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 THE 
 
 ASTROLOGER'S GUIDE. 
 
THE 
 
 ASTROLOGER'S GFIDE. 
 
 ANIMA ASTROLOQI^; 
 
 OR, 
 
 A GUIDE FOR ASTROLOGERS. 
 
 BEING 
 
 THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX CONSIDERATIONS OF THE 
 FAMOUS ASTROLOGER, 
 
 GUIDO BONATUS, 
 
 TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN BY HENRY COLEY, 
 
 TOGETHER WITH 
 
 THE CHOICEST APHORISMS OF THE SEVEN SEGMENTS OF 
 
 JEEOM CAEDAN OF MILAN, 
 
 EDITED BY WILLIAM LILLY (1675). 
 
 1^0 W FIRST REPUBLISHED FROM A UNIQUE COPY OF THE 
 ORIGINAL EDITION, WITH NOTES AND A PREFACE 
 
 BY 
 
 WM. C. ELDON SEEJEANT, 
 
 FELLOW OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 LONDON : 
 GEORGE REDWAY, 
 YORK STREET, COYENT GARDEN. 
 1886. 
 
/33.5 
 
 EDITOR'S PREFACE. 
 
 Those whose pursuits have led them to collect works on 
 the Science of Astrology, will doubtless recognise in this, a 
 work that has long been a desideratum. 
 
 To all who have properly studied the various branches of 
 Judicial Astrology, the utility of the Considerations of 
 Bonatus, and the Aphorisms of Cardan, will be manifest 
 after even the most casual perusal. William Lilly, the 
 clever Astrologer of the seventeenth century, specially 
 selected these from a mass of writings at his disposal, for 
 publication at a time when a knowledge of Astrology, and 
 a belief in the science, were almost general among the 
 educated classes. In a short account of the life of Lilly, 
 which appeared in the " Magical and Physiognomical 
 Mirror " for October, 1791, it appears that this was the last 
 work published by that eminent Astrologer ; the following 
 is a verbatim extract : " His last publication was his * Guide 
 for Astrologers,' translated from the Latin of Guido Bonatus, 
 a good piece," etc. 
 
 The lapse of two hundred years, and the fate that awaited 
 books of this character in the early part of the nineteenth 
 century, have served to scatter and destroy all but a few 
 copies of the edition printed in 1676, and the very existence 
 of this work is at present known only to assiduous students 
 of astrological lore, and to the fortunate possessors of the 
 few copies that remain, which is probably the chief reason 
 why the book has never been reprinted. 
 
 Very little seems to be known of the life of Guido 
 Bonatus. Henry Coley, in his "Address to the Keader," 
 herein, gives an anecdote illustrating the skill of Bonatus, 
 whose writings undoubtedly prove him to have been an 
 able master of the science which he professed. 
 
vi 
 
 EDITOR'S PREFACE. 
 
 Jerom Cardan, the author of the Aphorisms contained 
 in the latter portion of this book, was born at Milan, 
 on the first of October, 1501. He was an illegitimate 
 child ; and his mother tried to prevent his being born 
 alive, but without effect. Ultimately, he was brought 
 into the world by means of the Caesarian operation, and 
 when born, his head was already covered with black curly 
 hair. 
 
 In the year 1531 he married, though previously deterred 
 by considerations relating to his own physical condition, 
 which he attributed to the evil influences of the planet 
 under which he was born, and always regarded as one of 
 the greatest misfortunes of his life. 
 
 He was brought up as a physician, and became a professor 
 of medicine in most of the Italian universities. In the 
 year 1570 he was put into prison; on being released he 
 repaired to Rome, where he attended Pope Gregory XIII., 
 as a physician, for which he received a pension until the 
 year 1576, when he died. 
 
 Never was any man more remarkable for a strange incon- 
 sistency of behaviour, than Cardan. His life was a series 
 of odd adventures, which he has committed to writing, 
 with a simplicity, or rather a freedom, seldom to be met 
 with among the learned; indeed, it seems as if he had 
 written the history of his life for no other purpose than to 
 give the public an amazing instance of the fact that a person 
 may be endowed with great genius, yet at the same time be 
 void of reason. 
 
 He makes an ingenuous confession of his good and bad 
 qualities. He seems to have sacrificed every other considera- 
 tion to a desire of being sincere ; and this sincerity being 
 often misplaced, tarnishes his reputation. 
 
 Although Cardan seldom errs when giving an account of 
 his morals and sentiments, yet we must rather incline to 
 dissent from, than to believe, what he relates of himself ; 
 because it seems almost impossible that nature could have 
 formed a character so capricious and inconsistent as he 
 makes himself out to be. 
 
 He paid himself congratulatory compliments on not 
 having a friend in the world, but that in lieu of which he 
 was attended by a Spirit partly emanating from Saturn, and 
 
editor's preface. 
 
 vii 
 
 partly from Mercury, who was the constant guide of his 
 actions, and teacher of every duty which he was called 
 upon to perform. 
 
 He also stated that he was so irregular in his manner of 
 walking the streets, as to induce those who observed him, 
 to point at him as a fool. Sometimes he walked very slow, 
 like a man absorbed in profound meditation ; then suddenly 
 quickened his steps, and accompanied them with very 
 ridiculous attitudes. 
 
 In Bologna his delight was to be drawn about in a mean 
 vehicle with three wheels. The liveliest description that 
 can be given of this singular philosopher is couched in the 
 following quotation from Horace, which in fact Cardan 
 confessed to agree perfectly well with his character : 
 
 " Nil sequali homini fuit iUi ; sepe velut qui 
 Currebat fugiens hostem, persaepe velut qui 
 Junonis sacra serret ; habebat sa?pe ducentos, 
 Ssepe decern servos," etc. 
 
 Which may be imitated thus : 
 
 Whey^e find a semblance of inconstancy ? 
 Noiv quick of speed, as if from foes he fled, 
 Noiv sloio he moves, and with a solemn air, 
 As if great Juno^s altar he^d approach ; 
 Now with attendants crowded^ now alone, etc. 
 
 When nature did not visit him with any pain, he would 
 inflict it on himself, by biting his lips, and pulling his 
 fingers with such violence, as sometimes to draw tears from 
 his eyes ; and the reason he assigned for so doing was, in 
 order to moderate certain impetuous sallies of the mind, 
 whose violence was far more insupportable to him than 
 pain itself ; and that the sure consequences of such severe 
 practice procured his better enjoyment of the pleasures of 
 health. 
 
 He writes that, in his greatest tortures of soul, he used to 
 whip his legs with rods, and bite his left arm ; that it was a 
 great relief to him to weep, but that very often he could 
 not ; that nothing gave him more pleasure than to talk of 
 things which made the whole company uneasy; that he 
 spoke on all subjects, whether seasonably or not ; and that 
 he was so fond of all games of chance, as to spend whole 
 days in playing at them, to the great prejudice of his family 
 
viii 
 
 EDITOR S PREFACE. 
 
 and reputation, for he even staked his furniture and his 
 v^ife's jewels. 
 
 Cardan scrupled not to own that he was revengeful, 
 envious, treacherous, a dealer in the black art, a backbiter, 
 a calumniator, and unreservedly addicted to all the foul and 
 detestable excesses that can be imagined ; yet notwith- 
 standing so humiliating a declaration, there never was, 
 perhaps, a man more vain, or one that with less ceremony 
 expressed the high opinion he had of himself. He writes 
 thus : 
 
 have been admired by many nations; an almost 
 infinite number of panegyrics in prose and verse have been 
 composed to celebrate my fame. I was born to release the 
 world from the manifold errors under which it groaned. 
 What I have found out, could not be discovered either by 
 my predecessors, or my contemporaries ; and that is the 
 reason why those authors, who write anything worthy of 
 being remembered, blush not to own that they are indebted 
 to me for it. I have composed a book on the dialectic art, 
 in which there is neither a superfluous letter, nor one 
 deficient. I finished it in seven days, which seems a prodigy. 
 Yet where is there a person to be found, that can boast of 
 his having become master of its doctrine in a year ? And 
 he that shall have comprehended it in that time, must 
 appear to have been instructed by a familiar Demon." 
 
 When we consider the transcendent qualities of Cardan's 
 mind, we cannot deny his having cultivated it with every 
 species of knowledge, and having made a greater progress 
 in philosophy, in medicine, in astronomy, in mathematics, 
 etc., than the majority of his contemporaries, who had 
 applied their study but to one of those sciences. 
 
 Scaliger, who wrote with much warmth against Cardan, 
 was candid enough to own that he was endowed with a 
 very comprehensive, penetrating, and incomparable mind. 
 
 Cardan has been accused of impiety, and even atheism, 
 because in his work "DeSubtilitate," he quotes some principles 
 of different religions, with the arguments upon which they 
 were founded. He proposes the reasons offered by the 
 Pagans, by Jews, by the Mahomedans, and by the Christians, 
 but those of the last in the weakest light. Nevertheless in 
 reading one of his works, " De Vita Propria," we find more 
 characteristic marks of a credulous man than a free- 
 thinker. 
 
EDITOR S PREFACE. 
 
 ix 
 
 It is true that he owns he was not a devotee, imrum 
 pius, but he at the same time declares, that although 
 naturally vindictive, he often let slip the opportunity of 
 satisfying his resentment. Let such a neglect, then, be 
 ascribed to his veneration of the Deity, 
 
 " Dei ob venerationem." 
 
 He writes, There is no form of worship more pleasing to 
 the Deity than that of obeying the law, against the strongest 
 impulsion of our natures to transgress against it." He 
 proudly boasted of having refused a considerable sum of 
 money offered to him by the King of England, on condition 
 that he would give him those titles which the Pope had 
 taken from him. It would be difficult to find in. any work 
 proofs of more solidity and good sense than in the reflections 
 made by him in the twenty-second chapter of the above- 
 mentioned book, where he unfolds his ideas of religion. 
 The reason which he assigns for his love of solitude, instead 
 of making him liable to the charge of impiety, ought rather 
 to free him from the same. " When I am alone," he writes_, 
 
 I am then, more than at any other time, in company with 
 those I love — the Deity, and my good Angel." 
 
 Cardan had many irregular faculties, that were more bold 
 than judicious, and was fonder of a redundancy than a 
 choice of materials to work upon. The same capriciousness 
 observable in his moral conduct is to be remarked in the 
 composition of his works. 
 
 There are a number of his treatises in which the reader 
 is stopped almost every moment by the obscurity of the 
 text, or the digressions from the subject in point. 
 
 In his arithmetical works there are several discourses on 
 the motions of the planets, on the Creation, and on the 
 tower of Babel. 
 
 In his dialectic work, he gives his opinions on historians 
 and the writers of epistles. The only apology which he 
 makes for the frequency of his digressions is, that they are 
 purposely done for the sooner tilling up the sheet, his 
 bargain with the bookseller being at so much per sheet, and 
 that he worked as much for his daily support as for the 
 acquisition of glory. 
 
 Cardan was instrumental in reviving the sacred philosophy 
 of the Cabala, and the Cabalists, The Aphorisms of his 
 
X 
 
 editor's preface. 
 
 Seven Segments, contained in this book, are of great value 
 to Astrologers. 
 
 For the information of those who might peruse this 
 work, and who know little or nothing of the science on 
 which it treats, we may mention that Astrology is held to 
 be one of the most ancient of all sciences. Josephus* writes 
 that Adam, Seth, Enos, and most of the Patriarchs were 
 great Astrologers, and after them Abraham, who taught 
 both the Chaldeans and Egyptians. The same historian 
 states that he has seen the remains of the two pillars 
 of stone upon which Seth, foreseeing the flood, engraved the 
 rudiments of the science. 
 
 This book does not profess to be an elementary work ; it 
 is intended for the use of students somewhat advanced in 
 Astrology. To persons desirous of thoroughly learning this 
 branch of occult philosophy, we recommend the works of 
 the following writers : On Genethliacal Astrology — 
 Ptolemy,! Placidus,'*^ Partridge,^ Wilson,^ Oxley,^ Morrison 
 (Zadkiel),*^ and Pearce.'^ On Mundane Astrology, the 
 Doctrine of Elections, Decumbitures, etc. — Ptolemy,^ 
 Ramesey,^ and Saunders.^ On Horary Astrology — Lilly and 
 
 * Joseph. Antiq., B. I., ch. 4-8, etc. 
 
 ^ Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos ; translated by Ashmand, 8vo., London, 
 1822. 
 
 2 Primum Mobile, Placidus de Titus ; translated by John Cooper, 
 8vo., N.D. 
 
 3 An Astrological Vade-Mecum for Students in Astrology ; by John 
 Partridge, 12nio., London, 1679. 
 
 Opus Reformatum ; by John Partridge, 4to., London, 1693. 
 Defectio Geniturarum ; by John Partridge, 4to., London, 1697. 
 
 4 A Complete Dictionary of Astrology ; by John Wilson, 8vo., n.d. 
 
 5 The Gem of the Astral Sciences ; by Thomas Oxley, 8vo., n.d. 
 ^ The Grammar of Astrology ; by Zadkiel, 12mo., London, 1849. 
 The Handbook of Astrology ; by Zadkiel, Vol. IL (Nativities), 
 
 small 8vo., London, 1864. 
 
 Zadkiel's Legacy, Essay on Astrology, Nativity of H.R.H. the 
 Prince of Wales, etc, ; 8vo., London, 1842. 
 
 7 The Text-Book of Astrology, Vol. L, Genethliacal ; by Alfred J. 
 Pearce, 8vo., London, 1879. 
 
 ^ Astrology Restored ; by William Ramesey, folio, London, 1654. 
 
 9 The Astrological Judgment and Practice of Physic ; by Richard 
 Saunders, 8vo., London, 1677. 
 
 1° Christian Astrology ; by William Lilly, 4to., London, 1647. 
 
 An Introduction to Astrology, by William Lilly, with Notes and 
 Emendations by Zadkiel, 8vo., London, 1835. 
 
 This work, together with ZadkiePs Grammar of Astrology, has been 
 
editor's preface. 
 
 xi 
 
 Zadkiel.^^ On Astro -Meteorology — Goad.^^ The works of 
 Doriat,i3 Heydon,!* 2^11,^^ PeDseyre/^^ Coley,!^ Elaiid,!^ 
 Salmon,^^ Worsdale/^Simmonite,^^ Raphael,^^ Sliemaya,^^ and 
 Zuriel,2* are worthy of the student's perusal, and much use- 
 ful information can be gleaned therefrom. The works of 
 E-amesey and Partridge are rare and priceless ; in fact, most 
 of the older works quoted are now very scarce ; they can 
 all be seen and read at the British Museum, but are to be 
 met with in very few private libraries. 
 
 The science of the stars has of late years fallen into 
 disrepute, chiefly owing to impostors, but also to zealous 
 persons endeavouring to practise an art in which they have 
 not been suflBciently well read to give correct judgments ; 
 not a little, however, does it owe its present position to the 
 erroneous publications on the subject, which from time to 
 time have been palmed oft' on the unsuspecting and anxious 
 student as works of use and value. 
 
 reprinted, bound together in one volume, and published in the 
 " Bohn " series. 
 
 The Handbook of Astrology, Vol. I. (Horary), by Zadkiel, small 
 8vo., London, 1863. 
 
 12 Astro-meteorologica, etc. ; by J. Goad, folio, London, 1686. 
 
 ^3 A Brief and Easy Introduction to Astrology ; by Claudius 
 Doriat, small 4to., 1598. 
 
 Dariotus Kedivivus ; 4to., London, 1653. 
 
 14 An Astrological Discourse ; by Sir Christopher Heydon, 12mo., 
 London, 1650. 
 
 ^5 Astrology Improved ; by Richard Ball, 12mo., 1723. 
 
 i6 A New Guide to Astrology ; by Samuel Penseyre, 12mo., 1726. 
 
 ^7 Clavis Astrologiae EHmata ; by Henry Coley, 8vo., London, 
 1676. 
 
 Eland's Tutor to Astrology ; by George Parker, 18mo., 1704. 
 ^9 Horae Mathematicse seu Urania ; by William Salmon, 8vo., 
 1679. 
 
 20 Genethliacal Astrology ; by John Worsdale, 8vo., Newark, 1798. 
 Celestial Philosophy ; by John Worsdale, 8vo., Lincoln, n.d. 
 
 21 The Arcana of Astral Philosophy ; by W. J. Simmonite, 8yo., 
 1847. 
 
 The Astro Philosopher and Meteorologist ; by W. J. Simmonite, 
 8vo., N.D., about 1851. 
 
 The Prognostic Astronomer (Horary Astrology) ; by W. J. 
 Simmonite, 12mo., Leeds, 1852. 
 
 22 A Manual of Astrology ; by Raphael, 8vo., London, 1837. 
 
 23 The Star ; by Ebn Sbemaya, 8vo., 1839 
 
 24 Lectures on the Science of Celestial Philosophy ; by Zuriel, 
 8vo., 1835. 
 
xii 
 
 editor's preface. 
 
 The desire and belief of the present editor is, that the 
 republication of a few of the more philosophical works 
 relating to this science may win for it some degree of 
 recognition from the large and increasing body of students 
 of the Occult Sciences ; these views are shared by the 
 publisher, who has ventured upon the unusual course of 
 issuing, in this sceptical age, a work professing seriously to 
 deal with the Science of the Stars. 
 
 St. Benet's Abbey, 
 Near Bodmin, Cornwall, 
 mh April, 1886. 
 
Anima AJlrologice : 
 
 OR, A 
 
 GUIDE 
 
 FOR 
 
 ASTROLOGERS. 
 
 BEING 
 
 The confiderations of the Famous 
 
 GUIDO BONATUS 
 Faithfully rendred into Englifh. 
 
 As alfo 
 
 The Choiceft Aphorifms of 
 CARDAN'S Seaven Segments, 
 Tranflated, and methodically digefted 
 under their proper Heads. 
 
 With a New Table of the fixed Stars, 
 
 rectified for feveral years to come, 
 and divers other neceffary Illuftrations. 
 
 A Work moft ufefiil and neceffary for 
 all Students, and recommended 
 as fuch to the Sons of Art. 
 
 By William Lilly, Student in Aftrology. 
 
 London^ Printed for B. Harris at the Statio- 
 ners^ Arms in Sweethings Rents near the 
 Royal Exchange, 1676. 
 
LICENSED, 
 
 April . 29 . 1675 . 
 
 Roger VEftrange, 
 
ADDRESS BY WILLIAM LILLY. 
 
 TO THE maENIOUS LOVEES OF AET. 
 
 We had formerly some thoughts of revising our Introduc- 
 tion to Astrology, now out of print, and to have enriched 
 it for another edition with the choicest aphorisms, both 
 from the writings of the ancients and our own many years' 
 experience, but the laboriousness of that work, considering 
 our age and many infirmities of body, with the discourage- 
 ments we have already met with from some ungrateful 
 persons,* caused us lay aside (at least for the present) those 
 intentions. 
 
 Yet that we might not be wholly wanting to promote 
 anything that might tend to the advancement of Art and 
 gratification of its painful f students, and knowing how 
 necessary the ensuing Considerations of Guido Bonatus and 
 Aphorisms adjoined, are to be known and regarded, which 
 many of our ingenious countrymen could not do, for that 
 they have hitherto remained in the Latin tongue with the 
 rest of the works of those authors in large volumes, difficult 
 to be got at and too chargeable for many to buy, we there- 
 fore recommend them to a friend J to be translated by 
 
 * Allusion is here evidently made to John Gadbury the Astrologer 
 and some of his pupils, with whom Lilly had been at variance, 
 t I.e., laborious. 
 
 X Henry Coley, one of his pupils, and latterly, his amanuensis. 
 
xvi 
 
 ADDRESS BY WILLIAM LILLY. 
 
 themselves, which he has judiciously performed in plain 
 significant language, so that we judge the work may deserve 
 the title of Anima Astrologise which we have given it, 
 comprehending the marrow and substance of Astrology, and 
 much excellent matter necessary to be observed by all 
 honest students that practise Art to discover truth and not 
 to vapour with."^ 
 
 We doubt not but the legitimate sons and well-wishers 
 of Urania will find considerable advantages from hence, 
 directing them to a certainty in giving judgments upon all 
 occasions, and that they will for this publication have cause 
 to thank their old friend 
 
 WILLIAM LILLY. 
 
 Walton-upon-Thames, 
 ^nd August, 1675. 
 
 This is probably a sly hit at John Gadbury, with whose judg- 
 ments of astrological figures and remarks thereon, Lilly found fault; as 
 indeed at a later period did Doctor John Partridge the Astrologer, 
 who wrote a work (" Opus Keformatum :" London, 1693) exposing 
 and rectifying the errors of one of Gadbury's works ("A Collection 
 of 150 Nativities " : London, 1658). It is a significant fact that Doctor 
 Partridge, who was one of the most truthful of Genethlical Astrologers 
 that ever lived, quotes Bonatus in his Opus Keformatum, thereby 
 showing his esteem for the Considerations of our Author. 
 
HENRY COLBY'S ADDEESS TO THE READEE. 
 
 Thou art here presented with two choice pieces of Art in 
 our mother tongue ; the first, the Considerations of Guido 
 Bonatus, a person no less happy in the practice than skilful 
 in the theory of Astrology of which I will here give 
 thee one instance as it is recorded by that eminent 
 Historian Fulgusos, L. 8, c. 11. That Guido Earl of Mount- 
 Serrant being besieged in that city, our Author Bonatus 
 sent him word, that if such a day and hour he would make 
 a sally on the enemies' camp, he should give them an 
 absolute defeat, and force them to raise their siege and quit 
 the place, but should himself receive a dangerous (but not 
 mortal) wound in the thigh. The Earl took his council, 
 made his sally on the day appointed, providing himself of 
 all things necessary in case of a wound, and according to 
 the prediction, though vastly inferior in numbers, obtained a 
 most signal and entire victory, but following the pursuit was 
 wounded in the place foretold, of which in short time he 
 recovered.* 
 
 The second, consists of the choicest Aphorisms of Car- 
 danus, a man famous to the learned world, and of whom 
 the judicious and severe Scaliger (though an adversary) in 
 the preface to the book he wrote against him, gives a most 
 respective and applauding character. These Aphorisms (by 
 which is meant short comprehensive and approved rules of 
 
 Kaphael quotes this in his work "A Manual of Astrology" 
 (London, 1834). 
 
xviii 
 
 PROEM. 
 
 Art) were in the original delivered promiscuously, but I for 
 better method have taken the pains here to marshall them 
 under their distinct and proper titles, and that I might not 
 unnecessarily charge the reader, have omitted such as seemed 
 trivial or superfluous ; this much I thought fit to premise, 
 and have only more to add, that by reason of my absence 
 some faults have escaped the press, besides those which 
 myself may be chargeable with in the translation ; the 
 Reader will show his judgment in distinguishing, and his 
 good nature in pardoning them. Vale. 
 
 H. C. 
 
 PROEM. 
 
 Amongst those things that appertain to giving judge- 
 ment in questions of Astrology, there are six to be chiefly 
 considered : — 1^* Nations, and their particular kinds. 2°^^^ 
 Families, and the constitutions and ordinations of Families 
 and Houses. 3^^^^ Eich and potent persons, Dispositions 
 and Affairs. 4^^^^ Regard is to be had to the lodividuals 
 of human kind. 5*^^^ Elections or times proper for the 
 beginning of any Work or Enterprise. 6^^^^ Questions as 
 well universal as particular, pertinent and fit to be de- 
 manded. 
 
 But first of al] there are some things necessary to be pre- 
 mised : As the fit manner of propounding a question, and 
 divers other points to be observed in giving judgement. Of 
 which sort of considerations we shall reckon up no fewer 
 than One Hundred Forty and Six, which though 'tis impos- 
 sible they should happen or be observed altogether; yet 
 they all deserve to be known, and without them an 
 Astrologer shall never be able to give true and perfect 
 judgement. But before we treat distinctly of them it will 
 be convenient to say a little of the right way or manner 
 how a question should be proposed ; for to judge of things to 
 
PROEM. 
 
 xix 
 
 come, is no easy task, nor indeed can it always be exactly 
 performed ; but we may come near the truth, and differ 
 from it only in some small time or circumstances; which 
 difficulty should not at all discourage us from studying and 
 endeavouring to obtain as great a knowledge therein, as 
 Human minds are capable of; for since inferiors are 
 governed by superiors (as all agree), and that the nature 
 and disposition of such superiors may be known by their 
 motions, which are now exactly found out by the learned 
 in Astronomy ; we may thence undoubtedly arrive at an 
 ability of judging of things to come: That is declare what 
 will happen by or from such their motions, and by con- 
 sequence truly foretell future accidents ; for this art has its 
 peculiar rules and Aphorisms and its end is judgment, which 
 takes off their objection who say that Astrology is nothing 
 worth ; for it would not be an Art, unless it had its proper 
 precepts ; but that it is an Art, we have sufficiently proved 
 elsewhere, and the same is generally acknowledged; and its 
 end is to give judgement as aforesaid, which are of accidents 
 imprinted on inferiors by the motions of the superior bodies, 
 and their qualities and effects in or upon the same. 
 
THE TABLE OR CONTENTS OF THE ^SEVERAL 
 CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 1. To consider what moves a man to propose a Question - 1 
 
 2. The course the Querent should take when he goes to an 
 
 Astrologer - - - - - - - 1 
 
 3. How many ways the Planets operate in Inferiors - - 2 
 
 4. Of the causes assisting to accomplish things - - - 2 
 
 5. How many ways such states of the Moon does happen - 3 
 
 6. Another way of the Planets being debilitated not much 
 
 different ------- 5 
 
 V. To beware of those things that lead an Artist into error - 6 
 
 8. To see how many Considerations thou shouldst use - - 7 
 
 9. To consider the helpers or hinderers of a business - - 8 
 
 10. The Fixed Stars that so hinder or help - - - 12 
 
 11. To consider the Infortunes, what they signify - - 13 
 
 12. What the Fortunes signify - - - • - - 13 
 
 13. What the Sun signifies - - - - - 14 
 
 14. What Mercury and the Moon signifies - - - 14 
 
 15. How the Planets make their Impressions on Inferiors - 14 
 
 16. Whether the Significator be afflicted by either of the Infortunes 14 
 
 17. Whether the Planet be free from Impediment - - 15 
 
 18. Whether a Planet is in the Angles of the Inferiors - - 16 
 
 19. Whether the Moon be void of course - - - - 17 
 
 20. Whether the Moon or Significator be joined to any of the 
 
 Planets ------- 17 
 
 21. From what Planet the Moon separates - - - 17 
 
 22. Whom she next applies to - - - - - 17 
 
 23. Her condition as joined - - - - - 17 
 
 24. Whether a Planet be in his declension - - - 18 
 
 25. Whether a Planet be Retrograde or Stationary - - 18 
 
 26. Whether Stationary to Retrogradation or Direction - - 18 
 
 27. Whether the Infortunes be Significators - - - 18 
 
 28. Whether the Significator be slow - - - - 18 
 
 29. Whether the Moon be in Corporal Conjunction with any 
 
 Planet - - - - - - - 19 
 
 30. Whether the Significator or Moon be past 29° of the Sign 
 
 they are in - - - - - - - 19 
 
 31. When one Planet applies to the Conjunction of another - 19 
 
 32. If an Infortune be Significator, his condition - - 20 
 
 33. Whether an Infortune be Significator - - - - 20 
 
 34. On what to ground Judgement - - - - 20 
 
 35. Whether a Planet be in Signs agreeable - - - 21 
 
 36. When the Infortunes signify Impediment - - - 21 
 
 37. Whether Fortunes are Significators - - - - 21 
 
xxii THE TABLE OR CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 38. If Significators are Cadent - - - - - 21 
 
 39. Whether the Signihcator be in Reception - - - 21 
 
 40. If an Infortune be Peregrine - - - - - 22 
 
 41. Whether an Infortune be Significator - - - - 22 
 
 42. Whether a Fortune be Significator - - - - 22 
 
 43. If Fortunes and Infortunes be in Malignant Places - - 22 
 
 44. If the Significator be in his own House - - - 22 
 
 45. Whether Infortunes are in Angles of the Ascendant - - 23 
 
 46. Whether the Significator be a Fortune or Infortune - - 23 
 
 47. Whether the Significator be in his proper Light - - 23 
 
 48. Whether if an Infortune be Significator, the evil shall be 
 
 avoided - - •■ - - - - 23 
 
 49. Whether one of the Infortunes be Significator - - 24 
 60. To consider the Ascendant or Moon - - - - 24 
 
 51. Whether the Significator be Cadent - - - - 24 
 
 52. When the three Inferior Planets come from under the 
 
 Sun's beams - - - - - - - 25 
 
 53. Whether the Significator be under the Sun's beams - - 25 
 
 54. Whether one of the Superior Planets is 12° distant from 
 
 the Sun - - - - - - - 25 
 
 55. Whether the Significator be Peregrine - - - 26 
 
 56. Whether the Significator give virtue to any of the other 
 
 Planets - - - - - - - 26 
 
 57. Whether the Significator be in the VIII. from the Ascendant - 26 
 
 58. Whether a Significator be settled in the Sign wherein he is - 27 
 
 59. Whether the Significator be 15° behind the cusp of an Angle 28 
 
 60. Whether the Significator be in a Fixed, Moveable, or Com- 
 
 mon Sign - - - - - - - 29 
 
 61. Whether the Lord of the Ascendant and Moon be with 
 
 Dragon's Head or Tail - - - - - 29 
 
 62. Whether the Moon be void of course - - - • - 30 
 
 63. Whether she be far from joining with the Infortunes - 30 
 
 64. Whether she be in Cancer, Taurus, or Pisces - - - 30 
 
 65. Whether the Lord of the VII. be afflicted - - - 30 
 
 66. When the Infortunes threaten ill - - - - 31 
 
 67. Whether any Eclipse be near - - - - - 31 
 
 68. In Questions of Sickness whether the Lord of the VII. be 
 
 free - - - - - - - -31 
 
 69. In Journies whether the Significators be equal - - 32 
 
 70. Whether the Lord of the New or Full Moon preventional, 
 
 be in any of the Angles of the thing enquired about - 32 
 
 71. Whereabout the Significator happens in the Figure - - 32 
 
 72. Whether the Question be of a Journey - - - 34 
 
 73. Whether it signify good or ill - - - - - 34 
 
 74. Whether a Planet be Stationary to Retrogradation - - 34 
 
 75. Whether the Moon be afflicted - - - - 35 
 
 76. From what Planet the Moon separates and to whom she is 
 
 joined - - - - - - -35 
 
 77. Whether the Significator or the Moon be in opposition to 
 
 their own Houses - - - - - - 36 
 
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 78. To observe the Sign signifying the thing enquired about - 36 
 
