Chapter IV. The Quality of Employment（续 1）

place regulating the employment*, and, after her conjunction, continue in course with Mercury, being at the same time in Taurus, Capricorn, or Cancer, she will then produce soothsayers, attendants on sacrifices, and diviners by the basint. If she be in Sagittarius or Pisces, she will make hecromancers, and evokers of demons: if in Virgo or Scorpio, magicians, astrologers, and oracular persons, -possessing prescience: and, if in Libra, Aries, or Leo, she will produce fanatics, interpreters of dreams, and makers of falag vows and adjurations. | From the foregoing rules, the various forms of employment are to be inferred ; and its magnitude or importance will be manifested by the existing power of the ruling planets. For instance, if the said planets be oriental, or in angles, they will give the person eminence and authority in his ermployment ; but, if accidental or cadent, they will render him-subordinate. And should the benefics be in elevation, the employment will be important, lucrative, secure, honourable, and agreeable; but, on the other hand, if the malefics be in elevation above the lords of the employment, it will then be mean, disreputable, unprofitable, and insecure: thus, Saturn brings an adverse influence in coldness or tardi-

* That is to say, the mid-heaven; as stated in the 4th Chapter of the 3d Book, and inthe commencement of the present Chapter,

+ This mode of divination, as practised by the Greeks, is mention- _ ed by Potter. It is likewise described bya learned Doctor of Medi. cine, Geo. Pictorius Vigillanus, (in his Treatise “de Speciebus Magize Ceremonialis,” printed at Strasburgh, 1531,) as being used “when the fraudulent vanity of a demon renders things more like “ each other than eggs aro to eggs.” And, according to this writer, it is practised by exorcising water, and pouring it into a basin, wherein the vain and refractory deemon is immersed :—the said damon wit sometimes romain at the bottom, and sometimes raise himself te the surface, sending forth a slender hissing ; eut ’ which tho esired _responses are to be formed. sh

ness, and in the composition or mixture of colours*; and Mars produces opposition by audacity and publicity in enterprise: and both planets are alike hostile to proficiency and prosperity.

The. general period, at which any increase or diminution © - of the employment may ‘take place, must, again in this case. also, be determined by the disposition of the stars, which. operate the effect, towards the oriental and occidental angles,