THIS great Prince was born at Saint Germans, Anno 1638. September 4. S. N. August the 25. S. V. 23 hours 3 minutes P. M. or August the 26. at 3 minutes past Eleven mane, to which time the operation for the Figure is as followeth.

For the Tenth House and Ascendant I do this:

If 57 gives 60, what shall 34 give, 35: therefore the Cusp of the Tenth House is ♌ 27 35.

If 83 gives 60, what shall 18 give, facit 13: then the Cusp of the Horoscope is ♏ 13 13.

AGed nine years he had the small Pox, viz. in Novemb. 1647. in that Revolution ♄ was in ♊ in the fourth, in ☍ to the ☽, and the ☉ in the seventh in □ to them both, and ♂ Lord of his Radical Horoscope in ♂ with ♀ in the eighth House.

Aged 12 years, his Subjects rebelled, and he had a malignant Feaver; the ☉ (who is Aphaeta) was at that time directed to the body of ☿, and he in the Radix in □ to ♂.

Aged 14 years, he entered upon the possession of his King­dom, he had then the M. C. to the body of the ☉, the Horo­scope to the ⚹ of ☿, the ☽ to the terms of ♃, and ♃ to the ⚹ of the ☉, and ♂ to the △ of the ☉.

Aged 16 years, he was Crowned at Rhemes, he had then the Sun directed to the eleventh House, and the ♁ to the spica ♍.

Aged 19 years, he joined with the English, and took many Towns in Flanders, whereof Dunkirk was one; he had now the M. C. to the cauda ♌, the ☉ to the △ of ♄, the ☽ to the cor ♌, and △ of ♂, and the ♁ to the spica ♍ with latitude.

Aged 20 years, he advanced in his Conquests; he had now the ☽ to the △ of ♂ with latitude: and under these directi­ons in the year following he began his Treaty with the Spa­niard, in which they discoursed about the marriage with the Infanta of Spain to this Prince.

Aged near 22 years, he was married to the Infanta of Spain, he had then the Ascendant to the Antiscion of ♄, and the ☉ to the ⚹ of ♀ coming up.

Aged 23 years, the Dauphin was born; he had then the M. C. to the Cauda ♌, without latitude, and the ☉ to the ⚹ of the ☽.

Aged 24 or 25, his Ambassadors quarrel with those of Spain, about precedency, and shortly after Crequi quarrels with the Pope; he had now the M. C. to the body of ☿ in □ to ♂, the ☽ to the ⚹ of ♃, and the ♁ to the ⚹ of ♂.

Aged 27 years, his Mother died, and he made War with England, by which War I think he got nothing but blows; he had now his M. C. to the □ of ♂.

Aged 33 and 34 years, he advanced an Army against Flan­ders and Germany, and had wondrous success, as every one knows; he had now the ☽ to the body of the ☉, the M. C. to the ⚹ of ♀ and the ☽, and to the ♁, the Horoscope to the second House, and a series of good directions to succeed; as you may see in the Table.

About 35 years of age, the Emperour opposed him; the ♁ to the □ of ♀ was now in force.

Aged 36 years, his Army marched as far as Hidelburg, Tureen was slain, and himself had a Frenzy; he had now the Ascendant to the cor ♏ C. L. the M. C. to the contra anti of ☿, the ☽ to the cauda ♌, and the ♁ to the □ of the ☽, and ♂ to the ☍ of the ☽.

Aged 37 years, he had Fits of the Falling-Sickness, that is in the 38th Current; he had no Direction, but in his Revolu­tion for that year ♂ was in ☍ to the ☽ from ♍ and ♓, and ♄ in direct ☍ to the degree of his Radical Horoscope, and ♃ in □ to the ☉.

Aged 38, that is in 1677. and the beginning of 1678. he took Friburg and Gaunt, and made a great noise; he had then his ☉ directed to the spica ♍, with latitude.

Aged 40 years and about 40 days, he had the Ascendant di­rected to the □ of the ☉ in ♐, that is about October 1678, since which time his Fortunes have been something clouded, and the Duke of Brandenburg hath given his Forces one or two re­markable Defeats of late.

AT the Birth of this great and victorious Prince, the second Decanale of ♏ ascends the Horoscope, and ♂ Lord there­of in ♐ in □ to ☿ in ♍: and ♃, who is in Reception with ♂ Lord of the Horoscope, is in □ to the ☽, and ♀ in ♌ a Regal com­manding Sign; this gives him a great undertaking Spirit, desi­rous to do great things, as well by Peace as War.

