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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    44c TheKefohttioa of parting out of his Exaltation, having been a long time Retro* grade therein, and now at prefentitnpedited by d: after his tranfit out of $ ,he enters the fixed Sign sv, and into the Terms of h 5 but in the firft fix degrees thereof he meets with ievcrall obnoxious fixed Starres, and thence pafles into the Termes of 5 , who is now in the Signe K his Fall; yet angular, entred '■ Into the Decanate of d. We find Q Lady of the ninth houfe in V her Detriment, and in the eight of the Figure, but twelft houle from her own viz. 5 now the cufp'of the ninth : and if you oblerve $ well, fhe hath one and twenty degrees to pafle through the Signe of V , and thefe degrees all in the eighth hon(e, ere (he get into where (he may poflible fix,or at leaft would ; but before lhe ful¬ ly get out of this movable Signe T , (he firft hath occurfe to the 4 ^)e Gentry ftnifter □ of3 V , then of ^ cf , all three in the Termes of 1?: of England this might have produced foipcLmateriall effe&s, if 1? had been will oppofe it. eflentially Fortified where he is, of if Presbytery had any rela- b cf Eord of tjon to Monkery, or if it had been the firft beginning of a Re- ibe afcendant'iigious Order. ■.of England, Let us take all the Planets as pofited, and there’s not a Pla- the generality net fixed except h , nor any eflentially dignified but V ,and be or whole King impedited by cf 5 the j> is entfing via combuJla9 d is in his Fall, dome will di- 5 in his, 9 in her Detriment. ftafte it. We have the }) Separating from 9 in the eighth, then go- c Tbe Preshy- jng to fc>e vacua cwrjW,afterwards (he fquares with Ccf, then with :tery willftrug y ; From thefe configurations we (hall naturally frame our gle hardy and judgment, not pdfitive or affirmative, but conje&urall , one- wrangle ]y out Gf a defire that pofterity may fee there’s fome verity lye : and we hope herein, that we (hall no more offend in wri¬ ting the Aftrall intention of the heavenly bodyes, (deduced from reafons in Art) then thofe who daily (flew ore) and pub- iickly deliver amongit hundreds their conceptions, though re¬ pugnant to the opinion of very many now alive. The pofiture of h in the ninth who is naturally of a (evere, furly, rigid and harlh temper, may argue, the Prebytery (hall be too ftri&, iullen and dogged fpr the Engli(h Conftitutions, little gentle or compliant with the natures of the generality,and that there fliali