Whether the Sick would live or dye, and what his Disease was?

What this is

The Sign ascending, viz. ♍, is in the Figure most afflicted by the corporall presence of ♂, who is partly Lord of the eighth house, therefore from that house and Sign must we require the Disease, cause, and member grieved: ♒ being the Sign of the sixth, is fixed, afflicted by ☋, and ♄ who is Lord of the sixth house, is in ♉, a fixed Sign, earthly and melancholly, of the same nature and Triplicity that ♍, the Sign Ascending, is of; the ☽ being a general Significatrix in all Diseases, being afflicted by her proximity to ♂ and posited in the Ascendant, in an earthly, melancholly Sign, together with the other Significators, did portend the Patient to be wonderfully afflicted with the Spleen, with the Wind-chollick, and melancholly obstructions in the Bowels or small Guts, small Feavers, a remiss Pulse; and as the Sign ♍ is the Sign ascending, and ☽ and ♂ therein, it argued the sick was perplexed with distempers in his Head, slept unquietly, &c. (All which was true.) I perswaded the man to make his peace with God, and to settle his house in order, for I did not perceive by naturall causes, that he could live above ten or twelve dayes. And my reasons were, because all the Significators did promise no less then death: for first, ☉ who was the temporall light at time of the Quere, and is (fons vitalis patentiae) was in perfect □ of ♄ Lord of the sixth in Signs fixed. Secondly, the Ascendant was extreamly afflicted by the presence of ♂, he being naturally ill, and accidentally almost Lord of the whole eighth house. Thirdly, the ☽ was neer Cauda Leonis, and afflicted by the cross influence of ♂, in that house which signifies Life, viz. the Ascendant. Fourthly, the ☽ did separate from the ✶ of ☿, Lord of the Ascendant, in Signs of long ascensions (which is more properly a □ aspect) and did transfer his vertue to ♃ Lord of the eighth. The sick dyed the 28th of July following, ☿ comming to the degree of the ☉ in the Question, and therein to the □ of ♄ Lord of the sixth, the day preceding; and the ☽ to an ☍ of the ☉, the ☽ that day transiting the degree of the sixth house at time of the Question, viz. 14′ of ♒, and ☉ the cusp of the twelfth.

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Die Mercurii 16 July 1645, 7:22 A.M.