 79. To observe whether the Significator or the Moon be joined 
 
 to Fortunes or Infortunes - - - _ - - 36 
 
 80. In what Sign the Significator of the thing enquired after is - 36 
 
 81. Whether the Significator be in an Angle, Succedent, or 
 
 Cadent House - - - - - - 37 
 
 82. Whether the Significator receive virtue from any Planet - 37 
 
 83. Whether the Fortunes and Infortunes be equally strong - 37 
 
 84. Whether the Fortunes be strongest - - - - 37 
 
 85. Whether Part of Fortune fall well or ill - - - 37 
 
 86. Whether an Infortune behold the Significator - - 38 
 
 87. To observe the Novenary of the Moon - - - 38 
 
 88. What Planet the Moon separates from - - - 38 
 
 89. To observe the Duodenary of the Moon - - - 38 
 
 90. Whether the Lords of the Houses where the Sun and Moon 
 
 are, etc., are oriental - - - - - 39 
 
 91. Whether Mars be in an Angle - - - - 39 
 
 92. Whether the Significator of death apply to the Native 
 
 Significator - - - - - - - 39 
 
 93. Of what kind of thing the Question is - - - 39 
 
 94. Whether the Significator be Cadent - - - - 39 
 
 95. Whether the Planets signifying the thing enquired, join 
 
 mutually - - - - - - - 40 
 
 96. Whether the Significator and Moon be in Angles - - 40 
 
 97. In what climate before the Question is proposed - - 40 
 
 98. Whether the meaning of the Question be signified by con- 
 
 junction or aspect - - - - - - 41 
 
 99. What the issue of the Question will be - - - 42 
 
 100. To observe the Benevolent Fixed Stars - - - 43 
 
 101. Which is the Killing Planet or destroyer of Life, etc. - 44 
 
 102. How to find what it signifies - - - - - 45 
 
 103. In what House the Part of Fortune, is - - - 46 
 
 104. Whether the Significator be in his VII. House - - 46 
 
 105. Whether the Infortune unfortunate be in the VII. - - 46 
 
 106. Whether ri Fortune fortunate be there - - - 46 
 
 107. Whether Mars be in the II. or X. - - - - 47 
 
 108. Whether any Planet behold two Houses - - - 47 
 
 109. Whether the Lord of the V. be in the VIL afflicted - 47 
 
 110. Whether Scorpio ascend - - - - - 47 
 
 111. Whether Dragon's Tail be in the VII. - - - 47 
 
 112. If Virgo ascend - - - - - - 48 
 
 113. Whether any of the Infortunes be in the IX. afflicted - 49 
 
 114. Wliether a Fortune be Lord of the VIII. - - - 49 
 
 115. Whether the VIII. or its Lord be afflicted - - - 49 
 
 116. Which of the Houses are afflicted - - - - 49 
 
 117. In which Rouse the Dragon's Tail is - - - 49 
 
 118. In which House a Fortune fortunate is - - - 49 
 
 119. If the Lord of the II. be in the VII. - - - - 50 
 
 120. Whether any of the Lords of the III., IV., V., VL, IX., X., 
 
 XL, or Xil. be in the Seventh - - - - 50 
 
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 121. Whether the Moon be in the VIIL - - - - 50 
 
 122. Whether the Part of Fortune be in the first ten degrees of 
 
 the IV. House - - - - - - 50 
 
 123. Whether the Sun and Moon be in conjunction - - 51 
 
 124. To observe the Significator of substance - - - 52 
 
 125. To note what sign ascends - - - - - 53 
 
 126. Whether Mercury be Significator in a Nativity - - 54 
 
 127. Whether the Lord of the Ascendant at Birth be an Infortune 55 
 
 128. Whether the Ascendant be a Sign resembling man - - 55 
 
 129. Whether the Moon be in opposition to Sun and with 
 
 nebulous stars - - - - - - 55 
 
 130. Whether the Moon be with Mercury- - - - 56 
 
 131. Whether in a man's Nativity the Luminaries be in Masculine 
 
 Signs - - - - - - - 57 
 
 132. Whether Mars be corporally joined to a Fixed Star of his 
 
 own nature - - - - - - - 57 
 
 133. Whether Gemini or Sagittarius ascend - - - 59 
 
 134. Whether Mars and Venus be in the VI. - - - 59 
 
 135. Whether the Lord of the Ascendant and the Moon, Jupiter, 
 
 or Venus and they be in the ascendant - - - 60 
 
 136. Whether the Sun and Moon are in their Exaltations - 60 
 
 137. Whether Mercury be with Saturn - - - - 60 
 
 138. Whether in a Nativity the two Infortunes are in term of the 
 
 IV. House - - - - - - - 61 
 
 139. In what House the Dragon's Tail is - - - - 61 
 
 140. Whether the Significator be weak - - - - 62 
 
 141. What gifts are bestowed by the Fixed Stars - - 62 
 
 142. What by the Planets - - _ - - - -67 
 
 143. To observe the Method of judging - - - - 69 
 - 144. When the Significators show their intent obscurely- - 71 
 
 145. Whether in a Diurnal Nativity Cor Leonis oe in the 
 
 Ascendant - - - - - - - 71 
 
 146. To observe who shall partake in the dominion with the 
 
 Significators - - - - . - - 72 
 
 A TABLE OF THE APHORISMS OF JEROM 
 CARDAN. 
 
 1. General Aphorisms - - - • 
 
 2. Aphorisms relating to Nativities 
 
 3. Aphorisms relating to Revolutions 
 
 4. Aphorisms relating to Diseases - 
 
 5. Aphorisms relating to Elections - 
 
 6. Aphorisms relating to Eclipses and Comets 
 
 7. Aphorisms touching Weather, Meteors, etc. 
 
 8. Aphorisms relating to Husbandry 
 
 9. Aphorisms relating to General Accidents 
 
 A Table of 50 of the principal Fixed 
 
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 100 77 
 
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 14 100 
 
 12 101 
 
 8 103 
 
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THE CONSIDERATIONS OF 
 GUIDO BONATUS. 
 
 1. The First, is to observe what it is that moves a person 
 to propose or ask a question of an Astrologer ; where we 
 must take notice of three motions : the First, of the mind, 
 when a man is stirred up in his thoughts and hath an 
 intent to enquire ; a Second, of the superior and celestial 
 bodies ; so that they at that time imprint on the thing- 
 inquired after, what shall become of it ; the Third, of the 
 free will which disposes him to the very act of enquiring ; 
 for although the mind be moved to inquire, 'tis not enough, 
 unless the superior bodies sympathize therewith; nor is 
 such motion of the stars enough, unless by the election of 
 his will the person does actually enquire. 
 
 2. The Second Consideration is (what we hinted at before) 
 the method or manner everyone ought to observe that 
 inquires of an Astrologer ; which is, that when he intends to 
 take an artist's judgment of things past^ present, or to come, 
 he should, first, with a devout spirit, pray unto the Lord, 
 from whom proceeds the success of every lawful enterprise, 
 that he would grant him the knowledge of those things of 
 the truth of which he would be resolved ; and then let him 
 apply himself to the astrologer with a serious intent of 
 being satisfied in some certain and particular doubt, and 
 
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 this not on trifling occasions, or light sudden emotions, 
 much less in matters base or unlawful, as many ignorant 
 people use to do ; but in matters of honest importance, and 
 such as have possessed and disturbed his mind for the space 
 of a day and night or longer ; unless in sudden accidents 
 which admit not of delay. 
 
 Note by Lilly. — Those that take this sober course, shall 
 find the truth in what they enquire after ; but whosoever 
 do otherwise, deceive both themselves and the artist; for a 
 foolish Querent may cause a wise Respondent to err, which 
 brings a scandal upon Art amongst inconsiderate people, 
 whereas the Astrologer is not blameable, but the ignorant, 
 silly Querent. 
 
 3. The Third, is to consider how many ways Planets 
 operate upon Inferior Bodies according to the divers Qualities 
 of their motions ; there being Sixteen different ways of such 
 their operations and effects in all things that are either 
 wholly or in part perfected or destroyed. 
 
 4. The Fourth, is to consider particularly these several 
 Sixteen ways, and what are the assisting causes that help 
 forward things to perfection, and what there are that 
 destroy things after they are perfected. Now of these the 
 first is Profection, or an advance of or in, things, which the 
 philosophers call " Alchecohol." 2. Detriment, which they 
 call " Aliber." 3. Conjunction or Reversion, which they call 
 " Alitifall." 4. Separation, which the}^ call " Alnichirat." 
 5. Translation of light, which they call " Annecad." 6. Col- 
 lection, which they call " Algemei." 7. Prohibition, which 
 they call " Almana." 8. Reception, called " Alcohol." 9. 
 Being void of course, called Gastalcobal." 10. Permission, 
 called Galaalocir." 11. The restoring or giving of virtue 
 or disposition, called "Alteat." 12. The withdrawing of 
 virtue, called " Dalpha Alchoa." 13. The with drawee' or 
 
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 3 
 
 driver away of disposition, called " Daffaredbit." 14. Forti- 
 tude, Alcoevah." 15. Debility, "Adirof." The 16th is 
 the state of the Moon called Gnaymel/' or the Moon 
 ill-affected ; which the ancients generally hold to be of ill 
 signification. 
 
 5. The Fifth, is to consider, how many ways the Moon 
 comes to be so ill-affected, which are generally reckoned to 
 be Ten, but in my opinion Seven more may be added, 
 whereby hindrances and damage happen in all Questions, 
 Nativities, Elections, and actions whatsoever ; the First is, 
 where the Moon is combust, that is to say under the Sun's 
 beams, which is counted from 15 degrees of the body of the 
 Sun as she applies to him to 12 degrees distance from him 
 as she is separating from him ; and the impediment is 
 greater when :;she is going to the Sun than when she is 
 going from him ; because as she goes off, when she is got 
 five degrees distant, she is said to be escaped, though not 
 wholly freed. As when a fever hath left a man, he is said 
 to be recovered, although he be weak and faint, because he 
 is secure now that he shall obtain his health again. The 
 2nd is when she is in the degrees of her descensions, that is 
 in the 3rd degree of Scorpio, or in any part of Scorpio or 
 Capricorn or injoined with any Planet that is in her or its 
 own descensions, as if she be joined with the Sun, who is 
 in Scorpio or Capricorn or in his proper descensipn, viz., 
 in Aquary or Libra, viz., in its 19 th degree or in any part 
 of Libra; or should be joined with Mars, and he be in 
 Libra or Taurus, or in the 28th degree, or in any part of 
 Cancer ; and so with any other Planet or Planets respec- 
 tively. The 3rd is when she is posited in any of the com- 
 bust degrees, of which the worst are : those 12 degrees which 
 are before the degree which is directl}^ opposite to the 
 degree in which the Sun is, wherever she shall happen lo 
 be. The 4th is when she is in conjunction, opposition, or 
 square to either of the Infortunes, " Saturn " or " Mars," 
 
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 without a perfect reception ; for with one it hinders but 
 little, but in all other places 'tis a grand impediment, both 
 in the said aspect and also in corporal conjunction save only 
 where the Infortune shall have two of his smaller dignities, 
 as with Saturn in the 4 last degrees of Aries or Gemini, 
 in each of which he has a Term and a Triplicity ; or with 
 Mars in the last 10 degrees of Pisces, where he has a Face 
 and a Triplicity ; and so in any other sign or place. The 
 5th is when she is with the Dragon's Head or with the 
 Dragon's Tail, that is, within twelve degrees of either of 
 them, because that is the place where she is eclipsed. The 
 6th is when she is in Gemini, which is the twelfth from her 
 own House. The 7th is when she is in the ends of signs, 
 which are all Terms of the Infortunes, except the last G de- 
 grees of Leo, which belong to Jupiter; but in the first eight 
 she is weakened because they are the Terms of Saturn. If it 
 be objected by the same reason she must be impedited like- 
 wise in the first 6 degrees of Cancer, since they are Terms 
 of Mars, I answer no, because Cancer is her own House and 
 greatest Fortitude. The 8th is when she is in the 6th, 
 8th, 9th, or 12th Houses (not in reception with the Ascen- 
 dent), or joined to any planet that is in any of them or 
 posited in the Third House, because it is cadent from 
 angles; yet because the same is said to be her joy (or that 
 slie delights therein), she is not afflicted there so much as 
 in other Cadent Houses. The 9th is when she is between 
 the 15th degree of Libra and the 15th degree of Scorpio, 
 which 30 degrees are called the Combust way. The 10th 
 when she is void of course^ that is, not joined to any planet 
 b}^ body or aspect_, or in that condition when they call her 
 Feral or Desart, that is, in a place where she has not any 
 dignity. The 11th when she is slow of course, because then 
 she may be compared to a Planet Retrograde. The 12th 
 when she is in want of lights so that no part or very little 
 of her is seen, which happens about the end of the lunar 
 
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 
 
 5 
 
 month. The J 3th when she is besieged by the two Infor- 
 tunes impecliting her. The 14th if she be in Azimene 
 degrees. The loth if in Pitted degrees. The 16th if in 
 Smoky degrees. The 17th and last is when she is posited 
 in those degrees which are called dark. To know and dis- 
 tinguish all which you have Tables commonly in most 
 Books of Astrology. 
 
 6. The Sixth Consideration, Is to regard another manner 
 whereby planets are debilitated or weakened and afflicted, 
 not much different from the former, which comes to pass 
 Ten ways. The lst_, when a planet is Cadent from Angles 
 or from the Ascendant, so that he does not behold the same. 
 The 2nd, when a Planet is Retrograde. The 3rd, if they be 
 combust, that is, within 15 degrees before or after the Sun ; 
 the lower Planets are more debilitated, being behind the 
 Sun, and the less before him, when they are direct ; but 
 when retrograde the contrary. 4. When any of them is in 
 Opposition, Corporal Conjunction, or Square of either or 
 both the Infortunes without Reception. 5. When they 
 are besieged by the Infortunes, so as to separate from one 
 and be joined to another, without perfect reception of 
 House, Exaltation, or two of the smaller Dignities, which 
 are Term, Triplicit}^, and Face. 6. When a Planet is joined 
 to another in his Declension or Fall, that is, in Opposition 
 to its own House or Exaltation. 7. When it is joined to a 
 Planet Cadent from the Ascendant, or separates from a 
 Planet that did receive him, and is joined to another that 
 doth not. 8. When a Planet is Peregrine, that is, in a place 
 where he hath not any Dignity; or being one of the 
 Superiors is followed by the Sun, or being of the Inferiors 
 when it follows the Sun. 9. When a Planet is with the 
 Head or Tail of the Dragon, without Latitude. 10. When 
 a planet weakens itself, that is, when it is in the Seventh 
 House from its own. Feral, or not in , Reception. These are 
 the Impediments of the Planets, that cause Hindrances, 
 
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 delaj^s, and mischiefs in Nativities, Questions, Elections, 
 etc. ; all which thou oughtest to be well acquainted with. 
 There are some more that seem necessar}^ to be known, but 
 to avoid tediousness and confusion I shall at present omit 
 them. 
 
 7. The Seventh Consideration, Is to beware of those cases 
 v/herein the Astrologer is subject to err and mistake ; of 
 which the learned have named four: 1. When the Querent 
 is so silly that he knows not how to ask, nor what he would 
 have. 2. When the time for which the figure is erected is 
 mistaken. 3. When the Artist knows not whether the Sun 
 be gone off the line of the Mid-heaven, or still upon it ; or 
 be behind or before it. 4. When the Fortunes and Infor- 
 tunes shall be of equal strength ; at which time thou there- 
 fore oughtest not to receive any Question. But, in my 
 opinion, there may well be added yet three ways more, 
 wherein the Astrologer will be subject to err : 1. When 
 the Querent comes only to try him, or put a trick upon him, 
 as many do, saying, ^' Let us go to such an Astrologer, and 
 ask him such a thing, and see if he can tell us the truth or 
 not." Just as the Jews propounded questions to our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, not so much to be resolved, as to tempt and 
 ensnare Him. 2. Wherein the Artist will be liable to err, 
 is when the Querent does not ask out of a serious or 
 settled intention, as some do when they meet an Astrologer 
 by chance or go to him on other business ; on a sudden 
 they think of something, and so ask, as it were by-the-bye ; 
 wherein 'tis a thousand to one but mistakes happen. But 
 thou mayest be ready to say, " How shall I know whether 
 the Querent come out of a solid intention^ or only to try 
 me ?" To which I answer, that it seems a very abstruse 
 and difficult point, perfectly to find out; but this I have 
 often experienced and found true, viz., I observed the hour 
 of the Question, and if the Ascendant then happened very 
 near the end of one sign and beginning of another, so that 
 
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 7 
 
 it seemed as between both ; I said they did not ask seriously, 
 or that they came to try me ; and I have had many tliat 
 have thereupon confessed what I said to be true, and began 
 to think that I knew more than before they believed. For 
 in such cases I used to say, " Pray, friend, do not trouble me 
 unless you ask seriously, for I suspect that you would put 
 a trick upon me, by not proposing this Question as you 
 ought ; however, if you will give me trouble for your 
 pleasure, be pleased to give me likewise satisfaction for 
 my pains " ; and immediately, if there were any deceit 
 intended, away they went. Another, viz., a third way 
 whereby an Astrologer may err, is when the Lord of the 
 Ascendant and the Lord of the Hour are not the same, nor 
 of the same Triplicity, or be not of the same Complexion 
 with the Ascendant ; for then the Question is not Radical, 
 as I have frequently found by experience. And this I have 
 recited, that thou may'st know for what persons thou 
 should'st undertake to give judgment; for as one says, 
 *' The issue of the thing is according to the solicitude of the 
 Querent, and as he comes in necessity, as sad, thoughtful, 
 and hoping that thou art able and knowest how to satisfy 
 him the truth of the matter ; and in such cases thou may'st 
 securely venture upon the question." 
 
 8. The Eighth Consideration is. To mind how many of 
 the aforesaid manners or points necessary to be used and 
 heeded in giving Judgments thou hast to consider; and 
 they are thirty, that is to say, sixteen impediments of the 
 Moon, ten of the other Planets; as hath been said; and 
 besides all those the Planets' several joys, which are four. Of 
 which the first is the House which each Planet does delight 
 in, as Mercury in the Ascendant, the Moon in the third, 
 Venus in the fifth, Mars in the sixth, the Sun in the ninth, 
 Jupiter in the eleventh, Saturn in the twelfth. The 
 second is, when a Planet is in a sign he delights in, as 
 Saturn in Aquarius^ J upiter in Sagittary, Mars in Scorpio, 
 
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 Sol in Leo, Venus in Taurus, Mercury in Virgo, and the 
 Moon in Cancer. The third is when Diurnal Planets, as 
 Saturn, Jupiter, Sol, and Mercury, are in Diurnal Houses 
 in the East and Oriental of the Sun near the Horoscope ; 
 and the Nocturnal Planets, as Mars, Venus, Luna, and 
 Mercury, are in Nocturnal Houses in the West and Occi- 
 dental of the Sun ; especially near the cusp of the seventh. 
 The fourth is when the three Superiors, Saturn, Jupiter, or 
 Mars, are in Masculine Quarters ; which are counted from the 
 cusp of the tenth House to the cusp of the Ascendant, and 
 from the cusp of the fourth House to the cusp of the seventh 
 House; and when the Feminines, viz., Venus or the Moon, 
 are in Feminine Quarters, which are from the cusp of the 
 Ascendant to the cusp of the fourth House, and from the 
 cusp of the seventh to the cusp of the tenth. As for 
 Mercury, he delights when with Masculine Planets in Mas- 
 culine Quarters, but with Feminine Planets in Feminine. 
 
 9. The Ninth Consideration is. To take notice of tlie 
 several ways, as well secret as manifest, good and evil, 
 whereby things are helped or hindered to be done or not 
 done, and of these there are one-and-twenty in number. 
 1. A most strong secret Helper. 2. A very strong secret 
 Helper. 3. A strong Helper. 4. A weak secret Helper. 
 5. A weaker secret Helper. 6. A most weak secret Helper. 
 7. A most strong manifest Helper. 8. A very strong 
 manifest Helper. 9. A strong manifest Helper. 10. A weak 
 manifest Helper. 11. A weaker manifest Helper. 12. A 
 most weak manifest Helper. 13. A most strong secret 
 Hinderer. 14. A very strong secret Hinderer. 15. A 
 strong secret Hinderer. 16. A weak secret Hinderer. 17. 
 A weaker secret Hinderer. 18. A most weak secret Hin- 
 derer. 19. A most strong manifest Hinderer. 20. A very 
 strong manifest Hinderer ; and 21. A strong manifest Hin- 
 derer. All which we shall treat particularly, the same being 
 a secret of secrets. In the judicial part of Astrology which 
 
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 
 
 9 
 
 the Ancients did not regard, nor have said anything plainly 
 of it that I find, save only that Haly " seems to have 
 touched a little upon it in his Exposition of the 23rd of 
 Ptolomy's Centiloquium; nor do I believe they omitted 
 those things out of ignorance, but rather through disuse or 
 fear of being too tedious, or burdening the minds of their 
 Headers or Auditors : For they were wont to judge, accord- 
 ing as they found the Planets disposed in Houses and Signs, 
 their Fortitudes and Debilities, together with the Part of 
 Fortune, and some few other things. But thou oughtest to 
 consider in thy Judgments, not only what they did, but 
 also all other circumstances that thou canst; for when thou 
 dost erect a figure, thou should'st first find the Significator of 
 the thing enquired after, or to be undertaken, and see if any 
 of the fixed stars of his own Nature be in either of his 
 Houses, or in his Exaltation, or in conjunction with him to 
 a minute ; for then such star shall so far help the signifi- 
 cator, that the thing shall be accomplished and efiected, even 
 beyond the Querent's hopes ; and this is a most strong secret 
 Helper : For the Querent may well wonder how it comes 
 to pass. Now, if the same star should be in the same degree 
 with the Significator from one minute to 15' before him 
 or 5' behind him, it will still help him, but not so much ; 
 and this we call a very strong secret Helper; but if it be 
 with him in the same degree, but above 16 minutes distance 
 and within 50', it will somewhat help, yet this less ; and 
 this we call in the Positive degree only a strong secret 
 Helper. If it be in the same degree with the Significator, 
 in a place where he has two of his smaller Dignities, in the 
 very same minute, or within 16 minutes, it will help him 
 yet less, and then 'tis a weak secret Helper; from 16' to 
 50' still less, and then 'tis a weaker secret Helper ; but if 
 it be with the Significator in a place where he has no 
 dignities at all it will still help, but as it were insensibly ; 
 and this we call a most weak secret Helper. The like we 
 
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 may say on the contrary of those things that prejudice, 
 frustrate^ and hinder business : For if a Planet which is a 
 Significator of anything, being in a place where he has not 
 any Dignities, shall be joined with one of the Fixed Stars of 
 a contrary nature, it will weaken him and not suffer the 
 thing to come to pass ; although otherwise by the Figure it 
 seemed never so probable : so that, for want of heeding this, 
 the Artist often gets discredit, and raises a scandal on the 
 Art itself amongst the ignorant; and this is a most strong- 
 secret Hinderer ; whereas if the same star be remote above 
 16 minutes from the Significator, it will weaken him, but 
 not altogether so much ; whence it may be called only a 
 very strong secret Hinderer. And so downwards through all 
 degrees in the same manner as we said of the Helpers or 
 Assistant Causes respectively. 
 
 Of the several 21 Modes aforesaid, which are most strong 
 Helpers, etc., and ivhich strongest obstructs. 
 
 The several Modes before mentioned are thus to be 
 known and distinguished : — A most strong manifest Helper 
 or Adjuvant cause, is when the Planet which is Significator 
 of a thing, is in his own House ; in an Angle on the very 
 minute of the Cusp, direct, swift of course, in reception, and 
 free from all af?liction and impediment ; which most seldom 
 happens. 
 
 A very strong manifest Helper, is when the Significator is 
 in his House or Exaltation in an Angle within a degree or 
 two of the Cusp, free from impediment, and in Reception, 
 which very seldom happens. 
 
 A strong manifest Helper, is when the Significator is in 
 an Angle in his House or Exaltation, within 3 degrees 
 before the Cusp, or 5° after it. 
 
 A weak manifest Helper, is where a Planet is in two of 
 his lesser Dignities in an Angle within 5 degrees before or 
 15° after it ; or is in his House, or Exaltation, in asuccedent 
 House free from Affliction. 
 
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 11 
 
 A weaker open Helper, is vA\en the Significator is in liis 
 own House or Exaltation, or two of his lesser Dignities, but 
 in a cadent House of the Figure, yet beholding the Ascen- 
 dant. A most weak open Helper is when the Significator is 
 in some of his greater Dignities or two of his lesser, not 
 beholding the Ascendant : or in one of his lesser Dignities ; 
 only beholding the same, or joined to a Planet that beholds 
 the same, and has some Dignities therein. 
 
 A most strong open Hinderer is when the Significator is 
 in a place where he hath no Dignity, no delight, is not 
 received ; besieged by the Two Infortunes, Cadent from an 
 Angle, and from the Ascendant : and so much the worse if 
 joined with any of the Fixed Stars, of a mischiev^ous 
 nature, etc. : 
 
 There may be other both adjuvant and obstructing 
 causes, besides what we have mentioned, both open and 
 secret ; proceeding from the conjunctions of Planets and 
 their Aspects, too tedious here to discourse of. Nor shall I 
 here enlarge on all those before mentioned, but must assure 
 thee that this ninth consideration, carefully observed, will 
 be of great use in raising a true and wary judgment ; espe- 
 cially if thou hast always a diligent eye to the Moon ; for 
 she of all the Planets has the greatest similitude and 
 correspondence with inferior things, both in general and 
 particular : as well the species of the kinds as the indi- 
 viduals of the species; with winds; to pass by her daily- 
 effects which she causes in all things here, and frequent 
 revolutions about the Elements and Elementary Bodies by- 
 reason of the nearness of her Orb to the Earth, and smaller 
 circle than any other Planet ; so that she seems a Mediatrix 
 between Superior and Inferior Bodies. 
 
 And as we see that in the New Moon she appeals small, 
 thin, and little, but afterwards her light gradually increases, 
 till all that part of her body towards us becomes replenished 
 with lustre ; and then again it decays by insensible degrees 
 
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 till she totally disappears: just so do all bodies both of 
 things Rational, Irrational, and Vegetative : as men grow 
 until they are completed to their determinate stature, and 
 then droop and decline continually till their life is ended ; 
 and so of all o|her things. Hence tis necessary to make 
 the Moon concerned in the signification of every Question, 
 Nativity, Enterprise and Business, and her good condition 
 to show the good issue of the thing : and so on the contrary. 
 For her Virtue and Power is such and so great, that if the 
 Lord of the Ascendant or other Significator of a business 
 be so weak and afflicted that he cannot bring it about and 
 complete it as he ought : if she be but strong it shall, not- 
 withstanding, be accomplished. For she is the School- 
 mistress of all things ; the Bringer-down of all the Planets' 
 influences, and a kind of an ''internuncio^'' between them, 
 carrying their virtues from one to the other, by receiving 
 the disposition of one planet and bearing it to another. 
 And some have thought that she does this at all times, of 
 which opinion was that Tyrant Cylinus de Romano, viz.. 
 That when she separates from one Planet, she takes the 
 virtue and carries it to another, committing the same to the 
 first that she can meet with. And some have imagined 
 that " Zael " said the same ; but his meaning was not abso- 
 lutely so ; for he believed That the Moon did bear what 
 was committed to her; but if it were not so given or com- 
 mitted to her she could not carry anything to any ; to 
 which I assent : for when the Moon is joined to any planet 
 that receives her, then that planet commits its disposition 
 to her, who carries it with her and bestows it on that 
 planet whom she first meets with in any of her dignities, 
 and not to another: according to that Aphorism, — "A 
 planet gives nothing in a place, where he has promised 
 nothing." 
 
 10. The Tenth Consideration, Is warily to observe what 
 Fixed Stars may either help or hinder the matter in 
 
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 question ; for they have oftentimes great power, and lead 
 the Astrologer sometimes into error ; and let tlie Artist be 
 sure to consider the places of the Fixed Stars, as they are 
 in the present age carefully reduced.* 
 
 11. The Eleventh Consideration, Is to take notice of the 
 Malevolent Planets, and what they signify ; for Saturn and 
 Mars are naturally bad, Saturn for excess of cold, and Mars 
 for excess of heat ; not that either of them is really hot or 
 cold, but virtually so ; and these are their effects. And so 
 they signify evil and damage and hindrance, unless they 
 receive the Significator or the Moon by House, Exaltation, 
 or two of their smaller Dignities ; or shall themselves be 
 Significators ; for then they will bridle in their malice, and 
 not weaken or hinder him whom they receive, with what 
 aspect soever they behold him ; but if they do not receive, 
 their malice is increased ; and so much the more if they be 
 in Opposition or Square ; for in Sextile or Trine the mischief 
 is less. Yet " Zael " seems to say That the Infortunes lay 
 aside or restrain their malice, where they are in Trine or 
 Sextile ; but his meaning was only that they were not 
 tlien so violent, and intended not that their malice was 
 wholly abated. 
 
 12. The Twelfth Consideration, Is to behold the Fortunes, 
 and see what they signify ; for Jupiter and Venus are 
 Fortunes by Nature, and being temperate, are said to be 
 without any malice, because they do hurt to none, unless 
 now and then by accident; wdiich is beside their intention 
 and very seldom ; for they make their impressions temper- 
 ately and profitably, and always endeavour to help both 
 their own and others, whether they receive them or not ; 
 but so much the better if they receive them ; and their Trine 
 or Sextile is better and more advantageous than their 
 Square, and their Square than their Oppositions. 
 
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 13. The Thirteenth Consideration, is to regard the Sun 
 and his Significators, for he is also called a fortune, and so, 
 whatever aspect he shall be beheld by^ unless it be Opposi- 
 tion ; but by Conjunction he becomes an Infortune, because 
 then he renders every star that is so in Conjunction with 
 him, combust and unfortunate ; unless the same shall be in 
 the heart of the Sun, and there every star is fortified. 
 
 14. The Fourteenth Consideration, is to mind Mercury and 
 the Moon, and what Planets they are joined with ; because 
 they will have the same significations with those with 
 whom they are so joined; being of a convertible nature. 
 
 15. The Fifteenth Consideration, Is to regard the several 
 ways in general whereby Planets make impressions on these 
 inferior things^ which are two, one good and the other bad ; 
 for the Fortunes have power of imprinting good naturally, 
 and the Infortunes as naturally shower down ill impres- 
 sions ; whence thou may est, wherever thou seest the 
 Fortunes, hope for good ; and when thou beh oldest the 
 Malevolents, fear mischief, unless the same be restrained 
 as aforesaid. 
 
