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.

¶ Other rules, and generall doctrines, for to knowe better and more surelye to iudge of the varietie of the time and weather, of the alteration of the ayre by the coniunctions, quadratures, & opposi∣tions of the sunne and of the mone.

FOr as muche as the mutation of the ayre is one of the most necessa∣ryest thinges, as well for the fruits of the earth, as for the health of the hu∣mayne body, and besides that, one of the partes of the iudgement of Astrologie, more apparent and likest true, I haue set here all at ones ouer and besides the thin¦ges abouesayd, some lessons and notable rules, for to knowe the better and more sbrely howe to iudge of the said alterati∣on of the ayre.

First you must diligently note the si∣nifications and general rules which we haue declared in the rule goinge before, for somuche that the generall significati¦ons do chaunge and surmount the per∣ticuler vertues, by reason that the grea∣test vertue draweth vnto him the lesser, and the lesser doth obey vnto the greater, and with this, the perticuler vertues are not of so great vertue and strength, as be the generall.

It is then necessarye for all men that wyll iudge of particuler thinges, to con∣sider, and beholde first the thinges whi∣che be vniuersall and generall. As if you wyll prognosticate of the qualitie, and disposition of ani day proposed, you must diligently consider thestate or disposition

of any day proposed, you must diligently▪ consider the state or disposition of the time, in the whiche the sayd daye propo∣sed shall chaunce or happen. Of the whi∣che estate and disposition, you shal iudge by the lorde of the coniunction, quadra∣ture▪ or oppositiō preceding of the Sunne and she mone, and of the signe where she is made. The whiche Lorde of the sayde coniunction, quadrature, or opposition, you shal knowe by the figure of the auen, that is to saye of the twelue houses, and places of the planetes iustlye verefied at the▪ hour of the same coniunction, opposi¦tion, or quadrature. Then when you shal haue the figure of heauen well iustified for the time aboue sayde of the coniuncti¦on, quadrature, or oppositiō of the sunne and of the mone, you shall firste consider in whiche of the 12 houses, and in what signe shall fal the sayd coniunction, qua∣drature, or opposition, and the signe and degree ascendent, with the signes and de¦grees of the other angles. For the▪ planet whiche shal haue in the said places more prerogatiue, force, and domination, shal∣be principall lorde of the saide time and fi¦gure, and that whiche shall haue leaste, shalbe participant in the said lordeship, & dominatiō. And it is to be noted, that the

planet which hath most dominatiō vpon the place of the said coniunction, oppositi∣on, or quadrature, and vpon the signe & degree ascendant, doth surmount all the others, and ought to be in this place pre∣ferred. Loke then of what nature the pla¦nete is which shall rule in the said figure For the vniuersal disposition of the time shall holde the qualitie of the said planet. As if at the time of the said coniunction, quadrature, or opposition, Saturne be founde lorde, the time shall be colde and drye. And if it be Uenus, it shal be moist, and so of others, after their nature, and qualitie, excepte the sunne and the mone: for the best astrologians, do neuer chuse the sunne nor the mone in this place for Lordes nor rulers, for because that they do esteme the 5 planetes to be the onelye moderatours of the time and weather, that is to saye Saturne, Jupiter, Mars, Uenus, and Mereurye. And not w^toute a cause, in the coniunctiō they do chuse the Lord of the place of the said coniunction. And in the oppositiō, the lord of the place of the same of the lightes which shalbe a∣boue thearth, or in thorient precisely, for there is in this place most greatest vertu. Likewise in iudging almost as much by the place of the quadrature of the sayde lightes, for thei take the place of the same

light whiche is aboue the horizont, if the other be vnderneth. And if they be bothe aboue, or both vnderneth the saide hori∣zont (as it chaunceth often times) they take then for the place of the sayde qua∣drature, the place of the same light whi∣che is founde to haue most force and dig∣nitie. As if one of the planeties were in one of the angles, or houses succedinge. and the other in the house fallynge, the same whiche is in the sayde angle, or hoose succedinge, shalbe preferred before the same whiche is in the fallinge house. The whiche force, dignities, and other witnesses of the planetes, you shall extra out of the table, which is expresselye put in the Ephemerides, for the same cause, the whiche hath ben sufficiently declared in the 24 rule. Then when you shall haue the Lorde and dominatoure at the time of the coniunction, quadrature, or opposition of the lightes, you shall fyrste note his nature and qualitie. For moost often times the disposition of the tyme shall resemble the same. Secondlye you shall considre the signe in the whiche is the sayde lorde and dominatoure, for the time shall be disposed vnto the qualitie of the sayde sigue. Furthermore, you shall haue regarde vnto the signe whiche is

then ascendant, and vnto his nature, and of what mansion of the mone he is, with out forgettinge the lord of the sayd signe ascendant. Afterward you shal take hede and se whiche planets are in the angles: for those whiche do occupie the middeste of heauen, or the ascendant, shall be bet∣ter and more stronger then they whiche shall be in the angle of the 7 or 4 house. Consequentlye you shall marke, with whiche of the planetes the mone cometh to be conioyned, or in aspecte after the ••••y••d coniunction, quadrature, or oppo∣sition. Likewise you shall note with which of ••he planettes, or notable fyxed sterres, the lord of the sayd figure i•• con∣ioyned, or beheld with any aspect. These thynges thus cōsidered, you may bringe to effect, and perfectly iudge as foloweth If the sayd lord of the coniunction, qua∣drature, or opposition, be of a moyst na∣ture, and the places aboue sayd and pla∣nettes being in them likewise moyst: and with this the sayd lord being conioyned, or in any as•••••••• with any moyst sterres or planettes. And if the moone after the sayd coniunction, quadrature, or opposi∣tion, come to be conioyned, or in aspect with some moist planet ioyned therunto that the qualitye of the time be disposed

vnto moystnes: if all the thinges about∣sayd or the most part of them do tend vn∣to humiditie, you may gather and iudge that the time shall be mayste, and if they tende vnto drouthe, that it shall be drye, and if vnto heate that it shalbe hote: and if vnto coldnes, that it shal be colde: and if there be as many witnesses for the one qualitie, as for the other, the time shalbe indifferent, hauing then knowen the ge∣neral disposition of the time (as now pre∣sently hath ••ene sayd) you shal discretlye entremingle the applications of the moone vnto the planettes and of the one planet vnto the other, for to indge more certeynly of the perticuler days. And to make an end of this matter, you shall yet note these .ii. lessons, wherof the firste is. that the sygnyfycation of the tyme thus found as hath bene sayde aboue, his ef∣fect principally shall appeare, and come forth, when the moone after the coniunc¦tion, quadrature, or opposition, aboue∣sayde shalbe conioyned or comme vnto some stronge planet, with the sygnifica∣tour of the sayd time.

¶ The seconde is that when the moone shall come vnto the signe ascendant, du∣ring the sayd coniunction, quadrature, or opposition, the time shalbe disposed vn

to the nature and qualitie of the sayde signe. And this suffiseth for the dispositi∣on of the time and chaunge of the wea∣ther.