DEFECTIO GENITURARUM; . Beingan ESSAY toward the EViViNG and PROVING THE TRUE \Old Principles of Aftrology, HITHERTO NEGLECTED, Or, at leaftwife, not Obferved or Underftood. In FOUR PARTS. The Firft fhewing the Ground and Caufe of Error. The Second contains an Examination of thofe Nativities Printed by Morinus. The Third confiders thofe done by Argol. And, The Fourth thofe Printed by Mr.Gadbury, in his) | Collection. WHEREIN Many things relating to chis Science are Handled and Difcourfed : Bur the principal End and Defign of the Book is to prove the Power and fole Ufe OF the Pileg, in Cates of Life and Death. Snenenneeneentenmanenannnnnnr tiameennnennn eons By JOHN PARTRIDGE. —. Ne prorfies inutilis olim Vixiffe bic videar peredmaue in funcre tots, LON DON; Printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middic-Temple-gate in Fleetftreet. MDCXC VIL. :To the Honourable Sir Zefeph Tily Knight, A Member of this Prefent Parliament. fonoured Sir, BI Here prefume to lay before you = 2 fmall Treatife, the Subject of which is overgrown with Years, 4 and perfectly obliviated ; fo that SREY MEY ic will feem to this Age to be a real Novelty, and a product but of yefterday: And this too among thofe who think themfelves Matters of the Myftery ; becaufe they have aban- don’d the Old Doétrine, and fer up a new-ty gfd oneof their own, remote fromthe Old bozh in its Principles and Pradtice, and no ways agreeable to the Doctzine of Ptolemy. I need not ufe Arguments with you to pet- fwade a Belief of Starry Influence ; you have both feen and fele it, nay, and foreleen it too; Az asThe Epiftle Dedicatory. as well in the late times of Iniquity, when i was a Crime to be Juit, orto appear an Englifh- man; as fince our happy Reftoration by the fuccefsfal Arms and Conduct of His prefent Ma- jefty, to whom we owcour Safety both for Laws and Religion, both which were ruin’d and corn from us by Force. Your former Obligatiénslead meto beg your Patronage of this Treatife; a Difcousfe out of the Common way, and therefore more fubject toCenfure and Envy: And though lam confci- ous of themeannefs of my Performance therein 5 yet I am the more bold to offer the Protection of itto you, and hope you will be the lefs dif- pleafed,when you findic already protected by an Honourable Gentleman, and my Noble Friend, Sir Edward Dering ; who having much approvd the Scope and Defign of the Book (of which he is a very Ableand Sufficient Judge) was plea- fed in the interim to write the following Letter to me upon that Subject, for my Encourage- ment; wherein he hath learnedly vindicated the Immortal Ptolemy, and fet his Seal to that Old Do- rine of the true and genuine Hileg, delivered only by him fo many hunded years ago, the thing which I here chiefly contend for. Which Epiftle being too worthy and noble a thing to be The Epiftle Dedicatory. be buri’d in my Study, I miad2 Luld co impor- tune Sir Edward Dering to permit me to publifh its which at laft, referring it to my Difcretion, to do as I thought fit, 1 was proud to honour my Treatife, by prefixing fo ingenious 2 Di- {courfe from a Learned Hand before it. : Thus Sir, with your Favour alfo, I account my felf and my poor Endeavours doubly pro- teéted, and fhall not fear the {narling of any” Ignorant Readers, although they beftow the like Railing Epithets on me, as they do on the Great and Learned Ptolemy, the chief and only Talent indeed in which they are famous. I hope the owning thefe Sheets will no ways tend to your Difhonour, becaufe they come from fo unlearned a Pen as mine. The thing is well defigned, and I intend it for the Service of the prefent, as well as the fucceeding Ages, though I defpair to find Entertainment with the prefent , they being wedded to a Method as a man toa falfe Religion, with which he will by no means part, tho’ for his Safety and Advan- tage both here and hereafter. Sir, I beg your good Opinion of what I have done; and though it may come fhort of what it ought to be, and you may juftly ex- pect 5The Epiftle Dedicatory. pect ; Yer attribute thar not to my want of Goo .-will, but Abilities, and always be pleafed to give both Book and Author your good Word ; a Favour fafficient, and what I font ne- ver pretend to deferve 5 yet fhall always endea- your to the urmoft to fhew I am, , Honoured Sir, | Your real bumble Servant, John Partridge. To his Ingenious Friend Mr. John Partridge. Mr. Partridge, ‘Ince you have been fo kind not only to acquaint me with the Intention and Defign of your D:fe- fio Geniturarnm, but alfo to permir me the per- ufal of fome part of it in Sheets ; T have good an Opinion of the Work, and the Necedity of it, that Lam forry the LazinefS or Ignorance of fome men hith given occafion for fuch an Expofure. Never was Afiro- Jogy more pretended to, and vended, than inthis Age, and never perhaps lefs underftood ;_ for tho’ there be fome learned Students and Profeffors of it, yet the moft part of our Vulgar Pra€ticers are fo illiterate and negligent, that I may complain with the earned Car- dan, ‘ Rem difficillimam CG» maxime induffria ated feita © ter trathunt ut artem ia maximsar vet pt ©erint ; And others that underftand lic at all of it, yer chat they may feern wl not (faith the fu thor) ‘Lycrig; oxpidit § profitentur, quam vin 4 ne fal! fo a mixt fort of thei felt onceited men, wh fumptuoufly trampling upon all Antiquity, hay confidence to erc&t their Babels of new Thicrensand fems, and other their dreaming Fancies in Aftrateay, tho’ upon due Examination they mult iall to the like Confufion with that prefinptuous Undertaking ; and in ? Tid tex, ooin this Folly they fhew their ill manners alfo, and {pare . not to rail, not only at their Contemporaries, but even at Prolomy himfelf; to whom the world is obliged for what is preferved of the Art: Tho” indeed fome .of them cannot read him, nor cthers undeiftand him, he having wrapp’d up the Secrets of this My{terious Sci- ence in dark and concife Languege, perhaps on pur- pole, Ne detur facrum Canibus. And becaule in our Age alfo there have rifen up fome pitiful illiterate Mufhrooms , who fur Gain would pretend to Affrology, which they underftand not, and think that they fhall raife chemfelves a Name and Repu- tation by fcribling againft others, henelter afd more learned than themfelves ; but efpecially if a bold fel- low dares to fly in the face of Prolomy bimlelf, whofe Name he hath heard of, but underftands nothing of his Writings : I will here take occafion to tranfcribe what the learnd Cardan’s fenfe was of the incomparable Prtolomy, and of fuch like Empericks as thefe, which have been foundinall Ages. Thus therefore Cardaz. Epittnun- ‘Ut in omni difciplina nobiliore femper vitia majora cup.ad “ coptingunt 5 alia quidem per eos qui chm eam non norint EMEP & fe feire jacbant, alia per eos qui feiunt fed malt utnntar, it inhane ut nobiliffimam etiam peffims vitia & innume~ & yabilis turba Nebulonum fe conjecit. Qui ith artem fam “darunt ac confpurcarunt, ut ne quidem veftiginm ilins “ fuperfuerit. Tot Albumafares, Abenrageles, Alchabitios, © Abubstres, aheles, Maffthalacos, Bethenes, Firmicos, “ Bonatos; Boni Geni! quid jam [uperef? aut reliquum “eff & tot impoftoribus? a tot nugis? Id fattum eft chm « ars hac effet, ut quilibet perfpicere pote/?, tanto afficilior “ quanto divinior : Inperiti illi fimularunt quod affequi non “ poterant,in compendium velle redigere. Itaque cimQue tus caufa omnes ad illos recurrerent, miferta bumani generis “ Divina Bonitas Ptolomanm unum pro tot millibus (yco~ “ phantarum 7 phautaram Legita 6ft. Qui artom ia tenchrés jacentem extulit, O is licom tradusit, D gnus fia: Fl realeis “ Honoribus, at; aliguanto etiam mijorth dew © tes fumma enti ats Lsboribues., “ fell ¢ itate,non foluin err. i wenitudines, alicfgie ilo tus asferipfit, fed illorum decreta oo pre~ tanta tngenti fubtizits : ipfa abfterrucrit, 3 Sef ut rurfes tarba bec Nebsloatsin ferrexerit, ip ** acum Peolomei Libro jacuerit fqsalore, © fits “ Nox id falleoat Prolomenin faturam, fed matait Ve “ tex cbfenre, quam mendacia ac fabul.cs dila i “ Spcrans futuram taniens aliquem qui fia bec maw “ta polfet explicare. Facwit itaque Liber bic annis Mol 7: ngentis ita abjctus, ut nifi nomen authsris tum “defendifjet , maxima cum jiltura bonaruin Literarum “ perisffet, Exc, { fhall not tranflate it, for it is no matter whether fuch mean Pretenders to Art underftand it or not 5. buc if they will fhew it to fome body more learned than themfelvcs, they may fee the Pedigree defcribed from whence they are fpawned, and another kind of Pi€ture of the moft Excellent and Learned Prclomy than they have drawn. » 125; Take alfo Funétines’s Account and Character of Pro SpeevAtte. domy,in his Protsgomens; “ Clarior eft quam at nojtra come “ mendations indigeat, meminem enum latet quis Clardins © Prolomens fuerit ; qui in Mathematicts difciplinis onnin + bus, in Aftrologid prefertin, omme tulit puntlum, itaut « Aftrolgorum Homerim eum appellensus liceat. Conftat autem inter dottos, enia Antonini Pii tempogibus floraiffe. “© Sed guid externo opus eff teftimonio, citm dottrina ipfa “ que hoc libro continetur , tantum non clamet & quo fit “ parente edita ; hac cum fit fingularis S divina, cud po» tins“ tins eft attribuenda quar ei qui inter Aftrologos tanguam Deus aliquis habeatur. , And for atriple Teftimony take what the learned Sir Chriftopher Fleydon writes of our Ptolomy; “ He was Defence of (faith he) “ honoured of all the world for his extra- Aftrol. p. 1646 © ordinary Knowledge beyond the common reach of mortal men, and efpecially for redeeming this Art “from fpurious Superftitions, wherewith it was de- “ faced. i And this 1 hopeis fufficient to reftrain the licentious Tongues of men, who upon the foot of Learning Should know their diltance with Ptolomy, if any inge- nuity or modefty be remaining in them: But if they have bid adieu to thofe Graces, they may rail on, and by my confent, all the notice or revenge which more ingenious men fhall take of them, fhould be contempra preterire O filentio. . Yet I will be bold to add my fuffrage too (and I be- lieve all learned and ingenious Students in this Art will agree with me) ; Si zon feripfiffet Ptolomens, allum effet de Aftrologia: If Prolomy had not writ, Aftrology had been atterly loft. And other foundation than what Ptolomy hath laidcan no man lay; a skilful Archite€t may build upon it indeed, and raife fair fuperftru@ures (for the Theme is fraitful and large enough), but then he muft ~ gmake his Enlargements uniform, and not put in Hitero~ Comm. in dox and irregular pieces, which are contrary to and di- fhonour the Foundation. Builder. e But fuch is the fate of Human Condition, that the more excellent any thing is, the more it may be abuled by the Ignorance, or the Malice, or the Lewdnels of thofe that handle it: For, as Cardan obferves, we find it in experience, ‘‘ Unaquegue 47s quanto Nobilior «jt eo Prolliy 1.“ permitzofior, fe per fycophantas adminifiretur : Quid enim ap.2 14 « fanttins Religione ? Quid iniguins perdito Sacerdote 2 “ Quid 4 Quid melins Forifpradentia ? Quid deterius itmprobo Jus © rifeanfulte, &c.? And 1 doubt not but any impudent fellows who rail again Prolumy, whom they do nor underftand, and whofe Study they would not have been worthy to have fweep’d, will ufé the like Liberty with Hippocrates, Solonion, and Mois hicaleif. : But you feem to me in this Treatile to take off the Vail from the Hearts and Underftandings of fach who have vaunted long ia a juperficial skill of this Science Cif at teat it be poffible co take it off), but 1 mean fuch as will be convinced by Réafon, and are not obftinate and obdurate in a long erroneous Praétice., You do not change or invent new Rules in Aftrolog}y but you reftore the Primitive Principles ; you lead them from their wandring Mazes, in running round the Figure to feck the Caufe of Death, to fixthem in the true genu- ine Hileg or Giver of Life, which muft, and only maft, meafure out and determine their days; this all Aati- quity ofany worth, this Reafon, this Experience teaches and demonftrates.Let them ftand our,the ftoureftCham- pion of chem all, and produce bur one fingle Nativity (confeffedly allowed on all hands to be true) where the Native dyed upon any Direftion but that of the Hileg, or where they did not dye upon Direétion of the Hilegto the proper Avaratas, ceteris paribus. This is plain out of che Oraculous Prolomy, who tho’ he treats of the Art too briefly and fomething obfcurely, yet writes as if he were SefreusG@, and is always conftant to himfelf in the fundamental Principles , of which the Hileg isone ‘of the chief, Let the ignorant and bark- ing Antagonifts to this Doétcine give in their own true Genitures (if they dare) and you will fairly ery the _ flue wich them upon this Point ; but they are like fome Women St. Pau! {peaks of, that are ever learning, and 2 Tim. 3. never able to cometo the knowledgeof the Truth. 7 a2 ; IamTam forry, for the honour of the Art, that there fhould be fuch a heap of Examples to be produced to prove your D:fectio Geniturarum by, and yet more might have been produced too. It is true, and it is a Re- proach to the Art, that many of the moft ignorant and illirerare modern Pra@ticers have the honour to err in this point with very learned men both ancient and mo- dein; Jundtine, Argel, Garces, Origanus, Gauricus and the moft ingenious and learned Azorinus himfelf cannot beexcufed, And tis pitiful to fee how miferably they hee the Quefticn, and when a Perfon is dead, how they run from one thing to another, the Afcendent, the ill Afpeét of a Malcfick, nay and cfick too fall ferve their tern, or , orthe Midheavenis felf direSted for F svery rarely,and will geadrats butis fome foecial cafes, which I fear they do not underftand. Thus yather than fail to hive fome Dire€tion or other which contents them,they turn the Figure toply-turvy and re- move it from E/? to We/t,moft confidently from any E- flimate Time;and how can they then mils of fomething to humour them’? As very lately an,ignorant Reformcr of Aftrology hath impudently removed the prefent Freeh Kin’s Atcendent from the middle of Scorpio (his confef- fed Hrofeope by all learned men ever fince he was born) tothe middle of Mires, to fit it with a new Crotchet of his own, tos ridiculousto mention; thereby fhamefuily icipating the true Birth almoft 6 hours in rime, ethings give great Advantages to the Adverfa- ties of this noble Science, when they fee fuch difcre- pancv between the Praftifers of it, and with what pi- tiful {hifts {ome of them do {atisfie themfelves, taking non caufem pro canfaand contradicting themfe!ves imeve- zy osher Nativity, for they are nor coaftantto any one Rule ; And ifchey pleafe fomecimes to kill a man by the Sua Sun under the Earth to the Square of Saturn, they will be fo kind ro let another man efcape it ; and the A/cene dent tothe Body of Saturn, or the Moon (no way qua~ lified to be Z/ileg) to the Square of Mars fhall kill him ; when if they underftood Prolomy, there is but one prin- cipal Giver of Life, whichis the Hileg 5 and who that is, there are Rules to agree upon, tho” fome skill in chufing him: And this muft be the ftanding Principle in all Genitures whatfoever ; All the reft, and running from one Point co another, the Afcendent, Sus, Moon, Part of Fortune, and what they pleafe ( when not en- dowed with Apseticr Qualifications) are all nonienfe and adulrerate Notions, not Sterling Affrolizy, and no more the caufe of the Death of a man, or the length of his Life, than, as our Keatifh Proverb hathit, Tea- terden Steeple ts the Ciufe of Goodwin's Sands, ~ How many falfe Genituresare given abour, and how many are made falfe by bungling Arcifts, to turn them to their own Lesbitm Rules, is incredible. The volu- minous number of Genitures in FvnFine , in Origanus, Garcwus and others, I perfectly believe nora teath part true, and fome hundreds publifhed by our modern Au- thors,moft téok upon truft,and will norabide the “ouch. ftone (I may fay) of the Ortho !ox and Primitive 4/0 bey. ‘This hath plung’d many good and able Artifts in the Mire, whence ftriving to get out, they ran for Refuge to new-invented Fanciesand Chimeras of their own, and fo fighting with a Phintome broacti'd thofe Heretical Teneis and Opinions which we ineet with in their Tracts. ‘This makes {ome defpair of fixing the true Arc, after many: years Study and Labour; and this makes others turn abfolute Recufanis, and I be- lieve was the only caufe made Sixtus ab a4 turn Apoftate. For itis true, and will be true in all ages, & Nativitates cer what Card:x complained of in his 5“ £i/i fuppopsiee O Revol:Lib. de Gen. in Gen. 83+ . et Nativitates falfe turbavermrt judicie cmninm Aftrologo- « yum. And, Mulee Geniture v:! lado vel etiam confulto.fale “fo circumferuntur. But tho’ this be a great and incura- bieMifchief,yer with wife and unprejudiced men, it hath no more reafon to impeach the Genu ine Art of Aftro~ Jogy, than that Herefies do ftain the luitre of Divinity, Quacks and Mountebanks blemifft the Art of Phyfick,and perhaps kill morethanthcy cure, and the corrupt pet- ti-fogging Laryer difparageth the Frofeffion of the Law. If the foundation be talle or weak, the fuperftru- @ure mult needs fall. If the Netivity be falfe given, if no fuch perfon was bornat that time, if the Heavens and Planets were quite otherwile difpofed, what won- der is it if the Artift fhoot wide of the mark, and his udgment agree with nothing either in Life or Death? But this Osver, che thing [ meant to tax was the miftaken point of the true Hi/-g, (o little underftood or regarded by fome Practicers, tho’ otherwife learned. Ir hath been as ftrange as grievous to fee the Confu- ‘fion and Contradition which hath appeared in publick among feveral who are Writers, and call themfelves ‘Authors inthis Art, with what bitternefs they contra- di& one another, and every one fets up their own Whisfies and Fancies, and yet pretend to be the only Searchers after Truth, and that they only contend for Truth, tho’ at che fame time they do nothing indeed but gratifie their own revengeful Hamer i Jing and ill Language. Who have becn the firl kind, let chem take jx to themfelyes. Bur b--fides che Scandal which this hath created to the Art with learned and difinterefted men, the errors on lath fides hath yet @ifhonoured it more ; of which, tho Lam fome of themfelves are convinced, yet they have not the Inge- nuity to confels, or recant them as publickly as they yented them; which if they were all purlucrs aud a . enquirers _the Corruption of many ages of Ignorance. acd cho? enquirers after Truth only ( as they pretend ) they would do, and lay afide their private Animolities ; and this they would chink no (hame or refle€tion uponthem- felves, if they imitated the learned and ingenious Car- dan; who confeffed he had erred , but defpifing the Pride of Vain-glory for Truths fake , recanted and declared it to Polterity ; Ego alias erravi G fect errare Com. in maultos , fod noftre finceritatés ferper fisit magis diligere uae weritatem quam gloriam vel ntilitatem Quod enim alii” ™ magno dedecoré fibt afiriberent fateri tans ingentern errorem atque dintucnum, 0s pro gloria infigni ducivaus caleaffe faftum exiftimationts ob veritatem. Behold the Ingenut- ty and Candor of the moft learned man of his age ! which if I could, I would recommend to all who think themfelves able to write, © imitate ; and then it would : fare well with afrology, and we might hope to fee it- grow to more and more Perfe€tion and Reputation: every age. . Your Treatife affords many other material chings (befides the purfuit of the crue Hileg) in the manage- - ment of a Nativicy,worth ‘obferving and imitating t00 5 which efcape many Practicers, and are flighted by fome, , who think themfelves too old,or are too proud to learn, , and others who are to dull to underftand: 1 fhall not {o much as mention them, it not being my bulinefs or. defign, and becaufel have been too prolixalready, and they are obvious to every intelligent Reader. But Tam- erfwraded that all gentile, learned and unprejudiced Ar-- tifts will give you hanks for fo ingenious a piece, pub- lifh.d to the worid, not out of a difpofition to cap 7 at other men’s Labours (who have deferved very well : alfo by their endeavours) but to reform or rather re-- ftore fome main Principles which were either forgot: - ten, oreaten out by the Ruft of Time, or depraved by knoow..T know fome learned men who do give and take great ” liberty in their affigning the caules of Death, yet [be- lieve (upon due confideration) they will not jar with this Dotrine, nor be offended if the prorogatjon of their own Lives beyond what they expected many years ago, hath convinced them that they mult refort to fomething elle for their Hileg. For my part, I give you my hearty Thanks fer your Labour beltowed in this Work, and for commiunica- ting or rather reviving to the world the good old found Dottrinc, which was (Tam bold to fay) ab origne mundi, tho? the ancienteft Tradition of it preferved to us now be but 1500 years fince by the Learned Prolomy, T acknowledge my fatisfaction in it, and if the prefent age have not Senfe or Gratitude enough to confe’s their Obligations alfo, yet be not difcouraged, I will take upon me to be fo much aProphet, That fucceeding times fhall pay the due Tribute to your Memory, and ac- knowledge thefe Truths which you have laid down, when our Sand fhall be run, and all our Hiegs fhall have finifhed their Courfe allotted chem by the fupreme Creator of all things. , In themeantime excufe my holding a Candle to you in this way of Difcourfe (who were better able to have taught me this Diale@), take it as a defire in me to fhew my Teftimony of your Worth and Ingenuity in this Science, and that I dare own your Principles and You, whoam, Your affured Friend , Edward Dering. To TO THE Candid and Unprejudicd READER. Kind Reader, “YT is the general unbappinefs of our prefent Age, that he knows mothiag that doth not know in Print, and as well increafé the prodizious Uffue of the Prefs as difco~ ver the Weakuels and Inability of his own Parts and Pretences. I complain, and yet you fie I addto the num- bers but the neceffity of the cafe will, £ hope, plead my Ex- cue; for never did Aftrology ftand in need of 4 fpeedy Reformation more than at this time 3 and mever fewer able to perform it, notwithftanding the prodigiozs number of Pretenders, who, if you will take their on Words. for it, undexfiand the Art better than ever Cardan did: Nay! or Peolemy himfelf. Aftrolgy is now like a dead Carkafs, 10 which every Crow or Rook reforts and takes a Mouthful, and then flies to the next Tree, or other convenient place , and “with his Crosking Noife tells the World he hath brought away the whole Body ia his Bills Thefe kind of Creatures areThe Epiffle to the Reader. are like a pack of Beagles in a Forel? which by reafon of their fmallnefs could not be detected and known to be there, were it not for the Yelping and Noife they make 5 by which kind of Cry they purfue their Game, You my, if jou pleafey transfer this fimile to fowe of the Scanda- lous Fry, who under the Notiow of Aftrelogy, cheat Man- kind by pretending to things not in Nature; ‘like. your Magick.Mongers , Sigit- ferchants, Charm. Broak~ ers, C Crew of Kgaves mare fit to be punifbed than encont + And indeed we find fome of thefe Filretches among the Writers of Almanacks alfa, no wonder therefore rhe leffer K + ufc ite lfrclogy hath another fort of Votartes that make Monntain. Bretences of their Abilities iz Art (as.they call it) and ther monfirous familiarity with their Divine Urania, « Lady for whom they hive a mighty Refpedl, if you can but belivve them 5 and yet at the fame tine clo ath the poor Gentlewoinan fa 4 ¥ools Coat, piv Papers at ber Tail, and in all their Draughts of ber, make her appear a compleat Monfter , by their vidiculous ( yct laborious) management of the drt and Rules they pretend to 3 never confidering that their Principles and Pamitice onght to agree, and that each Canfe ounht to have always the fame or an adequate Effect; and it is by this uisdiferect management that our Authors have made fo many Unb-lievers ; for when men of Ingenuity come to read the cintlho-s that teach ns. and meet with (o many notoriais Contradittions in them, it fours thetr Opinion of that which b fore tiny thonght ino- Ly well cf. cre is another fore that are firens fly diligent in fading out Novelties, and loading the Ast vith Feoleries of their own contriving $ and if they hagpea to bave @ good way in tilling a Story, aad a Uttk Tutercf? among mankind to be believed; the more ignorant fort, that love Impoffibilities , and to beer of things nokia Nature, do tmmedi= The Epiftle to the Reader. immediately fivallow the Gudgeon. And thofé men that are the promoters of this, and fuch like ways as thefe are, do aot ct all wader find any thing of the true primitive Altro- logy, but only exdeavour to fet up Jomething und.r th. Name, upon which to build a Reputation and Trade for - Lives. Aud befid:s, if pou lok ont anoug oxr En- Aarhars, pray confider baw much Advantage, Credit 4 Repubation they have brought to the srt by all they have fe Laff Forty Years either in Printing ov Prathice 5 and when you have naumbred its Profeffors, you wil wet find Onz in Tea but what pretend to it more for the Profit it brings, than for the Advantage and Promoti- on of the drt: Nor is theve Ove in Forty of thife Rucfeuaries able to do any thing, if they were willing for their’ bufiofs is to make thenfelves Maffers of the Pratling part, that they my talk of it, and be great arsang thofe in Plato's Cave: Buz for Reformation, and thofe that undertake it, they cflevm {uch their Enemies, and not fit for Converfation. , : Thife are the Profelfors of Aftrology that make it fo Contemptible and Scandalews; aud the (2 are the men that Prolemy complains of in his time, as you mey foe, Liber, Cap. 1, where he tells vs, Prxterea inulti queftus caufa alias divinationes venditant, nomine & dignitate hujus Artis, ac vulgo imponunt, multa predicentes, que non fignificantur nacuralibus caufis. dvd in divers other places of that firft Book and Chapter be complains of thefe Iznorcat and Knavilb dbufers of the Art in ‘that time whea he writ. : And thofe are thofe Aftrotogical Hypocrites that Cardan exclaims againft in his Comment on that very Chapter beo fore quoted, andthe Text in particular mentioned 5 where after be bath nominated divers ways that the Kyrves of thofz times ufid. under the Notion of «frology he lass Mendaciis abfurdis artem hanc Vituperantes. So that ba itThe Epiftle to the Reader. it is no firange thing (you fee) for aCrev of ignorant Fel- lows, that know nothing of Aftrology, to crowd themfelve. - under that Name and Character 5 lock out into the world and you will certainly find your Tr—ers and your Coys in every coraer of the Cityand Nation ; and whrveevr you find that Cres, that pretend to ficht they ave perfec? Strangers to the Tratis 6 know nothing of the matter 5 being Y ani Cheatrig.N ayy] kao one (gi by the Art thefe Thirty Tears,told mighty things about Cels fal Influvace, ancl the truth of the Ait in priats andyet 1 often hear, Ele doth in Company at Laviras fay, lisa Cheat 5 that there is nothing in tts and that be ufeth it on- ly for a Livelikooe': I finppofe you will gucfs at the man, his Guts and bis Brains often costend for the Prebemi- mene. Now let me exhort all thofe that are real well wifberstoA- frrology, to fet to the Work in carnep, get inary Nativities that ave true Ctis.no matter what ther Quality is) work and obferve whether sour Dircétions bi in one that they have in another's Nativity; : yolves Mafters of Prolemy’s Rules and Princitl.s, a ake im your Standard to try your Operativns by: Leara 20 chufe your Giver of Life, your Poiothanatos, «dj Biothanatos: Avd when you are M:flers of the[e, you be able to fee through thefe Fooleries no win fifbion among thofe that are your Mifters and publick Teachers of the “Art in all the corms of the Town, When you are got into this Method and Way, you will fee a Profpect of ar viving at [onething that will be fatisfactory to the Libori= ous Student in his farther purfuit after Truth, and yet with me defpair of ever feeiag it brought toa complet Per= feitica 5 and both of us fay with Camp:nella, Proleme- um fequimur—— —Omnes enim Allrol>gi om i um temporum, ab exordio Mundi ad nos, non fuffici- unt The Epifile to the Reader. untad Aftrologiam totam & recteconficiendam. And as a Conclufion to this Paragraph, give me leave to fay, and that moft truly, That all Methods, Ways and Pra- | jects in Aftrology, not founded on the Principles and Dow Grine of Peolemy, are vain and idle s and all thofe that employ themfelves in (ach Methods, &c, do but trifle away their Time, ‘aad are never the better. Whea I quote Prolemy ta the following Treatife, it is that ‘Tr iflution done by the Lesraed Melanthon, and sprinted at Balil ia the Year 1553+ and is the beft of al the Tranflitions thit are extent of the Quadripartite, ‘Aad 1 have an Intention to Print thay Tranflation of Me- va very fearce 5ana to Print Me- lan&thon again, it boing grow lanQthon’s Epifite b:forc it ikewife, and to add to it a {hort Coma: nt on the remarkable Chapters in the bya 1aft Books, making it a handfom Puck t-Volume, ina char Letter 5 an excellent Companion for thofe that are fludious in this Arts and whofover is once Niafler of that Treatife, will fet a froall-value oa the reft of the Authors. Aad it maft be done at our own Charge, because tne Boolf-Mlers will nat en- courage it, nor be at the Charge to doit mull vas fuirs When I quote Argol’s De Dicbus Criticis, 7 is that Estition Printed at Padua in the year 1652. and is both the beft and laff, anda good thing in itskind, though the Na- tivities are for the mayft pirt falfe, and his Rakes isifap- itd. 7 Tintend alfa to give the world 1 few Nutivitics, perhaps an Hundred or lw), in a way diferent to all that have gone before me ; and in all that I Print, 1 will cake cave to give the true Eftinate Tine, which all the Astirs be that [ubjell have hitherta omsittes : Ie is the want of that whieh hinders our examining thofe alveady pr. edy and fo prevents not only me, bat all men elfe to eadenvour 4 Car= npofe upon min- Jreilion of them, It is too arbitrary to hind uch Nativitics that we have corredted, and sacither giveThe Epifile to the Reader. give Reafons, nor the Eftimate Time thereof, to affift them that come afters fone differing Three Hours from the Ejtinate, but coxmenly half an Hour, or an Leur s So that all rhat have been done Intherto, are of no ufe but to fare pony ana thatnith a doubtful Eze teo. Thave not ected a Time for Publifbing my Beck, which perhaps fome will wonder at, ofpecially becaufe Saturn és on my Radical Sun; let i take tts Fate, i; the prefent do:h not Like itythe next Age, I am furc, will thack me for it and this Book will be the ozcafion of the Old Doifrine’s Kefurre- ion at one time or another. And now Reader, I give it into thy land, prithce not cenfure the Doctrine nor the Matper before you under fiand it; yor know whofe Facuits that is} rea coufider well the matter throughout th:s whole Book; and when thou haft done that, lay by partiality, ana juage fairly, and do by me as you world be dons by, were you in my place and fation ; and then I can fay, you are akind Reader 3 and “yet it is no more than’ you ought to do Ly all, as wedl as From my Houfe in Salishiny = fireet , July 19th 1697. Your Fricud, Foon Partridge, oN A Table of the Chapters and Nativities in this Book. — 5 PART EL Nativ. of ©.Condren, 159 Hap. 1. Proemina, pag. 1 Obferv.on Morine’s Theor, 162 Shap. Uk Of a Sebeo2 of welve Eloafis, 26 PART. HL Chap. iM. Of Diredlion:; to the ‘The Tntvodsadivom, 178 Ay 39 Argol’s Asimsduerfions, 177 Of Direétions to the Pope Gregory XII, 184. Sun end Moon ia th. Zodiack, Pope Sixtus Quintus, 186 54 Pope Usdan PIE 188 Chap. V. Of the Aaifcions of Ca. AfcaniusColumna,190 Planets, 66 ch wis XIIL192 Chap. VL Of the Part of Fore C Farnefius, 194 tune. 70 Ducen of Poland, 195 Chep Vil OF the Alebocrden, 56 Chap. VIL Of the dluceetea, IX. Of the Alfeidaries, Chron $, Lord of the Ove, & 1 X. Of Tranfirs and Bolip- $6 hap. XY. Of Helivemntrick Ae fpcdts and Diretions, 93 Chap. XL. Of the Errors in Na- tivities handed down tous, Tot Mancinus, 23 PART HL jal Matieus, = 233 Tie Tntroductin 112 nal Cxfarinus, 237 ste “1d ardins] De Balneo, 240 | oan Be Gloveria,243, 120 N. (cas Bononi, 245 clohus, 127 Slanchettus, 247 Sonne, 136 Cardinal Woaldinus, 29° Bacon of Poland, 138 nal Pavavaci hh King, 143 vardin. de Corsiti' ingas 147 Cardinal ~imonc ai Richelieu, 154 Examp. of direti. » sodanf, 264. atafewr Tronfon, 135 OFfera, on © being Hilen. 266 : PART. A Table of Nativities, @c.° a. * {Duke of Albemarle, 292 PART W. Four Pcpesy 295 G ” | Melanéon andLuther 296 The Proamium, 270 Bifbep Hall, 298 ibe World, Nevo, Alex- Minifier, 303 ander, 271 i Judge Reeves, 300 Henry VI. K.of Engl. 272, Sir Robert Holburn, 308 Her: 2. 273 gz | Sir John Reynolds, 314 Edwid 71. ibid. Jolin Booker, 319 Q. Mary and Elizab. 275 + Mr. Vincent Wing, 324 King James I. 277 A4r, John Gadbury, 326 often as he fhould remember his dark Cave, his Chains, © his former Thoughts, and his Shadows? furely he would * proftrate himfelf before God, and in all Reverence thank him, “becaufe he was at laft drawn out of that dark Prifon, and * would deplore the State of his Fellows, which he had left “behind him in fuch Miferies. Burt, if it were the Cuftom “in that Cave, to applaud, honour and recompence with a © Reward thofe that hould fee thefe Shadows more diftin@ly, “or, that could beft remember which had been the firft Sha- « dow or the fecond, or which had paffed by but once,cr thofe “that were to pafs by prefently, if there were fuch an Order ‘in their Motion and Going: Can we think it poifible that © our Man, brought forth into the Light, would with to have ©q Share in thofe Honours, Praifes and Rewards again, or “envy thofe that {hould enjoy them within the Cave? 1 do not think it, but rather believe, that he would more wil- “ingly go to the utmoft part of the North, and toward the © Frozen Sea, than to be King of the Blind. But, fuppofe, © that the fame Man were to return again (at the End of fome ° time}Dofeétio Geniturarun. time) into his Place within the’ Cave, would he not be as ‘if he had loft his feeing, having left the Light, to go again «into Darkne(s? And, if they thould difpute within, which © of them all faw the Shadows beft, and that our man fhould “fpeak of them what he now knows; would they not all “mock and laugh at him, think ye, and cry out, That «their Fellow was mad or bewitched, and that he was much «the worle for going out; and that he was returned flone- ‘blinds and, then, with a general Vote and Confent all ‘agree, That there is manifett Danger and Peril in going out “of the Cave; and, belides, if any one fhould go in to un- “tie them, and bring them forth into the Light, they would, without doubt, ule their utmolt Endeavour, to relift with Hand and Foot, and, if they could, pull out his Eyes too, “that (hould endeavour to do this -Kindnefs for them, and “bring them into the Light, and to the Enjoyment of real ‘Truths, Even fuch is Pfato’s Cave, the Expofition of which may be feen in the Author himfelf, from whence it §was taken, and which Politian hath fince reprefented in a La-, tia Poem, called Lamia. . : It is ncedlefs for me to undertake an Expofition of this Pa- rabolical Cave, fecing the thing is fo plsin in it felf, and fo eafie to be apprehended by any Reader, how dull or-ftupid foever he fhould happen to be. However, I will make this one Remark upon it, in reference to the Author's Defign in the thing: And that is, There are a great Number in the World, who hug themfclves in their own Notions, Opini- * ons and Apprehenfions, derived and formed according to their own Sentiments of things in Nature, or elfe borrowed from Tradition and Antiquity, which, when they are throughly grounded in.them, they count it no le(s than Herefie- in any man that fhall queftion their Truth: And he or they that are the moft excellent among them, either for fome peculiar Fa- culties and Abilities, or elfe their Proficiency in fome fort of Errors-more than the reft of the Society, puffs them up: And they would be thought Little Angels, or at the lealt Heroes, and perfwade the reft of Mankind, That all they who are out of their Cave, know nothing, in comparifon to them, avho (ee fuch pretty foadows, and fach gallant Puppets and . therefore therefore they that are willing to well in the Cave, they fhall have my free confent to coKtinue there ftill, and let them belicve their Fooleries areTruths, their Shadows are Realities, and their Puppets are living Bodies, it is no Injury to me, I will peep in upon them, and alfo pity them: Nay! 1 will go further too3 1 will call them out, but if that will not do, Peace be with them, for I will not ran the Rifque of going in cothem, IeftI fumble and break my Face, a very fit Reward for one that is fool-hardy, and will venture his own Life to inform another’s Underftanding. It is one part (and a great one too) of man’s Happinefs, that he hath Sence and Reafon, to confider the good and bad Occurrences of his Life, and thereby to endeavour to chufe the one, and fhun and evade the other; and alfo to examine the Probabilities and Improbabilities of the Rudiments , Rules and Methods laid down, to inflru@ and teach the Stu- dents in all Parts of Natural Learning; and, certainly , fhould we refufe and deny our felves the Ufe of our Reafon in thefe things, and {wallow down all things greedily that are delivered to us, under Pretence of Information, for ab- folute Truths, without fo much as enquiring the rationality of the thing, and its coherence with its own Principles, and the order of Nature; we may in a fhort time herd with the more fenfible fort of Beafts; and alfo tell our Fellow-Crea- tures, We out-do our firft Parents (whom we often think ve- ry hard of) in giving Credit to Lies and Falfhood; they were deceived by Suggeftion and Perfwafion, we by Impofi- tion and Cuftom; they in their Innocence knew no fuch thing as Error: But we know little elfe; and if any Man doubts .the Truth of this Affertion, let him repair to his own Bofom for full Satisfaction. Itis certain, and beyond all Queftion, that Errors, Miftakes and Lies are more common, obvious and praGticable than real Truths ; for in an A@ion or Accident within a Bow-fhot of our own Habitations, how many various Stories fhall we hear about it? And, how varioufly and confufedly every Relater fhall deliver the Circumftances of this A@ion, is known to every one; and, perhaps, at laft, when the beft Account comes, it may have fome mixture of Error, cithera Miftake, Cc charg-Defettio Geniturarum. chargeable to the Dela of Memory, or being willing to palliate fome part of the AG@tion by a foft and tender Relation, when, at the fame time, they ftrain another part of it be- yond the true and real AGtion it felf, which may very pro-- perly take the Name of Partiality. - Or by fome hot-headed Hearer and Teller of News, who having heard the Relation frora half a dozen at once, remembers fcarce any thing from cither of them, but makes a new Relation of his own, fome- thing like the other, and away he runs with that, and tells it, to every one he meets, for Truths and this you may very well call Contidence, oe And do you think this is not ground enough to fill a whole Parifh or City with Lies, when the Reporters of thefe things, like Atoms, fly into every Corner and Part thereof, and each man tells what he hath heard or apprehended of the Matter? And thus will the Account go, till you can fpeak with the AGors of it them- felves, or with fome Intelligent man, that hath had it from them, or the true Relation of it by one that faw and ob- ferved the whole. Now, let us confider, how many People - there are that are willing or defirous to enquire out the Truth of this matter 5 not one in a hundred, perhaps not one in a thoufand ; for the generality of People are not inquifitive after Truth, but News! And, when they have heard a Story, it ferves them to talk of till they -hear another, and fo one Lie drives in, and alfo drives out, another ; and by this Gourfe and Cuttom the Faculties of the Body are imployed, and the things ferve to talk of as well as if they were true in- deed; it founds as well, {pends Time as well, and the Hear- ers of it, when related, ftare and admire at it as much as if it was perfe@ly true 5 and thus the Rattle goes on, and they are all very well contented. : Why, juft fo it is with our Book-wrights, exa@ly in eve- ry particular thing I have here mentioned ; for every one that can talk, is not fit to tell a Story, or carry a Relation of a Matter 5 nor is every one that can write, fit to write things of Science, though perhaps he may underftand fomething of its and he that can tell a Story well, doth generally embellith his Difcourfe, fet it off with a Lic or two, or, to fpeak more foft, fome new emphatick Invention of hisown; why, int Defeétio Geniturarum. fo it is with our Writers and Authors of Books in general ; They throw in fomething of thcir own, which, they think, founds well enough to them, and may pafs current without pga new Deétrine , ard this the Reader is 2 ong the reft, without either Why or Where- fore. Lut, it id be endlefs to run into Dilcourfes and Ar- gumeits of this Nature, and of a Prowminm make a Trcatile: Belides, it is necdle(s to follow this Track any longer, for I fe there are few or none will deny Exrors to be delivered cched and Order ; if they do, let them repair to any printed Author, in every Page of which it is very: probable they may find either Errors of the Author, or Miltakes of the Printer, and in fome Pages both, for their Safaction. For if Authors, in all kind of Learning, had not been futficiently fertile in that untoward fort of Produ@, the Learned D, Prim- rofe and Sir Thomas Brown had {pent their Time in vain when they made an Enquiry into Vulgar and Common Errors. And, to that Purpofe, hear what the latter of thein faith, pag.20. Pfeudo. Epidem. ‘But the mortalleft Enemy (faith be) unto “Knowledge, and that which hath done the greateft Execu- ‘tion upon Truth, hath been a peremtory Adhefion unto 4x. © shority, and more efpecially eftablifhing of our Belief upon * the Ditates of Antiquity. For (as every Capacity may ob- * ferve) moft men of Ages prefent, {fo fuperftitioufly do look © on Ages paft, that the Authorities of the one do far exceed “the Reafons of the other: Whofe Perfons indeed being far © removed from our Times, their Works, which feldom with us pafs uncontroll’d, either by Contemporaries, or by im- © mediate Succeffors, are now become out of the Diftance of © Envy; And the further removed from prefent Times, are © concerned to approach the nearer vr:’o Truth it {elf Now, “hereby methinks we manifeltly delucc our felyes, and wide- © ly walk out of the Track of Truth. © For firft, men hereby impofe a Thraldom on their times, ¢ which the Ingenuity of no Age fhould endure, or indecd the © prefumption of any did yet enjoyn. Thu: Hipporrates about * Two thoufand Years ago, conceived it no injuftice, cither “to examin or refute the DoGrines of his Pxedeccfiors: © Galen the like, and Arifictle moft of any. Yet did not any C2 ‘ofDefeétio Geniturarum, ' of thefe conceive themfelves infallible, or fet down their © DiGates as Verities irrefragable; but when they either de- “liver their own Inventions, or rcjeGt other men’s Opinions, ‘they proceed with Judgment and Ingenuity; eftablifhing © their Afertions, not only with great Solidity, but fabmitting © them alfo te the Correction of turure Difcovery. “Latily, While we fo devoutly adhere to Antiquity in fome © things, we do not coniider we have deferted them in feveral others. For they have, indeed, not only been imperfect in © the Conceit of fome things, but either ignorant or erroneous ‘in many more, They underftood not the Motion of the “cighth Sphere, from Welt to Eaft, and foconceived the Lon- © gitude of the Stars invariable, They conceived the Torrid © Zone unhabitable, and fo made fruftrate the goodlieft part of “the Earth, But, we know now ‘tis very well empco- “pled, and the Habitation thereof efteemed fo happy, that “fome have made it the proper Seat of Paradife ; and been * fo far from judging it unhabitable, that they have made it “the firlt Habitation of all. Many of the Ancients deny’d the © Antipodes, as Auftin, &c. Others, That the Earth was * sound, as Landiantins, But the Experience of our enlarged ‘Navigations, can now affert them beyond all Dubitation. © Having thus totally relinquith’d them in fome things, it may “not be prefumptuous to examin them in others 5 but furely * mére unreafonable to adhere to them in all, as though they © were infallible, or could not err in any. Thus, I fay, mult © thefe Authors be read, and thus muft we be read our felves ; ‘for, difcourfing Matters dubious, and many controvertible “Truths, we cannot, without Arrogaicy entreat a Cre- ‘dulity, or implore any farther Affent than the Proba- “bility of our Reafons, and Verity of Experiments en- * duces. Hence it is plain, there is a Flood of Error in the World, and that all Sciences and Learning, as well as Aftrology, have an equal (hare therein; and that the moft learned among, us have lodged the Caufe thereof in our Old Authors, whom we fo much admire, and endeavour to follow, by zealous Adoration, and Purfuit without Reafon ; And, in our own i Credulity, by which we are fo eafily and willingly deceived, . and Defeétio Geniturarum. and not only brought thereby into « Cuftom of believing their Errors, but alfo into fuch a Zeal as to quarrel and con- tend to maintain and juftifie them as if they were undeniable Truths. And if any of their Defenders chance to be furnithed with good Language, and the Art of Reafoning, it makes him fit to be an Author, though no Skill; by which means he paints the Trap, and hides the Snare, and by this kind of Art catcheth the Gudgcon with the moreeafe: And th: the major part of Readershave becn deluded, Yet hereand inere we have found one, who by Labour and the tirength of Rea- fon have dete&ted thefe Delufions, and made Digretfions from the common Road, upon very good Authority of Rea- fon and Experience, thofe two Handmaids of Truth, who are but little acquainted with fuch, who are not at Leifure to think, nor will not take time to labour, without which no- thing isto be done. Then, the next Work is, to examin and try whether our Authors that we generally follow, and moft depend on for Rules and Diretions in Practice, will hold and agree one with another; and whether they will allow them to have the fame, or an adequate Effect at all Times, and in all Perfons, allowing their Rules of Exception, if they have any 5 let us try alfo if their Operations are demonftrable, and founded in the Principles of Nature and truc Motion, by which all of them pretend to work, and perform their Operations in their Aftrological Practice ; et us alfo obferve, Whether or not they make their own Rules, laid down for our Information, a Guide to themfelves, or whether they ‘give us Rules and Praétice quite contrary. In a Word, let us examin their whole Sytem of Aftrology, now in Vogue and Repute, and where we find it defective and fallf, to eject its ufes but where it ls fubftantial, and will ftand the Te’ of Enquiry, to give it the Stamp of Approbation, and admit of it in our Pra- Gice. But, perhaps it maj"bc objeéted 5 That, in tc doing, yox denounce War almft againft oll dftrologers, as an Ignorant man did lately exprefS it in Print To which 1 anfwer; ie the Deteéting and Exploding of Errors, is a denouncing of War; then Truth and Peace is in a very forry Gondition s anDefettio Geniturarum. and the Reward every one mult expect for {uch an Under- taking is a broken Head. I do not know any Reafon there is for it, that I fhould run out of one Error into another, and this knowingly, giving Examples and Rules to others to do the fame. Nor can I fatistie my felt in fuch a Sradtice, where I know my Rules are falfe, and give me the Lic tomy Face, fo often almott as I have occafion ro ule them 5 though perhars, that Gentleman may, who made that Objccti- on. I do confefs, he ought to hang out bis Flag, and call in what Affiftance he can, to make a Nuife, and alfo play the part of Demetrius, raifethe Mob to fecure his Trade: And indeed it (eems very likely he intends fuch a Trick, when he ufeth the Word, ll Affrolegers, as much as if he fhould fay, Ye are all on my fide, don’s take bis part, nox belicve 1 Word be fays = ‘This Felow comes t0 ask, Why, and soberofore Things are {3 and fo? Butif thisis the belt Defence he hath for his Principles and Practice, as well as his Books already in Print, I do af- fure him I will make them fhake. What! muft not { ask a+ Queftion, efpecially where it is for the common Good, and the Advantage of others? This is fuch a-Piece of Tyranny not heard of before, no, not in the moft Arbitrary Societies; What! muft I not ask whether I am in the Right or in the Wrong, in Truth orin Error? This is indeed very hard and unjult Meafure, Suppofe I were in a Journey, and fhould, by fome fort of Accident, lofe my Ways as, by a Foggy Day, a Dark Night, my Unacquaintance with that Road, orthe like ; why, by the Rule juft now mention’d, it is not lawful for me to go to the next Houfe or Village, Ican difcover, to ask my Ways No, nor to enquire of the firft Traveller I mect. Why fo? becaufe the Objedtor tells you, It is a Dencuncing of War againft all them that are out of the Way, as well as my felf: Nay! by his Rule, againft all, as well in the Right as in the Wrong (you know it is a Piece of Policy to make your own Party as numerous as poffible, and your Enemies as few as can be) and the only pure Detign of it is, He being a Princi- pal Governour in Pfato’s Cave, is willing to have as ma- ny there with him as he can, for the Advantage of Con- verfation, What! Defe Elio Geniturarum. at! muft not I queftion the Truth of it? that is a vey hard Cafe; And therefore | will call in Dodtor Goad to be an Advocate for me in the Caufe: Who, in his Aftrome- teoro, page 29. fayss ‘What, mult we fubmit in earneft to * every Tradition in Natural Science? There’s nought, I hope, ‘in Philofophy, but what appeals to Pofterity, asto Sence and Reafon, and will abide the Teft of Natural Scrutiny. —Phi- © lofophy is too ingenuous to impofe upon us, or offer to de= «ceive us by Authority. J grant the Authority of our Ance- «lors is greater than is allowed by the Junior Inceptors of “thefe Days: Many are defpifed by us, whofe Wifdom we © fhall never attain to. But yet our Anceftors themfelves have © fixed Bounds to their Authority: They fwear us, indeed, © not to corrupt their Books, but they do not {wear us to be- ‘lieve all they deliver. We muft talte before we {wallow 5 ©efpecially in that part of Philofophy that lies beyond the “Moon, abftrufe Theorems ata vaft Profpect and Diftance. ©In thefe T ought not to follow them Hood-wink ‘d, to take © all for granted, as if they were firft Principles, or from In- fallible Di@ates; they teach us concerning, Heaven, but they * came not from thence. I cannot give them their due Praife, ©unlefs1 examin thelr Thefess Ifhall bea lazy, unwife Pere. “fon if I do not. 1 fhall be loath to betray the Generations “of the World to Security and Error. What Liberty Coke © cients have taken in a modeft Diffent from their Predece! ie ‘Cis left to us for a Legacy. Prolomy him@lf differs from his. “Seniors, the Egyptians. I believe the Authority of this Au- thor will have a’ mighty Sway.on the Judgment and Opinion of my Confident Antagonift, for he had (as he faid himfe y a great Relpett for him, while he was living and among us: And, I hope, it continueth fill, notwithitanding the Poor Gentleman is taken from the Land of the Living. You ae it ishis Opinion, That we ought to confider and examin 4 fore we rely ov their Judgment. He fays, We ought to con fider, before we Poylon our Underftandings wits their a vations and Errors, by a rah and inconfiderate Recept! on 5 and not take them fir(t, and corfider afterward 5 if fo, we lay our (elves under a Capacity of bewailing our Misfortunes, which the former Confideration prevents. And, this A inDefeétio Geniturarum, that I pretend to in this my Enquiry ; I only-intend to Exa- min our Authors, and delire every one elfe to do the fame, and fee whether they are seally and practically true, accord- ing to the Rules delivered’ to us. And this very thing this Jeamed DoGtor doth alfo allow and plead for; fure my Angry Objedtor will not fay, He denetenceth War againit all “Afirologers 00, becaule he is of the fame Judgment and Opi- nion with me: No, no! in him, it fhall be only a Zeal for the Truth: But, in me, becaufe | am a Heretick (and this in a double Sence) it muft be a Quarrel, a denouncing of War, or any thing elfe, what that peevith man pleafeth, he not confidering it is every Man’s Duty to dete the Errors of his Profeffion, and expofe the ridiculous Whims of thofe, who through Ignorance are a Scandal to their Imployment: And Cardan fays, Melins eft longe, pauca recle & firmiter feire, quam malta Erroribus mixta ‘That, it is far better to know a few things in Truth, than abundance mixt with Errors: And, there is no way