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.

CHAP. III. Consisting of Astrological Rules and Aphorisms, proper for the right understanding the Success or Misfortune of any Ship at Sea, relating to the beginning of its Voyage; or its Original Launching: or to an Horary Question of such Ship or Vessel, the beginning of whose Voyage is not known, or the Nativity thereof to be had; or to Elections, &c. thereunto belonging, so far as is discerna∣ble by the Power of second Causes.

THe Great and Manifold Hazzards that Princes and Merchants do daily run at Sea, either by Enemies, ill Weather, Rocks and Sands, &c. should (methinks) invite them to a serious minding of the Position of Hea∣ven and Stars, under which they begin such Eminent Un∣dertakings.

And, that I may be the more serviceable unto Persons, of all Conditions, in so Eminent and Weighty an Affair, and thereby yield some probable encouragement at least, unto so Noble and Useful an Art as Navigation; I will (God permitting) in this Chapter, produce unto you, some, of the many Aphorisms left us by the Antient Sages in this Science, relating to the Safety or Danger of all Maritime Affairs. And for Methods sake, I shall divide this Chapter into the several Parts or Sections following.

• 1. Of the Division of the Ship, and how the parts thereof are Astrologically referred to the parts of the Zodiack, according to the Arabian Haly.
• 2. Of the proper Significators of a Ship or Vessel, both in respect of a Question, Election, &c.
• 3. Of the several Arguments that promise safety or secu∣rity to a Ship rither at, or going to Sea.
• 4. Of the Testimonies of Hazzard and Danger, that Astrologically, attends all Maritime Affairs.

SECT. I. Of the Division of the Ship, and how the parts thereof, are referred to the parts of the Zodiack.

THe Learned Haly, from Peo∣lemy, refers the parts of a Ship to the several parts of the Zodiack, thus, — Da Signum ♈. Pectoribus Navis, ♉. ei quod est sub pectoribus modicum versus aquam, ♊. gubernaculo Navis, ♋. fundo Navis, ♌. summitati Navis quae stat super aquam, ♍. Ventri Na∣vis, ♎. ei quod sublevatur & deprimit de pectoribus Navis in aqua, ♏. loco ubi morant Nauta, ♐. ipsi Nautae, ♑. finibus existentibus in Nave, ♒. Magistro Navis, ♓. Re∣mis, (i. e.) Give (saith he) the Sign ♈. to fignifie the Breast of the Ship, and so of the rest of the parts, as in the following Scheam.

• ♈. The Breast of the Ship.
• ♉. That part under the Breast towards the Water.
• ♊. The Rudder or Stern.
• ♋. The Bottom or Floor.
• ♌. The Top above Water.
• ♍. The Belly.
• ♎. The part above the Breast of the Ship in the Water.
• ♏. The place for the Marriners.
• ♐. The Marriners themselves.
• ♑. The Ends of the Ship.
• ♒. The Master or Captain.
• ♓. The Oares.

This Division of Haly's, or Ptolemy's rather, was not wholly followed by Alkindus. For he, in these matters, gave the Ascendant to signifie the Breast of the Ship, and the seventh Angle to represent the hinder part of the Ship, the Mid-Heaven to denote the upper part of the Vessel, and the fourth-House to denote the Bot∣tom of the Ship, or that part of her which is under Water. Then, the four intermediate

Houses between the Mid-Heaven, Ascendant and fourth House, to signifie the right side of the Ship, viz. the 11th. 12th. 2d. and 3d. and the four succedent and cadent Houses between the fourth House, the Occident, and Mid-Heaven, to signifie the left side of the Ship, &c. — Now, I am so far from siding with one of these Learned Authors against the other, that I know no reason but I may embrace both their Opinions as to this matter. Nei∣ther do they thwart, but strengthen each other, and the Truth also. For, the first Opinion, makes a Division in regard of the Signs of the Zodiack; the second, in re∣spect of the Houses of Heaven. Nor is the one perfect, or fit to be relied on, without the assistance of the other. For the Houses have their perfect and unalterable signifi∣cations, (as both these Authors largely teach) as well as the parts of the Zodiack. And, when Morinus preten∣ded to Demonstrate this as Truth unto the World, (which I must needs commend, with the Learned Oughthred, for an Excellent piece of service done, not only to this Science, but to all the Sons of Art. Yet) he had been more ingenious, I must needs say, and more Eminently to have been extolled, had he related what others had hinted at (in that matter, although not all out so happily) before him. Nor do I find, that, that Great Philosopher and Physician hath made any remarkable Discoveries in, or Additions to Astrology, beyond what the Ingenious Cardan, and (before him) Ptolemy, and sundry Greek and Arabian Authors had done. Only, he hath had the happiness to live in an Age, wherein the Latine Tongue, and perhaps Logique and Philosophy too, have been more Eminently encouraged, and made use of, than in some of their more Cloudy Days; and so he hath been enabled to speak the same things as they did, in more Curious, Apt and Quaint terms. I wish he had not let slip, (not to say Exploded, many of the Excellent Practical Truths that those Worthy Fathers of this Art took great pains to Advance and Promote. Morine was a Man fitted

