Whoever interrogates, be his Condition what
it will be, King, Noble, Priest or Layman, the Ascendant, the Lord thereof
and the Moon are his Significators: and if the question be in generall termes,
(viz. Whether he shall ever be rich yea or not?) without relation to any
particular person from whom he may expect a Fortune, the resolution of it is in
this nature:
Consider the Signe ascending on the
Cusp of the 2nd House, the Lord thereof,
the Planet or Planets therein posited, or aspecting the Lord of that house or
Cuspe thereof; the Part Of Fortune, the Signe and place of Heaven where it is
placed and how aspected by the Planets, (for Part Of Fortune it selfe emitteth
no rayes, or casteth any aspect to any Planet, no more doe the North Node or South Node.
First, if you find the Planets all angular,
it's one good Signe of Substance;
if they be in succeedant houses, direct and swift in motion, it's a good Signe.
If Planets be in good houses, direct, and but moderately
dignified in essentiall Dignities, it's an hopefull argument of an Estate:
Those rules are generall:
If the Lord of the Ascendant, or the
Moon, and the Lord of the 2nd house,
viz. of Substance, be corporally joyned together, or if they, viz. Lord of
the Ascendant and Moon, have friendly aspects to the Lord of the 2nd, or if
Jupiter and Venus cast their Trine or Sextile, or be in Conjunction with Part
Of Fortune, or if the Lord of the 2nd be in the Ascendant, or the Moon, or Lord
of the Ascendant in the 2nd,
Or if any Planet transfer the light and vertue of
the Lord of the 2nd to the Lord of the Ascendant, or if benevolent Planets cast
their Sextile or Trine to the Cuspe of the Ascendant or Part Of Fortune, or any
fixed Starre of the nature of Jupiter and Venus, doe ascend with the Cuspe of
the 2nd or Part Of Fortune be in Conjunction with or neer to such a fixed Starre;
or if Jupiter who is naturall Significator of substance,
Or Venus who is naturally
a fortune or North Node be in the 2nd, and no infortune cast his aspect unto them,
or if you finde all planets direct and swift in motion (viz.) if their daily motion
be more then what is assigned for their meane or middle motion, which you may perceive
by page 57.61.65.69.72.76.80.
The Querent shall not feare poverty, for he will be
competently rich or have a sufficient fortune to subsist on, and this his estate
shall be greater or lesser according to the Major testimonies, which you are
carefully to examine of those Significators which doe naturally resolve the
question; and here in this demand you must remember to take notice of the
quality of the person inquiring or demanding the question, for (Quoad capax) it
shall happen to any Interrogant.
When you have sufficiently examined your Figure,
and perceived that the Querent
shall have a substance or will come to have riches, it will be demanded, how?
by whom, or what meanes it may be obtained?
Herein you must observe, that if
the Lord of the 2nd House be in the 2nd,
the querent shall obtain an Estate by his owne labour and proper industry;
if the Lord of the 2nd be placed in the Ascendant, he shall unexpectedly come
to a Fortune or without
much labour attaine it. If that the Lord of the 2nd or the Moon do promise
substance by any aspect they have to each other, you must consider from what
House the aspect is, or what House the Moon is Lady of, or if neither of
these promise substance; see to the Part Of Fortune, what house it is in,
and what House of Heaven the Dispositor is Lord of.
If the planet assisting or
promising encrease of Fortune be Lord of the Ascendant,
the Querent himself will by his owne diligence advance his owne Fortune; if he be
a meane man or Mechanicall that interrogates, then by the sweat and labour of his
owne hands, his owne Invention, Care and Pains, no King shall put him into a fortune:
But if the Adjuvant Planet be Lord of the 2nd,
he will augment his Estate by advance
of his owne Stock, and well managing his private Fortune, and adventuring to Buy and
Sell in such things as naturally he is addicted unto, or fals in his way in the
course of his life, or are of the nature of that Planet (the Signe he is in considered.)
