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EVen in this Chapter are we now to shew you the rules of the Learned in for∣mer ages in electing a time proper thereunto, I shall (as in all the other) give you the marrow or quintessence of their Writings; a Volume five times as large as is this, is not able to contain them all verbatim; but in what one is deficient.
I shall help you with another, and so with a third, that however thou shalt not be to seek in any Election as well as this, so thou beest able to understand the reasons of the rules, otherwise thou shalt be still ignorant hadst thou all the Volumes that were ever penn'd since the Creation;* 1.1 somewhat you have heard already of putting on of Ap∣parel, but not so fully as here in this place I intend; we will begin therefore with it, and then in order of what remaineth, and so proceed.
* 1.2Herein you must have regard to the Ascendent, its Lord, the Moon, the Lord of the sign wherein she is, the fifth House and Lord thereof, and let them be in moveable signs, and let the Moon if possible be in Aries, excepting the seven degrees after the eighth, viz. from the eighth to the end of the fifteenth, and the 22 and 23 degrees of the same sign; or let her be in Cancer, excepting the first six and last three de∣grees thereof, or in the first fifteen degrees of Libra, or the first eighteen degrees of Virgo, or the first nineteen degrees of Sagittary, or the first twenty degrees of Pisces.
Fixed signs are to be shunned in putting on of Apparel, wherefore see that none of the aforesaid significators be in them, [Note.] except the first twenty degrees of Taurus which may be made use of in this business, it being the House of the lesser fortune and exaltation of the Moon; but Leo of all the fixed signs is to be refused, for it causeth danger; therefore in no wise let the Moon be in Leo, except she be in Sextile or Trine of the Sun with reception, and then it is not to be feared so much: however Ptolomy, Centilo. 22. saith, Vestem nec primum induas, ubi Luna fuerit in Leone collocata; est autem pejus, si eadem male affecta fuerit. Idem ait Hermes, Centilo. 82. Put not on new Apparel when the Moon is in Leo; and it is so much the worse if she be there afflicted.
* 1.3Yet if all this thou canst not observe, be sure thou place not the Moon in the Ascendent or fifth House, neither their Lords in Leo, Scorpio or Capricorn, especially Leo, or in via combusta, and see also they be free from all manner of misfortune: or place the Moon or the Sun in the mid-heaven free from misfortune, and if possible in Sextile or Trine of Iupiter or Venus with reception, and fortifie the second House and its Lord, &c. If thou warily observest what hath been said, thou needest no further instructions herein; wherefore let us descend to what remains unresolved, &c.
Look Chap. 6. Sect. 3. of this Treatise.
Putting on of Apparel.
Of putting on new Apparel.