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. IV. ☌ ♃ ♀. Conjunction of Jove and Venus.

§ 1. ♃ ♀ is voic'd to bring Fair Weather; Cardan's reason for it. 2. Serenity hath every man's good Word. 3. Fair Weather strictly, or at large. 4. A Serene Aspect seems to be dry. 5. And Cool; but that is hardly granted, for ♄'s sake. 6. Yet Astrology makes not ♃ ♀ as warm as ♃ ☉. 7. The Diary must solve that. 8. A Dia∣ry of more Aspects than one. 9. ♃ ♀ are slippery Aspects, profess a Calm, and meditate a Storm. 10. Proved from Kepler's Diary. 11. Our own Home-Diary produced. 13. The same issue in Aesti∣val. 14. A Hyemal Part. 15. As much almost for Moisture as Serenity. 16. How ♃ ♀ get the name for Serenity. 17. How, or in what case their Se∣renity or Dryth is undoubted. 18. Ocular Demonstration from the Hyemal Part. 19. The same from the Aestival. 20. Rule to know Fair Weather under this Aspect. 21. Rule for Frosty Morning in the Hyemal Part. 22. Those Rules hold in ♃ ☿ also. 23. Resump∣tion of the Violence of this Aspect, hitherto not taken notice of. 24. The Character. 25. Sudden Alteration proper to Jovial Aspects.

§ 1. THe Aspect of ♃ and ♀, say Astrologers, smiles in our Face; prod••••ing Serene Air; We shall not wanton it with Poetique

lusions to those Feigned Deities, giving countenance to Heathenish Institu∣tions, or the Discredit of our Principle: We will labour to avoid those Syrtes, Major & Minor. But we hearken to the voice of Experience, which unanimously cries out, Serenitatem affert, it cleareth up, and bring∣eth that Fair Constitution, which, 'tis pity, (saith the Proverb) should do any Harm. Cardan will give the Reason: Jupiter non procedit nisi ad Sere∣nitatem, saith he, eò quod in calore vix excedit temperamentum. De VII. Planet'. Lib. V. pag. 37••. But Intricacies of Nature are not solved with every pretty Come-off; for then all Temperate Air should be Serene, and all Serene, Temperate: No mild Weather close; no, not in April or May; No fair Weather intemperately Cold, no, not in January and February.

§ 2. Serenity carries the Name, because of its Bright and Lovely Sky-Colour'd Coat, whence, though it is not so frequent as could be wish'd, yet it is more observed, and mentioned with more regard.

§ 3. But, what do they mean, Serenity mixt, or pure? Not the▪ Pure and Bright Constitution, I fear, when a Man, even in the Northern Cli∣mates cannot discern a Cloud, or so much as a Lock of a Vapour through the whole Canopy: Nor the Glorious inviting Face of Heaven, where the Azure is inter-spread with Bright Clouds, repressing the Light from their Airy Surface. But Fair Weather in a large Sence as 'tis opposed to Dirty, when the Heaven may be, notwithstanding, tinged with Fog▪ or overcast with a Cloud adequate to the whole, when the Air may Lowr, and be Muddy at times, so it rain not; This, with Serenity strictly call'd, may be the Fair Weather which ♃ and ♀ have a share in, and are voic'd for such.

§ 4. On this account I reasoned with my self, as I have declared already, which here, upon this point started, may be remembred again, concerning the Planets Influence. If it be so that ♃ cause Fair Weather, must not ♃ be of a Dry Complexion rather than a Moist? Must not he be Dry, if he be Parent of Dry Weather? Dry, as well as Temperate; and so Cool as well as▪ Dry.

§ 5. Verily, I look'd that the Astrologer should have profess'd that an Aspect of ♃ with ♀ should have favour'd Cold also, and that, by Force of Evidence from his Diary.

§ 6. This I will say for them, that they do not pretend that ♃ and ♀ do remit or abate the Cold of Winter, as ♃ with ☉, and ♂ with ♀ doth: And 'tis some wonder that ♃ and ♂, notwithstanding their allow'd abatement of Cold in Winter-time, should by confession (as we shall hear) bring Hail or Snow at peculiar times, and yet ♃ ♀ tend nothing thereto.

§ 7. This gives occasion to produce our Diary, to enquire there, and from thence if it may be, deduce the Truth of our Pretences to Cold, and to Serenity, or the contrary.

§ 8. For now, the Nature of our Enquiry being such, as in Reason abridgeth the Diary to fewer Degrees far, than hitherto hath been made use of; Greater Arches in the Heaven being concerned in a Storm, than in a Calm; In Hot Weather, then in Cold; We shall have the more Liberty to call in All, or most of the Aspects, not for any other reason, but to settle and confirm the Character of the Aspect either Pro or Con.

§ 9. To tell you before hand, what I have found by Experience before the Tables are introduced, when All comes to All, the Aspects of ♃ and ♀, though they favour Cold and Serenity in some measure, yet they are also Slippery Aspects, will Fawn and Frown: I do not speak of bringing Cold in Winter, and Heat in Summer-time, but they will bring you Cold and Heat, Calm and Storm, (not at one Instant, but) in the same Term, in

one Senary of Days; and, as we have before owned, in ♃ ☉, is a violent Aspect, a kin to his Brethren.

§ 10. What Paradox do I broach now? Must we not all believe Experience? For who can dissemble Kepler's Noctu per pluit in 1622. Pluit largè, 1623. with Continua Pluviae to boot. Nix multa, 1625. Nix copiosae, 1629. Nix multa, again, at the end of the same year, Dec. 8. This for Wet. For Wind the like bustle, Ventus Impetuosus, A^o 1625. Ventosum & Austro∣zeph. Valid. A^o 1626. Ventus Vehemens, 1629. All Three Summer Months, and two of them Thunder. The ☍ agreeing with the ☌. Snow 5 days together. A^o 1623. Rain 2 days, A^o 1634. Snow 2 days. A^o 1625. Hail 2 days together, A^o 1627. with Cataracts not long after. Rain 2 days toge∣ther, A^o 1628. The like, A^o 1629. Lightning once, and Thunder twice, A^o 1629. Horrid Thunders, 1627. And what do we call this? Is not this Violence? But this is not All. Lo! Somewhat more. Storms of Hail and Cold; and yet on the same day Horrid Thunder. There's our Paradox, our Jove and Venus. 'Tis ordinary, I profess I find it so; and no where else, unless in a Jovial Aspect: And even in ♃ and ♀. All this may be seen in Keplers Diary under ☌ and ☍, ♃ ♀.

§ 11. But let us see our own Diary. Home is best, and first of the Aestival Part.

☌ ♃ ♀ Diary.

Aestival Part.

A^o 1656. May 28. ♉ 21.

• 27. Bright m. clouds lowring 8 m. wd, showr 9 p. some Lightning. N W.
• 28. Fair m. wd, overc. 3 p. showr, rain hard. S W.
• 29. Cool, windy, a showr Sun occ. black n.

A^o 1667. May 18. ♈ 24.

• 17. Close, gentle rain a. m. per tot. mist, some wet p. m. wd, rain 11 p. Ely.
• 18. Close m. p. cold wind, open n. rain 2 p. 4 p. Thun∣derclap. S E. Ely.
• 19. Brisk cool wind, audible 11 p.

A^o 1658. June 13. ♋ 17.

• 12. Close m. wd, showrs, so p. m. W. N W.
• 13. H. wd, cool coasting showrs 7 p. N W.
• 14. Cool, misling p. m. wet∣ting 10 p. W. N W.

A^o 1669. June 9. ♊ 24.

• 8. Fair, flying clouds, wind. Sly.
• 9. H. wind, close, warm, some wetting 1 p. heavy air n.
• 10. Sudden showrs p. m. warm.

A^o 1671. June 23. ♌ 17.

• 22. Fog m. fair, hot, dry, soultry p. m. Nly.
• 23. Mist m. fair, dry.
• 24. Dry, opening, mist, clds, wd. Wly.
• 25. Fair, windy p. m. clear n. S W. n. Wly.

A^o 1682. June 19. ♋ 26.

• 18. Much lowring, s. wind. mist m. temperate.
• 12. Warmer, s. wd. Wly.
• 20. Cool and brisk wind m. drisle circa 3 p. & 9 p.

A^o 1660. July 9. ♍ 12.

• 7. Wind a little, showr 8 m. clear m. p. S W.
• 8. Fair, windy, warm, overc. 3 p. S W.
• 9. Fog ante Sun or. dry, trou∣bled air 3 p. W.
• 10. Fair, cold, clouds ride contrary. N W. S E.

A^o 1659. August 31. ♌ 29.

• 30. Drisling, Rain, dark; s. said Th. S W.
• 31. Wind, storms of rain.
• 1 Sept. Rain, cool wind, coa∣sting showrs, Meteors 2. flashes, dry. N W.
• 2. Rain 3 m. dashes of wet p. m. & 9.

A^o 1660. Iterum, Aug. 31. ♍ 22.

• 30. Fair, a hoar frost m.
• 31. Fair, a hoar frost m.
• 1 Sept. Fair, but rain n.

A^o 1670. Aug. 27. ♌ 7.

• 25. Close m. p. fac voluns 9 p. a Meteor.
• 26. Thick fog, hot n. fair p. m. a Meteor. W.
• 27. Fog p. m. dry, bright n. Meteors, Lightning, some rain, colour'd Halo.
• 28. Foggy m. soultry, br. d. Meteors at n. S W.

A^o 1661. Sept. 10. ♎ 18.

• 8. Mist m. cloudy, suspic. d. rain awhile 8 p. N E.
• 9. Cloudy, clear m. p. some clouds, hot day, a flash of Lightning. W.
• 10. Smart showr, cloudy n. hot, rain 8. S W. Ely. S W. E. N E.
• 11. Cloudy m. p. Sun shine hot vesp. cloudy, close Ely n

A^o 1672. Sept. 7. ♍ 27.

• 6. Drisle, wetting 2 p. very warm n. S W.
• 7. Close m. H. wind o. rain 3 p. very warm wind. S W.
• 8. Close m. open 9 m. coa∣sting

• showrs, wind, rain, clouds. S E.
• 9. Bright m. showr in pro∣spect; coasting 2 p. susp. S W.

A^o 1674. Sept. 20. ♍ 17.

• 19. Br. m. s. rain a. m, & p. m. fr. m.
• 20. Misty, cloudy, yet dry.
• 21. Pleasant a. m. clon••••g m. p.
• 22. Some drisle 10 m. Rain 5 p.

Part Hyemal. A^o 1662. Nov. 26. ♏ 29.

• 24. Rain hard 6 m. N E.
• 25. Fog, frosty, clear n. N E.
• 26. Fog, frosty, clear n.
• 27. Fog, frosty, some snow a. l. S W.

A^o 1673. Nov. 22. ♏ 7.

• 21. Foggy, clear above, fr. S W. m. N W. p. m.
• 22. Wd, rain 6 m. wet p. m. & 8 p. Sly. Ely.
• 23. Mist, fair above. S. S E.

A^o 1653. Decemb. 17. ♒ 17.

• 15. Foggy, moist and warm. N E.
• 16. Wds a. l. clear, s. wd. R. at n. S.
• 17. Rain a. l. Sun shine, fr. n. great Halo circa Sun. S.
• 18. Fair, fr. some gusts, clear. N E.

A^o 1664. Dec. 8. ♑ 22.

• 7. Mist, rain a. l. & 4 m. wet a. m. & p. m. Sly.
• 8. Much wet 4 m. Dog 〈◊〉〈◊〉 8 p. rise. S W.
• 9. Close wet m. rain hard 8 p. and store, as hath not been known.

A^o 1675. Dec. 4. ♐ 28.

• 3. Fog, fair, wet, close m. p. S W.
• 4. Dark, mist, close, wind. S. S W.
• 5. Fog, dry, clear n. fr. Wly.

A^o 1677. Dec. 23. ♒ 27.

• 22. Fr. fog, cloudy, yielding p. m. mild. S E.
• 23. Cloudy, wind p. m. some rain. S E. Ely.
• 24. Wet a. l. close, foggy, drisle, s. rain p. m. Wly.
• 25. Cloudy, fog a. l. cool, dry, fr. h. n. Ely. January vacat.

A^o 1653. Feb. 15. ♒ 4.

• 14. Cloudy, some wind, warm and dry. E.
• 15. Cloudy, some wind, Sum∣mer weather. W.
• 16. Clouds, s. wd, Sun app. fair and warm. N W.
• 17. A blast of wind Sun occ. N.

A^o 1664. Feb. 3. ♑ 8.

• 2. Brisk wind, close m. p. warm.
• 3. Close m. p. h. wind, some wetting, Sun shine. S W.
• 4. Fair, windy, cloudy o. coa∣sting hail 2 p. s. drops 7 p. S W.
• 5. Cloudy, windy p. m. & s. Rain. S W.

A^o 1666. Feb. 28. ♓ 8.

• 27. Close mist, offer a. m. storm of hail 4 p. N E.
• 28. Bitter frost m. snow lies, some offer m. clds, at. for Hail, offering m. N E.
• 1 March. Mist m. close wind, clear n. no frost.

A^o 1677. Feb. 12. ♒ 13.

• 20. Rain 4 m. rain hard 5 p. Wly.
• 21. Much wet 7 m. ad 9. rain 8 p. Wly.
• 22. Rain p. m. tot. warm. Wly. S E.

A^o 1655. March 6. ♈ 3.

• 5. Clouds ride N E. wind. s. drisling 9 m. S W.
• 6. Rain 4 m. very still, showrs unconstant.
• 7. Showrs of hail, rain 2 m. cold fr. H. wind, some fits of rain m. S W.
• 8. s. rain Sun or. a sad soking R. S W.

A^o 1657. March 30. ♊ 5.

• 29. Winds, cold and cloudy, s. moist m. N E.
• 30. Close, some wind a. l. cold, lowring, clear n. H. wind. S E.
• 31. Wind a. l. close, very cold, mistyish m. white flying clouds from W.

A^o 1668. March 20. ♉ 9.

