{"collection":"astro","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/astro/aia/aia32.htm","path":"astro/aia/aia32.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/astro/aia/aia32.htm","text":"Viz. Sickness, Servants, Small Cattle, &c.\nIN the first place, we ought to take the figure for the exact moment of the person falling sick, or rather of being obliged to take to his bed. 1\nSecondly, if that cannot be had, accept of that time when first any person spoke to a physician, &c. regarding the patient. And if it was with his consent, the ascendant will signify him; but if unknown to him, the ascendant will denote the querent; and the house describing his relation to the person speaking of the sickness will describe the patient. (This is, supposing the physician to be an astrologer, which they formerly were; but if the patient's friend speak to an astrologer, the same rule holds.)\nThirdly, or let the physician note the time of his own first\nspeaking with the patient, 1 and let a figure be erected for that moment.\nThen consider carefully, first, the ascendant and planets therein; secondly, the 6th house, and planets therein, thirdly, the sign and house wherein the Moon is; fourthly, how she is affected or afflicted, by what planet, in what house that planet is, and of what house be is lord.\nWhat Part of the Body as afflicted?\nIf the ascendant be afflicted by an evil planet, and he retrograde, combust, peregrine, slow in motion, or in \u2610 or \u260d to the lord of the 4th, 6th, 8th, or 12th, the disease is then in the head, or in that part or parts of the body which the planet or planets signify in the sign then ascending.\nFor example; if \u264b ascend, and \u2644 therein, the sick party is afflicted in the head, because the ascendant signifies the head; and also has some disorder in the bowels, reins, or secrets, because \u2644 in \u264b signifies those parts; or else with some rotten cough, as \u2644 denotes coughs, and \u264b rules the breast. If the lord of the ascendant, \u263d, or lord of the 6th, be in a sign signifying the same member or parts as \u2644, or if the sign on the 6th represent the same, your judgment will be more certain; I may say, infallible. 2\nI also would observe, in like manner, the 6th house, its\nsign, lord, and planet in it. Also observe carefully the sign and house where \u263d is, her separation and application. And you may then venture safely to give judgment as to what part of the body of the sick person is grieved, and of the nature and quality of the sickness.\nThe Cause and Nature of the Sickness.\nThe significators in fiery signs, and fiery signs on the ascendant and 6th, shew feverish and hot complaints, hectic fevers, erysipelas, &c.\nEarthy signs argue long and tedious diseases, agues, intermittent fevers, and such complaints as proceed from melancholy, consumption, &c.\nAiry signs shew corrupt blood, gout, cutaneous diseases, scrofula, &c.\nWatery signs shew diseases that proceed from cold and moisture, coughs and disordered stomach, &c.\nDiseases signified by the Houses.\n1st. All diseases in the head, eyes, face, ears, nose, mouth, foul breath, &c.\n2d. The throat, scrofula, quinsey, glandular swellings in the neck, sore throat, &c.\n3d. The shoulders, arms, and hands.\n4th. The stomach, breast, and lungs.\n5th. Back, hind parts of the shoulders, liver, heart, sides, and stomach.\n6th. Lower part of the abdomen, the intestines, liver, and reins.\n7th. The hams, the flank, the small intestines, bladder, matrix and members of generation.\n8th. The spine, rectum, and groin.\n9th. The hips and thighs.\n10th. The knees and upper part of the leg behind the knees.\n11th. The leg from the knee to the ancle, the shin-bone, shank, &c.\n12th. The feet, ancles and toes, with all hurts or disease incident to them. 1\nWhether the Disease will be long or short.\nHave regard to the time of year, and consider that diseases commencing in the winter are usually longer, and those in summer shorter.\nDiseases which proceed from \u2644 are more permanent, and are generally regulated much by the motion of the \u2609. Those of a hot and dry nature, which are influenced by \u2642 and \u2609, are short, and regulated by the motion of \u263d. \u2644 causes long chronic complaints, falls, bruises, blows, &c.; \u2643 and \u2609 shorter; \u2642 short, violent, and quick, such as cuts, bleedings, &c. \u2640 a mean between both, and such as proceed from intemperance; \u263f various and changeable, such as fits, &c.; \u263d such as return at periods, as the falling sickness or epilepsy, giddiness, swimming in the head, gout, periodical illness in females, &c. 2\nSigns of a short Disease.\nWhen the cusp of the 6th, the \u263d, and the lords of the 1st and 6th, be in moveable signs, or the lord of the ascendant swift in motion, or going out of his own house into another, so that it be not the sign of the 6th or 12th, or if a fortune be in the 6th, you may judge that the disease will soon terminate.\nSigns of a long Disease.\nThe lord of the 6th evil or afflicted, and placed in the 6th, fixed signs on its cusp, or the significators, especially the \u263d, in fixed signs, are testimonies of a long and durable disease and if \u2644 be lord of the 6th and in a fixed sign, or retrograde and slow in motion, he extremely prolongs the disease; but if he be in a moveable sign, or in any of his own terms, or be swift in motion, he is not then so unfortunate.\nGeneral Signs.\nThe disease continues but a short time if \u2653 be on the cusp of the 6th. If the \u263d apply by ill aspect to the lord of the ascendant, the disease will increase. If \u263d be in the 6th in ill aspect to \u2640, the disease is brought on by intemperance, either evil diet or surfeit; and if \u2640 be in \u264f, there is evidence of a scandalous disease. But if the patient be a female, it may be the whites or other diseases of the matrix.