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.

Of Iudgementes Astronomycall vppon Natiuities, contayning the di∣rections and reuolutions. The third Booke. (Book 3)

CHAP. I. Of Directions.

THE art of Directions so dilygently entreated vp∣on by John de Regiomount, that their is no more place fitly to speake of the same. Except that with the ayde of God we haue purposed to translate in∣to French his problemes and documents appertayning to the sayde matter. Neuerthelesse we will here touch the the principall poynte. To direct (which tearme I vse be∣ing being most commonly vsed and of long time recey∣ued, although it bee not proper) it is no other thing then to stay the meeting of one place of the heauens with ano∣ther consequently following, acording to the naturall or∣der of the signes, & that the mouing of the first mobile. The first place is named the significator, the seconde the promittor: as if the ascendant were in the xx. degree of Sagittarius & Saturne in thex of Capricorne, one might direct the ascendant to Saturne & the ascendant shall bee significator of life, & Saturne promittor of death or sick∣nes, & thē the iudgement shalbe danger of death, there is another form of directiō attributed to the parts & planets retrogrades, which do make following the naturall course of thei•• mobile, to the contrary of the consequence of the signes, of the which the craft is like to the 1. & there is no

difference but that wee haue called Significator, which is here promittor, and the Promittor is heere Significator.

The poynt meridionall of the tenth house, you must di∣rect by the right ascentions. The poynt of the ascendant, by the ascentions obliques, founde in the Table of the la∣titude of your Region. The poynts and starres that shall be betweene the Merydian and the Horrizon, by the ob∣lique ascentions vnder the circle in the which they be, the which you call, The cyrcle of Position, the which for to finde, and likewise to haue the ascentions of euery place hauing latitude or no, you must follow the methode fol∣lowing.

First, you must take the longitudes of Plannets, fixed starres, and other places that you would direct (that is to say) the signe, degree, and mynute that they ••olde in the Zodiack and in the Ephemerides, or other tables Astro∣nomicall. &c.

Secondly, you must calculate their latitudes, in degrees and mynutes placed in the Ephemerides.

Thirdly, theyr declination by the first probleame of the booke of directions of Regiomont.

Then, theyr right ascentions by the third probleame of the sayde house.

Then againe, the distances of the circle Meridional by the nineteenth probleame.

Incontinent, the circles of their positions, by the twen∣tith probleame, consequently the dyfferences ascentional by the Table expressed.

And finally the oblique ascentions by the tenth Canon, if the sayd starres be betweene the poynt meridionall of the tenth house, and the poynt of the fourth, or the dis∣centions of obliques by the eleuenth probleame, if they be betweene the poynt of the fourth and the tenth.

Thys done, take out the number of the oblique ascen∣tions of the Significator, of the number of the oblique as∣centions of the Promittor, take to the Table of the posi∣tion of the Significator, or the contrary, if you direct the

parts and Planets retrogrades; that which resteth of de∣grees & minutes, turne into yeres, monthes & dayes: and by this meanes, you shall haue exactly the time of good or euill that shall happen vnto you by direction, inten∣ding that one degree is heere signified a yeere, fiue my∣nutes a month, one minute 6. dayes & some od howers, he that would helpe the seconds hee shall touch the ende more perfectly.

For to know the sicknesses and daunger of death, you must direct the fiue vital places that we haue considered, searching the gyuer of lyfe, in fixed starres of violent na∣ture in the poynt of the fourth, sixt, seauenth and eyght, and the tayle of the Dragon, to the ill fortunes and theyr euill aspects in the partes of death, and by and by to the Sunne, and to the head of the Dragon. Likewise for the same consideration, you must direct the saide pernicious places to the fiue vitall places. And they meeting, they iudge that the man is in great danger of death, when the Fortunes doe not shewe foorth theyr fauourable beames.

For the goods, honour, dignities, friendships, and other considerations, you must direct the one significator of goods with the other, and the one significator of honour with the others, of the which wee haue made mention in the first Booke, following the particuler iudgements of the natiuities.

CHAP. II Of the Seperator or Burner, called of the Arabians, Algebuthar.

THE Seperator or Burner, is the Planet which hath dignitie of tearme & degree, to the which the yeere is aunswerable, mutiplied with the ascentions of one Significator.

For to finde the Seperator of the like, you must take the Oblique ascentions of the ascendant, and adde vnto the same the yeeres of your age, and search it all in the

Table of the latitude of your Region, to looke to which signe and degree the saide number aunswereth, for vnto that poynt shall come the perfection of your life. Looke afterwarde which is the Plannet which hath dignitie of tearme in the said degree, for of the selfe same shall be the Seperator of the life.

