[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 ...].

CHAP. III.

What may be prognosticated, and how.

THere may be foreseen 1. The temper of the Air, cold or

hot, infallibly. 2. Calm and dry seasons. 3. Wet weather, as rains, sleets, mists, snow, hail. 4. Thunders and Lightning. 5. Winds. 6. Cloudy dark aires. 7. Comets and other fiery Mete∣ors.

For the First, of Heat and Colds. The Conjunctions and Oppositions, and other powerful Aspects of Saturn, if he be not over-heated by mixture, are cold. The Conjunction and Oppo∣sition of Jupiter and Saturn are vehemently cold, yet not always frosty. Saturn and Venus bring Colds, Snows, Rains, Hails, con∣sideratis considerandis. The Sun and Saturn, Mars and Saturn are clear and frosty; and Mercury and Saturn are not warm: re∣membring alwayes, according to the fore-going Rules, to con∣sider the Latitude, Scituation and Sign and Planet sympa∣thizing

with the Country. The strength of the Aspect, the Sign, the Dignities of the Planets aspecting, their Mixtures, Tran∣sits, the Seasons, and general Causes. A Planet proceeding from the Aspect of Jupiter to the Aspect of Saturn, or Venus Saturnized, is cold.

For Heats; the applications of firy or warm Planets, if they be not double damped with cold mixtures. Thus the Conjuncti∣ons of Mercury with the Sun, Mars or Jupiter, are hot. So the powerful Aspects of Mars and Jupiter, or Mars and the Sun. So the Aspects of the Sun and Jupiter. Or when cold Planets are deeply dyed with hot and firy mixtures. Or the applica∣tions of Planets separating from Saturn, or Venus mixed with Sa∣turn or Jupiter. Hence you may know whether proves mild or rigid. If the Planets go from

Saturn immediately to Jupiter, the Winter is mild; if they go from Jupiter immediatly to Sa∣turn, it proves a cold Winter.

In this particular of Heat and Cold, the new Aspects of Kepler do take place, and do bring a sensible alteration of the air.

For the Second, calm and temperate weather. When there is no Aspect, or no power∣ful Transit for some season: or when the Aspect is weak and mean; or when the Aspect is in Earthy Signs, chiefly the Aspects of Jupiter and Venus: or when the Planets are well mixed with a dry Jupiter. Look also is Sa∣turn be in an earthy or fiery Sign (except the Goat.) Cold and dry Aspects in Summer do give frosty nights; but clear and pleasant days. Total Eclipses of the Sun in the Ram, Lion, or Earthy Signs, and also Comets, do prenote a dry season.

For the Third thing, namely wet weather, may be fore-seen, by strong Aspects of the Planets with Venus, or with any Planet well tinged with Venus. Saturn and Venus Snows, Rain, Hail: the Sun and Venus, Rains or Snow, considering the mixtures and the Seasons: Mercury and Venus many showers, intermixed with Sun-shines. Mercury and Saturn, or Mars, a little tinged with Venus, do give us fogs; Mars or the Sun looking upon Saturu, well tinged with Venus, are moist. Jupiter also well heated with mixtures, strongly aspecting Venus, doth give us rains in Sum∣mer, and Snows in Winter. Ju∣piter also in a watery Sign aspect∣ed of Saturn, or coming to the Transit of Saturn, in a watery Sign, is moist. So Mars in the Crab, aspecting Venus in the Ram. Likewise fiery Planets, when they thunder, do give us

rains; but if they have a dry tincture, we have thunder with∣out rains, or lightning without thunder. If they have a tin∣cture of Saturn and Venus, and do thunder, they do also hail: which also is the Fourth thing here considerable.

For the Fifth thing, namely Winds, it is a little difficult, but much more difficult to foretel from whence they shall blow. Yet observe the Airy Triplicity to be windy and Westerly. So Saturn in the Skinker, an airy Sign, transiting the place of Ju∣piter, when Saturn in the Lion did oppose him; as also in a Trine of Jupiter in the Twins, another aery Sign, as in the year 1660. can testifie, in which the wind did blow almost constantly from the West. The winds are com∣monly laid upon Mercury; it is true, Mercury coming from Ju∣piter to Saturn, or a Planet well

tinged with Saturn, maketh way for winds. Jupiter and Saturn are two great Planets, of con∣trary natures, and so do many times meet with a tumult. Sa∣turn, in the Lion, opposing Jupi∣ter in the Skinker, do at first stir up South-West winds, and after∣wards a cold quiet aire. But im∣mediatly after that Opposition, the Sun also came to be opposed by Saturn, and presently after united to Jupiter, yet did raise no winds; because there was small contrariety at that meet∣ing, two warm Planets both be∣ing alike Saturnized.

For the place from whence the winds do blow; Aery Signs are Westerly, as is said already. They say commonly, that Jupi∣ter is for North winds, which is false, except it be upon cold mixtures: for North winds are cold: Jupiter is warm in this Iland of Britain: though Wester∣ly

winds do not always, and in a dry year do scarce rain at all; yet they have a moi∣sture in them, because they come from the Western O∣cean. Easterly winds, of their own nature, are more dry; be∣cause they come from the dry land, whose great Continent ly∣eth to the East of Britain. South winds, for the most part, are warm; because they blow from the warm parts of the World. North-winds are cold, blowing from the perpetual Snows of Greenland and Moscovia. Hence Jupiter, being hot and moist, is for South-west winds, according to reason and experience too. Venus is cold and moist, there∣fore of her own nature she is for North-west: great mixtures may alter their natures. The Sun is hot and dry, therefore South. East, so is Mars. Saturn is cold and dry, therefore North-

In Fiery Signs he is Easter∣ly. Mercury and the Moon are for all quarters. Remember the winds proper to the Country, and Anniversary winds.

For the Sixth, viz. cloudy and dark airs; Every day when there is a great Aspect formed, is commonly cloudy; and the ra∣ther, if it do encline to rain. When there be many great A∣spects, one immediately after an∣other; though they be dry, yet is it a cloudy time.

For the Seventh: Oftentimes about the great Conjunctions or Oppositions, there is some such thing as Comets; as the years 1652, 1664, 1665, can witness: after the great Conjunction in the Archer, we had three Comets. And when Saturn transits the place of Jupiter, which he had in the great Opposition, if the Op∣position be lofty. When Saturn came to Jupiters place in the

Skinker, then did appear a Co∣met in Virginia, in the Fishes, in the which Sign the next great Opposition is to be celebrated.

SOLI DEO ƲNITRINO GLORIA.