\nThe last degrees of any sign being on the cusp of the 6th, denotes that the disease is almost at an end. If the lord of the 6th apply by ill aspect to the lord of the ascendant, it is a token of the disease increasing; the same, if the lord of the 6th be in the 8th or 12th house. If the lord of the ascendant be in the 6th, and the lord of the 6th in the ascendant, the disease has been of long continuance, and will continue until one of the significators leaves the sign where he is. And if, at the time of transiting out of the sign, he meet the evil aspects of the infortunes or lords of the 4th or 8th, and they slow in motion, and it be from signs evilly aspecting one another, it is a strong sign that the sick person will then depart this life. The lord of the 6th afflicted by the \u2610 or \u260d of the lord of the ascendant, the disease is grievous and hard to cure. If the lord of the 6th be in the ascendant, the\ndisease will continue, but the pain at times is small. If he be in a cadent house, the disease is not important, nor will it endure. Good planets in the 6th promise a good end to the disease; evil, the contrary. The lord of the 6th, afflicted in the 6th, 8th, or 12th, or an infortune in the 6th, denotes a disease not easily curable. The lord of the ascendant and \u263d free from ill aspects, both being unafflicted and strong, and not in the 6th, 8th, or 12th, is a fair testimony of recovery and health. The lord of the 1st in the 4th or 8th, if not afflicted, denotes not death; but if unfortunate, it shews great difficulty ere the party be cured. If, however, he be unfortunate by retrogradation, being combust, &c., he may possibly be cured, but will afterwards relapse. If he be in evil aspect with \u263d, there is danger; but, above all, if \u2644 be lord of the ascendant, and be slow or retrograde, there is reason to fear a long and tedious sickness. If \u2644 be strong and well qualified, the reverse.\nWhen the lord of the ascendant is angular, strong, and unafflicted, the querent is in no danger. The \u263d slow in motion and in any aspect with him, it prolongs the infirmity, though there be at present hopes of a cure. If she be swift in motion when aspecting the lord of the ascendant, the cure will be effected in a little time. The \u263d decreasing in light, and coming to \u260c, \u2610, or \u260d of \u2644, unless the disease be already leaving the patient, is very dangerous. The \u263d in \u260c with an oriental planet, who is swift in motion and direct, denotes a brief sickness; if joined to a retrograde and occidental planet, the contrary.\nIf \u264f ascend, the patient has been the cause of his own sickness by folly, anger, peevishness, or the like; especially if \u2642 be therein. Both lights cadent and their dispositors unfortunate, the sickness will be severe; but if the fortunes assist, though the disease will be of long continuance, the\nparty will recover beyond all expectation: the stronger the fortunes are, the more confident you may be in your judgment. If \u2642 be lord of the ascendant and in the 6th, but in good aspect to \u2640, there is no danger; if even in \u2610 or \u260d, not much.\nThe lord of the 6th combust, retrograde, in his fall or detriment, and in the 8th, in \u260c, \u2610, or \u260d of \u2644 or \u2642, you may fear that the disease will never leave the patient till death. If the \u263d also be applying to the same aspects of the lord of the 8th, your judgment will be certain. The \u263d or lord of the 1st, in \u260c, \u2610, or \u260d to a benevolent planet, but he retrograde, the patient will recover, but not speedily, for it denotes relapsing out of one disease into another. When \u263d leaves \u260d of \u2609, and is swiftly applying to the \u2610 or \u260d of \u2642, it threatens a fatal end to the disease; but if she receive a \u2736 or \u25b3 of \u2643 or \u2640, the sick shall recover. If the \u263d be in the ascendant, and in \u260c, \u2610, or \u260d to \u2644 or \u2642, or any other evil planet, it is a token of severe illness and danger, unless she be in mutual reception with the planet afflicting.\nTestimonies of Recovery.\nThe \u263d applying to a fortune, powerful, denotes that the party will be restored to his former health. If reception be between the lords of the ascendant and 8th by house or triplicity, the fortunes assisting the degree ascending, or that on the 6th, or the \u263d by \u260c, \u2736, or \u25b3, the sick will perfectly recover. The lord of the ascendant, being a benefit planet, or any fortune in an angle and no ill aspects cast thereto, signifies health. A certain sign of recovery is, when \u2609, \u2643, \u2640 or \u263d be in the ascendant, and no ways afflicted by the lord of the 6th or 8th house; the more so if in the houses of the lights or benefics. The \u263d in her own house, or the houses of \u2643 or \u2640, and in any aspect to those benefics, and no way\nafflicted by \u2645, \u2644, or \u2642, denotes health and life. Whenever \u263d \u260c \u2643 occurs, it denotes recovery, but if in \u2651, less than in any other sign. If \u263d apply to the lord of the ascendant by good aspect, and be unafflicted (by the lord of the 8th or 6th especially), recovery is promised.\nWhen, at the first falling sick of the party, \u263d is void of course, and at her next crisis meets a \u2736 or \u25b3 of \u2643 or \u2640 in the exact degree which forms the perfect critical aspect, the patient will undoubtedly recover, be he never so ill at time of asking the question. If at the commencement of a disease, \u2609, \u263d, and the lord of the ascendant, are free from ill aspects of the infortunes or lord of the 8th, there are assured hopes of life.\nArguments of Death.\nThe lord of the ascendant and \u263d in \u260c with the lord of the 8th, without interposing aspects of fortunes.