TRADITIONAL ASTROLOGY

Are Judged (by the ordinary Course and Order of Nature) the general accidents of Countries, Kingdoms, Provinces and Cities, alterations of Kingdoms and Empires, Laws and Customs, cause of Plenty, Death, Wars, Peace, Health, Sickness, alteration of the Ayr, and (to be short) of all things appertaining to the life of Man in a natural way; wherein the Infinite Wisdom of God is seen manifestly in the Government of the World by the Influence and constant Harmony of the Celestial Planets and Stars; the Innocency, Legality and Purity of the Art demonstrated, and proved by Demonstration of the Inevitable Events of the Heavens, so long as God upholdeth the order and course of Nature unperverted; And the Students thereof consequently proved rather Divines then Conjurers or Practisers of what is unlawful.

Did not your Honours Merits claim this fourth and chief Part of my Labours as Your due, I durst not have assumed that audacity as to implore Your Honours Patronage; for as I have humbly made choice of the three preceding most Noble heroes, So (my Lord) left yet notwithstanding my Fabrick should at length fall to the ground, (which it must inevitably do, unless Your Honour pass by the presumption and unworthiness of the Penner) I humbly presumed to crave Your Honours Patronage and support thereof (craving pardon for this my Simile) being the main pillar on which I desire it should be build and upheld) not questioning then, but Your Honours Vertues and most Excellent Endowments will adde such a lusture to the whole, that the beholders will not question the insufficieny or unworthyness of Me the Author, nor further call the thing it self in question, but with all assured confidence accept thereof as most worthy and immaculate, which in it self I presume to conclude it is, how ever my weakness and insufficiency hath expressed it to the World, the which as I question not but Your Honours piercing Judgement will discover, so I hope Your Honors Munificent goodness will pass over and pardon.

I must confess (my Lord) the ridiculous and base Mercenary practices of some that have pretended to the knowledge of this sublime Science hath brought the whole Art into contempt, and in question with the ignorant therein, and such as are not able to distinguish between the use and the abuse of a thing, or the purity of the thing studyed, and the corruption of the Student; whereby the very word ASTROLOGY, under which this most heavenly Science and peace of NATURAL PHILOSOPHY is exprest, is become both odious and ridiculous to most of the rural now living; but such is Your Honors Magnanimity, that the Traduced shall not without diligent examination and evident witness be condemned, nor abolished Your Honours Presence, not making Tradition, but Truth and Experience the guide and ground of Your Judgement.

I shall not need there to speak ought in the bahalf of the whole Science, which I have endevoured in these my labours to purifie from its dross and feculency, since in the preceding Epistles, and the first Book, I have hinted both at its Verity, Excellency and Validity; but only f this subsequent Discourse, which now after my great care and indefatigable pains being produced, I am by an happy gust drawn to this Anchorage, and crave Your Honours acceptance and Patronage. It is an Instruction to the whole General Part of that Liberal Science which is called ASTRONOMY or ASTROLOGY, the which together with PHYSICKS make according to Aristotle, 2. Phys. 2. Cap. but one intire Science; for he throughout all his works indifferently useth the Name of ASTROLOGER and ASTRONOMER, and ASTROLOGER and PHILOSOPHER for one and the same; and amongst all Ancient and Learned Writers Astrology and Astronomy have received for one and the same Science, though distinct parts of properties, as hath been hinted at in the first Book of this Volume, and the 2. Chapter.

It containeth four Sections, the three first treating of the Revolutions of the Years of the World, and the fourth and last of Eclipses, Comets and Blazing-Stars, and the great Conjunctions of the Planets, by which we are taught how to judge of the order and course of Nature, and the Government of the World; as the general accidents of the World, and the alterations therein, the change of Laws, Customs, Empires and Governments, the alterations of the Ayr, the cause of Plenty, Scarcity, Health, Sickness, Peace, Wars, &c. We may also hereby most manifestly see the infinite Wisdom, Providence and Government of G o d in the whole Universe by the constant Harmony and Celestial influences of the PLANETS and the STARS, whose Portencies, so long as G o d upholdeth the order and course of NATURE unperverted, must inevitably prove true and effectual, they being never frustrated but by Miracle. My Lord, this is the ASTROLOGIA MUNDA, the Pure Astrology, which the Patriarchs and the Antient Fathers studyed and contemplated: by which the Babylonians, Arabian, Syrians, Egyptians, Grecians, Persians and Lacedemonians ruled and became famous and glorius to the wole World, and therefore (My Lord) as being the chief and most exquisite part of these my undertakings, I have placed it last, that so it might not be attempted by any that are unacquainted with the preceding Discourses, which serve but as it were Introductions hereunto, for which cause (My Lord) it is that I humbly presume to lay it at Your Honours Feet above any others, being so nerely bound to Eternise for ever Your late Honorable and VErtuous Consort of happy memory, doubting not but by the unparalleld splendour of Your Honors surpassing Endowments, it might be exalted to that hight of Honour as to be but accepted into Your Honours Presence, which will be a perpetual Fame unto it and him, who in all humility Presents it to Your Honour, and from thence assumes that Honour as to subscribe himself.

In this following Discourse is presented unto thee the chiefest knowledge of the whole World, and the Mysteries of Nature; so I call them, because they seem no other then Mysteries, and strange unto us whilst we are Ignorant in the causes thereof; In this peice thou mayest read the time past, present and future, the whole Government of the World from its Creation to its Subversion in a Natural way, by the Revolutions of the Years of the World, Eclipses, Comets and great Conjunctions of the Celestial Planets, and all accidents that shall happen in any Year, whether good or evil, whether Wars or Peace, and who shall overcome, whether Sickness or Health, Plenty or Scarcity, what shall e the condition of Kings or Grandees, and those taht are placed in Authority in any REgion or Kingdom, as also of the Beggar, and such as are of low and poor degree, the state of the Commons in any place, the wealth and prosperity of want of any City, Town or Village, and of all things belonging to Man, also of Rain, Hail, Snow, Frost, Dew, fair Weather, Tempests, Storms, Thunder, Lightnings, Earthquakes, Apparitions and the Ayr and alterations therein, and the causes of all these and to be short, thou hast here Jasons Golden Fleece, and the gretest riches of Divine Knowledge and Learning that any Man (that is Philosophically given) can wish or desire; hereby thou shalt not only with SOLOMON know all things under the Sun, but be able to Govern the World with Solomons wise man, and not with Phaeton. Wherefore lest it should be attempted by any such giddy rash Youngsters, I prefixed these preceding Books; that so this may be made the more plain, and thy destruction thereby avoided, I mean the gross absurdities thou wilt be ready to run into, as also that thou mightest not be lulled asleep with self-conceited ignorance; read it therefore warily, and with attention, but first be throughly informed of the Nature and Quality of every Sign, Planet and Configurations thereof, which thou hast delivered thee in the second and third Books, and then tehre is no question but thou wilt soon attain to this most heavenly and delectable Science, the which that thou mayst be the better enabled, let me advise thee to seek first the true Knowledge of the Creator, and then afterwards study to see him in his Nature and his Works; for perhaps otherwise thou wilt be apt to attribute all to His great Hand-maid NATURE, and so rob him of the glory most due unto him: Yet upon better consideration, I cannot see but even the most rural in Divine matters must needs acknowledge (if they throughly understand the Mysteries of this Science) some Superiour and Divine Power, although they cannot be led to the perfect knowledge of him; and this we have found in most Philosophers in former ages, especially in Plato, who for his rare knowledge in Divine matters which he attained to by his study in Philosophy, was termed DIVINE PLATO, the which Title he very well deserves, as will appear to any that shall peruse his labours: And this may serve very well to reprehend such Carpers at Humane Sciences, and the Students thereof that think it is impossible for them to be seen in such matters without being Heathens; for if I may deliver my judgement, I think it will be a means rather to induce them to acknowledge a Divinity, and to draw them neerer to the knowledge of the Creator, the which I can experimentally aver to be true, if they be any thing first grounded in Christianity: Reader, I shall here say no more, but wish tou mayst make no worse use of these my labours then I intended in my publishing thereof, and reamin

We shall desire the Studier and Well-willer to this most Heavenly and delectable Art seriously to consider and weigh the subsequent Rules. Since this general part, and it only (as you have sufficiently heard) is to be accounted Astrologie in its purity without fallacy or abuse.

Wherefore for the better illustration thereof, as also instruction of the well-willers thereunto, I shall in the handling of this our Introduction to the Judgement of Annual Revolutions of the World follow this Method.

First, to demonstrate (since you have heard already in the Epistle the extent of Revolutions, and what general Accidents may be foreknown thereby in the Elements and Elementary World) the ground on which Astrological Judgements are to be laid, or from whence to be deduced, for the predicting or knowing any accident or mutation in the World, and how many Schemes or Figures of the Heaven ought to be erected for the performance thereof.

Thirdly and lastly, most rational and authentick Rules deduced from natural causes, how to judge of all accidents whatsoever portended by Revolutions of the years of the World, which (notwithstanding you have already heard them expressed) by reason some of the Antients have reduced them excellently to four heads, I shall thus further illustrate.

The first, denoteth such accidents as are visible in this World, and to every mans sight obvious, and common to every one, as any Epidemical or general thing, fertility and sterility, rain, hail, storms and the alteration of the ayr and weather and such like.

The second, such as the invisible in the Elementary World, either genral or particular, as are Earthquakes, Thunders, Floods, &c.

The third, things peculiar to one single Nation or People, as Wars, Peace, &c.

The fourth, relateth to such things as happen in the ayr, such as are fiery apparitions, Lightnings, Comets or Blazing stars, and such like, &c.

In this matter the Ancients (in those days wherein the Art remained obscure in some points) have had divers opinions, some grounding their judgements in these businesses on the Ascendant of the Law, Nation, Commonwealth or Kingdom, concerning which they have undertaken to write, and others on Eclipses, and great Conjunctions, the which although considerable in some matters, and to be taken also into consideration in every annual Judgement.

