{"collection":"astro","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/astro/aia/aia27.htm","path":"astro/aia/aia27.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/astro/aia/aia27.htm","text":"THE ascendant and the \u263d signify the ship and cargo; the lord of the ascendant, those that sail in her. If you find a malevolent, having dignities in the 8th, placed in the ascendant, or the lord of the ascendant in the 8th in ill configuration with the lords of the 8th, 12th, 4th, or 6th, or if the \u263d be combust, and under the earth, you may judge that the ship is lost, and the men drowned. But if you find reception between the significators at the same time, the ship was wrecked, but some of the crew escaped: if all the preceding significators be free from affliction, then both ship and cargo are safe; and if there be reception, the more so. If the ascendant and \u263d be unfortunate, and the lord of the ascendant fortunate, the ship is lost, but the men saved.\nBut when the querent demand, of any ship setting forth, and the state of the ship ere she return, and what may be hoped of the voyage; then, behold the angles of the figure, and see if the fortunes are therein, and the infortunes remote from angles, cadent, combust, or under the \u2609 beams, then you may judge the ship will go safe with all her lading. But if you find the infortunes in angles, or succeeding houses,\nthere will chance some hinderance unto the ship. If the infortune be \u2644, the vessel will strike ground. If \u2642, and he be in an earthy sign, he will signify the same, or very great danger and damage. But if the fortunes cast their benevolent rays to the place of \u2644 or \u2642, and the lords of the angles and of the dispositor of the \u263d be free, then the ship shall labour hard, and suffer damage, yet the greater part of the crew and cargo shall be preserved. If \u2642 afflict the lords of the angles, and dispositor of \u263d, the crew will be in danger by enemies or pirates; and if there be any additional evil configurations among these significators, there will be quarrels on board, thieving, and purloining, &c., with bloodshed: \u2644 causes thefts only, if so situated, but no bloodshed.\nIf the signs afflicted by \u2644, \u2642, \u260b (and \u2645, if he be ill aspected), be those that signify the vessel's bottom, or parts under water, she springs a leak; if the signs be unfortunate in the midheaven, fiery signs, and \u2642 therein, there is danger of lightning or fire; if airy signs and \u2640 afflict, damage by high winds. If \u2642 be in the 4th, and afflicted, it denotes fire beneath; and if \u2645 be with him, spontaneous combustion. If the sign be \u264a, \u264e, or \u2652, she may be set on fire by an enemy.\nIf \u2644 be in the midheaven, and shew damage, it will be by rotten sails or gear, and bad weather, foul winds, &c. An in-fortune in the ascendant shews damage to the fore part of the vessel; and if the lord of the ascendant be retrograde, it denotes that she will put into some harbour; and if he be in a moveable sign, she returns to the very port she sailed from. If the lord of the 8th afflict the lord of the 1st, and he in the 8th, the ship will be injured according to the nature of the planet afflicting. If he impedite the \u263d's dispositor, the lord of the ascendant and \u263d, it shews the death of the master, and probably of his mate. If it be \u2295 which is afflicted, it\nforeshews evil to the cargo or a had market; but if \u2643, \u2640, or \u260a be in the second, or assist its lord, or the lord of \u2295, it shews good profit, which will be according to their strength.\nIf the lords of the ascendant, of the \u263d and their dispositors be slow in motion, the voyage will be long; if they be swift, the ship will return quickly. If there be ill aspects between the lord of the 1st and the dispositor of \u263d without reception, there will be discord among the seamen, and with them and the owner. If the lord of the ascendant be strongest, the seamen will prevail; but if the lord of the house where \u263d is, then the owner. If the dispositor of \u2295 be not with it, or the lord of the 2d be weak, there will be scarcity of provisions, and, if they be in watery signs, of fresh water.\nPARTS of a Ship ruled by the SIGNS.\n\u2648 The breast, or bows of the ship.\n\u2649 The cutwater, and parts beneath.\n\u264a The rudder, or stem.\n\u264b The bottom, or floor.\n\u264c The upper works.\n\u264d The hold.\n\u264e The parts about the water's edge.\n\u264f The seamen's berths, or cabin.\n\u2650 The seamen themselves.\n\u2651 The ends of the vessel.\n\u2652 The master, or captain.\n\u2653 The oars, in galleys; the wheels, in steam-vessels; and the sails in others.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 4.\nAN EXAMPLE OF A SHIP AT SEA.