Astro-meteorologica, or, Aphorisms and discourses of the bodies cœlestial, their natures and influences discovered from the variety of the alterations of the air ... and other secrets of nature / collected from the observation at leisure times, of above thirty years, by J. Goad.

CHAP. XII.

§ 1. True, Science hateth not the Light. 2, 3, 4. The Vulgar Table considered, as to the ☌ ☉ ☽. 5, 6. No need of Triplicities and Lordships in the Case. 7. The ☌ brings Wind or Rain for the most part, or Warmth (the foundation of both.) 11. The State of the Air without warmth must be serene. 13, Warmth conduces to Snow, also to Wind. 14. Hence-Wind or Rain: have common Prognosticks. Lord Verulam's consent. Linschoten and Drake's testimony for foul Weather at a small ☽. 15. Evidence from Diaries for seven years. 16. ☌ ♂ ☽, ♃ ☽ ☿ ☽ worth observing. 17. Astrological day from midnight to midnight. 18. Three days concerned in every single Evidence. 21. Partile and Platick, a distinction of Aspects very material. 22. The Orbs, so called, of the Planets. 23. Se∣misextile and Quincunx. 24. Vicinity of ☿ helps to the credit of the New ☽ 's influence. 25. The Diary. 27, and 64. Rains sometimes at the precise hour of the Aspect. 30. The Gradual me∣thod of Nature, from the first privation to Constitutions tempestuous. 31. Prospect of the variety of the Lunar Centributions for seven years. 32. How we came to know the Nature of the Planets. 33. The ☽ not indifferent to Heat or Cold, yet may be suspected for a Cold Planet. 34. Summer days, not Hot on the account of the ☉ only. 35. Warmth in Winter days, and Trajections in Frosty Nights. 37. Warmth at the Congress not always so sensible. 39, & 44. Aspects do not so oft miss as hit. 45. Constant Observation de∣fends our Theory, and answers Objections. 47. Aspects, Single Causes though they be, bring their Effect above the proportion of the Moyety. 48. The inclination of the Aspects Mechanically illustrated. 51. The fatal Stumble of the Adversary. 52. Change got its name from the Consequents of Wind or Rain in the disjunctive. 54. This disjunctive may be determined. 55. The Change rather inclines to West and Southernly Winds. 56. The Cause of the North Wind is a secret. 57. The South East Wind is a rarity. 59. The Wind often Changes on the day of the New ☽. 60. Kepler made too little account of the ☌ ☉ ☽, revinced by his own Diaries. 62. The ☌ ☉ ☽ hath manifest Influences on all Thunder which happen at the Change. 63. Eichstad noted with Kepler. 66. Difficulty of Prog∣nostick arises in England, not because we are an Island, but be∣cause we are a Northern Island. 69. Adversaries challenged to de∣monstrate the contrary to our Pretensions. 70. Changes in certain Signs rarely or never fail of their effect.

§ 1. THough all Tradition, Ancient and Modern, tell us, that the change of the ☽ hath a signal Influence (beside what hath been rehearsed in ge∣neral) on the Mutation of Air, so notorious, that scarce any the most refracta∣ry Sceptic denies it, at least hath not maintained the Paradox in Writing; yet for all our vaporing, when we are urged to speak particulary, and distinctly to the Effect, we hang off, and seem loth to come upon the Stage, as if Astro∣logy were a close and cunning Faculty, and afraid (as being founded upon un∣certainties) to be revinced by ordinary experience, and to expose it self, as it hath done in some other Points, for Ridiculous.

§ 2. For what saith our Table, p. 42. what Constitution doth this Aspect bring? Hot or Cold, moist or dry, calm or windy? All, the Oracle saith here is, that at ☌ ☉ ☽, pro natura Temporis Aer immutatur. Say you, what's that Natura Tem∣poris? let no Deceit lurk in Generals. Is it according to the Season, i. e. the Quarter of the Year? then the Change in Summer is hot and dry, in Winter cold and moist, in Spring and Autumn temperate, dry or moist. But is it al∣ways so? Not always, sure; it will appear otherwise, when we shall shew, a cold Change after Midsummer, and a soultry Air in March, and all with∣in one Year of our Lord An. 1671. Yet again, a cold Change in July, and hot in October, Anno 1672. Nay, nor most part doth it hold. The Aestival Lu∣nation in May or June, a considerable part of Summer, is rarely dry. Beside that, an Aspect professes to bring some more special Constitution than what

is forestall'd in the General Character of the whole Season: if the days that antecede and follow the Aspect be, by virtue of the Season, hot and dry without the Aspect, what great Arcanum is it to define the Day of the Change to be alike hot and dry by virtue of the Aspect?

§ 3. Is it according to the Month? so that the ☌ ☉ ☽ in March shall bring Wind, in April Rain, in May fair weather, in June Heat and Dripping. Pretty well and plausible. But what is the Nature of each Month? is it Fix'd and unalterable? or is there a second and superinduced Nature? if the nature of the Water is fluid, is it not by nature a Fluid congelable? As Water respects the Services of Men I grant 'tis fluid; and as the Year proves kindly; the Nature of the Months are fixed. But are all Years kindly? are all Months seasonable? What if the Month proves unseasonable, which Constitution shall this Aspect observe? the Prime Constitution, or the Secondary, superin∣duc'd? if the later, there is no light given us by the Celestial Phoenomenon, 'till we know how the Month will prove; if the former, then all Consti∣tutions at the Change prove seasonable, and all unseasonable weather breaks at the Change, flat contrary to Experience, though, I confess, not according to Expectation.

§ 4. It will be said, 'tis enough if common Expectation looks for such a State, seeing that Expectation it self is founded upon the frequency of the Accidents corresponding. Be it so,—Any thing that makes for our Interest, the Interest of the Creation, and its Great Founder: but Astrological Prog∣nosis pretends further, even to discover when the Vulgar Expectation shall be frustrated; pretends to admonish the World of unseasonable, as well as seasonable Constitutions.

§ 5. Little better are those two Salvo's that are brought by those, who are to sensible of the failure of their Principle concerning the Triplicities, and the Lordship of the Planet in chief.

§ 6. But these Ancient Fansies have little, I fear, beside their Antiquities to plead for them; That of the Trigon being a fine Knack in Ptolemy, but of no Use we are sure in our Theory. For how shall we believe Fiery, Airrys, Watry, Earthy Trigons, the one Hot and Dry, the other Hot and Moist, &c. according to the Elements, who are not perswaded that the Elements them∣selves are so qualified? For Example sake, not the Air in particular, and 'tis a most obvious Objection; how, can I allow, ♐ is a Winter Sign? or ☿ one of the Earthy Triplicty, when 'tis so near the Aestival Tropick? do 〈…〉〈…〉 of ☉ and ☽ bring cold and dry weather in ♉, or ♐ hot and dry? Neither cold nor dry agrees to April, nor hot nor dry to November.

§ 7. As to that of the Lordship, the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 as Pto∣lemy calls it; we speak as to our Affair, besides the Confession of the Best Practitioners. Eichstad, Ephem. part 1. pag. 32. that there is Nothing in it. 'Twere well Natural Knowledge could find such a Compendium; yet if there were such, it would hold only as to the General, as to the proper Day there would be a Non liquet: but of this perhaps hereafter. We are sure we can do our business without any such Notion, for our Method takes in sorry Considerations in lieu of that one we omit.

§ 8. Before we adventure to declare our Experience, let is be remembred thus much is granted us, that at ☌ ☉ ☽ oft times happens Winds or Rain, if not both, as Mirandula's Sea men, you see, have witnessed. What do I speak of one Century past? Even in S. Ambroses Age, much above a 1000 years ago, in time of Drought it could be said, Ecce Neomenia pluviam da∣bit, Oh we shall have Rain at the Change of the ☽; the Father, 'tis true, gently reprehends it with Nollem dictum: Not that he rejected the Philoso∣phy, by which he greatly illustrates the Creators Glory in that very Dis∣course, but abating rather the Confidence, which we are too apt to place in second Causes, though imperfectly apprehended.

§ 9. When it is remembred then that our Ambition reaches but to 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, speaking of a single Aspect, as hath been often said, (and said not out of a politick Restriction, but with reason, from the nature of a single Cause, whose efficacy many times reaches not, either for want of Coordinates; or is broken, by the Counterpoise of contrary Agents) We avow that ☌ ☉ ☽ produceth a warmer Air, attended for the most part with Rain or Winds, but whether of these takes place, exclusive to the other, must be determined by the whole conjuncture of the seven, not by any one single Aspect.

§ 10. So that Warmth is the Prime product the other are Consequents; that Cardan may no longer say of this Aspect, Non unum significat, discou∣raging Inquirers by so loose a Character, since it produceth a Determinate effect as much as any other Aspect, and as often.

§ 11. 'Tis true, we who deal in prognostique, must treat of such warmth only, as is sensible; but yet of a truth, there is very often warmth in Nature, which is not directly distinguished by our Sensories; No man can say that he alone hath the Standard-sensory, to which all the Sensations of other must Conform. Sometimes we infer, rather then discern the presence of Warmth, viz. from some visible effect, to which the Sense would not otherwise assent, as by Snow melting in a Cold Thaw, or an early Shrub (the Gooseberry sup∣pose) sometimes sprouting in January, whose Mornings may be Frosty: in this case, when Warmth is so observed by Logical inference rather then Sensation, the Aspect thinks she hath right in the Effect.

§ 12. They who are not studious of Nature, impatient to attend her lei∣surely methods, will scarce be content with any thing less then the Effect in its highest Complement. Unless we can warrant Wind or Rain at every Change, the Art professeth nothing; whereas if a Cloud or a Mist be pro∣duced, it may perhaps be not unworthy the Observation of those who in∣quire into Causes, since the Air in its pure Naturals, is serene, and supposing no Sun, ☽, nor Star, must needs be such: becase not any vapour can be raised or suspended by Heat, but, when that Heat is extinct, must necessarily return by its innate gravity, or which is all one, sympathy with its Original; to its First Bed. What harm is there in exactness? if Account may be given of those places effects, at least, in the more Acreamatic part of Philo∣sophy, since these Effects make room for the Greater, yea perhaps are di∣stinguished only by a gradual distance. Some portions of Clouds being ob∣served to drops when the Zenith is absolutely dry, and a Mist (in some 〈◊〉〈◊〉) shall we an English man to the Skin.

