Christian astrology ... in three books. The first containing the use of an ephemeris ... The second ... how to judge or resolve all manner of questions ... The third ... to judge upon nativities / [William Lilly].

  • Lilly, William, 1602-1681
Date:
1647
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Credit: Christian astrology ... in three books. The first containing the use of an ephemeris ... The second ... how to judge or resolve all manner of questions ... The third ... to judge upon nativities / [William Lilly]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •J a// manner of Questions, Chap. LIV. Fifb Stolen. Living in the Coun¬ try 1637J had bought at Lon¬ don fome Fiftt for my proviii- on in Lent* it came down by the Barge at Walton^on Sa¬ turday tne io* of Febr. one of theWatermen^ inftead of brin¬ ging my Fifti home,acquain¬ ted me, their warehoufe was robbed laft night, and my Fifti ftolen : I took the exa& time when 1 firft heard the report, and ere&ed the Figure according¬ ly, endeavouring to give my felfe fatisfa&ion what became of my goods, and, if poflible, to recover part or all of them againe. I firft obferved, there was no peregrine Planet in angle but V whom I found upon the cufp of the feventh houfe, the thing I loft was Fifh, therefore any Gentleman would fcorne fuch a courfe Commodity; I confidered the fignification of V in m , a moyft Signe, and the Sigmficator of my Goods, viz. 5 that he was in K 3 a moyft Signe,and that® was in s,a moyft Signe. Difcretion,together with Art,aftifted me to think he muft be a man whole profefiion or calling was to live upon the Water, that had myGoods, and that they were in fome moyft place,or in fome low roome,|beeaufe was in and the I> in an earthly Sign, D d d 3 I w as