{"collection":"astro","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/astro/aia/aia38.htm","path":"astro/aia/aia38.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/astro/aia/aia38.htm","text":"IF a question be asked regarding secret enemies, who are not named, observe the lord of the 12th, and planets therein, how they aspect the lord of the ascendant, and from what houses, &c. If the lord of the 12th behold the lord of the ascendant from the 6th, 8th, or 12th, or from the 4th, 7th, or 10th, then there are some who privately wish ill to the querent.\nTo know who a private Enemy is.\nObserve how the lord of the 12th is affected, and whether he be with good or evil planets, and how he behold the lord of the ascendant. If he be in the 6th, or joined to its lord, it spews the secret enemy is afflicted with some secret disease or malady; if the lord of the 6th be in the 12th, he is also sickly. If the lord of the 12th be in the 10th, or with its lord, he is in favour with the king or some person of rank; and if he be strong, it will not be well for the querent to meddle with him, especially if he aspect the lord of the ascendant or \u263d by \u2610 or \u260d. If the lord of the 12th be with the lord of the 4th or 8th, or in those houses, he is sickly or near dying, or is repining, and very miserable. Consider and judge farther, as in former cases directed.\nWhether a Person committed to Prison shall be discharged?\nFirst learn your ascendant exactly, by knowing what relation the quesited bears to the querent. If \u263d be swift in motion, it denotes a short stay in prison; if she aspect a\nplanet in the 3d or 9th by \u2736 or \u25b3, or by \u2610, if with reception), he shall soon leave the prison; the same, if she aspect the lord of the 3d or 9th, and be not in an angle. As you judge by \u263d, judge also by the lord of the ascendant. But these aspects must be by application.\nThe lords of the angles being in angles, is an ill testimony; and so much the worse if the lord of the ascendant be in the 4th, or if either he or the lord of the 12th dispose of each other. It is still worse if the lord of the ascendant be disposed of by a planet in an angle, especially a malefic; and worst of all if that malefic be in the 4th; and if he be the lord of the 8th, he may expect to die in prison. The \u263d disposed of by the lord of the 12th, or any malefic, is a sign of a long stay; and it is still worse, if her dispositor be in an angle, and especially in the 4th. If, however, the disposing planet be in a moveable sign, or swift in motion, it shortens the time; but a retrograde planet shews a long detention. If the lord of the ascendant, or \u263d, be combust, it shews a long imprisonment.\nThe \u263d and \u263f in moveable signs, when \u263f is lord of the ascendant, shews speedy enlargement, especially if they aspect a fortune. If \u2643 ascend, or be in \u260c with \u263d, or \u2640 be in the ascendant in \u260c with \u263d, or \u263f be in \u260c with \u2643, and aspect the \u263d, or \u263d apply to \u2643 or \u2640, he will be discharged. The dispositor of \u263d with a fortune denotes the same.\nWhether a Prisoner of War shall escape or be exchanged, &c.\nIf the lord of the ascendant separate from the lord of the 4th, and apply to a fortune; or if the lord of the ascendant be cadent, or leaving an angle, he shall escape. Also if he separate from combustion, or \u263d get from under the beams of \u2609.\nIf at the time of being taken, or of the question, a fixed\nsign ascend, or the \u263d, or lord of the ascendant, be in a fixed sign, or in \u2653, it denotes long imprisonment. The same if a fixed sign be on the 12th, or its lord be angular, and in a fixed sign. The \u263d, or lord of the 1st, in \u2649 or \u264c, and in \u260d to \u2642, shews danger of being slain by the sword, or by quarrelling; if in \u260d to \u2644, it shews irons or severe punishments. (If it be an ordinary prisoner, these may shew sickness, want, and ill treatment, or accident, &c.)\nAn infortune in \u2652, shews a long imprisonment. If the lord of the ascendant be in his fall or detriment, and the \u263d in \u2652, the same; also the \u263d, or lord of the 1st, in the 8th or 12th. If \u263d apply to a fortune, and the lord of the ascendant and the cusp of the ascendant be fortunate, it denotes liberation.\nNote.