\nThe lord of the ascendant cadent, and the lord of the 8th in an angle, especially if the latter be an infortune. The \u263d applying to a planet in the 8th, and afflicted; and the lord of the ascendant applying to the lord of the 8th or to evil planets therein, are very dangerous. The \u263d transferring the light of the lord of the 8th to the lord of the ascendant, usually denotes death. So when the lord of the 8th is in the ascendant, the lord of the ascendant and \u263d both being afflicted; or the lord of the ascendant being in the 8th and afflicted, and \u263d also weak and in no dignity. The lord of the ascendant under the Earth, and in ill aspect to the lord of the 8th in the 8th, or if the two lords be in \u260c in the 4th house. It is a very ill sign when the lord of the ascendant is in \u260c with the lords of the 4th, 6th, 8th, or 12th.\nThe lord of the ascendant combust in the ascendant, or the lord of the 8th in the 10th, and the lord of the ascendant in the 4th, 6th, or 12th, and afflicted by malefics, are very evil.\n[paragraph continues] The lord of the 8th retrograde and conjoined with the \u263d, or in \u2610 or \u260d to her, shews death. The lord of the attendant in \u264c or \u2652, and evilly affected by the lords of the 6th or 12th, shews little hopes of recovery; and his being conjoined with Aldebaran, Antares, Caput, Algol, or other violent fixed stars, is also evil. And if both lights be afflicted by \u2644 in an angle, it is testimony of a tedious, long illness.\nThe \u263d in the 4th with \u2642, or the \u2609 with \u2644, are testimonies of death; also the \u263d near the cusp of the ascendant in \u2610 of \u2642 from the 4th. The \u263d combust in the 8th, or if lady of the 6th and combust in the ascendant or 4th, the same; and especially if the lord of the 8th be afflicted.\nThe \u260c of \u263d with \u2609 is a very ill sign, especially when she has not yet passed \u2609; however, when the \u260c is in \u2648 or \u264c it is not quite so evil. 1\nIn all cases the multiplicity of testimonies must be observed, the strength of the afflicting planets, and the absence of assistance to neutralize the evil influence, before you predict death.\nTo know whether the Querent be really ill or not.\nIf the ascendant be not afflicted, nor its lord out of all his essential dignities, nor afflicted by \u2644, \u2642, or the lord of the 6th, he is not. Or if no planet afflict the 6th house by its presence, or the \u263d be not afflicted in the 8th or 12th, or if you find \u2643, or \u2640, or \u260a in the ascendant, or \u2609 in the 6th, or the \u263d and lord of the ascendant in good aspect, or \u2643 or \u2640 casting a \u2736 or \u25b3 to the cusp of the ascendant or 6th, the party is not really sick, but at the utmost some slight indisposition has occurred, which will shortly be rectified.\nWhether the Disease be in the Body or Mind, or both.\nIf the ascendant, \u2609, and \u263d be all afflicted, the disease is\nthen through the whole body; but if the planets which dispose of \u2609 and \u263d, or if the lord of the ascendant, or two of them, be afflicted, the disease is more in the mind. If the ascendant the \u263d, and lord of the \u2609 are all, or two of them, afflicted, and the lord of the ascendant and the dispositor of they free, the affection is in the mind and not in the body.\nIf \u2644 afflict the \u263d, he shews trouble in the mind, vexation and care; but if \u2643 be in the planet afflicting the \u263d, the contrary; for he never oppresses the mind, but always the body.\nIf the lord of the house in which \u263d is, and the lord of the ascendant are afflicted by \u2609, or combust, or under the beams of \u2609, the distemper is bodily. But if the ruler of \u263d and the ruler of the lord of the ascendant be much afflicted, the grief is more mental than bodily. Also if the degree ascending and that degree where \u263d is be more afflicted than the lords of those signs, the disease is more in the mind; but if the lords be more afflicted, the reverse.\nWhen the dispositors of the lights are very much afflicted and very weak, and the degree ascending have a \u2610 of mo but no ill aspect of \u2644 or \u2642, the person is much tormented in mind. In these cases \u2609 causes the mind to be troubled by pride, self-conceit, haughtiness, &c. \u2640 argues luxury, or a lasciviousness which disturbs both body and mind. \u263f shews foolish fancies and fearful imaginations.\nOf the Crises, or of Critical Days.\nIf the disease be not chronic, you will find great alteration in the patient near those times when \u263d arrives at a distance from her first place, when the patient was taken ill, of 45, 90, or 135 degrees. To learn whether these crises will be good or evil, see how she is aspected at those times. If she\nbe in good aspect with a benevolent planet, it promises ease and an improved condition; but if she there meet with evil aspects of malevolent planets or the lords of the 6th or 8th, he will be worse, and the medicines do little good. I have always observed that, when the \u263d came at the crises to \u260c, \u2610, or \u260d of that planet which did afflict the ascendant, \u263d, or lord of the ascendant, or when she came to such aspect of the lord of the 6th or planets placed in the 6th, the patient suffered much, the disease ran high, and medicines given about that time worked little or no good. When she came, however, to \u2736 or \u25b3 of the lords of the ascendant, 9th, 10th, or 11th houses, I observed some interval of ease or amendment. So when the lord of the ascendant came to any good aspect of the \u2609 (if he had not power or dominion in the disease), I found the patient's mind much relieved.\nHow long it may be before Recovery.\nWhen there is reason to believe that, by God's blessing, the sick person shall recover, and it be desired to know when, observe which planet is lord of the ascendant, and what benevolent planet he is in aspect with; then see what house they are in, (that is the one which applies to the other's aspect), whether angles, &c., and what signs they possess, whether moveable, &c. Then according to discretion and quality of the disease, so frame the measure of time. In general, I judge in so many days as the aspect wants degrees of being perfect, if the sign be moveable and the planet angular; but if swift in motion, I am the more certain that the patient will begin to amend in so many days. If the sign be common, in which the application is, I neither judge days, weeks, nor months, but use discretion, having first observed the nature of the disease.