnal arch of Luna - _ 8'' ?/'" 
 
 Seminoulurnal arch of Mercury's femiquartile 6 40 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion, If eight hours thirty-feven mi- 
 nutes give forty three degrees eight minutes, what will fix hours forty mi- 
 nutes give for the arch of diredlion ? Anfwer - 27 22 
 
 Which arch of direction, being turned into time, fhows that it will be 
 thirty-five years, nine months, and about fifteen days, of the native's life, 
 before it will come up, or have any effed: upon the radix of his nativity. 
 
 The PART of FORTUxNE to the SESQUIQUADRATE of JUPITER 
 
 in MuNDo. 
 
 Right afcenfion of Jupiter - . , ^^ -j 
 
 Sefquiquadrate mufl be added _ - j^^ q 
 
 r- 51 
 
 And the right afcenfion of Jupiter's fcfquiquadrate is 
 
 Which points in the zodiac to thirteen degrees fifty-nine mi- 
 nutes of Libra, the declination of which is five degrees 
 thirty-three minutes. 
 
 The afcenfional difference obtained under the pole of the 
 Part of Fortune is - 
 
 Being added to the above right afcenfion, makes 
 From which fubtrad the oblique afcenfion of the Part of 
 Fortune ----__ 
 
 And the arch of difference will be - - 55 25 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of the Part of Fortune, 8 37 
 
 Semidiurnal arch of the fcfquiquadrate of Jupiter 5 30 
 
 '-i Then 
 
 
 
 42 
 
 193 
 
 33 
 
 138 
 
 8
 
 654 ANIL LUSTRATION 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proportion, If eight hours thirty-feven mi- 
 nutes give fifty-five degrees twenty-five minutes, v\ hat will five hours 
 thirty n.inutcs give^ Anfwer - - 35° 30 
 
 Which is the arch of diredlion, to be turned into time, by adding it to 
 the right afcenfion of the Sun as before ; and the relult will give thirty- 
 eight years, one month, and about eight days, of the native's lite, when 
 the Part of Fortune came to the fefquiquadrate of Jupiter. 
 
 The MOON to the OyiNTILE of JUPITER in Mun do. 
 
 The right afcenfion of Jupiter, with the circle 417 51 
 
 The quintile is - - 75 o 
 
 Subtradt, and the right afcenfion of Jupiter's quintile is 342 5 1 
 
 Which gives eleven degrees twenty-one minutes of Pifces 
 in the zodiac. — The declination of the point is feven 
 degrees twenty minutes. 
 
 The afcenfional difference, under the Moon's pole, is i 32 
 
 Suit acT;, and the oblique defcenfion of Jupiter's quintile is 441 19 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Moon fubtradt - 292 14 
 
 And there reinains for the arch of difference - 49 5 
 
 Seminodlurnal arch of the Moon - 8'' 57™ 
 
 Seminodturnal arch of Jupiter's quintile 6 30 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion. If eight hours thirty-feven minutes 
 give forty-nine degrees five minutes, what will fix hours thirty minutes 
 give for the arch of diredlion ? Anfwer - - 37 2 
 
 Which arch of dire(flion, being turned into time, declares the native 
 was thirty-nine years, fix months, and about fixteen days, old, when the 
 Moon came to the quintile of Jupiter. 
 
 The MOON to the SEMIQUAR'l'ILE of JUPITER in Mundo. 
 
 The right afcenfion of Jupiter, with the circle, is - 41751 
 
 The femiquartile is - - 45 o 
 
 Subtradl the femiquartile, aid there remaiivs - 372 51 
 
 Which
 
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 9 
 
 374 
 
 292 
 
 o 
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 655 
 
 Which points out thirteen degrees fifty-eight minutes of 
 Aries in the zodiac. — I'he dechnation is five degrees 
 thirty-one minutes. 
 
 The afcenfional difference, under the pole of the Moon, is 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the above right afcenfion, 
 and the oblique defcenfion is found 
 
 From which fubtradt the obhque afcenfion of the Moon 
 
 And there remains - - 81 46 
 
 Seminodiurnal arch of the Moon, - 8'^ 37"* 
 
 Seminodlurnal arch of the femiquintile of Jupiter 5 30 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If eight hours thirty-feven minutes 
 give eighty -one degrees forty-fix minutes, what will five hours thirty mi- 
 nutes give for the arch of direction ? Anfwer - 48 O 
 
 Which, being turned into time as before, declares the native was fifty 
 years, feven months, and about fourteen days, old, when the Moon came 
 to the femiquartile of Jupiter. 
 
 The SUN to the QUINTILE of SATURN in Mundo. 
 The right afcenfion of Saturn, with latitude, is - 326 21 
 
 The quintile is - - - 75 
 
 o 
 
 Which add to the right afcenfion - 401 21 
 
 Subtract the circle - - 360 
 
 And the remainder is the right afcenfion of Saturn's quintile 41 21 
 
 Which points to thirteen degrees forty minutes of Taurus, 
 the declination of which is fixteen degrees, and 
 
 The afcenfional difference under the pole of the Sun is 
 
 Which add to the above right afcenfion, and the oblique 
 defcenfion of Jupiter's quintile is - 
 
 From which fubtradt the oblique defcenfion of the Sun 
 
 And there remains - - 41 a 
 
 No. 22- 7 Y Semi- 
 
 15 
 
 33 
 
 56 
 
 15 
 
 5+ 
 
 52
 
 656 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 Seminodlurnal arch of the Sun - 5'' 35"^ 
 
 Seminod:urnal arch of Jupiter's quintile 7 16 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion, If five hours thirty-five minutes give 
 forty-one degrees tvv'o minutes, what will feven hours fixteen minutes 
 give ? Anfvver - - S3 '^S 
 
 Which is tlie arch of diredion, and by the meafure of time gives fifty- 
 fix years and about three days, before the Sun comes to the quintile of 
 Saturn. 
 
 To DIRECT the ANGLES of the FIGURE. 
 
 llie angles of the horofcope arc diredled by the fame rules as all the 
 other directions in the world are, viz. by the aid of the femidiurnal and 
 feminod:urnal arches; and, according as the planets have greater or lefs 
 latitude, fo muft their pofitions be taken; for a fiar is faid to touch the 
 horizon, by direction, or by any other motion, when it begins to leave 
 the fubterranean hemifphere, and is emerging into our's. And, although 
 the meridian and horizon are only two imaginary circles, yet we are 
 fijre there are two fuch points, which is demonflrated every morning 
 when the Sun rifes, and equally fo when itfetsj and reafon dictates that 
 there muft be a half-way between, which we call the meridian. Now a 
 ftar comes fooner or later to thefe angles, in proportion as it has either 
 north or fouth latitude; and may either be direded by the globes, or by 
 the method following. 
 
 METHOD of directing the ASCENDANT to the various ASPECTS of 
 
 the PLANETS. 
 
 The ASCENDANT to the SEXTILE of the MOON. 
 
 Right afcenfion of the Moon without latitude 
 From which fubtraCt the fextile 
 
 And there remains - _ _ 
 
 From which fubtraCl the oblique afcenfion of the afi:endant 
 
 .And the diftance of the fextile of the Moon from the af- 
 
 cendant will be - - 
 
 s 
 
 288 
 60 
 
 24 
 
 22S 
 219 
 
 24 
 14 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 Then
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 657 
 
 Then obtain the feminodurnal arch of the Moon thus ; firft find the 
 declination of the Moon with latitude, and under the pole of the afcen- 
 dantgain her afcenfional difference, and add to it - 00 
 
 Alcenfional difference - _ 70 16 
 
 1 29 1 6 
 
 This fum being turned into hours and minutes, by the Table in page 
 196 of this work, will give eight hours thirty-feven minutes. 
 
 The feminodlurnal arch of the afcendnnt is next to be taken ; and 
 by examining the Table of Seminodurnal Arches in page 491, it will be 
 found that twenty-feven degrees thirty-three minutes of Libra will give fix 
 hours fifty-five minutes. 
 
 I take thefe two feminodlurnal arches, and fay. If fix hours fifty-five 
 minutes (being the feminodturnal arch of the afcendant) give nine degrees 
 ten minutes, the diffance of the Moon's fextile, what will eight hours 
 thirty-feven minutes, the feminodlurnal arch of the Moon, give? 
 
 AnfM^er - - _ 1 1 25 
 
 Which is to be turned into time, by adding the right afcen- 
 
 fion of the Sun - - 1 1 iS 
 
 ' The right afcenfion of Sol being added, makes 
 
 22 43 
 
 Which, being fought in the table of right afcenfions points to twenty- 
 four degrees thirty minutes of Aries; to which place the Sun carae in 
 . twelve days twelve hours ; and by allov/ing one day of the Sun's mo- 
 tion for a year of the native's life, as before, declares the native to be 
 twelve years and fix months old, when the afcendant came to the fextile of 
 the Moon. 
 
 The ASCENDANT to the QUARTILE of SATURN. 
 
 Firfl feek what latitude Saturn has at the quartile from his place, which is 
 in twenty-three degrees thirty-eight minutes of Virgo, and it will be found 
 he has for latitude two degrees eight minutes north. 
 
 Secondly, take Saturn's right afcenfion with that latitude 324 55 
 
 From which fubtradt the quartile - . 90 
 
 And there remains - « 234 ^^ 
 
 Froni
 
 658 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 From which lubrraA the oblique afcenfion of the afcendant 2Jg 14 
 And there remains for the arch of dircdion - 15 4^ 
 
 And by adding the right afcenfion of the Sun, and turning it into 
 time as before, it will produce fevenrcen years one month and about feven 
 da}'S, when the afcendant came to the quaitile of Saturn. 
 
 The ASCENDANT to the OPPOSITION of JUPITER. 
 
 The right afcenfion of Jupiter without latitude 
 
 The declination of Jupiter, with latitude 19' 39' 
 
 The afcenfional difference, with latitude 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference and the oblique afcenfion of 
 the oppofition of Jupiter 
 
 From which fubtradl the oblique afcenfion of the afcendant 
 
 And the remainder is the arch of diredlion - 45 ^ i 
 
 Which turned into time, by adding the right afcenfion of the Sun, &c. 
 will produce forty-feven years and about ten months, when the afcendant 
 came to the oppoiition of Jupiter. 
 
 The ASCENDANT to the QUARTILE of MARS. 
 
 The quartile of Mars falls in forty-four minutes of Sagittarius ; the 
 latitude which Mars poffeffes at that point is fifty-four minutes fouth. 
 
 Right afcenfion of Mars with that latitude - 152 29 
 
 To which add the quartile - - 90 
 
 337 
 
 43 
 
 26 
 
 42 
 
 264 
 
 25 
 
 219 
 
 14 
 
 And the fum is . - 242 29 
 
 Subtract the oblique afcenfion of the afcendant - 219 14 
 
 And there remains the arch of dircdion - 23 15 
 
 Add to it the right afcenfion of the Sun, and turn it into time, by which 
 it will appear to have been twenty-five years and about three months when 
 the afcendant came to the fquare of Mars. 
 
 The ASCENDANT to the QUARTILE of VENUS. 
 
 The quartile of Venus falls in five degrees twenty-one minutes of Sa- 
 gittarius, and the latitude Venus polTefles at that point is three degrees 
 forty-feven minutes north. 
 
 The
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 The right afcenfion of Venus with that latitude 
 From which fubtradl the quartile 
 
 And the remainder is - « 
 
 From which alfo fubtracfl the oblique afcenfion of the 
 afcendant - _ - 
 
 And the remainder is the arch of diredlion 
 
 Which turn into time, by adding the right afcenfion of the Sun, and 
 it will produce twenty-eight years and about feven months, when the 
 afcendant came to the quartile of Venus. 
 
 The ASCENDANT to the TRINE of the SUN. 
 
 Right afcenfion of the Sun with the circle - 371 18 
 
 From which fubtrad: the trine - 120 
 
 
 659 
 
 33S 
 90 
 
 SO 
 
 245 
 
 50 
 
 219 
 
 H 
 
 26 
 
 36 
 
 And there remains - - 251 18 
 
 Oblique afcenfion of the afcendant - zig 14. 
 
 Which fubtradl from the above remainder, and there remains 32 4 
 
 Semino(flurnal arch of the Sun - 5I1 35m 
 
 Seminodurnal arch of the afcendant 6 ^§ 
 
 Then fay, by the rule of proporilon, If fix hours fifty-five minutes 
 give thirty-two degrees four minutes, what will five hours thirty-five 
 minutes give ? Anfwer, for the arch of dircdion, twer<ty-five degrees 
 fifty-three minutes ; which, being turned into time, produces twenty- 
 feven years and about eleven months, when the afcendant came to the trine 
 of the Sun. 
 
 The ASCENDANT to the SEXTILE of SATURN. 
 
 Right afcenfion of Saturn, without latitude - 325 58 
 
 From which fubtradt the fextile, viz. - 60 
 
 And there remains - . 265 58 
 
 Then fubtrad the oblique afcenfion of the afcendant 219 14 
 
 Which leaves . « 46 44 
 
 No. 33. 7 Z Obtain
 
 66o ANIL LUSTRATION 
 
 Obtain the feminofturnal arch of Saturn according to the latitude he 
 has at the Textile place, which is, - - 716 
 
 Seminocfturnal arch of the afcendant - ^55 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion. If fix hours fifty-five minutes give 
 forty-fix degrees forty-four minutes, what will feven hours fixteen minutes 
 give ? Anfwer (for the arch of diredion) - - 49 6 
 
 Turn the arch of diredlion into time, by adding the right afcenfion of 
 the Sun, and it will produce fifty-one years, fix months, and feven days, 
 when the afcendant came to the fextile of Saturn. 
 
 The ASCENDANT to the TRINE of MARS. 
 
 Right afcenfion of Mars, without latitude - - ' 152 49 
 
 And the trine - - 120 
 
 And it makes - - 272 49 
 
 From wliich fubtrad the oblique afcenfion of the afcendant 219 14 
 
 And there remains . - - 53 35 
 
 The femidiurnal arch of Mars, according to the latitude he poffefles at 
 his trine place is - - ^53 
 
 The femino(i1:urnal arch of the afcendant 6 55 
 
 Then, by the rule of proportion. If fix hours fifty-five minutes give 
 fifty-three degrees thirty-five minutes, what will fix degrees fifty-three 
 minutes give ? Anfwer - - 53 20 
 
 Then, by turning this arch of diredion into time, it allows fifty-five 
 years eleven months, for the afcendant to come to the trine of Mars. 
 
 The MIDHEAVEN,. or MEDIUM CCELI, to the TRINE of the SUN,. 
 
 Right afcenfion of the Sun - - 11 18 
 
 Declination of the Sun is four degrees fifty-two minutes 
 north 
 
 Aicenfional difference under the pole of the fixth i 13 
 
 tS
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 66i 
 
 The Sun being in a northern fign. add the afcenfional dif- 
 ference to the right afcenfion, and the remainder will be the 
 oblique dcfcenfion _ _ 12 ■?! 
 
 From which fubtradl the oblique defcenfion of the fixth 9 14 
 
 And the remainder is the arch of diredion - 3 jT" 
 
 Which, being turned into time, declares the native was three years, 
 feyen months, and twenty days, old, when the midheaven came to the 
 trine of the Sun. 
 
 The MIDHEAVEN to the CONJUNCTION of the PART of 
 
 FORTUNE. 
 
 Right afcenfion of the Part of Fortune - 141 44 
 
 Right afcen/ion of the Midheaven - - 129 14 
 
 Subtrad:, and the arch of diredion is 
 
 12 
 
 Which, being turned into time, gives thirteen years, four months, and 
 about leven days, when the midheaven came to the conjundion of the Part 
 of Fortune, 
 
 The MIDHEAVEN to the OPPOSITION of SATURN. 
 
 Right afcenfion of Saturn's oppofite point, with contraiy 
 ^atitude . . . 146 21 
 
 Right afcenfion of the Midheaven - lao i^ 
 
 Subtrad, and the remainder is the arch of diredlion 1 7 n 
 
 Which, being turned into time, produces nineteen years, eight months, 
 and about fixteen days, for the completion of thisafped. 
 
 The MIDHEAVEN to the CONJUNCTION of COR LEONIS. 
 
 The right afcenfion of Cor Leonis, with twenty-fix minutes north 
 latitude, is - _ . 148 9 
 
 The right afcenfion of the Midheaven - » 129 41 
 
 Subtrad, and the remainder is the arch of diredioa 1 8 55 
 
 Which,
 
 662 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 Which, being turned into time, gives twenty years and about fevcn months 
 for the coming up of this diredion. 
 
 The MIDHEA VEN to the TRINE of MERCURY . 
 
 Right afcenfion of Mercury, with half-latitude - 22 
 
 Declination of Mercury, with latitude, is twelve degrees 
 fifty-two minutes. 
 
 Afcenfional difference under the pole of the fixth 
 
 And, being in a northern fign, add the afcenfional difference, 
 and the fame will be the oblique defcenfion of Mercury 
 From which fubtrad the oblique defcenfion of the fixth. 
 
 And there remains, for the arch of diredion - 25 O 
 
 Which turn into time, by the rules foregoing, and it will fliovv the 
 native to be twenty-feven years and about one month old when the midhea- 
 ven came to the trine of Mercury. 
 
 MIDHEAVEN to the QUARTILE of JUPITER. 
 
 Right afcenfion of Jupiter, with the latitude he pofTeffes 
 at his quartile, viz. fifty-one minutes north. 
 Add its quartile 
 
 And it makes - - - 
 
 Subtradl the right afcenfion of the Midheavcn 
 
 II 
 
 22 
 
 34 
 
 14 
 
 9 
 
 14 
 
 'a' 
 
 57 
 
 90 
 
 4» 
 
 
 147 
 129 
 
 41 
 
 And the remainder is the arch of diredlion - 18 27 
 
 Which, being turned into time, gives twenty years, one month, and 
 about feven days, for the completion of the afped:. 
 
 The MIDHEAVEN to the CONJUNCTION of MARS. 
 
 Right afcenfion of Mars, with latitude - 1^^ 58 
 
 From which fubtrad: the right afcenfion of ^he Midheavcn 1 29 14 
 
 And there remains for the arch of diredlion - 24 44 
 
 The
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 663 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces twenty-fix years, nine months, and 
 about three days, for the operation of this afpedt. 
 
 The MIDHEAVEN to the OPPOSITION of VENUS. 
 
 Right afcenfion of the oppofition of Venus, with contrary kti- 
 ide - - - - 157 29 
 
 Right afcenfion of the midheaven - - 129 14 
 
 Subtrad, and the remainder is the arch of diredioo aS 15 
 
 Which, turned into time, will produce thirty years and about fix 
 months of the native's life. 
 
 The MIDHEAVEN to the CONJUNCTION of the DRAGON^s TAIL. 
 
 Right afcenfion of the Dragon's Tail - 162 18 
 
 From which fubtraft the right afcenfion of the midheaven 129 14 
 
 Remains for the arch of dired:ion - " 33 4 
 
 Which, turned into time, according to the former examples, declares 
 the native was thirty-five years and fix months old when the midheaven 
 came to the conjuncStion of the Dragon's Tail. 
 
 The SUN direded to the QUARTILE of the MOON in fhe Zodiac 
 
 without Latitude. 
 
 The quartile of the Moon is fix degrees fifty-fix minutes of Aries. 
 The declination of that point without latitude is fix degrees fortr 
 minutes. 
 
 The pole of the Sun forty-three degrees eight minutes. 
 
 Right aifcenfion of the quartile of the Moon /*. 'i 36 
 
 Afcenlional difference under the pole of the Sun - 617 
 
 No. 33. 8 A Oblique
 
 664 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of that point, by adding the afcenfional 
 difference to the right afcenfion - - 2i 5^ 
 
 From which fubtrad: the obhque defcenfion of the Sun 15 59 
 
 And the remainder is the arch of diredlion - 5 54 
 
 Which, being turned into time, declares the native was fix years, fix 
 months, and about ten days, old, when the Sun came to the quartile of the 
 Moon without latitude. 
 
 The SUN diredled to the QUARTILE of the MOON in the Zodiac 
 
 with Latitude. 
 
 The quartile of the Moon falls in fixteen degrees fifty-fix minutes of 
 Aries. 
 
 Look into the Ephemeris, and find what latitude the Moon has at that 
 point: — and it has three degrees north latitude. 
 
 The declination of that point with latitude , is nine degrees twenty-feven 
 minutes. 
 
 •Right afcenfion of the quartile of the Moon with latitude 14 26 
 
 Pole of the Sun, is forty-three degrees eight minutes. 
 
 Afcenfional difference under that pole 
 
 Add the right afcenfion, and the oblique defcenfion of the 
 Moon's quartile, with latitude, is - 
 
 Subtract the oblique defcenfion of the Sun 
 
 And the remainder is the arch of diredion , » 4 43 
 
 Which, turned into time, gives five years and about two months^ when 
 the Sun came to the fquare of the Moon with latitude. 
 
 The SUN diredled to the SEXTILE of SATURN in the Zodiac. 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of the fextile of Saturn - 30 ^6 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of the Sun - f *5 59 
 
 L 
 
 Subtraa 
 
 6 
 
 n 
 
 ao 
 15 
 
 42 
 
 59
 
 OFASTROLOGY. td^ 
 
 Subtrad the oblique defcenflon of the Sun from the oblique 
 defcenfion of the fextile of Saturn, and there remains for the 
 arch of direction - - 14 3-7 
 
 Which, being converted into time, declares the native was about fixteen 
 years old when the Sun came to the fextile of Saturn. 
 
 The SUN to the CONJUNCTION of MERCURY. 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of Mercury with latitude, taken under the pole of 
 the Sun - - - 34 44 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of the Sun -^ 15 59 
 
 Subtract, and the arch of diredion is ' - 18 45 
 
 Which, turned into time, gives twenty years and about five months, wh«i 
 the Sun came to the conjunction of Mercury. 
 
 The SUN to the SEVENTH HOUSE, direct Direction. 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of the feventh houfe — 39 14 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of the Sun ' — 15 59 
 
 Subtrad, and the arch of diredion is • 23 15 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces twenty-five years, two months, and 
 twenty-five days, when the Sun came to the feventh houfe. 
 
 The SUN direded to the TRINE of MARS in the Zodiac. 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of the trine of Mars « 39 50 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of the Sun - - *5 59 
 
 Subtrad, and the remainder is the arch of diredion 23 51 
 
 Which, turned into time, declares the native was twenty-five years, 
 nine months, and fourteen days, old, when the Sun canxe to th« trine 
 of Mars. 
 
 The
 
 664 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 The SUN to the SEXTILE of VENUS in the Zodiac. 
 
 The obhque defceniion of the fextile of Venus - 45 53 
 
 The obUque defcenfion of the Sun - - ^5 59 
 
 The arch of diredlion - - 29 54 
 
 Which, turned into time, gives thirty-two years, four months, and 
 about twelve days, when the Sun came to the fextile of Venus. 
 
 The SUN to the QUINTILE of SATURN in the Zodiac. 
 
 The quintile falls in Taurus, eight degrees thirty-five minutes. 
 The oblique defcenfion of that point under the pole of the 
 Sun - - - 50 8 
 
 The oblique defcenfion of the Sim — "5 59 
 
 The arch of dired:ion - -^ 34 9 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces thirty-fix years and about feven 
 months, when the Sun came to the quintile of Saturn. 
 
 The SUN to the CONJUNCTION of VENUS by converse Motion. 
 
 The oblique defcenfion of the Sun, with the circle ^j^ 3 
 
 The oblique defcenfion of Venus, under the pole of Venus 334 43 
 
 Subtra(fl, and the arch of diredion is - 38 20 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces forty-one years and about one 
 month, when the Sun came to the conjunction ot Venus, by converfe 
 motion. 
 
 The SUN diredled to the TRINE of LUNA in the Zodiac. 
 
 The oblique defcenfion of the trine of Luna - 
 
 The oblique defcenfion of the Sun * 
 
 The arch of diredlion » 
 
 61 
 
 3 
 
 iS 
 
 59 
 
 45 
 
 4 
 
 Which,
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 667 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces forty-feven years and about eight 
 months, when the Sun came to the trine of the Moon in the zodiac. 
 
 The SUN direded to the OPPOvSITION of MARS in the Zodiac, 
 
 by converse Motion. 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of the Sun, with the circle, under the pole of 
 Mars - - - 372 46 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of Mars at the oppofitc point 329 36 
 
 Subtradl, and the remainder is the arch of dire(5tion 43 10 
 
 Which, turned into time, gives forty-five years and about nine months, 
 when Sol came to the oppofition of Mars by converfe motion. 
 
 The SUN diredled to the ZODIACAL PARALLEL of VENUS. 
 
 The parallel of Venus falls in twenty-two degrees thirty minutes 
 of Aries. 
 
 Pole of the Sun - -^ 
 
 Declination of Venus 
 
 Afcenfional difference 
 
 Right afcenfion of the parallel of Venus 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, and the 
 fum is the oblique defcenfion 
 Oblique defcenfion of the Sun 
 
 Subtra(fl the oblique defcenfion of the Sun, from the oblique 
 defcenfion o£ the parallel of Venus, and the arch of direction is 13 15 
 
 Which, turned into time, gives fourteen years and about fix months, 
 when the Sun came to the zodiacal parallel of Venus. 
 
 The SUN diredled to the ZODIACAL PARALLEL of MERCURY. 
 
 Th« parallel of Mercury falls in three degrees fifty-five minutes of 
 Taurus. 
 
 No. 33. 8 B Declination 
 
 43 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 47 
 
 8 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 48 
 
 29 
 
 7 
 
 15 
 
 52
 
 12 
 
 -(^ 
 
 43 
 
 8 
 
 12 
 
 22 
 
 31 
 
 39 
 
 44 
 
 1 
 
 M 
 
 52 
 
 668 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 Declination of Mercury 
 
 Pole of the Sun - 
 
 Afcenfional difference 
 
 Add the right afcenfion to the afcenfional difference 
 
 And the oblique defcenfion of Mercury's parallel is 
 Oblique defcenfion of the Sun 
 
 Subtrad;, and the remainder is the arch of dirc(flion 28 9 
 
 Which, being turned into time, declares the native was thirty years, 
 fix months, and about twenty days, old, when the Sun came to the zo- 
 diacal parallel of Mercury. 
 
 The SUN direded to the ZODIACAL PARALLEL of MARS. 
 
 The zodiacal parallel of Mars falls in feven degrees fifty-eight minutes 
 of Taurus. 
 
 Pole of the Sun 
 Declination of Mars 
 
 Afcenfional difference 
 
 Right afcenfion of Mars's zodiacal parallel 
 
 Add the afcenfional diflference, and the fum is the oblique 
 defcenfion, viz. 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of the Sun 
 
 Subtrad:, and the arch of diredion is - ^^ 29 
 
 Which, being turned into time, produces thirty- five years and about 
 eleven months, when the Sun came to the zodiacal parallel of Mars. 
 
 The SUN direded to the ZODIACAL PARALLEL of SATURN. 
 
 The zodiacal parallel of Saturn falls in nine degrees thirty minufes of 
 Taurus. • 
 
 Pole of the Sun - - 43 8 
 
 Declination of Saturn - - 14 43 
 
 Afcenfional 
 
 43 
 
 8 
 
 H 
 
 5^ 
 
 13 
 
 46 
 
 35 
 
 35 
 
 49 
 
 21 
 
 1^ 
 
 S3
 
 37 
 
 6 
 
 51 
 
 15 
 
 31 
 52 
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 6^y 
 
 Afcenfional difference 
 
 Right afcenfion of the zodiacal parallel of Saturn 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the above right afcenfion 
 and the oblique defcenfion is - . 
 
 Oblique defcenfion of the Sun 
 
 Subtrafl, and the arch of diredlion is - 35 29 
 
 Which, being turned into time, produces thirty-feven years, eleven 
 months, and about ten days, when the Sun came to the zodiacal parallel of 
 Saturn. 
 
 METHOD of direding the MOON to the various ASPECTS in the 
 ZODIAC, with or without Latitude. 
 
 The MOON dircded to the QUARTILE of MERCURY in the 
 
 ZODIAC, with Latitude. 
 
 The quartile of Mercury falls in twenty -five degrees fifteen minutes 
 of Capricorn, and, by the time the Moon comes to that point in the zo- 
 diac, Mercury will have three degrees eight minutes north latitude. — 
 "With this latitude Mercury's quartile is to be taken under the pole of 
 the Moon, viz. 
 
 Pole of the Moon - - 11 
 
 Declination of twenty-five degrees fifteen minutes of Capri- 
 corn, with latitude - - 18 
 
 45 
 
 Afcenfional differeiKe under the pole of the Moon 3 54 
 
 Right afcenfion of the quartile of Mercury, with three 
 degrees eight minutes north latitude - 296 37 
 
 Add the right afcenfion to the afcenfional difference, and the 
 oblique afcenfion of the quartile of Mercury is 
 Right afcenfion of the Moon, with latitude 
 Declination of the Moon, without latitude 
 Afcenfional difference under her own pole 
 
 '" ■ -Add 
 
 500 
 
 .31 
 
 28S 
 
 59 
 
 23 
 
 37 
 
 4 
 
 56
 
 670 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Add tliC afcenfional difference to the Moon's right afcenfion, 
 and her obhquc afccnfion will be - 293 55 
 
 Then, to gain the arch of direiflion, fuhtrad: the oblique afccnfion of the 
 Moon from the oblique afccnfion of the quartile of Mercury, thus, 
 
 Oblique afcenfion of the quartile of Mercury - 300 31 
 
 Oblique afcenfion of the Moon - - 293 55 
 
 Subtract:, and the arch of diredion is - 6 36 
 
 Which, being added to the right afcenfion of the Sun, and turned into 
 time, gives feven. years and near four months, when the Moon came to the 
 quartile of Mercury, with latitude, in the zodiac. 
 
 The MOON dircded to the QUINTILE of the SUN. 
 The quintile of the Sun falls in twenty-feven degrees of Capricorn . 
 
 Declination of that point without latitude (for the Sun never has 
 
 any) - - - 
 
 Pole of the Moon 
 
 Afcenfional difference of the quintile of the Sun under the 
 pole of the Moon 
 
 Right afcenfion of the quintile of the Sun 
 
 Add the right afcenfion to the afcenfional difference, and it 
 makes the oblique afcenfion 
 
 Declination of the Moon, with latitude 
 
 Afcenfional difference, under her own pole 
 Right afcenfion of the Moon, with latitude 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference and the right afcenfion together, 
 and the fum will be the oblique afcenfion - 294 59 
 
 Subtracft the oblique afcenfion of the Moon from the oblique afcenfion of 
 the quintile of i>ol, and the remainder will be the arch of diredion. 
 
 Oblique afcenfion of the quintile of the Sun - 303 ^6 
 
 Oblique afctnfion of the Moon - 294 49 
 
 20 
 1 1 
 
 50 
 45 
 
 4 
 299 
 
 32 
 4 
 
 303 
 
 36 
 
 26 
 
 42 
 
 6 
 
 288 
 
 
 59 
 
 Arch of diredlion - - , ^ 37 
 
 Which,
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 671 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces nine years, five months, and about 
 four days, when the Moon came to the quintile of the Sun. 
 
 The MOON to the TRINE of JUPITER in the ZODIAC, with 
 
 Latitude. 
 
 The trine of Jupiter falls in twenty- nine degrees fifty-five minutes of 
 Capricorn. 
 
 The latitude of the Moon has at that point is fouth 
 The declination of that point with that latitude is 
 The pole of the Moon - - _ _ 
 
 The afcenfional difference of the above point 
 The right afcenfion of that point with latitude 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, and 
 the fum will be the oblique afcenfion of the point - 308 7 
 Then take the oblique afcenfion of the Moon with latitude 294 59 
 
 3 
 
 29 
 
 23 
 
 3« 
 
 II 
 
 45 
 
 5 
 
 13 
 
 302 
 
 54 
 
 Subtrad the oblique afcenfion of the Moon from the 
 oblique afcenfion of Jupiter's trine, and the remainder is the 
 arch of direflion - - r - - 
 
 13 
 
 Which, turned into time, proves the native was fourteen years, four 
 months, and about fix days, old, when the Moon came to the trine of 
 Jupiter. 
 
 The MOON to the TRINE of JUPITER in the ZODIAC, without 
 
 Latitude. 
 
 The declination of twenty-nine degrees fifty-four minutes of Capri- 
 corn, without latitude, is - - - _ 20 1 2 
 The pole of the Moon - - - _ 11 4? 
 The afcenfional difference, under the pole - - 422 
 The right afcenfion of the trine of Jupiter, without latitude 302 6 
 
 No. 34. 8C Tjic
 
 672 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 The oblique aicei^fioti .... 306 29 
 
 The dechiiation of ilie Moon with latitude - 26 42 
 
 The afceiinoiial difference under her own pole - 60 
 
 The ricrht afcenfion of the Moon with latitude - 288 59 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference and the right afcenfioa 
 
 together, and the lum will be the oblique afcenfion 294 59. 
 
 Then fubtraft the oblique afcenfion of the Moon from the oblique 
 
 afcenfion of the trine of Jupiter, and the remainder will be the arch of 
 direction. 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the trine of Jupiter - 3-06 29 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Moou - - 294 59 
 
 The arch of direftion - ' - - - ii 30 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces twelve years and about feveii 
 months, when the Moon came to the trine of Jupiter. 
 
 The MOON to the SEXTILE of the SUN in the ZODIAC. 
 
 The fextile of the Sua falls in twelve degrees feventeen minutes of 
 Aquaries. 
 
 The declination of that point, without latitude - 1 7 1 2 
 
 The afcenfional difference - - - - 3 42 
 
 The right afcenfion - - - - -314, 46 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, and 
 the fum will be the oblique afcenfion of the point - 318 28 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Moon, Avith latitude - 294 59 
 
 Subtrad the oblique afcenfion of the Moon from the oblique 
 afcenfion of the textile of the Sun, and the remainder is the 
 arch of direftioii - - - - - - 23 29 
 
 Which, being turned into time, produces twenty-five years, five 
 months, and about four days, when the Moon came to the fextile of the 
 Sun in the zodiac. 
 
 The
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. (^13 
 
 The MOON direaed to the CONJUNCTION of SATURN, with 
 
 Latitude. 
 
 The pole of the Moon - - - - 1 1 45 
 
 The decUnation of Saturn with latitude - - 14 43 
 
 The latitude of Saturn is fouth - - -16 
 
 The afcenfional difference of Saturn - - 3 ^ 
 
 The right aiceufion of Saturn with latitude - 326 21 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference and right afcenfion together, 
 and the fu.n will be the oblique afcenfion, viz. - 329 29 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Moon with latitude is 294 59 
 
 Subtract, and the remainder is the arch of diredion 34 30 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces thirty-fix years, eleven months, and 
 about eighteen days, when the Moon came to the conjunction of Saturn, 
 by dire6t diredtion. 
 
 The MOON direded to the SEXTILE of MERCURY in the ZODIAC, 
 
 without Latitude. 
 
 The Textile of Mercury falls in twenty-five degrees fifteen minutes of 
 Aquaries. 
 
 The declination of which point is - - 
 
 The pole of the Moon _ . _ 
 
 The afcenfional difference belouGfino; to the Sextile of Mer- 
 cury IS ----- . 
 
 The right afcenfion of the fame point 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference and right afcenfion together, 
 and the fum will be the oblique afcenfion, viz. 
 
 From which fubtraft the oblique afcenfion of the Moon, 
 with latitude - - _ > , 
 
 And the remainder is the arch of diredtion 
 
 11 
 
 9 
 
 45 
 
 2 
 
 47 
 33 
 
 530 
 
 20 
 
 294 
 
 59 
 
 3S 
 
 21 
 
 Which
 
 674 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces thirty-fevea years, nine months, 
 and about twenty days, when the Moon came to the Textile of Mer- 
 cury in the zodiac. 
 
 The MOON dire^ed to the SEXTILE of MERCURY in the 
 
 ZODIAC, with Latitude. 
 
 The pole of the Moon - - ^ - 1 1 45 
 
 The latitude the Moon has at the fextlle of Mercury is 
 one degree twenty-five minutes fouth. 
 
 The declination of the fextile of Mercmry with latitude 14 30 
 
 The ai'cenfional difference _ - - 3 6 
 
 The right afceiifion of the fextile of Mercury, with latitude 32S 3 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, and 
 'the oblique afcenfion of Mercury's fextile place is obtained 331 g 
 
 From which fubtradl the oblique afcenfion of the Moon 
 with latitude - - _ _ . 294 59 
 
 The remainder is the arch of dire<?fion - - 36 10 
 
 Which, being turned into time, declares the native was thirty-eight 
 years and about eight months old when the Mooa came to the fextile 
 of Mercury with latitude. 
 
 The MOON direaed to the QUARTILE of JUPITER in the ZO- 
 DIAC, without Latitude. 
 
 The quartile of Jupiter falls in twenty-nine degrees fifty-five minutes 
 of Aquaries, 
 
 The pole of the Moon - - - - 1 1 45 
 
 The declination without latitude - - - ^ ' 33 
 
 The afcenfional difference - - - - 2 26 
 
 The right afcenfion of Jupiter's quartile, no latitude - 332 i 
 
 Add
 
 334 
 
 a; 
 
 z6 
 
 42 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 288 
 
 22 
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 675 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference and right afcenfion together, 
 and the lum will be the oblique afcenfion 
 
 The declination of the Moon with latitude 
 
 The afcenfional difference of the Moon 
 
 The right afcenfion of the Moon, without latitude 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference and the right afcenfion toge- 
 ther, and their fum will be the oblique afcenfion - 294 22 
 
 Subtrad the oblique afcenfion of the Moon from the oblique afcen- 
 fion of the quartile oi Jupiter, and the remainder is the arch of diredion. 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the quartile of Jupiter - 334 27 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Moon - - 294 22 
 
 The arch of direction - - - - 40 5 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces forty-two years eight months and 
 about eight days, when the Moon came to the quartile of Jupiter in the 
 zodiac without latitude. 
 
 The MOON direded to the QUARTILE of JUPITER in the ZODIAC, 
 
 with Latitude. 
 
 The quartile of Jupiter falls in twenty-nine degrees fifty-five minutes 
 of Aquaries ; and, by the time the Moon comes to that point in the 
 zodiac, Jupiter has thirty-five minutes fouth latitude. 
 
 The pole of the Moon - - - - 1 1 45 
 
 The declination of the quartile of Jupiter, with that latitude 12 6 
 
 The afcenfional difference is - - - - -33 
 
 The right afcenfion, with the above latitude, is - 332 13 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, and 
 the fum is the oblique afcenfion - - _ ^34 46 
 
 . No. 34. 8 D The
 
 22 
 
 28 
 
 II 
 
 45 
 
 4 
 288 
 
 56 
 
 59 
 
 293 
 
 55 
 
 6y& AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The declination of the Moon, without latitude 
 The pole of the Moon - . . - 
 
 The afcenfional difference of the Moon 
 
 The right afcenfion of the Moon, with latitude 
 
 Add the afcenficnal difference and right afcenfion together, 
 and the oblique afcenfion of the Moon is - - 
 
 Subtradl the oblique afcenfion of Jupiter from the oblique 
 afcenfion of the Moon, and the arch of diredion will be 40 51 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces forty-three years five months and 
 about four days, when the Moon came to the quartile of Jupiter in the 
 zodiac, with latitude. 
 
 The MOON direded to the OPPOSITION of Mars in the ZODIAC, 
 
 with Latitude. 
 
 The oppofition of Mars is in forty-four minutes of Pifces. 
 
 The latitude of Mars at that point is three degrees twelve minutes 
 fouth. 
 
 The declination of Mars, with that latitude - 14 15 
 
 The pole of the Moon - - - - 11 45 
 
 The afcenfional difference, under that pole - - 310 
 
 The right afcenfion of Mars's oppofite point, with latitude 33^ 58 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, and 
 the fum will be the oblique afcenfion, viz. - - 37 ^ 
 
 The declination of the Moon, with latitude - - 26 42 
 
 The afcenfional difference is - - -60 
 
 The right afcenfion of the Moon, with latitude - 288 59 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, and 
 the oblique afcenfion of the Moon is - - - 294 59 
 
 Subtraii
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 677 
 
 Subtra6l the oblique afcenfion of the Moon, from the oblique afcen- 
 fion of Mars, and the remainder is the arch of diredion 42 9 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces forty-four years, eight months, 
 and about ten days, when the Moon came to the oppofition of Mars, 
 with latitude. 
 
 The MOON direded to the OPPOSITION of MARS in the ZODIAC, 
 
 without Latitude. 
 
 The declination of Mars, without latitude, is - 11 15 
 
 The pole of the Moon - - - - 1 1 4 5 
 
 The afcenfional difference - - - 2 22 
 
 The right afcenfion of Mars's oppofite place, no latitude 332 49 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, and 
 the fum will be the oblique afcenfion - - - 325 1 1 
 
 Then take the oblique afcenfion of the Moon thus : 
 
 The pole of the Moon is - -- . ir4c 
 
 The declination of the Moon, without latitude - 22 28 
 
 The afcenfional difference of the Moon - - 4 c6 
 
 The i-ight afcenfion of the Moon, no latitude - 288 22 
 
 The afcenfional difference, being added to the right afcenfion 
 of the Moon, gives the oblique afcenfion of the Moon 293 18 
 
 Subtra6l the oblique afcenfion of the Moon from the oblique 
 afcenfion of Mars's oppofite place, and the remainder 'is the 
 arch of direction - - - _ , 
 
 '41 53 
 
 Which, being turned into time, produces forty-four years five months 
 and about twenty days, when the Moon came to the oppofition of Mars 
 in the zodiac, without latitude. 
 
 The MOON direded to the ZODIACAL PARALLEL of SATURN. 
 
 The zodiacal parallel of Saturn falls in twenty degrees thirty minutes 
 of Aquaries. 
 
 The
 
 II 
 
 45 
 
 '4 
 
 43 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 322 
 
 55 
 
 326 
 
 
 294 
 
 59 
 
 678 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The pole of the Moon ...» 
 
 The declination of Saturn - - - 
 
 The afcenfional difference _ - > 
 
 The right afcenfion of the parallel of Saturn 
 
 Add the afceiirional difference to the right afcenfion, and 
 the fum is the oblique afcenfion - - 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Moon with latitude 
 
 Subtradl the oblique afcenfion of the Moon from the 
 oblique afcenfion of Saturn's parallel, and the remainder is 
 the arch of direction - - - - 314 
 
 Which, being turned into time, produces thirty-three years four 
 months and about twenty-five days, when the Moon came to the zo- 
 diacal parallel of Saturn. 
 
 The MOON direded to the ZODIACAL PARALLEL of MARS. 
 
 The zodiacal parallel of Mars falls in twenty-two degrees two mi- 
 nutes of Aquaries. 
 
 The pole of the Moon - - - - 1 1 45 
 
 The declination of Mars - - - - 1 4 1 5 
 
 Tiie afcenfional difference - - - - 3 2 
 
 The right afcenfion of the parallel of Mars - - 324 25 
 
 Add the right afcenfion to the afcenfional difference, and 
 the oblique afcenfion is - - - - 32727 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Moon - - 294 59 
 
 Subtraft, and the arch of direflion is - - 32 28 
 
 Which, being turned into time, produces thirty-four years and about 
 ten months, when the Moon came to the zodiacal parallel of Mars. 
 
 The
 
 O F A S T R G L O G Y. 679 
 
 The MOON direaed to the CONJUNCTION of VENUS. 
 
 The dedination of Venus, with latitude - - 8 47 
 
 The pole of the Moon - - - - ^^57 
 
 The afcenfional difference under the pole of the Moon ' ^ 57 
 The right afcenfion of Venus, with latitude -» ^^-j 5^ 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, and 
 the fum will be the oblique afcenfion - - ^39 50 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Moon, with latitude - 294 59 
 
 Subtract the oblique afcenfion of the Moon from the 
 oblique afcenfion of Venus, and the remainder is the arch 
 of direction -- - - - -44 51 
 
 Which, turned into time, by the rules before given, produces forty- 
 feven years, five months, and about eight days, when the Moon came to 
 the conjundion of Venus. 
 
 The MOON direfted to the ZODIACAL PARALLEL of JUPITER. 
 
 The zodiacal parallel of Jupiter falls in two degrees thirtv-four mi- 
 nutes of Aquaries. 
 
 The pole of the Moon - - - . 
 
 The declination of Jupiter - - - ^ 
 
 The afcenfional difference - - - _ 
 
 The right afcenfion o; the parallel of Jupiter - 
 
 Add the afcenfional dittcrence to the right afcenfion, and 
 the fum Avill be the oblique afcenfion, viz. 
 
 From which fubtra6l the oblique afcenfion of the Moon 
 And the remainder is the arch of diredlion 
 No. j4. 8 E 
 
 1 1 
 
 45 
 
 19 
 
 39 
 
 4 
 
 15 
 
 304 
 
 49 
 
 3°9 
 
 4 
 
 294 
 
 59 
 
 14 
 
 5 
 
 Wh 
 
 ich,
 
 68o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Which, being turned into time, produces fifteen years, four months^ 
 and about twenty-fix days, when the Moon came to the zodiacal paral- 
 lel ot Jupiter. 
 
 The MOON direded to the ZODIACAL PARALLEL of 
 
 MERCURY. 
 
 The zodiacal parallel of Mercury falls in twenty-fix degrees five mi- 
 nutes of Aquaries. 
 
 The pole of the Moon - - - - 1 1 45 
 
 The declination of Mercury - - - I2 52 
 
 The afcenfional difference _ _ » 
 
 The right afceafion of the parallel of Mercury 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, and 
 
 the fum is the oblique afcenfion . _ - 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Moon _ - - 
 
 Subtract, and the arch of dire61ion is - - 
 
 Which, turned into time, gives thirty-eight years and about feveii 
 •months, when the Moon came to the zodiacal parallel of Mercury. 
 
 2 
 
 328 
 
 43 
 21 
 
 33^ 
 294 
 
 4 
 59 
 
 36 
 
 5 
 
 How to dired the PART of FORTUNE to PROMITTORS. 
 
 The PART of FORTUNE directed to the OPPOSITION of 
 
 SATURN. 
 
 The pole of the Part of Fortune is - - - 8 a 
 
 The declination of Saturn - - - 14 45 
 
 The right afcenfion of Saturn's oppofite place, with latitude 14.6 21 
 The afcenfional difference - - - - 2 7 
 
 Subtradl the afcenfional difference from the right afcenfion, 
 and the remainder will be the oblique afcenfion, viz. - 144 14 
 
 Then
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 681 
 
 Then find the oblique afcenfion of the Part of Fortune, thus : 
 
 The pole of the Part of Fortune is - - - 
 
 The declination is the fame as the Moon's, viz. 
 
 The right afcenfion - - - - - 
 
 The afcenfional difference 
 
 Subtra(5t the afcenfional difference from the right afcenfion, 
 and the remainder is the oblique afcenfion - - 137 40 
 
 Subtraft the oblique afcenfion of the Part of Fortune from the oblique 
 afcenfion of the oppolition of Saturn, and the remainder is the arch of 
 direftion, thus : 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the oppofition of Saturn - 144 14 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Part of Fortune - - 137 40 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 42 
 
 141 
 
 44 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 The arch of direflion - ' - - - 6 34 
 
 Which, turned into time, by adding to it the right afcenfion of the 
 Sun, will produce i'even years, two months, and about five days, when 
 the Part of Fortune came to the oppofition of Saturn. 
 
 The PART of FORTUNE direded to the CONJUNCTION 
 
 of COR LEON IS. 
 
 The place of Cor Leonis at the time of birth was in twenty-five de- 
 grees forty minutes of Leo. 
 
 The declination of that point _ - _ 
 
 The pole of the Part of Fortune _ - . 
 
 The right afcenfion of Cor Leonis 
 
 The afcenfional difference . - _ 
 
 Subtraft the afcenfional difference from the right afcenfion, 
 and the remainder is the oblique afcenfion 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Part of Fortune is - f 37 4° 
 
 Subtraa 
 
 13 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 
 
 147 
 
 56 
 
 I 
 
 53 
 
 I l6 
 
 ^
 
 682 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 Subtrad tlie firiaDcr cblique afcenfion from the greater, and 
 
 the remainder is the arch of diredlioa - - - 8 23 
 
 # 
 Which being turned into time, produces nine years, two months, 
 
 and about eight days, when the Part of Fortune came to the coi)jun6i:ion 
 
 of Cor Leonis. 
 
 The PART of FORTUNE directed to the CONJUNCTION of 
 
 MARS. 
 
 The pole of the Part of Fortune - - - So 
 
 The dechnation of Mars, with latitude - - 14 15 
 
 The right afcenfion of Mars, with latitude - - ^53 5^ 
 
 The afcenfion al difference - - - - 22 
 
 Subtrad the afcenfional difference from the right afcenfion, 
 and the remainder is the oblique afcenfion - - 151 56 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Part of Fortune - 137 40 
 
 Subtraft, and the arch of direftion is - - - 14 16 
 
 Which, being turned into time, produces fifteen years and about 
 {even months, when the Part of Fortune came to the conjundion 
 of Mars. 
 
 The PART of FORTUNE direded to the QUARTILE of JUPITER 
 in the Zodiac, viz. twenty-nine Degrees fifty- five Minutes of 
 the Sign LEO. 
 
 The pole of the Part of Fortune 
 
 The declination of the quartile of Jupiter 
 
 The right afcenfion of the quartile of Jupiter 
 The afcenfional difference 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 33 
 
 152 
 
 1 
 
 I 
 
 39 
 
 Subtra£i
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 683 
 
 Subtradl the afcenfional difference from the right afcenfion, 
 
 and the remauider is the obhque afcenfion - 150 22 
 
 The obhque afcenfion of the part of fortune - 137 40 
 
 Subtra6l the obhque afcenfion of the part of fortune from the 
 obhque afcenfion of the quartile of Jupiter, arid the remainder 
 is the arch of diredlion - - 12 42 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces thirteen years, ten months, and 
 about twenty-eight days, when tHe part of fortune came to the quartile 
 of Jupiter. 
 
 The PART of FORTUNE direded to the OPPOSITION of 
 
 VENUS. 
 
 The pole of the part of fortuixe - -80 
 
 The declination of Venus, with latitude - -- 8 47 
 
 The right afcenfion of Venus's oppofite place, with latitude 157 53 
 The afcenfional difference - - - ^ ^5 
 
 Subtract the afcenfional difference from the right afcenfion, 
 and the remainder is the oblique afcenfion - - 156 38 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the part of fortune - 1 3 7 40 
 
 Subtrad, and the arch of direction is - - 18 58 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces twenty years, feven months, and 
 
 about eight days, when the part of fortune came to the oppofition of 
 Venus. 
 
 No; 34. 8 F The
 
 684 ANiLLUSTRATIOlSr 
 
 The PART of FORTUNE direaed to the CONJUNCTION of the 
 DRAGON'S TAIL, or MOON's SOUTH NODE. 
 
 The pole of the Part of Fortune - -80- 
 
 The declination of the Dragon's Tail - *: 7 3^ 
 
 The right afcenfion of the Dragon's Tail • 162 19 
 
 The afcenfional difference - - - 15 
 
 Subtraft the afcenfional difference from the right afcenfion,. 
 and the refidue is the oblique afcenfion - » i6r 14 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the Part of Fortune is- . - 137 40- 
 
 Subtra£l the oblique afcenfion of the Part of Fortune from the 
 oblique afcenfion of the Dragon's Tail, and the remainder is' 
 the arch of diredion .... - a^ ^^ 
 
 Which, turned into time, produces twenty-five years, fix months,, 
 and about eight days, when the Part of Fortune came to the conjunction 
 of the Dragon's Tail. 
 
 The PART of FORTUNE direded as HYLEG to th^ SUN, which; 
 in this-Nativity is Anareta, or the Direction of Death. 
 
 The pole of the Part of Fortune - •- - 80 
 
 The declination of the Sun . - - - 4 42 
 
 The right afcenfion of the Sun*s oppofite point - 191 i8 
 
 The afcenfional difference - - - o 41 
 
 Add
 
 191 
 
 59 
 40 
 
 54 
 
 19 
 18 
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 685 
 
 Add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, and 
 the fum is the obhque afcenfion - _ _ 
 
 The oblique afcenfion of the part of fortune 
 
 Subtraft, and the arch of diredtion is - - 
 
 To turn it into time, add the right afcenfion of the Sun 
 
 And it makes - - - ' ^S Zl 
 
 Which points in the zodiac to {t.vQ\\ degrees twenty-feven minutes 
 of Gemini; and, referring to the Ephemeris, it will be found the Sun. 
 came to this point of the heavens in fifty-fix days twenty hours ;— ■ 
 which, by allowing a day's motion for a year, proves Mr. Witchell 
 to have been fifty-fix years and ten months old when the Part of 
 Fortune came to the oppofition of the Sun, at which time he died, viz. 
 the 29th of January, 1785. 
 
 Now to eafe the learner, and to affift the fpeculative reader, I have 
 colleded the whole of thefe diredions progreffively into a Table, in order 
 that they may be referred to with corrednefs :;ad facility, in the follow- 
 ing obfervations upon their aftral effeds, both as they affeded the tem- 
 poral affairSy and the health of life, of the native. 
 
 A TABLE
 
 686 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE of DIRECTIONS in the foregoing Nativity of Mr. 
 WITCHELL, with the leveral Arches thereof, the Meafurc of 
 Time agreeiag to each of them, and the Year and Month when they 
 began to take;eiFe<5I. 
 
 
 NOMINA DJRECTIONUM. 
 
 Arcns 
 Dirrctianum 
 
 M.juCiir. 
 Directionum 
 
 DicsMonfis. 
 
 Anno 
 Domini. 
 
 1 73-^ 
 
 
 Midheaven .to the. A of Sol,.ii-;i*-;,)u - 
 
 ileg. n.'in. 
 
 3 ^7 
 
 Y. M. U. 1 
 
 3 720100a. 
 
 
 Sol to the D of -Luna 
 
 4 43 
 
 5 20 
 
 21 May 
 
 ^133 
 
 
 Part of Fortune to the S of Saturn 
 
 6 34 
 
 7 2 5 
 
 id May 
 
 ^35 
 
 
 Luna to the n of Mercury 
 
 6 36 
 
 740 
 
 21 July 
 
 1735 
 
 
 ■Luna to -the Q. of Sol 
 
 8 37 
 
 8 9 18 
 
 8 Jan. 
 
 ^737 
 
 
 Part of Fortune to the 6 of Cor Leonis 
 
 8 23 
 
 9 2.8 
 
 29 May 
 
 ^737 
 
 
 Sol to the * of Jupiter in Mundo - 
 
 9 1 
 
 9 10 22 
 
 13 Feb. 
 
 1738 
 
 
 Sol to the Sfq. of Mars 
 
 10 32 
 
 II 6 15 
 
 5 Sept. 
 
 '739 
 
 
 Luna to the A of Jupiter, no Latitude 
 
 1 1 30 
 
 12 70 
 
 21 Oct. 
 
 1740 
 
 
 Luna to the Parallel of Venus in Mundo 
 
 II 34 
 
 12 8 7 
 
 28 Nov 
 
 1740 
 
 
 Part of Fortune to the Midheaven - 
 
 12 30 
 
 13 4 7 
 
 28 July 
 
 1 741 
 
 
 Part of Fortune to the n of Jupiter - 
 
 12 42 
 
 12) 10 28 
 
 1 8 Feb. 
 
 1742 
 
 
 Sol to the Parallel of Jupiter in Mundo 
 
 13 36 
 
 15 21 
 
 1 1 Apr. 
 
 1743 
 
 
 Part of Fortune to the Sfq. of Mercury 
 
 '3 58 
 
 15 3 10 
 
 30 June 
 
 1743 
 
 
 Luna to the Zodiacal Parallel of Jupiter 
 
 14 5 
 
 15 4 26 
 
 1 6 Aug. 
 
 1743 
 
 
 Part of Fortune to the 6 of Mars 
 
 14 16 
 
 ^S 7 ^ 
 
 I oa. 
 
 1743 
 
 
 Sol to the * of Saturn 
 
 H 37 
 
 16 
 
 2 1 Mar. 
 
 1744 
 
 
 A
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 687 
 
 A TABLE of DIRPXTIONS in the foregoing Nativity of Mr. 
 WITCHELL, with the ieveral Arches thereof, the Meafure of 
 Time agreeing to each of them, and the Year and Month when they 
 began to take effe6l. 
 
 
 NOMINA DIKECTIONUM. 
 
 ArciH 
 
 i>irrctiuiiUM( 
 
 i.-tf. mm, 
 
 '5 26 
 
 Menfiir. 
 Directionuin 
 
 IXes Menfis. 
 
 Anno 
 Domini. 
 
 
 Sol to the Smq. of Venus 
 
 Y. .VJ. U 
 
 16 8 24 
 
 1 4 Dec. 
 
 1744 
 
 
 Alcendant to the n of Saturn 
 
 15 41 
 
 17 I 7 
 
 28 Apr. 
 
 1745 
 
 
 Part of Fortune to* of Jupiter in Mundo 
 
 15 50 
 
 17 3 4 
 
 25june 
 
 '745 
 
 
 Part of Fortune in A of Sol in Mundo 
 
 16 7 
 
 17 4 23 
 
 1 3 Aug. 
 
 1745 
 
 
 Luna to the Q. of Mercury in Mundo 
 
 16 49 
 
 i8 4 
 
 2 1 July 
 
 1746 
 1746 
 
 
 ]\Iidheaven to the $ of Saturn 
 
 •7 7 
 
 18 8 16 
 
 6 Dec. 
 
 
 Part of Fortune to the of 9 Mer-i 
 cury in Mundo - - j 
 
 17 38 
 
 19 .2.23 
 
 1 3 June 
 
 1747 
 
 
 Mars to the a of Jupiter in Mundo 
 
 17 47 
 
 19 6 5 
 
 26 Sept. 
 
 >747 
 
 
 Midheaven to the of Jupiter 
 
 18 27 
 
 20 I 7 
 
 28 Apr. 
 
 .748 
 
 
 Sol to the 6 of Mercury 
 
 18 45 
 
 20 5 
 
 21 Ausf. 
 
 - 
 
 1748 
 
 
 Midheaven to the 6 of Cor Leonis - 
 
 i« 55 
 
 20 7 
 
 21 Nov 
 
 1748 
 
 
 Part of Fortune to the 8 of Venus - 
 
 18 58 
 
 20 7 8 
 
 29N0V. 
 
 1748 
 
 
 Afcendant to the Sextile of Luna - - 
 
 22 43 
 
 33 6 
 
 21 Sep, 
 
 '75^ 
 
 
 Afcendant to the of Mars 
 
 ^3 15 
 
 25 2 5 
 
 26 May 
 
 1733 
 
 
 Sol to the 8 of the Alcendant 
 
 23 15 
 
 25 2 5 
 
 26 May 
 
 ^753 
 
 
 Part of Fortune to the c^ of the S.Node 
 
 -3 34 
 
 25 6 S 
 
 29 Sep. 
 
 nS3 
 
 
 Luna to the Sextile of Sol 
 
 23 29 
 
 25 5 4 
 
 25 Aug. 
 
 1 753 
 
 
 No. 34. 8 G 1 

 
 688 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE of DIRECTIONS in the foregoing Nativity of Mr. 
 WITCHELL, with the feveral Arches thereof, the Meafure of 
 Time agreeing to each of them, and the Year and Month when 
 they began to take effett. 
 
 NOMINA DIRECTIONUM. 
 
 Arena 
 DiiKCtionum 
 
 Mptifur. 
 Dtrectiomim. 
 
 Dies McDfis. 
 
 Anno 
 Domini. 
 
 Sol to the A of Mars 
 
 iW'g. mm, 
 2i 51 
 
 Y. M. D. 
 
 25 9 M 
 
 4 Jan. 
 
 1754 
 
 Luna to the A of Mercury in Miindo 
 
 24 24 
 
 26 4 22 
 
 I 2 Aug. 
 
 1754 
 
 
 
 Midheaven to the 6 of Mars 
 
 24 44 
 
 26 9 3 
 
 24 Dec. 
 
 1754 
 
 Midheaven to the A of Mercury 
 
 ^5 
 
 27 I 
 
 21 Apr. 
 
 '7S5 
 
 Luna to the Smq. of Sol in Mundo 
 
 25 39 
 
 27 8 8 
 
 2 9 Nov. 
 
 n55 
 
 Luna to the Sextile of Venus in Mundo 
 
 25 42 
 
 27 9 8 
 
 29 Dec. 
 
 ^755 
 
 Part of Fortune to the a of Mercury) 
 in Mundo -^ 
 
 26 23 
 
 28 6 
 
 21 Sep. 
 
 ^Ib^ 
 
 Afcendant in Quartile of Venus 
 
 26 36 
 
 28 7 
 
 21 oa. 
 
 n5(> 
 
 Jupiter to the o of Saturn in Mundo 
 
 26 59 
 
 29 2 
 
 21 May 
 
 '751 
 
 Sol to the A of Mars in Mundo 
 
 27 44 
 
 29 II 7 
 
 2 Feb. 
 
 '15^ 
 
 Midheaven to the Oppofition of Venus 
 
 28 15 
 
 30 6 
 
 21 Sep, 
 
 '758 
 
 Sol to the Sextile of Venus - 
 
 29 54 
 
 32 4 12 
 
 2 June 
 
 1760 
 
 Part of Fortune to the Sextile of Mer- | 
 ] curv in iNlundo - - - ' 
 
 31 32 
 
 33 10 15 
 
 5 Feb. 
 
 1762 
 
 Luna to the Zodiacal Parallel of Saturn 
 
 32 3 
 
 34 4 
 
 21 July 
 
 1 762 
 
 !Luna to the Zodiacal Parallel of Mars 
 
 32 2 
 
 34 10 0,21 Jan. 
 
 1763 
 
 .Midheaven to the Dragon's Tail 
 
 t 
 
 OD 4 
 
 ^S 6 021 Sep. 
 
 '7^3 
 
 t 
 
 [Part of Fortune in A of Veuus in Mundo 
 
 5^ 20 
 
 2 C ''I T T^cr 
 
 '7*^1 
 
 
 J J ^ 
 
 Oj 7 ^ 

 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 689 
 
 A TABLE of DIRECTIONS in the foregoing Nativity of Mr. 
 WITCHELL, with the feveral Arches thereof, the Meafure of 
 Time agreeing to each of theni, and the Year and Month when 
 they began to take effeft. 
 
 NOMINA DIRECriONUM. 
 
 Arcus 
 Directiomim 
 
 Menfiir. 
 Directionum. 
 
 DiesMenfis. 
 
 Anno 
 DjUjini. 
 
 Luna to the Smq. of Mercury in Mundo 
 
 aeg. 
 
 33 
 
 niin. 
 32 
 
 Y. 
 
 35 
 
 9 
 
 D. 
 15 
 
 5 Jan. 
 
 1764 
 
 Part of Fortune in Quartile of Jupi-. 
 ter in Mundo - - - 5 
 
 33 
 
 31 
 
 35 
 
 I r 
 
 3 
 
 24 Feb. 
 
 1764 
 1764 
 
 Sol to the Q. of Saturn 
 
 3+ 
 
 9 
 
 36 
 
 7 
 
 c 
 
 21 oa. 
 
 Luna to the d of Saturn 
 
 3+ 
 
 3° 
 
 36 
 
 9 
 
 18 
 
 8 Jan. 
 
 '7^5 
 
 Luna to the * of Saturn,converfe Motion 
 
 34 
 
 36 
 
 36 
 
 10 
 
 22 
 
 12 Feb. 
 
 n^5 
 1766 
 
 1766 
 
 1766 
 
 1766 
 
 Luna to the Sextile of Mercury 
 
 35 
 
 21 
 
 37 
 
 9 
 
 20 
 
 10 Jan. 
 
 Part of Fortune Smq. of Jupiter in Mu ndo 
 
 35 
 
 38 
 
 38 
 
 I 
 
 8 
 
 29 Apr. 
 
 Luna to the Trine of Sol in Mundo - 
 
 35 
 
 43 
 
 38 
 
 2 
 
 c 
 
 21 May 
 
 
 Luna to the Zodiacal Parallel of Mercury 
 
 36 
 
 5 
 
 38 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 21 061. 
 
 Luna to the Sextile of Mercury 
 
 36 
 
 IC 
 
 38 
 
 8 
 
 c 
 
 21 Nov. 
 
 1766 
 1767 
 
 Luna to the Q. of Jupiter in Mundo 
 
 37 
 
 2 
 
 39 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 6 oa. 
 
 Sol tothecf of Venus by converfe Motion 
 
 3S 
 
 2c 
 
 41 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 21 Apr. 
 
 1769 
 1770 
 
 Luna to the <? of Jupiter in Mundo 
 
 39 
 
 17 
 
 41 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 21 Jan. 
 
 Luiia to the. Quartile of Jupiter 
 
 40 
 
 5 
 
 42 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 29 Nov. 
 
 1770 
 
 
 
 Parallel of Sol and Mars in Mundo 
 
 4" 
 
 24 
 
 4J 
 
 
 
 21 Mar. 
 
 1771 
 
 Luna to the 8 of Mars 
 
 41 
 
 53 
 
 44 
 
 5 
 
 20 IC Sep. 
 
 1772 
 
 Part of Fortune in A of Saturn ini 
 Mundo - - - 5 
 
 42 
 
 23 
 
 44 
 
 1 1 
 
 15 
 
 ,5 Mar. 
 
 ^773
 
 690 
 
 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 A TABLE of DIRECTIONS in the foregoing Nativity of Mr. 
 W'lTCHELIy, with the feveral Arches thereof, the Meafure of 
 Time agreeing to each of them, and the Year and Month when 
 they began to take efFe61. 
 
 1 ■ 
 
 
 NOMINA UIRECTIONUM. 
 
 Arcu s 
 Direclioiimii. 
 
 Meiifur. 
 Directu.iuin]. 
 
 Dies M.iifis.1 '^"■"' 
 lUoaiiiii. 
 
 
 Sol to the 8 of Mars, by Converfei 
 Motion - - - J 
 
 Il'b'. Ull... 
 
 43 10 
 
 I . M. JU. 
 
 45 9 021 Dec. 
 
 '773 
 
 
 Parallel of Jupiter and Mercury in^ 
 Mundo - - - ^ 
 
 43 16 
 
 45 10 12 2 Feb, 
 
 '774 
 
 
 Luna to the d of Venus 
 
 44 ,51 
 
 47 5 8 29 Aug. 
 
 '775 
 
 
 Sol to the A of Luna 
 
 45 -J 
 
 47 8 o'2iNov 
 
 ' 1 
 
 '775 
 
 '77'^ 
 1776 
 
 
 Alcendant to the 6 of Jupiter 
 
 45 u 
 
 4.7 10 021 Jan. 
 
 
 Luna in d of Part of Fortune in Mundo 
 
 45 15 
 
 47 10 8 
 
 8 Feb. 
 
 
 Parallel of Saturn and Venus in Mundo 
 
 +7 1 
 
 49 10 
 
 21 Jan 
 
 1778 
 
 
 Luna to the Smq. of Jupiter in Mundo 
 
 48 c 
 
 50 7 141 4 Nov. 
 
 1778 
 1779 
 
 
 Parallel of Sol and Moon in Mundo 
 
 48 5 
 
 JO 8 16 6 Jan. 
 
 
 Alcendant to the * of Saturn 
 
 49 ^ 
 
 5. 6 7 
 
 2« Sep. 
 
 1779 
 
 
 Mars to the a of Venus in Mundo 
 
 52 2: 
 
 54 II 14 
 
 4 Mar. 
 
 .783 
 
 
 Luna to the Trine of Mars - 
 
 52 5c 
 
 55 5 ^ 
 
 21 Aug, 
 
 1783 
 
 
 Alcendant to the A of Mars - 
 
 53 2c 
 
 55 II ^ 
 
 21 Feb. 
 
 1784 
 
 
 Sol to the Q. of Saturn in Mundo 
 
 53 25 
 
 ^603 
 
 24 Mar. 
 
 1784 
 
 
 Part of Fortune to the 8 of Sol 
 
 54 19 
 
 56 10 
 
 29 Jan, 
 
 '7^5 
 
 
 Parallel of Mars and Mercury in Mundo 
 
 54 46 
 
 51 5 26 
 
 
 
 ^■
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 691 
 
 The following are the essential and accidental DIGNITIES 
 and DEBILITIES of the Planets in this Nativity. 
 
 Dignities. 
 
 Satukn in hi=; own hou 
 
 fe 
 
 - 5 
 
 in the fourth 
 
 - 
 
 4 
 
 direft 
 
 - 
 
 4 
 
 not combuft 
 
 - 
 
 5 
 
 oriental 
 
 - 
 
 2 
 
 iwift in motion 
 
 - 
 
 2 
 
 in the terma of ]\ 
 
 ipiter 
 
 I 
 
 Total dignities in T? 
 
 23 
 
 Jupiter in reception of Venus 5 
 
 free from combuftion 5 
 
 dire6l - - 4 
 
 fwift in motion - 2 
 
 Total number 
 
 Subtract debilities 
 
 Surplus of dignities in V 
 
 Mars in reception of Venus 
 in the raidheaven 
 fre% from combuftioii 
 
 Total number 
 
 Subtrad debilities 
 
 Surplus of dignities ia S 
 
 The Sun in exaltation 
 in triplicity 
 in the terms of Venus 
 
 Total number 
 
 Subtrad debilities 
 
 16 
 7 
 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 
 15 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 I 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 Debilities. 
 Saturn — hath no debihty 
 
 Jupiter in the eighth houfe 
 in the terms of Mars 
 occidental 
 
 Total debilities in % 
 
 4- 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 Mars retrograde 
 occidental 
 
 5 
 2 
 
 The Sun in the fixth houfe 
 
 Surplus of dignities in O 4 
 
 No. 35. 8 H 
 
 Venus
 
 '692 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Dignities. 
 
 Venus in exaltation 
 
 in reception of Jupiter 
 
 free from combuflion 
 
 in the fourth houfe 
 
 diredt 
 
 fwift in motion 
 
 in term 
 
 Total number 
 
 Subtra6t debilities 
 
 4 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 26 
 
 2 
 
 Si.rplus of dignities in $ 24 
 
 Mercury in reception 
 occidental 
 free from combuftiou 
 
 Total number 
 
 5 
 z 
 
 5 
 
 12 
 
 Moon in triplicity 
 
 free from combuftion 
 
 in the third houfe 
 
 in the terms of Jupiter 
 
 Total number 
 
 Subtract debilities 
 
 Surplus of dignities 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 10 
 9 
 
 Debilities. 
 
 Venus oriental 
 
 Mercury retrograde 
 
 under the Sun beams 
 in the fixth houfe 
 
 Total number 
 
 Subtraft dignities 
 
 Surplus of debihties in 9 
 
 Moon flow in motion 
 oriental 
 in detriment 
 
 Total number 
 
 5 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 12 
 
 2 
 
 Z 
 
 5 
 
 The CLIMATERICAL YEARS of this NATIVITY. 
 
 The Clima6lerical Years, as we have before fhown, are nothing 
 more than the times or periods in which the JVIoon makes her quarters, 
 or re-occupies the place fl^c poffeflTed at the time of birth, meallired by 
 her own motion, and applied to the years of the native's life. To af- 
 certain the clima61erics of this nativity, note the exaft point the Moon 
 occupied at the time of birth, which is fixteen degrees fifty-fix minutes 
 of Capricorn. Refer to the Ephemeris calculated for the year in which
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 695 
 
 the native was born, and obferve what length of time fhe took in conaincr 
 to fix degrees fifty-fix minutes of Aries, which completed her firft 
 quarter. It will be found that Ihe was feven days eleven hours and 
 thirteen minutes in going that fpace ; and, if we allow for each day's 
 motion of the Moon one year, and for every two hours one month, jt 
 "will prove that the firft clima6lerical point or year occurred when the 
 native was feven years five months and near eleven days old. 
 
 To obtain the fecond period, proceed in the fame manner. Obferve 
 what time the Moon occupied in paffing from fixtcen degrees fifty-fix 
 minutes of Capricorn, her place at birth, to its oppofite point in the 
 zodiac; which will be found to be fourteen days eighteen hours and 
 forty-eight minutes ; fo that the native muft be fourteen years nine 
 months and twelve days old, when his fecond climafterical year arrived. 
 The third quarter of the Moon, which produced the third climafleric, 
 falls in fixteen degrees fifty-fix minutes of Libra ; to which point fhe 
 moved, from her place at birth, in twenty-one days two hours and thir- 
 teen minutes ; at which time the native was twenty-one years one month 
 and three days old. The fourth clima6terical period took place when 
 the Moon completed her revolution in the zodiac, and came to her ra- 
 dical place at the hour of birth, viz. in fixteen degrees fifty-fix minutes 
 of Capricorn ; which revolution being formed in twenty-feven davs 
 eight hours and twenty-three minutes, proves the native to have then 
 been twenty-feven years four months and five dajs old. 
 
 The enfuingclimafterics are found by adding the quarters progrefiivelv 
 to the firft revolution. For inftance, if we add the Moon's firlt quarter 
 to the fourth, it will produce thirty-four years nine months and twenty- 
 three days, when the fifth climafterical period came up. The fixth alfo, 
 by annexing the fucceeding quarter, will be found to take place when 
 the native was forty-two years three months and feventeen days old ; 
 the feventh, when he was forty-eight years five months and eight days 
 old ; and the eighth and laft climafteric of Mr. WitchcH's life, when the 
 Moon had mcalured two complete revolutions, and had returned a fecond 
 time to her radical place in the figure ; at which period he was fifty-four 
 years eight months and ten days old. 
 
 Thus the climafterical years are invariably to be found by the motion 
 of the Moon, which is the only true and rational method; and is fimilar 
 to that of critical days in difeafes ; only the time is in one cale meafured 
 by days, arkt in the other by years. Thefe clima(Slerical years are 
 eljpecially neceflfary to be known and confidercd, whenever the Hileg, 
 
 or
 
 694 A N I L L U S T R A T I O. N 
 
 or giver of life, is clireijled to a malefic flar, which begins to operate in. 
 any fuch period ; for it will then have the fame effect on tlie life of the 
 native, as the Moon is obferved to produce upon the dillalc of a lick i>er- 
 lon, when ihc pades the ill radiations oF-SSturn, Mars, or the Sun, upon a- 
 crilif. or critical day ; for a climadcrical year, and a critical day, in decum- - 
 biturei, proceed from one and tiie iame caufe, and they have b )th a ppwer : 
 to deftroy life, when joined with malolic conhgurations, no matter . how , 
 flroMg and healthv tlie native might externally appear to be, even at the 
 moment that they take etTc6f. But without the concurrence of. tiieie 
 baiieful afpeds, both critical days, and climactenc^l years, ar^e in thcm-- 
 lelves perfedlly ianoccnt.. 
 
 Thus far I have calculated and' brought up every muteiial confi^ura-- 
 tion and direction of this nativity. My next bulinels. will be to conhJcr 
 each of them fcparatelv and dillim'-.tlv, according t(^ the rules heretotore 
 laid down ; and to Iro.v il"iat no occurrence of Mr. WitcMell's whole 
 life, either of ficknels or health, of prolperity or adverlity, of pleaiure or 
 pain, ever came to pais, but at the ex.pi,eij3 times. and leaions, and m the 
 exact cr.'er, in which thele radiations and directions feveraily came up, 
 and that they prccifely correfpond in nature and effeft vvitn tnc configu- 
 rating plau^ts that produced them.. And to which I.fhall add, that this 
 ^ntlcman bas,publicly declared, fince his nativity has been calculated, that 
 there is not aa incident o{ his life that has eicapcd me, nor a fingle proof 
 wanting to eflablilii in his- mind the certainty of ailral influence over the 
 temperature and animal nature of man. Hence then we deduce, from a 
 fource which admits of nocontradidion, the natural caufe and produftion 
 of all thofc aftor.ifiiing viciffitudes and perils of human lire, which conti-- 
 nually fall in between the actions and intentions ot mankind, and con- 
 found the wifert and bell-concerted Ichemes of earthly Ipeculation or fa- 
 gacity. 
 
 For the ptirpK)fe of rendering this fludy as eafy and intelligible as can be 
 defired, I fliall be particularly copious and minute in defcribing the quality 
 and efi-e6t of each refpeftive configuration and direction in this nativity ;. 
 for whoever fiiall attain to the ability of coippre!. ending and defining the 
 power of the ftars in one nativity, will be qualified to read and determine 
 the principal events in the geniture of any ottier perfon whatfoever, be the 
 events of his life, and the place of 'lis birch, ever fo extra 'rdinary or re- 
 mote — provided the figure be correc^ in p.iint of time, and properly redi- 
 fied. I have ahead v given the neceflarv rules for this, and for everv other 
 pperatiou in the buhnefs. I Ihall now (hovv the reader how to apply tiiem, 
 throughout the twelve horofcopical houles of the planetary lyftem. 
 
 CON-
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 695 
 
 , CONSIDERATIONS refulting from the FIRST HOUSE. 
 
 What this houfe imports, we have fully explained in the former 
 part of this work; and according to the maxims there iaid down, we 
 (hall purfue the enquiry, occafionally adding or repeating fuch rules. 
 and aphorifms, as are indifpenfably neceffary to illuftrate the fuhjeQ. 
 
 I. Jnil the Native live to Years of Maturity P 
 
 To determine this, we muft confider what the configurations are 
 that early cut the thread of life, and deftroy the bloflbms of our infatit' 
 rtate. They are as follow, i. U the birth be precifely on a new ox 
 full Moon. 2, If the Moon be in conjundion of Saturn or Mars, in 
 the fixth, eighth, or twelfth, houfes of the figure. 3. If the Moon be 
 in quartile or opj^ofition of Saturn or Mars in the fourth houfe. 4. If 
 the Moon "be beheged by the Sun or Mars. 5. If an eclipfe impedite 
 the light of time in the hour of birth, 6, If all the planets be fub- 
 terranean, and neither the Sun, Moon, nor lord of the afcendant, 
 eflentially fortified. 7. If the two raalefics be conjoined in the Afcen- 
 dant. 8. If an infortune' in the afcendant vitiate the degrees theieof 
 by quartile or oppofition. 9. If the lord of the afcendant be combuft 
 of the Sun, and at the fame time cadent and retrograde. 10. If the 
 Dragon's head or tail be in conjunttion of Saturn or Mars in the fourth. 
 Thefe configurations, by long and invariable experience, are found to 
 deflroy life in infancy, e>:cept the benefic rays of Jupiter or Venus in- 
 terpofe, and, by joining in the afped:s, modify and remit their malio-nant 
 efFed.- But let it always be remembered, that Mars hath greater power 
 of deftroying life, when pofited in Aries and above the earth, in a 
 diurnal nativity; and Saturn when pofited in Capricorn and above the 
 earth, in a no6turnal nativity. 
 
 Thefe being the teftimonies of a fhort life, by comparing them with 
 the afpeds of any g. nethliacal figure, we may readily determine whe- 
 ther the child born under it will live to years of maturity. If vve exa- 
 mine this geniture by the foregoing rules, we fliall not find a finale tef- 
 timony of a (hort life; but, on the contrary, that the native fhould run 
 the common race of man — fhould be nourifhed up, under the influence 
 of more benevolent ftars, even untd the Apheta, or giver of life, rtiall 
 come by a regular and unoppofed diredion, to a natural union with its 
 Promittor, which cuts off life, and, by the effcds of a natural caufe, 
 fends us in quiet to the grave. — Let it therefore be remembered, as an 
 invariable maxim, that, whenever the Apheta is thus unobftrudted, the 
 native will furvive all the perils of its infant ftate. 
 
 No. 2S' 8 1. II. The
 
 696 
 
 AN ILLUSTRAl'ION 
 
 II. The Tefnperaturc and Complexion of the Native. 
 
 Thefe are afcertained by mixing the influences of the feveral fignifi- 
 cators together, and by allotting to each its fpecific quality, in order 
 to determine which fhall predominate, and affe6l the conftitution of 
 the native, with the greateft force. For as there are four principal 
 elements whereof this univerfe is compounded, viz. fire, air, earth, and 
 water; {o are there four principal humours in the temperature of man, 
 which correfpond with them, viz. choler, blood, melancholy, and 
 phlegm; and according as thefe are equally mixed, or predominate 
 conflitutionally in the body, fo fhall the temperature and complexion 
 of the native be. To difcover how thefe qualities are difpenfed in the 
 prefent inftance, we muft confider and examine the configurations at 
 the time of conception, as well as at the birth. By the dire6tions 
 given with the Table, p. 412, we fhall find the conception of this na- 
 tivity took place on the i6th of June, 7h. 30m. P.M. 1727, at which 
 time the celeflial intelligencers were difpofed as follow: 
 
 « 
 
 
 >^ 
 
 CONCEPTIONAL 
 
 FIGURE 
 Of Mr.G.W. 
 
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 ~9( 
 
 O5 23 
 
 ? 3+2 
 
 .^ 
 
 
 .V k 
 
 o» 
 
 / 
 
 \y 
 
 j- 
 
 'a- 
 
 I'Ni 
 
 ^ 
 
 The embryo is reprefented by Jupiter and Mars, both of which are 
 pofited in the fifth, the houfe of generation, at a fit time for the con- 
 ception
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 697 
 
 ception of a male, as both planets are mafculine, and oriental of the 
 Sun, and neither of the luminaries afflicled of the infortunes; and 
 therefore the figure declares that the child fhould not fuffer any injury 
 in the womb, but fhould be born fafe at its full time. But the molt 
 eflfential ufe of a conceptional figure after the infant is born, is to com- 
 pare the temperature of the ligns and planets which govern the con- 
 ception, with the nature and quality of thofe that govern the birth, in 
 order to afcertain the predominant humour, and its offending quality, 
 which fhall ever after mark the temperature of the native. In the 
 prefent cafe we fhall decide our judgment of the temperature of the 
 embryo, by the following teflimonies which refult from the preceding 
 conceptional figure: 
 
 Taurus, which governs the fifth houfe - is - cold and dry 
 
 Venus, lady thereof, occidental of the Sun - - moiji 
 
 Jupiter in the fifth, oriental - - - hot and moiJi 
 
 Venus pofited in Leo - - - - hot and dry 
 
 Taurus pofTeffed of Jupiter - - - cold and dry 
 
 Mars in the fifth, oriental - - " - - hot and dry 
 
 Gemini, an airy fign, pofiTefTed of Mars - - hot and moiJl 
 
 The quarter of the year, viz. Summer - - hot and dry 
 
 The Moon, in her fecond quarter - - - hot and dry 
 
 And pofited in Libra, an airy fign - - - hot and tnoijl 
 
 Saturn, Almution of the figure . - - cold and moifi 
 
 And pofited in an airy fign _ - . - hot and moiji 
 
 Number of teftimonies for a hot temperature, are - 8 
 
 Teftimonies for the moiji - - - - - 6 
 
 Ditto for the dry _ _ . ^ _ - 6 
 
 Ditto for the cold - 3 
 
 So that the predominant humour ofFending before the birth, was the 
 choleric complexion ; and fuch a temperature muft naturally incline its 
 mother, during pregnancy, to be frequently afflifted with complaints 
 in the ftomach and bowels, fuch as the cholic, heart-burn, naufea, vo- 
 miting, &c. arifing from predominancy of heat; but, as the moifl 
 quality is fo nearly equal, it is apparent that thefe complaints would not 
 materially hurt either the child or its mother. 
 
 We are now to examine the temperature of the fignificators in the 
 radical figure of birth, in p. 624, which, being compared with and 
 added to the foregoing, will at once regulate and determine the objedls 
 of our prefent fpeculation. The teftimonies are to be collected in the 
 fame manner as above, viz. 
 
 The
 
 698 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The fign afcending being airy - - is - hot and inoijt 
 
 Venus, lady thereof, and oriental _ . - hot and mot ft 
 
 Pifces, a watery fign, poffefTed by Venus - - cold and moi ft 
 
 Mars, Co-fignificator, and occidental - - dry 
 
 And being pofited in an earthy figu - - - cold and dry 
 
 Scorpio aTcending - - ... cold and moift 
 
 The Moon in her laft quarter - - - cold and moift 
 
 And pofited in an earthy lign - - - cold and dry 
 
 The Moon beholding the Alcendant - - cold and moift 
 
 And in an earthy fign - . . _ - cold and dry 
 
 The Sun beholding the Moon in quartile - - hot and moiji 
 
 The Sun in a fiery fign - - - - hot and dry 
 
 The feafon of the year, viz. Spring - - hot and moiJi 
 
 Venus, A]n:iution of the figure ... hot and moift 
 
 In the fign Pifces - . _ . - cold and moift 
 
 Venus beholding the Alcendant ... hot and moift 
 
 And in a watery fign ----- cold and moift 
 
 Mars occidental, beholding the Afcendant - - dry 
 
 Mars pofited in an earthy fign - - - - cold and dry 
 
 Number of teftimonies for a ;«o^ temperature - 12 
 
 Teftimonies for the co/^ ----- 10 
 
 Ditto for the hot - ... 7 
 
 Ditto for the dry . > - - 7 
 
 Hence it is apparent that the predominant humour offending at birth 
 is phlecrm, engendered of the cold and moift afFedlions of the planets. 
 If we compare the teftimonies that compofe the temperature at the time 
 of conception, with the above, we fhall find that the humour which 
 was then weak, is now ftrong; and that the humour which was then 
 flrono- is now weak; fb that, if we confider that the formation of the 
 native begins with conception, and is completed at the birth, and that the 
 fiaperior temperatures then are the inferior now; and if we allot unto 
 each of the fignificators their fpecific qualities, aild mix them according 
 to the exadl proportions they give, we fhall nearly find a mediocrity of 
 humours in the temperature of this native-^ but, as the phlegmatic 
 afi"e6tion will be found to have the aicendency, the native will of courfe 
 mofl materially feel its action upon his conflitution, by becoming fub- 
 ieft to a depreffion or finking of the f'pirits, and other difagreeable 
 concomitants, which fhall be fully illuftrated when we come to fpeak 
 of the fignificators of ficknefs. But before we dil'mifs the prefent 
 fubje6t, it will be necefTary to premife, that, if cold and moiflure 
 
 prevail
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 699 
 
 prevail in a geniture, the native will be phlegmatic ; if cold and drynefs 
 have the fupeiioiity, he will acquire a referved habit, and be opprefled 
 with melancholy ; if heat and moifture predominate, he will prove of a 
 fanguine temperature, and of an even courteous difpofitiori ; if heat and 
 drynefs, he will be choleric, and of a furly temper ; but, where the quali- 
 ties of the configurating ftars are nearl/ equal, the native will be ftrongly 
 affe£led by their temperatures refpeSively, wjhen under a diredtion of their 
 own nature and quality. 
 
 The temperature being determined, we may with great eafe afcertaiix 
 the complexion by the rules heretofore laid down. Libra and Scorpio, 
 being the figns afcending, give a fanguine complexion ; but, in this na- 
 tivity, not very fair nor clear," becaule oppofed by the oppofite effedt of 
 Mars, Venus, and the Moon ; and becaufe phlegm was the Superabundant 
 quality in the temperature at birth; the mixture of thefe feveral fio-nifi- 
 cators produce a fallow complexion, grey eyes, light fandy hair, with due 
 conformity in the other members; to which defcription this native 
 &ri€t\y correfponded in every particular. 
 
 The foregoing judgment will hold good in all cafes where fimilar 
 configurations are found. Let it be remembered, that only four dillindl 
 colours or complexions are produced, viz. black, white, red, and yellow ; 
 all others proceed from a mixture of thefe, and are afcertained by affio-n- 
 ing to each fignificator its own proper colour ; then colleft the whole into 
 one fum, and according to the quality, number, and force, of the feveral 
 teflimonies, judicioufly incoqjorated with each other, will the complexion 
 he accurately found. Kegard muft however be had in all cafes to the cli- 
 mate where the native is born ; becaufe in fuch parts of the earth where 
 the figns and fignificatars have from their aftronomical pofitions o-reater 
 force and energy, they will more vifibly afFe6>, and more fenfibly demon- 
 flrate their influence upon the perfons born under them. This, 1 believe, 
 has been fufficiently demonftrated in the introdu<5lory part of this 
 work. 
 
 J II. Form an(i Stature of the Body. 
 
 To judge of the form and ft-ature of the body, we muft note the fio-n 
 that occupies the afcendant, the lord thereof, and the planets pofited 
 therein, or in conjunftlon v/ith the lord of the afcendant. Thefe va- 
 rious fignificators are to be regarded in proportion to their dio-nities, 
 and as they are fituated with relped to north or fouth latitude ; or with 
 the luminaries ; nor are the fixed ftars to be negleded in this fpeculation. 
 
 No. SS- 8 K fo.
 
 700 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 for ill many cafes they operate much, particularly thofe of the firlt mag- 
 nitude. This being premifed, and the rules heretofore laid down being 
 had in memory, we (hall demonfl-rate their certainty, by applying them 
 to our judgment in this figure. 
 
 Upon the afcendant we find the latter part of the degrees of Libra, 
 and about two thirds thereof occupied by Scorpio ; thefe figns give a 
 feature fomewhat above the middlins;. But we muft add to thele the 
 teuimony of the configurations ; that Venus is pofited in the watery 
 fign Pifces ; that Mars and the Moon are occidental of the Sun, each 
 beholding the afcendant ; and that the Moon participates with the na- 
 ture of Capricorn, her place in the figure. ' Thefe are arguments of a 
 mean ftature, and of a mediocrity in the component parts, uniform, 
 and duly proportioned. Libra and Scorpio declare an exatl: fymmetry 
 of features, oval face, and elegant countenance ; but Saturn, who pro- 
 duces the direct contrary efFetls, having his exaltation in Libra, and 
 beholding the afcendant with a ftrong afpeft, greatly mars the beauty 
 and comelinefs derived from thofe figns ; yet we are not to fuppofe that 
 the delicacy and fweetnels contribvited by the firft figniffcators, fhall be 
 converted mto a dark lowering vifage Saturnine; but that the quality of 
 Saturn, in proportion to his ftrength of afpedl, fhall be incorporated with 
 the oppofite qualities, leaving the impreflion firft given by Libra, but 
 abating its beauty and comelinefs, and making the face moderately fair, 
 and the features not altogether unpleafing. This exaftly defcribes the 
 perfon of the native ; of a middle ftature, oval lively features, the ftamp 
 of the figns ; dark eye-brows, the mark of Saturn; with a fprightlinefs, 
 refulting from Mercury conjoined with the other fignificators. We may 
 remark further, that in genitures where the Sun has no afpeft with the 
 afcendant, the native acquires the habit of bending forward in his gait ; 
 and, as he gradually advances in years, becomes round and ftooping 
 in the fhoulders. This has been remarkably verified in the prefent nati- 
 vity. 
 
 In drawing judgment from the foregoing premifes, let it be well 
 confidered, that, if two planets have equal dominion in the horofcope, 
 preference muft be given to him that beholds the afcendant moft par- 
 tially ; but, if their configurations with the afcendant fhould be equally 
 dignified, regard the planet that is lord of the houfe, ia preference to 
 that which has only his exaltation therein. Remember likewife, in 
 the further progrefs of this enquiry, that, when the planets are fituate 
 in airy or fiery figns, they give large full ftatures; but, when in earthy 
 or watery, they produce much fhorter and fmaller. When they have 
 
 CTreat
 
 OF ASTROLOGY, 70 1 
 
 great north latitude, they denote large corpulent bodies ; but when 
 they have great fouth latitude, they induce a fpare, thin, and low ftature; 
 and, according to the innnaortal Ptolomy, thofe natives whofe fignificators 
 have fouth latitude, are more aftive and laborious ; whilft thole whofe 
 ruling planets have great north latitude, are ufually of a heavy, flothful, 
 fupine, inadlive, difpofition. 
 
 IV. Tetnper, Quality, and 7nental Endowmetits, of the Native. 
 
 This is one of the moft eflential fpeculations of the whole Science, 
 fince, in a general way, the fuccels of all our worldly purfuits, and ac- 
 quifitions, in a great meafure depends upon our mental endowments. 
 And here the reader would do well to refreih his memory with what 
 we have already preinifed on this fubje6l, in p. 428, &c. where it is 
 laid down, as an eftablifhed maxim, that our enquiry in this particular 
 is chiefly to be governed by the Moon and Mercury, and by the other 
 fignificators only as they fhall be configurated with thefe planets, or 
 with the Sun, or with the angles of the figure ; of which the afcendant, 
 or eaftern angle, hath the greateft power. Therefore, if feveral planets 
 are found in the afcendant, they will all a£t in a certain degree upon 
 the bent and motions of the mind, and will become fignificators in 
 proportion to their refpeftive politions and dignities. Their influence 
 upon the fenfitive faculties of the anuria I (ovX, will be apportioned to their 
 ftrength of aipeft, and will operate by the fame rotation in which thofe 
 afpefts come up. The time when they fliall refpeflively begin to ope- 
 rate, together with their duration, is known only by dire6lion, as we 
 fhall prefently (how ; and their efl^eft will be found to vary, as the 
 irradiations are transferred from one planet to another. For inftance, 
 when the Moon is direfted to the terms or afpetl of the mofl; potent 
 planet in the afcendant, then the native almofl wholly j)articipates in 
 the temperature and quality of that planet, and, while it operates, will 
 vifibly manifeft them to the world in his aftions. And thus, when the 
 Moon varies her term or afped, and applies to thofe of another planet, 
 then will the native's inclination vary, and affume the qualities and con- 
 ditions of fuch other planet. 
 
 By the fame force of fympathy we find, that when the Moon comes 
 to the terms or afpe6t of Venus, the native is gay and cheerful ; when 
 to the terms or alpeft of Jupiter, fober, induftrious, and difcrect ; to 
 the terms or afpe6l of Saturn, grave, melancholy, and referved ; to the 
 radiations of the Sun, proud, and inclined to vanity and oftentation ; 
 to the terms or afpeft of Mercury, fludious, laborious, and inquifitive ; 
 or elfe participates in fuch other affe61ions°as may be produced by fomc 
 
 other
 
 702 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 other planet joined in body or afpe6t with Mercury ; and when the Moon 
 comes to her own terms, or in afpeft with her radical place in the figure, 
 (provided it be in the afcendant) it will induce a wavering, unfettled, 
 and mutable, difpolition in the native. 
 
 When there are no planets to be found in the afceiidant, note what 
 configurations are made with the Moon and Mercury ; for whatever 
 planet is joined with them, will become fignificator, and will a6l upon 
 the mental endowments of the native. But if no planet be in the afcend- 
 ant, nor configurated as above, then the lord of the afcendant (hall be the 
 fignificator, provided his difpofitor beholds him in Ibme bodily afped ; if 
 not, we muft have recourfe to the planet that moft partially beholds the 
 Moon or Mercury ; but, if no fuch be found in the figure, then the planet 
 which hath the moft eflential dignities in the figns of Mercury or the" 
 Moon, fhall laftlv be taken as the fignificator from whence this judgment 
 fhall be drawn. 
 
 According to thefe rules I examine the preceding geniture. I find 
 there are no planets in the afcendant, nor in configuration with the 
 Moon and Mercury ; and therefore I take Venus as the fignificator of 
 the native's temper and mental difpofition, becaufe fhe is lady of the 
 afcendant, and is beheld by Jupiter her difpofitor. Mars alfo, being 
 conjoined with Venus in ruling the afcendant, and in afpeft with his 
 difpofitor, will in a fecondary degree affeft the native. The pofition 
 of Venus near the tail of the Swan, and thus configurated, influences 
 the native to a purfuit after knowledge ; and being in the fifth houfe, 
 the houfe of pleafure, declares that he will take much delight therein. 
 This fignificator being likewife near the Dragon's head, which partici- 
 pates of the nature of Jupiter, implies a mild, juft, and peaceable, 
 difpofition. Being pofited in the houfe of her exaltation, proves his 
 demeanour will gain him general efteem ; but being in a moveable fign, 
 fhows him changeable in the objed^ of his purfuits. On the other 
 hand. Mars will abate much of the mildnefs and evenuefs of his tem- 
 per indicated by Venus, particularly when under a direQion of Mars, 
 at which times he will be unufually peevifh, fretful, and paflicuate — 
 a circumftance which this native confeiTes has been frequently verified, 
 when neither himfelf, nor any part of his family, could account for his 
 aufteiity and change of temper ; but whoever infpe6ls his geniture by 
 the rules of this fcience, will find it was occafioned by tb^ joppofition 
 of Mars with Venus. It is no lefs curious to remark, that, while that 
 malefic planet fours the temper, he ftrengthens and expands the defue 
 of knowledge, endows the native with an enterprifing Ipirit, ftirs hira. 
 
 up
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. • 703 
 
 up to life and aftioii and induces an emulation for honour and promo- 
 tion. A ftrong iiiftance this, of the contrary eifedts of the afpecls; 
 for, while the firll imprefiion of an even and complacent difpofition is 
 deranged hv the force of a partile oppolltion, the other laudable qua- 
 lities are enlarged, by the congenial influence of a trine aiped: of the 
 fame planet witii its difpofitor, in the exaltation of Mercury ! l^hefe 
 teftimonies are much llrengthened by the lefquiquadrate afpe6i' of Mars 
 with the Moon, in the terms of Jupiter; and, as the Moon is pofited 
 in the dignities of Saturn, it fhows that the native u ill be attached to 
 the arts and IcienCes, and inherit a truly honeft diipofition. 
 
 Thus far we have confidered the conngurations which form the 
 temper, and give the firfl bias to the muid, in the earlicll ftate of in- 
 fancy: but what fhall be the relult, as they graduaiiy ripen into 
 maturity; to what fpeculations they will be directed, and to what 
 extent of perfe61ion the native may arrive in mental acquirements and 
 ability ; is determined by other conhderations. The intelle6iual fa- 
 culties, in ALL, s;enitures, are under the aftral influence of Mercury 
 and the Moon; Mercury governs the rational and animal fpirit in the 
 brain, but the vegetive ftrength of the brain is folely under the power 
 and dominion of the Moon; therefore, whenever we infpedl a nativity, 
 and find thefe fignificators well atFefted to each other in terms and 
 arpe<5t, we may fafely conclude that there is a proportionable harmony 
 and modulation in the rational intelle61, and in the other members 
 which contribute to a fertile genius, and to ftrong natural parts. But 
 when thefe fignificators are ill atFeiSled, and in quartile or oppofition to 
 each other, it is altogether as fure a prefage of a dull capacity, and a 
 narrow contra6led mind ; particularly if IMercury be combuft, flow in 
 motion, cadent, or peregrine, or affli6led of the infortunes, more 
 efpecially of Mars. And thus, the more Mercury is afflicted or im- 
 peded in his own proper nature, the more weak and fhallow we always 
 find the mental endowments of the native. In thofe genitures where 
 Mercury is occidental, and in no afpetl with the Moon, or with any 
 benefic planet, it produces a deep, cunning, artful, clofe, difTembling, 
 perfon, with a flrong (hare of penetration and fagacity, but with a mind 
 difpofed to exercife it only in mean and felfilh purfuits, without regard 
 to integrity or reputation. If this planet be found in the combuft way, 
 i. e. in that fpace of the heavens extending from leventeen degrees 
 of Libra to fevcnteen degrees of Scorpio, and at the fame time flow in 
 motion, it declares a trifling fuperficial character, perpetually engaged 
 in unworthy obje<5ls, ftunning us with impertinent remarks, with ufelefs 
 niceties, or with unapt difquifitions. 
 
 No. 35. 8 L Let
 
 704 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Let us apply this reafoning in our coiifiderations of the prefent ge- 
 iiiture; in which we find Mercury and the Moon, the grand patrons 
 of mental ability, are favourably fituated with refpefl to each other. 
 Here is a remarkable reception between Mercury and Mars, the joint 
 rulers of the alcending fign; Mercury pofTefTes the dignities of Mars, 
 and Mars the exaltation of Mercurv. Thus the fignificator of the tern- 
 per and falhion of the mind, and the patron of fenfe, are mutually 
 conjoined in the fame influence; and bcfpeak not only a difpofition to 
 fearch after literary acquirements, but prefage a fit capacity to receive, 
 and an underilanding capable of digefting, them. The Moon likewiie 
 fends her fefquiquadrate ray to Mars, from the dignities of Saturn, and 
 in the terms ot Jupiter, which declares the favourite purfuit of the 
 native fhall be after fcieutific knowledge ; and, as the pofition of Mars 
 is fo highly elevated, it is evident that his endeavours fliall not only 
 prove fuccefsful, but fhall be manifefted in an eminent degree. We 
 have alio a perfe6l Textile afpe(5f of Mercury and Saturn; which adds a 
 ftrong retentive memory to a folidity of mind, whereby the early pur- 
 fuits of the native are impelled forward, and ripened into maturity, 
 under the united fandlion of reputation and profit. Thus the fignifi- 
 cators of the temper, quality, and mental endowments, of this native, 
 when drawn into one focus, teftify, according to the approved rules of. 
 this Science, an acute penetrating wit, an enlarged underflanduig, a 
 retentive memory, and a ftrong predile6fion for tcientific know Sedge; 
 with a folidity of mind, and a confiftency of manners, well adapted to 
 give vigour and fuccefs to fuch purfuits. That thefe gifts were i'e~ 
 verally and refpeflively verified in the perlbnal qualifications, purfuits, 
 and preferments, of the native, the united teftimony of all his friends 
 and relatives will not only prove, but the facts will hereafter be more 
 minutely eftabli/hed, when the refult of each afpe6i comes to be ex- 
 amined and explained, under the various directions by which thefe events 
 were refpedively brought to pafs. 
 
 Hence it will be feen, that Mercury, in this judgment, and in all 
 cafes where relation is had to the faculties of the animal foul, is to be 
 moft attentively confidered, and his influence and operation regarded, 
 in proportion as they are configurated or mixed with the rays of other 
 planets. The importance of this enquiry, in the inveftigation of every 
 geniture, induces me to repeat to the reader, the neceffity of bearing in 
 mind the obfervations I have written on this fubjed, from p. 428 to 
 436; to which it is now incumbent upon me to add the following 
 general remarks, i. That in all cafes where Mercury occupies an 
 angle of the figure, but particularly the afcendant, and at the fame 
 
 time
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 705 
 
 time is pofited in one of his own houfes, in any of the twelve figns 
 except Pifces and Scoi'pio, take for granted the native will inherit a 
 gs(pd underllanding, with a capacity adapted for almofi: any employment. 
 Buf if this happens in an airy iign, and the planet Ivvift in motion, it 
 denotes perpetual wavering, and great inftability of mind. 2. Mercury 
 in conjuntlion of the Moon, in any and in every lign, denotes inge- 
 nuity of mind. The fame efFc6l, though in a fmaller degree, is given 
 by the Textile or triangular rays; but, in this cafe, the fextile is 
 always to be preferred to the trine. 3. If there be found a conjundtion 
 of Mercury with Venus, or Jupiter, or the Dragon's bead, in Gemini, 
 Libra, Aquaries, or Virgo, it beftows an excellent genius, and a mind 
 qualified for invention and improvement. 4. If Mercury in Aries be in 
 reception with Mars, the native will be fubtle, deep, and fagacious. 
 5. The Moon in conjunction with the Dragon's head or tail, denotes 
 alert and aftive fpirits, with a promptitude for fcience; particularly 
 when increafing in light, and near the full. 6. Mercury in reception 
 of the Moon, and the planets in any figns, gives an afpiring genius, 
 and an adlive volatile difpofition. 7. When Mercury is below the 
 horizon, in fuitable figns, he inchnes the native to fcientific knowledge. 
 If in an airy fign well fortified, it gives freedom of fpeech, with ftrong 
 oratorical abilities. 8. If Mercury be in conjuncflion with Saturn, 
 and Saturn well dignified, the native acquires a grave and a lober habit, 
 accompanied with a profound judgment, and lolid underflanding. 9. If 
 in conjuniSlion with Jupiter, unaffli61ed by any malefic rav. Mercury 
 beftows an excellent capacity, fet off with an eafy elegant addrels, and 
 inclines the native to generofity and integrity. 10. Mercury and 
 Mars united by conjuniflion, in good places of the figure, free from, 
 affliiftion, and well fortified, gives a moll confident and undaunted Ipirit 
 in writing or fpeaking; furnifhes fterling wit, and beftows a prolific 
 invention, ri. With the Sun, Mercury gives the native an afpiring 
 mind; and, well dignified, promifes fuccefs in the moft ambitious pur- 
 fuits, though they are likely to be diflionoured by intemperate pride 
 and arrogance. 12. Mercury and Venus united, and ftrengthened by 
 concurrent teftimonies, beftow an admirable conception in literary pur- 
 iuits, with a mind formed for invention and ftudy. 13. Mercury in 
 any fituation of the figure, well fortified, and in good afped with the 
 refpeclive fignificators, forms a good and perfeft underftanding; but 
 the different gradations of fenfe, and of the reaioning faculty, are pro- 
 duced according to the dignity and quality of the fignificators with 
 which he may be configurated; always obferving, that in proportion to 
 the ftrength and energy of thofe feveral fignificators, and of their poli- 
 tions in refped to the angles of the figure, will the mental powers of 
 the native be formed. 
 
 Much
 
 7o6 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Much has been contended by the advocates for and again ft this fpe- 
 culation, on the Icore of education. For my own part, 1 cannot but 
 be furprifed, that any argument or controverfy fhould have been fo long 
 fupported, upon inferences fo palpable and obvious. Thofe who con- 
 tend, that education fets thefe aftral influences at defiance, and pro- 
 duces the wile man or the fool, in proportion to the extent of his aca- 
 demic acquirements and dilcipline, might as well attempt to perfuade 
 us, that the barren deferts of Arabia, by labour and cultivation, would 
 foon vie with the fertile banks of the Nile, and become a land 
 " flowing with milk and /loneyy Earthly fubilances, as well animate 
 as inanimate, receive the ftamp of their natural quality in the hour of 
 formation. This quality will remain as long as thele fubftances en- 
 dure, in every cafe, except where the laws of nature incline them to 
 mutation or change. All the inventions of man are far fhort of totally 
 removing thefe firft qualities ; and therefore all that can be fairly de- 
 duced from arguments in fupport of the efFeds of education, is briefly 
 this, that it adonifhingly enlarges a good natural underflanding, and 
 puts a fuperficial glofs over the deformities of a naturally bad one, but, 
 fo far from giving vigour to a weak mind, it too often leads to the op- 
 pofite extremes, for want of ability to digeft, and intelleft to comprehend, 
 the inftrudtion it receives. 
 
 Hence we frequently fee inventions of the moft ingenious and com- 
 plicated extent fpring from individuals who appear as ignorant as 
 they are untaught; yet, when we come to examine their internal endow- 
 ments, we exprefs our admiration that fo much ingenuity and flerling 
 fenfe fhould be concealed under the ruft of what is termed a flate of 
 nature. But let the reader regard with due attention the obfervations I 
 have laid down; let him, within the circle of his own acquaintance, 
 if he can obtain a fpeculum of their nativities, obferve the nature of thefe 
 configurations, and 1 will venture to affirm, at the hazard of my life, that 
 he will be able to trace the true quality and extent of each man's mental 
 capacity, from the caufes which give them being. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS refuhing from the SECOND HOUSE. 
 
 The principal judgment drawn from this part of the genethliacal 
 figure, is that which regards worldly riches and preferment; or rather, 
 whether the native (hall be buoyed up upon the wings of profperity, or 
 plunged by adverfe flars, into the depths of adverfity. This fpecu- 
 lation has been juftly confidered one of the mofi: important of the fcience; 
 but oil all hands it muft be admitted the firft amongfl the enquiries of 
 
 thofe,
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 707 
 
 thofe, who wifh to know the outline of their future fate. For this 
 reafon, I fhall be as copious as pofiible in blending theoretical with 
 pra6lical examples in the elucidation of this enquiry, with the humble 
 hope of enabling every attentive reader to derive that information from 
 his own labours, which delicacy, or expence, might preclude him from 
 obtaining in the cuftomary way. 
 
 On examining this figure, I find. Mars and Jupiter are the prime 
 fignificators of wealth and profperity, becaufe they have dominion over 
 the fecond houfe; and the Moon, and the Part of Fortune, are co-fio-. 
 nificators of the native's fubftance. Finding there are no planets pofited 
 in the fecond houfe, I examine what configurations are formed with 
 the foregoing fignificators, and what afpefts irradiate the fecond houfe. 
 Mars hath dominion in the tenth, the houfe of honour and preferment, 
 and is in reception of Mercury, within the terms of that planet; an 
 argument that the native Ihall profper under fuch purfuits as are pe- 
 culiarly within the dominion of Mercury, viz. offices of public trufl:, 
 literature, or fcience. This dedu6lion is alfo corroborated, by the united 
 teftimony of the Part of Fortune in the tenth, with thofe royal fixed 
 flars Hydra and Cor Leonis; and Mercury's trine afpeft falling in 
 the fame degree, proves that an advantageous and reputable emolument 
 fhould flow through this channel. This judgment has been confirmed 
 in various inflances; but in none fo confpicuoufly as in his appoint- 
 ment to the mafterfhip of the Royal Academy in his Majefly's Dock- 
 yard at Portfmouth, which appointment refulted — not from the o-ood 
 offices of '''■friends at court" — but folely from the progrefs and improve- 
 ments he had made in the mathematics. 
 
 Thefe propitious configurations are neverthelefs impeded by fomc 
 latent malefic rays which hang upon his horofcope. The Part of For- 
 tune, otherwife fo happily found, is afflifled by the moft baneful af- 
 pe6t of Saturn, namely, his oppofition ; at the fame time that he be- 
 holds the fecond houfe with a quartile ray. This in no fhape lefTcns 
 the mental faculties, nor impedes the fuccefs promifed under the bril- 
 liant endowments of Mercury; but it fhows, that, however fuccefsful 
 the native might be with refped to pecuniary advantages, yet that his 
 income fhould pafs from him in an improvident manner, and the pro- 
 du6tion of his labours never accumulate to an a:mount equal to his 
 merit. This is further illuftrated and confirmed by the oppofition of 
 Venus and Mars, the fignificators of his perfon and pofleffions. I alfo 
 find the Moon is near the quartile ray of the Sun, a bad afped, and 
 a frefh teftimony that the native will not accumulate or lay up much 
 
 No. 35. • 8 M of
 
 7o8 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 of the goods of fortune. This, however, is in fome meafure abated 
 by the intervention of the Sun, which behohls the fecond houfc with 
 a favourable trine; and the configuration of Mars with the Moon, is 
 a further declaration in his favour. Jupiter, we find, hath dignities 
 in the fecond houfe; but being in the eighth, in the face of Saturn, with 
 latitude in Gemini in his detriment, plainly indicates, that at certain 
 periods of his life, when under the influence of evil diredions, the native 
 fliould experience divers difficulties and embarrafTments in money-con- 
 cerns. IJut when we draw ii>to one view the number of planets that 
 dignify his birth, and are ellentially fortified; when we confider the ex- 
 cellent reception of Mercury and Mars; the Sun in exaltation, fend- 
 ing a trine to the fecond; the Part of Fortune in conjundion with emi- 
 nent fixed ilars, exalted in the midheaven; we (hall find them fo many 
 circumftances to prove, that, notvvithfi-anding the oppofition of malefic 
 rays, the native will be upheld through all the difficulties and viciffi- 
 tudes of money-matters, and eventually acquire a competent and liberal 
 income, fuch as ffiould afford all the real coriforts of human life, and, 
 with {lri6t oeconomy, provide a handfome patrimony for his defcendants. 
 ^ut the aftral inclination of this native is not favourable to penurious 
 or mercenary pra61ices. The bent of his mind is influenced by too 
 much liberality and generofity of principle, either to witlihold his purle, 
 or withdraw the comforts of humanity, where friendship or charity 
 demanded them. Thofe who knew him, cannot but juftity the truth of 
 the obfervation; and he has time and often acknowledged to me, upon 
 my remaiks on his nativity, the ftraits he has experienced, by improvi- 
 dently parting with his money, and fupplying the emergencies of friends; 
 as is deducible from the face of his geniture, by contemplating the icxen 
 erratics, and their accidental pofitions. 
 
 For the further information of the reader, it will be proper to re- 
 mark, that in giving judgment upon this queftion, we are not confined 
 to the pofitlon of benehc liars; for it frequently happens that Saturn 
 and Mars give advantage and profperity to the native, when lords of the 
 fecond houfe, and well configurated with the luminaries, and the other 
 fio-nificators. So likewlfe eminent fixed lliars in good places of the figure, 
 well qualified, and conjoined with benefic rays, give increafe of pro- 
 fperity and riches. But if the two malefic planets, Saturn and Mars, 
 occupy angles in the figure, and the benefics are pofited in fuccedent 
 houfes, it fhows the native will experience adverfity in the early part of 
 his life, but profperity in the end. The Part of Fortune conjoined 
 with the Dragon's head, hath nearly the fame effect as with Jupiter, 
 and predicts an increafe of wealth. Satuun dignified in the eighth 
 
 houfe,
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 709 
 
 houfe, in a diurnal nativity, in afpeft with Jupiter or Venus, declares 
 jncreafe of fubflance by the death of relatives or friends. The fame 
 event will take place, in genitures where the lord of the eighth houfe, 
 in his effential dignities, is placed in the tenth; and again, where the 
 difpolitor of the tenth is well configurated with the lord of the afcen- 
 dant. When Jupiter or Venus are lo pofited at birth, as to behold the 
 cufp of the fecond houfe with a good afpe£f, it is a certain prefage of 
 durable lubftance; whereas the Sun, or Mars, pofited in the fecond 
 houfes and ill dignified, fcatter the native's wealth, induce to pro- 
 digality, and eventually make him poor. So the Moon in coiijundtion 
 .of Saturn, in bad places of the figure, and beheld by no benefic rav, 
 will reduce even the Son of a King to a Jiate of infolvency ! The lord of 
 the fecond houfe coinbuft, and the part of fortune in anaretic places,, 
 forefhows confifcation of property, bankruptcy, and ruin. When the 
 Part of Fortune is confederated with violent fixed ftars, in evil places 
 of the figure, it prefages lofs of fubftance, and great poverty. To de- 
 termine the mode by which thefe events fhall happen, or how fub- 
 ftance or prolperity will be acquired, we are to regard the nature and 
 quality of the houfes over which the fignificators have dominion. Thus, 
 if the lord of the eleventh houfe give virtue and influence to the fignifi- 
 cators of fubftance by propitious rays, we are to conclude, that the na- 
 tive will receive an increale of wealth through the medium of relations 
 or friends. But, if the lord of the feventh be thus irradiated, his fub- 
 ftance will be increafed by marriage, partnerfhip, or fome joint concern. 
 And thus judgment is drawn in all cafes from the nature of the houfes 
 which the feveral fignificators govern or irradiate. 
 
 To obtain a proper idea, not only which way riches and profperity 
 are likely to come, but to decide alio whether they (hall be obtained by 
 lawful or dillionourable means, we muftnote whether the benefic pla- 
 , nets are fignificators; and if they are not afflifted by the malignant rays 
 of Saturn or Mars, nor in conjunflion with any violent fixed ftar, it 
 fhows the native will acquire eminent profperity by fair and honourable 
 means. But if a malevolent ftar be fignificator, and the benefic planets 
 in no afped with him, and either retrograde or combuft, it induces the 
 oppofite efl:e61:. If a benefic planet be fignificator, and placed in the 
 dignities of either of the malefics, it ihows wealth will be obtained both 
 ways. To know whether riches, when obtained, will be durable or 
 not, we muft confider whether the fignificators are fo pofited. iu the 
 heavens, as to be unim.peded by the mtercourfe of the malehcs; for 
 then profperity fhall continue during life. But if the benefics are fig- 
 nificators, and Ctuated in bad places of the figure, and the infortunes 
 
 occupy
 
 7IO AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 occupy the good, fo as to obfcure or overcome the energy of the bene- 
 fic rays, it fhows a continual flux and reflux of wealth; i'o that what is 
 obtained under a good dire6lion (hall be lofl under a bad one. But the 
 time when thefe things fhall feverally come to pafs, can only be known 
 by equating the directions of each alpe6l, which is the only true and ra- 
 tional way of difcovering when they fliall begin to operate. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS refulting from the THIRD HOUSE. 
 
 The third houfe difcovers by the afpefts with which it is configu- 
 rated, whether we fhall be advantaged or injured by the confanguinity 
 of brethren, or by injand journeys and fojournments; which we have 
 fully explained in p. 290, &c. The fignificators of brethren or fifters, 
 are taken from five degrees preceding the cufp of the third houfe, to 
 within five degrees of the cufp of the fourth houfe. And the lord of 
 the third houfe, or the planets accidently pofited therein, fhall be the 
 fignificators. We are then particularly to remark the pofition of Mars, 
 which is the general fignificator of brethren, — or the Moon, which re- 
 prefents fifters. If Mars or the Moon be found in fruitful figns, or 
 in good afpe6i: with the fruitful planets, which are Jupiter, Venus, or 
 the Dragon's head, it is an argument that the native fhall have brothers, 
 if the configurations are made with Mars ; or fifters, when made with 
 the Moon ; and the number fliall be according to the irradiations and 
 force of the afpeds. If a good and benevolent configurarion is formed 
 between the lord of the afcendant and the lord of the third houfe, it 
 implies mutual good offices, harmony, and concord, between brothers 
 and fifters; but, if bad afpedts are found, then vice verjh, malice, hatred, 
 envy, and ill-will, exift among them. When Jupiter, Venus, or the 
 Dragon's head, are pofited in the third houfe, the native will derive ad- 
 vantage from travel, or by change of habitation; and will be aided by 
 the good fellowfhip of his own family. 
 
 To determine thefe queftions in the prefent nativity, I obferve that 
 Capricorn has the principal rule in the third houfe; which being a fign 
 not very prolific, but rather inclined to barrennefs, 1 conclude there 
 are fmall expeftations of brethren. The Moon's pofition in the third 
 houfe declares there will be a fifter, or perhaps two; which is further 
 demonftrated by the Textile ray of Venus; but, being at the fame time 
 under the malignant influences of Mars, it fhows that what might be 
 produced by the fruitful influences fhall be cut off by premature death; 
 and indeed, the Moon being in an evil afpe(5t with the Sun, and ap- 
 proaching to a quartile with Mercury, is no argument of durable life to 
 
 fifters.
 
 OV ASTUOLOGY. 711 
 
 fifters. As to brothers, we have not a fingle teftlmony to produce 
 them. Mars, the natural hgnificator of brethren, is pofited m a barren 
 fign and in no good afped with any planet, except in reception of Mer- 
 cury which operates not in favour of fruitfuhiefs, becaule he alfo is po- 
 fited 'in a barren fign. Thefe are arguments to prove the native wa^ the 
 only Ton, or at lealt the only one that Ihould corae to maturity, or engage 
 in the viciflitudes or concerns of this life. 
 
 With regard to the inland journeys of this native, his fojournments, 
 or chano-e Sf refidence, they are declared to produce an increafe ot pi^ofit 
 and lubflance. The Moon s pofition, unaffliaed, in the thud ; and Ve- 
 nus in fextile, having her exaltation in the fifth ; denote many journeys 
 that ihould produce pleafure or profit, and fometimes both, m an eminent 
 degree ; as is further evinced by the planet Venus being in reception 
 of Jupiter, the fupreme lord of the fecond, the houie of profperity 
 and fubftance, as well as lord of the fifth, the houfe of pleaiure and de- 
 iioht. And as the third houfe is unafflided by any malefic ray, or by 
 the pofition of the infortunes, or any evil configuration therein, it re- 
 mains evident, beyond contradic^tion , that he Ihould receive no mjury 
 by means of brothers or fifters, nor any difadvantage from travel or change 
 of refidence.— This has alio been remarkably verified in the perfon ot 
 the native, who hath uniformly changed his fituation and refidence for 
 greater profit and preferment. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS arifing from the FOURTH HOUSE. 
 
 From this houfe we obtain judgment of the native's hereditary ac- 
 quifitions; the fubftance he {half derive from his father ; his houfes, 
 lands, hereditaments, 8cc. in which we are particularly to obfei-ve, i . 
 the fituation of the lord of the fourth houfe ; 2. the polition ot the bun 
 in a diurnal, and of Saturn in anoaurnal, nativity; and, 3. whatplaliet 
 or planets arc configurated in this houfe. If the major part of thcie lig* 
 nificators are found ftrong and well dignified, under benefic influences, 
 it is an ar*Tument of much good from the fether ; but, if otherwife, 
 contrary efteds will be produced. So the lord of the afcendant, or the 
 Moon, in textile or trine with the Sun by day, or with Saturn by 
 ni»ht, forefliows unity and concord between the native and his tatlier ; 
 and if theafped be made with reception, it will continue unto death, 
 and lead to an inheritance of the father's fubftance. The lame effed is 
 produced by the lord of the afcendant and the lord of the fourth houle 
 in mutual reception; and again, if the lord of the afcendant be m good 
 
 Kg. 36, 8 N alpea
 
 712 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 afpe6l vith tlie lord of the fourth ; or the IVIoon apply by benefic rayr 
 to the lord of the fourth ; thefe are ftronj^ arguments of concord be- 
 tween the native and his father, andof advantage by inheritance. But, 
 if contrary afpefts govern this houfe, the native and his fatiier will be- 
 at enmity with each other; and the more ierious and afflicting will tliis 
 enmitv be, and the moie injurious to the native's inheritance, in pro- 
 portion as the iignilicakors ihall be in adverle politious, ill conlignrated, 
 void of reception, or aftticted in the angles. This rule invariably holds^ 
 good in all genitures. 
 
 On the cufp of the fourth houfe of this nativity we find almoft feven 
 degrees of the fign Aquarie%, and Saturn in dignities pofited therein, hi 
 Textile vith Mercury. Thefe are teitimonies of longevity in the fatlieri 
 as well as of ftrong mental endowments, and of refpectability among 
 mankind. We fmd Saturn difpofes of the Moon ; and Mars, who h 
 lord of the afcendant, calling a fefquiquadiate to the jMoon-, in reception 
 of Mercury, declares the native Ihould be regulated by a Itroug filial 
 affection for his father, and that ivi a moie eminent degieethan the fa- 
 ther f(jr the fon. This is confirmed by Saturn, iignificator of the father, 
 being the fuperior planet,^in a mafculine fign, and the lignificators of tha 
 native bemg inferior^ and in feminine ligns. 
 
 As to the father's riches, they muft be deduced from the afpects of 
 the benefics to the fourth houfe, and the polition of the part of fortune, 
 and the planets in the fifth, houfe, which is the father's houfe of fub- 
 ftance. Now Jupiter being in quartile of Satuin, and in no afped; 
 vith either of the luminaries, are arguments that the father fliould not 
 jncreafe his fubftance ; and, as the part of fortune is in oppohtion to 
 Saturn, it declares he Ihould meet with many loffes. And, although 
 Saturn is eligibly pofited in the fourth, and miglit thereby promile an 
 inheritance of landed property at the death of his father ; yet, as the part 
 of fortune is in oppolition with Saturn, in the terms of Jupiter, and 
 Jupiter configurated with violent fixed ftars, it is clearly demonllrated, 
 that, through the eafe and freedom of the fathei'.s difj)olition, accom- 
 panied with fome heavy loffes, he lliould at his death leave but a fmall 
 patrimony for the fon, when it fliould happen at a very advanced time 
 of life ; as is predicted by the pofition of Saturn in the father's afcendant, 
 which invariably gives old age, particularly M'hen pofited in his own 
 dignities. Thefe cii'cuniltances precifely happened both to the father 
 -and the fon . 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 713 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS lefultingfiom the FIFTH HOUSE. 
 
 The fpeculations upon this houfe afford tlie moft fatisfac^ory Infoinia— 
 tion concerning the native's ifliie — Whether he ihall have children ; to- 
 gether with their conditions, quahties, and fex. Alfo whether the 
 native iliall derive any fuccefs from fpeculative rin< of property, fuch 
 as buying and felhng in the funds, adventuring in the lottery, or con- 
 figning goods to the uncertainties of an unknown foreign market. — 
 Thcfe feveral enquiries are definable from tlie figure of every genituie, 
 and are fouglit out from the configurations in, or relating to, the fifth 
 houfe ; and, as they are not of the lealt importance among the various 
 occurrences incident to human life, I ihall lay down fome felect rules 
 for the more particular information of fuch of my readers as wifli to re- 
 duce the theory thereof into practice. 
 
 To know whether the native Ihall have iflue or not, particular regard 
 muft be had to the configurations in the firlt, fifth, and tenth, houles; 
 and alfo to the afpetts formed by the lords of thole houfes; as alfo the 
 eleventh houfe and its lord, becaule it is the fiftli from the Icventh. 
 If thefe fignificators are in fruitful figns, tiien it is certain the native 
 will have illue ; but, if they are in barren figns, the contrary effect will 
 be produced. 
 
 But, as it feldom happens that the planets are wholly pofited in thefe 
 oppollte extremes, I Ihall Itate tiie effect of thole configurations which 
 are cafually formed, and which lead to a full explanation of all the o- 
 thers. If the Sun, Saturn, or Marsi rule the afeendant, fifth, tenth, 
 or eleventh, houfes, without fome fruitful afpec'l of the benefics, they 
 deny children. So Saturn in the fi'fth^ or the Sun in quartile to Jupi- 
 ter, will be foimd to work the- lame barren effect. If the Sun be con- 
 figurated with Saturn and JMercury in the eleventh or fifth, in aipeS, 
 with the Moon, it fliows the native will fcarcely have children ; or, if 
 he fliould, they M'ill die fuddenly, in their infant Itate. The fame 
 planets conjoined in the midheaven, and in quartile or oppofition of 
 the Moon, produce the fame. Venus pofited in the firft or feventh 
 houfes, in conjunction or oppofition of Saturn, or in communicative- 
 dignities, i. e. he in her term, and ihe in his ; or if Saturn be in Taurus, 
 and Venus in Capricorn -, it argues barrennefs- in a male geniture, and 
 abortion in that of a female ; or that what is produced fliall die ere it 
 hath feen the light. In like manner Saturn, if pofited in the afcendant, 
 will produce bar/eiyiefe,- or deftroy the offspring. So ]Mars in oppo- 
 
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 7>4 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fitioii of Jupiter or Venus deftroys the hope of ilTue in the naiive ; and 
 Jupiter in oppofition to Saturn deftroys whatever is produced under it, 
 inoie efpecially if Jupiter lia]ipens to be lord of the filth. But tiie mofi. 
 clecifive teftimony of barrcnncls, is when the lord of the fifth and the lord 
 of the afceudant are couibult and retrograde, unaided by benefic rays, 
 and the j\Ioon in detriment. 
 
 If, on the contrary, the Moon and Mercury are pofited in the fifth 
 lioult', and their difpofitors uuai^lirted, it is an argument that tlie na- 
 tive (hall have ilTue. So likewife if Mercury be occidental, and in good 
 afpeft to Jupiter or Venus, it produces children ; but if oriental, and 
 afllit'^ed by Saturn, it denotes barrenncis. Tiie JMoon configurated with 
 Venus or the Dragon's Head in the fifth hoiife, and a prolific iign on 
 the cuf'p thereof, is a certain proof of many children, and good. And 
 again, Jupiter in trine afpert of the Moon, in moilt ligns ; or the ]\Ioon 
 with Jupiter or Veims .in an angle, or in good afpect with the angles ; 
 declares the fame, and that they will be born to preferment. When 
 thefe fignificators fall wholly in mal'culine figns, the iilue Ihall be all 
 males; but, when they tiill wholly in feminine ligns, the oftVpring lliall 
 be all females. Again, if the major part of thel'e fignificators fall in niaf- 
 culine ligns, and thereliduein feminine, the native Ihall have moll boys; 
 but, ifthe majority be in feminine figns, and the reft in mafculine, then 
 will he have liioftly girls. 
 
 The number of children the native fliall have is determined by col- 
 lecting the number of teitimonies by which they are produced ; for the 
 more fruitful planets, that are found in the fifth or eleventh houfes, and 
 in fruitful fig-ns, give the more children ; whereas, the fewer the planet* 
 are that we find pofited in thofe houfes and figns, the fewer children will 
 be produced ; and this is a nevei-^-failing criterion whei'eby to judge. Let 
 it alfo be remembered, that fruitful planets in bicorporal iigns produce 
 double, and in fruitliil figns treble, the number. 
 
 The readieft and moft accftrate way of. determining the native's iftbe 
 is to colled all the teftimonies of fruitfulnels and fterility that appear 
 on the lace of the geniture into one table, as in the foregoing judg- 
 ment on the temperature and conftitution ; and, according to the majority 
 of fignificators, let the inquiry be decided. If the fignificators and figns 
 of fterility exceed in number and energy the fignificators of fecundity, 
 the native cannot have iftue. If thel'e teftimonies happen to be equal, 
 then regard muft be had to a good revolution and diret'tion meeting to- 
 gether; and, if ftich fliould occur, without any malefic influence, it may 
 
 fafely 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 715 
 
 fafely be pronounced that the native will have one child. If thefe rules 
 ere duly attended to, the reader will find no difficulty in obtaining fatif- 
 fadlory information upon this important enquiiy, in his own or in any 
 genethliacal figure that is laid before him. 
 
 According to the rules I have recommended, I iliall inveftigate the 
 mieition in this nativity, reducing the particular quality of each ligni- 
 ^cator into a table, and deducing from thence the effedls they refpec- 
 tively give. Upon the afcendant there are two figns, both of which muft 
 be taken, as well as all the other afpecls. 
 
 Libra afcending, in itfelf ------is-- — indifferent. 
 
 Venus, lady of that fign, in Pifces - fruitful. 
 
 Scorpio afcending — ---- ------- — fruitfuL 
 
 Mars, lord of that fign, in Virgo - - barren. 
 
 Pifces on the cufp of the fifth ------ m.^M^ fruifful. 
 
 Jupiter, lord of that fign, in Taurus - - *-' -^ - - indifferent. 
 Jupiter, by fextile afpedt of the fifth ----- •^fruitful. 
 
 Leo, on the cufp of the tenth --------- barren. 
 
 The Sun, lord of that fign, in Aries ------ indifferent. 
 
 The Moon, in Capricorn — - — ---- --- indifferent^ 
 
 The Moon, by dexter 5|c with ^, in the afcendant -/rw»jf/u/. 
 The Moon by finiller -^ with Pifces in the fifth - fruitfuL 
 Virgo on the cufp of the eleventh -----»-- barren. 
 
 TSfercury, lord of that fign, in ArieS - — - - - indifferev^i 
 The Dragon's Head in the fifth gives THREE 
 
 tefiimonies - fruitful 
 
 Number of teflimonies for fruitfulnefij - - - - 9 
 ISTumber of ditto for barrennefs -------3 
 
 Surplus in favour of fruitfulnefs - - 6 
 
 And therefore, as the indifferent figns operate neither way, I conclude' 
 from the above majority of fix fruitful figuificators, that the native ftiall 
 have fix children. The next thing is, to determine their fex, or how 
 many fliall be males or females. To do this, it only requires to 
 afcertain the quality of the figns and planets with which the Moon is 
 configurated, whetlier mafculine or feminine ; and from thence judg- 
 ment is drawn. For example. The Moon in this geniture is the firfl 
 planet, that colledls mafculine rays, and is therefore to be firft taken^ 
 She is pofited in a feminine fign, and beholds the feminine fign Scorpio, 
 '\vhich are two arguments iu favour of a female child ; but, oppofed to 
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 77,6 AN I L.L. U S T II A T I- O N 
 
 thefe, wc find a nmcli more powerful influence in favour ol tlie inalcir^ 
 line. The ]\Ioon in fefquiquadrate aCpet^t with iNTars, iji quarlile (xf 
 the Sun, and within orbs of a quirtile conti<iuiation M'ith IMercury., 
 vho in this figure is conftituted aniaftuline planet, Viy })eiuii; in a mal^ 
 ruhne fii^n, in fextile of Saturn, and in reception of JNfars, which are 
 'both mafcnline planets; and the Moon's uoath nodefaliing in the fifth 
 lioufe, and bcin<i difpofed of by Saturn; avefo many infallible tei'tiino- 
 iiies o<^"thc mafcnline conformation, that I pronounce the lirft iifue with 
 whiclr this native fliall be bleU'ed will be aihiu — ^Aud fo it happened. 
 
 To demonftrate the fex of the fecond child, T re-confider the figure.. 
 I find the' Moon is th€ princi{>al lignificotor of the iecond child uifo, be— 
 caufe llie fends a liniiter fext.ile- to^ti'ia fifth huufe, as well as a dexter fex-- 
 tile to the firlt. Adoj)ting therefme the fame ivode as before, 1. deduce^ 
 two arguments only in favour of a female; but in favour of a male I 
 again find a confiderable majority ; tlifi Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, nnd the 
 Moon's north node in the fifth, being air ilrong teltimonies that the 
 fecond child Hiallbe a- male. — And fo it proved.. 
 
 We next confulttlie figure,, and fele<Si the prihcipal fignificator ofthe 
 third child. This L find, to be Jupiter, becaufe lie is not only lord of 
 the fifth houfe, but becaufe he likewife beholds. the fifth with a textile, 
 and the eleventh witli a trine, ai'pett. 1 aui therefore to conlider, as in. 
 the foregoing cafes-,, how this fignificator i.sconfi^gurated as^to niafculine 
 and feminine influences.. The fign upon the cufp of tlie fifth houfe is 
 feminine ; Jupiter lord of the fifth) in Taurus, is alfo feminine; Venus, 
 who is the difpofitor of. Jupiter,, is a feminine planet, and poiited like- 
 wife in a feminine fign ; the JNIoon. beholds the fifth hi ufi; with a fextile 
 afpe^t, and is a feminine planet in a feminine iign. Thefe are all ar- 
 guments in favour ofthe female conformation ; whiift we find only fwo- 
 in favour of the mafcnline, namely, Jupiter, a mafcnline planet, and the 
 Dragon's Head, or fortunate node of tlie Moon; ib that, tl>e majority of. 
 teftimonies being fo much in favour of a female child, I hefitated not to. 
 atlirm, that of fuchfex ihould be the next offspring; which was abfo-r 
 liitely the cafe. 
 
 ' The other three children are defined from the Moon's fortunate node, 
 or Dragon's Head, which, falling in a fruitful fign, invariably denotes 
 three children ; and,, as its configurations are made with malculine or 
 feminine planets, fo. fliall be their fex. In the prefent cafe the Dra-- 
 gon's Head falls not only in a fruitful but in a feminine fign ; Jupiter,, 
 ks difpofitor, though a malculine planet, is in a feminine fign, and' 
 
 therefore 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. - 717 
 
 therefore impregnates that quality; the IMoon, a feminine planet, be- 
 holds the Dragon's Head from a feminine lign ; all which prove the fe- 
 minine nature ihall form the quality ; and hence it is certain that the 
 three lalt children of this native fliall be all girls. — And lb it really 
 proved. 
 
 This accoimt may appear miraculous to thofe unacquainted v.itli 
 planetary influence ; but their action is certain, and their energy invari- . 
 ably the fame. Thus the grand Projector of the univerfe continually -. 
 produces, by perpetual revolutions of. the celeftial bodies, the fame 
 caufes aud eifects, giving, life and motion to all animated nature, and 
 vegetative nouriihinent to the inanimate ; aud, as the inanimate are fome-- 
 tinies found imperfeftly wrought, or mixed, or blended wilh their op- 
 pofite qualities, or of a- doubtful genus ; fo we find the animate arc fub- 
 ject totheiame mixtures and atfettions, according as the planets Ihall be 
 eonfigurated under which the}'^ aie formed. And hence we conftantly 
 tind, that, in the gen-eration of the human fpecies, if the mafculine influ- 
 ence hath greatly the majority, the perfons produced under it will be pro- 
 portionabl3Hirong,.mufcular,. raw-boned, and mafculine; but, when it 
 hath barely, the fnperiority of the female influence, the native is effemi- 
 nate, weak, llender, and diminutive. So likewife females, where tlie fe — 
 male conformation hath greatly the afcendancy, are moll delicatel)' and-' 
 eharraingly formed, with all the grace and foftnefs of tlie fe-x, andwith-J 
 due fymmetry and proportion; but, where it hath but barely the pie-- 
 dominancy. over the mafculine, it fails not to produce la^ge, - coarfe, . 
 vaw-bonetl, mafculine, women. And, as we have before fullyexplained,- 
 if the mafculine and feminine qoniigurations are found equ^iflly Itronij at 
 the time of birth, if the adlion of the one ciuality lliaM in no wife ob- 
 taui predominancy over that of the other, but the degrees of power and 
 dignity Itand equally balanced, and neither the mafculine nor feminine- 
 influence preponderate, then fhall the «pf**if a<ppoJ'iT»i>^ or hermaphrodite, be 
 produced. 
 
 From the fifth houfe we are alfa enabled to form a tolerably correal 
 judgment,. whether the children born to the native fhall, in a general 
 way, be fortunate or unfortunate in their journey through life ; but, as 
 thefe children are all living, and grown up to'maturity, delicacy require* 
 that I fhould be filent on that head. I would at the fame time- recom- 
 mend to every perfon, before he decides pofitively upon the events pre- 
 ditS^ed by the fifth houfe, fb far as they. relate to the general charaders 
 and purfuits of children promifed to the native in any genethliacal figure, 
 to confult the radix of each child's birth, and compare it with thole of 
 the parents, by which means the artill can never err.
 
 71^ A N I t L U S T R A T I O K 
 
 By the fifth Iioufe we are Ukewife enabled to judge of the probable 
 event of every i'pecies of adventure, whether by lottery, dealings in the 
 funds, purchale or I'ale of life-annuities, or of any tranfartion where a 
 certain or detinable rilk is to befuftained: for thefe fpeculations, how- 
 ever varied or multifarious, are governed by the fame motions of the 
 mind, and fpring from the fame eUte^t in our radical geniture. In the 
 prefent figure, we find the north or fortunate node of the ]\foon pofited 
 in the fifth houfe, which is a ftrong argument of fuccefs in fuch enter- 
 prifcs ; and this fuccefs is Itrengthened by the Moon's lextile afpe(!"b 
 ihereuith. But we dare not, in any caie, decide by one fpecies of evi- 
 dence, without confulting what may be offered on the contrary (ide. 
 We therefore find, that, oppoled to the foregoing propitious teitimonies, 
 there are feveral that produce a very oppolite effe<1. Jupiter, who i» 
 lord of the fifth, and iignificator of the native's adventures, being polited 
 ill the eighth houfe, deftroys much of the luck proiniled by the forego- 
 ing afpe<^l; and, as Mars is in direct oppofition to Venus, and the park 
 of fortune afflicted by Saturn ; at the fame time that the Moon's un- 
 fortunate node, or Dragon's Tail, falls in the eleventh, the houfe where 
 the final end of all things is determined ; we may fafely conclude, that, 
 though the native might occailonally derive advantage by fuch fpecular* 
 tions, yet he would eventually be injured by them. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS refulting from the SIXTH HOUSE. 
 
 Prom the fixtii houfe we deduce thofe infirmities or conftitutional dif* 
 orders of the body, with which the native, from the particular quality 
 of the ruling planets at birth, fliall from time to time be afflicted, as 
 the feveral direc'^tions lliall happen to come up. This houfe likewile hat 
 relation to the good and evil occurrences that refult from our immediate 
 Servants or domeltics ; and likewife from our cattle. 
 
 But the mofl eiTential information the inquifitive reader can wifli to 
 acquire, is that which regards the health or iicknefs of the native, and 
 which, fmce the days of Adam, is the promifcuous lot of all God's 
 children. Infirmity both of body and mind was unqueffionably og- 
 caiiotied by the fall, v/hich hurled, as it were, the whole fyltem of na- 
 ture into oppofite extremes, and gave that jarring inequality to the ele- 
 ments which lays the foundation of every radical diforder. For, 
 as thefe elements are more or lefs predominant in conception, and as 
 they are diverfely changed and modified by the forms and properties 
 of the planetary influence at the time of birth, fo will the incidental 
 occurrences of health and ficknefs be, according to their fpecific quality 
 and tejuperature ; and this is definable from the terapeiument and com- 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 719 
 
 plexioTj of the native; for, as his temperature is, fo fhall be his ficknels 
 or his healtli ; for licknefs is no other than an inequaUty of fome pre- 
 dominant Immoiir offending at the time of birth ; and, of whatever 
 element fuch predominant humour is compounded, of fuch natvu'e and 
 quaUty will be the difeafe. Hence then the propriety of every phyfi- 
 cian's confulting the radical caufe of difeafes from the genituie of the 
 patient, wherever it can be obtained ; for, by miiting uranical and phy- 
 lical precepts together, there cannot be a. doubt but life may oftentimes 
 be preferved, where it is fatally deftroyed through ignorance or miftake 
 in the radical caufe of the complaint. Indeed the eminent progrefs, 
 and unbounded fuccefs, of the learned and ingenious Dr. Salmon in 
 the fcience of phyfic, lie confeifes to have derived from aftrological 
 knowledge in decuinbitures, by which means he feldom or ever loft a 
 patient, but where nature was totally exhaufted, and the fprings of life 
 lairly Avorn out. A very proper example this for modern prac^titioners 
 to follow; iince not only fortune and fame, but the general good of 
 mankind, would flow from it. 
 
 In the hope that many of my readers will be defirous of acquiring, 
 the moft extenfive information in this part of the fcience, I fliall here 
 ftate the various contigurations froni whence the caufes of ficknefs and 
 health may be deduced ; as well thofe which were fele6ted by Dr. Sal-^ 
 Kion in the courfe of his pra<!:lice, as thofe which I have a<^lded by mjf 
 own experience. The fubjedt is interefting, and deferves attention. 
 
 If, in the figure of birth, the lord of the fixth houfe be in good afpeffe 
 with the lord of the afcendant, it is a ftrong argument that the native- 
 will be healthy^. So when the Moon is well dignified, and in good 
 configuration with the lord of the lixth houfe, or beholds the cufp of 
 the iixth with a fextile or trine, it is another proof of the native's health. 
 When benefic ftais are in the lixth houfe, in good configuration with 
 the luminaries, or with the lord of the afcendant, it farther demonlhates 
 a healthy conftitution. If the lord of the iixth, the cufp of the fixth, 
 or the Moon, be unaftli6ted by bad afpefts of Saturn or Mars, or by fixed 
 Stars of their nature, or by the Dragon's Tail ; and neither the lord ^f 
 the fixth nor the Moon be combull or peregrine ; the native will moft 
 probably live m perfert health all bis days. 
 
 But, on the contrary, if moft or all the fignificatoi'S in a genefis be 
 found weak and unfortunate, or afflicted by the malignant planets iiv 
 body or afpe<5t ; or if moft of the lignificators poiited in the twelfth^ 
 eighth, or lixth, houfes, or the infortunes in the leventh, are in no good 
 
 No. 36.. 8> P alped
 
 7X0 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 afpecl; of Jupiter, Venus, or tlie Sun, or Moon ; the native's body will 
 be very infirni, and become a perfec^X repolituni of difeafes. And ac- 
 cording to tlie nature of the figns in which thofe planets are polited, 
 i. e. according to the tripUcity, l"o will the native be continually aftlicted 
 with liich intirniities as proceed from tlie predominant quality of that 
 trigon ; for, if the llgnificators be in watery iigns, he will be aftlicted 
 •with phlegm ; if in earthy, he will be opprelfed with melancholy ; if 
 in fiery, with cholic, heat, and feverilli affections i but, if in airy Iigns, 
 he will labour under moft or all of thofe complaints wliich ariie froui 
 too iireat an abundance of blood. 
 
 O' 
 
 WJieneverwe fmd in a nativity the lord of the afcendant applying to 
 the loid of the fixth, it declares the native will be inattentive to his 
 own health, and often fuffer thereby. The Sun in the lixth, feventh^ 
 eighth, or twelfth, houfes, is an argument of Ihort life, of many and 
 bitter aflflittions, and of much ficknefs ; particularl}'^ if in bad afpect 
 with tlie Moon ; but, if thefe luminaries be in conjunction of each other^ 
 it prelages defeat of underllanding, and afflictions of the head and 
 brain, wJiicli the phylician can neither /lifcover nor cur-e. If the JVIoon 
 be affli(!:ted by tlie quartile or oppolition of Saturn, or tlie Dragon's Tail, 
 in the firilorfeconil houfes of the figure, it declares the whole life will 
 be infirm ; and, if fixed ftars of the quality of Saturn be joined witli 
 either of luminaries, the native will be always lean and puny, and the 
 food be takes will afford but little nourifliment ; lb likewiie he that hath 
 Mars elevated above Saturn in his birtli will be of a weak and fickly ha- 
 hit of body^ 
 
 If Mars 1)6 in the fixth lioufe, It gives fudden cafual -difeafes, wiiich 
 return upon the Highteft occafion ; if in the twelfth, he afflitits the 
 body with extreme weaknefs, and forebodes cafual misfortunes. So, if 
 .an infortune be matutine.. it fliows fudden dilbales or falls ; ifvefper- 
 tinc, a fickly habit or durable complaints. But, iince bodily inlirmi- 
 ties cannot be deduci^d entirely from the bare polition of any one planet, 
 when others of an oppofite nature and quality are fofituatedas to coun- 
 terbalance its influence, fo tjie foregoing obfervations can only liold good 
 in fuch nativities where they iland implicitly as above delcril>ed, with- 
 out any other planet in configuration, and totally unimpeded by the in- 
 fluence of other iay« ; for, when thefe occur, the complaint arifes from 
 a cornpound caufe, and every Separate quality mull be confidered, and 
 .compared with the fundamental fignificators of the temperature and con- 
 Ititution of the native in his radical figure of birth ; which, being duly 
 afcertained, and proved by direction, will feldom fail to point out the 
 precife nature and tendency of the difeafe. 
 
 The
 
 OFASTROLOGY. ^ix 
 
 The four triplicities, from whence the four complexions or tempe- 
 ratures arife, and the figns which compofe them, muft be fully con- 
 templated in this enquiry. If the native be found to exceed in his 
 temperature or complexion with the choleric humour, and Saturn 
 happens to be the afflitting planet, and pohted in Aries, being the houfe 
 of Mars, and the exaltation of the Sun, he then declares the native Ihall 
 at times be troubled with melancholy vapours, and impoithume<» in the 
 head, with colds, watchings, iloppage in the ftomach and bowels, diltilia- 
 tions of rheum, and pains in the arms and fliouJders. If Jupiter be the 
 afflicting planet in Aries, he denotes fome affliction in the head, or 
 quinley in the throat, or tumorous fwelling, with fainting or fwoon- 
 ing. If Mars in Aries be the afflicting fignificator, he gives extreme 
 pain in the head, ariling from a hot caufe ; or elfe want of fleep, or hot 
 rheums in the eyes, or gripings in the bowels. If the Sun be the afflict- 
 ing planet, and polited in Aries, he then gives the megrim, reltleiVnels, 
 fore eyes, with pain or fwellings in the thighs and hips. If Venus be the 
 afflicting planet, and in Aries, Ihe produces heavinels and dulnefsinthe 
 head, proceeding of cold; and difpofes to lethargy, and to complaints 
 of the kidneys and reins. If Mercury be the afflicting planet in Aries, 
 he caufes the vertigo, or lightnefs of the head, with alTthe various dil- 
 orders of the womb. If the Moon be the afflicting planet in Aries, Ihe 
 gives defluxions of rheum from the head, falling licknefs, convuHions, 
 dimnels of light by cold, ileepinefs, with pains or lamenefs in the knees. 
 Thefe feveral complaints are peculiar to the fituation of each of the 
 planets when in the fign Aries ; for, in each ditVerent iign they vary 
 their effec'l upon theconftitution, by participating in the nature and qua- 
 lity of each of the hgus refpedtively. It will therefore be necei^ary to 
 trace their influence through each of the four triplicities, before their ac- 
 tion can be precifely determined in every geniture. 
 
 Saturn in Leo, being the afflitling planet, gives violent affliction oi 
 the nerves, confumption, or waiting of the hver^ debility in the reins, 
 and weakneCs in the back. If Jupiter be the afflicting fignificator in 
 Leo, it difpoles to feverilli complaints, pleurify, jiains in the in- 
 tettines, gripings and wind-cholic, and the fciatica, or hip-gout. 
 When Mars is the affliding planet in Leo, choler abounds, with a vio- 
 lent fever, and pains of the itomach or kidneys. If the Sun be the afflict- 
 ing planet in Leo, it gives the putrid or fpotted fever, Itone and gravel, 
 fainting fits, excruciating pains in the head, almoll to madnefs. If 
 Venus afflict; the native in Leo, it induces the violent fever of love ; 
 gives obftruCtions at llomach, with pain or fwelling in the legs. If 
 Mercury afflid in Leo, he gives fadnefs of heart, ti-e"iublings, jxiins in
 
 722 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 the back, with lamenefs in the arms, and poins in the extremities-. If 
 the JMoon afflict the patient in Leo, fhe gives iicknels at Itamacb, in- 
 cieales the king'^s evil, and all dilbrdeis of the tlu'oat. 
 
 In Sagittarius, if Saturn be the afflicting planet, hepi-oduces weaknefs- . 
 of the extremities, conlumption^,. pains in the legs and feet, ami the 
 gout. If Jupiter be the iignificator of afflic'tion in Sagittiuius, he pro- 
 duces putrefat'tion of blood, fevers proceeding fronx choler ; pains anck 
 Avellings in the knees, and tumours ii> the head and neck. If IVIars* 
 afliiA in Sagittarius, he giACS the fciatica, or pains in the hips or thighs,, 
 drincis of the mouth, with extreme heat and ibrenelij of the throat. 
 If Sol affli6t in Sagittarius, it caufes choleric hmnours in the thighs or 
 hips, the hitula, fainting fits, and Ikknefs at heart. If Venus be the 
 aftiit:ting planet in Sagittarius, flie produces the Iciatica, corruption of 
 blood, iurfeits, and iicknefs of Itomacli. If Mercury affli<!:t in Sagitta- 
 rius, we luffer jxiins in the back and reins, pains in the kidneys, coughs,, 
 and ftoppage of urine. If the ]Moon be the affli(!"ting planet in Sa- 
 gittarius, Ihe induces weaknels or lamenefs in the thigh.s, pains in tke- 
 bowels, and the wind-cholic. Theie are the various complaints whicb 
 the planets give ia the fiery triplicity, which is under the denomination) 
 of choler, and Ls comfK)fed of the three foregoing figns. I ihall now 
 Itate the affliotions which arile from the polition of the planets in the 
 the earthy triplicity, which conlifts of the tlxi-ee ligns Taurus, Virgo, 
 and Capricorn^ 
 
 If Satm-n be the affi"icting planet in the fign Taurus, he gives the 
 king's evil, or malignant lore throat, quartan ague, obltru6tions of the 
 Itomach, the fcurvy, and melancholy affecitions. If Jupiter be the 
 afflicting planet in. Taurus, it produces the quinfey, or fwelling of the 
 throat,, rheumatic gout in the hands and arm.s, wind in the blood, ob- 
 itruCtions in the bowels, with pains and gripings. If Mars be the 
 afflicting ])lanet in Taurus, he occafioas tumoius of the neck and throat, 
 weakuels and pains in the back, the Hone in the reins, or a confump- 
 tion. If the Sun affliCt hi Taurus, it endangers the quinfey or fore 
 throat, and gives pain and fwelling in the knees. If Venus be the af- 
 fli<fting planet in Taurus., the produces a catarih, orfome malignant hu- 
 mour in the throat, pains, in the head, colds, and defect in the lecrets. 
 If Mercury afflict in Taurus, he caufes diftillations in the tinoat, and 
 wheefmgs in the Itomach, the Iciatica, or lamenefs and numbneis in the 
 ■feet. If the Moon be the afflicting planet in Taurus, ihe occallons 
 fwelUng and ibrenefs of the throat, canker ia the moutitj pains in the 
 legs, and gout in the feet. J ;;. 
 
