A Learned Astronomical discourse, of the judgement of Nativities. Divided into three Books, and dedicated first to Katherine the French Queen, by Oger Ferrier her Physician.  
¶ Translated by Thomas Kelway Gentleman.  
Published by Authority.  Psalm. 147. 4. He counteth the number of the stars, & calleth them all by their names. 
AT LONDON, Printed at the widow Charlewoods house, for Richard Watkins. Anno. 1593.    

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, VIRTUOUS, AND LEARNED LORD HENRY, Earl of Northumberland: (*) Lord Percy, Lucy, Brian, Fitzpaine and Poynings: Lord of the Honours of Cockermouth and Petworth etc. Knight of the most honourable order of the GARTER. All true felicity both in this life and in the world to come most heartily wished.  
IF that saying of Plato (right noble Lord) be true, that our Country challengeth an especial interest in our very uttermost ability, which any way may tend to profit & benefit the same: then will it sufficiently countenance the poor received Talon of mine, in that being so strictly charged by so great and grave a Philosopher, I ought not to bury in oblivion my knowledge whatsoever, but rather as freely bestow mine endeavour on her, as she did frankly impart the light thereof to me.  
For though it be a common phrase in the mouths of men altogether ignorant in the precious value and profit of Sciences: That the study of Letters is a bottomless Gulf, and so long and so uneasy a journey, that they which rashly think to finish it, oftentimes are drowned in the midway, and so under this pretence, account it better not to know much, yea, nothing at all: Against such slothful suggesters of men in a deadly obscurity while they live, let me avouch that saying of Aristotle, Man (saith he) was created to understand and to do, for knowledge begetteth judgement, and by judgement men execute all good and virtuous actions.  
O Science (saith Plato) how would men love thee, if they did but know thee? for even as health is the conservation of the body, so is knowledge the sure and only safe-garder of the soul. And Cicero being of the same opinion, saith: O knowledge, the guide of our life, the only cause of virtue, and enemy to vice: What is the life of man without thee?  
If then (right learned Lord) such a main & current stream of unconquerable reason, washeth to nothing the empty and confused wits, of such as are enemies to the excellency of Art, and maketh most fertile (like the overflowings of Nilus) the judgements of them that are governed thereby: (though far from me be the thought of arrogating the very lest title of Art to myself, yet as one that desires to receive the breath of life from her sacred dwelling, and holds with the learned in all ages, that man is as a bruit beast without her:) then let me thus far presume under your noble favour, to show that I have not altogether truanted in my life time, but how I have bestowed those permitted hours of exercise, that more weighty affairs in the world afforded me, both to declare my reverend zeal to so high a mystery, and unfeigned affection. I bear to your honour.  
The work was first written in French, by an excellent Scholar, Oger Ferrier, a Physician, borne in Tolouze, & dedicated to Queen Katherine of France, mother to the King that last deceased. And being now by me changed into an English habit, that it might receive no indignity by dedication, I have stamped your noble name in the forehead thereof, that it may be said (in despite of the proudest carper or controller,) This is the God-chylde of a peerless Godfather.  
And as I doubt not of your honourable acceptauce, so I am likewise persuaded, that what hath wanted on my behalf in translation, or any other imperfection beside, shall be as nobly censured: in which resolution I humbly kiss your hand, and continue as forward in affection, as any to your Honour's welfare.  
Thomas Kelway. One of her highness Trumpets in ordinary.   

TO THE COURTEUS Reader.  
I Am to request (gentle Reader) one favour at thy hand, that if this work of the judgement of Nativities seem harsh and unpleasant to thee, thou wouldst not therefore wound the same with injurious words, to charge thyself with more folly than needs: but if thou find it above thy knowledge or capacity, say as honest minded Chion said: Let my betters judge of these matters. For I must and do confess, that it is not a Book for every man's reading, and he that reads with derision, because he understands not, must blame his own insufficiency, and not the book: for if he could learn as much in an hour, as cost a learned man many years to compass, than would his humour be pleased, and the work not reproached. But let such loiterers understand, that knowledge requires the whole circuit of a man's life, and live he never so long, yet may he learn: but if it might be attained in a summers day, a number would be excellent, that through default thereof remaineth utterly ignorant.  
To use many words, I account needless, knowing that the reproof of the unlearned, is rather the badge of their own weak brain, than any blemish to a work of worth: Therefore let them censure as they please, the learned (I know) will judge like themselves, of whom I had rather be deservedly controlled, then by the other be ignorantly commended.  
Thomas Kelway.   

❧ The Table of the matters in this present Treatise.  

The first Book.  
OF the Celestial figure of a Nativity. Fol. 1.  
Of the verification of the hour of the Nativity. fol. 1.  
The manner to set down the said figure verified. fol. 3.  
Of the parts of Nativities. fol. 3.  
Of the latitudes and aspects of the Planets. 6.  
Of the fortunes and infortunes of Planets, and parts of heaven. fol. 6.  
If the Child shall live or no. fol. 8.  
Of the giver of life, called of the Arabians Hyleg. fol. 9  
Of the giver of years, called of the Arabians Alcocoden. fol, 10.  
Of them that augment and diminish the number of the said years. fol. 11.  
Of the Lord of the nativity. fol. 12.  
Of the understanding and manners of the man. 13.  
Of riches and poverty. fol, 15.  
By what means riches and poverty come. fol, 16.  
Of the time that the riches & damages shall come. folio. 17.  
Of brethren. fol, 18  
Of Father and Mother. fol, 18  
Of heritage's and goods of the earth. fol, 19  
Of Children. fol, 19  
Of Servants. fol, 20.  
Of Diseases. fol, 21.  
Of marriage. fol. 22.  
Of Dowry and other goods by the means of marriage. fol. 23.  
Of the death. fol. 23.  
Of voyages by Land and by Sea. fol, 25  
Of the constancy in his religion. fol. 25  
Of the action and profession. fol, 26.  
Of dignities, offices and honours. fol. 26.  
Of companions and friends. fol, 27.  
Of suits and enemies. fol, 28.  
Of imprisonments and captivities. fol, 28.  
Of Horses, Muttons and other beasts. 29   

The second Book.  
Of the significations of the Planets. fol. 29.  
Of the significations of the twelve signs. fol. 32.  
Of that which the Planets signify in the said signs. fol. 34  
Of the aspects of the Planets between them. 36.  
Of the significations of the twelve houses. fol. 40.  
Of the Lords of the Tryplicities of the said houses. fol. 41  
What the Planets signify in the twelve houses. folio. 42.  
The significations of the Lords of the houses, by all the places of the figure. fol. 48.   

The third Book.  
Of Directions. fol. 52.  
Of the Seperator or Burner, called of the Arabians Algebuthar. fol. 53.  
Of the Lords of the Tryplicities. fol. 54.  
Of Revolutions. fol, 54.  
Of the judgements upon the Revolutions. fol. 54  
Of the years governed by the Planets, called of the Arabians Fridarie. fol. 55.  
Of Profections. fol. 57  
The Lord of the circulation, from the Lord of the hour of the nativity. fol. 58  
Of the circulation of the Lord of the ascendant, and of the Planets which be in the ascendant. fol. 58.  
Of the Eclipses and great conjunctions appertaining to the Revolutions of nativities. fol. 58.  
Of the particular meetings of all the year. fol. 58.   
FINIS.   

OF THE JUDGEMENTS ASTRONOMICAL UPON NATIVITIES. The first Book.  

CHAP. I. Of the Celestial figure of a Nativity.  
FOR to judge of Ascendants and Nativities, after the traditions of the ancient and learned Astrologians, it is convenient first to explain the Celestial figure, and in the same, to apply the seven Planets, with the head and tail of the Dragon Lunaire, together with the part of Fortune, and the part of the spirit and others, more appertaining to the high & notable significations of the stars; Then, to set down plainly the Celestial figure, you must in the first place, note the year, the day, & the hour, with the most nearest minute of time of the nativity that you have undertaken. The number of the hours and minutes, you must set them down after the manner of the numbering of the Astrologians, within their tables: always set down the hower's afternoon, as well by day as by night, and never say, one hour, two hours, three hours after midnight, but number xiii. hours, xiv. hours, xv. after noon. This done, search in the Ephemerideses in the table of the year of your nativity, in the right month & day proposed, the degree of the sign wherein the Sun is: look afterward in the Table of houses, which serve for the latitude of your Country, and search there the said degree of the Sun under the line of the tenth house. And having found in the same place the same degree of the Sun, you shall find directly upon the left hand of the same Table, a number of hours and minutes, the which writ apart. To which number, you must add the hours and minutes that hath been given you of the same nativity, and that which resteth by your addition, you must seek in the table of houses: and there where you find the same number of hours & minutes coming of the same addition, you must take to a right line the points and beginnings of the six houses, which you shall find marked: the which you shall direct upon your figure, beginning at the point of the tenth, and continuing towards the left hand.  
The beginning of the other six houses, you must take the opposite signs; and if it happen that the number of houses and minutes, come to more than twentie-foure hours, it is then convenient to subtract twentie-foure hours of the same time, and the residue seek out as we have aforesaid. If the hour of the same nativity, be upon the point of twelve hours of noon, you must take the houses in a right line of the degree of the sun, in the table of your latitude, without making any other addition, or substraction, and that when in the figure estimative: within the which, it is needful by all means to apply the moving of the Moon exactly calculated, according to the vulgar cannons of the Ephemerideses, for to verify afterward your nativity by the hour of the conception. As followeth.   

CHAP. II. Of the verification of the bower of the nativity.  
Leaving the Animodar of Ptolemy and the meetings of Schoner, and all other uncertain ways (although they have their Authors) to verify the hours of nativities, I will presently follow the method of Hermes, approved by long experience, and confirmed by Ptolemy in his Centiloque, and by Abraham Auenesrus, by Alphonce Leopolde, Haly, and other most expert Astrologians. Hermes saith, that the ascendant of a nativity, hath been the place of the Moon at the time of the conception; and that the ascendant of the conception, is the place of the Moon at the hour of the nativity. Who would be more near certified of the hour & minute of a nativity, and of the true ascendant, it is convenient that you follow the doctrine of Hermes by the method following. First of all that you look into the figure estimative, whether the Moon be above the Horrizon or beneath. If she be above the Horrizon, count the distance that is between the point of the seventh house and the Moon: if she be beneath the Horrizon, count the distance which is from the first house unto the Moon, which distance of signs and degrees, you must search in the table that followeth, under the title of the Moon, above the Horrizon or beneath, as truly you have found in the said figure. In a right line of the said distance, you shall find the time that the infant hath remained within the womb of his Mother, in a certain number of days, the which you must reckon from the day of your nativity backward; and there where the number endeth, you must mark the day of the conception, if the Moon be found in the sign of the ascendant estimative. If you find her not in the same place, go backward or forward certain days of your account, until you have found the Moon within the said sign, not far from the degree ascendant in the said figure. The day considered, and in what hour, go forward to the East point, the place where you have sound the Moon in the figure estimative, and at that hour you must calculate the moving of the Moon. For this degree and minute in the which you found her, you must place it in the ascendant of your nativity.  
And to know the hour in the which the place of the Moon of the nativity, rose to the East point at the time of the conception, take first the overthwart ascension of the said place of the Moon, within the table of the directions of your country, in the book of john de Regiomonte, of the same ascension take away 90. degrees, (& ad to the whole circle which is of 360. degrees, when the substraction cannot be otherwise made) the residue shall be the right ascension of the height of the point of the Merydian circle: take afterward the right ascension of the Sun, and take out by the substraction of the right ascension of the said point of the Merydian, and add 360. degrees if it be necessary, & turn that which is left into hours and minutes, in giving to 30. degrees two hours, to fifteen degrees one hour, to one degree 4. minutes of an hour, to fifteen minutes one minute of an hour; by this means you shall exactly come to the hour of the conception, to the which you must calculate the place of the Moon, and the same well calculated, put it to the point of the first house, in the figure of the nativity.  
divers for this verefication do dress and garnish the motions of the Planets four figures. One of that hour estimative of the nativity, the other, of the precedent conjunction or opposition of the brightness: the third, of the verification by the Animodar: the fourth, of the conception. The which besides the unprofitable and superfluous labour, err greatly, thinking to find out the time of the conception by the Animodar of Ptolemy, the which experience from day to day showeth to be false, and that it hath no ancient Author to maintain it, or hath made mention of this new doctrine, being full of contention and disproved verity.  

¶ The Table of the time that the Child doth remain within the womb of his Mother.  The Moon being under the Horrizon, reckon from the Ascendaunt. The Moon being above the Horrizon, reckon from the seventh.  sig degr days    0 0 273 Indifferent abiding. 258 Little abiding. 0 12 274  259  0 24 275  260  1 6 276  261  1 18 277  262  2 0 278  263  2 12 279  264  2 24 280  265  3 6 281  266  3 18 282  267  4 0 283  268  4 12 284  269  4 24 285  270  5 6 286  271  5 18 287  272  5 29 288 Long abiding. 273    

CHAP. III. The manner to set down perfectly the said figure verified.  
Having put to the point of the first house, the degree & minutes of the Moon of the time of the conception, take the overthwart ascensions of the said degrees and minutes: take out afterward 90. degrees of the said ascensions, and add thereto 360. degrees, if otherwise the substraction cannot be made: that which remaineth, shallbe the right ascensions of the highest point of the circle Meridian, the which search in the table of the right ascensions, in the book of Alphonce, or of john de Regiomonte, etc. and put to the point of the tenth house, the degrees & minutes of the sign you find, answering to the right number of the said right ascensions. The point of the fourth is always against the sign and degree of the tenth: likewise the point of the seventh, to the point of the first. The other houses sufficed, take the Ephemerideses, because they do not desire exact calculation, seeing that the most part of the Astrologians, desire more to take of the equal portion of the Eclipse then of the horizontal sect.  
For to know the exact hour of the said figure, verify first the said right ascensions of the Meridian, and take from them the right ascensions of the Sun, that which remaineth turn into hours and minutes, giving to xv. degrees one hour, to every degree four minutes of an hour. etc. as we have said before. At this hour you must newly count the moving of the Moon, and of the Sun, & of the other Planets: and upon this figure you must ground the parts and judgements Astronomical.   

CHAP. FOUR Of the parts of Nativities.  
AFter you have well sought the Planets in the said figure verified, you must consider their above certain proportions of the Planets and parts of the heaven, taken of their distances, as followeth.  

The parts concerning the significations of the first House.  
The part of the quality of the life, is taken by the distance of jupiter from Saturn, counting as much space from the ascendant, as when the nativity is by day: for when it is by night, they take it to the contrary, the distance of Saturn unto jupiter, following the natural order of the signs, counting likewise as much space since the ascendant.  
The part of life by day and by night, is taken of the degree of the precedent conjunction, or opposition of the lights unto the Moon, counting from the ascendant.  
The part of the Spirit (many do call the part of earthly things and secrets, the other, the part of things to come, the others, the part of the Sun) in the day from the Move unto the Sun, from the ascendant, in the night to the contrary.  
The part of the understanding, by the day, is from Mercury unto Mars, from the ascendant, at night to the contrary.   

Of the second House.  
The part of Fortune by the day, is from the Sun unto the Moon, from the ascendant, at night to the contrary. Ptolemy doth take it as much by day as by night, from the Sun unto the Moon.  
The part of the goods aswell by day as by night, is from the Lord of the second house, unto the said second house, taken upon the quality of the Eclipse, from the ascendant.   

Of the third.  
The part of brothers, by the day, is from Saturn unto jupiter, from the ascendant, at night to the contrary.  
The part of the love of brethren, by the day, is from the Sun unto Saturn, from the ascendant, at night to the contrary. If Saturn be under the beams of the Sun, take jupiter in his place.   

Of the fourth.  
The part of father, by the day, is from the Sun unto Saturn, from the ascendant, at night to the contrary. This same is like the love of brethren: then if Saturn be underneath the beams of the Sun, in his place take jupiter.  
The part of inheritances and possessions, by day and by night, is from Saturn to the Moon, from the ascendant.  
The part of fortune in tillage and sowing, by day and by night, is from Venus unto Saturn, from the ascendant.   

Of the fift.  
The part of Infants, is as the part of the quality of the life.  
The part of male children by day and by night, is from the Moon unto jupiter, and is numbered from the ascendant.  
The part of daughters, by day and by night, is from the Moon unto Venus, and is taken from the ascendant.   

Of the sixth.  
The part of diseases inseparable, in the day, is the distance of Saturn unto Mars, and it is cast from the degree ascendant, and in the night from Mars, which is contrary.  
The part of servants, by day and by night, from Mercury unto the Moon, is from the ascendant.  
The part of prison and captivity by day, from the lord of the place of the Sun, unto the Sun, and is reckoned from the ascendant. By night, from the Lord of the place of the Moon, unto the Moon.  
If the Sun by day, or the Moon by night, be in their proper houses or exaltations, they shall be signifiers of this part.   

Of the seventh.  
The part of the marriage of men, by day and by night, from the Sun unto Venus, is from the ascendant.  
The part of the marriage of women, by day & by night, from Venus to Saturn, is from the ascendant.  
The part of marriage common to men & to women, by day and by night, is from Venus unto the point of the seventh house, accounting from the ascendant.  
The part of kindred, by day and by night, from Saturn unto Venus, is from the ascendant.  
The part of discord & agreement, by day, is from Mars to jupiter from the ascendant: by night to the contrary.   

Of the eight.  
The part of death, by day and by night, from the Moon unto the degree of the eight house, taken upon the equality of the Eclipse accounting from the place o● Saturn.  
The part of the mortal Planet by day is from the Lord of the ascendant, unto the Moon, from the ascendant, by night to the contrary.  
The part of the perilous year of death, or poverty, or of any other misfortune by day, and by night, is from Saturn unto the Lord of the foresaid conjunction or opposition of the light, from the ascendant.  
The part of all envies, by day, is from Saturn unto Mars, by night to the contrary, accounting from the place of Mercury.   

Of the ninth.  
The part of faith and of religion by day, is from the Moon unto Mercury, from the ascendant, by night to the contrary.  
The part of ways by land by day and by night, is from the Lord of the ninth unto the ninth, taken upon the equality of the Eclipse, from the ascendant.  
The part of travail by water by day, is from Saturn unto the fifteenth degree of Cancer, from the ascendant, at night to the contrary.  
If Saturn do meet in the said fifteenth degree of Cancer, he shall be signifier of this part, with the ascendant.   

Of the tenth.  
The part of nobility by day, is from the Sun unto the nineteenth degree of Aries, accounting from the ascendant, by night, from the Moon unto the third degree of Taurus. If the Moon by night be in the said degree of Taurus, or the Sun by day, in the said degree of Aries, they shall be signifiers of the said part.  
The part of government by day, is from Mars unto the Moon from the ascendant, by night to the contrary.  
The part of Magistrates, as the part of the understanding, written upon the first house.  
The part of conquest & victory, as the part of father.  
The part of sudden advancement, by day, is from Saturn unto the part of Fortune, from the ascendant, by night to the contrary; If Saturn be burned, take in his place jupiter.  
The part of estimation, by day and by night; is from Mercury unto the Sun, accounting from the ascendant.  
The part of governments and seats of war, by day, is from Mars unto Saturn; from the ascendant, by night to the contrary.  
The part of the profession and action, by day and by night, is from Saturn unto the Moon from the ascendant.  
The part of honour proceeding of the profession, by day and by night, is from the degree of the Sun, unto the degree of the tenth house, from the ascendant.  
The part of the industry of the hands, by day, is from Mercury to Venus, from the ascendant, by night to the contrary.  
The part of the fear of Merchandise, by day, is from the part of the spirit, unto the part of Fortune, from the ascendant, by night to the contrary.  
The part of felicity, and profit, by day, is from the part of Fortune unto jupiter, from the ascendant, by night to the contrary.  
The part of the mother, by day, is from Venus unto the Moon, from the ascendant, by night to the contrary.   

Of the eleventh.  
The part of friends, by day and by night, is from Mercury to the Moon, from the ascendant.  
The part of praise, by day, is from jupiter unto Venus from the ascendant, by night to the contrary.  
The part of honourable companies, by day, is from the part of Fortune unto the Sun, from the ascendant, by night to the contrary.   

Of the twelfth.  
The part of enemies, by day & by night, is from the lord of the xii. house unto the said xii. taken upon the equality of the Eclipse, from the ascendant.  
The second part of enemies, as the part of diseases inseparable, written in the sixth house.  
The part of pain, travail and affliction, by day and by night, is from the part of the spirit, unto the part of fortune.    

CHAP. V Of the latitudes and aspects of the Planets.  
Having applied the Planets in the said figure, and ordained as we have said in the former chapter, the parts proceeding of the proportions of the said Planets, you must consequently draw out of the Ephemerideses their latitudes, & put apart all the aspects which is among them, and towards the said parts and xii. houses; also the radiations, after the last proposition of the book of Directions of john de Regiomonte: upon the which note, that the aspects opposites, have always divers latitudes to them of their Planets, although they keep the same number. As if Saturn had two degrees of latitude septentrional, his opposition hath two degrees of latitudes meridional. The quadrant aspect hath no latitude, for it falleth always upon the Eclipse.  
The Trine aspect, retaineth the half of the number of the latitude, in contrary part: for if a Planet have one degree of latitude meridional, his trine shall have thirty minutes of latitude septentrional. The Sextile retaineth the same side, with the half of the number. You must also note, that these aspects of Saturn and of jupiter, do not extend but unto nine degrees, or for the most longest unto twelve; those of Mars unto eight, or for the most part to ten. The Sun extendeth his beams to xv. degrees, Venus and Mercury almost to eight. The Moon unto twelve, the head & tail of the Dragon, likewise extend their forces unto twelve degrees.  
Moreover, it is to be noted, that the opposition is a plain aspect and perfect enmity: the Quadrate of less enmity: the Trine of perfect love: the Sextile of imperfect love. That which always receiveth exception in jupiter and Venus, (of the which opposites and quadrate aspects) profit the Sun & the Moon with reception, or without reception, and to others also with reception.   

CHAP. VI Of the fortunes and infortunes of the Planets, and parts of Heaven.  
AFter this, you must consider the forces & weakness of the Planets, parts and Houses, and conferring the ones significations with the other, you must collect the fortunes and infortunes of every place, as followeth.  