 16. The Sixteenth Consideration is to take notice 
 whether the Planet that is Significator of anything, be 
 afflicted by either of the Malevolents ; which is when one of 
 them casts his rays upon the rays of such Significators, 
 according to the quantity of their Orbs ; And whilst he so 
 continues with his rays or light under those of the Male- 
 volent, such Significator is said to be impedited, hindered 
 or afflicted, till the Malevolent have passed him; and 
 " Zael " says, " After the ill planet has passed the Planet he 
 did afflict, one whole degree,, the Planet shall be said to 
 be freed from him."* But I rather think that after the 
 Malevolent is passed him one minute^ he may be said to be 
 free and excepted ;* for afterwards he can only frighten 
 him. True it is he raises a greater fear when he is passed 
 
 * This can only apply to Horary Astrology. 
 
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 him only one minute, than when he is gone by a whole 
 degree ; but yet even then it is such a kind of fear as is not 
 altogether without some glimmering of hope. As thus, One 
 intending to go into a Battle, inquires whether he shall 
 return from thence safe and sound or not ? And the 
 Ascendant is Gemini 13 degrees, and Mercury in the 7th 
 degree and 54 min. of Aquary, in the 9th joined with 
 Saturn, who is likewise in 7 degrees 53 min. of Aquary, so 
 that Mercury is now separated from Saturn, who was Lord 
 of the House of Death, one minute ; whence it appears that 
 he should have died in that engagement by reason of the 
 Conjunction, and was in peril of death and a kind of 
 desperate fear that he should be slain by his enemies and 
 shall be pursued by them so that he shall seem not able to 
 escape, and they shall often lay hands on him, but at last 
 he shall get from them and make his escape ; even beyond 
 his own hopes ; and all because Mercury is separated from 
 Saturn ; and " Zael " saith, " That if a Malevolent planet 
 that would hinder any business be cadent from the Ascen- 
 dent so that he cannot behold it, he cannot really hinder 
 the matters; but only puts the persons concerned into 
 terrors and frights about it." 
 
 17. The Seventeenth Consideration, Is to view whether 
 the Planet that is Significator, be safe and prosperous, that 
 is, free from an}^ affliction from the Infortunes ; and one of 
 the Fortunes casts his beams or light on the beams of such 
 Significator ; for then shall that Planet be said to be safe 
 and guarded till the Fortune is passed by the space of one 
 minute, and signifies the perfection of the thing. But after 
 he has passed him one minute, it will not be perfected or 
 accomplished ; for it only raises hopes ; as (we said) the 
 Malevolent in the like case could do nothing, but create 
 fear. Yet is such a hope as the Querent will believe and 
 fancy himself as it were certain ; yet not without something 
 of doubt : as for example, A Question is proposed of some 
 
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 weighty and difficult business, whether it will be done and 
 brought to pass or not ? and 17 degrees of Scorpio Ascends, 
 and Mars is 12 degrees 13 min. of Taurus, and Yenus in 12 
 degrees and 14 min. of Capricorn, so that Venus is joined to 
 Mars by a Trine, and receives him in her House, who like- 
 w^ise receives her in his Exaltation ; so that the Querent 
 thinks, and all others concerned verily believe, that it would 
 be accomplished by that aspect of perfect friendship ; in 
 which flattering hopes they continue till Venus hath passed 
 the Aspect of Mars one whole degree ; but at last the busi- 
 ness comes to just nothing at all, because Venus was past 
 Mars one minute at the time of tlie question proposed : 
 Yet may a thing possibly in such a case be brought to pass, 
 but not without extraordinary labour and trouble. And 
 here likewise "Zael" affirms, "That if the Fortune be 
 cadent from the Ascendant, so that it cannot behold the 
 same, it only flatters with splendid hopes, but never com- 
 pletes the business." 
 
 18. The Eighteenth Consideration, Is to take notice when 
 a Planet is in the Angles of the Infortunes, for unless these 
 receive him there, he shall be said to be in an ill condition, 
 and in straits and troubles ; as a man on whom some have 
 made an assault; who has many to combat with and none 
 to assist and take his part ; or like one that strives against 
 the stream, or falls into a deep pool, and knows not how to 
 swim ; and yet by thrusting out his hands and feet, may 
 obtain the bank and escape ; though this seldom happens. 
 Now a Planet is said to be in the Angles of a Malevolent, 
 when the Malevolent or Infortune, viz., Saturn or Mars, is in 
 one sign, and the other Planet in the fourth, seventh, or 
 tenth from him : as if Mars be in Aries, and Mercury in 
 Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn, he is said to be in his Angles : 
 understand the like of their Corporal Conjunction. But if 
 there be a Reception, he does not afflict ; for reception abates 
 all malice, as we ha^ve said elsewhere. 
 
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 19. The Nineteenth Consideration is, To behold the Moon 
 if she be " void of course," for then it signifies an impedi- 
 ment to the thing in question : it will not come to a good 
 end, nor be accomplished ; but the Querent shall be forced 
 to desist with shame and loss. 
 
 20. The Twentieth Consideration is, To observe whether 
 the Moon or Significator be joined to any of the Planets, for 
 thence you must derive your judgment of what is like to 
 happen in the business. Take notice therefore whether the 
 planet to which the Moon or Significator joins, receives 
 them ; for then there will be a good laudable end : and the 
 matter will be accomplished with success, if the receiver be 
 a Fortune. But if there be no reception, yet if the Moon 
 or Significator shall give virtue to that planet, the thing 
 will still come to pass. But if it be an Infortune, though 
 they do not give him virtue, yet without a reception it will 
 not do ; but v/ith a reception, if he be not afflicted, it 
 signifies a good end of the matter, though not without much 
 labour and tediousness. 
 
 21. The Twenty-first Consideration is, To see from what 
 planet the Moon separates : for that signifies what is past of 
 the business : as from a Fortune the good, from an Infortune 
 the ill that hath been. 
 
 22. The Twenty-second Consideration is, To note which of 
 the planets the Moon is now joined to, for that signifies 
 what is now present ; and from thence we must judge of the 
 present state of any matter. 
 
 23. The Twenty- third Consideration is. To behold to 
 whom the Moon is now joining,* so as her Conjunction is 
 not yet completed : for that signifies what is to come : where- 
 fore if thou wouldst judge of a thing, which as yet is not, but 
 'tis hoped will hereafter be brought to pass, 'tis necessary then 
 thou shouldst see to whom the Moon will next join; and 
 according to her Significations judge whether good or evil. 
 
 * Or applying by Aspect. 
 
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 24. The Twenty-fourth Consideration is, To note whether 
 the planet who is Significator, be in his Declension, for then 
 it causes a hindrance to everything thereby signified, and 
 trouble and grief about it ; and if the Question be about a 
 prison wherein the Querent fears he shall be put, it signifies, 
 he shall be cast into the same together with disgrace and 
 prejudice ; and if the Question concerns one already in 
 prison, it signifies a tedious confinement and more affliction 
 than he believes. 
 
 25. The Twenty Fifth Consideration is. Whether the 
 Planet that is Significator be Retrograde, or Stationary to 
 Retrogradation : for then it signifies mischief and damage, 
 discord, contradiction, and going backward with damage ; 
 yet being Stationary, is not so bad, as being Retrograde. 
 For the- last notes the mischief to be, as it were, present 
 and in being. But being Stationary notes that 'tis past and 
 over. 
 
 26. The Twenty Sixth Consideration is. Whether the 
 Significator be in his Second Station, that is towards 
 Direction : for that signifies also hindrance and evil, which 
 already hath been and is past; yet some say that this 
 Second Station is as good as direction : but this is only a 
 way of speaking, as when one hath been sick and begins to 
 grow well, we say he is recovered and sound, which is not 
 simply true, but somewhat near it ; for as the First Station is 
 not so bad as Retrogradation, so the Second Station is not 
 so good as direction. 
 
 27. The Twenty Seventh Consideration is, Whether the 
 Infortunes are the Significators of anything : for if they 
 signify ill, the evil will be much augmented, and if good it 
 will be much diminished, abated, imperfect, and with 
 difficulty ; so that the party will scarce think his business 
 done, unless by chance they be in a very good condition 
 and excellently disposed. 
 
 28. The 28th Consideration is, Whether the Significator 
 
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 be slow of Course, for then it delays the effect ; and if it be 
 in the beginning of anything, retards it, so that it will 
 scarce ever be finished: besides, things proceed slowly, 
 where Significators are pointed in Sagittary, Capricorn, 
 Aquary or Pisces : or who are the Lords of them, whether 
 they be slow of course ; in Aries or Scorpio they are not 
 quite so dilatory. In Leo they hasten business ; more in 
 Taurus or Libra ; but most of all in Gemini or Yirgo. 
 
 29. The 29th Consideration is, Whether the Moon be 
 joined to any planet by body or aspect exactly to a 
 minute : for that signifies the present state of things ; and 
 from that minute observe what planet she joins next, for he 
 shall be Significator of all that shall happen of that thing ; 
 as the planet she was last before with, was of what has 
 already passed as aforesaid. 
 
 30. The 30th Consideration is. To observe when a planet 
 that is Significator,, or the Moon, shall have past the 
 29th degree of the Sign wherein it is, and touches the SOtl:), 
 and especially if it have passed one minute of that degree ; 
 for then it shall have no strength in that Sign, but in tlie 
 next; so that if in the first it signified any evil, it shall hurt 
 the person or thing threatened no more than the fall of a 
 house shall one that is just got out of it ; or being with one 
 foot upon the threshold, has one behind him that throws him 
 out ; and then the building falls. And if it signified any 
 good, it shall profit no more than he that hath spread a net 
 for birds, and just touches the feathers of their tails, but 
 never catches their bodies ; and therefore " Zael " says, If a 
 planet or the Moon be in the 29th degree of any Sign, its 
 virtue is yet in that Sign wherein he is ; because he has nob 
 yet wholly past the 29th degree," etc. 
 
 31. The 31st Consideration is, To look when one planet 
 applies to the Conjunction of another, if he be near the end 
 of the same Sign wherein he is himself, or that other to 
 whom he applies ; so that he will pass out of that Sign 
 
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 before the Conjunction is perfected ; and to see if he be 
 joined with him in the following Sign to which he is 
 changed, because then the cause is perfected ; if that planet 
 confers anything on him in that Sign wherein he is so joined 
 to him; that is, if any reception happen, unless the said 
 planet, or he to whom he applies, be first joined to another ; 
 for then, the business comes to nothing, and will not be 
 perfected, though he be joined again to the first after he is 
 separated from him to whom he would have joined when 
 he changed from the said Sign ; since the other interposed 
 before the first Conjunction is accomplished. Nor must it 
 be forgotten that a corporal Conjunction forbids an Aspect 
 and cuts it off, but an Aspect cannot do so by a Conjunc- 
 tion. 
 
 32. The 32nd Consideration is. If an Infortune be the 
 Significator^ what his condition is ; for if it be good, there 
 will good come of the thing : if bad, rather evil ; as 
 ^' Sarviator " says in " Pentadera," " An ill-planet strong in 
 his own Home or Exaltation, not joined with any other 
 Infortune to impede or weaken him, is better than a 
 Fortune Ketrograde afiiicted." 
 
 33. The 33rd Consideration is, To see whether either of 
 the Infortunes be the Significator of anything, and be joined 
 to another Infortune impeding him, or has joined to him the 
 Lord of the Ascendant or the Moon, by a Square or Opposi- 
 tion ; for then this Infortune will perfect the business, but 
 the business will not be good, or rather it will be destroyed 
 after it seems perfected. But if the Infortune that Impedes 
 be the lighter of the two, so that he apply to a Conjunction, 
 Vv'ith the Significator, it will hinder less than if the Signi- 
 ficator apply to the other. 
 
 34. The 34th Consideration is. To mind in Questions or 
 Nativities, whether the Significator of the business be an 
 Infortune and Lord of the Ascendant, and in the Ascendant ; 
 direct, not vitiated, and in good condition ; for then he 
 
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 21 
 
 would both affect the same and bring it to a good conclu- 
 sion ; nay, although he be not Significator nor Lord of the 
 Ascendant, but only be in the Ascendant, and that the same 
 be his Exaltation; he lays aside all his malice,and is restrained 
 from mischief ; but if he be v/eak and afflicted, his malice and 
 contrariety is increased so as to destroy the business wholly. 
 
 35. The 35th Consideration is, To look whether an Infortune 
 be in Signs like him, or of his own nature, for that abates his 
 ill effects ; like a cross fellow when he is pleased and has 
 what he will, as Saturn in Capricorn, Aquary, or Libra, or in 
 a cold Sign, especially if he have any Dignities there : and 
 so Mars in Aries, Scorpio, Capricorn, or a hot Sign, etc. But 
 if Saturn be in a hot Sign, or Mars in a cold Sign, out of 
 their dignities, it will be bad, and the business be no more 
 completed, than oil will mix with water ; but if strong and 
 well disposed, they will mix in good, like water and wine, 
 or milk with honey. 
 
 36. The 36th Consideration is, To observe when the 
 Infortunes are the obstructors of a business, whether the 
 Fortunes behold them with a Trine or Sextile Aspect ; for 
 then their ill-nature will be allayed and mitigated ; but 
 much more if these receive them. 
 
 37. The 37th Consideration is. To look if the Fortunes are 
 the Significators ? — Whether the Infortunes behold them 
 with Opposition or Square ; for that will much lessen 
 their kind effects, and diminish the good they otherwise 
 promised. 
 
 38. The 38th Consideration is. To consider if the Fortunes 
 are Significators, whether they are Cadent from Angles or 
 from the Ascendant, so as not to behold the same, and be 
 Retrograde ; for under these Impediments they will be 
 almost as bad as the Infortunes themselves, unless they be 
 in reception. 
 
 39. The 39th is, To consider if the Significator be in 
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 thereby be much bettered, and its impediment and mischief 
 much lessened if it be an Infortune. 
 
 40. The 40th is, To consider if an Infortune, whether he 
 be Significator or not, be Peregrine ; that is, not in any of 
 his Dignities, for then his malice is increased; but when in 
 his Dignities it somewhat abates it ; that is in his House, 
 Exaltation, or Terms; but in his Triplicity or Face very 
 little, and in Hayz least of all. 
 
 41. The 41st is, If an Infortune, being Significator, be 
 in his own House or Exaltation, or in his own Terms or 
 Triplicity, or in Angles or Succedent Houses; for by all 
 these means he is fortified, and shall be counted strong as a 
 Fortune. 
 
 42. The 42nd is, If a Fortune be Significator, or give 
 virtue or assistance to any of the Planets, and be in a 
 House where he has none of the Lordly Dignities, then his 
 good signification will be lessened and abated ; and so on 
 the contrary. 
 
 43. The 43rd is. If the Fortunes and Infortunes be 
 together ill posited, that is, in some of the said Impedi- 
 ments, as Houses where they have no Dignities, Combust, 
 or the like ; then whatever they signify 'tis but weakly ; 
 according to that Aphorism of the Philosopher, " A Planet 
 Retrograde and Combust, has no strength in signification. 
 The Fortunes when Combust and under the sun's beams^ 
 signify none or very little good ; and the Infortunes in like 
 case have little or no virtue to signify ill."* 
 
 44. The 44th is. To consider if the Significator, — Fortune 
 or Infortune, be in his own House, Exaltation, Triplicity, 
 Terms or Face (but the latter being not of that virtue with 
 the rest, 'tis necessary it should be assisted with another 
 Dignity, which is Hayz or Light), for in such case the 
 Infortune loses his sting ; and being rein'd in like a wild 
 horse from doing mischief, his malice is converted into good, 
 
 An Infortune should be regarded as having very evil signification 
 under the circumstances. 
 
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 and though this seems strange, yet the ancients affirm and I 
 myself have often found it true by experience. 
 
 45. The 45th is, To consider if Infortunes are in Angles 
 of the Ascendant, that is, in such signs as are in Square or 
 Opposition to the Ascendant, when they afflict any Planet 
 by Square or Opposition; for then they assist so much the 
 worse, and do more mischief, especially if they be in a 
 stronger place than such afflicted Planet ; but if they cast 
 only a Trine or a Sextile, it is lessened and the Impediment 
 mitigated. 
 
 46. The 46th is, To see whether the Significator be a 
 Fortune or an Infortune, the first naturally signifies good 
 and prosperity, the last naturally evil by its malignity; 
 therefore consider the Planets' places from the Ascendant 
 where they are; for if a Planet be in his Light, or his 
 Hayz in any of his Dignities, or in a good place from the 
 Ascendant, it signifies good ; and if it be a good Planet the 
 better. 
 
 47. The 47th is, To consider whether the Significator be 
 in his Light or no, that is a Diurnal Planet in the day, 
 above the earth, and in the night under the earth ; and a 
 Nocturnal Planet in the night above the earth, and in the 
 day under it : for this renders such Planet more strong. 
 But if a Nocturnal Planet be Significator of anything in the 
 day above the earth, or a Diurnal Planet in the night, the 
 same is thereby weakened and under a kind of impediment, 
 that he can scarce accomplish what he signifies. 
 
 48. The 48th is. To consider, when an Infortune is Signi- 
 ficator and his ill effects are mitigated, whether Jupiter 
 behold him, or is joined corporally to him ? For that will 
 wholly destroy his malignity and turn his nature into good, 
 how bad soever he be ; so that if Saturn in that place of 
 himself would not bestow some good or perform what he 
 seems to promise, Jupiter will make him do it, provided he 
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 (yet even then he helps, but not so powerfully). On the 
 other side Venus takes off the fury of Mars, by reason of 
 that endearing intimacy which is between them, unless the 
 thing be very difficult, as wars and bloodshed, etc. But she 
 cannot so well divert the mischief of Saturn without the 
 help of Jupiter (and then she can do it as well as at other 
 times that of Mars). The reason is, there is no such 
 sympathy between Saturn and she, in any respect; for he 
 is slow, she swift ; he heavy, she light ; he delights in 
 melancholy, she in mirth. 
 
 49. The 49th is to consider, Whether one of the Infortunes 
 being Significator, be joined to another, for if he signified a 
 good of himself, this will destroy or frustrate it ; but if any 
 evil, it will augment and double it, or change it into some 
 worse mischief of another kind ; as when the pain near the 
 navel turns into a dry Dropsy; but if joined to a Fortune 
 with a Reception on either side, the evil will be converted 
 into good ; but without a Reception it will only be allayed 
 and abated, according to the strength of such Fortune. 
 
 50. The 50th is. To observe the Lord of the Ascendant 
 and the Moon, whether they or either of them are afflicted 
 by either of the Infortunes, by Conjunction, Opposition, or 
 Square, the business will be spoiled without the aspect of 
 a Fortune, but if a Fortune, that is, Jupiter, Venus, the Sun 
 or Moon shall behold them, it slackens and dissolves the 
 rigours of such Infortune, and the party signified shall be 
 freed from the danger impending, although the aspect be a 
 Square, provided it be with Reception ; but if a Fortune 
 without Reception, by a Square or Opposition, or an Infortune 
 with a Trine or Sextile without Reception, shall behold the 
 said Lord of the Ascendant, 'tis possible the party may be 
 delivered from the present danger ; but it will be turned 
 into another as great : so that it will not profit him. 
 
 51. The 51st is, To see whether the Significator be cadent 
 from an Angle or from the Ascendant, and in none of his 
 
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 Dignities, nor in his Joy : for then he signifies nothing but 
 doubts and mischiefs, and there are no hopes of good or profit 
 from a planet so disposed. 
 
 52. The 52nd is, When the three Inferiors, Venus, Mer- 
 cury, and Luna, come from under the rays of the Sun, and 
 appear in the evening after his setting, for before (viz., till they 
 are got from him 12 degrees) they, or any other planet, are 
 weak, so that a Fortune can advantage little, and an Infortune 
 prejudice as much. Now if the Fortune come forth slow in 
 motion, as with labour, then will not the good expected be 
 obtained without much pains and trouble ; and if it be an 
 Infortune, his signification will appear slowly. But in tlie 
 Superiors, as Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, these things happen 
 when they come from under the Sun beams, that they rise 
 in the morning before the Sun, and shine before his rising. 
 
 53. The 53rd Consideration is, Whether the significator 
 be under the Sun beams, for then he will be of small 
 eflacacy in anything as aforesaid ; yet the Malevolents will be 
 something more strong in evil than the Benevolents in good. 
 
 Note by Lilly. — " Now a planet is properly said to be 
 under the Sun beams, when there are only 12 degrees or^ 
 les_s, or above, or 16 minutes' distance between it and the 
 Sun ; for when there is only 16 minutes' distance, it is said 
 to be strong, being in Cazimi, or the heart of the Sun ;^ but | 
 when there are more than 12° and less than 15°, it is said 
 to be going from under the Sun's beams." 
 
 54. The 54th is, To consider whether a superior planet be 
 removed 12 degrees from the Sun, going to his morning 
 rising, or an Inferior is so much, and direct^ going to his 
 evening rising, for then he is said to be fortified ; but when 
 he is got 15 degrees, so that he appears, he is more fortified 
 in everything ; like one coming out of a battle rejoicing 
 
 * This fortitude is very doubtful ; a planet so situated should 
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 having destroyed and routed all his enemies. But when 
 the Sun follows the three Superiors, and there shall be 
 between them and him less than 15 degrees, their weakness 
 is said to be increased, until there shall be only 7 degrees 
 between them and afterwards, until they shall be in the 
 heart of the Sun, they are said to be in extreme debility ; 
 but the debility of the Inferiors is contrary to them, for it is 
 said to be increased when they follow the Sun, and that 
 there is between them and the Sun from 15 degrees to 7°, 
 and from 7" till they are in the heart of the Sun, they are 
 said to be in their greatest debility. 
 
 55. The 55th is, To consider w^hether the significator be 
 Peregrine, for then the person whom he signifies, either in a 
 Nativity or Question, etc., will be subtle, crafty, malicious, 
 one that' shall know how to act both good and evil, but 
 more inclinable to the latter. 
 
 56. The 56th is, To consider if the significator of any- 
 thing shall commit his disposition or virtue to any other 
 planet ? whether it be to one that is Oriental or Occidental ? 
 for if he be Oriental and one of the Inferiors and direct, or 
 if he be Occidental and one of the Superiors, and that there 
 be not above 20 minutes between him and the Sun, he will 
 be weak, says Sarcinator," and not perform what he shows, 
 but hinders many things ; under that impediment like a 
 sick man whose disease has prevailed so far, that he is 
 forced to lie by it, and cannot help himself ; or a falling 
 house which none can preserve from ruin; and so much 
 further as such planet shall be from the Sun, so much less 
 shall he be afflicted. And if it be Oriental, and one of the 
 Superiors, or Occidental, and one of the Inferiors, and not 
 Retrograde, he shall be strong and fit to perfect what he 
 promises ; as one that hath been ill, but is more perfectl}^ 
 recovered, or a building which fell and is repaired, and so of 
 all other planets so disposed. 
 
 57. The 57th is, To consider whether the significator be in 
 
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 the Eighth from the Ascendant ? for if he be there, and a 
 Fortune, though he do not harm, he will do no good ; and if 
 he be an Infortune he will do greater mischief than in any- 
 other place of the Figure ; and if the Question be of going 
 to War, advise not the Querent to go there, although it be 
 a Fortune ; for always some evil is to be suspected, that is 
 death, or at least captivity, for it is a place of darkness and 
 death; but if it be an Infortune, judge death, unless he 
 separate then from the Lord of the Eighth : for then it may 
 be only a wound, or bruise, or a fall, wherein he was in 
 danger of death, although he may escape ; and if it be a 
 journey, especially a long one, he will be taken prisoner, or 
 in great dread of it ; understand still if he separate from 
 the Lord of the Eighth ; and also remember that an In- 
 fortune so disposed always does more mischief than a 
 Fortune. 
 
 58. The 58th is to consider, "Whether the significator be 
 fixed in that Sign where he is found ? Now " Zael " saith : 
 *' That a Planet is not said to be fixed in a Sign till he hath 
 passed 5 degrees thereof." But I am of opinion that when 
 he hath passed one whole degree of a Sign he is firmly 
 therein, but he said it for more certainty. So likewise he 
 says : " That a Planet is not said to be cadent from the 
 Ascendant, unless he be removed from thence 5 degrees; 
 as, for example, the Ascendant in 9 degrees of Aries, and a 
 Planet was in the fifth degree thereof, * Ptolomy,' and 
 many other sages affirm, That Planet to be in an angle, 
 with whom I agree ; yet some would have it, that a Planet 
 should be said to be in an angle, when he is in the very 
 degree of the Ascendant, or one degree before it or two 
 after it ; but they meant in Revolutions, and that they 
 might be so certain as not to be in the least deceived. But 
 I have experienced that a Planet is in an Angle to the 
 space of 5 degrees beyond the cusp ; for as once I sought 
 the Bevolution of a year, I found Mars in the 5th degree 
 
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 beyond the cusp of the Angle of the earth in Capricorn^ 
 South Latitude, which signified the killing of the Roman 
 Emperor ; and acquainted him with it, for his court was at 
 * Gross ietti ' and I at ' Forlirii ' ; and it was found that 
 ' Pandulfus de Farsenella' and 'Theobaldus Franciscus/ 
 and divers others of the secretaries had conspired to slay 
 him, and none of his ov/n Astrologers observed it, because 
 they did not believe that Mars was in an Angle, for he was 
 
 4 degrees beyond the cusp and 58 minutes in their opinion ; 
 however, after a Planet shall be removed from the cusp or 
 line of any angle full 5 degrees or more, he is to be 
 counted cadent from that angle." 
 
 59. The 59th is to consider, whether the significator be 
 behind the cusp of an Angle 15 degrees and no more ; for he 
 shall be said to be in an Angle as well as he that is exactly 
 there, as '^Zael " affirms ; whence he said before that it was 
 not in an Angle, nor had any strength there beyond the 
 15th degree after the cusp of the Angle: For example. 
 The Ascendant is 4 degrees of Taurus, and the end thereof 
 was behind the Angle, whatever planet is posited from the 
 4th to the 19th degree thereof is in the angle, but what is 
 beyond that is not ; but Ptolomy seems to intimate, though 
 he says not expressly, that every planet who shall bo 
 
 5 degrees before, or 25° after the cusp, is in the Angle." 
 Now " Zael " would clear the doubt, lest that great distance 
 of the planet from the Angle should hinder the business. 
 
 Note hy Lilly. — The same Ptolomy (from whom I cannot 
 differ) seems to assert, That no part of any House remains 
 void of virtue ; and myself am of opinion, I think not idly, 
 that every planet that is in any House shall be said to be in 
 that House where he is found, from the beginning of the 
 House even to the end thereof ; and therefore I say in the 
 House, not in the Sign, because sometimes the same House 
 comprehends more than one Sign and sometimes less ; for it 
 
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 seems ridiculous tliat any part of any House should con- 
 tinue idle, and be left void of virtue. 
 
 GO. The 60th is to consider, Whether the significator be 
 in a Sign fixed, common, or moveable ; because in a fixed 
 Sign he signifies stability and countenance of the thing 
 begun, or to be undertaken, or enquired of. In a common 
 Sign, a change with a return or repeating of it, that the 
 same will once be broken off, and afterwards begun again, 
 or something added, or other alteration happen ; for which 
 reason in things that require alteration, as buying, selling, 
 or the like, we should put the Significator and Moon, or one 
 of them, into a common sign ; but in a moveable Sign it 
 signifies a sudden change, a quick despatch or end whether 
 good or evil. And therefore in matters where we desire 
 a sudden conclusion, we ought to put the significator in 
 moveable Signs ; but in things that we desire should be 
 fixed and endure, we ought to place them in fixed Signs, 
 where we would have a mean, let them be in common Signs^ 
 understand the same always of the nature of the Moon, if at 
 any time thou canst observe it. 
 
 Gl. The 61st is to behold. Whether the Lord of the 
 Ascendant or Moon, be with the Dragon's Head or Tail ; for 
 that is an impediment in all affairs, and the hindrance or 
 mischief will proceed from a cause signified by that House 
 in which such Conjunction happens. But no Conjunction of 
 the Dragon's Head or Tail hurts, unless it be corporal, for 
 they have no Aspect or Opposition. And it is worse when 
 the Significator or Moon goes towards them, than when 
 they go from them ; for in the first case is signified the 
 mischief in its full height, like a man in a ship that is split 
 in the sea, when there is no hope. But in the last, 'tis like 
 a ship that is only in danger, but has hopes and probabi- 
 lities of escaping. And note that when the Significator or 
 Moon goes to the Dragon's Head, its malice is augmented. 
 
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 for its nature is to increase, and when they go to the Tail, 
 the mischief is not absolutely at the worst, as 'tis when 
 they go from it, that is, within one degree ; for from one 
 degree forwards 'tis not so great as in that degree, although 
 much ; and from 1° to 3° less, and from 8° to 5° yet less, 
 and from 5° to 7° very small ; from 7° to 9" smaller, and 
 from thence to 12'' little or nothing at all. 
 
 62. The 62nd is to consider, Whether the Moon be void 
 of course 1 for that signifies that the thing enquired after 
 shall scarce ever come to a good end, or not without much 
 labour, sorrow, and trouble, unless the Lord of the Ascendant 
 or significator of the thing, shall be in very good condition, 
 and then it may be hindered, but not wholly frustrated ; 
 yet 'tis a good time then for drinking, bathing, feasting, 
 etc., and to use ointments for taking away of hair, especially 
 if she be in Scorpio. 
 
 63. The 63rd is to consider, Whether the Moon be far 
 from the Conjunction of the Infortunes, so as not to cast 
 her beams on theirs, for then the event will be good, but 
 rather if she touch with her beams those of the Fortunes. 
 And yet better, if besides this the Lord of the Ascendant, or 
 of the business, be in good condition ; for if they be not 
 well disposed, it may impair the good promised, but not 
 wholly prevent it. 
 
 64. The 64th is to consider. Whether the Moon be in 
 Cancer, Taurus, Sagittarius, or Pisces ; for it signifies good in 
 the business, although she be joined to the Infortunes and 
 not to the Fortunes ; nor does she, being void of course, 
 prejudice so much in those places as elsewhere, provided 
 she be not Combust, for then they will advantage her little 
 or nothing, 
 
 65. The 65th is to consider, Whether the Lord of the 
 Seventh is afflicted or not ? for that will be an impediment 
 to the business. And you ought to defer judgment if you 
 can, and warily search always whence such impediment 
 
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 shall arise, as well by the Conj unction of the Lord of the 
 Seventh with the Planets, as by their separation, and also of 
 the Moon ; so may'st thou find whence it will proceed, and 
 afterwards give judgment with more safety. 
 
