Astrologonaytis or, The astrological seaman directing merchants, mariners, &c. adventuring to sea, how (by God's blessing) to escape many dangers which commonly happen in the ocean. Unto which (by way of appendix) is added, A diary of the weather for XXI. years, very exactly observed in London: with sundry observations made thereon. By John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology.

II. NATIVITY, is of the good Ship called Charles the Second.

[illustration] astrological chart

CHARLES the Second, Launched 1667/8.

That this good Ship from its Radix, should be, not on∣ly Fortunate, but, in its kind, Honourable also, a Kingly Sign Ascending, and a Regal Star, (viz. Cor Leonis) ri∣sing therewith, and the Sun, Lord thereof, in Reception of Jupiter and Venus, with Venus her Partil Trine to the Horoscope, do very naturally declare. — Add hereunto, that she was Launched in hora Solis. And what if I should tell you, that it may be looked on, as an Omen of Good, in that it so exactly corresponds with the Good Things, in the Geniture of that Glorious Martyr, King Charles the First, whose Horoscope is the same herewith to a Degree.

The Moon in the Dignities of Mars, in Sextile of Sa∣turn, makes it not only Eminent for Action, but Dura∣tion too.

If any one will tell me, that Saturn in ♒. is very strong, which signifies the Enemies of this good Ship; and that the Sun is weak in the Eighth House; and that Saturn is Superiour to the Sun, both in Power in this Fi∣gure and in Order of the Ptolemaick System of the World. I shall tell them again, that Saturn is in the sixth House; (the House of Bondage and Slavery) and although the Moon give virtue to him, yet Mars, the Dispositer of the Moon, infests and afflicts him by a Dexter Quadrate: and that the Sun is in Noble reception of Jupiter, (a Planet on the Medium Caeli in this Figure) and of Venus, who is Lady of the Angle of Honour and Action; and that Venus, the only Friend in this Figure (by her Trigonal Beam to the Horoscope) is in great reception of Mars; all which toge∣ther with Jupiter his being in reception of the Lady of the Mid-Heaven, declare it to be a Ship of Eminent Ser∣vice and Duration, and of Great and Honourable per∣formance; giving Honour to such as shall Command in her, after an extraordinary manner, and also betokens her to be a Victor over all Enemies she shall Encounter with.

If the Moon be Hylech, Mars is Alchocoden of this Noble Ship, (and what can be better in the Nativity of a Man of War?) and he being Angular, declares her to live gloriously his great years, and generally, to prove a Terrour to her Enemies. And, hark thee good Reader, do not think but I know, what ♂. and ☋. in Domo 4°. means? and it is no uncommon thing, for a Glorious Morning Sun, that continues his Brightness and Clartude the whole day, to set Cloudy in the Evening.