more for Oratory, than Astrology, as by his Elevated Mercury is sufficiently Demonstrable. And, his Nativi∣ty in a great many things, better bespeaks his Parts and Abilities, than his Book; although the one had but a small portion of time spent in its Erection, and the other Thir∣ty years in its Compiling. Not that I envy the Industry and Pains of this Worthy Philosopher, (for I am willing to pay him the Tribute of thanks for lending me in ma∣ny things his Eyes) but wish only, that he had spent as much time among Practical, as Theorical Authors, in this Science, or had been as happy as Cardan, or Gocleine, &c. in the general Practice thereof.

SECT. II. Of the proper Significators of a Ship or Vessel, as well in an Election, as Question, &c.

SOme Astrologers are of Opinion, that the Ascendant shall in all respects, signifie a Ship or Vessel, be it either in Question, Nativity or Election. Others urge, that the Moon and Ascendant generally are Significators of the State of the whole Ship and its Voyage. So Haly. These are his words — Luna & Ascendens generaliter sunt significatores totius Navis, & suorum statuum, &c. (i. e.) The Ascendant and the Moon are generally the significators of the whole Ship, and of its success, and the Lord of the Ascendant shall signifie the Persons Sail∣ing therein. — Bonatus tells us, that we ought prin∣cipally to have regard to the Moon. For, saith he, — Ipsa habet participationem & significationem in omni Prin∣cipio, in omni Itinere, in omni Loco, in omni Tempore, in omni Re, at{que} in omni Hora, (i.e.) The Moon hath par∣ticipation and signification in every Beginning, in every

Journey, in every Place, in every Time, in every Thing, and in every Hour. So great is the Influence of the Moon, she being the Conveyer of all the other Pla∣nets Influxes to us, that she is, by us, to be excluded no∣thing, that hath relation to Humane Business or Action. And it is no way to be doubted, but that the Ascendant and the Moon both, have a very great power and signi∣fication of the good or bad success that attends not only Ships, &c. but all things under the Sun; as they shall happen to be either afflicted or assisted in your Figure. But, of this more anon, when I come to the Third Section.

But then, by the leave of the Learned Haly, &c. I must tell you, that it is thus to be understood only in Elections, or in the Radix, or time of the first Launching of a Ship. For in Questions concerning Vessels or Voyages, &c. Not the Ascendant, but seventh House shall positively signifie the Vessel; That being the Grand Angle of Matters or Business quesited, as casting an op∣posite Ray to the Horoscope, which ever must signifie the Person Enquiring, or thing begun, &c. unless (to con∣tradict the reason hereof) we should suppose the Ship of a capacity to speak, and so able to propound its own Question; Then indeed, the Ascendant were proper to signifie the Vessel. But since all things inanimate, as wanting the Organs of Speech, cannot therefore be thought to desire, much less to discourse their Necessi∣ties; we will therefore rest satisfy'd, that there is an ab∣solute inability in them, either to Enquire, or Require, &c. Therefore the Ascendant in matters of Questions, shall only signifie the Person Enquiring; and the seventh An∣gle shall ever represent the Ship or Vessel enquired after.

And, this is the difference between a Question, and a Radix or Election, in an Astrological sence. In the Question, there is a Person Interrogating, which the As∣cendant (you have heard for what reason) must ever sig∣nifie. In a Radix or Election, there is no Person Enquiring,

any more than in the Figure of the Birth of a Man or Woman: and therefore the Ascendant therein (with our Learned Arabian) shall represent the Vessel or Ship. That being the prime Angle, (or Point rather) upon, or toward which the Coelestial Atoms make their Impression principally, to be distinguished in time, by Effects of Good or Bad Fortune, upon the Person or Thing born or begun under it; as is to be known by observing the true panctum temporis thereof. The Astrologer therefore, must vary his Rules or Aphorisms in matters of Questions, from those of Elections and Radixes, by remembring (as he is here taught) ever to take the seventh Angle in the place, or stead of the Horoscope; and the Lord of the seventh, in the room of the Lord of the Ascendant, and therewith consider, and apply thereto, the Moons Configurations, together with her Applications and Separations, &c. and you shall rarely fail (except through inadvertency) in your Judgments. Further proof hereof, I shall produce in its proper place.