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 If Saturn be the affliding planet in the fign Virgo, he oecafions vio- 
 lent obftrurtions in the bowels, which frequently end in mortificatioiv. 
 and terminate life : he likewife produces laliitude and wedknels in the 
 thighs, ftoppage of urine, and the ftone. If Jupiter be the atllicling 
 planet, and pofited in the fign Virgo, he occafions putrified and cor- 
 rupted blood, cold and dry liver, obftrudions of the lungs, conlump- 
 tion, weaknefs in the back, pain and feeblenels in the joints ; and, m 
 women, fits of the mother. If Mars be the afflicting planet in Virgo, he 
 often occafions the bloody flux, or a confirmed dyfentery ; alloobltruc- 
 tions in the circulation of the animal fluids, and diforders in the legs. 
 If the Sun be the affli6ting planet in Virgo, he gives the bloody flux, 
 or choleric obfi;ruaions in the fl;omach and throat, or fome fwelhng 
 tumours therein'. If Venus afflia in Virgo, the produces worms, wind- 
 cholic, flux, pains at the heart, or illnefs proceeding from cold taken ui 
 the feet. If Mercury afflid in Virgo, he gives the bilious cholic, Ihort- 
 iiefs of breath, obftrudions at the ftomach, pains in the head, and diC- 
 orders of the brain. If the Moon be the aflliding planet, and fituated 
 in Virgo, flie gives all kinds of obftrudions in the bowels, lownefs of 
 fpiritsrdeep melancholy, fudden tremors, faiuting-fits, and weaknefs in 
 tJie extremities. 
 
 If Saturn be the affliding planet in the fign Capricorn, he gives the 
 gout in the knees, legs, and feet : alfo pain in the head, and obftruttions m 
 the circulation. If Jupiter be the affliding planet m Capricorn, he 
 produces melancholy blood, and running pains, or lome obllrudion oe 
 ttoppage in the throat. If ISIars be the aflliding planet m Capricorn, 
 he gives violent pains in the knees, with lameneis, and alfo in the hands 
 and arms, with hot fwellings, and violent tumours. If the Sun be the 
 affliding planet in Capricorn, he gives fwellings in the knees, whitlows, 
 diftempers in the bowels, with fever and mortification. If Venus 
 afflid in Capricorn, flie produces fcrophula in the knees and thighs, 
 tumours or fwellings in th6 tefticles, debility in the reins, and coldnef* 
 at ftomach. If Mercury be the affliding planet in Capricorn, he gives 
 the «^out inthe feet and knees, occafions lloppage of urine, palpitation 
 of the heart, and violent heart-burn. If the Moon afflid in Capricorn, 
 flie gives the gout or white fwelling in the knees, pains in the back and 
 reins, ftone and gravel, weaknefs of the kidneys, and the whites in wo- 
 men. Thefe diieafesare all under the malefic configuration of the pla- 
 nets when in the earthy triplicity. I il»all next ftate thofe ufually pro- 
 duced in the airy, which triplicity is compofed of the three next Iigns 
 in order, viz. Gemini, Libra, and Aquaries. 
 
 No. 36. ^a 9 
 
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 724 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 If Saturn be the afflidling planet, and pofited in the figu Gemini, lie 
 gives pains in the arms and Ihoulders, pleiuilies, obftructions in the 
 bowels, melancholy, and black jaundice. If Jupiter be tJie aliiiicting 
 planet in Gemini, then blood will abound, and occafiion pleunfies, and 
 diforders of tiie liver and reins. If Mars be the afflicting planet in 
 Gemini, he often oceadons breakings-out, biles and blotches, pains in 
 the arms, heat of blood, putrefaction, the llrangury, and other com- 
 ])laints in the lecrets. If the Sun afflict in Gemini, the native will be 
 fubjec't to fcorbutic complaints, corruption of blood, and peftilential 
 fevers, with vveakneis or lamenefs in the legs. If Venus be the aiiHid- 
 ing planet in Gemini, flie corrupts the blood, and brings on a dropiy ; 
 Ihe alfo produces the king's evil, and fome diftillations of rheum from, 
 the head, affliding the extreme parts. If Mercury afflict in Gemini, it 
 produces windy blood, weakness in the arms, pains in the jiead, and the 
 rheumatic gout. If the JMoon afflitl in Gemini, the brings the gout 
 in the hands and elbows, alio in the legs and feet. Thefe complaints 
 are all peculiar to Gemini. 
 
 If Saturn be the afflicting planet in Libra, it argues a confumption of 
 the body, weaknefs in the back, iirangury, corruption of blood, the 
 iciatica, and gouty or rheumatic pains. If Jupiter be the afflic^ting 
 planet in Libra, it occafions the dropfy, tumours in the groin, the piles, 
 iiftula, inflammations in the legs, fevers, and lurfeits. If Mars be the 
 affliding planet in Libra, he gives the ftone and gravel, violent pains in 
 the kidneys and bladder, fevers, and pains in the feet. If the Sun be fhe 
 affliding planet in Libra, he produces choler, pains in the back, fliarp- 
 nefs of urine, univerfal corruption and inflammations of the blood, with 
 iaffitude in the arms, flioulders, and extremities. If Venus afflitt in 
 Libra, the gives a weaknefs in the reins, debility of the animal func- 
 tions, diabetes, pains in the bowels and head, with the bilious cholic. 
 If Mercury affli6l in Libra, he gives pain in the mufc\dar fyftem, oc- 
 cafions ftoppage of urine, faintings and palpitation of the heart, ob- 
 ftruc'lions in the throat, decay of the lungs, or phlegmatic fwellings in the 
 breaft. If the IMoon be the affli(5ting planet in Libra, ihe debilitates the 
 veins, gives pains in the back and bowels, produces a diabetes, or brings 
 on the whites in women. Thefe are the leveral complaints engendered 
 under Libra. 
 
 If Saturn be the affliding planet, and pofited in Aquaries, he gives 
 pains in the head from melancholy vapours, fwellings or gatherings in 
 the throat, pains and cramps in the lind)s and joints, pains ah tlie eais, 
 and deafncfs. If Jupiter'be the afflicting planet in Aquaries, he pro- 
 duces running pains all over the body, particularly in the hands, arms, 
 
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 Ttegs, and feet. If Mars be the affli(!^ing pknet in Aquarie.s, he begets 
 putrefadion and inflammation of the blood, fwelling in the legs, obflruc- 
 tions in the ftomach, pleurily, or intermittent fever. If tiie Sun be 
 the afflicting planet, and in Aquaries, it occasions lamenefs and foul 
 irruptions in the legs, difficulty in making water, and wafting of the 
 reins and kidneys. If Venus be tli€ afflitting planet in Aquaries, Ihe 
 eaufeth gouty or rheumatic humours in the knees and feet, and fome- 
 times inthe Itomach ; but, if the blood be in a putrified ftate, Ihe will 
 caufe the dropfy. If Mercury be the afflidting planet in Aquaries, he 
 gives fluxes, and wind in the bowels, running pains in the extremities, 
 and fwellings in the feet and legs. If the Moon be the atitlidling planet 
 in Aquaries, flie produces dropfy in the legs, fits of the mother, dia- 
 betes, wcaknefs intheltamina, univerfal la-llitude, runnings of the reins, 
 and impotency. Thefe are engendered of the planets when malevolently 
 configurated in the airy triplicity. We iliall next confider the watery,, 
 which is formed of Cancer, Scorpio, and Pifces. 
 
 If Saturn in Cancer be the affliding planet, it occafions obftrudions 
 of the ftomach, tertian agues, fcurvies, coughs and colds, phthifics 
 tfiid' ulcerations of tlie lungs, cdncers and ulcers in the breaft, pains 
 and weakneflt's in the back, afihmas, and confumptions. If Jupiter be 
 the afilliding planet in Cancer, he caufes furfeits,. dropfy, bad appetite, 
 obftruGtionsin the bladder, weaknefs, and debility in the ventricle. If 
 Mars l>e the afflidmg plaiiet in Cancer, he breeds a pleurify, or occa- 
 fions the gathering of lliarp acrid ^lumours in the ftomach, whence arife 
 the moft violent bilious complaints. K the Swnbe the afflicting planet in 
 Gancer, it produces hoarfenefs, and feveriili aftedions, inducing to the 
 fmalj-pox or meaftes. If Venus be the afflie'ting planet in Cancer, ihe 
 eaufeth bad digeftipn, lofs of appetite, furfeit, with vomiting, an tmiverfal 
 corruption of blood, and pains in the' back and bowels. If IMercury is 
 the affli(''ting planet, and -in Cancer, he declares a cold ftomach, grip- 
 ings of wind, diftillations of cold rheum, or fome cough, with lame- 
 nefs in the legs. If the Moon be the afflicting planet in Cancer, ftie 
 produces watery-complaints of the ftomach, fmail-pox, dropfy, tyinpa- 
 ntes, falling ficknefs, and convulfions. Thefe are the feveral afflictions 
 incident to this planets when' promittors Umder- Caiicep' 
 
 • If Saturn be the plaivet afflicting in the fign Scorpio, he gives the 
 piles, fiftula, and tumours in the groin, gout in the legs and tect, ob* 
 ftru(^tion of the nerves, giddinefs, and pally. If Jupiter be the afflict- 
 ing pMnet' in vScorpio, he :gnves the' fcuryy or dropiy, indigeftion, 6b- 
 ftruftiorts in the bladder, firangury, weak-neft,' palpitation of the he^rt, 
 
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 726 AN I L L U S T R A T ION 
 
 the fciatica, and piles. If Mars be the afflit.'l:ing planet in Scorpio, lie 
 gives violent fevers, fmall-pox, Icui-vy, tlropfy, fweliing in the privities, 
 violent pain in the head, rheum in the eyes, the megrim, and in a 
 ■woman a fuper-abundance of the menltrual flux. If the Sun be the 
 attliding planet in Scorpio, it occafions violent irruptions of putrid 
 inatter from different parts of the body in large boils or blotches ; 
 otherwife it brings on obftrudtions in the ftomach and bowels, lup- 
 prellion of urine, or the bilious cholic. If Venus be the afftic'-ting planet 
 in Scorpio, fhe produces the dropfy, fcurvy, king's evil, pains of the 
 kidneys, running of the reins, debility, and impotency. If JVIercury 
 be the afflicting planet in Scorpio, he produces quartan agues, proceed- 
 ing of heat and moilture ; pains in the bowels, Hux or dyfentery, with 
 pains in the arms and fhoulders. If the Moon be the affli6ling planet 
 in Scorpio, flie deflroys the generative faculty, vitiates and impoveriflies 
 the femen, and finally induces an unceafnig gleet; flie likewife brings? 
 on a dropfical or confumptive habit, which generally terminates in 
 death. Such are the difeafes engendered under Scorpio. We fliall laltly 
 confider thofe produced under Pifces. 
 
 If Saturn be the afflidling planet in the fign Pifces, he will occafion 
 the gout in the hands or feet, defluxions of vifcous humours, confump- 
 tions, or dropfy. If Jupiter be the afllicling planet in Pifces, he im- 
 poveriflieth the blood, brings on a dropfy, caufeth abundance of phlegm 
 in the itomach, produces fwellings in the face, and pains in the head. 
 If Mars be the affiliating planet in Pifces, he gives lamenefs in the 
 feet, flops the free circulation of the blood and juices, vitiates the 
 liver, which comes away with frequent fpitting and retelling, and 
 tiltimately brings on a fever. If the Sun be the affli6iing planet in 
 Pifces, he deftroys procreation, brings on all the diforders incident 
 to barrennels, with obftru(ilions in the ftomach and bowels, ftrangury, 
 and extreme pain in the back and reins. If Venus be the afflicting 
 planet in Pifces, flie produces a cold watery ftomach, Avhite fwellings 
 in the knees or legs, flux in the bowels, which terminates in a defentery. 
 If Mercury be the afflicting planet in Pifces, it occafions weaknefs and 
 lafntude in the bowels and reins, with running pains or fwellings in 
 the knees, legs, or feet. If the Moon be the afllidling planet in Pif- 
 ces, flie produces the dropfy, impofthumes of the head, watery fwellings 
 in the thighs and legs, univerfal laflitude, or a phlegmatic conftitution 
 of the wliole body. 
 
 Thus have we defined the fpecific difeafes produced under each of the 
 twelve figns, according to the nature of their triplicity, in which any or 
 either of the planets are the promittors or fignificators of the malady. 
 
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 '/[. C O F A'3 T Jl O L O G Y- ,217 
 
 But, as it does not alwa3's happen that the afcendant, or Part of Fortune^ 
 is tlie giver of life, tind a iingle planet at the lame time pioniittor, ii]i 
 which cafes alone the foregoing rules can invariably be admitted, it 
 Avill be neceHary to demonftrate the other influences, with which tli^ 
 regular enjoymerit of health is impeded by lltknefs and difeafe. It is 
 the more neceflary to be copious in this fpeculatioh, lince we cannot^ 
 without a perfect knowledge of all the configurations that induce flck- 
 nefs, either afcertain the affiidions to which the native fliall be 
 liibje<!:t during his life, or difcover, with any degree of accuracy, or 
 Jatisfaclion, the temporary and curable diforders, from that laft an^l 
 final malady, which baffles the iyltem of phyCcal aid, and difunites the 
 immaterial foul from the corruptible body. In all dileafes, the Moon 
 is more particularly to be regarded, fmce her action upon the body is 
 moft fenlibly felt, and her contiguous polition brings her more fre- 
 quently intoeonta6t with malignant rays. I lliall therefore demonltrate 
 the various configurations, under which the tends to deftroy the native's 
 health or life, if afflidled by the malefic rays of Saturn or ]\Iars, in liLs- 
 iigure of birth. 
 
 If the Moon in Aries be afflicted by the conjunftion, quartile, or 
 oppofition, of Saturn, the native will be remarkably fubjecl; to coughs 
 and colds, impolthumes in the iiead, weaknefs in the eyes, dillillatioiis 
 of rheum in the breaft, fwellings in the throat, loathings in the lio- 
 mach, with irregular and profufe perfpiration. But, if the affliction be 
 by the conjundtion, quartile, or oppolition, of JNIars, it caufes diforders 
 of the brain, violent fevers, reitleirnefs, hfflammation of the liver, and 
 phrenz^^ If in Leo the ]\Ioon be afflicSted by the evil rays of Saturn, 
 it produces a violent fever, putrefacl-tion of the blood, heat and drynefs 
 in the ftomach, with laffitude and debility. But, if the difeafe comes 
 by the afflidion of Mars, ftagnation of the blood, lofs of appetite, 
 
 -phrenzy, the putrid or fpotted fever, will be the confequence. If 
 the Moon be thus configurated with Saturn in Sagittarius, it produces 
 a deflnxion of thin, lliarp, and fubtle, humours; gives pain in the limbs 
 
 •and joints, with heat and Iwelling in the extremities, reiulting frouv 
 the adverle etfects of heat and «old. But, if the afflicrtion comes by Mars, 
 it will produce violent licknefs at Itomach, intermittent fever, pains in 
 the reins and loins, inward and outward piles, and the fifiula. Thefe 
 difeafes are produced by the malefic afpet^ls of Saturn and ]Mars witb 
 the IMoon in the fiery triplicityr 
 
 (. ■ jjfifo 01.^ ^l-.iT .^f'jv/.id arlj 'to ! 
 
 If the Moon be afflidled in Taurus, by the. quartile, oppolition, of 
 
 eonjunc^tion, of Saturn, it indicates flow fevers, proceeding from burnt 
 
 No. 36. 8 R .choler -^
 
 'jifi akillustration 
 
 tholer ; and obftru(5lions of the arteries, with inflammation of the whole 
 body, and exulceration of the lungs. But, if the diibrdcr proceeds from 
 the quartile, oppofition, or conjunction, of Mars, it will arifc from a 
 fuperabundance of foul blood, inducing various obilruclions of the body, 
 inflammations of the neck, and throat, pains in the head and limbs, with 
 watchfulnefs and convuliive fpafms. If in Virgo the ^£oon be thus 
 ftftiic'^ed of Saturn, it occafions crudities and indigeftions of the ftomach, 
 tough phlegm, obibut-tions of the bowels and inteitines, head-ach, 
 pleurify, and heat of urine. But, if the alflitlion be by Mars, it de- 
 notes an exulceration of the intellines, bloody flux, putrid fever, 
 loathing, retching, and violent ficknefs of the Itomach. If in Capri:-, 
 corn the Moon be affli(^ed by Saturn, it Ihows fubtle, cold, and thin,, 
 diftillations, pains and obftrufiions in the neck and breafl;, inflammar. 
 tions of the lungs, with difficulty of breathing. But, if the Moon ia 
 Capricorn be affli^led Tjy Mars, itprelages illnefsarirmg from bad digef-^, 
 tion, or from Ibme choleric or acrid humour in the Itomach. It may 
 likewife produce a fever of the nei-ves, ulcerations of the throat, and 
 fluxes of the Itomach and belly. Thefe are the afflic'-lions peculiar to the 
 JVIoon in the earthy triplicity, when impeded by the malefic rays of 
 Saturn and JSIars. 
 
 In the airy triplicity, if the Moon in Gemini beafflid;ed by the con*- 
 junction, quartile, or oppolition, of Saturn, it inclines the native to a 
 confumption, to diforders of the fpleen, wearineis, watchings, with 
 flow fevers, pains all over the body, particularly in the joints and ar.- 
 teries. But, if the affiidion be by the malefic configurations of Mars in 
 Gemini, jt produces violent fevers, dangerous obftrudlions of the blood 
 and juices, irregular pulfe, with licknefs and loathing. If in Libra the 
 Moon be afflicted by Saturn, it gives difealies of the breafl:and itomach, 
 pain in the head, want of appetite, loathing of food, nodurnal fevers, 
 hoarfenefs, coughs, and diftillations of foul humours. But, if the evil ir» 
 radiations are from ]\Iars in Libra, it occafions a fuperabundance of blood, 
 inclines to putrid fevers, breakings-out, or inflammations of the wholq 
 body. If the Moon in Aquaries be affli(*ted by Saturn, it occafion» 
 languor, depreffion of fpirits, nervous affections, watchfulneis, and an 
 univerfal relaxation of the nervous fyftem. If the affliction come by the 
 coil afpe(^ of Mars in Aquaries, it portends difeafes which arife from 
 hot and fliarp humours engendered in the fl:omach and bowels, and 
 eventually produces agues, intermittent fevers, ulceration of t-he 
 liver, and fometimes mortification of the bowels, Thefe are efpecially 
 under the airy triplicity. 
 
 In the watery tiiplicity, the Moon afflided in Cancer, by the quar- 
 tile, oppofition, or conjundion, of Saturn, indicates diforders refulting 
 
 fror^
 
 Of a s t r o l o g y. ^.^ 
 
 fi-om violent colds, to which the native uill be remarkably fubiea • it 
 will hkewile occaiion diltiUation.s tVoni the brealt and lun^^s, moiit ca- 
 tarrhs, aithma, hoarfenels, and obftruaions of the bowels.^ But, if the 
 afflidions arife from the mahgnant configurations of Mars, it <nve.s lan- 
 gume complaints, hard tough phlegm in the Itomach, pains iii'thc liead 
 retchmg, ficknefs of the lloraach, and putrid fever. If the Moon iil 
 ►Scorpio be afflicted by Saturn, it foreOiovvs ulcerations in the le<'s and 
 tJnghs, fiflula, the piles in ano, with painful fuppreflion of urme bv 
 <loneor gravel. But, if the amidtion be of Mars in Scorpio, it (hows 
 violent pains m the head, with ulcerations or impolthumes ; as it likewifc 
 gives the hemorrhoids, mealies, final 1-pox, fpotted fever, thrulli, chick- 
 en-pox, boils, and all bodily irruptions. If the Moon in Pifc&s be af- 
 flicted by Saturn, it produces diltillations of cold rheum. How fevers 
 pains of the back and loins, mortification of the bowels, and fpeedvr 
 death. But, if the evil come by the afflidion of Mars in Pifces, it lliows 
 an abundance of grols humours, violent irruptions in different parts of 
 the body, fuddeu fevers, epilepfy, ftagnatiou of the blood, faintin<^ fits 
 ajid apoplexy. ° ' 
 
 Thus I have flated, in as brief a manner as polTible, the various dif- 
 cafes produced by the IVfoon in each of the twelve figns, when impre<-- 
 flated with the malefic afpeds of Saturn or Mars ; and here let it be 
 tjnderftood, that nearly the fame effec^b are produced by the quartile 
 oppofition, or conjunction, of :Mercury with the Moon, as by the fore^' 
 going configurations with Saturn ; and the fame bv tiie malefic irradia- 
 'tions of the Sun with the Moon as refult from the evil influences ot* 
 Mars. I fliall now point out the particular diforderj> occafioued by 
 4l)e coil afped of Saturn and Mars with tlie Sun. 
 
 If the Sun be affliaed by the quartile or oppofition of Saturn in fiery 
 figns, he produces the megrim, lalfitude of the body, quartan agues, 
 and confumptions. In earthy figns, cholics, cancerous tumours, rlieu^ 
 matifm, and gout in all parts of the body. In airy figns, madnefs, phreu- 
 j^y-fevers, Ipienetic melancholy, and violent nervous Ipafms. In watery 
 iigns, agues of all forts, fcurvy, leprofy, king's evil, and gout. 
 
 If the Sun be afflided by the quartile or oppofition of Jupiter in fiery 
 figns, it produces fevers, pains in the t^reaft, and ulcers of the iiver 
 and lungs In earthy figns, the phthyfic, catarrhs, colds, coughs, hoarfe- 
 nefs, black jaundice, and inveterate cholic. In airy figns, corruption 
 of blood, inflammation of the lungs, fcurvy, and debility in the reins. 
 In watery figns, fmall-pox, meafles, fieknefs of the iloiuach, and inter- 
 jiiittent fevers, 
 
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 730 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 If tlic Sim be aiTliftecl by the quartilc or oppofition of ]\fars in fiery 
 ligns, it denotes putridity of blood, violent fevers, fainting-fits, anil 
 e[)ileply. In earthy li<j;ns, the yellow jaundice, qninfeys and choleric 
 tumours in the throat, vigue and fever. In airy figns, furfeits, inflamnia- 
 ticms of tlie blood, ftone and gravel, weaknels of the back and reins^ 
 debility, and impotency. In watery ligns, the droply, fcurvy, pleuriiy^ 
 obftru(ilions of the lungs, diabetes, and ftone in the bladder. 
 
 TJie Sun, direc^ted to his own quartile in any nativity, gives faintingv 
 fits, tremors, and palpitation of the heart; whatlbever be his ligniiica- 
 tion in the radix, he will, phyfically conlidered, be the author of flow 
 fevers, and always incline the native to difeafe. But, if he be afflicted by 
 the quartile or oppofition of Venus in f.ery ligns, it will produce pains 
 in the back, bowels^ and reins, fluxes of the belly, tending to a con- 
 firmed dyfentery. If in earthy figns, phlegmatic tvmiours, and cold 
 ^^efiuxions of the breaft and lungs. In airy (Igns, putiefac^ion of blood,, 
 running of the reins, pains in tlie fcrotum, and incurable frigidity. Irk 
 Avatery fiL-ns, obitructions of the itomachj fmall-pox, mealies^ droply, 
 rheumatiiin, and gout. 
 
 If the Sunbe aftli(fted by IVIercury in fiery ligns, he gives the phrenzy, 
 iliac palhon, and impofthumes in the head. In earthy ligns, melan- 
 choly, king's evil, fciatica, leprofy, and gout. In airy ligns, pains of the 
 head and Itomach, bilious cholic, Ibangury, and gravel in the reins. 
 In watery figns, quotidian and tertain argues, How fevers, defluxionsof 
 tiie brain, fainting fits, and droply. But, if the Smi be afflicted by the 
 conjunct; ion, quartile, or oppofition, of the Moon in fiery figns, itocca— 
 lions the falling licknefs, convuliions, vertigo, and vio'eiit head-ach* 
 If in earthy figns, the bloody finx, hemorrhoids, ftltula, and gravel in 
 the kidneys. If in watery figns, the droply, epilepfy, fits of the mo- 
 ther, oblirurtions in the bladder, debility in the reins, and crude femen. 
 If in airy figns, corruption of blood, violent clwlic, pains of the Itomach: 
 and bowels, fcurvy, leprofy, and tumours in the feet or legs. 
 
 Vifeafes produced by the Part of Fortune, xchen Hileg or Giver of Life, and 
 afflicted by the Anareia or Killing Planet. 
 
 If the Part of Fortune be in quartile or oppofition of Saturn, it 
 .brings fevers, afthmas, and confumptions. If in quartile or oppofition 
 of Jupiter, putrefa(5tion of blood, furfeits, fcurvy, and leprofy. If in quar- 
 tile or oppofition of JNIars, it gives violent fevers, ulcers, and fore legs. 
 If in quartile or oppofition of the Sun, dead pally, ftagnation of blood, 
 and epilepfy. If in quaitile or oppofition of Venus, obltruCtions of the 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 73.1 
 
 bowels, and wcaknefs of the reins. If in qii?rtile or oppofition of Mer- 
 cury, diforders of the brain, hcad-achs, and fpafms. If in quartile or 
 oppofition of the Moon, the native will be afflicfted with the fallinrr Hck- 
 reis, dropfy, or diabetes. And kere let ii be particularly remembered, 
 (hnt whatever part of the body the pp.rt of fortune governs, it wi^l luffer 
 more ftnfibly and acutely than any other part, in proportion to the na- 
 ture and quality of the direcffion under which it operates. If the direc- 
 tion falls in a fign of the fame nature with the promifer, the difeaie is 
 more remifs; but, if the contrary, the more extreme. 
 
 Dijeafes produced by the Jfcendant zvhtvi Hileg, or Giver of Life, and af~ 
 filled by the Anareta, or dejiroying PJanet. 
 
 If the afcendant be affli(5led by the quartile or oppofition of Saturn, in 
 fiery figns, it occafions diftillations of melancholy humours ; bur, if in 
 earthy figns, confumptions, agues, obflrudlions of the terms, afthm.?, 
 and whooping cough. If in airy flgns, furfeits, ficknefs of ftomach, and 
 bilious cholic. If in watery figns, the fciirvy, gravel and (lone, leprofy, 
 and gout. If the afcendant be afflidcd by the quartile or oppofition of 
 Jupiter, in fiery figns, it brings putrid fevers, pleurifies, and inflammations 
 in thofe parts of the body reprefentcd by that fign in which the direc- 
 tion falls. If in earthy ligns, it produces melancholy, diforders of the 
 fpleen, and cholic. If in airy figns, univerfal corruption of the blood, 
 fmall pox, meafles, and fcurvy. If in watery figns, impollhumes of the 
 head, gout, and dropfy. If the afcendant be iiftlided by the quartile or 
 oppofition of Mars, in fiery figns, it corrupts the blood, induces vio- 
 lent phrenzy-fevers, and leads to madnefs. If in earthy figns, the cho- 
 lic, rheumatifm, and gout. Ai in^airy figns, inflammations of the blood, 
 Hone and gravel, and weaknefs in the reins. If in watery figns, the 
 Imall pox, meafles, and dropfy. If the afcendant be afflided by the quar- 
 tile or oppofition of the Sun, in fiery figns, it gives continual fevers, 
 violent head-achs, and weaknefs of fight. If in earthy figns, fchirrcus 
 tumours in the neck, obftrudions in the bowels, ending' in mortifica- 
 tion. If in airy figns, the thrufli, chicken-pox, ficw fevers, weaknefs 
 in the reins, and pains in the back. If in watery figns, the kino's evil, 
 leprofy, and fcurvy. If the afcendant be afflidcd by the quartile or 
 oppofition of Venus, in fiery figns, it gives affhmatic coughs, and hot 
 defluxions of rheum. If in earthy figns, obfirudions of the blood, and 
 hard painful fvvellings. If in airy figns, diforders of the womb, oleets, 
 and impotency. If in watery figns, the dropfy, diabetes, or dyfcntery. 
 If the afcendant be aftlided by the quartile or oppofition of Mercury, in 
 jiery figns, it produces catarrhs, confumptions, vertigos, and phrenzy. 
 Jf in earthy figns, melancholy, fevers in the licad, and quotidian argues 
 
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 73^ 
 
 AN I L, L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 If in airy figns, the rheumatic gout, difeafcs of the back and reins, and 
 cbftriidliionb ot" the bowels. ]f in watery figns, iits of the mother, whoop- 
 ing cough, and flone in the bladder. If the afcendant be afflidled by the 
 quartile or oppofition of the Moon, in fiery figns, Hie brings the verti- 
 go, megrim, falling ficknels, and apoplexy. If in earthy ligns, catarrhs, 
 palfy, putrefied blood, and obftrudtions" of the terms. If in airy ligns, 
 furfeits, ficknefs of ftomach, fmall pox, and meafles. If in watery figns, 
 icurvy, dropfy, and difeafcs in the womb and bladder. And thus, when- 
 ever the afcendant is afflicted by the malefic rays of any promittor, the 
 offending humour will abound according to the nature of that fign or 
 triplicity wherein the afpe(5ls fall: if in fiery figns, cholerj in earthy, 
 melancholy J in airy, putrefadion of blood j in watery, corruption of 
 the whole ahimal juices. 
 
 Saturn in conjundion, quartile, or oppofition, of Jupiter, pofited- 
 with the lord of the afcendant, or in the fixth houfe, diforders the blood, 
 induces melancholy, and gives pains and cdldnefs in the extremities. In 
 conjundion, quartile, or oppofition with Mars, he gives the yellow 
 jaundice, quartan agues, the flone, gravel, gout, and rheumatifm. In 
 conjuncftion, quartile, or oppofition, of the Sun, he gives nervous affec- 
 tions, deep melancholy, confumptions, and fainting fits. In conjunc- 
 tion, quartile, or oppofition, of Venus, he gives jhe green ficknefs, fe- 
 vers, and quotidian agues. In conjundion, quartile, or oppofition, of 
 Mercury, he gives melancholy, madnefs, wafting of the brain, and con- 
 fumptions. In conjunction, quartile, or oppofition, of the Moon, he- 
 gives the epilcpfy, convulfions, and hyfteric fits. 
 
 If Jupiter be in conjunction, quartile, or oppofition, of Mars, he 
 brings putrid fevers, furteits, inflammation of the lungs, and putrefac- 
 tion of blood. If he be in conjundion or evil afped with the Sun, he 
 gives the pleurify, meafles, fmall pox, and malignant fevers. In con- 
 junction, quartile, or oppofition, of Venus, he gives putrid fevers, mor- 
 tification in the bowels, and univerfal corruption and flagnation of the 
 blood and juices. In conjundion^ quartile, or oppofition, of Mercury, 
 he gives defluxions of the breafl: and lungs, fluxes, and immoderate head- 
 achs. In conjundtion, quartile, or oppofition, of the Moon, he gives 
 the pleurify, bilious cholic, ficknefs of flomach, and fore throat. If 
 Mars be in conjundion, quartile, or oppofition, of the Sun, it gives a 
 violent burning fever, the tertian ague, carbuncles, and foul tumours. 
 If Mars be in conjundion, quartile, or oppofition, of Venus, it produces 
 king's evil, fcurvy, diforders of the back, reins, and womb. If in con- 
 jundion, quartile, or oppofition, of Mercury, it induces madnefs, phrenzy- 
 
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 O F . A S T R O L G Y. 733 
 
 fevers, and vvatchfulnefs. If in conjunftion, quartile, or oppofition, of 
 the Moon, it gives the dead pally, epilepfy, or convullion fits. If the 
 Sun be in conjun(;;l:ion or evil afpedt with Venus, it produces fevers, 
 meafles, fmall pox, and other cutaneous dilbrders. If the Sun be in 
 conjunction or evil alped: with Mercury, it brings melancholy, con- 
 fumptions, and weaknela ot the nervous iyftem. If in conjunction, 
 quartile, or oppofition, of the Moon, it gives rheums, defluxions of the 
 lungs, lameneis, agues, and putretacftion of blood, ^'enus in conjunc- 
 tion or evil afped: of ISIercury, when the}'' are fignificators of the difeafe, 
 gives lamenefs, fcurvy, or iliac paflion. In conjund,ion, quartile, or 
 oppofition, of the Moon, Ihe induces the palfy, numbnefs of the extre- 
 mities, cramps, and rheumatifm. Mercury in conjunction, quartile, 
 or oppofition, of the Moon, generally produces the falling ficknefs and 
 various diflempers of the brain. 
 
 To judge accurately of the natural force of a difeafe, great regard 
 muft be had to the iigns wherein the iignificators of the difeafe are 
 pofited, both as to their nature and quality; for eartliy figns denote 
 colder difeafes than airy, and fiery figns hotter and drier difcafes than 
 watery. And hence diforders might with eafe be fought out by duly 
 conlidering the nature of the figns, the dignity of the configurating 
 planets, and the quality of the houfes in which they are pofited. In this 
 Tpeculation it mufl be always remembered, that the houfes of heaven 
 which denote difeafes, are the fixth, twelfth, eighth, and feventh j and 
 particular regard muft be had to the lords of thofe houfes, as well as to 
 the planets pofited therein, in acute difeafes ; and to the Sun and lord 
 of the afcendant, in chronic. But the fixth houfe, and its lord, with 
 the plane^ts pofited therein, heft defcribe the difeafe, particularly when 
 they alflid; either of the luminaries or the lord of the afcendant. The 
 configurations of the Moon are in a particular manner to be noticed ; 
 for, in the conftitution of difeafes, flie tranHates the nature of one planet 
 to that of another, the which, if well examined, with the ftate and 
 quality of that planet whofe virtue flie tranflates, cannot fail to difcover 
 to us the true caufe of the ficknefs or difeafe with which the native is 
 afflicted. For according to the fign the Moon is in, to the nature of 
 that planet to which fhe applies, and to the lign that planet is in, fo the 
 difeafe fliall correfpond in nature and quality to that planet, whether it 
 be a fortune or an infortune, mafculine or feminine, nodturnal or diur- 
 nal, hot or cold, dry or moift; and the fame lliall be reprefented of the 
 temperature, part of the body, and difeafe, he induces; and whether he 
 be angular, fuecedent, or cadent ; whatever part of the body he governs 
 
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 73+- A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 by the houfe he is in, whether he be diredl or retrograde, fwift or flow, 
 oriental or occidental, combull: or free, precifely lb Ihall the flrciigth 
 and. duration of the malady be. And in this enquiry it will become us 
 to diningiiilh whether the afOidion be cflcntial or accidental. 'J1ic 
 parts of the bcdv cirentially afflidfcd, are governed by the lign upon 
 the afcendant, the cufp of the fixth houfe, and the Moon ; thofe acci- 
 dentally atllided, are governed by the lord of the afcendant, the lord of 
 the fixth, and the Moon ; and by the figns in which they are poiited, 
 both according to fimple and compound fignification. 'J he difference 
 between the efTential and accidental afflidion, is this : the one de- 
 monftrates where the root of tl-je difeafe lodges, and where the chief 
 aiid real afflidion is fcated ; whilfl the other Ihovvs the fympathctic 
 aiflidion of the component parts, which, though in fad really well, 
 yet fuf^'er an acute and fcnfible pain, by realbn of the extremity of the 
 diftemper which effentially or radically afflids fbme other part. For ex- 
 air.ple, when one burns his hand, that is the member or part eflcntially 
 vitiated; but, by rcafon of the extremity of the pain, the whole arm be- 
 comes inflamed. Thus the difeafe accidentally affeds the whole arm; 
 but it is efl!'cntially feated only in the burned hand. 'J'he fam.e reafoning 
 holds good in all cafes generally ; but particularly we fay, that Saturn 
 in the beginning of Cancer produces pain in the left fide, as though 
 pierced with an awl; in Leo he affdds the heart and back; in Virgo the 
 head and bowels ; in Scorpio, the hips and reins, and caufeth difiiculty 
 in m-^king water. So Mars, lord of the fixth, with Aries or Scorpio on 
 the afcendant, afflids the lead; though this polition frequently gives 
 pain in all parts of the human body, and produces an univerfal breaking- 
 out, in boils, blotches, ulcers, itch, fmall pox, meafles, or the like. But, 
 if Mars in this cafe be pofited in Leo, he produces pains in the back; 
 in Virgo, inflammations of the lungs ; in Libra, pains in the back and 
 reins; but, if he be lord of the fixth in bcorpio, he gives diforders of the 
 womb and bladder. 
 
 If the lord of the fixth houfe be afHided in a diurnal flgn, the difeafe 
 ■will appear in the fore part of the body, as in the face, breaff, or belly; 
 but, if he be afflided in a nodurnal fign, the feat of the difeafe will be 
 either in the back or internal parts of the body; and this will hold good, 
 whether the fignificator be above or under the earth. If the lord of the 
 iixth houfe be afilided above the earth, and in a diurnal fign, the fick- 
 nefs falls in the right fide; but if he be under the earth, and in a nodur- 
 rial fign, it falls in the left fide. Mafculinc planets alio attlid the right 
 fide of the body, and feminine the left ; according to the fpccific parts of 
 0,15 body which tliey refpedively govern; but always remember, that a 
 
 I malefic
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. -jSi 
 
 malefic ftar in the afcendant, or in oppofition to it, in what fign foever 
 it be pofited, always afflidls the head. The fpecific humours and virttcs 
 inftilled refpedlively by the planets, abflraftedly confidered, muft like- 
 wife be regarded, in proportion to the ftrength of their rays, when fig- 
 nificators of difeafe. Thus Saturn of himfelf produces thick, grofs, 
 melancholy, and fuperfluous, phlegm; and rules the receptive virtue 
 which refts in the body and fplcen; and hath this natural energy doubly 
 augmented, when pofited in Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn-. Jupiter's 
 natural influence is heat, blood, and wind; therefore his virtue is cref- 
 cent, growing, and quickening; and is feated in the liver. He governs 
 the digeftive faculty in man, and hath his power much augmented 
 when pofited in Gemini, Libra, or Aquaries. The humour produced 
 by Mars is hot, fliarp, and choleric; he therefore induces anger, and 
 governs the attradive quality in man, having his power much mcreafed 
 when in Aries, Leo, or Sagittarius. The Sun engenders yellow choler, 
 hot and dry; he governs the vital faculty, and is the beginning of life 
 and motion. His adlion is upon the heart; and with Mars he rules the 
 attradlive quality, having his power greatly augmented in Aries, Leo, 
 and Sagittarius. Venus produces thin phlegm, cold and moift, governs 
 and excites the libidinous appetite, and with Mars and the Sun pre- 
 fides over the attradive quality, having her greateft energy in Aries, 
 Leo, and Sagittarius. Mercury engenders thin melancholy, hot and 
 dry, hath the virtue imaginative and cogitative, and difpofes the animal 
 virtue refting in the brain. The Moon produces grofs, raw, crude, 
 phlegm, prefides over the natural virtue refting in the liver, and governs 
 the expulfive faculty, having her greateft power and influence in Cancer, 
 Scorpio, or Pifces. 
 
 From thefe obfervations we are led to deduce, that, when the planets 
 in their eflTential dignities are pofited at the fame time in any of the 
 above figns, the operation of the planet fo effentially dignified will (o 
 far exceed the influence of all the other ftars, as to render its tempera- 
 ment and quality too powerful in the conftitution of the native, and to 
 produce fuch diforders as are the natural confequence. For example, 
 if Jupiter be thus dignified in Gemini, the digeftive faculty will be 
 ftrong; or, if Saturn be in Cancer, the native will have the flux, and 
 therefore folid food and aftringent liquors would be naturally recom- 
 mended. The fame dodrine holds in every other complamt, which 
 muft be produced by the fuper-abundance of fome one of the lour qua- 
 lities; and, when the effential caufe of complaint is once found, a remedy- 
 may be eafily adminiftered. The following table conveys at one view, 
 according to the pofition of the affliding planet, what part of the body 
 is aggrieved. 
 
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 To point out the u(e of the above Table, let us fuppofe a native to fall 
 fick when his lignificator is in Aries, and fuppofe his fignificator to be 
 Jupiter j look in the top column for Jupiter, and in the firft column 
 on the left hand for Aries, and in the common angle of meeting you 
 will find Leo and Taurus, which fhow he is afflided at the heart, and hath 
 feme evil fenfation in his throat, &c. for every planet in his own houfe 
 rules the head ; in the fecond fign from his own houfe, the neck and 
 throat ; in the third, the arms and fhoulders; and fo on, as flated in every 
 common almanac. Having thus gone through the mofl: material ob- 
 fervations neccffary to form a right underftanding of fickncfs in any 
 nativity, I fliall now proceed to examine the fixth houfe, or houfe of 
 ficknefs, in this geniture. The fixth houfe, we find, is governed by 
 the Sun, Mars, and Mercury. Mars, in this figure, is lord of the af- 
 cendant, as well as lord of the fixth houfe, and therefore induces in the 
 native a perfetSl indifference as to the care of his own health. Mars 
 being pofited in an earthy fign, inclines him to cholerj while the Sun. 
 in the fixth, and Mercury in fextile of Saturn, in a fixed fign, produce 
 chronic difeafes, eventually inclining to palfy ; together with depref- 
 fion of fpirits, and habitual melancholy. This is farther declared by 
 the oppofition of Saturn to the Part of Fortune, who in this figure is 
 hileg, or giver of life. If therefore, we examine, by tl)e foregoing 
 rules, what part of the native's body fhall be mofl. fenfibly afflidled by 
 this accidental pofition of the planets, we fhall find him remarkably fub- 
 jeil to pains in the head from melancholy, ftrumas in the throat, ach- 
 ing
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 737 
 
 ing pains in the joints, defedls in the ears, with trennors and palpitations of 
 the heart. The fignificators being wholly in the fiery, earthy, and airy, 
 triplicities, denote likewife that the native fliall be very fubjedt to fevers; 
 but, to difcover when thefe feveral maladies fliall befal him, we mufl: diredt 
 the feveral fignificators to their promittors, which we fliall prefently demon- 
 ftrate in the diredions, and thereby prove how exadly the feveral diforders 
 with which Mr. Witchell was, during life, afflicTied, correfponded with 
 the fignificators in his nativity. 
 
 The fixth houfe alfo bears relation to fervants, and points out how we 
 may be affedted by them. Their fignificators are the planets pofited in 
 the fixth, with the lord thereof, and the Moon. In this figure we find 
 the Sun anil Mercury are in the fixth houfe; and, as the Sun is lord of 
 the tenth, the houfe of honour and preferment, and in the fign of his 
 exaltation, it denotes that the native fhould have very profitable fervants ; 
 and, finding Mercury in reception of Mars, it indicates that thofe placed 
 in a fubordinate capacity under him fhould be diligent, adive, and vigilant 
 in his fervice. In fhort, I find no injury likely to arife to him by means 
 of domeflics, except it be from females, and that no way material, fince it 
 arifes only from the quartile of the Moon to the fixth houfe, in a 
 feminine fign. The circumflances of the native's life fully confirmed this 
 opinion. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS arifing from the SEVENTH HOUSE. 
 
 From this houfe we derive aflral information concerning the native's in- 
 tercourfe with women : whether he fliall marry, or lead a life of celibacy ; 
 whether he fhall indulge in the delegable enjoyments of the fofter fex, or 
 whether the cold and frigid conformation of his nature fhall give him an 
 averfion to women. 
 
 To determine the marriages of men, we mufl confult their principal fig- 
 nificators, which are, Venus and the Moon, the feventh houfe, the lord 
 thereof, and the planets pofited therein. But, to determine the marriages of 
 women, we muft particularly regard the Sun and Mars, the feventh houfe, 
 and the planet or planets pofited therein. To afceitain whether the native 
 will marry or not, requires a minute infpedion of the nativity; for, if Saturn 
 be more elevated than Venus or the Moon, than Mars or the Sun, orftronger 
 in dignity than all of them, the native will have a natural averfion to a 
 married flate, particularly if no benefic planet colleds his rays, and 
 conduces thereby to a more communicative and adlive fpirit; for Sa- 
 turn, being the author of habitual folitarinefs, and, when to pofited, 
 
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 738 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 the producer of cold, crude, and frigid, humours, takes away that in- 
 ftindive affedion of the mind, and that generous warmth of the 
 pafllons, which nature ordained to llir up and ftimulate the fenfitivc 
 faculty to the produdion of its like. When Saturn or Mars are found 
 in afpevSt with Venus or the Moon, and in no good configuration 
 either with the Sun, Jupiter, or Mercury, and are at the fame time 
 weak or peregrine, it argues that the native {hall lead a gay and. lafcivi- 
 ous life, indulging too freely in the ufe of women, before he will engage 
 in matrimony, if thefe fignificators are in barren iigris, or in cadent 
 houfes, and dignified in Leo or Taurus, or the Moon in Scorpio, in quartile 
 or oppolition of Saturn; or if the Moon be in conjundion of the Sun in 
 Capricorn, Aquaries, or Libra, and in oppofition to iiaturn ; the perfcn born 
 under fuch configurations will never many. And again, the oppofition 
 or quartile of Venus and Saturn with the Moon, in a barren fign, or 
 in a cadent houfe, argues much againft a married life. But where 
 we find the Moon and Venus in male nativities, or the Sun and Mars 
 in thofe of women, or pofited in fruitful figns, and the lord of the 
 feventh houfe fortunate, or a benevolent planet in that houfe, or the figni- 
 ficators of marriage fituated in good parts of the figure, or a reception 
 between the lord of the feventh and fir ft houfes, or a good afpeft between 
 any of the principal fignificators, we may then fafcly declare the native will 
 not only marry, but is well qualified to render that flate truly blifsful and 
 happy. 
 
 But to know whether matrimony will be contradled with eafe, /. e. 
 without much trouble, anxiety, or difappointment, obicrve whether 
 Saturn and Mars behold each other by an oppofition out of the firft or 
 feventh houfes, or whether Venus be pofited in Leo or Scorpio, in evil 
 afpedl with Mars, or whether Mars tranfits the cufp of the feventh houfe 
 in Capricorn, Virgo, or Taurus; for, in any of thcfe cafes, the native will 
 find great difficulty and embarraffment in purfuing the objedt of his affec- 
 tion, and, whenever matrimony takes place, it will be on a fudden. .If, 
 on the contrary, we find the fignificators of marriage well beheld by be- 
 nefic ftars, ftrong and in good afped to Saturn and Mars, and the lord 
 of the feventh applying to the lord of the afcendant, matrimony will be 
 obtained with eafe.^The number of wives or hufbands the native fhall 
 have, is declared by the application of the Moon in men's nativities, 
 and by the application of the Sun in thofe of women, either in body or 
 afped: ; for, if the Moon or Sun be joined with or apply to but one 
 planet, it denotes but one wife or hufband; except thofe fignificators 
 chance to be pofited in watery figns, and then the number is doubled. 
 Ptolomy iikewife faith, that, if the Moon be in a fign of one form, and 
 
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 apply to one planet, it declares one wife; but if in a bi-corporal fign, 
 applying to many planets, many wives. But, if none of thele configu- 
 rations are found, examine how many planets are diredt, and free fronn 
 combuftion, except fuch as are in the eflential dignities, are conflituted 
 between the midheaven and the planet Venus, if Venus be fituated 
 in the infant oriental quarter, and fo many wives or hufbands fliall 
 the native have. But, it in the figure of birth no fuch are found, then 
 obferve how many planets behold the lord of the feventh houfewith 
 partile afpedt, whether they be retrograde or combuft, and from thence 
 determine the number of wives. Thefe obfervations, according to the 
 long-eftablifhed evidence of caules and effeils, will in all cafes enable 
 us to determine this important incident of life, where no opponte tefti- 
 monies are found in the figure of birth to contradidl them. We fhall 
 now apply theie matrimonial rules to the elucidation of that fuoject ia 
 the prefent nativity. The Moon and Venus are Mr. Witchell's bgni- 
 ficators of marriage: the Moon is not in a barren fign, nor afflicted by 
 any malefic ftar, nor is flae polited in the lixth, ninth, twelfth, or 
 eighth, houfes of the figure; again, flie is not combufl of the Sun, 
 nor under any other evil influence. It therefore teftifies a natural in- 
 clination in the native of entering into a marriage ftate. 7 his judg- 
 ment is confiderably augmented by the lord of the feventh, viz. Mars, 
 being in an exad: fefquiquadrate of the Moon ; and Venus being at the 
 fame time in a fruitful lign in reception of Jupiter, produces a ftrong 
 teftimony of radical heat, or amorous defires, in the native, to flimulate 
 him to the contradl J but Venus being in oppofition of Mars, declares 
 he fliould fuffer great perplexity and difappointments in his matrimonial 
 engagement, before it fhould abiblutely take place. 
 
 The time when his marriage fliould be completed, is determined by 
 the motion of the fignificators ; and that motion, or fpecial time, is 
 afcertained, by diredting the Moon, or Venus, to a fextile, trine, or 
 conjunction, of the feventh or firfl houfes j or by dirediing the midhea- 
 ven to the conjundion, fextile, or trine, of Venus or the Moon; or 
 by direding the Sun to the fextile, quartile, or trine, of the Moon and 
 Venus ; or by direding the Moon to the fextile, quartile, trine, or op- 
 pofition, of the Sun or Mars : but in this cafe it mufl be particularly 
 obferved, that, if marriage is brought up by a quartile or oppofition of 
 the Sun or Mars, according to which the Moon fliall be direded, they 
 muft be in the terms either of Jupiter or Venus, or the diredion will 
 be of no force. Any of the ajjove afpeds thus direded, or the Sun, 
 Moon, midheaven, or lord of the alcendant, direded to the fextile 
 or trine of the lord of the feventh houfe, will bring up the time of 
 
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 marriao-e, as the cafe and configurations in the genethliacal figure fliafi 
 happen to be. The diredions that gave marriage to this native, were 
 the Moon to the Textile of the afcendant, and trine of the feventh houfe, 
 followed by Mars to the midheaven, the Sun to the feventh, and the 
 Moon to the fextile of the Sun, all which were reafonably fullicient 
 to ftir up the native's mind to the completion of the marriage contrad:, 
 and which accordingly took place, in that exact order and point of time 
 defcribed by the aforefaid diredions, as will be hereafter more fully 
 proved and explained. 
 
 As to the number of wives, if we examine the Moon by the rules 
 already given, we fliall find the native will have but one. The Moon, 
 in this nativity, applies but to one planet, while fhe is in the figu 
 Capricorn, and that planet is Mercury, who is in reception of Mars, 
 lord of the feventh houfe, and therefore mui\ have pre-eminence in the 
 defcription of the wife, who was a perfon of a talliih llature, fair com- 
 plexion, light brown hair, fliarp, witty, and ingenious, and of a fan- 
 guine choleric difpofition, precifely as the fignificators imply. 
 
 The reafon Jupiter is not admitted in teftimony of a fecond wife, is 
 becaufe, according to his latitude, he is out of Taurus, and is verging 
 into the fign Gemini j and therefore the Moon cannot be faid to apply 
 to him while (he is pofited in the fign Capricorn ; a diftindion that 
 every artift muft carefully make, or his labours will be often vain, and 
 his judgment foundetl in error. Modern praditioners have in general 
 paid little or no attention to the latitude of the ftars, a thing of the 
 utmoft importance, and hence, the fuppofed uncertainty and dilgrace 
 that has been brought upon this department of the fcience of Aflronomy. 
 As to the agreement of the native and his wife, I Ihall only take notice, 
 that Mars in oppofition of Venus muft create occafional animofity ; but 
 on what account, I fhall leave the attentive reader to difcover by the rules 
 and aphorifms I have already laid down for the illuftration of this 
 fubjed. 
 
 We will now examine, according to the pofition of thefe afpeds, whe- 
 ther the native or his wife fliall live the longefl. We find firil, that 
 the Moon is much better fortified than Mercury, the planet to which 
 Ihe applies ; and which is therefore the fignificator of the wife. Se- 
 condly, Venus is afflided by an oppofition of Mars. Thirdly, Saturn, 
 a malefic planet, is in the fourth houfe ; which threefold cord ties the 
 wife of the native down, according to natural caufes, to certain death, 
 before her hufband; and proves, by the never-ceafing laws of motion, 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. ^^i 
 
 the certain and inevitable effed: of celeflial bodies over the tcrrefti.il ; 
 and that ail the operations of nature are regularly produced by caufcs 
 and efFefts. 
 
 Public enemies being alfo difcovered by the configurations in the 
 feventh houfe, i (hall proceed to denote them. Venus in this cafe is 
 to be confidered the principal fignificator, becaufe Hie claims almoin the 
 entire rule of the feventh and twelfth houfes ; and therefore declares 
 as (he falls in a feminine fign, and being herfclfa feminine planet, that 
 women in general (liall be the moll dangerous enemies of this native- 
 at leafl: fuch as Ihall eventually do him the greatefi: injury. To confirrn 
 this, it may be noted that Venus is well dignified in Pifccs, a watery 
 iign, which declares a female ihall be his avowed enemy; but Mars 
 being in reception of Mercury, and in afpea: with the Moon, denotes 
 that he will eventually get the better of this and every other oppolition 
 to his fuccefs and preferment through life, though he dues not appear 
 likely to be troubled with many powerful or dangerous opponents. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS refulting from the EIGHTH HOUSE. 
 
 The eighth houfe has fignification of death and of preferments, and 
 advantages by death, as hath been fully explained in page 155. But let 
 it be remembered, that this houfe is not to be direvlted from death unlefs 
 it contains the anareta or killing flar, any more than the fixth or twelt'th 
 houfes; for death arifes from other caufes than merely the pofition or 
 tranfiting of the cufps of houfes, as we have abundantly Ihown in 
 P^^g^ 455- ^^^ fhis houfe, being under the dominion of 'the malefic 
 planets, participates moflly of the quality of death, and hath therefore 
 been affigned to this particular enquiry, which, indeed, is of the lall 
 importance. 
 
 The firfl thing taught in our fchools, and the primary fad: imprefTed 
 upon our minds the moment we attain the maturity of reafon, is the in- 
 evitable deitiny of our nature, that we mull: once die, a theme' that few 
 men love to hear, or to dwell upon, although it is the exprefs term of 
 their exiftence. Hov/ abfurd it is then, that we lliould incelTandy la- 
 bour to put off all thoughts of fuch an event, until the very moment it 
 
 approaches, and petrifies us with its haity fiimmons I How cowardly 
 
 how pufillanimous that heart, which dares not to meet a fentence with calm- 
 nefs and fortitude, which no power can remit, nor no entreaties pro- 
 long, even for a moment I It is, I think, much to be lamented, that 
 thofe pious perfons, who formed the liturgy vf every Chriftian perfua- 
 
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 742 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 fion into the morning and evening fervice, did not incorporate {o much 
 of that mofl admirable Epiftlc of Paul to the Corinthians, as relates to 
 death and immortality ; that kings might hear the true extent of their 
 dominion — that princes might know the termination of their Iplendor — 
 that men in afBucnce might oftcner recoiled the level of the grave — 
 tjiat their perfecuted and opprclTed fellow-mortals might be oftener con- 
 foled under the certain termination of their fuffenng — and of the joyful 
 hope of linking into that repofe from Whence they never (hall awake 
 but to a better world. Happy, indeed, arc thole, who can indulge 
 in fuch fervent hopes, antl whole heroic fouls can trace the dreary man- 
 fions of the dead with no other emotions than ihe grandeur of the fub- 
 je(5l and the folemnity of the event mull naturally furnilh to the mod 
 obdurate mind ! To fuch alone I dedicate my remarks upon thofe cer- 
 tain caufes of death, which, being ingrafted in our nature in the morrients 
 of formation, have a regular and progreflive motion in the fyftem of the 
 univerlc, not vague nor undefined, but hmitcd, certain, definable, and 
 inevitable, as all the other laws of nature are. 
 
 The fliortnefs or duration of life depends upon the dif^ance of the 
 hilcg, or giver of life, from the evil rays ot the anareta, or killing pla- 
 net, which is afcertained by diredt direction, or by the motion of the 
 primum mobi/c, whereby the hileg is carried to the culp of the feventh 
 houfe; and tlien, by adding or fubtradting the tefiimonies given by bcnefic 
 or malefic fl^ars with the complexion of the anareta, the length of tinie 
 will be obtained according to the faid motion, as we fli.ill more particu- 
 krly define in bringing up the directions. 
 
 The hileg, or giver of life, in this nativity, is the Part of Fortune; 
 and the anareta, or deftroying planet, is the Sun. Now, when the Part 
 of Fortune, by dire<5l diredion, comes to the oppofition of the Sun, the 
 native will be deprived of radical moiflurc, and mulT: expire ; becaufe 
 the Sun, by obtaining that pofition, overcomes the influence of,all the 
 other planets, and hath power to cut oft life. The quality of death is 
 firfl to be taken from the nature of the maleAolent planet; fecondly, 
 from the nature of the (Ign the planet is in ; thirdly, from the quality 
 of the houfe J and, fourthly, from the pofition of the two luminaries; 
 all of which I have heretofore copioufly explained. 
 
 The Sun, confidercd as the anareta or deflroying planet, not being 
 pofited in a violent fign, nor configurated M'ith a violent fixed fiar, nor 
 with the lord of the afcendant, in no afpect with the Moon, nor v.ith 
 -the lord of the eighth houfe, convitKes me he fhall not die a violent 
 
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 death. Befides, Jupiter, a bcnefic ftar, being fituatcJ in the eighth 
 hoiife, adts as a guard upon the native's Hfe, to preferve him from ac- 
 cidental and premature death. But, to determine by what kind of means 
 the native fluill be taken from this world, we muft firft confider the 
 pofition of Venus lady of the eighth, and Mercury lord alfo of the 
 Tame houfe j fecondly, the lord of the afcendant ; thirdly, the fituation 
 of the anareta or killing planet ; and fourthly, the planet polited in the 
 eighth houfe, together with their effential and accidental produdion of 
 difeafes, fmce we find no violent means Ihall attain the fuperior effedl in 
 this nativity. Venus and Mercury are co-fignifica'tors of the eighth 
 houfe, and the difeafe Venus in her nature gives, is thick, cold, tough, 
 phlegm, and watery, caufing indigeftion, with quotidian phlegmatic fe- 
 vers. The difeafes incident to the influence of Mercury in Aries, are 
 yellow choler, and fubtile melancholy, with depreifion of fpirits, per- 
 turbation of mind, and defedt or lofs of fpeech. Now as Mars is lord of 
 the afcendant, in oppofition to Venus, and in reception with Mercury, 
 it appears highly probable thefe difeafes will have much predominancy 
 in the native's death. But they will be in fome degree varied by other 
 rays. The Sun in Aries, will have a molt ftnfible efFedt; and the 
 Moon being afflidted by the Sun, under a powerful afped: with Mars, 
 lord of the afcendant, and at the fame time difpofed of by Saturn, lord 
 of the fourth, gives a certain prefage of convulfions, apoplexy, or dead 
 palfy. Jupiter being in the eighth houfe, and ruling the digeftive 
 faculty, gives difeafes of the blood, and will contribute not a little 
 to the fatal tendency of the aforefaid influences, which really brought 
 on, fome years after this nativity had been calculated, that fudden flroke 
 of the palfy which carried this worthy native to the manfions of reft 
 and peace. 
 
 CONSIDERAriONS refulting from the NINTH HOUSE. 
 
 From this houfe we gi\e judgment on the eftedls of journeys; of the in- 
 tegrity, njorality, or religious temper, of the native; and of the probabje 
 import of extraordinary and ominous dreams. 
 
 The fignificators of travelling, are to be taken, firfl, from the ninth 
 houfe and its lord; fecondly, from the planet or planets pofited in the 
 ninth houfe; and, thirdly, from the relative fituations of the Moon, 
 Mars, and Mercury. To determine, on the infpedion of a nativity, 
 whether the native will travel or not, obferve whether the Moon, Mars, 
 or Mercury, be in conjundion or reception with each' other, or in 
 conjunction or reception with the lord of the firft or ninth houfes; or 
 
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 44 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 pofited in the ninth, third, or firft, houfcs; or have effential dignities therein; 
 for in each o{ thefe cafes refpedtively, the native's mind will be too reliefs 
 and Linfcttlcd, to continue k-ng at a time in one place or fituation. So likc- 
 v.-ife the lord of the firft pofited in the ninth, or the lord of the ninth con- 
 figurated in the firft, prefage the fame. 
 
 When the Sun is poHted in the proper hcufe of the Moon, irradiated 
 hy Mercury or Mars, or in reception with e'ither of them by elTential 
 dignities ;. or if the Sun be conjoined by any afpedt to Mercury, Mars, 
 or the Moon, jt denotes a removal of tlie native from one fituation to 
 another, as the cafe may be. So likewife many planets in a moveable 
 fion; Mercury in the houfe of the Moon, or the Moon in the houfe 
 of Mercury, induce the fim.e confequences ; and planets accidentally 
 pofited, efpecially -the ^]oon, are obvious implicators of travelling. 
 But the quarter of the world to which the native fliall be impelitd, is 
 afcertaincd by comparing the latitude and longitude of thole parts of 
 the heavens where the fignificators of travellihg fall, with the latitude 
 or place of the native's birth; uniformly obferving this Handing maxim, 
 that if thcfe fignificators fall in the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, firft, fe- 
 cond, or third, houfcs, the native fliall travel toward the eaft ; but if 
 thev are fovuid in the fourth, fifth, fixth, feventh, eighth, or ninth, 
 houfes, then he ftiail travel weftward ; and that quarter oi the world 
 will, in a general way, prove moft conducive to the native's good for- 
 tune, where Jupiter, Venus, the Dragon's Head, or Fart of Fortune, 
 are pofited, provivled they are dignified in good houfes of the figure, and 
 not vitiated by malefic rays. 
 
 Thefe confidei^tions being annexed to thofe rules laid down in page 
 ATI, will enable us to draw all necefiiliry conclufions concerning the 
 material or effedive journeys of the native. In this nativity we find 
 Mercury a very principal fignificator of travelling, pofited in' Aries, and 
 in reception of Mars, in the tenth houfe. This declares the native 
 lliould be impelled weftward, ftrongly urged by fcientific acquirements, 
 which is the true and radical implication of this planet's nature and- 
 influence. And as Mercury is elevated in the fixth houfe, in conjunc- 
 tion of the Sun in his exaltation, it is an irrefiftible argument that the 
 native Ihould be raifed by the events of this journey to an advantageous 
 poft, under the aufpices of princely authority, as the exalted afpcd: of 
 the Sun clearly demonftrates. And again, Mercury being lord of the- 
 deventh houfe, and havii^ his exaltation in Virgo, declares that this 
 fournev lliall be taken through the medium of friends who were fcien- 
 tific men ; and as Venus is lady of the afcendant, fitiiated in the watery 
 
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 {jgn Pifces, and near the fortunate node of the Moon, it is thereby- 
 further declared, that this journey fliall be made in that angle which is 
 weft from London, the place of the native's birth; and that it (hall be 
 terminated by feme great body of water, in the vicinity of which the 
 native fliall find a durable relidence. This was, in every inftance, moft 
 remarkably verified in the native's appointment to a fcientific ofRce in 
 his Majefty's Dock Yard at Portfmouth, upon the recommendation of 
 fome of the Fellows of the Royal Society ; in confequence of which, this 
 important journey was taken, and all the fubordinate events were really- 
 brought to pafs. 
 
 We have next to confider the exemplary^ or religious bent of the native's 
 mind; which is ufually afcertained by the following configurations. 
 Jupiter, Venus, or the Dragon's Head, placed in the ninth or third 
 houfes, or configurated with Spica Virgo, are certain prefages of a moral 
 and religious perfon. The Moon, Mercury, and Part of Fortune, in 
 fimilar pofitions, denote the fame; but the Sun effentially dignified in the 
 ninth houfe, fliows a very ftrcng natural propenfity to moral and religious 
 prad;i::e3 ; and, if the native happens to be bred a clergyman, he becomes a 
 mod admirable preacher, and hath every profped; of eonfiderable preferment 
 in the church. 
 
 Whenever it happens that no planets are found in the ninth houfe of 
 the figure, we muft have particular regard to the aflral pofition of Ju- 
 piter ; for if he be in his own houfe, or in reception with Venus or 
 jNIercury-, or with the Sun or Moon, or in conjuncftion, fextile, or trine, 
 with Venus, in angular places, they dechjre the native to be in princi- 
 , pie a ftriclly moral and confcientious man, poffeffed of niore llerling; 
 integrity than thofe who make large profeliions. But Saturn,' Mars, 
 or the Dragon's Tail, pofited in the ninth' houfe, and in moveable figns, 
 ■with Jupiter peregrine, cadent, or in bad afpedt -^with Saturn or Mars, 
 prefage great mutability in religious perfuafion, which generally ter- 
 minates in atheifm. Saturn pofited in a common fign, ill dignified, 
 and retrograde, bcfpeaks an hypocrite; and Mars thus configurated, 
 forelhows a mind pliable to any perfuafion that will beft ferve the purpofcs 
 of avarice and ambition. 
 
 If we may prefutne to fpeak of the native's moral and religious cha-- 
 racier, according to the true implication cf the fignificators in his ge- 
 nethliacal figure of birth, we cannot hcfitate to affirm, that the Moon- 
 being lady of the ninth houfe, and in her own dignitie?, declares the 
 native fhall be conflant to tliat futh in which he was brought up and' 
 
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 746 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 educated, though an admirer of every other perfuafion that pays a rigid 
 attention to (he principles and tenets hy which it is governed. And 
 there being a moft remarkable reception between Mercury and Jupiter 
 in their trTplicity, Mercury being in the triplicity of Jupiter, and Ju- 
 piter by his latitude in that of Mercury, will incline the native not only 
 to be a man of flrid: integrity and honour himfelf, but alfo to encourage 
 and reward it in others. 
 
 Let it not be fuppofed, from the foregoing obfervations, that I would 
 wifh to infer that the ftars have power to make a man a faint or a devil; 
 or in any fhape to govern or diredl his judgment or his will. 1 his is 
 not what I contend for ; but thus much I am free to affert, that they 
 clearly point out our natural inclinations, whether good or evil; and 
 it will generally be found that thofe inclinations carry fo ftrong a bias 
 over our reafon and moral intellect, that, in ninety-nine infliances out of a 
 hundred, the natural influence or inclination imprefled by each man's 
 lignificators will be found to prevail. And yet this is no defedt in our 
 moral perception^ for, each man having the ability to diflinguifli be- 
 tween right and wrong, if he chufes to do wrong, in oppofition to that 
 which he knows to be his duty, it is an open violation of his own fenfe 
 and reafon, and a willing facrifice of the duties of morality and religion. 
 Hence the excellence of that celebrated remark on ancient philofophers, 
 " that wife men rule their ftars, and none but wicked men or fools are 
 ruled by them." 
 
 The laft confideration of this houfe, is that which refpeds our 
 dreams. Of this I Ihall at prefent fay but little,, meaning, in its proper 
 place, to give fuch an explication of that aftonifhing motion of the foul, 
 as hath yet never made its appearance before an enlightened and impar- 
 tial public. And this, I Ihall alfo take upon me to prove, is another 
 meiuis by which the all-gracious Deity has mercifully condefcended to 
 afflrd his creature, under a variety of circumftances, certain tokens or 
 prefages of what is about to happen, either to himfelf, to his relations, 
 or friends. But as it will in many cafes be necefliiry to inform pcrfons 
 who have had fome ominous or extraordinary dream, the natural import 
 deducible from the fignificators of his nativity, as well as the period of 
 tin-ie when its ohjed: fliall be accomplifhed, I Ihall give the following 
 rules to efl^ect it. As foon as the perfon awakes, let him as near as polli- 
 ble note the hour of the day or night in which it happened. Then find 
 what planet ruled that hour, whether it be Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, or 
 any other; and when the Moon comes to a conjundiion, Textile, or trine, 
 of that planet, the dream, if it hath a good fignification, will be- 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. .^^ 
 
 gin tofhovvitseffeds, but, ifit hath an evil tendency, it will be^-n to 
 
 r.tion, of the lord of the hour. And here let it be remembered, thaf a 
 cream hath not alvvays the full completion on the firft configuration ot 
 cnrl^r ^r^ "^' ^^''^ -^^ '^'' ^^^"'■^ ^^'^ oftentimes remains unfinifl J 
 anTfigSficatrol''''''' »" ^^"^''^'a with another aipecl of the fame nature 
 
 In this nativity the Moon and Venus are the principal %nificators of 
 dreams ; the one being lady of the ninth houfe, and the other beholding 
 that houfe with a trine afped ; and they are ftrong arguments that the 
 native Ihould frequently have important communications through the 
 medium of dreams. ° 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS refulting from the TENTH HOUSE. 
 
 The tenth houfe hath fignification of honour, preferment, trade, pro- 
 tellion or of any regular and accuftomed means by which men live, and 
 are relpeded. In treating of which, it will be neceffary to obferve the 
 lollowing rules, in addition to thofe laid down in page 438. 
 
 _ If the Sun or Moon, in the figure of birth, fhall happen to be pofited 
 in the very degree of the exaltation, and at the fame time free from 
 the evil alpeds of the infortunes, it is a powerful indication of the moft 
 ttattermg acquifitions to the native, in proportion to his capacity and 
 degree of birth. When the light of time tranfits the cufp of the mid- 
 iieaven, and is furrounded by benefic planets in the hour of birth, and 
 no malefic rays of the infortunes intervene, the native fhall arrive to 
 lorrie important pofl of power and authority under government; or to a 
 public employment of dignity and honour, under fome chartered body or 
 princely power, in proportion to the condition of his birth. If the Sun or 
 Moon are pofited in angles, though unaided hy other configurations, yet 
 the native fhall live in much refpedl and efleem' all his days. In thofe fi- 
 gures ot birth where neither of the luminaries are found pofited in angles, 
 nor in any of their effential dignities, nor in mafculine figns, nor configu- 
 rated with the propitious rays of Jupiter or Venus, be alTured the 
 condition of the native will be poor and abjedt all his days, no 
 matter what might be his hereditary profpeds at his hour of birth, 
 ^ut It the planets that have dominion in the places of the Sun and 
 Moon, or in the degrees afcending, Hiall be orientally fixed, and well 
 dignified, the native fhall raife himfelf to a high condition, efpecially if, 
 by a concatenation of fortuitous events, thofe planets are afpeded by 
 either of the benefics. r / 
 
 N°'37. 8Y Jupiter
 
 748 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 Jupiter pofited in the tenth houfe, in a diurnal nativity, gives a pretty 
 accurate teftimony, that the native fhall be employed in fome advantage- 
 ous public poft ; but, if either Saturn or Mars be in quartile or oppofi- 
 tion with that pofition of Jupiter, the native will certainly be driven 
 from his preferment, with lofs of reputation. But he who hath the 
 good fortune to be born juft at noon, when the Sun enters the meridian 
 at his place of birth, cfl'entially dignified, and oppoled by no vicious 
 ray, will, in fpitc of all the gloomy profpeds that may attend his inflmcy, 
 certainly arrive to great fortune and preferment, and increafe in honour 
 and reputation all his days. If the lord of the tenth, apply to the lord of 
 the afcendant in oriental ftations, and in their exaltation, fuch a native 
 fhall be profperous, and well beloved. And again, he that hath the 
 Moon pofited in Taurus, upon the cufp of the afcendant, the Sun being 
 at the fame time in Leo, will arrive to great honour, 'i he Moon in the 
 firft houfe, oppofed to the Sun in the feventh, and in quartile of Jupiter 
 in the fourth, gives wealth and authority, by the perquifites of magiftracy, 
 embalTies, &c. but if the Moon be in the afcendant, and the Sun in par- 
 tile conjundlion with Venus, wealth and honour will come by ecclefiafti- 
 cal preferments. 
 
 The fixed flars, likevvife, in this fpeculation, have, by accidental confi- 
 guration, a mod: important influence. If the Moon be with Cor-Leonis, 
 and Jupiter elevated in the tenth houfe, in trine of Mars, and in effential 
 dicrnity, the Sun being at the fame time in conjunction with the dragon's 
 head, will produce thofe rapid and unexpedled turns of good fortune 
 and preferment, that equally furprife the native, and aftonilh mankind. 
 To confirm the certainty of this obfervation, I could only with the gcni- 
 tures of Sir Roger Curtis, Sir Francis Sykes, Sir Thomas Rumbold, Mr. 
 Mackreth, and a hundred others in fimilar circumftances, to be infpeded, 
 and I will forfeit my head if the radical caufe is not found equally the 
 fame in them all. 
 
 According to this hypothefis, thofe perfons fliall likevvife prove for- 
 tunate and illuftrious, in whofe nativities the Moon is in good afpeA 
 with many planets, united with a princely flar; and he that hath in 
 other refpecfts but an unpromifing geniture as to riches and honour, yet 
 if he hath the Moon configurated with any eminent fixed ftar of the firft 
 magnitude, he fliall, at feme part or other of his life, be unexpededly 
 promoted to fome poft of authority and advantage, though he may per- 
 haps be diflionourably fuperfeded, and caft down to his former obfcurity. 
 Again, Caput Medufee in the midheaven, with the Sun, Jupiter, or the 
 Moon, gives power to the native over his enemies; and the Pleiades on 
 
 Hyades
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y; 749 
 
 Hyades in the fame pofition, or rifing upon the afcendant with the Sun 
 or Moon, fliows that the native, in any mihtary employment, according 
 to his poft and dignity, fhall prevail over his enemy. But, if Spica Virginis 
 is in the above configuration, it then more aptly applies to ecclefiallical 
 preferments. 
 
 Oculus Taurus and Cor Scorpio, with either the Sun or Moon in the 
 afcendant, or in the midheaven, fhous that the native, whofe geniture is 
 thus conftituted, will gain riches by means of violence. And if he hath 
 Sirius Procyon united with them, and configurated with the luminaries in 
 the afcendant or midheaven, the native fliall arife by fimilar means to kingly 
 authority and preferment. But the obftacles he will have to encounter, can 
 only be furmounted by an unfeeling fpirit of rapine and violence. Infpedt 
 the geniture of a late oriental governor ! 
 
 Saturnine fixed ftars of the firft magnitude in conjundlion of the Sun 
 involve the native in a fucceffion of troubles, by repeated afflidlion • 
 but if the Sun be configurated with Fomahaut in forty minutes of Pifces 
 or with Eigal in thirteen degrees fifty-fix minutes of Gemini, the na- 
 tive will acquire an illuftrious charadler and fortune. Regulus, Ardturus 
 the right fhoulder of Orion, or the left of the Waggoner, conficrurated 
 with the Sun, Jupiter, or the Moon, in the tenth houfe of the figure 
 give alfo ample fortune, and reputation. Thus the fixed flars, vv'hen in 
 angles, contribute admirable efficacy to any geniture; but, if the benefic 
 planets do not at the fiime time contribute their influence jointly with 
 them, they are of but little import; and, if malefic planets are joined 
 with them, they then induce much mifchief ; for if the Hyades, Hercu- 
 les, Cor Scorpio, or Lynx Auftralis, are pofited in an angle, and confi- 
 gurated with Saturn or Mars, in a quartile or oppolite afpedt, thofe fixed 
 Aars, fo fituated, imprefs the native with fuch defires and endeavours in 
 the attainment of places and ports of honour or emolument, as, by the- 
 bad influence of the malefics, and in vexatious expences and difap- 
 pointments to the native, not only chagrin and torment his mind, but: 
 often prove his inevitable ruin. 
 
 When the Sun in Libra or Aquarius is configurated either with o-ood 
 or evil planets, and near fome eminent fixed flar, it will haopen, that 
 when the Sun comes to the ill direction of the malefic influence, and 
 meets with a bad revolution, at the fame time the native (hall be fud- 
 denly plunged into fome unexpedled and laftin,^ misfortune; but if the 
 direction only prove bad, and the revolution good, though he be caft 
 down during the continuance of the malefic direction, yet he fliall rife 
 
 agaixi
 
 750 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 a""aia upon the going off of its effe6t, and be reinftated in his former occu- 
 pation or employment. 
 
 Upon enquiry, I found this native was mechanically brought un to 
 the profellion of a watchmaker and goldfmith; but, if we attentively 
 conlider the import of the proper lignificators of his preferment and 
 profellion, we Ihall find that nature had fitted him for a more refined 
 and elevated line of life. The cardinal and equino6tial fign Libra is 
 upon the cufp of his afcendantj the Sun pohted in the cardinal lign 
 Aries; the Moon in the tropical fign Capricorn; Mercury and Mars, 
 the two principal fignificators of his profeffion, in reception of each 
 other; Mars alio in the exaltation of Mercury, and pofited in the tenth 
 houfe, the houfc of honour and preferment; the part of fortune alfo in 
 the tenth, configurated with the two royal fixed ftars. Hydra and Cor 
 Leonis, are fo many unequivocal arguments, not only that the native 
 fliould abandon every handicraft employment, in purluit of the more 
 elevated and fublime fiudy of the liberal arts and fciences, but tiiat he 
 fliould eventually obtain honour, promotion, and emolument, by the 
 purfuit. Mars, befides being the principal fignificator of his profellion, 
 is alio lord of the alcendant, and therefore proves that the avocation of 
 the native fhould be fuch as he would make choice of himfelf, and that 
 it would be in the line of fcience, as is moft aptly declared by the pofi- 
 tion of Mars in the dignities of Mercury; whilft the Sun being in the 
 houle of his exaltation, and lord of the tenth, declares honour and pre- 
 ferment fliould refult from it, with durations of fuccefs ; and the more 
 fo, becaufe the Sun fends a trine afpedt to the tenth houfe, as well as 
 Mercury, which proves his profperity and advancement to arife from his 
 own intrinfic merit. 
 
 All this was in a mofl: remarkable manner verified by the wonderful 
 fucceffes and purfuits of the native, in oppolition to every obft^acle, diffi- 
 culty, and opprelfion, thrown in his way, by attempts to force upon him 
 an employment incompatible with his genius. His many curious and 
 valuable pieces, written at an early age, and publiflied among other 
 mathematical difquifitions ; his memorable improvements and difco- 
 veries in the longitude, for which his fovereign promoted him to the 
 honourable poft of Afrronomical Mafter of his Royal Academy in Portf- 
 mouth, which he filled with univerfal reputation; Ihow us, that in thefc 
 cafes the influences of the fi:ars are not to be refifted, nor the bright 
 rays of genius chained to arbitrary lim.its. In my opinion, thefe are 
 genitures that afford a brilliant fcope to aflrological enquiry •, becaufe 
 we are not only enabled to define this extraordinary impulfe of the 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY, 751 
 
 mind, which impelled this native forward in purfuit of fame; but we 
 are likewife enabled to trace this inftindlive faculty ftill failher than the 
 conftitution of his own fisiure of birth, and to difcover fomething of 
 it in tliat of his parents,, which I fliall here explain. The fourth houfe 
 reprefents the father; and Satuni being configurated in that houfe, in 
 eflential dignities, in an airy and fcientific lign, proves the fatlier to have 
 inherited a fcientific turn. But the tenth houfe bears fignification of the 
 native's mother, whofe fpirit of genei-ofity and elevation of foul are moft 
 remarkably exprelled by the two royal fixed ftars configuratt^d in her af- 
 cendant or conjundion with the part of fortune, the giver of life to the 
 native ; and we mr.y oljferve, that, as Mars is lord of the native's afcen- 
 dant, and falls in his mother's afcendant, he Ihould, according to natural 
 efficient caules, inherit the vital principles and difpofition of his mother. 
 Hence too we define the caufe why children fometimes more Ilrongly 
 relemble the father, and fometimes the mother; an effeA which folely 
 depends upon which of their lignificators is the ftrongeft and bell dig- 
 nified in the a6t of generation. 
 
 Upon the whole, we may remark, that few events can more illuftri- 
 ouily difp!ay the obvioufnefs of planetary information, or more vifibly de- 
 monftrate the goodnefs of God in mercifully affording his creatures this 
 aftonilhing mode of communication, than the foregoing radical proofs of 
 this native's natural forceof genius ; who, at twelve years of age, was of 
 fuflficient capacity to fend a moft elaborate piece for infertion in the Gen- 
 tleman's Diary; and at the early age of twenty-one, was admitted a 
 member of the mathematical fociety in London 1 A proof this, that al^ 
 tral influence ihould be the firtt confideration to dire6l us in forming the 
 tender minds of youth to fuch purfuits and avocations a'% are beft calcu- ■ 
 lated to place them in the high road to excellence and perfection. And 
 for which puipofe, I cannot recommend a more ftriking example than 
 what is afforded in this eil'ential part of the nativit)'^ of my good and 
 M^orthy friend Air. Witchell. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS refulting from the ELEVENTH HOUSE. 
 
 The eleventh houfe is that part of the vifible heavens from which 
 we draw judgment concerning friends and friendlhip ; hope, confi- 
 dence, and truit; I ftiall therefore, in addition to what I have com- 
 municated in page 449, offer the following remarks. Wlien Jupiter 
 or Venus fliall be found in the eleventh, fifth, tenth, fev.^nth, firlt, or 
 ninth, houfes of the figure, it is a fure prefage of many friends ; but, 
 if Saturn or Alars are peregrine in angles, or pofited in the twelfth houfe» 
 it denotes many enemies. Whoever is born with Cancer afcending 
 
 No. 38. 8Z on
 
 IP- 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 on the eaftern fineter of the heavens, fuch native will enjoy a very fmall 
 fliare of fiiends ; and nearly the fame will be the lot of thofe in whofe 
 nativities the lord of the eleventh houfe and the lord oftheafcendant are 
 found feparating from a propitious configuration. 
 
 If it be in any cafe required to know whether mutual good offices of 
 friendfliip fliall long exift between- any two particular perfons, or be- 
 tween lovers or fweethearts before marriage, or between hulband and 
 wife after, the only certain mode of obtaining this information is by 
 comparing the two nativities of either of the two perfons together, and, 
 according to their import, judge. For, if the afcendant in the figures 
 of both parties have the fame fign afcending, or the fame planets in the 
 firft houfe, or beholding each other by the fame afpe^l, mutual friend- 
 fliip, love, and confidence, will long exift; for, as affinity of manners 
 and likenefs are the effence of affe6tion, fo affection, in this fpeculation, 
 muft be the author of agreement, of fmcerity, and of friendfliip. To de- 
 monftrate this, let us coniider the influence and condition of the loid of 
 the afcendant, under its four different configurations : viz. firft, when 
 in both nativities he is bona fide the fame planet; fecondly, when he is 
 received of the other nativity by houfe or exaltation; tliiixlly, when he 
 is in conjundion with the lord of the afcendant of t^^e other nativity ; 
 and, fourthly, when he is in Textile or trine of the lord of the other na- 
 tivity. For, in all cafes where there is not a concurrence of one or other 
 of thefe teftimonies. the friendfliip or attachment of thofe two particular 
 perfons will not be found of long continuance- 
 
 When, in the nativities of any two given perfons, the one hath Venus 
 in the pofltion where the other hath the Moon, or the Sun, the part 
 of fortune, or the lord of the afcendant, it is a fubftantial proof that 
 there will be firm and lafting friendfliip between them ; but, whenever it 
 is found, in anv two nativities, that the fign upon the afcendant of the 
 one occupies the cufp of the twelfth, eighth, or iixth, houfes of the 
 other, there cannot poffibly be any durable attachment or fiiendfliip be- 
 tween the parties. It hath been determined, by repeated obfervation, 
 that thofe perfons regard each other with the pureft friendfliip where 
 the lord of the afcendant in one nativity applies to the lord of the af- 
 cendant in the other, or where the benevolent planets are found in re- 
 ception of each other. By the fame parity of reafoning, they hate moe 
 inveterately where the fame number of malignant planets occupy thft 
 afcendant of each other's nativity ; or where the lord of the afcendant in 
 one nativity, being of a contraiy or adverfe nature with the lord of the 
 afcendant of the other nativity, are thereby configurated under a con- 
 
 ftitution of eternal enmity. 
 
 The
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 753 
 
 The concord or enmity of the planets is a moft obvious fpeculation, 
 compriledin their own natural quality and a^^ion ; viz. Saturn hath fyni- 
 pathy with Jupiter, Mercury, and the Moon ; but a ftrong antipathy to 
 the Sun, Mars, and Venus. Jupiter hath affinity with Saturn, the Sun, 
 Venus, IVIercury, and the Moon; and is only difcordant with the planet 
 Mars. Mars hath pacific tendency only to Venus, and that by means 
 of her fuperior property in allaying his intemperate heat; for otherwife 
 they are contrary in nature. Mars being hot and diy, and Venus cold 
 and moift. ' The Sun hath friendfliip only to Jupiter and Venus ; and 
 is inimical to Saturn, Mars, Mercury, and the Moon. Venus is com- 
 placently beheld by Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Mercuiy, and the JMoon ; 
 but rigid Saturn is her mortal enemy. Mercury hath friendlhip to Sa- 
 turn, Jupiter, and Venus ; but the Sun, the Moon, and Mars, are his 
 enemies. The Moon pacifically beholds Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus ; 
 but hath enmity to IMars, the Sun, and MercurJ^ The Dragon's Head 
 hath fympathy with Jupiter and Venus ; but antipathy to Saturn, Mars, 
 the Sun, Mercury, and the Moon. The Dragon's Tail hath Saturn 
 and Mars in friendfliip ; but Jupiter, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the 
 Moon, are enemies : the Part of Fortune is in this cafe conftituted pre- 
 cifely the fame as the Moon. 
 
 By thefe rules it will be obvious, that, where we find, in two naivi- 
 ties, the Sun and Moon, or Mercury and the Moon, or the Sun and IMer- 
 cury, configurated in each other's places, there will exift fome degree of 
 refpeCt and good-will between the natives ; but, if Saturn, Jupiter, Ve- 
 nus, or Mars, are thus found, there will be fome diffenfion, mixed with 
 a defire of friendfliip. If Jupiter or Saturn are found in reception of each 
 other's place in the different nativities, their friendfliip will exift merely 
 for the purpofes of emolument or avarice ; but, if ^lars and Venus are 
 in each other's place, the attachment of the parties will be formed for 
 illicit and diflionourable pra6lices. 
 
 When in the nativities of any two perfons,wefind the Sun or Mars in 
 oppofition to Mercury or the Moon, the parties will delight to injure 
 and opprefs each other ; but, where Saturn or Mars are in oppofition, the 
 enmity will be perpetual. Where the malefic ftars agree, the parties 
 will agree in the puifuit of wickednefs, though unfaithful to each other. 
 The Sun in the place of any friendly planet, declares unity between the 
 parties for integrity ; Jupiter, for utility ; Venus, for pleafure ; and tlie 
 Moon, according to the couftru(ftion of her nature. 
 
 The
 
 754 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The quality and nature of friends are determined by the planet that 
 is principal fignificator. For inftance, if Saturn is pofited in the ele- 
 venth or tirft houles, and in no dignities, he is the fignificator, and de- 
 notes falfe and faithlefs friends ; but, if well dignified, he declares coii- 
 iiantand honourable friends, according to the particular circumltances of 
 his oAvn nature and quality ; as doth each of the planets refpeAively, 
 according to which rule I examine the prefent nativity. I find the iign 
 occupying the eleventh houie is Virgo, the exaltation of Mercury; and, 
 as thtne are no planets therein, we muft particularly regard, the pofitiou 
 of Mercury, who is lord of tl'e eleventh houfe, from whence this judg- 
 ment is deduced . I obferve Mercury is in reception of Mars ; and Mars 
 being lord of the native's afcendant is a demonltrable proof that he Ihould 
 have many and great friends ; fuchas were of a Icientific turn themfelves, 
 and well qualified to forward the views of the native ; who would admire 
 his afpiring genius, and take him by the hand. This was completely 
 verified, as the native hath often told me, even in the early part of his 
 life, when his literary produclio'us introduced him to the knowledge and 
 friendlhipof the celebrated JMr. Charles Brent, Mr. Fraucili^o Forrecefy, 
 Docl-tor IJevis, Mr. Thomas Simpfbn, and many other Fellows of the 
 Royal Society. And, as it was with his friends, fo we might fay of the 
 native's hopes, confidence, and trull; for he was generally ver}' fortunate 
 in his expedlations, and fucceeded well in whatever he ardently Ibove 
 after, or anxioully defired. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS refulting from the TWELFTH HOUSE. 
 
 From this houfe we obtain cognizance of our malignant private ene- 
 mies, and of the calamitous misfortunes of adverfity and imprifonraent. 
 Whether this houfe be properly under the government of malefic influence 
 or not, is of little" importance to the objedts of our prefent inquiry ; fuf- 
 fice it to fay, that it anfwers every purpofe for detei!:ting thofe forked or 
 double-tongued raalefics in Ibciety, who by every difcordant means 
 wound and blaft the reputation of their neighbours. And I am forry 
 to add, that, within my obfervation at leall, there are very few indeed, 
 even among the more liberal and humane, that with a friendly hand 
 and companionate heart are forward to call the mantle of charity over 
 the frailties of their fellow-mortals ; or that, like the good Samaritan, 
 will pour the balmy oil into the bleeding wounds of thofe who are 
 im.de the vi6tims of releiitlefs and unfeeling llander, which Ikulks be- 
 hind
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 755 
 
 hind the curtain, and ftabs us in the dark. Metals are never fo briglit*as 
 when completely poliihed; nor are enemies ever fo dangerous as when 
 concealed. It is therefore not the leall important among our aftral en- 
 quiries to inform ourlelves well of the quality and ftrength of our private 
 enemies; and, to make this enquiry obvious to all my readers, I have, in 
 page 449, given ample rules to detect and to elude their malice. I 
 Ihall now apply them in my obfervations on the prefent nativity. On 
 the cufp of the twelfth houfe, we find the fign Libra, which is the day- 
 houfe of Venus, and wholly under her government, in the houfe of her 
 exaltation ; and, as flie is in dired; oppofition to the lord of the afcen- 
 dant, and is alfo lady of the feventh houfe, flie obvioufly declares that 
 fome woman fliould become an implacable enemy to the native ; and that 
 this woman fliould not be of the mean or vulgar fort, is declared by 
 Venus being in her effential dignities. But, as neither of the lumi- 
 naries are affected, nor the lord of the afcendant vitiated by malefic rays, 
 it is impolVible the malignity of this woman's refentraent fliould ever 
 materially affect the well-being of the native. Befides, there are two 
 royal fixed ftars pofited in the twelfth houfe, viz. Ar(5turus and Spica 
 Virginis, which not only furniili an argument that this female opponent 
 fliould do him little injury, but that no private enemies fliould ever be 
 able to accorapliili his ruin, or opprefs him by imprifbnment. And as 
 the luminaries are free from the affliction both of Saturn and Mars, and 
 as no malignant planet occnpies the afcendant, twelfth, or fixth, houfe of 
 the figure, I am free to declare my opinion, that the native never will be 
 expofed even to the danger of imprifonment, either by civil or criminal 
 procefs, which might arife either from the hand of juilice, ov through 
 his own indifcretion. 
 
 Having thus completely inveftigated the various afpecls of this nati- 
 vity, according to the genuine import they bear in each of the twelve 
 horofcopical places or houfes of the heavens ; I fliall now proceed to bring 
 thofe afpects refpedivCly. irito vi^W' in the predife order in which they 
 come up b}^ direkStion, and in wliieh they aftetled the mundane a6lions, 
 purfuits, and eventually the life, of the native; whence it will appear^ 
 that the nativity of any man, when correctly and judicioufly calculated, 
 williii^a manner'difplayacOiAperidiumof the principal incidents of-the 
 nritiive's: life, from his birth fo his dllfoktfeibn ; taking into view, as well 
 tlie/things pail as tliofe AVhich ar^ to come To make this the -fi^bre in- 
 teMigible to thofe who trteian >tb<^u(*y the fciencc, as well as to the 'bulk 
 of my reader!^, Iflmllconfider the directions of this nativity "exaclly in 
 the order* they oecur/ift^€*» the' time of Mr.' Witcheil's birth to the day 
 
 No. 38. 9 A of
 
 756 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 of his death. And, that thofe afpecfts may all be feen and confidered at 
 o»€ view, I have colle6led them into aSpeculmri, in the annexed plate^ 
 of which the following is an explanation. 
 
 The top colum-H of the Table, from left to right, difplays^ in regular 
 fncceffion the twelve figns of the zodiac, beginning with Aries, and 
 ending with Pifces; under which are rerpe6tively placed thirty degrees 
 of the zodiac for each fign, making in the whole three hundred and 
 fixty degrees. The firll column on the left contaiivs degrees and mi- 
 nutes as far as completes one lign ; and, wherever minutes are joined to 
 degrees, it flioM^s there is an afpe6l in the nativity tliat falls in that degree 
 and minute of the correfponding fign under which the planet ftands. 
 For example, under the letters D. M. at the top of the iirll column. 
 Hand o 44, and under the fign Virgo, in the common angle of meeting, 
 is found the planet Mars, which ihows that Mars, in this nativity, 
 is pofited in forty-four minutes of the fign Virgo ; and gives us at 
 one view every configuration made by that planet throughout the 
 zodiac ; for at thirty degrees from his given place he forms a femi- 
 fextile ; at fixty degrees from the fame point he forms a fextile ; at 
 feventy-two degrees he forms a quintile ; at ninety degrees a quartile ; 
 at one hundred at twenty degrees a trijie ; at one hundred thirty-five 
 degrees a fefiG[uiquadrate ; and at one hundred and eighty degrees an 
 oppofition ; whereby every afpec^ is at once fought out, as well thofe 
 of the other planets as of Mars. The terms and faces of the planets 
 are alfo denoted throughout the zodiac, by the initials T and F ; the 
 ufe of which is to point out to the I'eader an eafy and concife method of 
 facilitating zodiacal dire<5lions ; particularly to the Sun, as the ecliptic 
 line is the only orb in which he moves, and wherein he meets with all 
 the afpedls of the erratic fl^ars, with their terms, faces, exaltations, &c. 
 I fhall now take thefe afpe<Sts from the Speculum, in the order they 
 Hand in the Table, p. 686, as well mundane as zodiacal, and explain 
 their refpe6live fignificators, by fhowing their power and effect upon the 
 life and actions of the native, and how far his body and mind were 
 influenced and impreflfed by them. 
 
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 mother, productive of a journey ; for, as the tenth houfe of the native's 
 figure is his mother's tenth, and the fixth her ninth, it is apparent, 
 that, when the Sun, who is lord of the tenth houfe, approached the cufp 
 
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 757 
 
 cftlie fixtli, a journey fliould be determined on and put in execution. 
 And, as Mars, the native's iignificator, is polited in the mother's tenth 
 houfe, and the Sun, who reprefents the mother, being lord of the tenth, 
 and by- accidental polition in the houl'e of Mais, Ihows that this direc- 
 tion fliould carry the native a long journey with his mother, which really 
 happened in tlie month of O^ober 1731, when the native was but three 
 yeais and feven months old ; and conftitutes the iirft material occurrence 
 of his life, after his entry into this world, under the impreflion of his 
 fignificators. It must however be noted, that the effect of this dire6tion 
 falls moll effentially upon the parent ; and that it atled only in an acci- 
 dental or fecondary degree upon the perfon of the native, whowas in this 
 cafe wliolly under the influence of his motlier. 
 
 O n ]) . The Sun to the quartile of the Moon by di're6t motion^ 
 This afpeCt,. being formed from the third and fixth houfes, and the 
 Moon being afflidled in the houfe of Saturn, threatens the native, i» 
 his early days, with a dangerous tit of ficknefs. The diforder implied 
 may be of a bilious kind accompanied with retchings and fever; fore 
 watery defluxions of the eyes, irruptions of humours, meafles, or fmall 
 pox. This dire6tion came up, and Avas at its higheft influence, when 
 the native was five years and two months old, at which time I have been 
 confidently aflured that he was attacked by the meafles in a very violent 
 and dangerous manner. 
 
 @ g b- The Part of Fortune to the oppofition of Saturn. This is- 
 another afpe6t productive of ficknefs. The Part of Fortune, in this 
 nativity, is giver of life ; and, being in oppofition to Saturn in a fiery 
 fign, and Saturn in an airy, denotes an atEid;ion engendered of thofe 
 two qualities, which, fliould befal the native whenever the direction oS 
 this afpe6t began to operate, which, as we have already worked up and 
 proved, took place when the native was feven years and about two 
 months old ; at which time he was attacked with the fmall pox, and 
 was a long time before he recovered his health and ftrength, as is. 
 obvioufly implied by the flow and ponderous quality of the planet 
 Saturn. 
 
 3) n 9 . The Moon to the quartile of Mercury. The Moon, in 
 this geniture, being lady of the ninth, and Mercury lord of the eighth 
 and eleventh houfes, the quartile afpec^ formed between them under 
 thefe circumftances denotes a journey to the native, which fliould bring^ 
 him back, from the place where his mother had fojourned in the country, 
 
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 758 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 to London, the place of his nativity. The force of the direction which 
 bronght up this afpe6l took place in feven years from the.re6liried time 
 of birth, when the Iquarc was completely formed by the two planets ; 
 and it is a well-known fa<5l in Mr. Witchell's family, that at feveiv 
 years of age he was brought back to town, to be prefented to fome 
 gentlemen, who out of refpedlto the pai'euts had profelied their readinefs 
 to patronize the child. 
 
 }) Q- — © 6 C. L. The Moon to the quintile of the Sun, and 
 Part of Fortune to the conjunction of Cor Leon is. Thefe benignant, 
 afpedls came up by good diretlions to fupport the influence of the pre- 
 ceding ; and gave the native a confiderable Ihare of favour in the eyes 
 of thole gentlemen the moment he was prefented to them ; and befpeak 
 at the fame time a fweet and placid appearance in tlie youth, with a gra- 
 vity and fedateneis in his manners that could not but acquire eileem and 
 commendation from every obiei-ver, but more efpecially from his friends. 
 
 >|c l;^ in M. The Sun to the Textile of Jupiter in Mundo. This 
 direction follows up the former two, and participates of the fame be- 
 nign influence; for, inafmuch as Jupiter is lord of the fecond, and the, Sun 
 is lord of the tenth, by their joint concurrence they not only prefage the 
 general approbation of his friends and teachers, but areahappy fymbol 
 of that early defire of learning and improvement, which was for fome 
 time a fubjecl:^ ofaftonhhment to them all, and laid the foundation-llone 
 of profperity to the native. 
 
 Sfq. c? . TheSun to the fefquiquadrate ofMars. This direction 
 is implicative of a ftrong natural defire for the Itujdy of Icience ; and 
 lays a good foundation for honour refulting from knowledge ; and a 
 very apt direction it is for that purpofe, fince the Sun is lord of the 
 tenth, the houfe of honour and preferment, and Mars lord of the fii-lt 
 andlixth, who difpofes of the Sun and Mercury. The afpect, by fall- 
 ing in the terms* of Mercury, quickens- the fancy, and enlai^es the 
 
 • Whenever judgment is drawn from a direflion, particular regard muft be had to jhe terms 
 in which the afpefts of the planets fall ; otherwife our conclufions will be erroneo\is, and 
 oftentimes abfurd. For, if malefic diredlions are wrought from tlje evil configurations of 
 Saturn or Mars, and thofe direftions fail in the terms of Jupiter ot Venus, in g(X>d places of 
 the figure, the evil declared by fuch direiflions will operate, with much lefs force, and the 
 cffeifl be fcarcely difcerned. For this reafon, all oppofing qualities, whether in good or evil 
 direflions, muft be duly confidered, and their tffeU allowed, {jefore we make our judghiieilt 
 final. For, if there be a good direftion from the benefic rays of Jupiter or Venus, y:6t,, if 
 they fall in the terms of Saturn or Mars, the good promifed will be greatly abated; and in 
 fuch proportion as rsafon and good fenfe will invariably dilate, ' 
 
 native's
 
 O F A S T n O L O G Y. 759 
 
 native's defive of learning. This and the three former directions came 
 up progreffively, and operated upon the mental powers of the native 
 by regular gradation, until he was near twelve years of age, before the 
 effect of the lail direction wholly fublkled. 
 
 ]) All — ]) P- 9 ]M. The Moon to the trine of Jupiter. This is a 
 good direction. The Moon is conftituted lady of the ninth houle, 
 the houfe of fcience ; and Jupiter is lord of the fecond and fifth, co- 
 operating in the force of mental endowments. Under this direction 
 the native made his firft eflTay in fcientific literature, having compiled 
 a fmall piece, for the Gentleman's Magazine, which was highly- 
 approved. With thi,s direction he had another operating, namely, the 
 Moon to the parallel of Venus in mundo ; which, being of the fame 
 quality, gave force and energy to the influence of the preceding. 
 
 © M. C. Part of Fortune to the medium-coeli. This is a very re- 
 markable, and equally^ potent, direction, operating upon the mental 
 faculties ; and it came up when the native was about thirteen years and 
 four months old, as may be feen by the calculation p. 661, where thefe 
 directions are worked up and equated by the folar motion. Under the 
 influence of this direction, the native, at that early period of his life, 
 compiled a moft ingenious mathematical difquifition, which was printed 
 in the Gentleman's Dairy, and received univerfal approbation. 
 
 © n "y. Part of Fortune to the quartile of Jupiter. This direClion 
 portends evil to the native's ftate of health, and has a malefic tendency. 
 Jupiter, though in nature the moft benignant planet, in this cafe pro- 
 duces an evil effedl, by the conftitution of the afpeft he forms. He is 
 pofited, according to his latitude in Gemini, in the eighth houfe, among 
 fixed ftarsof the quality of Mars, in quartile with the Part of Fortune, 
 which, in this nativity, is Hyleg, and ftrongly appertains to the na- 
 tive's health; and life ; and therefore, according to the radical effect 
 of Jupiter in this pofition, which caufes heat and putrefadtion of the 
 blood, I concluded that this diretftion muft have brought with it a 
 violent fever, becaufe the quartile afpeCl is produClive of the greatefl 
 evil, and becaufe this dire(5tion falls in the terms and face of Mars, who 
 is the author of choler, and uniformly produtlive of putrefad;ion ofthe 
 animal juices ; though here are no teftimonies to fliow that its violence 
 lliould be fuch as to endanger life. This direction came up in fourteen 
 years from the time of birth ; and I have been afliired that ]\f r. Witchell, 
 at the age of fourteen, fuffered feverely from a fever, whicli held him a 
 confiderable time, as the force of this direction obvioully demonftrates. 
 
 No. 38. 9B oP.
 
 ^6o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 qP. "il M. The Sun to the parallel of Jupiter in jMundo. As ths 
 parallel is made to the feventh hoiifc, it mull relate to fome contract 
 on the part of the native; and as the Sun is lord of the tenth, the 
 houfe of trade and profeflion, I concluded this afpe(^l governed fome 
 contra<5l in bufinefs. Upon enquiry, I found the native was bound 
 apprentice to a watchmaker and goldfmith ; which is aptly enough 
 defcribed by a conjun(:-l;ion of the Sun and Mercury in Aries, This 
 dired:ion, as we ha^•c before proved, came up in fifteen years and 
 twenty-one da3's ; at that precile age the native and his mafter, as he 
 hath fmce informed me, executed the indenture, and he became appren- 
 tice to a watchmaker. 
 
 ^ Sfq. 5 — D Z. P. If.—® 6 S ■ Thefe remarkable afpe(5ts imme- 
 tliately fucceeded, and produced, as their direftious feverally brought 
 them into effedt, thofe unplealant circumftances which are invariably 
 felt in all fimitar cafes. Tiie Part of Fortune to the lefquiquadrate afpedt 
 of Mercuiy, is a direction that took off the thoughts and the attention of 
 the native from all mechanical employment, and fixed them upon ma- 
 thematical contemplation. The Moon to a zodiacal parallel of Jupiter, 
 ftrengthens and enlarges this ftudious and contemplative faculty, expands 
 the underftanding, and allures the mind to a purfuit of thofe acquire- 
 ments, whichrender manual employments infupportable. The Part of 
 Fortune to the conjun(!ytion of Mars, could not fail, when the direction 
 came up, to produce violent contentions between the native and his maf- 
 ter, in confequence of his total negle6t of the bufinefs, and of his inatten- 
 tion to the orders and inftruftions given him therein. Upon enquiry, I 
 found my judgment in no refpe(ft eiToneous ; for, although the matter was 
 on the one hand continually remonitrating and complaining of neglect 
 and inattention, the apprentice, on the other, was totally indifferent as to 
 the ill confequences threatened, and flill additted himfelf to the ufe of 
 books, to the folving and propounding mathematical queftions, and to 
 the publication of anonymous pieces in the magazines, 
 
 © 5|i tp . This is unqneftionably a good direction. The Sun is lord 
 of the tenth, the lioufe of profellional honour, and Saturn is lord of the 
 fourth, the houfe of hereditary acquifitions ; fo that the Textile afpect, 
 formed betwixt them, leads me to conceive, that the native, while un« 
 der the influence of this diredion, formed a refpe^lable and advantage- 
 ous connexion with fome elderly perfons, who approved his ftudious 
 turn, and admired the gravity of his manner, notwithftanding its unfit- 
 nefs for a life of mechanical labour, and the anger and unealinefs it oc- 
 caiioned iu the bi^eaft of liis mafter. Yet in fpite of all this, I liad no 
 
 difficulty
 
 OP A S T II O L O Cr Y. 76»^ 
 
 difficulty in declaring, that, when this direction came to operate with 
 its fuUeft force,' the native would be patronized and encouraged by fame 
 perfons of eminences who were friends to his father, or allied to his fa- 
 mily. This I have heard repeatedly acknowledged by the native him- 
 felf, who was at that period llrongly patronized by his uncle. 
 
 oSmq. 9 — Afc. n b- The Sun to the femiquartile of Venus, and 
 the Afcendant to the quartile of Saturn. Thefe afpects are of a baneful 
 quality, and exprefsmuch uneafinefs, anger, and afKirtion, in the family 
 with whom the native refided. — All quartiles are mifchievous, when di- 
 re(5ted to particular peifons. The fii"ft of thefe joint afpects relates to 
 the native and his miltrefs, on whofe account he iliould ftand in imme 
 nent danger of difgrace and ruin, by means of an occurrence, which, 
 though of a molt deftru6tive tendency, yet is too common to perfons 
 of ftrong pallions, of both fexes. I fliall not, however, enter into a 
 detail of the matter ; it is fufificient for me to remark, that, as the afpe<Sb 
 only forms a femiquartile, its effe6t, when brought up by dire6tion, 
 which was in the native's feventeenth year, would be the lefs mifchiev- 
 ous to the parties, and the difgrace be the fooner blown over. The 
 fecond of thefe joint afpedts a6ted, as it were, in concert, and relates to 
 the nati\eand, his mailer, and, being a perfect quartile of the greater in- 
 fortune, hath fatality annexed to it. In fliort, it argues violent anger 
 between the parties ; but when the direction is perfect, which happened 
 quickly after the above, it deprived the mafter of life, and left the ap- 
 prentice and his miltrefs at large. 
 
 ©4cl/M.— ©AoM. Thefe afpedls are both ih Mundo. They 
 import a itruggle between the native and his father, concerning the pur- 
 fuit of his bulinefs. Whilll the native, on the one hand, was fedulous 
 to oecome a ftudent, the father was decifive, on the other, to put what is 
 termed, '• a good trade in his belly." Thefe direftions came up in fe- 
 venteen years and four months, at which exad;age the native was turned 
 over to another mafter of the fame profeffion. 
 
 3)Q. ? M. The Moon to the quintile of ISfercury in IMundo. This 
 is another direction which applies to the intellectual faculty, and alfo 
 Itrengthens tiie brain. It denotes an enlargement of the underftanding, 
 and a fruition of rational ideas in fcientilic difquilitions. Under this 
 diredlion the native turns his back upon all fubordinate fpeculatiolis, is 
 deaf to the calls of bufmefs, and to the remonftrances of his mafter, and 
 
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 762 i\ N ILLUSTRATION 
 
 applies hiinrf If, in fpite of evervob{tacle,to rigid contemplation and flndy. 
 The efte(^k of this direc^tion was at its utnioll height, when the native 
 was ci.^hteen )'eais and fonr months old ; about which time, as lie has, 
 lliire told me, he was fo intent upon ftudy, as to frame a contrivance to 
 blind up the crevices of the doors and windows, that no part of the fa- 
 mily might have a fufpicion of his pailing the greatclt part of the night 
 in reading and contemplating the diflerent branches of I'cience. 
 
 M. C.g h. The medium cceli to the oppofition of Satm'n. This 
 is a no Icfs remarkable than fatal direction, again appertaining to the 
 native and liis mailer. It Ibows an animoiity between them, fo far as it 
 relates to the bufinels ; but it prefages the death of the mafter, and once 
 more fets the apprentice at liberty ; as though fate had really ftrove 
 with him to obtain a different purfuit. But here, as I have been con- 
 fidently informed, the parent again interpofed his fbvereign authority, 
 and in fpite of every aigument, and of every importunity, lb prejudiced 
 was he in favour of the emoluments of trade, and fo fixed in hi.s mind -up- 
 on that which he had before hngled out for his fon, that he loft no time in 
 choofmg him out a new fituation. Here we perceive, in its flrongell 
 colours, the abfurdity, as well as the evil conlequence, of forcing upon 
 the hands of youth, avocations which their nature loathes, and which 
 are foreign both to their ability and their inclination. Let us here for 
 a moment paufe ; and, look which way we will, we Ihall tind ample tef- 
 timonies of the truth of this miftaken zeal for the provifion of our chil- 
 dren. A zeal which has, more than all other caufes put togethei', fui- 
 niflied the world with a race of bunglers in almoft every profelfion ; 
 for the mind, like the temperatme of the body, cannot be forced, but 
 will be governed by its own immediate laws ; a circumftance, which if 
 duly attended to, and regulated by the quality of the fignificators at birth, 
 would not only prove much more highly advantageous ta children, but 
 infinitely more beneficial to mafters of every craft and occupation. 
 
 © n 5 — S nlf.. Thefe afpe^ls are both made in the world ; an'i 
 their directions are of courfe mundane. They are both quartiles of a 
 pernicious tendency, and even threaten the life of the native. Under 
 the influence of the firft, he is put, forely againft his will, to a new maf- 
 ter, with whom he fliews but little difpofition to. attend to bufmefs. 
 Under the fecond, which a6ls in contact with, or rather follows up, the 
 evil nature of the firft, his life is endangered by fome violent accident 
 of fire. This is nioft aptly denoted by the pofition of JMercury in a 
 
 fiery
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 7^3 
 
 fiery fign, with the violent planet Mars, his fignificator, and the Part of 
 Fortune, which in this nativity is giver of life, all in quartile aCped; ; 
 but, whether this danger Ihould occur to the native by his falling into 
 the fne, or by the burning the houfe he lived in, or by what particu- 
 lar misfortune, was impoflible to determine ; but it was evident to my 
 underftanding that his danger would come by means of fire. After con- 
 iidering and recoufidering thefe configurations, I enquired of the native, 
 whether he had not, feme time between nineteen and twenty years of a<£e. 
 had the misfoilune to fet his bed-curtains on fire, or his room; for, as I 
 knew he had often accuftonied himfelf to read in bed, I had a flrong 
 iufpicion that he h^d fallen afleep, and that the cmtains had taken fire, 
 and expofed him to the danger of being burnt in bed. But thivhe ab- 
 folutely denied, and contended much for his carefulnefs and precaution 
 on thole occahons. Had he by any accident fallen into the fire ? or had 
 the candle caught his clothes ? No ; he never had met withfuchan accident 
 in his life. I perfifted moft confidently that some such accident 
 mull have befallen him, and at that particular time, whereby he was ex- 
 pofed eiiher to great bodily hurt, if not to the danger of loiing his life; 
 andlrequefted him to reflect upon the matter, and to tell me ingenuoufly 
 the fad:. At lalt, he fatisfied my doubts, by relating the following cir- 
 cumltance : 
 
 He had not been many days with his new mailer, before he ^ras left: 
 in the fhop with no other companion than a young lad, who had been 
 put apprentice to the fame perfon a year or two before. At the fame 
 time that the matter's abfence furniihed Mr. Witchell with an oppor- 
 tunity of taking a book from his pocket to read, which was invariabljr. 
 the cafe upon all fuch occafions, it afforded the other lad fit time to go 
 to play. A foldier's mufquet ftood in one comer of the fliop, moll aptly 
 denoted by the quartile pofition of JVIars, which the boy took up, and 
 began to perform the manual exercile with. When lie came to that 
 paii, " make ready — prefent — fire," he levelled the piece clofe to the 
 body of' his fellow-apprentice Witchell, who fat with the utmoll 
 calmliefs and compofure, reading his book ; a circumltance evidently- 
 implied by the pofition of JVIerc'iiry. The boy drew the trigger, the 
 gun fnapped, and he recovered his arms. Pleafed of courfe with any 
 employment rather than with his bufinefs, he proceeded with the ma- 
 nual a fecond time. When he prefented the piece again, it was ele- 
 vated fomewhat above Mr. Witchell's head ; he drew'the trigger, the 
 gun went off, and carried away a large piece of the window, leaving 
 both of them, as Piovideuce would have it, totally unhurt. With this 
 
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 764 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 I was quite fatisficd ; it relieved me from my doubts ; and Upon equut- 
 ini;- tlio direction, I told him this muft have happened on or very near 
 the 26th of September, 1747 ; for, thoiigh the other ulpe(!:l caujc up 
 fooner, yet its inBuencc was iield on by the quick fuccx^llion and fimilar 
 quality of the co-operating or fecondary afpect, -which wa.s not ripe in 
 its malefic tendency, until the day ]\Iars began to feparatc from his 
 auxiliaries, which was on the day above-mentioned, at w hich time the 
 native was near twenty years of age. After endeavouring to recolle(^l all 
 the circumftances of the faft, he acknowledged I was ttrictly right in 
 point of time, as well as in my judgment of the danger he had been ex- 
 pofed to by means of fire, 
 
 Tiie aftrological reafon of this narrow but happy efeape is thus de- 
 fmed from the native's horofcopicai figure of birth. In the eighth 
 boufe, which is the houfe of death, we find the benevolent planet Ju- 
 piter, which is an irrefragable argument that the native ihould not die a. 
 violent, but a natural, death. Now, had Saturn or Mars been there, the 
 evil had certainly touched his life. Another deciiive teltimony for the 
 prefervation of the native's life is, that the direc^lion oj)erating comes 
 from a bcnefic planet ; and, though the direction be ot an evil quality, 
 yet, as it is not governed by the anareta, nor by any crofs direction either 
 from Saturn ,JNiars, or the Sun, to the Part of Fortune, it is impoflible, 
 according to the radical import of the fignificators, that hfe fliould be 
 deftroyed, although expofed, in this remarkable manner, tot he moil 
 vneqiiivoail initrument of death. 
 
 I have dwelt the longer upon thefe two dire(5lions, becaufe I confider 
 them as the moll remarkable in the whole figure ; and I am fure their 
 cffe^l is equally extraordinary ; beiides, it tends to Ihow, that, in geni- 
 tures where the fignificators clearly demontlrate a long life and natural 
 death, and where no crofs malefic configuration ilrongly irradiates 
 the aphetic place, however the native, in his journey through life, 
 may be expofed to the moft imminent perils and dangers ; yet, if benefic 
 fignificators, as in the prefent nativity, have the afcendancy in point of 
 dignity and conftitution of place, he ihall fafely overcome them all, and 
 enjoy life until that period of time arrives, when exhautted nature can 
 no longer exercife her proper functions, and dilTolution becomes the ne- 
 ceflary confequence, 
 
 I do not here mean to enter into any arguments againft that abfurd 
 ftile of reafoning, which, reftin^ all its force upon fuppofed propofitions, 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 76,- 
 
 will contemi, that, if the mullvethad been pointed the fecond time to tlie 
 bofly of the native, he mufl have been killed, let the ftars have been 
 poiited hmv they ma)\ But what man would be hardy enough reiioufly 
 to avow this? or, if he did, it could avail nothing, fmce JolIs and fufrpo- 
 fitivns would be ftill at variance. . The piece was not levelled the fecond 
 time at the native, and xvhy it was not, who can deiiiie? It is enough 
 for nie to flioy% that, by tlie native's figure of birth, he was not to re- 
 ceive any fatal injury; I will now thank the man, who by any other 
 or equalhj reafopable hypothefis, will point out to me xcliy the piece was 
 vat levelled at-the native \X\e fecond time? or, if it had, let him prove 
 that the piece muft of neceflity have gone off, and that the confequeut 
 wound ynitft have beeen mortal? \Vhen this is done, I fliall be ready to 
 give it an anfwer. 
 
 INT. C. n ■^. This afpe6l imports no good; it is a quartile between 
 Jupiter and the Midheaven ; and, as Jupiter is lord of the fecond and fifth 
 houfes, it declares lofs of fubftance to the native, by the interference of 
 fome religious or clerical perfon, who Ihould prove his enemy. This 
 came up by direction in twenty years and five weeks from the time of 
 birth; at which period of the native's life, as he hath frequently aflured 
 me, he was prevented from receiving a fum of money from a relation who 
 had actually promifed to give it him, but for the perfualions of the cu- 
 ijate of the parifli, who, having taken fome offente at the native, fet every 
 engine at work to injure him in the opinion of his friends. This afpe(3; 
 is likewife baneful to all contrails or purchafes under it. 
 
 O c5 5 — M. C. d Cor Leo.— © 8 9 • The Sun to the conjunaion of 
 Mercury, the Midheaven to theconjundion of Cor Leonis.and the Part 
 of Fortune to the oppofition of Venus. Thefe directions were all opera- 
 ting at nearly the fame time. Under the firft, he was very Itudioully 
 inclined, and influenced to the regular purfuit of the mathematics. Un- 
 der the fecond, he was introduced to the acquaintance of lisveral refpecla- 
 ble charadeis, eminent in the line of fcience, and who ihould feel a pre- 
 dilection in favour of the native. And this really laid the foundaLion for 
 his being introduced into the mathematical fociety. The third direc- 
 tion operated with the laft, and fliows, that, while he was engaged in 
 forming fuch connections as fliould introduce him into public life, he 
 fliould fall pretty much in the way of the ladies, and that a large and 
 
 perplexing female acquaintance would be the refult, which is indicated 
 
 )y the oppofition of Venus to the Part of Fortune. 
 
 Thefe 
 
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 766 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Thefe hvo laft direftions have their force continued in a more or left 
 fenfible degree, until the influence of fonic other dirertion begins to 
 take place; and this, we find, by looking in the Table of Dire<?lions, p, 
 687, admits a fpace of almoft three years. And here let it be remembered, 
 that the fulfilment of any matter or thing promifed by a direction is 
 completely formed when its afpet'^ is in all refpefts perfect, and the 
 irradiations of each contributing ftar fully complete ; though, according 
 to the latitude of that principal fignificator by which the direction is 
 brought up, the fa hjeB of the matter, or thing fo to be brought about, 
 may by certain gradations of influence be Ibnle time in preparation, ere 
 the abfolute event is really brought to pafs. For, in the cafe of mar- 
 riage, there is ufually fometime fpent in courtfliip and dalliance, before 
 the parties repair to the hymeneal altar. But, when this is performed, 
 or about to be performed, the exa6t working up of the direction fully de- 
 monftrates. So it is in all other cafes where a matter is declared to be 
 brought to pafs by the force of a direc-lion ; except where a direction of 
 a contrary quality, and fnperior fl:rength, falls in its way, and overturns 
 its tendency and influence; on all which occafions the thing orginally 
 predi(^ed is fet afide, and a contrary efte6t takes place; as we frequently 
 obferve in perfons betrothed, who, even at the church-dooi', or befoi'e 
 the altar, change their fentiments, and put the marriage afide. But, if 
 no fuch crofs direc'tions interpole, and a length of time occurs between 
 them, then the original afpedt holds its own proper force and (juality to 
 the full extent, and, whatever it denotes, is in a general way fully com- 
 pleted, with all its confeqnences and contingent eff'edts. 
 
 Afof: ]) . Under this diret'T;ion, the influence v.TOught by the l"aft is 
 brought to perfe(^t maturity. A connexion with one of the ladies, which 
 . had for fome time been formed, is now brought to its crifis ; and, when 
 this afpe^l was complete in all its rays, the parties were married. The 
 perfonal defcription which this afpect gives of the wife, is of a middle 
 Itature, pale dark complexion, brown hair, comely, and agreeable; in 
 mental endowments difcreet and ingenious, rather petulant, and worldly 
 minded, and therefore fufliciently faving and fnigal. 
 
 Afc. n S — (? Afc. Tltefe are both directions of all evil defignation . 
 They import no fmall fliare of vexation and difagreement between the 
 native and his wife, through the means of detraction, and the whifpers of 
 falle female friends, connected with the native's wife, v/ho low the feeds 
 of jealoufy, and lay the foundation of enmity anddifcord betwixt them. 
 The attention of the native is thus for a time taken oft' from objet'^s of 
 preferment and advantage; his aftairs go backward iiithe world, and he 
 
 iuffers
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 767 
 
 fuffers a two-fold anxiety of mind, accompanied with a depreflion of 
 fpirits, conltitutional by the tem))erature of his iignificators at birth, 
 but greatly enlarged by the force of this latter direction. 
 
 ]) >!< O — ©c5'?5. Thefe afpecls are found jointly operating, after 
 the influence of tiie preceding are fpent, though of an oppofite atlion and 
 quality. Under the firft, the native affumes his former puifuit of literapy 
 acquilltions, and endeavours to enlarge his connexions with men of let- 
 ters and character. He fucceeds much to his wiflies, lieing, at ihe 
 time this <liie6lion came up, which was in twenty-five years and nearly 
 a half from his birth, introduced to leveral gentlemen of the firlt literary 
 talents and refpetlability, who promifed him their patronage and friend- 
 fliip. But in the height of thefe flatterhig profpe6ts, the fecond direc- 
 tion, viz. the Part of Fortune to a conjunction of the Dragon's Tail, 
 fubje<fts the native to a violent fore throat and fever, occafioned by cold 
 taken inpurfuing the objects of the other direction. This atfii6tion was 
 ^ery fevere, and feized the native, as he hath lince aflurcd me, when he 
 was twent}'^-five years and a half old, and confined him to his bed for 
 near a fortnight. 
 
 O' 
 
 O A (5 • This direction imports much good to the native, from 
 thofe who are his fuperiors. Under its influence he will extend his li- 
 terary connections ; and will derive honour and eftimation from the ex- 
 tent of his own abilities, in the opinion of thofe who are difpofed to 
 ferve him. This direction likewife, from the prolific fituation of the 
 fignificators in the figure of birth, imports conception to the native's 
 wife, which I have no fcruple to affirm took place under its influence. 
 
 }) A 5 • This is a very flattering direCiion, and prefages much good 
 to the native. Under its force he will apply very close to fcientific ex- 
 ercifes, and enlarge the number of his friends. It was under this di- 
 rection that he was introduced to the acquaintance of Dr. Bevis, who was 
 afterwards very much his friend, and rendered 'him feveral eminent fer- 
 vices. This gentleman was a great encourager of fcientific fpeculations, 
 and was fo perfectly mafter of aitrology, as to have calculated feveral 
 national events, which feverally came to pals with the moft remarkable 
 cxaCtnefs . 
 
 M. C. d <?- This direction implies good to the native, becaufe 
 Mars is lord of the alcendant, otherwife it would have operated to his 
 difadvantage. He was warmly engaged in allronomical enquiries, when 
 
 No. 38. 9 D - this
 
 768 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 this direction operated, which likewife introduced him to a turtlier ac- 
 quaintance witli p;entlemen eminently diilinguithed in that line. It 
 was atthi.s time that he became intimately acciuaiuted with Mr. Charles 
 Brent, altrologer to George II. under whofe royal authority and di- 
 jection he calculated the nativity of our prefent illuilrious uwnarch, 
 King George the Third ; a copy of which nativity he prcfcnted to Mr. 
 Witchell, who afterwards gav^e it to me, and which I have now. fidereally 
 projected in this work. 
 
 '^ M. C-A 5- Under this direction the nati\e hatii a Ton born. It 
 hath likewite a lirong inlci!e(''tual operation upon the native himfelf, 
 who is innxiiled to a critical iuveitigationof the thenfta'.e of the feveral 
 departments of fbieuce, and imports great honour and p)ecimiary advan- 
 tage from hirs labours tlierein, and accelerates his deilres fur attempting 
 to improve them. I iiave had a great deal of converfation with Mr. 
 Witchell on the fubject of this diredion, which I conlidcred fomewhat 
 remarkable ; and he allures me that it was about the time when this direc- 
 tion came up, namely, wlien he had completed his twenty-feventh year^ 
 that the firlt thought of correcting and improving the longitude prefented 
 itfelf to his mind, and which was ever after infeparable from it, until he 
 had fully accompliilied that moil invaluable difcovery. 
 
 }) Smq O M.-^U* 9M. The Moon to the femiquartile of the 
 Sun in Mundo, and the Moon to the Textile of Venus in JNIundo. Here 
 are two generally-good directions operating together, which piomife the 
 Dative health of body, and felicity of mind. The affairs of his family 
 will profper under them, and all matters lelating t(j fubltance and ad- 
 vantage will fncceed well. He takes feveral little journeys, Avhich iliall 
 prove profitable and pleafant, and hath the pleafure of receiving fome 
 unequivocal marks of the hncerity and confidence of his friends. And 
 the native has frankly acknowledged to me, that no part of his life was 
 I'o free from the intrufions of care and perplexity as the fpace of time 
 occupied by thefe two afpe6ls, which carry hun from the twenty-feventh 
 to the twenty-eighth year of his age. 
 
 ©A3 M.— Afc.n 9 . The firft of thefe joint directions hath the 
 defignation of much good to the native; for while it prompts him to a 
 laudable purfuit in the improvements of fcience, it will enlarge the 
 circle of his friends, and promote his reputation with the world. But 
 as the brighteft day is not without its clouds, fo this direction is united 
 H'ithone not quite fo aufpicious. The quartile of Venus to the afcen- 
 
 dant.
 
 OF A S T R O L O G Y. 769 
 
 daiit, is produclive of family broils and diflenfions. Jealoufies are re- 
 newed under this dire6tioa; and the native perhaps will find, tliat 
 dealings with the fair fex are not altogether fo piofitabie to him. On 
 the contraiy, he will experience, about this time, the flrongeit exertions 
 of a quondam favourite female to work his deftruclion, which, however, 
 flie will not be able to effect. Under this direction the native's wife con- 
 ceives a fecond time with a male child. 
 
 T/.-a T?M. Jupiter to the quartile of Saturn in Mundo. This di- 
 rection continues the baneful eflfec^ls of the former, transrerrina the 
 malignity of his female enemy to thofe of his male, whereby a variety 
 of unpleafant occurrences follow, and many mean and ungenerous ad- 
 vantages are attempted to be taken of him. This is followed by a con- 
 fequent lofs of fubiiance, which appears ultimately the means of ter- 
 niinating the evil machinations enforced againll him. Were the parti- 
 culars of this feries of vexations and perplexity to be unfolded, with the 
 caufe which gave them being, it might tend to Ibengthen the reijiita— 
 tion of planetary prefcience ; but the beft of people are not without 
 tlieir weak fule, and God forbid T Ibould take pleafure in expofino- the 
 foibles of any man, mach lei's of one who may be ranked amon« tlie 
 number of the raoft deferving, and to whom I am under many^obli- 
 gations. Suffice it to fay, that the party of the offended female made 
 head againft him, until he confented to pay a handfo me douceur, which 
 as he himfelf informed me, put an end to hoftijities, and reftored the 
 olive-branch of peace. 
 
 '■■ O A o M. This direcSfcion promifes advantage to the native, the Sun- 
 being lord of the tenth, and Mars of the afcendant. This denotes prol- 
 perity and refpedt, and fome advantage by the fidelity and ability of "ood; 
 fervants. It likewife gives the native feveral mathematical fchotars 
 who become lludents under him. 
 
 M. €.<?$. Under the mal-influence of this diredion, the native 
 feels the vindictive lliafts of private enemies, and again encounters fome 
 family broils, and dilingenuous refle(5lions, which likewife originate- 
 from a female caufe, and for a time diiturb the internal tranquilfity of 
 his mind. 
 
 0* $ . This direction leftores peace and harmony to his family, 
 gives him another pupil in the ftudy of the mathematics, and all thin'gi 
 gQ ojj. fmoothiy, and much to the native's fatisfaClion and advantaoS 
 
 He
 
 770 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 He receives pleafiue in the purfuits of feveral amufemenis, and is on 
 terms of perfect amity with his wife and her friends. Under this direc- 
 tion Hkewife ]Mrs.. Witchell becomes pregnant with a daughter. 
 
 ® 3|c 5 M. This dire(?^ion operates upon the mental faculties, and 
 promifes much good to the native. Under its iufluence he writes the 
 Mathematical Magazine, and acquires unbounded reputation in the lite- 
 rary world. He alio obtains an increale of pupils to his mathematical 
 fchool, and meets with encouragement and luccefs in all his under- 
 takings. 
 
 D Z. P. b- The Moon to the zodiacal parallel of Saturn. This 
 direction imports no pleafmg occurrence to the native; under its opera- 
 tion his father falls fick, and his family is opprelTed with vexation and 
 forrow, arifmg from thofe evils which chequer life, and render the moft 
 oerfedt Hate of human blifs mutable and precarious. The native hiui- 
 lelf will be much afflicted with melancholy by this dir-e6tion. 
 
 J Z. P. c? . The Moon to the zodiacal parallel of Mars. This gave 
 Mrs. Witchell another daughter, and demonftrates a bad and fickly la- 
 bour, attended with a dangerous fever to the native, as is declared by 
 the conftitution of tiiis parallel with Mars ; for parallels are either good 
 or bad, according to the nature and quality of the planets by which they 
 are refpe6tively brought up. This judgment is likewiie confirmed by 
 the polition of the Dragon's Tail in the tenth. 
 
 ©/li^M. This configuration being in Mundo, denotes increafe 
 of fubftance to the native, either by legacy, or by hereditary right 
 to the effecils of fome deceafed perfon, which happened when this direc- 
 tion was completely wrought. It Hkewife indicates profperity to the 
 native, by means of profeffional application and perfeverance in the ob- 
 jedis before him. 
 
 D Smq. 5 M. — © n 1/. . Thefeare directions which induce a fort of 
 <:hc{i[uered life to the native; for, having an oppofite quality and influence 
 to each other, whatever the one impels, the other countera(^ts, and 
 renders all attempts, and all endeavours, while thefe directions are ope- 
 rating, totally abortive. The native will take fome Ihort journeys under 
 the conftitution of thefe afpe6ls, in hopes of obtaining preferment ; but 
 his labours will prove fruitlefs, and all his prefent hopes terminate in 
 
 difappointment-
 
 OF ASTROLOGY 771 
 
 difappointment. Juft fo, as the native lumfelf afllired me, was the 
 greater part of his thirty-fixth year diftiugaifhed, at which period thefe 
 duedions yielded their influence; and niany times, when he had reafon 
 to expeft the full completion of his wiflies, fome untoward circumftance 
 or other conftantly intervened, to fet his hopes afide. 
 
 Q. Tp — ]) (5 h). Thefe dire^ions are fraught with no good, but 
 threaten great anxiety of miud and depreflion of fpirits to the native, 
 refulting from fome iecret enemies, who make a point of oppofing his 
 career, and who vilify and traduce him to fome perfons of diftind^ion 
 and power. He will likewife fufFer fome afflidlion in his eyes, and 
 dizzinels of the head, with melancholy and perturbation of mind, whilft 
 the fecond direction is under its operation. 
 
 J> -Jji. ^. The Moon to the fextile of Saturn, by converfe motion. 
 Under this diredtion the native has another daughter born ; but its in- 
 fluence upon his temporal affairs is but little better then the former; 
 lince this afpedl comes up very quickly after them, and participates of 
 their quality and temperature. The native recovers completely from 
 his indifpofition ; but the viciffitudes of fortune, and the vexations of his 
 mind, continue with little abatement, until the effe61s of this diredliou are 
 wholly taken off by the fucceflion of another. 
 
 D >|< 5 . This is a very promifing diredlion, replete with happinefs 
 and good fortune to the native. The powers of fenfe, of difcernment, 
 and invention, are here ftrongly combined, and the refult leads to 
 profperity and fame. The native's difcoveries in the longitude are here 
 moft aptly depidled ; and I have no doubt, but under the force of this 
 diredtion they were rendered complete. The friendly rays of the Moon 
 and Mercury, in elevated places of the horofcope, are uniformly pro- 
 dutlive of the moft acute intelledlual endovi^ments; but relate, in a 
 more peculiar manner, to an extenlive knowledge in faience, and to an 
 unbounded comprehenfion of the power and extent of figures. This 
 diredlion came up in thirty-eight years and eight months from the hour 
 of birth, at which period the native made his laft and final improve- 
 ments in the longitude, for which his raajefty rewarded him with a 
 liberal annuity during the refidue of his life. Let it be remembered 
 that this afpedl falls in twenty-five degrees fifteen minutes of Aquarius ; 
 and that the nature of thefe planets being fo exadlly conftituted with 
 the quality of the fign, clearly demonftrares that the improvement and 
 difcovery, brought up by this direction, (hould, in a particular manner. 
 
 No. 39. q E relate
 
 772 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 relate to the fea; a circumftance deferving the attention of every curious 
 reader. 
 
 © Smq. 11 M. Part of Fortune to the femiquartile of Jupiter in 
 mundo. Under this direction the native fufFers a flight indiipofition. 
 The internal peace of his family \\ ill likewile be dilturbed, from a fe- 
 male caufe ; which however will (hortly fubhde.* He will likewife 
 experience lome (hurt peiplexity in mones -matters, which perhaps may 
 make him more cautious of fupplying the neceffities of others betore he 
 provides for his own. 
 
 . D A O M. This afpedi: brings frefh honour and reputation to the na- 
 tive ; for under its influence he will experience the united recommenda- 
 tions and good offices of his friends. The direction comes up in iMay 
 1766, and holds on to the middle of October following, as may be leen in 
 the Table of Direftions belonging to this nativity, p. 689; in which 
 fpace Mr. VVitchell has allured me he experienced the moll: remarkable 
 inftances of civility and fnendfhip from feveral members of the Royal 
 Society, and from other gentlemen of dillino-uifhed merit. 
 
 ]) Z. P. 5 . This direftion participates much of the benevolent na- 
 ture of the preceding, and promiles additional prolperity to the native in 
 a moft eminent degree. It prepares and fortifies his mind for frelh 
 ftudies, and influences a laborious application to books, and to experi- 
 mental philolbphy. Under this direftion we perceive the foundation of 
 a journey, which will probably be taken in confequence of fome advan* 
 tageous occurrence. 
 
 }) ^ 5 . This, and the foregoing dire<Slion, have in many refpeds 
 a joint influence, as they follow in io quick a fucceffion, and partici- 
 pate of the fame benignant quality. This afpect completes itie good 
 fortune begun by the former J) >H ? , under which he received a reward 
 for his difcoverles. The prefent benignant configuration, conftituted 
 with other rays, brings him a frefh inllance of the approbation of his 
 ibvereign, who appoints him under this direction, to the Mafter- 
 ftiip of the Royal Academy at Portfmouth. This diredlion comes 
 up in November 1766, and operates until the month of Odlober 1767, 
 at which time another diredion fucceeds. Mr. W itchell took pofTefiion 
 of his new-appointed office the 26th of March, 1767, when this diretlion 
 was ill its utmoft force. And we might here Uace the completion of that 
 
 journey,
 
 O F A 8 T R O L O G Y T^o, 
 
 journey, predicted under the laft dire»5tion, which now conveys the native 
 and his tamily to a new refidence, in a ditFerent part of the kingdom. 
 And, if we contemp ate the quality and pofition of the correfponding" 
 fignificators, with the affinity of Mercury and Venus, and the llgn they 
 are pofited in, near the fortunate node of the Moon, we fhall find that 
 they exadly defcnbe the fituation to which the native's family fhould 
 remove, and that their refidence. ftiould be permanent and profperous. 
 
 J) Sirjq. 5 M. This is likewifa a profperous diredlion, and ftill 
 continues the good etFects of the former three. The native derives ad- 
 vantage and pledlurc from an acquifition of new friends and acquaintance, 
 addicts himfelf to literary purfuits, and is more ftudious than for a con- 
 fiderable time before. Under this dire<5iion, as I fince learn, he publifhed 
 his Mathematical Queries. 
 
 c5 9 . The Sun to the conjunft'-on of Venus, by converfe motion. 
 Although this afpe6l is fraught with fome good, and gives the native 
 an addition to his family by the birth of a daughter, yet the etFe6l of 
 its direttion w^ill bring to pais fome unpleafant occurrences, particu- 
 larly relating to the female part of his family, which is obvious in this 
 configuration, by Venus being conftituted lady of the eighth and 
 twelfth houfcs. 
 
 1) 8 If. M. This gives the native fome fruitlefs journeys to feveral 
 eminent perfons, from which he returns with no great fhare of con- 
 tent. He will lofe money by fome fpeculative adventure; and, what- 
 ever fcheme he fets on foot under this diredion, either for emolument 
 or fame, will prove abortive, and eventually tend to his difadvantage 
 and prejudice. About this time, I find Mr. Witchell loft a large fum by 
 adventuring in the lottery, •'' 
 
 2> D 1/ . This configuration is made in the zodiac, and participates 
 of the fame unfriendly quality with the laft. The Moon is lady of the 
 ninth, and Jupiter lord of the fifth and fecond, whereby this direction 
 will bring up lofs of fubflance to the native, by means of the uon ability 
 of Ibme quondam friend, or clerical perlon, to fulfil his eiiijagements in 
 money-concerns. It likevvife argues the exertions of fome private enemy, 
 to biaft the native's charadcr and reputation, with regard to his friends 
 and familv. This occurrence, the native told me, he had too much 
 realbn to recoUedl, with heart-felt regret. 
 
 P. 6 M,
 
 774 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 O P. c? M. The Sun tn the parallel of Mars in Mundo. This di- 
 re6iion pron:iiles to advance the native's profeflional charadter; Mars 
 being the fignificator of his proieilion, exalted by a parallel from the 
 Sun. Traiiquiility and luccels accompany this direction, and under its 
 influence the native will have a (on go out to fea. Tho(e in iubordinate 
 ftations to the native will afford him fatisfadion, and his fervants and 
 domeftics will be found orderly aiid faithful. All things now go 
 fmoothly on, and his own wiftics and delires are in almofi: every (hape 
 completely gratified. 
 
 1> S 6 ' lender this dirc<51ion the native fuffers feme uneafinels re- 
 lative to his fon's voyage. He will likewile experience lome lofs by a 
 Ipeculative adventure, which never can fucceed under this aipe6l. An 
 unplealant dilagrcement appears very likely to happen in his family ; 
 and whatever friendftiip or conne6lion he forms under this configuration 
 will prove faithlefs and vexatious. 
 
 A b M. This configuiation gives folidity and ftability to the 
 mind, conlolidates the ideas, and influences an unufual ferioufneis of 
 imagination, which, confidering the phlegmatic temperature of the 
 native, will moft likely affli<5l him with lownels of Ipirits, nervous af- 
 fections, and habitual melancholy. Under this direction, however, 
 the native's mind will be engaged in a defire of purchafing ibme houfe 
 or land, which will occupy mofl of the time this dlredVion continues 
 in force; and whatever purchafe he makes under it will be advantage- 
 ous and latisfaftory to himfelf and his family. 
 
 Q 8 6' The Sun to the oppofition of Mars, by converfe motion. 
 This is a malevolent direflion, and imports no good to the native, thro' 
 the means of fome fubordinate perfon, fervant, or domertic, but which 
 the native will dete6t and defeat. He will fuffer a few weeks' illnels 
 under a flow nervous fever, which goes off with the termination of this 
 difcordant arj}e6t, and is fucceeded by an indifferentiy-good fliate of health, 
 and celerity of fpirits; which is demonftrated by the direftion arifing 
 from the parallel of Mercury and Jupiter, which comes up immediately 
 upon it, abating the evil, and removing the intemperate quality, by 
 milder rays. 
 
 }) (5 9 • This configuration is extenfively good, and gives the na- 
 tive profperity and fuccefs in all things which relate either to the ninth, 
 fifth, or eighth, houfes. Under this diredion=he takes a pleafant and 
 
 profitable
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 7;,- 
 
 profitable journey, has the fatisfaciion of feeing all his defa-es profper, 
 and has peace, harmony, and content, in his own family, and good fellow- 
 fhip with his affociates and neighbours. 
 
 A ]) • This is a very excellent and profperous direftion, in- 
 fluencifig a variety of favourable occurrences to the native, both in the 
 line of his profeffion and in the general approbation and regard of his 
 luperiors and friends. The trine alpeft of the two luminaries, in emi- 
 nent places of the horofcope, is in all cafes to be regarded as a fvmbol 
 of great good, and of an advantageous and honourable intercourie, ac- 
 cording to the birth and flation of the native, with Ibme high and ele- 
 vated perfons of rank and fortune. Had the native not been previoufly 
 appointed to the ftation he now filled, he would, under this diredion, 
 in all human probability, have obtained fome fimilar preferment, from 
 the fimilarity of the afpeds ; but, as it was, the good efFcd of this di- 
 redion was fenfibly wrought upon him, fince it introduced him to feve- 
 ral noble perfonages, who at this time placed their fons under his care 
 and tuition, for the purpofes of obtaining a nautical education. 
 
 % § Afc. Jupiter to an oppofition of the afcendant. This direction 
 impairs the native's health, alters the ftate of his blood, and induces a 
 bilious complaint in the bowels. He will moft likely fufFer by Ibme 
 difputation or difagreement with an acquaintance, and perhaps experi- 
 ence a very unplealant embarraflment on the occalion,. with- lofs of 
 fubftance. 
 
 1> A © M. The Moon to the trine of the Part of Fortune in mundo. 
 This configuration always forbodes increafe of fortune, fuccefsful en- 
 terprife, benefit in fpeculation, and profperity in bufinefs. Under this 
 direftion the native experienced a great fhare of eftimation from his fupe- 
 riors, and felt the emoluments arifing from it. 
 
 ^P. 9 M. This diredion imports death to fome female in the na- 
 tive's family; and, as Venus is conflituted lady of the feventh houfe, 
 with clofe affinity to the native in his radical figure, it is mofl probable 
 he will lofe his wife ; it is apparent, however, that this configuration- 
 will produce him much anxiety and perturbation of mind, with deprel- 
 fion of fpirits and deep melancholy. — Upon enquiry, I found that Mrs. 
 Witchell reallv died under this diredion. 
 
 D Smq. If. M. — © M. P. }) . The Moon to the femiquartile of Jupi- 
 ter in mundo; and the Sun to the mundane parallel of the Ptloon. 
 No. 39. 9 F Tbcfc
 
 ^jr6 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 Thefe are both propitious direftions, and., prefagc a continuance pf 
 much good to the native. He will prolpcr in all undertakings in the 
 way of his profefTion, will receive frelli marks of the approbation and 
 attention of his friends, and will rife in the eftln:iation of Ibme high 
 and noble patron; whereby his fpirits v.ill be exhilarated and his me- 
 lancholy removed. Thele pleafmg eircumftances alternately occurred 
 durino- the time thefe diredions contributed their influence, which laited, 
 in a more or lefs powerful degree, from the beginnmg of November, 
 1778, to the month of September, 1779, ^'^'^^ ^^^^^ efFetts . totally 
 iublided. 
 
 Afc. ^ b • This diredion is armed with the moft ferious affliftion 
 to the natiVe of any thing that hath yet gone before it. It is the 
 .harbinger of I'ome fudden difeafe that threatens life. And, if we con- 
 fider the radical miport of this al'ped, taken colle6lively with the irra- 
 'diatlons of the other planets, and their relpedive pofitions and par- 
 ticular places in the figure, as they ftand influenced and impregnated 
 with the ambient quality of the figns, we can have no realbn to hefitate 
 in our judo-ment, that this aflSiftion will fall as it were inftantaneoufly, 
 and that it will come by fome defeft in the animal, circulation, or in 
 the fundtions of the brain, whereby fenfation will be deftroyed, me- 
 mory obliterated, or bodily motion withheld; but the mod probable 
 efi^ed of the three arifes from the fuperior dignity of Saturn, who 
 o-overns this afpedt ; and, as he rules the retentive faculty of man, 
 ft becomes pretty evident that this diforder fhould be a fit of the 
 palfy, falling upon the brain, whereby the native fhould lufi^er a 
 privation of fenfe and motion, particularly deflruftive to the ideas 
 of the mind, and to the force of memory. Under this diredion 
 Mr. Witchell really had the misfortune to fall down in an apo- 
 ple6lic fit, which held him for fome time in a f1:ate of perfe6t 
 infenfibility, deprived of fight and motion, and of every vifible ap- 
 pearance of life. When circulation was reflored, and pulfation re- 
 turned, the native became fenfible to pain, and re-pofTe/Ted all the 
 funftions of the body; but his memory continued for fome time wholly 
 arrefled, and was ever after greatly impaired: his whole frame felt the 
 fhock, and his conf^itution was vifibly flruggling with it, during the 
 full time of this direction. Our recovery, indeed, from all complaints 
 - influenced by Saturn is ufually flow; but particularly fo, when they are 
 occafioned almofl: entirely by his own malignant influence, unabated by 
 4»ildier rays. 
 
 4 A $M.
 
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 /// 
 
 c? A 9 M. This dire<^ion is of a more grateful quality, giving the 
 native cheerfuhiefs, and removing 'in fome meafurc his habitual melan- 
 choly. This direftioa naturally inclines the fancy to women, and in- 
 cites amorous defires; and I have no doubt but the native, even under 
 an impaired conftitution, and a confirmed nervous habit, was more 
 than ordinarily awakened to thefe defires during the operation of this 
 afped. It was, neverthelefs, too indelicate a queftion for me to put, 
 however my curiofity might have been excited by the vifible defignation 
 of the planets, or however anxious I might have been to juftify the di- 
 rettions of a nativity which were intended for public fcrutiny. 
 
 I> A d M. This dire6lion participates extremely of the quality of 
 the foregoing, and they operate in many inftances with a joint influ- 
 ence, being both from afpc61:s made in the world, and coming up 
 nearly together. The native hath certainly ftrong predilections in fa- 
 vour of fome particular female; and, if his conftitution was not fome- 
 what impaired, and his mind pretty much engrofled by other concerns, I 
 have no kind of doubt but he would have married again wiiile this di- 
 reftion operated ; but, though it gives radical import of fuch an 
 event, yet when we come to confider it maturely with the quality of 
 other planets, whofe horofcopical places at the birth gave them a con- 
 cern in the completion of fuch an event, we fhall find fome few argu- 
 ments wanting to give it a complete turn in favour of a fecond matrimo- 
 nial engagement. But that the native had ftrong prepofTeflions that way 
 1 have not the leaft doubt, and with a lady who perhaps is now living, and 
 might confirm the truth of my remark, 
 
 Afc. A c? • This direftion is naturally good, inclining the native to 
 fortitude and perfeverance, and gives animation to the fpirits, and vigour 
 to the mind. He will, however, be fomewhat abfolute and arbitrary 
 under it, particularly in his own family, and with his more immediate 
 domeftics and dependents. With refpeit to bodily infirmity, he will 
 feel an affliction of choler, and feverifh tendency, induced by the qua- 
 lity of Mars, who has borne rule in the three laft diredlions ; and, by 
 thus encreafing the energy of his influence upon the fpirits, will leave 
 them fubjeft to a flow nervous fever, deftrudlive to the radical moifture 
 of nature, and to the free circulation of the blood and juices. 
 
 © Q. b M. This diredion is the forerunner of a worfe. It is not 
 a configuration that deftroys life ; but it is one that unhinges the ner- 
 vous fyftem, and reduces the native to a painful ftate of hypochondriacal 
 
 melancholy.
 
 778 AN I L L LJ S T R A t f O N 
 
 melanchoh-. It is a remarkable circumftance, that Saturn and the Sua 
 Ihoiikl form the lait afpeft in this nativity, which precedes that of 
 death; and that of the Sun, he\ug ana> eta, no fooner feparates from Sa- 
 turn, the moil malevolent planet, then lie appli-S to and receives tlie 
 Part of Fortune, which is /ly/eg. Neither is it lefs curious to remark 
 the gradual fatality which is here brought on and announced to the na- 
 tive. Mars, the Imaller infortune, occupies the chief influence of the three 
 diredions which operate prior to this; and he no fooner retires, than he 
 is fucceeded by the greater infortur.e, Saturn, who gives place to tlie 
 Sun, the anareta. And thus, ojjerating by a gradual yet fenfible influ- 
 ence, from a lefs to a fuperior ftate of infirmity, brings on that inevita- 
 ble and final cleftiny, which gives every good and virtuous individual *' a 
 place amongft the gods." 
 
 (5> O. In this direction, therefore, we fee the two principal fig- 
 jiificators of life and death, which were conflituted in the radical figure 
 of birth, form that fatal configuration, which, in all countries, and 
 in all nati\ities, is uniformly the fame. The one, at the moment we 
 enter into this world, is conftituted hyleg, that is, giver or protestor 
 of life, becaufe we are formed and nouriflied in the womb under the 
 influence and temperature of that particular planet, and becaufe it 
 guards us in every peril of our earthly pilgrimage. The other is in the 
 fame early period conftituted anareta, or deflroyer of life, becaufe it is 
 tempered by its horofcopical pofition, with qualities diametrically op- 
 pofite to the hyleg; and becaufe, whenever it can form an evil confi- 
 guration with the hyleg, it will deprive it of all its power and efficacy, 
 and overcome its preferving faculty, by a fuperabundant energy of op- 
 pofing matter, which nothing lefs than a fupernatural caufe can either 
 alter or prevent. And therefore, when that certain caufe, that vege- 
 tative faculty, which fupports nature and fuflains life, is thus over- 
 whelmed by a redundancy or fuperioi ity of matter or influence, incom- 
 patible with, and contrary to, itfelf, its cxiftence becomes annihilated, 
 and the native dies. Thus it is in the prefent cafe. The Sun, in this 
 uativity, being conflituted of a dire6l oppofite quality to the Part of 
 Fortune, will, whenever they form an oppofition or quartile aipeiSf, 
 abforb its power, and deftroy its influence ; in which cafe, whatever 
 be the thing that was nourifhed or brought into being under it, will be 
 deftroyed likevvife. 
 