If the Lord of the 3rd fortunate
the Lord of the 2nd, or the Cuspe of the House,
or Part Of Fortune, he will be assisted in procuring an Estate by some honest
Neighbour, or some one of his Kindred, Brethern or Sisters, if he have any, or
by some Journey he shall undertake, or removing to that quarter of Heaven from
whence the Lord of the 3rd calls his good aspect, or is
corporally joined with the Significator of Substance.
If the fortunate Planet
or significator be Lord of the 4th or placed in the 4th,
the Querent will attaine Wealth by means of his Fathers assistance, (if he be living)
or by some aged person, as Grandfather, etc. or by taking some Farme or Grounds,
or purchase of Tenements, Lands or Hereditaments, or well managing the Stock his
Ancestors have or shall leave him, or some Stock of Money his Kindred may lend him.
If the Lord of the 5th doe promise Wealth,
then he obtaines meanes: if a Gentleman
(by Play, Cards, Dice, Sports, Pastimes} if of Capacity, and a Courtier, by some
Embassage, Message, etc. If an ordinary man propounds the question, by keeping a
Victualling-house, as Ale-house, Inne, Taverne, Bowling alley, or being. a Door-keeper,
Porter to some Gentleman; or be he who
will that enquires, if the Lord of the 5th House be strong, he promises somewhat
out of the Estate of the Father, or by making Matches, etc.
If the Lord of the 6th, or Significator,
or assistant Planet be in the 6th, and
the Signe of the 6th be humane, the Querent may expect good Servants, and profit
by their labours: If a King or Prince propounds the Question (as sometimes they doe)
you may judge, his Subjects will assist him with many tumbling Subsidies, Privy-Seales,
Loans of Money, etc.
If a Nobleman or Gentleman enquire,
he shall augment his Estate by Letting Leases,
and the discreet managing of his Estate by his Stewards, Bailiffs, and such as
undertake for him.
If the question come from a Country-man,
as a Farmer or Husband- man, tell him
he may thrive by dealing in little Cattle, as Sheep, Goats, Hogs, Conies, etc.
If a Scholler propound the Question upon
the like occasion, advise him to turne
Physician, for he shall thrive by his Salary obtained from people infirme and
diseased.
If the Lord of the 7th House fortunate
the Lord of the 2nd House, or the Cuspe of
the House, or the Part Of Fortune, or that Planet which is posited in the 2nd,
let the Querent expect God's Blessing, by meanes of a rich and good Wife, or the
assistance of some loving Woman:
As also, if a Gentleman propounds the Question,
then by the Sword, or the Wars, or by Law recovering somewhat detained from him,
by contracting of Bargains, by the common aquaintance he hath in his way of Trade
or Commerce, if he be a Merchant.
If the Lord of the 8th
be that Planet who fortunates the Significators above named;
the Querent shall either have some Legacy bequeathed him by Testament of deceased
party, or a further increase of his Wife's Portion, little by him expected at time
of his Question, or shall goe uncompelled, and reside in some Country, where
increase of substance shall happen unto him,viz. he shall unexpectedly settle
himselfe where formerly he had rio intention, and there shall thrive and grow rich.
If the Lord of the 9th gives vertue
or fortunate the Part Of Fortune or Lord of the
2nd, or Cuspe of the House, the Querent
may thrive by some Voyage to Sea, if Cancer or Pisces descend on the Cuspe of the
9th, and the Lord of the same Signe be therein, or one of his Wife's Brothers, or
some allied unto her, or neer Neighbour, or the place where she did live when he
first married her, of some religious man or Minister shall befriend him in the
way of his Vocation or Calling, for the increase of his Fortune.
If an Earth Signe be on the Cuspe of
the 9th, and the Lord of that House be
therein posited, he may thrive by removing to that part of Heaven, or that
Coast of the Kingdom or Country signified by the Signe and quarter of Heaven,
and by dealing in the native Commodities of that County, City or Country to
which the Heavens direct him.