Yet the true time from whence Judgement is to be raised for the exact knowledge and predicting of future natural events in the Elements for any year, is when the Sun enters the first point or minute of Aries, which as you have heard is the first sign of the Zodiack, and (in the 24. Chapter of our Second Book Of the Judgement of the Stars) that the Sun was in this very sign, and in this very punctum at the first Creation, and therefore (I say) it is all the reason in the World his return thereunto every year ought to be the chiefest ground on which Astrologers are to build their judgements, touching the Natural events of all sublunaries; especially since lie is (as you have been shewn in the first Book) Fons Vita the Fountain of life; and Anima mundi, the soul of the World, by which all things, as well Vegetatives as Sensitives have their subsistence and vivifying nourishment.

Besides we see that when the Sun enters this Equinoctial all things increase and flourish, the Trees and Earth grow green and blossom, and also fructifie by degrees afterwards, which may also prove unto us the manifest certainty of that opinion, or rather affirmation of the Antients that the Sun was in this first sign at the Creation of them; and truly, if we will be regulated by reason, it will be sufficiently proved by the very Word of God, which although not expresly in terminis testifying so much unto us in plain words, yet will the Text delivered in the first of Genesis verse 11. be sufficient together with the sequel, versw 12. shewing the effect, be enough in all reason to evince the Carpers at both this Art and Artists tenets, which for the most part are guided by passion, errour and tradition in all their discourses they publish against them.

So likewise on the contrary, we see when he enters Libra which is the sign opposite to Aries and the other Equinoctial, all things decay and diminish in their vegetative vigour; the earth becomes as it were barren, the leaves fall from the Trees, &c.

Thus have you heard the time of erecting your Scheme for your Work; now you are further to note thu much, that your Figure of Heaven be exactly set for the Region or place on which you would give Jugement, having first punctually taken the Elevation of the Pole.

And then having also reduced the Planets and Dragons-head to the instant of time the Sun enters the aforsaid point, and erected your figure according to Art and placed them therin, you may proceed to Judgement.

Yet first take this for a Rule; if your ascendent at this time be a movable sign, then must you not content your self with that Sceme alone; but for every quarter of the year must you erect another, this induring no longer then till the Sun enter the first point of Cancer, and from thence (as of the former you do judge of the Spring Quarter, comprehending March, April, and May, under the signs Aries, Taurus, and Gemini) may you know the events of the Summer Quarter, being June, July and August, under Cancer, Leo and Virgo; the third figure, for the third Quarter, and that which is termed Autumnal, being September, October and November, under Libra, Scorpio and Sagittary, is to be erected for the Sun his entrance into Libra; and then the last for the Winter Quarter when he enters Capricorn, which together with Aquaries and Pisces doth rule December, January and February.

If your Ascendent at the Suns ingress into the first point of Aries be a commmon sign (you have already in the Second Book Chap. 24. been shewn whcih signs are common, also which are movable, and which fixed, wherefore we shall not here make any repetition) then must you erect two Figures, that of the ingress into Areis continuing in force but the first half year, viz. but till the Sun enters the first Punctum of Libra, for which time you must erect a Scheme for the other half year, and for the knowing of the effects portended thereby.

But if your sign ascending be fixed, then will that figure serve for all that Revolution, or to the end of the year, viz. you may thereby undertake to predict or acquint your self with all matters signified thereby, even till the next ingress, without erecting any figure of the Suns ingress into the other points.

Thus much for your foundation and Platform, viz. the Scemes; but first now before thou layest one stone, let me advise thee to acquaint thy self well with these following neccessary considerations, and then mayst thou safely and with more judgement go through with thy work.

Look that you can readily and exactly distinguish of your true significators, as which House and Planet denotes the King, wich the People, which their Assistants, and which their Enemies, &c. and from whence you are to inquire of the fertility and sterility of the Earth, Wars or Peace, or any other Accident; otherwayes you shall never be able to come to any perfection in this most Divine Science.

Ever be sure you weigh well the Fortitudes and Debilities of you Significators, as how they are essentially and accidentally dignified (which you are sufficiently taught in the eight Chapter of the Second Treatise) how located in the Figure of the Heavens, and how Aspected benevolently or malevolently by the Fortunes or Infortunes, and so judge according to the Nature of the Planet afflicting or assisting your Significator, good or bad, as the signification and nature of the Aspect, Planet, Sign and House wherein he is denotes, and the signification of the Planet to which he transfers his light.

Do not conclude Saturn and Mars always Melevolents and Infortunes, and Jupiter and Venus ever Fortunes and Denoters of good; for as it may happne, they may be (contrary to this general and simple opinion) Fortunes and Infortunes as they amy be posited in Houses, and be Significators, as you have been already shewn in the first Chapter of the first Section of our Introduction to Elections.

As for example, in the Suns ingress into Aries, I have Libra ascending, or Aquaries or Capricorn, and Saturn located therein; I must not hereby, because Saturn is Naturally evil, judge the consideration and state of the People signified by the Ascendent to be evil and unfortunate this year, but contrarywise (other testimonies concurring) they will be in a most prosperous and gallant condition.

For you must know a Planet in his own house is strong and advantagious, according to the old Proverb, The Devil is good to his own Children; and so contrarywise Jupiter in my Figure at the ingress is in detriment and afflicted, and Significator or Planet from whence I am to inquire of fertility, and in Square or Opposition of other Significators, which also concur to the same signification; must I from hence because Jupiter, who for the most part is good, and in his own natural inclination free from mischief, affirm or conclude the year to be frutfull and free from any want or penury? No, but because he is the Significator this year of this matter, and in detriment, retrograde, in his fall, afflicted, impotent and weak, I judge the clean contrary.

For I am to judge according to his signification and ability at that time, not according to his natural signification; for otherwise we should make most manifest contradictions, and confound our selves both in judgement and reason, to make Saturn and Mars the only Workers of inquity; for we see clearly all the evils in the World are not of the Nature of these two, which would of necessity follow, were this admitted, but some are Jovial, some Veneral, and a third sort Mercurial, others participating of the Nature of the Sun and again of the Moon.

But to clear this point yet more fully, (for I would not have the ingenious thus misled in so gross an errour) admit Jupiter or Venus bear chief rule of the eighth house, which you know hath signification of death and mortality; and I finde by several consequences and reasons in nature the Heavens do incline to such mischief: shall I barely because one of these rules that House conclude contrary to all sound reason and manifest testimonies, the year will be rather healthfull? Believe it, I shall refuse thus to do, for every Planet must perform that whereunto it is ordained; Venus is now to denoteh death, as being Lady of the eighth, and therefore in such years I ought thus to judge.

Yet thus much I shall follow her nature, as to say there shall be much mortality or death amonst the People by reason of voluptousness, or Venery and such like; because she hath naturally such signification: In like manner if Jupiter be Lord of the eighth, and mortality that year denoted, I shall (notwithstanding he bears rule in that part of the Heavens) thus judge as hath been said, viz. death and mortality, but the nature thereof I shall take from his natural signification, as by corruption of Blood, Feavers and the like, I shall say is this mortality to be occasioned, &c.

In the next place you are to have a special care to be well instructed in the nature of every Planet and House; wherefore be thou sure to have the exact knowledge of the second Treatise it being Introductory, before thou adventurest thus far, least thou be discouraged from ever attaining to the perfection of this study, which I am certain thou wilt never do, if thou beest not therein very perfect; whereffore let the first eight Chapters thereof be perused ove and over, and then proceed.

Judge not upon every light testimony, but according to Reason and Art do thou order thy matter; for the more assurances and testimonies you have on any matter and concurrences in causes, the more affirmatively may you deliver your conclusions. Fear God, study Nature, follow the Rules of Art, be knowing therein, and be ignorant in the vanities of the sourse of the World, and thou shalt come nearest unto Truth, and infinitely augment thy knowledge.

In your judgement of the Suns ingress, yoyn also in consideration with it, the significations of Eclipses, great Conjunctions, Comets and Blazing stars, if there be any either preceding or coming after it; for be assured these things never happen but before some notable change and alteration in the World.

Remember that according to the Debility and strength of your Significator you are to judge of the condition of any person, the people, or thing whatsoever thereby signified, and you have attained to a great help: but now least you should be still to seek in the true understanding of the Significators necessary in this manner of Judgement, I shall (notwithstanding what hath been delivered in the Introduction or Second Book of these our labours) here beneath clearly demonstrate them unto thee.

Largerly have the Antients treated of these matters, yet some therein have come very short, and to little of no purpose troubled their heads, leaving still the Student both in doubts and errors; wherefore according to the sincerity of my first undertakings, I shall here indeavour to undeceive my Readers touching these particulars, and impart unto them the truth and surest rules for the judging thereof.

I shall first give you some of their Instructions, and then my own, or such as I in my judgement hold to be most rational, that so thou mayst be the better able to distinguish truth from falshood.

We shall begin with the Significator of Kings (but you are to note that in any Nation where no such are, the Grandees or chief Rulers of the times are to be understood) the which say they is thus to be known or found.

Look to the Lord of the tenth house in your Figure at time of the Revolution of the Sun into the first point of Aries, who if he be free from Combustion, Retrogradation, Impedition, and such like, and within five degrees of the sucp of the tenth, either before or after, viz, within or without the house, he shall without doubt be the Kings Significator, or chief Rulers, without any farther inquiry; but if he be any ways impedited, as in Detriment, Fall, Combust, Peregrine, Retrograde or besieged, &c. he shall not be significator of the King or Chief Rulers.

Have recourse then to that Planet who hath Exaltation in the Sign of the tenth, and if he be within five degrees of the cusp (as you have heard) and in no sort impedited or afflicted, thou shalt conclude him to be Significator of the King; but if he be impedited or afflicted (as abovesaid) he shall not be Significator.

But now, you must regard the Sun, the Planet that is Almuten of the tenth, the Planet placed within five degrees of the cusp thereof (if any such be) or the Lord of Part of Government, the which if you finde (first beginning with the Sun and then considering the rest as they are set down in order) placed and dignifyed essentially, or free from affliction (as you have heard) he shall be Significator of the King, otherwise not.

So that then by these their Rules (omitting many such like Instructions for brevities sake) there shall no Revolution whatsoever, though never so bad or mischievous, in the least have any relation, or extend unto the King or Chief Rules of any place, as if they were excusable from misfortunes, or the Heavens afraid to molest or afflict them, which must needs be if there Documents of the Ancients must be admitted authentick, who will have no Significator for them, but such as is free from all impediment, from which, consequently, we must conclude they shall never be molested or disturbed by Wars, Commotions, Insurrections, Losses or Crosses whatsoever, which I could wish were true, but we can wofully testifie to the contrary: besides to affir it, were both ridiculous and preposterous.