 If we regard, with a critical eye, the prefent figure of birth, wc 
 fliall find every proof of thofe oppofing qualities in thefe two fignifica- 
 
 tors.
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 779 
 
 tors, that conftitute the hyleg and anareta; but the number of days, 
 weeks, months, or years, which thele two llgnificators will occupy 
 before they meet or form this difcordant afpeft, can only be known by- 
 equating the arch of diredion which brings them into conta6l. This 
 I have done in p. 685, where it appears, that thefe two fignincators 
 were fifty-lix years and ten months in coming to this pofition in the 
 heavens, from their refpeftive places or pofitions at the time of the na- 
 tive's birth; and it is a fa6t too well eftabliihed to admit either doubt or 
 refutation, that the native died with a ftroke of the palfy, which this 
 afpedt defcribes, on the 29th of January, 1785, at which time he was 
 exa6tly fifty-fix years and ten months old! 
 
 Thus it is apparent, that, however unaccountable or undefinable thefe 
 planetary irradiations might appear, they certainly are what the Su- 
 preme Author of all things originally intended them to be, the natural 
 and efficient caufes of thofe flrange and complicated mixtures and af- 
 fe6tions in men, which have confounded the fpeculations of the wifeft: 
 philofophers. And I am perfuaded that no man, unleis it be thofe 
 who are wilfully obftinate, can hefitate in forming his opinion of the 
 truth of thefe premifes ; particularly after obferving that no remarkable 
 incident of this native's life ever happened, but under the uniform influ- 
 ence, and as it were by the conlent, of one or other of thefe direflions, 
 the defining of which conftitutes the only true and rational mode of 
 prediding by, or of calculating, nativities. 
 
 But, before I difmifs this fijbjeft, and in order to render every part 
 of the icience as plain as poflible, it will be proper, in this place, to 
 explain what is meant by Revolutions and Tranfits. A revolution is a 
 returning or revolving back of any one of the celeftial bodies to the 
 tame place or point in the heavens from whence it firft receded; for fo 
 the word radically imports. But, in our application of it to explain or 
 illuftrate any particular circumflance in a nativity, it ufually refers only 
 to the return of the Sun to his radical place in the zodiac, that is, to 
 the fame degree and minute of the fign wherein he was pofited in the 
 hour of birth. For the truth is, that revolutions and tranfits more 
 properly appertain to the fate of empires than to the circumfiances of 
 a nativity. It has, however, been found, by eflablilhed obfervatioa 
 and long practice, that the revolutions, not only of the Sun, but of all 
 the other principal fignificators in a nativity, to their radical places in 
 the horofcope, excite a very powerful additional influence in the alpecfls 
 and dire6tions then operating, whether of a good or evil nature; but 
 
 No. 39. 9 G more
 
 y2o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 more particularly when the planet, fo falling into its radical point, 
 participates ftrongly of the fame quality and temperature as the confi- 
 guration or direftion then in force. And hence it is ufual for every 
 judicious proficient in this art, when he is calculating and bringing up 
 the directions of a nativity, to ere6t rcvolutional figures through the 
 whole period of the native's life, in order to obtain the moCl: latisfadtory 
 information in the probable or poflible means, whereby any important 
 direction, whether good or bad, might be increafed or diminished in 
 its natural quality and import, by the falling in of the revolution of 
 any other fignificator, or of any particular planet tranfiting the place, 
 tinder the influence of which the cuflomary effeft of the diredion may 
 be varied. 
 
 The ufual way of ereCting a revolutional figure is by adding five 
 hours and fortv-eight minutes to the exa6t time of the native's birth 
 for every year's revolution; and when the aggregate exceeds twenty- 
 four hours, the twenty-four are to be caft away. For example, I would 
 fet a revolutional figure of Mr. Witchell's birth. Now the time of 
 the day on which he was born was feven hours fifty-two minutes in 
 the afternoon. The figure of birth, it muft be obferved, flands for the 
 firft year; confequently the firfl: revolutional figure to be fet for the na- 
 tive exhibits the pofitions of the luminaries and planets for the fecond 
 year of his asre; and the leventh alio anfwers from the feventh to the 
 eighth; and therefore, if we add five hours forty-eight minutes for every 
 year, cafling away the aggregate of twenty-four hours as often as they oc- 
 cur, we fliall unifoimly obtain the precife fituations and precifions of the 
 planets for the year required. 
 
 A. m. 
 
 Thus, {&\t\\ times five hours forty-eight minutes is 40 36 
 
 From which fubtraCl — — , — 24 o 
 
 And there remains — — 16 36 
 
 To which add the hours from noon on the day of the na- 
 tive's birth, viz. — — , — 7 52 
 
 ' And the fum will be — — 24 28 
 
 From this fum the twenty-four hours are again to be caft away, and 
 the Table ©f Houfes is to be entered with twenty-eight minutes, under 
 the title of Time from Noon, in the fame manner as before directed for 
 eredling the horofcope; and the heavenly bodies will be found to dif- 
 play themfelves in the following manner: 
 
 Ilavino:
 
 OF ASTROLOGT 
 
 781 
 
 Having delineated the figure, we are to examine how it agrees with 
 the radix, or original figure, of birth, and whether it be in Textile, 
 trine, or oppofition, to it; and alfo what planets make their return to 
 their own radical places, or to the radical places of others; and alio 
 whether the luminaries be well beheld by the benefics, or afflided by 
 the rays of noxious planets, or by the fixth, eighth, or twelfth, houfes 
 of the radical figure of birth; or whether Saturn or Mars afflift the 
 places of the Sun, Moon, or afcendant of the radix, or'whether there 
 occur any eclipfe cither upon or near the radical places of the three 
 Hylegiacals; for, according as thefe circumftances- are found, fo will the 
 affairs of the native be either injured or advantaged, and his health 
 either impaired or eftablilhed, as the cafe fhall happen to be. For, if 
 vinbenign occurrences in the revolution fall in with the qualities and rays 
 of the fame difcordant nature in the radix, evil and afHidion w ill be 
 predided, in proportion to the ftrength and qualities of the fignifica- 
 
 tors;,
 
 782: AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 tors; and, on the contrary, if grateful and benign influences thus con- 
 cur, and mutually aid and unite in benevolent temperatures, then great 
 and lafting good, according to the different natures of the planetary 
 caufes and effedls, will undoubtedly take place. But, to make this 
 I'omewhat more familiar to the reader's underftanding, I fhall give a few 
 general rules, whereby judgment may be determined in other cafes. 
 
 Whenever the hyleg, or giver of life, whether it be the Sun, Moon, 
 Part of Fortune, or Afcendant, in the radix or genethliacal figure of 
 birth, is found t-o behold its {)Iace in the revolutional figure, by form- 
 ing a Textile o\- trine afpecT: with each other, it is confidered a vifiblc 
 argument that the native {hall, during that year, enjoy health of body, 
 and that his affairs will in a general way go well; but if this afpect be 
 made by a quartile or oppofition, the contrary effe6ls are denoted. So 
 if the Moon, in both the radix and revolutional figure, be free from the 
 malignant rays of the infortunes, and not combufl, it is likewife an 
 argument of aji healthful and profperous year, more efpecially if fhe be 
 configurated with benefic ftars. But, if the Moon be combuft, or af- 
 flided with the malefic rays of Saturn or Mars, it will prove an unlucky 
 and fickly year. 
 
 If, in the revolutional figure, an eclipfe or comet fliould fall upon 
 the afcendant, it threatens a year of great trouble and anxiety to the 
 native. But, if the eclipfe in the revolutional figure, whether of the 
 Sun or Moon, fhould fall exactly in the lame degree as the hyleg, or 
 giver of life, in the radical figure of birth, and any violent configuration 
 .of the malefics fliould begin to operate at the fame time, it will, in 
 all probability, affe61: the native's life, by increafing the malignancy of 
 the alpedl, and heightening the violence of the means, whatever it may 
 be, by which life is threatened. So, if an eclipfe of the Sun fhould 
 fn like manner fall in the fame degree and minute of the Dragon's 
 Head, it alio endangers life; but, if it only falls near the fame point, 
 it th^n threatens danger or dlfeale in that year, but not fuch as fhould 
 touch life. 
 
 If in the revolution the Part of Fortune falls in the fame desrree 
 as in the radix, it is implicative of the fame effefts, and will tend to fa- 
 cilitate them in a more eminent and obvious manner; and, if it happens 
 that this petition falls in a good afpetl with its difpofitor, it will greatly 
 tend to increafe the native's wealth or fubflance during that year; but, 
 it' Liie afped be made with malefic rays, and the horofcopical polition 
 
 of
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 783 
 
 of the Part of Fortune in abjeft places, it portends a dired contrary 
 efFe6l. It is, however, always to be remembered, that any planet 
 ftrong and eflentially dignified in a revolution, and at the fame time' in 
 good afpe6t with the Part of Fortune, or with the lord of the fecond 
 houfe, or with Jupiter, Venus, or the Moon in reception, uniformly 
 prefages good fortune to the native during that year. 
 
 If the Sun be in the firft houfe, mid-heaven, or eleventh houfe of 
 the revolutional figure, in good aipefl: with Jupiter or Venus in the 
 radix, and free from the unbenign radiations of the infortunes, it de- 
 notes an increale of honour and reputation, of refpeft and efteem, 
 during that year, although no direftion whatever fhould be then ope- 
 rating to increafe its influence. So Jupiter, well configurated in the 
 afcendant, or in Pifces, Cancer, or Sagittarius, indicates the fame, ac- 
 cording to the quality and occupation of the native; but he denotes 
 honour and eftieem in a much more eminent degree when pofited in the 
 medium coeli. Or, if the revolutional afcendant be the place of the 
 Dragon's Head in the radix, and irradiated by Jupiter, it likewife pro- 
 motes honour, and increafes worldly efteem ; and fo, vice verfa, if the 
 afcendant of the radical figure of birth be the place of the Dragon's 
 Head in the revolution, it denotes the fame. 
 
 If in the revolutional figure the luminaries are conjoined in the fe- 
 venth or fourth houfe, it prefages death either to the father or mother 
 of the native ; more efpecially if their places in the radical figure be 
 likewife infortunated by malignant rays. If Saturn be found to afHidl 
 the Sun by quartile or oppofition, or by conjundHon in one of the an- 
 gular houfes, it is an argument that the father fhall make his exit ; but 
 if the Moon be thus afflifted by Saturn, with relative pofitions in the 
 two horofcopes, it prefages death to the mother; for in thefe cafes the 
 Sun is natural fignificator of the. father, and the Moon of the mother ; 
 and, when, thus configurated in a revolutional figure, they forbode 
 death to happen within the year. 
 
 Whenever the lord of the fifth is pofited in the afcendant, or the lord 
 of the afcendant in the fifth houfe of the revolutional figure, and in a 
 fruitful fign, with due affinity to the radix, it is a moft propitious con- 
 figuration to give the native iffue, if married ; but, if fingle, it will be a 
 very dangerous year to the native, by intercourfes with the other fex. — 
 If the native be a male, he will mofl probably have an illegitimate ofF- 
 fpring to provide for; but, if a female and a virgin, fhe will rarely 
 
 No. 39. 9 H efcape
 
 784 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 efcapc ruin, and will probably become the unproteiled mother of an 
 nnfortunate orphan. This afpevSi: is therefore to be regarded with the 
 titmofl: attention, and relifted with becoming fortitude and refolution by 
 both (exes. 
 
 If the lord of the fifth be pofited in the twelfth, (it being the eighth 
 from the fifth,) in fimilar afpetl to the radix, it threatens death to the 
 native's children. So likewile if Saturn oj- Mars, or the Dragon's Tail, 
 be pofited in the fiftii houfe of the revolutional figure, in evil afpedt 
 with the radix, it forbodes death to the native's iflue in the courfe of 
 that year. Or if Saturn or Mars affli6t the fifth houfe or its lord by 
 conjunftion, quaitile, or oppofition, it implies the fame. 
 
 t 
 
 Whenever the lord of the afcendant, in the revolutional figure, is po- 
 fited in the feventh houfe, and comes by diredion to the ladical place of 
 Venus in the figure of birth ; or if the lord of the feventh, in the revo- 
 lution, is brought by dire£tion to the alcendant of the radix, they afford 
 ample proofs that the native will marry in the courfe of that year. Or 
 if Jupiter, Venus, the Moon, or Part of Fortune, be thus irradiated, it 
 denotes a propenfity in the native to coatra6t matrimony, although cir— 
 cumflances might occur to prevent it. 
 
 Whenever Saturn is pofited in the feventh houfe of the radix, and 
 found alfo in the feventh houfe of the revolution, it threatens death to 
 the native's wife before the expiration of that year. Mars and the Dra- 
 gon's Tail thus configurated, imports little lefs. Mercury,, if afflidfed 
 by the malevolents, and in the feventh houfe, declares muck danger to- 
 the native; but, if configurated with Venus, under the fame malignant 
 rays, it threatens mifchief both to the native and his wife. 
 
 Mars, Mercury, and Venus, being the proper fignificators of pro- 
 feffion, if they are afflicted in the revolutional figure, with direct affinity 
 to the fame places in the radix, prelage great Ibrrow and embarraflrrK nt 
 to the native in his line of bufinefs during that year. But a comet 
 or eclipfe falling upon the mid-heaven of the radix and revolution, 
 irradiated by the good afpedb of either the Sun or Mars, will p: oduce. 
 a very profperous year to the native, and will bring him honuur and 
 preferment. 
 
 Thus far we have confidered the general tendency and import of the 
 feveral l^gnificators in a revolutional figure, as they are conne6ted with 
 
 or
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 7^5 
 
 or behold the radical figure of birth. There is now another effe6t to 
 be confidered, which the erratic ftars produce by their refpedlive motions 
 round the Sun, which are called tranlits, that is, a returning to or 
 re-ailuming either their own place, or the place of any other planet in 
 the revolutional figure, fo as exadly to correfpond with their radical 
 places in the figure of birth. Thele tranfits, when of a remarkable or 
 eminent nature, always produce an efFe6t or influence of their own, 
 peculiar to the nature and quality of that particular ftar by which fuch 
 tranfits are made; but whenever they fall in places of the figure, or in 
 configuration with other planets, where a diredion is coming up, or 
 any dil1in61 afpeft then operating, they never fail to co-operate with, 
 and give additional force and efficacy to, fuch afpeds or diredlions, 
 whether good or evil, as the cafe and quality of the feveral fignificators 
 Ihall nappen to be. And for this reafon it is highly proper, whenever 
 the fpeculum of a nativity is proje6ted, and the various dire6lions 
 brought up, to examine what tranfits are likely to occur in the courfe 
 of the native's life that may poffibly vary the effeft of any particular 
 direction; and, confequently, of the incidents or events predi6ied there- 
 by, as likely to happen to the native. For this reafon 1 have annexed a 
 few general obfervations, calculated to dired the reader's judgment un?- 
 der this fpeculum,.. 
 
 When Saturn returns to or tranfits his own radical place in the revo- 
 lutional figure, well dignified, he indicates profperity to the native; and, 
 if he be lord of the afcendant either in the radical or revolutional horo- 
 fcope, he will render that profperity ftill more excellent and confpicu- 
 ous. If Saturn tranfits the radical place of Jupiter, propitioufly confi- 
 gurated, it denotes increafe of fortune by the favour of eminent men ; 
 if he tranfits the place of Mars, it gives advantages from friends or bre- 
 thren; and, if thefe tranfits are made v/ith evil configurations, the con- 
 trary evils will be produced. 
 
 When Saturn tranfits the place of the Sun, it is implicative of fbme 
 ftrong or violent contention with magiftrates, or with men in power, in 
 the courfe of that year ; and, if accompanied with alpefts of difeafe, 
 will produce bodily ficknefs and infirmity. If Saturn tranfits the place 
 of Venus, it demonftrales infelicity from a female caufe; if the place 
 of Mercury, it implies advantages from fludy; if the place of the 
 Moon, it declares afflidlion both of the body and' mind; if the place 
 of the Dragon's Head, it tends to promote the native's good fortune; 
 but, if Saturn tranfits the place of the Dragon's Tail, it has a moft 
 
 danger oui
 
 786 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 dangerous and malignant tendency. If the place of the Part of For- 
 tune be tranfited by Saturn, with benevolent rays, it denotes increafe 
 of I'ubltance and ellate; but, if by evil rays, the contrary effed will 
 be produced. 
 
 Precifely the fame is the refult of all the other fignificators tranfit- 
 ing their own or other planets' places in the radical or revolutional 
 horofcopes; with only this invariable difi:in<51:ion, that the etfe6ts vary 
 according to the nature, quality, and temperature, of each refpe6tive 
 planet, and to the radiations and alpeds formed with them, or to the 
 directions then operating; for revolutions or tranfits of a benevolent 
 and friendly nature, falling in with good diredions then operating, 
 will vifibly increale their propitious quality, and gieatly benefit the 
 native; whilft, on the other hand, revolutions or tranfits of an evil de- 
 fignatlon, falling in with noxious and malignant diredlions, will in- 
 creafe the evil, or deftroy life. But good revolutions or tranfits falling 
 in with bad direftions mollify their malignancy; whilll: evil ones, oppofed 
 to good directions, lelTen the good fortune then operating, and deprive 
 the native of the full completion of thole golden advantages which per- 
 haps appeared almoft within his grafp. 
 
 To difcover the precife time when any event or direCtion fhall take 
 place in a revolutional figure, we dire6t the five hylegiacals, as in the 
 radix; always obierving, as it is for the year enfuing, to direcft the tem- 
 porary progrefs of the zodiac for five hours forty-eight minutes. For 
 inftance, fuppoie the eufp of the medium coeli hath one degree of Gemini, 
 that point is to be direfted to every afpeCt that falls between that one de- 
 gree and twenty-four degrees of Leo; and alfo, if the afcendant hath at 
 the liime time eight degrees of Virgo, it muft be direCted to all promit- 
 tors between that point and nine degrees of Scorpio, becaufe that point 
 will be upon the cufp of the afcendant for the enfuing year, and Leo 
 will occupy the mid-heaven. In like manner the Sun, Moon, and 
 Part of Fortune, muft be directed unto their promittors, always remem- 
 bering, that the diftance of a planet from the alcendant is found by ob- 
 lique afcenfion, and from the mid-heaven by right afcenfion. But, when 
 one planet is direded to another for the purpofe of afcertaining tranfits, 
 their diltances from each other are found, by oblique alcenlion or deicen^- 
 fion, under the pole of that planet which is taken for fignificator; and 
 the diftance which is thus given by degrees muft- be converted into time, 
 by entering with the given denomiaatioa of degrees into the following 
 Table, 
 
 A RE-
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 75/ 
 
 A 
 
 REVOLUTIONAL TABLE. 
 
 1 
 
 A Table for Degrees. 
 
 A Table for Minutes. 
 
 Deg. 
 
 I 
 
 Days. 
 
 h. m. 
 
 Mill. 
 
 Days. 
 
 h. m. 
 
 Min. 
 31 
 
 Days. 
 
 h. m. 
 
 4 
 
 4 56 
 
 
 
 I 41 
 
 2 
 
 4 9 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 •9 52 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 3 22 
 
 32 
 
 2 
 
 5 50 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 14 48 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 5 3 
 
 33 
 
 2 
 
 7 3» 
 
 4 
 
 16 
 
 19 44 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 6 44 
 
 34 
 
 2 
 
 9 12 
 
 5 
 
 21 
 
 40 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 8 25 
 
 35 
 
 2 
 
 10 52 
 
 6 
 
 25 
 
 5 36 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 10 6 
 
 36 
 
 2 
 
 12 33 
 
 7 
 
 29 
 
 10 32 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 II 47 
 
 ^^ 
 
 2 
 
 14 14 
 
 3 
 
 33 
 
 15 28 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 13 28 
 
 38 
 
 2 
 
 15 55 
 
 9 
 
 37 
 
 20 24 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 15 9 
 
 39 
 
 2 
 
 17 36 
 
 lO 
 
 42 
 
 I 20 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 16 50 
 
 40 
 
 2 
 
 19 17 
 
 II 
 
 46 
 
 6 16 
 
 1 1 
 
 
 
 18 31 
 
 4^ 
 
 2 
 
 20 58 
 
 12 
 
 50 
 
 II 12 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 20 II 
 
 42 
 
 2 
 
 22 39 
 
 IJ 
 
 54 
 
 16 8 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 21 52 
 
 43 
 
 3 
 
 20 
 
 14 
 
 58 
 
 21 4 
 
 H 
 
 
 
 23 33 
 
 44 
 
 3 
 
 2 I 
 
 '5 
 
 63 
 
 2 
 
 15 
 
 
 r 14 
 
 45 
 
 3 
 
 3 42 
 
 i6 
 
 67 
 
 6 56 
 
 16 
 
 
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 No. 39. 
 
 9I 
 
 ATA^
 
 788 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 A TABLE, 
 
 Collefting all the Days of the Year, and ferving fucceflively to find 
 the Month and Day of any Accident. 
 
 Whether
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 789 
 
 Whether the directions be radical or revolutional, the table in the 
 foregoing page will ferve equally for both, by changing the names of 
 the months to any other, accoiding to the given day of the month of 
 any nativity, making the day of birth the firft day of the year; and 
 always remembering, that, when it happens to be leap-year, one day mufi: 
 be added to February, and there will then be three hundred and fixty- 
 fix days in that year. 
 
 I have now completed every remark and every inftruction that is or 
 can be neceflary for the perfefl calculation of nativities; and 1 am 
 bold to fay, that whoever will beftow fufficient time and application to 
 the rules I have laid down, and that will attend properly to the colla- 
 teral circumftances, will find no difficulty in obtaining a forekowledo^e 
 of all material events relating to himfelf, or to any other perlbn, whofe 
 real nativity is laid before him. 1 have, in the management of the 
 foregoing nativity of Mr. Witchell, been particularly plain and copious, 
 that no underflanuiiig might go uninformed, as well of the fimplicity 
 and verity of the art, as of its moral tendency to promote the o-ood of 
 mankind, and the certainty with which human events might be fouo'ht 
 out through ito means. 
 
 Every thing I have ftated with refpeft to Mr. Witchell's nativity is 
 incontrovertible fa61:. That gentleman, when in perfect health, and 
 in full vigour of mind, reforted to mc for no other purpofe than to 
 hold dil'putations upon the rudiments of the fcience, and to inform 
 himfelf as to its hypothecs, and probability in the fcale of reafon and 
 fcience. The more he enquired, the more convinced he was of pla- 
 netary influence and efFeft. He proceeded from theory to pradice. He 
 amufed himfelf with a variety of difquifitions upon the different branches 
 of the art ; and had the pleafure to find, that, in all cafes where truth 
 and perfpicuity were the bafis of his enquiries, there were no in- 
 flances of doubt or deception in the predidions refulting from them. 
 Well grounded in all the common departments of aftronomy, he obtained 
 an extenfive theoretical knowledge of this part of it with the greater 
 facility; and, to reduce it to regular pra61ice, he began with calcu- 
 lating his own nativity. In comparing the afpeds with the particular 
 incidents of his life, he was foon convinced they were infeparable from 
 each other ; and hence it was that he committed the revifion and com- 
 pletion of it to my care, with a firm and manly folicitation to have the 
 anaretical diredtion brought up and afcertained, as well as thofc of fmalJer 
 magnitude and importance. This was a tafk I performed with the 
 
 greater
 
 790 ANIL LUSTRATION 
 
 o;reater fatisfaftioii, becaufc it was to iiiideroro the fcrutinv of the mod 
 perfeft mathematician of the age; and becaufc his conviftioii and ap- 
 probation of it would ftamp new reputation upon a fcience, which, 
 having few or no real advocates, has been long borne down by popular 
 prejudice and obftinate declamation. Having performed every part of 
 the calculation with an exa6titude that highly pleafed him, he made 
 ufe of it as a friendly monitor of the good and evil that awaited the re- 
 fidue of his days ; and, when he approached towards the flated time of 
 his dilTolution, he would mention it without the fmalleft emotion, and 
 confidered the knowledge of it as one of the greateO: bleffings of his 
 life, which not only drew his attention to his Maker, and fixed his 
 thoughts upon celeftial defires, but raifed his mind above the contem- 
 plation of earthly enjoyments, and gave ferenity and calmnefs to his 
 converfation and deportment. It was on one of thefe occafions, that 
 he requefted me to print his nativity in my work, which I had begun 
 to publilh fome little time before; obferving that the evidence of fo 
 recent and refpeftable a proof of aftrological predi6fion might tend to 
 bring mankind to reafon, and admonirti them no longer to abandon this 
 fublime and interefl:ing branch of knowledge. 
 
 And now, what need can there be of further argument in Ibpport of 
 fo felf-evident a do6trine ? Or what advantage could it poffibly be to 
 me, or to any difmterefted man, to preach up the advantages of a fci- 
 ence which hath no exiftence in reafon or in truth? The fads here 
 laid down are unqueftionable; and fuch, 1 think, as no reafonable man 
 will attempt to refute. If farther proofs are required, I fhall at 
 all times be ready to furnifh them, or to explain any matter or thing 
 herein before laid down that might be deemed unintelligible, or that 
 is not thoroughly underftood ; at the fame time that, if any obflinate 
 unbeliever, or any other defcription of men, can offer a fair and candid 
 argument in oppofition to aftral influence, I fhall be ready to hear them 
 with refpeft and attention. Wretched indeed fhould I be, if, after 
 every precaution to guard myfelf againfl the encroachments of enthu- 
 fiafin, I fhould fall a vi6lim to its phrenzy, or be deemed a madman 
 or a fool : at the fame time let me not fhut my eyes againfl demon- 
 ftrable fads, merely becaufe the bulk of mankind choofe to difcounte- 
 nance them, or determine to become wilfully blind. I have examined, 
 and am convinced ; and I trufl I have fufficienily eftablifhed the reality 
 of this fcience; and have abundantly fhown that the ambient matter, 
 colleded by the rays of the celeftial bodies, and communicated by a 
 fympathy of a6tion to all fublunary things, is the caufe of all thofe 
 
 unde-
 
 ' OF ASTROLOGY. 791 
 
 undefcribable occurrences in human nature, which, for want of a more 
 clear comprehenfion of the wonderful works of creation, are frequently 
 attributed to caufes, which call in queftion the benign attributes of the 
 Deity, and difgrace the underllanding of the meanefl of his creatures 
 upon earth. 
 
 It hath been contended by fome, in oppofition to that part of aftro- 
 logical dodrine which determines the bodily form and mental difpo- 
 fition of the native from the feveral fignificators in his own and in 
 his parents' genethliacal figures, that this likenefs or fimilitude in body 
 and temper is ftamped by the energy or idea of the parents in the ad of 
 copulation. Although I am willing to admit this obfervation in part, 
 yet I contend that the primary caufe, which furnifhes that energy or 
 motion in the parents, is derived from their refpedive fignificators in 
 the heavens; and that they imprefs their particular quality in propor- 
 tion as they happen to be in dignity and power at that precife time. If 
 the fignificators of the mother are then fuperior in force and dignity, 
 the mother's features and difpofition will be moft vifible ; if the fa- 
 ther's geniture be the flrongeft, the father's temper and fimilitude will 
 be moft predominant in the offspring then begotten ; but, if both their 
 fignificators are equally ftrong, the child then equally participates in 
 the likenefs and difpofition of both his parents. Let it neverthelefs be 
 remembered, that, however ftrong the fignificators of both or either of 
 the parents might be, yet thofe proper to the foetus or conceptional 
 matter invariably take the lead, and ftamp that peculiar form and tem- 
 perature upon the native, which in a great meafure fupplant the firft 
 impreffions given by thofe of the parent, and form a perfon and mind 
 effentially differing from both, though with fome veftiges of hereditary 
 fimilitude. And hence the reafon why fons and daughters more or lefs 
 depart from the ftature, features, complexion, and temper, of their 
 parents; and why no two human beings, in the whole compafs of ge- 
 neration, were ever yet formed precifely alike ! If, therefore, the man 
 lives, who can fairly and completely refute this argument, he (hall 
 have my thanks and my applaufe. And I will add further, in the em- 
 phatic words of an unrivalled author, that " My heart is already with 
 " him. I am willing to be converted. I admire his morahty, and 
 " would gladly fubfcribe to the articles of his faith. Grateful as I am 
 " to the good Being whofe bounty has imparted to me this reafoning 
 " intelled, I hold myfelf proportionably indebted to him from whole 
 " enlightened underftanding another ray of knowledge communicates 
 " to mine. But neither (hould I think the moft exalted faculties of 
 
 No. 40. 9 K " the
 
 792 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 '^ the human mind a gift worthy of the Divinity, nor any afliflance m 
 
 " the improvement of them a fubje(fl of gratitude to my felloW' creatures, 
 
 " if I were not fatisfied, that really to inform the underfhandiiigcorredts 
 
 " and enlarges the heart." 
 
 OBSERVATIONS on the NATIVITY of the Rev. GEORGE 
 
 WHITFIELD, M. A. 
 
 I fhall now, agreeably to the plan I have before laid down, introduce, 
 bv way of example, a number of remarkable geiiitures, in order to (how 
 that the afpefts of the planets, and the influence of diredlions, are uni- 
 formly and invariably the fame in all cafes, and corre611y dirtinguifh thofe 
 extraordinary aftions in every native's life, for which he afterwards be- 
 comes celebrated and famous. 
 
 The well-known life and charader of the Rev. Mr. Whitfield, and 
 his remarkable prowefs in the line he adopted, render him no unfit 
 fubjecl for our prefent purpofc. He was born on the i6th of Decem- 
 ber, 1 714, as in the annexed plate of his geniture. At a very early 
 period of his life he loft his father, and was left unprovided for in the 
 world. When he arrived at the age of ten years, his mother again con- 
 trafted matrimony,' which turned out very unhappy : this is demon- 
 ftrated by the mid-heaven coming at this time to a contra-antifcion of 
 the Moon; and, as both, are fignificators of the mother, they prelage 
 much trouble and anxiety as well to her as to the native. At fourteen 
 he was taken from fchool, and affifted his mother in the bufinefs of a 
 public-houfe ; at which time the mid-heaven came to a quartile of the 
 Sun, which always brings difgrace and trouble. His mother quitting 
 the inn, it was taken by his brother ; and, his fifter-in-law and himlelf 
 not agreeing, they frequently fell out, and he would fometimes not 
 fpeak to her for three weeks together. This fullen auftere temper is 
 produced in the radix of his birth by the quartile of the Sun and 
 Mars; and to complete the obftinate perfeverance of his mind, the 
 Moon is in conjundtion of Saturn, which invariably produces fuch a 
 temperature. 
 
 In fifteen years and twelve days from his birth, the Moon came to 
 the trine of Venus, who is the fignificatri^ of joy and pleafure. It is a 
 remarkably-good direftion, by falling in the eleventh houfe, which de- 
 notes friends ; and, as Venus is in the third, it relates to kindred and 
 
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 ,OF ASTROLOGY. 795 
 
 (hort jotrrneys. Under this dire6tion it was refolved to fit the native for 
 the univeiTit) ; but he went on fome vilits of pleafure before he con- 
 figned himfelf to the difcipHne of a preparatorj fchooh At the age of 
 feventeen years and one hundred and eighty-eight days, the Moon came 
 to a bodily afpeft with Mars. This direction hath an evil fignification, 
 becaufe thefe two planets are by nature inimical to each other, as we have 
 already fufficieatly fhov\'n ; and it would have had a ftill more malignant 
 influence, had not Venus at the fame time caft her trine afpedl to Mars. 
 Under this diredtion he contrafted an intimate acquaintance with feveral 
 debauched young gentlemen, who led him into a variety of fcrapes, and 
 into the company of proftituted females. 
 
 At about eighteen years of age he was received into tlie univerfity ; for 
 which there came up a moll lignificant direftion of the afcendant to the 
 trine of Jupiter, which hath reference to preferment under the nobility, 
 clergy, religious focieties, and fuch-like. Under this direition he was 
 chofen fervitor to feveral gentlemen of the Univerfity, whereby he con- 
 duced his pecuniary affairs fo well, that he did not fland his friends in 
 twenty-four pounds in three years. At the period of eighteen years two 
 hundred and fifty-fix days, the Sun came to the trine of Saturn; under 
 which dire6lion the native abandons the eflablifhed dodrines of the 
 church, and takes up the religious tenets of Methodifm, to the utter 
 aflonifhment and concern of all his relations and friends. At nineteen 
 years two hundred and forty-four days, the Sun again came to the trine 
 of Saturn ; under which direftion the native more vigoroufly purfucd 
 his religious principles, and became intimately acquainted with the 
 Rev. John Wefley, by whofe friendly advice and exemplary condudl, he 
 ufed frequently to fay, " he had been delivered from the fnares of Sa- 
 « tan." 
 
 At nineteen years one hundred and twenty-fix days from the time of 
 birth, the mid-heaven came to the oppolition of Jupiter. At this 
 time many infelicities arife by means of clerical men. The native's 
 mind is tormented and opprefTed, and he is loaded with calumny and 
 contempt. He incurs the difpleafure of the heads of his college ; his 
 relations alfo confpire agalntl: him, and his mind becomes a prey to per- 
 turbation and defpair. This laid the foundation of a violent fit of fick- 
 nefs, which lafled upwards of feven weeks, whilfl this direffion 
 operated with its utmofl force ; his life was fuppofed to be in danger, 
 and his enemies rejoiced in his afflidion. At twenty years and two davs, 
 the Moon came to the fextile of Mercury; under which favourable 
 
 diredtion
 
 794 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 direction he was reftored to health, and recovered his wonted refolutlon 
 and (pirits. 
 
 At twenty years and two hundred and eighty-fix days from his birth, 
 the mid-heaven came to the trine of Venus, which produced him the 
 fuicere regard of many perfons, with health and content, and profperity 
 in worldly affairs. Under this direftion the native journeyed to Glou- 
 cefter, and foon afterwards to Briftol; in the courfe of which he ex- 
 perienced many offices of friendfliip from thofe whom he hadconfideredhis 
 enemies. Lady Selwyn, of Gloucefter, recommended him to the pa- 
 tronage of the bifhop, who immediately fent for him, and offered to or- 
 dain him whenever he defired ; and at the fame time prefented him with 
 five guineas. And the next direction coming up at twenty years three 
 hundred and fixty days from the time of birth, namely, on the i2th of 
 December, 1735, greatly increafed the good fortune promifed by the for- 
 mer; for, under the influence of this diredion, Sir John Phillips agreed 
 to allow him thirty pounds a-year. 
 
 At twenty-one years and eighty-feven days, 14th of March, 1736, J:he 
 afcendant came to the fextile of Venus. While this dire£iion was ope- 
 rating, it gave the native a pleafant and agreeable time, full of profpe- 
 rity and content, with reputation and fuccefs in his vocation; fo that in 
 May following he was ordained. What renders this dire6iion more re- 
 markably propitious is, that it falls in a good part of the horofcope, 
 and that Venus is no way afflidted. In Augufl following he returned to 
 London. 
 
 When he was twenty-one years three hundred and forty days old, /. e. 
 on the 22d of November, 1736, the Moon came by dire61ion to Spica 
 Virginis, a fixed ftar of the firft magnitude. Fixed ftars of a benevo- 
 lent quality, in fuch conjun6tions, uiiially denote fudden honour and 
 preferment, and frequently bring men into higher repute than any fingle 
 erratic influence ; but, when mixed with planets of their own nature 
 and quality, they give durable reputation and profperity, as was 
 the cafe in the prefent inflance. At twenty-two years and twenty- 
 four days from the birth, namely, on the loth of January, 1737, the 
 Sun came to the trine of the Moon from the tenth houfe, the houfe of 
 profeffional honour ; and, as the Moon is fignificatrix of the mixed mul- 
 titude, or common people, it declares that the native (hould experience 
 an uncommon fhare of honour and refpetSt from the middle clafs of peo- 
 ple, which every one knows was really the cafe. This afpefi likewife 
 
 implies
 
 OF A S T R O L O G Y. 795 
 
 implies fome diftant journey; and we find that Mr. Whitfield now firft 
 formed his determination of going to America. Under this dire61iou 
 the native acquired great popular applaufe, as he hath declared himfelf ; 
 and at this' time he preached in the parifh-churches. On the 3Cth of 
 O61:ober following, the aicendant came to the fextile of Venus, which 
 promifes luccefs; and, by reafon that fo many benevolent direftions 
 following fo clofely after one another at thisjundture, his fuccefs became 
 more rapid and confpicuous. On the loth of December, the afcendant 
 came to the fextile of Mars; and on the 28th of the fame month the 
 native embarked for Georgia. This direction brings him into the fo- 
 ciety of military men, with whom harmony and attachment is rnofl am- 
 ply denoted by the fextile afpedl. It likewife gives the native fuitable 
 magnanimity, fortitude, and courage. 
 
 The next direftion is of a very dangerous and evil import, namely, 
 the medium coeli to the body of Mars, which, genethliacally confidered, 
 fuddenly expofes a native to the mifchance either of life or fortune ; it 
 ftirs up the wrath of powerful men againfl him, and excites his mind 
 to popular tumults and commotions. 1 his was in an extraordinary man- 
 ner exemplified in the perfon of Mr. Whitfield ; for under this direftion ' 
 he returned to England, landed at Briftol, and behaved with great arro- 
 gance to the chancellor of that diocefe; and afterwards infulted and re- 
 buked the Vice-chancellor of Oxford, and contemned his authority, with 
 that of all the other dignitaries of the church. He was now prohibited 
 from performing divine fervice in any of the proteftant churches; in 
 confequence of which he commenced field-preacher, in the neighbour- 
 bourhood of Kingfwood, near Briftol. In February 1739, ^^^ afcendant 
 came to the conjunction of Mercury, at which time he was feized with 
 a violent fever, and continued very ill for upwards of fix weeks. 
 
 At twenty-four years and feventy-eight days from the native's birth, 
 March 5, the mid-heaven came to the body of Mercury, ruler of the 
 tenth-houfe ; fo that, notwithftanding the oppofition and cenfure he met, 
 with, yet he was remarkably fuccefsful, and received great encourage- 
 ment from the populace, as this direftiou, obvioufly denotes. Under its 
 operation he preached openly in Iflington church-yard, then at Moor- 
 fields, afterwards at Kennington Common, and at feveral other places 
 in the open fields round London. The novelty of his do£lrine and de- 
 portment excited public curiofity, and the populace flocked to hear hjm 
 from all quarters. He coUedled large fums of money daily, in the 
 form of a fubfcription for building the Orphan Houfe in Georgia ; for 
 
 No. 40. 9 L which
 
 796 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 which purpofe the truftees had granted him five hundred acres of land 
 for ever. This direftion likewife inclines the native to travel; and under 
 its influence he embarked for Georg-ia in Ausrull, but returned to England 
 again in March 1741. 
 
 From the thirty-fecond to the thirty-fixth year of the native's age, 
 there happened four remarkably-good direftions, viz. the Part of Fortune 
 to the conjunclion of the Moon, the Sun to the I'extile of Jupiter, the 
 Sun to- the conjun£tion of Venus, and the Sun to the trine of Mars. 
 Under thefe feveral diretlionshe confiderablv increafed his fubftance, grew 
 daily into higher repute amongft his difciples, and publiOied feveral tra61:s 
 that met with very great approbation. He likewife under this influence 
 married the widow of an apothecary in Wales, with a fmall landed 
 eftate. On the 27th of June, 1751, the Sun came to the trine of Mars; 
 under which diredion he collefled large I'ums of money, and completed 
 his tabernacle in Moorfields. 
 
 At the age of forty-two years and fixty-eight days, March 4, 1757, the 
 afcendant came to the quartile of the Moon, an evil direflion, prefaging 
 much mifchief. The native was now publicly molefted and abuled 
 by the populace. He was driven from the chapel in Long Acre with 
 indignant violence; and in feveral of thefe popular tumults he nar- 
 rowly efcaped with his life. He embarked for Ireland under the evil in- 
 fluence of this direftion, where he in vain attempted to gain profelytes 
 to his do6lrine. The populace were in a fhort time irritated againfl: him; 
 and after feveral fruitlefs efforts to fubdue the paffions and fpirits of his 
 auditors, and after patiently enduring a copious fhare of nifult and abufe, 
 accompanied with fome levere chaftifement, he re-landed in England, 
 and came back to purlue his fortune in London. 
 
 At the age of forty-two years two-hundred and fifty-fcven days, the 
 mid-heaven came to the fextile of the Sun, which is an afped denoting 
 much good. Under this direftion he found himfelf well received by 
 the populace; he refumed his former places of public declamation, and 
 went round the country, preaching in the open fields, or public flreets, 
 as beft fuited his purpofe. His colledions upon thefe occafions were 
 generally pretty liberal, particularly in places where his doflrine and 
 manner were novel, and he gained over many difciples. He returned 
 .to town, and under this benevolent diredion he built his chapel ia Tot- 
 tenham-Court Road. 
 
 J ax sicori ai ^
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 797 
 
 At forty-five years one hundred and eighteen days from the time of 
 birth, viz. April 17, 1760, the Moon came to the quartile of Venus. 
 This direction falls in the twelfth houfe, and is the forerunner of anguifli 
 and afRidion. At this time Foote's comedy of the Minor made its ap- 
 pearance, which fo ftigmatifed the native's chara6ter, that he never got 
 the better of it. He devoted himfelf to the tafk of preaching it down, 
 and perfevered for a long while in this fniitlefs attempt; but the infult and 
 fatire of the populace was fo great, that he was under the neceflity of 
 withdrawing himfelf from the performance of divine lervice even in his 
 own chapels. At this time likewife many of his principal followers de- 
 ferted him, patticularly a diftinguiflied lady, from whom he had received 
 very great fupport. This direftion is immediately followed up by the 
 Part of Fortune to the oppofition of Jupiter, a baneful afpecl, which 
 came up the zoth of Alay, 1760, and alio declares a lofs of reputation and 
 fubftance to the native. Under this direftion feveral others of his moft 
 opulent difciples abandoned him, and the pecuniary emoluments of his 
 chapels were greatly decreafed. 
 
 In September 1764, the Part of Fortune came by dire<5tion to the 
 bodily afpe61: of Mars, which hath fignification of many violent 9on- 
 tentions between the native and his adherents about the loaves and 
 fiHies ; with lofs of property and refped in confequence. The next 
 afpc6l came up the 5th of December following, that is,, in forty-nine 
 years three hundred and Hfty-three days from the time of birth, when 
 the mid-heaven, which reprefents the native's honour and reputation, 
 comes to the quartile of Venus in the twelfth houfe. This is a malignaat 
 direflion, calculated to blafl: the native's general charafter, and to 
 produce fome liidden evil from a female quarter. Thefe lucceflive di- 
 redlions, being fraught with difappointments and infurmountable per- 
 plexities to the native, prepared his mind to feek an afylum in the more 
 grateful climes of America. 
 
 At fifty years one hundred and eighteen days from the time of birth, 
 the afcendant came to the conjun6tion of the Sun, and is then brought 
 to a quartile afpefi; of Jupiter, in an equally malignant radiation of the 
 Moon. The union of thefe afpefts is extremely iingular, as is the 
 manner in which the hyleg and anareta are here brought together, by 
 the united force of the three co-operating malevolent diredtions, all of 
 which came up in September 1770, and deprived this celebrated charac- 
 ter of life, on the x 8th day of that month, at Newbury, near Boflon, in 
 America. 
 
 As
 
 798 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 As to the natural temper and difpofition of Mr. Whitfield, it was 
 none of the beft^, as might be colleftcd from his own words: " I can 
 " truly confefs," faith he, " that I was brutifh from my mother's 
 " womb; and fo brutilh, as to hate, inftrudion. I can date fome early 
 " acls of uncleannefs, with flagrant proofs of an impudent temper, a 
 " lying and filthy talking tongue, addifted to ftealing, frequently taking 
 " money out of my mother's pocket before fhe got up in the morning ; 
 *' likevvife fpending money that I received in the houfe, it being a pub- 
 " lic-houfe; joining others in roguifh tricks, but was generally dete6ted." 
 This account agrees precifely with the temperature and bent ofmiud 
 denoted by the feveral fignificators in his nativity; and is more mani- 
 feflly declared by the fign Scorpio upon his alcendant, and the evil po- 
 fitions of Saturn and the Moon with refpeft to Mercury, which governs 
 his difpofition. But, as the meaning and radical import of all thefe fio-- 
 nificators, together with their various afpeds and relative pofitions, have 
 been fo amply delcribed, it is unneceifary to repeat them. I therefore 
 mean this feledion of remarkable nativities as fo many fl:riking exam- 
 ples, whereby to exercife the underftanding and judgment of my readers, 
 in obtaining a perfe6l knowledge of the aftral faience. 
 
 OBSERVATIONS oii the NATIVITY of the Rev. JOHN HEN- 
 DERSON, A. B. of Pembroke College, Oxford. 
 
 THIS nativity exhibits a coUeflion of the moft remarkable configu- 
 rations I ever faw comprifed in one horofcope during the whole courfe 
 of my praftice ; and it is really curious to remark their oppofite defig- 
 nations, as they refpeftively occur upon the face of the genetlalical figure 
 of birth, illuftrated in the annexed plate. 
 
 According to the reftification of parallels, this native was born when 
 the Sun was at its highefl meridian altitude; at which time one degree 
 fifteen minutes and twenty-four feconds of the princely fign Leo af- 
 cended the eaftern finiter of the heavens, and affords the moft exalted 
 teflimony of a noble and generous difpofition. The fenfitive powers < 
 and underftanding of the native are reprefented by Mercury and the 
 Moon. Mercury, who rules the aftive and rational part of the brain, 
 is pofited in the ninth, the houfe of religion and fcience ; in the dig- 
 nities of Jupiter, in conjun6lion of Mars, and within orbs of the 
 benefic planet Venus. This iharpens the wit, and furniflies the 
 
 imagination
 
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 799 
 
 imagination with inexhauftible powers of reafoning ; and, if we add to 
 the foregoing teftimonies, that Mars is configurated in his own tripli- 
 city, and Venus in her exaltation, we (hall difcover the endownnents of 
 a mind apt for invention, with an impetuofity of natural ideas fcarcely 
 to be equalled; which is ftill more confirmed by the ftrength and good 
 afpe6l caft by Mercury to the Moon, who rules the moifture of the brain, 
 and thereby frudifies and ftrengthens the retentive faculty. This pofition 
 of the fignificators likewifc gives the native a ftrong tafle for fcientific 
 knowledge, impels him to the confideration of abftrufe and occult rea- 
 foning, and to the inveftigation of myftical divinity. 
 
 It is however much to be lamented, that, in the midft of all thefe 
 propitious configurations. Mercury happens to be in his detriment ; for 
 thereby it is declared, that thefe fplendid endowments will profit the 
 native little or nothing. And, as five of the fignificators are pofited in 
 watery figns, it is too obvious a proof that he will be regardlefs of repu- 
 tation and preferment, but will give himlelf up to the pleafures of con- 
 viviality, and facrifice too frequently at the fhrine of Bacchus. This 
 failing is {o flrongly marked, that furrounding fpectators, whilft they 
 admire the brilliancy of his wit, and the acutenefs of his underflanditig, 
 will be equally furprifed that he fhould not apply them to an ufeful and 
 advantageous purfuit. 
 
 Nature has fo endowed his rational intelledl, that he is alike qualified 
 for law, phyfic, or divinity ; three avocations that perhaps few or none 
 befides himielf can claim equal pretenfions to. Thefe extraordinary 
 qualities are thus defined from the horofcopical fignificators : Venus 
 in the ninth houfe, in trine to Jupiter lord of the ninth, infpires him 
 with a confcientious mind, formed for divinity; Mars in conjun6lion 
 with Mercury, gives him a depth of judgment and an acutenefs of rea- 
 foning fitted for the law ; and, as Venus is in conjundion with Mars 
 and the Moon, at the fame time that Jupiter beholds Mars and Mercury 
 with a trine afpec>, and Mars being lord of the tenth houfe, with the 
 Sun exalted therein, thefe are fo many decifive arguments to fiiow, that, 
 had the native been profeffionally bred to the law, he would not only have 
 acquired an immenfe fortune, but would have increafed likewife in re- 
 putation and chara£ter. That he would have made an excellent phyfi- 
 cian, is every way obvious. Jupiter, lord of the fixth, the houfe of 
 pharmacy and phyfic, is in Scorpio, a phyfical fign, and is dignified in 
 the fifth, the houfe of profperity and pleafure; and, being in partile 
 trine of Venus, and in trine alfo with his difpofitor, as well as in re- 
 No. 40. 9 M ception,
 
 8oo AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 ccptiou, at the lame time that he is forming a Textile afpedl with Saturn, 
 lord of the feventh, thefe are evident demonftrations of a perfon born 
 with the heavenly art of healing; and who, like the good Samaritan, not 
 only ponefTes the alMlity, but the difpofition likewile, of ajfFording relief 
 to his wounded or atflifted fellow-creatures. 
 
 This native is not onlv born with an extraordinary talent for either 
 of the foregoing profefiions, but hath, in a mofl: eminent degree, the gift 
 of acquiring univerlal knowledge ; pofTelling from nature a ftrong re- 
 tentive faculty, a quick and lively perception, and a fruitful genius, apt 
 for every kind of ftudy, and formed for invention. In fhature he is 
 but fhort, as is defcribed by the Sun in Aries ; brown hair, grey eyes, 
 full round features, and of a mild and placid diipolition ; though given 
 to be latirical upon the ladies, as is demonftrated by Mars being in con- 
 junftion with Venus and Mercury in his detriment. 
 
 That the native might obtain perferment in the church, is abundantly 
 evident, from the pofitions of fo many planets in his ninth houfe ; and 
 therefore an excellent profeffion for him to follow, provided he would 
 fum up refolution to fet afide the diflipating rays of Mercury. I only 
 fubmit this as a friendly hint to the native himfelf, who being alive, 
 and pofTeffmg the ability of analyfing his own geniture, and of fore- 
 feeing the different events that are likely to refult from the diretlions, 
 it is my duty to leave the confequences thereof as a proper monitor to 
 his future condu61, meaning to difplay the figure of his birth as an ex- 
 ample only to my readers of the extraordinary circumftance of many 
 illuftrious afJDedls being deprived of perfect efficacy by one difcordant 
 configuration. 
 
 OBSER-
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
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 OBSERVATIONS on the NATIVITY of Mr. JAMES GILBERT. 
 
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 JAMES GILBERT, 
 
 23d May, 5h. 8m. P. M. 
 1726. 
 
 
 Latitude. 
 
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 9 
 5 
 D 
 
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 I 
 I 
 
 o 
 
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 5 
 
 21 
 12 
 20 
 o 
 20 
 
 56 
 
 o 
 
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 S. 
 
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 Declination. 
 
 ^9 
 
 30 S. 
 
 5 
 
 51 N. 
 
 14 
 
 I N. 
 
 22 
 
 25 N. 
 
 8 
 
 32 N. 
 
 1,5 
 
 10 N. 
 
 2J 
 
 23 N, 
 
 This is the nativity of a perfon well known in the county of Kent; 
 a man who has a ftrong natural propenfity to acquire knowledge, as is 
 proved by the Moon's polition in the ninth houfe, the houle of fcience, 
 in Textile to Mercury, in her own dignities. The fign Scorpio al'cend- 
 
 ing
 
 8oa AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 ing in the eaft, and Mars and Leo in trine of Venus in Aries, declare 
 him to be of a well-formed body, and of a middling ftature ; of an open 
 generous difpofition, and fair and jiifl: in all his dealings, which is parti- 
 cularly defcribed by Jupiter being in his own dignities, and in a good 
 afpeft with the Sun. 
 
 With regard to the native's fubftance, if we confider his birth, we 
 fhall find it has increafed in a true proportion with what is promifed 
 by the fignificators in his genethliacal horofcope. The Part of For- 
 tune is well fituated in the iecond houfe; the Moon is likcwile pofited 
 in her own houfe, increafing in light and motion ; Jupiter, who is 
 lord of the fecond, the houfe of fubftance, and difpofitor of the Part of 
 Fortune, is conjoined with the Moon's fortunate node; and, having 
 dignities in the fifth and fixth houfes, prenotes that the native (hould 
 derive advantages from fuch things as particularly relate to thofe 
 houles, which are fully explained in page i 55, &c, but, as thefe figni- 
 ficators are all of them either in fiery or watery figns, it is apparent that 
 fuch occupations as are more immediately under the government and 
 controul of thofe figns would be found moft profitable for the native to 
 follow. 
 
 We might eafily perceive that this native is not of a clofe and fordid 
 difpofition, owing principally to the remarkable configurations of the 
 Moon in quartile of Venus, in fextile with Mercury, and within orbs of 
 an oppofition of Saturn. The force of thefe predominant qualities, 
 while under the particular diredion of each refpedive afpcft, will in- 
 cline the native to be profufe, and carelefs about money-matters; will 
 expofe him to the impoiition of the crafty and defigning, and eventu- 
 ally to the lofs of property, and the diminution of his fubftance, L.nlefs a 
 great degree of fpirit and refolution be exerted, to modify and corre6t 
 this good-natured, but fatal, propenfity. A hint to the wife is ufually 
 fufficient; and as this native is ftill living, and extenfively furrounded 
 with friends, I would by no means wifh to hurt his feelings, or draw 
 down upon myfelf the refentment of thofe who might have it in con- 
 templation to take advantage of the native's generofity. 
 
 But to return. The third houfe is the houfe of journeys ; and here 
 we find the malevolent planet Saturn retrograde. This is a fure argu- 
 ment, that change of refidence, and journeys in general, fhould prove un- 
 fuccefsful and injurious to the native, either in the pocket or by bodily 
 afflidion, or both, and fhould therefore be avoided as much as poffible. 
 
 The
 
 OFASTROLOGY, 805 
 
 The fourth houfe bears delignation of the principal fcope and end of 
 the native's hfe. In this angle we find the fixed fign Aqua ries ; and, 
 as Saturn is pofited in that fign, it is an argument that fome houfes or 
 land ftiould devolve to the native by hereditary fucceffion ; but Saturn 
 being retrogade fhows that this patrimony fhall not be pofTeded until 
 the native is far advanced in years, or in the latter ftage of his life. 
 The fifth houfe denotes advantages to be obtained, or lolfes to be fuf^ 
 fered, by any fpecies of adventure ; and, as the Moon's fortunate node falls 
 in this houfe, it is apparent that the native fhould in a general way be 
 fortunate upon every fuch occafion, as cards, dice, hazard, dealing ni 
 the lottery, or fending goods upon the chance of a market to any of our 
 fettlements or connexions abroad. I have no doubt but this pofition of 
 the dragon's head, conjoined with the benevolent planet Jupiter, who 
 is lord of the fecond houfe, the houfe of fubflance, and bears rule like^ 
 wife over the fifth, which relates to adventure, would prove extremely 
 favourable to the native, were he to try his fortune in the lottery; more 
 efpecially if he would be careful to choofe his ticket under a favourable 
 and correfponding revolution or diredlion,. many of which are to be. 
 found in his nativity.. 
 
 With regard to fickneis or difeafe, and the accidents which are likely 
 to be mod fatal to the native, we fhall, if we regard the fixth houfe,, 
 and the planets bearing configuration therewith, eafily dilcover of what 
 kind and quality they fhall be. If we carefully confult the figur-e, we 
 Ihall find that cboler is the moft predominant hiunour in the native's 
 conflitution ; and that the efFeds of fire and air fhall be mofl offenfive 
 and injurious to him ; and for thefe very fubflantial reafoiis ; namely-, 
 becaule we find a fiery fign occupies the cufp of the fixth houfe, with- 
 Jupiter, who governs the fiery tripUcity, and he is pofited therein. 
 Jupiter likewife beholds the Sua with a friendly ray,, and thereby 
 flrengthens his quality, becaufe the Sun bears rule over the lame tripli- 
 city, and. is potited in an airy fign in the eighth houle. We find alfo 
 an airy fign upon the cufp- of the twelfth houfe; and Mars, the lord 
 of this native's afcendant, hath his feveriih quality much increafed, 
 by being pofited. in a fiery fign ; and, as this malefic beholds Venus 
 with a trine aipedl ia the fixth, at the fame time thatfhe is a lady of the 
 twelfth, and in. quartile to the Moon, it renders that' othervvife-benefic 
 planet inimical to the native's conftitution. Thele tefUmonies all: 
 confpire to fhow,. that the native Ihould be more than ordinarily fubje^i 
 to hot and feverifh complaints, and to accidents fromviolent falls and 
 bruifes. ''%'*^{^ 
 
 No. 40. 9 N According.
 
 8o4 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 According to thefe pofitions of the plaiiets, and to tlie dire61ions 
 wherewith their afpefts are Teverallv brought up, will the infirmities 
 and misfortunes of this native be rcfpe6tively found. At about eigh- 
 teen years of age, namely, when Venus pcfefted her mundane parallel 
 with the Sun and Mercury, he was afflided with a long and violent in- 
 termittent fcvev. At twenty-four years of age, he had another violent 
 fever, which produced the meafles. This was brought on by the bale- 
 ful configuration of Saturn in oppofition of Mars, lord of the afcendant, 
 and was fo powerful and violent, owing to Saturn being in his own houle, 
 and coming at the fame time to a mundane parallel of Mars, that no per- 
 fon whatever expefted his life; nor could he have lurvived fo fevere an 
 attack, had the hylegiacal and anaretical ftars been united in the configu- 
 ration, to the want of which we can alone attribute the prefervation and 
 continuance of the native's life. 
 
 At the age of thirty-four years and three months, the native is again 
 attacked with a violent fcorching fever, which nearly abforbed all the 
 humours of his body, and annihilated the blood and animal juices. 
 This was produced by a joint and moft remarkable oppofition of the 
 Sun and Jupiter to the afcendant ; whereby Jupiter partakes of the con- 
 fuming heat and violence of the Sun, being in fexiile afpeft with him, 
 in the fiery fign Aries, in the fixth houfe; at the fame time that the Sun, 
 being in the airy fign Gemini, in the eighth, is mofl: apt to corrupt the 
 blood, and to promote putrefaction. This fever continued withaftonilh- 
 ing violence, until the Moon's crifis fuperfeded the force of the direction, 
 and abated, by its nutritive and moiftening quality, the confuming heat 
 of the preceding configuration. 
 
 At the age of forty years and one hundred twenty-feven days, the 
 Sun comes to a mundane quartile of the ponderous malefic planet Sa- 
 turn, which from natural defignation portends little lefs than inevitable 
 deftrudion, from fome fudden bruife or violent concuffion of the cir- 
 cumambient matter. Had this afpe6t been formed of Mars inftead of 
 Jupiter, 1 fhould have predifted danger of death from, the fudden and 
 all-devouring ftroke of lightning; but the quality of Saturn defcribes 
 it to be the effedl of fome violent blow, or fall from an eminence. And 
 the fa6t has really turned out, that the native mofl improvidently, at 
 this age, got up into a tree, from whence he fell to the ground, and 
 broke feveral of his bones, and lay for a confiderable time without the 
 leaf} profped or hopes of recovery ; but, as this malevolent afpe<5t was 
 not made to the hyleg, it was impoflible it (hould deftroy life, no 
 
 matter
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. toj 
 
 tnatter how much the haman frame was injured atid deranged by the 
 violeiic? ai tLlft'^,.f^li. ... , 
 
 From the feventh houfe we colledV information concerning wedlock and 
 marriage, and its probable confequences. This houfe therefore repre- 
 feius the native's wife, who is defcribed by Mercury in Taurus as a 
 lively but head-ftrong woman ; ingenious, quick, and penetrating, but 
 pofitive and felf-willed. This marriage was brought ,»ap by the mundane 
 Textile of the Sun and Moon, and may be ranked amongft the mediocrity 
 of the happy ones. 
 
 The eighth houfe fhows us what might be expelled from the wife's fub- 
 flance, either from dowry or from legacy; and likewife what portion 
 of happinefs and content may probably be found in company therewitli;. 
 As to the firft of thefe, we may obferve that the Sun, in fo impeded a 
 pofition, rather deftroys the fortune of a wife than adds to it; and, 
 as to the fecond, there does not appear, either from earthly conneflions, 
 or from heavenly configurations, any reafou to form extenfive expefta- 
 tions. The beft way in all thefe cafes is wifely to learn to be content 
 with our lot. 
 
 The ninth houfe relates to profeffional fcience, to fea-voyao-es, and 
 the like. And, as the Moon is pofited therein, it (hows that the native, in 
 his early days, (hould have a ftrong inclination to go to Tea, and to tra- 
 vel into foreign parts; but Saturn being in oppofition to the Moon, and 
 a fuperior planet, over-rules this difpofition ; and (hows, by his pofition, 
 that, if the native had gone to fea, he would have fufFered an uncommon 
 ftiare of perils and dangers, by ftormy weather, public enemies, and 
 (hipwreck. As to fcience, we have already feen the native's inclination 
 and propenfity towards it; and, confidering his fituation, and the difficul- 
 ties he had to encounter, he has made great proficiency therein, althou«rh 
 Saturn has often proved detrimental to him even in this purfuit, not- 
 withftanding the vigour of his mind, and the zeal of enthufiafm ; for 
 Saturn, by cafting an oppofite malignant ray to the Moon, who rules the 
 moifture of the brain, proportionably dulls the underftanding, and caufes 
 the native to labour hard for every grain of knowledge he has the o-ood 
 fortune to obtain. 
 
 The tenth houfe is the houfe of trade, honour, and profefiion. 
 In this portion of the horolcope we find Mars, lord of the afcendant, 
 beheld by the trine afpedt of Venus ; but, as Venus is in her detriment.
 
 8o6 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 it is apparent flie cannot afford that eminent profperity and unimpeded 
 fuccefs fhe otherwife might do. It is however pretty obvious that the na- 
 tive's advancement in life is not to be ranked amongft the moft inconfi- 
 derable ; and that this fuccefs, in the department of phyfic and chemiftry, 
 fhould neither be difreputable nor unprofitable. Mars pofited in the 
 mid-heaven, out of all his effential dignities, generally declares the native 
 to be violently paflionate and rafli ; but here we find his hafly temperature 
 cooled by the mild trine of Venus, which meliorates the native's difpoli^ 
 tion, and induces him to be more gentle and kind. 
 
 In the eleventh houfe we find the unfortunate node of the Moon,^ com- 
 monly called the Dragon's Tail, which implies hypocritical enemies and; 
 perfidious friends. Of thefe I make no doubt but the native has had 
 ample experience ; and therefore, from what has already come to pafs, I 
 "would admonifh him of the future; being convinced, from this pofitioH 
 of his geniture, that no part of his life will be exempted from the at« 
 tacks of thofe affailants. This pofition of the malefic node like wife de- 
 clares, that the native fhall- fuffer great difappointments in his pecuniary 
 hopes and expectations. 
 
 The twelfth houfe relates to public enemies, imprifonmf nt, and great 
 cattle. Venus being lady thereof, pofited in the fixth, in oppofition, de- 
 clares the native fhaU be unfuccefsful in any dealings in cattle ; at the 
 fame time it difcovers his profefled enemies to be in too abjeft a fituatioa 
 to do him much injury. As to imprifonment, there does not appear to 
 be the leaft apprehenfions of ; but that the native will live in profperity 
 during the remainder of his days, and yield up the ghofl upon the bed 
 of liberty, fuW of years, and amidft the good offices of his friends, I am 
 bold to affirm, from the confideratien of thofe ccleftial intelligencers that 
 have never yet deceived mc. ' fbnt; 
 
 oi anr 
 
 CONSIDE-
 
 O F A S T K O L O G Y. 
 
 807 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS on the NATIVITY of Mr. THOMAS 
 
 CHATTERTON. 
 
 Latitude. 
 
 
 b 
 
 58 
 
 N 
 
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 I 
 
 S. 
 
 c? 
 
 26 
 
 N 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 $ I 
 
 8 
 
 S. 
 
 $ I 
 
 
 
 s. 
 
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 3 
 
 s. 
 
 This gentleman was a native of Briftol, much celebrated for his lite- 
 rary produdions, and for the originality of his ideas, which rofe early 
 in the horizon of his life, and fet as prematurely upon its hemifphere, 
 
 No. 40. 9 O without
 
 8o3 AN I L L U" S T R A T I O N 
 
 without even allowing him to attain its meridian altitude. In fhort, 
 this is a very remarkable, at the fame time that it is a moft unfortunate, 
 geniture. Upon the afcendant we find the fign Gemini, and Mercury 
 lord thereof, which lays the foundation of a fharp wit, and an acute un- 
 derftanding. But then Mercury, his principal fignificator, is polited ii\ 
 the fixth houfe, in his detriment, and in combuftion of the Sun; au in- 
 fallible argument of a wretched life and a fatal end. 
 
 This judgement is corroborated and confirmed in a moft extraordinary 
 manner, by the coalition of the Sun, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, and 
 the Part of Fortune, in the fixth houfe, which prefages every Ipecies 
 of misfortune that can arife from poverty, and from the chicanery of 
 proftituted women; the immediate effe61: of the baleful rays of Saturn 
 and Venus. This fatal conjunction, to which Mars is approaching 
 with accumulated malevolence, hath defignation of a thoufand diftreffing 
 occurrences, which occafionally torment, and alternately pervade, the 
 native's mind. 
 
 We likewife find the Moon pofited in the twelfth houfe, receding 
 from a fextile with Jupiter, and forming an oppofition with the Sun; 
 that i?, departing from the early good and prolific temperature, to in- 
 creafe the virulence of the other malefic rays. The Moon is lady of the 
 fecond houfe, and therefore in a more particular manner governs his lub- 
 ftance; and, by being in the twelfth houfe, the houfe of imprifonment 
 and afflidion, denotes a frequent want of prefent cafli, and the dangers 
 to which the native would be often expofed on that account ; which 
 would have been dreadful indeed, and perhaps fecured the native for a 
 length of time within the iron gates of a prifon, had not the more be- 
 nevolent planet Jupiter been in his exaltation in the fecond houfe, which 
 fortunate configuration lelfens the fore2;oini2; baleful influences, and is 
 the means of producing timely and unexpected relief, in pecuniary 
 matters, to the uative, when nothing but the moft dull and barren 
 profpeCts ftood before him ; and but for which fortunate occurrence, he 
 had certainly experienced the moft abjeCt penury and want. And here 
 it is remarkable, that whatever blelfing, or whatever abundance, ftiould 
 be thrown in his way by the genial influence of Jupiter, is either 
 abufed, or improvidently fquandered away, under the oppofition of the 
 Sun and Moon ; and, by the Moon's conjunction with her unfortunate 
 node, we are more clearly conviCted that tlie native will experience very 
 cBobarrafled circumftaaces. 
 
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 The Part of Fortune unluckily falls in conjunilion with Saturn and 
 Venus; and, as Saturn is pofited in a lign out of all his dignities, and is 
 the lord alfo of the eighth houfe, his influence is implicative of certain 
 ruin by means of wicked and debauched women, defcribed by Venus, 
 conjoined to the worft rays of Saturn. This conftru6lion is abundantly 
 confirmed by the conftltution of the hylegiacal and anaretical places of 
 the figure, and the difpofition of the lignificators by which they are 
 refpe6tively irradiated. The afcendant, in this horofcope, muft l)e 
 confidered as hyleg, or giver of life, fin'ce neither the Sun, Moon, nor 
 Part of Fortune, is fo pofited in the geniture, as to entitle either of 
 them to the pre-eminence; and it is the peculiar quality of the afcen- 
 dant, occupied by Gemini, and governed by Mercury, to ftamp upon 
 the native fo early and fo extraordinary a turn for literary purfuits ; which 
 are too well eftablifhed to neecWany other proof, than that they were com- 
 municated to the intelleftual faculty bv this conftruction of the hyleg 
 and circumambient matter at the time of birth. 
 
 We are here likewife to remark, that Saturn is the atiareta, or de- 
 ftroyer of life, and is pofited in the mod noxious pofition that could 
 have happened, and where he ufuallv prenotes the fatal comraiffion of 
 fuicide, without fo much as one friendly ray to oppofe his influence, or 
 to render the fhocking attempt partial, or lefs dellruftive than a caule 
 that will certainly touch life. On the contrary, here is a concatenation 
 of evil rays, which i.n a remarkable manner contribute to a premature 
 death. The Sun and Moon are in oppofitionto houfes that are under the 
 influence of the worft caules of death; and as Venus is in conjunttion 
 with Saturn, who rules thefe evils, and draws them as it were within the 
 focus of her own orb, it is evident that his death would come by his own 
 hand, under the preffure of defpair, heightened by meagre want, through 
 the perfidy of fojne abandoned female.! -"Jtw^t'- 
 
 If we inquire minutely into the life of this unfortunate man, we 
 Ihall find every aClion and prediftion of the ftars, which were the im- 
 preffors at his birth, fully and completely verified. He was born of no 
 very diftinguifhed parents, and received but a fmall (hare of claffical 
 education ; yet his produdions, at a very early period, were fuch as 
 excited the admiration of the firft fcholars of his day, and proved him 
 to inherit great natural ability and genius; infomuch that A'Ir. Whartorii' 
 in his additions to his Hiftory of Poetry, vol. ii. hath taken occafion to' 
 obferve, " that Mr. Chatterton had given a fingular inrtance of prematu- 
 " rity of abilities, a«d that he had acquired a ftore of general informatiotv- 
 
 " far.
 
 Sio A X ILLUSTRATION 
 
 " far exceeding his years; that he pofTefTed a comprehenfioii of mind, ahd 
 " activity of underftanding, which predominated over his fituation in 
 " life and his opportunities of inftru6tioh." But notwithftanding he was 
 thus gifted, and pofTcfTed lo eminent a (liare of llerling fenfe, yet he com- 
 bined with it all the vices and irregularities of youth; and his profligacy 
 was at kail: as coni'picuous as his abilities. 
 
 Finding himfelf cncompaffed with private enemies, furrounded with 
 the evils of poverty, and deftitute of everv means of fubfiftencc, he quit- 
 ted Briflol, to try his fortune in the metropolis. Having fixed himfelf 
 in private lodgings, he fought for bread through the medium of his li- 
 terary talent, which falliig fhort of his expedtations, as well as of his 
 merit, he mofl: unfortunately fell into the hands of the lower order of 
 proftitutcs, by whom he was duped, difeg^ed, and finally deferted ! In 
 this deplorable fituation he continued a few months, occafionally 
 drudging for the bookfellers, who neither having the generofity to re- 
 ward him as he deferved, nor fpirit to advance upon tne credit of his 
 future produdions, he at length, oppreffed with poverty and difeafe, 
 and overcome by defpair, put an end to his exiftence, in the month of 
 AugufI:, 1770, by a dofe of poifon, which he prepared with his own 
 hand. 
 
 If we confider the quality of the dirc6lion which produced his death, 
 we fhall find the manner of it moft: aptly defcribed in his figure of birth. 
 Saturn thus configurated with Venus, in that particular part of the hea- 
 vens, and under fuch noxious irradiations, hath at all times, as well by 
 Ptolemy as by every other refpe6lable profefTor of this fcience, been found 
 to occaiion death by poifon; and lb many concurrent teftimonies in the 
 houfe of ficknefs and difeafe bear the ftridefi: affinity thereto; and this 
 fatal direftion is much flrengthened by coming up with the revolution of 
 Saturn. 
 
 Mr. Chatterton, notwithftanding his foibles, and his want of a more 
 fcholaflic education, was nevertheleis a benevolent man, and a good 
 fcholar. He certainly laboured hard, and combated many obllacles, in 
 his literary attainments; but his fuccefs was great; and, had he been 
 born to great profperity, and under the influence of milder ftars, he 
 had been an ornament to the age in which he lived, and an honour to his 
 country. I have manv reafons to believe, that his knowledge of the 
 uranical part of Aflronomy had enabled him to forleee, by his own 
 geniture, the evils he had to combat, and the fatal termination of a 
 
 life,
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 8ii 
 
 life, which his own folly had rendered infupportable ; but which an op- 
 pofite conduft, and a more manly refolution, might confefTediy have re- 
 medied and prevented. This ferves to flicw, that there certainly is a fate 
 in nature, which nothing but the rational means made ufe of by Heze- 
 kiah, 2 Kings, chap. xx. can alleviate or prevent, namely, unfeigned 
 prayer, and a determined fpirit to abandon the allurements of vice and 
 to walk perfe6l in the ways of God and Truth ; which verifies the an- 
 cient pro\erb, that wife men rule thejlars^ and none but the giddy and the 
 thoughtkfs are ruled by them. 
 
 That Mr. Chatterton's acquaintance with this fcience, and his ap- 
 probation of it, may not be difputed by thofe critics who are unwilling 
 to admit it has ever had the fanction of men of fenfe or learning in the 
 prefent age, I fhall conclude my remarks on his nativity, by fubjoining 
 fome excellent verfes he wrote upon the occafion, after he had made 
 progrefs enough in the ftudy to be convinced of its importance and 
 utility. 
 
 THE Sun revolving on his axis turns. 
 And with creative fire intenfely burns ; 
 Impell'd by forcive air, our earth fupreme 
 Rolls with the planets round the folar gleam : 
 Firft Mercury completes his tranfient year. 
 Glowing refulgent with reflefted glare ; 
 Bright Venus occupies a wider way. 
 The early harbinger of night and day; 
 More diftant ftill our globe terraqueous turns. 
 Nor chills intenfe, nor fiercely heated burns ; 
 Around her rolls the lunar orb of lisht. 
 Trailing her filver glories through the night : 
 On the earth's orbit fee the various figns 
 Mark where the Sun, our year completing, fliines. 
 Firfl the bright Ram his languid ray improves ; 
 Next glaring wat'ry through the Bull he moves : 
 The ani'rous Tvnns admit his genial ray ; 
 Now burning through the Crab he takes his wav : 
 No. 41. 9P The
 
 8i3 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The Lion, flaming, bears the folar power; 
 The Virgin faints beneath the fultry fhower. 
 Now the jufl Balance weighs his equal force. 
 The flimy Serpent fwelters in his courfe ; 
 The fabled Archer clouds his languid face ; 
 The Goat, with tempeft, urges on his race ; 
 Now in the water his faint beams appear. 
 And the cold Fiflies end the circling year. 
 Beyond our globe the fanguine Mars difplays 
 A flrong refleftion of primaeval rays ; 
 Next belted Jupiter far diftant gleams. 
 Scarcely enlight'ned with the folar beams ; 
 With four unfix'd receptacles of light, 
 He tours majeftic through the fpacious height. 
 But farther yet the tardy Saturn lags. 
 And five attendant luminaries drags ; 
 Invefling with a double ring his pace. 
 He circles through immenfity of fpace. 
 
 Thefe are thy wond'rous works, Firft Source of Good ! 
 Now more admir'd IN BEING UNDERSTOOD. 
 
 Bristol, Dec, 23. 
 
 CONSIDER.
 
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 CONSIDERATIONS on the Nativity of JOHN CDLLONS. 
 
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 I am induced to give the foregoing horofcope a place in my work, as 
 a remarkable example of the influence of the ftars upon a malefaftor, 
 ■whofe crimes expofed him to the forfeiture of his liberty and life, by 
 the iron hand of the law. 
 
 This
 
 8i.i AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 This unfortunate man refided in Briflol. He controfted an intimacy 
 with a female, and hved with her m the cloR^d habits of the fexes, 
 until they had feveral children. y\t length difigreements aroir, in 
 conl'equence of his refufing to marry her. and a voU-iit quarrel f'pcU-ated 
 them. The woman itniufdiately attached herf^lf to another man, to 
 whom {he was fhortly after married, totally f nfaking her former con- 
 nexion. The native, enraged at this cironinllance, took frequent op- 
 portunities of way-laying and remonflratnig with her: of claiming a 
 prior right to her perfon, and of infiflmg on having familiarity and 
 contafct with her, whenever he pleafed ; but, (he rejefled him with con- 
 tempt, and threatened profecution whenever he attempted to force her. 
 
 Hurt at this repulfe, and exafperated at the indiflference with which 
 lie was treated, he took an opportunity of watching the hufband from 
 his bed, who, being a labouring man, went early to his work ; upon 
 which the native made his way into tl'.e houfe, went up Hairs, and 
 found the wife in bed. Demanding fatDiliarity witli her, he was refufed, 
 with fevere refle61ions on the method he had taken to get into her bed- 
 chamber. He then drew his knife, and with a degree of inhuman 
 barbarity, better conceived than exprelTed, he threw himfelf upon the 
 bed, and cut her throat from ear to ear. 
 
 The alarm was foon given, and the cry of innocent blood became 
 general. Tlie culprit was feized, examined, and coinmitted to New- 
 gate for trial. He there affe6led to fhew marks of infanity, and for fome 
 confiderable time before the affizes was generally believed to have per- 
 petrated the bloodv aft in a paroxyfm of madnefs, which was now be- 
 come vifible in all his words and a6lions. His friends availed them- 
 felves of this circumdance to palliate his guilt, and took every ftep to 
 improve the advantage againd the day of trial, when it was generally 
 believed that he would be acquitted. Different parties, however, had 
 taken up the matter on different grounds; and it was at laft agreed, by 
 fome gentlemen of refpe6iability in BriRol, that I fhould be requefted 
 to infpeft his nativity, and to give my judgment whether he would be 
 found guilty or acquitted. I readily accompanied the gentlemen to 
 Newgate, and obtained the eftimate time of the prifoner's birth, which 
 I reclified by the method heretofore laid down, and found the ficrnifica- 
 tors of his nativity difpofed as in the foregoing horofcopical figure, which 
 I thus explained. 
 
 Mercury being lonl of the afcendant, irradiated by a malefic quar- 
 tile afped of the planet Mars, and afflifted by an oppofiiion with Ju- 
 piter
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. ^815 
 
 piter, declares that the native fliall be involved in an abyfs of troubles 
 and afflictions, even to the hazard of his life. As to temper and pro- 
 penfity of the will, he is rafh, violent, and arbitrary ; undable in his 
 purfuits, and ufually difappointed in his expeftaiions. This is denoted 
 by the oppofition of Jupiter to Mercury ; but the quartile of Mercury 
 with Mars, particularly when Mercury is conftituted principal fignifi- 
 cator, hath implication of high crimes and mifdemeanours, and ufually 
 produces violent contention, afTaflTmation, murder, rapine, robbery, and 
 bloodfhed, as we have more particularly delineated, in p. 229, 230. 
 
 Upon a further infpeftion of the figure, we find a baneful quartile 
 afpeft of Mars and Jupiter, with a mifchievous oppofition of Saturn 
 and Mars. To the fird of thefe we are to attribute the diffolute man- 
 ners of the native, fince it influenced the mind to thofe immoral habits, 
 which eventally lead to perfidioufiiefs and treachery, whilft the fecond 
 configuration not only confirms thefe vices, but fhews that they will be 
 the means of his death. Here is unqueftionably a favourable trine 
 of the Sun and Saturn ; but no great good can refult from it, becaufe 
 the Sun is lord of the twelfth houfe, pofited in the tenth, out of all his 
 efiential dignities ; at the fame time that Saturn is lord of the fixth, lo- 
 cated therein, and both the fignificators are under the dominion of the 
 evil genii, vitiating the mind and affeflions of the native, and tending 
 to an ignominious and premature end. 
 
 At the time the unhappy native was prompted to commit this bar- 
 barous aft, the Moon came to an oppofition of Mars by direft direftion, 
 vvdiile file occupied the cufp of the feventh houfe, which reprefents the 
 unfortunate woman ; and the quartile of Jupiter lord of the fourth, 
 with Mercury lord of the afcendant, hath defignalion of the native, and 
 points out the fatal conneftion betwixt them. 
 
 -Having confidered fo much of the horofcope, it was my next care to 
 afcertain'the hylegiacal and anaretical ftars, and the particular influx 
 flowing from them. The Sun I find to be giver of life, pofited in the 
 tenth houfe, the houfe of juftice ; Mercury, lord of the afcendant, be- 
 ing in Gemini, an airy fign, and the Moon likewife in an airy fign, 
 iliev the manner of the native's death, that he would die fufpended in 
 the air, while the oppofition of four planets in the radix, and the mun- 
 dane quartile of the Sun and Mars, from the tenth, the houfe of juf- 
 tice, fhew the quality of it, namely, that it fliould be in due courfe of 
 law, by the hand^ of the common hangman, and not by fuicide. 
 
 No. 4 1 . 9 Q The
 
 8i5 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The fignificators of jufticc likewife, confidered judicially from their 
 rerj)c61ive pofitions in relation to each other, give no profpefi: whatever 
 of favour from the judge, nor of any effeclual interpofuion after convic- 
 tion; fb that I made no fcruple to affirm. That, notwithflanding the 
 hopes that had been formed of faving the native's life by pleading his 
 infanity, and the number of perfons who appeared anxious to ferve him, 
 yet all their endeavours would prove abortive, fince he would certainly 
 be found guilty, and fuffer the fentence of the law in confequence. 
 
 It would be needlefs here to relate, how much this prediftion was 
 ridiculed by all degrees of people in Briflol ; or with what contempt 
 my opinion was treated by moft of the poor man's friends. And it was 
 with fbme difficulty I could pafs without infult. I was determined, 
 however, to place my judgment in a more Hi iking point of view. The 
 affizes were not fixed, nor could any perfon undertake to fay when they 
 would be, much lefs afcertain the day of the native's trial, I therefore 
 brought up the direftion of death, with great nicety and precifion, and 
 found he would be plunged into eternity, when the Sun came to the 
 anaretical point in the midheaven, and met the noxious beams of the 
 Moon and Mars in oppofition, which, thus conflituted, is ever produc- 
 tive of a violent death. Thofe, who will take the pains to equate this 
 direftion, will find the content of its arch to be twenty-feven degrees 
 thirty-four minutes, which, turned into time, and reckoned from the 
 hour of birth, will be found to come up on the eighth day of April, 
 1785, and gives the fpace of life twenty-fix years, nine months, and 
 fome odd days, which cxaftly anfwered to the native's age, I then 
 publicly declared, notwithflanding the popular clamour was fo much 
 againft me, that the prifoner would fuffer on the above day ; and, as the 
 affizes were not fixed, no one could charge me with having drawn my 
 conclufions from the probable event of the day of trial. 
 
 When the folemn hour arrived, every one appeared anxioufly interefl- 
 ed in the event ; and the utmofl exertions were ufed to fave the unfor- 
 tunate prifoner from the fate impending over him — but in vain ! After 
 a long and indulgent trial, the jury pronounced him guilty, and he fuf- 
 fered the law, as thoufands can tefl:ify, on the very day I had predifted. 
 
 And here let me jufl remark, that this geniture not only points out, 
 by the conflitution of the Moon and Mercury in airy figns, that the 
 native would be hanged ; but Mars being in quartile to the Sun, who 
 is giver of life, and upon his afcendant, defcribes the circumftajice of 
 his diffcclion, as may be feen by the rules already laid down in the for- 
 mer part of this work, 
 
 CONSIDE-
 
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 817 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS on the Nativity of Mrs. KEZIA LAMPARD, 
 
 who died in Child-bed. 
 
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 8i8 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 This geniture befpeaks a female of a fharp wit, and lively difpofition. 
 Mars is lord of the afc'endant, pofited in Virgo, the exaltation of Mer- 
 cury, but in no afpeft with any planet in the heavens, confequently the 
 faihion and temperatun/of 'he native will be formed principally of Mars ; 
 who, as we have feen before, produces, when in Virgo, a middling fta- 
 ture, inclining to brevity, hot and fiery temper, rafli and invincible in 
 all difputes, and ungovernably violent in hafty quarrels, yet foon ap- 
 peafed by good nature and fubmiffion, which at all times induce her to 
 be tradable and induftrious, and for the mod part fober and frugal. 
 Her features are defcribed to be thin and pale, occafioned by the Moon's 
 conjunftion with Venus ; yet of a pleafing and agreeable vifage, owing 
 to the influx of the beams of Venus, who is the author of beauty. But, 
 by reafon that Venus is in her fall, the fymmetry of features will be 
 proportionably deranged ; and, as Saturn, the author of deformity, be- 
 holds both the Moon and Venus with a fextile ray, it becomes evident 
 that the native could only be modeiately handfome. The mixture of 
 thefe fignificators gives her brown hair, and great volubility of fpeech, 
 from which great inconveniences arife, and fometimes lofles and inju- 
 ries, as is particularly denoted by the reception of Mercury and Mars, 
 and the conjunftion of Saturn with Mercury in the twelfth, the houfe of 
 private enemies. 
 
 This nativity might be claffed amongft thofe of a mean and obfcure 
 defignation, fince we find no one planet through the whole horofcope 
 elTentially fortified, except Mercury and Mars, and that is only by re- 
 ception, which, from the conftitution of their places, declares good by 
 evil means, with a difpofition to low and vulgar purfuits. And here 
 it may not be improper to remark, that, whenever we find the planets, 
 in any nativity, out of all their eflential dignities, we might fafely con- 
 clude, that their effefts will in no fliape be remarkable or extraordinary, 
 and that the native will lead generally a mean and obfcure life. 
 
 That this perfon fhould live to years of maturity, is abundantly evi- 
 dent from the confl;itution of her horofcope ; as well as that fiie would 
 enter into the marriage ftate. Venus and Mercury, in this figure, give 
 tefl:imony to the hufband, who is defcribed by Jupiter, on twenty de- 
 grees of the afcendant, under the government of Saturn ; fo that it 
 was very improbable, if not impoflible, that the native would marry 
 young, becaufe Saturn is above the earth, conjoined with the fignifica- 
 tor of her hufijand, and declares flie would not enter into that ftate at 
 leaft under thirty years. In faft, there is but one direftion within that 
 period, that could pofllbly have brought it to pafs ; and that came up 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY, §19 
 
 xvhen (lie was only about twelve years old, fo that its efFecl pafTed off in 
 her minority, without producing any fenfible operation. The dire6lion 
 which perfefted her marriage came up when (he was thirty-one years 
 three months and eleven days old, namely, on the fifth of February, 1780, 
 when Venus came to the trine of Jupiter ; as appears by the following 
 calculation : 
 
 The right afcenfion of the A of "y , - - ipi" ^2' 
 
 The right afcenfion of 9 , with latitude, - - 160 43 
 
 Arch o^dire6lion, - - ' - - 3^ 59 
 
 Which, added to the right afcenfion of the Sun, and turned into 
 time, as before pointed out, produces exaftly tliirty-one years, three 
 months, and eleven days. 
 
 Upon a further inveftigation of the horofcope, we (hall faid that Mars 
 is not only lord of the alcendant, but hath fole dominion over the fifth 
 and twelfth houfes, which prefage thofe kind or fpecies of evils to the 
 native as are ufually produced in thofe particular pofitions of the hea- 
 vens. The twelfth houfe being the houfe of affliftion, and Mercury 
 and Mars in reception therein, it declares the native Ihall prove in many 
 refpefts her own enemy ; and, as Mercury is in conju6lion with Saturn, 
 who likewife communicates an influx of malefic rays to Venus and the 
 Moon, whereby they participate of his quality and nature, in the fign 
 Scorpio, which rules the fecret parts, it evidently demonftrates gieat 
 and imminent danger to the native by child-bearing. And the Sun 
 being in the eleventh houfe, oppofed to the fifth, which is the houfe 
 of children, and being likewife the armreta, or deftroyer of life, it evi- 
 dently proves the native's death fhall arife from child-birth; and fo it 
 really happened; for foon after her delivery of the fifth child, in the 
 thirty-ninth year of her age, fhe was fuddenly feized, and died in a few 
 hours, on the 13th of Augufl, 1787. 
 
 The direflion under which flie died, is the Moon, which is apheia, 
 or giver of life, to the conjunftion of the Sun in the eleventh houfe ; 
 at which exaft time Venus came to the fame anaretical point, and Mars, 
 lord of the afcendant, to the twelfth houfe, where the malefic rays of 
 Saturn and Mercury contribute their baneful influence, all which con- 
 fidered together, denote, in the mod remarkable and decifive manner, 
 a child-bed death to the native. 
 
 No. 41. 9 R ^ Many
 
 820 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Many other confiderations might be adduced from this geniture ; 
 but, as the only proof we wi(h to eftablifh is to (hew, according to na- 
 tural caufes and effefts, the certainty with which the time and manner 
 of death might be afcertained by the force and influx of the ambient 
 and elementary matter, prefcribea by the laws and motions of the hea- 
 venly bodies, it would be deviating from our plan, and prove deroga- 
 tory to the good fenfe of the reader, to dwell longer upon fubordinate 
 fpeculations. 
 
 It may not however, be unentertaining to the curious reader, were 
 he to compare the configurations formed by the planets in^this horo- 
 fcope, and the particular influx of their refpe6live beams, with thofe 
 general rules and obfervations heretofore laid down, for the purpofe of 
 afcertaining the quality of death. The wonderful harmony, order, 
 and precifion, with which the heavenly bodies operate upon this 
 fublunary world ; the uniformity with which the fame caufes are found 
 to produce the fame effefts ; and the certainty with which the time and 
 manner of human diflblution is fought out by them, will at once infpire 
 the mind with the moft elevated ideas of the omnipotence of God, and 
 lead the foul to thofe divine contemplations, which are founded in hu- 
 mility, gratitude, and love! 
 
 CONSIDER-
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 821 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS on the NATIVITY of the HONOURABLE 
 BARON EMANUEL SWEDENBORG. 
 
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 Baron Emanuel 
 SWEDENBORG, 
 
 BORN 
 
 29th January, 5h. 30m. A. M. 
 1686. 
 
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 The fingularity of the charafter and doftrine of this illuflrious native 
 would be a fuflBcient reafon for my offering a (ketch of his geniture to 
 the inquifitive reader, had I no other motives for taking notice of him 
 in this place. But, as the literary purfuits of Baron Swedenborg have 
 been principally dircfted to an explication of the dodrine of fpirits, and 
 the ftate of departed fouls, which we fliall have occafion to advert to 
 in the magical part of this work, I conceive it highly proper to fpeak 
 of his endowments by nature, agreeable to that doftrine of fecret and 
 occult influence received by the terreftrial from the fpiritual world, 
 which he has with fo much ability and acutenefs endeavoured to prove. 
 And, when I refle6l that he was our co-temporar)', and his pcrfon and 
 manners well known to many refpeftable perfonages now living in this 
 
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 822 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 country; that he is the latefl; writer upon the nature and exiflencc of 
 immaterial beings, and has thrown much new light upon the fubjcft ; 
 it cannot be unentertaining, nor unimportant, to illuftrate, by his na- 
 tivit)', the extraordinary endowments of his mind. 
 
 But, before I fpeak of the conftitution and quality of his gcniture, it 
 will not be amifs to introduce the reader to a nearer acquaintance with 
 this celebrated author, which I (hall do by quoting his own account of 
 himfeif, as given in a letter to a friend, publiflied in his works. 
 
 Baron Swedcnborgs Anfwer to a Letter from a Friend, printed in his Preface 
 
 to the World of Spirits. 
 
 I TAKE pleafure in the friendfhip you exprefs for me in your letter, 
 and return you thanks for the fame ; but, as to the praifes therein, I 
 confider them as belonging to the truths contained in my writings, and 
 fo refer them to the Lord our Saviour as his due, who is in himfelf the 
 Fountain of all Truth. It is the concluding part of your letter that 
 chiefly engages my attention, where you fay as follows : " As after your 
 ' departure from England difputes may arife on the fubjeft of your 
 * writings, and fo give occafion to defend their author againft fuch falfe 
 ' "reports and afperfions, as they who are no friends to truth may invent 
 ' to the prejudice of his charafter, may it not be of ufe, in order to 
 ' refute any calumnies of that kind, that you leave behind you fome 
 ' fliort account of yourfelf, as concerning, for example, your degrees 
 ' in the univerfity, the offices you have borne, your family and con- 
 ' neftions, the honours which I am told have been conferred upon you, 
 ' and fuch other particulars as may ferve to the vindication of your 
 ' charafter, if attacked ; that fo any ill-grounded prejudices may be 
 ' obviated or removed ? For, where the honour and intereft of truth are 
 ' concerned, it certainly behoves us to employ all lawful means in its 
 ' defence and fupport." After reflefting on the foregoing paffage, I 
 was induced to comply with your friendly advice, by briefly communi- 
 cating the following circumflances of my life. 
 
 I was born at Stockholm, in the year of our Lord 1689, Jan. 29. 
 My father's name Jefper Swedberg, who was Biftiop of Weftrogothia, 
 and of celebrated charafter in his time. He was alfo a Member of 
 the Society for the propagation of the Gofpel, formed on the model of 
 that in England, and appointed prefident of the Swedifh churches in 
 Pennfylvania and London by King Charles XII. In the year 1710 I be- 
 gan riiy travels, firfl; into England, and afterwards into Holland, France, 
 
 and
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 823 
 
 and Germany, and returned home in 1714. In the year 1716, and af- 
 terwards, I frequently converfed with Charles XII. King of Sweden, 
 who was pleafed to bellow on me a large fliare of his favour, and in that 
 year appointed me to the office of AffefTor in the Metallic College, in 
 which office I continued from that time till the year 1747, when I 
 quitted the office, but flill retain the falary annexed to it as an appoint- 
 ment for life. The reafon of my withdrawing from the bufinefs of 
 that employnient was, that I might be more at liberty to apply myfelf 
 to that new funftion to which die Lord had called me. About this 
 time a place of higher dignity in the ftate was offered me, which I de- 
 clined to accept, left it fhould prove a fnare to me. In 1719, I was 
 ennobled by Queen Ulrica Eleonora, and named Swedenborg ; from 
 which time I have taken my feat with the Nobles of the Equeftrian 
 Order, in the Triennial Affemblies of the States. I am a Fellow, by 
 invitation, of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, but have 
 never defired to be of any other community, as I belong to the Society 
 of Angels, in which things fpiritual and heavenly are the only fubje6ls 
 of difcourfe and entertainment ; whereas in our litetary focieties the at- 
 tention is wholly taken up with things relative to the body and this 
 world. In the year 1734 I publiffied the Regnum Minerale, at Leipfic, 
 in three volumes, folio; and in 1738 I took a journey into Italy, and 
 flaid a year at Venice and Rome. 
 
 With refpeft to my family connexions ; I had four fiftcrs; one of 
 them was married to Erick Benzelius, afterwards promoted to the Arch- 
 bifhopric of Upfal ; and thus I became related to the two fucceeding 
 Archbiffiops of that fee, both named Benzelius, and younger brothers 
 of the former. Another of my fifters was married to Lars Benzelftierna, 
 who was promoted to a provincial government ; but thefe are both dead; 
 however, two bifhops, who are related to me, are ftill living ; one of 
 them is named Filenius, Biffiop of Oftrogothia, who now officiates as 
 Prefident of the Ecclefiaftical Order in the General Affembly at Stock- 
 holm, in the room of the archbiffiop, who is infirm ; he married the 
 daughter of my fifter ; the other, who is named Benzelftierna, Biffiop 
 of Weftermannia and Dalecarlia, is the fon of my fecond fifter ; not to 
 mention others of my family who are dignified. I converfe freely, and 
 am in friendffiip, with all the biffiops of my country, which are ten in 
 number, and alfo with the fixteen fenators, and the reft of the gran- 
 dees, who love and honour me, as knowing that I am in fellowffiip with 
 angels. The king and queen themfclvcs, as alfo the three princes 
 their fons, ffiew me all kind countenance ; and I was once invited to eat 
 with the king and queen at their table, (an honour granted only to the 
 
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 824 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 peers of the realnij) and lil-^ewife fince with the hereditary prince. AH 
 in my own ccunlry wifh for my ifturn home; fo far am 1 from the 
 leal't danger of perfecution there, as yoa feem to apprehend, and are alfo 
 fo kiiidly fohLiLous lo provide againfl ; and, (houid any thing of that kind 
 btfal rr^e elfe^vhccj it will give ine no concern. 
 
 Whatever of worldly honour and advant?igc may appear to be in the 
 things before- mentioned, I hold them as matters of low ef.imation, 
 when compared to the honour of that facred office to which tiie Lord 
 hiinfelf hath c\!led me, who was gracioufly p'eafed to manifefl himfelf to 
 me, his un\'0uhy fcrvant, in a perfo.iai appearance in the year 1743 ; to 
 open m me a fight of the fpiritual world, and to enable mc to converfe 
 with fpirits and angels; and this privilege has been continued to me 
 to this day. From that time I began to print and publifli various un- 
 known arcana, that have been either feen by me, or revealed to me, con- 
 cerning heaven and hell ; tlie Rate of men after death ; the true worfhip 
 of God ; the fpiritual fenfe of the Scriptures ; and many other im- 
 portant truths tending to falvation and true wifdom : and that mankind 
 might receive benefit from thefe communications, was the only motive 
 ■which has induced me at different times to leave my home to vifit other 
 countries. As to this world's wealth, I have fufficient, and more I nei- 
 ther feek nor wifli for. 
 
 Your letter has drawn the mention of thefe things from me, in cafe, 
 as you fay, they may be a means to prevent or remove any falfe judg- 
 ment or wrong prejudices with regard to my perfonal circumft;ances. — 
 Farewel ; and I heartily wifii you profperity both in things fpiritual 
 and temporal, of which I make no doubt, if fo be you go on to pray to 
 our Lord, and to fet him always before you. 
 
 London, 1769. • EMAN. SWEDENBORG. 
 
 Upon the horofcope of this eminent perfon there are four planets 
 •efTentially dignified, viz. Saturn, lord of the afcendant; the Moon, lady 
 of the feventh ; Mercury, lord of the fifth and eighth; and Mars, lord 
 of the third and tenth; v/ith Jupiter on the afcendant. Thefe are in- 
 fallible tePumonies not only of an high and exalted mind and charafter, 
 but are proofs of a devout and examplary life. Venus and the Sun ap- 
 pear to give but little of their qualities in the temperature and coniii- 
 tution of the native ; firfi:, becaufe the Sun is fixed in his detriment 
 upon the cufp of the afcendant ; and, fecondly, becaufe Venus is pofited 
 out of ail her fortitudes and dignities ; and hence we find no trait in 
 
 the
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 8^5 
 
 the I'fe and a^^ions of the native, wliich dtfcribes h-"s having formed 
 a'-y coneflion wiih the fofter fex, or been at any time ftinmlated with 
 l!: fe unconquerable defires for connubial enjoyments, which thofe only 
 viio Jiave Venus ftrongly dignified in their gcnitures are qualified to 
 explain. 
 
 Upon the afcendant we find fixteen degrees of the tropical fign Ca- 
 pricorn, with Jupiter's benign afpeft located therein. Tiiis denotes 
 rofy health, and uninterrupted profperity to the native. It is the em- 
 bl( m of dignity, an infallible argument of efteem, and a ground of 
 Jalhng reputation to the end of his days. /\nd we need no further evi- 
 dence than the foregoing well-authenticated narrative of his own life, 
 to convince us of the full completion of all that thefe fortunate beams 
 had promifed. 
 
 We muff not, however, forger to remark, that as Jupiter hath his 
 fall in Capricorn, fo it denotes likewife that the native fiiall feel fome 
 occafional indignities from the oppofition of perfons difcordant to his 
 own opinions and doftrine, who, in the very midft of the honour and 
 favour he is receiving from eminent and royal perfonages, will infult 
 him with perfonal reflexions and poignant fatire. This, I have no 
 doubt, was a thoufand times verified, in almofl every flage of his life, 
 by thofe who confidered Baron Swedenborg fuperior to themfelves, 
 either in favour or abilities, or who fuppofed him touched with infa- 
 nity, among which clafs there are more to be numbered in this ifland 
 than in any other part of the globe. 
 
 The a6live planet Mercury we find likewife in the afcendant, ap- 
 proaching his own triplicitv in the fign Aquarius. The influx of this 
 planet's beams, and the effeft of their predominant mixture with the 
 qualities of the other planets, in forming the inteileftual part of manj 
 has been already fufiiciently explained. In the prelent cafe, it is evident, 
 tliat this pofition of Mercury gives to the native an acute and penetrat- 
 ing genius, a fliarp and ready wit, with a mind apt for thefciences. 
 And, when we add to thefe confiderations, that Saturn is lord of the af- 
 cendant, in his exaltation, and beholding the afcendant with -triangular 
 beams, at the fame time that the Sun, the prince over the planetary 
 fyflcm, beholds Saturn with a trine alio, we fliall not be furprifcd to 
 find ihis native poflefl'ed of a moft comprehenfive and elaborate under- 
 flandlng, fraught with the ftrongefl: and fuhlimefl: ideas. Indeed I am 
 ready to confefs, that out of all the long catalogue of nativit-es I have 
 hitherto infpetied, I never found the planet Saturn fo properly confi- 
 gurated
 
 826 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 gurated to give an enlarged mind, nor the other fignificators at the fame 
 time fo happily correfpondent therewith, as in tlie geniture now under 
 confideratipn. How far this ability has been eflabhfhed and confirmed 
 in the pcrfon of the native, let his attempts to pry into the depths of 
 eternal Nature, and to folve the vifions of the Deity, determme for him. 
 
 But, as there can be no eminent portion of good in this world, fince 
 the fall, without fome intermixture of evil ; fo in this nativity, notwith- 
 ftanding its eminent defignation, and the high and important benefits 
 promifed by it in the fcale of human acquirements, flill we fliall find a 
 certain portion of malefic influence, of imperfeftion and misfortune, 
 vheiehy the feeds of difcontent and death are nourilhed up, until they 
 become predominant over all the powers and funftions of our nature. Of 
 this tendency is the baneful oppofition of Saturn and Mars ; an afpeft 
 which operated with uncommon flrength and duration, both upon the 
 mental and bodily funftions of the native, giving him the mofi extra- 
 ordinary enthufiaflic flights of imagination, and expofing him to the 
 cenfure of the learned, as well as of the illiterate, who charged him with 
 exorcifm and madnefs. But let me here embrace the opportunity of 
 affuring thofe who ha\'« taken up this idea, that there are not the 
 fmallelT traces of infanity to be found in any part of this geniture. The 
 native is perfeftly found, and Angularly competent, in his underfl;and- 
 ing ; but, like the man who purfues the longitude, or the philofopher's 
 ftone, beyond the beaten track of other adventurers, and is elated in 
 proportion to the new lights he receives, or the hopes he forms of fur- 
 paffing every other competitor, precifely by the fame ratio will the 
 world nieafure his wits, and decide upon the competency of his under- 
 iianding and the foundnefs of his brain. 
 
 We have before feen, that the native's mind was by no means formed 
 for focicty; for the beginning of all our defires for community with 
 others inufl be naturally founded in our love of intercourfe with the 
 female fex. The native never knew a predile61:on of the kind, but felt 
 himfelf happielf in the uninterrupted contemplation of his own ideas; 
 and to fuch a pitch has he indulged himfelf in this particular, that he 
 has remained mat up in his private chamber for two, three, and four, 
 days together, \v'iLhout admitting any perfon to make his bed, or even 
 to rap at his door. This uncommon difpofition can only be accounted 
 for by the pofition of Saturn, fo remarkably elevated, at the fame time 
 that both the luminaries are under the earth, which gives a ftrong and 
 invariable propenfity to the native to lead a fingle folitary life. 
 
 To
 
 O F A S T R O L O G y. 827 
 
 To this grave and folitary turn we are to attribute his early acquain- 
 tance and familiarity with Ipirits-. He has been often heard, in houfes 
 where he lodged during his abode in London, for whole nights together, 
 ill converfation with the(e miffionarv bein^js, who become viiible to thofe 
 only that have reiolution to devote the whole of their time and attention 
 to a community with them. How far Baron Swedenborg; has benefited 
 fociety and himfelf, by the intercourle he has had with them, let his fe- 
 veral publications, now in univerfal fale, determine for him. The quef- 
 tion is too delicate and abftrufe even for an aflrologer to decide upon ; and 
 it is a morfel which even the critics nibble at with unufual precaution, 
 left they fliould be found biting at ajile. 
 
 It has been a fubjeft of difpute, whether the fplrlts, with which 
 Swedenborg had familiarity, were good or evil. For my own part, 
 I have no difficulty in deciding, from the confliitution of the planets in 
 his geniture, that he had community with both ; which I believe to 
 have been the cafe with every perfon fince the days of Adam, who has 
 had familiarity with fpirits. Indeed Swedenborg himfelf tells us, that 
 a certain fpecies of the infernal fpirits would at times intrude themfelves 
 upon him ; but that he was always preferved, by the goodnefs of the 
 Lord, from thefe infidious deceivers of men ; whofe malice and enmity 
 towards us is fo great, that, were it not for the watchful care and pro- 
 tedion afforded us by the clemency of God through the. medium of the 
 good genii, or lower order of the angelic hoft, it would be utterly im" 
 poffible for man to deliver himfelf from the power of hell and the 
 craft of the devil. But I fhall defer entering upon an elucidation of 
 this fubje£l, until 1 come to treat of Spirits, in the magical part of this 
 work, where Baron Swe<lenborg's intercourfe with them will be com- 
 pletely inveftigated. 
 
 I fliall next confider the fignificators of the temper and difpofition of 
 this native, to fhow how far his general deportment correfponded with 
 them. As we find Jupiter, Mercury, and the Sun, in his afcendant, 
 and the Moon at the fame time beholding that important angle with 
 triangular rays, it is evident the temper and difpofition of the man muft 
 be formed from a due mixture of their influxive qualities, each of 
 which would prove vifibly predominant, as they alternately came to adl 
 through the medium of their refpe(flive directions. Exaftly fo we find 
 the native agitated and imprefled. At one time his exterior would be 
 uncommonly pious and devout, exhorting all men, who came within 
 the- reach of his voice, to humility, charity, and repentance. At ano- 
 ther time he would totally leclude himfelf from all company, fhut 
 
 No. 43.. ' 9, T himlelf
 
 828 ANIL LUSTRATION 
 
 himfelf up for whole days together, and obferve lo folemn and profound 
 a filence, as not even to give an anfwcr when Ipoken to. Yet at other 
 times he would enter into converfation with the utmoft vivacity and 
 Iprightlinefs, and continue for a long time together in this communicative 
 humour ; but always in a ftile and manner remarkably elevated and 
 majeftic. 
 
 The reafon of all this is abundantly obvious from the face of his 
 horofcope. The fuperior planets being pofited in his afcendant, in 
 their full dignities, and coniequently in their grcateft influence and 
 energy, afted upon the temperature both of his mind and body, as they 
 rcfpetiively came up by dire61ion, with uncommon force and power, 
 whence the affections of his mind, his words, his actions, and every 
 motion of his frame, were wound up to an uncommon degree, and 
 diftinsulfhed themfelves accordingly. 
 
 It will be readily feen, by any perfons acquainted with his difpofitlon 
 and charafter, that the fame general turn of temper and condu6t was 
 uniformly fl^.pported throughout the whole of his life, which might 
 fairly be ranked amongfl: thofe of remarkable longevity. And it may 
 be feen, by any perfon who will take the pains to equate the direftions 
 of thofe fuperior afpeds, that they operated by alternate fucceffion with 
 equal force and influence, until the dire6lions of death extirpated the co- 
 incidence of then- beams. 
 
 The natural caufe of dlfTolution in the teiTiperament and conflitution 
 of Baron Swedenborg, was, as may be ieen by the geniture, a decay of 
 vital heat, occafioned by a redundancy of cold rheum, accompanied with 
 the bloody flux. The direftion under which he died, was the Sun to 
 a partile conjunftion with the body of the Moon, taken under the pole of 
 the Sun. The pole of the Sun is fifty-one degrees ; the latitude of the 
 Moon is one degree one minute north; then, by taking the oblique afcen- 
 fion of the Sun and the oblique afcenfion of the Moon, the arch of direc- 
 tion will be fixed at eighty degrees feventeen minutes. 
 
 If we equate this arc!) or track of the aphetical and anaretical ftars, 
 by the rules heretofore laid down, we fhall find it gives the fpace of life 
 to be eighty-fix years and near two months, at which time the native 
 emerged from this world into a world of fpirits ; namely, on the 1 9th day 
 of March, 1772. 
 
 CONSI-
 
 ^-^
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 829 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS on the NATIVITIES of FOUR TWINS, 
 whofe Genitures are difplayed in the annexed Plate. 
 
 Thefe four twins were the produce of two births. The firfl: birth 
 confifted of a male and a female, who were brought into the world nearly 
 together ; from which circumftance the reader would naturally infer, that 
 the influx of the ftars inuft have been the fame on both of them ; and, 
 confequently, that the duration of life, with its incidents and events, were 
 infeparable from each other. This »not being the cale, however, I (hall 
 proceed to account for it, upon the true principles and grounds of this 
 fcience. And firft of 
 
 The FEMALE T W 1 N. 
 
 This child was born precifely at the time fpecified in the plate. Leo 
 afcends the oriental horizon, and confequently the Sun is lord of the 
 afccndant ; but being in the eighth houfe, the houfe of death, is an infalli- 
 ble argument of a fhort life. The Moon, being in an aphetical place, 
 is the giver of life ; but fhovvs the deftruftion of it, by forming a quartile 
 afpedl with the Sun in the houfe of death. No Wronger evidence of an 
 immediate death can well be adduced ; for, fuice the Sun is author of 
 vital heat, and the Moon of radical moifture, and both of them at once 
 deprived, by malefic rays and cadent pofitions, from affording a fit and 
 due proportion of thofe nourifhing qualities, it is impolTible that life 
 fliould be longer fuflained than during the time this unfortunate afpetl 
 was forming:. 
 
 *0' 
 
 It might be contended, that the pofition of the benevolent planet Ju- 
 piter in the medium coeli, or tenth houfe, is highly favourable to the pre- 
 fervation of the child. But, when it is confidered that this planet has no 
 afpe6t with the luminaries, that its beams are only refledted into itfelf, and 
 that all communications with the afcendant and fignificators of life and 
 death are cut off, v/e fhall find that this eligible pofition of the benign 
 Jupiter is in the prefent cafe totally without the power of communicating 
 the leaft aid to the funftions of life, or of mitigating or leflening the 
 malevolent effedts of the anaretical influence. 
 
 A farther proof of this child's difiblution arifes from the Moon's 
 pofition in the terms of Mars, at the fame time that his fiery intempe- 
 rate beams are conjoined with the worft irradiations of the cold planet 
 Saturn, and thereby a6t upon the conftitution with violent oppofite ex- 
 tremes.
 
 830 ANIL LUSTRATION 
 
 tremes. We find alfo that both the Sun and Saturn are difpofed of by 
 Mars; to whole fupcrior influence Mercury bends, who, with the Moon, 
 nourifhes and proteds the brain. Hence it is obvious that the child 
 i>iould die in its infant ftate, partly from the want of natural- rtamina 
 and ftrength, and partly from the effe6ls of a cold fucceeded by a fever ; 
 and that this cold (hould be of the moift kind appears from the trian- 
 gular rays of Mercury and the Moon in the watery fign Pifces. The 
 ciiild lived only until the quartile afped of the Sun and Moon was 
 completely formed, when the weaknefs and debility of its body and 
 lungs gave way to the convuHive agitations of the whooping cough, fuc- 
 ceeded by cold chills and fever, the immediate effe6ts of the configura- 
 tion of Saturn and Mars ; fo that nothing lefs than a fupernatural caufe, 
 which we juflly call a miracle, could poffibly have faved this child's life. 
 I fliall next confider the little offspring which accompanied it ; and this 
 was 
 
 A MALE T W I N. 
 
 This child came into the world only about two hours after the former ; 
 and yet it is not fubjefl to the fame fate. The Moon is prorogator in 
 this nativity, as well as in the other ; but with this remarkable differ- 
 ence, that both the luminaries are going from afpedls ofaffliftion, in- 
 flead of approaching to them. The Sun is entering into the feventh 
 houfe, promifing vital heat and ftrength ; while the Moon, juft fepa- 
 rated from a noxious quartile, gives teftimony to it, by affording a due 
 proportion of health and nourishment, being located in her own houfe 
 in the fign Cancer. So that, confidering the newly-acquired ftrength of 
 the Moon, and the pofition of the Sun in a fign of his own exaltation, 
 emerging from quadrangular beams of affli6tion, we are afforded the moft 
 fatisfaftory evidence of a found and perfe6t conflitution in the tempera- 
 ture of this native, with fufficient teftimonies to enfure health antl 
 longevity. 
 
 The varied pofitions of the other fignificators afford us additional rea- 
 fons, of a very flrong and decifive nature, why this twin fhould live to 
 years of maturity, while its little companion fhould fcarcely be permitted 
 to fee the light of this world. The conceptional arrangement defcribes 
 the fuperior ftrength of this child in the womb, and declares it to have 
 drawn to itfelf a confiderable part of that nourilhment which fliould have 
 fallen to the fhare of its fifler. 
 
 As therefore the pofition of the luminaries in the other birth declared 
 a fhort life, fo in this they afford equal teftimonies of longevity ; and 
 
 confc"
 
 O F A S T R O L O G V. 831 
 
 coiifequently the caufe of death will be fought from different fpeculation ; 
 for, though the Moon be giver of life, the caul'e of death will be diffe- 
 rent. In this nativity Saturn is the anaretical planet ; and the native 
 will in all probability be carried into the other world by the droply. 
 He will live until the Moon's body forms a mundane quartile aipett 
 with Saturn and Mars ; at which time, according to natural caufes, his 
 thread of life will be cut in twain — when his body will return back to 
 the earth, and be re-incorporated with the elements; while his etliereal 
 or eflential part mixes with that tormented or bleffed clats of fpirits to 
 which the complexion of his conduct here fhall recommend him hereafter. 
 The youth is living, and I hope will draw a friendly admonition from 
 thefe premifes. 
 
 Of TWINS born immediately together. 
 
 The genitnres of thefe Twins arc difplayed in the lower part of the 
 fame plate. The one was born on the 19th of June, Sh. 40m. P. M. 
 or afternoon, and the other at only 8h. 4.2m. of the fame day. The 
 difference of time is therefore only two minutes; which admits of fo 
 little variation in the pofitions of the planets, and in the coincidence of 
 their beams, either in refpeft to the angles of the figure, or to the tem- 
 perature of the ambient matter, that each twin muft of neceffity fliare 
 the lame fate, in all the important confiderations attending the iffues of 
 life and death. 
 
 To eftablifli this faft, we need only contemplate the horofcope, and 
 compare it with the circumflances of the genitures we have jutt dif- 
 miffed ; whereby it will be feen, that the difference of two hours has 
 moft effentially varied the impreffions of the fignificators at the time of 
 birth in the former horofcope ; while, in the prefent cafe, no fuch dif- 
 lin61ion can be found; and coiifequently, the effe61s of the elementary 
 matter being the fame, and the beams of the ffars falling in the fame 
 direction, and with equal force, cannot afflift one infant without the 
 other feeling the fame affedion; not inftantaneoufly, but in a fpace of 
 time precifely equal to that in which the planetary fyffem moves in two 
 minutes. This I have obferved in a variety of inflances; and, it is to 
 this very remarkable circumftance that the common notion of mankind 
 relative to twins, that 'when 07ie is takcfi ill and expires, the other ivill 
 foon follow, has obtained fo much confidence in every part of the uni- 
 verfe; though we have feen, in the foregoing geniture, that this hap- 
 pens only where twins are born immediately together, and not where 
 any coniiderable time intervenes between their birth, unlefs the confti- 
 
 No. 42. 9 U tutioa
 
 f{j2 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 tutiouofthe ftars fliould be fo configurated as to continue the fame 
 bencfic or malefic influence during tlie whole of that fpace of time; 
 which rarely happens, owing to the difference of velocity in each reipec- 
 tjve planet, and the accidental circumitances of their becoming ret rogradc 
 or ftationary. 
 
 To determine the fate of thefe twins, we have only to confider the 
 pofitions of the luminaries with tfce afpedls of the erratic flars, antl it 
 will be evident that their exigence can be but of very fhort duration, 
 and is determined by the motion of the pritnum mobile; for, when Mars 
 came to the oppofite point of the iVIoon, which in thel'e geniturcs is 
 giver of life, it is apparent they would die. This was exaftly verified; 
 Mars came to the firft anaretical point in two hours, and to the fecond 
 in two hours and a half; and the children accordingly died within half 
 an hour of each other, and within two hours aiid a half of the time of 
 their birth. 
 
 But, to fhow that life could not be prolonged in either of thefe infants, 
 we will take a further view of their genitures. The Moon, we find, 
 is in her detriment, difpoled of by the malignant planet Saturn, within 
 the ravs of an oppofition of Jupiter and Mercury, who become fubfer- 
 vient thereby to the affliftion of that ponderous malefic. The Sun is 
 going down under the affli6fion of Mars, dilj)ofed of by Mercury, in 
 houfes cadent and naturally evil; whereby every thing born under their 
 influence is deprived of vital heat and nourifhment. The Moon's 
 pofition, likewife, in the phafis of Mars and terms of Mercury, much 
 ilrengthens this judgement ; befides. Mars is dignified in his own terms, 
 while the Sun is received in the terms of Mais as well as of Jupiter; 
 fo that four planets out of feven are in the dignities of his malefic influ- 
 ence, and partake of his temperature. Thefe are all teftimonies of a 
 fhort life; and, falling fo immediately together, render the fpace of life 
 of a ftill lefs duration. 
 
 But, had it been poffible for thefe twins to have out-lived the ele- 
 mentary influx of thefe defVru6tive configurations, flill they would have 
 died fhortly after they had pafled their infancy, under the anaretical 
 afflitfiion of the Sun direded to the oppofitional rays of the Moon, who, 
 being giver of life, would have had her vegetive flrength and virtue totally 
 abforbed by him, whereby vital heat and animal pulfation muft have 
 totally fubfided. 
 
 And
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. " 833 
 
 And here we deduce a caufe moft obvious to the feiifes, and ftriilly 
 conformable to the laws of nature, why the anaretical influence is fome- 
 times baffled by the (uperior ftrength of the native's conftitution, affiilred 
 by the rays of aphetic ilars^ whereby the difeafe or accident is baffled,, 
 though death were pronounced inevitable, both by phyficlans and friends; 
 fo that, when the anaretic influence is thus overcome, the patient 
 acquires immediate flrength and Ipirits, eats and fleeps, and recovers his 
 health and vigour in fo furprifnig a manner, that the pliyfician is cried up 
 to the Ikies, as the fine ft man in the world, at the very moment when he 
 himfelf is as much at a lofs to account for the caufe as the moft ignorant 
 of his panegyrifts. 
 
 Thus it happens in many genitures, and requires the aid of reafon and 
 philolbphical acquirements to decide pofitively on the effects of configura- 
 tions which involve fo much doubt, and appear equally undecifive in point 
 of life or death, though obvious and certain as to the violence of the dif- 
 eafe or accident whereby the native (hall be affli6fed. 
 
 The fu reft way of forming our judgement in thefe cafes, is to dired the 
 afpedlsof the ftars which bear principal rule in the hylegiacal and anare- 
 tical places of the horofcope, far beyond the asra of fuch undecifive malig- 
 nant influx, at leaft till another death-like configuration is formed by 
 them; and, if this appears the moft ftrong and powerful in favour of the 
 killing rays of the anareta, it will generally be found that abfolute death 
 will not happen to the native until the fecond congrefs of thefe important 
 fignificators is completed in the heavens, notwithftanding the danger 
 threatened by them in their firft configuration may make it next to a miracle 
 that the native efcapes with his lif.?. 
 
 Of
 
 834 
 
 . AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Of GIGANTIC STATURE. 
 
 The following figure exhibits the geniture of a Child born with fix fingers 
 each handfand fix toes on each foot, and thofe double-jointed. 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 835 
 
 This nativity is of a very rare kind, affording an eminent example of 
 the effeO. of prolific configuration, where only one foetus is produced 
 under the nutritive qualities nature had intended for two. The pofition 
 of the luminaries here, in ligns fruitful and obeying, with nearly all the 
 planets under the earth, give the mofl demonftrable proofs of large and 
 high feature that can be well adduced ; but the additional fingers and 
 toes refult from the fecundity of four-footed figns, occupying the angles 
 of the figure, at the fame time that the luminaries are fuperior to all the 
 other planets, whofe regulating influence in this nativity is totally with- 
 held. 
 
 The Sun being in the twelfth houfe, and in degrees increafing fortune, 
 {hows that the native fhall thrive in the world by the rarity of his parts ; 
 and i'o it has in ibme mealbre already happened, and will in a much more 
 eminent manner hereafter, as this youth increafes in bulk and flature. 
 He has now been fhown as a natural curiofity for fbmc year's, and a great 
 deal of money has been accumulated by that means. 
 
 We have, in the iiitrodu6lory part, already fhown the radical caufe of 
 this fuperabundance of nature in its formatory operation ; and in this figure 
 thofe rules are completely verified. For neither the fuperior nor inferior 
 planets having dignities in the alcendant or medium coeli, nor alpedt 
 therewith, and the principal light of time being in the twelfth houfe, with 
 the Moon in the mid-heaven, and in the figns Gemini, Sagittarius, or 
 Pifces, in azimene degrees, is a demonftrable proof that what is then born 
 Ihall exceed the common line of nature, and be either monftroufly mif^ 
 (hapen,or above the common bulk of mankind. In the prefent cafe we 
 hud both have happened, as well in the excefs of members as in the 
 mufbular proportion and altitude. 
 
 According to the fame mixture and quality of the formative matter, 
 we find fimilar conceptions take place, whenever Saturn afflicts the Moon 
 in an angle pofTefTed by beaft-like or double-bodied figns, with the Sun's 
 fuperior beams increafed by figns of long afcenfion, and carried to the 
 fame point by fextile or triangular rays. Under fuch a fynod of'plane- 
 taiy fignificators, gigantic ftature, or inconceivable corpulency, is Ibre to 
 take place. Indeed I have been confidently informed by a gentleman 
 who had for many years made Aftrology his amufement, that this was 
 nearly the pofition of the heavens in the genethliacal figure of the much- 
 celebrated Ivir. Bright, i'o famed for his corpulency and ftature. 
 
 No. 42. 9 X Again,
 
 836 anillustrAtion 
 
 Again, whenever the afcendant, Sun, or Moon, at the time of concep- 
 tion, is afflifted in the obfcure parts of the figure by Saturn, and in iigns 
 double-bodied, beaft-like, and prolific, excels of parts and ftature will be 
 prod iced, either general, as to the whole body, or elfe in thofe particular 
 paits only which are under the government of the litnis refpe6tively 
 occupying the alcendant and mid-heaven. But, to alcertain thefe cir- 
 cumftances with due precifion, we mufi: ere6t the conceptional figure of 
 every nativity, to difcover the tendency and influence of the formative 
 virtue in the earliefl ftate of the embryo. 
 
 It may alfo be remarked, that monftrofity in brutes originates from the 
 fame caufe ; and, as they are deprived of the fun6lions of realon, it is, 
 plain the planetary influx a6ts with greater force upon them, and more 
 frequently produces this furprifing effed. 
 
 The
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 837 
 
 The G E N I T U R E of a DWARF. 
 
 Latitude of the Planets. 
 
 b 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 North. 
 
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 43 
 
 South. 
 
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 North. 
 
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 I'n this nativity, Capricorn, a fign of brevity, afcends the horofcope; 
 and Saturn, being lord thereof, by his cold and dry nature, oppofes the 
 nutritive power of the Moon, which, being in an abje6l place under the 
 earth, can afford no nourifhment. This efFed is produced throuo-h the 
 
 medium
 
 8^8 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 medium of Mercury, who, being in conjun6lion with Saturn, difpofes 
 of the Moon, and participates in the qualities both of Capricorn and 
 Saturn. Mercury at beft gives but a fmall ftature ; but, configurated 
 with thefe rays, he contributes all his influence to check the growth and 
 nouriihment of whatever is conceived under it. 
 
 It is here likewife a moft remarkable circumftance, that Mars, fiom 
 a flgn of brevity, beholds the Sun by a fextile ray pofited alfo in a fign 
 of brevity, fo that the figns occupying the principal angles in this ge- 
 niture are precifely of an oppofite quality and influence with thofe in 
 the lafl: figure, and confequently have a tendency and etfe(5t diametiically 
 oppoilte thereto. And ib indeed we find it ; for tliis native, inftead of 
 exceeding the common fize and flature of man, will never grow to the 
 height of four feet, nor pofTefs limbs nor parts larger than the common 
 run of boys of feven years old. 
 
 An additional teftimony in favour of this opinion is the quartile afpedt 
 of JujHter and the Sun from brevious figns, which ufually demonftrate 
 the conception of a Dwarf. But indeed it is an univerfal maxim in this 
 fbience, that whoever hath an earthy fign afcending the horizon of his 
 nativity-, with two or three planets pofited therein, will certainly be but of 
 low flature, particularly if Saturn be located amongft them; for a cold 
 and dry temperature, excluded from the heat and moillure of the two 
 luminaries, is contrary to the natural growth of any thing, as wc may fee 
 by the flate of vegetation in the autumnal equinox. 
 
 Of
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 «39 
 
 Of a SHORT LIFE, or EMBRYO not nourifhed. 
 
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 In this figure we find both the Sun and Moon, the two great luminaries, 
 one the author of vital heat and motion, the other of radical nourifhment 
 and moifture, both pofited in conjun6tion in the twelfth houfe, which is 
 the manfion of the evil demon, and fhows the immediate termination of 
 whatever is generated under it. Befides this, we find Jupiter, lord of the 
 
 No. 42. 9 Y . ^ houfe
 
 ^4© AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 houCe of death, in oppofition with the Moon ; and Mars, who beholds the 
 Sun with triangular beams, hath the vivifying quality obtained thereby 
 totally dcrtroyed by the pernicious- quartile configurations with Saturn, 
 lord of the fixth houfe. 
 
 Thefe qualities and temperatures of the planets demonftrably (how,, 
 that the embryo in its original formation was void of ftamina, and that 
 the nourifhment, during its continuance in its mother's womb, was 
 fcarcely fufficient to fuftaln life. It is evidently born without any par- 
 ticular accident or indifpolition ; and yet it is as plain that it cannot lono- 
 lurvive the day of its birth ; and the reafon is, becaufe the digeftive and 
 expulfive facultieSjthe motion of the lungs, and the vibration of the heart, 
 have not fufficient ftrength or ftamina to perform their refpedtive func- 
 tions ; and the moment the ftomach comes to be furcharged with food 
 beyond its digeftive power, the infant will be feized with Ipafms, and die 
 almotl: inftantaneoully, nearly in the fame manner as though it were 
 fufFocated. 
 
 I caft this nativity foon after the child was born, and prepared the 
 mind of its mother to meet its lofs with refignation and fubmiffion to the 
 will of God and nature. The fpace of life will be feen by taking the 
 diftance of the Moon from that preclfe point in the heavens which forms 
 an oppofition with Jupiter, lord of the houfe of death. Th:s gives by the 
 iblar motion about four days ; and the child died exaftly in the way I had 
 defcribed, OQ the firft of Auguft following, which was four days from its 
 birth. 
 
 Another
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 841 
 
 Another EMBRYO not nouriftied. 
 
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 A Male Child, 
 
 BORN 
 
 loth March, 4111. before eight 
 o'clock in the morning, i^afi. 
 
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 South. 
 
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 This geniture is of much the fame quality of the former ; but the pofi- 
 tion of the horofcope at the time of birth is much more remarkable, 
 having fo many planets in the twelfth houfe. This is in all cafes an un- 
 fortunate omen, but particularly in the prefent, where no one friendly 
 ray can be found to oppofe their influence. On the contrary, we find 
 Mars in the fecond houfe,. afflifting thefe ftars with a quartjle irradiation, 
 
 having
 
 -S42 A N 1 L L U S T R x\ T I O N 
 
 having dignities at the fame time in the twelfth ; which is a powerful 
 argument, not only of certain death, but rather of an immediate and 
 violent nature. Jupiter, being lord of the eighth houfe, is in fextile with 
 Mars, and both of them are lords of the twelfth. Venus, lady of the 
 afcendanr, is befieged by Mercury, lord of the fixth ; and the Sun, the only 
 light of time, and the Moon, lady of the fourth, afford neither nourifhment 
 nor affiftance, whereby conception could be ftrengthened, or the functions 
 of lilc fufficicntlv formed. 
 
 In the conceptional figure of this infant, both the luminaries are afflidled 
 in angles, by the noxious rays of the malefics, whereby flamina are 
 ilenied, and proper nourifhment entirely prevented from reaching the 
 vital parts of the body. This may be feen, by comparing the figure with 
 thofe rules heretofore laid down in the former part of this work ; from 
 \\hence the attentive reader will be fufficiently enabled to perceive, that 
 the duration of this child after its birth could not exceed four days ; at 
 which time it was feized with convulfions at the breaft, and died in the 
 Sireatefl agonies. 
 
 Many other nativities might be adduced, of this and the like kind, to 
 Ihow the obvious power and agency of the fuperior world, in forming 
 earthly Man, who is an epitome of the whole fyftem, and " wonderfully 
 and fearfully made," partaking of all its effence and parts, and comprifing 
 the fair image of the Deity. But furely, after the fads that have been 
 eflablifhed, and the examples we have given, in almoin every flate and 
 contingency of human na^ture, it can anfwer no good purpofe to multiply 
 thefe inflances of aflral influence and predi£lion, particularly to minds that 
 are wilfully deaf to reafon and argument, and who obflinately fhut out the 
 light of heaven, left it fhould irradiate their underftanding, and convince 
 them they are but men of low and humble conception, in no fhape quali- 
 fied to determine the pathlefs ways of God, or to meafure the extent of his 
 omnipotence. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS on a QUESTION of MARRIAGE, deduced 
 from the NATIVITIES of the CONTRACTING PARTIES, and 
 
 confirmed by an horofcopkal Figure of the Heavens at the precfe Time 
 of celebrating the Nuptials. 
 
 Much has been faid on the fubjedl of Matrimony ; and it muft be 
 
 con felled, that the importance of the contra6t, and the great end of our 
 
 exiftence being involved in it, as well as the iublunary happinefs or 
 
 *mifery of the greatefl part of God's children upon earth, renders it a 
 
 fubjeft
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 843 
 
 fubjefl of the firft magnitude, in which the hands and hearts of both 
 fexes, of all ages and degrees, are with one confent united. I therefore 
 confider myfelf in fome reipeiSls bound to ftate the prelent queftion, as an 
 example whereby to render this inquiry ea(y to fuch of my readers as 
 choofe to employ their leilure hours in this fpeculation. 
 
 The circumftances of this marriage came under my own immediate 
 cognifance and oblervacion ; and they are fuch as, I truft, will operate 
 as a caution to every fingle perfon, not to enter into that holy ftate from 
 mere motives of advantage or convenience, when love is confeiredly 
 wanting on the fide of either of the parties. But caution now-a-days 
 is out of date ; and the admonition of friendfhip is regarded only 
 as the fubtile declamation of hypocri(y, or the bufy officioufnefs of a 
 marplot. 
 
 The lady, who is the fubje^l of the prefent queftion, came to obtain my 
 opinion and advice how far the prelent marriage would prove advantage- 
 ous and happy ; confeffing, at the fame time, that fhe had no great regard 
 for the old gentleman. 1 flopped her, as is always my cuftom, from en- 
 tering into particulars, and defired her only to furnifh me with the exaft 
 time of her own nativity, and to procure me, if poflible, that of the party 
 to whom fhe was engaged. This was complied with, and I drew my 
 judgment accordingly. 
 
 Upon comparing the radical conflitution of the two genitures, I could 
 not find a fingle configuration in the one that bore the leafl harmony or 
 fimilitude with the other. The benefic flars in the angles of one figure 
 were oppofed by the malefics in the angles of the other. The tnafculine 
 temperature was ftrongeft in the female horofcope, with the Moon and 
 Mercury in good afpeCt in the fifth houle ; while, in the man's geniture, 
 the effeminacy oi female influence was but too apparent, with the mortify- 
 ing telVimony of Saturn, lord of the afcendant, in oppohtion to Mars, the. 
 lord of the fifth, and the Moon affiitled in a cadent houfe. 
 
 The places of marriage in both figures were occupied with the lefTer 
 infortunes, but not difcordant ; neither were they harmonized by a fin- 
 gle ray of benefic influence. I therefore faw the probability of marriage 
 taking place betwixt them, at the lame time that the warm palfions of 
 the woman rendered it impoflible for her to be happy in the arms of a ' 
 cold, frigid, aged, barren, and almofl impotent, hulband. I clearly law 
 avarice had a iliare in her compofition, and that the hope of advantage lup- 
 plied the place of connubial alfe^fion. This I deteded, and condemned 
 . No. 43. 9 Z as
 
 841 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 as highly reprehcnfible, and at the fame time candidly pointed out the na- 
 tural infirmities of the man (he propored to call huihand, which, added 
 to his advanced age, made it impoflible for her to enjoy the natural felici- 
 ties of a married life, or that they could long live and cohabit together. 
 My advice was therefore to drop all thoughts whatever of luch a connex- 
 ion, and a relolution was apparently formed for that purpofe ; but the 
 contrary perlualions of friends, added to the fordid temptations of lucre, 
 in a (hort time got the better of my advice ; and on the 29th of Novem- 
 bei-then next following this couple were married. 
 
 Determined to be confirmed in my judgment of this curious match, 
 I took down the exadt time the ceremony was performed, which was at 
 forty minutes pafl nine in the morning, when the heavenly intelligencers 
 difplayed themfelves as in the annexed plate, and the fignificators corref- 
 ponded with their refpedive genitures, in a manner aflonifhingly correft, 
 and fo as to prove, to the fatisfaction of every reafonable mind, that the 
 impulfive or infl:in6tive faculty within us is ftirred up and excited by the 
 medium or influxive agency of the celeftial bodies. 
 
 The afcendant of this matrimonial figure is given for the bridegroom, 
 and the leventh houfe for the bride. Saturn we find is (iiW lord of the 
 atcendant, located in his own houfe ; and mofi: aptly defcribes the per- 
 i'on of the bridegroom, viz. a tall, lean, Qender, perfon, advanced in 
 years, with long vilage, dark hair, meagre complexion, and peevifii dif- 
 pofition ; whilft his imbecility is moft correctly denoted by the pofition of 
 Venus, dilpofed of by the frigid planet Saturn in Capricorn. 
 
 The Moon in Cancer, in the feventh houfe, reprefents the bride ; and 
 defcribes her to be of a middle ftature, round full face, brown hair, and 
 well proportioned; and, as the Moon is approaching to a trine aljjeft 
 with Mars, it (hows her to be a woman of ftrong paifions and fpirit ; hot, 
 fiery, and impatient, though good-natured and courteous. 
 
 Let it here be premifed, that, in all marriages where the two fignifica- 
 tors which reprelent the bride and bridegroom are not in good afpe<5t with 
 each other, it is impoflible the parties can live in harmony ; neither do 
 they come together by the impulle of pure love, but for fome other motive, 
 which may generally be known by examining what houle the lord of the 
 aicendant or feventh houfe applies to, and the nature of the planets by 
 which they are then occupied ; for, if the lord of the eighth apply to the 
 lord of the afcendant, or if there be no reception of the luminaries in their 
 nativities, they are carried to the hymeneal altar, not by the force of love, 
 
 -i^ ;> but
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. «45 
 
 tiat by motwes of avarice. Sometimes indeed -a c £nd love to be <» one 
 fide, and iatereft oolj on the other. Tbi» is when the lord of the aSotn- 
 dant is a fuperior p]an£t, and the lord of the iVverith an iiiierior one of a 
 coatraiy nature, and yet applying to the lord of the afixodant. Again, 
 we find marriage take pkure where there is no love at all, as is the ca£c 
 in the above figure, where Saturn, a fuperior and ponderous planet, figni- 
 ficator <rf die man, is pofited in hb own boofi: ; and the Moon, a lig^ 
 and inficfior one, and ^nificatrix f^ the woman, likewife in her own 
 houfe ; bitt both of them in oppofite figiB ; being a demooftfable proof of 
 avarice on one fide, bat of love on o^her. 
 
 Upon the whole, mutual convenience may be traced out as the pri- 
 mary incetttive in both theKe parties. The man was rich and old ; die 
 woman young — but not rich. So Mars, being lord of the tenth honie; 
 and pofited therein, coUeds die ra^s both of Satura and the Mood ; and. 
 being io nmch higher elevated, imprefles with a fironger influx ths d'lf- 
 pofitioa upon their iwrlinationa, aaf proves to us that their hands were 
 joined, but not their hearts. 
 
 Jt-p:ter, in all rai'es v. bere he is free firom malignant beams, hath de- 
 %;natioa of perfed faoncfij. In this figure we find him watt eotering 
 into his own houfe, in platic trine to the Biooo, and in Icztsle widi Ve- 
 Bus. But, akboo^ he thus fa vo u r aM y inaifiases thefi; two prolific pla- 
 nets, fi> as to ic?pel a joint incfinatioo to have the mairiage-cereiiiooj 
 perfiMm ed,yct, by beingaqnar^e a^ied to the Son andM^cmj in the 
 devendi hmife, which is the bride's fifth, and coofeqaendfher hoole of 
 dnldren, pkalufc, and ddigfit, it plainly demonflntes, that, thoiK^ (he 
 ihould have no o fep r i ng by her fanuai^ flie woold take care to acquire ic 
 b^odier 
 
 The Sun and liercnry have dignities in the tc %xulh haa£c, VkA cooie- 
 quently have flroog fympadij with the bride ; but, hao^ poftied in the 
 elevendi, tb^ hfro Bir figaificiior* of ewemips of the brid^raom. The j 
 
 Sun faavii^ his tnpGcity in the twdfili, and being w ithin five degrees 
 of die cui^ united at the Jamc time with Mercury, Ihows that their 
 
 influence win be of the like nature and tendency; and, » both of them ^ 
 
 are in the bride's fiith, which, accor dii ^ to the rotatiaa of the ^ihcre, 
 is her houie of pleal'nre and ^scundity, they give defignation of two per- 
 fims with whom flbe would have jfaiaiharity and criminal ooctsrdt; 
 which is finther illufirated by their beii^ m end quintile to the Mooo, 
 her immediate figmficator; which, being in no a^pe6t vl^tever with j 
 
 Saturn* i
 
 846 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Saturn, the fignificator of her hufbaiid, Oiows that they M'ill feparate, and 
 abandon each other, without any bodily union whatever. 
 
 The extraordinary circumftances of the cafe induced me to give my 
 opinion of the marriage very freely, in the company I was in, the fame 
 davit was, if I may fo /f;7« //, con fum mated. Much mirth, of courfe, 
 refuhed from my obfervations ; but very few believed the circumftances 1 
 mentioned would fo fuddenly come to pafs ; particularly that a feparation 
 would prove the conlequence of a fingle night's embrace: and that both 
 parties would difunite with fo much indifference. 
 
 The fa6fs quickly followed the prediction. The new-married pair 
 were put to bed — ivherc love and joy JJioulJ take their Jill : but fuch was the 
 fingularity of the cafe, that the bride rofe up with the fun, and, having 
 been refufed that participation of fortune her friends had blazoned out, 
 and finding no other allurement to fupply that defe6f, flie immediately 
 deferted her hufband, who never took the pains to retrieve her; and fhe 
 has fince attached herfelf to two other perfons, by both of whom fhe has 
 had children. 
 
 Whoever contemplates the horofcope given in the annexed plate, will 
 eafily account for this otherwife extraordinary-narration. They will 
 likewife perceive that we have given a lively contraft of a bad marriage, 
 by an emblematical reprefentation of a good one, where heart and hand, 
 and innocence and love, draw down the foflering hand of heaven with 
 fruitfulnefs and joy. Interefl and ambition ought furely never to guide 
 the laws of love. The fweet intercourle of the fexes, and the ecftatic 
 blending of foul and body in the bonds of matrimony, becomes a crime, 
 when not diredled by that heavenly flame. It is the attic fire of all- 
 powerful love, which alone teaches us to be happy here, and leads to 
 immortal happinef's hereafter ; for, 
 
 Well-chofen love on earth can never die, 
 But with our nobler part afcends the fky. 
 
 TRAITS
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 847 
 
 TRAITS of Illuftrious and Extraordinary CHARACTERS, 
 deduced from their genethliacal Figures of Birth. 
 
 ALEXANDER the GREA T. Born in Lat. 420. 
 
 The perfon of this illuftrious monarch is moft aptly defcribed by the 
 refpe£tivc flgnificators of his geniture, in the aimexed plate. We find 
 the lord of the afcendant, and the two luminaries, are in Cancer, Virgo, 
 and Taurus, all of which are figns of brevity, and denote a low or mean 
 ftature ; and, as Saturn, lord of the afcendant, is pofited in a pitted 
 degree of Taurus, it fhows that he was wry-necked, conftantly holding 
 his head on one fide. He was likewife hafty and choleric ; which is 
 defcribed by the Moon in conjunction with Mars, a configuration that 
 gave him at the fame time an uncommon {hare of courage, an intrepid 
 Ipirit, and an unconquerable mind. Experience hath taught, that Venus 
 adorns and enriches that part of the body which is governed by the fign in 
 which fhe happens to be pofited at the hour of birth. In this nativity, 
 Venus is in nineteen degrees fortyminutesof Leo, which reprefents the back 
 and heart ; and in conjunction of Jupiter. Thefe circumftances prove 
 the native to have been endowed with a large, benevolent, and courage- 
 ous, heart; all of which, in the courfe of his life and aCtions, were in a 
 thoufand inftances exemplified. Nor are thefe excellent endowments 
 prefigured only by the benefic irradiations of Jupiter and Venus ; they 
 are further illuftrated and ftrengthened by the north node of the Moon 
 falling in the afcendant, while Saturn, the difpofiter thereof, is in trine to 
 the Moon and Mars, and the Sun, in the exaltation of Jupiter, in trine of 
 them all. 
 
 The time of this monarch's inauguration and inveftiture of the king- 
 dom is prefigured by the trine of the midheaven with Venus ; at the fame 
 time that Venus is within orbs of a conjunction with Jupiter, who is lord 
 of the tenth and eleventh houfes, which have defignation of the crown, 
 kingdom, and people. The diredtion of thefe afpeCts came up in about 
 twenty-one years from the native's birth, at which time his coronation 
 took place ; when he, in every fenfe of the word, began to reign in the 
 hearts of his people. 
 
 In this nativity the Moon is certainly Hyleg, and is therefore to be 
 directed for death. The Sun, Mars, and Mercury, are co-fignificators of 
 death ; and, hence it is that the learned Gadbury attributed his death to 
 poifon, which misfortune befel him when the Moon came to the quartile 
 
 No. 43. 10 A of
 
 848 A N I I. L U S T R A T 1 O N 
 
 of IMercurv in the eighth houfe. This prediftion of the native bein^ 
 poilbned, is uuqueflionably confirmed by what is recorded of Olympics 
 his mother; who having, fix years after his. death, difcovered the fa6l, 
 caufed many fufpedtcd perfons to be put to death, ab acceffaries in the 
 murder. 
 
 NERO C.^LSAR . Born in Lat. 5 1". 
 
 This native is ufually denominated Bloody Nero ; and indeed, if we 
 but caH: our eye upon the horoicope of his birth, we fliall find ample de- 
 monltrations of a cruel and vindictive difpofition. Mars is oppofite to 
 Jupiter and Venus in the twelfth houfe, an afpeCt of noxious and direful 
 tendency. Jupiter, we find, is lord of the tenth, aiid confequently figni- 
 ficator of the native's mother. Mercury is lord of the alcendant, in exadl 
 quartile of the Moon, which is an obvious proof that the native fhould 
 cruelly treat and abufe his mother ; and, as Mercury is at the fame time 
 in Textile of Mars, it is a piobable argument that he would become a 
 murderer. The quartile of the Sun and Saturn is a configuration pro- 
 ductive of every vicious inclination, and of every atrocious crime. Under 
 the influence of this malignant diredion, which held for a confiderable 
 length of time, he not only became hated by the people under his govern- 
 ment, but exercifed thofe bloody and unparalleled cruelties that darJcen 
 and difgrace the annals of his reign. 
 
 In the black catalogue of his offences it is recorded, that he not only 
 murdered his mother, but firft committed incefl: upon her. He poifoned 
 his own brother ; killed his fifter in law ; and deflroyed his wife Poppea, 
 by kicking her to death when pregnant. He wantonly fet fire to Rome, 
 and exultingly made an entertainment in fight of the flames, while the 
 city was burning ; and, being afterwards proclaimed by the Roman fenate 
 an enemy to the il:ate, he, the moment he heard it, became his own exe- 
 cutioner, and deftroyed himfelf in the thirty-fecond year of his age; the 
 directions for which are the Moon to the conjunftion of Mars, and Jupiter 
 to the oppofition of the Sun, who, in this nativity, was Hyleg, or giver of 
 life. Thus the configurations precifely defcribe the quality of the man, 
 and the diredions fliow the manner of his death; all of which minutely 
 came to pafs. 
 
 POPE
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 849 
 
 POPE SIXTUS V. Born in Lat. 43". 
 
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 This nativity difplays a brilliant afTemblage of benignant configurations, 
 calculated to promote the moft exalted honour and felicity. To prefigure- 
 the native's future greatnefs, here is a moft remarkable conjun6tion of the 
 Sun and Jupiter in the afcendant ; and, to prove that this fplendour fhall 
 arife from ecclefiaflical preferment, we perceive the lord of the ninth 
 houfe in conjundion with the lord of the tenth, alfo in the afcendant. 
 That an extenlive flow of wealth and riches fhall accompany this prefer- 
 ment, is evident from the pofition of the lord of the afcendant in the 
 fecond houfe, flrong in dignity, and in trine afped of the Moon, which is 
 in conjunftion with the Part of Fortune. Thefe are univerfally allowed 
 to be the flrongefl arguments of future profperity and grandeur to the 
 native that can pofFibly arife from any irradiations of the flars whatever; 
 and the refult proved the certainty of the fa6l. At the age of lixtv-four 
 he was elected pope; at which time the medium coeii came to the bodv 
 of the Sun, as may be (cen by equating the direction ; and is a mo(l apt 
 configuration for producing princely honour and fovereignty. The Sun, 
 in this nativity, is Apheta, and the Moon is Anareta ; lo that, when the 
 Sun and Moon came into coiitaft by anaretical rays, the illuftrious native 
 departed this life, which happened on the 24th of Auguft, 1590. at which 
 time the Sun came to the perfe6l quartile of the Moon, in fixty-nine year'^ 
 from the day of birth, which was the exa6l age of the native. " "" 
 
 PHILIP II. KING of SPAIN. Born in Lat. 42". 
 
 When the native was twenty-five years old, (which was in' the year 
 1630,) he was in imminent danger of being burnt to death, but was mira- 
 culoufly preferved. The diresSlions at that time operating, were the af- 
 cendant to the body of Saturn, and the Sun to the oppcfition of the mid- 
 heaven, and confequently to a conjun6tion with the fourth houfe, which 
 hath defignation of the houfe in which he dwelt. The Sun and Saturn 
 being in fiery figns prefage his danger to arife by means of fire ; and 
 
 the
 
 850 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 the oppofing irradiations of the beneiic ftarsdefcribe the manner in which 
 he was preferved. 
 
 Tn the year 1633, ^ confpiracy was formed againft this prince, and he 
 was in the utmoft danger of being ftabbed. This is declared by the direc- 
 tion of Mars to an oppofition with the afcendant by direft diredlion, and 
 prevented by the fuperior force of the benefic rays. 
 
 In 1649, when the native was nearly forty-four years old, he was at- 
 tacked by a (harp and violent fever, and his life was defpaired of. This 
 indifpofition came by the configuration of the Moon, which is the aphe- 
 ta, or giver of life, direfted to the quartile of Mars : but fatality was pre- 
 vented by the nourifhing beams of Jupiter dire6led at the fame time to 
 the afcendant. 
 
 In the year 1656, a war broke out betwixt this prince and Oliver 
 Cromwell, then Lord High Prote6:or of England ; an event which is 
 moft aptly foretold by the body of the Sun coming to the Bull's Eye, a 
 violent fixed ftar ; at the fame time that the Part of Fortune comes by 
 diredion to an oppofition of the Sun in violent figns. 
 
 In the year 1659, King Philip made peace with France, and married 
 his daughter to the French king. Thefe events are prefigured in his 
 geniture, exemplified in the foregoing plate, by the afcendant coming by 
 direvStion to the fextile of Mercury, lord of the feventh houfe ; and the 
 Moon to a perfeft fextile of the Sun. 
 
 In 1 66 1, the afcendant came to the body of Jupiter ; and was fucceed- 
 ed by the revolutional fextile of the Moon to her own radical place in the 
 geniture ; at the fame time that Venus forms a mundane trine with the 
 midheaven. Thefe directions promife much happinefs, honour, and re- 
 putation, to the native, and point out the happieft and mofl illuftrious part 
 of his reign. 
 
 The Moon in this nativity being giver of Life, and the Sun Anareta, 
 forfhows the time and manner of his death. Let the diredtion of their 
 oppofite beams be equated by the rules already given ; and it will be 
 found, that the perfedtion of the afped in the anaretical place of the horof- 
 cope agrees precifely with the hour in which this illuftrious prince yielded 
 up the ghoft. 
 
 HENRY
 
 OB' A S T R O L O O Y. ^51 
 
 HENRY VI. KIXG of ENGLAND.— Born in Lat. 51^ 32'. 
 
 This prince rucceeded to the crown of his anceflors when he was but 
 two months old, and was crowned King of England on the 6th of No- 
 vember, 1429 ; the midheaven being then dircc^ted to a trine afped of the 
 Moon. At ten years of age he was crowned King of France hi the cifv 
 of Paris, under the influence of the afcendant direded to the body of the 
 Moon, which configuration participates of the fame nature and quality 
 with the former, and they both moft aptly denote thefe illuilrious events, 
 when applied to the perfons of princes of the blood, or to heirs appare;it to 
 the throne. 
 
 At twenty-four years of age, the afcendant is irradiated by the fextile 
 rays of Jupiter ; under which direftion he marries the celebrated Lady 
 Margaret, daughter to the Duke of Anjou, a princefs of mafculine refo- 
 lution and courage, which is reprefented by the fiery planet Mars, located 
 in the feventh houfe, in his exaltation. This violent and intrepid fpirit of 
 Margaret was quite oppofite to that of her confort, who imbibed from 
 nature a difpofition remarkably mild and meek, as is obvioufly prefaged 
 by thepaffive qualities of feveral fignificators in his geniture difplayed in 
 the foregoing plate. 
 
 In his thirty-ninth year, this native wds taken captive by the Earl of 
 March ; and, by confent of the people, ftripped of his royalties, and fent 
 prifoner to the Tower. This untoward event is prefaged by the Moon's 
 quartile application, firft to the midheaven, and then to a malefic quartilc 
 of Mars, both which directions came up precifely at the time thefe circum- 
 ilances took place. After he had been twelve years a clofe prifoner, 
 namely, on the sift of May, 1642, being then fifty years of age, he was 
 inhumanly murdered by the hand of Richard, the- bloody Duke of Glou- 
 cefter. Mars then came to the quartile of the Moon, which, in this 
 nativity, was Giver of Life. 
 