to come to that Perfection, but by enquiring into the Rules, Methods and Pradiice of its Profeffors and Teach- ers, and to let the World fee what manner of Stuff they are bubbl'd to believe. It is not every one that can play the Plagi- ary, and methodifea few ftolen Rules, that is Mafter of that Myftery concerning which he writes ; nor is every one an Altrologer that can talk of the Horofeope and Midbeaven, the Lord of the Geniture, Pitted and Smoaky Degrees, Arks of Di- reciions, Cardinal Signs on Angles, &c. There is many a one talks of Robin Hood, that never fhot in his Bow. Every Man hath a good Opinion of his own Parts, and it is thehard Fate of fome to believe themfelves more able and capable than they are, and fo come under Cardan’s Reproof, when he fays, Deterins oft, credere fe feire, que nefciat, quam ignorare que debeat feire. That. it is worle for a Man to believe he knows what he knows not, than to be ignorant of what he ought to know. And, indeed, 1 am afraid this will prove the Crime of moft Authors that have pretended to write and teach Aftrology, and I with it had been otherways 5 but, am part- ly fure,. that moft Pretenders, befides my felf, will fet their Hands tothis Accufation, and confefs readily, That they have been often deceived in their common PraGices, even by ae mo! Defeétio Geniturarum: molt approved Rules, delivered by the beft of our Authors 5 not that L think every Auchor is without Truth in fomething, or other that he dclivezs to Poft.ricy 5 bur the major part of them (efpecially thofe who tranfcribe Tradition) have taken things upon Truft, and have been moze tond of large Volumes than much Truth, and giving ftrange Judgments on the Pri- mitive Texts; mixing therewith ::cw Notions of their own 5 by which means thcy have confounded their Readers, and ren" dred their Matter extream intricate: And witi thefe Crimes and Abufes ican charge fome very eminent Authors, at pre- fent in great Repute among the more Learned Students in Altrology ; who, ycu will find mentioned in the following, Pages, according as there is occafion to ufe their Names, with their Quotations, when I come to examin and confider their Principles, with my Objections and Reafcns to the con- trary. And alfo that there are fome Authors, bur little taken notice of, that are more worth your Reading and Study too, to be Mailers of their Notions and Rules, than is g:ne- rally believed and allowed by the ufual Vogue and common Opinion ; for it is our hard Fate, as well in Sciences as in Common Vulgar Things and Affairs, we are too apt to fol- low the Herd, and to believe by Example and Report, with- out fo much as examining their Affertions byour own Rea- fon. For, if this or that Great Man doth epee a thing (though abfolutely falfe) how many of the m@iner fore will hazard a Broken Head in the Juttification of it, and think theinfelves extreamly injured if any man refule to believe what they relate from his Story? which every man of Seafe knows is too true, and too often pra@tifed ; as if an Eminent man could not miftake. Another way by which we are deceived and led into Error, is, our miftaking the EffeGts of Direétions, and charging the Caufe of this or that Difeafe or Accident, to aStar, Ray or Dire¢tion that is not at all con- cern’d therein; and, to make it more intelligable to you, and to let you know what I mean by thefe Words, take an Example or two for your better Information. If a Man happen to be feized by a violent Fever, you immediately ex- pect to find the Caufe lodged in the Dire@tion of the Sun or Mars, and therefore if you cannot readily find fuch a Dire- D Gidy,18 Defettio Geniturdrum. Gtion to fome of the Hilegiacal Points, you conclude the Na- tivity is falfe, and then make an Alteration in the Afcendene, and {o jump into an Error, when you think you have got Truth by the Hand. So, on ths contrary, when you find one feized witha Quartan Ague, or fuch like Cold Chronick Difeafe, you think freight to ind a Direction of Saturn, or, perhaps, the Mbon, in fome ill Ray, and afflied by him: But, this not being fouad, the next ching is an Alteration of the Figure, and be fare there isa Caufe then, and that a very plain one too. But all this may prove a Miflake, and thew either want of Skill, or want of Experience in him that doth it. For, give me leave to tell you (and I affure you I fpeak no- thing but Truth) the Sun, Moon or Afeendent, &c. diretted to the Body, Square, or Oppofition of Saturn, may give a violent Fever of any kind whatfoever, either Simple, Putrid or Pefti- ential 5 Continual or Intermitting 5 Quotidian, Tertian ox Quar- tan; nay, the Small Pex too. And, on the other fide, Dire- tions of the Sun and Mars may give Quartan Agucs, long lingering, Difeafes, proceeding from Obitru@ions and black Choler, nay, Drop!ics and Gout too, and other Difeales from that Birth and Original, I know this will feem frange to many Prattitioners, if not to all, and I know fome will think it an untruth, or a Flourifh without any ground; but, I do affure them it is Truth ; and whofoever doth oppofe this Doétrine, is not acquainted (Iam fure) with all the Parts of Aftrology. The third Caufe of our Erring, and indeed the only one of all, is, our fale Correction of Nativitics 5 for in all Nativi- ties, where the Mid-Heaven and Afcendent is not true, the Directions to thofe Points muft of neceffity be falfe; for, by how much the Time corrected (as they call it) differs from the true Time, by fo much they err, more or lefs, in the com- mencement of thofe Directions ; and, to tell youthe Truth, this is the only difficult thing in Aftrology, to correct well and true and the true way to corre@ well is, to know what ‘Accidents or Difeafes may be allowed to every Planet, and their Afpeéts in Direétion, according to the true Motion of Nature, and the real A(pedts in every Circle; for all f@iti- ‘ousMotion and Afpetts inDire@tions are certainly falfe and Ex- toneous. _ Defeftio Geniturarnm. roncous. I remember in the Year 1679. Mr, R.W. delired me to give him the Diredtions in his Nativity; fo I took his Time, corrected his Figure, which was but a {mall diffe- rence from the Eftimate Time; wrought the Directions, and gave them to him; and among them there was one to come up the beginning of May, the next Year, i.e 1680. and that was the Afcendent to the Square of Mars, the Ho- rafeope being 22. deg. in Gemini, and Mars in 21. deg. in Aries, in the Eleventh: The M.C. 16. deg. in Aquarys and this Direétion | had determined to touch about the fixth or eighth Day of May, at which Time he was feized with a violent Fever, which held him about eight Days; And this was a wonderful Confirmation of my Skill and che Truth of the Art, both of which werenot a little talk’d of about it. But, when I came to underltand Diredtions better, and to examin the Figure and the Accident more carefully, I found the Afcen- dent came at that time to the Square of the Moon, and that the Square of Mars did not come up till about thircy Years after- ward. Thus, you may (ce, how ealieit is for a Beginner to mak: a Mittake, and at the fame time to be confirmed in it that he is really inthe Right ; and this, in Gorre@ting, is ea- fily done, either by not knowing the Motion, or by erring in the Meafure of Time, or by-fuppofing the Difeafe or Acci- dent to be caufed by a Planet or Ray that had nothing to do in the matter, And thefe, indeed, are Exrors of cur own, but they are founded upon the Rules and Diredtions laid down by our Authors for out Inftruétion in fuch Cafes as thefe arc. And thefe are the Errors (if you can perfwade your felf to believe they are fuch) that, I think, ought to be known, and would advife you to endeavour to reform, among the reft of the Mifiakes, and let the World fee an Aftrology free from thofe Falfities that its Enemies fo often charge us with, and this brought to pa( and effected by your Labour and Di- ligence. . I fay, if you can perfwade your felves to believe they are Errors, and ought to be regulated and amended: For, in- deed there lies the main Obfiacle ; .for he that doth not be- lieve they are Errors, will never endeavour either to- reform them, or get better Rules to work and judge by + for every Dz man 19Defettio Genitararum. man lives and manageth his Affairs according to his Belicf : This Belief is in all things guided by the Will, for no man believes againft his Will, however he may endeavour to hide and diffemble it; for the Belicf is (in all things where-ever it isimploy’d, cither in Spirituals or Temporals) nothing elle bur an AG of the Will. This Will is nothing cle but the latt Adtof Deliberation, or the ultimate Refult of all the Facul- ties of the Soul; and this Will is really guided by the Un- dertianding in all its Refolves: The Underitanding is more or le(s adtive, and capable of knowing more or Icf, according, to the Power of its firlt Principle, and the various Methods and Ways taken for its Information; for by how much the bet- ter a man’s Judgment and Underftanding is inform’d, by fo much the more he is able to judge for himfelf, or for any others and, therefore, whofocver hath ftrong intellectual Abilities, we fee they are mightily advanced by the Happincls of aGood and Learned Education; for the Faculties of the Soul are always active, bufie, and love to be employ’d in things fuitable to the Nature and Pofition of Afrcury at the time of Birth: Hence we may obferve, That fome men do in par- ticular excel others in a peculiar fort of Learning, Science or Trade, and this from the Power of their Mercury, and the Po- fition’of the Heavens at their Birth, fo ordered and appointed by the Power and Wifdem of the Eternal God. Hence I would perfwade the Students in this Science to confider and deliberate vpon the matter, and, as they have learn’d toknow that there is an Aftrology in Nature, fo now let them inform their Underflandings about the rationality of that which is fo call’d, and alfo learn to diftinguifh between thofe things that are folely Notional, and {uch as are naturally Demonftrable , and upon Examination vilibly True: And, laft of all, try if they can bring themfelves to belive that thofe things which I fhall make appear to be fal(e, are indeed and reality Errors, and ought to be amended and regulated by thofe that ftudy Aftrology: And that you may fee I am not the firftman that have doubted in thefe things, and that what I propound to you is both Neceffary and Rational, obferve what your own Authors fay to this purpofe. 1 begin with Cardan. Difi- Defeétio Geniturarum. Diffcilimum omninm eft feire Locum Interfettoris, 8ce Seg. 3. Apb. 108. Hence I obferve, That if it is che moft difi- cult thing of all to know the Anareta or Tnterfector ; there are very few that are acquainted with it; and yet how eafily do the Common and more Ignorant fort of Aftrologers judge of the Time of Death before it comes (in which cafe 1 know they are generally decciv’d, and by that Rule deceive others) and yet Cardan tells us, Ie is the moft difficule thing of all; and in that [can juftly affert the Truth of his Aphorifm, and fo can any one elfe that hath taken Pains to work and try Experiments: And the reafon why it is the molt difficult, and that they are miftaken in it, is, becaufe there are more things than one goes to compleat the Locus Interfettoris, and it is not the Point and Place they take it to bes and their Rules, in that Cafe, are all of them Falfe and Erroneous; and that Ido not doubt but Cardan well knew, when he faid, It was the molt difficult thing of all to knows and therefore a little afterward, in the 113th Aphorifm, he gives you a -Glimps of the Reafon why it is fo, wherc he fays 3 Maxima igitur ambiguitas oft, cum Radii falices Luminarium, aut For- tunarum fuper Locum Interficientem ceciderint, frequenter enim fer- vantur preter fpem, alii autem, de quibus Sperabamus, vt etiamin morbis medici intereunt. The greatcft Doubtfulnefs (fays he) is, when the happy Rays of the Luminaries or Fortunes fall up-- on the interticient Place, they often fave beyond all Hope; but others, of whom both we and the Phyficians in Difeafes have a great deal of Hope, they die. Thus, you fee, he doth increafe the Doubt, and makes it appear more plainly, that there is a Myftery in the thing which, if your Rules, gene rally laid down, are true, cainot bes for by thofe it is the eafictt thing in the World 5 for it is but to have Recourfe to the Lord of the Eighth Houfe, and the Bulinefs is done. Bat, I can affure you, that you mutt find out better Rules than thofe, or elfe you will never be Malters of your Profef- fion. Morinus, {peakinig of Directions, in the Preface to his Twenty fecond Book, fays ; Vertm quam diffcilis & confufa fucrit batlenus, teftantur Veternm & Neotericorum Aftrologorum fen- sentie plurimism inter fe differentes, &c. But (fays be) how con-Defettio Geniturarum. confufed and difficult it hath hitherto been, th different Opinions of the Ancient and Modern Pes teftify. And, in the very firft Chapter of that Book h falls upon molt of the Famous and Reputable Authors. ev : thofe that the Students of this prefent Time admire, and oc cufes them, fome for their Ignorance, and others ‘for th i Traditional Innovations 5 and arlatthe faith, Unde maja “in Aftrologiam Confufi introdutta gt. So that, you fee, I os a the firlt that hath call’d the Abules and Foolerics of Alitolo- gy in queltion, and I believe fhall not be the lat, By th fe Words of the Learncd Morinus you may judge what 4 foe fuled Heap of Stuff the then Method of Directions feem’d fis him, and yet he had the fame Authors to inform his Jud ment that our Modern Artis admire and defend ; and 5 the Methods in his Time were fo confuled, ablirule and idle a ¢ tells us they were, pray confider what Amendment ath been made fince, and who hath done any thing in pene befides Thieving and Tranfcribing one from aici ' id not Cardan follow this fame Method in Direétions he found laid down by Regiomontansts and others? Did not Origan hand thofe things down to us that he found delivered te him by Leovitins, &cc. and this without any Amendment? And did not Argol tran(cribe from him, and thofe beforementioned - their Methods and Effects of Direétions, and gave them down to us with frefh Authority? And have not our Countrymen tranfcribed from them all, without fo much as asking one Word, whether they were to be credited or not? There. fore, why fhould 1 be blamed for asking a Queftion? fein, Morinus gocs free with Approbation, and yet he hath charged them home in divers things, and proved there are Errors to be found, beyond Excufes as you may read at large in the Fifth Chapter of his Sixteenth Book; wherein he juflly chargeth them with abundance of Nonfenfical and moft Irrational Fooleries. For Exampie, Ifa Planet is under the Sun- Beams, which they call Combuft, he is Weak ; but if a Planet is in the middle of the Sun, which they call in Cozimi, then he Is fuppofed to be Strong, and the more Powerful for bein there ; as if a man fhould be burnt by being near the Fine but if he creeps into the middle of it he (hall be refrefh’d and - fap- Defektio Geniturarums + fapported, and not burnt + Precious Nonfenfe! With divers other things that he there recites. In the Preface to_ his Twenty third Book, he chargeth the Aftrologers with Errors in their Dcétrine of Revolutions, and in particular Stadixs, and at the fame time {ets up a Doétrine not allowable by the great Cardan, in Seg. 1. afph. ar. Quedam propinguo modo, ut fitis Revolttio 5 which ought to he very exact if the Dodétrine of Morintss is allowed s bue of that Subjet fee Opses Reformatum, page 43. But Moriaus hath done admirably well in his Sixteenth Book and Fifteenth Chapter of the First SéGtion, where he hath taught the true way to take the Antifcions or Zodtacal Parallels of the Planets, and quite turn’d out the old toppifh way, generally taught by all Authors almoft, except Prulomy and Cardan; who teach their Pupils to take the Anti(cions with Latitude, and not without it, as moft of our later Pretenders have done, but notorioufly falfe: And a man would think, That any one who was able to confider any thing, might eafily conclude, if the Latitude of a Planet caufed fo much Variation in a Di- reGtion to the Afcendent, ee. it mutt do the fame in an An- tifcion alfo. In the Preface to his Twenty fifth Book, concerning the Univerfal Conftitution of the Heavens, he fays 3 Compledtitur autem pars ifta Dolirinam pulcherrimam, amplifimam @& momentt maxim, de qus Vercres Alfrologi diverfimode feripferunt, fed con- fufeyimperfecle & Erronco, defecie vere cognitionis principioram bujets nobiliffime Scicntie, Kc. It contains (fays be) a Dodtrine large, delightful, and of the greateft moment, concerning which the ancient Altrolo- gers have written varioufly, but Confuledly, Imperfedily, and Erroncoully, not knowing the Principles of this moft Noble ” Science. Hence, you fee, he chargeth our ancient Authori- ties with Errors in all the Parts of this Study; and, if you pleafe but to read him, he will make moft of them appear to be fo, ashe tells you they are. And thefe things he doth not charge upon one only, but upo Nay, in many Places, throughout his Book, he falls very hard upon Ptolomy alfos but how he will make that appears per haps I may a litele farther enquire before I conclude it being none 1 mott of them, if not all.. -Defettio Geniturarum, none of my Bufinefs to contend with him in this Place: And yet after all this, he him(elf hath trumpt up fome Innovati- ons that will not fland the Tett and Trial, and in many things he is chargeable with Miftakes (as indeed we arc all) more of which you (hall hear hereafter. Lafily, Mr. 7-G. in his Hundred Aphorifims, made, and borrowed, tells us, in: the ‘ait of them, That the Art of Aitrology it certain’, bu there are fice that prsti it webo rightly underftand it. Now, if this be truc tt, beyond all doubt, proceed from hence, Not knowing the cre Rules, or know- ing too'many of the falle ones 5 for a man’s Ignorance in any Scierce is nothing elf but his not knowing its true and rational Principles, and the ways to attain them: Now, ifa man, in any Art, knows them imperfectly and falfly, Ithink ic is high time for him to acknowledge his Ignorance, and En- quire the way to Truths and fuch Perfons, this Aphorifm fays, there are ; if fo,why4s that Gentleman fo angry with me for making this Enquiry after Truth? But, if there are no fuch Perfons , then what occalion had we for that Aphorifm? But, befides, if there are no fuch ignorant and falfe Pretenders, what did he formerly mean by his Rats in Science? andof late by thofe, that, he faid, were not Cutis deep? for if we bring thele and the Aphorifin together, it proves the Affirmation more forcibly ; and J wifh he is not found to be one of the Number he endeavours to reprove, for the Ax is laid tothe Root of the Tree. Ie _feems there ar: but fevw that underftand it, and how we fhall come to know the whole Number of thofe few, or any part of them, I can’e tell, unlefs he will be pleafed to give us directions 5 for, of all thofe that pretend to it, | know there are very few but think they underftand it as well as Prolomy and Cardan did, al- though divers can (carce write their own Names. Butif we compare his Words, one with another, and confider them with what is faid by Morinns and Cardan, it will then appear, that there are now, and eter were, but very few chat really and rightly underfiana it; that is, in its Principles, in its Rules, and inits PraGice: If fo, and that this is granted (and indeed I think it cannot be denied)then all the reft,befides thofe few, are the Men that I would have come out of Plato’s Cave, thake Befettio Geniturarum. thake off their Traditional Errors, and imbrace Truth. They are the men that | have.been talking to all this times they are the men that ftand in need of my Advice and Dire@tions + and they are the men that { intend to gratifie with my La- bour and Pains, to guide and ficer them out of the Cave. But now all the difficulty will be to find thems for though all men will complain for want of Helps, and that there are very wm that underftand the Art, yet you will find far fewer than they acknowlege theméelves to be the men that the Aphorifm points at, and they them(elves fo often talk of, and pity. Laftly, I will conclude this Chapter with Two Aphorifins out of Cardan 5 and the firft is a Method and Inftruétions how to reform, érc. and the fecond is an Encouragement, with af- furance of Succefs in what they undertake in that or any fuck like Work, when they fet about ie in earneft. Tothe firft he tellsus,, in Seg. 1. Apb. 50. Multitudo Geniturarcem nec{faria fit Experimento, illam peperit facilitas fupputandi, unde ars, ex exper rentiis enim multis illa conftat. Here he fhews us what Method we ought to take in fuch a Work; weought to have abun- dance of Nativities, and by experience to prove and fupport the Art, becaufe it was by that firt found and difcovered : That is, to take divers Nativities, and compare one witb an- other, and one Diretion with another, and fee if the Effects agree in Circumftance and Time, and not make Aphorifins (as too many of late have done) froma fingleExample, and per- haps that erroneous too s by which Method we ate finely fitted with Rules and Aphorifms egregioufly falfe, when indeed they ought to be undeniably true, and beyond allqueftion. But, if you will ake Cardan’s Rule in this Aphoriftick Text, Work and be diligents for without Labour,no Experiences and with- out that, what is your Skill worth ? And when you have done your Duty, reft fatisfied of Succefs. As Cardan fays himfelf, Seg. 1. Apb. 100. Stcut amstor Divitiarsm Divisias invenit, © pene folissy fic Veritatem Veritatis amator. Asa Lover of Riches (fays be) doth find Wealth, fo a Lover of Truth fhall find Truth. But then he mutt look for it, and he mutt look forit where it is to be found ; and then too he mutt take a right way in feeking its foi noman can expedt to find Oytters breed on a Mountain, nor Pippins grow in‘the Sea, E CHAP. 25Defettio Geniturarum. CHAP. IL. Concerning an Aftrological Scheme of the Twelve Houfes, &c. His being the firft thing remarkable in the Rudiments of T this Art, I have thoughe it moft convenient to begin there, and to examin the various Ways and Mcthods that have been ufed and committed to Pofterity by our Authors, and fee how they agree one with another, and all of them with Truth 5 for it is impoffible they fhould all be true, be- caufe there can be but one tne Divifion of the Heavens and et we have about fix feveral ways, f.c. That of Firmicus, called the Equal; That of Porphiry.s That ‘of Alkabitius; That of Cam- anus 5 That of Regiomontanas, called the Rational; and that ‘of Ptolomy. And thefe fix ways do all agree in the four Angles, except the firft, called the Equal, and that agrees only in the Afcendent, differing on the Cufp of the Midhea- yen from the reft, fometimes 20 or 30 degrees, and fome- times 3 or 45 but the principal thing they contend for, is the Ecliptical Place of the Eleventh, Twelfth, Second and Third Houfes, with their Oppofites. And, to this purpofe, you muftunderftand, that as the Aftronomers have divided the Zodiacal Circle into twelve equal parts, which they call Sigass fo the Aftrologers have endeavoured to divide the Heavens, ‘Afcending and Defcending, into twelve equal parts, which they call Houfes : ‘And to this Day we are not agreed whe- ther this or that Divifionis regular, and the Diftances Propor- tional one to another; and that is my next Bufinefs to en- quire. 1 (hall begin with the firft, that of Firmicus, called the Equal. 7 Firft, That called the Equal, is fathered upon Firmicus by no body that I know or have read befides Garcens: It Is ne the Defettio Genitararam. the Ejual becaule it allows 30 degrees to each Houfe, and the twelve Signs are equally diftributed on the twelve Houtcs, with the fame degree on each Culp; and Cardan himfelf hath contended for the Truth of Altrology, in a hundred Natl- vities, making ule of this divifion of the Heavens only. This divilion indeed may be allow’d near the Equator to be mode- rately true, and yet not always there neither, but muft be allowed two or three degrees of difference in fome Houfes. They begin to fet a Figure in this way from the Afcendent, and. from that divide their Figure both above and under the Earth, by which means the true Midheaven is fornetimes in the middle of the Ninth, and fometimes in the middle of the Tenth Houfe, and with Submiffion to Cardan that ufed it moft of any man of late, I think it is not only a very foolith way, but alfo a very falfe one, becaule it renders the Apbets impoffible to be chofen, fententia Prolomei ; for the Planet that fhou!d be in the Twelfth, will be in this in the Eleventh; and that which thould be in the Firft, will be often in the Second, and fo of fome other Houfes. Secondly, all Diredtions to the Midheaven mutt be falfe, becaufe the Cufp of it often differs 15 or 20 degrees from the true Meredian Point. And, Third- ly, it doth not agree with the Motion obferved, and there- fore it is a confufed Pofition, having no ground in natures therefore I think it needlefs to Spend any more time about a thing, fo confpicuoully falfe and erroneous, having, I fappofe, very few, if any, to contend for it. Secondly, That of Porpbirius, who divides the two Ori- ental Arks of the Ecliptick, intercepted betwixt the Point Orient and the Meridian Circle, above and under the Earth, into three equal parts and through thofe Points of Divifion and Poles of the Ecliptick he draws the Lines of Latitude, commonly called the Circles of Pofition 5 from whenceare pro- duced the fix Oriental Houfes. This is one of the moft im- probable Projections that ever was invented, it having no fixed Bafis to rely on for its divifion, but is wholly artificial, without any ground; for the Lines that divide the Houfes, are drawn from moveable Points or Poles: And all know, that the Poles of the Ecliptick are fach, and therefore not to be relied on for Truth or Certainty; fo that we may alfo without E2 fartherDefettio Geniturarum. farther trouble conclude this is alfo falfe, and as uncertain as the former, called the Equal. Thirdly, That of Alesbitins, as he hath delivered it him- felf, in that Chapter called, De effe Circulé Accidentali, and learnedly handled by Valsntine Naibod in his Comment on that Treatife, page 137+ Hence the Method _of this Projection is thus; To the Time given he takes the Right Afcention of the Midheaven in the common way, to which he adds go de- grees; and,under the Pole of the Region you fet your Figure for, take the degree of the Ecliptick anfwering, to that ‘Ob- lique Afcention, as in the ufual way 3 of this Eckptical Point Orient they take the Semidiurnal and Semino@urnal Arks, each of which they divide into three equal parts, and then proceed thus; To the Right A(cention of the Midheaven they add one third of the Sermidiurnal Ark, and that gives the Right A(cention of the Eleventh Houfe, the degree of which you take in the Table of Right Afcention; and fo of the Twelfth Houle: Then, to the Right Afcention of the degree afcending, they add one third of the Seminodturnal Ark, and that gives the Right ‘Afcention of the Second Houfe, whofe de- reeis taken, as above, in the Table of Right Afcention ; and 9 of the Third likewife, concernin gwhich I.would give you an Example at large, but that | think it is not worth while, either to you, or my felfy and this Way and Method hath been faid by fome to be Prolomy’s, but untruly, as you fhall fee here= after. The Fallhood of this Projection will appear divers ways, and foon put it out of doubt, that it is wholly Fiditi- ous and Imaginary, and hath no ground in Nature, and that for thefe Reafons following. Firft, All Planets pafs the Cuffs of the Houfes in the Ecliptick, and therefore the Cufps taken in the Equator, as here, mutt be vattly different fometimes, and therefore very falle. Secondly, the Diftance of the Houfes are not Equal, either in the Ecliptick or Equator, for in the Latitude of 51 degrees, when 7 degrees of Virgo doth afcend, the firft feruple of Aries Culminates, the Semidiurnal Ark of 7 degrees of Virgo is 101 degrees 6 minutes, and the third part of it is 33 degrees 42 minutes: Now, by the Rule precede- Ing,there fhould be one degree and a half of Cancer on the Ele- venth Houle, and 3 degrees of Leo on the Twelfth: So that between Defettio Genittirarum. between theTenth and EleventhHoufes there is 30 degrees and an half, betwen the Eleventh and Twelfth Houfes 31 degrees and an half, and between the Twelfth and Afcendent, 33 de- grecs and an half; fo that, contrary to the Rule, when the Semidiurnal Ark grows lefs, that of the Equator grows lar- ger. Thirdly, and moft tothe purpofe, The Semidiurnal Ark of the A(cendent may ferve its own Diftance from the Twelfth, but not the Tenth and Eleventh 5 for at the fame time the Semidiurnal Ark of 7 of Virgo is 101 degrees 6 minutes; the Semidiurnal Ark of no degrees of Cancer, on the Eleventh Houfe, is 122 degrees 30 minutes; therefore your own Rea+ fon will tell you this Divifion is falfe, becaufe the Diftance of the Tenth and Eleventh Houles is but 33 degrees 42 minutes, which ought by true Rule and Motion to be 40 degrees and 50 minutes. And befides, the Diftance of each Houle in the Equator is fo various, that fometimes it is but 19 degrees, and fometimes 403 by which means there is no certainty of the Pole of the Houfe, the Afcendent excepted; With ma- ny other Objections, which to fpare Pains and Paper | do omit in this place. . : Fourthly, That of Campanus and Gazulus, two men men- tioned together as if they had been Contemporaries, but of about 400 Years diftance 5 the firft, I fappofe invented this Divifion, and the latter reviv'd it again, after it had been al- moftforgot. This way of Campanus doth alfo divide the Hea- vens into Twelve Parts, called Houfess and this dons by the Vertical Circle, and is the moft rational of all the four men- tion’d, but yet fufficiently falfe ; for though he divides the Vertical Circle equally, yet he divides nothing elfe equally, neither the Equator, nor the Ecliptick, nor true Motion, which of all is the moft certain and unqueltionable: And therefore, in thefe two Examples following, you may feehow the other parts of the Heavens are to be trufted to in that Di- vifion, For Example, Ler the beginning of Capricorn be on the Tenth, and Aries afcending in the Latitude of 51. then you have 8 degrees of Capricora on the Eleventh Houfe, which fhould have béen 18 degrees, and 24 of Capricorn on the Twelfth Houle, which ought to be 13 degrees of Aqusry 5 fo that you have by that Divifion two Sigas compleatly a cepteDefettio Geniturarum. cepted in the Twelfth. Let Cancer o degrees be Tenth,and o degrees of Libra afcendirg, chen by that Baines you will have 27 degrees of Cancer on the Eleventh, which ene to be 6 degrees in Leo; and 27 of Leo on the Twelfth. ae ought tobe 6 degrees in Virgo: This alfo is notorioufly 7 f,and not only in my Opinion, but according to the Modus ationalis aMfo. And therefore let thefe Objedtions be fufficient ore this Divifion of the Heavens Erroneous 5 which a ikewife further appear in the Examination of the Modus ationalis, both being fubjeG to the fame way of Trial and eee el Py, fee by what follows. ly, That of Foannes de Regiomonte, or Regiomont called the’ Madu Rfinaliss which divides the Heavens into eee Parts In the Equator, but not in the Zodiack, na et or Beginnings of the Houfes do really fall; an eee fore all other Parts of that Line drawn from one In- ert ir ion of the Meridian and Horizon to the other, fignities not! hing tous, fo much as that part or point thac cuts the Ecli- pti a ed that alone is the Cufp of the Houfe, and the only ee we dire@ under its peculiar Pole. This Divifion is y Morinus commended as the moft exa@ extant, and yet in Page 409: he complains of its Deficiency 5 and tells us after- oa ee by a new Invention of his own he had fupplied a jefect, and made it ferviceable to all Parts of the Uni- Le es oo within the Polar Circles, as you may fee in the Page Foren to which I refer you for further Infor- soe if tl i. matter, But 1 do fay pofitively, That the di- piaing. he Equator or Vertical Circle into Twelve equal the a Te Wee impoffible, to form a true Aftrological Scheme cad oy agree with Motion, let them draw their Lines of anne fa what Points they pleale, either from the Inter- ie a oa Meridian and Horizon, the Poles of the World, He ae the Zodiack , or any other Point whence they aaa Ly provided they will let thofe Lines, fo a n, Hod the Globe Into two equal parts, if extended "i Reena i Nor do I fee any Reafon why the Poles of the Sey ee ad mneay as they are in this, ‘ay, &c. For in the R Pole of the Eleventh is almoft 32, Pole of eereen * f) fo Defeétio Geniturarum. fo that the Eleventh differeth 32 from the Tenth Houfe, the Twelfth 15 degrees from the Eleventh, and the Afcendent but 4 degrees from the Twelfth. But more plainly to thew you that this Divifion is falfe, obferve, Lee us fuppofe a Fi- gure, in which the very beginning, of Capricorn is on the Tenth; according, to this Divifion in the Latiude of 51 you have 13 degrees of Capricorn on the Eleventh, which fhould be 18; and 6 degrees of Aquary on the Twelfth, which fhould be 13 5 and 24 of Taurus on the Second, which fhould be but 17; and 17 of Gemini on the Third, which fhould be but 11 degrees of that Sign. ‘And this 1 thus prove: Let the Sunbe then in o degrees of Capricorn, the Semidiurnal Ark of the Sun is 56 degrees 48 minutes, of which the third part is 18 degrees $6 minutes 5 and fuppofe the Sun to be on the degree of the ‘Alcendent exaétly , then by the Rational, when the Sun comes to the Cufp ‘of the Twelfth, there will be 1 degree of Sagitary on the Tenth, whofe right Afcention is 238 degrees and 5 minutes this I fabttraG from the Suz’s Right A(cention, and that fhews the Sun is 31 degrees 9 mi- nutes diftant from the Tenth Houfe, which by dividing of true Motion ought to be 38 degrees, very near, which gives 24 of Scorpio on the Midheaven, ‘and not 1 degree of Sagitary, when the Sun comes to the Culp of that Houle: Hence it is evident, that the Rational differeth from Truth 7 degrees at that time on the Cufp of that Houfe. Again, When the Sua comes to the Culp of the Eleventh Houle, by the Rational there will be 18 degrees of Sogitary on the Tenth, whofe Right Afcention is 256 degrees 57 minutes, which I {ubftra& from the Sun’s Right A(cention, and the Dittance is 13 de- grees 3 minutes, which ought in truth to be 18 degrees 56 minutes by the Diurnal Ark, with 12 degrees 28 minutes on theTenth, inftead of 18 degrees of Sagitary 5 fo that it is plain, the Rational on the Cufp of this Houle alfo differs from Truth almoft 5 degrees. But yet I do confefs that the Diffe- rence is not fo great when Signs of long, A(cention culminate 5 and yet that Difference is confiderable alfo, efpecially to thofe who calculate the Cufps Of the Houfes to minutes and feconds. Thus I have faid enough to any ingenious Man, tothew hic how he may proceed to Examin the other parts of the Circle, anDefettio Geniturarum. and difcover the Errors of the Mods Rationslis, whi fo long paffed for Current, without being neta before alter this manners and though this way of dividin, the Heavens may feem to be wholly new, yet I can affure faa it is no {uch thing, but of greater Antiquity than moft Artifts do imagine; which will further appear in what follows about aay of Dividing the Heavens. ¢ Sixth way is, That which I call Prolomy’s, it ii (to fay all in a Word) the only true Divition in Nate it being Real, and not imaginary, agreeing with its felf and its own Principles, and built on that which will never alter while Time endures; in this we divide true Motion, but they divide empty Air 5 we divide that which is vifible, they divide that which is only imaginary and take it for granted, that be- caule they divide the Equator into equal parts, therefore that Divifion muft be alfo true in the Ecliptick, which you fee is falfe, Nor is it poffible ever to proje@a true Divifion of the Heavens, either upon the Globe, or by Trigonometry, where the Equator is made the Bafis of the Divifion; and the Rea- fon’s plain, becaufe the Ecliptick and Equator have different Poles, they may by ftraining of it make itagree in fome, but never inall parts of the Circle. , 1. The Divilion of the Heavens into Houfes called, ought to be proportional one to ene to the Quantity of the Diurnal or Nocturnal Arks ; and this proved from the Words of Ptolomy, when he makes the Ele- venth a Sextile to the firft, the Tenth a Square to the Afcen- dent, and the Ninth an exa@ Trine to the Horofcope, as you may fee Lib. 3. Cap. 14. aiid this Harmony doth not confit in the Mechanical Lines or Circles of the Houfes drawn or arenes) but by a aa due Proportions of the Circle by ey are made, i haired a , aligned and dedicated to ¢hofe Parts 2. It is not faficient for thefe Houfes to be equally divi in one Circle only, whether it be the Equator, the Zidisck oo the Vertical, or any other chofen for fuch a purpofe, but out of thefe Circles alfo they ought to be equally divided by atrue proportional Divifion 5 and this, for the more certain finding the Defettio Geniturarum. the Giver of Life, which in the other domifying, Divifions will be moft uncertain, according to the ways laid down by Profomy to find it. As the Divifion of the Heavens is Natural, fo it ought to be from the Motion aud Influence of the Stars, and nor the empty Spaces of Heaven or Air. Thefe Houfes therefore have a fort of Familiarity by Rays among, themfelves 5 yet there are no real Rays without a laminous Body be prefenr, for the Houfes have no Rays of their owns hence it is vifible, that the Houfes arc made for that End and Purpofe, the Stars continually emitting thelr Influence and Rays; and not as fo many Points, Marks and Circles in the Heavens and Air. Again, the Way and Power of Operation is in the Agent it felf: Whence it is plain, the Stars do varioufly operate, ac- cording to their various Pofitions, and this produced by their Light and Motion, and not received from the Houfes. And befides, confider the various Rays, Familiarities and Afpedts that the Stars make to the Angles or any other Points and Parts of Heaven, are really and truly the Effedts of Motion only and the Houfes are but as fo many Diftances ina Circle, by which that Motion is meafured and judged; and as the Motion of the Stars is regular and certain, fo the Houfes and their Diflances ought to be proportional and agreeable to that Motion that determines them, from whofe Centers the Lu- minous Bodies do more perfetly and powerfully emit their Rays to the Angles, oc. 4. The Points of the Horizon rifing, and the Meridian, from which Lines being drawn from one to another, and thofe Ccleftial Manfions divided, are real Points and Parts of Heaven, in which the Stars do rife and culminate. The Houfes (as’tis faid) have all their Power, and confequently their Quality and Quantity from the Luminous Bodies 5 therefore they have all thefe things from their Motion and Pre- fence as well in the Angles as in the intezmediate Points = ff the Motion of the Stars, Whence it is plain the Quantity o! from the Point of their Rifing to the Point Culminating, is and ought to be divided into the Manfions of the Houfes and whatfoever other Points‘are taken, and Lines drawn to that purpofe between thofe Le are only imaginary, with- 33Defestio Geniturarum. without any Ground and Foundation in the Order of Na- ture. The proportional Diftances of the Stars to the Angles ought to be taken from that Point and Part of the Houfe from which they began their Diftance 5 hence it is a very ftrange fort of Philofophy to me, to fee fome, when they know the Stars do begin their Diltance from one Point, to take the Quantity of their Diftance and its due Dimenfion from another Point no ways concerned which was only an Invention, back'd with a generalConfent to deceive themfelves and others, 5. The firlt and primary Divition of the Heavens, accord- ing to Ptolomy, is into four Parts or Quarters, two above, and two under the Earth and thefe are again divided into two Denominations of Oriental and Occldental, as you may fee, Lib. 1. Cap. 10. Libs 4s Cap. 5+ Thefe four Parts of Heaven are conftituted, defined and demonftrated by thofe two great Circles, the Meridian and Horizon, as you may likewife fec in the fore-quoted quadripartite, Lib. 3. Cap. 11. and in other Places 3 in which Place and Places you muft obferve, that the Word Horofcope is not to be underftood of the Exorlent Part of the Ecliptick only, but that Line which the Stars pafs when they firft appear to our Sights which Line is called Finitor Oriontali. ‘This primary Divifion of the Heavens is by the Help of the two beforementioned Circles, wholly and entire- ly divided into twelve Houfes, and this Divifion doth not on- ly comprehend the Zodiack, and ten degrees of each Sidé of z a the whole Hemifphere above, and alfo under the arth, Hence it is that we fay, A Star that hath great Latitude is in the Afcendent, Twelfth Houfe, &c. though the Sign that Star is in, is not near the Culp of that Houfe, nor is the Star near the Zodiack by many degrees, but by its Rifing with . large Noxth or South Latitude it is faid to be in that Houtfe, when it is in that Space made in this Divifion by the Horary Circles of Pofition. Hence it is Jikewife, that the Horary Circles of Pofition are rationally and demonftrably different from the Common Circles of Pofition; and though they are both imaginary, yet the former are far more naturally truc and real than the latter. And alfo that they depend on certain diftances be- tween Defettio Geniturarum. tween the Angles, which (heweth that not only the four Quarters, which is the Divifion of the Zodiacal Circle, but the Divition of the four Quarters alfo, doth wholly depend on the two great Circles, the Meridian and Horizon. Hence It appears alfo, that the primary Divition of the Hea- vens into four Quarters, according to the DoGtrine of Prolomy, fheweth that the Horary Circles of Polition, confidered with the Tempora Horaris, do plainly demonttrate that the Angles are in Square and Oppofition oye to another 5 and that all the reft of the Houfes,as well one to another,as to the Angles,bear an equal and regular, Diftance, and this bya certain and deter- minate Motion proper only to that Circles and that the Houfes are parallel each to other, and all of them to the two great Circles beforementioned, the fuppofed Lines being drawn from one InterfeGtion to the other, and each of them extended are equal to the grcat Circles. It is al(o plain, that the Diurnal or Horary Circle of Time, by which the Houfes are deter- mined and conftituted, is wholly different both in its Nature and Ufe from the Zodiacal Circle 5 and by a Miftake in the ufe of both, It ‘hath given occafion of tumbling to fome, and a real Ground for Errors ( among others), fome of which at this Day are greedily embraced for undeniable Truths. Hence it appears likewife, that the Houfes are certain Spa- ces in the Heavens, confifting of Parts thereof, and are en- dued both with Longitude and Latitude and they are pro- ortional Diftances equally drawn according to the Principles ‘of Motion between one Angle and another 3 and though there are divers Pretences to a Divifion of this nature, yet there can be but one true. Thefe things being allowed, that way of dividing the Zo- diack into twelve equal parts, and the Lines thence produced, drawn through the Poles of the Ecliptick, is wholly rejected as filles becaufe ir doth not divide Motion, but Air: And alfo it is the moft uncertain Divifion, and irregular, of all that have been invented , and the moft fabje& to Mutation. It doth alfo wholly reje@ that Divifion of the Ecliptick parallel to the Equator, and the Lines drawn through the Poles of the * World; and that for the Reafons before alledged. 1 F2 tc36 Defeétio Geniturarum. Tt doth alfo wholly reje€t and difown the Divifion of the Vertical Circle, which paffeth by, and cutteth the Equator in the Points Orient and Occident: And though that Divition of the Heavens is moderately proportional, and for the mott part conftant and certain; yet it is not a natural Divition, aid that for thele Reafors. Firft, it doth not divide the Mc- tion and Influx of the Stars, but the parts of the Air only. Secondly, it doth not determine the proportional Dittances of the Houfes from the 2 quo é ad quem of the Stars Motion, but from the Points ot their Parallels, which indeed are ncither natural nor real, ead, to fay the Truth, nothing at all but Ima- gination ; by which means they firft lay an imaginary Foun- dation, and then build an imaginary Stru@ure thereon. Thirdly, Let there be two Stars or more in Conjun@ion, ex- aétly in the Point Riling, and at fome diftance from ghe F qua- tor; then their oppofite Point muft be in their exaGdegree of Setting: If fo, then why thould their intermediate pro- portional Diftances between the Angles be made by thofe Pa- zallels in which they do not cither Rife or Set; and is itnota very idle thing to take the Diftances of Motion from other Parts and Points than thole: of their Inception and Deliticn, which are really the true 4.quo é& ad quem of their rapt Motion in our Sight and Hemifphere ? Thercfore the Diftances of Motion ought to be taken from thofe Points, from whence the Stars begin to move, and to increafe theix Diflances by Mo- tion. This doth alfo rejeGt that Divifion of Alcabitius, as falfe and erroneous, becaufe he grofly errs in taking the Semidiur- nal Ark of the Point Rifing, and makes that ferve for the three Oriental Houfes above the Earth, by dividing it into three exatt parts: For it is very well known, that the Semidiurnal Ark of the beginning of Cancer, is far greater than the End cf Aries; and therefore when Canecr Afccnds, by that Divi- fion, the three Houfes. above the Horofcope will have Arks above their Proportion and Right; and the three Houfes below the Afcendent will have Arks lefs than their due 5 and fo of the other fix Houfes by the fame Rule :. Which you will find to be wholly irregular and falfe. k Defeétio Geniturarume Tt alfo rejedts that of Regiomontanus, called the Rational; which divides the Equator into twelve equal Parts, and that for the very.fame Reafons above alledged againft the Divition of the Vertical Circle, For though they do not err on the fame Bottom and Principle, yet they err equally in the Con- fequence and thing they aim ats which is a true and equal Di- vilion of the Heavens. Many things more might be faid in the matter, but I think thefe are fufficient. 6. The Divifion of the Heavens, andthe trite parting of she Houfes by the Pen of Natures do cach of them confit of 00 Tempo- ral. Hours, either of the Place or Star: That is, by a proportionat Divifion of the Motions of the Moveable Arks from one Angle to an- other 5 fir it is moft certain, every thing that moves, meafisres its own Diftance by Motion, and that Motion by Time, o you bave in effett beard above. This Divifion of the Heavens is nataral, and frecly offers it felf to the Principles of Réafon for Authority and Proof; for ac- cording to this Meafure and Motion, the Houfes are all equal, and a Star or Conftellation hath an equal tarriance in time in its Paffage in and through every Houle, which they have not by any other Divifion but by. this of two temporal Hours. For the Stars do difpence their Influence to us by a conftant and fucceffive Motion both in their Afcention and Defcention, in all Hemifpheres and if they'do continue longer in one Houfe than in another, the EffeGs, as well as the way of judg- ing thereof, mutt be both falfe and irregular, and it cannot be denied but that fuch a Divifion is falfesand the reafon is,becaule tholé Manfions, Portions, or Houfes of Heaven, are unequal, Again, a. Star, according to this Divifion, being in the Center of the Eleventh Houfe,doth behold the.Afcendent by.a Sextile; in the Tenth by a Square, and in the Ninth by aTrine, according to the Doétrine of Psolomy, Libe3. Cop. tte de Loco Prorogatore; which is not, (re vera) to be found in any other Divifion whatfoever; which proves this Diftribution to be truly natural, and:alfo agreeable to the Rules and: Precepts of Ptolomy. And the Reafon is plain, becaufe aStar found or placed in the Center of the Eleventh Houfe,is exactly one third of the Diurnal Ark diftant from the Atcendent; in the Tenth half.the. fame Ark diftant; and in the Sete thirds- Defektio Geniturarum. thirds of the fame Ark exaétly from the Horofcope, which no other Divilion, till this time difcovered, is able to perform, belides this of two temporal Hours to a Houfe, which I have elfwhere fhewed moreat large. But perhaps it may be objected, That though two tempo- ral Hours are ufed as is here laid down, yet the Houfes are not equal, becaufe out of the Equator thofe above the Earth toward the North are greater than thofe under the Earth; to the South, thecontray: And therefore this Divifion cannct be Regular and Equal. To ghis it may be anfwered , That an Equality among the Houfes is only required in the fame Hemi- {phere, the World being divided into four Quarters, or at leattwife into two Hemifpheres, one above, and the other be- neath; yet the Hemifphere below differs nothing in Quality and Figure from that above; nor can they differ one from another in any thing but Quantity s therefore although a Star fhould perform its Diurnal Ark by a leffer Circle than his No- Gturnal, or the contrary 5 yet ftill that Star -paffeth through the four quarters of the two Hemifpheres, nor doth the (mal- nefs of his Ark in any of them abate of his Power and. Effect, his Diftance confidered. As we do exptrience in the Moon, who paffech more fwiftly through the Zodiack, and In a far Jefs Orb than any of the reft, and yet we fee the doth not lefs affe@ the Times and Seafons than they do. From whence it is plain, that the Stars do not le(s produce their Effects in the {maller Quarters by a Cwift Motion, than in the greater bya flow. Therefore this is no rational Objection to the Divilion of the Heavens by Temporal Hours, {ceing they are really and truly proportional parts in all quarters of Heaven, and are all equal one to another, as well in Influx as Motion, notwith- ftanding the Hemifpheres are different in their Meafure. And befides, this Foundation being laid, the Prorogator muft re- main immoveable in Mundo; that is, in the horary Circle of Pofition: Which is confufedly jumbled hither and thither by the increafe and decreafe of the Ark in the common way, ac- cording to their Motion and Method of DireGtions. For who- foever pretends tothe Art of DireGtions, and doth not under- fiand the horaty Circles of Pofition, I am fure he doth not know the Motion by which all Directions are mades for all Defeétio Geniturarum. nd the fame Motion, both all DireGtions are made by one ai io co the Sead direét and convers ; Ca this accor Placid. de Titis. : Mee Tere endeavoured to thew the feveral ways et ve viding the Heavens into Houfes, and the Errors i d oa z tend them; and that this of all the Methods yet ut en i ¢ only true and natural one, and moft agreeable a lo a : which every one may ufe or refufe, according as 7 ey ane formed in their Underftanding : Nor is it my Ce ign e i pofe upon any, if I had Power fo to do, but Io! ee se udgment and Cenfure of the Ingenious 5 and for the Ig qant and Capricious they may let it alone. ee ee CHAP. Ul: Of Direétions to the Angles, 8c: A ; = Sorts and Denominations, &¢ 77 cians ee hand ‘The Sun and Moon are capable of Zodiace & in Mundo: i irected both ways. n Y bein tied in Mundo, they being tube cote Accidents nd Divifion of no Circle but that which conftitutes ae i fured by the Parts of of each Quadrant, and is alfo meal ¢ ; : d of thefe Diredtions only Diurnal and Ne@urnal Asks: An eae i lace, and alfo fhew thole I fhall take Liberty to fpeak in this Place, ee ‘Abfurdities invented by witty men, tha mort the Art, and inpofed them upon fuch who fwallowed i ‘Wherefore 5 and are at ths eit wit oftof our modern Pro- in general Repute among mi : feffors 5 and this not only by thofe that pretend to re hee ers of the Art, but alfo in Hiei ae fa G : dere the greatelt Mafters of this cience by be means AA Fail f this Age are mifled in their Practice, ede) in their firft, Rudiments, ‘and very hard to be re trieved. 