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GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR AS-
CERTAINING THE PLANETARY
INFLUENCE WHICH GOVERNS THE
VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS OF THE
EARTH, ACCORDING TO THE OPI-
NIONS OF THE MOST
AUTHORS IN THE CELESTIAL SCI-
ENCE OF ASTROLOGY.

observation, that, without deviating from probability and truth, and agreeable to the rules of art, we may affert Venus to be the regent of such a fruit ; and hence, whenever it is directed as a medicine, the best time of gathering it, for application, with full efficacy, is, when she

is lady of the hour, and more particuAPPROVED larly when she is well located in either

of her houses or exaltations, and not in any bad aspect with either of the ma

lignant planets. IN order to discover what planet rules To illustrate this matter farther by any particular plant, herb, fruit, or example, it will be neceffary to exhibit flower,' we must learn, from fome Her a Decumbiture, wherein the planetary bal, the exact description of its nature influence and the utility of this knowand properties; what foil it delights in, , ledge is made obvious even to the most and what variation it is subject to from simple capacity. cultivation; and then, in some treatise of A gentleman was taken ill, Monday astrology, or according to the rules of the

at noon, June 9th, 1777, of which the art, find which of the planets belt agrees following figure represents the Schema. with the complexion of its nature. coeli ad Temporuin, or appearance of the

As for example ; if you wish to know heavens at that time, erected according what planet rules the cherry

--vou find to the rules of the science of astrology, that this fruit is, by nature, of a moist, and agreeable to the practice of the first cooling, and juicy complexion, neither proficients. too hot nor too cold, and a very thriving Let Mercury represent the person fruit for this country; and, although taken ill; now $ in a with '; lord they differ somewhat in their taste from of the cighth house, signifies that the one another, as they do in appearance, patient hath a severe illness: the 88 in yet their general nature is the fame; and the 4. house corroborates the fame, and whatever variation there may be in seems to tell us, that fatal consequences their qualities, their general properties must attend the period of this malady: are alike.

Yet $ applying to a ó of the 8 and Now Venus, upon examination, most 4, (and he being the lord of the 7th, of all the seven planets, answers the who represents the physician;) and 24 properties incident to this enquiry, and in *, with the cusp ascending, all figwe shall find, according to the former nify, most certainly, that the afursted per

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fon shall recover; but ħ a malignant doctor, and gives friendly aspects, we planet R in the 2 house, signifies that a may conclude, that those medical herbs, material expence shall attend this illness; under the dominion of 4, which are and although the party gets the better prescribable for the disease, if properly of his disease, his property will suffer administered, will, under God's blessing, materially

greatly and principally effect towards Now the ) being in fextile with f, restoring the fick person to health; but bids fair for a recovery; and, consider- must, to have their full extent of mediing all these circumstances together, ac- cal efficacy, be gathered in the planetary cording to the situations of the heavens hour which 3 rules, and which may in this decụmbiture, we may reason- be found at fight, by the following taably expect that the patient will soon bles, calculated for that purpose. recover ; and as 2 in this figure is the

EXPLANATION OF A DECUMBITURE. Always let the planet that governs

When any person is taken ill, im. the herb be angular, and the itronger mediately erect"a figure of the heavens the better, if they can; in herbs of at that instant of time; and exactly Saturn, let Saturn be in the ascendant, observe the particular situations of the and in the herbs of Mars, let Mars be moon, and the lord of the ascendant, in the mid-heaven, for in those houses as representatives of the diseased person; they delight; let the moon apply to the lord of the VIth house to signify the them by good aspect, and let her not be disease, and the nature thereof; the lord

in the houses of her enemies ; if you of the VIIth house for the physician, cannot well stay till she apply to them, and such herbs as are governed by this let her apply to a planet of the fame planet, are the herbs that must be ad. triplicity; and if you cannot wait that ministered in the planetary hour, for in time neither, let her be with a fixed these circumítances they have a two-fald star of their nature. efficacy.

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