By the same meanes you may seeke the Seperators of the honour, goods, gaynes, friendes, and of other lyke, vpon the circles of theyr positions. The which is conue∣nient to seeke following the afore-said methode of direc∣tions.

CHAP. III. Of the Lords of the Triplicities.

YOV must also note all the Lordes of the Triplici∣ties, in places which signifie good and euill, as well in significations of lyfe, as of goods, friendes, honor, marriages, pylgrimages &c. If they be wel disposed in the reuolution, they shall signifie well, touching the signification of the place of the which they be Lordes. If they be vnfortunate, they signifie euill. That is to vnder∣stand, the Lords of the tryplicities of vitall places, wil sig∣nifie of the life: of the places of fortune, riches & profit: of places of honour, of the honour, good or euill, accor∣ding as they be fortunate or vnfortunate at the hower, of the reuolution.

CHAP. IIII. Of Reuolutions.

THE Sunne returning to the same poynt in the which he was at the hower of the natiuity, maketh the reuolution euery yeere. He therfore that wold know the hower and mynute of the reuolution, he must looke in the Ephemerides, at what hower and my∣nute the Sunne beganne to enter into the degree minute and second, in which he was at the hower of the natiuity.

If the Ephemerides doe not suffise you for thys mat∣ter, goe to a Table made for the same purpose, by Peter Pitat, in the beginning of the same Ephemerides, by him corrected and augmented. Jerom Cardin vseth another, which I finde very exact: the which hee hath written in his booke. Of the restitution of times and celestiall mo∣tions, in the fyft Chapter.

CHAP. V. Of the iudgements vpon the reuolutions.

FIrst looke howe the Seperator of lyfe is disposed in the figure of the reuolution: for if hee be vnfortu∣nate, he denoteth sicknes and other daungerous ac∣cidents; If he be fortunate, he holdeth him health∣full and glad all the yeere. So likewise you must iudge of the Seperator of goods, friends, dignities & other effects. It is to vnderstand, that they giue good fortune in the said significations, if they be well disposed: or els losse & euill fortune if they be vnfortunate.

In the second place, looke if the Lords of the Trypli∣cities of the vitall places be well disposed: and of places which signifie riches, honour, trauailes, bretheren, Pa∣rents, wiues and children, doe so much. For in the same significations the man shall be happy or vnhappy, accor∣ding as the sayd Lords shall be wel or euil disposed. And principally you must consider the Lord that shall raigne ouer your age: for the first Lord of one tryplicity gouer∣neth the first age; the second, the middest of the life; the third, the latter yeere.

Thirdly, you must consider which is the Planet which gouerneth ouer the yeere of your age, that which the A∣rabians call Fridate.

Fourthly, the Lorde of the Signe in which shall come the same yeere of perfection.

In the fift place, the Lord of the circulation, accoun∣ting by the Lord of the houre of the natiuity.

Then the Lord of the circulation, accounting by the

Lord of the ascendant of the natiuitie.

And if in the ascendant of the natiuitie there be anie Planet, you must likewise make circulation.

Furthermore, you must looke if any Planet returne to the same signe and house, in the which it was at the na∣tiuitie; for then it intendeth the same effect which it hath signifyed in the natiuity, principally when it returneth to the same signe. You must also haue regard to the aspects which are made in the reuolution, if they be like to them of the natiuity: for that shal be a renuing of the effects of the said aspects.

And you must not forget the chaunging of the places. For if a happy Plannet bee in the reuolution in the place where an euill Planet was in the natiuity, the euill signifi∣ed by the sayd euill Planet in the natiuitie, shall be defer∣red that yeere by the presence of the happy Planet. To the contrary, if a Planet promise any good fortune in the natiuitie, and in hys place in the reuolution be any vnfor∣tunate Planet, the same good signifyed in the natiuitie, shalbe diminished in the reuolutiō, or lost by reason of the said ill fortune. The mis-fortune in the places of mis-for∣tune augmenteth the euill, the good fortunes in the pla∣ces of good fortune, augmenteth the good fortune.

For to iudge of the said considerations, you must haue recourse to that which we haue sayde in the two former Bookes of generall and particuler significations of the Houses, Signes, Planets, aspects, & particuler situations of the Planets in signes and houses: hauing alwaies be∣fore your eyes, the disposition of starres in the figure of the natiuitie. For if a Planet be in the natiuity greatly vn∣fortunate, and in the reuolution well disposed, it cannot much profite because of the first infelicity.

