ASTROLOGY. 
nerative and aftive, the hot and the moift; for, by thefe 
are all things joined together, and increafed : and two are 
corruptive and hurtful; the dry and the cold ; tor by thefe 
all things are diflolved and deftroyed. Wherefore two ot 
the planets, viz. Jupiter and Venus, are defined to be be- 
nefics, becaufe of their benevolent temperature, and be- 
eaufe heat and moifture equally abounds in tiiein ; and like- 
wife the moon, for the famereafon. But Saturn and Mars, 
being of an oppofite nature, are defined to be of a male¬ 
volent and deftriuftive influence, by reafon of the extreme 
cold of the one, and the violent heat of the other. 
“ Thus the power of thefe various affedtions, being 
mixed among themf'elves, produce many differences ot 
quality in the circumambient matter which continually fur- 
rounds us; the proper and diftinft power of which, alter¬ 
nately prevailing, is changed more or lei's by the force of 
other configurations. To thefe effects, the operation ot 
the fixed (tars in general contribute not a little. Thofe of 
the greateft magnitude are the molt powerful and efficaci¬ 
ous; and thofe in or near the ecliptic have more energy 
than thofe remote from it. The bright Bars have more 
influence than the dull and languid ; thofe of a red colour 
partake of the quality of Mars; thofe of a lead colour 
operate with limilar effedt to Saturn ; and fo of the others, 
according to their affinity with the planets. Stars which 
have north latitude and declination affect us molt; and 
thofe with lotith latitude, the more fouthern. Thofe fitu- 
ated in the zenith influence more than thofe which are 
more remote; and inch as are in partile conjundtion of any 
planet, or which rife or fet, or culminate, with them, 
have a more than oridinary power and influence. 
“ Now from this difpofition and temperature are brought 
about the great ends and purpofesof nature, by means of the 
afpedts and petitions of the planets configurated in the hea¬ 
vens, and thus adting upon the earth ; and it is upon thefe 
afpedls and configurations that the art of prediction is 
founded, and the events of futurity fought out andknowm. 
To reduce thefe to practice, in the calculation of a nati¬ 
vity, let us fuppofe an inlant born at any given time. Firft 
project the horofeope, or plan of the planet’s way in the 
heavens. Examine, at that inftant of time, by the help 
of an ephemeris for the fame year, what was the pofition 
of the fun, moon, and planets, in refpedt to their afpedts 
with each other, with the principal fjxed ftars, and with 
that latitude on the earth where the infant was born. Col- 
ledt thefe afpedts, and place them with great care precife- 
ly in the fame degree and minute in the horofeope as they 
were found in the zodiac, and particularly mark down the 
places of the moon’s nodes; and the figure will be ready 
for confidcration. The firft thing to be done is to find out 
the place of the apheta, hyltg, prorogator , or fignificator of 
life, and the anareta, promittor, or Jignifcator of death. 
“ The aphetic, hylegiacal, or prorogatory, places, are 
thofe particular fituations in the figure, or in the heavens, 
from whence the apheta, hyleg, prorogator, or fignificator 
of life, is to be taken. Thefe appellations have all the 
fame meaning, and lignify that planet or flar which is lord 
of Life. The firft is derived from the Greek, the fecond 
from the Hebrew, the third from the Latin. Thefe hyle¬ 
giacal or prorogatory places are in number five, viz. the 
afeendant, the feventh, ninth, tenth, and eleventh, houfes; 
and they are taken from the five degrees next and imme¬ 
diately above the cufp of the afeendant to the twenty-five 
degrees below the cufp of the fame, computed by oblique 
afeenfion. In the fame manner they are determined in the 
feventh, ninth, tenth, and eleventh, houfes; for inftance, 
it is computed from the five degrees in the eighth houfe, 
to the middle of the eleventh houfe, towards the twelfth ; 
which middle is eafily found, by adding half the femi- 
diurnal arch to the right afeenfion of the meridian, and 
where that ends is the middle of the eleventh houfe; the 
part beyond which is not hylegiacal or prorogator.y. Now 
thefe only are the places in which the planet who aflumes 
the power of hyleg or giver of life can be found; for 
vvhatfoever is under the earth is not fit for fuch dominion; 
nor is any pofition above the earth, which hath not confi¬ 
guration to the horofeope. The twelfth houfe, therefore, 
which is called the evil angle, is not prorogatory, becaufa 
it not only declines from the angle, but alfo makes the 
influence of the ftars pofited therein of an evil tendency. 
