{"collection":"astro","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/astro/aia/aia33.htm","path":"astro/aia/aia33.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/astro/aia/aia33.htm","text":"This House signifies Marriage, Love Questions, Lawsuits and Controversies, Contracts, Wars, Duels, open Enemies, Bar-gains, Thefts, Fugitives, and all matters regarding Strangers.\nTHE questions to be judged by this house being more difficult than those of any other house, I have been more lengthy in delivering the opinions of the ancients as well as moderns thereon; and have written several aphorisms concerning its questions.\nFOR THE BETTER JUDGING ANY HORARY QUESTION, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE 7TH HOUSE.\n1. See the question be radical and fit to be judged.\n2. Be not confident of the judgment if either the first or\nlast degrees of a sign ascend. If few degrees ascend, the matter is not yet ripe for judgment: if the latter degrees, the matter of the question is elapsed, or the querent has been tampering with other artists, or despairs of success. Meddle not with it at that time.\n3. If \u2644, \u2642, or \u260b be in the 10th house unfortunate, it will end in the discredit of the artist.\n4. Judge not upon every trivial motion or light question, or when the querent has not wit to know what he would demand.\n5. Observe well the strength and condition of \u263d; for it is far better that the lord of the ascendant be unfortunate than the \u263d.\n6. The evil planets shew tardiness and difficulty in every question, unless \u263d and they receive each other in the signification.\n7. The benefits, \u2643 and \u2640, never import evil but when ruling evil houses; and if they be significators without reception, even then they put forward the matter.\n8. If \u263d be void of course, there is no great hope of the question, unless she be in \u264b, \u2649, \u2650, or \u2653.\n9. Observe from what planet \u263d last separated; for it will shew what has already happened: if from a fortune, good; but from a malefic, evil; according to the nature of the house the planet rules and is in.\n10. The application of \u263d shews the present condition of the matter, and what may be expected. If \u263d apply to a planet in his fall, it denotes trouble and delays.\n11. If evil planets promise good, it will be imperfect or less than is expected, and come with much effort; and if they foreshew evil, it will be greater than may be feared.\n12. If malefics threaten evil, observe whether \u2609, \u2643, or \u263f\ncast any good aspect to them, for then the evil will be mitigated.\n13. If the fortunes promise good, but are weak, or behold not the ascendant, they perform but little without reception.\n14. A planet peregrine, viz. having no essential dignities at all, is very malicious.\n15. Confide not too much in a fortune, unless he be in his essential dignities.\n16. In a figure where both fortunes and infortunes are equally weak and ill placed, venture not a judgment, but defer the party for another time.\n17. In all questions where the significator of the thing is combust, or in \u260d to \u2609, he can bring nothing to perfection.\n18. If one infortune be joined to another, the good they promise will come to nothing; but the evil they threaten will be more violent.\n19. The lord of the ascendant out of his dignities, cadent, &c., shews the querent out of all hopes in the business.\n20. A planet under the beams of \u2609, (viz. within 12 degrees), has no fortitude; 1 if within sixteen minutes of \u2609, he is in cazimi or heart of \u2609, and then he is very strong.\n21. If the dispositor of the significator be oriental, and he either \u2644, \u2643, or \u2642, the matter is sooner performed; but if \u2640 or \u263f, later: the reverse, if they be occidental.\n22. If the significator of the thing desired be in a fixed sign, it denotes stability, and that the thing shall continue, whether it be begun or is to be begun; if he be in common signs, it shews the probability of the matter,\nbut not its conclusion; and if in moveable signs, a sudden resolution or concluding the matter one way or other. Hence we begin the foundations of buildings when the significators are fixed; short journeys when moveable; but things wherein a mediocrity is desirable, when they are in moveable signs.\n23. The \u263d or lord of the ascendant, with \u260b, brings damage, according to the house they are in. The \u260a is in like manner beneficial.\n24. If in any question you find \u263d afflicted, there is seldom any good comes of the matter.\n25. If \u263d or lord of the ascendant be in their fall, the querent despairs of the matter, nor does he much care whether it be performed or not.\n26. Consider diligently the planet afflicting the significator of the thing demanded, and what house he is lord of, and where placed; from the nature of those houses require the cause obstructing.\n27. The most powerful affliction to the \u263d is when she is combust, and if she applies to \u2609 it is the worst.\n28. If an infortune aspect your significator, and they be both peregrine or retrograde, you may judge that the mischief threatened is almost inevitable.\n29. Take especial notice whether any frustration or prohibition be before the perfect aspect of the significators; the planet which frustrates hinders the thing demanded.\n30. In all questions of gain, look well to \u2295: the querent will get by persons or things connected with the house it is in; but if it be afflicted, he loses in the same way.\n31. In questions of marriage, an evil planet in the 7th shews ill agreement in the married state.\n32. If the lord of the 8th be unfortunate in the 8th, the querent will suffer by the death of some female; or, concerning debts due to him, by dead men.\n33. In what house you find \u2643 or \u2640 well dignified, expect benefits by men or things signified by that house; as if in the 3d, by kindred; in the 4th, by your father or lands, &c.; in the 5th, by play, pleasure, &c.; and so of the others. And beware of slander or damage through that house where \u260b falls.\nWhether a Man shall Marry?\nIf a man ask this question, let the lord of the ascendant, \u263d, and \u2640, also planets in the ascendant, be his significators. Then if \u263d aspect favourably \u2609, \u2640, or lord of the 7th, or the lord of the 1st aspect the lord of the 7th, or be in the 7th, or the lord of the 7th be in the ascendant, or if most of these significators be in fruitful signs, or disposed of by \u2640, the man shall marry.\nWhether a Woman shall Marry?\nFollow the same rules as above, but, instead of \u263d and \u2640, substitute \u2609 and \u2642. If \u2642 have no aspect or familiarity with \u2609, it is a strong testimony of the negative.\nThe Time of Marriage.\nThe degree of the application of \u263d to \u2609 or \u2640, or of \u2609 to \u2642, or the lords of the 1st and 7th to good aspect, or to \u2610 or \u260d, if with strong mutual reception, or of the lord of the ascendant to the cusp of the ascendant, or the lord of the 7th to the cusp of the ascendant, must be noticed. And\nif the significators be swift, and the testimonies of marriage strong and numerous, moveable signs give days, weeks, or months, as the applying planet be angular, succeedent, or cadent; and common signs, in like way, give weeks, months, or years; and fixed signs give, in like manner, months or years.\nOf Marriage with any particular Person who may be desired.\nIf the lord of the ascendant or \u263d (or if the querent be a woman, the \u2609) be joined to the lord of the 7th in any of his dignities in the ascendant, 10th, or 11th, the querent shall obtain the party desired.\nIf both significators behold each other by \u2736 or \u25b3 out of the ascendant and 11th, or out of the 7th and 9th, or 7th and 5th, and no frustration or retrogradation of the chief significators happen before the good aspect be completed, the match will be perfected, if the querent please. For we always suppose a FREEDOM OF WILL to do or not to do. And if there be a \u2610 or \u260d between the significators, without reception, the matter will come to nothing.\nA \u2610 aspect with reception will perfect the matter, but with some difficulty. If no reception be, there may be hopes, but no grounds to judge favourably.\nWhen the lord of the ascendant is in the 7th, the querent loves best; and when the lord of the 7th is in the ascendant, the quesited loves best.\nThe match may be brought about, though there be no aspect between the significators, if there be any good translation of light; more especially if the planet who translates be a fortune, or be not retrograde, combust, or unfortunate, or afflicted by \u2644 or \u2642. The person signified may be known by the description of the planet, according to the sign he is in, and the way he is aspected; and the quality of the person,\nfrom the house he is lord of. A masculine diurnal planet shews a man, and a feminine nocturnal planet a female, or an effeminate man, and vice vers\u00e2.\nTestimonies that the Marriage shall be hindered.\nObserve the planet who receives the light of the significators. If he be a heavy planet, and have the \u2610 or \u260d of a malefic, or be cadent, the intended match shall be broken off, though at present never so feasible.\nRemark which party's significator is strongest; that party shall first marry after this dissolution.\nIf the significators apply by an evil aspect without reception, or if there be no good aspect between the luminaries, there will be no marriage; unless the lords of the ascendant and 7th be placed in each other's houses, and the other signs be very decided for the match.\nIf the evil \u2644 be in the ascendant, he renders the querent cool, and but little inclined to marriage; unless he be very strong or well aspected. If he be in the 7th, he has the same effect on the quesited. He is generally an enemy to marriage, whereas \u2640 assists marriage, and inclines the parties thereto.\nWhat shall be the Cause of the Marriage being prevented?\nConsider the evil planet who intercepts his rays between the significators, and hinders the marriage; and observe what house he is lord of, and where he is situated. If he be lord of the 2d, want of money will be objected to the querent, or he may fear to marry from lack of means.\nThe lord of the 3d denotes that it will be caused by the querent's kindred or neighbours, or by means of some short journey.\nThe lord of the 4th shews that his father will not agree,\nor it may (especially if a feminine planet) be the mother of the quesited; or it may be for want of some settlement of houses or lands, &c.\nThe lord of the 5th causes obstacles by means of children, or by the querent having a character for loose living, &c.\nThe 6th denotes sickness in the querent, or opposition by some relation of his father, or by means of servants, or some private enemy of the quesited.\nThe lord of the 7th, or a planet therein, denotes a public enemy of the querent, or a lawsuit, or a rival.\nThe 8th denotes a lack of money on the part of the quesited; or, if other testimonies concur, it may be that the querent's death may intervene to prevent the match.\nThe 9th, in like manner, shews opposition by the relations of the quesited, or the interference of some lawyer or priest, or that the querent may go a long journey or voyage, and so the match be hindered.\nThe 10th and its lord shew the father of the quesited, or the mother of the querent, or some person having authority over the querent.\nIf it be the 11th house or its lord, then the friends of both parties dislike the match; or those who first introduced the parties, or endeavoured to bring it about, will now try to dissolve the connexion.\nIf it be by the lord of the 12th, or by a planet therein, there is some under-hand dealing or secret enmity to the querent. The affair shall be much retarded; but the querent shall never know by whom; or some private scandal will do much wrong, and quite break off the matter.\nIn the same manner that you may thus learn who will oppose the querent, you may ascertain who will assist him in his desires. And by varying the houses, you may know the persons who will aid or hinder the quesited.\nTo describe the Person and Qualities of the future Wife or Husband.