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. VII. If the child shall lyue or no.

ALL thys aboue considered, you must first looke, whether he that is borne, is for life in this worlde or no. That which principally will shewe vs the light of the time, (that is to say, the Sun by day, and the Moone by night) are the Lords of the triplicity of him, and the ascendant with his Dominator.

When the Dominator of the ascendant, shal be vnfor∣tunate by the Lord of the eyght house, the Childe cannot liue: and lesse, if the Lordes of the triplicitie of the tem∣porall light be vnfortunate.

When within the first house shall be any fixed starre of violent nature, or any ill fortune, (that is to say, Saturne or Mars) without hauing at the least foure dignities, and the temporall light shall be vnfortunate, the childe shall die quicklie. If you find not any fixed starre of amiable nature, or if Iupiter and Venus, or the Sunne or the Moone, doe not communicate vnto him their beames. For and if the aspect be of loue, or of enmitie with recep∣tion, the chyld shall liue.

If the Dominator of the ascendant be burnde, the child shall dye before 9. daies be acomplished, and more sooner if he be burned within the eight house, or in this estate, if he be ioyned with the Lorde of the eygth. Except when he is burned in his owne house or exaltation, or within the house or exaltation of the Sunne.

When the Moone, being the temporall light, shall bee vnfortunate within the first house, without any aspect of the fortunes, & without the coniunction of any fixed stars of amiable nature, the hope of lyfe shall not be great.

When the Moone shal be vnfortunat within the fourth house, and he that hath the misfortune shall be also vn∣fortunate, & out of his principall dignities, the Infant can∣not liue, & the mother shall be in great daunger of death at her deliuerance, and principally if the ascendant be the house or exaltation of the Moone.

When the infortunes are conioyned within the eighth house, it signifieth very short life: except when Mars and Saturne be in Capricorne.

Many ioynt Plannets within the first house, bring not good testimonie of life, although they be all fortunate.

When the Domynator of the ascendant, and the tem∣porall light, and the Lords of their triplicities be not alto∣gether vnfortunate, the childe may easily liue.