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THE

CONJUROR's MAGAZINE.

FOR SEPTEMBER 1791.

ASTROLOGY.

REQUISITE RULES TO PREPARE NATIVITIES, FOR WORKING DIRECTIONS, AND FOR ALL OTHER PURPOSES IN ASTROLOGY.

NATIVITIES.

afcenfion, and you have the oblique defcenfion. When the declination is

To find the afcenfional Difference of the Sun, fouth, fubtract the afcenfional difference

or a Planet.

RULE.

from the right afcenfion, and there remains the oblique defcenfion.

Arcs of the Planets.

ADD the tangent of the declination To find the femidiurnal and feminocturnal of the fun or planet to the tangent of the latitude of the place; the fum is the fine of the afcenfional difference.

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Alfo the tangent of the declination, added to the tangent of the pole of fition of any planet, gives the fign of the afcenfional difference under that pole.

To find the oblique Afcenfion and Defcenfion of a Planet.

RULE.

When the planet's declination is north, fubtract the afcenfional difference

from the right afcenfion of the planet, and the remainder is the oblique afcenfion of that planet. When the declination is fouth, add the afcenfional difference to the right afcenfion, the fum is then the oblique afcenfion.

OBLIQUE DESCENSION.

When the declination is north, add the afcenfional difference to the right

RULE.

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and for all directions in mundo, which cannot be worked without them.

The horary times of a planet are found by dividing the femidiurnal or feminocturnal arc of the planet by 6, and the space of any houfe is found by dividing the femidiurnal or feminocturnal arcs by 3, according as the planet is pofited above or below the earth; and the quotient will be the space of one houfe. As, for example, in the firft nativity, if it were required to find the horary times of Mercury, his femi-arc is 124° 40', which, divided by 6, quotes 20° 46' for the horary times of Mercury, and this doubled gives 41° 32′ for the space of that house wherein Mercury is pofited.

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If it be required to find the space of the house where the moon is, her feminocturnal arc must be taken, becaufe fhe is under the earth, which is 109°; the third part of this makes 36 the fpace of the house by the

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moon.

PTOLEMY'S QUADRIPARTITE.

To find the Diffance of a Planet from any one of the prime Angles.

Ift. From the medium cæli, or imum cœli-

Take the difference between the right afcenfion of the planet and the right afcenfion of the medium or imum cœli, and you have the distance required. 2d. From the afcendant, or feventh house.

If the distance be required from the afcendant, find the difference between the oblique afcenfion of the afcendant, and the oblique afcenfion of the planet taken with latitude, which will be the distance required. If the diftance be required from the feventh houfe, find the oblique afcenfion of the planet's oppofite place, taken with contrary latitude to what the planet hath, and the difference between that and the oblique afcenfion of the afcendant, will be the planet's diftance from the feventh house. The distance of a planet from any

* Example to be hereafter given.

other house is found by taking the dif ference of the oblique afcenfions of that houfe and the oblique afcenfion of the planet found under the pole of that house. The oblique afcenfions of the houfes are thus obtained: add 30 degrees to the right afcenfion of the midheaven, and you have the oblique afcenfion of the 11th houfe: add 30 degrees to the oblique afcenfion of the 11th houfe, and you have the oblique afcenfion of the 12th, to which add 30 degrees, and the fun is the oblique afcenfion of the ascendant; and fo procced round the reft of the houses. The diftance of a planet from any houfe may be had without their oblique afcenfions, that is, by means of their duplicate horary times. Thus fuppofe, in the first nativity before mentioned, it was required to find the diftance of the moon from the 6th house. The moon's feminocturnal arc is 109 degrees, which, divided by 3, quotes 36° 20′ for the fpace of one house by the moon; the distance of the moon from the imum cœli is 69° 46', from which fubtracting 36° 20' the fpace of one house by the moon, and there remains 33° 20′ for the distance of the moon from the culp of the 5th houfe: fubtract this diftance from 36° 20′, and there remains 3° for the diftance of the moon from the fixth houfe. The poles of the houfes for the latitude of London are as follows: the afcendant and 7th houfe 51° 32'; the 12th, 2d, 6th, and 8th houfes, 40° 50'; the 11th, 3d, 9th, and 5th houfes, 23° 28'. In the mid-heaven and imum cœli the pole is nothing. GADBURY.