Hear followeth the infortunes.  
The Planets and other places of the Heaven, be called unfortunate, when they be burned under the beams of the Sun. Burn are called Saturn and jupiter, when between them & the Sun they have less than twelve degrees. Mars when he is burned of the Sun, hath at the least xj. degrees and a half. Venus and Mercury, when they be near the Sun, xj. degrees. The Moon when she is not burned, by xiii. And yet you find other terms, when you will take a Planet for to give the years. Then the three superiors are esteemed burnt, because they are near the Sun by xv. degrees, and if they be occidental. For when they be oriental unto ten degrees, they are burnt from the ten unto xv. under the beams. Venus and Mercury occidental near to the Sun by seven degrees, or oriental by five, be burned, from thence unto twelve under the beams. The Moon near by twelve degrees is burnt, from thence unto xv. under the beams. And you must note, that the said accidents are not hurtful when they fall in the signs of Aries, and of the Lyon.  
Unfortunate also are the Planets, when they go backward, and when they be joined with Saturn or with Mars: or when they receive evil aspects of them.  
When they are joined with any fixed star of violent nature.  
When they are in their detriments or fall, (that is to say) in places opposite to their houses or exaltations.  
When they are in their declining houses.  
When they are first standers, (that is to say) when they be in the degree and minute wherein incontinently they begin to go backward.  
When they are in the way of burning, which begin at the 19 degree of Libra, and end in the third degree of Scorpio.  
When they be with the tail of the Dragon.  
When they are joined with a backward Planet, or otherwise unfortunate.  
When they are Peregrine's, without being received. They are called Peregrins, when they have no dignity or place where they be. Of the reception we will speak afterwards.  
When they be meridional descendants.  
When any of the three superiors are occidental, or Venus & Mercury oriental, when they be in evil aspects of the Sun.  
When they do not regard any other Planet.  
When they be opposites to the Lord of the sign where they be.  
When they be set, (that is to say) between two evil Planets, although they have 30. degrees of distance.  
When they be in evil houses or terms.  
When they be in the twelfth sign of their principal houses.  
When they be under the Horrizon in the day, or above the Horrizon in the night: if they be Diurnes, as Saturn, jupiter, and the Sun.  
When they be above the Horrizon in the day, and beneath at night. If they be Nocturnes, as Mars, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon.  
When they be in signs and degrees feminine, they be masculines, or in signs and degrees masculine, they be feminines. Feminines are Venus and the Moon, Mercury and Androgine, the others are masculines.  
When they be in degrees which are called Azemenae, or in degrees stinking, dark, or smoky. That which is marked in the Ephemerideses, in the table of the dignities of the Planets.   

Infortune's particular to the Moon.  
When she decreaseth.  
When she is within the eight House, out of her principal dignities.  
When she is within the seventh, and that as to the life. And as for any other significations she is not infortunate in the seventh.  
When she is in the nineteen. degree of a sign.  
When she is slack in her course, (that is to understand) when she goes in twenty-four hours, less than thyrteene degrees and xi. minutes.   

The fortunes of the Planets.  
Fortunate be the Planets, and other places of Heaven, when they be in angles, or at the least in houses succeeding.  
When they be in a good aspect of jupiter, or of Venus, or at the least in evil, with reception.  
When they be joined to the Sun within sixteen minutes.  
When they be in a good aspect of the Sun, of the Moon, or of Mercury fortunate.  
When they be joined with any fixed star of a loving nature.  
When they be directs, or at the least, in the second station, (that is to understand) when they be in degree and minute, in the which beginneth incontinently the direction.  
When they be within their proper houses or exaltations.  
When they be in their triplicities and terms together, or triplicity and face together.  
When they be in houses, wherein they naturally take pleasure, as Mercury in the ascendant, the Moon in the third, Venus in the fift, Mars in the sixth, the Sun in the ninth, jupiter in the eleventh, and Saturn in the twelfth.  
When they be in any of their dignities, or if they be peregrines, when they be received. Received; that is, the Planets, which receive aspect of him, which in their place hath at the least four dignities, the which reception is fortunate, when she is made of a good aspect.  
At all times the receptions of jupiter and Venus be always favourable, although they be not made of good aspects.  
When they mount to the highest part of their Circles.  
When they be septentrionals, principally ascendants.  
When any of the three Superiors is oriental, or Venus and Mercury occidental.  
When they begin to go from the beams of the Sun.  
When they be in Houses or terms of favourable Planets.  
When they be above the Horrizon in the day, or under the Horrizon in the night, if they be Diurnes.  
When they be under the Horrizon in the day, or above the Horrizon in the night. If they be nocturnes.  
When they are in signs and degrees masculine, they be masculine, or in signs and degrees feminines, they be feminines.  
When they be in degrees fortunate & clear degrees, which are called Lucides.   

Particular fortunes of the Moon.  
When she increaseth.  
When she is within the house or exaltation of the Sun.  
When she is very swift in her course, (that is to understand) when she goes more than thirteen degrees & 11. minutes in 24. hours.    

CHAP. VII. If the child shall live or no.  
ALL this above considered, you must first look, whether he that is borne, is for life in this world or no. That which principally will show us the light of the time, (that is to say, the Sun by day, and the Moon by night) are the Lords of the triplicity of him, and the ascendant with his Dominator.  
When the Dominator of the ascendant, shall be unfortunate by the Lord of the eight house, the Child cannot live: and less, if the Lords of the triplicity of the temporal light be unfortunate.  
When within the first house shall be any fixed star of violent nature, or any ill fortune, (that is to say, Saturn or Mars) without having at the least four dignities, and the temporal light shall be unfortunate, the child shall die quickly. If you find not any fixed star of amiable nature, or if jupiter and Venus, or the Sun or the Moon, do not communicate unto him their beams. For and if the aspect be of love, or of enmity with reception, the child shall live.  
If the Dominator of the ascendant be burnt, the child shall die before 9 days be accomplished, and more sooner if he be burned within the eight house, or in this estate, if he be joined with the Lord of the eight. Except when he is burned in his own house or exaltation, or within the house or exaltation of the Sun.  
When the Moon, being the temporal light, shall be unfortunate within the first house, without any aspect of the fortunes, & without the conjunction of any fixed stars of amiable nature, the hope of life shall not be great.  
When the Moon shall be unfortunate within the fourth house, and he that hath the misfortune shall be also unfortunate, & out of his principal dignities, the Infant cannot live, & the mother shall be in great danger of death at her deliverance, and principally if the ascendant be the house or exaltation of the Moon.  
When the infortunes are conjoined within the eighth house, it signifieth very short life: except when Mars and Saturn be in Capricorn.  
Many joint Planets within the first house, bring not good testimony of life, although they be all fortunate.  
When the Domynator of the ascendant, and the temporal light, and the Lords of their triplicities be not altogether unfortunate, the child may easily live.   

CHAP. VIII. Of the Giver of life, named of the Arabians Hyleg.  
THe giver of life is taken out of the principal places of the Figure (that is to say) of the Sun, of the Moon, and of the Ascendant, of the part of Fortune, & of the degree of the last conjunction or opposition of lights; the which having well noted, we consider first, if the nativity be diurnal or nocturnal? For if she be diurne we begin at the Sun, the which within the first, tenth, or eleventh house, in a masculine or feminine sign, shall be fit to give life, if it have any giver of time that doth regard it: If it be in the ninth, eight, or seventh house, it may also be the giver of life, if it be in a Masculine sign, and not in a Feminine: in other places it cannot be the giver of life, but by constraint. It is always necessary for such an act, that the giver of time regard the giver of life, otherwise, the said giver of life shall be as person that hath good will to do his friend good & hath not wherewithal; And so when the Sun shall be without aspect of any giver of time, you must leave it there, & go to the Moon, which may give the life within the first house, in the sign Masculine or Feminine, and within the tenth, eleventh, seventh, fourth, fifth, second and third house, in signs Feminines and not Masculines, receiving aspect of any giver of time. If the Moon have not all the said conditions, you must come to the degree ascendant, if the nativity be coniunctionall (Coniunctionall is said the nativity, before the which lastly the lights have been conjoined) and if the said degree receive aspect of his giver of time, he shall be giver of life: otherwise not. Wherefore you must examine the part of Fortune, the which shall give life in the Angles and houses succeeding, with the aspect of the giver of time, otherwise you must come to the degree, to the which lastly the lights have been conjoined: the which within the Angles or houses succeeding shall be giver of life, if he receive aspect of his giver of tyme.  
It is here necessary that the giver of time have dignity of house, or of exaltation in places of the part of Fortune, and of the said degree coniunctionall. By this order you must seek the giver of life, when the nativity is coniunctionall. When she is preventionall, (Preventionall is said, afore the which lastly the lights have been opposites) after you have considered the Sun and the Moon, you must consequently contemplate the place of Fortune, more than the degree ascendant, and lastly the degree of the oppositions of the lights, & see that it have 2. degrees in the opposition, one of them of the Sun, and the other of the Moon. The Astrologians command to consider it, that at the time of the opposition it hath been in the first house, or elsewhere above the Horizon.  
When the Nativity is nocturniall, we follow the same order, (except that first we consider the Moon, secondly the Sun, etc.) This giver of life, when either by direction, or by profection, or by other way, meet any evil aspect of the infortunes, or of the stars fixed of violent nature, or any of the notable conjunctions, or Eclipses of the lights, it causeth then some sickness, and very suddenly bringeth death, when the Fortunes do not intermingle the favourable beams.   

CHAP. IX. Of the giver of years, called of the Arabians Alcocoden.  
THE giver of time or giver of years, is the same that hath dignity of house, exaltation, triplicity, or term in the place where is the giver of life. As if the Sun were in the xj. in the sign of Sagitarius, (there where he may be giver of life,) and jupiter were in the sign of Aquarius, he shall regard the Sun of the Sextile aspect, and look that he have dignity of the house in the sign of the Sun, he shallbe giver of years. It is then necessary, that these two things concur together, to the end that one Planet be giver of years, that is to say, that he hath dignity nevertheless of term (for the dignity of face is not sufficient enough for one so great effect) in sign and degree, in the which shall be the giver of life, and that he regard the said giver of life, of one aspect or other.  
This giver of time, well lodged upon the point of Angles, giveth him old years, in points of the houses succeeding: is means, is Cadants, is smallness, and for as much as he shall be long from the beginnings of the said houses, so much the more or less he must diminish the number of his old years, means, and smallness, after the difference taken of the next houses with the difference of years. And first of all if it be within any angle of heaven, not always to the first point, you must proceed also, and take in the first place the distance of the said angle, and of the next house succeeding. Note afterward, how many degrees the said giver of years is from the point of the angle. Then take the difference of his old years and means, multiply this difference by the number of the said elongment, and part it by the distance of the said angle, & of the house succeeding: that which resteth, take for the exact number of the years of life, promised by the said giver of years. If he be within any house, succeeding out of the points and beginnings of the same, you must first take the distance of the house succeeding, and of the next Cadant: then note how many degrees the said giver of years shall be elonged from the point of the said house succeeding; afterward take the difference of years, means and smallness, the which multiply by the second number, and part it by the first: the residue shall be the time of life which was promised by the said giver of years. If it be in Cadant house's it shall be upon the points of them, or after, he giveth but only small years: Except when he is within 5. degrees near to the point of the said angles, & then you must reckon as it followeth. Take the difference of the old years, and smallness of the Planets that giveth the years, and divide them into 5. parts; afterward look in which of the said 5. degrees shall be the said Planet. For if it be in the first and most near the point of the angle, (that is to say) if he be elonged from the said angle one degree only, then is it convenient to take out of his old years, one of the said 5. parts: if he be elonged by 2. degrees, you must take out 2. parts: if he be elonged 3. degrees, you must subtract 3. parts, etc. You must note that the Moon in the viii. gives but small years. And that the Sun within the 9 and jupiter in the 11. and Venus in the 5. and Mercury by the whole ascendant, and the Moon in the 3. give their old years as perfectly, as if they were upon the points of the angles: For they be places wherein principally they do rejoice. jupiter, Venus, and Mercury within the 9 give their years indifferent: and the Moon in the 11. gives them old. Mars in the 6. and Saturn in the 12. they are indifferent, because in the said places they greatly delight themselves: wherefore if they were not evil, they would there give old years.  
Upon this propose it is convenient also to note, that one burnt Planet cannot be a giver of years: and the Moon in the prime of the beams of the Sun, cannot give life nor time. If a Planet, which otherwise may be a giver years, be burnt in his proper house or exaltation, receiving there the Sun, causeth the Sun to take the charge to be the giver of years. If it come to pass that the Sun or the Moon be in their proper houses or exaltations, they may be givers of life & time together, with out need to desire aspect of any other Planet. If one place being significator of life, have many givers of years, we will take him that hath most dignities in the same place, and if they be equal in dignities we will take him that hath his aspect most whole, and his beams most nearest the said giver of life. If they find two or three or many givers of life, that have their givers of years, they must always consider and direct, as the first and principal, following the years of the Planets.  
Old years. Mean years. Small years. Of 57 43 30 Saturn. ♄ 79 45 12 jupiter. ♃ 66 40 15 Mars. ♂ 120 69 19 Sol ☉ 82 45 8 Venus. ♀ 76 48 20 Mercury. ☿ 108 66 25 Luna. ☽   

CHAP. X. Of them that augment and diminish the number of the said years.  
THey which augment the number of the said years, are jupiter, Venus, the Sun, the Moon, & Mercury fortified; the which fortunately regarding the giver of years, with an amiable aspect adding to their small years, (that is to understand) the Sun x. and ix. Venus' viii. the Moon xxv. etc. Likewise If the giver of time be conjoined with any fixed star of amiable nature, it taketh of the said star the number of the small years of the Planet, of the which the said star holdeth his nature. If the said Planets regard the giver of time with an evil aspect with reception, they add as before, which they do not when they have no reception: Except jupiter and Venus, that in every sort of aspects, with reception or without reception, always adding to their small years, for to see that the giver of time be not Saturn or Mars, towards the which the reception is necessary, if the aspect be of enmity.  
The said Planets evil placed and infortunate, in the place of the whole small years, in adding the half, or the third, or fourth part, or certain number of months, of weeks, or of days, according to the greatness or smallness of their infelicity. The amiable aspects of ill fortunes, with reception, give their years small: without reception, they do neither good nor evil. If the giver of years be retrograde or meridional descending, or in his fall or detriment, or in the way burned, that taketh from it the fift part of that which he had given being otherwise disposed. That which happened also to the 3. superior Planets, when they be occidental, & to the Moon when she decreaseth, and when she is in the xx. and ix. degree of a sign, and when she is slack in her course. The Sun regarding the Moon with the aspects of enmity without reception diminished. Saturn, Mars, or Mercury deprived, looking to the evil aspect of the giver of light they take away the number of their small years: Except they recover; For then by opposition they do but half the evil: By quadrate aspect, they diminish but the fourth part. The tail of the Dragon taken from the Moon xii. years, I have found it often by experience, that the fortunes (that is to understand, jupiter & Venus) or the Sun and the Moon, and Mercury fortunate in the first house, or near to the giver of life, adding to their small years, although they do not regard the giver of time: and to the contrary, that the infortunes in the said places, take away the small years, without regarding the said giver of time. Except when they were well honoured in the said places, or when they were Lords of the Nativities.   

CHAP. XI. Of the Lords of the Nativity.  
YOu must take the Lord of the Nativity, out of the places of the which we have taken the giver of life, (that is to understand) of the place of the Sun and of the Moon, of the degree ascendant of the part of Fortune, and of the degrees of the precedent conjunction or opposition of lights. Of all these places likewise it is to be considered, what Planet hath most dignities, for he shall be Lord of the Nativity, that which the giver of years shall signify the time of our life, according to the situation & felicity or infelicity, as we have before said of the giver of years. And if the one give more than the other, you must take the difference of both, and the half ad or diminish: according as shall be necessary.  
The Signs. 5 The house of the planets. Exaltation. 3 The triplicity of the planets. 2 The terms of the planets. 1 The faces of the planets. Perigren. The hurts. The falls. S    D N P  G  G  G  G  G  G  G  G    ♈ ♂ D ☉ ☉ ♃ ♂ ♃ 6 ● 12 ☿ 10 ♂ 25 ♄ 30 ♂ 10 ☉ 20 ♀ 30 When the planets nave no dignities. ♀ ♄ ♉ ♀ N ☽ ☽ ♀ ♄ ♀ ● ☿ 14 ♃ 22 ♄ 2● ♂ 30 ☿ 0 ☽ 20 ♄ 30 ♂  ♊ ☿ D ♃ ♄ ☿ ♃ ☿  ♃ ●2 ♀ 17 ♂ 24 ♄ 30 ♃ 10 ♂ 20 ☉ ●0 ♃  ♋ ☽ DN  ♀ ♂ ☽ ♂ 7 ♀ 13 ☿ ●9 ♃ 26 ♄ 30 ♀ 10 ☿ 20 ☽ 30 ♄ ♂ ♌ ☉ DN  ☉ ♃ ♂ ♃ 6 ♀ 11 ♄ 18 ☿ 24 ♂ 30 ♄ 10 ♃ 20 ♂ 30 ♄  ♍ ☿ N ☿ ☽ ♀ ♄ ☿ 7 ☿ 17 ♃ 21 ♂ 28 ♄ 30 ☉ 10 ♀ 20 ☿ 30 ♃ ♀ ♎ ♀  ♄ ♄ ☿ ♃ ♄ ● ☿ 14 ♃ 2● ♀ 28 ♂ 30 ☽ ●0 ♄ 20 ♃ 30 ♂ ☉ ♏ ♂ N  ♀ ♂ ☽ ♂ 7 ♀ 11 ☿ ●9 ♃ 24 ♄ ●0 ♂ 10 ☉ 20 ♀ 30 ♀ ☽ ♐ ♃ D  ☉ ♃ ♂ ♃ 12 ♀ ●7 ☿ 21 ♄ 26 ♂ 30 ☿ ●0 ☽ ●0 ♄ 30 ☿ ♃ ♑ ♄ N ♂ ☽ ♀ ♄ ☿ 7 ♃ 14 ♀ 22 ♄ 26 ♂ 30 ♃ 10 ♂ 20 ☉ 30 ☽  ♒ ♄ D  ♄ ☿ ♃ ☿ 7 ♀ 13 ♃ 20 ♂ 25 ♄ 30 ♀ 10 ☿ 20 ☽ 30 ☉  ♓ ♃ N ♀ ♀ ♂ ☽ ♀ 12 ♃ 16 ☿ 19 ♂ 28 ♄ 30 ♄ 10 ♃ 20 ♂ 30 ♀ ☿   

CHAP. XII. Of the understanding and manners of a man..  
HOW to know the felicity or infelicity of the Spirit, & the nature of the same, you must look in the place of Mercury and of the Moon, the Planet that in these two places hath most dignities, shall be signifier of the spirit. The which if it be Saturn well disposed, shall signify the man of a great and profound knowledge, of good counsel, and of good gravity or a strong opinion: close, secret, solitary, dissembling his good and evil, a lover of just men, and of good age: rejoicing upon the treasures, heritage's and labourings; holding discourse of antiquities and of great affairs, admirator of buildings. Sometimes a little merry, incontinent sad: sometimes laughing or murmuring by himself alone, a little slothful, a little envious, and not always keeping his promise. If he be unfortunate, he shall be noted envious, sad, solitary, fearful, mellancholie, faint-hearted, a railer, jealous, a malefactor, evil, a blasphemer, a liar & deceiver, a Usurer, & holder of opinions: rejecting the counsel of others: fearing that all the world doth deceive him: uncivil, a villain, a slovine, dishonest, flying the company of men unless it be to deceive them, and to draw any profit, having no other friend but his villainous gain, using sometimes sorcery.  
jupiter signifier of the spirit, well disposed, shows the man sweet, courteous, honest, gracious, amiable, faithful, pitiful, liberal, of good behaviour, of good heart & good love: following nobleness and all honesty: loving God, abounding in friends, dreaming always upon some virtuous thing, and withdraws himself sometimes solitary, to think upon some goodness: using in all and by all his affairs, a great equity, prudence and modesty, having great courage to accomplish. If he be unfortunate of himself, and not to meet with other stars, in the place of good love, he will give sometimes foolishness in the place of honesty, pride in the place of liberality, prodigality in the place of loving good will, doth yield him an hypocrite, seeming to follow nobleness, when indeed he will dispraise all the world: in the place of honesty, it will make him dream of tyranny.  
If the said jupiter be unfortunate of other Planets and not of himself, he taketh all their vices, and covereth them with his said virtues in manner of an evil hypocrite. If Mars well fortunate be the said significator, he shall cause the man to be of a high courage, hardy, ireful, furious, a hazarder, a conductor of wars, & the first in business, and only in deeds and cogitations given to arms: strong, stubborn and mighty, trusting too much to his own puissance, not fearing any peril, and blessed in all his deeds. If he be unfortunate, it maketh the man timorous, a thief, a liar, blasphemer, mutinous, cruel, a murderer, hardy, proud, arrogant, not to be borne withal, despising his own proper goods, and the goods of other, using force and violence against his Parents, and against all the world: a devilish man, without shame, without counsel, without virtue, without love, without any fear or reverence of God, furious, seditious, given and prompt to all mischief.  
If the Sun be significator in his good disposition, it makes the man mannerly, wise, prudent, of good counsel, a lover of nobleness, following glory and honour, given to justice and governments of Towns and Cities, loving hunting, worthy, and of great estimation. If it be unfortunate, it showeth great pride, excessive ambition, and tyranny, and doth nourish the thought.  
If Venus signify the quality of the spirit in good disposition, it maketh the man pleasant, merry, dancing, laughing, content, amiable, gracious, of good conversation, and a little jealous. If unfortunate, it maketh the man frowning, and too merry, of evil maintenance, using dishonest words, given to voluptuousness, and jealous of that which belongeth not unto him.  
If Mercury be fortunate, it gives good understanding, good memory, great perseverance, great subtlety of spirit, good discourse of reason, full of wit, very apt to know the Mathematicals, and the secrets of nature; it makes the man a Poet, an Orator, well spoken, writing well, and a great trader. If it be evil disposed, it makes him presumptuous, of little knowledge, with great estimation of his person, inconstant, a liar, a mocker, a deceiver ordinarily, fine, fantastical, and vicious.  
If it be the Moon that is fortunate, she maketh him that is borne, pacified, modest, of good heart, or good will, and easy to endure any thing that one will do. Unfortunate doth show inconstancy, lightness of spirit, faint-hearted, prodigal, faithless. If the said signifiers, are not greatly fortunate or unfortunate, it is convenient to rebate the said significations good and vicious, after the quality of their good and evil dispositions.  
If any Planet be participant in the signification of the manners, or if it have great communication of aspect with the principal significator, then considering the vices and virtues of him, that (according to his good or evil disposition) we do join them to him which giveth the principal. As if Saturn well disposed, be principal significator, and Mars infortunate be participant, or regard Saturn of one whole aspect with reception, than it is convenient to mingle some little of the nature of Mars unfortunate, with the significations of Saturue fortunate.  
The Astrologians do advertise us, that if the Lord of the ascendant be well placed, and the said significator of manners evil disposed, you must more consider upon that which the Lord of the ascendant signifieth, then upon that which the said significator doth promise. Moreover, they consider more particularly, the place of Mercury and of the Moon, and the aspect which they receive. If Mercury be in the ascendant, it maketh the Man ingenious, and of great and profound knowledge, a great Philosopher, a Mathematician, an Orator, a Poet, a Divine; principally when he is in the place in the which Saturn hath at the least 4. dignities, or when he receives aspect of Saturn.  
Mercury in the twelfth, receiving aspect of the Moon, hath very near as great force for to give wit and knowledge, as if he were in the first. And where that Mercury is, if he regard the Moon, and both two, or the one or the other, regard the ascendant or the Lord of the ascendant, this is sign of a good and subtle spirit. And if Saturn, jupiter and Mars, or other Planets, do communicate to him their favourable beams, if they mingle their good virtues, if they regard the evil aspect, they intermingle their vices: except jupiter and Venus, which of evil aspect do never annoy them, and less when he hath reception.  
If the Sun be temporal light, it may signify the quality of the spirit with the Moon and Mercury in the form above said. If Mercury be occidental within the house or exaltation of the Sun, having aspect of the Moon, or of the ascendant, or of his Lord, it is the sovereign sign of good and high spirits, of men of all knowledge, given to great enterprises and virtues, as Poets, Orators, Mathematicians, Counsellors, Administrators of Commonweals, and Governors of Realms: principally when he is fortunate in every angle of Heaven.  
Mercury within the seventh house fortunate, giveth good understanding, and ripe judgement: it maketh the man subtle, watchful, and of good counsel, with great craft to govern his affairs. Mercury in the ninth or third house, giveth knowledge and contemplation. The part of the understanding of the spirit with their Lords fortunate, signifieth good spirits and good manners.  
Mercury in the sign of Pisces, doth not any way love learning: the contrary happeneth, when he is in the sign of Virgo and of Gemini, by all the places of the figure of Heaven. Saturn within the houses of Mercury, is always contemplative: Mars, a little deceiver. Mercury within the houses of Saturn fortunate, is always studious, within those of Mars, he is full of evil words, and often false.  
When the lights and significators of manners shall be oppressed with ill fortune, the child shall be of a very strange and perverse nature. The Moon opposite to the Sun, makes him hate all men. If the Sun and the Moon with the ascendant and his Lord, be all in feminine signs, the manners of him shall be feminine, and he shall be a man of little heart. If they be in signs masculine at the nativity of a woman, her deeds shall be manly, and she shall be a woman of great enterprise.  
If Venus be in the sign of the Lion, or under the beams of the Sun, or in conjunction or other aspect of Mars, she maketh that the man shall be suddenly stricken in love. And if in that estate she be within the first or tenth house, without any aspect of jupiter, he shall be voluptuous without having shame; and when she shallbe in the sign of Scorpio, the aspect of jupiter towards Venus, giveth always chastity, and love of virtue.   