 If we confider the relative pofitlons of the planets in this geniture, we 
 fhall not wonder that this prince was unfortunate in war, and unfuccef<;- 
 ful in all his enterprifes. The Moon in oppolition to Mars, ffrenethened 
 by angular places, and Mars, fignificator of public enemies, fo powerfully 
 located in his own houfe, at the fame time that he is conftituted the 
 governing planet of the geniture, is an irrefragable argument that Fate and 
 the Stars were combined againft this unfortunate prince. The caule and 
 manner of his captivity are clearly pointed out by Venus, lady of the afcen- 
 
 No. 43, 10 B ' daiTt,
 
 852 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 dant, in quartlle with Saturn ; and by Jupirer, lord of the twelfth houie, the 
 houfe of imprironmcnt, in qnartile with the afcendant ; whereby is fliowii 
 the fiiperiority and fuccefs of his enemies over him. The Moon's oppofi- 
 tion to Mars, from fixed (igns, and near the Pleiades, denotes the violent" 
 and untimely death which this native fufFered ; but who inherited fo mild 
 and pailivea temper, that, when jftruck. by a common ruflic, he gentl re- 
 plied, " Forfooth you wrong yourielf more than you do me, by flriking 
 the Lord's anointed !" 
 
 HENRY VIII. KING of ENGLAND.— Born in Lat. 51^ 34'. 
 
 The lofty fpirit and arbitrary will of this prince are demonftrably 
 proved by the pofition of the luminaries in cardinal ligns, as difplayed in 
 the annexed plate. His temperature aiid inclinations are afcertained by the 
 configurations of Mercury in trine of the Moon, and in Textile to Venus ; 
 at the fame time that he beholds ihe afcendant with a fextile ray, and 
 forms concordant familiarities with the other figuificators. This not only 
 bcfpeaks a winning and complacent deportment, but manifefts a luxuri- 
 ancy in the gifts of nature, not commonly beftowed upon the mafculine 
 conformation. Here are however ftrong marks of obftinate refentment, 
 and obdurate revenge, even againft offending females; whom it was not 
 in his nature to forgive, when once ferioufly incenfed againft them ; as the 
 houfes and figns teftify, wherein Venus and Mercury are located. 
 
 The aftrological caufe of this native's defire after many women is de- 
 duced from the fextile irradiations of Venus and the Moon with Mercury,, 
 the Moon being- at the fame time dignified in the feventh houfe. And 
 the reafon of his continual difagreements and contentions with them, is 
 becaufe Jupiter, lord of the feventh, is in quartile with Mars and the af- 
 cendant, which ftir up the choleric humour, unallayed by lafcivioufnefs 
 and luft. The feverity of his treatment to them, is depi6ted by the lumi- 
 naries being in quartile to each other; the Moon in the weft angle, in 
 the houfe of Mars ; while Venus, the fignificatrix of his concubines, is in 
 conjundtion with the Dragon's Tail. 
 
 The circumftance of this monarch changing his religion, and encou- 
 raging the reformation of Luther and Calvin, is moft admirably defcribed 
 by the quadrate-afpedl of Jupiter and Mars, with the Dragon's Tail in 
 the ninth houfe. I fhall not go into detail of this remarkable event, nor 
 confider it aftrally in all its parts | my purpofe here being only to mark 
 out the extraordinary incidents of thefe great men's lives, and to fhow the 
 
 diredions
 
 C F A S r R O L O G r. 853 
 
 tive reader, mi^^afylj diean as rxan^e^ and profit b^ the re^ioSt. 
 
 ■> Ths prince re^oed oecr Gscat BnitaDui idurlyHiiisiie jeaxs ; and dood tm 
 ^ aSthoif Janioajry, 1 54 7, ia tbe £&j-fixdi j«ar of Ms ^e. In tbii gexu- 
 tnre tike Soua b I^lg^ or giver of life, whodi, heiaag diire^-ci to tlae 
 Aoareta* wall be loaad tto coffrd^oiai casaMj to tSictimeaf 8&s diiIal]£doi3. 
 
 EDWARD Vr. KJKG ©f ENGLA\"T>.— Bwra in Ltt. ji*. 32'. 
 
 {f North Latifs'de i ^o 
 
 !■ N-oTtb Latarnde o 4. 
 
 J Souiii L2titi>de 4 17 
 
 ft iy icnBsisdile of tins aasi«c» tfnt be was estraKSed bf wwaww^ ( 
 itirwi firom his noathet^s woonb, and bis fiife ptPE&rv^iBd. At te<a vears &f 
 
 9^ be foc c iDe d B d to fbecTDwn of Great Britain, naameiy, on tibe 2&th of 
 JanoaxT* 1547 » a<t wbkb tisa^ the afcu a da nt of his itifily came hj dorec- 
 
 tsoo tDtbe cuajavtfhKMt aqtcft of die phact Ven<Bj lady ef dae teottb boiidle^ 
 ~ ~~ 'iHudt is tbe faoadfe of d^ail^, boraoor, aiid fagf&ac 
 
 Tim prince reiigned aaiw fEc years aisd £ve trtontits, aad expireil "a bea 
 liearaBfitldeHMMCllaBi&sdtscB-yeaRaU. UteajExadaai^ m iusgenixiarc, 
 ■raft betaken farl^egjor grw of Ufev becaaie aciAer tbe Sao, Moon, 
 anr Past of Fortoae, are in apbctka l places. Sarmm is die Aiiaicta, or 
 dcAio^Er of life ; and oaBipqpM3al^|t» wbea Sitimiiu. caaae by dire<3aoa to 
 
 To prove iAb t» be a: l&gal 
 dae£uDetiaie,tfae Son to tbe qnaitale of Mus and tbe Maoa tD tbeop. 
 pofidkn of tbe fimc malefic planet ;. lb tbat both the kaninaries were 
 affl hO cd wbenSatwa tnrao&d ihr afecada Bt^aod gppe Ad h ¥^umi to 
 the band of death. Hence k is a ppa ren t, dsat dais aaizre wzs not do- 
 %aBd by aataire ddifBt fiv a Jang^ ac aJapfij Eg:;. 
 
 sjaiY;
 
 8-54 A N 1 L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 MARY, QUEEN of ENGLAND.— Born in Lat. 51°. 34'. 
 
 In this genlture we find Saturn lord of the afcendant, out of all his own 
 dignities, but in the dignities of Jupitei", and in a fiery fign. Jupiter we 
 find is the difpofitor of Saturn ; but is pofited in a fiery fign likewife. 
 Thele are infallible arguments of an opprefiive and rigorous government. 
 The Moon being in oppofition to Jupiter from angles, hath defignation 
 of grievous difTenfions about religion. The quartile configurations of the 
 Sun with Mars, and Mars with Mercury, in the dignities of Jupiter, in 
 bicorporal figns, near Aldebaraiv, ihow the diflionourable and bloody 
 reign of this princel's, and the perfecution of her fi.ibje6ts in matters of 
 confcience and religion. Venus, being lady of the third houfe, repre- 
 fents her fifter ; and, being pofited in the twelfth, mofi: aptly de- 
 clares her fifter's imprifonment ; and the more fo, as Saturn is not only 
 lord of the afcendant, but lord likewife of the twelfth, the houfe of im- 
 prifonment and afflidion. 
 
 When the afcendant came to the fextiie of the Sun, fhe fucceeded to 
 the crown of Great Britain, namely, in the year 1553, being then near 
 thirty-feven years of age. In the year 1554, fhe was fuddenly married 
 to Philip king of Spain, under the direction of the Sun to the trine of 
 Venus. 
 
 This native died in the forty-fecond year of her age, after (he had 
 reigned about five years and a half. The time and manner of her death 
 are pointed out by the Sun, which is giver of life, direfted to the 
 quartile of the Moon, in quartile to Saturn, lord of the afcendant ; and on 
 the day fhe died the Moon came to the oppofitionof Mars. Thefe direftions 
 are all of a violent nature ; and whoever equates them by the Sun's mo- 
 tion will find them correfpond exactly to the time and manner of her 
 death. 
 
 ELIZABETH, QUEEN of ENGLAND.— Born in Lat. 51". 32'. 
 
 Upon the afcendant we find the regal fign Sagittarius, with Jupiter, 
 its lord, located therein ; which declares the native to inherit a moft 
 mafculine and intrepid fpirit, a poignant wit, and undaunted refolution ; 
 qualities which are greatly heightened by the degree afcending being in 
 the dignities of the planet Mars. 
 
 In
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 855 
 
 In the twenty-firft year of her age (he was oppreffed and imprifoned, 
 and fufFered every fpecies of perfecutiou that could refolt from the vin- 
 didlive jealoufy and refentment of her enemies. Durmg theie troubles, 
 Ihe had operating a moft malefic direftion of Saturn to the quartile of the 
 Sun, in the ninth houfe, which exadiy defcribes the caufe for which (he 
 was perfecuted, namely, her hereditary right to the crown, and her attach- 
 ment to the proteftant religion. 
 
 When this illuftrious princefs attained her twenty-fifth year, (he 
 triumphed over her domeftic enemies, and was crowned Queen of Eng- 
 land. At this time the afcendant was direfled to a trine afpeft of the Sun, 
 who is the patron of honour and fovereignty. 
 
 In the fixty-ninth year of her age, this celebrated princefs made her 
 exit, under the mortal direftion of the afcendant to the quartile afped of 
 the fun ; leaving pofterity to record the bleffings of her reign, in which 
 were laid thefolid foundations of the proteftant eflablilhment. 
 
 Should the young ftudent take the pains to fet a revolutional figure for 
 the year of the native's death, he will find there was a conjundion of 
 the two infortunes in the oppofite place of the Moon in her radical na- 
 tivity : and the figure itfelf nearly in quartile to that of her birth. The 
 lord of the afcendant was in the eighth, and the Sun was falling in the 
 lixth houfe; and on the day of her death, viz. the 24th of March, 1602, 
 the Sun and Mars were both in the place of the diredion, and the Moon 
 in quartile of them both, as if nature herfelf fympathifed with her fubjedts in 
 the lofs of their fovereign. 
 
 'a 
 
 The EARL of ESSE X. Born in Lat. 52°. 
 
 ^ North Latitude 1 o 
 
 % North Latitude i o 
 
 9 North Latitude 10 
 
 5 North Latitude 1 o 
 
 ]) North Latitude i o 
 
 It was not until the twenty-eighth year of his age that any thing re- 
 markable occurred to diftinguilh the chara6ter of this celebrated noble- 
 man. About that time he had a very eminent and powerful diredion 
 operating, of both the luminaries to a fextile configuration of Jupiter, 
 under which he became powerful and elevated at court, and acquired the 
 efteem and confidence of the queen, in a mofl unlimited degree, as the 
 feveral fignificators very aptly teftify. 
 
 No. 43. 10 C At
 
 856 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 At thirty-two years of age he was deputed, as the principal in com- 
 mifiion, to leize the Spanifli fleet ; and loon after he was created earl- 
 marflial by the queen. This latter honour begat him abundance of 
 enemies, and created great jealoufies and fufpicions among the nobles, 
 and particularly among thofe who were inverted with the feveral dig- 
 nities and offices of llate. At this time the native had the luminaries 
 direded to the Textile of Venus ; and, to fhow the envy and malevolence 
 of his enemies, he had the midheaven directed to the oppofition of the Sun. 
 
 In the thirty- third year of his age this native was appointed to Ire- 
 land, viz. on the 27th of March, 1599. The Dragon's Tail was then 
 on the afcendsnt; and, the day he fet off", the Sun and Saturn were in 
 oppofition from the tenth and fourth houfes ; and, what was worfe, the 
 medium-coeli came by dirediou to an oppofition with the Moon. It 
 is hence evident that he would not profper ; and the event proved the 
 fa£l ; for, on the 28th of September following, he returned to the court 
 of London, the Sun being then in the place of Saturn at the time of 
 his fetting out. 
 
 On the 2d of OtStober, 1599, he was committed to the Tov/er ; and 
 in June following he was fufpended from all his employments and offices 
 in the flate. On the 19th of February, 1600, he was arraigned, tried, 
 and condemned ; and on the 25th of the fame month, being Afti-Wed- 
 nefday, at eight o' clock in the morning, he was beheaded ; at which time 
 the midheaven came to a malefic oppofition with Mars. 
 
 The arguments of a violent or premature death, in this nativity, are 
 many. The two luminaries in conjundion with Mars, in afpe6l with a 
 violent fixed flar ; the Sun and Moon, and lord of the eighth houfe, in 
 violent figns ; and Mars in Sagittarius afflicting the luminaries ; are fo 
 many arguments, in any geniture, of an ignominious and untimely end ; 
 and, in the nativities of perfons of quality and diftinftion, they are al- 
 ways confidered as emblems of the lofs of life, honour,, and reputation. 
 
 At the moment of this unfortunate nobleman's death, the radical 
 place of the Dragon's Tail afcended ; the Sun and Mars were in oppoli- 
 tion to the afcendant of the revolutional figure, and Saturn was in exaft 
 oppofition to the Dragon's Tail, all which circumflances declare his life 
 to have been taken away by violence and treachery, to fatiate private re- 
 fentment, and to appeafe the clamours of thole who were too powerful to 
 be oppofed, and too fanguinary to rile in the political hemifphere but at 
 the price of the blood of thofe by whom they Imd been eclipfed. 
 
 JAMES
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. S5; 
 
 JAMES I. KING of ENGLAND. Boiu in Lat. 56". 
 
 This geniture is remarkable for giving a great number of teflimonics 
 to the honour, dignity, and pre-eminence of the native. The Sun be- 
 ing in exa6t fextile to the afcendant from the tenth houfe ; the Moon ia 
 partile fextile of Jupiter; Jupiter in conjundion with the Part of For- 
 tune in the fecond houfe; Venus, lady of the tenth, located therein, hav- 
 ing familiarity with many eminent fixed ftais, in trine to the fecond 
 houfe; the two luminaries in perfedl reception of each other; and the 
 lord of the afcendant in the tenth houfe in conjundlion with the Sun, 
 and in fextile to the afcendant; — are teftimonies of dignity, honour, mao-- 
 nificence, and fupreme power, rarely to be found in one and the fame o-e- 
 niture ; but which were in the moft remarkable manner verified in the 
 perfon of this illufi:rious prince. 
 
 But, notwithflanding thefe extraordinary arguments of fplendour and 
 fovereignty, deduced from the influx of the ftars, yet we fliall on the 
 other hand find, that this celebrated monarch was not without his fhare 
 of anxiety and trouble ; as the annals of the Britifli page abundantly 
 prove. In the aftral fcience thefe perplexities are prefaged bv the famili- 
 arity of Venus with the Dragon's Tail, in perfed quartile of Saturn and 
 Mars ; which fufficiently accounts for every evil that befel him. Added 
 to w hicb, we mufl: not forget to remark the difcordant rays of the Sun 
 and Mercury, in quartile to Jupiter, lord of the feventh houfe, and in 
 cardinal figns, whereby the enmities and confpiracies againft him are mofr 
 accurately forefeea. 
 
 The coronation of this prince took place in London, when he was 
 thirty-lf ven years of age ,• at which time the Sun came to the zodiacal 
 parallel of Venus, lady of the tenth houfe, which hath defignation of fame, 
 honour, magnificence, and preferment. 
 
 The mernorable powder-plot (memorable only for its diabolical malig- 
 nity) happened in the thirty-ninth year of the native's age, under the moil 
 noxious quartile afped of the lefTer malefic, the infortune Mars; the ten- 
 dency of which mifchievous diredlion was removed, by the fuperior rays of 
 
 the benevolent Jupiter. 
 
 In this nativity the Sun is Hyleg ; and we find Mars, Venus, and 
 Saturn, all of them operating in the anaretical place of the geniture^ 
 Hence it is obvious, that, when the Sun came to the conjunction of Mars,. 
 
 joiutlj
 
 858 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 jointly with the quartile of Venus and conjundtion of Saturn, the native 
 would fuffer a violent death; which really took place, when thefe direc- 
 tions came up, in the fixtieth year of his age. The conftitution of Venus 
 with the Dragon's Tail, irradiated both by Saturn and Mars, in the anaretic 
 place, fhows the native's death to have been occafioned by poifon ; for the 
 immortal Ptolemy faith, that, whenever Venus is joined with the malefics, 
 in familiarity with the Dragon's Tail, in dire(51ions to the hylegiacal or 
 anaretical parts of the horofcope, it portends death by poifon — and fo it 
 really happened in the prefent inftance. 
 
 CHARLES 1. KING of ENGLAND. Born in Lat. 560. 
 
 This unfortunate monarch was crowned king of this empire in the 
 twenty-fifth year of his age ; and was foon after married to the daughter 
 of Henry IV. of France. The medium-coeli was then direded to the 
 triangular rays of the Moon, in the houfe of dignity. 
 
 In the twenty-ninth year of his geniture he had the medium-coeli di- 
 re6led to the oppofition of the Sun, under which influence he diflblved 
 his parliament. The Scotch enthufiaftic phrenzy took place in his thirty- 
 eighth year, under the dire6lion bf Saturn to a conjun6tion of the Moon. 
 In 1 641, being in the forty-firft year of his age, he fummoned a new par- 
 liament, in which the famous contention about the militia took place. 
 It likewife fermented religious jealoufies, and laid the foundation of ferious 
 machinations againft the king's life ; all which misfortunes are prefigured 
 by, and happened under the influence of, the afcendant dire<5led to the 
 quartile of Venus, lady of the tenth houfe, and of the medium-coeli diredled 
 to the quartile rays of Jupiter. 
 
 It was in the forty-fixth year of his geniture, that this monarch placed 
 his life in the hands of the Scotch army, expeding from them that fafety 
 and proteftion they had proffered to give. But, when they had effedled 
 their bargain with the parliament, they bafely furrendered him up, in 
 violation of all the ties of honour, humanity, and benevolence. This 
 tranfatSlion took place under the malevolent influence of Saturn tranfiting 
 the midheaven, a configuration in the world known to be the forerunner 
 of ingratitude, treachery, and deceit. 
 
 In his forty-eighth year, this unhappy monarch was beheaded, before 
 the front of his own palace, Whitehall. This memorable event was ef- 
 fe<5led under the diredion of the Part of Fortune to the quartile of the 
 
 Moon,
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 859 
 
 ISToon, atid the zodiacal parallel of Saturn to the niundanc parallel of 
 IMars; and might ferve as an ufeful monitor to fucceeding princes, not 
 to trifle witli the remonftrances of a free people ; nor to hold in defiance 
 tliat genuine flame of heaven-born patriotilin, Avhich, when once feri- 
 onily kindled through an empire, carries all before it, and breaks down 
 every barrier of protection, even to the lacred perfon of the Lord's 
 anointed. 
 
 OLIVER CROMWELL, Lord High Protect* r of England. 
 
 Born in Lat. 52° . 19'. 
 
 Li the nativity of this enterprifmg and extraordinaiy character, we 
 find iix planets ciTentially fortified, and four of them in friendly trine 
 to each other, with the luminaries and Jupiter in lextile. Thele confi- 
 gurations prefage the moll important acquifitions to the perlbn of the 
 native ; at the lame time that tliey illultrate the intrepidity and valour 
 of his fpirit, with the capaciouliiels and fagacity of his mind. The 
 profeflbrs of this art, both ancient and modern, agree, that, where 
 only three planets are found effentially dignified in a nativity, it is an 
 earnelt of lingular profperity and good fortune to the native ; but, where 
 fix teftimonies of the lame nature occur, it is an evident proof that the 
 perlbn born under their influence will eclipfe all his contemporaries in 
 his advancement to glory and fame. How far this was verified in the 
 perfon of Oliver Cromwell, when the humble fituation of hinifelf and 
 his anceftors is coniidered, I Ihall leave to the decilion of the candid and 
 ntelliwent reader. 
 
 In the year 1640, this native was elevated to a feat in the Britifli par- 
 liament. This was his firft ftep to public fame and honour, and haj>- 
 pened under the courfe of the medium-coeli to the Dragon's Head, 
 leconded by a favourable revolution, in which Jupiter occupied the cufp 
 of the tenth houfe. 
 
 In the year 1642, Cromwell was appointed to the command of a re- 
 giment of horfe; and he railed one troop at his own expence. The 
 JVIoon was then directed to the Scoi-pion's Heart, an eminently martial 
 and jovial fixed ftar. In 1643, he was elected Lieutenant General to 
 the Earl of Manchefter, under the diredion of the Moon to the trine 
 alpe6t of Mars. 
 
 The memorable difpute between Cromwell and the Earl of Man- 
 chefter took place in the year 1644, with uncommon acrimony on. 
 No. 44. 10 D bot
 
 SfSo A N 1 L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 botli fides. The earl conceiving hiinfelf the better man, and fup- 
 pofijig liis interell in parliament to be inuch i'ii})erior, he preferred 
 divers informations againll his lieutenant-;,';eneral, but to little or no 
 effeet. The native quickly exculpated himlelf, and triumphed over liis 
 acculer. During the whole of this year, Saturn occupied the alcendant 
 of his revolutional figure; and in his radix, or figure of birtii, the af- 
 <:endant was at the fame directed to the term of Mars. 
 
 In 1641;:, the native was appointed Lieutenant General under Sir 
 Thomas Fairfax; and now his fame began to fpread abroad. Tlie 
 Moon was then diret':tcd to the fextile afpec^t of Saturn, lord of the 
 raeditim-coeli ; and und^er this dire(!:lion he eventually took the lead of 
 Fairfax himlelf. 
 
 In the year 1648, h<* remQuftrated with the parliament, and contended 
 with the levellers, by which he fell into difgrace. Under the influx 
 of the fame direc^'tions, he formed the plan of bringing his fovereign's 
 Ivead to the block. Tl^efe malignant beams proceeded from the quar- 
 tile afpect of the Sun and Saturn, accompanied by the Part of Fortune 
 to the oppolition of Venus. 
 
 In 1649, Cromwell attended the army in the expedition againft Ire- 
 land. He fucceeded in the undertaking, but was feverely indifpofed 
 with a flux and fever." This all happened under the fucculent beams of 
 the Moon, diret^ed to the parallel of Jupiter in the zodiac. The years 
 16^0 and i6ji were employed in fubduing the oppolition in Scotland. 
 Wherever the native turned his arms, he came oft" vi6torious. This was 
 the Sun directed to his own fextile, and the fortunate irradiations of the 
 ]>rincipal flgnificators in the revolutional figures of thofe two years 
 to their radical places in the geniture ; whereby all things appertaining 
 to the native profpered well, and terminated generally to his own parti- 
 cular interell and advantage. 
 
 The memorable asra of his afTuming the power of Lord Prote(^or of 
 England, was i65'3, when he boldly pofleffed hiinfelf of the avenues 
 leading to the lioufe of Commons, and put an end to the fittings of 
 parliament. Eying the Speaker's mace, he ordered his attendants to 
 take away ^^ that idolati-ous bauble;" though he afterwards thought it 
 no vanity to have three fuch borne before him. Thefe events took 
 place when the Sun came to the bodily afpe(5l of Jupiter, and to the 
 fextile of the Moon, at the fame time that the Part of Fortune received 
 
 the
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 8(Ji 
 
 the fextile beams of Venus ; fo that both the benefic planets coacurred 
 in the fuccefs of this daring enterprife.* 
 
 In the year 1 6)4, CroniM-ell eft'e<^edan honourable peace with France, 
 through the medium of Cardinal Mazarin ; and he concluded a treaty 
 of alliance with the King of Sweden, through the indefatiijable perfe- 
 veranceof Mr. Whitlock. Tiiis gentleman was rewarded for his merit, 
 by being dignified with a title, and appointed ambalTador to the S-.ve- 
 difli court. Thefe incidents occurred under the influx of the Part of 
 Fortune diredled to the trine of Mars. 
 
 The craft and fubtlety of the native were never more confpicuous, than 
 when he convened a new parliament, for the purpofe of getting himfelf 
 confirmed in the fovereignty of the empire, under the alTumed title of 
 Lord High Piotcftor. This took place in tlie year 1656, when the 
 Part of Fortune came to the fextile rays of the inlidous planet .Saturn, 
 lord of the tenth houfe, joined with a favourable revolution; whereby is 
 moft aptly prefaged, the attainment of advantage and preferment under 
 the hypocritical malk of piety and religion. To fuch a pitch of adulation 
 M'ere fome of his creatures arifen, that they not only confirmed him in 
 the title of Lord High Protettor, butintreated him to affume the name 
 and dignity of King. This, however, he had the fagacity to refufe : 
 deeming it fafer to poflefs the power, without the pomp, of majefty. 
 
 In the year 16^7, when thus invefted with the supreme jurifdiction of 
 tlie kingdom, he lent fix thoul'and men upon an expedition into Flan- 
 ders, under the command of Sir John Reynolds. This valiant knight had 
 likewile confnlted Mr. Lilly befoie his embarkation, and he Ihortly 
 aftenvards reduced and took pofleffion of Dunkirk, as that proficient ia 
 the aftral fcience had previoully aiTured him would be the cafe. The Sun 
 was then forming aperfe(!:l fextile of the planet ^Icrcury in cardinal fiijns 
 applying to Mars. 
 
 In the year 1658, on the third of September, 3h. 1 ^m. P. ]\f. this 
 plienomenou amongfl mankind departed this life, in the natural way, 
 without aflaffination — which is perhaps the greatell wonder of the age 
 
 • It is a circumftance worthy of remark, that, before Cromwell put this daring fcheme into execution, 
 he fent for the celebrated Mr. Lilly, (who at that time of day was fingularly eminent for his knowledge 
 in this fcience,) and confulted him upon the occafion. Mr. Lilly only requefted to be put in poirefTioii 
 lh« hour of his nativity, and he would foon inform him of the probability of the event. This was 
 complied with ; the dircAions above fpccified were equated and coniidered, and the confequences ex- 
 aAly foretold. Cromwell is therefore fuppofed to have entered with more confidence into the Houfe 
 cf Commons, and to have condui.^ed his exterior with greater courage and dignity, 
 
 in
 
 ZCi AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 in which he hved ; and can only be attiil)uted to the fear — not to the 
 love — of tliofc who had accels to him. In tiic directions wliich pro- 
 duced his death, tlie Sun is tlie Apheta, or giver of Hi^, and Saturn the 
 Anaicta, or deitroying ])!anet ; and the incidence of their beams met by 
 quartile rays, precifely at the time this iUultrious native gave up the 
 gholl, as any one might perceive, by equating the arch of direction. 
 
 Thus terminated tlie life and anions of a man, who perhaps never 
 had his equal — whofe refources were within himlelf; and whole pro- 
 grefs through life was marked with itrong portions of temerity and hy-, 
 pocrily — of perfeverance and good fortune. He attempted nothing 
 but what he accompliihed ; and furmounted difficulties, which would 
 have plunged half the univerfe into ruin and defpair. 
 
 C H A R L E S II. KING of ENGLAND. 
 
 Born in Lat. 51". 32'. 
 
 It muft be pretty obvious to the reader, that the utmoft of my defign 
 in giving thei'e nativities, is merely to ihow the principal incidents of 
 each native's life, and diftinclly to point out the configurations or oc- 
 curhons of the planets, under which they happened ; that, by com- 
 paring the one with the other, in every age, occupation, or diltin(5;tion, 
 of human life, we might be convinced, by the uniformity of fac^ls, and, 
 the evidence of our own fenfes, that the one is, in a limited degree, 
 lubfervient to the other ; and that the motion of the heavenly bodies, 
 variegated and qualified by a coincidence of their beams, is the real: 
 inedium by which the affairs of this world are influenced and directed; 
 and whereby the attentive reader, from obfervation alone, might be ena- 
 bled to predial the principal occurrences of any man's life, from a bare 
 irifpe6tion of his nativity. 
 
 According to this fpeculation, we find the Moon in early figns, ap- 
 plying to the terms of Mars, near the place of tlie Pleiades, at the time 
 this prince was nine years old. The natural inference to be drawn from 
 this afpe6i is, a broken limb, a violent bruife, or fome accidental afflic- 
 tion ; accordingly we find the native, when this dire6lion came up, had 
 the jnisfortune to break his arm. 
 
 Again, at ten years of age, he was afflicted with the jaundice, and 
 fuffered greatly by a fever. Thefe are the difeafes of Mars ; and the 
 Sun, being Giver of Life, and paffing the terms of Mars to a configura- 
 tion
 
 F A S T R O L O G Y. 863 
 
 tion with violent fixed ftars of the fame nature, evidently produced 
 them. The violence and duration of thefe diforders are pointed out 
 by the oppofition of Mars to the Sun's radical place in the geniture in 
 quartile to the afcendant, with the Sun and Saturn conjoined in the 
 lixth houfe. 
 
 The afcendant came to an oppofition of Jupiter when this prince 
 was afflicted with the meafles, which happened when lie was about 
 twelve years old. Soon after this he left London with his royal father, 
 and was plunged into a labyrinth of forrows and diltreffes. Thefe are 
 pointed out in the molt aftonifliingly correi!^ and uniform manner, by a 
 chain of malefic configurations in his revolutional figure of that year. 
 The moft remarkable al"pe6ts are, a quartile of the Sun and Jupiter ; a 
 conjun6lion of Saturn and Mars ; a quartile of the Sun and Saturn ; a 
 quartile of Saturn and Mercury ; a quartile of IMars and Mercury ; a 
 quartile of Saturn and Venus ; and a quartile of Mars and Venus ; all 
 in progreCTive order, accompanied with feveral unpropitious and moft 
 alarmins; tranfits. 
 
 'o 
 
 In the j'ear 1646 this prince left his native country, and went for 
 fafety to France, where he fellfickwitha fcarlet fever, and his life v as 
 defpaired of. At that time the Sun, Giver of Life, was directed to the 
 terms of Mars, and to the ftars of Hercules, and Saturn pafled the 
 Moon's place in the i-adical figure of birth. But Jupiter tranfiting the 
 Moon and Venus, and to the afcendant, not only gave him a mott 
 friendly and cordial reception at the court of France ; but prevented 
 the fatality threatened by the evil rays of Mars and Saturn. 
 
 In the twentieth year of his age, he was crowned King of Scotland. 
 This was under the influx of the mid-heaven to the trine of Jupiter. 
 In his twenty-firft year, namely, in the year 1651, he entered England 
 with a confiderable anny ; but was quickly attacked and defeated by 
 Oliver Cromwell, then Lord Protec'tor of England. At this time the 
 afcendant came to the quartile afped, of the Sun ; Saturn tranfited the 
 eleventh houfe ; and Jupiter formed a quartile with the afcendant in his 
 own radical place in the figure of birth. 
 
 It is very remarkable, tJiat on the precife day the battle of Worcefter 
 was fought, which ended to difgracefully to the native, the Sun came 
 in quartile with his radical place in the geniture ; Jupiter formed a 
 quartile with the afcendant ; Mars was in oppofition to the jMoou and 
 mid-heaven, and the Aloon in quartile both of Mars and Venus. Under 
 
 No. 44. 10 E fuch
 
 864 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fuch inaufpicious flars, what lefs could be expe6ied than an Inglorious 
 defeat, and a cowardly defalcation on the part of his troops ? 
 
 In the year 1657, the King of Spain affifted the native with money 
 to the amount of one hundi(;d thoufand pounds. The dirc6tion then 
 operating exartly points out tlie circumftance, which was the Sun to 
 the trine of Jupiter. lu the year 1685, the native died, 'i'Jie direction 
 which produced his death, was Saturn, the Anareta, to the oppofitioa 
 of the Sun, the Giver of Life. 
 
 If we compare the geniture of this illuftrious prince with that of 
 the king his father, we Ihall find tlie afcendant of that nativity to be 
 the place oflMars in this. Secondly, the Dragon's Tail, in tiie geniture 
 of this native, is upon the place of the Sun in the other. Thirdly, 
 the Sun in the geniture of the father, is in oppoiition to himfelf in the 
 geniture of the fon. Fourthly, the Sun in this nativity is in quartile 
 to the place of Jupiter in the other; arguments, whicii ferve abun- 
 dantly to Ihow, that the father and the fon Ihould both be involved in 
 one and the fame unfortunate quan-el ; that the father ihould fall a 
 vi6\im to its rancour, whilft the fon fhould rife fupcrior to the enemies 
 of them both, and be reinftaied in the hereditary rights of the" crown, 
 and in the hearts of his people ; which, I believe, was at lalt pretty 
 nearly the caie. 
 
 JAMES II. K I N G of ENGL A N D. 
 
 Born in Lat. 51°. 32'. 
 
 The firft accident we meet with in this geniture, befel the native in 
 his infancy, when he was only a year and a half old, which was an hn- 
 pofihimic in liis head, and continued, after it broke, for five years, 
 before a perfec^t cure could be formed. This liappened imder the di- 
 re(^ion of the Moon to the quartile afpec'-.t of the Sun; whicli, being in- 
 fixed figns, declares the obftinacy and continuance of the diforder. 
 
 In the year 1646, the native was afflicted witli a fevere ague, which 
 reduced him in a manner fingularly rapid and alarming. Tlie caufe of 
 this illnefs I find in a revolutional horofcope of that year, where a 
 malefic oppoiition of the Sun and Saturn, in quartile to the Moon's 
 radical place, produces aguilh affections, accompanied with a ^iolenl 
 fever. The ponderoiity of Saturn declares the tranfit fhould be accom- 
 panietl with dangerous fymptoms. Again the afcendant came to tlie 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 865 
 
 body of Mars in the year 1650, and the Moon to a quartile with the 
 Part of Fortune, which influx likewife produced a violent fever, and a 
 remarkable lafiitude of the whole human frame. The native was then in 
 his feventeenth year. 
 
 In 1653, ^^^'^ prince headed awing of the army in Flanders, and re- 
 ceived a dangerous wound. It was in its nature not mortal ; but, being 
 accompanied with a violent fever, tlie dangerous fymptoms weie in- 
 creafed, and the native's life in confequence defpaired of. This wai 
 produced by the beams of the Sun, when lord of the afcendant, diteded 
 to the hoftile rays of a perfect quartile of ]\Iars. Another fever was 
 produced by theJMoon dire(fted to the body of IVIars, and the Sun to 
 the body of Saturn, which attacked the native in the year 1667, wlicn 
 no perfon expected he would have furvived. Thele configurations ferve 
 to Ihow, that, from the radical conftitution of the feveral fignificators 
 in the figure of birth, the native was more liable to fevers than to anv 
 otiier complaint. From the lame fource of information we likewile 
 difcover, that this prince was fubje£t to weak eyes and imperfe6t fight. 
 This Is declared by the quartile pofltion of the two luminaries to each 
 other ; the one being placed near nebulous ftars, and the other in familiar 
 congrels withiiarsof a violent nature. 
 
 Anno Domini 1685, this prince fucceeded to the crown, of Great 
 Britain. Tliis is predicted by the planet Jupiter, to a favourable con- 
 junction of Mars, in the medium-coeli, or tenth lioufe, the houfe of 
 honour, glory, and preferment. But here tlie influx of JMars, who is 
 the leiTer infortune, molt aptly points out to us, that, thougli he is 
 brouglit by the priwum inobile to a coincidence with the benefic beams 
 of tlie princely Itar Jupiter, and bears teltimony to his coronation, yet 
 llie conlc<{uences would lavour veiy much of the evils wherein this ma- 
 lefic planet is obferved to delight. 
 
 So many crofs and unpropitious directions as we find in this nativity 
 are at fiift fight futficient to convince us, that the unha])py native would- 
 drink deep of the bitter cup of difappointment and affliction. To juf- 
 tity the remark, requires only to advert to the private and public anec- 
 ilotes of this piince, who, though he lived to the age of fixty-leven 
 years, enjoyed but a veiy moderate fliare of health, and {"till lels of 
 happincfs. 
 
 GEORGF.
 
 866 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 GEORGE, DUKE of ALBEMARLE.-Bom in Lat. 51V 
 
 b 
 
 North Latitude 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 % 
 
 North Latitude 
 
 1 
 
 50 
 
 6 
 
 South La^tude 
 
 
 
 49 
 
 9 
 
 South Latitude 
 
 
 
 59 
 
 5 
 
 South Latitude 
 
 1 
 
 20 
 
 }) 
 
 South Latitude 
 
 4 
 
 55 
 
 This nativity is worthy the minuteft attention of everj' reader, for the 
 fingularitj' of its noble and illutlrious configurations ; and whereby a good 
 and profperous geniture might be readily diftinguilhed from thole ofaa 
 unfortunate and adverfe defignation. 
 
 The fii-ft direction material for us to examine in the above geniture, 
 is the afcendant to the quartile rays of Saturn, pofited in Aries ; the 
 greatell dignities of Mars. Under this malefic influx the native was 
 taken with the fmall pox, and veiy narrowly efcapcd with his life, 
 which we fee protected by the fuperior ftrength of the benevolent Jupiter 
 in the afcendant, and the vivifying lays of the Sua unafflidted in the 
 tenth houfe. 
 
 In the twenty-firft year of his age, he was appointed to an arduous 
 employment in the Low Countries ; in the execution of which he in- 
 crealcd in reputation, honour, and fame. The Moon was then di- 
 rected to the eminent Itar Oculus Tauri ; which has the moll natu- 
 ral defignation of this fortunate occurrence. In his thirty-fiiil: year, he 
 was made captain in the horfe-guards. He had then in his nativitv 
 ".he afcendant directed to the trine afpeci: of Venus, in the fign Taurus, 
 ■jer chief dignity and exaltation, whereby thefe two eminent promo- 
 tions are found to correfpond, and to be the refultofeach other. ^Vhen 
 the native was thirty-two years old, he was honoured with the com- 
 mand of a regiment. To denote this preferment, he had the mid- 
 heaven direc^ted to the fextile afpecl of ]\Iars ; and this in Capricorn, 
 his exaltation ; a very great argument of fuccefs in martial honours and 
 atchievements. 
 
 At tliirty-five years of age, tliis native was unfortunately worfted in an 
 engagement, and taken prifoner. The Sun was then directed to a con- 
 jun6tion of Saturn ; and the Moon had nearly formed a quartile afpecl 
 with Mars. The firft direction fell in the twelfth houfe; and Saturn, 
 the promittor, was then lord of the twelfth. 
 
 But
 
 O F AS T RQ L O G Y. 86^7 
 
 <S."^"]-F'^.^^^^'T^^''°"'l y^^"" °^ ^'^ age/ namely, in May iGfyo he 
 reft^red Charles the S,d>nd to hi^ cr.?wn and dignity, after 1 e had 
 been twelve years n. exile; and re-eftablilhed i,eace and tranquillity h 
 the three kmgdonis, England, Ireland, and Scotland. He had then 
 
 I^^cftXtttY 'r 'n'"'"^'^ '''' of Jupiter; and Jupite. be ng 
 Imdottheteith houie of his nativity, made that action more eminent 
 and lionourable. This was not a little augmented by the Part of For- 
 tune being alfo directed to the trine of Jupiter; and/ to fliow the opoQ- 
 h ion and 1 ruggles he Ihould meet with in the accompliihment of \hat 
 glorious undertaking he had the afcendant directed to the contra-antif- 
 enemies '""■^'' '"'^ "^'^" ^^^""'^^ ^^^"^^^' ^"^ '^'' ^'S"iiicator of "i^n 
 
 That this native Avas born for great and illuftrious undertakin<T.s ad- 
 mits ot no doubt. We find the Sun pofited in the tenth houfe' ifa 
 nob e fiery hgn, and in trine aipec^ of the Moon, in a iic^n of the fame 
 hiphcity. Jupiter is likewife pofited in the afcendant, in trine of 
 a^S.nt -'^'T^ in the eleventh. Mars, being alVo upon tl?e 
 a cendant, gues hiiu intrepidity and courage ; and, in Textile of the 
 planet Saturn added deliberation to his enterprifes, and formed him 
 notonly tor the foldier, but for the itatefman and patriot le ha 
 the Moon hkewife in the very degree of the Sun's ex'altatiou, upon ?he 
 afcendan o England, ,n the fign Aries, which difpofed hinl to fuch 
 
 fdng aiid csi;:;;"' '"'"■^"'^'"' *"■ ^'^ ^°^" ^^^ ^^>'^'^>^ ^- ^-- ^° *- 
 
 J A IM E S, D U K E of H A M I L T O N.-Born in Lat. 56". 
 
 b North Latitude 1 
 
 ^ North Latitude 1 
 
 6 South Latitude 2 
 
 9 South Latitude 3 
 
 5? South Latitude 4 
 
 D South Latitude ^ 
 
 o 
 o 
 o 
 o 
 o 
 o 
 
 This IS a glorious nativity ; there being no lefs than five planets 
 mo I eminently dignified with the luminaries above the earth, in admi- 
 rable reception of each other. The light of time is located in the houfe 
 or anole of dignity; and the lord of the afcendant is in his own efien- 
 tial di-nitics. 111 the medium-coeli, all which are lb many arguments of 
 martial tame and glorious atchievements, produtlive of iimnortal ho- 
 iiom- and renown. But, though this native's hfe was for. the molt part 
 No. 44. 10 F thus
 
 us AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 thus eminently diftinguiflied, yet his end was tiagjcal and unfortunate, 
 for he died by the hands of his enemies, in tfio forty-fecond year of his 
 age, having at that time theafcendant dire6led to the quartile of the ma- 
 lefic planet Saturn, in the beginning of the fign Libra, and Saturn radi- 
 cally pofited in the fourth houfe. And on the day he was routed by 
 Cromwell in Lancaihire, namely, on the 17th of Auguit, 1648, ]\Iars, in 
 his revolution, was in the quartile place of the Moon, and Saturn llation- 
 ary, to retrogradation, in the place of Mercuiy, lord of his afcendant ; the 
 Moon being then in oppofition, and the Sun in the very oppofite place 
 of Jupiter; all which malicious tranfits in his revolutional figure were 
 •eminent tokens of difcomfiture and defeat in that ill-advifed engagement ; 
 and this the rather, becaufe the raid-heaven was thus directed to the op- 
 pofition of Saturn. 
 
 In 1643, Jaiiuary the 3d, he was fent prifoner from Oxford to Pen- 
 dennis Caftle in Cornwall, where he continued until the year 1646. Sa- 
 turn was then in quartile to the Sun, and Mars in oppoiition to the lord 
 of the afcendant, and a veiy bad revolution he had for that year. But, 
 towards the end of the 5'ear 1642, King Charles entertained him very ho- 
 nourably at court, and advanced him to confiderable honours and employ- 
 ments. He had then operating the mid-heaven to the trine afpe6l of 
 Jupiter. 
 
 On the day he was beheaded, being March the 9th, 1648, the Moon 
 was in conjun6tion of Saturn, whofe quartile waspromittor in the dired;ion of 
 his death ; and the Sun was upon the very degree of the eighth lioufj of his 
 nativity, nearly in oppofition with Jupiter ; and the fiery planet Mars 
 hadjuft paffed the horofcope of his birth. Hence we derive the following 
 arguments of a violent death : namely, Saturn oppofing the Sun from an- 
 gular houfes ; the Dragon's Tail on the cufp of the eighth houfe ; Mars 
 on the cufp of the fourth, in oppoiition to the tenth, and the Moon by 
 her latitude in the eighth houfe. 
 
 The EARL of STRAFFORD.— Born in Lat. 51° 32'. viz. London. 
 
 This native was a perfon fo fmgularly accompliflied, that King 
 Charles, after bemoaming his unfortunate end, and reflecting upon 
 himfelf for confenting to his death, wrote as follows: " I looked upon 
 my lord of Strafford as a gentleman whofe abilities might make a prince 
 rather afraid than afliamed to employ him in the greateft aftairs of Itate ; 
 for thefe high talents were prone to create in him great confidence of un- 
 dertakings.
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 869 
 
 deitakings, and this temper was likely enough to betray him into great 
 errors, and to raile him many enemies, whereof he could not but con- 
 tra6t good Itore, while moving in fo high a fphere, and with fo vicforous 
 a luftre ; he niuft, Uke the I'un, raife many envious exhalations, which, 
 condenfed by a popular odium, were capable to call a cloud upon the 
 brighteft merit and integrity." 
 
 To denote the eminent accomplifliments of this noble perfonage for 
 the purpofes of government and good policy, he hath Virgo afcending, 
 a lign which uniformly reprefents a native admirably ingenious and pru- 
 dent. JMercury, lord of the afcendant, is in Taurus, with the Sun, the 
 fovereign light of time, calling a trine afpedl to the afcendant. Mer- 
 cury is at the fame time lord of the tenth houfe, and of the afcendant 
 likewife, which is a certain prefage of honour and dignity to the native 
 by the natui-al excellencies and endowments of his mind. It is never- 
 thelefs to be conlidered, that IVIercury is combult of the Sun, and the 
 Moon and jVIars are in exacl; quartileto him; configurations which not 
 only eclipfed the reputation of his great abilities, but argue that his re- 
 lations and friends, as well as his enemies, Ihould envy him the honour 
 and preferments thofe great abilities procured him. 
 
 I\Iars, with the Sun and Moon, govern the eleventh, twelfth, and 
 third, houfes of the horofcope ; and Saturn, being locally and virtually 
 in the eleventh houfe, in oppofition to Jupiter, fliows the falfliood and 
 perfidioufnefs of his friends, and the violence and malice of his enemies ; 
 and, toaddtothefe difcordant configurations, the cufp of the midheaven 
 is the exatl antifcion of Saturn and the contra-antifcion of Jupiter. 
 
 When this nobleman was near forty years of age, he was conftituted 
 and appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland. He had then operating in his 
 nativity, the Moon to the textile rays of the Sun, and the midheaven to 
 the antifcion of Venus by dired:ion. At forty years old, viz. November 
 12, 1640, he was impeached for high treafon. Mars was that day in 
 oppofition to the afcendant, and in quartile of Mercury, lord of the 
 medium-coeli and of the afcendant. On the 19th of November he 
 applied for bail, but was refufed. The Moon was then in oppofition to 
 Mercury, and the Sun in oppofition to the tenth houfe. On the 2 3d of 
 the fame month he was committed to the Tower : the Moon was then in 
 oppofition both to Mars and to her own radical place in the geniture. 
 
 On
 
 870 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 On the 28tli of Januaiy, 1641, he was firft impeached in the houfe 
 of commons : the Moon was at this time in oppolition of Saturn's place, 
 and Mars poflefled the Sun's place in the radix. On the 30th of January- 
 he was impeached in the houfe of lords ; Mars ftill occupied the Sun's 
 place, and the Moon continued in conjunction with the Sun in the fixth 
 houfe. 
 
 On the 1 jth of April, 1641, this native was declared guilty of the 
 trealbnablc practices with which he liad been charged : the Moon was 
 tlien in oppofition to the Sun, near his radical place ; Saturn was in 
 oppofition to the afcendant ; the .Sun was in quartile of the place of 
 Mars, and INIars upon the j)lace of Venus, in the tenth houfe. On tlie 
 10th ofJVIay the king tigned the warrant for his execution ; JMercury 
 was then Itationary, and Saturn in oppolition to the afcendant ; and the 
 Moon was in quartile of Mars and Venus. On the tenth day of the fame 
 month this native was beheaded, in the forty-eighth year of his age. 
 The IMoon was then in exact oppolition to the Sun, and Saturn was in 
 oppofition to the afcendant. But, to fliow a more eminent deiignation 
 of thefe afflictions, and eventually the lofs of his life by them, he liad 
 the mid-heaven directed to the conjun6tion of Saturn and to the 
 oppofition of Jupiter ; the Moon was likewife ten digits eclipfed in the 
 very beginning of the revolutional figure of that year, and Saturn and 
 Mars were both afflicting the afcendant of the geniture. Thus fell this 
 great and diftinguilhed charadler, who was excelled by few in the bright 
 ornaments of wifdoin and underllanding. 
 
 GEORGE VILLERS, DUKE of BUCKINGHAM. 
 
 Born in Latitude 53°. 
 
 b South Latitude 1 o 
 
 % South Latitude . 1 o 
 
 c? North Latitude o o 
 
 9 North Latitude 10 ' 
 
 . 5 Nortli Latitude 2 o 
 
 D North Latitude 4 o 
 
 This native was a remarkable favourite of King Charles the Firft; 
 and indeed, to a perfon verfed in the aftral fcience, there can be no 
 wonder, fince there is fuch an aftoniihing fympathy in their nativities ; 
 for the figns are not only pofited the fame upon cufps of the cele !ial 
 houfes, but Jupiter's place iiithe one nativity is the place of the Sun 
 
 in
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 871? 
 
 in the other; and the Moon's place is precifely the fame in both. Such 
 an harmony and fimilar coincidence of matter in the temperature and 
 endowments of thefe two natives, could not but produce that rei.iark- 
 able concurrence of judgment, and familiarity of fentiment, which 
 was uniformly difcovered in the a(^ions and manners of thefe eminent 
 perfons. 
 
 This illuftrious native was not without his fhare of private enemies, 
 who ufed every means to alienate the king's good opinion and favour 
 from him. But vain was the attempt ; for, where the heavens form 
 an unity of fentiment, it is beyond the fubtiety of human invention to> 
 diflblve it. 
 
 In the year 1627, on the 27th of July, this native being then near 
 thirty-five years old, embarked for the Ifle of Rhe. The fuccefs of 
 this undertaking by no means anfwered the expectations that had beeii 
 formed of it ; and which was before-hand but too evident ; for, on the 
 very day he fet fail. Mars was in exad; quartile to his afcendant at birth, 
 and to the Sun's place alfo ; the Moon was in quartile to the place of 
 Mars and Venus, and to the Sun, and in oppofition of Jupiter ; all which 
 unfortunate pofitions previoufly declared the expedition to be as unfuc- 
 cefsful as it eventually proved. 
 
 In the year 1628, on the 23dof Auguft, this native, being near thirty- 
 fix years old, was bafely aflTaCrmated and ftabbed at the Crown Inn, in 
 Portfmouth, by a ruffian of the name of Felton. The Moon was 
 that day in quartile of the afcendant at birth, and the Sun in the radical 
 place of Mars ; and, in the revolutional figure for that year, the Mooa 
 was in exa6t quartile of Mars and Jupiter. And befides this congrefs of 
 malefic tranfits, which in themfelves were alone fufficient to deftroy life, 
 there was a fatal direction operating at the fame time, of the afcendant 
 to the body of Mars. The grand argument of a violent death in this 
 nativity, is the conjunction of the Sun and Mars, in quartile to the lord of 
 the eighth houfe, who is in conjundion of that violent fixed ftar, the 
 Heart of the Scorpion. 
 
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 I/ibra afcends the eaftern horizon of tins nativity, wliich is a flgn of 
 juftice and mercy. Mercury, tlie true patron of fcience and learning, 
 is in conjundion of Spica Virginis, in the afcendant ; and Jupiter is in 
 the ninth houfe, with Ocuhis Tauris in trine to Mercury, and llie 
 Moon and Venus are in friendly trine with the cufpof the angle of honour 
 and dignity, and enjoy the fame benign configuration with each other, 
 and that from good places of tlie figure. To Ihow that the native would be 
 learned and pious, there are feveral ftars of the nature of Jupiter and 
 Mars culminating, which in many genitures have been found to raife the 
 native, even from the loweft degree in the church, to the higheft honours 
 and preferments of ecclefiaflical jurifdidtion and authority. 
 
 Another argument of the epifcopal dignity of this divine, is deduced 
 from the circumfiance of cardinal iigns poffelfing the principal angles of 
 the figure : for, as the greateft adions of the world depend on tlie car- 
 dinal points of tlie heavens, viz. Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, 
 fo the moft eminent perfons, fuch as rife to honour and preferment highly 
 fuperior to their birth and expectancies, have thofe cardinal points upon 
 all the angles of their nativities. Thus it was in the geniture of Cicero, 
 whofe parentage, if authors may be credited, was fo obfcure as fcarcely 
 to be known ; yet was he elevated to fuch a pitch of honour, as to be 
 called " the father of his country." And thus it was with Oliver Crom- 
 vell ; and may be feen in the genitures of a tlioufand others, who have 
 rifen highly fuperior to all their contemporaries, by having thefe cardinal 
 figns thus fortunately pofited on the angles of their figures of birth,, 
 with other concording teftimonies of dignity and honour. 
 
 If we carefull}^ examine the conftitution of this figure, we fliall find 
 the caufe of this native's imprifonment, misfortunes, and violent death, 
 to be very naturally pointed out. The lord of the twelfth houfe poiited 
 in the afcendant. gives many malicious private enemies, and denotes 
 
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 imprifonment, founded on the principles of falfe teftimony, of trea- 
 chery, and deceit. Befides this, the fiery planet IVIars is upon the cufp 
 of the twelfth lioufe, in oppofition to the Moon, and in quartile to her 
 own difpofitor ; and that he fliould die a violent and premature deatli, 
 is obvious from the pofition of Mars in oppofition to the IMoon, and the 
 lady of the afcendant pofited in a violent fign in conjunction of Saturn, 
 lord of the fourth houie. 
 
 The mid-heaven dire(?led to the body of IMars, was the occafion of 
 this native's imprifonment; and, according to Air. Gadbury, from 
 ■whom nioft of thefe ncrtivities are taken, .Saturn directed to the conjunc- 
 tion of the afcendant was the caufe of his death. But, according to the 
 true P/acidian method, the Sun muft be directed for death, becaufe he is 
 Hy/eg, and Mars is undoubtedly the Anareta. For a proof of this, let 
 the revolutional fio;ure for the year of the native's death be examined; 
 vhere we lliall find jNIars in conjunction with the Sun, and Saturn lo- 
 cated in the lixth houfe, in the fign Aries, the lioufe of Mai's ; fo that 
 the two infortunes contributed to the untimely death of this celebrated 
 divine, who for learning and abilities was equalled by few, and excelled 
 by none. 
 
 CORNELIUS AGRIPPA. 
 
 The nativity of Cornelius Agrippa, as handed to us from the ancients, 
 is difplajed in the annexed Plate. But as this geniture has been confi- 
 dered, by all the profeffors of the aftral fcience, not authentic; wliich 
 indeed appears but too obvious from the difcordancy of its parts, and 
 from the impoflibility of its admitting the teft of rectification, 1 decline 
 giving any remarks of my own upon it ; and iliall leave it, as he was an 
 uncommon character, to the contemplation of thofe, who may hereafter 
 rile to greater perfection in aftrological enquiiies. 
 
 MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO.— Born under the latitude of Rome. 
 
 We have no right, if we credit Garden and LjTidbolt, to queftion the- 
 time of this celebrated native's birth. The figure exaCtly correfponds 
 with the defcription of his perfon given us by Plutarch, which is that 
 of a lean, weak, and fickly, temperature and conftitution ; which is aptly 
 enough declared by the Moon in Capricorn, in the fixtli houfe, the 
 being lady of the afcendant, and Saturn her difpofitor in quartile of the 
 Sun, and IVIercury approaching the afcendant from fixed figns. Now 
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 have poflefled a loud and clear articulation, but that it was harfli, and 
 the lefs captivating, on account of the deficiencies of his perfon and 
 manner, which wanted grace and comelinefs. This feems well prenoted 
 by theconjunaion of Venus and Mercury in the afcendant, afflided by 
 the prefence of the Dragon's Tail, accompanied with Saturn's quartile 
 combuft of the Sun. 
 
 The honour and reputation which this native acquired are reprefented 
 m a very ftriking manner, by the elTential dignities of the Sun, in trine 
 afpedt with Mercury, Venus, and Mars, in the angle of dignity and fo- 
 vereignty; the Sun likewife having his exaltation therein. Jupiter, 
 who is lord of the ninth, is in conjunction alfo of Saturn in the fifth 
 houfe, and thence emitting his benign rays to the afcendant, which is 
 an additional argument of very important acquifitions in the fcale of ho- 
 nour and preferment. 
 
 Plutarch tells us, that Cicero's nurfe was admoniflied by a vifion to 
 beftow the utmoft care and attention upon the child then at her bread ; 
 for that he Ihould become the moll dillinguilhed character amongft all 
 the Romans, and yet he was but the fon of a bond-woman, and of 
 mean extract;. This predi6lion, however, whether imaginary or real, 
 was literally fulfilled ; for he was twice made conful of Rome, and for the 
 timely difcoveiy and prevention of Catiline's conlpiracy he was fur- 
 named by Ca to, ''The father of his country." He died by aflaffination 
 in the fixty-fourth year of his age, having fuffered the chief misfortunes 
 of his fife in his grand clinia6terical year. 
 
 It is written of him, that, when he was fent into exile, he was fore- 
 warned of his death, by an uncommon flight of crows, which came and 
 fettled upon the mall and yards of the ihip in which he was failing. 
 That, when he came on fliore, the fame flight of birds followed him to 
 the houfe in which he was accommodated, and even forced their way 
 through the chamber-windows where he lay, clofe to his bed-fide. He 
 was foon after betrayed by his own fervant, a youth he had bred up, 
 into the hands of lierrenius and Popilius L^na, who bafely mur- 
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 The fign afcending we find to be Capricorn, a fign of brevity; and Sn- 
 turn, lord of the afcendant, in Taurus, another fign of brevicy ; and the 
 Moon located in the fixth houfe, decreafing in light, are all argup->°nts of 
 a middle ftature, fomewhat fpare and lean ; a complexion dark and hvarthy j 
 brown hair, long vifage, quick eyes, adlive nimble body, alcit, anci full 
 of agility ; which is defcribed by the Moon's pofition in the ho 'feof Mer- 
 cury, in fextile of Mars, with Saturn, and the other planets in the houfe 
 of Venus, and having fouth latitude. 
 
 As to the manners, temperature, and conftitution, of this native, he 
 was melancholy and choleric, occafioned by an earthy fign occupying his 
 afcendant, and Saturn's pofition being in an earthy fign alfo. 1 he Moon 
 with martial fixed flars of the fame nature in the afcendant, is a further 
 lefVimony of a choleric habit j but the greateft proof of a fuperabundance 
 of choler in the native's conflitution, is the Sun's reception with Mars 
 from violent figns, which declares that choler fliould overpower the me- 
 lancholy humour, and become predominant. As to his underflanding 
 and mental acquirements. Mercury, the patron of ingenuity, &c. is the 
 moft potent planet in the horofcope; and, being pofited in Scorpio, 
 the houfe of Mars, and fo near the invigorating beams of Venus, is 
 an evident demonftration that the native (hould be of an excellent 
 wit, of a fharp acute fancy, admirable conception, and of an a<itive 
 brilliant underflanding. 
 
 He was a very eloquent and good orator, and fpoke both fluently and 
 freely, but with much feverity and fatire, as the quartile of Mars and Mer- 
 cury very aptly denotes. In his writings, he had a ludicrous turn, {o in- 
 feparable from him, that, in things of the moft ferious and important na- 
 ture, he would introduce fubjetfls of levity and humour, which I prefume 
 was calculated more to pleafe himlelf than his readers, though perhaps it 
 was intended to do both. For this fingular turn he is indebted to the joint 
 influx of Mars, Mercury, and Venus. 
 
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 As to matters of eftate, he had the fixed fign Aquaries on the ciifp of the 
 fecond houfe, and the Moon and Jupiter calling their friendly rays to the 
 lame point, with the fortunate node of the Moon in the houlc of Jupiter ; 
 all which are teftimonies of a competent fortune. Yet, oppofed to this, 
 we find the lord of the fecond houle retrograde, upon the cufp of the 
 fourth, in quartile to the fecond, and Venus his difpofitrix combull, in 
 quartile of Mars, and in quartile to the fecond, alfo; which are plain 
 demonftrations of the lofs of fubflance, and of the decay of his paternal 
 patrimony. And hence we find that Mars affliding Mercury with the 
 Part of Fortune in an obfcure part of the heavens, and the Sun lord 
 thereof in oppofition to Saturn, influenced him to Iquander away his 
 eftate, both carelelsly and improvidcntly, even to the lliocking extremity 
 of reftraint or imprilbnment. This gave occafion to that jocular laying of 
 his brethren of the faculty, that poor Culpeper was forely afflided with a 
 confumption of the purfc. 
 
 However feverely this refledlion might be confidered, its application 
 was but too jull. At the univeriity, he was as free with his purle as with 
 his pen, and cared not how little was left for himfelf, lb that he could 
 efFecft the happinefs or welfare of others. And really, if he had not 
 bad the Dragon's Head in the fecond houfe of his geniture, he would have 
 been perpetually poor; for the arguments of poverty in his radix are fo un- 
 commonly Ifrong, through the propenfity of his will, that, had he been 
 born to the moft ample eftate, he would in a fliort time have fquandered it 
 away, and become pennylefs. 
 
 As to the native's kindred and lliort journeys. Mars is the principal 
 fignificator thereof; and his pofition in the eighth is the mofl: unfortunate 
 place in the whole heavens. He is likewife in quartile of four planets, 
 viz. the Sun, Venus, Saturn, and Mercury ; which is a further proof 
 of great unhappinefs to the native from family difputes ; and promifes no 
 great liiccefs m his fhort and inland journeys. Again, we find Aries upon 
 the cufp of the third houfe, and Mars pofited in a Herd fign, which 
 fhows a deficiency of brothers and fillers, or no harm.ony with them, in 
 cafe of any. It were needlefs to repeat the many misfortunes this na- 
 tive fufiaincd on account of his relations; or to recount the perils and 
 dangers he encountered upon fome of his journeys ; it being liifficient 
 to confirm the verity of this art, by affirming that he never gained any ad- 
 vantage by either. 
 
 With regard to his parents, we find Saturn the general fignificator 
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 and Mars, lord of the tenth houfe, in quartile to them both, from fixed 
 figns, which clearly (Lows (hat the parents of this native would die be- 
 fore he was of age; but, had they lived till he had come to years of ma- 
 turity, I do not fee how he would have been bettered by them, fince 
 their fignificators are every way found fquaring and oppofing his. By 
 the account he himfelf gives of his parents, they died while he was 
 young, and his mother's relations cheated him out of a good part of his 
 eftate. 
 
 As to the fignificators of wife and children, we have the Moon, lady 
 of the feventh houfe, in a double-bodied fign, which feems to prtfage 
 two wives; but Venus, a general fignificatrix of wives, being combufi: of 
 the Sun, in an evil afpedl of the infortunes, oppofes this influence fo pow- 
 erfully, that, did (lie not cad: a prolific beam to the afcendant, and another 
 to the feventh houfe, the native would fcarcely have ever married at all. 
 Under thefe circumftances we deduce an argument for one wife only, which 
 happened in courfe. 
 
 Venus governing the fifth houfe in Scorpio, a fruitful fign, irradi- 
 ating both the afcendant and feventh, promifes the native many chil- 
 dren. But Caput Medufas being upon the cufp of the fifth, and Venus 
 combufi:, in oppofition to Saturn, and in quartile of Mars, in the houfe 
 of death, declares very few, if any of them, (hould live. It afterwards 
 turned out, that the native had but one wife, and by her he had feven chil- 
 dren, and they all died young, except a daughter, who lived to years of 
 maturity. 
 
 The native's public and private enemies are fignified by the Moon 
 and Jupiter; but principally by Jupiter himfelf, becaufe he hath great 
 dignities in the twelfth and feventh houfes. Mars has alio a fhare in 
 the defignation of his enemies, becaufe he is in trine of Jupiter, and in 
 fextile of the Moon, and beholds the lord of the afcendant with a quar- 
 tile ray. Now it is well known that Mars reprefents phyficians, apo- 
 thecaries, &c. and Jupiter divines ; and thofe two defcriptions of men 
 were really found to be the greatefl: enemies of the native, both public 
 and private : the faculty hated him for fimplifying the art of medicine ; 
 and the church contemned him for his fuperior knowledge in the aftral 
 fcience. Yet neither of them durft venture to difpute with him upon the 
 iimplicity of the one, or the reality of the other, notwithftanding he 
 gave feveral public challenges to both the colleges, to enter the lills with 
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 878 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 We fliall now take notice of the repre'entatives of his friends ; and 
 here, I am forry to fay, we have but few teitimonies in their favour. Mars, 
 lord of the eleventh houfe, being in quartib to four planets, denotes that 
 the native's friends, or at leafl: fuch as pretend to be fo, are hypocritical and 
 deceitful ; and of fuch covetous difpo^itious, that he would feldom be 
 bettered by them. It is well known the native often declaied, that he 
 had a few who called themfelves his friends, but that he was more pre- 
 judiced than ferved by them ; for that, when he moft ilood in need of 
 their aflidance, and promifed himfelf the advantage of it, they generally 
 deceived him. 
 
 With regard to honour and preferments, Origanus tells us, that the 
 Sun in the tenth houfe is a certain prefage of honour and preferment ; 
 and that Venus, when polited in the tenth, is a general fignilicatrix of 
 honour by the means of women ; and alfo, that the Moon in fextiie of 
 Mars, and the Sun in reception with him, when he is lord of the tenth 
 houfe, are evident proofs of future honour, fame, and renown. And 
 indeed, had not Saturn, who is lord of the afcendant, been in oppofition 
 of the Sun, the general fignificator of honour, and in quartile of Mars, 
 the native would certainly have obtained a far higher degree of eminence 
 in life than he really did. But, although he was an enemy to his own pre- 
 ferment, yet in the latter part of his life he increafed very much 
 in fame, honour, and reputation ; and, if we enquire by what means, 
 we fhall find the fextiie of the Moon and Mars, lord of the tenth, and 
 Venus lady of the ninth, locally pofited in the tenth, and carting a fextiie 
 afpecft to the afcendant, in joint familiarity with Mercury lord of the 
 fixth, the ftrongeft planet in the figure; we fliall not therefore be fur- 
 prifed to fee the native arriving at a very elevated degree of fame, honour, 
 and reputation, on account of his ingenuity, ability, and knowledge in 
 the arts and fciences. This, however, is not likely to be obtained with- 
 out much difficulty and oppofition, as appears by the quartile afped; of 
 Mars to Mercury. It is, I believe, very well known, that the native 
 grew into public efieem, by means only of his great abilities, and fupe- 
 rior underftanding, particularly in phyfic and furgery, and of the fciences 
 in general. 
 
 The caufe and manner of his death, according to the aflrologers of his 
 time, are pointed out as follows. The fiery planet Mars, pofited in 
 the eighth houfe, in quartile to Saturn, lord of the afcendant, feems to 
 portend a violent death; but the Sun being on the cufp of the mid- 
 heaven, near the body of Venus, and in reception of Mars, with the 
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 it ibmewhnt probable the native may die of a confumption, or by decay 
 of natural ftrength and flamina. However this may be, he died 011 Mon- 
 day the loth of January, 1654, when the Moon was in quartile to the 
 radical place of Mars, and the Sun in quartile to his own and to Saturn's 
 place in his .nativity; Saturn and Jupiter at the fame time beholding each 
 other with an oppofition. From this pofition of the fignificators, it has 
 been thought by fome, that he was malicioufly poifoned ; and indeed, by 
 the above configurations, it is not unlikely but fome af the Efculapian tribe 
 had a hand in his death. 
 
 The accidents or events by which this nativity is redlified are thefe. At 
 eighteen years old, he went to thr univerfuy : the Sun was then- directed 
 to tbe body of Mercury, and the afcendant to the Textile of the fame pro- 
 mittor. At twenty-four years old, he particularly applied himfelf to the 
 flu'dy of phyfic : the Moon was then directed to the trine of Mercury, her' 
 difpofitor, in the radical figure of birth. At the age of twenty-feven 
 years he went into the army, and was wounded by a mufket-fhot in the 
 fore part of his body, of which he never recovered to the day of his death i 
 at the time of this accident, the afcendant came to the quartile of the Sun, 
 and foon afterwards to the quartile of Saturn, which prolonged and conti- 
 nued the malady. In the thirty-eighth year of his age, he died : the af- 
 cendant then came to the oppofition of Mars with latitude. Upon exa- 
 mining and comparing the revolutional figure with the radical horofcope, 
 we find the ftridlefl: agreement betwixt them : Saturn paffes the radical 
 place of Mars, and re-occupies the afcendant j the Sun and Jupiter behold 
 each other with a quartile ray ; and Jupiter comes in oppofition to the 
 place of Mars, and in quartile to his own radical place likewife : which 
 evil revolutions, agreeing with malefic diredlions, neceflarily prefigure ap- 
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 his own birth, which might be feen in his Ephemeris printed in the year 
 1645, and in another work of his, entituled, The Chriftian Aftrology. 
 And therefore, as I am an enemy to every fpecies of double-deahng, I (hall 
 content myfelf with pointing out the fraud, and leave others to make their 
 remarks upon a nativity, which, having no certainty for its baiis, can af- 
 ford no amufement to intelligent minds. 
 
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 We have here the geniture of a perfon of an uncommon defire for fearch- 
 ing into the occult myfleries, and for obtaining a knowledge of all the cu- 
 rious arts. This propenfity is very aptly defcribcd by the great (Irength of 
 Mercury, lord of the afcendant, in his exaltation, in Textile to Jupiter, and 
 in trine afpe(5l of the Sun, whereby the mental endowments of the native 
 far excelled the common lot of mankind. 
 
 He wrote many curious books, which are now very fcarce and valua- 
 ble. His Temple of Wifdom, Holy Guide, Harmony of the World, 
 Rofie-Crucian Phyfic, and feveral other myftical pieces equally curious, 
 being far above the common fcope of claflical learning, were equally ad- 
 mired, envied, and abufed, as beft fuited the purpofe of each different 
 reviewer. This is aptly defcribed by the quartile of the Sun and Mars, 
 the Sun at the fame time beholding the afcendant with the fame afpedt, and 
 Saturn beholding Jupiter with a quartile from cardinal figns. Mars 
 pofited in the afcendant, in quartile with the Sun, very aptly denotes 
 imprifonment, refulting from the frowns and ill-humour of great per- 
 fons, or men in power. This difgrace really happened to the native, in 
 the troublefome times of King Charles, who detefted him for the truths 
 he told. 
 
 I (hall omit entering into any particulars upon his nativity, becaufe he 
 has publilhed it himfelf in the completed manner in his Harmony of thp 
 V/orld, to which I beg leave to refer the curious reader. 
 
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 Mr. Partridge having taken great pains in the calculation of this nativity, 
 and worked up its feveral directlions according to the Placidian method, it 
 were needlefs ibr me to go over the fame ground, or to repeat any thing 
 more in this place, than a few of the principal accidents whereby the ho- 
 rofcope of his birth is redlified, or proved to be radically true. 
 
 At eighteen years and ten months old, the Sun came to the parallel of 
 Saturn in his nativity, by the rapt motion. At this time the native was af- 
 flicted with a furfeit, accompanied with a violent intermittent fever. 
 
 In the year 1651, when the native was twenty-three years and three 
 months old, he was married. This happened under the diredlion of the 
 Moon to the fextile of the Sun in mundo, by diredt dire(flion. 
 
 When the native was fifty-one years and eight months old, he was im- 
 prifoned. The dire(Sion that brought this up was the mid-heaven to the 
 body of Saturn. 
 
 At the age of fifty -nine years and ten months, the native was married the 
 fecond time. The diredtion producing this hymeneal contract with the 
 mid-heaven to-the triangular rays of Venus. 
 
 When the native was fixty-two years and eight months old, he was in- 
 volved in great trouble, and fufFered confinement. This was brought to 
 pafs under the influence of the Sun direded to the parallel of Saturn in 
 the zodiac, by oblique afcenfion. 
 
 At the end of feventy-feven years and three months from the day of his 
 birth, viz. March 23, 1 704, the native departed this life. The direc- 
 tion which foretels his death, is Mars to the parallel of Saturn, by the 
 rapt motion, whereby the aphetical and anaretical beams, falling into on« 
 focus, abforbed the vital fpirit, and leparated the ellence from the material 
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 In this nativity Libra afcends the horofcope, and Spica Virginis, an 
 eminent fixed ftar, is pofited in the alcendant. Venus, lady thereof, is 
 in Pifces, in trine of the Moon in Cancer in the ninth houfe, in an emi- 
 nent reception of Jupiter. Mercury, the patron of arts and fciences, is 
 in the fign Aries, in reception of Mars ; and there are in the Icheme no 
 lefs than four planets effentially dignified, viz. the Sun, Jupiter, Venus, 
 and the Moon ; tv/o of them in their exaltation, and two in their own 
 houfes. Thefe are teftimonies of an admirable fignification and tendency, 
 which not only procure credit and fame, but conftitute the natural and 
 proper fupport thereof, viz. a generous mind with a competent eftate. To 
 Tender this the more eminent and durable, the Sun cafts an amicable afpedt 
 to the Part of Fortune; as doth the Moon and Venus to the cufp of the 
 fecond houfe. 
 
 All the angles of the figure are pofiTeffed by cardinal figns ; and in that 
 refped: he had honour and fuccefs in his profeffion as an aftronomer ; and 
 was efteemed by the great, and regarded by all, as the wonder of his time, 
 and the prodigy of the age in which he lived, for the eminent and famous 
 things he did in the fcience of Aflrology. 
 
 This native began to write for public information and utility when he 
 
 was but twenty-two years old. He had then the Sun dire(5led to the lextile 
 
 rays of Venus, lady of the alcendant, in Taurus, her own dignities; which 
 
 is an eminent argument of the happy and deferved efteem his writings met 
 
 ^with in the world. 
 
 Many fpeculations and interefting conclufions might be drawn from this 
 figure; but, as my defign herein is only to give the rudiments whereby to 
 initiate the young Undent into the art of bringing up direftions, I fhall only 
 take notice of the manner of his death. 
 
 The Sun is without difpute the giver of life, and Mars and Saturn 
 are the deftroyers. The Sun is therefore to be dire<a:ed to the quartile 
 
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 of Mars in mundo, and to the conjundtion of Saturn in the zodiac, and, 
 immediately after fuch conjundlion was formed, heightened by the beams 
 of Aldebaran, it was natural to fuppofe the native would expire under the 
 oppreffion of a Gonfumptive or hedical habit of body ; which really put a 
 period to his exiftence on the 20th of September, 1668. 
 
 HENRY COLEY, Mathematician and Aftrologer. 
 Born in Lat. 51° 43'. 
 
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 When this native was between nine and ten years of age, he had the 
 fmall pox ; at which time the Moon was directed to the Virgin's Spike, 
 upon the cufp of the eighth houfe. This dircdlion is found by oblique de- 
 fceniion, under the Moon's pole, viz. 50° 4'. 
 
 In the middle of Auguft, 1 644, aged ten years and ten months, the na- 
 tive was afflidlcd with a violent fpotted fever and fore throat. This was 
 produced by the afcendant to the oppofition of Mars. At fourteen years 
 of age he had a tertian ague. This was the afcendant to the quartile of 
 Saturn. 
 
 When fourteen years and fix months old, the native entered into the 
 army. This inclination is pointed out by the Sun to the quartile of Mar» 
 in Scorpio. At feventeen years old, he had a dangerous fall from a 
 horfe, and was likewife in danger of being drowned. This is defcribed 
 by the conjundtion of the Moon and Mercury in the eighth houfe. I:i 
 September 1652, the native was fettled in a regular line of bufinefsj and 
 then the trine afpedt of Mars came to the mid-heaven. In April 1654, the 
 native went a journey to London, and was taken ill with a fever and fur- 
 felt. '1 his was produced by the conjundlion of the Sun and Moon in the 
 eighth houfe. 
 
 On the firfl: of May, in the year 1656, the native entered into the 
 holy flate of matritnony. This was occaiioned by the force of the af- 
 cendant, directed to the oppofition of Venus ; which Ihows likewife that 
 the marriage would not be very harmonious nor happy, nor of long 
 
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 duration with refpeft to the life of the bride. This marriage, hoivcver, 
 produced one child, which was born in June, 1657, under the alcendant 
 diredted to the quartilc of Jupiter in a fruitful fign. 
 
 On the 24th of April, 1660, the native was married the fecond time, 
 under the influence of the alcemlant to the Dragon's Head; which, being 
 a good benevolent diredion, produced a good wife, and a happy marriage. 
 On the third of September, 1661, the native had a fon by this lady, born 
 under the afccndant diredled to the trine of Saturn in Sagittarius and Aries, 
 which are both mafculine figns. 
 
 In the year 166 3, the native publiflied his Clavis Elmata, under the di- 
 redion of the Sun in the fextile of Mercury. In May 1672, he had a 
 lliort but violent fever, which feemed to threaten life. This was produced 
 by the alcendant to the oppofition of the Sun. Upon his recovery, he 
 greatly enlarged and improved his Clavis Elmata ; at which time the Aloon 
 cajTie by direction to the mid-heaven. In the year 1673, ^^^ native firfl: 
 wrote and publifhed his lb niuch celebrated Almanac. The mid-heaven 
 was then in trine of the Moon. 
 
 Thefe are the accidents given by Mr. Coley himfelf, for the purpofe of 
 re(5lifying and difplaying his nativity ; and are therefore to be relied on. 
 Had this eminent profefTor of Aflrology undenlood the power of mundane 
 afpeifts and parallels, he would have avoided many abfurdities which ap- 
 pear in his works, and given lefs occafion for cavil and exultation to the 
 enemies of the fcience. 
 
 Upon the whole, this nativity promifcs much on the fcore of ingenuity 
 and invention, and has many teftimonies of confequent reputation and emi- 
 nence. Firft, Mercury is diredl, and fvvift of courfe, and in reception with 
 the fortunate planet Venus, which argues a clear underfl:anding and an up- 
 rio"ht judgment, and is the forerunner of refpedl and efteem. Secondly, 
 Mercury is in conjundlion of Spica Virginis, an eminent and benign fixed 
 flar, which adds both to the mental and wordly acquirements. Thirdly, 
 we find Mercury applying to a fextile configuration with Mars, in famili- 
 arity with anothet eminent fixed ftar. This endows the native with a lively 
 imagination, and an excellent invention. Fourthly, Mercury's triangular 
 rays cafl to the afcendant multiplies all thefe arguments, and ftrengthens his 
 title to public eftimaiion and regard. 
 
 But here are other arguments in favour of worldly honour and efteem, 
 Firft, becaufe the lord of the afcendant is upon the very cufp of the mid- 
 heaven.
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 8a5 
 
 heaven, which fcarcely ever fails to produce public fame and reputation ; 
 and, being in afpe(fl with an eminent fixed ftar, fhows that the native Vv-ill 
 never live in obfcurity or difefleem. Secondly, Jupiter, lord of the mid- 
 heaven, is in his exaltation, in trine of the Sun, which is a mofl illaftrious 
 configuration. Befides, the Sun being in reception of Mars proves that 
 the native fliall be in high efteem with the public. Yet Saturn's malefic 
 jiofition in the mid-heaven muft needs reduce the happy effeds of the fore- 
 going indulgent ftars, and give fome caufe of vexation and difappointment. 
 Saturn being lord of the twelfth, the houfe of private enemies and impri- 
 fonment, and being pofited in the tenth, denotes many ftrong and po.v- 
 erful enemies, and (hows fome reflraint of liberty, with temporary lofs 
 of honour and reputation ; yet it neverthelefs denionftrates that honour 
 fliall eventually court him, and the malignity of his enemies be totally 
 baffled. 
 
 The pofition of Mars in the feventh houfe, in oppofition to the afccnd- 
 ant, renders the native obnoxious to a particular defcription of men ; 
 which is alfo confirmed by the Sun's platic quartile to the afcendant, and 
 the Moon's pofition in the feventh houfe, in platic quartile to the mid- 
 heaven and to Saturn. But, fince Mars and the Sun both befriend the 
 native in a far more powerful degree than they affliift him, it is apparer.t 
 that all confequen: difputations will in the end turn out to the native's ho- 
 nour and advantage. 
 
 It is here worthy of remark, that this pofition of Mars in the feventh 
 houfe is to be found in the nativities of three eminent profelTors of the 
 aftral fcience, who were all contemporaries in the laft age, namely, John 
 Gadbury, William Lilly, and this native, Henry Coley ; all of whom 
 had flrong oppofitions to encounter with their enemies; but they lived 
 to triumph over them, and to fee their extirpation from the land of the 
 living. 
 
 JOHN PARTRIDGE, ProfclTor of Aftrology.— Born in Lat. 51° 3a'. 
 
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 This native rofe, from a very humble fphere in life, to be phyfician 
 to his majefty James the Second, King of England. In the figure we 
 
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 886 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 find Mars in his exaltation, and in reception of Saturn, with the Moon in 
 oppofition to one, and in quartile to the other. This configuration gave 
 the native a very acute and latirical turn of mind. The ftrokes of his pen, 
 when direded againft his enemies, were poignant and fevere; and, even 
 when drawn in behalf of his friends, he could not help expofing their in- 
 advertencies, and attacking their weak fide. 
 
 In the grand endowments of folid fenfe and undcrftanding, this native 
 was in no refpecft deficient; as is apparent by the fituation of Mercury 
 with the Sun, in the fcientific fign Aquaries ; both which fignificators 
 being in the trine of the Moon, and in Textile of their difpofitor Sa- 
 turn, afford the highefl proofs of a mind enriched with every brilliant 
 endowment. 
 
 That the native fliould be rich and fortunate, and arrive to the pinnacle 
 of honour and preferment in human life, is apparent, from the pofition of 
 the two fortunate planets, which behold each other in a fextile configura- 
 tion, v/hilfl: the Moon, lady of the eleventh houfe, the lord of the medium- 
 coeli, and the vital Sun, behold each other in a benefic trine. But this 
 nativity having been already moft completely invefligated, renders it un- 
 necefi!ary for me to fpeak of its dired:ions. 
 
 GEORGE PARKER, Profeffor of Aftrology.— Born in Lat. 53° N. 
 
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 Upon the afcendant of this nativity,, we fi.nd the fign Leo impedited 
 by the evil and malignant planet Saturn, which exadly defcribes the 
 native's perfon. Mercury and Jupiter being in oppofition to each other, 
 yet both in their own dignities, is a remarkable proof that the native's 
 wit and judgment {hould be vitiated ; but the Moon fending a trine 
 afped to Jupiter, and a fextile to Mercury, corrects this evil influence, 
 and afiifls the native greatly. Yet, as flie is difpofed of by Mars in the 
 twelfth houfe, it declares his enemies would be very powerful, and but 
 too fuccefsful againff him. His public enemies are defcribed by Saturn 
 and Mars; and the Moon perfonates his wife, and fuch as he once 
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 OFASTROLOGY. 887 
 
 efleemed his friends. After fuffering a deal of trouble and affli<5lion, it is 
 apparent he will overcome all, fincc the Sun, the lord of the afcendant, is 
 located in the afcendant, and is the ftrongcft planet in the heavens, difpofing 
 both of Mars and Saturn. 
 
 Between twenty-three and twenty-four years of age, the native en- 
 tered into the ftate of wedlock. This was effeded by the planet Venus 
 direded to the fextile of the afcendant. When he was thirty-nine years 
 and three months old, he was taken into cuftody and accufed with form- 
 ing a dangerous plot, but was cleared of this charge, under the afpect of 
 the Sun direded to the oppofition of Jupiter. The native wrote many 
 fmall trads, and was contemporary with Henry Coley, and John Partridge, 
 by whom he was mortally hated, and who threw out many wicked 
 invedives againfl him. He died in the year 1742, aged eighty-eight 
 years. 
 
 JAMES USHER, Archbidiop of Armagh in Ireland.—Born in Lat. 53^. 
 
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 Upon this horofcope we have Gemini afcending the eailern angle, with 
 Mercury, its lord, in conjunction of Saturn lord of the tenth and ninth 
 houfes, who is pofited in the tenth, and carts a friendly trine to the af- 
 cendant, and to the planets Venus and Mars. Thefe are eminent arguments 
 of ingenuity and learning; and fhow the native will inherit a more than 
 ordinary capacity and underftanding, becaufe all the fignificators, which 
 govern the mental faculties, are in aerial figns. 
 
 Boetius, fpeaking of this native, faith of him, that he excelled, vvith a 
 molt fingular judgment, in the oriental languages, and in all ablhule and 
 occult knowledge. Dr. Prideaux alfo ftiles him a rich magazine of foiid 
 learning, poffeffed of all the curious fpeculations of antiquity. 
 
 In this nativity we find fix of the planets elevated above the earth, and 
 Mercury, lord of the afcendant, in the moft exalted part of the heavens, 
 in conjundion with the Moon's fortunate node, and the fun-beanTJ 
 
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 S8^ A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 occupying the cufp of the ninth houfe; which, aftiologically confidcred, 
 portends the going out of his glory and fame into every part of the 
 earth. 
 
 In the year 1600, and in the twentieth of his age, he was created Mafter 
 of Arts, a thing at that time of day not very common in either of the (Jni- 
 verfities ; it was therefore a greater dcmonflration of his piety and abihties, 
 and of the refpecft paid him by the learned. He had then operating the 
 Sun diredted to the fextile of Venus, and to the midheaven alfo. In the 
 year 1612, aged thirty-two, he was promoted to the dignity of a Dodtor 
 in Divinity ; at which time he had the midheaven dircdtcd to the fextile of 
 ihe Moon. In the year 1624, and in the forty-fourth year of his age, he 
 •was created Archbilliop of Armagh, and Lord Primate of Ireland ; though 
 he was. not put in poffeflion thereof till two years after. He had now the 
 Sun diredled to the fextile rays of Jupiter upon the cufp of the eleventh 
 houfe, in the higheft dignities; and therefore moft admirably fignificant of 
 thefe honourable preferments. 
 
 Soon after this native was created archbifhop, he was afflicflcd with a vi- 
 olent fit of ficknefs, which continued for nine months. The afcendant was 
 then direded to the oppofition of the Sun, and the Sun to the quartile of 
 Mars, which diredlion, falling in Cancer and Pifces, denotes it to be of the 
 putrid kind, and of long continuance. In the year 1640, being lixty years 
 of age, he came to England, under the impulfive force of the midheaven 
 diredied to the quartile of the Moon, 'and the Part of Fortune to the fextile 
 of Mars. He was requefted, in the year 1647, by the benchers of Lin- 
 coln^'s Inn, to engage fonftantly to preach before them, and they would 
 allow him a confiderable maintenance j it being then the time of the bi(hops* 
 perfecution. At this time he had the Moon diredled to the fextile of Jupi- 
 ter, and the afcendant to the trine of Venus. 
 
 In the year 1655, on the twenty-firft day of March, this learned and 
 pious churchman, after he had been feventy- five years a pilgrim on the 
 earth, and fifty-five years a preacher of the gofpel, died at Ryegate in Surrey. 
 The diredlions operating were, the afcendant to the oppofition of Saturn, 
 lord of the eighth houfe of the nativity, and the Part of Fortune to the op- 
 pofition of Mercury. 
 
 NASC.
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 889 
 
 NASC-E RASMUS, of Rotterdam, in Holland. 
 Elevation of the Pole, 54°. 
 
 In this nativity we find Mercury and Venus pofited in the afcendant; 
 a proof of volubility and freedom of fpeech ; and being alfo in an airy 
 fign, beheld by ;i benefic trine of Jupiter from the ninth houfc, de- 
 dares the native to be a perfon of flrong natural parts, and rich mental 
 endowments. 
 
 The learned Cardan has fhown, that the reafon why this native aban- 
 doned his own country, and undertook fo many complex journeys, was 
 becaufe the luminaries were in the dignities of Mars, with the lord of the 
 ninth in the afcendant, in the conjundlion of the lady thereof, in a 
 moveable fign. The fame ingenious author further obferves, that, while 
 the midheaven was under the direftion of the fextile rays of Venus, the 
 native enjoyed times of happinefs and reft. This, was mofl completely 
 felt about the thirty-fourth year of his age, but its continuance was fhort. 
 His fifty-fixth year proved a mofl dangerous and unfuccefsful one to him, 
 for he then laboured under the baneful oppofition of the Moon to Jupiter, 
 llimulated by the quartile irradiation of Mars. He died in the feventieth 
 year of his age. 
 
 MARTIN LUTHER. 
 
 The nativity of this celebrated divine is remarkable for having fo many 
 planets located in the ninth houfe. Saturn and Mercury are in conjundlion 
 in the fign Scorpio, which affords a ftriking prefage of the zeal and per- 
 feveranie of his mind;, whilft the five planets in the ninth houfe declare 
 his fuccefs in religious controverfy. There is no need of pointing out the 
 feveral diredtions; they are already confidered by the ingenious Mr. Ga^- 
 bury j and it will be no improper exercife for fuch of my readers who have 
 an inclination to become further acquainted with this fcience, to colledt 
 the feveral configurations and diredlions from the horofcope in the annexed 
 plate, and to equate and bring thenri up, according to the rules here- 
 tofore laid down. 
 
 The diredlions of all thefe nativities, which are feledted from Mr. 
 Gadbury, by way of example, are fo eminent and remarkable, and the 
 characters of the different natives fo well known, that they comprife a mofl 
 excellent fet of EXERCISES for any perfon denrous of learning the aftral 
 fcience. 
 
 BISHOP
 
 890 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 BISHOP HALL.— Born under the elevation of the Pole of 53'*. 
 
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 The nativity of this eminent divine was found after his death in his 
 pocket-hook, written by his own hand ; and, having been fpoken of by 
 many profeflbrs of the icience, can receive but httle new hght from my 
 pen. 
 
 This native was committed to the Tower, with eleven other bifliops, 
 when in the fixty-feventh year of his age. He had then operating the 
 Dragon's Tail to the midheaven ; and the continuance of his imprifonmcnt 
 is mofi: aptly denoted by the teftimony of the lord of the afcendant in the 
 twelfth houfe, which is the only light of time above the earth, liis death 
 happened in the eighty-fecond year of his age, under the anaretic influence 
 of a quartile of the Sun and Moon. 
 
 PHILIP MELANCTHON.— Born in Lat. 49° 5'. 
 
 The horofcope vifibly declares this native to be of Ihort ftature, and of 
 a hot and dry temperature : but the teftimonies of his excellent endow- 
 ments are many and various. Venus in conjundtion of Saturn; Mars in 
 conjun(flion of Jupiter; the Moon in the exaltation of Mercury; Mer- 
 cury in the fcientific lign Aquaries ; and Saturn and Venus in trine 
 of Jupiter and Mars ; are eminent arguments of the native's illuftrious qua- 
 lifications, 
 
 HiRory abundantly furnifhes us with inftances of the native's aflonifli- 
 ing prowefs in the occult and refined arts, and in the dotlrine of philofo- 
 phy and divinity. He was a friend to every department of ufeful litera-. 
 ture ; and took great pains to purge aftrology of itsgrofsand miftaken parts, 
 by tranflating the books of Ptolomy out of the original Greek into pure 
 Latin ; in his preface to which he has mofl: learnedly and ably defended the 
 jiience from the lafh of its ignorant and uncandid oppofers. 
 
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 GEORGE
 
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 OFASTROLOGY. 891 
 
 GEORGE III. KL\G of GREAT BRITAIN. 
 
 Werelto enter minutely into a calculation of this nativity, the event 
 might be prejudicial to many, and draw upon me the contempt of fome 
 and the refentment of others. Therefore, fince it is my wifli to give 
 offence to no party, nor to ftir up the embers of ftrife and diifenlion 
 am: ngft the different orders of fbciety, 1 fhall content myfelf with 
 making only a few remarks, whereby the inquifitive reader may be led 
 to a contempfttion of thofe celeftial influences, which ftimulate and 
 govern the attions and purfuits of men, and form the bafis of ail fublu- 
 nary events. 
 
 Upon the oriental horizon of this illuflrious geniture, we find the 
 noble and princely fign Leo afcending, with Caput Algol and the 
 benefic Jupiter mo!! glorioufly elevated in the medium-cceli, the houfe 
 of i^ingly honour, eminence, and unbounded fovereignty; which are 
 true emblems of that univerfal joy, of that glory, honour, and renown, 
 wherewith his majefly moft delervedly afcended the Britifh throne. As 
 to the fignificators of temperature and difpofition, no geniture in the 
 woild ever produced more evident proofs of that reftitude of principle, 
 of that benevolence of heart and mind, of that regard to judice, mercy, 
 and truth, which affimilates the human nature to the divine image of 
 the Deity, and forms the interior of a patriot king. That the refult has 
 uniformly kept pace with this defignation, I am fure no good man, nor 
 any loyal fubjeft, will deny. 
 
 The mofl remarkable circumftance in this geniture is the congrefs for- 
 med m the eleventh houfe; which it is my wifh that every fcientific 
 reader would pay particular regard to ; and I have no doubt but they 
 will readily make out, by the rules heretofore given, a pretty correft 
 prefage of all the principal public occurrences that have happened during 
 the prefent reign. 
 
 Whoever turns to page 166 of this work, will find it laid down as a 
 fundamental principle in the rules of this fcience, that, by the conftitu- 
 tion of the eleventh houfe, that is, of the configuration formed therein, 
 we deduce all enquiries concerning friends and friendfhip, hope, trufl, 
 expeftation, or defire; alfo whatever relates to the fidelitv or perfidiouf- 
 nefs of friends; or to the counfellors, advifers, affociate*, favourites, 
 flatterers, or fervants, of kings, princes, or men in power. The co-iig- 
 nificators of which are the Sun and Aquaries. 
 
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 892 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 I would now wifh the planets in the eleventh houfe to be well confi- 
 dered, their tendency and defignation afcertained, and compared with the 
 revolutional figures of the royal horofcope, in thole years when any re- 
 markable national event came to pals. J he lelult would not fail to 
 enlighten the underltanding of molt men, and would lead the mind to 
 an unalienable love and attachment to the perfonand family of our nioft 
 gracious fovercign. 
 
 For example;' let the radical horofcope, the revolutional figure for the 
 thirty-eighth year of his majelly's life, and the fcheme of the American 
 aera of independence, be projefted by the fide of each other: let the 
 cardinal houfes be well confidered, with the manner in which they alpeft 
 or irradiate each other; and give the refpeftive fignificators, as their poli- 
 tions are found to vary, their true and genuine implication, according, 
 to the known and eftablilhed rules of the fcience; and I am bold to fay, 
 that no one will be at a lofs to account for thole unhappy events, which 
 have leldom been attributed to the right caufe. 
 
 The NATIVITY of our BlelTed LORD and SAVIOUR 
 
 JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 Upon this nativity I fhall not venture to give any opinion of my own. 
 It was calculated above a century ago, by that learned and ingenious au- 
 thor, Dr. John Butler, chaplain to his grace James duke of Ormond^ 
 and re6lor of Litchborougn, in the county and diocefe of Litchfield. 
 He publiflied it in an 8vo volume, with a very learned and ingenious in- 
 trodu6lion, fupported by a fet of Chronological Tables, calculated to 
 place the day and hour of our Saviour's birth at a certainty beyond dif- 
 pute; and, as that book has been many years out of print, and is now 
 become very fcarce and valuable, I have thought proper to copy that 
 part of it which contains the immediate calculation of this nativity, in 
 the doftor's own words, without adding to or diminifhing from the text, 
 or prefuming to introduce any remarks of my own. 
 
 The geniture, or figure of birth, difplayed in the annexed plate, was 
 alfo proje6led by this learned author, which I have caufed to be carefully 
 engraved from a correfled copy in the doftor's own hand; and I flatter 
 myfelf, that the reputation which this traft has acquired in every part of 
 Europe, added to the refpe6iability and eminence of its author, will not 
 fail to render it highly acceptable to the reader. The following extra6l 
 commences with page 256 of the doftor's book. 
 
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 Of the punBual Hour of the Day, and Minute of that Hour, whereon 
 Jefus Chrift was born. Proved by the unerring Canons of Ajlrology. 
 
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 271 45 
 
 312 59 
 189 40 
 
 294 7 
 
 That we may fee at length how fitly the nativity of Jelus Chrift fuits 
 with all paffages of his life, as alfo with his qualities and complexion, we 
 muft firft examine how the accidents of his life do lead us, as the ftar did 
 the wife men, to the place, and to the moment of time when he was 
 born. That Jefus was born at Bethlehem in Judea is paft difpute. Here 
 the longitude is commonly reputed different from the meridian of London 
 in England (for which place our tables are framed) two hours and forty- 
 fix minutes: and by fo much time, it feems, it is twelve of the clock at 
 midnight with them fooner than it is with us. Here alfo, as is vulgarly 
 efteemed, the pole is elevated at the neareft guefs fome thirty-one degrees 
 of north latitude and fifty mmutcs. Now the time, as it is efteemed vul- 
 garly, wherein Chrift was born under this elevation, was the night be- 
 fore Saturday the twenty- fihh of December, in the forty-fifth Julian- 
 year, ending, at what time the cycle of the fun was nine, and of the 
 moon one; and, the year being biftextile, the dominical letters were DC 
 
 Now, that out of this night we may procure the certain moment 
 wherein the blelfed birth happened, we n uft firft afcertain the accidents 
 of his life. And thefe are as follow : Firft, his birth happened in an 
 honourable hour; for on that very night both angels and men came in to 
 adore him. Secondly, in the fame year, and about forty days after he 
 was born, perfecution followed, and he was forced, young as he was, to 
 fly for his life into Egypt. Thirdly, his return out of Egypt happened 
 at almoft, or about, two years of age. 
 
 At twelve years of age ai'd fome hundred days over, he had great ho- 
 nour and praiCe by difputaiion with the doftors in the temple at Jerufa- 
 lem. At about twenty-fiye years of age, according to Suidas, he was 
 conftituted a prieft of the order of the four-and-twenty. At fix days 
 
 over
 
 8gi ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 over twenty-nine complete years, he was baptized, and entered into his 
 niiniltry; and at the lame time he was forty-days tempted of" the devil; 
 and at the end of thofe was very contcmptuoudy caR out of Nazareth by 
 the rude rabble there. Yet, notwithltanding, he was very well received 
 at Capernaum; and at Jerufalem lie drove the buyers and fellers out of the 
 temple. And laftly, after three years and three mondis fpent in his mi- 
 niftry, at thirty-two years of age and one hundred and one days over, he 
 was crucified upon Mount Calvary, between two thieves, and died upon 
 the crofs. But, although he lived unto that time, yet it was about fix 
 months fooner, at what time the Jews confpired againft him to kill him at 
 the feafl of tabernacles; and about two months before the tiioe he was 
 condemned by the Sanhedrim, and a proclamation was ifTued out to take 
 him. Now may we find a time, according to the experienced rules of 
 art, to fuit fitly with all thefe accidents, and fuch a time as fhall aptly 
 delcribe him to be the man that in Holy Writ he is fet forth to be. 1 hen 
 fay I, it is a certain argument that both the day, hour, and minute, of 
 Chrift's birth are demonftratively determined. And fo will all acknow- 
 ledge, who know what Aftrology is. 
 
 The DIRECTIONS of this NATIVITY, whereby the gencthliacd 
 Scheme of Birth is "uerifeJ. 
 
 ob. af. a. d. ye. d. 
 
 ^ to Algol's Head - 32 7 o 12 o 74' 
 
 M. H. to ^ O - - 92 11 o 30 o 185 
 
 O to D D - - 294 45 o 38 o 235 ^^^ flj .^ j^j^ £ 
 
 ©to 5 with Lat. - 271 3b o 7 o 40 1 ° °'^ 
 
 To 5 without Lat. - 272 42 o 57 o 352 
 
 M. H. to <? 9 at - 93 8 1 27 1 172 
 
 Afc. to D 9 - - 183 22 1 41 1 259^ 
 
 ]) toTer. 9yo - 34 72 12 2 85C The return. 
 
 5 to Flying Vult. vy - 518 o o 00 o^ 
 
 yToTer. % - 192 43 3 3 3 351 
 
 ^iTo A b - - 193 54 4 14 4 108 1 
 
 , cTo A - - 36 45 4 30 4 2o6j.Heincreafedinwifdom. 
 
 ^iTo A 5 - - 37 26 5 31 5 208 1 
 
 btoA$ - - 00000 Oj 
 
 aV";'°o°.^ ■ " JP^ 5 52 5 3481 Bodily diftempers and 
 ^/\?'^r?., ' " ^^ ^ 62461801 ,,o,Idly afftonts. 
 M. H.toD ^ - 99 22 7 41 7 331 J ' 
 
 Afc.
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 895 
 
 ob. af, a. 
 
 ye. 
 
 Afc. to ^ - - 190 1 8 20 8 1 60 Healthful. 
 
 }) to ?5 - - 42 n 10 16 10 152 Slanders. 
 
 ■?/ to A 9 - - 100 13 10 33 10 2431, A pleafant time. 
 
 9 to * ]) - - 324 57 11 58 12 52 
 
 ^ (to A :^ - - 306 15 12 6 12 119 
 
 ao A without Lat. o o 12 14 12 138 VThe difputation with 
 
 Afc. to A b Lat. - 193 58 12 17 12 169 the doctors. 
 Afc. to A l/f without Lat. 194 1 12 20 12 193 
 
 IXth to A ^ Lat. - 73 46 12 5 12 101 j 
 
 © to A b - - 310 3 15 50 16 61 Gain by old folks. 
 
 J) to contra-an, 9 - 48 37 10 42 16 345 His mother ill. 
 
 to contra-an. '}/. - 289 5 17 20 17 214 His father ill. 
 
 IXth to c5 h - - 77 43 16 8 16 98 Scorned at for his piety. 
 
 9 to :4; O - - 329 22 16 23 16 278 Favour of great men. 
 
 Afc. to A >6 - 200 24 18 43 18 301 A very pleafant time. 
 
 IXth to A^ 9 ' -" ^83 48 22 ^3 It 46l"°"°"'''^^°''^'''P^"'y- 
 }) to n 9 - - 54 23 22 28 22 291 7 Scorned and hated for 
 :^ to ^ ]) - - 212 35 22 S5 23 92 i the fame. 
 
 D to Rigel - , 56 10 24 15 24 221 j^'^^i ^"^° 'i'^ °''^^' 
 ° ^ t 3 t ^ lof the four and twenty. 
 
 9 to □ Tp - - 340 24 27 25 27 299 More hatred for religion 
 
 ^/ f« I ^ r..-, ,^ ^-, r.^ ^o r Refpeft from great men 
 
 4^ to -k O - - 217 10 27 30 28 o-J r u- (^ ■ 
 ^ ' ' "^ 1 for his religion. 
 
 ("Great affronts from all 
 to n J) - - 99 45 28 o 28 150] forts of people for 
 
 L his piety and religion. 
 
 In Jan. he was baptiz- 
 
 -,, 4.^ , u o o ed, and began to preach, 
 
 :?^ to * « - - 218 19 28 39 29 25] 'd was fuccefsful in 
 
 gathering difciples. 
 
 iHe was by means of 
 this affronted and cafl 
 out at Nazareth. 
 IXth to Caftor's Head at o o o o 29 &c. His miniftry. 
 }) to the Goat - 63 73112? 
 M. H. to Hydr. Heart 122 37 31 12^^ ^'^^ 
 Afc. to <? }) - 212 50 31 9 31 222 1 jj crucified. 
 
 Afc. to 8 J) with Lat. 213 2 31 21 o 296 { "^ ^^* """'^^°' 
 
 No. 46. 10 N Now,
 
 Sg6 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 Now, as ChriR had a real body made of a woman, fo was it no fmail 
 argument oF the reality of his body, in that it fubmitted unto the im- 
 prelFions of the (lars, as do thofe of other men. For, ahhough the ini- 
 mcafurable power of the fpirit upon him was able to (way, and did fway, 
 all imprelfions and inclinations of nature, lb as to fubjc£l them abfolutely 
 to be obedient in all things unto the command of his holy will, yet 
 ■were not only the complexion of his body, but alfo the qualities of 
 his mind and affections, much of them preffed and wrought by the 
 power of the heavens. Only excepted, that, whereas he was born with- 
 out (in, neither evil planets, nor evil afpetls of any planet, could have 
 that advantage to work upon his manners and difpofuion, lo as to incline 
 tnem with fuch command as they do by others. But, as for the acci 
 dents of his life, in refpeft of what belel him, as for matter of love Oj- 
 hatred, ficknefs and health, life and death, the ftars had as free and full 
 liberty and power over him and his body as upon any the leaft of us. 
 For, though he was able, by fpecial authority of his own, to force the 
 utmoit power of ftars, or heaven, yet herein lay his humility, and his 
 charity in that humility, in that he voluntarily fubmitted his body to be 
 ordered according to the courfe of nature: whereas, would he himfelf, 
 he might have made it lord overall that nature could do. And, though 
 he raifed the bodies of others from death unto life, in defpite of nature, 
 yet would he fuffer his own body quietly to be ordered even as nature 
 would herfelf. 
 
 Thefe things confidered, next come we to meafure the time between 
 the accidents of life and time of birth. It is obferved, and a continued 
 experience has verified it according to obfervation, that, (unlefs fome 
 Ipecial interruption intervene, either by a tranfit, or fome revolution ut- 
 terly crolTmg,) from the fignificator in a nativity unto the promittor of 
 the thing fignified, there are ordinarily fo many times one year and five 
 days and eight hours as there are degrees either of afcenfion or defcen- 
 fion between the one and the other. The molt remarkable accident of 
 Chrill's life, that we can work by, was his death, and the manner of it 
 at the end of thirty-two years and an hundred and one days after birth. 
 To bring this about, the Moon claims nothing as a fignificator. The 
 Sun feems to proffer fomething, as if his direction to the quartile of the 
 Moon fhould proclaim fome fuch matter. But then the Sun, being 
 neither giver of life, nor years, in this nofturnal geniture, could hardly 
 have fuffered fo fatally by that quartile, that death fhould follow upon 
 it. And befides, upon examination it appears, that the direftion came 
 up fon;e years too foon for thirty-two, m what pofition foever placed 
 under ground. And now therefore, if neither Sun nor Moon were 
 
 aftors
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 897 
 
 aflors in fuffering that direful fate, then it follows, that certain!)' it was 
 that point of the fcheme which is called the afcendant. And, if lo, then 
 it was either the direction of the afcendant to the quartiie of the bun. 
 (and thus it was a ten-o'clock birth, and Virgo afcendcd;) or it was> the 
 oppohtion of Mars a quarter of an hour after the fame, Virgo afcending. 
 Or it was the oppofition of the Moon, and then \\'as it a nndnignt 
 birth, and Libra afccnded; or it was to the oppoiition of Saturn, and 
 then was it a birth at almoft half an hour pad eight in the morning, and 
 iScorpio alcended. But, of all thefe, none will fuit with a defcription o;' 
 the perfon, and the other accidents of his life, but that of the a'cendant 
 to the conjunftion of the Moon. The Moon at midnight of the fore- 
 mentioned day, we find in the fign Aries, and in twenty-eight degrees 
 and one minute thereof, upon the cufp of that which is called the eighth 
 houfe of heaven, or the houfe of death; and there is hie nearly in con- 
 junftion with a ftar called Algol's Head, which is one of the mofl ma- 
 lignant ftars in the whole heavens, and difpofed of by the planet Mars, 
 who is the lord of the native's profefTed enemies, and alio of death. The 
 Moon of herfelf is naturally a giver of life; but, as fhe fits upon the houle 
 of death, and difpofed of as fhe is, fhe fignifies a murderer: and, as for 
 the perfons fhe fhould work it by, they are the common people and rude 
 rabble, and efpecially women, whom fhe naturally reprefents; and tlie 
 chief magiflrate of the place, whom alio fhe reprefents by accident, by 
 virtue of that dominion which fhe claims in the tenth houfe, or houfe of 
 honour and dignity; and fome ecclefiaflical perlbn or perfons by acci- 
 dent alfo, as fhe has dominion in the ninth houfe; and laftly f'oldiers, 
 as fhe is difpofed of by Mars, who naturally fignifies men of war. Now, 
 all thefe fignifications fo fitly meeting in the Moon, and fhe fb aptly re- 
 prefenting a murderer, how readily flands fhe to ferve our purpofe? 'Jo 
 proceed therefore, we find the oblique defcenfion of her in that degree 
 and minute to be two hundred and twelve degrees and fifty minutes: 
 but, if we confider her latitude, the oblique defcenfion will prove two 
 hundred and thirteen degrees and two minutes. Next, as for the time 
 when the afcendant fell under this direful direftion, we mufl allow fome 
 time for the flrength of conflitution, which this fcheme, pofited alter 
 this manner, feems to aflPord the native to wreflle with the flrokes of 
 death. For Jupiter, a benevolent planet, lord of the fixth, and in the 
 afcendant, together with his antifcions in the fixth, and a fextile of the 
 Sun lighting there alfo, befpeaks an healthful body, and of a very flrong 
 conflitution, and luftily able to flruggle with its deftinies, before deaili 
 fhall get the maffery. Wherefore we mult not lay the afcendant under 
 the oppofition of the Moon jufl upon the very day of death, but fome 
 weeks before it. And, feeing we have an oppofition, firft v.ithout lati- 
 
 3 tude,
 
 8g8 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 tude, and then wlih it; we iherefore lay the introduftion to this fatal 
 murder firit, under the oppofition with latitude, and that was at the end 
 of the fealt of tabernacles, at what time the Jews firft took up ftones 
 to flone him; but he elcapcd away and hid himfelf; and this was fome- 
 what before the very day of his nativity, at the end of thirty-two years 
 of age, on the 17th of (Jclober. Now, between the oppofition without 
 and the oppofition with latitude are feventy-four days, and, during this 
 time, Jefus was llruggling with crofs fates, and preached privately in 
 Judea, and not openly, for fear of the Jews: only, at the feall ol de- 
 dication, he appeared in vindication of the blind man, unto whom he 
 had given fight. But at that feall again, took they up ftones to kill 
 him, and they fought to take him, but he efcaped, and went away be- 
 yond Jordan : and this was about the twenty-fifth of December, at 
 thirty-two years of age: and yet he lived three months ftill after that, 
 but then it was as a wounded perfon, all the while debating with death: 
 for the Jews condemned him to die abfolutely, and laid wait to take him, 
 and he could not walk openly among them any more, but went away 
 beyond Jordan unto Ephraim on the borders of the wildernefs. To 
 meafure therefore from the 17th of 06lober, or the morrow after the 
 feaft: of tabernacles, in the thirty-fecond year of Chrift almoft ended, 
 unto the day of his nativity, there are thirty-one years and two hundred 
 and ninety-feven days; which, turned into degrees after the rate of one 
 vear five days and eight hours to a degree, (as was before mentioned,) 
 do make thirty-one degrees and twenty-one minutes; and thefe again 
 fubtrafted from the oblique afcenfion of the Moon's oppofition in Libra, 
 twenty-one degrees one minute, which is two hundred and thirteen de- 
 grees two minutes, do make the oblique afcenfion of the afcendant to be 
 an hundred and eighty-one degrees forty-one minutes; and that oblique 
 afcenfion, under the elevation of thirty-one degrees and fifty minutes, 
 places the afcendant of this nativity in the fign Libra, one degree twenty- 
 fix minutes; and from the oblique afcenfion of the afcendant, one hundred 
 and eighty-one degrees forty-nine minutes, fubtra6ling ninety degrees, the 
 right afcenfion of the mid-heaven muft be ninety-one degrees and forty- 
 one minutes; and the right afcenfion placeth the mid-heaven itfelf in 
 the fign Cancer, In one degree thirty-three minutes: and now again 
 fubtra6l we the right afcenfion of the Sun, which is two hundred and 
 feventy-two degrees eleven minutes, from the right afcenfion of the 
 mid-heaven, which is ninety-one degrees forty-one minutes ; or, be- 
 caufe that cannot be, from four hundred and fifty-one degrees forty-one 
 minutes, which is the addition of the whole circle of heaven to the 
 right afcenfion of the mid-heaven; and the remainder is one hundred 
 and feventy-nine degrees thirty minutes of the equator, which turned 
 
 into
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. ' 8gg- 
 
 into the hours and minutes of the day, do befpeak the equal time of 
 Chrifl's birth to have happened at eleven hours and fifty-eight minutes 
 in the afternoon, to which add one minute and thirty-eight feconds for 
 equation, and the apparent time was eleven hours, fifty-nine minutes, 
 and thirty-eight feconds, which comes within a fmall matter of midnight. 
 
 The time of birth being thus propofed, I calculate all the planets 
 places for this time, and dire6l them to their promittors, together with 
 the afcendant, mid-heaven, and the ninth houfe, in order to fuit all 
 other accidents according to this time, that by fo doing it may appear, 
 according to the moll experienced rules of Afirology, we have laid the 
 time right. And, this being done, it appears, firft, that the angels adored 
 him ; but this aft had nothmg of the Itars in it. Then, that the Ihep- 
 herds came and publiflred his glory all over the city, and in thirteen days 
 after came the wife men from the eaft to worfhip him; all thefe were 
 nothing elfe but the fruit of famous tranfits at the time of birth: the 
 Virgin's Spike and Ar6lurus (two great and noble liars) were newly gone 
 by, and, oeing within orbs, drew after them a goodly race of honour 
 and glory; Jupiter who accidentally reprefented Ihepherds, as he was 
 lord of the fixth houfe, and naturally fignificd religious perlons, or royal 
 priefts, being in the afcendant, and near upon the cufp, was much about 
 rifing, when the fhepherds entered, and drew the prieflly kings out ot 
 the eaft to vifit him; the Sun, alfo a fignificator of honour, was in con- 
 jun6lion of Venus, who had dignity in the ninth, and v/ith the Flying 
 Vulture, a royal ftar, and the famous Fomahaut, by latitude, was 
 within his beams, with thefe tranfits accompanying thefe honourable 
 direftions. Firft the mid-heaven was nearly coming up to the oppofi- 
 tion of the Sun, and the afcendant was haftening after to the quartile of 
 the fame, and the Moon alfo was nearly in trine of the Sun and Mercury. 
 But that which came neareft to the purpofe, was the Moon to the con- 
 junftion of Algol's Head, at the end of twelve days and odd hours, at the 
 very point of time as the wife men came. Now this Algol's Head is a 
 ftar of Saturn and Mercury, and, though it be a mifchievous ftar, yet 
 it fignifies preferment, though it be with a vengeance at the heels of it. 
 And fo it was here. For, the wife men being gone, Herod, by means 
 of their coming, plotted Chrift's murder, and forced him to flight. 
 The mid-heaven alfo to the oppofition, and the afcendant to the 
 quartile, of the Sun, afted much iuch another part as Algol's Head did, 
 giving honour of kings, though not without a mifchief in it. But the 
 Moon in trine of the Sun and Mercury, argued an aptnefs of the native 
 to be honoured both of kings and priefts, and of all men in authority. 
 No. 46. 10 O And,
 
 <po a'n illustration 
 
 And, although thel'e direftions came not up until above four years after, 
 yet, by means of good tranfits, the virtue of them diftilled fo long 
 before. 
 
 After thefe things followed the flight into Egypt within the firft year. 
 And this needed no more anger than from what direftions gave the pre- 
 ceding honour, as the Moon to Algol's Head, at thirteen days of age; 
 for here Herod plotted his murder; and the mid-heaven to the oppofi- 
 tion of the Sun at an hundred and eighty-five days end; and the afcen- 
 dant to the quartile of the Sun at two hundred and two days end; and 
 to Mercury at three hundred and fifty-two days end; for all this while 
 was our Lord and bleffed Saviour a llranger in a flrange land, and aR 
 exile who durll not (hew his head, neither durft his parents be known, 
 who, or what, or where, he was. The Sun to Mercury as lord of the 
 twelfth houfe, fignifies a milchief by means of private enemies; and yet, 
 as Mercury was alfo lord of the ninth, it helped out of that mifchief, by 
 means of a long journey : with thefe alfo accompanied the Part of For- 
 tune to a quaniie of the Moon at two hundred and ninety-three days end; 
 and the mid-heaven to the oppofition of Mercurv at one year's end and 
 one hundred feventy-two days: and laftly, the afcendant to the quar- 
 tile of Mercury at one year's end and two hundred and fifty-nine days, 
 (for fo long continued our Saviour's exile in Egypt.) But when the 
 Moon entered into terms of Venus in Taurus o o, at two years of age 
 and eighty-five days, he returned home with his parents. At much 
 about the fame time came Mercury alfo to the Flying Vulture, and 
 Jupiter to the North Balance with latitude: and at three years and 
 thirty-five days came Jupiter into his own terms: and at four years and 
 one hundred and eight days, he came to a trine of Saturn: and a little 
 after, at four years and two hundred and fix days, the Moon gained the 
 trine of the Sun: and in the next year, at five years of age and two hun- 
 dred and eighteen days, fhe attained to the trine of Mercury: and Saturn 
 about the fame time came to a trine of Venus. Now during thefe time* 
 Jefus greatly increafed in wifdom; and, befides that, the graee of God 
 was mightily upon him. Thefe things aptly furthered his great parts 
 by nature. But at five years and three hundred and forty-eight days, 
 the mid-heaven occurred to the quartile of Mars; and at fix years and 
 one hundred and eighty days, the afcendant was encountered with an 
 oppofition of the fame. And during thefe times Jefus wanted not his 
 (hare of worldly erodes: he feems to have been laden with quarrelfome 
 affronts, and likely enough it is that his parents fuffered in the lame way, 
 if they efcaped ficknefs, and loffes in edate and honour. Moreover, our 
 
 I > Saviotir.
 
 OFASTROLOGY. goi 
 
 Saviour feems to have tailed fome (harp diflempers of body himfelf, or 
 elfe very great wrongs from his enemies. But ftorms laft not for ever: 
 the afcendant came to Jupiter, at eight years and one hundred and fixty- 
 fix days, and gave him a very halcion time; and he then lived in much 
 love of neighbours and kindred. At ten years and one hundred and fifty- 
 two days, he feems to have encountered fome more misfortunes, or effe 
 his mother bore them for him, by means of the Moon falUng into the 
 pit called the Dragon's Tail. But within three months afte*r, Jupiter 
 coming -to the trine of Venus gave him great content, whether it was by 
 means of fome long journey, or by realon of the pleafure of his ftudies, 
 or both : however, it was a pleafant time, and the world feemed to wel- 
 come him with fome of her favours. 
 
 But, at the end of twelve years and fome three months over, he began 
 to be taken notice of publicly for his great wifdom and parts. Venus- 
 was lady of his afcendant, and alfo principal fignificatrix of his mind. 
 And, at twelve years of age and fifty-two days over, fhe came, by di- 
 reftion, to a fextile of the Moon's difpofitrefs of his honour and ad- 
 vancement; which is as much as to fay, fhe brought him to be well 
 accepted for his inward worth, and excellency of mind, amongft men 
 of power and authority. And the virtue of this good diredion 
 wrought to purpofe at the paffover after, at the latter end of March, 
 about fome forty-one days after the direftion happened. But, from this 
 time forward there is no queftion but he was every year more and more no- 
 ted and admired, as he came yearly up to the feaft at Jerufalem; for at 
 twelve years and one hundred and nineteen days, which was but a month 
 after the paffover, the Part of Fortune came to a trine of Jupiter witb 
 latitude, and about feventy-four days after to the fame trine without 
 latitude; and at one hundred and fixiy-nine days over twelve years- 
 came up the afcendant to a trine of Saturn out of ^he ninth houfe, with 
 latitude, and eighteen days after that to the fame trine without latitude -,. 
 and thefe are directions to credit a man, amongfl ancient and ferious 
 people, to purpofe. But that which hit nearelt upon the very week, 
 was the dire6lion of the ninth houfe unto the trine of Jupiter with- 
 latitude, which happened at the end of tvv^elve years and one hundred 
 and one days, at the beginning of April, prefently after the paffover 
 week; and the fame houfe came to the fame trine without latitude about 
 forty days after. But, however, the direftions preceding and fucceeding 
 all concurred to heap up the glory of his difputation amongft the doftors^. 
 Alfo thefe kind of direftions macie him dexterous at his qalling too, in 
 building houl^, and following his bufinefs ferioufly, and wuth great 
 induflry. After this, at over fixteen, came the Part of Fortune to a 
 
 trine
 
 go2 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 trine of Saturn, and that was good, but had relation chiefly to his trade, 
 as if he had gained by it in deaUng with elderly people. But, half a 
 year after, the Moon to the contra-antifcion of Venus was- ill either to 
 himfelf or his mother, or both. And at over fevenieen, the Sun fell 
 under the contra-antifcions of Saturn, and that feems to have been 
 grievous to his reputed father. At fixteen years and ninety-eight days, 
 the ninth houfe came up to the body of Saturn, and then no doubt but 
 he was I'ufficiently unhappy in his grave counfels, and met with more 
 derifion than attention. And they, who formerly had applauded his wif- 
 dom, would be apt enough now to betray their own weaknefs, in chan- 
 ging their (lory. Yet Venus coming to the fextile of the Sun a little 
 after, in the fame year, would not only allay much of that difpa- 
 ragement, but alfo would be raihng friends amongft the more prudent 
 fort of powerful perfons, to reprove and bridle the licentious lips of en- 
 vious and upbraiding tongues. At eighteen years and three hundred and 
 fixty-one days the afcendant happened upon the trine of Venus, and 
 that was an healthful and a pleafant time, cleaving off the reproaches of 
 Saturn and envious people. At twenty-two entering, the Part of For- 
 tune fell into the lap of Venus in the fifth houfe, and rendered a time 
 religioufly pleafant. And at twenty-two years and one hundred and 
 thirty-fix days, the ninth houfe got out of the clutches of envious Saturn, 
 and encountered a trine of Venus, in the fign Gemini. And this un- 
 doubtedly gave him to fee favoury fruits of his good counfels and grave 
 admonition, to his great contentment. But towards the year ending, 
 the Moon coming to the quartile of Venus interrupted the pleafant pro- 
 grefs of his affairs. And, in the twenty-third year well entered, he met 
 with great oppofition, as well from men in power as the rabble-rout, 
 greatly gainfaying his facred converfation, and this by means of Jupiter 
 falling under the Moon's oppofition, both without and with latitude. 
 At twenty-four years* of age and two hundred and twenty-one days, 
 came the Moon to the Foot of Orion, called Rigel ; at what time might 
 poflibly happen the preferment into the order of the twenty-four, Ipoken 
 of by Suidas, of which he never made either proHt, ufe, or advantage, 
 unlefs it were by accident. At twenty-feven years and two hundred and 
 ninety-nine days, Venus, lady of the afcendant and of the ninth houfe, 
 fell upon the quartile of Saturn; and this adminiltered unto him much 
 of trouble in his mind, and of difturbances in his religious courfes, and 
 perhaps he met with ibme wrong in his journey to the feafl of taberna- 
 cles, which happened about that time. At twenty-eight years of age 
 complete, Jupiter attained unto the fextile of the Sun, and that admi- 
 niflered unto him much favour and refpeft from perfons of quality. 
 But, the Sun being at the very bottom cf heaven, it feems as if all his 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 903 
 
 greateft friends favoured him, like Nicodemus, more by night than by 
 day. At one hundred and fifty days over twenty-eight years of age, the 
 Sun was encountered with the quartile of the Moon. And at this time, 
 John the Baptifl entering into his miniftry. Jefus feems greatly to have 
 been affronted by people of all forts. It is very likely too, that old JolVph, 
 his reputed father, yielded unto nature about this time; for the Sun hg- 
 nifies parents. And whether it was wl^cn Saturn came to the oppofition 
 of the Sun, or now that the Sun came to the quartile of the Moon, we 
 cannot certainly determine; but much about this lime it feems he left 
 this world for a better. 
 
 But now the time draws on, wherein Jefus began to fhew himfelf the 
 Chrirt; at this time he was baptized of John in Jordan. His kingdom 
 was not of this world, neither was his miniftry of men, or by man's 
 authority, but by a divine commiffion; and by figns and wonders it was 
 confirmed to be fo. We cannot therefore expe6l infkience from heaven 
 for thofe things which come from beyond heaven; nor mull we expe6l 
 a commiflfion from the ftars for thofe miracles he a6ted as it were in 
 defiance of them. And, as for what applaufe followed by virtue of thofe 
 miracles, we muft look for the realbn of it from the Maker of all things, 
 rather than from any created being, though never fo much exceeding 
 all other creatures. Yet, for fuch natural paffages as amongft his mi- 
 racles did accrue, we cannot debarnature from executing her office ftill. 
 And firft, we find him thruft out contemptuoully and rudely at Nazareth, 
 with great fcorn unto his facred funflion; infomuch that he removed 
 his houfehold upon it unto Capernaum. And in this great affront his 
 mother alfo feemed nota little concerned, who removed her houfehold with 
 him, from where flie feems to have been bred and born, unto a Itrange 
 place. Now at this time the mid-heaven, the fignificator of Chriit's 
 honour and his mother's perfon, came to quartile of the Moon, which 
 very fitly fuits with all that happened. The dire6lion came up on the 
 fixth of November, before the twenty-eighth year was quite run out. 
 But the malice of it laded not only unto this affront, whicn was a6ted in 
 March of the twenty-ninth year entered, but alfo unto the paffover 
 following, whereat it encountered him with much fnarling of the Jews 
 againft him, notwithfl:anding all his great miracles. And worfe would 
 it have proved, but that Jupiter, the natural fignificator of his divine 
 funftion, came to a trine of Mercury, lord of the ninth. This happened 
 at twenty-five days over twenty-nine years of age, much about the 
 time of his entrance into his minillry. And, though we cannot fay 
 it purchafed him that honour, yet we can fafely fay that it prompted 
 his human mind to comply with his divine commiflionj and facilitated 
 
 No. 46. 10 P his
 
 904 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 his reception, wherever lie came, with a kind of luck whereby this di- 
 reftion ll-rved him; for God Almighty makes ule of natural inilruments 
 to ferve divine ends. About this tmie alfo came the ninth houfe to the 
 mercurial flar called Caftor's Head; and the Moon encountered the She- 
 Goat, a liar ofMercury and Mars, at thirty-one years and two hundred 
 and forty days. Thefc are ftars furthering ingenuity, though not with- 
 out troubles, and fuch our Saviour wanted not for all the time of his 
 miniftration, until finally the afcendant came to the oppofition of the 
 Moon, firfl without latitude, at the end of thirty-one years and two 
 hundred and twenty-two days, about the beginning of Auguft; at which 
 time his neighbours of Capernaum began to deride his miniftry, and the 
 pharifees, complying with the Herodians, made him fly the country; 
 and, laftly, the afcendant to the oppofition of the Moon, with latitude, 
 the afcendant being in this figure Hyleg, and the Moon, which is Ana- 
 reta, being on the eighth houle, deprived him of life, as God had ap- 
 pointed it from the beginning. 
 
 Thus we find the time propofcd moft fitly agreeing with all pafTages of 
 his life, as well as with his death. But yet, to make fure work, we 
 ufed to compare the fituation of a fcheme alio with the complexion and 
 (jualities of the native, before we determine that the time is right. And 
 now to do as much by this; Firft, it is apparent, by the known rules of 
 art, that Jel'us was born, as it weie purpolely, and that fo as may be 
 dilcerned by the fcheme of his nativity, to die a violent death. For 
 here we have the Moon, the common fignificatrix of life, fitting upon 
 the very brink of death, upon the cufp of the eighth houfe: then we find 
 her in conjun^lion with the very word of malignant flars, Algol's 
 Head. The Dragon's Tail alfo is in the eighth, in lefs than ten de- 
 grees of her: but as bad or worie than all this is Mars in oppoHtion 
 unto Jupiter in the afcendant, and in quartile with Mercury, and the 
 Sun in the fourth. It is true indeed, that, as he came into the world 
 without fin, fo was he above the power of any influence of heaven to be 
 able to hurt him: and, had he not voluntarily fubmitted unto the infir- 
 mities of nature, they had never in the lead reached him. And, though 
 the fignificator of his enemies was fironger and better armed than inch 
 Itars were which flood for his own perlon. yet was his armour of inno- 
 cency eafily able to have overturned all, would he have uicd his mighty 
 pov/er to that purpofe: but fuch was his love, that he was willing to 
 lay down his life; and therefore he put hinTelf under the power of 
 nature, in order to lofe his life. And hence, by means of *his fubmif- 
 fion. Mars, in the houfe of enmity, the lord thereof, being fironger than 
 Venus, lady of the houfe of life,, or Jupiter, her aCTociate^ placed in 
 
 that
 
 O F A S T R O L O G r. 905 
 
 that houfe, rendered his enemies too ftroner for hi~, and b~ckf fi ihem wiUi 
 bitter choler, Ipite, and malice, again{t him. The Sun being in quar- 
 t;ie to Jupiter a'ld the afcendant, inclined ihe magillrates averfe both to 
 his perion and dodtrine. Mercury alfo in the lame quartiie incHncd the 
 chMrchmen with the fame averfenefs to oppofe liim. Mars in oppofition 
 exafperared ihe men of war. And, laRly, the Moon ftirred up the vul- 
 gar people to cry him down. And all this might have been as aptly fore- 
 ken by his nativity when he entered the world, as it is now known by 
 his life pail it. 
 
 But, to purfue the refidue of his perfon, as well as his condition, we 
 find, tliat Libra, a cardinal hgn, of temper fanguine, hot, and moift, 
 afcends ; and Jupiter is in the afcendant, near the point of rifing, at birth, 
 in a fign of his own nature; and Venus, lady of the afcendant, in Aqua- 
 ries, a Iknguine fign too, do all befpeakhim to have been a perfon ofa very 
 level temp r, and of a fanguine complexion. Venus, in trine to the 
 afcendant in the houfe of Saturn, endued him with a fober cheerfulnefs 
 in his converfation : and Saturn, being in a fanguine fign too, in trine 
 of Jupiter in the afcendant, from the ninth, or houfe of ingenuity and 
 religion, and in dignities of Mercury, v.-ith a reception from him in the 
 higheft degree by houfe, infufes melancholy into his temper, to mingle 
 with his mirth, and feeds him with a mighty (Irength of judgment and 
 deep policy: alfo he dillils gravity and ferioufhefs into all his anions : and 
 thus Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, are mod excellently united in him 
 with the beft of afpefts. To thefe we may add the Moon, with almolt 
 a moiety of her orbs in her exaltation, and there in trine of the Sun and 
 Mercury. The Moon is the great miftrefs of life and nature, and the 
 trijies to the Moon do gratify the native, even as firongly as if they fell 
 into the afcendant. Hence therefore is he armed from the Sun with a 
 majeRicand a royal prefence, and princely prudence, and from Mercury 
 with as great a rtock of ready wit and ingenuity, and the rather, lor tliat 
 he is in Cazimi with the Sun, and in fo ilrong reception with Saturn. To- 
 gether with all thele we hnd Sp:ca Virginis, a ftnr of the fweetefl influ- 
 ence of all the fixed itars in" heaven, fitting near upon the cufp afccnd- 
 ing, and there admirably qualifying for oratory, and that efpttially in 
 divinity. Artturus is there too, a princely liar, tliat adminillers courape 
 and a noble reiolution. Laftly, the fign of jullice afcends; and Jupiter, 
 the planet of religion, joins with it, to increafe devotion ; and Sa- 
 turn and Venus are botii in figns humane and temperate. And, al- 
 though our Saviour was not as common people are, yet had nature 
 wonderfully fet him out. 
 
 But
 
 9o6 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 Bui yet there arc exceptions. For the-Moon is ill placed on the eightli, 
 in an unlucky houfe, and joined with a peevilh and crabbed flar, which 
 mull needs infeft her to be fo too. Mars is alfo fet as if he Hood on pur- 
 pole to dellroy a nativity fo oppofite to Jupiter and the afcendant; and, 
 being flrong withal, he Teems to threaten all good qualities with an over- 
 turn, infuling nothing but choler, fury, and mahce, into the native's 
 liead; and, difpoling of the Moon, he makes her fo too. The Sun alfo 
 looks upon the cufp afcending with an evil quadrature, anrl fuch as ufu- 
 ally renders a native much more proud and ambitious than either wife or 
 good-natured; and Mercury, complying with the Sun in the lame afpe£l, 
 endeavours to incline this facred perfon unto theft and lies. But what 
 now? Was Jefus thus? or rather does not Aflrology belie him? No, 
 neither. For, had thele evil afpefts courted an ordinary nature unto 
 evil manners naturally, yet would they not have forced him, but he 
 might have overcome all by gracious habits. But much more than this 
 mult we note in our ever blelled Lord Jelus Chrifl. For, he being born 
 without fm in his nature, the heavens wrought upon him in a different 
 manner of influence from what they do by us. For, feeing that the divine 
 nature withheld fb as no fm could enter him, the word of afpecls (for 
 matter of qualification) became the befl unto him. For, by how much 
 an oppofition or a quartile is a flronger afpeft than a fextile or a trine, 
 may they be withheld from doing harm, they mufl: needs afpe6l with the 
 greateli; force of their virtues. And thus the oppofition of Mars, falling 
 mto his head, inflead of fury and choler, adminiftered the greater courage 
 in him; and the quartile of the Sun, inflead of pride and ambition, gave 
 him the greater inajeff y and wifdom ; and the quartile of Mercury, inftead 
 of lies, gave him the more prodigious wit; and the Moon with Algol's 
 Head, inftead of peevifli, made him the more foberly wife. But we mufl 
 remember, that, though Chrift could not fm, yet die he could. And 
 thus therefore oppohtions and trines, and evil flars, were as evil to him, 
 in as a high a degree, as unto the meanefl of us ; for in all things, faving 
 fin, was he as we are. 
 
 Next proceed we to his body, only fo as to compare that too with our 
 fcheme. For, though we have no proof either of his flature or his 
 colour, yet may we be bold to fay (by rules of art) that. Libra afcend- 
 ing, he was fomewhat inclined to be tall and fair: but this was the Jefs, 
 few degrees of that fign afcending, and they in terms of Saturn: elfe 
 is there nothing to except, unlefs the Moon, with Algol's Head, may 
 be thought fomewhat to abate from both. Jupiter m the afcendant 
 gives an handfome brown feature, hinders not tallnefs, but befpeaks 
 
 fome-
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 907 
 
 fomewhat of corpulency ; fave that the trine of Venus from Aquaries, and 
 of Saturn out of Gemini, forbid it. Jupiter gives a grey eye, and fo 
 fays Venus; and none can hinder. Venus would sladlv beautify the 
 face, by virtue of her intereft in Libra ; and fomething fhe does to 
 render it rather fair than brown. And Saturn from Gemini can hinder 
 but very little : he would pacify, but Jupiter and Venus are refolved 
 to keep up the complexion. Jupiter adminifters brown hair, and Venus 
 renders flaxen; but Saturn would have it black ; whence, between both, 
 Jupiter carries it. Venus give a pleafant fmiling look, and Jupiter 
 denies it: not only Saturn attempts it, but prevails no farther than to 
 render it foberly ferious withal. The Sun and Mercury, with their trines 
 fo near the culp, would fain deform; but Mercury in the Sun has not 
 power to darken. The Sun would only caft fwarth ; but Jupiter in the 
 afcendant on one fide, and the Virgin's Spike upon it on the other fide, 
 utterly defeat him. Alars in oppolition would fain fcarify, but Jupiter 
 fo near defies him alfb. Laftlv, the Moon between Aries and Taurus 
 contraries but little from the reft ; efpecially for that fhe has fo few rays 
 falling into her bofom. The moft fhe does in oppolition is only, by 
 means of her place in the eighth, and being with Algol's Head fo near, 
 to wrinkle the brows, and furrow or dent the cheeks ; but fhe wants 
 flrength. Jupiter would have a full face, and Venus a round; and fa 
 it is concluded between them, faving that Saturn and the Moon together 
 prevail fo far as to render it oval. 
 
 Laflly, as for his other fortunes. Firfl, we find his afcendant and 
 fixth well fitted with a very flrong conftitution for health. The oppo- 
 fitionof Mars and a quartile of the Sun and Mercury prevail to harm 
 more by unlucky outward accidents than by inward diflempers. His 
 houfe of wealth is direftly oppofed by the Moon, lady of the mid- 
 heaven, and is not defended by any good afpefl: His mid-heaven is 
 alfo very low ; the lady of it is fufficiently afili6ted ; and, being incum- 
 bered with a croud of evil afpe61:s, had no help of either of the fortunes. 
 No, the Sun in the very bottom of heaven befpeaks that the native's 
 kingdom is not of this world. Only the Moon upon the houfe of 
 death, after void of courfe, is in trine of the Sun, which fhows to pro- 
 mife his kingdom by death, or after it. His ninth houfe has the help 
 of both the fortunes. But Saturn bodily dwells there, and hatcheth a 
 world of crofTcs, both in his functions and long journeys. His houfe 
 of enmity is very flrong, with the lord thereof therein, and at home ill 
 his own houfe, and threatens malice enough. The eighth houfe is 
 even malignant too ; and fo is the lord of the twelfth, faving his trine 
 to the Moon. But this lord is under the Sun, weakens his force. 
 
 No. 47. 10 Q aiid
 
 9o8 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 and difcovers all his private fpleen. His fifth houfe, or houfe" of chil- 
 dien, has a rich jewel in it ; and the lord thereof looks pleafingly upon' 
 the afcendant, which argues he had a body fufficiently fruitful for itTue. 
 The lady of the afcendant alfo in the houfe of children, in trine to the 
 lord of that houfe, and both in good afpedl unto the houfe of marriage 
 and the lord thereof, do all agree, that it was no hindrance in nature 
 which rendered our Saviour wifelefs or childlefs. No, it was his great 
 gravity, or rather his infinite piety, which, for the kingdom of Heaven's 
 lake, led him to defpife nature's treafures. And hence came it to pafs, 
 that the church was his only fpoufe ; and by her hath he a numberlefs 
 offspring of holy faints unto his children. The lord of the fixth 
 is in the afcendant, and the great fortune ; whence were his fervants 
 true and faithful; only one Judas (when that fixth houfe came by di- 
 re6lion to the quartile of Mercury, in the entrance of the houfe of en- 
 mity) fatally betrayed him ; and the reft, more out of fear than for 
 falfehood, forfook him and fled. The lord of the ninth is very low, and 
 in quartile of Jupiter and Marr, and in conjunftion of the twelfth lord ; 
 which rendered his friends men of low condition, and befriending him 
 more by night than by day ; as being terrified by mighty enemies, and 
 not encouraged by any outward promifes from himfelf. The lord of 
 the third is in the houfe of enmity, and thence rendered moft of his 
 neighbours bitter and envious, efpecially during the times of ill direc- 
 tions operating. Only Jupiter, having dignities in that houfe, made 
 others of his neighbours and kindred as much his friends. Laftly, the 
 Sun upon the cufp of the fourth feems fitly to comply with that fove- 
 reignty which attended upon his death, and appeared by his refurre61ion 
 and afccnfion into heaven. When Adam entered, the Sun was juft 
 upon fetting. When Jefus Chrift was incarnated, he was jufl upon 
 rifing. But at his birth he was at loweft. For it was not the Sun of the 
 Firmament, but the Sun of Righteoufnefs, who arofe with healing in his 
 wings. 
 
 Such was the fortune of our Saviour, during his progrefs through this 
 earthly world ; and fuch were the qualities of his human mind, even 
 as the ftars defcribe them ; and fuch was the complexion of his hu- 
 man body, juft as the heavens do befpeak. And, though we never faw 
 his perfon, or any true portraiture of the fame, yet know we, by the 
 fcheme of his nativity, that he was a man fomewhat tall of ftature, of 
 an oval face, of a ruddy complexion between fair and brown, of a 
 grey eye, yet (harp and piercing, of a bright brown hair, of an high, 
 forehead, of much beard, of a pleafant look, fmiling, yet foberly le- 
 rious, and of a body well compofed, and indifferently fet, between 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 909 
 
 {lender and corpulent. And all this know we by the canons of Aftro- 
 logy. And that thofe canons are true, ft is no fmall evidence, in that 
 all the known paffages of his life fo punftually comply with them. 
 And, be thefe canons true, (as we know by multitude of experience that 
 they are certainly fo,) then it appears by thefe canons, that at midnight 
 of December the twenty-fifth day, was i658* years complete, fince his 
 birth. And every birth-day of this our ever blefled Lord and Saviour 
 Jefus Chrift falls on the twenty-fifth day of December, His life points 
 out the very moment of time whereon he came into the light. And, the 
 fcheme of the heavens to that moment is a true pifture of his life ; and 
 fuch as no moment can Ihow again, in any hundred years time, before 
 or after. 
 
 To thefe may be added, the frame of the heavens at his death, fo fitly 
 fuiting with the time of the great bufinefs in hand, and defcribing what 
 was done. And firfl we note, that on the over-night of the paffover- 
 feafl:, at what time our Saviour was apprehended, the fign of the fourth 
 houfe in the nativity (which always carries with it the chara61er of death, 
 or the end of every matter) was then afcending ; and the Sun-, which 
 was therein at birth, was then in the bloody feat of Mars in the radix, 
 which was at that point of time the fourth houfe, or the bottom of hea- 
 ven, fhowing all the glory of his prefent life to be lying in the duft, and 
 his end of days hall:ening apace to overtake him. The malignant Saturn 
 was upon the houfe of pleafure, envioufiy eclipfing all his mirth : 
 Jupiter, who was radically a great affiftant in the afcendant, was the lord 
 of the afcendant, and fignificator of life at this time, but was locally in 
 tiie houfe of fervice and ilavery, in conjun6tion of Mars, lord of enmity 
 in the nativity, and now lord of his end, who was greatly afflidting him 
 in the radical place of Saturn, The fignificator of Judas in this fcene was 
 Mercury in his detriment and fall in Pifces, who, as he (lands in the 
 third, with the lady of the mid-heaven in conjunftion, and difpofes 
 of his mafter in the fixth, afHi6ts him with a malignant quartile ; and 
 laftly, the Moon, which was radically in the eighth, or houfe of 
 death, was now lady of death, and, being advanced unto the top of 
 heaven, feemeth to {land ttiere trampling on the head of the Sun in 
 the fourth, as it were in his grave, with her worft of rays, and they 
 too not a little poilbned with the nearnefs of the Dragon's Tail. Such 
 was the flate of heaven at his apprehenfion by Judas and his company at 
 twelve o'clock at night, on the evening preceding Friday the third of 
 April. 
 
 * The year in which this author (Dr. Butler) wrote, and calculated our Saviour's nativity. 
 Let it be remembered, that the alteration of the ftile has nothing to do with this calculation. 
 
 As
 
 9IG AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 As the Sun approached the afccndant, Jefus was led before Pontius 
 Pilate, the Moon in the feventh malicioufly oppofing ; for fb the judges 
 at his firft apprehenfioii became now his accuiers, and, poffen'uig" the 
 natural lign of Chrift himfelf, which afcended at birth, and which was 
 the fign of juflice, as the labourers in the vineyard^ under pretence of re- 
 ligion, caft they him out of his own : and Mercury and Venus, one 
 lignifying the traitor, and the other the magiftrate into whole hands he 
 •was betrayed, were then in the twelfth, afting the part of private ene- 
 mies. But, as the Sun drew into the eleventh, or houfe of hopes and 
 friends, and there infected by the envious place of Mars i.i the radix, 
 Pilate alfo, his Ibme- while friend, yielding at lafl to the oppolition of the 
 Moon, or the rabble, and turning enemy, condemned hirn to be crucified; 
 
 And, by that time the Sun in the radical chair of Mars came into the 
 houfe of honour, the Sun of righteoulnefs was lifted up upon the crofs, 
 as if he was hafting towards heaven, and that in order to draw all men 
 after him. And here the Mc<jn, iignifying the rabble, oppofrs him 
 with bitter railings. Saturn rpon the eleventh, and lord of enmity, 
 complies with them to deftroy his hopes ; and Jupiter, lord of the ninth, 
 iignifying the priefts, and Mars the foldiers, being both in the twelfth, 
 are private enemies. But finally, as they continue railing and reviling, 
 lo! at the very point of high noon, an univerfal daiknels overwhelmed 
 all, and the Sun himfelf blufhed to behold what curled things were a6t- 
 ing. The Sun was now where Mars was at birth, as it were difpofed of 
 by his mortal enemies. Jupiter, which afcended at birih, was in the 
 hands of Saturn, in his very feat of the radix, as it were in the dungeon 
 of bitter reftraint ; and Mars, the natural enemy, was afflicting him 
 there. The Moon, which was radically lady of the mid-heaven, and 
 placed upon the houfe of death, was now at length fettled and feated 
 together with the Dragon's Tail upon the afcendant, or the feat of life, 
 as who would fay, the utmofl: period thereof is now expiring ; and, even 
 as the darknefs fell, the Moon upon this place of life was juft under- 
 ground with it. 
 
 Laftjy, at three in the afternoon, the darknefs vaniflied, and the light 
 returned ; and then was the Sun falling into the houfe of death, flill being 
 in oppofition of the Moon. Saturn was in the ninth, enjoying the eccle- 
 liaftical, and Mirs in the tenth, ufurping the civil, authority. But, as 
 Chrifl: died, all his mifery dieii v/ith him : and that death brought light 
 into the world, and uHiored our ever-ble(fed Saviour in that glorious light 
 into his eternal glory. And fiially, the Moon arofe at fun-fetting; but 
 it was eclipfed, lignifying the fall of all fuch as thought to rife upon their 
 fovereign's ruins. And the frame of all thefe things ye may behold as fol- 
 lows, in the annexed fchemes. 
 
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 But, becaufe the life and death of St. John the Baptist was io ncarlv 
 related to the life and death of our ever blefled Saviour, and the day of 
 his nativity appears alfo with much (how of certainty, I have thertfjre 
 taken the pains to calculate a fcheme of his nativity alio, as follows : 
 
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 9 North Latitude 
 
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 Here the Dragon's Head and Antares, with latitude upon the afceii- 
 dant, give a very bold man. The Moon with Regulus in trine of Mars 
 confirms the fame. 
 
 The fign Scorpio, with the contra-antifcion of Saturn in the afcendant 
 give one of a furly and auftere difpofition. Saturn in oppofition of Mars' 
 confirms the fame. 
 
 No. 47. 10 R The
 
 9IJ AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The antiicion of Saturn on the ninth, with the Moon upon the afcen- 
 dant with the Dragon's Head, as alio the Sun, Venus, and Mercury, 
 in Textile of Jupitei ; incline unto honefty, gravity, and good manners. 
 
 Mercury in reception with Jupiter, and in trine to the afcendant ; 
 alfo the Moon in trine of Mars, and in reception with the Sun, and 
 the Sun in the Textile of Jupiter ; give a fuiiicient wit, and a found 
 judgment. 
 
 Nothing promifes worldly wealth, but contrarily. Jupiter in the 
 mid-heaven, in Textile of the Sun and Venus, promiTes honour enough. 
 
 But Antares, a violent fixed Ttar, upon the afcendant, with latitude, 
 and that within a degree, beTpeaks a violent death. And Saturn in op- 
 pofition of Mais, from angles, (the one beaig lord of the afcendant, 
 and the other of the fourth,) peremptorily threatens it. And it came to 
 paTs, as it Teems to be u(hcred in by thefe diredions as follows. 
 
 Firfl", he entered into his miniftrv at the acre of twenty-nine years and 
 fome little odds ; and was immediately buoyed up with wonderful ap- 
 plauTe. At this time were operating, the afcendant in trine of the Moon, 
 with latitude firfl:, and then without ; the mid-heaven to the Virgin's 
 Spike, with latitude firfi:, and then Avithout ; alTo the mid-heaven to 
 Ardurus, without latitude. AlTo the Moon to the Textile of Mercury, 
 and the Sun to Regulus. But the afcendant came to->the conjundion of 
 Mars without latitude, at the Tame time. 
 
 Secondly, at thirty years of age and upwards, he was imprifoned. At 
 which time was operating, the Moon to the quartile of Mars, and the 
 Sun to Hydra's Head. The afcendant to the conjundion of Mars, with 
 latitude, and the mid-heaven to the quartile of the Sun, were coming 
 up. But, 
 
 Thirdly, he was beheaded; at which time came the afcendant to a 
 conjunftion with Mars, with latitude, at about thirty-one years of age, 
 and two hundred and Tixty days, or thereabouts. And the mid-heaven 
 to the quartile of the Sun was near in a6lion about the very Tame time. 
 
 Laftly, we find how this death was brought about by a fiie private 
 enemy. And Tuch a one we find Venus, lady of the twelfth, with the 
 Sun, lord of the mid-heaven, in the eighth. 
 
 Oa
 
 O F A S T-R O L O G Y. 913 
 
 On ELECTIONS. 
 
 What fs meant by Eledions, is nothing more than, projecting a fcheme 
 of the heavens, to find the leveral pofitions and configurations of the 
 planets, on any given day, whereon we propofe to begin any bufinefs of 
 importance, to take a long or interefling journey, to make overtures of 
 nvarriage, or to purlue any objeft of our happinefs or advantage ; for the 
 purpofe of chooiing, what is vulgarly called, a lucky time to begin, that is, 
 when the influx of the principal fignificators is fuch as fliall correfpond 
 with the deliresof our own mind, and with the bufinefs, whatever it may 
 be, we wifh to take in hand. 
 
 I purpofely declined taking notice of this fpeculation in the Firfl 
 Part, that I might not be laughed at; which I muff own the abfurdity 
 and folly of thole, who, on every ludicrous and trivial occafion, have 
 reforted with religious folemnity to this cuifom, have given but too 
 much occafion to infpire : yet I will now take leave to hope that 
 enough has been faid to fhovv, that in our more Important concerns, and 
 in the real and heartfelt perturbations of our minds, upon the com- 
 mencement of any arduous and extenfive undertaking, it may be as Avell 
 to choofe thofe feafons when the befh and moll favourable influences of 
 the heavens concur, as when they put forth the moll: noxious and difcor- 
 dant irradiations. To a thinking mind, there cannot be a moment's he- 
 fitation, fince no man in his fenfes would prefer a flormy tempeftuous 
 day (o ride out for pleafure, to thofe diftlnguifhed by calmnefs and fere- 
 nity ; nor would he choofe an intenle frofty morning for the pleafiares 
 of a cold bath, which is luxuriant only in a milder feafon ; and yet all 
 thefe differences in the weather are produced by the varied pofitions and 
 changes of the planets, by an influx and cffed upon the ambient matter, 
 which we can no more lee than v/e can the influx produced by the lame 
 bodies upon the bent of our minds, or which determines this certain 
 order of times, {q fitly appropriated to all human concerns, that the 
 Scriptures pioufly recommend a due obfervation of them, and which 
 the Plalmifi declares, are beautiful in their feafons ! 
 
 Thofe therefore, who witli to confult the heavens, previous to any 
 important undertaking, fhould projed the horofcope for that nrecile 
 time when they feel their inclinations moft completely bent upon en- 
 gaging in the bufinefs. This will fhow them the particular influence of 
 every fignificator then operating ; and, being compared with the geneth- 
 liacal figure of birth, and with thole diredions in the nativity which 
 are to operate both for our good and evil, will, upon a fair and true 
 
 com-
 
 914 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 comparifon, quickly inform us whether the bufiiiefs in contemplation 
 will generally or eventually tuin out to our advantage, or not. But, 
 for the mt)re particular dilcoverv of wliat relates to the good or ill fuc- 
 cefs of the bulinels itfelf, with all its confequenccs and collateral 
 incidents, a figure muft be projected of the exa6l time when that bufinels 
 is begun, and the face of the heavens then operating ; mofl: particularly 
 and minutely confidered. The figns, the fignificators, the angles of the 
 figure, and the good and evil places of the horofcope, are to be allowed 
 their natural and accuflomed application, exaftly the fame as in all the 
 rules heretofore laid down ; and, if the two figures thus projc6led form 
 an harmony and concurrence with the figuie of birth, and fall in with 
 the good directions and revolutions thereof, the undertaking will un- 
 doubtedly be profperous, and the bufinefs i'uccefsful. But, if thefe 
 figures are difcordant in themfelves, and oppofe the benevolent fignifi- 
 cators in the geniture, it will, if purfued, prove dangerous or defi:ru<ftive 
 to the native, and will forv/ard the evil events prenoted by the diredlions 
 of the seniture. 
 