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Augury.

ift. That it cannot be denied that all the affections and difpofitions of moifture, heat, cold, drought, the course of all winds, showers, thunder, &c. and whatever elfe helps to produce the great and univerfal effects of rarification and condenfation in our atmosphere, do in a great measure, if not intirely depend on the motion, pofition, fituation, and afpects of the fuperior celeftial bodies or planets. That every planet hath its own proper light, diftinct from every other, which light not being a bare quality, but defigned for a further ufe, than mere illumination, must be accompanied with some peculiar tincture, virtue, or power.

2d. That this light of each particular celestial body, not being at all refracted in the ethereal spaces it is tranfmitted through, defcends intirely and unchanged into our atmosphere.

3d. 'I'hat whatever is received into our atmosphere, is alfo received by the thin and subtil air, which is contiguous to the atmosphere; and which cannot but be capable of being moved, stirred, altered and influenced by thefe differently difpofed lights, which penetrate each part of it.

4th. And fince the thin and fubtil air is capable of being thus affected, moved and altered by thefe planetary virtues, it must needs varioufly imprefs, move, agitate and infect, the fpirits or fubtiler parts of all bodies within its reach; and confequently must have a confiderable influence upon the bodies wherein fuch fpirits refide, and whom they actuate.

Hence by the fublimeft fcience, we find the feveral erratic pofitions: Saturn and the Earth in the firft Fiery Sign; Jupiter, the Sun and Mercury in the fixth Airy and Equinoctial Signs, oppofing each other. Mars Geocentric appearing a friendly Interpofer, but confidered heliocentrical together with Vehus; he wears an envious afpect to all the contending parties. The phyfical commotions hereby excited will take place in fome part of the globe near the beginning and middle of next October.

ASTRONOMICUS,

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THE AUGUR. N° I. AUGURY is the art of infpection and divination, by obferving the entrails of birds and beaits, and was in great efteem among the ancients. The Lacedemonians had always an Augur to attend upon their Kings; and among the Romans was a college of Augurs. Romulus himself was a foothfayer, and ordained that the choice f magiftrates fhould be confirmed by Augury; and fo fond were the ancients of this art, that nothing of public or private affairs fhould be tranfacted without it. In taking the Aufpices it was obferved whether the beaft came willingly to the altar or not, (fee in RELIGION, V. 1. p. 48, 49, 50.) whether the entrails were of a natural colour, and not exulcerated, or whether any part were defective or wanting; and when Auguftus found two galls in his facrifice, the credulity of the people concluded a hope of peace with Anthory, and the amity of perfons in Choler with each other.-Becaufe Brutus and Caffius met a blackmoor, and Pompey had on a dark coloured garment, at Pharfalia, these were thought prefages of their overthrow.-When Gracæus was flain, the fame day the chickens refused to come out of their coop.-So the death of Cafar was divined from the clattering of armour in his houfe.-The poifoning of Germanicus by the founding of a trumpet of its own accord.-The like of a painted horfe on the wall of the palace of the Emperor Andronicus Paleologus, about anno 1300, was judg ed a happy omen to that emperor; and his chancellor congratulated him in the expectation of future triumphs; yet when Baldwin, emperor of the Latins was beaten out of Conftantinople by his father, his horfe neighed after the fame manner. An owl fcreeching in the fenate-houfe, was deemed ominous to Auguftus.-A company of crows following Sejanus to his houfe with great noife and clamour, was judged to be fatal, and fo indeed it proved.--Romulus had promifed to him the empire before his brother, because he had seen

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Fulfilment of Events..

the double number of vultures.---So our William the Conqueror, when he firit ftepped on land, his foot flipping, he fell down, and got fome dirt in his hand, which being judged an ill fign, he faid," No! I have by this taken

poffeffion of this land!" And a fwarm of bees hovering over St. Ambrofe, as alfo Plato the philofopher, when infants in their cradles, was judged to portend great wifdom, fhould flow from their mouths.

REMARKABLE

FULFILMENT OF EVENTS, NOTIFIED BY THE SOLAR ECLIPSE JUNE 4, 1788.

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latitude above every planet in the figure. And laft, though not leaft, is his harmonious configurations with the two fubordinate lords of the eclipfe` and the moon, befides the parallel declination, or antifcion of 2.

