[Meteorologia, or, The true way of foreseeing and judging the inclination of the air and alteration of the weather in several regions ... by William Cock ...].

The Natures of the Planets;

Which are in number seven; viz.

• ♄ Saturn
• ♃ Jupiter
• ...

  ♂ Mars

• ☉ Sol
• ♀ Venus
• ☿ Mercury
• ☽ Luna

As for Saturn, his influence properly stirreth up colds and droughts, except in the first fif∣teen

degrees of Capricorn, his own sign and house, which is opposite to the watery sign Can∣cer (but accidentally many o∣ther ways) he excites abundance of moisture.

Jupiter is moderately humid and warm, and is a very windy Planet, chiefly in aery Signs. He sheweth himself most waterish in the Signs of Pisces and Cancer, and chiefly in his Conjunctions with Saturn, not only in them two waterish Signs, but also in the fiery Sign of Sagittary.

Mars is accounted hot and dry. Hot he is certainly, and may be dry in dry Signs; yet he many times in watry Signs, and in aspects of moist Planets; and when he thunders somtimes also with dry Planets, he can drop and weep as readily as any other Planet: when he raiseth up thunders, he is many times attended with impetuous and

violent showers. As also in the aspects of Venus in summer he rains, and in winter he snows.

The Sun is hot, as every one knows, and temperately dry.

Venus is cold and moist, and gives both hail and snow in Winter, and sometimes in other quarters of the year. And in Summer can rain apace.

Mercury is a little windy, and strengthens every other Planet in their proper significations.

The Moon is a little moist; but mostly reneweth the influences of the aspects, by her manifold applications to the other Pla∣nets; for she gives all and every one of them several visits every moneth.

The main business of the weather lieth most upon the In∣fluences of Saturn and Jupiter; they are not only great Planets, but when the one looketh upon the other, they make a forcible

alteration in the air: and al∣though they do seldom meet one with another, nevertheless other Planets passing between them, do translate and carry the nature of the one to the o∣ther, which is succedaneous, and almost equivalent to the great and proper aspectings of those two mighty Planets.

Be careful to observe this one thing: that Mercury, Mars and the Sun do in some manner en∣force the other Planets to give an accompt of their natures and influences; Mercury after a mo∣derate way, but Mars more strongly; and the Sun is the most active of all the three. As for example, when the moist planet Venus is in Conjunction with Mercury, suppose in the begin∣ing of the sign Gemini (Mercury making Venus appear in her own nature) we have showers and sun-shine interchangeably:

But when Mars is united to Ve∣nus, we have more continued snows or rains; but most of all it powreth down rivers, when the Sun & Venus do meet together. These three Planets, not unlike unto Chymists, do distill and ex∣tract the natures of the other Planets.

Now to draw to a close of this point, you must understand, that the seven Planets which are vi∣sible in the Skies, have their se∣cret correspondents throughout the whole body of the Universe; that is, there be seven Planets occultly in the air, and there be also hidden Stars and Planets in the bowels of the earth. There is a visible Saturn, and a visible Jupiter in the Firmament; there is an hidden Sarurn, and an hid∣den Jupiter, and hidden Stars also within the obscurities of the earth. The matter is thus then; the Planets above do move their

brother-Planets below of this inferior globe of earth and wa∣ter, to move and keep harmony with them; so Saturn below sympathiseth with Saturn above, in sending forth cold exhalati∣ous: for it is the earthly Saturn moved by the celestial Saturn, that bringeth forth the colds out of the bowels of the earth.