§ 13. The Congress therefore of ☉ ☽ produceth Warmth, and thereby Rain as its Consequent; produceth I say, or continueth it already produced. Now what if I go further, and say that it inclines at times also to Snow and Hail, for they also have a certain dependance on Warmth, as a Comproductive at least, since 'tis easie to distinguish between the Drop and its Congelation, ascribing those distinct products, to the contrary generants; some pieces of Nature, like those of Art, passing through many hands, before they are finished.

§ 14. However to Rain it conduceth, and to Wind also; since in all Wind the Warm Atomic is found impelling the Cold, aut contra; whence warmth must be a constitutive ingredient in the exhalati•••• driving, or driven.

§ 15. Wind and Rain although they differ formally as can be, agree in their Original as the great Veralam also observes, Resuscitatan Hist. vent. p. 42. Hence as we have seen, they promise a common prognostique, as Harbinger before them to prepare for their entertainment, the same Disturbances of Animal Bodies, witnessed by the Notes and Postures of Animals, the Aches and Ma∣lodies of Man and Beast, do fore-speak, yet disjunctively and undeterminately, Winds or Rain. This argues say I, the Unity of the Origin, and on no

other account, even Windy Nights, as I am informed from the Kilne, make the boyling Liquor apt to overflow: To say nothing of the Testimony of the Baroscope, where the Mercury falls alike to windy Weather as it doth to Rainy. Now for Wind and Gusty Weather, and their Cognation to the new ☽, we reduce further if need be, the Testimony of Moderns, who in the Voyages to the East Indies, complain'd of bad Rodes, by reason of a small ☽, Linschoten lib. 3. cap. 2. Yea for the West also our own Drake tells us again, that a small Moon makes foul Weather all the main along. Last Voyage apud Purchas.

§ 16. It might be time now to produce our evidence, that the Dubious may be disposed to a further enquiry, if not assent; In our Diary you shall see we have allowed no less than three Dayes to the Aspect, that we might more securely hedge in Observation.

§ 17. 'Tis a perpetual account of VII years; for if the kind Reader will admit the like for the Opposition, Square, &c. to the Sun, we shall not burden our paper with the same Aspects repeated between ♄ ♃ ♂ and the ☽, although a private Observer may perhaps find them not unworthy his consideration, they carrying their price in their Foreheads; especially those from ♂ ♃ ☿.

§ 18. In the Tables observe that the Dayes are reckoned after the Civil account, viz. from Midnight to Midnight, because Art must apply it self to the Publick, so that the Observer must not content himself with the Day Artificial only, but look through the interval of the natural Day entire, since Nature, when we poor Mortals are compos'd to Rest, like its Great Master, neither Slumbers nor Sleeps: Since, if at any time soever, be it the Dead of the Night, a violent Tempest hap to awaken the Neighbourhood, unforeseen, the Science is sure to be indited of, I know not what, uncertainties; it beho∣veth therefore that Art on the other side should be relieved by all the true Affidavits of Showre or Wind, &c. which may steal in at that Interval, wherein the Major part of the World, buryed in their Beds, will be con∣cerned in censuring the Method when it fails, though unconcerned in its Ju∣stification; when it hits.

§ 19. Here it may be thought that three days are too many for the purpose of pretended Art: I have answered, Nay, already, to secure, said I, the ef∣fect, which must happen within such a Term, for if it falls beyond, the Effect may not be reasonably owned, of which presently.

§ 20. Those who consider but one Day only, must be asked, what if an Aspect by its very chosen time, falls out in the very Confine and Juncture of several Days, at, or about Midnight: Must not this Aspect and its pretended Influence belong to more than one of those Days so united? A ☌, put case, may last four or five Hours, as by Ecliptical Conjunctions, is manifest; in such case the ☌ may relate to those days, as a Tenement by its Situation may belong to two Counties or Parishes.

§ 21. Once for all we must speak out, and a proper Chapter it may make, that Aspects Planetary challenge a greater duration, than four or five Hours space, seeing the Bodies Planetary are capable of mutual affection at di∣stance, not by Corporal only, when Indistant, but by Virtual Contact. In∣fluence, like Streams, ofttimes mingling and blending together, when their Fountains are diversly situated.

§ 22. And if it be well remembred, this Postulate cannot be denyed by those who allow the Lunar Influence to be Moderatress of the Tides which swell and rise one or two days before and after the Aspect, as Ptolomy from and with Experience hath taught. The same Experience hath further taught us to observe the like or greater Interval of two days before and after, in the Dissolution of Frosts, as we shall see in the next Chapter.

§ 23. Justly therefore Astrologers have taken up that famous Division, making Aspects to be not Partil only, exact to a Degree and Minute, but Platic also, with enlargement and latitude to more than one or two such Degrees.

§ 24. All the Difficulty is concerning the precise Terms and width of this enlargement: To which the Ancient Arabs have made shift to answer. For all Astrology, we shall see, lies upon it, that the Terms of the Suns Orb, as they call it; the Orb of its radiation be comprised in Fifteen Degrees, the Moons Orb in Twelve, for Saturn about Nine, Jove about Nine or somewhat more, Mars, Venus, Mercury, about Eight. Summa Anglican. distinct. 10. tract. 1. Cap. 5. And such Answer upon my Word, proceeds from a great experience, not vain and arbitrary, as in the mutual Aspects of the other Planets will be noted, where I hope to clear up the matter. Twelve Degrees you see, are ascribed to the ☽ 's radiation. Well was I, when I saw, (and it was long first) that the Ancients, the Arabs of old, accorded to my Method observed in the Table: For if XII. Degrees must be allow∣ed to the ☽ 's Orb of Radiation, ante & retro, (for so they express them∣selves distinctly) then a Triduum is necessarily engaged in the Lunar Ta∣ble, in behalf of the ☽ 's efficacy and its demonstration.

§ 25. Verily some such Salvo, or more than this, must be had on the account of the New Aspects, the Smisextile and Quincunx, two of which border on the ☌, (like as Sextiles, Quartiles and Trines, we know are double.) In be∣half of which we may say, that it is even pity these Aspects are not damtted as well as any; (but no more) because, then their Definitions woul de in a natural Order, of equal successive Distance; VII. Aspects defin'd by the distance of Signs, O 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. The Conjunction at Sign ••. (no distance at all) the Semisextile at Sign 1, the Sextile at 2, the Square at 3 Signs distance, the Trine at 4, the Quincunx at five Signs distance, the Opposition lastly at 6. I confess for order and memory sake 'tis pity it is not so. But let me tell you unless the Semisextile on each side ante & retro, be reduced to the ☌, and the Quincunx likewise to the Opposition, as their Matrices, their Forts and Principals; the Conjunction as prescinded from this new Semisextile, forsooth, will be found the most insignificant As∣pect in the pack. I prove this from the IX. years of Keplers Diary, where I took the pains to examine the Semisextile and Quincunx, and the Issue was of as frequent effect, near the time when the ☽ is about a whole Sign's distance, as when near the the Hour of her Conjunction. But no reason in the Earth can be given why any Semisextile for Power or Dignity should take place of his Mistress, nor Physical I wis, nor Harmonical. Nature it self will appear against such bold Innovators, who go to depretiate her great Instrument, the Aspect of the ☌, which by crying up Semisextiles, will be utterly evacuated as between two Interlopers, when as common Sence tells us, that whatsoever little pittance may be afforded to such Pretenders, they must at no hand be compared to their Chief, for as much as in all Union of Activity the Force must naturally, unless by accident, be more strong and Effective nearer the Perpendicular Line, then the Oblique. So that when the Activity of the Lunar Congress is rampant, the Reason is plain, that Rampancy can by no means be ascribed to the Vicinity of the Semisextile, but contrary the effectuousness of the Semisextile, secluding accidental ad∣vantages, must be referred rather to that efficacy, which, issuing most vigo∣rously from the Perpendicular, is not yet extinct in the Oblique Line. Sure∣ly the Observer shall never find it worth while to observe Lunar Semisextiles or Quincunxes, either prescinding from their Principals: No body as yet hath found himself obliged to do it. If we find any such thing in the other Planets, we shall not stifle it, but as to the ☽ 'tis certainly a Frustrá fit per phera.

§ 24. I spoke of accidental advantages, I intended thereby some even Lunar Conjunctions with other Planets, ♂, ♄, &c. Therefore let no Man wonder if I introduce ☿ and ♀ here, who are alwaies, ☿ at least, within two days march of the ☉, and consequently of the ☽ in her conjunctional Aspects, so the Lunar ☌ with ☿ being so near at hand to the Sun, helps to credit the Solar Conjunction with a heightned Influence, which belongs in part to him∣self, and it would be silly to impute an effect to an Upstart Semisextile single Aspect, which is palpably reducible to an old confessed, not single, but a double Conjunction, the one of the ☽ with ☉, the other of the ☽ with ☿, and sometimes ♀. Not but that the ☽ hath her Orb of radiation even here, for ☿ is not always contiguous to the Lunar Body, but that, as in Mo∣rals so in Naturals also, a Friend may, though at some distance, step in and help at a dead lift.

Hence I fairly desire it may be considered, whether this ☿ and ♀, as the case stands, may not be subservient to the Sun and ☽ in the swelling of the Tides, sometimes before, sometimes after the Change, as their position hap∣pens. I am sure I found it so, not only in the change of the ☽ in August 1676. when ♀ being a little behind the Sun, the ☽ transiting ♀ that Night, raised the Tides above half a yard, but at several other times. All objections to the contrary are of feasible Solution, by what hath bin hinted concerning the other Planets and their equal Power, or at least some other causes assign∣able of the same Nature.

☌ ☉ ☽. A TABLE.

January.