\nThe ancient rule was as follows:\n| Moveable signs shew | days. | \n| Common ditto | weeks. | \n| Fixed ditto | months. | \n| Angles are equivalent to | moveable signs. | \n| Succeedent houses to | common signs. | \n| Cadent houses to | fixed signs. | \nIt is well to observe, also, the quick or slow motion of the \u263d, the sign she is in, and her situation as to angles, &c. I often find that when the lord of the ascendant quits the sign he is in, and enters a sign in which he has dignities, the patient recovers at that time, or feels an alteration for the better. If a common sign be on the 6th, 28\u00b0 or more, I say, that the disease will vary in two weeks.\nJUDGMENT OF THE DISEASE FROM THE AFFLICTION OF THE MOON AT THE FIRST ILLNESS OF THE PATIENT, OR THE TIME OF ASKING THE QUESTION. 1\nWhoever shall be first taken ill, or compelled to take to his bed when the \u263d is afflicted by \u2644, or by \u263f, if he have the nature of \u2644, will, in a great measure, suffer as here described.\nThe \u263d in \u2648, in \u260c, \u2610, or \u260d of \u2644.--Headache or heaviness in the head, much discharge at the nostrils, dulness, or weariness of the eyes, humours falling into the throat; weak pulse, and a heavy drowsiness of mind; loathing at the stomach, violent unseasonable perspiration, internal heats, and externally cold. The patient more afflicted at night than by day.\nThe \u263d in \u2649, in \u260c, &c. of \u2644.--Fevers proceeding from obstructions near the heart, liver, and lungs, occasioned by surfeits,\nhigh living, &c. The pulse high and immoderate, the body inflated, lungs oppressed, ulcerated, &c. If the \u263d be not supported by benefits, there is danger of death within 14 days.\nThe \u263d in \u264a in \u260d \u2644, &c.--The disease has its origin in the mind by too much care, or a multiplicity of business, or otherwise by fatigue in travelling or over-exercise. There is danger of a small fever; the pain is dispersed over all the body, but chiefly in the joints. The vitals are afflicted, the pulse rare, and weak; there are frequent perspirations, symptoms of spleen and consumption. If \u2642 also afflict, without assistance, the patient will hardly live 10 days; but if \u2643 or \u2640 assist, the sick person may recover after a long period.\nThe \u263d in \u264b in \u260c of \u2644, &c.--The breast is much afflicted with tough phlegm, or slimy matter; there is cough, and much salivary discharge. Hoarseness, catarrhs, &c., with humours falling into the breast; the windpipe obstructed; slight fevers, agues, &c. holding a long time; also pains in the bowels, infirmity in the reins or secrets. If \u263d be decreasing, and near the body of \u2644, the disease will continue a long time.\nThe \u263d in \u264c in \u260c, &c of \u2644.--The sickness arises from bad blood, the patient suffers with heat in the breast, heart-burn, violent fevers, troubled pulse, much external and internal heat, faintness at the heart, swoonings, the stone; and sometimes the black jaundice. If there be no good aspects to prevent it, they frequently die when \u263d comes to \u260d of \u2644.\nThe \u263d in \u264d in \u260c, &c. \u2644.--The illness arises from indigestion, obstructions in the bowels, &c.; shooting pains are felt under the ribs, &c.; flatulency, gout, or aches in the thighs or feet, &c. The patient generally is sick a long time.\nThe \u263d in \u264e in \u260c, &c. of \u2644.--The disease has its origin in some surfeit of wine or rich food, meat ill digested, &c., or\nfrom excess of venery; the breast is affected, also he head, there is no appetite, a loathing in the stomach, cough, hoarseness, &c., and often great pain in the joints, knees, and thighs, with an itching in those parts, and fear of sciatica.\nThe \u263d in \u264f in \u260c, &c. of \u2644.--Denotes a disease in the rectum or sphincter muscle, piles, hemorrhoids, or fistula. There is very likely a retention of urine, or the reverse; stone in the bladder, dropsical humour, &c. It may be that it is gonorrhea, &c., or the diseases of the matrix. 1\nThe \u263d in \u2650 in \u260c, &c. of \u2644.--The patient suffers by pains in the joints, &c., or fever, extremes of heat and cold. Illness often happens by too great exertion of body or mind, and cold taken afterwards; there is much melancholy also. And if it be an \u260d of \u2644, there is generally a spice of gout, tumours or swellings in the hands, thighs, or feet, &c. If \u2642 have any ill aspect to \u263d, it proves a violent burning fever.\nThe \u263d in \u2651 in \u260c, &c. \u2644.--The disease proceeds from cold or melancholy. It brings heaviness of the breast and stomach, difficulty of breathing, dry coughs, the lungs oppressed, and a fever is approaching. The pain is greater at night than in the day. The patient continually complains of headache, or pain in the left ear, or of a rumbling noise in his head. 2\nThe \u2609 in \u2652 in \u260c, &c. \u2644.--The illness is occasioned by too much toil of mind or body, want of sleep, or due refreshment. The malady comes on unequally with remission or intension. 1 The patient suffers by noise in the head, by wind, or faintness at the heart, or a rising and danger of suffocation by hysterical fits, &c.; and by sore throat.\nThe \u263d in \u2653 in \u260c, &c. \u2644.--The complaint arises from cold, 2 and the patient is afflicted with continual fever, frequently sighs, suffers pains under the nipples of the breast, and about the heart; the throat suffers from much phlegm, or there is water in the chest, rotten cough, &c.