The lst house and his Lord are given to
the Querent, the lOth house and his Lord shall signifie the Place, Office,
Preferment, Command, Honour, &c. enquired after;
If the Lord of the ascendant
and the Moon be both joyned to the Sun, or to the Lord of the lOth, or either of
them, and the Lord of the lOth behold the lOth, or be personally therein,
the Querent shall then have the thing sought after, but not Gratis; nay,
he must bestir himselfe, and use all the friends he can about it:
If none
of the Significators be joyned to the Lord of the lOth" see if the Lord of
the lst or Moon be in the lOth, he shall then attain what he desires, if
that Planet be not impedited:
The Lord of the lOth in the lst, so he be a
lighter Planet then the Lord of the lst, though no aspect be betwixt them,
yet shall he attain the Place or Office desired; but with more ease and lesse
labour when the Lord of the lOth is in the ascendant, and is either going to
Conjunction, Sextile or Trine aspect with the Lord of the lst.
If the Lord of the lOth be joyned
to Jupiter or Venus by any
aspect, and the Lord of the lOth be in the ascendant, it argues obtaining
of the Office with ease and facility:
If the Lord of the lOth be joyned to
Mars or Saturn, and they or either of them in the ascendant, in their owne
house or exaltation, and themselves Orientall and Direct, and not one opposite
to another, this doth argue obtaining the Preferment, though with much importunity.
If the Lord of the
lOth receive the Lord of the lst or the Moon by any reception,
or in any house, the matter will be effected with much content and profit.
If any Planet transferre the vertue of the Lord of the lst to the Lord of the lOth,
then the thing will be perfected, or Office obtained by meanes of another that
labours in the matter, and not by himselfe:
In this case, it's best that he who
would acquire the Dignity, observe if he know such a man as the Planet describes,
that in probability is active, or of neer acquaintance to the person of whom he
would have the Office, and let him imploy such a one in the businesse, for by
his meanes it's very like he may attaine the place desires.
If the Lord of the lOth doe
not desire the Conjunction of the Lord of the lst,
but the Lord of the ascendant his, and doth really come to Conjunction of the
Lord of the lOth, without the abscission of any other Planet before Conjunction,
the Office will be obtained, but the Querent must labour hard for it.
No Conjunction being betwixt the Lord
of the lst and lOth, or either of them
joyned to a Fortune, but to a malevolent, and this malevolent joyned to another
malevolent, and this malevolent joyned to a Fortune, and this Fortune joyned
to the Lord of the lOth; if the Conjunction of the lst Infortune be with the
Lord of the lst, or the last Planet is joyned to the Lord of the lst, or if
their first Conjunction be with the Lord of the lOth, yet it imports acquisition
of the Dignity, but with infinite perplexities, and solicitation of many and
severall persons:
You may easily distinguish the persons
of those to be imployed,
by the Planets before mentioned, and the houses they are Lords of; those Planets
that are in Sextile or Trine to the Lord of the lOth are great with him: Let
application or meanes be made to such, for those men may be great Friends to the Querent.
Behold if any of the preceding Planets be in the lst, or in the lOth;
if he be a Fortune, it notes obtaining the Dignity, whether he be in
Reception or not:
If the Planet so posited do receive the Moon or Lord
of the lst, the matter will be perfected, but without Reception, not.
If the lOth house be in the house or exaltation of that evill Planet,
and he placed in that house, he performes the business, whether he
receive the Lord of the ascendant or the Moon: In every Question you
must observe, that what Planet soever is Significator of any thing,
If
he be in an angle, he hastens to effect the matter; in a succedant, the
matter goes on slowly;
in a cadent house, the matter goes backward, yet at last is performed.
See if an ill Planet behold the Lord of the ascendant or the Moon, with
Square or Opposition, without Reception, for unlesse he then commit his
disposition to another, he hinders and disturbs the Querent by meanes of
that person who is to solicite the cause or businesse, and it's probable
they will fallout about it:
If a Trine or Sextile be betwixt them, he will
not be angry with him, although he performe not what he expects.
If the Lord of the ascendant and lOth commit their disposition to any Planet
by any aspect, with or with no Reception, whether the Receiver be a Fortune
or Infortune (so that he be not Retrograde, Combust or Cadent, or goe out of
that Signe wherein he is before the Conjunction of the Lord of the lst or lOth,
the Querent shall achieve the preferment expected.
It's generally concluded by
all Astrologers, that if the Lord of the ascendant
and the Lord of the lOth be joyned together, and the Moon apply to either of
them, the matter will be effected, but best of all when Moon separates from
the Lord of the lOth, and applyes to the Lord of the ascendant.