• 1671. ♑ 21.
• (XXXI. Dec. Anni praeced. Hard Frost. Close. cold Winds. N.
• I. ho. 1. mat. H. Frost, some mist, yielding, ho. o. Misle 5 p. N. after W. S. W.
• II. Wet most part. S. W.
• ♒ 20. Ejusd. Mens. Novil. alterum.
• XXIX. Fair, Windy, foggy Air. Warm, high Wind, noct. seq. drying. S. W.
• XXX. ho. 2 p. Close Rain 3 p. H. Wd. Cold vesp. N W.
• XXXI. H. Wind ante luc. Frost, Fair, then Close, Cold Wind. N.
• 1672 ♒ 9.
• XVIII. Mist, drisle m. & ante o. cooler, p. m Meteor great prope ♃ 10 p. W.
• XIX. 12 p. Close, damp Walls, Misle 6 p. &c. N W.
• XX. Some Rain m, Cool, Wet vesp. &c. N.
• 73. ♑ 28.
• VII. Hard Frost, overcast, stiff Wind. S W.
• VIII. 2 m. Fair ante m. Tempest of Wind, Hail-storm 4 p. & drisle. Cold Night. W.
• IX. Rain much à 3 m. Dash. 7 m. H. Wind, Snow and Misle 1 p. N E.
• 74. ♒ 17.
• XXV. Misty m. Clearing, misty p. m. S E. S.
• XXVI. 9 p. misty and close m. s. offer 10 m. E.
• XXVII. Rain 8 & 9 m. dropping m. p. E.
• 75 ♒ 5.
• XIV. Cold, close; misty. N.
• XV. Close a. m. Sun welcome 10 m. Tempe∣rate, Cloudy Night. N W.
• XVI. Misty m. Cloudy cold day. N.
• 76. ♑ 25.
• IV. Very dark m. Fog, Cold. S W.
• V. 5 m. Frost, misty m. Fair, cold d. overcast vesp. Terrae motus in agro Wigorn. hoc ipso vel praeced. die. N E.
• VI. Frost, close, drisle 1 p. S E.
• 77. ♒ 14.
• XXII. Foggy, Frosty, overcast 1 p. N W.
• XXIII. 6 m. Fr. Cold and gloomy Air. N.
• XXIV. Frosty, Cold Wd. Red clouds vesp. Nly.

February.

• 1671. Novi Lunio suo caret hocce q. anno Februarii mensis.
• 1672. ♓ 9.
• XVII. Frosty, Fair.
• XVIII. 3 p. Frosty, bright, cold Wd. N.
• XIX. Frosty, bright, misty p. m. & vesp. Wd. N E.
• 1673. ♒ 28.
• V. Fair and Frosty. N E.
• VI. 8 p. Frosty, Foggy per diem tot. S E.
• VII. Frosty m. Foggy, dark, clear p. m. S E.
• 74. ♓ 17.
• XXIV. Wet max. part, and Snow. E.
• XXV. 4 p. Frosty, Snow 1 p. H. Wd 9 p. N.
• XXVI. Frosty, Lowring 11 m. & mist. S W.
• 75 ♓ 6.
• XIII. Frosty, Snow & Hail max part. N E.
• ...

• XIV. 6 p. Frost, Snow 11 m. wetting p. m. & 9 p. N. E.
• XV. Snow 7 m. misle p. m. max. part. E.
• 76. ♒ 24
• II. Close p. m. W.
• III. 7 p. blustring ante Inc. wetting 4 m. & 9 m. Fair p. m. W.
• IV. Frosty, open, close most part. SW. NW.
• 77. ♓ 13.
• XX. Rain 4 m. o. & p. m. much Rain à 5 p. ad mid. noct. W.
• XXI. 13 m. much Wet 7 m. ad 9 m. R. 8 p. W.
• XXII. Rain noct. Wet p. m. throughout warm. S E.

March.

• 1671. ♓
• (XXVIII. Febr. close, misty. W.
• I. ho. 1. m. s. mist, clear p. m. Coldish Wind, dry vesp. S. S E.
• II. Mist, bright above, Windy, Fair, mist vesp S
• ♈ 19. Novi Lun. alterum.
• XXIX. Rain m. Soultry d. hot clear ni. S W.
• XXX. 10 m. Soultry, Fair, Wy. Rain 3 p. S W
• XXXI. Warm, Lowring, Wdy Trajectiones. S W
• 1672. ♈ 9.
• XVIII. Mild, Rain 9 p. close m. p. E.
• XIX. 3 m. cool m. dry, flying clouds, Cloudy in East, Heat p. m. & bright. E.
• XX. Bright, dry, some Mist. S.
• 1673. ♓ 28.
• VII. Fr. close, cold, misty Air, dry. N E.
• VIII. 1 p. no Frost, cloudy. S.
• IX. Fr. Fog m. close, cold vesp. S.
• 74. ♈ 17.
• XXVI. Rain m. close, warm, s. mist. S W.
• XXVII. 8 m. Cloudy m. p. S W. hottish Nly.
• XXVIII. Hottish, cloudy. E.
• 75. ♈ 6.
• XV. Rain m. Rainy ab. 11 m. ad 11 p. &c. E
• XVI. 10 m. Snow 1 m. Fair & Frosty 12 p. E
• XVII. Frost, Fair, mist, cold brisk Wind. N E
• 76. ♓ 24.
• III. R. à 6 ad 9 m. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 11 m. bright n. Meteor from Propus to Canis Min. W.
• IV. 10 m. open, mist, clouds promise 1 p. Winds. S.
• V. Fair m. rain 6 p. Windy, S.
• 77. ♈ 13.
• XXII. Cool R. Hail 3 p. Rainy, Windy m. p. Hail & Thunder 5 p. at Forest Hill W. vesp. E.
• XXIII. 6 m. Fair M. White Cl. Rain 2 p. & 8 p. wet time complain'd of. S.
• XXIV. R. 8 m, &c. dry p. m. coldish vesp. N. W.

April.

• 1671. ♉ 18.
• XXVII. Sudden overcast m. offer. windy a. m. Rain 7 p. E. S.
• XXVIII. 6 p. Cloudy, Windy, Showr vesp. S W.
• XXIX. Showr m. winds, heat, showr 4 p. & 7 p. S W.
• 72. ♉ 7.
• XVI. Wind & wet 6 m. Chill wind, Cloudy as for Hail, Hail at Stratford, cold n. N W.
• XVII. 11 m. Fr. bright, Nly cold, cloudy, some mist. N W.
• XVIII. Cold, dry, misty beneath, especially ho. 4 p. N E.
• 73. ♈ 27.
• VI. Close, windy, mist, drisle à 3 ad 9 p. E.
• VII. 1 m. warm, oft overcast a. m. drisle, Hail o. showring 1 p. wet à 3. ad 5 p. Rain 8 p. mist. N E.
• VIII. Fair m. close and weltring a. m. N E. but vesp. S.
• 74. ♉ 15.
• XXIV. Offer a. m. Dry p. m. N W.
• XXV. 2 m. high wind, cool, open. N W.
• XXVI. H. wind and showring p. m. & vesp. & 9 p. wind laid. S W.
• 75. ♉ 5.
• XIV. Fair, temperate, very hard. E.
• XV. 2 m. close m. fair, warm, dry winds. E.
• XVI. Warm. brisk wind, close, mist p. m. E.
• 76. ♈ 24.
• II. Very cold m. cloudy, windy. E. N E.
• III. 2 m. Fr. Ice, somet. overc. so at n. E. S E.
• IV. Close m. showring 9 m. open, warm. W. m. N. o. Ely. p. m.
• 77. ♉ 11.
• XX. Rain 9 m. close m. p. misty, very warm, Sun occid. Wind various. E.
• XXI. 8 p. closing m. showr 1 p. Open. E.
• XXII. Cold m. troubled and misty Air, s. wet 3 p. Cold complain'd of, and imputed to ♄ ♉ 27. W.

May.

• 1671. ♊ 16.
• XXVII. Cool, close m. p. W.
• XXVIII. 2 m. misty Air, showr in prospect a. m. & p. m. showr 5 p. W.
• XXIX. Close m. warm, lowring. N.
• 72. ♊ 5.
• XV. Dry, fair, warm, misty Air, Halo notable circ. Sun, observed by the People ad merid. N E.
• XVI. 7 p. bright, warm, white cl. Centauri caput visum ad noct. Med. N E.
• XVII. Bright, hot, dry clouds in Scenes wind E. mane, at Temp. pomeran. S W. S E. clouds, ride contrary from the North.
• 73. ♉ 26.
• V. Close, cool, drisle once or twice. N E.
• VI. Close m. p. drisle 6 p. cool winds stir. N. N W.
• VII. Very cold m. oft overcast, dry, N. at vesp. E
• 74. ♊ 13.
• XXIV. Drisle 7 m. H. wd, close, warm. S W.
• XXV. 9 m. very hot, foggy air, s. lowring. E.
• XXVI. Warm, H. wd. showrs 2 p. 5 p. S W.
• 75. ♊ 3.
• XIII. Hot, fair, mist, N. mane vesp. W.
• XIV. 4 p. hot, dry, s. lowring overcast. Wly. mane, vesp. E
• ...

• XV. Frost, close m. open, cooler, brisk winds, s. drops 8 p. ab orient. showr 9, 10 p. Ely.
• 76. ♉ 22.
• I. Showr 5 m. hot, s. white cl. W.
• II. 6. fair, meteors 11 p. W. N W.
• III. Close m, cool, fair p. m. bright meteor from Crater through a whole Sign Westward. W.
• 77. ♊ 10.
• XX. Foggy, lowring a. m. clouds long streak'd Gusts of wind 2 p. 5 p. cool day. E.
• XXI. 10 m. overcast, a. m. clear & dry, p. m. wind various. E. vesp. N.
• XXII. Suspicious in s. parts of h. o. H. wd, a drop, clear Horizon o. mist vesp. Ely. clouds S E. & ho. 8. p. N E.

June.

