Astrologia restaurata, or, Astrologie restored being an introduction to the general and chief part of the language of the stars : in four books ... / by VVilliam Ramesey, Gent. ...

CHAP. I. Shewing a fit time for getting of Boys or Girls.

* 1.1HAve regard first to the sign ascending, the sign of the fifth, the Lords there∣of, and the Moon and its Dispositor that they be in Masculine signs, and let the Moon be free from impediment, as also the Lords of the Ascendent and the fifth, and the Dispositor of the Moon; this for boys.

But in getting of Girls, let the aforesaid significators and places be in feminine signs.

* 1.2And if you cannot observe all this, let your significators be (the major part of them) masculine for a Boy, and so the contrary for a Girl; but if the significators be equal, you must have regard to the Lord of the hour and the Planet to whom the Moon applies, and judge by the major part, viz. if most Masculine Planets, a Male may be expected; if feminine, a female; but if it so happen that yet notwithstanding the significators are equal, viz. that there is the same equal number of masculine Planets and signs that there is feminine, the conceived Infant will be an Hermophrodite;* 1.3 or if the Moon, the fifth and Ascendent, be in signs of double bodies, perhaps there will be Twins conceived.

* 1.4But moreover know, that in Electing a time for getting of Men-children it is ne∣cessary you place a fixed sign in the Ascendent and the rest of the Angles, also the Fortunes free from all impediment or affliction, let the Ascendent also be a masculine sign, and a sign of right Ascensions free from the malevolent Aspects of the Infor∣tunes; but see that there be in no ways an Infortune in an angle or a Feminine Planet, and let the Lord of the Ascendent be fortunate, both in the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth moneths after the Conception, for that sometimes the Birth falls out in these moneths as well as in the ninth; Let the Luminaries also be fortunate or free from im∣pediment, and let the Moon be in Sextile or Trine of the Sun.

* 1.5Chiefly have respect to ♀ and the ☽ that they be essentially dignified, or at least free from misfortune; for if ♀ be afflicted and weak, the place of Conception or

the receptacle for the seed will be deficient and weak to perform its office; and if the Moon be impedited and weak, it debilitates the seed: Some of the Ancients al∣so have advised that this should be done in odde or uneven hours, as are the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth and eleventh, for the getting of Boys, they being ac∣counted masculine hours; but for a Girl in even, as the second, fourth, sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth, they being feminine.

* 1.6Let your Ascendent be Libra, and place the Moon therein, and Cancer on the tenth, being a fruitful sign; but place the rest of the Significators in masculine signs, and this causeth conception, and that of a Male childe; but it is to be understood then, that the woman be sound in health and nature, and of capacity for such mat∣ters: Your Significators in feminine signs cause a Girl.

All these Rules it may be are too tedious, or difficult to observe, yet at least at the time of copulation, let the Ascendent and the Moon be strong, and Jupiter upon the cusp of the mid-heaven fortunate; for this signifieth the woman shall conceive at the first bout, except she be a maid before, and then the first goes to another use but at the second it will not fail, provided the party be capable and sufficient in such an exercise: If your Ascendent be a Masculine sign, and the Moon and Jupiter in masculine signs, or the major part, it is a Boy that is conceived; if feminine, a Girl.

But if thou canst not place Jupiter on the cusp of the tenth, let him be on the cusp of the eleventh, or fifth, or in such a degree as that he may behold the Ascen∣dent its Lord, or the Moon with a Sextil, or Trine, or place the Moon or Lord of the Ascendent in the fifth, within five degrees of the cusp thereof in good Aspect to the Ascendent, for this signifieth the woman then made much of shall con∣ceive.

Notes

• * 1.1

  To ingender a Boy or man∣childe.
• * 1.2

  A Boy is con∣ceived. A Girl.
• * 1.3

  An Hermo∣phrodite. Twins.
• * 1.4

  To get boys.
• * 1.5

  Conception is hindred.
• * 1.6

  To cause con∣ception.