ASTROLOGY. 
citry give afpeft. If, at the time of the matutine fetting 
of Dolphin, there be (bowers, there will be none at the ri¬ 
ling of Arflurus. The riling of the Haedi produces rain. 
The matutine riling of the greater Dog-liar produces heat, 
iroubleth the feas, and calls an univerfal lallitude overall 
things. Ptolemy, from many years obfervation, deduced 
the following effects from the fixed (tars riling with the 
fun. Orion’s Girdle, riling with the fun, maketh a tur¬ 
bid air. The fetting of the Crown prefages tempelts. Sy- 
rius and Aquilo, riling in the evening, produce tempelts. 
The fetting of Regulus caufes the north wind, and fome- 
times rain. The fetting of the Dolphin produces wind and 
fnow. The fetting of Vindemiator moveth the north-ealt 
wind. The riling of the Ram’s Horn brings rain and fnow. 
The velpertine riling of ArChirus portends tempelts. The 
riling of the Pleiades maketh the welt wind to blow. The 
velpertine fetting of Syrius produces the fouthand north- 
north-eaft winds. The matutine letting ot the Hyades 
prefages rain and the fouth wind. The velpertine fetting 
of the Pleiades moves the mild fouth wind, terminating in 
the welt. The riling of the Succulse brings rain. The 
riling of Orion maketh the welt wind to blow. I he ma¬ 
tutine fetting of the Eagle caufes great heat and the fouth 
wind; of A returns denotes (bowers ; of the Succulae pro¬ 
duces rain, fnow, and winds. 
“ The Sun, riling with the Affelli, fills the air with 
thunder, lightning, and Ihowers. The Sun riling with the 
Eagle produces fnow, as alio with the Tail of the Goat, 
and Head of Medufa. His riling with Aldebaran and the 
ffars of Orion, produces wind, rain, thunder, and light¬ 
ning. When he rifes with the cloudy (tars in Leo, with 
Orion, with the tail of Leo, the light (tar of Hydra, the 
Crown, or the (tars in the forehead of the Scorpion, it por¬ 
tends a cloudy feafon. The Sun fetting with the Harp de¬ 
notes a cold and moilt time ; with the Pleiades, mild Ihow¬ 
ers ; with Regulus, Ihowers, thunder, and lightning; with 
the Greater Dog-ffar, warm time, with thunder and light¬ 
ning; with Orion and Aldebaran, a turbid, windy, and 
wet, air; with Acanor, and the liars of Jupiter, a ferene 
and temperate feafon ; with the liars of the nature of Sa¬ 
turn, he produces cold rain or fnow ; with the liars ol Ve¬ 
nus,rain or milt; with the liars of Mars, thunder and light¬ 
ning. Saturn, with the Head of Medufa, begetteth cold 
and moillure; with the Pleiades, he troubles the air, and 
engenders clouds, rain, and fnow; with the liars of Orion 
he produces wind and Ihowers; with Ardlurus, wind and 
rain; with the Virgin’s Spike, Ihowers and thunder; with 
the Dolphin, bright liar of the Crown, Goat’s Tail, or the 
Harp, he caufes a moilt and cloudy time, and fometimes 
fnow and rain; with Prefepe, and the Hyades, winds, 
clouds, rain, and thunder; with the Lion’s Heart, thun¬ 
der and rain ; with the Greater Dog-ltar, winds, rain, thun¬ 
der, and lightning. Jupiter, riling with Regulus, brings 
fair w'eather in winter, and mitigates the cold, and increa- 
fetli the heat in Cummer ; with the Neck of the Lion it pro¬ 
duces winds, and with Acanor it promifes ferenity. Mars 
riling with the Goat’s Tail forelhews a moilt time; with the 
liars in the Scorpion’s Forehead, cold rain or fnow ; with 
Ardturus, vehement winds, rain, thunder, and lightning; 
with the Eagle, rain, fnow, and great coldnefs; with the 
ffars of Orion, Hyades, Regulus, and the Dog-ltar, great 
heat. Mercury with the Pleiades produces mild winds 
and rain; with the Eagle, fnow or rain; with the liars of 
Orion, Hyades, Regulus, and the Dog-ftar, winds, (bow¬ 
ers, thunder, and lightning; with the Goat’s Tail, cold 
winds, fnow, or Ihowers; with the Back and Neck of the 
Lion, moiff winds; with the Lion’s Tail, Spica Virgo, the 
Harp, &c. it portends a hidden change to wind and rain. 