• 1671. ♋ 14.
• XXV. Fair, lowring o. windy p. m. S W. N.
• XXVI. 10 m. fair, dry, wind, overcast 4 p. N E.
• XXVII. Close N. m. & lowring, open, windy p. m. bright n. W. N W.
• 72. ♋ 4.
• XIV. Overc. wds. s. drisle 8 p. S W.
• XV. 2 m. close m. p. wind, dropping 3 p. S W.
• XVI. Close m. wd. fair, wdy. p. m. S W.
• 73. ♊ 23.
• III. Lowring Air Merid. hot p. m. Fair.
• IV. 8. Fair & hot, yet brisk cool wind. E.
• V. Very hot, cloudy p. m. gentle rain 8 p. S E
• 74. ♋ 11.
• XXII. Bright, hot, windy 11 p. & very light∣some then in North East. N.
• XXIII. 8. Overc. and hopes of Rain. Lute-strings crack, Wly. vesp. Ely.
• XXIV. Bright m. Lowring 10 m. & alias, sus∣picious 11 p. N W.
• 75. ♋ 1.
• XII. Close, drops 3 p. Rainy 9 p. &c. W mane, but p. m. Nly.
• XIII. 4 m. windy, close, cold, light in North ho. 11 p. N.
• XIV. Fair a. m. showr 5 p. & 8 p. wind. W.
• 76. ♊ 22.
• (XXXI May. Rain 8 m. oft overc. brisk wind, Rain 6 p. red clouds vesp.) W.
• I. 11 m. cloudy m. p. Sun eclips. warm. windy, showrs 1 p. burning brightness in the North. W.
• II. Oft overc. wd. suspicious, wds up vesp. S.
• ♋ 18. Novilun. alterum.
• XXIX. Windy a. m. dropping 2 p. Rain 11 p. S W.
• XXX. 12 Rain 2 m. Rain little a. m. wd. and lowring clouds. W.
• I. Jul. wind, drops o. warm, coasting showrs 7 p. W.
• 77. ♋ 8.
• XIX. Fair, s. mist, lowring o. clouds upper, fly N. lower W. warm, dry wd. red clouds. E.
• XX. 1 m. fair, misty cl. 11 m. ho. 7 p. clouds fly Easterly, wind various, Meteor prope ♃ 12 p. swarm of Bees on a Sign in Cheap∣side. E.
• XXI. Mist m. bright, heat. E.

July.

• 1671. ♌ 12.
• XXIV. Rainy, obscure d. brisk wd.
• XXV. 8 p. showr 11 m. & alias.
• XXVI. Close, s. moisture ho.—m. Muscis pluisse nuntiatum est.
• 72. ♌ 2.
• XIII. Close m. p. cool wind. N.
• XIV. 9 m. H. wind ante luc. cold, gloomy. N W
• XV. Open, clouds gather a. m. hail, close and lowring 9 p. N W.
• 73. ♋ 21.
• III. Offer 8 m. Delphin. occ. smart showrs 5 p. ad 11 p. Weather complain'd of. S. S W.
• IV. 2 m. clouds in Scenes, 11 m. Storm, s. Rain Thunder 8 p. Rain 11 p. S W.
• V. Cloudy, dark 9 m. Wly. open & warm. N E.
• 74. ☉ ♌ 10.
• XXII. Soultry, Fog a. m. R. 1 p. S E. 4 9 p N E. Thunder 1. p. N. mane. vesp. S.
• XXIII. 4 m. open, H. wd, S E. Rain p. m. S W
• XXIV. Rain 2 m. 7 m. H. wd. Trajections ♃ occ. S. W.
• 75. ♋ 29.
• XI. Hot, lowring, s. mist, windy vesp. E.
• XII. 1 p. cloudy, a. m. windy, warm, cloudy at n. E.
• XIII. Windy o. fair, warm n. N.
• 76. ♌ 17.
• XXIX. Fair, white cl. many Meteors ab Aquila ad ♃ in the South. E.
• XXX. 1 p. hot, fair, long cl. ab Austro in Sept. 1 p. clouds like kembe Flax, Meteors, hot 11 p. N.
• XXXI. Fair, overc. p. m. s. drops, W. vesp. N.
• 77. ♌ 16.
• XVIII. Close, foggy, lowry p. m. scarce offer. Just drop 6 p. N.
• XIX. Dry, foggy, pale cl. m. heat, lowring, dry. S W.
• XX. Hot night, bright, not a cloud in the Sky, s. mist, N. Hot, E. N E.

August.

• 1671. ♍ 10.
• XXIII. Fog. clearing 9 m. very warm, s. showr Sun occ. gentle Rain 10 p. W
• XXIV. 8 m. foggy m. Soultry, clouds in scenes, calm.
• XXV. Fair m, foggy a. m. warm, dropping 6 p.
• 72. ♌ 29.
• XI. Showr in prospect 1 p. 2 p. H. wd. 2 p R. and many thunderclaps sub vesp. S W.
• XII. 6. Close m. p. & lowring, drisle 9 p. wdy 7 p. hot p. m.
• XIII. Wet night, close a. m. H. winds, R. 6 p. S W.
• 73. ♌ 19.
• I. Rain ad med. noct. praec. & wind, close m. open, wind, coasting showrs, Sun occ. S W.
• ...

• II. m. white cl. aloft, overc. at n. S W.
• III. Rain ☽ or, & antea, hard R. 10 m. and showr 5 p. S W.
• ♍ 8. Novilun. alterum.
• XXX. Showr 6 m. 6 p. o. 9 p. &c. wdy. S W.
• XXXI. 8. R. hard. 7 m. especially 3 p. 9 p. & noct. tot. S W.
• Sept. I. Open, showr in prospect 3 p. 5 p S W.
• 74. ♍ 8.
• XX. Closing, wet 1 p 6 p. N E.
• XXI. 10 m. closing, L. Rain 4 p. drops 8 p. N.
• XXII. Close m. p. showr 10 p. S E.
• 75. ♌ 28.
• X. Soultry, cloudy, fair, W. N. N W.
• XI. 2 m. dark m. fair, soultry n. S W.
• XII. Dark m. Rain p. m. S W.
• 76. ♍ 15.
• XXVII. Close m. open, cool, Meteors 111. 10 p. S W.
• XXVIII. 12. p. wetting 4 m. showrs and wind a. m. o. 2 p. dark ante 4. p. R. 7. 9 p. high winds. S W.
• XXIX. Cold, bright, pregnant cl. H. wd. N W
• 77. ♍ 5.
• XVII. Fog m. o. overcast ♂ orrient floring. clouds showr 6 p. S W.
• XVIII 7 m. Offer m. wd & fair p. m. N W.
• XIX. Fog m. cloudy m. p. & H. wd. s. drops 10 m. showr ante 4 p. W. N W.

September.

• 1671. ♎ 9.
• XXI. Wet 9 m. o close, wds, bright n. N W.
• XXII. 11 p. s. mist m. showr 1 m. close m. p. clear night. N W.
• XXIII. Very cold, ice, misty air, dry p. m. R. 10 p. & deinceps. N W.
• 72. ♍ 29.
• X. Frost, bright m. suspicious at n. Red clouds and more winds.
• XI. 5 m. Dark and wet a. m. Rain 4 p. Meteor prope Vrsam Maj. 8 p. S
• XII. Frost m. bright, cl. in scenes, wind. W.
• 73. ♎ 17.
• XXIX. Close m. p. drisle; Sun occ. & 11 p. S W
• XXX. 4 m. h. Frost, bright a. m. sho. oft p. m. Oct. I. H. frost, fair 1. drops 11 m. Fair, Red clouds in the East. N W.
• 74. ♎ 6.
• XVIII. Frost m. close m. p. N.
• XIX. 5 Fr. m. & bright. s. rain a. m. & p. m. N E
• XX. Misty and cloudy, yet dry. N.
• 75. ♍ 26.
• VIII. Fair. windy, floting cl. lightning in the East reported 11 p. N
• IX. 11 m. hot n. wet and dark m. close and lowring, day soultry, Rain 6 p. E.
• X. Hot, close, hottish d. s. wd. E.
• 76. ♎ 14.
• XXVI. Flying cl. temperate, fair, H. wd and bro••d clouds. N E.
• XXVII. 11 p. mist m. Fair, windy, Meteor ab ore Ceti Rigel versus. Alterum circiter ipsum Zenith 10 p. E.
• XXVIII. Fog, fair above. Fog again 9 m. tem∣perate, winds. E.
• 77. ♎ 3.
• XV. Fog, clouds pregnant, warm. Gossamere Meteor prope Aquar. maum. & ♃ 8 p. Aliud in Collo Andromed. N.
• XVI. 10 p. Fog m. Fair, great dash ab ho. 8 à. ad 10 p. ♃ in M. C. S.
• XVII. Warm n. s. drops 7 m. showr 7 p. cold wind p. m. W.

October.

• 1671. ♏ 9.
• XXI. Close, foggy, colder. N W.
• XXII. 4 m. some frost, fair. N W.
• XXIII Close, drisle 10 m showring Sun occ. 8 p. wd very high before Sun set, & per diem rot. S.
• 72. ♎ 27.
• IX. Fair m. p. heat p. m. heat drops, coasting 5 p. S W.
• X. 7 m. s. mist m. Fila, fair, hot a. m. more p. m. no Dew at n. Great Tide observ'd. S E.
• XI. S. wet ante luc. & ante merid. S E.
• 73. ♏ 16.
• XXVIII. Foggy a m. close, drisle 7 p. E.
• XXIX. 4 p. R. ante luc. H. wd. drisle 4 p N E.
• XXX. Frost m. fair, close p m. N E.
• 74. ♏ 6.
• XVIII. Misty, warm, offer 1 p. 7 p. S W.
• XIX. 3 m. Windy, offer o. showr Sun occ S W
• XX. Foggy and cloudy. threatn. o. warm, Tra∣jections, Two in the very place of ☍ ♂ ♀ ♂ being with the Pleiad. N W.
• 75. ♎ 25.
• VII. H. winds, close, missing 7 p. S W.
• VIII. 8 p. H. wind noct. tot. showrs m. close winds W.
• IX. Frost, showr 2 p. misty air, W. mane, then N W.
• 76. ♏ 13.
• XXV. Drisle 5 m. close, misty brisk wds. N.
• XXVI. 9. Fair, s. clouds. Meteor 12 p. N W
• XXVII. Fog. dark p. m. N.
• 77. ♏ 3.
• XV. Fog. h. frost, fair, W. S W. cloudy, threatn. 1 p. & alias freezing 9 p. cloudy 11 p N W.
• XVI. 11 m. Fair, fr, fog. brisk wd, very cold by all confession. N.
• XVII. Fog, fr. close, S W. 8 m. ho. o. N. s. drisle 11 p. E.

