When this question is demanded by a man or woman,
long before marriage, or by some ancient Batchelour or Maid, Whether they shall
have any Child or Children, yea or not? herein generally you are to consider,
whether the Signe upon the 5th, or Ascending, be of those we call Fruitfull,
yea or no, (viz. Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) and whether the Lord of the Ascendant
(be the Signe what it will)
Or the Moon be in aspect with the Lord of the 5th house,
and that aspect be either Conjunction, Sextile, Trine or Square
(though Conjunction is not properly an aspect) which if it be so,
and the Planet to whom the Lord of the 5th doth Apply, or is in aspect with,
be free from Combustion, and other Accidentall or Essentiall misfortunes,
it's an argument the good old Batchelour or stale Maid, or whoever propounds
the Question, shall have Children or Issue ere they dye;
In like case judge, if the Lord of the 5th be in the
Ascendant, or else the Moon, or the Lord of the Ascendant or the Moon apply
to the Lord of the 5th, yet if there be rendering of vertue or light one unto
another, or translation or collection by or from the principall Significators,
you may still continue your judgment,
that the Querent shall have issue, but not so soone, as if it had been forseen
by the first manner of judgment. After all this, have respect to the Planet
who is receiver of the Disposition of the Significators; who if he be clear
from misfortune or affliction, viz. from Retrogradation, Combustion, or
Cadency in House, it gives great hopes of issue.
See also if that Planet
from whom the Moon is separated the Lord of the 5th Signe froma the Signe
wherein the Planet is to whom the Moon applies, and both these Planets have
any aspects to each other; that also doth testify the party
shall have Children or a Childe. If no aspect happen betwixt them, it's not then likely he will have any; and yet some say, that if the above named Planets or Significators be not in any Aspect, yet if the Planet to whom the Moon Applies be in an Angle, the Querent may have Issue.
Many times a Woman married, having been
long without Children, may inquire, whether she is like to Conceive, yea or no?
In this Question you are to consider:
If the Lord of the Ascendant be in the 7th,
or the Lord of the 5th in the 1st,
or the Lord of the 1st in the 5th, or if the Lord of the 5th be in the 7th, or
the Lord of the 7th in the 5th, or the Moon with him, or good Planets in the
Ascendant, or with the Lord of the 5th, or in any of the Angles; she may then conceive:
But if none of these testimonies concurre,
and you find barren Signes and ill Planets to be in the former places,
she neither is at present conceived, or will thereafter conceive.
If good and bad Planets be mixed together,
she may perhaps conceive or have Children, but they will not live:
If Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces be in the Ascendant or 5th, she may have Children;
but if Leo or Virgo be there, she neither is at present, or hardly after will be with Child. When women have been long without Children, and propound such a Question, see if their Nativity did not originally deny Children.
If you finde that according to naturall
causes she may have a Childe or Children; and the Querent is desirious to know neer
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what time: See then where you find the Lord of the 5th house,
viz. if in the ascendant or lst house; then judge the lst yeere;
if in the 2nd house, the 2nd yeere; if in the lOth house, the 3rd yeere;
if in the 7th house, the 4th yeere; if in the 4th house, the 5th yeere.
And herein you must be carefull in
considering what Signe the Lord of the 5th
house is in; for the Swiftnesse of a Planet in a moveable Signe doth somewhat
hasten the time; a double bodied Signe doth not manifest so soon;
fixed Signes prolong the matter; however, this is worthy of your consideration,
that let the Significator be in what Signe he will be, yet if he be swift in motion and direct, he doth make the more haste in performance of the businesse he is a Significator in, and causeth the matter sooner to be accomplished.
Behold the Ascendant, and if fortunate Planets
behold the same, and the Lord thereof be in the Ascendant, or in the l0th,
11th or 5th house, and you finde Jupiter also well placed together with
that Planet who is Lord of the Triplicity ascending, and he be not Combust
or Retrograde; judge then, if the Man aske the Question, he may have Children,
or is capable of getting them.
If a woman inquires, say, she may Conceive, and
is not naturally barren. If the Lord of the Ascendant be in the 4th or 7th,
and Jupiter in a good house of Heaven, do you say, the party shall have a
Childe a long time after the asking of the Question.
