Jupiter is placed next to Saturn (amongst the Ancients) you shall
sometimes finde him
called Zeus, or Phaeton: He is the greatest in appearance to our eyes of all the
Planets (the Sun, Moon and Venus excepted;)
Colour & Motion In his Colour he is bright, cleer, and of an
Azure colour. In his Motion he exceeds Saturn, finishing his course through the
twelve Signes in twelve yeers: his middle motion is 4 min. 59 seconds: his Diurnal
motion is 8,10,12 or 14 min. hardly any more.
Latitude His greatest North Latitude is ---- 1 38
His greatest South Latitude is ---- 1 40
Houses He hath two of the twelve Signe of the Zodiack for
his houses, viz. Sagittarius his Day-house, and Pisces his
Night-house.
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He receives Detriment in Gemini and Virgo. He is Exalted in Cancer, hath his Fall in
Capricorn.
Triplicity, Terms & Face [Note Lilly uses a different set of
plicity rulerships than I do] He ruleth the Fiery Triplicity by night, viz. Aries, Leo,
Sagattarius. He hath also these degrees allotted for his Tearmes, viz.
In Aries, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
In Taurus, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.
In Gemini, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
In Cancer, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
In Leo, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.
In Virgo, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.
In Libra, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
In Scorpio, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
In Sagittarius, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
In Capricorn, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
In Aquarius, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.
In Pisces, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
He is Retrograde about 120 dayes, is five days in his first station before retrogradation,
and four dayes stationary before Direction.
Nature He is a Diurnall, Masculine Planet, Temperately Hot and Moyst, Aiery,
Sanguine, the greater Fortune, author of Temperance, Modesty, Sobriety, Justice.
Manners & Actions, when well dignified.Then is he Magnanimous, Faithfull, Bashfull,
Aspiring in an honourable way at high matters, in all his actions a Lover of fair
Dealing, desiring to benefit all men, doing Glorious things, Honourable and Religious,
of sweet and affable Conversation, wonderfully indulgent to his Wife and Children,
reverencing Aged men, a great Reliever of the Poor, full of Charity and Godlinesse,
Liberal, hating all Sordid actions, Just, Wife, Prudent, Thankfull, Vertuous: so that
when you find Jupiter the significator of any man in a Question, or
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Lord of his Ascendant in a Nativity, and well dignified, you may judge him qualified
as abovesaid.
When ill. When Jupiter is unfortunate, then he wastes his Patrimony, suffers
every one to cozen him, is Hypocritically Religious, Tenacious, and stiffe in
maintaining false Tenents in Religion; he is Ignorant, Carelesse, nothing
Delightfull in the love of his Friends; of a grosse, dull Capacity, Schismaticall,
abating himself in all Companies, crooching and stooping where no necessity is.
Corporature He signifies an upright, straight and tall Stature; brown, ruddy and
lovely Complexion; of an ovall or long Visage, and it full and fleshy; high Forehead;
large gray Eyes; his Hair soft, and a kind of aburn brown; much Beard; a large, deep
Belly: Strong proportioned Thighs and Legs; his feet long, being the most indecent
parts of his whole Body; in his Speech he is Sober, and of grave Discourse.
ORIENTALL The skin more cleer, his complexion Honey-colour, or betwixt a white and
red, sanguine, ruddy Colour; great Eyes, the body more fleshy, usually some Mole or
Scarre in the right Foot.
OCCIDENTALL A pure and lovely Complexion, the Stature more short, the Hair a
light Brown, or neer a dark Flaxen; smooth, bald about the Temple or Forehead.
QUALITY OF MEN. He signifies Judges, Senators, Councellours,
Ecclesiasticall men, Bishops, Priests, Ministers, Cardinals, Chancellours,
Doctors of the Civill Law, young Schollers and Students in an University or
College, Lawyers. Clothiers, Wollen-Drapers.
SICKNESSES. Plurisies, all Infirmities in the Liver, left Eare, Apoplexies,
Inflamation of the Lungs, Palpitations and Trembling of the Heart, Cramps,
pain in the Back-bone, all Diseases lying in the Vaines or Ribs, and proceeding from
corruption of Blood, Squinzies, Windinesse, all Putrification in the Blood, or Feavers
proceeding from too great abundance thereof.
SAVOURS. He governeth the Sweet or well sented odours; or
that Odour which in smell is no way extream or offensive.
COLOURS Sea-green or Blew, Purple, Ash-colour, a mixt
Yellow and Green.
HEARBS. Cloves and Clove-sugar, Mace, Nutmeg, Gilly-
flower, the Straw-bury, the herb Balsam, Bettony, Centory, Flax, Ars-smart, Fumitory,
Lung-wort, Pimpernel, Walwort, Orangy or Wild Margorane, Rubbarb, Self-heale, Borage,
Buglosse, Wheat, Willow-hearb, Thorough-Leafe, Violets, Laskwort, Liverwort, Bazil,
Pomergranets, Pyony, Liquorish, Mynt, Mastix, the dazy, Feversend, Saffron.
PLANTS and TREES. Cherry-tree, Birch-tree, Mulberry-tree, Corall-tree, the Oae,
Barburies, Olive, Gooseburies, Almond-tree, the Ivy, Manna, Mace, the Vine,
the Fig-tree, the Ash, the Pear-tree, the Hazel, the Beech-tree, the Pyne,
Raysons.
BEASTS, &:c.The Sheep, the Heart or Stag, the Doe, the Oxe, Elephant, Dragon,
Tyger, Unicorne, those Beasts which are Mild and Gentle, and yet of great
benefit to Mankind, are appropriate to him.
BIRDS, &c. The Stork, the Snipe, the Lark, the Eagle, the Stock-dove, the Partridge,
Bees, Pheasant, Peacock, the Hen.
FISHES. The Dolphin, the Whale, Serpent, Sheath-fish or River Whale.
PLACES. He delighteth in or neer Alters of Churches, in publick Conventions,
Synods, Convocations, in Places neat, sweet, in Wardrobes, Courts of Justice,
Oratorie.
MINERALS. &STONES. Tyn. Amethist, the Saphire, the Smarage or Emrald,
Hyacinth, Topaz, Chrystal, Bezoar, Marble, and that which in England we call Free-stone.
WEATHER.He usually produceth serentiy, pleasant and healthful North Winds,
and by his gentle Beams all ayes the ill weather of any former Malignant Planets.
WINDS. He governeth the North Wind, that part which tendeth to the East.
ORBE. His Radiation or Orbe, is nine degrees before and after any of his aspect.
GENERATION. He governeth the second and tenth moneth; his proper seat in man is the
Liver; and in the Elements he ruleth the Ayre.
DAY OF THE WEEK. Thursday, and rules the first hour after Sun rise, and the eighth;
the length of the Planetary hour you must know by the rising of the Sun, and a
Table hereafter following.
All Planets except Mars are friends to Jupiter. In gathering any Hearb appropraited
to Jupiter, see that he be very powerfull either in Essential or Accidental
Dignities, and the Moon in some manner in good aspect with him, and if possible,
let her be in some of his Dignities, &c.