• 17. Close, cold, windy, fair p. m. ♃ ♀ make a fine show.
• 18. Br. cool wd, rise 10 p. not so brisk. S E.
• 19. Brisk wind, audible n. Ely. Nly.
• 20. Fr. for the last fortnight in London. Fair, dry, ☽ under Lanx B.

A^o 1679. March 12. ♈ 13.

• 11. Fine springing showr ante 1 p.
• 12. Some fog, rain. ad 7. noct. S E.
• 13. Some rain m. some fog, cold frost. Ely.

A^o 1681. Apr. 6. ♊ 13.

• 4. Cloudy, misling 1 p. ♃ ☿ made a fine show. Ely.
• 5. Bright, fair, brisk wind, Ely.
• 6. Fair, some wind, warm. Ely.
• 7. Misty air, clear above, and calm. W.
• 8. Fair, hot, high wind. S W.
• 9. Fair m. mist, windy, clou∣ding a. m. gentle rain 3 p.

§ 13: This you see is our English Diary, and do we not meet with Lightning one day, Rain hard the next. A^o 1656. Rain all the Forenoon May 17. and Thunder 18. 1667. Aug. 30. 1659. and the next day Wind and Storms of Rain. Aug. 31. Flashes of Lightning, Sept. 1. Dashes of Wet, Sept. 2. Fax Volans, Aug. 25. Lightning. Aug. 27. 1670. Lightning, Sept. 9. Smart Showr, Sept. 10.—High Wind June 13. 1658. June 9. 1669. Sept. 7. 1672.

Soultry Air, June 22. 1671. Aug. 28. 1670: To say nothing of troubled Air, which argues a Ponderous Influence. 'Tis a great Stone which

upon injection mudds the Water; I need not pray you to observe the Lightning, ♃ and ♀, we have said, carry it in their Faces.

§ 14. The Hyemal rains hard, Nov. 24. 62. and Nov. 22. A^o 1673. Rainy at Night, and Wet Morn. Dec. 16, 17, A^o 1653. Then Dec. 7, 8, 9. Rain in such store as hath not been known, A^o 1664. Wet anto luc. Dec. 24. A^o 1677. Summer Weather in the midst of Febr. A^o 1653. Warm in the begin∣ning of Febr. 1664. with High Wind for Two days after. Hail, Febr. 4. 1664. and Febr. 27, 28. A^o 1666. which Hail in ♂'s Theory we produce as a Mark of Violence, &c. Rain hard, much wet, Rain the whole Afternoon, Febr. 20, 21, 22, A^o 1677. At the same tone in March, A^o 1655. Rain, Hail, un∣quiet Weather, a sad soking Showr. 6, 7, 8. Fine Showr, March 11. A^o 1679. High Wind and Heat, Apr. 8. 1681.

Days in the Hyemal Part 54.

• Rain—26.
• Brisk Influence, or Vio∣lence. —15.
• Frost—11.

In the Aestival Part, Days 46.

• Rain—27.
• Violence—15.
• Frost—4.

§ 15. The Account you have received, the Aspects are but short, howbeit they run the Zodiaque once round, and That brevity will be pardoned in me, who conceal nothing for fear of being discover'd. You may see by the Sum, § 13. that according to our Method, the Aspect conduces, I had almost said; as much to Moisture as Serenity.

§ 16. How comes it to pass then that ♃ ♀ have been voic'd for Fair Weather? Is it because of the difference of the Climate? Is it be∣cause Serenity, as I said, is more taken notice of? (One Fair Day making amends for Two Foul Days) or is it because at the close of the Fair Day, ♃ ♀ appear in the Western Angle, and make a fine Spectacle? so ampliating the Serene Day preceding by an Illustrious Close. (♃ and ♀ making the most notable Congress in the Heavens, the Fair Couple of the Celestial Court) or, Is it because in the Hour of Serenity These Two Stars add to the Glory of the Serene Day, beside what the Usurping Sun challenges to himself, though, the Truth is, 'Tis we ascribe All to the Sun, which the Sun challengeth not.

§ 17. For shame will some say, Doth not ☌ ♃ ♀ make Fair Weather? I have answered, and I cannot recall it. In such Circumstances of Non∣assistance, Vacancy of a mediate Sign, or co-arctation of Place. So ♃ ♀ are white Boys, and bring you such Lovely Weather, as makes Life it self the sweeter.

§ 18. Now try the Truth of what is now observed, August the 30. and 31. A^o 1660. the first pleasant days in the Aestival Table; See before your Eyes no Hiatus, but straitness of place.

• ♍ 17. ☉. 22. ♃. 23. ♀. ♎ 6. ♂. 9. ☿. ♏ 8. ♄. 11. ☽.

Not only ♃ ♀ together, but ☉ is crouding with them in ♍, nor only that, but ♂ and ☿ nusling together in ♎. Again, shall May 19. 1667. go for a Fair day? Then you have not ♃ ♀ alone ☌ in ♈, but ♂ and ☉ in ☌ in ♊. I say nothing of a Gap:

• ♒ 1. ♄. ♌ 22. ☽. ♈ 24. ♃. 25. ♀. ♉ 20. ☿. ♊ 5. ♂. 7. ☉.

3ly. A^o 1669. June 8. Here is ☉ ♃ ♀ together again in ♊, and ♂ ☿ not far off; yea Five of the VII. within 15. degrees, which is far from that distribu∣tion which is required to Moist Weather, for thus they list.

• ♒ 25. ♄. 27. ☽. ♊ 23. ♀: 24. ♃. 27. ☉. ♋ 2. ♂. 8. ☿.

§ 19. So in the Hyemal, Dec. 18. 1653. Here, not only ♃ ♀ are in Con∣gress, but ♄ also Faces them in the other Hemisphere within the confine of poor 3 Degrees.

§ 20. But is it thus in the ☍, and □, and △? Thus and no otherwise; he that will not be ashamed of his Prognostick of Fair Weather, must not pronounce absolutely on Jove and Venus's Square, but with the limitation prescribed; I would rather urge this, because when the Artist promises Fair Weather, and Rain takes place, the Mistake is fouler, and more piti∣able, than when declaring for Rain it succeedeth not: Because there may be a Fog, yet an overcast, a pregnant Cloud, or a lowring Sky for a while, that may make some weak Apology for the mistake. But when Rain ap∣pears, after a man of Skill has promised fair Weather, Expectation is fru∣strate, the Journy or Visit is defeated, so All who meant to enjoy the privi∣ledge of the smiling day, turn their Anger they conceived against the spiteful Heavens upon the Sciolist. Therefore let them attend the Aspect, if they please, whosoever are curious this way, but withal carefully inspect if they please, whosoever are curious this way, but withal carefully inspect how the Planets concerned are accompanyed, how the rest are posited; If, with the nearest, there's one Requisite good, which we call co-arctation of place; if, with the farthest, above 30 degrees distance suppose, then there's a 2d. Requisite, which we call an Hyatus, or Vacant Sign. Some other Punctillio's there are (but these are the main) where we may pronounce Dry or Fair Weather, and so please himself, and his Client.

§ 21. We need not multiply Examples, the Rule is most part perpetual; I add that the same Method is to be observed for the Prediction of Frost, whether for the Day, or for the Morn at least; the Reason is, because few Fair or Dry Days are found in the Hyemal part of the Year, which are not accompanyed with Morning Frosts. Such were the days whose Dryth was now considered. A^o 1653. Dec. 18. for the Hyemal Table.—And A^o 1660. Aug. 30, 31. for the Aestival.

§ 22. Note withal this same Doctrine would have been good in the As∣pect of ♃ ☿, but 'tis more singularly good with this Aspect ♃ ♀, having greater kindness for fair Weather, for some such reason as we have ventur'd at, or for some Better.

§ 23. To draw to the Character then, They, who follow Maginus, Argol, Adrian Vlacq, tell you nothing of Violence. They talk of gentle Rains, and tell you of abundance (forsooth) of Fertility, as if ♀ were always a good Girl. But we have seen her Spirit in the preceding Aspects, with ☉ or ♂ at least; and oft-times she is the same when she reflects on ♃, so that not only Gentle Winds or Rains, but High and smart also she procureth: Yea, and I should add, you see Thunders and Lightnings, had no body said so as yet. But well fare Eichstad, who hath said it before me.

§ 24. What then is the Character of our Congress? I answer with the. Road, Serene, and Fair, and gentle breathing Wind, but apt to worse, to Frown and Muffle her self, to put on her Masque in a Fog or a Muddy Air. She Favours also Cold and Frost, but so, as she is easily alterable to sign the contrary. Now since from Heat comes all Violence, she raises the Wind sometimes, and sparkles in Lightning. Difference you must think there is in the Posts, Degrees, and difference of Assistance, and so it comes about.

§ 25. Now, if it be said that a sudden Alteration is observable in other Aspects, and therefore not proper to the Jovial. I answer, neither so sudden, nor so constant. An ☍ ☉ ♂ in Winter Months shall not bring Frosts so often as ♃ and ♀ opposed. Surely not a □ or a △ it may be, so much as ours. Our Eyes teach us some difference of ♃ and ♀ from others; the Fairest Planets in the Heavens, of the greatest visible Dia∣meter; so that if they have any kindness for Cold, which Experience tea∣cheth, they may be allowed, as strange as it is, to be easily reconciled to Warmth.

Foreign Miscellany Diary for the Aspects Jovial last past, and Remarques thereon.

1500. Pestilence at the beginning of the year, Hows. We will refer it to ♄ and ♂, though in Feb. ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ are all in ♓, which also found matter for the Floud in Lovain, Feb. 11.

1501. Prasil, Lat. 32. April Cold and Tempestuous, ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♈. in princ. mens.

1502. April 4. ad 9. Dangerous Tempest. South Lat. 52. It made Ame∣ricus Vesputius return. de Bry Relat. Navig. Yea Lopez's Tempest is not much out of the way. ☌ ☉ ♃ ♀ ☿ ☽.

1506. Comet appeared in the Month of August die octavo, running through the Signs ♌ and ♍ near Ursa Major. Michovius apud Hevel. ♃ ♀ in ♍, ☿ ♄ ☉ preceding in ♌.

1508. April Mense, T. M. inundat. ex statione ☿, saith Eichstad. I know not, I see ☍ ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ in ♉.

1510. Aestus maxim. ♃ in ♑ opp. ☉ & inter eos ☿ stat.

1512. Comet, Coloris Sanguinei in March and April, Ricciol. ♃ ☿ in ♓.

1516. Juliò mens. Calor & Siccitas, Eichstad. △ ♄ ♃. imo ☉ ♃ in fine ♋ & princ. ♌.

Cometa in Jan. 'Twas bgot under ♃ ♂, but ☍ ☉ ♃ accompanies it.

1518. Sweating Sickness in Brabant, and Germany. in Aug. Lyc. Stow, ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♍.

1521. Comet at the end of April, Lunae Dichotomae similis. Ricciol ☌ ♄ ♂ is on the place, but ☍ ♃ ☿ in ♊ & ♐ stands by; let that be remem∣bred when you come to ♄ ♂ Bead-roll.

June 28. Thunder fired the Magazin at Milain, Lye. ☍ ♃ ♀ in ♑, ♋. Pestis Romae atrox, Kircher, Gem. ♄ ☌ with ♃ ♀ for May, ♃ ☿ for June, July in ♑ ♋. When ♄'s Aspects enter, and ♃ accompanies them. Then beware of—See another Instance in the next year, 1522. For to the Pestilence and Famine noted by Mizaldus in his Cometograph. we find that ♃ Aspects were followed by Saturnine in June, July. See in ♃ ♂ also.

1525. Dec. princ. Rain with N. Wind, Purch. IV. 1554. ♃ 7. ☿. ♉ 26. ♏.

1526. July 20. At Zay (apud Tugios) among the Switzers, Pulvis Pyrius fulmine tactus. Lyc. ♊ 14. ♃ 22. ♀.

Nov. Dec. & Jan. (following) Flouds, Howes. The Rule holds here also, For the ☍ ☉ ♃ and the rest, go hand in hand with ♄ ♂ in Nov. & Dec. ♃ ☉, &c. in ♐ ♊.

1527. Pestis Romae, Untzer. 1169. Junio mense, ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ in ♋.

July 1. Great Storm, near Mountains of Ice (New-found-Land) ♃ ☿ ☉ in ♋. ♃ in ☿ princ. opp. ♂ in ♏ 24.

Dec. 11. Comet, Gem. 2, 10. ♃ in ♋. ☉ ☿ ♀ in ♑. Noted for the Testimony of that frightful Age, speaks tragically of it, which our more confident times would answer with a Smile or a Tush. But the Sponsors we have produced are great, ♃ ☉, &c. if that in the beginning of the year following be another, the same Godfathers stand.

1528. Alius Cometa visus est in Piscibus in opp. Saturni.

2. Great Drought July and August, ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ in ♌. Lyc.

June 17. ad 21. At Apalaken in the West Indies, Thunder store, threw down Trees for several Miles, the Trees being most part cleft from one end to the other, Purch. 3. 1502. ☉ ♃ ☿ on the Trop. point of ♋. See the Ephemerides. Gaffarel makes believe the Volume of the Heavens is Le∣gible, 'tis a fancy, if not worse; but here, you may read the Storm in Character plain: The Alphabet that is pretended, I skill not.

July 19. Great Hailstones at Auspurg. ♃ ☿ are in ♋ still.

1529. Comet, a Chasme Jan. 9. Pontanus. ☍ ♃ ♀ ☿. add ♄ ♂ in ♉ ♏.

Feb. 24. Tempest of Wind at Uratislaw, Lyc. ☌ ♃ ☿.

1530. T. M. Sept. 1. on the Coast of Camana, near the Isle of Cubagua in the Indies. Purch. III. 868. ♃ ♀ in ♎.

1532. April 11. Parelia. Venetiis. Lyc. Fromond. 406. ☌ ☉ ♃ ♀.

Die 25. in Helvetia, Halo circa ☉. ☌ ♃ ☉ ☿.

Sept. 25. ad Nov. 20. Comet, Mizald. Appian. ♃ ♀ in ♏, ♃ ☿ in ♏. mense sequ. Note also the III. in ♌, ☉ ♂ ☿ conspiring. Rockenback therefore saith it was kindled by ☌ ☉ ♂.

