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. XXII. Of Marriage.

FOR the marriage, you must looke the vij. house and hys Lord, the places of Venus and the Moone in the natiuities of men, and in the places of the Sunne and of Mars in natiuities of women: and the parts of marriage, and the place of Iupiter. If the sayde Significators be fortunate, the marriage shall be happie, if they be vnfortunate, it shall be full of enuies, reproches and euils. If some be fortunate, and some vnfortunate by certaine tymes, now happy, and then vnhappy, it shall be manifest. Many Planets in the seauenth house, giue ma∣ny women: likewise when many Planets regard the sayd

house or his Lord. If Venus, & the Lord of the seauenth house be burned, or otherwise of Saturne oppressed, the chylde shall neuer marry. Iupiter and Venus within the 6. or 8. signifyeth that he shall marry a widdow. Iupiter burned, signifieth as much. Otherwise, if Iupiter behold Venus, and the other significators of marriage, it pro∣miseth maydes and virgins. If Venus or Iupiter, or the Lord of the seauenth house be ioyned to Saturne, or if Saturne be within the seauenth house, the woman shall haue some note of infamie; (that is to vnderstande) shee shall be of a strange religion, or shall be a bastard, or shall be of the race of Lepors, or of some other, by whom the Parents haue receiued some shame, or she shal be defor∣med, and her Parents shall be of a very weake condition. Mars in the sayd house, or beholding with euil aspect the Significators of marriage, intermingle strife and conten∣tions betweene the man and the wife: the same doth also Venus in the seauenth or twelfth house.

Mars in the ninth, asmuch in the natiuities of women as of men, denoteth some manner of separation of marri∣age. And Venus in the ninth, signifieth that the man shal hate his wife, not so much for the vice which he shal find in her, but of a desire to be solitary. The Significators of marriage vnfortunate, or within the houses Cadents, sig∣nifieth the woman to be of a simple race, or the husbande in the natiuities of women.

If Venus and the Lorde of the seauenth house, ioyne with the Significators of riches, beholding the Lord of the ascendant with an amiable aspect, she giues much goods by reason of women. The Significators of mariage with∣in the thyrd or ninth, or else where Peregrines, signifie that he shall marry out of hys Country. The fortunes within the seauenth house, denoteth happy marriage, the ill fortunes vnhappy. The Lorde of the seauenth within the seconde, denoteth that hee shall see the death of hys wife. The Significators of marriage occidentall, witnesse that he shall marry late, or in his youth take a wife older

then himselfe. Orientall, denoteth that he shall marrie in hys youth, or in hys age marry a young wife. Likewise you must iudge of husbands in the natiuities of women.