32. but the Angles of a Figure can be *Defettio Geniturarum, trieved when once Cuftom and Age hath confirmed them therein. Firft, Ie hath been, and fill is, the common Method in Pracétict, to dire& the Midheaven and Horofcope to the Bodies and Oppofitions of the Planets with and without Latitude ; and according as occafion ferves, they are both equally vio- lent in giving Difeafes and Death, as you may fee in their own Books, and under their own Hands. For example, Argol fays, Henry I. King of France died on the Alcendent to the Body of Mars, without Latitude, differing three degrecs from the Di- region with Latitude; vide de diebus Criticir, pag. 162. He alfo fays, That Cardinal Burgbefius died on the Afcendent to the Oppofition of the Moon without Latitude, and nothing elfe to affift it, page 242. Which, if it is true, is of the fame Force with that Diredtion with Latitude, and every whit as effetual, He likewife kills Jobs Vidman with the Afcen- dent to the Body of the Moon, without Latitude, page 310. only he allows fomething elfe to aiid ic. He tellsus, That Francis Orfatt had a violent Hemorrhage at the Nofe, on the Afcendent to the Body of Satwrn, without Latitude page 352. , Mr. J. Gad. in his Collectio Geniturarum, page 19: tel That the Lady Elizabeth died on the Afcentent to the oat Mars without Latitude. And that Mr. Tho. Gataker died on the ‘Afcendent to the Oppofition of Satu, without Latitude page 103. And indeed, if this be true, it is a very remark- able Proof of its Power; for the Ark without Latitude came up five Ecliptical Degrees before that with Latitude. And Mr. George Mills had the Worms to a firange degree on the Afcendent to the Oppofition of the Moos without Latitude, and yet the Moon had five degrees of Latitude, And that Clee mnt Bareford had the Epilepfy likewlfe on the Afcendent to Oppofition of Saturn, without Latitude, page 196. And in his Doétrine of Nativities he teacheth his Reader by _ an Example in his own Genefis, in his Table of Dire- Gions, to dire& the Midheaven to the Oppofition of the Moon, without Latitude ; as if the Moon did pafs the Mid- heaven twice, as.{he mutt do both there, and in the Acendent , if 7 > Ales 74 . Defeétio Gent arn. 7 if they think thofe Points are to be diredeed with and without Latinte : That is, fhe mutt dance backwards and for- wards, a . Nay! the great and learned Morinus kills Du « "lity aliasy Cardinal Ricblicw, on no other Direétion than the Afcendent to the Oppofition of Fupiter, without Latitude ; vide Aftrolog. Gall. pag. 612, 614. ‘And indeed of all that is here merti- oned, this is the moft abfurd and ridiculous, That Jupiter fhould kill becaufe in the Eighth Houfe, and without Lati- tude too, is very ftrange, and yet the Sun Hileg. in the Ele- venth Houfe, in that Nativity. By what hath been faid, it appears, That the greateft Pro- feffors in this Science make ule of this Method in their Pra- @iice of Dire@tions, and allow a Dire@ion without Latitude to kill, which is the greateft Power it can have ang there- fore let us confider it well and throughly, and alfo what Foun- dation it hath in Nature 5 for} am of Opinion fc is only a Sham; and that thefe Disections to the Angles without Lati- tude are only made ule of to fervea turn when nothing elfe will do: Let the Pitcher have two Handles, and either of them will ferye to hold it by on any occafion. Mutt I be bound to believe, becaufe the Sun and Moon may be directed to a Star, with and without Latitude, That the Afcendent alfo by the fame Rule mult be direéted fo too? No, no; the Sun is di- rected to aPlanet without Latitude, in Zodiaco, with Latitude in Mando and {fo the Moon; But the Angles in Mundo only 5 and this (hall immediately more plainly appear. A Star is faid to pafs or touch the Horizon by Diredtion or any other Motion, when it begins perfedtly to leave the Sub- terranean Hemifphere, and begins to appear inours; for the Horizon is fuch a Line as the Meridian, and both but imagi- nary in seference to a real Line: Yet we are fure there are two fach Points as the Meridian and Horizon 5 and this.we are de- monftrably convinced of everyMorning that we fee theSun rifes for no fooner the upper part of his Body toucheth the Hori- zon,but immediately we may fee it begin to rife:And every day that the Sun rifeth and fets,we are fure there isa middle Point between both, andan exad half way, although he makes no Stop nos Stay there 5 ‘and how broad or narrow focver you G think Al42 a — oo uenitur, ; think thele two Citcles um Marks like Polnts in a Li are, they are nothing elfe bat two sphere Ghieteeair ae ine drawn on Paper, the one to thew thetwa 7 aoe parted, and the cther where ww ants in our hemi: eare divi it wacuu ones ifphere are divided, and this lence it appears, That the A(cendent and Midh. i edto the Body or Oppofition of a Star, is nothing lle tte he Body of a Star coming to thofe Points or their Opp:.fit _ and this with Latitude, and not without it, as you fa ae TT aaa netic cee lene take yeerr down, backieards and forwards, like Puppets ina Show, ¢ verify the fille Rules of a few ignorant. Alirologcrs Sap. pelea Sear to have North Latitude, as Vinus (for Example) who had 8 degrecs of North Latitude in February 1691 a the ectiptically in 5 degrees of Aquarys_ when the sth degree of Aquary (which is the place of Direction without Latitude) comes to the Horofcope, Venus is at leaft 7 degrees above the Horizon, for fhe paffeth the Afcendent with the 17th degr: of Capricorn, and the Midheaven with 3 degrees of “ges - and therefore,can there be any philofophical Reafon given wh y the sth degree of Aquary fhould have any force in cither of thofe Points, when the is really and virtually paft in both ? But i may poffibly be objecied, That the doth by fome fecret way influence the 5th degree of that Sign in both thofe Points oF the Afcendent and Midheaven. To this 1 anfwer 5 If the is any Ground to believe fuch a fecret way, it mult depend pe ne fomething: If upon her Body, that is impoffible, becaule e is out of the Afcendent, by their own Rule, 5 de Tees 5 nor can fhe virtually influence a Point when the is formany degrees paft it, as is before mentioned : If on the vertue f the 5th degree, her Ecliptical Place, then we are not eee eee to her Body and Rays than we are to the Magneticls Power of the Eciptcal degres, which doth pole an equal ae and Power withher Body; which, if allowed, thena i h for the Rays and Influence of thcStars.If there is a fecret pee from the 17th degree of Capricora tothe 5th legree of Aquary, which I fhould be glad to fee proved and de- monitrated 5 for I muft believe, if that thing beallowed, That every degree between thofe two muft have an equal Share of Power Defettio Geniturarum. 43 Power and Influence as well as they; which, if fo, we (hall all into a firange Confalion about Directions, which but the degrees of diltance either of a Body or determined Point in a Circle 5 and for all fluence that have not {ome probable Ground to be believed, I cannot readily nor, fairly comply with them, without an Affront to Reafon and Tru Therefore youmay conclude, that there is no other Dircétion to the Angles of Bo- dies or Oppofitions, but with Laticude, and that all other are indeed and in Truth Fi@itious, and both invented and ufed to ferve a Tarn when nothing elfe will do. Secondly, They generally direét the Midheaven and Horofeope tothe Afpeéls of the Planets in the Zodiack: Which is not trie 5 dittin& Circles, and each of them have becaufe they arc two different and diftinét ways to meafure thelr Afpedts, the one being meafured in the ‘Lodiack, and the other by the Rapt Motion; by which Motion only the diurnal Circle is mea- fured, the Houfes divided, and the Mundane Afpe&ts propor- tionally limited. I fay, that way of directing, is not true; and therefore take an Example or two + Suppofe the 29th degree of Capricorn on the Tenth Houfe at Birth, at which Time the beginning of Gemini Afcends; and fuppofe Saturn to be in the 20th degree of Taurus, in the Latitude of 52, then is he (if he hath no Latitude) 6 degrees above the Afcendent 5 and yet for all that, they will tell you, That the Midheaven comes to his Square at Twenty one Years of Age. By which it appears, that his Square (as they call it) in the Ecli- ptick, falls 21 degrees from the Midheaven, and he is 6 de- grees above the Afcendent; fo that thefe two numbers added make 27 degrees, which taken from 90, leaves this adrate to confit but of 63 degrees: And yet That the Circle or Figure confitts of and each of them have 90 de- have a Quadrant within a Quae ‘our, or elle we mut which we may take quickly £ are no more Aipedt trom fome fecret ways of In together, imaginary Qu the fame Authors tell us, four Quadrants or Quarters, Brees 5 if fo, then here we drant, and by confequence more than F have a little Quadrant and a gxcat one, of our Cholce, as occafion ferves G2 Again,44+ Defeétio Geniturarunr, Again, Let us fuppofe the beginning of Aquary to the Tenth Hcufe, and Saturn invthe 13th ence of Cnn in the, third Hout, and in the common way I would direét the Midheaven to the Trine of Sasurmp to do which, 1 mutt by the Right Afcention dire& the Midheaven to the 18th de- gree of Pifces 5 which, they fay, is the true Direction of the Midheaven to the Trine of Saturn. Now obferve, when the 18th degree of Pifees comes’to the Midheaven, the 18th de- gree of Cancer is on the Afcendent ; and they all do allow. That the Afcendent is juft 90 degrees from the Tenth Houfe : and that every 90 degrees is a Square. !€fo, then the main Queflion is, Whether this Direétion is in Truth a Square ora Trine, and alfo what effeG it muft have onthe’Native. Thus you fee what a confufed Jumble they make of Aftrology ; ard yet with thefe moft abfurd Rules and Methods they contend for the Truth of it; and fome men are angry with thofe that oan go ia equal length with them, to believe againft cmd Poin, ew an equal Zeal to the Temples of Ignorance fo make it yet more clear to the Reader, Let us fu a Figure that hath 26 degrees of Leo on the Tenth Heats 10 degrees of Scorpio A(cending, and the Sun in 20 degrees of Capricorn, as in the Nativity J. G. calls his; here 1 would di- ret the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun: To do which (as they fay) I muft dire& the Midheaven to the 20th degree of Libra ; which being done, there will be at the fame time 17 degrees of Sagitary on the Afcendent, and the Sun above 33 degrees diftant below it, toward the Second. Hence ob- ferve, in the firft Example of thefe three, their Quadrant or Square is 27 degrees lefs than 90, and here you find it is 33 degrees more than 903 which fhews that their Rules and ways of working are very uncertain, and indeed next to no Rules, becaufe irregular: Or ele, That we Aftrolo- gers are men of amighty Power, and can Enlarge or Contra the Heavens at our Pleafure, as we find occafion to makethem. somply with our Do@trine and Notions, Thirdly, They have a‘ new invented way to dire& th Afcendent and Midheaven Convers; by which Method ie c difco- Defettio Geniturarams 45 difcover tv ir Ighorance in Direétional Motion 5 for Convers Diredtions are allowed to none of the Hilegical Points, but the Sun and Moon,as you may fee in the third Book and fourteenth Chapter of Prolomy’s Quadripartite. This Method J have feen: ufed in Nativites by fome of our Modern Profeffors 5 but the firfi Author 1 find it in, is Morinus, page 555+ Aftro. Gal. in the Nativity of Lewis XIV. where he direéts the Afcendent Con- vers to the Square of the Moon for the Small Pox and Eryfi- pelas. The A(cendent and Midheaven are (as you heard be- fore) certain fixed Points, and therefore uncapable of any Mo- tion, either backwards or forwards for in direct Diretions the Bodies and Rays move to thofe Angles, and not the Angles to them, as fome fondly imagin + For let the Moon bein the Eleventh Houle, in a Nativity, fhe moves to the Midheaven, not the Midheaven to her; and fo of the Afcendent: By which it appears, from their own Operations, that they tacit- lyallow thefe Points to be fixed, for otherwife there could be no Direétions to thofe Angles, which they all tell us there are, and I believe too many have found to their Sorrow, either in Life or Fortune to be true. By this it appears (and I fappofe will be allowed by all) that the Angles are fixed Points, and immoveable 5 if fo, then the Angle it felf doth not move to the Body or Ray of any Star, but the degree of the Ecliptick only, which | allow to be true; and that the degree of the Midheaven or Afcendent : doth by the Rapt or Convers Motion move to fucha Point, as they fay ; fappole therefore, the Afcendent to the Square of the Afoon, before mentioned 5 but this cannot be done in the Zodiack, but by proportional diftances in Mundo, under their proper Horary Circles of Pofition; Yet, fappofe this Direction is or can be wrought true, how comes it to pals that this fingle de- gree that poffelt the Afcendent at Birth, comes to have this Power they pretend to? For the Myftick Force of the Horo- {cope muft either lie in the Fixt Point it felf, or elfe in the Ecliptical degree that is on itt Birth, or in both. If they fay it refides in both, there they put,us into a greater Confufion than before; for the next 5 minutes after Birth gives us two Afcendents, and in Directions of Life and Death we fhall not know which to make ufe of, nor which hath the greateft Power.* Defeétio Geniturarum. Power. If they fay it is in the degree 5 then they can never have any dire& DircGtions to the Afcendent through the whole Life, becaule that degree paffeth into the Twelfth, and fo to the Eleventh, and at lali we have loft our Afcendent in a Fog, itis ran awayfrom us, and fo letit go. If they fay the Power relides in the fixed Pointit (elf, then by their own Me- thod and Rule they mutt allow the A(cendent it felf to give Power to the degree that did then poffefs it at Bath 5 which indeed I have heard fome of them fay that have uled this Me- thod: Hence, if the Afcendent hath fuch a virtue in it to give fo great a Power to that depsee at Birth, it mutt do the fame to the next, to the third and fourth, and fo to alls which, if true, then hath that Native had the Afcendent di- rected to the Square of the Moon every Year ever fince he was fix Years of age, becaufe there comes a freth and fucceffive degree to that Point every Year: Which being alluwed, we hall have theMidheaven andHorolcope alwais direted through- out the whole Life to the fame Body or Ray, when it is once begun by Convers Motion; which feems very idle and ex- travagant to me, But again, if they will allow this mighty Power to the degrees on the Cups of the Houfes, why thould not the Sw or Moon Hileg. in the Seventh kill, when they are directed to the degree on the Eighth Houfe, feeing the Lord of that Houfe hath the Power of Death, as they fay he hath? For if the A(cendent can givethat degree an Aphetical Power, the Cufp of the Eighth, according to the common Opi- nion, being the Houfe of Death, mutt give the degree thercon at Birth an anaretical Power 3 which I am fure no man ever yet experienced or found. We have one Englif Author, that hath taken abundance of Pains, with very little Skill, to teach. how to work thele Diredtions, Clavis Afro. page 641. and in 612. he direéts the Afceadent backwards, which is a fixed Point, and cannot cove ; by which it appears to me, that cie ther he doth not underitand Dire@ional Motion, or elfe he tifles with his Reader in the Point, Fourthly, They have in all their Books taught how to direct one Honfe to anotbersand in the Effcéts of Dircétlons they all tell us likewife what it gives; ard to fay the Truth, this is not lefs Defettio Geniturarum. 7 e delivered and in- s than the reft De atin crs, and built Jefs vain and ridiculous: a it is much of the fame nature W ai i nthe A(cendent and Midheaven Cony 7 *, . every fame Foundation. Loren ems at have heard, are certain Diftanees he Heavens, meafurcd by Arks of Mot 1 A 0 4 termined to be immoveable avd always cep ana aad ta ce 3 and therefore how is it poilible ae How otion? Be be direetcd to another, when ney iN See bi ‘And therefore to talk of direEting ont aan a to quarreling which {hal ve firlt, aie eee fe invented of this kind, contrary der they have never Vays and Laws of Nature, 1 won ve mee Sha te Mytlery of direéting, the Afcendent to oa ee fourteen the and the other Frien * one to give Sorrow, t : ad eee a ikewile fo the Ninth and Eighth oe iv Long Journeys, and che other Death an rf Sea a Hae the Afcendent to the Second to elven red ma Moulholdilutts ard tothe Third, to vilit his indeed: The Malhes to theEleventh to give honourable and ne ee Mig neane Twreltth, to give Banifhment, and damage by fooran vine Wi ftery of thefe Dire@tions, in their See nso the ation of the Zodiack, and therefore bi rae ee fet the Second Houfe comes to the pe oe Sera he Direction is finithed , and call it tl ei euine ae sl ; the Second Houfe; when indeed it is no fuc' an nB» dire oafes never fir: Bat if che fawn had been on ie or roe the ‘Second the had certainly moved to ti ee ee that Direétion was compleat, her Body wo a bee fa ofe we fhould allow what eee fas Beis iredtion of the Afcendent to the Second hat! i ee era Affairs: How comes that degree eee eee and Virtue in it than all the degrees that more a tall afs that Houle afterwards ? And why thou d ule, pee of the E:liptick, within the Limits of Recaies ne Sree ab Effeéts'a8 that one fingle degree have 4! y Diredti the Afcen- do all pretend to, when they come by Direction to peed 47Dofeétio Geniturarum. dent? But above all, Wh imagi t y fhould we ou felves into the Belief of) a thing vithout ae 5 cane ? For we all allow that the Cufp of the Secor a a ut an jmaginary Line, and no fuch thing in reality. Tt k fina feck this eee Nothing give Vertue to Some. ing, that hath none, and is Nothing it (elf? Or why thould a poe i oe individual degree hich Bee er? Ani what means doth that fi east myftick Power reccived, fo great a items os eee ee ° the as One would imagin it thould v led, decayed and vanifhed in its Pail: Point to another ; for it is no ee noth but an imaginary de; of the Ecliptic, palling by an imaginary Line called. the Se tick, 1 by an imaginary Line called th cond Honfe, in its way to the Afcendent Remy ener 4 ; tor H i we fappofe and allow it to be all real, true and viibie en ie nh not make any more for their purpofe than before 5. ond i ay, That York comes to London twice every Week. becauf the a comes from thence to London twice every Week, [ a e fuch a piece of Nonfence, thas thould it be faid ube likly, all Mankind would laugh ai And yet our Cafe how i ifpate is equal to that, and full as ridiculous. Tobe thore, een ee and fome other Fooleries, now much ¢, were invented out of a malicious Deli ean pao and anaay in the Jud, fae ind Obes ed Men: thefe, impofed upon weak poe ee La panos being siete ether they had any Foundation in Nati 3 and they ate now fo generally received, that in the Opinion moft a Crime to i a Bood Delign to fet the Age ihe them, though out of low why we fhould be led away and deluded ii als and Approbation e uae and Emp trae » 10 Reafon 5 and this not only to ufe th : Posie at at 3 ly to ufe them in our print them and lay them do’ Ti hot to be omitted : Thereby givi mek toal wee: n : y giving Opportunity to all come Enemies to the Truth of the Ai Naing ke Fae Principles for true ones ve have Rest tains ones, when we have Reafons fuficient i ae to fatisfie any Enquirer into the Miylleries of Nav ind its various Effects by its variety of Motions for there are Defeétio Geniturarum. 49 are various Afpedts and Rays in motion, which either through Ygnorance or Idlenefs are not taken notice of 3 but they are hunting for new Jnventions, to load the old Rules with Er- ror, and make them precarious, building their greateft Errors on fome fappofed Mathematical Foundation 5 and if they can but impofe upon us by a Diegramatical Demonftration, thofe lefS capable of Enquiry run away with it for abfolute Truth. I would very fain Know how they can demonftrate the Dire- Gion of the Firft Houfe to theSecond ; the direéting the Mid- heaven and Afcendent Convers 5 the directing the Angles to the Afpeds of the Planets with half the Latitude of the Bo- dy; the direCtion of the Moon after the Common Way: Of which you will hear more by and by. The Dire@ions of the Afcendent to the Bodies and Oppofitions of the Planets with- out Latitude; the direéting the Angles to the Afpects of the Planets in the Zodiack ; upon what Ground and Authority they build their Diretions in Revolutional Figures; and laftly, how they will prove, by Demonftration, That the Part of For- tune is always in the Zodiack 5 which isthe natural Confe- quence of their Precepts for direting it,as you may fee in moft Authors, And I do not doubt but when the fo long promifed, and long expected Body of Aftrology falutes the unlearned world, ‘we fhall find Methods and Matter not only to inform our Un- derftandings, but to take off thofe foul Spots and Blemithes from the Face of the Divine Urania , and as. one hath filed the Key to the Secrets of Heaven bigger, fo 1 hope the other will take care to polith it. Fifihly, There is another notorious Conceit they ufe very gravely > and to puzzle the Caufe, and make it look more myfterious, they confound both themfelves and their Pupils in teaching them how to work and perform it: And that is, to direét the Afcendent and Midheaven to the Afpeéts of a Planet in the Zodiack, with half the Latitude, either of the fame of the contrary Denomination, whether it be Sextile or Trine. ‘And the only Author I find hath taken Pains to impofe, ex- teach this way in Englifh is, the Author of Clavis plain, and Aftrologie Elimata, page 671, and Ae Where he endeavours c!.Defettio Geniturarum. to make his Difcipte learn to work and underftand an unintel- ligible non-entity, 7. ¢ the Afcendent to the Trine of Venus, with half hee Latitude, of a contrary Denomination and that this may be the more exaGt and true, it is there wrought Trigoncmctrically; but how true it was performed, will appear prefently: He there fays, That the Ark of this Dire@ion is 33 deg. 25 min. add this to the Right Afcention of the Mid- heaven 318 deg, 2 min. and it produceth 351 deg.27 min, which thews that 21 cegrees of Pifees then toucheth the Mid- heaven by Diredtion, and that Venus wanteth a full degree of that Cufp when this pretended DireGion of the Afcendent to the Trine of Venus is finihed. Now, what man of Sence, that will confult his own Reafon, as well asa little Skill in this Cafe, can ever imagin Venus is in Trine to the Afcendent be- fore fhe hath paft the Midheaven, and when the isnot com- pleatly 90 degrees from the Horofcope, which ought to be 120? And to fay the Truth of all in that Cafe, That Dire- tion by his own Figure could not touch by true and vifible Motion till Seventy one Years of Age, Ark 63,17. And this by Prolomy’s meafure of Time, which he pretends to teach his Reader, page 637. which is valtly different from this, as you may fee by comparing both, But can any man in the Wor.d conceive or imagine, That Venus is in Trine to the Afcen- dent when fhe is not 89 degrees diftant from its and this put upon the World by a Mathematical Aftrologer, that is willing, all fhould appear demonttrably and plain to the Readers? By which you may learn, How our great pretended Mafters of Aftrology underftand the Nature and Motion of Directions. Pray let this worthy Author appear once more, and fhew us by his own Skill and Demonftration, How the Directing the Angles to the Afpeats of the Planets, with Half and Quar- ie ee ee in Nature? If not, as he took ¢ Pains to file the Key bi i fea y bigger, fo 1 will affift him in the po- Bat let the Direction be how and when it will In bi: prehenfion , as to Time and Operation, which are nai both amifs : ‘the main thing we have now to enquire is, Why’ the Latitude is allowed to the Afpect of any Planet, direGted to Defeétio Genituraram. to an Angle? And Secondly, Why but half of it? asin the Example before us» Thefe Gentlemen, that do thus con- found Aftrology by thefe pretty Devices, do it either out of Ignorance or Defign + for they make things difficult ¢o be un- derftood that Nature hath made plain and eafic, and puzzle us with Motions and Direétions that they underftand not them- felves, nor are there fuch things in the Being and Order of Nature; and this is principally done by blending the two fo different Circles of the Zodiack and World together 5 which is indeed a thing utterly impoffible to be done, and yet keep to the true Order of Natural Motion. I have told them, That all Bodies which move in and near the Zodiack,are to be direéted in the Zodiack only ; and that they mect all Rays in thofe Circles wherein they move: Thus the Sun meets all Rays, both Bodies and Afped: in his own Way and Circle; but all Points of Heaven In theWorld receives all Rays inMun- doonly, and by that Circle allo meafureth its Afpeats: Hence it is impoffible for the Mundane Circle to meafure the Zodiack, orthe Zodiack the Mundane Circle 5 and this you. may eafily fee; for when the rf degree of Sagitary is on the Tenth Houle, the latter degrees of Capricorn Afcend:- So that you have but two Signs between thofe two Angles, and hardly that, but there are above four Signs then between the Fist and Fourth Houfes, and the fame number between the Tenth and Seventh, and fo of the reft, when the End of Capricornis on the Tenth Houfe, and the beginning of Geminé Afcending. But however I think or believe concerning this Conceit of Latitude in the Afpeats in the Zodiack, 1 wholly deny it in Mundo, and all Afpetts to the Angles; for weare not be- holding to thofe imaginary Afpects made in Zodiaco, and ufed in Mund», but to the real Dittances of the Stars made by the equally divided Figure into Twelve Houfes; from which Points and Places they behold the Angles, de. and are jut fo many patts diftant as do compleat that A(peG@ then formed and made; and if any Mathematical Gentleman can do that in any part of the Figure with half the Latitude, &c, I fhould be very glad to fee fuch Curiofity performed. Hz Bue xt53 But why with Defektio Geniturarum: Defettio Geniturarum. tt why with Half the Latitude? Why Reafon but becaufe Morinus faysit, and by ray no otbes to that purpofe to confirm this Notion, which Morinus fetch. eth from Blanchinus and Leovitins, fappoling thcir Authonity might ftrengthen his. But whereabout in the Figure this hie tle parcel of half Latitude fhould fall, I cannot apprehend ; for though the thing is true in it felf, when a Planet is eeeran his Node,that the Square falls in theInterfe@ion ao by that Projection, the Trine in their Senfe will hive ifferent Latitude from the Body; yet in this Circle in Mi do there is not one Tittle of Authority nor Reafon for it be- aoe Rays are meafured a different way from thofe in the poe Nor did ever any of them pretend to any Interfe- ion of the Orbit of any Planet with the Mundane Circle 5 and it is upon that alone this Project of half Latitude, oe depends, and till that is done, there is no man, that will make 4 eafon his Judge, can believe this Fancy, of direéting to ae Angle with half Latitude, when at the fame time their own peration contradiats them, and tells them, Their Trine is Es a compleat Quartile, And befides, it is moft certain, ; ni the Rapt Motion. doth not make any alteration in the i {peéts, if confidered in the fame Circle they are made ; fc the Body, by whofe Raysthe Alpeis made, is (inthe Rapt ; Motion) always the fame diftance from it, But in this Ex ; ample before us, they tell us of a Trine, and yet when the pretended Direction is finifhed, the Point where the Trine falls is not 90 degrees diftant from the Body that makes it; fo that f it is dwindled into Something that wants a Name. which ¢ never happen in the ie and natural Motion. , “e Thus it appears by thefe pretended Dircétion: ae Man, an? thofe that {wallow his Onision at te Fiaitious, Groundlefs and Falfe, and wholly befide th re ne of Nature and true Motion. And indeed I have ae oe to an on this Subje , but becaufe 1 think ; Po re : for the following Chapter, I hall omit Sixthly, Another pretty Invention they have, is, To direc the Angles to the Antifcions of the Planets, which are indeed: the Zodiacal Parallels: This Likewife is a moft notorious Mi- fiake, and proclaims them totally unacquainted with the Motion they make fo much Noife about, and pretend to know fo perfectly well. 1 fhall not in this Place trouble you with the Defcription and Nature of Antifcions, but re- fer that to its proper Chapter, where I fhall fpeak at large of their Nature and Circumftances 5 and only give a Hint or two here about the Angles being direéted to them, it being, the proper Place to mention it in. “Argol kills feveral on the Horofcope direGted to the An- tifcions of Satura, Mars, and fometimes Jupiter 5 as you may fee in Cardinal Crefeentins , page 314. where he fays, He dyed on nothing elfe but the Afcendent to the Anti- feion of Mars; fo in the Cafe of Cardinal Fuftinian, page 304. on the fame DireStion 5 and Prince Frederick, page 250. both dyed on this very DireGion of Mars: And, to mention no more, take only that merry one’ about the Archbithop of Urbin, whom, he fays, dyed on this alfo, having a little before paft the Body of Adars 5 which he takes no notice of, only mentions the Antifcion. The like inadver- tency you may fee alfo in Collegiion of Genitwres, page 71, page 123. by which it appears, ‘That they do all generally afe and approve this Method ‘and DoGrine, which is full as much amifs and out of method as the laft thing, mentioned, and the Reafonis plain. Becaufe Antifcions or Zodiacal Parallels are nothing elfe but certain Points of Diftance in the Zodiack only ; norcan they be ufed in Diseétions to any Bodies or Points but thofe who move if and near the Zodiack and to direér them to the Angles, or the Angles to them, is to no more purpofe than to direét the Midheaven to the North Pole, and the Effets wili be equally the fame, both in Force and Vertue: For Antifci- ons ate not Bodies, and therefore not to be thus applied in Dire@tions to the Angles, as they conftantly have done in their Pratice: and I dare be-certain, if things were to.be duely and. Sixthly;Defeétio Geniturarum. and trul i i tha hh dl dhe bare Ausbosky encugh or Oploion of the Anges tig eed es ‘he Tomy ofthe cre oa Bb inthe Zl ny “ee Rea f ae on blog dined ve “the Terms of Antifcion but when the Mon educa es Then afon of that will appear hereafter, when! come tothar Chane 7 CHAP. IV. Of Direétions to tke Sun and Moon in the Zodiack. HE Sun moves in the Zodiack onl E c ly, and Tit and Afpeds in his own way therein ee shatbe on prea ie Sun ee that have Latitude, are not faid t " Zodiaco, butin Mundo: Though Mundane Di in a fri@ Senfe, are fomething diffe ape 5 @ different from them, i- a of the Sun they cannot make any Miftake ontderable a Ht fa te Be taking his oe Ke Pofition, and dire@ing to the ¢ Planets with Latitude; but if the Sunis un- der the arth she ay of dir in the Crepafenline Cher, are both of them, diffe fi Common Ways which I fhall not ¢ fee Ic take the Pains he - lenge upon, by fhewing, the Ways and Methods a ‘do it And for aelng he Say with half Latitude, as hae before in the Afcendent’s Diredtions, that is indeed erroneous and falfe ;_ which will more plai aI ria Direftions of the A4oon and her Motion 5 Fohich eit ime, diately Defestio Geniturarun. ately make plain and clear to you, That the common Authors neither know right, nor work true: And the Caufe of the latter depends on the formers for it is certain that he who knows not the Truth of athing, can never report ‘it well, of teach it as it ought to be taught. What I told you of the ‘#0 is alfo true in the Moon, That fhe meets all Bodies and Rays in her own Way wherein (he movess and whatfoever Directions are wrought by any other way than that which agrees with her true Motion, is not true, but erroneous. And to make this appear more plain, 1 will ilufrate the matter in two DireGtions, i. ¢. 112 Moon to her own Square, and to the Body of the S43 by which you will fee,and they will confefs too that they do not underftand Dire- @ional Motion, for all the Noifethey make about it. Let usfuppofea Time, and let it be 1693, March the 21ft. in the Mornings the Moon then in 8 degrecs of Aquary, with x degree North Latitude, and let 6 degrees of Aquary afcend in the Latitude of 52. and then the ‘Moon will be jult sifen above the Horozon, and yct under the Pole of the Horofcope. In this Pofition 1 would dire the Moon to the Body of the Sun, in ridegrees of Aries. The common way of directing the Moon to the Body of the Sua in this cafe is, To take the Oblique Afcention of the Moon with the Latitude the hath at the Time of Birth, and fabftra& that from the Oblique Afcen- tion of the Sun, under the Pole of the Moon, and the refiduc they call the Arkof Diredlion, which is 30 degrees 47 minutes, at which time the Moon is really in 30 degrees of Aries, with Latitude, and not in 11 degrees, the Place of the Suns for when the Moon comes to the 11th degice of Aries, the hath § degreee of North Latitude, by which reafon fhe paffeth the ‘Sun's Body with and in 22 degrees of Pifees under the Horary Circle, as you may fee by the Globe, if you pleafe ; fo that the true Direction of the Moon to the Body of the San 23 de- grecs 45 Minutes, is not taken notice of by the common Pro- feffors and others, nor indeed is it known to thems for in all their Books they tell you, There is but one Direstion of the ‘Moon to the Body of the Swen in that Pofition, and that differs 7 degrees 2 minutes from the true one, 1am fure there isno man 55Defettio Geniturarum. man but what will readily agree with mein the Truth Of this Direétion, and as readily agree, That the Moon’s Latitude otight to be taken notice of in the Place where the Dircétion is tinifhed 5 for by this Reafon, when a Star hath large Lati- tude, and the Moon large Latitude alfo of a contrary Denomi- nation, the DireGtion may be of little or no effet, becaule their Bodies or Oppofitions may be 10 or 12 degrees diftant from one another, when the Dire@ion is really compleat. In the next Place, 1 would direét the Adoon to her own Square in the Zodiack ; and this under the Pole of the Afcen- dent alfo, and that fallsin 8 degrees of Tazrus, and accord- ing to the modifh way of directing, now in Ufc and Practice, they fubftract the Oblique Afcention of the Advon, taken at that time, from the Oblique Afcention of the 8th degree of Taurus, and the Ark of Direction fo wrought is 43 degrees 00 minutes 3 but the true Ark of DireGion of the Mocn to her own Square, taken with the Latitude fhe hath in that Point, is 34 degrces 8 minutes ; differing from the other, wrought in the common way, 8 degrees 52 minutes. And this you may perceive by the Globe as well-as the Tables that the Moon mects her own Square in 19 degrees of Aries : For at that time when they tell us, That DireGtion is com- pleat and finithed, the Square of the Moon is paft that Pole of Pofition in the Horary Circle about 5 degrees of Altitude above the Horizon; which, if you rightly underftand it, will foon appear to be a notorious falfe way of directing: And yet among all. the Proféffors, Teachers and Pretenders, at this day, there is no other way in ufe, nor is there any other to be pra- Gtifed with general approbation ; and fo long as no body que- ftions it, every one is fatisfied: Nay! our great Mathematical Teachers too, thofe Men of Numbers, who, to fay the Truth of them, know the leaft in Aftrology of any men, they (I fay) have {wallowed the Gudgeon too, and yet we (forfooth) muft truft to them in the Divifion of the Heavens, and con- trivingMethods to dire& by,and which you {ee are falfe in ma- ny things, and in this for one. There is not aman in being, though totally unacquainted with Mathematical Learning, but will foon agree,that every Star that is direGted,muft meet thofe Rays Defettio Geniturarum. Rays they ate direéted to inthelx own Way and Circle, where- in their Motion is performed; and if you dire& them in fome Conceited Imaginary Circle, contrary to Nature, you cannot believe that Direction true: For it is perfe@tly impoffible that he who travels Oxford Road, thould ever meet that man or men that travel Yk Rosd-3 1 fuppofe you will judge the Rea- fon of it. Why, jult fo it isin our Cafe now before uss but perhaps a Diagram may more aptly fhew it, and make it plain to you, In this Diagram, let a_ 4 & B v8 reprefent the Meridian Line, cr D a patt of the Equator, 4 ¥ B the Eaftern Finitor, a part of which is the oa a(cending, C 2 D the Mann'sDefeétio Genituraram. 59 ~ is, 1 judge you may fee by the annexed Diagram 5 but the true Atk of Direétion mutt be wroughe with Latitude, and the Ark fo wrought is 63 degrees + minutes, differing from that of theirs y degrees 27 minutes; which is a fall Fault with them, bat a plaguy Blunder in Dire@ion: For, do you think, that their Dircétion and mine can have an cqual Force? Or that che Direétion the Moon meets in her own way, is not of more Force than that in the ‘Lodiack, or the other out of her Way ? Confider it. T might alfo take notice of the Diredtion of the Mzon to the Body of the Sun, who always moves in the Lodiack 5 and let us {uppofe him to be here in the beginning of Gemini, the Ark of Direétion will be, jn their way, 28 degrees 8 minutes, but in mine 36 degrees 41 minutes 5 differing only 8 degrees 33 minutes 5 but 8 Years in a Dire@tion is nothing with them. Thus you may fec thefe are vifibly falfe; and 1 canalfo make moft of their other Operations in Direétions ap- pear to be as unequal as thefe are. ‘You need not doubt but they know it themfelves, and the f them have taken Notice of it too, though without the Sincerity to tell the World of it: And this you may perceive by their difingenuous Directions, to puzzle the Caufe, and make the World think them Genuine (who, like Pick-pockets, make a Hurry in the Street to make the people ftare, while they carry on their Trade with more Safety and Eafe) as in the directing to the Half Latitude, in the Afpecs of the Planets, which none but thofe that want Reafon to confider will ever believe or pra@ice. And the only Bell-wea- ther of this DoStrine in England is that weak-headed man, ~ the Author of Clavis Ajtrologie Elimat. page 671. who want- ing Parts and Abilities to invent new Fooleries, that may feem well, and deceive the Crowd, he hath juftfo much Senfe and Skill to do as the Little Gentleman with a Chain about his middle, Initate others: And to prove in a few Words he hath either Ingenuity, Parts, Skil, ox Generofiy: His dealing in that bafe Trade of Sigit and Charm making (which no man endued with Ingenuity and Honelty, will be guilty of) is fuf- ficient to prove: But to that foolery in his Book, in dire@- ing the Angles, and I fappofe the Luminaries too, with half 12 Lati- Defeétio Geniturarum. Meon's Way in Mundo, OD EM the Moon’s Way ii diack with Latitude; in which prick’d Line fhe in fe re own Square, or any other Body or Ray that falls in the E i ptick, or near it; for itis perfeGly impolfible that the Mom or any other Star fhould meet the Beams or Bedies of other Stars in a Way, Line, or Circle that they move notin. Ai d 1 believe you will grant me this without preifing Thar i would teem horridly ridiculous for any one to pretend to die reét the Sun in the Prick'd Line O © EM, when we kn " he always moves in the Lire V8 V9, Why then is ic net asablard t0 dired the Minin the Line ¥8' %, when the po not move there, butin the Line O © EM, 5 degrees oe s 1 believe by this time you undesftand, and ate ready Now let us take a view of the common way, an how ridiculous the thing appears upon Examination 4 ootne neither dire&t the Moon in the Ecliptick, nor in her. Circle Bi Latitude, but out of both : For they take her Oblique At cention with the fame Latitude the hath at Birth, which in our Example in the Diagram is 1 degree South, as you a fee by the Prick’d Line € N33 andin that Line and Quantity of Latitude they do dircét -her through the Natives whole Life, when it is plain fhe doth not move in it, but in the other Line » EO M, which is 4 degrees from it when fhe comes to the beginning of Gemini. Therefore if you take no more notice of her Latitude, after you have taken her Ob. lique A{cention at Birth, which in the prefent Example is 1 de. gree South, you direét her all-a-long with that 1 degree of La- eee a aa more, ae in an imaginary Circle, not yet n fature; | which a idi becaule the Moon is not there. aD ase Jo the Diagram, Let the Moon be in oo degr i with one degree South, and I would here deat hor wae the Pole of the Afcendent to her own Square, which falls in Zodiseo, in oo degrees of Cancer 5 and the Ark of Diredtion, in theit way, fine Lat. is $4 degcees 37 minutes: And by their Principles there is no fuch Direétion as the Moon to het cae Square, exm Lat. becaufe they fay the Square always falls in the Ecliptick, and can have no Latitude ; but how true that is, more ingenuous oO}60 Defettio Geniturarum, Latitudes if he can do the former, Tam fur he! ter, though both perfeétly impoftible. the may the tat As todirect the Angles to the Alpects with any Latitude, i their way, is groundlels and vain for the Girele that mealureth the Ajpetis in Mundo, and that which meafureth them i % diaco are both upon different Principles, and managed by dif ferent Motions: The Afpetts ia Zodiac do only cancern thofe Bodies by Direction that move in the Zodiack, where they di indeed really meet thems butin Mundo it is quite different, Sue the Meafure equal, though in another Circle by a different Mo tion : For example, Let the Sun be onthe Culp of the Twelfth Houfe; when hecomes tothe Eleventh Houfe he is in Sextil to the Afcendent ; when tothe Tenth in Square to it, he bes ing then go degrees from it; and when to the Ninth he isi Trine to it 5 and fo of any other Star: And direéting to the Angles with Latitude any other way than this, I moe non ; or at leaft | believe none, Now, for the Luminarey, tet us fa " pote in the Diagram Saturn to be in 10 deprecs of ries with 2 degrees North Latitude, then his Sextile maft fall in 1o de- grees of Gemini, with 1 degree North likewife: If fo, then pray which is molt agreeable to reafon, to dire the Mom a 1 degree of North Latitude, wholly out of the Order of jature, to meet the Sextile of Saturn in Gemini, or with degrees South Latitude, which is her own vilible wa ae pointed by God and Nature? If you fay the firft, thes it eS plain you do not underftand the Motion by which Dircétion is made; for the Moon is not on that fide the Ecliptick, and therefore the Operation is wholly vain and imaginary ; ‘but if you fay the latter, then it is plain your Direction hath no Force in it, nor is there any fuch Motion to folve the thin you imagine of a Direction with half Latitude, and this fe only in Direétions of the Moon, but in thofe of the Swn,and th he of Fortune too 3 in the latter of which it is the moft abe fard thing in Nature, and wholly repugnant to the natural ane a eee as it islaid down and taught by the fore- ieee Canons Chavis, &c, page 674, and 675. to which But then, there is another Whim laid down Morinus, from Bhanchinus, and afferted by the te Khon Page Defeétio Geniturarum, page 616, and 617. That every Square falls in the Ecliptick, ‘and can have no Latitude; and this is proved by a Demon- ftration in Morinus, page 552- In Argol, prim. Mob, Tom 1. Page 6. and imitated by Coley in his borrowed Clavis,page 616. which Diagram I do not think worth while to blot Paper with in this Place. By that Demonftration they endeavour to prove the half La- titudes they talk of in Sextiles end Trincs, as well as no La- titude in Squares: And I think it may be worth our whileand Jubour to examin it and its Principles on which it is built and founded for, in my Opinion, the thing is merely and really imaginary, firft conceived in the Mind, and built upon the Strength of that Opinion; and becaufe invented,and alfo pro- pagated by great Men, it hath paffed upon us without Exa- mination, as moft of the other Errors have done and | am fure, the Author laft mentioned knows nothing of the matter, nor did heever (I dare fay) take Pains to examine it 5 nor do I think heis able, but he took it where he found ic, and gives the fame Reafons, built upon the fame Principles ine had from them verbatim. The Rays and Familiarities of the Stars have been vari- oufly defined and judged by Students in this Enquiry, fome being of one Opinion, and fone of another. Regiomontanss was of the Opinion, That the Rays and Afpeéts were Circles, whofeCenter was in the Body of the Star that made the Afpect, or gave the Ray ; and the Meafure of that Afpeét was in the Ecliptick : Or if the Star had Latitude, meafured by the Ecli- ptick alfo. _ But how they will prove the Quadrate of that Star falls in the Ecliptick without Latitude, or in the InterfeGtion of tie Ecliptick and Orbit, as they affirm, unlefs the Star is in the Extreme Limie of his Inclination , 1 cannot fee nor imagine; but more of that hereafter. Blauchinus alfo will have the Rays to be Circles, drawn in Longitude from the Body of the Star to the oppofite Point, and fo round: By which means he cuts the Ecliptick in the Quadrates, and thence concludes, That the Sextiles and Trines have half La- titude, the Sextile the fame Denomination with the Star, and the Trine the contrary. , Hese 61é2 Defettio Geniturarum. Here you fee one will have the Rays to be Ci the Center of the Star, and the Alpetts to be ne ve Points where the Circles cut the Ecliptick, The other will have them to be Circles or Lines drawn through the Bodies of the Stars, and the Afpeéts to be taken in that Line or Circle at the ufual diftance of 60, go, or 12c degrees, which makes the Afpedts. And between thefe two Opinions there Isa great deal of difference, efpecially in the fupputation of the Afpects. The Opinion of Regiomontanus is partly true for che Rays are indeed extended in their Orb, but not before nor after, or any other Place than where they pa(s, or in the ways.of thot Stars that receive their Rays in the Circles where they Ee moved. Blanchinsss’s Opinion of the Quantity and Diftance of Rays in Longitude from the Star beholding, partly agrees with Regiomontanus 5 but for the fititious Circle that he hath imagined, in which he fays the Rays are contained, and out of which their Rays have no Power nor Virtue, is wholly Falfe and Erroneous ; for the Rays are extenlive, and every Star ee ee Rays of ae Cee Stars in its own way where it is ved; as you may fee i mari a a ae, y the former Diagram of the Afoon’s lo not deny the Interfection of the Ecliptick it of a Star, but I deny the Confequence eee That the Square of that Star mutt of neceffity fall on the Point where the two Circles pafs, which in the Diagram pre- ceding is in the point 23 for the D. Hence itis plain, the ya fuppofe the Star always to be in the Extremity of his Lati- tude, or 90 degrees from his Nodes; for otherwife the Pofition they lay down is falfe: As for example, Let Mars have 2 de- grees of North Latitude, as in Fanuary 1€93. his North Node & then in Taurws 5 if fo, then how comes it to pafs that his quare (according to their falfé Rule) falls in the Ecliptick, or in the Point of Interfetion, for one of his Squares falls in Pifces,and the other in Virgo: And befides,'if the Star hath La- titude, 1 know no Reafon but all his Afpeéts ought to have it likewife, and that without halving and quartering it, as the do by this new Proje. At the Time beforementioned ‘Mart is in 15 degrees of Gemini, and his North Node is in 19 de- grees of Taurus 3 now by their Rule, how is it poifible that his Defeétio Geniturarum. his Square can fall in the Ecliptick ? for his Square falls in 15 degrees of Virgo on the one fide, and in 15 degrees of Pifecs on the other, and his South Nodeis in 19 degrees of Scorpio 5 fo that both Nodes are far diftant from both his Squares, and the Interfeétion muft be in his Nodes,or near them. But then Jet us conftrue it moft favourably on their fide, and fuppofe it to beas they fay in every particular, as to the Line being drawn tarough the ‘body of the Star, and that it inter {es the Ecliptick at 90 degrees from that Star, and that the Sextiles and Trines have half Latitude to the Body, as they fay they have. Why, here their Caufe will appear more vain than before; for in the other acceptation there are two Circles allowed, thatis, the Ecliptick and Orbits but here their Lines are wholly imaginary, without any Ground in Nature, they feppofing that which is not 5 for though I allow the Star to move always in hisOrb, yet I deny that to be fuch a Line as they imagine; and that it doth not cat the Ecliptick at 90 de- grees from the Star's Body, or very feldom; nor have the Stars tae fame Latitude in the fame Signs at one Time, that they. have at another; for it depends as well on their diftance from the Sun as from their Nodes, as to its Quantity. ‘As to this Circle, drawn from the Body of the Star to the Diameter, and cutting the Edliptick, according to their Fancy, it is wholly fi@itious, vain and imaginary, and without any Ground in Nature; as Did. Pritt, well obferves, when he Says, The quadrate Rays, according to Regiomentanus, takes no notice of the Ecliptick, becaufe the great Circles do always cut one another equally, according to the Obliguity they are in one to another: And this will appear plain and eafie to be un- derftood, by fappofing three or tour Planets in the fame degree of any Sign, having divers Latitudes ; here their Squares will all fall in one Sign and Degree likewife; But you may becer- tain the Orbits of all thefe Stars do not cut the Ecliptick in the fame Point. Which Argument of it felf overthrows the Affertion they lay down, unlefs they mean fome other Line and Circle paffing through the Body of the Star, befides the Osbit ; (which if they do allow another, I do intreat them, that pretend to teach that Method, to explain and demon- fisate the thing to the World). Nor can I apprehend any oes on64 Defeétio Geniturarum, fon why the Squares or Quadrats of the Planets fhould not be defcribed and extended as well out of the Ecliptick as in it. But belides, this isno real Circle, nor is it defcribed from the Motion or the Light of the Stars: If they fay this Cirele is defcribed from the Points of the Qysdrat and Oppufite Rays, that will confound the things becaule they have faid already, The Squares are defcribed trom the Circle, therefore they can- not be the Caufe of this Circle, becaufe then they would-be both Caufe and Eftcét: On the other Hand, the Circle would be both Caule and Eifeét,if that thould be deferibed from thefe Points, and the Points fhould be de(ecibed from the Circle ; which is alittle ablurd, for nothing can be both Caufe and Fe in the fame thing , and at the fame time; whence Blanchinus’s new- invented Circle is falfe, and Argol mightily overfcen tu teach it to his Followers. But betides, it isa vain idle thing, if confidered in its Ufe they put it to, and the Power they give its for firlt, they con- fine the Power and fnflux of the Alpeéts to this Line only,and that out of bat Line to have no Force to a@ or affect any Body or Star: By which means they overthrow the rational Ground of the Effects of Dire&tions ; for, by this Rule of theirs, the Power of the Afpeéts being confined to this Line, many Di- rections will be by that Method of no effe@. Tl give an Example in one, by which you may guefs at the reft: In the former Diagram, page 57. let us fappofe Venss to be in the very beginning of Aries, with 8 degrees North Lati- tude, then her Sextile in the beginning of Taurus mult have, by that Rule, 4 degrees North Latitude 3 and I would direct the Moon to the Sextile of Venss in Zodizco : Now obferve, when the Moon comes to the beginning of Taurus, the is 5 degrees Southward from the Ecliptick, and the Sextile of Venus, with half Latitude, is 4 degrecs North from the Ecliptick; fo that, by their own Rule, this DireGtion can have little or no effeét, becaule the Moon is at fach a great di- {tance from their imaginary Line, and alfo the Body of the Moon and Sextile of Venus are 9 degrees apart when the Di- seGtion is finifhed. Hence it may appear, That the Ule they -put it ¢o is not according to the Motion appointed by Natures nor.is there any fuch Power to be attributed to any Line (the Ecli- Defettio Geniturarum, clipti ed) that they give to this: For, by their eee ae ceraara out of that Line will never couch any of that Star’s Rays and Afpects that move in that Line, either by DireCtion or any other Motion, , fappofe it were true, That there were fuch a Line as ei ee there is, and that it doth cae the pained a » H ‘rom the Star; yet this makes nothing at al for ae ® DireCtions with half Latitude, becaufe a Prorogator meets the Rays and Afpects of the Planets in hi wn Way and Circle in which he moves: Thus the Svan a al Rays in the Zodiack, becaufe he moves always cee : The Mion meets all Rays in her Circle of Latitude, i ‘hich fhe conftantly moves, and is always out of the Ecli- pli xcept when fhe is with cither of her Nodess and he f a toalk of direGing either of thefe two to the Rays of th 2 planets, with half Latitude, is neither agreeable to Motion or reducible toReafon: And when they come to a f directing the Part of Fortune in this nature to the ha : Latitude, itis fach a piece of Vanity and folly thot not to 5 for the Part of Fortune is by them c aos and indeed is fo in fome Meafure and Pros ‘ortion, aud that it is found by the Moon principally, as Car- y obferves; but the Purt of Fortune is fometimes far more i te from the Edliptick than the Moon can be, and by no means | direéted, as they imagine and think, But when Eey ‘ome to tell us of directing the Angles to the half Lati- : de of Sextiles and Trines, that is indeed no more a i ef than downright Nonfenfe, and that for the Reafons above {pecitied. they imagin K CHAP,Defettio Geniturarums —<$—$$—$—$————- CHAP. V. . Of the Antifcions of the Planets. Here hath been much Noife and Talk about theAntifcions, fome allowing and others condemning the Ufe of them: Argol makes them do every