CHAP. XIII. Of riches and poverty.  
FOR the riches and poverty, it is convenient first that you look to the second house, for if she and her Lord be fortunate, we say that the child shall be rich, and if they be unfortunate, he shall be poor on that side. Then afterward you must consider the part of Fortune, the which with his Lord well disposed, promiseth great store of goods, without other witness. If they be evil disposed, you must come to the part of goods the which with his Lord fortunate enricheth, unfortunate giveth nothing. Likewise you must judge of the part of felicity and of his Lord. And that thing which the other places signify, you must always have recourse to the natural significator of riches, which is jupiter, the which well placed and fortunate, giveth goods in abundance: principally if he be Lord of the nativity, or Lord of the hour, or of the ascendant, or of the second house, or of the part of Fortune, or of the part of goods, or of the part of felicity, or of temporal light, or of the tenth house, otherwise he giveth nothing.  
When the abovesayde Significators shall be unfortunate, the child cannot be rich, if the tenth house (of the which we will speak hereafter) do not promise him some good luck. Men find also often by experience, that when a Planet is within his own house or exaltation, or in his joy, (without being unfortunate, or else where environed with the fortunes or their beams) that he giveth goods, although he be not Significator of riches. If in the fourth house be his lord or other fortunate Planet, he promiseth inheritances. If any fixed star of the first or second greatness be joined to the temporal light, or to the degree ascendant, or to the points of the other angles, or to other Planets in the said places placed, she doth raise the man of base estate, to great authority and honour: and if he be of the race of Princes, it will make him a puissant Lord and King.  
When a like Planet shall be Lord of the ascendant, & of the second house, the child shall be covetous of money & gain, as that which happeneth when Capricorn is ascendant. When the Lord of the second house shall be within the first, the goods come without labour. Likewise when the Lord of the second house giveth strength to the Lord of the ascendant. When the Lord of the ascendant shall be in the second, the goods shall not come without travail: nor when the lord of the ascendant shall give strength to the Lord of the second. Saturn, Mars, Mercury depraved, the Sun and the tail of the Dragon lunary, within the second, destroy the man, and disperse his goods; except when they have at the least four dignities, or when they be received. When the Lord of the ascendant shall regard with evil aspect the second house, or the part of goods and of fortune, or their Lords, the child of his own proper will shall disperse his goods. If the Lord of the ascendant be unfortunate in the second house, the child shall be too large a giver, and prodigal. If any misfortune have domination upon the ascendant, and in the second, the child shall be destroyed by others, which shall destroy his goods and rob him. When the said Significators of goods shall be unfortunate, the child shall be all his life in pain and travail, without any advancement or profit.  
Abraham Auenesre saith, that if the Lord of the second be burnt, and jupiter evil disposed, that the child shallbe 
Four Planets in their falls or detryments, do show great miseries, as it was in the nativity of john Duke of Saxony, who was taken prisoner of Charles the 5. This good Duke had 3. Planets in their detryments, and one Perigren.  always poor. And Hermes saith: when the Lord of the profession (of the which we shall speak in the 27. chap.) shall be burnt, or retrograde, or in the sixth or xii. house, and not any Planet regarding the Moon, the child shall seek his living from door to door like a beggar. jupiter, Venus, and the head of the Dragon in the second, always enrich. Venus in the fift promiseth some good. The Sun in the ninth fortunate, giveth benefices, or other goods of the side of the men of the Church. Mars in the sixth well disposed, giveth good or nourishment to Beasts, and exercise of Physic. The Sun in the sign of Leo, will never suffer the child to be poor.   

CHAP. XIIII. By what means riches and poverty cometh.  
Having well noted the places which promise and bring riches, in regarding the situation of the said significators, we will know by what means ought to come the good and the evil. For if the significator be in the first house received and fortunate, it easily enricheth the person by his industry and proper labour: and if he be in the said place unfortunate, it is that his industry and labour doth profit him nothing; and the sooner from thence to loss and damage.  
If he be in the second house well disposed, it profiteth to talk with Merchants, and lend merchandise & money, and of them make gain. And if he be there evil disposed, the said business bringeth great damages. If he be within the third house fortunate, it bringeth the goods from the side of Brothers and Sisters, and Cousins & alyes, or from the side of the men of the Church in taking charge of their affairs: or to traffic here and there about his Country. If he be in the 4. well placed, he is enriched of inheritances & goods of our fathers & predecessors, of laboring & tilling of ground, of houses, & oftentimes doth meet with treasure. If it be within the fift, it profits to be a good Dancer, a good Player, to be brave, gracious, pleasant and delightful, and sometimes to be voluptuous: always well, because of Godfathers and Godmothers, and of their proper children; or because of gifts, or to make some voyage and do some embassage. Those things that come appertaining to bravery and voluptuous, and making ready delicates, odours & perfumes, of this house they very suddenly draw their profit. If the said significator be in the sixth well placed, he shall make his profit in nourishing, and buying and selling of Sheep, muttons, and other small beasts, or shall become rich by the diligence and faithfulness of his servants, or shall gain by the exercise of Physic. The Gaylors and others which have the charge of prisons, draw oftentimes their profit from this house.  
If the significator be in the seventh fortunate, it promiseth great good of the side of women, by marriages or like agreements: and oftentimes to have pleaded & gained his suit in the law, or having been in the wars and peeled the enemies. If it be in the eight well disposed, it giveth great dowry and great good, because of women, and sometimes heritage's, of the which he shall not greatly think of. If it be in the ninth fortunate, he shallbe enriched of the goods of the church, or by traffic & traveling in strange Countries.  
If it be well in the tenth, he shall have his profit of the side of Kings, Princes, and Lords, and be made of them Governors of Towns, and honourable Officers; or be enriched by their own vocation and profession.  
If it be within the eleventh in good disposition, he profiteth by reason of friends, and by favour of men in authority.  
If it be in the twelfth, fortunate, it giveth gain by nourishing and selling of Horses, Mares, Oxen, Cows, Camels, and other great beasts: or to have charge of prisoners: or of the persecution of enemies, with profitable victory in the end; As oftentimes it happeneth to some, which accusing others, and cannot prove the crimes intended be condemned to make a good amends to the party: after all which persecution, the party doth find himself content.  
Saturn by himself, enricheth by heritage's & labour's, nourishing of all cattle, and with trading with ancient men, or with Countrymen, Mariners, & other wild men: in Corn, Wines, Oils, Fish, Oade, Rosen, Alum, Leather, Tiles, Stones, Plaster, Chalk, lime, and such merchandise.  
jupiter, by Offices, benefices, and business of men of the Church, and all gains that are made without deceit. Except when he is infortunate, for then under the shadow of virtue, he doth his affairs craftily.  
Mars, by wars, suits, or thefts, or by slaughter, and selling of cattle: or if it be in aspect of Venus, by physic.  
The Sun, by honourable offices, dignities & Lordships, by great credit, by charges to keep and gather the money of Princes and Commonweals.  
Venus, by music, pleasure, grace and virtue, by bravery, by play, and sometimes by voluptuousness, and sometime to serve some great Lady.  
Mercury, to speak well and write well, and to be very skilful, to be a Secretary, a Register, a Poet, an Orator, and a good advocate, to be a Geometrician, Arethmetrician, Astrologian, and a good trader. The moon for voyages, navigation, wandering, and trading in far Countries, to have the charged of small affaieres of the common wealth.  
If the said Significator be unfortunate in the same places, they bring damage and interests, and if they be within the houses of Saturn, jupiter or other planets, we judge the profit & interest after the nature of Saturn, jupiter, and other planets which shallbe lord of the same places.   

CHAP. XV. Of the time when the riches and damages shall come.  
THe said riches shall come, when the Significators of goods shall meet by direction, in body or in aspects of amity. As if Venus in some nativity promise goods, they shall come when Venus by direction shall touch the place of jupiter, or the degree of the second house, or the part of fortune, or their good aspects: Likewise you must judge of damages in goods. For when a significator of damages and interests doth meet by direction a significator of goods, or his aspects of enmity, then certainly comes the loss and damage. As when Saturn or Mars meet jupiter in the part of fortune, the part of goods and other places which signify riches, the which also you must direct to the said ill fortunes, or to their evil aspect signifying always some loss.  
By the revolutions also you may know the time of good and evil fortune. For when jupiter in the nativity shallbe in the sign Libra well disposed, always and as many times, as you shall find him in the revolution in the sign, in the same fortune certainly he shall then bring the goods that he promised, at the hour of the Nativity.  
To the contrary, if he be unfortunate by Saturn or Mars in the Nativity, always and as many times as he shall be in the revolution over against the said unfortunators, than the said damage shall come in the sort and manner as was signified in the nativity.  
If the Significator of goods be Oriental, the goods come in youth, if it be Occidental, in age. If it be in the first house he shall be rich in his first age, if it be between the first and the tenth, upon the time of twenty and seven years. If it be in the tenth, between thirty and five and thirty. If it be between the tenth and seventh, about forty and forty eight. If it be in the seventh he shallbe rich in his old age. You must also look to the three Lords of the triplicity, and to every Significator of goods. For the first lord signifieth the first age, the second of the time of thirty or forty years, the third the last age. Wherefore if the first lord of the triplicity of one significator of riches be fortunate, the said goods signified shall come at the first time: or if he be unfortunate, the damage than shall stick, by this means you may apply the other lords, to the ages following, and according to the good or evil disposition you must judge of the fortune of every one.   

CHAP. XVI. Of brethren.  
Mar and Saturn within the third house out of their principal dignities and not received, signifieth that the child shall have no brother nor Sister. And if they be in their principal dignities, or if they be fortunately received, they may then give some brethren, but by reason of the which he shall always be in sorrow, strife, and contentions. The tail of the Dragon or lunaris, maketh him see the death of his brethren, when she is in the third house. That doth the Lord of the said house also, when he is in the tenth or eight, and when he is burned or otherwise evilly disposed.  
If in the ix. be any Planet well dignified, and the Lord of the third house be unfortunate, his brethren shall die before him, if he do not find in the same house some favourable Planet, or if the Lord of the said house be not amiably regarded of fortunes.  
jupiter, the Sun, Venus, the head of the Dragon, the Moon, and Mercury, fortunate in the third house, do give many brethren, happy, pacified and fortunate. Mars, regarding the said house, or his Lord of evil aspect, signifieth strife and debate among the brethren. That which signifieth also the Lord of the said house, in the seven. and xii. And Mars opposite to the ascendant, or to the Lord of the ascendant, and to the temporal light, and when a like Planet is Lord of the iij. and seven. or xii. house. The part of the amity of brethren with his Lord fortunate, signifieth concord: unfortunate, discord among brethren. The part of brethren, and the third house, with their Lords in watery signs, denoteth many brethren and sisters: and if they be fortunate, they signify concord and good love together: unfortunate, denoteth the contrary.   

CHAP. XVII. Of the Father and the Mother.  
THe Lords of the fourth, and of the part of the Father, burnt out of their proper houses and exaltations, signify that the Father cannot long live; The ill fortunes within the 4. signify that the father shall die presently after, if within the said house they be not dignified, or if the fortunes do not interlace their favourable beams: Likewise you must judge of the mother, when the said Constellations shall be in the 10. The fortunes in the 4. signify long life to the Father, and happy fortune: & likewise of the mother, when they be within the x. The Sun unfortunate within the iiij. or viii. house, testifieth that the Father shall not live long: likewise you must judge of the mother when the Moon shall be so disposed. If the Lord of the 4. be in the 11. the child shall see the death of his Father. If the Lord of the x. be in the 5. he shall see the death of his mother. Venus or the Moon in the 4. unfortunate, giveth peril to the mother at her deliverance. The Lord of the 4. in the 7. or 12. house, or in evil aspects of ill fortunes, signifieth strife and quarrels between the Father and the Son. Likewise you must judge of the mother, when the Lord of the 10. shall be in the same disposition. The part of the Father fortunate, denoteth long and happy life to the Father: unfortunate, he shall die very quickly. The part of the mother, signifieth as much of the mother, after her good or evil disposition.  
Commonly the Astrologians have regard to the Sun and to Saturn for the Father, and to Venus and the Moon for the mother; If the nativity be by day, they take the Sun for significator of the father: if it by be night they take Saturn, if the Sun be not in any angle of heaven: For if it be in the 1. or 4. they prefer him always to Saturn. If the Sun be in the 1. in the nativity of the 1. child, the figure of the nativity of the Father and of the Son shall be both one. The significator of the Father, joined to the Fortunes, or receiving their amiable aspects, denote good fortune and long life to the Father: the contrary you must understand when they be unfortunate.  
If the Lord of the ascendant, and the Lord of the 4. do look with an evil aspect; the Son and the Father shall be in discord, principally if Mars intermeddle with his pernicious beams. For the mother you must look principally to Venus, if the nativity be by day: or to the Moon if it be by night; And after their good and evil dispositions, you must judge the good or contrary fortune of the mother.   

CHAP. XVIII. Of inheritances and earthly goods.  
THE Fortunes, or other Planets fortunate, within the fourth or eight house, denoteth inheritances and possessions: the ill fortunes do deny or despise them. Saturn, natural significator of heritage's, lands and possessions, well disposed, doth give great goods and lands, and maketh the man happy in labouring and tillage; That also signifieth the significators of riches, when they be well disposed within the houses of Saturn. And the part of heritage's, and the part of fortune in sowers & tylers when they be fortunate, with their Lords. If the said significator be unfortunate, you must judge the contrary.  
When one self Planet is lord of the first and fourth house, the child shall have inheritances which shall enrich him, if the said lord be fortunate: and if he sell and disperse them, he is unfortunate. The lord of the ascendant, or the Moon within the fourth fortunate, and amiably by jupiter or Venus regarded, denote that he shall find some great sum of money under the earth, principally, if Saturn cast his Trynes or Sextil beams: or that of Mines of gold and silver he shall be made rich.  
The tail of the Dragon in the south, maketh him to sell & disperse his goods. That doth also the head of the Dragon, when she is in a sign earthly or waterish: In airy signs or fiery, she giveth great goods and lands.   

CHAP. XIX. Of Infants.  
THe Fortunes in the fift, give the children: the unfortunes denies them. Except when they be in their proper house or exaltations, for than they give evil children; that which they do also, when regarding the said house, or the lord of the same, with e-evill aspects. If the Lord of the first be burned, he giveth the children abortives, or which presently after their birth, die. If the said lord be in the xii he shall see the death of his children. If he be in the seven. or xii. or if a like Planet be Lord of the v. seven. or xii. he shall have suits and questions with his children. The lord of the ascendant, in evil aspect of the lord of the v. denoteth as much. Before you give judgement of the Children, you must consider the x. and the seven. house, and the parts of children with their lords. The significators of the children in Masculine signs, signifieth Male children. in feminines, denote daughters: Likewise you must judge when they be coupled with planets, masculines, or feminines.   

CHAP. XX. Of Servants.  
THe significations of servants must be taken of the place of Mars & Mercury, of the sixth house of the part of servants, and of their lords. The which fortunate giveth faithful servants, unfortunate give them evil. When the lord of the ascendant & the lord of the sixth shallbe in good aspect together to the sygnificators of riches, the child shallbe come rich by the industry and faithfulness of his servants. Likewise when the fortunes be within the sixth house: to the contrary, when the Significator of riches shallbe unfortunate in the sixth house, he shall be undone by his servants. Likewise when the ill fortunes shallbe in the said house. If the lord of the vi. be in the x. he shall yield his servants more greater masters than himself. If the lord of the vi. house be in the sign of a human figure, his servants shall bear him reverence and be at his commandment.  

What kind of conditions every Planet doth yield.  

♄ Fortunate.  
sad & of a deep cogitation. secret. Solitary. Laboursome. Painful. A heaper of goods. Patient. Sparing. Careful of his own preferment.   

♄ Unfortunate.  
An abject. A fugitive. Base minded. A vile man. Negligent. Fearful. sad or pensive. Covetous. Envious. A Witch. Stubborn. A Roge. Suspicious. Superstitious. A Deceiver.   

♃ Fortunate.  
A lover of God. Religious. Honest and virtuous. Stout. Courageous. Just. Upright. Authority. Modesty. Bountiful.   

♃ Unfortunate.  
A lover of himself. High-minded. Proud. Superstitious. fearful. faint-hearted. Careless or negligent. Prodigal. Nothing so good as when he is fortunate.   

♂ Fortunate.  
Gentle. Manly-minded. Full of courage, Stout. Ireful. Earnest. Fearing no danger. Patient. Delighting in wars and manly exercises.   

♂ Unfortunate.  
Quarrelsome. Cruel. Angry. Tyrannical. Unjust. Unfaithful. A blood-shedder. Thievish. A makebate. hasty, or rash. A boaster. Very proud.   

♀ Fortunate.  
Pleasant Merry. Fair. Gentle of speech. Of comely gesture. Good. Merciful. Given to pleasure both of body and mind. A lover of dianty and delicate things.   

♀ Unfortunate.  
Womanish. Fearful. Weak of nature. Slothful. Lecherus. A slanderer. Not caring for his good name, Given to filthy lust. Sodomitical.   

☿ Fortunate.  
Of an excellent wit, Studious. Of a quick capacity. Of a good and sound judgement in every thing. Poetical. Grammatical. Mathematical. Finding out many things untaught.   

☿ Unfortunate.  
Unstable. Malicious. A liar, chiefly if he be with the Dragon's tail. Privily sowing deceit. A slanderer. Forgetful. Foolish. Full of wicked counsel and malice.  
Thus may you gather the natural disposition of any man, either present or absent: according to the nature of the Planets as is above specified. As for the lights, the ☽ from her ☌ to her ☍ doth make their manners most apparent, from her ☍ to her ☌ more obscure.     

CHAP. XXI. Of Diseases.  
YOU must first of all consider the places of Saturn and of Mars, and of the Lord of the sixth house. And according to the sign in the which they be, you must judge the sickness to be in the place marked by the said sign. As if Saturn were in the sign of Libra, it denoteth that the sickness is in the reins of the nature of Saturn: because that Libra is the sign that hath government over the reins, as shall be declared in the second Book. Likewise you must judge of other Significators, after the government of the sign in the which they be.  
The sickness and accidents coming by Saturn, Mars and other Planets, shallbe explained in the second book. Mars in the ascendant, giveth always some notable hurt upon the face, or upon the head, and often near the eyes, when he is near the lights. Saturn in the first house, yieldeth the man to be very sad, and melancholy, and vexeth the mind, causing horrible ill and fearful imaginations. The tail of the Dragon in the first, darkeneth much the sight and often yields the men blind, when the Luminaries or the fortunes, do not intermingle their favourable beams. Saturn and Mars in the tenth, signify sickness in the neck, in the seventh, in the buttocks: as Fistuloes, emrod's, Ulcers, and hurts etc. In the sixth, diseases in the feet: in the twelfith, hurts and griefs in the legs, as I have often tried. Saturn infortunate, signifieth diseases in the parts appertaining to Saturn. jupiter and the other, signify as much when they be evil disposed. Of the parts which belong to the Planets we will speak of in the second Book.  
They which have the Lumynaries, or any of the principal places in the figure unfortunate in the sign of Scorpio, are subject to the French-pox. The ill fortunes in the sign of Gemini, give always some great and violent blows upon the shoulders, legs & arms. The Moon unfortunate in the sign of Aries, signifieth great pain in the head. Saturn and Mars joined to the Lumynaries, or to the Lord of the ascendant, trouble the sight, and spoil the eyes with some blow. The Sun in the nativities Diurnes, signifieth the right eye, the Moon the left: in the Nocturnes, to the contrary. If the degrees of the first house, or the Lumynaries be joined with any troublesome star, the eyes shall be dark, and the sight troubled; likewise if they be in the signs which the Astrologers call Azemena and filthy dregs. etc.  
Saturn in the sixth house burned in a marry sign, denoteth some form of leprosy. Saturn in the ascendant, maketh some notable deformity in the face, when he is near the Moon. The ill fortunes, and the Moon and Venus in marry signs, signify leprosy, ulcers & cankers on the body, and villainous spots in the face. Saturn in the ninth, and the Moon in the eight unfortunate, denote trouble of mind and folly. Venus' joined to Mercury unfortunate by Saturn or Mars, without aspect of jupiter or of the Sun, signify notable grief in the parts of generation. If Venus & Mercury be under the beams of the Sun, they signify as much. Saturn with the Moon burned, causeth Palsies and Impostumes. Mercury unfortunate, giveth always some impediment in the tongue: and so doth Saturn also when he is unfortunate in the temporal lights. The Sun unfortunate, denoteth weakness of the heart: principally when he is lord of the sixth house, or Lord of the part of sicknesles. The ill fortunes with the tail of the Dragon, cause looseness and the flux of the belly. They that have the Sun or Mars in the signs of Aries or Gemini, be subject to the Stone. The retrogradation and burning of Saturn and jupiter, spoil the hearing, and the teeth.  
When the Moon & Mercury do not look between them, and do not regard the ascendant, nor the Lord of the ascendant, the child shall be troubled in his understanding. The retrogradation of all the five Planets, signifieth the falling sickness. The ill fortunes joined in the ascendant in evil aspects of the Moon or the Lord of the ascendant, denote entire folly. The part of sicknesses with his Lord fortunate, preserveth from sickness, unfortunate, give many evils.   

