Divers wayes of rectifying Nativities.

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HE that would judge upon the future actions and contingencies depending upon the influences of heaven in a Nativity, it is necessary that he have in the first place the place of the Planets, viz. their Motions exactly calculated, rectified, and fitted for judgement, according to the Modern and best approved rules of Art; that is, he ought first to set his Figure according to the estimative time given unto him; and then to consider whether that be the true time of Birth yea or not, lest he be deceived either wholly in the Sign ascending, or by a fallacious and uncertain hour mistake many degrees thereof, viz. either in having few or no degrees, or the latter part of any Sign ascending; by which errour no certain or rationall judgement can be given, either of the Complexion, form, constitution or fortune of the Native. The Ancients for rectifying this error and amending the time, have delivered some wayes and means unto posterity, whereby the supposed time of ones Nativity might be rectified and brought to its true and perfect time; whose Methods I will now deliver in the first place, and then declare what or which of them, I hold most fit for the Student, and ought to be followed. The first way then of rectifying a Nativity, and reducing it to that moment of time, when first the Infant was separated from his Mother, and received the breath or ayre of this World, was by the Trutine or Scrutiny of Hermes (one of the wisest of all mortall men, and as ancient as Moses) and this way is far more ancient then the Animodar of Ptolemey, allowed by Ptolemey himself in his 51. Centiloquium (if that be his) as I undoubtedly conceive it is; his words are, What Sign the Moon is in at time of the birth, make the very Sign the Ascendant at Conception; and what Sign the Moon is in when the Childe is conceived, make that Sign, or the opposite unto it the Sign ascending at the Birth, &c. For Hermes was of the opinion, that the very degree of the same Sign wherein the Moon was at the conception of the Childe, shou'd be the true degree of the Ascendant at the Birth. This manner of verification, though it is of great use and much experience, will not in many examples hold firm to a degree or two or three; all the use I ever have or could make of it, was, that when an uncertain time was given me, or the time mistaken by an hour or two, it would help me to the Sign ascending, happily to the degree ascending or neer unto it; yet do I know Junctine doth insist much upon it, and produces many examples verified by it which did concur with the Schemes of heaven corrected by Accidents; many Authors also had a good opinion of it as well as he, viz. Schoner, Pontanus, Sir Christopher Heydon, and others. An Introduction to Nativities. The Correction of an estimate Scheam of Heaven by the Trutine of Hermes. The year, day, and hour of the birth brought unto you, erect your Figure, and rectifie the place of the ☽ to that hour, and place her in the Figure. Then take the distance of the ☽ from the Angle of the East, or Horoscope, if she be under the earth, viz. either in the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 house; or if she be above the Earth, viz. in the 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, or 7. take her distance from the cuspe of the seventh or Angle of the West, substracting the Signes and Degrees of the Angles from the Signe and Degree of the ☽, by adding 12. whole Signes to the place of the ☽, if otherwise substraction cannot be made. With this distance of the ☽ from the Angle enter the Table subsequent, called A Table of the mansion of the Child in its mothers Wombe. An Introduction to Nativities. The use of these Tables and the practicall part of them, is thus: 1 Consider whether the year of your Birth be Common or Bissextill. 2 Observe what day of the year, the day of birth is, entring with whole Moneths, adding thereunto the day of the Moneth wherein the birth is. 3 The number of the Mansion of the Childe in its Mothers wombe, is to be substracted from the day of the birth; and if substraction cannot be made otherwayes, then adde the days of the whole year, viz. 365. or 366. to the day of the birth, and what remaines is the number of dayes wherein the conception was. 4 With which numbers so remaining enter the Table of Moneths, and you shall finde the Moneth and day of the Moneth. 5 Consider the place of the ☽ the day of Conception at noon time, which if she be not distant from the estimative Angle or Ascendant of the Nativity above 13. degrees, the day found out is the day of Conception; but if she is more remote, you may imagine either the good aspects of the fortunes put the Birth forward, or the untoward aspects of the infortunes retarded it. In our Nativity the ☽ is in 1. 44. ♊, and under the earth, therefore I take the Ascendant from her. So Place of the ☽ is 2 ♊ 1 44 unto which I add the whole circle, because substraction else cannot be 12 0 0 So the place of the ☽ 14 1 44 The Ascendant is after 09 6 37 -------- Substracted from the ☽, rests 4 ♏ 25 07 I enter the Table of the Childs Mansion in his Mothers wombe under the title of Signes and Degrees, and seek out the neerest number unto mine, I finde 4. 24. and over against that on the right hand, under the title of the ☽ under the earth 285. which which intimate that our Native was in his Mothers wombe 285. Next, I consider whether the year of this birth be Common or Bissextile, the year of his Birth is 1616. which divided by four and nothing remaining shewes it a Bissextile year; if one had remained, it had been the first yeer after, and a common yeer; if two, the second, &c. Then I look in the Table of Months, what day of the year, the day of the Birth is: I finde the day is the 19. of Septemb. I look in the Table of Moneths, and finde under the Bissextill yeer, that the number of dayes to the last of August, 244. to which I adde 19. viz. the day of the birth, put together, they make 263. So then the day of Birth is 263. Number of the dayes of the Childes Mansion 285. Which are to be substracted from the day of the Birth, by adding one whole year unto 263. the year of the Birth being Bissextill, therefore I adde 366. dayes unto 263. not 365. being the dayes of a Common year. I conceive this a main reason why many have erred a day or more, by not adding the full number of 366. dayes to the day of Birth when it happened in a Leap-yeer. The day of the Birth and 366. added together make 629 from which if I substract the number of the Childs Mansion 285 remaines 344 With 344. I again enter into the Table of Moneths, and finde the last day of November under the Common yeer to be 334. unto which if I do adde 10. dayes more, they make 344. and bring me to the tenth day of December being Sunday 1615. the ☽ at that day at noon in Origanus, being in 28. 13. ♐, not above 8. degrees distant from the Ascendant of the Birth. If you then consider the diurnall motion of the ☽, you shall finde it 15. degree 7. min. a most swift motion; and if you would know, in how many houres she may in that tenth of December come to the 6. degr. of ♑, you shall finde by calculation, that the motion of the ☽ being 15. degr. &c. she will come to be in the sixt degree of ♑ that Sunday at night, much about one of the clock, Whether that be not a fit time, &c. For begetting of Children, An Introduction to Nativities. 505 Children, I leave to the judgment of, &c. This Nativity is precisely rectified by Accidents, both by those depending upon the Directions of Medium Cæli, and of the Ascendant to their respective Promittors. Some have delivered a way to finde out the hour of Conception, but I hold it a matter too nice fully at this time to be handled, nor give I any credit unto it: yet it's thus. You must take the right ascention of the ☉ for the Noon of the day of Conception, deduced from ♏, in what Sign soever ☉ is: you must take the oblique ascention at the day of birth, of the ☽ under the elevation of the Pole where the Birth is; subtract the ☉ his right ascention from the oblique of the ☽, what remains convert into time, and those houres shew the time of conception. Or thus: Take the time from Noon in the Table of houses, adhering to the 10. house, over against the degrees of the ☉ in the Sign he is in at the conception. Take the time from Noon over against the place of the ☽ in the birth under the Ascendant. Subtract the houres corresponding to the place of the ☉ in the 10. house, from those answering the place of the ☽ in the Ascendant, by adding 24. houres, if need be; what remaines, is supposed to be the time of the hour of Conception.

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