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Other parts of Astrology do ad∣mit of 5 dignities of the Planets, viz. House, Exaltation, Triplicity, Tearm, and Face: the Planets are strongest in their Houses, next to that in their Exaltations, where there be some fixed Stars directly of the Planets nature; next to them they are strongest in their Triplicities; they have
some strength also in their Terms, but least of all in their Faces. But Astrology, as it respecteth the weather, hath only reference to three of them; namely, House, Exaltation, and Triplicity. The Houses of Saturn are the Goat, and the Skinker; his Exaltation is in the Balance; his Triplicity, ac∣cording to some, is the three airy Signs; these indeed have relation to Saturn of the Skinker, and in them Saturn is windy: but the earthy Saturn of the Goat, hath his Triplicity in the earthy signs, in all which he is cold; and in the Bull and the Virgin (if by mixtures of other Planets he be not accidentally changed) he is dry.
The Houses of Jupiter are the Archer, and the Fishes; his Exal∣tation the Crab; and his Tripli∣city the three fiery Signs: and I say for wind, in the three aery Signs.
The Houses of Mars are the Ram and the Scorpion; his Ex∣altation they say is in the Goat. But the Triplicity of Mars in the Scorpion is the three watery Signs; and the Triplicity of Mars in the Ram, is the three fie∣ry signs.
The House of the Sun, is the Lion, his Exaltation is in the Ram; his Triplicity in the three fiery signs.
The Houses of Venus are the Bull and the Balance, her Exal∣tation is in the Fishes: they say her Triplicity is in the three earthy signs; but I think her as powerful in the watery signs.
The Houses of Mercury are the Twins and the Virgin; his Exaltation in the Virgin; his Triplicity, because he is a little windy, in the airy signs.
The House of the Moon is the Crab, her exaltation the Bull, her triplicity the three earthy.
Now for judging according to the dignities. Though the Goal be a dry sign, yet when Saturn is there, it raineth much in the first fifteen degrees of it. The Bull is a dry sign, yet Venus joyn∣ed with the Sun, is not a little rainy; she is there in her own house. The Archer is a dry sign, and the house of Jupiter; yet when Jupiter entertaineth Sa∣turn there, he is pretty moist.
Jupiter in the Fishes his own House, and in the Grab his Ex∣altation, playeth Rex for rains. In aery signs he is windy, in fie∣ry signs he is hot, in earthy signs he is very dry. Mars in the Ram his own house, in a Trigon, or Trine of the Sun in the Lion, is very hot, and so in the firy triplicity, though in the watery triplicity he is for rains.