--\u2640 is better than \u2643 in this question, especially if in aspect to \u263f or \u263d. If \u263d be with \u2644, and \u2643 behold them by \u2610, and \u2642 by \u25b3, it denotes that, after a long confinement and suffering, he shall break prison and escape.\nIf a felon, &c., be imprisoned when \u2609 ascends or rules the ascendant, he shall escape (the ancients declare) within a month; if \u2640, within 40 days; if \u263f, he has long imprisonment; if \u263d, his state will depend on and change according as she has applications with other planets; if \u2644, he has long confinement; if \u2643, short; and if \u2642 he shall be ill-treated, beaten, put into irons, &c.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 29.\nJUDGMENT ON THE ABOVE QUESTION.\nThe prisoner's person is described by \u2650, the cusp of the 12th, and by \u2643 in \u264c. The way he went, and intended to go, is here shewn by the cusp of the 12th \u2650, and by \u264c, where \u2643 is, and by the sign and quarter of heaven wherein we find \u263d.\nAll of them considered, they signify, unanimously, that the prisoner would go eastward, or full east, (and so he did). The closeness of \u263d to the ascendant shewed that he was not\nyet out of town, or, at least, that he would not be far from town. And as \u2643 was in the 8th, I judged that he lay obscure for awhile, viz. a night; but that then he would go away, (which he did).\nI confidently affirmed, that he should be taken again by some man of authority; for \u263d separated from \u25b3 of \u2643, his significator, and applied to \u260d of \u2609, both in angles. It never fails, but that if the \u263d, or the significator of a fugitive, be afflicted by an unfortunate planet in the 7th house, that fugitive, or prisoner, is again taken. In the next place, I found \u2643 and \u263f in \u2736, \u263f in his own house, and applying to \u2643; therefore I judged that the querent should have news of the prisoner by letter, or by some young man, within six or seven days, or when the significators came to \u2736 aspect; which was six days afterwards. The truth is, that on the next Friday he had a letter to tell where he was, and on the Sunday he apprehended him by authority.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 30.\nQUESTION.--A LADY ASKS WHEN HER HUSBAND, WHO IS IMPRISONED, SHALL BE DELIVERED?\nJudgment.--The lady's husband is signified by \u2643 lord of the 7th; he is in \u264b retrograde, and had the day before been in \u25b3 to \u2609. The \u263d applies to \u2736 of \u2644 retrograde, then to \u25b3 of \u2643 with a most forcible reception. From hence I made, not many words, but told the lady she need not trouble herself to make friends to apply to his majesty, for that I was\nassured that either he was, or would be, within three day; discharged from his imprisonment by means of a solar man, a commander who would release him and furnish him with what was necessary for his convenience.\nThe truth is, he was released, and the garrison where he was prisoner taken the day before the question was asked, (when \u2609 was in \u25b3 to his significator), by an honest parliamentary colonel, who plentifully relieved him with money, and all convenient necessaries. \u2643 in his exaltation, retrograde, in a moveable sign, and in \u25b3 to \u2609, shewed short imprisonment; the more so, as \u2609 is lord of the 4th, and the \u25b3 so perfect.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 31.\nThe Time of His Excellency ROBERT Earl of ESSEX last setting forth into the West of England.\nHere \u2652, the ascending sign, well represents his form of body, for it was comely, &c. \u2644, \u263f, and \u2640, his mind, they having all dignities in the ascendant. \u2643 has also much to do with his qualities, being lord of \u2653, an intercepted sign in the ascendant.\nI first considered that the \u263d separated from a \u25b3 of \u2644, and applied to a \u2610 of \u2642, lord of his house of substance, assistants, &c., and also of the 9th, his house of journeys. This intimated he should have but slender success, and lose much by his present march. Finding \u260b in the ascendant, I judged that he would be betrayed in his councils; and seeing \u2644, lord of his ascendant, peregrine, and in his fall in the 2d, the \u263d in her detriment, and \u2295 disposed of by \u263f, lord of his 7th, signifying his enemies, and that \u2643, the general significator of wealth, casts a \u2610 to the ascending degree, I gave this judgment:--that his Excellency must expect no success from this employment; that he would have no honour by the journey; that he would be extremely crossed by men of great power here at London, who pretended great friendship to him; (\u2643, lord of the 10th and 11th, being in \u2610 to his ascendant), that he would be betrayed wholly, and be in danger to lose all; that, in short, I was extremely sorry he had chosen so unlucky a time to set forth, &c. &c.