CHAP. XXII. Of Marriage.  
FOR the marriage, you must look the seven. house and his Lord, the places of Venus and the Moon in the nativities of men, and in the places of the Sun and of Mars in nativities of women: and the parts of marriage, and the place of jupiter. If the said Significators be fortunate, the marriage shall be happy, if they be unfortunate, it shall be full of envies, reproaches and evils. If some be fortunate, and some unfortunate by certain times, now happy, and then unhappy, it shall be manifest. Many Planets in the seventh house, give many women: likewise when many Planets regard the said house or his Lord. If Venus, & the Lord of the seventh house be burned, or otherwise of Saturn oppressed, the child shall never marry. jupiter and Venus within the 6. or 8. signifieth that he shall marry a widow. jupiter burned, signifieth as much. Otherwise, if jupiter behold Venus, and the other significators of marriage, it promiseth maids and virgins. If Venus or jupiter, or the Lord of the seventh house be joined to Saturn, or if Saturn be within the seventh house, the woman shall have some note of infamy; (that is to understand) she shall be of a strange religion, or shall be a bastard, or shall be of the race of Lepers, or of some other, by whom the Parents have received some shame, or she shall be deformed, and her Parents shall be of a very weak condition. Mars in the said house, or beholding with evil aspect the Significators of marriage, intermingle strife and contentions between the man and the wife: the same doth also Venus in the seventh or twelfth house.  
Mars in the ninth, as much in the nativities of women as of men, denoteth some manner of separation of marriage. And Venus in the ninth, signifieth that the man shall hate his wife, not so much for the vice which he shall find in her, but of a desire to be solitary. The Significators of marriage unfortunate, or within the houses Cadents, signifieth the woman to be of a simple race, or the husband in the nativities of women.  
If Venus and the Lord of the seventh house, join with the Significators of riches, beholding the Lord of the ascendant with an amiable aspect, she gives much goods by reason of women. The Significators of marriage within the third or ninth, or else where Peregrine's, signify that he shall marry out of his Country. The fortunes within the seventh house, denoteth happy marriage, the ill fortunes unhappy. The Lord of the seventh within the second, denoteth that he shall see the death of his wife. The Significators of marriage occidental, witness that he shall marry late, or in his youth take a wife older than himself. Oriental, denoteth that he shall marry in his youth, or in his age marry a young wife. Likewise you must judge of husbands in the nativities of women.   

CHAP. XXIII. Of a dowry and other goods by the means of marriage.  
BEcause the eight house is succeeding to the seventh, by good reason it signifieth the profit of the significations of the seventh, (that is to say) of marriage. If then in the eight there be any fortunate Planet, or any part fortunate, the child shall have great dowry by his wife, and of that side shall meet with great inheritances & great goods. To the contrary, if Saturn and Mars be unfortunate in the said house, he shall have small dowry, and the same shall never be fully paid.  
When the fortunes be in the said house unfortunate, he hath hope of great goods the which in the end he shall not enjoy. The Lord of the said place unfortunate, denoteth as much: and if he be fortunate and coupled with the Significators of riches, it denoteth great goods and great profit on that side. It happeneth well sometimes when the seventh house is fortunate, and the eight unfortunate. As that which signifieth a little dowry & desperation of other goods towards his wife, & that always he shall be enriched by the diligence, industry, and faithfulness of his wife.   

CHAP. XXIIII. Of the Death.  
YOU must first consider if there be any Planet in the eight house, for it is convenient to take it for Significator of the death. If within the said house there be never a Planet, take them for Significators that be in the seventh, preferring him always that is best dignified. If within the seventh you find none, draw the Sgnifycator of the death from these places which follow.  
Of the ascendant and of his Lord.  
Of the eight house and of his Lord.  
Of the part of Death and of his Lord.  
Of the eight Sign, from the place of the Sun & of his Lord.  
Of the eight Sign, from the Moon and of his Lord.  
Of the place of the first Lord of the triplicity of the fourth angle.  
Of the place of the Planet which hath dignity of term, to the degree of the seventh house.  
The Planet which in all these places shall be most dignified, shall be principal Sgnificator of death.  
If Saturn being in the eight or seventh house, or otherwise more dignified in the above said points of the figure, he is principal significator of the death. If he be well disposed, it witnesseth, that the same party shall die of the Dropsy, of some great stopping of the liver, and of the Spleen, or of a quartern Fever, of the flux of the belly, of Pthisick, or of some burning Fever, and of Impostumations of the ears. etc. If it be greatly unfortunate, and together with the Lord of the ascendant, and the luminaries temporally be evil disposed, it denoteth violent death by Impostumes, Palsies, falling down of humours, suffocations, overflowen with water. When it is in watery Signs, by some fall or ruin: when it is in earthly Signs, by great blows: for to be hanged when it is in airy Signs.  
If jupiter be Significator of the death, it denoteth that he shall die of a Pleurisy, of a Squinance, or of some hot appostumations of the liver, or of the lungs, or of other sicknesses coming of wind or of blood; and that if he be fortunate. For when he is evil disposed and unfortunate, it maketh him die by the hand of justice, by the commandment of the Prince, by sentence of the judge or of the Marshal, by overflowing in waters, to be whipped and scourged, by long imprisonment.  
If it be Mars well disposed, by continual tertian Fevers, by flux of blood, by Carbuncles and pestilences, by Impostumes coming of choleric matters, burnings by too much using of women. If he be very evil disposed, it maketh him to be hanged and strangled, or smothered, or otherwise killed in his bed, or on his horse. When he is an airy sign or partaker within the water, when he is a watery sign or fallen from on high, or of some ruinous murderer. When he is a terrestial, or burned: when he is a fiery Sign: principally if the Lord of the ascendant and the luminaries temporally be unfortunate by Mars. If it be the Sun well disposed, he shall die of some hot disease. If it be unfortunate, by the commandment of the Prince, or by sentence of the judge, or he shall die among a great company of men, subject to death, or in prison, or in a Dungeon, or in some other stinking and filthy place. If it be Venus well disposed, he shall die of too much eating fruits, or with too much continuing his voluptuousness, or of some Fistula or Impostume. If she be unfortunate, it denoteth death by venom, principally when she is burned, or joined to Saturn, or of too much burning affection of love, or of great griefs of the French pocks. If it be Mercury fortunate, it maketh him die by sadness, by great apprehensions, by the Yellow iaunders, by pthisickes, by the burning Fever, or by too much watching. If he be greatly unfortunate, it signifieth that he shall die by madness, the falling-sickness, by violent Coughs, with breaking in sunder the veins, by foolish melancholy, by jealousy.  
If it be the Moon well disposed, with too much eating moist meats, by drinking water, by too much continuing his pleasure; If she be unfortunate, you must consider the nature of him which is unfortunate. For if it be Mars he shall die by fire, or by hurt: or by abortisment if it be a woman. If it be Saturn, by ruins, falls, pestilences, and like accidents.  
Before concluding of what death the party shall die, you must consider the disposition of the Lord of the ascendant, and of the luminaries temporal: For if they be well disposed, the death shall not be violent, although the principal significator be greatly unfortunate. If the said significator be unfortunate, together with the luminaries temporal, or the Lord of the ascendant evil disposed, we esteem certainly that the death shall be violent, if jupiter or Venus do not intermingle their favourable beams, and then the said person shall fall in great danger of the said violent death, & from the which he shall always escape miraculously.  
If one of the ill fortunes be in the sign of Cancer, and the other in the sign of the Lion, the death shall be violent; Likewise, if any of the said ill fortunes be in the sign of the Lion, and the luminaries temporal, or the Lord of the ascendant be unfortunate, and one of the ill fortunes be in the first house, and the other in the seventh or fourth, or one of them in the tenth and the other in the fourth.  
The Sun, or the Moon, or the Lord of the ascendant, joined with Mars, have right in one fixed star, which the Astrologers call the head of Meduse, or otherwise the head of the devil, maketh him by the hand of the Executioner to lose his head.  
When the Sun, and the Moon, and Saturn, and Mars, occupy the 4. angles of heaven, or at the least 3. the person shall die a horrible death: for he shall lose his head, or be cut in four quarters, or be drawn with four horses: principally, if in the said angles be the signs of Gemini, Pisces and Aquarius. Mars in the ninth or eight in the sign of Aquarius or of Gemini, opposite to the Moon, or the Lord of the ascendant, without good aspect of fortunes, maketh him perish by Sulphur or fire from heaven. Saturn in the twelfth, sixth, eight, or fourth house unfortunate, the lord of the said houses maketh him die in prison, or else where in great pain and travail: principally when the luminaries temporal, or the Lord of the ascendant be unfortunate in any of the said houses.  
The tail of the Dragon being joined to the Significators of death, denote poisons, venims, and violent medicines, or ill applied, and flux of the belly. Mars within the fourth, eight, twelfth, or sixth unfortunate, their lords and the luminaries temporal, or the Lord of the ascendant, witness violent death, by the shedding of blood or otherwise.  
The Significators of death within the ninth or third house, signify that the person shall die by the way, or in a strange Country: except they be in their own proper houses or exaltations, for than he shall die in his house, & bring his evil from the high ways. The said Significators in their proper houses or exaltations, make him die in his house, if they be Peregrine's, they make him die out of his house.  
The Moon joined to a fixed star, named the Claire of the balance meridional, denoteth violent death. That doth she also when she is joined with other stars that have the nature of the luminaries. Mars in the viii. house with the head of the Dragon, maketh him to be hanged and strangled. Many Planets within the seventh house, make him die of some strange and terrible kind of death. Saturn, Mars, and the head of the Dragon in the first, Venus and Mercury with the tail in the seventh, make the body in a thousand pieces.  
If the principal Significator be burned in his own proper house or exaltation, without being otherwise unfortunate, it maketh him die suddenly of some feebleness, or other sudden and secret accident, without other violence. The fortunes well disposed in the eight house, preserve him always from violent death.   

CHAP. XXV. Of voyages by Land and by Sea.  
IVpiter, Venus, the Sun and Mercury fortunate in the ninth house, denote that he shall be happy in viages by Land and by Sea. Saturn and Mars signify to the contrary; and principally Saturn doth hinder the viages by water, and Mars the ways by Land. If within the ninth house there be never a Planet, you must consider the Moon, and the Lord of the ninth, and the parts of the ways and viages by land and by water, with their Lords, the which fortunate, giveth profitable navigations: unfortunate, denote the contrary. Likewise you must judge of the third house and of his lord, when they be well or evil disposed. The head of the Dragon in the ninth, favoureth greatly to the fortune of viages, and the tail to the contrary.   

CHAP. XXVI. Of the constancy in his Religion.  
ALso as the head of the Dragon, the luminaries, and Mercury in the ninth house well disposed, denote entire faith and constancy in his Religion, Saturn, Mars, and the tail of the Dragon do hinder it. Saturn of his nature is most inclined to the Law of the jews: and Mars to the law of the Turks & Mahometists; the tail of the Dragon, causeth him always to err from the truth of the law. The lord of the ninth, and the part of the faith, with his Dominator fortunate, yieldeth a man constant in his faith: unfortunate maketh him variable.  
If the part of the spirit be in the sign of the Lion at the birth of a Christian, he shall be very constant in his religion, if the Sun be fortunate: if he be unfortunate by Saturn, to go from his faith, and to address it to that of the jews. If he be unfortunate by Mars, it maketh him more to incline to the law of the Turks and Mahometists. If the said part be in the houses of Saturn at the nativity of a jew, or in the houses of Mars at the nativity of a Turk, they shall deny their law: if the said lords of the said part be retrogrades, or otherwise ill disposed. Saturn in the ninth at the nativity of a jew, doth nothing diminish his faith. Saturn in the said house when he is fortunate, signifieth Dreams to be true. Mars and the tail of the Dragon signify them vain and false. The other significators do aslure them to be true.   

CHAP. XXVII. Of the action and profession.  
HOW to know of what profession the child shall be, you must chiefly consider if any Planet be in the tenth house, for he shall be Significator of the profession: otherwise, you must come to the part of Fortune, and to his lord, to the part of the profession, and to his lord, to the tenth house, and to his lord, and to the places of Mars, Mercury and Venus.  
The Planet that upon these places shall have the most dignities, shallbe Significator of the profession. The which if it be Saturn, it shall signify a Husbandman, a good housekeeper, a Receiver of rents, and many times a Governor of Towns, when he is in angles fortunate. jupiter denoteth the officers, judges, Benefices, Prelates, Bishops, Governors of the goods of the Church. Mars signifieth Captains, men of war, Coiners, Forgeours, and other that use to work with fire and iron: and Physicians when he is in the aspect of Venus.  
Sol representeth Princes, Lords, Magistrates, Hunters, Treasurers and Archers. Venus' Players, Dancers, Perfumers, Appothecaries, and in aspect of Mars, Physicians. Mercury, Advocates, Notaries, Registers, Poets, Rymers, Philosophers, Mathematicians, Diviners, writers, Messengers and traders.  
The Moon, Ambassadors, Counsellors, Consuls, Rulers of Common wealth, travailers, Hunters. If there be many Significators, or if the principal be coupled with many Planets, you must mingle the significations of the one and of the other, and of the said mixture, gather together the profession coming of the concurrence of the stars. You must also consider in what house the said Significators be, if they be within the second, the profession shall be of feats of merchandise and traffics: if within the third or ninth, of feats of religion, or gathering the goods of the Church. If in angles, of Dominations & governments. If in the fift of Embassages, legations, and other things of pleasure. If in the sixth, of feats of diseases, of servants and of cattle. etc. If the part of the honour coming of the profession, be with his Lord fortunate, the Infant shall obtain great credit and honour because of his profession. If they be unfortunate, if he do never so well, he shall never gain to himself honour in the feats of his profession.   

CHAP. XXVIII. Of dignities, offices, and honours.  
FOR the dignities, offices, charges and honours, you must have respect to the tenth house, to the luminaries temporal, to the part of nobleness, to the part of government, to the part of Magistrates, & others appertaining to the tenth house, with their Lords. The Planet that in the said places shall have most dignities, shall be Significator of the said considerations in good or evil, according to his good or evil disposition: particularly also you must follow the said places one after another to know of what side principally the said dignities, offices and honours ought to come.  
Saturn in the tenth house, or in the ascendant in nativities by day, signifieth great advancement and honour after thirty years, when he is not evil disposed: in nativities by night, it denoteth continual fear, to receive damage of Princes and Kings. Mars in the said places in nativities by night, signifieth also great advancement, & by day more than Saturn.  
The part of government and his Lord within any of the angles, witness great favour of Kings. Likewise you must judge of the other part that we have deducted upon the tenth house. Mercury in the tenth well disposed and fortunate, promiseth dignities, offices and honours, by reason of knowledge. Venus and the Moon because of women. jupiter for his virtue. The Sun and the head of the Dragon in the same house, denoteth as much. The two luminaries in their houses or exaltations placed in the figure of Heaven, do denote great advancement & honour.  
That which jupiter doth also when he receiveth the virtue of all the other Planets, & communicateth his own to Saturn and the Sun; and the fortunes and the luminaries when they be in the angles of Heaven. Many Planets in the fourth house, denoteth great honour after death. If in the points of the angles be any fixed star of the first or second greatness, or other having the nature of lumynaries, it is a great sign of incredible advancement. That which happeneth also when the said stars be joined to the lumynaries temporal, or to the part of Fortune, or to his Lord, or to the Planets and parts that be in the angles.  
They which have Saturn in the tenth burned, or the Lord of the tenth burned, or be by Saturn oppressed, or that have the tail of the Dragon in the tenth, receive commonly some form of dishonour, and often be deprived of their estate, when the Fortunes do not intermingle their favourable beams: except when they be also unfortunate in their proper houses or exaltations, or in the signs of Aries and the Lyon.  
You must note that Saturn & Mars, hinder greatly the good fortunes, until that the man hath passed the number of years corrispondent to the number of the small years of the said Planets: and if they hinder any more time, it shall be until that the man shall accomplish the number of years answering to the number of degrees, of the overthwart ascensions of the Sign, in the which they shall be at the nativity.   

CHAP. XXIX. Of companions and Friends.  
YOU must for the Companions and Friends, have respect to jupiter, the eleventh house, the part of friends, the part of honourable companions. The Planet having most dignities in the said places, shall be principal Significator of friends: the which after his good or evil disposition, shall denote honourable, faithful, and profitable friends: or unprofitable, disloyal, and of base condition. jupiter and the Sun in the said house, signify honourable companies and profitable: so doth Venus, the Moon and Mercury also in the said place. Saturn in the eleventh fortunate, witnesseth grave friends, ancient and honourable. Mars, men of war, Captains and Lords.  
Saturn or Mars in the eleventh out of their principal dignities, deprived of the beams of the favourable Planets, signify some great suit against his friends, or some great evil by reason of them: as it happeneth commonly to the Aunswerers and Sureties. The parts of honourable companions and of praise, with their Lords fortunate, signifieth profit and honour on the side of friends: unfortunate denoteth the contrary. The part of friends denoteth as much.  
The head of the Dragon in the eleventh house, giveth favour of friends: the tail denoteth a thousand mischiefs by reason of them.   

CHAP. XXX. Of suits and Enemies.  
THE fortunes in the seventh and twelfth house, give victories against enemies, when they be in good aspect to the lord of the ascendant. And commonly those which have these 2. houses with their Lords fortunate, be happy in their suits: the contrary you must judge, when they with their Lords be unfortunate. The ill fortunes in the said places, signify much strifes and enemies. That doth also the parts of enemies, and of discord and accord, when they and their Lords be evil disposed.  
The Lord of the twelfth house fortunate, it denoteth little puissance of enemies: unfortunate denoteth the contrary. If one of the two ill fortunes be in the twelve, and the other in the sixth, in evil aspect of the lumynaries temporal, or of the Lord of the ascendant, the child shall be killed by his enemies. They which have Saturn, or Mars, or the Moon opposite to the Sun in the Sign of Cancer, be commonly contrary to all the world. Mars in any of the four angles, engendereth naturally strife, suits, debates, and enmities against all the world: except when he is in a good aspect of jupiter and Venus. For than he doth expel his ire and anger against the vices, & of great zeal maintaineth the right of every one.  
The Lord of the ascendant, or the Moon, or the Sun unfortunate in the twelve house, denoteth great persecutions and calamities of the enemies. The Lord of the ascendant by the lord of the twelve oppressed, testifieth that he shall die by the hand of his enemies.  
The Lord of the twelve, and the Planets that be in the seventh & twelve house, signify the quality of enemies, (that is to understand) the Sun signifieth the Princes & great Lords, the Moon all the world, and Mars the men of war. etc.   

CHAP. XXXI. Of imprisonments and captivities.  
THE Lord of the ascendant, or the Moon or the Sun greatly unfortunate in the 12. 6. 8. and 4. house, do signify imprisonments, and death within the prisons, or in captivity: principally when they be burned out of their principal dignities, and out of the signs of Aries and the Lion, and when they be oppressed by Saturn lord of one of the said houses. Saturn and Mars in the angles of Heaven, signify always some imprisonment: and principally Saturn. Mercury in the angles under the beams of the Sun, receiving an evil aspect of ill fortunes, signifieth as much. If Mercury or the lord of the ascendant give his virtue to Saturn, being in the eight house, it signifieth that the child shall dwell long in prison and captivity.  
If the lord of the ascendant be in the twelve in a sign of a human figure, without aspects of fortunes or of luminaries, he shall be captive and a slave in his youth. If the lord of the ninth be burned in any of the angles of Heaven, he shall be taken by the highways, and put in prison.  
The parts of prison, and of pain, travail and affliction with their lords burnt, or otherwise unfortunate, signifieth imprisonment and captivity. That doth also the unfortunes when they be well dignified in the said places.  
The parts of all envies, and of the perilous year doth signify as much, when they with their Lords be greatly unfortunate.  
The said parts with their Lords fortunate, preserveth from prison, and from captivity.   

CHAP. XXXII. Of Horses, Sheep, and other beasts.  
THE fortunes and Planets fortunate within the 6. and twelve house, yield the men happy in horses and nourishing of beasts. The lords of the said houses fortunate, and coupled with the Significators of riches, signify as much. Naturally the sixth house denoteth Sheep, and Goats, and other small beasts, the 12. Horses, Oxen, Kine, Camels, & other great beasts. The ill fortunes within the said houses, or the lords of the said houses unfortunate, signify loss and damage of the said beasts.  
Saturn and Mars in the twelve, maketh the horses to fall with notable loss. The which they do also when they be elsewhere in the Sign of Sagitarius. The lord of the nativity in the twelve house in evil aspect of the Lord of the twelve, maketh him fall from his horse in great peril of death, when the fortunes & luminaries do not yield their amiable aspects.  
If the twelve be of Sagittarius or the Lion, & the lord of the ascendant, or the Sun, or the Moon be unfortunate, he shall fall from his horse and die, if the fortunes within the eight house do not hinder the evil.   
The end of the first Book.   

Of the Astronomical judgements upon the Nativities, containing particular considerations. The second Book.  