“ The anarctic or killing places are the places of Saturn 
and Mars, which kill according to the direction of the 
hyleg to the fucceeding figns, when they meet either bo¬ 
dily, or call their rays from any place of the figure, whe¬ 
ther it be by quartile or oppofition; and fometimes it hap¬ 
pens by textile, when they proceed from figns obedient or 
beholding, becaufe they have then the fame efficacy with 
the quartile or oppofition. So likewife a quartile, confi¬ 
gurated from the following or fucceeding figns to the 
aphetic place; and alfo a fextile malignantly affected, 
when in figns of long afeenfion ; and even the trines, in 
fliort afcenlions, have fufficient force to kill, when unim¬ 
peded by benefic rays; as will likewife the folar place, if 
the Moon be hyleg. But it mud be remembered, that 
thefe places are only anaretic when they are malignantly 
affedfed ; for their anaretic or killing power is impeded or 
deftroyed whenever it falls in the terms of a benefic ftar, 
or whenever the benefics caft a fextile, quartile, trine, or 
oppolitional, ray to the very anaretical point, or to thofe 
points vvhicii follow. Hence life is generally fouiKl to be 
preferved, when Jupiter is not above twelve degrees dif- 
tant from the anareta or killing planet; or when Venus is, 
not more than eight. The zodiacal afpedts of the anaretic 
or killing ftars will be likewife of little force, whenever 
the latitude of the apheta, or giver of life, and that of the 
anareta, or deftroyer of life, do not correfpond. 
“ To define the caufe and quality of death, we mud 
confider whether it is likely to happen by means of the 
beams of the malefic ftars being caft orientally ; for the 
place of the malefic or anaretical planet, if joined by body, 
or, if not, the place of the afpedf, ought carefully to be 
obferved, in order to judge of the quality of death. If 
thefe deftrudtive beams flow occidentally, confider the oc¬ 
cidental place of the ftar; for, fuch as they are which have 
dignities in the anaretic place, fuch will be the quality of 
death; if no planet hath dignities therein, fuch as before 
others are carried by their motions to thefe anaretic places 
are to be efteemed the caufers of death, and our judgment 
fiiould be regulated thereby ; the configurations of the ftars 
made thereto being likewife confidered, together with the 
nature of the figns, and the terms in which they fall. 
“ Thefe principal lignificators being thus afeertained, 
we are next to contemplate and examine with precifion and 
truth,'all the various afpefls in the face of the heavens, 
which are found to have an evident relation to that point 
of time, and to that latitude of the earth, wherein the na¬ 
tivity occurred. From thefe afpects, according to their 
different nature, quality, temperature, and configurations, 
is to be traced out the natural conftitution and tempera¬ 
ture of the native, the endowments or imperfeftions of 
body and mind, the duration of life, and the principal 
incidents of fate and fortune attendant thereon, conform¬ 
able to the malefic or benefic influences of thofe afpedls 
which denote the fame. And the times when thefe events 
fliall be fulfilled are found to happen when the two 
planets, which are the fignificator and promittor of the 
event, or, which is the fame thing, are the two principals 
in the afpeft denoting the fame, fliall be brought together 
by an arch of direction, fo as to form a bodily afpeCI, or 
junction of rays. The arch of direction, is the path-way 
or track deferibed in the heavens by any planet that is fig¬ 
nificator, or that aflumes the dominion or government of 
life, or any other incident or event peculiar to the native, 
from the moment of birth to its meeting or forming an 
afpeiit with the anaretas, or promittors, at which time the 
event, be it what it may, that is indicated thereby, comes 
to pafs. For, as all the heavenly bodies conftantly move 
in circles, their progrefs, whether for a long or fliort time, 
will neceffarily form arches, the content or degrees of 
which, being accurately found, and mealured, or equated 
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