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. VIII. Of the Giuer of life, named of the Arabians Hyleg.

THe giuer of life is taken out of the principal places of the Figure (that is to say) of the Sunne, of the Moone, and of the Ascendant, of the part of For∣tune, & of the degree of the last coniunction or op∣position of lights; the which hauing wel noted, we cōsider first, if the natiuitie be diurnal or nocturnal? For if she be diurne wee beginne at the Sunne, the which within the first, tenth, or eleuenth house, in a masculine or femi∣nine signe, shall be fitte to giue life, if it haue any giuer

of tyme that doth regard it: If it be in the nynth, eygth, or seuenth house, it may also be the giuer of life, if it be in a Masculine signe, and not in a Feminine: in other places it cannot be the giuer of life, but by constraint. It is alwaies necessarie for such an acte, that the giuer of time regard the giuer of life, otherwise, the sayd giuer of life shall be as person that hath good will to doo his friend good & hath not wherewithall; And so when the Sunne shall be with∣out aspect of any giuer of time, you must leaue it there, & goe to the Moone, which may giue the life within the first house, in the signe Masculine or Feminine, and with∣in the tenth, eleuenth, seuenth, fourth, fifth, second and third house, in signes Feminines and not Masculines, re∣ceiuing aspect of any giuer of time. If the Moone haue not all the sayde conditions, you must come to the degree ascendant, if the natiuitie be coniunctionall (Coniunctio∣nall is sayed the natiuitie, before the which lastly the lights haue beene conioyned) and if the sayde degree re∣ceiue aspect of his gyuer of time, he shall be gyuer of life: otherwise not. Wherefore you must examine the part of Fortune, the which shall giue life in the Angles and houses succeeding, with the aspect of the giuer of time, o∣therwise you must come to the degree, to the which lastly the lights haue beene conioyned: the which within the Angles or houses succeeding shall be giuer of life, if hee receiue aspect of his giuer of tyme.

It is heere necessary that the giuer of time haue digni∣tie of house, or of exaltation in places of the part of For∣tune, and of the sayd degree coniunctionall. By this order you must seeke the gyuer of life, when the natiuitie is coniunctionall. When she is preuentionall, (Preuentio∣nall is sayed, afore the which lastly the lights haue beene opposites) after you haue considered the Sunne and the Moone, you must consequentlie contemplate the place of Fortune, more than the degree ascendant, and lastly the degree of the oppositions of the lights, & see that it haue 2. degrees in the opposition, one of them of the Sunne, and

the other of the Moone. The Astrologians commaund to consider it, that at the time of the opposition it hath beene in the first house, or elswhere aboue the Horizon.

When the Natiuitie is nocturniall, we followe the same order, (except that first we consider the Moone, secondly the Sunne, &c.) This gyuer of life, when either by directi∣on, or by profection, or by other way, meete any euill a∣spect of the infortunes, or of the starres fixed of vyolent nature, or any of the notable coniunctions, or Eclipses of the lightes, it causeth then some sicknesse, and very sud∣daynly bringeth death, when the Fortunes doo not inter∣mingle the fauourable beames.