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also say it causes all the actions in a man's life to be made public, makes him waste his substance, and quarrel with his brethren and sisters.

Of, causes much happiness, courtship, marriage, dress, dancing, and dissipation, children and gifts. If she be in a watery sign, the native, in such a direction, is apt, it is said, to turn drunkard, spendthrift, and debauched, and is afflicted with such diseases as are the natural consequences of such pursuits.

Of, it addicts the native to the study of letters and science, merchandise and various employments. Directions of this kind generally bring the native to some new kind of study, employment, or profession, or improve the old

one.

Of the D, if she was weak in the radix, or afflicted, it causes trouble both in body and mind, threatens drowning, and whether fortunate or unfortunate, causes sudden changes to good or evil, sometimes marriage, journeys, preferment, death of the mother, cholic, and other lunar diseases.

The 6 of h with the mid-heaven, causes disgrace and hatred of superiors, destroys preferment, and so vitiates the native as to render him indolent, foolish, obstinate, and mean, wholly undeserving of any one's regard, and accordingly he is ruined, and falls to rise no more. Sometimes it denotes an ignominious death, if there be symptoms of violent death in the figure, and it always renders him an object of hatred and contempt among his inferiors.

Of 4, gives great honour, profit, and preferment, favour of the great, and extensive patronage. It benefits every one according to their capacity and condition in life.

Of, stirs up the resentment of the great, causes exile, imprisonment, hatred, secret injuries, dreadful losses by fire, thieves, treachery, and fraud. Kings from this direction or position injure their subjects, and are dethroned and murdered by them in return; it however gives military honours, with much anguish and trouble, and where an untimely end is threatened in the radix, this shews the time and quality of the death.

Of the O, gives great honour and dignity, favour of the great, high preferment, and endows the native with honour

and fidelity. It also renders the native proud and prodigal, and greatly expands his mind, endowing him with lofty conceptions and a spirit of enterprise. It also denotes the prosperity of the parents, particularly of the mother of the native, and is likewise the forerunner of her death.

Of, cheerfulness, joy, and mirth; amusements, marriage, honour, profit, gain, love, respect, and preferment. Of, fortune and success in dispatch of business, honour and profit by learning, sciences, or anything resulting from study and the use of letters, increase of business and fortune. Youths become apprentices, or men set up in business, scholars take degrees, &c. It also causes scandal and disgrace, according to the condition of ☀.

Of the D, much restlessness and business, with good or evil result, according to the condition of the Moon. Marriage or friendship with women, and anything signified by the Moon in the radix is now brought to perfection. Travelling, trade, office, dignity, and their opposites.

The Sun to the 6 of h, trouble and sickness, diseases in the head, melancholy fears, agues, weakness in the eyes, hurts in the right eye by blows or falls, injury from great men of saturnine dispositions, who will injure the native's fortune and reputation, and cause him much uneasiness. Great dangers in travelling by sea and land, and some say it denotes sickness and affliction to the father.

Of 2, health, peace, and plenty, preferment, honour, and favour of the great. In kingdoms, it denotes the renewing of treaties, peace, just government, and the clergy respectable.

Of , acute diseases, fevers, head-aches, dim eyes or blindness, wounds in the face, burns, scalds, hurts by iron, inconstancy, an evil mind, both in the native and those he has dealings with, injury by robbers or great men, mischievous enemies, injuries by soldiers, mad dogs, horses, or ferocious animals or large cattle. If a violent death be in the nativity, it is then at hand. In moist signs it is said to cause the bloody flux. To kings, it denotes murder, poison, treachery, and rebellion. In a martial nativity it gives preferment, and that generally to some post of danger.

Of, music, plays, merry-making, venereal pleasures, courtship, marriage, and these events will be good or evil,

as Venus is strong or weak in the radix. It gives increase of trade and property, and to kings it is said to denote marriage or preferment to their children. In nativities where Venus is peregrine, it is said to cause dreadful debauchery.

Of, much business, mercantile enjoyments, literary undertakings, learning, literary contentions, embassies, danger of thieves, propensity to travel, law-suits, quarrels, and preferment if the radix denote it. It also inclines the native to fresh studies and to be constant to none.

Of the D, sickness, pain of the head and stomach, grief, blindness especially if denoted by the radix. It inclines the native to travel, prodigality, waste, folly, rapine and theft, and inconstancy. If the native marries on this direction, the wife is proud and one that will usurp authority over him. It denotes journeys; and, if the Moon be strong, it may give preferment.

The 6 of the D with h causes apoplexy, palsy, dropsy, gout, agues, and fevers; false accusations, loss of substance, great anguish, fear, melancholy, sorrow, and affliction; loss of friends, deceit, consumption, blindness, or bad eyes, &c.

