Whether Man or Wife shall dye first?

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Judgment upon this Figure. FOR many weighty Reasons one desired me to consider, whether himself or wife should dye first; Whereupon I erected the figure of heaven above placed. Finding the seventh house afflicted, which signifieth the Wife by the position of ♄ in ♈ his Fall, and that ♂ Lord of the seventh was cadent in ♋ and the ninth house, and disposed by ☿ Lord of the sixth from the seventh, and he Retrograde and in his Fall, and the ☽ in ♏, but the eighth house from the seventh. These considerations moved me to enquire of the querent, whether his Wife was not very sick, and in a Consumption ( for so it appeared unto me ), and also infirmed ( in Secretis. ) For if you observe all those significators which have relati- on unto her, are wholly unfortunate and out of their Essentiall Dignities. I enquired her age, her exact Nativity I could not obtain, onely I understood she was now in her 42. year of age, viz. her Climacterical yeer, which is usually dangerous; and the more unto her, she meeting with an untoward Disease neer or in that time. I considered the seventh house which was her ascendant, whereby I judged her Corporature to be small, or her Person wasting, her visage long and lean, her complexion dark and pale, her conditions very waspish, or she very froward, &c. which was confessed, and I afterwards found. Because ♄ sheweth long lingring Diseases, and ♂ Lord of the sixth house was Retrograde: I judged she would relapse out of one Disease into another, partly by her own obstinatenesse, and partly by the errour of the Physician: By her own wilfullnesse, because that the Lord of her ascendant was also Lord of the eighth ; and partly by neglect of the Physician, who was signified by ☿ who was in ♈ with ♄ in Equinoctial and Tropical Signes and in Aries; arguing his or their small care of the miserable Gentlewoman: All things seriously considered, I concluded the Woman would dye first; for the Significator of the Man hath no manner of affliction, viz. ♀ she being in her Hayne, and free from the least manner of misfortune, and so was the Man from all infirmities. For the time when she should dye, I observed when ♄ and ♂ came to an ill aspect ; for ♄ did most of all represent her in person and conditions, and I found that about the latter end of September following ♂ came to an opposition of ♄, ☿ then being neer the place of the ☽ at time of the Question, viz. in 2 degr. of ♏, and ♄ in two of ♉, the ☽ at that moment in the place of ♂ viz. in 20 degr. of ♊ or thereabouts. From thence I concluded, that it was probable she would dye or be in great danger of death about the latter end of September or beginning of October ; and in truth she dyed the eighth of October, upon which day ♂ and ☿ were in ☌ in the eighth degree of ♏; the one in the Question being Lord of the ascendant, and the other of the sixth, the degree it self the very same of the ☽ in the question, and ☽ to the 12. of ♎ the opposite degree to her ascendant in the Question.

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Feb. 1644