 66. The 66th is to consider. When the Infortunes threaten 
 mischief, whether the place on which their threats fall, be 
 the Dignity of any of the Fortunes ? and whether such 
 Fortune behold the same place by Trine or Sextile ? for 
 then it will take away the mischief and annul it wholly. 
 If by a Square, it will only lessen it ; if by an Opposition, 
 take away some part of it; but if it cast no aspect at 
 all, the mischief will happen ; but it will proceed from 
 honest, just persons, and it may be the Querent suffers 
 rightfully, being cast in a just cause before a Judge, or the 
 like. But if the aforesaid place be the Dignity of an In- 
 fortune, the prejudice will come from unjust men, false 
 witnesses, a corrupt Judge, or some sentence unjustly given 
 through a mistake, etc. 
 
 67. The 67th is to consider, Whether there be any Eclipse 
 near, which is less than 12 degrees from the significator ? 
 for the same will bring damage and mischief to the Querent 
 or business, unless there be there a Fortune which hath 
 Dignities in the same place, for then the same is abated ; 
 but if there be no such, thou oughtest to look what Planet 
 beholds the said place of the Eclipse and how. For if the 
 Fortunes behold it, they do but augment the evil ; and if 
 they are Infortunes, they lessen and abate it, which seems 
 a kind of riddle or wonder in Art. 
 
 68. The 68th is to consider, in questions relating to sick 
 people, or Decumbitures, Whether the Lord of the Seventh, 
 and Seventh House itself, be free from Impediments ? for 
 if they be, the sick may safely trust himself to the care of 
 the Physicians, for medicines will do very well. But if the 
 Seventh House and its Lord shall be Afiiicted, Ptolomy saith 
 "The Physician must be changed, for neither his physic 
 
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 nor care will do any good; for the seventh signifies the 
 medicine, as " Zael " saith ; or at least the disease grows 
 chronical and lasting. The like is to be expected if the 
 same positions happen at the beginning of any cure. 
 
 69. The 69th is to consider, Whether the significators of 
 the Ascendant, and of the House signifying the thing 
 enquired, be of equal strength and debility ? for then thou 
 canst not safely give judgment: but in such case thou 
 must mind the Lord of the Conjunction or Prevention (as 
 the thing is either conjunctional or preventional) which was 
 last before, and by that judge. But if the Lord of the 
 Conjunction or Prevention, and of the thing, be still equal, 
 thou must then turn to the Moon, and see to whom she 
 first applies, and thence deduce judgment. If she join 
 not to any in or from the Sign in which she is, take that 
 with whom she joins first in the next Sign, and this is very 
 considerably useful. 
 
 70. The 70lh Consideration is. To mind another secret; 
 not well searched into by Astrologers, but often times doing 
 them much prejudice ; that is, see in all Questions, etc., 
 whether the Lord of the New or Full Moon, preventional 
 last before, be in any of the Angles of the thing enquired 
 after ; if it be, it denotes that the business will be accom- 
 plished, unless it be the Querent's own fault (or that God 
 overrule against it), though perhaps by other significations 
 it seemed not likely. But if it shall not happen so, but 
 only the same is in the Ascendant ; and the other significa- 
 tors, that is, The Lord of the Ascendant of the thing 
 enquired of, and the Moon, or any of them assist, the thing 
 will be done with ease. If it be in Cadent Houses, it will 
 scarce ever be, though other significators seem never so 
 favourable ; and if two at least of them be not so, take it for 
 certain it will never be done. 
 
 71. The 71st is to consider. Whether the Significator falls 
 between the Ascendant and the Twelfth, for that signifies 
 
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 continuance or length of time, when a thing will be done ; 
 or if done already, how long it will continue in days or 
 hours. If between the twelfth and the tenth, it notes half 
 weeks ; between the tenth and seventh, months or weeks ; 
 between the seventh and fourth, years ; and between the 
 Fourth and the Ascendant, half years."^ 
 
 * With regard to the measure of time, the late Commander Morri- 
 son, K.N., writes, " The most difficult thing in all questions is to judge 
 of time with accuracy. I should advise extreme caution in giving 
 any judgment on this head, unless where it is the chief point desired 
 to be known. In this case and if the figure be very radical, and if 
 the planet which is applying to the other be taken, the following rule 
 will hold good : 
 
 Each Degree gives — 
 
 In Moveable Signs and Angles .... Days. 
 In Common Signs and Angles .... Weeks. 
 In Fixed Signs and Angles .... Months. 
 
 Succeedent houses give weeks, months and years, as the sign is movedble, 
 common or fixed ; and cadent houses give 77ionths in moveable signs, 
 yeai-s in common signs, and an indefinite time in fixed signs." 
 
 Dr. Simmonite, whose Astrological works are well known, writes 
 " It is generally very difficult to judge of time with accuracy. The 
 hmitation of time is taken either by house and sign, or by aspect. 
 To ascertain the number of days, weeks, months, or years, consider 
 the degrees and minutes between the body or aspect of the signifi- 
 cators, and according to the number of degrees which are between 
 their aspect, even so many days, weeks, months, or years will it be 
 before the matter enquired after is accomplished or destroyed. 
 Observe in what house or sign the applying significator falls. Suc- 
 ceedent houses give weeks, months, or years, as the sign is moveable, 
 common or fixed, and cadent houses give months in moveable signs, 
 years, in common, and unknown in fixed signs. Great south latitude 
 prolongs the time ; great north latitude often cuts it shorter : if the 
 significators have no latitude, the exact time is made simply by the 
 aspects. Degrees and minutes of latitude, if it be south, should, it is 
 said, be added to the time, but if north subtracted from it ; as north 
 latitude shortens the time of an event and south latitude lengthens 
 it, but I have not much opinion of this. Transits show the progress 
 of the matter and point out the most probable time in which the 
 
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 72. The 72nd is to observe, That if the question be of a 
 journey, and the Moon afflicted, it is not safe to undertake 
 it ; but if it cannot be put off, make the Planet that afflicts 
 her, Lord of the Ascendant at the time of the Querent's 
 setting forth. 
 
 73. The 73rd is to mind, Whether the Question signify 
 good or evil ? If good, whether the Fortunes beheld the 
 Significator of the Question, or the Moon ? for then the 
 good Fortune thereof will be increased : but if the In fortunes 
 cast in their beams, as much or more diminished. But if it 
 originally signify evil, and the Inf or tunes behold the 
 Significator or Moon, as aforesaid, the evil threatened will 
 be increased and become much worse. 
 
 74. The 74th is to consider, Whether the Significator be 
 in his first station, going to be Eetrograde ? for that signifies 
 crossness and disobedience, and that the matter, though 
 never so probable,, will not be accomplished. If any work 
 or building be then begun, it will not be finished. And if 
 such Significator, so asserted, be then under the earth, such 
 building shall not be raised to any purpose in thirty years, 
 and then not finished ; and if it be raised a little then, it will 
 be a raising thirty years more. And if not then completed, 
 it will not be completed till ninety years after its first ; and 
 if not then, it will never be finished, unless the property be 
 altered, and come into the possession of strangers from its 
 former owners. But if the Significator be in his second 
 station, going to be direct, it notes that the affair will 
 be done, but slowly, intricately, and with pains and trouble. 
 And if any edifice be then begun, it will be finished, 
 but not so soon as was at first believed, provided the 
 Significator be not under the earth ; for then he that begins 
 
 matter niay be terniinated ; and that is the time to judge of. The 
 good or evil days are those on which the transits are good or evil. 
 Mixed application gives, instead of years say months ; for months 
 weeks ; and for weeks say days." 
 
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 it shall never make aa end of it, nor raise it very high above 
 the earth. 
 
 Note hy Lilly. — "And note, A Planet in his second station 
 signifies an aptness, and the renewing and strength of every- 
 tliing ; but in his first station, dissolution and destruction. 
 Kemember and understand these things well, for they will 
 often come in practice." 
 
 75. The 75th is to consider, Whether the Moon be 
 afflicted by any Planet ? for then, whatever the question be, 
 the same will suffer impediment. But if the Moon be in a 
 good place from the Ascendant, so as to behold it with 
 a Trine or Sextile, or if the Planet that afflicts her do behold 
 the same, either of these Aspects will mitigate the mischief 
 intended, and it may be, wholly take it away, as the said 
 afflicting Planet is disposed ; so that he be not Cadent from 
 Angles, nor from the Ascendant, nor in his fall ; that is 
 with the seventh from his own House. Zael " seems to 
 say " That if an Infortune afflicting be cadent from the 
 Ascendant, or retrograde, it causeth fear in the Querent; 
 but I always fear the affliction of the Moon above all other 
 Impediments, and scarce Remember that I ever saw a good 
 end of anything where she was afflicted : and in journeys, if 
 to war, was apprehensive of the Querent's care and person ; 
 if for traffic, of straits, quarrels, sadness in his travels, and 
 loss of money, etc." 
 
 76. The 76th is to consider, From what Planet the Moon 
 separates, and which she is joined to ; he whom she separates 
 from signifies what hath been, the other what is to come, 
 as we have said. And therefore, if she separates from 
 an Infortune, and applies to a Fortune, the worst is past ; 
 and what hitherto has been had, will end happily to the 
 Querent's content. But if she separates from a Fortune, 
 and goes to an Infortune, understand the contrar}^ ; the 
 thing was good in its beginning, but proves naught in the 
 
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 end. If from a Fortune to a Fortune, it was and is good, 
 and will have a laudable end. If from an Infortune to an 
 Infortune, it will be an ugly conclusion.* 
 
 77. The 77th is to consider, Whether the Lord of the 
 Ascendant or Moon be in Opposition, that is, whether the 
 Moon be in Capricorn, Mercury in Sagittarius or Pisces, or 
 Venus in Scorpio or Aries, the Sun in Aquarius, Mars in 
 Taurus or Libra, Jupiter in Gemini or Virgo, Saturn in 
 Cancer or Leo ; for then such Lords of the Question abhor 
 the business ; nor does he love it should be accomplished, 
 but is rather against it. 
 
 78. The 78th is to consider, The House that signifies the 
 thing whereof the Question is asked. For the First signifies 
 the Person, the Second, substance, the Third, brethren, etc., 
 as we have before taught, and as it shall appear, so judge; 
 having duly pondered all circumstances. 
 
 79. The 79th is to consider, Whether the Significator, or 
 Moon, be joined to good or ill planets, by Conjunction or by 
 Aspect, which is diligently to be heeded and distinguished ; 
 for a corporal conjunction with the sun is the greatest 
 misfortune can befall a Planet. 
 
 80. The 80th is to consider. How the Significator is 
 posited in respect of his own House, whether in the second, 
 third, or fourth, etc., sign^ from it, according to the Signifi- 
 
 This Consideration is on the doctrine of "Translation." Transla- 
 tion of the light and nature of a planet is when a planet separates from 
 one that is slower than itself, and overtakes another either by con- 
 junction or aspect. In horary astrology it is a good omen if the aspect 
 be good ; but if by an evil aspect, it is said to denote evil or difficulty 
 ■when the event comes to pass. Thus, if in a question of marriage a 
 light planet translates the hght of the lord of the 7th house to the 
 Lord of the Ascendant, it is a good omen, if it be by good aspect, and 
 denotes that a person answering the description of such translating 
 planet will bring the parties together, and they will be eventually 
 happy. If it be by evil aspect, it will be done either from ill motives 
 or will be attended with much trouble and disappointment. 
 
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 cation of that sign shalt thou judge, as thou wouldest judge 
 of any Planet in such an House from the Ascendant. 
 
 81. The 81st is to consider. Whether the Significator be 
 in an Angle or in a Succeedent or Cadent House ? for how- 
 much any Planet is near to the cusp of any Angle so much 
 is he the stronger : how much the farther so much the 
 weaker; and by how much sooner he shall be nearer the cusp 
 of a Cadent House, so much shall he be the weaker; how 
 much the farther, so much the less weak. 
 
 82. The 82nd is to consider, Whether the Significator 
 receive disposition or virtue from any Planet, Fortune 
 or Infortune. If from a Fortune it signifies good ; and the 
 better if such Fortune be in a good condition. If from an 
 Infortune, the contrary ; and so much the worse by how 
 much the more weak and affected he is. 
 
 83. The 83rd is to consider, Whether the Fortunes and 
 Infortunes are equally strong in the Question ; for that 
 signifies no positive judgment, either good or ill; but a 
 kind of indiff*erency, and that the business will bring neither 
 gain nor loss. 
 
 84. The 84th is to consider, Whether the Fortunes or 
 Infortunes are strongest ; for if both be strong, and the 
 Fortunes prevail in strength, it signifies a kind of mediocrity 
 of good ; if the Infortunes in such a case are strongest, 
 a mediocrity of evil not in excess on either side. 
 
 85. The 85th is to consider, Whether the Part of Fortune 
 fall in a good or bad place of the Figure ; that is in an 
 Angle, or in a Succeedent or in a Cadent House; and how the 
 same is aspected, and by whom, a Fortune or an Infortune ? 
 and whether it be in reception of that Planet by whom it 
 was aspected 1 For questions may sometimes seem good, 
 but the Part of Fortune happening in an untoward Place, 
 weakens it much and renders it less profitable so as to 
 deceive the Querent's hopes. And on the contrar}?- a ques- 
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 joined with a good Planet tbat receives it, etc., lessens the 
 evil, and not so much happens to the Querent as the Figure 
 otherwise seems to threaten. 
 
 86. The 86th is to consider, Whether either of the 
 Infortunes behold the Significator both Retrograde, Cadent, 
 Peregrine, and in signs contrary to their respective natures ? 
 for then they bring such an absolute mischief as cannot be 
 avoided, nor averted by anything but God alone. And if 
 any shall be born under such positions, he will always be a 
 beggar, let him do what he can ; or if any House be built 
 then, no man shall ever live happily, or get money in it; 
 but by losses and crosses his estates and goods shall moulder 
 away, and come to nothing ; and his most probable designs 
 strangely frustrated and destroyed, unless the Divine 
 Goodness in mercy interpose. 
 
 87. The 87th is to consider, Novenarium Lunse, which 
 is a thing much to be heeded, for it often hinders the 
 Astrologer from discovering the truth, and leads him into 
 error, not knowing the cause that makes him deceive. 
 
 88. The 88th is to consider, the Planet from whom 
 not only the Moon separates, how he is disposed, etc., but 
 the next to whom she is joined, so that there be not above 
 51 minutes' distance between them, the first signifying what 
 is past, the second what is now present, as we have already 
 said, and also look to whom she will be next joined after 
 separation from him with whom she is at present; for he 
 will signify (according as he is disposed) the issue, or what 
 is to come. 
 
 89. The 89th is to consider. The Duodenariam Lunee, a 
 thing very observable in many cases, even more than divers 
 things that we have said ; for there is greatest danger 
 of mistakes in abstruse considerations, and such as 
 Astrologers, rather through sloth than ignorance, do not 
 regard ; whereby they often fall into disgrace and contempt 
 of the rabble, rather than take a little pains. 
 
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 90. The 90th is to consider, Whether the Lord of the 
 House in which the Sun is, and of that wherein the Moon 
 is, and also the Lord of the Ascendant be all oriental and in 
 Angles, (though that rarely happens) and mutually behold 
 each other from good places with friendly Aspect ; for these 
 positions shall signify the greatest good, and most superla- 
 tive fortune imaginable. If they shall not be all so disposed 
 the remaining part shall signify prosperity and felicity 
 proportionally as far as they are able, though not in so vast 
 a measure. 
 
 91. The 91st consideration, Is to observe in Questions or 
 nativities, whether Mars be in any of the Angles of the 
 Figure, especially in Fixed Signs ; or when Scorpio Ascends, 
 for then he destroys all the good signified by that question, 
 or at least much impedes and diminishes it ; Unless Jupiter 
 behold him with a Trine or Sextile ; for then his malice is 
 mitigated ; but yet as Jupiter is either strong or weak. 
 
 92. The 92nd is to observe in Nativities and Questions 
 especially of death, whether the Lord of the House of Death, 
 or Signiticator of Death, or Lord of the House in which the 
 Lord of the eighth is posited, applies to the Significator of 
 the Native or Querent, or he to them ; because a Planet so 
 affected becomes the destroyer of Life, and kills as well if it 
 be a Fortune as an Infortune, and that whether there be a 
 Reception or not. 
 
 93. The 93rd is to consider, If the Question concerns a 
 thing that one would desire of another, or that one would 
 get out of a secret hidden place, whether the Significator of 
 the Querent, or thing inquired after, behold Saturn or is 
 corporally joined to him ; or whether Saturn be in the 
 house of the thing inquired after ? for then the business will 
 hardly be done, or not without much labour and trouble, 
 and more tediousness than the Querent can imagine. 
 
 94. The 94th is to consider in Questions, etc., whether 
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 the Ascendant, or other Angles, or from the house that 
 signifies the thing or business sought after, or its Lord ? or 
 whether he be Retrograde, or in a bad condition with the 
 Sun ; or whether there be in the said house, signifying the 
 thing inquired after, a Planet Cadent, or Retrograde, or 
 in such ill condition with the sun, or in an ill place from 
 him, or ill aspected by him; for any of these things signify a 
 hindrance to the thing, although otherwise the Question 
 seems good and probable. 
 
 95. The 95th is whether the Planets signifying the thing 
 sought, join mutually with each other; for that signifies 
 it will be done ; yet, be not too confident to judge so, till 
 thou hast well weighed the nature of the sign wherein they 
 are joined, whether it be of their own nature ; for then it 
 will be easy, otherwise difficulty; or scarce at all. 
 
 96. The 96th is to consider in Questions which seem to 
 show, that what is enquired after shall be perfected, whether 
 the significator of the thing, and the Moon are in Angles ; 
 for if they be both above 25 degrees from Angles, it will 
 not be accomplished ; but if one shall and the other shall 
 not be so far oflf, then it may be done but with difliculty, 
 unless it be a journey ; which will speed well enough if the 
 significator be remote from Angles. 
 
 97. The 97th is to consider. In what climate thou re- 
 ceivest the question; for judgment must be varied as the 
 ascensions of countries and climates diff*er, there being not 
 the order in the ascensions or elevations of signs, in one 
 climate as in another, nor the same Ascendant in one region 
 as in another. 
 
 Note by Lilly. — " Beware therefore of a mistake here, for 
 it will be very unhandsome and blameworthy; for what- 
 ever part thou travellest towards, from one region to 
 another, whether from the East to the West, from the North 
 to the South, or contrarily, your Ascendant will be changed 
 
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 41 
 
 from one degree from East to West in Longitude and 4 contra, 
 and from the North to South, and the contrary. But some 
 jocund fools or monks, in their cups, may arise and say, If 
 your judgments are changed according to the situation of 
 Nations they are false. But there is no talking to such 
 brutes, they neither understand nor believe, nor is anything 
 probable to them : Yet there are some very learned men 
 amongst them, such as ' Conradus Brixiensis/ a preaching 
 Friar, who excellently understands Art and practiseth it 
 honestly. Want of heeding what I have said hath made 
 Astrologers to err, and 1 doubt doth so still, for right 
 judgments cannot be given but by the Ascendant and other 
 Houses, and therefore if these vary, those must do so too. 
 Therefore you should have Tables of Elevation for every 
 Climate and Begion ; yet 'tis more difficult to find out the 
 difference of one climate from another, than of one Region 
 or country from another, according to the Longitude : for if 
 thou hast tables of the elevation of the signs in any region 
 from East to West, thou mayst by guess find the elevation 
 in another, which way thou pleasest, either towards the 
 East or West, according to the same climate, by taking the 
 difference, but in divers climates thou canst not so easily 
 conjecture." 
 
 98. The 98th is to observe, whether if what appears by the 
 sign likely to be effected, be signified by the planets by 
 corporal conjunction, or aspect or translation of Light ? if 
 by either of the two first the thing will be effected by the 
 Querent, and the party enquired of, without any third person 
 intermeddling; but if by the last it shall be done by 
 ambassadors, friends, or some person interposing himself ; 
 and it shall be brought to pass by a person or thing signified 
 by that House whose Lords translate the lights as aforesaid. 
 Thus if it be the Lord of the second, it will be done by 
 expenses, or a piece of money ; if by the third, by some 
 
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 brother or the like ; if by the fourth, by the Father, etc., 
 according to the respective signification of each House. 
 
 99. The 99th is to consider well in Questions, Nativities, 
 etc., what will certainly come of them ; for sometimes by 
 the Figure, a thing seems likely to be absolutely done ; but 
 is not wholly, but in part ; sometimes it is wholly perfected, 
 and sometimes neither wholly nor in part : upon which 
 account astrologers are often blamed, and scarce know how 
 to excuse themselves, not knowing how this comes to pass, 
 being a difficult point, and of a most subtle disquisition ; so 
 that the ancients would not meddle with it, save only the 
 most honoured '^Albumazar" said something more than the 
 rest, whose judgments I have found more efficacious and 
 correct than others, though " Ptolomy," the great explainer 
 of this science, must be acknowledged more curious than the 
 rest. Now that which I say is the consideration of certain 
 Fixed Stars : 
 
 Note by Coley. — Note that these fixed stars are now 
 removed many degrees forwards in the Ecliptic than they 
 were in the time of Bonatus ; in respect of Longitude, which 
 ought to be carefully considered by the industrious As- 
 trologer, which I shall name, whereof some are of the nature 
 of the Fortunes, and perfect those things with them not like 
 to be perfected by the significations of the Planets ; others 
 are of the nature of the Infortunes, which suff'er not things 
 to be perfected according to the Planets' significations : of 
 which latter there are some in every sign, as in Bonatus's 
 time there were two in the Head of Aries that is one, in 
 13° 45', the other in 14° 45', and are southern, and of the 
 nature of Saturn and Mars. In Taurus are six stars, the 
 first is 9° 55' ; the Pleiades, which yet are called and 
 counted but as one, and are of the nature of Mars and the 
 Moon ; another in 13° 2', another in 14° 45', called the Devil, 
 another in 15°, called the Devil's Head, another in the belly 
 
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 43 
 
 of Taurus, 19° 15', called Aldebaran, which are all of the 
 nature of Mars and Mercury. In Gemini there is one in S°, 
 called the " shoulder of the dog," of the nature of Mars and 
 Saturn; another in 10° 15' of the nature of Mars, called 
 "the Warrior"; another in 17° 55'; another in 18° 52', 
 called " the Witch," of the nature of O and J • In Cancer 
 there is one in 2° 3', called the Camel, of the nature of 
 ^2 and ]) ; another in 7° 55' ; another in 13°, called the 
 Western Camel, of the nature of O and ]) ; another in the 
 same degree, called the " Foot of the Dog," of the nature of ; 
 and another in 17° 55' of the same nature. In Leo there is 
 one in 15° 55', of the nature of . In Virgo two, one in 
 7° 11', of the nature of ^ ; the other in 15°, of the nature of ^ . 
 In Libra one in 26°, of the nature of . In Scorpio three, 
 one in 1° 3', another in 8° 7', another in 9°, all of the nature 
 of c^. In Sagittarius two small ones, one in 19° 2', the other 
 in 21° 2', of the nature of P2 • Capricorn two, one in 27° 2', 
 the other in 29° 5', both of the nature of . In Aquarius 
 one in 9° 4', of the nature of S and ^ . In Pisces one in 
 4° 7' of the nature of ^ and 5 • 
 
 All these stars are hurtful and malevolent, hindering 
 and destroying things after they seem probable to be accom- 
 plished, and therefore to be avoided as much as possible. 
 Here 'twill not be superfluous but very convenient to insert 
 a table of the fixed stars that have small latitude, as they are 
 now placed, Or rectify them for some succeeding years.* 
 
 100. The 100th Consideration is, to observe the Fixed 
 stars assisting and promoting the accomplishment of things, 
 which are thus situated. In Aries there are two, one 
 in 5° 6', of the nature of 1/ and another in the 26° 1' of 
 the nature of 1/ . In Taurus three, one in the 1° 3', another 
 in 8° 7', and the last in 9° 1', all of the nature of 5,! . In 
 Gemini are two stars one in 19° 2', the other in 21° 8', both 
 * This table is inserted at the end of the book. 
 
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 of the nature of 1/ and of the second magnitude. In Cancer 
 likewise two, one in 2° 2', the other in 29° 5', both of the 
 nature of 1/ . In Leo one in 9° 4', of the nature of % and ? . 
 In Virgo one in 4° T, of the nature of ? and D . In Libra 
 two, both of the nature of % and ? , one in 13° 45', the other 
 in 14° 45'. In Scorpio four, one in 9° 55', another in 13° 1', a 
 third in 14° 45', the last in 19° 15', all of the nature of 1/. 
 In Sagittarius two, one in 10° 15', the other in 7° 55', both 
 of the nature of 1/ . In Capricorn three, one 2° 3', another 
 7° 55', the other 7° 55'_, all of the nature oi %. In Pisces 
 two, one in 7° 11' of the nature of ?, the other in 14° 59' of 
 the nature of % . Wherefore always when thou findest the 
 signification in a corporal conjunction with any of these, 
 thou mayst pronounce happiness and a good end.* 
 
 101. The 101st Consideration is. To mark in Nativities 
 or Questions, which Planet is the cutter-ofF of life or years, 
 or hinderer of a thing from being done ; for he it is who 
 destroys the life of the Native, etc., who is strongest in 
 testimonies of dignities or power. Yet Messahala concealed 
 this, and discovered the secret only to a certain scholar of 
 his, who out of pride appropriated the same to himself. 
 Now after thou hast found who is this destroyer, etc., then 
 see to whom the Lord of the Ascendant or the Moon is 
 joined (who participates in signification of everything, as 
 
 ^ It must be borne in mind that the fixed stars increase in longi- 
 tude at the annual rate of 50*25"'' but their latitudes vary very little. 
 The right ascensions and declinations of all the fixed stars mentioned 
 in the two foregoing considerations, together with many others, are 
 given every year in the 'Nautical Almanac, so that their places can 
 easily be computed by means of their known annual differences, for 
 past years and for many years in advance if necessary. There is an 
 excellent article on the Fixed Stars in Wilson's " Dictionary of 
 Astrology," together with a table of all stars which are worthy of 
 consideration in both Horary and Genethlical Astrology. A useful 
 table of the fixed stars will be found in " The Text-book of 
 Astrology, Vol. I. Genethlialogy," by Alfred J. Pearce (London, 1879). 
 They are computed for January 1, 1879. 
 
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 we have said before), or the Lord of the thing enquired after, 
 and Lord of the house of the moon, or one or more of them ; 
 for if it be joined to a planet Retrograde or Combust, or 
 cadent from the Ascendant, or any other Angle, or to any 
 of the Infortunes who doth not receive him ; or is afflicted 
 by an Infortune, which cuts off the light of the significator : 
 the thing is destroyed, and so the years of the Native are 
 diminished and he lives not long. Further_, If the Lord of 
 the Ascendant, or the Moon, or the Lord of the thing 
 enquired after, be joined to a Planet who is free from the 
 conjunction of the Infortunes, and so is safe as to himself, 
 but is joined to another Planet afflicted, some of the afore- 
 said ways, the matter shall be brought to nought, even after 
 it seems accomplished, and the Native's life shall be suddenly 
 cut off, when there is all the probability that may be of the 
 contrary : and this will also happen though there be no 
 conjunction with the killing Planet, if only the significator 
 or Moon be afflicted in manner aforesaid. 
 
 102. The 102nd Consideration is, Of things signified, how 
 they shall be found or known, and from what significator 
 they are to be taken ? which must be from the significators 
 of the Querent, and of the thing Questioned or enquired 
 after: which two significators, if they shall be joined to- 
 gether with the Moon it signifies wholly and absolutely the 
 effect of the thing; if not joined, then the contrary. And 
 from the conjunction of the significators we ought to know 
 why, or by what the question is made. And by the Lord 
 of the House in which such conjunction happens, we know 
 of what the question will be, or the end thereof ; for if that 
 be a Fortune it will be good, according to the condition and 
 signification of such Fortune, and the House wherein he is, 
 and signification of the Lord of that House, and of the place 
 in which the Lord is posited of that House wherein itself 
 is. But if it be an Infortune, it will be bad, according to 
 the signification of the Infortune, and such other positions 
 
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 as aforesaid. If the Lord of the House or Exaltation, or of 
 any two smaller Dignities, casts an aspect, or there be a 
 translation of Light, you may know by that the question 
 shall be brought to pass ; but if there be none of these it 
 cannot be precisely known, but it will be by or from a cause 
 not yet discovered ; and by the aspects of the Fortunes or 
 Infortunes may be known what will be the effects. 
 
 103. The 103rd Consideration is, To mind in Nativities 
 and general Questions in what House the Part of Fortune 
 happens ; for from the things signified by that House will 
 the Fortune or gain of the Native or Querent arise, if the 
 same be well disposed, otherwise the same will be cause of 
 his misfortune and loss.* 
 
 104. The 104th Consideration is To observe in Nativities 
 and general Questions whether the significator of the 
 Native or Querent be posited in the Seventh from his own 
 House, or in Opposition to the Lord of the Ascendant ; for 
 he will not in such case signify gain from the things signi- 
 fied by that House, but rather expense and loss. 
 
 105. The 105th Consideration is, To observe in Nativities 
 or general Questions, whether that an Infortune, unfor- 
 tunate be in the Seventh ? for that signifies that the Native 
 or Querent shall not live in peace or any delight with his 
 wives, sweethearts, or companions, but will perpetually have 
 brawls and quarrels with them : it seldom happens other- 
 wise from such a position.-|- 
 
 106. The 106th Consideration is, To consider in Nativities 
 and general Questions, if a Fortune fortunate, and in no 
 way afflicted be in the Seventh ? for then the Native or 
 
 * Wilson and most modern Astrologers do not regard the " Part 
 of fortune " in Nativities. In Horary Astrology however it has been 
 proved very worthy of consideration. 
 
 t In horary questions should the Querent be unmarried an infor- 
 tune in the Seventh house would then of course affect him through 
 or by means of his open enemies, partners, or other matters or 
 things ruled by that house. 
 
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 47 
 
 Querent shall be happy in good wives and associates, yet 
 shall have many rivals and persons that hate him, but 
 rather out of envy than cause, so that he shall seldom 
 bring his enterprises and designs to pass, without much 
 labour and trouble. 
 
 107. The 107th is. To consider in Nativities and general 
 Questions, whether Mars be in the Second or in the Tenth, 
 and well disposed; for it denotes that the Native or Querent 
 shall gain a Fortune or Estate by those persons that deal or 
 work in Iron and Fire, as Smiths, Furnacemen, Glassmen, 
 etc. : or in Victualling or keeping Inns, Taverns, etc.: But if 
 Mars be weak or afflicted, loss and damage from all those.* 
 
 108. The 108th is to consider, If neither of the Planets 
 beholds two Houses ? For his virtue and fortitude shall be 
 in that wherein he hath most dignities, and which is most 
 proper for him, and the thing he signifies. 
 