\nWhoever is taken ill when \u263d is afflicted by \u2642 or the \u2609, suffers in the following manner:--\nThe \u263d in \u2648 in \u260c, &c. of \u2642.--The disease is from some distemper of the membranes, &c. of the brain. There is continual fever and restlessness, extreme thirst, foul tongue, or inflammation of the liver, heat and pain in the breast, high pulse, and often delirium. The patient is generally almost mad with pain, either cholic or cholera pains, &c. in the bowels. If after the \u263d leave \u2642 she go to \u260c or \u260d of \u2644, there is small hope of life; and if she decrease in light, and be slow in motion, there is scarce any.\nThe \u263d in \u2649 in \u260c, &c. of \u2642.--There is an abundance of blood, continual fever, the whole frame disordered; sore throat, with inflammation in the neck, or hind part thereof; pain in the bones, broken sleep, and a foolish longing after wine and cold water. There is often putrid sore throat and also hoarseness, and strangury, stone, or gravel, with pain in the reins or kidneys, or disease therein.\nThe \u263d in \u264a in \u260c, &c. \u2642.--A violent fever, high and in-ordinate pulse; there are obstructions and corrupt blood, pains all over the body, heat in the reins, and sometimes spitting of blood; also lameness or fractures in the arms, pains in the joints, &c.\nThe \u263d in \u264b, in \u260c, &c. \u2642. This shews a disordered stomach by having taken too much to drink, &c., riot, and excess. It often turns to dysentery, cough, and spitting of blood.\nThe \u263d in \u264c in \u260c, &c. \u2642.--Too much blood abounds, weak pulse, a disturbed brain, raving, and strong fits; loss of or depraved appetite; distempers of the heart, heaviness all over the body, and drowsiness. There is danger of consumption. The blood is over-heated, the body dry and parched; there is probability of pleurisy, fainting, and swooning. I ever fear this \u260c or \u260d more than in any other sign.\nThe \u263d in \u264d in \u260c, &c. \u2642. Flux in the bowels, small fevers, a failing pulse, cholic, flatulence, weakness in the legs, or near the ancles. If \u263d be afflicted by \u2642 in \u264d, diseases are not easily removed.\nThe \u263d in \u264e in \u260c, &c. \u2642.--The patient is grieved with plentitude of blood, and, from that cause, has high pulse, no rest, is feverish, and an inflammation all over the body. The patient has taken some surfeit by excess or disorder in his diet, or the blood is over-heated; or there is stone or gravel in the kidneys. Violent burning fevers often follow.\nThe \u263d in \u264f in \u260c, &c. \u2642.--There is generally some ulcer, lues, gonorrhea, &c., or, if a child, measles; it may be piles, or hemorrhoids. There is frequently some stoppage in the head by grievous colds; and as the blood is corrupt, so we find blotches, breakings out, &c. If there be reason to believe it, some scandalous disease may be judged, especially if \u2640 afflict \u263d.\nThe \u263d in \u2650 in \u260c, &c. \u2642.--The disease is in general violent,\nand caused by gluttony or repletion. There is fever frequently very high, or choleric passion; but the pulse is often faint, and beats slow and feeble. Inordinate exercise has frequently been the cause of the disease; and he suffers pestilent fever, &c. It shews hand and foot gout, breakings out, sore throat, &c., and, at times, sore and inflamed eyes. Also, hurts by horses.\nThe \u263d in \u2651 in \u260c, &c. \u2642.--Nausea abounds, vomiting and flux. A puffing up of the sinews, (such as cholera cramps), inflammation of the breast, and humours in the hands or fingers. The face is yellow and sunken, the body extremely wasted, and the blood corrupt. The pulse remits, and is slow. The yellow jaundice happens under these aspects.\nThe \u263d in \u2652 in \u260c, &c. \u2642.--If \u263d be slow in motion, and decreasing in light, the disease proceeds from sharp and violent affections, or vehement passions. There is pain at the heart, swooning fits, high pulse, great pain in the chest, and much difficulty in breathing.\nThe \u263d in \u2653 in \u260c, &c. \u2642, The body is full of gross humours, the disease is from too much drinking and excess, and is most prevalent in the night time. The party is troubled with a kind of delirium, (frequently it shews that they are yet drunk), they have vehement thirst, sharp burning fevers, and are desirous of wine. They have generally a looseness and much pain in the bowels, or a violent cough and great expectoration, and are almost suffocated with phlegm; the body is swollen, and there is danger of dropsy. 1\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig 12.\nQUESTION. A sick Doctor, what is his Disease? Is it curable?\nTo learn what part of the body is affected, observe that, as the ascendant is not afflicted, you mast look to the 6th house, and see if it be so. Therein we find \u2644 in his fall; and as he naturally signifies diseases by his presence, I concluded that, from thence and that house I must require the part aggrieved.\n\u2648 represents the head.\n\u2644 in \u2648 shews the breast. 1\n\u2642, lord of the ascendant, in \u264c, signifies the heart. 1 The Lord of the ascendant has just separated from a \u2610 of \u2644, being at that time in \u264b, which signifies and rules over the breast and stomach. From all these testimonies I concluded that the parts of the body grieved were the head, breast, heart, and stomach; and that there was lodged in the breast or stomach some obstruction, which caused all his disease and suffering.\nFrom what Cause the Sickness was.