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. XIII. Of riches and pouertie.

FOR the riches and pouertie, it is conuenient first that you looke to the seconde house, for if shee and her Lord be fortunate, we say that the chyld shall be rich, and if they be vnfortunate, he shall be poore on that side. Then afterward you must consider the part of Fortune, the which with hys Lorde well disposed, promi∣seth great store of goods, without other witnes. If they be euill disposed, you must come to the parte of goods the which with his Lord fortunate enricheth, vnfortunate gyueth nothing. Likewise you must iudge of the part of felicity and of his Lord. And that thing which the other places signifie, you must alwaies haue recourse to the na∣turall

significator of riches, which is Iupiter, the which well placed and fortunate, gyueth goods in aboundance: principally if he be Lord of the natiuity, or Lorde of the hower, or of the ascendant, or of the seconde house, or of the part of Fortune, or of the part of goods, or of the part of felicitie, or of temporall light, or of the tenth house, o∣therwise he gyueth nothing.

When the aboue-sayde Significators shall be vnfortu∣nate, the chylde cannot be rich, if the tenth house (of the which wee will speake heereafter) doe not promise hym some good lucke. Men finde also often by experience, that when a Planet is within his own house or exaltation, or in hys ioy, (without beeing vnfortunate, or els where enuironed with the fortunes or theyr beames) that hee gyueth goods, although he be not Significator of riches. If in the fourth house be hys lord or other fortunate Pla∣net, he promiseth inheritaunces. If any fixed starre of the first or second greatnes be ioyned to the temporall lyght, or to the degree ascendant, or to the poynts of the other angles, or to other Planets in the sayd places placed, she dooth rayse the man of base estate, to great authority and honour: and if he be of the race of Princes, it will make hym a puissant Lord and King.

When a lyke Planet shall be Lord of the ascendant, & of the second house, the chylde shall be couetous of mo∣ney & gayne, as that which happeneth when Capricorne is ascendant. When the Lord of the second house shal be within the first, the goods come without laboure. Like∣wise when the Lord of the second house giueth strength to the Lord of the ascendant. When the Lorde of the as∣cendant shall be in the second, the goods shall not come without trauayle: nor whē the lord of the ascendant shall gyue strength to the Lord of the second. Saturne, Mars, Mercurie depraued, the Sunne and the tayle of the Dra∣gon lunarie, within the second, destroy the man, and di∣sperse his goods; except when they haue at the least foure dignities, or when they be receiued. When the

Lord of the ascendant shall regarde with euill aspect the second house, or the part of goods and of fortune, or their Lords, the chyld of hys owne proper will shall disperse his goods. If the Lord of the ascendant be vnfortunate in the second house, the chyld shall be too large a giuer, and prodigall. If any mis-fortune haue domination vpon the ascendant, and in the second, the chylde shall be destroyed by others, which shall destroy hys goods and robbe hym. When the sayde Significators of goods shall be vnfortu∣nate, the chyld shall be all hys lyfe in payne and trauaile, without any aduauncement or profite.

Abraham Auenesre saith, that if the Lord of the second be burnt, and Iupiter euill disposed, that the chyld shalbe alwayes poore. And Hermes sayth: when the Lord of the profession (of the which we shall speak in the 27. chap.) shall be burnt, or retrogard, or in the sixt or xij. house, and not any Planet regarding the Moone, the chyld shall seeke hys lyuing from doore to doore like a begger. Iupi∣ter, Venus, and the head of the Dragon in the second, al∣waies enrich. Venus in the fift promiseth some good. The Sunne in the nynth fortunate, gyueth benefices, or other goods of the side of the men of the Church. Mars in the sixt well disposed, gyueth good or nourishment to Beastes, and exercise of Phisicke. The Sunne in the signe of Leo, will neuer suffer the child to be poore.

Notes

• Foure Pla∣nets in their fals or de∣trymēts, do shewe great miseries, as it was in the natiuite of Iohn Duke of Saxony, who was ta∣kē prisoner of Charles the 5. Thys good Duke had 3. Pla∣nets in their detryments, and one Pe∣rigren.