Likewise you must iudge of those which bee fortunate in natiuities, which being vnfortunate in reuolucions, do no great damage. There be some that contemplate here∣vpon, many other things, the which by experience I haue often found vnprofitable, false, and superfluous.

CHAP. VI. Of the yeeres gouerned by the Planets, called of the Arabians Fridarie.

IF the natiuite be by day, then the Sunne gouerneth the fyrst tenne yeeres, Venus eyght yeres following, Mer∣curie thirteene yeeres after that: then the Moone, the nine following. Saturne eleuen yeeres, Iupiter twelue, Mars seauen, the head of the Dragon three, the tayle of the Dragon two. When it is by night, you must beginne at the Moone, the which gouerneth the first nine yeeres, then Saturne, Iupiter, Mars, Sol, Venus, Mercurie, the head of the Dragon, and the tayle, the numbers by order as we haue sayd before.

Many by great curiositie, haue added to this companie other Planets to euery gouernment, the which I finde by good reason to be reprehended by the Chaldeans. For experience hath often taught mee and other very expert in this Science, that this subtiltie is too curious, vaine and superfluous.

The Table of the Fridaries by Daie.

		Yeeres.	Monthes.	Dayes.
☉		1	5	5
☉	♀	2	10	9
☉	☿	4	3	13
☉	☽	5	8	17
☉	♄	7	2	22
☉	♃	8	6	26
☉	♂	10	0	0
♀		11	1	22
♀	☿	12	3	13
♀	☽	13	5	4
♀	♄	14	6	26
♀	♃	15	8	17
♀	♂	16	10	9
♀	☉	18	0	0
☿		19	10	9
☿	☽	21	8	17
☿	♄	23	6	2
☿	♃	25	5	14
☿	♂	27	3	13
☿	☉	29	1	22
☿	♀	30	0	0
☽		32	3	13
☽	♄	33	6	26
☽	♃	34	10	9
☽	♂	36	1	22
☽	☉	37	5	5
☽	♀	38	8	17
☽	☿	40	0	0
♄		41	6	26
♄	♃	43	1	22
♄	♂	44	8	18
♄	☉	46	3	14
♄	♀	47	10	16
♄	☿	49	5	6
♄	☽	50	0	0
♃		52	8	17
♃	♂	54	5	4
♃	☉	56	1	21
♃	♀	57	10	8
♃	☿	59	6	26
♃	☽	61	1	22
♃	♄	63	0	0
♂		64	0	0
♂	☉	65	0	0
♂	♀	66	0	0
♂	☿	67	0	0
♂	☽	68	0	0
♂	♄	69	0	0
♂	♃	70	0	0
☊		73	0	0
☋		75	0	0

The Table of the Fridaries by Night.

		Yeeres.	Monthes.	Dayes.
☽		1	3	13
☽	♄	2	6	26
☽	♃	3	10	9
☽	♂	5	1	22
☽	☉	6	5	5
☽	♀	7	8	18
☽	☿	9	0	0
♄		10	6	26
♄	♃	12	1	22
♄	♂	13	8	18
♄	☉	15	3	14
♄	♀	16	10	9
♄	☿	18	5	6
♄	☽	20	0	0
♃		21	8	17
♃	♂	23	5	4
♃	☉	25	1	21
♃	♀	26	10	8
♃	☿	28	6	25
♃	☽	30	3	13
♃	♄	32	0	0
♂		33	0	0
♂	☉	34	0	0
♂	♀	35	0	0
♂	☿	36	0	0
♂	☽	37	0	0
♂	♄	38	0	0
♂	♃	39	0	0
☉		40	5	50
☉	♀	42	10	10
☉	☿	43	3	15
☉	☽	44	8	20
☉	♄	46	1	25
☉	♃	47	7	0
☉	♂	49	0	0
♀		50	1	2
♀	☿	51	3	13
♀	☽	52	5	6
♀	♄	53	6	26
♀	♃	54	8	20
♀	♂	55	10	8
♀	☉	57	0	0
☿		58	10	9
☿	☽	60	8	17
☿	♄	62	6	26
☿	♃	64	5	4
☿	♂	66	3	13
☿	☉	68	1	21
☿	♀	70	0	0
☊		73	0	0
☋		75	0	0
☽		76	3	13
☽	♄	77	6	26
☽	♃	78	10	9
☽	♂	80	1	22
☽	☉	81	5	5

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.