1533. Comet in July 17. non procula Perseo in ♊. Leovit. The place, non Procul a Perseo points out the Author. ♃ ♐ 17. ☿ ♄ ♀ in ♋. ♃'s Oppo∣sition kindles it in the Asterism Extrazodiacal, back't by the III. following in the next Asterism.

1535. July 25. Terrible Thunder about Zurich, fired Houses, Lyc. ☍ ♃ ♀ in ♍ & ♓. ♄ ☉ ☿ in ♎.

1537. Dec. 12. Lightning fires the Castle at Rome, near Pont Aelius. Lyc. it comes under ♄ ♂, but add also ♃ ♀.

1539. May 11. Comet, Mizald. 233. At what time Basil was troubled with a great, yet harmless Earthquake. ☉ ☿ ♃ are in ♊. but let the good Reader add the Two Superiours Square in Cardinal Signs, which shook Italy in the year before in Sept. (Fallop. apud Fromond.) And shakes Misina again this year, June 13. not without help of ♃ ☉ in ♋, &c.

July 27. By the Isles of Xalisco, on the back-side of America, extreme Tempest, we thought we should have perished, Hakl. 398. ♃ ♂ ♀ ☿ in ♋. You may find it under ♃ ♂, but you see there is IV. have Title to it, and not Two only.

Dec. 17. For Two or Three days, great store of Rain, Hakl. 414. ♃ in ♋ opp. ☉ ♀ ☿.

1540. July, Aestas sicca, Lyc. ♀ ☿ in ♌.

Great Mortality, London, Ague, Flux, Pestilence; Stow ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♌; ♄ ♀ in ♎.

1541. Feb. 19. Rain hard near Massua in the Abexin Country, Purch. 11. 1129.

Feb. 20. Wind fair at E. at the beginning of the 2d. Watch, we fell on a sudden on very Whitish Spots, which did cast from themselves certain Flames like Lightnings; this Novelty made no impression on the Pilots of the Country. ♃ ♌ 22. opp. ♀ ☿ Stationary.

1544. Aug. 21. Comet sub forma Draconis, Rockenb. ☉ ♃ ☿ in ♍.

1546. Aug. On St. Laurence Eve at Mechlin, so many Barels of Powder fired with Lightning, 500 men slain, Lyc. Gem. 2. 102. Fromond; ♃ at the end of ♑ with the ☽, ♃ ☉ in ♌.

1547. Sept. 20. A Star which directed us to Mount Sinai, say the Tra∣velers in Purch. 1380. which Mr. Purchas has pleased to deride with his Qui amant, ipsi sibi somnia fingunt, with what Charity, let the meek Reader judge. To say nothing how his Volumes would dwindle away, if all such sto∣ries must be marked with an Obelisk. I had no reason to let it pass, be∣cause the disposition of the Heavens lye fair for such appearances. III Planets in ♎, □ of ♃ ♄ in Cardinal Signs, and which is to our purpose, an ☍ ♃ ♀ in ♍; Add that we hear of a Comet within a Month after, nay we hear of a Meteor nearer, but 4 days before, for so says my Manu∣script. Sept. 16. hora 9. noct. Fax ardens mirae Longitudinis ab or. in occ. lente volans ejusdem cum ♃ altitudinis, Dr. Dee. There's no man dreams of a Parallel to the Star of the Eastern Sages, in Sacred Writ; Neither must we deny God's Signal Providences may be interpreted in private and in∣feriour

Convoys, many things as God would have it, oft-times falling out according to our wish.

Acies Coelestes, Octob. 1. Lyc. ♃ Stationary in ♓, opposing first ♀ on this side the Autumnal Equinox, ♀ back't with ♂ and ☿; and within a few days we hear of a Comet, which gives some hint, that both Comets and Phasmes Celestial, have some dependance on our Theory, whatsoever more the Later may challenge. A Star seen by Dr. Dee, as he testifies in his Manuscript.

1548. Aug. 4. Pluv. imber vehemens, cum ingenti Tonitru, Lovain. Dr. Dee. ♎ 8. ♀. ♈ 20. ♃.

Sept. 5. Auster Vehemens nocte circa horam 7. cum Tonitru magna. Dr. Dee. ♎ 27. ♀. ♈ 18. ♃. etiam in ♎.

1549. March 13. Pluit toto die. Die 14. Wondrous Storms and Showry.

Die 16. Vehementis. vent. imber. ☉ ♃ ☿ in ♈.

April 5, Nocte, Magnus vent. & Pluvia contin. ♃ ☿ in ♉.

May 24. Vent. Vehementis. ♃ ☽ ♀ ☿ in ♉, & ♄ ♂ opp.

1559. Oct. 21. Foul Weather, and change of Winds, Hakl. 98. ☌ ☉ ♃ ☿:

Die 25. Much Rain and foul Weather. 27. Very high Winds ib. 98. ☌ ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿.

Nov. 7. The Wind continuing S E. which has not been often seen (on the Coast of Ferro) Hakl. 99. ♃ ☉ ♀ in ♏.

1566. April 10. T. M. in Constantinople, Lyc. ♃ ♐ 4. ♀ in fine ♉. ☿. etiam in ♉. die 8. Lampas. Gem. 2. 30.

Die 23. Dirae Tempestates Bruxellis, cum alibi aura serena foret ib.

Nov. 10. Storms extream on the Scotch Coast, Stow. ♃ ☉ in ♐.

Die 20. Tempest for 12 days and more Lerius Navig. Brasil. ☽ ☉ ♃ in ♐, add ♄ ♂ opp.

Dec. 6. Parelia; Lyc. ☽ ☉ ♃ in ♐; ♄ ♂ in opp.

Die 26. Tonitrua, Lyc. ♃ Stationary in ♐, ♄ ♂ in opp.

1558. Jan. 9. Tempest continued 4 or 5 days, ☉ ♃ in ♑.

June 9. Tempest after Calais was deliver'd, excessive for 4 or 5 days, which was called, the Wind that blew away Calais, Hollinsh. die 25. Extream Current Eastward toward the Line, Hakl. 128. ☍ in ♌ & ♒.

1560. Mense April, Comet in Galliis, Eckstorm. ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♈, add ♄ & ♂.

Sept. 25. Parelia, cum arcu inverso, Gem. 2. 28. ♃ in ♈, ☍ ☉. ♀ ☿ in ♎.

1567. Terrible Tempest toward Paris, rooting up Trees, and drowning Beasts, T. P. 31. ♏ 7. ♀ 8. ♃.

1568. June 6. Ipso Pentecostes die, sanguine pluit per multa Brabantiae Loca, Gem. ♃ ☍ ☉ ♀ ☿ in ♊; add ♄ ♂ in ♍.

The Co-incidence of ♄ ♂ with the Aspects of ♃ are here, and elsewhere to be noted for great Products of all kind soever. See A^o 1521. 1522.

1569. Jan. 13. at Lovain, Inundations High and swelling, Gem. 2. 63. ♃ ☿ in Trop. ☿ Stationary.

May 14. T. M. Bruxels, Gem. 2. 64. ♃ ☍ ♀ in Trop. ♄ and ♂ are scarce quit of Opposition.

1570. Aug. 4. Chasma, Gem. 2. 67. ☍ ♃ ☿ ☉ ♌, cum ♄ ♂ in ♎.

1571. Sept. 11, Chasma flammeum, Gem. 2. 69. ♃ in ♓ ☍ ☉ & ♀.

1572. Nov. 1. Sharp Frost from the First to Twelftide, ☍ ♃ ♀, add ♄ ☽.

Princip. Nov. Stella nova in Asterism. Cassiopeiae quam descripsit, Gem. 113. ♈ 21. ♃ ♎ 12. ♀. Quinetiam ad ♄ ♃ oppos. una referenda est.

1576. July 14. Lat. 61. The Vehemency of the Wind broke our Fore Yard, Hakl. 617. ☉ ♃ ☿ in ♌, cum ♂ ♀ ♋ ♑.

Aug. 18. In two Hours it froze round about the Ship, Hakl. ♃ ♀ ☿ very near to one another in ♌.

Die 21. Snow nocte, 1 Foot thick on our Hatches, ib. 621. ☌ ♃ ☉ ♀.

Sept. c. Lat. 63. A very terrible Storm, one of our Men blown over-board, but that he caught hold, Hakl. 1. 621. ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ in ♍ opp. by ☽ in ♓. I hope I need not bid the Reader mark it.

1578. Apr. 7. Brasil. Storms, Thunder and Lightnings, Hakl. ☍ ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿.

1579. April 24. Snow a Foot deep, Stow. ♃ in ♏ opp. ☉ ☽ ☿.

Sept. & Oct. Great Winds and Flouds, (not any Rain) drowning Men and Cattle, bearing down Houses at Newport, Bedford. Stow. ♃ ☿ in ♏ ad ☉ ♂ ☿ in ♎. to particularise no more.

1580. Apr. 6. Great T. M. Stow, 687. Thuan. ♃ in ♐, ♀ in fine ♉ ad ♄ ♂ in ♒.

May 1. T. M. in Kent, Stow. Summary, ♃ ☽ in ♐, ☍ ♀ & ☿ in ♎. Hence we see our Aspect had a hand in the Earthq. 3 Weeks ago.

Die 24. Hills cover'd with Snow, Burroughs Voyage, Lat. N. 41. ♃ in ♐ in opp. ☉ ☿ in ♊. Sure they are not always cover'd with Snow in Latitude 41.

June 6. Lat. N. 58. Very cruel Storm, Hakl. ♃ opp. ☉ ☿ in ♊ ad ♄ ♀ opp. in ♒ & ♌.

Jul. Mense, Novus morbus Lunabergensis, Dimerbr. ♃ opp. ☉ ♀ ☿ in Trop. yea ♄ ♂ on the other side claim a share. Add, at their Heels ♄ opp. ☉ ♀ ☿ in ♌. the Rule we have given before, A^o 1521.

1585. Dec. 23. Earl of Leicesters Tempest going for Rotterdam, Hows. ♐ 8. ♀ ♊ 1. ♃. add ☉ ♀ ♂ in ♑.

1586. Jan. 2. Parelia. From. ♋ 1. ♃. ♐ 20. ♀.

July 7. A Flaw of Wind took me, I saw a Whirlwind take up much Water for 2 or 3 hours together, Hakl. 1. 781. ♃ ☿ in ♋ princ. ☉ in ♂ non procul a ♋ princ.

Nov. 17. Disease in the Belly extreme, but short. Earl of Cumberlands Voyage, 795. ☍ ♃ ♀ in ♑ & ♋.

Dec. 23. T. M. in Guatimala, Purch. 3. 939. ♃ opp. ☉ ☿ in Trop. Signs An Opposition of ♄ ♂ is entring also.

A die 25. ad Jan. 12. 87. Though the ☉ was near, yet was it Cold, and wind variable as in England, Lat, S. 32. Hakl. ♃ ☍ ☉ ☿ in Trop. Signs, ad ♄ ♂.

1587. June 24. 27. ad 30. Lat. N. 67. Extreme hot. Lat. 70. ☉ above the Horiz. about 5 degrees. Hakl. 117. & 1••1. ☿ ☉ & ♃ in ♋, add ♂ in ♎.

July 12. Lat. N. 72. Mighty bank of Ice, the Wind would not suffer us to double, ib. ☉ ♃ ☿ in fin. ♋.

Die 13. ☉ hot, shining on the Ice, yet melted it not, ib. 791. ☉ ♃ ☿ ut sup. ♂ in ♎.

Die 25. Marvellous hot, Lat. 61. ib. 79. ♃ ☉ ☽ ☿ in ♎.

A Drought, that Corn began to wither in Virginia, Ib. ♃ in ♋ & ♌.

1518. Aug. 4. Arrived at Harwich, having been 2 or 3 days toss'd with a mighty Tempest, Hakl. 2. 603. ♃ ☉ in ♌, ♄ ☽ in Antiscio.

Sept. 2. Tempest cast the Spaniards on Ireland, Hakl. 607. ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♍, ♀ & ☿ Retrograde.

1589. Feb. 15. A Rio Benin. Current Westward, Hakl. 163. ☍ in ♍ & ♓.

Die 18. Close, drousie, Thunder, Lightning and Rain, ib. 2. 127. ♃ ☍ ☉ ☿ in ♍ & ♓.

Die 24. St. Vet. Great Storm, excessive Rain, 3 Corpo Santos, Linschot. 167. ♃ ♍ opp. partile, ☉ ☿ in ♓, add ♄ ♂.

Aug. 1. London. Greatest Thunder and Lightning as had been known, yet harmless, Stow. ♃ ☿ in ♍, ☉ ☽ & ♀ ♌, with a piece of ☍ ♄ ♂.

Die 17, 18. Wind hard N E. in Virginia▪ gr. Storm die 18. Capt. Smith.

♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ in ♍ ☽ in ♓. See the same Scheme of Heaven before, A^o 1576. Sept. 7. (let me intreat you.)

Sept. 25. Great Tempest rose suddenly in the Night, Hakl. 2. 159. ♃ ☉ ☿ in princ. ♎, ♀ in fine; add ☍ ♄ ♂ in ♊ ♐.

Oct. 2. At Tercera, Two men slain by Lightning, Linschot. ☉ ♃ ☿ in ♎. add ♄ ♂.

Die 6, 7, 8. Near Tercera, very rough Weather, Hakl. 2. 160. ♃ in ♎ princ. ☉ ☿ in fine.

1590. Sept. 15. Wind so exceeding high, that we were forced to lye a tr•• Hakl. 294. ☉ ☿ in princ. ♎, ♃ in fine.

Sept. Mense. Thunder and Snow, Stows Summary, ☉ ♃ ☿ ut supra.

1596. Dec. 5. Thunderball at the Cathedral of Wells, whilst the Doctor was discoursing of Spirits, as Stow thinks fit to observe, page 782. ♉ 1. ♃ ♏ 6. ♀, Add ☉ ♂ ☿ in ♐.

Die 7. Great Storm of Snow, our Sack froze, Purch. 3. 495. ♃ ♉, ☽ ♀. in ♏.