November.

• 1671. ♐. 9.
• XX. Close m. p. windy, Gusts Sun occ. W
• XXI. o warm, close winds. W.
• XXII. warm, oft misle, Gusts of wd 10 p. S W.
• ...

• 72. ♏ 27.
• VIII. Open a. m. close p. m. Meteor 8 p. high wind 10 p. W.
• IX. H. wind noct. tot. Rain m. p. H. wind and overcast d. S W.
• X. Misty a. m. closing p. m. s. Rain 8 p. S W.
• 73. ♐ 16.
• XXVII. Rain m. warm, close m. p. drisle 1 p. S W.
• XXVIII. 8 m. Fog, warm, wetting m & p. m. winds audible 10 p. S W.
• XXIX. Brisk wind, close m. p. S W.
• 74. ♐ 4.
• XVI. Bright, overc. o. freez n. overcast 11 p. S W.
• XVII. Fr. fog, wetting 4 p. Rain Northerly 11 p. S W.
• XVIII. Much R. noct. tot. & a. m. wind very high, R. p. m. calm vesp. cold Planchers S W.
• 75. ♏ 25.
• VI. Severe, fr. wd. mist, overc. vesp. N W
• VII 5 m. bitter fr. fog, fair. W.
• VIII. Frosty, fog, relent p. m. N W.
• 76. ♐ 14
• XXIV. Frosty, fair m. p. mist, Meteor on Orion. Hum. trajectu servit 12 p. Ice on Thames. S W
• XXV. 8 m. Fog in East hindring the prospect of the Eclipse, fair, frosty. S E.
• XXVI Fog, fair, frosty, much Ice on the Thames, Meteor 9 p. a Marte, Ʋrsam versus. S. S E
• 77. ♐ 3.
• XIII. H. wd, s. drisle 3 p. 6 p. h. wd n. S.
• XIV. 12 p. Fog. dry night, open S W. fog o. & close S E. dark & good showr 3 p. W. Me∣teors prope caput Dracon.
• XV. Rain 5 m. &c. drisle 1 p. very wet vesp ad 8 p. S W.

December.

• 1671. ♑ 9.
• XX. Close, cold, windy. E.
• XXI. 6 m. very cold, close m. p. dark p m. N E
• XXII. Close, cold fog increase p. m. Freez 7 p. misse 11 p. S W.
• 72. ♐ 28.
• VIII. Close offer a. m. snow 8 p. N E.
• IX. 5. Fog offer 9 m. close. N.
• X. Misty, close. N E. N.
• 73. ♑ 17.
• XXVII. Much R. à med noct. ad Sun ort, &c. warm, H. winds, cloudy. S E.
• XXVIII. 2 m. H. winds noct. praec. R. 6 m. Gusts & Rain 3 p. hard R. 4. ad 10 p. S W.
• XXIX. Winds: & R. ante luc, fair, summers d. Rain 8 & 10 p. S W.
• 74. ♑ 6.
• XVI. Close. Sly.
• XVII. 6 m wetting die tot. S. E.
• XVIII. Brisk wind, open, tempest of wind, drisle 7 p. &c. S W.
• 75. ♐ 24.
• V. Fog, dry, clear n. W.
• VI. 5. Fr. mist, close m. p. H. wds & s. R 7 p. W.
• VII. Close, dark, warm, H. wind 10 p. W.
• 76. ♑ 13.
• XXIII. S. frost, close, misty, s. drops. W.
• XXIV. 7. Dark. fog, close, Frost. E.
• XXV. Frosty, close. E.
• 77. ♑ 3.
• XIII. Cool, clear m: p. windy 8 m. s. rain ante 7 m. drisle & H. wind o. Flash of Lightning in S W. 8. p. s. rain 9 p. wet 11 p. S.
• XIV. 10 m. Tempestuous wd noct. tot. s. rain 5 m. coldish, S W. Meteor 7 p. 9 p. W.
• XV. Frost ante luc. Fog, wetting, dark day. E.

§ 26. Thus the Table. Wherein you have an account of VII. years. Eighty Seven Lunations, and two hundred and sixty one Days. Each day of the same Month reduced under the common Head for perspicuity's sake.

§ 27. In which Table we have not only the time of the Aspect set before us, but very often the precise hour of the Effect also, that the Enquirer may set some Value upon so punctual Account; the just hour of Rain, Wind, &c. as they take place. For in very deed no Pretence of a Method is to be valued, but what aims at the very Hour; that I may not say the beginning and the End, the whole and half duration, as Astronomers do in the Eclipses. But we shall not vapour so far, as yet; only if so be that any Principle shall pretend to such accuracy as to mention the Time, that must be, say I, a Ge∣nuine, and a worthy Principle.

§ 28. Yea sometimes we have noted the Rises and Obits of the Planets, and their bearing toward the Fixed, when we have been curious to com∣pare suspected Causes with Effects, to teach the Enquirer that he is engaged in a World of Observation: and that not the ☉ and the ☽ only, as the Vulgar deem, but the other Celestial Bodyes (none excepted) act their parts as cer∣tainly and as evidently as the ☉ and ☽ doth.

§ 29. Before we give you a Synopsis or shorter view of this Table, it will

not be amiss to represent to you the Order of Nature, and the whole Course of her Meteors from First to Last, by which the Reader may be somewhat edify'd, and our future discourse appear the clearer.

§ 30. Now Nature, as far as I conceive, seems to have begun at first with the Privation, the Tohu of cold dark Air. The gradual Progressions seem to be reduced to Warmth and its Degrees, as I may distinguish them into Positive but Insensible, then Sensible and Vehement; these degrees, with the mixture of Cold working on their subject matter, emit such variety as we see. First we have

• ...
  • 1. Excessive, stubborn, unmixt.
  • Frost and cold. Thence
  • Dry Constitution. Thence
  • Serene.
  • Calm.
• ...
  • 2. Warmth insensible. Then
  • Exhalation invisible. Thence
  • Wind.
  • (Mist. Halo.)
  • Wind from the North.
  • From the North-East.
  • Clouds.
  • Hail. Snow.
• ...
  • 3. Tepor, or Warmth sensible,
  • Dew, Fog.
  • Fila. Gossamere.
  • Wind from the North-West.
  • Trajections.
  • Pregnant Clouds.
  • Rain moderate. Iris.
  • Wind from the West.
• ...
  • 4. Heat Intense.
  • Lightnings Nocturnal.
  • Wind from the South-East.
  • from the South-West.
  • from the South.
  • Hot Days.
  • Hot Nights.
  • Winds Tempestuous.
  • Rains Violent.
  • Lightning and Thunder.

§ 31. Hereabouts, or prety near is Natures Tract. Cast these Calcu∣lations into Alphabetical Order for convenience sake, and we shall see into the very Anatomy of the Novilunar Influence. For as for Objections which may be made against this Scheme precedent; either they are not very mate∣rial, or at least we cannot stand upon their solution at present.

The Total of the days in the precedent Table.

• Cold Frosty Days or Nights.—63.
• Clouds Pregnant—72.
• Close.
• Fog or grosser Mist.—2.
• Fila.—2.
• Frosty Days.—34.
• Hail.—4.
• Halo.—0.
• Hot Days.—28.
• Nights.—8.
• Lightnings Nocturnal.—2.
• Mist.—47.
• North-East.—30.
• North-West.—31.
• Rain Moderate.—109.
• Violent.—28.
• Serene, Fair.—31.
• Trajections.—19.
• Thunders.—3.
• Warm.—31.
• Wind.—101.
• Wind Change.—29.
• Wind Tempestuous.—37.
• North-Wind.—40.
• East.—45.
• West.—44.
• South.—18.
• South-East.—16.
• South-West.—58.
• North-East.—36.
• North-West.—12.

§ 32. Our Learned Antagonists, as if our ••••etences were of Things im∣possible, often ask us how we come distinctly to know the Natures of any Celesti∣al Body, the Sun excepted: We answer, the Method is here before them,

let Industry and Experience gather such Tables of the Planetary Congresses, (the larger, the better) and they shall see, as in a Glass, the Effects of the Aspect, and from thence define the Natures of the Celestial Bodies so con∣figured, as much as serves our turn, (and we know no more of the Sun it self) yea, the Nature and Character of every Degree in the Zodiack, may be so determined, or if they will take the pains to adapt a Table for VII. years (thats the least) to each degree from the Appulse respectively.

§ 33. Only our Evidence for Warmth by our own Table, seems not to be so full and Cogent as our Interest requires; for under the Title Warm, we find but 31. Of Hot Days but 28. in toto 59. What's this to 261? especi∣ally when the cold days are able to face them, whose sum is 63. I answer all the warm, Hot, and Soultry days which occur in the larger Table, even in Summer time, must needs be ascribed to the Influence of our Aspect. Nor will it prove in the end, that the Cold Days are equal to the Warm, not in these VII. years, nay nor in any one of them. But if it should hap∣pen in 15. or 30. years, as it cannot well, (I think) that the cold days should have the greatest Poll, I would make the equal Reader judge of this Pro∣blem, whether in this case the Nature of the ☽ stands indifferent to Heat and Cold, whether the Lunar Light, I say, can be imagined indifferent, as to those qualities; seeing Light and Heat are acknowledged the same thing, so that the Sun it self would not be Hot, but on the account of the Light.

2ly. Whether it may not probably be said that Heat therefore is an Effect Proper, & per se, and that Cold is Alien; and per accidens; and if so, what Violence would it do to any man's Intellect, who shall allow the Sun, yea the Moon to be endued with warmth? If he should thereupon concede a new superinduced warmth upon their Union and Congress; the Learned Gassendus doth the one, and not the other.

3ly. I should smilingly ask who knows but that this our Aspect may be taken upon suspicion for the very Cause of Cold, happening so critically on the very day, since many of those Days so noted, are found even in June, July, against the very Nature of the Season, especially since some Phylo∣sophers I can tell you, have heretofore ventured to say, that the ☽ was a Cold as well as a Moist Luminary.

