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CHAP. VIII. Of bringing of Water to a house, either by Conduit, Pipe or Pump; and of digging of Wells.
AS in the foregoing Elections, so in this it is necessary you fortifie the Ascen∣dent, and let it be one of the watry signs as also its Lord, and let him be oriental and free from all manner of Impediment, and in an Angle in his own dignities essential; Let Saturn also be oriental and free from misfortune, and in the eleventh house, but look that the Moon be not in Conjunction with them.
Fortify also Iupiter, and let there be no Infortune or malevolent planet in the tenth house, for that it will cause rather discension then ascension of the water.
Let the Moon also and its dispositor be well dignified, and in the third or fifth houses of Heaven in an Earthy sign; but if she will needs be above the earth, place her in the ninth, tenth, or eleventh; Alkindus adviseth to place the Moon, Ascen∣dent, or any other Angle free from all manner of misfortune or impedition; and let her be in her first Quarter, or from her Conjunction to the first Square of the Sun in∣creasing in light and motion: But know, that if the Moon be in any house under the earth, you must fortifie her well, and place her in configuration of a benovolent Pla∣net in the tenth, if possible; or however of one above the earth: and if she be above the earth, let her by no means behold any Planet below the earth, except with recep∣tion by house or exaltation and in essential dignities.
It is necessary also you have regard to Part of Fortune and the Lord of the Con∣junction of the Luminaries praeventional or before your Election, and fortifie them both, essentially.
But if you cannot observe all this, yet as much as you can; but chiefly fortifie the Moon, the Lord of the Ascendent and Mid-heaven, and the cusps thereof, espe∣cially the cusp of the tenth.