 A mediocrity in the pofitions and influences of the fignificators, and 
 of the angular houfes of the eledtional figures compared with the geni- 
 ture, will, as in all other cafes, produce a medium between the two 
 extremes, and fhow that the event of the matter in hand fhall neither 
 greatly ferve nor materially injure the party then about to engage in it. 
 
 END of the SECOND PART.
 
 AN 
 
 ILLUSTRATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CELESTIAL SCIENCE 
 
 OF 
 
 ASTROLOGY. 
 
 PART the THIRD, 
 
 CONTAINING THE 
 
 METEOROLOGICAL PART of URANOLOGY; 
 
 WITH CERTAIN 
 
 RULES for prejudging ths Revolutions of every Part of the habitable WORLD. 
 
 GENERAL EFFECTS OF 
 
 Great Conj.i actions, Eclipses, Comets, Blazing Stars, 
 
 And other Extraordinary PHENOMENA: 
 
 WITH THE 
 
 ART of Calculating ECLIPSES, TIDES, and WEATHER, 
 For any Number of Years to come. 
 
 THE WHOLE 
 
 llluftrated by a FIGURE of the SUN'S Ingrefs into the Sign ARIES; 
 
 and by a 
 Revolutional Figure of the Commencement of the AMERICAN EMPIRE. 
 
 By EBENEZER SIBLY, Astro. Philo. 
 PRINTED IN THE YEAR lyiDCCCXIV.
 
 AN 
 
 ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Of the CELESTIAL SCIENCE of 
 
 ASTROLOGY. 
 
 PART THE THIRD. 
 
 nPHE Meteorological Part of Aftrology is that which enables us, 
 -■- by a certain well-known influence of the planets, feconded by 
 obfervation and experience, to afcertain the caufes of the different 
 qualities of the air, the generation of meteors, thunder, lightnino-, 
 and all the various phenomena of the heavens ; whence the predidlions 
 of the weather, of the temperature and quality of the four feafons of the 
 year, and of the profpefl of a healthy and plentiful time, or of plague, 
 peftilence, and famine, are neceflarily deduced. 
 
 This part of the fcience likcwife comprehends the doftrine of 
 eclipfes, comets, blazing flars, and the great conjunftions of the llipe- 
 rior bodies; whence the revolution of empires, the fate of kingdoms, the 
 renovation of cuftoms, and the civil and political fluftuation of all the 
 provinces, flates, principalities, and commonwealths, upon the furface 
 of the globe, are fought out and predi6led. We ihall therefore airange 
 thefe fpeculations under their refpedive heads, and confider them dif- 
 tinftly in the order they ftand. 
 
 Of METEORS in GENERAL. 
 
 Meteors are divided into two forts, or clafTes : the one arifincr from va- 
 pours and exhalations, called mperfedly-mixed bodies, becaule they are 
 eafily reduced into their firft nature, or proper element, as into hail, 
 fnow, or water; and the others are termed perfe5lly-mixed, as thunder- 
 bolts, and fuch-like petrified fubftances, becaufe they cannot fo foon be 
 converted into the firft element from whence they were derived. The 
 
 material
 
 9i8 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N" 
 
 material caufe of meteors ar^ hot ai\d moift .y.ajiours, or liot and dry 
 exhalations frpm watd^r and earth ; the efficient caufe is from the fixed 
 aiid wandering ftars, by virtue of whofe beams a light rarefied fubftance 
 is extrafted from grofs and heavy bodies,- as vapours from wafer, and 
 exhalations from earth. Their qualities are heat and moifture, which 
 produce divcrfities of effefts, efpecialiy in tho/e which are lefs. perfectly 
 .mixed, and of a light and convertible nature^ -' 
 
 Vapours confift of the four elements; but the fubflance is water; as 
 the fleam of a boiling pot, which hangs like dew upon the lid or cover. 
 Exhalations are commonly like fmoke, of a hot and dry quality, as is 
 perceived in a fummer's day to ofFLifcate the air, or make it fecm dufky 
 with the afcending of thin fumes; and after this ufually comes thunder, 
 which fhows from whence thele exhalations were extracted; for out of 
 fire and air oidy, no meteor can generate, as wanting matter: the fire 
 of itfelf being an elen-.ent fo fubtile, that it cannot be purified ; whereas 
 all exhalations and vapours muft be refined, and confequently extracSled 
 from fome grofler body. For the air, if much rarefied, will turn to 
 fire, as is feeii in the violent motion of wheels, and in fuch things as 
 are fet on fire by rarefa61ion, where the matter is dry and combuftible. 
 When the air becomes grofs, it turns to water; as appears from our 
 breath in the winter feafon, or from the inclofed air in vaults, or other 
 hollow places, which will quickly be condenfed by oppofition of the 
 outward air, or coldnefs of the place, efpecially againft rainy weather. 
 
 But the element of air is divided into three feveral regions, or parts, 
 varioully qualified, in which are generated many imperfed and mixed 
 bodies; and thefe divifions are nominated the upper, middle, and lower, 
 regions of the air. The firft and uppermcfl: is clofe adjoining to the 
 element of fire, and hath a circular motion from eafi: to weft, carried 
 about by \k\^ prhmim mobile. This region of air is perpetually hot and 
 dry ; and, by reafoji of its violent motion and proximity to the fire, will 
 not admit the generation of clouds, becaufe of the heat, and .remotenefs 
 of the earth from whence they are extrafted. To this place are lifted 
 up exhalations, by nature hot and diy, which eahly afcend to that height, 
 by reafon of their heat and levity. Thefe imperfedl bodies, by the heat 
 of the fun, and influence of the flars, are conceived to be exhaled from 
 the earth, or out of lakes, rivers, feas, and other watery places ; and 
 this meteor, as it afcends, leaves the grofier parts in the lowefl: and 
 middle regions ; and, as it rarefies, it elevates itfelf unto the upper region, 
 like a fubtile and thin fume. 
 
 Thefe
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 919 
 
 Thefe exhalations, having penetrated the middle region, and attained 
 unto the height of the elements, are circumvolved with a flimy matter, 
 oily, and apt to be inflamed. Thus having alTumed a body, it is violently 
 carried about with the air, until with the motion and "vicinity of the fire 
 it is inflamed ; and then, nourished with more exhalations continually 
 drawn unto it, it burns and converts itfelf into divers forms, according 
 to the difpofition of the matter then generated. 
 
 But others appear to fall, and Aide through the air; the lightefl: part 
 being confumed, or drawn away by fome other means, or the levity of it 
 being unable to fupport the groffer part, lets it defcend obliquely through 
 the air ; and, thus enhghtened, is termed a falling ftar. Some conceive 
 that this meteor afcends not fo high, being of a grofs body, (yet hot and 
 ftriving to afcend,) but is repulfed by a coldnefs of the middle region, or 
 the moiftnefs of the clouds ; and fo, by reafon of its own v/eight, and by 
 the oppofition of the element, it is thrown down again. The fubftance 
 of it is like a jelly, tranfparent, lucid, and apt to be illuminated. 
 
 Fiery meteors are ufually moved, by the region they are in, from eaft 
 to Aveft, according to the raptile motion of the fpheres ; though Seneca 
 affirms that he perceived one which moved parallel to the horizon, from 
 the north by the wefl: into the fouth, and fo by the eaft into the north 
 again. This is by no means improbable, fmce many lucid meteors move 
 with the air, and are impelled by the matter which nourifhes them ; as 
 may be feen by fire in ftubble. Another kind of meteors are feen to 
 remove fuddenly from one place to another, cafl:ing forth fparks like 
 fire, and are by fome termed goats; whilft others again appear fixed and 
 immoveable, both in refpedl to latitude and longitude. Thefe are ge- 
 nerated in any part of the heavens, and at all times of the year ; but 
 rarely, in cold countries, at any other time than autumn ; for then the 
 heat is fufficient to raife up the matter, and the temperature of the air is 
 apt to fufFer the exhalations to draw to it a flimy matter, which cannot 
 exift in the fpring-time, the heat not being then fufficient to elevate 
 them. And, in fummer, the exhalations are not fo grofs, becaufe the 
 Sun's heat diffipates thofe vapours, and rarefies the air ; and, if it could 
 be drawn together, the middle region is fo cold, that it cannot afcend to 
 the upper ; and the winter-quarter is fo cold and moift, and oppugnant 
 to fuch exhalations, that it is quite unapt for the generation of meteors of 
 this kind. 
 
 The middle part or region of the air is generally conceived to be 
 
 vehemently cold and moift, by antiperiftafis : and its effed alfo proves 
 
 No. 47. 10 T the
 
 j^ZO 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 tlie fame, as we are aflured by thofe who have afcended to a confiderablc 
 height ill air-balloons. And this we fee in all things that are oppuguant, 
 incloled, and comprehended by their contraries ; for being of greater 
 force doth cauie the contrary, which is inclofed, and not being able to 
 break forth, and at the fame time repulfed by its oppofite quality, 
 contra6ls, and, as it were, fortifies itfelf This is feen by experience in 
 all living and fenfitive creatures ; their inward parts being much hotter 
 in winter than in fummer : and their ftomachs apter and more able to 
 dlgcft their food. The caufe is, that the heat is then repulfive to the 
 inward parts, by the oppofition and coldnefs of the outward air. Eefides, 
 the fire, and all combufUble things, will burn more violently in wintec 
 than in fummer ; and, the colder the weather is, the more fire will fcorch. 
 The reaion in all thefe is the fame ; fince the fire is found to grow more 
 violent by how much the more it is oppofed by the contrary quality of 
 the fubdued cold. The cafe is the fame in the middle region of the air; 
 for the upper part is made hot by the violent motion uf it, and by its prox- 
 imity to the element of fire ; and the lower region is made hot by reflec- 
 tion of the Sun beams; whence the cold included between them becomes 
 the more violent in proportion as the lower region is inflamed by the 
 Sun's refle£lion, and by that means is colder in fummer than in winter. 
 
 Thefe divifions or portions of the air have no determined fpace ; nor hath 
 the water in refpedl of quality ; for, by the motion of the celeftial bodies, 
 both cold and moifture being drawn together, the element of water will 
 increafe, by which the air mufl of neceflity diminifh. So, by the con- 
 jun<5lion of heat and moifture, the fphereof water will be diminifhed, and 
 the air as much increafed. By this means the air more abounds in fum- 
 mer than in winter, and the w^ater more in winter than in fummer ; and 
 thus the middle region of the air is occafionally contra6ted and dilated, 
 and is confequently greater at one time than another. 
 
 By the heat of the Sun-beams, and influence of the ftars, meteors are 
 elevated to the middle region of the air. Thole which by nature are tem- 
 perately hot and moifl are extraded from wet and waterifh places ; yet 
 they retain as much heat as is fufficient to elevate them unto" the height 
 of the middle region, where, by reafon of the coldnefs of that place, they 
 are condenfed, and there generate feveral kinds of imperfedly-mixed 
 bodies. The clouds, thus incorporated, are with the cold turned into 
 fnow, and congealed many times before it engenders water. To prove 
 this afTertion, we may obferve that fnow, if compadlcd or beaten together, 
 is not fo foon difTolved into water by the Sun, or any other means, as ice 
 will be ; which argues, that, had this fubftance been water firft, it would 
 
 have
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. - 921 
 
 have been fooner reduced. Thefe vapours, or thick exhalations, drawn 
 up into the middle region of the air, are often digefted and turned into 
 Avater, and fronn thence diftilled down like mifts, or in very fmall drops ; 
 for the greateft rain is fuppofed not to fall far through the air, but out of the 
 inferior part of the lower region. 
 
 It is generally conceived, that the rain which falls from the middle 
 ■region defcends in little orbs, whereby to preferve itfelf, and to refift the 
 violence of the air through which it pafles ; and it becomes fmall, by 
 reafon of the diftance and time it occupies in falling. For hail demon- 
 flrates both the bignefs and rotundity of the drops, which, from humid 
 exhalations drawn up into the middle region, are there converted into 
 ■water ; and, immediately as the drops diftil down, they are contradled- 
 •into ice by the coldnefs of the air, in that part which is called hail; de- 
 rived from the High Dutch hagell, or from the Hebrev/ egel/^ which 
 fignifies congealed drops. 
 
 In the winter-feafon it is feldom obferved to hail, becaufe the cold in 
 the middle region is more remifs than in warm weather ; and in fummer- 
 time it is feldom obferved in any very hot day, becaufe the heat of the 
 lower region will not permit it to pafs, without diffolving it before it 
 a'eaches the earth. But in the fpring, and in autumn, we frequently fee, 
 and are fubjeft to, hail-florms ; the heat being then fufficient to elevate 
 the matter, and yet not fo violent as to difTolve it in its fall. Sometimes, 
 however, it happens that very large hail-ftones are precipitated at mid- 
 fummer, or in the very hotteft fealons ; and thefe hail-flones are then the 
 greater, if the elevated matter be fufficient, by how much the more its 
 nature is oppofed by the lower region, made hot by the reflection of the 
 Sun ; for in all times of the year, and in all countries, there are more and 
 greater ftorms of hail obferved to fall in the day than in the night. 
 
 There is unqueflionably a fiery nature included in hail-ftones, very 
 different from the heat of that fubtile vapour which occafions it to afcend 
 the middle region; for by the force of contraries it is evidently con- 
 gealed, as may be illuftrated by the limple quahty of fait, which,' being 
 hot and dry, is made of water, whofe natural temperatures are diredlly 
 oppofite ; being cold and moift in open weather, or by the fire-fide, or in 
 the fummer-feafon. Take a handful of fait, and mix fomc fi)ow with it ; 
 flir them together till they incorporate; and they will immediately contradi 
 themfelves into ice ; which is done by antiperiftafis, or repulfion on everv 
 part ; fo, the middle region of the air being cold, thefe frjgid meteors are 
 thereby generated. 
 
 The
 
 922 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 The lower region of the air receives all the former qualities by neceffitj, 
 according to the feveral feafons of the year ; and by the means already 
 mentioned there are exhaled from the earth moift and crude vapours ; 
 the groffer parts being earthy, and containing but little heat, they are 
 unable to alcend to the middle region ; yet, by the help of that heat, and 
 the attradlive virtue of the celeiliial orbs, they are raifed above the earth, 
 and there oftentimes congeal before they can be diflblved into water. 
 Thefe are called frofls, whereof there be many kinds, accorduig to the 
 matter exhaled, and the temperature of the feafon. At fome times of the 
 year, the ground in the mornings will be hoary, like the head of thyme, 
 and the grafs crifped with the froft ; at other times rime-froft, or con- 
 gealed mifts, hang pendant on the branches of trees ; or elfe black x>v wind 
 frofts, which are not lb wholefome ; for they confift of grofs and earthy 
 vapours, exhaled out of more undigefted humours, and are not fo eafily 
 difcovered by the fight as by the fenfe of feeling. 
 
 There are other vapours exhaled, which are called mi/is, derived from 
 the mixture of air and water. Of thefe there are feveral forts ; fome are 
 thin and fterile, and have not moifture fufficient to beget water, nor is 
 the heat in them fufficiently prevalent to elevate the grofs humours, and 
 caufe them to afcend ; but they hang upon the earth until the Sun rifes ; 
 then he ufually chafes them away, and, being diffipated, it becomes a 
 fine day. 
 
 Befides the above, there are grofs mifts or fogs, which are more 
 earthy than the former, compofed of crude and undigefted vapours, 
 drawn from corrupted places, out of fens and wet marfliy grounds. 
 Thefe are very unwholefome, and unpleafant to the fmell ; in proportion 
 either to the noxious ftagnate waters from whence they were extra61ed, 
 or to the putridity of the air, occafioned by a long continuance of calm 
 moift weather. 
 
 There is another exhalation called dew, which is a liquid vapour, 
 extracted from water or earth. This hath an affinity to froft, as rain 
 hath to fnow ; and are alike in the material caufe ; the efficient caufe 
 being attributed to the ftars, and to the coldnefs of the air. The 
 dews are conceived to be very earthy and ponderous ; for they do 
 not afcend high, but are converted into a watery fubftance almoft 
 as foon as extra6led, being obferved much more upon low and wet 
 grounds than upon high and dry hills ; and thicker upon the hum- 
 ble fhrub than upon trees of an high and exalted nature like the lofty 
 cedar. 
 
 The
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 923 
 
 The ufual time of thefe dews is in the evening; the heat of the Sun, 
 declining, being then unable to fupport the meteors which it raifed in 
 the day; and, on his deferting the hemifphere, thofe that were more ele- 
 vated muft like wife fall. The hotter the day, the greater are the exha- 
 lations ; and the nights are then ufually colder, to convert them into 
 water. All dews aie obferved to be greater at the Moon's increafing ; 
 but greateft of all at the fall. The feafon of the year is to be confidered, 
 and the weather ; for, the hotter the day is, the colder will be the night, 
 by reafon of the (hadow which the terreftrial globe then makes; as is ex- 
 emplified by the fhades of trees, or of any other interpofed body, which 
 are colder in fummer-time than in winter, in refpedl of the air in gene- 
 ral. For in fhadowed places, in the heat of fummer, the air, as in op- 
 pofition to the heat, is found to contract itfelf into a grofler body; from 
 whence it appears that the whole element of air is by nature cold. 
 
 There is a dew that flies in the air like fmall untwifted filk; which, 
 falling upon the ground, or on plants, converts itfelf into a form like 
 fpider's webs. The matter they conhfl: of is an earthy and flimy vapour 
 or exhalation, fomething dry ; and they are found equally in fpring, fum- 
 mer, and autumn ; but in thefe northern countries they are moft frequent 
 when the Sun is near Libra, the days being then temperately warm, the 
 earth not exceeding dry, nor yet overcharged with moifture. 
 
 There is alfo another fort of dew, called honey-Jezv, which confifts of 
 earthy exhalations mixed with watery vapours ; and many luppoje them 
 to be exhalations from plants and tTovvers; and this more evidently appears 
 from fugar-canes, and divers kinds of Indian reeds, which have, in the 
 morning, dews hanging upon them, in tafte refembling honey; and argue, 
 by their fweetnefs, that they are extracted from the plants. Thefe honey- 
 dews afford plenty to the (lores of the induilrious bee; nor have their 
 purveyors much labour or trouble to procure their loading ; but, tliough 
 thefe honey-dews are good for bees, they are deftru6tive to many kinds 
 of animals, as Iheep, goats, deer, and the like ; and are in ;general inju- 
 rious to all fruits and blooming flowers ; efpecially to hops, grapes, and 
 corn ; and often blaft them in their prime. It was for the purpol.e of di- 
 verting thefe evil effeds, that Numa, one of the Roman kings, fuperfti- 
 tioufly inftituted the feafls called Rubigalia and Floralia, in the year from 
 the building of Rome 516; which feafts were obferved on the 28th 
 of April to the 3d calend of May. This feftival, the Catholic Church 
 hath fince converted into Alcenfion Week, calling it Rogation, trom 
 the circumflance of imploring a bleffing upon the fruits of the 
 earth. 
 
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 924 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 The next efFedt to be coufidered is rain. Rain -water is found mucli 
 more inlipid at one time than at another; and is verv often impregnated 
 with a brackiih tarte, yet comfortable to vegetation ; and, by reafon of 
 the warmth, it nouridies more abundantly, and is more natural for that 
 purpofe, than fpring-water, or what is drawn out of wells, which is cold, 
 and too earthy ; whereas, the other participates of the air, which is hot 
 and moifi: ; but, by reafon of this co-mixture of the elements, it is apt 
 to form divers animalcules, efpecially in calm times; which, like the air, 
 wanting motion, may corrupt ; and lb, confequently, generates many 
 things, according to the undigefted matter exhaled from the earth. 
 
 The loweft meteor in the air fomewhat relembles a burning candle ; 
 and is by lome called Ignis Fatuus. This is a hot and moifl vapour, 
 which, ftriving to afcend, is repulfed by the cold, and, forced by anti- 
 periftafis, moves dole to the eaith, and is carried along by the vapours 
 that feed it, always kreping in low moill places. The lucid rays are of 
 an exceeding pale colour, and very unwholelome to meet with, by rea- 
 fon of the noxious vapours it attracts, which nourifh the pallid flame. 
 It is frequently leen to alcend with a very rapid motion ; but it as llid- 
 denly falls, the moment it is repelled by the cold atmofphere ; from 
 whence its name is derived. 
 
 There are likewife vapours, hot and moift, co-mixed with exhalations 
 that are hot and drv, involved thus within one another, and form what is 
 termed eleSlrical matter. They alcend, by virtue of their heat, into the 
 middle region of the air, where the exhalations, by antiperiftaiis, grow 
 inflamed, and ftrive to break forth from the cloud in which they are in- 
 volved. The upper part of the cloud, where the heat would pafs, by 
 oppolition grows more ftrong; and t!ie exhalation, grown over hot by 
 being thus conftrained, breaks forth with violence from the weakeft place, 
 againft the air that is in the lovvefl: part ; and, by realon of thecoid above 
 it, the heat and fubtilenefs of the exhalation, with its own violence in 
 breaking forth, glances down upon the earth, without doing any injurv, 
 ifunrefirted; as a conluming Iword, without hurting the fcabbard. This 
 is the natural generation of thunder and lightning; which Dr. Franklin, 
 Dr. Prieftley, and other ingenious men, have largely treated of in their 
 eledrical dilquilitions. 
 
 The clap of thunder is firfl:, but the lightning foontfl: appears ; becaufe 
 our fenle of feeing is much quicker than that of hearing ; as may 
 be exemplified by a thouland common experiments ; particularly by the 
 difcharge of the gun, or cannon, where we lee the fire before we hear 
 
 the
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 925 
 
 the report. With the conjundion ot' thefe compound vapours and 
 exhalations, ftones are generated in the air, as otlier minerals are in the 
 earth, but more fiery by nature ; and thefe are what are vulgarly called 
 thunder-bolts; which, in their form, are perfedl: cones, like the flame 
 o\ fire which generates them out of the terrene exhalations ; they pervade 
 the earth in proportion to the proje6tile force of their velocity. The pre- 
 fervatives againft thunder and lightning are many. All hard things will 
 preferve what is foft and liquid ; as iron laid upon veflels will keep the 
 liquor from fouring, by the former alleged reafons; befides this, it is 
 naturally refifted by a cover made of {eal's Ikin, which preferves any crea- 
 ture by which it is covered. The like doth the laurel-tree; for which 
 reafbn many of the Roman Emperors, in times of thunder and light- 
 ning, were accuftomed to wear a garment made of laurel-boughs. The 
 pale lightning is moft unwholelome ; but the red aptefl: to burn ; the 
 befl: and molt alTured prefervative againft which is the protection of 
 Heaven. 
 
 But let it be noted, that there may be thunder without lightning, and 
 lightning without thunder ; for, when thefe hot and dry exhalations are 
 inflamed, and the cloud weak in which they are involved, the incenfed 
 exhalation breaks forth without violence, not being reftrained ; and 
 the coldnefs of the middle region ftrikes the flaihes downward, but not 
 always to the earth, though its glittering and reflecting upon the watery 
 clouds makes it appear clofe by ; the lame as when the Sun-beams, or 
 any other fudden light, falling upon the water, will reverberate the 
 lufire, and dazzle the eye; particularly if the water be moved with any 
 wind. Thefe corrufcaiions are common in hot countries, and with us in 
 the heat of fummer. 
 
 Thunder without lightning alfo happens when the hot and dry exha- 
 lations break violently through the clouds in which they are circum- 
 volved, but not inflamed ; yet making a roaring noiie in the burft of the 
 cloud which reftrained it. We alio frequently fee little bladders filled 
 with wind give a crack or report at the fudden and violent breaking of 
 them. Sometimes thunder happens, and yet no lightning will appear, 
 by reciprocal winds ; the clouds violently breaking themlclves in meet- 
 ing with one another ; and this may often happen, by the inlurrection 
 of leveral mutinous exhalations dilturbing t e air with divers commo- 
 tions. Thele ufually happen after much calm weather; and are very 
 uleful to purify and purge the air, left with too much quietnels it Ihould 
 corrupt. 
 
 Rainbows
 
 926 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Rainbows are generated in waterifh clouds, which are ready to be 
 diflblved into rain. Thefe are obferved to be always dire£lly oppofite the 
 Sun or Moon : as, if the Sun be in the fouth, the rainbow will be in 
 the north ; and, when the Sun is in the eaft, the rainbow will be in the 
 weft; and thus in every part of the globe. The lower or nearer the Sun 
 is to the horizon, the larger will the rainbow appear ; though it never 
 can exceed a fcmicircle, and is the lefs in proportion to the light of the 
 Sun above, in any fphere ; which is the reafon that at noon-day we 
 fo feldom fee any rainbow, particularly when the Sun is in the lummer 
 folftice, or near the tropic of Cancer ; except in fuch places as are far 
 northward, or towards the antarctic pole, where, for fome weeks, there 
 is continual day. 
 
 The Sun in winter, near Capricorn, may caufe a rainbow at noon-day 
 in our climate; for they are formed by the light rays of the Sun falling 
 upon vapours and waterifh exhalations oppofite to him, and but little 
 elevated above the earth ; and, by reafon of the great diftance or remote- 
 nefs of the Sun, the illuminated beams defcribe his form after an ob- 
 fcure and imperfefl manner, portraying an arc of a ciicle, adorned 
 ufually with the colours red, green, and purple, inclining to bluifh. 
 The diflindion of thefe proceeds from the rays of the Sun refle<5ting 
 upon the vapours ; and thofe colours are light in it which are neareft to 
 the Sun, and thofe which are moil; remote always tend more to obfcurity; 
 for a demonftration, both of the colours and form of the rainbow, it only 
 requires to caft water in a circular manner againft the Sun when it (hines, 
 and the whole is produced artificially, il'i^q r^\p ^d 
 
 Some think the red colour only is made by the Sun's rays, and fuppofe 
 the fecond colour is produced by refle(5tion, and third by the fecond ; and 
 that all are contained within one condenfed hollow cloud, co-mixed with 
 airy and watery exhalations. For, if more rainbows than one appear at a 
 time, it is certain that they are produced by refledion of one another ; 
 but the colours in the fecond will be weaker than thofe in the firft ; and 
 the third rainbow will be more palid than the fecond, if there happen to 
 be three, which is very feldom ; then the colours in the firft will be coun- 
 terchanged in the fecond, and the third again like the firft. The arches 
 in the clouds or rainbow ufually continue longer than the circles about 
 the Sun, becaufe the diftance in thefe arefo great, that his beams cannot 
 fo foon diflipate the exhalations which caufed them. Rainbows in the 
 night-time are exceeding rare, becaufe they are made by the Moon, 
 whofe beams are too weal: to caufe fuch refleftions upon any cloud at fo 
 great a diftance ; but, though they are rare, they fometimes happen. 
 
 The
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 927 
 
 The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Light, is an extraordinary meteor, 
 or himinoiis appearance, fhowing itfelf in the night-time, in the northern 
 ■part of the heavens. It is ufually of a reddifh colour, inclining to yel- 
 low, and fends out frequent corrufcations of pale light, which feem to 
 rife from the horizon in a pyramidal undulating form, and fhoot, with 
 great velocity, up to the zenith. 
 
 The Aurora Borealis appears mofl: commonly in form of an arch ; 
 chiefly in the fpring and autumn ; after a dry year. The arch is partly 
 bright, partly dark; but generally tranfparent. And the matter of 
 v/hich it confifts is alfo found to have no effe6ton the rays of light which 
 pafs through it. Dr. Hamilton obferves, that he could plainly difcern 
 the fmalleft fpeck in the Pleiades through the denfity of thofe clouds 
 which formed part of the Aurora Borealis in 1763, without the leaft di- 
 minution of its fplendour, or increafe of twinkling. 
 
 This kind of meteor never appears near the equator; and was fo rare in 
 England, that none are recorded in our antials fuice that remarkable one, 
 November 14, 1574, till the furprifing Aurora Borealis, March 6, 171 6, 
 which appeared for three nights fucceffively, and put the whole kingdom 
 into the utmofl: confternation, terrifying brutes as well as men. Indeed 
 the horfes were fo frightened, that no fences could keep them in the 
 inclofures ; it "was impoffible to travel in the evenings; and the road- 
 waggons, and all other carriages, were obliged to lie by immediately 
 as tihe Sun was down. In the years 1707 and 1708, five fmall ones 
 were obferved in little more than eighteen months; but they bore no 
 comparifon with the above. Hence it fliould feem, that the air, or 
 earth, or both, are not at all times difpofed to produce this phenomenon, 
 for, though it is poffible it may happen in the day-time in bright moon- 
 ./hine, or in cloudy weather, and fo pafs unobferved; yet that it flhould 
 appear fo frequent at fome times, and fo feldom at others, cannot well 
 this way be accounted for. That in March, 17 16, was vifible to the weft 
 of Ireland, on the confines of Ruffia, and to tne eaft of Poland ; extend- 
 ing at leaft near thirty degrees of longitude, and from about the fiftieth 
 degree in latitude over almoft all the north of Europe : and in all places 
 at the fame time it exhibited the like wondrous appearances. 
 
 Many attempts have been made to affign the caufe of this phenome- 
 non. Dr. Halley imagines the watery vapours, or effluvia, rarefied ex- 
 ceedingly by fubterraneous fire, and tinged with fulphureous ftreams, 
 which many naturalifts have fuppofed to be the caufe of earthquakes, 
 may alfo be the caufe of this appearance : or that it is produced by a 
 
 No. 48. 10 X kind
 
 928 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 kind of fubtile matter, freely pervading the pores of the earth, and which, 
 entering into it nearer the fouthern pole, pades out again with fome 
 force into the aether at the fame diftance from the northern ; the ob- 
 liquity of its diredlion being proportioned to its diftance from the pole. 
 This fubtile matter, by becoming fome way or other more denfe, or 
 having its velocity increafed, may be capable of producing a fmall de- 
 gree of light, after the manner of effluvia from the eledric bodies, which, 
 by a ftrong and quick friftion, emit light in the daik : to which fort of 
 light this feems to have a great affinity. 
 
 The celebrated M. de Mairan, in an exprefs treatife on the Aurora 
 Borealis, publilhed in J 731, afligns its caufe to be the %odiacal light, 
 which, according to him, is no other than the Sun s atinofphere : this 
 light happening, on fome occafions, to meet the upper parts of our air- 
 on the fide of the -limits where univerfal 2:ravitv begins to adl more 
 forcibly towards the Earth than towards the Sun, falls into our atmo- 
 fphere to a greater or lefs depth as its fpecific gravity is greater or lefs- 
 compared with the air through which it paffes. — Mr. Fuller thinks the 
 caufe of the Aurora Borealis not owing to the zodiacal light, as M. de 
 Mairan fuppofes ; but to particles of our atmofphere driven beyond its 
 limits by the impulfe of the light of the Sun. On this fuppoiition, he 
 endeavours to account for the phenomena obferved concerning this light. 
 He fuppofes the zodiacal Hght, and the tails of comets, to be owing to 
 a fimilar caufe. This light lometimes appears remarkably red, as it 
 happened Dec. 5, 1737; of which there were a variety of accounts 
 from different parts of Europe. 
 
 Ever fince the identity of lightning and of the ele(51ric matter has 
 been afcertained, philofophtrs have been naturally led- to leek the expli- 
 cation of aerial meteors in the principles of eleflricity ; and they feem to 
 have no doubt but moft of them, and efpecially the Aurora Borealis, are 
 formed of elcdrical matter. Befides the more obvious and known ap- 
 pearances which conjflitute a refemblance between this meteor and the 
 ele6lric matter wliereby lightning is produced, it has been obferved,. that 
 the Aurora occafions a very fenfible fluduation in the magnetic needle ; 
 and that, when it has extended lower than ufual into the atmofphere, 
 the flafhes have been attended with various founds of rumbling and 
 hiffing, taken notice of both by Sig. Beccaria and M. Meffier. Mr. 
 Canton, loon after he had obtained eleftricity from the clouds, offered a 
 conjedture, that the Aurora Borealis is occafioned by the dafhing of elec- 
 tric fire from pofitive towards negative clouds at a great diftance, through 
 the upper part of the atmofphere where the refiftaiice is leaft. And he 
 
 fuppofes,
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 929 
 
 fuppofes, that the Aurora, which happens at the time when the mag- 
 netic needie is difturbed by the heat of the earth, is the eledtricity of 
 the heated air above it; and this appears chiefly in the northern regions, 
 as the alteration in the heat of the air in thefe parts will be the greateft. 
 Nor is this hypothefis improbable, when it is confidered, that the clouds 
 being furcharged with ekclrical matter is- the caufe of thunder and light- 
 ning ; that it has been extraded from the air at the time of an Aurora 
 Borealis ; that the inhabitants of the northern countiies obferve it to be 
 remarkably ftrong when a Hidden thaw fucceeds very fevere cold wea- 
 ther; and that the tourmalin is known to emit and abforb the eledtric 
 fluid only by the increal'e or diminution of its heat. 
 
 Pofitive and negative eleftricity in the air, with a proper quantity of 
 moiflure to ferve as a condu6lor, is fuppofed to account for this and 
 other meteors, fometimes feen in a ferene Iky. Mr. Canton has fince 
 contrived to exhibit this meteor by means of the Torricellian vacuum, in 
 a glafs tube about three feet long, and fealed hermetically. When one 
 end of the tube is held in the hand, and the other applied to the con- 
 dudtoi', the whole tube will be illuminated from end to end ; and will 
 continue luminous without interruption for a confiderable time after it 
 has been removed from the condu6for. If, after this, it be drawn 
 through the hand either way, the light will be uncommonly intenfe,. 
 and without the leaft interruption from one hand to the other, even tO' 
 its whole length. And, though a great part of the electricity is dif- 
 charged by this operation, it will flill flafh at intervals, when held only 
 at one extremity, and kept quite ftill ; but, if it be grafped by the other 
 hand at the fame time in a different place, ftrong flafhes of light will 
 hardly ever fail to dart from one end to the other, and thefe will conti- 
 nue twenty-four hours, and longer, without any frefli excitation. An 
 arched double barometer, of a confiderable height, is an improvement 
 of this contrivance, for exhibiting the appearance of an Aurora Borealis 
 by means of the eledfric fire. Sig. Beccaria, who has puriued his ob- 
 fervations on atmofpherical eleftricity farther than any of his afTociates in 
 thefe inquiries, conjedures that there is a conftant and regular circula- 
 tion of the eleflric fluid from north to fouth ; and he thinks, that the 
 Aurora Borealis may be this eleftric matter performing its circulation in 
 fuch a ftate of the atmofphere as renders it vifible, or approaching nearer 
 the earth than ufual. Dr. Franklin fuppofes, that the eleftrical fire 
 difcharged into the polar regions from many leagues of vaporifed air 
 raifed from the ocean between the tropics, accounts for the Aurora 
 Borealis ; and that it appears firffc where it is firft in motion, i. e. in the 
 mod northern part ; and the appearance proceeds fcuthward, though the 
 fire really moves northward. 
 
 AIL
 
 930 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 All this, however, appears to be little more than the conjedlura'l 
 fpeculation of modern phiiofophers. The ancients, it is plain, never 
 law this phenomenon; nor did it ever occur in their days, fnice no 
 mention whatever is made of it in their writings ; nor is any notice taken 
 of it in the records of the moderns until the year 1574, which is the 
 firfl time, I believe, the Aurora Borealis ever made its appearance in the 
 v/orld ; and, being a new phenomenon in nature, muft undoubtedly have 
 been produced by lome great conjunction, or by the violent heat of fome 
 invifible comet, or by a variation in the frame and fyftem of the world, 
 or of the heavenly bodies, which at that particular aera muft have taken 
 place, and which ftill continues, at times, to produce the fame luminous 
 and fiery appearance. , 
 
 Blazing Jiars are fiery luminous appearances generated in the upper 
 region ot the air, and formed into a body, whence they take an oblique 
 diredion with aflonifhing velocity, and defcend to the earth. The light 
 they convey will fometimes exceed that of the Moon, as was the cafe 
 a few years fince with a very remaikable one, which pafTed from north 
 to fouth, very near the lurface of the earth, and was fuppofed to fall into 
 the fea. Their appearance is at once beautiful and tremendous. 
 
 Signior Beccaria, in one of his philofophical papers, makes mention of 
 a very remarkable one, which appeared about an hour after fun-let, and 
 diredled its courfe immediately towards the fpot where he and f. me 
 friends were walking. It grew apparently larger and larger as it ap- 
 proached, and went off very near them ; when it left their faces, hands, 
 and clothes, with the earth, and all the neighbouring objedts, fijddenly 
 illuminated with a diffufed and lambent light, without any vifible noife. 
 
 Blazing ftars are like wife underftood by fome to mean comets, on ac- 
 count of their tails, pr extended train of light on fire, which is obferved 
 to ilTue from them. But, as the do6trine of comets is an immenfe fpecu- 
 lation, I Ihall treat of them under a diftind and feparate head. 
 
 Of COMETS. 
 
 A comet is now certainly defined to be a heavenly body, in the pla- 
 netary region, appearing fuddenly, and again difappearing ; and, during 
 the time of its appearance, moving in a proper though very eccentric 
 orbit, like a planet. As to their nature, the unfrequency of their ap- 
 pearing, together with the feeming irregularities of their phenomena, 
 
 have
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 931 
 
 have left philofophers much in the dark. Thofe who lived before Arif- 
 totle accounted for them by fuppofing the heavenly fpaces full of an 
 infinite number of ftars ; and many of them too remote, or too fmall, to 
 have ever come under the notice of aftronomers ; thefe invifible ftars they 
 farther kippofed to move by ther own proper motion every way ; finifh- 
 ing their courfes in very unequal times. And a comet, according to them, 
 was a vafi: heap or afTemblage of thefe little flars, meeting together, by 
 reafon of the inequality of their motions, and uniting into a vifible mafs ; 
 which mufl: again difappear, as thofe fl:ars feparated, and each proceeded 
 in its courfe. But, how thofe flars fhould thus meet, coalefce, and form 
 a body, which in all pofitions of the Sun (hould refemble a tail, and again 
 feparate, is totally inexplicable. This opinion Ariftotle overturned, by 
 fubflituting another in its ftead : he infjfled that comets were only a kind 
 of tranfient fires, or meteors, confifting of exhalations raifed to the up- 
 per region of the air, and there fet on fire, far below the Moon's courfe. 
 But neither is this hypothefis more juft than the other; for, on this prin- 
 ciple, the light of the comet, being independent of the Sun, would be 
 difperfed every way alike, without any appearance of a train, or tail, 
 which is contrary to the phenomena. Moreover they are obferved at the 
 fame time in places on the earth very remote from each other Befides, 
 the modern aflronomers, who have meafured the diftance between the 
 comets and the earth, find that the comets have no fenfible diurnal paral- 
 lax; which could not be, were they not much more remote than the Moon, 
 whofe parallax is fenfible : and yet, as they have a fenfible annual paral- 
 lax, they are not fo remote as the fixed fl:ars. Tycho Brahe was the 
 firfl among the moderns, who, after diligently obferving the comet of 
 1577, and fin<ling that it had no fenfible diurnal parallax, affigned it its 
 true place in the planetary regions. 
 
 Hevelius, from a great number of obfervations, propofes it as his opi- 
 nion, that the comets, like the folar maculae, or fpots, are formed and 
 condenfed out of the grofler exhalations of his body. In which notion 
 he agrees nearly with Kepler, who maintains, that comets are generated 
 in the ^ther in vafl numbers, like fifhes in the ocean r though they do 
 not all become vifible, either becaufe of their fmallnefs, or becauie they- 
 lie a long time under the horizon. 
 
 But Sir Ifaac Newton has fhown the fallacy of this hypothefis, by 
 proving that the comet of 1680, in its paffage through the neighbour- 
 hood of the Sun, would have been diffipated had it confifted of exhala- 
 tions of the Sun and planets ; for the heat of the Sun^ it is allowed, 
 is as the denfity of his rays, i, e. reciprocally as the fquares ot the 
 
 No. 4S. 10 Y diftancea.
 
 93^ 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 diftances of places from the Sun. Wherefore, fince the diftance of that 
 comet in its perihelion, December the 8th, was obfervcd to be to the dif- 
 tance of the Earth from the Sun nearly as 6 to looo ; the Sun's heat in 
 the comet, at that time, was to his heat with us at Midfummer, as 
 loooooo to 36, or 28000 to i. And again, finding by experiment that 
 the heat of boiling water is little more than three times the heat of our 
 dry earth, when expofed to the Midfummer's Sun; and affumingthe heal 
 of red-hot iron to be about three or four times as great as that of boiling 
 water; he thence concludes, that the heat of the dried earth, or body of 
 the comet in its perihelion, muft be laear 2000 times as great as that of 
 red-hot iron. 
 
 Such an immenfe heat once acquired in its perihelion, the comet muft 
 be a long time in cooling again. The fame author computes, that a 
 crlobe of red-hot iron, of the dimenfions of our earth, would fcarcely be 
 cool in 5000 years. If then the comet be fuppofed to cool 100 times 
 as faft as red-hot iron, yet, fince its heat was 2000 times greater, fup- 
 pofing it of the bignefs of the earth, it would not be cool in a million of 
 years. 
 
 James Bernouilli, in his Syftema Cometarum, fuppofes fome primary 
 planet revolving rouhd the Sun in the fpace of four years and one hun~ 
 dred and fifty-feven days, and at the diftance from his body of 2583 
 femidiameters of the magnus orbis ; this planet, he concludes, either 
 from its vaft diftance or fmallnefs, to be invifible to us ; but, however, 
 to have, at various diftances from him, feveral fatellites moving round 
 him, and fometimes defcending as low as the orbit of Saturn ; and that 
 thefe, becoming vifible to us when in their perigasum, are what we call 
 comets, 
 
 Des Cartes advances another opinion ; he conje6tures that comets are 
 only ftars, formerly fixed, like the reft, in the heavens ; but which, be- 
 coming by degrees covered with maculae, or fpots, and at length wholly 
 robbed of their light, cannot keep their place, but are carried off by the 
 vortices of the circumjacent ftars ; and, in proportion to their magnitude 
 and folidity, moved in fuch manner as to be brought nearer th^ orb of 
 Saturn ; and thus, coming within reach of the Sun's light, rendered 
 vifible. 
 
 But the vanity of all thefe hypothefes abundantly appears from the 
 phenomena of comets ; the chief of which are as follow : i ft. Thofe 
 comets, which move according to the order of the figns, do all, a little 
 before they difappear, either advance flower than ufual, or elfe go retro- 
 grade,
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 933. 
 
 grade, if the Earth be between them and the Sun ; and more fwiftly, if 
 the Earth be fituate in a contrary part. On the other hand, thofe which 
 proceed contrary to the order of the figns, proceed more fwiftly than 
 ufual if the Earth be between them and the Sun ; and more flowly, or 
 go retrograde, when the Earth is in a contrary part. 2d.' So long as 
 their velocity is increafed, they move nearly in great circles ; but, to- 
 wards the end of their courfe, they deviate from thofe circles ; and,, as,, 
 often as the Earth proceeds oneway, they go the contrary way., 3(|^. 
 They move in ellipfes, having one of their foci in the centre of the 
 Sun ; and, by radii drawn to the Sun, defcribes areas proportionable to-, 
 the times. 4th. The light of their bodies, or nuclei, increafes in their>> 
 recefs from the Earth toward the Sun ; and on the contrary, decreafes, in 
 their recefs from the Sun. 5th. Their tails appear the largeft and.-- 
 brighteft immediately after their tranfit through the region of the .Sun,;> 
 or after their perihelion. 6th. The tails always decline from 3- juft op-i > 
 pofition to the Sun towards thofe parts which the bodies, or nuclei, pafsjj 
 over, in their progrefs through their orbits. 7th. This declination, ceteris 
 paribus^ is the fmalleft, when the heads, or nuclei, approach neareft- the, 
 Sun ; and is lefs, ftill, nearer the nucleus of the comet, than towards the;^ 
 extremity of the tail. 8th. The tails are fomewhat brighter, and more 
 diftinilly defined, in their convex than in their concave part. 9th, The^ 
 tails always appear broader at their upper extreme than near the centre of- 
 the comet. loth. The tails are always tranfparent, and the fmallefl; ftars 
 appear through them. 
 
 Thefe are the chief phenomena of comets ; which it is. evident, cabi- 
 net eafily be reconciled with the wild notions of the ancients, and thcr 
 weak conje6lures of many of the moderns. Indeed, there were fbme-,; 
 Pliny tells us, among the ancients, who, " had jufter notions ; who-j 
 " took thefe ftars to be perpetual, and believed they moved in theifij 
 " proper orbs; but were never feen, unlefs when left by the Sufi."-, 
 Apollonius Myndius declared, that he took comets for regular ftars; 
 and ventured to foretel, that one day the periods and laws of their motion 
 would be difcovered. And more fully Seneca, Quaeft. Nat. lib. vii. cap,; 
 25. " I am not of the common opinion, nor do I take a comet to be a 
 " fudden fire, but efteem it among the eternal works of nature." QuiJi 
 autem miramur comet as, tarn varum 7nundi fpedlaculum^ nondum teneri legibus-'. 
 cert is y nee hiitia illorum finefque innotefcere, quorum ex ingentibus nee inter- 
 vallis recurfus ejif Veniet tempus quo ijia quae nunc latent in lucem dies 
 extrahat, & longioris cevi diligeniia. Veniet tempus quo pojieri noflri tarn 
 aperta nos nefcijfe mirentur, Erit qui detmnjiret aliquandot in quibus cometce 
 partibus erreni : cur tarn fe duSii a ceteris errent, quanti quale/que Jint. 
 
 This
 
 934 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 This predidion we have feen accomplifhed in our days, by the great Sir 
 Ifaac Newton ; whofe dodrine is as follows : 
 
 The comets, he fays, are compad, folid, fixed, and durable, bodies ; 
 in one word, a kind of planets ; which move, in very oblique orbits, 
 every way with the greatefi freedom ; perfevering in their motiotis, even 
 againft the courfe and dire6lion of the planets ; and their tail is a very 
 thin {lender vapour, emitted by the head, or nucleus, of tiie comet, 
 ignited or heated by the Sun. This at once folves all the foregoing 
 phenomena : for *' It is evident, that thofe which proceed according to 
 *' the order of the figns, a little before they difappear mufl: move more 
 *' flowly, or appear retrograde, if the Earth be betwixt them and the 
 "• Sun ; and fwifter if the Earth be in a contrary part. On the contrary, 
 *' thofe proceeding againft the order of the figns," &c. For, fiiice this 
 courfe is not among the fixed ftars, but among the planets ; as the mo- 
 tion of the Earth either confpires with them, or goes againft them ; their 
 appearance, with regard to the Earth, muft be changed ; and, like the 
 planets, they muft lometimes appear fwifter, fometimes flower, and 
 fometimes retrograde. " When the comets move the fwifteft, they muft 
 *' proceed in ftraight lines; but, in the end of their courfe, decline,'* 
 &c. becaufe, in the end of their courfe, when they recede almoft di- 
 re6tly from the Sun, that part of the apparent motion which arifes from 
 the parallax muft bear a greater proportion to the whole apparent 
 motion. 
 
 The comets muft move in ellipfes, having one of their foci in the cen- 
 tre of the Sun ; becaufe they do not wander precarioufly from one 
 fidlitious vortex to another; but, making a part of a folar fyftem, return 
 perpetually, and run a conftant round. Hence, their elliptic orbits be- 
 ing very long and eccentric, they become invifible when in that part 
 moft remote from the Sun. From confidering the curvity of the paths 
 of comets. Sir Ifaac concludes, that, when they difappear, they are much 
 beyond the orb of Jupiter ; and that, in their perihelion, they frequently 
 defcend below the orbit of Mars and the interior planets. The light of 
 their nuclei muft increafe in their recefs from the Sun, and vice verfa ; 
 becaufe, as they are in the regions of the planets, their accefs toward the 
 Sun bears a confiderable proportion to their whole diftance. 
 
 Froth obfervations of the comet of 1680, Sir Ifaac Newton found 
 that the vapour in the extremity of the tail, January 25th, began to 
 afcend from the head before December 1 1 ; and had therefore fpent 
 more than forty-five days in its afccnt ; but that all the tail which ap- 
 peared
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 935 
 
 peared December loth afcended in the fpace of thofe two days, then 
 jufl paft, fince its perihelion. The vapour, therefore, at the beginning, 
 when the comet was near the Sun, afcended prodigioufly fwift ; and af- 
 terwards continued to alcend with a motion retarded by the gravity of 
 its particles ; and by that afcent increafed the length of the tail ; but the 
 tail, notwithftanding its length, confided almofl wholly of vapours, 
 which had afcended from the time of its perihelion ; and the vapour 
 which afcended firft, and compofed the extreme part of the tail, did not 
 vanifh till it was too far from the Sun to be illuminated by him, and 
 from us to be vifible. Hence alfo, the tails of comets that are fhorter 
 do not afcend with a quick and continual motion from the head, and 
 then prefently difappear ; but are permanent columns of vapours and 
 exhalations, gathered from the head by a very gentle motion and a 
 great fpace of time; which yet, by participating of that motion of their 
 heads they had at the beginning, continue eafily to move along with 
 their heads through the celeflial regions ; whence alfo the vacuity of 
 thofe regions is ur2:ed. 
 
 Their tails muft appear the largeft and brighteft immediately after 
 their tranfit through the region of the Sun. Becaufe, then, their heads, 
 being the moft heated, will emit the moft vapours. From the light of 
 the nucleus, or apparent ftar, we infer their vicinity to the earth, and 
 that they are by no means in the region of the fixed flars, as fomc have 
 imagined ; fince, in that cafe, their heads would be no more illuminated 
 by the Sun than the planets are by the fixed ftars. The tails muft ftill 
 decline from a diftinft oppofition to the Sun towards the parts which 
 the heads pafs over in their progrefs through their orbits ; becaufe all 
 fmoke, or vapour, emitted from a body in motion, tends upwards 
 obliquely, ftill receding from that part towards which the fmoking body 
 proceeds. That declination will be flill the leaft near the nucleus of the 
 comet, and when the comet is neareft the Sun ; becaufe the vapour 
 afcends more fwiftly near the head of the comet than in the higher ex- 
 tremity of its tail ; and when the comet is at a lefs diftance from the Sun 
 than when at a greater. The tail is bris-hter and better defined in its 
 convex part than in its concave ; becaufe the vapour m the convex part, 
 which goes firfl, being fomewhat nearer and denfer, reflects the light 
 more copioufly. The tail muft appear broader towards the higher ex- 
 tremity of the comet than towards the head ; becaufe the vapour in a 
 free fpace is perpetually rarefied and dilated. The tails muft be tranf- 
 parent, becaufe confifting of infinitely thin vapoux, &c. Thus accurately 
 does the hypothefis tally to the phenomena. 
 
 No. 48. 10 Z The
 
 936 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The nuclei, which we occafionally call the heads and bodies of comets,, 
 viewed through a telefcope, (how a very different face from thofe of the 
 fixed ftars, or planets. They are liable to apparent changes, which Sir 
 Ifaac Newton aicribes to changes in the atmofphere of comets; and this 
 opinion was confirmed by obfervations of the comet in 1744. Sturmius 
 tells us, that, oblerving the comet of 1680 with a teleicope, it appeared 
 like a coal dimly glowing, or a rude mafs of matter illuminated with a 
 dufkv fumid light, lefs fenlible at the extremes than in the middle; ra- 
 ther than as a liar, which appears with a round dilk, and a vivid light. 
 
 Hevellus obferved of the comet of 1661, that its body was of a yel- 
 lowifti colour, very bright and conlpicuous, but without any glittering 
 light : in the middle was a denfe ruddy nucleus, almofl: equal to Jupiter,, 
 encompaffed with a much fainter thinner matter. On February the 5th,. 
 its head was fomewhat bigger and brighter; of a gold colour; but its 
 light more dulky than the reft of the ftars : here, the nucleus appeared 
 divided into feveral parts. February the 6th, the di(k was lefiened ; the 
 nuclei ftill exifted, though lefs than before ; one of them, on the lower 
 part of the dilk, on the left, much denier and brighter than the reft : its 
 body round, and reprefenting a very lucid little ftar : the nuclei ftill en- 
 compaffed with another kind of matter. Februaiy loth, the head lome- 
 what more obfcure, and the nuclei more confuted, but brighter at top 
 than bottom. February 13th, the head diminifhed much, both in mag- 
 nitude and brightnefs. March 2d, its rouadnefs a little impaired, its- 
 edges lacerated, &c. March 28th, very pale and exceeding tliin ; its 
 matter much difperfed ; and no diftindt nucleus at all appearing. 
 
 Weigelius, who faw the comet of 1664, the Moon, and a little 
 cloud illuminated by the Sun at the fame time, obferved that the Moon,, 
 through the teleicope, appeared of a continual luminous furface ; but the 
 comet very different ; being perfeftly like a little cloud in the horizon, 
 illuminated by the Sun. From thefe obfervations it was, that Hevelius 
 concluded comets to be like maqulas, or fpots, formed out of the folar 
 exhalations. 
 
 The eftimates that have been given by Tycho, Hevelius, and fome 
 others, of the magnitude of comets, are not fufficiently accurate to be 
 depended upon ; for it does not appear, that they diftingui(hed between, 
 the nucleus and the furrounding atmofphere. Thus Tycho computes^ 
 that the true diameter of the comet in 1577 ^^^ ^" proportion to the 
 diameter of the earth as 3 is to 14. Hevelius made the diameter of the 
 comet of 1652 to that of the earth as 52 to 100. The diameter of 
 
 the
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 937 
 
 the atmofphere is often ten or fifteen times as great as that of the 
 nucleus: the former, in the comet of 1682, when meafnred by Flam- 
 fleed, was found to be two minutes, but the diameter of the nucleus 
 only eleven feconds. Some comets, from the apparent magnitude and 
 diftance compared, have been judged to be much larger than the Moon, 
 and even equal to fome of the primary planets. The d a meter of that 
 of 1744, when at the diftance of the Sun from us, meafured a'rout one 
 minute, and therefore its diameter mull: be about three times the diameter 
 of the Earth : at another time the diameter of its nucleus was nearly 
 equal to that of Jupiter. 
 
 The lengths of the tails of comets are various, and depend on a va- 
 riety of circumftances. Longomontanus mentions a comet that in 
 16 1 S, December 10, had a tail above a hundred degrees in leno-th : 
 that of 1680, according to Sturmius, about the 20th of November, was 
 but fmall ; at moft, not exceeding twenty degrees in length ; in a little 
 time it grew to a length of fixty degrees, after which it dwindled very 
 fenfibly. The comet of 1744 had a tail which at one time appeared to 
 extend above fixteen deo;rees from its bodv ; and which, allowing the 
 Sun's parallax ten feconds, muft have been above twenty- three millions 
 of miles in length. 
 
 Sir Ifaac Newton fhows, that the atmofphere of comets will furnifh 
 vapour fufficient to form their tails ; this he argues from that wonderful 
 rarefaction obferved in our air at a diflance from the earth : a cubic inch 
 of common air, at the diftance of half the earth's diameter, or four 
 thoufand miles, would neceflarily expand itfelf fo far as to fill a fpace 
 larger than the whole region of ftars. Since then the coma or atmo- 
 fphere of a comet is ten times higher than the furface of the nucleus, 
 counting from the centre thereof, the tail, afcending much higher, muft 
 neceflarily be immenfely rare ; fo that it is no wonder the ftars ihould 
 be vifible through it. 
 
 Now, the afcent of vapours into the tail of the comet he fuppofes 
 OGcafioned by the rarefaction of the matter of the atmofphere at the 
 time of the perihelion. Smoke, it is obferved, afcends the chimnev bv 
 the impulle of the air wherein it floats ; and air, rarefied by heat, afcends 
 by the diminution of its i'pecihc gravity, taking up the fmoke along with- 
 it ; why then ftiould not the tail of a comet be liippofed to be raiied after 
 the fame manner by the Sun.' for the fun-beams do not a6t on the- 
 mediums they pafs through any otherwife than by refledion and rarefac- 
 tion. The refleding particles, then, being warmed by the adion, will 
 
 again*
 
 938 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 again warm the a;ther wherewith they are compounded ; and this, rare- 
 fied by the heat, will have its fpecific gravity, whereby it before tended 
 to defcend, diminifhed by the rarefaflion, lb as to alcend, and carry 
 along with it thofe refledting particles whereof the tail of the comet is 
 compofed. This afcent of the vapours will be promoted by their cir- 
 cular motion round the Sun ; by means whereof, they will endeavour 
 to recede from the Sun, while the Sun's atmofphere, and the other mat- 
 ters in the celeftial fpaces, are either at reft, or nearly fo ; as having 
 no motion but what they receive from the Sun's circumrotation. Thus 
 are the vapours raifed into the tails of comets in the neighbourhood of 
 the Sun, where the orbits are moft curve ; and where the comets, being 
 within the denfer atmofphere of the Sun, have their tails of the greateft 
 lensith. 
 
 The tails thus produced, by preferving that motion, and at the fame 
 time gravitating toward the Sun, will move round his body in ellipfes, in 
 like manner as their heads ; and by this means, will ever accompany, 
 and freely adhere to, their head. In effedf, the gravitation of the va- 
 pours towards the Sun will na more occafion the tails of the comets to 
 forfake their heads, and fall down towards the Sun, than the gravitation 
 of their heads will occafion them to fall off from their tails ; but by their 
 common gravitation they will either fall down together to the Sun, or 
 be together fufpended or retarded. This gravitation, therefore, does 
 not at all hinder but that the heads and tails of comets may receive and 
 retain any pofition towards each other, which either the above-men- 
 tioned caufes or any other may occafion. The tails, therefore, thus pro- 
 duced in the perihelion of comets, will go off", along with their heads, into 
 remote regions ; and either return thence, together with the comets, after 
 a long feries of years ; or rather be there loft, and vanifti by little and 
 little, and the comets be left bare ; till at their return, defcending to- 
 wards the Sun, fome little fhort tails are gradually and flowly produced 
 from the heads ; which, afterwards, in the perihelion, defcending into the 
 Sun's atmofphere, will be immenfely increafed. 
 
 The vapours, when they are thus dilated, rarefied, and diffufed through 
 all the celeftial regions, the fame author obferves, may probably, by little 
 and little, by means of their own gravity, be attradled down to the pla- 
 nets, and become intermingled with their atmofpheres. He adds like- 
 wife, that, for the confervation of the water and moifture of the planets, 
 comets feem abfolutely requifite ; from whofe condenfed vapours and 
 exhalations, all that moifture, which is fpent in vegetations and putre- 
 faftions, and turned into dry earth, &c. may be re-fupplied and re- 
 cruited.
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 939 
 
 fcruited. For all vegetables grow and increafe wholly from fluids; and, 
 again, as to their greateft part, turn, by putrefaction, into earth again ; 
 an earthly flime being perpetually precipitated to the bottom of putrefy- 
 ing liquors. Hence the quantity of dry earth mtift continually increale, 
 and the moifture of the globe decreafe, and at laft be quite evaporated, 
 if it had not a continual fupply from fome part or other of the uiiiverfe. 
 And 1 fufpedV, adds our great author, that the fpirit, which makes the 
 fineft, fubtileft, and the befl, part of our air, and which is abfolutely 
 requifite for the life and being of all things, comes principally from the 
 comets. 
 
 On this principle, there feems to be fome foundation for the popular 
 opinion of prefages from comets ; fince the tail of a comet, thus inter- 
 mingled with our atmofphere, may produce changes very fenfible in ani- 
 mal and vegetable bodies. Another ufe which he conje6tures comets may 
 be defigned to ferve, is that of recruiting the Sun with frefh fuel, and re- 
 pairing the confumption of his light by the ftreams continually fent forth 
 in every direftion from that luminary. In fupport of this conje£lure he 
 obferves, that comets in their perihelion may fufFer a diminution of their 
 projecSlile force by the refinance of the folar atmolphere ; fo that by de- 
 grees their gravitation towards the Sun may be fo far increafed as to pre- 
 cipitate their fall into his body. 
 
 There have been various conjeftures about the generation of the tail 
 of comets. Appian, Tycho Brahe, and fome others, apprehended that 
 they were produced by the Sun's rays tranfmitted through the nucleus of 
 the comet, which they luppofed to be tranfparent, and there refraded as 
 in a lens of glafs, fo as to form a beam of lisrht behind the comet. Des 
 Cartes accounted for the phenomenon of the tail by the rarefadtion of light 
 from the head of the comet to the eye of the fpedlator. Mairan fuppofes 
 that the tails are formed out of the luminous matter that compofes the 
 Sun's atmofphere; M. De la Lande combines this hypothecs with that 
 of Newton above recited. Mr. Rowning, who is not fatisfied with Sir 
 Ifaac's opinion, accounts for the tails of comets in the following manner: 
 It is well known, fays he, that, when the light of the Sun pafles 
 through the atmofphere of any body, as the Earth, that which pafles 
 on one fide is, by the rarefa6lion thereof, made to converge towards that 
 which pafles on the oppolite one; and the convergency is not wholly ef- 
 fe61ed either at the entrance of the light into the atmofphere, or at its go- 
 ing out ; but, beginning at its entrance, it increafes in every point of its 
 progrefs. It is alfo agreed, that the atmofpheres of the comets are very 
 large and denfe. He therefore fuppofes that,; by fuch time as the light 
 
 No. 49. 1 1 A ' of
 
 940 A N I L L U S T^ R A T I O N 
 
 of the Sun has palled through a conriderable part of the atraofphere of a 
 comet, the rays thereof are fo far refracled towards each other, that they 
 then beghi lenfibly to illuminate it, or rather the vapours floating therein, 
 and fo render that part they have yet to pafs through vifible to us: and 
 that this portion of the atmofphere of a comet thus illuminated appears to 
 us in form of a beam of the Sun's light, and palTes under the deiiomina- 
 tion of a comet's tail. 
 
 We have an enquiry into the caufe of the tails of comets, by Mr. Eu- 
 ler. He thinks there is a great affinity between thefe tails, the zodiacal 
 licrht, and the Aurora Borealis; and that the common caufe of them all 
 is the aftion of the Sun's light .on the atmolphere of the comets, of the 
 Sun, and of the Earth. He fuppofes^ that the impulfe of the rays of 
 light on the atmofphere of comets may drive fome of the finer particles 
 of that atmofphere far beyond its limits ; and that this force of impulfe, 
 combined with that of gravity towards the comet, would produce a tail, 
 v/hich would always be in oppofition to the bun, if the comet did not 
 move. But the motion of the comet in its orbit, and about its axis, muft 
 vary the pofition and figure of the tail, giving it a curvature, and devia- 
 tion from a line drawn from the centre of the Sun to that of the comet ; 
 and that this deviation will be greater, as the orbit of the comet has the 
 greater curvature, and the motion of the comet more i^apid. It mav 
 even happen, that the velocity of the comet, in its perihelion, may be lo 
 great, that the force of the Sun's rays may produce a new tail before the 
 old one can follow ; iii which cafe the comet might have two or more 
 tails. The poflibility of this is confirmed by the comet of 1744, which 
 was obferved to have feveral tails while it was in its perihelion. 
 
 Dr. Hamilton urges feveral objedlions againft the Newtonian hypothe- 
 cs; and "concludes that the tail of a comet is formed of matter which hath 
 not the power of refrading or refleding the rays of light : but that it is 
 a lucid or felf-fhining fubftance, and, from its fimilarity to the Aurora 
 Borealis, produced by the lame caufe, and is a proper eledtrical phenome- 
 non. Dr. Halley feemed inclined to this hypothe'fis, when he faid, that 
 the ftreams of lioht in the Aurora Borealis fo much refcmbled the Ions 
 tails of comets, that at firft fight they might well be taken for fuch : this 
 light feems to have a great affinity to that which eledric bodies emit in 
 the dark. 
 
 M. Fatio has fliggefted, that fome of th^ comets have their nodes fb 
 very near, the annual orbit of the earth, that, if the earth fhould hap- 
 pen to be found ii;i that part next the node, at the time of a comet's paffing
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. y+i 
 
 by, the moft dreadful confequences might be apprehended ; as the appa- 
 rent motion of the comet will be incredibly Avift, fo its parallax will be- 
 come very lenfible ; and the proportion thereof to that of the Sun will be 
 given : whence luch tranfits of comets will afford the befl means of de- 
 termining the diftance of the Earth and Sun. 
 
 The comet of 1472 had a parallax above twenty times greater than 
 that of the Sun : and, if that of 161 8 had come down in the beginning 
 of March to its dcfcending node, it would have been much nearcf to 
 Earth, and its parallax much more nclable. But, hitheito, none has 
 threatened the Earth with a nearer appuliethan that of 1680; for, by cal- 
 culation, Dr. Halley finds, that, November iith, ih. 6 min. P. M, that 
 x;omet was not above one femidiameter of the Earth to the northward of 
 the way of the Earth ; at which time, had the Earth been in that part of 
 its orbit, the comet would have had a parallax equal to that of the Moon. 
 What might have been the confequence of fo near an appulfe, a contad, 
 or, laflly, a fhock, of the celeflial bodies ? Whifton fays, a deluge! 
 
 If the paths of comets be fuppofed direftly parabolical, as fome have 
 imagined, it would follow, that, being impelled towards the Sun by a 
 centripetal force, they defcend as from fpaces infinitely diftant ; and by 
 their falls acquire fuch a velocity, as that they may again run off into the 
 remoteft regions : ftill moving upwards with fuch a perpetual tendency 
 as never to return. But the frequency of their appearance, and their de- 
 gree of velocity, which does not exceed what they might acquire by their 
 gravity towards the Sun, feems to put it pafl: doubt that they move, planet- 
 like, in elliptic orbits, though exceedingly eccentric; and fo return 
 again, after very long periods. The apparent velocity of the comet of 
 1472, as obferved by Regiomontanus, was luch as to carry it through 
 forty degrees of a great circle in twenty-four hours: and that of 1770 
 was obferved to move through more than forty-five degree in the laft 
 twenty-five hours. 
 
 Newton, Flamfteed, Halley, and the Englifh aftronomers, feem fatif- 
 fied of the return of comets: Caffini, and others of the French, think it 
 highly probable ; but De la Hire, and others, oppofe it. Thofe on the 
 affirmative fide fuppofe the comets to defcribe orbits prodigioufly .eccentric, 
 inlomuch that we can only lee them in a very fmall part of their revo- 
 lution ; out of this, they are loft in the immenle fpaces ; hid not only 
 from our eyes, but from our telefcopes. That little part of their orbit 
 near us, M. Caffini, &c. have found to pafs between the orbits of Venus 
 and Mars. For the reafons of the return of comets, M. Caffini gives 
 
 thefe
 
 94* 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 thefe which follow: i. In confidering the courfe of the comets, with 
 regard to the fixed ftars, they are found to keep a confiderable time in 
 the arch of a great circle, i. e. a circle whofe plane paffes through the 
 centre of the earth ; indeed, they deviate a little from it, chiefly towards 
 the end of their appearance ; but this deviation is common to them with 
 the planets. 2. Comets, as well as planets, appear to move lo much the 
 fafter as they are nearer the earth ; and, when they are at equal diflances 
 from their perigee, their velocities are nearly the fame. 
 
 By fubtra<5ling from their motion the apparent mequality of velocity 
 occafioned by their different diflances from their earth, their equal motion 
 misht be found ; but we fhould not be certain this motion were their true 
 one; becaufe they might have confiderable inequalities, not diflinguifh- 
 able in that fmall part of their orbit vilible to us. It is indeed probable, 
 that their real motion, as well as that of the planets, is unequal in itfelf : 
 and hence we have a realbn why the obfervations made dujing the ap- 
 pearance of a comet cannot give the juft period of its revolution. 
 
 There are no two different planets whofe orbits cut the ecliptic in the 
 fame angle, whofe nodes are in the fame points of the ecliptic, and whofe 
 apparent velocity in their perigee is the fame : confequently, two comets 
 feen at different times, yet agreeing with all thofe three circumflances-, 
 can only be one and the fame comet. And this were the comets of 1577 
 and 1680 obferved to do, and thoie of 1652 and 1698 ; not that this ex- 
 a6l agreement, in thefe circumflances, is abfolutely neceffary to deter- 
 mine them the fame comet. M. Caflini finds the Moon herfelf irregular 
 
 O 
 
 in them all : accordingly, he is of opinion, there are feveral which difa- 
 gree herein, and yet may be accounted the fame. 
 
 The great objeiSlion againfl the return of comets, is, the rarity of their 
 appearance, with regard to the number of revolutions affigned to them. 
 In I 702, there was a comet, or rather the tail of one, feen at Rome, 
 which M. Caflini takes to be the fame with that obferved by Ariflotle, 
 and that fince feen in 1668, which would imply its period to be thirty- 
 four years. Now it may feem ftrange, that a flar which has fo fhort a re- 
 volution, and of confequence fuch frequent returns, fhould be fo feldom 
 feen. — Again, in April of the fame year, 1702, a comet was obferved by 
 MefT. Bianchini and Maraldi, fuppofed by the latter to be the fame with 
 that of 1664, by reafoii of its motion, velocity, and direftion. M. de 
 la Hire took it to havefome relation to another he had obferved in 1698, 
 which M. Caffini refers to that of 1652. On this fuppofition, its period 
 appears to be forty-three months ; and the number of revolutions, between 
 
 1652
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 943 
 
 1652 and 1698, fourteen: but it is hard to fuppofe, that, in this age, 
 wherein the heavens are To narrowly watched, a ftar (hould make fourteen 
 appearances unperceived ; efpecially fuch a fhar as this, which might ap- 
 pear above a month together, and of confequence be frequently difen- 
 gaged from the crepufcula. For this reafon, Caffini is very referved 
 in maintaining the hypothefis of the return of comets; and only propofes 
 thofe for planets, where the motions are eafy and fimple, and are folved 
 without ftraining, pr allowing many irregularities. 
 
 M. de la Hire propdfeTone^ generaT^difficulty againfl: the whole fvftem 
 of the return of comets, which would fcem to hinder any comet from be- 
 ing a planet: ^rid it is tills ; that, by the difpofition neceflarily given to 
 their courfes, they ought to appear as large at firft as at laft ; and always 
 increafe, till they arrive at their greateft proximity to the earth: or, if 
 they fhould chance not to be obferved, as foon as they become vifible, for 
 want of attention thereto, at leaft it is impoffible but they muft frequently 
 (how themfelves before they have arrived at their full magnitude and 
 brightnefs. But he adds, that none were ever yet obferved till they had 
 arrived at it. Yet the appearance of a comet in the month of October, 
 1723, while at a great diftance, fo as to be too fmall and dim to be 
 viewed without a telefcope, may ferve to remove this obftacle, and fet 
 the comets, ftill, on the fame footing with the planets. Sir Ifaac New- 
 ton fuppofes, that as tbofe planets which a*re neareft the Sun, and revolve 
 in the leaft orbits, are the fmallcft ; fo, among the comets^ fuch as in 
 their perihelion come tieareft the Sun^arc t|je, fiBaUefl:, and revolve in 
 fmaller orbits. ' ', '■^i ^^ X ' 
 
 Dr. Halley haFgiven us a Table of the aftronomical elements of all the 
 comets that had been obferved with due care ; whereby, whenever a 
 new comet (hould appear, it might be determined, by comparing it thore- 
 with, whether it were any of thofe which had yet appeared : and confe- 
 quently its period, and the axis of its orbit, be determined, and its return 
 foretold. This Table contains the aftronomical elements of twenty-four 
 comets, on the fuppofition that they moved in ' parabolas ; though he 
 thought it extremely probable that they really moved in very eccentric;' 
 ellipfes, and confequently returned after long periods of time. This) 
 Table commences with theje^r 1337^ .anddolie8.witli,;n698l. . >....' ^1... ,;^ 
 
 . \r,il' -^..j •'■' ■' mi; . VOfi I'ii ' ""Hi:! - ^1 : J i;: . ii;: jfi^ ,.n" " I "^o 
 
 ^^Jdilitii; . .dibnc,^?? I bni;4:dn '1o iJufljl!; 
 
 .i«.mrii...;r: 3ri:ono3Jn::rn.K^:!j b^i/ \^'/^- _.„,^ 
 
 No. 49. ijj]Sii L^ic.. , • " TABi^
 
 94+ 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 TABLE OF COMETS. 
 
 
 HALLEY's 
 
 TABLE 
 
 OF THE ELEMENTS of COMETS. 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 ferihelion dif- 
 
 
 
 
 
 Co- 
 
 Afcending node. 
 
 Incl 
 
 . of orl).| 
 
 Perihelion. | 
 
 lance fnim the 
 
 Equal, time of the peribel. | 
 
 
 mets 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sun; the dif- 
 
 
 
 
 
 A D- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 tance of the 
 Earth being 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 D. 
 
 H. 
 
 M. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 looooo. 
 
 
 
 
 
 '337 
 
 n 
 
 24 21 
 
 ?* 
 
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 « 
 
 7 59 
 
 40666 
 
 June, 2 
 
 6 
 
 *s4 
 
 retrog. 
 
 1472 
 
 Vf 
 
 11 46 20 
 
 S 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 S 33 30 
 
 54273 
 
 Febru. 28 
 
 22 
 
 *2, 
 
 retrog. 
 
 '53' 
 
 
 
 19 25 
 
 '7 
 
 so 
 
 
 
 1A« 
 
 I 39 
 
 56700 
 
 Auguft,H 
 
 21 
 
 i«i 
 
 retro ;. 
 di.ea. 
 
 ,53zU 
 
 20 27 
 
 32 
 
 36 
 
 
 
 5S 
 
 21 7 
 
 50910 
 
 0«£lob. 19 
 
 22 
 
 12 
 
 I5c6 ^ 
 
 25 41 
 
 32 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 Vf 
 
 8 50 
 
 66390 
 
 April, 21 
 
 20 
 
 3 
 
 dirta. 
 
 ,577 r 
 
 25 52 
 
 74 
 
 32 
 
 45 
 
 9. 
 
 9 22 
 
 18342 
 
 Oaob. 26 
 
 18 
 
 45 
 
 rvtrng. 
 :liiea. 
 direa. 
 
 158a r 
 
 18 57 20 
 
 64 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 19 5 50 
 
 59628 
 
 Novem.28 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 1585 
 
 
 
 7 4* 30 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 r 
 
 8 51 
 
 109358 
 
 Septem. 27 
 
 '9 
 
 20 
 
 M90 
 
 np 
 
 15 30 40 
 
 29 40 40 
 
 ni 
 
 6 54 30 
 
 57661 
 
 Tanuary29 
 July, 31 
 
 3 
 
 45 
 
 retrog. 
 
 i';g6 
 
 
 12 12 30 
 
 Sf 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 m 
 
 18 16 
 
 51293 
 
 '9 
 
 55 
 
 letrog. 
 
 1607 
 
 rt 
 
 ZO 21 
 
 '7 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 z; 
 
 2 16 
 
 58680 
 
 oaob. 16 
 
 3 
 
 JO 
 
 retrog. 
 
 1618 
 
 n 
 
 16 I 
 
 37 
 
 34 
 
 
 
 r 
 
 2 14 
 
 37975 
 
 oacb. 29 
 
 12 
 
 23 
 
 direa. 
 
 1652 
 
 n 
 
 28 10 
 
 79 
 
 23 
 
 
 
 r 
 
 28 18 40 
 
 84750 
 
 Novem. 2 
 
 15 
 
 40 
 
 direa. 
 
 1661 
 
 Q 
 
 22 30 3o'3Z 
 
 35 
 
 5° 
 
 as 
 
 25 j8 40 
 
 44851 
 
 January 16 
 Novem.24 
 
 23 
 
 4' 
 
 Jirea. 
 
 1664 
 
 n 
 
 21 14 OJZI 
 
 18 
 
 301^1 
 
 10 41 25 
 
 102<;75i 
 
 1 1 
 
 5* 
 
 retrog. 
 
 1665 
 
 <v 
 
 18 2 076 
 
 5 
 
 on 
 
 II S4 3° 
 
 10649 
 
 April, 14 
 
 5 
 
 '5 
 
 retrog. 
 
 1672 
 
 V. 
 
 27 30 30^3 
 
 22 
 
 oa 
 
 16 59 30 
 
 69739 
 
 Febru. 20 
 
 8 
 
 37 
 
 (Iirea. 
 
 1677 
 
 "i 
 
 26 49 io;79 
 
 3 
 
 'S 
 
 ft 
 
 17 37 5 
 
 280^9 
 
 April, 26 
 
 
 
 37l 
 
 retrcig. 
 
 1680 
 
 Vf 
 
 220 
 
 60 
 
 96 
 
 
 
 t 
 
 22 39 30 
 
 612 
 
 Decern. 8 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 direa. 
 
 1682 
 1683 
 
 
 
 21 16 3' 
 
 '7 
 
 56 
 
 
 
 **»* 
 
 2 52 45 
 
 58328 
 
 Septem. 4 
 
 7 
 
 39 
 
 retrog. 
 
 n? 
 
 23 23 
 
 83 
 
 If 
 
 
 
 n 
 
 25 29 30 
 
 56020 
 
 May, 29 
 
 2 
 
 5^ 
 
 -etrog. 
 
 1684 
 
 K 
 
 28 15 
 
 65 48 
 
 40 
 
 m 
 
 28 52 
 
 96015 
 
 10 
 
 16 
 
 Iirea. 
 
 i686 1 
 
 20 34 4 
 
 ^' 
 
 21 
 
 40 
 
 11 
 
 17 30 
 
 32500 
 
 Septem. 6 
 
 •4 
 
 33 
 
 direa. 
 
 1698 ^ 
 
 27 44 '5 
 
 II 
 
 46 
 
 o\\if 
 
 51 15 
 
 69129 
 
 Oaober, 8 
 
 16 
 
 57 
 
 'eirog. 
 
 •Another Table was afterwards computed, from the obfervations con- 
 tained in the Philofophical Tranfadions, De la Caille's Aftroiiomy, and 
 De la Lande's Hiftoire de la Comete de 1 759, & Connoiflance des Mouve- 
 mens Celeftes, 1762 & 1764. This Table contained the elements of 
 twenty-five other comets, from the year 1264 to 1762. An I, by com- 
 paring thefe Tables, it will be found that none of thefe cornet^, except that 
 of 1759, appears to be the fame with any other in either of the Tables; 
 unlefs we admit thofe of i 264 and 1556, and thofe of 1599 and 1699, to 
 be the fame. — We have added the elements of fome of the moft remark- 
 able comiets which have appeared fince. 
 
 SUPPLEMENT
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 945 
 
 SUPPLEMENT tc 
 
 HALLEY's TABLE 
 
 OF THE Elements ofComets. 
 
 Eq 
 
 uated time of perihelion. 
 
 Arcending node. 
 
 Inc. of orbit 
 
 Perihelion, 
 
 Perihelion 
 
 •liflance 
 
 from the 
 
 Sun. 
 
 
 AJ). 
 
 D. H. 
 
 M. 
 
 . " 
 
 t II 
 
 / // 
 
 I264!july, 6 8 
 
 
 
 'W 
 
 19 
 
 36 30 
 
 
 
 Vf 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 44500 
 
 direa. 
 
 1533'june, 16 19 
 
 30 
 
 SI 
 
 5 44 
 
 35 49 
 
 
 
 SI. 
 
 27 
 
 16 
 
 20280 
 
 retrog. 
 
 'S93iJuly, 8 13 
 
 3« 
 
 IT 
 
 14 14 15 
 
 37 58 
 
 
 
 np 
 
 26 
 
 19 
 
 891 1 
 
 direa. 
 
 1699 
 
 17-.2 
 ,7.6 
 
 Augult, 16 14 
 January, 3 8 
 
 3 
 
 TP 
 
 II 40 
 
 3 4 
 
 20 
 
 
 27 
 
 46 
 
 123802 
 
 direa. 
 
 22 
 
 •AW 
 
 2' 45 35 
 
 69 20 
 
 
 
 in 
 
 2 
 
 3, 6 
 
 74400 
 
 retrog. 
 
 March, 2 14 
 Tariuary, 19 4 
 
 12 
 
 -/^ 
 
 9 25 IS 
 
 4 3" 
 
 f' 
 
 s?. 
 
 18 
 
 4' 3 
 
 64590 
 
 direa. 
 
 Sb 
 
 r 
 
 13 II 23'.;y 14 
 
 5 
 
 n 
 
 12 
 
 36 25 
 
 42686 
 
 direa 
 
 1/7 
 
 Novem. 30 23 
 January, 4 i 
 
 43 
 
 
 
 22 90 29 8S 37 4 
 
 n 
 
 19 
 
 58 9 
 
 8859-4 
 
 direa. 
 
 1716 
 
 'S 
 
 Si 
 
 7 55 2 ■ 
 
 31 12 
 
 5? 
 
 .Q, 
 
 
 26 36 
 
 112565 
 
 retrog. 
 
 ^/^i 
 
 ■>eptem. i6 16 
 
 lo 
 
 r 
 
 14 16 
 
 49 59 
 
 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 52 211 
 
 99865 
 
 retrog. 
 
 1729 
 
 June, 12 6 
 Jdciuary, 19 8 
 
 36 
 
 ^ 
 
 10 3; 15 
 
 11 ' 
 
 50 
 
 ;!j; 
 
 22 
 
 16 53 
 
 406980 
 
 direa. 
 
 V37 
 
 '7 
 
 11 
 
 16 22 
 
 18 20 
 
 45 
 
 ™ 
 
 25 
 
 55 
 
 2*284 
 
 direa. 
 
 '739 
 
 June, 6 10 
 
 
 
 r 
 
 27 25 14 
 
 55 4* 
 
 44 
 
 55 
 
 12 
 
 38 4" 
 
 67,58 
 
 retrog. 
 
 174^ 
 
 J.muary, 28 4 
 OiCem. 30 21 
 
 21 
 
 ^ 
 
 5 34 45 '^7 4 
 
 I 
 
 fn 
 
 7 
 
 33 44 
 
 765554 
 
 retrog. 
 
 '743 
 
 15 
 
 u 
 
 8 10 48 
 
 2 '5 
 
 50 
 
 ■s 
 
 2 
 
 58 4 
 
 8381,1 
 
 direa. 
 
 Septem. 9 21 
 
 16 
 
 r 
 
 5 '6 25 
 
 45 48 
 
 21 
 
 ^ 
 
 6 
 
 33 52 
 
 S»'57 
 
 retrog. 
 
 '744 
 
 Febru. 19 8 
 
 '7 
 
 6 
 
 '5 45 2 
 
 47 8 
 
 36 
 
 S 
 
 17 
 
 '2 55 
 
 22206 
 
 tlirea. 
 
 '747 
 
 Fehru. 17 II 
 
 45 
 
 St 
 
 20 jti 27 
 
 77 56 
 
 55 
 
 Vf 
 
 10 
 
 5 4' 
 
 229388 
 
 retrog. 
 
 1748 
 
 AprI, 17 19 
 
 2J 
 
 TV 
 
 22 52 16 
 
 85 26 
 
 57 
 
 ni 
 
 5 
 
 50 
 
 84<.66f 
 
 1 etrog. 
 direa. 
 
 1748 
 
 Juiif, 7 I 
 
 24 
 
 « 
 
 4 39 43 
 
 56 59 
 
 3 
 
 Vf 
 
 6 
 
 9 H 
 
 65525J 
 
 '7i7 
 
 Oaob.r, 21 7 
 
 55 
 
 ni 
 
 4 12 5 
 
 12 ,;, 
 
 20 
 
 S?, 
 
 2 
 
 58 
 
 3-75* 
 
 direa. 
 
 '759 
 
 March, 12 13 
 
 5" 
 
 
 
 *3 45 ?5 
 
 17 40 
 
 '? 
 
 
 3 
 
 8 in 
 
 5849"^ 
 
 -trng. 
 
 '?59 
 
 Novtm. 27 • 2 
 
 '9 
 
 SI 
 
 19 ?vi 24 
 
 78 59 
 
 22 
 
 a 
 
 23 
 
 24 21 
 
 79851 
 
 -iirea. 
 
 '7)9 
 
 Decern. i6 12 
 
 41 u 
 
 18 56 19 
 
 4 37 
 
 23 
 
 Q 
 
 '9 
 
 2 48 
 
 96190 
 
 letrog. 
 
 1762 
 
 iVIay, 28 8 • 
 
 II 
 
 H 
 
 '8 33 5 
 
 85 38 
 
 '3 
 
 35 
 
 '4 
 
 2 
 
 100948 
 
 direa. 
 
 '797 
 
 Auauft, 26 S 
 
 5? 
 
 -VMr 
 
 28 c 
 
 
 
 62U0 
 
 direa. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ,8.7 
 
 ieptem. IS 6 
 
 34 
 
 
 
 63 '4 
 
 , 
 
 
 
 
 64749 
 
 direa. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1811 
 
 1X17 
 
 ■>eptem. 12 9 
 
 48 
 
 SI 
 
 
 12 20 13 
 
 63 40 
 
 42 ii 
 
 17 
 
 46 
 
 10224 
 77835 
 
 'rtrog. 
 direa. 
 
 
 i* 
 
 
 74 20 
 
 30 - 
 
 
 
 . There are many things in the comet of 1 532, obferved by Peter Appian, 
 which intimate its being the fame with that of 1607, obferved bv Kepler 
 and Longomontanus ; and which Dr. Hailey himfelf again obferved in 
 1682. All the elements agree; and there is nothing contradicts the opinion 
 but that inequality in the periodic revolution, which, however, he thinks is 
 no more than may be accounted for from phyficai caufes: no more in effeft 
 than is obferved in Saturn; the motion of which planet is fo difturbed by 
 the reft, Specially Jupiter, that its period is uncertain for feveral days to- 
 gether : to what errors then may not a comet be liable, which rifes to al- 
 
 moft
 
 946 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 mod: four times the height of the planet Saturn ; and whofe velocity, if 
 b\it a little increafed, would change its elliptic orb into a parabolic one ? 
 What farther confinriS the identity, is the appearance of another comet 
 in the lummer of 1456, which, though obferved by none with accuracy, 
 yet, by its period and the manner of its tranfit, he concludes to be the 
 fame; and thence ventured to foretel its return in the year 1758, or the 
 beginning of the next year : and time has verified the prediftion. It ap- 
 peared in March 1759. Halley alfo thought that the comet of 1680 was 
 the fame that was obferved in 1106, 531, and in the forty-fourth year 
 before Chrift, when Julius Caefar was murdered ; and that its period was 
 five hundred and feventy-five years. Mr. Dunthorne, in the Philofophi- 
 cal Tranfaftions, vol. xlvii. has endeavoured to fhow, from a MS. in 
 Pembroke-hall Library, that the comet of 1106 could not be the fame 
 with that of 1680. But M. de la Lande adopts the opinion of Dr. 
 Halley. 
 
 To determine the place and courfe of a comet, obferve the diftance of 
 the comet from two fixed ftars whofe longitudes and latitudes. are known : 
 from the diftances thus found, calculate the place of the comet by trigo- 
 nometry; and, by repeating the obfervations and operations for feveral 
 days fucceffively, the courl'e of the comet will be had. We might alfo 
 determine the courfe of a comet mechanically, without any apparatus of 
 inftruments, by the following ingenious method, with a thread, which 
 we owe to Longomontanus. Obferve four ftars round the comet, fuch 
 as that the comet may be in the interledion of the right lines that join 
 the two oppofite fl:ars ; which is eafily found by means of a thread placed 
 before the eye, and extended over-againft the ftars and comets. Find thefe 
 four flars upon a globe, and extend two threads crofsways, from one 
 corner to the other of the fquare fpace defcribed by the four ftars; and the 
 central point where the threads interfe6t each other will give the place of 
 the comet. This pradice being repeated for feveral days, the comet's 
 courfe will be had on the globe ; which courfe will be found to be a great 
 circle, from any two points whereof it will be eafy to find its inclination 
 to the ecliptic, and the place of the nodes, only by obferving where a 
 thread, ftretched through the two points, cuts the ecliptic. 
 
 Such is the do6lrine of comets, as laid down from time to time both by 
 the ancient and modern philofophers ; but which, like mofl other abflrufe 
 phenomena, is founded pretty much upon conje6fure and arbitrary concep- 
 tion. Should the comets of 1264 and 1556 (which are fuppofed to be the 
 fame) appear in or about the year 1848, it will confirm a great deal of 
 the foregoing fpeculation, as to their pofTefling a determinate place in the 
 
 lyftem ;
 
 i 
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 947 
 
 fyftem ; and will convince us that their revolutions, though extremely 
 eccentric, are neverthelefs definable, and fuch as may hereafter throw 
 great light upon philolophical difquilitions. 
 
 Dr. Halley conjedured, that the comet obferved by Apian in 1532, was 
 the fame as that obferved by Hevelius in 1 66 1 ; if fo, it ought to have re- 
 turned in 1790, but it has never been obferved. ButM. Mechain, having 
 collefted all the obfervations in 1532, and calculated the orbit again, found 
 it to be fenfibly different from that determined by Dr. Halley, which ren- 
 ders it very doubtful whether this was the comet which appeared in 1661; 
 and this doubt is increafed by its not appearing in 1 790. The comet in 
 1770, whofe periodic time M. Lexell computed to be five years and feven 
 months, has not been obferved fince. 
 
 Of E C L I P S E S. 
 
 An Eclipfe, from ixXj,,}/.,-, of txxtiiro, to fall, fignifies a^ failure or priva- 
 tion of the light of one of the luminaries, by the interpofition of fome 
 dark or opaque body falling between it and the eye, or between it and 
 the Sun. The Moon, being a dark and opaque body, receives her light 
 from the Sun by refle6lion ; which is proved by her increafing and de- 
 creafing in light as fhe is nearer or farther off from her conjunftions with 
 the Sun. At the ecliptical conjundion, or New Moon, the dark body 
 of the Moon paffes diredly between the Sun and us, which hides that 
 luminary from our fight, and this conftitutes an eclipfe of the Sun ; but 
 at an ecliptical oppohtlon, or Full Moon, the Sun, the Earth, and the 
 Moon, are in one dired and diametrical line ; the dark globe of the 
 Earth, being then between the Sun and Moon, deprives the Moon of 
 the Sun's light, whereby fhe becomes darkened and eclipfed, having no 
 light of her own. The line or way wherein the Moon makes her con- 
 flant periodical revolutions croffes the ecliptic wherein the Sun moves 
 at an angle of about five degrees ; the diftance of thefe lines conftitutes 
 the Moon's latitude; and the places in the ecliptic which thefe lines in- 
 terfeft are called the Moon's nodes, or the Dragon's Head and Dragon's 
 Tail. Thefe interfeftions do not always happen in one place of the 
 ecliptic, but move once through the fame, contrary to the fequel or fuc- 
 celTion of the figns, in eighteen years and two hundred and twenty-five 
 days. 
 
 If the Moon at full be diftant from the Dragon's Head or Tail more 
 than fifteen degrees, there can be no eclipfe of the Moon ; and, when at 
 the time of the change the Moon is more than nineteen degrees diflant 
 
 No. 49. II C from
 
 948 ANIL LUSTRATION 
 
 from the Dragon's Head, according to the fucceffion of the figns, there 
 can be no ecli()le of the Sun ; neither can there be any ecliple of the Sun, 
 when the Moon at the change is above feven des;rees from tlie Drasfon's 
 Tail accordincr to the fucceflion of tiv: fiens, oi' more than le\ en de2:i'ees 
 from the Dragon's Head contrary lo the fuccenion of the figns. 
 
 Eclipfes of the Sun are various both in quantity and quality, being 
 beheld from different parts of the Earth; where he will appear partially 
 eclip(ed to a fpe6lator on the north fide of his body, and totally to a 
 fpe6lator on his fouth fide; whilll: to others he will appear at the fame 
 inftant not at all eclipfed. The reafon is, the Sun in his edipfes is not 
 darkened, but only hidden from our fight by the interpofition of the Moon, 
 whofe various parallaxes produce this diverfity in the Sun's eclipie. 
 
 The eclipfe of the Moon, on the contrary, appears the fame to all part^ 
 of the Earth, and to all people above whofe horizon (he is at that time 
 elevated; for, when fhe is deprived of the light of the Sun, flie becomes 
 really darkened. To eftimate the quantities of the ecliples of either lu- 
 minary, their diameters are fuppofedly divided into twelve equal paits, 
 called digits, becaufe their diameters appear to fight about a foot in 
 length ; fo that, when the Moon obfcures half the Sun's diameter, he is 
 faid to be fix digits eclipfed. 
 
 Amongfl the coeleftial phenomena, the do6lrine of edipfes takes pre- 
 cedency ; becaufe from their obfervation the primary foundation of 
 the whole body of aftronomy is demon ftrated and confirmed. Hence the 
 folar eclipfes manifeft the Moon to be lower and lefs than the Sliu ; the 
 lunar eclipfes prave that the Earth is not founded infinitely below us, 
 but that the heavens under us are diftant from the Earth as far upwards, 
 in refpeiSl of our antipodes, as they are here ; and confequently that the 
 Earth is not cubical, pyramidal, nor cylindrical, but on every fide per- 
 ftSly round, or terminated by a globular figure ; not only becaufe the 
 fhadow of the Earth in the Moon's body is always and on every part ob- 
 ferved to be round, but alfo becaufe thofe who live eaftward number 
 more hours from their meridian, for the beginning or ending of any 
 eclipfe, than fuch as live weilward, proportionably to their diftance. 
 
 Lunar eclipfes demonftrate the fiiadow of the Earth to be conical, ter- 
 minating in a fharp point ; and the fame place of the Moon's tranfits to 
 be fometimes thicker, and at other times more flender, notwithftanding 
 a certain rule and refpedt had to the Sun's motion ; and confequently 
 
 thar
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 9<9 
 
 that the Sun is moved, or {o Teems to be, in an eccentrical orb. By 
 eclipfes of the Moon we al(b know that the Earth is moved or placed in 
 the middle of the zodiac, becaufe fhe is eclipfed in the oppofite places 
 thereof. The lunar ecliples beft difcover to us the longitude of places 
 upon the Eajth, and afTure us that the Earth and Water make but one 
 globe ; and the oriental and occidental eclipfes of the Moon inform us, 
 that one half of the world is alwavs vifible, and that one half of the zo~ 
 diac rifes above the horizon. 
 
 The true and certain place of the Moon cannot be had by any inftru- 
 ment whatioever, becaufe of her parallaxes. Nature, or rather the God 
 of nature, hath therefore fiipplied this defect by her eclipfes; for the 
 Moon pofited in mediis tenebris is then underftood to be oppohte to the Sun, 
 by which means the motions and mutations of the Moon are found out 
 and rationally demonftrated. And, as by lunar eclipfes we gather, that 
 the Sun is far greater than the Earth, and the Moon lefs, fo by folar 
 eclipfes we demonftrate the diftance of the luminaries from the Earth to 
 be different, and to be moved in eccentrics or epicycles ; whence a rule 
 is found for meafuring the diftance of the Sun and Moon from the Earth, 
 together with the magnitudes of the feveral celeftial bodies. 
 
 Eclipfes of the Moon happen only in the Time of Full Moon ; becaufe 
 it is only then the Earth is between the Sun and Moon : nor do they hap- 
 pen every Full Moon, by reafon of the obliquity of the Moon's way with 
 refpedl: to the Sun's; but only in thofe Full Moons which happen either 
 in the nodes, or very near them, where the aggregate of the apparent 
 femidiarneters of the Moon and the Earth's Ihadow is greater than the 
 latitude of the Moon, or the dill:ai5ce between their centres. 
 
 The raoft confiderable circumftances in the eclipfes of the Moon are. 
 That, as the fum of the femidiarneters of the Moon and Earth's fhadovv 
 is greater than the aggregate of the femidiameters of the Sun and Moon, 
 (that, when leaft, being 54; and this, when greateft, fcarcely 31 ;) it is 
 evident that lunar ecliples may happen in a greater latitude of the Moon 
 and at a greater diftance from the nodes, and confeqoently are more often 
 obferved, in any one part of the Earth, than folar ones ; though, with 
 refpedl: to the whole Earth, the latter are more frequent than the former, 
 becaufe the Sun's ecliptical limits are greater than the Moon's. 
 
 Total eclipfes of the Moon, and thofe of the longeft duration, hap- 
 pen in the very nodes of the ecliptic ; becaufe the fedion of the Earth's 
 
 ihadow?
 
 95<3 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fliadow, then falling on the Moon, is confiderably greater than her difk. 
 There may likewife be total eclipfes within a little diftance of the nodes; 
 but, the farther, the lefs their duration ; farther off {till, there are only- 
 partial ones, and at length none at all, as the latitude and the femidia- 
 meter of the Moon, together, are either lefs, equal to, or greater, than the 
 femidianneter of the Ihadow. A lunar eclipfe, that is both total and 
 central, lafls three hours fifty-feven minutes fix feconds from the begin- 
 ning to the end when the JNIoon is in her apogee, and three hours thir- 
 ty-feven minutes twenty-fix feconds when in perigee ; her horary motion 
 being floweft in the former cafe, and quickefl in the latter. In all lunar 
 eclipfes, the eaftern fide is what firfl: immerges, and alfo emerges; fo that, 
 though at firfl: the Moon be more wefterly than the Earth's fliadovv, 
 yet, her proper motion being fwifter than the fame, fhe overtakes and 
 outgoes it. The Aloon, even in the middle of an eclipfe, has ufually a 
 faint appearance of light relembling tarnifhed copper ; which Gaflendus, 
 Ricciolus, Kelper, &c. attril)ute to the light of the Sun, refracted by the 
 Earth's atmofphere, and tranfmitted thither : and, laftly, (he grows fen- 
 fibly paler, and dimmer, before fhe enters within the Earth's fliadow ; 
 which is attributed to the Earth's penumbra. 
 
 Solar eclipfes, being an occultation of the Sun's body occafioned by 
 an interpofition of the Moon between the Sun and the Earth, are diftin- 
 guiflied, like thofe of the Moon, into total and partial, &c. to v/hich muft 
 be added a third fpecies, called annular. As the Moon is found to have a 
 parallax of latitude, eclipfes of the Sun only happen when the latitude of 
 the Moon, viewed from the Earth, is lefs than the aggregate of ihc appa- 
 rent femidiameters of the Sun and Moon. Solar eclipfes therefore only 
 happen when the Moon is in conjun61ion with the Sun, in or near the 
 nodes, i. e. at the new moons. Confequently, the memorable eclipfe 
 of the Sun, at our Saviour's pafi^ion, happening at the time of full moon, 
 when the Sun and Moon are in oppofition, was preternatural. Betides, 
 the darknefs in total eclipfes of the Sun never lafts above four miiuites in 
 one place ; whereas the darknefs at the crucifixion lafted three hours, 
 (Matthew xxvii. 45.) and overfpread at leaft all the land of Judea. 
 
 But though the New Moon pafs between the Sun and the Earth, yet is 
 not there an eclipfe every Moon; becaufe the Moon's way is not pre- 
 cifely under the ecliptic, but is placed obliquely thereto, interfering it 
 twice in every period : fo that eclipfes can only be occafioned in fuch 
 New Moons as happen in thefe interfedlions or nodes, or very near them. 
 In the nodes, when the Moon has no vifible latitude, the occultation is 
 
 total ;
 
 ECLIFSBj^
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 951 
 
 total ; and with fome continuance, when the diik of the Moon in perlgso 
 appears greater than that of the Sun in apogseo, and its fhadow is extended 
 beyond the furface of the Earth ; and without continuance, at moderate 
 diftances, when the cufp or point of the Moon's fhadow barelv touches 
 the Earth : laftly, out of the nodes, but near them, the echples are 
 partial. The folar eclipfes, though total, can never be univerfal or 
 vilible throughout the whole hemifphere which the Sun is then above, 
 becaufe the Moon's dark fhadow covers only a fpot on the Earth's fur- 
 face about one hundred and eisihtv Ens:lifli miles broad, when the Sun's 
 diftance is greatcft, and the Moon's leafl ; and thus far only can the to- 
 tal darknefs extend ; which explains the reafon why a folar eclipfe does 
 not appear the fame in all parts of the earth where it is feen ; but, when 
 in one place it is total, in another it is only partial. And farther, that 
 the Moon, when, in her apogee, appears much lefs than the Sun, as hap- 
 pens mofi: fenfibly when he is in perigao ; the cufp of the lunar fhadow 
 not then reaching the Earth, flie becomes in a central conjun6lion 
 with the Sun, yet not able to cover his diik, but lets his whole limb 
 appear like a lucid ring or bracelet ; this is hence called an annular eclipfe ; 
 which does not happen at the fame time in all places where it is feen ; 
 hut appears more early to the weflern parts, and later to the eaftern, as 
 will hereafter be farther explained. 
 
 In moil folar eclipfes, the Moon's difk is covered wilh a faint dawhino- 
 light; which is attributed to the reflection of the light from the illumi- 
 nated part of the Earth. In total eclipfes of the Sun, the Moon's limb 
 is feen furrounded by a pale circle of light ; which fome aftronomers take 
 for a manifefl indication of a lunar atmofphere ; but which is probably 
 the atmofphere of the Sun ; becaufe it has been obferved to move equally 
 with the Sun, and not with the Moon ; and befides, the Mooti is now 
 generally believed to have no atmofphere. The foregoing obfervations 
 will be farther illuftrated by what follows. 
 
 TO PROJECT ECLIPSES of the SUN. 
 
 The Sun, beirtg a luminous body, vaftly larger than the Earth, will 
 enlighten fomeWhat mbrethah one half of it, and caufe it to projeft a 
 l<)ng conical fhadow^ as reprefented in the annexed Plate, fig. l... where S 
 is the Sun, E the Earth, and HBD its conical fhadow. 
 
 The height or length of this fhadow, at the mean difl:ance of the Sun, 
 
 ■may be found by this proportion : As the tangent of the angle CBD, or 
 
 No, 49. II P the
 
 95* 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 the femi-diameter under which the Sun appears at the Earth, viz. AS 
 = 16': radius : : i : the length of the fhadow CB=2i4"8 femi-diame- 
 ters of the Earth : but, when the Sun is at its greateftdiflance, the length 
 of the (hadow CB will be equal to 21 7 of thele femi-diameters. Hence 
 it appears, that, though the height of the (hadow is near three times as 
 great as the mean difkance of the Moon, yet it falls far fhort of the dif- 
 tance of Mars, and confequently can eclipfe none of the heavenly bodies 
 but the Moon. 
 
 To find the height of the Moon's (hadow, fuppofed to be fimilar to 
 that of the Earth, and confequently proportional to the diameters of 
 the bafis, the proportion is, As the diameter of the Earth 1 00, is to the dia- 
 meter of the Moon 28 ; fo is the mean altitude of the Earth's (hadow 
 214-8, to the altitude of that of the Moon, 6o-i44 of the Earth's femi- 
 diameters. The (hadow of the Moon, therefore, will juft reach the Earth 
 in her mean difl^ance, which it cannot in her apogee ; but in her pe- 
 rigee it will involve a fmall part of the Earth's furface. 
 
 Befides the dark (hadow of the Moon, there is another, called the pe- 
 jiumbra ; to reprefent which, let S, fig. 8. be the Sun, T the Earth, D the 
 Moon, KCFandABE the two lines touching the oppofite limbs 
 of the Sun and Moon ; then it is evident that CFEB will be the dark 
 er abfolute (hadow of the Moon, in which a perfon on the Earth's fur- 
 face, between Fand E, is wholly deprived of the Sun's light. Again, let 
 KBG and ACH be two other lines touching the fides of the Sun and 
 Moon alternately, and interfe(51ing each other at the point above the 
 Moon; then will HCBG, a fruftum of the cone GIG, be the pe- 
 numbra above mentioned, in which a fpeflator on the Earth's furface, 
 between F and H, and E and G, will fee part of the Sun, whilft the 
 reft is eclipfed. 
 
 To calculate the angle of the cone HIG, draw the dotted line SB; 
 then, in the oblique triangle BIS, the external angle BID is equal to 
 both the internal and oppofite angles IBS and I SB; but ISB, the angle 
 under which the femi-diameter appears at the Sun, being infenfibly fmall, 
 the angle BID will be equal to IBS or KBS, equal to the apparent 
 femi-diameter of the Sun. Therefore the part of the penumbral cone 
 CIB is equal and fimilar to the dark (hadow of the Moon. 
 
 Next, to find how much of the Earth's furface can be at any time in- 
 volved in the Moon's dark (hadow, or the quantity of the arch EF, fig. 2. 
 
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 let us fuppofc the Sun to be in apogee, and the Moon in periaee • and 
 in this cafe, the height of the Moon's fhadow will beabout°6i femil 
 diameters, and the diftance of the Moon about 5^ ; that is CK=6i 
 5 J=56, and TE=i. In this cafe alfo, the half-angle of the fhadow 
 u r j^^^T>^° ' ^^ .''^'"S Jeaft of all. Then the proportion is : As i, or 
 the hde TE, is to the fide of TK = s ; fo is the fine of the femi-angle 
 
 ^F^'^T^tl^"' iVif ^";V^ '^' ^-"^^' TEK=i" 19 10. Wherefore 
 TEK+TKE=ATE=AE=i° ssi the double of which FE is ^ lo' 
 ==190, or 220 miles, the diameter of the dark fhadow on the furface 
 of the Earth when greateft. 
 
 After a like manner you may find the diameter of the penumbra! 
 fhadow at the Earth, GEFH, fig. 8, when greateft of all, that is, when 
 the .Larth is in perihelio, and the Moon in apogee ; for then will the 
 buns apparent diameter be equal to 16' 23 =T I G, the greateft femi- 
 angle of the cone; and thence we ftiall find 10=524 femf-diameters of 
 the Earth In this cafe alfo, the diftance of the Moon from the Earth is 
 DT=64 femi-diameters. Therefore, AsTG=i is to T 1=1224, fo is 
 the line of the angle TIG=ri6' 23" to the fine of the angle IGN=2co 
 42. But IGN=TIG+ITG; and therefore, ITG=IGN=TIG== 
 35" 25'; the double of which 70" 5o'=GEFH=49oo Englifh miles 
 nearly, for the diameter of the penumbral ftiadow when greateft. 
 
 From the principles of optics it is evident, that, if the plane of the 
 Moon s orbit coincided with that of the Earth's orbit, there would ne- 
 ceflarily be an eclipfe of the Sun every new moon : thus, if S, in ficr 7 
 be luppofed to reprefent the Sun. B the Moon, and T the Earth, fince 
 the apparent magnitude or dilk of the Sun is nearly the fame with that 
 of the Moon, it muft neceffarily be hid or eclipfed as often as the Nevr 
 Moon came between the Earth and the Sun. But if, as is really the 
 cale, the Moon's orbit be not in the plane of the ecliptic, but inclined 
 thereto under a certain angle, there may be a New Moon, and yet no 
 cclipfe of the Sun. To illuftrate this, let ABCDE be a circle in 
 i?^ P'^"^ ""i t^ ^^^^Pt^^' defcribcd at the diftance of the Moon's orbit 
 FGH, interfeaing the fame in the points B and D, and making an 
 angle therewith A BF, whofe meafure is the arch GC, as being ninety 
 degrees diftant from the angular points or nodes B and D. Now it is 
 evident, that if the arch GC be fomewhat greater than the fum of the ap- 
 parent fem.-diameters of the Sun and Moon, then at G, and fome diftance 
 from G towards B, there may be a New Moon, and yet no eclipfe of the 
 bun ; becaufe, m this cafe, the diflt of the Moon, G, is too much elevated 
 
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 954 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 or deprefTed above or below the apparent difk or face of tbe Sun at C, to 
 touch it, iTiuch lefs to hide or eclipfe any part thereof. But, at a certain 
 point M in the Moon's orbit, the Moon will have a latitude only equal 
 to the fum of the femi-diameters of the Sun and Moon ; and therefore, 
 when the Moon is new in that point, fhe will appear to a fpe6lator in the 
 point Z, to touch the Sun only ; whence this point M is called the 
 ecliptic limit, inafmuch as it is impoilible there fhould happen a new 
 Moon in any part between it and the node B on each fide, without eclip- 
 fing the Sun lefs or more : thus, in the figure, may be feen a partial 
 eclipfe at K, and a total one in the node itfelf B, at which point only 
 total ecliples can happen. 
 
 What has hitherto been faid regards the phenomena of an eclipfe of 
 the Sun, as they appear to a fpeflator on the Earth's furface, in whofc 
 zenith the Moon then is, and when there is no refra6tion to cHter the true 
 l-atitude of the Moon : but, when the Moon has any latitude, there the 
 procefs of calculating the appearances of a folar eclipfe will be fomewhat 
 more complex, on account of the variation of the Moon's latitude and 
 longitude for every different altitude, and confequently for every moment 
 of the eclipfe. 
 
 The bell: way of reprefenting a folar eclipfe, is by a projection of the 
 Earth's dilk, and of the ledion of the dark and penumbral Shadows as 
 they appear, or would appear, to a fpe61ator at the diftance of the Moon 
 in a right line joining the centres of the Sun and the Earth. In order to 
 this, we are to find the dimenfions of the apparent femi-diameters of the 
 Earth, dark fhadow, and penumbra, at the diftance of the Moon. As to 
 the firfl:, viz. the Earth's femi-diartieter, it is equal to the Moon's hori- 
 zontal parallax. That of the dark ihadow is thus eftimated ; Let C, in 
 fig. 5, be the centre of the Moon, DB its diameter, DHB its dark 
 fhadow, and KAL the penumbral cone. Then let EF be the dia- 
 meter of the penumbra at the Earth, and IG that of the dark fhadow, 
 and draw CG and CE; then is the angle CGB=:BHC + GCH, 
 and fo GCH=BGC — BHC; that is, the apparent femi-diameter 
 of the dark fhadow is equal to the difference between the apparent 
 femi-diameters of the Sun and Moon. And in like manner the angle 
 ECH=DEC+DAC; that is, the apparent femi-diameter of the 
 penumbra, at the Earth, is equal to the fum of the apparent femi- 
 diameters of the Moon and Sun. Now the femi-diameter of the Sun 
 and Moon, and alfo the Moon's horizontal parallax, are already calcu- 
 lated for their various diftances from the Earth ; and for the leafl, mean, 
 
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 and gieateft eccentricity of the lunar orbit, in the agronomical tables. 
 Therefore, let A E, fig. 3, reprefeiit a fmall portion of the annua! orbit, 
 and FH the vifible path of the centre of the lunar Shadows, which will 
 exactly correfpond to the polition of the Moon's orbit with refpect to the 
 ecliptic in the heavens ; fo that the point of interlection SI w ill be the 
 node, and the angle H ft E the angle of inclination of the lunar orbit to 
 the plane of the ecliptic, which is about 5*^. Hence, if tEPQS repre- 
 fent the dilk of the Earth, according to the orthographic projection, in 
 the feveral places 8,,B,C,D, whofe femidiameter is made equal to the 
 number of minutes in the Moon's horizontal parallax at the time of the 
 ecliple ; and if, in the path of the fhadows in the points 0, R, N, G, 
 we defcribe a Imall circle whofe lemidiameter is equal to the difference 
 of the femidiameters of the Sun and Moon, that will be the circular lec- 
 tion of the Moon's dark fhadow at the diflance of the Earth ; again, if a 
 circle is defcribed on the lame centre, with a femidiameter equal to the 
 fum of the femidiameters of the Sun and Moon, it will leprefent the pe- 
 numbral Ihadow expreffed by the dotted area. Here then it is evident, 
 that if the Moon, v.'hen nev/, be at the diftance ft G from the node, the 
 penumbral fhadow will not fall near the Earth's dilk, and fo there cannot 
 pofTibly happen an eclipfe. Again, if the Moon's diftance from the node 
 be equal to a N, the penumbral Ihadow will juft touch the difk, and 
 confequently ft C is the' ecliptic limit, which may be found by the fol- 
 lowing analogy, viz. As the fine of the angle N ftC=5'' 30' (the angle 
 of inclination of the lunar orbit to the plane of the ecliptic) is to the ra- 
 dius =90", fo is the logarithm of the fide NCr=TC+NT=62' ic 
 + 16' 52' + 16' 23=95' 25' to the logarithm of the lide ft C, equal to 
 the ecliptic limit, which is found to be 16° 36', beyond which diftance 
 from the node ft there can be no eclipfe ; and within that diilance, if the 
 Moon be new, the Ihadow will fall on Ibme part of the Earth's dillc, as 
 at B ; where all thole places over which the fhadows pals will fef; the 
 Sua eclipfed. in part only, by the dotted penumbral fliadow ; but the Sun 
 will be centrally eclipled in all places over which the centre of the flia- 
 dows pafs ; and, if the Moon be new in the node, then will the centre of 
 the jQiadovvs pafs over the centre of the dilk, as reprelented at ft. In this 
 cafe, if the apparent diameter of the Moon be greater than that of the 
 Sun, the face of the Sun will be wholly eclipfed to all places over which the 
 centre of the fhadow pafles ; but, if not, the Sun will only be centrally 
 eclipfed, his circumference appearing in the form of a bright annulus, 
 or luminous ring, the width whereof will be equal to the difference of the 
 diameters of the luminaries. The difk of the Earth, here projeded, re- 
 piefents the cafe of ^n ecliple on an equino<5tial day ; AK being the eclip- 
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 95^ A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 tic, JEQ the equator, X Y the axis of the ccHptic, PS the axis of the 
 equator, P and S the north and fouth poles, &c. By this projecliou the 
 palfage of Ihadows over the Earth's dilk may be exhibited for any place 
 f)ftheSiin, or declination of the Moon. 
 
 To find the digits eclipfed, add the apparent femidiameters of the 
 kuninarics into one fum ; from which lubtraft the Moon's apparent la- 
 titude ; the remainder are the fcruples, or parts of the diameter, eclipfed. 
 Then fay, As the femidiameter of the Sun is to the fcruples eclipfed, fo 
 are 6 digits reduced into fcruples, (or 360 fcruples,) to the digits eclipfed. 
 
 To determine the duration of a folar eclipfe, find the horary motion of 
 the Moon from the Sun for one hour before the conjundion and another 
 hour after : then fay. As the former horary motion is to the feconds in an 
 hour, fo are the fcruples of half-duration to the time of immerfion ; and, 
 as the latter horary motion is to the fame feconds, fo are the fame fcru- 
 ples of half-duration to the time of immerfion. Laftly, adding the time 
 of immerfion to that emerfion, the aggregate is the total duration. 
 
 As different authors follow very different hypothefes, with regard to 
 the apparent diameters of the luminaiies, and the greateft parallax of la- 
 titude, they differ much in affigning the bounds at which folar eclipfes 
 happen. Ptolomy makes the utmoft bounds of eclipfes at 19" 25' diftance 
 from the node; Copernicus, at 19° 12'; Tycho, at 18^ 25'; Kepler, at 
 17"^ 16'.; Ricciolus, at 18° 49'. Though Ptolomy in other places judges 
 j6° 42 diflance from the node neceffary ; Copernicus, 16'' 25'; Tycho, 
 17^ 9'; Kepler, 15° 55'; and Ricciolus, 15° 58'. Aftronomers have ge- 
 nerally affigned ly^ as the limit of folar eclipfes; but this admits of fome 
 variation : for, in apogeal eclipfes, the folar limit is but i6| degrees, and 
 in perigeal eclipfes it is i8|. 
 
 The Moon's apparent diameter when largcd, exceeds the Sun's when 
 leafl, only one minute and thirty-eight feconds of a degree; and in the 
 greatefl: folar eclipfe that can happen at any time and place, the total 
 darknefs can continue no longer than whilft the Moon is moving through 
 i' 38" from the Sun in her orbit, which is about three minutes thirteen 
 feconds of an hour; for the motion of the fhadow on the Earth's dilk is 
 ■equal to the Moon's motion from the Sun, which, on account of the 
 Earth's revolution on its axis towards the fame way, or eafhvard, is about 
 30^ minutes of a degree every hour, at a mean rate ; but fo much of the 
 Moon's orbit 1^ equal to 30^*^ of a great circle ou the Earth, becaufe the 
 
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 circumference of the Moon's orbit is 6 j times that of ihe Earth ; and 
 therefore the Moon's (hadow goes 30I degrees, or 1830 geographical 
 miles, in an hour, or 30^ miles in a minute. 
 
 To find the Moon's apparent latitude at the beginning and end of an 
 eclipfe, it requires onlv to fubtrafl, from the argument of the Moon's 
 latitude computed for the time of the apparent conjun6tion, the fcruples 
 of half-duration, together with the motion of the Sun anfwering to the 
 time of incident; the remainder is the argument of latitude at the be- 
 ginning of the eclipfe. To the fame fum add the fame fcruples, together 
 with the Sun's motion anlwering to the time of emergence ; the aggre- 
 gate is the argument of latitude at the end of the eclipfe. The argument 
 of the latitude given, the Moon's true latitude is found after the common 
 manner. 
 
 To calculate eclipfes of the Sun, the following data are requifite : i. 
 Find the mean new Moon, and thence the true one ; together with the 
 place of the luminaries for the apparent time of the true one. 2. For the 
 apparent time of the true new Moon, compute the latitude feen. 3. For 
 the apparent time of the new Moon feen, compute the latitude Icen. 4. 
 Thence determine the digits eclipfed. 5. Find the times of the greateffc 
 darknefs, immerfion, and emerfion. 6. Thence determine the besinnino; 
 and ending of the eclipfe. From the preceding problems it is evident, 
 that all the trouble and fatigue of the calculus arife from the -parallaxes 
 of longitude and latitude; without which the calculation of folar eclipfes 
 would be the fame with that of lunar ones. But eclipfes, both of the 
 Sun and Moon, might be calculated with much more eafe and expedition 
 by the help of a book of Tables, publifhed for that purpofe by Mr. Fer- 
 gufon, to which I beg leave to refer the reader, to fave him the trouble 
 of fuch calculations. 
 
 To PROJECT ECLIPSES of the MOON. 
 
 Thefe being occafioned by the immerfion of the Moon into the Earth's 
 fhadow, all that we have to do, in order to delineate a lunar eclipfe, is 
 to calculate the apparent femidiameter of the Earth's fhadow at the Moon. 
 Thus, let AB, fig. 6, reprefent the Earth, T its centre, AEB its conical 
 fhadow, D C the diameter of a Icdion thereof at the Moon ; and, draw- 
 ing DT, we have the outward angle ADT=DTE+DET; fo that 
 DTE=A.DT— DET; that is, the angle DTE, under which the 
 femidiameter of the Earth's fhadow appears at the diflance of the 
 
 Moon,
 
 958 A N 1 L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 Moon, is equal, to the difference betwebn the Moon's horizontal parallax 
 ADT and the lernidiameter of the Sun DET. If, therefore, AE, 
 rig. 4, reprefent the path of the Earth's ihadow at the diflance of the 
 JMoon near the node ??, and FH a part of the lunar orbit, and the fec- 
 tion of the Earth's (hadow be delineated at "6, B, C, 13 ; and the full 
 Moon at??,I,N,G; then it is evident there can be no eclipfe of the 
 Moon where the leafl diilance of the centres of the Moon and Hiadovv 
 exceeds the funi of their femidiameters, as at D. But, where this chf- 
 tance is lefs, the Moon muft be eclipfed either in part or wholly, as at B 
 and e; in which latter cafe the Moon pafl'es over the diameter of the 
 fhadow. But in a certain pofition of the fhadow, as at C, the leafl dif- 
 tance of the centres, N C. is equal to the fum of the femidiameters; and 
 confequently O C is the ecliptic limit for lunar eclipfes : to fin<l which, 
 we have this analogy, As the line of the angle N 83 C=s° (the inclina- 
 tion of the Moon's orbit to the plane of the ecliptic) is to the radius, fo is 
 the logarithm of the fide NC=63' 12' to the logarithm of the fide 5 C=i 2"^ 
 5'= the ecliptic limit. Hence, if the Moon be at a lefs diilance from 
 the node ?5 than 12^ 5', there will be an eclipfe; otherwife none can 
 happen. 
 
 If the Earth had no atmofphere, the fhadow would be abfolutely dark, 
 and the Moon involved in it quite inviiible ; but, by means of the atmol^ 
 phere, many of the folar rays are refracted into and mixed with the fhadow, 
 whereby the Moon is rendered vifible in the midfl of it, and of a dufk^ 
 red colour. 
 
 For calculating eclipfes of the Moon, the following data are neceflary: 
 I. Her true diftancc from the node, at the mean conjunction. 2. The 
 true time of the oppofition, together with the true place of the Sun and 
 Moon, reduced to the ecliptic. 3. -The Moon's true latitude at the time 
 of the true conjunftion, and the diftance of the luminaries from the Earth : 
 alfo their horizontal parallaxes, and apparent femidiameters. 4. The 
 true horary motions of the Moon and Sun, and the apparent femidiameter 
 of the Earth's fhadow. With thefe data it is eafy to find the duration, 
 beginning, middle, and quantity, of eclipfes. 
 
 The number of eclipfes, of both luminaries, in any year, cannot be 
 lefs than two nor more than feven ; the mofl: ufual number is four, and 
 it is rare to have more than fix. The reafon is obvious ; becaufe the 
 Sun palTes by both the nodes but once a-year, unlels he pafTes by one of 
 them in the beginning of the year ; in which cafe he will pafs by the 
 
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 O F A S T R O I. Q G Y. 9^59^ 
 
 fame a^^ain a little before the year be fTniihed ; becaufe the nodes move 
 backwards 19^- deg. every vear, and therefore the Sun will come to eitjier 
 of them 173 davs after the other.. And, if either node is withiu 17° ot 
 the Sun at the time of the new Moon, the Sun will be eclipfed ; and at 
 the fublequent oppofition, the Moon will be eclipfed m the other node, 
 and come round to the next conjunaion before the former node is i 7*^ be- 
 vond the Sun, and eclipfe him again. When three eclipfes happen about 
 cither node, the like number generally happen about the oppohte ; as the 
 Sun comes to it 173 davs afterwards, and fix lunations contain, only tour 
 days more. Thus there may be two eclipfes of the Sun, and one of the 
 Moon, about each of the nodes. But, if the Moon changes m either ot 
 the nodes, flie cannot be near enough the other node at 'the next tull to be 
 eclipfed ; and in fix lunar months afterwards fhe will change near the 
 Other node ; in which cafe there can be only two ecliples in a year,, both 
 of the Sun» 
 
 In two hundred and twenty-three mean lunations aftei- the Sun, 
 Moon, and nodes, have been once in a line of conjundion, they return 
 ib nearly to the fame ftate again, as that the fame node, which was in 
 conjunaion with the Sun and Moon at the beginning of the firft of thele 
 lunations, will be within twenty-eight minutes twelve fecondsof a degree 
 of a hne of conjunaion with the Sun and Moon again, when the laft of 
 thefe lunations is completed. And therefore, in that time, there will 
 be a regular fucceffion or return of the fame eclipies for many ages.— 
 In this period (which was ftrft difcovered by the Chaldeans) there are 
 d^^hteen Julian vears, eleven days, feven hours, forty-three minutes^ 
 twenty-feconds, when the laft day of February in leap-years is four times 
 included; but, when it is five times included, the period confifts of only 
 eighteen years, ten days, feven hours, forty-three minutes, twenty feconds. 
 Confequentlv, if to. the mean time of an eclipfe, either of the Sun or Moon, 
 you add eighteen Juhan years, eleven days, feven hours, forty-three mi- 
 nutes, twenty feconds, when the laft day of February in leap-years comes 
 in four times, or a day lefs when it comes in five times, you will have 
 the mean time of the return of the lame eclipfe. 
 
 But the falling back of the line of conjunaions or oppofitions of the 
 Sun and Moon twenty-eight minutes twelve feconds with refpea to the 
 line of the nodes in every period, will wear it out in procels of time ; 
 and after that it will not return again in lefs than tw^elve thoufand four 
 hundred and ninety-two years. Thefe eclipfes of the Sun which happeu 
 about the afcending node, and begin to come in at the north pole ot the 
 
 No. 50. n F Earth,
 
 960 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N" 
 
 Earth, will go a little Ibutherly at each return, till they go quire ofT the 
 Earth at the ibuth pole ; and thole which happen about the delcending 
 node, and begin to come in at the fouth poic of the Earth, will go a lit- 
 tle northerly at each return, till at laft they quite leave the Earth at the 
 north pole. 
 
 To exemplify this matter, it may not here be amifs to examine fome 
 of the moft remarkable circumdances of the return of an ecliple men- 
 tioned in Mr. Smith's ingenious Diflbrtation, which happened Julv 14, 
 1748, about noon. This ecliple, after traverling the voids of fpace from 
 the creation, at laft began to enter the Terra Aujiralis Ivicognila about 
 eighty-eight years after the Conqueft, which was the laft of King Ste- 
 phen's reign ; every Chaldean period, namely, i 8 years 1 1 days 7 hours 
 43 minutes 20 leconds, as above-mentioned, it has conftantly crept more 
 northerly, but was ftill invilible in Britain before the year 1622, when 
 on the 30th of April it began to touch the Ibuth parts of England about 
 two in the afternoon ; its central appearance riling in the American South 
 Seas, and traverling Peru and the Amazons country, through the Atlantic, 
 ocean into Africa, and letting in the Ethiopian continent, not far from 
 the beginning of the Red Sea. 
 
 Its next vifible period was after three Chaldean revolutions, in 1676, 
 0!i the firft of June, rifuig central in the Atlantic ocean, pafling us about 
 nine in the morning, with four digits eclipfed on the under limb ; and 
 fetting in the gulph of Cochin China in the Eaft Indies. 
 
 It being now near the folftice, this eclipfe was vifible the very next 
 return in 1694, in the evening; and in two periods more, which was in 
 1730, on the 4th of July, was feen above half eclipfed juft after fun-rife, 
 and obferved both at Wirtemberg in Germany and Pekin in China, foon 
 after which it went off. Eighteen years more afforded us this eclipfe 
 again, which happened the 14th of July, 1748. The next vifible return 
 happened on the 25th of July, 1762, in the evening, about four digits 
 eclipfed; and, after two periods more, it was vifible again, on the i6th 
 of Auguft, 1802, early in the morning, about five digits, the centre com- 
 ing from the north frozen continent, by the capes of Norway, through 
 Tartary, China, and Japan, to the Ladrone Iflands, where it went off.. 
 
 Again, in 1820, Auguft 26, betwixt one and two, there will be ano- 
 ther return of this ecliple at London about 10 digits; but happening fo 
 near the equinox, the centre will leave every part of Britain to the weft, 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 961 
 
 enter Germany at Embden, pafluig by Venice, Naples, and Grand Cairo, 
 and let in the gulph of Baflbi a near that city. It will be no more vifible 
 till 1874, when five digits will be obfcured (the centre being now about 
 to leave the Earth) on September 28. In 1892 the Sun will go down- 
 cclipfed at London, and again in 1928 the palTage of the centre will be in 
 the expanfum^ though there will be two digits eclipfed at London, October 
 the 31ft of that year ; and about the year 2090 the whole penumbra will 
 be worn off; whence no more returns of this eclipfe can happen till after 
 a revolution of ten thoufand years. 
 
 From thefe remarks on the entire revolution of this eclipfe, we may 
 gather, that a thoufand years, more or lefs, (for there are Ibme irregulari- 
 ties that may protract or lengthen this period roo years,) complete the 
 whole terreftrial jihenomena of any fingle eclipfe : and lince 20 periods of 
 54 years each, and about -3,2) days, comprehend the entire extent of their 
 revolution, it is evident that the times of the returns will pafs through a 
 circuit of one year and ten months, every Chaldean period being ten or 
 eleven days later, and of the equable appearances about 32 or 33 days. 
 Thus, though this eclipfe happens about the middle of July, no other 
 fubfequent ecliple of this period will return to the middle of the fame 
 month again ; but wear conftantly each period ten or eleven days for- 
 ward, and at lafl appear in winter; but then it begins to ceafe from af- 
 feding us. 
 
 Another conclufion from this revolution may be drawn, that there will 
 feldom be any more than two great eclipfes of the Sun in the interval of 
 this period, and thefe follow fometim.es next return, and often at greater 
 diflances. That of 171 5 returned again in 1733 very great ; but this 
 prefent eclipfe will not be great till the arrival of 1820, which is a re- 
 volution of four Chaldean periods : fo that the regulations of their cir- 
 cuits muft undergo new computations to aflign them exadly. 
 
 Nor do all eclipfes come in at the fouth pole : that depends altogether 
 on the pofition of the lunar nodes, which will bring in as many from the 
 expanfum one way as the other : and fuch eclipfes will wear more fouthcrly 
 by degrees, contrary to what happens in the prefent cafe. 
 
 The eclipfe, for example, of 1736, in September, had its centre in the 
 expanfum, and fet about the middle of its obfcurity in Britain ; it will wear 
 in at the north pole, and in the year 2600, or thereabouts, go off in the 
 expajvfum on the fouth fide of the Earth. 
 
 ^ ^ The
 
 961 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The eclipfes therefore which happened about the creation are little 
 more than half-way yet of their ethereal circuit; and will be 4000 years 
 before tliey enter the Earth any more. This grand revolution fecms ta 
 have been entirely unknown to the ancients. 
 
 It is particularly to be noted, that eclipfes whrth liavc happened many 
 centuries ago will not be found by our prefent Tables to agree ex- 
 ax5tly with ancient obfervations, by reafon of the great anomalies in the 
 lunar motions ; which appears an iuconteftible demonftration of the 
 non-eternity of the univ^erfe. For it feems confirmed by undeniable 
 proofs, that the iNIoon now fmifhes her period in iels time than foi-merly,' 
 and will continue by the centripetal law to approach nearer and nearer 
 the Earth, and to go fooner and fooner round it : nor will the centrifugal 
 power be fufficient to compenilite the ditferent gravitations of fuch an af- 
 lemblage of bodies as conftitute the folar lyflem, which would come to 
 ruin of itfelf, without Tome new regulation and adjuflment of their origi- 
 nal motion.* We ai^e crediblv informed, from the teilimonv of the 
 ancients, that there was a total ecliple of the Sun prcdided by Thales to 
 happen in the fourth year of the 48th Olympiadj-f- either at Sardis or Mi- 
 
 * There are two ancient eclipfes of the Moon, recorded by Ptolomy from Hipparchus, which 
 afford an undeniable proof of the Moon's acceleration. The firfl: of thele was obferved at Babylon, 
 December the szd, in the year before Clinft 383 ; when the Moon began to be eciipfed about half 
 an hour before the Sun rofe, and the eclipfe was not over before the Moon fet; but, by moft of our 
 Aftronomical Tables, the Moon was kt at Babylon half an hour before the eclipfe began; in which 
 cafe, there could have been no poflibility of obfcrving it. The lecond eclipfe was oblerved at Alex- 
 andria, September the szd, in the year before Chrift 201 ; where the Movin rofe fo much eciipfed, 
 that the eclipfe m\i([ have begun about half an hour before fhe rofe: whereas, by molt of our Ta- 
 bles, the beginning of this eclipfe was not till about ten minutes after the Moon rofe at Alex- 
 andria. Had thefo eclipfes begun and ended while the Sun v/as below the horizon, v/e might have 
 imagined, that as the ancients had no certain way of meafuring time, they might have fo far 
 miftaken the hours, that we could not have laid any firefs on the accounts given by them. But, 
 as in the firft eclipfe the Moon was fct, and confequcmly the Sun rifen, before it was over} and 
 in the fecond eclipfe thi Sun was fet and the Moon not rifen till fome time after it began: th-fe 
 are fuch circumftances as the obfervers could not poffibly be miftaken in. Mr» Struyk, in 
 bis catalogue, tiotwithftanding the exprefs words of Ptolomy, puts down thefe two eclipfes 
 as obferved at Athens; where they might have been feen as above, without any acceleration o£ 
 the Moon's motion; Athens being twenty degrees weft of Babylon, and feveii degrees weft of 
 Alexandria. 
 
 t Each Olympiad began at the time of full Moofi next after the fummer folftice, and Lifted 
 four years, which were of unccjual length^, becaufe the time of full Moon differs eleven days 
 every year: fo that they might iometimcs begin on the next day after the IbUfice, and at oilier 
 limes not till fur weeks after it. The firft Olympiad b.^gan in the year of the Julian period 3938', 
 which was 776 years before the fiift year of Chrift, or 775 before the year of his bir;h: ^nd the 
 laft Olympiad, which was the 293d, began A- D. 393. Ac the expiration of each Olympiad, the 
 Olympic Games were celebrated in the Elean fields, near the river Alpheus in the Peloponnefus 
 (now Morea), in honour of Jujjitcr Olympus. See SJtrauchius's Ikeviaiiuro Chronologium, p. 
 447-25.1. 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 963 
 
 letus in Afia, where Thales then refided. That year correfpoads to the 
 585th year before Chrift ; when accordingly there happened a very iignal 
 eclipfe of the Sun, on the 28th of May, anfvvering to the prefent loth of 
 that month,* central through North America, the fouth parts of France, 
 Italy, &c. as far as Athens, or the Ifles in the ^gean Sea; which is the 
 farthell that even the Caroline Tables carry it; and confequently make 
 it invifible to any part of Alia, in the total charadler ; though I have good 
 realbns to believe that it extended to Babylon, and went down central 
 over that city. We are not however to imagine, that it was fet before it 
 pafled Sardis and the Afiatic towns, where the predi6lor lived ; becaufe 
 an invifible eclipfe could have been of no fervice to demonflrate his ability 
 in aflronomical fciences to his countrymen, as it could give no proof of 
 its reality. . 
 
 For a farther illuftration, Thucydides relates, that a folar eclipfe hap- 
 pened on a fummer's day in the afternoon, in the firfl year of the Pelo- 
 ponnefian war, fo great that the ftars appeared. Rhodius was vi6tor in 
 the Olympic games the fourth year of the faid war, being alfo the fourth 
 of the 8;th Olympiad, on the 428th year before Chrift. So that the 
 eclipfe mull: have happened in the 431ft year before Chrift ; and by com- 
 putation it appears, that on the 3d of Auguft there was a fignal eclipfe 
 which would have pafled over Athens central about fix in the evening, 
 but which our prefent Tables being no farther than the ancient Syrtes on 
 the African coaft, above 400 miles from Athens; which, fufFering in that 
 cafe but 9 digits, could by uo means exhibit the remarkable darknefs re- 
 cited by this hiflorian ; the centre therefore feems to have pafTed Athens 
 about fix in the evening, and probably might go down about Jerufalem, 
 or near it, contrary to the conftrudion of the prefent Tables. 1 have 
 only mentioned thefe things by way of caution to the prefent aftronomers, 
 m re-computing ancient eclipfes; and refer them to examine the eclipfe 
 
 * The reader may probably find it difficult to unuerftand why Mr. Smith fhould reckon this 
 eclipfe to have been in the 4th year of the 48th Olympiad, as it was only in the end of the third 
 year : and alfo why the 28th of May, in the 585th year before Chrift, fhjuld anfwer to the prefent 
 10th of that month. But we hope the following explanation will remove thefe difficulties. Tho 
 month of May (when the Sun was eclipfcd) in the 585th year before the firft year of Chriff, which 
 was a leap-year, fell in the latter end of the third year of the 48th Olympaid ; and the fourth year 
 of that Olympiad began at the fummer folftice following; but perhaps Mr. Smith begins the 
 years of the Olympiad from January, in order to make thorn correspond more readily with Julian 
 years ; and fo reckons the month of May, when the eclipfe happened, to be in the fourth year 
 of that Olympiad. The place or longitude of the Sun at that time was 8 29 degrees 43 minutes 
 i7feconds, to which fame place theSunreturnad (after 2300 years, viz.) A. D. 1716, on May 9d 5h 
 6ai after noon : fo that, with refpe<S to the Sun's place, the 9th of May, 1716, anfwers to the 28th 
 of May in the 585th year before the firft year of Chrift ; that is, the Sun had the feme longitude on 
 thofe days. 
 
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 96+ 
 
 AN 1 L 1. U S T R A T I O N 
 
 of Nicias, fo fatal to the Athcuian fleet; that which overthrew the Mace- 
 donian army, &c. 
 
 A longer period than the above-mentioned, for comparing and examin- 
 ing eclipfes which happened at long intervals of time, is 557 years 21 
 days rS hours 30 minutes 11 feconds, in which time there are 6890 mean 
 lunations ; and the Sun and node meet again fo nearly as to be but 1 1 
 leconds diftant ; I)ut then it is not the fame eclipfe that returns, as in the 
 ihorter period above mentioned. 
 
 The following are the chief of the vi/ll>/e Eclipfes, which will happen 
 from this time-to the year 1808. 
 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 Eclipfe 
 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 of the 
 
 Moon, 
 
 Moon, 
 
 Sun, 
 
 Moon, 
 
 Sun, 
 
 Moon, 
 
 Sun, 
 
 Sun, 
 
 Moon, 
 
 Moon, 
 
 Sun, 
 
 Sun, 
 
 Moon, 
 
 Moon, 
 
 Moon, 
 
 Moon, 
 
 Sun, 
 
 Moon, 
 
 Nov. 2, 
 
 April 28, 
 
 April 3, 
 
 Oft. 
 
 Sept 
 
 Feb. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 June 25, 
 Dec. 4, 
 May 
 Oct 
 
 Nov. 15, 
 Nov. 29, 
 Nov. 3, 
 
 12, 
 16, 
 
 5. 
 3', 
 14, 
 
 4, 
 16, 
 
 2, 
 
 1789, 
 1790, 
 
 1792, 
 
 1793' 
 
 1793, 
 
 1794, 
 
 1794, 
 
 1795. 
 
 1795' 
 
 ^797' 
 
 ^797' 
 1798, 
 
 1800, 
 
 1807, 
 
 1807, 
 
 1808, 
 
 at 12 at night. Partial. 
 
 at I 2 at night. Total. 
 
 at I in the afternoon Partial. 
 
 at 3 in the morning. Partial. 
 
 at 1 1 in the morning. Partial. 
 
 at ioatni2:ht. Partial. 
 
 at 3 in the afternoon. Partial. 
 
 at 4 in the afternoon. Partial. 
 
 at 1 1 at night. Total. 
 
 at I in the morning. Partial. 
 
 at 9 in the morning. Partial. 
 
 at 8 in the evening. Partial. 
 
 at 6 in the morning. Partial. 
 
 at 7 at night. Total. 
 
 at 1 1 at night. Partial. 
 
 at 7 in the mornuig Partial. 
 
 at 31 m. afternoon. Partial. 
 
 at 7 in the morning. Total. 
 
 In Aflronomy, eclipfes of the Moon are of great ufe for afcertaining 
 the periods of her motions, efpecially fuch eclipfes as are obferved to be 
 alike in all circumftances, and have long intervals of time betweej\ them. 
 In Geography, the longitudes of places are found by eclipfes, as already 
 fhewn ; but for this purpofe eclipfes of the Moon are more ufeful than 
 thofe of the Sun, becaufe they are more frequently vifible, and the fame 
 lunar eclipfe is of equal largenefs and duration at all places where it is feen. 
 In Chronology, both folar and lunar eclipfes ferve to determine exaftly 
 the time of any paft event : for there are fo many particulars obfervable 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G V. 965 
 
 /^r^^^'7 *=^'^P^^ ^^^^^^ refpeft to its quantity, the places where h is vlhble 
 (if ot the Sun), and the time of the dav or night; that it is impofiible 
 there can be two lolar ecHpfes in the courie of many ages which areahk- 
 in all circumflances. 
 
 Of the FIGURE and MOTION of the EARTH, the CHANGE of 
 SEASONS, the CAUSE of EARTHQUAKES, Sec. 
 
 The Earth, among Aftronomers, is confidercd as one of the primary 
 planets; and its figure was accounted by fome of the ancients to be like 
 that of an oblong cylinder ; by others, of the form of a drum, and by 
 others to be flat. But the moderns have demonftrated it to be nearl'v 
 fpherical, or rather an oblate fpheroid, flatted towards the poles. 
 
 Before we enter more minutely into thefe fpeculations, it will be pro- 
 per to defcnbe the various circles of the globe, and to explain its feveral 
 divilions and boundaries, as well imaginary as real, in order to c^ive all 
 my readers a perfeft idea of the fubjeft before them. For this purpofe I 
 havefubjoined a plate of the Armillary Sphere, which is an artificial con- 
 trivance, reprefenting the feveral circles proper to the theory of the 
 mundane world, put together in their natural order, to eafe and affift 
 the imagination in conceiving the conftitution of the fpheres, and the va- 
 rious phenomena of the celeftial bodies. For this purpofe the Earth is 
 placed in the centre, pierced by a hne fuppofed to be its axis, the 
 upper point of which is fixed in the arftic, or north pole, and the lower 
 extremity in the antardic, or fouth pole ; whence the two fmall circles 
 defcribed near thefe points are called the arflic and antar6lic circles. 
 The outer circle, in which the axis or poles of the world are fixed] 
 reprefents the meridian, or fuppofed line over any given place, to which 
 when the Sun comes, it is then mid-day, or noon. The broad circle, 
 which crofles the whole, and divides the fphere into two equal parts, is' 
 called the horizon ; becaufe it divides the heavens and the earth into two 
 equal parts or hemifpheres, called the upper and the lower, the one liaht 
 and the other dark. It likewife determines the rifing and fetting of t'he 
 Sun, Moon, or ftars, in any particular latitude; for, when anv of theie 
 appear juft at the eaftern part of the horizon, we fay, it rifes ; and,-when 
 It does lo at the weftern part, we fay, it fets. From hence alfo the lati- 
 tude of the Sun and ftars is reckoned,, which is their height above the 
 horizon. The poles of the horizon are the zenith and the nadir, or the 
 points immediately over our heads and under our feet, diametrically 
 oppofite to each other, in the upper and lower hemifpheres. The inner 
 
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 966 A N 1 L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 wide circle reprefents the zodiac, the middle line of wliich is the ecliptic, 
 or Sun's way in the zodiac, from which he never departs. It is not fo 
 with the Moon and the planets ; for, though their conllant way is in this 
 circle of the zodiac, yet they continually deviate from its centre, or 
 ecliptic line, from north to ibuth, and from fouth to north; which 
 deviations are called their latitudes, and their extent each way deter- 
 mines the width of the zodiac. The two circles within the zodiac, 
 which interled each other at right angles, conftitute the equinoctial co- 
 lure, and the equator, or equinoftial line. The points where thefc cir- 
 cles interfed each other, divide the quarters in the year. That which 
 pafles through the two equinoxial points, determines the equinoxes ; 
 and that which pafles through the poles of the ecliptic, determines the 
 iblftices. When the Sun is in the firft of them, viz. in the fpring, March 
 20th, it is called the vernal equinox ; and when in autumn, Se])tember 
 23d, it is called the autumnal equinox ; at both which times, 'it is equal 
 day and night all over the world. So like wife, when the Sun is in the other, 
 and at his greateft afcent above the equator, and feems to defcribe the 
 tropic of Cancer, it is called the fummer folflice, and makes the longeft 
 dav ; and on the contrary, when he is at the greateft defcent below the 
 equator, and feems to defcribe the tropic of Capricorn, it is called the 
 winter folftice, or Ihorteil day. Thefe tropics are two circles defcribed 
 one immediately under and next adjoining to the ardic circle; and the 
 other, tliat next above the antarftic circle. They are diftant from the 
 equinodlial twenty-three degrees twenty-nine minutes. That on the 
 north fide of the line is called the tropic of Cancer, and the foutheni 
 tropic has the name of Capricorn, as pafling through the beginning of 
 each of thoie figns. 
 
 It mufl here likewife be noted, that the Equator, or Equinoctial Line, 
 pafles through the eafh and weft points of the horizon, and at the meri- 
 dian is raifed as much above the horizon as is the complement of the 
 latitude of the place. From this circle, the latitude of places, whether 
 north or fouth, begin to be reckoned in degrees of the meridian; but 
 the loncritude of places are reckoned in degrees of the equator itfelf. All 
 people living on or under this circle, which is called by. geographers and 
 navigators the Line, have their days and nights conftantly equal: and 
 this is the reafon why, when the Sun enters two points where the 
 ecliptic interfeds the equinoftial, and is exactly upon this line, namely, 
 in the fpring and autumn, as above-mentioned, that the days and nights 
 become of equal duration all over the globe. All the ftars diretSlly under 
 this circle have no declination, but always rife due eaft, and let full weft. 
 The hour circles are drawn at right angles to it, pafluig through every 
 
 fifteenth
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. ^ 967 
 
 fifteenth degree; and the parallels to it are called parallels of declination. 
 Having prcmifed (o much by way of explaining the fphere, I fhall now 
 proceed with the fubjedt immediately before us. 
 
 That the Earth is a fpheiical body, may be demonftrated from the 
 following among other confideratious. i. All the appearances of the 
 heavens, both at land and at fea, are the fame as they would be if the Earth 
 were a globe. 2. In eclipfes of the Moon which are caufed by the fha- 
 dow of the Earth falling upon the Moon, this fhadow is always circular, 
 and a body can be no other than a gioble, which in all fituations cafts a 
 circular fhadow. 3. Several navigators have failed quite round the globe, 
 fleering their courfe directly fouth and weft, till they came to the Ma- 
 gellanic Sea, and from thence to the north and well, till they returned 
 to their port from the eaft ; and all the phenomena which (hould natu- 
 rally arife from the Earth's rotundity happened to thern. Belides, their 
 method of failing was alfo founded upon this hypothelis, which could 
 never have fucceeded fo happily, if the Earth had been of any other figure. 
 It is true, the furface of the Earth is not an exact geometrical globe, but 
 then the inequalities are fo inconfiderable, that the higheft mountain 
 bears no greater proportion to the bulk of the Earth than a grain of duft 
 does to a common globe. The figure of the Earth then was reckoned by 
 mathematicians and geographers as perfectly fpherical, excepting the fmall 
 inequalities in its furface, of mountains and valleys, till an accident en- 
 gaged the attention of Sir Ifaac Newton, and Mr. Huygens, who de- 
 monftrated, from the laws of hydroftatics, and the revolution of the Earth 
 about its axis, that its figure was not a true fphere, but an oblate fphe- 
 roid flatted towards the poles. Monfieur Richer, when at the ifland of 
 Cayenne, about five degrees diftant from the equator, found that his clock, 
 which at Paris kept true time, now loft two minutes and twenty-eight 
 ieconds every day. Now, though heat will lengthen pendulums, and 
 confequently retard their motion, it is certain the heats of Cayenne were 
 not fufficient to folve this phaenomenon, which can flow only from a di- 
 minution in the prefTure of gravity. For, as the Earth revolves about 
 its axis, all its parts will endeavour to recede from the axis of motion, and 
 thereby the equatoreal parts where the motion is quickeft will tend lels 
 towards the centre than the reft ; their endeavour to fly off from the axis 
 about which they revolve taking off part of their tendency that way ; 
 fo that thofe parts will become lighter than fuch as are nearer the poles. 
 The polar parts, therefore will prefs in towards the centre, and raiie 
 the equktoreal parts, till the quantity of matter in the latter is fo fai- iu- 
 creafed as to compenfate for its lightncfs, and an equilibrium be reftored. 
 On which account, the fwm which the Earth affumes will be th^t of an 
 
 No. 50. 1 1 H oblate
 
 968 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 oblate fpheroid, whofe fhorter axis pafTes through the poles. By virtirc 
 only of the rotation of the Earth about its axis, the weight of bodies at 
 the equator is lefs than at the poles, in the proportion of 288 to 289. 
 From hence arifes, as before obfcrved, a Ipheroidicai form of the Earth, 
 and from that fpheroidical form arifes another diminution.-of gravity at 
 the equator, by which, if the Earth were homogeneous throughout, bo- 
 dies at the equator would lofe one pound in 112.1, aiid fo, on both ac- 
 counts taken together, the gravity of bodies at the poles would be to the 
 fame at the equator as 230 to 229. From whence, if we fuppofe the 
 gravity of bodies within the Earth to be diredly as their diflance from 
 the centre, thofe numbers will alio exprefs the relation between its polar 
 and equatoreal diameter. This is upon a fuppofition that the Earth was 
 at firft fluid, or a chaos, having its folid and fluid parts confufedly mixed 
 together ; but if we luppofe it at firft partly fluid and partly dry, as it 
 now is, fince we find that the land is very nearly of the Icrme figure with 
 the fea, except raifed a little to prevent its being overflowed, the Earth 
 muft ftill be of the fame form ; for otherwife the major part of the water 
 would flow towards the equator, and fprcad itfelf like an inundation over 
 all the land in thole parts. This theory met with great oppofition from 
 Monfieur Caffmi, who, having fneafured the meridian of France, declared 
 (with great realbn likewife, if the obfervations had been correct) that the 
 Earth, inftead of being flattened, was lengthened towards the poles, that 
 is, inftead of being an oblate it was an oblong fpheriod, higher at the 
 poles by about ninety-five miles. So wide a differe;xice, between philo- 
 fophefs of fo high rank, determined at length the King of France, at an 
 expence becoming a monarch, toemploy two companies of mathemati- 
 cians, the one to meafure the length of a degree of the meridian at the 
 equator, and the other the length of a degree at the polar circle, that by 
 comparing them together, and with the length of the degree of France, it 
 might be known whether the Earth were oblong or flat towards the poles. 
 
 It is certain, if the lengths of the degrees of latitude decreafe as we 
 go from the equator towards the poles, then the axis is greater, and the 
 figure an oblong fpheriod ; but on the contrary, if thefe lengths increale 
 as you remove towards the poles, the axis is lefs than a diameter at the 
 equator, and confequently the figure an oblate fpheriod. This laft ap- 
 pears, as well by -the theory of Sir Ifaac Newton, to be the true figure, 
 as it does by the refpe61:ive menfurations of thele mathematicians, which 
 were performed with furprifing exa61nefs. The figure of the Earth be- 
 ing thus determined, we next proceed to fhew the triple means whereby 
 it IS agitated and governed in its motion, and whereby night and day, and 
 all die phasnomena of the feafons, are produced. 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 969 
 
 _ In the firft place, the Earth is found to have a diurnal motion round 
 its own axis, from well: to eaft, which it performs in twenty-four hours, 
 and thereby occafions the perpetual fucceffion of days and nights. It is 
 every way agreeable to realon, that the Earth fliould revolve ab^'out its own 
 axis,' to account for the appearance of fuch a vaft number offtars, which 
 leem to perform their revolutions round the earth in tvventv-four hours ; 
 for the motion of thefe liars, were it real, would be incredibly fwift, and 
 beyond all imagination, becaufe their diftance in refpea of u3 is almoft 
 infinite, and the orbit they have to run round fo prodigioufly great, that 
 they mull: move at leaft 100,000 miles in a minute. 
 