\nThe principal significator being \u2644, and he in his own terms, and \u263d disposed of by him and applying to him, shewed such diseases as he causes, and which might exist in the head and breast. \u2642, lord of the ascendant, was also in the terms of \u2644, and applied to \u2610 of \u2609, who was in the terms of \u2642. So that dry, melancholy diseases were shewn by \u2644, and heat or fever by \u2642. And, indeed, when I came to speak to him, he was suffering great pain and rumbling in his head, was very silent, dull, and melancholy; he slept very little, had a very dry cough, and complained of great weakness and pain in his breast and at his heart. His complexion was between black and yellow, as if inclined to jaundice; and he had also a lingering consumption and great weariness all over him, with pains in his joints, shewn by \u263d in an airy sign. The ascendant is \u264f, which signifies the secrets, stone in the bladder, &c.; so the \u263d in \u2652 shews the secrets and diseases therein, &c. Hence he had great difficulty in making water, voided red gravel, and suffered great pain in those parts.\nWhether the Disease would be curable or not?\nThe author of the disease being \u2644, shewed it would be of\nsome continuance, for he is a slow ponderous planet; besides, the angles of the figure are all fixed, and the lord of the ascendant, \u2609, and \u263d, are all in fixed signs. The lights are in \u2610 aspect to each other from angles, and both in the terms of an evil planet; and the lord of the 6th in a fixed sign: all these shewed a long disease. The \u263d being in the 4th in aspect to \u2644 in the 6th, and applying to \u2610 of \u2609, who has dignities in the 6th, and the lord of the 4th in the 6th, and lord of the 8th in the 8th, the testimonies were strong for his death: he died the 14th August following.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig 13.\nQUESTION.--What is the Disease? and will the Patient live or die?\nThe ascendant is \u264d, and it is afflicted by the presence of \u2642, who is partly lord of the 8th house, as great part of \u2648 is already therein. Hence from the ascendant chiefly we must learn the cause and nature of the disease, and part afflicted. A fixed sign \u2652 is on the 6th, afflicted by \u260b, and \u2644, lord of the 6th, is in \u2649, an earthy sign, of the same nature as \u264d, the ascendant. The \u263d, a general significator in all diseases, is also in \u264d in \u260c with \u2642. All these shewed the patient to be greatly afflicted with the spleen, cholic, and obstructions in his bowels, small fever, flatulence, and a failing weak pulse. And as the \u263d and \u2642 are in the ascendant, the patient was perplexed with distempers in the head, slept unquietly, &c. (All which was true.)\nWill the Patient live or die?\nAll the significators promised death.\n1st. \u2609, light of time, was in close \u2610 to \u2644, lord of the 6th in fixed signs.\n2d. The ascendant was extremely afflicted by presence of \u2642, he being lord of nearly all the 8th house.\n3d. The \u263d was afflicted by \u2642 in the house of life.\n4th. The \u263d separated from the \u2736 of \u263f, lord of the ascendant, in signs of long ascension, and did transfer his light to \u2643, lord of the 4th and 8th houses, denoting death and the grave.\nN.B.--The patient died the 28th of the month, when \u263f came to the \u2610 of \u2644 and \u260c of \u2609 in the figure. The \u263d came then to \u260d \u2609, and had transited the cusp of the 6th house of the day preceding, viz. \u2652 14\u00b0.\nA TABLE\n SHEWING WHAT PARTS OF MAN'S BODY EVERY PLANET SIGNIFIES IN THE TWELVE SIGNS.\n| SIGNS. | \u2644 | \u2643 | \u2642 | \u2609 | \u2640 | \u263f | \u263d | \n| \u2648 | Breast Arms | Neck Throat Heart Bowels | Head Bowels Eyes | Thighs | Reins Feet | Secrets Legs | Head Knees | \n| \u2649 | Heart Breast Bowels | Neck Shoulders Arms Bowels | Throat Reins | Knees | Secret-Members Head | Thighs Feet | Throat Legs | \n| \u264a | Heart Bowels | Breast Reins Secrets | Breast Arms Secrets | Legs Ancles | Throat Thighs | Head Knees | Shoulders Arms Thighs Feet | \n| \u264b | Bowels Reins Secrets | Heart Secrets Thighs | Breast Feet | Feet | Arms Shoulders Knees | Eyes Throat Legs Knees | Head Breast Stomach | \n| \u264c | Reins Secrets | Bowels Thighs Knees | Heart Bowels Knees | Head | Heart Breast Legs | Throat Arms Shoulders Feet | Arms Shoulders Bowels | \n| \u264d | Thighs Secrets Feet | Reins Knees | Bowels Legs | Throat Neck | Stomach Heart Bowels Feet | Head Breast Heart | Arms Shoulders Bowels | \n| \u264e | Knees Legs | Head Eyes Secrets Legs | Reins Secrets Feet | Arms Shoulders | Head Intestines | Throat Heart Stomach Bowels | Breast Heart Reins Bowels | \n| \u264f | Knees Legs | Thighs Feet | Head Arms Secrets Thighs | Breast Heart | Throat Reins Secrets | Arm Shoulders Back Bowels | Stomach Heart Bowels Secrets | \n| \u2650 | Legs Feet | Head Thighs Knees | Throat Hands Thighs Feet | Heart Bowels | Arms Shoulders Secrets Thighs | Breast Heart Reins Secrets | Back Bowels Thighs | \n| \u2651 | Head Feet | Eyes Neck Knees Legs | Arms Shoulders Knees Legs | Back Bowels | Breast Heart Thighs | Stomach Heart Secrets | Reins Thighs Knees | \n| \u2652 | Neck Head | Arms Shoulders Breast Feet | Breast Heart Legs | Reins Secrets | Heart Knees | Heart Bowels Thighs | Secrets Legs Ancles | \n| \u2653 | Arms Shoulders Neck | Head Breast Heart | Heart Bowels Ancles Feet | Secrets Thighs | Neck Throat Bowels Legs | Reins Secrets Thighs Knees | Thighs Feet | \nThe DISEASES each PLANET naturally signifies when it becomes the afflictor, and is posited in any of the TWELVE SIGNS.\n\u2644 in \u2648 signifies rheum, melancholy, vapours, cold in the head, obstructions, stoppage in the stomach, pains in the teeth, deafness, &c.\n\u2644 in \u2649 signifies swelling in the neck and throat, king's evil, scurvy, hoarseness, melancholy, and chronic distempers about the neck and throat.\n\u2644 in \u264a signifies infirmities incident to the arms and shoulders, consumption, black jaundice, and diseases proceeding from bad blood.\n\u2644 in \u264b denotes phthisic, ulcerations in the lungs, obstructions and bruises in the breast, ague, scurvy, cancer, &c.\n\u2644 in \u264c signifies the heart afflicted by grief or poison, consumption of the reins or inward parts, vapours, weakness, and pains in the back, &c.