\nFor the man, observe the planet the \u263d is nearest in aspect with and applying; as if with \u2640, say she is fair, slender, and pleasant. And according as that planet is found in any of the twelve signs, describe her person; and as it is aspected and dignified, her qualities; observing also the sign on the 7th house. And if there be any planets in the 7th, take that planet nearest the cusp; unless \u263d aspect a planet there, then take that planet. For a woman, judge by the planet \u2609 applies to, in like manner; as if \u2609 be in \u2736 or \u25b3 to \u2644, he is grave and laborious; if \u2643, honest; if \u2642, violent; if \u2640, fond of pleasure and agreeable; if \u263f active and industrious; and if \u2645, strange and eccentric. If \u2609 and \u263d are applying to \u2610 or \u260d, there will be contention and discord.\nWhether the future Wife or Husband shall be rich or not?\nObserve the lord of the 8th and planets therein. If \u263d apply by good aspect to the lord of the 8th, or good planets be there, or the lord of the 8th have a good aspect to the querent's \u2295, or other significators of property, the future wife or husband will be rich. If evil planets be in the 8th, or its lord afflict the \u263d or \u2295, the querent will gain little by marriage. And if \u2644 and \u2642 be both in the 8th, he gains nothing; and though the party may have property, the querent will be cheated of it, or lose it in some manner. The persons or means by which the property will be injured, may be discovered by observing what houses the afflicting planets are lords of for the persons, and what houses they are placed in for the means; as \u263f, lord of the 8th, being in the 9th, and throwing a \u2610 to \u2295, might denote a lawsuit respecting the future wife or husband's property.\nWhether the Marriage be legitimate or not?\nIf the significators of either party be afflicted by \u2644 or \u2642, or joined to \u260b, it denotes some dispute about the marriage; and if other testimonies agree, a lawsuit may be the consequence.\nHow the Parties shall agree after Marriage?\nIf the figure promise marriage, observe whether the lords of the ascendant and 7th are in good aspect; or if the \u263d behold with good aspect the planet disposing of her by house or exaltation, and the luminaries be in good aspect, they will agree.\nIf the lords of the ascendant and 7th be in \u2610 or \u260d, or the \u263d be afflicted, and behold the ascendant by ill aspect, or \u2644, or \u2642, or \u260b, be in the ascendant, or 7th, they will live unhappily. If the ill planets, or \u260b, be in the 1st, the querent is to blame; and if it be \u2642, is given to quarrel, or be loose in conduct, according to the sign; and if they be in the 7th, it is the quesited. And judge the same way according as the significator of the 1st or 7th be afflicted. The \u263d in her fall, or \u2610 or \u260d of \u2644 or \u2642, or any retrograde planet, and at the same time throwing any aspect to the ascendant, it is the man who brings on disputes, &c. If the \u2609 do the same, under the same circumstances, it is the woman.\nThe lord of the 7th angular, and the more weighty planet, the quesited will strive for mastery; and if neither the lord of the ascendant nor 7th be in angles, then note the weightier planet, for he points out the party who will rule. If \u2640 be afflicted, it is worse for the man; and if \u2609, for the woman. The \u263d afflicted, is evil for both. The lights in evil aspects spew discord.\nThe Cause of Contention.\nif the afflicting planet be lord of the 3d, and be in the 1st or 7th, he denotes quarrels, or injuries by neighbours or kindred. If it be an infortune who afflicts, and he be in the 10th, it shews continual brawls. If he be in the 4th, a divorce or willingness thereto; or some hindrance in the dowry or fortune of the female. Evil planets in the 10th or 4th lead also to contention by means of the parents of the parties. If \u263d behold the ascendant, and be unfortunate, it denotes brawling, separation, or dishonest living. And if there be no application between the planet the \u263d separates from and that one to which she applies, there will be continual contention. If \u263d aspect evilly, or be in \u260c with \u2644 or \u2642, one of them shall die shortly, or have some misfortune; if in the 8th or 12th, (and she void of course), they meet troubles, grief, and sickness; and if in angles, long disagreements; and probably separation, if in a fixed sign. If this be in the 10th, and a masculine sign, the man is the chief sufferer; if in the 4th, and It feminine sign, the woman.\nThe Cause of Happiness.\nThe \u263d in \u2736 or \u25b3 of good planets, shews gifts or benefits by friends; if in \u2610, by the dead. If \u263d be in \u260c with good planets, by their own conduct or industry.\nArabic Aphorisms not to be trusted to, unless the other Testimonies concur.\nThe woman who departs from or loses her husband when \u263d is in the last 13\u00b0 of \u2650, shall never return or marry.\nThe man who shall engage to marry when \u263d is in the first 12\u00b0 of \u2651, shall lose his betrothed before marriage, or die within six months, or live in discord with her.\nFrom what Part a Person shall Marry?\nIf the lord of the 7th be in the 9th, the querent shall marry a stranger. If the lords of the 1st and 7th be in one quarter of heaven, or in one house or sign, the person will marry one near to their own residence. Consider the sign of the 7th, the sign and quarter of heaven the lord of the 7th is in; and judge by the majority of testimonies from what direction the querent shall marry; as if most of the testimonies be southern, the south, &c. Mix the sign and the quarter of heaven, preferring the former.\nWhich of the two shall be most honourable in Connexions, &c.\nIf the lord of the ascendant be angular, and the lord of the 7th succeedent, the querent is best connected, and vice vers\u00e2. In like manner you may judge of any two individuals. A more assured way is, by observing which of the two significators is the most powerful in dignities. You may combine the two systems.\nWhether a Lady have a Lover besides the Querent?\nIf there be any planet in the 7th, (if it be not lord of the 7th), she has one of the description of that planet. The lord of the 7th, or \u2609 joined to \u2642, she has a lover with whom she is familiar; but, (unless other and very evil testimonies accord), not improperly. The lord of the 7th void of course, or with \u260a, or if no planet be in the 7th, judge that she has none: and if the lord of the 7th aspect only the lord of the ascendant, judge the same.\nIf either the lord of the 7th, or the \u2609 be joined to the lord of the triplicity then ascending, and \u2609 separate from the\nlord of the ascendant, it seems that she has some friend that she loves besides the querent.\nThe lord of the 7th, or the \u2609, or both, separating from any other planet but the lord of the ascendant, and he not separated above three degrees, the lady did love another, but she has now left him. If the lord of the 7th be with \u260a, she is blameless; unless there be another planet in \u260c with them, and then she is not. And if it be \u260b, she is faulty in her desires and affections; and if evil testimonies concur, such as aspects of \u2642, or the \u260c be in \u264f, it may be feared in acts also.\nIf the \u2609, or lord of the 7th, be in \u260c with \u2642, and \u260a be there, she loves a martial man, yet he cannot prevail on her entirely. If \u260b be there, she is sore pressed to comply. If they be near, or within very few degrees, the gentleman resides near her house; and if in the same degree, he is in the house, if it be a fixed sign; or frequently visits the house, if it be a moveable or common sign.\nIf \u2609, or lord of the 7th, separate from \u2642, she had formerly a lover, but now they have forsaken each other. If \u2609 be lord of the 7th, and be in \u260c with \u2642 or \u2643 in any sign whatever, the lady has loved or does love a person described by \u2642 or \u2643; and he has rank as an officer, gentleman, or clergyman. And if there be mutual reception, they still love one another, and many acts of kindness pass between them.\nIf the \u2609 or lord of the 7th be joined to \u263f, the lover is a young clerk or merchant; lawyer or writer; a witty, nimble fellow. His age may be judged by the number of degrees is in the sign.\nIf the lord of the 7th be joined to \u2640 with reception, (and it be a female who is inquired of,) then she cares little for the men; but is fond of female society, is rather free in her language, but not naturally vicious. If it be a male who is the\nquesited, he is found much in female company, and is partial to such an one as \u2640 may describe, according to the sign she is in. If the aspect be \u2736 or \u25b3 and with mutual reception, the lady is partial to him; but if the \u263d or lord of the 7th dispose not of \u2640, she cares not for him, unless the aspect be very close and in angles. And if the aspect be evil, there is no mutual regard, without there be very strong reception.\nThe lord of the 7th joined to \u2644, she loves, (or did love if they separate), an elderly person, or farmer, &c.\nThe lord of the 7th joined to \u2609, she loves some person of consequence, according to her rank in life; and if with mutual reception, he may do what he please with her. If they separate, or there be no reception, the feeling is passed away or was never mutual.\nIf other planets aspect \u2609 and the lord of the 7th, especially \u2644 or \u263f, she has other admirers, &c.\nIf the lord of the 7th aspect \u263d, or the \u263d be in the 7th, especially if they be then in aspect, or \u2642 be in aspect with \u263d, she is given to change and acts discreditably, yielding up her affections upon slight solicitation.\nGenerally, you may consider that if \u2642 be in the 7th, unless he be in his own house, the lady has a lover. If \u2644 she loves one, but there is no familiarity between them; if \u2643 be there, she is honest; if \u2640, she is giddy and merry, and is thought to be wanton, but is not; if \u263f, she had a friend, hut has not now; and if \u263d, she has not yet, but will have more than one. If \u2609 or \u260a be there, she is virtuous and honourable, and has no lover other than the querent. \u260b denotes discreditable desires at least.\nWhether a Gentleman have a Lover besides the Querent?\nYou may judge this question exactly by the rules for judging of a lady, if you substitute the \u263d for the \u2609 and \u2640 for\n[paragraph continues] \u2642. You may in like way judge of friends by taking the 11th for the 7th.\nWhether a Damsel be virtuous or not?\nBehold the lord of the 7th, the cusp of the 7th, and the \u2609; and if they be in fixed signs and well aspected, you may judge that she is correct. If \u2642 be in \u264c and \u264f descend, she is suspected, but yet is honest. If \u264f descend and \u2642 therein, it is suspicious; and if there be a moveable sign on the 7th, or the \u2609 and \u2642 be in common or moveable signs, and be ill aspected; and if \u2642 and \u2640 be in ill aspect, or the \u2609 or \u263d behold d, and the evil stars aspect them from fixed signs, there is great reason to doubt. Yet if there be any good aspect to either the 7th or its lord, \u2642, or \u2609, it is not safe to judge the lady to be unchaste, though she may have been much tempted. The student will do well to avoid a positive judgment unfavourable on this head, unless all the testimonies are decided.\nIf there be great reason to doubt, then observe whether \u263d be in the last face of \u264a, or in a moveable sign, and in the 5th house, and the lord of the 5th in the ascendant or 7th, and in a moveable sign, and either of them in aspect to \u2642; or the lords of the 5th and 7th in \u260c in one sign. If all these, or nearly all, concur, you may be more confident that the lady is faulty.\nWhether the Child conceived is the Child of him who is the reputed Father?\nObserve the lord of the ascendant, and the \u263d, who signify the querent; then observe the sign of the 11th, and its lord, which signify the issue in conception. If these significators behold one another by \u2736 or \u25b3, with reception or not, the conception is legitimate, viz., the child of its supposed father.\n[paragraph continues] If they aspect each other by \u2610 or \u260d with reception, and perfect aspect; or the lord of the ascendant or \u263d be in the 5th, or the lord of the 5th in the ascendant, without the evil aspect of the infortunes, or if one of the fortunes behold the cusp of the 5th or its lord, then also is the child begotten by its reputed father. But if none of these things be, and \u2644, \u2642, or \u263f behold the 5th or lord thereof, there may be just suspicion that the child is conceived in adultery, or is not the child of the querent.