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. XV. Of buying of Birds, and letting them flie to return again.

* 1.1EVer remember, if the Birds you intend to buy are Faulcons or Hawks and the like, that the Moon be in Gemini, Libra, or Aquaries, or in the first 15. degrees of Capricorn, and fortifie the Ascendent, the sign of the sixth and its Lord.

* 1.2If the Birds are Pea-cocks, Turkeys, ordinary Cocks and Hens, &c. or any houshold Poultry, let the Ascendent, the sign of the sixth and their Lords be for∣tunate, and the Moon in an earthy or fixed sign well dignified; this causeth them to be profitable, good, and to remain with you: but if the Cocks you buy are for fighting or of the Game,* 1.3 let the Moon, Sun, and Mars be strong, and if possible, in reception of each other, or of the Lord of the sixth, &c.

* 1.4If thou intendest to buy Pigeons, or any such Bird for thy pleasure, let the Ascen∣dent, the sixth, their Lords and the Moon, as hath been said, be strong or under no impediment, and let the Moon be in Sextile or Trine of Venus with reception, and if possible out of the fifth house; and if you can, let the sign of the sixth be Taurus or Libra, but Taurus, especially, for that it is the house of Venus, and exaltation of the Moon, and also fixed, which will conduce much to their staying with you.

* 1.5But if thou wouldst know when thou hadst best venture to let them first flie, that they may not wander away or forsake the place, let not the Moon apply to Conjunction or Aspect with any Planet going to combustion, or to Mars, espe∣cially out of aëry signs, or to Saturn; for all these denote no return, or that they shall be killed or come to some mischance or other.

Wherefore let the sign ascending, the sign of the sixth, and their Lords, and also the Moon, be free from all impediment and in good asrect of Iupiter or Venus, provided they be not combust or going thereunto, and let as many of these as you can be in fixed signs or beholding them, especialy the Moon, the Ascendent and the sixth house.

* 1.6And lastly if thow wouldst buy Water-fowle, as are Swans, Geese and Ducks, let the aforesaid significators and places be in watry signs, viz Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces; if to remain or keep from straying, let Scorpio be preferred; Pisces also in this matter hath preheminency before Cancer.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Of buying Hawks or Birds of Prey.
• * 1.2

  Of houshold or domestick Birds.
• * 1.3

  Of Cocks of the Game.
• * 1.4

  Of Pigeons.
• * 1.5

  Of letting them abroad to return again.
• * 1.6

  Of Water fowl.