Die 18. At Westram in Kent, T. M. Hows, 783. ♃ ☽ in ♉, ☿ in ♏. a sign that ♃ and ♀ had a hand in the former Thunderball, seeing the Approach of the ☽ to ♃ in that degree of the Zodiac moves the Earth it self.

Die 20. Great Storm, and Snow. Our House cover'd with Snow, Purch. 3. 495. ♃ ☽ in ♉, ♀ in ♏.

1597. March, Extreme Cold, ☿ circa fin. ♈, ♃ circa ♉ 10.

April cold and showry, ♃ ☉ in ♉, cum ☍ ♄ ♂ in ♍ & ♓.

May cold and dry, ♃ ♀ ☿ in ♉, cum ♄ ♂ ut supra.

June 5, 15. Great store of Hail, Snow. Purch. 4. 506. ♃ ☉ ♀ in ♊.

1598. April 10. Much Wind at the Straits of Magellan, Purch. 2. 130. All April wonderful much Snow and Ice, ☌ ♃ ♀ in ♊ Retrograde.

Aug. 7. Tempestas turbulentissima, disjecta Naves inter Cabo & Madagascar. ♃ ♀ in ♋, ♄ ♂ in ♎.

1599. Aug. 10. Great Storm, ☉ ♃ ☿ ☽ in ♌.

1601. Feb. 1. Sunday morn, Tempest of Wind beyond St. Gile's in the Fields, a Windmill broke. Stow. ☍ ♃ ♀ in ♓ & ♍.

Aug. 14, 24. Impetuous Winds, Whirlwind sink ships, Purch. 1604. ♃ ☿ in Aequator, ☉ in ♍, ♂ & ♀ in ♋.

Aug. 29. Sept. 8. T. M. Celeberrimus. From ♃ ☿ ☉ propè Aequatorem.

1606. Jan. 11. Hot Weather, 19 Whales and Porpoises, ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♒. ♄ ☽ opp. in Trop.

Aug. 4. Wind, Rain; very high Seas, ♃ opp. ☉ ☿ in ♌. ♄ opp. ♀ in Trop.

1607. Aug. 12, 13, 14, Rain without Intermission, Purch. 1. 796. ☍ ♃ ♀ ☉ ♂ ☽ in ♌. □ ♄ ♃:

1608. March 15. Current, ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♈, add ♄ ♂ in ♑.

June 2, 3, 4. Thunders and Rain felt by the Discoverers of Virginia, so that they called the Isles, Limbo, Capt. Smith, pag. 56. ♃ ♀ ☿ in ♉, add ♄ ♂ in ♒.

1609. May 3. St. No. At Nera, very great T. M: not unusual there, (but yet never comes without its Commission) Purch. 717. ♃ ☉ ☿ ☽ in ♉, add ♂ ♀ in ♊.

Die 13. Very much Ice, stiff Gale, ib. ♃ ☉ in princ. ♊.

Die 26. A Great Storm, we were not able to maintain a Sail, ib. 3. 581. ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♊, add ♂ ♀ in ♋.

June 12. T. M. in Nera insula iterùm Arthusius, ☌ ♃ ☿.

Nov. 29. Hard Gale all day, it proved a Storm at Night; Purch. 1. 204: ♃ in ♊ opp. ☉ ☿ in ♐.

Dec. 3. St. N. Glacies ubi nullus aspectus, saith Kepler, apud Eichstad, ♃ in ♊ opp. ☉ ☿ in ♐, there is Aspect enough.

1616. Jan 16, 26. Flying Storm out of the West, Wind high, and blew Water, Lat. N. 55. Purch. 1. 91. ♃ ♀ in ♐ fine.

1617. Hyems tepida, Kepler. ♃ ☉ ♀ in ♑. VI. of the Planets lie in this order, in Capricorn Three, in Aquary One, Pisces one, and this Last in a growing Opposition of ♂ in ♍ Stationary. So little need is there of Keplers occult Causes, if he had marked the Tepor die 19. where he would have seen the ☽ in ♋ covering the Three in ♑.

Jan. St. Vet. 6, 7, 8. Neb. continua. ♃ ☿ ☉ in ♑.

May 26. St. V. Tonitru Imber, K. ♃ in ♒ princ. opp. ♀ in ♋ fine.

June 5. 15. Tempestas Horrida, Fulgura, Tonitrua continua. Let any one note it, Friend or Foe, ♃ ♀ Both Stationary, in Opposition, in ♌ ♒ princ. More of the like nature, die 12, 13, &c. ♃ ♀ ☿ in opp.

June 23. July 3. Pertonuit, imbres, ♃ ☉ ♀.

June 29. July 9. Tonuit, imbres, ♃ ☉ ♀.

July 1. 11. Tonuit, Tempestuosum, Id.

Die 16. Squalor & Chasma, Id.

Die 7, 8. 17, 18. Tonitru imbres. ♃ ☉ ☽ ♀.

Die 10, 20. Pluvia Copiosiss. ♃ ☉ ♀.

Aug. 19. Iris ♃ ♑, opp. ♀ in princ. ♌.

Aug. 25. The Water of the Sea seemed almost as white as Milk, and so continued till day 30. (Note, No Ground could be found in that Water) C. Pring, Purch 1. 631. ♑ 22. ♃. ♋ 27. ♀ ♂ in princ. Add ♄ with the Pleiades ♉ 24. ♂ princ. ♏.

1618. March 7. Meteor near the Pallace at Paris, Howes ♒ 24, ♃ ♓ 9, ♀ stat. 13. ♀. 28. ♂.

July 14. 24. Two days after we were horribly toss'd, Trigaut. 1619. ♃ ♓ 6. opp. ♀ ♌ 21.

Aug. 15. ad Sept. 15. Famous Comet, while ☿ is near as ♀ is far, ♃ opp. ☉ ☿ in princ. ♍ ♀ in fine.

Die 16. Comet, Hevel. ♃ in ♓ opp. ♀ ☉ ☿.

1620. Novemb. intra dies 14. Diluviuum in monte Ferratensi, quo pagi integri hominesque non pauci aqua submersi Calvis. ♃ in ♉. opp. ☉ ☽ ☿ in princ. ♐.

Die 26. At New-England, Rain 6 or 7 hours nocte, Capt. Smith ♎ 27. ♀ ☿ 12. ♃; Add ☉ ☿ in ♐, ♄ in ♋.

Die 27, 28, 29. Comet in New-England, with Frosts; Thames was froze with us, ☍ ♃ ♀ intra gr. 14.

1621. May 21. In Burgundia, T. M. which Kepler saith was the Pro∣duct of ♄ ♂, but we also find ♊ 5. ♃ ☿ 27. ♀. but 8 gr. distance.

1626. March 29. Pluvia Aestus fulgura, ♃ opp. ☉ ♀ ☿.

April 25, 26. 28, 29. Tonitru venti Fulgur. Imbres, ♃ opp. ☉ ♀ ☿ in ♈.

Circa diem 28. T. M. in Calabria, you heard of it before in ☉ ♀, but you may give ♃ leave to oppose them, from ♎ 23. they lying in ♉ 16.

Sept. 4. Iris ante Sun ort. Kepl. ♀ a ♃ gr. 5. dist. Add ♄ ♂ in ♍.

Sept. 5. Ventus Decumanus, Kepl. ♃ ♀ intra gr. 4. ☿ gr. 12.

1627. June 27. Iris Kyr. ♃ 23. ♏ ♉ 2. ♀ ♃ ♊ o. Stationary ☿.

Dec. 17. Ventus Horribilis Strages dedit Sylvarum, & Aedificiorum per Bohemiam, Kepl. ☉ gr. 18. ☿ gr. 23. distant from ♃.

1628. June 8. Tempestuos. Tonitrua, Kepl. ♃ opp. ☉ ☿ in ♊.

June 16. T. M. at St. Michaels, and a New Island, Olear. ♃ ☽ in fine ♐ opp. ☿ ☉ in ♊. This is the Month wherein Kepler confesses the Influ∣ence of Tempestuous Fixed Stars, with an occult Subterranean Cause beside. For it seems there was so much wet throughout the Month, that it hindred the Harvest in Bohemia. These occult Causes is a skulking Principle.

Dec. 13. A••ra Pluvia. ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♑.

1629. June 14. Saeva Tempestas, ♒ 5. ♃: ♋ 11. ☿. cum opp. ☽ in ♌.

June 23. July 3. Tonitrua Crebra, ☍ ♃ ☿, add ☍ ♄ ♂, &c.

Die 28. July. 8. Tonitrua, Grando, ♃ ☽ opp. ☉ ♀ ☿.

Die 30. July 10. Iris; ☍ ♃ ☿.

July 12, 14, 15. Tonitru imbres, ☍ ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿.

Die 24. Aug. 3. Fulminati Homines, ♃ ☽ opp. ☉ ♀ in ♌.

Aug. Perscribitur ex Alpibus Rhetiis montem Shua, terrae motu utique fissum agros laté ruinis texisse, ♑ 29. ♃. ♌ 18. ☉. 26. ♀. The very day on which Kepler notes, Men were slain with Thunder. As in the former Earthquake I spake of, the same Hand notes, Globes of Fire; Such are the Created Powers above!

1630. Jan. 25. St. Vet. Chasma terribile seu ardens Coelum, ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♒.

1636. Jan. 27. Much Rain and Floud Norimberg. Kyr. ♃ princ. ♍. opp. ♀ prine. ♓.

Die 30. Rain, Snow, Thunder, and T. M. Kyr. ♃ opp. ♀, &c.

Feb. Mense. Baetis inundans cum magna strage, Fromond. ♃ opp. ♀, imò & ☉ & ☿.

May 30. Heat, black Rain, Thunder, Lightning, ♃ ♀ in ♌. Add ☉ ☿ in ♊

June 8, 9, 10. Heat, Thunder, Lightning, Rain, ♃ ♀ in ♌.

Die 15. Night Thunder and great Rain. So die 25. ♃ ♀ intra gr. 12.

July 1, 2. Rain and Thunder, ♃ ♀ in princ. ♍.

Die 5, 7, 8, 10. Much Rain, and Storms of Wind, ♃ ♀ ut supra.

Die 20. Much Rain and great. ☿ ♃ ♀.

Die 30. Tempest, at Petsora, Olear, ☿ ♃ ♀ in ♍.

Aug. 7. Tempest forced us to cast Anchor. ☉ ☿ in fin. ♌. ♃ princ. ♍.

Die 11. Current forced the Ship to the Shore, Olear; ♍ 11. ♃. ♎ 4. ♀ stat

Die 27. Much Rain, ♃ ☉ circa med. ♍.

Sept. 7. ad 9. Tempest and a Violent Current, ♍ 17. ♃ ☿ 29. ♀.

Sept. 14. Tempest forced us to cast Anchor, ♃ ♀ ☿ in fine ♍.

Die 16. Iris, Storm and Lightning, with gr. Rain and T. M. Kyr. ♃ ♀ in fine ♍ ☉ ☿ prope Aequatorem.

Octob. 22. Tempest lasted 5 days, Olear. ♃ ♀ ☉ in fine ♍.

1637. Sept. 1. Terrible Flouds in East Friesland, Kyr. ♃ ♀ in princ. ♎. ☉ ☿ in ♍.

1638. March 7. Very great Tempest nocte, Olear. ☍ ♃ ♀ in ♍. ♀ stat.

Die 17. ad 24. T. M. in Calubria, Kyr. ☍ ♃ ♀ in ♏ ♉ ♀ Station.

Note it lasted a Week, in which time the ☽ affects all the Planets concer∣ned, ♄ excepted; for it opposes ☿ die 17, 18. it opp. ☉ die 19, 20. it joyns with ♃ the next 3 days, and opp. ♀, and the last day it joyns with ♂, the ☽ is on the same place here, as it was at the last Earthquake in the year 1636. on Sept. 16.

May 3. Ascension Day, Wallingford Church fired by Lightning; Wilsford. ☍ ♃ ♀ intra gr. 9.

June 11. T. M. in Calab••it again, with Thunder, ♂ in ♐ opp. ☉ in Tropic. yea ♃ opp. ♀ at 20 gr. distance.

1639. May 13. Ole••••. At Night the Wind so violent, as if the Elements were near the Resolution into their first Chaos. ☍ ☉ ♃ ♀.

Sept. 23. T. M. in Italy, Kyr. ☌ ♃ ♀ circa princ. ♐. Here note the Fixed that are concerned, ♀ opp. the Pleiades and ♃ the Hyades. So did ♃ opp. the Pleiades in an Earthquake, Dec. 19. in the year before which we willingly omitted, because there was no other notable Circum∣stances concerning ♃.

Octob. 15, 16, 17. Very great Heats, Lat. S. ••6. ♃ ♀ in ♐. ☉ ☽ ☿ in ♎ Olear.

Oct. 21. Great Firy Chasme, Kyr. ♐ S, ♃ 16. ♀, add ♂ ☿ in ♎.

Die 24. Chasma, Kyr. ♐ 8. ♃ 18. ♀.

Octobris mense, Inundation, Kyr. ♃ ♀ in ♐. ♂ ☿ in ♎.

Dec. 6. A Storm, Olear. ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ in ♐.

Die 24. A dreadful Tempest, insomuch that 24. Ships cut off their Masts' being in the Downs, Olear. ☉ ☽ ☿ in ♑. ♃ ♀ in ♐. ☿ Stat.

Die 27. Lambeth. A Violent Tempest, that many of the Boats which were drawn up to Land at Lambeth were dasht in pieces; the Shafts of Two Chimnies were blown down upon the Roof of the Archbishop's Chamber; one of the Pinacles of Croydon Church was blown down; and another at Canterbury. Dr. Heylin's Hist. Presbyt. and R. B. S. pag. 64. & 65. ♃ ♀ circa Trop. ♄ ♀ in ♒.

1640. June 12. Iris. ☍ ♃ ☉ ex una parte, ♀ ex altera.

Die 26. Thund. Wolkenbruck, Gusts and Cataracts, ☍ ♃ ♀ ☿ in Trop. Add ♄ ♂. This Rule holds for Flouds, for the like comes again in a Fort-night:

1641. Jan. 25. Thunder. ♑ 25, ♃ 21, ☿.

Feb. 7. Auster Validus & Frigidus, ♑ 29. ♃. ♒ 6. ☿.