\nWhether a Woman living from her Husband shall ever return to him, or be restored to Favour?\nThis question will equally resolve a doubt concerning a mistress or person beloved.\nIf the woman herself propose the question, consider the lord of the 7th, (for the 7th is ever given to the banished or expelled party;) and if the lord of the 7th behold the ascendant with a perfect aspect, and the lord of the ascendant be hold the 7th, or its lord, without doubt she shall again come into favour. If the lord of the 7th do not behold the ascendant, bat another planet, who is not afflicted, behold the ascendant, the woman shall be received again through some person who shall interpose his friendship with the husband or friend. If none of these things be, observe \u263d and \u2642; and if \u263d be above the earth, and \u2642 behold the ascendant with \u2736 or \u25b3, she shall return quietly, and without much trouble.\nIf \u263d be under the earth and \u2642 above, and behold the ascendant with \u2736 or \u25b3, she shall return, but with trouble and delays, and with much publicity. If \u263d aspect the ascendant favourably, and be not afflicted, she shall return, but with solicitation. If \u263d decrease in light, but be not near the beams of \u2609, and behold the ascendant, she will return easily and speedily.\nIf \u2642 be retrograde, and hasten to aspect with \u263d, she will of her own accord return; but if \u2642 and \u263d, or the lords of the 1st and 7th, separate from good aspect, they have no mutual desire to return, nor will the lady much respect the gentleman for the future.\nThe significator of the thing missing is the \u263d; wherefore if you find \u263d applying to the lord of the ascendant, or to the lord of the 12th, (being herself in the ascendant,) or to the lord of the house of the \u263d, the thing missing shall be found again. But if \u263d apply to none of these, nor be in the ascendant or 2d, the thing lost shall not be found. 1 If the lord of the house of \u263d be in the 3d, or in \u2736 to the ascendant, there is some hope of finding the thing again during that aspect with the degree ascending. Also, if he separate from the lord of the 6th, 8th, or 12th, and apply by any aspect to the cusp of the 2d, or behold the \u263d, you may hope to find it. But if there be contrary indications between these, judge the reverse.\nIf the \u263d be aspected well by both fortunes, the thing lost is in the hands of some trusty person; and if \u263d or one of the fortunes behold the ascendant, he will restore it to the owner.\nThe Place where the Thing lost is.\nThis is shewn by \u263d, according to the sign she is in; for if the sign be eastern, it is east; and if west, it is western, &c. Observe also the place of \u263d in the figure; for if she be in the ascendant, it is east, &c., but prefer the sign. If the lord of the house of \u263d be in human signs, (\u264a, \u264d, \u2652, or the first\nhalf of \u2650), it is in a place where men frequent. If in signs of small cattle, as \u2648 or \u2651, it is where they are found. If \u263d be in a fiery sign, it is where fire is; if in a watery sign, where water is, &c. If \u263d be in the same quarter as the Lord of the ascendant, and there be not more than 30\u00b0 between them, the thing lost is in the house of the owner, or about it; if they be above 30\u00b0 and less than 70\u00b0 apart, it is in the town where he resides; but if they be not in one quarter, it is far from the owner.\nHow the Thing was lost.\nObserve from what planet the lord of the ascendant last separated. If from \u2644, it was through forgetfulness of the owner; or through cold or illness which afflicted the loser, especially if \u2644 be retrograde. If from \u2643, it was through some abstinence, or ordering of laws, or by excess of care in managing affairs, or putting too much trust in the person by whom it was carried away or mislaid. If from \u2642, or the lord of the ascendant be in the house of \u2642, it was lost through fear or some sudden passion, provoking the loser to anger; or by fire, or by enmity, or upon some quarrel. If from \u2609, by means of the king or some gentleman, or the master of the family, or by hunting or pastime. If from \u2640, or in her house, by drinking, cards, &c., or making merry in a tavern, &c., or by singing or dallying with women. If from \u263f, by writing, letters, messages, or going a message, &c. If from \u263d, by too frequent use, or chewing the thing lost, or making it too common; or some messenger, widow, or servant lost the same.\nIf it be an Animal, and you would know whether it be stolen or not?\nIf you find the lord of the house of \u263d separating from any\nplanet, say that it went away of its own accord. If that lord be not separating, but another planet be separating from him, say that some person took it away. If the lord of the house of \u263d be in neither of these cases, look to the lord of the 2d house, and judge by him in the same way. And if you find no separation of either of these two lords, say that the animal is still in or near its place, and is not gone away.\nWhether it be dead?\nObserve the \u263d; and if you find her in application to the lord of the 8th house from her, say it is dead. But if you find no such testimony, observe her dispositor; and if you find him applying to the lord of the 8th house from the Moon, say likewise that it is dead, or will shortly die; but if in neither of these you find application, take the lord of the 8th house of the figure in the same way; and if neither \u263d nor her dispositor apply to it, then the animal is not dead.\nWhether the Thing missing be stolen?\nIf the significator of the thief, (usually the lord of the 7th, unless there be any peregrine planet in an angle), be found in the ascendant, or disposing of the \u263d, or \u263d disposing of him, or the lord of the ascendant be disposed of by him or dispose of him, or unless he apply to the \u263d or lord of the 1st or 2d, or \u2295, or its lord by \u260c, \u2610, or \u260d, or some planet be in the ascendant, and be in \u2610 or \u260d to the significator of the thief, the thing is not stolen. Generally any ill aspect of any evil planet, or the lord of the 7th to the ascendant or 2d house or their lords, or \u263d or \u2295, or their lords, denote that the thing is stolen.\nWhether a Thing lost shall be found?\nIf \u263d apply to the lords of the ascendant or 2d, or to her\ndispositor, it shall be found. \u263d in the ascendant, or her dispositor in \u2736 or \u25b3 thereto, give hopes; the dispositor of \u263d separating from the lord of the 6th, 8th, or 12th, and applying to the lord of the ascendant or cusp of the 2d, give hopes also; and if \u263d be in aspect to her dispositor, it is good. But \u263d afflicted by the lords of the 6th, 8th, or 12th, it is in the hands of an evil person, who will not part with it; especially if an infortune afflict the ascendant or its lord. \u263d in \u25b3 to the ascendant, its lord or \u2609, or in the ascendant, or \u2609 there, unless in \u264e or \u2652, it shall be found.\nThe Kind of Place a Thing lost is in?\nIf \u263d be in a human sign, 1 it is in a place where men frequent; and if in a brutal sign (\u2648, \u2649, \u264c, \u2651, and the last half of \u2650), the thing is where animals frequent. If \u263d be in fiery signs, it is where fire is or has been, or near a fire, or on hills or high ground; if in watery signs, where water is or has been; 2 if in airy signs, where many windows are, or open places, garrets, &c.; if in earthy signs, in an earthy place, where houses are built of mud, clay, &c., and in brickfields. The \u263d, or her dispositor, in a moveable sign, shews a place newly peopled, or a house newly built, or where there are hills and dales: if in a fixed sign, in a level plain country; if in a common sign, in a place of much water, according to the nature of the thing missing. Also \u264a, \u264d, \u2650, \u2653, shew, if it be not living things, within the house; but if cattle, &c., they shew ditches, pits, and among rushes, or in a marketplace.\n[paragraph continues] \u2649, \u264c, \u264f, \u2652, shew that the things are laid low or hid in the earth, or near walls, in hollow trees, &c. \u2648, \u264b, \u264e, \u2651, shew high places, roofs, ceiling, &c., but watery signs denote about the foundations of houses, or cellars, if water he there.\nOf Animals missing.\nIf the lord of the 6th be in the 6th, they are small animals; if the lord of the 12th be in the 12th, they are large. If the lord of the 6th be in the 12th, they are in pound; and if in a fiery sign, locked up. If \u263d be in common signs, they are in rushy grounds; if in an angle, they are in enclosed ground; if in a succeedent, they are near enclosures; if in a cadent house, they are on commons. If in watery signs or \u2652, near fish-ponds or other waters; and if in the last moiety of \u2651, they are near ships, or on shipboard, or near some wood or timber-yard.\nWhether it shall be restored?\nThe \u263d aspecting \u2643 or \u2640, it is in the hands of an honest man, who will restore it. If \u2643 or \u2640 have any aspect to the ascendant, or \u263d apply to the ascendant, it will be restored; and if \u263d be in the ascendant, it is restored without trouble or pain. The lord of the 7th, or 12th in the 12th house, the fugitive is imprisoned.\nIf the \u263d be within 30\u00b0 of the lord of the 1st, the thing is with or near the loser; if \u263d be more than 30\u00b0 off the lord or the 1st, it is far off.\nIf it be animals, and the lord of the 6th, (or if large cattle the 12th,) be fortunate by the good aspects of \u2640 or \u2643, or they be found in the 2d, 5th, or 11th, the animals will be had again. The same if the lord of the term in which \u263d is, or the lord of the cusp of the 4th be with the lord of the ascendant,\nor the lord of the 6th or 12th be in \u25b3 to \u2609 out of angles.\nOf a Fugitive, and whether he shall be found or return?\nThe lord of the 7th in the ascendant, he will return of his own accord. 1 If \u263d separate from the lord of the ascendant, and be joined immediately to the lord or cusp of the 7th, news will shortly be brought of him. The lord of the 7th combust, he shall be found against his will. The \u263d afflicted by \u2645, \u2644, \u2642, or \u260b, or a retrograde planet, he shall be found or return, after much suffering. \u263d separating from \u2643 or \u2640, he shall quickly come back; and if she aspect her own house by \u2736 or \u25b3, he will return or shall be heard of within a very few days.\nThe lord of the 7th aspecting an infortune from the 7th, the querent will discover the quesited with some person, to whom he must give money before he can have him back. If the lord of the 7th be retrograde, it is a testimony of his return.\nThe ascendant is for the querent, and its lord for him that has lost the goods; and it signifies the place from whence they were taken.\nThe 7th house and its lord, or the peregrine planet in an angle, signify the thief.\nThe 2d house, its lord, and the \u263d, signify the things lost ar stolen; and the 4th house, and its lord, shew the place where they are conveyed to, and then are.\nThe aspects of \u2609 and \u263d, the lords of the 1st and 2d, and\nthe dispositor of the \u263d, by application to each other, shall shew whether they will be had again or not.\nIf the lord of the 2d and the \u263d be in the 7th, and the lord of the 7th behold them both by \u2736 or \u25b3 (though the aspect be several degrees distant), then are the goods taken away by some one, and not merely lost.\nIf \u263d be lady of the 2d, and going to \u260c of the lord of the 7th, then has the party mislain it; and the thing is neither lost nor stolen.\nIf \u263d be lady of the ascendant, and in the 4th, and the lord of the 2d be in the 7th or 8th in \u2736 or \u25b3 of \u263d, the thing is not stolen, but taken away in jest.\nIf \u263d be lady of the ascendant, and be in it, and \u2609 lord of the 2d in the 10th, with the lord of the 7th, and the lord of the 7th \u2610 \u263d, then are the goods stolen and taken away. If \u263d be in the 3d, and in \u2610 to the lord of the 7th, and the lord of the 2d be in the 7th, it was first taken in jest, but is now stolen, and will be hard to recover, unless \u2609 and \u263d aspect the ascendant.