thing, and direéts all the five Pro- rogators to them ; allowing them to give Preferment, Maz- siage, Death, ee. But (ome of our Engl Writers do make little account of them, and fay, They ave of little Force and Virtue either in their Pofitions or Direétions 5 and yct in the Conclufion, neither one fort nor the other underftand them, either what they are,or how to take them;and therefore to one fort of People they ferve, when perhaps nothing elfe can be found ; and the other fort, on a more ftri& Enquiry, finding little cffe& in their DireCtions, have wholly and totally reject- td:thems As to the Common and Ufual Way, taught by all Au- thors, how to find and takte them, it is really falle, and there is no fuch thing in Nature as they talk of, unlefs in the Sun and Planets not having Latitude ; for in taking their Parallels orAnti(cions, the common way holds good and trues But when the Planets have Latitude, the true Antifcion fhall difter from that commorly taken 6, 8, 10, 15, and fometimes, 30 de- grees, efpecially. if near the Tropicks: By which you may esfily judge, it is no Wonder if thofe commonly taken have no effe& when the Prorogators meet them by Dire@ion; and therefore it will be convenient to tell you what they are, and what Ground and Reafon there is for their Ufe, either in Po- fitions and Figures in general, or in Direétions in Nativities in. particular. The Ground therefore of Antifcions is laid down by Prolo- my, in a very few. Words, io the Thirteenth Chapter of the Firk _Defeétio Geniturarum. ‘{Firtt Book of his Qusdripartite 5 where he tells us, That thefe Antifcions are nothing elfe buc the Signs, and Degrees of the Signs, equally diitant from cither of the Tropicks or the Equator ; and that when the Sun comes to thofe Points, on either fide the Equator, he rifeth and fets in the fame Points of Eatt and Welt, and makes the Days of equal Length, as well as the Nights, For cxample, Let the Sua be in the Tih degree of Virgo, then his Anti(cion falls in 2p degress of ‘Aries, {0 that each of thefe Points are equally diftant from the Northern Tropick 5 the Days and Nights are of the fame Length when the Sua is in the one Sign, asin the other; and the alt degree of Virgo rifeth and fets in the fame Polnt cf the Horizon exactly where the 29th degree of Aries doth: And the (ame Accidents and Circumttances do alfo exa@ly concur with the 1lt degree of Pifeer, and the 29th degree of Libra, they being both equally diftant from the Southern Tropick, as the former from the Northern, and all thefe four Points have the very fame Declination, without which it could not be. Objedtion. But perhaps fome may fay, This is no more than what we have learned already 5 for the very fame Degrees and Signs are alfo our Antifcions; we thank you for nothing, for this is to no purpofe. ' Anf@er. Not fo hafty, my good Friend, I have fomething, elfe to fay to you, if you will have a lictle Patience: Let us now fuppofe a Star to bein 20 degrees of Taurus, with 5 de- grees North Latitude, I know you will fay his Anti(cion falts in 10 degrees of Leo, and his Contrantifcion in 10 degrees of Aquary, Sc» bur in this you are extreamly. out of the way, and ina grofs Error 5 for one falls in 4 degrees 26 minutes ‘of Gemini and Sagitary, and the other in 15 degrees 34 minutes of Cancer and Capricorn: And do you think this would not make a valt difference in a Direction, when one man directs the Sun or Moon to the Antifcion of a Planet in 15 degrees of Cancer, and another dircéts them to the 10th degree of Leo 5 which is but 25 degrees diftant one from another, and im- poffible to be both true? Again,Let us fuppofe a Star in 20 deg. ‘of Taurus, with 5 degrees South Latitude; and then one Antifcion falls in 4 degrees and 12 minutes of Taurus and K2 Score t 67DefeElio Geniturarums Sexpis, and the other falls in 25 degrees 48 minutes of Leo ° and Aquary, Here you tind 16 degrees of -dillarce between that takarin the common way, and the true one, and is {uff sient to confound avy young Er.quirer into thofe things. sem this, and fuch Reafons ss this is, you have fometinees Accidents and no Directions to fignitic the thing and fome- times DireCions and no Accidents co attend them according to the Rules laid down in fuch Cafes. And to fatisfy manibet I am no Innovator in this Point, pray have Recourfe to your great Author and Oracle, Morinss, page 368. where he teach- eth this way only, and alto tells you, that the Antifcions are to be tak.n no other way but by the Tables of Dectina- tion; and, to fay the Truth, that is the only valuable and remarkable Tsuth in that great Volume: 1 do not fay there is no morc, 1 make (you fee) no meation of Contrantifcions ; for I call them all either Antilcions or Zodiacal Parallels. , which comes fir to Minds for they are nothing clfe but parallel Dittances from the Tropicks and Equatcr 5 and as they are all of a Denomination, fo they are all of an equal Force and Power in Directions, and from one Planet all of a nature too 5 though our common Authors tell us the Antifcions are good and benctick, but the Contrantifcions are bad, maletick, and of the nature of Squares and Oppofitions : But that is like re re(t of their Do€trine, for the molt pare falfe and grounds C15. Ftold you, in the end of the Third Chapter, That I would fay fomething abcut direGing the Sun and Muon to the Anti- feions of the Planets; for the Midheaven and Afeendent are wholly imp: ible to be direéted to them with any succels, as you have heard before. The Rule is gencral; for as the Anti- fclons are taken with Latitude, fo they mutt be dire&ted with. Latitude to the Afirn, and without to the Sun 5 and therefore when the San or Moon comes by their Regular Motion to have the (ame Declination that ycur Planet hath, then is your Di- action comr.pleatly tinilhed. and nocthcrways. And the Rea- fon is plain, becaufe the Moon keeps the fame way in her Di- seCtions to Promittors, that the always compleats her Month! Revolutions in: And therefore your awn Reafon will tell you, Defettio Geniturarum. ou, That the Moon muft be always dire€ted to Antifcions with Latitude, becaufe Antifcions are only Diftances from the Equator and Tropicks; and when the Moon or San comes to have the fame Diliance by DireGtion from thofe Points, it is no matter what degree of the Sign they are in, fo they have the fame Declination, and then be fare they have the fame Di- ftance from thefe Points; and you know the Moon hath gene- rally Latitude, and that alters her Declination every degree the moves, as you may fee morefully, though on another Sub- je, in my Opus Reformatum, page 32+ And, to tell you the Truth, this Direction of the Moen to the Antifcions of the Planets, is one of the mott troublefome to work -of any in the whole Art; and the ditliculty lieth in’ the true Motion and the Latitude contidered cxattly 5 for by them is the true Declination found, and without that, this Direction can be nt and I think it is here laid down fo plain, need to trouble you with an Example to teach no ways wrouy| ehat there is nor the way. I remember, | have formerly asked fome Pretenders to Aftrology, What thefe Antifcions were in Nature ; and how 1 might come to underftand them? They told me, It was a myftical Ray of the Planet. But then, faid 1, What is the Contrantifcion? Cana Ray give a Ray, and that of a dif- ferent Nature from it felf too? If fo (laid 1) it is a very myftical Ray indeed ; that the Star fhould give a Ray of his own Nature, and that Ray give-snother Ray quite different in Quality from the firf, and the Star too, who is Parent to both: For they tell us, that he Antilcion is good and bencfick, but the Contranti(cion is very ill and malencks jult as they have made the Head and Tail of the Dragon, one to give all that is good, and the other to give nothing but Mi(chef, and yet no probable Reafon for either Head or Tail to have any eG, Others alfo | have enguired of about thef: Antifcicns, and 3 found every Man gave’me a very different, as well as a very fame account of the matter, and that they had nothing more but a Traditional Knowledge of the thing, and fo they do generally remain ill this time, a very few excepted: Nor dot find they are willing either to (eek the Truth, or accept it when offered to them. You have already heard what avait differenceDefeétio Geniturarum. difference there is between the true wa fi be and ee aa in Antilcions and their Dose by which fon may guy i so Wonder choy found foie eee in them, sea ting t i pinion of the Ancients, as to conclude the , eee cea het But I dare aflure any man, if he a to work the rig] ' way, he fhall find them almoft as power- eae a : of nature they are of, and that they are not re ah ure and Quality, but Antifcion and Contranti- ene Cares either both good, or both bad 5 and ac- me ing ao ire that in the Northern Semicircle is oad ay cane es an {peaks in his Firft Book, een uadripartite: In which place a Trepeke Lhey are Parallels, and that to the Equitor CHAP. VL. Of the Part of Fortune. Need not mention the common { way of taking th Dvr becaufe it is one of the moft priccipal ce a ata See he is taught how to fer a Figure, a el pend ao as well as univerfally ufed a aaa eerie jut my Defign and Butinefs is to thew. That re 8 i. they underftand it) an irregular ufelels coe a a Conk Sea down for its Motion, icky fee, and, Tfuppote, at een aa na eee eee as it is u/ually taken by the common t eae a ee backward and forward from one Houfe ene d keeps no Regularity in its periodical Motion, wr Hoc ae ions: Nor can any Artift make it appear to eres ‘art of Fortune paffeth by the Pole of any Sig- in the Zodiack 5 or how any Promittor paffeth o that Dofe fio Genituraruin. shat under any particular Pole that may or can be affigned to it. Norcan they prove to me, That the Part of Fortune is carried about by the rapt Motion ins Mundo: And if fo, fam {ure they cannot prove it can be dirc@ted to any Signiticator, whether Sun, Moon or any of the Angles, which they com- monly do in all Nativities. Nor can they prove by Reafon,De- montiration, nor Experience, that ore Direction in Ten to the Part of Fortune hath any effe@s and the Beafon is, be- caufe it depends on the Mosx for Declination, upon her Mo- tion for Right Afcention, Diftance, and hath its Diurnal and Nodurnal Azks increa(ed or decrea‘ed, according as the Moon rifeth and fetss and therefore | fhall here defcend to Par- ticalars, to fhew you how able 1 am to make good what & have faid. le: This you may (ee, if you erecta Figure for December 19- 1694. at 9 in the Morning, at which Time if you ercéta Figure (uo Lat. Lond. you wilt” find 22 degrees of Capricorn Atcending, and 26 degrees of Taurus on the Fourth Houfe, and the Part of Fortune in 9 de- grees of Taurus, wanting 17 s of the Cufp, which fhould have been 20 degrees beyond it, becaule the Moon is almoft 20 degrees paft the Square of the Sun, and the Part of Fortune not yet got to the Fourth Houle; contrary (0 the Rule of being on the Culp of the Fourth at the firil Square. Secondly, It danceth from one Houfe to another, as you may fee by ferting 4 Figure for the 2agth day of September 1689. at 2 Hours ‘after Noon; at which time 8 degrees of. Capricorn Afcends, and the Part of Fortune is withing degrees of the Culp of the Ninth Houfe, being 39 degsecs_ diftant from the Midheaven, 14 degrees of Scorpio then culminat- ing. _ Then if you (et another Figure at 6 of the Clock the fame Night, you will find at that time 11 degrees of Capricorm on the Tenth, and 28 degrees of Aries 0» the Afcendent, and the Part of Fortune ig in 27 degrees of Capricorn in the Tenth Houle, 16 degrees within the Culp. Then, if you fer another Figure at 10 of the Clock that Night, you will find 10 degrees of Pifces culminate, and 13 degrees of Cancer Aftend, Firft, It doth not keep RulBefettio Geniturarun, Afcend, and the Part of Fortune in 14 degrees of Aries, u the Gulp of the Eleventh, diftant fiom the Midheaven 34 degrees. Again, fet a Fourth Figure for the 26th day, at 2 inthe Morning, at which time there is 14 degrees of Tau- rus on the Culp of the Tenth, and 26 of Leo Alcending, and the Part of Fortwxe in the very end of Gemini, in the Elee venth Houle, 7 degrees within the Cufp. Let us fet another Figure for 6 of the Clock in the Morning, and then we fhall have 11 degrees of Cancer cn the Tenth, and 8 degrees of Libra Afcending, and the Part of Fertuae in 14 degrees of -r, in the Tenth; be:ng skipe back from 7 degrees within the Ekwenth, to 4 degrees within the Tenth, Let us take the pains to fet ancther Figure for 10 of the Clock the fame 26 Day in the Morning, and then we have 30 degrees of Virgo onthe 1th, and 8 of Libra Afcending, and the Part of Fortune is 28 degrees in Leo in the Ninth Houle, 12 degrees diflant fiom the Tenth, And to make up the 24 Hours, let us fet another Figure for 2 of the Clock Afternoon, the 26th day; and then you find 1§ degrees of Scorpio on the Tenth, and 9 degrees of Capricorn Alcending, and the Part of Fortune in 19 degrees of Libra, diftant from the Culp of the Ninth 2 degrees almoft, and from the Cufp of the Tenth 26. So that you may obferve, chat in the firft 12 Hours of this 24, the Pars of Fortune runs endways 83 degrees, and in the lait 12 Hours it danceth back again 70 degrees. By which it appears here is a threefold Motion: One its Bro- grefs through the Zodiack ; by which Motion it moves through the Twelve Signs: The Second is its direét running: Motion: And the Third is its Retrograde Running Motion : And all thee in 24 Hours 5 which was to be proved, and, I hope, it is fo. ao Again, If you look to July 31ft 1694. at 7 of the Clock that Morning, when 7 degrecs of Gemini culminates, the Part'of Fortune is 15 degrees in Taurus, 13 degrees from the Cufp of the Ninth in that Houfe, At 5 of the Clock after Noon, when 2 degrees of Capricorn Alcends, the Part of*For- tune is g degrees in Virgo, in the Eighth Houfe, nearer by much to the Cufp of the Eighth than the Ninth; and yet at x2 of the Clock that Night, when 24 degrees of Gemini Afcends, Defi kio Geniturarun. Afcends, the Part of Fortene is got into the Ninth again: So that you (ee it danceth backward and torward from one Heufe to another ; which mutt of Necellicy render all the Directions tothat Point (mvdo ccminsni) of no effedt, becaule every de- Direétion, motu rapto, changeth the Face of Heaven, you fee, c2ufech this dancing Motion in the Part of And fer that Reafon the Promittor cannot find | ator,) becaufe he plays ac erce in which, Fort the Pat of Furie (when S Bo peep, end endcavours net © befound., [woud uot have you think that there are no othe Times to be foun two, in which the Part of Fortune danceth in this manne fod caufe | have mentioned no more: 1 have given thefe Two Times, that you may raddy fee whic lam endeavouring to fhew ; and I mention ro more, becaule 1 wil! not blot Paper to folictle purpole as! fhould in giving you {ime hundreds of thele Examples. {0 ealic to be found by any that are willing to take Pains ; however] will name one Time more, and that is Odober the 26th, anno 1693. fee what you can make ef it. Andas if the Part of Fortune was not loaded with Foolcries andAbfardities enough, Origanus helps forward theWork:When (teaching his Pupils to take the Parr of Furtzem in a Revolue tional Figure) he direéts them to take the Dittance of the Sun and Mion in the Radix, to which they mutt add the Degree and Minute of the Rrevolutional Afcendent, and the Sum fhews the Part of Fortune in that Scheme, 12 Signs being caft away, if need be: And for this you may read his own Woids, if you pleale, page 779. de Effecii: Where you may find an Ex- ample performed witha great deal of Pains,and toa very little Purpofe ; but it is by {uch Mcthods we have gain’d molt of the choice Notions we now vapour with, The like you may read in Argol’s Ptolomcus parvus, in cap. Te De Revolsssirmibys, page 173» What fhall we fay now to the whole matter, if the Part of Fortune be thus uncertain? And what Credit is to be given to thole Dircétions of Argot in his De Diedus Crisicis , where he makes two Cardinals, one on the Part of Fortune to the Body of the Moon, and the other tothe Antifcion of Fupiter, F 160. pag. 330. But efpecially in the re of AMuntmoranci 5 where he 73Defeétio Geniturarum. he makes the Part of Fortxne to the Antifcion of Mars to kil him; and fo seep G. in Bithop Usher's Nativity, ini with the Part of Fortune to the Oppofition of Mercury. In the firlt of thefe, namely Argol, the Part of Fortune was, ac- cording tothe Doétrine of Prolomy, giver of Life, but how far the true Pars Fortune was from his, I leave to the ingenu- ous Enquirer toexamines but what 7. G. talks of the Part of Fortune in the Bithop’s Nativity for, I cannot think nor ima- gine, forit is not there in an Aphetical Place ; which, if it were, it could not be allowed to be Hileg, becaufe the Sun and Moon are both above the Earth: But more of this Matter when | come to examine thele Authors in particular, and fo I conclude this Chapter with this Axiom, ec. , The Part of Fortune is the Lunar Horofcope, and depends on the Sun and Moon for its Motions it moves through the Houfes as the Moon doth through the Signs, and no fafter ; it is {cldom in the Ecliptick, and wholly uncapable of the Rapt Motion, and for that Reafon not to be directed Convers; and whofoever ui.derftands the Part of Fortune otherways than thus, ee himfelf to be put upon, and knows nothing of the fatter. “But I cannot pals by that Learned Stuff atcut the Parts of the Honfes, without tsking fome Nowe. of them left they fhould think Idid approve thereof: Ang! wer s+ ling. ly be thought a man of fo weir a Ju-- fo foolith a DoGtrine. ~ They tell us it comes from Aloun s : perhaps it may fo: But veither any can beget a good Opinion of ir” went be- caufe it neither eems ration.! dation in Nature: But rh: aoe this Doétrine, are 5. sido Bonatus in Latin, and our Pious Countrymy: Engiithy among which you fhall find fuch ridiculous as this, ; a ath it any Foun- as have of late pro= The part of the Hileg, + she part of Life. The part of the Spirtt. pn Lf The part of Underftanding. The Defestio Genituraram. The ‘part of things to come. The part of the Love of Brethren. The part of the Father. The part of the Fatber’s Death. The part of Plays and Funkestings. ‘Tbe part of Sickncfs. The part of Slavery, The pars of Beafls to ride on. The part of the moft dangerous Year. ‘The part of Faith. The part of Travels by Watsr s by Land. The part of the Interficient Planet. ‘The part of fudden Advancement. The part of Honour. ‘The part of Honourable Acquaintance. The part of Imprifonment is found by fabltraGing the Part of the Spirit from the Part of Fortune, &c. Ha, ha, He! And the moft of thefe 7 G. faith he hath proved by Experience to have a great Signification inthe things they are appointed for by their Titles. But let the Students in general take Notice, There is no ground at all for thefe Parts, that they pretend to, becaufe their Originals, from whence moft of them are deduced, are but imaginary, and he that ufeth them will find his Time ill fpent, and his Pains ill rewarded ; and indeed, they who have publithed them ought to prove them true in Print: Which if they do, ic will be both Recreation and Trouble to mes for if it be any one that I think is my Match, I will Reply to him, otherways not, La CHAP. 75Defeélio Geniturarum, CHAP. VIL Of the Alchocoden. THis Alchoceden is nethirg elfe but the Pifpcfitor or Lord AA of that Sign in which the giver of Life ts 5 and this is magniticd as 2 thing of great ue: For when the Number of Years are exyired, that the Alchocoden allows, any Direai- on (almoit) will kill; and according to the Strength of the Ichocod:n mutt the Number of the Native’s Years be: for the more exa judging after this Method, they do appoint cach Alehcoden three numbers of Yeats, his Leal, his ean and his Oldctt, according to his Suergth or Debilicy. Ia which it may be obferved, That Verses and Jupiter, who are the only two Balfamick Stars, give the lest Years; the one is allowed but 8, and the other 12, for thcir Leatt Number ef Years; when the Afoon, who is Inferior to Venus,’ pives 255 and Murs, who is Interior to Jupiter, gives 15: Bat fell things are not to be queltioned, therctore I fhall proceed to examine how they keep to their Rule; and whether ever one lives a Greater or Leifer Number of Years, according t0 the Strng h or Weslmnel of the Akhosoden. , : in the Figure ef 7. G.’s Birth he hath the Afcendc and Mavs Lied of the Alchccodens tn Tanvos hig Detsinese and among the Pleiades, which tho? in Trine to the Sun, can give but his Mean Years, which are 4¢3, bat he hath alread lived tn the xe of 69, which arc 29 more than the Alcho- cod cna eee ete he had very bad Directiuns at 62 Years In the Princels Royal, Cobedi Genitur. pag. i Lady of the Alchocoden, in her own Houle, och Mom Sum and Saturn, and ro ways afflicted ; which may be allow- ed to give her Mean Years, 66 and yet his ilfulirious Lady. ata little more than 29 Years of Age, changed this Life for one Defeétio Geniturarun. ome immortal; fo that you fee the wanted 37 Years to com- pleat the Number of Years allowed her by her Alchocoden, the having not lived to half the Number. In the Nativity of Lewis XIV. King of France, the San is Hileg, and Mercstry Lord of the Alhocoden under the San Beams, and in Square to Marrs which can allow but his mean Years, which are 43, and yct you tee he iach ourkripe that almoll 13 Years already and how many more he may, Ileave to time to thew, In the Nativity of Ben, Gadbury (Caled. Geuit. The Sun is Hileg in Genrinis and Mercury, by this Giver of Years, in 7 degrees of Larus, in Trine to the Alon, and in Trine to Satwn 5 whi-h will allow hina at beali 48, his Mean Years: But this Child did nut live two Years. In the Nativity of Six Rebert Holbuen, Colledi. Gosite page 124. the Mon was giver of Life in Scorpio, ana i matt be giver of Years 3 who we find in Sugita; Scorpion’ Heart, and Cou, ett in the Eighth Howfe, which tan be allowed but his Leait Years, whicivare 155 and yee he lived to almolt 5¢ Years of Ages In the Nativity of Mary Suswyer, Colldi, Genite page 193+ the Moon is giver of Life, in Conjunction with Jape mn Aquary sand Saturn Lord ‘of the Alchocodes in J.co, Angue lar, in Trine to Mars in the Tenth Houfe, and in Square to the Sun; hence we may, without doubt, allow him his Leaft Years, which are 30 5 if not his Middle, which are 43: Yee this Child lived but 6 Years, to the Scandal of ber Alchoco- den, that let her dye fo foon, in the Nativicy of Doctor Laferd, Collett. Geniturs page 133. the Sun is Hileg, in Tasrxs , in Conjanction with. Marr, and Pens giver of Yeas, in Conjunction with Sa- turn and the Dragon's Tail in the Tweltch Houle; henc2 fe can be aliowed but her Leatt Years, which are 85 or her. Mean Years at mott, which are 45: But ke lived to above Sixty. Tothe Nativity of Henry Duke of Gleciter, Collect. Genitur. page 17. the Moon is both giver of Life, aid giver of Years, in Conjundtion with Venss and the Sas in the Seventh , Angus viheDefettio Geniturarum. Angular, and no otherways affi@eds therefore fhe may very well be allowed to give her Mcan Years, which are 66. But this Prince died at the Age of 20 Years, leaving the other 46 in Poffeificn of his Alchocoden, to bedifpofed of to whom fhe thought fit. I could have given you, inftead of thele Eight, an Hundred of the like nature, but he that will not be brought to confider with this Number, let him hug his own Opinion, and go on till he finds a more juft occafion to alter his Mind. : By this it appears, That the Length and Shortnefs of Life doth not depend on the Strength or Weaknefs of an Alchoco- den, but on fome other Caufe, from which the Period of Life doth take its Length and Dates and thatis, inmy Opi- nion the Direétional Motion: For, in any Nativity, let the Hileg be dire&ted to Two, three, or more (for it is very rare that any full-grown Body dyeson one fingle Dire@ion) Stars or Rays of a Malefick Nature; and | dare affure him, Tt will be very hard, and next to, if not impoffible, to keep Death out of Doors, let the Alchocoden be never fo firong, and 40 Years of its number to come. On the contrary, fet the giver of Years be never fo weak, and a continued Series ‘of good DireGtions to the Hileg fucceed one another for fome Years, and no Doubt but that Native fhall live, though the Alchocoden hath been expired Twenty Years. And yet, after all, I know there are fome Nativities that are naturally ftronger, and more vital than others; but it is from another Caufe and Principle than this foolith and imaginary Whim: And yet I donot doubt but in fome Nativities it may nearly comply with what they pretend to, but where it doth once, it fails ten times; and then where is your Rule? Defe tio Genitwrarume eee —_—_—— CHAP. VIL Of the Almuten, Sc» thors have made a great Bufile about this that ue a Almuwns it isan old Arabian Word, and fig- nities as much as weG- in the Greek, that is, Lord And He deed the Word in it {elf is well enough, fo long as it is ue for the Lord of aHoufe, the Lord of a Sign, ee Bue w ef they come to talk of the Lord or Almaten of a Nativity, an that he fhall fignifie every thing, as Stature, Temperature, Riches, Preferment (as you may fee, Dadir. Bare pe. 92: where you are taught how to take it) there I mu! no ft, both in 'w this Almuten is that Planet who is Rrongeft, both Eqn and Accidental Dignities, as they fay and Hd to their Method laid down, both to examine and ju ae Fortitude. And when they-have done all, 1 count no pe firong but.thofe that are Angular either in the Signs or in a Houfes, or both; and they indeed. are the true Lords oH ‘i Nativity, and by whofe Nature and Quality the Native thal be fway'd in his Inclinations and Paffions, ee. And in this. he Angles, dgment the Houfes next in Power to the i . The reafon of that in Nature band Nai nother Treatife moze way of Ju are the Fift uM fhall be taught another time, and in a ere. “ . we r ed confider Naibod in Aleabitinm, he gives order Co find this Almuten quite contrary to thele already ean . for, he fays, it is that Planet that hath moft Dignities ae Places of the Sun, Moon, Afcendent, Part of Fortune an Ki sl Preventional, New ox Full Moon: Which DoGrine is indee laid down by Alcabitins himfelf, however they came fy wer vert the Arabian Text, for it came originally from that Au thor 3 who doth indeed go further than all.this with A 7 79.Defeétio Geniturarum. For he makes it a great Signiticator i he of Life, i ae Partner wih the Hey and Meet ene ele, d.mauten ef i pret i nash teh om enka nh O Rote Now alter all, Lean fee no ground for its Power, Ute 7 a aa and hat i¢is no more but an Arabian Whim of a a one with the Alchocodens and ferves rather to puarle : € Caule, than to inform the Underftanding of an ca 5 fori is indeed the only Milchief that attends the Ge G ie perhaps fome of the old too) Students in this Art, Th i hey have tuch a clatter of Caufes, and fach a Cloud of Cie cumitances to confider in every Cale, that it confounds a a sending and eaten Judgment into Error : un cir Caules were fewer, and their Rules in Jud aoe coneile, they would fooner arrive toa fe eye ion, and the Arti from being a good Gueffer (as Mr. Mata. be ee it) would be thought half a Prophet, or at Tealte vee ne of the Prophetical Tribe. In a Word, feeir Bane aaa Authority for it but Tradition, nor no ‘ue for Heel cree Labour, Ido not think ‘it worth while ae ret on a Subje&t void of all Advantage, pees a that are difpofed to read more of it, mat ae os Fi to Alcabitins Differen. Quarto, cap. 5 Net Gas i epee 381. fulins Firmicns, lib. 4 cap. A Origanns de Bsfetibar, pig. 556. And all ont nglifs Writers a ca at have writ of Nativities, efpecially Mr. Li is Introduction, page 531. ; Ve Til, And fo I come to fay fomething to the Lord of the Orb, the Ch: idari Pe Rote ronocrators and the Alfridaries, in which I thall Defettio Geniturarum: ee CHAP. 1X. Of the Alfrydaries, Chronocrators, Lord of the Orb, ‘and the Divifion and Divifor, &c. pe it may be faid, That feeing thefe are not Printed by our Englih ‘Authors, I have no need to mention them jn this Treatife. To which I anfwer, 1 am led direGly to what ¥ intend; becaufe acertain Innovator(tam Fide quam Arte) among, us, did in an Almanack, Anno 1693. tell theWorld, ‘ That forme «died on Tranfits,fomc on Eclipfes,fome onRevolations others on SProfeciions,and fome on cvil Alfrydaries ,fome on the Combutti- on of the Afcendent o hisLord; with fundry otber Canfes.By this Word Caufes,you may obferve,he allowsany one of thefe to bea Caufe (ufficient for Death.I commend him,he will have Strings cnough to his Bow, and the Devil is in’t if fome one of them will not do; but I dare him to prove what he hath fo confi- dently afferted 5 and to take a Nativity of one that is living, and tell us which of all thefe, his Caufes, that Native fhall expire by, and when he hath done fettle it for a Standing Rule, But, to my Work in hand. . The Lords of the Alfrydaries, arc imaginary Lords, and Di- fpofitors of @ number of Years appointed to every Planet; fo that the Seven Planets, with the Head and Tail of the Dra- gon, taking this Government fucceilively one after another, the whole number of Ycars will amount to 75: And ina Diurn:} Geniture they begin with the Sux, in aNodturnal with the Myc. Their Yeats are as followeth. © 10 Years, hort Years, Q 8 Tears, 12 Tears, 3 13 Tears, So 7 Years, > 9 Tears, 3 3 Tears, 23 2 Years. M So grDefeétio Geniturarum. So that if the Birth is by Day, the Sum rules the fit 10 Years; then begins Vers, and fhe rules the next $5 then Mercury begins, and he rules the next 13 5 and fo on to the Myon, Satunand the reft, But if the Birth were Nodturnal. then the Moon governs the firft 9 Yearss Sarwrn then begins, and rules the next 113 then begins Jupiter, and he rules the next 12; ard foon to theEnd. And this is the Method of the Alfrydaries and their Lords, of which you may {ce more in Alcabitius 5 and what their Effects are, fee in Schoncn They have brought this Deétrine of the Alfrydaries into fuch a fort of Method as Profomy defcribes in his Jatt Chapter of his Fourth Book, called, De Tempor. Divifione. But they differ from him both in the Number of Years they atiribute to every Planet, and in the Ufe of them, as to Judgment in and on Nativities: For, in my Opinion, it will make Atiro- logy and its Rules very douditul in the Ufe of thefle alfryda- ries, unlefs they can fix a killing Power on fome cne or two of the Planets; which they have not done yet: Only, as they haveall, in general Terms, condemned Sarurn and Mars for Murderers, whichif, by that Authority, we allow them the fame Power here, no man can live to 55 Years of Age, becaufe he mutt pals their Alfrydarics before that Time. ; Now, how this can be a Caufe of Death, I can by no means apprehend; nor can it fink into my Head that any man cf Reafon can,believe it, much lels recommend it to the World, as a thing neceffary to be obferved in Pra@ice. I would willingly intreat that Gentleman to furnifh us with a a Examples, aptae a of it felf hath kil?d withcut any hing elfes and alfo under what Alfrydar, vy Kick'd wy its Heels in England, re The Chremocrator is a kind of a Septenary Decenvinin, or a patadexical Complication of Numbers, hard tobe oe ether in its Mechanical Compolition, or its Philolophick Ground in Nature, but efpecially the latter: However, [will rake you underftand it as well as Lean, in this little Room : have toinfit uponit. Ina Diurnal Geniture, the Sun is Lord of the Chronocrator 5, but in a Nodturnal, the Mcon is Lady of it, and cither of them is allowed for his or her Govern- ment Dofettio Geniturarum. ment 10 Yeats and 9 Months 5 yet he fingly, and by himfelf, in that Time, governs but 19 Months, and the AfLjon but 25 Months. Bat it will be moft plain to fet down the piriicu lar Times of each Chronocrator 3 and they are as follow- eth. And the Ute of them is thus: Let us fuppot the Nativity of one born by Day, and the St in Taurus, then is he Lord of the Chronocrators, and rules the Native 10 Years and 9 Months; but by his own Power fingly he rules but 19 Months, as you may {ce above. Gemini being the next {ace ceflive Sign after Laurus, and Mercury Lord of it, thews you, Thar he takes up the Government next after the Sua, and rules 20 Months: Then the Muon takes it, and fhe rules 25 Montas: Then Yerus next, and the rules 8 Months: Then comes Murs, and rules 15 Months: Then comes Fupizer 5 and he rules 12 Months: Then comes Suturn, and he governs 30, Now, if you cat up all thefe Numbers, it makes out ihe Sux’s Government 10 Years and 9 Monthss and then Mer- cary begins, and he goes on as before in every thing. But oblerve, {0 long as the Sxsor other Planet governs, after his own Time is expired, he is joyned to anothers as in our Example, Firft the Sia, then the Sun and Mercary, then the Sun and Moon, then the Sun and Vines, &e. ‘And now, pray let me ask any thinking man his Opinion about this matzer 3 and whether it is’ rational to depend on this and fuch like Staff as this is, in his Judgment, on Nativi- ties? And what Effeéts can be expected from this old Ara- bian Myttery 2 But I will leave it ¢o your Judgments (and Ue too if you pleafe) being unwilling to {pend more Time about it. Bat if you would read it more at large, you may have re- courfe'to Firmicus, Funttinus in his Spec. Ajtre. Gavericiss, &e. The Lord of the Orb, is by Hermes faid to be, One of the great Secrets among the Babylonians 5 and that they ore M2 ifDefettio Geniturarum: difcov it but to men of great Mcrit: But I believe when. you know what ic is, you will not fo much admire it, nor ik the Mylicry worth concealing. Ic is therefore in fhort e who is Lord of the Hour at the Time of Birth, that to the Afcendent, end the firft Year; from rrength at Birth they judge of the Health or SicknefS ¢ Native in the firft Year? Then fee who is Lord of the d Hour, and give that Star to the fecond Houfe, and the fect nd Year, and according to his Strength and Pofition with the Lord of the Second, they judge of the Riches and Eftate of the fecend Year; fo the Lord of the third Hour to the Lord of the Third Houfe, to Govern the third Year, in reference to Journcys,and Brethren,éc So the Lord of the fourth Hour to the Fouth Heule for the Fourth Year,to judg of his Father,cte. And fo you go round the Twelve Houtes with the Lords of the twelve Hours; and then begin with the Firtt Houfe, and the Lord of the thirteenth Hour, and fo round zgain, And this Lord of the Hour is called Lord of the Crrele, or Lord of the Orb. And do you not think this is a great and mighty Myltery, and a tnoft excellent mcthod to judge of the Futu- rity of a man’s Life? And that itis fullas groundle(s in nature as either of thole already mentioned ? The Divifion and Divifor, called by the Arabians Algebug- thar, and by the Perfians Zamocthar, is nothing clfe but a fort of Direction of the Afcendcnt, or any other Past of Heaven, under its proper Pole, tothe Terms of the Planets, that being called the Divifon, and the Lord of the Term the Divifor. For example, Suppofe a Native born {#b Polo 51, and 10 de- grecs of Leo Afcending 5 which is the Terms of Venus, whole Oblique Aicention is 109 degres and 7 minutes; and the ‘Farms of Venus reach but to 11 degrees of that Sign, whole Oulique Afcention is 110 degrees 32 minutes, and the diffe- rence of themis 1 degree 25 minutes: To every Degree you m ive a Year, and to every § Minutes a Month; which is here 1 Year and 5 Months; and fo long is the Native under the Government of Venus. The Lord of the next Term is Saturn, and his Terms reach to 18 degrees of Leo 3 thercfore Ltake the preceding 110 degrees 32 minutes from the Oblique : Afcentiors Defeétio Geniturarum. tion of 18 degr. of Len, 120degr.27 tninutes, and the fees is 9 oa 55 minutes 3 which gives Cee g Years and 11 Months and fo long will the Native be cy der the Government of Saturn; and according to the Sr the Divifor and the Planets bel Iding him with geod or ba Alp<éts, fo will the Native be or healthy, rich Poot, happy or unhappy ¢ And after this manner they go ¢ Hae the whole Courfe of the Native’s Lifes jutging of his Pse- ferment, Loffes, Marriage, ove. od of the Decanste, alled by the Aes : dorogen 5 and the Operation is thus: Divide the Atcer Sean ie parts, and lt every part conlilt of 10 depress, then give the firlt part to the Lord of the Afcendent, a t ic fecond part-to the Lord of the fifth Sign from i aA the third part co the Lord of the ninth Sign, and ¢ ca a is, becanle thofe Signs are all of a Triplicity. Example, ron the beginning of Aries to the roth degree, is the Dorogon oF Decanat of Mars; but from the zoth to the aoth oe a canate of the Sun, from the 20th fo te End is the Decanate of Jupiter. Then there is ¢ They have alfo their Dar Denarys, cr 4 Svareusew, which is the Diftance of the Sun or any r from a certain Part of Heaven, of which I can {ce no great matter of ale. on they have their Novenarics, called by the Arabians rate and it is thus: They divide a Sign into 9 parts, each part confilting of 3 degrees 20 minutes; then eae in which Novenary of ,the Sign or Houle the degree ee Planet isin, and the firlt Novenary is governed by oa y of the moveable Sign in that Triplicity, and the on 3 a venary is given to the Lord of the neatSign to its a fo oe ward, throughout the nine Parts. Exainple, Let us ippe ic a Sign of the Fiery Triplicity, in which Aries is the moveable, and Mars Lord of ity fothat A4srs governs the firtt part 2 “Novenary, Venus the fecond, Mercury the third, the Mocas the fourth, the Sun the Fifth, and fo on till you come to the degree you feck; by. which means you find out the eeeDefeétio Geniturarum. the Novenary, where thedegreé of the Sign or Houfe is that you feck ager, And when you have done all this, what ufe it {erves for 1 cannot tell ; it feems to me to be a great desl of Pains to little or no purpofe; and indeed (ois the whole Coap- ter i my Judgment, and fol leave it to your Onion in ge~ neral, Thave been the larger in this Chapter, becaule of J. 6.5 af ferting People to die on the Evil Alfrydatics 5 and | fupyete, he will allow the Chronocraters allo: For which Reafon 1 have been very plain, as well as brief. And indced he and fome others, being ignorant of the true motion, ere forced to Hy to fuch filly Shifts and Shams as thefe are for a Netuge, en nothing clfe will do. Ttherefore detire bim, or any of his Partakers, That they would fhew us h and in what Nativities thefe and fuch like Shams and Fooleries heve been the Caufe of Death? And if they do not, I mutt take it for granted, That they only make ufe of the thing fora ham, and know nothing of the Matter: And if they produce any Nativities for Examples, 1 do intreat them to give us the true climate Time thereof, CHAP. X Of Tranfits and Eclipfes , in reference to Life and Death. 1 Know by my Converfation among intelligent men in this L.arning, That Tranfits are,and have been efteemed dan- gerous, and endued with a Power to Kill; and that many men will rely on the Powcr of an ill Tranfit or two, to judge this or that man did expire by, and that there were no other Caufes for Death but only that Tranfit that they fhall alledge and think Ht. But l confefs they feldom m:ke ufe of this thing but in Nativities, where the Perfons are dead, and they can tind no Direétion fit so be affigned for it, and therefore in fach Defe lin Geniturarum. fach Cafes they have Recourfe to Tranfits s nor did I ever know any of that Opinion dur venture to predi& a man’s Death by a Tranfits nay, though there were half a dozen bad Tranfits together, they do not dare rely on them, and fay, They will kill; but thse they have killed, that! have often heard them fay, when the Work was over, and Death had ta- ken Poffeition. Now, if this fhould be true, it is very ftrange that fome ingenious man or other had not in all this Time licked this Dodtrine into Shape and Form, fathcient to have affited the Artiil in his Judgment on Deaths for itis certain, if they do ever hill, it is pcflible to forefee when they will, and when they will not, by a continus! Odfervation thereof, and one or two Experiments of this kind would mightily clear the Doubt, and convince its Adverfarics, and prove the Point in Difpate agaioft all Arpuments whatfoever 5 but to this Time all Volumes are iilent in the Matter, and their Authors, and the Artilts themfelves are mute and detiitute of Experi- ments of that kind, ic. uf Death fairly predited before. hand by a Tranfit or Traniits, and nothing elf The Truth is, if we will but give cur _felvcs feave to cone fider, How many violent and dangerous Traniits a man pala: eth in Forty or fifty Years, and not kill him, it would be futiicient of it felf to confront this Dedtrine, and convince its Favouites, that there is nothing of Truth in the thing, and wholly teke off their Opinion of its Power. And to this End and Purpole, 1 will mention Two or three Exampies $ and the firlt is of Charles 1. who, fome of them fy dyed by the Force of two or three Tranfits, and nothing clfe, é e the Suiin Quartlie to the Radical Places of At. and the Mion ; Mars in Square to his own, and to the Aoun’s Paadical Place for his Death. A Tf this thould be true, why did he not dye in September, 1656. when the Sun, Saturn and Mars were all in Conjune Gion upon his Horofcope, and in Square to the Moa, arid to the Sua's Radical Place? Cr in Decemier 1660. v y Saturn was in Oppolition to the Moan’s Radical Place, the Sim and Mars in Sagitary, in Oppolition to the Svn’s Radical Pace and both in Square to the Afcendent. Or in November 16 when all the Hilegical Points were atlli¢ted atonce, §Defettio Geniturarum. and Mars in Pifecs, ia Square to the Midheaven and the Sus’s Radical Place; and in Oppofition to the Afcendeni, avd the Sun in Oppotition to the Moows Radical Place, and in Square to the Fart of Fortunes and yct for all this he did not dye, and-I think he was not fick neither at that time, asever I heard. Thefe and twenty more fuch timcs he paffed that were worfe Tranfits than thofe they fay he dyed upon: But to put all out of doubt, 1 can affure them, That he had fe- ven Dire@ions, and from them feven his Death was predi@- ed {ome Years betore he dyed. The fecond Example is his Brother, who, I have heard them fay, had the Misfortune to Jofe three Kingdozns by an Eclipfe ct the Si, on the Sun’s radical Place, and nothing elf to affitic, Now, if you will but look back co the 14th of Odiuber 1650. he had an Eclipfe of the Sua exa@ly in almoli 2 degrees of Scorpio on his Radi- cil Place, and yet no Mifchief to him then, as I remember, but what his Brothers and Sifters were all liable to, In the Year 1650. April the 15th, there was a great Eclipfe of the Alcon on his Radical Sun’s place, within 4 degrees, and yet no Hurt to him, notwithtanding Saturn was there alfo. But above all, that of Oduber 14th 1669. the Su then was eclipfed on his Radical Place, and that upon the very Nede too 3 which thews it matt bea great and Centr] Eclipfe, and yet ro Injury to him at that Time neither, though Susara was then in Oppolition to-his Afcendent. By this you may {ce that Tranfits and Eclipfes do little or notiing in order to Death, cr any great mutation in a man’s Life, without fome very confiderable Dire@tions, and then too they do only afilt by their Motion to give, cr rather thew, the Time when a Dircélion begins to operate. But this [ lay down as a politive Rule, Tar they never kill per fe. Under this Rule I might alfo bring Great Conjunttions, Re- wolutions, Profeétions, Climatierical Years, &c. ail which are made ufe of to the fame End and Purpofe as the former are, when there are no Directions to be ailigned for Death ; and of cach of thefe a Word or two. Great Conjundions falling on the Angles, or on the Sun and Moon in Nativities, may give great Troubles and Lofles, but by _ cruel Elfeéts than they do a Defeétio Geniturarwit. by no means Death. Nay, Dire ces of the Gonjunétions, or oppelite to ¢ leis they would have been fluenced them: An jundion is on the or Oppulidon to ther Quality focver ,° are gen 20 years. Revlutins are a Death, and many men cx Sehmcr’s Tnirator tells ne hat the Oppofition oft s Take ine’ Revolution, givis Deaths an f si e . nd yet in his Cele Pee fee eee ay ae to the Body of the gcther by 1 krow a jancti- 164. he fays, He dyed on the Afcer Mon, and Squar man, who had lately his Mon, on with Mars, i tw his Alcendent Hileg { i aad a ee at san of the Fourth: And yet this man did eye, bat this was Say you fo? That may Ex Grumue Square to Jupiter, not dye in that year, f not from the Second and Eighth Hufis. be fomething, in ly Muntem fucis. In a Word , T nor indeed was he Sick. tions, in order to Death, but as they Quadra ions. Notwithftanding Morinus doth for their Power and Force in his Affrol. tells us about the Death of Richeticu, that to he pred 1642. ty Weight upon dents. And Argol, the former to affere that L he hath in many Nacivities rev for Death, belides what he lodg: Nor doth the Authority of Cur licve what he aif-rts and cone Vo vainly thought to have th yntend cameftly for che Tiuth thercof. in his Dodirine of Nutivitier, Page 228. he Stat and Saturn from the Second and d.proved true in the Genit. page cof the Sun; and to fets the Stars co; : all have the Honour co kill him. : the at ne acl bs ina Revolution, in Conj Eighth, in Oppotition to Surarn, Lord of ene atcont i and the San in is a {pecial Reafon, ern here is nothing in Revolu- re with Dire- h fo ttrenuoufly contend Gall lib. 23. where he feveral of his Fri i@ed his Death from that aa ee of h everal other Places of that Book, hel: 1 ee eae = the Caules of many and various Acci- in his Peolomeus pares, labour hat Dedrine; and, in his De Dib: adred very inconfiderasle Reafons ed in the Power of Revolutions. pancila any way {way ra Judes ought to be done in th N Dire¢tions that fall near chofe Pia- hem, Ge. fhall give more tother times, but not Mortal, un- {o without the Conjurétion had in- 4 in mott Nativitics, where the Con- Places of the Luminaries , or in Square m or the Angles, thole People, of what erally fuficrers in and through that ave the Power of s as much as nes Crinicisy e to be- ¢ Judg- tmentDefettio Geniturarum. ment of Revolutions: For though I have an honourable for Authors, and the Truth thes hand down to us; fae not bound to believe all they write, becaufe it comes’ from men of Learning and Credit: Nay! you will do a fubftantial Au- thor both Horour and Service, in examining his Works, before you (et your Hand to the Truth of chem. Oo Profeétions, as they are now fiated and underftood, are no- thing elie but a confufed Motion, ncither agreeable to Reafon nor Nature, and no ways probable to have any Power to kill. But of this matter fee more in my Opus Reformatum, page D4, 95+ Climatlerical Years, not only among Aftrologcrs, but a g other Learned Men befides, have formany jee had Bees Reputation for Danger to Life, but efpecially that of 63 (But Origanus tells us of another dangercu: one, which he calls Clie matieriens Heroica!, and that is the 56th Years and this for no uther Reafon, but becaufe the Afcendent at Birth comes then to the Eighth Houfe: But how, I cannot tell, unlefs he means by allowing 7 Years to every Houle; and fo if you multiply 7 by 8 it gives 56: Which hath no (way at all on my Belief.) So that row it is grown fo commonly known among the Vulgar that there is not a Plowman but can tell you, That every feventh ¥car carries a Face of Danger in it, and threatens a Change and Alteration to every one, either in Life or Fortune: But before we take it for granted, let me premife a Word or two, and ene quire into the Ground and Nature of the thing, Whatever the Opinion of Pythagoras was concerning the Myttery of Numbers, ic doth no ways prevail with me tobelieve, That the Number 7 hath more Power than the Number 6, in order to the Mutations of Human Life, and eipeclally Death. Nor doth the doubtful urging of this DoGtrine by Marfilius Ficinus, lib.2. cap 20. De Vita loaga, make it any more plain, true, or probable than it was before. Nor do any that have wrote of it give it any other Authority than Probability: And when they are put to the Proof of that, they run back co their old Authors, from whom both they and we derive thofe known and common Errors, with which all Sciences are at prefent clogged and loaded. But if any one is willing to vead of it at large, the Learned Dr. Browa will furnith thera with an account from Authors of all Kinds and Na- tions; Defestio Geniturarum. tions; by which it will appear it is founded only on Precarious Principles, and no Authority in Nature, but groundle(s Suppofiti- on, bearded Antiquity, and an ipfi dicunts and yet it is afligned by 7.G. inhis Almanack for 1693. That this likewile of it felf doth fometimes kill ;. which T utterly deny tobe true. By this, end what we can elle derive from all Authors, the whole mat- ter depends and proceeds from a fuperititious Opinion they have had of the Myfery of Numbers 5 ‘and there have always been fome to promote its and becaule it comes by Accident fomething, nearto Truth, it hath obtained a Place in the Opinion of divers Credulous men, which if they would but examine and conli- der, would neither fupport nor believe it, either in general, as it is commonly underftood, or in particular to this of Death, which | am now about to difews. And, to fay the Tr uth, the Myttery of Numbers is Cin this Sence) nothing clfe but Pytha- gorean Whims, or Roficrucian Maggots and Delulions, fet on foot to undermine Truth, and turn thofe out of the Way that are in Purfuit after ie, and though Ido allow a Harmony in Numbers, equal to diverfe other things in Nature 5 yet I can by no means be brought to confent and believe, that the Iflue of Life and Death is lodged there, without fome better Proof than I have yet met with, to convince me and to fay the Truth, the com- mon Aftrologers have foilted in fo many idle Foolerics, that they arc never to {eek for a Caufe, let the Cafe be what i¢ will, but efpecially in Deuth ; concerning which, the only thing, that re mains yet undetermined, is to know beforehand which of ail the Lethiferos Caufes fhall give Death ; Whether Revolutions, Tran- fits, Eclipfer Alfrydaries, Profeétions, Climséterical Years, or any ‘of the other Chimera’s that they fo often talk of; but not a Man of them will venture to predi& Death on any one of thefe Cau- fes, no nor on half a dozen of them, they belicve them fo well. And now give me Leave not to part with you in the Dark, about this matter, but fhew you how f underftand Climacterical Years, and from what Caufe they derive their Power,and by what mea- fare of Years they are to be underftood. Climadters are not froma Myftery in Numbers, as fome vainly think, but from the Motion of the Moon; and therefore fome- times it is the Sixth, and fometimes the Seventh Year, according, as the Moon is {witt or flow ; fo that Critical Days in Cie N2 anDefettio Geniturarum, and Climsterical Years, | i: ; erical Years, have both the fame Foundati oneita Meafare in Days and the osherin Years The oa one born the 12thof Munch at Nonny 16y4. the Mion then is ino degrees m Cangr 5 when he comes ino 00 de cs in ee a the Days (and the pistsof a Duy, if at ill itthews vou when the hrlt Clim-@er i ich wi nee ft Clim-@er is, which will : ¢ s, and almeli 5 Mi 1 : wil be at almol 15 Years of Ages the third at a le co 20 5 i fourth begins at 27 and 3 Months, oe. So th rn pease is nota Climactsr, but 41 5 nor 63, but 62 a ie ae fuppoted, “And yt forall tis i ienitis 9 unlels the Hiley at the fame time i dine the Raysot ; Violent Stary which if fo, it addeth wore n ae each; and when the Caufes or Arguments ca both fides (em to be equal, in guiding your Judgment, you may oe : 5 and that is all the Ute Lev a i one e Ute Lever make ee you oo as much Pains on the martes m4 you wv é i he Ce an you will not be far different from me in the When, in a Nativity, the Hi R ivity, the Hileg thall be dircéted to ti Rays of a Malctick Star, and that this Dincétion beeing to wove Hee erical Year, it hath the fame Effect and Pow oo oe ie a Man in Health and Vigour, in order toa Cha ie fe Ane as the Muon hath on a Sick Man, when the teh paid i i ays of the Sun, Saturn, Mars, ona Caen Ad ty all ina Word, Climadterical Years sre the tyme ‘al Days are in Decumbitures 5 d a already told you, they te both from the fame Chale, the hos and her Motion’ And if any one elf will be leafed rete undertand them in any other way chat isimtliible iene yi all be ready to wit 7 oa when my ee fhall be ay this my Judge ut, methinks I hear fome icin object Ane ca pert Capricin object fi 7 do you allow the Cll and the Clignadter to nie Pua i . yct allow the one to kill. Soya aes ie n Kill, and the oth ? is my Affertions and yet if you will have but Patines hear, 1 will m eee ake that cl i init on. lear alfo, for that is my next thing to Criti- Defektio Genitnrarum: are only Times of Judging the geod or ill State of the Patient, becaule then both the Dil- eale and Nature excit their Power to the utmoft, and the Supe- Sor carries the Point for the molt parts el ‘ally if the fame carries it in ewo fucecihve Cryies, if the Pat lives fo long 5 put if che Decaumbica athe frit Critis fo like- wile, they generally dye eb, the firll Crifiss and yet this is not caulid by the Crifis, but by the Fury of the Dircéti- on or Dircétions thet give the I : For if the Dixettion is not mortal, a bad itis, tho’ neve fo ill, thall net kill, So lik mo mot fmacterical Years, thruagh it be that ot 63. (s molt celebrated of all, yet if no bad Dircctien concur, the Native (hill not then dye: For if it did, or doth certainly Kill, no man would live beyond that Year 5 which we daily contradiéted. Therefore when it doth kill, jt mutt be from fome ocher fupe- it Power,as it doth that or pior Caufe allilling it,or rather giving Cuitical Days. | could fay much more on this fadject, were it and becaule I think | have fafliciently fp Lfhall conclude: only advife ( read more on both thele Subjedts.to have courte to 0} Tyo. ds ffedbus 5, Prancifens de Barats, Lb. Lis Aj phias Didae, Pris. in his Calis Phiiofephia, 1b, 1. gap. tgs Waere you may fee, that he calls chem by no other Name than Aani Critict, OF Critical Years. Critical Days, in acute Difeates, Froper here 5 what 1 promi(ed, CHAP. XI. Of Heliocentrick Afpekts and DireEtions, 8c. A Nee all the Footeries that have been fet on foot, to puzzle L the Caufe; and make people ftare, this is net one of the f the lat and molt groundle(s of all 5 aud carries no Reafon in it {elf to make any man that hath the Llfe of his Sentes believe, that it any ways concerns us Geosen- tricks any more than thofe Afpects, Ce. made or beheld at the Body of Satin or the Moon; And if the Interett of thofe that promote the Whim have Power to delude Mankind into the Pee Nie Jealt, though it be one o|Defettio Geniturarum. lief of it, we may thortly expe to hear fome mi: . jehty Charpi on afferting the Truth of the Chronocentricks, Ce Areocentricks, and Selenccentricks, and 2!! of them maintai 4 and julflfed with Reafon and Truth equal .o the Heliocencrick and indeed full as ulifal, to help out at a dead lift, whe re thing elfe will 4s as wehave (een alreidy ina Nativity, where wv ate tol, That the Earth was dirested co the Helircentriele Pac: of Mars. He might as well have told us, "Thathe faw man with a Pot-Gun kill an invitible Oxs and I ould have been as ready to believe the oneas the other. For if we ahould 4 ow the Easth to be dirc&ted (which is real Nonfenfe), will they dire it to a Point or Body not vitible from the Earth? Fi we fee Mars in 25 deprecs of Libra, and at the fame time they fiy his Heliocentrick place is, where they direét him ia that example) in 17 degrees of Lilva yet no Soul upor ‘in baa on te a in that degree at that time. bat he a ‘o be feen y ii p, i fr ce en plainly in 25 degries of that Sign: but more of this The Ground of thefe Afpects is imagi being fuppofed to be the Center of the ae aa ont that, thofe People who inhabit that Body, do (ce the Planets i thole Signs and Degrees, ae are called their Heliocentrick Pla: > from “HAG, Sol, and xévresy, the Canter 5 i fav, The Suis the Place they are beheld from, and Aeet eae ae ee Bodies es Afpects , ‘on they attribute fuch i E » in their various erati trick Bodies and Things s and Ido not semember they ae thought to have any Inflacnce worth taking notice of, till that excelent Mathematician Mb, Sie did imagin: i Sadie! \, to do the man right, hedid but guefs that they had fome I : ae on the Weather: But now, fome People do affirm they oe every thing. Nay! dire@ to them too in cafes of Life and ath + Ignorantia deteftanda! 