Aug. 24. ad 31. Much Rain, with Thunder and Lightning.

Die 29. Iris. Sept. 18. vesp. Lightning and Rain.

☍ ♃ ♀ in princ ♒ & ♌

1644. Octob. 1. Flood in Spain, ♏ 12. ☿. ♊ o. ♃.

Nov. 17. Parelia tria Londini.

Die 18. Snow and Storm.

♏ 15. ☿. ♉ 25. ♃.

1645. July 3. Thunder, Hail and much Rain, ♃ ♊ 21. ☿ in princ. ♋.

Nov. 15. Disease in the Parliament Army near Exeter, died 7, 8, 9 on a day, Sprig. ♋ 4. ♃. 8. ♀.

1646. May 4. Harmful Thunder, ☿ 15. ♊. ♃ 5. ♋. Add ♄ ♀ in ☌.

Die 20. Iris, T. M. in Apulia & Calabria. ♊ 20. ☿ ♋ 12. ♃.

1646. June 23. Terrible Thunder, ♊ 20 ☿. ♋ 16. ♃. add III in ♉.

July 24. Great Current, gr. Meteors ab occ. in or. ♃ ☉ ☿ in fine ♋.

Die 11, 12. Thunder, ♋ 17. ☿. 20 ♃. 28. ☉.

Aug. 10. High Wind and a very great Sea, ☌ ♃ ♀ in ♋.

Die 17. Marseilles, Lightning kill'd 3 Men in the Port, ♋ 27. ♃ 24. ♀.

1647. Sept. 29. Marenburg in Persia, Comet, Hevel. ♍ o. ♃ 28. ☿.

1649. Feb. Fire reported seen at Bristol, and it rained Blood at Gloucester, ☍ ♃ ♀ near the Aequinox; add ☌ ♂ ♃.

I shall make no Affidavit to the Truth of the Report, I well remember I thought it not impossible in such prodigious Regicide times to put us in mind a little of what we are guilty. The Aspect, I'le tell ye, favours the Affirmative: For the like Instance we have met before, A^o 1568. But we shall see of this Nature hereafter.

1650. Apr. 29. Formidable Thunder and Rain near Leicester especially, Wilsford. ♉ 29. ☿. ♊ 2. ♃. add ☌ ☉ ♀ in ♉.

Dec. 10. Northampton, T. M. Calvis. Appendix. ♃ ☿ ☉ in ♏ 28. ♐ 11. &c.

1652. Comet about Orion's Buckler and Shoulders, ☍ ♃ ☿ ☉ in ♑ & ♋. add ☍ ♃ ♄. 12. years hence you will have the like, A^o 1664. a Sign that ♃ is one that belongs to the Mint. See in ♃ ♂. Some there are that have thought it is the same with that in 1665. Transact. p. 18. That is tosay, as the Thames is the same River which it was twelve year ago, no otherwise. They may as well say Earthquakes too, at such a distance are the same.

1655. May 1, 2, 3. Excessive Hot, ♃ ☿ in ♈, &c.

1656. May 20. Rain'd Wheat at Eardington near Oxford, of a Blew Var∣nish, and a Sulphurious tast. ☌ ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿; add ☌ ♄ ♂. This I saw, and the like we meet with elsewhere.

Octob. 17. Tempest of Wind, ☌ ♃ ☿ ♀.

1657. July 18. South Ley in Oxfordshire, a Man slain with Lightning, ☌ ♃ ♀ in Trop. ☍ ♄ ♂.

1658. June 4. Violent Showrs, ☌ ♃ ☿, &c.

July 19. Frequent Meteors, ☌ ♃ ☿, add ☌ ♂ ♀.

1660. Octob. 3. At Hull 2 m. A great Sheet of Fire S E. it grew Light, that they could read a small Print half an hour, Annus mirab. ☌ ♃ ☿ in ♎. This (I suppose) is what the Germans call a Chasme.

Die 30. In Hertfordshire Caelum Ardens, Annus Mirab. ☌ ♃ ♀, add ☌ ♄ ♂.

Nov. 11. Rain, High Wind and Hail frequent, ☌ ♃ ♀, add ☌ ♂ ☉.

1661. April 11. Frequent Lightnings and Meteors, ☍ ♃ ♀.

Sept. 29. Sad Rain and Inundations in Severn, ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♎, ☽ ad fin. ♈. Transact. 2067.

Octob. 11. House burnt by Lightning, ☌ ♃ ☉ ☿.

1664. June 7. Harm done by Lightning near Charing Cross, ☍ ♃ ☿. ☌ ☉ ♄.

Die 19. Great Thunder and Hail 2 p. ☍ ♃ ☉ ☿.

1666. July 31. Clouds riding against the Wind, proved a Storm of Rain and Thunder, ☍ ♃ ♀ in Aequatore.

1668. Dec. 17. Hail, Rain, Thunder, Lightning, ☌ ♃ ☿.

Die 18. Rain all Night, Flouds in the Morn. ☌ ♃ ♀.

1669. July 10. Drought, so in France. ♃ in ♊, ☉ ♂ ♀ ☿ in ♋.

Dec. 24. A most noted intolerable Frost this, and the day before, ☍ ♃ ☿ ☉.

1670. Jan. 7. Harmful Tempest about day break, S W. ♋ 8. ♃. ♑ 10. ☿ 23 ☉.

July 7. Heat, Sickly Time, Feavers, Sly. ♋ 26. ♃. 24. ☉. ☿ and ☽ in princ. ♌. ☿ Retr.

8. Dash of Rain and Thunder 2 p.

11. Iris. gr. Showr 6 p.

15. Cold, dashing 5 p. S W. ♃ ♋ 28. ☉ ☿ princ. ♌.

18. Lightning nocte. ♃ ☿ ♋ 29. ☉ in princ. ♌.

1671. Jan. 17. Very Tempestuous night and day, ♃ ♌ opp. ☉ ♀ ☿.

22. Tempest of Wind ante lucem, idem Aspect.

1675. June 1. Thunder near Windsor, ♐ 13. ♃ ♊ 11. ☿ 20. ☉.

12. Much Rain a 9 p. ad 12. ♃ ♀ intra gr. 20.

1677. Jan. 1. Frosty, Hundreds pass over the Thames, ♃ in princ. ♒ gr. 9. dist. a ☉. ☿ gr. 19.

1678. Jan. 18. Tempest of Lightning, Thunder, and Hailstones very large. Narrative. So at the Downs. ♃ ♓ 2. ☿ intra gr. 10. ♀ in fine.

Die eodem. 17 Men struck with Lightning a Shipboard at Cowes by the Isle of Wight.

Die 31. Falmouth, very tempestuous, ♃ ☿ princ. ♃ Retr.

1678. Septembris fine, Inundation, Transact. p. 9. ☍ ♃ ♀ ♓ ♍.

1679. April 6, 16. News of an Earthquake in Piedmont, a Town called Rosia sunk into the Earth, about a Hill. Two Persons of 200 escaped, Gazet. 1401. ♃ ☉ ☿ in fin. ♈.

April 15. Comet. ♈ 21. ♃ ♉ 5. ☉ 16. ☿ &c.

1680. March 23. Vesuvius throws out Fire and Stones. ♃ 13. ♉ 26. ☽ ☿ 27. ♈ 13. ☉. Both ☉ and ☿ within the Bounds that I assign for In∣fluence on these great Products.

April 9. News from Smyrna of a T. M. which overturned a Hill, and overwhelmed a Village, ♃ ☿ in fin. ♉. ☉ in princ. Here say I, our Pla∣nets had a hand in both Earthquakes, or neither.

1680. Nov. 21. Comet, ♃ in ♊ opp. ☉ ☿ in ♐.

1681. March 27. High Wind, Cold, Snow 7 and 8 m. Winter Weather, ♀ ♊ 2. ♃ 11. ☽ ♏ 26. □ ♄ ☉.

Apr. 1. Romae Septentrion. versus Cometa major lucidiorque nupero. ♀ ♊ 8. ♃ 12.

April 16. Halo circa Solem, cum aliquibus minoribus Iridum instar. Extraora. Relat. Numb 35. ♃ 15. ♊ 22. ♀.

Die 22. Ex inferiore tractu Albis Ruricolae queruntur ex anni siccitate, gran∣dem Scarabeorum invalescere numerum, qui delicatum Arborum florem abradit. Diocesis Bremensiis tristiùs conqueritur, de inusitato murium Numero, qui segetem

radicitus abradunt. Relat. Extraord. Num. 32. ♊ 16. ♃ 29. ♀. ♃ in ♊ is apt to bring a Drought.

May 1. One slain with Lightning at Stepney. ♊ 18. ♃. ♋ 6. ♀.

Die 3. Lately T. M. in Zealand, and Star extraordinary for 3 Nights, ♊ 19. ♃. ♋ 7. ♀.

Die 5. This Night following a general Blite which blited all the Wal∣nut Trees.

Die 22. At St. John's Town in Scotland, unusual Hail, Rain with Thunder, T. M. for a quarter of an Hour. Benskin's Intelligence. ♃ 23. ♊ 11. ☉. opp. by ☽ in ♐. Yea, add ♄ ♃.

Some few Additionals.

1527. May 27. Heidelberg, the Old Castles Magazin fired with Lightning, Lyc. ♊ 28. ♃ 13. ☉. ♀ & ☿ in princ. ♋.

1542. Aug. 5. Lat. 41. West-Indies, a Tufon from the South, the Winds, Rains seeming more than Natural, we threw all into the Sea, cut both our Masts overboard. Our Bark next day split on a Rock. Purch. III. 263. ♃ 29. ♍ 16. ☿. not without ♄ and ♂ in ♏.

1655. May 17. In Thuringia and elsewhere, a Floud so Famous, that the Writer Lyc. in his declining Age reckons it thrice, deceived, I suppose, by the Variety of the Places from whence the News come. ☉ in princ. ♊. ♀ in fine, ♃ in princ. ♋.

1557. June 2. Yarmouth, Tempest and much Rain, Jenkinson in Hakl: 334. ♑ 4. ♃ ♊ 6. ♀ 20. ☉ 23. ☿.

1589. October 9. Tercera, 11 Ships sunk by foul Weather, the rest scat∣tered by a Storm. Purch. IV. 1673. ♎ 4. ♃ 25. ☉ 28. ☿.

1591. Apr. 17. I saw four great Spouts in the Afternoon, but thanks be to God they came not near us, Hakl. 132. ♃ in ♏ opp. ☉ ♀ in ♉. not without ♄ and ♂ ☽ in a Tropical opp.

1596. May. Foul Weather, Drake in Hakl. 3. 589. ♃ ♈ 25. ☿ in princ. ♉.

1597. June 5. St. N. Foul Weather, with great store of Hail and Snow, near Nova Zembla, Purch. III. 536, ♉ 28. ♃. ♊ 2 ♀, 12, ☿ 14, ☉. Add ♄ ☿ in fine ♐.

1599. May 27. Whit S. Great Rain and high Winds. Stow. ♋ 9. ♀ 20. ♃.

1601. Sept. 10, 20. Encountred with a Terrible Tempest, Purch. III. 712. ♎ 2. ♃. ♍ 7. ☉. 24. ☿.

1627. April 18. Thunder, Rain, Kyr. ♃ ☉ ☿ opp.

May 5. Rain and Thunder, Kyr. ♃ ☉ ☽ opp.

7, 8. Thunder, Rain, ♃ ☉ prope Pleiad.

21. Thunder, Rain, Wolkenbruck, ♃ ☿.

30. Thunder and Rain, Kepl. ♏ 23, ♃. ♉ 5. ♀.

June 5. Thunder and great Rain, ♃ ♀ ☿.

13, 14. Thunder, and Gross Wasser Schlag, ♃ ♀ ☿.

1628. June 20. Storm, Wind, ♃ ☉ ☿.

22. Rain nocte tot. ♃ ☉ ☿ ☽.

24. Thunder and much Rain, ♃ ☉ ☿.

Nov. 30. Much Snow, ♃ ☉ ☿.

Dec. 7. Much Rain, ♃ ☉ ☿ ☽.

1629. June 21. Thunder and Lightning. ♃ ☉ ♀ ☽.

1630. Aug. 21, 22. Thunder and much Rain, ♃ ☉ ☿.

1634. July 13, 14. Rainy, ♃ ☉ ☿ ☽.

1635. June 24. & 29. Stark Rain and Thunder, ♃ ☉ ☿.

1637. Octob. 6. Stark Rain and Thunder nocte. ♃ ☉ ☽.

1638. Sept. 20. Stormy and Rain, ♃ ☿.

26. Much Rain Through and Through, says the Dutchman, Kyr. ♃ ♀.

30. Much Snow, ♃ ☉ ☿ ☽.

Oct. 6, 18, 20, 21. Stormy. ♃ ☉ ☿.

§ 1. So have ye our Forein Diary, with some glances by the By of seve∣ral Instances, perhaps not unworthy Consideration; now that the Reader may see we are in earnest; let him be pleased to trace this Diary by these Steps; the leading Aspect is ♃ and ☉; here you find Storms, Aug. 4. 1588.

§ 2. The next Step is ♃ ♀, here we find Storms, A^o 1548. 1549. April 10. 1610. Feb. 1. 1616. Jan. 16, 1618. July 14. 1626. Sept. 15. 1636. July 5, 7, 8, 10. 1638. March 7. 1639. Dec. 27. 1646. Aug. 10. 1660. Nov. 11. In Number 15.

§ 3. The 3d. step is ♃ ☉ ♀; here we find Storms, 1655. Nov. 7. 1636. Oct. 22. 1639. May 13.

§ 4. Next comes ☿, and he makes some bussle too. First, with ♃ alone, as may be seen, A^o 1525. 1529. Feb. 4. 1558. June 9. 1601. Aug. 14. 1641, Feb. 7. 1638. Sept. 20.