\nIf \u263d be lady of the 5th, and in \u2651, and \u2640 lady of the 2d to the 10th, and \u263d in \u260d to the lord of the 7th, then has the party lost the goods as he went by the way, or left them in some place. If \u263d be in \u264b in the 8th, and the lord of the 2d in the 5th, and neither of them behold the lord of the 7th, and he be in the 7th, the goods are taken away in jest by the master of the house, and he will deny it. If \u263d be in the 4th in \u260d to its lord, and the lord of the 2d in the 12th in \u2736 to the lord of the 7th, then has somebody taken away the things in jest. If \u263d be in the house of the lord of the 7th, and be in the 12th, not beholding the lord of the 7th, and the lord of the 2d be in the 6th, then are the goods removed in jest; and if, in this ease, the lord of the 2d did last separate from the ruler of the \u263d, they will scarcely be had again. If the \u263d\nseparate from the lord of the 2d by \u2610, they are taken away end stolen; and the same, if the \u263d, being lady of the 2d, separate from the lord of the house wherein she is.\nIf the lord of the ascendant separate from \u2643, (he not being lord of the 7th, or peregrine in an angle), or from the lord of the 2d, the querent has lain it down and forgotten it, and so it was lost; but, when both the lords of the 1st and 2d separate from \u2643, this is surer. If (in such case) the lord of the 2d, or \u2643, separate from the lord of the ascendant, then did the party lose the goods by the way as he went, or in some place where he was, or they fell out of his pocket accidentally, and they are neither found nor stolen. But if there be none of these separations, see if the peregrine planet, or lord of the 7th apply to \u2643, or the lord of the 2d; then, if they do, the goods are absolutely stolen. If the lord of the 2d, or \u2643, apply to the significator of the thief, he came easily by them, and did not come with intent to steal; but, seeing the thing unprotected, he was tempted to steal.\nIf the significator of the thief aspect the lord of the 1st or 2d, or the cusp of the 2d, or \u2295, or \u263d, or their dispositor, or the planet in whose term \u263d is, or if he be in the ascendant, it is stolen; but, if there be no evil aspect to any of these, it is not stolen.\nOf the Age of the Thief.\nGuido Bonatus says, that if the thief's significator be \u263f, he is very young; if \u2640, rather older, but yet a young female; \u2642 shews him of full age; \u2643 of middle age, and \u2644, elderly. If the \u2609 be his significator, and be between the ascendant and 10th, he is young, and so increasing in age until he come to the angle of the earth. If the \u263d shew the thief, his age will correspond to her age; and in all cases judge also by the position the thief's significator has reached in the sign where\nhe is found. If he be just entered the sign, quite young; if in the middle of the sign, of middle age; and if towards the end of the sign, elderly; and if \u2644 aspect him any way, it adds to his age. Oriental planets denote also younger persons, and occidental planets elderly persons. You must consider all the testimonies before you judge the thief's age.\nWhether the Thief be Male or Female?\nThe significator of the thief being masculine, and in a masculine sign, and the \u263d in a masculine sign, it is a male; et e contr\u00e2. The angles of the figure masculine shew a man; and if feminine, a woman. If \u2640 or the \u263d be the significator, or, when aspecting them, it is a female; \u2644, \u2643, \u2642, \u2609, and \u263f aspecting them, a male.\nWhether one Thief or more?\nIf the significator be in a fixed sign, it denotes one only; if he be in double-bodied signs, it denotes more than one, especially if there be more than one planet in the sign, and they peregrine. Also, when \u2609 and \u263d are in angles, and in \u2610 aspect, it shews more than one. If the significator be in \u264b, \u264f, or \u2653, it is a testimony of there being more than one; the angles being moveable, the same. The \u263d in the ascendant, and in a double-bodied sign, shews more than one. And if the significator be in aspect with more than one planet, unless he be in a fixed sign, it shews plurality.\nOf the Colour of the Thief's Clothes.\nThis must be judged in a general manner; and by the colours of the signs and houses of the significator, and the planets ruling them. Thus, \u2644 is black; \u2643 green, spotted, or ash; \u2642 red; \u2609 tawny, or saffron, or sandy; and if you mix the colours according to the signs and planets, &c., you\nwill judge very nearly the general colour of the thief's clothes. Thus, \u2644 and \u2643 mixed, give dark green, or green spotted with black; \u2644 and \u2642, a dark reddish brown, or tawny; \u2644 and \u2609, a blackish orange, and shining; \u2644 and \u2640, a whitish grey; \u2643 and \u263f, a black blue; \u2644 and \u263d, a deep russet, or grey; \u2643 and \u2642, a tawny, light spotted; \u2643 and \u2609, a deep, shining red; \u2643 and \u2640, a greenish grey; \u2643 and \u263f, a spotted green; \u2643 and \u263d, a high-coloured green; \u2642 and \u2609, a deep red, or scarlet; \u2642 and \u2640, light red, or crimson; \u2642 and \u263f, a tawny red, or brick colour; \u2642 and \u263d, a light red, glistening.\nYou must observe, that if the signifier be \u2644, in his own house, \u2651, and not in close aspect with any other planet, the thief will be dressed all in black; because both sign and planet rule that colour. But if he were in the 1st house, which rules white, he would have some white about his person. Also, if it were \u2642, who rules red, and he were found in \u264f, which rules brown, he would denote a rusty, dirty, reddish brown; but if he were in \u264c, which rules red and green, and \u2643 were in aspect, there would be much green, as well as red, about the dress; and so of the ethers.\nThe relation the Thief bears to the Owner.\nThe lord of the 7th, or significator of the thief, being in the ascendant, it is one well known to the querent, or one who frequents his house; and is in no way suspected.\nIf the significator of the thief be in the 2d, it is one of the household, or an acquaintance; but if in a feminine sign, it may be the querent's wife or maid-servant; and it is in the loser's power, and may be recovered by money.\nIf he be in the 3d, it is one of his near kindred or neighbours; or some messenger, or ether person, often in his sight.\nIf in the 4th, it is his father, or some elderly person, or one who resides in the house. &c., of his father; or he is a labourer or farm-servant.\nIf in the fifth, it is his son or daughter, or one of the near relations of his brother or sister, or near neighbour; or one of the household of his father, or his kept mistress, or some one connected with taverns, theatres, &c.\nIf he be in the 6th, it is a servant, or the querent's father's relation; or it is some person in bad health.\nIf he be in the 7th, it may be his own wife or lover, or some female who has been suspected of having connexion with the querent: or it is some person with whom he deals publicly, or one who is his open enemy.\nIf in the 8th, it is a stranger; yet it is likely to be one who is, or has been, at times employed about the house, such as an occasional gardener, or charwoman, washerwoman, &c.\nIf in the 9th, it is some traveller or vagrant, or some person employed about churches, &c.; or a person in connexion with some jailor, or master of a workhouse, &c.\nIf in the 10th, it is a person of respectable circumstances, or some master tradesman, &c.; one not necessitated to turn thief; and, generally, a person who lodged in the house, or visited it frequently when the thing was taken.\nIf in the 11th, a friend, or one who is trusted, and has done the querent some service; or one connected with a neighbouring clergyman, or the household of the querent's mother.\nIf in the 12th house, it is a stranger, or some poor, common thief or beggar; a person in miserable circumstances, who partly lives by thieving or thief taking.\nOther Particulars of the Thief.\nIf the thief's significator be in the end of a sign, or applying\nto a planet in the 3d or 9th, he is going off; and if it be a superior planet, and leaving a sign, he is undoubtedly leaving his house or lodgings, &c.\nIf his significator be in an angle, he is still in the town; if succeedent, he is not far off; but if cadent, he is far gone.\nIf it be in an angle, he is in a house; and if \u263d be in an angle, in his own house, &c.; if in a succeedent, in a field or enclosure; and if \u263d be succeedent, it is his own, or where he resides; and if in a cadent house, he is on a common or open place, and if \u263d be cadent, it belongs to the town, &c. where he lives.\nIf the lord of the ascendant and the significator of the thief be together, the thief is with the querent. And if the thief's significator be in the ascendant, the thief will be at the querent's house before the querent. But if the significator be in the 7th, he is hid at home, and dare not be seen. The direction in which the thief lives may be judged by the sign and quarter in which the significator is.\nThe \u263d denotes also the door of the thief's house. If she be in a fixed sign, the house has but one door; if in a moveable sign, the door is high above the earth, and it is probable that there is another smaller door. If \u2644 aspect the sign of the \u263d, the door has been broken, and often repaired, or is old or black. If \u2642 aspect it, the gate or door has some mark of fire. If \u2644 and \u2642 both have a friendly aspect to the sign the \u263d is in, the door is iron, or is very strong. If be afflicted, it is broken or injured; and if \u263d be decreasing, and near \u2609, the gate, &c. opens on the back premises, and there is no front door to the street; if she increase, and is near \u2609, it is low down, and there is a step to descend in entering. But if \u263d e in a moveable sign, there are steps up to it.\nWhether the Goods are in the Hands of the Thief?\nIf the thief's significator be in aspect to, and disposed of by another planet, they are not in his hands; otherwise they are.\nThe Place where the Goods are.\nThe nature of the place is judged by the lord of the 4th house. If he be in a moveable sign, it is in a place high above the ground; in a fixed sign, in the earth; and in a common sign, it is under the eaves of a house, &c. 1 And you must judge also by the quality of the sign; as \u2648 shews a place where small cattle are, as sheep, hogs, &c. \u264c shews a place of animals that bite, as dogs, foxes, &c.; \u2650 a place of animals that are ridden, as horses, mules, &c., and their stables. \u2649, \u264d, and \u2651 shew a place of large cattle, as \u2649 oxen, kine, &c.; \u264d and \u2651 shew camels, mules, asses, &c., \u264d also shews barns where corn is kept, and a place about the earth. \u2651 denotes goats, hogs, &c.; \u264a shews a wall or partition in a house; \u264e a high part, or near a closet or little house; \u2652 shews near a door, above another door or gate in a high part; \u264f shews a place of unclean water; \u2653 a place always moist. But if the \u263d be in the same sign with the lord of the 4th, judge by her more than him.\nIn what Part of a House Things lost, stolen, or concealed may be.\nIf the thing lost be in the house, (whether stolen or not), behold the lord of the 4th, (or, if a planet be in the 4th, take him in preference.)\nIf it be \u2644, it is in a dark or secret place; and if he be in\naspect with \u2642 or in the house of \u2642, it is in or about some dirty place, where people seldom go, a privy, &c.\nIf \u2643, a place of wood, bushes, &c.\nIf \u2642, a kitchen or place where fire is kept; if aspected by \u263f, a shop.\nIf \u2609, the hall, dining-room, or chief room where the master frequents.\nIf \u2640, a bed, or among bed-clothes, or where females much frequent. In this case \u264e would shew the top of the bed.\nIf \u263f, a place of books, pictures, carving, &c.; and if \u264d, where corn is.\nIf \u263d, it is in a pit, cistern, or washing place.\nDescription of the House or Place where the Things are that are lost, &c.