1 do indeed now fee, thereis no thing fo abfurd but it will find (ome Favourites and Admirers, ae a ching fo idle, and totally unknown to the Ancients, that there Seen hath thought it worth his while fo much as, : ool peste indging a 1 fappote) that no man would int _as to believe it if he did wri 3 therefore what Authors I bring,are to prove the eee I think Defeétio Geniturarum. J think there is no great occafion for any of them, becaufe two or three rational Arguments, ad rem, will confound the whole Project 3 but however, to thew I have fome Authority for what Ido, Iwill give you afew Quotations, Ir hath been generally judged and agreed to by all Attrologi- cal and Aftronomical Profeffers, That the diftance in the Zodi- ack, de. which is called.an Afpedt, and (irs up, apitates and conveys all {ublanary Influence ditfafively through the whole Globe, is only efficacious end powerful, bccaufe of its Angle it makes at the Earth; which is the whole Myliay of the Caufe, as well as the Effeéts in Directions, Suiations of the Air, Ge. sad Twill begin with Kepler, in his Epis, where he fays, Afpedius aft Angelus a Radiis Luminofis binoram Planetarin, apud Terram formats, Efficax ad [timnulancsem Nattram Sublunarem. By which you fee, Kepler allows no other Afpects in Nature to ftimulate and agitate the feveral Members of the Microcofm, but fach Afpetts as make their Angles at the Earth, or, to {peak more Intelli- gibly. whofe Places are to be (cen from fome part of this ter- rene Globe; and therefore, in my Osinion, this Text of Kepe Jer alone doth cut down and dettroy all Beliocentrick Pretentions of that nature as you may fee by that Expreilion of Apud Ter- ram formates, which | take to be politive in oppotition to the Heliocentrick, and others of that kind. Likewife Sir Chrift. Heydon tells us ({peaking of Rays and Afpedts) ‘ This (avoureth nothing of Matter, but hath only con * fderation of Form, not fo much refpedting the firait Beams © of Light, which flow from every Star, as valuing end elteem- “ing how their Beams meet at the Earth. Not at the Sun, pray obferve that 5 for it isthe Geocentrick, and not the Helio- centrick Angle that makes the Afpeéts remarkable and ¢ffe- ual, and hath been hitherto allowed by all, the Innovators excepted. Lucins Bellantins Cems full and pofitive in the Point, when he fays, Afpeins Stellarsem non confidevantur qui fant refpedlse partium Cali, refpetium non babentes ad Terram. That all Alpects made from parts of Heaven, not having refpeat to the Earth, are vain and ulcle(s, pag.86. and as if he had intended it again{t Helio- centrick Alpes in particular, he doth enforce it with this Ar- gament; for, fays he, by the fame Rule the Sixth and Second , HouleDofeétio Geniturarum. . Fl : ub euiturarinh : Defeétio Geniturarunte Houfe may be faid to be the Midheaven, for it is only in refped i ‘iti to the Earth that thefeand many other Divitions of the Heavens and thence only, that Afped is to be mea(ured in the Eclipticks are made, For in refpect tothe divers parts of Heaven, the for if at the fame time it is beheld from any other Body or Orb Stars are perpetually in Afpeét one to ancther, ard thole Afpeds than the Earth, it is not that Afpeét, nor that Diftance, that ic too of different Denominations, though frem the fame Bo- - is fen from the Earth to be, as you fee Lucius Bellantias hath s. For example, the Sw and Mon are contiantly in Con- before obferved. ‘Therefore if this DoGrine be allowed, where jinYien, Sextile, Square, Trine end Oppolition, according to {hall we find a good Philofophical Bafis to build this Notion on tne Heliocentrick Rules for when. in refpect to tae Barth, itis about Hiliocenirick, Afpedts, &c? for it is mott certain we ought a Conjunétion, in refpect tod Point in the Orb ot Bb rcurg it to havea rational Notion, as well as a practical Ute of a thing, is an Oppotition : And when we Geocentticks tee it is en Ope which here is wanting, But to the Text again. polition, froma Point inthe Orb of Satieu, itis a Cor jun tion, In his 5th Chapter he difcourfeth wholly about the places of and fo of all the refi of the Oils ard Vodics. And fr my the Planets, and whether we ought to confider the Planet in a part, Ecannot quote any thing fuller than chi harcan Vy ords right Line from the Centre of the Earth to the Planet and Pri- be {poke more direétly to the matter in debate, than this oi the mum mobile; ox by a right Line drawn from the Eye on the Su- Learned Bellantin, And piay, give mic leave to ask ene Quelite ” perticies of the Barth through the Body of the Planet to the a, fecing Itind our Author, juli mentioned, hath na thort Primam mobile; but never difputeth one word of beholding it hy at the thing: How will the Circle be divided tuto Houles, from the Centre or Superficies of the Suns which , if it were and by what Motion or Circle mult it be divided ? and where worthy to be taken notice of, “tis ftrange Morinus fhould over- the Horofcope will fall? T doubt we thall have all Hozolcope, or look and negleé it.” 1 might quote you many more places in all Midheaven; for | am fare there will be no Ssrlterszcam Arks, this Author, in order to my defigns but I fhall content my no Crepufeuline Circles, nor no fach thing as Directions to thole felf with thefe, and fam up all in that Aphorifm of his in the thar inhabit the G'obe of the Sn, to which Point all Hesioce- third Chapter , Concwerfas duorum Radiorum Caletinm ad Ter- trick Afpects are to be referred and confidered. vam , five Centrum Mandi : qui in primi mobitis Zodiaco Terminati Morinus, in the r6th Book of his Alfrelgia Celica, hath arcum abfeindunt , qui Circuli maximai in duodecim equales partes {poke {uthicient! 7 sin yenesal 5 and in all thst Difcourfe divifi. partem, aut partes Continet, fimilemque angulum ad Terram fub- he takes noncticeoi any Afpects but thofe that make their Angle tendit, 5 i at the Canter of the Earth, as you may (ce in the firlt Seétion of Laltly, Didacus Prittus tells us, page 63- Radii funt proportio- the firtt Chaptcr: Wherehe fays, An Afpe@ doth confit of the nales partes alicnjus Circuli fecundum Comnruncm fententian , Cujus © Rays cf ew Sears, bcholding one the other, or rather they unite Ceram fit in Centro Terre, And though he differs from the “theisRays in 2 Line drawn rcciproc. lty from oneStar to another, Common Opinion , That the Myftery of the Ray doth not con- as if the Stars did Jook towards ore another 5 and alfo as they fit in the Angle at the Earth, yet he allows every Alpect to “contitute an Angle at the Center ct the E or World. To make an Angle at the Earths and according as they think too, the {ame purpofe he {peaks alfo in the third Chapter, Pro concurfae fome moze acute, and fome more obtue. Now, to tell you duarum Linearum ad Terran: Anda little afver he fays, 14 my Opinion of his Text 5 though he doth deny the Angle to Afpetis Concipiendi fant Torre rfpciiw, Hence we fee, that give the A(pedt its force and myltick Power, yet he allows the well as the rcft of the Leasned, do conclade, Berek to be the Point from whence this Afpect is to be {cen in ought to conlilt cf a certain Dittar Z its Form and Meafare, which being obferved from any place but the Power of that Afpedt on Geocentrix . the Earth, is of no force nor validity at all to produce any Effet its Angle made at the Center of the Earth: Becaule froma thence, either in the Microcofm or Macroco(m sbecaute itis not {uch an Af- and iti ed to be,the Star or Stars being not to be feen in n pect as it is reported to bey a SB thofeDefeétio Geniturarum. thofe Points and Parts of Heaven, if any other Body in Nature. Se eae By what hath been fald, it appears , That all the Authors that have written of this Subject, do allow no other Point but - the Earth to fee thefe Afpects from, that are believ any effet or power on Sublunary things; and ieee aly ne Rays from other points obferved , want not only a name, but a power alfo to be known bys nor did any man ever ap, a till here of late, to perfwade Mankind that fuch things ae offi ble to be believed. And now to fum up thefe Learned ‘Authors 1 will add one more of greater Antiquity than any of them to prove what I endeavour, and that is the Great Prolomey, in ‘the aoth Chapiet of his firkt Book of his Quadriparsite ; but I know my he fary will not believe him, by the Scurrilous Names he Having thus far difcourfed the matter, I a Doétrine and Notions to confider it in DicAiows a, hich practifed and afferted for truth in an Almanack for 1692 In that Nativity we find Mars from the Earth, in 25 degrees of Libra, but from the Sun in 17 degrees: Now, if neither of thefe will hit my Accident by Dire@tion, I will ftep to Saturn or Fu : tor, and perhaps | may fee him there in 13 or 14 degrees 5 " that fome of thefe Points fo diffgrently beheld, mutt undoubt . ly hit the mark; “tis no matter whether it be agreeable or fa with the Accident , if there is bute a Nominal Direction to be hie in our teeth when we ask the Caufe of fuch or fuch an ‘Ace cident. To direé& the Barth to the Body of Mars, is fach a paradox, that will puzzle all the Heliocentrick-men in this Na- tion to demonfirate it to any man of Reafon; and to infc 7 their Intelleéts how , or by what means thefe two Bodies mult meet, or where we mut ftand to bebold its for when the Sun and Moon are direéted to the Body of Mars, or when the Midhea ven or Afcendent are direéted to the Body of Mars, we can {tan d at our own Doors and fee them meet and pa by one fe: dealt buc where we mult go to obferve shis senconth Phenoniena, want a Chronocensrick, Topographer to give me fuine Heliocentri k Direttions how to find my way 3; and when that is done, I ae wait for a Heliccentrick Pafs, and a Poft-Boy, before | can, pro- ceed on my Journeys fox J guels J mutt travel into the Sua the only Defettio Geniturarum. only fit place fora Heliocentrick, Philofopher to dwell tn s but when we come thither, all the plague will be, we {ball be frue fixated of the things we expe; for there is no fuch thing as Diurnal nor Nodturnal Arks, and by that Confequence no Dircétions; there is no Horofcope, nor no Midheaven, and by that means no Eighth Houfe, which will be a plaguy difap- pointment to our Attrologers,for the People there mult either live for ever, or elfe dye by fomething that our Aftrologers will be at a plunge to find out, and bring into ule infiead of the Eighth Houte. But to the point agains Before any thing el{c be done by thefe {nnovators, let them tell us, What the Heliocentrick No@urna ! Ark of the Earth is in all, or any parts of the Zodiack3 becaufe the Diurnal and Noéturnal Arks are the ground of all Directions, both Direét ‘and Converle. If they fay there is no fuch thing, why, f agree with them , and tell them there is no Dire¢tion there by that rule; nor can the Earth be directed to any thing, becaufe that is the Bafis we ftand upon to behold the Starry Motions, and to receive their Influence; and you may as well make any one manat the {ame time Patient and Agent, Plantiff and Defendent, as to dire& the Earth to the Body or Beams of any Star, for the Earth cannot be (aid to have either Diurnal or No- @urnal Arks. And I lay this down as an Aphorifm That all Bodies not-capable of shofe Arks, are not quallified with any Motion ferviceable in Diredtions. And here, perhaps , I have opened a Window to my Adverfary’s Underftanding, by which he was never enlightned before. é By this means of turning the Tables, and changing the Earth for che Suz, ¥ judge they apprehend all other things fall in na- turally and cafy : If fo, pray let them fell us how to fet a Helio- centrick Figure of Heaven, and how we fhall find out the He- liocentrick Midheaven and Afcendent ; for if we muft have Heliocentrick DireGtions, thefe ought to be principally confider- ed, or elfe we {hall be lofers by the bargain: For to take in the Earth (to help out at a dead lift) and lofe the two ferviceable Angles, will half undo the Aftrologers: For I will maintain , That the Afcendent to ill Rays kills more than all the ret of the Hyleglack Points in the common way. And I think it is but reafonable, fince they will thus put it upon ys, £0 dire& the O2 EarthDefettio Geniturarum. Earth to the Body of Mars in 17 degrees of Libra, a Point that no Soul in the World could at that time fee him in ; that they fhould alfo appoint us an invifible Midheaven and Afcendent, and then we fhall be always plentifully furnithed with Direétions on all occafions whatfoever. But betides, fhould we allow thefe DireCtions to the Helio- centrikk Places of the Planets, as in the Natlvity before-men- tioned co the Earth, as he fays; Shall we dire the Midheaven ard the Sun alfo to the oppolite Point of Mars in 17 degrees of dries ?- Certainly no Man will venture to perfuade me or any body elfe, that the Midheaven comes to the Oppofition of Murs in 17 degrees of Aries, when his oppofite place is 8 degrees diftane from it nor do the Inventors of thefe Myfteries tell us which we muft depend on, or which is moft dangerous in that Nativity, the S#n to the Heliocentrick, or Geocentrick Oppofi- tion of Mars. And after all, pray tell me, is not the Sun to the Oppolite Point of Mars, his Heliocentrick Place, as dangerous a Dircétion as the Earth to the Point it felf; if 0, then what need was there to croud in the Earth; as if a Man would ftudy for a way to expofe himfelf and his Reputation by unintelligi- ble Myfteries that deferve another Name? And to direét the Earth to the Heliocentrick Place of Mars, is as poffible, as to dire@ the Atlas in Africa to Mount Taxrus in Afia, or in a word, London to York, I have, as I promifed , in my Almanack for 1693. faid fomething to the matter in hand, and J think enough to any confidering Student that will imploy his Reafon in the Controverfy ; and for thofe that refolve they will believe without reafon, I take my leave of them, and with them geod fuccefs; but pray remember, that what } have faid here, is in order to Nativities, and their management, in Anfwer to the TInnova- tor’s Dodtrine and Foolery. As to the Helieocentrick Afpedts in general, I do not cone demn the ue of them in any thing where Reafon and Expe- rience can teftify thelr Power; and therefore in the Weather , perhaps there may be fomething to be {aid for them, and yet do not think half fo much as is pretended ; for among all the endeavours that I have feen, 1 do not find any thing mightily remarkable out of the Geocentrick way; but becaule this of the Weather is not my Province, fo much as that I did before intift Defettio Genitnrarumi hat believe they un- A ill leave that to thofe t ea ie and are able to prove by ae ae eaten q bted Effeéts attends thefe Motions. But tt there is undouble to do either in Queftions or Nativities, Sa ching think they that believe it do ie without whol 7 reafon. ch Afpeéts 5 is moft certain, and that they Tot cat the Sen is Ukewie wtboue quetion Fc pment he ; ivided into fuch parts as w 7 Orb to be Sea Vne beheld from every one of uD Pes the common and if fo, why {hould we not believe upon goo aro Seat the A(peéts form’d at the Boa ol cen be fr bat lec Me Ale wi ihe ret? This T wil tery vas of the Air wit relk ? : Raat and aeratidered by thofe more curious on that Sub: leave tO jet. oe CHAP. XIL Nativities handed down to ws by e Errors in Of tb our Authors. 1 ioned fomcthing, of this tum T have mention : ] Dy ae Cre ecm to be lorper cae 7 ee el matter, incipal Caufes of Scandal rt ar becaufe it is ee Troe yy the handing down falfe Be Error inthe it mniflaken without any defign) for ore Apho- C perhaps on tke roundlefs Corrections, and le day. Thus Fil, to many of which we ae abled with apt to cake things rilms, to jon, and being toi ray fru a me a vpon cult, ; is, and hath been, ce of that is, thefe ee Sonica to fhew you, how, and by Snioe pete a dones and what Credit is to be given to 0 have been au ivitil cient date, and fome in general, in fach Nativities that are of An > and am D yorDefectio Geniturarum. alfo of the lat Age; a {hort view of which I will here give, and could many more, if 1 would take the pains to cxamine them, as 1 have done thefe. . Argol gives us the Nativity of Alexandr th: Great, and tells us, he was born Anget 12. hor. 16, min. 46. P. M. 355 years be- fore our Siviour, under the Pole 41. and makes him 20 degrees of Leo Alcending, But Lindbous (ays he was born the ft of July, hor. 9. min. 26, P. M. 357 years before cur Savicur, and makes him to have 4quary Alcending, and under the Pole 42. And I have one by me, given as a great rarity, which is fet to Augu(t the Sixth, at 3 hours 45. min. maré, 356 years before Chrift, and gives him Cancer in the Afcendent. Here you fee three feveral Years, and all feveral days of the Month, and times of the day, and yet brought by Argol and Lindhout as Examples to prove Afirology by nay, and by my old Friend 7 G. in his Colle tions too. Ina word ; I believe they are all equally true ; and there is room enough left for any Nativity-maker to give him a new one when he pleafeth, if he doubts the truth of thefe threc, which he may take his choice of at his pleafure, Lindbout, and others, tell us M. T. Cicero was born Axguft the 5th, 105 years before Chrit fo fays Garceus and Cardan hikewile 5 and according to that Account they conclude he was born Anno Mandi 3843. as by the Collection of Genitures, pag. 119. But if Def tio Geniturarum. 103 ivity gi for Mebomet the I had a Nativity given me I oan ee ee sth at Noon, Anno Chrifti 569+ the Planets rl . places to that time are as followeth : No. 21 3 So. eS ae 3 0 26 No. B%, Ba No. % ¢ a _ Bee 3H a a No. D 4 19 So °° ti look on it ‘ A ¢ in make any thing of it, or look on te thes ji his Skill: for my party it rate it is poilible to be true, OF knew when he a horn,hns Parents being obare Peom ed et judge by the Cral 7 ay judge by foe arcane aa aay he was but an obfcure aa Se eiapea this Crafty Defign of Religion-making rats tert bot Pe Nh ae 7 s to the Catalogue of $s fia by Garceus and Origanas i “s ae va the ae 1396. but by Gadbury, April the a ane ae Apritt . “the qth, 1395- £0 that here is awhole esc pee an te in the matter 5 and this from two g) ee ference and oP how they came by this Nativity, Gear Sonbteree that Fundline agrees with Origanus and If any man_ thi as a Curiofity, into my head , our Saviour was born in the Year of the World 3947. as Alfedins not 5 proves he was in his Thefaurus, pag. 19, & 20. why then it al- Goan peas shat Regionon ters the cafe very much, and he mutt be born in the Year of the Origanus, and al ea im Gad to, P. ee Bt World 3842. differing onewhole Year fromthe former: So that anus was born June the Oth, 40 Pee Galfer is Life, Juntiine, Gawrices, br Cie ee Je in Funes as aforefaid. ie ee i palette great matter, put a hundred years 3 * 3 fe i f the way, and old Friend 7. G. and Origanns arc both ie the ey ale d, and not the others Lae ought ¢ oe ee t8d, that Regiowontanus eee a ee Ree yest 1 9. and, as I remember, he lived but for ve ee a ee A a he died when he was almoft 42 ye atlas Ramee by | ows fays he died when he was 51 ¥! re a anette ad ‘about 12 days old, of a Pettitential oe Ht spit! f the Holy Gboft at Rome. And yet Hiei city js true, Be a us he died Anno 1483. which, if hist Peart makes him 47 at his death, being 5 year Eee till the Chronologers can agrec on the Year of Chrift’s Birth, we muft be uncertain of the Year of Cicero’s Birth. Can any man imagine what they bring thefe uncertain Nativitics for, or to what end they fill up their Books with them; when all men know there is no ufe to be made of a Nativity that is not allowed to be ‘trac within Twelve months. And though I believe they are not fo uncertain in the Nativity of Cbrift, as to differ a Year from Tmth, yet I am fatisfied that the ‘Figure given by Cardan and Morinus ts doubtful ; for though Mr. B. in his Treatife of that matter did agree with thofe two Authors, yet he hath told me fince, that Chrit had not Libra, but Sagitary afcending at his Birth ; and if (0, we may rank this alfo among the uncertain and -gueffed Nativitles. SomeDefettio Geniturarum. Rantzovius allows, and four lefs than Gauricus affirms he was, ‘Thus you {ce how they differ about this Great Man’s Death, as well as his Birth, and indeed you may gue(s at one by the other 5 and though you call him Regiomontanzs, that was not his true name, but from the Country where he was born, which was Franconia, a little Eaftward from the Rhine, and Northward from Conftance, a Hilly Mountainous Country, fometimes called Mons Re- gius 5 from thence Fobannes de Monte Regio, or de Regio-Munte, which you will; and his true Name, fays Gaffendus in his Life, was Fobannes Mallerns. Gauriczs tells us Martin Luther was born Anno 1484. the 22d of Ofiber, at 1 ho. 10 min. P, M4. but Cardan fays it was the fame day at 10 ho. P. AZ and after all this, Garces fays he was born Novemb. 10, at Eleven of the Clock «t Night, 1483. fo we have our Choice which Year, and which time of the Day or Night we think moft probable : And yet every onc that hath printed this Great Man’s Nativity, have believed themfelves in the right, and could without doubt have proved each of them true by the concurrence of Accidents and DireCtions. But be it how it will, we may juftly rank this among the reft of the very doubtful Nativities. One makes him born by Day, and gives him Capricorn afcending, as Gawricws ; another by Night, as Car- dan, and gives Leo alcending. Gardan, Gauricus, Garceus and Origanus , all of them tell us, that Evafmus Roterdamus was born the 28th of Céfober, Ano 1467, with Libra afcending. But if you look into his Life printed be- fore his Colloguies, the Author of that tells you he was born the sth of the Calends of November, which is the 28th of Odober, Aino 1465. differing two years in his Birth from Cardan, Gauri- ens, &c. but if you look into his Life printed at the end of his~ Collnguies, Anno 1643. he tells us, de anno quo Natus eft, apud Batavos, non Conftat. Thus the four Authors are politive to.1 467. The fecond Account is, thet he was born two years fooner; and the third fays,that the Duschmen themfclves do not know the year when ke was born; and therefore may well pif3 for a doubtful Nativity. And as they differ in his Birth, fo they differ in his Death alfo : Gawricus fays he lived 63 years and 11 months want- ing 6 days. Cardan fays he lived to 79 years of Ages and the Author of his Life fays, he lived 70 years, 8 months and 15 days, and 105 Defestio Geniturarum. ich i then fi h f Fuly 1536. which if true, dhe Fl ad ee four firtt Authors aa he or 4 the wrong, and his Nativity unknown to Ae ; aerate alfo divided in their Opinions Ae a ie ‘oot co a oh they all agree in thls, ie oug Keca ae aoe agree to make him one, but they one have a Nativinys a For Garces, Gaurien’, and Janine, mise agree upon the day ling, on the 11th of December, 1475. 94 a a ere D0 F Sun-rifing, which a the gtha whic eae bomn Diereetoon's place, and fomething in will canfe great alterati i i 1 d therefore uncertai on ate ein confalion about the Birth and Nativity of ee Copernic as any Of os ny 5 ni Malina ; vy 1g. hore4. min 48. Pally ea ae oe Jom 1 Gefendis ) fays he was born nee 19 ee ia ae * M. 1473. and after all, Garceus tls you ee born canke roth of February 1473+ fuch is nie Feta certainty of Nativities brought to prove the tru : itepael i eri Opinion to give you a fhort Ac- e cae Pee eed Picus Mirandula’s ee COU TO i unlne tells us he was bon Pebri 34) Toe among the ia, and {o fays Cardan: Garceus and Lindl : in. ante occafum folise ms See i lis 3 and int i h. 42 min. polt occafum fo 65 ; ia te mine Bat he é horribly out in the ow i i Pieaeae born in 1464+ which is fale 5 a ere he te February that Year in 17 degrees of Aries 3 but e rint him, in about 13 degrees before on that day he was, 4 they Pree nab 8 Teed it it been proper in thi: ee of Seat eal f thi vity, and the Reafons bes na t aoe fad Nativity, sendent to the body of 3 g ene, Mary do not dye ) Ce ae i re . . . Sak Pac Oa oe cea adits Savonenfis) is faid by Cirdan : rope oy 1445. but Funtiinus, Gauricus, and Garcex ey fe to en che th of Fane the fame Year; Cardan mi . y + Bian Seni, the others Libra afcending- P Johannes aad dieDefeétio Genituraram. Jobannes Frederick the Third, Duke of Saxony, was bori poem oe see of Fanuary 1538. but ‘Garcens ata ¢ was born the 15th day in the fame Year 5 Si wef aeethele Natives, © pe cee Cardan and Gawvicus fay, that Henry the Second, Ki was born the lalt day of March, at Bin the tine ae give him Aries afcending. Garcexs makes him to be born at 7 that Morning, and gives him Gemini afcending. And to pin the Basket, and make it more doabtful, Fundiine tells us that he was born juft a ycar before, in 1518. What ule can there be of fuch Nativitics, wheze they are not fure of them to the Year? Morinur, in bis Allrolgis Gallca, pag, 612. hath given us the Nativity of Cardinal Richliew, and tells us he was born September the oth, S. N at 34. min. paft 9 in the Morning, in the Year 1585. he makes the Sun 16 degrees in Virgo, and the laft degree of Libra afcending, My Friend 7. Gad. he comes and fhews his Parts in printing of it again 5 and he tells us he was born Septemb, the oth, at 26 min. after 11 before Ncon, and makes the Sun 26 degrees in Virgo, and 27 degrees of Scorpio afcending fo that here are 10 days motion difference between Morinss’s Sun, and Gadbury’s Suns and fo in the Moon likewife. A man would think his pious Soul fhould have been better acquainted at that time with the New Stile, and the Roman Kalender , than to make this horrid blunder. Thus you may fee how thefe Errors are obtruded upon us, and how eafily we {wallow a Lye, when it comes from one that can give it a Reputation, What Morinas wrought of this Nativity, I believe may be true ; but that of my Friend Jobn, is a Nativity cut out at a ventures and how many have been cheat- ¢d with it (by believing they had that Cardinal's Nativity cue from Gadbury). we fhall never know. Likewife the prefent French King’s was printed by Morinus, in which he made 15. degrees of Scorpio to alcend. Gadoury altes him prints it, and makes 22 of Scorpio afcending : Another after him, relying upon his Authority, printed ic again, and revived Gadbury's Error, about 20 years afterward 5 and fo they err one after another. Nay, fince this, Adriano, the Mathematician at Paris, fays he was bora about 8 hours before the time Morinxs gives: The one fays at Four in the Morning, and the other at Eleven and a quarter near Noon. But fos this fee my Opus Refor- matum, pag. 122, Henry Defeétio Geniturarum. Henry the Sixth, King of England, {ays Gadbury, was born on the 6th of December , half an hour paft one after Noon 5 but at four of the Clock after Noon, fays Stow in his Annals. We are told by Cardan, that Henry the Eighth , King of Eng- Land, was born June the 28th, at 10 hor. 40 min. mané, 1491. and from him or Junéiine, Gadbury and LHeminga have taken that they have printed, which are all the fame, But if you have re- courfe to Stow , he tells us that he was born on the 22d day of Fume, eodem Anno 5 and yet after all, Gawricus fays he was born on the 29th, at 9 mané, and makes him Leo afcending, all the reft Virgo. Now pray confider how we {hull recencile all thefe different Accounts; it feems to me a little hard to be done, and alo ridiculous, to bring thefe doubtful Nativitics to prove Aftro- logy 3 which Gad. hath done for, and Hemings againtt it. ‘Nor are we in le(s confufion about the Nativity of Queen Mary, than we were in her Father's, before-going. Mr. Lilly in his Prophetical Merlin (from whom Gadbury took-his in his Cole lection ] tells us fhe was born the 18th day of February, Anno 3516. at almoft Six of the Clock in the Morning. But Stow {ays fhe was born on the Eleventh day of that Months and Ifzackson fays the Year before, Anno 1515. And Heminga, who brings this Nativity to refute Aftrology, fays (he was born on the 8th of September, In the Year 1515+ Now fuppofe fome Foreigner fhould meet with all thefe various Accounts of this Queen’s Birth, Can you imagine which he would pitch upon ? or do you think he would beltow a minute of labour upon any of them? 1 cannot tell what fach a man might do, but iam fure f will never takea mi+ nutes labour, either co redtify it, or endeavour fo to do. As to the Birth of Queen Elizabeth, Mr. Lilly had no better Authority for it, chan what he confiffeth he had from the Floren- tine Author Fundtinus and though they do not differ fo much in this of her, as they do in that of her Father and Sitter, yet their difference in the time is (ach, that it cannot be allowed to be an Exaét Scheme, and fit to be depended on within a quarter of an hour. My Friend Joba fays the was born September the 7¢h, ho. 2. min. 26, P.M. 1533. uniting, and from him Mr, Lilly, fays fie was born that Day at ho. 3. min. 39. P. M, Bui Heminga fays the was born that Day at 36 minutes palt four in the Atter- noon; one makes her Sugitary afcending, the other Capricora, ae 2 theDefeétio Geniturarum, the third Aquary, and yet all three bring it to prove fome things: that they aim at, and perhaps all falfe. Gadbury he proves her Enprifcxment, Coranativn and Dzath as plain as the San on the Aerie dian, of which more anon. Mr. Lily brings it to prove its agrement with the Conjun@tions,and that the Figure was agreea- ble to her Affairs: but Feniizgs (28 indeed Malice will catch at any thing) brings a falfe Nusivity made by him(elf, or fomebody for him, to prove Afirology ufelels and vain: And do you not think that this man was wilely employ’d in the mean time? and after thefe various Opinions, Sto differs from them all, and fays fhe was born half an hour patt three, whi-h comes pretty neaz that of Mr, Lilly's, Ic is generally allowed by all that I have convesfed with, that Charles the Firft, King of England, was born on the ryth day of Novernber 1600. SV. And yet Andrew Argel ( however he came by it) hath printed it in his de Diebus Critics, pag. 182. and tells us he was born on the 10th of November, New Stile, differing from the true time 20 days, as appcars alfo by the Suz’s place; for in Argol’s Scheme the Sun is in 18 degrecs of Scorpio 5 and the day he was born, the Sun was in 8 degrees of Sagitarys fo that i¢ cannot be a miflake of the Printer, but a notorious Er- xor in the Author, or a grand Abufe in him that gave it him for a true onc. But befides, If this were not fufficient, here are more Mittakes : We in England fay he was born at 9 or i0 at Night, Argol at 4 or § inthe Morning; we fay he was born at Dumfer- Jing in Scotland, whofe Pole is 56. he faith he was born under the Pole 52. which looks a little odd, how a man of his publick Corrc{pondence abroad fhould be thus abufed in his Intelligence and that one of his Learning and Repute fhould be guilty of fuch Erzors, fome of which I am fure are his own. Now let us turn the Tables, and fuppofe we lived in Iealy, and thofe re you think we fhould not rely on Argol’s Author ediy many do there to this day) bzing a Man of Leazning, of St. Adark, and Profcffor of the Mathematicks in the Unive of Padua, and certainly conclude this to be a true Nativity beyond all queftion, becaufe it came from him that Mankind reveres for his i ing; and fo have handed it from one to at.othier at its firlt be - ng publick, a3 a Curioficy Rarity , and v ithout doubt among, al! Fo: rs that micet with his Book, it is fill lookt on asa tran Defestio Genitnrarang: i i@ion? Again, Have not we juft ivity without contradiGion? Again, a to talpeet many Nativities that we have From ee befalle by the fame Rule? Forifa Prince's ae pe ee im: in E d, hould be thus miftaken 5 known at that Time in England, hese he Popes and other great men, n of Fr heir own Merit, have their Births {cure Parerts, and raifed by their See eet Ge $ itted to us as this of Charles 1. was hem ? . a ee the time of their Births was not enquired nt nl fe grew eminent, and made ae Oe in ae a Jay! perhaps till they were dead 5 and therclor it eee or any elf can depend on many : thefe Nati- vities to be truc? 1 mean thofe given by our Authors a many f which are fo doubtful, that they differ fometimes a Day, in others a Month, and in many of them a whole Year and mores ; seady largely heard. / / * tone een with onc Obfervation more of this ki ay nd that is in the Birth of Charles i. who, as long as 7 tive 4, a believed to be born, as the Bifhop’s Diary informed a half an Hour paft 12 of the Clock, May 29th 1639. Bu ae heis dead, they are confounded, oe oe aive ical Account of his Death, that is rational an tik reece “believed by their own Party : Some indeed : at 1 vou, He dyed on the Afcendent to the Body of Sz a ; but-mott of them are afhamed to Lee poets 3 her told the World, i d for feveral Years together t a Conjrnéiionem Saturné eave a ea Bloody. eee i iting of Peaches, in Axgu/ . : one nit OY ter 12_of the Coe about 25 mite sand i i i edict hi y aFi fet to that Time, a Friend of mine dic’ p : oy a gare heer Years before 7 Gia ane en i yet i 687. an Ingeni ne tain. And yet in the Year 168; Se eerie itali. tonins Francifcus de Bonattis, at Padus, a Tilin by Me ants again, and that moft notorioufly lee fi feer all his Labour and Pains, he corrects it, as he fays, £ jane th. SN. 35- minutes palt roin the Morning, Nee em Os Unica Apropos Watwalin poe 16, Andto th is i done by Accident, he m 2 Yous at ays Mot han we dos and thercfe' ¢ Days Motion more thar : ; a edi fos thes oth of May, 0.8, and yee he wasborntDefeétio Geniturartnt. Day before, onthe 29:h: So that this Man mutt be falfe beyond all Contradiction. And yet to add to the Error, he hath made it two Hours falfe in Time of the Day 5 for he.makes him tobe born an Hour and ar’ Half before Noon, when indeed he was born half an Hour after it. And this Nativity, thus falfly printed, he brings to prove his Ruks of Afirology True, that were New and Different from all others, except his Mafter Coz. falonerins, who, 1 judge was the Inventor of that Method by them two uted. And do ycu think he did not take a hopeful Courfe to bring a falfe Nativity to contend with the Adverfaries about the Truth of a Science in queftion? I confels 7. Gadbury , in the Year 1659. printed this King’s Nativity, and made it after Ten Mane, as this Man doth; but then he did not err in the Day, as our Author beforementioned hath done; and yet no mote ferviceable than that done by the Italian, which {erves on- ly to mifguide the Students in each Country, and of no ufe at all in any thing relating to that Prince Aftrologically 5 but as for that Printed by my Friend Yobn, he, I am fure, will difown it, and tell you (if asked) it is two Hours falfe; and that he was a very Novice in Aftrology when he did it. And yet, when we conlider things nearer home, it may feem lefs wonderful how ox why thefe Foreigners fhould be thus abufed with falfe Informa- tions from England; when our own Authors abufe us too, even about things of Hiftory. For Example, in the Birthof the late K. J. Baker's Chronicle, Wbitlock’s Memoirs, and England’s Re- membrancer, all tell us, he was born the 13th of Odfober, which is moft notorioufly falfe ; for he was born Odiober 14th of a Monday 1633. and yet I have feen onc or two Medals made at his Birth, that faid, He was born the 15th cf OGfober. Thus the Italians and other remote Countries are abufed with falfe Nativities from England ; and 1 fuppofe you will not doubt, but that all the Students in Altroiogy in Padua and the Countries thereabouts, will contend warmly for the Truth of this Nativity of Charles II. relying on this Authority of their Countryman and Author, and depending alfo on his Skill and Intelligence, as fometimes we do here in Englund about the Truth of Falfe Nativities from beyond Sea. For Example, Charles Gujtavus King of Sweden, Mr. 7.Gad's old Lowfy Her- mit Gregory Lopez, Michael Noftradamus, with many others 5 and Defettio Geniturarum. smes about our own Countrymen’s, promoted by the Ta renn and believed by the Unskilful : Among that pu reckon Sit Frech. Holes, Sir Matthew Hales, Wiliam Lax: i, “ many more, too tedious fo name. Hence I do conclude, That all Nativities left to ee brought to prove the Art true, one oe ela thofe Three Principal Authors T mentioned and promifed in my Opis Reformatum, pag. eae 1 will begin firft with Morinus, and thofe NS rh in his Ajtrologia Gallic, and brought to prove as ' a loeys and his Method (J cannot call them Principles) that be liad learned and efpouled, ~~Defectio Geniturarum : ~The Second PAR T. In which is examined, The Nativities and Practice of Morinus, in his Afrologia Gallica. Aving Read and Confidered thofe Nativities Printed by Morinus in his Afirologia Gallica , 1 began to ob- ferve his Reafons for Death and other Accidents, in feveral of thofe Genitures, and compare them one with another ; which I found not to be agreeable to Reafon nor Truth; no, nor tothe old Rules laid down by Prolomy, which have been owned by all the great men that ever yet lived, well- withers or Profeffors of this Art; and having fatisfied my (elf that they are not true in themfelves, nor do they agres one with another, I think it my Duty to give the World my Opinion in the matter, andleave itto the Judgment of thofe that are better Read, and Mafters of more Experience than my felf in things of this nature; affuring my felf, there will be a time when this Doéttine I lay down will be embraced and believed 5 which at prefent I do defpair of, becaufe thofe that have for a long time gone on in an Erroneous Practice , think themfelves now too Old to Jearn any thing that thwarts their Practice, and alfo too proud to be taught: However, | humbly fabmit my Opinion and Defettio Geniturarum, ¢ Learned, and fhall takeitas a Kindnefs tobe J Judgment to th aged ¢ that will make his Doctrine Univerfal, and inftru@ted by any on his Principles agree. i. ' T did noc fall upon this Subje&t in general, and more partic Jarly on this of Mbriuns, out of any Ditrefpect to him ; or that think my {clf a competent Judge of the fubject- matter of his Book in general: But this part of Attrology having been my Study for many Years, I did think ic might be no Injury done to that Learned Anthor, nor Oifence to the pre(ent Reader, to give my Opinion on the Operations and Judgments on thofe Nativities be hath Printed; and the rather, becaute 1 intend it with all Tendernefs and Refpect to the one, and Submilfion to- the other. . L do acknowledge Morinus to have been an admirable Grammarian, a molt excellent Philofopher and Phyfician , a good Math ntatician 5 belides a fuflicient Judge of all Uni- verfal Learning 5 whofe Parts and Proticiency therein I dare not pretend 05 and the more [ read him, the more I fee my own Deficiency in Point of Comparifon with him: And yet for all this , Bernardas non vidit omnis 5 the little Hare, you fee, hath a particular Faculty in Hearing and Running, which the mighty Elephant cannot pretend to s and yct the Faculties of the Elephant no ways impaired by that. By the fame Rule I may be allowed to have Skill in fome- thing , though not an Univerfal Philofopher 5 and all T beg, of the Reader is, To believe I intend and mean well, and that I underftand fomething of what I here pretend to. And for that Learned Author, were he now living , I am certain he would be pleafed with the Attempt, rather than affronted at what is done : And fo I come to the matter it (elf. The Firlt Nativity that Morinus brings, is that of Zage- Chrifti, a Prince of the Abyfines, born at Corcora in A- fries , under the North Elevation of the Pole 6 degrees; and this is to prove that the Stars have the fame Influence in thofe Parts that they have in thefe more Northern: And becaufe of the Rarity of the Cafe, Ae give you the Scheme to114 Defettio Geniturarum. to his time, but my Divifion of the Heavens; and the Pla- nets Places, he fays, are from the Rudolph Tables. The Time of his Birth was September it, hor. 8, min: 10, Poft Murid. 1614. Lati. Planet. ha33M U1 14 Sep. | 8 0 16M 2 049M. B 236M. Zaga Chrifti, narus die 1. Septem bor. 8, min, 10. P.M. 1614, ’ Be Sub Lat. 6, algo S. TH.N.® 1435 Dift.ab FC.€4 22 R. A.D 347 20 This Prince, fays Morinus, was driven out of hi his Uncle, travelled through many Countries, a ene der divers Misfortunes, and at lafi arrived in France "and was there acquainted with the whole Court. At laft Che fays) he fell into Want and Poverty, and being overpreft with Difcontent and Grief, he dyed at Ruellus the 210 of April 1638. N.B F Poor Zaga, a Banifeed Prince, flafbed in France! 1¢ feems the | French were not arrived then to that Perfedtion, to relieve and i i 1 fapport every Banithed Prince ; there i ; thereis a great deal of diffe Panial Zaga and Fames 3 and I {uppofe you judge the Reafon What Defektio Genituraram. 15 What the eftimate Time was, he hath not told uss nox what Ground he had to Correét it by, Iknow not; But am partly fare the Time given was not to Ten minutes. But I fappole, he Correéted it by the Accident of Death, and the Direétion he fays he dyed ons and that is the A(cendent to the Square of the Moon. But what time he left his own Country, or what Dire- €tion gave that Accident, he hath not told us; but I do fuppofe it was upon the Sun to the Square of Mars, at about Nineteen Years of Age, or perhaps Twenty: But what other Accidents he had, we have no account of them; and fo I come to the mat- ter in hand, and what I have to obferve on this Prince’s Nae tivity. The Dire@tion that Morine allows for his Death, you have heard, was the Afcendent to the Square of the Moon, and this only a fingle Dire@ion, and the Moon no ways Malefick, unle(s you allow the Trine of Saturn to affli& her , together with the Sextile of Mercury 5 which , if I fhould grant, yet there is but one fingle Direétion to give that fatal effect, which in my Pra- Gice 1 cannot allow: ‘And though Saturn may be judged to affliGt the Afcendent, yet both ‘Jupiter and Venus do behold the ‘Afcendent likewile ; and therefore cannot be fuppofed to be fo weak a Nativity as to yield to that one Direétion in point of Death. And therefore let us compare this ; Firft with Cardan’s Na- tivity, printed by this Author, pag. 396 In that Scheme we find the Moon in Pifces, in exadt Square to Mars, on the Culp of the Second ; and yet when the Afcendent came to the are of the Moon and Body of Mars, they both together did not kill chat Excellent Phyfician and Philofopher,notwithftanding, the Horofcope was alfo Giver of Life, as it is in this of Zaga’s. Though it did give hima long and terrible Diteafe, as AMdorinus alfo obferves; but morc of this Nativity, when | come to conti- der ite Secondly, In his own Nativity, page 397+ Aitr. Gall. where the A(cendent is alfo Giver of Lifes. there the Afcendent to the Squate of the Afvondid not kill neither, although fhe was in Con- junction with Saturn in the Twelfth Hout, Nuy! | do not find among all the Directions, and the Accidents correfponding 2 thereto,Defettio Geniturarum. thereto, given by himfelf, pag. 648, and 649. Ejufdim Libri, that he hath fo much as taken notice of that DireGion of the Afcendent to the Square of the Moon, or allowed any Accident for it; which very Dire@ion, he here tells the Werld, killed pocr Zaga. Now, doycu think, Thatthe Moon in Zga’s Na- tivity is more Malignant, and by that means hath more Powcr to kill, by being in Trine with Saturn, than the hath in Morin.’s Nativity, by being in Conjunction with him, and this in the Twelfth Houfe too? Truly thofe Aftrologers th.t will belicve this Do@rine, muit be very good-natur'd men 5 not to fay worfe of them, left it might prejudice their Reputation. It is a firange Doétrine tome, That the Afcendent to the Square of the- Moon fhould kill in one, and not have Power to do fomething, Tike it inthe other: And what is more, I take Zaga’s Nativity to be as firong anid vital as Morine’s is. Thirdly, Let us compare it with the Nativity of Mary Queen of Poland, pag. 554. where the Afcendent is Hileg, and the Ron in Trine with Mars, exa@ly from the Fourth and Twelfth: Houfes ; and yet the had the good Fortune to efcape with her Life on the Afcendent to the Squire of the Moon. If this be true, there muft be fome ftrange partial Power lodged in the Stars that I do not underftand, that one fhall fall, and yee half a {core efcape on the fame Direction. Though I have a very great Honour for Morinas, yet | cannot get over this Point; nor can f imagine what anfwer he would make me. If he jays the Stre{s on the Houfes, and {ays the Moon was-Lady of the Fourth in Zuga’s 5 Why then, fay I, the Moon is inthe Fourth (in this Queen’s Cafe) in Afpect with the Lord of the Eighth; which in that Language I'take to be equally the (ame, or worle, Fourthly, Lec us compare it with the Nativity of the Duke of Montmorency: Though | confels there is fome difference in the Cafe, but not in the Confequence; for fince he allows the Afcendent to the Square of the Moon, in Zaga’s, to kill; and that he allows the Midheaven to the Square of Saturn, in the Duke’s, to kill; then why fhculd not the Midheaven to‘ the Square of the Moon have done it by the fame Rule? For the Muon is there abfolutely Malefick, as being within 6 degrees of the Oppofition of Saturn by hez Latitude, and within 4.degrecs of -ven, I Defettio Gen itnrarums stile of the Sua by her Longitude, and in Aquary, a ee befidess and yct this great man out-liv’d the Mid- heaven to the Square of the Moon and Oppolition of the sige Both which came up near together: And was Beheade > a5 Morinus fays, on the Midheaven to the Quartile of Sats 5 fae likely Story! Now fuppofe (for Argument fake) that | a allow that Direction of his to be what he fays it is (which i fe not allow), doyou think the Midheavento the Oppotiion of it he Sun and Quartile of the Afoon are not more likely to ea a man, than the imaginary Quartile of Saturn? Nay! a to {peak in Morine’s way too, the Ss was Lord of the Eighth, a. thing he lays great weight on in other the like Cates. ; rh By thefe Examples, thwarting one tie other, ateee that Morine’s Attrology is not all of a pieces for in cach of thefe ” {es the Muon hath as good a Title to Kill as in that of Zaga-Chri 7 And therefore, without Rules of Exception , it ought to ee - jowed in all. Therefore I cannot adinit this to be the i ion: that killed hims and by confequence that this is not the truc Time of Birth, And that which confirms me in ee That this is not the eftimate time, but one Corredte ae Morini, becaule of the odd 10 minutes in time, oe ae eo certain were not given, but imagined to be the true ime a ke ing he could make no other Dire¢ction hit but the Se the Moons which did require that Alteration. In a Word, Lam be pater aba the Dinction alleged by Morivas for this mau's Death did not Rill bien and thercfore the next Query is, Wat a: it? i have told you already, Td Time, and alfo my Reafon for it: believe, washor.8. min. 30.P. of it, had Morines but given itus, it woul And therefore the Time gi P.M. Nay! ¥dare be certain Id have proved fo: And to make his imaginary Direction hit the Time of Death, he ne Ti inutes fooner 5 ee Ochs in my Opinion, hit the mark much near- aortas tay, be was boro at 39 minutes pat 8 a¢ Nights and the Ri ht ‘Afcention of the Midheaven to thatTime is 29 degrees tae iat er fem. Ob. ded. 20 degrees 14 minutes. | And the Direétions that did kill him were the Afcendent to the Se i degrecs smiquadrate of Mars 5 and that followed within lefs than 3 cere ‘o not think this is the eftimate but if he had made it 9. m7Defeétio Geniturarum. with the Afcendent to the Square of the Mron, imbuted (2s Mo- rinas fays) with the Rays of Saturn, The Ark of the Firft, i.e. Afcendent to the Quartile of Mars, is 21 degrees 17 minutes, The Ark of the Second is 24 degrees 1 minute 5 and this Gentleman dyed April 21 S. N. 1638. aged 23 Years 7 Months and 20 Days; which the Ark of the firft Direction exactly hits, and to me feems moft rational. If any Gentleman thinks he can fhew a more probable Caule of Death than this of minc, or that he can juliitic Afsrinus, I thould be mighty glad to fee it, either in Publick or Private; and affure him, Iam very willing to be inftrudted. But perhaps (ome young Capricio may object, and fay, How is it poffible that this of yours can be true? for Morinus tells us, He fell into Sadnefs and Grief (he ufeth the Word meftitia) and how cana Direétion of Mars give fuch Effects as thefe, they be- ing, more proper to Saturn? My Anfwer to fuch Objectors ag thefe will be very hort: I have already told them, That it is feldom that one Planet gives the Time and Difeafe ; as you may fee Opis Reform. pag. 67. and as feldom that a man or woman dyes on a fingle DireGtion: And for folution in the matter, 1 re- fer them to the Place quoted, to learn the Poiothanator. The Second Nativity, mentioned by Morine, is that of Car- dan, p3g.396. and that he brings to prove the Vanity and Folly of the Dividing the Heavens modo equali: But he hath faid no- thing to the Figure in general, or to its Correction in particu lar 5 why he did not, he knew bet. i But fince it is fallen in my way, I] cannot omit to take fome notice of thofe Paffages that Cardan hath given us in relation to the CorreGtion mentioned among his Twelve Genitures ; and of other Paffages alfo in his Life, that may be helpful, perhaps toa further and more Correét Scheme of this Great man’s Nati vity; who dyed at Rome in the Year 1576. being almoft 75 _ Years of Ages and the Diredtions that they fay killed him, are the Afcendent to the Square of Venus and Mercury, they being in Conjunétion in Libra, in the Radix. As to thefe Diredtions, in my Method, and by the Doétrine of Prolomy, it is impoffible they fhould kill; and it is very improbable that there thould be any one found to believe ie; nor do I think Cardan himfelf did believe Defectio Geniturarum. i enhe wasalive, notwithftanding his facile occidit in ee Nay! though we fhould allow what Thwanur faith of him, ‘That ‘be baftened bis own Death by Abjtinence, &c. Yet I cannot think that thefe Dire@tions could any ways caufe or further his Death: But on the contrary fortitie his Life, if Pto- Jomy is to be believed ; and therefore there mutt be fome other Gaufe found than the Quartile of Venus and Mercury, by Dire- ion to the A(cendent tor his Death. Pray obferve, he tells us himfelf, That at 29 Years old-he was feized witha Cough, and violent for 7 Months; during which time he {pit up much fa- nious purulent Matter, and was near Death: And he adds, That he-was cured of it the Year following, when the Adeon came to the Oppofition of Veni: and Mercury, at 30 Years of Age Venus and Mercury faved him to a Miracle, and: at 75 Years old they Killed him to a Miracle. A very pretty kind of Afirology, if you clieve it ! . ay aoe od that Cardan affigns any Accident for the 44th or 45th Year of his Age, when the Suu came to the Oppofition of Mars, and Quartile of the Adon: Nor for 53, when He ‘Sun came to the Oppofition of Saturn. Norat 39 and 40, W Hi the Sun was direéted to the Zodiacsl Parallel of Mars all re are violent Direétions, and do feldom pafs over eo Mi thing worthy the pace ae 3 and cfpecially in a Nativity ith the Violence that tgs is. . Scere on the Correction of this Nativity (though Tam fare it is not exact) for Two Reafons. The firft is, a caufe he hath not given us the eflimate Time. And the aT is, He is too great aman to be queftioned by me. Nor woul H have any think that I do in this,to Eclipfe or Deface the a a Learning of this moft excellent Man, who hath elena a of all; but what 1 aim at is nothing more than to ju ue the Science from the Abules ‘and Inccherences that its Adver' on catch at, and are fo often objected to us by thole that know lite of the matter. Third Nativity that Morinus brings, ishis own, pag. 397- pure Accidents and Directions, brought for its Meise you will find them, pag. 648, 649, 661, 662, and 663. He makes 27 degsecs of Aries to Afcend, and 13 degrees ot CopDefettio Geniturarun. corn in the Midheaven, and the Accidents and Dire¢tions that he brings to prove it true, are thefe following. Aged 8 Years almolt, he had a Quartan Ague, the Sxn then “was directed to the Quartile of Saturn. Aged 22 Years and 4 Months, July gth 1605. wounded dan- geroufly in a Quarrel about a Woman + Afcendent then to the “Quartile of Venus. ‘Aged 29 and 3 Months, Anno 1612. May 30. he fell into a Jong and dangerous Difeafe by Heat and Drinking s and at the fame time there was an Ecliple of the Sun. For this he had- Jupiter and the Moon diveéted to the Afcendent; and the A- icendent to the gth degree of Gumini, the Place cf that E- clipfe. ‘Aged 30 Years and 2 Months, he took his Degree of Doctor “in Phyfick, Mfzy 9th 1613. For this he gives the Midheaven to the Dodectile of Satura (that is, the Semifextile) 5 and the former Dire@ions of Jupiter and the Moon to the Horofcope. Aged 31, Anno 1614. he was received a Phytician in ordina- ry to the Bithop of Bulligne; then the Sin was dircéted to the Afcendent. Aged 32, Anno 1615. went into Hungary; which Journey was attended with great Dangers, by Water, by Quarrels, by Duels and Luxury, the Afcendene then to the Square of Saturn without Latitude. Aged 33, in April 616, he was (eized with a dangerous roalignant Difeafe; the Afcendent to the Quartile of Saturn, with Latitude. Aged 38, in Odiober 1621. Phyfician in Ordinary to the Ce of Luxembirg ; Sua now toa Sextile of Mars, fine Lati- “tudine, Aged 46, in Auguj? 