§ 34. Let us consider again therefore as to the Warmth of the Summer Days here concerned: That though the Word Summer smells of the Oven, and sounds hot and parching, yet notwitstanding, he who shall recollect him∣self from his own Experience, and descend into Particulars, shall find that every day in the height of Summer it self, is not by any inviolable necessity Hot or Warm; whose Days often prove cool to a great degree, for no small part of the time; so that an usual complaint flies about of no Summer many times, when Summer is almost expired. Therefore whensoever any Day proves warmer than its Neighbours, it must admit some Principle of such Heat, besides the general Cause, as they call the Solar Heat. And therefore if a Man should enquire whence the Heat issues, for example, March 29, 30. Anno 1671, and Sept. 9, 10. Anno 1677. and also the intermediate Months between those two extreams of the Aestival half year, he may see the As∣pect stand Candidate to be admitted to answer: remembring before we part, that if the aestival Day be termed only warm in the Diary, that warmth, though it sounds temperately by a common, though not inelegant Meiosis, may signifie intense Heat in a tolerable degree, as Soultry in the less tolera∣ble. Howbeit, we have a share even of Soultry days to be found in the Table.

§ 25. Consequently to this let inquisition be made among the Novilunar Days in the Hyemal moiety of the year, and we shall find warm days in eve∣ry Winter Month within the Verge of our Aspect. 'Tis our great Interest

to secure this prime influence of our Luminary; therefore we are willing to point at, first October 9, 10. Anno 1672. noted for Heat, with a great Tide accompanying it. Octob. 13. Anno 1674. Nov. 21. Anno. 1671. Nov. 27. Anno 1673. Warm. Nov. 15. Anno 1677. a warm Night. In Decem. Anno 1673. Summer Weather. Decemb. 7. Anno 1675. Warm day. Janu∣ary 29. Anno 1671. January 15. Anno 1675. Welcome and Temperate, Weather. February 22. Anno 1677. the like. Add Lightning to help out, Decemb 13. Anno 1677. But what should I mention the rarer instance of Lightning and Thunders; I might run to a greater Sum of Nightly Fiery Meteors; for however I acknowledge they may shoot briskly in their own Region, seen in hard Frosty Nights, as in November's New ☽ Anno 1676. Yet I hope those which happen in a more open Season, may be Tokens of a warmth extending it self, however elsewhere hindred, to our lower Mortal Region, Thus shall you find Trajections noted, July 24. Anno 1674. with no more warmth noted on that day, though but two days before there is noted Soul∣try Air and Thunder. And on the 29th. of the same Month many Meteors marked, Anno 1676. and Heat expressed not till the Day after.

§ 36. But the answer I take to, is as follows. We must distinguish of warm Days, Days of Expressed Notation for Warmth or Heat, and so they are but a few, scarce enough to baffle the Cold Chill Days. But I pray remember how many and sundry times, may an Observer not find himself engaged to write Warm and Temperate in Spring or Summer time, when 'tis a Natural Constitution; When 'tis an Ordinary and Durable, though Preter-seasonable Constitution, Cold will be sure to be remembred; even in Winter it pinches us to make us remember, and we wish it over: But Warmth we observe not, unless it be News, and note some alteration. The Taedium of Tautology is odious to every Pen and Ear. Once then for all. Every Day where there is no mention of Cold is ascribed to the Warm Side. Certainly, all Days of Rain, and some of Snow being often found with a Tepor: And may I not say that Fog, Experience being Judge, doth betray a Cause remissive of Cold and the Extremity thereof?—Nebulas ne{que} in aesta∣te, nec in maximo frigore exitene, saith the Naturalist. So that upon the upshot we exclude not a Day, but those which are absolutely Cold and Freezing, without the least Sign of Relent or Yielding (for why should we give away our Right?) seeing That Relent or Yielding bespeaks a contrary Agent, pre∣vailing in part, at least, however sometimes not getting the Victory.

§ 37. Because the Right of the Heavenly Bodies is not ours to give away, what shall we say to those Novilunar Days, when no Remission of Frost seems to appear, and yet sometimes a Southerly Wind is known to blow: Must not the new ☽ answer for that Wind? Yea, and this use we make of this Se∣cret in Nature, that, as the South-Wind is of a warm Character, though it may breath under a Frosty Constitution, even so, though under such cool Circumstances, now and then, our Aspect may challenge the same Chara∣cter also.

§ 38. And all this conduces toward the Prognostick part, unless you would have the Pretender, like the Crow, always bespeak Rain, or think nothing is done, with the Vulgar, unless they see a Showre: Alass! There is no place on the Earth where it rains always. We, besure have our vicissi∣tudes of Temperate and quiet Air, a Fog, a Cloud, the more silent com∣plications according to Natures ambling pace; so that it behoves an Astrolo∣ger to trade in dry Weather sometimes, and be content to foresee a gentle remission of a stubborn Frost, and think he hath done well, if it falls con∣sonant to Nature, who must not always be upon the Gallop.

§ 39. Thus for the Prime Product. But now for the Rain and Wind. Hoc opus, hic labor. How shall we justifie that? We have more ways than

one to this Wood. What if we should acquaint the World, that seeing the Days in the Table exhibited, are treble to the Aspects, that we are not bound it may be, to the number of the Days; It is enough, if we have re∣gard to the Aspect, and then our advantage is this, that whatsoever shorter proportion the Effect beareth to the Days, we are safe enough, if that As∣pect affords us its Influence in any one Day of the Ternary, by that means giving Testimony sufficient to it self. Thus the Seaman justly imputes the Flaw of Wind, and the Husbandman his expected. Showre to the change of the ☽. If it happen at all, he thanks I say the said Configuration, hap it at what time it will within that Triduum.

§ 40. This may surprize our Adversary so far, that he may censure us as no fair Dealers. But there is no avoiding it, for the Aspect must be considered from the beginning to the end, from the Minimum quod sic, to the Maximum quod non, throughout the whole Territory and Dominion; and therefore we see the Shepherd and the Mariner do not fix the day, but expect it once or twice, it may be, within the Three, and prize their Experience, counting themselves no small Men, for understanding more than some, who are greater Conjurers.

§ 41. For Aspects then the Table witnesseth thus, LXXXVII. Aspects are brought on the Stage; no less then LXXI. bring Rain with them. No less then LXI. bring Winds.

§ 42. Concerning which by the way, we acknowledge that we have made use of every Brise; for we, who do believe there is no Casualty in the least Puff, directly issuing, could do no less. Every Gale at least, which may be Serviceable to the Navigator, ought to be considered. But here we are conscious of some defect unavoidable, seeing our Observations could not be made on the Top Sail at Sea; a constant Watch kept above Deck Day and Night by Succession, must needs tell a different Tale from him who hath slept out a Watch or two, in the Hold, or confin'd to his Seden∣tary Cabin. Not but the Seaman is sometimes becalm'd at the very new ☽, as I have observed from Hackluit; nor can Linschoten, or Sir Francis deny it, notwithstanding they would say that in such. Cases the Causality of the As∣pect must not be impaired, because of the rarity and disproportion of the Instance. And who doubts it? Howbeit, as to our deficient Observation of the Wind now acknowledged, we may be believed a little, and the defect supplyed from the observation of the Change of the Wind, and its quota, which may fairly be reduced under the stile of Winds; since there cannot be a Change of Wind where there is no Wind stirring. That I say nothing of the Specification of Winds, which could not be specifyed where there is a Dead Calm.

§ 43. But to return to our Rain, I do acknowledge that Rainy Changes of ☽ are not always of so high a Sum, they Rise or Flag according to the ge∣neral Temperature, to which a single Aspect must pay respect; yet still the Change makes her part good at the long Run. So, though in Keplers Diary from the beginning of 1621. to the end of 1629. CXI. Lunations bring but LXXXII. wet ones; yet in the Diary of 24 years from Norimberg ab 1623. to 1646. Lunations CCCXI. bring CCCVI. of Rainy or Snow; of Winds CLXXII. And of our own Observation from 1652. inclusive to 1677. of CCXXIII. Changes, or (because two are missing) CCCXXI. We have of Moisture CCLIV. and of Wind CCXXXIII.

§ 44. Now, back Friends to Astrology have a long time exclaimed that there is no certainty in Aspects; for, say they, they as often miss as hit, they reckon the single day on which it happens by Calculation, and then they think they may Triumph. But they are short in this, that they reckon no other Notion of a Day, but the Feria, the day of the Week: For what if the Feria be dry when the Moon changes? Sunday suppose, on June 15. 1675.

hor. 4 Morn. If Saturday night before, it Rains soundly, from hor. 9. Vesp. to, or toward Midnight, the Feria (the Sunday) is dry, but the Change is not so. A day is 24 Hours; if it comes therefore within 12 Hours before or after, it rains on the Day of the Change. As there is a Lunar Month consisting of 28 or 29 Days, so there is a Lunar Day; the World admits a triple Lunar Month, Periodical, Synodical, and of Illumination. Ours is a day of the Synodical Month, only in this it is singular, that it comprizes as many Hours after the Change as before; the Hour of the Change being the common Term, half way of the whole, reckon the Day so, and then let them tell me their Mind.

§ 45. Always provided that we be not too hasty, or self-conceited, to con∣clude against an Old Rule for one or two invidious Observations of such or such a year, which, as it may happen, may be extraordinary, as in the year 1623. By Keplers Diary we find no Rain neither in January, (a Winter Month) nor in February, nor in April, the three moistest Months in the Year: No, not in the Triduum. Well, we who look back many Years be∣fore we pronounce, do find that there is great and admirable Variety in the Celestial Courses; and that a General Temperature of the year swal∣lows up the particular Inclinations: must the Aspect therefore be indifferent to wet or dry, because it failed twice or thrice? Can my crazy Body be said not to be inclined to an Ague, unless it be a Quotidian? Suppose an Intermit∣ting Tertian or Quartan hold me half a year, do not I retain a Propension to the Malady, though it scape the first or second Day? So is it here; the As∣pect makes her part good at the Long Run. The Neighbour years will make amends. In the year 1621. we have Moist Changes. 9. Anno 1622. 9. Anno 24. 10. Anno 1625. 11. and Anno 1623. (the year objected) we have 6, put them together, and the Sum will answer the Objection.