\nThe \u2609 describes the house, and also its front entrance. If he be in an airy sign, it is high, &c., and its colour may be known by the sign and house he is in. The \u263d describes the cellar, pump, or place holding the water; as, if she be in \u2652, it is a cistern, high above the ground, &c.; if \u264f, a low pit or pond; if \u264d, a deep well. \u2640 shews the place of mirth, female apartments, &c. \u260a denotes the stairs or ladder to climb by, &c. \u260b describes the place the wood is in, or the animals are kept. \u263f denotes the room, &c.; if in a common sign, it is a cupboard, or small room within another; if in a fixed sign, it shews a house having no cellar, or a single chamber. If \u2643, \u2640, or both, be in the 10th, the door has a fair appearance, and opening; if \u2644 be in the 10th, the door is near some ditch, pit, or deep place; if \u2642 be there, there is a fire-place near the door, or place for killing animals; if \u263f be there, near the door is a place where tools or instruments are kept; if \u2609 be there, then there is some seat or porch near the door; and\nif \u263d be in the 10th, there is near the entrance a door to go under ground, a trap or cellar door, or some other convenience in very common use. 1\nThe Nature of the Thing stolen.\nThis is judged by the lord of the 2d house. \u2644 shews lead, iron, things of a black or dark blue colour, wool, black garments, heavy things, earthy materials, agricultural implements, carts, &c. \u2643 oil, honey, silk, fruit, men's clothes, merchandize, horses, &c. \u2642 arms, pepper, brass, red clothes, red wine, and red things; generally sharp-pointed, cutting, and hot things, horses for war, &c., and all warlike engines or instruments. \u2609 gold, brass, yellow clothes, diamonds, and things of value. \u2640 women's dresses, or ornaments, such as rings, ear-rings, &c., white cloth, and white wine. \u263f shews money, paper, books, pictures, and party-coloured dresses, &c., and scientific instruments, writing-desks, &c. The \u263d all common commodities, such as crockery, &c. cattle, poultry, and also silver.\nWhether the Goods shall be recovered or not.\nThe \u263d in the 7th, aspecting the lord of the 7th with a \u25b3; a fortune strong in the ascendant; \u2643 in the 2d direct; in \u263d the 10th in a \u25b3 to a planet in the 2d; \u263d in the 2d in \u25b3 to the lord of the 2d; \u2609 and \u263d going to \u25b3, or \u2609 and \u263d aspecting the cusp of the 2d with a \u25b3; or the lord of the 2d in the ascendant or 4th, well aspected by application; \u263d in the 2d, going to \u2610 of \u2609 in the 12th, in signs of short ascension: all these are signs of its recovery.\nAlso, if the lords of the term and house of the \u263d be both\nincreasing in light and motion, 1 and free from affliction, it shall be recovered, and be uninjured.\nGenerally, if there be a diminution of their light and motion, the thing is already partly destroyed. If there be good aspects to the lords or cusps of the ascendant, or 2d, or to \u2295 or its lord, by planets in angles, it will soon be recovered.\nThe lord of the 8th in the ascendant, or with its lord, shews recovery; the lord of the 7th in the 8th, denies it: \u2644, \u2642, or \u260b in the ascendant, or 2d, shew dividing and loss of the thing.\nThe lord of the 2d in the ascendant shews recovery; and the lord of the 1st in the 2d the same, after long search. If the 2d or its lord be afflicted, all the things lost shall not be recovered. If both luminaries be under the earth, it is a strong testimony against recovery.\nIf both \u2609 and \u263d aspect the ascendant, the thing cannot be lost, but will shortly be discovered.\nOf the Time of the Thing being recovered.\nObserve the application of the planets that signify recovery, and determine the number of days, weeks, or months, as they may be in moveable, common, or fixed signs, in angles, succeedents, or cadents. And if the signifiers are swift in motion, it hastens the recovery; if slow, it retards.\nOf the Thief's Person.\nIn addition to the planet's general description in the sign he is in, observe the aspects he has, and take all these into consideration. Moreover, if the significator be oriental, and in \u264c, \u264d, or \u2650, the person is large; if occidental, and in \u264b, \u264f, or \u2653, the body is smaller. If the planet have south\nlatitude, he is nimble; if in north latitude, slow in his motions. If going out of one sign into another, he is weak and feeble. 1\nSigns of the Thief being taken.\nIf the lord of the 7th (or thief's significator) be in the 1st or 7th, in \u260c with the lord of the ascendant, or a retrograde planet. If the \u263d separate from the thief's significator, and apply to \u260c of the lord of the 1st; or go from \u260c of the lord of the 1st to him. Or if \u2609 and \u263d be in \u260c with him; or if he be going to combustion, or be in \u260c with an infortune in the 7th. He is captured if \u263d be in the 7th, applying to \u2610 of \u2642, the \u2609, or \u263f; \u263d separating from \u2610 of \u2644 or \u263f, and applying to \u2610 of \u2609, or separating from \u260c \u2644, and going to \u2610 \u263f; or in the 8th, in \u260d \u2642 or in the 7th, going to the lord of the 8th.\nThe Thief escapes.\nIf his significator be in aspect with a fortune; if he be in aspect to \u2643 or \u2640, they being in the 11th, he escapes by friends; if in the 3d, by strangers, or by law quibbles, &c.\nThe lord of the ascendant, planets therein, and \u263d, are for the querent or challenger, or him who attacks; the 7th house, its lord and planets therein, for the adversary. Behold whose significators are most angular, best dignified and aspected, and expect victory for that party. If evil planets be in the ascendant, and fortunes in the 7th, the adversary shall overcome, and vice vers\u00e2 also the lord of the 7th, in the ascendant, betokens victory to the querent, and vice vers\u00e2.\nWhether any one shall return safe from War, or any dangerous Voyage, &c.\nThe lord of the ascendant, strong, well aspected, and his\ndispositor a good planet; good planets in the ascendant, or aspecting its cusp, are all good testimonies; and the reverse are evil. If the lord of the 7th, and the 7th house, be fortunate, (though the first be not,) the party returns, though not without great crosses and hinderances; et e contra. Observe how \u263d is disposed; for her application to the good planets is fortunate; and the contrary. Evil planets in the 8th are signs of fear and death; \u2644 shews bruises and hurts by falls, &c., and losses; \u2642 denotes wounds by weapons; \u260b, injuries and disgrace.\nIf an evil planet be with the lord of the ascendant, and a good one in the ascendant, he will suffer great loss or be sorely wounded, but not die.\n\u2644 in the 1st, or with its lord, shews loss to the querent by one whom he will meet; \u2644 in the 1st, and an evil planet with its lord, he shall be wounded by wood or stone; \u2642 shews wounds by fire or iron, and if \u260b be in the ascendant, and \u2644 afflict its lord, he shall receive a wound, and be nearly killed. It is evil if \u2609 be with the lord of the 7th, or be in the 8th.\nThe lord of the ascendant in the 8th, or with its lord, or the lord of the 8th in the ascendant, denotes the querent's death. And the lord of the 7th in the second, or with its lord, shews the death of the adversary.\nIf the lord of the 7th be strong, and have good aspects from the 10th, or its lord, the querent will gain honour. And if the cusp of the 2d and its lord, and \u2295 or its lord, be fortunate, then he gains money by the war, &c.\nIn the same manner as the 8th house and its lord shew death, the 12th and its lord denote imprisonment.\nAnd if the question concern the general result of a war or expedition, it must be judged on the same principles.\nOf Partnership.\nIf good planets be in the 1st and 7th, the partnership shall be and do well. And if the lord of the 7th be strong, and in fixed signs, it shall endure. If the two lords agree in aspects, and by mutual reception, the partners will accord well together. But if they disagree, the fault will be with that party who has \u2645, \u2644, \u2642, or \u260b in their house.\nThe significators of substance will shew the means of each party; and as they may be about to receive good or ill aspects, will they thrive or lose by the concern. The 8th, its lord, and planets there, are for the quesited's property.\nIf \u263d separate from one fortune, and apply to the other, they will neither of them gain much by the concern. If she leave a good planet and apply to an ill, they begin well but end ill: and if she separate from one evil planet, and apply to another, they begin with complaining, continue with jealousy, and end with lawsuits. An evil planet, or \u260b in the 2d, the querent gains but little, will be cheated, or get into debt: if they be in the 8th, judge this of the quesited. And if the lord of the 7th or 8th, \u2610 or \u260d \u2295, the querent may hope but little gain from his partner, who will embezzle the common stock, &c.\nOf removing from Place to Place.\nThe lord of the ascendant and planets therein stronger than the 7th, and planets there, it is better to remain. If there be a benefic in the 7th or \u260a, and especially if \u263d separate from an infortune, remove; an evil planet there, or the lord of the 1st or \u263d leaving a benefic, remain.\nThe 8th house shews the property of the querent in he place he desires to remove to: if evil planets be there, it is better to remain. (See also p. 141)\nOf Lawsuits, and their Success.\nThe lord of the ascendant or \u263d joined to the lord of the 7th, or in \u2736 or \u25b3 with reception mutual, the parties will easily agree together, and make up the quarrel. But if one dispose of the other, and the reception be not mutual, they will agree without a lawsuit, but not without the interceding of friends. If they be in good aspect without, or in evil aspect with, reception, they will accord, after one effort at law. That party shall be most ready to agree whose significator is disposed of by the other. If they hasten to a mutual good aspect, and the lord of the 9th or 10th interpose an evil aspect, they will be led to dispute by a lawyer or by the judge. If there be any translation of light by the \u263d, or other planet, between the two significators, it denotes that they will be reconciled by a third person, described by that planet.\nObserve whether the lord of the ascendant or 7th be strongest or most powerful, and best aspected; for that one shall gain the day. If they compound, the first motion thereto comes from the lighter planet, who is disposed of by the other. If the lord of the ascendant be in the 7th, the adversary will overcome, and vice vers\u00e2. If either lord of the 1st or 7th be retrograde, he shews that the party does not believe that he has right on his side; nor will he stand to it very stoutly.\nIf the lord of the 10th, which denotes the judge, be direct, he will proceed fairly, and endeavour to settle the cause speedily. But if he be retrograde, the judge will not act fairly according to law, nor strive to terminate the cause. If the lord of the 10th throw an evil aspect to either significator, the judge will be against that party.\nIf \u2609 or \u263d be in the ascendant, or aspect its lord, or be in either of his houses, it is a good testimony for the querent;\nand if, on the contrary, the lord of the 7th be so situated, it is in favour of the quesited. If the lord of the 10th receive both significators, the judge will settle the matter before it comes to full trial.\nIf the lord of the 10th be in the 10th, in his own house, the judge will do justice, and decide the case with honour to himself, unless the lord of the 10th be \u2644 . If the lord of the 10th be only in his own term, or triplicity, the judge will determine the cause, but he is indifferent about it. If a planet having no dignities, or not in reception with the lord of the 10th, be in the 10th, the parties will not be satisfied with that judge or court. If \u2644 be judge, he will not decide aright; and if \u2643, \u2640, \u2609, \u263f, or \u263d be in any aspect to him but \u260d, there will be an ill report against him, of which he will clear himself; but if it be \u260d, he will have a hard report against him, which will long continue. And if \u2642 \u260d to \u2644, the judge will be sorely defamed; and if also \u2609 \u2610 \u2644, he may be disgraced.\nIn deciding as to the result, observe well the lord of the 4th, and how he aspects the significators, or the lords of their substance; also the application of the \u263d. If both significators aspect one planet, some person will intercede between them. If the ascendant and 7th be in fixed signs, both par-ties are resolutely bent on the suit; if common signs, they will continue it long also, and remove the cause out of one court into another; and if moveable signs, they are not very determined, and will soon bring it to an end.