The seventh Rule is, Of the Transits of the Planets, which by no means must be ne∣glected.
That is, when either of the two Planets, that did aspect one another, comes first to that point of the Zodiack where the other Planet was, whom he did
[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 ...].
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aspect in Sextile, or Trine, or Qua∣drat; or when he passeth along the point himself was in. But in Conjunctions or Oppositions, when he also cometh to the Square of that degree wherein the Con∣junction or Opposition was.
It may be admitted for a tran∣sit also, when an aspect falleth upon the place of another Planet which he had in the time of a great Conjunction, or at the first appearance of a Comet, or in the time of a great Eclipse: or when an aspect falleth upon the same degree, where other Planets did not long ago aspect each other.
For an example of the first sort of Transits, Saturn in the Lion did oppose Jupiter in the Skinker, and did first raise up a South-west wind, and then a mighty cold aire: afterwards in the year 1669, Saturn transi∣ting the place of Jupiter in the Skinker, in that threefold Opposi∣tion,
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did raise up the same sort of winds, which did continue all that year for the most part; yea and did stir up the same sort of diseases that he had formerly occasioned at the threefold Op∣position.
It is therefore fitting to re∣view the Aspects of preceding years, if we would truly know the state of succeeding times; and to this purpose an old E∣phemerides is useful for some years after they be expired.
Jupiter in the Twins aspected by Mars in the Ram, not only in the time of the aspect did they shew their natures, but also when Mars came to the place which Jupiter had in the aspect, it thundered. The like in the Trine of Mars in the Ram, and the Sun in the Lion; it thundereth (if not damped by cold mixtures) when Mars first comes to that degree where the
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Sun was in the Lion: the thun∣der is re-excited, though more faintly; and the same effect fol∣loweth, when the Sun first come¦eth to the degree Mars was po∣sited in at that Trigon; the which is little minded by our raw A∣strologers.
An Example of the Second sort: The Sun and Mars united in the same degree of the Crab, which was Saturns place, at the eclipsing of the Sun in the Ram, in the year 1652. which did occasion a thundering, and showery season.