If the Lord of the 2nd be fortunate
in the lOth House, or the Lord of the lOth
and 2nd be in reception, or the Lord of the lOth doe behold the Lord of the 2nd
or Cuspe of the 2nd House, or a Planet therein, or the Part Of Fortune, with any
benevolent configuration; let the Querent try the service or employment of some
King, Prince, Nobleman, Gentleman, Master, or the like, and thereby he shall
augment his estate or get a subsistence:
If one inquires that is young and of
small fortune, let him learne a Mechanicall trade, according to the nature of
the Signe of the lOth and Planet who is Lord therof; for the Heavens intimate
he shall doe well in his Magistery or Trade, if he be capable and fit for it;
or if he be a man of any education and desirous of preferment, let him expect
an Office or Publique imployment in the Common-wealth, in one kinde or other.
If the Lord of the
llth be that benevolent Planet who is Significator in the
premises, viz. the Planet fortunating, then some friend shall commend the party
inquiring to accept of some imployment very advantagious, or some Merchant,
Courtier, or servant of a Nobleman, King, or great person shall be the meanes
of raising the Querent to a Fortune, and then, shall unexpectedly happen unto the
Querent which he never thought of: and this for good.
If the Fortunate Planet, who casts his
Aspect as aforesaid, be in the l2th, the
Querent shall advance his Fortune by great Cattle, Horse-races, by imprisonments,
or men imprisoned, if the Signe of
the 12th be humain; if the Signe be Taurus or Capricorn or Aries by Cattle;
if Virgo by Corn. And herein mix your judgment with reason.
The most assured testimony in Astrology,
and upon a Question onely propounded,
that the Querent shall be rich and continue so, is this, if the Lord of the lst
and 2nd and Jupiter be joyned together in the 2nd House, lst, lOth, 7th, 4th or
11th; but if they be not in Conjunction, then that they apply by Sextile or Trine
with Mutual Reception: nay, although they apply by Square or Opposition, yet if
it be with reception, the party will thrive or have an estate, though with much
labour, and many intervening difficulties, yet will he ever more abound then want.
When in any question you find your
Figure signifies the Querent shall come to
an estate, the resolution following is needlesse; but if you find that he shall
not obtaine any great fortune, and the Interrogant would know the cause why, or
thing impediting, that so he may the better direct his affaires, and be more wary
in the course of his life, for better prevention of such difficulties:
In this
Judgment carefully observe the Planet obstructing, or who doth most afflict the
Lord of the 2nd, or Part Of Fortune, or the Cuspe of the 2nd, the Moon, or Lord
of Dispositor of the Part Of Fortune; if the Lord of the lst be that Planet,
then the Querent himselfe is the cause;
If the Lord of the 2nd doe with Square or
Opposition behold the Part Of Fortune, or the Cuspe of the 2nd, then want of money
or a sufficient Stock to set himselfe in imployment is the cause:
If Lord of the 3rd,
his own Kindred will doe nothing for him, or will prove burdensome, or
malicious Neighbours will get all the Trade from him, or so under-sell him,
that he will be much kept under thereby: and so run through the 12 Houses,
as in the Chapter mentioned before.
I thought good here to give this generall
caution, that if the Lord of the 2nd House, or Dispositor of the Part Of Fortune
be infortunes, yet if they have Essentiall Dignities where they are, or aspects
to good Planets, or be placed in such benelovent Houses as I formerly mentioned,
they may be Significators of position of Substance; and in like nature both
Jupiter and Venus being afflicted or impedited, or Significators, as aforesaid,
may be the Planets obstructing as well as any other, for every Planet must do
the work for which he is by divine Providence assigned unto:
Doe you also ever
remember that in what House you can find Cauda Draconis, it prenotes detriment
and impediment in such things as are signified by that House, as if he be in
the 2nd, he denotes consumption of Estate by the Querent's own folly or not
thriving, by his owne proper neglect: in the 3rd, hinderance by evill, beggarly
or peevish Kindred, etc., and so judge in all the rest of the 12 Houses.
