A learned astronomical discourse, of the iudgement of natiuities Deuided into three bookes, and dedicated first to Katherin the French Queene, by Oger Ferrier her physition. Translated by Thomas Kelway Gentleman.

CHAP. X. Of them that augment and diminish the number of the sayd yeeres.

THey which augment the number of the sayd yeres, are Iupiter, Venus, the Sunne, the Moone, & Mer∣curie fortified; the which fortunatly regarding the gyuer of yeeres, with an amiable aspect adding to their small yeeres, (that is to vnderstand) the Sunne x. and ix. Venus viij. the Moone xxv. &c. Likewise If the gy∣uer of time be conioyned with any fixed starre of amiable nature, it taketh of the said starre the number of the small yeeres of the Plannet, of the which the said starre holdeth his nature. If the said Plannets regard the giuer of time with an euill aspect with reception, they adde as before, which they doo not when they haue no reception: Ex∣cept Iupiter and Venus, that in euery sort of aspects, with reception or without reception, alwayes adding to theyr small yeeres, for to see that the gyuer of tyme be not Sa∣turne or Mars, towards the which the reception is neces∣sary, if the aspect be of enmitie.

The sayd Plannets euill placed and infortunate, in the place of the whole small yeeres, in adding the halfe, or the third, or fourth part, or certaine number of monethes, of weekes, or of dayes, according to the greatnesse or smal∣nesse of theyr infelicitie. The amiable aspects of ill for∣tunes, with reception, giue theyr yeeres small: without reception, they doo neither good nor euill. If the giuer of yeeres be retrogarde or meridionall descending, or in hys fall or detryment, or in the way burned, that taketh from it the fift part of that which hee had giuen beeing other∣wise disposed. That which happened also to the 3. supe∣riour Planets, when they be occidentall, & to the Moone when she decreaseth, and when shee is in the xx. and ix. degree of a signe, and when she is slack in her course. The Sunne regarding the Moone with the aspects of enmitie without reception diminished. Saturne, Mars, or Mer∣curie

depriued, looking to the euill aspect of the giuer of light they take away the number of their small yeeres: Ex∣cept they recouer; For then by opposition they doe but halfe the euill: By quadrate aspect, they diminish but the fourth part. The tayle of the Dragon taken from the Moone xij. yeeres, I haue found it often by experience, that the fortunes (that is to vnderstand, Iupiter & Venus) or the Sunne and the Moone, and Mercurie fortunate in the first house, or neere to the giuer of life, adding to their small yeeres, although they doe not regarde the giuer of time: and to the contrarie, that the infortunes in the sayd places, take away the small yeeres, without regarding the saide giuer of time. Except when they were well honou∣red in the sayd places, or when they were Lordes of the Natiuities.