\n\u2644 in \u264d shews the blood corrupted, obstructions in the bowels, costiveness, weakness in the thighs, melancholy, gripings, stone, &c.\n\u2644 in \u264e shews the blood corrupted, back and kidneys distempered, strangury, consumptive pains in the knees and thighs, sciatica and gout.\n\u2644 in \u264f denotes swellings or distempers of the secret parts, melancholy, piles, palsy, gout in the hands and feet.\n\u2644 in \u2650 signifies weakness in the hips and thighs, old aches and bruises in those parts, and sciatica or gout.\n\u2644 in \u2651 denotes the gout in the lower parts, pains and obstructions in the head, ague, &c.\n\u2644 in \u2652 signifies disorders in the head and teeth, defects in the ears, pains in the joints, bruises, swellings in the legs, and sometimes a sore throat.\n\u2644 in \u2653 gives defluxions of rheum, king's evil, consumption, all distempers of the feet and toes, such as the gout, and illness by colds.\n\u2643 in \u2648 produces distempers in the head, a quinsy or swelling in the throat, chiefly from ill blood in the veins of the head; and causes strange dreams and imaginations.\n\u2643 in \u2649 brings distempers in the throat, wind in the blood, gripings in the bowels, and goutish humours in the hands and arms.\n\u2643 in \u264a.--A pleurisy, or some disorder of the reins.\n\u2643 in \u264b gives the dropsy, the stomach offended, bad appetite, corrupt blood, scurvy, surfeits, &c.\n\u2643 in \u264c indicates a fever, pleurisy, the heart ill affected.\n\u2643 in \u264d indicates a consumption, obstructions of the lungs, melancholy, cold and dry liver.\n\u2643 in \u264e shews the patient hath too much blood, whence arise obstructions, corrupt blood, fever, piles, tumours, inflammations, &c.\n\u2643 in \u264f signifies the strangury, piles, the blood discharged with watery humours, whence arise dropsy, &c.\n\u2643 in \u2650 denotes some choleric distemper, arising from putrefaction of the blood; a fever, pains and swellings about the knees, &c.\n\u2643 in \u2651.--The patient is afflicted with melancholy, obstructions in the throat, &c.\n\u2643 in \u2652.--The blood abounds too much, whence it is corrupted, and many diseases and flying pains afflict the body. It gives lumbago.\n\u2643 in \u2653.--The blood is too thin and waterish, which breeds dropsy.\n\u2642 in \u2648 signifies the patient is almost distracted with a violent pain in his head, rheum in the eyes, want of rest, &c.\n\u2642 in \u2649 denotes extreme pain in the throat and neck, king's evil, weakness in the loins, and the gravel or stone.\n\u2642 in \u264a shews the blood is corrupted; itch, breakings out, surfeit, fever, pains in the arms and shoulders, disorders in the secret parts, strangury, &c.\n\u2642 in \u264b indicates pains in the breast and stomach, a dry cough, or a tumour in the thighs: accidents to the feet.\n\u2642 in \u264c denotes affliction at the heart, choleric humours, gravel in the kidnies, pain in the knees, &c.\n\u2642 in \u264d signifies choleric humours, obstructions in the bowels, bloody flux, worms in children, humours in the legs.\n\u2642 in \u264e produces diseases in the reins and kidnies, stone or gravel, urine hot, lues, &c., as may be suspected.\n\u2642 in \u264f shews a suspicion of some venereal distemper, or ulcer in the secret parts, pains in the bladder, pains in the head, overflowing of courses, &c.\n\u2642 in \u2650 produces pain or ulcers in the hips and thighs by humours settled in those parts, and an extreme heat in the mouth and throat.\n\u2642 in \u2651 denotes lameness in the knees, hands, or arms, or a flying gout.\n\u2642 in \u2652 signifies blood over-heated, pains in the legs, surfeit, or fever.\n\u2642 in \u2653 gives lameness in the feet, by corrupt humours settled there; sometimes the heart is afflicted, &c.\n\u2609 in \u2648 produces sore eyes, megrims, head disturbed. fevers, &c.\n\u2609 in \u2649 denotes tumours in the knees, quinsy or sore throat, breakings out and swellings in those parts.\n\u2609 in \u264a.--Blood inflamed, pestilential fevers, breakings out in several parts of the body, scurvy, pains and weakness in the legs.\n\u2609 in \u264b shews the measles or small pox, a disordered stomach, hoarseness, dropsy or swelling in the feet.\n\u2609 in \u264c indicates violent pains in the head, madness, stone, pains in the back, plague, spotted fever.\n\u2609 in \u264d produces humours in the bowels, obstructions in the stomach, bloody flux, sore throat, or swellings in the neck.\n\u2609 in \u264e.--Inflammation of the blood, pains in the arms and shoulders, stone and gravel, the venereal distemper, &c.\n\u2609 in \u264f indicates distempers in the secret parts, sharpness of urine, obstructions in the stomach, and female courses; also phlegmati\u00e6 dolens.\n\u2609 in \u2650.--The thighs are afflicted by hot humours; a fistula, fevers, swoonings, &c.\n\u2609 in \u2651 signifies lameness about the knees, bowels disordered, and a fever.\n\u2609 in \u2652.--The blood inflamed, breakings out, reins disordered, gravel, stone, strangury, &c.\n\u2609 in \u2653.--The secret parts afflicted, strangury, and violent pains in those parts.\n\u2640 in \u2648 indicates the disease is in the head from abundance of moist humours, lethargy, reins afflicted, and head disordered by cold.\n\u2640 in \u2649 signifies pain in the head or secret parts, swellings in the neck from moist humours in the head.\n\u2640 in \u264a denotes a corrupted blood, king's evil, dropsy, and a flux of rheum\n\u2640 in \u264b shews the stomach is much offended with cold, raw, undigested humours; many times with a surfeit, &c.\n\u2640 in \u264c.--Some ill affection of the heart, love passion, &c., pains in the legs, of bad consequence.\n\u2640 in \u264d shews some distemper in the bowels, a flux, or the worms, mucus in the bowels.\n\u2640 in \u264e denotes a gonorrhea or distemper in the reins, or surfeit by too plentiful eating or drinking, and windy disorders.\n\u2640 in \u264f produces some venereal distemper, and pain in the private parts, &c.