§ 46. Let me not be reckoned tedious if I give a further Example of our Own; in the year 1652. (when we first observed) the Change in January proved very Dry, and Frosty; in February Cold and Windy; in March Foggy and Hot; (an Intermission of 3 Courses) what then? The Inclination to Rain sleeps not, for the Change in April, May, July, September, Novem∣ber, brings Rain and Winds. In June and August Rain and Thunder. While October and December intermit again, with Mists and Frosts, Cloudy Air, and Windy. Well then, the Change January the next year, 1653. brings Rain; so April, (mark the intermission of February and March) yea, the April Lunation brought but a drop or two, and July scarce perceivable; May, and June, August, September, October, December, all, but November showred down its Influence. And if Hevelius had observed but thus much, he would have told us that the ☽ was placed so near us, rather for this In∣fluence, than for the advantage of those who observe her Motion to a Scru∣ple, and nothing of Influence.

§ 47. But, suppose now that we forego this Device of the Aspect, and it be said we are bound to give account still of so many Days concerned; Casting our Counters right, we maintain that there is an Inclination Visible and Palpable, to bear up toward the Number of the Days, though twice or thrice as many as the Number of the Aspect. And for this we appeal to the Table, which was, let me tell you, produced for this Reason, to make good this Notable Inclination, and to show the Irrationality of those who will not allow it: The Objection proceeding alike against this, as any other Con∣figuration. The Question seems then thus, Not how many times, but how many days do we find concerned in the total of the Lunations? Answer, 261. See Now, how many of these by the Table find for Rain, or Wind? For Rain, we find days 109. to which add what we noted by themselves, the Violent Rains, whose Sum is 28. and the whole amounts to 137. beside a

petty Sum to be added for Snow or Hail, which advances the Sum to 140. and upwards. How! Of 261 days are there found 140 Drippers by one single Aspect? And is not the Inclination Palpable? For 'tis the proportion of Fifty to an Hundred, not considering the Overplus: One Aspect, (and the like we shall find true of any other Aspect) reaches to a Moyety.

§ 48. For I hope we are not to learn what Mechanical Writers teach us to good purpose, that Power and Inclination (vis Motrix) may be proportioned out by Numbers. As toward the Motion of a Bulk of 100 Weight, there may be applyed Movers of several rates; as of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, &c. where the motive force of 100. moves that Bulk infallibly, be∣cause thereby the Agent is equal to the Patient; whether this equality be found in One only, or made up by several rates of ten; (suppose) 20, 30, 40. or otherwise, which of themselves, 'tis clear, are not each of them of infallible Effect, because inadaequate: Yet notwithstanding, each of these have a real, unequal Share though it be, in that Effect. That of Ten is a Tenth; that of 20. is a Fifth; that of 40. above a Third part; that of Fifty is a half Sharer, since another of the same rate performs the whole.

§ 49. This presupposed, helps to clear our design of our Table, and the Constitutions there, all which say we (except those which come in by acci∣dent) the Aspect reaches, Consideratis Considerandis. For we do not, ex∣cept it should Snow, or Hail as often as it Rains, nor Lighten, or Thunder as oft as 'tis Warm; seeing the year is not wholly Winter, or Summer, but is divided into Lesser Seasons, where those rarer Constitutions happen by Virtue of that Inclination.

Lay them now in progressive Order, and see whether that will edifie.

• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Lightning or Thunder.—6.
• Trajections.—19.
• Mist.—80.
• Wind.—103.
• Rain.—134.

And is this Influence of the Change indifferent, Now! Doth it not most incline to Rain? Next, under that, to Wind, Mist, Trajections, &c. Hence say I, one ♂ ☉ ☽ inclines to Mist, Clouds, Winds, Rain, and to Trajecti∣ons (at times) yea, to Thunder it self: But to Rain and Wind most, else how come these instances to exceed? For Rain and Wind, we have demonstrated come not from any unaccountable Motion of Matter, but at set determinate Periods and Revolutions of Heavenly Bodys. From this difference of the Account in such Revolutions, say I, as there is greater disposition to Fog, or Cloudy, than to Frosty or Serene; hence in ♂ ☉ ☽ there is some real In∣fluence towards Mist and Fog, and close weather. And if there be a greater aptitude for Wind and Rain, than for Dry and Calm Weather; such as shall aspire almost to the Moyety of Days Comprehended; (reckoning 2 or 3 to every Lunation) then there is some known Force and Influence in the Lu∣nation, which being not content with such Imperfect Productions, as Fog or Clouds, (though dispositions to Rain,) help to bring forth absolute and compleat Moisture.

§ 50. To a Moyety therefore we are arrived in the days, and that is enough to prove the Aspect not to be indifferent; They are as Powers of Fifty, to the Motion of an 100. So 'tis an even Wager it Rains on One of the 3 days concerned. And if any should be so toy some as to engage against such an Event, in his Favour let me ask, Who shall decide the controversie, in case a Showre in Prospect be discerned, when possibly it Rains not upon the Spot, nor (as the Wind may sit) is like to do. Or suppose that the Air looks suspiciously, when we have reason to believe it rains (or dews) within the

Verge of our Horizon; and in this case, in my Judgement the Wager is not absolutely and necessarily lost; seeing no Astrologers, or Others, will profess always to engage that it shall Rain upon his Rivals Head. No, he he takes his measures from the publique, the Country round about; if it reigns on the Neighbourhood, the Heavens have done their Do, and so hath the Aspect.

§ 51. Now, the Fatal Paralogism of the Adversary is this; He, when he sees not such frequency of Activity as he requires, concludes that there is None. As if because there is not the excessive proportions of 60, 70, 80. &c. towards the Motion of a 100, Therefore there is no Activity or Force at all in the Agents. Whereas a Motive Power even at 40, 30, 20. hath a con∣siderable Force or Strength towards the Effect, although it be not commen∣surate to 50, 60, &c. Aspects have no Force, because, they miss as, nay, more often than they hit. Gassendus himself so reasoneth. But 'tis hard to conclude that an Aspect hath no Force, when the objection confesseth that there is some; and that brings its Effect almost, nay every whit as often, as the contrary. For what else, I pray, should make the Success aequiponderate with the Failance? Is it not abominable to conclude there is nothing of Weight in one fill'd Scale, where it aequiponderates with the other? If an Aspect should contribute beyond the Moyety to 70, or 80 times, and fail on∣ly 30, or 20 times, would not the inclination be confess'd? Well then, if it contributes but 50. is the inclination abolished? Put case it contributes on this side the Moyety but 30 or 40 times, it is a great way distant from nothing. Five Pound is Weight, though it be not Fifty; and Ten Pound is Weight, though it be not an 100. Five Pound is not Weight of it self to crack a Nut; shall I therefore infer it hath no Pressure or Ponderosity toward such Effect? Common Experience refutes it. Some outward Force or Impulse may be indeed necessary, but the less is requisite, as the Weight is the greater. The Learned should have discerned the Inclination, though but Partial, and not absolutely denyed, but considered once and again (since nothing is more reasonable in their own Opinions, than the dependencies of the Inferiours on the Superiours) and never left searching of these Truths, of which them∣selves upon Examination had found some Glimps.

§ 52. More we could say, but it seems creeping to desire what is not down right, Rain to be accepted. A close Day, suppose, or a Lowring Heaven; and yet the jolly Wagerer, let me tell him, many times seeing the Air to Overcast and Lowre, and put on her Mourning Vail; doth not know well what to think of it, and could Wish he might draw Stakes; so near doth a Prognostick approach the Truth, even when it comes many times short.

Only this I think may be proposed, that regard may be had not only to the Sums of Rain, Wind, singly or jointly computed, (the commonly as∣sign'd Effect of this Aspect) but also to the Disjunctive, whether Rain or Wind, seeing they oft times take their turns, and are not found always ac∣companying each other. So a careful Observer may enhanse the Sum of the Influence by accession considerable. No less XLI. Winds without Rain be∣ing noted in this our Table; and so the Sum will lash beyond the Moyety to the undeniable rates and proportions, the Adversary being Judge.

§ 53. Now, as we are not fond of this Disjunctive neither, so have we no reason to forego it, since I will tell you, Gassendus discoursing against our Pretences, degrades our Professors below the Beasts of the Herd; seeing the Prognostick from the Notes of Birds and Beasts are more infallible, saith he, than that of our Pretenders. Now these Natural propensions so invidi∣ously commended, which are natural Complaints rather than Praedictions of a Symptom present, not of an Effect Future, let the Reader mark, as infallible as

they are, hold only in this our Disjunctive. They do not determinately say Rain, but indeterminately Rain or Winds, as we have from Captain Smith learned before.

§ 54. However for the determination of this Disjunctive to Wind, or Rain, or both, seeing it is justly expected we should speak Categorically in this matter, we say that there may be found Rules in Art for that or for Nothing. In the mean time we gain some little Credit to an Aspect, because it is confessed that a single Aspect would then not be unworthy of regard.

§ 55. Nor yet have we drained our Table. It bears as if it would give some Light further, viz. to the determination of the Wind.

Let us see▪ the Sums being collated, we shall find that this Aspect, apt to cause Winds, is apt also to determinate them to the West and to the South, rather than to the North and East; which thus I make out; I take the Cardinal Winds, and their Complications (making VIII. points of the Compass to serve our turn) and adding the Sums, the account lies before you thus.

• East. 38.
• N. E. 25.
• S. E. 12.
• West. 36.
• N. W. 27.
• S. W. 56.
• North. 46.
• N. E. 25.
• N. W. 27.
• South. 56.
• S. E. 12.
• S. W. 56
• 75.
• 119.
• 98.
• 124.

So that the inclination is least to the East, more to the North, more than that to the West, and to the South most of all.