If the demand of the Querent be,
Whether or no he shall procure the money or
substance from him of whom he intends to demand it?
The Lord of the Ascendant and the Moon are his Significators, the Lord of the
2nd House of his substance.
The 7th House, and the Lord thereof signify him or her of whom he intends
to demand or borrow Money: In proceeding to Judgment,
See if the Lord of the Ascendant or
the Moon be joyned to the Lord of the
8th, who is Lord of the Substance of the party quesited after, or see if
either of them joyned, or in aspect to a Planet posited in the 8th; if
the Planet in the 8th be a fortunate, or the aspect itself fortunate, he
shall obtaine the money desired; or if he would borrow the money required
will be lent him:
If he have deposited any Pledge, it will be restored,
whether the fortunate Planet in the 8th be received or not; yea, if an
infortunate Planet in the 8th, or Lord of the 8th, and receive either
the Lord of the Ascendant or the Moon, the Querent shall obtaine his desire;
but if no reception be, he will hardly or ever procure his demands, and if
ever, with so much difficulty and labour, as he would rather wish the thing
had been undone.
Inlike manner, if the
Lord of the 8th be in the 1st, or in the
2nd, and the Lord of the 2nd receive him, it's probable the businesse
will be effected; but is the Lord of the 7th, or of the 8th be in the
lst or 2nd, and neither have reception of the Lord of the lst or 2nd
House, or of the Moon, it's an argument he shall not have his desire
accomplished, but shall receive a deniall or more prejudice in the thing demanded.
If the Lord of the Ascendant and
the Moon be joined to a Fortune that
has Dignity in the Signe ascending, or Signe intercepted in the Ascendant,
the matter will be effected; or if any of them be joyned to an Infortune
who hath dignity in the Ascendant, and that Infortune receive the Lord of
the Ascendant or the Moon, the business will be dispatched:
Or if the Lord
of the Ascendant or the Moon be joyned to a fortunate Planet, and he well
placed either in the lOth or llth, the matter shall be perfected, though
there be no reception:
The Judgments of this Chapter shall have place and
prove true, when as the matter in question is amongst ordinary persons, or
with such people as with whom there is a community, as Citizens with Citizens,
Countrymen with Countrymen, one Tradesman with another; from this Judgment
we exempt Kings, Princes, Noblemen and such, who pay Debts slowly, and on
whom the Law takes little notice.
The resolution hereof will
serve for any question of the like nature, where
the Querent is much inferior to the Quesited, or the party or parties from
whom he expects the accomplishment of his desires.
The Ascendant, Lord thereof and the Moon signifie him that askes the Question;
the lOth House and Lord thereof, signifie the Quisited, or person sought after,
or from whom the matter is to be required; the 2nd House and the Lord thereof
are to be considered for the Querent, the llth House and Lord thereof shall
signifie the Estate, Money or Substance of the King, Nobleman, Generall etc.,
or Party enquired after:
If in the Question you doe find the Lord of the Ascendant
or the Moon joyned to the Lord of the llth House, or if any of them be joyned to
any Planet in the llth House, and that Planet be a Fortune, not in any measure
impedited, or ill disposed, then you may affirme that the Querent shall obtaine
what Salary, wages, debt or money the great person of what quality soever owes
unto him;
Or if it happen that the Moon
and the Lord of the Ascendant be joyned
to an unfortunate Planet, and he receive them into some of his essentiall dignities,
the Querent shall obtaine his Money, Wages, etc., but not without much solicitation,
many weary addresses, feares and distrusts; if it happen any Aspect be betwixt the
Significators, the one being an infortune and without reception, the Querent will
never obtaine what he desires. In this manner of Judgment be very careful to observe
the Planets true essentiall dignities, and their mutual receptions, and by which of
their mutuall dignities they receive each other.