 The Earth has, fecondly, 3iU annual motion round the Sun, which it 
 performs every year, whereby it produces the different feafons, and the 
 lengthening and Ihortening of the days. It being now an eflablilhed 
 do6tnne that the Sun is the centre of our fyltem, and that the Earth 
 moves roun.d "it, we lliall ayoid entering into any dilquilitions upon that 
 head, fince it is only neceffdry we Ihould explain the phenomena which 
 anle from, the earth's annual motion, in conjunftion with the rotation 
 round Its axis; having firft premifed, that, the earth, in its annual mo- 
 tion, hath Its axis always in the famfe diredion, or parallel to itfelf. 
 
 Suppofe vf r 2B - (iti the annexed figure of the Earth's motion) be 
 the Earth's orbit, and 8 the Sun. Through the centre of the Sun draw 
 the right line r S ii parallel to the common fedion of the equator and 
 the ecliptic, which will meet with the ecliptic in two points r ^. And 
 when the Earth feen from the Sun is in either of the points r or a, a 
 right luie S r or S ii, joining the centre of the Earth and Sun, will coin- 
 cide with the common leftion of the equator and ecliptic, and will then 
 be perpendicular to A B, the axis of the Earth, or of the equator, becaufe 
 It is in .the plane of the equator. But the fame line is alfo perpendicular 
 to the circle which bounds the light and darknels, and therefore the axis 
 of the Earth will be in the plane of that circle, which will therefore pafs 
 through the poles of the Earth, and will cut the equator and all its pa- 
 rallels into equal parts. When the earth, therefore, is in the becrinnino- 
 of ii, the Sun will be feen in r, in the common fedion of the equato? 
 and echptic, m which pofition, the circle of illumination touchel both 
 poles: the Sun is vertical to the equator, and the days and nights arc 
 equal all the world over ; and this is the fpring feafon, or vernal equinox. 
 
 The Earth in its annual motion going through ^, m, and ;, towards 
 vf, and the common feftion of the equator, and the ecliptic remainincr 
 always parallel to itfelf, it will no longer pafs through the bodv of th? 
 
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 970 AN I L L 1/ S T R A T I O N 
 
 Sun ; buti in vf , it makes a right angle with the line S P, which joins 
 the centre of the Son and Earth. And becaufe the line SP is not in the 
 plane of the equator, but in that of the ecliptic, the angle BPS, which 
 the axis of the Earth BA makes with it, will not now be a right angle, 
 but an oblique one of 66:^ degrees, which is the fame with the inclitia- 
 tiou of the axis to the plane of the ecliptic. Let the angle SPI. be a 
 right angle, and the circle, bounding light and darknefs, will pafs through 
 the point L, and then the arch BD, or the angle BPL, will be 23^ de- 
 grees, that is, equal to the complement of the angle BPS to a right angle. 
 Let the ang;le BPE be a rislit ansile, and then the line PE will be in the 
 plane of the equator. Therefore, becaufe the arches BE and LT are equal, 
 each of them being quadrants, if the common arch BT be taken away, 
 there will remain TE equal to LB, equal to 23^ degrees. Take E M equal 
 to ET, and through the points M and T defcribe two parallel circles, TC, 
 MN ; the one reprefents the tropic of Cancer, and the other the tropic of 
 Capricorn. And, the Earth being in this fituation, the Sun will approach 
 the neareft that it can come to the North Pole: he will fhine perpendi- 
 cularly on the point T, and conlequently will be vertical to all the in- 
 habitants under the tropic of Cancer, when he comes to their meri- 
 dians. It is manifefl: that the circle which bounds light and darknefs 
 reaches beyond the North Pole B to L : but towards the fouth it falls 
 fhort to the South Pole A, and reaches no further than F.. Through 
 L and F, let two parallels to the equator be defcribed. Thefe will re- 
 prefent the polar circles, and, while the Earth is in P, all that trail of 
 it which is included within the polar circle KL continues in the light, 
 notwithftanding the conftant revolution round the axis. Oix the contrary, 
 thofe that lie within the antardlic circle remain in continual darknefs. 
 
 It is alfo manifefl-, that all the parallels between the equator and the 
 ar6tic circle are cut by the circle bounding light and darknefs into un- 
 equal portions, the largeft portions of thefe circles remaining in the light, 
 and the fmalleft in darknefs; but thefe parallels which are towards the 
 antarftic circle have their greateft poitions in darknefs, and their leaft in 
 light ; and the difference of thefe portions will be greater or lefs, accord- 
 ing as the circles are nearer to the pole or to the equator. Therefore 
 when the Sun is feen in Cancer 55, the inhabitants of the northern he- 
 mifphere will have their days at the longefl, and their nights at the 
 fhortefl, and the feafon of the year will be fummer. The contrary of 
 this will happen to the inhabitants of the fouthern hemifphere. 
 
 As the earth moves on from w by ^, K, the north pole returns, the 
 diurnal arches begin gradually to decrcafc, and the noffTjinial to iiicreafe, 
 
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 OFASTROLOGY. 971 
 
 and of confequence the Sun's rays will fall more and more obliquely, 
 and his'^heat proportionably diminifh, till the Earth comes to T, when 
 the Sun will appear in ^, at which time, the days will again be equal 
 to the nights to all the inhabitants of the earth, the circle bounding light 
 and darknefs paffing in this pofition through the poles. This will be the 
 feafon called autumn. 
 
 The Earth moving on through T» b > and n , the Sun will be feen to 
 go in the ecliptic through :0:, m, and $ , and will appear to decline from 
 the equator towards the fouth; fo that, when the Earth is really in 25, 
 the Sun will appear in VJ. And, whereas the axis AB always retains its 
 parallelifm, the Earth will have the fame pofition and afpeft in refped 
 to the Sun that it had when it was in Vy ; but with this difference, that, 
 whereas the trad within the polar circle K L was in continual light while 
 the Earth was in VJ, now, the Earth arriving at 25, the fame trad will be 
 altogether in darknefs; but the oppofite fpace, within the circle FG, 
 will be in a continual illumination, and at the pole A there will be no 
 night for the fpace of fix months. Here likewife, of the parallels be- 
 tween the equator and the north pole, the illuminated portions are much 
 lefs than the portions which remain in darknefs, the contrary of which 
 happened in the former pofition; fo likewife the Sun at mid-day will 
 appear vertical to all the inhabitants that live in the tropic M N ; fo that 
 it will appear to have defcended towards the fouth from the parallel T C 
 to the parallel MN, through the arch CQN, which is forty-feven de- 
 grees. This will be the feafon called winter. 
 
 Laftly, as the Earth journeys on from 25 through SI and ftjH to :£^y the 
 Sun appears to pafs through ::: and ^ to T, and the northern climes 
 begin to return, and receive more diredtly the enlivening beams of the 
 Sun, whofe meridian height does now each day increafe; the days now 
 lengthen, and the tedious nights contraft their refpedtive arches; and 
 every thing confpires to advance the delightful feafon of the fpring, with 
 the equality of days and nights, as was ihown when the Earth was in zc^, 
 from which point we began to trace its motion. 
 
 The third motion of the Earth is that motion by which the poles of 
 the world revolve about the poles of the ecliptic, and occafion what is 
 commonly called the precefl~ion of the equinoxes, which is a flow motion 
 of the equinoctial points towards the weft, that is, in antecedefitia, or 
 contrary to the order of the figns. This retrogade motion, by carrying 
 the equino6iial points to meet the Sun in his apparent annual motion, 
 makes him arrive at them fooner every year than he would do if ihofe 
 
 No. 51. Ill points
 
 972 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 points continued immoveable; and this arch of regrelTion being fifty 
 feconds a-year, or one degree in feventy-two years, makes the equinoxes 
 hapi)en twenty minutes in time fooner each year than they would other- 
 wiie do. And, though this change be not fenfible in a few years, yet 
 thefe points are found to have a very different fituation from what they 
 had two thouland years ago. 
 
 By reafon of this preceflion of the equinodlial points, the fixed flats 
 feem to move towards the eaft, and thereby to have their longitude, 
 which is always reckoned upon the ecliptic, from the vernal equinodtial 
 point, increafed. And hence the Conflellations feem to have deferted 
 the places allotted them by the ancient aftronomers; for inflance, the 
 beginning of the fign Aries, which in llipparchus's time was near the 
 vernal equinodial point, and gave name to that point of the ecliptic, is 
 now removed near a whole llgn, or thirty degrees, eaftward ; lb that 
 Aries is now where Taurus ufed to be, Taurus where Gemini uled to be, 
 Sec. and thus all the conflellations of the zodiac have changed their 
 ancient places. But, to avoid confufion, aflronomers have thought fit 
 to let the leveral portions of the ecliptic, where thefe conftellations were 
 at firft obferved to be, retain their old names; fo that the vernal equi- 
 no6tial point is dill reckoned the firft degree of Aries. However, thefe 
 portions of the ecli|)tic, where the conflellations were at firfl:, are called 
 anafira, to diftinguifh them from the places where they now are, which 
 are termed J^e//ata. 
 
 The orbit, in which the Earth moves round the Sun, common ex- 
 perience proves to be elliptical; for, were it circular, the Sun's apparent 
 diameter would always be the fame; but we find it is not; for, if it be 
 mealured with a micrometer in winter time, it will be found confidera- 
 bly larger than in fummer, and it will be greatcfl: of all when the Sun 
 is in the eighth degree of Capricorn, which fhows that is the place of 
 the aphelium, it being then thirty-two minutes forty-feven feconds; 
 whereas, when the Sun is in the eighth degree of Cancer, his diameter- 
 is but thirty-one minutes forty feconds. Hence it is evident, that the 
 Sun is really nearer to us in the midft of winter than it is in the midft of 
 fummer: but this feems a paradox to many, who think the Sun muft 
 needs be hottefl when it is the nearefl to us, and that the Sun is apparently 
 more diftant from us in December than in June. As to the Sun's being 
 hotter, it is true, it is fo to all thofe places which receive his rays dire6lly 
 or perpendicularly; but we find his heat abated on account of the obli- 
 quity of the rays, and his fhort continuance above the horizon at that 
 time. And, as to his diftance, it is only with refped to the zenith of 
 
 the
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 973 
 
 the place, not the centre of the earth; fince it is plain the Sun may ap- 
 proach the centre of the earth at the fame time that it recedes from the 
 zenith of any place. And, agreeably to the Sun's nearer diftance in the 
 winter, we oblerve his apparent motion is then quicker than in the fum- 
 mer; for in tlie eighth degree of Capricorn it is about fixty-one minutes 
 per day, but in the eighth degree of Cancer his motion is but fifty-feven 
 minutes per day. Accordingly, we find the fummer half-year eight days 
 longer than the winter half-year, as appears by the following computa- 
 tion, according to the new ftyle. 
 
 The Summer half-year includes 
 In March lo^ Days. 
 
 The Winter half-year includes 
 
 In September 
 
 7 Days. 
 
 
 Oaober 
 
 31 
 
 
 November 
 
 30 
 
 
 December 
 
 31 
 
 
 January 
 
 31 
 
 
 February 
 
 28 
 
 
 March 
 
 20t 
 
 
 178^ 
 
 The difference in the two half-years is 
 
 April 
 
 30 
 
 May 
 
 31 
 
 June 
 
 30 
 
 July 
 
 31 
 
 Auguft 
 
 3^ 
 
 September 
 
 23 
 
 
 i86i 
 
 Winter half-year 
 
 1784- 
 
 8 Day's. 
 
 For, the Sun's attra61:ing force being one part of the caufe of the planet's 
 motion, and this force always increafing and decreafmg in the inverfe 
 ratio of the fquares of the diftances, it is evident the velocity of the 
 planet will always be greater the nearer it is to the Sun, and vice verfa. 
 In this manner the Earth's motion round the Sun is invariably continued, 
 and its revolution performed in three hundred fixty-five days fix hours 
 nine minutes fourteen feconds. 
 
 The Earth, in its natural and original ftate, Des Cartes, Burnet, Wood- 
 ward, and Whifton, fuppofe to have been perfe6i:ly round, fmooth, and^. 
 equable; and they account for its prefent rude and irregular form prin- 
 cipally from the waters of the great deluge, which inundated and over- 
 flowed the whole furface of the globe, to the height of fifteen cubits 
 above the higheft hills; for to that height Mofes exprefsly faith. Gen vii. 
 20, " the waters prevailed." Some have ventured to deny that there 
 were any mountains at all before the flood, though Mofes exprefsly men-- 
 tions them as a ftandard for the height of the water. Others have denied 
 the univerfality of the deluge, though the words of the text be, " That all 
 the hills over the whole earth were covered." Others have had recourfe
 
 974 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 to the fhifting of the earth's centre of gravity, and therefore will have 
 all parts drowned fucceflively; and our famous theorift, Dr. Burnet, 
 fancies an earth made on purpofe to be drowned at that time, which, 
 being in form of an orbicular cruft on the face of the fea, as we now call 
 it, (for he fays there was none before the deluge,) fell down into the 
 water, and fo drowned its inhabitants. This is the moft abfurd theory 
 of all. 
 
 But the Holy Scriptures tell us, that the waters of the deluge came 
 from two funds, " the great deep below,'' and the " rains above." Again, 
 when we look to the internal parts of the earth, even to the greateft depth 
 men have ever reached, we find that the body of the terreftrial globe is 
 compofed of ftrata, or layers, lying over one another, which appear to 
 be fediments of a flood ; befides, in the bodies of thefe flrata, though never 
 fo iblid, nay, even inclofed within the folidity of the firmefl flints, mar- 
 ble, ftone, &CC. we find a prodigious variety of the exuvize, or remains 
 of fifties, fuch as their fhells, teeth, &c. as well marine ones as thofe 
 which live in lakes and rivers; and from a due obfervation of thefe, and 
 repeated confiderations upon them, it was, that the learned Dr. Wood- 
 ward founded what he delivers upon this fubjeft, which therefore is not 
 fo much a theory of the earth, as neceflary deductions, and unavoidable 
 confequence?, drawn from the matters of fa6t, as they are laid down in 
 the fecond part of his Natural Hiftory of the Earth, i . That thefe marine 
 bodies, and the other fpoils of frefti-water fifties, were borne forth out of the 
 Tea by the univerfal deluge, and, on return of the water back again from ofF 
 the earth, thev were left behind on land. 2. That, durins; the time of the 
 deluge, all the ftone and marble of the antediluvian earth, all the metals 
 in it, all the mineral concretions, and in a word, all foflils whatever, 
 that had before attained any folidity, were totally diflblved; their confti- 
 tuent corpufcles disjoined, and their cohefion perfeflly ceafed; and that 
 the faid corpulcles, together with the corpufcles of thofe which were not 
 before folid, fuch as iand, earth, and the like; as alfo, all animal bodies, 
 teeth, fhells, vegetables, in fliort, all bodies whatever they were, either 
 upon the earth, or that conftituted the niafs, if not quite down to the 
 abyfs, yet to the greateft depths we ever dig, were aflumed up promil^ 
 cuoufly into the water, and fuftained therein; fo that the water and thefe 
 bodies made up one common mafs. 3. That at length all the mafs that 
 was thus borne up in the water was again precipitated, and fubfided to- 
 ward the bottom, and that this fubfidence happened generally according 
 to the laws of gravity. That the matter, fubCding thus, formed the 
 ftrata of ftone, earth, maible, coal, &c. of which ftrata the terreftrial 
 globe, or at leaft as much of it as hath been dil'played to human view, 
 doth chiefly confift. 4. That the ftrata of marble, &c. attained their 
 
 folidity
 
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 975 
 
 folidity as foon as the fand, or other matter, whereof they confift, was 
 arrived at the bottom, and well fettled there; and that all thofe ftrata 
 which are folid at this day, have been lo ever fince that time. 5. That 
 thefe ftrata were originally parallel, plane, and regular, and confequently 
 rendered the furface of the earth even and fpherical; that they were 
 Contiguous, and not broken and interrupted as we find them now ; and 
 that the water lay then upon them, conftituting a fluid fpherc, envi- 
 roning all the globe round. 6. That after fome time, by the force of an 
 agent featcd within the earth, thofe ftrata were broken on all fides of the 
 globe ; that they were diflocated, and their fituation varied ; from whence 
 thefe elevations and depreffions on the furface of the globe, as the moun- 
 tains, valleys, and other inequalities. 
 
 From thefe obfervations, he concludes, that Noah's deluge was quite 
 univerfal, covering the whole earth, even the higheft: mountains quite 
 round the globe. That, at the time of the deluge, the water of the ocean 
 was firft brought out on the earth, and immediately fucceedcd by that of 
 the abyfs. That, upon the difruption of the ftrata, or the elevation of 
 fome, and the depreffion of others, towards the end of the deluge, this 
 mafs of water fell back towards the lovveft parts of the earth, into lakes 
 and other cavities, into the channel of the ocean, and through the fiflures 
 by which this communicates with the ocean, in the abyfs which is filled, 
 till it came to an equilibrium with the ocean. That the deluge com- 
 menced in the fpring feafon, the waters coming forth upon the earth in 
 the month which we call May. That the deluge did not happen from 
 an accidental concourfe of natural caufes; but that many things then 
 happened, which never could pofTibly happen without the affiftance of a 
 fupernatural power. 
 
 Mr. Whifton, on the contrary, iti his New Theory of the Earth, fup- 
 pofes the deluge began on the i8th of November, in the 2365th vear of 
 the Julian period, that is, 2349 years before the Chriftian sera; that a 
 comet defcending towards its perihelion, in the plane of the ecliptic, 
 pafled quite near the globe of the earth the very fame "day that the deluge 
 began: he afcribes to the univerfal deluge all the changes and alterations 
 that have happened in the furface and infide of the globe: he adopts the 
 hypothefis of Dr. Woodward, and indifcriminately makes ufe of all the 
 obfervations of this author, with regard to the prefent ftate of the globe. 
 
 The terreftrial globe having once met with the tail of the comet, con*- 
 fifting of a tranfparent fog, or aqueous atmofphere, it muft, in paffing 
 through it, appropriate to itfelf fome part of the matter it contained. 
 
 No. 51. II K All
 
 976 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 All that was found within the fphere of attraction of the globe, muft 
 have fallen upon the earth, and that in form of rain, fmce this tail partly 
 confifted of aqueous vapours. This tail being " the catarafts of heaven 
 that were opened,'^ the rain may be made as plentiful as one pleafes, even 
 to occafion an univerfal deluge, the waters of which would eafilv cover 
 the highefl: mountains. However, Mr. Whifton does not attribute the 
 whole deluge to thefe waters only; for, agreeably to Scripture, he affirms 
 that the earth, upon the approach of the comet, would no doubt feel the 
 force of its attraftion ; fo that the fluid, contained in the great abyfs, 
 would be agitated by fo violent a flux and reflux, that the fuperlicialcruft 
 of tl)e earth could not refift it, but be broken in feveral places, and the 
 internal waters diffufed over the furface, " and the fountains of the great 
 deep broken up." Mr. Whifton, to difpole of all this water, fuppofes, 
 that as foon as the earth, in continuing its courfe, had got fome way from 
 the comet, the efFe6ls of its attra6tion, the flux and reflux, ceafed in the 
 great abyfs, and then the fuperior waters were violently precipitated 
 through the fame palfages by which they came out; the great abyfs 
 fwallowed up all the fuperfluous waters, and its cavity was found capable 
 enough to receive, not only the waters which it had already contained, 
 but alfo of thofe which the tail of the comet had left behind it ; fince 
 during the time of its agitation and the burfting of its crufl:, it had en- 
 larged the fpace by breaking down, on all hands, the earth that environed 
 it. It was, in like manner, at this time, that the earth, which till then 
 was fpherical, became elliptic, occafioned not only by the effefl of the 
 centrifugal force caufed by its diurnal revolution, but likewife by the 
 adion of the comet; and that becaufe the earth, in paffing through the 
 tail of the comet, was fituated in fuch a manner, that it prefented its 
 equatorial parts to this body; and becaufe the force of the comet's attrac- 
 tion, concurring with the centrifugal force of the earth, took away thofe 
 parts of the equator with fo much the more facility, as the crulT: was 
 broken and disjoined in avail: many places; and becaufe the a6lion of 
 the flux and reflux of the abyfs made a more violent imprefliion upon the 
 parts under the equator than any where elfe. 
 
 Dr. Hallev refolves the deluge into the fhock of a comet, or fome other 
 fuch tranfient body: the srcat agitation that muft have been occafioned 
 by it in the fea, he obferves, would be fufficient to account for all thofe 
 ftrange appearances of heaping vaft quantities of earth, and high cliffs,, 
 upon the beds of Ihells which once were the bottom of the fea, and 
 raifing up mountains wiiere none were before: luch a fhock as this, 
 impelling the folid parts, would occafion the waters, and all fluid 
 fubftances that were unconfined, as the fea is, to run violently with an. 
 
 impetus
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 977 
 
 impetus toward that part of the globe where the blow was received, and 
 that with force fufficient to take with it the very bottom of the ocean, 
 and would carry it upon land. There are various other fyftems of the 
 univerfal deluge, feveral of which may be Ceen m Monfieur BufFon's 
 Natural Hiftorv, torn. i. 
 
 Monfieur de Buffon, arguing from the fpheroidal figure of the earth, 
 and the laws of hydroftatics, fuppofes that the Earth, as well as the other 
 planets, are parts ftruck off from the body of the Sua by the collifion of 
 comets, and confequently, when the earth alTumed its form, it was in a 
 ftate of liquefa6tion by fire. Of this, fays he, we fhall be the more eafily 
 convinced, when we confider the nature of the matter contained in the 
 body of the earth, the greateft part of which, as fand and clays, are vi- 
 trified, or vitrifiable fubftances; and, on the other hand, when we reflect 
 upon the impoffibility of the earth's being ever in a flate of fluidity pro- 
 duced by water, fince there is infinitely more land than water; and be- 
 fjdes, water has not the power of diffolving lands, flones, and other 
 fubftances of which the earth is compofed. How far the inequalities in 
 the face of the earth, the beds of rivers, lakes, &c. and the various ftrata 
 in its internal parts, ferve to confirm this hypothefis, may be icQii in 
 Hiftoire Naturelle, &c. torn. i. by M. de Bufix)n. 
 
 The arguments of different philofophers and hifi:orians, relative to 
 the deluge, and theory of the earth, have furnifhed matter of enquiry 
 to naturalifl:s how far the fame caufes, which muft have produced not 
 only the mixtures, but the cavities and fifiTures in the earth, have been 
 the inlet and caufe likewile of earthquakes and volcanoes. Earthquakes 
 confifl of a violent agitation or trembling of the earth, generally attended 
 with a terrible noife like thunder, and fometimes with an eruption of 
 fire, water, wind, &c. Volcanoes are hollow, fubterraneous, combuftible, 
 mountains, which vomit forth fire, flame, afhes, cinders, &c. Earth- 
 quakes and volcanoes are both accounted for upon the fame principles, 
 and may be thus explained. Thofe countries which are hollow and 
 fubterraneous, and which naturally yield great flore of fulphur and nitre, 
 or where fulphur is fublimated from the pyrites, are by far the moft in- 
 jured and incommoded by earthquakes; for, where there are fuch mines, 
 they muft fend up exhalations, which, meeting with fubterraneous ca- 
 verns, mull: flick to the arches of them, as foot does to the fides of our 
 chimneys; where they mix themlelves with the nitre or faltpetre which 
 comes out of thefe arches, in like manner as we fee it come out of the 
 infide of the arch of a bridge, and fo makes a kind of cruft which will 
 very eafily take fire. There are ieveral ways by which this cruft may 
 
 take
 
 978 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 take fire, viz. r. By the inflammable breath of the pyrites, which is a kind 
 of fulphur that naturally takes fire of itfelf. 2. By a fermentation of va- 
 pours to a degree of heat equal to that of fire and flame. 3. By the 
 falling of fome great fl:one which is undermined by water, and, flriking 
 againft another, produces fome fparks that fet fire to the neighbouring 
 combufliible matter, which, being a kind of natural gunpowder, at the 
 appulfe of the fire goes off with a fudden blafl or violent explofion, rum- 
 bling in the bowels of the earth, and lifting up the ground above it, fo 
 as fometimes to make a miferable havock and devaftation, till it gets 
 vent or adifcharge. Burninsr mountains and volcanoes are only fo many 
 fpiracles ferving for the difcharge of this fubterranean fire, when it is 
 thus preternaturally affembled. And where there happens to be fuch 
 a ftruflure and conformation of the interior parts of the earth, that the 
 fire may pafs freely and without impediment from the caverns therein, 
 it aflembles into thefe fpirals, and then readily and eafily gets out from 
 time to time without fhakinsj or difturbinsf the earth. But, where a 
 communication is wanting, or the paflages are not fufficiently large and 
 open, fo that it cannot come at the faid fpiracles without firft forcing and 
 removing all obflacles, it heaves up and fhocks the earth, till it hath 
 made its way to the mouth of the volcano; where it ruflies forth, 
 fometimes in mighty flames, with great velocity, and a terrible bellow- 
 ing noife. Earthquakes are fometimes confined to a narrow I'pace, which 
 is properly the effect of the re-a6tion of the fire, and they fhake the earth 
 juft as the explolion of a powder-magazine caufes a fenfible concuffion at 
 the diftance of feveral leagues. Thus a violent eruption of Etna will 
 caufe an earthquake over all the ifland of Sicily; but it never will extend 
 to the diftance of three or four hundred leagues. In like manner, when 
 fome new vents of fire have been formed in Mount Vefuvius, there are 
 felt at the fame time earthquakes at Naples, and in the neighbourhood 
 of the volcano; but thefe concuffions have never fhaken the Alps, nor 
 been communicated to France, or other countries remote from Vefuvius. 
 Sometimes they are felt at coiifiderable diftances, and fhake a long tra(5i 
 of ground without any eruption or volcano appearing. We have in- 
 ftances of earthquakes which were felt at the fame time in England, 
 France, Germany, and even in Hungary, and thefe extend always a great 
 deal more in length than in breadth; they fhake a tradl: of ground with 
 more or lefs violence in different places, in proportion as it is remote from 
 the fire; and they are almoft always accompanied with a dull noife like 
 that of a heavy carriage rolling along with great rapidity. 
 
 Dr. Woodward gives us another theory of earthquakes. He endea- 
 vours to fhow, that the fubterraneous beat or fire, which is continually 
 * elevating
 
 O F A S T R O L O G T. 979 
 
 elevating water out of the abyfs to furnifh the earth with rain, dew, 
 fprings, and rivers, being flopped in any part of the earth, and fo di- 
 verted from its ordinary courfe by fonne accidental glut or obftrudlion in 
 the pores or pafTages through which it ufed to afcend to the furface, be- 
 comes by fuch means preternaturally aflembled in a greater quantity than 
 ufual into one place, and therefore caufeth a great rarefa61ion and intu- 
 mefcence of the water of the abyfs, putting it into great commotions and 
 diforders, and at the fame time making the like effort on the earth; which 
 being expanded upon the face of the abyfs, occafions the agitation and 
 concuffion which we call an earthquake. 
 
 But Dr. Stukeiey has introduced a new notipn in the theory of earth- 
 quakes, and has endeavoured to prove that they are caufed by ele61ricity. 
 He urges a variety of objedions againft the foiegoing hypothefis, which 
 afcnbes earthquakes to fubterraneous winds, fires, vapours, or any thing 
 that occafions an explofion, and thus heaves up the ground. He thinks 
 there is no evidence of the cavernous flrufture of the earth, which this 
 hypothefis requires; but that, on the contrary, there is reafon to believe 
 that it is in a great meafure folid. Earthquakes have alfo frequently 
 happened without any eruption of fire, vapour, fmoke, or fmell, which 
 he thinks it utterly inconfiftent with the fuppofition of their being oc- 
 cafioned by any fubterraneous vapours; efpeciaily in cafes where the 
 fhock is of confiderable extent; befides, this is a caufe altogether inade- 
 quate to fuch an effeft ; for a fubterraneous power capable of moving a 
 lijrface of earth only thirty miles in diameter, mufl: be lodged at leaft 
 fifteen or twenty miles below the furface, and move aa inverted cone of 
 folid earth, whofe bale is thirty miles in diameter, and its axis fifteen or 
 twenty miles, which he judges to be abfolutely impoffible; how much 
 more inconceivable, then, that any fuch power could produce the earth- 
 quake of 1755, which was felt in various parts of Europe and Africa, 
 and the Atlantic Ocean; or that of Afia Minor, A.D. 17, by which, 
 thirteen great cities were deftroyed in one night, and which (hook a 
 mafs of earth three hundred miles in diameter, in order to which the 
 moving power,, if it had been internal fire or vapour, muft have been 
 lodged two hundred miles below the furface! Farther, in earthquakes 
 the etfedl is inftantaneous; whereas the operation of elaflic vapour and 
 the difcharge of it muft be gradual, and require a long fpace of time; 
 and, if they were owing to cxplofions, they muft alter the lurface of the 
 country where thev iiappened, deftroy the fountains and fprings, and 
 change the courfe of its rivers, which is contradi6ted by hiftory and ob- 
 fervation.. To all which it is added, that the ftrokes which ftiips receive 
 during an earthquake muft be occafioned by fomething that could commu- 
 
 No. 5 r . 1 1 L uicate
 
 980 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 nicate motion of a much greater velocity than any heaving of the earth 
 under the fea by the elafticity of generated vapours, which would only 
 produce a gradual Iwell, and not an impuHe of the water, refembling a 
 thump againfl: the bottom of a (hip, or flriking againft a rock. Dr. 
 Stukeley, finding the common hypothefis infufficient, was led to con- 
 clude that earthquakes were proper ele6trical fliocks ; and a particular 
 furvey of the phenomena, that either precede or attend them, confirmed 
 this opinion: he obferved that the weather was ufually dry and warm 
 for fome time before an earthquake happened, and that the furface of 
 the ground is thus previoufly difpofed for that kind of electrical vibration 
 in which it confifts; whilfi: at the fame time, in fome places where earth- 
 quakes have happened, the. internal parts, at a fmall depth below the fur- 
 face, are moifl: and boggy; and thence he infers, that they reach very 
 little below the furface. He adds, that the fouthern regions are more 
 fubjeCl to earthquakes than the northern, on account of the greater 
 warmth and drynels of the earth and air, which are qualities io neceflary 
 to eledricity. It was alfo obferved, that, before the earthquakes at Lon- 
 don in 1749, all vegetables were remarkably forward; and eleclricity is 
 well known to quicken vegetation. They were likewile preceded by 
 frequent and fingular appearances of the aurora borealis and auftralis, 
 and by a variety of other meteors which indicate an electrical ftate of the 
 atmofphere. Dr. Stukeley apprehends, that, in this ftate of the earth and 
 air, nothing more is neceffary to produce an earthquake than the ap- 
 proach of a non-eleCtric cloud to any part of the earth, when in an 
 highly-ele6lrified ftate, and the difcharge of its contents upon it; and 
 that, as the difcharge from an excited tube occafions a commotion in the 
 human body, fo the fhock, produced by the difcharge between the cloud 
 and many miles in compafs of folid earth, muft be an earthquake, and 
 the fnap from the contadt be the noife attending it. He luppofes that a 
 large black cloud, which fuddenly covered the hemifphere a little before 
 the earthquake of 1749, might have occafioned the fhock, by the dif- 
 charge of a fhower. The noife, it has been obferved, ufually precedes 
 the (hock ; whereas, if the concuffion depended upon a fubterraneous 
 eruption, it muft have been quite the contrary. The flames and ful- 
 phureous fmells which fometimes attend earthquakes are more eafily ac- 
 counted for, as Dr. Stukeley thinks, from the fuppofition of their being 
 electrical phenomena than on any other hypothefis. The fudden exten- 
 five agitation, both of land and water, occafioned by earthquakes, can 
 only be effeCted by eleCtricity. The nature of the impulfe which they 
 give to fliips, already taken notice of, fuggefts an argument, that they are 
 owing not to any convulfion in the bowels of the earth, but to an uniform 
 vibration along its furface, occafioned by an eleCtrical fnap ; and that they 
 
 are
 
 OFASTROLOGY. 981 
 
 are ele(51:rlcal phenomena, Dr. Stukeley farther infers, from their chiefly 
 affefting the fea-coaft, or places near rivers; we may add alfo, eminences; 
 and finally from the efFe6ls which they produce on weak, conftitutions, 
 fuch as pains in the back, head-achs, cholics, &c. fimilar to thofe oc- 
 cafioned fometimes by ele6lrification. After all, he does not prefume to 
 fay how the earth and atmofphere are put into that eleflrical and vibra- 
 tory ftate which prepares them to give or receive that fnap, and rtiock, 
 which is called an earthquake; but this he thinks as difficult to account 
 for as magnetifm, gravitation, mufcular motion, and many other fecrets 
 in nature. 
 
 Several circumfi:ances have been remarked by other writers, which 
 confirm the theory that fuppofes earthquakes to be eleftrical phenomena. 
 Signior Beccaria, whofe name often occurs in the hiftory of electricity, 
 agrees with Dr. StukeJy, in fuppofing, that earthquakes are ele<Sliical 
 phenomena; but he imagines that the elettric matter which occafions 
 them is lodged deep in the bowels of the earth; and, if in this fituation 
 its equilibrium fhould by any means be deflroyed, fo that the bed method 
 of reftoring it fhall be by the fluid's burfting its way into the air, and tra- 
 verfing feveral miles of the atmofphere to come to the place where it is 
 wanted, it may eafily be conceived, that violent concuflions may be given ' 
 to the earth by the fudden paffage of this powerful agent; and that the 
 eledtric fluid is fometimes coUeded in the bowels of the earth, he thinks 
 probable from the appearance of ignes fatui \n mines, which fometimes 
 happens, and is very probably an eledrical phenomenon. This ingenious 
 philofopher obferves, that, if two pieces of glafs, inclofed in a thm piece 
 of metal, be held in the hand, while a large fhock is fent through them, a 
 ftrong concuffion or vibration will be felt, which fometimes breaks them 
 to pieces. Mr. Henley, another excellent eledrician, has difcovered a me- 
 thod of increafing the efFedl of the explofion upon glafs, fo as to afford a 
 very natural idea of an earthquake. Between the ends of two wires, laid 
 on a piece of glafs, with their extremities pointing to each other, and 
 about an inch diflant, through which the difcharge is to be made, he 
 places a thick piece of ivory upon the glafs, and on the ivory a weight 
 at pleafure, from one-fourth of an ounce to fix pounds; the glafs is 
 broken by an explofion into innumerable fragments, and fbme of it is 
 reduced into an impalpable powder; the weight is (haken by the explofion, 
 and fometimes thrown ofF from the ivory. In this experiment, if the 
 glafs is very thick, fo that the force of the expljfion is not fufficient to 
 break it, it will be found marked with the moll: lively prifmatic colours. 
 The appearance of an earthquake may be alio reprefented by caufing the 
 explofion of a battery to pafs over the furface of any fubftance on which, 
 
 fmall .
 
 982 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fmall fticks or cards are placed, which will never fail to be fhaken, and 
 often be thrown down, by the explofioii ; or, by making a diicharge over 
 the furface of water, in which cafe the report will be much louder than 
 when the difcharge is made through the air; and a hand plunged deep 
 into the water will feel the concuffion ; and we may add, that the fpark 
 which paflcs over the furface of the water in this experiment bears a 
 sreat refemblance of thofe balls of fire that have fonietimesbeen feen over 
 the furface of the fea or land in the time of an earthquake. Dr. Prieftley 
 contrived various methods of exhibiting the phenomena of earthquakes. 
 He made the electric flafh to pafs over wet boards fwimming in water, 
 over either of thefe feparately, or over both at once, on which pillars, 
 &c. were eredted; and thus, while the board reprefented the earth, and 
 the water the fea, the phenomena of both during an earthquake were 
 exhibited at the fame time. Dr. Prieftley, the ingenious hiflorian of 
 eledtricity, after having largely recited the obfervations of Dr. Stukeley 
 and Signior Beccaria, does not abfolutely decide which of thefe two phi- 
 lofophers has advanced the more probable opinion concerning the feat 
 of the eledric matter which occafions earthquakes; but he thinks a more 
 probable general hypothefis than either of them may be formed out of 
 them both. Suppofe, fays he, the ele6lric matter to be fome way or 
 other accumulated on one part of the furface of the earth, and, on ac- 
 count of the drynefs of the feafon, not eafily to difFufe itfelf; it may, 
 as Signor Beccari fuppofes, force itfelf away into the higher regions of 
 the air, forming clouds in its paflage out of the vapours which float in 
 the atmofphere, and occafion a fudden fhowcr, which may farther pro- 
 mote the paflage of the fluid. The whole furface, thus unloaded, will 
 receive a concuffion, like any other condu6ting fubftance, on parting 
 with, or receiving, a quantity of the elediric fluid; the rufliing noi'le 
 will likewife fweep over the whole extent of the country ; and, upon 
 this fuppofition alfo, the fluid, in its difcharge from the country, will 
 naturally follow the courfe of the rivers, and alfo take the advantage of 
 any eminences to facilitate its afcent into the higher regions of the air. 
 See farther on this fubjeft, Phil. Tranf. vol. xli. Beccaria Lettre dell' 
 Ele6^ricifmo; and the article Earthquake in the Encyclopaedia Londinea- 
 fis, vol. vi. p. 215, &c. 
 
 How far thefe arguments and obfervations are fuflScient to explode the 
 former theory of earthquakes, and to folve the various and compli- 
 cated effects of their deftructive operation, muft be left to the determina^ 
 tion of the attentive reader, after he has maturely contemplated the fol- 
 lowing authentic narration of lome of the moft fatal earthquakes that 
 ever excited terror and trepidation in the minds of men. 
 
 The
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 9S5; 
 
 The earthquake which happened hi Sicily in the year 1692-3, as re- 
 lated by Mr. Hartop, F. Burgos, and Vin. Bonajutus, is one of the 
 rnoll: fatal, and exhibits the moft lamentable cataftrophe of the kind, 
 recorded in hiftory. It extended over the whole ifland ; and even Naples 
 and Malta were afFedted by thefhock. It was one of the fecond kind men- 
 tioned by Ariftotle and Pliny, viz. a perpendicular pulfation or fuccuflion. 
 The motion was fo rapid and violent, that nobody could ftand upon. 
 their legs; tbofe who lay on the ground were tofled from fide to fide as 
 on a rolling billow, and high walls leaped from their foundations many 
 yards diftant. The mifchief it did is amazing; almoft all the buildings 
 in the country were thrown down. Fifty-four cities and towns, befides 
 an incredible number of villages, were either deftroyed or greatly da- 
 maged. We fhall only inftance the fate of Catania, one of the mbft 
 famous, ancient, and flourifhing, cities in the kingdom, the refidence of 
 feveral monarchs, and an univerfity. This once famous, now unhappy, 
 Catania, to ufe the words of F. Burgos, had the greateft fhare in the 
 tragedy. F. Anton. Serrovita, being on his way thither, and at the dif- 
 tsmce of a few miles, oblerved a black cloud, like night, hovering over 
 the city; and there arofe from the mouth of Mont Gibello great fpires of 
 flame, which fpread all around. The fea, all of a fiidden, began to 
 roar, and rife in billows; and there was a noife as if all the artillery in 
 the world had been at once difcharged. The birds flew about aftonifhed; 
 the cattle in the fields ran crying, &c. His and his companions' horfes" 
 flopped fhort, trembling; fo that they were forced to alight. They 
 were no fooner off, but they were lifted from the ground above two palms; 
 when, carting their eyes towards Catania, they with amazement faw no- 
 thmg but a thick cloud of duft in the air. This was the fcene of their 
 calamity; for of the magnificent Catania there was not the leaft footftep 
 to be feen. S. Bonajutus allures us, that, of 18,914 inhabitants, i8,ooa* 
 perifticd therein. The fame author, from a computation of the inhabi* 
 tants, before and after the earthquake, in the feveral cities and towas,^ 
 finds that near 6o,coo periflied out of 254,900. 
 
 Jamaica is remarkable for earthquakes. The inhabitants. Sir Han* 
 Sloane informs us, expedt one every year. This-author gives us the hiftory 
 of one in 1687; and another horrible one in 1692 is defcribed by feveral 
 anonymous authors. In two minutes time this Ihook down and drowned 
 nine-tenths of the town of Port Royal. The houfes funk outright, thirty 
 or forty fathoms deep. The earth, opening, fwallowed up people; and 
 they rofe in other ftreets, fome in the middle of the harbour; and yet 
 many were faved, though there were 2000 people loft, and 1000 acres of 
 land funk. All the houles were thrown down throughout the iOand. 
 
 Noi 51.. II M. One
 
 984 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 One Hopkins had his plantation removed half a mile from its place. 
 Of all wells, from one fathom to fix or feven, the water flew out at the 
 top with a vehement motion. While the houfes on one fide of the ftreet 
 were fwallowed up, on the other they were thrown on heaps ; and the 
 fand in the ftreet rofe like waves in the fea, lifting up every body that 
 flood on it, and immediately dropping down into pits; and at the fame 
 inftant a flood of water, breaking in, rolled them over and over ; fome 
 catching hold of beams and rafters, &c. Ships and floops in the har- 
 bour were overfet and loft; the Swan frigate, particularly, was thrown 
 over by the motion of the fea and finking of the wharf, and was driven 
 over the tops of many houfes. The calamity was attended with a hollow 
 rumbling noife like thunder. In lefs than a minute, three quarters of the 
 houfes and the ground they ftood on, with the inhabitants, were all 
 funk quite under water; and the little part left behind was no better 
 than a heap of rubbifli. The fhake was fo violent, that it threw people 
 on their knees or their faces as they were running about for Ihelter, 
 The ground heaved and fwelled like a rolling fea; and feveral houfes, ftill 
 ftanding, were (huffled and moved fome yards out of their places. A 
 whole ftreet is faid to be twice as broad now as before; and, in many 
 places, the earth would crack, and open and fhut quick and faft; of 
 which openings, two or three hundred might be feen at a time ; in fome 
 whereof, the people were fwallowed up ; others, the earth clofing, were 
 caught by the middle, and prelTed to death; as to others, the heads only 
 appeared. The larger openings fwallowed up houfes; and out of fome 
 would ilTue floods of water, fpouting up a great height into the air, and 
 threatening a deluge to that part the earthquake Ipared. The whole 
 was attended with ftenches and ofFenfive fmells, the noife of falling 
 mountains at a diftance, &c. and the Iky in a minute's time was turned 
 dull and reddifla like a glowing oven. Yet, as great a futFerer as Port 
 Royal was, more houfes were left ftanding therein than on the whole 
 ifland befide. Scarcely a planting-houfe or fugar-work was left ftanding 
 in all Jamaica. A great part of them were fwallowed up, houfes, peo- 
 ple, trees, and all at once; in lieu of which, afterwards appeared great 
 pools of water, which, when dried up, left nothing but iand, without 
 any mark that ever tree or plant had been thereon. About twelve miles 
 from the fea the earth gaped, and fpouted out with a prodigious force 
 vaft quantities of water into the air. Yet the greateft violence was 
 among the mountains and rocks; and it is a general opinion, that the 
 nearer the mountains the greater was the fhake, and that the caufe 
 thereof lay there. Moft of the rivers were ftopped up for twenty-foui 
 hours, by the falling of the mountains, till, fwelling up, they made 
 themfelves new tracks and channels, tearing up their pafTage, trees, &c. 
 
 After
 
 D F A S T R O L O G Y. 985 
 
 After the great fhake, many of thofe people who efcaped got on-board 
 (hips in the harbour, where many continued above two months ; the 
 Ihakes all that time being fo violent, and coming fo thick, fomeiimes two 
 or three in an hour, accompanied with frightful noifes like a ruftling 
 wind, or a hollow rumbling thunder, with brimftone blafts, that they durft 
 not come afliore. The confequence of the earthquake was a general 
 ficknefs, from the noifome vapours belched forth, which fwept away above 
 3000 perfons of thofe who were left. 
 
 After the detail of thefe horrible convulfions, the reader will have but 
 little curiolity left for the phenomena of the earthquake at Lima in 1687, 
 defcribed by Alvarez de Toledo, wherein above 5000 perfons were de- 
 ftroyed; this being of the vibratory kind, fo that the bells in the church 
 rangof themfelves ; or that at Batavia, in 1699, by Witzen; that in the 
 north of England, in 1 703, by Mr. Thorefby ; thofe in New England, 
 iii 1663 and 1670, by Dr. Matthew ; that of Italy in 1742 ; that of Lima 
 and the port of Calais in Peru, in 1746, which lafled fifteen minutes, 
 and demolifhed moft of the buildings in the city, and deftroycd mofl: of the 
 inhabitants, and fwallowed up feveral (hips then in the port ; that of Lon- 
 don, in 1749; thofe in 1750, felt in many parts of England; that of 
 1777, felt in the north of England; or that at Lifbon, in 1755, though 
 this deferves a more particular account than many others of much lefs 
 confiderable extent and duration. 
 
 The thiee preceding years had been remarkably dry, infomuch that 
 fomefpri/igs of water were totally loft; and the predominant winds were 
 eaft and north-caft, accompanied with various, though very fmall, mo- 
 tions and tremblings of the earth. The fpring of the year 1 755 was very 
 rainy and wet ; the weather on the day preceding the earthquake, which 
 happened on the ift of November, was clear, and uncommonly warm for 
 the feafon, and had continued clear and rather warmer than ufual for fe- 
 veral days before. The day of the earthquake broke with a fcrene fky, 
 the wind continuing at eaft; but about nine o'clock the fun began to 
 grow dim ; and foon after was heard a rumbling noife, like that of car- 
 riages, which increafed to fuch a degree as to equal that of the loudeft 
 cannon ; upon which the firft (hock was felt, which was immediately 
 Tucceeded by a fecond and a third, the whole duration of which was 
 about eight minutes ; about twelve o'clock another fliock was felt. Du- 
 ring the firft fhock, the greateft part of the public edifices and other 
 buildings of the city were thrown down ; and not lefs than fixty thou- 
 fand of its inhabitants buried in the ruins. The earth opened in fiflures 
 in feveral parts, and feveral light flames of fire were obferved to ilTue 
 from the fides of the mountains, refembling thofe of kindled charcoal. 
 7 ^ Subterraneous
 
 986 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Subterraneous rumblings were alfo felt, attended with a difcharge of 
 great quantities of fmoke. The water in the fea rofe feveral times, 
 and in a few minutes made three fluxes and refluxes, rifing above the 
 greateft fpring-tides no lefs than fifteen EngUfli feet. The (hock was 
 fo violent fifty leagues off at fea, as greatly to injure the deck of a fhip, 
 and to lead the captain to apprehend, that he had miftaken his reckoning 
 and ftruck on a rock. The fhock was alfo felt about the fame time at 
 Oporto, by which the whole city was fhaken, feveral chimneys, ftones,, 
 and crofTes, were thrown down, and fome buildings opened at top ; and 
 the fwclling in the river was fo confiderable, that two large fliips, which 
 were juft got over the bar, were driven back into the harbour. The 
 fame fhosk was equally violent at Madrid, Seville, and Cadiz ; in this 
 laft place the fea rofe in a wave at leafl: fixty feet higher than ufual, dafhed 
 againft the rocks on the wefi: part of the town, and againft the walls, with 
 fuch violence as to beat in the breaft-work and a great part of the walls, 
 and feveral perfons were drowned by it. The day when the earth- 
 quake happened at Cadiz was as clear and ferene as the finefl: fummer-day 
 in England. Many other cities, both in Spain and Portugal, were con- 
 fiderably damaged. The efFefts of this earthquake, in violently agitating 
 the waters, were perceived in many parts of England, Scotland, and Ire- 
 land ; and the fliock not only reached to Swiiferland, Holland, and other 
 parts of Europe, but it was communicated to Africa, and deftroyed fe-- 
 veral cities on the coaft of Barbary; and it was alfo felt about the fame 
 time in the ifland of Madeira, where the water rofe full fifteen feet per- 
 pendicular above high-water mark. 
 
 The laft terrible earthquake of which we have an account happened 
 in Sicily and Calabria in the year 1782. It began about fix o'clock in 
 the morning of the 5th of February, and the fhocks continued to be felt 
 with more or Icfs violence for near two months. The commotions firft 
 broke out at Mount Caulone, one of the Apetmines, which traverfes 
 all Italy. The undulations were obferved to be in every direc- 
 tion; but the vertical ones were the moft fataL The towns and villages- 
 in Calabria, that were either totally or partly deftroyed by it, were very 
 numerous: among the principal ones were Franca Villa, Batatico, Mon- 
 teleone, Vallelonga, Francia, Mileto^ Soriano, Areta, RofTano, Palma^^ 
 Cinqucfronde, Sinopoli, St. Euphemia, Scilla, Reggio, Beva, Meflina,. 
 Oppido, Bagnara, Cozenza, Catanzara,^ Maida, Caftiglione, &c. The 
 face of the whole country became entirely changed; the courfes of 
 many fprings and rivers were either totally abforbed, or turned into new 
 directions; and feveral water-mills were left dry, without the leaft 
 veftigesof the channels by which they had been driven. A confiderable
 
 O F A S T R L O G Y. 9^7 
 
 tradt of country was entirely fvvallowed up by the fca ; and that which 
 was before covered with water became dry land. Whole Hocks of 
 Iheep, and herds of cattle, were fwallowed up as they were grazin"-; 
 the earth opened and Ihut, exhibiting chafms of the moll horrible deptli* 
 vomiting forth fiilphureous flanie and vapour. Upwards of tvvcnty-(ix 
 thoufand fouls were either precipitated into the bowels of the earth, or 
 iiianglcd by the fall of buildings, and buried in the ruins! By 'this 
 no lei's fatal than recent example of the phenomena of earthquakes, it 
 Ihould feem that the caufe or feat of them lies f^ir below the iurface of 
 the earth, or depths of the ocean. 
 
 Of the TIDES. 
 
 The Tides are two periodical motions of the waters of the fea, called 
 alfo the flux and reflux, or the ebb and flow. When the Moon is in 
 the firft and third quarter, 1. e. when (he is new and full, the tides arc 
 high and fwift, and are called fpring-tides—whtn ihe is in the feccnd 
 and lafl: quarter, the tides are lower and flower, and are called map-tides. 
 
 In the phenomena of the tides, the fea is obferved to flow, ?ov certain 
 hours, from fouth towards north ; in which motion, or flux, which lalls 
 about lix hours, the fea gradually fwells ; fo that, entering' the moutlis 
 pf rivers, it drives back the river- waters toward their head's, or Iprings. 
 After a continual flux of fix hoursT the fea feems to rell for about a 
 quarter of an hour; after which it begins to. ebb, or retire Hack again 
 from north to fouth, for fix hours more; in which time, the w-ater 
 finking, the rivers refume their natural courfe. Then, aft'r a feemin^ 
 paufe of a quarter of an hour, the fea again begins to flow, as before • 
 and thus alternately. Thus does the fea ebb twice a-day, and flow as 
 often; but not in the fame hours thereof. The period of a flux and 
 rcflu^x is twelve hours forty-eight minutes, fo that the tides return later 
 and later each day, by forty-eight minutes, or three quarters of an hour 
 and three minutes. Now twelve hours forty-eight minutes is a lunar 
 day ; i, e. the Moon paflTes the Earth's meridian later and later each dav 
 by forty-eight minutes. So that the fea flows as often as the Moon 
 pafles the two meridians of the world, namely, that above and that 
 below the horizon ; and ebbs as often as fiie pafles the horizon both 
 the eaftern and weftern points thereof. This f^irther acrreement we 
 likewife obferve between the Mcon and the {ca, that the tides, though 
 conftant, are not equal ; but are greateft when the Moon is in conjunc- 
 tion or oppofition, and leafl when in quartile thereto. But thofe tides 
 are the greafefl which happen in the new and full Moon, at the time 
 
 No. 53 II N Q^
 
 r)88 ANILLUSTRATION. 
 
 of the equinoxes. And thcfe flime efFedts are obferved- throughout moft 
 of the coafls ot Europe; only that the tides are fo much the lefs, and' 
 happen later, as the coafts are the more northerly. 
 
 Thcfe phenomena of the tides are admirably accounted for from the 
 principles of gravitation. All that is rcquifite to their folution is, that 
 the Earth and Moon, and every particle thereof, mutually gravitate to- 
 wards each other j the rcafonablenefs of which allumptiun is every way 
 apparent. Indeed, the lligacious Kepler, long ago, cpnjedured this to 
 be the caufe of the tides. "If, (fays he,) the Earth ceafes to attrart its 
 waters towards itfelf, all the water in the ocean would rife and flow 
 into the Moon: the fphere of the Moon's attraction extends to our Earth, 
 and draws up the water.*' Thus thought Kepler, in his Introd. ad. 
 Theor. Mart. This furrrafe, for it was then no more, is now abun- 
 dantly verified in the theory firil amply deduced by Dr. Halley from 
 the Newtonian principles. However, we may obferve, with M. de la 
 Lande, (Aftronomie, vol. iv. Paris, 178 1.) that feveral of the ancients, 
 and among others, Pliny, Ptolemy, and Macrobius, were acquainted 
 with the influence of the Sun and Moon upon the tides. And Pliny 
 lays cxprefily, that the caufe of the ebb and flow is in the Sun, which at- 
 tracts the waters of the ocean; and adds, that the waters rife in propor- 
 tion to the proximity of the Moon to the Earth. 
 
 To illuftrate the foregoing obfervations, let N E S Q^ in the annexed 
 plate, 75^^. I. reprefent the Earth, covered with water ABDFj NS the 
 axis of the earth, E Q_ the equator, TR the tropic of Cancer, tr the 
 tropic of Capricorn, M the Moon in her orbit, S the Sun in his. Now, 
 iince all bodies are endued with an attrarting virtue, the Moon will attraft 
 all the water in the neareft hemifphere FAB, with degrees of force which 
 are inverfely as the fquares of the diftances from all parts; and therefore, 
 with the ftrongeft force where the diftance is leaft, viz. in the point A, 
 diredtly under her: and, this attraction being in this hemifphere contrary 
 to that of the Earth, the water in all parts from B to F, towards A, will- 
 have its gravity decreafing, and be higheft of all at the part A ; and con- 
 iequently muft there ftand higher than at the point F, where, being more 
 attracted by the Earth, it muft be heavier and nearer to the centre, as is 
 evident from the laws of hydroftatics. Again, in the hemifphere F D B, 
 the attradlion of the Moon confpires with that of the Earth ; but, de- 
 creafing as the fquares of the diftances increafe, the joint force of attrac- 
 tion will every where decreafe from F and B towards D, fiie point op- 
 pofite to the Moon ; where again the waters will be lightefl;, and there- 
 fore ftand highcfl to preferve the equilibrium. Whence it appears, that 
 
 I by
 
 O F A S T R O L G Y: 989 
 
 By tHis fum and difference of the Moon's and Earth's attraclion there 
 will necelTarily enfue a protuberance or fsvelHng of the waters, which 
 we call tidv^s of flood, in the two points A and D direcftly under the 
 Moon. Alfo in the two points F and B, as the waters are there moft 
 attracted, lb they will be heavieft, and confequently rife to the leaft 
 height fnim the Earth's furface, whence they are called tides of ebb, or 
 the ebbing of the water. If to the power of the Moon we add that of 
 the Sun, we fhall have the tides confiderably augmented at the conjunc- 
 tion in S, or oppolition in H, that is, at the new and full Moons, 
 which are called the fpring-tides ; as thofe which happen when the Sun 
 is at O or P are calle-J neap-tides, the waters at A and D being then 
 lowelt, becaufe the attracftion of the Moon is then counterbalanced by 
 that of the Sun. It is farther to be obferved, that of the two tides of 
 flood, at A and D, that at A is greateft to any place T in the northern 
 latitude, when the Moon is in the northern figns, and above the horizon: 
 for the point A is then nearer the zenith of the place G than the oppo- 
 fite point D is to the fame place at R twelve hours afterwards ; and con- 
 fequently, the height of the tide T G is greater than that of the oppolite 
 tide i\ g. The contrary of this happens when the Moon is in the 
 fouthern figns. 
 
 That there are two tides of flood, and two of ebb, fucceeding each 
 other alternately at about the interval of fix hours, is obvious from the 
 figure : and that they happen later each day near an hour, is owing to 
 their exadl correipondence to the motion of the Moon, which daily 
 culminates lb much later. That they happen not when the Moon is in 
 the meridian, but about three hours after, is owing to the force of the 
 Moon being then greater than when in the meridian of any place; as the 
 heat of the day is greater at three o'clock than at twelve ; and the heat 
 of the fummer is greater in Auguft than at the 21 ft: of June. Laftly, 
 that the greatefl: fpring-tides happen not at the 21ft: of March and 23d 
 of Sejjtember, but in February and October, is becaufe, the Sun being 
 neareft the Earth in December, his influence is then ftrongeft, and lb 
 mufi; quicken the time of the greateft vernal tides ; and, being weakeft in 
 June, the time of the autumnal tides will necelTiirily be retarded. The 
 fum of what has been faid is this: if NOPQ^_y^ 2. be the furface 
 of the Earth, T its centre, IFKGLHCE a circle reprefenting the 
 fpherical furface of the waters covering the earth, and affeded only by 
 the attractive power of the earth : upon placing an attrading body at S, 
 the waters will no longer continue their fpherical figure, but be inime- 
 diately drawn into the fpheroidical figure A C B D, in fuch manner as 
 to be dcprefled at C and D to M and K, and elevated from L and I to A 
 
 and
 
 990 A N I L L U S T R A T 1 O N 
 
 andBjaiv.i the elevation A L or B I is double the deprcdion CM or 
 D K. ' That, if S be the Sun, then A P— O K=\ L^K D— 2,- inches : 
 or II-5- feet, if S be the Moon. That at the points E, F, G, H, which 
 are called the odants,) the WiUer is neither elevated nor deprefied. That 
 if any other body be placed at O, as the JMoon, in the fame right line 
 T S i then, by the joint influence of both S and O, the elevation at A and 
 h will be incrcafcd, and the depreflion at C and D likevvife. Laftly, if 
 S be in the fituation S, or vertical to the point D, it is plain its adion to 
 raifc the water D will be ditedly contrary to that of the Moon in de- 
 prefTing it there j wherefore the deprcffion will not be fo great as before i 
 tor the fame reafon the elevation at A and B will be diminiflied, being 
 now only as the difTcrence of the tv/o forces, wbereas before they were 
 as the fum. 
 
 "We (hall now confider the phenomena of the tides which remain ; and 
 firft, it is evident, that if P N be the axis of the Earth, and QJ) the 
 diameter of the equator, then the Moon fituated at O, over one 
 of the poles, would accumulate the water over each pole, and the fphe- 
 roid would be fo poiited as to have its iongcfl axis A B coinciding with 
 the axis of the eavt^h P N. In this pofuion of the fpheroid, it is plain, there 
 could be no fuch thing as a tide in any part of the ocean over all the earth ; 
 for every fedion of the fpheroid, parallel to the equator, would be a circle ; 
 confequently, in any parallel of latitude, the water would be at an equal 
 dirtance from the earth's furface every moment of the diurnal revolution, 
 or natural day. Suppofe the Moon were removed from the diredlion of 
 the earth's axis, and pofited at S,fg. 3. then will the axis of the aque- 
 ous fpheroid A B be turned towards S, and make an angle with the earth's 
 axis, as A T P or B T N. Ihen we obferve, that fmce C, D, are the 
 places of loweil water, that parallel I K which pafles through the point 
 I on one fide the equator, and L M which palfes through M on the other, 
 will divide the Earth into three zones, in two of which, viz. E N K and 
 L P M, there will be but one tide each day, of the fame kind ; for in- 
 flance, in the parallel E F, a perfon at F will have high water, and at 
 E low water for twelve hours after. Again, in all the zone I K M L» 
 there will be two tides of the fame kind each day, as is evident from the 
 figure. Thefe limits, or the arch Q^I or O M, is the complement of 
 the Moon's declination from the equator. If the Moon at S, ^g. 4. be 
 over the equator, the longer axis of the fpheroid A B will now coincide 
 with the plane of the equator Q_0, and the fliorter axis C D with the 
 axis of the earth N P. Here it is obvious, that, in this fitaation of the 
 fpheroid, the waters in the parts A B, with refped to th ofeat C D, will 
 give the greateft difference of high and low water poliible to all parts of 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 991 
 
 the Earth; and that there is no place but thofc two at the poles N, P, but 
 what has two tides of flood and two of ebb every twenty-four to^fs* 
 And this difference of the flux and reflux will dccreafe from the equator 
 to the poles. 
 
 It has been already obferved, that the greatef!: elevation of tlie waters 
 is not when the luminary is in the meridian, but about three hours after, 
 becaufe the motion communicated to the waters during the arrival of the 
 meridian is not innmediately dcftroyed, but remains for fome time, and 
 receives a farther augmentation from that which is imprelled for about 
 three hours after. For the fame reafon, Vv'e ohferve, the greateft and 
 leaft tides happen not on the day of the fyzygy, or quadrature, but on 
 the third or fourth after; the fum or difference of the forces of the lu- 
 minaries not being till then at a maximum. Let S FLG, fig. 5, be the 
 orbit of the Moon about the Earth C^N O P; but, as this is not circular, 
 hut elliptical, the centre, of the Earth T will not be always at an equal 
 diitance from the Moon; but the M6on will be fometimes neareft the 
 Earth, as when at S, and fometimes fart hell off, as at L. The point S 
 is called the pcrigaeum, or perigee; and the point E the apogJEum, 
 or apogee. The power of the Moon in her perigee is to. that in the apo- 
 gee nearly as T E? toTS'; and confequently the greatefl: tides will be 
 on the day of the perigee, or rather a few days after, for the reafons 
 above-mentioned. 
 
 Such would the tides regularly "be, if the Earth were all over covered 
 with fea very deep, fo that the water might follow the influence of the 
 Sun and Moon; but, by reafon of the flioalnefs of fome places, and 
 the narrownefs of the flreights in others, by which the tides are propa- 
 gated, there arifes a great divcrfity in the efted, not to be accounted 
 for without an exadl knowledge of all the circum fiances of the feveral 
 places where they happen; as the pofition of the land, the breadth and 
 depth of the channels, diredlion of the winds, 6cc. 
 
 For a very flow and imperceptible motion of the whole body of water, 
 where it is (for example) two miles deep, will fuftice to raife its furface 
 ten or twelve feet in a tide's time ; whereas, if the fame quantity of water 
 were to be conveyed through a channel forty fathoms deep, ic would re- 
 quire a very great ftream to effedl it in fo large inlets as are the channel of 
 England and the German ocean; whence the tide is found to fet 
 ftrongeil in thofe places where the fea grows narroweft, the fime quan- 
 tity .of water being, in that cafe, to pafs through a fmaller paffage. This 
 is mofl: evident in the flreights between Portland and Cape la tlogue m 
 
 No. 52. II O Normandy,
 
 992 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Normaritlv. where tlie tide runs like a fluice; and would be yet moiK: 
 between Dover and Calais, if the tide coming round the iiland did 
 not chetk it. This force, being once imprelVcd upon the water, conti- 
 nues to carry it above the level of the ordinary height in the ocean, par- 
 ticularly where the water meets a diredl obitacle, as it does in St. Ma- 
 loes ; and where it enters into a long channel, which, running far into the 
 land, grows very Oraight at its cxtre-nity, as it does into the Severn fea 
 at Chepflow and Briflol. This ihoalnefs of the fea, and the intercur- 
 rent continents, are the reafons that in the open ocean the tides rile but 
 to very fmall heights in proportion to what they do in vviJc-mouthed 
 rivers, opening in the diredtion of the ftream of the tide, as it is obferved 
 upon all the weilern coails of Europe and Africa, from L'cland to the 
 Cane of Good Hope; in all which a fouth-vveft Moon makes high v/a- 
 ter*; and the fiime is reported to hold in the weft of America. So that 
 tides happen to different places at all dillances of the Moon from the me- 
 ridian, and confequently at all hours of the lunar day. 
 
 It is to be confidered that, in order to allow the tides their full mo- 
 tion, the ocean, in which they are produced, ought to be extended from 
 eaft to weft ninety degrees at leaft. Becaufe the places, where the Moon 
 raifes mod and moll: dcprelfes the water, are at that diftancc from each 
 other. Hence it appears, that it is only in the great oceans that fuch 
 tides can be produced, and why in the larger Pacific ocean they exceed 
 thofe in the Atlantic ocean. Hence alfo it is obvious, why the tides are 
 not fo great in the torrid zone, between Africa and America, where the 
 ocean is narrower, as in the temperate zones on either fide ; and we may 
 hence alfo underftand, why the tides are fo fmall in iflands that are very 
 far diftant from the fliores. It is manifeft that, in the Atlantic ocean, • 
 the water cannot rife on one Ihore but by dclcending on the other; ib 
 that, at the intermediate diftant iflands, it muft continue at a mean 
 height betwixt its elevation on one and on the other Ihore. But when 
 tides pafs over flioals, and through ftreights, into bays of the k.\, their 
 motion becomes more various and complicated, and their height depends 
 on many circumftances. 
 
 The tide that is produced on the weftern coafls of Europe, in the At- 
 lantic, corrcfponds to the fituation of the Moon already defcribed. Thus 
 it is high-water on the coafts of Spain, Portugal, and the weft of Ireland, 
 about the third hour after the Moon has paffed the meridian ; and thence 
 it flows into the adjacent channels, as it finds the eafieft paflage. One 
 current from it, for example, runs up by the fouth of England, another 
 comes in by the north of Scotland; they take a coniidcrable time to 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 993 
 
 move all this way, and it is high-water foonefl: at thofe places to which 
 they lirfi: come, and it begins to fall at thofe places whilft they are flill 
 going on to others that are tarther in their coiirfe. As they return, they 
 are not able to raife the tide, becaufe the water runs fafter off than it 
 returns, till, by a new tide propagated from the open ocean, the return 
 of the current is (lopped, and the water begins to rife again. '1 he tide, 
 propagated by the Moon, in the German ocean, when flie is three hours 
 palt the meridian, takes twelve hours to come from thence to London- 
 bridge ; lo that, when it is high-water there, a new tide is already come 
 to its height in the ocean ; and, in fome intermediate place, it mult be 
 low-water at the fame time. Confequently, when the Moon has north 
 declination, and we fliould expeft the tide at London to be the greatell 
 when the Moon is above the horizon, we find it is leall ; and the con- 
 trary when fhe has fouth declination. At feveral places it is high-water 
 three hours before the Moon comes to the meridian; but that tide which 
 the Moon puflies, as it were, before her, is only the tide oppofite to that 
 which v/as railed by her when flie was nine hours paft the meridian. 
 
 It would be endlcfs to recount all particular folutions vi'hich are 
 eafy corollaries from this do<5lrine; as, why the lakes and feas, fuch as 
 the Cafpian fea and the Mediterranean fca, the Black fea and Baltic, have 
 no fenfible tides: for lakes are generally lo fmall, that when the Moon, 
 is vertical Ihe attrads every part of them alike, and therefore no part of 
 the water can be raifed higher than another; and, having no communica- 
 tion with the ocean, it can neither increafe nor diminilh their water, ia 
 order to rife or fall; and feas that communicate by fuch narrow inlets,, 
 and are of fo immenfe an extent, cannot, in a few hours time, receive 
 and empty water enough to raife or fink their furface any thing fcnfibly. 
 To dem.onftrate the excellency of this dodtrine, the example of the 
 tides to the port of Batlha, in the kingdom of l"onquin in the Eafl: In- 
 dies, in 20 degrees 50 minutes north latitude, which are fo extraordinary 
 and different from all others we have yet heard of, may fuffice. The 
 day in which the Moon palfes the equinodial, the water Itagnates there, 
 without any motion ; as the Moon removes from the equinodlial, the 
 water begins to rife and fall once a-dav ; and it is high-water at the fet- 
 ting of the Moon, and low-water at her rifing. This daily tide in- 
 crtafes for about feven or eight days, and then decreafes for as many days 
 by the fame degrees, till this motion ceafes, when the Moon has returned 
 to the equinoctial. When fhe has paffed the equinodial, and declines 
 toward the fouth pole, the water riles and falls again as before; but it is. 
 high-water now at the rifing, and low-water at the fctting, of the Moon. 
 Sir Ifaac Newton, in order to account for this extraordinary tide, confi- 
 3 ders
 
 994 ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 ders that there are two inlets to this port of Batflia, one from the Chinefc 
 ocean, betwixt the continent and the Manillas, the other from the Indian 
 ocean, betwixt the continent and Borneo. This leads him to propofe, as 
 a folution of this phenomenon, that a tide may arrive at Batfha, through 
 one of thefe inlets, at the third hour of the Moon, and another through 
 the other inlet, fix hours after, at the ninth hour of the Moon. F'or, 
 while the tides are equal, the one flowing in as the other ebbs out, the 
 water mu-ft ftagnatc j now they are equal when the Moon is in the equi- 
 noAial J but, as foon as the Moon begins to decline on the fame tide of 
 the equator with Batlha, it has been fliown that the diurnal tide muft 
 exceed the nodurnal, i'o that two greater and two lefs tides mufl: arrive 
 at Batflia by turns. The difference of thefe will produce an agitation of 
 the water, which will rife to its greateft height at the mean time betwixt 
 the two greateft tides, and fall loweft at a mean time betwixt the two 
 leaft tides; fo that it will be high-water about the fixth hour at the fet- 
 ting of the Moon, and low-water at her rihng. When the Moon has got 
 to the other fide of the equinocflial, the nodurnal tide will exceed the 
 diurnal; and, therefore, the high-water will be at the rifing, and low- 
 water at the fetting, of the Moon. The fame principles will fcrve to 
 account for other extraordinary tides, which, we .are told, are obferved 
 in places whofe fituation expofes them to fuch irregularities, and which 
 appear to admit of no other folution. 
 
 "When the time of high-water at any place is, in general, mentioned, 
 it is to be underftood on the days of the fyzygies, or days of new and full 
 Moon ; when the Sun and Moon pafs the meridian of the place at the 
 fame time. Among pilots, it is curtomary to reckon the time of flood, 
 ■or hi^^h-water, by the point of the compals the Moon bears on, allowing 
 three quarters of an hour for each point, at that time; thus, on the full 
 arid change davs, in places where it is flood at noon, the tide is faid to 
 flow north and fouth, or at twelve o'clock ; in other places, on the fame 
 days, where the Moon bears i, 2, 3, 4, or more, points to the eaft or 
 weft of the meridian, when it is high-water, the tide is faid to flow on 
 fuch point; thus, if the Moon bears S. E. at flood, it is faid to flow 
 S. E. and N. W. or three hours Sefore the meridian, that is, at nine 
 o'clock; if it bears S. W. it flovvs S. W. and N. E. or at three hours 
 lifter the meridian ; and in like njanncr for other times of the Moon's 
 bearing. The tiines of high-water in any place fall about the f^ime hours 
 after a period of about fifteen days, or between one fpring-tide and ano- 
 ther ; but, during that period, the times of high-water fall each day later 
 by about forty-eight minutes. From thefe calculations, affifted by the 
 oblervations of a number of different perfons, there have been colleded, 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 995 
 
 the times when 
 
 «n ■moft of the fea-coafts of Europe, and many other places, 
 
 it is high-water on the days of the new and full moon ; of which the follow 
 
 ing exhibits a corred: and ufeful Table. 
 
 Abbevrak, in France 
 Aberdeen, in Scotland 
 Aldborough, England 
 ]fle of Aldcrney, ditto 
 River Amazon's mouth, America 
 Ifle of Ameyland, Dutchland 
 Amflerdam, ditto 
 St. Andrew's, Scotland 
 Ifle of Anholt, Denmark 
 Antwerp, Flanders 
 Archangel, Ruliia 
 Ifle of Arran, Ireland 
 R. Alhley, Carolina 
 St. Auguftine, Florida 
 Baltimore, Ireland 
 Cape Barfleur, France 
 Ifle de Bas, ditto 
 Bayonne, ditto 
 Beaehy Head, England 
 North Bear, | 
 South Bear, J 
 Belfaft, Ireland 
 Bellifle, France 
 
 Ifle Bermudas, Baham.a Ifles - 
 Berwick, England 
 Ifle du Bic, Acadia 
 Blackney, England 
 Cape Blanco, Negroland . - 
 Blanchart Race, France 
 Port Louis, ditto ' 
 Cape Bojador, Negroland 
 Bourdeaux, France 
 Boulogne, ditto 
 Bremen, Germany 
 Breefound, Dutchland 
 Brefl:, France 
 
 Bridlington Bay, England - 
 Brill, Dutchland 
 No. 52, 
 
 Labrador - 
 
 Englifh channel 
 
 German ocean 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 Atlantic ocean 
 
 German ocean 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Sound 
 
 River Schelde 
 
 White fea 
 
 St. George's channel 
 
 Atlantic ocean 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Weft:ern ocean 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Bay of Bifcay 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 Hudfon's Bay 
 
 Irifli fea 
 
 Bay of Bifcay - 
 Atlantic ocean 
 German ocean 
 River St. Lawrence 
 German ocean 
 Atlantic ocean 
 Englifli channel 
 Bay of Bifcay 
 Atlantic ocean 
 Bay of Bilcay 
 Englifli channel 
 River Weler 
 German ocean 
 Bay of Bifcay • 
 
 German ocean 
 Ditto 
 II P 
 
 H. M. 
 
 4 
 o 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 o 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 o 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 o 
 
 10 
 3 
 
 7 
 2 
 
 2 
 6 
 
 9 
 o 
 
 3 
 o 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 6 
 4 
 3 
 3 
 
 30 
 
 45 
 45 
 00 
 00 
 
 30 
 00 
 
 15 
 
 00 
 
 CO 
 
 00 
 00 
 
 45 
 30 
 
 30 
 30 
 45 
 30 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 30 
 00 
 
 30 
 00 
 00 
 
 45 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 30 
 00 
 
 30 
 45 
 45 
 30 
 
 Briftol,
 
 996 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Briftol, England 
 
 Biichanncfs, Scotland 
 
 Button's Ifles, North Britain 
 
 Cadiz, Spain 
 
 Caen, France 
 
 Calais, ditto 
 
 lile of Caldy, England 
 
 Camfer, Dutchland 
 
 Ifle of Canaria, Canaries 
 
 Cape Cantin, Barbary 
 
 Caikets, Ifle of Guernfey 
 
 Caitbnefs point, Scotland - 
 
 Charles town, Carolina 
 
 Ifle of Charles, Labrador 
 
 Chignedow, Nova Scotia - 
 
 Cherbourg, France 
 
 Cape and R. Churchill, N. Wales 
 
 Cape Clear, Ireland 
 
 Concarneau, France 
 
 Conquet, ditto 
 
 Ifle of Coquet, England 
 
 Corke, Ireland 
 
 Cape Corfe, Guinea - . 
 
 Cromer, England 
 
 Dartmouth, ditto 
 
 St. David's Head, Wales 
 
 Dieppe, France 
 
 Dort, Dutchland 
 
 Dover, England 
 
 Downs, ditto 
 
 Dublin, Ireland 
 
 Dunbar, Scotland 
 
 Dundee, ditto 
 
 Dungarvan, Ireland 
 
 Dungenefs, England - 
 
 Dunkirk, France 
 
 Dunnofe, Ifle of Wight 
 
 Edinburgh, Scotland 
 
 Edyftone, England 
 
 R. Elbe mouth, Germany 
 
 Embden, ditto 
 
 Enchuyfen, Dutchland 
 
 St. George's channel 
 German ocean 
 HuJfon's flraights 
 Atlantic ocean 
 Engliih channel 
 Ditto 
 
 St. George's channel 
 German ocean 
 Atlantic ocean 
 Ditto 
 
 Englifh channel 
 Wefl:ern ocean 
 A Alley river 
 Hudfon's ftraights 
 Bay of Fundy 
 Englifli channel 
 Hudfon's bay 
 Wellcrn ocean 
 Bay of Bifcay 
 Englifli channel 
 German ocean 
 St. George's channel 
 Ethiopian fea 
 German, ocean 
 Englifli channel 
 St. George's channel 
 Englifli channel 
 German ocean 
 Englifli channel 
 German ocean 
 Jrifli fea 
 German ocean 
 Ditto 
 
 Atlantic ocean 
 Englifh channel 
 German ocean 
 Englifli channel 
 German ocean 
 Englifli channel 
 German ocean 
 Ditto 
 Zuyder fea 
 
 H. 
 
 M. 
 
 6 
 
 45 
 
 3 
 
 GO 
 
 6 
 
 50 
 
 4 
 
 30 
 
 9 
 
 CO 
 
 1 1 
 
 30 
 
 5 
 
 15 
 
 r 
 
 30 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 o 
 
 00 
 
 8 
 
 15 
 
 9 
 
 00 
 
 
 00 
 
 10 
 
 15 
 
 o 
 
 45 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 7 
 
 ao 
 
 4 
 
 30 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 a 
 
 15 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 3 
 
 30 
 
 7 
 
 00 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 6 
 
 00 
 
 10 
 
 30 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 I I 
 
 30 
 
 1 
 
 15 
 
 9 
 
 ■ 15 
 
 
 30 
 
 2 
 
 15 
 
 4 
 
 30 
 
 9 
 
 45 
 
 o 
 
 00 
 
 9 
 
 45 
 
 4 
 
 30 
 
 5 
 
 30 
 
 o 
 
 00 
 
 o 
 
 00 
 
 o 
 
 00 
 
 Eflaples,
 
 EAapks, France 
 
 Falnvijfh, England 
 
 F!amboioiigh-head, ditto 
 
 Cape Florida, Florida 
 
 Flufhing, Dutchland 
 
 Ifle of y\v, ditto 
 
 Nor^h Forelari, England 
 
 Soiuh ditto, ditto 
 
 Foulp'.fs, ditto 
 
 Foye, ditto - 
 
 R. Garonne, France 
 
 Gafpey hd) , Arcadia 
 
 Gibraltar, Spuir. 
 
 Cape of Good Hope, Caffers 
 
 Gninvillf, Frince 
 
 Graveline, ditto 
 
 Gravefend, En^'land 
 
 Grpine, or Cape Corunna, Spain 
 
 Ifle ot Guernf^v, England 
 
 Haliifax, Nova '.cotia 
 
 Hamburgh, Germany 
 
 Haarlem, Dutchland 
 
 Hartlepool, England 
 
 Harwiciu ditto 
 
 Havre de Grace, France ^ 
 
 Cape Henry, Virginia 
 
 Holyhead, Wales 
 
 Honfleur, France 
 
 Hull, England 
 
 R. Humber entrance, ditto 
 
 Ice Cove, North Main 
 
 Fort St. John's, Newfoundland 
 
 St. John de Eus, France 
 
 Port St. Julian, Patagc;iia 
 
 KentiOi Knock, England 
 
 Ifle of Kilduin, Lapland - J 
 
 Kinfale, Ireland 
 
 Land's En>i, England 
 
 Leith, Scotland 
 
 Leoftoffe, England 
 
 Liverpool, ditto 
 
 Ifle of Lewis, N. Fort, Scotland 
 
 R O L U G Tr 
 
 
 997 
 
 
 H. 
 
 M. 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 1 1 
 
 oa 
 
 Ditto 
 
 5 
 
 30 
 
 German ocean 
 
 4 
 
 00 
 
 Gulf of Mexico 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 German ocean 
 
 o 
 
 45 
 
 Ditto 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 9 
 9 
 
 45 
 45 
 
 German ocean 
 
 6 
 
 45 
 
 EngUlh channel 
 Bay of Bifcay 
 Gulf St. Lavi^rence 
 
 5 
 3 
 
 - I 
 
 15 
 
 00 
 
 30 
 
 Mediterranean fea 
 
 o 
 
 00 
 
 Indian ocean 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 7 
 
 00 
 
 Ditto 
 
 
 
 00 
 
 R. Thames 
 
 I 
 
 30 
 
 Bay of Bifcay 
 Englifli channel 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 30 
 
 Weftern ocean 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 River Elbe 
 
 6 
 
 00 
 
 German ocean 
 
 9 
 
 00 
 
 Ditto ■ 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 Ditto 
 
 II 
 
 15" 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 9 
 
 00 
 
 Atlantic ocean 
 
 1 1 
 
 15 
 
 Irifli fea 
 
 I 
 
 30 
 
 River Seine 
 
 9 
 
 00 
 
 River Humber 
 
 6 
 
 00 
 
 German ocean 
 
 5 
 
 13 
 
 Hudfon's ftraights - 
 
 lO 
 
 CO 
 
 Atlantic ocean 
 
 6 
 
 oa 
 
 Bay of Bifcay 
 South Atlantic ocean 
 
 3 
 4 
 
 30 
 45 
 
 German ocean - 
 
 o 
 
 00 
 
 North ocean 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 Atlantic ocean 
 
 5 
 
 15" 
 
 St. George's channel 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 Ger. nan ocean - 
 
 4 
 
 30 
 
 Ditto 
 Irifli fea 
 
 9 
 1 1 
 
 45 
 15 
 
 Weftern ocean - 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 
 Lime*
 
 998 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Lime, England 
 
 Lilbon, Portugal 
 
 Lizard, England 
 
 London, ditto 
 
 Korth London, New England 
 
 Long ifland, ditto 
 
 Longfand-Head, England 
 
 Ifle of Lundy, ditto - - 
 
 Lynn, ditto 
 
 Ilie of Madeira, Canaries 
 
 R. Maes mouth, Dutchland 
 
 St. Maloe's, France 
 
 Ifle of Man, weft end, England 
 
 Margate, ditto 
 
 Milford, Wales 
 
 Mount's Bay, England 
 
 Nantes, France 
 
 >Jaze, Norway 
 
 Needles, England 
 
 NevvcaRle, ditto 
 
 Nieuport, Elajiders 
 
 IS ore, England 
 
 North Cape, Lapland 
 
 Orfordnels, England 
 
 Orkney ifles, limits, Scotland 
 
 Oftcnd, Flanders 
 
 Placentia, Newfoundland 
 
 Plymouth, England 
 
 Portland, ditto 
 
 Portfmouth, ditto 
 
 QiiebecJ Canada 
 
 llle of Rhee, France 
 
 Rochefort, ditto 
 
 Rochelle, ditto 
 
 Rochefter, England 
 
 Rotterdam, Dutchland 
 
 Rouen, France 
 
 Rye, England 
 
 Sandwich, ditto-. 
 
 Scarborough head, ditto 
 
 Scilly ifles, ditto 
 
 R. Senegal, Negroland 
 
 
 H. 
 
 M. 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 7 
 
 00 
 
 River Tagus 
 
 2 ' 
 
 15 
 
 Englifh channel 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 R. Thames 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 Weflern ocean 
 
 I 
 
 30 
 
 Ditto 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 German ocean 
 
 10 
 
 30 
 
 St. George's channel 
 
 5 
 
 15 
 
 German ocean 
 
 6 
 
 00 
 
 Atlantic ocean 
 
 I 2 
 
 0+ 
 
 German channel 
 
 I 
 
 30 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 6 
 
 00 
 
 Irifli fea 
 
 .9 
 
 00 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 1 1 
 
 15 
 
 St. George's channel 
 
 5 
 
 ^5 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 4 
 
 30 
 
 Bay of Bifcay 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 Weftern ocean 
 
 1 1 
 
 15 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 lO 
 
 15 
 
 German ocean 
 
 3 
 
 15 
 
 Ditto 
 
 12 
 
 00 
 
 River Thames 
 
 O 
 
 GO 
 
 Northern coaft 
 
 3 
 
 CO 
 
 German ocean 
 
 9 
 
 45 
 
 Weftern ocean 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 German ocean 
 
 12 
 
 00 
 
 Atlantic ocean 
 
 9 
 
 GO 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 6 
 
 00 
 
 Ditto 
 
 8 
 
 15 
 
 Ditto 
 
 1 1 
 
 15 
 
 River St. Lawrence 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 Bay of Bifcay 
 
 3 
 
 GO 
 
 Ditto 
 
 4 
 
 15 
 
 Ditto 
 
 3 
 
 45 
 
 River Med way 
 
 o 
 
 45 
 
 German ocean 
 
 3 
 
 GO 
 
 River Seine 
 
 I 
 
 15 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 1 1 
 
 15 
 
 Downs - " 
 
 11 
 
 30 
 
 German ocean 
 
 3 
 
 45 
 
 St. George's channel 
 
 3 
 
 45 
 
 Atlantic ocean 
 
 lO 
 
 30 
 
 
 R. Severn,
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 .999 
 
 Serern, K. England 
 
 Seine, R. France 
 
 Sheernefs, England 
 
 Sierra Leona, Guinea 
 
 Shoreham, England 
 
 Ifle of Shetland, limits, Scotland 
 
 Ifle of Sky, ditto 
 
 Southampton, England 
 
 Spurn, ditto 
 
 Start-Point, ditto 
 
 Stockton, ditto 
 
 Strongford Bay, Ireland 
 
 Sunderland, England 
 
 Svvin, ditto 
 
 Samarin Town, Sokotra 
 
 Tees, R. mouth, England 
 
 Ille of TenerifFe, Canaries 
 
 Ifle of Texel, Dutchland 
 
 Thames, R. mouth, England 
 
 Tinmouth, ditto 
 
 Topfliam, ditto 
 
 Torbay, ditto 
 
 Ifle of Torey, Ireland 
 
 St. Valery, France 
 
 Vannes, ditto 
 
 Ifle of Ufliant, France 
 
 Waterford, Ireland 
 
 Weymouth, England 
 
 Whitbv, ditto 
 
 Ifle of Wight, N. S. E. & W. end 
 
 Winchelfea, England 
 
 Wintertonnefs, ditto 
 
 Yarmouth, ditto 
 
 York Fort, New Wales 
 
 New York, America 
 
 Youghall, Ireland 
 
 By the foregoing Table, the times of high-water at all the places con- 
 tained in it may be found for ever. The firll columns contain the 
 names of all the places refpedively ; the fecond the coalls of the fea by 
 which they are bounded : and the figure-column the hour and minute 
 when it is higb-water at each of thofe places on the days of every New 
 
 No. 52. - iiQ^ ^"^ 
 
 St. George's channel 
 
 6 
 
 00 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 9 
 
 00 
 
 River Thames 
 
 
 
 00 
 
 Atlantic ocean 
 
 8 
 
 15 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 10 
 
 30 
 
 Weflern ocean 
 
 3 
 
 oo 
 
 Ditto 
 
 5 
 
 30 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 ,0 
 
 CX) 
 
 German ocean 
 
 5 
 
 15 
 
 Englilh channel 
 
 6 
 
 45 
 
 German ocean 
 
 5 
 
 15 
 
 Irifli fea 
 
 lO 
 
 30 
 
 German ocean 
 
 3 
 
 30 
 
 Entrance of the Thames 
 
 12 
 
 00 
 
 Indian ocean 
 
 9 
 
 00 
 
 German ocean 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 Atlantic ocean 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 German ocean 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 Ditto 
 
 I 
 
 30 
 
 Ditto 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 Englifli cj^nnel 
 
 6 
 
 00 
 
 Ditto 
 
 5 
 
 15 
 
 Wellern ocqan 
 
 5 
 
 30 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 10 
 
 30 
 
 Bay of Bifcay 
 
 3 
 
 45 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 3 
 
 30 
 
 St. George's channel 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 7 
 
 00 
 
 German ocean 
 
 -7 
 
 
 
 00 
 
 Englifli channel 
 
 
 
 CX) 
 
 Ditto 
 
 
 
 45 
 
 German ocean 
 
 9 
 
 00 
 
 Ditto 
 
 9 
 
 45 
 
 Hudfon s bay 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 Atlantic ocean 
 
 3 
 
 00 
 
 St. George's channel 
 
 4 
 
 30
 
 1000 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 and Full Moon, which will happen conftantly the liime for ever, becaufc 
 the '^loonfomks, or comes to the meridian ot" the fame places, every firll 
 and fixtcenth day, i. c. at every firft and third cjwartcr, when Ihe is new 
 and full, and confequently the tides mutt return at the fame intervals of 
 time ; therefore, to know the time of high-water on any given day, fintl 
 the time of the Moon's fouthing, and then add.the time which the Moon 
 has palled the meridian at the full and change days, to make high-water 
 at that place ; and the fum will be the time of high-water on the given 
 day. For example, at what time was it higli-water at Portfmouth, 
 on the 21ft of Odlobcr, 1789 ? Moon fouths at 2h. Soaii. to whicli add 
 3 ; and the fum 5h. 39m. Ihows that it was high-water at thirtj'-nine 
 minutes paft five o'clock in the afternoon. And fo for any other place ia 
 the Table. 
 
 This theory of tides has been extended fo far, as to eftimate the tides^ 
 or elevation of the waters of the Moon, produced by the attra<5lion of 
 the Earth -, thus, let us fuppofe the quantity of matter ( Q^) in the Earth 
 to be to that in the Moon [q) as forty to one, that is, Qj y : : 40 : 1 ; 
 and let us firlt fuppole the Earth and Moon of equal bulk, and rcprefented 
 by A I K, fg. t). and B D E, and the force (F) of the Earth, at the fur- 
 face of the Moon B, will be to the force (f) of the Moon at the fur- 
 face of the Earth A, directly as the malies of matter in each (becaufe of 
 the equal diftances T B and L A) ; that is, F : f : : Qj j' : : 40 : 1 . 
 Again, let L B be to L C as the diameter of the Earth to that of the 
 Moon, which is as 365 to loc, then will the force at B be to the force at C 
 as L B to L C, which let be as F to/, then F -.fi : 365 :. 100, 'whence 
 
 r=y^ ; and above we have F=4of, therefore ^ooof—^6^f; and fo 
 f : /":; 365 : 4000 : : i : 1 1 nearly; that is, the power of the Earth to 
 raife the water at the Moon C is to that of the ^toon at the Earth A as 
 eleven to one, very nearly. If the Moon can raife the \A\iter here 10 
 feet, the Earth can raife the water there to the height of i 10 feet; but, 
 becaufe the Moon always turns about her axis in the fame time as ihe 
 revolves about the Earth, the waters (if any there be) will be raifed on 
 this and the oppolite tide, and always continue over the fame part of the 
 Moon's furface, fo that there can be no ditferent heights of water there, 
 and conlequently no tides, except what fmall ones may happen on accourtt 
 of the Sun's attraction, and her various inequalities of motion, and dil^ 
 tance from the Eartli. 
 
 Of
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. looi 
 
 Of the WINDS. 
 
 The Wind, ventus, is a fenfible agitation of tlie air, wlierebv a larn-f 
 quantity thereof flows in a current or ftream out of one place, or region 
 into another Ihe wnads are divided into pcrenmal, /lalcd, and vana/^. 
 Ihey are alio divided into ^r/;.;v./ and parttcu/ar. Wmds perenniai or 
 co^ijtant, are luch as always blow the fame way: of thefe we have i 
 very notable one between the two troj)ics, blowing conftantly from eaft to 
 Avelt, called the ge.era/ trade-t^nnd. Winds>/.^, ov fenodicul, are llich 
 as conllantly return at certain times: fuch are the fea and land breezes 
 blowmg trom fea to land in the evening, and from land to fea in the 
 morning; luch alfo are the /v///>;^ or particular //W.-avW^, whicl, 
 for certain months of the year blow one way, and the rell of the year 
 the contrary way. Winds variable , or erratic, are fuch as blow now^his 
 now that way; and are now up, now bullied, without any rule or re-u 
 Jarity either as to time or place : fuch are all. the winds obfened in die 
 inland parts ot England, &c. though feveral of thefe claim their certain 
 imes ot the day ; thus, the weft wind is moll frequent about noo' 
 the fouth wind m the night; the north in the morning. &c. AVind p/ 
 W, is luch a one. as at the fame time blows the fame wav, over a verv 
 large traft ot ground almoft all the year: fuch only is the general trade- 
 wind But even this has its interruption; for at land it is fcarcely fenlible 
 at all, as being broken by the interpolition of mountains, valleys &c 
 at lea, near the fliore, it is difturbed by vapours, exhalations, and parti" 
 cular ^vTnds blowing from landward; lb that it is chieliv corlidcrcd -is 
 general only at mid-fea ; and even there it is liable to be dilhirbed 
 by clouds driving trom other quarters. Winds particular, include all 
 others, excepting the general trade-winds. Thofe peculiar to one little 
 canton, or part, are called topical ox provincuil 'xinds i fuch is the north 
 wmd on the wellern fide of the Alps, which does not blow above one 
 or two leagues lenglhwife, and much lefs in breadth : fuch alfo is the 
 pontias in France, &c. 
 
 Some philofophers, as Des Cartes, Rohault, &c. account for thn 
 general wind from the diurnal rotation of the earth; and from this jre' 
 neral wind derive all tjie particular ones. The atmofphere, lay thev 
 invelling the earth, and moving round it, that part will perlbrm its cir- 
 cuit foonelt which has the fmalleft circle to defcribe; the air therefo-e 
 near the equator, will require a fomewhat longer time to perforin its courfc 
 in, from well to call, than that nearer the poles. Ihus, as the earth 
 turns ealtward, the particles of the air near the equinodial, being ex- 
 ceedingly
 
 looz AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 ceedin";ly light, are left behind ; Co that, in refpeft of the Earth's furface, 
 they move eallward, and become a conftant eafterly wind. This opi- 
 nion feems confirmed by this, that thefe winds are found only between 
 the tropics, in thofe parallels of latitude where the diurnal motion is 
 Iwifteil. But the conftant calms in the Atlantic fea near the equator, 
 the wellerly winds near the coaft of Guinea, and the periodical welterly 
 monfoons under the equator in the Indian feas, declare the infufficiency 
 of this hypothefis. Belides, the air, being kept clofe to the earth by the 
 principle of gravity, would, in time, acquire the fame degree of velocity 
 that the earth's furface moves with, as well in refpecl of the diurnal 
 rotation as of the annual about the Sun, which is about thirty times 
 Iwiftcr. Dr. Hallcy, therefore fubllitutes another caufe, capable of 
 producing a like conllant effeft, not liable to the fame objedions, but 
 agreeable to the known properties of the elements of water and air, and 
 the laws of the motion of fluid bodies. Such a one is the action of the 
 Sun's beams upon the air and water, as he pafles every day over the ocean, 
 conlidered together with the quality of the foil and the fituation of the 
 adjoining continents. 
 
 According to the laws of llatics, the air which is lefs rarefied, or ex- 
 panded by heat, and confequently is more ponderous, mull have a motion 
 towards thole parts thereof which are more rarefied, and lefs ponderous, 
 to brino- it to an equilibrium ; alfo, the prefcnce of the Sun continually 
 Ihifting to the weftward, that part to \\hich the air tends, by reafon of 
 the rarefaftion made by his greateft meridian heat, is, with him, carried 
 weftward > and, confequently, the tendency of the whole body of the 
 lower air is that way* Thus a general eallerly v^dud is formed, which, 
 being imprefled on the air of a vail ocean, the parts impel one the other, 
 and fo keep moving till the next return of the Sun, whereby fo much of 
 the motion as was loll is again reftored ; and thus the eaftcrly wind is 
 made perpetual. From the fame principle it follows, that this eafterly 
 wind Ihould, on the north fide of the equator, be to the northward of the 
 call:, and in fouth latitudes to the fouthward thereof; for near the line 
 the air is much more rarefied than at a greater diftance from it, becaufe 
 the Sun is twice in a year vertical there, and at no time diftant above 
 twenty-three degrees and a half; at which diftance the heat, being as 
 the fine of the angle of incidence, is but little ftiort of that of the per- 
 pendicular ray; whereas, under the tropics, though the Sun ftays longer 
 vertical, yet he is a long time forty-feven degrees oif, which is a kind of 
 winter, wherein the air fo cools, as that the fummer heat cannot warm it 
 to the fame degree ^\'ith that under the equator. Wherefore, the air 
 towards the north and fouth being lefs rarefied than that in the middle, it 
 follows, that from both fides it ought to tend towards the equator. 
 
 1 This
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 1003 
 
 This motion, compounded with the former eafterly wind, accounts 
 for all the phenomena of the general trade-winds, which, if the whole 
 furface of the globe were fea, would undoubtedly blow quite round the 
 world, as they are found to do in the Athmtic and Ethiopic oceans. 
 But feeing that fo great continents do interpofe, and break the continuity 
 of the ocean, regard muft be had to the nature of the foil, and the poli- 
 tion of the high mountains, which are the two principal caufes of the 
 variations of the wind from the former general rule; for, if a country 
 lying near the Sun prove to be tlat, fandy, and low land, fuch as the 
 deferts of Lybia are ufually reported to be, the heat occafioned by the 
 reflexion of the Sun's beams, and the retention thereof in the fand, is 
 incredible to thofe who have not felt it ; whereby the air being extremely 
 rarefied, it is neceilary that the cooler and more denfe air Ihould run 
 thitherwards to reltore the equilibrium. This is fuppofed to be the caufe 
 why, near the coalt of Guinea, the wind always fets in upon the land, 
 blowing weilerly inftead of eallerly, there being futticient rca.on to be- 
 lieve, that the inland parts of Africa are prodigioully hot, lince the 
 northern borders thereof were fo very intemperate, as to give the ancients 
 caufe to conclude, that all beyond the tropics was uninhabitable by ex- 
 ecs of heat. 
 
 Mr. Clare, in his Motion of Fluids, p. 302. mentions a familar ex- 
 periment, that lerves to illullrate this matter, as well as the altei-nate 
 courfe of land and fea breezes. Fill a large diili with cold water, and 
 in the middle of it place a water-plate, filled with warm water : the firlt 
 will reprefent the ocean, the other an illand, rarefying the air above it. 
 Then, holding a wax-candle over the cold water, blow it out, and the 
 fmoke will be feen, in a Itill place, to move toward the warm plate, and, 
 rifing over, it will point the courfe of the air, and alfo of vapour, from 
 fea to land. And if the ambient water be warmed, and the plate filled 
 with cold water, and the fmoking wick of a candle held over the plate, 
 the contrary will happen. • 
 
 From the fame caufe it happens, that there are fo conltant calms in 
 that fame part of the ocean, called the rains ; for this trad being placed 
 in the middle, between the welterly winds blowing on the coaft of 
 Guinea, and the eafierly trade-winds blowing to the wcllward thereof, 
 the tendency of the air here is indifierent to either, and fo llaVids in equi- 
 librio between both ; and the weight of the incumbent atmofphere being 
 dim.inilhed by the continual contrary winds blowing from hence, is the 
 reafon that the air here holds not the copious vapour it receives, but lets 
 it fall in fo frequent rains. But as the cold and denfe air, bv reafon. 
 
 No. 53. 11 R "of
 
 1004 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 of its fjrcater gravity, prelTes upon the hot and rarefied, it is dcmonftfabic, 
 that tliis latter mull afcend in a continued llreani, as fall as it rarefies ; and 
 that, being afcended, it mull dilperfc itfelf, to preferve the equilibrium ; 
 that is, by a contrary current, the upper air mull move from thole parts 
 ■where ihe greatell heat is; fo, by a kind of circulation, the north-eall 
 trade- wind below will be attended with a fouth-wefterly wind above; and 
 the fouth-eall, with a north- well wind above. 
 
 That this is more than a bare conjedure, the almoll inllantaneous 
 change of the wind to the oppolite point, which is frequently found in 
 palling the limits of the trade-winds, fcems Itrongly to allure us; 
 but that which above all confirms this hypothtiis, is the phenomenon of 
 the monfoons, by this means moll ealily Iblved, and without it hardly 
 explicable. Suppofing, tlierefore, fuch a circulation as above, it is to be 
 conlidered that to the north\A'ard of the Indian ocean there is every where 
 land, within the ufual limits of the latitude of 3o" ; viz. Arabia, Perfia, 
 India, &c. which, for the fame reafon as the Mediterranean parts of 
 Africa, are fubjed; to infufferable heats, when the Sun is to tht north, 
 palTing nearly vertical ; but yet are temperate enough when the Sun is 
 removed towards the other tropic, becaufe of a ridge of mountains at Ibme 
 dillance within the land, faid to be frequently, in winter, covered with 
 Ihow, over wtiich the air, as it paffes, mull needs be much chilled. 
 Hence it happens, that the air coming, according to the general rule, 
 out of the north-eall, to the Indian fea, is fometimes hotter, fometimes 
 colder, than that which, by this circulation, is returned out of the 
 fouth-well i and, by confequence, fometimes the under current, or wind, 
 is from the north call, fometimes from the fouth-well. That this has 
 jio other caufe, is clear from the times wherein thefe winds fet, viz. in 
 April : when the Sun begins to warm thefe countries to the north, the 
 fouth-well monfoons begin, and blow, during the heats, till OAober, 
 ^vhen the Sun being retired, and all things growing cooler northward, 
 and the heat increafing to the fouth, the north-eall winds enter, and 
 blow all the winter, till April again. And it is, undoubtedly, from the 
 fame principle, that to the fouthward of the equator, in part of the Indian 
 ocean, the north-well winds fucceed the fouth-eall, when the Sun draws 
 near the tropic of Capricorn. Phil. Tranfad. No. 183. or Abridg. 
 vol. ii. page 139. 
 
 Some philofophers, dilTatisfied with Dr. Halley's theory above recited, 
 or not thinking it fufficient for explaining the various phenomena of the 
 wind, have had recourle to another caufe, viz. the gravitation of the Earth 
 and its atmofphere towards the Sun and Moon. I'hey allege tliat, though 
 
 3 we
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. ]oo5 
 
 ■we cannot difcover aerial tides, of ebb or flow, by means of the baro- 
 meter, becaufe columr.s of air of unequal height, but different denfitj, 
 may have the fame preflure or weight ; yet the protuberance in the at- 
 mofphere, which is continually following the Moon, mull:, they fay, of 
 courfe produce a motion in all parts, and fo produce a wind more or lefs 
 to every place, which, confpiring with, or counteracled by, the u inds 
 ariling from other caufes, makes them greater or leis. Several dillerla- 
 tions to this purpofe were publiflied, on occalion of the fubjecl pro])ofed. 
 by the Academy of Sciences at Berlin for the year ] 7-40. M. Muf- 
 chenbroeck, however, will not allow that the attraction of the ^^oon is 
 the catife of the general wind ; becaufe the eali wind does not follow the 
 motion of the Moon about the Earth ; for in that cafe there would be 
 more than twenty-four changes, to which it would be fubjecl in the 
 courfe of a year, inllead of two. Mr. Henry Eeles, apprehending that 
 the Sun's rarefving of the air cannot limply be thecaufe of all the regular 
 and irregular motions which we find in the atmofphere, afcribes them to 
 another caufe, viz. the afcent and dcfcent of vapour and exhalation, at- 
 tended by the eledrical fire or fluid; and on this principle he has endea- 
 voured to explain at large the general phenomena of the weather and 
 barometer. 
 
 The indullrj of the above-mentioned, and that of fome of the later 
 writers, have brought the theoiy of the production and motion of winds 
 to fomewhat of a mathematical demonltration, which is thus defined : 
 If the fpring of the air be w^eakened in any place more than in the adjoin- 
 ing places, a wind will blow through the place where the diminution is. 
 For, fiince the air endeavours, by its elaftic force, to expand itfclf every 
 way; if that force be lefs in one place than in another, the eflx^rt of the 
 more againll the lefs elafiic will be greater than the effort of the latter 
 againll the former. The lefs elaftic air, therefore, will refiit with lels 
 force than it is urged by the more elallic j confequently, the lefs elaltic 
 will be driven out of its place, and the more elafiic will lucceed. If, now, 
 the excels of the fpring of the more elaftic above that of the lefs elallic air, 
 be fuch as to occafion a little alteration in the barofcope ; the motion both 
 of the air expelled, and that which fuccecds it, will become fenliblc, i. e. 
 , there will be a wind. Hence, fince the fpring of the air incrcafcs as the 
 comprcfling weight increafes, and comprefled air is denier than air lefs 
 comprelled ; all winds blow into rarer air, out of a place filled with a 
 denfer. Wherefore, fince a denfer air is Ipecifically heavier than a rarer, 
 an extraordinary lightnefs of the air in any place muft be attended with 
 7- extraordinary windsj or ftorms. 
 
 Now,
 
 J 000 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Now, an extraordinary foil of the Mercury in the barometer lliowing 
 an extraordinary lightnels of the atmofphcre, it is no wonder if that for-e- 
 fels 'Itorms. For, if the air be fuddenly condenfcd in any place, its 
 fpring will be fuddenly diminiflied : hence, if this diminution be great 
 enough to afFccf the barometer, there will a wind blow throngli the 
 condenfcd air. But, lince the air cannot be fuddenly condenfcd imlefs 
 it have before been much rarefied, there ^^■ilI a N\'ind bUnA' through the air, 
 as it cools, after having been violently licated. In like manner, if air be 
 fuddcidy rarefied, its ipring is fuddenly increafed : wherefore it will 
 flow through the contiguous air, not acted on by the rarefying force, 
 A wind, therciore, will blow out of a place, in which the air is fud- 
 dcnlv rarctied ; and on this principle, in all probability, it is, that, fince 
 the Sun's power in rarefying the air, is notorious, it mull necellarily 
 have a great inilucnce on the generation of winds; which likcw ife pe- 
 netrate the very bowels of the earth, fincc moll caves and chafms arc 
 found to emit wind, either iliore or lefs. M. Mufchenbroeck has enu- 
 merated a variety of caul'es that produce winds, exiliing in the bowels of 
 the earth, on its lurface, in the atmofphere, and above it. See Intr. ad 
 Phil. Nat. vol. ii, p. ill 6, &i,c. 
 
 The rifing and changing of the winds are determined experimentally, 
 by means of weather-cocks, placed on the tops of houfes, &c. But 
 thefe only indicate what palles about their own height, or near the fur- 
 face of the earth : Wolfius afl'ures us, from obfervations of feveral years, 
 that the higher winds, which drive the clouds, are ditTerent from the lower 
 ones, \Ahich move the weather-cocks ; and Dr. Derham obferves fome- 
 thing not unlike this, Phyf. I'heol. lib. i. cap. 2. This author alfo re- 
 hites, upon comparing feveral feries of obfervations made of the winds in 
 divers countries, viz. England, Ireland, Swilferland, Italy, France, New 
 England, &c. that the winds in thofe feveral places feldom agree ; but, when 
 they do, it is commonly when they are llrong, and of long continuance 
 in the fame quarter; and more, he thinks, in the northerly and eallerly than 
 in any other points. Alfo, that a llrong wind in one place is oftentimes 
 a weak one in another, or moderate, according as the places are nearer or 
 more remote. Phil. Tranf. No. 267 and 321. 
 
 Philofophcrs have ufed various methods for determining the volocity 
 of the %\ ind, which is very different at different times. The method ufed 
 by Dr. Derham was that of letting light downy feathers fly in the wind, 
 and accurately obferring the dillance to which they were carried in any 
 number of half-feconds. This method he preferred to that of Dr. 
 Hooke's mola alata, or pneumatica, (fee Phil. Tranf. No. 24. and Birch's 
 Jiiltory of the Royal Society, vol. iv. p. 225.) He tells us, that he 
 
 thu5
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 1007 
 
 tiuis meafured the velocity of the wind in the great llorm of Augult 
 1705, and by many experiments found that it moved at the rate of 
 thirty-three feet per half-fecond, or of forty- live miles per hour: whence 
 he concludes, tfiat the moll vehement wind (as that of November 1703) 
 does not tiy at the rate of above fitiy or lixty miles per liour, and that at 
 a medium the velocity of. wind is at the rate of twelve or fifteen miles 
 per hour. Phil. Tranf. No. 3 13. or Abr. vol. iv. page 411. Mr. Jirice 
 o1)ferves, that experiments with feathers are fubjed to uncertainty; as 
 they feldom or never defcribea Itraight line, but delcribe a fort of fpirals, 
 moving to the right and left, and riling to very different altitudes ia 
 their progrefs. He therefore conliders the motion of a cloud, or its 
 fliadow% over the furface of the earth, as a much more accurate meafure 
 of the velocity of the wind. In this way he found, that the wind, in a 
 conliderable Itorm, moved at the rate of 02*9 miles per hour ; and that, 
 ^vhen it blew a frelli gale, it moved in the fame time about twenty-one 
 miles; and that, in a iinall breeze, the wind moved at the rate of 9-9 
 miles per hour. Phil. Tranf. vol. Ivi. page 220. 
 
 A TABLE of the different Velocities and Forces of the W I N D S. 
 
 Velocity of tlie 
 Wiiicl. 
 
 iSIiles in ''^Feet in one 
 one Hour.; Second. 
 
 Perpendicular 
 
 Force on one S(|tiare 
 
 Foot in Avoirdupois 
 
 Pounds. 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 15 
 
 20 
 
 25 
 
 30 
 
 25 
 
 40 
 
 45 
 
 50 
 
 60 
 
 80 
 
 lOO' 
 
 •005 
 
 •020"1 
 
 •0-14/ 
 
 •079? 
 •123i 
 
 •492? 
 1107i 
 1-968| 
 3-075/ 
 4'420l 
 G-027J 
 7-8731 
 9-903/ 
 12-300 
 17715 
 31-490 
 49-200 
 
 Common .\ppellatlons of tlie 
 Forces of Winds. 
 
 1*47 
 293 
 4-40 
 5-87 
 7-33 
 I4-G7 
 22-po 
 29-34 
 3G 07 
 44-01 
 51-34 
 •58-08 
 00-01 
 f5-35 
 » 88-02 
 117*30 
 I4G-70 
 trees, and carries buildings, &c. before it 
 
 Hardly perceptible. 
 Jul! perceptible. 
 
 Gentle pleafant wind, 
 
 Pleafant brifli gale, 
 
 V^ery brilk. 
 
 High wind. 
 
 Very high. 
 
 A florm or tempeft, 
 
 A great llorni. 
 
 A hurricane. 
 
 A hurricane that tears 
 
 "P, 
 
 No. 53, 
 
 lis 
 
 The
 
 looB AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Tlie force of the wind is as the iquare of its velocity; as iSIr. Fergufoir^ 
 has Ihown by expeiiinents on the whirling-table; and in moderate velo-- 
 cities this will hold very nearly. It is obferved, with regard to this 
 table, that the evidence for thofc numbers, where the velocity of the 
 wind exceeds fifty miles an hour, docs not feem of equal authority with 
 that of thole of fifty miles or under: Phil. Tranf. vol. li. page 165. 
 Dr. Hales found (Statical ElL vol. ii. page 320.) that the air rulhed out 
 of a pair of fmith's bellows at the rate of 08'73 feet in a fecond of time, 
 when compreffed with a force equal to the weight of one inch perpendi- 
 cular depth of mercury, lying on the whole upper furface of the bellows,. 
 The velocity of the air, as it palled out of the trunk of his ventilators,, 
 was found to be at the rate of three thoufand feet in a minute ; which is 
 at the rate of thirty-four miles in an hour. Dr. Hales lays, that the ve- 
 locity with which impelled air pall'es out at any orifice, may be deter- 
 nnned by hanging a light valve over the nofe of a bellows, by pliant 
 leather lunges, which will be much agitated and lifted up from a per- 
 pendicular to a more than horizontal polition by the force of the rulhing 
 air. There is another more accurate way, he fays, of efi;imating the 
 velocitv of air, viz. by holding the orifice of an inverted glafs fiphort 
 full of water, oppoiite to the Itream of air, whereby the water \\ill be de- 
 prclfcd in one leg, and raifed in the other, in proportion to the force with; 
 which the water is impelled by the air. 
 
 As to the qualities and efFeds of the wind, it is to be obferved, that 
 a wind blowing from the fea is always moift : in fummer, it is cold ; 
 and in winter, warm, unlcls the fea be frozen up. This is demonfl:rated. 
 thus : there is a vapour continually rifing out of all water, (as appears 
 even hence, that a quantity of water, being left a little while in an open 
 vefiel, is found fenfibly diminilhed,) but efpecially if it be expofed to the 
 Sun's rays; in which cafe the evaporation is beyond all expedation. 
 By this means, the air incumbent on the fea becomes impregnated with.', 
 a quantity of vapours. But the winds, blowing from off the fea, fweep 
 thefe vapours along with them ). and confequently they are always moill. 
 Again, water in fummer, &c. conceives lefs heat than terreftrial bodies, 
 expofed to the fame rays of the Sun, do; but, in winter, fea-vvater is 
 warmer than the earth covered with froft and fnow, &c. Wherefore, 
 as the air contiguous to any body is found to partake of its heat and cold, 
 the air contiguous to fea-water will be w^armer in winter, and colder in. 
 fummer, than that contiguous to the earth. Or thus ; vapours raifed 
 from water by the Sun's warmth in winter, are warmer tlian the air they 
 rife in, (as appears from the vapours condenfing, and becoming vifible, 
 almoft as foon as they are got out into air.) Frelh quantities of vapours, 
 
 therefore.
 
 OF A S T R O L O G r. iooq 
 
 therefore, continually warming the atmolphere over the Tea, -will raile its 
 heat beyond that of air over the land. Again, the Sun's rays reflected 
 from the earth into the air, in fummer, are much more than thofe from 
 the water into air; the air, therefore, over the earth, warmed by the 
 r-eflecliion of more rays than that over water, is warmer. Hence, fea- 
 winds make thick, cloudy, hazy, weather. 
 
 Winds blow^ing from the continent are always dry; in fummer, 
 warm ; and cold in winter. For tliere is much lefs vapour ariling froni 
 the earth than from water; and therefore the air over the continent 
 wall be impregnated with much fewer vapours. Add, that the vapours, 
 or exhalations, raifed by a great degree of heat out of the earth, are 
 much finer, and lefs fenlible, than thofe from w-ater. The wind, there- 
 fore, blowing over the continent, carries but little vapour with it, and 
 is therefore dry. Farther, the earth in fummer is vrarmer than water 
 expofed to the fame rays of the Sun. Hence, as the air partakes of the 
 heat of contiguous bodies, that over the earth in fummer will be warmer 
 than that over the water. After the like manner it is Ihown, that the land- 
 winds are cold in winter. Hence, we fee why land-winds make clear, 
 cold, w^eather. Our northerly and foutherly winds, however, which are 
 commonly efteemed the caufcs of cold and warm weather, Dr. Derham 
 obferves, are really rather the efFedl of the cold or warmth of the atmof- 
 phere. Hence it is, that we frequently fee a warm foutherly wind, on a 
 fudden, changed to the north, by the fall of fnow or hail ; and, that in a 
 cold, frofty, morning, we fee the wind north, which afterwards wlieels 
 about toward the foutherly quarter, when the Sun has well warmed the. 
 air ; and again, in the cold evening, tui'ns northerly or ealterly. 
 
 The utility of winds has been univerfally acknowledged. The an- 
 cient Pertians, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans, I'acrificed and erecled 
 temples to the winds; as we learn from Voffius, Theolog. Gentil. lib. 
 iii. part i. cap. i. Befides their ufe in moving bellows, mills, and 
 other machines, applied in various ways to the fervice of mankind, and 
 the benefits refulting from them to navigation and trade, they ferve to 
 purify and refrefti the air, to convey the heat or cold of one region to 
 another, to produce a regular circulation of vapours from the ocean to 
 countries remote from it, and to fupply, by wafting them in their progrels 
 againft hills, &c. fprings and rivers. 
 
 Wind has been, by many authors, made the bafis of many different 
 difeafes: among others. Dr. Reyn has given it as his opinion, in a 
 Treatife on the Gout (De Aithritid.) that flatufeS; or wind inclofed be- 
 tween.
 
 3010 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 tw ecn tlic pcriollcum and the bone, are the true caufe of tliat (liicafc, 
 and accordingly, that all the methods of cure ouglit to tend to the ex- 
 pelling of that wind. IJe luppofes this wind to be of a dry, cold, and 
 malignant, nature, conveyed by the arteries to the place afTecied, Avliere, 
 forcibly leparating that fenfible membrane, the perioll^eii'm, and diftend- 
 ing it, the pain mull needs be very great. He is alfo of opinion, that 
 head-achs, palpitations of the heart, tooth-ach, plcurily, conviiliJons, 
 cholics, and many otiier difeafes, are originally owing to the fame caufe, 
 and only differ in regard to the place ali'ecled, and to the various mo- 
 tipns and determinations of the wind. The moveablcnefs of the pain in 
 gouty perlons from one part to another, he looks upon as a proof of 
 this, and thinks that the curing of the gout by burning moxa, or the cotton 
 -of the mugwort leaves, upon it, is owing to its giving way to the \Aind 
 in the part to evaporate itfelf. That thefe winds are cold ai)pears frojn 
 the Ihivering fits which generaliy precede a paroxyfm of the gout; and, 
 that the lliiverings in the beginning of fevers, and before all fits of 
 agues, are owing to the fame caufe, is fuppofcd by this author a natural 
 c;onclufion from the former obfcrvations. 
 
 The winds, according to this author, and Fienus, are a fort of halituous 
 fpirits, railed by the impToj)er degree of our native hent, or out of our 
 meat and drink ; or, finally, out of an abundance of black choler. Their 
 ditferences, he fays, principally proceed from the various ferments, pro- 
 ducing in us a variety of humours; which, acting upon one another, do 
 in their cfTervefcenccs create winds of various effects, and denominate dif- 
 eafes from the places which are the fcenes of their aclion. It is on this 
 account that the acupun^f ura, or pricking with long needles, among the 
 Chinefe, is of ufe : the Japanefe, and other neighbouring nations, having 
 •no other cure for molt difeafes than the pricking with the needle, and the 
 burning of the moxa on the part. 
 
 The hufbandman often fuffers extremely by high winds, in many dif- 
 ferent rcfpecis. Plantations of trees, at a linall dillance from the barns 
 and houfes, are the bell I'afeguard againlt their futfering by windsj but 
 they muft not beplanted fo near as that their fall, if it fliould happen, would 
 endanger them. Yews grow very llowly, otherwife they are the bell of 
 all trees for this defenlive plantation. Trees fufFer by winds, being ei- 
 ther broken or blown down by them ; but this may be in a great meafure 
 prevented by cutting otf part of the heads and branches of them in 
 places where they ftand moll expofed. Hops are the moll fubje6t to be 
 injured by winds of any crop; but this may be in a great meafure pre- 
 >^;nted by a high pale or very thick thorn-hedge ; this will both keep otf
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. loii 
 
 flie fpring-vvind, which nips the young buds, and be a great fafegnard 
 againlt other winds that would tear the plants from their poles. ^ The 
 poles lliould ahvays be very firm in the ground ; and the beftlerurlty to 
 be added to this is a row of tali trees all round the ground. "Winds at- 
 tended w ith rain do great injury to the corn, by laying it flat to the 
 ground. Ihe belt method of preventing this, is to keep up good cn- 
 clofures ; and, if the accident hapjiens, the corn Ihould be cut immedi- 
 ately, for it never grows at all afterwards. It Ihould be left on the 
 ground, in this cafe, fome time after the cutting, to harden the grain 
 in the ear. 
 
 Many valuable obfervations on the winds, as they relate to navigation, 
 have been made by ikilful feamen, and particularly by Dr. Halley. It is 
 found, that between the limits of Go degrees, viz. from 30 degrees of 
 north latitude to 30 degrees of fouth latitude, there is a constant eall 
 wind through theyear, blowing in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, called 
 the trade- wind. Thefe trade- winds, near their northern limits, blow be- 
 tween the north and eafi: ; and, near their fouthern limits, they blow be- 
 tween the fouth and eatl ; but their general motions are difiurbed on the 
 continents and near their coalts. In fome parts of the Indian ocean there 
 are periodical winds, which are called monfobns. 
 
 In the Atlantic ocean, near the coalts of Africa, at about a hundred 
 leagues from the Ihore, between the latitude of 2S degrees and 10 degrees 
 north, feamen conltantly meet with a frcfli gale of w-ind blowing from 
 the N. £. Thoie bound to the Caribbee illands, acrofs the Atlantic 
 ocean, find, as they approach the American fide, tliat the laid N. E. wind 
 becomes eallerly, or feldom blows more than a point from the eaft, 
 either to the northward or fouthward. Thefe trade-winds, on the Ame- 
 rican fide, are extended to 30, 3i,ior. even to 32, degrees of N. llititude ; 
 which is about 4 degrees farther than they extend to on the African fide: 
 alio, to the fouthward of the ecpuitor, the trade-winds extend three or four 
 degrees farther to the coall of Brafil, on the American lide, than they 
 do near the Cape of Good Hope on the African lide. 
 
 Between the latitudes of 4 degrees N. and 4 degrees S. the wind al- 
 ways blows between the fouth and call: on the African fide the winds are 
 nearett the fouth ; and, on the American fide, nearelt the ealh In thefe 
 feas. Dr. Halley obferved, that, when the wind was eallward, the wea- 
 ther was gloomy, dark, and rainj^, with hard gales of wind ; but, \\ hen 
 the wind veered to the fouthward, the weather generally became fercne, 
 with gentle breezes, next to a calm. Thefe winds are fomewhat changed 
 
 No. 53. 11 T ■ by
 
 1012 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 by the fcafons of the year; for, when the Sun is far northward, the Brafil 
 S. E. wind gets to the fouth, and the N. E. wind to the eall ; and, when 
 the Sun is far fouth, the S. E. wind gets to the call, and the N. E. winds 
 on this fide of the equator veer more to the north. 
 
 Along the coaft of Guinea, from Sierra Leona to the ifland of St. Tho- 
 mas, under the equator, which is above five hundred leagues, the foutli- 
 erly and fouth-wctl winds blow perpetually; for, the S, E. trade-wind, 
 having pafl'ed the equator, and approaching the Guinea coafiwithiii eighty 
 or a hundred leagues, inclines toward the fliore, and becomes fouth, then 
 S. E. and b}-^ degrees, as it comes near the land, it veers about to Ibnth, 
 S. S. W. and in with the land it is S.W. and fometimes W. S. W. 'i his 
 tracl is troubled with frequent calms, and violent fudden gulls of wind, 
 called tornadoes, blowing from all points of the horizon. 
 
 Between the fourth and tenth degrees of north latitude, and between 
 the longitudes of Cape-Verd, and tlie eafternmoll of the Cape-Verd illes, 
 there is a tract of fea fubjecl to perpetual calms, attended with frequent 
 thunder and lightning, and rains : Ihips, in failing thefe fix degrees, are 
 faid to have been fometimes detained whole months. 
 
 The three laft obfervations account for two circumfiances which ma- 
 riners experience in failing from Europe (o India, and in the Guinea trade. 
 The firll is, the difficulty which fliips, in going to the fouthward, efpe- 
 cially in the months of July and Auguft, find in pafling between the 
 coafts of Guinea and Brafil, although the breadth of this lea is more than 
 five hundred leagues. This happens, becaufe the S.E. winds at that 
 time of the year, commonly extend forae degrees beyond the ordinary li- 
 mits of four degrees N. latitude; and, befides, coming fo much foutherly, 
 as to be fometimes fouth, fometimes a point or two to the welt ; it then 
 only remains to ply to windward: and, if, on the one fide, they fieer 
 W. S.W. they get a wind more and more eafterly ; but then there is a 
 danger of falling in with the Brafilian coalt, or Ihoals; and, if they fieer 
 E. S. E. they fall into the neighbourhood of the coall of Guinea, from 
 whence they caimot depart without running eallerly as far as the illand of 
 St. I'homas; and, this is the conllant practice of all the Guinea Clips. 
 Secondly, all fhips departing from Guinea for Europe, their direct 
 courfe is northward ; but on this eourfe they cannot go, becaufe, the coafi: 
 bending nearlj' call and weft, the land is to the northward : therefore, as 
 t'ne winds on this cot^tl are generally between the S. and \V. S.W. they 
 are obliged to fieer S. S. E. or fouth, and with thefe courfes they runoff 
 the fliore ; but, in fo doing, they always find the winds more and more con- 
 trary ;
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. lois 
 
 trary ; lb that, when near the flioie, they can lie fouth ; at a greater dif- 
 tance thev can make no better than S. E. and afterwards E. S. E. with 
 which courfes they commonly fetch the illand of St. Thomas, and Cape 
 Lopez, where, finding the winds to the eallvvard of the fouth, they fail 
 wellerly with it, till coming to the latitude of four degrees fouth, where 
 they find the S. E. winds blowing perpetually. On account of thefe 
 general winds, all thofe that ufe the \V elt-india trade, even thofc bound 
 to Virginia, reckon it their bell courfe to get as foon as they can to the 
 Ibuthward, that fo they may be certain of a fair and frelh gale to run be- 
 fore it to the wellward : and, for the fame reafon, thofe homeward-bound 
 from America endeavour to gain the latitude of thirty degrees, where 
 they firll find the winds begin to be variable; though the molt or- 
 dinary winds in the north Atlantic ocean come from between the fouth 
 and welt. 
 
 Between the fouthern latitudes of ten and thirty degrees, in the Indian 
 ocean, the general tratie-wind, about the S. E. by S. is found to blow all 
 the year long in the fame manner as in the like latitude in the Ethiopic 
 ocean; and, during the lix months from May to December, thefe winds 
 reach to within two degrees of the equator; but, during the other fix 
 months, from JSovember to June, a N. W. wind blows in the tracl Ivino- 
 between the third and tenth degrees of fouthern latitude, in the meridian 
 of the north end of Aladagafcar ; and, between the fecond and twelftk 
 degrees of fouth latitude, near the longitude of Sumatra and Java. 
 
 In the tra6l between Sumatra and the African coaft, and from three 
 degrees of fouth latitude quite northward to the Aliatic coalls, including 
 the Arabian lea and the gulf of Bengal, the monloons blow from Septem- 
 ber to April on the N. E. and from March to October on the S. W. Li 
 the former half-year the wind is more lleady and gentle, and weather clear- 
 er, than in the latter fix months ; and the wind is more Itrongand lleady in 
 the Arabian iea than in the gulf of Bengal. 
 
 Between the ifiand of Madagafcar and the coafi: of Africa, and thence 
 northward as far as the equator, there is a tradl, wherein, from April to 
 06lober, there is a conllant frelh louth-fouth-well wind ; which to the 
 northward changes into the welt-fouth-weft wind ; blowing at that time 
 in the Arabian fea.^ 
 
 To the ealtward of Sumatra and i\Lilacca on the north of the equator, 
 and along the coalls of Cambodia and China, quite through the Philip- 
 pines as tar as Japan, the monfoons blow northerly and foutherly ; the 
 
 northern
 
 1014 AN I L L U S T R A T 1 O N 
 
 northern letting in about October or November, and the Ibuthern about 
 IMaj : the \\ intls are not quite lo certain as thole in the Arabian Ic'as. 
 
 Eetwcen Sumatra and Java to the well:, and New Guinea to tlie eafi, 
 the lame northerly and Ibutherly winds are oblcrved, but the lirll half- 
 year raonlbon inchnes to the N. W. and the latter to the S. ¥.. '1 hele 
 winds begin a month or lix weeks alter thofe in the Chinefe leas let in, 
 and are quite as variable. 'Jhefe contrary winds do not fhitt from one 
 point to its oppolite all at once ; in fome places the time of the change 
 is attended with calms, in others by variable winds ; and it often hap- 
 pens, on the Ihores of Coromandcl and China, towards the end of the 
 monfoons, that there are nwll violent llormSi greatly refembling the 
 hurricanes in the Well-Indies; wherein the wind is lb very Itrong, that 
 hardly any thing can refill its force. All navigation in the Indian ocean 
 mult nccclfarily be regulated by thefe winds; lor, if mariners Ihoiild de- 
 lay their voyages till the contrary monlbon begins, they mult cither fail 
 back or go into harbour, and wait for the return ot the trade-wind. See 
 Phil. Tranf. No. 183. or Abr. vol. ii. p. 133, &:c. Robertlbn's Elein. 
 ■of Nav. book vi. fedl. 6. 
 
 The winds are divided, with refpecl to the points of the horizon from 
 which they blow, into dirdinal and collateral. Winds cardifuil are thofe 
 blowing from the four cardinal points ; call, well, north, and fouth. 
 Winds collateral are the intermediate w^inds between any two cardinal 
 winds ; the number of thefe is infinite, as the points from which they 
 blow are; but only a few of them are confidered in practice, i. e. only a 
 few of them have their dillinguithing names. The ancient Greeks, at 
 iirlt, only ufed the four cardinal ones ; at length they took in four more. 
 Vitruvius gives us a table of twenty, belides the cardinals, which were 
 in life among the Romans. Ihe moderns, as their navigation is much 
 more perfecl than that of the ancients, have given names to twenty-eight 
 collateral winds, which the\' range into /^/vwt^/^ and Jeco/nlary ; and the 
 fecondary they fubdivide into thofe of the Ji/Jl and J'econd order, 'ihe 
 Englilli names of the primary collateral winds and points are compounded 
 of the names of the cardinal ones, north and fouth being llill prefixed. 
 The names of the fecondary collateral winds of the firll order are com- 
 pounded of the names of the cardinals and the adjacent primary one. 
 Thofe of the fccond order are compounded of the names of the cardinal 
 or the next adjacent primary and the next cardinal, with the addition of 
 the word hy. The Latins have diltinift names for each ; all which are 
 expreired in the following Table. 
 
 3 Names
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 1015 
 
 Names of the WINDS, and Points of the 
 COMPASS. 
 
 Diftances of 
 the Points, &c. 
 from the North. 
 
 Englirti. 
 
 Latin and Greek. 
 
 1. NORTH. 
 
 2. North-by-eaft. 
 
 3. North-north-eaft. 
 
 4. North-eaft-by 
 
 north, 
 
 5. North-eaft. 
 
 6. North-eaft by 
 
 eaft. 
 
 7. Eaft-north-eafl* 
 
 8. Eaft-by-north. 
 
 Septenlrio, or Boreas. 
 Hyperboreas. 
 
 Hypaquilo. 
 
 Gallicus. 
 Aquilo. 
 Mefoboreas. 
 
 Mefaquilo. 
 
 Supernas. 
 ArHapcliolcs. 
 
 Borapeliotes. 
 
 Grcecus. 
 Hypoc-cfifias. 
 
 Cacfias, Hellefpontius. 
 Mefocaefias.' 
 Carbas. 
 
 0-^ 0' 
 " ^5 
 
 22 30 
 33 45 
 
 45 
 
 56 15 
 
 67 30 
 78 45 
 
 9. EAST. 
 
 10. Eaft-by-fouth: 
 
 1 1 . Eaft-fouth-eaft. 
 
 12. South-eaft-by-eaft. 
 
 13. South-eaft. 
 
 14. South-eaft-by-fouth 
 
 15. South-fouth-eaft. 
 
 16. South-by-eaft. 
 
 Solanus, fubfolanust 
 
 opelitcs. 
 Hypeurus, or hyper- 
 
 eurus. 
 Eurus, or volturnus. 
 Mefeurus. 
 
 Notapeliotes, eurajier, 
 Hypophoenix. 
 Phoenix, phcenicias, 
 
 leuco-notus, gan- 
 
 geticus. 
 Mefophoenix. 
 
 From the Eaft. 
 0" 
 " 15 
 
 22 30 
 
 33 45 
 
 45 
 
 56 15 
 
 67 30 
 
 7S 45 
 
 No. S3' 
 
 iiU 
 
 Names
 
 toi6 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 • 
 
 Names of the "WINDS, and Points of the 
 
 Diftances 
 
 of 
 
 
 COMPASS. 
 
 the Points, 
 
 &c. 
 
 
 
 frotn the South. 
 
 
 Englifli. 
 
 Latin and Greek. 
 
 
 17. SOUTH. 
 
 At/fler, 7ioti{s, meridies. 
 
 0'' 
 
 0' 
 
 
 18. South-by-vvefl. 
 
 HypoUbonotus, alfa- 
 
 nus. 
 
 1 1 
 
 15 
 
 
 19. South-fouth-wefl:. 
 
 Libonotus, notolibycus, 
 auftro-africus. 
 
 22 
 
 30 
 
 
 20. South-weft-by- 
 
 Melblibonotus. 
 
 IZ 
 
 45 
 
 
 foutb. 
 
 
 
 
 
 21. South-prejl. 
 
 Noto-zephyrus. 
 
 •45 
 
 
 
 
 Noto-libycus. 
 A f tic us. 
 
 
 
 
 22. South-weft-by- 
 
 Hypohbs.. 
 
 56 
 
 15 
 
 
 wefl. 
 
 Hypafricus. 
 Subvefperus. 
 
 
 
 
 23. Wefli-fouth-wefl:. 
 
 Libs. 
 
 67 
 
 Zo 
 
 
 24. Weft-by-fouth. 
 
 Mefolibs. 
 
 78 
 
 45 
 
 
 
 Mefozephyrus. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 From the Weft. | 
 
 
 25. WEST. 
 
 Zephyrus, javonius, oc- 
 cidens. 
 
 0° 
 
 0' 
 
 
 26. Well-by-north. 
 
 Hypargeftes. 
 Hypocorus. 
 
 1 1 
 
 15 
 
 
 27. Wefl-north-weft. 
 
 Argeftes. 
 
 23 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 Caurus, corns, iapix. 
 
 
 
 
 28. North-weft-by. 
 
 . 
 
 . Mefargeftes. 
 
 zz 
 
 45 
 
 
 wcfl. 
 
 
 Mefocorus. 
 
 
 
 
 29. North-weft. 
 
 
 Zephyro-boreas, boro-Ii- 
 
 45 
 
 / 
 
 
 
 hycus, oJytnpias. 
 
 
 
 
 30. North-weft-by- 
 
 Hypocircius. 
 
 56 
 
 15 
 
 
 north. 
 
 Hypothrafcias. 
 Scirem. 
 
 
 
 
 31. North-north-vveft. 
 
 Circius, thrafcias. 
 
 67 
 
 30 
 
 i 
 
 32. North-by-weft. 
 
 Mefocircius. 
 
 78 
 
 45 ! 
 
 APPLI-
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. ' 1017 
 
 APPLICATION of all the foregoing PHENOMENA in natural 
 and METEOROLOGICAL ASl ROLOGY. > 
 
 Having defcrlbed the nature and properties of meteorolic appearances, 
 and explained the phenomena of eclipfes, comets, &c. with the motions 
 and attractions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun, as they afFett the tides, 
 winds, and atnjofphere, we fhall now confider their influence, jointly 
 with that of the other planets and flars, in producing the continual 
 changes and mutations in the general affairs of flates and empires; and 
 in the variations aiid changes of the weather, whereby plagues and 
 peRilcnces,' droughts and inundations, and the confequent calamities of 
 iickly and diftrefsful times, are fought out and predi(5ted ; for, all having 
 the fame primitive caufe, namely, the attractive power and influence of 
 the planetary fyftem upon the elementary and terreftrial matter, they are 
 alike definable from a contemplation of the occult properties of that celeftial 
 influx, which this department of the afl:rologic fcience has, in all ages, been 
 found to teach. 
 
 From what has been premifed concerning the foregoing phenomena, 
 it becomes evident, that whatever affedts the (late of the air or atmof- 
 phere mull: necefl^irily, in an adequate proportion, alter the fl:ate of the 
 weather; and that, by how much the more the elements are impregnated 
 or charged with eleArical matter, or that the motions of the winds are 
 increafed or diminiflied, or that the clouds are furcharged with moift 
 and difcordant vapours, by fo much the more will fl:ormy, tempefluous, 
 and unfettled, weather, be produced. So likewife, it is equally demon- 
 ilrable, that, as the temperature of the air, and the flate of the "ambient 
 and elementary matter, is from time to time varied and changed, or 
 furcharged to a greater or le(s excels with any particular quality, fo in a 
 proportionate degree will the animal funilions and fpirits of men be raifed 
 or deprelTed, their minds agitated, and their paffions inflamed; whence 
 arife putrid and malignant complaints throughout whole provinces, and 
 difcord and malevolence among the different governments and orders of 
 fociety. And, feeing thefe things are fo, that their caufes are brought 
 about by the attrad:ions and niutations of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, ia 
 their different motions and pofitions, and in their conjundlions and op- 
 politions, and various configurations among themfelves and with the 
 Earth ; and fince we have (een that thefe motions and pofitions of the 
 planets, and all their different afpeds, can be afcertained for any feries 
 of years to come ; fo, it is manifefl, that, by knowing their influences 
 and effects upon the air, earth, winds, and elements, and upon the 
 
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 conOitutions and paflions of men, a' prcHige of times and fcafons, of 
 famines, pelUlcnccs, inundations, and of all great and univcrfal calami- 
 tics ariling therefrom, is fought out, and indifputably eftablilhed. 
 
 This fpeculation is therefore deftined to be, the art of prognoftication by 
 the rides of ^jy?/w/owy- It 's divided into two principal or diilindt parts; 
 the one whereof is called general, or univerfal, becaufe it relates to whole 
 empires, nations, or provinces; and the other local, or particular, fince it 
 relates only to the 'scathcr applicable to particular and diftindl climates ; 
 which, from the foregoing theory of eclipfes, tides, and winds, it is mii- 
 nifeft, might be afcertained with very great degrees of exadlnefs. 
 
 In thefe confiderations, two things are to be regarded, as the principal 
 
 ground-work of the whole, namely, the tendency and familiafity of the 
 
 twelve figns of the zodiac, and the planets and flars, to the temperature 
 
 of the different climates; and the qualities produced in certain feafons by 
 
 the ecliptical conjundions of the Sun and Moon, and by the revolutions 
 
 and tranfits of the planets, with their riiings and flations. The firft and 
 
 greater caufe hath refped: unto whole regions, and Hioweth the uncertainty 
 
 of national glory and perfection, fo liable to be difturbed by wars and in- 
 
 tefline broils, ordeftroyed by famine, peftilence, earthquakes, or inundations. 
 
 The fecondary or inferior caufe is produced in certain times, as in the 
 
 contrariety of feafons, and their mutations more or kfs in their different 
 
 quarters ; as heats or winds more vehement or remifs, out of their proper 
 
 andaccuftomed times, whereby plenty, or fcarciry, ordifeafes, are produced, 
 
 as the caufe and quality fiiall happen to be. Hence are difcovered th.e 
 
 fympathies exilling between the motions and configurations of the pknets, 
 
 and between the mutations and varieties of weather obfervable in the Hmie 
 
 feafons of the year; and of the general good or evil attendant on mankind; 
 
 all which are here acccounted for according to the principles of natural 
 
 reafon. For it is an undeniable fatft, that every diftindT: property will have 
 
 its diftind effedl; and that the knowledge of thefe effeds points out the 
 
 property, whether it be good or evil. Thus we know that t!ie property of 
 
 tiie planets ruling particular feafons, as the Moon does the tides, will con- 
 
 ftantly produce the fame effed, when unimpeded with the property or 
 
 influence of other attradive bodies; for then the effedive property is 
 
 chan<^ed, and can only be determined by contemplating the proper force and 
 
 mixture of the different planets^ according to their co-operation and power, 
 
 or places in the zodiac. 
 
 In this fpeculation, likewife, not only the natures and mixtures of the 
 pUnets amongft themfelves are to be obferved, but alfo the mixtures of 
 
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 tiiofo qualities which comBiunicate their properties to the planets and 
 iTgns: 4"uch as the more pov\erl"ul inliuences of the Sun and InIoop, ajid 
 the parallels of attraction made with the Earth. But, when any of the 
 planets ncl dilHncHy of themlblves, regard mull folely be had to their 
 own proper government and quality. I'hercfore, if the tiar of Saturn 
 rules alone, he caufeth corruptions by cold, conipiracies in Irates, willi 
 difcontents and fedition. But the influx which properly fcizeth men, 
 engendering cold and crude matter, produces chronical dileafes and con- 
 fuinptions, coUiquations, rheumatifms, cold moift dii'tempers, agues, 
 <"pideniic fevers, detluxions, &c. which will be the general or prevailing 
 complaints in thofe countries over which this planet bears rule, and 
 %vhere his parallels or alpecls /« JiniriJo are vifibly made, ^^'ith i-efpcct 
 to the political government of thofe countries, it Itirs up dillentions 
 amongll kings and princes, begets violence and contention betwixt ma- 
 gUlrates and rulers, and anarchy and confution amongll the people; it 
 forebodes war, forrow, and defolation, and often terminates in the over- 
 throw of Itates, and in the death of princes. Among irrational animals, 
 it moftly feizeth thole of the domellie kind, producing the diftemper in 
 horfes and dogs, the rot in Iheep, and the murrain amongll horned cattle. 
 Its effecl: upon the atmofphere will produce milty, dark, dole, humid, 
 lowering, corrufcuous, w^eather ; or elle turbulent, and violentlv intem- 
 perate ; or extremely intenfe cold, durable frolts, and Inow, as the clime 
 and feafon of the year Ihall chance to be. Hence will arile inundations 
 of waters, lliipwrecks, and diltrcfs at feaj and drowning, or freezing to 
 death, on land. The fruits of the earth will be diminilhed, and chiellv 
 thole which are moll needful for the lullenance of man \\ ill totally fail, 
 being liruck with blight, Imut, blafr, and mildew, or overcome with 
 £oods, rain, hail, fnow, or trolls, lb that the evil begets a paucitv of the 
 neceiraries of life, and proceeds to famine. 
 
 If Jupiter alone be lord of the year, he influences all things io the 
 greatelt good. Amongll men will be a time of blellednels, vigour, and 
 iminterrupted health; of long and happy days of tranquillity and peace. 
 Thofe things which are neceflary for man's uie and benefit are nourilhed 
 and augmented, and all nature tends both to mental and corporeal good. 
 In political events, thofe countries move immediately imder his dominion 
 and' influx will be the moll happy and profperous, the affairs of llate 
 will tend to the promotion of national wealth, magnanimitj-, and honour; 
 the government will be niild, and the laws dilpenfed with jullice and 
 moderation ; there will be mutual agreement between kings and princes, 
 and an imiverfal dilpofition to peace; alliances will be formed for the 
 profperity of the people, and trade and commerce will flonrifli under 
 
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 them. The increafe amongft irrational animals, of tlie domellic and ufe- 
 ftil kind, will be great, and men will be enriched thereby, parLicuiarly 
 Inch as deal in Iheep and black cattle. The conltitution of the air will 
 be mild and healthful, tempered with gentle winds and refrefhing Ihow- 
 ers, whereby the fruits of the earth will be repleniflied, and feedtimeand 
 liarvcll, and heat and cold, fucceed each other in their proper and accuf- 
 tomed feafons. The elements, participating in a more equal mixture of 
 their qualities, will be lets diilurbed ; lakes and rivers Iwell only to a 
 moderate height, lb as to increale fertility and vegetation. — The reltlels 
 ocean, now unatiiiiled by turbiil Itorms and winds, affords lafe pallageta 
 the richly-freighted Ihips from every quarter of the globe. In lliort, un- 
 der the unimpeded influence of this benign ftar, the productions of the 
 earth will be poured forth in abundance, and all things contribute their 
 llore for the health and proipcrity of man. 
 
 INIars, having alone the dominion of the year, produces thofe evils 
 refulting Ipontancoully from his nature, which are intemperate heat 
 and drought. Mankind will hence be feized with violent corruptions 
 of the blood, apoplexies, and fudden deaths. Spotted and fcarlet fevers 
 will abound principally in thofe countries over which he prelides, and 
 where his mundane alpedls motl forcibly pervade the earth ; for, there 
 will his noxious influence prove mofi: fatal. Political affairs, under this 
 influx, are marked with violence and oppreflion. Wars break out be- 
 tween contending princes, and fire and fword defolate the country, 
 and level all before them. Inteltine broils, infurreclions, treafon, and 
 murder, flain the land with innocent blood, and complete the lad cata- 
 logue of human misfortunes. The brute creation, and particularly thofe 
 appropriated for the food and lervice of man, will be grievoullv afiiided ; 
 epidemic diforders will break out amongtt them, and the heat and 
 drought will prove extremely fatal to horfes. The fruits of the earth 
 will be burnt up, fodder and grals for cattle every where deftroyed, and 
 all vegetation in a manner lufpended. Rivers, lakes, and ponds, will be 
 dried up, the fprings of the earth exhaufled; and, at the rifing of the 
 dog-Jiar, nature, as it were, will ficken, and refpiration be difficult and 
 tiaint ; dogs will run mad, and epidemic contagion fpread throughout 
 whole empires. The lea, in a manner Itagnated with calms, will put 
 navigation and commerce almoft to a ftand, whereby a dearth of corn,, 
 and other neceflaries of life, will be felt in many countries, and pave 
 the way to the fevereft ravages of pellilence and plague. 
 
 The fole rule and government of Venus will draw our attention from 
 this walle and barren wild to a fcene more grateful and pleafing. Under 
 
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 ficr mild and o^cntle iVay, all nature ii^clincs to moderation and tlclight. 
 The inflax which leizrcth men will difpole them to cultivate the bleilings 
 of peace, and conciliate thejaning interells of contending Iiates. Fruit- 
 ful'nefs and fecundity will blefs the land ; the minds of men will be foft- 
 ened by the all-fubduing charms of the fmiling fair, whofe benignant 
 intluences hai'monize fociety, and prefage the golden sera of felicitous and 
 happy marriages, harbingers of joy, of children, and delight. Political 
 affairs will now grow mild and peaceful j and the minds of monarchs 
 more inclined to negociations for family-alliances, and the chains of 
 wedlock, than to enforce the favage rage of war, and painful fhackles of 
 imprifonment or ilavery. All animated nature will increafe and multi- 
 ply, and the creatures which do not fly the dominion of man will be 
 healthful and profitable. The ftate of the air will be prolific and ferene, 
 tempered with refrefliing fliowcrs and falubrlous winds, producing heaw- 
 and luxuriant crops of all the fruits of the earth. Ships fail Inifkly and 
 lafely at fea, and the produce of ditTerent climes are wafted from fhore to 
 lliore, trebling their value. The fprings and rivers murmur through the 
 groves, pouring over their molly banks the beverage of fatnefs on tiie 
 verdant plains, fmiling in all the variegated drefs of blooming fpring. 
 The alternate lealons will fucceed, without turbulent or violent excefs; 
 and the delicious fruits and ripened corn, gathered into the garner in 
 plenty and perfe6lion, will influence the minds of men, while fitting ia 
 liifety and peace under their own vine and their own fig-tree, to pour 
 out to a bountiful and gracious Providence, the unbounded efFulions 
 of pious and grateful hearts. 
 
 When Mercury hath alo?ie the dominion, and not allured to the qua- 
 lity of other bodies by the foi'ce of attratlion, or the mutability of his 
 own nature, he quickens the minds of men, and difpofes to indullry and 
 invention. The conlHtution of the air under him w ill be acflive and un- 
 fettled, frequently changing in the fpace only of a few hours ; and, by 
 realbn of his proximity :o the Sun, when in his fvvittell motion, he oc- 
 calions drought, and diiiurbs the ambient by generating winds and va- 
 pours, thunder, lightning, corrulcations, and dark lowering clouds; and 
 on this account he induceth corruption in animals and plants, particu- 
 larly fuch as are moll ufeful and profitable to n.ian. In matters of Itate- 
 pdlicy and government, he infufes artifice and cunning into the conrlucl 
 of princes, gives fagacity to minillcrs, and dilpatch to the deliberations 
 of council ; he promotes the liberal arts, and forwards the improvement 
 offcience, difpofing all men to fobriety, perfeverance, and labour. In 
 voyages and navigation, the influx of this planet is not very propitious, 
 fmce it occafions fudden and violent florms, and perpetual changes of the 
 
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 1022 A N 1 L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 wind. Lakes and rivers, under this dominion, fvvcll pn a fiiddcn U* 
 inimoderate heights; break down their banks, and carry away tlx-ir 
 ■brid<;es ; inundate the country for miles round, and lay whole towns 
 muler water; theie again, as fuddenly liibfide, and drouglits frequently 
 enfuc. Hence the difeafes engendered will be quotidian agues, violent 
 colds and coughs, eruptions of the blood, atthmas, and confu'mptions. In 
 -the occidental quadrants he diminiiheth the waters, and in the oriental 
 he increafcth them. Under this influence, therefore, when it acls alone, 
 men win experience a mediocrity of good and evil ; the fruits of the earth 
 will in general Ijc lufficicnt, but vary much in quality and value, accord- 
 ing to the mutation of the weather, and as the blights and rains ihall 
 have been more or let's general or partial. Peace will for the moll; part 
 prevail under this governance; lince the animofities of princes will he 
 more likelv to cool by negociation, tlian be inflamed or exhaulled bv 
 the devattations of war. 
 
 I'hus each planet, according to its nature, quality, and force, pro- 
 <luceth thefe things, when left to its own proper action and ctfcct, un- 
 mixed w'ith the influx of other bodies, and tlie beams and copulations 
 of the luminaries unoppoling or correfponding thereto. But, v\ hen one 
 liar is mixed with another by alpecf, or by familiarity in figns, then the 
 clTccl will happen according to the mixture and temperament ariling from 
 the conmumication of thofe mixtures, which being as it were manifold 
 and infinite, from the number and diverflties of other liars and afpecls, 
 thev can only be afcertained by attentive calculations, founded on ma- 
 thematical precepts. And, in our judgment of events which appertain 
 to certain dillricls, we ought moll attentively to weigh \\vt fwiiliarities of 
 thofe planets which bring up the event ; for, if the planets are benefics, 
 and conformed to the region upon which the eflect falls, and are not 
 overcome by contraries, they more powerfully produce tlie benefit accor- 
 ding to their proper nature; as, on the contrary, they are of lefs advantage, 
 if any impediment happens in the familiarity, or their influence be over- 
 come b}^ oppofing afpecls. So again, if the ruling liars of the events arc 
 malefics, and have familiarity with the regions on which the accident 
 jails, or are overcome by contraries, they do lefs harm ; but, if they have 
 no fanfrliarity with thole countries, nor are overcome by them that have 
 familiarity therewith, they do much greater harm. As to their effetls 
 upon the difeafes of men, they are feizcd by more imiverfal aifcClions, 
 having the feeds thereof in their nativities, and receive, by lympathy in 
 their conllitutions, the more fenfible operation ot thefe general accidents. 
 Thefe conllderations form the grand outline of this department of altro- 
 Jjogy ; from which particulars are alone deduciblc. 
 
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 Seeing, therefore, th<tt this fpecuktion comprifes two different and 
 diftindt Tubjefts, namely, the general (late of the weather; and, f^con i- 
 ly, the mutations and revolutions of countries and empires: it will be 
 proper to confider them upon the bafis already laid down, und^r ih.nr 
 rt'fpeclive and particular heads ; and firff. 
 
 Of the W E A T H E R. 
 