For the Grandees of the Earth, although never so great and proud, yet they must know (with us) they are but men, and such too, as are not excused from the harmonious configurations of the Celestial Planets and Heavens.

But the Ancients, although they have deserved by their writings infinite applause from all ingenious and judicious sould; as also high esteem, for both their care and learning; yet in this particular they have come short (for the gnerality of them I mean) and therefore if in this I dissent from them, as also in some other of their Rules, I desire to be excused, since i know no Reason why in every Age and in every study there may not some one or other, not only finde out some failings of ancient Authors, but also correct them, nay far exceed them though perhaps in every particular they may again come short: for we see even the best Divines, the best Philosophers, and Physitians have been corrected, and in some things amended, and so also the Astrological Philosopher may come short of another that stands upon his shoulders.

Wherefore then know, that the true significator of the king or chief Rulers, is the tenth house of Heaven at the time of the Suns ingress into Aries, the Lord therof, and the Planets therein posited; but more especially, the cusp of the tenth and its Lord, whether well or ill disposed it mattereth not: These in any Revolution to the end of the World shall still be Significators of the King or Rulers particularly, and the Sun and Saturn in general, but more especially the Sun.

In like manner, look what ever sign ascends at the time aforesaid, viz. the Suns ingress into Aries in any year, and that sign, together with the Lord, shall particularly denote the common People of that Kingdom or Nation for which your Scheam is erected, and shall be their significators, and the Moon generally, as the Sun is the general Significator of the Rulers.

In declaring unto you the significators of the Enemies of both King and People in any Revolution, I might also shew you the defects of some of the Ancients, but I should rather choose (thou I had not a desire to be as brief as may be) to pass them over in silence, they meriting so much at our hands otherways; wherefore let us to our business.

See that in every Revolution of the World you have regard to the opposite house signifying your Significators, as the seventh house denotes the open Enemies of the Common People and King in a hostile way; the twelfth house their private, and the ninth house the secret Enemies of the Kings or Rulers, because (as you have heard in the 42. Chpater of the Secon bokk) it is the twelfth from the tenth.

Even so, as the second house signifies the wealth and assistance of the people, so doth also the eleventh the Kings ayd, wealth and assistance; the eighth the assistance, ayd and wealth of their open enemies, &c. as you have been fully instructed before in the same 42. chapter.

I shall here only give you the general Significators of these according to the Ancients, as brief as mey be, that I may proceed to the second Section, having at large spoken of them already in the second Book.

Wherefore know, that Rich and Noblemen are signified by Jupiter and the Lord of the sign in which he is located in the Sun his ingress into Aries.

Soldiers, Armour or Standard-Bearers, Generals of Armies and the like, are understood by Mars.

The ninth house and the Lord thereof, denotes Clergy-men particularly, and generally they are signified by Jupiter: Also Judges, and the graver sort of men. Students, Merchants, and Lawyers, and Scribes, Clerks, and all Pen-men, Picture-drawers, and ingenious with; also youth and young men in general, are signified by Mercury.

Venus generally denotes women and all females (see chap 5. Book the 2.) and the Moon the vulgar and rural sort of People: as the Sun, you have heard, doth Emperours and Kings.

And lastly, all such as live obscurely and devoutly to the service of God, as Monks, Abbots, Fryers, and the like, amongst the Papists (as in the 1. chapter of the second Book) and amongst us such as slight all things in the World, in comparison of Gods Service and Divine Meditation, are signified by Saturn. As touching Cities and Countries subject both to the signs and planets, you have also fully heard them declared in the Second Book, where we treat of them.

Now to know the state and condition of any of these in a general way in any Annual Revolution, you have no more to do but this; look to your significator, from which judement is to be required, and see if he be essentially or accidentally strong or aflicted, and judge according to his strength or debility good or bad to the parties signified; for if well dignified and located, good may be expected; if afflicted, and impedited, the contrary, &c.

After thou art well informed of the true significator of the King and People, or any ones person or thing, concerning which thou wouldst judge of any future event, thou wilt be the better able to accomplish thy desires.

Wherefore now to know the true state and condition of the King, People or any other, have regarded to their true significators; as unto the sign of the tenth (if thou enquirest concerning the King, &c.) its Lord and the Planet or Planets therein posited; and some of the Ancients have said the Sun, Part of Fortune, and its dispositor are also to be joyned in consideration with them (thou mayst choose which thou wilt follow) and see how they are dignified, how aspected, and by what Planets, their nature, place in the Heavens, and nature of the sign from whence they aspect your significator.

If he be in Sextile or Trine of the Fortunes, and out of good Houses, thou mayst expect and judge from thence good; but if beheld by the Square or Opposition of the Infortunes, mischief is to be feard; if the aspects be good and from many benevolent Planets, judge much success; if otherwise, less; and so contrariwise much evil if your significator be several ways afflicted, &c.

If you would know the nature of the evil or good which is threatned by the assistance or debilities of your significator, look to the nature of the Planet afflicting, and the nature of the sign wherein he is located, and the part of Heaven in which he is placed, and according to their significations judge.

As for example, in your figure you have (suppose) the Lord of the tenth in the ninth, by which you shall judge some secret treason or plot against his person during that Revolution, because it is the twelfth from the tenth, and signifieth secret enemies and plots; but if beheld by the Lord thereof by a a malitious Squre or Opposition, you shall say he shall undertake some Journey by which he shall endanger his life, or in the which some such Perils shall happen; and if also at the same instant he is afflicted by the malevolent Aspect of the Lord of the Eighth, which is the Fifth in the figure, no wise assisted by adjuvant beams of the Fortunes, thou mayst then assuredly conclude him to be in great jeopardy of his life: and if other Testimonies concur, thou mayst absolutely pronounce death; for you must still remember that according to the signification of the Sign the afflicting Planet is Lord of, and the Sign and place of heaven wherein he is, to pronounce the nature of the evil threatned; for we shall suppose the Lord of the Eighth before mentioned to be in the Seventh, which is the Fourth in the Figure, though Seventh from the Tenth, by which you may assuredly say that the evil, viz. the danger of death treatned, shall be occasioned by the malitious and furious actions of his enemy, the Seventh house having signification thereof; and so judge of any other position; and contrariwise if the Aspects and Planets aspecting be Fortunes, and in good places of Heaven, judge the contrary.

So likewise judge of the state and condition of the People having regard to the Ascendent, its Lord, the Moon and Lord of the year, and if they be well placed and dignified, also well aspected by the benevolents, judge the condition of the common People or Subjects to be prosperious; but if you find the contrary, judge also the contrary. In the like manner you may judge of any of the aforesaid significators, mutatis mutandis.

As if the Sign of the Eleventh, the Lord thereof, and the Planet or Planets therein posited be essentially strong and free from all manner of impediment, judge the condition of the Souldiers and assistance of the Rulers to be fortunate and successfull during that Revolution; if otherwise, judge the contrary, and so of the rest, &c.

If the Significator of the King be uner the Sun beams, there is much danger (as say the Arabians) of his decease in that Revolution; but I should rather judge his Kingly power to be then neer Death or an End, or likely to be much eclipsed, for that there are many Significators to be considered for the judging of Death, which ought never to be pronounced upon one bare testimony; besides, were this admitted, we should consequently conclude by the same rule, the Death of a whole Senate upon such a position in such an Ingress, they being signified by the same significator, where there is no King, which were ridiculous in any one so to do; but I say that their power and glowy shall be eclipsed and shaken, and perhaps overthrown at that time when any such Position is found.

If the Significator be not as yet under the Sun beams, but within twelve or thirteen degrees entring, then judge this Catasttrophe to be when he comes under his beams, or in conjunction with the Sun bodily.

The same also is to be feared when the Sign of the Tenth is Leo, and Mars in Square or Opposition of the Sun, or in corporal Conjunction with him, but more especially if he be Lord of the Eighth, or therein located, or therein located, or in reception or translation of light with the Lord of the Eighth, or with Saturn, or any Aspect, especially if he be infortunately placed in the time of his Nativity or Coronation.

So likewise when the Lord of the year is in Combustion in the Tehnth, this danger is threatned him in his own Dominions; but if he be thus afflicted in the Fourth or Seventh, the danger is to be feared and expected from some coming our of those Regions signified by the Sign wherein the Lord of the Year is afflicted.

Know also that when in any Revolution the Sun is Significator of the Rulers of any place, and in Square or Opposition of Jupiter, they shall be envyed and molested by Lord of the Ascendent and Lord of the Tenth, the Common People will also rife up against their Superiors to reject them.

But if there be any friendly aspect between them, or reception, or translation of light, judge the contrary.

You may know the several accidents and the nature of them by your significators coming to the place wherein the Infortunes were at the time of the ingress, or meeting with them in their ordinary motions, &c. and this of either King, People or any other; still remembering to have regard to the Planet afflicted, and who are thereby understood. If the significator of the King or any other applyes to a malevolent Planet, or receive the light of one flow in motion, it threatens very much mischief or death to the party or parties signified by your significator.

Also if thou wouldt know the cause of any evil or cross to happen to the King or chief Rulers by the significations of the Houses, thou must be sure thou beest well versed in them, which thou mayst learn in the 42. Chapter of our second Tract in this Volume; as if the significator be afflicted in the second House, or from Planets therein, judge the cause to proceed from the signification thereof, as Money, Wealth, Assistants, &tc. if in the third, it is caused from or by Children, Kindred, Neighbors, short Journeys, and the like; and so according to the signification of the other. Houses judge if it happen in any of them, and so likewise of any other significator as well as the Kings, Mutatis mutandis; also of any other thing or accident let this be your rule, &c.

Look when the afflicting Planet comes to the perfect Conjunction, Square or Oppositiln of your significator, and at that time say the evil threatned will come to pass; or when the afflicting Planet comes to the Cusp of the House signifying any person or persons of whom thou wouldst judge, or to the place, viz, degree and minute of the sign wherein the Planet which is your significator is located, and say then the evil shall happen, unless the fortunate aspects of the benevolents thereunto at the same time prevent it; and if so, then also see what House that fortunate Planet is Lord of, and where located, and of what, significator, and judge the deliverance or prevention to procceed from the person, persons or things signified by the nature and signification of the planet, sign and House he is Lord of, posited in, and is significator of, &c. but if the aforesaid Conjunction, Square or Opposition be in an angle, then judge the evil portended to happen when your significator becomes combust of the Sun.