 109. The 109th is. To consider whether the Lord of the 
 Fifth be in the Seventh afflicted ? for then the Native will 
 never be happy at Feasts or Banquets ; either be averse 
 from or slighted at such meetings, or some afi:ront put upon 
 him ; nor will he ever go neat in his clothes, nor get any 
 credit by them. 
 
 110. The 110th is. To consider in Nativities, whether 
 Scorpio ascends ? for such a Native is never like to get 
 any great preferment in the Roman Church : because 
 Cancer [the Exaltation of Jupiter, natural significator of 
 Clerks (priests, parsons, etc., etc.)], will then be in the Ninth 
 House, which signifies the Church, and Jupiter is an enemy 
 to Mars, who is lord of the Ascendant. 
 
 111. The 111th is, To consider in Nativities and Questions 
 especially of Law suits and controversies, whether the 
 Dragon^s tail be in the Seventh ? for that signifies damage 
 
 * J ames Wilson (the[author of " Dictionary of Astrology") and many 
 others are of opinion that under any circumstances an infortune in 
 the second house is undesirable in a Genethlical figure. 
 
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 or overthrow to the Native's enemies and prosperity to the 
 Native or Querent, because the Dragon's Head will then be in 
 the Ascendant. If it be in the eighth it denotes the decay 
 and loss of their estate or substance, and increase of the 
 native's. In the third, prejudice to the Native's Brethren. 
 In the fourtli, to his Parents. In the fifth, to his children. 
 In the sixth, to his servants. In the ninth, to his journeys. 
 In the tenth, to his preferment. In the eleventh, to his 
 Friends. In the twelfth, to his cattle of the greater sort, 
 etc. And so to all other things signified by each House 
 respectively : so do Saturn and Mars also, but not so much. 
 Likewise 'tis observable that other ill positions may make 
 void the said significations, but not so much as Saturn and 
 Mars, unless they themselves are significators of the mis- 
 chief, and then much of their malice is abated. 
 
 112. The 112th is strictly to examine and regard in every 
 Nativity or Question, the Ascendant; for whosoever shall 
 have " Yirgo " ascend and Mercury in a good condition, or 
 at least not afflicted ; if he study and practise Physic he 
 sha.ll have success and do great cures, but shall be unhappy 
 in his salary or profit thereby ; not being able to get his 
 fees of most of his Patients ; and besides, shall be unhappy 
 in Law suits. But if he follow the Law, he shall be unfor- 
 tunate in all his business, and slighted ; his words, though 
 never so prudent, not regarded, no not by them for whose 
 advantage he speaks, but a fool's discourse preferred, and 
 whatever he meddles in shall turn out untoward, and 
 people be his enemies without cause, and asperse and scan- 
 dalize him, they know not why. But far otherwise will it 
 be if Sagittarius, Taurus, or Pisces ascend, and Jupiter, 
 Venus and Mercury, shall be in the Ascendant, or if J upiter 
 and Venus shall happen to be in " Zaminium," or the heart 
 of the Sun, whatever the Ascendant be the native shall be 
 admired as a Prophet, and all his words received as Oracles, 
 or the dictates of destiny. 
 
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 49 
 
 118. The 113th is To consider, whether either of the la- 
 fortunes be in the 9th House, and without Dignity ? for then 
 the Native or Querent shall be often blamed and accused, 
 and that without cause, as much as for one. But if a 
 Fortune be there well affected (especially having Dignity 
 there) he shall on the other side be praised, applauded, and 
 honoured, whether there be cause or reason for it or no. 
 
 114. The 114th is To consider. Whether the Lord of the 
 Eighth be a Fortune, and in the Second ? for then the 
 Native or Querent shall gain considerably by the goods of 
 people deceased, of his enemies, and by his wives, especially 
 if such planet shall be free from Impediment or have 
 Dignities there. But if an Infortune be there, it signifies 
 loss and decay of the Native's estate, unless he have dignities 
 there and be otherwise well affected, and in good con- 
 dition, for then it will be little or no prejudice; but with- 
 out dignities, and in an ill state, it wholly and totally 
 destroys and ruins all hopes of estate. 
 
 115. The 115th is, To consider, Whether the Eighth 
 House, or its Lord be afflicted ? for then shall the Querent 
 or Native be damnified, and lose an estate by the death of a 
 wife, which she enjoyed for life or the like. 
 
 116. The 116th is. To consider which of the Houses, or 
 their Lords are afflicted, or under impediment ? for that 
 signifies that hurt and damage will accrue to the Native, by 
 reason of the things signified by that House : and so on the 
 contrary, if they are Fortunes, good and advantage from 
 the same things. 
 
 117. The 117th is to consider. If the Dragon's Tail be in 
 the Fourth ; for that signifies, that whatever the Native or 
 Querent shall get shall be squandered away, and come to 
 nothing; and wherever it is, it signifies damage to the 
 Native in and from that House represented. 
 
 118. The 118th is, to consider In what House a Fortune 
 shall be fortunate and strong, well disposed, and not afflicted ; 
 
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 for in and by those persons or things by that House signi- 
 fied, shall the Native or Querent gain profit, and make 
 his fortune ; and so on the contrary of a House that is 
 afflicted. 
 
 119. The 119th is to consider, If the Lord of the second 
 be in the seventh, and the Seventh be in Aries, Scorpio, 
 Capricorn or Aquarius ; for then the Native's enemies shall 
 easily take away his goods and right : and if he associate 
 himself with persons, they shall rob him : and his wife or 
 mistress shall cheat him, and steal whatever she can from 
 him : unless the Lord of the Ascendant be in Trine or 
 Sextile to the Lord of the Seventh, or in other Aspects with 
 reception. 
 
 120. The 120th Consideration, is to observe whether the 
 Lords of any of these Eight Houses, viz., the third, fourth, 
 fifth, sixth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, or twelfth, be in the 
 Seventh ? for which soever of them is there, the person by 
 him signified will prove the Native's enemy, unless a 
 perfect reception, with some good aspect as Trine or Sextile 
 intervene. Yet a Square or Opposition with Reception w^ill 
 abate the enmity, but not wholly prevent it. Thus if it be 
 the Lord of the Third, his Brethren will prove his 
 enemies ; if of the Fourth, his Parents ; if of the fifth his 
 children, etc., nor shall he gain of or by them so much as he 
 shall lose another time ; or if any of them sometimes appear 
 kindly, it will be but from the teeth outward, and for their 
 own ends, etc. 
 
 121. The 121st is. Whether the Moon be in the Eighth 
 and the Lord of the Ascendant in the Ascendant ; second, 
 or twelfth, Retrograde ? for then the Native or Querent 
 will not be Fortunate, nor have any luck at playing at dice 
 or any other gaming. 
 
 122. The 122nd is. Whether the Part of Fortune be in 
 the first 10° of the Fourth House, with the Dragon's Head, 
 the Moon, Yenus and J upiter, and they direct ? — for that 
 
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 
 
 51 
 
 signifies that the Native shall be lucky in discovering and 
 finding out hidden treasure. If it be in the Second 10°, or 
 but with two of the said Planets, he shall find some, but not 
 in so great quantity. In the last 10°, and with but one less, 
 and yet a considerable parcel ; and if only the Part of For- 
 tune be there not afflicted, then a small quantity. If the 
 Sun behold it with a Trine or Sextile, it will be Gold un- 
 coined ; if the Moon, Silver ; if Jupiter, a mixture of Gold 
 and Silver, etc. If Venus, precious stones, Lockets, and 
 for the most part Women's Ornaments. But if they be 
 Ketrograde, he shall discover the treasure, but not for him- 
 self, another shall get the profit. If the Lord of the Eighth 
 behold the Lord of the Ascendant with a Square or Oppo- 
 sition, the finder shall die by reason of it ; but if it be with 
 a Trine or Sextile, he shall only catch some small disease or 
 sickness. If the Dragon's Tail be there instead of the 
 Head, he shall find it, but it shall be taken from him ; or 
 being ignorant what it is, he shall give it away almost for 
 nothing; and if the Moon be then separated from the 
 Lord of the Ascendant and joined to an Infortune that 
 afflicts her, he to whom 'tis so given shall have little profit 
 by it. If Mars or the Lord of the Eighth behold the Lord 
 of the Ascendant, they that take it from him shall kill 
 him. But if Mars and Saturn shall be in the place of 
 Jupiter and Venus, the business will be only brass or copper 
 or lead, and if the Lord of the Ascendant be with them, the 
 discoverer is wearied with it, whatever it be, whether vile 
 or precious. 
 
 123. The 123rd Consideration is to observe in Nativities 
 or Questions: Whether the Sun and Moon are in Conjunc-\\ 
 tion in one and the same minute, both according to Longi- 
 tude and Latitude, and any of the Fortunes in the Ascen- 
 dant that is within 15' above the cusp thereof, or 24' below 
 it; for that signifies that the Native shall be happy in 
 getting a great estate and heaping up of money ; but if they 
 
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 be only in exact Conjunction to Longitude, and not accord- 
 to Latitude, and their distance one from the other be with- 
 in 15'; he will still be fortunate in acquiring substance ; 
 but so much the less, by how much the further such dis- 
 tance is: and so proportionately. If they happen to be 
 above 15' distance, the same thou mayst conclude if the 
 Moon shall be ill the very minute of Opposition to the Sun, 
 and a Fortune be in the seventh, which signifies the estate 
 of the Querent or Native in respect of his wives, com- 
 panions, or enemies. And if at that time of birth Taurus 
 ascend, and the Moon be there, or the very minute ascend- 
 ing, or Leo ascending, and the Sun in the minute ascending, 
 and not afflicted by either of the Infortunes, it signifies 
 that the Native shall get much money, and come to great 
 preferment and honour; but if either of the Infortunes be 
 in the said places instead of a Fortune, it denotes loss and 
 destruction of estate to the Native or Querent by or on the 
 occasions aforesaid. 
 
 124. The 124th Consideration is, to regard in Nativities 
 and Questions, the Significators of the Querent's and 
 Native's estate and also of his preferment, calling or profes- 
 sion ; which thou mayest take to be the Lord of the Tenth,, 
 or of the Ascendant, if the other shall not be fit to signify 
 the same : for if the Lord or Almuten of the 10th, be with 
 the Light of Time or erect and tall from it, and distant 60 
 degrees or upwards even to 90 degrees: if it be one of the 
 Superiors, or 30 degrees if it be one of the Inferiors, and in 
 the Angle of the Tenth, or in the Ascendant within 30 
 minutes above the cusp, or a degree and a half below it, and 
 not afflicted; it signifies that the Native shall attain to the 
 Dignity and profession of his Ancestors, and not exceed it^ 
 yet shall be more skilful, excellent, and perfect therein than 
 any of them ; but if there be in either of the said Angles 
 any of the aforesaid helping and fortunate Fixed Stars with 
 the Planet of Fortune or any of the Planets, he will far 
 
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF GUIDO BONATUS. 53 
 
 surpass his forefathers in dignity. And if such Fixed 
 Stars shall be of the first Magnitude and sole Significators, 
 the Native or Querent shall be raised to vast honours and 
 riches, almost inestimable ; which if beheld b}^ the Lord of 
 the Ascendant, then his fame and honour lies in his own 
 person; if by the Lord of the second, in his riches; if by 
 the Lord of the Tenth in his offices, command, or empire ; 
 and this though in never so poor and vile people ; the 
 meaner their condition was, to so much the greater height 
 shall they arrive. But this shall not endure long, for they 
 seldom go beyond 27 or 30 years. And look, how much the 
 more sublime was their fortune, by so much the more 
 grievous, miserable, and calamitous shall be their fall : for 
 they shall die an ignoble filthy death, or if they escape it, 
 the same shall happen to their next successor. 
 
 125. The 125th Consideration, is to observe in ISTativities 
 or Questions what sign ascends ; if it be the sign of a Planet 
 that hath two Houses, the exercise or troubles of the Native 
 or Querent shall be chiefly in those things signified by the 
 other House of the said Planet, which shall lightly happen 
 to him and for the most part through his own means. As 
 if the Ascendant be in Aries, he shall be excused in those 
 things as shall be the cause of his own death or fall because 
 Scorpio the other House of Mars will be then in the Eighth 
 House : but if Mars be well disposed and the Part of For- 
 tune happen in the Eighth he shall be very fortunate in all 
 things signified by that House. If Taurus ascend he shall 
 be exercised in those things as shall cause his own weakness, 
 because Libra which is the other House of Venus will be 
 then the Sixth House. But if Venus be well disposed, and 
 part of Fortune in the Sixth, he shall be most lucky in 
 things appertaining to the Sixth House^^ If the Ascendant 
 be in Gemini he shall be exercised in such things as shall 
 occasion his being taken; because Virgo, Mercury's other 
 House, will be on the fourth : but if Mercury be well dis- 
 
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 posed and part of fortune in the fourth, he will be pros- 
 perous in things belonging to the Fourth House. If Yirgo 
 ascend, he will be exercised in things that will gain him 
 honour and power, because Gemini, Mercury's other House, 
 is the tenth. If Mercury be then in Conjunction with 
 Part of Fortune and in the Ascendant, he shall acquire as it 
 were a king's revenue. But if Mercury be in the tenth 
 with the Part of Empire, fortunate and strong, he shall 
 undoubtedly obtain a Kingdom or supreme command; and 
 if with this Part of Fortune and the Moon be also in the 
 Tenth, he will be a mighty Prince iofallibly. If Libra 
 ascend, he shall be exercised in things that shall hasten his 
 own death, because Taurus the other House of Venus will 
 be then in the Eighth. But if Venys be well disposed and 
 Part of Fortune in the Eighth he will be lucky in things 
 represented by the Eighth House : and so of any other 
 sign. Scorpio ascending the JSTative or Querent shall bring 
 diseases on himself because Aries is the sixth. Sagittarius 
 ascending, he shall fool himself into captivity because Pisces 
 is on the Fourth. Capricorn ascending, he shall gain much 
 by his industry, for Aquarius is then on the second House. 
 But if Saturn be ill disposed he shall squander away and 
 waste his own substance idly. If Aquarius ascend he shall 
 procure himself many secret enemies, because Capricorn will 
 be then in the Twelfth House. If Pisces ascend, he shall 
 raise himself to honour, etc. 
 
 126. The 126th Consideration is, to take notice in 
 Nativities and Questions, whether Mercury be significator 
 wholly or in part, fortunate and strong, and in Capricorn 
 or Aquarius ? for then the l^ative shall be of profound and 
 piercing wit, and great understanding ; one that shall dive 
 into the bottom of things, and see from the beginning what 
 the issue will be ; and so much the more if Saturn fortunate 
 shall behold Mercury with a good aspect, especially if Mer- 
 cury be in Aquarius, which is the delight of Saturn : and 
 
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 still more if a Fortune shall be with Mercury, and he with 
 one of the propitious Fixed Stars. But if Mercury be in 
 Aries or Scorpio, the Native will be bold, Perfidious, incon- 
 constant, arrogant, and yet quick of apprehension ; rather 
 nimble to repeat or find out things said by others than in- 
 vent them himself. 
 
 127. The 127th Consideration is, to observe in Nativities, 
 if the Lord of the Ascendant be Saturn or Mars, and sole 
 Lord of the Nativity, without any Fortune partaking in the 
 dominion,the taste or smelling of the native or his complexion 
 shall not be like those of other men, for if it be Saturn, he 
 shall delight in sour or insipid things, as " Halion Ptolomy " 
 avers ; if it be Mars, in sharp and bitter, flesh half stinking, 
 wine dead, and palld aloes, snuffs of candles, dung, etc., as 
 also with filthy, dirt}^, unhandsome women ; more than in 
 others ; or if it be a woman, in the homeliest men, etc^ 
 
 128. The 128th Consideration is, in Nativities, whether 
 the Ascendant be a human sign or the Lord of it in a 
 human sign ? for that signifies the native an honest, sociable, 
 and neighbourly man, more especially if both happen to- 
 gether. But if the Ascendant carry the similitude of some 
 creatures which men use to labour with, as Aries, Taurus, 
 the last part of Sagittarius and Capricorn, the Native is very 
 submissive and humble to men, yet very sociable. But if it 
 be a sign half-feral, as Cancer and Pisces, he will be yet less 
 sociable ; but if it be feral, furious or salvane sign, as Leo 
 and Scorpio, he will be of a brutish savage temper, delight- 
 ing in the woods, hunting and living upon spoils and rapine ; 
 caring not to associate himself with men, so that he seldom 
 remains long with his own Parents or nearest Relations. 
 
 129. The 129th Consideration is, to observe in Nativities, 
 whether the Moon be in Opposition to the Sun, with any of 
 the stars called "cloudy," which are Althazaic," and the 
 " Head of Gemini," or in a place called " The Place of falling 
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 of the Lion, said to be near his heart, and others which by 
 reason of their mixture with each other do not shine dis- 
 tinctly (nebulous stars). For when the Moon shall not be 
 above 10 minutes' distance from them, according to Longitude 
 and Latitude, it seems unavoidable that the native shall 
 have diseases in his eyes ; not to be remedied by any human 
 help or medicine. If the Moon be then Occidental in an 
 Angle and Mars and Saturn likewise Occidental, not far 
 distant from her, or opposing the Sun in any of the Angles : 
 it signifies that the native shall be blind of both eyes at his 
 death ; nor does there appear any way whereby it may be 
 prevented ; but if it be not of luminaries, but only one, he 
 shall lose but one eye, and if it be Sol and a man the right 
 eye, if a woman the left eye ; but if it be the Moon and a 
 man, the left eye ; but if a woman, the right eye. 
 
 130. The 130th Consideration is, to regard in Nativities 
 whether the Moon be joined with Mercury by Body or 
 Aspect, or there be a translation of light by any planet 
 between them ? if there be nothing of this and the sign 
 ascending be neither of the nature of Mercury or the Moon ; 
 and Saturn in a diurnal nativity and Mars in a nocturnal, 
 and one be in an Angle, the native will be mad, distracted, 
 troubled with fits, a fool or at least exceeding forgetful, unless 
 a Fortune very strong shall at the same time behold the 
 Ascendant, Mercury, or the Moon : and so much the worse 
 if the Angle wherein such Infortune is, happen to be 
 Cancer, which is the exaltation of Jupiter, or Virgo the 
 exaltation of Mercury, or Pisces the exaltation of Venus. 
 The reason is because the Moon in ISTativities is the general 
 Significatrix of the native's Person ; and the Planet with 
 whom she is joined of his faculties and powers ; and there- 
 fore if she be corporally joined or applying to such Planet, 
 the native will prove of good understanding, and very well 
 retain his senses and intellectuals. And if Mercury be in 
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 the native will be of au exceeding wit, and a great Philo- 
 sopher ; and if Jupiter and Venus be in (Zamini Solis) he 
 will prove a Hermit or kind of Prophet, whose words shall 
 be received as Oracles beyond those of other men. 
 
 131. The 131st Consideration is, To take notice in the 
 Nativity of a man, whether the Sun and Moon be both in 
 Masculine Signs, or both in one Masculine Quarter or one 
 Masculine Sign ; for if so, it signifies that the native's acts 
 and temper shall be naturally such as belong to men. But 
 in a woman's Nativity, the Luminaries so disposed, make a 
 kind of Virago, one that shall despise men, and obtrude her- 
 self into their affairs : and such a one, if she marry, will be 
 sure to wear the breeches. If Venus and Mars shall be both 
 in Masculine Signs, the native will be moderately affected 
 towards the delights of Venus, and use them according to 
 nature and law ; but if they happen to be Oriental, he will 
 be more fallacious and immoderate, inclinable to incest, 
 sodomy, etc. But if they be Occidental and in Feminine 
 Signs, his spirits will be nasty and brutish ; and so much 
 the more, if Saturn cast any Aspect to them. But if it be a 
 Woman, and Mars and Venus Oriental and in Masculine 
 Signs, she will abhor men's embraces, and take no delight 
 therein, but rather please -herself with some little wanton- 
 ness with persons of her own sex. But if Mars and Venus 
 be in Feminine Signs and Occidental, she will love and take 
 delight in men's kindness. And Ptolomy in his Centiloquium 
 affirms. That if Venus be joined with Saturn in a Nativity, 
 and have Dignities in the Seventh, The Native shall be 
 somewhat fault}^ and untoward in his venereal caresses. 
 
 182. The 132nd is to mark in Nativities, Whether Mars 
 be corporally joined with a certain Fiery star of his own 
 nature in Taurus, called "Agol,"* so that they are not 
 
 * Caput Algol (B Persei), a star of the]^2nd magnitude, now in 
 24 degrees 17 minutes of Taurus of the nature of Saturn and 
 Jupiter. It is held to be the most unfortunate, violent and dangerous 
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 above 16 minutes asunder, Mars applying thereunto and the 
 Lord of the House wherein the Luminary, for the time ruling 
 is pointed, which is called the Lord " Anaubse or of its 
 Exaltation, and two others of its Dignities, and shall be in 
 Opposition or Square of Mars, and neither of the Fortunes 
 shall behold the Ascendant, nor be pointed in the Eighth 
 House ; it undoubtedly signifies the native shall be beheaded. 
 And if Mars shall not be distant from it in Latitude above 
 6 minutes, it will infallibly happen so ; not to be avoided 
 but by God alone. And though a Fortune, Retrograde, or 
 Combust should behold the Ascendant, yet it will scarce 
 preserve him from beheading ; only in such case it may 
 happen not to be occasioned by his own fault : for a Fortune 
 in such a case not impedited, may save him from such an 
 ill death, and permit him to die in his bed, but then it will 
 be of some capital disease, proceeding from a hot house, and 
 this before he comes to be fifty years of age. But if Mars 
 shall not be thus affected, yet if an Infortune be in the 
 Eighth, the native shall come to an untimely or ignominious 
 end ; but if a Fortune be there in good state, he shall expire 
 naturally ; but if such Fortune be afflicted^ he shall die of 
 some mischance coming upon him. 
 
 Note by Lilly. — Ptolomy in his " Centiloquium " tells us, 
 " That if the Light of the Time shall happen to be in the 
 Mid-heaven (I say in the conditions aforesaid) such native 
 shall be hanged. If either of the Infortunes be in Gemini, 
 and the other in Pisces, his hands or feet shall be cut off", 
 according to the signification of the sign wherein the Planet 
 is pointed which is most malevolent. If Mars be in con- 
 junction with the Lord of the Ascendant in Leo, and hath 
 no Dignities in the Ascendant, nor neither of the Fortunes 
 in the Eighth, the native shall be burnt to death ; and if 
 Mars be then Retrograde, Combust, or in his Fall, it will be 
 for some crime, otherwise by mischance or unjustly. Ptolomy 
 
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 saith that, If Saturn, in a Nativity, be in the mid-heaven 
 and the Planet to which he is * Anauba ' (a Depositer) be in 
 opposition to him, and a dry sign on the Cusp of the Fourth, 
 the native shall be knocked on the head, or die by some 
 ruins falling on him ; but if a moist sign be there he shall 
 be drowned; but if it be an human sign, he will be strangled. 
 It Mars or Saturn be in the Ascendant at birth, and Pere- 
 grine, the native shall have a scar or mark on his head or 
 face ; if the Infortune be afflicted. Combust or Ketrograde, 
 the same will be very deformed, and much disfigure him, 
 otherwise not." 
 
 133. The 133rd Consideration is, To mark in Nativities, 
 whether Gemini or Sagittarius ascend, and whether its Lord 
 be well disposed, that is, fortunate and strong, and likewise 
 the Moon ; for that signifies that if the native live, he will 
 get great riches. If Virgo or Pisces ascend and its Lord or 
 the Moon be well aflfected, he shall get money and lay the 
 same out well, and live splendidly, being beloved for his 
 generosity and bounty. But in the other case where the 
 Ascendant is Gemini or Sagittarius, he will not be so liberal, 
 but very frugal and sparing ; besides, he who hath Gemini 
 or Yirgo for his Ascendant may lose his estate and come to 
 want; but he that hath Sagittarius or Pisces shall never 
 lose his means, nor fall into poverty. If Aries, Scorpio, 
 Capricorn, or Aquarius ascend, the native will be miserably 
 covetous. If Jupiter behold the Ascendant, he may some- 
 what mitigate the sordid humour, but will not wholly 
 prevent or take it away. 
 
 134. The 134th is, to mind in Nativities, whether Mars or 
 Venus be in the Sixth, and likewise well disposed ? for that 
 signifies that the native shall be not really fit for Physic, 
 and grow a perfect doctor in every part of the Art. If 
 Mercury be in conjunction with Venus and she Retrograde, 
 he will make naturally a good singer ; but if Mercury be in 
 
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 the Twelfth not afflicted, he will be studious and famous in 
 most sciences, especially Philosophy. 
 
 135. The 135th Consideration is, To consider in Nativities, 
 whether the Lord of the Ascendant and the Moon, and 
 Jupiter, and Venus, are either all in the Ascendant, or 
 whether J upiter and Venus behold the Lord of the Ascendant, 
 and the Moon in the Ascendant by a Trine or Sextile, and 
 free from affliction ? for then the native will prove very 
 strong and courageous ; and none will dare to disobey his 
 commands. 
 
 136. The 136th Consideration is, To note in the Nativities 
 of Kings and rich men, and such grandees as are fit to bear 
 rule, whether both Luminaries are in the Degrees of their 
 Exaltations, or in their own Houses, in the same degree one 
 with the other, and free from affliction ? for this signifies 
 that the native shall obtain great honours ; for he shall be 
 made Emperor, or something like it ; so that he shall be as 
 it were monarch of the world, which shall continue to the 
 fourth generation of his posterity. But if all the Planets 
 below Jupiter shall be disposed of by him and he shall 
 receive virtue from every of them, notwithstanding the 
 condition aforesaid, and afterwards commit both them and 
 himself to Saturn, and both be Oriental from the Sun and 
 in Angles, The native will be a person of great renown and 
 power, although perhaps not with the title of king ; but his 
 fame shall endure for a long time, that is to say, all his life- 
 time ; and after his death for three revolutions of Saturn, or 
 longer. 
 
 137. The 137th is. To see Whether Mercury be in conjunc- 
 tion with Saturn in the Ascendant ? for that signifies that 
 the native is a foolish talkative fellow, that would be counted 
 wise; he shall speak ill of both men and women; the greatest 
 wit he hath is to invent many lies; nor doth he ever open 
 his mouth, but something of untruth appears intermixed 
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 Saturn gives him a foul tongue, and Mercury a sharpness of 
 malice to employ it. 
 
 138. The 138th is to see in Nativities, Whether the two 
 Infortunes are in the Fourth House, or whether the Angles 
 are possessed with moveable signs, and Mars and Saturn in 
 them ? for then the native will be poor, wretched, and un- 
 fortunate, above all others, all his lifetime, unless Jupiter, 
 or the Lord of the Triplicity ascending prevent. 
 
 139. The 139th is, To be careful, both in Nativities and 
 Questions, where the Dragon's Tail is ? for that signifies 
 the wasting and destruction of the thing signified by that 
 House, and especially if it relate to gain ; for in the first it 
 signifies expenses, and loss of gain to the Querent, from or 
 by reason of his person ; in the 2nd, destruction, and loss of 
 money and substance ; in the 3rd, loss by means of Brethren^ 
 Sisters, Neighbours, etc. ; in the fourth, damage that one 
 shall sustain by one's Grandfather, Father-in-law, and such 
 things relating to Inheritances; and that the Native shall 
 change Houses often, and get little by it ; in the 5th, damage 
 from or by reason of children ; in the 6tb, losses by servants 
 or small cattle ; in the seventh, loss by Women, Companions, 
 or open Enemies ; in the 9th, loss by Keligious Men, and on 
 the account of Religion; in the 10th, by or in his prefer- 
 ments, honours, etc. ; in the Eleventh^ loss by his Friends, or 
 for their sakes ; and in the Twelfth, damage sustained by 
 great Cattle, or by means of hidden enemies.* 
 
 * Our author has left out the Eighth house. Modern Astrologers 
 do not consider the effects of the Dragon's Head or Tail. If how- 
 ever they are worthy of consideration, the effect of the Dragon's Tail 
 in the eighth house would be to entail loss on the Native or Querent's 
 wife's money, goods, etc., it would also prejudice the money, goods, 
 chattels, etc., of his partners, open enemies, and opponents in law 
 suits, and would be generally unfavourable to such matters or things 
 as are ruled by the eighth house, having due regard to other testi- 
 monies shown in the figure. 
 
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 140. The 140th Consideration is, to see whether the 
 Significator of the thing in question, or the Moon be so 
 weak that it cannot bring the matter to perfection ? and if 
 they be, take the Significator of the Querent and thing 
 inquired after, and subtract the lesser from the greater, and 
 add to the remainder the degrees of the sign Ascending, and 
 project what they amount unto from the Ascendant, and 
 observe where it happens ; for the Lord of that sign signifies 
 what was enquired of and according to his conditions shalt 
 thou give judgment, as thou findest him fortunate and 
 strong, or unfortunate and weak. For if the business 
 concern a man's estate, and he be placed in the Second, as 
 he is — so shall the Querent^s estate prove ; if in the third, 
 the Brethren, Neighbours, etc., etc., will be disposed 
 accordingly ; in the fourth, those of greatest Relations ; in 
 the Fifth the Children ; in the Sixth Servants ; in the 
 Seventh, Wives ; in the 8th Wives' portions ; in the 9tli 
 Long journeys ; in the lOth his preferments ; in the llth his 
 Friends ; in the Twelfth, his secret Enemies. 
 