\nThat party who is weakest, and most afflicted by the infortunes, shall receive most prejudice by the contention.\nOf making Purchases or Sales.\nIf \u263d be joined with the lord of the 7th, the querent may make the purchase. The lighter planet of the two houses\n[paragraph continues] (1st and 7th) will be the occasion of the sale. Judge the nature of the commodity by the house by which it is governed; as the 4th for a house, the 12th for large cattle, the 9th for books, &c., the 10th for merchandize.\nIf infortunes be in the 7th, be cautious of the seller; he will try to trick the purchaser. The fourth house will shew the final result: but if \u263d be void of course, there may be many meetings, &c., but scarcely any bargain concluded.\nWhether a City, Town, Castle, &c. besieged, shall be taken or not.\nThe ascendant and its lord are for the querent and for the besiegers; the 4th signifies the place besieged or to be besieged, and the lord of the 4th the governor; the 5th and planets therein the ammunition, soldiers, &c. in the place.\nIf you find the lord of the first strong and fortunate, or joined to the lord of the 4th in the ascendant, or with the \u263d or lord of the 10th, or any where but in the 6th, 8th, or 12th, and the lord of the 1st dispose of the lord of the 4th; or if \u263d dispose him, and be not disposed of by him, it is an argument that the place shall be taken. Or if the lord of the 4th be in such houses as behold not the 4th, and be with infortunes, and weak, it will be taken, and the governor may be wounded. If infortunes be in the 4th, without some strong aspect of the fortunes, it will be taken. If \u260b be in the 4th, it will be taken, and some parties will try to betray it, or some principal work or fort therein: the sign will shew which part of the town, &c. In this case the governor does not expect to preserve it.\nIf the lord of the 4th be in the 4th, strong and not afflicted. neither retrograde nor combust, nor besieged .of the infortunes, or if the lord of the 7th be there, free from all impediments, or if \u2643, \u2640, \u260a or is be therein, and no reception between\nthe lords of the 1st and 4th, then shall not the city, &c. be taken; and if there be both a fortune and infortune in the 4th, it shall not be taken, if the fortune be the nearest to the cusp, or first transit that degree; and this more certainly, if the lord of the ascendant be weak or unfortunate, especially if a light planet. But if the lord of the ascendant be strong, or fortune therein, and the \u263d behold the cusp of the 4th, it shall be surprised or surrendered. An infortune in the 2d, or its lord, &c. afflicted, the querent lacks means to pursue the siege with vigour.\nOf Commanders in Armies: and whether they shall be victorious or not.\nIf there be an infortune in the ascendant, it shews that the querent has no great justice on his part, or cause of quarrel. And if an infortune \u2610 the ascendant, the party shewn by it (viz. that for which the querent asks) will not manage their affairs well or discreetly. If a good planet be in the ascendant, or aspect it by \u2736 or \u25b3, it shews a good cause, and that it will be well managed.\nAn evil star in the 2d, and having no dignities therein, or aspecting its cusp by \u2610 aspect, denotes that either there will be no war, or that the querent will gain nothing by it; a benefit testifies the reverse. If \u2643 (or \u2642 well dignified) be in the 3d, the querent's party will have good warlike stores, &c., and will consist of good, brave soldiers; but if \u2642 be there, ill dignified, they will be bad characters, and ill disciplined.\nIf an infortune be in the 4th, the campaign will be held in a difficult country. If the sign describe a hilly country, it will offer obstacles by woods and bad roads; and if it shew a moist country, it will he unfit for military occupations, by\nreason of rivers, marshes, &c.; and so the army can do no good service.\nIf \u2642 be in the 5th, well dignified, or a fortune aspect it, the army on the querent's side will be good soldiers, and well behaved; but \u2644 there, or \u260b, denotes the contrary.\nIf a fortune or \u260a be in the 6th, the ammunition train, artillery, &c. will be good; if \u2642 be there, the horses will be fierce, wild and unbroken. If \u2644 be there (without dignities), they will be unserviceable, slow, and worn out.\nA fortune in the 7th, the arms and instruments of war will be plentiful and serviceable. If an infortune be there, or afflicting it by evil aspect, they will be the reverse. In the former case, the enemy will be brave and no fool, and will fight fair; in the latter case, the enemy will fight rather by craft and treachery, than fair manhood.\nA fortune in the 8th, shews that there will not be many men slain on the querent's side; nor any very important battle be fought. If \u2644 be there, there will be much plundering and destruction, and many prisoners be taken; also much death by sickness and want, &c. If \u2642 be there, then expect much bloodshed.\nA fortune in or aspecting the 9th, the enemy is well situated, and will strive to gain by false reports, alarms, &c.; he is politic. If an infortune, he will wear himself out by marching, and will be often deceived by false intelligence; and if a fortune be in the 3d at the same time, the querent's side will gain by this conduct of the enemy.\nA fortune in the 10th, or aspecting its cusp by \u2736 or \u25b3, shews that the commanding officer is expert and capable. But if \u2644, \u260b, or \u2642, (unfortunate), be there, or afflict the 10th house by \u2610, the commander on the querent's side will be extremely incapable and unworthy, and meet only disgrace.\nA fortune or \u260a in the 11th, shews the officers are clever, and understand their duty, and will well support the commander; but an infortune, or \u260b, the reverse.\nIf a fortune (or \u2642 well dignified) be in the 12th, it denotes that the enemy is well prepared, and will defend themselves well. An infortune there, shews that they are weak and will disagree among themselves, and fear their own forces. If \u260b be in the 12th, the querent may expect treachery; and if the lord of the 12th be there, and have any dignities in the ascendant, the querent's side will suffer by desertion.\nWhether the two Armies will Fight or not.\nObserve the ascendant and its lord, the \u263d and lord of the 7th, if they be \u260c in any angle they will fight. If the lords of the 1st and 7th be not in \u260c, but are in \u2610 or \u260d from angles, they will engage; or if there be any planet which transfers the light of one to the other by \u2610 or \u260d, there will be a fight, if there be no reception between them. But if there be none of these, and the heavier planet receive the lighter, there will be no serious engagement.\nWhether the Querent have any Adversaries or open Enemies.\nIf the question regard not any relation, take the 7th house for any open enemy, if any person be specially considered; but if it he simply as to enemies in general, look to the 12th house. If it be as to some individual enemy, see whether the lord of the 7th, or planet therein, throw a \u2610 or \u260d to the lord of the ascendant, or \u263d; this denotes that the quesited is envious or inimical. If the aspect apply, the enmity will increase; and if the enemy's significator dispose of the querent's without reception mutual, the querent will suffer by him: the manner how may be learned by the house he is in. If the\naspect be past, the injury is done, and the enmity is dying away, unless the querent's significator, or \u263d, be about to receive another ill aspect.\nIf the quesited's significator be placed in the 12th, or in any good aspect with any planet which is in \u2610 or \u260d to the \u263d, or lord of the ascendant, without reception, there is enmity to the querent.\nIf the question be general, the lord of the 12th and planets therein must be taken; and they shew private enemies to the querent, unless a benefic planet be in the 12th, and throw a \u2736, or \u25b3, to the querent's significators. If there be many planets in the 7th, it shews many open enemies; and if in the 12th, many secret foes. The \u2610 shews envy and malice, which may be reconciled; the \u260d, if without reception, denotes irreconcilable enemies. If an evil planet in the 12th throw a good aspect to the querent's significator, it chews that there is some person who under pretence of friendship wished to injure the querent. The same if the lord of the 11th be in the 12th. The house the lord of the 12th is in, will describe what person will injure the querent.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 14.\nJUDGMENT ON THE FIGURE ABOVE.\nState of the Querent's case.--A gentleman had been a long time an earnest suitor unto her for marriage; but she had continually slighted, and at last had given him a positive denial; after which she sorely repented her conduct, and wished she had her former opportunity. She was in this state when she propounded her question to me.\n____________\nThe ascendant and \u2609 are for the querent; \u2644, lord of the 7th, and \u263d, are for the gentleman. The querent was moderately\ntall, of round face, sanguine complexion, grey eyes, light brown hair, occasioned by \u2609, lord of the ascendant, being in the terms of \u2642, and she was of cheerful modest countenance, comely, and well spoken.\nFinding \u2644, in the south angle, in \u260c with \u2642 in \u2649, fixed, earthy sign, I judged the quesited to be of middle stature, not tall, nor handsome; a long face, not well composed; a wan, pale complexion; hair dark, or of a sad chesnut colour, curling and crisp; his eyes fixed, always down-looking, musing, stooping forward with his head, some impediment in his walking, as treading awry, &c. (All this was confessed.)\nFinding \u2644 so elevated, and in \u260c \u2642, I judged that he was gloomy and angry, discontented, scorning his former slights, (as all saturnine people do); and I judged him much incensed by a relation, a gentleman of respectability, shewn by \u2642, lord of his 3d and 10th, and that this gentleman and he lived either in one house, or near each other; this being shewn by the significator's being in his 4th angle and fixed; (and so it was.)\nI said the gentleman had no inclination for her, as the \u263d was void of course, and applied to \u260d of \u2609, lord of the ascendant, which shewed that she herself was her own enemy. She then confessed the truth, and implored my advice how, consistent with honour, she might, if possible, bring it on again; and she appearing in great distress, I began to consider what hopes she had in the figure. I found \u2609 applying to \u2736 of \u2644; this argued her desire and affection towards the quesited: but as there was no reception it gave little hopes. Finding reception between \u2643 and \u263d, and \u2609 and \u263d, and also that \u263d disposed of \u2644 in her exaltation, and \u2643 in her house, and that \u2643 was very near a \u2736 of \u2644, applying, and not separating; and also that \u2643 was in his exaltation, he being s\nfortune, and ever assisting nature and the afflicted, and that he was able to take off the malice of \u2644; I was confident, from the exactness of the aspect, that the quesited was intimately acquainted with a person of rank and worth, (such as \u2643 represented), whom I exactly described, and the lady very well knew. I directed her to apply to him, and acquaint him with the full extent of her folly, and I assured her that in him she would find all honour and secrecy; and I doubted not but, by God's blessing, he would again revive the business, and bring her to her heart's content. But finding that \u2609 and \u2644 came to \u2736 aspect on the 27th of the month, I advised to hasten all before that aspect was over; and as on the 19th of June \u2644 and \u2643 came to a \u2736, I told her that the gentleman should first move the quesited on that day near noon. My counsel was followed, and by that gentleman's means the match was brought on again, and completed within twenty days, to the content of the sorrowful (but to me unthankful) lady, &c.