Further note, that if your significator be afflicted by Sextile, judge the evil proceeds from such as are pretendedly friends to the King, People or any which your significator denotes, or from such as are not thought or suspected to be Enemies: if it be by a Square aspect, judge the mischief signified thereby to arise from such as are clandestine and secretly Enemies; if by a Trine, from real Friends and Confederates; and lastly, if by Opposition, by open and professed Enemies.

Consider also the Planet afflicting, and how dignified; as if a Planet in his own House afflict the significator of the King or chief Rulers, judge the evil to arise from their own domestic friends and alliance; if he be in his exaltation, say it will proceed from some of the Nobles, Princes, Dukes or such as are in high power and authority, or near unto the Crown; if but in his triplicity, from such as have their dependency on the aforesaid Nobility, or are allied unto them; if in term, from such as are inferiour unto these, as are Marquesses, Earls, Lords, and the like; if in face onely, then say they are but Knights or Gentlemen; but if the Planet afflicting be peregrin and in no essential dignity, it shall proceed from such as are altogether vile and base, or of no reputation or quality, having no honorable rife or dignity; after the same manner may you judge (as you have heard) of the significator of any other as well as the chief Rulers, by varying your rules according to art and discretion; but I believe you will never have much need of these curious rules of the Ancients.

If your significator be retrograde in any annual Revolution, judge much trouble, impediment and anxiety to the persons or things signified thereby.

As if it be significator of the King or chief Rulers, it denotes much trouble and detriment unto their persons, and great fear of unthroning of them; likewise if it be significator of the People (and so of any other) or if the Lord of the year be thus afflicted, say the condition of the People shall be very sad and grievous, and much trouble and mischief shall be to their Cities and Town; and this shall more assuredly be, if your significator be then in the terms of the Infortunes, and the unfortunate Planet afflicted also and indisposed, for then shall the mischief and trouble be the more grievous and troublesome: So also if your significator be in the terms of a fortune, if he be ill-asspected, weak and in the Houses of the Malevolents; but if he bee free, the evil will be the less; especially if he be in his own House or Exaltation, or triplicity, essentially well dignified.

Now as touching the significations of the impedition of the Lord of the tenth in any annual Revolution; and then let us proceed to the rules of the Ancients in judging the true state and condition of the Common People in any Region, by any Revolution of the year, over and above what hath been already said, for the better illustration thereof, that so the Student may be the better able to retain and understand the rules of Art, as also to judge of these matters the more accurately.

You have heard that the sign of the tenth House in any annual Revolution, together with the Lord thereof, hath signification of Kings and chief Rulers; the which if it be combust in any of the Angles, it signifieth destruction to the King or chief Rulers during that Revolutions effects.

As if it be in the Ascendent, and the Sun be Lord thereof, you may from hence conclude (if other testimonies concurr) that common People or Subjects will rise up against their Superior or Governers, and kill him or them or depose them, or at least grievously molest and afflict them, according to the power and strength of the significators; for if Mars do then afflict him by Conjuction or aspect, and be either Lord of the eighth or fifth, or therein located, death is the more to be feared; but if Saturn be then in aspect or Conjunction with the Lord of the tenth, it is likely some Saturnian disease or evil will aflict his person if he be not Lord of the aforesaid Houses, and bear dominion either by essential dignity or bodily prefence in the sixth, or else some other misfortune will befal him according to the nature of the Saturn and the place and sign of Heaven wherein he is located.

If the Combustion fall out so as to be in the seventh or fourth Houses of Heaven, Judge the mischief to be according to the signification of these Houses, as you have heard of the Ascendent: for if it be in the seventh you shall say (because it hath signification of the Enemies of the People) that the disaster shall be occasioned by them; in the fourth (being the seventh from the tenth) from his own proper Antagonists, &c. if in the tenth it self this combustion be, it shall procedd from his own unruliness or wilfulness, &c. this is clear. Wherefore now also have regard to the condition and state of the People, but first let us consider the durability of Kings and Rulers.

Much time and paper might I here consume in delivering unto you all the ways the Learned in former ages have set down for the judging of this matter; but lest I then deviate from both my intentions at this time, and natural inclination to short discourses, and trouble both thee and myself to no purpose, since it may as well be delivered in fewer words, I shall satisfie my self with these following rules.

First, Erect your figure of the Heavens, which for the judging of these matters must be according to that punctum of time the King was first Elected or Crowned; if yu are to judge of Senate, take the time of their first sitting or assembling together, or wherein they were first created or made a Free State, or assumed power to act according to wht their own counsels shall produce.

Then having exactly placed the Planets therein according to their then several places, and reduced them to the just hour and minute of the day, especially the Moon, you are to see what Planet is Hylech or Alchochoden or Giver of Life in your Figure, and Almuten or Chief Ruler of the Ascendent, to know the state of his body or person; what of the mid-heaven, to judge of the state and condition of his Kingdom or Regal power; and having thus done thou mayst easily judge of either of these in this manner.

Observe what sign, degree and minute ascends and culminates, what sign, degree and minute the Sun and Moon possesses, and where to a very minute also is your Almuten and Hylech of each House; then see in every Revolution, Eclipse or great Conjunction, how these places and significators are disposed, and how aspected by the Malevolents, and judge the continuation or subversion of their Goverment according as you see occasion.

If your Hylech or Giver of Life be afflicted, judge the evil (according to the strenght of the afflicting Planet) to fall on the person or persons of the Rulers, or touching their lives: if the Almuten of the mid-heaven, upon their Regal power, and so contrariwise if they be assisted and fortunately behold, or come to the places of the Fortunes, or the Fortunes fall in any of their places in any Revolution, Eclipse or great Conjunction, judge the contrary; still remember the good or evil doth depend on the power of the Benevolent or Malevolent Planets; for if much afflicted, much evil is to be expected, and so on the contrary as you have already been taught.

If any of the aforesaid places or significators fall in the place of any Eclipse or great Conjunction, judge the mischief threatned to happen according to the signification of the Eclipse or Planets so in Conjunction; warily judging according to the nature of the Houses wherein they are in the Scheme of the Eclipse or Conjunction and the signification of their own nature, and the nature of the Houses which they rule and are located in at the time of the Kings Coronation or Election; this you shall more fully understand in the delivering the rules of this Art touching the Judgement of Eclipses and great Conjunctions at the latter end of this Treatise.

I utterly for my own part Refuse to follow the rules of the Ancients touching their giving a year to every sign betwixt the Planet afflicting and afflicted, for the judging the time of the alteration of any Governement and the like; for that they stand not with much reason, or are they built on any strong foundation, so as to stand unquestionable; a little experience and observation will soon manifest unto thee the truth hereof; for touching the just time when any such accident shall happen, I conceive ought rather (and that with a great deal of more reason) to be left to the good pleasure and will of the Most High, who is the great orderer and disposer of all the Causes in Nature, and will according to his own good time effect what is most agreeable unto his Divine will.

Wherefore let it suffice to know by the inclinations of those Glorious Bodies the alterations and durabilities of sublunary things, without enquiring how or when it will be performed; if thou findest at the beginning of any Government or State the Angles of Heaven fixed, the Lords thereof well disposed, especially of the Ascendent and mid-heaven, and free from the malevolent prefence and Configurations of the Infortunes, and essentially dignified and aspected by the adjuvan Planets, thou mayst from hence conclude the firmness and permanency of the Rule or Government then set up; but if thou findest these places and significators contrariwisw afflicted, moveable and weak, judge the contrary thereunto.

If Saturn be then Lord of the Ascendent, and essentially well dignified and altogether free from the affliction of the malevolents and Angular, say that the Kingdom, State, Rule or Government then began shall flourish and continue unchangeable 465 years, being the greatest years of Saturn, and if he be not altogether so well placed, but free from all impediment and in a succedent House, the Government or Rule then setled shall continue firm and unaltered 57 years, being his greater years; if he be significator and essentially dignified, and free from all impediment aforesaid, and in a Cadent House, say it shall continue in the condition it first was in, 43 years and a half, being his mean years; but if he be but thus meanly placed and but moderately dignified, judge the continuance thereof to be but 30 years, which are his least years; and so accordingly judge of all the other Planets when they are significators, and well placed and dignified, as you have heard of Saturn, their greatest, greater, mean and least years being all recorded in our Introduction to the Judgement of the Stars, where the nature and significations of the Planets are delivered, &c.

In the first Chapter of this second Section I have sufficiently shewn the way and manner of judging the condition and state of the People; yet for the better illustration thereof (as I have said) I shall in this manner further enlarge my self thereon.

The Ascendent, Lord thereof, and the Planet therein posited, but more especially the Lord of the Ascendent and the Moon are significators of the Common People of any Nation, Country or Kingdom concerning which thou doest intend to judge by the Sun his ingress into the first point of Aries, the which if at that time thou findest well disposed, fortunate, in their own dignities essential and in an angle, or succedent, free from the aspects of the Infortunes, it denotes the People shall that year be in a good condition, shall thrive, shall be successful and prosperous, and shall have one gain and success upon the neck of another; especially if the Planet or Planets in Configuration with them be Fortunes or well disposed, or that to which the Moon doth then apply.

If the Planet to which the Lord of the Ascendent or the Moon doth apply or is in aspect with be Jupiter, they shall be safe and secure that year, shall enjoy their Liberties, shall be free from all manner of molestation, shall have Justice and good Laws executed, and shall be in credit and honour.

If it be Venus, they shall abound and have plenty of all things, shall e merry, delight in and enjoy pleasure and sufficient recreation, shall be neat, curious, and propagate Marriages: Thus you see we still judge according to the nature of the Planet in configuration of our significator, and the strength of both Planets; see this yet further cleared and demonstrated.

If the Moon at this time when she is thus in aspect with these Planets that naturally (you know) are Fortunes, be cadent, weak and no wise essentially dignified, yet shall the condition of the People be fortunate and good, but shall not so abound in their felicities, nor have them multiplied so one upon the neck of the other, as yoou have but now heard; and if the Moon were so very well fortified and dignified (as you even now heard) and apply to these Fortunes, being also as aforesaid essentially fortified, but cadent, it shall signifie the gallant condition and state of the Commons, and that they shall have good success upon the neck of another, but yet not in so ample a manner as was before declared when they were also placed in Angles.