 141. The 141st Is to consider in Nativities the gifts and 
 properties bestowed on men by the fixed Stars, and how 
 long they continue, together with the reason why they 
 prove, not lasting as those which proceed from the Planets, 
 since it seems a little probable that they should continue 
 longer than those ; of which I do not remember to have met 
 with anything in the Ancients, save only that " Ptolomy " 
 in his Centiloquium says, The fixed Stars sometimes confer 
 exceeding great benefits ; but oftentimes they end ill. And 
 " Almansa " in his Treatise to the Great King of the 
 Saracens, says that the Fixed Stars bestow notable gifts, 
 
 \. house the Querent or Native has the Dragon's Head in the 2nd 
 House (that of wealth) and therefore but little damage could accrue 
 to the Querent or Native through loss of his or her actual personal 
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 and raise from poverty to happiness and high degree more 
 than any of the seven planets : Now the reason that the 
 gifts of the fixed stars to men, abide less with them than 
 those given by the Planets is, because the fixed Stars being 
 the Agents, and men the Patients; the subject on which 
 they are to operate are not agreeable to them, nor are born 
 to be able to receive their impression ; for it is requisite that 
 there should be some conformity and likeness, or agreeable- 
 ness between the Agent and the Patient ; but the fixed 
 stars are most slow in motion; and consequently in 
 mutation, whence it comes to pass that their impressions 
 require subjects and patients of the same nature ; that 
 is to say, such as are the most lasting, and carry a con- 
 formity with them to perfect or accomplish their effects: 
 For the Revolution of the Fixed Stars is finished, but in six 
 and thirty thousand years, but the " Viventhipolis " or life 
 of man, generally exceeds not three revolutions of Saturn ; 
 that is to say, the space of ninety years ; very few exceed 
 that age, though possibly some may by the addition of the 
 years of some Planets to the years of the " Alcocoden" in 
 their Nativities, which bears no conformity or proportion 
 with 86,000 years to complete the effects of their influences. 
 And therefore as an Eagle cannot exercise the complement 
 of her flight or power on a Fly, nor a Stone coming forth 
 (a Sunda trabathi) do any great execution (in Musciovem) 
 no more can the Fixed Stars complete the eff'ects of their 
 impressions ; and therefore their gifts or the good promised 
 by them continue no longer with men, because men are of 
 so small a duration, and subject to a swift mutability in 
 respect of their Motion. And upon this is that Aphorism 
 grounded, that Advises to make use of Fixed Stars in the 
 Foundation of Cities, but of Planets in the erection of 
 Houses ; because Cities are generally of the longest con- 
 tinuance amongst corruptible things, and far more durable 
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 individuals do not endure always, whereas Cities remain by 
 a successive building and rebuilding of Houses ; and there- 
 fore though Castles are very lasting, yet are they not equal 
 in this respect to Cities; so that although we may use 
 the superior planets in elections for building of Castles, it is 
 better to take Fixed Stars ; yet still because Cities are of 
 longer continuance than Castles, they are more appropriated 
 to the fixed Stars, whose Subjects they are. For the 
 impression which a solid thing makes in a more solid thing, 
 continues much longer than that which it makes on a less 
 solid thing ; and far less in a thing not solid, than a thing 
 somewhat solid ; and yet less in a very slippery transient 
 thing, than in a thing less lubricous or changeable. Hence 
 the impressions . which the Fixed Stars make on Cities, 
 continue longer than those on Castles ; because Cities are 
 more correlative to them in length of time, and accordingly 
 those of Castles more durable than those of Houses, for the 
 same reason proportionally. But bodies of men are more 
 remote from those fixed stars than Houses themselves, and 
 so more corruptible : and for that cause their Significations 
 apply less to them, or if they happen, abide but little ; the 
 Significations of the fixed Stars being so great and noble, 
 so high and free from corruption and mutability, that they 
 cannot easily take upon them a variable commixture with 
 things quickly corruptible and suddenly changeable, unless 
 it be as oil on water ; for though it may enter into it, yet 
 such impression will not long continue ; for the fixed Liglits 
 operate with so much nobleness, that by reason of their 
 long distance from those vile corruptible changeable bodies, 
 and neighbourhood to the Supreme Light, their effects 
 cannot remain in or with them, when they are lightly or 
 suddenly changed and corrupted; especially in base people 
 and mean spirits ; for they seldom transcend his person to 
 whom they happen, and oftentimes leave him whilst he 
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 prevent ; as I affirm for the most part ; though 'tis possible 
 they may sometimes terminate in good and continue long : 
 As it hath sometimes happened that some have lived to the 
 greatest years of the Alcocoden, of whom I never saw 
 but one in my time, who was named Richard, who affirmed 
 himself to have been a Courtier under Charles the Great, 
 King of France, and that he had lived 500 years. At what 
 time there was a report of one that had continued alive ever 
 since our Saviour's days called " Johan Buttadeus " because 
 he had impulissed the Lord as he was led to be crucified. 
 Who said to him, " Thou shalt expect, or wait for me, till I 
 come." The aforesaid Richard I saw at Ravenna in the year 
 1223, and the said John is said to have passed through 
 riorilivium, in his journey to St. James's at Compostella, 
 in the year 1267. Nor could the Significations of the Fixed 
 Stars be applied ; or. adhere to men nor sensibly remain in 
 them, unless there were some Medium by which they might 
 Act upon them which are the Planets, which are secondary 
 Agfents^ as the first are principal ; for whenever there are 
 divers actions in order, attributed to several Agents, the 
 principal act ought to be referred to the principal Agent, 
 which in respect of the effects on corruptible things, was 
 the Primary Cause. And the Planets as Secondary : for that 
 corruption which those inferiors suflfer, happens by reason of 
 their too great distance from the incorruptible superiors ; 
 yet their eff'ects sometimes continue long in Grandees, and 
 persons very rich, who are apt for Empire, magnanimous, 
 and of brave and excellent spirits ; such as in my time was 
 the Emperor Frederick the Second, who when he was 
 indigent and in great necessity, was arrived to the Imperial 
 Dignity, and brought under his obedience all Apulia, the 
 Kingdom of Sicily, Jerusalem, Crocovia, Italy and the 
 whole Roman Empire (except of Lombardy) subduing all 
 Enemies, Traitors and Rebels, and remained in that illus- 
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 being poisoned by his domestics, and all his family extir- 
 pated so that scarce any of them remained. Such another 
 was Ecilinus de Komano, who when he was but mean, 
 was far exalted above all other Italians, for he ruled and, 
 as it were, tyrannized over the Marquisate of Treves even 
 to Almaine and Trent, and within four or five miles of 
 Venice, and his Tyranny continued twenty-six years ; but at 
 last all these glories were overcast with calamity, for when 
 it seemed impossible to suppress him, he fell into the hands 
 of his enemies at a battle in the Country of Mediolanensi 
 a pud Cassianum, and died wretched, and all his posterity 
 was destroyed, not one of them remaining. In the same 
 manner there was one in the Kingdom of Apulias of base 
 descent, called Peter de Vinea; who when he was a 
 scholar at Bononia was forced to beg for his living, and 
 had not bread to eat, yet was made a notary, and after that 
 Protonotary of the Court of the Emperor Frederick the 
 Second ; he became a Judge and climed to such a grandeur, 
 that he was happy that could obtain the least of his favour, 
 for whatever he did the Emperor would confirm : but him- 
 self would often set aside what had been established b}^ the 
 Emperor, who made him Lord of Apulia : whereby he grew 
 so rich, that he had 10,000 pounds of Gold besides other 
 Treasures almost inestimable; yet in the end he fell, and 
 was reduced to such misery, that the Emperor ordered his 
 eyes to be put out ; enraged at which out of mere indigna- 
 tion he struck out his own brains against a wall, as it 
 was then commonly reported. Another was at Pysa 
 called Smerolus one of the dregs of the vulgar, who 
 came to be, as it is said. Lord of that Province : nor durst 
 any of the nobility for a while contend with him ; yet at 
 last he came to nothing. After whom one Oddo 
 Gualduzius, a mean fellow,, tapered up so high that he did 
 as it were, sway the whole City and none would contradict 
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 to pieces. The same happened at Florylycium. One 
 called Simon Mustaguere the son of obscure Parents, who 
 mounted so high that all the people adored him : nor durst 
 any oppose him, save only myself, who knew him thoroughly; 
 and what mischief he could, he did at his pleasure for three 
 years' space : but at last down he came being banished the 
 City which happened for the odiousness of his person and 
 cowardice. Another being a Friar of the Preaching Order, 
 by name John by Nation Vicentinus, was admired as 
 a Saint by all the Italians that acknowledged the Koman 
 Church ; but I ever thought him an Hypocrite : he grew so 
 high that he was reported to have raised 18 from the Dead, 
 (though never one of them could be seen) and to cure all 
 diseases, fright Devils, etc., yet could I not perceive any- 
 body freed by him, though I made much enquiry into his 
 Miracles ; however the whole world seemed to run after 
 him, and he thought himself happy that could get a thread of 
 his Cap, which they esteemed equal with the relics of the 
 Saints ; and in his preaching he would publicly boast, that 
 he had Converse with Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and 
 Angels when he list. By which tricks, the Friars of his 
 order at Bononia got more than 20,000 marks. And his 
 power was so great that by his own will he released 
 a Soldier as he was going to Execution for murder, Nor 
 durst the Magistrates deny him, nor any speak ill of him but 
 myself, who knew all his wheadles and cozenages : for 
 which the rabble, merely out of fear of him, reported me an 
 Heretic. In which esteem and pomp he continued above a 
 year, but at last went out like the snuff of a candle, with a 
 stink, his devices and hypocrisie being discovered, so that 
 he became as generally : and everybody was ashamed to be 
 seen in his company. 
 
 142. The 142nd Consideration is, to observe in Nativities 
 and general questions, the gifts and good advantages be- 
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 more easily to them, and continue longer extended to their 
 successors, according as they are well disposed in the Radices 
 of their Nativities; but they are seldom exceeding great, 
 unless when applied by fortunate fixed stars ; because being 
 of a more swift mutability they have a closer afiinity with 
 them, especially if proceeding from the inferior Planets ; for 
 their conformity withmen^ their correlative subjects. Those 
 of the Superiors last not so long with men but in building 
 of houses they are much better than the other. 
 
 Note by Lilly. — Of the Good given by ^ and other Planets. 
 — Saturn Oriental and well disposed, that is strong and in 
 Reception, gives great fortune in building, planting trees 
 requiring a long growth^ in manuring ground, erecting water- 
 works and the like. J upiter gives good luck in Sciences 
 such as the Law ; and in Dignities, being made a Bishop, a 
 Judge, or the like. Mars in leading forth of Armies, etc. 
 Sol in Lay Preferments, as Kingdoms, Governments, etc. 
 
 But the lower Planets bestow their gifts inherent to men 
 and more durable : as Venus, in the attempts of women, 
 their ornaments, courting them, etc. Mercury in trading, 
 writing, etc. The Moon in navigation^ planting vines, 
 using drinks, selling wine, etc. All these, I say are 
 excellently well bestowed by the Planets advantageously 
 posited, and endure longer, that is to say, The prosperities 
 given by the Moon may continue to the seventh year or 
 generation, because she is the seventh Planet reckoning 
 downwards ; and if they pass the seventh age or generation 
 they cannot exceed the eighth as suppose from the 42nd 
 year to the 45th year including both those of Mercury may 
 endure to the sixth age, being the sixth from Saturn, but 
 will scarce hold out the seventh. Those of Yenus to the 
 fifth age_, she being the fifth Planet from Saturn : but will 
 not exceed the sixth. Those of the Sun to the fourth age. 
 Those of Mars to the third age. Those of Jupiter to the 
 
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 second age. Those of Saturn only for one age, and cannot 
 transcend ; nay seldom reach the third. And though I say 
 they may continue so long, yet do I not say that they shall 
 not be finished before, for as Aristotle says, There are terms 
 that cannot be passed over : yet he does not say but that 
 they may be prevented and come short off : so in these 
 cases ; and further, when I say that they cannot continue 
 longer, I mean without vanishing wholly, or so depressed, 
 that it will be no more like what was before, than green or 
 russet to a perfect white unless by chance something from 
 another cause happens anew; which seldom chances, nor 
 can truly be said to be the same, but quite another thing 
 from the first. Hence comes perhaps the common observa- 
 tion ; that goods or possessions ill got, never abide to the 
 fifth or third age : many that use that proverb not knowing 
 whence it comes to pass but only because they have heard 
 others say so or seen it often happen thus. But from what 
 we have here laid down, some reason may be given ; for ill 
 gotten goods count such as are got by way of usury, lies, 
 deceit, theft, rapine, and the like. 
 
 143. The 143rd Consideration, Is to understand the true 
 method of judging, and by what ways thou may est come to 
 some result, that thou mayst examine and rightfully discuss 
 the same, and discover the truth of what the stars shall 
 show thee ? And herein there are 14 points to be considered 
 and heeded : 
 
 1. Whether the Querent proposes the question really and 
 intentively or not ? For if the Lord of the Ascendant 
 and Lord of the hour be the same or the Signs wherein 
 those Significators are placed be of the same Triplicity or 
 complection the Question is serious ; but otherwise, if the 
 Ascendant shall be the end of any Sign, the Question is not 
 Radical. 
 
 2. Behold the Ascendant and his Lord, the Moon and the 
 Planet from which she separates and assign them for 
 
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 Significators of the Querent ; the Seventh and the Planet 
 with which the Moon is joined, shall represent the person 
 enquired after ; but if it be necessary, descend to the persons, 
 as the things are signified by the Houses, from the first to 
 the twelfth. 
 
 3. Consider the nature of the thing enquired about, the 
 House and sign whereby it is signified. 
 
 4. The Aspects of the Planets both good and malevolent to 
 the Significators of the things sought after. 
 
 5. In what place from its own House each of the Signifi- 
 cators are ; viz., Whether in his own or the second, third, or 
 fourth, etc., or in the Combust way or the like places. 
 
 6. Whether they are found in Angles Cadent or Succedent 
 Houses. 
 
 7. Diligently see where the Querent's Assistants must 
 come, viz., whether from a Father, a Son, a King, a Kinsman, 
 or a Friend, etc. 
 
 8. By the mirth of the Querent, as if the Lord of the 
 Ascendant shall be in the fifth, or elsewhere joined with its 
 Lord ; free from being afflicted by the Infortunes. Or by 
 sadness ; as if his Significator happen in the 6th, 7th, 8th, or 
 12th ; unless the question be of things signified by those 
 Houses : and as thou findest so judge. 
 
 9. By the Fortunes and Infortunes, according as thou 
 findest them in places signified, the things about which the 
 Querent is moved; and if the benevolents are more, 'tis 
 good, if otherwise the contrary ; if the testimonies are equal, 
 then indifferent. 
 
 10. Whether the Lord of the Ascendant be in the House 
 of the thing enquired after, or with its Lord. 
 
 11. In what House the Lord of the first is joined with the 
 Significator of the things looked after ; for by the Significator 
 of that House, or his occasion, thou mayst judge the matter 
 will be brought about. 
 
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 be any translation of light between them by any Planet, or 
 receives their description, thou shalt judge the same thing. 
 
 13. By the natures of the Significators themselves, 
 agreeing in their natures and significations with each other. 
 
 14. According as the receiver of the Significators' virtue or 
 disposition shall be a Fortune or Infortune strong or weak, 
 and does behold the Significator, or the Moon, or any with 
 aspect of love or enmity, so shalt thou pronounce judgement. 
 
 144. The 144th Consideration is^ To observe in Questions 
 Nativities, or Elections, when the Significators shall not 
 clearly show thee what thou wouldst know but the signifi- 
 cation remains dubious, so that the mind is in suspense, take 
 the place of the Lord of the Ascendant, and the place of the 
 Lord of the House of the Moon, and see the distance of 
 degrees between them, beginning from Aries, of which make 
 signs, and add the degree of the sign ascending ; and pro- 
 ject from the Ascendant as well by day as night, and where 
 the number falls, the Lord of that House shall be Significator 
 and from him take the signification of the business enquired, 
 for according to his disposition thou mayest judge. 
 
 145. The 145th Consideration is, That thou see in Diurnal 
 Nativities, whether CorLeonis* be in the Ascendant, that is to 
 say in the Oriental Line or above it one degree or below it three 
 degrees; or whether it be in the tenth in like degrees, without 
 the Conjunction or Aspect of any of the Fortunes; for this 
 alone signifies that the Native shall be a person of great 
 note and power, too much exalted, and attain to high pre- 
 ferment and honours, although descended from the meanest 
 parents. And if any of the Fortunes behold that place also, 
 
 * Regulus, (a Leonis) a star of the 1st magnitude in 28 degrees 
 9 minutes of Leo of the nature of Mars ; it is said to give glory, wealth 
 and great honours, chiefly by military preferment ; but the glory 
 promised by such stars as Aldebaran, Hercules,i Bellatrix, Antares, 
 etc., and all which are of the nature of Mars — is said to be 
 transient. 
 
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 his glory shall be the more increased ; but if the Nativity 
 be nocturnal, his fortune will be somewhat meaner, but not 
 much ; but if the Infortunes cast their aspects there it will 
 still be more mean ; but if the Fortunes behold it also they 
 will augment the good promised a fourth part, and mitigate 
 the evil as much ; yet still whatever of all this happens, it 
 signifies that the Native shall die an unhappy death ; or at 
 least that all his honours, greatness, and power, shall at last 
 suffer an eclipse, and set in a cloud. 
 
 146. The 146th Consideration is, That thou take the 
 place of the Lord of the Ascendant, and the place of the 
 Lord of the 12th, and subtracting the lesser from the 
 greater add to the remainder the degrees of the sign ascend- 
 ing, and project from the Ascendant; and where the number 
 falls the Lord of that sign shall be partner with the Lord of 
 the Question, and shall be called the Principal Partner. 
 Again, take the place of the Lord of the said sign, and the 
 place of the Lord of the Part of Fortune, and subtracting 
 the lesser from the greater add the degrees of that sign 
 ascending ; and where the number falls, the Lord of the sign 
 shall be another Partner, and be called the Secondary 
 Partner ; which if it happen to be the same Planet, regard 
 only that; but if different, then take both and subtract 
 the lesser from the greater and add the degrees of the sign 
 ascending, and tlie Planet on whose House the number 
 falls shall be the third Partner : and which of those three is 
 the strongest shall be the chiefest sharer in the significations 
 of the thing enquired after. If all the remainders, or two of 
 them, shall happen on the House of one Planet ; that shall 
 be preferred. If the Question seem good, and those Partners 
 are ill disposed, they will diminish of the good signified by 
 the Question, and so on the contrary ; but if the Question 
 seem evil, and they are well disposed, they will allay and 
 mitigate the evil signified by the Question, and so likewise 
 on the contrary. 
 
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CHOICE APHORISMS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 SEVEN SEGMENTS OE CAEDAK 
 
 GENERAL APHORISMS. 
 
 1. Life is short, Art long, Experience not easily obtained, 
 Judgement difficult, and therefore it is necessary, that a 
 Student not only exercise himself in considering several 
 Figures, but also that he diligently read the writings of 
 others who have treated rationally of this Science, and 
 make it his business to find out the true natural causes of 
 things by experiments, to know the certain places and pro- 
 cessions of the Planets and Fixed Stars, Constellations, etc., 
 but above all to be a passionate lover of truth. 
 
 2. The Principles of Art are three. Reason, Sense, and 
 Experience, but the Principles of Operations four, viz. : The 
 Planets, The Parts of tieaven, The Fixed Stars, and the 
 Site or Position ^ of all those in respect of one another. 
 
 3. There are some things perfectly known, as the Circle 
 of Ascension, some in a competent measure, as the Revolu- 
 tion of the Sun ; some may be known although they yet 
 are not, as the Revolution of the Superiors ; some things fall 
 under knowledge, yet cannot be exactly known, as the 
 precise Ingress of the Sun into the Equinoctial Point; some 
 are neither known, nor can be known, as the complete com- 
 mixtures and distinct virtues of all the Stars.f 
 
 * I.e., Aspects and Configurations. 
 
 t Modern astrologers are now thoroughly acquainted with aU but 
 " the complete commixtures and distinct virtues or powers of all the 
 stars." Herschell and Neptune being unknown to the Ancients, were 
 not considered by them, and at the present time therefore, owing to 
 the science having lain, for many years, dormant, so to speak, the 
 influences of these two planets are not yet thoroughly understood. It 
 
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 4. It is much worse for an Artist to conceive he knows 
 those things which he is ignorant of ; than to be ignorant 
 of those things which he ought to know. 
 
 5. Mean learning with an excellent judgement, avails 
 more than a mean judgement with the greatest learning, 
 yet is judgement very much assisted and perfected by learn- 
 ing: but everything prospers better, and is far more easily 
 perfected that has nature for its guide and favourable stars, 
 than that which is attempted by human industry though 
 never so diligent. 
 
 6. He that has too great a conceit of himself will be apt 
 to fall into many errors in his judgement ; yet on the other 
 side, he that is too diffident, is not fit for this Science. 
 
 7. He that would truly promote Art must insist as much 
 on the confutation of false opinions delivered by others, as 
 in the declaration of truth.* 
 
 8. An Astrologer is so far only true and honest, as he 
 depends in his conjectures on principles of natural philo- 
 sophy,-]- and since those Arts which are inherent in their 
 proper subjects, cannot promise any certainty concerning 
 matters to come, the Astrologer ought never to pro- 
 nounce anything absolutely or peremptorily of future 
 contingencies. 
 
 9. Truths of themselves are to be desired, for Science 
 itself is a certain good, now the expectation of future good 
 very much delights us, and on the contrary, when future 
 evils are foreseen, we may either avoid them,J mitigate 
 them, or at least bear them more contentedly.§ 
 
 is conceived by the best modern Astrologers that Herschell is of the 
 nature of Saturn and Mars, and Neptune of the nature of Venus, 
 though infinitely milder in influence. 
 
 * Lilly and Partridge made a point of acting up to this Aphorism, 
 as may easily be ascertained from a perusal of their works. 
 
 t Cardan here means tbat an Astrologer should base his judgments 
 on the established and approved rules of Judicial Astrology, and not 
 be too eager to form principles of his own with regard to judgments 
 on any contingencies which may arise and which are not plairdy shown 
 in the figure under consideration. 
 
 % The prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself. — Pro- 
 verbs, c. 22, V. 3 ; c. 28, v. 12. 
 
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 10. Heaven is the instrument of the most High God, 
 whereby he acts upon, and governs inferior things. 
 
 11. He that asserts things that can never be proved by 
 experience is deceived and ambitious, but thus it always 
 happens, those that are most ignorant of Art delight to 
 boast of doing things difficult or wonderful. 
 
 12. It is all one as to promoting of Art, etc., and the 
 knowledge thereof, either from Nativities known, to predict 
 what shall happen, or after accidents have happened, to 
 discover the Nativities before unknown which are thereby 
 rectified,* but as to vulgar opinion, the first way far exceeds 
 the last. 
 
 13. He that goes about to destroy Art, is far worse than 
 he that is unskilled in it, for his mind is full of malice and 
 idleness as well as ignorance. 
 
 14. Men may be said almost to be compelled by the Stars, 
 even in voluntary actions, by means of their corrupt affec- 
 tions and ignorance. 
 
 15. Always deliver judgements from the Stars in general 
 terms, or if thou dost otherwise let it be when thou hast 
 very evident testimonies and in great and weighty matters. 
 
 16. We ought not to use arguments or tedious discourses 
 in giving judgement, much less flatteries, but only to pro- 
 nounce what is known by experience and firm reason. 
 
 17. A main reason why events are so rarely foretold by 
 
 to avert many of their effects, and to prepare himself for those effects 
 before they arrive. 
 
 " A sagacious mind improves the operation of the heavens, as a 
 skilful farmer by cultivation improves nature." — Claudius Ptolemy 
 Tetrabiblos. The Centeloquy. 
 
 * This involves the doctrine of Kectification, i.e.^ the method of 
 bringing a nativity to its true time, as it is supposed that the in- 
 accuracy of a clock or watch, or the mistake of those whose business 
 it is to observe them, may cause an error in the time of birth which 
 requires to be rectified. Several methods are recommended for this 
 purpose, of which the oldest probably is the animondar of Ptolemy ; 
 we have the truitine of Hermes ; the methods of Argol, Morin, Kepler, 
 etc., etc. Placidus (De Titus, author of Primum Mobile) is wholly 
 silent on the subject of rectification. Not one of his thirty nativities 
 are rectified, although he seenis very much to doubt the correctness 
 of some of them. The safest events to rectify a nativity are those of 
 accident and marriage. , 
 
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 Astrologers, is because the Art is yet but imperfectly dis- 
 covered, for hitherto those that have been most excellent in 
 it, being commonly old persons, have despaired to live to 
 see the fortunes of children newly-born, and the Nativities 
 of persons grown up, being uncertain, they scarce thought 
 them worth so much labour. 
 
 18. When true genitures exactly taken in accidents prove 
 false or absurd, and not agreeable to the things signified, 
 they are to be accounted monstrous,* and are to be avoided 
 as anatomists do monstrous bodies in their dissections ; for 
 they overthrow Art. 
 
 19. Generals are to be gathered from Singulars, and 
 Singulars from Generals, and an Artist ought always to 
 learn to distinguish between that which is by itself, and 
 that which is only by accident. 
 
 20. The strength and efficacy of Fixed Stars is to be con- 
 sidered from their magnitude, their splendours, their natures 
 or properties, their nearness to the Ecliptic, their place in the 
 World, their multitude, their first oriental appearance, the 
 purity of their place, the similitude or agreement of the body 
 or rays of a Planet with them and their circle of position. 
 
 21. The Light of the time is the Sun in the day, and 
 morning twilight; and the Moon in the night when she is 
 above the Earth, and in her morning rising : so that some- 
 times there may be two lights of the time, sometimes it so 
 happens that there is none. 
 
 22. When a Planet is within five degrees of the cusp of 
 any house, it shall be accounted to have virtue in that 
 house though actually posited behind the cusp in another 
 house. 
 
 23. Not only Trines and Sextiles may be counted friendly 
 aspects, but even Squares and Oppositions too, if there 
 happen a Reception.f 
 
 The planet Uranus, not known in Cardan's time, has doubtless 
 much to do with showing monstrous births and also eccentricity of 
 manner and life. His effects are not well understood however by 
 modern astrologers. 
 
 t This more especially is the case with the Fortunes (1/ and $ ) in 
 horary questions. 
 
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 APHORISMS RELATING TO NATIVITIES. 
 
 1. A Child is then said to be born when first it breathes 
 in air at its mouth, when outside its mother's womb.* 
 
 2. Those that have the Luminaries unfortunate in Angles 
 will be apt to commit suicide. 
 
 3. Those that have Saturn in Opposition to Jupiter, will 
 never enjoy peace, and those that have the Dragon's Tail 
 with Jupiter, will seldom be rich. 
 
 4. Those that have Saturn and Mars in the same partf of 
 the Zodiac will be liable, in the course of their lives, to 
 many misfortunes ; and if they shall both be in Taurus, and 
 posited in the fourth house ; when the Ascendant, by 
 direction, comes to their rays, the Natives will have some 
 severe falls, or be in danger by reason of some ruinous 
 buildings falling on them. 
 
 5. Fixed Signs give learning; with the exception of 
 Scorpio ; Common Signs, manners and conversation, with 
 the exception of Virgo, and Moveable Signs ; riches ; with 
 the exception of Capricorn ; whence it appears that those 
 are bad nativities that have all the Planets in Virgo, Scorpio 
 or Capricorn. 
 
 6. If the Ascendant be one of those Signs called Mute,"J 
 and Mercury in one that is not humane, with any fixed 
 Star of the nature of Saturn, the Native will never speak 
 well, but bring forth his words with difficult}^ 
 
 7. He that hath the Moon in Taurus§ in the second 
 separating from the Square or Opposition of Jupiter, and 
 applying to a Trine of the Sun shall obtain very consider- 
 able riches. 
 
 • 8. When the Abscissor, cutter off of life, or killing 
 
 * Wilson says the nativity takes place the instant the Native 
 draws breath independently, or rather that when the umbilical 
 cord is divided. — " Dictionary of Astrology." 
 
 t I.e-i in the same sign. Cardan probably meant Saturn and Mars 
 in Conjunction. 
 
 % The signs Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, were termed Mute by the 
 Arabians. 
 
 § The Moon is exalted in 3° Taurus. 
 
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 Planet,* is on the Ecliptic, and an Infortune in an Angle, 
 the Native will die a violent death. 
 
 9. When an Infortune is posited on the cusp of the seventh 
 house, the Native will be liable to great calamities,t and if 
 an Infortune be in Aspect with the Sun or Moon afflicted in 
 the same place, the Native^ though a Prince, shall suffer a 
 world of troubles. 
 
 10. Aries ascending, signifies the Natives to be hand- 
 some, and of a grave composed temper, but Scorpio on the 
 horoscope, notes them to be great liars. 
 
 11. When the Moon is in Scorpio in Square of Saturn in 
 Leo, or in Opposition to him when he is partially in 
 Taurus, the Native rarely has either wife or children. If 
 Saturn be in Aquarius, he will be a mere woman-hater. 
 
 12. If the Dragon's Tail be with Saturn in Square of the 
 Moon, and she Cadent, the Native will be consumptive, 
 especially if from an Angle ; but if besides it be in Square 
 to the Lord of the Ascendant, he will be sickly and infirm all 
 the days of his life, and if such Aspect happen in or from 
 the sixth house, so much the worse, j 
 
 13. When Jupiter is in the Sixth house. Retrograde, and 
 the Lord of the Second Peregrine, and no benevolent fixed 
 star to help, the Native will be very poor and necessitous. 
 
 14. He that has Mars in his Ascendant shall be exposed 
 to many dangers, and commonly receives, at some time, a 
 great scar or cut, on his face. 
 
 15. Mercury mixing his beams with Mars, is a great 
 argument of a violent death. 
 
 16. If Jupiter and the Moon in any nativity shall be very 
 weak and afflicted though other positions seem never so 
 promising, yet the Native shall be exceedingly unhappy. 
 
 17. When Yenus is with Saturn and beholds the Lord of 
 the Ascendant, the Native is inclined to Sodomy, or at 
 least shall love old hard favoured women, or poor dirty 
 wenches. 
 
 18. When Venus and Jupiter shall be in the Seventh, 
 
 * Termed also the Anareta. 
 t He will seldom be fortunate in his married life. 
 X These evil effects would be much modified should there be a 
 Trine or Sextile of Jupiter to the Hyleg or Ascendant in such a figure. 
 
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 the Moon beholding them in her own dignities, and the 
 Dragon's Head joined with them or with Mercury, the 
 Native shall get a great Estate by means of his wives. 
 
 19. The Moon full of light in Conjunction with Mars, 
 makes the Native to be counted a fool ; but if she be void 
 of light and with Saturn, he is so indeed. 
 
 20. Yenus in the heart of the Sun gives vast honours 
 and dignities, the same may be hoped for, if a Planet* with 
 the Fixed Star called " Cor Leonis," behold the Moon. 
 
 21. The Moon in the Seventh house renders Natives 
 subject to the Falling-sickness, and sometimes when she is 
 in the Ascendant, but generally she makes them fools if she 
 be afflicted.-f- 
 
 22. Bastards and supposititious children have frequently 
 the Ascendant in aspect with the Moon, and not the 
 significator of the Father ; and for the most part attended 
 with indications of some great misfortunes, and either there 
 is no agreement between the Lord of the fourth, the Lord of 
 the second and the Moon, or else Venus is joined with Mars 
 or Mercury. 
 
 23. When Jupiter shall be in the tenth in Trine of Mars, 
 and strong ; and the Sun with the Dragon's Head, and the 
 Moon with Cor Leonis ; such Native, though the son of 
 the meanest peasant, shall be wonderfully exalted. 
 
 24. When any Planet shall be partly on the cusp of the 
 Seventh in his own house, the Native's death will be of the 
 nature of that Planet and Place. 
 
 25. The Infortunes in Angles denote a public death, or a 
 sudden one ; the Sun there, afflicted, it shall be by some 
 weapon, or burning, the Moon, by hanging, or drowning, 
 according to circumstances. 
 