§ 5. And yet more bussling with ☉ and ♃. A^o 1501. 1527. July 1. Once or twice, 1549. A^o 1555, and twice in Novemb. 1556. Once in Jan. 1558. then in 1576. 1580. June 6. A^o 1587. July 12. 1588. Sept. 2. 1589. Feb. 24. 1590. Sept. 15. 1606. Aug. 4. 1609. May 26. and Nov. 19. A^o 1626. Dec. 17. 1636. Aug. 7. 1630. Jan. 7.

§ 6. ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿. Now this is according to our Doctrine premis'd, Congress of many Planets in one Sign, Chap. 13. ••3. And who knows but the Planet may be termed, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 upon an audible account from his raising of Winds (in these Circumstances) as Iris is a messenger upon a more Visible account. Some good Learning may be produced to back this Fancy, but we pass it, and take notice, that if ♃ ☉ and ☿ raise Storms, wet or dry, besure ♃ ☉ ♀ and ☿ will raise their Tumult. A^o 1539. Dec. 17. 1541. Feb. 19. A^o 1555. 163. Dec. 6. & bis in Jan. 17. 1671. ♃ ☉ and ☿ § 5. out-does the rest you see, and the next is ♃ ♀ in § 2.

§ 7. Further, ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ and ☽, Five of the Planetary Consort, cannot be wanting to disturb the Air, as A^o 1502. 1576. Sept. 7. 1589. Aug. 17. 1639. Dec. 24. Nay they would do more than any Congress yet menti∣oned, but that Reason tells us, that Four or Five can't agree to meet, so easily as Two or Three can.

§ 8. Other Mixtures there are, which must not be thrown away: as ♃ ☿ ☽, 1629. June 14. ♃ ♀ ☽, 1596, & ♃ ♀ ☿, 1636. July 30. Sept. 7. bis. 1656. Oct. 16. ♃ ☉ ☿ ☽. 1599. Aug. 10. ♃ ♀ ☿ ☽, 1549. 1567. Sept. 7.

§ 9. Now seeing we have allotted the Preeminence, where 'tis due, we may consider the Aspects promiscuously, since they all agree in Turbulen∣cy and Storm. Here, blowing Men overbord, breaking their Fore-yards, Main yards, and in dispersing Fleets, which too often never meet. Storms that throw down Spires of lofty Towers, A^o 1529. Tempest that Roots up Trees. Sept. 7. 1567. and demolishes Houses a Kingdom throughout, 1627. That makes poor Mariners yield themselves to Mercy, when they ly a Try, as they call it, a drift, I think they mean, not able to main∣tain a Sail, 1609. Tempests threatning a Resolution of the Universe into the Old Chaos, 1639. such things will be, notwithstanding ☿'s dwarf Stature, and the others Smooth face, sometimes take place.

§ 10. There is a Hurricane or two would not be passed over; One French, Three English, A^o 1567. Sept. 7. 1576. 1601. and the Lambeth Hur∣ricane. For the First, we have heard of it before in ♄ ☉; now, in ♃ ♀, not without ☿. For the 2d. we shall find it in ♄ ♂, which then it seems could do nothing without ♃ ♀. March 7. 1576. The Poor Miller, which in the 3d. Hurricane had ♃ ♀, with ☉ and ♂ to Divorce his Millstones.

Febr. 1601. Add that dreadful one in Bohemia, A^o 1627. Dec 27.

§ 11. But the Ominous Tempest at Lambeth A^o 1639. was the first that con∣vinced me, that there may be Hurracanes even in England. I have trepass'd against some learned Men, who will admit of no such Heathen Trumpe∣ry, as an Omen. But I speak the Sence of the Learned Reporter who was an excellent Historian, and may be, made as much use of it as ano∣ther. Yet our business is to assign the Cause, which we say, (as far as it is to be discoursed of here) was ♄ and ☿, super-added to ♃ and ♀. No other Conjunctions are near. A great Instance of the Imperfection of that Astrology, which reduceth all to Partile Aspects; when, the Lunar excepted, there is not a Partile Conjunction or Opposition within 3 Weeks on either side. But, according to our Hypothesis, if there can be no Storm of the most inferiour rate, without a meeting, (besides ☉ and ☿, for they are ready at all times) I was going to say of the Superiors, one or more, either with themselves, or with the Inferiours, within Thirty degrees. You may guess that an Astrologer has enough to do in a Large and No∣ble Field, such as (to Prophesie for once) joyned with good Literature in after Ages may be valued. If this be an excursion, let it be pardoned, Proviso, that we remember that our Planets have the great hand in this remarkable Tempest, as will infallibly appear by the Moons place, where? But in Opposition to them Both. In what Signs? In ♊ and ♐. And have I not desired our Gentle Objectors but lately, to study the Sign ♊? Doth not the more gentle Reader remember those Arch Birds have been often brought before him for Riot and Tumult?

§ 12. As to the Rains and Flouds, which appear, we impute them as we do the Winds, to our Aspects, not simply, but under such Circumstances met. 1. Such as A^o 1551. May 17. before Whitsunday at Kitting, Chesen∣fort, Rottolsee, &c. Lyc. 613. ♊ 23, ♀. ♋ 3, ♃. Jan. 13. 1569. at Lovain, ♃ ☿ Tropic.

2. A^o 1599. May 27. Whitsunday Great Rain and High Winds, Hows. ♋ 9. ♀ 20. ♃.

3. A^o 1636. Jan. fine, the Dutch have it Gross Wasser Fluch, Kyr. Fromond speaks of one in Spain, in Febr. ♓ 1, ♀. ♍ 1. ♃. So Sept. 1. 1577. in East Frisland, &c.

§ 13. But Oh the Spouts, the Cataracts, 1591, April 17. 1627. May 21. & Aug. 14. the Dutch call them Wolkenbrucks. What groveling Philosophy can give an account of them? Who dares venture on them? 'Tis enough to make a Peripatetick confess the shortness of his Notions, enough to break a Novelist; especially in those at Sea, where the Water is seen to run up in a Body through an Airy Cylinder, as if it were one of Archimedes's Engines. Who says 'tis done With a Whirlwind, may speak Truth, but doth not cease to wonder, I hope. For if a pro∣found Vortex of Air by its Force, though not by its Density, can prop up a Lake of Waters in the Atmosphere, how can it insinuate it self into the Profundity of the Sea, to bear up such a quantity into its unnatural place? But I answer, 'tis an Immane Force, for so we read at home, as well as in France, that Whirlwinds have torn up Trees; nay, and removed them; twisted the Trunks so torn, and folded up the Leaden Coverings of Chur∣chos. Is all this Natural? Who knows but it may, if it be Celestial? Now, A^o 1591. April 17. our Planets are opposed: so are-hey again, June 26. 1640. not without ♄ and ♂, as the Table Confesses.

§ 14. This puts in mind to run over our Thunders, and here we find ♃ and ☿ to bring us about IX. years, viz. 1586. 1627. 1629. 1641. 1645. 1646. 1660. 1964. 1678. Then ♃ ☉ and ☿ do exceed a little, and bring us XI. 1528. 1519. bis. 1590. 1627. 1628. 1630, 1646. 1664. 1670. 1675.

While ♃ ♀ (odds though it be, Two to Three) bring XXII. wiz. 1521.

1526. 1535. 1537. 1548. 1596. 1617. bis. 1618. 1636. turbulent years, and so on in the Table. But the reason of this Excess we have given, because ♃ and ♀ meet oftner than ♃ ☉ and ☿ can; please you to see the other mix∣tures of ♃ ☉ ☽, that brings us some murmurs, A^o 1627. 1681. ♃ ☉ ♀ bring us III. (☿ is always so near at hand, when ☉ ♀ meet.) ♃ ☉ ☿ bring us XI. ♃ ☉ ♀ ☽ as many, ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ IV. Wee'l tell you but one Story from Hakluit, (of which our Diary is silent, Sept. 18. 1591). of a Clap of Thunder at Sea, that slew Four Men outright, their Necks being wrung aside; and of 92 Persons not one untoucht, Lancasters Voyage, Part 2. pag. 104. This is what I called Immane Force, and I ascribe it to the Immane illustrious Bodies over our Heads. Here is not only ☌ of ♃ and ♀. which may be, has got some repute now, but also an ☍ of ♄ and ♂; of which Complicate Congress you have had some late great Examples. This we do not to forestall that Aspect when it comes, but to prepare us for it, and to do some kind of Right to ♃ and ♀. I tell you t'other Story, from Lyc. Feb. 10. 1548. In Saxonia Ignis Caelestis visus in aliquot Urbes incidere. Here is the same accident, a ☌ of ♃ and ♀ again, secon∣ded by an Aspect of ♄ and ♂; the last was on ☍, and this a ☌ Firing of Magazines is ordinary; we have 4 or 5 Instances.

§ 14. Our Eyes opened by such Instances, made me affirm that ♃ and ♀ carryed Lightning in their Faces. They have a Nitrous Aspect, which helps to the quickness of the Flame, especially ♃; for ♀ seems to have a more unctuous Creamy Flame; as I fancy in the Brighter Trajections, while the Smaller Meteors look red and coalish, but no Trajection me∣thinks resembles ♃.

§ 15. I am not engaged to discourse the Thunderball which entred the Church, nor of the remarkable Chance, that at the Very time, the Dis∣course of the Doctor was concerning Spirits. The Vulgar are apt to make wrong Consequences from such Premises. Divine Wisdom had reason so to do, it may be, to convince some Sceptical Auditors from such co∣incident Circumstances.

§ 16. More is it to my purpose, to desire you to observe what Dr. Dee's Ephemeris tells us, That the Fax ardens was seen under ♃, of the same Altitude (in respect of the Horizon) and Longitude. 'Tis a great Note, and I have often observed the like to my great satisfaction and conviction, with∣out any Item given from the Annotation. Where note that the distance of ♃ and ♀ at that Meteor, Mirae Longitudinis, as he calls it, was Co∣metical; the same I mean, as is found oft-times, when Comets are produced; because we are next to speak of Them.

§ 17. Now least any should think the Distance of our Planets, here ob∣served, is unreasonable wide, I shall offer an Instance in Feb. 7. St. No. 1617. where ♃ and ☿ are 28 degrees distant on the day when it Light∣ned, and a great Fireball is noted by Kepler: and answer, I should have thought so too, but that I find again in Feb. 12. 1641. a Thunder, noted when ♃ was in ♑ 29. and ☿ in ♒ 15. I acknowledge This is not so wide a di∣stance. But do not the Winters Thunder in the same February, near the same day in the same Signs, though not quite the same distance, argue somewhat for us? It must needs do so. For ♃ and ☿ are found in these Signs but once in Twelve year, and twice in 24 year; we find such Positions to Thunder in February. Is there no Contribution then toward such an unseasonable Tumult? Never let us distance it; no, not at the Di∣stance of 28 degrees, since 'tis the same distance as is noted for Turbulent, under the Notion of One Planet at the entrance of a Sign, and another at the Close: Yea, note again a good time that ♑ and ♒ in February, as ♑ and ♌ in August, are Positions disposing to Thunder, Witness one Evi∣dence

more from A^o 1649. in the Thunder at Mechlin; that Mechlin which is noted twice for the same Meteor in our Table.

§ 18. But what shall we do for the III. Corpo Santo's? for I shall with the Vulgar Mariner abroad, take them to be Saints too, but for the Dimness of their Light, and perhaps their Superfluous Number, if there be no Na∣tural cause for them, more than the working of the Ship, and the Pitchy Effluvia of the Board and Tackle; for then in all mighty Storms they would be conspicuous, and so disabuse the distressed Seaman from his Super∣stition, but seeing 'tis not so, there is some more secret disposition of the Air toward the Generation of such Lights. I am willing perhaps to re∣duce it to other Aspects; but when I observe the Situation of our ☌ in ♓ and ♍, I cannot exclude our Configuration. Some Observers, nicer than I, would take some notice of an Instance of Harmless Thunder, Great yet Harmless, A^o 1589. And again, Harmless Earthquake. Well fare the Principle, say I, that will give Light to Mortal Eyes in this Affair! Ob∣serve 'tis a ☌ first, which is less Violent than an ☍. Secondly, 'tis in So∣litary Aspects, for when others are in place where, Thunder is Harmless, as in May 4. 1646. But what it may be more, I promise nothing, for Terce∣ra's, and other places sakes. See Oct. 2. 1589.

Now for Comets. § 19. How? Stella Nova, A^o 1572. among them? Do we make no more of it then than so? As before p. 313. that's a new Device, and a bold one. Ricciolus is more wary, who treateth of them apart with grea∣ter Caution; I answer, He doth well, and so do others it may be. But who can help it, if a new Star degrades it self so far as to appear in the company of a Meteor: He must stand to all hazards, and come by some disgrace thereby, unless he hath somewhat to shew of a higher Original: Even the case almost of the Goose and the Swan, if the Swan can shew no more than a longer Neck, He may be taken for the same Species. There∣abouts lies the Decision.

§ 20. But before we come to this, let me separate the Meteors, the Co∣mets, I should say, of this Table, into two sorts, e'rewhile upon a ☌, otherwhile upon an ☍ of our Planets; perhaps the new Star in Cassiopeia will make some amends for the Readers Patience. Go to then: The First Conjunctional Comet noted, happens to shew it self in ♌, and tend to ♍. A^o 1506. Comets with us, and with every man else, are nothing but the Effluvia of the Planetary Bodies, at such times, and at such Positions, as are apt to make such Impressions. And say from our Table; Is not our ☌ ♃ ♀ in in the Sign ♏, Grad. 13. ♀ Grad. 20. ♃. Shall we before the due time give you the whole of this Comet where the Star first appeared; We shall but betray his Original, for ☉ ♄ and ☿ are in ♌, ♃ and ♀ in ♏, ♂ in ♎, an intermediate Sign. Are we not taught that the Comets passed from III. Planets to II. then as the Train lay, from ♌ to ♍. And did it not first shew it self Aug. 8. when the ☽ came to fortifie ♂ by Opposition? You will say I ascribe it to All; very good: and therefore I prove it of each. At present of ☌ ♃ ♀, and that in ♍. Now this Comet appea∣red upon Conjunctions mostly, but one Opposition, and that Lunar. It comes into my head, that these Conjunctional Comets, generated by meer Conjunctions, I say, for the most part are but short liv'd. This lasted but its Week.