Also if these Fortunes be out of all essential dignities and weak, yet shall they receive so much benefit therefrom as to be safe in their persons and in health, though not much abounding in other matters, &c. Yet further observe but the subsequent rules, and the reasons being well pondered in thy mind, thou shalt be fully enabled to judge of other matters and significators, your rules being varied according to art and discretion.

If in any annual Revolution the Moon being weak and peregrine applyed to the Infortunes, being essentialy strong and well disposed, it denotes mischief, trouble and anxiety to the people, poverty, want and disgrace, according to the nature and signification of the Planet so in configuration with her; and if the unfortunate Planet be Lord of the eighth, and be therein located, or have any dominion therein, judge the death and mortality of the People; nay even though the Infortunes were not so placed, and the Lord of the eighth beholding the Moon or the Lord of the Ascendent, it still portends the mortality of the People; but more particularly according to the nature of the Planet afflicting.

If it be Saturn, thou shalt judge the People to be afflicted and perplexed with cold Saturnian diseases, such as are Consumptions, Palsies, Agues, and the like, which shall be the occasion of death: if to Mars, they shall be hot and ry, Feavers, over-heating of the blood, &c, and if then Mars shall happen to be in an humane sign there shall be much blood-shed and manslaughters; and so much the more assured shall this judgement be, if the Ascendent come then to the place where Mars was in at the time of the Beginning of that Law, or Government, or Commonwealth, &c. or to the Square or Opposition thereof, or to his place in any great Conjunction of his, going before this revolution; for in any year where thou findest such like Configurations, thou mayst assuredly judge Wars, Commotions and effusion of blood to follow, especially in those parts subject to the sign and quarter of Heaven wherein Mars was.

War may also be predicted when he is in an angle and strong, also when he in any Revolution is Combust, or enteres his Fall, or when Jupiter is in combustion, see in what part Mars is, and whether Occidental, Oriental, Meridional, or Septentrional, and judge those in the quarter wherein he is to overcome.

If Saturn and Mars in any Revolution be joyned in signification, and in an earthy sign, it denoteth Earthquakes in those parts wherein they are; if Mars be joyned with Mercury, there shall be much Merchandizing.

Also if the Moon and the Infortunes be so disposed and mixed together, so that one part is strong and well dignified, and the other weak and peregrine, it signifieth the People shall change their condition during that Revolution from worse to better, and from better to worse, according to their strength and significations.

So likewise if Part of Fortune be strong or well disposed, as also its dispositor, and free from all manner of affliction, good success shall be to the People; if afflicted, mischief and loss; judge the nature of the good or bad according to what you have been already shewn.

Moreover, if Saturn be strong in any Revolution, and well placed, he signifieth Content, quiet and rest unto the People, also prosperity, health and increase of both food and money; but if he be weak and afflicted, he denotes the contrary, as misfortunes, destructions, depopulations, &c.

If in any Revolution Jupiter be significator of the People, or Amuten of the Ascendent, and strong, the People shall be good, vertuous, honest, chast, just, and loving Justice, Law and all points of equity and honesty; but if he contrariwise be unfortunate, the People shall exercise Cruelty, Oppression, Injustice, shall be disobedient and break the Laws, and prove quite contrary to what you have heard: Also when in any Revolution Jupiter is placed in the seventh, or opposite to the Ascendent, it signifieth that the People shall have no success or good that Revolution.

If Mars be as aforesaid Almuten and strong, &c., the People shall be safe, secure and free from the molestation of all their Enemies; they shall overcome them and beat them all under their feet, and shall be in a successful and most prosperous condition; but if contrariwise he be then weak and impedited, retrograde, combust, &c. he denotes wars, quarrels, slaughters, trouble, effusion of blood, epidemical diseases, feavers, hot and dry diseases, many mischiefs, and the clean contrary to what he before promised.

So likewise if the Sun be as aforesaid significator and strong, the People shall assuredly be in an honourable and noble condition, and many that are thereunto fit shall be raised to dignity, power and authority, according to the capacity and quality of their persons, and be in great esteem and favour with their King or Rulers: but if he be weak and impedited, it diminisheth the honour of the King, and abaseth their condition, and the People shall suffer much damage and disgrace from their Superiors, and be tormented by them.

If Venus be placed and dignified as abovesaid, the People shall have all the pleasures and good promised by her signification, as delights, banquets, riches, pleasure, &c. and shall delight themselves with Women, and the like; if she be impedited, you may judge the cleaan contrary, as sadness, poverty and little or no mirth, &c.

If you find Mercury in your Figure placed as you have heard, the People shall gain by Merchandizing, and increase their riches by Traffique, shall love and delight in knowledge, good instructions and ingenious Arts and Sciences; shall also cherish and propagate all good Learning, and the Studious therein, and shall love one another: but if he be afflicted and unfortunate, they shall suffer much loss and vexation by contrary winds, decay of Trade and Merchandizing, and have no disposition at all to any good Learning or Education; and to be short, he signifies the clean contrary to what you have but now heard.

In like manner if the Moon be well placed, and be Almuten, and essentially strong, as hath been said, the year shall be seasonable, fortunate and fertile, and the People during that Revolution happy successful and in a prosperous and fortunate condition, and shall be preserved from death, slaughters and sickness: Also if she be ill-affected and impedited, much damage and mischief shall happen unto the People the year shall be unreasonable, destructive, sickly and unfruitful or scarce, by distilling unseasonably rain and dew when no need is thereof, and withholding of it when it is requisite and thirsted after by the earth.

So likewise as thou hast judged of the Moon and the Planets (in a general way, as being Almuten) mayst thou judge of the Lord of the Ascendent, who if he be fortunate, and well dignified and aspected, thou mayst judge the fortunate condition and state of the Common People during that Revoulution; also their mis-fortune, if afflicted, impedited, &c. Judge the nature thereof from the nature of the House, Planet afflicting and sign wherein it is, whether it be good or bad, as you have been already sufficiently taought; wherefore it were needless and superfluous here to run over the nature of the Planets fortunate and unfortunate, afflicting or assisting your significator, and the nature of the Signs and Houses they are in for an example.

Yet least thou shouldest not be so apt and ingenious herein as I could with thou wert, I shall a little hint at the manner thereof, that so thou mayest be the better enlightened to the through understanding of this kinde of Judgement.

If the Lord of the Ascendent or Moon be in the seventh afflicted and weak, especially if malevolently aspected by the Lord of the seventh, and he essentially strong, say the People shall during that Revolution be grievously afflicted and molested by their enemies, if in the eighth by death, in the ninth by or in long journeys, in the tenth by their Rulers, Superiours, and Kings, in the eleventh by their friends, or so in pretence, or by the frustration of their hope and stust, in the twelfth, by imprisonment, secret enemies and the like; in the Ascendent they shall suffer bodily in their own proper persons, according to the nature of the sign then possesting the cusp thereof (and so accordingly vary your Judgement after the nature and signification of the other houses, if therein he be in the like manner afflicted) the more assured will this Judgement be if it be a humane sign; if bestial, then will it happen to the beasts of that place, for which your Revolution is observed.

And according to the Nature of the sign will the evil fall on such beasts, as are appropriated thereunto, as if the sign ascending at that time be Aries or Capricorn, it will happen on Sheep, Hogs, Hares, Goats, &c. and all lesser Cattel for the use of man; if Taurus, or the last fifteen degrees of Sagittary, on Cowes, Oxen, Horses, and the greater sort of Catterl; if ni Leo, or any of the feral signs on the wilde sort of Beasts; if in Scorpio, Cancer or Pisces, on Fishes and such Creatures as live on the Water; if in any of the aery signs, the mischief shall be in the ayr, viz. it shall be Intemperate, Pestilential and Infectious.

Some of the Ancients also say, that if Gemini do then ascend, the evil will fall on young men chiefly; if Virgo, on Virgins and young women; if Libra, on men of more mature years; if in the first fifteen degrees of Sagittary or Aquaries, on the Antienter People; this shall chiefly happen to those Regions, Cities and Places subject to the sign and the part of Heaven thereby signified (of which you are fully informed in the 28th. Chapter of our Introduction to the Judgement of the Stars) also to these places assigned to the dominion of the Planet, concerning which thou mayst also fully be informed in the same aforesaid Treatise.

As, if the Ascendent be Aries, and Mars be then impedited, the Regions, Cities, Villages and places subject to Aries shall be damnified, and shall suffer much detriment by the heat of the ayr and defluctions of Rheume, head-ach and the like; except the benevolent Aspects of Venus be prevalent and gainsay it; if the Ascendent be Scorpio, those places subject thereunto shall be afflicted with water, and venemous Creatures, the Pox, pain in the head and arms, &c.

If the Ascendent be Taurus, and Venus then impedited and afflicted, the Regions and countreys subject thereunto shall suffer much detriment and loss through extremity of Cold, Frost and Snow, and also dryness, whereby the fruits of the earth shall be destroyed, &c. If the Ascendent be Libra, such as are thereunto allotted shall suffer affliction by winds, pestilential ayr, sicknesses and pains in the head and reins, exept Mars work or signifie to the contrary.

In like manner, if the Ascendent be Gemini and Mercury then afflicted and weak, the Places under the power of Gemini shall be afflicted with corrupt ayr and receive much hurt and loss by winds, and the people shall be troubled with Head-aches and obstructions of the Lungs and Breathing-pipes; if it be Virgo, the evil threatned will be in the Regions and Cities under it; as they shall suffer through extremity of cold and dryness, and in some sort barrenness and scarcity, and the people shall have palpitations of the heart, and grief in their chests and bellies, unless it be prevented by Jupiter. Also if Cancer ascend, and the Moon be afflicted and weak, the People under its jurisdiction shall be molested with pains and Rheumes both in their head and brest and there shall be also much hurt and damage by unusual and excessive rain and moisture if Saturn prevent it not.

If Leo, and the sun be also weak , such places, Cities, Nation, or Kingdoms as are subject thereunto shall suffer damnage through extremity of heat and drought, warm pestilential ayr, &c. the people through intemperancy and diseases incident unto the heart and brain, unless Saturn by his coldness restrain and alter the fury thereof.

