The rules and righte ample documentes, touchinge the vse and practise of the common almanackes, which are named ephemerides A briefe and shorte introduction vpon the iudiciall astrologie, for to prognosticate of thinges to come, by the helpe of the sayde ephemerides. With a treatise added hereunto, touchinge the coniunction of the planets, in euery one of the. 12. signes, and of their prognostications and reuolutions of yeres. The hole faithfully, and clerely translated into Englyshe by Humfrey Baker.

¶ Perticuler rules by the aspectes of the mone with the planetes.

* 1.1THe coniunction, quadrature, or op¦positiō of the mone with Saturne in moist signes, bringeth a cloudy daye, and colde ayre, according vnto the nature of the signe: And if the Mone do go frome Saturne vnto the Sunne, by coniunction or otherwise, harde wether ensueth.

* 1.2The coniunction, quadrature, or op∣sition of the moone with Jupiter, in the signes of Aries and Scorpio, sheweth fayre wether, with white dispersed clou∣des. And if Mars be disposed to the same by anye aspecte, it causeth thunders and lightninges, or elles great windes. After the which coniunction, if the mone come vnto Mercurye, there foloweth greate windes, the whiche are mittigate, and layed by the opposition or quadrature of

the sayde mone with Jupiter, but if the planetes whiche be of slowe mouement be not disposed thervnto, the abouesayde coniunction shall bringe fayre weather.

* 1.3The coniunction, quadrature, or op∣position of the mone with Mars, in wa∣tery signes, causeth rayne, & yf the mone be seperate from Mars, and commeth vnto Venus, there foloweth notable chaunge of wether, but in hote signes causeth diuers coulered cloudes all ouer the elemente, in sommer often thunder, bringinge with them sometimes small mislinges, principally if the planetes be in aspects disposed thervnto.

* 1.4The coniunction, quadrature, or oppo¦sition of the moone with the Sunne in moist signes, bringeth raynye weather, the more if the mone go from the Sunne vnto Saturne.

* 1.5The coniunction, quadrature, or oppo¦sition of the mone with Venus, cheiflye in moist signes, rain foloweth: the mone going from Venus vnto Mars by oppo¦sition, quadrature, or sextile aspecte, be to keneth greate varietie of weather.

* 1.6The coniunction, quadrature, or oppo¦sition of the mone with mercury in moist signes, sheweth great rayne and windes to ensue, the more if she go from Jupiter

and come vnto the sayde Mercury, or if Saturne and Mars be in opposition or quadrate aspecte duringe the sayde con∣iunction.

Wherefore you must note in all con∣iunctions of the mone with the planets, The coniunctions and quadratures of them, and likewise of the fixed sterres af¦ter their nature abouesayde.

And when the mone is without any aspect in moiste signes and mansions, the same denoteth rayne, wherefore he that will iudge more perfitely, and more surely, it is conuenient in all and euerye of the thinges abouesayde, that he consi∣dre diligentlye the nature of the signes, and of the mansions of the moone, and the disposition of the foure times and seasons of the yeare at their fyrste ente∣rynge.

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