 As it is in the air or almofphere that all plants and animals live and 
 breathe, and as that appears to be the great principle of mofb animal and 
 vegetable productions, alterations, &c. there docs not feem any thing, 
 in all philofophy, of more immediate concernment to us, than the ftate 
 of the iveather. In effedl, all living things are only aflcmblages or 
 bundles of vcffels, whofe juices are kept moving by the prelfure of the 
 atmofphere; and which, by that motion, maintain life. So that any al- 
 terations in the rarity or denfity, the heat, purity, &c. of that, mud 
 neceffarily be attended with proportionable ones in thefe. Vv'hat great, 
 yet regular, alterations, a little change of weather makes in a tube tilled 
 with mercury, or fpirit of wine, or in a piece of firing, &c. every body 
 knows, in th.c common inftance of barometers, thermometers, hygrome- 
 ters, &c. and it is owing partly to our inattention, and partly to our unequal 
 intemperate courfe of living, that we do not feel as great and as regular 
 ones in the tubes, chords, and fibres, of our own bodies. It is certain, a 
 great part of the brute creation have a fenlibility, and figacity, this way, 
 beyond mankind; and yet, without any means or difpofition thereto, more 
 than we; except that their velTels, fibres, &.c. being, in other refpeds, in 
 one equable habitude, the fame or a proportionable caufe from without has 
 always a like or proportionable eflecft on them ; that is, their vefTels are re- 
 gular barometers, 6cc. afFeded only from one external principle, viz. the 
 difpofition of the atmofphere .^ whereas ours are atfled on by divers from 
 within, as well as without : fome of which check, impede, and prevent, the 
 aftion of others. But to afccrtain the limits of thefe various affedtions 
 requires a theory of the weather founded on aflrological and mechanical 
 principles. 
 
 To obtain a proper knowledge of the weather for any given year, 
 it is requifite exadlly to obferve the ingrefs of the Sun into the firfl 
 point of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, at the change or com- 
 mencement of the four different quarters of the year ; together with the 
 conjunctions or oppofitions of the luminaries next preceding the fame in- 
 greffes. Then to tiie time of the ingrefs ere(5l the fcheme of heaven, and 
 obferve whether the places of the luminaries, at the time of their conjunc- 
 
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 tion or oppofition, happen in a moid, dry, or cold, manfion j and of wliaf 
 planets they are afpeded, ancj Ukevvife it the ruhng planets be conjoined 
 in fuch a manfion with the lord of the fign of that conjundtion or oppo- 
 iition, and the lord of the afccnjant ; as alio the almutcn, or general lord 
 of the figure, not ncgledting the fixed flars of the firll, fecond, and third, 
 magnitude, their rifing, fetting, and culminating, with planets of the fame 
 nature, or having conveniency of afpecl or radiation. Alio, diligently 
 confider the lord of the cclipfe, or ruling planet, of tlie great conjuntlioii 
 next preceding, li any do immediately precede ; which, being truly- 
 noted, ohfcrve carefully wh.at planet or fixed rtar he Ihall be corporally- 
 conjoined with, or apply to, next after the conjunction or oppofition of the 
 Sun and Moon j for according to the nature thereof will the feafon generally 
 be inclined. If Saturn therefore be well difpofed in an angle, and in a 
 moift aflerifm, with.out impediment, or applying to another planet at the 
 time of the Sun's ingrefs, it preiages temperate and feafonable ihowers, and 
 fiUeth the heaven with oblcure clouds, efpecially in that lunation wherein 
 he hath the chief dominion. But if, on the contrary, he be impedited, or 
 evilly difpofed, it portends turbulent ftorms of wind and rain, and cold, 
 denle, and thick, clouds, efpecially if Venus or Mercury be in tiioifl; fgns, 
 and behold him from an angle: for, in that cafe, there will be much rain. 
 Jupiter, in fuch a pofition, produceth ivinds and rain, with reddifh clouds;, 
 Mars engenders yellow clouds, thunder, corrufcations, and rain, 
 efpecially in thofe times and places proper and convenient, and 
 the rather if Jupiter and Mercury give any tefttmony thereto. The 
 Sun, irradiated in that manner, produces red clouds and a great deal of 
 •wet. The Moon applying to Venus, and afluming the above prerogatives, 
 brings gentle rain: but, if the Mcon applies to Mercury, or if Mercury 
 be lord and ruler of the figure with Jupiter, it portends fliowers and 
 violent winds, and cloudy air; yet fometimes more violent, and fometimes 
 more remifs, according to the figns, ailerifiii, manfions of the Moon, and 
 the conjundlions of the other fiars, either fixed or erratic. And here note, 
 that, if the ruling planet be oriental, his efFeds will appear in the end; if 
 occidental, in the beginning, whether it be in a revolution, folar ingrefs, or a 
 lunation. 
 
 A fcheme of the heavens, ereded for the Sun's entrance into the firft 
 fcruple of Aries, will, with the help of the Moon's principal afpedls 
 and configurations with the Sun and other planets at her leveral changes, 
 determine the general ftate of the weather for that quarter. But, in this 
 fpecies of predidion, we muft never lofe fight of the influence and at- 
 traction of the Earth, nor of the force and peculiarity of each climate 
 refpedively, as heretofore laid down in our confideration of tides, winds, 
 
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 a F A S T R O L O G Y. 1025 
 
 » MFthqi-akes, &c. becaufe thefe peculiarities arife entirely from the particu- 
 lar fituation of different climates or countries with refpedt to the Sun, and 
 would have their weather fixed and certain, the fame as their increaie or 
 decreafe of day or night, were it not for the attractive and expulfive force 
 ot the other celelfial bodies, which are incedantly varying that of the Sun 
 and of one another, according to their different pofitions and afoedts. 
 Hence it is neceluiry, before we attempt to give judgment of the wea- 
 ther in any particular country or. climate, to be well mformed oi its par- 
 ticular ikuation with refpec^t to land and fea, mountains and valltys, 
 iflands and continents, caverns and lakes, as well as of its geographical 
 pofition, with rcfpedl to the tropics, equiivodial, ecliptic, &c. for, as 
 every different climate is diffl:rently affedlted by the Sun's influence upon 
 it, as well as by the quality of its own proper foil or component parts, 
 fo will the adlion of the other ceieftial bodies thereupon be more power- 
 ful or remifs, as their nature and quality fliall be found to agree with, or 
 oppofe the ffate and temperature of, thofe climates, and the Sun's influence 
 at tho(e times upon them. Hence we fee clearly the extreme difficulty 
 of calculating the weather for England, Ireland, or any of the iflands, 
 which, being furrounded by the fea, are fabjedt to much greater varia- 
 tions of weather than any of the continents or great oceans. The 
 caufe is apparent. In England, we find almoff every flight configura- 
 tion of the Sun and Moon, and the riling and fetting of particular flars, 
 will change the ffate of the atmofphere almoft inftantaneoully ; and, from 
 the proximity of the fea every way round us, and the confequent moiit 
 vapours incefllintly drawn up into the air by the attradtion of thefe bodies, 
 we become fubjett to wet, cloudy, corrufcuous, weather, which extends 
 not to any of the furrounding coafts, but is peculiar only to the il'land 
 over which thefe vapours are engendered. And hence it is we fo often 
 fee fhovvers, which, though accompanied with violent thunder, lightning, 
 wind, and hail, are frequently not heard of at a few miles diffance j and that 
 when in one county there has been a drought, and the land and corn 
 almoft dried and parched up, in the next adjoining county they fliall be 
 vifited with frequent fhovvers, and the fruits of the earth be luxuriant 
 and flourifliing. This fadt muft be within every man's obfcrvation who 
 refides in England, and the caufe is entirely peculiar to the country. The 
 moift vapours of the contiguous ocean are drawn up into the clouds one 
 hour; and, by the oppofing influence of forne planet or ftar then rifing 
 or culminating, are driven down the next; whence it is obvious, that all 
 attempts to foretel fuch mutations and changes as thefe are abfurd and 
 futile. The objedl of this part of Aflrology means only to afcertain thofe 
 great and powerful operations of the flars, which fliall be felt generally 
 Siroughout whole provinces ; that, having their caufe in the principal 
 
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 ,o.i6 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 conjundions, oppolitions, or quadratures, of the fuperior bodies, will 
 Liile tempells over a whole continent ; pervade the bowels of the c:^rtli 
 in porous and fubterraneous countries, and produce earthquakes; that 
 fliall clothe the whole face of nature with fleecy (how or hoary frort ; 
 or, from humidity and heat, fliall either parch the land, while its faint- 
 ing inhabitants gafp for breath, or putrefy its air with pe(lilential qualities, 
 which fends them by thoufands to the grave. 
 
 The next thing to be conlidered in relation to the weather, is the con- 
 iuncftions and afpedls of the planets. The conjundion of Saturn and Ju- 
 piter, which ought accurately to be obferved, produces its eftccfts in the 
 mutation of the air many days before and after, in regard of the tardinefs 
 of their motions. 'J his conjunction happening in hot and dry manlions, 
 or with fixed ftars of that nature, generally produces drynefs ; increafeth 
 heat in fummer, and mitigates the cold in winter; but in moift figns 
 it portends rain and inundations. Yet this is diligently to be noted, that 
 the efleds produced by this conjundion will be of the nature of (he rul- 
 ing planet; for, if Saturn claims principal dominion in the place of the 
 coniundlion, and is elevated above Jupiter in rcfpedl of latitude, it denotes 
 ■many difeafes, and much evil in general ; but the contrary, if Jupi- 
 ter prevails. So likewife thefe two ponderous planets being in oppofition, 
 quartile, trine, or fextile, is a fign of continuance of feafons; but for 
 the mod: part they bring forth impetuous florms of rain and hail ; parti- 
 cularly happening in the fpring time, in moift afterifms, they produce tur- 
 bulent air; in fummer, hail and thunder ; in autumn, winds and wet ; in 
 winter, obfcure and thick clouds, and dark air. Saturn and Mars in 
 conjundlion, quartile, or oppofition, and Jupiter giving teftimony, ufu- 
 ally prefage winds and rain, hail, thunder, lightnings, and corrufca- 
 tions, according to the feafons of the year ; for, in the fpring it portends 
 wind, rain, and tiiunder; in fummer, hail and thunder ; in autumn, vio- 
 lent rain ; and in winter, diminution of cold. Kut above all, obferve the 
 ruling planet, and, according to his nature, judge. Saturn and the Sun in 
 conjuniilion, quartile, or oppofition, is apertio portanan, elpecially if it 
 happens in a moift conflcllation ; for then, in the fpring time, it threa- 
 tens dark and heavy clouds; in fummer, hail, thunder, and remiflion of 
 heat; in autumn, rain, and cold; in winter, froft, fhovv, and cloudy 
 weather. Saturn and Venus in conjundion, quartile, or oppofition, 
 generally produce cold, rain, and fhowers ; in fpring, they bring forth 
 rain and cold ; in fummer, fudden and hafly fliowers ; in autumn, cold 
 rain, (as, in fpring or winter, fnow or cold rain.) Saturn and Mercury 
 in conjundion, quartile, or oppofition, in dry figns and manfions, bring 
 forth drynefs; in moill figns, rain; in the airy, Vvindsj in the earthy, 
 
 cold
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 1027 
 
 cold air and di'}'nefs; particularly in tlie fprin":, it produces wind and 
 rain; in fummer, wind and iliowcrs ; in autumn, wind and clouds; 
 and, in winter, wind and Inow. Sattn-n and the ISFoon, in conjunction, 
 quartile, or oppolition, iit{rc\ the air according to that part of the. alterifm 
 wherein they are conjoined or aipct^ed. In the moitl ligns, it portends 
 clouds and coldnefs ; in the airy, and in Sagittarius and Capricorn, it in- 
 crealeth cold, efpecially when the Moon is of full light; and, when the 
 is void of courfcj it brings forth drynefs ; but, in dry ligns, it begetteth 
 llnvp air; and a froliy fealbn, if it be in winter; generally the Moon and 
 Saturn Hir up thick clouds and gentle fliowcrs- In the fpring it is a 
 fign of a turbid and moift air; in fummer, nioilhire, with remiilion of 
 heat, and fometiraes hail, if there be any alpect of Mars or Mercury ; 
 in autumn, it prefages a cloudy air ; in winter, clouds and Ihow, with 
 vehement cold. 
 
 Jupiter and Mars, in conjunction, quartile, or oppolition, change the 
 quality of the air, according to the nature of the ligns and Itars to which 
 they are conjoined or otherwife afpected. In hot and dry manlions, it 
 ca'ai'eth great heat ; in the moilt ligns, thunder and rain ; but, particularly 
 in the fpring time, it [)roduceth winds and turbulent air; in fummer, 
 -heat, and thunder and lightning ; in autxunn, tempeltuous and windy 
 iiir; and in winter, remilfion of cold and temperature of air. Ikit, in 
 this ccnjunction, we mull obferve the ruling planet; for, if Jupiter diall 
 rule and be elevated above Mars, it lignilles much good and felicity, plenty 
 of fruit, and fuch things as ferve for the fullenance of mankind, accord- 
 ing to his benevolent nature; but. Mars ruling, produceth many dileafes, 
 xlrynefs, houfe-burnings, and the like. Alio, Jupiter and Mars, with tem- 
 pelluous Itars, as ArClurus, the Eagle, Tail of the Dolphin, light Itar of 
 the Crown, &c. llir up wind and hail, and in fummer alio thunder; 
 in winter, he inclinetli the air to warmth, efpecially if Jupiter be then 
 llationary. Jupiter and the Sun, in conjunClion, quartile, or oppoli- 
 tion, bring forth wholefome winds and ferenity ; particularly, in fpring 
 and autumn, they fignify winds; in fummer, thunder, and, in winter, re- 
 miliion of cold. Jupiter and Venus, in conjuncfion, quartile, or oppoli- 
 tion, do generally pi'oduce ferenity and temperature of air; in the moitt 
 ligns they promife gentle ihowers ; in other ligns, fair weather, \\'bolefome 
 winds, and fertility of all things. Jupiter and Mercury, in conjunction, 
 quartile, or oppofition, Itir up the winds, and fometimes there is aper- 
 tio port arum to winds and rain ; in the fiery ligns they bring drynefs and 
 warm winds ; in the airy figns, fiiir weather, but winds in all fealbns of 
 tlie year ; particularly, in the fpring and autumn, they portend hail, and 
 in winter fnc w. Jupiter and the ^Sloon in conjun«il:ion, quartile, or oppo- 
 
 No. 54. 11 Z fition,
 
 IC2S ANILLUSTRATION 
 
 lltion, produce gentle winds, fcrenity, and temperature of the air; yet 
 thev alter the weather, according to the quality of the fign and all^rilm 
 which thev pollefs; but at all times they generally denote a mild and 
 temperate leafon. . •< 
 
 Mars and the Sun, in conjunction, quartile, or oppofition, in tlie fiery 
 fjgns, portend heat and drjncfs; in the watery, hail, thunder, and light- 
 iifng; in the airy, clouds; and, in the earthy, violent winds; in thelpring 
 and*^ autumn, they excite dry winds ; in fummer, great heat, lightning, 
 and thunder; and, in winter, remillion of cold. JNIars and Venus, in 
 conjuncliion, quartile, or oppofition, are apcrtio portarum to much rain, 
 if it happen in moitl figns, efpecially in Ipring and autumn ; in fummer 
 it enoendereth Ihowers; in winter, remiffion of cold, yet oftentimes fnow 
 when Saturn beholds them. Mars and Mercury, in conjuncfion, quar- 
 tile, or oppofition, in winter and Ipring foretel fnow; in fummer, thun- 
 der' and hail; in autumn, hail and great winds; and, in fiery and dry 
 ligns, they prefage warmth and excefiiTe drynefs. Mars and the Moon, 
 in conjunction, quartile, or oppofition, in moill ligns, demonltrate rain; 
 in fiery, drynefs, red clouds, and fometiraes rain; in fummer, liglitning, 
 hail, and corrufcations. Mars, entering new figns, very often changeth 
 the air; fo ISfars, paffing by Suculje, or Hyades, caufcth clouds and 
 moirture. Mars in Cancer, with north latitude, in autumn and winter, 
 brlnoeth warm weather, with wind and rain, and (harp dileafes, if Mars 
 Ihairafpec'l Saturn, Venus, or Mercury. Mars palTing by the Pleiades 
 maketh a cloudy feafon, and, being accompanied with Itars of a tempeit- 
 uous nature, as Artturus, the Eagle, bright liar of the Crown, Bull's 
 Eve, Tail of the Dolphin, Procyon, Fidicula, Scorpion's Heart, Virgin's 
 Spike, &c. rifing or letting with them, fignifies a turbulent, windy, and 
 oftentimes a fultry and unwholefome, air. 
 
 The Sun and Venus in conjunclion, commonly produce moifiure ; in 
 fpring and autumn, rain ; in fummer, fliowers and thunder ; in winter^ 
 rain. The Sun and Mercury in conjundion, in the airy figns, produce 
 winds, in the watery figns rain, in the fiery drynefs and warm winds, 
 (hurtful to mankind.) The Sun and Moon, in conjun6lion, quartile, or 
 oppofition, in moill figns, portend rain; in fiery figns, fair weather; but 
 generally it alters the air according to the nature of the ruling planet and 
 the nature of the feafon. The conjunction, femi-fextile, and textile, of 
 Venus and Mercury, infer llore of winds, and wet; and, in winter, fnow; 
 provided they be almoll equal in motion ; Venus in the firlt decade of 
 Cancer, prefageth rain; alio, her being with \}a& Pleiades^ Hyades, and the 
 Jijfeili, prenotes a moill feafon. 
 
 In
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 1029 
 
 In the revolution of the year, if Mars Ihall be in his own fign, it por- 
 tends much rain -, if he be in the houle of Saturn, it lliows but httle ; in 
 others, but a mediocrity. In the revolution of tlie year, when Venus, 
 Mercury, and the Moon, are found in moift manlions, it portends much 
 ft'ain. At the ingrefs of the Sun in tropical ligns, if Venus Ihall afpecl the 
 Moon from a moift place, it is a token of much rain, or, if Mars from 
 Scorpio lliall afpcci Venus, it portends likewife rain. When the Sun is 
 in Aries or Taurus, if Venus be then retrograde, the fpring will be 
 moift. The Sun in the terms of Mars increafeth the heat in fummer, 
 and drvnefs of the fprings in winter. In the conjunclion or oppolitioa 
 preceding the entrance of the Sun into Aries, and ahb in the ingrefs it- 
 felf, if the Moon behold Saturn, and both be in moift figns, it is the 
 prefage of thick clouds, or foft and gentle fliowers continuing long ; 
 but, if Venus or Mercury behold Saturn, then the rain will be more 
 vehement, and of long continuance. 
 
 If, in the autumnal quarter, more retrograde planets be with the Sun 
 than in the other feafons, which in the winter following \vill become di- 
 rect, it is afign of great drynefs. When the Sun enters the eighteenth de- 
 gree of Scorpio, if Mercury be in a moift place, it is a lign of rain ; and 
 obferve alfo the planet that is then almuten of the figure erected for that 
 moment, and pronounce judgment according to his nature and polltion. 
 Venus in winter, direcl and oriental of the Sun, lignifies but little rain 
 in the beginning of winter, and more ftore towards the end. When 
 Venus applies to Mars in Scorpio, it brings rain immediately. When 
 the Sun, Moon, Venus, and Mercury, are all conjoined together, it ar- 
 gues continual ftiowers that day, if the Moon beholds them from fome 
 other place, or if flie be in oppofition to them. When at the time of 
 the conjmKftion or oppofition of the luminaries, Venus ihall be in an an- 
 gle, it is a certain fign of rain ; the lord of the alcendant in a watery fign 
 begetteth rain. 
 
 To determine judgment of the particular ftate of the air, we muft con- 
 lider thele fix tilings; firft, at the time of the conjunction, quartile, or 
 oppofition, ot the luminaries, to oblerve the planet that is lord or ahnu' 
 ten; for, according 10 his quality and nature, will the leafon be inclined. 
 Secondly, to confider the fign v\hich the laid lord pofiefieth, with his 
 nature and quality. Thirdly, to obferve the fign afcending, the nature, 
 and of what inaniion oi the Moon it is in. Fourthly, the places of the 
 planets, both in the zodiac and the celeftial houfes, ^vhether they be 
 in angles or elfewhere. Fifthly, to obferve, next after the conjunction, 
 oppofition, or quartile, what planet the jNIoon is firft conjoined with in 
 
 1 afpeCl.
 
 1030 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 afpect. An 1, laftly, to conficler to which of the planets, or fixed ffars, 
 the lord is fiill join'cd, or of whom he is beheld. 'J hcfe things being 
 ■well coniidered, judgment maybe given as follows: namely, if the lord 
 of the conjunction, ctuartile, or oppoiltion, be of a moill nature, and the 
 planets in Inoill places, and the faid lord alfo be joined to liars or phmeis 
 of a moill nature, and the Moon after feparation fliall conjoin or have af- 
 pcrtVith a moifl planet, the nature of the tim.e will be wet and nsiny ; 
 if all incline io drvnefs, it will be dry ; if to warmth, pronounce hot 
 weather; if to cold, c(;ld weather. 'J he nature of the time will then 
 chictiy be moved, when the ISfocn, after conjunclion, <]uartile, or op- 
 poiltion, Ihall be conjoined by body or any iirong afpecl to the tigni- 
 ficalor. And, when the Moon comes to the lign afcending of the con- 
 iunction, cjuartile, or oppolition, the time will be changed according to 
 the (juality and nature of the llgn and allerifm. 
 
 Daily experience fliows, that the weather is much varied by the fitua- 
 tion of the winds j for, according to their different bearing is the feafon 
 much inclined, fonietimes to hail, rain, and fnow, and again to fair v>ea- 
 ther J wherefore I Ihall ffate thofe afpecls \\hicli are found to attriici, raiie, 
 varv, or alter, the polition of the ^^ inds, as they alternately rife or fel ia 
 parallels to the different bearings of the earth. Bclides thefe, there are 
 the lateral an<l collateral winds blowing between thcfe points, which 
 partake more or lefs of the quality of the foregoing, as they approach or 
 recede from them. In the figure of the Sun's ingrefs into any of the car- 
 dinal figns, or conjunction or oppofition of the luminaries preceding, or 
 monthly lunation) obferve carefully what planet is predominant in the 
 fiourerand their pofitions one to another mutually, as before Hated, will 
 <rive a near conjecture of the wind. 
 
 Saturn is the mover of the eaftern winds, Jupiter of the northern, 
 Mars of the well and Ibuth, Venus of the ibulhern, and Mercury ac- 
 cording as he fliall be conjoined with others ; the Sun and Moon of the 
 weftern winds. The quality of the winds, and their bearing, is alio 
 known from their pofitions in the figure ; for, the planets with latitude 
 and fouth declination, from the mid-heaven, move the fouthern winds to 
 blow. From the itntim cali, with latitude and northern declination, the 
 northern winds ; the oriental planets move the eallern winds, but the 
 occidental the wellern winds ; and, when they are weak, they attrad or 
 caufe the intermediate winds to blow. 
 
 Alfo the fituation and quality of the winds are gathered from the lati- 
 tude of the Moon^ as flie inclines to the north or fouth j lb the figns do 
 
 alfo
 
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 rojl 
 
 alio demonflrate the winds : for x\ries, Leo, and Sagittarv, excite the 
 north-well winds; Taurus, V^irgo, and Capricorn, the Ibuth-eall ; Gemini, 
 Libra, and Aqua ries, the north-ealt ; Cancer, Scorpio, and Piiccs, the 
 ibuth-MClt. Likcwile, from the application of Mercury to tiie other pla- 
 nets, we may in fomc meafure prognolticate the quahtv of the \\ inds : 
 for, if Mercury apply to Saturn, it produces great winds, clouds, and rain ; 
 if to Jupiter, mild winds; if to Mars, Marni winds j if to Mars and the 
 Sun, warm and hurtful winds; if toYcnus, cold winds. 
 
 Alfo the rifmg, culminating, and letting, of the fixed liars, with the 
 Sun, Moon, and other planets, alter the Irate of the M'inds in the follow- 
 ing manner: Reg'ulus, or the Lion's Heart, letting with the Sun, excites 
 the well winds to blow many days together. The rifmg of Pleiades with 
 the Sun moveth the call wind. The letting of A r<^furus Itirreth up the 
 fouthern winds. The letting of Pleiades with the Sun excites the north- 
 ealt wind. The riling of the Dolphin with the Sun alfoproduceth wind. 
 The riling or felting of Arcturus, (the head of the former twin,) the fouth- 
 ern belly of Pifces, the fbr of the Triangle with the Sun, Saturn, Jupiter, 
 Mars, or Mercury, begetteth winds. The. letting of Hyades troubleth 
 both fea and land, efpecially when INfars and INIercury give teftimojny. 
 If, at the time of the matutine letting of the Dolphin, there be Ihowers, 
 there will be none at the riling of Arclurus. The i-ifing of the Haedi 
 produces rain. The matutine riling of the greater Dog begetteth heat» 
 -troubleth the leas, and changeth all things. 
 
 The great Ptolomy, from many years obferA'ation, deduced the follow- 
 ing effeds from the fixed liars riling with the Sun. Orion's Girdle, rihng 
 with tJie Sun, maketh a turbid air. The letting of the Crown pre- 
 fageth tempells. Syrius and Aquilo, rifing in the evening, produce tem- 
 pells. The letting of Regulus caufeth the north wind, and fometimes 
 alfo rain. The letting of the Dolphin produces wind and fnow. The 
 letting of Vindemiator moveth the north-call wind. The rifing of the 
 Ram's-Horn brings forth rain and fnow. The vefpertine rifing of Arc- 
 turus portends tempells. The rifing of the Pleiades maketh the well 
 w-ind to blow. The vefpertine fetting of Syrius produceth the fouth 
 and north-north-call winds. The matutine letting of the Ilyades pre- 
 fageth rain and the fouth wind. The vefpertine fetting of tlie Pleiades 
 moves the fouth wind, terminating in the well. The rifing of the Suo- 
 cuke brings rain. '1 he rifing of Orion maketh the well wind to blow. 
 The matutine ibtting of Arcturus promifcth good weather. The matu- 
 tine letting of the Eagle caufeth great heat, and the fouth wind. The 
 matutine rifing of Regulus moveth Aquilo. The. matutine fetting of 
 
 No. 54. A2A Arcturu5
 
 1032 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Ar(flurus prefageth fhowers. The matutiiie fctting of the Succulae be- 
 »'-ettctli rain, Ihovv, and winds. 
 
 fc 
 
 The Sun, riling with the AiTcIH, tronblcs the air with thunder, liglit- 
 ning, fhowers, and the like. The Sun riling with the Eagle produceth 
 I'now, as alio with the tail of the Goat and head of jSledufa, His rifing 
 with Aldebaran and the Itars of Orion moveth wind, rain, thunder, and 
 Jightninf. When he rifeth with the cloudy liars in Leo, with Orion, 
 w'ith the tail of Leo, the light itar of Hydra, tlie Cro\^■n, or the ftars 
 in the forehead of the Scorpion, it portends a cloudy feafon. The 
 Sun fetting with the Harp prefageth a cold and moitt time ; with the 
 Pleiades, it begets wind and rain ; with Regulus, flioweis, thunder, and 
 IJcrhtnin^T; with the Greater Dog, a fair warm time, with thunder and 
 lightning; with Orion and Aldebaran, a turbid, windy, and wet, air; 
 with Acarnar and the liars of Jupiter, a ferene and temperate feafon ; 
 with the Itars of the nature of Saturn, he produceth cold rain or Ihow ; 
 with the ftars of Venus, rain and moifture; with the liars of JNLirs,. 
 thunder and lightning. Saturn, with the head of ISIedufa, begetteth 
 cold and moifture; with the Pleiades, he troubleth the air, and engenders 
 clouds, rain, and fnow; with the liars of Orion, he produceth wind and 
 fliowers ; with Ar6turus, wind and rain ; with the Virgin's Spike, Ihow- 
 ers and thunder; with the Dolphin, bright liar of the Crown, Goat's 
 Tail, or the Harp, it cauleth a moift and cloudy time, fometimes fnow 
 and rain ; with Prefepe, and the Hyades, it begetteth winds, clouds, rain, 
 and thunder ; Avith the Lion's Heart, it pi-oduceth thunder and rain, and 
 inftability of weather ; with the Greater Dog, it fignilies winds, rain, 
 thunder,"aud lightning. 
 
 Jupiter, rifmg with Regulus, brings fair weather in winter, and miti- 
 o-ates the cold, and increafeth the heat in fummer ; with the Neck of the 
 Lion it raifeth the winds, and with Acarnar it promifeth ferenity. JNIars 
 riftn''' with the Goat's Tail foretelletha moill time; with the liars in the 
 Scorpion's Forehead it denotes cold rain or fnow; with Ar6lurus, vehe- 
 ment winds, rain, thunder, and lightning ; with the Eagle, rain, fnow, 
 and great coldnefs; with the ftars of Orion, Hyades, Regulus, and the 
 Dogs, it fignilies great heat. Mercury wdth the Pleiades begetteth winds 
 and rain ; with the Eagle, fnow or rain ; with the liars of Orion, Hyades, 
 Reo-ulus, and the Dogs, it produceth winds, Ihowers, thunder, and light- 
 ning ; w'ith the Goat's Tail, cold winds, fnow, or Ihowers ; with the Back 
 and Neck of the Lion, moiftnefs with winds ; with the Lion's Tail, Spica 
 Virgo, the Harp, &c. itjportends a ludden change to w-jnd and rain. 
 
 The
 
 OF A S T R O L O G T. 
 
 I03J 
 
 The rifin^ and fctting of thefe ftars and conftellations might be known, 
 and their cttectsin Ibme degree pre-determined, by the ludden alterations 
 and changes we perceive in the atmofphere ; from wliich, by diligent 
 obfervation, and repeated experience, we may derive pretty accurate rules 
 how to judge of the weather, fo as to regulate our conduct in the profe- 
 cution of journeys, or the management of bufinefs, particularly fuch as 
 relates to gardening and hufbandry. 
 
 The air, in which w^e breathe, being co-mixt Avith inflammable va- 
 pours, at \yhich time it is hotter than ordinary, and unapt for refpira- 
 tion, Ihovvs the approach of thunder and lightning. — When the ringing 
 of bells, or other founds, are heard lond and faint, with difcordant parti- 
 cles, and by intervals, it Ihows the air to be dilated and dilturbed, pre- 
 fages either wind or rain, and fometimes both. — A (liarp and cold wind 
 after rain forefliows more to come, the exhalation or vapour not be- 
 ing fpent in the former Ihower. — Winds, that continue long in anv one 
 of the cardinal points, will caufe the weather to continue the lame, 
 whether it be fair or foul ; but, if it Ihifts often in changing its place, it 
 prefageth rain quickly after to enfue j but, in times of frotl, it is a fign 
 that the weather is about to break.— Whirlwinds predict approaching 
 llorms of rain and hail ; thefc winds are known by railing the dult or 
 any light materials, and they are oftentimes forerunners of great tern- 
 pelts, for it is a windy exhalation driven obliquely upon the horizontal 
 plane, and forced down by the coldnefs or moitture of the lower region ; 
 this reperculiion of the air caufeth chimneys to fmoke which do not at 
 other times, and forefliows great winds. — Sometimes whirlwinds are 
 caufed by the meeting of one another, and fo, railing light particles of 
 matter, as it were in contention with each other, hurls them to and fro at 
 the pleafure of the prevailing power; and fuch as thefe ufually prefage 
 tempelts, and may be known by the clouds moving feveral ways at once, 
 from the lame caufe above as below. — When the air is dilated or rarefied, 
 it is a fign of much heat, or elfe produces rain, which might be known 
 by the llench of fewers, foul places, or things corrupted, which are 
 more ofFeniive than at other times. — When the clouds be dark, deep,, 
 and lowering, it is a fign of rain, and fometimes of tempelluoas weather, 
 or of violent Itorms of thunder and lightning. If there be more thunder 
 than lightning, it argues a ftrefs of wind from that part whence it thunder- 
 ed, and alio of rain. — When it lightens and no clap of thunder fucceeds, 
 it is a lign in lummer of much heat, and fometimes of rain. — When it light- 
 ens only from the north-welt, it betokens rain the next day. — Lightning 
 from the north prefages winds,- and oftentimes great trmpells. — if from 
 the fouth or weft it lightens, exped both wind ami raio from thofe parts. 
 
 — ^jMornJiig;
 
 1034 A N I L L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 "Moniin»>- tlnindcr produces winds ; but mid-day, or in the evenina:, 
 
 Itorms ot rain and wind. — It" the lightning appears very pale, it argues 
 the air to be full of eledric fluid ; if red or fiery, it foreihows winds and 
 tcmpclls. — When the flaflies of lightning continue long before they va- 
 nifli, thev denote the Irorm to be general throughout a whole province. 
 
 . Thunder and lightning in winter in hot climates is ufual, and hatli 
 
 the fame effeds; but in thefe northern climates it is held ominous, and 
 feldom occurs without being the forerunners of much mifchief — INIany 
 fcattcring clouds wandering in the air, and moving fwiftly, argue wind 
 or rain ; if from the north or fouth, it denotes an approaching ftorm ; but, 
 if the rack rides both ways, it forefhows a tempeft. — If the rack in the 
 forenoon rides in tlie air from the eatlward, it argues rain at night; but, 
 if from the weft, it foreihows a cloudy morning, and rain ; and at any 
 time of the day, when the fun-beams and wind meet, it may caule the 
 fame cffeS. by' virtue of his rays. — When the clouds feem piled upon 
 heaps like fleeces of wool, it prefagcs wet weather to be near at hand. — 
 If the clouds fly low in fummer, it is a fign of rain; and in winter it 
 forelliows fnow and cold weather will enfue. — Wfien the clouds feem 
 white and jagged, as if rent afunder, gathering together in a body, their 
 forces uniting, they foretel a ftorm ; the nature of the exhalation is ap- 
 parently turbulent by the form and colour. — Hollow and murmuring 
 winds prelage llormy weather, for it fliows the air to be moift and dilated, 
 nnd cannot find palTage, but is oppofcd or hindered in its motion by 
 hills, trees, and hollow places, which it gets into, and then evacuates 
 v\ ith a roaring noife. — The air, being a fubtile body, infufes itfelf into 
 the pores of timber, boards, &c. and denotes rain, by being converted 
 into drops of water, or a moifture on the furface, which makes doors and 
 boards fwell, wainlbots crack, &c. for fome time before the rain comes 
 
 on. Fairer againft wet weather will grow weak, damp, and 1 well ; the 
 
 reafon is' the fame with the lall ; but, in writing-paper it Avill fooneft be 
 perceived, and more certainly predict the weather, becaufe it is ftzed 
 with a thin fubftance of a gummy nature, which, with the waterillinefs 
 of the air, dilfolves and grows moill, giving way for the ink to foak into 
 the paper, which the frze in dry weather will not permit. — When the 
 <-louds feem overcharged, and collect in white Ipirals or towers, expect 
 then rain, hail, or fnow, according to the leafon of the year. — After a ftorm 
 of hail, expecl froit to follow the next day. — Milts defcending from the 
 tops of hills, and fettling in the valleys, is a fign of a fair day, efpeci- 
 aJlv in fummer-time, and is then an argument of heat ; for, they are exha- 
 lations raifed by the fervour of the Sun, which by the air in the evening- 
 are converted into nftfts and dews, as a neceflary provifion for nature to 
 cool the earth, and refrelli her fruits, whereby to enable them that they 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 1035 
 
 may endure the next day's heat. White niifts are the fame, but more 
 waterifh, and inchning to rain ; and if they afcend it prefageth rain, and 
 argues that the middle region of the air is temperate, the lowefl: waterifh, 
 and the vapours warm. — If iri calm and ferene weather the rack be ob- 
 ferved to ride apace, expert winds from that quarter, for it is evident 
 that the exhalations in the clouds are converted into wind or rain, and 
 will defcend ; but, if the clouds afcend, it fhews the ftorm is paft, and 
 has happened at fome little diftance. — A thick or dark ity, laltiiig for 
 fome time in a morning, without either Sun or rain, becomes fair to- 
 wards the middle of the day, but foon after turns to wet rainy weather. 
 A change in the warmth of the weather is generally followed by a change 
 in the wind. Hence it is common to fee a warm foutherly wind fud- 
 denly changed to the north by the fall of fnow or hail ; or to fee the 
 wind in a cold frofty morning, after the Sun has well warmed the earth 
 and air, wheel from the north towards the fouth ; and again to the north 
 or eafl: in the cold evening. 
 
 Moft vegetables expand their down and flowers in fair fun-fhiny wea- 
 ther ; but clofe them previous to cold weather or rain. This is remark- 
 ably vifible in the down of dandelion, and eminently diflinguifhed in 
 the flowers of pmipernel ;* the opening and fhutting of which ferve as 
 the hufl^andman's weather-glafs, whereby he foretels the weather of the 
 enfuing day with aftonifhing exaftnefs. The rule is, if the blofToms are 
 clofe fhut up, it betokens rain and foul weather ; if they be expanded 
 and fpread abroad, the weather will be fettled and ferene. The flalks 
 of trefoil fwell againft rain, and become more upright and ere6l ; and 
 the fame mav be obferved, though not fo fenflbly, in the flalks of al- 
 moft every other plant. 
 
 Now, by way of example to the reader, I fhall here give the figure of 
 the Sun's ingrefs into the equinodlial fign Aries, which commenced the 
 vernal or fpring quarter in the year 1789, together with the afpeds of 
 the Sun, Moon, and planets, throughout that quarter ; which will be 
 fufEcient to enable any attentive reader to perform this part of the fciencc 
 with fatisfatfion and pleafure for any length of time to come. 
 
 * See thefe curious properties, amongft a thoufand others peculiar to the herbary creation, more 
 particularly defcribed in my Notes and llluftrations to the improved edition of Culpeper's Englifh 
 Phyfician and Complete Herbal, 4to. with upwards of four hundred engravings of the different Bri- 
 tifh plants, coloured to nature, to be had of the fame bookfelier that publiibes all my works. 
 
 No. f,S' ^2 B The
 
 1036 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Such was the pofition of the heavens at the time of the Sun's en- 
 trance into the firft point of Aries, being the commencement of the fpring 
 or vernal quarter of 1789, which happened that year on the 19th of 
 March, at ijh. 52 m. or, according to civil time, at fifty-two minutes 
 part three o'clock in the morning of the 2oth day, for which the above 
 fcheme is accurately calculated. 
 
 In drawino- judgment of the ftate and temperature of the weather from 
 this fio-ure, we miift not only confider the afpeds and configurations of 
 the luminaries and planets, but note the quality of the figns and tripli- 
 cities wherein they are pofited, and what will be the chief or predomi- 
 nant influence of the fuperiors. After which, the alpefts muff be regu- 
 larly fet down in fucceffion till the commencement of the next enfuing 
 quarter, when a figure of that ingrefs mufl alfo be calculated, and con- 
 fidered in the fame manner as the preceding, together with the place of 
 the Sun and quality of the feafon; by which means we fhall find the 
 
 weather
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 1037 
 
 weather will be pretty accurately afcertained, for any length of time that 
 the calculation is made. 
 
 At the commencement of the fpring quarter, we find the cold ponder- 
 ous planet Saturn juft departed from an almofl: abfolute rule and o-overn- 
 ment in the watery flgu Pilces, and in no alped either with Jupiter or 
 the Sun. This is a demonftnble proof of the intenfe coldnefs of the pre. 
 ceding quarter; for, fince Saturn is of a hardening aftringcnt nature, the 
 waters muft be congealed ; and a cold durable froft evidently diftinguiftied 
 tlie commencement of the year 1789. But the cafe was materially dif- 
 ferent towards the approach of the vernal equinox, when the Sun entered 
 into the fjgn Aries ; at which time the cold influence of Saturn was mi- 
 tigated by a trine afpeft of Jupiter, and by the increafing ftrength of 
 the beams of Sol. Neverthelcfs, fince there are five planets configurated 
 in watery figns, and the influx of Saturn not entirely abated, and alfo, 
 fince we find the pieceding provential Full Moon in a watery fign, we 
 lafely concluded that the fpring quarter muft for the firft part be cold 
 and wet; the wind, leaning moflly to the north and eaft, occafioned fleet, 
 and fnow or hail intermingled with rain ; towards the middle, wefl:erly 
 gales of wind, and florms of rain and hail ; but moderate towards the 
 end, with the wind moftly down to the fouthern point of the compafs. 
 The following afpecfts, particularly of the Sun and Moon, will fhow the 
 precife variations and general inclinations of the weather on each of thofe 
 days. 
 
 ASPECTS of the PLANETS operating on the WEATHER, from 
 the 17th of March to the 29th of June, 1789. 
 
 The Moon's lafl: afped, previous to the following, was comixt with Sa- 
 turn, a cold afliringent planet, in a watery fign. 
 
 March 
 
 1 7' 
 
 □ 
 
 D 
 
 h Moon 
 
 18, 
 
 
 
 
 
 i Sun 
 
 ^9' 
 
 d 
 
 c? 
 
 5 Mars 
 
 
 6 
 
 (? 
 
 9 Mars 
 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 ^ Venus 
 
 
 * 
 
 D 
 
 5 Moon 
 
 
 * 
 
 D 
 
 ^ Moon 
 
 
 * 
 
 D 
 
 ^ Moon 
 
 20, 
 
 ,? 
 
 h 
 
 ^ Moon 
 
 21, 
 
 * 
 
 © 
 
 5 Moon 
 
 in t Saturn in 
 in H Moon in 
 in X Venus in 
 in ^ Mercury in 
 in ^ Mercury in 
 in VP Venus in 
 in vf Mars in 
 in "^ Mercury in 
 in "^ Jupiter in 
 in ^ Sun in 
 
 t 
 K 
 
 H 
 K 
 K 
 
 95 
 
 r 
 
 T/ieJe quartiles will produce 
 cold and moifi weather, 
 /now, Jleet, and rain. 
 
 Mars having fo great rule 
 in thefe conju7i£lions, which 
 though made in a watery 
 fign, yet he will abate the 
 watery element, and make 
 the day particular iy Jine, 
 but cold. 
 
 23.
 
 1038 
 
 March 
 
 24, 
 
 25> 
 
 26, 
 
 27» 
 
 29, 
 
 3o» 
 
 AN I L L U S T R A i I O N 
 
 6 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 A 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 April 
 I, 
 
 5. 
 
 7» 
 
 8, 
 9' 
 
 D 
 
 5 
 D 
 
 J) 
 
 D 
 
 b 
 
 O 
 
 Stationary 
 9 Saturn in X 
 c5' Moon in X 
 in perihelion 
 in ?5 
 b Moon 
 
 Moon 
 
 Moon 
 
 CoU and cloudy 
 
 y/,"r in ^ ^ Coldjliarp winds, and thick 
 ^ ^ atmoj'phere. 
 
 Mars 
 
 A -y 
 
 D ^ 
 
 * D 
 
 J> 
 
 >K D 
 
 * ]) 
 
 * J) 
 
 A ? 
 
 * o 
 
 D 1) 
 
 D D 
 
 D D 
 
 A 1;^ 
 
 D D 
 
 in X 
 in )< 
 in X 
 in >^ 
 in T 
 9 Jupiter in 25 
 % Moon in T 
 5 Moon in b 
 in apogee 
 % Moon in « 
 ,5 Moon in b 
 9 Moon in y 
 Tp Moon in y 
 (5 Jupiter in 25 
 ]) Sun in T 
 
 Saturn in 
 Venus in 
 Jupiter in 
 
 Venus in 
 Jupiter in 
 Mercury in 
 
 S 
 
 ^ f Thick dark clouds, wit hzvind 
 
 _ , and fnow. 
 
 rain. 
 
 \ Condenfed air, but no 
 sr •) Cold weat her withwinds and 
 25 \ Jliozvers. 
 
 ^ Cold and cloudy. 
 1 
 
 Jupiter 
 
 Mars 
 
 Venus 
 
 Saturn 
 
 Mars 
 
 Moon 
 
 in 
 in 
 in 
 in 
 in 
 in 
 
 
 F leaf ant andjine weat her for 
 the feafon. 
 
 K ) Unfettled, but for the mof 
 n > part fine. 
 
 A 
 A 
 c5 
 A 
 D 
 
 5 
 b 
 
 d 
 9 
 h 
 5 
 
 A }) 
 
 d b 
 
 A O 
 
 A % 
 
 * 
 
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 Moon 
 Moon 
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 Jupiter 
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 Moon 
 Moon 
 % Moon 
 $ Moon 
 Sun 
 Moon 
 Saturn 
 Sun 
 Tp Moon 
 $ Jupiter 
 % Moon 
 Moon 
 Moon 
 Sun 
 Moon 
 
 D 
 
 9 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 }) 
 
 9 
 
 % Moon 
 
 in n 
 in n 
 in n 
 in £5 
 in n 
 in 25 
 in 25 
 in So 
 in 25 
 in r 
 in 25 
 in ¥i 
 in r 
 in n, 
 in 25 
 in IR 
 in -^ 
 in t^) 
 in T 
 in :i:: 
 in ^ 
 
 in 
 in 
 in 
 in 
 
 Mercury in 
 Saturn in 
 Mars 
 Mars 
 Venus 
 Saturn 
 Mercury in 
 Jupiter in 
 Mars in 
 Moon in 
 Venus in 
 Mercury in 
 Moon in 
 Sai\irn in 
 Mercury in 
 Jupiter in 
 Mercury in 
 Mars in 
 Moon in 
 Venus in 
 Jupiter in 
 
 
 Wind and turbulent air, with 
 hafiy Jliowers of rain. 
 
 "] According to the mixture of 
 "7 \ thcfe flars, there vuill be 
 ^ J dark clouds and feet. 
 
 ^ X Some rain and %vind. 
 ^ Fine dry rarefied air. 
 
 ^ 1 Turbulent cold winds, with 
 qr J rain. 
 
 ^ Gentle fiiowers. 
 
 X yFine pleafant 'X eat her. 
 
 25J 
 
 II, A
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 1035 
 
 April 
 
 11, A 3> b Moon in n| Saturn in ^ Cold rain. 
 
 12, A D % Moon in til Jupiter in S5"| 
 
 A J 5 Moon in ni Mercury in ^ 1 ^^^^ ^^-^^ 
 
 A D c? Moon ni H), Mars jn ^ ( 
 ]) in perigee J 
 
 13, A }) 9 Moon in | Venus in T Fine dav. 
 14? A }) Moon in ^ Sun in T > „ , , 
 
 D ]) b Moon in X Saturn in K ^ ^"''^^ ^''^^'s^^. 
 
 15. D D c? Moon in ; Mars in )^ > .,, . ,„■ 
 
 D 3) 5 Moon in ; Mercury in ^SPle^fant Weather, 
 
 16,* J bMoon iaj^ Saturn in >^^^^^^^ ^^^^ j^^^^ ^ 
 
 8 D % Moon in Vy Tupiter m S >- • 
 
 D }) 9 Moon in Vy Venus in T ' 
 
 17, D O 3) Sun in T Moon in VJ'"] 
 
 d d 5 Mars in >^ Mercury in )^ I Goo.^ weather far the 
 
 * ]> c? Moon in vy Mars in Y^ j y^(?/w. 
 >j< 3) 5 Moon in Vj" Mercuryin >^J 
 
 1 8, * ]) 9 Moon in ^ Venus in T Clear Jky. 
 
 1 9, * O D Sun in T Moon in rr /Tarw weather. 
 
 A D :VMoon in ^ Jupiter in 25> //^ow^rx. 
 1/9 Jupiter in 03 Venus in t' 
 
 23, d J c? Moon in T Mars in T J ^ ,/,«, and pleajant day. 
 d 3) 3 Moon in X Mercury in T > ^ -' -^ 
 
 24, d J 9 Moon in T Venus in T J g.«//. yZ/.-u/.r/. 
 □ 3) ^ Moon in f Jupiter in 25 ' 
 
 25» d O 3) Sun in y Moon in d A pie af ant day. 
 
 26, ^ }) b Moon in y Saturn in ^ ^ 
 
 J> in apogee ^ '^''^''^ ^'=^''>^ clouds. 
 
 jjc J) 1/ Moon in y Jupiter in 55 
 
 28, Q 3) b Moon in n Saturn in K )^Dull morning, but plea/ant 
 
 * ]> (J Moon in E Mars in Ti afternoon. 
 if; ]) 5 Moon in EI Mercuryin T 
 
 29» D "y 5 Jupiter in 25 Mercuryin T Pleafant day. 
 
 30, * O 3> Sun in y Moon in ^\opg„ freeair. 
 
 31, >|c ]) 9 Moon in 05 Venus in y > '^ '^ 
 May 
 
 I > A 3) b Moon in 55 Saturn in ){ 1 
 
 d 3) "¥ 3) and :!^ in 05 ^ S'o/wf /oivm. 
 
 D 3) § Moon in 25 Mercury in "f * 
 No. 55. 12 C 2, Q
 
 X.040 
 May 
 
 2, 
 
 AN 11. LUSTRATION 
 
 n D Sun in « Moon in a) , , „ . 
 
 A D J Moon in a Venus in r\Jrarm arid_pleafanliveat/ier, 
 
 □ ]) 9 Moon in SI Venus m ti^ 
 A, A Q 1> Sun in « Moon in r^?.^ , , /- , ,/ 
 
 A D 2 Moon in rri) Venus in y, ^Serene andpleafantweaiher. 
 
 A D ^ Moon in. i% Mercury in a ) 
 
 5, ^ ]) b Moon in ^ Saturn in K J ^^,„^ ^^;.^, ^/o«^j. 
 
 >!<:]) 1/ Moon in \rji Jupiter in 25 > 
 
 7, D D ^ Moon in- Jupiter '^}^ "^^ ipr^rmjhowers. 
 § ^ S Moon in zO: Mars in T 5 
 
 8, § j^ S Moon in tti ^Mercury in '6) ^ jj^o^,,s. 
 ^ ]) 9 Moon in ni_ Venus in b ^ 
 
 0, 5? D Moon in n\ Sun in b JVindy mid ivet. 
 
 ]) in perigee _ 1 
 
 A 3) h Moon in ni, Saturn ']'' ^^\]r^^,^,iouds wiihpwers. 
 
 /\ ^ H Moon in n^ Jupiter in S5 | 
 
 X 9 g Venus in « Mercury m « -> 
 
 lo, Sob Sun in b Saturn in )^ ^«^^^7> . 
 
 i^; D? b Moon in t Saturn in K C..^^«A^«/r. 
 
 13, A }) 9 Moon in VJ- Venus m ^ > ^-o/w^ (^/o«^j, but no rain. 
 A ]) 5 Moon in vy Mercury m « ) 
 
 14, A ]) Sun in « Moon m \^-j. 
 
 5^ D b Moon m VJ Saturn m ^t \Fine fpring iveathei. 
 
 g J) -y Moon in V^- Jupiter j" ^ I 
 
 ^ ]) (5 Moon in xsr Mars i'^ ^:| 
 
 16, D ^ c? J"Pit^'- i" ^ Mars jti T , ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^;^, ,„ y.^^,, ,/ 
 
 *^ 5 Jupiter in ^ Mercury m^! ,^,j^J j^.efpringwea- 
 
 ^0 ^ Sun m a Jupiter in - ■ thirmaybeexpecled. 
 
 ^ V) 5 Saturn in )< Venus m O [ -^ -^ 
 
 ^ g Sun and 5 in b J 
 
 19, d D ^^ Moon in ^ Saturn j" )^ -j 
 
 A D "2/ Moon in )4 Jupiter in ^ {^Many Jhowers. 
 v]< ]) 9 Moon in )^ Venus in b ^ 
 
 20, * D 5 Moon m ^ Mercury in b 
 
 22' 6 1> 6 Moon in r -^lars in T | ir/^^ ^uam tc^^/Z/f/'. 
 
 ' a D T/ Moon in T Saturn ui ffi 
 
 24, * D ^ Moon in b . Jupiter in )^ ^ 
 :jc D i Moon in b Jupiter in 25 
 
 25. d D 5 Moon and § j"- d 
 d }) 9 Moon and 9 i" ^ 
 (5 O D Sun and Moon botK m b -^ Q > b 
 
 Fineferem weather.
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 1041 
 
 May 
 26, 
 
 •27, 
 28, 
 
 29, 
 
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 * 3) 
 A D 
 d J) 
 
 * 
 D 3) 
 
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 A 
 
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 D 
 D 
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 D 5 
 
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 A :^ 
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 b Moon 
 b Moon 
 b Moon 
 1/. Moon 
 }) Sun 
 Moon 
 Moon 
 Moon 
 Sun 
 Moon 
 Moon 
 Sun 
 
 6 
 
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 6 
 9 
 D 
 
 in n 
 in n 
 in °5 
 in 25 
 in n 
 in SI 
 in SI 
 in SI 
 in n 
 in a 
 in rr^ 
 in n 
 
 in 
 in 
 in 
 ill 
 in 
 in 
 in 
 
 h, Moon 
 
 :y Moon 
 
 5 Moon 
 
 }) Sun 
 
 $ Moon 
 
 1/. Moon 
 
 (5 Moon 
 
 5 Moon 
 
 6, 
 7' 
 
 8, 
 9» 
 
 10, 
 
 12, 
 
 ^3' 
 
 14, 
 
 A 
 A 
 
 <? 
 <? D 
 
 D 
 A 
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 * D 
 ^ D 
 
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 A O 
 
 D 3) 
 
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 A D 
 
 m nji 
 
 in rrji 
 
 in rr)^ 
 
 m n 
 
 in ii 
 
 in :Or 
 
 in Tq^ 
 in ni, 
 in perigee 
 b Moon in n]^ 
 "^ Moon in n; 
 ]) Sun 
 
 in n 
 in l 
 in I 
 
 in '/y 
 in Vf 
 inVy 
 
 in b 
 in n 
 in ;xo 
 
 in ;:sr 
 in n 
 in ^ 
 
 Saturn 
 Mars 
 Saturn 
 Jupiter 
 Moon 
 Mars 
 Venus 
 Mercury in 
 Venus in 
 Mars in 
 Venus in 
 Moon in 
 
 Saturn in 
 Jupiter in 
 ^lercury in 
 Aloon in 
 Venus in 
 Jupiter in 
 Mars in 
 Mercury in 
 
 Saturn 
 Jupiter 
 Moon 
 Venus 
 Saturn 
 Mars , 
 Mercury in 
 Saturn in 
 Jupiter in 
 Mercury in 
 Mercury in 
 Moon in 
 Mars in 
 Venus 
 Saturn 
 Mars 
 
 ^ Some clouds. 
 ~f Fine day. 
 
 ( Some f/iowers. 
 
 SI ) IFarm weather, but unfet- 
 y S tied, and perhaps thun- 
 n ) der. 
 n Pleafant day. 
 
 T 
 
 n 
 
 25 
 
 n 
 n 
 
 25 
 d 
 
 Very Jine pleafant ivea- 
 ^ ther. 
 
 Some clouds, but mild and 
 fair weather. 
 
 Pleafant warm weather. 
 
 A good day. 
 
 Some thunder^ with florms 
 of rain. 
 
 Dark clouds with rain, 
 
 GentieJIiowet s. 
 
 Pleafant weather. 
 
 Fine day. 
 
 Warm day. 
 
 9 INIoon 
 
 % Moon 
 
 (3" Moon 
 
 % Moon 
 
 h Moon 
 
 X Moon inVJ 
 
 5 Saturn in ^ 
 
 § Mars 
 
 ]) Sun 
 
 ^ Moon 
 
 9 Moon 
 
 Tp Sun 
 
 ^ Moon j.i ;„: ....... ■" u V. c .in 
 
 Mooa \n^ Mercury in 25^ '^""'''^'''^'^'^^'''-^ 
 
 in 
 in 
 in 
 
 Gentle breezes with fome 
 clouds. 
 
 y /• Fery pleafant weather. 
 
 n) 
 
 X Some clouds. 
 
 I5> D
 
 J042 
 
 AN II. L U S T R A T I O N 
 
 June 
 
 
 15. 
 
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 A 1> 11 
 
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 D ]) 5 
 
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 A b 5 
 
 
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 * D 9 
 
 20, 
 
 6 D 6 
 
 
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 22, 
 
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 23. 
 
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 d 9 5 
 
 24, 
 
 A D b 
 
 
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 25» 
 
 d }) :^ 
 
 
 d D 5 
 
 26, 
 
 D D d 
 
 27» 
 
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 * D 9 
 
 28, 
 
 <? D b 
 
 
 A D d 
 
 
 * }) ? 
 
 29, 
 
 
 
 
 D D 
 
 
 * ]) ^ 
 
 30. 
 
 D D 9 
 
 
 * d 5 
 
 
 $ 
 
 Sun in II 
 Moon in K 
 Moon in K 
 Moon in T 
 Saturn in >^ 
 Sun in 11 
 Moon in T 
 Moon in T 
 Moon in b 
 in apogee 
 Moon in y 
 Moon in b 
 Moon in y 
 Saturn in ^ 
 Moon in n 
 Sun in II 
 Venus in £5 
 Moon in 25 
 Moon in EH 
 Moou in 25 
 Moon in 25 
 Moon in ^ 
 Sun in n 
 Moon in SI 
 Moon in xgi 
 Moon in V)i 
 Moon in njj 
 in aphelio 
 Sun in 25 
 Moon in xr^ 
 Moon in i:^ 
 Mars in y 
 in aphelio 
 
 Moon in 
 Saturn in 
 Jupiter in 
 Mercury in 
 Mercury in 
 Moon in 
 Jupiter in 
 Venus in 
 Mars in 
 
 Saturn in 
 Jupiter in 
 Mercury in 
 Mars in 
 Saturn in 
 Moon in 
 Mercury in 
 Saturn in 
 Mars in 
 Jupiter in 
 ^lercury in 
 in 
 in 
 in 
 in 
 in 
 
 «? 
 
 ^ ^ Some rain with dark clauJs. 
 
 25) 
 
 25 Fine day. 
 
 25- 
 
 ^ K Dull mornings J but Jine days. 
 n . 
 
 ^ i 
 
 Some dark clouds , with 
 
 >( I Jlorms of thunder and 
 
 lightning. 
 
 25 j 
 
 y ) Some gentle breezes y with 
 
 ^ $ clouds. 
 
 )( ) Fine morning, with much dew 
 
 Mars 
 
 Moon 
 
 Venus 
 
 Saturn 
 
 Mars 
 
 in the evening. 
 ^ iSome gefitlejliowers. 
 
 25-1 
 
 25 VSome thunder and rain. 
 
 Fine weather. 
 
 9. 
 
 n 
 
 y \ Some dark clouds. 
 
 Mercury in 25 
 
 Moon in 
 Jupiter in 
 Venu 
 Merc 
 
 Plea/ant weather. 
 
 iS in 25*1 
 
 ury in 25 > 
 
 Warm and pleafant weather. 
 
 By continuing thefe afpedls, the difpofition of the weather will be 
 found throughout the year, paying due attention to the place and power 
 of the Sun, and the afpeds of the Moon, which are the principal regu- 
 lators of the weather ; the Sun for dry, fettled, and ferene ; and the 
 Moon for moift, wet, and (howcry. And, as the afpe6ts of the lumina- 
 ries are on this account the mofi: eflential to be known, I fhall here in- 
 lert the following (hort but infallible rule how to find them for ever. 
 
 Having
 
 OF A S T R O L O G Y, 
 
 Having the time given of xh&firjl New Moon in Januarv, all other 
 Afpefts of the Sun and Moon may be colleded throughout the year, bv 
 adding to ' 
 
 Jan I. the Moon being New or Full, her age 
 
 For the Sextile Afpeft take —. - 
 
 Foi- the firfl Quartile 
 
 For the Trine Afpe6t 
 
 Full Moon or Oppofition .- ■ 
 
 Full Moon's laft Triangle 
 
 iiecond Quartile . 
 
 Second Sextile Afpefl 
 
 D. 
 
 h. 
 
 min. 
 
 lee 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 4 
 
 22 
 
 7 
 
 20 
 
 / 
 
 9 
 
 1 1 
 
 1 
 
 9 
 
 20 
 
 14 
 
 4' 
 
 14 
 
 /8 
 
 22 
 
 1 
 
 ^9 
 
 iS 
 
 22 
 
 2 
 
 22 
 
 3 
 
 33, 
 
 2 
 
 24 
 
 14 
 
 26 
 
 42 
 
 29 
 
 12 
 
 44 
 
 '-> 
 
 For the next New or Full Moon 
 
 By thefe additions, all the afpe^s the Sun and Moon make with each 
 other may be found at any time, or for any number of years ; and can- 
 not fail to be extremely ufeful in all calculations of the weather; in do- 
 ing which, let particular attention be paid to the qualities and afFedions 
 of the figns wherein thefe afpeds are made, and judge of them according 
 to the following rules, which, from obfervation and experience, are found 
 pretty corre6l. 
 
 The fign Aries always inclines to thunder and hail, becaufe of its equi- 
 noxial prefence ; but the divifions thereof cav.fe fomething more or lefs, 
 according to the nature of fixed ftars that are in Aries; for its fore 
 parts move fhowers and winds ; the middle parts are temperate ; the 
 latter parts are hot and peftilential. Moreover, the northern parts are 
 hot and corruptive ; the fouthern, freezing and cold. Taurus partici- 
 pates of both tempers, and is fomewhat warm : the fore-parts, and chiefly 
 about the Pleiades, produce earthquakes, clouds, and winds ; the middle 
 parts moifter and cooler ; the latter parts and about the Hyades are fiery, 
 and caufe lightning and thunder. Further, its northern parts are tem- 
 perate; the fouthern dilbrderly and moveable. Gemini is generally 
 temperate : the firfl parts moift and hurtful, the middle parts temperate, 
 the latter parts are mixed and diforderly. Moreover the northern parts 
 create earthquakes and wind ; the fouthern are dry and burnino-. Can- 
 cer is gentle and warm: the firft parts and about the Prafepe are fufFo- 
 cating;the middle parts temperate; the laft parts windy: the northern 
 and louthern parts are each of them fiery and burning. Leo is wholly 
 burning, fuffocating, and peftilential : the middle parts temperate, the 
 laft parts moift and hurtful : the northern parts are moveable and burn- 
 ing : the fouth parts moift. Virgo is moift, and caufeth thunder : the firft 
 ^°-55. 12 D parts
 
 I044 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 parts are more hot and hurtful, the middle parts temperate, the lafl: parts 
 watery. Moreover, the north parts move winds, but the ibuth are tem- 
 perate. Libra is generally variable and mutable : the fore and middle 
 parts are temperate, the latter parts are watery : the north parts are 
 windy, the fouth parts moifl: and plentiful. Scorpio caufcth thunder, 
 and is fiery: the fore parts produce fnow ; the middle parts are tempe- 
 rate; and the laft parts caule earthquakes: its north parts are hot; the 
 fouth parts moift. Sagittary produces winds ; the fore parts are moift, 
 the middle temperate, the laft parts caufe earthquakes. The north parts 
 are windy, the fouth parts caufe variety and moifture. Capricorn is 
 wholly moift : the fore parts are burning and hurtful, the middle tem- 
 perate, and the laft ftir up ihowers; the north and fouth parts are moift 
 and hurtful. Aquaries is cold and watery: the firft parts are moift, the 
 middle temperate, and the laft windy : the north parts are heating, and 
 the fouth caufe fnow. Pifces is moift and a cauler of winds : the fore jjarts 
 are temperate, the middle moift, the laft parts burning : the north partg 
 ftir up wind, and the fouth parts are watery. 
 
 Of the REVOLUTIONS of KINGDOMS and STATES. 
 
 The fignificators which take precedence in this department of the oc- 
 cult fcience, and the governing afpeds, having already been amply ex- 
 plained, it will in this place be only neceflary to lay down the general 
 ground of its theory, and to offer forae recent examples ii,n juftiEcation of 
 its practice, and in proof of its utility. 
 
 After the.impreffive i«flux of the planetary configurations, the uni- 
 verfal and particular efFeSs of comets, eclipfes, and great conjundlions, 
 are next to be confidered in this fpeculation. Comets, indeed, rarely 
 appear; but, whenever they do, fome great and fignal event has always 
 been- remarked to follow, and o-f the nature and quality of thofe figns 
 and manfions of the heavens where they form perfed afpe6ls with the 
 ^rth ; but Wihich is raoft fenfibly felt in thofe countries or ftates to 
 which the nucleus or tail of the comet is at thofe times apparently di- 
 r*<Sted. There the particular effe6t becomes univeffal, and overfpreads 
 that whole region with defolation, diforder, or famine, according to the 
 ftate and quality of the comet, and its pofttion with regard to the Sun. 
 The manifcftation of its eiFed will be in proportion to its proximity to 
 the earth ; amd the revolutipu or event will immediately follow. Hence 
 we have feeii recorded the unhappy defolation of whole provinces, either 
 deluged by iawmdationss of water, engendered aud fent forth from the 
 
 nucleus
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 1045 
 
 nucleus of the comet; or burnt up by its intemperate heat, in its recefs 
 from its perihelion, whereby the ambient becomes unapt for refpiration, 
 radical moillure is dried up, and all nature, as it were, lickens under it. 
 Hence the depopulation of ftates, the extirpation of whole families, of 
 difcontents and infurredioiis amongft the people, and finally a change in 
 the politics and government of the country. 
 
 The influence of Eclipfes upon mundane affairs has been much quef- 
 tioned by fome modern authors of no fmall weight in the literary fcale ; 
 but 1 beg leave to remark, that the moft perfcdt of human beings are at 
 beft but imperfed, and confequcntly fubje6l to be fwayed by prejudice, 
 and to adopt falle notions of whatever do6lrines they oppole. — That 
 fuch is the cafe with thofe authors who deny the force of eclipfes, re- 
 quires nothing more than unprejudiced enquiry and experimental obfer- 
 vation to prove. The precifion with which they are foretold, and the 
 familiarity of their phenomena, feems to leffen their importance, and to 
 take off from . their external awfulnefs and grandeur ; but their effect 
 upon the ambient, and confeqiaently upon the affairs of the world, wJU 
 be ever found to remain the fame. 
 
 The effe(51:s of eclipfes arife not merely from the obfcuration of light, 
 but from their pofition, the quality of the ligns wherein they fall, and of 
 the fignificators with which they are conjoined. Hence their confi- 
 deration is diverfe, of which one is local, and by it we know o^Qr what 
 countries eclipfes will happen, and the ftations of the impulfive planets 
 atling with them, which will be either Saturn, Jupiter, or Mars, when 
 ftationary, for then they are fignificative. Another coniideration is tem- 
 poral, by which we know the time when the event prefaged will happen, 
 and how long its effe6l will continue. Another is general, as in what 
 kind or quality the event will be comprehended. And \?L\k\y,Jpecial, by 
 which is foreknown what the event fhall be that will happen. To digefl 
 thefe feveral Ipeculations, we muft carefully confider the ecliptical place 
 of the zodiac, and the countries or ftg.tes which, accordmg to that place, 
 hyave familiarity with the Trigon ; for thofe will unqueltiQa&bly be moft 
 Ceufibly affe,61:ed. 
 
 Thofe cities gnd count;-ies >vhich fympathi^e with the fign of the 
 eclipfe, either becaufe the fame horofcope correiponds to the time or 
 their building and incorporating, or the irradiation of the limainaries in 
 both cafes to the fame place; or the midheaven comes by direftion to the 
 fame point of the geniture of the king, prince, or governor; then, what- 
 ever city Qr country be found it> thele familiarities, they will be firlt 
 
 feized
 
 1046 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 fcizcd by the accident ; and \\ith greater or lefs violence, in proportion 
 to the quantity of digits eclipfed over each place refpeftively. For eclip- 
 fes have no influence where they are invisible, and acl with the greateft 
 force where they are central and total ; and therefore fubterrancan eclipfes 
 have no effetl or influence whatever, notwithftanding what hath been 
 v.'fitten to the contrary by coinmon aihologers, almanac-makers, and 
 the hlce. 
 
 The fecond confideration is temporal, by which we know the time 
 when the events fliall happen, and hov.' long they will continue. This 
 we furvey after the following manner. In eclipfes which are made at 
 the fame time, feeing they do not fall every where alike, nor fuflain uni- 
 verfally the fame degrees of oblburatioii, nor continue alike in point of 
 time at any two given places, it is necefTary to ere6t a figure under the ele- 
 vation of the pole of that particular place for which its effed is to be cal- 
 culated. By means of this, we exaitly fee the beginning, middle, and end, 
 of the eclipfe, and the content of its duration ; by which the time is 
 known when the portended event will begin to happen. If the eclipfe 
 be of the Sun, fo many years are allowed for the event as the obfcuration 
 meafured hours ; but, if an eclipfe of the Moon, inflead of years fo 
 many months are to be accounted ; becaufe of her proximity to the earth, 
 and quicker influence. The beginning of the event and the general in- 
 tention are known from the fituation of the eclipfe with refpeft to the 
 ecliptical line, and the angles of the figure. If the middle time of afolar 
 eclipfe falls in or near the afcending horizon, its effed will begin to appear 
 in that country over which it is elevated, in the firfl four months after its 
 appearance; but its greatefl effett will happen in the firfl third-part of that 
 o-iventime. Should the middle time of the Sun's eclipfe fall in or near 
 the midheaven, the event will not begin till the fecond four-months ; 
 and the intention or grand effeft will not take place till the fecond third- 
 part of the time given. And fo likewife, if the middle of the eclipfe 
 happens in or near the vveflern horizon, the effe61 will take place in the 
 third four-months after, and its intention or greater force in the laft 
 third-part thereof. But, in eclipfes of the Moon, the time is equated 
 differently; for, if they happen in or near the eaftern horizon, their ef- 
 fe6t will fall upon the place over which they are elevated almoft imme- 
 diately ; and, if in or near the meridian, within a week or ten da}S ; or, 
 if in or near the weflern horizon, tiien their influence will be felt within 
 a fortnight or twenty days after ; and the general intention or mofl vifible 
 influence will in each cafe almoft iuftantaneoufly fucceed. 
 
 From thefe confiderations it will by confequence follow, that the 
 near er any planet or ftar, afpe6l or familiarity, congrefs or conjundlion, 
 
 ][iappeiw
 
 O.F ASTROLOGY. 1047 
 
 happens to the ecliptic line, the more forcibly will this influence and 
 effe6t be found to operate. So likewifc the planets or ftars, concerned in 
 the influence of eclipfes or other configurations, happening in an oriental 
 quarter, bring a more immediate appearance of itsefFed; while an occi- 
 dental pofition retards and keeps it off. After the fame manner, by ob- 
 ferving the ecliptical new and full Moons, and their quartile afpeds, and 
 how they unite with or behold the principal place or medium of the 
 eclipfe, the particular times in which the effefts of .eclipfes will increafe or 
 diminifh are fought out and difcovered. According to which we find, that, 
 when ftars emerge, or are relieved from the obfcuration of the Sun- 
 beams, and increafe in light and motion, their influence and power iii- 
 crcafes ; but, when a planet is ftationary, and flow of motion, they caufc 
 the greater intenfion of the accident. And hence it is that Saturn and 
 Jupiter, being flower of motion than the reft of the planets, have much 
 more influence and power upon the particles floating in the ambient, and 
 confequently upon the minds and pafTionsof men. 
 
 The third confideration is to define what kind or fpecies will fufFer 
 under the effeiSls ; and this is judged from the form of the figns and their 
 property; and from the quality of the ftars, both fixed and wandering, 
 that are pofited in the fign where the eclipfe happens, or in the angle pre- 
 ceding. The Almutan, or lord of the eclipfe, is thus to be confidered, 
 and may be thus taken : of the wandering ftars which ever hath moft af- 
 finity to the place of the eclipfe and angles of the figure, and applies, or 
 recedes, according to vicinity and appearance ; hath more refpeft to thofe 
 that have familiarity of afpeft, and is either lord of the houfes, trigons, 
 exaltations, or terms; fuch alone is to be conftituted lord of the eclipfe. 
 But, if feveral planets are found nearly equal and alike in power, 
 we eleft him to the dominion which is moft angular, or that hath 
 greater familiarity of action. So far it is the rule with the planets. 
 But of the fixed ftars, we chufe the brighteft of the firft magnitude, 
 which at the time of the eclipfe hath commerce with the preceding an- 
 gles, and is neareft to the ecliptical conjundion. We alfo prefer that 
 which at the ecliptic hour is in a vifible fituation, either rifing with, or 
 culminating upon, the angle fucceeding to the place of the eclipfe. — By 
 the quality of thefe, and the figns wherein they fall, are for the moft part 
 judged the kind and quality of the accident portended. If they fall 
 in figns of human ftiape, the efFeds will fall on the human fpecies; 
 but, if they are not of human ftiape, but of terreftrial, or four-. 
 footed, it is evident the misfortune will fall upon that fpecies of animals. 
 If the ftars and conftellations partake of their nature, which fly the do- 
 minion of man,- evil will occur by their means ; but, if theaflSnity be by. 
 
 No. 55. 12 E thofe
 
 ,048 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 thofe which are fubfervient to man's ufc, it argues the evil will arife 
 throuo'h them, as a murrain, rot, or epidemic difeaie. Moreover, ii the 
 ruling places fall in or near the Eagle, or fimilar conftellations, the evil 
 will fall on volatiles, and fuch chiefly as are apt for the food and fufte- 
 nance of man ; but, if they fall in or near the Dolphin, the efFe6is will 
 happen at fea, and deftrudion is portended to the flet-ts and navies of that 
 country over which the influence bears the greateft rule. If they happen 
 in tropical or equinodlial figns, the evil comes by intemperate feafons, and 
 by inundations of many waters. If ni the midheaven, they threaten 
 evil to the reigning powers of that country over which they prefide ; 
 and a vifible alteration either in its government or laws commonly hap- 
 pens. But the quantity or importance of the event is known from the 
 greatnefs of the obfcuration, confidered with regard to the fignificators 
 or rulincr planets which have dominion with the eclipfe. For occidental 
 confio^urations made to folar eclipfes, or oriental to lunar, diminifli the 
 eff^efls ; whereas, on the contrary, oriental afpeds made with folar 
 eclipfes, and occidental with lunar, greatly augment them. 
 
 The fourth and laft confideration is, the knowledge and prefcience of 
 the effect, whether good or evil ; and this we know, from the virtue of 
 the ftars ruling or claiming dominion over the principal places of the fi- 
 CTure; and, from the mixture which they have with each other, and 
 with the influences of the eclipfes over which they have dominion. For 
 the Suu and Moon, as it were, rule and govern the ftars ; becaufe they have 
 a certain power and dominion over them. And the fpeculation of the 
 mixture of the flars, as they are fubordinate to each other, manifefts the 
 quality of their effed ; and hence it is that the effedive power is deduced, 
 whether o-ood or bad, from the temperature of thofe fignificators which 
 hold the dominion and produce the efFeft, agreeable to their own proper 
 nature and quality, as hath been heretofore abundantly fhown. 
 
 To reduce what has been faid into praftical obfervation, we will re- 
 vert back to the foregoing fcheme or figure of the heavens, erected for 
 the Sun's entrance into Aries, in the fpring of the year 1 789. The figns 
 and fio-nificators in this horofcope are to be confidered in the fame man- 
 ner, and with the fame quality and influence, as in a nativity ; only their 
 properties, inftead of being applied to the faculties of an individual, are 
 to be confidered as the reprefentatives of Princes and States, and holding 
 the refpeciive influences over them, by virtue of their peculiar quality 
 and affinity to thofe quadrants and parts of the terreflriar globe, as hath 
 been refpedively allotted them, and which is full) explained in the in- 
 trodudory part of this work. 
 
 The
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 1049 
 
 The fcheme being ere6ted for the meridian of London, of courfe its 
 application applies moft nearly to the affairs of this country ; but in a 
 fecondary degree to our natural enemies and allies, and to the general af- 
 fairs of the northern hemifphere. For, if great exaflnefs be wifhed 
 in any particular calculation, the fcheme mufl: in all fuch cafes be ere6ted 
 for the precife latitude of the place or province to which the calcula- 
 tion more immediately appertains ; and, where any ftruggle exifts, or 
 event is foreboded, between any two particular ftates or empires, the 
 fafeil: way i^ to ereft a fcheme for the meridian of each, and to examine 
 them by the fame rules as have been laid down for comparing a revolutional 
 figure with the radix of a nativity. 
 
 In the figure before us, we find twenty-feven degrees fifty-two minutes 
 of Capricorn afcend the eaftern horizon ; with thirty minutes of Sa- 
 gittarius upon the cufp of the midheaven; which imports in .a general 
 view peace and honour to the government of Great Britain. Saturn wc 
 find is lord of the afcendant, in conjunction with Mars, lord of the ninth 
 and fecond houfes ; and Venus, lady of the third and eighth, in fa- 
 miliar congrefs with Mercury, lord of the fourth, fifth, and eighth, 
 houfes. Thefe are configurations particularly interefling and important;, 
 and, being in the watery fign Pifces, they forebode amazing ftruggles and 
 contentions upon the continent ; in which France, Germany, Ruffia, and 
 Turkey, will be moft eflentially concerned. 
 
 Now, if we examine the introduflory part of this work, page 90, &c. 
 we fhall find Great Tartary, Sweden, Ruflia, &c. under the fign Aqua- 
 ries; and that Mufcovy, Saxony, Turkey, &cc. are under the fign Capri- 
 corn ; and are confequently reprefented by the afcendant of this figure, 
 and by the ponderous planet Saturn. The countries under the fign Scor- 
 pio and Aries, which are the houfes of Mars, are England, France, Ger- 
 many, Poland, Denmark, &c. and therefore Mars becomes fignificator 
 of them, and, being in conjundlion of Saturn, forefliows violent debate 
 and contention between them. Thofe countries that are under Taurus 
 and Libra are Ireland, RufiTia, Poland, South of France, Auftria, &c. and 
 therefore under the planet Venus ; and the places under Virgo and Ge- 
 mini are Flanders, America, &c. with the cities of London, Paris, Ver- 
 failles, Lyons, &c. and Mercury, being lord of thefe figns, muft of nc- 
 cefl^ity more or lefs unite thofe powers in this counfel of (late, held in the 
 watery triplicity. And, as Jupiter difpofes of all of them, and is in his 
 own exaltation in the fign Cancer, and in the fixth houfe, it repre- 
 fents ina moft extraordinary and plcafing manwrthe peculiar ftate of Great 
 Britain, which he difpofes to peace and amity with all the contending 
 ftates ; particularly as Jupiter is in his eflential dignities. 
 
 The
 
 ,o5o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The fign Cancer, wherein Jupiter is pofjted, is the {Ign under which 
 the city of Conllantinople is feated, and therefore reprefents the Grand 
 Si<ynior ; and, as Jupiter is pofited therein, it declares he will not be 
 overthrown or -conquered, though aflailed on all fides by powerful ene- 
 mies ; but, what is worfe, I find there will be occafional iniurredions 
 amono-ft themfelves, which is declared by the Moon's approach to the 
 oppofition of Jupiter ; but, as the Moon is difpofed of by Saturn, and 
 in Textile to her difpofitor, and her difpofitor beholding Jupiter with a 
 o-ood trine afpeft, it declares that the evil which hath been flirred up by 
 the enemies of the prefent Signior fliall be defeated and eventually done, 
 away by his fucceffoi", who will commence his reign in the midH: of thofe 
 troubles, with the moft vigorous preparations for war, though his incli- 
 nation is for peace ; which will be at length brought about by the aid 
 and interpofition of thofe powers pointed out by Mercury, Venus, Mars, 
 and Saturn, who are all in conjunftion in the afcendant in the dignities 
 of Jupiter, Mars, and Venus ; and thefe three planets declare that Great 
 Britain Ihall be the principal aftor in bringing all animofity to a conclu- 
 fion between Sweden, France, Ruffia, Denmark, and the Grand Turk. 
 This appears to be the natural interpretation of the effeft of thefe four 
 planets in the afcendant, in the vernal equinox ; but, to know when thefe 
 matters will come to pafs, we muft have recourfe to new figures for the 
 Sun's entrance into the next two tropical points, and the equinoftial 
 fio-n Libra, and muft likewife obferve the preceding full Moon, and the 
 new Moon fucceeding, according to the do(51rine of the immortal Ptolo- 
 my, heretofore laid down ; as well as to obferve the dignities and debili- 
 ties of the planets, whence particular judgment will arife the fame as from 
 the diredions in a nativity, and afford pleafure and fatisfaftion to the fpe- 
 culative mind. 
 
 The fignificators which reprefent the Court of France fhnw a difpofi- 
 tion to difturb the peace of Great Britain, through the infidious and am- 
 bitious views of a female, who takes the lead in ftate-afFairs. The 
 aftive pofition of Venus and Mercury, conjoined in this Ibheme, denotes 
 much reftlelTnefs and inftability in the counfels of that country, which 
 ieems diftraded by the arbitrary will of the Gallic Queen, here reprefented 
 by Venus, upheld and affifted by light, volatile, time-ferving, men, pre- 
 noted by Mercury, the creatures of the Queen, who, from motives of ava- 
 rice, and views of ambition, will be forward to raife cabals ; to oppofe 
 the common hopes and interefts of the people ; to plunge the nation into 
 difcord and contention, and eventually to bring about difputes with their 
 neio'hbours, or wafteful war among themfelves. Saturn, the fignificator 
 of the French King, being united in a friendly conjunftion with Mars, 
 
 the
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 1051 
 
 the co-fignificator of Great Britain, and difpofed of by Jupiter, the 
 princely fignificator of George the Third, Ihows that amity and concord 
 will ftill exift between the two powers, notwithflanding their domeitic 
 broils, and the endeavours of reftlels fpirits to ftir up the minds of the 
 people to rapine and war. Hence will probably follow great diflurbances 
 amongft the heads of the church, and lead to new difcoveries in the an- 
 nals of popifli fuperftition and religious perfecution, which the people of 
 that unhappy countiy feera inclined to iliake off, with the fliackles of 
 flavery, mifery, and want. In fine, here is every profpecft, from the 
 difpoiition of the fignificators in this fcheme, that fome very important 
 event will happen in the politics of France, fuch as may dethrone, or 
 veiy nearly touch the life of, the king, and make vi6lims of many great 
 and iiluftrious men in church and Hate, preparatory to a revolution or 
 change in the affairs of that empire, which will at once aftonifli and 
 furprife the fun'ounding nations. 
 
 England, I am happy to fay, has every profpett of harmony and peace; 
 and, from the fuperior Itrength and elevation of her fignificators, will give 
 laws to her enemies, and peace and profperity to her allies. She will be 
 looked up to from the belligerent powers in the north, to interpofe her 
 potent arm to bring about a reftoration of peace amongft them, and to 
 awe, with her thunder, thofe who afpire to extend their dominion by the 
 ravages of war. In the internal management of her affairs, the prefent 
 epoch will be glorious ; and, fave a few anxieties amongft party men, and 
 a temporary alarm for the fcarcity of corn, which will be augmented by 
 the uncommon continuance of wet weather, occaiioned by the long fta- 
 tions of the Moon and other fignificators in the watery trigon, I do not 
 fee any probability of the peace and harmony of Great Britain being dil^ 
 turbed by the prefent contentions between other ftates ; but, on the con- 
 trary, flie will a(ft as a mediator between them, and will advance in gloiy 
 and renown over eveiy part of the habitable globe.* 
 
 Having faid thus much upon the vernal fcheme or figure of the heavens, 
 for the year 1789, I Ihall in this place call the attention of my reader to 
 that remarkable a^ra in the Britiih hiftory, which gave independence to 
 America, and reared up a new empire, that fliall foon or late give laws to 
 the whole world. The revolution carries with it fomething fo remarka- 
 ble, and the event is fo important in this country, that I Ihall make no 
 apology for introducing the fcheme of the heavens for the fpring and 
 
 * Let the reader compare the foregoing remarks with the events that have happened, particularly in 
 France, fmce the firft editions of this work were publHhed ; and I truft I fhall obtain credit for other 
 matters which I have predided, but which are as yet in the womb of time. N^te n ike edition of 1792. 
 
 No. 56. 12 F fummer
 
 1052 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 lummer quarters of the year 1776, when this revolution happened, and for 
 examining and explaining the lame, according to the rules 1 have fo amj)ly 
 laid down for that purpoi'e. The Sun's revolutional ingrels into the lign 
 Aries in the year 1776, under which the independence of America was 
 eftabliflicd, and the face of tlie heavens at the fummer folftice, may be 
 feen in the annexed figures, wnich were calculated with great accuracy 
 and precifion for this purpofe. 
 
 In the vernal equinox, Ave find Jupiter is lord of the afcendant, and in 
 liis detriment. ]Mars we find in Aries, which is the afcendant of England, 
 ftrong and powerful in his own houfe, but under the earth. The Moon, 
 who repreients the common people, we find under affii(5f ion, being coni- 
 buft of the Sun ; and Mars, being combuft alfo, forelhows that poor Eng- 
 land, though licr internal llrength is great and permanent, yet flie will 
 this year be accidentally afflicted and deprefled ; more efpecially aswe find 
 Mars going to an oppolition of Saturn, and Saturn uncommonly ftrong in 
 the midheaven, in his exaltation, and beheld by the two fortunes Jupiter 
 and Venus; and confequently liiperior to Mars in power and dignity, who 
 is under the earth, and combult of the Sun, though located in his own 
 houfe ; which in this cafe ferves however to fliow tlie permanency and 
 itability of Great Britain during the whole of this tiying confii6l. 
 
 In this figure the planet" Saturn is the fignificator of America, and Mars 
 reprefents the people of Britain ; as may very eafily be feen by taking 
 down the dignities of Saturn and Mars, according to the Table in page 
 120 of this work. That Saturn hath the fuperiority of power, and that 
 Mars and Saturn are inimical in their nature to each other, are fa6ls too 
 evident to be denied ; and, as the afpe6l which is about to be fonned be- 
 tween them is a malevolent one, namely, a partile oppofition, it declares 
 the event fliall be fuch as to caufe a total and eternal feparation of the two 
 countries from each other ; and that the congrefs, which is reprefented by 
 Saturn, will eftablifli an independent and complete revolution, which 
 fhall be built upon a firm and durable foundation ; and the increafing 
 ftrength and durability of the new ftate is reprefented by Saturn in his 
 exaltation, fupported by the benefic rays of the two fortunes. And fince 
 there is a remarkable reception between the two planets Saturn and Venus, 
 i. c. Venus in the houfe of Saturn, and Saturn in the houfe of Venus ; 
 fupported by a propitious trine afpedl of Venus and Jupiter, while Jupi- 
 ter and Saturn, and Saturn and Venus, with the three preceding planets, 
 oocupy and poffefs tlie whole expanfe of the heavens ; it is hence de- 
 clared, that whatever is effected under this revolution of the Sun's ingrefs 
 into Aries by the Americans, ihall not only be permanent and durable, but 
 ihall be fupported by thofe three grand pillars of ftate;, wifdom, ftrength, 
 
 and
 
 O F x\ S T 11 O L O G Y. 10,-3 
 
 and unanimity ; -which are pointed out by thofo three planets, agreeable 
 to their tendency and nature, viz. Saturn, ftrength and durabilhy; Ju- 
 piter, wifdoni and juftice; and Venus, unanimity and perfeverance ; 
 and their mutual trine al'pe6l to each otlier, is exprelhve of future perfec- 
 tion and harmony; io that, if we attentively contemplate the above po(i- 
 tion of the heavenly bodies, we lliall find no point ftrained, to fliow their 
 natural tendency towards the good fortune and fucceis of the Americans ; 
 and confequently the difappointment and prejudice of the Britilh arms 
 and adminiitration. 
 
 We fliall now take notice of the time in which this extraordinary re- 
 volution fliould come to its crifis, or completely take place, as pointed out 
 by the feveral (ignificators in the figure. To do this, we muft equate the 
 diitance of Mars from Saturn, they being the two pruicipal a6tors in this 
 revolution. Their diftance is taken by right afcenfion, according to their 
 latitude ; becaufe Mars, which is the iignificator of Great Britain, is with- 
 in three degrees of the cufp of the fourth houfe. 
 
 deg. min. 
 The right afcenfion of Saturn is - - - 18 
 
 The right afcenfion of Mars is - - - 2 
 
 52 
 30 
 
 Subtract, and the remainder is the diftance of Mars from 
 Saturn -,- - - - - 16 
 
 22 
 
 Which arch of direction mufl be converted into time,- by adding to it 
 the right afcenfion of the Sun, as taught in the Do6trine of Nativities ; by 
 which rule we are to examine how many days the Sun takes in going that 
 fpace in the ecliptic ; and this being an annual revolution, with the two 
 fignificators in common figns, which denote weeks, we muft therefore 
 allov/ for each day's motion of the Sun one week : by which it will 
 appear that the crifts or effe6t of the oppofttion of Mars and Saturn came 
 up in fifteen weeks and two days from the time the Sun came into the 
 firft fcruple of the equinodial fign Aries ; at which time to a day the 
 Americans declared themfelves independent of the Britifli government, 
 and became a free ftate. 
 
 At this time the heavenly intelligencers were pofited as in the fcroll 
 prefented by the hand of Fame in the annexed Plate ; and from whence 
 the following concluftons naturally follow. So many ftgnificators being 
 pofttedin the fifth houfe, in the watery and fruitful lign Cancer, the lign or 
 houfe of the Moon, with the Moon in the afcendant"; and Venus, Jupiter, 
 Sol, and Mercury, all beholding the afcendant with atrineafped; ; clearly 
 evince that the ftate of America lliallin time have an extenlive and flou- 
 
 riftiing
 
 1054 A^f ILLUSTRATION 
 
 rifliing commerce ; an advantageous and univerfal traffic to every quarter of 
 the globe, with great fecundity and profperity amonglt the people. At this 
 period we are in ibnie meaCure enabled to fpeak experimentally of the truth 
 of this prefcience ; though the ftars point out thefe particulars, with all 
 other important incidents relative to the rife and progrefs of the United 
 States, with as much certainty and precifion as by the IVIoon we calculate 
 the ebbing and flowing of the fea, the times and periods of eclipfes, the 
 couries and effects of comets, or any other extraordinaiy phenomena, 
 wherein nature, and the ordinations of God, the great and primary caufe 
 of all things, are at the bottom. 
 
 The better to fatisfy the curious in thefe mundane revolutions, and to 
 enable them to draAv conclufions with greater exactnefs, I have fubjoined 
 the figure of the Sun's ingrefs into the tropical iign Cancer, which took 
 place near fourteen days before the Americans declared their independence ; 
 and, what is very remarkable, Mars, who is the ligiiificator of Great Bri- 
 tain, is dilpoied of in the imum coeli by Mercury, the lignificator of the 
 French king, who, when the Sun entered into Aries, was lord of the 
 tcventh houfe, the houle of public enemies, of falfehood, and deceit. He 
 HkeAvife difpofes of Jupiter, lord of the afcendant at that time, which had 
 co»-fignification with ^lars, in reprefenting the people of England. From 
 thefe remarkable pofitions and effects, we may fairly conclude, that the 
 Americans had not only the French nation to aflift them, but had many 
 ftrong and powerful friends in Great Britain, who would fupport the caufe 
 and fecond the exertions of the French in eitabliiliing their independence. 
 
 It is to be noted, that, in the preceding figure of the Sun's entrance in- 
 to Cancer, Mars is found in conjunction of Venus ; and, although Venus 
 is a fortune, and declares England lliould not be ruined by the Itrong in- 
 fluence of iVIercury, their difpolitor, yetlhe foftens and takes off the war- 
 like courage and intrepid impetuolity of IVIars, and inclines him more to 
 amity and peace than to bloodflied and flaughter. Belldes, we find the 
 Sun, who is king amongil the planets, inftead of being in conjuncl:ion of 
 Mars, the implicative afpeft of war and conqueft, is in conjunction 
 with Jupiter, who is the natural lignificator of peace and concord ; fo 
 that the Sun's ingrefs into Cancer declares that the counfels of his Bri- 
 tannic majeily fliould not prove effed:ive, nor his arms virtorious ; but 
 inclined only to pulli on a defenfive war with the Americans, as the 
 nature of their lituation and the neceflity of the times might require, 
 though an unlimited thirft for conqnelt was predominant ; which exad;ly 
 correiponds with the fituation of the heavenly ordinances at the time the 
 Americans chofe to declare their defection from the mother-country. 
 
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 OPASTitOLOGY. lo 
 
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 At tRis time Jupitei* and Venus were in' conjunaibn; and appeared to 
 meet as counfel with tiie Sun and Mercuiy in the celeftial Crab, in that 
 flart of the heavens appropriated to the manfions of the JVIoon. The 
 Moon was then alfo arrived at the oppolite point of that particular place 
 in the heavens where Hie ^v^as pofited at the time of the in-refs and dii- 
 pofed of by Satum, the fignificator of America. Hence it will appear, 
 that if we read the hiftory of the American war, and examine with at- 
 tention the various tranfattions of thofe who were the principal ado is 
 in the bufinefs, and compare therefult with what is prenoted by the 
 foregoing figures, according to the rules heretofore laid down to deter- 
 mine planetary influx, we flmll find no difficulty in tracing every important 
 event, with aftonilhing exadnefs and precifion, that can in any Ihape 
 relate to this department of the aftral fcience. 
 
 I could here add a vai-iety of other examples, in fupport of aftral influ- 
 ence upon fynods and Itates, and in promoting, as lecond caules under 
 heaven, the rife and fall of empires, and the revolutions of the world 
 But enoucrh has furely been faid to illuftrate this enquuy to the fullclt 
 extent, and to render it obvious to the meaneft capacity, particularly as 
 the nature of the planets- and ftgns, and the Iwufe^-aitd uianfions of the 
 heavens, continue unalterably the fame in all cales, with re ped to their 
 influence and tendency ; and require only to be applied to the nature of 
 the queftion, nativity, or revolution, whichever it may chance to be, 
 acrreeable to the rules fo amply given for that purpole; and 1 will be 
 bold to fay, that the utmoll fatisfadion will relult to every lober en- 
 quirer, the more he purfues, and the deeper he contemplates, this incom- 
 parable ftudy. 
 
 I am not, however, to exped, that all men will be converts to my 
 opinion, or fubfcribe to the evidence I have fo abundantly brouiiht in 
 defence of my dodrine. The felf-willed, and the claflically ob tinate, 
 are not to be moved by any fpecies of reafoning, incompatible with their 
 own way of thinking; and it would be the extreme ot folly, after the 
 ar.mments I have adduced, to attempt to remove that milt from before 
 their eyes, which blinds their reafon, and contaminates their fenle. If 
 proofs of all denominations, and the experience of every day and hour we 
 live are incapable of impreffing the mind with the truths ot dementary 
 influx and fidereal affedions, it is not all my faint ideas can turnilh 
 throuoh the medium of my pen, that will either penetrate the heart, or 
 operate to convince on this occahon. Others there are, wl'.o molt cor- 
 dially believe whatever their own eyes and their own ears can demon- 
 ibate; but who are infidels to every occult property, and to the lecrct 
 
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 io;6 AN I L L U S T R A T I O K, &c. 
 
 influence and eflfed of feconcl caufes. Yet. they know there is a fecrct 
 power in the magnet, which they can neither fee nor comprehend. They 
 are fenfible of all the phenomena and furprifing properties of air, though 
 they cannot fee it, nor demonftrate its particles. They admit the ebb- 
 ing and flowing of the tides, and allow the moon produces the efl^'edl; 
 yet in the fame moment they deny her influence, and queftiou the ordi- 
 nations of Providence. To contend with fuch men would be ridiculous 
 and abfurd, fmce it could neither fupport arguments, nor alter fads ; 
 nor would the fanction or applaufe of fuch a defcription of beings add 
 cither to the merit or reputation of the fcience. 
 
 END of the THIRD PART.
 
 AN 
 
 ILLUSTRATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CELESTIAL SCIENCE 
 
 O F 
 
 A S T R O L O G Y. 
 
 PART the FOURTH. 
 
 CONTAINING THE 
 
 DISTINCTION between ASTROLOGY 
 
 AND THE 
 
 WICKED PRACTICE of EXORCISM. 
 
 WITH A GENERAL DISPLAY OF 
 
 WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC, and DIVINATION, 
 
 FOVNDED UPON THE 
 
 EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS Good and Bad, and their 
 Affinity with the Affairs of this World, 
 
 »!■■■■■■ ■ I 
 
 By EBENEZER SIBLY, Astro. Philo. . 
 
 I'RINTED IN THE YEAK MDCCCX.
 
 A I« 
 
 ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Of the CELESTIAL SCIENCE of 
 
 ASTROLOGY 
 
 PART the FOURTH. 
 
 FROM what has been premifed in the foregoing parts of this work, 
 it will now become manifeft to every unprejudiced reader, that At- 
 trology and Magic, how much foever they have been confounded with 
 each other, and confidered by the vulgar as one and the fame doclrine, 
 are neverthelefs two very oppofite and diftindl purfuits. The one not 
 only fuppofes, but in truth is, an attainment of the contingencies and 
 events of futurity, from a natural caufe implanted in the motion and 
 influence of the fpheres, which it is at once honourable and praife- 
 w'orthy to iludy ; the other, an acquirement of particular events to come, 
 or milchjefs to be performed, by means of occult fpells, diabolical in- 
 cantations, the agency of fpirits, or confederacy with the devil. This 
 conftitutes what is termed Magic, Exorcii'm, Witchcraft, and Divina- 
 tion, veiy aptly termed, " The Black Art," which it fliall be the prin- 
 cipal object of the following pages to illultrate ; as well to give the reader 
 fome rational idea of that very ancient but mifchievous practice, as to 
 clear the fublime contemplation and ftudy of the ftars from the grofs 
 imputations it hath on that account fuftained. 
 
 I have no doubt but the greater part of my readers, and perhaps the 
 bulk of mankind at this day, totally dilbelieve the pofllbility of witch- 
 craft, magic, or divination ; becaufe, they deny the very exiltence of fpi- 
 rits, ihe agency of the devil, and the appearance of ghofts or fpirits of 
 deceafed men, upon which belief the prail^tice of the black art entirely 
 depends. But, however incredulous tlie wifeft critic may be, as to what 
 has been re'ated on this fubjert, certain it is, that fuch fpirits really do 
 exift, and that confederacy and compa(!il with them was in former times 
 
 No, i^<o, 12 H no
 
 io6o AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 HO uiicoinnion thing. Blackftonc feems to have eftablifhed tliis fad in a 
 very fatislartoiy manner, Avhere he I'peaks of the laws formerly provided 
 in this country ajijainlt magicians and witches, and thofe who held con- 
 federacy with ipirits ; which to dilbelieve, would not only be found tp 
 militate aiiainft numerous important pailivges of Scripture, ))ut v/ould 
 call in queftion the exprefs words of our Saviour hiniielf, and give the 
 lie to authors and atteltators of the iirll reputation and charatJler. Iisdeed, 
 the force of Revelation, and the doctrine of Chrift, depend entirely upon 
 our opinion of the exiftcnce of fpirits ; for that, being confefied or doubt- 
 ed, either affirms or denies the eternity of the Ibul. 
 
 Thofe perfons, who have taken pains to contemplate tlie nature and 
 ftruc'-ture of man, will have no difficulty to believe, from th.c ]>rinciples 
 of realbn and common lenfe, that a ibul, ellence, or fpirit, abfolutely 
 exilts within his body, totally independent of all material functions or 
 defires; that flies in his face upon the commiilion of every nnjuil or im- 
 proper a6t, and that leads tlie human ideas to a Itate of being, ini'iintely 
 beyond the bounds of the terreftrial globe, and luiconitrained by the limits 
 of time. This applies to the ellence, foul, or fpirit, of man; wherea^^ 
 the body, being compounded of the elements of this world, is fwayed, 
 ruled, and eventually overcome, by them, in proportion as the elements 
 operate upon one another, lo as to produce diieafes, imbecility, and death. 
 
 As it is agreed by all authors, and admitted in the creed of all icfts 
 and perfualions of people, that, before the fall, the feafons and elements 
 were in one unalterable flate of perfection and harmony ; fo the condi- 
 tion of man was not then under the poAver.of the elements, but he was 
 clothed with purity and immortality as Avith a garment. The exter- 
 nal grofs elements had then no fway ; and the alhal powers, inilead of 
 inflaminji his defu'es, contributed unto him the influences of like unto 
 like, forming an union of delectable ideas between foul and body, which 
 led to the unabated praife and adoration of his beneficent Creator. The 
 pure elements were then congenial to his Itate of immortality, and the 
 aftral powers were turned upon his back, while innocence and incor- 
 ruptibility fmiled on his brow. His food was not limited to palpable 
 matter, but was combined with the pure ethereal fpirit of the univerfe, 
 which perfumed the air, and enriched the feat of paradife. 
 
 Such was the primeval happy ftate of Man. But departing from his 
 innocency, by the fecret inlinuations infufed into his mind by the fal- 
 len fpirit Satan, he lulled after palpability in the flelli, turned his face 
 to the elements, deferted his reafon and his God, and fell from his ethe- 
 real
 
 O F. A S T II O L O G Y. 1061 
 
 'Tra! ilzLie intu all the perils of mortality and death. Ilavir.p; no longer 
 all powers under I'.is lubjection, he became lubjeot to iidereal and ele- 
 mentary inllux, v>ith his underftanciing darkejied, and his mental facvd- 
 ties abridged ; vliieh 1 have exhibited by the fom* figures in the annex- 
 ed Plate. The firlt reprelents the primeval ftate of man, \vith his hand 
 lifted up. to his head, denoting the feat of comprehenlive fenfibility, to 
 ■which the light of reafon and lenfe flowed from the mirror of the Deity, 
 in Avhole image he was formed. The fecond figure Ihows the elemen- 
 tary and aftral influence in the primeval Hate of man^ as having no ac- 
 tion v/hate-\er internally, but falling on his exterior or back parts ; 
 ■V'hilft his face, turned to the light, received tlie beatific vifion of im- 
 mortality and life from the gate of heaven. The third figure fliows the 
 internal adion of the elementary and planetary influx after the fall, upon 
 the vital parts of man, wlience difeafes and death follow in a direct and 
 regular courfe. For, as the action of theftars on man are agents, and the 
 elements of which lie is compofed patients, the fame as in the outward 
 world; i'o we find, as they are fituated in the outward world at the time 
 of birth, either as to Itrength or imbecility, fo fliall be the inward 
 Aveakneis or vigour of the vital parts of man born under them ; and of 
 liich fliall be the inbred quality of the difeafe thus implanted in our tliUen 
 nature to bring on corruptibility and death. The fourth figure is in- 
 tended to fliow a faint refemblance of an abandoned and more degenerat- 
 ed ftate of fallen human nature, Avhen the will and pafllons of man are 
 given up to vice, and contaminated with the grofs or beftial quality of 
 deadly iin and wickednefs. lie is led captive by an evil fpirit, the agent 
 of Lucifer, having his will darkened and every fpark of light cxtin- 
 guifhed, that could flow from the intelledual faculties of the foul, or 
 fiom the collifion of virtue and fenfe. Such are the men defcribed by 
 St. Paul in his Epiltle to the Romans, chap. i. ver. 28, 29, 30. 
 
 In this adion of the ftars upon man, it leaves the will and the foul 
 totally unconftrained ; whiUt the body or corruptible part only is influ- 
 enced, which allures and attrads the will ; and, as obfervation and ex- 
 perience fliow us, too commonly leads it captive to all the excefles and 
 intemperance of the paihons. But, as this is the utmoft effed. the force 
 of the liars, or the power of the elements, is found to produce in our na- 
 ture ; fo the dodrhie of aftrology goes no further than to define and ex- 
 plain them througli all the tracks of occult fpeculation and Icience. 
 Whereas the art of magic, of divination, and exorcifm, forms an alli- 
 ance with the agents of the devil, lulls after compaoi with tlanmed 
 fouls, and holds converfe with the departed fpirits of men. 
 
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 io6z AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 To illuftrate this extraordinary pra(5iicc of the ancients, I fiiall here 
 conlider the nature of the world of Ipirits, their quality and olfice, and 
 the affinity which they bear to this world, agreeable to the doctrines 
 laid down by thofe ancient authors, whofe works are now rarely to 
 be feen, though fanrtioned by tiie moft remarkable experiments, and 
 confuined by the ilrongelt evidence that can be collecteu at fo diiiant 
 a period. 
 
 The noble and learned Swedcnborg, whofe nativity we have confi- 
 dered in the foregoing part of this work, has with great ingenuity ex- 
 plained the nature and lituation of the departed fpirits of men, after their 
 recels from this life. The world of ipirits, fays this author, is neither 
 heaven nor hell, but a place or Itate betwixt both, into which man im- 
 mediately enters after death ; and, after ftayingtherea certain time, longer 
 or fliorter, according to m hat his palt life had been in this world, lie is 
 either received up into heaven, or call down into hell. It muil be 
 noted here, that this intermediate Hate has nothing in it of the pro- 
 bationaiy kind ; for that is all over with the life of this world ; but is a 
 ftate of a reparation or reducing every one to his own proper prevail- 
 ing }M-inciple, and as Inch finally preparatory for an eternal happineis 
 or inifeiy. 
 
 In the world of fpirits is always a very great number of them, as be- 
 ing the firlt fort of all, in order to their examination and preparation; 
 but there is no fixed time for their flay; for fome are tranilated to 
 lieaven and othei'S conllgned to hell foon after their arrival ; whilil fome 
 contiiuie there for weeks", and others for feveral years, though none more 
 than thirty, this depending on the correfpondence or non-correfpon- 
 dence between the interior and exterior of men. As fbon as they arrive 
 in the world of fpirits, they are claflTed according to their feveral qualities, 
 inclinations, and difpolitions. The evil, with fuch infernal focieties as 
 they had communication with in this world, in the ruling paifion ; and 
 the good, with fuch heavenly focieties as they had conniumicated with, 
 in love, charity, and faith. But, however they are diverfely clafl'ed, 
 they all meet and converlie together in that world, when they have a de- 
 lire fo to do, who have been tViends and acquaintances in this lite ; more 
 efpecially hulbands and wives, brothers and iiflers, &c. But if they are, 
 according to their different ways of life, of different inclinations and ha- 
 bits of mind, they are foon parted ; and it may be obferved, both con- 
 cerniiig thofe wlio fuiailv go to heaven, and thoie that go to heil, that, 
 after tlieir arrival in ihofe two different kingdoms, they no more fee or 
 know one another, unlets they are of like minds and affections. The 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. io5 
 
 J 
 
 iTafon why they meet and know one anotlier in the woihl of fpirits, and 
 not ib in heaven or hell, is, becau(e in the world of fpirits they pal^ 
 through the lame ttate they were in in this life, and lb from one to another ; 
 but afterwards all are fixed in one permanent Itate reipectivcly, accordiiig 
 to the Hate of that love which prevails in them, in which one knows an- 
 otlier from iimilarity of condition ; for limilitude joins, but diiiimilitude 
 i'eparates. 
 
 As tlie world of fpirits is a middle ftate with man, between heaven and 
 hell+ fo it is alfo a middle place, having the hells underneath and the 
 lieavens above ; all the hells are Ihut next to that world, except that 
 fome holes or clefts, like thofe in rocks or caverns, are left open ; and 
 thefe lo guarded, that none can pals through them but by permiffion, 
 which is granted on particular occalions. Heaven likewile appears as 
 fenced all round, fo that there is no palVmg to any of the heavenly foci- 
 eties, but by a narrow way, which is likewile guarded. Thefe outlets 
 and inlets are what in fcripture are called the doors and gates of heaven 
 and hell. 
 
 The world of fpirits appears like a valley, between mountains and 
 rocks, here and there linking and riling ; the doors and gates opening to 
 the heavenly focieties are only feen by thofe wiio are in their prepara- 
 tion for heaven ; nor are they to be found by any others. To every fo- 
 ciety in heaven there is an entrance from the world of fpirits, after pal- 
 ling which there is a way, which as it rifes branches into fevcral others : 
 nor are the doors and gates of the hells vifible to any but thofe that are 
 going to enter therein, to whom they are then opened ; at which time 
 thele appear like, as it were, dark and footy caverns, leading obliquely 
 down to the infernal abyls, where there are alio more gates. Througlx 
 thole dark and difmal caverns exhale certain foetid vapoms, which are 
 molt offenlive to ihe good fpirits ; but which the evil ones are greedily 
 fond of; for, as were the evils which any one took molt delight in when in 
 this world, fuch is the ftink correfponding Uiereto which moil pleafes 
 him in the other; in which they may be aptly compared to thofe birds 
 or beafK of prey, as ravens, Molves, and Twine, which are attracted by the 
 rank effluvia emitted from carrion and putrid carcalies. 
 
 There are alfo in every man two gates, the one of which opens to- 
 wards hell, and to all that is evil and falfe proceeding therefrom; the 
 other gate opens towards heaven, and to all the good and truth ilfuing 
 thence. The infernal gate is open thofe who are in evil, and they 
 receive from above only lome glimmering of heavenly li.i^ht, jult lulh- 
 
 No. 56. J2 I cient
 
 io64 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 cient to fervc them to think, reafon, and talk of heavenly things; but 
 the gate of lieaven ftands open in thofe Avho are good and in truth. 1 here 
 are alfo two ways leading to tlie rational mind in man ; the hiperior or 
 internal, by which good and truth are communicated from the Lord ; 
 and the inferior or external wa^^ by which evil and falle are conummi- 
 caled from hell, and the rational mind is in the midft of thefe two ways; 
 hence it is, that as much of the heavenly light as any man receiveth into 
 his mind, lb far is he truly rational; and fo much as he admits not of it, 
 in fuch proportion lie is not rational, however he may think himfelf fo. 
 Thefe things here offered, ilrow the correlpondence that fubiiils between 
 ntan and heaven and hell ; for his rational mind, during the formation 
 of it, correfponds to the Avorld of fpirits, things above it being in heaven, 
 and things beneath it in hell; tlie former are opened, and tlie latter (as 
 to all influx of evil and the falfe) are lliut, with refpeCl to thoib who 
 are in their preparation for heaven ; but, on the other Jiand, the things 
 from beneath are opened, and the things above are Ihut (as to all influx 
 of good and trutii) with reipei^ to thole who are in their preparation for 
 liel! ; conlequently the latter can only look down to the things beneath 
 theuj, or to hell, and the former only to things above them, or to heaven. 
 Now to look up is by correfpondence to look to the Lord, who is the 
 conniion centre to Avhich all heavenly things point their afpert and ten- 
 dency ; but to look downwards is to turn from the Lord to the oppolite 
 centre, of attraction, and conlequently to all things of a helliih uaiure. 
 
 Tiiefc confiderations are applied only to the immediate after-flatc of 
 the ibul and I'pirit of man, as the coniequence of the mortality of this 
 world. ISIany there are, however, who entirely din)elieve the faculty of 
 tlie foul, or the exifteiice of tlie fpirit ; but wlioever rightly con'iders the 
 matter, cannot but know, that it is not the body, or material part, but 
 the foul, or fpiritual part, that thinks within liim. Now the foul is his 
 fpirit, immortal in all its [iroperties, and receptive of what is fpiritual, 
 as havnig a fpiritual life, wh.ich confiits in thinking and willing; conle- 
 quently, the whole of the rational life appertains thereto, and not to the 
 body, though manifefted therein : f>r the body is only thoughtlels mat- 
 ter, and an adjunct or inflrument to the fpirit of man, whereby it may 
 manifeil its vital powers and func^iions in this natural world, where all 
 things are material, and as fuch void of life; it is indeed cuPcomary to 
 afcribe action, motion, and power, to the body, in the connnon forms of 
 ■fpcaking; but to fuppofe that the properties belong to the inflrument, 
 and not Iblely to the principle that actuates it., is eri-oncous and abihrd.
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 1065 
 
 As all vital power, both of ading and thinking, appet'tains folely to 
 the Ipirit, and in no wiie to the body, it follows,^ that the fpirit is truly 
 and properly the man, and that without its influence and operation there 
 is neither thought nor life from the crown of the head to the foie of the 
 foot: conlequently, that the feparation of the body from the fpirit, 
 which we call death, takes nothing from that which in reality confti- 
 tutes the man. For man would not be capable of thinking and willing, 
 unlefs there were in him a fubftance to ferve as the fubjeft of thefe opera- 
 tions ; and to fuppofe otherwife would be afcribing exillence to non- 
 entity, as may appear from man's not being able to fee without that organ 
 which is the fubiec?t of vifion, or to hear without the organ of hearing ; 
 thefe fenfes being nothing without fuch fubjects of their operations. 
 NoAv thouuht is internal villon, or the light of the mind, as perception 
 is the internal heaving, and thefe without internal organized fubliances, 
 as their proper fubjects, cannot exiit: fo that the fpirit of a man has 
 equally a form, and that a human one, as alio its lenfory and fenfes, when 
 divefted of its material body, as it had before ; for all the percepiive lif« 
 of the eye and the ear, and" of every other fenle that appertains to man, 
 is not from his material body, but from his Ipirit and the vital powers 
 thereof, in all and lingular the organs and parts of his body : hence it is, 
 that fpirits fee, hear, and feel, as well as men, in the fpiritual world,* 
 though not in this natural vv'orld after their feparation from this mortal 
 body! That the fpirit had natural fenfations in this world, was owing 
 to its union with a natural or material body; but then alfo it had its 
 fpiritual fenfes in various modes of thinking and willing. 
 
 The foregoing dodrine is here offered to convince the rational reader,^ 
 that man, confidered in himfelf, is a fpirit, and that the corporeal part .of 
 his compofition annexed to him in this natural and material world is in 
 order to his relation thereto, and what he has to do therein, but is not 
 the man himfelf, but only deligned to be inltiimiental to the operations 
 of his fpirit: but, as few are "capable of receiving abitrad reafonings, 
 
 • To fuppofe a hiitnan fpirit void of a human form and fenfes, is to annihilate th: very id:a of fpiiit ; 
 for as every cffence has its proper form, and every form its own cifencc, (they being ntcelfary correla- 
 tives,! fo every fpirit has its body fuited to the world it belongs to, according to that (i'lt"n£lion la;d down 
 by the apoftle : " There is a natural bo^ly, and there is a fpiritual body :" and indeed, it is as rational to 
 c;;nclude, that a human fpirit fliould have a human orj^anized body emlued with fpiritual lenfes in a fpi- 
 ritual world, as that the fame fpirit ftiould be invefted with a material organized body v,h\} natuial fti:fe3 
 in this natural world. It i.s tu be lairenied, and the mote for its tendency to promote inHdclity, that many 
 of the learned, fo t-alled, have in a manner defined and refined fpiritual nature into nothing, by di\e(ting it 
 of fubiVantia'.itv, to which it his a mjre peculiar right by far than matter; nor is the Ud/ of inangcl^ 
 lefs fiibibntial in a proper fcnfe of the word than a fohd rock, tlmugh nor according to the coni:itio'.i ot 
 ir,aterial nature. Upon the whole, the common ideas of the vulgar and illiterate conne much i carer to 
 the trafh aiid realitj of heavenly tilings, than the vain conceits of fuch fpcciiUting iciolii's. 
 
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 ro66 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 ami many are apt to run them into matter of (loubtfii! difputation, by 
 arguments drawn from fajlacious appearances of fenlc, 1 choofe, for con- 
 iirmation oftlie dodnne in hand, to appeal to truths founded on expe r 
 cncc. Such as have conrtrmed themfelve.s in tlie belief of the contrary 
 fide, are jiiven to think, that, as the bcalts have life and fenfations as well 
 as men, io they have both the fame fpirit and tlie iume end ; but this is 
 a grofs error, as the f[)iritof a beail immenfely differs from that of a man, 
 as being deltitnte of that fublime principle of a heavenly life, by wiiich 
 the latter is made receptive of the divine influx, and capable of beiiiii; 
 exalted to a participation of the divine nature ; and therefore it is that 
 man is fo highly privileged above the bealls, that he can think of God, 
 and the things pertaining to his kingdom both in heaven and earth, and 
 be led thereby to love the Creator, and to be united to him: now that 
 which is in the capacity of fuch union is not liable to perilli, like that 
 •which is Jiot. For there is in every angel and in every man an nnnoil 
 and fupremc degree or part; which more immediately admits the divine 
 influx from heaveji, whereby all that is within man in the inferior de- 
 grees are orderly dilpofed and regulated. This inmoil or fnprcmc part 
 of the fpirit or foul, may be called the Lord's entrance into angels and 
 men, nay, his very habitation in them; and hereby it is that man is dil- 
 tinguiflied from tlie brute animals, which have it not, and is rendered 
 capable of near communications with heaven in the inner man, of be- 
 lieving in the Deity, of loving him, and of feeing liim : nay, from hence 
 it is that man is a recipient of underftanding and wifdom, and alfo that 
 lie is endowed with a rational life, and an heir of immortality : but how 
 or what the Creator operates in this iiimoll recefs or fuprcme part of 
 •man, exceeds the capacity of an angel to comprehend. 
 
 When the body of a man is no longer able to perform its natural 
 functions correfponding to the thoughts and affertions of his fpirit, and 
 which are derived to him from the fpiritual world, then he is faid to die; 
 which comes to pafs when the lungs and the heart ceafe their refpiratory 
 atul contractile motions ; not that man then fuffers extinrtion of life, 
 but only is feparate.l from that corporeal pait of his corapofition, which 
 ieived him for an inftrument of ufefulneis in this world ; but he ftill 
 continues a living man, and that in a proper and literal fenfe of the ex- 
 ])reflion, inafmuch as man receives his denomination not from his body, 
 but from his fpirit, fince it is the latter that thinks in him, and that 
 thought with affcrtion cflentially conftitutes the man ; fo tliat, when any 
 man is faid to die, it means no more than that he pafles from one world 
 into another; and hence it is, that by Deafh in the Scripture, according 
 to the internal fenfe of the word, is "iignified refurredion, and continua- 
 tion of life. 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 1067 
 
 There is a very near communication and correfpondence betwixt the 
 fpirit and refpiration, and the motion of the heart (fy/lolej, betwixt 
 thinking and refpiration, and betwixt the affe6tion of love and the lieart; 
 fo that, when thefe two motions ceafe in the body, a feparation prefently 
 enfues; for thele two motions, viz. that which is refpiratory in the 
 lungs, and that which is called the fyftole or contractile power of the 
 heart, are tlie tw-o bonds of union, which when broken, the fpirit is 
 left to itfelf, and the body, being deltitute of life from the fpirit, be* 
 comes cold and putrefies. That fo intimate a communication fublilVs 
 between tlie human fpirit and refpiration, and the heart, is, becaufe all 
 the vital motions in this world depend thereon, not only in common, 
 but alfo in every particular part of the body. 
 
 The fpirit of a man remains fome little time in the body after all figns 
 of life difappear, but not longer than till a total cefTation of all power in- 
 the heart enfues, which varies according to the nature of the difeafe he 
 dies of, for the motion of the heart continues long after in fome, but 
 not fo in others; but, as foon as the total ceffation of it happens, the re- 
 fufcitation of man commences, and this by the Ible power of the Lord. 
 By refufcitation here is meant the liberation of the fpirit of a man from 
 his body, and the introdud;ion of it into the world of fpirits, and com- 
 monly called Refurrcttion. That the fpirit of a man is not feparated 
 from his body before all niotion and power in the heart entirely ceafes, 
 is becaufe the heart correfponds to the affedion of love, which is the 
 very life of man, for it is from love that every one derives his vital heat; 
 therefore, fo long as this conjundion lafts, fo long the correfpondence 
 continues, and itis from coiTefpondency that the fpirit aduates and com- 
 municates life to the body. 
 
 That the form of the fpirit of a man is a human form, or, in other 
 words, that the fpirit is the true formed man, may be evinced from many 
 articles, particularly from thefe, viz. that every angel is in a perfe<5t Im- 
 uian form, and alfo, that every man is a fpirit as to his inner man; and 
 that angels in heaven are from the human race. This alfo more evident- 
 ly appears from man's being denominated man from his fpirit, anol not 
 from his body, and becaufe the corporeal form is an adjunct to the fpirit 
 after its form, and not contrariwife, the former being but the clothing of 
 the latter. Moreover, the fpirit is the fole moving power in man, acting 
 upon and a6tuating every the moll minute part of the body, infomuch 
 that, when any part no longer derives vital influence therefrom, it pre- 
 fently dies. Now, the ruling powers, which govern the body as their fub- 
 je6l, are the thought and the will ; but thefe are from the fpirit only, 
 nay, conftitute its very cffence. The reafoii why we do not fee any fe- 
 
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 parate fpiiit, nor yet that of another man Avhilll in his body, in its hu- 
 man form, with our prefent organs of fight, is becaufe thefe organs of vi- 
 fjon arc material, and therefore only capable of difcerningobjeil'tsof a ma- 
 terial nature, whereas fpiritual things muft be feen by a ipiritual eye* ; 
 but, when the corporeal fight is extinguilhed by the death of the body, 
 and the fpirit's eye is opened, then fpirits appear to one another in their 
 btiniau form, not only in the fpiritual world, but they alfo fee the fpirits 
 of thofe who yet live here in the body. 
 
 That a human form is proper to a human fpirit, follows from man's 
 being created in the form of heaven, and alfo receptive of all things of a 
 lieavenly nature and order, confequently ,with the faculty of recen'ing 
 Tnidcrilanding and wifdom ; for, whether we exprefs it by the words, fa- 
 cult}' of receiving underilanding and wifdom, or, the facidty of receiving 
 heaven, it comes to one and the fame thing. So that what has hitherto 
 been faid on this fubjet^, may be underftood by the rational man, from 
 liis view of caufes and their effe6ls, of premifes and tlieir confequences ; 
 but not fo by the obftinately irrational, and that for many alVignable rea- 
 fons ; but principally, becaufe he is averfe to all doctrines which are con- 
 trary to the falfe principles that he has adopted in the room of truths ; 
 and, he that has thus iluit up his mind hath thut the gate of heaven 
 againft hinilelf, fo tliat no light from thence can. illuminate his rational 
 faculties ; and yet that gate might be opened, if his will did not refill. 
 This makes it evident, that they, who are in falfe thinking from an evil 
 priiu'iple, might be pofleficd of a rational undeiitanding, if they were in 
 a wiilijig diipolitiou for it; and, that the reafon why tiiey are not fo, is 
 becaufe they love the falfe above tlie true, as more agreeing with the evil 
 they have adopted, and which they choofe to follow. It is to be obferved, 
 that to love and to will a thing is the liime ; for, what a man wills he 
 loves, and what he loves he alfo wills. 
 
 When tlic fpirit of a man firft enters into the world of fpirits, which 
 is foon after his rel'ufcitation, (of which mention has been nrade before,) 
 lie as yet letains the fame face and voice that he had in this world, as be- 
 ing hitherto in his exterior ilate, that of his interior being yet unmani- 
 feited ; and this is his fiift ftate after death ; but fome time after, his 
 face becomes entirely changed, fo as to corrclpond with the particuhir 
 aftcction or love that poiTefied his fpirit when in the body ; for the face 
 of a man's fpirit differs greatly from that of his body, the latter being 
 
 * It is to be noted here, that, wlicn fpirits arc feen by any on? in the body, they sre not fcen with 
 the corporeal organs of vifion, but by the fpirit of the b( holder abftraftcdlv froni the body, thou.^h the 
 appearance is cxaftly the fa-ne in both cafes, as implied in thofe words of the apotlle, where, fp-jking 
 of his vifions, he fays, " Whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell." 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 1069 
 
 derived from bis parents, but the former a correfpondent to his predo- 
 minant affedion, of which it is the fignature or image, and which be- 
 comes appropriated to man in the other world, upon the manifeil:ation of 
 his interior ftate ; for the fpirit of a man, rightly confK.'ered, is the fame 
 with his predominant affedlion or love, and his face is the externa! form 
 of it. This change relpeding faces, in thofe who pafs from hence into 
 the other world, is founded on this law, that no diflimulation or coun- 
 terfeiting is there allowed, but all mull appear to be what they really aie, 
 and coniequently exprefs their thoughts in their words, and their affec- 
 tions and deiires in their looks and adions, fo that the faces of all there 
 reprefent their minds refpedively. Hence it is, that, though all who 
 knew one another in this world are alike mutually acquainted in the world 
 of tpirits, yet it is otherwife in heaven and hell. 
 
 The faces of hypocrites undergo not their proper change fo foon as the 
 faces of others, and that becaul'e' they have by cuftom contracted a habit 
 of forming their minds to a kind of imitation of good fentiments and affec- 
 tions, and" therefore they appear not uncomely for fome time ; but as the 
 difguife gradually Avears off, and their iiunolt thoughts and affections ma- 
 nifell themfelves, they appear more ugly than others. The hypocrites 
 Jiere fpoken of, are fuch as know how to talk like angels upon divine 
 iubjeCts, and yet in their hearts exalt nature on God's throne, and diibe- 
 lieve all heavenly truths acknowledged in the Chriftian church. 
 
 It is to be obfci-ved, that the human form of every man after death is 
 beautiful in proportion to the love he had for divine truths, and a life ac- 
 cording to the fame, for by this ffandard things within receive their out- 
 ward manifeitation and form, lb that, the deeper grounded the aftedion for 
 -what is good, the more conformable it is to the divine order in heaven, 
 ^nd coniequently the more beauty the face derives from its influx. Hence 
 it is, that the angels of the third or inmoff heaven, whole love is of the 
 third or higheil degree, are the nioft beautiful of all the angels ; wherea'j 
 they whole love for divine things had been in a lower degree, or more 
 trxternal than that of the celeilial or higheff angels, poflels an inferior 
 degree of beauty ; and the tranflucent lultre in their faces, as proceeding 
 from afmaller degree of divine virtue within them, is comparatively dim ; 
 for, as all perfection riies in degrees from the inward to the imnoff, fo 
 the external beauty, to which it gives life and vigour, has its degrees in 
 the fame proportion. 
 
 When a man pafles from this natural world into the fpiritual, whici\ 
 is at tlie time of his death, he takes with him all that belonged to him as 
 
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 man, and poffefTes every fenfe, both external and internal, that he poffciTed 
 before. Thus, for inllance, all in heaven have their light, their hearing, 
 and ail their fenfes, in far greater perfei"^ion than wlien in this worl^j 
 and alfo their minds more abundantly replete with wifdom: for they fe^ 
 by the light of heaven, which greatly exceeds that of this world, and they 
 hear througli the medium of a (piritual atmofphere, to which that of our 
 earth is not comparable. The comparative difference between thefe two 
 fenles there and here, is as that of a bright fl<y to a thick fog, or as tlm 
 luftre of the meridian hm to the dufk of the evening. Now the light of 
 heaven, which is the divine truth, makes manifell the minuteft things to 
 the perception of angels ; and, as their external correfponds to their inter- 
 nal or intellectual light, fo by mutual influx they co-operate in forming 
 the high perfei^tion of angelic perfpicuity. In like manner their fenfe of 
 hearing correfponds to their perception, both in the underftanding and 
 will ; fo that in the found of the voice, and in the words of the fpeaker, 
 they can trace the minute particulars of his affertions and thoughts; iii 
 the found Mdiat relates to his affetlions, and in the words what concernf* 
 his mind or thoughts; but it is to be obferved, that the other fenfes of 
 the angels are not in the fame high degree of perfection with thole of 
 light and hearing, and that becaufe the latter are fubfervient inftruments 
 to their underftanding and wifdom, and not fo the others, Avhich, if equal 
 .in power, would lelien their preference to intelledtual delights over and 
 above thofe of their fpiritual bodies, as we find to be the cafe with men 
 in this world, who, according to their greater relilh and indulgence as to 
 their grofler fenfes, have the lels appetite and fenfibility with relpe<^l to 
 Spiritual things. 
 
 A few words fliall here be fpoken concerning the cultivation of the ra- 
 tional faculty in man. Genuine rationality confifts in truths, not in falfe^- 
 hoods. Now tniths are of three kinds, civil, moral, and fpiritual: civij 
 truths relate to judicial matters, and fuch as refpe6l public government;, 
 and, in a general confideration, juftice and equity : moral truths havf: 
 relation to the condud; of life with refpe6l to focieties and inferior con- 
 nections ; in general, to lincerity and rectitude ; and in particular, to 
 virtues of every clafs; but fpiritual truths relate to the things of heaven, 
 and of the church on earth ; and in general to the good of love, and the 
 truths of faith. There are three degrees of life in every man: the ra- 
 tional part in man is opened to the firft degree by civil truths ; to the fe- 
 cond by moral truths ; and to the third by fpiritual truths. But let it 
 here be oblerved, that man's rational part is not opened and formed mere- 
 iy by his knowing fuch truths, but by living according to them when 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 1071 
 
 known, that is, by loving them with a fpiritual affection, or the affection 
 of his fpiiit, or, in other words, by loving jultice and equity as fuch, 
 fnicerity and re6iitude of manners as fuch, and good and truth as fuch; 
 whereas, to love them only from external regards, is loving them for the 
 fake of felf, for one's own charadter, honour, or profit ; and therefore fuch 
 a love, as it terminates in felf, gives not a man any right to th-j charac- 
 ter of rational, as fuch a one ufes truths as a lordly mafter ufes his fer- 
 rants, viz. for his pleafure or intereft : and where this is the cafe, they 
 make no part of the man, nor open fo much as the firft degree of life in 
 him, but onlj' have a place in his memorj^ like other fcientifical ideas, 
 under a material form, where they unite with the love of felf in mere ani- 
 mal nature. Hence it may appear, how man becomes truly and properly 
 rational, viz. in the third or higheit degree, by the fpiritual love of 
 good and truth, or the things of heaven, and its reprefentative the church ; 
 in the lecond degree, by the love of fmcerity and rectitude ; and in the 
 firlt degree, by the love of juftice and equity ; which two laft loves be- 
 come fpiritual by influx of the fpiritual love of good and truth from tlie 
 higheit degree, by joining itfelf to the inferior loves, and forming in them 
 its own likenefs. There are three degrees in man correfponding to the 
 three heavens ; and, as the thiixl or higheit heaven does, as it were, fanc- 
 tify the two inferior heavens by the defcending influx of its celeftial fu- 
 perior virtue, fo the fpiritual love of all that is good and true in man (cor- 
 refponding to the third heaven) fpiritualizes or fanctifies his virtues, 
 though of an inferior clafs ; thus, to give a cup of cold water to another 
 is a little thing; but when it is the molt we can do, and love is in the 
 doing of it, the act has in it the effence of Chriftian charity. 
 
 There are three ftates which man goes through after death, before he 
 enters into heaven or hell ; the fii-ft refpetfts hi« exterior part ; the fecond 
 his interior ; and the third is his Hate of final preparation. Thefe flates 
 manpalfes through in the world of fpirits ; however, there are exceptions, 
 as fome are immediately after death taken up into heaven, or cait into 
 liell ; of the foi'mer clafs are they who are regenerated, and fo prepared 
 for heaven in this world, and that in fo high a degree as to need only the 
 putting oft' all their natuial impiuities, in order ta be carried by the 
 angels into heaven. On the other hand, fuch as have been internally evil, 
 under the madi of externally-apparent goodnefs, and lb have tilled up the 
 raeafure of their iniquities by hypocrify and deceit, ufmg the cloak of 
 goodnefs as a means whereby to deceive others ; thefe are immediately 
 call into hell. There are alfo fome who are committed to caverns im- 
 mediately after their deceafe, and fo feparated from others in the world of 
 fpirits, but afterwards releafed, and remanded thither by turns : fuch 
 are they who, under civil pretexts, deal fraudulently with their neigh- 
 No. 57. 12 L hours ;
 
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 hours ; but the fore -mentioned are very (ew compared to the many clafTos 
 of tliole who arc detained in the world of fj)irits, in order to their pre- 
 paration for heaven or hell, according to the ellablilheJ order of divine 
 economy. 
 
 As to the firft ftate before-mentioned, or that which i*efpe6ls the exte- 
 rior, this man enters upon immediately after death. Every one's fpirit 
 has belonging to it properties exterior and interior ; the former are thofe 
 by Avhich he governs and acconmiodates the corporeal functions in this 
 world, more efpecially the fnce, fpeech, and bodily gelture?, according to 
 his focial conne6tions ; the latter are propei'to his will and free thoughts, 
 which are feldom made manifeft by the face, fpecQh, and 9utward be- 
 liaviour, man being accuftomed through education and example to coun- 
 terfeit friendlhip, hncerity, and benevolence, and to conceal his true 
 thoughts even from his infancy. Hence it is, that fo many learn the ex- 
 ternal pra6tice of morality and good manners, however different they may 
 in reality be M'ithin, and fo, miftaking cuftom for principle, know not 
 themfelves, nor enter into any examination concerning the matter. 
 
 As the life of men newly become fpirits is fo like to their natural life 
 in this world, and as they are at lirll llrangers to their new ftate, Avithout 
 knowing any thing more of heaven and hell than what they have learned 
 from the letter oflcripture, and their preachers ; therefore, after wonder- 
 ing for fome time at their being clothed with abodv, and polfeHing every 
 fenfe as in this world, and alio at their feeing things under the like ap- 
 pearance as before, they fmd themfelves urged by a deiire of knowing 
 what and where heaven and hell are ; upon which they arc infiruc^ted by 
 itheir friends in things relating to eternal life, and are conducted to various 
 .places, and different focieties, and fome into cities, gardens, and beauti- 
 ful plantations, and more particularly to fee magnificent buildings, as 
 fuch external objed:s fuit with the prefent external ftate of their minds. 
 Then they are led to iufpett thofe interior fcntiments and ideas, which 
 they had in this life concerning the Itate of fouls after death, and con- 
 cerning; heaven and hell, not without indiiination to think of their own 
 pait ignorance, indalfo that of the church, in relation to thefe important 
 iubjet*:ts. Almoft all in the world of fpirits are defirous to know whe- 
 ther they fhall goto heaven or not, and'the greater part judge in favour 
 of themfelves as to this particular, efpecially fuch as had lived by the 
 external rules of morality and civil obligation here; not confidering that 
 both g(jod and bad do the fame to outward appearance, as alfb do many 
 good offices to others, and in like manner go to church, hear fermons, 
 and beiar a part in the public worfliip ; not reflecting that thefe external 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 10/3 
 
 'fi^s, and this outward form of worfliip, avail nothing in themfelves, con- 
 sidered leparately from the difpofitiou and principle of the worfliipper, 
 and that it is the interior or inner man tliat ftamps thccharafter and value 
 upon the outward w^ork and form ; but fcarcely one in a thoufand knows 
 what is meant by the interior, and, even after being taught it, place all 
 in the words and bodily fervice ; and fuch is the greater part of thofe whb 
 at this day pafs from the Chriftian world into the other. 
 
 The fecond ftate of man after death is called liis interior ftate, as he 
 then pafles into the more recondite things of his mind, or of his will 
 and thoughts, whilft the more external fun6tions of it, as exercifed in 
 his {nit (late, are then quiefcent and dormant. NVhoever carefully attends 
 to the lives, words, and adions, of men, may foon find that every one 
 has both his exterior and interior thoughts and intentions ; thus, for ex- 
 ample, the man of civil connections and manners forms his judgment of 
 others by what he knows of them by character and converlation ; and, 
 though he fliould find them to be far othenvife than men of probity aud 
 worth, yet he does not fpeak and behave to them according to his real 
 fentiments of them, but with fomcthing of feeming refpecl; and civility : 
 and this is ftill more ftrongly exemplified in the behaviour of perfoiis 
 addicted to diffimulation and flattery, who fpeak and act quite contrary 
 to what they think and mean ; and alfo in hypocrites, who can talJc of 
 God, of heaven, and Spiritual things, and alfo of their country and neigh- 
 bour, as if from faith and love, when at the fame time they have neither 
 the one nor the other, and love none but themfelves. This evinces that 
 there are thoughts in the fame mind of two different complexions, the 
 one interior, and the other exterior, and that it is common for men to 
 fpeak from the latter, whilft their real fentiments in the interior are con- 
 trary thereto ; and that thefe two arrangements of thoughts are of diftinCt 
 and Separate apartments in the mind, appears from the pain's fuch perfons 
 take to prevent thofe that are interior from flowing into the exterior to 
 manifeftation. Now man was fo fomied by his original creation, that 
 both thefe were as one by correfpondence and confent, as is the cafe now 
 with the good, who both think and fpeak what is good and true ; whereas; 
 in the evil the interior and the exterior are divided, for they tliink evil, 
 and fpeak good, thus inverting the order of things, whillVthe evil is in- 
 nermoft, and the good outerrtioft, the former exercifing rule over the 
 latter, and ufing its Services for temporal and Sclfilh ends, So that the 
 feeming good which they Say and do is corrupted and changed into evil, 
 however the undifceming may be deceived by its outAvard appearance. 
 On the other hand, they who are in the good principle Sand hi the divine 
 erder of God's creation, whilll the good in their interior flow^s into the. 
 
 exterior
 
 1074 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 exterior of their minds, and thence into their words and actions. Thv* 
 is tlie ilate in which man was created, and thus they have communication 
 with lieaven, and have the Lord for their leader. Thus much may I'erve 
 to fliow, tha,t man thinks from two diftinft grounds, the one called the 
 interior, the other the exterior; and, when we Ipeak here of his thinking., 
 we include likewife his faculty of willing, as his thoughts are from his will, 
 neither can they exift feparately. 
 
 After that man, now become a fpirit, has gone througlr his firft 
 ftate, which is that of his exterior thoughts and will, he then pafles 
 into his fecond or interior ftate, and this he enters upon infeniibly, 
 which refembles that of a man of this world, who, finding himfelf at 
 liberty from every reftraint and diffipation, recolleCis himfelf, and enters 
 into the moll fecret recefles of his foul. Now in this ftate of introverlion> 
 when he thinks freely from his inraoft difpofition and affections, he is 
 properly himfelf, or in his true life. All without exception enter into 
 this ftate in the other world, as proper to fpirit, for the former is aftumed 
 and pradtifed in accommodation to fociety and tranfaCtions in this world ; 
 and therefore, though it remains with man for fome time after death, yet 
 it is not long continued in, as not being fuitable to the nature of a fpirit, 
 for the following reafons : firll, becaufe a fpirit thinks and fpeaks fron^ 
 the governing principle of life without difguife ; nay, the fame is the cafe 
 of man in tliis world, when he enters into his inmoit felf, and takes an 
 intuitive view of his inward man, in which kind of furvey he fees more 
 in a minute than he could utter in an hour. Secondly, becaufe in his- 
 converfation and dealings in this world, he fpeaks and acts under the re- 
 ftraint of thofe rules which fociety has eftabliflied for the maintenance of 
 civility and decorum. Thirdly, becaufe man, when he enters into the 
 interior recefles of his fpirit, exercifes rule over his outward economy, 
 prefcribing laws thereto, how to fpeak and a6l in order to conciliate the 
 <2;ood will and favour of others, and that by a conftrained external beha- 
 viour. Thefe conliderations may ferve to fliow, that this interior ftate 
 of liberty is not only the proper ftate of the fpiiit of a man after death, 
 but even in this life. When a fpirit has pafted into this fecond or interior 
 ftate, it then appears outwardly what manner of man he had been in this 
 World, as he now acts from his proper felf; thus, if he had been a wife 
 and good man before, he now manifefts ftill higher degrees of rationality 
 and wifdom in his words and actions, as being freed from thofe corporeal 
 and earthly erabarraflinents which had fettered and obfcured the inward 
 operations of his mind, whereas the bad man evidences greater folly than 
 before; for, whilft in this world, he fafliioned his external behaviour by 
 the rules of piudence, in order to fave appearances; but, not being under 
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 OF A S T R O L O G Y. 1075 
 
 All who in this world lived uprightly, and preferved a good confcience, 
 walking in the fear of God, and in the love of divine truths, ap])lying 
 the fame to practical ufe, feem to themfelves as men awaked out of lleep, ^ 
 and as having pafled from darknefs to light, when they firft enter upon 
 their fecond or interior ftate, for they think upon the light of pure wif- 
 dom, and they do all things from the love of goodnefs; heaven influ* 
 ences their thoughts and aftedions, and they are in communication with 
 angels. But the condition of the evil in this ftate is according to his par- 
 ticular concupifcence. They who had been abforbed in lelf-love, fo as 
 not to attend to the good ufes of their refpedtive offices and fundlions, but 
 difcharged them only with a view to their own ellimation and honour, 
 appear more ftupid than others; for, in proportion to the degree of felt- 
 love in any one is his diilancefrom heaven, and confequently from wifdom : 
 but they, who to the evil of felf-love had added crafty devices, and by 
 means thereof advanced themfelves to worldly, honours, aflfociate them- 
 felves to the word of fpirits, and addict themfelves to the magical 
 arts, which are profane abufes of the divine order, by means of wiuclj* 
 they raoleit and vex all that pay them not honour. The practifingof 
 infidious wiles, and to kindle Itrife and hatred, yield them the higheft 
 pleafure; they burn with revenge, and long for nothing more than to 
 tyrannife over all that fubmit not to their will ; and all thefe wicked paf- 
 lions they gratify as far as their evil aflbciates give them alViftance ; nay, 
 fo far does madnefs hurry them on, as to make them wifli to fcale heaven, 
 either to fubvertthe government of the holy kingdom, or to caufc them- 
 felves to be worlhipped for gods therein. As to thofe who in tiiis world 
 afcribed all creation to nature, and fo in effect denied a God, and confe- 
 quently all divine truths, fuch herd together in this ftatc, calling every 
 one a god who excelled in fubtlety of reafoning, and giving him divine 
 honour. Such in the world of fpirits are feen in their conventicle wor- 
 Ihipping a magician, holding conferences concerning nature, and be- 
 liaving more like brlite-beafts than human creatures ; and among them 
 fome who were dignitaries in this world, and had the reputation of being 
 learned and wife, and others of a different charad^r. From this much 
 we may gather what they are, the interior of whofe minds is Ihut againft 
 divine things, as theirs is, who receive no influx from heaven througK 
 .looking up to God and a life of faith. 
 
 The third ftate of man, or of his fpirit, after death, is the liate of in- 
 struction, which is appointed for thofe that go to heaven, and become 
 angels ; but not for thofe that go to hell, as Inch are not in a capacity of 
 inftruction, and therefore their fecond ftate is their lalt, and anfwers to 
 the third in others, as. it terminates in their total change into that pre- 
 vailing love which conftitutcs their proper principle, and confequently 
 
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 1076 AN ILLtlSTRATION 
 
 into a conformity to that infernal fociety with which they have fellowftiip. 
 When this is accompHihed, their will and thoughts flow fpontaneoully 
 from their predominant love, which, being infernal, they can only choofe 
 the evil and falle, and rejeft all that apparent good and truth which be- 
 fore they had adopted, folely as means I'ubfervient to tiie gratification of 
 -their ruling paffion. On the other hand, the good fpirits are introduced 
 from their fecond into their third ftate, which is that of preparation for 
 heaven by the means of inilruiStion ; for none can be qualified for heaven 
 but through the knowledge of Ipiritual good and truth, and their oppo-- 
 fites, evil and falfehood, which can only come from previous inftrud;ion. 
 As to good and truth in a civil and moral fenfe, commonly called 
 juftice and fincerity, thefe may be learned from the laws of nations, and 
 from converfation in virtuous company ; but fpiritual good and truth, as 
 ingi-afted principles in the heart, are only received by the teachings of a 
 divine light : for though they are literally fet forth in the fcripture, and 
 the dodtrines of the Chriftian churches founded thereon, yet they only 
 gain the efficacy of a vital principle from a celeftial influence manifelling 
 itfelf in a eonfcientious obedience to the divine laws, as promulgated in 
 the written word, and that in refpe6l to the divine authority of them, and 
 not from felfifii and worldly motives ; then a man is in the heavenly life, 
 or in heavenj even whilfl; in this world. 
 
 The way of conveying inftru<ftion in the other world differs from that 
 on earthj inafmuch as truths there are committed not to the memory, but 
 to the life ; for the memory of fpirits is in their life's principle, and they 
 receive and imbibe only what is conformable thereto ; for fpirits are fo 
 many human fonns of their own affections. As the natuie of fpirits is 
 fuch, therefore they are continually infpired with an affection for truth 
 for the ufes of life ; for the Lord has fo ordered it, that every one fhould 
 love the ufes that accord with their particular gifts and qualities : which 
 love is likewife heightened by the hope of their becoming angels ; for in 
 heaven all particular and fmgular ufes have relation to the general ufe or 
 good of the Lord's kingdom, and may be confidered as fo many parts of 
 one whole, fo that the truths which they learn are both truths and the 
 ufes of truths conjunctly : thus the angelical fpirits are prepared for hea^ 
 ven. The affection or love of truth for the purpofes of ufe is infinuated 
 into them many ways not known in this world, more particularly by 
 various reprelentations of ufe imder fuch delightful forms as afte6t both 
 their minds and fenfes with unfpeakable pleafure ; fo that, when any fpirit 
 is joined to the fociety for which he was prepared, he then enjoys life 
 mofl; when he is in the exercife of its proper ufes. Hence it may appear, 
 that not the ideal knowledge of truths, as things without us, but an im- 
 plantation
 
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 pjantation of them in the aflfe6lions and Hfe for the purpofe of ufes, is that 
 which qualifies for the kingdom of heaven. 
 
 After that the angels are duly prepared for heaven in manner defcribed, 
 which comes to pafs in a fliort time, as fpiritual minds are of quick com- 
 prehenfion, they are then clothed in angelical garments, wliich, for the 
 molt part, are white, as of fine linen, and conducted to the way which 
 leads up to heaven, and delivered to the guardian angels there ; after 
 which they are received by other angels, and introduced to difterent fo- 
 eieties, where they partake of various delights : after this eveiy one is 
 led by the Lord's guidance to his particular proper fociety, and this by 
 various ways, fometimes dire(5t, fometimes otherwife, not known to any 
 of the angels, but to the Lord only. Laftly, when they are come to their 
 own fociety, their inmoft thoughts and aftedtions open and expand them- 
 felves ; which meeting with the like returns of cordial f5Tnpathy from^ 
 their fellow-angels, they are immediately known and received by them, 
 with a joyful welcome. 
 
 A*n equilibrium is neceflTaiy to the exiftence and fubfiftence of all things, 
 and conlifts in the equality of a6tion and re-a^lion between two oppofite 
 powers, producing reft or equilibrium ; and this according to an efta- 
 blifhed law through the natural world, abferved in the very atmofpheres, 
 in which the lower and denfer air re-a6ls on the fuperincumbent columns ; 
 nay, even betwixt heat and cold, light and darknefs,.dry and moift ; and 
 the middle point is the temperature or equilibrium. The fame law ob- 
 tains throughout the three great kingdoms of this world, the mineral, 
 vegetabJe, and animal ; wherein all things proceed and are regulated ac- 
 cording to action and re-a6tion, or a<ftive8 and paffives, producing orre- 
 ftoring an equilibrium in nature. In the phyfical world, the agent and 
 re-agent are called poAver and conatus ; and in the fpiritual world, life 
 and will, as being living power and conatus ; and here the equilibrium is 
 called liberty. Thus there exifts a fpiritual equilibrium or liberty be- 
 twixt good and evil, by the action of one, and the re-adion of the other ; 
 for example, in good men this equilibrium is aife(^edby the adion of the 
 good principle, and the re-adion of the evil principle ; but in bad men, 
 evil is the agent, and good is but the re-agent. That there is a fpiritual 
 equilibrium betwixt good and evil, is becaufe every thing appertaining to 
 the vital principle in man has relation to good or evil, and the will is 
 the receptacle of both. There is likewife an equilibrium betwixt true 
 and faJfe ; but this depends on the equilibrium betwixt good and evil, ac- 
 cording to their kinds refpedively. The equilibrium betwixt truth and 
 falfehood is fimilarto that which is betwixt light anddarknefs Cu^^ramJ, 
 
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 Avhich operates, according to the beat and cold therein, on the fubjecls of 
 the vegetable kingdom ; for that light and darknefs have no fuch operation 
 in themfelves alone, but only through the heat in them, may appear from 
 the funilarity there is betwixt the light and darknefs in Minter and in 
 fpring. The comparifon of truth and falfehood with light and darknels 
 is from rorrefpondency ; for truth correfponds to light, and falfehood to 
 darknefs, and heat to the good of love. Spiritual light alfo is the fame 
 with truth; and fpiritual darknels is tlie fame with falfehood. 
 
 There is a perpetual equilibrium betwixt heaven and hell; from the 
 latter continually exhales and afcends a conatus of doing evil ; and from 
 the former continually emanes and defcends a conatus (tendency to or 
 will) of doing good. In this equilibrium is the world of fpirits, whicii 
 is htuatcd in the midli. betwixt heaven and hell ; and this may aj)pcar 
 from hence, that every m.an immediately after death enters into the world 
 of fpirits, and there continues in the lame Itate in which he dii:d ; is ex- 
 amined and proved thereby, as a touchllone of his piinciplcs ; and re- 
 mains under the fame free will, which all indicate an equilibrium ; for 
 fuch a fpiritual equilibrium there is in every man and I'pirit, as obfciTed 
 before. The particular kind and tendency of this liberty or free will is 
 well known b}- the angels in heaven, by the communication of thought.s 
 and affections; and it appears vifibly to the evangelical fpirits, by the 
 })aths and ways which they choofe to walk in, as the good fpirits take 
 thofe which lead to heaven, and the evil fpirits thofe which lead to hell ; 
 for fuch ways and walks havcadually a viiible appearance in that world ; 
 and this is the reafon that the word way or ways in fcripture figniftes 
 thofe truths which lead to good, and, in an oppofite fenfe, thofe falfe- 
 hoods which lead to evil ; and hence alfo it is, that to go, walk, or jour- 
 ney, fignify the progrclhons of life in the fame facred writings. 
 
 That evil continually exhales and afcends from hell, and that good con- 
 tinuallv flows and defcends from heaven, is becaufe everyone is furround- 
 cd by a fpiritual fphcre, flowing or tranfpiring from his vital affettions 
 and thoughts, and conl'equently the fame from eveiy fociety celeftial or 
 infernal, and collectively from the whole heaven and the whole hell. 
 This univerfal efflux of good from heaven originates in the Lord, and 
 ixitles through the angels without any mixture of their property or felf- 
 iioodj for tins is fupprefled in them by the I,rOV^, who grants them 
 to live in his own divine property ; whereas the infernal fpirits are in their 
 pro]ierty of felfiih nature, or wliat only belongs to themfelves, which, as 
 unblefled with divine comnumications from the fole fountain of all good, 
 is only evil in every one continually. 
 
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 The heaven!?, in tlie general, are diftinguiflied into two kingdoms; the 
 one of which is called the celeltial, the other the Ipiritual, kingdom. The 
 lielis likewile are diitinguiflied into two kingdoms ; the one of which is 
 oppolite to the celeitial, the other to the fpiritual. That which is op- 
 polite to the celeltial is in tlie weft, and they who belong to it are called 
 genii ; and that which is oppolite to the Ipiritual kingdom is in the 
 north and fouth, and they who belong to it are called evil Ipirits. All 
 in the celeftial kingdom excel in love to the Lord, and all that are in the 
 hells oppolite to that kingdom are under the prevailing power of fclf- 
 love; all that belong to the ipiritual kingdom are diltinguiihed in excel- 
 lence by love to their neighbour, and all that are in the hells oj)po(ite to 
 this kingdom are Haves to the love of the world ; f<j that love to the 
 Lord and the love of lelf are in the fame diametrical oppolition to each 
 other as the love of our neighbour and the love of the world. Effectual 
 proviiion is made by the Lord, that no power of evil, from the hells that 
 are in oppofition to the celeitial kingdom, may reach the fubje(!:ts of the 
 Ipiritual kingdom, as the coniequence in that cafe would be the fubver- 
 fion of the latter. Thus does the Lord keep the balance betwixt {joocl 
 and evil in his own hand for the prefervation of his kingtloms. 
 