If it be Sagittary that ascends, and Jupiter impedited, then the Regions and places under Sagittary shall be afflicted with infirmities in the head and legs, and these shall in the first half of the year be incident to the persons of men, and in the other part to beasts of the greater sort, as are Horses, Oxen, Cows, Bulls, &c. If the sign be Pisces, which then ascends, the places where it Rules shall suffer inundations, and grievous infirmities both in the head and feet, as the Gout, Dropsie, and the like, if Mercury mediate or prevent it not.

Lastly, If Capricorn ascend, and Saturn be impedited, the places subject to Capricorn shall be perplexed with extream cold and dry weather, and sterility, and the people with griefs and aches in the joynts and knees: and if Aquaries ascend, the places subject thereunto shall suffer by over-moist ayr and high winds, and the people shall have many infirmities in their legs and heads, if the Sun and Moon contradict it not. In the like manner mayst thou judge the good condition of the Pople of any Country, and the happiness of any place if thou findest the Lord of the Ascendent fortunate and free from impediment; observe these Rules and ponder the reasons thereof, and thou shalt not need any farther example or illustration for any other in the like Case.

For after the fame manner mayst thou also judge of the significations of the second; third, foruth and fifth houses, and so of them all round the whole Heavens, by having (I say) regard unto the Fortitudes or Debilities of the signs on every Cusp, and their Lords, &c. Take notice also that proportionably, according to the affliction and strength of every Sign and Planet, and the Signs wherein the Planets are afflicted and assisted, shall the good or evil threatned fall on the Persons of those signified or their Estates, &c. and on the Places, REgions, Cities, Towns, Countreys and Provinces subject to the Signs wherein the afflicted or assisted Planet Falls.

And thus much shall suffice for the judging of the true state and condition of the Common People in any Nation or Kingdom, in any Revolution; yet by other testimonies and Significators, viz. the Lord of the year, and the Planet of Planets in the ascendent accidentially at the time of the ingress, thou wilt have their condition farther declared and inlarged in this subsequent Discourse.

Usually the Ancients have found out the Lord of the year by these Rules following, which I shall cordially deliver unto thee, and that with as much plainness as I can and my Judgement which of them stands with most reason to be followed.

You must know that by the Lord of the year is known the condition of the whole Nation, People, and indeed every thing therein in a general way to happen during the time of that Revolution, wherefore it ought warily to be considered and known that so thou mayst do thy work compleatly.

After thou hast exactly calculated the true time (to a minute) of the Sun his entrance into the first point of Aries, and hast erected thy figure as the Heavens were then on the cusp of every house, and the punctual places of the Planets therein (being reduced to the exact time of the day) then see what Planet you finde in an angle; for if there be any at that time so located, he or she shall be Lord or Lady of the year, of such as shall denote the condition thereof during that Revolution; but if you shall finde many Planets in Angles, or one Angle, and wouldst know which of them is to be assigned Lord of the year; look which of them is Lord of the hour or day, and he shall be chosen Lord of the year (having compared one with another, and judged by the major testimonies) especially if he behold the Lord of the term wherein he is, or the Sun, if the Revolution be by day; or the Moon, if by night; and judge according to his strength and debility good or bad as you have already been sufficiently taught.

If you finde none of those Planets in Angles Lord of the hour or day, or both, then see which of them is most Fortunate or strong, and make him Lord of the year; see also which of the other Planets are joyned in signification with him, and according to their strengths and debilities and nature do thou make a right commixture, and judge thereof. But if at the time of your Revolution there be no Planet found in any of the Angles, see what Planet is in the eleventh or fifth houses, and that Planet which is found in either of them shall be Lord of the year; if there be more then one, see that you canvess the business, as you have heard of the Planets in Angles in every particular.

And yet if thou findest none in the eleventh or fith, see what are in the ninth or third, and say the Planet in either of them is Lord of the year, and so accordingly judge as you have heard; but if there be no Planets neither in these Houses, see which of all the Planets (the Moon excepted) goes first out of the sign wherein it is, for he shall be Lord of the year, especially if he behold the Lord of the term wherein he is, or the Sun, if the Revolution be by day; or the Moon, if it be by night.

But if it happen that the Sun in a Diurnal Revolution be in any of the angles, or the Moon in a Nocturanl, he or she shall be then Lord or Lady (as I may say) of the Year. Haly also faith, that when in any Revolution it shall happen that the Lord of the Ascendent be also Lord of the house wherin either of the Luminaries are, especially that of the Time, he shall without doubt or controversie be Lord of the Year, and also significtor of the People.

These are the Rules of some of the Ancients for finding the Lord of the Year in any Annual Revolution, others have taught us to have regard to the Lord of the Ascendent, who if he be direct, free from Combustion, and in the ascendent, viz. within three degrees within the house or four without, or without side of the cusp, he shall (without any more ado) be concluded Lord of the year, and you need not trouble your self further to seek any other; but if he be either Combust or Retrograde, he cannot be admitted Lord of the year.

Wherefore then you are to consider the conditions of the Planet that hath Exaltation in the Ascendent; if it be a sign wherein any of the Planets have Exaltation, and see whether he be free from Combustion and Direct, and placed in the Ascendent, as you have heard; for if so, he shall be Lord of the year; but if he be Retrograde or Combust, he shall not have that honour.

So that then you are to inquire whither the Sun or Moon be not worthy of this Rule; for if the Revolution be by day, and the Sun have any dominion in the Ascendent he shall have it; if by night, and the Moon so dignified, it shall be hers; but if neither of these be thus, have regard to the Lord of the term of the cusp of the Ascendent, and see whether he be free and placed as you have heard of the Lord of the Ascendent and Planet therein exalted, and if so, he shall be Lord of the year, otherways not; and then lastly, consider the Lord of the Triplicity, of the sign ascending in the like manner, and if neither of these yet can be admitted Lord of the year, then you are to look whether the Lord of the tenth house be free from Combustion and Drect, and placed within three degrees within, and four withouth the cusp of the tenth house, and if so, he shall be assuredly Lord of the year; but if Retrograde or Combust, not; and so you must consider the Lord of the Exaltation of the tenth house, if there be any, and the Suna and Moon, the Lord of the Term of the tenth, and the Lord of the Triplicity as you have heard of the Ascenednt, &c.

And if still thou art to seek for the Lord of the year, have regard unto the seventh house, after the same manner thou hast to these; and then to the foruth, after that to the eleventh, fifth, ninth and third; first considering the Lord of the sign upont the cusp of the house, then the Planet therein exalted, afterwards the Luminaries, the Lord of the term then, and lastly the Lord of the Triplicity, &c. and some of the Ancients also have had regard to the Lord of the face; but both that, as also all the rest, I do not much esteem, yet mayest thou, if thou pleasest follow them, wherefore I would not totaly omit them;

For by these Rules you see there is no Planet to be admitted Lord of the year, but such as are direct and free from Impediment and Combustion, and so consequently the year in every Revolution must always be fruitfull, and the People always successfull, never crossed or troubled, &c. which we see repugnant both to reason and experience; and therefore the Ancients in this matter are no wise, I say, consented to by me.

For this is most certain, that if the Lord of the year be free from Impediment, well dignified and aspected, the year during that Revolution shall be plentifull, temperate and healthfull, and the People in good condition, fortunate, successful, and in esteem; but if the Lord of the year be impedited, afflicted and unfortunate, judge the contrary, especially if the Moon concur in signification; for she is still to be considered, being a general significatrix of as well all things sublunary, as men and women.

What the Lord of the year signifies in any Revolution, whether good or bad, shall be manifested chiefly in those Regions and Cities subject to the sign wherein he is, the Quarter of Heaven he is located in, and to the signification of the Planet who is Lord of the year; if the Lord of the year be unfortunated or aflicted, in the Ascendent, or assisted by the Fortunes and essentially dignified therin, the People shall be successfull or afflicted in their persons according to the fortitude, or debility of the Significator, and the nature of the house: if in the second, in their Substance; in the third, in their short Journeys, Friendship and neighbourly Conversation; in the fourth, in their Lands, Grounds and Heritages, in the fifth, in their Children, Mirth and Jollity; and so judge of all things appertaining to the life of man, whether good or evil, by running over the signification of every house, and considering the nature of the Planets afflicted or assisted therein, &c.

I might here still run on with the Rules of the Ancients fro the finding out of the Lord of the year, and inlarge this Chapter to the consistence of two or three sheets, for (ommiting the sayings of other Authors) Bonatus alone hath no less then 54 several Rules or Considerations for the finding out thereof, but to rehearse them all were but to tire thee and my self both, to little or no purpose; for were they of any moment, should there be as many millions as units in them, I should be very willing and ready to acquaint thee therewith.

Wherefor take this short, but sure Rule, for the finding out of the Lord of the year in any Annual Revolution whatsoever; see what sign ascends, and who is Lord thereof, at the time of the Sun his ingress into the first Punctum of Aries, and Almuten, and let that Planet who is Almuten be Lord of the year, whether he be Combust or Retrograde, or both, it mattereth not; yet joyn in Judgement with him the Planet therein exalted or dignified by house (in the eighth Chapter of the second Treatise you are sufficiently taught the essential dignities of the Planets, and how to judge of them) as for example.

We shall imagine at the time of the Sun his ingress (being Diurnal) Aries to ascend upon the cusp of the first house in any horizon, and the first degree thereof; the Lord of Aries I finde to be Mars, who by reason he is therein essentially dignified by house, hath five essential dignities therefore allowed him; the term of the cusp being one of the first six degrees of the sign is Jupiters, the exaltation is the Suns, who hath threfore four dignities allowed him, the Triplicity (if by day) is also the Suns, for which he hath also three dignities, which makes with the other four seven; then if we examine yet farther what face the cusp is in, it being in the first ten degrees of the sign, we shall finde it to be Mars his, for the which he hath one dignity affigured him, which together with the aforesaid five, makes six and no more; hence then, I am to conclude the Sun to be Lord of the year being Almuten of the ascendent, or the Planet bearing most dominion therein, whose dignities you see were seven; yet Mars shall be joyned in judgement with him, but still the Sun shall be chief Dominator or Significator whether of good or evil, according to their strength or debility, as you have already sufficiently been informed; yet because I desire that the Students in the Science should be well verst in their Rules, I shall yet further deliver some Instructions touching the condition of such things signified by the Lord of the year in any Revolution, by the signification of his Nature, place in the heavens, and his configurations with the other planets, and what else shall be necessary to the accomplishment of this Art; I shall not need I hope to give you any more examples in this matter, being so plain in this one; wherefore then we shall to our business in hand.