§ 56. Here I lament I had not the accomodation of the Pyxis, or any Hori∣zontal Plate divided into more points of the Compass, though I see not that Natural Knowledge requires so exact a Pyx as Navigation useth; because I boggle at this, that I find the North Cardinal point gives more instances than the West. To me 'tis a great Secret, the cause of the North-Wind; how no Planetary Aspect, except the Jovial was ever dreamt of for that Cause. But the North appears when many times ♃ is ingaged in no Aspect; therefore of that hereafter.

§ 57. Let no observer ask me why, of all the Winds, the South-East least frequents our Horison? Scaliger, I remember, tells us, for France that 'tis a rare and nice Wind, so here with us in England. Hereafter, not here, we shall tell whether we are able to answer this Nice Question.

§ 58. But, why the Southerly and Westerly? If any ask, he may be an∣swered from the Premises, that the Lunation helps to warm the Air, and by Consequence to the warmer Winds: The West and South, are such.

§ 59. The indetermination or Change of the Wind in the same Day is notable, in my Judgement, the Solution is easie; for the Change, I find, makes from the cooler quarter to the warmer: 'Tis to be ascribed to the Approach of the ☽ toward the Solar Body, which at distance suffers a North or East Wind to blow. But in the nearer application befriends the Air with a Token of her Favour. The ☽ swift in Motion, by reason of which she was thought to have no great Influence, herein appears to be serviceable to the Change of the Wind, which often alters, according to the ☽ 's appli∣cation, or recess from the Sun, &c. So Fate will have it, that what is obje∣cted to her prejudice, tends to her Lustre in Demonstration of her Influence.

§ 60. Kepler therefore, and others, Eichstad, &c. make too little of this ♂ ☉ ☽, not vouchsafing to mention it, except when the ☽ is found engaged with others pre••gaged among themselves, while they impute great Effects to some of his own Pseudo-Aspects. As great an affront to the ☉ and ☽ as can be offer'd. Whether that great Mathematician disdained

to own any part of his Skill to the less mysterious traditionary way, or ra∣ther whether he unhappily refused right measures which offered themselves.

§ 61. But could this great Man think, if but from his own Diarys, ♂ ☉ ☽ is insignificant, when in the solitary Year 1617. it rained 7 times on the very day of the Aspect, (not to meddle with Wind) as many times Anno 1621. and 1622. VI. times Anno 1623. to press it no further.

§ 62. Only upon the account of Thunder, to which Meteor, as rarely as it happens with us, we say, that even with us this Aspect inclines, with a re∣mote, yet real Propension; and in Germany more. On which account we ask again, does Thunder appear but a day before the change, May 4. Anno 1617. S. N. And shall that Change have no influence thereon? At that time there was Thunder and excess of Rain with a ♂ ☉ ♄. But he acknowledg∣es that alone could not answer to so great a Product: No nor, which he is forced to produce, his Quincunx of ♃ and ♀. And yet Ne sic quidem Causa∣rum satis apparet, as he honestly confesseth. All this while suffering the ♂ to stand by, blushing by it self, because unsaluted; when as he might have observed, that not a year scapes him in his whole Decade, which brings not that Constitution at the Change. Once perhaps, Anno 1626. twice Anno 1621. 1628. thrice Anno 1622. 1627. four times Anno 1623. 1625. and more then once Anno 1629. If Meteorum Diurnum may go for Lightning; what do I speak of IX. or X. years, when in the Norimberg Diary, from 1623. to 1646. (a notable Peice lent me by the Learned Dr. Bernard) there appears but two years of Twenty Four, wherein there is no noise of Thun∣der heards at some aestival New ☽ or other. In the rest 'tis ordinary to hear it thrice at one Aspect. Now let any man tell me there is no inclination to Thunder in the New ☽. And if it must be granted for Germany, it must be granted, though but a Pin or two lower, in England also. But, if to Thunder, what inclination hath it to Rain, I pray? Let the Adversary answer.

§ 63. The Pretence of the ☽ 's swift Course and Transit is not so well, Eichstad Ephem. For first, the Transit is not so sudden; it challengeth 3 or 4 Hours in spite of Fate. The Face of Heaven is alterable in less time; for though it is true, many times Clouds, by the slow approach of Causes con∣spiring, do leisurely gather into a density, while Rain, in the Country Phrase, is brewing, yet I have seen Heaven oft overcast of a suddain, and descend in a Showre, yea Fair Weather, and anon Thunder Charged and Discharged, and all in a quarter of an Hour.

§ 64. What shall we say to those Conjunctions which bring their Effect within the time of their Corporal Contact, within 3 or 4 Hours; such as January 19. Anno 1671. Jan. 19. Anno 1672. Febr. 25. Anno. 1674. Febr. 21. Anno. 77. March. 30. Anno 1671. April 28. ejusdem Anni. April 7. Anno 1673. April 21. Anno 1677. May 2. &c. All these with a little computation will be found to fall within the terms of the said partil Aspect, as manifest as the great Dash on Sept. 10. from hor 8. to 10. P. which pro∣claims the Change at the Hour 10. at Night. Or the excess of Wet Febru∣ary 21. Anno. 1671. hor. 7. mane. proclaims the Change at 10. Morning. To say nothing of the smart Showers, July 4. 11. hor. Vesp. hint a Lunation following the next Feria at hor 2 Matutine. Yea, nor of these Trajections which have been observed to shoot at this very time, of which we have Examples in the Table, Sept. 27: Anno 1676. November 14. Anno 1677. so that 'tis not the brief Transit (which indeed hath a due Extent) makes the ☽ in∣effectual, but the flinching of the rest when they are ready for Correspon∣dence, the Spunge is full, and then a Light and transient pressure expresseth moisture; otherwise the Spunge is dry and stubborn, and will not yield what is expected.

§ 65. 'Tis confessed by the experience of Eichstad, that the Aspect hap∣pening in the Angles (i. e.) the Oriental, Occidental, or Meridional, is wont to bring Rain. But the Course of the ☽ is the same in those Angles as else∣where; and seeing Aspects Platique are also Operative, what Conjunction is there that doth not visit those Angles at distance more or less? The Fault therefore lies in the Principles of those who discern not, or overlook, the other Causes, which are of the secret Committee, as I may call it, where this Aspect seems to preside.

§ 66. Posterity will make up this Induction, if there be need, from all Eu∣rope, if not from all parts of the World. And whereas many ingenious Men say, our Island hath no Correspondence with the Continent, which renders the attempts of Prognostic Ridiculous, because impossible; 'Tis but an Excuse, the New ☽ hath the same Influence here and there, and all over the World, Observatis Observandis; in the prime product, be sure; and in its Conse∣quents, acording to the Capacity of the Region, and the Time of the Year. Since Fog, Snow, Rain, Lightning, are all united in one Original; and though they be opposite (do you mark me?) may be predicted for the same day, in the several parts of the World, by them who live upon the Spot, and know the disposition of several Places.

§ 67. What difficulty appears in the Prognostic at home, arises not because we are an Island, but because we are in a Northern Island: The Weather is more Regular, and of far more easie Prediction, in the Torrid Zone, as all Mariners will inform you, then in the Temperature, where the Anomaly is greatest, according as the Elevation of the Pole is more or less. But this difficulty Astrology mastereth.

§ 68. These things rightly understood, our Natural definitions will prove to be no longer of a precarious Credit, or denyed their acceptation, because hitherto labouring under the ill Aspect of a notion Astrological, while Preju∣dice for a while, puts us out of conceit with Truth.

§ 69. Let the Adversaries of this Principle in the mean while bespeak the next 25 or 30 years to bring in a contrary indication, as if the Heavens under this Aspect or its Equivalent, (for we are sure of all, as of one) were indifferent to Cold, or Tepid, Moist, or Dry. Alas! when they have carefully watched the Heavenly Motions, they will be brought by their own experience to the Old Saw, the Good Wives Tradition, unless they bespeak the ☉ and ☽ once again miraculously to stand; Stand I say, for if they move either for∣ward or backward, (though in this latter, I confess, some confusion of Seasons will happen) yet as to this Propension or Influence the case will be the same.

Let the Reader therefore raise his attentions towards Aspects in general comprehending not the Lunar only but the rest, all of which stand indicta∣ble for hundreds of grand commotions in the universe, recorded in Chronicles, or History Marine, since even this our Novi-lunar Aspect affords us such excesses, not Tempests only, but other more prodigious accidents, whether above, as Comets, which we take to be of Kin to enflamed Meteors, or be∣low, as Earthquakes, and Inundations also, wich follow either Tempests, or Earthquakes: Let those Learned Men, who shall write of either Comet, or Earthquake, look back into History, and he shall find Truth in the remark. And so, although more may be said, we are willing to conclude the Chapter.

§ 70. Only there is another way to work, to clear up the Reputation of the New ☽ for a perpetual, and in some Station, an Infallible Influence; we tried once by the vulgar Months, and they would not comply. 'Tis true in September, October and December, you shall find it fails there but once of VII. times Revolution. What then said we, if we should try in some certain Signs, which make up three Months be sure as far as 30 and 31 days will go,

though they enter not till 10 days after the appearance of the Kalender-Month: If we can bring certain days in the year, thirty in number, where the ♂ ☉ ☽ never fails as to Rain; then the ☽, as inconstant as she appears in her Visor, is not alway inconstant in her Influence. Then the beloved Infallibility of the Conclusion is come up, or at least is worth observing, when the Effect is not short, but exactly commensurate to the number of her Revolutions. But so it is, as may appear by the survey of this Table; some Lunations in such and such Signs are so saithful to their pretences.

	☌ ☉ ☽
Sign,	Revolution,	Event.
♒	VII.	4.
♓	VII.	6.
♈	VII.	7.
♉	VII.	6.
♊	VII.	6.
♋	VIII.	4.
♌	VIII.	7.
♍	VII.	7.
♎	VII.	6.
♏	VII.	5.
♐	VII.	6.
♑	VIII.	7.

The Signs we point at are ♈, (i. e.) part of March and April, and part of July and August, ♌ part of December and January, but above all com∣mend me to ♍ most sure and most abounding. A New ☽ between XII. of August and 12 of September brings Showres 7 times in 7 Revolutions, Toties, quoties. Now this I hope doth not cassate what we have said, but corroborate.