Of the Horoscop and the rest of the twelue houses. The 36. Proposition. (Book 36)
THis word Horoscop doth not onely signifie the degree of the Ecliptique, otherwise called the ascendent which riseth aboue the Horizon in the beginning of any thing that is to be sought or knowne, but also sometimes the whole figure of heauen containing the 12. houses, and doth shew the very secrets of nature, so that there is nothing that chanceth to the inferiour bodies, but some cause thereof doth appeare by meane of the Horoscope in heauen, and therefore the Astrologi∣ans haue deuided the whole heauen into 12. houses, which are numbred from the Horoscope, which is the East Angle, and so foorth according to the succession of the signes, of which 12. houses the foure principall are foure points of the Zodiaque whereof two doe fall vpon the Horizon, and the other two vpon the Meri∣dian, and are called principall points, poles, or Angles, that is the beginning of the first house, of the fourth house, of the seuenth house, and of the tenth house, and those that doe follow next any of these principall Angles, are called succéeding houses, in Latine Succedentes, as the second, the fifth, the eight, and the eleuenth house. And those that goe next before any of the foure principall Angles, are called falling houses, in Latine Cadentes, as the 12. the third, the sixth, and the ninth: and such houses as haue no fa∣miliaritie with the Horoscop or ascendent, as the second, the sixth, the eight, and the eleuenth houses are said to be slow and deiect, all which things this Table here following doth shew, containing the number and names of the houses, and also their significations.