Behold if the Lord of
the lst be joyned to the Lord of the 4th, or the Lord of
the 4th to the Lord of the ascendant, it argues their perfecting of the thing:
but if the Lord of the ascendant be joyned to the Lord of the 4th, and the Lord
of the 4th be joyned to the Lord of the lOth, the matter shall be effected, but
with so much strugling and delaying that it was absolutely despaired ever to
be effected, yet at last it was perfected.
Behold herein the Lord of the
lst and the lOth, and see if they be in any aspect,
or neer to a corporall conjunction; and see if the more ponderous Planet of the
two, that is, the receiver of the Disposition be in any angle but the 4th; say
then, he shall not be removed from his Office untill his appointed time comes out:
But if that Receiver of the Disposition
be under the earth, or in the descending
part of heaven, it imports he shall depart from his Office, or for a time loose it;
but shall returne thither againe more confirmed in his Place: and if the receiver
of the Disposition be received againe, then he returnes with more honour then before,
and also very speedily.
You may judge in the same manner
if the Lord of the ascendant be joyned to the Lord of
the 3rd or 9th, or to a Planet therein, and after separation from him, be joyned to a
Planet in any Angle except the 4th.
But if they are separated from each other, then he returnes not againe to his government,
but shall depart from it.
If the Lord of the lst or lOth, or
Moon commit their disposition to any Planet in an
Angle (except he be in the 4th) and that Planet be slow in motion, he shall not be
removed from his Office or place of trust, untill that Receiver become Retrograde or
approach to Combustion, or goe out of the Signe wherein he is; for much about that
time will be removed.
If the Lord of the lst be joyned
to any Planet who is in a Sign
opposite to the exaltation of the Planet who is in the Sign opposite to the exaltation
of the Planet who now disposes him, the Officer will then carry himselfe ill in his
place, and it may be feared he shall dye for it (but this is to be understood according
to the quality of the place he hath.)
If the Lord of the opposite house to the
exaltation of the Lord of the lst be joyned unto him; the men of that Kingdome,
or people of that City or Countrey shall report ill of him, shall produce false
witnesses against him; the ignorant shall beleeve those false reports, nor will
they be easily beaten into any other opinion.
But if the Lord of the lOth be joyned to the Lord of the opposite house of his
exaltation; the Countrey where he governs or governed shall suffer great detriment
viz. by the said Governour.
If the Moon be joyned
to the Lord of the lOth and he in the lOth the Governour or
Officer shall not be put from his Office or Dignity.
If the Lord of the lst or the Moon be joyned to the Lord of the lOth or either of
them and he more weighty then either of theml and be in a good place of heaven viz.
either in the lOth llth or 5th free from all manner of impediments though he behold
not the lOth yet withstanding if the Querent be then in any Command or Office he
shall be transferred to some other place of trust or Command: But if he behold the
lOth house then he shall continue where he is.
If the Lord of the ascendant and the
Moon be in Angles and the Angles moveable Signes and Moon not joyned to the Lord of
the exaltation of that Sign she is then in it argues he shall goe from this present
Command or Government: or if the Moon be joyned to any Planet who is not in any of
his essential dignities though he be received unlesse it be from a fortune by Sextile
or Trine and that fortune in the 3rd or 9th the Querent shall leave his Government
or Office.
In like manner the same thing
will happen unto him if either the Lord of
the 4th or the Moon be in the 4thl and the Sign of the 4th be Aries, Cancer, Libra,
Capricorn the judgement will hold more certaine if the Moon be then joyned to the
Lord of the 4th and he Peregrine: and againe the same will come to passe if the Moon
be joyned to a Planet who is in the opposition to the Sign of the exaltation or
house of her selfe; or if she be in Capricorn or if the Moon be voyd of course.
enjoy once more their former estates, &c. that Question fals not to be judged by
this house; the matter of this Question is of greater concernment; For Kings and
Princes are now in this Chapter upon the Stage; and all manner of principall men
cast out from former honours or preferments.
The lst house in the Question and
Lord thereof, are for the Querent, be he King,
or other Officer, &c. Lord, Marquesse, Duke or Gentleman.
Doe you well observe if the Lord of the lst be in Conjunction with the Lord of
the lOth, and see if the more ponderous of them who receives the disposition of
the more light Planet behold the lOth house, then the King, Gentleman or Officer,
shall returne and have power, or rule in the Kingdome or place he formerly had,
and from whence at present he is suspended.
If that receiver of the disposition of
the other significator do not aspect the
lOth house, then observe the Moon, a generall Significatrix, and see if she be
joyned to any Planet who is placed in the lst or lOth, that signifies his
returning or restoring: see if the Moon be in Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn,
he returnes the sooner:
But if the Lord of the lOth be so joyned to a Planet in
the lOth, it signifies the returne of a King to his Kingdome, or of one outed
from his Office, to his place or command againe.
