Catastrophe magnatum, or, The fall of monarchie a caveat to magistrates, deduced from the eclipse of the sunne, March 29, 1652, with a probable conjecture of the determination of the effects / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...

Part 4.

COme wee now to another Eclipse of the ☽ which happens Sept. 7^th. 6^h. 2'2. p.m. you may finde the Scheame set ready to your hand in my Ephemeris for 1652. neer scheat a star of the nature of ♄ and ☿ the ☽ Eclipsed in ♓ threatens de∣struction to Vegetables; as also to Fishes, and other Creatures that live in the water: Corruption of Fountains and Rivers: death of the common people; continuall War and Sedition, and Sedition especially in such places as are neer the Sea: Look to thy self Holland; if thou wilt not, I cannot help it; much detriment by water is threatned to thee: the Sea will goe

neer to encroach upon such people as have formerly encroach∣ed upon it.

Proclus saith, That the ☽ Eclipsed in the last degrees of ♓ threatens murthers and rapines, fighting and quarrelling, both by Sea and Land.

Also Giussus saith, That when the ascendant of an Eclips is ♈ Kings will prove Tyrants, and when I pray were they other∣wise? the Commonalty will bee up in Armes against their Prin∣ces: many murthers and battails and combustions will bee in the world; death, or deposition of Princes, and 'tis well if they scape so too: men will bee troubled with sore eyes, &c.

Also if the ascendant bee in the first face of ♈ as it is here, there will ensue much thunder and lightning, and lofty windes.

If the luminary Eclisped bee neer the Equator, as this is, Look to your selves Priests; Ile promise your honesty will be called in question.

Passe wee now to the Lords of the Eclips, which are ♃ and ♂, ♃ is placed in the mid-heaven in ♑, where hee threatens a change of Government, a change of the Laws and customes of Cities: the Winter will bee cold, and much snow: Thus Ptolomy.

Albumazar saith, It signifies the death of noble men. The next Lord of the Eclips is ♂ posited in the sixth house: What the generall signification of ♂ Lord of an Eclips is, you have in my judgement upon the Eclips of the Sun; only wee shall have something to say to him here, as considered in the sixth house, and in the Lion. ♂ Lord of the Eclips in ♌ signifies death of four-footed Beasts; causeth great diseases of heat amongst Men; stirs up heat of ayre, and makes men as quarrelsome as himself is; hee overthrows houses and whole Towns by Fire and Sword: there is but little Water: some fountains are dryed up, and the water of others are putrified.

Also Albumazar saith it signifies Dearth of flesh and bread, especially in the east parts a sickly and mortall yeer: men dye by the Sword, and children by extream pain in their bellies.

A change in Religion is a comming, if many Planets in a

house increase the signification of a house, as is as true as what is truest, then may much sicknesse bee expected during the effects of this Eclips, so many Planets being in the sixth house: And so much for this part.