But if you finde the Ascendant afflicted,
or infortunated by the
Malevolent Planets, and the Lord of the Ascendant in an evill place
or House of heaven, and Jupiter Cadent, or in the 8th or Combust, or
not fully elongated from the Sunne-Beames; then you shall judge he
will have few Children, and they sickly, hardly able to live.
It's also a great Signe of non-conception,
or no capacity to conceive,
when the Moon is unfortunate. If you find a Fortunate Planet in the 5th
house, or having a benigne aspect to the Cuspe thereof; it gives hope and
strong testimony of
having a Childe in a little compasse of time; but if an
infortune be in the 5th ill dignified, Combust, Retrograde,
slow of motion, &c. the Querent will have no Children; but if
the infortune be direct and swift, Orientall, and in any of
his essentiall dignities, he shall signifie Children;
The more
Children if Jupiter, Venus or Sun be in Sextile or Trine with
him out of good houses: you must ever remember, that the neerer
a Fortune is to the Ascendant, the sooner the Querent may expect
Children, the more remote the longer time must be allowed.
Others observe this rule following,
That if Jupiter be in the
Ascendant or 5th, and in a Signe which is not barren, it's an
argument the Querent may have a Childe; there is also much
strength in the Lord of the house; for if he be angular with
reception of the Lord of that Angle where he is, or in the llth
or 5th with the like reception, it is a sure testimony of having
Children.
In all Questions concerning Children,
be carefull of the age
of the Querent, and some other natural or hereditary infirmity incident
to the Querent, and seldome
conclude without two testimonies.
When it is demanded of you by any Man,
Whether he shall have any Children by the
Wife he hath, or the Woman he mentions; or if a Woman aske if she shall have
Issue or Children by such a Man. Behold the Ascendant, his Lord and the Moon, and
if the Lord of the Ascendant or the Moon be joyned to the Lord of the 5th,
you may judge he or she shall have Issue by the party inquired of; if this
be not, then see if any translation be from the Lord of the 5th to the Lord
of the Ascendant; that's an argument of having Children after some space of
time:
If the Lord of the Ascendant or the Moon
be in the 5th house, he or
she may have Children, or the Lord of the 5th in the Ascendant: if none of
these be, consider if the Lord of the Ascendant, the Moon, and the Lord of
the 5th be not joyned to a Planet more ponderous then themselves; for he
collecting both their lights, shall be the receiver of their disposition,
and shall signifie whether the
Childe or Children (if any be) shall live or not; if he be not
impedited the Children then shall live, but if he be Retrograde,
Combust, Peregrine, or otherwise unfortunate, neither will the Children
live long, or will the Parents take comfort of these Children.
After
this, consider Jupiter, who naturally signifieth Children, if he be in
the Ascendant, 3rd, 5th, 9th or 11th house, free from all manner of misfortune;
you may affirme the Woman shall shortly conceive, perhaps upon the first
congresse or coition after the asking of the Question, or a little after,
and the matter seems as good as done.
If Venus be in the 5th no way impedited,
and some other Fortune be there
besides, it hastens the time, and she will conceive very suddenly. But if
Jupiter be in the aforesaid places impedited, say, that either she is not
conceived, or if she be, it will not come to perfection, for the Woman
shall suffer abortion.
In like manner if Venus be unfortunate
by Saturn or Mars, or be under the
Sun-Beames, or Combust, the Woman is not conceived, unlesse a Fortune be in
the 5th house, and then she is more assuredly with Childe, or shall be shortly;
yet you may justly feare she will suffer mischance ere the birth.
If either Saturn or Mars, or especially
South Node be in the 5th, or the two
former malevolents cast their Opposition to the 5th, it seems the woman is not
with childe; and verily the Square of the Infortunes to the 5th house seems to
hinder conception.
A woman mistrusting her selfe to be with
Child, and desirous to know the truth;
if she aske the Question of thee, then give Answer, having well considered your
Figure, erected according to the time of her demand, viz. as these following rules
direct you.
[She is.]
The Lord of the Ascendant or Moon
behold the Lord of the 5th with any aspect or
translation.