If the Lord of the lOth be more light then the Lord of the 4th, and be separated
from him, these argue the same:
If the Lord of the lOth be more light then the
Lord of the lst, and be joyned unto him, he shall returne and continue; so also,
if the Moon be joyned to the Lord of the lOth, and she behold the lOth house,
unlesse she commit her disposition to a peregrine Planet under the earth: if the
Lord of the lst be received of a Planet not impedited, he returnes: if not received,
no returne.
The Moon joyned to a Planet in the 9th,
signifies the King so expulsed (Or hath little
desire to returne.) recedes from his Kingdome, unlesse the Planet be a Fortune:
if the Planet to whom the Moon is joyned be a Fortune, and be in Aries, Taurus,
Leo, Libra," Scorpio, Capricorn, Aquarius, the forlorne King or dejected Officer
returnes: if the Planet to whom the Moon is joyned, be in Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius
or Pisces, the King obtains Soveraignty in another place, or the abjected a Command
or Office in some other Country.
If you find the Lord of the lOth and the Moon impedited in any angle, by the
corporall Conjunction of any Infortune, it imports that neither the distressed
King, or expulsed Governour, or removed Officer, shall returne againe to their
former Dignity, Rule or Command.
Country people many times have
not the time of their childrens Nativities,
yet being desirious to know what profession such or such a Sonne is fittest for,
they may repair to the Astrologian for satisfaction herein:
Upon the time of their
demanding the Question, erect your Figure, and therein consider the ascendant and
his Lord, the Lord of the lOth and lOth house, and especially the places of Mars
and Venus; for these Planets are the Significators of Magistery, Trade or Profession:
take which of the two you find most powerfull, and see in what Signe he is,
If he
be in Aries,
consider the four angles, and whether you find a Planet in either of
them, and if that Planet be in a fiery Signe, or of the nature of Aries, you may
say, the Boy will prove a good Cart-maker, Coach-maker, Shepheard, Grasier or Drover
to deale in Cattle, a good Groom, or Master of Horse, or
Farrier, succesfull to deale in four-footed Beasts, or a good Butcher, Brick-maker,
Smith, &c.
But if Mars have any dignity in the place of the Significator, or the Sun,
he will prove excellent in any Profession where fire is used, or of its
nature: if the Significator be in his Exaltation, it's pity the Child should be of
any servile Trade, as aforesaid, he may doe better in serving the King, some Nobleman
or Gentleman:
After this manner consider in all those
Signes which represent the shape
of. four-footed Cattle, according to the Angles, Aries, Taurus, Leo, Sagittarius,
Capricorn, for these five signifying Fowle, or such like; but if no Planet be
therein, then they import any thing of the nature of water.
But to the purpose, observe if the Significator of ones Profession be in
Taurus,
then Husbandry may be best for him, or planting Trees, Gardening, buying and selling
Corne, or grazing Cattle, dealing in Oxen, Cowes,Sheep, Hogs, or he may be of such
a Trade as hath affinity in Womens matters, or Huswifry, he would prove a good
Soap-maker, a Fuller of Cloth, a Whitster, &c.
If the Significator be in
Gemini
a Baily to gather Rents, a Geometrician or Surveyor, Astronomer, Astrologer, Painter, &c.
[Lilly has omitted Cancer, probably inadvertantly]
If the Significator be in
Leo, he will
make a good Serving-man,
or to be of any Trade that useth fire or hot things, a good Hunts-man,
a good Leech for Cowes or Cattle, a good Rider or Horse-courser, or Coach-man,
or a Smith, Watch-maker, Glasse- maker.
If the Significator be in
Virgo, he
will make a good Secretary to a King
or Nobleman, a School-master, an Accountant, a Stationer, or Printer, he
will be an excellent Politian, a good Astrologer, and of a divining Soule.
If the Significator be in
Libra,
he will be a good Poet, a good Orator,
a Song-man or Musitian, a Silkman or Linen-Draper, a good Pedagogue, or
fit to redeem Captives.
If the principall Significator
be in Scorpio,
he may prove a good
Chyrurgion, Apothecary or Physitian, a Brasier or Founder, a Brewer,
Vintener, Water-man or Maltster.
If the Significator be in
Sagittarius,
he will make an excellent man to
buy and sell Cattle, to study Chymistry, or to make a Church-man, or he
may be a good Cook or Baker.
If the Significator be in
Capricorn,
he will prove a good Chandler,
Victualler, Farrier, Cow-leech, Jeweller, Farmer, dealer in Wool, Lead
or Country-commodities, a good Husband-man.
If the Significator be in
Aquarius,
he may be an excellent Ship carpenter;
and if any Planet out of the watry Signe aspect him, he may prove an excellent
Saylor, or Master of a Ship, a Trimmer or Painter of Ships, a good industrious
Merchant.
If the Significator be in
Pisces,
he may be a Jester, Singer, a Gamester, a
Brewer or Fish-monger; but for the most part in such like cases, the Genius
is dull, and the child proves a meer Sot.