Now, if any, not exercised in the Doctrine of the Sphear, should ask me how this Meteor should be seen, being in the same Sign with ☉, the Globe will inform him, that though the parts of the Sign near the Eclip∣tick, or the ☉s place, set with the ☉, yet in the Horizon of Europe, the more Northern parts nearer the Ecliptical Pole, never descend under the Horizon. A great Notandum for those who take Pleasure, to observe the

Dependants of these Meteors upon their Sources, the Planets, which very often are found to appear in the same Sign, as they do often in the Oppo∣site.

§ 21. The next, A^o 1512. of which we have no distinct account, only that it appeared in March and April; mark, if a ☌ ♃ ♀ doth not happen, and that in the Sign ♓ yea, was not the last in ♍? Which every body knows is opposite to ♓; and therefore is in part the same (the two extreams be∣ing united in the Radiation.) Now if it lasted longer, my observation takes place here also, viz. that it is not a meerly Conjunctional Comet, since we find an Opposition of ☉ and ♄ ♀ ☿, as by the way, you may note, there was before ☌ of the same ☉ ♄, but ☌s do not give so long date we have said.

§ 22. That of 1516. brings not any particular account with it, and there∣fore cannot expect any from us. The general Truth is most plain, for 'tis not only a Single ☍ of ☉ ♃; but a Triple ☍ ♃ to ☉, ☿ and ♀ in ♋ and ♑. And so let our Table be corrected.

§ 23. That of 1521. in the Month of April, has an Opposition of ♃ and ♀ in ♊ and ♐, and so it got into our Table. But the Place of the Co∣met consider'd, is said to be the end of ♋. And is not the Planet ♂ at the entrance of the Month, at the end of ♋, and the beginning of ♌ opposed by ♄? By the greater right therefore it seems to belong to that ☍.

§ 24. For that of 1527. Dec. 11. noted by Creusser in Gemma. The Reader may guess what Faith we give to the report, when he shall find with us, that the same Celestial Causes are on Foot, as were found busie 11 years ago, viz. ♃ ☍ ☉ ☿ in ♋ and ♑. But the Truth is, upon better Inspection, they allow this Meteor to be but of short continuance. And that Terrible Appearance to date it self in Aug. as perhaps we may see in ♃ and ♂.

§ 25. For that which the Table takes notice of, Jan. 18. 1528. we have assigned it the same Original with that in the close of the last year, and tru∣ly the Illustrious ☍ ♃ and ♀, ♀ stat. does highly perswade. But the Co∣met appeared in ♓, Well and good; for on the 18th day ♂ is an near the Fishes in ♒, as he was near the other Comet in ♌, A^o 1521. Beside, Comets, as I take it, use to lodge between their Planetary Sires, as here between ♀ and ♄.

§ 26. The next is that of 1532. Sept. 23. which lasted to Nov. 20. That's well and particular; yea, to Dec. 8. says Fracastorius; which according to Appian, who has described part of it, it began in ♍, and by Oct. 14. got into ♎, by the beginning of Nov. into ♏, a Star thrice as big as ♃. How many Proofs have we here of its Original, common to other Fiery Meteors? Which ought to be argued; First, from the Concomitants of such Appearances, as Inundations, &c. if we may believe the report of Rochenback. Next, from the ☌ ☉ ♂ in ♎, at that time observed, not by us, but by the Age then in being, happening on the very Birth-day of the Meteor; and the Observation proves to be good, only (to accomplish it;) they should have said a ☌ of ☉ and ♂ (Partile) and ☿ (Platique though he be) for Three Planets in ♎, as well as other Signs, always conduce: Then comes our Planets, ♀ in the beginning of ♏ Stationary, and ♃ to∣ward the end, viz. ♏ 24. Who hath so good a Memory to remember that part of the Eclyptique which it respects, and what 'tis joyned with? And doth not Appian's Observation tell us, that beginning in ♍, it pass'd through ♎, and as far as the 3. of ♏. This was Nov. 8. within gr. 8. Lon∣git. of ♂. Where would you have Comets to be? In the Mouths of the Planets? Is there not sufficient Neighbourhood betwixt the Generant, and Generatum! Trust me, our Planet ♀ runs back to a ☌ with ♂ in ♎, and

holds there till the 25 of Nov. the same are the Causes of Existence, and Conservation. But why should it begin in ♍? I answer, 'tis well if I can guess why it should make hast into ♎, then, to ♏. I don't pretend to be a Revea∣ler of all Mysteries. I have said that Comets us'd to be generated in the mid place, between the Planets. I consider'd, that Two hours before the ☉ rise, the ☽ was the same Sign with ♄, as well as ♂ in the same Sign with ☉. The beginning of ♍, where the Comet first started, is aequidistant from ♋ 21. (the place of the ☽ at that time in the morn) and ♂ with ☉ on the other hand. For the expiration of the Comet, Dec. 8. consider that in the end of Nov. ♂ and ☿ were scarce past that degree of ♏, where ♃ kindled it; but about Dec. 8. when ♃ and ☿ were past the Opposal of the Hyades, and ♂ knocking off, there the Fewel fail'd. Yea, but this seems a Conjunctional Comet, and so by our Principle it should not last; I answer, I am not over-fond of that Notion of mine, and then I say it may be reckoned Oppositional, in respect of the Fixed Stars, Pleiades and Hyades, which carry a great stroke in the Nativity and Life of this Meteor, as any man who observes the Er∣ratick Motions, may confess.

§ 27. The Comets of 1533. & 1539. we pass by, because they may challenge some other place; the first, an ☍ of ♄ and ♃, the latter a □. For Appian puts this last Comet Five days sooner, viz. May 6. If it be the latter, There are III. in ♉.

§ 28. Then, A^o 1541. Aug. 21. A Comet tayled like a Dragon, as our Author Phrases it; It seems to be of short continuance, we'll be as short with it, ♃ ☉ ♀ in ♍, a Conjunctional Comet; the more Conspicuous is it, because the III. Conjunctions are all noted in the same Month.

§ 29. The Comet 1560. happening in Dec. not in April, points out a different cause from what is assigned in the Table, viz. ☍ ♄ and ☉ in Trop. Signs; but the more material I reckon to be the Interposition between ♃ in ♈ on one side, and ♄ in ♊ on the other. This, I say, I take to be the most material, although the Comet which lasted but 28. days may seem to expire at the Expiration of ☉ and ♄, which according to our Princi∣ple, lasted to the end of the Month.

§ 30. Now for the year of Grace, 1572. and that great Star in Cassiopeia's Chair, the Wonder of the World then, while the Poets of the Age, Beza and others noted it for a Second to that Sacred Star which shone out to the Eastern Magi; and it still shines in Records, illustrated by the Noble Ty∣cho, and discoursed of by all the Learned since, who love the Beauteous Theory of the Heaven over us. 'Tis this Star claims to know his Kin∣dred, Family and Original; for we are far from believing it a Star of the first Creation, but of the same Descent and Linage, as other new Lights, whether it have a Train or no; Though who knows, as some ingenious Men have quaeried, whether it may not have some Train upward into the Aether, opposite to the right Line which passes its Center? We know other Learned Cometographers do not reckon them amongst Comets; Riccio∣lus, Hevelius, because they wander not, but keep their Station like one of the Eternal Fixed. But if the Comets and New Stars have the same sprea∣ding Train, the difference of Fixat on, will be but accidental; Now That it was of the same Production, I shall not infer from those Attendants that usually accompany Comets, whether they be Droughts, &c. or distem∣per'd Airs, from Gemma's Cosmocriticks, and others, referring that to another place, but from the consent of the Learned, followed and confir∣med by Hevelius, and from the Particular Evidence which I now intro∣duce, while I advance ♃ and ♀, their ☍ noted about the 14. of Nov. in the Ephemeris; but it began, Enquirers say, at the entrance of Nov. or the end of Octob. So have we a Platique Aspect of 10 degr. distance, which

is no small advantage, and withal ♀ Stationary: For so I call it when it is Three or Four days in One degree; whether it be upon the Reflex or Direct Course; And was not ♀ in the same Circumstance (as ☿ also when time serves) in other Comets under this Aspect?

§ 31. The second Instrance shall be concerning the conservation of Comets by this, and other Aspects hinted already; as in that we read of A^o 1511. It began in the end of May; there's ☉ ♂ and ♀, III. in ♊, to kindle it; after the middle of June, peeps in the ☍ of ♃ ♀, ♃ being in ♒, and after July's beginning, (consonant to what we have already deliver'd) ♀ and ☿ draw near to a Partile ☌, and so the Comet expires.

§ 32. Let the next come for confirmation, A^o 1527. seeing it lasted but an Hour and a quarter, it will not be much Trouble. Yea, but it was of no duration; the answer is, the Opposition was Partile; Partile ☍ or ☌ alone will not do, they have no Life in them.

§ 33. And what need we say after A^o 1572. but that a few being behind, we must speak to them All. Truly 1618. is as Famous almost as 1572. Here in Aug. 15. ad Sept. 15. we find a Comet, which lasted about a Month. It began upon a near meeting of ☉ ☿, while ♃ exactly, I may say, oppo∣sed both; but Exact and Partile Aspects will not do, say we, without more Lax and Winder-spread Radiations to supply the Light or Flame of the Me∣teor; and These, Lo! agreable to the Observations just now made, for ♀ is opposed by ♃ ad grad. 28. Distance, which is the measure of a Sign, the Distance of a Providore; who looks abroad into the Country for the sup∣ply of his Charge, seeing the Country forage neer home, will not maintain a Comet.

§ 34. The Sum for our Earthquakes we have in the precedent Table in these years, viz. 1508. 1539. at Basil, 1556. Constantinople which held Three days, and threw down the Church of Sancta Sophia. A^o 1569. at Bruxel, with hoarse noise, strange Colours in the Air, some said, Spectres. 1580. in London, where it continued but one Minute. On the Sea Coasts in Kent extreme, felt 3 times, hora 6, 8, 9. A^o 1586. West-Indies again, 1596. We∣stram in Kent. 1601. 1609. at Nera once, and again, A^o 1621. Burgundy. 1626. in Calabria. 1629. Among the Alps. 1636. at Norimberg. 1638. in Calabria once or twice. 1639. in some other part of Italy. 1646. in Apu∣lia. 1650. Northampton. 1679. at Piedmont. 1680. Vesuvius Flames. 1681. in Zealand, about XXI. in the Total. And is not That a great Total?

§ 35. Hence am I as sure as I write, that this Phaenomenon, as great and Stupendious as it is, depends upon this Celestial appearance, ♀ or ☿ with ♃. Those who believe that Comets have Influence upon Earthquakes, which is an opinion hovering about, and bordering upon Truth, may think I believe no Improbabilities, since our Bright Planets ♃ and ♀ do not much ablude from some kind of Comets. Yet why should I trifle?

Is it not plain, that for severalyears our Planets are both in the same Sign, what have we but a ☌ of ♃ and ☿, A^o 1609. 1679. 1645. 1680.

In like manner a ☌ of ♃ and ☿, A^o 1530. 1639. 1681. within the same Sign, I say, or within so many degrees, which is all one; and this with great Variety, some at a distance of 28. suppose some 24. some 16. some at 8. some at 2. and I hope that will please our Partile Customer.

§ 36. But the ☍ out-goes the ☌, and there's reason for it; witness A^o 1569. 1580. 1636. 1638. which is also visible in the Complications, for whereas there are but Three on the Conjunctional side, viz. A^o 1539. 1621. 1650. the Oppositions are more, A^o 1508. 1556. 1580. 6591. 1626. 1628. 1629.

For if ♃ and ♀, or ☿ have their Effect, it stands to reason as we have said, that ♃ ♀ and ☿ have something more. So these Earthquakes

may be reduced to their Classis, as well as the Storms and the Lightnings.

§ 37. Here I must note again, pursuant to what hath been said already in the like Notion, that in the ☍, the wider is the distance, (so it be with∣in compass) the greater is the Disposition of Firing the Subterranean Train in the Earthquake, as before the Aetherial Train of the Comet. Therefore as it may be confess'd, an Earthquake should be produced at 5 degrees or 8 distance; so 'tis more than possible it should be produced at 14. gr. distance, as in the second Instance of A^o 1580. or at 20 gr. dist. as in the Kentish Earthquake, A^o 1596. And somewhat yet further, as the Enquirer into particulars will observe.

§ 38. We cannot define for certain which Sign of Heaven, or Months in the year are most apt to produce Earthquakes; Our Information from our Fore-fathers being defective, even as Ricciolus justly complains, about Comets, part. 2. pag. 23, 24. but this we say, that ♉ and ♏ are sometimes remarkable; as may be seen in the Carabrian Earthquakes, A^o 1626. and 1638. July XI. in both which years ♃ and ♀ were so near the same Positi∣on, that a Candid Reader will startle at the Observation. For how? saith he, a 2d Earthquake at the end of 12 years, which is known to be ♃'s Period? Then 'tis likely that ♃ is one of the Instruments of that Motion. And withal doth it happen, saith he, to be in the same place in both years? Then 'tis probable again that ♀ in such a degree of the Zodiack, conspi∣ring with certain others, is endued with the same motive faculty.

§ 39. To see how Truth will justifie it self, not only as to the General, that these Tremors of the Earth are imputable to the Heavens, but that these Aspects wherein we are at present engaged, are their Causes Effici∣ent, for the News from Naples in the Gazet. Octob. 1685. the Instant on which I write, tells us, that Sept. 23. Oct. 3. their Mountain Vesuvius within these few days began to burn again, casting out Flames and Ashes with a Terrible noise, and the last moiety of the Month; What are the Aspects but a ☌ of ♃ ♀ and ☿? Shall I gratifie our Friends Les Scavans in Paris, and so close this tedious discourse. 'Tis not much out of the way, they tell us that the City of Paris owns but two Earthquakes; the First, April 6. 1580. and the other May 12. St. N. 1682. In the first Earth∣quake, ☉ and ☿ are at the end of ♈, and ♀ is upon the Pleiades. In the Second, ☿ is at the end of ♈, and ☉ and ♀ very near the Pleiades. I could make an absolute Rule of it, but this place don't allow me to run upon the rest of the Parallel: In 102 years somewhat of the same Revolu∣tion may come about.