CHAP. I. Of the significations of the Planets.  
SAturne, having regard over the right part of Septentrion, over the earth and the water, over the melancholy, and sometimes over the phlegm, gross humours, over the ears, the spleen, the bladder, the maw, the sinews, and the bones. And signifieth pale men, or black, lean, pensive, solitary, fearful, railers, grave, contemplators, labourers, Masons, buyers of rents, Usurers, Carpenters, Fishers, Merchants of oils, Leather, Fish, tiles, stone, alum. etc. Of diseases it signifieth leperousnes, cankers, rottenness, quarterne-fevers, oppilations, dropsies, flux of the belly, colic, burstness in the cods, misconception of women, the gout in the legs, gout in the wrists, Sciatiqua, deafness, the falling sickness, foolish melancholy, very difficult in fetching breath, & others, engendered of gross humours or of wind, which endure long. Of ages, oldness: of parts of the year Autumn: of colours the black, clear, tawny, dark: of savours, the sharp and abstringent, pricking with sharpness: of days, the Saturday: of Regions, Bavieres, Saxony, Romanie, Constance, and the first Climate. Of particular places, Caves, Lakes, Pondes, close places, old & ruinous houses, solitary places, obscure deserts & stinking places.  
jupiter regarding the occident, the air, the blood with the vital spirits, the lungs, the sides, the liver and the veins: and signifieth men of good stature, and full faced, bald, curled, white with a pleasant redness intermingled, having the eyes indifferent great, the nostrils reasonable short, the foreteeth reasonable great, honest men, gracious, blessed, religious, Abbots, Bishops, Prelates, Officers, judges, Magistrates. With copulation of Saturn, it signifieth Nigromancers, Enchanters, Sorcerers. With Mars, Physicians. With the Sun, appeasors of quarrels, controversies and disputations. With Venus, Musicians. With Mercury, Mathematicians. With the Moon, Geomatrician, Geographers, & Hidrografers. Of Diseases, it signifieth burning Fevers, Quincies, Plurifies, swellings, Impostumes, phlegmes, and other, coming of blood. Of ages, between age and youth. Of the parts of the year, the Spring-time.  
Of colours, as clear as a sapphire, as yellow as a Cittern, green, and a little drawing upon the red. Of savours sweet and amiable. Of days, the Thursday. Of Countries, Babylon, Persia, Hungary, Spain, and the second Climate. Of particular places, churches, palaces, privileged places, clean, honest, and religious.  
Mars looking towards the South, the fire, choleric humours, the reins, the pain in the nostrils, the gall, the genitories. He denoteth men with red faces, and the skin red, the face round, the eyes yellow, horrible to behold, furious men, cruel, desperate, proud, seditious, soldiers, Captains, Smiths, Colliers, Bakers, Alcumistes, Armourers, Furnishers, Butchers, chirurgeons, Barbers, Sergeants and Hangmen, according as they shall be well or evil disposed.  
With Saturn, commonly it signifieth chirurgeons. With jupiter, Natural Philosophers & Physicians. With the Sun, healers of eyes. With Venus, Barbers and Sheremen. With Mercury, men of skill to let blood. With the Moon, Tooth-drawer's, and clensers of the ears. Of diseases, it denoteth tertian Fevers, and continual impediments, pestilences, megrams of the head, carbunckles, ringworms, blisters, chollericks and burnings, madness, frenzies, issues of blood, vomiting of blood, choleric passions, the yellow jaundices, the bloody-flixe, & others, coming of choleric humours and burnings. Of ages, the flower of youth. Of the parts of the year, the Summer.  
Of colours, red, flame-colour, sanguine, and drawing to an iron colour. Of savours, the bitter and sharp. Of Of the days, Tuesday. Of Regions, Getulia, Lombardie, and the third Climate. Of places particular, houses of Smiths, Coiners of money, slaughters, furnices, all places dedicated to fire, iron and blood.  
The Sun having domination over the East & South, over the fire, over the pure blood, and over the vital spirits, over the eyes, over the brain, over the heart. And it signifieth wisemen, prudent, dyscreete, covetous of glory and of honour: of an indifferent stature, brown of colour, great bearded, yellow eyed, the face marked, a great voice, and very ill favoured. Honourable men, Officers, Magistrates, Lords, Princes, Kings and Governors of Countries and great hunters. And with Saturn, denoteth principal Meaters, Renters, and labourers honourable. With jupiter, Beneficed men, priors, Abbots, and Prelates, or judges and Officers of justice. With Mars, Captains and Conductors of wars. With Venus, Governors of the goods of Princes, and officers of the same. With Mercury, Counsellors, Secretaries, chancellors. With the Moon, Legates, Ambassadors, and honourable messengers.  
Of diseases, hot rumes upon the face, and upon the eyes, redness of the face, tympanies, palpitation of the heart, dolour of the head coming of too much blood, or with tarrying long in the beams of the Sun. Of ages, youth. The parts of the year, the beginning of Summer. Of colours the yellow, the clear red, colour of gold.  
Of savours, sowernes and sweetness agreeably intermingled. Of days, Sunday. Of Countries, Italy, Sicilia, Bohemia, and the fourth Climate. Of particular places, houses of Princes, Palaces, theatres, and other large places, excellent and clear.  
Venus' Dominatrix over the right part of the East, upon the air and water, upon the mixtion of phlegm, blood and spirits, and seed of generation. Upon the reins, belly, navel, liver, back, and other parts dedicated to generation. And signifieth white men or brown, with some redness intermingled: fair faced, pleasant looks, hawke-nosed, full of hair, joyful, laughter, liberal, pleasers, dancers, entertayners of women, players, perfumers, musicians, messengers of love. With Saturn, it signifieth Preachers, and others that sing and joyfully assist at deceases and burials. With jupiter, musicans and others, which sing the praise of God in solemn hymns. With Mars, trumpeters and dromslades in war. With Mercury, singers of rhymes & poetry. With the Moon, singers of common songs. Of diseases, impostumes, and of moist matters, fystuloes, imbecility of the stomach, of the reins, and of the part of generation, folly coming by too much love, the French-pockes with his supporters, and other, coming of cold and moist matter, and of venims.  
Of ages, young years: of parts of the year, the beginning of the Spring-time: of colours, the white, green, red, and a little yellow; of savours, the sweet, delectable, and savourliest. Of days, Friday: of Regions, Arabia, Austria, Sweecherland, and the fift Climate. Of particular places, near gardens, fountains, Chambers well decked, halls hanged with Tapestry, beds well adorned, and others, dedicated to plays, dauncies, songs and all voluptuousness.  
Mercury being chief over the Septentrion over the water and earth, and of the spirits of beasts, and over the confusion of humours. Over the hands, feet, arms, shoulders, tongue, mouth and teeth. And signifieth men neither white nor black: lean: of small stature: long fingered: long faced: high fore-headed: the nose strait and long: little beard: full of hair: the eyes little & quick: subtle men: ingenious: unconstant: Rymers: Poets: Advocates: Orators: Philosophers: soothsayers: Arithmeticians: Merchants: and busy fellows.  
With Saturn, Geomitricians: Architects: With jupiter, Lawyers: Cannons: and those that keep the Registers of the benefits of Churches and suits. With Mars, Sergeants of the band, Archers of the Guard. etc. With the Sun, Masters of the houses of Princes and great Lords: and their Secretaries & Stewards. With Venus, Musicians: Apothicaries and Perfumers. The Moon, travailers, messengers & traffickers. Of diseases, vertigo or turning of the head: lightness of the brain: like to folly: foolish imaginations: let's of the tongue: pthisickes: issues in the legs, feet and hands: and other, that have causes hidden, and that come by certain times. Of ages, the time between seven and fourteen years: Of the parts of the year, Autumn. Of colours, the strangest, diverst and mixtious. Of savours, the strangest & of new taste. Of days, Wednesday. Of Countries, Egypt, Greece, England, Flaunders: Paris: and the 6. Climate. Of particular places, shops: fairs: common-markets: schools: halls of Lawyers.  
The Moon doth govern over the right part of the West: over the water: over the phlegm: sweatinges: monthly flowers: and like superfluities. Over the stomach: the belly: the brain: the lungs: the breast and the eyes. And signifieth men of fair stature, white, and the face round and spotted: the eyes a little black, and a little lowering: long bearded: his eyebrows knit together: amiable men, peaceable: travailers: Pilgrims: Hunters: Ambassadors: Legates: Consuls: Attorneys: Benchers: Governors of Towns: principal in deeds of policy.  
With Saturn, it signifieth Carters and vile Workers. With jupiter, Geomitricians and Geographers. With Mars, Drawers of teeth: Alchemists and Blowers. With the Sun, honourable messengers. With Venus, carriers of packs. With Mercury, Poets, Rymers, messengers, travailers and traffickers. Of diseases, gouts of the feet & wrists: sciatiqua: dropsies: lyttargy: palsies: rumes: shaking of the members: drowsy sicknesses: flux of the belly: vomitings: fistuloes: worms: and other causes of cold and moistness. Of ages, the infancy: of the parts of the year, Winter: of colours, white: yellow: green: of savours, the saltish: fresh: or without favour: of days, Monday. Of Countries, Flaunders: Africa: and the seventh Climate. Of particular places, fields: fountains: mountains: Havens of the Sea: woods: highways and desert places.   

CHAP. II. ¶ Of the significations of the twelve Signs.  
ARies doth govern over the heart of the Orient, over the fire, over the chollerique humours & hot: over the beginning of the Spring: over the head: the nose, the face, the ears and the eyes. And signifieth lean men, red coloured, flat nosed, choleric, strong, and right men of war: Captains: soldiers: Alcumistes, and other martialists. Of diseases, it denoteth lethargy: madness: issues of blood: redness of the face: filthiness: falls: hurts: and all sicknesses violent and continual.  
Of colours, red: yellow: and sanguine colour: Of savours, the sweet. Of Countries, Britain: Almanie: Ind: juda: England: Naples: Florence: Favence: Imole: Capne: Ferrara: Venice: Verone: Pavia: Craconie: Marselle: Saragosse: and the third Climate.  
Of particular places, fields, pastures, houses of Forgiours of money, and places of blood, and justice.  
Taurus governeth over the left part of the meridies, over the earth, over the melancholy humours, over the middle of the springe, over the neck, and throat. And signifieth little men, well fleshed with great shoulders, great eyes, large bellied, painful men, liberal, trusty, voluptuous, messengers of love, dancers, players. Of sicknesses, the kings evil, Caterches, Squinacies, and other sicknesses of the neck. Of Colour, the green and white. Of savours, the sweet with adstriction. Of countries the Sea coasts of Asia the lesser, Cyprus, Media, Persia, Campanie, Rhetia, Sweathland, Lorraine, Bolongne, Seine, Montorie, Tarrante, Parme, Panorme, Capne, Salerne, Verone, and the vi. Climate. Of particular places, Fields, Tillages, Vines very near green, Gardens, and other pleasant and odoriferous places.  
Gemini governeth over the right part of Occident, over the air, over the blood, and other end of the spring time, over the shoulders, arms, and hands. And signifieth men of middle stature, fair faced, and bodied, store of hair, little eyes, labouring men, subtle, ingenious, prudent teachers, fraudulent, Arethmetricians, Geometricians, Astrologians, Orators, Poets, Advocates, Witches, Soothsayers, Busy fellows, Weavers. Of sicknesses, Phleames, Foroncles, and others coming of blood in the said part. Of Colours, the mixtures. Of Savours, the sweet. Of Countries, Hircanye, Armenia, Montiane, Syrenianque, Marmarique, low Egipte, England, Sordigne, Brabant, Flaunders, Lombardie, Viterbie, Vercel, Norremberge, Lovayne, Magonce, Brudges, London, Paris, Cordube. Of particular places, Fairs, Schools, Shops, places of high mountains, places of hunting of birds, places garnished within with instruments of music.  
Cancer governeth the heart of the Septentrion, over the water, over the hollow humours, and Phlegmatiques, over the breast, sides, and lungs, and over the dugs and stomach. And signifieth amiable men, peaceable, modest, white, full faced, the nose indifferent long, large shoulders, little bearded, slothful, unconstant, and effeminate, Navigators, Strangers, Consuls, Attorneys, etc. Of diseases, Litargy, Leprosy, darkness of the sight, galling of the skin, and evil sicknesses, of the face and body. Of Colours, the white and yellow. Of savours, the salt, and his contrary freshness. Of Countries, Bythinie, Phrigia, Africa, Carthage, Scotland, the kingdom of Grenade, the County of Burgony, Prusie, Holland, Zelande, Constantinople, Thunis, Venice, milan, Genes, Luques, Pise, Treves, Madebourge, Berne: Of particular places: ponds, lakes, rivers, the sea, and ports of the sea.  
Leo, governeth the left part of Orient, over the fire, over the choler, over the heart, stomach, liver and back. And signifieth fair men, strait, the nose broad and little, great ears, with a little strong look, the face brown, the body reddish, hairy, courageous and of great heart, Princes, Officers, Magistrates, governors Kings. Of diseases, shaking of the heart, swoonings. Of Colours the yellow and red as gold. Of savours, the bitter, and the strong. Of Countries, Italy, France, Apulie, Sicilia, Chaldea, Bohemia, Rome, Ravenna, Prage, Vlme, Mantove, Cremone, Syracuse: Of particular places, noble lands, Lordships, Castles Towns, Palaces, and Royal buildings.  
Virgo governeth over the right part of the Meridies, over the earth, over the melancholy, over the guts, belly and diaphragm: And signifieth men of indifferent greatness, the body strait, the face fair, good voice, shining hair, little eyes, prudent, learned, ingenious, covetous of glory and honour, Scriveners, Arithmeticians, Geometricians, Boat men. Of diseases, the colic, (the disease which causeth the patiented to vomit his excrements at his mouth called Iliaque) etc. Of Colours, the white & purple: of savours, the astringent: of Countries, Greece, Achaia, Crect, Mesopotania, Assiria, Cicilia, Athens, Rhodes, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Corinth, Tarrante, Beneuent, Farrare, Pavia, Basle, Paris, Lions, Tholose. Of particular places, fairs: shops: schools: and arable grounds.  
Libra governeth over the heart of the Occident, over the air, over the blood, over the beginning of Autumn, & over the reins: and denoteth simple men, honourable, fair faced with whiteness over all the body, the eyes a little troubled or spoiled, players, dancers, musicans, hunters, judges. Of diseases, suppression of the urine, issue of blood in the lower parts, stones in the reins, & darkness of the eyes. Of colours, the green: of savours, sweet: of Regions Bactriane, Caspie, Thebes, Trogloditique, Ethiopia, Tuscia, Austria, Savoy, Danphina, Gaiete, Plaisance, Argenton, Vienna in Austria, Frankford, Spire, August, Arles, Lisbon. Of particular places, where suits be judged upon, all high places and mountains bearing corn, grapes, or other fruits.  
Scorpio governeth over the left part of the Septentrion: over the water: over the phlegmatic humours and aquosits, over the parts dedicated to generation. And signifieth men very deformed: broad breasted: the head deformed: great speakers: babblers: mockers: liars: gluttons: voluptuous: traitors: spies: poysonnours. Of diseases, darkness of the eyes: scabs: scurfs: kanckers: leoprousnesse: falling off the hair: and deformed diseases in the face: and all the body empoisoned by violence of medicines, etc. Of colours, the red and tawny. Of savours, salt and fresh. Of Regions, Syria, Cappadocia: the land of the Moors: Catalongne: Bavaires: Trapezonce: Saxony: Padua: Urbin: Brixie: Valence in Spain: Vienna in Danphinna. Of particular places, vineyards: and gardens evil trimmed, desert places: stinking: infected: abounding in worms: snakes: and scorpions, etc.  
Sagitarius governeth over the right part of the Orient: over the fire: over choler: over the end of Autumn: over the thighs: and all superfluous parts: as a sixth part of the finger etc. And representeth men of right and high stature: the face yellow or reddish, the breast large: Cats eyes: just men and pitiful: & ceremonious: judges: magistrates: prelates: beneficed men merchants, hunters. Of diseases, darkness of the eyes, falls from high places: hurts by horses: Agues & wounds. Of colours: clear: yellow. Of savours: strong & sharp with some sweetness intermingled: of Countries, Tuscan, Spain: Arabia the happy: Portugal: Hungary: Slavonia: Volterre: Mutiny: Bude: Caschonia: Narbona: Avignon: Tolete. Of particular places, Gardens: Ways: Mountains: or where men keep horses.  
Capricorn governeth over the heart of the meridies, over the earth: melancholy: the knees: over the beginning of the Winter. And signifieth little stature, a little round head: the face brown: fair nose: fair eyes: chollerique and sad: subtle: secret: prudent: painful: shepherds: fishers: mariners: carpenters: buyers of Rents. Of diseases, scabs: galls: infirmities of the skin: hinderances of the hearing: of the voice: of the eyes: issues of blood in the lower parts. Of colours black and earthly. Of savours, the bitter and astringent. Of Regions, Macedonia, Thracia, Indea, Brandebourge: Anchone: Favence: Tortonne: Ausburge, Constans, Gand, Malnies. Of particular places, Gardens, Fountains, Rivers, Fields tilled, Land ploughed, Prisoners, Caves, Obscure places, deeps; and full of fewmes and vapours.  
Aquarius governeth over the left part of the Occident, over the air, over the blood, over the legs, over the middle of Winter. And signifieth fair men, fair & somewhat long faced, & the face somewhat red, the breast or the elbows marked, and men Courteous, Scotiable, Covetous, Prudent, given to the acts of Saturnins. Of diseases, quartern fevers, the black iaunders, etc. Of Colours, the green and dark yellow. Savours, sweet. Of Countries, Arabia, Ethiopia, Sarinatia, Oxione, Tartary, Denmark, Picmount, Mountferrat, Pisaure. Of particular places, Lakes, Pondes, Close places, Caves, sepulchres and infamous houses.  
Pisces governeth over the right part of the Septentrion over the water, phlegm, aquisits, and over the feet, and over the end of winter. And signifieth men of whitish colour, delicate, fair foreheaded, fair breasted, fair bearded, the eyes open and indifferent great, and indifferent sickly: Fishers, and Navigators. Of diseases, galls upon the skin, ulcers and deformed spots upon the skin pain in the feet. Of Colours, the green, white & mixtures. Of savours salt and fresh Of Regions, Lydia, Lycia, Cicilia, Pamphilia, Calabria, Normandy: Rattisbone: Roan: Compostella, Of particular places: port of the Sea: heads of Rivers, Ponds and waterish places.   

CHAP. III. Of that which the Planets signify in the said Signs.  
SAturne in his signs of Capricorn and Aquarius in Nativities by day giveth knowledge and love of noble men: and of credit and great riches principally in the Ascendant: with the part of Fortune: and maketh the man grave, prudent: proud and mellanchollie: and first of all his brethren, or most advanced. In Nativities by night giveth great pain and travail and many diseases. jupiter in the said sign, maketh the man of little courage, unfortunate in the goods of the Church, otherwise of small riches, or always poor.  
Mars maketh him bold, a great enterpriser of matters, and not in vain, and maketh him see the death of his brethren.  
The Sun in the nativities by day signifieth that he shall be perfect and happy in all his enterprises. In nativities by night that he shall have unconstant fortune.  
Venus maketh him an Adulterer and effeminate, and denoteth that his wives shall not live long.  
Mercury causeth him to have impeachment in his tongue, and maketh the man evil spoken otherwise, and which haunteth the company of men of knowledge and of Religion.  
The Moon maketh the man too slothful, and one of evil estimation: and his mother also, and signifieth imbicillitie of the eyes and great coughs.  

In the houses of jupiter. ♐ ♓  
Saturn in the houses of jupiter, which be Sagitarius & Pisces maketh the man fair, rich, mighty and faithful in nativities by day: In nativities by night, strife against men of authority, and near the death of his Father.  
jupiter signifieth riches, honour, great credit and offices.  
Mars yieldeth the men noble, governors in wars & friends of Princes.  
The Sun maketh them beneficed men, prelates, officers and more advanced than any of their family, they shallbe always greatly covetous.  
Venus giveth them goods of the Church, or of the side of women; and maketh them discreet, honest, among the which they shall have great strife against their parents, famylies and friends.  
Mercury maketh them just, men of good estimation, which by their proper virtue shall come to the knowledge & love of great Lords and Kings.  
The Moon yieldeth them chief and most honoured among their friends: maketh them also covetous, sound and of long life.   

In the house of Mars. ♈ ♏  
Saturn giveth great anger and cruel malice.  
jupiter maketh the man happy, and afriende of great Lords, and a Conductor of wars, principal in the sign of Aries.  
Mars within his houses signifieth Captains, Governors in wars, and great Lords.  
The Sun, hot diseases, in the sign of Scorpio: in the sign of Aries great advancement.  
Venus denoteth luxury and all voluptuous villainy, but against nature, and evil dealing to women. Always in the sign of Aries she maketh him hate women, principally if the moon be in the same sign, and if the sun be in a masculine sign.  
Mercury, maketh the man a liar, an evil person, a deceiver, a babbler and a demander of unjust things: otherwise eloquent, subtle in his affairs, diligent, suspicious, a necromancer, a little false or a thief.  
The moon denoteth evil companions, in peril of being drowned: and short end by the sea.   

In the houses of the Sun. ♌  
Saturn in the sign of Leo: being a house of the Sun: signifieth good Fortune and long life to the father.  
jupiter maketh the man wise: of good spirit: of good nature: amiable: which by virtue shall come to the knowledge and love of great Kings and princes.  
Mars denoteth violent death, great sicknesses, loss of goods, infirmities of the eyes. and of the Stomach.  
The Sun in his said house signifieth great and incredible advancement, in Angles or Houses succedant, when the Nativity is by day: When it is by night signifieth Sadness, Envies, and a short end of the Father.  
Venus, great love, great covetousness, and impudent life, when jupiter doth not regard her.  
Mercury: good writers, men of knowledge, good memory, and of great council.  
The moon, honourable companions, and vivacity of the spirit.   

In the houses of Venus. ♉ ♎  
Saturn denoteth impudent life, love of maids & women of small discretion, diseases by reason of lechery.  
jupiter honourable companions, love of great lords, profit by the side of women, or Ecclesiastical goods, or coming by the men of the Church.  
Mars, furious men, raveshers of women, shameless in their lechery, unto the constraynings of their parents & friends.  
In the sign of Taurus, maketh the man, false and traitorous.  
In the sign of Libra denoteth some hurt by iron or fire.  
The Sun maketh him contemplative, just, interperter of dreams, curious in the secreets of nature, and a lover of pilgrimages.  
Venus signifieth joyfulness, great prosperity, happy in effecting his enteprises, but he shall love women reprehended Mercury giveth many good & profitable friends: and yieldeth the man pleasant, joyful, and a physician.  
The moon giveth profit by women.   

In the houses of Mercury. ♊ ♍  
Saturn, maketh the man very skilful, wise, and of great judgement: which hath envious men pursuing him, an impediment in his speech, his anger violent.  
jupiter maketh him also skilful, or a merchant, a man of good faith, and more rich than his parents.  
Mars, slothful, prudent, subtle, men of war.  
Sagitarius busy fellows, counterfeytors of letters and forgers.  
The sun giveth abundance of knowledge aswell in matters of judgements as in mathematics.  
Venus' companies & love of men of the Church, otherwise she doth yield them very lecherous.  
Mercury in his proper houses signifieth men of all knowledge, philosophers, mathematicians: Orators, Advocates, Poets, Rhymers Soothsayers, & skilful in knavery.  
The Moon good life and long, great understanding in the affairs which he taketh in hand good fortune in merchandizes and in love of young maidens.   