♏ ascends which is cold, and inclining to Melancholly, the Sun is in ♍ an earthy melancholy Sign; and the Moon, who is [Page 13]a general Significator of the actions of a mans life, is in □ to ♃ and ☍ to ♄; ♂ Lord of the Horoscope is in ♐ a fiery chollerick Sign, in □ to ☿ in ♍ a melancholly Sign: Hence his tempera­ture is generally Chollerick-Melancholly, Choller being the Pa­rent of Passion and Patron of Courage, and Melancholly the Author of study, gravity, and discretion.

♏ ascending and ♂ in ♐ gives him something more than a middle stature, fat and fleshy, which is the more increased by the ☽ aspect to ♃, and he being also in so great a Reception with Mars, all his Significators strong, and in active parts of Heaven, gives a strong able body, not easily tired, especially in the hardship of War.

BY the Qualities of the Mind I mean the effluviums of the sensitive Appetite and rational Soul, from the first of which are produced those two natural Principles of Lust and Anger, Love and Hate, and all other sensible Effects of the sensitive Appetite, to which is joined the Rational Soul, the very ipsa hominis forma Informans, by which we are distinguish­ed from bruits, and is thought by some to have an intrinsick Plastick virtue to nourish the Embrio in the Womb.

From this rational Soul proceeds two Properties; first the Intellect, which is the eye of the soul, and hath the senses for its Organs, according to the old Adage, nihil intellectu quod non prius fuit in sensu: but it differs from the senses in this; the sense is employed about materials and singulars, the other about im­materials and universals; all the species of things it reserves to it self, and that is called memory, whose twin-brother is judgment, which is either speculative or practical: the first con­siders things as they are things, the other as they are good or evil. Secondly, the Will, which is neither meerly passive nor meerly active, but is agitated either by Object or Thought; and it hath also a kind of a blind power, for it desires nothing un­less it be proposed to it by the Intellect; hence that saying; Ignoti nulla cupido. The Operations and Essluviums of this sensi­tive and rational Soul, with its Faculties and Properties, is call­ed in English the Mind, and is a perfect Comprisal of the whole Man, or rather the thesaurus animae, collecting beams and rays from all parts of the sense and soul, and doth either improve them by Vertue, or mis-improve them by Vice, according to the Position of the Luminaries with the benefick or malesick Stars in the Radix or Nativity, and is our next business to con­sider.

Mercury in ♍ in □ to ♂ gives him a sharp piercing understand­ing, yet something rash sometimes in his undertakings; it in­clines [Page 15]him to all manner of practical ingenuity and politick de­signs, especially in War: the Sun casting a ⚹ to his Horoscope, makes him perform all his Actions with Greatness and Princely Glory, sutable to the Qualities of his Birth; the ☽ in Conjun­ction with ♀, and the ☉ within orbs of the ⚹ of ♃, affords him divers admirable Qualifications, and so lofty a spirit, that he scorns to trample upon a Conquered Enemy.

1 THE Lord of the Ascendant, stronger than the Lord of the seventh, the person then born always overcomes his Enemies, Collec. Genitu. Apho. 25.

2. Spiea ♍, with Pars Fortunae, gives Riches. Pto. Par. fol. 105.

3. The Sun in □ or ☍ to Mars, either hastens the Death of the Father, or gives him many Troubles and Crosses. P. P. fol. 62.

4. The Moon joined to ♄ or ♂ by Body or ill Aspect always incommodes the Mother. P. P. fol. 3.

5. Eminent fixed Stars upon the Angles of a Nativity chiefly the M. C. and Horoscope shews eminent and prodigious persons: Col. Genitu. Apho. 30.

6. Mars and the Sun in the second in their dignities, gives the Native Riches, and ways to spend it, Collec. Genitu. Apho. 50.

7. Three or four Planets in their dignities give great riches. P. P. fol. 105.

8. The Sun with Jupiter in the M. C. (he is here in ⚹ with Jupiter) gives honour. Pto. Par. fol. 110.

9. The Lord of the Mid-heaven in his dignities applying to the Lord of the Ascendant Oriental, promiseth great honour in a Kingdom. P. P. fol. 112.

AND first, of the Revolution for the Suns return, Anno 1671. to his radical place, under the Influence of which he performed those great Undertakings against Flanders and Germany.