§ 40. Concerning the Parelia, though we shall see them happen under other Aspects, yet the Revolution of this Aspect, co-incident with the Variety of the Appearance, doth bespeak the curious to make further enquiry; we cannot here digress about the matter which reflects the Light, whether the Vapor be Dry, or Icy, as Des-cartes justly imagines; only we say, the Lustre reflected is not meerly Solar, but borrow from some other Astral Radiations; for though the Secondary Suns must by course of Nature be less brave and bright than the chief Luminary, yet it doth not always prove so, they say; Upon no other account sure, but upon that of other Luminous Bodies, which help to advance the weaker Reflexion.

§ 41. And such was that at Venice, of which Cardan gives an account, A^o 1532. And who knows but Mathematicians may find, considering the Situation of the Suns in the Vertical Circle, that the brighter of the Pare∣lia belongeth to ♀, the other to ☿? Certainly ♀ and ☿ were much about the same distance from the Sun, One to the West, the Other to the East.

§ 42. That of Jan. 2. 1586. I have no reason to believe but that our Op∣position was Influential. He who shall read Rothman's Description in Fro∣mundus,

how close the Parelia lay on each side of the Sun, may probably suspect the near Conjunction also of ♂ and ☿ to help to such Impressions.

§ 43. That of 1550. seen in the Dutchy of Brunswick, finds ♃ and ♀ within 6 degrees one of the other; and if there be any thing in that, ♃ in the same place now, where we found ♀, A^o 1532. & vice versa, and ♀ in the same place now, where we found ♃, 1586. interchangeably. Something there must be; for consulting my Notes, I found Clouds strangely colour'd with Rain-bow Tincture, May 15. in Gem. A^o 1556. where ♂ is in the ve∣ry same degree, &c. but that belongs to the succeeding Aspect, it is true; yet we see how the Heavens will answer if they be spoke to.

§ 44. I confess I seem to talk at random, as Men are wont to do, that are arm'd with a strange Fancy, and lull themselves in a Security, that one will undertake the trouble of their Confutation. Yet I must needs own the further I go, I like my self the better. For the Instance of Sep. 25. A^o 1560. where you meet with a Parelium, and a reverst Iris; what can I say different from what is said, when we shall contemplate with, or without Gemma's Figure, ♀ and ☉ newly risen together; to say nothing of ☿'s readiness to peep, and ♃ setting in the West? Can this Arcus and Parelium arise from any other Concourse of Causes, It arises from the ☉ alone the Ante-blanetary will say; but will he, nil he, ♀ is within 2 degrees of this all-doing ☉. Science must not speak vulgarly; the Sha∣dow that my Body casts under a ☌ of ☉ and ♀, vulgarly would be cal∣led the ☉'s Shadow only, but exactly to speak it is not so; for 'tis known ♀ can cast a Shadow by her self; But then why an inverst Shadow? I could speak to that, but I wonnt grasp too much. For the Irides our Forein Dia∣ry speaks sufficient.

§ 45. I shall not please my self in speaking to the Currents under this Aspect, but shall refer it to a Further place. Only my Idle Head asks the question about the White Milky-Waters, what may be the Reason; and because, I confess, I have a Months mind to impute its appearance to the Heavens. For First, it is but an appearance, though lasting for a Night or so; at Day Light it vanisheth. If it were any mixture of any Whitish Ferment, it would be sensless to think of an Aetherial Procurement. But the Field is too large for any such Mixture, the Ship being under Sail all the time of its Observation: hence there is no thinking of any such Salvo. We shall therefore consider next, whether this appearance is observed at any times more remarkable than others, as to the Heavenly Positions; and if that proves, we may next consider, whether it be Non∣sense to say, That the Heaven may own such Effects on the Water, as it hath in the Air? The Sun can Guild the Clouds, and the ☽ can paint them with a Pale hue: The others, we see, can make their Irides and Halo's; yea, help to the Colouring of a Solar and Lunar One. Why may not this Wheyish hue of the Water be an Impression from ♃ and ♀, and others, analogically to the appearance of the Halo? As for the Position, ♃ and ♀ are extraordinarily circumstantiated, by relation one to the other, and by the Station of Venus each of the 3 days specified, A^o 1617. Yea, A^o 1616. I have met with the same appearance before, ♃ and ♀ not in ☍ ('tis true) but in a □ Aspect, which is a chance that calls for our Attention. ♃ and ♀ have Brightness enough to make a Nectiluca of the Sea, and all agreeable to those Principles, which the Notable Author of that Discourse advanceth. We shall see further, it may be, and if I speed here, I shall begin to suspect that our Aspect might be the Cause of the Whitness, the extraordinary Whiteness (for ordinary is not to our purpose, it may be) as some have observed long ago in Hail whiter than ordinary, which proves to fall under our. Aspect. Howbeit to the Whiteness of the Sea, pray look back to what is noted in the Diary, A^o 1541.

§ 46. What we have to say of Phasmes and Apparitions in the Air, which we do meet with in unquestionable Records (whatsoever may be expected) we shall say but little. Des-Cartes, we see, ascibes all such Stories to the Fancies of Superstitious People, and so some other Learned of our Men who have followed him. But we, who heartily believe Spiritual Substances Good and Bad; believe, said I? Nay, we say in the Name of Mankind, we account the Evidence such, that whosoever resists it, while he denies Truth, confirms it; Why so? Will you say, Even because Humane Nature cannot, I think, acquire such a proud Antipathy to a confess'd beside Divine, Truth, without some black Veil cast over their Eyes. We I say, who admit these Substances, considering the report of Heathen, Jew∣ish, and Christian History, can easily admit such appearances, as Armies, Camps, Ships, Noses, Trumpets, so far forth that the Truth is, They come not under our Cognizance, no more than other Pranks of Daemons do, unless, as is confessed in Lunacies, the Spirits of the Air, who, (no dis∣grace to natural Science) are better Philosophers than our selves; know the times and Seasons fitted to their use by the admirable variety of the Course of Nature. And this I avow to be highly probable, as shall be made good in the Close of this Discourse. Here under ♃ and ♀ we meet with that of July 19. 1550. seen at Trebinium in Saxony, not far from Wittemberg, Armies and Noises heard, with Bloud spilt, Lycosth. Fincelius. Our Aspect, beside that of ☉ and ♄, is paramount here, ☌ ♃ ♀ Partile about ♊ 20. or 21. Another such Spectacle in Saxony again, (I would He had na∣med the proper place) he gives us of a Hearfe seen, and Mourners, and Trumpets heard, Oct. 1. 1541. here, to say nothing of III. in ♎, before as obser∣vable in rare Effects; our Planet ♃ from ♓ 3. oppose ♀ in ♍ 27. There's a Third, 1554. Aug. 5. 9. P. M. near Stolpen; Armies with shooting, and Lightning between whiles; which though I put no stress upon, because the Adversary may be apt to say, the Military Noise was nothing but dis∣guised Thunder; I answer, if History spoke only of Noise, &c. They said something. But when they add Instances of Fighting, Bloud, Shou∣ting, Trumpets, which are not so easily represented by Thunder: When they add Horses, Naval Forces, &c. as in that before the Spanish Invasion, mentioned by Fromond, seen by thousands; we must not allow that Truth in part, shall pass for the whole Truth. The whole Truth implys both Physical and Hyphysical Agents in the Affair. But of this hitherto;—only for the Truth of the Phaenomenon, if you desire the Jewish History, you have the Maccabees Story; If the Heathen, you have, besides the Poets, Pliny, Appian, Valerius Maximus, and others. And for Christian, you have among the Antients S. Gregory; if the Moderns, Melanchtan, Fincelius, and Snellius. Where we don't introduce Hyperphysical Causes to defeat Natural, but only unite them, and make them agree; thereby confirming us in the Rational belief of that good Record, which tells Stories of Spirits, making use of Nature for natural Eftects, such as Whirlwinds, &c. What Angel was that, what Visible Angel, which Je∣rusalem's King saw slaying his Subjects? And what Motto was that which Constantine saw written in, or near the Solar Body? Are they not hither∣to to be reduced? A Supenatural Power cloathed in Nature, may be Le∣gible, as Visible.

§ 47. Let us shut up this Aspect with Frost; 'tis not enough, it may be, to say, that an Aspect of ♃ and ♀ is found in all obstinate Frosts; as in that severe Winter, which, they say, kill'd up the Birds and Beasts, A^o 1502. though ♄ and ♂ were in Play before; yet in February came in ♃ and ♀. So, A^o 1581. a Winter, which in Poland Gangreen'd the Bodies of Milita∣ry Men, Calvis. ☌ ♂ ♄, ☌ ♃ ♀.

A^o 1520. in the Month of May, which was so cold, that all the hopes of Vintage was nipt in the Bud notoriously, upon the account not of ♂ and and ♀ conjoined, but of ♃ being opposed to both.

A^o 1572. in Octob. early, long and untimely Frost, Eichstad, p. 39. upon ♄ ☿ long Conjunction for a Month together, with ♃ and ♀ in ♈ and ♎ opposed. Which Frost, by the way, introducing the new Star in Cassiopeia, Evidences, that It also was of the Nature of Comets, which not seldom are produced in Frosty Seasons.

A^o 1587. So in the Months, out of Winter quarter do we meet with a Hyemal Constitution, June 19. A^o 1557. and ♃ opp. ☉ ♀ ☿. Sept. 4. 1587. When it Freez'd, Bluster'd, Hail'd, Snow'd, saith our English Annals; upon the account, chiefly, I confess, of ♄ and ♂ in ♉ and ♏, but also on the account of our ☌ ♃ ♀ even in ♌.

A^o 1597. May again, Cold and Dry, Stow and Hakl. Part. 3. p. 195. tells us of extream Cold Weather, manifest on ♃ in ☌ with ☉ ♀ ☿. Yet, for all this on the other side, the same Planets strongly assisted may contri∣bute to Heat. So the Seamen complain, they were half rosted the 10th of June, A^o 1660. Lat. North 65. while ♃ and ♀ were in ♊. And June is not July also, A^o 1645. on near the same accident is recorded for a Hot Season. The First being in ♊, the Second in ♋, but within Bounds. The Reason of Frost and Cold we have declared to be either the Restraint of the Planets to few Signs, 3 or 4. Or, 2ly. an Hiatus in their order, or which is equivalent, a width or distance above the Signal Term, viz. grad. 30. Note, that the opposite Sign coming in place instead of the co-opposite is next door to an Hiatus. One or more of these Conditions are found in every one of these Chill Years; unless there be some Mystery in the Posi∣ture of ♄ and ♃ to be mentioned in due place.

§ 48. ♃ ☿ are not so notable, because of shorter Comprehension, Yet they also minister some occasion to speak a Word of this Constitution. We have both kinds here, Cold and Hot. For he is no Astrolo∣ger, who cannot swallow such seeming Contradiction, that establisheth both upon the same Cause in several Circumstances, viz. When Solitary, and When in Consort. If Snow and Storms, Nov. 18. 1644. If Snow for 4 days in March be any Argument; If Snow a. Foot deep found at London at the end of April can move us; If extreme Snow at Chery Isle on May 16. A^o 1607. Purch. 5. 526. or if Snow with Internal Cold, as the Mariner calls it, Purch. 3. 504. if, an extreme Cold, March and April, and May to boot, will bespeak us; the Table will furnish you with the years, 79. 97. 1644. for ☿'s Influence in his Solitary Capacity.

§ 49. Hitherto may I add the Ice of the Northern Seas in Aestival Months, from the years 1527. 87. and the like. And let no man wonder that I sail to the Frozen Zone, upon the account that these (I have almost said) Eternal Ice-Banks take place, only from the absence of the warm Sun, there being no room there for the small Game of This or that Planet; though I Worship the Sun as well as another man, yet after careful Ob∣servation, I, for certain found the contrary to this most certain Principle: For it is known that the Northern Seas are not always of a Temper: Some Winters the Ice makes inrodes upon the more Southern Climes; sometimes again it retreats, till it is Coop'd up almost to the Polar Circle; Concer∣ning which, see the Islanders Latine discourse in Hakl. Edit. 2ly. That Author makes us believe sometimes that there is a quite clear Sea; when sometimes again we shall find Ice 100 Fathom deep, as Purch. 3. p. 38. and that in Lat. 60. which difference of years cannot proceed meerly from the Suns absence, which in all Winters is one and the same; but from these

petty Skip-Jack Aspects which have to do (and have Patent to shew for it) where ever the Sun hath to do. I have made it my business to ob∣serve it scrupulously, the rather because in times of Yore, as of late the En∣glish, with other Nations, have had an ardent desire (if that would carry them through) to find a North-West Passage to the East-In∣dies; wherein our Frobishers, Hudsons, Davises, have taken immortal Pains; but as (unless encouraged by an Aspect) Columbus had never found the West-Indies, neither shall the North-West passage succeed without the same Clew, Martin Frobisher by good hap, through its Influence, as then assisted, A^o 1587. found it Hot, Extreme Hot, in Lat. 61. our ☌ ♃ ☿ being the same at both times. What do we in his First Voyage, A^o 1676. when he met with Ice at a nearer di∣stance, Lat. 61. our ☌ ♃ ☿ being the same at both times. What do we speak of 61? When under the same Aspect we find Mountains of Ice in our own Latitude (in New-found-Land, I mean) where it appears, A^o 1527. We cannot encourage the ordinary Undertaker to any of these Voyages; no, not in those years where ♃ and ☿ meet in Summer Signs; because we find the Assistance so rare, that our Aspect seems to favour Ice, in two years of three: and the third only to give the Mariner some flushing hopes of the dissolution of the ice, which was yet, notwithstanding the warm Reflexions, in vain expected. However the difference of the Extent of the Frozen Sea, doth depend on the Heavens; I appeal to any one who shall please to compare the well-set Full-bodyed Ray of Heaven in the Warmer year, from the Shatter'd Order and Positions of the Planets in the Colder Years. Small hopes therefore of a N W. passage; and yet there is Difference of years, some less desperate than others, of which la∣ter kind, if my Augury fail not, the present year 1686. will be remarka∣ble. But this will occur again, it may be.