Chapter X. The periodital Divisions of Time（续 6）

LI. Make the sign occupied by the Moon at the time of

birth the sign ascending .at the conception; and consider that in which she may be posited at the conception, or the opposite one, as the sign ascending at the birth. : LIT. Men of tall stature have their-lords of nativity in elevation, and their ascendants in the beginnings of signs ; but the lords.of men of short stature will be found in decli-. nation*, It must also be seen whether the signs be ee or

LIT. The lords of nativity of slight or thin men have no latitude, but those of stout.or fat men have ; and, if the latitude be south, the native will be active ; if north, i inactive. |

LIV. In the construction of a ‘building, the principal rulers, if coupled. with a star below the earth, -will impede the erection.

LV. Mars’s evil influence over ships i is diminished if he be neither in the mid-heaven nor in the eleventh house ; © but if in either of those places, he renders the ship liable to be captured hy pirates. . And if the ascendant be afflicted by

_any fixed star of the nature of Mars, the ship willbe burned.

LVI. While the Moon is in her first quarter, withdrawing —

- from her conjunction with ‘the Sun, the bodily humours expand until her second: quench: in her other quarters they

decrease. | LVII. If, during a sickness, the seventh house and its’ lord be afflicted, change the physician. j LVIIT. Observe the place of an aspect, and its ; distance from the ascéndant of the year 5 for the event will happen

_ when the profection may arrive thither.

LIX. Before pronouncing that. an absent person ‘shall die,

observe whether he may not become intoxicated ; before declaring that he:shall receive 4 wound, see aliether he may not

be let blood; and before saying that he shall find treasure, examine whether he may not receive his own deposit; for the figures of all these things may be similar.

. LX. In cases of sickness, observe the critical days, and the Moon’s progress in the angles of a figure of sixteen sides. If those angles be well affected, it is favourable for . the invalid ; if they be afflicted, unfavourable.

LXI. The Moon is significative of bodily meres which, in respect of motion, resemble her.

LXII. By marking exactly the beginning of a conjunction*, judgment may be made of the variation of the weather in the ensuing month. It will depend upon the lord of the angle of every figure, for he controuls the nature of the atmosphere ; assuming also at these times the quality of the existing weather.

LXIII. In the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, pronounce according to the nature of that one which may be higher in elevation. Follow the same rule with other stars.

. LXIV. After ascertaining the lord of the enquiry, see | what power he may have in the annual revolution, or in the ascendant of the new Moon; and pronounce accordihgly. -

- LXV. In the least conjunction, the difference of the mean conjunction, and in the mean Sonjanchen the difference of the greatest conjunctiont. :

LXVI. Consider no profection by itself alone, but make reference also to the qualifications and impediments -of the Stars.

LXVII. Years are diminished by the imbecility of the receiver.

LXVIIJ..A malefic, when iaatutine, signifies an accident; when vespertine, a disease.

* Of the Sun and Moon. + On this aphorism Partridge has said, “ how Ptolemy meant it to “‘be understood, I know not; and so I leave it.”

232 APPEND, .. LXIX, The native’s sight will baimpaired if the Moon be opposed to the Sun, ani joined with nebulous stars ; and if the Moon be in the western angle, and both the malefic

stars in the eastern angle, the Sun being in an angle also, |

LXX. Insanity is produced if ‘the Maon have no connection with Mercury ;—and, if neither of them he connected with the ascendant, Saturn being in occupation of that angle by night, but Mars by day, especially if in Cancer, Virgo, or Pisces, a deemoniag affection will be produced.

LXXI. If both luminaries: may be in masculine signs, in the nativities of males, their actions will be consonant with nature; but if so placed in the nativities of females, they increase their-action. And Mars and Venus, if matutine, incline to the masculine gender ; if vespertine, to the feminine.

- LXXII. Matters of education are to be considered by the ascending lords of triplicity; matters of life, by the lords of the conditionary Juminary’s triplicity.

. LXXIII. If the Sun be found with the Gorgon’ s head (Caput Medusa), and not aspected by any benefic star, and if there be no benefic present in the eighth house, and the lord. of the conditionary luminary be opposed to Mars, or in quartile ta him, the natiye will be beheaded. If the lumi- ~ nary culminate, his body will be maimed or mangled ; and if the aspect in quartile be from Gemini or Pisces, his hands and feet will be amputated.

LXXIV. Mars, if ascending, aia gives a scar in the face.

LXXV. If the Sun be in sonjanction with the lord of the ascendant, in Leo, and Mars have no prerogative in the ascendant, and if there be no benefic in the eighth house, the native will be burned.

_ LXXVI. If Saturn hold the mid-heayen, and the conditionary luminary be opposed to him, the native will perish

. im the ruins of buildings, provided the sign on the lower heaven be an earthly sign ; if it be a watery sign, he will be drowned or suffocated by water: if a human sign, he will be strangled by men, or will perish by the halter or the scourge. Should there, however, be a benefic in the eighth house, he will not suffer death, although he will be’brought near it.

LXXVII. Profection of the ascendant is to be made for matters affecting the body ; of the Part of Fortune, for extrinsic circumstances ; of the Moon, for the connection between the body and the spirit; and of the mid-heaven, for the employment or profession.

LXXVIII. A star often dispenses influence in a place in which it has no prerogative, thus bringing unexpected advantage to the native.

LX XIX. Whoever has Mars in the eleventh house, does |

LXXX. If Venus be in conjunction with Saturn, and have any lord of house in the seventh house, the native will be of spurious origin.

LXXXI. Times are reckoned in seven ways ; viz. by the space between two significators ; by the space between their mutual aspects; by the approach of one to the other; by the space between either of them and the place appropriated to the proposed event ; by the descension of a star, with its addition or diminution ; by the changing of a significator ; and by the approach ofa planet to its place. | ’ LXXXII. When a figure may be equipoised, observe the horoscope (or figure) at the new or full moon, and, if that also be equipoised, be not hasty in giving judgement.

LXXXIII. The time of obtaining a grant indicates the affection between the applicant and his prince ; but the seat* shews the nature of the office ;—

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LXXXIV. And if Mars be lord of the ascendant at the time of entering on possession, aud posited in the second house, or coupled with the.lord of the second, he pimge much mischief. .

LXXXV. Should the lord of the ascendant be configu: rated with the lord of the second house, the prince will spontaneously create many Charges.

LX:XXVI. The Sun is the source of the vital power; the Moon, of the natural power.

LXXXVII. Monthly. revolutions are made in twentyeight days, two hours and about eighteen mmutes. Judgement is also made by. some persons by means of the Sun’s progress; that is to say, by his partile equations to that degree and minute which he might hold at the beginning.

LXXXVIII. In making profection of the part of For-

- tune for a whole annual revolution, a space equal.to that — between the Sun and Moon is to be reckoned ee the ascendant.

LXXXIX. Consider the grandfather’ s affairs from the seventh house, and the uncle’s from the sixth.

XC. Should the significator be in aspect to the ascendant, the hidden event or object will correspond in its nature with the ascendant ; but if the ascendant be not so aspected, the nature of the event will accord with that of the place in which the significator is posited. The lord of the hour -