Thus are you informed of the proper significations of a Ship or Vessel; and how they are to be varied in rela∣tion to a Question, Radix or Election, which was the business of this Section.

SECT. III. Astrological Aphorisms, or Rules, of the safety of a Ship, either at, or going to Sea; or at the time of its first Launching.

THe Artist having well weighed the nature of the Question, and considered and compared it with all its Circumstances, must first erect his Scheam of Hea∣ven, with respect to the time it is propounded in, and

Latitude of the place it is propounded under; and then, either mentally, or otherwise, he must sum up all the Arguments of Happiness and Misfortune he shall find therein; and, according to the Major, or great number of Testimonies, let him give his Judgment, either of success or prejudice. And to assist him the better here∣in, let him well ponder the sence and meaning of the following Rules.

1. When in your Figure you find the Principal Signifi∣cators of a Ship or Vessel, (you were acquainted which they were before) and of the Men failing therein, to be strong and well posited, and every way free from Affli∣ction, you may then Judge safety and success to the Ship, and to the Mariners also.

2. If the Ascendant of the Figure shall be Fortunate, and the Lord of the Ascendant Unfortunate, and in ab∣ject places of the Heavens; you may then Judge that the Ship or Vessel shall do well, and arrive happily to its intended Port, or Haven; but that there will happen Dammage and Misfortune to the Men sailing therein.

3. And, if you find in the Figure, the Moon, and the Fortunate Stars Angular, and well affected, and the In∣fortunes Cadent, and otherwise dejected and oppressed; you may then conclude, that the Ship and her Lading will go very safe to her Harbour, or intended Port; and this without any interruption. So happy is it, when you find the Arguments of Mischief under Hatches, and those of good success, exalted.

4. If at any time you chance to find in your Figure, the Arguments of safety, and the Testimonies of danger to be equal; and that your Significations of safety hap to be derived from the more Noble parts of the Figure, then shall the Vessel in question be wholly freed from the dan∣gers menaced, although it fortune to be never so severely and smartly besieged or encountered by them.

5. When you find that the principal significators of the Ship or Vessel are swift in motion, and happily assisted

of the Fortunate Stars; and that those Stars fortune to be in good places of the Figure above the Earth, the Ship shall then make both a speedy and successful Voyage. Such an one, as shall be profitable to the Owners, and re∣putable to the Master thereof, &c. and this shall be the more Eminent and Considerable, if together herewith, the Lord of the Second, and of the part of Fortune shall assist.

6. Royal Fixed Stars upon the Angles of the Figure, at the time when any Ship or Vessel is first Launched; or at the beginning of a Voyage, or its first weighing Anchor, &c. always denotes such Ship or Voyage to be more than or∣dinary famous for, and in Action and Business; and to be capable of doing and enterprizing something, beyond what other Ships do commonly promise, or are known to perform.

7. In Sea-Voyages, or in matters of Maritime con∣cern, it is most natural and proper for Signs of the Wa∣try Trigon to ascend the Horoscope; (chiefly Cancer: that being, not only the Mansion-house of the Moon, but the Exaltation of Jupiter, as by the foregoing System is taught.) And if the Moon be above the Earth, in good Aspect, viz. Sextile or Trine thereunto, and free from all Oppressions of the Ʋnfortunate Stars; there is then no fear or doubt, but happiness will attend such Voyage.

8. When the Degrees of the Horoscope, Mid-Heaven, Sun and Moon, the Lord of the Horoscope and Dispositer of the Moon, are found to be such, as Astrologers term, Light, Masculine, and Encreasing Fortune, (for there are such particular affections to parts of the Signs, as well as to the whole Sign, as I shall elsewhere prove.) A Ship then setting sail, weighing Anchor, or being then Launched, will (in its Life, or Voyage) meet with splen∣did Honour and Success, other Arguments of good For∣tune herewith concurring.