CHAP. VIII. The Lords of the circulations from the howers of the Natiuities.

THE Babilonians hold for a great secrete, the Circu∣lation of the Lord of the hower of the natiuitie? It is to be vnderstood, that the Lord of the said houre signifieth of the life as the ascendant, and the Lord of the hower following, of goods as of the second house: and the Lord of the third hower of bretheren as the third house, and so consequently of others.

In Reuolutions, they giue the Lorde of the hower of the natiuitie to the first yeere, the Plannet following to the second, and so consequently following the natural or∣der of the Planets. As if one were borne in the hower of Venus, that Planet should raigne the first yeere, the se∣cond yeere, Mercurie, the third, the Moone, the fourth, Saturne, the fift, Iupiter, the sixt, Mars, the seauenth Sol, the eyght, Venus, the ninth, Mercurie, and so by order. And you must note, that wee take heere the yeeres cur∣rant, and not complete, for to fit the sayde circulation of the Planets.

CHAP. IX. Of the circulation of the Lord of the Ascendant, and the Planets which are in the Ascendant.

THE circulation of the Lord of the Ascendant, and the Planets and parts which be in the Ascendant, they be euen as we haue saide of the Lorde of the houre of the natiuitie, and by the same order you must place them. The yeeres of the age of the Chyld, by iudgement, we haue made mention and proofe of Re∣uolutions.

CHAP. X. Of Eclipses and great coniunctions appertaining to Reuolutions of Natiuities.

THE Eclipse of the Sunne, and the coniunctions of the Superiour Planets, causeth commonly many e∣uils, after the congruence of the starres, and nature of the signes and Plannets raigning in the saide pla∣ces, to men causeth sicknesses, when they be within the fiue next degrees of the Ascendant, or to the gyuer of lyfe: if they touch the other parts, Plannets or houses, they pronounce euill fortune, appertaining to the signifi∣cations of the same places; principally, if in the same time of the natiuitie, any such constellations were in force. If they touch the places perfectionals, they doe almost the same effect as in natiuities.

CHAP. XI. Of the particuler meetings of the whole yeere.

COncerning the particuler meetings of all the yere, Ptolomeus, Iohn de Regiomonte, Ganrique, and ma∣nie others, doe rest harde vppon the Profections, Mensturnes and Diurnes, of the which you haue a perfect Table in the Booke of Directions of John de Re∣giomonte, hauing more subtiltie & curiousnes then trueth, as I haue often found by experience. It aunswereth bet∣ter my opinion Schonor, which euerie day considered, if any Planet touch the places of the Planets, parts & hou∣ses, of the natiuitie or their good or euill aspect, that I doe apply to the places profectionall. As for example, let the ascendant of a natiuitie, or the place of his profection bee the twelfe degree of Libra, the Sunne in the fifteenth of Gemini, Mars in the fifteenth of Leo: alwaies, and as of∣ten as the Sunne or the Moone doe passe ouer the xv. degree of Leo, the man shall bee mooued by angry acci∣dents, as of displeasure, of some alteration, payne of the

head, Feauer, hote Impostumes, Tetters. &c. Likewise when it toucheth the fyft degree of Scorpius, or of Tau∣rus, there where the quadrate aspects be within the place of Mars, or the fift of Aquarius, which is the place oppo∣site to Mars. If any Planet touch the fift degree of Libra, or of Gemini (there where the Sextile aspects be) or the fift of Sagitarius and of Aries, (which make the Tryne aspects of the saide Mars) it shall signifie some fauoura∣ble meetings of Captaines and men of warre.

If the ill fortunes touch not the saide twelfe degree of Libra, as we haue said in the Ascendant, that shalbe signe of some euill meeting, as well to life as to the body. Like∣wise you must iudge of other attouchments, according to the nature of the aspects, by vs explained in the seconde Booke. You must contemplate the places profectionals. For I doe apply euerie degree and minute to the dayes in the which their signification fall, and regard the good & euill aspects of the Planets euery day, if they touch the degree profectionall. As for example, of the said natiui∣tie in the which was the Ascendant Libra, suppose that the profection was come to the twelfe degree of Cancer, in the ninth yeere complete and the tenth currant. The thirteenth degree of Cancer, serueth to the twelfe day af∣ter the proper day of the reuolution.

Wherefore I consider then the aspects of the Planets towards the saide thirteenth degree. Likewise so I do of other degrees and minutes, fitted to those daies in the which they gouerne. And so much for Reuolutions.

FINIS.