If the Lord of the Ascendant and
the Moon be in the 5th house, free from
the malevolent aspect of the Infortune$ and direct; and herein you must
not wholly rely upon Saturn and Mars or the South Node to be the onely
Unfortunate Planets, (I meane Saturn and Mars for Planets, Not Nodes)
you must consider the position of
Heaven at the time of erecting your Scheame, and take any evill aspects
of the Lord of the 6th, 8th or 12th, be he what Planet he will, to be an
affliction, if he have Square or Opposition to the Lord of the 5th, or
Lord of the Ascendant, or the Moon.
Jupiter generally in the 1st,
5th, 11th or 7th, not in aspect to Saturn
or Mars, they being slow in motion or Retrograde.
The Lord of the Ascendant or Lord
of the 5th house aspecting a Planet in
an Angle with reception, and rendring up his venture unto him; if the Moon
be in reception with any Planet in an Angle, that is, essentially Fortified,
else not; for accidentall dignities in this manner of judgment, giveth hopes,
but not reall assurance.
If the Lord of the Ascendant
behold the Ascendant with an amicable aspect, out
of any good House; or if the Moon be in the 7th, and behold the Lord of the 7th
in the 11th, or if the Moon be in the 11th, and behold the Lord of the 7th in the 7th.
The Lord of the Ascendant received
in either House, Triplicity or Exaltation,
and the receiver of the Lord of the Ascendant having alike dignity in the House,
Triplicity, Exaltation, or Term of the received, viz. Lord of the Ascendant.
The Moon giving vertue, or
rendring her light to a Planet in the 5th house, or
having essentiall dignities in the 5th.
The Moon applying to the Lord of the
Ascendant or Lord of the 5th in the 1st or
lOth house, and he not Cadent from his owne House or exaltation; (a Planet Cadent
from his owne House) where you must understand this generall rule concerning a
Planet his being Cadent from his owne House, is this, viz. if Mars be in Aries,
it being his own House, let him then be in any of the 12 Houses, he shall be said
to be Angular as to his being in Aries:
If Mars be in Taurus he is Succeeding or in
Succeedant House in that way: if Mars be in Gemini he is then Cadent as from his
owne House; and so forth in the rest: for ever a Planet is Angular in any of his
owne Houses.
The Dispositor of the Moon and
the Lord of the houre in Angles; Mars in
the Signe of the 7th House, she is newly conceived (this is to be understood
if he be well Fortified:) Saturn in the 7th, the party is quicke, or her Infant
moveth: Jupiter in the 7th, she is impregnated of a male childe: Sagittarius
or Pisces in
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the 7th, she is with childe of a Girle; this must be understood
when all the rest of the Significators are equall, and ballance not
the judgment, then if you finde Sagittarius or Pisces in the 7th, you
may judge the party shall have a Girle.
Besides, the Moon in the 5th
applying to Jupiter or Venus argue the same. You may ever predict true Conception,
if the Signe ascending be fixed, and a Fortune therein placed, or the Lord of the
5th strong in the Ascendant or 10th House.
If the Lord of the 5th behold a Planet
in an Angle with reception, or if
the Lord of the Houre, Lord of the 5th, Jupiter, Venus, Sun, Moon, Mercury
or North Node be in the 5th Fortunate; or if the Lord of the 5th be in the 7th,
or Lord of the 7th in the 5th.
[She is NOT.]
If Jupiter or Venus be impedited,
if Venus be joyned to Saturn or Mars, and they
either Combust, Retrograde or slow in motion, or in Leo, Virgo or Capricorn, Saturn
or Mars in the 5th, in Square or Opposition to the Lord of the 5th, denotes no
conception, or danger of abortion, if other Significators be more prevalent then
they, and give testimony or conception.
The Lord of the Ascendant joyned
to a Retrograde Planet; or one in a Cadent House,
or received by a Retrograde or Combust Planet, no aspect or translation of light
between the Lord of the 5th and Lord of the Ascendant; judge by the major testimonies.
[Male or Female.] The Lord of the Ascendant, Lord of the 5th, Lord of the Houre
Masculine, and the Moon in a Masculine Signe, degrees, or Quarter, doe note a
Male, the contrary a Female.
[Whether it shall live?] The Lord of the 5th Retrograde, Combust, or Cadent
from his House of Exaltation, is a presage of Death, &c. e contra.
The Lord of the Ascendant, Lord of the
Houre, Lord of the 5th, all or most of
them unfortunate, is an argument of death; Saturn, Mars or South Node in the
1st or 5th house, and Retrograde, denote the same.