“ Now thefe and the like afpeCts, being collected, 
throughout the year, by the help of an Ephemeris, and 
carefully arranged, and well conlidered, will, in a remark¬ 
able manner, forelhew the general tendency of the wea¬ 
ther for the year to come, in whatever country or climate 
thefe afpedts are made. And this is the mode that is or 
ought to be adopted by thole who calculate or foretei the 
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weather in our common almanacs, and which, if correctly 
done, will be found generally true.” 
Calculations for the rife, growth, duration, and fall, of 
empires, are conducted in a fimilar manner; examples of 
which the prefent author has given in the origin of the 
United States of America, and in the recent fall of the mo¬ 
narchy of France ; which he pretends to have foretold fix 
years before either of thefe events took place. With re¬ 
gard to the calculation of nativities , we (ball give the out¬ 
lines of the operation in this author’s own words : “As 
the calculation of nativities is a moft interefting and curious 
(peculation, it is neceffary to Hate, in the plained language, 
the principles on which it is conducted. It is manifell to 
the mod fuperficial obferver, that a certain lecret power 
is diffufed through all things that are near the earth, accord¬ 
ing to the nature and properties of the firmament, and cir¬ 
cumambient air, and to the power and influence of the 
luminaries and other celedial bodies. The fun, being the 
fuperior luminary and the fountain of life, governs all 
things that bear relation to the earth, not only by varying 
the feafons, and bringing to perfection the feeds of ani¬ 
mals, and the fruitfulnefs of plants, the flowing of wa¬ 
ters and the mutation of bodies, but alfo the changes of 
the day, of heat and moidure, of drynefs and cold, as it 
hath rel’peCl to the meridian, or mid-heaven. The moon 
alio, being neared to the earth, diftils down an amazing 
influence, by which things animate and inanimate are af- 
leCted and changed. Rivers are augmented and diminilh- 
ed according to her light; the tides vary as (he rifes and 
fets ; plants and animals, in whole or in part, increafe and 
decreafe with her. In the fame manner the liars, fixed 
and erratic, as they keep on their uniform courfe, caufe 
many appearances around us, for they produce cold and 
heat, and wind and rain, by which alio things on earth are 
fuitably governed; and their mutual configurations, as 
their influences co-operate with or oppofe one another, pro¬ 
duce variations accordingly. 
“ The power of the fun is on all hands admitted to be 
mod prevalent, as it is obvioufly moll univerfal. The 
other heavenly bodies, according to the variety of their 
afpeCls with the fun, unite with, or refill, his influence, 
agreeable to the nature and force of fuch afpedls. This 
happens mod frequently, and mod forcibly, with the moon, 
at all the changes. But thefe affeClions in the ffars operate 
more obfcurely, and employ longer time, according to their 
declination, or as they appear or difappear in our horizon. 
Hence then, by the rules of nature, and the tedimony of 
our own reafon and experience, it mull be admitted, that 
of all the planets, the influence of the fun is the mod power¬ 
ful; and that the influence of the other planets have mod 
energy, when the beams of the fun co-operate with them. 
The moon likewife, by reafon of her fwiftnefs, and prox¬ 
imity to the earth, modifies and conveys thefe influences 
to fublunary bodies, with a force fuperior to all the other 
ffars. And thefe influences are always mod powerful, and 
molt vilible in their effects, when this mediation of the 
moon is exercifed in conveying the influences of the liars 
to the fun, or of the fun to the other ffars, and thence to 
the earth. But, in defining thefe varying properties and 
effects, particular regard mud be had to the latitude, decli¬ 
nation, riling, and fetting, of the liars, both fixed and erratic, 
efpecially thofe which approach neared to the ecliptic. 
“ Whoever conteriiplates thefe premifes, and attentively 
obferves the afpedls, will find, that not only Conjoined bo¬ 
dies are fubjedl to the configurations of the ffars, but alfo 
the buddings and perfection of feeds are framed and form¬ 
ed according to the quality with which the heavenly mat¬ 
ter and circumambient air is endued. The obfervant huf- 
bandman and Ihepherd pre-conjedltire the proper feafons 
for feed-fowing, planting, and procreation of animals, by 
confulting the (late of the winds and the face of the Iky. 
The Ikilful mariner likewife prepares againft the dangers 
of an approaching dorm by fimilar obfervations; but they 
are frequently deceived for want of better experience, and 
an adequate knowledge of the courfes and effetts of the 
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