With 24 gives health, honour and riches, preferment, and success in all things.

With ♂, great sorrow, loss, and misfortunes, loss of sight, fevers, and eruptive diseases, siphilis, wounds, danger from furious beasts, bites of dogs, quarrels, murder, especially if Mars be anareta,* and if the conjunction happen in Leo or near the Bull's Eye or Antares, the disease will be pestilential.

With the O, when the Moon is directed, it causes fever, (at which time they say the native will disclose all his former secrets) changes and unsettled life, great perplexity, bad eyes, also marriage. To kings it denotes success, to princes it shews honours or succession to the throne, and to merchants a decline in credit, but not bankruptcy.

With, it causes joy and pleasure; and, if in a moist sign, drunkenness and all kinds of amusements, good health, marriage, courtship, and gifts. To kings, peace at home and abroad.

With, business, lying and dissimulation, eloquence, fraud, theft, lewdness, forgery, hard study, and success. To a king, it denotes negociations and treaties.

* The destroyer of Life.

The Sextile and Trine.

The horoscope, having the or A of h, denotes favour from old men, gain by agriculture, gardening, mines, collieries, and all things relative to the earth, legacies, and inheritance. It is said to be a good time to let lands or renew leases, build or speculate in saturnine employments. Of 4, great gain, riches, and honours, health and friendship.

Of , martial employments or exercises and preferment, also invention, impatience, anger, and energy.

Of the O, health, honour, profit, friends, and happiness. Of, pleasure, enjoyment, marriage, children, and good fortune.

Of, gain and preferment by study and learning, literary encouragement, &c.

Of the D, much business, health, and contentment, marriage, journeys, and children, particularly daughters.

The mid-heaven to the or A of h, honour and esteem from old people, gravity and sobriety, gain by agriculture and other saturnine professions. If Saturn be in Taurus or Capricorn it is all the better.

Of 2, the same as the conjunction.

Of, disposes the native to warlike exercises, riding, hunting, and gives preferment in war and gain by trade. To kings, it is a fortunate time to declare war.

Of the O, great honours and dignities, bounties, gifts from the great, and every degree of success and happiness. Of, love of women, new dresses, furniture, armaments, &c.; health, marriage, children, and every degree of felicity.

Of, renders the native learned, eloquent, and fortunate in all mercurial undertakings.

Of the D, great riches and prosperity, marriage to a rich or poor woman, according to the strength of the Moon, journeys, esteem, and reputation.

The O, having the or▲ of h, denotes honour and profit from old men, makes the native grave and severe, and like to gain wealth by husbandry, building or an inheritance.

Of 2, sound judgment, honour, profit, preferment, and male children. But, if Jupiter be not radically strong, the effect will be more weak and unavailing.

Of, friendship of martial men, preferment in arms,

courage, magnanimity, military reputation, victory, and travelling.

Of, reputation, office, dignity, love of women, marriage, children, health, easy and elegant manners.

The of, in direction, gives much business with, it is said, little profit, propensity to travelling with no good result, school or church preferment, dealing in books, &c.

Of the D, favour of great persons, many friends, a rich wife, and honourable or diplomatic employment.

The D to the ✶ or ▲ of ↳, great and valuable connections, gifts from old women, much esteem and veneration, profit from dealing with old people or in saturnine commodities, as wool, lead, agricultural or horticultural productions, houses, &c.

Of 2, much the same as the 6.

Of, boldness, pride, hatred, vigilance, oppression, martial pursuits, hunting, and riding.

If be weak, he will drink, game, and waste his property. It generally shews increase of trade with success. Of the O, honourable and profitable connections, marriage, travelling, much esteem, great success, and preferment.

Of, pleasure and happiness, a good marriage, great favour with every one, and unbounded success if Venus be strong.

Of, a propensity to learning, travelling, music, and oratory; it also denotes incessant action and a great propensity to trade.

The Square and Opposition.

The horoscope to the or 8 of h brings disease, death, chronic diseases, much melancholy, fear, and nervous horrors, ruptures, flux, gout, cholic, fistulas, tumours in the legs, injuries in the privates, loss, disgrace, and ruin.

Of 2, distemper, law suits, enmity and treachery, but not attended with any material loss.

Of 3, violent fevers by being overheated, sudden misfortune or death, falls, wounds, burnings, loss, false accusations, &c. In a fiery sign, it causes inflammations, boils, pestilent eruptions, &c. While this direction lasts, persons should avoid all business or adventure as much as possible. In earthy signs it threatens murder, in airy signs violent

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