9. Moveable Cardinal Signs posessing the Horoscope of your Figure, (if other Testimonies but moderately con∣cur)

do declare a Happy, Prosperous, and Swift Voyage to a Ship then setting sail. The same occurring at the Launching of a Ship, denotes it to be excellently happy for service and sailing.

10. The Sun, Moon, Jupiter, Venus, &c. in your Ascendant, or Mid-Heaven, or, the Lord of the Ascen∣dant in the Tenth, or Lord of the Tenth in the Ascendant ever declares Fortunate Vessels at their first Launching; and, if it thus happen at the beginning of Sea Voyages, it portends not only good success to the Ship or Vessel, &c. but Presages great Honour to the Commander thereof, and advantage to the Labourious and Industrious Mari∣ners.

11. Many Fortunate Stars in the Eleventh House, well beholding the Part of Fortune, the second House or their Lords, always declares the Ship or Vessel to be succesful in Merchandizing, and that the Owners of such Ship shall grow Rich apace by her. Such Positions in a Man of War, shews her Victorious, and to be Master of many Prizes, and over many Enemies.

12. The Moon in Sextile, Quadrate, or Trine of the Sun, Jupiter or Venus, increasing in Light and Motion, denotes admirable sailers; and makes also, very auspi∣cious and speedy Voyages. And, if she happen not to be in her Detriment, or, in via Combusta; but on the contrary, free from all manner of Affliction, and Posited in a good part of Heaven, the success and swiftness thereof, will be the more remarkable.

13. The Moon with Mercury in the second House, or in good Aspect unto it, or to the Lord thereof; or, their being in Conjunction in the Tenth House, in amicable Po∣sition of the second, or of his Lord, declares Fortunate and Prosperous Voyages; and likewise portends such Ves∣sels to be thriving and successful, that are so Launched.

14. When you find the Moon in good Aspect of Mars supra Terram, and in an Airy or Fiery Sign, it declares a Vessel so Launched, or then setting Sail for a Voyage,

to have, not only success against, or freedom from Ene∣mies, but a Victory over them: and it also adds Courage and Confidence to the Commander and Sea-man thereof.

15. The Fortunate Planets in the Oriental Quarter of Heaven, or above the Earth, and the Infortunes in the Occidental, or under the Earth, declares success to a Ves∣sel so Launched, or setting Sail, &c. at the beginning, or in the first part of its Voyage, or Life; but, toward the latter part of either, an Eclipse thereof.

☞ Note here, good Reader, that it is in Astrology, as in Grammar. There is no General Rule but admits of an Exception. And therefore the Artist must be sure in his Judgment upon things of this Nature, not to pro∣nounce Happiness rashly, or, upon one single Testimo∣ny, to a Ship, or Voyage, but consider the Arguments or Exceptions against his Rule for success, as well as that alone; and so doing, he may (by Gods assistance) pro∣ceed to give his Opinion or Judgment thereon determi∣nately, and for the Honour of Truth.

SECT. IV. Shewing the several Arguments of Danger, which Astro∣logically attend any Ship or Vessel from the time of its first Launching, Weighing Anchor, &c.

HAving already acquainted you with the several Ar∣guments of good success, that impends over Ves∣sels, at the time of their first Launching, &c. (and I need not Apologize that I began with them, since happi∣ness ought to have the precedency of Misfortune, at least in the esteem of Men, let them be never so severe in the Study and Practice of Philosophy; Good being ever preferrible to Evil.) I come now to present you with

the most Eminent Testimonies of Danger that naturally attends such Eminent Actions; hoping thereby to assist Mankind how to prevent many of the Misfortunes they are constantly subject unto, by a non-observance of the Principiums of such great Affairs. And beginning with the 55 Aphorism of Ptolemy's Centiloquium for the Ease and Benefit of the Artists Memory, I shall give you them Aphoristically, as I did the other.

1. The Malignant Influence of Mars against Ships is diminished, when he is placed neither in the Mid-Heaven, or Eleventh Angle; In those places if he be posited, the Vessel will be destroy'd by Pirates: But if the Horoscope be afflicted by any Martial Fixed Stars, the Ship will then be burned.

2. When you find the significators of a Ship or Vessel, weak and infortunated of the Malefiques, (for there is a great difference between a Negative and a Positive weak∣ness of a Planet) and in ill places of the Heavens also; much danger then attends, not only the Vessel or Ship that is then Launched, or so setting sail, or weighing Anchor, &c. but of all things or persons in her, or belonging to her; if not a total or absolute loss of both them and her too.