 26. Sol and Mars peregrine or the Dragon's Tail in the 
 Second, signifies that the Native shall squander away his 
 substance or Estate foolishly. 
 
 27. When the Moon in Opposition to the Sun is joined 
 with nebulous stars, the Native will have some defect in his 
 
 * Cardan evidently means a Fortune, though he writes "a 
 planet." 
 
 t The Moon governs the age of childhood and her effects are 
 powerful on the weak-minded, hence the term " Lunatic." 
 
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 sight; if the Moon in the Seventh be afflicted by both the 
 Infortunes, and if their rays are very strong he will be 
 blind. 
 
 28. The compound rays of Jove, Venus, Mercur}^, and the 
 Moon, give the greatest grace and sweetness of speech, and 
 therefore when Jupiter shall be in Virgo, and the Moon in 
 Pisces, it is an opportune time for the birth of a Poet. 
 Poets are always born, not made. 
 
 29. That person will scarce make a prosperous end, or 
 persevere long in any eminent degree, who has not some of 
 his Ancestors' Genitures to sympathise with, and assist his 
 own. 
 
 30. The fifth sign from the Ascendant signifies the 
 Native's children, because it is of the same nature as the 
 sign on the Ascendant, and if two signs shall be in the 
 Ascendant, the children will be of humours and manners 
 exceedingly different, the one from the other ; for the same 
 reason the ninth house, signifies grand-children. 
 
 31. The Moon with the Dragon's Tail in a Nativity gives 
 suspicion of the mother's honesty, and hints that the child 
 is none of the reputed father's begetting ; however, it will 
 prove ill-mannered, and for the most part unfortunate. 
 
 32. Whoever has Jupiter in aspect with the Sun,* will 
 be proud and haughty, and yet shall have little cause for 
 it, unless they happen to be in reception. 
 
 83. The Nativities of women in matters appertaining to 
 life, are like those of men, but as to fortune, wholly unlike, 
 and touching manners, after a middle kind, neither wholly 
 agreeable, nor wholly contrary. 
 
 34, A woman that has Mars with the Moon is right ; I'll 
 warrant her. 
 
 35. In complete Nativities the Moon returns to the sign 
 ascending at conception, or its opposite, or to the body 
 or aspect of some Planet with whom she was at the 
 conception, or to her own sign, and generally the Ascendant 
 at birth is the Moon's place at conception, or its opposite, 
 or the place of the Lord of the New-Moon foregoing the 
 conception, yet there are sober genitures too, when the Sun 
 comes to the place of the Ascendant or its Lord, etc. 
 
 * More especially in Square, Opposition or other evil aspect. 
 
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 36. When Mars or tlie Moon shall be with the Dragon's 
 Head or Tail in the twelfth, and Sol and Jupiter in the 
 fourth house, the Native will be hunch -backed. 
 
 37. When Mars is Lord of a Woman's Ascendant, and 
 Venus posited in it, or Venus is Lady of it, and Mars in it, 
 or Mars Lord of the Ascendant in the mid-heaven ; it is 
 more than probable she will Cuckold her husband.* 
 
 38. The Lord of the Ascendant in the combust way, 
 shows that the Native will be much entangled and pestered 
 with business. 
 
 39. If Infortunes be in the tenth house, peregrine, and 
 not friendly to the Ascendant, the Native will be always 
 full of suspicions and jealousies. 
 
 40. All Planets above the Earth, make a man illustrious 
 and generally known far and near, and being all swift in 
 motion, render him dexterous and nimble in the dispatch of 
 affairs.f 
 
 41. Those that have the Moon, Lady of the Ascendant 
 under the Earth, with the " Tail of the Lion "J and the 
 <( Virgin's Head,"§ the Sun in the sixth, and Saturn or 
 Mars in their own dignities in the Angles of the seventh, 
 will always be very infirm and weak. 
 
 42. Mercury in Pisces lays an impediment on the tongue, 
 making a man absurd in his speech and uttering unawares 
 what he does not conceive in his mind ; so if that sign 
 ascend. 
 
 43. Whoever is born on the day of the Vernal Equinox 
 at noon^ shall by that testimony alone, become great in the 
 world. 
 
 44. Women that have their Ascendant, Moon, Mars, 
 
 * Mars conjoined with Venus or in square or opposition thereto, is 
 considered significantly evil in a female geniture, unless there are 
 excellent configurations and positions of the fortunes and luminaries 
 to mitigate the evils foreshadowed. 
 
 t Many planets in fixed signs are also said to produce fame. 
 
 X Deneb (Cauda Leonis), a fixed star of the second magnitude in 
 19 degrees 53 minutes of Virgo, of the nature of Saturn and Venus. 
 Its effect is unfortunate and said to make one publicly disgraceful. 
 
 § Vindemiatrix, a fixed star of the 3rd magnitude in 8 degrees 
 24 minutes of Virgo, of the nature of Saturn, Venus and Mercury, 
 It is mischievous and unfortunate in effect. 
 
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 Venus, and Mercury in double-bodied signs, have generally 
 very evil qualities. 
 
 45. Jupiter very potent in a geniture always promises 
 some extraordinary happiness, and if he be in the Mid- 
 heaven near the cusp in Capricorn he gives a great deal of 
 good fortune by means of violence and power under pretence 
 of justice, but the same will have an unfortunate issue. 
 
 46. Famous are those persons in whose Nativities the 
 Moon receives the light of many Planets, or is joined to 
 some powerful Eoyal Fixed Star.* 
 
 47. When Sol and Jupiter rule in the ninth, and over the 
 places of Mercury, the Moon, and Ascendant, and do behold 
 each other, such a Native's words will be regarded as 
 oracles. 
 
 48. Jupiter and the Sun in the second house, give 
 a gallant, noble, free spirit ; but Saturn and Mars, or Saturn 
 with Mercury in the seventh, render men sordily covetous. 
 
 49. When the Lord of the figure of a Nativity shall be 
 Ketrograde, and both ways Cadent; the Native will be 
 a weak, poor-spirited, dejected fellow, bringing nothing to 
 perfection. 
 
 50. An Artist may more easily and certainly judge of a 
 man's Nativity, than of the weather, because he knows the 
 time of birth, but not that of the gathering together of 
 vapours. 
 
 51. Sol in Leo alone raises a man, at least scarce ever 
 suffers him to want or beg, and if the same sign ascend, it 
 buoys up his spirit with hopes, and makes him master of 
 more than ordinary reason. f 
 
 52. If Cancer ascend, and the Moon be in Moveable or 
 Common signs, especially remote from an Angle, the Native 
 is credulous, light, and inconstant. 
 
 53. Venus in the house or exaltation of Mars is always a 
 sign of filthy lust. 
 
 54. The Moon in Aquarius or Pisces makes the Native 
 to be disliked by Princes, Grandees and the upper ten, 
 
 * Such as Mirach, Rigel, or Sirius. 
 
 t A man born under this configuration is generally difficult to 
 overcome either with words or by force. 
 
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 55. When the Lord of the Mid-heaven separates by 
 Eetrogradation from the Lord of the Ascendant, the Prince, 
 King, or Ruler, shall be averse to the Native, but if on the 
 other side the Lord of the Ascendant being Retrograde 
 forsakes the Lord of the tenth, then the Native shall hate 
 his Prince^ King, or Governors ; the like is to be understood 
 of other houses according to their respective significations. 
 
 56. A Native of a City having the same sign and degree 
 ascending with that City, shall in that place, b}^ that alone 
 grow great and eminent. 
 
 57. When the Lord of the second applies to the Lord of 
 the Ascendant; especially if that Lord of the Ascendant be 
 Jupiter; the Native shall, all his life time^ be happy in 
 acquiring riches even to admiration. 
 
 58. When the Lord of the Ascendant beholds the Sun 
 with a friendly aspect or is Oriental next to the Sun, 
 or joined with the Lord of the tenth, the Native will 
 be much beloved by Kings and great people ; for the cause 
 of which favour consider the nature of the said Lord of the 
 Ascendant and his place. 
 
 59. When several children have the same accidents and 
 fortune, if it be in their childhood, it may be shown by the 
 genitures of their parents ; or if in their old age, we may 
 conclude the Nativities of their Parents were so powerful 
 that they assimilate their Nativities between themselves 
 and suit them to the disposition of Children in the Paternal 
 Figure.* 
 
 60. Mars in moveable Signs makes people hasty and 
 choleric, but nowhere more than in Cancer, nor less than in 
 Virgo, but in the former he generally makes the tongue more 
 foolish and impertinent. 
 
 61. Saturn in the Twelfth threatens the gout; in the 
 Sixth some lasting disease or tedious imprisonments. 
 
 62. If the Moon be betv/een Mars and Sol or with them, 
 the Native will almost exchange his cradle for a grave, being 
 very short-lived. 
 
 63. If the Moon separates from an Infortune, the Native 
 
 * It is marvellous _ to note the sympathies which nearly always 
 exist between the nativities of parents and children. 
 
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 will suffer many diseases in nursing, and afflictions after- 
 wards. 
 
 64. Whoever has Yeniis not well posited ; within the rays 
 of Mars, unfortunate, will assuredly suffer a world of mis- 
 chief and troubles by means of love.* 
 
 65. Watery Signs; but especially, and above all others, 
 Scorpio, make traitors ; and therefore if the Moon Lady of 
 the Ascendant be in that viperous sign ; the Native will 
 betray, or prove a traitor to, his master ; and if the same 
 position happen in the radix of a city, its inhabitants will 
 be rebellious against their Princes or Governors. 
 
 66. Mars is seldom joined with Mercury for good, for he 
 makes people naughty and impudent, yet industrious in 
 Art, whence it comes to pass that the best Artists are too 
 often the worst men. 
 
 67. Mars unfortunate in the Ninth, signifies liars and 
 atheists. 
 
 68. He that has Mercury well posited but the Moon 
 afflicted shall understand well, but deliberate ill, and there- 
 fore such, though they may advise others excellently, yet 
 shall manage their own affairs foolishly. 
 
 69. When Yenus shall be too powerful f in a geniture, 
 and in places of the Infortunes, inconveniences are to be 
 feared from unlawful loves. 
 
 70. When the Moon and Mercury, and Lord of the 
 Ascendant shall be all in double-bodied Signs, the Native 
 will be naturally addicted to old opinions and curious 
 religious notions. 
 
 71. When Saturn and Mars behold each other, and the 
 Luminaries be posited in the sixth, eighth, or twelfth 
 houses, the Native shall labour under some incurable disease 
 and lead a life wholly miserable. 
 
 72. When the Moon is in the Mid-heaven in Capricorn, 
 and Saturn or Mars in the fourth, the Native will be 
 infamous, and so much the worse if Mars be in Taurus, and 
 the Moon in Scorpio, for then many troubles will attend 
 him during his whole life. 
 
 * More especially will the native suffer if the geniture be that of a 
 female. 
 
 t i.e., angular. 
 
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 73. When Venus is with Saturn and Mars, and in oppo- 
 sition to the place of the Moon, the Native shall be but a 
 fool, yet think himself a Philosopher. 
 
 74. For the profession or Art of the Native we must con- 
 sider the Planet which being Oriental first makes its egress 
 from under the Sun. beams, and if with this there be another 
 in -the Mid-heaven that beholds the Moon, take him for an 
 Assistant, but if there be no such Planet coming from under 
 the Sun beams take him that is in the mid-heavea, and if 
 there be none therein posited then the Lord of it, and the 
 places of Mars, Venus, and Mercury_, but when these happen 
 to be many, the Native will practise several Arts ; now the 
 Art a Native practises is much affected by the series of 
 revolutions, which if they agree with his Nativity, he will 
 be delighted with it ; otherwise he will do it against his 
 will. 
 
 75. A prime cause of men leading single lives is the com- 
 bustion of the Moon in their Nativities with Saturn,* or 
 eminently afflicted by him, so in women if a Planet be 
 combust or the Sun in Taurus greatly afflicted. 
 
 * 76. Mars and Mercury evilly disposed, and in conjunction 
 with the Moon, signifies Thieves and Robbers, but if Saturn 
 behold them, or be in the Seventh, they will suffer accord- 
 ing to their deserts, and therefore whenever you see indica- 
 tions of grievous crimes, consider whether the Infortunes 
 are strong or not, and oppress the Sun, Moon, or Lord of 
 the Ascendant ; or if the Lord of the Ascendant be combust, 
 or an enemy to the Moon, for then undoubtedly the Native 
 .will suffer for his villainy. 
 
 77. When the Moon is joined to Saturn in an Angle, the 
 Native though a grandee will be reduced to poverty. 
 
 78. Let him that has Mars in the second house beware of 
 concerning himself in merchandise. 
 
 79. He that hath a Nativity unfortunate for riches and 
 honour, and yet the Moon in conjunction with an eminent 
 propitious fixed star, shall unexpectedly become potent, and 
 again fall to misery, but to judge of the greatness of the 
 event consider the state of the Moon. 
 
 * This causes men to be of solitary habits. 
 
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 80. When Venus is in the eleventh, Mercury in the 
 twelfth, the Sun in the horoscope, Jupiter in the second, 
 Saturn in the sixth, and the Moon in the ninth, so many 
 and great accidents will happen to the Native that his life 
 may justly be esteemed prodigious. 
 
 81. Saturn, Mars, and the Dragon^s Head in the fourth, 
 betoken sudden Death. 
 
 82. When the Moon in a nocturnal Geniture passes by 
 her beams from Mars to Saturn, many inconveniences will 
 happen to the Native, chiefly occasioned by women. 
 
 83. Those persons are like to prove very learned in whose 
 nativities Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon, do exactly 
 behold Mercury, provided that neither Saturn nor the Moon 
 be posited in the Ascendant, and that there be no Planet in 
 an Angle, for any Planet strong in an Angle is an impediment 
 to wisdom. 
 
 84. When the Sun peregrine in " Corde Coeli " shall be 
 in square of the Moon in the Seventh, the Native will 
 come to be the chief of his family or faction, but shall die 
 suddenly.* 
 
 85. In all Nativities examine exactly all the Moon's con- 
 dition in relation to the three ways whereby she is exalted,t 
 for 'tis very necessary. 
 
 86. When Infortunes are in Angles, and Fortunes in 
 Succedent houses, or the Moon combust, and the Lord of her 
 place strong and happy, or Jupiter Cadent, and his disposi- 
 tion well dignified : — the Native from a sad mean condition 
 and great misery shall rise to a considerable grandeur and 
 felicity, and so on the contrary. 
 
 87. When the Moon, Venus and Mars are altogether in 
 conjunction, 'tis a fit time to bring Neros and such cursed 
 monsters of mankind into the world : the Native's manners 
 are prodigiously wicked. 
 
 * The Luminaries in Square presignify a violent or sudden death 
 unless the benefic rays of Jupiter interpose, 
 t The Moon is exalted or dignified as follows : 
 
 1. By House in Cancer. 
 
 2. By Exaltation in Taurus. 
 
 3. By Triplicity when she is in Taurus, Virgo, or Capricornus. 
 The Moon is also held to be propitious when she is swift in motion 
 and increasing in light, provided other testimonies agree. 
 
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 88. Jupiter elevated and a little infortunated, destroys 
 the Native's children, but preserves his estate : — if he be 
 descending and low and not unfortunate, he gives children 
 but not an estate. 
 
 89. When Saturn does not threaten a violent death, yet 
 if he be in, or lord of the seventh or eighth houses,* he 
 signifies the Native shall die for grief of mind.f 
 
 90. Infortunes peregrine in the Seventh house, having 
 dominions in the Ascendant, denote the deaths of the 
 Native's wives or enemies. J 
 
 91. It is next to impossible that they that have never a 
 planet above the earth, nor in the Ascendant of their 
 nativities, should either live long or accomplish any great 
 matters in the world. 
 
 92. The number of a Native's wives (where only one 
 at once is lawful) is to be found out not only from the 
 concourse of the Planets or Common signs, but with that 
 you must consider that fit applications of the Moon to 
 Planets at ripe years, § and testimonies of the Death of 
 Wives do also concur. 
 
 93. When Mars and Mercury aflflict the Lord of the 
 Seventh, being elevated above him, the Native will kill his 
 wife or his enemy, || even though it be with poison, especi- 
 ally if either of them have power in the Ascendant. 
 
 94. If in a woman's nativity Mars shall be under the Sun- 
 beams, she will be apt to play the Harlot with her Servants 
 and mean fellows,1f but if Venus be true, then she will trade 
 discreetly with Nobles and gallants of quality. 
 
 95. Infortunes afflicting the place of children, if they 
 be but a little weak, the Native may have children; if 
 much debilitated, the children he has will die ; if they be 
 very weak, he will be wholly barren. 
 
 o Provided he be the Anareta. 
 
 t Or of such diseases as Saturn signifies. Violent chills, etc, 
 having always due regard to his position and configuration in the 
 figure under consideration. 
 
 t Or partners. 
 
 § After the native shall have arrived at the age of puberty. 
 II Or his partner. 
 
 *([ Provided always there be no strong benefic aspect of Jupiter 
 with the Sun. 
 
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 96. When the Lord of the Geniture is an Tnfortune and 
 does not behold the place of children, or being a Fortune 
 beholds them with an Aspect of hatred, the Native will 
 never love his children as he ought to do. 
 
 97. When Mercury is under the earth he has greater 
 efficacy in relation to giving Arts and Sciences, but in 
 respect of eloquence he is best when he is above the 
 earth. 
 
 98. When Mars is exactly on the cusp of the Mid-heaven, 
 and has no dominion in the Ascendant, if the Native live to 
 any considerable age, 'tis much to be feared that he will be 
 killed. 
 
 99. When it happens that the Significators of persons of 
 quality well posited in their own genitures, are such 
 as were unfortunate in the Nativities of their Parents, 
 it signifies that they shall spin out a laborious life as to 
 riches and honour to a considerable, age, and then by 
 successive increases, shall attain to great Estates and 
 Eminence, whence 'tis evident that the lives of no persons 
 may be more unlike to each other, than theirs who were 
 born at the same time. 
 
 100. Nativities which can never be good, are such as 
 have both the Infortunes in the same place joined to one of 
 the Luminaries, or when the infortunes single are singly 
 joined to the Luminaries, or when the Moon is under the 
 sun beams with Saturn or Mars, or where all the Planets are 
 in the third, sixth, eighth, or twelfth houses ; or when the 
 Infortunes are in Angles, and the Luminaries and Fortunes 
 cadent, or when the Luminaries only are cadent and all the 
 other Planets Retrograde, or when both the Luminaries, 
 and both the Fortunes are afflicted, or when only Mars 
 is above the earth the other Planets not being mutually 
 joined nor in Angles. 
 
 APHORISMS CONCERNING REVOLUTIONS. 
 
 1. Revolutions may be said to be accomplished five ways, 
 first, by the return of the Sun to the same point, which is 
 most valid. Secondly, the return of the centre of a 
 Planet to the same place of the Ecliptic, of which kind that 
 
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 of the Moon first, and then those of Saturn and Jupiter 
 are chief. Thirdly, the return of the centre of some smaller 
 Circle to the same place. Fourthly, the return of a Planet 
 to his place in a smaller circle. Fifthly, the return of 
 a Planet wherewith he was in the beginning joined as it is 
 the place of another Planet. 
 
 2. When the Dragon^s Tail in a Nativity unfortunately 
 beholds the Lord of the Ascendant and in a Revolution the 
 Moon shall be joined therewith, and the Lord of the House 
 of Death being then in the place of an infortune in the 
 Radix, shall likewise behold it, the Party that year will 
 die.* 
 
 3. When the Infortunes are strong in the Radix, and the 
 Moon applies to a powerful fixed Star of the Nature of 
 Mars in a Revolutjon, the Party will be apt to commit 
 man-slaughter that year, or be in danger about it.f 
 
 4. Revolutions may produce effects happening in the 
 years following, either because one year is preparative 
 to another, Or because the Nativity decrees what the 
 Revolution perfects, or by reason of the greatness of 
 the event as death, or of the causes, as when the Sun 
 is exactly in opposition of Jupiter. 
 
 5. When the Ascendant of a Revolution is the same with 
 that of the Person's Nativity, something promised in the 
 geniture happens, but much more certainty if the Moon 
 shall be also in her place of the geniture, or the Lord of the 
 Ascendant in a place partially behold the same house of the 
 Radix. 
 
 6. If in a Revolution the Lord of the Geniture Retro- 
 grade (if he be one of the Inferiors), begins to be under the 
 Sun beams, or (if he be one of the Superiors) if he be 
 afflicted by an Infortune, you may expect some danger of 
 your life that year. 
 
 7. When Jupiter in a Revolution beholds the Moon or 
 Venus, or be in an Angle in either of their places in the 
 
 * Provided always primary directions coincide with the other 
 testimonies. 
 
 t A violent nature, frequently shown by the Infortunes when 
 strong in a nativity, if devoid of the controlling benefic rays of 
 Jupiter, would be stirred up, and influenced to action by such an 
 apphcation of the Moon in a Revolutionary figure. 
 
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 Radix, it inclines the Party, if of fit age that year, to 
 marry.* 
 
 8. When in a Person's Revolution whose only significator 
 of life was debilitated in the Radix, the Fortunes shall be 
 combust in any house but the Ascendant, and the Infor- 
 tunes being above the Earth, shall behold the Sun 
 Ascendant and Moon, or the Moon be under the Earth, such 
 person without any ill direction may die that year.f 
 
 9. If a Geniture be weak as to life, and three Planets be 
 joined in a Revolution, there is imminent danger of some 
 eminent disease, especially if they happen in the sixth 
 house. 
 
 10. When at ripe Age a Revolution shall have Venus in 
 Sextile of Mercury, who was joined to her in the Genesis 
 in the same place, the Native will be strangely haunted 
 with wanton thoughts and venereal imaginations, and if 
 they shall be in conjunction in the same place where before 
 they were in Sextile^ he shall that year enjoy some mistress 
 that he is much enamoured of. 
 
 11. When in the hour of a Revolution the Superior 
 Planets or others shall be joined in the place of a Radical 
 Significator, expect from thence some notable matter to 
 happen of that kind which is thereby naturally promised. 
 
 12. When the Moon is joined with Saturn in a Revolution, 
 and he casts a square to the Ascendant, such person shall 
 that year suffer in his body by reason of a disease of his 
 mind. J 
 
 13. The additions that are made by the procession of the 
 sun in an annual Revolution, transfer the significations 
 for near upon so many daj^s after the Revolution, as there 
 are years past. 
 
 14. When the Moon agreeing with Saturn in the Radix, 
 or being with any other Planet in his dignities, if she 
 
 * And if marriage is denied by the nativity he will be inclined to 
 live with a mistress. 
 
 t This statement should be received with great caution. The 
 Astrologer should never judge of death save by primary directions 
 which correspond with secondary directions in showing evidence of 
 final dissolution. It is of course well to consider the Revolutionary 
 figure in connection with the directions. 
 
 X Or vertigo. 
 
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 happen in a Eevolution (after the age of forty years) to be 
 corporally joined with Saturn in the same latitude, or being 
 full of light shall be in opposition to him and in contrary 
 latitude from the sixth house to the eighth, the Native 
 will undoubtedly fall into some strange disease and die 
 thereof.* 
 
 15. When the houses of the Ascendant or Moon in the 
 Radix shall be in square or opposition to the Infortunes in a 
 Revolution, the Native will suffer much trouble, but if the 
 Moon be in conjunction with them, then he shall do much 
 mischief to other people, but if besides this the Infortunes 
 are Lords of inimical places, He shall botli do damage to 
 others and suffer much himself. 
 
 16. The particular times of accidents happening are to 
 be found out from annual and monthly revolutions and 
 transits.-f- 
 
 17. Fatal will that year be to the Native's health, when 
 in the Revolution many of the Hylegicals come to bad 
 places of the Figure, or to the Aspects of the Infortunes. 
 
 18. If any Planet be afflicted in an annual revolution, 
 the effects will appear when he shall apply by body, square 
 or opposition to the Planet that is Lord of the sign wherein 
 he is. 
 
 19. Diseases are for the most part of the nature of the 
 Lord of the sixth house, or the Planet therein posited as 
 well in Revolutions as Nativities. 
 
 20. The Revolution of a year is one thing in time, which 
 is the return of the Sun to the same point from the Equi- 
 noctial ; — another thing in the World, which is its return 
 to the same fixed star, and yet another thing in Nativities, 
 which is its return to its former place, but with the addition 
 of so much of the Ecliptic as he passes through in one 
 natural day. 
 
 * Provided always primary directions influence such. 
 
 t The Moon by her transits influences the lesser events of life, the 
 greater Luminary and the planets by their transits, influence the 
 greater events of life. 
 
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 APHORISMS RELATING TO DECUMBITURES, 
 DISEASES, PHYSIC, ETC. 
 
 1. In sickness, the Ascendant * shall signify the Patient, 
 the seventh house the disease, the Luminaries the Patient's 
 strength, the Infortunes the strength of the disease, bub the 
 eighth house has always a share in the signification.*)- 
 
 2. When the Moon applies to Planets of a nature contrary 
 to that of the distemper, especially if they be Fortunes, the 
 disease will be changed for the better. 
 
 3. When the Moon in the beginning of a sickness (which 
 is called the Decumbiture of the Patient) shall be either 
 under the Sun beams or with the Dragon's Tail, Saturn or 
 Mars, it threatens extraordinary danger, and if the party 
 be old, even her conjunction with Jupiter, Mercury, or Venus, 
 is not without peril ; the same but nothing so grievous may 
 be feared when she is in square or opposition to any. of 
 them, but if besides all this she shall happen to have 
 been in their places in the Patient's geniture, he will 
 certainly die. 
 
 4. Mars, Jupiter, and Venus rule the blood; Mars and Sol, 
 choler ; the Moon and Venus, phlegm ; Saturn and Mercury 
 melancholy ; and Mars and Mercury with the Sun, black 
 choler. 
 
 5. Saturn causes long diseases; Venus indifferent, Mercury 
 various ones; the Moon such as return after a certain time, 
 as Vertigos, Falling-sickness, etc.J Jupiter and Sol give 
 short diseases, but Mars the most acute of all. 
 
 6. When you find the Figure at the beginning of a 
 grievous distemper to appear much more mild and favour- 
 able than the distemper, you may conclude the disease 
 contracts its malignity from the Nativity, the principal 
 places falling upon some disastrous configurations. 
 
 7. It is necessary to consider the Lunations preceding the 
 disease and thence likewise to take indications of the 
 Patient's condition. 
 
 8. If you find a Person after the age of 50 years labour 
 
 And its Lord. 
 
 t The seventh house and its lord signify the physician . 
 
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 under strong and frequent diseases, you may conclude the 
 significator of life in his Radix to be sorely afflicted by 
 the body or aspects of one of the Infortunes. 
 
 9. When the Moon is in a fixed sign physic works the 
 less, and if in Aries, Taurus, or Capricorn it will be apt to 
 prove nauseous and very distasteful to the Patient. 
 
 10. In Purging, 'tis best that both the Moon and Lord of 
 the Ascendant descend and be under the Earth : — in vomit- 
 ing that they ascend. 
 
 11. Purging, Vomiting, Bleeding, Making use of issues, 
 etc., ought to be done while the Moon is in moist signs, the 
 chief of which is Pisces, the next Cancer. 
 
 12. The significator of life in the Radix being strong in 
 natural diseases helps very much, but in casualties, little or 
 nothing. 
 
 13. When the Moon is with Venus, Choler is better 
 and more safely expelled; and when she is with Jupiter, 
 Melancholy. 
 
 14. Every immoderate Position of the Heavens to Persons 
 weak and aged, brings death ; to others violent accidents 
 and grievous calamities. 
 
 15. If a disease begin when the Moon is in opposition to 
 the Sun, 'tis by reason of superfluity of humours ; if she 
 suffer an eclipse, the same time 'tis for weakness of the 
 Spirits and Vital power. 
 
 16. The Infortunes being Oriental, cause Diseases ; Occi- 
 dental, defects. 
 
 17. Venus with Saturn in the seventh and Mars elevated 
 above them both_, causes barrenness in men, and Abortions 
 in women. 
 
 18. Sagittary and Gemini signify Diseases that come with 
 falling, as Swooning, Palling- sickness, Suff'ocations of the 
 womb, etc. 
 
 19. When at the beginning of a disease the Luminaries 
 are both with the Infortunes, or in opposition to them, the 
 sick will very hardly escape. 
 
 20. From the Moon's applications to the Fortunes or good 
 aspect of the Sun, the same being neither contrary to the 
 disease, nor afflicted, nor in the power of the Infortunes : — 
 
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 health may be expected, but by her going to the Infortunes 
 of like nature with the disease, or ill beams of the Sun, 
 death is to be feared. 
 
 21. Cold and dry diseases, such as are naturall}' long, are 
 increased by Saturn ; but those that are short, hot and dry, 
 from Mars. 
 
 22. A conjunction of the Luminaries in Aries, causes 
 alteration and death, if Venus and Mercury be there retro- 
 grade ; the like if it happen in Scorpio or Virgo or in any 
 humane sign; so likewise if such conjunction fall in the 
 sixth, seventh, or eighth house of the figure of the 
 Decumbiture within the Aspect of an Infortune_, the 
 Patient will be in great danger. 
 
 23. Mars in the Ascendant at the Decumbiture, makes 
 the disease, swift, violent,"^ afflicting the npper parts and 
 disturbing the mind ; and if besides this, the dispositors of 
 the Luminaries and Ascendant happen to be afflicted, death 
 will follow ; the like if both the Luminaries be Cadent from 
 Angles, and not assisted by the Fortunes ; but if in such a 
 position, the Fortunes strong shall have dominion in two 
 places, the disease will be changed from Acute to Chronic, 
 and the Patient at last will escape beyond hope. 
 
 24. From the first hour of the day (or one in the 
 morning inclusive) till six, blood predominates, whence 
 morning sleeps become so sweet and pleasant; from thence 
 to noon, Choler, afternoon Phlegm, and from the beginning 
 of the Night till mid-night, Melancholy. 
 
 25. Saturn in Fiery Signs when the Sun is weak causes 
 hectic fevers ; Jupiter sanguinary ones, and if Mars behold 
 him Putrid ones; Mars in such signs gives burning fevers of 
 all sorts ; Venus ephemeral fevers, and if the rays of Mars 
 be mixed, putrid ones from phlegm ; Mercury mixed ones, 
 but if the Moon be joined with him she makes pituitous 
 fevers from the corruption of the humours ; Saturn mixing 
 signification with Mars, causes Melancholy fevers, and if 
 Mars be under the Sun in the sixth or twelfth house in 
 fiery Signs, or being so posited shall cast his beams on the 
 Significator of life, or the Lord of the Ascendant of the 
 Revolution, or if the Lord of the Ascendant or Significator 
 
 '^^ Symptoms of fever will probably set in. 
 