\nIn December 1644, a merchant, in London, having sent a ship to the coast of Spain to trade, had several times news that his ship was wrecked. He would have given \u00a360 per cent. to insure her, but no insurance company would meddle, no, not upon any terms. A friend of the merchant asked, What I thought of the ship, if sunk or living? I gave my opinion, that the ship was not lost, but did live, and though\nof late in some danger, yet was now recovered. My judgment was founded on the considerations in act following:\nIn the first place, the ascending degrees of Cancer shewed the bulk or body of the ship. I find \u2644 casts his \u2610 from a cardinal sign, out of the 11th house, very near to the ascendant. After his \u2610 I find \u263d in her exaltation, casting a \u2736 to the ascendant, interposing her \u2736 between the \u260d aspects of \u263f and \u2609 in the 7th, which otherwise had been dangerous, for all aspects to the ascendant in this judgment are dangerous. From the ascendant afflicted by \u2610 of \u2644, and presence of fixed stars of his nature, I judged the ship was of \u2644's nature, sluggish, heavy, and not very sound. And \u264b, being a weakly sign, made me judge the ship was of such nature; (and it was so confessed). From hence, and \u260b in the 9th, I judged that the ship had been in some distress in her voyage, occasioned by such casualties as \u2644 signifies, viz. some leak or damage in or near her breast, as \u2648, the sign \u2644 is in, represents that part.\nBut as \u263d, lady of the ascendant, is in the 11th in her exaltation, in no way impedited, and by a benevolent \u25b3 aspect applying to \u2609 and \u263f, and is so near the body of \u2643, and as all the significators are above the earth, and no infortunes in angles; I judged the ship, sailors, and officers, were safe, and in good condition. The next QUERY was--\nWhere the Ship was, upon what Coast, and when any News would come of her?\nHerein I considered the \u263d was fixed, and in the 11th house; \u2649 is a southern sign, but in an east quarter of heaven, verging to the south; her application is to \u25b3 of \u263f, and he in \u2651 a south sign and west angle; all this made me judge that the ship was south-west from London, and upon our own coasts, or near those which lie between Ireland and Wales. I judged her at that time to be in some harbour, because \u2649, where \u263d is, is fixed, and in the 11th, or house of\ncomfort and relief, and that she was put in to repair. (It proved that she was an a harbour in the west.)\nBecause \u263d applied to \u25b3 of \u263f and \u2609, and they in an angle, and all three very swift in motion, and did want but a few minutes of a perfect \u25b3, I judged there would be news, or a certain discovery of the ship in a very short time. The significators being so near a perfect aspect, I said, either that night, or within two days, the news would arrive. (And so at proved.) And, observe, that it gave me good encouragement when I saw \u2295 disposed of by \u2642, and that \u263f, to whom \u263d applied, was in reception with \u2642; also, that \u263d did so well apply to \u2609, lord of the 2d, or house of substance: a sign that the merchant should gain by that adventure.\nBesides, usually when \u263d applies to a good aspect of a retrograde planet, it brings the matter to an issue one way or other speedily, and when least expected; and it is a general maxim, that if \u263d apply to the fortunes, or by good aspect to any planet or planets in metes, it is reason that we hope well, &c.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 5.\nEXAMPLE of another SHIP at SEA.\nHere the ascendant and \u263d are significators of the ship, and those who sail in her. The \u263d lately separated from a \u2610 of \u2644, lord of the 8th and 9th, and afterwards applied to \u25b3 of \u2644, then to \u260d of \u263f, lord of the 12th and 4th houses. This shewed that the ship had lately been in danger of shipwreck: and as the \u263d had been void of course, so had no news been heard of her; for, after being in \u2610 of \u2644 in fixed signs, and at the time in a cadent house, and then not next\napplying to the good aspect of any benefit planet, but being void of course, and then again continuing her application out of the 4th to \u2644, who is still lord of the 8th, though it was by good aspect; and then to \u260d of \u263f, her dispositor, who is in his detriment and entering combustion; and, \u2643, dispositor of \u263f, subterranean, and \u260c with \u2642 and in term of an infortune; and, moreover, as \u2642 is in his fall near the cusp of the 2d, I judged, by all this, loss to the merchant. Besides \u2295, is in the 6th disposed by \u2643, he retrograde and afflicted in the 2d in no aspect to \u2295, the \u263d also in \u2610 to it, as also \u263f. There being so many ill testimonies, I judged he would lose much, if not all, in this ship; and so consequently that she was cast away. (And so it proved.) The principal significator in the 4th and afflicted, was a sure sign of the ship sinking.","title":"Introduction to Astrology: The Resolution of all Manner of Questions and Demands: Chapter XXIV. Of a Ship, and her Safety or Destruction","type":"page"}