3. If in your Figure you find, a Malevolent Planet ha∣ving Dignities in the Eighth House, to be posited in the Ascendant; or, that the Lord of the Ascendant shall be posited in the Eighth; or in evil Aspect of the Lord of the Eighth, Twelfth, Sixth, or Fourth Houses; all these declare the Loss or Ruine of the Vessel, and of all things in her, or at least a very great hazzard thereof. Nor can such Ship be successful either to Commander or Sea-men.

4. When in the Figure you find the Moon to be under the Suns Beams, applying to Combustion, or in that part of Heaven called the Combust-way; or otherwise afflicted under the Earth, you may then be bold to pronounce great Danger and Misfortune, to attend such Ship or Ves∣sel, that is so Launched, or that under such a position ei∣ther weigheth Anchor, or sets sail.

5. If at any time you happen to find the Ascendant and Moon unfortunate in the Figure, and the Lord of the Ascendant to be strong and well posited; The Ship is then likely to be in a bad condition, and to encounter many misfortunes; but her Lading, and the Men in her, will do well, and come off without much prejudice.

6. When the Infortunes shall be in Angles or succedent parts of the Figure, and the Fortunes happen to be Ca∣dent, &c. the Vessel that is then Launched, will be sub∣ject to many Eminent misfortunes; or, the Ship that is then weighing Anchor for a Voyage, will receive very signal and remarkable prejudice therein. And (let the industrious Artist be but careful to observe it, and he shall find) the misfortune will happen upon that part of the Vessel, signified by the Sign where the Infor∣tune is posited.

7. If the Infortune threatning Danger, be Saturn; In a Radix, or the Launching of a Ship, he menaceth it with a troublesome, but a short Life, and that it shall be split or sunk, before it have done or performed any Emi∣nent or Considerable Service. In a Vessel setting sail for a Voyage, he declares it to be improsperous, and in great danger of sinking, running into Sands, or splitting, &c. and that the Men shall either be drowned, or else subject to very much sorrow and hardship: unless their own par∣ticular Fates are contradictory to the general Fate of the Ship; then (indeed) they may escape with the less haz∣zard or mischief.

8. But when the Infortune threatning danger, shall be Mars, and he in any of his Essential Dignities, or aspe∣cting a place where he hath power, or else posited in an Earthly Sign, he then portends the same prejudices that Saturn did, but with much greater violence: and, before the Catastrophe of the Vessel, he declares many remarka∣ble and various troubles to happen unto it..

9. If Mars shall be found to afflict the Lords of the Chief Angles of the Figure, and the Dispositer of the

Moon also, the Men that sail in the Ship, shall be in very great dread of their Enemies, and that in such a manner, vehementur trepidabunt, that they shall exceedingly trem∣ble by reason of them.

10. If, together with this affliction of Mars, there hap∣pen other Arguments of Evil in the aforesaid Parts or Signs, there will then be Quarrelling, Controversies, Wounds, and several Thefts committed, among the Men of the Ship, and thereby they will give advantage to their Enemies: they will (under such Positions) be al∣ways putting Frauds upon, and Cozening of one another. But this chiefly, when Mars shall be placed in Signs re∣presenting the upper part of the Ship.

11. But if it fortune that Saturn do afflict after the same manner, as before we have said of Mars, there will then also happen many Thefts and Knavery's in the Ship, and sundry of the forementioned Mischiefs, but not so violent, and together therewith, tedious and troublesome Voyages; but yet there will be no blood∣shed in the Vessel.

12. When the Signs Infortunated happen to be in the Mid-Heaven and Ascendant, and Mars prove the affli∣cting Planet, the Vessel will then be burnt, either by ac∣cident within it self, or else will be extreamly torn and shatter'd, nay possibly destroyed by the force of her Ene∣mies, and the Captain or Prime Officer thereof, slain; (except, as formerly I noted, his particular Fate shall con∣tend against the general Fate of the Ship, to preserve him; yet then shall he not escape without great danger) to di∣stinguish herein, you must consult Mars his Relation in the Figure, viz. whether he have better Dignities in the Eleventh, than in the Seventh House. But if Saturn be the oppressing Planet, then extremity of Weather, or some Leak springing, or accidental running on the Rocks, &c. will either greatly distress, or destroy the Vessel; or else a tedious Captivity will attend her; chiefly, if the Lord of the Twelfth concur in signification.