1629. Profeffor Regius in the Mathema- ‘ticks ; he had then the Midheaven to the Body of Mercury. Aged 51, March 30th 1634. he publickly demonftrated the Longitude found ; by which he had great Fame throughout all Europe, Midheaven then to the Body of the Sun. Aged 59, November 2d 1642. he was feized by a long lingring Fever, with {trange Evacuations of Choler ; he had then the A(cendent direGted to the Body of Mars. Aged Defeétio Geniturarun. Aged 61, 1644. he follicited for the Royal Allowance, for the Longitude found: He quarrelled with Balisldus and fome others: He had now the Midheaven directed to the Body ot Saturn, Murs to the Oppolition of the Sun, and Sarre to the Quartile of the Moon. Aged 62, 1645. April 8th, he had an ample Penfion, anda noble Reward our of che Treafury 3 Mars then was directed to the Oppolition of the Sum, and Fupiter and the Part of Fortune to the Trine of the Muon, without Latitude. Aged 73 and $ Months, on November 6th 1656. he dyed of a Fever; and no Caufe appears tor it in his Nativity, as { can find. He gives us more Accidents, which, becaufe 1 think they are not to the purpofe, are omitted. Of all the Arguments and Dirc@ions brought to veritie any Scheme, and Accidents that | have {cen, thefe are indeed the weakelt and moit ienprobable 5 efpecially coming from fo great a Manas Mf rinas was both for Labour and Learning 5 and there- fore I} will modefily give you my Thoughts on each of them, and leave you to your Opinion and Choice when T have done. There are, as you tee, Thirteen of them, of which Fallow but Tivo; and thitis, the Sunto the Body of Sutu-n for his Quar- tan Aguc for one. As to the Second, I fuppofea few Words will ferve, becaule there are very few will believe a min fhould be wounded very dangeroufly on the Afcendent to the Quartile of Vines, as he fays he was: And yet nothing on the Atcendent to the Square of Merery3 and after that to the Square of the Sia. [fhe had faid, He had been given tv Drinking, Whoring and Lewdnsfs, L might have believed it. Bat as to the Third, [ think he hath oatdone himfelf there, to tell us, he was feized with 3 dangerous Ditzafe, when the clip ivett the ¢ ent to the Place of Afcendent t0 give 5 dan serous + Asto ic is impolite it fhouid 4 Dizafe before it was in boing it (its for you cannot be- the Body was: brought into ad Yad:t inan Homs C as you mutt if you think chat the & And for the Second, there is no fuch thing as divedting thole Two Stars to the Meendent: Nov is there any fach thivg, in directional Mo- R tion ani Jupiter and thDefekia Geniturarum. tion to bring the Afcendert up to Jusizer and the Mion. Tknow what you have to fay for your telves in this Cale 5 which is, That the degree of the Afzendent comes up to them, Why ycs, hha ilallow : But that is not the Afcendent 5 for when that ithae Point, it hach ro more Power than the Firlt, : Hence. if the Afcendent gives ho Ceprec thas pulsiz, this Gentleman had the Moon and Jupster dis ted tothe Afcendent cvery Your aficrward. as long ae he lived, by the fimeRute And you mayas well Gy, a Gown is a man, beesule it covers him, os fay the degree is the cicendent, Ccfides, by this Rute, we have two Alcerdcnts 5 for if this degree is ore, you krow we have ancther left, that we dircét to. when that is eone upto the Cufp of the Twellth Houle. Eut eacogh of this Whim, fit rether to be laughed than argued out of Pxadti The Fourth will require but little to be faid to it; for he makes the Midhcaven to the Semifextile of Surtrn pive his Ncctoral Dig- nity, with Saturn ad Partem Fortune. As to the Semituxtile of Satzeh, | think all men of Art will count it next to ncth’ngs and for Saturn to the Part of Fortune, it it fhould be allowed, Ido not fee any Reafon it fhould give him Advantage, but rather che contrar’ Inavord, thefe two are of no Force nor Power, The Fitth hath little or nothing in ic: Hi sy He was ree ceived Phytician in Ordinary to the Bifhop of Buloignes who compelied him, againit his Will, to the S:udy of Attrology: He had now (as he fays) the Sua to the Afcendent. This is an- fwered as the Third; for it is no Dircétion, nor is there any fuch Motion in Nature, as you heard above. But fuppofe we fhoul allow it, it is the Promittor that gives the Advantage : If fo, what Pleston is there for the Afcendent to. give Picferment (lor fo it was at that time to him) and alfo of study with the ailiiance Gf (s great a man as that Bithp? ‘The Sixth fcems to have forme prodahitity in it at a diftance 5 but upen a nesrer approach, will find that empty, like rhe xcit: For there is no tuch Dircétion in Nature as the Alcendent 1 the Square of a Planct in che Zodiack. Fer ar the time. he fays, thit Diseétion is compleat, Serernis bur 63 Jenrecs ciiant from the Afeendent, and ihe ought tobe 905. fo thar he wants 27 degrcs cf a compleat Square: So that you lave here a Square Dofeétio Geniturarum. Square within a Square, a little Quartile and a greatone, In a word, it was not the Afcendent to the Square, but by true Motion to the Sextile of Sus s at that time Ark 33 de- Brees - : The Seventh is of the fame piece wizh the lait; for now, he fays, he hada violent and malignant Difeale on the Afcendent to ° the Quartile of Sassen with Latitude, This overthrows thcir old DoGrine of the Quartile always falling in the Ecliptick 5 and therefore no Latitude: And what himfelt tekes notice of likewile in his Projeétion of the Rays, that the Quartile always fallschere, And, to be brief, the A dent it {cif is never di- reGed to ary Ray with Lititude in thet Point, but the Body and Oppolition of any Star, The other Rays are made to the ‘Atcendent from other parts of Heaven always'with Latitude, if the Stir hath any. Thus much for che Lativades as to the Afpedt, poke to it before, to which T refer you, The Eighth may be admitted well enough, becaufe the Swa - is direéted to the Sextile of Adarr, as he fays, and fuch a Dire- Gion may give fuch a Promotion too. The Ninth feems likcly to be trues for the Midheaven to the Body of Mercery may give him fuch a Preferment as he then had, which was Regius Prof.ffor of the Mathematicks. But it is ftrange chat Mercury (hould give fuch a thing as this, and yet the Midhcaven to the Body of Minus , who is.in the beginning of Pifees, and in Trine of Mars, fhould give nothing 5 for he takes no notice of any effe@ of its which Tam fare he would have done, if any thing had fuited to it on this Correction, and I am fure it is more likely to advance him than the Body of Mirenvy by far. The Tenth is the only Dircétion (1 am certain) that he de- pends on for the Correction of his Nativity 5 and that is, The Midieaven to the Body of th: Sun for at that time, he fays, He had an Ulniverfal Fame, almof? throughout Evope: And it is from that very Dirediin that, Lam certain, his Nativity is falle 5 for had this been the true time of his Birth, he had, without all doubt, dyed under the Influence of that Direction. For in this Figure of his, the Afcendent is certainly giver of Lif, and at that very time came to the Square of the Sun, Quartile of the Moon, Quartile of Fupiter, Quartile of Saturn, and Body of Re Mars,Defectio Geniturarum. Mars, and no Rclief from any Rays to preferve Life: And this Doétrine is built upon a Principle thac feldom or never fails, if the Rule is but obferved carcfally. Now Tam certain thar Mo- rinas did not underttand Alirology to any perfection, nor Pro- Im, who he doth endeavour and p:etend fo often ro conrc@ in divers Places of his Afrelogiz Gal'ca: 1am alfo certain that he had no fixt Principle to guide him, or build upon; only an Univerlal conceited Knowledge of it, adapted to his own Fancy. z The Eleventh is tobe allowed in his Do€trine and Corre- “@ion, tobe a ritional Dire@ion: But Il amegrtain, by the fame Rule, the Afcndent to the Square of the Sum did rot kill, That this is alfe falfe; and if that Scheme had been true which he gives, this Dircétion had never perfeétly come up, cnly fo near as to fpeciticate the Diteafe he fhould dye by. The Twelith is certainly the molt irrational thing that ever was cflerted by an Artitt, where the Afcendent was Giver of. Life: To tell us, That he fued for the Royal Reward, for his finding the Longitude: That he quarrclled with Brlialdis 5 and with a poor man, a Neighbour of his: And for this, he tells us, he had the Midhcaven to the Body of Satwra. Can any man of Rxafon believe it? Ask my old Fricnd what he had on his Mid- heaven to the Body of Satzen in a Figure that the Afcen- dent is Hileg, and he will tell you, a Jail with a Gallows at the end of it. Ina Word, this is ro ways to be allowed, it is too grofs to he digefled by any man of Skill or Reafon, The Thirceenth is of the fame piece with the former; for here he tlls us, he hada noble Penlicn, and a Gift from the King: And for this he had Mars to the Opprlition of the Sun and Fue pitry and the Part of Fertwas to the Trine of the Mo.n without Laticude, 1 will leave the firlt to any man’s Confideration s N.y! toa Novice in Affrology, Whetler Murs to the Ogpofi- tion of the Swaand Juri can give any Good. or not. And for the Pari of Fortune to the Tine of the Mon, it founds wall, but if ined, there isas Iittle in that ss in che relts for the Part of Fortune cannot be ei cied in the Zedi.ck, as they imae gine, becaule it is tiby.€ to preatcros leler Diurnal and Ne@ur- nal Arks, according to the M.on’s Declination and Latitude, up- ea whom the Pars of Fortine depends; and for that reafon is feldom. Defestio Genitnrarum: + never in the Ecliptick. But befides, the Part of For- an a in 10 degrees of Taurus, ashe fays, but in the end of Aries; for if you will confider, the Mon (oy her Latitude) under that Pole, is not 5 degrees palt the Body of the Suns if fo, how can the Part of Fortune be 13 degrees. an the Afcendent, and the Moon and that near the Equator To be Jain with you, Ido fay, The Part of Fortin: isin the beginning rf Tourer. But if what he fas thould be allowed, why did i i Vinus, the Sun and Ju- tof Fortune to the Trincs of Vonss, th 7 Se ade as welt as this Trine of the iter, Bi cthing, contiderable, Wen i ae oe shave tn. Power to do it than the Mson ‘Moon ? Lam lure, they have more the : ' , = have added a Fourteenth 5 but that is the time of his Death, and therete'¢ you may be fure ic is not ee Ae main Query will »¢. What Dirc@tion he dyed on? H ‘or a is reafonable to cxsest fomething for that, as well elomeey thing cli¢ berorerentioned 5 and to fatisty iny Rea _ ere is nothing can be pretended to in Chat cafe, take one ewin ae count of all the epherkal places by Direction at a time, bu efpeciall ot the Afecndent , who is Bikey oe aly ae ce ken notice of in that Cafe: And theretore. i yor ple a direct it, ynt will tind it is atvanced to the 20th degr ¢ oF Cancer a place bated with no Male a fi t a thac hats power to hills Noy! fo mech as che Lor! i : Fourth :p xhto. The Mad scaven is come fo 20 ae sn Pfges, an’ paltali both pood «id bad The Sian is. by Die me otves of fiemad ard peli both the Squarcs of 7 ve no tl Reams The Mom is got £ Gm nd ut of the rash of all Jelignanc areworth ooterving, The Pet ef spot allo cor, and port étly free Likewl!e 5 as are all poor Geatle:ar had the hard Fortune to fall, wad this vichour a C+ Aad sherefor-, if this fhould } en tobe true in ths Nviviry, if may p ove fo in2e3 may, Peres moe: And if to, tarewel Avaligyy pra deliver it i Hex de Angelis (0 laugh at. : over OH mh gaand en becapected, lacing Lhave (Uihink) proved ts Nativity falic, to give one that muy fcem true in my i i hing, ¢ own Judgment 5 which, Ibelieve, would be no hard LS into 24 the citDefeétio Geniturarum. have done, had he been fo fair to us, as to hive given the efti- mate time cf his Birth. Burt thus far you {hall know my Opi- nion concerning the Correétion of it. It is molt certain that either the Afcendent or Sw mutt be Hileg, in this Scheme 5 and which foever of them is f, 1 believe the Sun will alfo prove the Alfef'r Vite Uf you will meke the Atccnd iver of Life, thin there will be 26 degrees of Pisces Alcending: But if you mak: the Su» Aph.cta, there will be between 15 and 25 degrees of Taser Alcending, And this Difpute might be {con ended, had we but the given time to guide uss but P confefs I thould rather rely on Pifece Alccnding, confidcring what he writes of him(it, page 398. which is like Six Planets in the Twelfth Houle: ‘And {of leave this great Man’s Nativity to your further Contideration. The next Nativity Lfind peblithed by Murine is that of Gufta- cus Adoiptus, King cf Smedelind, page 400. who was flain in the Battle of Lutzen, November 6th 1632, fighting againit Walffcin the Imporial General, And this, he (ays, was cauted by the Midheaven direéted to the Quartile of Saturs in the Zo- diack, and Body of Mars. Yet in the Figure he gives us, the Sun is in the Afcendent, and mott certainly Hileg 5 bur by a Figure of my Divilion of the Heavens, the Sun is 18 Ecli- ptical degrees abuve the Culp of the Second Houfe, aud very near in the middle of the Afcendent, and admits of no difpute, The Figure follows, {ct to his time, but to my Divition of the Heavens. The Plancts Places are Calculated by the Rudolphine Tables, as Morinus (ays. Defeétio Geniturarum 195 22 Let. Planet; N h 20S. Galtzinr Adslpber Sac ‘ “ & gy [ete Rexs mati 19 De- | cmbr, bor. 7 mire 13} mane, 1594+ } roa4oM 13S. Lat. Stockholm. 1M, x o pak eadagoe! 4 21 46M. 8 > 34M. The only thing T contend with him here for, is, Why he fhould bulieve any man would credit his Affertion in this, when in his own he lets the Midheaven pals the Body of Saturn and the Moon, and gives him nothing but a Quarrel: And in Francis de Bon, he lets him pats the Midheaven to the Oppetition of Satura without any Injury to his Life, and live {cveral_ycars after its and yet this brave fighting Prince mult fall by it: Nay! and what's worfe, againfi all Rule coo, for neither Midheaven nor Afcendent had any thing to do with Dirc@ions of Death, be- caufe the Sun is folely Giver of Lite, and claims the other as his own Propriety. Nor did the Midheven to the Square of Saturn Kill his Friend D. Ledovi. Fronfon, pag. 614. So tirange it {eems to me, That this Learned man thould oveslook Tinh, and not allow his Direétions.a Parity in their Effects and Operationsin oneas well as the other, withour Rules of Exce; tion 5 ickDefettio Geniturarum. in all {ach general Cafes ought to be given, if any be. IT won- der they did not depend en the Midhcaven to the Body of Mars for Death; becaute that is a Dir-étion not to be oppofed in point of Motion, there city indeed fuch a Direétion: But to teli us of the Midheaven to the Squire of Suturn, when in truth there is no (uch Direction in Mosion ner Noture ct that time (for the Midhvaven to the Square cf Saturn did not come up till after 60 Years of Age) i} tuch an Impofition cn our Un- Handing, that all intelligihle men wi ihus at it. And how tais great man fhould (utter bis Peafon to be catche by Opinion gnd Credutity, | do indeed wonders elpceiall, ia a thing fo piain as this is, contrary to his Darling the Mathematicks 5 for by Mathematical meafure it is not a Square or Quadrate 3 con- trary to Rule and the belt Authori-y. And to be plain the Sin is Hilez, and none elfe can be dixcéted for Death 5 nex can there be any more than one Hileg in any one vity, contrary to Experience: Nay! ina Word, it is cont.ary ¢o all bat fond Opinion. And now, pray give m: leave to muke this bold of- fer in general 1 do Challenge say maa to aw me where the Afeeadent or Midneaven by DireGtion bas bern the Laufe of Desth, when either Sua or Mon were givers of Life: And I am fare no man will undertake that Work bur he tha hath no Principles t> build on in his Study of this “cience, and fucha on: was this Learned Author, whole Labours ore now the Sub- jet of this prefent Difcourle 5 and 1 sm certain, as long as I contend with iuch Antagonilis, Tam fate enough. But methinks, | fee fome, and hear others diffatished with what 1 have already fid on this Nativity, and think it is no- thing elfe but Talk and Flourith, ond that Tam not able to make good what | hive faid by plein proof, Th.t he dycd by the Force and Power of other Dirsétions (o the Giver of Life, as 1 have before intimated, Pray have buta lite patience, and you {hall be cntertained with that tco. What the eftimate time of this Prince’s Birth was, I know not (that is indeed the Faule of all our Authors, for they think we ought to rely on their Skill in Coxreéting, and for that R give no cltimmate time ) but believe it to be fomething nearer Sun-rife than the Time Afrinzs takes for truth 5 however, be~ caufe I will puil no Controverties about my ears, 1 will work all my Defestio Geniturarum, my Dire@tions according, to this Pofition of 6 degrees of Sagitary afcending, and the Pole of the Sn in this Figure, and they are thefe that follow 5 i.e. the Sun to the Parallel of Saturn, tothe Oppofition of Saturn and Square of Mars, thus, O ad Parall. d inZod.} 32 55429 6 | 1624 © ad Paral. % inZd.| 35° 3 [3 8 | 1626. © ad Corp. & fine Lat. 33 51135 51 1929 © ad Parall. h in Zod. | 41 50 | 38 5 | 1633. © ad Oppiof. Rh fine Lat | 43 5% 40 5 1635. Oad Qusd. 3 in Zod. V 44 19 | 4 10 | £635. © ad Oppaf. hr cum Lat. [45 7442 8 11537. Here you (ce, 1 bring Four Directions for his Deaths the Pa- rallel of Saturn, that toucheth firit s the Oppotition of Saturn, S. L. the Square of Adurs in the Zodiack, and the Oppofition of Saturn CLs Object. But this is falle that you endeavour to prove true; for your Dircétion that you call the Parallel of Sz- tara, and tomes up firlt, gives 38 Years and 5 Months, which is 6 Months after he dyed ; for he was killed when he was 37 Years 10 Months and rg Days old; and] hope you will not make your Stars kill him ofter he is dead, as we do. Anfrrer. No, no, foft and fair, my Friend, I will clear this Doubt to you prefently. [told you before, That the Scheme is not the etti- mate Time, bat of Morins’s Correétion 5 and I am certain it is falfe, and that it was altered to make the Square of Saturn kill him, and the Time was undoubtedly a little later. 1 likewile told you, That all thee Diredtions, that | have wrought, are by the Odlique A‘entions, under the Pole of the Swvin this Fi- gure of his. Now, if you will permit me to aher the Pole of the Sun but one degree, or not fo much, which will not alter the A(cendent 2 degrees, and inttcad of 6 make 8 of Sugitsrins, there, and ail willagree very well, and the Ark of the Sam to the Parallel of Saturn will be about 41 degrces and 12 minutes, which gives in time 37 Years and id Months, dino 163 26 And by altering that Pole, all the rett of the Direttions will pro- portionally vary as much as this doth. This is my Judgment of the Caufe of Death, and Tam fure a preat deal more rational to give it and its Violence, than ae alledged. But if any,Defeétio Geniturarum. of you think they are not, praysproduce me better Authority, than I have fer it in Quadripart. lib. 4s car, 10. where he begins that Paragraph thus, Err arsem Morter Fiolente, & Infizne. Perhaps T may meet with a {ccond OdjeMion; and ti Why the Sun to the Z discal Parallel of Murs did not ki well as that of Satu? In anfwer to this I {hall refer you to my Opas Reformat. pag. 161, and 163. and the better to «fut you in your Search, 1 have wrought that Dire@tion, and thole, that attend it, that ase of concernment in the thing you pro- pound. The next Nativity I find brought by him, as an Example, is that of the Duke of Montmorancy 5 and that is brought to prove the fame Foolery that this laft was. tc That the Midheaven to the Square of Saturn took off his Head, Ogieber the 30th 1632. he being then 37 Ycars and 6 Months ald. He lets him pafs the Midheaven tothe Oppolition of the Si, and Square of the Moon, Lady of the Eighth, and kills him on the fingle Square of Sturn, which is indeed no Square; and for the better deciding this Point, I with he had given us the eftimste time of his Birth. The Figure follows; the flanets Places from the Redolpbine Tables. Defettio Geniturarnme 189 45 la 4 4 & b 6° ~ QS OU! Lati. Planets i ati. Planet. AC NG Oy Hor 25 Sep. Dax Montrasancit, nze| 14s die 30, Aprilis, bor. os ae 10. min.10.P.M, 1595. \ oO 1 38 Mer. Dak Pad OO 8 f! Q 0 15 Mer. Box gx Sep. D5 14 Mer, Here you (ee, the Birth is No@urnal, and all the Planets un- der the Earth, except Saturn in the Eighth Houle 5 fo that the Afcerdent or Part of Fortune mutt be Hileg. If the Afcendent be Giver of Life, there can be no Pretence to any Dire&ion to that Point, nor is it vitiated by any Malignant Beams at that Time, asl can difcover ; nordoth he take any notice of the Part of Fortune. Argo, V confe(s (in de Diebus Criti. pa. 239.) tells us, the Part of Fortune is Apbeta, and that it was directed to the Antifcion of Mars for his Death 5 but withal, he brings in likewife the Midheaven to the Square of Saturn. T mutt needs fay, Morinus is the fairer man of the two, for he depends folely on the Midheaven to kill ; but Argo! hath two Strings to his Bow, the Part of Fortune and Midheaven both: And yet, when all is done, Ido not believe that he ever underkood how to direct the Part of Fortune to the Antifcion of Murs; nor could it be done in that Nativity thathe hath given usy $2 1 fhall33% Defettio Geniturarum. 1 hall have little or no occafion to fay any thing in particular to the Dircétion it {clf, that he fays killed, or to the Improbabi- lity of itas to the Rule, I having done thatlargely in the laft Ex- ample; which is a parallel Cafe to this: And both indeed built upon one bottom; and by him both imbellifh’d with the fame Arguments to create a Belief in the Reader that they are true. ‘And therefore I will proceed to give you my Opinion concerning this Nativity, and its Corre€tion, according to thofe Principles of Aftrology that | am Malter of ; foras to the Scheme he hath given us, | am fure it is falfe, becaufe there is no ground nor reafon for i¢ in Nature nor willit hold in other Nativities, no not one in twenty ; nor is thereany Rule in fubfantial Authors to juftifie ir. I have already told you, That either the Afcendent or the Part of Fortune mult be giver of Life s and to make his Dcath correfpond with Rational Rules, we mult alter Morinus bis Fi- gure. If the Afcendentis admitted, then it mutt be directed to the Squaze of the Sum, or to the Body ef the Moon, and Oppo- fition of Saturn. If to the firlt, it mult be about 38 minutes fooner thin the time that he prints; if the Jitter is allowed, then it mult be altered toan Hour and three Quarters laters but I Shall reje&t both, becaule I will keep to the Rule, Jib. 3. cap. 13. Qusdripart. For by that Rule the Part of Fortune is to be allow- ed Hileg, without difpute; and in a Figure of my fetting it is on the Culp of the Eleventh; but in their Scheme it is in the Ninth Houle. They direct the Part of Fortune in Zodiaco, } di- rect it in Mundo onlys and in this Cafe the Part of Fortune comes to the Square of Saturn; the Ark 37 degrecs 30 minutes, ‘or near it; and this followed by the Square of Murs, within 10 degrees, and no Relicf from the Benehcks : And this I do from a Figure of 3 degrees of Sagitary ofcending, and near 26 de- grees of Virgo on the Midheaven 3 and the Part of Forte will be within half a degrce of the Eleventh Houfe, toward the Tenth. And this I take to be the moft rational of the two Corre€tions I mentioned; and I am {ure more likely to be true than Morinus’s is. The next we meet with is the Nativity of Albert Duke of Frid- Jond Walftein, the Eraperor’s General, that fought again{t Gujta- Uns Defeétio Genitnrarumi us Adolphus when he was flain. This man was murdered by the Command of his Mafter Ferdinand the Second, Emperor (Fue Tniperatoris trucidatus, fays Morine) onthe 25th of Febru- ary 1634. being then Fifty Years and Five Months old; and for this, Morinus fays, he had the Midheaven directed to the Squire of Mars Peregrine, and in his Detriment in the Eighth Houle ; and yet both the Suz and Mun in Aphetical Places, the one in the Seventh, and the other on the Cufp of the Eleventh. Fron whence you may odferve, That Mirinns takes no nctice of the Hil:g. but maxes his Rule politive above all; as appears by thefe Thre. Examples: ‘That the Midheaven to the Square of cither of the Infortunes, in the Eighth, certainly kills either a King or a General, that happens to have fach a Pofition. The Figure follows, fet to his Tum2, but my Divifion of the Heavens, and the Planets Placcs from the Redolpbine, as Morine fays. Lat. Pianic. 26M Dux Walftcinss nats ve.0 38 7 die 24 Septemb. hor. 4 S ‘ af} min 52 P.M, 1583. “1 yaa Qadd 2 Sub Lat. 51+ Whateves134 DefeEtio Geniturarum. Whatever Morinus may think of the matter, T do pofitively affirm, That the Sus in this Figure is certainly, and without all doubt Giver of Life; and therefore the Caufe of Death mutt be fought from his direétional Motion » and not from the Tenth Houfe, the Moon, the Afeendent, nor the Part of Fortune. And to make his Reader he more a Convert tohis Rule and Method, and to confirm the Truth of his Scheme, he tells us, This Na- tive was elected fupreme General, or Generaliffimo, of the Em- peror’s Army in the Year 1631. And for this Preferment, he fays, the Sun was at that time dircéted to the Midheaven; a thing rather fit to be laughed at than believed : Becaufe there is no fach DieStion; and whofoever doth imagine that the Sua or Mun can be dire&ted to the Cufps of the Houfes Cotherwife than Convers) I am cestain he doth not underftand the nature of Dircétional motion. Now to few you, how luckily a falfe Rule happened to fuit to Morinus’s invention, ina Figure that {cems very probable to be true, and fo confirmed him and his Profelites in their mif- guided Opinions concerning the Anarcta, being wholly ignorant not only of the tiue Method in Dirc@tion, but alio ef thofe un- denisble Rules laid down for our Direétion andGuide in that part of this Science; | will makeit appear that he did dye by Dire- tions to the Giver of Life, and this by his own Figure, altering it but one minuce in Times that is, 15 minutes in the O. 4. of the Afcendent, and not only prove his Death, but alfo give you Direétions for his being, chofen General, far more likely than that of Morinus; and the Oblique Afcention of the Afcendent, that I work by, is 344 degrees 7 minutes, and the Pole of the Sun about 45 5 the diflance of the Sun from the Seventh Houfe is 16 degrees 12 minutes; the diftance of Murs from the Se- venth Houle is 28 degrees 16 minutes. Hence you have the Sun to the Mundane Parallel of Mars D.D. Ark 46 degr. 55 min. which gives in Time 50 Years and 5 Months; and followed by the Sun to the Square of Satsra in the Zodiack, thus, M.C.ad * ¥% 43 32.147 1 [ 1630 M.C.ad & % 43 48147 4 | 1631 Made General. M.C. ad OO 46 19 | 49 10} 1633 © ad Defeétio Geniturarum. vad pamnd dedi g6 55] 50 5 | 1934 Murdered. 5 ad Oh Zig 294 56 OC od Y Zadi,56 31 3 60 00 Now what need we fly to impracticable Shams, when Truth ig fo near at hand? And what need is there to imagine a fingle Direétion, that is both Improbable and impotibte to g he pretends, when we have no } n three that are all doubt, agreeing, with his D. ime, and Pi Rale, which is this, 5 runt neces infigniores cx jt dri Lib. 4. Cap. to V know ) How Fapiter beholds Murs afflicted, to make this Rate g Why, truly, you mutt take Pains, and fearch it cus by Labour, for itis plain enough ‘And betides, | am‘now deteGing of Er- rors, not writing a Theory ; but you may depend onit, the Rule really takes place in this Nutivizy, 2 to his Death, which was Murder. 7 And give me leave to add one word, to excu'e the Emperor about his Murder, which perhaps may fick with fome Readers. This Native, after he had beat the Swedes, and kill’d their King, grew fo horridly infolest, he. was above all Law ar id Gover- ment, neither the Emperor nor the Princes of the Empire knew how to deal with him: They tdlus, He would fend for any Man, who he delired, or take them by Violence in the Streets, and bring them to his Houle, and command his Seryards (0 hang, them immediately in his Oschard. And when he had ferved many f0, he glosied init fo much, that he askt his Friends that came to fee him, To gointo his Garden, and fee what Fruit his Trees bore. And for this, and fuch like Crimes, he being f00 big, for the Law, the Emperor commanded him ¢o be kill 5 which was in his Chamber the day before mentioned. And though | have fhewed you how thefe Directions better agree than that of Morine’s, yet 1 do not warrant it to be his tauc Nativizy, but do fay it feems very probable. The next is the Nativity of Francis de Banne, Duke and Mir- thal of Frances wholived to 83 Years of Age, and dyed Sep:emb 28, 1626. on the Direttion of the Aon to her own Square in tne Erliptick.. The Figuse followeth. T his - 135Defeétio Geniturarum. Francifeus de Bome, ns Ss die te dprilic. bor, 8 mia. $3. ming 1543. DAR Sade h, Latic. 45. This Learned Gentleman certainly never gave himfelf time to contider, or clfe he never read Prolomy with any Care or Cre- dit; for this is one of the idleti Reafcns that ever was given, Firlt he tells us, That which is not true, i.e. that the Muon is Aphetas; which by his good favour fhe is not, for all her be- ing in the Tenth. And Sccondly, he tel!sus a thirg net a gree- able to Rule; for he fays, He ded on the Mon to ner own Square: Which cannot poftibly be, becaule Jupiter beholds the Place of Direétion with his Trine; and to affert this is divectly againft Prolomy’s Rule, and my own Experience 5 and belides, if the Mzon were Hileg, and dircéted to her own Square, ¢s in this Example, it could not kill, Buc to be plain with you, I doubt the Truth of the Figure, as to time, aid my reafon is this Let which of the two Luminaries you pleafe be Apiera, I feeno reafon why he fhould not dye onthe Dircétions of cither to the Body of Mars, and Oppofition of Satare, and this in a violent part Defeétio Geniturarum. part of Heaven; but it is next to impoffible he fhould efcape thofe Directions if the Moon were Hileg, becaule they came up late, even at 60, and this with the Caput Medufe, a violent Star. And therefore { will not fo much as imagine a Figure that may hit the Time of his Death, becaufe J believe he was abufed by having a falle, Time given him; and why may not he as well be deccived by a falfe time given him, as to print a falfe time for his own Birth, which I am fure tat is 5 and therefore if I were to projet a Figure for this Great man’s Birth, it muft be one where neither the San nor Moon is Hileg. The next we meet with is that of MARY Queen of POLANDs fhe was a French woman, and was married to Vladiflaus King of Poland, the 5th of November 1645. and he dying foon after, his Brother Cafimire was chofen King, and afterward married his Widow, May the Thirtieth 1649, So that fhe was twice married, and this to Two Kings , in the fpace of Four Years. And the Nativity he gives us for this Queen’s truce one, is as followeth, {et to his Time, but by my Table of Houles, and the Planets placcs from the Rudolpbine Tables, as he fays. Eftimate Time 3 minutes patt 8 mane.Defestio Genituraram. Lat. Planet. Maris Polosie Regina ‘ nata 19 Auguiti hor. 7 min, 51 mane, Correct, - T5394 j Dik had. T have printed this Scheme, becaufe it isa rcmarkable Nati~ vity, and he hath given the efimate time of it alfo, and will zeally admit of a Trial of Skill, in the management of which Iwill be very jult and fair, and do both the Art and this Learned Author Right: And the Accidents he gives are thefe following. Aged 15 years and 2 months, O&iob, 12th 1626. fhe fell into a defperate Difeale, ‘and was near Deaths the Afcendent then to the Square of the Moon with Latitude. Aged 18 years, Anno 1629. fhe was courted by the Duke of Orleans ; but the Marriage was prevented by Cardinal Richelics, and the Queen Mother, Mary de Medicis; Afcendent then to the Sextile of Jupiter. Aged 34 yeats and 2 months, the married Uladiflaus the Fourth King of Poland, the Midhcaven then to the Body of Venus. Aged Defeétio Genituraruine Muy 30th, 1649. fhe was then King of Poland: She had then unétion, direéted to the Body of And thefe Four Acci- Aged 37 years and 9 months, married to Cafimir, the next Mercury and Jupiter in Con} Mars, Lord of the Seventh, as he fays. dents are my further Buline(s to examine Morinus hath takcn the Square of the Moon in Libra, with 4, Degrees of North Latitude, and for what reafon I cannot tell 5 for the Moo hath not fall out 2 Degrees South , where fhe is in Capricorn 5 but let his Reafon be what it will for fo doing, he perfectly overthrows their old imaginary Rule, that the Sqssre almays falls in the Zodiack, by this Example of his. It is plain that every Afpeét oweth its being to the Body it pro- cecds from; and therefore if you will allow the Afpect Lati- tude, you can allow it no morc than the Body hath it is produ- ced by : If you do allow it more ox lefs than that Body hath, you make the Afpect Challenge a Latitude proper to it (elf, which to this day was totally uaknown to all Pretenders, But perhaps you will fay, The thing {cems very rational.» becaufe he allows the Square what Latitude the Mooa hath in that place, when fhe comes thither, where it falleth in the Eclip- tick. tis true, he doth fo 5 but what is that to the trac Mo- tion? And how will he demonftrate that the Advn is in exact Square to the Afcendent, morc by taking of 4Degrecs, than if he had talten but 2 Degrees, or none at all in that Direction 5 for the meaning of the Direétion is, That the Muon is in exact Square to that Angle, when that Direétion is finithed, which hz nor no man can prove by that method of direéting 5 for the Afcendent comes to the Square of the Moon, when the Fourth Heufe comes to her Body 3 and I know no other Square, nor he neither, but what is Imaginary : And if fo, Pray what do the 4 Degrees of Laticude in Libra fignify ? Bur why Four Degrces to be taken, contrary to the Rule of the Square falling in the Ecliptick, and exceeding the Moons Latitude where the is. two Degrees? Why truly for no other reafon,, but to help out ata dead lift ; for he could by no means make the Mid- heaven to the Body of Venus for her Murrizge, and the Afcondent to the Square of the Muon, for her Sickufs, agree tor the Afcendent to the Square of the Moon in the Ecliptick , would have had 17 Degrees, 49 Minutes Ark, and that would not do, 2 forDefcétio Geniturarnm, fer his Ark was to be but 14 Begrecs 56 Minutes; and by ta- king the Square of the Mon with 4 Dcgrces of Latitude, hit the thing toa hair: And thatis the truch cf the whole mat- ter; and by this Cafe ot Necctlity came this curious Notion in- to practice; end, to f.y the truth, I find it no where ufed throughout his whole T fe, but in this particular Cafe: And when it is fully cxan.ined, 1 think really no body can be lieve it. As to the Second Accident, which he attributes to the Afcen- dert to the Sextileof Fupiters itt fhovld allow him that, 1 do not think it will de him any Saviceatall, for the Sextilecf Jupiter cannot give fuch a Coutthip, and {uch great Enemies to prevent its EAc& at the fametimes there muft be fome mali- cious Beams to raife thofe Adve rlaries, as you may fee hereafter: But, in fhert, that Dir Gion came up at Six or Seven years of Age. The Third Accident and Dircétion no man can deny, could he make the Square of the Moon to the Afcendent fairly agree with it, to give her Sicknefs at 15 years of Age; which, you fee, he cculd not do, but was conftrained to make a Rule on purpofe, contrary to true Metion, and his own Pradtice before: And for that Reafon I have juftly made thefe Objections to his Operations in this Nativity, which, he fays, is molt exadily retified, The Fourth Accident, which was her Second Marriage, at the Age of 37 years and 9 months, he fays, was caufed by the Dircéticn ot Jupiter and Mercury, in Conjunction to the Body of Mars; which certainly can never be allowed ner believed by any man but him that can believe any thing. And the better to enlorce and fortitie his Dodtrine, he tells us, That Jupiter, Lord of the Seventh, with Afercsery Lord of the Afcendent, are di- r€ted to Murs, Lord of the Scventh 3 fo that he hath two Lords of the Seventh to cfeét the bulinefS: And had the Direction been in the Seventh, by this Rule and Opinion of his it would cere tainly have been more forcible. But fuppofe this were all truc, Why thould Fupiter, &c. being dire€ted to Mars, be more likely w give Marriage at 38 than the Sen tothe Body of Mars at about 22 yearsof Age, even inthe Heatand Fury of Youth , at which Age Wemen are generally more bent to Marriage than at 38 5 and Defeétio Geniturarum. and yet at both Ages, under proper Dire@tions, we find fach Examples frequent enough? Nay! hetells us, That his Friend Monlieur Goulas, from this only Direction, predicted this Queen a Second Marriage, while her Firlt Husband was living. If he did, it was a bold Venture, attended with a good Fate more than the Direétion he gives ; nor indeed is there any thing in it worthy of our imitation or credit, though it did bis bufinc& as well as if it had been true, for itgor him the Qucen’s good Opinion and Favour, . But it would have been no {mall Service to us, had either of them told us by what Rule the Firlt Hut band fhould dye fo foons which would be of more ufe than this new Projet: For Jupiter, Lord of the Seventh, is rong, and fo is Mars, and both Lords of the Seventh, as he fays. And fo I come tocorreét the Figure, and give my Reafons and Dire- tions for thefe Four Accidents. The eflimate time is 3 minutes after 8 mane 3 and the Figure, by my Corrcétion, is 58 minutes after 7, and is but 5 mi- nutes differing from the time given; the Right Afcention of the Midheaven is $7 degrees 24 minutes 5 and the Directions are thele following. Jd. mi | ym Afeend.ad OD 13 461 15 00, 1626 Dangeroufly fick, © ad Par. 3. Zod. 16 28] 18 2° | 1629Courted toMarry,. y ad 8 BSL, 17 30 | 19 02 1 1630 pad OQCL 18 57 , 20 08 | 1632 . © adCorp. F 19 19 | 214 O18 | 1632 . » ad Pa, & me, rape | 30 29! 33 10] 1645 Married firtt p ad Par mo. rap. | 30 30 | 33 10 1645 Gad b Q mo conv. | 31 14,34 07 | 1646 M.C.ad 8 & 34 51] 35 03 | 1646 , y ad Par. & in Zod. | 34 49 1 38 04 | 1649 Married again. @ ad % Qin Zod. | 36 42 | qo 02 | 1651 > ad Pare© mo.rap. | 38 46 | 42 03 | 1653 If Lunderftand the bulinels, thele Diretions are far more agree- able, and more natural too, than thofe given by Murinus 5 and be- fides, Lam nearer tothe eftimate time than heis, which fecms to be given very exact, even to 3 minutes; as you inay fee, a he.‘Eq4r Defettio Geniturarum. The Afcendent to the Square of the Moon, for her Sicknefs, is no ways ftrained,but a true and a fair Direétion 5 and yet A4- rinus him(elt never knew what made it fo violent, as to be like to Kill hers for in his own Nativity it gave nothing at alls nor doth he take notice of it: Nor did he ever know what faved her Life under thofe two Directions of the Maun and Suturn 5 for in that of Zag2-Chrijti he makes the fing'e Square of the Mesn kill him, and yet here it gave a difeafe, and did not kill: And in my opinion it weuld have been worth your knowing, had he been fo free as to have told us the reafon of thefe things 5 for every Afirolnger, that is Matter of his Profefion, doth or ought to know this Myttcry. The Sun ad paral. Mars in Zodiaco, and at the heels of it; the Moon to the Oppofition of Vents looks like a Courthhip, but to her injury and difcontent, as We may fuppofe; becaute two fuch ercat People as the Qucen-Mother and the Cardinal, undertook tp break the bufinels, and prevent the Marriage. Pray contider whether thefe are not much more likely than the Afcendert to the Sextile of Jupiter. The Moon to the Parallels of Jupiter and Aferceny, and the Sun to the Body of Venus, motu conver. are Directions probable to give Marriage, as well as that Direétion of the Body of Fens to the Midheaven and though that doth nor touch in this of mine, yet it is juft at the door, and doth certainly influence the matter. . But the Caule of her Second Marriage is the great and only thing in difpute, as you have heard ; for which, I fay, fhe had the Micon to the Zodiacal Parallel of Venus, and at the fame time under the Influence of the Midheaven to the Body of Venus, that began its effects in 1647. Bat perhaps you will fay, That the Direction of the Moon to the Paralicl of Venus, in the Zo- diack, comes up at 38 years and 4 months, and fhe was married at 37 years and 9 months ; and therefore this is not to the pur- fe. To this I anfwer, I have followed Origanss for the Lati- tude of the Mosm, as having no other for that year; and, you know, he is none of the exaéteit in thofe Calculations. There- fore if the Moon’s Latitude be allowed to be 12 minutes too much, (and I arn certain it is greater that it ought to be) the Direction will couch exaétly at the time the Matricd 5 and the former of the Defestio Genitnrarum: the Body of Menus gave the beginning of that Second Courtthip, But belides, thofe Zodiacal Parallels are gencrally in Operation before they perfeétly touch, and the nearer the Tropicks, the lon- ger: So that it is pollible one of thefe Direétions falling near the ‘Tropicks may be in operation 10 years; nay, 1 may fay 203 tho’ there are many! know,that will think itis very improbable, and fo let them and welcome, Thus J have endeavoured to thew you, That this Nativity was to be proved by the fame Accidents, and yet by other Directions than thofe given by this Learned Au- thor, and this by keeping clofer to the cftimate time thin he did. But perhaps you may fay, You do not underliand fome of thefe Dircétions, and therefore you have nothing but my word for it. Why, really, Ithink, you. ray as well take my word for thefe, as take Morine’s word for his, for | am certain, there is nota Reader in the world can imagine why the Squire of the Moon fhould be taken with 4 degrees of Latitude in the Afcendent, when her Body hath’not two, as you have already heard. The next Nativity we meet with is that of Lewis XIV. King of France, whom, he fays, was born September the sth, at 15 minutes paft 11 before noon S. NV. 1638. in the Latitude of 49 5 but he correéts it to 4 minutes fooner, which we fhall immedi- ately confider, with the reafonsof it. . Morinus (ays, he had a Fever, with an Eryfipelis in his Face at 5 ycars and 7 months old 5 and the Smull Pox at 9 years and 2 months old, with danger to his Life and all this from the Square of the Moon, well managed. * Tine tirlt of thefe Diforders, he fays, was caufed by the Dire- Gtion of Jupiter to the Square of the Moon without Latitade which by bis Pole of Pofition gives an Ark of 4.degrees 55 mi- nutes; and, by Naibod’s meafure, is too fhort by 35 minutes s but that I will pafs by and excafe: But if you direct Fupiter un- der the true Pole of Pofition, the Ark will not be full 4 degrees 5 which I cannot allow, by my meafure and method in Diredtion, to hit the time of that Difgafe. Bat why mult Jupiter be a fig- nificator in this Cafe? Hé is Lord of the Fourth and Second, and, in my opinicn, that gives him no Power. Mars is indeed Lord of the Afcendent, and had be directed him, there might have been fome Pretence fos its but Zupiter hath none, for he makes. 143 eeDefeétio Geniturarum. makes but 10 degrees of Sagitary on the Second Hvufe, and 5 of them ro mult be allowed to the Second 5 fo that he can have but 5 in the Afcendents and how thofe 5 can entitle him to be Lord of the Afcendent, Icannot imagines and it is thet 1 fup- pofe he builds upon: He might as well have dirc&ted Susurn co the Oppofition of the Avon, and with the fame Authcrity. The Second Difeaf2, which was the Small Pox, he {ays, was from Jupiter. direéted to the Square of the Moon, with Liti- tude, and the A cendent convers to the Square of the Morn, with Latitude likewile. Thefe are choice Notions, if we can but un- deiliand and believe them. Firlt, you mult know, though the Moon hath but 2 degrees 36 minutes South at Birth, he makes her Square to have 4 degrees 17 minutes South, ore'fe the Trick will not do neither to Jupiter nor the Alcendent; no, nor with it neither, without the help of his ncw Table, pag. 550. The main Quettion is (as | have obferved before in the Queen of Poland's Cafe) Why the Moon’s Square muft have 4 degrces 17 minutes, and her Body but 2 degrecs 36 mirutes at Birth: Per- haps you will fay, She hath fuch Latitude when fhe comes to 6 degrees of Scorpin, and therefore it ought to be allowed here. That I utterly deny, and this, Firft by their own Principles 5 for they have all taught it for Doétrine hitherto, That the Square always falls in the Ecliptick as fuppoting the Interfections of the Ecliptick and Orbit to be 180 degrees diftant, and cach of them 9o degrees diftant from the Planet: And they were forced into the Belief of this, becaufe the Latitude at the Oppofition is always of a different Denomination from that of the Body, and therefore by that Rule this Square of the Moon could have no Lae titude, as it is faid to have by this Learned Author. Secondly, By Morine’s own Principles, who hath blamed Blan- chinus and Regiomontanus for their f@titious and imaginary Cire cles, and fet up one of his own more confufed, as you may fee, pag: 353, 359. and fo on, if you pleafe; where you may read the Bafis and whole Project of this Bufincfs, as he hath there fated it, with a Diagram annexed. And the ground of all is placed in the apparent Inclinations and Orbits of the Planets 5 fo that though the Planet hath no Latitude in the place it is in, yet the Sextile or Square of that Planet fhall have 1, 2,3,4,0r5 degrees of Latitude, according to the utmoft Inclination of that Planct’s Defeétio Geniturarum. Planet’s Orbit at that time 5 and this Inclination makes way for the Ufc of his Table to corrcét the Afpects : And after he hath leamedly difcourfed De Moss reali Planetarwm, and anfwered fe- veral Ovje@ions, he lezves us iuitas he found us, and full as ignorant of true Directional Motion as we wer Fc though I allow, and al! men will grant. h the matter he handles 5 yet what is that to that is performed per Adium in Orbitis tum: And 1am of opinion that this Mathematical heads undertiand Aitology , becaule they have conceived a motion of the Hesvens in their way, which puts them out of this: Nay! Lhad rather teach a Plowman Aftrology, that is wholly ignorant of it, than any one that hath been edu. cated and raughe by the belt Pretenders in the Town 3 and Jam fure I (hall do it with lefs trouble. — But to the point-again 5 Mori us tells us. That the Planct’s vilible Latitude is the way of the Planet, and the Circle that the Afpedts are mide in; I will allow it, But then Task him, What that is.to any other Planet in Dire&tion ? Why truly nothing at all 5 for every Pla- nzt moves in his own Orbit, and therefore is directed in his own way. and meccs all Rays there, and no where elfe; but it is the Zddisck that is the Standard of the meafure of thefe Rays, whee tner the Inclination be Nerth or Souths and for all DireGions thaz have large Latitude, they are indeed molt properly meafured by the Mundane Circle, which is really more exs& than dire@e ing by the Poles of Pofition in that cafe. B-tides, he is forced to make uly of the fame Diagram they do, to demonttrate his Pro- je@s only heturns the Whim another way, and, I think, really further trom Truth tian they are, v much more strouble“tn the Opzration by is way than theirs in dividing the Laticude into Hilvesand Quarterss And, to omit more Words and Are gumenis, Twill give you this one, Taat he doth aos parfue this Rule he hath laid down in the maniging of any Nativities, but where Neceflity obligeth him; take an Example or two. In the Nativiry of Francifews de Bonne, he tells us, That he dyed on the Mvon to her own Square 5 waich if fo, then he breaks his own Rules for the Moon to her own Square with Latiude, is undoubtedly more forcible than without.’ And he lets him out- live the Mioz ¢o her own Square Ce Lat. and kill’d hita above a 4 yeat 145 % c ' ; i caro: com cyte sens saee grape cents sim go. ewepapeDefeftio Geniturarum. year and a half after, on the Moon to her own Sqpare, fine ‘Lat. which is much the weaker Ray. So that you fee either he doth not believe his own Rule, or elfe hedarcs not truft it. Be- fides, this Direétion of the Moan to her own Square ought to be with Latitude, and no otherwife, becaule the is Significator 5 it is to her own Rays, and falls in her own way, and fhe can meet that no othewile but with Latirude, which you {ce he here evades, But for Jupiter to meet her Square with Latitude South, when bis own was North, is fuch a Dodtrine as no man of Reafon can believe. ‘A Second Example is in his own Nativity ; where, though there are no lef than Five Planets in the Twelfth Houfe, and Three of them Violent ones, yet he takes no notice of any Convers DirrGtion that ever hurt him; and yet the Afcendent was giver of Life there, which it was not in that of Lewis 5 which is an odd kind of Doétrine, as if a Convers Direction had not as much Power to hit a Phyfician, as a Monarch. Hence ¥ cannot believe thele Diregtions, and by confequence his Corte- @ion of the Figure, though I confefs it is moft ingenioufly done, and fet off with a fine flourifh, after the French mode, but fhould rather ftick to the eltimate time, T know you will be in expeétation what I fhall appoint in the room of his Directions, to give thefe Difeafes that he mentions and corrects by. And in that Cafe } will be very thert, and chufe whether you will believe them or not. For the Firtt Ido allow the M:on Convers to the Oppotition of Saturn, which touch jult before Five Years of Age: And in the Revolution, then at hand, you have Mars in Virgo, in exe Square to his own Place, and the Mion in 19 degrees of Gemins, in Square to them both, and in Oppolition to Mary's Radical place; which T think may pafs for a violent Revolution, had there been no Di- reQion. = For the Second Sicknefs, at 9 years of Age, I fay, the Sxa Hileg was direéted to the Lion: Tart, and the Zodiaca} parallel of Mercury 5 and in that Revolution the Moon.was in Sagitary, in Square i» the Sua, and iv Oppofition to Saturn, who was ftati- onary in 2 degrees udd minuies uf Gemini, in Square to the San jut before ; and this alfo may pals, inmy Judga.ent, for avio- jent Revolution. Ido confcls the Swn had becn undes. that Die xGion Defeétio Genitararum. re‘tion above Six months, and the Parallel of Mercury did not yet touch 5 yet when this violent Revolution began, it fet chem both to work, Objection. But your Directions, by your own Couf.ifion, the onc is pait, and the other not come Up, and is not this like to make fine work ? Anfeoer. Why truly, they are nearer than his, if you pleafe ¢o lay by the Sham ot 4 degrees in the Moon’s Square, and then you will have nothing, at all for the Small Pox, neither to Jupiter nor the Alcendent; tor that of Jupiter comes up at 5, and the Atcendent at 13. years of Age. And for you that do contend for his Doétrine, you mult allow me this, for he himfelt tells you, page 596. inthe Cafe of He- mings, That the Effedts of the Direétion that gave him his Sick- _ nels in 1566. was retarded a whole Year, for want of a {uitable Revolution to influence its violence. But J do not ftand in need of this Sham to jultifie me. Again, T believe there are but few of you know when Direétions touch, without the Aifittance of Revolutions and Tranfits 5 if you do, Ido nots and for the Zo- diacal Parallels, they are not like other Dire@tions, but depend on the true declination, and may give an Influence before they touch, and inthis cafe the rather, becaufe it is to the Swa, and all Zodiical DireCtions to the Sun are for the moft part allowed by all skilful men to touch fooner by 30 minutes than any other what(oever: And whatever you think of thefe 1 have given for the Caules of thofe Difeafes, 1 am certain that thofe afferted by him have nothing of Weight nor Truth in them. I cannot pa(s by Hemminga’s Nativity without fore notice and obfervations thereon, to fhew you our French Author’s Skill, though I (hall not trouble you with a Figure, but leave that to your letting. Hemminga fays himfelf, That he was born February the 7th, at almoft a quarter paft ain the Morning, Anso 1533. ‘fab Polo 53, at Bellocomi, a little Town in Wef-Frigfland. And the Planets places, as they are calculated to that Time by Moriney from the Rudolpbine Tables, areas followeth. .Defettio Geniturarwn. 424 & 29 Ms 46 28 + a5 Mh 42 21 8. 40) 31S. > ¢ 15 M. @ 28 5 $3.5 42 I fhall be fhort upon the whole matter, and therefore to the point diredily. Arno 1542. at the end cf April, he was inva- ded with a Difeale that lalicd 12 days, proceeding trom Crodi- ties tor this, M-rine (ays, he had the Afcendent to the Square of the Sun in the Zodiack, But} fay thar is no Dircétion, but it was the Conn Convars to the Oppotition of Mars 5 and ine deed it was but a flight Difeale, which the Horolenpé to the Square of the Sun could not give, for at another Time they will tell you, That very Direction will kill. Anno 1544. December roth, he was (cized with a Pleurify, at- tended with a Delirium, and dangerous, For this Morine fays, He had Jupiter, Lord of the Firlt, ro the Oppofition of Satsra, and the Swi to the Body of Mercury. Eutl fay, it was the Afcendert Hileg to the Sefquiquadrate of the Moon, Anno 1546. Jansary 1yth, he had a Plourify, which Morinns doth not take notice of 5 at that time he had the Sua to the Bo- dy of Mircury, and he in Square to Fupiter. Amo 1551. in Augu@, he had a Tumor in his Foot, which hindred his walking. and latted two Yesrs3 for this, be fays, he had Sainrn to the Body of the Muon 3 and J fay it was the Moon Convers to the Body of Suturm Arvo 1555+ in April, he was taken with a Diarsbea, which he'd him a Month and afterchat with a Bulimea (or an untatis- fied Ajpetite) which held bim two Years, For this, Morme fays. he nad Jupiter Cwho bs culls Loru of the Fist) direi.d to the Body of Venus, This I conlels is a firange Dering, That th: Bosy of Pinas fhould yive such a Dilesie; but af it could give it, why Jupter directed when Mars is Lord of the Afcen- dint? He might as will have directed any of the other Planets as Defe tio Geniturarum. as Jupiter, Bat for this Difeafe, E fay he had the Sus to the Zediacal Parallel of Merc#ry, and allo to the Square of Jupiter por Aven Objewrum. Asn 1559. December Sth, he wis taken with a Mileat Fever, Phewify, and an Jeflamation of the Liver. with great Darger tohis Life, for thefe Morinzs lays, he had Fapiter diiccied to the Bo- dy of Mars. ‘I em afhamed to hear {uh an improbable Reaton given by fo great a man as Mir: as 5 for if Juin Mould be al- Towed to be Significatur (which Jcarnot persat) why theuld Mors in Conjan tion with Piass give ach davgercus Sy mproms asthefe are: it is inde sristi che narare ot cher of them, being inCorjunttion. to vive tach Eikects, jundtion have diferent Exh éts irom their own Nez they are fingle and aput, In aword, as this Darec.ign 5+ probable to yive thele Difcafes, fo Lam politive if was net Caule of them, but itwis the Me direcied ¢ the Lysis Hears, and the Parallel of the Sam inthe Z-: ack and balid:s, Ietany one look on that Revolution, and outerve its Viole and Dan- ger. “Anno 1663. th gives him the Mid anarried. for which Movine Square of Mnass aud by this fingle Accident end Duscetion he correéts the 3 ani his xealon is, becaule Venus is Lady of the Seventh, and to ts Mire cary alto by bis Rule, and would hive te:ved the turn too, had he been inthe Pleceof Venus. Certainly the Midhesven tu the Square of Mars and Venus wou'd give but an odd tost ofa “tarts ages and indved inmy Practwe I ulways b ve obtovecd ierath gives Lewdnels, Debauchery snd boring. shan a regular Mace riage; but it it fh-uld give Wedleck, it ns iuntonste? an ul one, which this was nor tor caey and had many Children. Bur to be thort, it was the Mid: to the Trine of Mars gave this Maniige 5 yOumsy hy of Venus, it you pleafe tor thar want jalt octore, and wroughe pon the inclinati.u and difpotition, and this of Sars naithed the Work. ‘Ane 1556. the 2d of December, he was taken with the Lo& of his Scutes and Strength, vehich at laftenacd i a Quundian sever; fo chi: Momus ays, be had Mars Lord of the Atccn- dent dinG.d to the Suv, ive, the Sun Convers to the Body 149Defeétio Geniturarsil@ of Mars and Venus 5 a likely Story! Tn the | ifeale, Fupiter was Lord of the Afcendent, and now Mars i perceive his Pitcher hath two Handles. and you mey take it by which of them you pleafe. Mars to the San! he that can believe this, will believe any thing without asking, Why or wheretore; and after all, his Direétion of Afar: to the Sun fel! fhort a year and an half, too, as you may fee by his own words, Retardavit igitur per to~ tum annuum quo aon fait Revolstio eongraa, OF per dimud.am Jequen- tis congree, The truth of all is, he had at that time, and for this Difeafe, the Sun to the Square of Satwn per Arcum Obfim- namin Aries, which is natural and probable. Anno 1572. He was in great Treubles; he fuffered in his Etiate, in Body and Mind; and belides, he was taken Prifoner, and continued {0 from November the rovh till Fanusry the sth, and thefe things were cauled (fays Morine) by Mars Lord of the Twelfth, to Mercury Lord of the Eighth and Tenth by Dire@tion. Thus you may fee what Service the Lords of the Houfes do in Morinus’s wethod 5 and his is indeed a very cafy way of Practice, if it will hold, or any man dares truft to it in PrediGions. He had at this time the Moon dire€ted to the Zodiacal Pa- rallel of Mercury, and his Oppolition jutt ac the heels of it. Anno 1577+ May the 34, he was in great Danger of being drowned, vi venti incidit in Aquam 5 and this, Morinus fays, was the effect of Saturn to the Oppolition of the Sun; and this, T believe, will go down with divers Pretenders to Aftrology, asa true Natural Caufe. But, in my Opinion, the Moon to the Op- potition of Mercury, and the Afcendent to the Semiquadrate of the Sun, are more probable Dire@tions, and fuch as! thould de- pend on before that of his before-mentioned. And fo I come to give youa Table of the Dircétions, by me alledged, with their Arks and Mcafure of Time correfponding thercunto, as followeth. Defettio Genitnrarum: Afeend. ad fofquiquad. D | 10 40] 11 1544 © ad Corpus ¥, cum Lat. | 12 35513 2 - © ad Corpus 3, fineiat. | 13 53114 6 1546 D ad Corpus thro con. | 17 39 18 74 15958 Q ad par, % in Zodiac. {| 2019} 21 8 © ad O % in arc obfewr, | 21 47 | 23 S bisss » ad Cor Leonis 2432126 22 D ad par. © in Zrdi. | 25 58 | 27 11 § 1552 Med. Cali ad OS 2827130 6 | 1563 © ad O hi inare, obfe- 30 15 1 33 00 | 1566 © ad par. 3 in Zodss. 36 48 | 39 6] 1572 y ad 8 & fine Lat. 40 47 | 44 111577 Afeendens ad fomigesd. Sol | 4 14 1447 1597 ) ad 8 8 mtu-con. [é 1f9 5 | 142 3 Thefe are the Directions that I judge gave thefe Accidents and: Diforderss they are not forced or fham Direétions, but made by real motion: And all that pleafe to take the trouble may work them after me 3 and therefore tuke notice, That the Fi- gure I have wrought them from hath 11 degrees of Virgo on the Tenth, whofe Right Afcention is 162 41. Hemminga himfelf makes 23 of Scorpio afcending : Morinus gives 22 of: that Sign 5 but in my Figure I have but 20: And fo eave ft to your Conlideration and Labour. Tam in myProgrefs now arrived at the Nativity of Fobndrmand die Pleffis,or Cardinal Riebelics.as Morinus Cys it is-But concerning, this Geniture,be the Figure true. or falfe,as to the true time of his- Birth, he hath fhewed more Ignorance and Unskilfulne(s in the. things he pretends to in this Sci-nce, than T have met with in hie. whole Book before : For here he makes the A(cendent to the Op- potition of Fapiter kill the Cardinal; and the Reafon he brings to enforce the-belief of itis, becaule Fupiter is in the Eighth Houfe at Bitth. Why truly, he might have told me of the Eighteenth: Houle, avd as foon I fhould have velieved it. Hf Fupiter had power to kili him now, Why did not the Square of Venus kill him when h2 was young? for th is Lady of the Eighth Houle, aad hath as good Authority to kill as Fupiter, and yet he cut- lived.Defeétio Geniturarum. Nived that, Bat befides, Jupiter cannot kill by any fing's Dire- Exon of hisown, nor never did yet: no! nernever will, and Ido falrly invite thofe that are of that Opinien, to print halla dozen of catefully-onterv'd Nativitics for Ex ingles of tach) fedts as thele are: That is, where the Rays of Jape. have hil- led, without any other Affiftence, as in this cafe, But here is another thing that isas much to the furpefe, and oO to be as much taken notice of as the formers and th-tis, th dent is not iver of Life, but the Se, if this Figure is true, which I very much dcudt, for the Sus is within 4 de- grees of the Eleventh Houfe, and in fuch a cate, Pam ture the Dircetionsto the Atcendent cannot kill, be they never fo vielint, Eipccially where the Hileg is under no milencs Raye by Dire~ ion, as in this Nativity, Now to thew yeu, that he depe ids Goldy on this Direétion, and nothing elie, obferve thet, Quota. tions following. Paye 612, Thatin that Year the Discciten of the Afcendent to the Opeotition of Jupiter in the Eighth Houle wascomoleated, and Jupiter ina Sign where he is unfortunate. Page 614. Fupizer allo, who was unfortunated in the Eizhth of the Radix, and was the carticular Anareta, to whofe Opgoli- tion the Radical Horofcope was direéted in the year 1642. And yeca letle after he fays That he did predit his death from the Revolution for that Year, Page 636. he fays, Curd chelins, ab acta Pobre fapervenicnte mor curstus erat, trade morit dir 4 Decem dicslis dicigebatuer ad pp fite J vis in Offs00. Tdo from hence infer, That M rings nad no Rules, but ramiled ‘ Pretend from one thing to ancthes 5 and if any ching cold be found that fooke hike a mortal direction (thouyh contrary to Rule} “twas no matter, and if the Readers can Lut beileve, all is well, and the Trick runs currency. Inthe next place, let us compare this with {ome of his other Nativities, -and fee how thefe Rays of Jupiter a theres for like Caufes alwaysought co eve like Efe Rulcs laid down, to know when they thall, and w not produce (uch things. In the Nativity of Charles Cundren, the Atcendent to the Squareof Jupiter is not obferved to have done -any thing of Injury to his Health 5 and yet he is, by Murine’s Rule, Defe&tio Geniturarum. Rule, Lord of the Eighth, as being exalted there: Nay! his Square fell ncar the Body of the Sun, Lord of the Eighth, and yet we fee he out-liv’d them both. In Mohlieur Tronfon’s Nativity, Jupiter isin Conjun@tion with Venus, Lady of the Eighth Houle, in the End of Leos and yet the Afcendent to both their Squares could not kill him; and yet they fell in Scorpio, a violent Sign, and they with a violent Star in Leo, thatis, the Lyons Heart, and befides, the Direction fell at 50 years of Age. In the Nativity of Monticur de Bonne, Jupiter is in Oppolitions to the Sun, and to Venus Lady of the Twelfths and yet the Afcendent to all their Squares could not, or elfe they would not kill him. Nay! after all this, the Afeerdent to the Square of Satumnand Mars could not killhim, notwithttanding Saturn was Lord of the Eighth, and Afars exalted there 5 which by Morine’s Rale are both Lords of the Eighth Houfe... What think you of thisman? Was he not fit to bea M.rthal of France, that could bid defiance to all thefe murdering Stars? And yet that peevith Churchman, Cardinal Richelies, {neakt away upon the Afcendent toa lingle Oppolition of Jupiter, But no matter, Morinus doth this man’s butinels afterward, with the Moon to her own Square, notwithft.nding itis a Diurnal Nativity, and the Sua giver of Life: Can you forbear laughing? Well, but perhaps you will fay, In all thefe, fupiter is neither Lord of the Sighth, nor in it, and therefore doth not come up tothe Point. To that { anfwer, You may imagine what you pleafe of the matter, but I do af- fare you, Jupizer is the fame when he is out of the Eighth, as when he is init. And he is no more violent when he is Lord of the Eighth, than when he és Lord of the Tenth, But be- caufe I will pleafe you, I will come to the Point in your own way. In Morinus his own Nativity, Jupiter is wholly Lord of the Eighth Houfe, and in Conjunction with the San in the Twelfth, and yet you do not tind that Murinus tells us of any Sicknefs or other Injury he had on the Aicendent to the Squares of them both; which plainly fhews that he doth not allow the fame Di- reétions the fame or Adequate Effedts , but rambles from one ching to another, according as it (curves his turn. In Philippus Bandzyra’s Nativity, Jupiter (modo Mor ini) is er x °Defeétio Geniturarum. of the Eighth, and Difpofitor of Saturn and Mars, and yet he paffed the A(Cerdent to the Square of Jupiter, without dying + and after that the Squares of Saturn and Afurs too, for ought we know 5 Jam (ure by the truc Rule he ought to do it. Thus you fee, by comparing one with the other, he Joth uct ufe arepular Method, nor doth he build his Do@trine on any fixt Principle: For which reafon we cannot rely on this Say fo of his, That the Afcendent to the Oppofition of Jupiter killed this Cardinal, And now, to (um up all in a word or two ; Ido tell you, I am certain the Afcendent to the Oppofition of Fupi- ter did not kilihim 3 and my Reafon is, Becaufe the Sun is giver of Lite in that Figure he gives for his Nativity. But peshaps this Nativity may fall into hands more capable than my {lf to Correét and Regulate it; and therefore I will give them the time, and Planets places I find in Morinss. Cardinal Richclies was born at Paris on the oth of September, S, N. at 34 minutes pait 9 mané, 1585. and the Planets Places from the Redolpbine Tables, R. M. A.C. 230. 58 47 6 9 7 7 B oso Ss l d 345 5 1 © 1619 ™ Lafily, if you will have my Opinion in the matter, as to the time of this man’s Birth, I really think he was born above an hour before this time, and then he might dye cn the Afcen= dent to the Squares of the San and Muon: Orelfe an hour later, and then the Sun to the mundane Parallel of the Afoon, and rapt Parallel cf Saturn might do it. But 1 dare not venture on a Cor- icétion my (elf, unlefs he had given us the cftimate time 5 whicly 1 believe was at fome ditiance from this. ‘The next Nativity meet with, isMonficur Lewis Tronfon,a Pri- vy Councellor to the French King, who was born (as fays Mo- rinus) September the ft, bor. 9 min. 1g-mané, 1576+ at Paris. And that this is the true Nativity of this man, he endeavours to ove by thefe four Accidents and Dire¢tions following. ‘Anno 1617; aged 40 and a few months, he had two great Places given him at Court, that made him Prime Minifier of States. Defeétio Geniturarum. " State, for this he had the Midheaven dire&ted to the Body of the Stn, arid by this, I fappofe the Figure was correéted. “Anno ¥618. February the rgth, he was married ; he had the ‘Sun then to the Sextile of the Moon by DircGtion. ‘Anno 1626. Auguit the 2d; he was degraded, and turn’d out of all his Places at Court, and was not any more reftored 3 he had then the Sun to the Square of Mars by Direétion. ‘Anno 1642. Decinsber the 8th, this great mandycd of a Quar- tan Ague and Fever. Morinus fays, It began the year before, and was then a Double Tertian, which degenerated afterward into a Quartan. The Figure followeth from whence thefe Dire- Gtions are wrought, fet to my Divilion of the Heavens. Lat. Planis, hos6s Uo 525. MonficeerTronfon 5 nates die 1 Septembr. bor. 9 Os7 M& min. 19 mane, 1579+ 21165. Sarm Dd 459% Planets Plae ces from the Rudolphine Tablets As to that Dire¢tion for his Preferment, no man can deny it, had he made all things elfe agree with that Correction; but ta fay, the Midheaven to the Body of the Sug gave his Pre- X2 2 fermentDefeétio Geniturarnm. ferment, and the Afcendent to the Square of the San kill'd him, is fuch a rugged fort of a DuGtrine, not like the Polite Adurinus in his other Learning, and therefore 1 cannot allow the former to be the caute of his Grandeur, becaufe the latter Tam fare is falfe 5 and by my Correction, he was preferred on the Moon to the Trine of Murs in Zedizco. His Marriaye need make no Controverfy 5 for it was about a year alter his Preferment, and theretore the fame Directions may fevve. But if you wil have a Direction for it, take the Midheaven tothe Body of the Sum Morinses and 1 do both agree on the canle of his being turn’d * oat of his Places, and the Court favour, for it was molt cer- tainly on the Sua to the Square of Mars in Zodizco. But that -bout his death in 1642. Dicember the 6th, Tecan by no mesns comply with, when he fays the Afcendent to the Squire of the Sw kll'd him. Firlt, it is not potlible to do it; for when both the Luminavies are above the Earth in Apiyetical places, the Afcendent cannot kill, though it were direétcd to 20 Maleiick Directions at once: And furthermore, the Afcendent to the true Square of the Sun, came up at about 42 Years of Age. Secondly, It is not like an Artiit to fay fo , but like a Mounte- bank in Altrology ; and whenfoever I hear any man render fuch a reafon as this is for death, let him be never fo famous an Artitt, Iam fure he knows but little of the thing he pretends to, and I can mumble him at my pleafure : Nay, | will go fur- ther with you, There is not a man in England that follows Mo- rine’s Method, that dares venture his Name in Publick to a Pre- dition of this kind; and I dare venture a Wager Morinus was not polirive that this Direction kilPd him, or would do ir, till he was in his Grave: I fay, it is not like an Artit, for’ every man that underitands his Profeffion, will build his skill on fach Principles that are agreeable one to another, and will feldom fail if but carefully obferved and managed. In this Nativity, both the Luminaries are in Aphatical places 5 but the Sun claims the power uf Hileg as his due, and yet this Learned man tells us he died on the Afcenid «nt to the Square of the Sun,which notion tells us that he did not build upon a fiat Principle : For in Hon- manga’s, Francifens de Buane’s, and iis oon Nativity, that Directicn did not kill, nor doth he.take any notice of it to do any harm 5 : then, Defettio Geniturarum. then, pray, What muft the confiderate Reader think of it inthis Cale? Why traly he muti chink ic is a point fizain’d, not to fay any worfe of ic. Now to (um up all, Ido fay he died on the Sun to the Mundane prallel of the Adoon , and the radically im- buted by the Rays of Murs, by being in a Mundane parallel with him, the Moon to the “quare of Saturn in Mundo, the Moon to the quare of Mars in Zediaco, and the Sun to the Square. of Mors ist Mido 5 and then the Calculation {tands thus: 1617 | 1618 doom y, 36 14 | 40 jie 420 3 Luna ad 2 & in Zodiaco { M.C. ad Corpus © Lunzad pill, “+ Mundo d. de | 42 2 | 46 Solad OS in “disco 45 5/49 Lua ad O propio 60 00; 65 Sol ad psrsll, © Mundo d. d. 60 26 | 65 Lansud Of iM nd did. 63 00 | 68 1623 1626 T64e - | tot OWwAeupra 64 51 | | 67 34 Ae the time o! Death, the Sun, who is Hileg, is arrived by hi Direétional Vlotion to the qth degres of Scorpio, and is there of all relict vhat can fucecur, much Icfs fave life, And the Moon at the fame time direéted to her own Square, and is followed immediately by a Mind me quare of Satur, as you may fee by the Table, And thefe Directions | take to be ve- ry rational Canfes for uch an Effet as followed ; and fach Caufes that Ter any man elfe may venture his reputa:.cn upon, and conic off “ch Credit 5 and all this is done by a Figure that oth not ¢ufer from Afrinws , any more thon one de- gree and « few minutes in the Afcendent, anda lide more than cdheaven. His Time is at rg minut.s paft gin the g. anc mine s at 28 minutes pat g sand 5 fo that we time but 9 miutes, which may b. allowed, and q be- lieve will too, by my rankelt Ancagonilt ; and the he Afcen> zion of my Midhesven is 122. 20. and hac will lead you co all the reft of the Figure Objc?. Bue, perhaps, it may be Objected, That my Diretion of the Sun.to the Mundane parallel of the Raven falls fhort almoft a whoisDefettio Geniturarum. a whole Year of the time of his death. For the Direction gives but 65 and § months, and he lived till he was 66 and 3 months. Anfwer, Morinus tells you, That his Difcafe began the Year before, and was a double ‘Lertizn , which afterward did change which is nazurally feen in that Direction of the ‘A Quartan you know is a Chronick Difeafe, for it held him a year almoft 5 and befides, if you underftand the DireGtions, they kill certain, but not quick, as Saturn doth naturally fhew in all cafes where he is concerned 5 and after all this is faid, the time is fo near the truth, that if you will but allow an alteration of almoft one minute fooner, it will hit the time exaétly. And for all thofe that are captioufly concerned in this,point, and have an ill Opinion of it, I defire them to oblige the World with fomething of their own, bet- ter done than this is, and the main thing I defire is to fee it. to a Quartan, Moon to Saturn: and fo his was, 1am now come to the laft of his Nativitics, and that is the Figure and Birth of Charles Condren, whom Morine calls his Pater Beatus. He wasa Fefnit, and General of that Order in France : He was born the 16 of December, at 39 minutes paft 6 of the Clock in the morning 1588. Latitude ‘of 49. the Planets from the Redolph Tables, the Figure followeth : Defeétio Geniturarum 184-0 . Lati, Planet, 24m 14s 1478 aa Condren 5 natus ¢ lie 16. Decembris, hor, 6, min. 39. mane 1588, DAeh MKS. Latit. 49. Q3rs B 1 34m, psrs ‘Anno 1698. he refolved to lead a Religious Life, at which time Jupiter Lord of the Afcendent was direGted to the Body of Mars at another time he would have faid that fhould give im- prifonment, becaufe Mars is Lord of the Twelfth, and the Mid~ heaven to the Sextile of&she San. As to this laft Diretion, it did not come up till almolt 40. and for the firlt it was more likely to give Debauchery than Piety. But the true Dire@ion Ido believe was the profpeét he had of fome fat Church Prefer- ment. 7 “Anno 1612» he entered into Holy Orders (as they call it) 5 and this Devotion, faith Morine , was taifed by the Sun, dire@ed to the Trine of Jupiter 5 but yet he adds, abfir ut a Deo fupernatsralens. motionees dentgemus. ‘Anno 1614. he was made a Priel 5 befides the continuation of the other Direétion, he fays Mercwry was direGted to the An- tifcion of the part of Fortune. Pray what is that to the pare pofe >Defeétio Geniturarum. pote? On that Dire@tion he might as well have fet up a Fudling: School¢ as the Trade he did. ‘Aano .616, he turned fefitit 5 he had now Mars dire@ed to Veous Lady of the Tenth. Do you think this is not a hopefut Direétion to be offered on ach an occafion ? ‘Anno 1629. he was chofen General of the Order in Frances he had then the Midheaven directed to the Sextile of Fapiter, and the Alcendent to the Body of Merciry. As to the firli, I look on that as no Dineétion in the Zodiacks and for the laft I cannot thould lay fo much ttrets upon it. You fee he doth not take one word of notice of the Midkeaven to the Body of Penis, nor tae cff<@ of it; Tam of opinion, he hash made a miliase in his Corseétion , and taken one thing inttead of ano- ther; for the Midheaven to the Body of Venus , in Scxtile to Mercury and Jupiter , isa mo glorious Dircétion, and mutt give Eminent Préterment to a man of his Trade. But perhaps this Error will more aptly appear in the following Paragraph. Anny 1641. Fansary 6 Aged 52 Years and a Month , he died of a Feaver., which took him the 30 of Dee mber before 5 for this Morinus fays, he had the Sim Lord of the Eiglth in the Afcendent idcoqi Aphete fimmlg; Anercte, to the Square of the Moon, Lady of the Eighth, and he fays he prediéted the day of his death. Firft, you roay obferve he lays a fircls on the Sten Hileg in the Afcendent 5 and becaule there are fome degrecs of Leoin the Eighth, he calls him Apbeta and Anareta, by which he confounds the name of the one by the power of the other 5 and to be fure of a killing-caufef, he appoints both Sun and Moon Governors of the Bighth, on which Houfe he mightily depends in all Cafes and Pirections of death. Bur the moft principal thing to be obferved here, is, that he lets him outlive the Sun to the Square of Saturn, and kills him with the Square of the Moons asit Satwrn hed not power fafficient co do nis bu- finefs , or elfe cut of Complaifance he would not , which f do not often find him guilly of. If Mirinus lodgeth this Myftery of killing in the Moor, becaule the is Lady of the Eighth, he takes away all the Philofophick Principles at once, and makes the Art wholly Cabaliftical , and tacitly tells his Pupils they mutt in the firft place believe the power of the Houles, without ask- ing why or wherefore ; which no ingenious Man can pe or Defettio Gexiturarum. For the Planets do not kill becaufe they are Lords of tl Sixth, or Eighth Houfes, as he would here niente the Intemperance of their Natures 5 and you fee that Mankind generally dye by the Excefs either of Heat or Cold, and this can by no means proceed from the Houfes, which are but ima nary {paces (except the four Angles ), but from Bodies ; and fuch Bodies too that conlift of that Temperature and Quality that they hurt by, as all men will own, that have cither had or aplerecd the Sun, Peer to the Bodies of Saturn and lars 5 the one certain! is own piv Sones y by hisown Nature gives hot, and the But if all that Morinus pretends to, werc allowed ; doth not take away Suturn’s power to kill; and Ct eos dren's true Nativity ) 1 can by no means fee any reafon why he {hould think the Square of Saturn was not as likely to kill, as that of the Moon, and alfo as likely to be believed ; and if you do but obferve Saturn, you'll find he is as wicked as pollibly he can be: For heis in the Sixth, Cadent, out of all Dignities but a Term, Retrograde, among the Pleiades, and in oppofition to the Moon in Scorpio s and if all thefe added to his own ill Nature will not make him able to kill this 'High-Priett , if the Sun is Hileg, then | have no more to fay tohim. But I am certain the Sun is not Hileg, and by Confequence the Figure not true that he hath printed, and my rcafon for it is this: About 40, ora little before, the Sim paffed 4 fuch Direétions, that no- thing buca miracle could fave him, and they were the Zodiacal parallels of the. Moon and Saturn, and the Mandane Squares of the Moon and Saturn 3 and therefore I refi fatistied that this Nativity is falfe , and leave it to others to belicve as they pleafe, and I think convenient. Perhaps it may be expcéted by fome, that I fhould give a Correét Scheme according to my Opinion 5 but that I fhall de~ sline for Two Reafons, Firft, he hath not given the Ettimate time, And Secondly, I fhall make fuch a great alccration in the time from his Figure by doing of it, that it will be of no fervice when done ; becaufe it will be (at beft) but dubisus, and no man can rely on it cither for Example or Judgment : And therefore I will leave it as it is ; perhaps it may tall into the hands of {ome that are more able to Correé it than | am, which I hearclyDefeétio Ggniturarin. Theartily with. But one thing Ido obferve on this Nativity, &e. That Morinus hath given us this Nativity in bis Book of Re- volutions 5 and it is not fo much to thew the Proof, Coherence, and Truth of the Nztivity itfelfs as the admirable agreement between the Revolutions and the Accidents of this Native inthole Years they are fet for, of which he hith reken notice of halt a dozen ; and fo I have done with his Nativities, and their Examnaftiov. 2 ee Some Obfervations on the Theory and Prattice of Morious @ A ftrology. T is both plain and certain, that Afrinss had been at bis xe pius ultra, in point of Dircétions, to fuit to the time and accidents in Nativities, and that put him upon finding out lome way that might help him out in thole dificult Cafes and tu this purpofe we find his great Project laid down and demontirated iw his Sixtcenth Book, and that is, To disc to the Alpects of the Planets with Latitudes where -he hath wittily taken a great deal cf pains, and very ingenionfly both dilkcurfed and proved what he there aims at; and that is, that the Afpeéts of the Pla- nets fall in their Circle of Latitude, which cannot be denied becaufe itis a vifible truth , proved by the Diurnal Motion : And yet when all that is done, according as he hath managed the mattcr in prattice, it is not worth a farthing ; for though the thing he contends for is true in it (elf, yet he makes a wrong ule of its and the way he ulcth it, is no more to the purpote than the former which be Condemns , and full as wide from trath as that is 5 the reafon of this will appear, if you will contider carcfully, and examine the thing. That though the Afpects are made in that Circle they move in, yet that doth concern the other flancts, being, directed n0- thing at all 5 for every Star that is dircéted to a Promittor, whether Bedy or Afpcét, mects them in his or her own way 3 fo the Sun mects all Bodies and Afpects in the Zodiacksand if any of thole Bodies cr Alpe¢ts have Latitude from the Ecliptick, he cannot Defettio Geniturarun. cannot be dircéted to them in the Zodiack , but in Mand», to fpeak like an Artift , becaufe -he always moves in that Circle, and never out of its and therefore when Morinus talks of di- recting, Fupiter to the Square of the Mun ( asin the French King’s Geniture) he there imagines a motion that is not in Nature, but only in Conceit ; for he makes the Square of the Moen to have four Degrees and a half Sib, alavolt sand Fait he hath bne Degree Noth, and mult meet that Square in his own way that he moves in, not with four Seth, but one North 5 but if there is any fach Direétion in Nature, as that with 4 Degrees of Laritude, it is not co be wrought in the Zodiack, but ia Mundo, and ine deed no other way will do it. But when he talks of directing the Alcendent to the Afpedcts with Latitude, he quite forgot himfelf, as in the Queen of Po- land?’s Cale, where he directs the Afcendent to the Square of the Muon, with 4 Degrees odd Minutes ot North Latitude, when the Angles (to fay truth ) meets no Rays with Latitude, but Bodies and Oppolitions , all the reft of their Beams are meafured by the diftance of that Body from the Angles, and not fn the Zodiack , as fome fondly conceit , and therefore this is not to be relied on in point of Truth 5 but all that I (hall fay of thar, is, it was a Neat Projet and Conception, and well managed, but no fervice to the Student. ‘And upon this Project is that of Correcting, the Afpects formed, page 550. whichl thall pals by as a thing of little or no we, except to increafe toil and trou- ble to the Young Beginners. But to fay the truth of Morinus, he hath in this Sixteenth Book outdone all that went before in Antifeions 5 for he hath there taugtit the true way of taking them, which is with Laci- tude , becaufe they are nothing, elfe but parallel diftances from the Tropicks and the Equator 5 and whoever takes chem that way , and knows how to ufe them when he hath gotten them will not lofe his labour : And though they have been of late Condemned as ufelefs by thofe that did not underitand them 5 yet [can affure you they will gratify your pains in your enquiry after truth. In the Seventeenth Book he hath difcourfed largely and well concerning, the Houfes : Nay, he hath talked himlelt into a be- tief of their power, which overthrows and defiroys atl his Phi- _ lofophickDefeétio Geniturarnm. lofophick Doétrines befides 5 for whatforver he hath foridly talkt in his Cabala concerning the Houfes , is no demonitrative proof, that they have power and virtue to over-balance the Stars in their operations, For Example, Jupiter is the great Balfamick Star, and the only Re borative among them all ; ‘tis he that cures the Wounded, d:ffulves the Chains und Charms of Chronick Difeafcs, dcftroys the Febrile Fermcnts, and brings back poor Mortals oftentimes from the jaws of Death, Nay ! it is not in his nature to hurt, no otherwiie than Wine and Pleafures do by Excefs 3 and yct for all this, if Morine’s Do- étrine hold good, when Jupiter happens to be in the Eighth, or Lord of it, he is to kill, cut, murder, and deftroy all he can mect with ; but as foon as ever he is out of that plaguy Houfe, or his Houfes gone from it, why then Jupiter is a very Civil Gentleman and your-Humble Servant again. By the power of this Houle Fupitcr kil?d Richeliew: By the Magick ard Myltery of this Houle Mars and Saturn kitl’d the King of Sweden , Cosnt Waltein and the Duke of “Montmorancy, if you will believe this Learned Author. By the power of this Houfe, the Moon kill’d Charles Condren 5 and yet by the power of this Houle , Jupiter, though Lord of it, could not kill Morinns himfelf. By the power of the Seventh Houfe, Mercury and Jupiter, being directed to Mars Lord of it, gave the Queen of Poland a fecond Mar- siage: By the power of the Ninth, Jupiter being in it, and di- re&ed to the Body of Mars, gave Charles Condren a refolution to lead a Religious Life. By the power of the firft Houfe (in de Bonne’s Nativity) the Mom in the Tenth being Lady of the firlk, was prime Apheta,when the Sun was juli within the Eleventh, and without queflion Hileg. Thus he endeavours to make the Houles give the Circumftances and Qualifications to all DircGie ons, which I can by u0 means comply with, nor believe. For f dothink that all Dire@ticns work according to their Radical Con- figurstions, confidered with the Birth, Education and Circum- flances of the Native at that time, when they work and thew their Elects: And the Divifion of the Heavens he makes ule of, is tirat which is calléd the Rational , and fet on foot by Regio- mantanus, Concerning which I have difccurfed at large in the Firit part, and therefore (hall fay no more of that hire. This Dofe Gio Geniturarum. This Learned Author hath brought in two Afpedts, which I cannot call new, becaufe they have been obferved before in the Writings of other men; but one of them is new as to its name, and that is the Dodeéfile; which isin plain Exglify a Semilextile, confilting of 30 degrees 5 itis a Ray that I have never ufed, and therefore can fay nothing in its Commendation, but leave it to thofe that love Novelties more than Truth. The other is the Quincunx, which he fays is Five Twelfths of the Circle, and then it mutt confift of 150 degrees; but for thefe Afpedts I ne- ver did work any of them in the Zodiack , and therefore I can fay little either in their praife or difpraife. ThisQuincursx is the fame thing in meafure almoft with that fome call a Bij'nile, and they may be wrought either in Afundo or Zodiaco, if you will take the pains. This Learned Author hath alfo given us Tables to Equate the Latitude of all the Afpects in Dircétion, as if w2 had not Proje&s cnough already to tire our pains and patience without any profit or advantage to the wosk. Jufigfo I have feen the Cufps of the Houfes wrought to Minutes and Seconds 5 and after all this pains they have erred 6 or 7 degrees in the Cufp it (elf. Yet Ido not-deny but the thing admits of fucha regulation in nature, that Morinus mentions 5 but [ fay it is wholly. ufelefs in Dircétions, and that he is miltaken in the motion; for the true motion admits of no fuch thing, And belides, we ftumble at a Straw, anid leap over a’ Molehill : 1 with I could find the man that could follow Nature’s ftcps without that Regulating, Equation, and I will pafs my word for it, his work will be ex- act. And now, after all, when he hath talked over the mattes in a handfom witty Style, ard faid all that bis curictity and in- genuity could think of, in relation to Afpedis and their Circum- cumjlances in all cafesy he bas forgot the main point that would recommend him and his Labours to fome great and mighty Ar- tits Gf you will believe their own words) in this age 5 and that is the Huliocentrick Afpedis and if he had done that, it might have faved him the trouble of his new-fangl’d Tables of Latitude. to multiply Dire@ions ; that is, jump oucof one world into an- other to fulve the Phenomena. Concerning, Direétions, he fays very well and truly, Mare- riam aggredimur totivs' Affrologie precipuam, fed mebercle difficitimam,, Caligine obdntiam & fpinis horridam, &c, But when he fays Paes jamy 165Defictio Geniturartim. Jomy did content himfelf with the explaining two ways of Di- rection only, Secundum Om contra fusceffionem fignorum 5 as if there were more ways requlfite in this Science; nay, as if there was a pellibility of more, which indeed there is not, nor can besfor Nature it felf hath provided but two Motions, Orbicslar and Rap?, and all the rett that they talk of are nothing clfe but witty inventions to puzzle the Caufe. When Ptolomy did lay Tawa and propoand theft two ways of Direétion, he well knew 1 beno more; but how they would bricg the Promittor by the Signiticator,he left in part to every man’s ingenuity, they would endeavour to follow Nature exactly in the Seventeenth Book, fia. 1. cap. 3- he tells us, Thereare ignifeators, i «the Culps of the Twelve Heules, the Seven Planets, and Part of Fortsnes healfo there determines the Culps of the Twelve Houfes to be directed for the Advantage or Injury of foi things or perfons fignified by that Houfe or Houtes 5 he alfo allows the Scven Plancts to be dirc@ted Firlt,For things fignitied by them(elves: Secondly, For things and perfons | nitied by them, as Lords of the Houfes: Thirdly, For things and perfons figniticd by them, being, in the Houfes where they are found. So that you need not be ata lofs for a Diredtion to jampin with every accident, if you take this way. As to thefe various ways and intentions of direéting the Seven Planets, I will leave it to be cenfured by better authority than my owns but Ido think that there may be fomething faid for directing the Lords of the Firftand Tenth 5 yet 1 mutt fay, Pook on them to be but wesk Diredtios, the Sun and Mom excepted : So like- wife for directing Planets found in thofe Houfes, which I efteem eaker Diredlios than the former , © & D excepted, as before, For my part, I make but little ufz of them; but thefe ways and methods were the Pillars on which this Learned Gentleman built the greatett and moft curious part of his Do@trine 5 T will leave them as I found them, and lee every man work as he pleafeth. In the following Chapter he difcourfeth of the Promittors 5 and tells us they are in nunber 92, that is, 77 Afpeéts, 14 An« tilgions, and the part of Fortune. To make it clear to you, it is thus; Firlt, he concludes every Planet always makes Eleven Apes , Five Dexttr, Five Sinifter, and the Oppotition , which Defettio Geniturarum: which with @ makes up 92. but T find he throws away the terms as uielels, and indeed there is no great matter in them by Dircétion, as | could ever find ; but I think he is cur of the way when he f1ys, Cardin, Fusdtine, and others after Ptelomy, would predidt a violent death on the Afcendent to the Texms ot Saturn or Mars: For Ptolomy doth not advife any fuch thing 3 ell he fays on that matter,isin the 14th Chapter of the Third Book « where he dircéts us to confider at the time of a dangerous Direction tu the Aplita, whether the Hileg is in the Terms of a Benetick or a Maletick, and to judge as we fhall find occation 5 and it he fays any thing elfe of that matter, 1 have not f.en it, to the be of my Memory- . He gives a mighty Commendation to that way cf Pralonn’s, in direéting, per Tempora Horarit 5 but withal complsits that it was never perfcatly underitood by any that came after him s which I do not believe. He commends Naibed’s Method of Direétion laid down by him in his Comment on Ptoluny: A Bools not yet prinsed , but handed from one to another in Manulcript only 5 and whether he had {cen it or not, ne doth not tell as, but feems to relate it from Atuginus, in his Book, De Ligitimo Aftrologia in Medicina Ufa, in which he hath Tranferibed divers Chapters out of that Comment. But Morinns doth in his pra- Gice only make ule of the Method laid dawn and taught by Regismantanutr , as you May obferve in all his Operations of that nature throughout his whole Book sonly in fome Cafes he hath endeavoured to mend it, as particularly in his directing with Latitude, which is really his own, aud he oweth it to ng man. Bat when he comes to talk of Gonverfe Directions, in the Seventh Chapter of the 224. Bock, page 54° he gives us fuck a confuted notion of it, that is not intelligible in it filf, nor hath it any ground in natures for be fays, Déredliones contra fignorssn fusceeffimem pro Planetis retrogy ® aumar. Now if you with conlider the Cafe truly, a Retrograde Planet labours under no difficulty that can pollibly alter the Circomitance cf its Dire- @ion, or the Method of its and this will be plain, if youdo but confider the Motion by which Direétion is made, which is not the Diurnal Motion in the Zodiack, as fome fondly conceit,but the Rapt Motion 5 and that the point any Significator is direéted to,Defeétio Geniturarum. is gone from that place 79 degrees in Six hours, and fornetimes lets 5 and thercforcitis the Stamp orsrtus prorogateris & promiffo- ris, that remains both in Z disco and Mundo 5 and how he will form an intelligible Notion to be believed, that this prorogatory virtue or power can be liable or fubjeét to any Retrogradation, cr any other motion whatfoever like it, that can alter the pro- grcilive motion in Direction, { cannot thick ; for a Retrograde Planet mult be directed the very fame way that a direct one is 5 and the reafon is the fame for the one as for the other 5 for it is the very point the Star isin at the time of Birth, which we are to relpect 5 and therefore if he or you will conccit a neceility for a different motion in dircétion, becaule the Star is Retrograde, Thave by the fame Rule and Arguments juft caufe to alledge a necellity for a different way in Direction , becaufe the Planet is dire in motion ; for if the Retrograde Planet falls back , the Direct Planet goes forward fromfthe point ae birth ; and what have | to do with cither of them, fecing it is that very point they were in at birth, that I aim at and dire to 5 and I believe there is no man that underftands Directional motion that will pretend to Controvert this point, unle(s it is to fhew the Exccl- lence of his partsin Cavilling at a pofitivetruth. But when he talks of the @ to be directed Converfe, 1 am afham’d of it, to find fo great’a Philofopher infilt on fo ridiculous a Solcccifm, nay, a perfe&t impollibility ; for among all the Authors that ever: Ihave read, there are none that will pretend to this foolery, but thofe who know nothing of the matter: And I am certain any man will be my Convert that will but confider the Thing and it’s Motion. But I confefs 1 do not wonder at this Do@rine in Mbrinus, who doth alfo direé the Angles Converfe , and this by the fame Rule with the former, and upon the fame ground, but both falfe. But to the point ; nothing can be directed Converfe, but what is capable of the rapt motion, which the Part of For- tune is not; for the Parc of Fortune paffeth through all the Signs in the Zodiack in 24 Hours by the rapt Motion, which it could not do if it were poifible to be directed Converfe. For Example; Let us fuppole the Part of Fostune to be in the Tenth, in Conjunétion with the Sun, Mom, Venus, and Mercury, all which four are capable of the Rapt Motion, and are to be directed Converfe by the fame Rule, for they are carried away to Defeétio Geniturarum. to the Culp of the feventh , and fo to the Fourth and Afcendent, é&c. But the Part of Fortune doh not go with them, but ftays in the Tenth, or thereabouts, till the next day about Noon, and then it is in Conjunétion with them again ; but meets them fooner than it did the day before , being got nearer to the Af cendent by one day’s motion of the Mevz, than.it was. Now you may for all this , dire@ it Converfe if you pleafc, and affign fome effect to it too; but it will look fo like no Diredtion at all, and your pains fo ill rewarded with empty expectation, that per- haps you will fave that labour the next time, I think this is fufficient to convince any one in this matter , that is not too proud to be inform’d : And for thofe that are too flately:to be taught, and bid adica to Truth, if there were teri times-fo much more (aid, it would be in vain. The next Hiterodex point he falls upon, is dirccting the Hox- fes one ty another, and what is the Confequence of it, the Angles Converfe ; for by the fame Rule you can do the one,! mutt allow the other, But to be plain with you, I deny both, and do-fay they are only imaginary and groundleis, and there is nothing to be faid for them, but opinion: And to thew you the true way of doing it, you muft have recourfe to the Nativities of Waljtein and Leris the 14th, in the firlt of which he dircéts the Suz in the Seventh to the Midheaven, which is in plain terms nothing elfe but the Midheaven Converfe to the body of the Sun. In the Se- cond he directs the Afcendent Converfe to the Squire of the Moon, both which, I fay, are no Dircétions, nor have they any effet. But becaule I have {poke of thefe things largely before, J fhail omit to fay more of them in this place. In the 22d Book there are many things more that relate to Direétions, that I might have recited in their order 5 which be- caufe Edo not intend a Comment, nora particular Tranfcripti- on of all, [have omitted. But there is one thing more that I think feems 2 little Grange to be laid down with fo much Au- thority as he feems to do it with 5 and chat is ¢ in page 587) to extract the Nativities of the Parents, Brethren, Wife, Children, Servants, Friends and Enemies, from that of the Native’s, becaufe they ftand related to-him by the denomination cf feveral Houfes in the Figure , in which matter I confefs he ta'ks well and lear edly : But for the u(c and truth of. thole Nativitics when gocten, I judyeDefeblio Genitnrarum. Ljndge no man will venture his Repatation and Credit. Tknow what Pielany Gays of the matter in his 3d Book and 4th Chap- ter, and what Cardan others fay from him about it, But of all that have written, T think Marines is the largcft, and 1 doubt alittle too larxe too, At daft he farts a pretty fore of a Quetii- on, and alfo Antwers it himfelf: And it is, Whether by the death af any Native, the Celdtial Lofenee ecafith from that Pigzare, t the ParentsBrithren, IV ife Children.and all orbers fa related ?But as 1 think there is little in the thing ic (elf, and lefs ule to be made of it, I fhall pats it by with as little notice, aud refer thofe that would fee more of it to Morin’s own words, page 598. In his 234 Book he difcourleth of Revolutions, and how to take them: In which he hash taken a great deal of pains Cand in my opinion ) toa very little purpole 5 for he makes the fame thing the balis of his work, that they all do, which is 5 hours 49 minutes, and the operation Is almolt as tedious as that of the Nativity, to gin the Revolution: And when that is done, how mach are we the Exadter, than what Argel did by a Table belore him? and what did Argo! do more than Leovstines had done a hun- dred years before him? For fo leng fince he made the difference to be 5 hours 4g minutes between cach Revolution: And it isthe fame till, as appears by them all one alter another 5 and to fay the truth, | fee nothing of Excellence done of late, but what tends to puzzle the Czule,and increale labour and toil ;and when all this is attain'd and done,thcy only load the Art with abundance of foolerizs cf no ule, of which this of Revolutions is one : 1 do not fay the obfervirg the Revoluricns every year is a foolcry 5 tur I fay the way of managing and handling, them as now ufcd and (aught, is a meer toy, and good for nothing but trouble 5 ‘And that there is nothing in the Revolution buc Tranfits and Fecturns, that are remarkable and worh obferving. The firtt that Lind did’ improve Ruvolations after the man- ner now uled, was Scbower : And tince hin they are grown fo artificial, thac they m ke the Revolution a fecond Nativity 5 with Directions and Meafure of time , ard other little tricks which they have thought convenfent 5 and fer the improvement ot thelé ridiculous fovleries, fome of our Engh Artifts (as they call them ) are behind-hand with none of them 5 but of al} the Modern Writers , | know rone that go Eeyond Morinis in depending + Defeétio Geniturartim. depending on the Figuce of a Revolution fo taken, as before mentioned ; as you may fee from page 598. to 671. In which Book, if the Doétrine is true, there is enough to make any man Maiter of the whole Method and Matter : Nay, he hath been fo nice (not to fay any worle of it ) page 644. to queltion whe- ther we ought not to divide the Revolution of a Nativity into 4 Quarters, as we do that of the Year for Mundane Alfairs : And becaule he would be ex-dt, he alfo confiders the Revolutiy ons of the Mim, gives Rules fer judging, and tells you what fignificant Evfedts they had in his own Nativity. A man would have thought one of his Learning and Parts might have been better employ’d, than to write to largely of fach ulelefs things, or if you pleafe of things of tuch little ufe as what you have heard. The greateit and the bett Authority w- have, dothonly advife us to contider Revolutions, to fee what Trantits and Ingrefles there are ; and how the Radical Prorogators ave affected by th good , or affliated by the bad Stars, as in thefe words, Ajfittis enim Locis , CG ia Annorum crite Stellis Inficientibus precipus loca, mortem certam. Perhaps there may be many reid thefe words, that may not underftand them, though good Proficients in Grammas, and the Latin Tongue 5 but that is not my fault. It hath been the Knavery or Fodlery of Proteffors in all Sciences to load each art with abundance of ufcle(s things, to make themfelves feem the more learned in their Profeflion, Taus you may obferve, that Crullivs tells us, there were originally but four Difeafes ; and yet a Physician, a few years lince, told us.in pring, that chere were 600 Ditvafis belonging to the Eves: So extravagantly nusnerous they have multiplied our Michiels. What reafon have we to believe, that the Degree Afcending Cand by Confequence all the other Houfes) have any virtue of force in them to inflaence that yeazs Aifzirs the Revolucion is fet for? And what is more ab(ard and foshih? vald we cheat out {elves to think that the Diredtions tothe Misheaven, lcendent, Sun and Mim ina Revolation, have anv more force and power in them, than if you fet a figure at Random every qiirter of that year? Let two men but manage a Nativity, andthe one take the Sui Calculated from Street, and another fiom Wiig, in fome Z2 partsDefettio Geniturarum. parts of the year they will differ 5 minutes in motion, which is no lefs than two hours in times and when thefe two men come to fet the Revolutional Figures, whata fine ccnfufion fhall we have! no lets thantwo hours in time; and, do you chink that will not give a great altcration in the Afcendent and Mid- heaven ? Then how do youthink the Direétions of the Five Hi- legizck Points will agrec inchefe two men’s operations.and what a Jargon here will be ? He that would be Maller of this nonferfical fluff, let bim read Coley’s Key filed bigger; and there he may fee thefe Foo'cries in their excellence, efpecially page 710, 713, 714. things 1am fure he knows nothing of ; only