 As good and evil, truth and falfehood, are of a fpiritual nature, fo alfo is 
 that equilibrium in which confiits the power of thinking and willing the 
 one or the other, and the liberty of choofmg or refufing accordingly. 
 This liberty, or freedom of the will, originates in the divine nature, but 
 is given to every man by the Lord for a property of his life, nor does he 
 ever take it back again. This good gift to man is to the end that he may 
 be regenerated and laved, for without free will there is no falvation for 
 him ; but that he actually poflelTes it, he may know from the operations 
 of his own mind, and what pafles inwardly in his Ipirit, he being ablcto 
 think and choofe either good or evil, whatever reltraints he may be under 
 from uttering or a(^ting the latter part in rclpe6t to laws divine or human. 
 Now tins inward experience evinces, beyond a thouland arguments, that 
 liberty l)elongs to man, as his fpirit is his proper felf, and it is that 
 which freely thinks, wills, and choofes ; confequently, liberty is to be 
 eftimated according to the inner man, and not from what he may be out- 
 wardly through fear, human refpetls, or other external reltraints. 
 
 That man M-ould not be capable of being reformed or regenerated with- 
 out free will, is becaule he is by the original conltitution of his nature 
 born to evils of every kind, which mult be removed in order to his lal- 
 vation ; and that can only be by his knowing, owning, renouncing, and 
 abhorring, them. To this end, he mult be inlhuCted in the nature of 
 
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 1080 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 good; for it is bj-^ good only that he can fee the evil, but by evil lie can- 
 not fee the good : accordingly, he muit be early educated in the knowledge 
 of I'piritual truths, by teaching, by reading the fcriptures, and by the 
 preaching of the word, that fo he may attain to the right underftanding of 
 what is good; as he is likewife to cultivate his mind with the knowledge 
 of moral and civil truths from his intercourfe with foe icty in thu different 
 relations of life ; all which imply the ufe and exercife of freedom. An- 
 other thing to be confidered is, that nothing becomes appropriated to man, 
 or can be called his own, that is not received iiito the afteclionate part; 
 other thiiigs he may apprehend or form an ideal knowledge of, but what 
 enters not his will or love, which is the lame thing, (for what a man 
 wills he loves,) that makes no part of him, nor abides with him. Now, 
 man being naturally prone to evil, he could not receive its contrary, 
 the good, into his will or love, fo as to become appropriated to him, 
 unlefs he were endowed -with liberty or freedom of will, feeing that the 
 good is oppolite to the evil of his nature. 
 
 As man is poflfefied of liberty or free w^lll, in order to be capable of re- 
 generation, therefore he can have communication in fpirit Avith heaven 
 or witli hell ; for evil ipirits from the one, and angels from the other, 
 are prefent with him; by tiie former he pofleiles his own evil; by the 
 latter he is in the principle of good from the Lord ; and herein Hands his 
 equilibrium or liberty. Not that this conjunction of man with heaven 
 or hell is an immediate conjimCtion, but mediate only, and that through 
 the I'pirits that belong to the world of fpirits ; for thefe are the Ipirits 
 that attend on man, and not any immediately from heaven or hell. ]]y 
 the evil fpirits belonging to the world of fpirits, man joins himi'elf to 
 hell ; and by the good fpirits of the fame world he has communication 
 Avith heaven; for tiie world of ipirits is intermediate between heaven and 
 hell, and conititutes the true equilibrium. Let it be obferved, as touch- 
 ing tliofe fpirits that a;c appointed to be man's aiVociates here, that a 
 whole fociety may hold communication with another fociety, and alfo 
 with any individual wherefoeAcr, by means of an emiil'ary fpirit, which 
 tpirit is called, The fuhje^l of many. The cafe is funilar Avith refj^ect to 
 man's communication Avith the focieties in heaven and in hell, by the 
 intervention of his ailbciate ipirit from the world of fpirits. The good 
 fpirits belonging to tlie Avorld of fpirits, being in their final preparation 
 for the angelical Hate, are called angelical Ipirits ; and, as they ha\'e im- 
 mediate comnmnication with the heaA-enly angels, fo has man, througk 
 them, a mediate communication Avith the lame. And the bad fpirits 
 vice verfa. Thus all communications, betAveen man and the highelt and 
 loAvell in heaven and hell, arc conducted through the mediums adapted to 
 liis nature and Itates rcfpedively. 
 
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 What has been delivered concerning heaven, the world of fpirits, and 
 hell, will appear obfcure to thole who have no relifli for fpiritual truths, 
 but clear to fuch as take delight therein, more efpecially to all who are 
 in the love of truth for its own fake. What we love, we readily receive 
 and underftand ; and, where truth is the objeel of our afteclions, it re- 
 conunends itfelf to the mind by the evidence it brings with it; for trutli 
 is the light, by v,hich all things are known and diftinguilhed. 
 
 Such is the opinion of Baron Emanuel Swedenborg, with re{\)e(5l to 
 the, fpirits and departed fouls of men. But the Magi, or wife men of the 
 Eaft, have defined fpirits, good and bad, of a great variety of kinds and 
 orders, whereof Ibme are fuited to the purpofes of witchcraft and exor- 
 cifm, and others not. The form and nature of fpirits, fay they, are to 
 be conlidered according to the iburce to which each caterva doth belong ; 
 for fonie, being altogetlier of a divine and celeltial nature, are not fubjec>. 
 to the abominable conjurations and enchantments of vicious men ; whilll 
 others, of a diabolical and infernal nature, are not only ready upon all 
 occafions to become fubfervient to exorcilts and magicians, but are ever 
 watching opportunities of exciting evil affections in the mind, and of llir- 
 ring up the wickedly-inclined to the commilhon of e\ery fpecies of ini- 
 quity and vice. As to the fliapes and various likenefles of thele wicked 
 I'pirits or devils, it is generally believed, that, according to their dilYerent 
 capacities in wickednefs, fo their fliapes are anfwerable after a magical 
 manner, refembling fpiritually fomc horrid and ugly moniters, as their 
 conipiracies againft the power of God were high and monitrous when 
 they fell from heaven. For the condition of Ibme of them is nothing 
 but continual horror and defpair, whilll others triumph in fiery nhg;ht 
 ftnd pomp, attempting to pluck the Almighty from his throne; but the 
 quality of heaven is Ihut from them, and they can never reach it, which 
 a<.-LS upon them as an eternal Iburce of torment and mifery. But that 
 they are materially vexed and fcorched in flames of fu'e, is onU'' a figura- 
 tive idea, adapted to our external fenfe, and by no means to be literally 
 imderftood; for their fubftance is fpiritual, and their clVence too lubtilc 
 for any external torment. Their mifery is unqucflionably great and in- 
 finite ; but not through the effect of outward flanies ; for their bodies 
 are capable of piercing through wood and iron, itone and all terreltial 
 things. Neither is all the fire or fuel of this world able to torment 
 them; for in a moment they can pierce it through and chrough. The 
 endiels fource of their mifery is in themfelves, and itands continually 
 before them, fo that they can never enjoy any reft, being abfent from 
 the prefence of God ; which torment is greater to them than all the tor- 
 tures of this world combined togctlier. 
 
 Tiie
 
 io82 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 The wicked fouls that are departed this life, are alfo capable of ap- 
 f)earing again, and of an fwe ring the conjurations and magical quettions of 
 cxorciils, becaufe tlie quality of their minds, and the bent of their incli- 
 nations, being fnnilar to thofe of the fallefi angels or devils, it cannot be 
 conceived that their torment and purfuits hereafter are much difTcrent ; 
 for the Scripture faith, flmt evcnj one is rewarded according to his icorks ; 
 and, that xvhich a )nan foxes, that he (Jiall reap. Hence it follo\rs, that, as 
 the damned fpirits of departed men, while they lived on earth, heaped. up 
 vanity, and loaded their fouls with iniquity and vice ; fo, when they en- 
 ter the next world, the fame abojninations which here they committed 
 ferve them to ruminate and feed upon, and, the greater thefe offences have 
 been, the greater is the torment arifmg from them every moment. But 
 very contrary to this is the ftate of the righteous "fouls departed, who 
 are entered into eternal reft ; and of the different degrees and orders 
 of the angelic hoft, which appertain to heaven, and have places in tlie 
 manfions of the bletfed. Nor is it poffible for any one, how expert fo- 
 ever in magical experiments, to compel thefe bleffed fpirits, of any de- 
 gree, order, or quality, of creation, to beexorcifed, or called up, or made 
 appear, at the Xiill of the magician, by any forms of convocation or com- 
 anunication, or by tiie power of magical rites and ceremonies of any dafs 
 or defcription whatfoever. It may indeed be believed, and it is by moifc 
 authors admitted, that infinite numbers of the angelic hoft are employed 
 for the glory of God, in Avatching over and protecting the purfuits of 
 good men; but they are not fubjedt to fpells or conjurations of any kind 
 let on foot by the impious profelibrs of the Black Art. 
 
 Of a different opinion, however, are fome of thofe who attempt to 
 juftify the magic art under fanc^ion of the holy fcriptuies, and for this 
 purpofe inftance the fupplication of Saul to the witch ofEndor. This 
 paHage imdoubtedly ferves to fliow, how greatly the pradice of exorcifm 
 reigned amongft the Jews, and proves the poflibility of railing up fpirits 
 m thofe ancient times ; but that the exorcilt never meant to bring up 
 the fpirit or ghoft of Samuel, but tliat of an evil da?mon to reprefent him, 
 is apparent from her exclamations to Saul, when fhe accufes him of hav- 
 ing deceived her; and is a convincing proof, tliat this particular inftance, 
 of the funilitude of a bleffed fpirit being called up by aprofeflbr of fpells 
 and incantations, was owing to the immediate permiffton of the Deity, 
 for the purpofes of forwarding the Jewifti difpenfation, and manifefting 
 his peculiar regard to the perfbn of David, through whole loins the 
 Mefllah was to come. 
 
 Such fpirits as r^rj termed ajlral fpirits, which belong to- this oiit- 
 ATard world, and are compounded of the elemental quality, having their 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 108 ^ 
 
 fowice from the ffars, and bcini,^ fuh^^'St to a beginning aiut cuuihit. may 
 befolicited and brought into league ^vith magicians'and Avitches; and 
 can alio infonn them of many wonderful and occuit ])ropertics in nature, 
 and of many important concerns relating to the ftate and afiairs of men iii 
 this terreitrial world. This delcription of fpirits is faid lo occupy va- 
 rious places of the earth; as woods, mountains, waters,, air, fiery flames, 
 clouds, itars, mines, fea-lliores, ancient buildings and ruins, aiid placei 
 oftheflain. They are capable of hunger, grief, paflion, and vc?iation, 
 being in Ibme meafure temporal, and compounded of the molt fpiritual 
 part of the elements, into which they are eventually refolved, as ice into 
 v/ater; and have been more or lefs celebrated bv liiftorians aaid poets in 
 ail ages of the Avoild. 
 
 There are likewife another fpecies, called Tgncoics or Ficnj Spirits, 
 that inhabit the burning mountains of J/cr/r/, Vtfuvhui, JEfna, Pocovtf\ 
 &c. which fome authors have affirmed to be infernal Spirits, and daumed 
 fouls, who for a term of years, are confined to thefe burning mountains 
 for their iniquities. But the molt received opinion is, that they arc of a 
 middle vegetative nature, and periihable, which, at the diiTolution of the 
 media iiafura, fliall be again reduced into their primary Kther. And from 
 natural caufcs it may be eafily demonttrated, that there is great corre- 
 fpondencc betwixt fuch fubllances and the element of fire, by reafon of 
 the internal flagrat and central life proceeding from the quinteflence of 
 one only element, which upholds them in motion, life, and nourilhment; 
 as every natural and fupeniatural being is upheld and maintained out of 
 the felf-fame root from whence it had its original. So the angels teed 
 upon the celeftial manna ; the devils upon the fruits of hell, which is 
 natural to the propcnjihj of their ap])ehtes ; the aitralfpirits upon the 
 fource of the Itars, and the gas of the air; upon a principle that every 
 thing is nouriibcd by its mother, as infants at the brcalt. or chickens from 
 the egi^, &:c. The proper nourilhment of fieiy ipirits, however, is 
 radical heat, and the influence of the airy region;" nor is it to be wonder- 
 ed at that they are ib much delighted with the fiery quality, in rciiaixl of 
 their affinity and near approach to the eflence and quality of infernal 
 Ipirits or devils, whole Hate and being is altogether damnable and deplo- 
 rable; for although they have not the ability of attaininf>f either the 
 heavenly or infernal quality, by reafon that they are utterly^void of the 
 innermolt centre, and may be rather termed monlters than rational ani- 
 nials, yet, becauie they are compounded of the outerraoft principle, fuch 
 is their innate affinity and unity with the dark world or infernal kingdom, 
 that they often become the devil's agents, to propagate his works^upoii 
 the face of the earth. Tims by the inftigation of internal foirits, and 
 
 No. 58. 12 O ' .their
 
 1084 AN ILLUSTRATION. 
 
 their own prompitiule, they often terrify men with nocturnal vifions ; 
 provoke melancholy people to fuicide ; tempt drunkards and incendiaries 
 to fet houies on tire, to burn thofe who are in them, and allure carelel's 
 fervants and others to found and incautious lleep, that fuch unlucky 
 accidents might happen ; befides innumerable other ways they have of 
 executing the devices of iniquitous fpirits through malicious inltigations, 
 or fecret llratagems, projeAed for the overthrow and deiiruclion of mortal 
 men; efpecially when the work to be effected by the devil is too hard for 
 his I'ubtle and fpiritual nature to effetl, becaufe the fame belongs to the 
 outward fource or principle to which thefe dubions fpirits more innne- 
 diately belong. For, being compounded of the fiery element, they are 
 moft officious in this kind of fervice, beiug fuch as the antecedent mat- 
 ter hath fufficiently demouftrated ; but according to their different ranks 
 -and orders fome of them are much more inveterate and malicious in their 
 agency than the reit. Thefe, as well as every other kind of altral fpirits, 
 arc more or lefs obfequious to the kingdom of darknefs; and tiie devil, 
 it feems, can efted; little or nothing without their afliftance in this out- 
 ward or elementary world, upon the pailions of mankind ; becaufe their 
 bodies are too crude for the dirert conveyance of their influence, either 
 in dreams, charms, viiions, raptures, or other foft and alluring means. 
 Thefe fiery fpirits are likewife apt for conjuration, and are always ready 
 at the call of the magician, for the execution of any cruel or diabolical 
 purpofe. 
 
 Dirtin6l from fiery fpirits, are a fpecies wliich properly belong to tlie 
 metallic kingdom, abiding in mountains, caves, dens, deeps, hiatas or 
 chafnis of the earth, hovering over hidden gold, tombs, vaults, and l"e- 
 pultures of the dead. Thefe fpirits are termed by the ancient philo- 
 l><>phers '^protectors of hidden trcafure," from a principle or quality in 
 their nature, whence they exceedingly delight in mines of gold, lilvcr, 
 and places of hidden treafin'e; but are violently inimical to man, and en- 
 vy his benefit or accommodation in the difcovery thereof; ever haunting 
 ihofe places where money is concealed, and retaining malevolent and 
 poifonous influences to blaft the lives and limbs of thole who attempt to 
 make fuch difcoveries ; and therefore extremely dangerous for magicians 
 to exorcife or call them up. It is recorded in iiiveral of the ancient Bri- 
 tilh authors, that Peters, the celebrated magician of Devonlhire, together 
 v/ith his aflbc:a.tes, having exorcifed one of thefe malicious fpirits to con- 
 duct them to a fubterranean vault, where a confiderable (quantity of trcafure 
 was known to be hid, they had no fooner quitted the magic circle, than 
 they were inftantaneouQy cruflied into atoms, as it were in the twinkling 
 of an eye. And in this particular we have too many fatal examples 
 
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 O F A S T R O L O G Y, 1085 
 
 upon record, of the fudden deitiniclion of thofe who by magical fpells had 
 called up this description of fpirits, for the purpofe of difcovering hidden 
 gold ; which examples feem to prove,that thel'e fpirits have more affinity with 
 the infernal than with the a/iral hierarchy ; and that they are the diabo- 
 lical agents of Mammon, brin^ins; about all the evils of this world, which 
 fpring from an inlatiable lull after gold; whence the faying in fcripture, 
 that " zee cannot fcrve God and Mammon,"- and that " 'tis c after for a camel 
 to pafs through the ctje of a needle, tlian for a rich man to enter into the king- 
 dom of heaven ;" hyperbolically fpoken, in reference to the innumerable 
 iins and wiekednelles committed by mankind, for the fake of temporary 
 wealth and riches! Hence too a reafon offers, why, of all other fubordi- 
 nate fpirits, thefe are the molt pernicious to mortal men. The nature of 
 them is lb violent, that, in the hiftories of the gold and lilver mines 
 abroad, it is recorded that whole companies of labourers have been de- 
 ftroyed by them at once ; and that their deUght is in tormenting, killing, 
 and crulhing to death, thofe who molt greedily lull after and icek for fuch 
 treafures. The richeft and largelt fdver-mine in Germany was haunted 
 by one of thefe fpirits, who fometimes ufed to appear in the lliape of a 
 he-goat. With golden liorns, pulhing down tlie workmen with uncom- 
 mon violence ; and at others in the fliape of a horfc, breatlung fiery 
 flames and peltilential vapours at his noftrils, till by continual deftruction, 
 fear, and alarm, they were obliged to defift from working that mine any 
 longer ; and it continues Ihut to this day. 
 
 Thus far we have confidered fpirits fuhordinatc, or fuch as properly 
 belong to the elementary or outward world. We will now take a view 
 of ti)e infernal fpirits or devils, and damned fouls ; which are to be 
 claimed according to their refpectivc ranks and orders, exactly correfpon- 
 dent or appolite to the choirs and hierarchies of the angels, or blelled 
 fpirits in lieaveu. 
 
 The origin of devils and infernal fpirits, as fcripture revelation hath 
 confirmed and eftablillied, proceeded from confpiracy and rebellion in 
 heaven, under the arcli-fiend Lucifer, who was originally of the highelr 
 order of the angelic iiolt; becaufe it is written of him, ''In Clterubim 
 extentus profegeus, pofid te montc fandlo Dei;" — Extended upon a Che- 
 rubim and protet'ling, I have put thee in the holy mountain of God. And 
 further, becaufe it is alio written, " Quomodo eni/n mane or/eharis, Luci- 
 fer " — For then didft thou rife in the morning, O Lucifer. Various are 
 the opinions as to the exprefs^ occalion of his fall. Some fay, it was for 
 fpeaking thele words : " Ponem fedem mcam in aquiloyie, fimilis ero 
 
 altijJit7io" ;
 
 io86 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 nhifjtmo ;" — I will put my feat in (lie Nortli, and I vill be like the Moil 
 Iliiih. Oiliers allirm, that it proceeded from his uiie^-hj rcfitjing fc/icilij, 
 (Did linlilin<x the h/ti/ing-s of /wnirn in dcn/wn. 8onie again, bccinife he ajfcrfcd 
 that all ///.? /Irciigfh proccct/cd front h'nii/'c/f, and not from God. OtJieis, 
 bccaufc hv a'Icniptcd to cfjccl that hy hmj'elf and his oxen [Ircngth, xchicfi 7cas 
 alone the proper gift of God. Other opinions fay, That his condemnation 
 proceeded from hi'i cliallenging the place of the Mc/fiah; Avhilft others inhll, 
 that it uas becauie he impiou/lif challenged the on/n/po/etici/ of God, xcilh 
 •ichom he claimed equal poxcer. But the Chriltian church in all countries 
 agree, that it was for all thefe crimes put together, and many more ; cx- 
 clufivti of liis drawing aiide tiie allegiance of otiier angels, and iuborning 
 the whole of his own legion in eon fpi racy, to attempt to pluck the Al- 
 mighty from his Throne ; wjiereupon a dreadful conflict enlued between 
 iMichael the archange!, with tlie lieavenly hoft on one iide, and Ijucifer 
 and his rebellious tribes o\\ theothej', whicJi ended in their total extermi- 
 nation from the manlions and light of heaven, to luft'er eternal torment in 
 the dark abodes of the infcrnul regions. 
 
 Here began the kingdom of darknefs, and the devil's enmity to mortal 
 man; who being created of a nature inferior to the angels, but, by u 
 ftate of probation, capable of arriving to the fame degree of excellence, 
 and of filling up the vacancy in lieaven occafioned by the fall of Lucifer 
 and his legions, it excited his envy IHll the more, and laid the ground of 
 that ceafelefs warfare, Avhich, from the fall of Adam to the prelent hour, 
 hath exilled between the king of darknels, and the Ibuls of men. And, 
 though this conflict is not conducted by outward and vifdjle nieans, yet 
 it is etfected by I'ecret liiares and ambuJcades, which take us at unawares, 
 and when we are molt off our guard. For the Devil, Avhile we feed, 
 allures us to hn by gluttony ; he thruiteth lult into our generation, and 
 lloth into our exercife ; into our converfation, envy ; into our traffic, 
 avarice; into our correcUon, wrath; into our government, pride; he 
 putteth into our hearts evil cogitations ; and into our mouths, lies. 
 When we awake, he movetli us to evil works ; w^hen we lleep, to evil 
 and filthy dreams ; he provokes the jocund to lafcivioufnefs, and the fad 
 to defpair; whence fpring the various evils with which frail human na- 
 ture is furrounded ; and which nothing, but a full confidence in heaven, 
 and the gofpel difpenliition, can alleviate or remove. 
 
 But as to the locality or circumfcription of the khigdom of darknefs, 
 it is far othenvife to be confidered than the common and vulgar idea of 
 it, which efteems the infernal habitation as a diftinrt chalm or gulph in a 
 certain place, either above, under, or in the centre of, the earth, where 
 
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 innumerable devils and wicked fouls inhabit, and are perpetually fcoiched 
 and tormented with material flames of lire. This is the opinion which 
 the vulgar are naturally addided and prone to believe. But, if we rightly 
 confider the kingdoms of heaven and hell, in refpect of each other, we 
 muft look upon the limilitude oi light and darknefs, in this outward world, 
 which is not circumfcribed, nor feparate, as to locality, from one ano- 
 ther; for, when the Sun rifes, the darknefs of the night difappears; not 
 that it removes itfelf to fome other place or country, but the brightnefs 
 of the light overpowers and fwallows it up, fo that, though it difappear§, 
 yet it is as abfolutely there as the light itfelf. The fame fimilitude is 
 alfo to be coniidered in the defcription of the habitations of good evil 
 beings, that are really in one another, yet not comprehended of one 
 another ; neither indeed can they be, for the evil fpirits, though they 
 fliould remove ten thoufand miles, yet are they in the fame quality and 
 fource, never able to find out or difcover where the kingdom of heaven is, 
 though it be really through and through with the dark kingdom ; but 
 in another oppofite quality, which feparatesand makes them eternal llran- 
 gers to each other. A fimilitude hereof we have in the faculties of hu- 
 man life, confidered with refpect to the endowments of the foul in the 
 juil, and in the wicked; for to be good, pure, and holy, is really pre- 
 fent as a quality in pofentia with the depraved foul, although at that in- 
 ftant the loul be clothed with abomination, fo that the eye which 
 fliould behold God, or goodnefs, is put out. Yet, if the foul would but 
 come out of itfelf, and "enter into another fource, or principle, it might 
 come to fee the kingdom of heaven within itfelf, according to the .Scrip- 
 ture and JMoies, " the word is nigh thee, in thy heart, and in thy tnouth!' 
 
 True it is, that the devils, or fallen angels, cannot ail alike manifeft 
 themfelves in this aftral M^orld ; becaufe the nature of fome of them ap- 
 proaches nearer to the external quality than others ; fo that, although/;;o- 
 pcrly the very innermofi; and outermoft darknefs be their proximate, 
 abode, yet they frequently flourilh, live, move, and germinate, in the aiiy 
 region. Bat, according to the fieiy nature, it is very difficult for them 
 to appear in tl-.is outward world, becaufe there is a whole principle or 
 gulf betwixt them, namely, they are Ihut up in another quality or ex- 
 iftence, fo that the\^ can with greater difficulty find out the being of this 
 world, or come with full prefence unto it, than we can remove into the 
 kingdom of heaven or hell with our intelleciual man. For, if it were 
 otherwife, and the devils had power to appear unto mortals as they lift, 
 how many towns, cities, ^c would be deftroyed, and burnt to the 
 ground ! how many infants would be pluckt away in their innocency, and 
 unoffending creatures be deitroved by their malicious power? Indeed 
 
 No. 58. 12 P few
 
 io88 AN ILLUSTRATION. 
 
 few or none would efcape with their lives, or poffeffions, or found minds ; 
 whereas now all thefe enjoyments are free amongft mankind ; which 
 proves, that it is extremely hard for infernal fpirits to appear in the 
 third principle of tliis world ; and as difficult as for a man to live under 
 water, or fiilies on the ihore. Yet we muft grant, that, when the imagi- 
 nations and earneft defires of the wicked have ftirredup the centre of liell 
 within themfelves, then the devil hath accefs to this world in their 
 defires, and continues here to vex and torment them, fo long as the 
 ftrength of thole defires remain, which was thefirft attractive cauie. 
 
 The caufe of the paucity of appearances of e\'il fpirits in thefe days, 
 is the fulnefs of time, and the brightnefs of Chriftianity, difpcUing the 
 mifts of herefy and idolatry, as the Sun doth the fogs, which vanifli on 
 its appearance ; not by any violence or compulfion, but from a caufe im- 
 planted in the nature of things and their oppofites. Even fo the king- 
 dom of light, as it over fp reads the foul in power and dominion, doles 
 up the centre of darknefs, and fcatters the influences of the devil before it, 
 who becomes as it were entirely /^a/Z/re as to the works and will of man. 
 In the time of the law, when the wrath and jealoufy of the Father had 
 the dominion in the kingdom of nature, infernal fpirits had more eafy ac- 
 cefs to mankind than they now have; for, before the incarnation of Chrift, 
 the anger of God was unappeafed, and had more dominion over the foul 
 of man, which was then at greater diftance from the divine goodnefs ; 
 confequently the devils could with more facility fpring up in the element 
 of wrath, and manifeft themfelves in this outward principle ; becaufe 
 the very idea and bafis of hell is founded on the wrath of God, which is 
 the only channel by which the devil is conveyed into this world. So, 
 when the miracles of Chrift began to manifeft themfelves in the world, 
 the multiplicity of diabolical appearances, and poflefTed with the devil, 
 began infenfibly to decay and vanifli. It is true, that the greateft inftances 
 known of the temptations andpowerof Satan, were exercifed in that fpace 
 oi time betwixt the incarnation and crucifixion of our Saviour ; yet it is as 
 rertain, that the devil knew he had but a fliorttime longer to uphold his 
 kingdom hei-e, and therefore he employed all his ftrength and forces to 
 torment thofe captive and miferable fouls to whoiu Chrift came to preach 
 deliverance. But, after the partition-wall was broken down, and the vail 
 of Mofes, and the wrath of God, were removed, there was a fenfible and 
 vifible decay of Satan's power in the world ; fo that, though it be pof- 
 fible, even in thefe days, by a renunciation of the falvation of Ct; -ift, 
 and by becoming a difciple of the devil, to hold correfpondence with, 
 or to be vs^holly poffeffed by, him ; yet thefe things happen fo rarely, and 
 
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 require fo depraved a ftate of mind and condud, that, whenever they are 
 pretended fo to be, there is great room to doubt the tnith of fuch afler- 
 tions, though o/ipare/i^'^ well authenticated. 
 
 But, notwithftanding that the coming of Chiift has thus curtailed 
 the power of the devil over all Chriftian countries, yet fuch nations as 
 have never embraced the Chriftian faith, but purfue the ancient fuperltition 
 and idolatry, are ftill deluded and bewitched by him, becaufe, the centre 
 of truth and light never having been awakened in them, the power of 
 Satan eafily prevails to feduce them to worfhip things vifible, inftead of 
 the true God : for, where moll darknefs and fuperftition is found, whe- 
 ther in religion or perfonal underftanding, there his power is always moll 
 predominant. Thus it is now with the miferable inhabitants of the 
 greateft part of Afia, and the uncultivated and ferocious parts of Africa 
 and America; yet we have hopes that the goodnefs of Providence, in his 
 own lit and appointed feafon, will, through fome favourable channel, 
 communicate the light of the Gofpel to thofe miferable beings, whereby 
 the Ihocking idea of feeding on human flefh, of devoting one another 
 to deftruction and llavery, and of purfuing the inlinuations and works 
 of the devil, may l->€ totally aboliflied, and every part of the habitable 
 globe be united in the acknowledgment of one God, of one Saviour, and 
 of one liberal, candid, and impartial, Chriftian perfuafion. 
 
 As to the different fhapes and forms of the devils, it is fuggcfted by 
 Scripture, and admitted by all Avriters upon the fubject, that' they were 
 anfwerable in monftrolity and hideoufnefs to the fuperior rank they held 
 in heaven, and to the enormity of the offence which was the caule of their 
 fall. Thus, in Revelation, Lucifer, as the leader and prime apoftate, is 
 termed the great dragon, and king of the devils. And hence it is con- 
 ceived, that thofe who belonged to the fupreme hierarchies in heaven, 
 and were the foremoft to rebel, were, immediately on their expulfion 
 from the realms of blifs, transformed from angels of fplendour and i^lory, 
 to devils in the lliape of dragons, crocodiles, ferpents, tisjers, and the 
 hke; lb that the moft perverfe and potent among the devils polfefs the 
 nioft ugly and frightful of the beftial lliapes, but'a thoufand times more 
 terrific and frightful than can pofTibly be conceived from the moft fero- 
 cious of thofe animals. In this confideration, however, there is a mate- 
 rial diftindion to be made between the apoftate angels and the danmed 
 fouls, which have deferted God in his world, and become inhabitants of 
 the infernal regions in the other. For the moft part, thefe unhappy ciea-^ 
 tures retain t'uc human fhape, but with afpedls difmal and melancholy, 
 and expreffive of the unfpeakable torments they are doomed to fuller ; for 
 
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 I090 AN II^LUSTRATJON 
 
 ill theinfelves they reft not, neitlier are they capable of the i]iQi'ti)efs or 
 duration of time, nor of the alternate courfes of day and night. The fins 
 and wickednefs they committed in this hfe is the fource of their conti- 
 nual torment, which gnaws and corrodes them, rifing and boiling up 
 continually in their minds, without reft or intermiflion. All the refri- 
 geration they have, is by intercourfe with the devils, when the height of 
 wickednefs ftirs them up to blafphemies againft God, and towering up 
 above heaven and omnipotence in their adulterated and deluded imagina- 
 tions, which, figuratively fpeaking, ferves as fport and paftime amonglb 
 one another, but of a ibort and certain duration. Not that this is of the 
 fmalleft advantage, or the lealt mitigation of their torments ; for pain dif- 
 continued returns the greater ; neither would vexation be vexation, if 
 it had no refpite nor forbearance that the contrary might be alfo manifeft, 
 nayn contrariajuxtafe poftta inajus elucejcunt. Yet is their tormen exceed- 
 ingly different; fo that the fuffering of one in refpecS: to that of another 
 is but a mere dream or phantafv. — 1 mean, amongft the damned foul.?, 
 and not the devils ; for the pain and torment of the devils is greater than 
 the greateft of the loft fouls by many million degrees, according to the 
 courfe of nature and reafon ; for that which falls higheft fuffers nioft, and 
 optima corruptajiunt pejjhna. 
 
 But w^ondeiful and manifeft are the torments which loft fouls en- 
 dure, accoi-ding to the various lufts and licentioufnefs they indulged in 
 whilftthey lived upon earth, or died in without expiation or repentance. 
 The cruel murderei-s, who died in the boiling fource of blood and envy, 
 fuffer the greateft torment, becaufe they are continually murdering in 
 their imaginations, and feeking, like dreaming men, to effect what the 
 want of the correfpondent organ will not permit them to do. For, ac- 
 cording to fcripture, and the wifeft authors upon this fubjedl, the prin- 
 cipal torment and mifery of damned fouls proceeds from their continu- 
 ally wiftiing and willing ; whence they generate ideas and reprefenta- 
 tions, founded in impoliibility, which is the fource of their continual 
 aggravation, difappointment, and mifery. By the fame reafoning, thoie 
 who died in luft and gluttony, lafcivioufnefs and inebriety, are over- 
 whelmed with correfpondent torments, though much inferior to the firlt. 
 They are continually imagining their former pleafures in the w^^w as in 
 a dream, which, when they awake, torments them cruelly ; as with us, 
 when we awake from a frightful dream, and find it is only a dream, our 
 pleafme is more fufceptible — whereas, with them, the cafe is reverted ; 
 for, as their time is fpent in eternal torment, fo their dreams ofblifs, 
 when they awake, or become more fenfible to their mifery, but aggra- 
 vates their misfortunes, and gives frefh poignancy to the toruients they 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 1091 
 
 endure. Such fouls, in whom the boiling fource of anger and revenge 
 hath had a dwelling or receptacle here, if they depart this life in their 
 fms, do likewife endure a moil dreadful kind of torment, which arii'es 
 continually as a biting worm and hungry fire, to double and accumulate 
 an excels of defpair upon them. Thofe alfo who reigned in pride and 
 oftentation upon earth, treading under foot the meek and humble in 
 heart, are tortured with the utmoft reverfe of their delires, which are ever 
 uppermoil ia their infatuated imaginations. Tiiey are ever feeking to 
 pull the Almighty from his throne, and toAvering up in the pride of 
 their hearts, hoping to gain tlie kingdom of iieaven to infult and boalt in. 
 But the quality of the beatific fource is utterly occult and eftranged from 
 them, fo that they can never find, tafte, hear, nor fee, it, though it be 
 wrapt round and round with their own peculiar fource and principle. 
 This adds eternally to their mifery, and rifes upoiv their fenfes with 
 horrible pangs and bitter gnawings, like the irkfome and vexatious pains 
 and achs of man's body, only a thoufand times more acute and infupptjr- 
 table. The nature alio of their habitation is fuch, that their punilh- 
 ment is exceedingly aggravated that way ; becaufe the extremity of the 
 four elements is there converted into a whole principle of wrath and tor- 
 ment. The excefs of cold and heat, drought and moifture, are alternate- 
 ly raging amongft them by intercourfe ; nor is there any light or lultro 
 Within their courts, but that which is emitted from their fiery eyes, or 
 flaming nollrils, as a deadly glance or glimmering, which fen'es only to 
 render the momentaiy fight of their miferable habitation ten times more 
 difgufting and intolerable. And as every kind of being feeds upon Ibme- 
 rhing proper to his own nature or element, whether it be plaint, animal, 
 or metallic production, fo the devils are neither deliitute of meat nor 
 drink, accordmg to their own kingdom and quality, having fruits 
 fpringing up and growing before them, of hellilh, four, and poi- 
 fonous, natures, Vvliich are real and palpable to them, and not imagi- 
 nary or typical, though to us magical and invilible. Neither is this 
 at all to bo wondcied at, if we confider the nature of man's foul in media 
 natura; for if it feed not upon the internal and fubftantial Word, which 
 is the veiy head of life itfelf, it mull and will of necelhty ruminate on 
 Ibmething ellie, viz. the fruits of iniquity; which it takes in and fwal- 
 lows up, even as an ox drinks the water; fo that to the foul the fm be- 
 comes palpable, glutting, and fatiating, from which it never can be freed, 
 but by works of expiation and repentance. Alfo, in the altral fource, 
 when called up by magical fpells and incantations, or otherwife, they are 
 not deliitute of food, but receive the influences of the air and water into 
 their liinbus, Avhich they convert into food, according to their own poi- 
 fonous quality ; as of fweet and wholefome herbs the filthy toads and 
 other venomous reptiles form their poifon, converting them into a nature 
 No s'^' 12 Q hke
 
 1091 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 like thc-iv oviii. And fo likewife thefe infernal fpirits, confideied in re* 
 fpcrl of the four elements, have a tone or language peculiar to themfclves, 
 which they exercife and fpeak one aniongit another, as mortals do; but 
 they have utterly loft the dignity of their founds according to the eternal 
 nature, and are totally corrupted in their pronunciation or dialect, lince 
 they fell from their fidl celeitial gloiy; ib that their articulation is harflj, 
 doleful, fierce, aud terrible, like the fruits they feed upon, and place 
 they dM'ell in. This' deprivation is very apparent in the kingdom of 
 this world, in the divided languages of every region, according to the con- 
 llellation under which they are htuated ; the tme and magical language 
 of nature, notwithftanding the induftrious Lcxicogiapliers, Itill reuiahiiiig 
 hidden from the knowledge of eveiy country in the habitable world. 
 
 ' ii lii) ■■i 
 Tims far I have endeavoured to ilitrftrate the caufes, natures, and pu- 
 nilliments, of infernal fpirits; which, notwithftanding, is a fubjett fo 
 intricate atid copious in itfelf, by realbn of the variety of their qualities 
 in tlie fource of dailcnefs, wherein they live, move, eat, breathe, aufl in- 
 habit, having qualities, alliens, and palllons, innumerable, and which are 
 to mankind almoit utterly imknown and incomprehenfible,— -that to 
 attempt an ample demonltration of the matter, would require deeper fpe- 
 culatian than the fubjefet deferves, or tlian I am mailer of; particularly 
 as the inhabitants of that gloomy kingdom are never in one regular iiay, 
 (ontinuance, or property, but from one hour to another are continually 
 floating and ohauging ; like the fwiftnels of the winds, or the gliding 
 along of running waters, which pals away as a thought, and are no more 
 remembered. So it is with the devils and damned fpirits in thatlachry- 
 mable itate of darknefs, where their exiftence is a continual anguiih and 
 toniient, (liifting from the pangs of one Ibrrow to the bitternefs of ano- 
 • ther, unto all eternity ! 
 
 Now according to the fpirit af Cin-iftian Revelation, there hath been 
 always oppofed to the machinations of the devil and his imps upon earth, 
 who'"^o ahojit tike roarinff lions fcek'm^ ichom they may devour," a certain 
 defcription of good and holy fpirits, whofe province it is to watch over 
 the affairs of men, and to guard them from the invifible aflaults of the 
 devil; exClufive of the miniitration of God's holy angels, which hath 
 been manifeftcd in a thoufand different inftances in fcriptuie; but whofe 
 appearances and manifeltations to the eyes of mortal man, never have 
 been nor can be permitted, but on the moft important diipenfa- 
 tions eif divine Providence. The received opinion however is, as 
 to the former doArine, that there is, according to the dif|wfition of the 
 mind or foul, a good or evil Genius, that accompanies invifibly every per- 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 1093 
 
 fon born into the world. Their office is principally that of forewarning 
 the perrons they attend of any imminent invpendiii«f danger, fometimes 
 by inArard inftin6t, or by outward appearances ; and Sometimes by dreams 
 in the night. Thefe Genii change their quality and office as the perfon 
 or party change their's; if from gopfl we degenerate to evil, then by de- 
 grees the good Genius is elbanged -fl'OJH vis, and an evil demon naturally 
 fucceeds, according to that fyra^thy of things, wherein each draws af- 
 ter it that which is its like. There have been likewife defined, by the 
 learned do6tors and rabbis, who have written on this intricate fubject, 
 Jeven ^ood An^eh, who watch over and fuperinteiid the general affair* of 
 mankind, and who are ever ready to forwar<l, by intellectual affociation, 
 mental iiiftigation, or ftrong no(^turnal vifionarj'^ manifeftation, tlie gene- 
 ral profperity and fuccefs of all men's affairs, who are governexi by tlie laws 
 of integrity and religion, and who are, by fome one or other ofthef« 
 means, allured or prompted to fuch particular conduct or determination, 
 as fliall tend ultimately to their honour and preferment, to the good of 
 Society, and to the glory of God and true religion, which is the grand 
 •office of tJiefe feven good fpirits to promote. And oppofed to tliefe are 
 Jeven evil Spirits or Demo7is, proper to the infernal world, Avhoic office is 
 to infufe evil into thofe men's minds who are naturally fo addicted, and 
 who never fail to join in aflbciation, though invifibly, with depraved 
 perfons of every defcription, whofepaffionsthey influence, and whofe delircs 
 they lead to the commiffion ofall the abominations of this world. The names 
 of the feven good angels or fpirits are, I. Jubayiladace, diftinguiflied in the 
 dominion of thrones, as the appointed guardian ofall publicand national en- 
 terprizes, where the good of Ibciety, ^nd the honour of God, are united- 
 ly concerned. He is delineated in all the. brig;htnefs of a celeftial mef- 
 fenger, bearing a ttaaiing iword, girded about the loins, with an helmet 
 on his head ; and this is the magical character by which he is dif- 
 tinguiflied, and which is worn by many, as a lamin round the neck, for ^ 
 prefervative agaiuft putrid infection and fudden death. 
 
 The fecond is Pah-li-Pah, one of the celeftial powers, whofe peculiar 
 office it is to guard and forewarn fuch as are virgins and iincontaminated 
 youth againil all the evils of debauchery and proliitution ; and to elevate 
 the mind to a love of virtue, honour, and revealed religion. He pcrfoni- 
 iies tlic charaiiter of an illuftrious angel, of a bright but moll compla- 
 cent
 
 1094 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 cent countenance ; and is known by the following magical fymbol, 
 which is worn about the neck of virgins as a prote6tion from all the af- 
 faults of evU demons, and it is i'aid to be infallible againft the powers of 
 reduction. 
 
 *l* 
 
 The third is Nal-gah, devoted to the prote6lion of thofe who are af- 
 faulted by evil fpirits or witches, and whole minds are funk by fearful 
 and melancholy apprehenfions of the afl'aults of the devil, and the power 
 of death. His proper office is to fortify the mind, and to lead the fenfes 
 to a contemplation of the attributes of God, and the joys of heaven, the 
 reward of all good works. His appearance is reprelented as perfedly ce- 
 lelHal, having a crown of gold upon his head, with a lliield and fpear in 
 his hands, for the protection of thofe over whom he prefides. The fol- 
 lowing is his magical chara(^ter, which is worn round the neck as a pre- 
 fervation againll witchcraft and fuicide. 
 
 The fourth is Maynom, one of the powers who hath the ability of fubfer- 
 vient adminiitration and protection ; tliat is, at one and the fame time to 
 be prefent with many. His prefence nmft be fought by humility and 
 prayer. The fiftli good Genius is Gaonim, an angel of celellial brightnefs, 
 \A\i hath the peculiar ability of rendering his pupil invilible to any evil 
 fpirits whatfoever, as often as attacked by them. The fixtii is Hnlam, 
 theouardian and promoter of all good and great ideas, by whom Beza/iah 
 2iX\^ Aholiab were divinely infpired for the ItrmT^ure of the tabernacle. 
 The feventh is Raninh-umi, the genius of geometrical proportion, and the 
 power of numbers; the fecrets and extent of which are not yet half known, 
 even to the raoll favoured of thofe whofe capacities are enlightened by 
 his fuperior aid. 
 
 Now the office of the feven evil demons or fpirits is to counteract and 
 delhoy the effect of the good ; . for, as the power and capacity of the 
 good proceeds from the omnipotence of God in the quality of heaven, lb 
 is the force of the evil Genii, in the infernal quality, made correfpondent 
 thereto, from a principle of contraries ; for it is to be noted that thefe 
 feven evil angels, befm'e their fall, enjoyed the fame places and degrees of 
 ♦^lory, that new belong to the feven good angels or Genii ; fo that, as 
 ^ their
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 1095 
 
 their office is to inftrud and allure mankind to the purfuit of every thing 
 that is good, great, virtuous, and honourable, it is the bufineft of the 
 others to tempt and feduce the mind to a purfuit of whate\'er is vile, 
 vicious, and abominable, and that may be inltrumental in extending the 
 kingdom of darknefs and the power of the devil. The names of thefe 
 feven evil fpirits or Genii ftand upon record as follow: i. Panalcarp, in 
 the likenefs of acroco<lile-with two heads. 2. Barafro?i, appearing like 
 a magician in a folemn prieftly habit. 3. Sondennah, in the caparifon 
 and limilitude of an Indian huntfman. 4. Greizmedal, in the fawning 
 fliape of a large fpaniel dog. 5. Ba/iifargon, in the fimilitude of a cove- 
 tous mifer, lulling after gold ; he is the grand enticer to thieving and 
 robbeiy, and ufually brings his followers to an ignominious and deftruc- 
 tive end. 6. Morborgran^ who, under various likenefles of a friendly 
 ferving-man, induces the worll examples of hypocrify and deceit. This 
 dsemon, it is faid, was the conftant attendant of Judas Ifcariot. The 7th 
 is Barman, ready to enter into league with any conjurer, witch, or wiz- 
 ard; but who moll commonly polfelTes the foul of whomfoever he is in 
 league with. Thefe good and evil fpirits^ it feems, are the moft eafv to 
 be invoked or called up, agreeable to the defires and lituation of the ma- 
 gician's mind and inclination, becaufe they are moll near and familiar to 
 the a6tions and purfuits of men, and officially attendant upon them. 
 
 Different from every fpecies of all the foregoing orders of fpirits, are 
 the gholls and apparitions of deceafed perfons, which have been known 
 for many years to furvive and continue ; particularly where the deceafed 
 perfon hath departed this life in difcontent, melancholy, or unquiet mind ; 
 for in thefe cafes they have been often known to return again, and, with- 
 out a derive of caufmg terror and alarm to houfes and families, leek onl}'^ 
 for an opportunity of dilburthening themfelves, that at length they may 
 come into their delired reft. Such perfons as are fecretly murdered, or 
 that fecretly murder themfelves, are moft apt to appear again, wandering 
 near the place where the cataftrophe happened, till the radical moifture 
 of the body be totally confumed. After which, according to the opinion 
 of Paracelfus, and many other learned writers, they can appear no more, 
 but are refolved into their firft being or aftrum, after a certain term of 
 years, when the humidum radkale becomes exficcate and dried up, according 
 to the vigour or force of that firft attraction, which was the only caufe of 
 their returning. And hence was derived the cuftom of urns and fune- 
 ral piles amongft the Romans, whoufed to reduce the corpfes of their de- 
 ceafed friends into aflies, left their ghofts ftiould return and wander; which 
 it was fuppofed they could not do when the body was burnt, and all 
 moifture totally exterminated and confumed thereby. 
 
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 1096 AN I L L U S T 11 A T I O N 
 
 TKe manner and feafbns -wheiein apparitions and i>;]ioits appear are as 
 various as Ihey are uncertain. Sometimes, before the peribn to whom 
 thev properly belong departs this life, they will, by external vilible prefen- 
 tation of themlelves, forewarn him of the time or day wherein death ihail 
 approacli hi.n. Sometimes the apparition of a perfon will appear to its 
 belovofl friend, hufband, wife, or relation, at many thouiand n)iles dil- 
 tance, to aequaint them of its departure from this life, whilit otlierwile 
 the party would be totally ignorant of this event. And it has often been 
 known, that when no one individual of the kindred or family of the 
 dece^led [)ei I'm has been viiited or difturbed by it, or even made fenllble 
 of its appearing, yet to fome of its molt intimate or beloved acquaintance 
 it difc;overs itfelf, and importunes them to peiform fome ceremony or 
 jMomife, that it may be admitted into reft. At other times it diicovers 
 ibme trcafure which was hidden by the deceafed party; or elfe Ibme 
 murder which it had committed. But the moft frequent caufe of their 
 returning;, is when the party himfelf hath been privately murdered ; for 
 lach is the poifonous malice and rancourous fpirit of murderers, that in- 
 nocent blood, thus inhumanly fpilt, criethup to heaven, and the departed 
 fpirit cannot reft till the murder be made manifeft to the world, after 
 which difcovery it is received into reli. This is the reafon why, for 
 many years together, ghofts continue, to be feen in one particular place, 
 ever watching for fit opportunity to difcover or make known the caufe 
 of their appearing ; but which is often attended with great difficulty and 
 delay, as well on account of the natural timidity of human beings, as for 
 want of the prcper organs of corporeal voice and touch in the fpirit, 
 which, being no part of their quality or effence, is procured with great 
 difficulty, and at beft but inarticulate, doleful, and in broken accents. 
 That this is true, the ufual manner of their appearance in a great mea- 
 fure proves ; for all that they are able to effe6t, if they have been mur- 
 dered, is to appear near the place where the body lies, and to feem as if 
 they funk down or vaniflied in the fame ; or elfe to appear in the form 
 of a murdered corpfe, with mangled body, and bleeding wounds, diflie- 
 velled hair, and convulfive countenance ; but it is rarely known that 
 fuch apparitions have plainly fpoken, or uttered, by words, either the 
 time and place of their murder, or the caufe, manner, or perfon's name ; 
 unlefs the perpetration of the deed be marked with circumftances uncom- 
 monly horrid and execrable, in which cafes, I am told, the remembrance 
 of the fame doth fo mucli more powerfully operate upon the faculties of 
 the apparition, as to enable it to frame the fimilitude of a voice, fo as to 
 difcover the fad;, and give fome leading clue ta deted and puniili the 
 wicked perpetrator. 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. 1097 
 
 But to give a reafon why apparitions are fo feldom feen, and why thofe 
 %\hich do ajtpear, cannot without man's alliltance accomphUi their dehgn, 
 it may eatily be conceived, that all fpirits, or fpiritual iubftances, of what 
 denomination foever, have their life, breath, and vital motion in another 
 fource yery different from the elements of this external v.orkl; and con- 
 fequcn'tU- that their manifeftation and continuance in this louice wlien- 
 cver they appear, muft be both painful and irklbmc ; as it wou d be tor 
 a man tb continue v/ith his liead under water, or for the inhabitants of 
 the watery element to be pla ccd upon dry land . Bu c it is only the appa- 
 ritions of'perfons thus fuddenly taken off m their tins, or of fuch as die in 
 confirmed and habitual wickednefs, that, in the natural courfe of t^hings, 
 are fubiecT: to return into the terreftrial fource, and manifelt themfelves to 
 human eves. For thofe who die in perfect peace, with mmds diveffea 
 b-y true repentance of every turbulent and iinful delire, enter at once into 
 their delired reft, without the poiVibility of returning to this fublunary 
 world again, but in the capacity of angels of light, to execute tae divine 
 miffions of the Deity. 
 
 In the writings of Plate, there are many ft range and ftngular reprefen- 
 tations of the amjaritions or departed fouls of men, with accounts of their 
 torments and purgations, the caufe of their returning w-jiat tncir na- 
 ture and employment are, their fubftance and. property, food and nourifli- 
 menf from all which that great philofopher and hiftorian was induced 
 to believe, that, when the fpirits of good and exemplary men returned, it 
 was to perfons of a like habit and difpofition with themfelves, warning, 
 them in their fleep of certain dangers or malevolent defigns forming 
 aoainft them ; or elfe conveying heavenly doarines or ingenious inven- 
 tions to their mind, for the honour of religion or the good of fociety. 
 And in like manner, if the ghoft of a wicked and execrable chara6ler re- 
 turned, it was to thofeof a profligate and abandoned courfe of life, whom 
 it infticrates, afteep or awake, to the invention and exercife of notorious 
 villani?s, to blafphemies againft God, and to fedition, rapine, and mur- 
 der amonc^ft men. The difciples of Pythagoras eftabliftied an opinion, 
 not' very different from this. They held that there was a continua 
 traduction and tranfmigration of fouls from one ftate to another, till 
 they became deified at lalt; and that they frequently appeared to per- 
 fons of the fame bent of mind and inclination, to initrud and forewarn 
 them. It was alfo the opinion of many great and.^vife philolophers that 
 the Oracles of old proceeded from fuch fpirits as had been the ghofts or 
 departed fouls of wife and excellent men; as the oracle of Apollo, the 
 oracle of Pallas, or Minerva, and the like. And, upon the whole, the 
 variety of examples throughout the writings of wife and learned men, in
 
 1098 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 all ages of the world, in all coimtries, and in the facred as well as the 
 profane hiftory, of the various appearances of gholls and apparitions of 
 departed men, as well as of ipirits of other kinds and properties, afford 
 a llronger inducement to our belief af their exiftence and agency in 
 this iublunaiy world, than we fliould, in this more learned and enlight- 
 ened age, be otherwiCe fo willing to admit as an article of our belief. 
 But, feeing thefe things are abfolutely fo, we will now give fome particu- 
 lars of the mode and manner in which magicians and other profefl'ors of 
 the Black Art obtain an intercourfe with them; from which it will ap- 
 pear, that the Science of Aftrology is an art founded on philofophy and 
 mathematical demonftration, and totally unconne6ted with any agency 
 but what proceeds from fecond caufes under God and Nature ; whereas 
 the other is a wicked confederation with evil fpirits, which ought to be 
 difcouraged and fupprefled by the utmoft exertions of the iron arm of the 
 law. 
 
 To the honour of the prefent century, we have had but few inflances 
 of perfons openly and publicly entering into compact with fpirits, or of 
 profeffing to refolve queftions in futurity by means of their agency ; but, 
 prior to that ffira, it was no uncommon thing ; and thofe who had an op- 
 portunity of blending claflical learning and fcientific fpeculation with it, 
 were efteemed the moil elevated chara6lers of their day, and were fre- 
 quently honoured with the prote<^ion and confidence of princes and other 
 men of rank and fortune. I fliall here jnention a few of thofe charac- 
 ters who were efteemed the moft confiderable magicians of tlieir time, 
 
 AppoUonius Tai/anem, in the time of the Emperor Domitian, from the 
 wonderful and miraculous things he did through the agency of fpirits, 
 added to fo great an appearance of fan6tity and limplicity, with which his 
 exterior was endowed by nature, occafioned all ranks of people to regard 
 him with a mixture of reverential awe and refpe^t. Even the Chriftians, 
 who lived within the circle of his fame, thought him fomething more 
 than human, and looked up to him with confidence and efteem. From 
 a variety of circumftances, and accounts in different authors, it appears 
 that tliis fmgular chara(^er had not only the faculty of knowing what 
 was tranfacling at many hundred miles dillance, but had the means alfo 
 of being conveyed almoft inftantaneoufly from one place to another, 
 where he was feen, known, and converfed with many of his acquain- 
 tance. It is alfo recorded of him, that, at the inftant the Emperor Do- 
 mitian was affaffinated at Rome, he fpoke of it in a public afi'embly at 
 Ephefus, and declared the mode and manner of his death ; which, upon 
 enquiiy, was found to happen at the precife moment of time he fpoke of it, 
 and in the exadl manner he had defcribed.
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 1099 
 
 DoHor Dec was another very extraordinar}^ character of tlie fame clais, 
 «nd a native of this illand. 'He was not only a famous magician, but a 
 great author, having written upwards of forty-eight different volumes, 
 the firft of which was publiihed in 1 594. A full account of his con- 
 verfaiton and intercourfe with fpirits is now extant, written with his 
 own hand, and eileemed a very curious and lingular performance. His 
 company and acquaintance were much fought by the Emperor Charles V, 
 and by Ferdinand his brother; and, during his travels over the conti- 
 nent, he had not only every refpecft and attention paid him, but his com- 
 pany was courted by all the learned and religious people wherever he 
 went. He was certainly one of the moil learned men of the age in 
 which he lived, and had coUeded a library of upwards of 4,000 volumes 
 of curious and valuable writings, moitly upon phylical, theological, and 
 occult, fubjedts, which he had the misfortune to fee burnt by the fury of 
 a mob, who aflailed his houfe, and confpired againft his life, under an 
 idea that by magical fpells and incantations he had altered the natural 
 courfe of the weather, and brought on Itorms, hurricanes, tempefts, and 
 continual rain, in order to ruin the harveft, and deftroy the fruits of the 
 earth. Yet he bore the torrent and fury of this infatuated multitude 
 with the greateft compofure, faying, ''They would fee their error Jhon 
 ■enough to treat hi??i xvith greater Idndne/'s hereafter, than their perfecution rcas 
 7mc cruel." And lb it happened ; for, having by means of his confederacy 
 with fpirits foretold and detet^led a fatal conipiracy againlt his countiy, 
 he was then as much honoured and carelVed as he had before been flig-' 
 inatized and abufed by the hally multitude. He wrote the mathematical 
 preface to Euclid's Elements, and has left tables of the harmony and ex- 
 tent of numbers infinitely beyond the capacity of the prelent times, 
 though fo much more learned and refined. 
 
 Edicard Kelly w2i^ alfo a famous magician, and the companion and alVo- 
 ciate of Dr. r>ee, in moft of his magical operations and exploits; having 
 been brought in unilbn with him (as the Dodor himlelf declares, in tlie 
 preface to his work upon the minilhation of fpirits) by mediation (jf the 
 angel Uriel. But Dr. Dee was undoubtedly deceived in his opinion, 
 that the fpirits which miniftered to him were executing the Divine will, 
 and were the meflengers and fervants of the Deity. Througliout his 
 writings on the fubjed, he evidently conliders them in this light, which 
 is ftill more indifputably confirmed by the piety and devotion invaria- 
 bly obferved at all times when thefe 'fpirits had intercourle with him. 
 And further, when he found his coadjutor Kelly was degenerating into the 
 the lowed and worft fpecies of the magic art, for the purpofes of fraud 
 and avaricious gain, he broke off all manner of connexion with him, and 
 
 No. 59. " 12 S would
 
 I ICO 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 would never after be Iccn in his company. But it is believed, that the 
 Dudor, a little before his death, became fenlible that he had been im- 
 pofed upon by thcfe invifible agents, and that all their pretences of adting 
 under the aulpices of the angel Uriel, and for the honour and glory of 
 God, were but mere hypocrily, and the dcluhons of the devil. Kelly, 
 being thus rejected and"^ difcountenanced by the dodor, betook himfelf 
 to tlie meaneit and moft vile practices of the magic art; in all which pur- 
 I'uits money, and the works of the devil, appear to have been his chief 
 aim. Many wicked and abominable tranladlions are recorded of him, 
 which were performed by witchcraft, and the mediation of infernal fpi- 
 rits ; but nothing more curious, or more apropos to the prefent fubjed", 
 than what is mentioned by AVeaver, in his Funeral Monuments. He 
 there records, that Edward Kelly the magician, with one Paul Waring, 
 who aded in capacity of companion and aflfociate in all his conjurations, 
 went together to the church-yard of Walton Ledale, in the county of 
 Lancafter, where they had information of a perlbn being interred, who 
 was fuppofed to have hidden or buried a conliderable fum of money, and, 
 to have died without difcloling to any perfon where it was depofited. 
 They entered the church-yard exadly at twelve o'clock at night ; and, 
 having had the grave pointed out to them the preceding day, they exor- 
 cifed The fpirit of the deceafed by magical fpells and incantations, till it 
 appeared before them, and not only fatisfied their wicked defues ' and en- 
 quiries, but delivered feveral Itrange prediAions concerning perfons in 
 that ne'ighbourhood, which were literally and exadly fulfilled. It was 
 vulgarly reported of Kelly, that he outlived the time of his compact with 
 the'^devil, and was feized at midnight by fome infernal fpirits, who car- 
 ried him oif in fight of his own wife and children, at the inftant he 
 was meditating a raifchievous fcheme againft the minifter of his parifli, 
 with whom he was greatly at enmity. 
 
 The character of Mahomet is too well known throughoirt all the world, 
 as the inflitutor of the Turkifh Alcoran, to need much comment from 
 me in this place. It is futficientif 1 only remark, that all his wonderful 
 miracles were wrought by the aid and confederacy of familiar fpirits, 
 which he called the miniflration of angels from heaven, fi'om whence he 
 pretended to have been fent, to perform the commands of the Deity, and 
 to corrcA and reform the manners and religion of mankind. He had 
 the peculiar addrefs to eftablifli this idea amongft his contemporaiies, and 
 to lav the foundation of the prefent faith at Conftantinople, and through- 
 out the vaft extent of the Turkiib territory. 
 
 Roircr Bacon was aiiother veiy famous aflfociate with familiar fpirits, and 
 performed many aftonifliing exploits through their means. He was born 
 
 at
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. noi 
 
 at Ilchefter in Somerfetftire, where he ftudied philofophy, alchemy, and 
 aftrolot^y ; and wrote feveral learned and ingenious books, the manu- 
 lcripts°of which are now preferved as valuable curiofities in the Britiih 
 Muleum. I attempted to make fome interelting extrads from them, for 
 the further amufement and information of my readers in this part of my 
 work; but I was prevented from going on with my plan, under an idea 
 that the information it would convey might be produdive of milchiev- 
 ous confequences to fociety, by putting too much in the power of evil- 
 minded and vindid;ive men. 
 
 Paracelfm was a great cabalift, phyfician, aflrologer, and magician, and 
 appears to have been intimately acquainted with all the fe.cret and occult 
 properties of nature. He was the firft we know of who ever treated upon 
 animal 7na£;neti/m ; and his performances in that line were luch as to 
 aftonifli the world, and to draw upon him the united gratulations of the 
 difeafed and infirm. His method, notwithlianding it is fo clearly laid 
 down by himfelf, and demonftrated by a variety of pleafmg examples in 
 his works, has lain dormant till the prefent time ; and now it begms 
 again, under the fuccefsful endeavours of a few perfevering individuals, 
 to convince mankind that the fecret and occult properties of nature are 
 not yet half known or undei-ftood; nor their advantages received with 
 that thankfulnefs and regard which ought inceffantly to be poured forth 
 to the great Author of our being, for the bleffings that may fo eafdy be 
 derived from them. This was the opinion and nearly the words of Para- 
 celfus himfelf, who hath been recorded by all our biographers, as a learn- 
 ed, judicious, and ingenious, philofopher. Yet his having been fo much 
 addided to magical rites and ceremonies, and having had familiarity 
 with fpirits and ^devils, and performed fo many wonderful conjurations 
 through their means, caufcd him t o have been ever fuppofed to have 
 done by the agency of fpirits what was really the true and genuine effect 
 of nature only.— In the annexed engraving I have given portraits of the 
 above fix extraordinary perfonages. 
 
 As to the particular forms, manner, method, rites, ceremonies, confe- 
 crations, time, place, and ability, requifxte to call up and enter into com- 
 pact or femiliarity with fpirits, it is neither fafe nor prudent, nor con- 
 hftent with the well-being of fociety in general, that I ihould dwell fo, 
 extensively upon it, or give fuch explanations, as to put a weapon into the 
 hands of theblood-thirfty or revengeful, to defpite their enemies or neigh- 
 bours, or to enable thofe Avho are prone to fuch dealings from idle cuno- 
 fity, completely to put in execution this fpecies of league with the devil, 
 •or his fuboidinate agents ; which is as ihidlly forbidden by the word of 
 God, as by the laws o£ the land. Let it lutfice therefore, that I only 
 
 give
 
 1 io> AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 give fuch ail outline of it, as may enable the inquifitive reader fufticlcntly 
 to judiije of its merits, without enabhng the vicioufly-inclincd to adopt its 
 practice. 
 
 INIagicians and conjurors who h£e\'e written upon and followed the Black 
 Art, contend, that it is poilible to i-aife up and hold an intercouri'e with 
 fpirits, and make them fuhfervient to their commands, without any abfo- 
 lute compact or l?argain with the devil, either for body, foul, or works; 
 though they are ready to admit, that fuch a fnare is eventually intend- 
 od for them, by their oificioufnefs upon every occafion, and they are as 
 willing to believe that it has induced many of its pra6titioners to fin-m fuch 
 a league. Many inftances indeed have been adduced in proof of this, 
 where, at the expiration of a certain term, the devoted wretch has been 
 carried off in the height of his tins and wickednefs, by fome of the in- 
 fernal melVengers. Such is recorded to have been the cafe with feveral 
 in this ifland ; fuch alfo was the cafe with Lewis Gaufndi, a French prieft, 
 who, to be revenged of fome of his fuperiors for not promoting him to 
 the extent of his ambition, compared with the devil for fourteen years 
 power, to commit whatever detcftable works he pleafed without detec- 
 tion or difcovery. So likewife, a certain execrable charader, who a fevv^ 
 centuries back overran this country, was at length publicly taken off in 
 fire and flame, before the eyes of a vaft multitude, having covenanted for 
 body, Ibul, and works. Tt is to bt; notod, that, where a compa6l is form- 
 ed, the devil, or familiar fpirit, is ever at hand, and ready to obey the 
 magician's will, without ceremony or trouble ; but where no fuch league 
 or compact exifts, and the magician is defuous of bringing up or con- 
 flruining fome particular fpirit or gholl to appear before him, there are 
 many rites and ceremonies to be performed. In the full place they are 
 to fix upon a fpot proper for fuch a purpofe ; which muft be either in a 
 fubterrantous vault hung round with black, and lighted with a luagical 
 torch ; or elfe in the centre of fome thick wood or defert, or upon Ibme 
 extenlive unfrequented plain, where feveral roads meet; or amidft the 
 ruins of ancient caftles, abbeys, monafteries, &c. or amongll the rocks on 
 the fea-fliore; in fome private detached church-yard, or any other 
 folemn luelancholy place, between the hours of twelve and one in the 
 night, either when the moon Ihines very bright, or elfe when the ele- 
 ments are difturbed with itorms of thunder, lightning, wind, and i-ain ; 
 for in thefe places, times, and feafons, it is contended, that fpirits can 
 with lefs difficulty manifeft themfelves to mortal eyes, and continue 
 vifible with the leall pain, in this elemental external world. 
 
 When the proper time and place are fixed on, a magic circle is to 
 be formed, within which, the mafter and his aflbciate (for in all thefe 
 
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 OF ASTROLOGY. U03 
 
 cafes tliere mult be two perfons) are carefully to retire. The dimenfions 
 of the circle are as follow : A piece of ground is generally chofen nine feeC 
 feet fquare, at the full extent of which parallel lines are drawn one within 
 another, having fundry crolfes and triangles defcribed between them, 
 clofe to which is formed thelirft or outer circle; then, about half a foot 
 within the fame, a fecoiid circle is defcribed ; and within that another 
 Iquare correfpondent to the firft, the centi"e of which is the feat or I'pot 
 Avhere the malter and affociate are to be placed. The vacancies formed 
 by the various lines and angles of the figure, are filled up with all the 
 holy names of Gk)d, having croffes and triangles defcribed between them; 
 agreeable to a flvetch I have given in the annexed plate, vv'here likewile I 
 have projected the form of magic feals, pentacles, &c. &:c. jail to give 
 the reader an idea of wliat is meant, when we have occafion to fpeak of 
 them in the following difcourfe. The reafons aihgned by magicians and 
 others for the inftitution and ufe of circles, is, that fo much ground being 
 blefled arid confecrated by fuch holy words and ceremonies as they make 
 ufe of in forming it, hath a fecret force to expel all evil fpirits from the 
 bounds thereof; and, being fprinked with pure fanc^tified water, the 
 ground is purified from all uncleannefs ; befides, the holy names of God 
 being written over every jxirt of it, its force becomes fo powerful, that no 
 evil fpirit hath ability to break through it, or to get at the magician or 
 his companion, by reafon of the antipathy in nature they bear to thefe 
 facred names. And the reafon thev give for the triangles is, that, if the 
 fpirit be not eafily brought to fpeak the truth, they may by the Exorcil'e 
 be conjured to enter the fame, where, by virtue of the names of the Eifence 
 and Divinity of God, they can fpeak nothing but what is true and right. 
 The circle therefore, according to this account of it, is the principal fort 
 and fhield of the magician, from which he is not, at the peril of his life, 
 to depart, till he has completely difmiiied tlie fpirit, particularly if he be 
 of a fiery or infernal nature. Inllances are recorded of many who periihed 
 by this means; particularly, C/"tt«c««£'?, the famous Kgyptiaii fortime- 
 teller, who in the laft century was ib famous in England. lie under- 
 took, for a wager, to raife up the fpirit BoAVw ; and, having defcribed tlie 
 circle, he feated his filter Napala by him as his alfociate. After fre- 
 quently repeating. the forms of exorcifm, and calling upon the fpirit 
 to appear, and nothing as yet anlwering his deniand, they grew impatient 
 of the buiinel's, and quitted the circle, but it coft them their lives; for 
 they were inltantaneoull)' feized and crulhed to death by that infernal 
 fpirit, who happened not to be fuiricicntly conllrained till that moment 
 to manifcil himielf to human eyes. — The ufual form of conlecrating the, 
 cirle, is as follows : 
 
 No. 59. 12 T T,7o}to
 
 1104 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 J, who am the fervant of the Higheft, do, by the virtue of his HolyNamcTm- 
 ffiamie/, J'ancli/'y unto inyjelf the circumference of nine feet round about me, 
 ^ ^ »{< from the ca/i, Glaitrnh ; from the ice ft, Garron; from the north, 
 Cabon ; from the foufh, Berith ; ichicli p'oiind I take for my proper defence 
 from all malignant fpirits, that they may have no paiver over ?ny foul or bodt/, 
 nor come beyond ihc/c limitations, but anfwer truly, being Jummoncd, without 
 daring to tranfgrefs their bounds. Worrh. rvorrah. harcot. Gambchn.^ »J< if(. 
 
 The proper attire or /?oj«i'i//ca//6*..>; of a magician, is an epliod made of 
 fine white linen, over that a prieftlj' robe of black bombazine, reaching 
 to the ground, with the twofeals of the earth, drawn correctly upon vir- 
 
 -gin parchment, and affixed to the breaft of his outer veftment. Kound 
 his watte is tied a broad confecrated girdle, Avitli the names Ya, Ya, ^ 
 Aie, Aaie, i^ E/ibra »J< Elohim ij* Sadai »J< Pah Adoiici »{• luo roborc ^ 
 cindusfum*y. Upon his flioes mull be written Tetragrammatotu, with 
 
 ■croflfes round about ; upon his head a high-crown cap of fable liik ; and 
 in his liands a holy bible, printed or written in pure Hebrew. Wiien 
 all thefe things are prepared, the circle drawn, the ground confecrated, 
 
 :and theJ£xorciit fecurely placed within the circle, he proceeds to call up 
 or conjure the fpiritby his proper name, under a form fomewhat hmilar 
 to the following: 
 
 I exoreife and eoiijuj-e thee, thou fpint of (here naming the fpirit), by the 
 'holy and xcondcrful names of the Almighty Jehovah, Athanato ^ AioJios *{< 
 Dominus J'empifernus >i« Aletheios ^ Sadai »i< Jehovah, Kedcfti, El gabor 
 ^ Deusforti/Jimus lit Anapheraton, Atnorule, Amcron ^ t{« »J< Pafithmi i^i 
 Craton lit Muridon*^ Jah, Jehovah, Elohim penfejjaron i^t i^t trinus et unus 
 »i« >i< •!< I exoreife -and conjure, I inxoeate and command, thee, thou afore- 
 faid Jpirif, by the poxeer of augcls and archangels, cherubim and ferophim , by 
 the fnighty Prince Coronzon, by the blood of Abel, by the righfeoiifnefs of Seth, 
 and the prayers of Noah, by the voices of Thunder and dreadful day of Judg- 
 ment ; by all thefe poxcerful and royal xoords abovefaid, that rcithout delay or 
 walicious i}ifcnt, thou do come before me here, at the circumference of this con fe- 
 crutcd circle, to anfxccr my propqfals and dejires, without any manner of terrible 
 form, either of thy fc If or attendants ; but only obediently, fairly, and with good 
 .intent, to prcfent thyfelf befere me, this circle being my defence, through his 
 power xcho is Almighty, and hath fanBifed the name of the Father, Son, and 
 Jloly Ghof. Amen. 
 
 After thefe forms of conjuration, and juft before appearances are expe6l- 
 ,'<?d, the infernal fpirits make ftrange and frightful noiles, bowlings, trem- 
 ^blings, flaihes, and moll dreadful flirieks and yells, as forerunners of 
 
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 their prefently becoming vifible. Their firft appearance is generally in 
 the form of fierce and terrible lions or tigers, vomiting forth fire, and 
 roaring hideonfl}'' about the circle 1 all M'hicli time the Exorcilt muit not 
 I'uffer any tremor or dilmay ; for in that cafe they will gain the afcen- 
 dency, and the confequences may touch his life. On the contrary, he 
 niuft fummon nip a iliare of refolation, and continue repeating all the 
 forms of conftriction and confinement, until they are drawn nearer to the 
 influence of the triangle, when their forms will change to appearances lefs 
 ferocious and frightful, and become more ibbmiflive and tractable. When 
 the forms of conjuration have in this manner been i'ufficiently repeated, 
 the fpirits forfake their beltial fliapes, and endow the human form, ap- 
 pearing like naked men of gentle countenance and behaviour. Yet is the 
 magician to be Avarily on his guard that they deceive him not by fuch 
 Tirild geftures; for they are exceedingly fraudulent and deceitful in their 
 <lealings with thofe who conftrain them to appear without compaft ; hav- 
 ing nothing in view but to fuborn his mind, or accomplilb his dellruc- 
 tion. But with fuch as they have entered into agreement with, tliey are 
 frequent and oflficious ; yet they more or lets require certain oblations, 
 which are frequently made to them, fuch as fumigations, odours, of- 
 ferings or facrifices of blood, fire, wine, ointments, rncenfe, fruits, ex- 
 crements, herbs, gums, minerals, and other ingredients ; by which, from 
 a magical caufe, they have more influence and authority over the de^ 
 generated fouls of men, and can infmuate into their inmofl; fource and 
 afteclion, piercing even through their bones and marrow, till they liave 
 fo habituated them to their fervice that it becomes their daily and fole 
 delight to accomplifli every villainy and abomination which the malicious 
 andfubtle infl:igations of Satan might purpofe to lead them to So that 
 the Exorcifl; muft be greatly upon his guard, and when he has com- 
 pleted the exorcifm, and made fuch enquiries as he wiihed to obtain 
 from the fpirit, he muft carefully difcharge liini by fome form or cere- 
 mony like the following ; 
 
 Becaufe thou, heji diligenfly mifxvered niy demands, and been ready fo come 
 at myfiijl call, I do here licenfethec to depart unto thy proper place, without 
 injury or danger to 7nan or beajl ; depart, I fay, and be ever ready at my call, 
 being duly exorcifed and conjured by /acred ritex of Magic : I charge thee to 
 Tvithdraw rcith quiet and peace ; and peace be continued betmit thee and me, 
 in the name of the Father, Son, and HolyGhoJi. Amen. 
 
 After this ceremony is finifhed, the fpirit will begin to depart, relum- 
 ing again the flu-ieksand noifes, with flafhes of fire, fulphur, ond fmoke,. 
 which the magician is to endure with patience, until it is entirely gone oft', 
 
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 and no fis^ns ^vllatever of fuch a procedure left. Then lie may venlure- 
 to uith(lra\\' from the circle, repeating the Lord's Prayer, after wiiiclr 
 he jiiay take up tlio various utenlils, and, having deftroyed all traces of 
 tiie circle, may' return in fafetj'' to his proper home. 
 
 But if, inftead of infernal or familiar fpirits, tlie ghoft or apparition of 
 a departed perlbn is to be exorciled, the proceis is materially different. 
 TJie perfon being fixed on, whole apparition is to be brought up, the 
 magician, with liis alliltant, muft repair to the church-yard or tomb' 
 where the deceaied was buried, exactly at midnight ; as tlie ceremony 
 can only be performed in tiie night, between the hours of twelve and 
 one. The grave is firll to be opened, or an aperture made, by which 
 accefs may be had to the naked body. The magician having defcribed 
 the circle, and holding a magic wand in bis right hand, while his com- 
 panion or affillant beareth a confecrated torch, he turns himfelf to all the 
 four winds, and, touching the dead body tluee times with the magical 
 wand, repeats as follows: 
 
 Bif the virtue of the hohj refurreflion, and the torments of the' damned ,^ 
 I conjure and exorcife thee, J'pirit of"^. deccafed, to anfxver my liege demands, 
 being obedient unto thcfe Jacred ceremonies, on pain of everlajiing torment and 
 diflrefs. Then let him fay, Herald, Bcroald, Balbin gab gabor agaba > 
 Ar'ifey arifi, I charge and command thee. 
 
 After which fol•n^s and ceremonies, the ghoft or a.pparitiou will become 
 vifible, and will anfwer to any queltions put to it by the Exorcill. . 
 
 But if it be defired to put interrogatories to the fpirit of any corpfe tliat 
 hath hanged, drowned, or otherwife made away with, itfclf^ tlie conjura- 
 tion muft be performed while the body hangs, or on the fpot where it is 
 firft found after the fuicide hath been committed, and before it is touched 
 ©r removed by the coroner's jur3^ The ceremony is as follows : The 
 Exorciil binds irpon. the top of his wand a bundle of St. John's wort, or 
 mi Uiis perforatum, with the head of an owl; and having repaired to the 
 fpot where the corpfe lies, at twelve o'clock at iiiglit, he draws the circle, 
 and folemnly repeats the following words i 
 
 By the myjicries of the deep, by the flames of Banal,, by the pomer of the cajl, 
 and the filence of the night, by the holy rites of Hecate, I conjure and exorci/e 
 thee, thou d'ljlrejfcd fpirit, to prefent thyfelf here, and reveal unto me the caiifc 
 of thy calamity, why thou did ft .offer violence to thy oxon liege life, where thou 
 uri iwxv in being, and nhcre thou uilt hereafter be. He then, gently fmit- 
 
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 6 F A S T R O L G Y. no; 
 
 in'g the cai-cafe nine times wit'n the 3-od, fays, I coujurc thcc, thoufpint 
 v/'this N. (lecea/'cd, fo anjke.r my demands that I am to propound unfa thee, as 
 thou ever hopc/i for the rejl of the holy ones, and eafe of all thy mifery ; by the 
 blood of Jefu xchich he JJicd for thy fmil, I conjure and bind thee to utter unto 
 vie what IJJiall ajkthce. 
 
 Then, cutting doAvntlie carcafc from the tree, they lay his head tojvards 
 the eaft ; and in the fpace that this following conjuration is repeating, 
 they fet a chaffing dilh of fire at his right hand, into which they pour a 
 little wine, fomeniaftic, and gum aromatic, and laftly a viol full of the 
 fweeteft oil, having alfo a pair of bellows, and fonie unkindled charcoal 
 to make the fire burn bright at the inftant of the carcafe's rifmg. The 
 conjuration is thus : 
 
 / conjure thee, thou fpirit of N. that thou do immediately enter into thy 
 ancient body again, and anjxcer to my demands, by the virtue of the holy refnr- 
 rection, and by the pofiure of the body of the Saviour of the xvorld, I charge 
 thee, I co7ijure thee, I command thee on pain of the tor?nents andxcandering of 
 thrice feven years, xchich I, by the force of facred magic rites, have poxcer 
 fo irifii&upon thee ; by thy fighs and groans, I conjure thee to utter thy voice ; 
 fo help thee God and the prayers of the holy church. Amen. 
 
 Which ceremony being thrice repeated, while tlie fire is burning witii 
 mallic and gum aromatic, the body will begin to rife, and at laft will Itand 
 upright before the Exorcilt, anfwering Avith a faint and hollow voice, 
 the queftions pi-opounded unto it : Why it deftroyed itfelf, where its 
 dwelling is, what its food and life are, how long it will be ere it enter into 
 reft, and by what means the magician may alliit it to come to reft : Alfo, 
 of the treafures of this world, where they are hid : JMoreover, it can an- 
 fwer very punctually of the places where ghofts refide, and how to comnui- 
 nicatewith them; teaching the nature of aftral fpirits and hellilh beings, 
 fo far as its capacity reacheth. All -^vhich when the gholt hath fully 
 anfwered, the magician ought, out of commiforation and reverence to the 
 deceafed, to ufe what means can poftibly be ufed for tlie procuring relt 
 tmto ihe fpirit. To which eft'ect he mult dig a grave, and filling the fame 
 half full of quick lime, and a little fait and connnon fulphur, put the 
 carcafc naked into it; wiiich experiment, next to the burning of the 
 body into afhes, is of great force to quiet and end the difturbance of the 
 aftral fpirit. 
 
 But in this, and in all cafes where the ghofts or apparitions of deceafed 
 
 perfons are raifedup and confulted, great caution is to be obfeiTcd by the 
 
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 maoician to keep clofe within the circle ; for if the magician, by the 
 t'onltellation and pofition of the ftars at his nativity, be in the predica- 
 ment of thofe who follow the Black Art for iniquitous purpofes, and 
 arcfo dirtitiuuilhed by the pofitions of their radical fij^ure of birth, it is 
 very dangerous for fuch men to conjure any fpirits witliout defcribing 
 the circle after the form already given, and wearing npon their breaft, 
 or holding in their hand, the Pcntade ofSo/o/non. Fw the ghofts of men 
 deceafed can eafily effert fudden death to the magician born under fuch a 
 conformation of the planets, even whiiit in the atl of being exorcifed ; 
 and it is yet more remarkable, that the genethliacal figures of all perfons 
 who are naturally addicted to the puriuit of magical incantations and fa- 
 miliarity witli fpirits, do almoft without exception portend fuddcil death, 
 or an mtamous termination of their exiitence. 
 
 Sucli arc the rites, ceremonies, and modes, by whicli Exorcifts and 
 ^Magicians obtain familiarity with fpirits, and carry on a viiible and pal- 
 j)able correl'pondence with the devil. But bclides thefe means of work- 
 ing wonders, they have others, of an invitible or occwlt property, as 
 charms, fpells, periapts, and the like, which operate both on the body 
 and mind, bv the agency of fome fecret power, which the patient can nei- 
 ther feel nor comprehend. They are of various names, forms, and 
 qualities, according to the ufe for which they are intended. Firft, Amu- 
 lets, which are moulded and engraved in the form of money or coin, un- 
 der certain forms of confecration ; and are jumg alx)at the neck in cer- 
 tain planetary hours, for the purpofe of provoking to love and familiarity 
 with fome certain perlbn detired. iSecoiidly, Spells or Charms, eonlilting 
 of various forms of words, and magical, characters, written on virgin 
 j)archment, either with human blood, or ink of a particular quality, and 
 •'onfecrated imder certain magical forms and ceremonies, to be worn as 
 Periapts to cure difeafes, to flrive away evil fpirits, to preferve from peiti- 
 lence and infection, to make the party valiant and intrepid, and for a 
 thoufand other purpofes. Thirdly, Corfelets, which are the ancient 
 Diin/JJi charm, being a kind of necklaces compofed of tinmder-ftones, 
 upon which are engraven certain magical chaiaoters, which refilt all nox- 
 ious influences, and all danger from thunder and lightning. Pentacles 
 arc a fourth fort of appendix, which conjurors and magicians ufe, being 
 made Avith five corners, correfponding to tlie five fenfes of man, with 
 their virtue and operation infcribed upon the five corners refpectively. 
 They are compofed of fine linen doubled up, and done with cerecloth 
 between. This figure the magician holds in his hand, lifting it up from 
 the Ikirt of his garment to which it is annexed, whenever fpirits that are 
 itiifed become Itubborn and rebellious, refufmg to conform to the rites 
 
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 and requifitions of exorcifm, and offering menacing looks and actions to tlie 
 magician ; but when theie Pentac'es are held out to the fpirits, with the 
 Avoi-ds G/aurofi, Amor, Aworula, Beor, Beorka, Bcroald, Ancpheralott, in- 
 fcribed upon them, tliey become exceedingly tortured and amazed, and 
 are more mild and tradable. There is fikewiie another fort of charm 
 called Te/ifi//s, which is uled by magicians when they perform any con- 
 juration or exorcilui by moon-light in the mountains or valleys • upon 
 which occalions they ulually bury them towards the north, eiift, weft, 
 and fouth, within a hundred yards of the place where the circle is de- 
 Icribed ; for thefe Telefms have the occult power of pre\'enting any liv- 
 ing creature coming near them until the incantation be performed, except 
 the fj)irit itfelf whole prefence they ardently defa-c, and are preparing to 
 fununon before them. 
 
 But to make fieiy and infernal fpirits more familiar, magicians have 
 clalVed them into feven diftindl orders, anfwerable to the nature and qua- 
 lities of the feven planets ; under which they refpectively make offerings 
 to them of aromatic fumigations, previous to invoking or calling them 
 up ; wlicreby they conceive the information or alliltance required from 
 theniM'ill be more eafdy and expeditioully obtained. Thus the finniga- 
 tions for fj)irits under Saturn are made of frankincenfe-tree, |:)epper-wort 
 roots, ftoiax, and galbanum ; by thefe the fpirits Marbas, Corlmn, Sfti/con, 
 Idas, &c. and all of the firft order in the aftringency, are appealed a!Td pro- 
 voked, when the f tunes are ))ut upon- a Tripod in the hour of Saturn ac- 
 cording to the planetary divifion. For fpirits under Jupiter, they take 
 lignum aloes, aflitree-keys, benjamin, llorax, peacocks-feathers, nnd /apis 
 lazuli, mixing the fame with the blood of a Ifork, a fwallow, or a hart ; 
 the brains- being alfo added: i\\c fumes arc kindled in Jupiter's hour, 
 and in a place appropriate to his nature. They make fumigations mifu 
 fuch Ipirits of the order of powers as are under Mars, in the planetai-y 
 divifion, with aromatic gum, bdellium, euphorbium, load-ftone, hellebore 
 wliite and black, and an addition of fulphur to make them into an anial- 
 gama, with man's blood, and the blood of a black cat; which mixtures 
 are laid to be ih exceeding magical, that, without any other addition, they 
 fay, this fumigation is able of itfelf to make fpirits under Mars appear 
 before the Exorcift. To the fpirits under Sol, being of the order of 
 thrones, they likewife fuft'umigate laffron, mulk, laurel, ciimamon, am- 
 ber2;rife, cloves, myrrh, and frankincenfe, nuin\, and the ballamic tree, 
 mix^d up together with the brains of an eagle, and the blood of a white 
 cock, beinu made up like pills, or little balls, and put upon ihc Tripod. 
 The fumigations appropriate to fpirits under Venus, are rofes, coral, 
 lio-num aloes, and fpermaceti, made up Mith fparrows brains, and blood 
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 A K I L T. U S T R A T I O N 
 
 of pigeons. To tliofc under Mercury, they fumigate frankincenfe, 
 inaltic, cinquefoil, incorporated with the brains of a fox, and the blood of a 
 jnajipye. To fpirits under Luna, fumigations are offered of frogs dried, 
 white poppy-feed, bull's eyes, camphire, and frankincenfe, incorporated 
 with goofe's blood, and^fiuxus nnUicbris. Thefe are the diviiions of fpirits 
 under the feven planets, with their fumigations ; neither can it be denied, 
 l)ut that in many ceremonies of this kind, there is great inherent virtue, 
 according to the doctrine of fympathy and antipathy, whereby every 
 tlung is drawn by its like in the idea, whether by words or actions, ac- 
 cording to the faying. In verbis, herhis, ^- lapididus, latet virtus ; lb that 
 the ceremonies and charms, with other circumltances ul'ed by magicians, 
 are doubtlels prevalent to the accomplilliment of that work which they 
 undertake ; to wit, The calling up and exorciling of infernal fpirits by 
 conjurations. 
 
 And as by natural reafon eveiy magical charm or i-eceipt had its firfl 
 inltitution ; in like manner have magicians difpofed the matter and manner 
 together with the times of their utenJils and inltruments according to the 
 principles of nature : as, the hour wherein they compofe their garments 
 juull either be in the hour of Luna, orelfe of Saturn, in the Moon's in- 
 creafe. Their garments they compofe of white linen, black cloth, black 
 cat-fkins, wolves, bears, or fwines (kins. The linen, becaufe of its ab- 
 ftratted quality for magic, delights not to have any uteniils that are put to 
 common ufes. The lliins of the -aforefaid animals are by reaibn of the 
 Saturnine and magical qualities in the particles of thefe beafts. Their 
 iewing-thrcad is of iilk, cat's gut, man's nerves, aiies hair, thongs of ikins 
 from men, cats, bats, owls, and moles, -all which are enjoined from the 
 like magical caufe. Their needles are made of liedge-hog prickles, or 
 bones of any of the above-mentioned animals ; their writing-pens are of 
 owls or ravens, their ink of man's blood : their ointment is man's fat, blood, 
 ufnea, hog's greafe, or oil of whales. Their characters are ancient Hebrew 
 or Samaritan : their fpeech is Hebrew or Latin. Their paper mull be of 
 the membranes of infants, which they call virgin parchment, or of the 
 fluns of cats, or kids. They compofe tlieir fires of fweet wood, oii, or 
 rolin : and their candles of the fat or marrow of men or children : their 
 veflelsare earthen, their candleiticks with three feet, of dead mens bones : 
 Their i'words are Heel, without guards, the points being reverfed. Thefe 
 are their materials, which they particularly choofe from the magical qua- 
 lities M-hereof they are compofed. Neither are the peculiar Ihapes with- 
 out a natural caufe. Their caps are oval, or like pyramids, with lappets 
 on each fide, and fur within : their gowns reach to the ground, being 
 furred with white fox- ikins ; under which they have a linen garment reach- 
 ing
 
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 1111 
 
 ing to their knees. Their girdles are three inches broad, and have, ac- 
 coiding to Its ufe, many caballiftical names, with croffes, trines, and cir- 
 cles, infcribed thereon. 1 heir knives are dagger-fafliion : and the circles 
 by which they defend themfelves are cominonly nine feet in breadth, 
 though the ealtern ma-icians allow but feyen ; for both of which a na- 
 tural caufe is pretended, in the force and fympathy of numbers. 
 
 Such fpelis or charms as are compounded of fome cdibk matter, witli 
 magical characters engraven upon them, are fucceisfully given for a^ues, 
 head-achs, epilepfy, fits of the mother, and the like ; and it is remarkable 
 that they operate with moft eifecl on thofe patients who are ignorant of 
 the charm, or its properties. . There are alfo particular magical charac- 
 ters attributed to the planets, whereof Telefms, Periapts, Amilcfs, and 
 Philtres, are compofed by buryings under ground, writings, bindings, en- - 
 gravings, allegations, &c. which, done in certain aftrological hours, are to 
 conquer enemies, cure difeafes, remove obitructions, provoke love, and 
 preferve from evil both the body and the foul, which they contend are 
 effected by mediums of this- kind, alfifted by the force of imagination. 
 But as for philtres, potions, love-cups, and the like, they unqueliionably 
 proceed from a natural caufe, and ought not to be clalVed with the oc- 
 cult properties of charms. There are many natural compofitions of 
 herbs and minerals, which have a furpriiing eflFecl in themlelves, with- 
 out the leaft aflirtance from fuperftitious imprellions, or the affillance of 
 fupernatuial agency. For, in the commixture of bodies of a limiliar na- 
 ture, there is a two-fold power and virtue ; fii'ft, when the celeftial pro- 
 perties are duly difpofed in any natural fubftance, then under one form di- 
 vers influences of fuperior powers are combined ; and fecondl}', when, 
 from artificial mixtures and compofitions of natural things combined 
 amongft themfelves in a due and harmonicat proportion, they agree with 
 the quality and force of the heavens, under certain correfpondent conftel- 
 lations. This proceeds from the occult affinity of natural things amongft 
 themfelves, by the force and fympathy of which many altonilhing effects 
 are produced. 
 
 In the writings of Paracelfm Ave findmany furpridng examples of the 
 power of fympathy and antipathy, by means of images, telefms, and " 
 amulets, compounded of nothing more than natural ingredients. And 
 he particularly defciibes an infallible method- by the image of any bird or 
 beaft, to deftroy it, or to effed its death, though at a diltance. So like- 
 wife, by the hair, fat, blood, excrements, or excrefcences, of any animal, 
 the difeafes of that animal might be cured, and its life preferved or de- 
 Itroved. This is {^tvi in the armary unguent, d,m\Ji/fnpafhefica/porider; and ' 
 
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 there are multiplied inftances and hiftoiies, both at home and abroad, otf 
 thofe who have been burnt, hanged, or otherwife puniflied, for the ufe of 
 rcaxen images, which they conipofe in divers poltures, under certain con- 
 ftellations, whereby the perfons they are made to reprefent, have been 
 Teverely tormented, or macerated to death. For, according to the tor- 
 ment or puniihment the magician, witch, or wizard, may intend to in- 
 flirt upon the objed of their" refentment, fo they difpofe the hour of the 
 conftellation, the quality of the compound, and the poitureor femblance 
 of the image ; for, if they intend to confume and pine away the health 
 and life of any perfon they are oflfended with, they mould his image in wax, 
 of fuch an ominous form and alped as may conduce to the extent of their 
 dehgn, making feveral magical characters upon the fides of the head, de- 
 fcribing the character of the planetary hour upon the breall of the image ; 
 the name of the perfecuted perfon on its forehead; and the intended 
 effect to be wrought upon him, on its back. If they mean to produce 
 violent pains and tortures in the flelh or finews, they ftick pins or thorns 
 ,in divers places of the arms, legs, or breaft, of the image. If to caft them 
 into violent fevers and confumptions, they fpend a certain hour every day 
 to warm and turn the image before a doleful and lingering fire, compofed 
 of divers exotic gums and magical ingredients, of fweet odours, and roots 
 of particular flirubs, efficient and conducive to their purpofe ; and when 
 the whole operation has been performed, and the image is completed, it 
 is aftonifliing to human comprehenfion, what furpriling effects they are 
 capable of producing upon the body they are intended to reprefent ; and 
 the reader can only attain a competent idea of it, but by reading the ac- 
 counts of the trials and confeffions of many witches and wizards, who 
 fuffered the law, in the 17th, and commencement of the 18th, century, 
 for tranfadtions of this kind; an incredible number of which are not 
 only recorded in the notes and memorandums of the judges, but attefted 
 . by a great variety of noblemen, gentlemen, clergy, phyiicians, apothe- 
 caries, and others, who have been eye-witnefles of thefe diabolical proceed- 
 ings, and for which reafon I fliall on no account mention the moft perfect 
 and effectual part of the compofition and preparation of thefe magical 
 images, left the evil-minded and malicious part of my readers fliould at- 
 tempt to work abominable fpecies of revenge upon the perfons or property 
 of their unfufpedting neighbours. 
 
 Thoufands of other ftrange and uncouth inventions might be here de- 
 fcribed, according to the exadt form in which tradition Wh left them; 
 but, for the reafon above alhgned, the I'eader mull be content with the 
 general outline only. And, as the Europeans have the ability of effecting 
 iiich aftonilbing things by the medium of images, telefms, periaots, &c. 
 
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 fo the Tartars have a faculty of producing fimilar effects by boiths, rjohdi- 
 fkins, rods, bafins, leffers, ox miffives, unto certain familiar fpu'its, who are 
 the ai^ents in their raa^ic rites. As to the old and favourite trick ol 
 witches in the lail century, that of iy'ing of the point, we have realon to 
 hope it has long hnce died away ; for it is a charm which produces lo 
 ftrono- on impediment to conjugal embraces, as totally to reltrain the act 
 of confummation betwixt married people; and the tying of this knot or 
 licrament under certain inasical ceremonies or mcantations, was io no- 
 toaous. both in practice and effect, throughout England France, .Spain, 
 Italy, and the eaftem countries, that laws were enaded by the legillature 
 in each of thole kingdoms expreflly to prohibit the pertormance ot it on 
 pain of death. The form and manner of it is m par mentioned in the 
 Itatutes, though .by no means fit to be openly '^"^^^'^^''f^^^^-.Jl'^l'^ 
 of Travfphntation is alfo reckoned amongil charms and fvgils, and in- 
 deed one part of It, viz. the transferrin, of diieales, is j-^ Y -^g-^^^; J^^ 
 was much in practice amongft witches and wizards; and I am conh- 
 dently informed is now freque^itly done in the more remote and un^^o- 
 linXa s of this ifland. The method is, by giving certain baits or pre- 
 pa atiom to any domeilic animal, they remove fevers, agues, coughs con- 
 Fump ii^^s afthmas, &c. from any perfon, applying to them for that pur- 
 pofe or they can ranfplant or remove them from one perfon to another, 
 •bvb;•^^noc^ertaln images in their ground, or againit heir houles with 
 cJrtain^ommou infcriptions and Hebrew words -yet, though tnele things 
 ceitain ominous ""<- F ^ jj ^ ^^^^^ ^^^ derived more from 
 
 ?reSSies atl an^ipa^^^^^^ than from magical cha..der, 
 
 T^^d conima ons ; for mlny perlbns, without knowing any thmg ot the 
 
 ^a^f r^wh^it . ef^, r^^- f ^^rtry^.:^;?:^ 
 -"^ -SS^ ori^oin-iri:; 
 
 Avhich the human ^o^]'.\f ^^^^^^tl^^^^^ 
 
 Avondered that natura things ^'^mg httec to tne t • .^j^^j,^ ii^^uld 
 
 and compounded of correfpondent «;. J> "X^^'^'J' ,,e \%ncy o f pints 
 produce Lh effeds, without ^XTex i^oil'iaiy eparation, cilled a 
 This is perfedly exemplified in that ^>^^^« f ^^^^^^^J, ^f the party oV 
 n^agkal candle, which benig lighted ^^^J^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^.^ following 
 whofe blood It was prepared, it is compoui manner.
 
 ,,14 AN illustration: 
 
 manner : They take a good quantity of the venal blood luke-warm as it 
 eame out of the vein, which, being chemically prepared with fpirits of 
 wine and other ingredients, is at laft made up into a candle, which being 
 once kindled, never goes out till the death of the party whole blt»od it is 
 compofed of; for when he is fick, or in danger, it burns dim and trou- 
 bled ; and wh^n he is dead, it is quite extinguilhed ; of which compofi- 
 tion a learned philofopher hath written an entire tract, viz. De Bio/j/c/mio, 
 or, The Lamp cf Life. 
 
 In the limpie operations of nature many wonderful things are Avroughty 
 which upon a fuperficial view appear impoilible, or elfe to be the work of 
 the devil. Thel'e certainlv ouyht to be conlidered in a far different liulifc 
 from magical performances, and fliould be claffed among the furpriling 
 phienomena of nature. Thus lamps or torches made of Terpen ts' ikins,' 
 and compounded of th.e fat and fpirit of vipers, when lighted in a dark- 
 room, will biing the iimilitude of fnakes or ferpents writhing and twilling 
 upon tlie walls. So oil compounded of grapes, being put into a lamp- 
 and lighted, will make the room appear to be full of grapes, though in 
 reality it is nothing more than the idea or iimilitude. — The fame thing 
 is to be done with all the plants and flowers throughout the vegetable 
 fyftem, by means of a chemical analyfis, whereby alimple fpirit is pro- 
 duced, which will reprefent the herb or flower from which it is extrac^ted, 
 in full bloom. And as the procefs is eafy, fimple, pleating, and curious, 
 I will hei'e ftate it in fuch a mannei' as might enable any perfon to put- 
 it in pra(^lice at pleafure. 
 
 Take any whole herb, or flower, with its root, make it very clean, and' 
 bruife it in aftone mortar quite fmall ; then put it into a glais veflel her- 
 metically fealed; but be lure the veflel be two parts in three empty. 
 Then place it for putrefadion in a gentle heat in balneo, not more than- 
 blood warm, for fix months, by which it will be all relblved into water. 
 Take this water, and pour it into a glafs retort, and place a receiver 
 thereunto, the joints of which iimfl; beNvell clofed ; diftil it into a fand 
 iieat unt il there come forth a water, and an oil ; and in the upper part of the 
 veflel will hang a volatile fait. Separate the oil from the water, and keep 
 It by itfelf, but with the water purify the volatile fait by diflblving, 
 filtering, and coagulating. When the fait is thus purified, 'imbibe with 
 It the laid oil, until it is well combined. Then digefl; them well to- 
 gether for a month in a veflel hermetically fealed ; and by this means 
 will be obtained a mofl; fubtile eflence, which being held over a gentle 
 lieat of a candle, the fpirit will fly up into the glafs Vhere it is confined, 
 and reprefent the perfed idea or fimilitude of that vegetable whereof it ■ 
 
 is.-
 
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 is the effence : and in^this manner will that thin fubflance, which is Hke 
 impaljmble aflies or fait, fend forth from the bottom of the glafs the 
 manifefl form of whatever herb it is the rnenftruum^ in perfeft vegetation, 
 growing by little and little, and putting on lb fully the form of f^alks, 
 leaves, and flowers, in full and perfefl appearance,' that any one would 
 beheve the fame to be natural and corporeal : though at the fame time it 
 is nothing more than the fpiritual idea endued with a fpiritual effence. 
 This fhadowed figure, as foon as the veffel is taken from the heat or candle, 
 returns to its caput moriuum, or a(hes, again, and vanilhes away like an 
 apparition, becoming a chaos or confufed matter. For more on the me- 
 dicinal virtues of decoftion of fait, or effence of herbs, flowers, roots, 
 or feeds, fee my .new edition of Culpeper's Complete Herbal, juft pub- 
 liflied, with notes, additions, and illuftrations, in quarto, with upwards 
 of 400 elegant engravings of Britifli herbs, plants, and flowers, coloured 
 to nature. 
 
 To make a vegetable more quickly yield its fpirit, take of what vege- 
 table you pleafe, whether it be the feed, flowers, roots, fruit, or leaves; 
 cut or bruife them fmall, put them into warm water, put upon them 
 yeafl: or barm, and cover them up warm, and let them work three days, 
 in the fame manner as beer ; then diftil them, and they will yield their 
 fpirit very eafily. Or elfe take of what herbs, flowers, feeds, &c. you 
 pleafe, fill the head of a flill therewith, then cover the mouth with 
 coarfe canvas, and fet on the ftill, having firft put into it a proportionable 
 quantity of fack or low wine ; then give it fire, and it will quickly yield 
 its fpirit ; but obferve, that, if the colour of the vegetables is wanted, you 
 muft take fome of its dried flowers, and fill the nofe of the flill therewith, 
 and yovi will have the exadl colour of the herb. 
 
 To elucidate this procefs with better effe61^, I have fubjoined a plate 
 of the elaboratory, where a perfon is in the a61: of producing thefe flowery 
 apparitions, in which fig. i, reprefents a flione peftle and mortar, where- 
 in the herbs, &c. are to be bruifed before they are placed for putrefaiflion. 
 Fig. 2, 2, are glafs veffels hermetically fealed, containing the bruifed 
 herbs for putrefadion. Fig. 3, an empty glafs retort. Fig. 4, a retort 
 filled with the effence of an herb,' and put into a fand heat for dirtil- 
 lation. Fig. 5, a glafs receiver joined to the retort, to receive the oil 
 and fpirit. Fig. 6, a ftool on which refts the receiver. Fig. 7, the 
 furnace made with different conveniences either for land heat, or balnea. 
 Fig. 8, the furnace holes wherein the fire is placed. Fig. 0, a table 
 whereon are placed the glafs veffels hermetically fealed. Fig. 10, a 
 veffel containing the reprefentation or fimilitude of a pink in tuil bloom. 
 
 No. 60. 12 Y Fig.
 
 ri6 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Fio-. II, the rcprefentatioii of a fprlg of rofemary. Fig. 12, the repre- 
 
 I'eiuation of a fpric^ of baum. Fig. 13, a candlertick. with a candle light- 
 
 ,ed for the purpofe'of heating the fpirit. Fig. 14,, a chemift in the ad 
 
 ' of holding the glafs vclTel over the lighted candle ; whereby fig. 15, re- 
 
 j)refents the idea of a rofe in full bloona. 
 
 Now this efFe6>, though very furprillng,. will not appear fo much a 
 fubject of our afl:oni(hment, if we do but confider the wonderful power 
 of fympathy, which exifts throughout the whole fyftem of nature, where 
 every thincr is excited to beget or love its like, and is drawn after it, as 
 the loadftone draws iron ; the male after the female ; the evil after the 
 evil ; the o-ood after the good ; which, is alfo leen. in wicked men and 
 their purfuits, and in birds and beafls of prey ; where the lamb delights 
 not with the lion, nor the flieep in the fociety of the wolf; neither do 
 men whofe minds are totally depraved and eftranged from God, care to- 
 adopt the oppofite qualities, which are virtuous, innocent, and juft. 
 Without contemplating thefe principles, we fhould think it incredible 
 that the grunting or fqueaking of a little pig, or the fight of a fimple 
 fheep, (hould terrify a mighty elephant ! and yet by that means the Ro- 
 mans put to flight iPyrrhus and all his hoft-. One would hardly fuppofe . 
 that the crowing of a cock or the fight of his comb, fhould abalh a 
 puiffant lion ; but experience has proved the truth of it to all the world. 
 Who would imagine that a poifonous ferpent could not live under the 
 fhade of an a{h-tree ; or that fome men, deficient neither in courage, 
 ftrength, or conftitution, fhould not be able to endure the fight of a 
 cat ? and yet thefe things are {ten and known to be fo, by frequent obfer- 
 vation and experience. The friendly intercourfe betwixt a fox and a fer- 
 pent is almoft incredible ; and how fond and loving the lizaid is to 
 man we read in every treatife on natural hiftory ; which is not far, if 
 anything, behind the fidelity of a fpaniel, and many other fpecies of dogs, 
 whofe fagacity and attention to their mafter is celebrated in an infinite 
 variety of well-founded though almoft incredible ftories. The amity be- 
 twixt a caftrel and a pigeon is remarked by many authors ; particularly 
 how furioufly the caftrel will defend a pigeon from the fparrow-hawk, and 
 other inimical birds. In the vegetable lyftem, the operation and virtue of 
 herbs is at once a fubjeft of admiration and gratitude, and which it were 
 almofl: endlefs to repeat.* There is among them fuch natural accord and 
 
 • For the wonderful virtues and properties of herbs and plants, with their alimentary and me- 
 dicinal qualities; a/id how to prevent or cure all difeafes incident to the human body, ztthe/eq/f 
 expence, and at the grtatejl certainty^ fee alfo my new edition of Culpeper's Britifli Herbal, and 
 Domeftic Phyfician, prmted uniformly with this vyork, in z vols. 4 to, 
 
 difcord.
 
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 Illy 
 
 Jifeord, that fome will profper more luxuriantly in another's company; 
 while fome again will droop and die away, being planted near each other! 
 The lily and the rofe rejoice by each other's fide ; whilfl: the flag and the 
 fern abhor one another, and will not live together. The cucumber loveth 
 water, but hateth oil ; and fruits will neither ripen nor ^row in af- 
 pefts that are inimical to them. In flones likewife, in minerals, and in 
 earth or mould, the fame lympathies and antipathies are preferved. Ani- 
 mated nature, in every clime, in every corner of the globe, is alfo preg- 
 nant with fimilar qualities ; and that in a moft wonderful and admirable 
 degree. Thus we find that one particular bone taken out of a carp's 
 head will ftop an hemorrhage of blood, when no other part or thino- in 
 the fame creature liath any fimilar effe6t. The bone alfo in a hare's foot 
 inftantly mitigates the moft excruciating tortures of the cramp ; yet no 
 other bone nor part of that animal can do the like. I might alfo recite 
 infinite properties with which it has pleafed God to endue the form and 
 body of man, which are no lefs worthy of admiration, and fit for this 
 place, had we but limits to recount them. Indeed I do not know a much 
 more remarkable thing, (were it as rare as it is now fhamefuUy prevalent,) 
 or that would more puzzle our fenfes, than the etfefts of intoxication, 
 by which we fee a man fo totally overthrown, that not a fingle part or 
 member of his body can perform its funftion or office, and his under- 
 flanding, memory, and judgment, fo arrefted or depraved, that in everv 
 thing except the ihape, he becomes a very beaft ! But we find, from 
 obfervations however important, however wonderful, how inexpli- 
 cable or miraculous, foever any thing may be, yet if it is common, or fa- 
 miliar to our fenfes, the wonder ceafes, and our enquiries end. And 
 hence it is, that we look not with half the admiration upon the fun, 
 moon, and ftars, that we do upon the mechanifm of a globe, which 
 does but counterfeit their order, and is a mere bauble, the work of men's 
 hands! whence I might almoft be juftified in remarking, that, if Chrirt: 
 himfelf had continued long in the habit of working miracles, and had 
 left that power permanent and hereditary in the church, they would have 
 long fince grown into contem.pt, and not have been regarded as events 
 worthy of our attention. 
 
 From what has been premifed, we may readily conclude that there are 
 two diftinft fpecies of magic ; one whereof being inherent in the occult 
 properties of nature, is called natural magic ; and the other, being ob- 
 noxious and contrary to nature, is termed infernal magic, becaufe it is 
 accomplifhed by infernal agency or compad with the devil. Each of 
 thefe we will confider feparately, with the good and evil confequences 
 
 likely to refult from them. 
 
 Under
 
 11,8 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Under the veil of natural magic, it hath pleafed the Almighty to con- 
 ceal many valuable and excellent gifts, which common [>coplc eithei' 
 think miraculous or next to impoflible. And yet in truth, natural ma- 
 gic is nothing more than the workmanfhip of nature, made manifeft by 
 art ; for in tillage, as nature produceth corn and herbs, fo art, being 
 nature's handmaid, prepareth and helpeth it forwaid ; in which times 
 and feafons are materially to be confidered ; for annua, non arvus, producit 
 arjjias. A»d, though thefe things, while they lie hid in nature, do many 
 of them feem impollible and miraculous, yet, when they are known 
 and their fimplicity revealed, our difficulty of apprehenfion ceafes, and the 
 wonder is at an end ; for that only is wonderful to the beholder whereof 
 he can conceive no caufe nor reafon, according to the faying of Ephefins, 
 Miraculum folvitur unde videtur ejfe miraculum ; yet we often fee perlons 
 take great pains, and put themfelves to vaft expence, to difcover thefe 
 impalpable tracks of nature, from whence pecuniary advantages feldom 
 refult ; fo that a man muft not learn philofophy to grow rich ; but muft 
 get riches to learn philofophy. There is unqueftionabiy much praife 
 due, and great induftry required, for obtaining a competent knowledge of 
 natural magic ; for to fluggards, niggards, and narrow-minded men, the 
 fecrets of nature are never opened, though the ftudy of them is certainly 
 conducive to the glory of God, and to the good of fociety, by more vili- 
 bly manifefting the omnipotency of his works, and by IkilfuUy applying 
 them to man's ufe and benefit. Many philolbphers of the firft eminence, 
 as Plato, Pythagoras, Empedocles, Democritus, &c. travelled through 
 every region of the known world for the accomplilliment of this kind of 
 knowledge ; and at their return, they publicly preached and taught it. 
 But above all, we learn from facred and profane hifliory, that Solomon was 
 the greateft proficient in this art of any either before or fince his time ; 
 as he himfelf hath declared in Ecclefiafl-es and the book of Wifdom, where 
 he faith, " God hath given me the true fcience of things, fo as to know 
 *' how the world was made, and the power of the elements, the begin- 
 " ning, and the end, and the midft of times, the change of leafons, the 
 " courfes of the year, and the fituation of the jflars, the nature of human 
 " beings, and the quality of beafts, the power of winds, and the ima- 
 " ginations of the mind ; the diverfities of plants, the virtues of roots, 
 " and all things whatfoever, whether fecret or known, manifeft or in- 
 *' vifible." And hence it was that the magi, or followers of natural 
 magic, were accounted wife, and the ftudy honourable; becaufe it con- 
 lifts in nothing more than the moft profound and perfe6l part of natural 
 philolophy, which defines the nature, caufes, and efFeds, of things. 
 
 How
 
 O F A S T R O L O G Y. 1119 
 
 How far fuch inventions as are called charms, amulets, peiiapts, 
 and the like, have any foundation in natural magic, may be worth our 
 enquiry ; becaufe if cures are to be cffeaed through their medium, and 
 that without any thing derogatory to the attributes of the Deity, or the 
 principles of religion, I fee no reafon why they fhould be rejected with 
 that inexorable contempt, which levels "the works of God with the 
 folly and weaknefs of men. Not that I would encourage luj^erftition, 
 or become an advocate for a farrago of abfurdities ; but when the fimpli- 
 city of natural things, and their effeds, are rejefted merely to encourage 
 profeffional artifice and emolument, it is prudent for us to diftinguifb 
 between the extremes of bigotted fuperftition and total unbehef. 
 
 It was the opinion of many eminent phyficians of the firfl ability and 
 learning, that fuch kind of charms or periapts as confided of certain odo- 
 riferous herbs, balfamic roots, mineral concretions, and metallic fub- 
 ftances, might have, and moft probably pofTeffed, by means of their 
 ftrong medicinal properties, the virtue of curing or removing fuch com- 
 plaints as external applications might effeft, and which are often ufed 
 with fuccefs, though without the leaft furprife or admiration ; becaufe 
 the one appears in a great meafure to be the confequence of manual ope- 
 ration, which is perceptible and vifible to the fenfes, whilft the other 
 afts by an innate or occult power, which the eye cannot fee, nor the 
 mind fo readily comprehend ; yet, in both cafes, perhaps, the elTect is 
 produced by a iimilar caufe ; and confequently all fuch remedies, let them 
 be applied under what form or flyle they may, are worthy of our regard, 
 and ought to excite in us not only a veneration for the fimple practice of 
 the ancients in their medical experiments, but a due fenfe of gratitude 
 to the wife Author of our being, who enables us, by fuch eafy means, to 
 remove the infirmities incident to mankind. Many reputable authors, 
 particularly A. Ferrarius, Alexander Frallianus, Aetius, Odavianus, Mar- 
 cellus, Philodotus, Archigines, Philoftratus, Pliny,and Diofcoridcs, contend 
 that not only fuch phyfical alligations, appenfions, periapts, amulets, 
 charms, &c. which from their materials appear to imbibe and to diffufe 
 the medical properties above defcrihed, ought in certain obftinate and 
 equivocal diforders to be applied ; but thcfe likewife, whk-h from their 
 external form and compofition have no fuch inherent virtues to recom- 
 mend them ; for harm they can do none, and .good they might do ; 
 either by accident, or through the force of imagination. xAnd it is af- 
 ferted, with very great truth, that through the medium of hope and 
 fear, fufficiently impreffed upon the mind or imagination, whether by 
 charms, or any other Homerical contrivance or device, the moft wonder- 
 ful and inftantaneous cures are fometimes wrought. They are called 
 
 No. 60. 1 2 Z * Homerical
 
 II20 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Homerical devices, or Homerica medicaiio, becaufe Homer was the firft 
 who dilcovered the blood to be llippreffed, or its motion accelerated, by 
 the force of imagination ; and that clileales were to be removed or ter- 
 minated thereby." Of the truth of this we have the ilrongeft and moft 
 infallible evidence in the hiccough, which is inftantanccufly cured by 
 any Hidden cffeft of fear or furprife; lb likewife agues and many other ma- 
 ladies are removed ; and to the famecaufe we might attribute the only cer- 
 tain cure known for the bite of a mad dog, which is the efFed of fear and 
 ftac^nation wrought upon the mals of blood by immerging the body in the 
 fea. Nor are the inftances few , where perfons lying bed-ridden, and 
 unable to move either hand or foot, have through the fudden fright of 
 fire, or the houfe falling in upon them, forgot their infirmity, and run 
 away with as much a61ivity as though no fucb malady had exifted. See- 
 ing, therefore, that fuch virtues lie hid m the occult properties of na- 
 ture, united with the (cn{c or imagination of man, where one is the 
 agent, and the other the patient ; where the one is adlive, and the other 
 paffive, without any compaft with ipirits, or dealings with the devil; we 
 furely ought to receive them into our pratSiice, and to adopt them as 
 often as occafion ferioufly requires, although profeffiODal emolument, and 
 pecuniary advantage, might in fome inftances be narrowed by it. 
 
 But, thouo-h I misiht be an advocate for fuch charms or occult reme- 
 dies as are in themfelves perfedly innocent and fimple, I by no means 
 wifh it to be underftood", that I either approve or recommend any thing 
 bordering upon fuch inventions as arc obviouily founded in magical 
 confederacy, and aft by the medium of aerial or infernal Ipirits.. To that 
 mind, which has but (lightly contemplated the works of nature, it mufl 
 be abundantly evident, that the great and good God which fuilains and 
 governs the univerfe, hath in the works of creation mercifully afforded 
 us a natural remedy for all our infirmities ; and it is repugnant to common 
 lenfe, and incompatible with religion and morality ; nay, it would im- 
 ply a deficiency either in the goodnefs or power of the Deity, were we 
 for a moment to admit the neceffity of charms, amulets, or any other 
 inventive cures or benefits to men, refulting from a compaft with fpi- 
 rits, in which all the powers and performances of witchcraft had their 
 beginning ; and therefore we may without the fmallefl hefitation con- 
 clude, that whatever hath its foundation in fuch confederacy, let 
 the external objeft or pretence be what it may, it is not only con- 
 trary to nature, but highly ofl^enfive to the Deity, and nearly allied 
 to the (hocking fin of idolatry, by applying the works of God to 
 the power of the devil. For this reafon, it is impoffible to be too cau- 
 tious how the ufe of fuch defcription of charms or lamins are adopted, 
 
 where.
 
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 I 121 
 
 ^here, uiftead of natural medicaments, magical charatlers, incantations, 
 and nodurnal ceremonies, conftitute the component parts. A very wife 
 and learned author, who has written largely upon this lubjea, alFerts, 
 that in thole very charms and fignatures compacts themfelves are virtually 
 contauied, which evil Ipirits at firft llibtilly deviled or invented to blind 
 men's eyes, that thereby they might lead them lefs fcrupulouflv into the 
 fnares ox'' the devil. And hence we have good ground to believe, that 
 none are able abfolutely, and bona fide, to call up any Ipirits, without 
 fome fuch compa6l firfl: formed ; and that whofoever has (b far ventured 
 in the art of magic or conjuration, hath, though to himfelf perhaps 
 unknown, compaded with and worlhipped the devil, under fome fuch 
 form of myftical words and chara61:ers wherewith infernal charms and 
 amulets are compofed ; neither is it to be thought a matter of furprife, 
 that Inch a conipa/t fliould unwittingly be made through the medium of 
 thole myftical charafters, which, with the devil's aid, have in themfelves 
 a power to enchant, infeft, allure, preferve, or deflroy. And to Ihow, 
 ill ftriking colours, the danger of being drawn away by fuch allurements, 
 I fhall inftance the extraordinary cale of a very harmlefs and well-mean- 
 ing young man, which was published to the world at the commencement 
 of the prefent century, by the Billiop of Gloucefter, in the following 
 well-authenticated letter to that prelate. 
 
 Authentic Copy of a Letter fcnt to the BiJJiop of Gloucejler, by the 
 Reverend Mr. Arthur Bedford, Minijier of Temple Church, in BrifioL 
 
 My Lord, Brijiol, Augufl 2, 1703. 
 
 Being infoimed by Mr. Shute of yoin- lordlhip's delire that I fhould 
 communicate to you what I had known concerning a certain perfon, who 
 was acquainted with fpirits to his ov^'n delT:ru6lion, I have made bold to 
 give you the trouble of this letter, hoping my defire to gratify your 
 lordfhip in every particular may be an apology for the length thereof. I 
 had formerly given an account to the late Bilhop of Hereford, in which 
 there are probably ibme things contained, which I do not now remember, 
 vv'hich, if your lordlhip could procure from his lady, (who now lives near 
 Gloucefter,; would be more authentic. 
 
 About thirteen years ago, whilft I was curate to Dr. Read, rector of 
 St. Nicholas in this city, I began to be acquainted with one Thomas 
 Perks, a man about twenty years of age, who lived with his father at 
 Mongatsfjeld, a gunfmith ; and contraded an intimacy with him, he 
 being not only a very good-natured man, but extremely Ikilled in mathe- 
 matical ftudies, which were his conftant delight, viz. arithmetic, geo- 
 metry,.
 
 I 122 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 mctry, gauging, furveylng, aftronomy, and algebra; he had ^ a notion 
 of the [fcrpetual motion, much hke that wheel in Archimedes's Mathe- 
 matical Magic, in which he had made Ibme improvements, and which 
 he has held° was demonftrable from mathematical principles, though I 
 could never believe it. 1 have feen an iron wheel, to which he intended 
 to add .leveral things of his own invention, in order to finifli the fame.; 
 but, thinking it of no ufe, and being otherwife unfortunately engaged, 
 it was never perfeded. He gave himfelf lb much to allronomy, that he 
 could not only calculate the motions of the planets, but an ecliple alio,, 
 and demonftrate any problem in fpherlcal trigonometry from mathema- 
 tical principles, in which he difcovered a clear force of realbn. When 
 one Mr. Bayley, minifter of St. James's in this city, endeavoured to fet 
 up a mathematical fchool, 1 advifed him to this Thomas Perks, for an 
 acquaintance, in whom, as he told me, he found a greater proficiency 
 in thofe fludies than he expeded or could have imagined. After this he 
 applied himfelf to aftrology, and would fometimes calculate nativities and 
 relblve horary queftions. When by the providence of God I was fettled 
 in Temple parifh, and not having feen him for fome time, he came to 
 me, and, we being in private, he afked my opinion very ferioufly con- 
 cerning the lawfulnefs of converfing with fpirits ; and after I had given 
 mv thoucrhts in the negative, and confirmed them with the beft reafons 
 1 could, he told me he had confidered all thefe arguments, and believed 
 they only related to conjurations, but there was an innocent fociety with 
 ihcm which a man might ufe, if he made no compa£ls with them, did 
 no harm by their means, and were not curious in prying into hidden 
 things ; and that he himfelf had difcourfed with them, and heard them 
 fing to his great fatisfadion ; and gave an offer to me and Mr. Bavlev at 
 another time, that, if we would go with him one night to Kingfvvood, 
 we fhould lee them, and hear them boch talk and fing, and talk with them 
 whenever we Had a mind, and we fhould return very fafe ; but neither 
 of us had the courage to venture. I told him the fubtilty of the devil 
 to delude mankind, and to transform himlelf into an angel of light ; but 
 he would not believe it was the devil. I had feveral conferences with 
 nim upon this fubjecl, but could never convince him, in all which I 
 could never obferve the leaft diforder of mind, his difcourfe being very 
 rational, and I propofed (to try him.) a queftion in aftronomy relating 
 to the projedion of the Iphere, which he projeded and refolved, and 
 did afterwards demonftrate from the mathematics, fo as to demonllrate at 
 the fame time that his brain was free from the lealt tindure of madisefs 
 and diiliadion. — Having this opportunity of alk-ng him feveral particu- 
 lars, concerning the methods he ufed, and the difcourfes he had with 
 thefD, he told me he had a book whofe diredions he followed, and ac- 
 cordingly
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 1123 
 
 eordino;ly, in the deat] time of the night, he went out to a crofs way, with 
 a lanthorn and candle confecrated for this purpofe with leveial incanta- 
 tions He had alfo confecrated chalk, confifting of feveral mixtures, with 
 which he made a circle at what diftance he thought fit, within which no 
 fpirit had power to enter. After this he invoked the fpirit by feveral 
 forms of words, (fonie o( which he told me were taken out of the holy 
 Scriptures, and therefore he -thought them lawful, without confidering 
 how they might be v. refted to his deftruftion ;) accordingly the fpirits ap- 
 peared to him which he called for, in the fliape of little maidens, about 
 a foot and half high, and played about a circle. At firll: he was fome- 
 what sfFrighted, but, after fome fmall acquaintance, this antipathy in 
 nature wore off, and he became pleated with their company. He told 
 me they fooke with a very flirill voice, like an ancient woman. He afked 
 them if there w^s a heaven or hell ? they faid there was. He alked them 
 what place heaven was ? which they defcribed as a place of great glory 
 and happinefs; and he afked them what hell was ? and they bade him alk 
 no quelHons of that nature, for it was a dreadful thing to relate, and the 
 devils believe and tremble. He further alked them what method or order 
 they had amono^ themfelves ? they told him they were divided into three 
 orders ; that they had a chief whofe refidence was in the air ; that he had 
 feveral counlellors which were placed by him in form of a globe, and he 
 in the centre, which was the chiefeft order ; another order was employed 
 in o-oing to and from thence to the earth, to carry intelligence from thofe 
 lower fpirits ; and their own order was on the earth, according to the- 
 direftions they fhould receive from thofe in the air. 
 
 This defcription was very furprifing, but, being contrary to the account 
 we have in fcripture of the hierarchy of the blefled angels, made me con- 
 clude thev were devils, but I could not convince him of it.. He told me 
 he had bade them fing, and they went to fome diftance behind a bulTi,. 
 from whence he could hear a perfeft concert of fuch exqulfite mufic as 
 ' he never before heard ; and in the upper part he heard fomething very 
 harfh and fhrill like a reed, but, as it was managed, did give a particular 
 grace to the reft. 
 
 About a quarter of a year after he came again to me, and wifned he had 
 taken my advice, for he thought he had done that which would coft him 
 his life, and which he did heartily repent of; and indeed his eyes and 
 countenance ftiowed a great alteration. I aiked him what he had done. 
 He told me that, being bewitched to his acquaintance, he refolved to pro- 
 ceed farther in this art, and to have fome familiar fpirit at his command, 
 
 according to the diredions of his book, which were as follows ; 
 
 - No. 60. 13 A He
 
 „34 AN ILLUSTRATION 
 
 He was to have a book made of virgin parchment confecrated with Teveral 
 incantations ; likewifc a particular ink-horn, ink, &c. for his purpofe ; 
 with thei'e he was to go out as ufual to a crofs way, and call up a fpirit, 
 and alk him his name, which he was to put in the 6r{1: page of his book, 
 and this was to be his familiar. Thus he wa? to do by as many as he 
 pleafcd, writing their names in diftind pages, only one in a leaf; and then, 
 whenever he took the book and opened it, the fpirit whofe name appear- 
 ed fhould appear alfo ; and, putting this in pra6^ice, the familiar he had 
 was called Maichi, (be my king,) a word in Hebrew of an unknown fig- 
 nification. After this they appeared fafter than he defired, and in molT: 
 dilmal (hapes, like ferpents, lions, bears, &c. hiiiing at him, and attempt- 
 inor to throw fpears and balls of fire, which did very much afiright hirr), 
 and the more when he found it not in his power to ftay them, inlbmuch 
 that his hair (as he told me) flood upright, and he expedted every moment 
 to be torn in pieces ; this happened in December about .midnight, when he 
 continued there in a fweat till break of day, and then they left him, and 
 from that time he was never well as long as he lived. In his ficknefs he 
 came frequently to Briftol, to conlult with Mr. Jacob, an apothecary in 
 Eroad-ftreet, concerning a cure, but I know not whether he told him 
 the origin of his ficknels or not ; he alfo came to me at the fame time, 
 and owned every matter of f.i6t, until the lafl, and infifled that, when he 
 did any thing of this nature, he was deluded in his confcituce to think it 
 lawful, but he was fince convinced to the contrarj-. He declared he made 
 no compafts with any of thofe fpirits, and never did any harm by their 
 means, nor ever pryed into the future fortune of himfelf or others, and 
 exprefl'ed a hearty repentance and deteflation of his fins ; fo that, though 
 thofe methods coft him his life in this world, yet I have great reafon to 
 believe him happy in the other. I am not certain that he gave this account 
 to any other perlon but myielf, though he communicated fomething of it 
 to Mr. Bayley, minifter of St. James's, in this city ; perhaps your lord- 
 ihip may be further informed by his relations and neighbours of Man- 
 gotsfield, which lies in Gloucefterlhire, not above a mile out of the road 
 to Bath. 
 
 I have frequently told this ftory, but never mentioned his name before, 
 and therefore, if your lordfhip hath any defjo-n of printing fuch accounts 
 as thefe, I defire it may be with fuch tendernels to his memory as he de- 
 ferved, and foas may not be the leaft prejudice to his relations, who have 
 the defcrved character of honefl: and fober people. I am 
 
 Your lordfliip's dutiful 
 
 fon and lervant, 
 ARTHUR BEDFORD. 
 
 This
 
 OF ASTROLOGY. 1125 
 
 This pool' deluded young man, it is very apparent, had no evil defio-n, 
 but entered into this infernal affociation for no other motive than to gra- 
 tify an idle curiofity ; the confequence of which was that he underwent 
 the moft indefcribable terror and fright, which at firft deprived him 
 of his health, and eventually of his life. I have no doubt but the cir- 
 cumftance of dijbelieving the exiftcnce of fpirits (which I apprehend 
 is more or lefs the cafe with moft people) was the firft, if not the 
 only, inducement that urged him to make the experiment. There are 
 many inftances of a iimilar kind, equally well founded, and as fatal 
 in their confequences, which might be here adduced, tofhow the dread- 
 ful effects of being led away by a preflimptuous or a hardened mind-, to 
 dilbelieve the word of God revealed in a thoufand paftages of fcripture, 
 where this infernal intercourle is ferioufly forbidden ; but I fincerely hope, 
 and have reafon to believe, that this example vnll operate as a fufficieut 
 bar againft all fimilar enquiries, where it is once read, and the melan- 
 choly confequences duly confidered. Wherefore let me entreat all my 
 readers to ftifle every inordinate defire, which might unguardedly prompt 
 them to folicit an intercourfe with fuch dangerous company ; not to at- 
 tempt the conjuration of Ipirits of any defcription or order ; no, not even 
 out of joke or bravado, or for fun or frolic ; for the devils are continu- 
 ally goingabout '■'■ fee king whom they may devour " they are ever on the 
 ■watch, and ready at hand to catch at every thought that might be turned 
 to their purpofe ; and, when they have once fo far I'ucceeded as to occupy 
 the fmalleft place in the mind, I fear it will prove no eafv talk to difpof- 
 fefs them. 
 
 Let it ever be remembered, that the firft afiaults of Wicked Ipirits 
 are ufually made upon our fenlual delires, whereby they infuiuate them- 
 felves into our very appetites, enticing our inclinations, and depraving - 
 the moral faculties of the mind ; until they become, as it were, incorpo- 
 rated with our nature, leading us infenfibly from folly to vice, until a 
 depravity of heart iiiid an obftiaate will betray us into a corporal as well 
 as ipiritual compaft with the devil. Theie confiderations, leconded by 
 an anxious with to refcue the aftral fcience from the imputation of 
 magical and diabolical connetlion, and v/hich, I truft, I have fully and 
 efFecftually accomplifhed, were the grand inducements that led me to ex- 
 plore the fpiritual and infernal kingdoms, and to expofe the iniquity, as 
 well as to explain the theory, of familiarity orcompa<!:t with them. And 
 in doing this, I have fcrupuloufly avoided giving the ellenlial forms and 
 particular confecrations adapted to myftical performances, lefl the unwary 
 Ipeculator might carry his experiments too far, and, as in the example 
 before us, unvv'ittinVly leek his own deftrudion. Yet 1 have, as far as
 
 1 126 AN ILLUSTRATION OF ASTROLOGY. 
 
 fafety or conveniency would permit, explained the fpeculative part ; re- 
 
 iervjngonly thole fpecial forms and incantations, which, beiiia not'onlv 
 
 very facile but of wonderful occult power, would be dancrerous to dif- 
 
 clole ; and at beft could only ferve to ftrengthen the hands'of the mali- 
 
 cious and evil-mnided, or to extend more widely the infernal empire • 
 
 againft which wc ought to put on the whole armour of God • for we 
 
 ■wrejlle not agamji fejh anJ blood, but again ft prinapallties and towers • for 
 
 which caufe ^ve Jhould rcfolutely withjland the ajfaults of *he deviL our loins 
 
 bctng gtrt about with verity, and having on the breaf -plate of rirhtc-uC- 
 
 nefs Nor let us vamly feek to know the myfteries of the orher" world 
 
 farther than it hath pleafed God to reveal them to us by his divine word - 
 
 for, mjimtt adfmtum nulla ej! proportio, nec^ue loci potejl circumfcribt ■ - of 
 
 that which IS finite to that which is infinite, there is no proportion nei- 
 
 ther can that which is immeafurable be contained within the links of 
 
 fpace, or be .defined by human comprehenfion I" 
 
 INDEX.
 
 ( II27 ) 
 
 N D E X. 
 
 A. Page 
 
 ABSENT fori, whether dead or alive... 332 
 Agents of the world are angels and men 15 
 Anaretical, or killing planet, of the quality of 
 
 death • 454 
 
 Apheta, Hyleg, or figmficator of life, and 
 
 the places proper thereto 453 
 
 Aphorifms for guiding the judgment upon 
 
 nativities and horary queltions 241 
 
 Art of calculating nativities made plain and 
 
 eafv ; •••• 38° 
 
 Art t>f refolving horary queftioiis 267 
 
 Afpe6ts of the planets operating on thi- wea- 
 ther, from March 17 to June 29, in the 
 
 year 1790 i°37 
 
 Aftrologv implanted in the frame of na- 
 ture '3 
 
 B. 
 Bent and quality of the mind as fixed .hy 
 
 nature 4^° 
 
 C. 
 
 Caufe of blemifhes and bodily difeafes 425 
 
 Chara(Slers rcprefenting the figns, planets, 
 
 &c • 144 
 
 Climadterical years of a nativity 692 
 
 Comets, Halley's Table of, and Supplement 
 
 to Halley's Table 944 
 
 Confiderations rcfulting from the firft houle 695 
 
 Conceptional figure 696 
 
 Confiderations rel'uking from the fecond 
 
 houle V 70<» 
 
 . — relulting from the third houle 710 
 
 ariling from the fourth houfe 711 
 
 — ■ refulting from the fifth houfe 713 
 
 . J- refulting fiom the fixth houfe 71b' 
 
 . ^ arifing from the feventh houfe 737 
 
 relulting from the eighth 
 
 houfe ••••••• 74< 
 
 , ~ refulting from the ninth houle 743 
 
 refulting from the tenth houfe 747 
 
 refulting fp6m the eleventh 
 
 houfe •• , ,•••• 755 
 
 _. refulting from the twelfth 
 
 houfe •• •• : 754 
 
 . . on a quettionor marriage ... 842 
 
 .. -on Comets 934 
 
 No. 60, 
 
 D. Pags 
 
 Deluge, accounted for 973 
 
 Dignities and honours 437 
 
 Dignities and debilities of the planets in a 
 
 nativity 691 
 
 Directions for eredling the figure of heaven 
 and placing the planets in the horofcope 161 
 
 Diredions Z'>diacal 457 
 
 of the fun being near the horo- 
 fcope on the feventh houle 458 
 
 ■ of the fun above the earth 458 
 
 . under ihe pole of pofition, or cir- 
 cle of pofitijn of the fun 459 
 
 • ' of the fun to any afpe£t, being 
 
 under the earth 460 
 
 • of the fun being found beyond the 
 
 parallel of twilight upon the earth 461 
 
 . of the fun to zodiacal parallels 
 
 being in any part of the heavens 462 • 
 
 fignificator having latitude to any 
 
 conjunfirionor afp (ft ibid 
 
 • ^ — • of a fignificator having latitude 
 
 to parallels 463 
 
 — of a fignificator to his own pio- 
 
 perafpedts • ibid 
 
 _ mundane 464 
 
 , of the midheaven, or the afcen- 
 
 dant, to the fextile, quartilc, or trine, of 
 
 any flar •• '^^'^<^ 
 
 of theafcendant,or medium cceli, 
 
 to the conjunftion or oppofition of any 
 
 ftar ;: •;••••;•• 4^5 
 
 of the medium cocli to a lextile, 
 
 quartile, or trine..... 466 
 
 . . of the afcendant 467 
 
 to a quartile afped ibjd 
 
 . of the rfcendant or medium roeli 
 
 to femiquartile, quintile, fefquiqu.drate or 
 biquintile, atpedl 467 
 
 . of a fignificator to any afpedt or 
 
 promittor, either direct or converfe 46S 
 
 — — ^— ■ of a fignificator being above 
 three degrees diltant from the cufp of 
 
 any houfe •• 4"9 
 
 . • another way of the fame -... 48 
 
 . of the fun, being under the earth, 
 
 to any 'afpe^ •f;:"J''''^ 
 
 J . B Directions
 
 II38 
 
 I 
 
 N 
 
 D 
 
 E X. 
 
 Page 
 
 Diredions of a fignificator to his own af- 
 
 pcift 470 
 
 a fignificator to parallels in the world ibid 
 
 of the fun out of the fpace oi twi- 
 light 473 
 
 of a fignificator to all afpefts con- 
 
 verfe that are made in the world ibid 
 
 ' — how to equate the arches, where- 
 by to afcertain the length of time in 
 which the events denoted by them will 
 be in coming to pafs 474 
 
 '■ fecondjry ibid 
 
 • to the angles of the figure in the 
 
 horofcope 656 
 
 • of the afcendant to the various af- 
 
 pe£ts of the planets ibid 
 
 of all the planets to their afpscfts 
 
 in mundo 63110663 
 
 of all the planers to their afp^its 
 
 in the zodiac 669 to 680 
 
 Difeafes incident to the mind by nature 4V3 
 
 Difeafes produced by the Part of Fortune, 
 when Hilcg, or giver of life, and afflidted 
 by the Anareta, or killing planet .- 730 
 
 Difeafes produced by the Afcendjnt, when 
 Hileg, or giver of life, and ^fflidted by the 
 Anareta, or deltroyiiig planet 731 
 
 Dragon's head and tail, their fituation and 
 influence 12 
 
 E. 
 
 Eclipfcs, the theory of 947 
 
 of the fun 951 
 
 of the moon 957 
 
 ■ ' vifible which will happen from 
 
 this time to the year 1808 964 
 
 EfFedts (general) of the planets, in each of 
 
 the 12 figns of the zodiac zoz 
 
 from the pofition of the lords of 
 
 the houfes 204 
 
 (general) produced by theafpedls 
 
 of the conjunction 207 
 
 ■ of the houfes of children 447 
 
 tleiSions 913 
 
 Explanation of the technical words and 
 
 terms of art ufcd in aftrology 137 
 
 Explanation of the twelve houfes of heaven, 
 
 with directions forereiSling the horofcope 14^ 
 
 F. 
 Figure of the horofcope, or 12 houfes of 
 
 heaven 146 
 
 Form and temper.iture of the body 424 
 
 Friends and enemies 449 
 
 G. 
 
 General judgments to be inferred from di- 
 
 redlions 226 
 
 GholV, to raife 1106 
 
 Page 
 
 Hilsg, or deftroying planet 731 
 
 Horary Qusftions 267 
 
 Horofcope, what, and how ereiied, 145, 147,161 
 todire(!l;its angles 656 
 
 I. 
 
 Inclinations, natural or profeflional 43s 
 
 ■ natural for travelling 453 
 
 Judgments to be inferred from Jupiter's 
 
 tranfits 231 
 
 to be inferred from revolutions in 
 
 general 233 
 
 ' — proper for the firft houfc 2S0 
 
 proper fjr the fecond houl'e 2S7 
 
 proper to the third houfe 290 
 
 ■ proper to the fourth houfe 294 
 
 proper to the fifth houfe 299 
 
 proper to the fixth hcufe 303 
 
 proper to the feventh houfj 307 
 
 proper to the tigV;'. houfe "31J 
 
 • proper to the ninth houfe 318 
 
 proper to the tenth houfe 321 
 
 proper to the eleventh houfe 323 
 
 proper to the twelfth houfe 325 
 
 Jupiter, his fituation, appearance, and in- 
 fluence 100 
 
 difeafes under him lot 
 
 . herbs and plants ibid 
 
 ftones, metals and minerals ibid 
 
 animals, weather, and wind ibid 
 
 ^countries and colours 102 
 
 L. 
 
 Letter from the Reverend Mr. Arthur Bed- 
 ford, minifter of Temple church in Brif- 
 tol, to the Biftiop of Glouccfter, on the 
 
 fubjedlof converfing with fpirits 1121 
 
 Loadllone, its virtues j8 
 
 Logiftical logarithms 601 
 
 M. 
 
 Magic, and the doftrine of exorcifm, 1098 to 
 1 1 20 
 
 Mars, his place and orbit 103 
 
 his difeafes, herbs, plants, ftones, 
 
 metals, minerals, animals, weather, winds, 
 
 and regions 104 . 
 
 Mercury, his fituation and orbit 110 
 
 difeafes, herbs, and plants, under... 221 
 
 ftones, metals, animals, weather, 
 
 and winds 112 
 
 regions governed by H2 
 
 Meteors, their nature, fubftance, form, and 
 
 caufe ... 917 
 
 Moon's influence on tides, animals, vege- 
 tables, &c 43 
 
 Moon,
 
 N 
 
 D 
 
 E 
 
 X. 
 
 r i: 
 
 Page 
 
 i,Moon, its fituation and defcription 105 
 
 — difeafes under it loS 
 
 _ herbs, plants, ftones, metals, and ani- 
 mals, under it 107 
 
 — : winds, weather, and regions ibid 
 
 N. 
 
 Nativities, Judgments thereupon, 241. Art of 
 calculating ■. 380 
 
 Nativity of John Collons, 813. Of Mrs. Kezia 
 Lampard, 817. Of Baron Emanuel bweden- 
 borg, 8zi. Of four twins,' 82g. Of Thomas 
 Beliisford, a giant, 834. Of a dwarf, 837. 
 Of a (hort life, or embryo, 839. Of Alex- 
 ander the Great, 847. Of Nero Caefar, 848. 
 Of Pope Sextus, 849. Of Philip 11. icing of 
 Spain, 849. Of Henry IV. king of Eng- 
 land, 851. Of Edward VI. 853. Of Q_aeen 
 Mary, 854. Of Queen Elizabeth, 855. Of 
 the Earl of Eflcx, 855. Of James 1. king 
 of Eiigiand, 857. Or Charles i. king of 
 England, 858. Of Oliver Cromwell, 859. Of 
 Charles II. king of England, 862. Of 
 James II. king of England, 864. Of George 
 duke of Albemarle, 866. Of James duke of 
 Hamilton, 867. Of the Earl of Strafford, 868. 
 Of George Villers duke of Buckingham, 
 870. Of William Laud archbifhop of Can- 
 terbury, 872. Of Cornelius Agrippa, 873. 
 Of Nicholas Culpeper, fludent in phyfic and 
 aftrology, 875. Of William Lilly, ftudent 
 in aftrology, 879. Of John Headon, chemift 
 and aitrologer, 880, Ot John Gadbury, flu- 
 dent in aftrology, 881. Of Vincent Wing, 
 ftudent in ditto, 882. Of Henry Colley, ma- 
 thematician and aftrologer, 883. Of John 
 Partridge, profefTor of aftrology, 885, Of 
 George Parker, profeflbr of ditto, 886. Of 
 James Ufher, Bifhop of Armagh, in Ireland, 
 8S7. Of Nafc-Erafmus, of Rotterdam, in 
 Holland, 889. Of Martin Luther, 889., Of 
 Bifhop . Hall, S89. Of Melancthon, 889. 
 Of George HI. king of Great Britain, 891. 
 Of our bkffed Lord and Saviour Jefus Chriil, 
 892. Of the Rev. George Whitfield, A. M. 
 792. Of the Rev. John Henderfon, A. B. of 
 Pembroke College, Oxford, 798. Of Mr. 
 James Gilbert, 800. Of Mr. T. Chatterton, 
 807. 
 
 P. . 
 
 Part of Fortune, its fitu ition and influence 113 
 
 . direcl-;! to promittors ... 680 
 
 to the oppofuion of 
 
 Saturn ibid 
 
 to the conju nation 
 
 of Cor Leonis • •■.. 681 
 
 to theconjundlion 
 
 Page 
 Part of Fortune, directed to the quartile of 
 
 Jupiter in the zodiac ibid 
 
 • ___— to the oppofuion 
 
 of Venus 863 
 
 to the conjunction 
 
 of the dragon's tail or moon's fouth node 684 
 ■asHileg tothe fun. 
 
 4Df Mars 682 
 
 which in this nativity is Anareta, or the 
 
 direftion of death 684 
 
 Perfons, how to defcribe their fhape, form, fize, 
 
 complexion, conflitution, &c. by the planets, 
 
 309 to 377 
 Planets, their influences and eftevfi:=, 97. Their 
 
 terni^,triplicities,exaItations,orbs, motions, and 
 
 all their natural and eflential qualities, 122 to 135 
 Poles of the different pianets, how tu find, 626 
 
 to 629 
 Power of magical charms, 1 1 1 1. 
 
 Queftions proper to the twelve houfes of heaven, 
 280 to 287. 
 
 horary, on the length of life, 337. On 
 
 the fate of a (hip at fea, 329. An ablent fon, 
 whether dead or alive, 331. On the profpedl 
 of riches, 333. On the fuccefs of a journey, 
 33J. On paternal inheritance, 337. On a 
 change of fituation, 339. On child-bearing, 
 340. On hiring fervants, 344. On courtfhip 
 and marriage, 346. On war and battle, 348. 
 On theft, 351. On legacies, 354. On the 
 fuccefs of a fleet, 356. On places of prefer- 
 ment, 359- On impr ifonment, 361. 
 R. 
 
 Revolutions of kingdoms and ftates, 1044. 
 
 Rudiments of the do(Slrine of horary queftions, 257 
 S. 
 
 Saturn, his defcription and fituation, 97. Dif- 
 eafes under him, 98. Herbs, plants, ftones, 
 metals, minerals, animals, weather, wind, and 
 regions, under him, gg. 
 
 Scheme of the folar ingrefs governing the year 
 1776, 1052. Of the fun's ingrefs governing 
 the year i78g, 1036. 
 
 Spirits, their different orders, natures, and power, 
 1097. To raife up and exorcife, 1 1 10. 
 
 Stars fixed, their influence, 26 ; fignification in 
 nativities, 234 
 
 Sun, his fituation, dimenfions, and motion, 112. 
 Difeafes, herbs, and plants, governed by him, 
 113. Stones, metals, animals, weather, winds, 
 and regions, 114. 
 
 T. 
 
 Table of the ancient Conftellations, 81. Of the 
 unformed ftars, by Hevclius, 83. Exhibit- 
 int' the aftedlions and fignifications of the de- 
 grees in each fign of the zodiac, 83 to 96. 
 Of the periods, revolutions, magnitude, &c. 
 
 of
 
 1 130 
 
 M 
 
 D 
 
 of the planets, 116. Of the effoiitial dig- 
 nitiesof the planctf, 118. Of ihe fortitudes 
 and debilities of the planets, 120 C»f the for- 
 titudes and drbiiities of the part of fortutie, 
 izi. • Of the phmeiary iiours for every day oi 
 the week', bc-!;inning at fun,rifing, 162. Of 
 the planetary hours for every day and night 
 in the vveelc, 165. To reduce the motion ot 
 pl:inets to any hour of the day or night, 166. 
 Of Houfes, calculated for the latitude of 51 de- 
 crees 32 rridutcs for double^ horary times, 
 TjDto i8i. Of the principal Fixed Stars near 
 the ecliptic, (liowing tbeir true longitude, la- 
 titude, a-.d nature, \ 88. Showing the places 
 of the fixed ftars, at any time paftor to come, 
 191. Of the circles of pofitions of the i ith, 
 thiid, twelfth, and lecond, houfes, from 31 to 
 60 degrees of lat'tude, 192. For converting 
 mean folar lime into degrees and parts of the 
 terreftrial tquator, and alio for converting 
 degrees and parts of the tquator irrto mean 
 folar time, 196. Of the latitude and longitude 
 of the principal cities and towns in England, 
 198. Forcalculating Nativities, 412. Of femi- 
 diurnal aiu; feminodturnal arches, 481. Of twi- 
 light,482. Of Mundane Afpcas,ib. OfRight 
 AfcenliDiis, 483. Of Declinations, lb. Of 
 the arceiifuiiial diff rences of the planets, 484. 
 Gf Oblique Aiceiifu'tis for ihe latitude of Lon- 
 don, 485. Of Semidiurnal and Seminodlurnal 
 Arches, 487 to 489. Showing the femidiurnal 
 
 E X. 
 
 arch, to every degree of the ecliptic, caku-.j 
 latid for the latitude of .5! degrees, 32 n-iinufriir 
 4go. Showing the femiAosflurnal nrch to eve'f ^ 
 degree of the ecliptic f(w the latitude of i^l ^ 
 32 minutes, 451.- Of twilight, from latitt.ide, 
 44 JO 56, 492 10 500. 0/ Mwndane Afpri>?^ 
 (;oi, 502. Of Right AfcenficfriS, 503 to 54c)!,'; 
 Of Afcenfional Differences, 5*3 fo SS*- ^^ 
 the Oblique Afcenfi oi; ^f the Flaneis for the 
 latitud' of LonoMM, 55s i: i 578. Of Logiftical 
 Logarithms, 585 to 60^ Ot direitious inihe 
 nativity of Mr. ^VitcJiell, 686 to 690. A re- 
 volutional one, 787. Colledting the afpefts of 
 all the days of the' year. 7S8. C^f v/.nds, looy. 
 Tides, the theory and caule of, 987. 
 W, 
 
 Weather, how to calculate, 92 
 
 Winds, their theory and caule, looi. TaWe of 
 their different force and velocity, 1007. Their 
 names, and poinds from the compafs, 1015. 
 
 Witchell, George, his nativity, 624 
 
 V. 
 
 Venus, hT fituation and orbit, 108, Difeafes 
 under Venus, 109. Herbs, plants, and ani- 
 mals, ib. Stones, rretals, weather, and wind,. 
 no. 
 
 Zodiac, its 
 85. 
 
 1 2 figns confidered i.-A explainedj . 
 
 LIST of the PLATES, and Direaions to Place them. 
 
 Page 
 
 FRONTISPIECE to face the Title 
 
 Harmony of the world 60 
 
 Table, exhibiting the nature, dignities, tri- 
 plicities, and aff<--£tions, of the figns and 
 
 planets 97 
 
 Head of the author,as Frontifpiece to Vol. 1 J . 
 
 Mr. Witchell .^. 619 
 
 Speculum Phenomenorum of G. Witchell 756 
 
 Head of the Rev. Mr. Whitfield 792 
 
 the Rev. Mr. J. Henderfon 798 
 
 Four twins 829 
 
 Marriage of Benjamin Brownfel 844 
 
 Head of Alexander the Great, &c 847 
 
 Henry VIlL&c 852 
 
 James L &c 857 
 
 —— James Duke of Hamilton, &c. ... 867 
 
 Page 
 
 HeadofCic o, &c 873 
 
 • N'incent Wing, &c 8Sz 
 
 Martin Luther, &c 889 
 
 King George HI 89c 
 
 Nativity of Jcfus Chrift 892 
 
 Scheme of the Heavens at the Crucifixion 910 
 
 Plate of Ecliples 951 
 
 Armillary Sphere 96; 
 
 Annual Motion of the Earth 969 
 
 Solar Ingrefles, governing the year 1776 1052 
 
 Revolution of America io;4 
 
 Four Figures of Man 1061 
 
 Six Heads of the Lifpirati 109S 
 
 Magical Circle, Seals, and Charadters .. 1103 
 
 Edward Kelly raifing up a fpirit 1106 
 
 Plate of the Elaboratory 11J5 
 
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