This Revolution is as prodigious as the Effects, which were the then actions at that time of this Great Prince, for here the Figure is almost the same with that of the Radix, and all the Planets above the Earth (except Saturn) and he is as strong as any of them, being angular and in Reception with ♀: here [Page 24]is the Sun gloriously placed in the Tenth House with Mercury in his Dignities, and the Moon and Venus in the Eleventh in Libra, and Mars Lord of the Ascendant in Conjunction with Jupiter near the Cusp of the Tenth House; and it is such a Position as is not commonly seen: I shall forbear to enlarge upon the Effects of this Figure, because the actions are so long past: and therefore let those that understand it draw a Judgment for their own use, I will proceed to the Figure of the Revolution, pro Anno 1678.

[...] The Moon in Taurus, her Exaltation in trine to the Sun in the Ascendant, and Mars who hath Dignities in the Fifth, in Sextile to the Sun there, and in Trine to Jupiter Lord of the Seventh, shew great inclination to a pacification, and a gene­ral [Page 25]peace; yet ☿ Lord of the Horoscope in ☍ to Jupiter, shews some impediment and hindrance in those Affairs, but in the end it will be perfectly effected: and so I come to the Revolution for the year 1680.

This is the Revolution to operate with the Moon to the body of Mercury without Latitude, but the Figure being no ways violent, I shall forbear all further mention hereof; and pro­ceed to the Revolution for 1681.

This is like to be an unhappy Revolution, to work with so ill a Direction; for here is ♂ Lord of his Radical Horoscope in square to Saturn, and ☿ Lord of this Horoscope is com­bust, and both in □ to the Moon, and besides Saturn is up­on the Radical place of the Moon, and Mars upon his Radi­cal Horoscope in square to him, hence it is like to prove an ill Revolution, but yet not mortal, although he will be in danger this year: And so I come to consider his Revolution for the Fiftieth year of his age, beginning 1688. from Ar­gol's Ephem.

☉ ad □ ♄

☽ ad ⚹ ♀

MC ad dom. 12.

These are the Directions that will influence the Fate of this Revolution, which I am of opinion will not prove fatal, and that for these Reasons: First Saturn is Lord of no malignant House: and secondly, his square falls within the Rays of Jupi­ter, and he strong: Thirdly, the ☽ is within the good Beams of Venus, that is her ⚹ just coming up: Hence I am induced to believe, that Saturn hath not force and ill-will enough to kill at this time. But in the Revolutional Figure I confess that ♂, Lord of the Radical Horoscope, and partly of this, is combust in the [Page 28]Eighth House; and the Sun, who is Fons Vitae, is also afflicted of Mars in the same House; but the ☽ is in Conjunction with ♃, and hastening to a △ of Venus and the Sun; yet as the Moon is in Conjunction with ♃ in the Twelfth House, and they both weak in a Melancholly Sign, and the Sun, Mars, and Venus are afflicted in the Eighth in ♍ an earthy Sign, so he shall be subject to Melancholly Distempers, passions, and discontents; yet as ♄ the Lord of the Horoscope is in exaltation, he will indubi­tably survive all; for although the □ of Saturn is a malignant direction, yet according to that Aphorism of Hermes, his ma­lignity is meliorated by the good Beams of Jupiter, which is able to save, although he were Lord of the Eighth House: ♃ sol­vit Saturnum, & ♀ solvit Martem, Herm. Apho. 27. And Argol speaking of the Moon in a Revolution, saith, Venus & Jupiter juncti cum Luna corporis sanitatem demonstrant, Pto. Par. fol. 194. Jupiter and Venus joined to the Moon shew health and sound­ness of body. And that those Planets afflicted in the Eighth House doth rather shew some vexation and trouble to happen to the Native about his Conquest in Flanders, or his Children, or his Wifes Dowry, or perhaps all; and not to touch his life, as some I am sure would judge from such a Position and Dire­ction: and this is the rather confirmed to me, because ☿ is strong in the Seventh, he the only Planet angular and in Re­ception with the Sun.

But perhaps some may say he hath a bad profectional Figure for this year, he now having ♐ in his Horoscope (and there­fore the Radical place of ♂) and the Radical place of ☿ cul­minant, in his Medium Coeli, which I own to be an unhappy Po­sition, and to carry a sufficient tendency of ill, were there other sequel Causes for the same; but Profections are rather Demon­strations of the Effects of Directions, than particular Causes of any such things themselves; but I leave those things to those who are more curious.

I do think this Native may in a course of Nature live till the Sun, who is Giver of life, comes to the □ of Venus, who is Lady of the seventh House in the Radix and to the square [Page 29]of the Moon, who hath Dignities in that House also, and at the same time the Ascendant comes to the square of Mercu­ry, Lord of his Eighth House, and to the body of Mars al­so, without latitude, as may be seen by the Table of Di­rections preceeding; and this will happen about the fifty fourth or fifty fifth year of his age. And thus much for this Nativity.