THE principal lord of this eclipfe is , he being lord of the place of the eclipfe, or difpofitor of the luminaries. This is his charter of conflitution, and the has alfo dominion from being lord of the next angle, viz. the afcendant; and claims a fhare, as pofited on the cufp of that angle; and his influence is rendered determinate by his being the fole planet in partile afpect with the indifferent. But has not only the accidental fituation of regent, but he has, exclufively of his title to government, abundance of dignities. He is in his own houfe, in 6 with Cingula Orionis, and exalted by north

Having now afcertained, according to rule, the governors of this eclipfe, we will read the effects, not from any ex poft facto law, but from aphorifms, the latest of which I fhall quote from a book printed in 1665.

RULE. An eclipfe or comet in the 11th Houfe caufes death and deftruction of grandees.

OBS. The numerous deaths of peers

Extract from Lilly.

in Great Britain, during the operation of this eclipfe, has been remarked by perfons without any reference to Aftro logy; and in France, where it fell in the fame Houfe, the effects on Ariftocracy have been ftill more notorious. RULE. Eclipfes in AIRY figns fignify violent winds, fhipwrecks, feditions. OBS. The number of colliers loft in one gale in the winter of 1788, will fully verify one part of this aphorifm, without any other inftance; but the whole winter was one of the most windy ever known. On Seditions, I may without apology be filent.

RULE. Eclipfes in Gemini fignify great deftruction, and fcarcity of birds

and

game.

OBS. This was verified in the seasons of 1788 and 1789. There was fcarcely a young partridge to be fhot in 1789 in many counties, and scarcely any growfe on the Welch mountains.

I fhall now quote faithfully a paffage from Lilly's Almanack for 1666.

"The 13th is London's horofcope, and the Sun was in 25° of the fame. This is CERTAINLY TRUE, that, when any notable eclipse of O and D, or other mal-configuration of the two malevolents, 24 and 3, doth happen in or near the 11, 12, 13 or 14, 24, 25, 26, the city of London doth much fuffer, viz. the commonalty, in one kind or other, the quality of their fufferings according to the nature of the planet moft fortified: If any mal-afpect (or pofition, as appears by the examples he gives)" be in the 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, then it is to be feared great fires may cause much detriment to them in feveral parts of the city. If the like afpect be in the forementioned degrees of, then follows great abftruction in their commerce as home, and in parts beyond the feas; many of their prime magiftrates or officers die great chopping and changing in their offices; many fubject unto or pay great fines for not ferving of offices impofed on them; divifions about choofing their magiftrates. If the like mal-afpect be in the before-mentioned degrees of 8,

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they are heavily burthened with taxes §, but if in the beforefaid degree of m, then their fervants or inferior people are unruly, fickly, and endure much poverty."

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So far the GREAT Lilly. The riots at the Westminster election, and still more the principle on which they were conducted, afflicted the Commonalty, and that, according to the planets most fortified, viz. , 3, and . Not only many fires have happened fince the time of this eclipfe, but there seems to have been a dangerous and determined gang of incendiaries formed, 8, obferve in 19° . His 8 to comes next. The lift of bankrupts in 1788 nearly doubled that of any preceding. year; and though it diminished in 1789, far exceeded then any former year. In that year, too, vaft numbers were fined for not ferving as fheriff, &c. The of falls in 8 and m.. The fhop-tax lay heavy on them; perhaps private taxes too, for I have little knowledge of the internal of London and as I was alfo out of town, from foon after the eclipfe till its effects had ceafed, I cannot fpeak to the laft article. However, I will reft the truth of Aftrology on the inftance of this eclipse, and the coincidental pofitions of the stars.

I fhall only add, that as happily tinctured with a principally defigns the events of this Eclipfe, they are de bates carried on with warmth and zeal, and well directed; and as C rules the afcendant, regard government and kingdoms. 24 in, as appears from Guido Bonatus, and copied in Sir George

Mr. Warton, in his Birth Day Ode for 1788, complimented the King, in much the introducing the GOLDEN AGE. fame manner as Virgil did Auguftus, with

'Secul,' &c.

Aurea condet

EN. vi. 1. 793. It is remarkable, that the only cotemporary book with the neid, which treats of the event to be that in those days there this fubject, has affigned Auguftus's fhare in went out a decree from Cæfar Auguftus, that the whole world thould be taxed. -St. Luke ii. v. 1. This was certainly an effectual, but rather a felfish, way to commence the golden age.

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