In the house of the Moon. ♋  
Saturn great sickness loss of goods: hurt in the eyes, voyages from the which he shall never return, or very late with great pain.  
jupiter: love of honourable men good renown and good fortune.  
Mars: swiftness of spirit, rash, bold enterprisers, blindness of the eyes, loss of goods by his mother.  
The Sun, good renown, and if he be joined to the tail of the Dragon, or to Saturn or Mars, blindness of eyes, peril of drowning, frequenting voyages.  
Venus signifieth, inconstancy, & shameless lechery.  
Mercury good will, chastity, fidelity, and happy fortune in deeds of merchandise.  
The Moon, holy, and profitable in voiagaes, Traffics and merchandise when she is fortunate: or when she is unfortunate, continual sicknesses, hurts in the eyes, peril of death by land and water.    

CHAP. FOUR Of the aspects of the Planets between them.  

☌  THE Conjunction of Saturn & jupiter giveth fair possessions, farms rents, houses, & charges of the affairs of the king, profitable if Mars do not behold them.  
The conjunction of Saturn & Mars, signifieth that the child shallbe trusted: but he shall not accomplish his enterprises without great difficulty, & shall die sooner than his father & mother, & yet his brethren shall die before him.  
The conjunction of Saturn and of the Sun, loss of patrimony, great travail to get goods, and most in the nativities by night.  
The conjunction of Saturn and Venus, denote that the man shall have no male children, that he shall espouse some old woman, or some widow, or some of evil condition, or a bastard: or other stain of his honour, or by the which his parents have had some discredit.  
The conjunction of Saturn and Mercury, doth yield him a poor vagabond, needy, of no mystery, the which hath an impediment in his speech.  
The conjunction of Saturn and Luna, weakness of body, loss by the side of his Parents.  
The conjunction of jupiter & Mars, signifieth, riches, rule and government of wars, and of good renown.  
The conjunction of jupiter and the Sun, poverty & need if it be not Oriental, for than it promiseth good fortune to the father, to him, and to his children.  
The conjunction of jupiter and Venus, good institution, amity of honourable men, and profit of them, and of the wife and children.  
The conjunction of jupiter and Mercury, signifieth Lawyers, Secretaries and chancellors.  
The conjunction of jupiter & the Moon, great riches.  
The conjunction of Mars and the Sun, loss of patrimony, damage of goods, and short life to the father, and great peril of the child to be burnt.  
The conjunction of Mars and Venus, suits, strifes, debates by reason of women, adulterers with women of infamous condition.  
The conjunction of Mars & Mercury, liars, deceivers, eloquent, diligent, and babblers.  
The conjunction of Mars and the Moon, short life, wounds, blows, danger of violent death by iron or by fire, or by falls and ruins.  
The conjunction of Sol & Venus, praise, good renown, favour of the common people, especially of women.  
The conjunction of Sol & Mercury, wisdom, science, great advancement, and estimation to be very skilful.  
The conjunction of the Sun & of the Moon, short life, government, and honourable company.  
The conjunction of Venus and Mercury, maketh the man pleasant, joyful, a player, a dancer, physician, well furnished, and bringeth him damage by the side of women. If they be conjoined under the beams of the Sun, they make great hindrance in the parts of generation.  
The comunction of Venus & the Moon, maketh the man fair, pleasant, proud, an adulterer: and of whom his wife is an adulteress, if Mars do cast his beams without aspect of jupiter.  
The conjunction of Mercury & Luna, denoteeh good renown, science, & unconstancy of manners & of fortune.  
The tryne aspect of Saturn and jupiter, signifieth inheritances, 
△  possessions, fair houses, riches, meetings with treasures, great gains: when they be infortuate places of the figure.  
The tryne of Saturn and Mars, great advancement, dignities, great credit, rule and government of towns & Countries, and death of brethren.  
The tryne of Saturn and the Sun, rule, offices, dignities, great renown, in nativities by day: in the night it maketh the dispersing of patrimony goods, & afterwards by his deeds and virtue shall recover and obtain more greater.  
The tryne of Saturn & Venus, maketh the man trusty, mild, honest, shamefaced, of good conversation, of good renown, the which by men of base condition shall be pursued with envy, and shall marry late.  
The tryne of Saturn and Mercury, maketh the man prudent, subtle in all his affairs, a man of good & great knowledge, ingenious, industrious, an Arithmetrician, Geomitrician, Astrologian, and a Geographer, Precedent in matters of accounts and calculations: chancellors, Secretaries and Registers.  
The tryne of Saturn & of the Moon, favour of great Lords and Kings, glory, honour and government.  
The tryne of jupiter and Mars, signifieth audacity, honour, victory, favour of Kings, government of towns & great credit.  
The tryne of jupiter and Sol being greatly favourable, to glory, honour, government, credit, and giveth great riches, fair possessions, and fair children.  
The tryne of jupiter & Venus, denoteth beauty, grace, faithfulness, honesty, and profit of wives and friends, dignities and inheritances by their means.  
The tryne of jupiter and Mercury, maketh the man ingenious, subtle, forward, of good judgement & advise, happy in his enterprises, a judge, Officer, great Lord, Secretary, well understanding the secrets of nature and Astrology.  
The tryne of jupiter with the Moon, signifieth nobleness, honour, glory, good renown, love of virtue, fidelity, principality and government.  
The tryne of Mars with the Sun, great advancement, great credit, dignities, governments administrations of commonwealths, and Conductors of wars.  
The tryne of Mars with Venus, gain, riches, goods of women, proud, arrogant, brave and lecherous.  
The tryne of Mars and Mercury, prudent, crafty, subtle of spirit, and maketh the man to study secretly: a good Advocate, Precedent in matters of account, & rich.  
The tryne of Mars with Luna, maketh him happy in all his affairs: Precedent in matters of account, an honourable officer, & a great Lord, with great renown.  
The trine of the Sun with Venus, signifieth the same that the tryne of Mars and Venus signifieth, with great honour of the said significations.  
The tryne of the Sun with Mercury and Luna, likewise as of Mars, with great honour and profit.  
The tryne of Venus with Mercury, brave, pleasant, grave, beauty, and happy enterprises with profit.  
The tryne of Venus & the Moon, beauty, grace, bravery, pride, and adultery.  
The tryne of Mercury with the Moon, maketh the man greatly esteemed in his profession: be it in music, painting, or other pleasant industry: or in all knowledge, or in merchandise or office.  
The Sextiles aspects, make the same effects which the trynes make; except that the Sextiles be not of so perfect virtue.  
The Quadrate aspect of Saturn and jupiter, signifieth loss of patrimonial goods, great adversities, hinderances 
□  in all enterprises: vain cogitations, principally when Saturn is elevated over jupiter, without receiving him.  
The quadrate of Saturn and Mars, signifieth as much, and further maketh known the death of brethren.  
The quadrate of Saturn and the Sun out of the said significations, bringeth great damage to the honour, and spoileth the body with cold diseases and contractions of the sinews; and maketh the father die before the mother, and yieldeth the child not agreeable to his father.  
The quadrate of Saturn with Venus, denoteth loss of goods, poverty, miserable fortune to women, uncivility, when Saturn holdeth the right part of the aspect. For when Venus holdeth it, the child shall be shame faced and of good manners, and his wives shall love him effectually, although they dissemble their love and will govern in the house.  
The quadrate of Saturn & Mercury, maketh the man laborious, a servant, of poor council, deaf or of ill hearing, stutting or evil spoken, pursued of envy.  
The quadrate of Saturn and of the Moon, maketh the man slothful, sickly, evil graced, full of care, without friends, a disperser of the goods of his mother and of his wives.  
The quadrate of jupiter and Mars, if jupiter be mightiest, it signifieth that the child shall be esteemed, praised and honoured of Princes & Kings, and that he shall have perseverance in all his enterprises with profit; always he shall lose and dysperse his inheritances and possessions, and shall see the death or destruction of his children. If Mars be most elevate, he signifieth suits, debates and losses, by means of great Lords, and a troublesome life.  
The quadrate of jupiter with the Sun, if jupiter be the Superior, honour, profit, and good fortune to the Father. If the Sun be Superior, the child shall disperse his goods, and shall not be beloved of his neighbours; and shall go out of his Country.  
The quadrate of jupiter and Venus, profit by women, faithfulness, honesty, civility, when jupiter is most highest. When he is inferior, lust, deceit by women, inconstancy, joy incontinently turned into sadness, when Venus is not received by jupiter.  
The quadrate of jupiter and Mercury, signifieth the man skilful, a Mathematician, a Sorcerer, Soothsayer, abounding in servants, very faithful and very rich, principally when Mercury is received by jupiter.  
The quadrate of jupiter and the Moon, of good renown, great honours, in knowledge and love of great Lords, with a little unconstant of Fortune and of manners.  
The quadrate of Mars with the Sun, signifieth many evils, loss of goods, darkness of the eyes, and in great danger of violent death, or public.  
The quadrate of Mars with Venus, great troubles & tribulations by reason of women of base condition, or impudent, & somewaies defamed, when Mars is in a moveble sign.  
The quadrate of Mars with Mercury, weakness of all the body, prisons, pursuits, accusations, false nature of the child, with malice and iniquity.  
The quadrate of Mars and the Moon, signifieth the mother to be weak, and of a very short life, and the child an evil boy, prodigal, unconstant, poor, and which shall die miserably: and of the which, the wives shallbe proud, arrogant, and terrible.  
The quadrate of the Sun and Venus, signifieth that which the quadrate of jupiter and Venus signifieth.  
The quadrate of Sol & Mercury, signifieth that which the quadrate of jupiter and Mercury signifieth.  
The quadrate of the Sun with the Moon, augmenteth the dignities and the honours, & giveth enviousness.  
The quadrate of Venus and Mercury, maketh the man diligent & industrious in his office, & well renowned, but he shall receive some infamy by reason of women.  
The quadrate of Venus and Luna maketh him very rich, and happy in his profession, eloquent, gracious, very happy in wives & children: but he shall have some loss of good and honour by reason of women.  
The quadrate of Mercury with Luna, maketh him skilful, ingenious, unconstant of manners and of fortunes, which in a common sedition shall be taken, or shall be accused by many of his conspirators.  

☍  The Opposition of Saturn & jupiter, signifieth great troubles, a thousand mischiefs and tribulations, deprived of children. If Saturn be in the ascendant, and jupiter in the seventh house, the beginning of his life shall be with pains, tribulations and torments, and the end with repose, profit and honour.  
The opposition of Saturn and Mars without aspect of jupiter and Venus, denote great troubles, common seditions and conspyrations against the said man: many diseases intolerable, ruins, falls, perils by water, violent death, or pestilence, and a miserable father.  
The opposition of Saturn and Sol without aspect of jupiter, maketh the man sickly, sad, full of thoughts, full of tribulations, with great loss of goods, and danger of violent death.  
The opposition of Saturn and Venus, maketh him evil disposed, deprived of beauty and of virtue, lecherous, infamous by reason of women.  
The opposition of Saturn and Mercury, an imperfect speech, separation of brethren, knowledge and science.  
The opposition of Saturn and Luna, dispertion of his mother's goods, gryefes' happening to the mother, troubles and tribulations, with great danger of violent death, according to the nature of the sign wherein Luna is.  
The opposition of jupiter and Mars, rashness, dispertion of goods, enemy to them which have been friends, unconstant fortune.  
The opposition of jupiter & Sol, maketh him disperse his father's goods, & sell his offices and his honour.  
The opposition of jupiter and Venus, signifieth unconstant friends, ungratitude of them where he hath done good: otherwise sufficient fortune.  
The opposition of jupiter and Mercury, common seditions, envies, conspirations, strifes, suits, enmity of brethren, of the which he shall see the death.  
The opposition of jupiter with Luna, sufficient fortune after long travail.  
The opposition of Mars and of the Sun, spoil of the eyes, maketh him to be killed, or fall from on high, maketh him disperse his patrimony, & his father die quickly.  
The opposition of Mars and Venus, yieldeth the man voluptuous, an a little vicious, weak, unconstant, and maketh his wife and children to die in signs tropics, maketh him marry wives of base condition, or otherwise defamed.  
The opposition of Mars and Mercury, without aspect of jupiter, maketh the man a falsefyer, of evil conscience, accompanied with evil children, accused of many crimes, for the which he shall be a fugitive or banished: principally if Mercury be in the houses of Saturn.  
The opposition of Mars and the Moon, signifieth spoil of the eyes and the body, by blows and hurts and other sicknesses, and giveth great adversities, maketh him hate marriage, and causeth violent death, and often Canon: principally when the Moon increaseth in the angles; with sufficient aspect of fortunes.  
The opposition of the Sun, of Venus and of Mercury, signify that which we have said of jupiter.  
The opposition of the Sun and of the Moon, changeth the fortunes of goods and honour, poverty after riches, dishonour after honour, weakness of body after health; mutation of good to evil, and great unconstancy of manners.  
The opposition of Venus and Mercury, envies, quarrels, enmities by reason of women; otherwise grave eloquence, beauty and bravery.  
The opposition of Venus with the Moon, unfortunate marriage, injuries by women, depryvation of children.  
The opposition of Mercury and of the Moon, conspyrations against him, envies, treasons, fear and lecherous.  
Likewise you must regard the part of Fortune, the part of the spirit, and of their aspects with the said Planets; you must judge as of the aspects of the Planets with the Sun and the Moon. For if the part of fortune be part of the Moon, and part of the Spirit & part of the Sun, which would consider the aspects towards the other parts and houses of heaven, he may judge as of the Planets of the which the projections of the said parts shall be made. etc.   

CHAP. V Of the significations of the twelve houses.  
THE first house signifieth the life, nourishment, and disposition of the body of the spirit, and complexion, and representeth the head, face, brain, ears, and nose, and is called, Horyscope angle, adorning and ascending.  
The second house signifieth goods, traffic, riches, gain, companies to get profit & gain men that help to gain. It signifieth also gold and silver, and all movable goods, and is called, The house succedant to the ascendant, and beneath the earth; & reigneth over the neck.  
The third house denoteth the brethren, sisters, Cousins and allies, and little voyages, and the liver, and divinations of dreams, and is called, The house cadant of the ascendant, otherwise goodness: and hath government over the shoulders, legs and arms.  
The fourth house signifieth the Fathers and Parents possessions, inheritances, houses, fields, Orchards, vineyards labouring, wood, and other goods & movables, treasures and goods hidden, and mineral matters, prisons and obscure places, and in the end all things; & that which cometh after death, as the grave and good report. etc. and is called, The angle of the earth, and the depth thereof: and reigneth over the breast and lungs.  
The fift house signifieth infancy and Daughters, Nepheves, gifts, presents, pleasures, voluptuousness, ornanaments, bravery, dancing, plays, banqueting, messages, gold and silver, and the riches of the Father, the profit of inheritances, possessions, tillage, and is called, The house succedant to the fourth, and otherwise good fortune: and reigneth over the heart and stomach.  
The sixth house denoteth servants, sickness, wild beasts, riding, hunting of and by dogs: sheep and muttons, Goats and Pulleine, and hath some signification over prisons, unjustice, and false accusations, and is called, The house cadant of the fourth, and otherwise evil fortune, and hath government over the belly and bowels.  
The seventh house, denoteth marriage, wives, suits, quarrels, strife, debate, known enmity, and men appertaining to gain and profit, and signifieth agedness, and strange places, & is called, The angle of the occident, and reigneth over the reins.  
The eight house signifieth sadness, envy, long torments, the quality of death: dowry with wives, inheritance and other benefit, provided by Parents, and those that belong to gain, riches of the which one hath not greatly thought, and is called, The house succedant, to the angle occidental, and otherwise is entered on high, and governeth the parts of generation.  
The ninth, long viages: long pilgrimages and navigations: faith: religion: sacrifices: ceremonies: science: wisdom: divination of dreams: prodigious interpretations: new sects: paradoxes: signs of heaven: divine punishment: and is called, The house Cadant of the angle occidental, and otherwise the house of God, and governeth the buttocks.  
The tenth, signifieth honour: dignities: offices: Magistrates: administrations: government: Rulers: Conductors: good renown: estimation: profession: action: and the mother: and is called, The middle and heart of heaven: the Merydian point and angle Merydian. It guardeth and governeth the knees.  
The eleventh house, signifieth friends: companions: hope: confidence: favour: help: succour: praise: estimation and renown: counsel of friends: and is called, The house succedant to the angle Meridional, and otherwise called the good angle: and governeth the legs.  
The twelve house signifieth hidden enemies: prison: captivity: bondage: sadness: torment: complaint: lamentation: tears and hate; treasons: villainies: horses and great beasts of like and just proportion: and is called, The house cadant of the angle Meridional, & otherwise an evil spirit: and governeth the feet.   

CHAP. VI Of the Lords of the Triplicities of the said Houses.  
THE first Lord of the tryplicitie of the first angle, denoteth the nature and life of the child, and his cogitations and will: that which he loveth and hateth, and that which is to come, health or sickness: good or evil entertainment, peril of his life in the first age. The second, Lord of the tryplicitie of the said angle, signifieth force and strength of the body, & the midst of the life.  
The third, the end of the life.  
The first Lord of the tryplicitie of the second house, betokeneth riches, the second the manner of the same riches, the third the intent and confidence in getting.  
The first Lord of the tryplicitie of the third house, denoteth the most ancient and first brethren, the second the middle, the third the least.  
The first Lord of the fourth, denoteth the Parents, the second lands possessions and houses, the third imprisonment and end of things.  
The first Lord of the fift, denoteth children, the second love, pleasure, grace and bravery, the third, messages and embassages.  
The first Lord of the sixth house, denoteth sickness, trouble, the second, servants, the third, cattle, prison, and the profit of the significations of the said house.  
The first of the seventh house, women, the second strife and suit, the third division.  
The first Lord of the eight house, death, the second, antiquity, the third, inheritance.  
The first Lord of the ninth house, denoteth pilgrimages, long viages, navigations: the second, faith, religion, and devotion: the third, science, divination, dreams, prophecies, sorts of cross and prodigal sects.  
The first of the tenth, denoteth profession, honour, dignity and advauncements: the second, audacity, and the means to work in his profession: & the third, preservation in such fortune.  
The first of the eleventh house, denoteth constancy, hope, the second, friends: the third, the profit of the eleventh house.  
The first of the twelve house, denoteth enemies: the second, pain and travail: the third, beasts of like proportion: and other that be appointed to charge and labour.   

