A Dog missing, Where?

What this is

Judgment upon this preceding Figure. Living in London where we have few or no small Cattle, as Sheep, Hogs, or the like, as in the Countrey; I cannot give example of such creatures, onely I once set the Figure preceding concerning a Dog (who is in the nature of small Beasts) which Dog was fled and missing. The Quere unto me was, what part of the City they should search; next, if he should recover him. The querent was signified by the Signe ascending and the Lord thereof; and indeed in his person he was Saturnine, and vitiated according to Cancer in the ascendant, in his stature, mind, or understanding; that is, was a little deformed in body, and extream covetous in disposition, &c. The Sign of the sixt and his Lord signifies the Dog; so must they have done if it had been a Sheep, or Sheep, Hogges, Conies, &c. or any small Cattle. The Signe of ♓ is West and by South, the quarter of heaven is West; ♀ the significator of the Dog, is in ♎ a Western signe, but Southern quarter of heaven, tending to the West; the ☽ is in ♏, a South-west Signe, and verging to the Western angle: the strength of the testimonies examined, I found the plurality to signifie the West, and therefore judged, that the Dog ought to be Westward from the place where the owner lived, which was at Temple-bar, wherefore I judged that the Dog was about Long-acre, or upper part of Drury lane: In regard that ♀ Significator of the Beast, was in a Signe of the same Triplicity that his ascendant is, which signifies London, and did apply to a △ of the Cusp of the sixt house, I judged the Dog was not out of the lines of Communication, but in the same quarter; of which I was more confirmed by ☉ and ☽ their △. The Signe wherein ♀ is, is an ayery Signe, I judged the Dog was in some Chamber or upper room, kept privately, or in great secrecy: because ♀ was under the Beams of the ☉, and ♀ ☽ and ♂ were in the eight house; but because the ☉ on Monday following did apply by △ dexter to ♄ Lord of the ascendant, and ☽ to ✶ of ♄, having exaltation in the ascendant; I intimated, that in my opinion he should have his Dog again, or newes of his Dog or small Beast upon Monday following, or near that time; which was true; for a Gentleman of the querent's acquaintance, sent home the Dog the very same day about ten in the morning, who by accident comming to see a Friend in Long acre, found the Dog chained up under a table, and know- ing the Dog to be the Querent's, sent him home, as above said, to my very great credit. Yet notwithstanding this, I cannot endure Questions of Fugatives or Thefts, nor ever would have done any thing, but with intention to benefit posterity. Vitally I find, that all Fugatives go by the ☽, and as she varies her Sign, so the Fugitive wavers and shifts in his flight, and declines more or less to East, West, North or South; but when the Question is demanded, then without doubt you must consider the strength both of the Significator and the ☽, and judge by the stronger; if both be equivalent in Fortitudes, judge either by the Significator, if he best personate the Fugitive, or by the ☽, if she most resemble him: with relation to either of them that comes nearest in aspect to the cusp of the house, from whence signification is taken.

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29 August 1646