\nI acquainted this lady, that shortly before her lover had been offered a match, and that the lady was well descended, of good fortune, and described by \u2640; but that she need not fear his marrying her, as some officer or gentleman, who had been in the army, shewn by \u2642, would prevent that. She well knew both the parties, and confessed that such a mattes had been.\nHad the query been, who should live longest? I should have judged the female, because \u2609 is going to \u260c \u2643, and \u2642 afflicts \u2644.\nIf, whether the quesited were rich? I should say he had a good estate, as \u2643, lord of his 2d, was direct, swift, and in his exaltation, &c.\nIf, would they agree? I should say they would, as \u2609 and \u2644 are applying to \u2736; yet \u2644 with \u2642 shews a man who looks\nto have authority, one choleric as well as melancholy, jealous without a cause, &c.; yet the \u2736 of \u2643 mitigates his ill manners by means of education.\nIf, will the querent be honest? I answer, her significator \u2609 is no way afflicted by \u2642; her ascendant is fixed, and there is reception between \u2643 and \u263d, which are arguments of a virtuous woman. 1\nIn this manner you may examine any figure for discovery of what is necessary, &c.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 15.\nJUDGMENT ON THE ABOVE QUESTION.\nThe querent was of tall stature, ruddy complexion, sober, discreet, and well spoken, &c. The quesited was very tall, slender, lean, and of a long visage, with black hair. His tallness I attribute to \u2643 being in the terms of \u263f, and the cusp of the 7th being also in his terms. Indeed, a significator being in the terms of any planet, does vary the party from his natural constitution; so that he will retain a tincture from that planet, according as he is dignified. 1 The darkness of his hair I attribute to the aspect of \u2644 to \u2643, and \u263d being in the term of \u2643.\n\u263f is here the querent's significator, and being retrograde, and under the beams of \u2609, shewed that she was in distress and fear that the quesited would not have her. And she had some reason for it; for \u2643 was in his exaltation, and near the \u2736 of \u2640, an argument that the man stood upon high terms, and had been tampering with another: yet, as both significators were in semi-sextile aspect, and in good houses, I gathered hope that there were some mutual sparks of love. And when I found \u263d separating from \u2610 of \u2643 and hastening to \u25b3 of \u263f, thus conveying the light of the quesited's significator to the lord of the ascendant, which he received willingly by his retrograde movement, I was confident that the match would be suddenly brought about by a person described by \u263d; who did, indeed, though with a little difficulty, produce the marriage to the content of both parties.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 16.\nJUDGMENT UPON THE ABOVE FIGURE.\nThe ascendant, \u263f in \u2652, and \u2642 in \u264a, taken together, signified and described the querent, (the servant's master). He was short of stature, corpulent, of good complexion, and ruddy, fresh colour. His fatness I attribute to the north latitude of \u263f, which was one degree; also the ascendant was in the terms of \u2642, and face of \u2609, who was in partile \u25b3 to \u263d in a moist sign, which shews a full body, and phlegmatic.\nThe servant was shewn by \u2642 (lord of the 6th) and \u264f.\n[paragraph continues] He was a well-set short fellow, large joints, broad and full face, dark brown hair, his teeth irregular, complexion obscure and sunburnt, yet his skin clear; his age about nineteen.\nI observed that he went away from his master the preceding Sunday, when \u263d was in \u264a, a western sign, where \u2642 now was; and that \u263f, the common significator of servants, was in \u2652, a western sign, but south quarter of heaven.\nI judged, therefore, that he went westward at first, and that at the time of the question he was west from the querent's house; and this I judged, because \u2642 was angular, otherwise I should have judged by \u263d. As \u2642 and \u263f, lord of the ascendant, were hastening to a \u25b3 out of angles, I judged that in a day or two he should have his servant again.\nUpon the Friday following he came home, and said he had been at Kingston upon Thames; which, if true, he was nearly west, but a little south; and near a great water, (viz. the Thames), as the \u263d in \u264b might signify.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 17.\nThe queries to me were, What part of the city they should search? and, should he be found?\nThe querent was described by the sign ascending, and Cauda (\u260b) therein; and, indeed, he was saturnine, and vitiated both in body and mind; that is, he was a little deformed in body, of small stature, and extremely covetous in disposition, &c. The sign of the 6th signifies a dog, as it would have done a sheep, hog, &c., or any small cattle.\nThe sign \u264a is west and by south, the quarter of heaven westerly; \u263f, the dog's significator, is in \u264e, a western sign, and is in a south-western quarter of heaven; the \u263d is in \u264d, a south-west sign, verging to the west angle. The plurality of testimonies shewed that the dog ought to be west from where the owner lived, which was at Temple-bar; therefore I judged that the dog was about Long Acre, or upper part of Drury Lane. As \u263f was in a sign of the same triplicity with \u264a, which signifies London, and applied to \u25b3 of the cusp of the 6th, I judged that the dog was not out of the lines of communication, but in the same quarter; of which I was more satisfied by the \u25b3 of \u2609 to sa. \u263f being in an airy sign, I said the dog was in some garret or upper room; and, as \u263d was under the beams of \u2609, and \u263f, \u263d, and \u2609 were in the 8th house, that he was kept privately, or in great secrecy. But as \u2609, on the following Monday, formed a \u25b3 to \u2642, lord of the ascendant, and \u263d formed a \u25b3 to \u2642, who has dignities in the ascendant, I intimated that he should then have news of his dog; and this proved true; for a gentleman of the querent's acquaintance, coming accidentally to see a friend in Long Acre, found the dog chained up under a table, and knowing him to belong to the querent, sent him home about ten o'clock on the Monday morning, to my very great credit.\nUsually I find that all fugitives go by the \u263d; and as she varies her sign, they waver and shift their flight, declining more to east, west, north, or south. But you must judge by the significator or the \u263d, according to which is strongest; or if both be equally strong, take that which best describes the fugitive, with regard also to that one which is nearest in aspect to the cusp of the house from whence signification is taken. That is, if the fugitive be a servant or small animal, the 6th; if a large animal, the 12th; if a son or daughter, the 5th; and if a wife, the 7th, &c.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 18.\nJUDGMENT ON THE ABOVE FIGURE.\nHere \u264f ascends, and partly describes the querent's person; \u2642, his mind and disposition; \u2642 in \u2610 to \u263f and \u2644, shewed him ill-conditioned, arrogant, proud, wasteful, &c. As \u2642 is in 25\u00b0 2' of \u264c, he has entered his own terms, and is in his own face, I therefore refused him for the thief's significator. In the next place, \u2644, though in the west angle, (the house of theft), is in his own term and face; I also passed him by. But finding \u263f in an angle, having no essential dignity, and in partile \u260c of \u2644, and \u2610 of \u2642, I took him to\nsignify the thief. But whether he described a malt or female was the question. The angles are part masculine, part feminine; no certain judgment could, therefore, be formed from thence. The \u263d was in a masculine sign, applying to a masculine planet, (\u2642), and \u263f was in \u260c with \u2644, and \u2610 to \u2642, both masculine planets; I judged, therefore, that the sex was male.\nAs \u263f ever signifies youth, and as \u263d was so near the \u2609, separating, I said he was a youth, of some 15 or 16. I described him of reasonable stature, thin visaged, hanging eye-brows, with some scar or blemish in his face, because \u2642 casts his \u2610 to \u263f; bad eyesight, as \u263f is with evil fixed stars, (the Pleiades,) of the nature of \u2642 and \u263d; dark hair, because of his closeness to \u2644; a scurvy countenance, and one formerly accused of theft and knavery.\nThe youth's significator being in \u260c with \u2644, lord of the 3d and 4th houses, I judged him the child of some neighbour; and as \u263d is in \u264a, and \u263d is in \u264a, and \u263f in \u2649 in the 7th, I said he dwelt either opposite to the querent, or a little south-west. The \u2295 being in the ascendant, and disposed of by \u2642, lord of the ascendant in the 10th, and as \u263d applied to his \u2736, and was within about four degrees of the aspect, I judged he should not only hear of, but have his money again within four days. He believed not one word I said, but would need persuade me that a woman servant, shewn by \u2642, was one thief, and \u2644 another; but I stood firm to the art, and would not consent to this, as both \u2644 and \u2642 were essentially dignified. The event proved me right, both as to the person and the return of the money, which was within three days after.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 19.\nEXPLANATION OF THE ABOVE FIGURE.\nLiving in the country in 1637, I had bought at London some fish for my provision in Lent; it came down by the barge to Walton. On Saturday, the 10th February, one of the watermen, instead of bringing my fish home, acquainted me that their warehouse was robbed last night, and my fish stolen. I took the exact time I first heard the report, and erected this figure accordingly; endeavouring to give myself satisfaction as to what became of my goods, and, if possible, to recover part or all of them.\nJudgment.\nI first observed that there was no peregrine planet in an angle but \u2643, whom I found on the cusp of the 7th house. I considered the signification of \u2643 in \u264f a moist sign, and the significator of my goods, \u263f in \u2653, a moist sign; and that \u2295 was in \u264b, a moist sign. Discretion, together with art, led me to think he who had my goods must be a person whose profession, or calling, was to live upon the water; and that they were in some low room, in a moist place, because \u2295 was in \u264b, and \u263d was in \u2649, an earthy sign, and under the earth.\nI was confident I should hear of my goods again, as \u263f, lord of the 2d, was applied to by \u2736 of \u263d, who was lady of \u2295, and yet without hope of recovering them, as \u263f was in his fall, and detriment; but as he was in his own terms. and had a \u25b3 to \u2295, there were hopes of regaining some of my goods.\nThere being no waterman in Walton described by \u2643 in \u264f, I examined what fisherman there was of that complexion and as \u2642, lord of the 7th, was leaving \u264f, his own sign, and entering another, I inquired if any fisherman of the nature of \u2642 and \u2643 had lately sold any land, or was leaving his own house and going to another; such a one I discovered, who lived near the Thames side, a mere fisherman, but a jovial fellow, though much suspected of thievery. He was of good stature, thick, and full-bodied, fair complexion, and red or yellowish hair.\nI procured a warrant from a justice of peace, and reserved it privately until Sunday, the 18th of the month; and then, with a constable and the bargeman, I searched only that one house of the suspected fisherman. I found part of my fish in water, part eaten, part not consumed; all confessed. I\nasked the woman for seven Portugal onions which I had lost also; but she, not knowing what they were, had made pottage with them. I freely remitted the remainder of my fish, though the hireling priest of Walton affirmed that I had satisfaction for it. Bat he never hurt himself with a lie.\nThus you see, that the peregrine planet in an angle describes the thief; and that either \u2609 or \u263d in the ascendant gives assured hopes of discovering who it was. The \u263d applying to the lord of the 2d, argues recovery; if they both be essentially dignified, complete; but if accidentally fortified, partial. If both be peregrine, and they apply, there will be a discovery, but no recovery.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 20.