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 of life apply to his aspects by direction, it occasions burn- 
 ing pernicious fevers and like to venomous ones ; but if to 
 these, Saturn or the Dragon's Head or Tail, or Venus Com- 
 bust be added, or if these Planets shall be posited in Scorpio 
 or Leo, the fever will be altogether pestilential. 
 
 26. Mischievous fevers are caused when the Sun is 
 Afflicted in Leo, but if otherwise he be fortified they 
 seldom happen, because the matter then corrupts and is 
 carried off, unless by chance, 
 
 27. Watery signs threaten Putrid fevers of very bad 
 continuance if Mars (especially combust) have any rule in 
 them, but earthly signs are altogether free from putrid 
 fevers. 
 
 28. It will be a fatal time to suffer amputation or lose 
 any member when the moon is in an oblique sign under the 
 Sun beams and opposed by Mars.* 
 
 29. A tedious travail and delivery in child-birth is to be 
 expected, when the Moon is aspected by the Infor tunes, and 
 in an oblique sign, and a Planet retrograde or slow of 
 Motion is in the Ascendant. 
 
 30. Venus is cold in the second degree, and moist in the 
 third; the Moon cold in the third, and moist in the fourth ; 
 Jupiter hot in the second, and moist in the first ; the Sun 
 hot in the third, and dry in the second ; Mars dry in the 
 third, and hot in the fourth ; and Saturn both cold and dry 
 in the fourth. 
 
 31. The special Significator of a disease is that unfortu- 
 nate Planet from whom the Significator separates by a bad 
 aspect ; and the Lord of the Ascendant shows the cause of 
 the grief if he be found anywhere unfortunate. 
 
 32. If the Lord of the Ascendant be an Infortune the 
 sick will be unruly, but if he be a Fortune he will readily 
 take what is prescribed. 
 
 33. The fifth house and its Lord, show the medicines, and 
 their nature whether good or evil, proper or improper. 
 
 34. As the lie volution of a year as to its ill significations, 
 happens according to the directions from the geniture, so 
 
 * Ptolemy writes : " Pierce not with iron that part of the body 
 which may be governed by the sign actually occupied by the moon." 
 — Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos. 
 
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 the decumbiture as to its worse significations is regulated by 
 the revolution according to Lunar directions. 
 
 35. Several Planets being Significators show that the 
 distemper is complicated of several diseases. 
 
 86. The Significator of the disease in double-bodied signs 
 signifies a relapse, or that it will change into some other 
 distemper. 
 
 37. The disease is desperate, when the Significator of the 
 sick either in his Nativity or the decumbiture, has dominion 
 in the fourth house. 
 
 38. That sign in which the Significator of the disease is 
 posited, and that to which he casts any aspect, show the 
 members or parts of the body principally afl[licted. 
 
 39. When Mercury is unfortunate he prejudices the 
 phantasy and inward faculties, and thence threatens 
 madness, etc., but so much the worse if Mars be the Planet 
 that afflicteth him, for then if he be in an earthy sign it 
 threatens the Patient will make away with himself. 
 
 , 40. It is a very bad sign when the Significator of the 
 sickness is in the sixth, or the Lord of the sixth in the 
 eighth, or the Lord of the eighth, in the sixth house. 
 
 41. Mercury significator of a disease in aspect with 
 Saturn, or Saturn significator in aspect of Mercury, gives 
 suspicion of witchcraft and enchantment."^ 
 
 * The theory of witchcraft is held up to ridicule by most orthodox 
 scientific men of the present day who have not carefully investigated 
 the matter, but it may perhaps be advantageous to some students of 
 natural philosophy to bear in mind that Saturn, amongst other things, 
 is the significator of the occult, that he gives great reflective and con- 
 centrative powers ; and Mercury signifies, amongst other things, the 
 magnetic fluid or odylic force, also that subtlety and rapidity of 
 thought necessary to be exerted at the right time in all magnetic ex- 
 periments where the sensitive is to be acted upon at a distance from 
 the operator, as would usually be the case in " Witchcraft " or " En- 
 chantment." These two planets therefore which Cardan quotes are 
 the very significators of the subtle power and means which must be 
 exerted in order to bring about the magnetic effect termed by our 
 forefathers " Witchcraft," and which modern occultists recognise as 
 the outcome of " Black Magic ' or evil magnetism. If witchcraft, or 
 rather an occult influence of an evil nature, be shown in a decumbi- 
 ture, the operator can often be discovered by a consideration of the 
 4th and 12th houses, together with positions and configurations of 
 their lords, in the figure, having due regard to Saturn and Mercury, 
 
CHOICE APHORISMS FROM THE SEVEN SEGMENTS OF CARDAN. 97 
 
 42. A chronical disease (that is a disease which usually 
 continues above a month) is ruled by the motion of the Sun ; 
 acute diseases (which are more sharp and violent but lesr 
 lasting) by the motion of the Moon, according to whose 
 swifter or slower motion the critical times are either 
 hastened or retarded,* the same being when the Moon 
 comes to a sign contrary in both qualities to that in which 
 she was in the beginning of the disease. 
 
 43. For curing a member, the Moon and Lord of the 
 Ascendant should be free from Impediment, the sign that 
 governs the part ascending and the Moon posited in it, and 
 when you think to do any good to your eyes, let the Moon 
 be fortunate, increasing in light and by no means in a sign 
 of the Earthly Triplicit}^ 
 
 44. Even the Fortunes in diseases may become Infortunes, 
 viz., when the disease itself is of their nature, or of the 
 nature of things by them signified, and in such case the 
 infortunes may be said to be fortunes, for contraries are to 
 be cured by contraries. 
 
 APHORISMS CONCERNING ELECTIONS. 
 
 1. An Election signifies nothing or very little unless it 
 correspond with the Nativity, and time wherein you Elect."f* 
 
 2. If you would have anything kept secret let the Moon 
 be under the Sun beams when you do it. J 
 
 and comparing carefully with the Radix and Revolutionary Figure 
 for the year. It is advisable to consider also the position and con- 
 figurations of Herschel. 
 
 Much excellent matter is given in Claudius Dariot, "Judicial 
 Astrology," on the influence and powers of the Moon with regard to 
 critical periods of sickness (London, 1598). 
 
 Dr. Mead, physician to Charles I., also deals with critical periods 
 under the influence of the moon in his " Treatise Concerning the In- 
 fluence of the Sun and Moon upon Human Bodies " (London, 1748). 
 
 t "In all authors that ever I yet met with I find there can be no 
 time elected (in this our astrological way of electing) advantageous 
 to anyone whose nativity or time of birth is not exactly known, for 
 according unto it must you frame your election, together with respect 
 to the revolutions of the year : and Zael, Bonatus, Messahalla and 
 Dariot say that in case the nativity of a man cannot be obtained, 
 respect must be had to the time of the question.' —Wm. Ramsey, 
 Astrologia Restorata (London, 1654). 
 
 % Ramsey, in his Table of Elections, under moon conjoined to 
 sun, writes : " Begin nothing but that thou wouldst have hidden and 
 secret." — ^Astrologia Restorata. 
 
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 THE astrologer's GUIDE. 
 
 3. Make no new clothes, nor first put them on when the 
 Moon is in Scorpio, especially if she be full of light and 
 beheld of Mars, for they will be apt to be torn and quickly 
 worn out. 
 
 4. "When in an Election you cannot fit the Moon to two 
 Planets that you have occasion for, at once, join her to some 
 fixed star that is of the nature of them both. 
 
 5. When you would suddenly finish a thing, place the 
 Moon and significator in Moveable Signs, but if you would 
 have your work last long, let them be in fixed ones, and for 
 this reason it becomes so difficult for a man to attain to 
 do both. 
 
 6. The best election a man can make is the place of his 
 habitation : for if the Ascendant of the City he dwells in 
 be the place of his Ascendant, he will have his health well, 
 if the Mid-Heaven, he will come to preferment, if it be the 
 place of the Sun in the Nativity, he will undoubtedly 
 obtain honour and dignities, if of Jupiter he will grow 
 rich ; if of the Moon he will be very happy in most respects 
 there. 
 
 7. Every man's geniture in some things agrees with, and 
 in some differs from another's, we should therefore deal 
 with people (as to important matters) only in things wherein 
 their Nativities sympathize with ours, but in other things 
 to forbear, and indeed we ought generally to avoid the 
 society of a person the Lord of whose Ascendant is an 
 infortune and joined with the Dragon's Tail or any malevo- 
 lent Fixed Star, for unless there be a great agreement 
 between our Nativities they will do us some mischief, though 
 perhaps against their will. 
 
 8. When the significators of journies are in watery signs 
 and the Infortunes (or the Fortunes themselves unfriendly 
 posited) be elevated above them, the querent will be much 
 troubled in his journies with bad weather and tempests, and 
 note that the causes or business of journies is to be dis- 
 covered from the dispositors of the significators. 
 
 9. You may sometimes use the Infortunes as Physicians 
 do poisons_, for they produce strong effects ; but use them 
 like those, sparingly and with caution. 
 
CHOICE APHORISMS FROM THE SEVEN SEGMENTS OF CARDAN. 99 
 
 10. News or reports raised and spread abroad whilst the 
 Moon is in the beginning of Scorpio or Capricorn are gene- 
 rally false, but if she be with Jupiter in a masculine sign 
 they are like to prove true. 
 
 11. Begin not to build whilst the Moon is in Scorpio or 
 Pisces or when a southern sign ascends, nor let the Moon 
 or Lord of the fourth apply to a Ketrograde Planet, for it 
 threatens that such edifice shall soon fall or be ruined.* 
 
 12. At Play and in War it is said that it is considerable for a 
 man to have his face look towards a friendly Part of Heaven, 
 and that if both parties do so, the contest will be tedious, if 
 neither of them, then both in battle will be much prejudiced, 
 and in gamiug there will be little won on either side, but if 
 one of them only look that way, he will soon conquer his 
 antagonist. 
 
 13. In every Election let the Moon and Lord of the 
 Ascendant be free from impediment or affliction. 
 
 14. But if when the Moon suffers some impediment from 
 another Planet, thou art forced on that day to make an 
 election, let a sign ascend that is either the house or exalta- 
 tion of that Planet so impediting. 
 
 15. It is best to undertake journies when the significators 
 are in moveable signs, for they signify celerity and return 
 with dispatch of business, but fixed signs in such cases are 
 very bad, so also it is if the Lord of the Ascendant or Moon 
 happen to be in the sixth, eighth, or twelfth houses. 
 
 16. It is an undeniable thing (in general) to deliver a 
 petition or request to a great person when the Moon applies 
 to Jupiter, and he is joined with the Dragon's Head in the 
 Mid-heaven. 
 
 Or the habitation will not, owing to circumstances, be enjoyed long 
 by the person who elects such an unpropitious time for his work. 
 " To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under 
 the heaven. ... A time to cast away stones and a time to gather 
 stones together'' (Ecclesiastes, c. 3, vs. 1 and 5). " Fools build houses 
 for wise men to five in " (Old Proverb). 
 
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 THE astrologer's GUIDE. 
 
 APHORISMS RELATING TO ECLIPSES AND 
 COMETS. 
 
 1. In an Eclipse it is necessary to consider the strength of 
 the Planet then ruling,for his significations will chiefly appear. 
 
 2. Eclipses of the sun have powerful effects, and therefore 
 if they fall upon a very flourishing and promising crop they 
 generally damnify it, so that it scarce comes to any thing 
 near what might have been expected. 
 
 3. When at the time of an eclipse the significator of life in 
 any person's Radix shall be within the Beams of the Anereta 
 or killing Planet_, or of an Infortune not friendly disposed, 
 such native will incur extraordinary hazard of his life. 
 
 4. In general some Eclipses of the luminaries at the time 
 or even before they happen raise showers and rain, others 
 great droughts, some violent winds, others earthquakes, 
 some scarcity of the fruits of the earth, others terrible fires. 
 
 5. A Comet usually foreshows the birth of famous persons 
 in some time after to happen, for he is not said to be born 
 under it (in this sense) who is born during the time of its 
 appearance, but he that is born in that region or country 
 subject to such an Angle or Figure, and hath his Sun and 
 Moon in its place, or the Luminaries and the Lord of his 
 Ascendant in cardinal signs,, when the Comet rises, sets or 
 culminates, and the like. 
 
 6. A Comet in the East, signifies the rise of some eminent 
 lawgiver, in the Mid-heaven, of some very powerful King, 
 but seldom any such illustrious matter when 'tis in the 
 West or Succedent houses. 
 
 7. Comets when they are immoveable, signify seditions, 
 but when moveable they denote Foreign Wars, and one 
 Nation invading another ; in Cardinal Signs the death of 
 Princes or great men ; in the ninth house. Scandal or 
 detriment to Religion ; in the tenth or twelfth houses, the 
 pestilence or scarcity of corn ; and in the eleventh house, 
 great slaughter and destruction of Noblemen. 
 
 8. If a Comet appear whilst a woman goes with child, if 
 it be either in the fourth, sixth, or eighth month, such child 
 will prove very prone to anger and quarrels, and if he be of 
 quality, to sedition. 
 
 9. No Eclipse whatsoever can threaten a scarcity or 
 
CHOICE APHORISMS FROM THE SEVEN SEGMENTS OF CARDAN. 101 
 
 plague to the whole Earth, nor can the pestilence continue 
 above four years in one place. 
 
 10. Eclipses in the fourth house are more strong and 
 efficacious than in the eighth or twelfth houses, and in the 
 Ascendant more than in the ninth or eleventh. 
 
 11. An Eclipse of the Moon extends its effects as many 
 months, and of the Sun so many years, as it continues 
 hours. 
 
 12. An Eclipse has a threefold effect, first powerful by 
 reason of the conjunction or opposition on which it happens; 
 second general, because it slowly cools, in which respect it 
 is extended for a long time. Thirdly power which it has 
 from the Lord of the place wherein it happens and other 
 positions at that time. 
 
 13. Eclipses operate more forcibly on Cities, Provinces, 
 and Kingdoms* than on Particular persons of private 
 condition, or even upon Kings and Princes, for their effects 
 rather respect the multitude. 
 
 14. When Eclipses happen or Comets appear in Earthly 
 Signs they portend barrenness and scarcity by reason of 
 excessive droughts ; when in Watery Signs by reason of too 
 much rain, in Airy Signs they signify mighty winds, 
 seditions and the pestilence, in Fiery Signs terrible Wars and 
 slaughters. 
 
 APHOEISMS TOUCHING WEATHER, METEORS, ETC. 
 
 1. When Saturn passes out of one sign into another, you 
 may expect for several days together strange Meteors and 
 splendid sights or apparitions in the heavens. 
 
 2. When signs very different from the common course of 
 nature appear about the Sun, or in or about the Moon, 
 Stars, or any part of heaven, if thou observe the place where 
 they appear, and the figure of the heaven from the beginning 
 to the end, thou mayest come to understand what they 
 portend.f 
 
 * " Earthquakes generally follow close on the heels of eclipses."— 
 Commander Morrison, E.N., "Rules for predicting Earthquakes," 
 etc. 
 
 t Sybilina Tiburtina, who lived in the reign of the Emperor 
 Augustus, observed a brilliant star in the autumn of the year 4 B.C. 
 
102 
 
 THE astrologer's GUIDE. 
 
 3. The Lord of the Interlunary Figure signifies very 
 much as to the qualit}'- of the Air, and also the Planet that 
 beholds him^ especially if they be in Cardinal Signs. 
 
 4. When Saturn is Combust in the houses of Mars, and 
 Mars beholds him, he often begets conical figures which 
 are seen in the air composed of vapours that ascend, and 
 are signs of an earthquake to ensue. 
 
 5. Saturn and Mars, and Mars and the Sun, and Mars 
 and Mercury, cause hail ; Saturn most in summer, Sol and 
 Mercury most in autumn, and those that cause hail in these 
 two quarters cause snow in the winter and spring. 
 
 yeoi «5/««^ls Caus( * 6. Saturn with the Luminaries, Jupiter with Mercury and 
 ^f5e '^if(ds ii.s^ Mars with Venus, make an Apertio portarum or an open- 
 ihhsu^ 1^ fticin i'^g of the gates, and usually cause some notable change of 
 ir c^se <^^^!r Weather. 
 
 clRcAi} efffcfs 7. When about the beginning of winter Saturn shall 
 cury Actih? el? '' dispose of the Moon, expect unusual Colds with a cloudy 
 z.A^y^ t^so season and rain. 
 
 8. Whenever Saturn is joined to the Sun the heat is 
 remitted and the cold increased, which alone may be a 
 sufficient testimony of the truth of Astrology. 
 
 9. When Mars and Mercury are joined and behold the 
 Moon or Lord of the Ascendant in the sixth or seventh 
 house, they portend a great drought to ensue. 
 
 10. That Star has a great efficacy on the air, to which the 
 Moon shall be first joined after her conjunction, opposition 
 or square with the Sun. 
 
 She pointed it out to the Emperor, and told him it indicated that a 
 child would be born of a virgin, who should be greater than he, and 
 she urged him to worship the child. — See Pearce, "Text-book of 
 Astrology" (London, 1879). 
 
 It was by observing a figure of the heavens on the appearance of a 
 strange star that the Magi knew of the birth of our Lord, for we read : 
 " They came from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is 
 born King of the Jews'? for we have seen his star in the Uast and are 
 come to worship him.' " — St. Matthew, c. 2, verses 1 and 2. Doctor 
 Swadling, in "Divinity an Eneray to Astrology" (London, 1653), 
 writes as follows : " Saint Chrystom says, ' By a Star did God direct 
 the Gentiles, not by an Angela not by a Prophet, not by a Voice from 
 heaven, because he would condescend to their weakness and teach 
 them by such things as they were most acquainted with,' and here 
 because these Arabians were astrologers, and well versed in the stars, 
 he calleth them to himself by a Star.'' 
 
CHOICE APHORISMS FROM THE SEVEN SEGMENTS OF CARDAN. 103 
 
 11. The mixture of the beams of Jove and Mars in moist 
 signs gives Thunder with sudden showers. 
 
 12. Jupiter naturally raises North Winds, Saturn 
 Easterly, Mars Western, Venus Southern, and Mercury 
 Mixed Winds, according as he applies to other Planets.* 
 
 SOME APHORISMS RELATING TO HUSBANDRY. 
 
 1. If you prune your vines when the Moon is at full in 
 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, neither worms nor birds 
 will infest your grapes. 
 
 2. Graft not Trees, the Moon waning, or not to be seen, 
 and if you shear sheep in her increase their wool will grow 
 again the better. 
 
 3. Fruits and Wood for use should be cut in the decrease 
 of the Moon, but if you would have Timber to keep long, fell 
 it towards the latter end of the winter, the Moon being 
 under the earth, and beheld by Saturn, for that will prevent 
 its rotting, and render it exceedingly hard and durable. 
 
 4. But fire wood and what you would have grow quickly 
 again, cut when the Moon is above the Earth in the first 
 quarter joined either to Yenus or Jupiter. 
 
 5. Sow or Plant when the Moon is in Taurus, Yirgo or 
 Scorpio in good Aspect of Saturn, but when she is in 
 Cancer set or sow all kinds of pulse, and in Libra or 
 Capricorn dress your gardens and trim your small trees and 
 shrubs. 
 
 6. Saturn in fixed signs causes scarcity of corn, dear 
 years, and the death of many men. 
 
 7. When Trees blossom they are most apt to be affected 
 with injuries from the Heavens, for then they are like 
 teeming women, and when they have put out their fruits 
 like Nurses giving suck, which can endure more than when 
 they went with child ; and therefore if Eclipses happen whilst 
 a tree is so blooming, it most times causes a scarcity of that 
 kind of fruit that year, and indeed the plenty of corn and 
 fruit is not much discovered from the vernal figure or 
 Revolution of the World, as from the temperature of the 
 air, in moisture, dryness, or inequality, as also from the new 
 
 * Dr. Goad, the writer of " Astro-Meteorologica " (London, 1686), 
 bears out the aphorisms touching the weather. 
 
104 
 
 THE astrologer's GUIDE. 
 
 and full Moons, and risings of the Stars ; and Eclipses, especi- 
 ally happening then whilst things respectively blossom. 
 
 8. A Malevolent Planet being Lord of the year, though 
 fortunate, generally hurts all fruits of the earth, but those 
 particularly signified by himself. 
 
 APHORISMS RELATING TO GENERAL ACCI- 
 DENTS. 
 
 1. Saturn obtains Kingdoms or Supremacy of power by 
 labour, fraud, and infamy; Mars by valour, rapine and 
 cruelty ; but Jupiter by Justice and great opinion of good- 
 ness and honesty. 
 
 2. When Saturn is in Libra and Jupiter in Cancer, great 
 changes and alterations shall happen in the world. 
 
 3. For discovering such grand mutations we should well 
 consider the great, mean, and lesser conjunctions of the 
 Planets in the several Trigons, the removes of the Superiors 
 from one sign to another, as also their applications to the 
 fixed Stars. 
 
 4. Likewise the changes of the Absides* of the Planets 
 cause mutations in governments and laws, which is a point 
 very much to be regarded. 
 
 5. Mercury with an unfortunate Planet in the eleventh, 
 denotes the establishment of some severe or unjust laws in 
 the world. 
 
 6. A Conjunction of Mars and Saturn in the sixth or 
 eighth house, especially in a humane sign, signifies a great 
 Pestilence. 
 
 7. When in the Radix of any City Mars shall be in the 
 Mid-heaven, the Inhabitants will be inclined to Sedition : 
 If Saturn be there they will be very mischievous, yet very 
 laborious. 
 
 8. If Wars be signified note the Angle of the figure 
 wherein Mars is posited, for from that Part the Enemies 
 shall come. 
 
 A very old term used to denote the points of situation termed 
 Apogee and Perigee. 
 
 END OF THE APHORISMS OF CARDAN. 
 
 [Whereas mention is often made in the foregoing treatise, of the 
 Fixed Stars, and their eminent use in Astrology, we have thought fit 
 for the benefit of the reader to add the following table of their places.] 
 
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 Showing their true Longitude, Latitude, Magnitude and Natures, to the Year of Chmt 1700 
 Jan 1 For every Year before, subtract, and every Year after add 50 seconds to or 
 from their Longitude in the Table, and you have their true places for any time past, 
 present, or to come. 
 
 The Names of Stars. 
 
 The Star in the end of the Wing of 
 The Head of Andromeda 
 Whale's Belly 
 The Girdle of Andromeda 
 Southern Star in the former Horn of the 
 
 The following Horn of the Ram 
 Bright Star in the Head of the Ram 
 The left Foot of Andromeda . 
 The Bright Star in the Jaw of the Whale 
 The Head of Medusa . 
 The middle and bright Star of tlie seven 
 
 Longi- 
 tude. 
 
 r 5 0 
 TlO 9 
 Tl3 47 
 T26 11 
 T28 59 
 
 Lati- 
 tude. 
 
 12 35n 
 25 42n 
 
 25 59n 
 7 8n 
 
 t29 45 
 0 3 28 
 OlO 1 
 OlO 19 
 0 21 59 
 0 25 46 
 
 8 29n 
 
 9 57n 
 27 46n 
 12 37s 
 22 22n 
 
 4 On 
 
 -thr^Ey^th^S^l 
 
 The South Eye called Aldebaran, Patili 
 The Bright Foot of Orion, Rij 
 The former Shoulder of Orion 
 The Shee-Goat 
 
 n 4 15 
 n 5 34 
 ni2 49 
 ni6 45 
 ni7 48 
 
 2 36s 
 5 31s 
 31 lis 
 16 53s 
 22 5lN 
 
 The former Star in Orion's Belt 
 The middle Star in Orion's Belt 
 The highest Star in the Head of Orion 
 The Star in the extremity of the So. Horn of the 
 The following Shoulder of Orion 
 
 nl8 12 
 nl9 16 
 nl9 33 
 n20 34 
 n24 34 
 
 23 38s 
 
 24 33s 
 13 26s 
 
 2 14s 
 16 6s 
 
 Propus 
 
 The right Shoulder of Auriga . 
 The bright Foot of Gemmini . 
 Higher Head of n Castor, Apollo 
 Pollux, Hercules 
 
 n 26 44 
 n27 14 
 s 4 53 
 s 16 30 
 05I9 5 
 
 0 13s 
 21 27n 
 
 The Lesser 1 
 
 The JSlorth Assellus 
 The South Assellus 
 The Heart of Hydra 
 Basiliscus, Cor Leonis, — Regulus 
 
 1^1 40 
 
 3 19 
 
 4 30 
 
 15 57s 
 1 14n 
 
 22 24s 
 0 26n 
 
 The middle SiW)- in me Lyon's JSfeck 
 
 5 25 22 
 
 "B~¥7n 
 
 The hack of the Lyon 
 The Tail of the Lyon . 
 Vindemiatrix 
 
 The Star under the Virgin's Girdle 
 
 11]^ 7 3 
 iijpl7 25 
 Ti)? 5 45 
 7 17 
 
 14 20n 
 12 18N 
 16 15n 
 8 41n 
 
 The Virgin's Spiek, Arista 
 South Ballance 
 North Ballance 
 Left Hand of Ophiuchus 
 Higher Star in the Forehead of the Scorpion 
 
 The left knee of Ophiucus 
 The Scorpion's Heart, Antaf es . 
 The right knee of Ophiucus 
 Bright Star in the hand of the Water- 
 Bright Star of the Vulture 
 The Mouth of Pegasus 
 
 :£>19 38 
 
 T1\10 53 
 11\ 15 10 
 
 H\28 8 
 TT|_28 58 
 
 1 59N 
 
 0 25n 
 8 35n 
 
 17 19n 
 
 1 5n 
 
 ^ 5 2 
 ^ 5 35 
 ^ 13 48 
 Vf 27 31 
 Yf 27 31 
 7 24 
 
 11 30n 
 ■4 27s 
 
 7 18n 
 
 8 ION 
 29 2lN 
 22 7n 
 
 Fomahaut 
 Marchab Pegasi 
 
 South Tail of the Whale 
 
 1^29 33 
 ssl9 18 
 ^•29 18 
 
 21 OS 
 
 19 26N 
 
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INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Astrology Theologized , 32 
 
 Anatomy of Tobacco 17 
 
 Antiquarian Study 24. 
 
 Astrologer's Guide 26 
 
 Archwology and Occultism 29 
 
 Adams, F. W. L 32 
 
 Adams, Mrs. Davenport 3i 
 
 Aruudale, Miss 36 
 
 Baughan, Rosa ... 8, 14, 17 
 
 Blavatsky, H. P 21, 26 
 
 Burma 22 
 
 Batty, Jolin 2i 
 
 Bonatus 26 
 
 Browne, Hablot K 30 
 
 Betts, B. W 31 
 
 Beauty and the Beast 34 
 
 Chirognomancy 17 
 
 Cosmo de' Medici 11 
 
 Citrate's Wife {The) 14 
 
 Colman's Plays ... 19 
 
 Confessions of an English Hachish Eater 20 
 
 Cruikshank, George 25 
 
 Church, W.E 25 
 
 Cardan 26 
 
 Cook, Miss Louisa S 31 
 
 Collette, C. H 35 
 
 Chatterji, Mohini M. ... 36 
 
 Dickens 5 
 
 Dickensiana 38 
 
 Exeter 36 
 
 East Anglian 18 
 
 Eliphas Levi's Writings 27 
 
 Forlong, Major-General J. G. R. ... 12 
 
 Forty Vezirs ... 13 
 
 Folk-Songs 23 
 
 Geometrical Psychology 31 
 
 George, G. M 7 
 
 Gibb, B. J. W 13 
 
 Hints to Collectors 5, 6 
 
 Hubbe-Schleiden, J. U 35 
 
 Heptameron 10 
 
 Home, R, H 11, 12 
 
 Hartmann, F 10, 16 
 
 Hampstead 15 
 
 Hermes 33 
 
 Ingram, John H 21 
 
 Johnson, CP 5, 6 
 
 Jones, Ebenezer 24 
 
 Jones, Sumner 24 
 
 Judge, W. Q 33 
 
 Jennings, Hargrave 37 
 
 Keightley, B 36 
 
 Kitton, F. G 13, 30, 38 
 
 Kent, Charles 15 
 
 Kabala Denudata 30 
 
 Kingsford, Mrs. Anna, M.D. ... 32, 33 
 
 Lamb 34 
 
 Leech 13 
 
 Linton, W. J 24 
 
 Lilly 26 
 
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 Leolinus Sihiricnsis 17 
 
 Low Down 27 
 
 Literature of Occultism and Archa!ology 29 
 
 Leicester 32 
 
 Marchant, W. T 9 
 
 Martin engo-Cesaresco, Countess ... 23 
 
 Mathers, S. L. M 30 
 
 Maitland, E 33 
 
 Machen, A 10, 17 
 
 Magic ... 10 
 
 Memoirs of Mme. Blavatsky 26 
 
 Northy, T. J 36 
 
 Nesfield, H. W.. 31 
 
 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries ... 27 
 
 Occult World Phenomena 16 
 
 Olcott, H. S 28 
 
 Occultism and Archceology 29 
 
 " Phiz" 30 
 
 Physiognomy 8 
 
 Primitive Symbolism 12 
 
 Palmistry 14 
 
 Panton, J. E 14 
 
 Paracelsus 16 
 
 Pope Joan 35 
 
 Praise of Ale 9 
 
 Poe 11, 21 
 
 Park 15 
 
 Pat?i(T/i,6) 33 
 
 Phallicism 37 
 
 Raven (The) 2I 
 
 Regular Pickle (A) 31 
 
 Sphinx 35 
 
 Sultan Stork 3 
 
 Sheykh-Zada ... 13 
 
 Sinnett, A. P ie, 18, '26, 36 
 
 Sweeting, W. D 27 
 
 Spiritual Hermeneutics 33 
 
 Sea Songs and River Rhxjraes ... 34 
 
 Shepherd, R. H. ... 3, 4, 11, 19, 24, 34 
 
 Swinburne Bibliography of 4 
 
 Sithron 12 
 
 Scott, J. G 22 
 
 Studies of Sensation and Event .. . ..." 24 
 
 Serjeant, W. C. Eldon 26 
 
 Theosophy, Religion, and Occult Science 28 
 
 Tobacco Talk g 
 
 Theosophist (The) \\\ 2I 
 
 Two Tramps *'* 27 
 
 Transactions L. L. T. S 36 
 
 Thackeray 3,"6, 25 
 
 Tamerlane n 
 
 United ig 
 
 Valley of Sorek 7 
 
 Virgin of the World 33 
 
 Walford's Antiquarian 20 
 
 Westropp, H, M " 12 
 
 Walford, E 'is, 20 
 
 Wellerisms ... . . 15 
 
 White, C. H. Evelyn is 
 
 Waite, A. E. 27