he imagined there might be fome ealy people would {wallow the Gudgeon, and believe his molt ingenious Invention, of no ufe but to {pepd time, and create trouble ; but] fhall talk with him another time, this is only by the way. What Reafon have we to believe, That the Sun’s Return gives usa title to any Afcendent or Midheaven but that of the Radix? Perhaps you, will fay, Ys bave found by Enperience a great deal of truth in them, by correfponding to the Fate and Fortune of the Tear. Why, yes, that may be; and yet whén that is allowed, there is nothing in it: And [am certain, you will find as much to fay to a Figure fet to this inttant, for the Fate of the prefent * Year, as to the molt cxact Revolutional Figure you cver fet in your days, Tranfits and Ingreffes cxcepted : And any man may fee this is true by the great noife Adirinus makes with his Lunar Revolutions. There is no Figure you can fet at any time, but you may fancy it to be a Revoluticn.1, and its Direétions end Pctisions fhall do full as well as your cad Revolution fhall, thofe things beforementioned excepted 5 for among all thofe Di- rcCtions, you pretend to in a Revolution, there is not one of them hath any effect, but asa good or bad Tranfit or Return happens at the fame time you fay your Dire@ion commenceth; and it is that gives the Effect, and not the Diredtion you imagine : But it you do but conceit it gives what you fay it doth, it is full as well as if it did do it really. Nay! (cme are grown fo ripe in this practice, that they are able to prediét Death from a lingle Revelation (at ipfi dress) as Ican prove from their own words: But becaule Morinus is my fubjcct, therefore 1 mutt keep to my Texts and pray hear what he fays, Predixi ({ays he) pluribus Amitis Dofeétio Geniturarum. ‘Amicis ex bac Revolutione Mortem, pag, 614. {peaking concerning Cardinal Richeliew. If Morinus knew there was a Killing Dire- Gion, he might be bold in the Point 5 if fo, why doth he fay the Revolution kil’d him? For let the Revolution be good or bad, if it isa mortal Direction, he certainly dies ; but if there is no DireGtion, 1 am fure and certain a Revolution, how bad foe. ver, cannot Kill. Bur you hear what he fays, though I mutt confefs I think it no more but a Frescb flourith, As to both the Nativities of Richelsse and Tronfon, the Directions brought to prove their Deaths are fo idle and frivolous, that 1 can by no means allow them, and thercfore they mult dye on the Influx of the Revolutions ; which you may believe if you pleafe, for | do not. He tellsus, pag. 628. That by the prefence of three Pla- nets in the Third Houle of a Revolution (which Houle, he fays, hath fignificatton of Religion ) they gave Charles Condren @ refelusion to lead a Religions lifes and yet pag. 650. he fays, It was fromthe M.C. to the # ©, and Jupiter direéted to the Body of Mars, that gave him that Refolution, [ cannot underfland this man’s method and doétrine ; I would fain have him tell me, in plain words, Whether he lays the ftrefs of the bufines on the Revolution,or on the Direction,and which he makes fubordinates for there can be but one principal caufe in this and moft other cales, If you pleafe to look into page632. you will fee what he fays onthe Revolution of this man’s Death; and when you have read them over, I really think you cannot chufe but fmile at them, to fee what a crowd of Stuff he doth enum:rate, as caufcs of his Death, but it was when he was in his Grave 5 and you may be certain he paffed many fuch Revolutions, and perhaps worfe too, in his Life-time, that did not kill: But } will leave ie tothe Judgment of others, and fatistie my felf with thefe Re- marks on his Doétrine and Principles, and fam up this Paragraph, and this Second part alfo, with my Opinion of Revolutiéns, and. what ought to be done therein. Revolutions ag: the times when the Sza comes to the fame degree and minute he was in at Birth; in which cafe you need not be fo very exact; if you mifs a few minutes, it is no matter ; and at this time yoware to confider principally, and indced only, the Tranfits and Ingreffis of the Seven Pianets, and how they be- hold and affeG the places of Direction at that prefent in Opera- CentDefettio Geniturarum. gion; And when they have made all the Noife they can, this is the totus of a Revolutions and all they fay betides, is nothing elfe but Thick, and furcly imaginary. Nor need you put your felf to the trouble to feta new Figure fer this Work, for that of the Kadix is che only fit one for it; end thercfore take the fame Signs and Degrees on the Culps of all the Houfts that yeu find in the Radix, and place the Planets in it as you find them at the Swr’s Returns and you need take them only to degrees, for the minutes and {cconds in this and the Cufps of the Houles, is to puzzle the young Fellows, and mzke the thing lock great, with- out any ufe init at all. Defektio Géniturarum: Defectio Geniturarum : The Third P AR T,. Continued in the Examination of thofe Nativities printed by Andrew Argoll, Knight of St. Mark, in his Book called, De Diebus Criticis. NDREW ARGOLL wasamanof that Learn- ing, Parts, and Reputation for both, that it ought sa- ther to command my Silence and Submitiion to his - Do@rine and Principles, than difpute either of them, Inced not tell the Learned part of Mankind of the Learning and Merit of this Great Man, fo famous throaghour all Exrop:, be- caufe his Learned and Laborious Volumes do it better, and fpeak it louder than my Pen is able to do: Nay, that ufetul and moft exccilent Book, called, The Primsen Mobile, will appear in his defence againtt all che Detraétors in che world, and will {peak his Abilities, as well as his Merit, when either of them are quettioned by thofe that {peak well of no body, nor ad& well themflves. And whoever he is that endeavours to rob him of hisHonour, or talcDefeétio Geniturarum. take away from his memory that which was his right and due when living , ought to be branded with an eternal infamy, and while living to be denied the Bencfitof Converfation, and aftet his Death to have his name razed out of the memory of man. This Learned maitwas (as to his Quality )a Knight of the Or- der of St. AMfurk, in the Republick of Venice, which, as Heylin fays, is beltowed generally on thole of Noble Blood, but at the leaft on Gentlemen, and {uch too as are menof merit ; which this great man was without queliion. For befides this Honour, he was Mathematical Prififfir In the Univerlity of Padus; which, bee fides his Skill in Numbers, befpcaks him a man qualitied with Univerfal Learning ; and indeed he hath given us ground encugh to believe it, by what he hath printed, and to guels atit further by thofe things he hath written and not printed: As his Com- ment on the Quadripartite of Prolomy ; his Problems of Euclid, divers ways demonitrated , with divers other yet remsining in Manu(cript only. And to fam up all , he was a man that fpent his time in thofe Studies that were likely to oblige mankind in the future Ages of the world, and verified that Saying of Pla- 10, Non nobis nati fumus folim, He wasa man that may jultly be reckoned among the Philofophers of the laltage, and one whofe Acquirements I dare not pretend to reach to: Nay! the more Tread Argoll, the more 1 find the want of Learning. in my felf. Thele things being premifid and confidered, perhaps fome muy deem it a picce of prefumption in me, that confefs my felf fo far thort of his Abilities, to examin or queftion the Truth of what he hath writ on any Subje@. ~The Anfwer is ready to fuch an Objector ; And therefore though I do allow him to be a great Philofopher and Mathematician, yct it doth not follow that all he wrote is without Faults, or that he is got to a degree of Perfe- @tion, which isa thing U think not to be arrived at in this Life 5 every man is Maiter of fomething that his fancy leads him to in particular, and perhaps in that one thing he may be excellent; though perhaps he may underttand divers things and Faculties be- fide, yet in all of them he may not arrive to an cquil proficiency and Skill. So in this of Altrology, I fuppofe Argoll did not make that his bufinels, as he did fome other Studics , and there- fore it is probable he might not be fo great an Artilt in that, as he 2 was Defettio Geniturarnm. was in fome other parts of Learning. And perhaps I my felf that have made this (by my natural inclination ) my conftane Study, may be arrived to fome Abilities and Rules by a con- tinued and long experience, that this Great Man, among his greater Qualifications, might not be matter of. My Requclt therefore to all Readers of this Treatife is, That they would make a good contruction of my Endeavours, and believe that | have not undertaken this work out of any peevith defign, or capricious humor, againkt the man; but to do fomething for the future age, and difcovery of Truth. And I do affure you, Twill carry on the work with as much tendernefs to his name and memory as peffidle the occafion and matter will bear, And Tam forry there is an occafion for my ufing Argoll’s name after this manner and way; but i¢ can be no affront to his memory, if I make it appear that he was in the wrong, and that the next age, as wellas Truth, may receive advantage by fo doing. And todo Argull all the juttice tcan, I will print his Animadverfion in his De Diebres Criticis, pag. 143. to fhew you that he did noterr for want of Reading, as fome, and indeed too many of our Pre- tenders do now-a-days; but you will fee he was well acquaint- ed with all the ways and methods that have been , and are ufed, and at laft (poor man) pitched vpon the worft and moft groundlefs of all. The Animadyerfion in Latin ‘and Englifh. UM in Decubitibus infra itis tempus Mortis ex va- sits & diverfis Caufis contitustur, ita ut aliquando videatur recedere & mente Prolemei; cm omnia congriant ex recentiorstm obfervati- onibus, libuit ea propter bec pauca tnfereres Hereas in the following Decumbitares the time of Death is afligned to divers Canfes; fo that fometimes it may feem to be different and various from the Opinion of Ptolemy 5 yet feeing all things do agice with the Oofervations of our modern Profcifors, think it neceffiry to add here thefe few things. Aa Circa178 Defettio Geniturarum. - Circa vite fpatiam fententis Ptolemei, in fi9 Quadvipartito bes ct. ciphere for vite figni- i F gieingue confiitiat —pof= fant, Sol nempe, Luna, Afcens Sa Hrsseipus, & Lives Orin ontaiss Pars Fortune fia Ho- rifeopus Lunsris 5 & Planeta plures prerogativas ebtincns in Io co Solis, Lune, Afcendentis, Partis Fortune in Figura Cale- fi teco Covjunttisnis ait Op- piftiocis Luminarium precedentis Nutivitatem, in quibus bie ordo fervandus. An Genitura Diurna videndum, an Sol reperiatur in loco Aphetico, & idoneo ad vitam decernendam 5 que loca (unt Medium Cali, Dow mus Undecims, Prima, Nona & Septima; omnes Domus fupra Terram, exclufis Offava & Dus- decima , nam tune ipfe {tabiliene dus oft Vite Significator 5 verkm fi fuerit in OGava aut Duode- cima videndum an Luna fuerit in Joco Apbetico, quo caf Luna fta- tuenda et. St Luminaria ambo fucrint hac prerogativa détituta 5 accipiendus eft Planeta, qui plures dignitates obtinuerit in locis pre- dittis , dummodo fuerit repertus in loco Apbetico ; quod fi nce ifte fuerit ad vitam moderandurs ido- mens , affumetur tandem pro Vite Significatore, Afeendens, fin Linea Orientalis. Concerning the Space of Life, the opinion of Prelemy in his Quadsipartite is this. The Aphetas or Siznificators of Life are Five: And tholeare the Sa, the Mom, the Afcendent, Part of Ferizse, and that Planet who hath molt dignities in the place of the Sse, Macn, Afeendent and Part of Fortune inn the Celettial Figure, and in the place of the Conjurion or Oppofition of the Luminaries preceding the Nativity, in which this Order is to be obferved. Ina Diurnal Geriture fee if the Sis in an Aphetical place, and fit to give and determine Life; which placesare the Mid- heaven, the Eleventh Houle , the Firft, the Ninth and Se- venth; any Houfe above the Earth, exccpt the Eighth and Twelfth, for then heis allow’d to be giver of Life ;_ but if he fhould be in the Eighth or Twelfth, fee if the Moon be in an Aphetical place; if fo, the Moon is to be accepted. But if neither of the Luminaries fhould be fo qualified, then take that Planet who hath mott Dignities in the before. mentioned places, and in an Aphetical place alfo; but if there is none fuch, then you muft take the Afcendcnt fos Giver of Life. bb Defettio Geniturarum. In Genitra Nocturna primum Liem ccexpat Luna, qe in locks Apheticis reperta flatsitur Vite Siguijicatrix.Si vero futerit inOdia- va aut Dusdicims, aust fub Terra 5 && Sol fiterit in illis vigintiqni que gradibus prft Linsam Orienta~ tem, ac in Crepujeulo Matutino ipfe crit vile mrderstor, Si Sol non faszrit idencits , iterumt inds- gandus Plancts dominatir in illis locis dittis an fucrit in loco Aphe- ticos qH0 idonea aon veperto aecte piends of Pars Fortune, & He - rofeopies Lanris, dumnnods fucrit in Apbetica locos omnibus tamen exclufis tandim Afeendens Regi- onis Hovofcopus few Linea Orien- salis fratuinds oft vite fignifica- brine 7 Notandum quod (wt fepe con- singit ) fi fuerint Duo aut Tres, Significatores in locis Apheticis , Sol videlice, Luna, Dominus ilorum locorum, tune eligendus eft validior tum ratione dignitatum, tum ratione fitus: Ex Sole & Luna eligendis oft potentior 5 nam pofita (exempli gratis) Luna in Medio Cali, in fucis dignitatibus 5 fole vero peregrino in Septima, aut ‘ono, quamvis Nativitas fit Di- sina Luna crit preferenda 5 Dominus etiam illoram loco- rum potentior , _poterit. juxta Prolemai Digmsta preferri Lu- mninaribus chm feilices fucrit in Ina Nogtarnal Geniture the 2Awn claims the firlt place among, thofe quelitied to be givers of Lite, But if fhe fhould be in the Eighth or Twelfth, or vader the Earth, and the San fhould be in thofe Five and twenty degrees next faccceding the Aicendent, and in the Matutine Crepnfculum, he fhail be gives of Lite. But if the Sun fhould not be fu quae litied, then fee whit Planet is, and hath moft Dignities in the beforementioned piaccs, and in an Aphetical place aifo5 but if noneare tobe found, then take the Part of Forte, if in an Aphetical places but if they all happen to be unqualified, then take the Horofcope for the giv- er of Life. But you are to obferve, That if (as it often happens) there fhould be Twoor Three in A- phetical places,as the Sin, Moon, and Lords of thofe Places, then you are to take that Star whois molt powerful as well in Ef fential Dignities as Pofition 5 but of the Sun and Moon chufe that which is firongeft, (for example ) let the Moon be in her own Dignities in the Mid- heaven, and the San peregrine in the Seventh or Ninth; al- though the Nativity be Diurnal the Moon is to be preferred : But the Lords of thofe Places Aa2 locaDefettio Geniturarnm. Toco eminentiori & fuis Dignitatie bus. : Aneretie, Abfeffores, & qui vitam detruncant ex Ptolemeo fant Corpora Satuxci, OF Niartis, Eorum Radii Opp jiti, & Qua- drati, Eorum dntifeia, Inope- rantia © Obedientia, siorum Radius Sextilis in fignis longaruns Afeentionum, © Trinus brevie um, qui Radii babent vires Quadrati. Poftta Luna Vite Significatrice Corpus Solis interi- mit cum ad illam “pervenerit Dircéticne sider mulsi conten- dunt de Solis Radio Quadrata & Oppofite, Radius Quadratus Aphete , cuns fcilices, Apheta pervenerit ad fuum Quadratum id eft 75 gradus ad minus inte- rimt. Pofito Aphetainter Cuf- pidem Dowius Septimea, @ Me- dium Cali unus ftatuitur Ana- reta id eft Angulus Occidentalis ; reliqua vero Corpora, aut Radis Maleficorum incidentes inter A- phetam G gradum Occidentis non interimunt , fed falta dif cuffione Beneficorum & Malefico~ rum minuunt, vel addunt annos demonfratos ex direione Aphe- aad Gradum Occidentis, que Direttio eff Exdem, queer feen- dentis ad Oppofitinn lock Aphetee difti. Hoc ef Ptolemet fen- fentias being fironger, are, in the O+ pinion of Ptolemy to be pre= ferred before che Luminarics, cfpecially when they fhall be better placed, and in their own Dipaities. The Anaretas, Abfciffors, and Deftroyers sf Life are, ace cording to Prelusy’s Opinion, the Body, Squaics end Oppo- fitions of Satnrn and Mars , The Antiftions Imperans and Obediens, their Sextile Rays in Signs cf Long, and Trines in Signs of thort Afention , both which have the Strength of aSquare 5 when the Moo is giver of Life, and diretted to the Sun kills, and there are fome that contend for the fame powcr in the Squarcs and Op- folitions too. The Square or Quadsate Ray of the Apheta likewife ; that is, when the A- pheta comes tohis own Square, which is 75 degrees .. leaft, it kills. The Apheta being placed between the Midheaven and Seventh Houfe, there is on- ly one Anareta, and that is the Cufp ct the Seventh ; and the Bodies and Rays of the Male- ficks, falling between the A- pheta and the degree of the Se- venth, do not kill; but the Rays of the Beneticks and Maleficks being adjulied, thcy cither take from, or add to the number of years before demonftrated by the Defe tio Geniturarum. Alia Scbola in plarimis con- sna Proleret0 y ¥ quibus, ac[eribie “runt) sbfervatvastus, Vy mificatione vite Vacua. Pope Gregory XUN. aa die Fan. 7. bor. 6 min. 38. P.M. 1502+ Bran Sub Lat. 44+ D426 5. This Author tells us, He was made Auditor of the Apoftolick Chamber, in Civil Caufes, 1549. That he was by his Prince commanded to goto the Council of Trent, inthe year 1562. That 5 Defeétio Geniturarum, Tivat he was made Cardinal May the 12. 1565. on the Mid- heaven to the Sextile of Fupiter. Tinat at the death of Piss the V‘ he was made Pope , and gor che infallible Chair May the 13.1572. and this on the Di- reGtion of the Midheaven ad A @ in her Exaltation, That he dyed April the Tenth 1585. being firft taken on the ath. After he had faid Mufr, and’ retired to his Chamber, he was taken with a Deliquium, that is, a {wooning Fit, which af- terward often return’d, and being at lait joined with a {mall Fever, kill’d him ; and this he fays was from the Afcendent Hileg to the Trine of Saturn. As to the firft Dire€tion he mentions of the Midheaven to the % ¥ for his being made a Cardinal, I cannot difown it, if all the reft will'agree and correfpond with it. Nor can I deny the Midheaven to the Trine of Vensr to bea Di- rection proper enough to be chofen Pope upon 5 nay, Lay it was as natural a Direction as could be. But when he tells us of the Afcendent to the Trine of Saturn for his death, that I can by no means allow 5 for they cannot {1 think) pretend ¢o make a Square of it, becaule it is in Signs of long Afcenfion 5 and though itis in fuch Signs, fare they cannot pretend it is an Oppofition to make it malignant 5 but why a Trine fhould kill, was never alledged before, as I ever heard,efpe- cially he not being Lord of the Eighth, which is the Aftrological Slaughter-Houfe : And befides , I do not Took on Saturn to be likely to give fuch a Difeafe, which is mofi common to the Moon or Mercury fingle, or aflifting others ; but here the A of h alone is aid to kill him with that Difeafe, I believe this Nativity may be near truth , becaufe I find all things agree fo naturally to every accident, as you will fee immediately, I fhall altcr i¢ but about 8 minutes in time, which will be about two Degrees in the Midheaven, and not fo much in the Afcendent: And then I allow him to be made a Cardinal on the Moon direéted to the Sextile of Jupiter. He -was made Pope on the Moon to the Body of @ C, L. and he dyed on the Afcendent to the O D, Sefquiquadrat db, @ Oh,as you may fee by what followeth : Bb Oad 185Defeétio Geniturarum. © ad Corpus Veneris 47 » ad % y in Zodiaco 59 Dads & Cum Lat. o7 M.C.ad 4 2 63 dad SQ Sine Late | 69 | 1549 1563 1572 1973 1573 LST " M.C.ad % ¥ 79 Afeadens ad 2D 79 Aleendensad fifquiquadrat 3 | 87 Afeendens ad & 87 we OH NEN There are other Direétions that Thave not wrought,as the Moon to the Zodiacal parallel of Venus, and ¥ in the Midheaven to the Muvdine 2. 2 which came up late alfo. But the thing | intend to thew is, That to the fame time that he gives his birth within 3 minutes, the Afcendent, who is without difpute Hileg, came tothe G p atthe time of death exadtly 5 and that fullowed by two others that gave their afliftance, as you lee. And that which js more to be oblerved likewife in the Figure is this , That at the time he had his Mon and Midheaven dircéted to thofe great and glorious beams of Venus and Jupiter, he undertook that great Work to reform the Calendar 3 which took its Commence- ment in the Year 1582, or as fome fay in 1583. This was in- deed a great work, and will perpetuate his name for many Ages to come. I believe he intended it better than it hath proved 5 for fome fay it is as Erroncous as the Julian, and will fo appear before it hath ftood half fo long as that hath; for which you may read Michael Mejilin his Examen Novi Pontificializ Kalendarij. The next Nativity he gives us, is-that of Pope S Quintus, which I had paffed by without any further not but that f find another hath {wallowed the Error, and told us in his words, That this Prelate dyed on th: Afcendent to the Square of Mars, and the Sua at the fame n the Afcendent, and that is 7. G. in his Collection, page ich Dottsine I do politively deny and difown; for if the Sum be in the Afcendent, Yam certain the Afcendent by Direction cannut kill, be the Di- seGtion never fo violent; for in that cafe I mult keep to my Giver of Life, and fo mult you, if you ever intend to do any thing Dofettio Geniturartm. to the purpofe 5 for though you can fham it off with any thing when a man is in his Graves yet when you come to predict, you will find the Tables turn’d, and inflead of Reputation you will meet the contrary. a , And here | (hall preach a new Deétrine in the Opinicn modern Pretenders, which 1 am fare will hardly be bel! any, or at lealt ways but by few. In this man’s Nati allow the Sun to the Square of Mars to point out the time of death ( and not the Afcendent to his Square D whotc 3 k of Direétion is 71 Degrees 10 Minutes, which turn dinto time, gives 69 yearsalinott, which agrees with the time of his death, whic was Augut the 29th, 1590. being 69 years old within 3 mond and a few days. But the new Doétrine is this 5 as for the © to the © ¢ though [allow it to give the time of his death, yer had not the O 3 come jult in the tail of it, the other could not have kill’ him: For Murs is there under the Sun Beams, and cannot kill 5 but Mercury is not, and therefore it was Mercury kilPd him, and not AZars 5 and this is pofitively laid down by the Great Ptolemy in the End of the 14th Chapter of the 3d Book. But Ido not expe that either Psolemy or my felf are like to be belie ved while I live 5 but belides thefe Dire@tions, the Sin at the fame time was juft coming up to the Mundane Squares of Mars and Mercury, which made the other much more certain in their effets. Now what need we be at the charge to purchafe Er- ror fo dear in the expence of time, when Truth is fo near and eafy to come at ? And you may be certain, if the Sun would have jumpt eafily into their operation without trouble or difficulty, then you fhould have had the Hileg cry’d up, and that it was che Giver of Life direéted to the O ¢ that kill'd him 5 but now it is the Horofcope did the work, and the Apheta is fet at a di- fiance, as if it was not concerned, and fo you may believe if you pleafe. a oo For the ufe of thofe that are willing to take any pains in the work, either for private eee or public ule, ee of «s Birth given by Argel, is December £3. Po. 7+ min, 49 mane Hn narae 435 a four degrees of NS ‘Afcending s whofe ob- lique Afcention is 298 degrees 14 minutes , and the Planets I did Calculate from the Caroline Tables were thefe = Bb2 orDefeétio Geniturarum. O1 sv Qar47 m oir 35 V3 ¥ 1639 v3, Argol gives us the Nativicy of Pope Urban the Seventh , who was made Captain General of Chris Church ( Pope 1 mean ) the 15th of Seprember 1550, and dyed within twelve days after- ward, He was born the 4th of Auguft, at 22 minutes patt 7 of the Clock in the Morning 1524. Lat. 42, andd © 2 8 yD are Calculated by the Carolee Tables as you fee. Q 2014 Zoro M 34 Dd rr52 6N. @ 2035 $217325 5 Ok haurts a 9, 1336 2 | > © 565. sN oiss = N Ss. N. ‘The right Afcention of the Midheaven is 72 57, and they tell you that the Midheaven to the Trine of Fupiter gave him his Preferment ; and the Afcendent to the Square of Saturn gave his Mcath. But how they will manage the Stars to make it out, remains a myftery tome: For he was chofen Pope the 15th of September, fickned the 17th, and dyed the 28 of the fame Month 1590. being then 69 Years of Age and almoft two Months. Now confider, the Midheaven to the Trine of Fupiter in Zodiaco is by Dire€tion Ark 63 8, and the Afcendent to the Square of Saturn is Ark 69 53. the difference is almoft 7 degrees ; then how could thefe two'come together ? and you {ee the preferment and death fell out both ina Month ; and therefore there muli be {ome other caufe for both thefe Accidents, than what is here afferted in their own way 3 and to be further plain and open with you in the point, the Afcendent to the Square of Satara true, came up 6 or 7 years before his death, and the Midheaven ad Trine Jupiter, alovg time after it. Now upon the refule of all, am of the opinion, that the Midhea- ven to the Body of Venus gave him his Preterment, and the Afcen- dent to the Square of the Sun, and femiquadrate of Mars, gave his death, Defettio Geniturarum. ime 5 i ight i }] up at a time 5 and ’tis peflible there mig ee which aor che aa ashe fays there was a falpicion of 5 ae as js concern’d in his Death , as well as in ay Pre- Pacer indeed imbuted with the Rays of Saturn, and may aan fi (oegted. But if this is allowed, we mutt make an Rei io the Figure of about 15 Minutes in time , which eet matter in the thing, according to their Rules and Deora Why did not the Rays of jt haps fome may fay, y h recline fon tell us they do, even by their Squares mari arn it, and fay the Rule will Tis true, 1 do affert it, an ry oie ton we this eke fhe is excepted by the Rule, becaufe fhe is under the Sun-beams, and therefore cannot. oe , The next J have pitched upon is ieee he at ne i is Colymna’s time of Birth, and i c t Alans Cardi te Argo nts of Greatncls, and Dire- ae Death; as you may {ee by the Figure that followeth, 7 fet to his time, but my Divifion of the Heavens. ee AfeaninsDefestio Genitnrarunt. ey Lat, Planct. a Rises loro S| Q 101 Se oe use a Car So39N | OY ; leona. Navus die 4 April .. bor. 4 min, mane,” 2o45s Ke 40, mane,” gy 110S. DADOM*S. € yooN. R, 4. @ 109 44 Dis, Ab. Joc. 16 22 A 5 \ This is indeed a very good Pofition for Preferment ; for here we find Jupiter on the Afcendent , the Sun in it , in his Exalta- tion, the A4on (trong in Trine to the Afcendent. Mars who hath dignitics in the Tenth, is inSextile to the Moon, and in Trine to the Midheaven ; }’cnus is in her Exaltation, and in a Zodia- cal parallel with Jupiter. Sure this man could not want friends in his time, nor indeed did he 5 for you fee he was made a Car- dinal early , and this by the lnterceificn of the King of Spain and had Nature been fo kind to have prolong’d his days, he had certainly obtained the Infallible Chair, and becn called his Holinefs ; but we have but two Accidents to correét by, and they are thefe following. Aged 26 years and almoft 10 months , he was made Cardi- cna, and as Argol fays on the Midhcaven to the Square of the Sun, and the Part of Fortune to the Body of the Afson. Aged 48 years, one month, and 14 days, Anno 1608. May 17, he dyed of a Fever and a Cholesick Dileafe ; he had then, fays Argol, the Afcendent to the Bull's Eye. As Defeétio Geniturarum. Asto the Firk of thefe Direétions, it feems fo improbable to fait to the Accident of Preferment, that no body, I think, can in reafon allow it. For if he had been under two or three good Direttions at that time, the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun would have knockt it all dead, and have made it in- effectual ; for the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun, creates Foes not Friends ; and therefore I am of opinion fome other yeafon mutt be given for that Preferment, than thofe laid down by cur Author. As to his death, and the reafon given for it, T cannot ima- gine Argo! himfelf thought it would be believed ; and I dare fay my Reader will be of my opinion , when he hears what I have to fay in the cafe, The Horofcope meets the Bull's Eye in the 14th degree of Gemint with Latitude ( and I hope he doth not intend it without s if he doth, the Error is the greater for there is no fach Direétion ) fo that he lets the Afcendent pafs by the body of Mars, Lord of the Eighth , near the Pleiades = After that, the body of Satsra in a violent part of Heaven: And _a little after that,to the Square of Venxs out of the Twelfth 5 ‘and after thefe three Directions, he kills him with this filly foolifh thing not to be imagined by any Artitt that hath had ei- ther Reading or Experience ; To pafs the bodies of both the Maleticks nearly in Conjunétion, and let him dye on the Dire« ion toa fixed Star that hath at leatt 5 degrees of Latitude. Can you imagine, Reader, that Marr or Saturn, or both toge- ther hid notas much power te kill as the Bull’s Eye? Or can you give me any reafon why Saturn or Mars fhould not kill? If you can, 1am fare you know much more of Aftrology than I am Mafter of , provided the reafon you give will hold in any other Nativity where che fame Direétions, or either of them happen. But that which makes the thing more improbable is, That the ‘Sun is in the Afcendent and Giver of Life. And though I know that the Afcendent co the bodies of Mars and Saturn could not xill 5 yee the ftre(s of my Argument lieth in this, That if it was poffible or probable for the Buil?’s Eye to kill, Why fhould not the bodies of Sstarn and Murs do it moze effeGually be- fore? Thele things confidered, are {ufficient to convince any doubt- ing, Reader that this is nota (rue Nativity ; nor can J indge whatDefeélio Geniturarum. what Scheme may be, becaule it is not the faculty of thefe kind of Aftrologers to give us the Eltimate time, with the Cornea, as they call it 5 but if the time fhould be near this, 1 think it is rea(onable to conclude, That the Sun to the Afwidan: parallel Of Mary, followed by the Mundane parallel of Sutnen, is a very (uitable Dircéion to give (uch an effect as is re- ported by our Author: For as I have before given it in po- fitive terms, That the Afcendent dirGed cannot kill; fo I am as politive on the other hand, that in this Nativity the Sie mult be direéted for death, its time and qualicy. But, pethaps, fince | have asked why the Afcendent to the bodies of Saturn and Mars did not kill; | may allo be asked, why the Sun to the bodies of Saturn and Mars did not kill, teeing he paffed them both 5 I contefs it is a fair Queliion, and ought both to be asked and anfwered. Firlt, The Nativity is vital, and thofe Dire@ions came up young + and when the Sun came to the bedy of Murs, he came allo to the Sex. tile of the Moon followed with the Mundane Sextile of Venus, and when the body of Saturn came up, that could by no means kill, becaufe it was fucceeded by the Sextile of Jupiter, and Square of Venus, according’ to the Dodtrine of Ptolemy. Argol tells us, Lewis XIII. King of France was born the a7th of September, at half an hour palt 10 at Night, 1601. under the Pole 48. and he makes g of Cancer Afcend ; it is the fame Figure that is printed in the Collett. Genitur by 7.G. He fays, That by Saturn's being, in the Filth Houfe he was kept without Iffue for 20 years 5 but upon the Midheaven being direGted to the Trine of Venus, in 1937- the Prolifick Faculty was reltored, and in 1638. he hada Son, or at leaftwite his Wife had one. Now who would not believe Aftrology, that feesit fo fairly and fo fully verified , That after 20 years being fine Potene tia Generandi , the Midheaven to the Trine of Venus fhould fet him in order, and ftir up that Faculty, which was cither detici- ent from his Birth,or long debilitated by fome accident. This isa myftery that ought to be recorded in the memory of every Artif, if it be true: Indeed had there been no other man within Five hundred miles of her, 1 might have been wrought upon: But we, at this day, are better informed than to believe as Argol did; And belides, if this thould be truc, it would make every Woman Defeétio Geniturarum. Woman that hath a barren Husband, with to have this happy Trine of Venus come up often; nay, twice a year if poffible. The truth is, the Queen had Two Sons, but that the King or the Trine of Verus did get them, Ido not believe one word of it. He tells us alfo, That in 1639, and 1640. he had his Afcen- dent direéted to the Square of Saturn, which caufed a Detluxion of Humors, and a Debility and Decay of the natural Heat; and in the year 1643. upon the A(cendent directed to the Antifcion of Murs he dyed. | Pray confider the whole matter together 5 Mars is in 5 degrees of Ler, and Saturn in almoft 9 of Scorpio: Sothat the Afcendent mult come to the Body of Mars before the Square of Sa:urn, and yet neither of thefe Two had power to kill him, though Sturn was Lord of the Eighth Houfe. But when thefe Two were over, the Afcendent to the Antifcion of Maury killed him; which is indeed no Direction, for it is not polhble to di- reét the Angles to the Antifcions of any Planets with fuccefs, notwithitanding the cultom of doing it often. Bur if we thould allow that Direétion for his Death, as he gives, will any man believe that the Body of Murs had not as good an Authority to kill as his Antifcion had that came after it? I know what Anfwer they will make me in that cafe ; and that is, That the Body of Mars and Square ot Saturn gave him that Jingring diforder, of which he dyed afterward, If fo, Why dothey bring ina third to do it, if the two did it before? and in that of the Square of Saturn, by their own Rules, as Lord of the Eighth, he ought to do it him(elf without a partner, Compare this with the Nati- vity of Sebsftian King of Portugal, where only a tingle Square did the work, and yet not Lord of the Eighth neither, and yet the Mvon giver of Life. In the Nativity of Cardinal Piss, Afeend. ad Ob Killed with the help of the Terms of d. In the Na- tivity of Feltrias Dake of Urbine, the Afcendent to the Trine of Seturn killed 3 and in Cardinal Ludovifies the Afcendent to the Body of Saturn did it, with divers more J could give you out of this Author 5 and yet in this of Lewis, Mars and Saturn to- gether could not do it ; and now E Icave it to you to judge of this kind of Dodtrine. Ce PrancifewsDefeétio Geniturarum, Francifews Maria Cardinalis Forn:fivs was born (fays A Auguft 14th, bor. 15. mine 7+ P. M. 1619; Pole and ee 28 Alcending. . This man was made Cardinal December 4th 1645. i oe to pea the Sun. ee And he dyed uly the 12th 1647. on the Afcendent di to the Sextile of Saturn in Signs of long Afcention, eee months laboured under a Dilorder of the Bowels, and a confant excretion of Cholerick Humors. Can any man believe thefe two Reafons given for his Prefer- ment and Death? two fo improbable, it cantidered in them- felves, though he brings in the Suu to help for his Death 5 and it is realonable to believe fomerhing of thats but for the Anti- {cion of the Sun for his Preferment, it is very vainandidle. The truth of all is, if he was born near this time, he was made Car- dinal on the Midheaven to the Sextile of Venus 5 and he dyed on the Afcendent Hileg to the Square of Mars and Body of the Suns but the diforder of his Bowels was caufed by the Man direéted to the Square of the Sun cam Lat. and that was the Ground and Caufe of the Morbifick Matter that gave thofe conftant Excretions. : Ann Queen of Poland, Daughter to the Archduke of Avfria, was born (fays Argel) the 16th of Auguit, at 44 minutes pat 5 Afternoon, 1573+ - nm This Queen being great with Child, and troubled with a Cae tarsh, wason the laft day of Zamuary, inthe Evening, anno 1599. taken! with a great Pain abut hee Heart, and fuddenly after 2 violent Palpitation, attended with a flight Fever, of which the dyed the next day: And after ‘he was dead, the Child was ta- ken out of her Body, and Baptized, and dyed alfo within an Hour. For this Accident of her Sicknefs and Death, he gives the Afcendent to the Oppotition of Mercury Lord of the Filth (b.caule fhe was with Child) and tothe Trine of Sateern, who hath Dignitis in th’ Eighth 5 and yet the Sux in the Sex vanth, giver of Life, Ob shis wonderful Afcendent ! : You Defeétio Geniturarum. ty Lat Planet. \ hoa N Ann Queen of Poland 5 nata die 16, Ang. bor.§ 0 55S min. 44. P.M, 1573+ D251 nao 147s. Sub Lat. 47+ rN, D448 5 You have heard her Difeafe and Death, and the reafons affign- ed for both, which I cannot by any means allow, or be induc’d to believe 5 for if the A(cendent by Direction could kill her then, why did not the ‘Afcendent to the Square of Saturn and Oppofi- tion of the Sun kill her long, before? Nay, by the Rule that Argol_ manageth his PraGtice , Satur ought to have killed her, becaute he is Lord of the Eighth (as heftiles him) and in Scorpio, aviolent Sign, and the Sun's Oppofition comes within 6 degrees after his Square, which would certainly have proved mortal if the Directions to the Afcendent could have kill’d her. And bee fides, Mars in dire&t Oppofition to the Afcendent would have ended the difpute of Life in the firit Year of her Age, or elfe have put it in very great danger. If you pleafe to give your {elf the trouble to examine his Book, you will find he kills Cardinal Blancbetis on the Afcen- dent to the Oppofition of the a and there giver of Life, as in © 2 thisDefettio Geniturarum. this Quren's Cafe. And in Cardinal Zacchis Fanmen, the Afcen- dent to the Square of the Sun kills, So in Gonzagwe Duke of Mantua, the Afcendent to the Uody of the Sun killed him as dead asa Herring. The like you may (ce in many more, as Cardinal Placentins, Cardi Vidonius, &c. and do you think that the Sun hath not as much Power to kill here, as in thofe Cafes? for which rea- fon I doubt the Truth of this Nativity, and mutt be better fatil- fied in the point before I believe it, do you as you pleafe. When you come to confider the thing tairly, and to compare the Dircétions in one Nativicy with thofe in another, you will either conclude Aftrology to be a ridiculus idle Scudy, or elle that the Pretenders to it do not underft-nd what they would have the world believe they do 5 for ix is certain the Afcendent to the Square of Satur, or Oppolition cf the Sun, ought to have the fime effect in one Nativity as they have in another, or clie Rules of Exception laid down, that we may know when they are to be relied on, and when not; which to thisday was yet never done ; but they goon like a Drift of Carriers Horles in the fame Tracks and (o long as they all agree to be ignorant, they are very well fatistied, and one defends another in it; buc if any one tleps out of the comm n Road, prefently he is cried down for an Inno- vator, and an impertinent Fellow, becau‘e he demands Reafons for their Practice, and defires them to make their Art all of a piece, and that their Rules may agree, and allo have the fame effect in one Nativity as in another; but you know what the Policy of Demetrins was, anid alfo on what bottom it was founded. 1 confefs it is a hard matter to determine whether this Niti- vity is ncar truth or not, becaufe the eftimate time is not given to us: But [am fure this of Argol’s is not true, and that for the pre- ceding Reafons. And now, confidering the had a Catarrh, I fhall rake that for the original Caufe of her other Diforders and Death ; and therefore endeavour to affign proper caufes for both; and in the tirft place | determine the Sun to be the giver of Life without difpute, and was directed to the Zodiacal Parallel of the Moon at 24 years of Age, the Ark of Direction 21 degrees and 29 minutes, which gives in time 23 years and 10 months. He was alfo direéted to the Mundane Parallel of Mars d.d. Ark 22 degrees 7 minutes, gives in time 24 years and aboat 5 months, and Defettio Geniturarum. and the Oblique A(cention of the Afcendent in the Figure that f ule, is 325 degrees 7 minutes, and thefe Direétions feem ratio- nally lik to be the caufe both of the Catarrh, Palpitation, and Death of this Queen 5 and thouzh I cannot fay thete Dizections will give thee Difeaf.s exa@ly in another Nativicys yet | afirm, they fhall give an adequate Effedt and Death alfo, let the Figures be proportional in their politions 5 and yet { dare not afhim this to be the true Nativity forall this, becaufe ic may be Jater, as well as earlier, which | have made it in this my Effay. Argell fays, That Charles Gonzaga, the tirlt Dake of Afsana, was born May the 6th, hor, 12. min. 32. P. AL. 1580. fir) Pol. 48. To degrees of Agiary afcending ; and he tells us, He dyed on the Afcendent to the Body of the Sia: Which perhaps fome peop'e may believe and depend on, Bur if you look into other Nativities that he hath given us, you will tind he doth not keep to his own Rule; as for example, In that of Afcanius Columna, where the fame Direction did not prove mortal, and for ought we knew, gave nothing at all, for he takes no notice of it, or of its cif@ts on his Health, and he lived many years beyond it. Nor in Furnefies Duke of Purms’s Cale; nor im Cardinal Farnefias 5 nor in Cardinal Bentivyglio’s; nor in the Nativity of Edward Duke of Parma 5 nor ini Cardinal Lenins Romanus, with divers others, and yet he kills Cardinal Zacchia Fanuen on the Alcen- dent to the Square of the Sun; a very likely thing, when the Body wou'd not do in ail thefe! Therefore pray tell me, Is not this a confufed Do@rine ? how fhall a man know by their Rules when it will, and when it will not do it, that we may know how and when to rely on it? Now, if 1 were to manage this Prince’s Nativity, 1 mutt rely on the Direétions to the Msn for his Death, becaufe the Mvon is in the Afcendent, and fulely giver of Life, and without any firaining of the Directions, comes to her own Square in Zodiaco at the {ame time, and by altcring the time he gives, a little later, fhe comes up to the Mundane Parallel of the Suu at the fame time alfo, which will undoubtedly kill , not only in this, but in any other cafe where fuch Potitions and DireGtions harpen. But perhaps fome little bufy Fellow or other, that hath his Head cramm’d with Heliocentrick Maggots, may ask me: Firlt, WhyDefeétio Geniturarum. Why did not the Moon to the Square of Saturn kill him? To that I anfwer,'l do rot believe he was fo muchas fick upon that Direction, but} ain fare hecould not be in danger of his Life becaufe at the fame time the Moo was direéted to the Zodiacal Parallel of Jupiter, and the Mundane Sextile of Venus, which certainly faves againit any fingle bad Direction, be it never fo maleticlt. Secondly, Why the Moon to the Body of the Sun did not kill? This, I confels is a very bad one, and muft put his Life in Danger, but 1 thould hardly have judged it mortal tor ‘three Reafons : 1. The Mocn had then § degrees of Latitude, 2. She was out of the Ecliptick, and in the fame Parallel of De- clination with Menus. 3. By her Latitude fhe was within lefs than £2 degrees of Fupiter’s Oppotition, For which Authority fee Ptolem, lib. 3. cap.14. The Planets Places are as followeth, hi729 osr Sy Ey 1139 @ 047 N D 631% 126N Suge 142s. © 2 58D 1 g S 820 He tells us, That Edward Dukcof Parma was born the 28th of April, at 17 minutes patt 3 mané 1612. fub Polo 48. This Prince dyed September the 11th anno 1646. being very fat and corpulent. And it was his Misfortune to dye on the Afcendent direéted to the Pleiades, notwithttanding che Mvon is Hileg. Here you may fee he hath broken his own Rule, for he kills the Duke of Mustua, juli now mentioned, with the Afcendent to the Body of the Sin, and yet here you (ee it hath not Power to kill the Duke of Parms. Do you think this is not very fine Aftrology, and fit to be believed? Yes certainly by thofe that have forfeited their Reafon, and by no body elfe. See the Scheme, Defeétio Geniturarum. Lati. Planet. ho 4458. Xr 6N. Edmard Duke of Parma ind Placniss natdiea8 ae iprilis hor, 3 min. 17 maié 1612, 7 “mtg ae Pras Latit. 44 dD 44s erful Afcendent doth evesy thing, and fo it will do till fome witty Bbliocenirick man can contrive a Scheme of Heaven without a Horofcope, and then they will be all at a lofs, if notundone. 1 really chink among all the Nativities this Author hath given us, which are 117, he makes at leaft three fourths of them dye on Directions to the Afcendent. Why fhould we not as well believe the Sum to the Square of Mars, Lord of the Bighth, in Conjanétion with Saturn, was as, likely te kill him as the Alcendent to the Pleiad.s? T muti needs fay, it (ems to me one of the motk improbable Directions to give Death that ever fheard affigned by fo learned 4 man as our Au- ¢ Sun to the Square of Mars ard Sa- thor was,to let him outlive th turn, and the Afcendent to the Body ot Mircury and the Sun, and every one of them Lords of ob(cure Houfes, and at latt kill hhim with a little paltry Star of the Third Magnitude; methinks it is below a Philofopher to give fuch a Reafon, and too con= temptible a thing for a Prince to fall by. Thus you fee the wond AgaingDefettio Geniturarum. Again, can any man believe this to be his true Nativity, when he tells us of his Corpulency and Fatnefs, and yet placeth Mars and Saturn on the Afcendent ? It is not likely they fhould make a man corpulent, they commonly make peevith, morole, uneafy people 5 and [ believe you will conclude with me, That they are feldom fat, and, I think, 1 may fay, never to excels. Upon the whole matter, 1am certain, this Scheme is not true; noram I able to fay what Figure is true; but with a little alee- ration, | think, the Mvon (being Hileg) comes to the mundane Parallel of the Sun, and might kill, being fucceeded by the Squares of Saturn and Mars in the Zodiack 5 but if the Afcen- dent by Direétion could have killed at ‘any time, he had never outliv’d the Body of the Sun. Argoll fays, Bernardut Duke of Veimar was born Auguft the 16th, 8 min, palt 10 of the Clock before Noon, 1604. fub Polo 51. as you may fee by the Scheme ic felf, -S “ & ? 2 : Lat, Planet. a & Sear PX + hr32N. YY © 326f%_ \V o Hoi8sN, RernardusVeimarius Dux; ae ee die 16. Augufti. ore 10 min, 8, mane, 23325. 1604, % 0328. y 0235. Defettio Geniturartns. This Prince going from Bafi/ toa Fortre(s not far diftant, on the 15th day of July, 1639. perceived himfelf to be ill, and therefore halined to Nanmburg, where he died on the 18th of the fame month; and being opened, the Phyticians found his Liver and Splecn hard, and his Lungs corrupted 5 which they attributcd to his conftant Labour of Body, and Anxicty of Mind. For his Death, Argol fays, he had the Afcendent directed to the Body of Mars, and yet both Sun and Mion in Aphetical places. Thus you fee, according to Cultom , he was fent out of the world by the power of the Afcendent, which had uo power at all to kill, if you will know che truth of it, You may be cer- tain the Time was not given to 8 minutes,but either at 10, or half an hour after it; and that he did alter the time to mike the A(cendent come to the Body of Mars for his Death, And you may be fare that this was done after he was in his Graves for if the Predictivn for his Death had been made while he was living, they would have been in a fad contation what to hive judged able and willing to kill him; for there are divers Candidates ftand fair for the Election, according to their Rules, as you may {ec by examining, the ne. Why thould not the Suto the Square of Sateen and Jupiter, or the Afcendent to the Opp:tition of the Mo:n, or the Afoun to the Square of the Sun in the Eighth Houfe, or to the Oppofition of Satura there alfo? I fay, Why fhould not fome of thele have been as likely to kill, as the Afcendent to the Body of Murs. Nay! Lcan affure you, if the Afcendent to that Di- rection had power to take away Life, he had never lived fo long, for the Oppolition of the Mcon had done the butinefs 7 years be- fore, In thenext place, contider how many he lets out live the Afcendent to the Body of Satwrn and Mars and not kills this you may fee in the Nativitics of Sixtus Quintus, Urban VII. Urbsa VILL. Clement VIM. | all Popes 5 but in the lait cf them it was the Oppolition of Mars, which 1 do etigem equally violent with the Body. Nay! in that of Cardinal Colsemnz he had the Afcendent to the Bodies of Saturn and Mars ther almott, and yet both their Force had not power to kill him. What do you think of thefe things? Was nor this Duke’s a very hard Cale, to be fentout of the world by that which would kill no body clfe? Let not this be told to the Unbelievers, leit they laugh you to fcorn, and fet your Stars in derilion. Da ButDofettio Geniturarum. But: perhaps you will now ask me, What J think killed him fince I retufe to believe what he {ays did it? And I care not much if 1 comply with your expectations, though I dare not be pofitive, becaule 1 know not the eftimate time, but believe it to be later than this printed; and the Right Afcention of the Midheaven in my Corrcétion is 121 degrees 41 minutes, and the Sun beyond all doubt giver of Life, and fo he would be if the Time were an hour fooner, or 3 hours later; and therefore I will endeavcur to corre@ according to my Sentiments and Opinion and leave other men to the Enjoyment of their own, defiring them to make me happy in the fight of a better Correction than Tgive them. The Dire@ions that I conclade kil’d him, were the Sun di- redted to the Mundane Parallel of Mercury, Dire&t and Convers eet his followed by the Mundane Squase of Saturn; and # really think that thefe Dire¢tions are both fuitable and probable to produce fach Diftempers, whereof this Duke dyed I am fure more likely than the Body of Afsrs by far and the Operations for them are thus: The dittance of Mercury from the Tenth Houfe is 6 degrees 22 minutes; the diftance of the Sun 24 de- grees 5 minutes + the proportional diftance to be added to Mer- eary’s diftance is 25 degrees 28 minutes s which gives the Ark of Direction of the Sun to the Parallel of Mercury d. d. 31 degrees 50 minutes; which turned into time, gives almoft 35 years, and fo long this Native did live. And aftex this, came up the Mun- dane Square of Saturn to the Sun thus: The diftance of the Sua from the Cufp of the Tenth is 24 degrees 5 minutes 5 the di- fiance of Saturn from the Culp of the Afcendent is 62 degrees 27 minutes; now, by the Rule of Proportion, I fay, if 17 dee grces 58 minutes gives 24 degrees 5 minutes, what fhall 19 degrees 29 minutes give? 26 degrees 7 minutes 5 which is the part proportional to be fabliracted from 62 degrees 27 minutes, piturn’s primary diftance from che A(cendent, and it leaves the Ark of Direction 36 degrees 20 minutes, And thele two Dire- ions to the Hileg will appear much more likely to give Death (i mean to oue that underftands it) than the Afcendent to the Body of Mars, which is but a Sham Dire@ion, and no- thing in ie, ‘Argoll Defettio Geniturarum. Argoll tells us, Leonora Dutchefs of Sfortia was bora the 12th of Murch, at7 of the Clock at Night, 157° fab Polo 43 R.A. of the Midheaven 107 degrees 19 minutes; and that the dyed on the Afcendent to the Oppotisien of the Mion, Alars to the Trine of Venus, and the Sun co the Square of Venus. That the was taken the lat day of November at Night with great Pain in the Reins and Ureters, and Suppreffion of Urin:, attended with aflight Fever; and on the 17th of December the dyed, being aged 64 years and 9 months, 1634 Among his 117 Nativities, he kills two on the Afeendent to the Oppotition of the Moon, and they are this Lady for one, and Cardinal Burghefixs for the other. In the firlt the Mon is Hileg, but in the alt fhe is not, fo that the Myltery is not lodged in that point. And he lets fix pals the fame Direction without dy- ing, or fo much as telling us reafon for iz: And they are Ga/- par Cardinal Mattens, who had his Moon in the Eighth ; Duke ‘Bernard Veimarins, whole Nativity fcc before ; Pope Gregory XV. Donina Felix Gloveria, where the Moon was Lady of the Eighth 5 Cardinal Cobellutizs , who had the Moon in the Eighth, and Cardinal Virilis, who had the Moon there alfo: Thele all efca- ped on that Dirction. And for the other Dire@ion of the Sua to the Square of Venus, it looks fo notorioufly hke a Sham, that Iam loth to obferve it, there being fo many among his Geniture that have paffed that Dire@ion untoucht cither with Sicknefs or Death, And among thofe 1 will name only Four of them : Pope Sixtus V. Pope Gregory XV. Cardinal Richeliew 3 Foltrius Duke of Urbin 5 with a great many mote, too great a number to name, He alfo makes ufe of another Dire@tion, and that is the Moon to the Oppotition of ‘Jupiter, Lord of ‘the Sixth Houfe; but this, as well as the Square of Venus, are fo far from killing, that they would have faved, had either the Sun or Muon been Hileg, Thus by comparing one with another you fee what Credit is to be given to thofe Direétions that our Author fays kil’d her; which you find he will not allow to hold in other Nativities, and therefore fufpicious here, Nor doth he tell us whether he lays the firefs on the Afcendent to the Oppo- fition of the Moon, or the ‘Moon to the Seventh Houfe; but in his way, if the Afcendent to the Oppofition of the Moo could kill Ddz new,