Delivering unto you the Rules of the Ancients, for knowing of the Lord of the year in the preceding Chaapter, I have fully declared unto you the general denotation of the Lord of the year, when well or ill dignified or disposed in any Revolution, to which I shall only add these two or three words, and proceed to the signification of every particular Planet when Lord of the year and Fortunate, or afflicted.

If the Lord of the year be beheld by his Dispositor (viz. the Planet in whose house or sign he is in any Revolution) and free from Impediment; for if so, the People under that Revolution shall be in a good condition, quiet, secure, at peace and tranquility; also joyfull and pleasant.

If the Lord of the year be inot impedited, and not beheld by his Dispositor, or if he be impedited and aspected by him, judge their condition to be between both, viz. what you have heard, and what follows.

For if he be impedited, and behold him not, they shall be sad, solitary, fearfull, shall be molested with War, Trouble, and Anxiety; for thou shalt judge the clean contrary to what thou hast heard.

Judge this also according to the Nature of the house wherein the Lord of the year is; for if he be in the Ascendent, judge as you have but now heard; if in the second, the good or evil signified shall happen to the signification of the second house, as to the Peoples substance, assistants and friends, &c. according as you have been taught in the former Chapter, and other places in this Treatise.

Now then to our business, if Saturn be Lord of the year, and well dignified, the People shall that year, or during that Revolution build and erect houses, shall make many alterations in Fabricks, shall abound in all things, the earth shall be fruitfull, and the People shall be in esteem and honoured by all their neighbours, and the husbandmen shall exceedingly increase their Store and Wealth, and be succesfull in all their labours.

But if Saturn be Lord of the year and weak or afflicted, there shall be much cold, great and grievous infirmities, and men shall sustain much sorrow; losses and crosses, and great dammage by storms, wind and rain (but this must warily be considered, if other Significators of Weather concur, and then mayst thou assuredly conclude it to be so) Ancient and old men and women shall die; and these things shall chiefly happen to those Places, Cities and Regions under Saturn his Dominion, and the Dominion of the sign which he doth then possess.

When Jupiter is Lord of the year and strong and well dignified, the King shall do Justice, and it shall be happy for those that are Nobe men, Judges, Councellors of the Law, and men of all sorts of Religious Order shall be in a successfull, happy, pleasant and good condition, and shall live plenteously and contentedly, in honour and also great esteem; and the People also shall be in a good ana prosperious condition, and shall receive good from their King and Superiors, and they from the People also, if the Lord of the Ascendent of the Moon be in reception with the Significator of the King or Lord of the year, or be located in the mid-heaven; but if Jupiter be weak or afflicted, judge the contrary to all what you hav heard in every particular, which I omit to rehearse for brevities sake.

Mars when he is Lord of the year, strong and well placed, all such as belong to Arms as Souldiers and the like, shall be fortunate and in good condition, and shall overcome their enemies; there shall be also during that Revolution sufficient and plenty of rain, as such times (and no other) it is convenient and requisite, and the People shall be prosperous and happy; but if he be Lord of the year and weak, &c. judge the contrary, and you must remember still in the judging the good or evil portended by him, and also all the rest of the Planets, it shall chiefly happen in those places and Regions subject to his or their Dominion, which you have been at large shewn in the second or Introductory Treatise.

If in any Revolution you finde the Sun Lord of the year and well dignified, the King and Nobles shall exceed and increase in glory and renown; Corn, Beasts, and Birds shall be plentifull, the people generally prosperous and successfull, and all things in a good condition whereof the Sun hath any signification; if weak, judge the contrary.

When you find Venus Lady of the yeare and well and fortunatly disposed, the year will be successful and advantagious unto women, who shall be free generally from Infirmities and mischances, they shall love and delight themselves in the society and company of their Husbands, shall be fruitfull, easily conceive and bring forth their Children; the People shall also generally thrive, and be prosperious, shall delight themselves in Recreations, sports, feastings, mirth and jollities, and all pleasure whatsoever they desire, shall feast, make Marriages and delight to go neat and fine in apparel; if she be weak and impedited, she denotes the contrary.

Mercury signifies, when he is Lord of the year and strong, that Merchants, Trades-men, and all such as give their minds to Learning, Arts and Sciences, shall have a successfull year, &c. and if weak, judge the contrary.

Lastly, if thou seest the Moon Lady of the year in any Revolution, and that she be strong and well placed, say, there shall be no want of rain in its due season, both former and latter, men shall be generally healthy, fortunate, just and punctual in all their actions and promises, especially if she be in reception, or good Aspect of the Planet who is her Dispositor, &c. But if she be then weak, judge the contrary.

And thus much briefly, touching he general significations of the Planets, when they are Lords of the year, and either strong or weak, which you have been shewn somewhat more briefly, yet altogether as plainly before in the preceding Chapters of this same fourth Treatise; yet by reason the Ancients set them down thus large, nay far larger, and least the significations of the Planets should not be well apprehended by thee, I thought good (notwithstanding what had been said) to spend one quarter of a sheet more for thy better understanding; and that the rather because thereby the subsequent Discourse, I hope, will be the better understood.

Now we are to speak of the Aspects of the Planets to the Lord of the year, that we may know how to judge of future events thereby; the Ancients as in some other things, so in this have not been so plain and full as I could with they had been for the instructing of such as are but young Students therein, wherefore I shall endeavour to be as plain therein as shall be requisite for the instructing even the weakest capacity, if he observe what is beneath expressed, which is not much, yet ad rem, it is more then hath been delivered by any Author that even I met with for all their tediousness: At the beginning of the first Chapter of this second Section, I have in few words fully delivered sufficient Rules for the judging of any Aspect of any Planet to any Significator, speaking of the Significator of the King, and how to judge there of, by which Rules, I say (having regard still to your Significator) thou mayst judge of the condition of any person or thing to be considered in any Annual Revolution, and the natural inclination, and accidental signification of the Planet in Aspect threwith, whether it be by Sextile, Trine, Square, Opposition, or corporal Taurus, together with the signification of the signs and places of Heaven they are located in at the time of the revolution.

As for example (because I desire thou shouldest be well and perfectly seen in this particular; for then hast thou attained to the accomplishment of the whole Art, if thou canst exactly vary thy Rules) I shall give you one or two by which thou mayst easily judge of all the rest.

If Saturn be Lord of the year, and in configuration of the Sun, suppose by a Sextile, upon which the Ancients say the King shall be poor, and be inforced to require ayd of the people, this because the Sun is a general Significator of the King; but I see no reason at all it should therefore follow we should thus conclude, unless the Sun were at the time of the Revolution Lord of the tenth; but rather thus, if Saturn be also Lord of the Ascendent, the Sun then (if the cusp be Aquaries) being Lord of the seventh, is particularly and chiefly Significator of the enemies of the people, as you have heard, and therefore being thus in Sextile with Saturn, unless by reception, I should say the enemies of the people shall desire peace, and a conformity with the People, and shall intreat and sue for it, and if there be any reception betwixt him and Saturn, either by House, Triplicity, Exaltation, Term or Face, say it will be agreed to by the Common People, who are signified by Saturn, who is Lord of the year and Ascendent. If the Aspect be by Opposition, judge dissentious, quarrels and discord among them or between them, also open War, if you finde other testimonies concurring in signification: for you are not to derive your judgement from the general signification of the Planet in configuration with your significator altogether, though somewhat may be hereon affirmed, or from hence concluded: but from the signification of the Planet as located in your Scheme, and therein significator having regard to the places of Heaven and signs they are placed in; for we see even the most pernitious Planets Fortunes sometimes, as they may be Significators and placed; and the most beneficial and Fortunate Planets, Infortunes, as you have already heard; for every Planet must perform the Natural Office whereunto in any Revolution of other Scheme of the Heaven it is constituted, as we shall further instance; Admit the Sun be in the 12th. you shall then say the Peoples enemies (the Aspect being by Opposition as aforesaid) shall Clandestinely and Treacherously by some underhand Plot or Device, study the overthrow or prejudice of the People, the twelfth house signifying secret Plots and mischief; and so judge according to the signification of the other Houses when therein located, be sure you ever remember the true signification of the Planet in his own proper nature, and accidental signification, by his Position in the Heaven, afflicting your significator, or assisting him, and the nature of the sign and house wherein he is, and you shall never fail (if accordingly you pronounce Judgement) of giving not only a rational but solid conclusion on any configuration from any signn or house of Heaven made by any Planet whaatsoever to the Lord of the year; or indeed to any Planet whatsoever Mutatis mutandis.

And this (I say) if thou canst atain unto, thou hast accomplished not only the way and manner of judging the signification of the aspects of any Planet to the Lord of the year, but also to any other Significator in the whole Scheme, and art Master of the whole Art; and this thou shalt never be capable of by any instruction, but only by a diligent search, and contemplation of the natures of every sign, house and Planet, and the Reasons why they were so constituted; wherefore I should desire thee for thy better instruction and assistance, to read over and over, and feriously consider every title of our second Treatise of this Book, being an Introduction to the Judgement of the Stars; and now let us proceed to shew you what may be expected in any Revolution from the Position of the Planets in any of the twelve Houses of Heaven, whether they be Lords of the year or no, for the further illustration of what hath been said.

Even as it was an earnest desire that all the ingenious spirits of our Nation should increase in Knowledge (especially this, which of all other comes nearest to Divinity) that hath egged me on to this undertaking, I shall (according to my desire and first intentions) be herein as plain as possibly I can, and shall cordially and sincerely deal with thee as I would be dealt by, for wilfully I shall not in the least detain or keep back the finallest matter according to that little knowledge God in his wisdom and infinite mercy and goodness hath bestowed on me, that might advantage thee in this most heavenly study, or be a means to propagate the Art.