\nThe issue was thus, (for I write to posterity): he prospered in the beginning, and daily men of good quality and authority jeered at me, and derided my prediction. I was quite content to be abused, provided that he might have had success. But observe, that on the 8th September following, came sad news, that on the 2d of September this worthy man had surrendered all his ammunition to his majesty, having only quarter for his soldiers; with some other articles, which were dishonourably performed, to the eternal shame of the royal party.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 32.\nJUDGMENT ON THE ABOVE FIGURE.\nThe above remarkable era in the life of King Charles the First affords a striking illustration of the truth of the rules of the science as laid down by our author.\nThe King is here represented by the ascendant, the \u263d, and the lord of the ascendant, because he began the WAR, as it were, by this act. 1\nHere we find \u2644 peregrine, and retrograde in the ascendant, a decided testimony of ill success; the \u260b is also ascending, a sign of evil and treachery to the King. His second house is afflicted by \u2642, who is in his detriment, and disposed of by \u263f, the significator of his adversaries. The King's \u2295 is afflicted by \u260c of \u2642, and by \u2610 of \u263f, having only the \u2736 of \u2643, who is retrograde, and in \u260d to \u2609n, the joint significator of his foes. Then we find the ascendant in \u260d to \u263f, the significator of the enemy; and also the \u263d in \u2610 to the \u2609, cadent and peregrine. Each one of his significators is afflicted, and \u2643, the lord of the 11th, his house of hopes, and of the 10th, the house of honour, and dispositor of \u263d, is afflicted by the \u260d of \u2609, by being retrograde, and by being within orbs of a \u260c of \u2644, lord of the 12th, the house of disgrace and misfortune.\nNow as regards the adversary, we find \u2609 and \u263f both ruling the 7th, and placed therein in mutual reception, \u2609 being in the house of \u263f, and \u263f in the house of \u2609. The \u260a is also in the 7th, and \u2640 lady of their 2d, or house of substance and means, assistants, &c., is strong in her own house n, angular, and no way afflicted.\nThe general significator of war, \u2642, is in his detriment, and is disposed of by \u2640, a benefic in the 7th. The lord of the adversaries 10th, or house of honour, is \u263f, and he is in reception mutual with the \u2609, angular, and no way impedited,\nexcept being retrograde; and he is in the term of \u2642, and \u2642 is in his term; another mutual reception.\nAll these things were decided testimonies that his Majesty should fail in all his endeavours, and eventually be ruined. The lord of the 12th being also lord of the ascendant, shewed that he had been himself his greatest enemy, and the cause of his misfortunes. The lord of the 12th, (house of imprisonment) being in the ascendant, shewed that he should be imprisoned; the more so from his being in \u2653. And history tells us how truly the \"signs of heaven\" spoke on this occasion; for \"all the remainder of his life, after this August 22d, 1642, was a mere labyrinth of sorrow; a continued and daily misfortune.\"\nThe student will perceive that his death was plainly foreshewn by the \u263d applying to \u2736 of \u2640, lady of the 8th, or house of death, from signs of long ascension; in which a \u2736, it is said, has the same effect as a \u2610 in other signs. The \u263d moreover is with Antares, a violent fixed star, (now in about 7\u00b0 30' \u2650) which is said to denote a violent death; which is farther shewn by the \u2610 of \u263d to \u2609, the latter being in an angle. The lord of the 4th being in to the ascendant, was also a token of his death; and perhaps \u264f being in the 8th, and \u2642, its ruler, approaching Caput Algol, which is said to denote beheading, might intimate that; but all such minute points must be left to posterity to decide, when the science will be better understood.