CHAP. VII. What the Planets signify in the twelve Houses.  
IN the first house, Saturn out of his principal dignities, signifieth that the child shall have short life, unfortunate, deformed, evill-favoured: and shall die because of other lands and possessions: nevertheless, he shall be first of his brethren.  
jupiter in the said house signifieth long life, good fortune, beauty, honesty, love of virtue, fear of God, honour, and favour, and makes him the first of his brethren.  
Mars in the said place, signifieth hurt always in the head or face, and maketh him dispend a part of his goods, and maketh him intermeddle in many discords and contentions: if he be in his house or exaltation, it maketh him a mighty and valiant man, hardy, fortunate in arms. out of his principal dignities, it doth yield him evil, mischievous, furious, seditious, mutinous and quarrelsome: principally when the fortunes do not intermingle their beams.  
The Sun giveth honour and praise, and estimation, credit and great advancement: favour of great Lords, riches by the means of Princes, and maketh the child first borne, or most advanced of all his brethren.  
Venus giveth him grace, beauty, bravery, civility, love of women, healthful and prosperous: and yieldeth the man lecherous, joyous, loving music, dancing, & something unconstant.  
Mercury, maketh him ingenious, skilful, diligent, Apprentice, of good judgement, of good memory, a good Reader a good Writer, a great Mathematician; and apt to all knowledge.  
The Moon yieldeth 〈…〉 constant, vagabond, which taketh divers affairs, and 〈…〉 to many viages, a man healthful, fortunate, fair, 〈◊〉 ●●mething spotted in the face, and shall be numbered among great Lords.  
The head of the Dragon lunary, honour, dignity and favour of great Lords & Prelates. The tail of the Dragon, loss of goods and honour, deformity, obscureness of eyes, and great danger of the loss of life.  
In the second house Saturn out of his principal dignities, destroyeth the man, and maketh him spend and scatter his goods, and yieldeth him poor and unprovided of succour. And in his house or exaltation, maketh him rich, proud, and with all his goods miserable.  
jupiter giveth great riches by honest means.  
Mars maketh him spend his goods, & in the end doth yield him poor many ways.  
Sol maketh him honourable, a great man, liberal, brave, which in his magnificence shall spend his goods.  
Venus giveth aid and succour, and greatly enricheth by women and men of the Church.  
Mercury, profit in merchandise, and in Scripture, and very industrious in the Mathematics, and a thousand means to become rich.  
Luna, riches, advancement by embassages, messages, and employments when she is fortunate; unfortunate, signifieth pains and travails for the goods of the world, without going forward, and hindrance in whatsoever he doth.  
The head of the Dragon, riches, great gains, profit, inheritance, or goods of the Church.  
The tail of the Dragon, destruction, prodigality, folly, dispense in playing, and falling from on high, without expectation.  
In the third house, Saturn destroyeth brethren, and maketh them see their death, and intermeddleth strifes & suits among brethren. yieldeth a man unfortunate in small viages, an hypocrite, superstitious, rash, fearful astonished at prodigious dreams.  
jupiter signifieth peace & concord amongst brethren, not without profit, maketh a man prudent, happy in viages near hand, and that his dreams shall be true.  
Mars signifieth great injuries, strifes, and suits among brethren, and causeth the brethren to die quickly: and yieldeth the man a terrible blasphemer, forsworn, a deceiver, not fearing GOD, which shall be unfortunate in all his ways, and after in danger of thieves and Robbers, and shall be tormented in many terrible and vain dreams.  
Sol, honour, dignities, offices, out of his Country, long pilgrimages, honourable brethren, and true dreams.  
Venus, love among brethren, happy viages, fear of God, and true dreams.  
Mercury, profit in traffic and viages, in fair markets, and giveth good fortune at all times and places, concerning the good of the Church.  
In the sign of Gemini or Libra, it maketh the man a good physician, and a sounder of musical Instruments, principally in conjunction or good aspect of Venus.  
The Moon maketh him given to go here and there on pilgrimages, so that he resteth not long in a place: nevertheless, in his deeds he shall be honoured and praised, and meet with good fortune, and friends, and great Lords, that shall employ him in embassages, in messages and other voyages: and he shall be loved and praised of his brethren.  
The head of the Dragon signifieth, that his brethren shall be of greater estate and authority than he: nevertheless, it denoteth some Ecclesiastical goods.  
The tail of the Dragon destroyeth the brethren, & maketh them die quickly.  
In the fourth house, Saturn out of his principal dignities, maketh him scatter his patrimony, and yieldeth the man poor and unfortunate in unmovable goods, as in houses, lands and possessions, ploughing and sowing: and signifieth that the mother shallbe of an infamous condition, and shall not live long.  
If he be within his house or exaltation, he giveth inheritance, houses, lands, possessions, and signifieth the mother honourable, & of long life.  
jupiter, yieldeth him happy in unmovable goods, & giveth him great store of inheritance, & sometime causeth him mere with treasure and goods, of the which he never greatly thought. And signifieth the Father of long life and happy: and signifieth his child shall be esteemed after his death: and he shall be honourably laid in his grave.  
Mars, loss of goods by fire and wind, and houses, lands and possessions, destruction of trees, dispending of his goods, evil end by wounds: effusion of blood, evil renown after death, and short life of the Father.  
The Sun denoteth fair possessions, lordships, government, inheritance and fair houses, praise, honour and good fortune in his old years, and good renown after death, an honourable sepulchre, and maketh him given to divination, and to prevent things to come.  
Venus denoteth the same that jupiter doth.  
Mercury fortunate, yieldeth the man industrious, providing and foreseeing things to come: a buyer of rents, houses, and possessions, a planter of trees, and curious in Husbandry assayres: inclined to gather gold and silver.  
If it be unfortunate, it yieldeth him quarrelsome, striving, and hated of his neighbours, always angry and full of despites, and little esteemed.  
Luna signifieth that which is said of Mercury, except that she is given to mills, Ponds and watery places, and yieldeth the man in the beginning unfortunate, and in the end happy, principally when the nativity is by day.  
And when the head of the Dragon is in airy and fiery Signs, it signifieth that which jupiter doth, and in earthly and watery, that which the tail of the Dragon doth.  
The tail of the Dragon maketh the Father die quickly, and scatter his goods unmovable.  
In the fift house, Saturn signifieth sadness, necessity, rudeness, uncivil, evill-faced, evil entertainment, deprivation of death of children unnaturally, going in evil and filthy clothing.  
jupiter, giveth grace, honesty, prudence, civility, bravery, riches, profit in messages and embassages, abundance of fair children, well nurtured, & well instructed and beloved, good fortune by Churchmen, gifts, and a dealer for gold, jewels, precious stones, sweet and precious savours.  
Mars destroyeth and maketh the children die, or wholly depriveth them of children: maketh a man happy in all significations of the fift house, when he is out of his principal dignities; Within his house or exaltation, he yieldeth him very lecherous and impudent, timorous, a scoffer, abounding in bastards and evil children.  
The Sun, denoteth fair children, honourable companies, good renown, messages, gifts of great Lords, and a dealer with jewels and precious stones, and sweet perfumes and savours.  
Venus maketh a man pleasant, delectable, joyful, dancing, vaunting, playing and laughing, Gentlemanlike, a physician, happy in children, lecherous and jealous.  
Mercury maketh him a merry jester, a mocker, brave, to write well, a good Painter, industrious with his hands, ingenious, a physician, voluptuous, not caring greatly for his affairs or tribulations, indifferent happy in children, and given to embassages and messages, and to go on viages.  
Luna maketh him an Attorney and of Council, a Bencher, a Legate, an Ambassador by election of the people, and had in great account with the people, abounding in banqueting, and happy in children.  
The head of the Dragon signifieth as jupiter doth.  
The tail signifieth what Mars and Saturn signify for children.  
In the sixth house, Saturn signifieth pain of the belly and teeth, much sickness, an ill servant, unlucky to sheep and like beasts.  
jupiter, good servants, health of the body, good Fortune in bringing up beasts.  
Mars within his house or exaltation, good servitors in wars, profession of physic. Out of the same places, hot sicknesses, pestilence, evil impediments, and evil servants to be rebels, and thieves.  
Sol, sickness of the heart, imbecillytie of the body, hurts by his servants.  
Venus, imbicillytie of the reins and parts of generation, otherwise soundness of body, good and faithful servants, good fortune in nourishing beasts, & commonly impudent love of maids, and in nativities of women maketh him love servants, and signifieth peril of death in child bearing.  
Mercury signifieth him to be a deceiver of women, & to be deceived by them and his seruawtes, and yieldeth him a deceiver, a dissembler, a detester, of evil memory. If he be with Saturn or Mars, he threateneth death by prison, a conspiracy of servants or in prison.  
Luna denoteth weakness in the eyes and brain, great and fervent, sickness, strife against parents, enmity of women, a company of men il conditioned, when she is infortunate. When she is fortunate, giveth health and profit in nourishing young beasts and good servants.  
The head of the Dragon preserveth from sickness, giveth good servants, and good luck in keeping beasts.  
The tail unfaithful servants, loss of cattle.  
The seventh, Saturn out of his principal dignities signifieth marriage of an evil wife, blotted with some infamy, proper to himself or parents, ruin of enemies, & peril of evil death. In watery signs it denoteth emrod's, Phistyloes, Constitution of the sinews, and diseases of the back.  
In his house or exaltation, he signifieth the woman to be rich, and enemies mighty.  
jupiter, happy marriage, the woman honest, shamfaste, virtuous, fair, rich, victory against enemies, & fortunate in age.  
Mars in his house or exaltation, or out of his dignities always signifieth mighty and terrible Adversaries, bruit of women, or husbands in Nativities of women, impudency of the man, timorous, lecherous, in danger to be killed, to have blows on the feet & hands.  
Sol, mighty enemy, rich, wise, well brought up, and honourable age.  
Mercury, leachearous, strife & debate between man and wife, evil by reason of impudent desire, crafty knowledge in numbering, love of virtue. If he be with Saturn or Mars he shall kill his wife, and shall be killed or put in prison, and put in exile, or condemned to die by sentence of a judge.  
Luna, profit of wines, thousand strifes and suits, desire of change of Countries. If she be fortunate, she signifieth all well in all significations of the said house, and unfortunate the contrary.  
The head of the Dragon signifieth as jupiter.  
The tail maketh the woman die quickly & destroyeth the enemies.  
In the eight, Saturn out of his principal dignities, signifieth strange Death, Sorrows, Complaints, Lamentations, long Torments, Sadness, Anguish & Poverty in his house or exaltation, inheritance & goods unlooked for, death by flix or plague, or of some cold or long sickness.  
jupiter, long life to 72. years, inheritance, goods by women, happy death.  
Mars, out of his principal dignine, signifieth hasty death, pestilence, impediment, slaughter, and other sorts of violent death.  
If he be with the head of the Dragon, he shallbe hanged, if in his house or exaltation he giveth goods not without great striefes and suits.  
Sol, causeth death presently after honour, short life to the father, inheritance to the child, loss of goods by violence of great men, except when he is oppressed with evil fortune, for then in an airy sign it signifieth strangling by force, burned in fire, & killed, & buried in the earth, death by a fall, ruin, drowning in water. Except in Scorpio, where it often causeth death by poison, mad dogs, or of venomous beasts.  
Venus, good death, inheritance, riches, long life, short life of mother and Nurse, and his wife more ancient than himself.  
Mercury, enmity of neighbours, vain hope of inheritance, death by over study of his affairs & business.  
Luna, inheritance, riches by women, long life if she be fortunate, short life, imprisonment, slander by false witness, strife, suits, quarrels, & vexation of spirit, as mad or distraught of wits.  
The head of the Dragon, inheritance, riches, honour liberality, prodigality, and good death.  
The tail, horrible death, small endeavour, no goodness in the signification of this house.  
In the ninth, Saturn betokeneth horrible dreams, terrible visions, hypocrisy and superstition, ceremonies, preachers, Friars, men of Religion, and a thousand troubles, by the way and perturbation of spirit.  
jupiter, giveth faith, constancy in his religion, profitable journeys, fear & love of God, and knowledge of divine mysteries, interpretations of dreams, revelation and profit in the state Ecclesiastical.  
Mars, out of his principal dignity, danger by the way, unfaithfulness, shaking of the Faith, and terrible Opinions and more than an Herytique, Timorous, Violent, Impudent: horrible Dreams, and false dexterity in Arms and valiantness, when he is otherwise fortunate in his house or exaltation, it maketh the man very terrible, a Necromancer, happy in his journey or pilgrimages, hardy, venturous, and of great courage.  
Sol, Benefices, Abbeys, bishoprics, Ecclesiastical dignities, Cardinals, Popes, Legates, principally in a masculine sign, good faith, constant, religious, a reverencer of holy things, a lover of God and virtue, true dreams, profitable journeys, and honour in his profession.  
Venus, true dreams, except in the imagination of women, ecclesiastical dignities, constant Religion, love and reverence of God, long pilgrimage by the World, profitable journeys, honour in profession which taketh away the desire of marriage.  
Mercury, goods Ecclesiastical, high knowledge, divine mysteries, admiration of justice and providence of God, cogitation of God & Angels, and of Spirits, profitable journeys, great knowledge in divinity, Astrology, & in all other philosophy, interpretation of Dreams, Oracles, and strange things, profit in traffic, in far Countries good renown.  
Luna, long pilgrimage, perverse cogitations, unconstant in manners, and fortune, true dreams, knowledge of stars: When the ix house is the house of Mercury, or of other things answerable to the nature of the Lord of the ix. house.  
The head of the Dragon, variable dreams, honour and profit in travail, Ecclesiastical goods.  
The tail, lack of Faith, terrible Dreams, perilous journeys, and full of envy, and little honour in his profession.  
In the tenth house, Saturn out of his principal dignities signifieth short life of the mother, many ill fortunes, Sighs, Plaints, & imprysonments. If the tenth house be in the sign of Leo, and any of the Lumynaries be with Saturn, he shall die in prison. If Saturn be with jupiter in the houses of jupiter, he shall be condemned of wrong: If he be with Mars in the houses of Mars, he shallbe condemned according to his crime. If he be with Mercury he shall die a very shameful death by false witnesses: If with Venus and Mars he shallbe whipped & racked, & condemned to die. Saturn in his house or exaltation in the tenth house, doth licence dignities, pre-eminence, and government.  
jupiter great honour in his profession, ecclesiastical dignities, and great renown.  
Mars out of his principal dignities, maketh a man terrible, cruel, seditious, quarrelsome, arrogant, a despiser of his goods, usurper of the goods of other, hated of Father, mother, brethren, and other, and many times to be imprisoned and punished by justice. In his house or exaltation it maketh him valiant, hardy, courageous in feats of arms. In the houses of jupiter well disposed, and regard of Fortunes, maketh him a President, Councillor, or sovereign judge.  
Sol giveth honour, offices, dignities, pre-eminences, rules, governments, great credit and favour of many great Lords, in estimation of the common people, honour in profession, with riches and great goods, principally if he be in fiery Signs, and if the child be poor and of base condition, he lifteth him up to honour and great dignities.  
Venus' honour in his profession, goods of Princes, and great Lords, great credit, & long life of the mother, with prosperity and honour.  
Mercury maketh him a Chancellor, Secretary, Councillor, Precedent put in great dignities, skilful in Arithmetic, Geometry, and, Astrology well renowned, rich and abounding in goods. If he be unfortunate by Mars, he shall come to an evil end, for having taken too much upon him, or for taking quarrels against his betters.  
Luna signifieth praise and honour of great Lords, & shall be happy in all enterprises, and esteemed in all the World.  
The head of the Dragon signifieth as jupiter.  
The tail maketh him receive dishonour and loss of his calling, and falling from an high, and denoteth the short life of the Mother.  
In the eleventh house, Saturn out of his principal dignities betokeneth acquaintance, and to be a companion with men defamed and of base condition, mischievous: sadness of friends: vain hope to come to things undertaken: difficulty in affairs: loss of friends, if he be in his house or exaltation, he giveth love of Saturnityes as by great & ancient Lords.  
jupiter maketh him happy in all his devoyres: giveth favour of great Lords: great credit: abundance of friends: advancement by friends: riches & fair children: of the which the first shallbe a Mayor.  
Mars in his house or exaltation, love by men of war & fortunate in feats of arms, & out of those places signifieth despair, unhappy enterprises, loss of friends, & enmity with his friends, he shall not be loyal to his lords & friends: by which shall ensue great damage.  
Sol, happy enterprises, goods, honour, dignities by means of friends which shallbe men of authority & great lords.  
Venus giveth good friends which shall be honourable men: and of good authority: & of good will signifying good fortune: happy enterprises: & many children.  
Mercury knowledge: and company: & love of men of knowledge and virtue: and good renown among friends: happy enterprises.  
Luna giveth good riches, honour, good renown: good friends which shallbe great lords: & happy enterprises.  
The head of the Dragon, that which jupiter signifieth.  
The tail, that which Saturn & Mars signifieth.  
In the twelfth Saturn out of his principal dignities maketh unhappy in Horses and other great Beasts, from the which he shall fall and receive hurt and signifieth fear of justice, imprisonment or exile. In his House or Exaltation, victory against his enemies, good Fortune in Horses and other Beasts, fit for burden and labour.  
jupiter out of his principal dignities, mighty enemies and Adversaries of men in authority, imprisonment, exile, condemnation, poverty, well dignified he signifieth the contrary.  
Mars the fall from Horses, hurt or other damage by beasts, abundance of enemies, imprisonment, slanders, & a thousand persecutions, great evil in legs & feet.  
Sol, good fortune in Horses and other great Beasts, great persecution by enemies, great Lords, & mighty confiscation and loss of goods, imprisonment, exile, slander, false witness, evil report, condemned to a great fine, deprivation of his estate, by perverted traitorous and how should servants.  
Venus, giveth good Fortune to Horse, strife and enmity to Women, dispraise in marriage, mischievous and evil renown because of Women: principally if they be evil conditioned and defamed, an impudent Lover of Women defamed, for the which he shallbe imprisoned: and suffer great dishonour. If she be in the sign of Virgo or Capricorn, or of Aquarius, joined with the Sun and Saturn, or to Mars signifieth great peril of death by love.  
Mercury giveth great knowledge, principally in sciences that shall bring small profit, maketh a man a philosopher, mathematician, & ready in all knowledge, a little foolish by reason of the lightness of the spirit, having many enemies, given to voluptuousness, evil fortune: hated by men of knowledge, likely to be slandered and imprisoned. If Saturn be well disposed he giveth good fortune in horses and other beasts.  
Luna giveth many enemies which daily shall grow & increase, if she be unfortunate signifieth imprisonment & exile, if she be burnt & joined with Saturn or Mars, the child shallbe ever miserable and of a short life, which shall receive hurt by beasts of like proportion: and dieth by plague, to be killed or drowned: If she be fortunate it betokeneth escape from all these evils.  
The head of the Dragon betokeneth that which jupiter.  
The tail, damage by beasts of like proportion and ruin by enemies.  
And generally when a Planet is well dignified or otherwise well disposed and regarded of fortunes within the said houses, it signifieth good luck in all significations of the said houses, but when it is unfortunate, it yieldeth mischief in all the said significations.   

CHAP. VIII. The significations of the Lords of the houses by the places of the figure.  
THE Lord of the first house within the first Fortune, betokeneth long life, health of body, goods, and riches by his own proper means, honour of his parents. In the second, riches: In the third, often voyages, agreement and concord with his brethren. In the iiij. inheritances houses and goods unmovable. And it noteth that he shallbe a great builder, a planter of vines and trees, a meddler with mines of gold and silver, and other things according to the nature of the said planet: In the v. betokeneth many children which he shall love greatly, to be given to banquets, plays; dancing, bravery and to all voluptuousness and pleasure, and shall have many friends to enrich him. In the vi. a buyer of small cattle, abounding in servants the which he shall teach and make diligent, he shallbe sickly: In the seventh, quarrelsome, given to strife and suits in matters of marriage, unfortunate in all his acts. In the viii. sad, fearful and of short life. In the ix. an interpreter of Dreams, of Oracles, secret things and visions, given to know divine mysteries, to travail, and to abide in strange countries. In the x. goods, riches, dignities, and honour by the means of Princes and great Lords, good fortune in his profession. In the xi. happy enterprises, good friends, honourable companies, prosperity, few children. In the xii. evil manners, perverse nature; great enmity, good fortune in cattle. If he be unfortunate in the first, the child shall not live long, if in the second, he shall be destroyed and poor. If in the third, he shall receive great evil by his brethren. If in the fourth, he shallbe unhappy in lands, inheritances, labour, and possessions, and die in prison. In the fifth, it denoteth sadness and tribulation, be cause of children, & of messages and gifts, & shall many times die by too much drink, or by too much pleasure. In the sixth, signifieth great sickness and piteous death. In the seventh, by means of the wife by poison, if he be in the sign of Capricorn, by fire, if he be in a fiery sign, by fall from on high, if in an earthly. In the eight, short life, danger of death in travail. In the ninth, in peril to be slain by thieves. In the tenth, imprisonment, wrack, condemnation, & death by means of princes. In the eleventh, a thousand evils, and mischiefs for friends. In the twelfth, death in prison. The lord of the second in the first house signifieth much gain and to be rich; In the second, that he shall have much goods and be very rich and avaricious. In the third, loss by brethren, & profit in small voyages. In the fourth, innumerable inheritances, augmentation of patrimony. In the fifth, profit in all things of pleasure and magnificence, children to come to honour, and shallbe rich givers. In the sixth, profit by means of servants, and of keeping beasts. In the seventh, goods of women; and by suits. In the eight, great dowries: some inheritances, otherwise scattering of goods. In the ninth, goods of the Church, fortunate in long pilgrimage. In the tenth profit, profit in his profession, goods by great Lords, and offices, and dignities. In the eleventh, goods, riches and honour by friends. In the twelfth, profit in horses and beasts, otherwise loss and injustice by the means of gaining. The lord of the third house in the first signifieth greater riches and praise then his brethren, that he shall make many voyages. In the second, he shall have suit with his brethren for goods. In third, he shall often go abroad for pleasure, and his brethren and friends accompany him. In the iiii. he shall go oft to visit his lands and possessions, and his brethren shall leave him, and withhold part of his right. In the v. his brethren shall be brave, pleasant, and gracious, and given to voluptuousness, and make agreement with his Children. In the vi. that he shall hold question of injuries with his brethren and that they shall not answer him. In the seven. suit against brethren and friends, a voyage to be married. In the viii. short life to brethren flying for fear of plague or murder. In the ix. pilgrimage of friends, and voyages to obtain pardons. In the x. voyages by reason of profession, and for dignities & death of brethren and friends. In the xi. good friendship among brethren, voyages to meet with good fortune. In the xii. enmities of brethren, & voyages because of enemies.  
The Lord of the fourth in the first house, signifieth good disposition and honour, richer than other of his kindred, a great man in building & possessions, and shall build houses, plant vines, trees, and a diligent husband in his grounds. In the second a good Traffiquer-in corn Oil, Wine, and Fruits, a dear seller and a good cheap buyer, and a buyer and seller of Lands and Houses. In the third, he shall have the goods and inheritance of his brethren: in the fourth, he shall have great Fortune in goods, Lands, Houses and labours, and happen upon Treasure. In the fift, the riches of the Father, Children happy in their inheritance. In the sixth, signifieth no great estimation of the Father, but physic, Surgery and government of sick Folks, and a Nourisher of Beasts: in the seventh, inheritance by Women, enmity between the Father and Children, a good housewife of his wife: in the eight, the father of short life, inheritance, death out of his Country: in the ninth, lands, & possessions joined to the Church or in subjection to the Churchmen, and the father a stranger: in tenth, the father to be known of great Lords, by the which shall come great profit to the Child, and shall have lordships, Lands, and possessions by means of great Lords. In the eleventh, short life to the Father, inheritance by friends: in the 12. the father a stranger & of base condition, & shall hate his son, & shall have some movable goods of his enemies, not without long suit & great difficulty.  
The Lord of the fift, in the first house signifieth feasting, bankquetting, dancing, voluptuousness, & fair children. In the second rich children & joy of their gaining. In the third, voyages for pleasure: in the iiii. goods of parents and allies: in the v. feasts, banquets, plays, bravery, dances, pleasure and fair children: in the vi. witness that he shallbe a peacemaker and not greatly given to pleasure: but in servants & keeping cattle: in the seven. the children shall hate the father, & shall have suits one against the other, yet always contentment by his wife & rejoice in her. In the viii joyful, because of unlooked for inheritance, and short life to children. In the ix. joy in pilgrimages, vows, holy religion, good children that fear and love God. In the x. pleasure in honour. In the xi. pleasure in friends and many children. In the xii. short life of children, enmity between the father and the children, pleasure in horses.  
The Lord of the sixth in the first signifieth many sicknesses of the said Lord, and that his servants, and beasts shall die quickly. In the second that he shall be rich by keeping of cattle. In the third, sickness and going here and there from home, a poor kindred. In the iiii. that his Father shall be of very base condition. In the fith, Sickness by over much pleasure, Children of more base condition than their father In the vi. health if the Lord of the Ascendant do not regard him, otherwise sickness by over-labour. In the seventh, sickness by Women, of strifes, and suits and strife between his servants and him. In the eight, death by reason of servants. In the ninth, sick out of his Country by travail. In the tenth, sickness by over-travayle in his Profession, or by over-labouringe for honour.  
In the xi. acquaintance of men unknown; and sickness by means of friends. In the xii. sickness by means of enemies and of imprisonment, and enemies of his own Servants.  
The lord of the seven. in the first signifieth gaune by traffic, peace and agreement, by exercise of physic & Astrology, and that he shallbe well loved of his wife, and have goods with her: but he shallbe quarrelsome and have suits. In the two. short life of his wife, suits for her goods & riches: in the iij. strife & suits against friends, kinsfolks: and they shall love his wife impudently. In the iiij. inheritance by women, suits against parents. In the v. a young Wife, honest and virtuous, beloved of her husband, and suit against his children. In the vi. strife for cattle and servants, marriage with some woman of base condition, or noted of some infamy proper to himself and parents. In the seven. suits for women, housholdestrife, profit, and to agree and communicate his goods. In the viii, strife for inheritance, great goods by women. In the ix. strife and accusations for matters of faith, marriage with a strange woman: In the x. trouble for offices and honour, an honourable wife, and dignity by the wives friends. In the xi. suits against friends, or by their means, and shallbe married by his friends. In the xii. controversy against enemies, marriage with women of base condition, and not long love together.  
The Lord of the eight in the first signifieth ire, sadness, angry for that he cannot bring to pass, and shall not be of long life. In the two inheritance: in the iij. death of brethren: in the iiij. death in his house, and shall see the death of his parents, and shall have inheritances: in the v. death of children: in the vi. death of his family before him, and shall be unfortunate in cattle: in the seven. death of wife by whom he shall have iuheritaunce, and thereby become rich: in the viii. that he shall think suddenly to die, and yet sound of body, trouble in spirit, and shall have dower by his wife & inheritance, and other goods. In the ix. that he shall have evil courage, and shall die out of his Country: in the x. honourable death, or othertherwise by the means of great Lords, and of judges, or because of his honour: in the xi. death amongst his friends: in the xii. death amongst his enemies, or by reason of themselves.  
The Lord of the ninth in the first signifieth prudence, religious, virtuous, divine, a lover of Churchmen, and shall make many voyages: in the two. that he shall make many voyages, by the which he shall become rich: in the iij. marriage out of his Country, or take a stranger, and shall make journeys because of his brethren: in the iiii. death from home, pilgrimage by persuasion of parents. In the v. have children from home out of his Country & shall make journeys for them: in the vi. marriage of a maid or woman of base condition, sickness from home, and shall travel for his servants & cattle: In the seven. voyages and suits by reason of women and their goods, and signifieth the woman to be devout, moderate, & well mamnered: In the viii. desire of riches, travel for his wives goods: In the ix. good understanding, a lover of virtue, fearing God, knowledge in divine mysteries, oracles, secret things, and true dreams, travel for devotion: In the x. travel for profession & honour: In the xi. good friends from home: In the xii. evil courage, & enemies out of his Country, travel by reason of enemies.  
The Lord of the tenth in the first signifieth that by his industry he shall come to great honour, and shall have dignity, offices, and governments. In the second honour for his wealth: In the three honour by his brethren, or by travel: In the iiii. unmovable goods, sumptuous houses. In the v. honour by his children: In the vi. little honour, except of his household and servants, or in governing of the sick. In the seven. honourable marriage: In the eight goods by marriage, inheritance, and peril of death to the mother at the time of her travel and delyvetie. In the ix. Ecclesiastical dignity, honour in strange Countries, and estimation by his travel. In the x. dignities, offices, and great honour by his own means, and favour of Princes. In the xi. prosperity, honour, and favour of friends. In the xii. honour by his enemies, honour and estimation of men of evil condition.  
The Lord of the eleventh, in the first signifieth good fortune, happy enterprises, good friends, and many children. In the second, goods, and riches by friends. In the third, amity of brethren, journeys & travails for friends. In the fourth, good fortune in unmovable goods. In the fift, abundance of children, bankquets, joy and good fortune. In the sixth, fortune in good husbandry. In the seventh, rich and fortunate marriage, and good friends, strifes and debates against friends, and that he shall be poor in his youth, and rich in his age. In the eight, inheritance, death of friends. In the ninth, profitable journeys, friends out of his Country, and good fortune in strange places. In the tenth, goods and honour by means of men of authority, and dignity in youth. In the eleventh, abundance of friends, & children, great goods and honour, & favour of men in authority, good renown and prosperity. In the twelfth, small friends, few goods, and debate with his friends.  
The Lord of the twelfth, in the first signifieth poverty in youth, sadness, long travel, enmity and conspiration against him. In the second evil manners, quarrels for goods. In the third, quarrels with friends and kindred. In the fourth, strife and suits for inheritance and movable goods, and discord with the father. In the fift, rebellious children to the father, and strife among themselves. In the sixth, strife and anger among the family. In the seventh, that he shall take wives of base condition, and not love them long, and by their means shall have great pain and travel, and shall be in grief for them, and his friends shall conspire against him, and his enemies shall take away part of his goods, and in the end of his days be poor and miserable. In the eight, hatred and treason for lyvelyhood and goods of women, death of enemies. In the ninth, quarrel with Churchmen and mischiefs by the way. In the tenth, quarrel with great Lords, persecution by reason of his profession, of his offices and honour. The eleventh, signifieth that his friends shallbe his enemies, and shall have great mischief for his friends. In the twelfth, many envies and enemies that shall imagine many mischiefs against him.  
Likewise, you must judge of all the parts of the xii. houses, as the part of fortune in the first signifieth: that he shallbe rich and fortunate by his industry. In the second, that he shallbe come rich in all that is signified by the second house, etc.  
All these be the foundations and roots of the judgements Astronomical, from the which you may not serve or departed: Except in as much as be mitigated, prohibited, or augmented by the Concurrences and aspects of the Planets, and conjunction of the fixed stars.   
The end of the second book.   