If in any Revolution of the years of the world Saturn be in the Ascendent, and diurnal, and beheld by his dispositor by a good aspect, as also by the Lord of the mid-heaaven, or in reception therewith, it signifieth the People under that Revolution shall be quiet during that Revolution, not making many Journies, shall be in a good condition, fortunate, successful, and shall be much honoured by their King and Superiours, of whom they shall obtain much good; but if he be therein afflicted, unfortunate or anywise weak, he denotes mischief and trouble to the People in their proper persons, also infirmities and all vexations signified by Saturn; and this shall the more assuredly happen if he be in humane signs and no wise beheld of the Fortunes or adjuvant Planets.

In the second and beheld by the fortunate aspects of the Lord of the second, he denotes the successful and prosperous condition of the Common People in their Trades and Merchandiyings, and that they shall thrive and grow rich, especially in such things as are signified by the sign wherein the Cuspe of the second is; if he be therein weak, impedited and unfortunate, he shall signifie the contrary, and that the People shall be poor; have losses and crosse, especially in such things as are signified by Saturn, and the sign wherein he is; And this understand touching the quality of the good or evil understood or signified by any of the other Planets; for according to the nature of the Sign and Planet therein must you give Judgement.

Saturn in the third if he be well dignified shall generally denote mirth and jollity to the People, that they shall delight and associate themselves one with another, and all heart-burning and differences between them shall be forgotten and laid aside: but if he be in the third and unfortunate, men shall suffer by short Journies, shall envy, hate and disturb one another, shall be liars, perfidous and treacherous, and oftentimes shall have terrible and troublesome dreams, &c.

Also if he be in the fourth and strong (as abovesaid) men shall be very laborious and successful in manuring and husbanding the ground, and shall much delight themselves therein, and shall thrive thereby, as also by heritages and houses; but if he be weak, there shall be no profit in such things, houses shall come to ruine, the earth shall not give its due increase (especially if other testimonies concurr, for how to judge of plenty and scarcity you shall have anon; yet Saturn his prefence in this house and unfortunate (you must know) will somewhat lessen the fertility promised in any Revolution) as will be expected by the husbandman whose hopes threin will be frustrated, and much of his time spent in vain.

Again, if he be in the fifth and strong, the People shall be jocund, pleasant and merry, shall delight in their Children, Feastings, and the like; if he be therein weak, judge the contrary; sadness for joy, crosses by Children for delight in them, and penutry and want instead of Feasts.

If he be fortified in the sixth, judge health to the People if it be a humane sign which possesseth the Cusp therof, and good to servants; if it be bestial, it will be more especially manifest in such Creatures as are thereby represented; as if Aries or Capricorn, Sheep, Goats and small Cattel; if Taurus, Buls, Cows, Oxen, and the greater sort of Cattel, Horses, &c. if in watry signs, success and good to Rivers, Fountains and Fish; if the sign of the sixth be Virgo, to the Earth and its Fruits, as Corn &c. if he be impedited or weak, judge the contrary, sickness and detriment unto them, according as you see the several significations of the sign on the Cusp of the sixth House.

Moreover if Saturn be in the seventh and strong, and the sign be humane, men shall delight themselves in women, especially old men, and shall Contract and make Marriages; if it be any other sign, see of what nature and significtion it is, and judge they shall delight themselves in such things as are according to the nature thereof, and profit thereby; but if he be weak, judge the contrary.

And if he be in the eighth, although he be strong, yet shall he signifie danger of death, and ruine to those things signified by the sign of the eighth; as if a humane sign, to men, &c. but if he be weak, it is the more to be feared; and if other testimonies agree, it is to be concluded, but especially to men of elder years.

Also if he be in the ninth, well dignified and in a fixed sign, men shall be chafte, lovers of Religion, the Law and all good Learning; but if the sign be movable, they shall make many Voyages by Sea, or long Journies, in which they shall continue long; but if he be then weak, judge the contrary, and that many Ships shall suffer shipwrack, and men shall receive much damage and detriment through long Journies.

Again, if Saturn be in the tenth and strong, the People shall receive much honour and benefit from their King and Superiours; but if he be weak and elevated above all the other Planets, it signifieth that his cold unfortunate and malicious inclination shall go generally through all the Region, Country or Kingdom; and then the King shall remove out of one place into another, and shall do much mischief and evil acts, and too tyrannically impose unusual Taxations on the People.

Saturn in the eleventh and strong, shews that men shall obtain their desires and hopes, shall be successful in their Journies and Removes, and shall be merry, but if he be weak, judge the contrary.

Lastly, if he be in the twelfth and strong, men shall be quiet, shall love one another, and retain no malice or ill will; but if he be weak, men shall be envious, malicious and wicked one against the other, and there shall be many quarrels and discords in that Region for which your Revolution is.

Thus have you heard plainly and fully the true significations of Saturn as he is located in any of the twelve Houses in any Revolution whatsoever, whether he be Lord of the year or no; it resteth therefore now we descend to Jupiter, who as you have heard in our Introduction is the next under Saaturn, and therefore we shall in this place speak first of him, and then of all the rest in order as they are accordingly located in the Heavens.

If Jupiter then in any annual Revolution of the years of the world be in the Ascendent and strong, and in good aspect of his dispositor (as you have heard of Saturn in the former Chapter) he signifies the People of that Climate or Region shall be successful and fortunate on every side, healthy in their bodies, shall have much joy, honour and peace, men shall be desirers and searchers of and in Diving Mysteries, and the Law and the Students thereof shall be in great and high esteem, and they shall build and repair Churches and Courts of Judicature, &c. and if he be weak, men shall be negligent and careless of Divine Duties, and the Law; and though thou mayst not judge altogether the contrary to what hath been siad, yet mayst thou say the People shall be little the better for his presence in their Ascendent, or receive little or no good from him, for the good he would and is naturally willing to do you see he is altogether unable to perform, being weak or having no power or abilty; in like manner judge of his consistence in any other House when he is in the like case indigent.

If he be in the second and strong, he signifies abundance of prosperity and riches to the People, especially in such things and commodities as are signified by the sign wherein Jupiter is; also if the Lord of the second apply unto him, their riches will come tumbling on them they know not how; but if he apply to the Lord of the second, it will be by their own labour and industry that they shall augment their riches: By this rule mayst thou (if thou hast well considered what hath been said in the precceding Discourse) judge of every thing appertaining to the signification of any House: If Jupiter be weak and in the second, he neither promiseth riches nor poverty in himself except by accident; wherefore you are warily to consider (as hath been saaid) the signification of each Planet as he is in your Scheme significator of any thing, and not (wholly) as he is naturally; and so judge of the good or evil portended by his signification and aspect, sign and quarter of Heaven he possesses.

Also if he be in the third and strong, the People shall be pleasant and delight to associate themselves with their neighbours, acquintance and kindred, shall delight also in charitable and alms-deeds, and be prosperous and successful in all short Journies, and give themselves to the study of Arts and Sciences; but if he be weak, they shall not have the like strong inclinations unto these things.

Again, if Jupiter be in the fourth and well dignified, men shall infinitely abound in wealth, and prosper by their labours on the ground, especially husbanders and manurers thereof; but if he be unfortunate, there shall happen much sadness and trouble into them towards the end of the year, &c.

Moreover if he be in the fifth, men shall delight in feasting, sporting and all manner of recreation and pastime, shall be pleasant, merry and receive much joy and content from and by their Children, women shall be apt to conceive with Child, ant they shall bring them safely forth, perfect and without danger; but if he be weak it will not be so well, if any thing at all good.

In the sixth and well dignified, the good condition and state of Servants is promised, also health both unto them and the People in general if the sign wherein he is be humane; if bestial, to beast of that nature the sign is of, &c. as you have heard in the preceding Chapter where we spake of Saturn his being in the same House; if he be afflicted, judge not so much good, but (if you see other testimonies concuring) say rather there will be the clean contrary, and diseases, such as are Impostumes, unnatural windy, swellings, obstructions of the Liver, and the like; be sure you derive your judgement according to discretion, and the nature of the Planet and Sign he is in, &c.

Jupiter in the seventh fortunate, denotes many Marriages and Contracts shall be made, and Men shall delight themselves with Women; but if he be unfortunate, they shall not agree, shall jarr, clash and fall out one with another during that Revolution.

If he be in the eighth, there shall not be any great mortality (if he be then strong) but if he be weak, judge the contrary, or there shall be some affliction according to the nature of the sign in which he then is.

Also if he be fortunately placed in the ninth, men shall make safe and prosperous Journies and Voyages by Sea, and also thrive by removing from one place or house to another, and men shall love and delight in the Law both of God and Man, Moral and Divine; but if he be weak it will not be so good: By what hath been already said and rightly apprehended, thou mayst easily judge when it will be contrary or bad in any degree.

Again, if he be in the tenth and dignified, the King and Superiors shall be good, shall honour his or their People, and do Justice generally and impartially, and they shall thrive under their Government and be successful; but if he be weak in dignities, he cannot be so strong as to perform this good so effectually, and there shall be both Law and discord amongst the People, &c.

If he be in the eleventh, the People shall be most successful or fortunate, also faithful, just and honest, shall not be deprived of their hopes nor confidence, and shall be merry; but if he be weak it will not be so good.

Lastly, if Jupiter be in the twelfth, the People shall profit and gain by their Enemies, shall be quiet, love and cherish one another, and shall be free from malice and envy; but if he be weak, judge the contrary, as you shall have occasion and reason.

Having done with the significations of Jupiter, it follows now we come to Mars and his significations, who if he be in the first House in any Revolution and strong, whether he be Lord of the year or no, shews that the People of that Country shall gain and be advantaged by wars or slaughters, and shall overcome their Enemies during that Revolution; but if he be weak, they shall disagree and fall out one among another, and shall beat, draw blood and wound one another, for which cause much evil and damage shall happen unto them.

If Mars be in the second House at the time of any Revolution, or Ingress of the Sun into Aries, and strong, he denotes many thefts, rapines and robberies, and rozening and cheating of one another; tose also that are intrusted with money or goods of any one, shall be false and deceitful, and the People generally shall be driven to want, and be perplexed with raxations and tributes.

But if he be in the third, men shall not associate themselves with their neighbours and kindred, but instead of being friends hate and envy one another.

Also if he be in the fourth, he sends his vigorous heat and malice to all the other Planets, so that if he be in a fiery sign, he dryes up and scorches the earth, and causeth great mischief by fire, also mortalities; if the sign be humane, he causeth many slaughters and effusion of blood, quarrels and war, and that