13. If Mars be in a Humane Sign, the Ship shall then be burnt by the Power and Fury of her Enemies in Fight, (if Mars in your Figure be Lord of the Seventh House) or by accident from some of the Men within her: And the danger shall begin in that part of her, signified by the Place, or Sign, that Mars is possessed of in the Heavens at the time of Launching, &c.

14. But if Saturn shall be the threatning Planet, in the stead of Mars, and he posited in the Mid-Heaven, the Ship will then be either sunk, or very much dammaged by violent Winds and Weather, by bad Sayls, &c. and the Impediment or Prejudice, will be greater or lesser, ac∣cording to the Dignity or Debility of the Infortune (be it either Saturn or Mars) and his remotion from, or pro∣pinquity to, the Beams of the Fortunate Stars.

15. When the Lord of the Eighth shall Infortunate the Lord of the Ascendant, or the Lord of the Ascendant or Moon shall be in the Eighth, the danger that will then happen to the Vessel, will be of the Nature of the Lord of the Eighth, (i. e.) if the Lord of the Eighth shall op∣press the Lord of the Horoscope, the Moon, or her Disposi∣ter; it betokens the Death of the principal Officer of the Ship, viz. the Captain or Master thereof; and many other infelicities will befal the Ship, and the Persons and things therein.

16. When the Lord of the Ascendant, the Moon, and her Dispositer and the Lord of the Ninth, shall be slow in Motion, then will the Ship or Vessel, in all probability make a very long and tedious Voyage, and of little pro∣sit to the Owners. Chiefly, if the Lords of the Angles fortune to be slow in Motion also.

17. If it chance to fall out, that there be in the Figure Enmity between the Lord of the Ascendant and Disposi∣ter of the Moon, and no reception happen between them nor yet any assistance from the Benevolent Planets; the will the Sea-men or Marriners Contend or Quarrel with each other, and there will be great Discord, Grumbling

and Murmuring, between the Captain, or Master, and them: And they, whose Significator is the strongest and best posited, shall prevail (i. e.) if the Lord of the As∣cendant be most powerful, the Sea-men will prevail, and overcome their Superiors: (we have known it too true, that sometimes a Mutiny or Rebellion hath prospered.) But, if the Dispositer of the Moon be strongest, the Captain, Master, and Officers of the Ship, will have the better, and shall, with little trouble, hansomly reduce the Marriners and Sea-men to Obedience, and good Order.

18. VVhen violent fixed Stars shall be upon the Ascen∣dant, or with the Sun, Moon, or in Opposition to any of the principal parts of the Figure, at the time of first Launching of a Ship, or, at a Vessels first setting Sail, &c. much Violence, and sundry various Hazzards attend such Vessels or Voyages.

19. If the Moon shall be in Conjunction, Quadrate, or Opposition of Saturn or Mercury, at the Launching of a Ship, or at the beginning of a Voyage, it declares much infelicity to befal it in its Progress: And, unless other Testimonies interpose, the absolute loss of the Vessel, either by Enemies, or ill weather; according to the re∣lations of those Planets in the Figure. But, if there be Arguments of safety to the Vessel in general, it shall (by Gods blessing) escape both Captivity and Submersion. Howbeit, it shall undergo much Hardship, Labour, Dif∣ficulty and Trouble; and sometimes, (Saturn being the Natural Significator of Indigence and Poverty; and is so to purpose, when he oppresseth the Significator of Activity and Industry, &c.) may be driven to a want or scarcity of Victuals and fresh water; or, at the least, a want of that which is good and fit for their nourish∣ment and use.

20. If, in your Figure, you find the part of Fortune, the part of Substance, and their Lords to be unfortunate, such affliction threatens much Loss and Dammage to the

