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. Of profections.

FOR the profections you must resolue the twelue houses of your natiuity in equall partes vppon the Eclipse, so farre as the ascendant is in the first degree of any Signe: the seconde house shall be in the fyrst degree of a signe following, and the thirde, in the first de∣gree of a thirde signe: and to conclude, that euery house beginne by the fyrst degree, as the first house.

Also, euery house will containe thirtie degrees, & the first thirty degrees of the first house, shall appertaine to the fyrst yeere wherein the infant is borne; the thirtie of the second, to the second yeere: the thirty of the thirde to the third yeere, & so consequently vntill twelue. Twelue yeeres passed, you must begin againe at the first, and then come to the second, third, fourth &c. and so from twelue to twelue you must renue the same circuite.

If you finde the reuolution within the thirtie degrees seruing to your yeere, it signifieth some good or euil, ac∣cording to his nature or good or euill disposition, & sig∣nification of the place, of which shall be the sayd profec∣tion; that is to say, of the places of lyfe, sicknes, death, or good health; of the places of goods, riches, losse, or po∣uertie. &c. Commonly they seeke the profection of fyue places of one natiuitie, that is to say, of the place of the Sunne for honour; of the place of the Moone for the qualities of the spyrit, towardes the body and externall goods; of the place of the parte of Fortune, for gaine and profite; of the tenth house for the actions; of the ascen∣dant for the lyfe.

If the Sunne be gyuer of lyfe, it must be considered as gyuer of lyfe and giuer of honor likewise, the which you must doe also in other places, when they import manie significations. If then you finde any Plannet within the thirtie degrees of your profection, and would know what

moneth or day the accident by him signifyed shal happen.

Looke what distance you haue betweene the first point of your profection, and the said Plannet, if there be xv. degrees betweene them, the saide accident shall happen out in the ende of sixe moneths: if there be twentie-fiue degrees, at the end of tenne monethes, for heere two de∣grees and a halfe, value one moneth, one degree valueth twelue dayes and foure houers, thirty min••••es value sixe daies, fiue minutes one day.

Of this there is a verie exact table among the docu∣ments of Peter Pytat vpon the Ephemerides. Example of the profections. Suppose that the ascendant of a natiuitie was the fifteene degree of Scorpius, I would know where the profection shall light of the ascendant at the ende of tenne yeeres after the childborne. I account tenne signes from the ascendant, after that, I finde the fifteene degree of Virgo seruing after tenne yeeres, accomplished to xj. current. I say then that in the said time, the profection of the ascendant is come in the fifteene degree of Virgo; & shall end that yeere in the fifteene degree of Libra: and also shal containe thirty whole degrees, within the which if any Planet be founde, it shall signifie good or euill of the life, according to the nature & disposition as if in the said time.

Mars beeing to the fift degree of Libra, I woulde say that the infant should be troubled that yeere at the end of eyght moneths, because that Mars was in the place pro∣fectionall of life, distant from the first poynt twentie de∣drees. We haue shewed before that two degrees and a halfe value one month, fiue degrees two monthes, and fifteene degrees sixe monthes, and by course twenty de∣grees eyght monethes. You must note, that the profecti∣ons ought to fitte to the yeeres currant or complete. It is to be vnderstoode the tenth signe, as for incontinent after nine yeeres complete, which is tenne yeeres currant, &c.