\nThe hour of the King's death was 4h. 4m. P.M., 30th January, 1648-9, when the heavens were as represented in the following figure. The student will see that \u2644, lord of the ascendant in this figure, had exactly gained the \u2610 aspect of the \u2609 at that time, being in \u264a 9\u00b0 25'; and that \u2609 was just transiting the ascendant of this figure; and that the cusp of the 10th (which denoted the King) is there the place of \u2644\nin this figure. The \u263d is in the 29th degree, of \u2651, a \u2610 aspect to the cusp of the 8th, in this also; and \u2643, part lord of the ascendant here, is in \u260c with the place of \u2640, lady of the 8th. All these coincidences must be considered by the genuine searcher after truth as strong evidences of the truth of planetary influence, as evinced in horary astrology. The consequences and final result of the mad attempt of this unhappy King to make war upon the nation were here plainly depicted; and it is for the opponents of astrology to shew, that these things are merely accidental coincidence, or the fruit of chance, the deity they so fondly worship.\n \nClick to enlarge\nFig. 33\nOBSERVATIONS ON THE ABOVE FIGURE.\nKing Charles I. was born at Dumfernline, in Scotland, about fifteen miles from Edinburgh, on the 19th November, 1600; at which time \u2609 was in 9\u00b0 of \u2650. Hence, at the period of his death, \u2644 was exactly in \u260d to the place of \u2609 at his birth, and \u2642 nearly in \u2610 to that place.\nThe \u260d of \u2644 to \u2609 will ever be found to bring trouble, sorrow, disgrace, and often death, to the native. It will be seen that at the time of the King's setting up his standard at Nottingham, the \u2609 was exactly transiting the \u2610 of his own\nplace at birth; a decided cause of failure, discredit, &c. But although we mention these circumstances, we would remind the student that such transits can have but little effect unless evil directions be operating at the time; which, there can be no doubt, was the case in the nativity of the unfortunate and ill-advised King Charles the First.\nIf we regard this figure as that of the exact commencement of the COMMONWEALTH, we shall find that it will point out the result of that change in the government, as it would of any other thing which might then have commenced.\nThe \u263d is lady of the ascendant, and she is in her detriment and peregrine; hence the commonwealth was not successful; her being in a moveable sign, and moveable signs on the ascendant and 7th, and such signs intercepted in the other two angles, shewed that it would not be permanent. The lord of the 4th being also lord of the 12th, shewed that it would come to an end by means of the exertions of its secret enemies; and as \u2644 is also lord of the 7th, and rules the \u263d, it shewed that its enemies would overthrow it at length. The end of it was clearly pointed out to be when \u263d came to \u260c of the lord of the 4th, \u263f, and to the \u25b3 in signs of short ascension of the lord of the 8th, \u2644, who is very powerful, as being in reception with \u263f, and \u25b3 with \u2643, and ruling both \u2609 and \u263d, and being also with \u260a. If we calculate from the place of the \u263d to the \u25b3 of \u2644, we shall find eleven degrees and a quarter, which would be equivalent to eleven years and a quarter; which, it is well known, was THE EXACT DURATION OF THE COMMONWEALTH.\n286:1 \"The King had lain most part at York, or rambled into some other counties near adjacent, until August, and done little to any purpose. p. 287 For the several counties were generally nothing inclinable to his purpose; in most whereof, and in every county he came in, he rather received petty affronts than support. Yet at last he came to Nottingham, and there set up his STANDARD, (with a full resolution for war), the 22d August, 1642, under this constellation; having some few horse with him, but in great expectation of more aid from the Welsh, &c., whom he thought most doted on monarchy.\"--Monarchy or no Monarchy, p. 112.","title":"Introduction to Astrology: The Resolution of all Manner of Questions and Demands: Chapter XXXV. Of the Twelfth House, and its Questions, viz. of Imprisonment, Great Cattle, Private Enemies, Banished Men, &c.","type":"page"}