Of judgements astronomical upon Nativities, containing the directions and revolutions. The third Book.  

CHAP. I. Of Directions.  
THE art of Directions so diligently entreated upon by John de Regiomount, that their is no more place fitly to speak of the same. Except that with the aid of God we have purposed to translate into French his problems and documents appertaining to the said matter. Nevertheless we will here touch the the principal point. To direct (which term I use being being most commonly used and of long time received, although it be not proper) it is no other thing then to stay the meeting of one place of the heavens with another consequently following, according to the natural order of the signs, & that the moving of the first mobile. The first place is named the significator, the second the promittor: as if the ascendant were in the xx. degree of Sagittarius & Saturn in thex of Capricorn, one might direct the ascendant to Saturn & the ascendant shall be significator of life, & Saturn promittor of death or sickness, & then the judgement shallbe danger of death, there is another form of direction attributed to the parts & planets retrogrades, which do make following the natural course of thei● mobile, to the contrary of the consequence of the signs, of the which the craft is like to the 1. & there is no difference but that we have called Significator, which is here promittor, and the Promittor is here Significator.  
The point meridional of the tenth house, you must direct by the right ascensions. The point of the ascendant, by the ascensions obliques, found in the Table of the latitude of your Region. The points and stars that shall be between the Merydian and the Horrizon, by the obliqne ascensions under the circle in the which they be, the which you call, The circle of Position, the which for to find, and likewise to have the ascensions of every place having latitude or no, you must follow the method following.  
First, you must take the longitudes of Planets, fixed stars, and other places that you would direct (that is to say) the sign, degree, and minute that they ●olde in the Zodiac and in the Ephemerideses, or other tables Astronomical. etc.  
Secondly, you must calculate their latitudes, in degrees and minutes placed in the Ephemerideses.  
Thirdly, their declination by the first probleame of the book of directions of Regiomont.  
Then, their right ascensions by the third probleame of the said house.  
Then again, the distances of the circle Meridional by the nineteenth probleame.  
Incontinent, the circles of their positions, by the twentieth probleame, consequently the differences ascentional by the Table expressed.  
And finally the obliqne ascensions by the tenth Canon, if the said stars be between the point meridional of the tenth house, and the point of the fourth, or the dissensions of obliques by the eleventh probleame, if they be between the point of the fourth and the tenth.  
This done, take out the number of the obliqne ascensions of the Significator, of the number of the obliqne ascensions of the Promittor, take to the Table of the position of the Significator, or the contrary, if you direct the parts and Planets retrogrades; that which resteth of degrees & minutes, turn into years, months & days: and by this means, you shall have exactly the time of good or evil that shall happen unto you by direction, intending that one degree is here signified a year, five minutes a month, one minute 6. days & some odd hours, he that would help the seconds he shall touch the end more perfectly.  
For to know the sicknesses and danger of death, you must direct the five vital places that we have considered, searching the giver of life, in fixed stars of violent nature in the point of the fourth, sixth, seventh and eight, and the tail of the Dragon, to the ill fortunes and their evil aspects in the parts of death, and by and by to the Sun, and to the head of the Dragon. Likewise for the same consideration, you must direct the said pernicious places to the five vital places. And they meeting, they judge that the man is in great danger of death, when the Fortunes do not show forth their favourable beams.  
For the goods, honour, dignities, friendships, and other considerations, you must direct the one significator of goods with the other, and the one significator of honour with the others, of the which we have made mention in the first Book, following the particular judgements of the nativities.   

CHAP. TWO Of the Seperator or Burner, called of the Arabians, Algebuthar.  
THE Seperator or Burner, is the Planet which hath dignity of term & degree, to the which the year is answerable, mutiplied with the ascensions of one Significator.  
For to find the Seperator of the like, you must take the Obliqne ascensions of the ascendant, and add unto the same the years of your age, and search it all in the Table of the latitude of your Region, to look to which sign and degree the said number answereth, for unto that point shall come the perfection of your life. Look afterward which is the Planet which hath dignity of term in the said degree, for of the self same shall be the Seperator of the life.  
By the same means you may seek the Seperators of the honour, goods, gains, friends, and of other like, upon the circles of their positions. The which is convenient to seek following the aforesaid method of directions.   

CHAP. III. Of the Lords of the Triplicities.  
YOU must also note all the Lords of the Triplicities, in places which signify good and evil, as well in significations of life, as of goods, friends, honour, marriages, pilgrimages etc. If they be well disposed in the revolution, they shall signify well, touching the signification of the place of the which they be Lords. If they be unfortunate, they signify evil. That is to understand, the Lords of the tryplicities of vital places, will signify of the life: of the places of fortune, riches & profit: of places of honour, of the honour, good or evil, according as they be fortunate or unfortunate at the hour, of the revolution.   

CHAP. FOUR Of Revolutions.  
THE Sun returning to the same point in the which he was at the hour of the nativity, maketh the revolution every year. He therefore that would know the hour and minute of the revolution, he must look in the Ephemerideses, at what hour and minute the Sun began to enter into the degree minute and second, in which he was at the hour of the nativity.  
If the Ephemerideses do not suffice you for this matter, go to a Table made for the same purpose, by Peter Pitat, in the beginning of the same Ephemerideses, by him corrected and augmented. Jerom Cardin useth another, which I find very exact: the which he hath written in his book. Of the restitution of times and celestial motions, in the fift Chapter.   

CHAP. V Of the judgements upon the revolutions.  
FIrst look how the Seperator of life is disposed in the figure of the revolution: for if he be unfortunate, he denoteth sickness and other dangerous accidents; If he be fortunate, he holdeth him healthful and glad all the year. So likewise you must judge of the Seperator of goods, friends, dignities & other effects. It is to understand, that they give good fortune in the said significations, if they be well disposed: or else loss & evil fortune if they be unfortunate.  
In the second place, look if the Lords of the Tryplicities of the vital places be well disposed: and of places which signify riches, honour, travails, brethren, Parents, wives and children, do so much. For in the same significations the man shall be happy or unhappy, according as the said Lords shall be well or evil disposed. And principally you must consider the Lord that shall reign over your age: for the first Lord of one tryplicity governeth the first age; the second, the midst of the life; the third, the latter year.  
Thirdly, you must consider which is the Planet which governeth over the year of your age, that which the Arabians call Fridate.  
Fourthly, the Lord of the Sign in which shall come the same year of perfection.  
In the fift place, the Lord of the circulation, accounting by the Lord of the hour of the nativity.  
Then the Lord of the circulation, accounting by the Lord of the ascendant of the nativity.  
And if in the ascendant of the nativity there be any Planet, you must likewise make circulation.  
Furthermore, you must look if any Planet return to the same sign and house, in the which it was at the nativity; for than it intendeth the same effect which it hath signified in the nativity, principally when it returneth to the same sign. You must also have regard to the aspects which are made in the revolution, if they be like to them of the nativity: for that shall be a renewing of the effects of the said aspects.  
And you must not forget the changing of the places. For if a happy Planet be in the revolution in the place where an evil Planet was in the nativity, the evil signified by the said evil Planet in the nativity, shall be deferred that year by the presence of the happy Planet. To the contrary, if a Planet promise any good fortune in the nativity, and in his place in the revolution be any unfortunate Planet, the same good signified in the nativity, shallbe diminished in the revolution, or lost by reason of the said ill fortune. The misfortune in the places of misfortune augmenteth the evil, the good fortunes in the places of good fortune, augmenteth the good fortune.  
For to judge of the said considerations, you must have recourse to that which we have said in the two former Books of general and particular significations of the Houses, Signs, Planets, aspects, & particular situations of the Planets in signs and houses: having always before your eyes, the disposition of stars in the figure of the nativity. For if a Planet be in the nativity greatly unfortunate, and in the revolution well disposed, it cannot much profit because of the first infelicity.  
Likewise you must judge of those which be fortunate in nativities, which being unfortunate in revolutions, do no great damage. There be some that contemplate hereupon, many other things, the which by experience I have often found unprofitable, false, and superfluous.   

CHAP. VI Of the years governed by the Planets, called of the Arabians Fridarie.  
IF the nativity be by day, than the Sun governeth the first ten years, Venus eight years following, Mercury thirteen years after that: then the Moon, the nine following. Saturn eleven years, jupiter twelve, Mars seven, the head of the Dragon three, the tail of the Dragon two. When it is by night, you must begin at the Moon, the which governeth the first nine years, than Saturn, jupiter, Mars, Sol, Venus, Mercury, the head of the Dragon, and the tail, the numbers by order as we have said before.  
Many by great curiosity, have added to this company other Planets to every government, the which I find by good reason to be reprehended by the Chaldeans. For experience hath often taught me and other very expert in this Science, that this subtlety is too curious, vain and superfluous.  

The Table of the Fridaries by Day.    Years. Months. Days. ☉  1 5 5 ☉ ♀ 2 10 9 ☉ ☿ 4 3 13 ☉ ☽ 5 8 17 ☉ ♄ 7 2 22 ☉ ♃ 8 6 26 ☉ ♂ 10 0 0 ♀  11 1 22 ♀ ☿ 12 3 13 ♀ ☽ 13 5 4 ♀ ♄ 14 6 26 ♀ ♃ 15 8 17 ♀ ♂ 16 10 9 ♀ ☉ 18 0 0 ☿  19 10 9 ☿ ☽ 21 8 17 ☿ ♄ 23 6 2 ☿ ♃ 25 5 14 ☿ ♂ 27 3 13 ☿ ☉ 29 1 22 ☿ ♀ 30 0 0 ☽  32 3 13 ☽ ♄ 33 6 26 ☽ ♃ 34 10 9 ☽ ♂ 36 1 22 ☽ ☉ 37 5 5 ☽ ♀ 38 8 17 ☽ ☿ 40 0 0 ♄  41 6 26 ♄ ♃ 43 1 22 ♄ ♂ 44 8 18 ♄ ☉ 46 3 14 ♄ ♀ 47 10 16 ♄ ☿ 49 5 6 ♄ ☽ 50 0 0 ♃  52 8 17 ♃ ♂ 54 5 4 ♃ ☉ 56 1 21 ♃ ♀ 57 10 8 ♃ ☿ 59 6 26 ♃ ☽ 61 1 22 ♃ ♄ 63 0 0 ♂  64 0 0 ♂ ☉ 65 0 0 ♂ ♀ 66 0 0 ♂ ☿ 67 0 0 ♂ ☽ 68 0 0 ♂ ♄ 69 0 0 ♂ ♃ 70 0 0 ☊  73 0 0 ☋  75 0 0  

The Table of the Fridaries by Night.    Years. Months. Days. ☽  1 3 13 ☽ ♄ 2 6 26 ☽ ♃ 3 10 9 ☽ ♂ 5 1 22 ☽ ☉ 6 5 5 ☽ ♀ 7 8 18 ☽ ☿ 9 0 0 ♄  10 6 26 ♄ ♃ 12 1 22 ♄ ♂ 13 8 18 ♄ ☉ 15 3 14 ♄ ♀ 16 10 9 ♄ ☿ 18 5 6 ♄ ☽ 20 0 0 ♃  21 8 17 ♃ ♂ 23 5 4 ♃ ☉ 25 1 21 ♃ ♀ 26 10 8 ♃ ☿ 28 6 25 ♃ ☽ 30 3 13 ♃ ♄ 32 0 0 ♂  33 0 0 ♂ ☉ 34 0 0 ♂ ♀ 35 0 0 ♂ ☿ 36 0 0 ♂ ☽ 37 0 0 ♂ ♄ 38 0 0 ♂ ♃ 39 0 0 ☉  40 5 50 ☉ ♀ 42 10 10 ☉ ☿ 43 3 15 ☉ ☽ 44 8 20 ☉ ♄ 46 1 25 ☉ ♃ 47 7 0 ☉ ♂ 49 0 0 ♀  50 1 2 ♀ ☿ 51 3 13 ♀ ☽ 52 5 6 ♀ ♄ 53 6 26 ♀ ♃ 54 8 20 ♀ ♂ 55 10 8 ♀ ☉ 57 0 0 ☿  58 10 9 ☿ ☽ 60 8 17 ☿ ♄ 62 6 26 ☿ ♃ 64 5 4 ☿ ♂ 66 3 13 ☿ ☉ 68 1 21 ☿ ♀ 70 0 0 ☊  73 0 0 ☋  75 0 0 ☽  76 3 13 ☽ ♄ 77 6 26 ☽ ♃ 78 10 9 ☽ ♂ 80 1 22 ☽ ☉ 81 5 5   

CHAP. VII. Of profections.  
FOR the profections you must resolve the twelve houses of your nativity in equal parts upon the Eclipse, so far as the ascendant is in the first degree of any Sign: the second house shall be in the first degree of a sign following, and the third, in the first degree of a third sign: and to conclude, that every house begin by the first degree, as the first house.  
Also, every house will contain thirty degrees, & the first thirty degrees of the first house, shall appertain to the first year wherein the infant is borne; the thirty of the second, to the second year: the thirty of the third to the third year, & so consequently until twelve. Twelve years passed, you must begin again at the first, and then come to the second, third, fourth etc. and so from twelve to twelve you must renew the same circuit.  
If you find the revolution within the thirty degrees serving to your year, it signifieth some good or evil, according to his nature or good or evil disposition, & signification of the place, of which shall be the said profection; that is to say, of the places of life, sickness, death, or good health; of the places of goods, riches, loss, or poverty. etc. Commonly they seek the profection of five places of one nativity, that is to say, of the place of the Sun for honour; of the place of the Moon for the qualities of the spirit, towards the body and external goods; of the place of the part of Fortune, for gain and profit; of the tenth house for the actions; of the ascendant for the life.  
If the Sun be giver of life, it must be considered as giver of life and giver of honour likewise, the which you must do also in other places, when they import many significations. If then you find any Planet within the thirty degrees of your profection, and would know what month or day the accident by him signified shall happen.  
Look what distance you have between the first point of your profection, and the said Planet, if there be xv. degrees between them, the said accident shall happen out in the end of six months: if there be twentie-five degrees, at the end of ten months, for here two degrees and a half, value one month, one degree valueth twelve days and four hovers, thirty min●●es value six days, five minutes one day.  
Of this there is a very exact table among the documents of Peter Pytat upon the Ephemerideses. Example of the profections. Suppose that the ascendant of a nativity was the fifteen degree of Scorpius, I would know where the profection shall light of the ascendant at the end of ten years after the childborne. I account ten signs from the ascendant, after that, I find the fifteen degree of Virgo serving after ten years, accomplished to xj. current. I say then that in the said time, the profection of the ascendant is come in the fifteen degree of Virgo; & shall end that year in the fifteen degree of Libra: and also shall contain thirty whole degrees, within the which if any Planet be found, it shall signify good or evil of the life, according to the nature & disposition as if in the said time.  
Mars being to the fift degree of Libra, I would say that the infant should be troubled that year at the end of eight months, because that Mars was in the place profectionall of life, distant from the first point twenty dedrees. We have showed before that two degrees and a half value one month, five degrees two months, and fifteen degrees six months, and by course twenty degrees eight months. You must note, that the profections ought to fit to the years currant or complete. It is to be understood the tenth sign, as for incontinent after nine years complete, which is ten years currant, etc.   

CHAP. VIII. The Lords of the circulations from the hours of the Nativities.  
THE Babylonians hold for a great secret, the Circulation of the Lord of the hour of the nativity? It is to be understood, that the Lord of the said hour signifieth of the life as the ascendant, and the Lord of the hour following, of goods as of the second house: and the Lord of the third hour of brethren as the third house, and so consequently of others.  
In Revolutions, they give the Lord of the hour of the nativity to the first year, the Planet following to the second, and so consequently following the natural order of the Planets. As if one were borne in the hour of Venus, that Planet should reign the first year, the second year, Mercury, the third, the Moon, the fourth, Saturn, the fift, jupiter, the sixth, Mars, the seventh Sol, the eight, Venus, the ninth, Mercury, and so by order. And you must note, that we take here the years currant, and not complete, for to fit the said circulation of the Planets.   

CHAP. IX. Of the circulation of the Lord of the Ascendant, and the Planets which are in the Ascendant.  
THE circulation of the Lord of the Ascendant, and the Planets and parts which be in the Ascendant, they be even as we have said of the Lord of the hour of the nativity, and by the same order you must place them. The years of the age of the Child, by judgement, we have made mention and proof of Revolutions.   

CHAP. X. Of Eclipses and great conjunctions appertaining to Revolutions of Nativities.  
THE Eclipse of the Sun, and the conjunctions of the Superior Planets, causeth commonly many evils, after the congruence of the stars, and nature of the signs and Planets reigning in the said places, to men causeth sicknesses, when they be within the five next degrees of the Ascendant, or to the giver of life: if they touch the other parts, Planets or houses, they pronounce evil fortune, appertaining to the significations of the same places; principally, if in the same time of the nativity, any such constellations were in force. If they touch the places perfectionals, they do almost the same effect as in nativities.   

CHAP. XI. Of the particular meetings of the whole year.  
COncerning the particular meetings of all the year, Ptolomeus, john de Regiomonte, Ganrique, and many others, do rest hard upon the Profections, Mensturnes and Diurnes, of the which you have a perfect Table in the Book of Directions of John de Regiomonte, having more subtlety & curiousness then truth, as I have often found by experience. It answereth better my opinion Schonor, which every day considered, if any Planet touch the places of the Planets, parts & houses, of the nativity or their good or evil aspect, that I do apply to the places profectionall. As for example, let the ascendant of a nativity, or the place of his profection be the twelve degree of Libra, the Sun in the fifteenth of Gemini, Mars in the fifteenth of Leo: always, and as often as the Sun or the Moon do pass over the xv. degree of Leo, the man shall be moved by angry accidents, as of displeasure, of some alteration, pain of the head, Fever, hot Impostumes, Tetters. etc. Likewise when it toucheth the fift degree of Scorpius, or of Taurus, there where the quadrate aspects be within the place of Mars, or the fift of Aquarius, which is the place opposite to Mars. If any Planet touch the fift degree of Libra, or of Gemini (there where the Sextile aspects be) or the fift of Sagitarius and of Aries, (which make the Trine aspects of the said Mars) it shall signify some favourable meetings of Captains and men of war.  
If the ill fortunes touch not the said twelve degree of Libra, as we have said in the Ascendant, that shallbe sign of some evil meeting, as well to life as to the body. Likewise you must judge of other attouchments, according to the nature of the aspects, by us explained in the second Book. You must contemplate the places profectionals. For I do apply every degree and minute to the days in the which their signification fall, and regard the good & evil aspects of the Planets every day, if they touch the degree profectionall. As for example, of the said nativity in the which was the Ascendant Libra, suppose that the profection was come to the twelve degree of Cancer, in the ninth year complete and the tenth currant. The thirteenth degree of Cancer, serveth to the twelve day after the proper day of the revolution.  
Wherefore I consider then the aspects of the Planets towards the said thirteenth degree. Likewise so I do of other degrees and minutes, fitted to those days in the which they govern. And so much for Revolutions.   
FINIS.