\n\u2640 in \u2650.--Hip gout, surfeits, cold and moist humours.\n\u2640 in \u2651 produces gout in the knees and thighs, and swellings in those parts.\n\u2640 in \u2652.--Pains and swellings in the legs or knees from a cold cause, and the heart afflicted.\n\u2640 in \u2653 indicates lameness in the feet, swellings in the legs, a flux, windy complaints, &c.\n\u263f in \u2648 shews the disease lies in the head and brain, vertigo and spasms in the head, and sometimes disorders of the womb.\n\u263f in \u2649 produces defects in the throat, swellings in the neck, hoarseness, and also pain in the feet.\n\u263f in \u264a signifies windiness in the blood, gouty pains in the head, arms, &c.\n\u263f in \u264b produces a cold stomach, gripings, windiness, distillation of rheum, lameness in the legs and knees from colds, &c.\n\u263f in \u264c indicates tremblings, melancholy, pains in the back, occasioned by colds caught in the feet.\n\u263f in \u264d imports much wind in the bowels, obstructions, pains in the head, short breath, and wind cholic.\n\u263f in \u264e shews stoppage of urine, obstructions, blood disordered; breast, lungs, and reins afflicted.\n\u263f in \u264f denotes distempers in the secret parts, afflictions of the bowels, running pains in the arms and shoulders.\n\u263f in \u2650 shews distempers in the reins, weakness in the back, stoppage at the stomach, coughs, swellings in the hips and thighs.\n\u263f in \u2651 denotes stoppage of urine, goutish humours above the knees, pains in the back, melancholy, &c.\n\u263f in \u2652 imports wind in the blood, running pains in different parts of the body, fluxes and disorders in the bowels.\n\u263f in \u2653 signifies pains in the head, weakness in the legs and feet, a gonorrhea, or a distemper in the reins, &c.\n\u263d in \u2648 signifies convulsions, defluxions of rheum from the head, lethargy, weakness in the eyes, and pains in the knees.\n\u263d in \u2649 produces pains in the legs and feet, swellings, stoppage in and sore throat, &c.\n\u263d in \u264a denotes a wandering gout in the legs, arms, hands, and feet, surfeits, and great obstructions.\n\u263d in \u264b shews the stomach much afflicted, a surfeit, small-pox, convulsions, falling sickness, tympany, or dropsy.\n\u263d in \u264c.--The heart afflicted, sore throat, quinsy, king's evil, &c.\n\u263d in \u264f signifies great pain and disorders in the bowels, melancholy blood, obstructions, weakness in the arms and shoulders.\n\u263d in \u264e denotes the reins are distempered, obstructions in the stomach, weakness in the back, whites in women, surfeits, pleurisy, &c.\n\u263d in \u264f shews the distemper is in the secrets, small-pox, dropsy, poison, the heart afflicted, swoonings, &c.\n\u263d in \u2650 imports lameness or weakness in the thighs, distempers in the bowels, &c.\n\u263d in \u2651 signifies the stone, weak back, gout in the knees, whites in women, &c.\n\u263d in \u2652 signifies hysterics, swellings, and pains in the legs and secret parts.\n\u263d in \u2653 shews cold taken in the feet, and body disordered thereby; swellings in the legs, dropsies, and the body over-charged with moist humours. 1\n158:1 If the illness be produced by an accident, then take the time at which it occurred.\n159:1 Our author adds, \"or when first the urine was brought to him.\" This makes it evident that the water doctors, as they were termed, even until a very recent period, had recourse to astrology to ascertain the nature and result of their patients' diseases. We are quite sure, from long experience, that these may be accurately learned by the science; and we believe that many medical men call it to their aid even now. The day is coming when this will be generally the case.\n159:2 In all cases where the \u263d is afflicted by either \u2644 or \u2642, we should regard the rules for that situation as of the chief importance; we have ever known them fail.\n161:1 For the diseases signified by the signs, see CHAPTER XV; and for those of the planets, see the nature, &c. of each, at page 35.\n161:2 \u2645 causes all uncommon and extraordinary complaints; or gives remarkable features to the sickness.\n166:1 We should say, if it be in \u264b, where \u263d disposes of \u2609, it is not so evil.\n169:1 The student may rely that he will find these rules, when they apply, to be infallible.--ZADKIEL.\n171:1 These latter especially, if \u2640 throw an ill aspect, or the lord of the 5th house.\n171:2 We can speak personally as to this effect. We were taken ill in the evening of the 1st March, 1829, when \u263d was in \u2651, 19\u00b0, and \u2644 in \u264b 28\u00b0, and we suffered extremely during the night, and had violent pains in the left side of the head, and sensations of noises, as of the working of the piston of a steam-engine. A fever ensued, which confined us to bed for three weeks, having caught cold after taking mercury. The direction in our nativity was M.C. \u260c \u2609, who, being in \u260c with \u2642 at birth, partook of his ill qualities, and afflicted the ascendant by his mundane square.\n172:1 This till \u263d is past \u260d of her own place, when, if there be good aspects the sick is recoverable.\n172:2 Especially wet feet, damp linen, &c.\n174:1 Where various diseases are named, the student must look to other testimonies to ascertain the exact complaint.\n176:1 This will be seen by the Table at the end of this chapter.\n186:1 This table is taken from the old Arab writers on astrology, who flourished many centuries back: they used many terms inconsistent with the modern nomenclature of diseases; but as the human frame is still the same, so are its diseases, though called by different names. Thus, Mercury in Aquarius is said to cause \"wind in the blood,\" by which, we presume, was meant spasmodic action, arising from debility.","title":"Introduction to Astrology: The Resolution of all Manner of Questions and Demands: Chapter XXIX. Of the Sixth House","type":"page"}