\nA Figure erected to know whether Sir WILLIAM WALLER or Sir RALPH HOPTON should overcome; they being supposed to be engaged near Alsford \u2640 29th March, 1644.\nThe ascendant is for our army, the \u263d, \u2643, and \u2640, for our generals, viz. Sir William Waller, and Major-General Browne, a valiant and prudent citizen of London, who may justly claim a large share of honour in that day's service. Sir Ralph Hopton is signified by \u2644, lord of the 7th; his army by \u2651 in the descending part of heaven which is usually\ngiven to the friends and assistants of the enemy. There are only \u2642 and \u260b in the 9th; so it appears that Sir Ralph had no supplies ready to attend that day's success, &c. From the \u263d, having principal signification of us and our army, being in her exaltation with \u2643, I concluded all was and would be well on our side, and that the victory would be ours. From her separation from \u2643, I said, I verily conceived that we had already taken some ammunition from them, or performed some service against them. This I was confirmed in by \u2609, lord of our substance and assistants, being posited in the 10th house, in the very degree of his exaltation; (the 19th). And though I thought by the proximity of \u2644 to \u2609 we should not gain the whole, or have a perfect victory, without diminution of some part of it; yet I was confident we should obtain a considerable proportion of their ammunition, and have a victory, the only thing inquired after; for the \u263d applied to \u2640, and then to a \u2736 of \u263f, he being angular. I told the querent that within eleven or twelve hours after the question we should have perfect news, and it satisfactory. For, considering that the fight was within fifty miles of London, I ordered my time with discretion, not allowing days for the time, but hours; and this because \u263d is distant from \u2640 11\u00b0, but is withal swift in motion, and increasing in light. These were also signs of our success, and the enemies' defeat. It appeared, by a letter from the army on that same Friday, that our generals took on the previous day 120 commanders and gentlemen, 560 common soldiers, and much ammunition. Thus the enemy was worsted, as appeared by \u2644, (the Lord Hopton's significator), being sub radiis, in his fall in no aspect to any planet, wholly peregrine, and unfortunate, and aspecting the cusp of the 7th by \u2610. All this argued that he would bring loss to his army, and dishonour to himself by the fight, &c.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 21.\nQUESTION.--Whether his Excellency ROBERT Earl of ESSEX should take READING, having then surrounded it with his Army?\nThe General Essex is here shewn by \u2642, lord of \u264f, and his Majesty by \u2609, lord of the 10th, the forces that were to relieve Reading by \u2640 in \u2653, and \u2609 in \u2649; also the town by \u2652, the sign on the 4th; the governor, Sir Arthur Acton, (reputed an able soldier), by the lord of the 4th, \u2644; and their ammunition and provision by \u2643, lord of the 5th, and by \u2640 located therein.\nThe significator of his Excellency \u2642 is well fortified, and afflicted in no way but by being in his fall. This figure manifests that it is of great importance in questions of warfare to have \u2642 friendly to the querent. The \u263d separated from nothing, and was void of course; and, indeed, there was little hope of its being gained in the time it was. She applied to \u2736 of \u2642 from signs of long ascension, which was equivalent to a \u2610; which argued that his Excellency would have much difficulty and some fighting ere he could get it. But as \u2642 and \u263d were in reception, viz. \u2642 in her house, and she in his terms and face, and near Cor. \u264c, and in the house of honour, I judged that his Excellency would obtain and take Reading, and gain honour thereby. Finding \u2609, his Majesty's significator, in the 7th in a fixed sign, I said that he would send forces to relieve the town, and oppose all he could; but that he would not prevail, as \u2642 was better fortified than \u2609. The King did come in person, and was beaten back at Causham Bridge.\nFinding that \u2652 was not afflicted, I judged the town strong, and able to hold out; and \u2640 being in the 5th, that they wanted not ammunition. Having well weighed all things, and that \u2644, lord of the 4th, signifying the Governor, was in his fall with \u260b, and that \u263f and \u2643 were not far from \u260b, I said, (and sent somebody word), that the most certain way, and which would assuredly occasion the surrender of the town, was to set division among the principal officers, and incense them against their chief officer, and that about eight days from the time of the question his Excellency would be master of the town; yet rather by composition than by blood. This because \u2609 and \u2642 were separated from their \u2736 aspect, and \u2642 was also separated from the \u2610 of \u2644; as also because the \u263d applied so directly to \u2736 of the lord of the ascendant, without any frustration, &c.\nThe town was delivered for the Parliament's use on the 27th April, three days after the time I said; but it is observable that they began to treat on the very Monday before, just eight days after the figure was set.\nThe Governor was hurt in the head, as \u2644 in \u2648 with \u260b shews; nor did they want provisions, &c., as \u2640 in the 5th signifies. 1\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 22.\nJUDGMENT ON THE PRECEDING FIGURE.\nThis figure is erected for the latitude and longitude of Antwerp, and is an exact representation of the heavens at the time the French troops opened ground, (or began the siege), before the citadel of Antwerp. By it the student will perceive that the rules laid down by our author, being founded in truth and nature, are infallible; and that they hold equally true in the 19th as they did in the 17th century. They must eventually put the sceptic to silence, and convince the world of the truth of planetary influence.\nThe ascendant and its lady, the \u263d, are for the besiegers, the 7th and its lord for the besieged, the 4th is for the town, and its lord for the governor. The 10th is the house of honour for the besiegers, and we find \u2643 potent therein, denoting decidedly that they should gain honour by the siege. The \u260b in the ascendant shewed success to the French, and \u260a in the 7th the reverse to their enemies. The lord of the 4th, \u263f, is in his detriment, cadent, and in exact \u2610 to the evil \u2644, denoting disgrace to the governor, who is thereby shewn to be extremely obstinate, as, indeed, he was. The malefic in the 4th denoted that the place should be taken, and, as \u263d was in close \u2610 to \u2642, it would be by much loss of men and bloodshed on the part of the besiegers. The \u263d is in the terms of \u2642, and he in her exaltation and triplicity, which reception denotes courageous conduct on the part of the besiegers; and although the \u263d is in \u2610 to \u2642, yet, there being mutual reception, it shews success in a martial exploit; but with much difficulty, because of the \u2610 aspect. The garrison were denoted by the 5th, and its ruler \u2640; and as \u2640 is in the 6th, (the 12th from the enemies' ascendant), it shewed that all the enemies' party would be made prisoners, which was the case.\nThe citadel capitulated when a breach had been effected; mad they surrendered to the French on the 23d December following; when the \u263d, the besiegers' significator, crossed the cusp of the 7th house; thus entering the 7th just as the besiegers entered the place itself. It deserves notice that on the day \u263f fell retrograde, and \u263d crossed the cusp of the 5th (Dec. 15th), the besiegers carried the horn work.\nThe student will observe, that the lord of the 7th was peregrine, having no essential dignity whatever; and that the \u263d, besides her aspect and her mutual reception with \u2642, the chief significator of warfare, is in her own face, and disposes of \u2644 by triplicity. Hence the besiegers are decidedly the strongest party, and should, by the rules of the science, certainly prevail.\nThe student may rely that the figure of the heavens at the first moment of commencing any enterprise whatever, will infallibly point out, to those who really understand astrology, its final result.\n188:1 We should judge that, if the planet dispose of \u2609 by house, this rule does not hold. We have no faith in the doctrine of Cazimi.\n202:1 This rule principally applies to cattle strayed.\n205:1 The human signs are \u264a, \u264d, and \u2652, also the first half of \u2650. If the significator of any person or \u263d be in one of these signs, they are humane and civil in their manners.\n205:2 In this case \u264b generally denotes pure or running water; \u264f foul water, and filthy liquids, oils, dyes, &c.; and \u2653 standing waters, spirituous liquors, wines, &c.\n207:1 If a servant, take the lord of the 6th in all these eases.; and if the querent's child, the lord of the 5th, &c.\n214:1 We should pay more attention to the nature of the sign, as fiery, earthy, &c.; and judge as in the rules for things mislaid.\n216:1 These minute particulars may be found useful in many other questions. such as where fugitives, &c. are; and they might be of use in discovering criminals.\n217:1 This means, going faster than they were the previous day.\n218:1 \u2644 shews one of a pale, swarthy, dark complexion; hard, rough skin; hairy body; small, leering eyes; jaundiced look; lean, crooked, or ill made; beetle browed; thin beard; thick, negro lips; bow-legged, or one who knocks his knees or ancles one against the other, and shuffles in his gait. He has a down look, his eyes always on the earth; is seldom free from cough and bad breath. He is crafty, revengeful, and malicious; dirty, a great eater, covetous, and seldom rich.\n\u2643 denotes a full face, white and red mixed; full eyes; good make, light beard, but this depends chiefly on the sign; thick hair, good teeth, but some defect in the two front teeth; moderately curling hair. If in a watery sign, fat and plump; in an earthy sign, large make: in an airy sign, strong--a person who bears a good moral character.\n\u2642 denotes a full face, red or sunburnt; a sharp, fierce countenance; eyes fiery and ferocious, with rather a yellow tinge; hair and beard reddish; but this depends on the sign, unless he be with fixed stars of his own nature, such as Aldebaran, the Lion's Heart, &c. In earthy signs it is a sad brown; in watery, lighter or flaxen; in airy, curling or crisping; in fiery, strong and wiry. He is strong, broad shouldered, proud, scornful, drunken, and debauched with a mark or scar, generally in the face.\n\u2609 denotes a round full face; sanguine complexion; short chin; curling hair; fair, comely, sometimes swarthy or bronzed; bold, ambitious, vain, slow of speech; outwardly decent, but secretly vicious and lascivious.\n\u2640 gives a fair, round face; full or large eyes; red, plump lips, the lower larger than the upper; black eyelids, smooth brown hair; person well-shaped and handsome; rather short than tall; face pleasing, with smiles and dimples.\n\u263f middling complexion; darkish hair, or a sad brown; long face; high forehead black or grey eyes; thin beard and whiskers, often hardly any; slender, small legs; one quick in walking, and full of talk and business.\n\u263d a round face, more white than red; in watery signs, freckled; and if in \u264b, and in no aspect to \u2642 or \u2609, very pale and white, or wan--a person generally short and full; and one who is dull and heavy, and also very vulgar and ill-mannered.\nN.B. The above descriptions are partly taken from Wilson's Astrological Dictionary; a very useful work for the young student.\n232:1 We should rely much on her significator \u2609 being in \u260c with \u2643.\n233:1 We should rather consider that \u263f in \u264a aspecting the cusp of the 7th; and the \u263d, the man's general significator, being in \u264e and aspecting \u2643, shewed his tallness. \u264a and \u264e are tall signs.\n247:1 The well-known instance of a military siege, the capture of the Castle of Antwerp, being so applicable to this question, and the time of its commencement by the opening of the trenches being so well authenticated, we are induced to offer to the student's notice a figure we erected for that time.","title":"Introduction to Astrology: The Resolution of all Manner of Questions and Demands: Chapter XXX. The Seventh House, and its Questions","type":"page"}