Master and Owners of the Vessel, in the Commodities or Goods, with which the Ship is La den. ☞ —And, here, let me advise the nimble Artist, that he do not too confidently explode the Arabian parts, &c. but consider wisely, whether they are not to be admitted as assisting Causes, of good or bad Fortune, and whether they, in Conjunction with other more powerful ones, do not, only remarkably add weight, but turn the Scale too, in many Mundane Effects? If Experience may bear any Testi∣monie, that speaks loudly for the Truth hereof. Many will say, no Reason can be rendred of such things. If by reason, they mean a Logical Demonstration, it will be as hard thereby, to prove that twice two makes four. But, if by Reason, they mean a probable Analogy to some certain Mathematical, or Geometrical Truth, why may not a part proportional be as well drawn from the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant, &c. as from any Arithme∣tical 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or Numbers known and given? I, and this to some apparent, reasonable, and visible effect also? But, if nothing were to be urged for proof of it, save Experience only; we are not to reject fair and known Truths, because we can give no Philosophical Reason for them. Then, what would become of the Load-Stone, Weapon-Salve, Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea? cum mul∣tis aliis, &c. Sith the best of Philosophers have ever been, are, and perhaps ever will be, in quest after the Reason of these Matters. And, since we are necessitated, many times, to allow of a Faith in Natural Knowledge, how much more then ought we to admire and adore Theo∣logy, which by that Divine Clue, brings us, from all our troublesome Enquiries here below, unto the Habitation of God and Angels? But to my purpose again, from whence I digressed.

21. When the Lord of the Second shall be remote from his Second, and also from the second House from the Moon; and the Lord of the Part of Fortune, removed

from the Part of Fortune, (i.e.) Cadent from them, or in Quadrate or Opposition to them; Significat quod habebunt victus indigentiam, &c. it betokens (saith my Author) want of Victuals, and of common Necessaries for the Sea-men and Passengers. And if these things happen in Watry Signs, there will be a scarcity of Fresh Water fit for their use: If in Earthy Signs, or those of the Airy Trigon, then will they be put to it for want of Victuals and Fireing, by reason whereof, much trou∣ble and discontent will befal them.

22. When Mars shall be weak in the Figure of Hea∣ven, at the Launching of a Man of War, or, at the setting Sail of any Vessel, Merchants Ship, or Other, and in ill aspect of the Moon and Lord of the Ascendant, it declares several troubles to such Vessel, and shews them always to be worsted by their Enemies in Fight.

23. The Moon slow in Motion, and in ill aspect of Sa∣turn or Mars, though other Trstimonies are moderately promising, it intimates to a Ship then Launched, or setting Sail, &c. a troublesom and doubtful Fate, or Voyage: And shews likewise that the Sea-men which shall be, or go, in her, to be much out of heart, desponding and despairing of either success or security.

24. All the Planets slow in Motion, and under the Earth, at the time when any Ship is first Launched, Por∣tend it to be a Vessel but of obscure Fame, and of very poor and mean Action. If, at the beginning of any Voyage, they happen to be so found, they demonstrate it to be tedious and flow, and in many things improspe∣rous, Cloudy, and Unsuccessful. Howbeit, the Fate of the Former, and Success of the Latter, shall prove bet∣ter at the last, than at the first.

25. The Dragons Head is to be considered in these Judg∣ments, as an adjuvant Testimony of Good, and the Dra∣gons Tail is ever known to encrease Arguments of Evil.

26. When Dark, Azimene, Pitted, Void, or Smoa∣ky Degrees ascend the Horoscope, under which a Ship is first Launched, or doth set Sail for a Voyage, a Cloudy Fortune will attend the Former, with several notable haz∣zards, &c. and, it is to be feared, that much Mischief and Unluckiness will befal the Latter, before its return home. Chiefly, if, together herewith, other Arguments concur.

To conclnde, you must ever remember, to observe, in all your Judgments of this Nature, the Major Number of Testimonies, whether they be for Good or Evil For∣tune, and by them you are to guide your Opinion in all matters Astrologically. If the Major Number of Testi∣monies be for Good, then there is no doubt (by Gods Blessing) of Prosperity to the Ship, or Voyage. If the greater Number of Arguments be for Evil, then an un∣successful Voyage, or Vessel, is to be feared. And, in this Latter, can you do better, than either to perswade your Querent to let the Voyage alone, or else to save him∣self by Insurance? And, in the Former, you may con∣fidently give encouragement, and (when the worst is doubted or dreaded) perswade him to keep his praemium Money. Thus have you all the (necessary) Aguments, both of Good and Evil, of Encouragement and Dis∣couragement, proper and pertinent to this most weighty and considerable purpose. And so I have finished my Theorical Part of this Treatise, and shall in the next Chapter endeavour to improve it (for the Artists ease, and the Worlds benefit) with Variety of Practical Ex∣amples.

Notes

• De judici is Astre. p. 3. cap. 14. fol. 115.
• Haly, pars. 3. cap. 14. fol. 115.
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  Nota bene.
• Haly, de judic: Astrorum.